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Friday! April 4th 2025. It's first thing

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with Kevin Mano real quick look at

0:45

all the top headlines. Might be a

0:47

little bit longer today since I wasn't

0:49

here yesterday is more stuff to recap

0:51

but it's a quick look at all

0:53

the top headlines and the show on

0:55

this Friday morning starts right now. And

0:59

we always start with the top story.

1:01

The big story over the last couple

1:03

days has been weather. A large portion

1:05

of the country, the South and Midwest,

1:07

have been hit quite hard. As of

1:09

this morning, it looks like seven people

1:11

have lost their lives in what they

1:13

call a quote, once in a generation

1:15

storm. I read that on

1:17

Wednesday alone, there were 728

1:19

weather and tornado warnings. I

1:21

can vouch for that. I

1:24

wasn't here yesterday, because we

1:26

were up all night, the

1:28

night before it was just

1:30

tornado warning. It was relentless.

1:32

There's a lot of destruction

1:34

out there. Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri,

1:36

Indiana, Arkansas. Some of the

1:38

states hit with tornadoes. Hundreds

1:40

of thousands lost power. At

1:43

this point, dangerous, life-threatening flooding

1:45

is still expected. The storms will

1:47

last through Sunday. Some areas could

1:49

see up to 10 to 15

1:51

inches of rain through the weekend.

1:53

Let's go! A 14-year-old son of

1:55

former Yankee Brett Gardner died. This

1:57

was a big mystery. Now according

1:59

to authorities in Costa Rica, carbon

2:01

monoxide poisoning is to blame for

2:03

the death of Miller Gardner. The

2:05

family was at a hotel down

2:07

there when he passed away unexpectedly,

2:09

reportedly due to carbon monoxide. Extremely

2:11

sad. In soccer news, we just

2:13

found out that the US will

2:16

host the 2031 FIFA Women's World

2:18

Cup. That's a ways off, but

2:20

very exciting. In the NBA, congratulations

2:22

to Carmelo Anthony. News just broke

2:24

that he's been elected into the

2:26

Nasmith Basketball Hall of Fame Class

2:28

of 2025 of 2025. He's a

2:30

10-time all-star. He's won three Olympic

2:32

gold medals with Team USA, and

2:34

he'll soon be in the Hall

2:36

of Fame. The full class of

2:38

2025 will be announced this weekend.

2:40

And lastly, just a reminder, March

2:42

Madness continues today. It's the women's

2:44

final four. First up, it's Texas

2:46

and South Carolina, followed by Yukon

2:48

and UCLA. The championship game will

2:50

be played on Sunday. The men's

2:52

final four played tomorrow, tomorrow, but

2:54

that championship game coming Monday night.

2:58

On to some entertainment headlines. First,

3:00

the dark one. Jean-Claude Van Dam

3:02

was just hit with some accusations.

3:04

He is reportedly facing criminal charges

3:06

in Romania involving human trafficking. The

3:08

details are upsetting, but we'll see

3:10

how this plays out. In baby

3:13

news, congratulations to Michelle Williams, the

3:15

actress, not the member of Destiny's

3:17

Child. She and her husband Thomas

3:19

Kale. Welcome their third child together

3:21

via surrogate. Congrats. Michelle also has

3:23

an 18-year-old daughter with the late

3:25

heat ledger. We just found out

3:27

that Jennifer Coolidge is set to

3:29

deliver the commencement speech at Emerson

3:31

College this year. That's where she

3:34

went to school. They're also going

3:36

to give her an honorary doctor

3:38

of humane letters degree. They're proud

3:40

of her over there. And for

3:42

good reason. Everyone loves Jennifer Coolidge.

3:44

Dolly Parton has something new on

3:46

the way. She's teaming up with

3:48

Chloe Kardashian's Good American brand for

3:50

a pair of jeans. They're called

3:52

Joleens. It's like the word jeans,

3:54

but they threw an O and

3:57

an L in there in honor

3:59

of her classic song, Joleen. Lastly,

4:01

I filed video game stuff under

4:03

entertainment, so I'll mention this here.

4:05

We just found out that the

4:07

Nintendo Switch 2 is officially coming

4:09

out June 5th. For the low

4:11

price of $450, it can be

4:13

yours. It's very expensive. June 5th,

4:15

and Mario Cart World, the next

4:18

installment in that series, is on

4:20

the way as well. is finally

4:22

here. Jason Momoa and Jack Blackstar

4:24

on this. We already have our

4:26

tickets. My son has been waiting

4:28

for this for a while. There's

4:30

also a new movie called The

4:32

Luckyest Man in America. It's based

4:34

on the true story of a

4:36

guy going on the game show

4:38

Press Your Luck in the 80s.

