Calls For Charges In Tragic NYC Subway Chokehold Death – Mo News Rundown

All right, everybody. We made it. It's Friday, May 5th. Happy single De Mayo. You're listening to the Mo News podcast. I'm Mo Schmanunu. 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 so you don't have to, Jill. And for a special edition, this is also the place where we interview our moms. Yes, we are doing a special edition where we are doing a joint interview with my mom and your mom. We're doing that interview later today. And it's going to be for a special Mother's Day edition. So get excited. And in the next few hours, if you hear this podcast and you have questions for our mothers, please send us a direct message on Instagram and we'll try to incorporate them into the episode. So Moshe's mom and my mom, I think must be somewhat similar because they both asked us, what are the questions? I want a list of questions, which in a normal situation is a total. I don't know. No, but maybe for the moms. When PR people on behalf of newsmakers, and this is pretty traditional since we get the special from some of you, when we have people on, we might give them topics in advance. Like we're going to talk about the economy or politics, et cetera. We do not traditionally give questions in advance. Typically, the only people who really demand that sort of thing are celebs. And that's not really the thing that we do here on this podcast. But apparently, Jill, it's not just celebs. It's also our mother. Yeah. Want very specific questions so they can prepare. And Moshe, just a bit of housekeeping news, want to quickly mention that you are going to be off next week. And I will be holding down the fort with some special guests. Jill, I'm looking forward to listening. I will be reporting from abroad. You'll see some of that on the Instagram feed later in the week. And potentially you some of it on this podcast. So stay tuned everybody. And Moshe, I promise I will make you proud, especially with On This Day. I'll put extra effort into it. Jill, I have no doubt. I have no doubt. And I do want to mention for everybody who is familiar with my old podcast, the Need to Know podcast and followed me over here to Monuse. First of all, thank you so much. And second of all, you're going to be very excited because I'm bringing Carlo Verstano on one day next week. We're still figuring out the schedule. I will let everybody know on Instagram, but a bit of a reunion. I'm looking forward to listening, Jill. And for now, let's get to the headlines here. It is almost coronation day for King Charles III. We've got all the tea, including who's going to be there and who won't be there. The banking crisis is still not over. Some new concerns about several more of the country's mid-sized banks. We'll tell you about which ones. In New York City, the latest on that chokehold death on the city subway system that has Democrats fighting with one another about what to do next. The latest back and forth over that drone explosion over the Kremlin this week that the Russians are calling an assassination attempt. And just when you thought you have heard it all when it comes to travel, a Delta Airlines flight gets delayed for hours because of a swarm of bees. Jill, it was a missed opportunity to buzz the tower. Apologies, folks. We'll try not to use too many puns in that news story. And a big win for Singer Ed Sheeran. A jury finds that he is not liable in the copyright trial brought about by the Marvin Gaye estate. We're going to do a little compare contrast between the two songs in question. And Moshe has on this day in history. Jill will do a little secret to my history as well as a big day for the turtles in a half shell. And it is Friday what we are watching. Reading and eating this weekend. All right, let's get started. Saturday is coronation day for King Charles III. King Charles became king as soon as his mother, Queen Elizabeth died back in September. But the coronation is when he officially will be crowned. It is a moment of public celebration for the new king. So here is what to expect. The coronation starts at 11 a.m. local time, which is 6 a.m. Eastern time. So you will need to wake up super early here in the United States if you want to catch it, especially on the West Coast where it'll be 3 a.m. Thousands of people are expected to gather at Westminster Abbey to mark the occasion. Dignitaries and more than 100 heads of state from around the world expected to be attending. As for the United States, First Lady Jill Biden will be representing. There have been 38 monarchs crowned at Westminster Abbey over the years. The ceremony itself hasn't changed much for centuries. But this one is expected to run about two hours that is much shorter than the Queen's four-hour coronation. Also different this time around is that organizers have really tried to make it more inclusive. Different faith leaders will be leading the first processions into Westminster Abbey, followed by representatives from each of the 15 nations where the king is head of state. And that is the first time that