Good morning, Rye.
Morning, Pam.
I'm playing through my backlog of Switch games, getting ready for the Switch 2.
Is this important?
It is.
I've got some great news and some not-so-great news.
Oh, good gravy.
I don't love this.
Okay, give me the not-so-great news first so the great news makes me feel better afterwards.
Okay.
It was just announced that the Switch 2 pre-orders are pushed back and the price might be increased because of tariffs.
Pam, no!
The tariffs are coming for me?
That's not fair.
Hmm, not how they work, but we'll cover that in a bit.
The great news is we won something, and it's a pretty big deal.
Is it a mini pony that will live in the studio?
Or a puppy to hang with our kittens?
Okay, yeah, no, it's none of those.
I could tell you, but we should just jump right into it.
I'm Pamela Kirkland.
And I'm Brian Willard.
It's Thursday, April 10th.
Here are 10 things you need to know.
All right, the suspense is driving me bonkers.
What did we win?
Remember when we announced that the 10 News was nominated as the Best News Podcast by the Ambys?
The Ambys are presented by the Podcast Academy, right?
Yep.
And they celebrate excellence in podcasting, elevating awareness and status of podcasts as a unique and personal medium for entertainment information, storytelling and expression.
And we were nominated in the Best News Podcast category against grown-up newsrooms like The Wall Street Journal.
NPR, Vox, and a bunch of others.
Well, last Monday at the Amby's, this happened.
And the Amby goes to the 10 News.
Sweet spaghetti sauce!
We beat all the grown-up We did and we are so excited and honored to have won the Best News Podcast Award and couldn't have done this without our amazing show creator Cap, our incredible team, donors and supporters and, of course, all of you Tenors.
Up next, a record-breaking 24-hour speech.
Now to put that into perspective, 10 Things You Need to Know.
Episodes are roughly 15 minutes long.
So, according to my calculations, in the span of a 24-hour speech you could listen to 96 episodes of 10 things.
That's a lot of news.
And New Jersey Democratic Senator Cory Booker had a lot to say.
Senator Booker gave his marathon of a speech last Monday evening, protesting the actions of President Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
Over the span of exactly 25 hours and four minutes, Booker spoke about a number of topics like change to USAID funding, Social Security cuts, the Russia-Ukraine war and more.
Senator Booker never took a break to eat or sit down, only drinking two glasses of water from beginning to end.
The previous record was held by Senator Strom Thurmond, who spoke for 24 hours and 18 minutes, filibustering the Civil Rights Act of 1957.
That is a lot of talking.
Something else we can't stop talking about?
Tariffs.
Tariffs are taxes on goods that are brought into a country from another country.
Last Wednesday, or Liberation Day as President Trump called it, the president proposed implementing reciprocal tariffs that would match the import taxes that other countries impose on US products.
His goal is to boost US manufacturing and level the playing field with other countries that are placing higher tariffs on US imports.
But some economists warn that the tariffs could be hard to structure or all the while potentially driving up costs for consumers and businesses in the United States.
It's more likely that the reciprocal tariffs would mean added costs for businesses, which would then, in turn, turn into higher consumer prices.
The group of nations referred to by the Trump administration as the quote dirty 15 are the 15 of countries expected to be hit hardest by the reciprocal tariffs, including China, the European Union Mexico, Vietnam and more.
Let me just take a moment to tell you all how this affects me and possibly you.
The Nintendo Switch 2 is scheduled to arrive on June 5th, but because of the tariffs, Nintendo made this statement.
Pre-orders for Nintendo Switch 2 in the US will not start April 9th 2025, in order to assess the potential impact of tariffs and evolving market conditions.
Nintendo will update timing at a later date.
The launch date of June 5th, 2025 is unchanged.
So we have to wait to pre-order it, and the price of the Switch 2 could be even higher because of the tariffs.
Nintendo moved their manufacturing from China to Vietnam a number of years ago to avoid tariffs from the last Trump administration.
Nintendo is not announcing any price changes just yet as they wait to see how everything unfolds.
I don't feel good about any of this.
While Ryan deals with his feelings, the Yankees are making big moves in the MLBs.
The New York Yankees set a team record when they recorded nine home runs in a single game totaling up to 3695 feet in distance.
But the big league hitters weren't just using any old baseball bat.
Oh, no.
They used torpedo-shaped bats, where the wood is moved down lower in the barrel and shaped at the end to look kind of like a bowling pin.
The torpedo bat was developed by former Yankees front office staffer, Aaron Leinhart, to bring more mass to the baseball's bat sweet spot, while enhancing its balance.
Players like Cody Bellinger and Anthony Volpe used the bats during the 2009 win over the Milwaukee Brewers, while other players, like Aaron Judge, stuck with the traditional bat to stay consistent with his past performances.
And over in tech news...
TikTok lives to see another day in the United States.
President Trump announced on Friday that he's signing an executive order to keep the social media app running for another 75 days.
This comes after White House officials believed they were nearing a deal where TikTok would be owned and operated by a new US-based company and investors, with ByteDance holding only a minor position in the app.
But due to the recent tariff debacle, ByteDance notified the White House that they would no longer approve the deal until further trade and tariff negotiations are made.
Trump's executive order is the second time that the president has blocked the law that banned TikTok in the US.
Now we wait another 75 days to find out the social media giant's fate.
Roll out the red carpet.
It's time for some entertaining entertainment news.
A Minecraft movie hit theaters last Friday, but one of America's favorite fast food chains has been building up to the film's release.
McDonald's is offering Minecraft meals on their menu, including a Big Mac or 10-piece McNugget with a medium fry and soft drink for the grownups, or the traditional Happy Meal for tenors like you.