4:41

My son's not that excited about

4:43

this one. Paul Walter Houser, Mazy

4:45

Williams, and Walton Goggins are all

4:47

in it. I've got a few

4:49

trailers up in our Instagram stories

4:51

this morning. of his upcoming Superman

4:53

movie. I've got that up at

4:55

First Thing pod. And again, that'll

4:57

be in theaters in July. Liam

4:59

Neeson is starring in a naked

5:02

gun reboot. He is the new

5:04

detective Frank Dribben. This will be

5:06

in theaters in August, August 1st,

5:08

and that's up there as well.

5:10

Also, Megan 2.0, that scary doll

5:12

girl thing is back, and yeah,

5:14

a trailer. The movie's on the

5:16

way, the trailer is up in

5:18

the stories. In other trailer news,

5:20

Ariana Grande and Cynthia Arivo just

5:22

debuted the trailer for part two

5:25

of Wicked, Wicked for Good. They

5:27

showed this to a crowd at

5:29

CinemaCon and the crowd obviously loved

5:31

it. I guess they'll release that

5:33

publicly soon. Also at CinemaCon, Tom

5:35

Cruise was on stage speaking and

5:37

he paid tribute to his old

5:39

friend and co-star Val Kilmer. He

5:41

paused for a moment of silence.

5:43

That one still hurts. Tom wished

5:46

him well on his next journey.

5:48

In other news Ice Cube is

5:50

making another Friday movie. It's the

5:52

first since Friday after next back

5:54

in 2002. Has it been that

5:56

long 2002? This one will be

5:58

the fourth in the series. It's

6:00

called Last Friday. He's talked about

6:02

wanting to do this for a

6:04

while and he's doing it. In

6:06

TV news, it's been over two

6:09

years since the last new episode

6:11

of South Park aired and now

6:13

we have a premiere date for

6:15

season 27. It returns Wednesday, July

6:17

9th on Comedy Central. Another animation

6:19

news, Fox, just picked up The

6:21

Simpsons, Family Guy, and Bob's Burgers

6:23

for four more seasons. That's not

6:25

usually how this works. They also

6:27

announced that American dad is officially

6:30

returning to Fox, so lots of

6:32

good news for Seth McFarlane. Lastly,

6:34

a few things on this weekend.

6:36

First, Michelle Williams, again, the actress,

6:38

which got a new Hulu show

6:40

with Jenny Slate called Dying for

6:42

Sex, that premieres today. Tomorrow night

6:44

on S&L, Jack Black is hosting

6:46

with Elton John and Brandy Carlyle

6:48

performing. Then Sunday night on HBO,

6:50

it's the third season finale of

6:53

The White Lotus. And now, let's

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on to music again. It's Friday. That

7:54

means new music Friday the previously mentioned

7:56

Elton John and Brandy Carly work together

7:58

on an album called Who Belives and

8:00

Angels that is out today. Joe has

8:03

a new album out that's Joe Curie

8:05

from Stranger Things he goes by Joe

8:07

but it's confusing because it's spelled DJ

8:09

O so it looks like de Joe

8:11

but I believe it's pronounced Joe anyway

8:13

his new album the crux is out

8:15

now skrilics just released a new album

8:18

34 songs on it and he's urging

8:20

fans to listen in order from track

8:22

one to track 34 Slaybels, they have

8:24

a new album out today, and the

8:26

band LA Guns, who have been around

8:28

since the 80s, they've got a new

8:30

one called Leopard Skin. Also, Miley Cyrus,

8:33

released a new song, End of the

8:35

World, that's new for Miley, out now.

8:37

Bruce Springsteen just announced something new as

8:39

well. It's a collection of songs called

8:41

Tracks 2, The Lost Albums. We don't

8:43

know too much about it, but the

8:45

first volume of tracks he released had

8:48

66 songs on it, so I'd assume

8:50

this will. In other music news, Kesha

8:52

just announced a big summer tour with

8:54

Sizzer Sisters. I cannot say the name

8:56

of the title because this is a

8:58

family show, but I'll link the dates

9:00

up in our Instagram stories at First

9:03

Thing pod. Morgan Wallen has been trending

9:05

really ever since he walked off the

9:07

S&L stage. People have been talking about

9:09

him. He walked off at the end

9:11

of the end of the show, you

9:13

know, during the good nights, the goodbyes.