non-protestant faith leaders have been given a role in a coronation. As for the service itself, organizers say the Anglican service will have, quote, representation from other faiths to reflect the diversity of modern Britain. The core elements of the service are going to stay the same. This includes the recognition, the oath, the anointing, and the crowning among others. After the service, there will be another large parade heading to Buckingham Palace. At that point, there will be a balcony appearance from members of the royal family. And most at some point during all of this, hopefully, Louis or George will make some type of news with a funny face and just being kids. Yeah, Louis, the youngest son of Prince William, known for some of his more remarkable face expressions covering his ears, et cetera, at the Jubilee last year. Jill, there are a lot of interesting details with this coronation. It struck me a couple of weeks ago when we learned that Pope Francis has gifted fragments from what is believed to be the true cross on which Jesus Christ was crucified for incorporation into the processional cross that will be used in the ceremony. A lot of history here, a throwback here to King Charles' mom, Queen Elizabeth, the Queen's coronation back in 1953 with the first royal event to be televised. This time around, they will incorporate some of those traditions, but they are trying to cut down on cost right now. Buckingham Palace says they will release the financial details of how much this whole parade and all the ceremony from this weekend will cost at a later date. But these types of events do tend to generate more money than is spent, they claim, in tourism dollars, et cetera. You see a lot of people from out of the world who are in town in the UK to watch all of this in person. Billions of dollars reportedly will flow into the UK economy, sorely needed, given the say of the UK economy, as a result of these coronation. As far as security here, the operation is known as Operation Golden Orb. It will be one of the largest that the Metropolitan Police in London have ever coordinated and run. That of course also leads to questions about cost here. One of the questions people had is who's going to be there and who's not going to be there? One of the big questions in the lead up to this, Will Prince Harry and Meghan attend? Harry will be there. Meghan will be staying back in California with their two children. They know that it's actually Prince Archie's birthday, so they kind of use that as an excuse here. Things have been a little difficult, shall we say, in between Harry and Meghan and the rest of the royals, especially over the last couple of years, as Harry and Meghan have been revealing a lot about that family. I don't really want to opine on the royals, but I would have certainly loved to see the interactions between Meghan and Kate if Meghan had gone. That would have been just fun to watch. I think that's one of the reasons why Meghan is not going. She doesn't want that scrutiny. I think people want the attention to be on dad after all he has waited more than 70 years to finally be king. As for another royal of interest here, Prince Andrew, Charles' brother, disgraced because of his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, accusations and a payoff to one of the women related to allegations of sexual assault there. He is, Prince Andrew, is expected to attend. He's no longer officially a working royal though, so he will not have a formal role here as we were reported. Charles, apparently, has been trying to get him out of one of the larger palaces and into a smaller house. He's so far refused. As far as other foreign leaders are concerned, you mentioned Jill Biden will be there. Joe Biden will not. Emmanuel Macron, a bunch of other leaders will be there. You'll also see royals from other countries that you don't typically hear about. The King of Sweden, King Carl the 16th, will be there. King Philippe of Spain will be in attendance. Notably, a few countries' leaders have not been invited. Iran's leader, not invited. That's actually a change since the Queen's funeral last year. Also not on the invite list, Russia, Belarus, Myanmar, Afghanistan, Syria and Venezuela. The celebration will continue beyond Saturday into Sunday with thousands of events planned across the country. Katy Perry, Lionel Richie and the group take that. We're going to be headlining the coronation concert at Windsor Castle on Sunday night. Motion I did need to look up the group. Take that. They are a 90s band, which we've never heard of. Jill, I remember a couple UK groups from the 90s. I remember Bewitched and I remember Westlife, but I do not remember. Take that. Well, it should all make for some good TV. And on Monday, by the way, it is a bank holiday in the UK and people are being urged to volunteer. All right. Now to the latest story, adding fuel to the debate about Supreme Court ethics and a lack of a code of conduct. Thursday, we learned in another investigative story that billionaire Republican donor Harlan Crow paid