when the whole conan/leno thing went down, same thing. my job is not to be serious, it's my job to make people laugh. my show is on at 12:30 a.m. >> i love that. >> eastern. >> love that. >> pick the weirdest time, tivo it if you don't watch the show, dvr it. if you have a vcr, good for you. let me show how it's still going. >> the whole conan/leno thing, the offer is you can go on at 12:01. it's not even tonight. how can -- "the tonight show" starts tomorrow. >> they said, would you mind moving an hour later? i said, yeah, of course. what time am i on now? are you kidding me? i'm basically on at 3:00 in the morning. i'm up against the slap chop commercials. >> i can't imagine anybody disliking you. i asked everybody about jimmy fallon. great guy, great guy. >> people have disliked me. you know, high school i wasn't the most popular kid. i wasn't the nerdiest kid. i was kind of in the middle. >> why weren't you that popular? >> i don't know. i don't think i had the -- i don't know. i never had the -- i didn't want to go with the crowd. i

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so it's like the whole conan jay leno thing went down, same thing. i go, my job is not to be serious. my job is to make people laugh and go to bed. my show's on at 12:39 a.m. >> i love that. >> eastern time. >> i love that. >> it's like the weirdest time. tivo it if you don't watch the show. d.v.r. it if you can. if you have a v.c.r. good for you. >> when the offer came in, at 12:01. it's not even tonight. it's past tomorrow. >> tomorrow's show. exactly. they said to me, would you mind moving an hour later? i go, yeah, of course. what time am i on now? are you kidding me? i'm basically on like 3:00 in the morning. i'm on against the slop chop commercials. >> i ask everybody about jimmy fallon. great guy. they think you're a great guy. why weren't you that popular? >> i don't know. i don't think i had the -- i don't know. i never had the -- i didn't want to go with the crowd. i just wanted to do my own thing. so i mean, i'd be friends with you and i'd be friends with some head banger burnout kid, you know, sitting next to a truck drinking 151 i'd be l

or johnny cash that's really tough coke a pepsi coke leno or conan agree that probably leno blackberry or i phone blackberry blackberry it is deep dish or thin crust. spicy or mild oh spicy guessing what the stores or american idol american idol maybe will have to have an american idol contest. i'm sorry. unemployment just went up to nine point per cent half of all unemployed americans have been out of work for at least six months forty four million americans are in food stamps and they're going home sales dropped six point three trillion that's what the teen dollar since the housing crisis began and if that is printing dollars like twenty paper and we're asking the next potential president of the united states about pizza really things out of whack here but thankfully i know just the man to set a straight gerald celente is the director of the trends at a research institute and the publisher of the trends journal he is with us from new york thank you so much for being here mr cilento did you hear a single idea from from these candidates during the two hour debate last night that made y

leno or conan? deep dish or thin crust? blackberry or iphone? (laughter) >> jon: i have a follow up. crazy bread or chur ros? (laughter) cash or credit? oh, wait, i'm sorry, we're trying to find out which candidates is best qualified to perhaps run america. are there any hashtag innovative www./debate (bleep)ing annoying tv.tv/bieber you have up your sleeve before we move on? >> you'll see an electronic code on your screen. you can snap a picture of that code, you'll get exclusive access about our debates, behind-the-scenes video, analysis and content. >> you're suggesting while i watch this debate i get out my phone and take a picture of the screen watching a mobile device internet browse filled with another screen filled with content not good enough to put on your 24 hour seven day a week why don't you text us to vote on what story you want to see lazy susan of stupid (bleep). (laughter) i watch way too much cnn. (cheers and applause) actually... i apologize, it does sound like a cool idea. go ahead, take a picture. (laughter) it will bring yo

conan did it. >> and conan just did it this past year. >> jimmy: that was amazing. >> faith hill. >>hat is -- what is the thing you did last night? look at this. >> oh, yeah. this is at the yogi berra museum yesterday. they just reopened his museum in montclair, new jersey. yogi is 85, 86 years old. >> jimmy: is he? oh, my gosh. >> yeah. this is the jersey that he wore on october 8th, 1956, to catch don larson's perfect game in the world series. and they just auctioned it for $600,000. >> is that right? oh, my gosh. $600,000. >> yeah. that's more than the payrolls of the yankees and dodgers teams that year combined in 1956. >> jimmy: gosh, 1956. but now, it's just jeter's on a weekend. [ laughter ] yeah. and yogi berra, i mean, what a legend. this guy -- >> yeah, unbelievable. >> jimmy: did he always say those lines or did he end up just starting -- he said he that he spit them out and then starting writing them himself? >> no, no. he has always said them, and he always said, "i have no idea what i'm saying, they -- it just comes out." you know, he does those aflac commercials with t