9:15

He went on to post on social

9:18

media, a photo of a jet on

9:20

the caption, get me to God's country.

9:22

People thought it was his way of

9:24

saying, get me out of here. That's

9:26

been a hot topic. And now he

9:28

is selling merch that says get me

9:30

to God's country. Also, we have since

9:33

learned that he declined to be in

9:35

a pre-taped S&L song from that night's

9:37

show, a role that then went to

9:39

Joe Jonas. Mark Ronson was just injured

9:41

at a show. He shared a photo

9:43

on Instagram saying that he tried to

9:45

turn a big speaker by himself from

9:48

the middle of a set and it

9:50

was heavier than he anticipated than he

9:52

anticipated. about his days as a DJ

9:54

in New York. It's called Night People.

9:56

That's coming later this year. Lastly, I've

9:58

mentioned before that Ozzy Osbournes banned black

10:00

sap. but this is about to play

10:03

their final show. It'll be Ozzy's final

10:05

performance ever. And his wife slash manager

10:07

Sharon Osborne was just asked about potentially

10:09

using a hologram in the future. And

10:11

she was into it. She's open to

10:13

it. She said, quote, technology keeps moving

10:15

on and on. No, I'm not gonna

10:18

do it. Technology keeps moving on and

10:20

on. You can do incredible things now.

10:22

So what you could do in five

10:24

years will be even better. You never

10:26

know what the opportunities the opportunities are.

10:28

So there. Some

10:31

additional headlines, President Trump rolled out his new

10:33

tariff plan on Wednesday, his Liberation Day. I can't

10:35

possibly break it all down here, but the

10:37

headline is that he's imposing a 10% global

10:39

tariff and higher tariffs on 60 nations. This is

10:41

his plan to bring jobs back to the

10:43

US, but some economists are warning that this

10:45

could slow growth, increase inflation, and lead to a

10:47

recession. I know the stock market has been

10:49

taken a hit ever since this news broke.

10:52

The Tao fell over 1,600 points. Yesterday is all

10:54

three major markets posted their worst day since

10:56

2020. So we'll see what happens. In other

10:58

Trump news, the deadline he sat banning TikTok is

11:00

coming up tomorrow. We're going to have to

11:02

wait and see what happens here in the

11:04

next couple of days. It's reported that Amazon has

11:06

submitted a last minute bid to buy the

11:08

platform. And apparently it's being taken seriously. Again, the

11:11

deadline is tomorrow. We'll see if Jeff Basos gets

11:13

control of TikTok. In Easter News, Instagram just

11:15

released their list of the most popular Easter

11:17

candies. What do you think would be number one?

11:19

Most popular Easter candy. If you said Peeps,

11:21

you're wrong and you should be embarrassed. Peeps didn't

11:23

even make the top 10. They're top five from

11:26

Instagram eggs, Hershey's Milk Chocolate, Headberry Chocolate, mini

11:28

eggs, Reese's peanut butter cups, and Reese's Peanut

11:30

Butter eggs that took the top spot. Lastly here

11:32

I always end the show with something positive

11:34

some good news this one is a little different,

11:36

but it's great after 12 years of research and

11:38

development or R&D as we we

11:40

say in the science

11:42

community, These Canadian chemists just created a

11:45

stir stick that detects

11:47

if your drink is

11:49

spiked. There are other are other

11:51

things like this out

11:53

there on the market,

11:55

but this is definitely the

11:57

most discreet. It's It's a

11:59

stir stick. It's something

12:02

that belongs in your drink

12:04

anyway. in your drink tip

12:06

of it will change will

12:08

change it is exposed to

12:10

any of the common

12:12

drugs that people use

12:15

in these scenarios. in these I

12:17

love this. They said

12:19

they want to see

12:21

this on every see this on

12:23

every bartop and I agree

12:25

completely. Great work to these

12:27

Canadian scientists. Let's start mass producing these

12:29

things. And the show is things. And the show

12:31

is over now. The show is over now. Okay. All right.

12:34

Thank you for being here. here. I hope

12:36

it's a great weekend for you. hope

12:38

it's a safe weekend for you. I

12:40

know weather is still going to be

12:42

an issue for a lot of us,

12:44

so to safe. Do what you can. a lot

12:46

of I'm back stay to do it all

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