for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas's grand nephew to attend a private boarding school in Georgia that charges over $6,000 a month for tuition. Thomas had taken legal custody of his grand nephew at a young age. It turns out like several other gifts from Crow that Thomas did not report the tuition payments from the billionaire on his annual financial disclosures. This month, the news outlet ProPublica reported that Thomas accepted luxury travel from Crow virtually every year for decades, including international super yacht cruises and private jet flights around the world. He also paid money to Thomas and his relatives in an undisclosed real estate deal. After he purchased the house where Thomas's mother lives, Crow poured tens of thousands of dollars into improving the property. And roughly 15 years ago, he donated much of the budget of a political group founded by Thomas's wife, which paid her a $120,000 salary. Meanwhile, Senator Dick Durbin, who is a Democrat from Illinois and Senator Lindsey Graham, a Republican from South Carolina, they got into it over ethics concerns in the Supreme Court and the Senate Judiciary Committee this week. Here's what Durbin had to say followed by a bit of Graham's response. I think it's pretty clear to most objective people. This is not the ordinary course of business and there shouldn't be a standard for those of us in public service. We wouldn't tolerate this from a city council or member or an older man. It falls short of ethical standards. We expect of any public servant in America. And yet the Supreme Court won't even acknowledge it's a problem. This assault on Justice Thomas is well beyond ethics. It is about trying to delegitimize a conservative court that was appointed through the traditional process. Your response has been to pat the court. Virtually every member of the Democratic caucus, except maybe one or two, are for expanding the number of judges to dilute the conservative majority that exists today. Jill, that was a hearing earlier in the week that they actually invited Chief Justice Roberts to that he declined. He was like, no, I don't need to testify before you guys because I don't need to, frankly. And so they discussed these issues with various Supreme Court ethicists, et cetera. Democrats and some Republicans have been very critical here as more and more of these revelations have come out. But you do hear there from Lindsey Graham, the feeling that this is political in Clarence Thomas. It happens to be a conservative and this wouldn't have happened otherwise. Dick Durbin, make sure to note though that this is a concern he has had way before the court went 6-3 conservative. So these revelations, you mentioned several there about Thomas. There's also been a story about Neil Gorsuch recently and a real estate deal that's slightly less concerning, but still not revealed here. It's prompted Democrats to push for greater oversight of the Supreme Court and calls for justices to adopt a formal code of conduct. The High Court is the only federal branch that is not subject to an enforceable ethics code. Effectively, it is up to the Supreme Court to police themselves. There are nearly 900 federal judges. Only 9 out of 900 don't have a code of ethics. They all happen to sit on the Supreme Court. Durbin released an additional statement after this latest story came out about the tuition payment saying, I hope that Chief Justice Roberts reads the story and understands that something has to be done here. Of course, Congress can step in. We have three branches of government here. They're all supposed to check each other. That was the initial ambition of the founders here. The sense here is that Congress or the White House needs to step in here and effectively bring in some oversight over the Supreme Court because the Supreme Court is not policing itself. In another statement, you had Democrat Ron Wyden, or Senator from Oregon say with every new revelation in this case, it becomes clear that Harlan Crow has been subsidizing the extravagant lifestyle for Justice Thomas and his family that they could otherwise not afford here. Notably, Harlan Crow is pushing back here. His office released a statement to CNBC saying that Harlan Crow has long been passionate about the importance of quality education in giving back to those less fortunate, especially at-risk youth. So that was their statement there in regards to the tuition payments for Thomas' grand nephew. All right, we have a lot more to get to in this podcast, including today's speed read. But first, we want to take a couple of our sponsors this week. We're going to begin with Magic Spoon Cereal. We often talk about nostalgia on this podcast. And one of the things that so many of us look back fondly is the cereals from back in the day. 