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FIRST THING with Kevin Manno

Thursday, May 25th 2023

FIRST THING with Kevin Manno

Kevin Manno

News, Society & Culture, Arts, Daily News

5.02.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Tina Turner passed away, Ron DeSantis announced his candidacy with glitchy Twitter appearance, Typhoon hits Guam, new Taylor Swift music, Nicolas Cage is Superman, Florida Panthers advance to Stanley Cup Finals, Khloe confirms sons name, Shaq served, Fetty Wap sentenced to 6 years of prison, Britney Spears and her mom get together, Jeopardy champion crowned, Brady Bunch house & more... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, hey, hello. Good to see you. Welcome to a brand new day. It starts right now.

0:05.8

Yes, it's Thursday May 25th,

0:08.2

2023 today's national wine day. Happy National wine day. It's first thing with Kevin Mano. Good morning. A few

0:14.6

celebrities celebrating birthday today before we get to all the headlines Olympic gold medal gymnast Ali Raceman

0:20.8

actor Killian Murphy. I like that guy Octavia Spencer

0:24.4

Mike Myers and Sir Ian McEllen. He's 84 today. Happy birthday and on this date in

0:30.0

music history, another idol anniversary on May 25th in 2005.

0:35.9

Bo Bice was narrowly defeated by Carrie Underwood. She became fourth American idol exactly 18 years ago today. The winner of

0:46.4

American Idol

0:48.7

2005 is

0:52.3

Carrie Underwood

0:56.1

She's going to sell 66 million albums.

1:00.9

Okay, all right, let's get going. We always start with the top story. Today I'll start with this one because it is the biggest story out. They're still dominating

1:11.4

headlines this morning. I'm sure you heard legendary musician Tina Turner passed away at the age of 83. She is sold

1:18.9

200 million albums. That's a lot. According reports she died after a long illness at her home in Switzerland. I didn't even know she lived in Switzerland,

1:27.2

but yeah, she's been there since 1994. She earned her Swiss citizenship in 2013. As far as her career goes, she had huge hits in four decades.

1:37.2

She has a bunch of Grammys. She's a two-time inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

1:42.2

She was both the first woman and the first black artist to appear on the cover of Rolling Stone truly in every sense of the word a legend.

1:57.2

All right, okay. Getting into some sports headlines now, police performed a welfare check on John Morant yesterday. He's the Memphis Grizzly's player recently suspended for another video on social media in which he's

2:27.1

allegedly holding a gun. The story here is he decided to take a break from social media, but he did it in the most concerning way possible. Police went to check on him because everyone was was worried about him. He wrote and then deleted messages online saying,

2:41.8

love you, ma. Love you, pops. You're the best baby girl. Love you. Bye. That's not the way to announce a break from social media. According to the Shelby County Sheriff's Office, he is fine.

2:54.8

In college sports news, George Washington University just announced a new name for their sports teams. They said a while ago that they'd be ditching colonial and now they've replaced it with revolutionaries. The George Washington University revolutionaries. That's a lot of syllables.

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