Atlanta Mass Shooting; Drones Explode Over Kremlin; NY Gas Stove Ban; RSV Vaccine Breakthrough – Mo News Rundown
Hey everybody, it is Thursday, May 4th.
You're listening to the Mo News podcast on Moshe Wannoon.
And I'm Jill Wagner.
This is the place where we bring you just the facts.
And we read all the news and read between the lines Jill.
So you don't have to.
Jill, this is a big day for Star Wars fanatics.
May the fourth be with you.
My husband is very into Star Wars and now my daughter is.
So we are going to be celebrating May the 4th.
How will you celebrate? Which film will you be watching?
That is not my department, Moshe.
But I did download a Star Wars bingo for my daughter to play.
Oh, that's fun.
We made a point, or I should say my brother-in-law, Scotty,
and I made a point early on during COVID
to try to watch all the May 9 films.
I don't think there's more than that at this point.
But the original trilogy and then the pre-trilogy
and the post-trilogy.
And I think I got through about eight of them.
It is worth the watch.
It's a great pandemic watch for sure.
It's funny, Jill.
The idea of watching nine films just seems so overwhelming.
And then you realize that there's TV series that you watch,
that you binge, that are actually equal number of hours.
But somehow they seem more manageable in an hourly fashion.
Well, for the sake of time, Moshe, let's get to the headlines here.
Another mass shooting in America.
This time in Atlanta, what we know about the suspect and the victims,
overseas Russia accuses Ukraine of trying to kill Vladimir Putin
with a drone strike over the Kremlin
to potentially big medical breakthroughs of vaccines to treat RSV.
And also a potential treatment for Alzheimer's.
Onto the economy, the Fed raises interest rates
to their highest level in 16 years
as it tries to bring down inflation.
And Jenny Craig will close its doors after four decades
in the weight loss business.
And Moshe has on the same history.
Jill, a little history of May the 4th be with you
and how that all got started in the late 70s.
And throwback to one of my favorite one hit wonders of the 90s.
Jump around by House of Pain.
We begin with another mass shooting in America.
This time in Midtown Atlanta.
After an extensive hours long manhunt,
police say that they did catch the suspect.
24-year-old Deion Patterson, about 11 miles
from the shooting in Cobb County.
Police say he killed at least one person and wounded four others,
three of them critically.
Earlier in the day, police say that he went
to a medical facility for an appointment.
At some point he became agitated, pulled out a handgun
and opened fire.
One of the victims was shot in the arm, another in the face.
Police say Patterson was with his mother, who was not injured
and is cooperating with officials.
All of the victims were women ranging in ages
from their 20s to their 70s.
Police say Patterson fled the scene after carjacking a vehicle.
They were able to monitor him through the city's camera system.
They say technology played a big role in his capture,
but also credit the police officers
for doing great work to track him down.
Most, we talk about the ripple effects of these mass shootings.
Police had been dispatched to every school in the area.
Kids were dismissed late out of an abundance of caution.
So you can imagine what the parents were going through,
what the kids were feeling like.
This area is a busy commercial area.
There are tons of businesses, bars and restaurants.
And this is the second mass shooting in that midtown area
in less than a year.
Yeah, Joe, talking about the technology here.
They apparently had a license plate reader in Cobb County,
which is what detected the pickup truck that he stole.
There were sightings all around Cobb County.
Legitimate sightings of Patterson as he was driving around
as they were trying to catch up with him.
Later in the day, a real-time operator flagged 911 a call
about the suspect that appeared legitimate.
An undercover cop that went to the scene,
saw and confronted Patterson.
Backup was called, and then he was taken into custody.
We're learning more about him.
The US Coast Guard confirms that he joined the Coast Guard
back in 2018, was discharged earlier this year.
His mother has been interviewed about this.
She was with him earlier today, saying that he was dissatisfied
with his care, that he was receiving
at the Department of Veterans Affairs
and was seeking better care here.
President Biden was monitoring the situation
throughout the day.
Notably, the US Senator from Georgia Rafael Warnock
had two children who were locked down in Atlanta.
So this was really impacting everybody.
And to your point earlier, it's not just those
who are on the scene, those who are shot, wounded, et cetera.
It's the tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people,
really, who were impacted by this in a major urban center,
the schools, the kids, et cetera,
who have a certain level of trauma
for having been part of a mass shooting incident
and having to lock down here.
