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FIRST THING with Kevin Manno

Tuesday, February 15th 2022

FIRST THING with Kevin Manno

Kevin Manno

News, Society & Culture, Arts, Daily News

5.02.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Get informed. Quickly. Russia, Rams celebration, Kanye West, Oscar hosts, Whoopi Goldberg, Bridgerton, White House Correspondents' Dinner, Ed Sheeran & more...

Transcript

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0:00.0

Well hello, look at you. Thanks for being here. It's Tuesday, February 15th, 2022. It's a brand new day. It's first thing with Kevin Mano.

0:07.6

Some Celeb B-Day is today in Megadastallion, his 27th happy birthday. Brand-in-Boyd of Ben Incubis celebrating today as well.

0:15.0

Today would have been Chris Farley's 58th birthday. It's very sad to think about.

0:19.0

And Matt Graning, the man that created the Simpsons, did you know that his dad's name was Homer? That's true. He also named one of his son's Homer.

0:27.0

Anyway, happy birthday everyone.

0:32.0

All right, we always start with the top stories as Russia continues making moves building up their military presence near Ukraine.

0:38.0

140,000 troops. It seems that there's still a sliver of hope that invasion can be avoided. Putin just had a meeting at an extremely long table.

0:48.0

Have you seen any footage from these meetings? The tables are comically long and there's two people at opposite ends.

0:52.0

It's because of COVID. He doesn't want to get tested either because he thinks someone's going to steal his DNA. Anyway, at this meeting, it was implied that Ukraine can still navigate their way out of this.

1:00.0

That might be all talk though, because there are unconfirmed reports that today might actually be the day they launched the initial attack.

1:07.0

Ukraine's president said they are prepared and has marked today as a national day of unity.

1:12.0

And yesterday was the four-year anniversary of the shooting at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida in total 17 people lost their lives.

1:20.0

And the father of one of those students was taken into police custody yesterday near the White House.

1:25.0

Manuel Oliver, the father of Joaquin Oliver, climbed a construction crane in DC in Unveiled a banner with an image of his son on it.

1:33.0

He had apparently been attempting to get a meeting with President Biden to no avail.

1:37.0

So he did this stunt to get his attention and urge him to take action on gun violence.

1:42.0

Jumping into sports, your daily Olympic update, the US added one medal to the Tally yesterday, skier Megan Nick got herself a bronze in women's aerials.

1:51.0

As of now, we are still in third place with those overall medals.

1:55.0

And some super bowl follow-up, the Rams have announced the date for their celebratory parade. It's tomorrow.

2:00.0

And it's going to be a big one because COVID, LA fans didn't get parades to celebrate the Lakers or the Dodgers Championship wins.

2:06.0

So get ready because this one is going to blow your hair back.

2:09.0

LeBron actually suggested rolling it all in together and having a parade for all three teams.

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