Okay, here we go. Good morning, brothers and sisters. How you doing? A new day is episode three of first thing with Kevin Mano starts right now. It's Wednesday, January 12th, 2022, actress Issa Ray, Zane Malik, Rob Zombie, and Jeff Bezos all celebrating birthdays today.

And according to the stats I found on old Jeffy, assuming this episode is 10 minutes long, he'll be $1.4 million richer by the time you get to the end of it. That is crazy. That's obscene.

Start with the biggest stories and the biggest story today is COVID. The US set a new hospitalization record with over 140,000 patients. That's the biggest number of the entire pandemic.

The previous high was in January of last year. So those holidays and the cold weather, keeping everyone inside is just a really bad combo. I cannot believe this is still going on.

And in a speech yesterday, President Biden called for passage of voting rights reforms. He wants to change Senate rules to pass new voting rights legislation.

While he didn't call for the elimination of the filibuster, he said he supports getting rid of it. He said he wants to provide access to the ballot, foster racial equality, and quote, keep the promise of America alive.

Will anything actually change? Who knows? In the world of sports yesterday, I mentioned a few NFL coaches that got fired after their seasons ended and the latest is New York Giants coach Joe Judge. He's gone.

He was with the team for two seasons and longtime Sunday night football sideline reporter Michelle to FOIA just announced that she's leaving NBC after 11 years following the Super Bowl. She said there's no better way to walk away from covering the NFL than with one more Super Bowl.

There are rumors that should be going to Amazon who will start broadcasting games next season.

Another update on Bob Sagitt, I said yesterday that there may not be an official ruling on the cause of his death for up to 12 weeks.

But authorities said yesterday that it looks like it could be either a heart attack or a stroke that's not official.

And with every day that passes, I just I hear more and more stories about what a great guy he was. It's so sad.

Kanye West and Julia Fox are making headlines as they continue to be seen together in public. She's an actress who might know her from from uncut gems. If you saw that movie, they were just a photograph to dinner in West Hollywood where NFL star slash free agent Antonio Brown joined them.

And I even heard rumors that Antonio and Kanye might make music together.

Meanwhile, Kim and Pete Davidson were seen shopping together on Monday in California. So there's still on. But then Pete was photographed with Martha Stewart at a restaurant. That's true. I want to say there was nothing romantic about it, but you just never know with him.

And speaking of Kim Kardashian, she's being sued. It's a class action lawsuit that includes Kim Floyd, Mayweather and Paul Pierce. They're being accused of doping their followers in an alleged cryptocurrency scam.

Congrats assignment cowl and his longtime girlfriend Lauren Silverman. They're engaged. Milo Ventimilia got his star on the Hollywood walk of fame. Love that dude. It's right next to his. This is us TV wife Mandy Moore. I bet Miguel somehow tries to like write his name and sharpie between them or something.

And then I'm gonna get a snoop dog is coming out with a hot dog and sausage brand called snoop dogs that one kind of named itself and Ben Affleck is defending Glee. That's the movie he made in 2003 with his then girlfriend, Jen and for Lopez. The movie bombed.

They broke up shortly thereafter and people have sort of, you know, continued to use that movie as a punchline ever since will now that Ben and Jen are back on people are bringing it up a lot more. And he said that he's had at least five movies bomb harder than Glee did at least five that have lost more money.

And he said it had a silver lining because ultimately led him to direct, which is his true passion now.

For the first time since 2018, the Oscars are gonna have a host again. The ceremony is happening March 27th. It'll be on ABC. They did not say who will host. I'm available if they need me. I'll have that whole thing wrapped up in 10 minutes. It's going to be great.

Now, I don't know how this is possible in the middle of a pandemic, but Spider-Man no way home just surpassed Titanic at the box office. It's brought in over $668 million, which makes it the sixth highest grossing film of all time surpassing Titanic, which was $659 million.

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