SCOOP: What Do Comets & Cats Have In Common?
SmartHERNews
Jenna Lee
4.9 • 660 Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2025
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
The news you can use:
A comet only seen every 1350 years will appear in our skies this week. Here's a few other stories to of note:
- How big is your social circle? One scientist says 150 people Agree/Disagree.
- The latest on the history-making shutdown.
- An "technical" issue takes down a major technology provider.
- What to make of President Trump's announcement on rare earth minerals.
- What to make of President Trump's announcement on IVF and why it matters. Here's What To Watch Next.
- Your biggest question answered - What is the deal with the new requirements for press at the Dept. of War? Link To Document
- A comet with a green streak. How to find it. And what felines have to do with it. Read More.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Scoop, where you get the Scoop on this week's news. |
| 0:04.4 | My name is Jenna, and this is Smarter News. |
| 0:12.7 | Hi, everybody. |
| 0:13.7 | Welcome to Scoop. |
| 0:14.7 | It is Monday, October 20th, and I'm so happy to see you. |
| 0:18.0 | Wow, what a crazy news cycle we're in. I know. I know. How many times can I actually say that? A lot, apparently, a lot in the last several years. But I mean, really, the diversity of news that we're going to cover today is right up there. We're having to do a lot of mental acrobatics. And I wouldn't want to do them with anyone else. So I'm glad to see you today for those insiders that are joining us live and also for the rest of you who |
| 0:41.5 | are hopefully living and working and hearing us on podcasting platforms everywhere and hopefully |
| 0:48.6 | on YouTube a little bit later. So great to see you. I mean, we're starting this week off with a daring heist at one of the world's busiest museums, |
| 1:01.4 | the Louvre. |
| 1:02.9 | And it's bringing us back to a different time period, isn't it? |
| 1:06.9 | In this day and age, when we're focusing so much on technology, we're going to talk about technology |
| 1:11.2 | actually today. |
| 1:12.3 | It's an old-fashioned robbery. |
| 1:14.5 | And you wonder, like, is this, what is, what actually happened to her? |
| 1:18.3 | I have a little video. |
| 1:19.6 | I'll put some in show notes as well so you can see some of the diagrams that we've relied on. |
| 1:26.3 | I was trying to do that earlier. And unfortunately, |
| 1:29.9 | everything is behind a paywall these days. As our insiders know, I was talking to them before the |
| 1:34.3 | show started. I was like, I have more subscriptions to newspapers and news sites than any living |
| 1:40.9 | person on the planet. And sometimes I'm still frustrated because there's so many things |
| 1:44.5 | behind paywalls. You can't even access something that's a top news story in the world. So what |
| 1:49.6 | we're seeing on our screen here, and let me go back to the main screen for everybody, |
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