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Okay, time now for the speed read. Let's start with a New York story getting a lot of attention from NBC news. The death of a homeless man aboard a New York City subway who was put into a chokehold by one of the writers has been deemed a homicide. This is according to the medical examiner. However, no charges have been filed yet against the 24 year old passenger who put Jordan nearly in a headlock. Some like AOC and other progressive lawmakers now calling for justice for nearly he was homeless. He struggled with mental illness. They are also calling for that person who was initially held as a good Samaritan to be arrested. But I want to step back for a second in case anyone hasn't been following this witnesses and law enforcement sources said that nearly got onto the subway and started acting very aggressively toward other riders threatening to harm them. They say nearly who was 30 told riders on the train that he wanted food that he wasn't taking no for an answer and that he would hurt anyone on the train. One witness said nearly was yelling that he didn't care if he gets a big life sentence that it doesn't even matter if he dies. Those were his words. The witness said that he himself was scared and he was worried that this man nearly was armed and it was then that a 24 year old's rider who is reportedly a US Marine came up behind nearly and put him in a chokehold holding him on the ground. Two other men stood over them and also helped to subdue him. This witness said the chokehold lasted about 15 minutes as they waited for police to respond and it was held even as the train stopped at the subway station and the doors opened and passengers rushed out. Nearly was unconscious on the car floor when officers arrived and died at the scene. Yeah, you might have seen this video has been getting a lot of attention online and distributed on social media. The 24 year old Marine who delivered the chokehold was questioned by police but then later released. Again, he has not been charged here. It's not clear yet whether he would face charges. The Manhattan DA's office is conducting an ongoing investigation here. The New York City Mayor Eric Adams has been pretty outspoken about the situation. He said, I was a former transit police officer myself. I responded to many jobs where you had a passenger assisting somewhat so we can't legally say what a passenger should or shouldn't do in a situation like this. But he's facing a lot of grief from other more progressive lawmakers and Democrats including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who you mentioned AOC who said that Jordan Neely was murdered but because he was houseless and crying for food in a time when the city is raising rents and stripping services to militarize itself while many in power demonize the poor, the murderer gets protected with passive headlines and no charges. It's disgusting. She was also responding there to media coverage. She feels that the media has been taking the side here of the man who put Neely in the chokehold. Eric Adams was then asked about those comments by AOC. Here's a bit of what he said on CNN Wednesday night. Let's let the DA conduct his investigation with the law enforcement officials to really interfere with that is not the right thing to do. And I'm going to be responsible, allow them to do their job and allow them to determine exactly what happened here. Meanwhile, the governor of New York, Kathy Hochl, is also responding saying the video of the incident deeply disturbing and it's causing a lot of fear in people. She says the mayor is working hard to restore a sense of safety. Jill, the events here are tragic. Literally a man dying in a chokehold on the New York City subway system. It does speak to at the same time the fear that some pedestrians have about these issues. At the same time, it doesn't appear that Neely had any weapons. So we clearly need to await more details here, but that isn't letting people stop from opining and jumping in on the situation. It was interesting though, because I was reading a bunch of the responses to AOC's tweet and at least as far as I was reading, almost nobody was taking her side, which I thought was pretty fascinating. Her tweet had about 9,000 retweets. So I'll say that. I just want to read one of the comments from somebody who wrote, I normally have your back. He says, is it wrong? The guy died. Sure. But would it have been better if he had killed an old lady on the train while everyone watched and did nothing? And I think that's the debate here is this could have gone so many different ways. But at the same time, could they have held this guy down without putting him in a chokehold that later killed him? So there's going to be a lot of questions here as we get more witness testimony, more videos in, etc. And we'll remain on top of this for everybody. From Politico, a follow up from yesterday, several US officials pushed back on the Kremlin's accusation that Washington coordinated drone attacks on Moscow with Ukraine. The US emphasizing that we had no involvement in the Wednesday morning attack. National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby called the claim ludicrous. The Biden administration still does not have a leading theory on who was behind the drone attack or why it happened. And