Counting Families & Sports Siblings 🎾
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When did people begin celebrating Kwanzaa? And who created Kwanzaa all those years ago? ⚖️ Let's get an update on the 2020 Census and an important ruling made by the Supreme Court. 🐘 What happened when Kavaan the world's loneliest elephant met another elephant? 🎾 And what does sibling rivalry look like between pro athletes? 🍦 See if you can guess the answer to the Trivia Question of the Day: A Dairy Queen drive-through in Brainerd, Minnesota recently experienced what unexpected event?
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⚖️ Find out how the Supreme Court punted the Census case about undocumented immigrants
🐘 See Kaavan the lonely elephant make a friend for the first time in eight years!
Learn all about the history of Kwanzaa
Get inspired by learning how kind people were to each other recently in Minnesota
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Bethany Van Delft: [00:00:00] Hello Ten'ners? What happened with the 2020 Census? Do elephants get lonely? And what does sibling rivalry look like between pro athletes? I'm Bethany Van Delft, and we'll get into all this and more on today's The Ten News. The show where in the time it takes to beat your brother at a game of The Floor is Lava, we find out what's up in the world. Okay, let's get into The Ten News
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[00:00:35] This week many families are celebrating Kwanzaa, a seven-day non-religious holiday that honors African-American culture and heritage. Did you know that Kwanzaa was first created in 1966 by a professor of Pan-African studies who wanted it to be a celebration of family, community, and social values? To all of you who celebrate, Happy Kwanzaa!
[00:01:01] [00:01:00] In an earlier episode of The Ten News, we learned about the U. S. Census, the once every ten years event, where every single person living in the U.S. and its territories is counted. Recently, the Supreme Court decided to postpone making a decision about whether undocumented immigrants should or should not be counted in the Census.
[00:01:21] It's a big deal because the numbers help determine how resources get distributed to communities as well as how many seats states' have in the House of Representatives and their number of Electoral College votes. We'll have to wait and see where this decision goes, but in the meantime, let's revisit our previous story from correspondent, Pamela Kirkland, all about the 2020 Census.
Pamela Kirkland: [00:01:45] It happens once every 10 years. And it's old, like really, really old, but it's also something very important that every person living in the United States is encouraged to participate in. What am [00:02:00] I talking about? It's the Census. But what is it? And why should you care if you're counted? We asked Alex and her mom Yasmin Aboah, who know an awful lot about it to make sense of the Census.
Alex Aboah: [00:02:15] Hi, I'm Alex. I am a student and I'm 12 years old.
Yasmin Aboah: [00:02:21] Hi, my name is Yasmin and I am Alex's mom. And I became interested in the 2020 Census, because of work that I was doing at Count the Nation, which is associated with the USC Annenberg Innovation Lab.
Pamela Kirkland: [00:02:40] What exactly is the Census for people who don't know?
Alex Aboah: [00:02:43] So it's a survey that happens once every ten years of everyone who lives in the United States.
[00:02:48] For example, they count newborns, children, teenagers, adults, teachers, parents, and grandparents, basically everyone. The first Census was in [00:03:00] 1790.
Pamela Kirkland: [00:03:00] That's a long, long time running. And why does the census count matter?
Alex Aboah: [00:03:06] The Census data matters for kids and families, because this is how the government gives money to our communities based off the number of people who live in a city or state, also called our population. The money pays for funding for our schools and teachers, libraries, parks,health clinics, breakfast and lunch programs at some schools, and college scholarship money for some students. The Census money pays for a lot, which is why it's important for our family to participate and for all of us to be counted. The Census numbers also determine how many representatives go to Washington D.C. To represent us in our needs. So I live in California and there are almost 40 million people who live in the state, which is the largest population in the country, and California has 53 representatives out of 435, but this may change based off [00:04:00] of the 2020 Census numbers.
Pamela Kirkland: [00:04:02] Where did this passion for the Census and the Census count come from?
