[Music]
I'm Ky Wire. Welcome to CNN 10. It's
National Walk to School Day. Did you
know the goal is to create more walkable
and safe communities? So, if you didn't
get a chance to get those steps in this
morning, maybe take a little stroll
later today, saunter around, get those
juices flowing. Today is also your word
Wednesday. One of the vocabulary words
that you submitted, helped us write
today's show. So, listen up. We start
with a blockbuster deal in the gaming
industry. Electronic Arts, one of the
biggest video game companies in the
world, has announced it is being
acquired for $55 billion. The group
behind the deal is led by Jared Kushner,
the son-in-law of President Donald
Trump, and Saudi Arabia's public
investment fund. They plan to make EA a
private company, meaning it will not be
traded on public stock exchanges or
subject to regulation like public
companies are. To do that, they'll pay
current shareholders $210 per share. The
deal still needs regulatory approval,
but is expected to close in the first
quarter of the 2027 fiscal year. EA was
founded in 1982 and has produced some of
the biggest video game franchises in the
world, including The Sims, Need for
Speed, and Battlefield. EA's most famous
franchise is also their longest running.
As a former NFL player, it's also my
favorite, Madden NFL. First released in
1988, it's become one of the bestselling
sports series of all time. The massively
popular franchise, named for legendary
NFL coach and broadcaster John Madden,
puts you in control of your favorite
team and players. But have you ever
wondered how much work goes into making
the game so realistic? I picked up a
controller and went one-on-one with the
mesmerizing voice behind the famous
franchise.
I am here getting ready to play Madden,
which I haven't done for a long time
with the voice of Madden.
Brandon God and Charles Davis with you
in what has been a tight fought,
scoreless football game.
I have played this one time since high
school and I haven't played it since.
So, we get to experience this together.
22 men ready to do battle. It's time to
dance. Off we go.
So, you had to record all this.
It's such a weird process, man. It's
recorded throughout the year in various
stages.
And the game is recorded such that when
you record it, you do it in a model that
they call stitching. So when you do this
play and you drop back the pass and it
says Pennix drops back the pass throws
to the right and it's caught and he's
tackled at the 23. Everywhere that I
pause there is a different line that
maybe not only was recorded on a
different day maybe a different year.
How long would you say hours would it
take to voice a game?
So the first couple of years it took we
did 400 to 500 hours of commentary. So
there's updates every year, but the old
days of recording 400 to 500 hours uh
per year, that is kind of whittleled
down to about a hundred now. So still a
lot, but not what it used to be.
Oh, looking good.
Come on, baby.
Oh man,
you're on the board, baby.
He's got a man at the 15. That's Dobson.
And Dobson is into the end zone. Do you
find that it's more difficult to voice
from a script, you know, compared to
when you're just at a game and you're
seeing it live?
It is two totally different things. Much
more different than I even thought it
would be.
The way I describe it is doing the
Madden game is like being an actor,
right? It's just it's simply like being
a voice actor. There's a lot of ad
living. There is some script reading,
but whether you're doing ad living or
script reading, you're bringing
something to life that isn't actually
happening, right? And so that is the
challenge and that's what I had to get
used to. But it was a challenge that I
loved.
Why don't we put your voice to to work
while you're not at work.
Okay, they're going to go old school eye
formation here. Penn under center. Have
not been able to get the run game going
at all. Just three carries, seven yards.
Play fake. Pennock and down he goes.
Huge loss. 12 yardds the other
direction. Phillips gets in there for
his second sack of the season.
Dang it,
dude. I brought the blitz. You were
ready that time.
This is awesome.
Pop quiz hot shot. In the timeline of
human evolution, what is the closest
extinct species to homo sapiens?
Homohabilis, pan paniscus, neandrathol,
or pongo pyigmus.
If you said Neandrithol, you get 10 out
of 10. Shorter and stockier than modern
humans, they're believed to have gone
extinct 40,000 years ago. An ancient
skull found in China has some scientists
saying that early humans have been
around 400,000 years earlier than
previously thought. Archaeologists have
a general consensus that mankind's
oldest ancestors began to evolve into
Neanderthalss about 600,000 years ago.
But now, researchers believe one of two
skulls found in an area known as Yong
Shen are actually 1 million years old.
After digitally reconstructing the skull
fragments, the artifact is now thought
to be an early version of Homolongi, a
sister species that had similar features
to Neanderthalss and Homo sapiens.
Genetic evidence suggests it existed
alongside them. So, these scientists
believe that if this skull comes from a
million years ago, then early versions
of Neanderthalss and our own species
probably did, too. This next story is
crapsolutely clawsome. A wildlife
photographer in Japan noticed a
troubling trend. hermit crabs who were
using trash as their homes. Now he's
helping the curious crustaceians level
up. Shello. He's swapping their trash
for living arrangements that have them
looking like celebrities. Shalon,
anyone?
In 2010, I found my first hermit crab
climbing up a tree in the forest with a
bottle cap. And that's all I could think
about. Then I started exploring the
coastal forest that night and I started
finding a bunch of hermit crabs adapting
with plastic. So, I offer hermit crabs
available shells in trade of plastic
that they're using. My name is Sean
Miller. I'm a wildlife photographer and
I've been living in Okinawa, Japan for
over 25 years. This has been a long
journey. So, I started to make the
switch for nature crab conservation
project. When I find a hermit crab
that's adapting with plastic, I'll have
some shells in my backpack and I'll pull
that out and I'll put the shells around
the actual hermit crab. It switches over
into it. And uh right here there's 175
pieces of plastic that I've traded.