I was listening to an interview with Senator Warnock
on CNN late Wednesday night.
And he was saying, what is it gonna take?
Is it that politicians, that lawmakers in DC,
are just so out of step with what Americans want,
which is just some sort of common sense gun laws
in this country.
And he says, look, it's every day now
that we've got one of these mass shootings.
Yeah, I mean, his Senate, he's in the US Senate,
they passed comprehensive bipartisan gun reform
to the extent possible last year.
It appears now with House Republicans in charge
that they don't really wanna focus,
at least on the gun part of it,
they wanna focus more on the mental health
or school security part of it.
We still, it remains to be seen here
how this guy obtained the gun,
what type of gun he used,
whether it be impacted by any sort of legislation.
But you do get the sense,
just given the number of these types of incidents,
especially just in the past few weeks
that we've covered here on the podcast,
that there is a level of frustration building up here.
And hope that at least on a federal level,
they might manage it.
You certainly see it happening on a state-by-state level now.
And now let's head overseas.
Two explosions occurred 15 minutes apart
over Russia's Kremlin early Wednesday
in an incident that set off accusations
and escalated tensions between Russia and Ukraine.
So Russia is claiming that the Ukrainian government
had orchestrated a twin drone attack,
describing it as a deliberate attempt
to strike President Putin's residence.
They say it was foiled by Russian electronic warfare systems.
We should note that Putin was not at the Kremlin
at the time of the explosions.
Russia did not release any evidence
to show that it was Ukraine that was behind the explosions.
Ukraine denying any involvement,
saying that Russia had manufactured the incident
to distract attention from Ukraine's looming counter-offensive.
An attack in the heart of Moscow, though,
would represent quite a move by Ukraine
with the potential to create serious repercussions.
Yeah, there's a couple of videos out on social media
and via Russian state media sources,
which show the explosion overnight over the Kremlin,
had an aerospace engineer reach out to me, Jill,
on the Monuse account, who said,
the drones appear to be pretty small
and they can't imagine they would have made it
long distance from Ukraine,
so they would have had to be launched domestically.
There's still a lot of questions here,
including why it took the Russians 12 hours
to put out a statement about this explosion.
US intelligence agencies are still trying to determine
ourselves what happened.
US officials have in the past voiced concern
about Ukrainian attacks on Russian soil,
concerned they could provoke Russia here.
The Ukrainians, again, deny any involvement here
and believe this could be what's called
a false flag operation,
an insider operation by the Russians,
so they can use that as an excuse
to attack leaders, potentially Zelinsky, in Ukraine.
The Kremlin did make a point, as we noted,
to publicize this incident, again, 12 hours after the blast,
Putin's press service issued a rare statement,
alleging, quote, the Kiev regime used drones
to carry out an unsuccessful attempt
on the life of the president,
again, despite the fact that Putin was not at the Kremlin
at the time of the explosions.
If the explosions were indeed a drone attack,
this penetration of central Moscow's air defenses
would represent an embarrassing failure
by the Russian military, which has struggled in this now,
I guess 14 month war, when we're on the 15th month here.
And so it's interesting here,
because this is an embarrassment to the Russians,
but they made a point of publicizing it,
which is then leading some other analysts, again,
it's very hard to break through there
and get a truth in Putin's Russia.
But the fact that publicizing this could mean, again,
they're trying to use this as a pretext
to escalate the war further in Ukraine.
And it does come, as you know,
Ukraine is preparing its major counter-offensive,
in attempt to take back the about 15% of the country
that Russia currently occupies.
Meanwhile, in Russia, they're prepared to preside
over their big annual main ninth celebrations.
That's the main patriotic holiday in Russia.
It celebrates the victory of the Soviet Union
over Nazi Germany in World War II.
Putin would be presiding, typically over that,
a major military parade in Red Square,
just outside the Kremlin there.
So to have this happen just a few days before that
is particularly significant.
There are some speculation, Moshe,
that those celebrations are going to be majorly scaled back
in the wake of this incident.
Yeah, I mean, we'll see.
Who's to blame here?
Was it a Russian insider operation?
Was it a Ukrainian rogue unit?
Was it dissenters within Russia?
Was this some Western attempt?
Like many things, like the explosion of that gas line,
the Nord Stream line between Russia and Germany last year,
a lot of things in this war,
there are so many potential culprits
with so many motivations.
Really trying to uncover here what the truth is
and who's to blame will be interesting.
