- Good day to you.
I'm journalist Frank James
with an FJ News Quickie,
all the news from this
week that you can handle.
Today, we've got headlines including
a near collision with an airliner,
developments concerning
the #FreeBritney movement,
and a major development
for the beloved TV game show, "Jeopardy!".
As always, timestamps
are in the description
and chapters in the video timeline.
First up, a spotlight on crime in America.
22-year-old Nicholas Mark
was applying for a job
at a Pennsylvania pizzeria last Wednesday
when he suddenly grabbed the
tip jar off the table and ran,
a move generally advised
against by job search experts.
Luckily for local police,
Mark had already submitted
his name and phone number to the pizzeria,
and for good measure,
left behind a backpack
containing drugs and
items bearing his name.
After a short man hunt, the
tip jar thief was apprehended
and booked on charges of
robbery and drug possession.
It is unclear if he is still
in consideration for the job.
Next, in California,
a pair of inventors have
created a smart crib
to make life easier for new parents.
The Cradlewise smart crib
detects when a baby is waking up
and automatically begins rocking the child
gently back to sleep.
Bharath Patil, co-inventor of
the smart crib, says, however,
that sometimes parents
will need to intervene.
Analysts agree that, with
technological advancements,
in the near future smart cribs
will become advanced enough
to require no intervention
until the child is ready to
move out of the house at age 30.
And now to our politics segment,
in a story demonstrating
the bitter partisan divide in the US.
A man went before the
Lincoln, Nebraska City Council
on Wednesday, demanding that the city
ban the use of the term
"boneless chicken wings".
Ander Christensen argued
before the City Council
that the meat in boneless chicken wings
is not even from the wing,
rendering the term inaccurate at best,
and at worst an insidious
campaign of disinformation
aimed at America's youth.
Alternative names
Christensen suggested include
"buffalo style chicken tenders,"
"wet tenders," and "saucy nugs."
Which makes this journalist think
he might go get some saucy nugs
once this credible news
program is concluded.
In the entertainment world,
pop icon Britney Spears,
whose finances have been controlled
for the last 12 years
by a conservatorship,
says she wants the details of the case
to be open to the public.
The conservatorship was started in 2008
after a long string of personal
struggles for the singer.
Fans of the pop star have
made the hashtag "FreeBritney"
a trend online, as rumors
abound that Jamie Spears,
Britney's father and sole conservator,
is being over-controlling and
stealing his daughter's money.
It should go without saying that fans
who do not know Spears personally,
and have no firsthand knowledge
of the situation whatsoever,
probably know what's best for her.
Now, frightening moments
above Los Angeles last Sunday
when two airline pilots
reported to air traffic control
that a "guy in a jet pack" was passing them
at an altitude of 3,000 feet.
Fortunately, no collisions occurred.
The FBI is now investigating.
Experts agree that the
unidentified jet pack flyer
is most likely an eccentric
genius billionaire playboy
with a little too much time on his hands.
And now our headline story.
Major developments for the iconic
TV trivia game show "Jeopardy!"
as the show has hired Ken
Jennings as a consulting producer,
sparking rumors that the former
record-breaking contestant
may be next in line to host the show.
Jennings holds the world record
for highest-earning game
show contestant of all time,
and owns the longest winning
streak on "Jeopardy!".
80-year-old Alex Trebek has
hosted the show since 1984,
and in recent years has
been fighting cancer.
Trebek shows no signs of
slowing down, however,
continuing to host
as the show has begun
shooting a new season,
which has undergone changes to the set
to allow for social distancing
between contestants.
If Ken Jennings does take over
as "Jeopardy!" host one day,
this journalist imagines
it will be hard for him
to stop himself from saying,
"We can't all be the greatest of all time,"
whenever a returning champion loses.
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