instead, they invited conan o'brien. he described a visiting dartmouth -- you are going up on friday to conduct a seminar at dartmouth. i will tell you what he said about dartmouth when you were student debt. he said dartmouth was a different place back then. after asking the blacksmith for directions, i came to this beautiful campus. no dormitories had been built yet. i stayed with a family of fur traders. it's snowed heavily during my visit and i was trapped there -- it snowed heavily during my visit and i was trapped there for them a month. congratulations for surviving hanover, new hampshire. good luck on your return visit. i have a lot of questions to ask you. i would start by reading the tea things that were set on this stage and get you to respond to them. one comment was, the most important thing government can do to promote innovation is to get its own house in order. the second related point. it was unimaginable a few years ago when the u.s. would be talking about a default on its debt. the question for you is,

w >>> conan o'brien took a break from his cable show last weekend to give what was surely one of the most entertaining commencement speeches heard by any graduating class. at darted mouth college, he drew on his personal disappointment from last year when he was pumped from the "tonight show" by returning host jay leno. >> nichy famously said whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger. what he failed to stress is that it almost kills you. what he should have said is whatever doesn't kill you makes you watch a lot of cartoon network and drink mid-priced chardonnay at 11:00 in the morning. >> o'brien said what he learned from the loss of his dream job is that dreams can change and when they do, they can lead to something challenging and freeing and fulfilling. and from now on, please call him dr. o'brien. >> that's fun. >>> that's going to do it for us tonight. join nightly news with brian williams next. he has the sit-down interview with bono and the edge from u2. >> see you at 6:00. bye-bye.

boxing now and while saturday's heavyweight fight between conan david haye may be stealing all the limelight undefeated american floyd mayweather is also preparing for a total bat those are the four year old appeared at the media conference in new york with his next opponent the oath is ten years younger the two will go toe to toe in las vegas on september seventeenth otis is the reigning w.b.c. welterweight champion in may with a is looking to add that belt to his collection of mine well titles he's unbeaten in forty one career matches and with a true fight against my packy are still to come by whether it's preparing for a pitch battle against what is. that's what the fares were that's what i want to get affairs but it takes one step at a time not to look big doherty's can overlook oh he's tough he's tough but he's only write it out of twenty nine five years ago twenty two knockouts i don't want to hear about if you lost before as of right now he's world champion and ought to be a goal is for me to go in and face the world champion and do what i do. now going back to football of sorts and t

president obama for resorting to venturing agent without official approval but voice of russia radio host conan it was also a transcript says he doesn't believe congress will pull the plug on america's involvement. the problem is that when there was a prior lawsuit during clinton's foray into the former yugoslavia dentist who sit in the group of other congressmen even at that time filed a very similar lawsuit saying that it was illegal and it went to a district court for the district court said into the individual congressmen did not have any sort of standing but the reality is i think still a majority of congressmen are starr you know going to support the the actions in libya and afghanistan and so on is not going to you know in mass come and say that we shouldn't be doing this and try to defund it and besides obama is currently using discretionary department defense discretionary funds to get around it anyway so you know it's a question of how effective would be worse in you know to their benefit we do live in a military industrial complex type of world where they have they have the purse str

in his address to the 2011 dartmouth university class, conan o'brien gave this sage advice to the parents in the audience as well. >> many of your children, you haven't seen them in four years, well, now, you're about to this see them every day when they come out of the basement to tell you the wi-fi isn't working. if your child majored in fine arts or philosophy, you have good reason to be worried, the only place they are now really qualified to get a job is ancient greece. >> pedro noguera, nearly 60% of parents who have financially supported their students after school, how most of them by letting them move home, a 65% of 18 to 39-year-olds feel their financial pressures are tougher than in previous generations and 32% of their parents agreed. welcome to the new normal, i guess. >> i agree. >> what are we going to for the class of 2011? they're moving home. >> it's tough. and it's a reflection of the fact that we haven't been as practical as we should be about making choices about what to study in school and how to think about the next phase in life and i think too many students have c