the US is still unclear how the event will change the war, if at all. This accusation comes as those two small drones struck Moscow around 2 AM. Early Wednesday, Russia immediately characterized it without evidence as an assassination attempt on Russian President Putin by Ukraine, even though Putin was not at the Kremlin at that time. The Ukrainian president Zelensky denying all those accusations saying, quote, we fight on our own territory. We're defending our own villages and cities. We don't have enough weapons to even do that. Why would we launch small drones on the Kremlin? Back here in the US, the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, this is a different intelligence arm of the US government, looked at the video footage and said publicly on Thursday that based on what they're seeing, it did not suggest the drones involved could do much serious damage. They were pretty small here. We've posted some of the video over on the Instagram account. But again, this remains to be seen, Jill, especially as the Russians celebrate their big annual military parade next week. More concerns about the country's mid-sized banks from Yahoo Finance, PacWest Bank Corp seeking to calm markets after a 60% stock drop that made it the new focal point of concern over the health of US regional banks. The bank said deposits have increased since March, but confirmed that it is in talks with several potential investors. The bank also telling Bloomberg news that it is exploring a sale. In a statement, though, the bank saying it has not experienced out of the ordinary deposit flows following the sale of First Republic Bank and other news. They say our cash and available liquidity is solid and exceeded our uninsured deposits. The turmoil at PacWest just shows, though, how investor angst still is high after a string of industry failures and deposit outflows. This is despite Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell saying on Wednesday that authorities are closer to containing the crisis. So apparently nobody feels reassured. I think it's part for the course lately with Jerome Powell, the Fed Reserve Chair, that his words are falling on deaf ears a lot. Even stuff, it's a contagion, the feeling that one bank fails and the next bank fails and then we're concerned about the next bank. So there is the skepticism that regional banks after the fall of Silicon Valley Bank, Silver Gate Bank, Signature Bank, First Republic Bank. When we say regional banks, we're talking about banks that had upwards of $200 billion in assets. Jill, not insignificant, of course not as big as the big, big banks, but not insignificant banks at all here. These banks have been under pressure after a year of interest rate hikes, hammered the value of their bond holdings. It drove unrealized losses to an estimated $1.8 trillion. The trouble in the commercial real estate market is adding to the pain. And then of course there's depositors, people like you and me, that are withdrawing when they see these headlines, their money out of banks into the larger banks. One of the more influential investors out there who's quoted a lot, you'll see his name in a lot of financial stories, Bill Ackman. He's the CEO of Pershing Square. He wrote on Twitter that, quote, confidence in a financial institution is built over decades and destroyed in days as each domino falls. The next weakest bank will begin to wobble. And that's the big challenge here. They're looking to figure out where they can finally stop this because it seems like they thought they stopped the Silicon Valley and Signature. Then it went to First Republic and we continue to see this impact, especially with the collapse in the stock prices in a couple of these regional banks this week. From the independent aim and Haten Juri has found singer, songwriter Ed Sheeran, not liable for copyright infringement. The British singer, songwriter, was being sued by the heirs of Ed Townsend, the songwriter who composed the 1973 classic, Let's Get It On with Marvin Gaye. They accused Sheeran's 2014 song, Thinking Out Loud of copying the anthem's harmony as well as its melodic and rhythmic elements without permission. The lawsuit was initially filed in 2017 but has taken six years to finally reach him in Haten Federal Court. Sheeran vehemently denied plagiarizing, Let's Get It On. His lawyers argue that the song uses common constructions that are found in many pop tracks. Most, this is a hard story to understand without hearing the songs. So there are some pretty good mashups out there of Sheeran's Thinking Out Loud followed by Let's Get It On. So let's play a little bit. ♪ I'm feeling less hard at 23 ♪ ♪ I'm thinking about how ♪ ♪ And if you feel like I feel ♪ ♪ Then come on ♪ And Moshe reportedly told the court this week that should he lose, he plans on quitting music. Yeah, Sheeran, after the verdict, spoke to reporters saying, I guess I'm going to stay in this profession. Here's a bit of what he told reporters assembled outside the courthouse on Thursday. I'm obviously very happy with the outcome of the case