The grownup meals come with one of six collectibles inspired by McDonald's characters and Minecraft elements, including the Big Mac Crystal Birdie Wings Fry Helmet Grimace Egg, Soda Potion and the Zombie Hamburglar.
And for spice lovers if you order McNuggets, you can get the limited edition Netherflame sauce, inspired by Minecraft's The Nether Dimension.
Happy Meals come with one of 12 movie-inspired figurines or block-rolled toys, plus a scannable code to unlock an exclusive digital game.
McDonald's has been crushing it with the gamer collabs this year.
We've had Mario Kart, Pokemon, and Minecraft collabs.
Scrumdiddlyumptious!
Speaking of movies, Disney has paused the development of its live action remake of the animated film Tangled.
The original Tangled was a success and made just under $600 million at the global box office.
But this stall in the live action development comes after Disney's live action Snow White reported only a 145 million earning at the global box office.
The film itself cost about $270 million to produce.
Doc would not like that dollar gap.
Although the new Tangled is on pause, there are plenty of live-action remakes set to debut this year, like Disney's Lilo and Stitch and Moana.
That will be put to the test for whether or not moviegoers are fans of live-action remakes of animated classics.
What do you think?
Do you like the live-action remakes, or do you like to stick to the classics?
Okay, for 10 points, what animal is this?
Otter news.
Two North American river otters escaped from the New York Zoo and Adventure Park in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
One of the otters, Ophelia, is back home safe, but her friend Louie remains on the run.
Ophelia was captured and examined by a veterinarian before returning to her enclosure, but zoo goers may not see the otter, as she's always been a bit shy and enjoys tucking into things to take naps throughout the day, according to the zoo.
As for the whereabouts of Louie?
Well, it's unlikely that he's very far from the zoo because otters are territorial creatures.
Plus, otters are native to the area.
The zoo is receiving support in finding him from a tracker, motion-activated cameras and sightings reported by local residents.
We hope that Louie returns home safely soon.
Up next, a three-year-old discovered an ancient treasure roughly 1,266 times her age.
Ziv Nitzen was visiting the archaeological site with her family when she bent over to pick up what she thought would be a regular old rock.
That turned out to be a small treasure.
The family took the stone to the Antiquities Authority, where it was evaluated by Daphne Bentor, a curator for Egyptian archaeology at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.
It turns out, the small treasure was a scarab amulet that likely originated in the Middle Bronze Age from 2100 to 1600 BCE.
By the way, BCE stands for Before Common Era.
These tiny artifacts shaped like dung beetles originally came from ancient Egypt and symbolized new life.
The scarab and other ancient Egyptian and Canaanite artifacts will be on display at the J and Jeannie Schotstein National Campus for the Archaeology of Israel during Passover.
Man, I am constantly searching for treasure and all I seem to find are old pennies.
You might not have any treasure, Rye, but we've got some trivia.
Let's go to our trivia master, Owen.
What is going on here?
Trivia of the 10.
Thanks, Pam.
In January, an iceberg the size of Chicago broke off from a massive floating glacier attached to the Antarctic Peninsula.
But...
Do you know what it's called when a big chunk of ice breaks off a glacier to become an iceberg?
Is it A, shedding, B, cracking, C, calving, or D, splitting?
The answer is calving.
So, in other words, the calving of the glacier produced a Chicago-sized iceberg, which is unbelievable.
But that's not even the coolest part.
When the iceberg broke off, it uncovered 209 square miles of seafloor that had never been explored before.
A team of researchers observed the seafloor for eight days with the help of their remotely operated vehicle named Sue Bastion.
They discovered species like large coral and sponges and other marine life, including giant sea spiders and octopuses.
And based off the size of the animals, they believe the communities have likely lived there for decades, if not hundreds of years.
Pretty cool, huh?
Not pretty cool, but very cool.
Thanks, Owen.
And that was 10 Things You Need to Know.
So, Rye, how does it feel to be on an Ambie Award-winning podcast?
Feels like when I played the Switch 2 before anyone else in the world.
Absolutely tremendous!
I really love our show.
And I am so appreciative when we get recognized.
How does it feel for you, Pam?
It feels amazing.
I know we don't do this show just to win awards, but it feels really good when you do.
It's almost like the Ambys gave us snaps, which reminds me, we should give 10 new snaps.
But before that, here's a quick note for the grownups.
It's time for 10 new snaps.
Over on Spotify, Elliot left us a comment that said, love it.
Number one, you are the best.
Love the name.
My cat is named Squeak.
And a tenor named Theo said, this is awesome and left a bunch of heart emojis.
Thank you so much, Elliot and Theo.
Your comments really make my day.
And Theo, if your mom is named Kate, then extra snaps in your direction.
Our tenors are the best.
Doing 10 new snaps is my favorite part.
I look at the comments and reviews, and every day, so keep them coming and we'll do our best to get to yours.
And two extra notes for the grown-ups you can now get ad-free versions of our episodes when you join the tenors club on our website.
And if you want to help support the 10 news, you can make a tax deductible donation at the link in our show notes.
The whole team thanks you for your support.
The 10 news is a co-production of small but mighty media and next chapter podcast and part of the airwaves podcast network.
The 10 News creative team is still celebrating their win at the Amby's and includes Tracy Notta Crooks, Adam the Great Bambino Bernard, Brian Not Ryan Douglas and Carson Not So Harry Potter.
Big thanks to Owen Not Slowing Down for anybody.
Our production director is Jeremiah On Fire Tittle and our executive producers are Donald Albright, Albright Albright and show creator and Amby Award winner, Tracy Takes the Leads Kaplan.
I'm Pamela Kirkland.
And I'm Ryan Willard.
Thanks for listening to the 10 News.