conan and the great rebuild process for basketball has started in earnest tell us more and do. everything right but in europe but they're losing all over the place so that's why they've gone to the n.b.a. they've got two new players and they're hoping that is the recipe for success more not coming up in just a sec. always great to have you with us this is sports day here on twenty four hour r.t. i'm you know male or sporting had. staying put c.s.k. moscow dominated against locker motif to remain top of the russian premier league. on course for years from rio his dream of a first ever grand slam title moves a little closer to reality easing into the third stage up wimbledon. and on the move says couples whose plastic ball club signed a center from the n.b.a. additional guards to help them try and recapture former glory europe. has got the ball rolling with football have been tame their spots of the russian premier league some of the army men seeing off city rivals a locomotive three one in one of the nights to moscow darby's save you do be getting the ball rolling thirty minutes

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letterman showed him wearing a diamond tiara, and conan o'brien showed him in gold chains and a crown. politicians can survive a lot, scott, but ridicule is the hardest thing of all to overcome. his fund-raising began to try up and when he took off on a cruise to greece a couple of weeks ago that was final straw for some of the staff. it is also a signal, i think, that texas governor rick perry may be seriously considering getting into the race. here's why. two of the people who resigned today have close ties to perry and insiders have been saying now if those guys ever leave gingrich, then perry is very serious about running. i think we should emphasize here that gingrich himself said today he is not quiting. the way he told it today, he'll be restarting his campaign sunday. >> dave: but, bob, practically speaking, does this mean gingrich is through? >> well, i think so. i mean... but if he's not i think he better get another ladder because this hole that he was already in just got a whole lot deeper today. i think he's done. >> pelley: thank you, bob. there was eye-opening testimony

senator santorum he said he would pick leno over conan.sident bachmann, elvis or johnny cash. >> that's really tough. both. both. >> yeah? >> yeah. >> both? >> i have christmas with elvis on my ipod. >> all right. now we know what's on the congresswoman's ipod. >> we have a question. >> congressman paul, this is for you. the federal government now assists many industries, green jobs, the auto industry, research and development, all good subsidies. given the current state of the economy, what standards do you ha have, if any, to government assistance to private enterprise. >> there shouldn't be any government assistance to private enterprise. it's not morally correct. it's not legal. it's bad complexes. it's not part of the constitution. if you allow an economy to thrive they'll de decide where r&d works. when the politicians get in and direct things, they do the dumb things they might build too many houses and they might not direct their research to the right places. so, no, it's a fallacy to think that government and politicians and burea

someone wrote a letter to conan asking that i take a shower next time i come on. and-- and joan rivers attacked you. well, she attacks everybody. joan rivers is a prickly pear, as they say. joan rivers and melissa rivers and that other lady, that guy that criticizes people with her, they are an odd trio of-- i don't mind people making jokes about stuff like that. i'm a comic. it's gotta be clever, though. you gotta use your brain a little bit. they have some incredibly unfunny, unintelligent comments to make on that show. like i said, i've got no problem with anyone making fun of me, but you gotta use your brain a little bit. like, that-- you can't just oink, which is what joan rivers has done to images of me. she'll just oink at the screen. you know, let's get creative. like, i've had mad tv make fun of the way i look, and very funny. like, they had a bill clinton character referring to me, thinking i was a guy. like, alex borstein, who does an amazing impression of me which i think is hilarious, and bill clinton-- we were doing politically incorrect in the sketc

well those are johnny cash oh that's really tough coke or pepsi coke leno or conan i'm probably one of them black berry or i phone blackberry blackberry it is because for thin crust. so i say you're miles oh spicy guess what the stores are american idol american idol maybe we'll have to have an american idol contest. that would shock me and. it's fun and they've got to give you a little dessert with your broccoli and your state all right we're going to dessert well we're a big debate about this in our editorial meeting this morning where some people thought that it was friday was great it really gave you a look into their personalities which i don't think that coke or pepsi tells you anything about americans personality and another thought it was about distraction considering the economic situation in the country i think they were given a better way to do it one word thing i see what they were trying to do conceptually but it sort of fell flat i mean colker pepsi's they gave romney who's known for very calculating they gave him spicy or hot when i mean it was just like home only give u

