Solar Eclipses to an Odd Contest- 10 Things You Need to Know!
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The Ten News: Episode 509
10 Things You Need to Know with The Ten News!
1.š„Ring of Fire Solar Eclipse
2.ā®ļø Israel, Lebanon, and Hezbollah
3.āļø Hurricane Helene's Destructive Path
4.š Hindu Festival Navratri Begins!
5. š Mahomes Breaks Another Record! 6.š± Parts of the Sahara Desert Turn Green
7.š¢ļø California Sues ExxonMobil
8.š® Nintendo and Pokemon Sue Palworld
9.š¬ Stranded Dolphins
10. š A Wacky Contest!
Resources
https://www.space.com/annular-solar-eclipse-oct-2-2024-guide
https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/israel-lebanon-war-hezbollah-09-30-24-intl-hnk/index.html
https://thediversitymovement.com/understanding-respecting-hindu-holiday-navaratri/
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/23/climate/california-sues-exxonmobil-plastic-recycling/index.html
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/nintendo-pokemon-company-palworld-pocketpair-lawsuit-rcna171817
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INT. TEN NEWS STUDIO
RYAN: 21! 42! Stinky poopy shoe! Hut hut hike!
<SFX door opening>
PAM: Hey Ry-
RYAN: GO DEEP PAM!
<SFX crash, cat yowling>
PAM: Was that a football?!
RYAN: Yup. Iām training for the NFL so I can catch up to Patrick Mahomesā
PAM: Maybe you can train without throwing balls at my head?
RYAN: Not today, I already did 17 pushes.
PAM: You mean push-UPS?
RYAN: I couldnāt actually get UP, so I just call them pushes.
PAM: Well, youāll have plenty of time to train later. Weāve got a show to do!
RYAN: Youāre right! Iām Ryan Willard.
PAM: And Iām Pamela Kirkland. Itās Thursday, October 3rd.
RYAN: This is Ten Things You Need to Know.
PAM: Ryanās already got his head in the clouds, so we might as well start off with something <SPACE INTRO> Out.
RYAN: Of.
PAM: This.
RYAN: WORLD! <SFX NASA 3-2-1 Blastoff> OR <SFX lightspeed jump>
PAM: Depending on where you live, you may have noticed something especially cool in last nightās sky. On, October 2nd, an annular solar eclipse passed over parts of the Pacific Ocean, Southern Chile, and Southern Argentina. An annular eclipse is when the moon passes between the sun and earth, but is too far from the earth to completely cover the sun. When this happens, you see the sun behind the moon, and it leaves what looks like a ring of fire around the moon!
RYAN: A RING OF FIRE!?! Why do they even bother with naming it anything else?!
PAM: Annular comes from āannulus,ā the Latin word for āringā!
RYAN: I need to look at the sky more often!
PAM: Moving on to world news. Fighting has escalated this past week between Israel and the Lebanon-based militant-group Hezbollah. Hezbollah is considered a terrorist organization by the United States and other countries, and has military and political power in Lebanon.
After Hamas attacked Israel at the Nova Festival in October last year, Hezbollah has been bombing towns in Northern Israel to show their support of Hamas.
Last month, the Israeli government responded to the attacks by Hezbollah First, by blowing up their pagers. Pagers are like the original text messages. The group was using them instead of phones to communicate more securely.
Then Israel launched air strikes at Hezbollah targets, killing top Hezbollah leaders.
RYAN: And since that strike, Hezbollah increased their attacks on Israel too, right?
PAM: Yes, both sides are continuing their attacks and many people are worried about how this will affect peace and stability in the region. There are ongoing efforts by international leaders to prevent the situation from escalating.
PAM: Back in the US, the Southeast states are struggling with the aftermath of Hurricane Helene.
RYAN: Hurricane Helene hit Florida on September 26th, but the damage spread to surrounding states for days to come. With winds reaching 140 miles per hour, Helene was a category 4 storm - the hurricane rating is on a 1 to 5 scale. Though hurricane season runs from June to November, September is often particularly bad, due to the ocean waters being at their warmest temperature. Although Helene initially hit Florida, the path of the storm caused significant damage in Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Alabama. High winds and torrential rain led to injury, damaged property, and limited access to essential supplies like food and water. Both local and national governments are showing support for the affected areas, but itāll be a long road to recovery for these states.