Alex Aboah: [00:04:07] Well, my mom would not stop talking about it because she worked on it. She got me super interested in it. After the many times she's talked about it.
Pamela Kirkland: [00:04:16] Okay, mom. So how much were you talking about the Census to Alex?
Yasmin Aboah: [00:04:22] A lot. And it's something that I wasn't really too aware of myself. I didn't realize how important it was to everything that we do, and all the services that we use in our communities. So once I learned more about it, then I thought it was really important for, uh, Alex to realize that and to be able to talk to her friends and her peer group about why it was important that everyone participates.
Pamela Kirkland: [00:04:50] If you are a kid, how do you participate in the census?
Alex Aboah: [00:04:54] So you can help your parents fill out the Census online. By going to my 2020 census.gov, [00:05:00] it takes less than 10 minutes. If you aren't counted now, you won't be able to be counted for another 10 years so it's super important.
Yasmin Aboah: [00:05:07] If a child is 10 years old and their parent forgets to count them. They can't be counted again until they're 20 years old. So the importance of being counted over the next 10 years really affects, um, everyone's life every single day. So working together to make sure our communities and our schools are stronger by doing something that takes seven minutes, uh, over the internet is something that I think we should all try to do.
Alex Aboah: [00:05:36] The younger generation has so much power and by just asking your parents to fill out the Census, can do like make a big difference and even just like going on the internet and researching it on your own can be very interesting and beneficial. And you can tell your parents about it. And at the end of the day, it's, it's a really good thing to do.
Bethany Van Delft: [00:06:00] The Census count is currently closed and the next time it comes around in 2030, you may be filling it out yourself.
[00:06:10] Have you heard about the world's loneliest elephant? His name is Kaavan, and he lived alone at a zoo in Pakistan for eight years. And that was until early December when Kaavan was relocated to Cambodian Wildlife Sanctuary. Reportedly soon after arriving Kaavan reached out his trunk to another elephant who happily returned the touch. Kaavan made a friend. Now he'll live with his new buddy and several other elephants at the sanctuary. You can see a photo of the two elephants holding trunks at thetennews.com. Oh my gosh.
[00:06:49] Whether it's taking each other down and fall guys or race to the ends of the block, siblings can sometimes get competitive.
[00:06:57] So what's it like when siblings are also [00:07:00] professional athletes, let's check in with our sports-tacular contributor, Kenny Curtis, to find out.
Kenny Curtis: [00:07:07] Okay, sure. We all know that playing professional sports is hard, but playing professional sports against your brother or your sister. Well, that's even harder. Today, we're talking about some of the most famous sibling sets in sports history. You can't talk about popular sibling athletes without mentioning Peyton and Eli Manning. Two of the best NFL quarterbacks to ever play the game.
Eli & Peyton Manning: [00:07:32] "Ready to go. Let's do it."
Kenny Curtis: [00:07:33] Although they're now retired, they were both named Super Bowl MVP and are both predicted to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
[00:07:41] While Peyton is commonly thought of as the better talent, Eli has an additional super bowl championship to hold over his big brother's head so that might make family dinners a little bit off.
Eli & Peyton Manning: [00:07:53] "I'm just hoping for some clean competitive football. I don't have a dog in this fight."
Kenny Curtis: [00:07:57] But when it comes to famous sports [00:08:00] sisters, no one can compare with tennis superstars, Venus and Serena Williams.
[00:08:09] The two have had an intense rivalry for decades. In 2017, Serena beat Venus in the Australian open and made history as the first woman to win 23 grand slam titles. Combined the sisters have 30 grand slam singles titles, and nine Olympic metals. The best part, they still refer to each other as best friends.
Venus Williams: [00:08:32] "It's definitely a strange situation to be in because no one else has been positioned as Serena and I are in. And I think, you know, all in all the best part is that right now we're, we're the best at what we do."
Kenny Curtis: [00:08:44] Basketball has an impressive sibling pairs as well, including NBA superstars, Seth and Steph Curry.
