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FIRST THING with Kevin Manno

Wednesday, July 19th 2023

FIRST THING with Kevin Manno

Kevin Manno

News, Society & Culture, Arts, Daily News

5.02.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

American detained in North Korea, President Trump claims he may soon be indicted regarding Jan. 6th, Heat Dome update, FIFA Women's World Cup, Gigi Hadid arrested, Jerry O'Connell saves the day, Barbenheimer, Tupac murder investigation update, Miranda Lambert photo drama, Jason Aldean backlash, Paul McCartney's new podcast, National Hot Dog Day, Taco Tuesday & more... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, hello. Hi, let's go. It's Wednesday, July 19, 2023, and it starts right now.

0:06.6

Yeah, it's first thing with Kevin Mano. What's up, friends? How are you? A few celebrity birthdays

0:11.6

before we get to all the headlines. Jared Patalecki from Walker and Supernatural. He's celebrating

0:16.8

today. Benedict Cumberbatch, as well Nancy Carell. She's Steve Carell's wife and an actress herself.

0:22.9

And Brian Maye from the Banqueen Happy Birthday to all in movie and TV history.

0:28.6

Two anniversaries today on this date, 16 years ago, madmen debuted on AMC went on to win a ton of awards

0:36.4

and 28 years ago today in 1995, Clueless was released. That wouldn't win as many awards,

0:42.4

but classic for sure came out 28 years ago today.

0:46.6

I'm going to see a Supermodel. Everyone is going to dress like me.

0:57.3

Okay, all right, let's go. We always start with the top story here. This is a pretty wild one.

1:02.1

It's the top headline everywhere at the moment. For the first time in nearly five years,

1:06.4

an American is being detained in North Korea. The story broke yesterday morning and now we know a

1:11.7

little more about this situation. This guy is a soldier, private second-class Travis King, who

1:17.2

is reportedly being brought back to the US from South Korea for disciplinary reasons. He had

1:22.7

apparently gotten into some trouble over there. And after going through airport security, they say

1:27.2

he somehow snuck away into a border tour group and then made his way across that heavily armed

1:34.0

border. Witnesses claim he was laughing while he was doing it and eventually detained by North

1:39.2

Korea. US authorities are working on his release, but tensions are high as always with North Korea,

1:44.9

so we'll see how this one plays out. Okay, all right, moving on to sports here. One of the big

1:53.3

events this week in the sports world is the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup. Let's go. The tournament

1:59.7

officially started tomorrow, 32 nations competing for that world title. TM USA, who are ranked number

2:05.9

one in the world by FIFA, by the way, they're set to get started Friday against Vietnam. We have

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