Tuesday, January 25th, 2022

Morning Announcements

Betches

News, News Commentary, Daily News, Politics

4.7 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Let's start with some international news today, including the latest with the Russia-Ukraine tensions, and why Boris Johnson's 2020 birthday has been added to the country's list of illicit parties while the UK was on lockdown. Moving back to U.S. headlines, let's of course share an update on COVID, a message from the Director of the World Health Organization, and Sarah Palin's positive COVID test before her defamation trial. Meanwhile, a new study suggests that antibodies from the Pfizer booster last at least four months after the third shot. Next, we discuss the effects of the child tax credit before closing with the Supreme Court's decision to to hear a challenge to the consideration of race in college admissions. Resources/Articles mentioned this episode: AP News: "US orders 8,500 troops on heightened alert amid Russia worry" AP News: "Soldiers say military junta now controls Burkina Faso" Washington Post: "Boris Johnson ‘birthday bash’ added to list of alleged lockdown parties" NY Times: "Omicron Cases Appear to Peak in U.S., but Deaths Continue to Rise" NY Times: "Covid Live Updates: F.D.A. Limits Use of Antibody Treatments" Daily Beast: "‘She Is, Of Course, Unvaccinated’: Sarah Palin Tests Positive for COVID on Eve of Defamation Trial" Washington Post: "Lab study shows omicron-blocking antibodies persist four months after a Pfizer-BioNTech booster" NY Times: "Cash Aid to Poor Mothers Increases Brain Activity in Babies, Study Finds" AP News: "Justices to hear challenge to race in college admissions" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Today is Tuesday, January 25th, and you're listening to the morning announcements presented
0:07.6	by Betcha's media.
0:08.8	I'm Sammy Sage.
0:12.0	Let's start international today.
0:13.8	The latest with the potential Russian invasion of Ukraine is that the Pentagon is putting
0:17.5	about 8,500 US troops on heightened alert for potential deployment to Europe.
0:22.2	They claim that the move is about reassuring our European allies, rather than actually
0:26.6	deploying them to Ukraine.
0:28.6	I wonder what kind of match the 8,500 US troops who are vaguely stationed in Europe will
0:33.2	be for the 100,000 Russian troops who are currently playing one foot in, one foot out,
0:38.2	at their Ukrainian Russian border.
0:40.4	Next, we are on the coup beat, and today we have a nation who has not yet made their
0:45.8	debut on the morning announcements.
0:47.6	Burkina Faso has been overtaken by military coup, and the democratically elected president
0:52.1	has been detained, apparently without physical harm.
0:55.2	The new military regime said that they've suspended the country's constitution, dissolved
0:59.0	the national assembly, and closed the borders.
1:01.7	They claim that they are attempting to establish a timeline that is widely acceptable for
1:05.4	holding new elections, though no ballpark date has been revealed.
1:09.4	Classic.
1:10.4	All I know is that I am about as excited about this coup trend as I am about the return
1:14.5	of low-rise jeans.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Betches, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Betches and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.