and it looks like I'm not having to retire for my day job after all. But at the same time, I'm unbelievably frustrated that bassist claims like this are allowed to go to court at all. We spent the last eight years talking about two songs with dramatically different lyrics, melodies and four chords which are also different and used by songwriters every day all over the world. These chords are common building blocks which were used to create music long before Let's Get It On was written and will be used to make music long after we are all gone. Jill, Sheeran testified in this case. He actually brought his guitar up on the stand and he played songs by Nina Simone, Bill Withers, Van Morrison, Thinking Out Loud, Let's Get It On to demonstrate how similar chord progressions are commonly shared across decades of hits. He was saying these are some very common chords and if these are going to be owned by Marvin Gaye, it's going to make it very difficult for other artists to create music. Clearly the jury here agreeing with him on this. As a matter of fact, Sheeran's team was saying that these chords were being used in songs before Marvin Gaye's Let's Get It On. Right. That was part of the point of as he was playing all those songs on the stand, just showing the history of this that you can go back to, you know, you can go back centuries and there's just some basic musical chords here. You should note that Marvin Gaye's estate has been in litigation before. You might remember their successful litigation over the hit from the early teens, 20 teens, blurred lines by Robin Thicke and Pharrell. They were able to show that that had a much closer relationship to the Marvin Gaye hit, got to give it up. And so that then led Pharrell and Robin Thicke have to pay $5 million to the Gaye estate, the Marvin Gaye estate, not successful this time around though. From USA Today, a Delta Airlines flight from Houston to Atlanta was delayed for about three hours earlier this week. When a swarm of bees briefly colonized on one of the planes winglets, according to the airline, the bees were eventually dislodged when the aircraft still empty, was pushed back from the gate. And this allowed passengers to board the Airbus A320 and resume their trip to Atlanta. Delta said the flight was delayed to ensure the bees welfare as well as to make sure that no safety critical surfaces of the plane were contaminated. In July, I woke up on Thursday morning. A couple of people sent me this message and I just thought the story was the bees knees. I knew you were going to do something like that. So and it turns out that the Monuse community is everywhere, that when I put up like a Twitter exchange from one of the passengers that I thought was particularly humorous, I then got a message from a Delta employee who was based in Houston on Wednesday being like, I was there and I have photos and videos from aboard the plane. Can I send them to you? I was like, absolutely. So we posted them over on the Monuse Instagram account. I mean, literally you're about to board. They discovered that one of the winglets, this little edge has tons of bees on it. Again, check out the video and photo over on our Instagram account. And then you just have this like comedy of people showing up taking photos. Do we need to call like a beekeeper? Like what do we do about this? Will the bees go inside the plane? Can we turn on the plane? And this goes back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. Eventually they turn on the plane and the bees fly away. They then back up the plane, move it to another gate, inspect the plane. The Delta employee was telling me that they were very concerned that the bees could get inside the flaps, inside the engine, inside the plane. The last thing you want is a whole bunch of bees inside a plane at 30,000 feet. So that was one of the concerns here. And then of course, you know, the bees well before they wanted to make sure the bees survived here. The bees just hung out on the winglet. They turned on the plane. The bees flew away. So in the future, if you find bees, you know, on your plane, anybody, just turn on the plane. It appears to have worked this time around. And then Jill, we should, we should say that based on what the passengers tell me, they got to Atlanta about four hours later than they plan to. It's a tough one because who do you get mad at? Sometimes you have anger towards the airline or a rowdy passenger or whatever, but how do you get mad at a swarm of bees? Well, one of the passengers who was tweeting, who's tweets went viral about this said that they actually found that the other passengers were more angry than a normal delay. Because you can imagine everyone's at the gate and everyone just pretends to be a bee expert. Like, why don't you try this? Why don't you try that? Right, right. And so apparently like whether you can understand the bees, people are like, no, I have an idea. Why don't you use my idea? And apparently that was what's happening at a gate in Houston yesterday. Everyone's an expert. Everyone becomes an expert