And then of course,
will potentially have an impact
on those celebrations next week.
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OK, time now for the speed read and arrest
in the Texas mass shooting that we've been telling you
about from the Associated Press.
The man accused of killing five of his neighbors
near Cleveland, Texas last week, appeared in court on Wednesday,
where he was charged with five counts of murder.
It came a day after a 38-year-old Francisco Orapesa
was finally found that four-day manhunt for him
ended Tuesday when authorities acting on a tip
said that they found the suspect hiding underneath a pile
of laundry in the closet of a house.
Officials say it was not a random house,
Orapesa thought that he was safe there.
And there was no indication that he was about to leave.
But the arrest ends with had become a widening dragnet
that had grown to more than 250 people
from multiple jurisdictions.
There was $80,000 in reward money.
The FBI got more than 200 tips.
That one tip that finally ended the chase came at 5.15 PM
and then a little bit more than an hour later,
Orapesa was in custody.
Again, they found him in a home.
It was about 10 miles from the original murder scene.
Also yesterday, his wife was arrested
for hindering the four-day manhunt.
Yeah, we should note here, this is something law enforcement
officials say all the time, but that see something,
say something works here.
Obviously, there was the reward money,
but they were able to apprehend him because of a tip they got.
So they put out his picture, they put out notice.
The media was out there covering this.
And so they were able to find him, again, just a few miles away.
Orapesa is officially a Mexican national.
Jill, he had already been deported four times
in the United States, twice in 2009, again in 2012,
again in 2016, meaning officially that means he made it
into the US five times illegally.
Jill, I happened to be on a panel on CNN Tuesday night
as the press conference was happening just after they found him.
And this is something we were discussing,
which is the major policy questions this leads to.
This guy deported four times, not putting jail any of those signs,
just kicked out the country each time.
Each time made his way back into the country,
I happened to be living in Texas again,
owned at least five weapons, felt comfortable enough
to shoot them in his backyard.
There was also a domestic violence complaint.
At 11 p.m., by the way.
At 11 p.m. on a Friday night, he's here illegally,
he's been deported four times, he's like,
I'm gonna shoot my gun in my backyard.
The police had interacted with him before.
There was a domestic violence accusation against him
from his wife, she never filed charges.
But clearly law enforcement had interacted with him,
and it was continuing to live here.
So there's a lot of questions here as you peel back the onion
on larger policy questions than a local,
on a state level in Texas, on a federal level here,
immigration questions, gun ownership questions, et cetera.
We still don't know at this point
whether he owned those guns legally,
whether he bought them privately, et cetera.
There's questions there as well.
The sheriff had said that prior to Friday's shooting,
deputies had been called to his house
at least one other previous time
over shooting rounds in his yard.
So again, he felt comfortable to just keep doing this
despite not being here illegally.
Back to the victims here for a second,
all of the victims, the five that he killed,
including the third grader, all from Honduras.
One of the men who survived the shooting, Wilson Garcia,
said friends and family in the home tried to hide
and shield themselves and their children after Orpasia
walked up to the home and began firing.
Clearly in that part of Texas today,
they're breathing a sigh of relief
because for a while, and we reported this on the podcast,
the police said they had no leads
that the hunt had gone cold here
until they found him in that home.
And Joe law enforcement had said Tuesday night
that they believed the home belonged to a family member
of Orpasia's where he was hiding there under the laundry.
Yeah, it's never good when the FBI says
that the suspect could be, quote, anywhere
and that they were actually searching in Mexico as well.
So definitely, so definitely some good news
that at least he is in custody right now.
Turns out he only made it about 10 miles away.
Onto the economy from Reuters,
the Federal Reserve approved its 10th interest rate increase
in just a little over a year,
but did hint that they may be done
with any more increases, at least for now.
So this time the Fed raised rates by another 0.25%.
Wednesday's hike raises the key rate to a range of 5%, 5.25%.
That is the highest level in 17 years.
The Fed got there in near record time,
raising the rate from near zero in March of 2020
to now above 5% in just over a year.
The goal is to beat back an inflation rate
that has also reached a four decade high as of last June.
Officials are wrestling with conflicting
economic challenges.
Inflation remains well above their 2% goal,
although it has started to moderate.
The economy has also though shown signs of resilience.
The job market is still really strong
despite these aggressive rate moves.
Jill, one other thing that came up during the announcement
of the Fed rate hike on Wednesday afternoon
was this banking crisis.