going to make you know arguably some situations even worse it almost seems like you know they saw on conan you know like they they just set up the situation to say you know mitch mcconnell he said his job was to make sure obama was a one term president that next year is going to be a really rough year you know. no question about that but i think there's some things that they said that we could do very much in the spirit of what you were just talking about you just mentioned that a couple of very important things that are helping to boost hiring right now and to help provide a safety net for the many long term unemployed people out there are expiring at the end of this year at the end of two thousand and eleven that could create a real air pocket in the economy so we don't need that i mean boom that is what i mean by your pocket and you don't want that if the economy were on a much more solid growth path if we were kind of hitting escape velocity kind of on the g.d.p. in the jobs front without that sure let it fade for fiscal reasons this stuff should be temporary but wasn't that the assump

well those are johnny cash oh it's really tough coke or pepsi coke leno conan. probably one of blackberry or i phone blackberry blackberry it is deep dish for thin crust. spicy mild oh spicy guess what the stores are american idol american idol maybe we'll have to have an american idol contest saying. i'm sorry what unemployment just went up past nine point one percent cap of all unemployed americans have been out of work for at least six months if not more forty four million americans are in food stamps to us home sales have dropped six point three trillion dollars since the housing crisis began and if it is printing dollars like twenty paper and we're asking the next potential president of the united states about pizza well joining me now to make sense of this debate is heather simran and completely mispronouncing that's a letter to sir most thorough she's a conservative political commentator and strategist as well as air campaign founder of the agenda project in our new york studio ladies thank you so much for taking the time to us speak with us how they're a

it's not about my twins, you heard conan, a moment ago, big do big families translate to big votes?shows a family positive value scenario. it's important to have that when all of the talk as of late has been on one particular democratic congressman sending certain lewd photos out. his wife is coming back to confront him. considering the head lines, it's nice. people like to foepg us on familiar there's work. >> roland. >> this is shameful. if you are a person out there. you don't have any kids, they don't want your vote, they don't want to talk to you. me and my wife have no kids, since i helped raise six niece, i guess that qualifies. right? >> pete, we don't want to mention what the six nieces doing under the hand of roland martin -- >> you know this. >> that's so true. >> i'm sure five of -- kyra, i'm sure five of roland's nieces are upstanding individuals. listen, kyra, you can have 100 kid, black kid, white kid, rich kid, poor kids. doesn't matter how many kid us have. unless one gets americans a job or lowers the price of gas at the pump, i don't think voters care about your k

. >> leno or conan. >> probably leno. but i don't want either, sorry. >> that's the answer is the answer. facebook, twitter, send us your questions or analysis and some exclusive content. get your smart phone ready. i'll explain that ahead. we'll be right back in just a moment. welcome back to our republican debate at st. anselm in manchester, new hampshire. one of the things we are very eager to do throughout the campaign is to votch you at home and use technology and innovation. if you have a smart phone look at your screen right now. if you hughesed it before an electronic code on your screen. snap a picture of that chode and get some exclusive access about our debates. and behind the scenes video, some analysis and content. we'll do this throughout the debate and throughout the campaign. now we're going to get back to questioning. our seven republican candidates for president. right before the break we did this thing called this or or that. senator santorum, doesn't stay up very late. a parent. i understand that. he s

conan o'brien getting laughs over the online scandal. congressman anthony weiner and his denials.eone gets caught and makes it worse by trying to cover it up. what is behind that thing we see over and over and over. why don't people fess up right away? our human being expert dr. wendy walsh has experts fopinions for. you say it gets down to fight or flight. >> he's going to go into a natural fight or flight response. i prefer fight, close your facebook, twitter, go away. but instead, he went with fight. no, i didn't do it. no, it was a hacker. yes, i'm going to keep my job. one or the other is going to come up in the shortterm. and then they'll make better decisions. >> just today, a source says weiner told democratics leaders that he's going to seek treatment. here is what he said about getting help at a news conference earlier this week. >> i'm going to try to handle this, and i'm not blaming anyone. this is not something that can be treated in a way. this is my own personal mistake. this is not something, this is a weakness, a deep weakness i have demonstratored. and for that,

we are not talking about trau conan types of situations.orst thing, candy, if we blow through the fourth debt ceiling in this administration, if we add another $2 trillion without taking control of it. people will realize we don't have the will to stop the spending. >> we're spending more than eight years ago. >> we are. >> and at some point you will head towards default if you don't raise the dealt ceiling, rnlt you? >> if the president decides he will not pay our bills because he refuses the balance the budget six or eight years out, americans need to know that. >> why shouldn't we look at it and say it's another giant game of chicken by our legislators? >> we have more revenue than we ever have. we are spending more than we ever have. we don't have a revenue problem. we have a spending problem. the government is doing things that we can't do well. we're wasting billions of dollars. we're not going to address the waste and fraud until we have to. >> the fact of the matter is that i have not talked to an economists and perhaps you have tha