in it. I'm like that. I highly recommend though that people go on the motion Instagram and check out the photos because I just kind of read this story without seeing the pictures. And then when you see the pictures, you cannot believe how many bees we're talking about here. This wasn't even hundreds of bees. This was like, there must have been. Could be thousands. Yeah. More. I mean, it was just wild. The entire wing was covered. There we go, folks. Children's being an extra in bees. Let me tell you most, the zombie bees. Let me tell you more than that. More than that. I counted in the picture. All right. Now time for understand history on this May 5th, Cinco de Mayo, Joe will begin in 1862, where the holiday of Cinco de Mayo takes its name and commemorates the victory of the Mexicans over the occupying French military in the Battle of Puebla. This was on May 5th, 1862. The French, though, would ultimately win a subsequent battle. It would last a couple of years here. This war between the Mexicans and the French. The US following the Civil War a couple of years later would begin helping the Mexicans and help push the French out. Cinco de Mayo is a holiday. We should note more popular in the US than in Mexico, and it has become associated through the years with Mexican-American culture and cuisine. All right. We're going to stay in the 1800s here. Important date, 1809. On this day in 1809. The first woman to receive a US patent, Mary Crease was her name. She got a patent for her technique for weaving straw into silk. The process was largely used in the creation of hats and other headwear, which is my favorite word gel that we never get to use. Haber-dasher, haber-dashery, or the profession of hatmaking. It's from a bygone era. I always love a kind of quaint type of word like that. I'm all for it. I don't know if I'll ever use it besides for this podcast, but I like it. If you're ever in Brooklyn, we still have a couple haber-dashers in Brooklyn. I passed one in Williamsburg in the neighborhood of Williamsburg recently. That sounds about right. But for the chorus for Brooklyn. Big day in space history on this day in 1961, 62 years ago, Alan Shepard became the first American to travel into space. Your husband's favorite segment here, Jill. Happy birthdays. We haven't really been doing that. We haven't done it in a while. Adele turns 35 today. Happy birthday, Adele. During 39 years old today, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, their first story was published by Mirage Studios in a comic book on this day in 1984 and a bit of movie history before we go. Gladiator, the famous Russell Crowe epic, premiered in theaters on this day in the year 2000, 23 years ago. The people who created Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were actually from my hometown, Jericho. And you know, I don't know if you played any sports, but local businesses would sponsor sports teams. And I remember one of the basketball teams said Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. And it was before it was really widespread. And we're all like, what is this team? What is this? There you go, folks. Some Long Island pride there. Long Island, New York, the home of Billy Joel and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Most it is Friday. Cheers to the freakin weekend. Here's what we are watching, reading and eating. You want to kick it off? Sure, obviously we have the coronation early on Saturday morning, so I'll be watching that. You can watch our coverage on the Instagram account. I also need to find myself a peacock streaming password. I don't know if I'm a subscriber yet. I'm interested in checking out this Pete Davidson semi-autobiographical show called Buckas about his life. Most if you get a peacock password, send it my way because I too would love a peacock password because there are a ton of bravo shows that they have behind a paywall on peacock. Should we make that part of Monus Premium, a password sharing program for all of us? Well, that's worth the price of admission there. Right there, everybody. Okay, I'm going to be watching Queen Charlotte, a Bridgerton story. It's out on Netflix this weekend. This is a prequel and a spinoff to the hit Netflix series. And at least according to one review that I read in Variety, it is apparently the best Bridgerton yet, which is saying a lot because that first one was pretty darn good. All right, Joe, what are you reading this weekend? I'm reading The Last Mrs. Parish. It's by Liv Constantine. This is the latest pick for my book club as was requested when I did my first book club pick. People wanted to know what else we were going to be reading. So this is our second pick as I was going to buy it, which is, I would say, rather close to our next meeting. I kind of procrastinated on this one. I saw that it's also part of Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine book club. However, some of the ladies in my book club who've read it already haven't been loving it. So I'm not going to endorse this just yet. I'll review it or whatnot once I