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FIRST THING with Kevin Manno

Tuesday, February 8th 2022

FIRST THING with Kevin Manno

Kevin Manno

News, Society & Culture, Arts, Daily News

5.02.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Get informed. Quickly. Olympic update, Joe Rogan, Pete Davidson, Dr. Evil, 2022 Razzie Awards, Better Call Saul, Camila Cabello, Lil Dicky, Australian travel & more...

Transcript

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0:00.0

Yeah, here we go. What's up another day Tuesday February 8th 2022. It's first thing with Kevin Mano. Hi, that's me. I just learned about this. Maybe it's common knowledge.

0:07.8

I don't know. I'm sure a lot of you know about it. But today is day two of Valentine's week. It's a thing. Yeah, yesterday was day one, which was Rose day.

0:15.4

Today is proposed day. It's a day when people are supposed to open up about their feelings to their loved ones.

0:20.6

Or if you feel so inclined, I guess you can go ahead and pop that question.

0:23.7

We start with a couple top stories. President Biden held a news conference yesterday with the new German Chancellor Olaf Schultz. He likes warm hugs.

0:32.1

The two came together to appear united against Russia's possible invasion of Ukraine. But there was one major sticking point.

0:38.1

Biden has vowed to shut down a natural gas pipeline if Russia invades, but Olaf refused to commit to that.

0:44.9

This pipeline runs between Russia and Germany. And it was completed in September, but has not yet transported any actual gas.

0:51.4

Biden said he'll basically pick it up and throw it in the trash if Russia moves forward.

0:55.7

And a quick COVID update here after increasing their inventories, CVS and Walgreens have both removed purchase limits on at home COVID-19 test kits.

1:04.1

This means in store and online. COVID cases across the country are actually down quite a bit compared to a month ago.

1:09.5

That holiday spike and a handful of states, California, New Jersey, Delaware, Connecticut. They're all beginning to ease their mask mandates.

1:16.2

Okay, jumping into sports, a quick Olympic update for you at the time I'm recording this. We still don't have a gold here in the US.

1:23.8

We have four silvers. We were right 14th at the moment. That fourth silver just came from skier Ryan Cochrane Siegel in Men's Super G.

1:31.7

Sadly, the US women's hockey team lost to Canada. Congrats, Canada. It's a big rivalry. Final score of four to two.

1:37.0

It was the preliminary round. And most likely these two teams will face each other again.

1:41.4

Chloe Kim and Sean White will both be competing today in qualifying runs. And in other sports news, the Houston Texans have hired Lubby Smith as their new head coach.

1:50.0

He's only the fifth head coach in franchise history.

1:53.3

Moving over to entertainment seems like I have a Joe Rogan update every day. The saga continues.

1:57.8

He was offered $100 million by a right wing media company called Rumble to leave Spotify and join them.

2:04.3

Meanwhile, Spotify stock has sunk to its lowest levels in quite some time.

2:08.5

Nick Cannon, father of a thousand, just received a gift a week after announcing another baby is on the way.

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