We've been talking about the several bank failures.
The second, third and fourth largest bank failures
in American history all over the last two months.
The Fed Chair Jerome Powell said that
because of that banking crisis,
that's one of the reasons
they're probably not gonna be increasing rates
as much as they would.
The goal of course here from the Federal Reserve
is to tighten up the money supply.
There's too much money out there.
We're spending too much,
which is what is leading to inflation staying elevated here.
The idea behind Fed interest rate hikes
is to make it less likely that banks would lend
to effectively dry up the money supply,
less likely to take out loans,
again with the hope of bringing prices down
because there's less money in our pockets to be spending.
Well, that banking situation has sort of had the same effect
they say, less money is gonna go out here.
Banks are gonna be more cautious about giving out loans
but to consumers, to businesses
so that could lessen the need here
for more rate increases by the Fed.
The fear here and the constant of battle
is to raise rates without putting us into a recession.
Although most economists and the Fed staff
believe that the rate increases
may tip the economy into a mild recession,
the Fed Chair Powell said that hiring
is still so strong at businesses,
it's possible to cool the labor market,
enough to bring down inflation
without triggering a downturn,
effectively have their cake and eat it too,
bring down inflation without bringing on a recession.
But that is the tricky tightrope walk
that they're doing here.
And so Powell says, and I'm sure we'll play this
sound bite back in months, shouldn't it not be the case,
this is what he said on Wednesday,
the case for avoiding a recession is in my view
more likely than having recession.
So he still feels that being able to avoid a recession
is more likely than a recession happening.
So we remain here 24 seven on recession watch.
That would be what experts call a soft landing.
So if you ever hear that term,
that is what they are referring to.
Yes, and you have many bankers
and many others saying buckle your seat belts
for a hard landing here.
It is notable, Jill, and we put this up
on the Instagram feed.
The last time we saw rates this high,
06-ish, 07-ish, what happened the following year,
we went into that 08 recession.
Now, obviously, circumstances are very different
from when they were during that era,
but it does have some similarities,
which is why people, many remain cautious.
And your constant reminder,
if it's financial advice,
you'll hear from most financial advisors,
make sure to the extent possible
to have six months of savings,
basically six months of your basic expenses
available liquid for you
should the economy head that direction.
Also in the business world from NBC News,
Jenny Craig will close its doors
after four decades in the weight loss
and nutrition business.
In an email sent to employees late Tuesday,
the company said that it will close quote
due to its inability to secure additional financing.
Jenny Craig, corporate and salaried field employees
last day will be Friday,
and hourly center employees last day working was Tuesday.
The company had recently said
that it was going to be transitioning
to an e-commerce model
instead of the brick and mortar model
that they had been operating on.
Not clear though, if that is still happening.
A lot of this not confirmed by Jenny Craig.
Most of this is just NBC News reporting.
Yeah, NBC has been on top of this story.
Jenny Craig has not been very open with his information.
Their employees finding out kind of spur of the moment
that it's all over.
For the past two weeks,
Jenny Craig reportedly has been running out of money
as a search for a buyer,
has been economic tough times for them as of late.
It was founded 40 years ago.
Of course, to help people lose weight,
the brand became a household name for weight loss.
You might remember all of their commercials,
especially in the 80s and 90s.
They had a program that provided special menus
designed by chefs and nutritionists
to help consumers lose weight.
You might have seen some of the celebrity spokespeople,
Kirsty Alley back in the day,
Valerie Burton-Elley, Jason Alexander,
George Costanza himself,
Mariah Carey, among the people
who have been spokespeople for Jenny Craig through the years.
But then they faced competition.
And now you have this whole trend towards Ozempic,
Uigha V, the various drugs that have hit the market.
And the feeling is that Jenny Craig did not adapt quick enough
to the changing nature of weight loss,
hasn't adjusted.
A Weight Watchers themselves
has been trying to get into the prescription
weight loss drug business to stay afloat.
They recently bought a company called Sequence,
a telehealth subscription service
that connects patients with doctors
who then prescribe weight loss medication.
Jenny Craig did not appear to do that
and so it appears it is over for them.
From the Hill, New York has become the first date
in the country to bar the use of natural gas
in new residential buildings.
The provision will take effect in 2026 for new buildings,
seven stories and shorter.
And in 2029 for all other buildings,
the speaker of the New York Assembly says it's essential
to achieving the goals of a 2019 climate law
that sets a target of cutting emissions by 40% by 2030.