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o'brien -- from dartmouth along with conan o'brien, making the third lawyer in the family joining my family and i. i guess so much for tort reform within the bush family. received the presidential medal of freedom very recently, which is considered the highest honor giving to a civilian in our country. he just thought it was cool because he got to meet bill russell and stan the man musial. all of these events culminated in an event at kennedy center and a tribute to his foundation, the points of life, which we all members of the bush family are able to enjoy with him and celebrate in that moment. a lot of folks have also asked about my dad, former governor in the state of florida, jeb bush, about his political plans -- [applause] i don't have any breaking news for you, but i can say currently he is focusing on reaffirmation of our government as we know it, more particularly with respect to our charter school movement throughout the u.s. and advising republicans and spearheading that effort. the activities i think he has accomplished since leaving office is an amazing teg amount to ho

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. >> oh, that's conan o'brien taking advantage of some of the best political fodder in years, quite franklyony weiner's sexting is scandal. many laughed as the fall of the new york politician played out. but some say the lowest point of his career marked a new depth of tastelessness. it came when a staffer from the howard stern show heckled weiner as he was resigning. here it is. >> continue. >> the people demand to know. >> to heal from the damage i have caused. >> hey, hey. >> are you serious? >> he's not with us. >> he's not with us. >> to repeat, most importantly, they're all patriots, and i will miss them all. >> are you more than seven inches. >> thank you. >> did you find this funny or was it going too far to talk about it are two standup comics, pete dominick is the host of the daily show" of a daily show on sirius xm satellite radio and dean obeidallah cofounded the comedy festival. all right, guys. you support this heckler, right? >> i do. i mean, to me, this was the cherry on the weiner sundae. after what we have gone through, he raised the discourse of this whole discussion. it'

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there's conan o'brien, myself and some other colleagues there and manually put your name on there.ebook has just rolled out a new facial recognition technology that actually does this for you. it will recognize your photo, if you're already one of the 500 million users on facebook, as that being you. so if you have a new photo from here on out that is uploaded to facebook, even if you're not the one who uploaded it, it will recognize you and whoever uploaded it will recommend to that person, hey, this is bob redell, do you want to label him as much. this is raising some privacy concerns. let's say you're in a strip club, you're at a nudist beach or being at a barney concert or having something traumatic like this happen this morning. look at this, this was just posted on our facebook nbc bay area news page. there's mike and christina just hanging out. exactly, what am i doing and how did i end up in that picture? fortunately, the facial recognition technology did not recognize that as bob redell, the idiot on the phone stuffing his face with doritos at 4:30 in the morning. so that

mitt night in paris, and conan o'brien can't stop.rrogance than he is sure of. god bless them. and buck, page 1 inside the new york times opens july 1st. i will be talking more about page 1, inside the new york times, but right now it is tales of the city at act. get there, folks. you will have a great time. a show so worst your time and money. hats off to pride. there goes my pride necklace. all right! >> have a wonderful weekend. we will see you at the theater. >> see you at act. back to you. >> thank you. >>> a lot more to come on kron 4 new this is weekend. but first, here is henry. >> henry! >>> what do you mean, what? look at all this awful stuff on my artichoke? >> it comes with the territory. it is one of the things that artichokes always get. >> what? >> afridays. >> it is an afid. not the ants. the ants feed off the afid. >> you end up getting these ants. they get inside the fruit and you bake the artichoke and you open it and -- >> you get rid of the afid and the ants go away. they are using it as an ant source. if there is