PAM: In happier news, itās a special day! Today, October 3rd is the start of Navarati, a Hindu festival that runs until Saturday the 12th. Itās a celebration of women and empowerment in Hindu culture. There are lots of different ways to celebrate, but most include some combination of family, vegetarian food, dancing, and feasting. You might also hear about āGarbaā and āGolu,ā which are common parts of the celebration. Garba is a folk dance with a live orchestra, and Golu is a display of idols. These are more or less common depending on where youāre from, but they are both fun ways to partake in the festivities.
RYAN: Speaking of celebrating, Patrick Mahomes might be doing some of that himself after breaking another record, in recent sports news <SFX Soccer Ball Kick, then Baseball Bat Crack, then Basketball Net Swish and a Stadium Crowd Roar>. The Kansas City Chiefs quarterback just passed Roger Staubach and Tom Brady for most career wins in a quarterbackās first 100 games! Mahomes has 77 wins in 99 games, beating Staubach and Bradyās 76 wins.
PAM: Mahomes is one of the most decorated quarterbacks of all time! He also threw 200 touchdown passes faster than anyone else in NFL history, getting it done in 84 games and beating the former record set by Marino in 89 games, and Mahomes is the youngest player ever to win both a league MVP and Super Bowl title.
RYAN: Psshhh, I could do that. If only PAM would let me train in the studioā¦
PAM: Ryan may be turning green with envyā¦but you know what else is turning green?
RYAN: Also me, but after eating some questionable cheese?
PAM: I was thinking more like -
RYAN: WAIT, I do know! But, letās take a quick break first.
RYAN: Hey Tenāers, we have some election episodes coming up and we want to know: what do YOU want to know? We need to hear from you, send us your questions, thoughts or topics that you want us to cover. You can send us an email at hello@thetennews.com or leave us a voice note at 877-TEN-NEWS. And if you submit anything, please donāt leave me any butterfly emojis. Theyāre freaky mcnasty.
RYAN: Alright Tenāners, weāre back with some unexpected green, and weāre not talking about finding a $5 bill in your pocket. Our next story is on greenery in the Sahara Desert, and itās this weekās featured story on Recurring Sound Cue: WEATHER <<SFX Thunderclap and rain sounds>>. NASA satellite images show plant life in the Sahara after last monthās heavy rainfall. It may be weird to see plants in a desert, but when dry regions in this part of Africa get heavy rainfall, the flora responds pretty readily. In fact, the area was once permanently home to lush greenery. This was around between 11,000 and 5,000 years ago, so you probably werenāt around back then. Unless thereās some youth elixir you want to tell us about, Tenāners?!
PAM: One thing thatās not going green is Exxon Mobil, which is being sued by the state of California for misleading the public about recycling. For years, Exxon Mobil has led people to believe that recycling plastic is hugely beneficial, when actually, plastic is most likely to end up in a landfill, incinerator, or being dumped into the environment. Plastic is a big part of the climate crisis, since it takes a long time to break down, is produced using planet-heating fossil fuels, and is a big source of global oil demand. In fact, recent reports show that only around 9% of the worldās plastic is actually recycled!
RYAN: In a different legal battle, Nintendo and The PokĆ©mon Co. are suing the makers of Palworld and proving that itās not all fun and games, even when weāre talking about fun and games! Itās time for GGāS. <SFX Super Mario theme song> OR <SFX PS5 Startup Sound> OR <SFX XBOX Startup Sound> OR <SFX 3x Mario coins> Nintendo and The PokĆ©mon Co. are claiming the Palworld game infringes on the Pokemon franchiseās patents, which is a fancy way of calling palworld a bunch of copycats. Things are still unfolding, but the two games do share a lot of similarities. For instance, in Palworld, creatures can be caught by a āPalsphereā after being weakened in battle, which is a lot like how pokemon are captured with a pokeball. I get how Pokemon is a little upset, because Palworld may or may not be using Pokemonās ideas to get hugely successful. Palworld sold approximately 7 million copies in five days, which comes to about ā$189 million USD in Steam sales,ā and Steam data shows Palworld is the platformās third-most-played game of all time.