Existing buildings we should note,
unaffected by this budget provision
as our new commercial buildings.
Yeah, so if you're on a kitchen or a restaurant,
you appear to be unaffected by this.
I know many chefs prefer gas stoves to electric stoves.
A lot of this started in New York City.
So the city itself implemented a similar phase out
earlier this year.
It's set to expand the taller buildings in the city
within a couple of years.
So this now goes statewide to all of New York state.
There are numerous similar policies
in other cities, other localities.
Berkeley, California became the first city in the nation
to outright ban natural gas in all new construction.
A US appeals court struck that law down in April,
suggesting here that New York might have
an uphill legal battle if they want to implement this.
You might remember earlier this year,
the federal government was seeking a proposed phase out
of new gas stoves nationally.
They just threw that idea out there.
It sparked a lot of backlash among folks on the right,
among folks in the middle,
people who are against electric stoves
for a whole variety of reasons or prefer gas stoves.
So it does not appear to be happening nationally here,
but like we see many trend lines,
especially when it regards to climate change these days,
it's happening on a state by state basis.
All right, now on to some medical news,
a major medical breakthrough Wednesday
after a 60 year scientific quest.
The world has its first vaccine to protect against RSV
and more are on the way.
On Wednesday, the FDA approved ArexV,
which is designed to be given as a single shot
to adults who are 60 and older.
Although RSV is a disease that is often associated
with babies and young children,
it can also be quite dangerous for seniors.
In the US, an estimated 159,000 adults, 65 and up,
are hospitalized each year with RSV
and an estimated 10 to 13,000 people die
as a result of their infection.
In a clinical trial of nearly 25,000 older adults,
the vaccine, which is made by GSK,
was 83% effective at preventing lower respiratory
tract disease caused by the virus.
The vaccine was 94% effective at preventing
severe disease in seniors.
Yeah, the severe disease percentage is very important
because severe disease is defined
by heading to the hospital.
So it will, the peers, Jill, be hitting the market
in just a few months.
It still needs CDC approval, it goes FDA,
and then CDC, the CDC then determines
how it hits the market.
It does set the stage here for a battle
of multiple pharmaceutical giants.
You note that first vaccine that was approved
is made by GSK.
There are others on the way Moderna Pfizer,
also have RSV vaccine candidates that are on the way.
A decision on Pfizer's RSV vaccine for older adults
is expected later this month.
That vaccine did get a much less favorable endorsement
from the FDA advisors.
It was a closer seven to four vote
on the safety and effectiveness there.
Jill, the advisor's concern around that Pfizer vaccine,
which is still seeking approval,
was around a rare risk about Gilean bar syndrome,
the nerve disease, to the participants in the Pfizer trial,
developed symptoms shortly after vaccination.
So that's why they're taking a closer look at that.
Of course, the one you're talking about is the GSK vaccine,
which got much more overwhelming approval.
It's interesting, because you also mentioned
that, of course, RSV impacts younger kids,
and experts are scheduled to meet in a couple of weeks
to recommend whether a Pfizer maternal vaccination
related to RSV given during pregnancy is safe and effective.
That vaccine, if it was to work, if it was to get approval,
would effectively give young infants antibodies
through their mother while they're still in utero.
An FDA decision on that particular vaccine
is set for August.
And then another big medical breakthrough,
this time, though, when it comes to the fight
against Alzheimer's disease from the Wall Street Journal,
an experimental Eli Lilly drug slowed cognitive
and functional decline for people
with early stage Alzheimer's disease.
This new study signals drug makers are turning a corner
in long-running efforts to find meaningful treatments
for the memory-robbing disease.
Denonamab is delivered by intravenous infusion
in a study of more than 1,700 patients.
The drug slowed patients decline by 35%
compared with people who received a placebo
over 18 months of treatment.
Eli Lilly says researchers gave the drug to elderly people
who testing indicated were in the early stages of Alzheimer's.
Researchers gauge the drugs effect
by assessing various measures of memory and activities
of daily living, like driving and managing finances.
About 47% of patients who received the drug
had no decline 12 months after the start of treatment.
So based on this new data, Eli Lilly said yesterday
plans to apply to the FDA for approval
for a Denonamab of this new drug.
Approval could open the door for Medicare
or other health insurers to agree to pay
for the very expensive medication.
Cost is gonna be an issue here.