[00:08:54] In 2019, these two brothers played against each other in the Western Conference Semi-final Steph and the Golden State [00:09:00] Warriors won the game, but both brothers still refer to that matchup as one of their all-time favorite sports memories.
Steph Curry: [00:09:06] "Well, this'll probably be one we'll have the film clip at home because this is a battle for sure."
Kenny Curtis: [00:09:13] And yes, siblings are fun to watch when they play each other. But what about sports BFFs? Huh? Turns out there are plenty of those as well. For example, LeBron James and Dwayne Wade have a legendary friendship despite being rivals on the basketball court. In baseball, Texas Rangers, Adrian Beltway, and Elvis Andrews had one of the best friendships in the league.
[00:09:37] The two were always goofing around together on the field and spent a lot of time together outside of baseball as well. In soccer, the US Women's National Team is the epitome of hashtag friendship goals. And they actually refer to themselves as 23 best friends, specific BFF pairs include Rose Lavelle and Sam Mewis, Julie Ertz and Crystal Dunn, and Mallory Pugh and Lindsey Horan.
[00:09:59] But [00:10:00] it's forwards Alex Morgan and Sydney Leroux that have really upped their BFF game. The public side of their friendship includes entertaining pre-game handshake, social media bikini, post offs, even a Halloween costume contest, but you also get the feeling that privately they are really, and truly good friends. At the end of the day I think it's just nice to know that the athletes we watch on TV are just normal people with important relationships in their lives, just like us. It's also nice to know that no matter what the final score is, brothers and sisters and friends always end up winners.
Bethany Van Delft: [00:10:42] It's trivia time! Last time on The Ten News, we asked you to name the episode where we told you which animal your sneeze could beat in a race. We told you the answer could be found on our website. Was it a) [00:11:00] Trade Your Swimsuit for a Space Suit, b) A Mandarin Hip-Hop Masterpiece, or c) Keep That Pumpkin Pie to Yourself. Did you get it?
[00:11:10] The answer is C. It was our special episode about the coronavirus where we learned that when you sneeze, air can blow out of your nose at speeds faster than a cheetah, that's fast. Now for today's trivia question...
[00:11:32] A Dairy queen drive through in Brainerd, Minnesota recently experienced what unexpected event?
[00:11:39] Was it?
[00:11:39] A )100 cars in a row were driven by funny clowns, B) 250 cars in a row we're playing the same song on their radios or C) 900 cars in a row paid for each other's meals. Did you guess it? The answer is [00:12:00] C. It all suppossedly started with one man asking if he could pay for the car behind him. That person paid it forward and so to the next, and the next until two and a half days later, over 900 drivers had participated in the gesture. You're kidding me! 900 kindnesses in a row, that's what the world needs now.
[00:12:25] Time's up. That's the end of The Ten News for today, but you can catch new episodes on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The Ten News is a co-production of Small, But Mighty Media in collaboration with Next Chapter Podcasts and distributed by iHeartRadio.
[00:12:39] The Ten News writing team is led by Editorial Director Tracey Crooks, with contributions from Steven Tompkins, Pamela Kirkland and Kenny Curtis. The Creative Producer is Jenner Pascua. Marketing is led by Jacob Bronstein with social media and web support by Stephen Tompkins and Adam Pharr. Editing and sound design by Pete Musto [00:13:00] under the production direction of Jeremiah Tittle. Executive producer Donald Albright and show creator Tracy Leeds Kaplan round out the team. If you have questions about the show, a story idea, or just a fun fact you want to share it, email us at helloatthetennews.com. And as always, don't forget to subscribe, rate and review The Ten News on Apple podcasts, iHeartRadio, Spotify, or wherever you listen to your podcasts.
[00:13:27] I'm Bethany Van Delft. And thanks for listening to The Ten News. Now go treat an elephant to some ice cream. How would you do that? I don't know. I bet the elephant, would like it.