instead, invited conan o'brien to speak. >> did he go to dartmouth? >> no.ou're going up on friday to conduct a seminar. i thought i would tell you what conan obrien said, " dartmouth was a different place backbend. i made a trip of boston on a mule. after asking the blacksmith for directions, i came to this campus. i stayed with a family of for traders in white river junction. it snowed heavily during my visit and i was trapped there for four months. i was forced to eat the mule who had been forced to eat the for traderss-- the fur traders.." congratulations for surviving new hampshire. i thought i would start you by reading to you to things that were said from the stage last night. and get you to respond to them for starters. 'the most important thing government can do to promote innovation is to get its own house in order." the second,"it was unimaginable a few weekyears ago the u.s. would be talking about default on its debt." will we spend the rest of the summer worrying about default on that? >> things are going to happen this summer. one is that we wi

have invited a distinguished alumnus such as you to be commencement speaker, instead they invited conan'brien to speak. did he go to dartmouth? he went to a small college in cam brage, massachusetts but couldn't get in dartmouth. you're visiting dartmouth, i understand it, to conduct a seminar at dartmouth, i thought i'd tell you what conan o'brien said about visiting dartmouth about the time you were a student there. he said dartmouth was a very different place back then. i made the trip up from boston on a mule and after asking the blacksmith for directions, i came to this beautiful campus, no dormitories had been built yet so i stayed with a family of fur traders in white river junction. it snowed heavily during my visit and was trapped there for four months. i was forced to eat the mule who a week earlier had been forced to eat the fur traders. so congratulations for -- on for surviving hanover, new hampshire, and good luck on your return visit. i have a lot of -- plenty of questions to ask you. but i thought i'd start by reading to you two things that were said from this stage last

. >> reporter: conan is helping, too. >> there's a picture of him.errupting a lunch conversation. hi. couldn't help but overhear. >> reporter: huntsman's already been mistaken for somebody else. >> the shirtless twitter guy? >> reporter: actually it was craigslist but there is a certain resemblance and we advise this rel ty unknown not to become overexposed. jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >>> well, revved up and ready to run, republican michele bachmann sets the date for her big formal announcement. we've got details in our "political update." an accident doesn't have to slow you down. introducing better car replacement, available only from liberty mutual insurance. if your car's totaled, we give you the money to buy a car that's one model-year newer with 15,000 fewer miles on it. there's no other auto insurance product like it. it's a better policy that gets you a better car. call... or visit one of our local offices today, and we'll provide the coverage you need at the right price. liberty mutual auto insurance. responsibility. what's your policy? >>>

. >>> congressman anthony weiner said he won't resign, despite the pressures, conan o'brien fully supportsatest. democrats and republicans calling for congressman wiener to resign. meanwhile, comedians are calling for him to chime in there. please. just another four years, is all i want. >> and of course, once again, we lead off the political buzz. what a buzz-worthy week it's become. look at the hottest political topics of the day and each of the es scheme political observers answerle questions as the clock counts down today. robert zimmerman, member of the committee, and erroll ll lumis. one person defending weiner, alec baldwin. my thought on weiner is he is a very busy man. like other politicians, he needs something to take the edge off. robert, whatever happened to a martini? >> you know, when i first heard about this essay, i snickered like everybody else. i read alex's essay on huffington post. i read with great compassion. did not excuse his behavior but great sadness. i recommend having a martini, not run for public office if you have those issues. >> errol -- >> i expect there's

. >> reporter: conan's helping, too. >> there's a picture of him right there.ldn't help but overhear.

. ♪ leno or conan. >> probably lennon. >> blackberry or iphone. >> blackberry. >> mr.can idol." >> american idol it is. governor pawlenty to you?or pep. >> elvis or johnny cash. >> oh, that's really tough. ♪ >> isn't that wild? >> we loved it. we might have played it a few times on the loud speakers. what does our pal john king think of that? >> i said hey, i'm going to play this, do you have any issues? he said fire away. down in my office, people are wondering why i'm playing hip-hop on the loud speaker, but it's all good. >> same with us. a little hip hop and barry manilow today. just been one of those days. appreciate it. thank you to john king for letting us do that as well. a heart-shaped meteorite falls from the sky. >> finding a heart-shaped rock in your backyard, kind of cool. finding a rock that is a meteor that is heart-shaped? okay, that's something you've got to see. a man and his son were playing kick ball in their backyard when they noticed this funny looking rock. turns out the rock was shae heart-shaped and it's actually a meteor. meteors don't usually