The results do represent the second time Alzheimer's
was slowed in a final stage trial by a drug
that clears a brain protein called amyloid.
This bolsters the controversial theory
that that abnormal protein plays a key role in the disease.
The success means patients and their caregivers
could soon have another therapy to slow the disease
that is along with something called legambi
made by a company called Esai,
which is approved earlier this year.
Esai is currently rolling out that therapy,
their partner with BioGen on this.
We should mention though, Jill,
while there is some good news with Denonamab,
the new drug is not necessarily a slam dunk
and folks do have concerns about this.
One professor who recently enrolled patients
in the study says from what he's seen,
the benefits are relatively modest
and may be outweighed by safety risks for some patients.
About 24% one in four of the subjects
experienced brain swelling with Denonamab
and an overlapping 32% had bleeding in the brain.
These are side effects that we have seen
with other similar drugs.
So again, there is some progress here
and some hope there has not been
a major Alzheimer's breakthrough in decades,
but still some concerns here as the FDA considers
whether to make this, whether to approve this
for the larger market and as I mentioned before,
another challenge will be cost
and the lack of insurance coverage
for these types of drugs.
♪♪
All right, now for on this day, on this May 4th,
we began the broadcast by saying,
May the 4th be with you, Jill.
So Star Wars did come out in May of 1977,
though on May 25th.
It wasn't until nearly two years later on May 4th, 1979,
that this idea of Star Wars Day,
May the 4th be with you, really took a hold here.
It came as we told you yesterday on the podcast,
this is the anniversary of Margaret Thatcher
winning the prime the prime ministership
of Great Britain in 1979.
Well, her party took out an advertisement
in the London Evening News that said,
May the 4th be with you, Maggie, congratulations.
So some people point to that as the kind of origin
of May the 4th be with you,
equals May the 4th be with you, coming out of the UK there.
We should note, by the way,
that the film creator George Lucas
also celebrates a birthday in May,
May is a big month, the movie came out,
May the 4th be with you,
George Lucas' birthday is May 14th,
and he will be 79 this year.
That is my dad's birthday.
So your dad shares a birthday with George Lucas,
you share a birthday with Donald Trump,
I share a birthday with Jeffrey Dahmer.
Jill.
Jill, we don't love to talk about Dahmer,
we like talking about Notorious B.I.G.
and Al Franken, us May 21st birthdays.
Yes, go with those.
Like forget about him, thank you, thank you.
Jill, today is also the birthday for the Grammy Award
on this day in 1959.
The Grammy was presented for the first time,
the most prestigious award in the music industry.
Winners of the first edition included
Ella Fitzgerald, Henry Mancini, and Frank Sinatra.
A little political news here on this day in 1961,
62 years ago, the first Freedom Ride,
the political protest against segregation
of interstate bus travel in the South began
as a group of white and black Americans,
departed DC on buses bound for New Orleans.
Their goal was to protest segregated bus terminals
at the time in many parts of the South,
there were bus terminals and restrooms just for blacks,
versus just for whites.
The Freedom Riders tried to use the whites only restrooms
and lunch counters at bus stations across the South.
The groups were confronted by arresting police officers,
violence from white protesters along their routes,
but also drew international attention
to the civil rights movement.
All right, and we'll end here as we typically do
with a bit of music news on this day in 1968.
♪ Let your motor run in the morning ♪
Jill, that is Steppenwolf, they made their US TV debut
on American Bandstand on this day with Born to Be Wild.
All right, let's fast forward to the 90s
and remember this hit.
♪ Whoo ♪
Actually, synonymous with Wisconsin football,
after the third quarter of every home game,
that song blasts and the entire stadium pretty much goes wild.
So they have Ohio State, they have Sloopy, right?
It gets Sloopy.
Yes.
And then Wisconsin has Jump Around.
What do you guys in Michigan have?
Is there a pop culture song, a major song
that you guys play at your football games?
No, but we throw marshmallows
at anyone who's wearing the opposing color.
Listen, everyone's got to have a tradition.
Very mature.
So that was House of Pain 31 years ago
with releasing their song Jump Around.
I remember also, for some reason, Jill,
I guess I watched Enough Mrs. Doubtfire as a kid.
It's at the beginning of Mrs. Doubtfire.
There's like a party going on
and they're playing Jump Around.
Yeah, it came out just after that song.
All right, I'm gonna go re-watch
at least the beginning of Mrs. Doubtfire.
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