actually read it. All right, keep us up to date. Jill, I just finished Ben Smith's book Traffic. Ben Smith, you might know him from a political columnist, former founding editor in chief of BuzzFeed, New York Times Media columnist, now co-founder of Semaphore, the media company. He effectively has written a book about the early history of the internet, which kind of ages all of us, just the rise of the internet in the last 20 years as far as media is concerned. So Matt Drudge, Andrew Breitbart, Ariana Huffington, Nick Denton, who created Gawker at the beginning of BuzzFeed, and effectively just the history of the media, online media in the past 15 years, social media, Mark Zuckerberg, it's fascinating. I did an interview with him. It'll be in a podcast edition. We have coming up next week for premium listeners. A reminder, if you join Mo News, premium, mo.news slash premium, you get early access to all of our interviews, and that'll include the Ben Smith interview next week. Again, mo.news slash premium, seven bucks a month, or $70 a year. If you use the code mo news pod, one word mo news pod, you get an extra month free. It's a way to support what we're doing and get extra access to a private Instagram account and that podcast feed. And maybe a peacock password. And potentially a peacock password. So many P's, a lot of alliteration there. Jill will end it as always with what we're eating this week. What do you got? I wish anything and everything. I am very happy to report. My daughter has been cleared of all her food allergies. We've been doing this. Yes, we have been. Thank you. We have been doing this homeopathic program for the past two years. And I haven't really talked about it publicly because I was waiting until it worked and it did not unwood. So for basically the first time in almost four years, since she was first diagnosed with a slew of food allergies, we are going to happily not be reading labels and trying to figure out if everything is going to be safe for her or not. Although will probably be a tough habit to break because I'm just so used to reading labels at this point, but very exciting for us here in my household. Such exciting news, Jill. We were talking about it earlier this week. I saw the celebration you had with your daughter in the doctor's office. And we've been talking about you doing a special podcast related to allergies. So we hope to be able to bring that sometime in the near future. We're going to be most I'd love to interview the woman who created the program as we hope to bring that to everybody soon. And most, what are you going to be eating? Well, sort of eating on top of my food, olive oil. We were reporting on it on the Instagram account earlier this week. Despite the price, love me some olive oil. It turns out right now olive oil is a 26 year high in terms of cost right now because it turns out the country that produces the most olive oil has a major drought right now, leading to our headline. The rain in Spain has been rarely falling in the plane. If you get the my fair lady reference there, got it. It falls rarely in the plane. So apparently there you go. So apparently there half of normal production in Spain right now, it's a major drought across the Mediterranean. We were reporting earlier this year about the forest fires there last summer. It does not look to be getting any better. And so we are looking at a situation here to an Italy, Spain, Greece, the hub of olive oil production and the drought has been everywhere, but especially in Spain. So Jill, just something to look out for as you go grocery shopping and you're like, why is the olive oil costing so much drought conditions in Spain? All right, everybody, get your mosh fix in now because we're going to be missing him next week. Most enjoy your time off. Jill, I'll try my best. It's a reporting trip abroad. Maybe I'll call in. Maybe I'll run into some news for you and I'll file it for this podcast and then you let me know if it meets the threshold for the week that you're in full control of this whole operation. You're going to come back. I'm going to be in such like a power trip. I'm sorry. It wasn't worthy. That story wasn't worthy. Like you just need to understand that we've really up the standards in your absence. All right, everybody. Thank you for listening to the Monuse podcast. Follow us and subscribe so you don't miss an episode and review us in the app store so we can continue to grow. Those follows really matter. So if you could follow us on Apple or Spotify, we would greatly appreciate it. The reviews matter. We appreciate it. Monuse premium. If you can support what we're doing supporting independent journalism mode.news slash premium, check it out. And don't forget, you can call us and leave us a message 1-800-711-Mosh to ask your question and have that question appear in a future episode. So Jill, I bid everyone a do you. I feel like now I'm just quoting my fair lady over and over again here. I'll be back in a week. All right. Bye, everybody. Thanks for listening to the Monuse podcast. Bye. Bye. ♪♪♪