Thursday, February 3rd, 2022

Morning Announcements

Betches

Politics, Daily News, News, News Commentary

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🗓️ 3 February 2022

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

We kick today off with you guessed it: Russia and Ukraine. Next we move to our first ever sports category (and this is one you won't want to miss). Finally, we close with a big scandal right out of CNN. Resources/Articles mentioned this episode: Washington Post: “Biden dispatching additional U.S. troops to Eastern Europe” Axios: “U.S. threatens Russia with a chip blockade” NY Times: “Brian Flores Sues NFL, Claiming Bias in Coaching Search” Daily Beast: “Ex-Browns Coach Suggests He Was Also Paid Extra to Lose Games” Washington Post: “Washington Football Team announces ‘Commanders’ as its new name” NBC News: “FBI identifies 6 juveniles as persons of interest in bomb threats at Black colleges” CNN: “CNN boss Jeff Zucker resigns” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today is Thursday, February 3rd, and you're listening to the Morning Announcements presented
0:07.5	by Betches Media, I'm Sammy Sage.
0:11.8	Ukraine and Russia are going first, again, as is now tradition.
0:15.7	President Biden has ordered the deployment of 3,000 more troops to Ukraine, and administration
0:20.6	officials announced that if Russia invades Ukraine, they will cut Russia off from its
0:24.4	vital flow of semiconductors as a sanction.
0:27.7	This would be the first move of its kind, and would have a broad impact on the Russian
0:31.2	economy, which is partly dependent on microchips.
0:34.5	You would have to wonder how the villains from Home Alone 3 would feel about that.
0:38.0	The chips, son, bring me the chip.
0:41.0	Today, we actually have our first-ever sports section.
0:45.2	The big talk of this week, aside from the over-dromatized retirement of Tom Brady, is
0:49.6	that a former coach of the Miami Dolphins, Brian Flores, has sued the NFL and its 32 teams,
0:55.3	alleging that they have discriminated against him and other black coaches in their hiring
0:59.2	practices.
1:00.2	Flores was fired as coach of the Miami Dolphins last month, and he claims that he experienced
1:04.9	discrimination in the process of interviewing for coaching jobs with other teams.
1:09.1	Specifically, in the lawsuit, he cites the fact that he was up for a position as coach
1:12.6	of the Giants, but he received a text from Patreous Coach Bill Belichick congratulating
1:17.1	him on the new position before he had even interviewed.
1:20.6	Flores was able to then put together that the text was intended for another candidate
1:24.5	who was up for the coaching role, which Belichick then confirmed, but the incident indicated
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