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what's up lovely people it's Tuesday
October 24th welcome to CNN 10 the best
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tomorrow's show all right ahead of
Halloween I've got some sweet stories
for you from trick-or treat Trends to
the tale of Duke the dog plus a spicy
kicker but first we're digging into debt
and deficit both are growing in the
United States but where do the national
debt and deficit come from and what's
the difference here's CNN's John sarin
with more America lives on borrowed
money that's why the terms debt and
deficit get thrown around so much let's
first start with our definitions in a
given year a country will raise money
through taxes and spend money on
everything that a government spends
money on if it spends more than it takes
in the difference is called a deficit
and the government has to par money to
pay for it now this leads us to debt and
not just any debt but the debt the debt
is the total sum a government owes in
other words a deficit is your dirty dish
from last night the debt is your
sink in the United States our budget
deficit has recently soared reaching
$1.7 trillion in the most recent fiscal
year that's a 23% increase from the
previous year to give you some
perspective the richest man in America
Elon Musk is worth $180 billion
according to Forbes nowhere near the US
deficit how much is a trillion dollars
well if you were to stack $1 bills on
top of each other 1 trillion of them
would reach nearly 68,000 M high that
would be into outer space almost a third
of the way to the moon so what's
happening according to a lead us
Economist Bernard yaros more than 40% of
the recent increase in our national
deficit can be attributed to lower
revenues from taxes more spending on
programs such as Social Security and
Medicare also playing a part as for our
current national debt it's well over $30
trillion check out this interactive
article on CNN's website writer Tammy Lu
Compares US debt to snow starting with
this small snowball in 1922 it
represents 48 billion over the years the
debt snowball kept growing literally
snowballing passing 10 trillion in 1998
and 30 trillion by the end of 2022 as
the US government spent more money than
it collected the article puts that
growing debt into perspective with this
graph and breaks down the government's
spending for the fiscal year 2022 $ 6.27
trillion or about $1.38 trillion less
than it collected you can take some time
to scroll through the article yourself
to learn more about the deficit and debt
we'll leave a link under this episode on
our YouTube channel 10 second trivia in
addition to Halloween which of these
holidays will be celebrated next week
Columbus Day Veterans Day Dia deos muos
or Labor
Day
dios muos is a Mexican holiday extending
over the first two days of November and
it honors the lives of deceased loved
ones Boo's excited for Halloween It's
the Most Wonderful Time of the fear and
it's one week from today I'm so excited
I Cy Harley weit I'm not going to wear
my mullet this year though if I'm
creeping it real this is one of my
favorite looks my costume this year is
irresistible though a survey conducted
for the national retail Federation shows
that the top costume picks this year for
kids are Spider-Man a princess or a
ghost and for adults a witch a vampire
or Barbie a majority of people said they
will be handing out candy and about half
plan to dress up or decorate the survey
also found that Halloween spending could
reach an all-time record high of 12.2
billion as more and more people are
getting into the spirit ready to party
in trick-or treat and full Spooktacular
prepandemic style booah now it's time to
meet another one of our CNN champions
for change at a no kill animals shelter
that has the ambitious goals of rescuing
every savable Animal by the year 2025
and revolutionizing the way we treat and
adopt shelter pets that includes fur
babies like Duke and the new best friend
of CNN's Jim
aasta what you doing over here Harry
Truman one said if you want to front in
Washington get a
dog I was coming out of my seven or
eight years at the White House I was
suddenly burdened with some extra time
on my hands and I thought hey time to
get a dog this is Duke uh he is my
rescue dog that I got from best friends
he was found in Arkansas his mother is
in an abandoned home a lot of the times
with these rescue animals are coming out
of pretty bad
situations traditional animal Sheltering
has been around for 150 years the status
quo was we don't have a choice it's a
necessary evil in our society that we
have to kill these animals oh does that
feel good best friends really became the
disruptor because they challenged the
status Julie is a remarkable person she
started in 1996 she was employee number
17 here became the CEO of this amazing
organization what they're trying to do
is sort of transform the animal rescue
pet adoption
experience canab Utah this is where best
friends basically runs their operations
here in the southwest it's a spectacular
setting and it makes it all the more
welcoming and inviting as somebody who
might be interested in adopting a pet
can go and see pigs and goats and horses
and we saw of course we saw dogs and
cats there were turtles and parrots and
cockadoo I felt like Dr D
little what we do here at the sanctuary
is so incredibly unique so we are able
to help animals that um most other
organizations couldn't these aren't
throwaway animals these are precious
sentient beings that deserve a second
chance at
life the Arkansas facility can you
describe that Bentonville was an
opportunity to reimagine you're walking
into this bright cool environment with a
coffee shop and no cages you can
participate in that life saving in a way
that's very similar to something like an
Apple Store the Arkansas facility is
important to me because that's where I
got my pet from when you look at who's
going in there you know you see a lot of
young people I want this one this is
Ariana she's 2 months old and two weeks
we've always been dog people we just
lost one and we really wanted to get
another it's it's like a whole
experience I think when you come in here
you just tell they want you and the dog
to be taken care of you're trying to
Market this experience trying to
transform the way people think about pet
adoption that oh it's a cool place where
you can go to pick up a
pet back in 1984 when best friends got
started they tell us that there were
something in the neighborhood of 17
million animals that were killed in this
country now they're at about 378,000
last year and best friends is the leader
in that movement they' like to get to
this place where the United States is a
no kill country essentially by 2025 The
Benchmark for no kill is 90% roughly 10%
of animals that are entering America's
shelters probably are too sick to be
saved so it's that 90% Benchmark that
we're after and you think it's possible
absolutely are you showing
off
yeah
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for today's 10 out of 10 we're kicking
things up a notch or how about several
million notches on the Scoville scale
this little guy called pepper X
officially holds the Guinness record for
world's hottest chili pepper it rates
2.69 million Scoville heat units on
average and for reference jalapeno
peppers fall between 3,000 and 8,000
units the Scoville scale was invented by
pharmacologist Wilbur Scoville in 1912
to measure the spiciness of peppers and
chilies generally related to their
capsacin the chemical that makes them
spicy peppers are always so annoying
they get jalapeno business it's time now
for our shout out of the day coming in
hot Canyon City High School in Canyon
City Colorado go Tigers you all know I
love this part of the show and we're
about to make it Twice As Nice you
remember that our executive producer
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