Episode 32 - It's The News

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What is the overarching theme of this episode?

Unknown 0:01

This is Interrupted by Matt Jones on NewsRadio 840 WHAS. Now, here's Matt Jones.

Matt Jones 0:10

Episode 32 of Interrupted by Matt Jones. And we are here on kind of a rainy day right before Christmas. you know conference tournament week get started matt jones and drew franklin and billy we're going to do some news drew we haven't had news in a while i don't know if you've noticed since we haven't had it a lot of stuff has happened i've just been walking around aimlessly like where is the news what is going on this is all going to surprise you But Billy has gone through the news headlines. He has picked, he only found nine things that he thought were newsworthy. In Billy's opinion, there are only nine news stories.

Drew Franklin 0:49

It tells me we have room to bring up our own topic.

Matt Jones 0:52

Oh, do you have, well, but you don't know anything because there hasn't been any news. I just mean like, would you literally just ramble about anything in the 10 spot? That's true. That's true. Maybe news will happen in the next hour. I'll tell you what. For the 10th spot, whatever is the first thing I see on Twitter will be the 10th piece of news. If I were to have done it right now, it would be that NBC Sports has hired Jason Benetti as its play-by-play baseball announcer. I'd have a hard time with that one. That would be the 10th piece of news. But maybe there's still time for something bigger to break.

What are the biggest news stories discussed this week?

Matt Jones 1:25

Do you even know who Jason Bonetti is?

Drew Franklin 1:27

No, respectfully to him, congratulations. I just don't have a lot to offer to that conversation.

Matt Jones 1:30

I'm sure it's an awesome move for him. But that's not the 10th piece of news. Thank God. All right, so let's get started, Billy. I'm going to guess that the biggest topic is Iran.

Unknown 1:41

Am I right?

Billy 1:42

It is. But I do want to say Jason does a great job on the White Sox broadcast, and I'm glad he's coming to NBC.

Drew Franklin 1:47

I know who he is now. The name didn't get me. I know exactly who it is.

Matt Jones 1:50

How do you know what he does on the White Sox broadcast?

Unknown 1:53

Are you watching a lot of White Sox? No, but he's pretty popular as announcers go, and I know that's kind of where he does his bread and butter. Did you say that in case on the off chance he would hear this, he wouldn't hold it against you? No, no, but I'd love to meet him someday.

Billy 2:07

Seems like a really nice guy. Hand him a business card. A digital business card. Handing him nothing. He's the guy with the glasses, right?

Matt Jones 2:13

Yes. He's very dorky.

Billy 2:15

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm familiar with him. So he's good. I do, yeah. Do you watch a lot of White Sox games? No, I've just heard him on other sports. He's branched out a little bit. What else does he do? I believe he's done basketball as well. Okay.

Matt Jones 2:27

We've actually given a lot of attention to this in the news, and it's not even an official news topic.

Drew Franklin 2:31

Maybe it is now. Maybe we unintentionally made it a topic.

Matt Jones 2:33

All right, well, congrats to Jason Benetti, Billy's favorite White Sox announcer.

What happened with the coordinated strikes on Iran?

Billy 2:38

All right, what is the first piece? But yeah, starting with the news, it has to be with the war with Iran. The United States and Israel launched coordinated strikes at Iran, known as Operation Epic Fury, on February 28th. Their attacks targeted military bases. What do we think of that name, by the way?

Drew Franklin 2:52

Good name? I like the movie Fury, a war movie back in the day. I thought Fury was there. Who was in that? Brad Pitt. I don't remember that. What war? It was one of them.

Matt Jones 3:03

Okay. I don't remember Fury. You're saying it's good though, aren't you?

Drew Franklin 3:07

The name is intimidating.

Matt Jones 3:08

Epic Fury. That sounds to me like a video game. I think they ended up just getting somebody at the department of now war to go, what sounds alpha? Epic fury. I think they had just seen the Brad Pitt movie. Maybe so. All right, so keep going.

Billy 3:26

Yeah, so they attacked military bases, nuclear sites, and Iranian leadership on that day and included the death of Iran's supreme leader. But in response, Iran launched missiles at several neighboring countries in the Middle East. Six U.S. troops have been killed, and Andy Beshear announced that some of the soldiers were based in Kentucky that were killed in the conflict.

Matt Jones 3:46

I didn't know that.