PAM: The Pokemon and Palworld characters may be fictional, but weāve got some real animals in the news. Last month, a marine mammal rescue team responded to an interesting call.
RYAN: Like this one? <RYAN does a bird call>
PAM: 14 bottlenose dolphins were stranded along a Massachusetts shore! This was the largest mass stranding of bottlenose dolphins in the Northeast region. When the rescue team arrived, 11 dolphins were still alive and the team went right to work preparing to help them back into water. They got the animals out of sticky mud, gave health assessments and treatment, and transported the dolphins to where they could be released back into the ocean.
RYAN: Swim free, dolphins! Back on land, letās go to Owen for trivia!
<SFX Trivia Theme song>
OWEN: Okay Tenāners, which of the following is a real contest that was held in Florida last week?
A snake-catching contest with a $10,000 prize
A raccoon obstacle course with an all-expense paid zoo visit prize, OR
A BeyoncƩ look-alike contest to win BeyoncƩ tickets
<SFX 5 second clock tick>
OWEN: The answer is A, a snake-catching contest with a $10,000 grand prize.
RYAN: A snake-catching contest?!? I wouldnāt go near a snake for $10,000! For $100,000! Maybe for $1Mā¦
OWEN: The annual Florida Python Challenge is a 10 day hunt to bring awareness to the threat of Burmese pythons. It started more than a decade ago, and it promotes awareness of the issues surrounding the Phython which is an invasive species in Florida.
RYAN: Invasive species can affect native species, drain an ecosystemās resources, or spread disease. This year, more than 800 people participated in the challenge, and together they caught almost 200 Burmese pythons from the wild!
OWEN: This yearās grand prize winner was Ronald Kiger with 20 pythons, but Quentin Archie took home $1,000 for the longest python at 8 feet and 11 inches!
PAM: And that was Ten Things You Need to Know!
RYAN: That was so fun, but Pam, could you scratch my nose, please?
PAM: Um, sure? <SFX nose scratch?
RYAN: I canāt lift my arms up after all those pushesā¦
PAM: I donāt know if the NFL will ever be ready for you, Ry. Do you have energy to give Ten News snaps?
RYAN: Always! But before we do, hereās a quick note for the grownups.
[Ad Break]
RYAN:Time for Ten News Snaps! <Grand fanfare SFX>
PAM: A Tenāer named āzfefgcehu egg beā said, āThis is so good I love how they give us kids such good information that some adults wonāt always give us about important things 100/10. Keep up the good work!ā
RYAN: That is so incredibly nice of them!
PAM: And then they said āPS hereās some butterfliesā and left about 47 butterfly emojis.
RYAN: Okay āzfefgcehu egg be,ā I appreciate the first part of your message but the post script was, freaky. Mc. Nasty. 47 butterflies? WHY WHY WHY? FYI, Ten Things You Need to Know drops on Thursdays, and our deep dive episodes drop once a month. If you want some bonus content, you could join the Tenāers Club on our website. And to our grownups, if you want to help support the Ten News, you can make a tax-deductible donation at the link in our show notes. The whole team thanks you for your support!
PAM: āThe Ten Newsā is a co-production of Small But Mighty Media and Next Chapter Podcasts, and part of the Airwave Podcast Network.
RYAN: The Ten News creative team is busy catching snakes and includes Tracey Crooks, Adam The Great Bambino Bernard, Kyle Murdock, Hebba Gouda and Carson Potter. Big thanks to Owen for contributing to this episode..
PAM: Our Production Director is Jeremiah Tittle, and our Executive Producers are Donald Albright and show creator Tracy Leeds Kaplan. Iām Pamela Kirkland.
RYAN: And Iām Ryan Willard, thanks for listening to the Ten News