I called this one elbow. The lug nut
cover. This one was almost looks like a
shift knob, right? I can't put the lid
on anymore.
Yeah, it's full. So, they're temporarily
adapting with the plastic until they
find a better option. More than likely,
it is bad for them, right? Because they
can't fully pull into the shell to
protect themselves. And obviously
plastic have chemicals in there, right,
that can leech into the sensitive part
of the permit lab which is the abdomen.
We get a lot of the shells from kind
people around the world uh that donate
them. And on the shells I'll actually
carve a message MTS4N and then the
number of the shell that it actually is.
Sometimes I'll carve a positive message
on the back side of the shell. When they
get in it and they switch, they
immediately run away like it's the best
thing they ever had. So, what people can
do to support uh hermit crabs is first
avoid collecting shells that have
spirals for the hermit crabs to live in.
A lot of people contact me and they're
just like, "I didn't know that I was
taking homes from marine life." Another
thing I recommend is participating in a
beach cleanup. Small actions with big
impact, right?
[Applause]
Today's story getting a 10 out of 10. A
heroic high school football team and
their players in Oregon who jumped into
action to save their coach's life.
During the Nestucka Valley Bobcats first
summer practice, their new offensive
coordinator collapsed on his first day
with the team.
And I was just starting to set up the
offense and explain the positions and
then I said, "Oh, coach is a little
lightheaded." And then I went down on
the turf. Turns out he was having a
massive heart attack. So his players
sprang into action using the first aid
skills they'd learned in school.
Me and another teammate, Zth Chapen,
immediately we were taking turns on
chest compressions.
We flipped him over and after a few
seconds, he just went silent. Now, as
his teammates continued CPR, quarterback
Brady Hurleman sprinted to an automated
external defibrillator, or AED,
something that all the students at this
school had been trained to use, and the
quick thinking saved coach's life.
Amazingly, he was back on the sidelines
just weeks later following triple bypass
surgery. The team's head coach is still
in awe of his players.
I've been coaching for 20 years. I've
coached college. I've coached the state
championship team in California. I was
on the staff there and I've never seen
kids respond like that.
There may be no I in team but there is
definitely one in lifesavers. All right,
superstars. Congratulations to Nelson
County Middle School in Lovingston,
Virginia, for submitting the word
mesmerizing, an adjective that means
capturing one's complete attention as if
by magic. And did you know the word
actually derived from a name, German
doctor Fran Mesmer? Now, our first shout
out of the day goes to Denver Language
School in Denver, Colorado. Mr. heart.
You are so talented. Thank you for these
characters. They are definitely going up
on our wall of friends. You uh nailed
the haircut. And Miss G at West Campus 1
Juvenile Unit 5 in Modesto, California.
Thank you for the kind letters and these
custom M&M's. This is literally sweet.
Go on out. Make someone smile today. You
are more powerful than you know. I'll
see you right back here tomorrow,
everyone. I'm Koi Wire and we are CNN
10.
I'm Ky Wire. Welcome to CNN 10. It's
National Walk to School Day. Did you
know the goal is to create more walkable
and safe communities? So, if you didn't
get a chance to get those steps in this
morning, maybe take a little stroll
later today, saunter around, get those
juices flowing. Today is also your word
Wednesday. One of the vocabulary words
that you submitted, helped us write
today's show. So, listen up. We start
with a blockbuster deal in the gaming
industry. Electronic Arts, one of the
biggest video game companies in the
world, has announced it is being
acquired for $55 billion. The group
behind the deal is led by Jared Kushner,
the son-in-law of President Donald
Trump, and Saudi Arabia's public
investment fund. They plan to make EA a
private company, meaning it will not be
traded on public stock exchanges or
subject to regulation like public
companies are. To do that, they'll pay
current shareholders $210 per share. The
deal still needs regulatory approval,
but is expected to close in the first
quarter of the 2027 fiscal year. EA was
founded in 1982 and has produced some of
the biggest video game franchises in the
world, including The Sims, Need for
Speed, and Battlefield. EA's most famous
franchise is also their longest running.
As a former NFL player, it's also my
favorite, Madden NFL. First released in
1988, it's become one of the bestselling
sports series of all time. The massively
popular franchise, named for legendary
NFL coach and broadcaster John Madden,
puts you in control of your favorite
team and players. But have you ever
wondered how much work goes into making
the game so realistic? I picked up a
controller and went one-on-one with the
mesmerizing voice behind the famous
franchise.
I am here getting ready to play Madden,
which I haven't done for a long time
with the voice of Madden.
Brandon God and Charles Davis with you
in what has been a tight fought,
scoreless football game.
I have played this one time since high
school and I haven't played it since.
So, we get to experience this together.
22 men ready to do battle. It's time to
dance. Off we go.
So, you had to record all this.
It's such a weird process, man. It's
recorded throughout the year in various
stages.
And the game is recorded such that when
you record it, you do it in a model that
they call stitching. So when you do this
play and you drop back the pass and it
says Pennix drops back the pass throws
to the right and it's caught and he's
tackled at the 23. Everywhere that I
pause there is a different line that
maybe not only was recorded on a
different day maybe a different year.
How long would you say hours would it
take to voice a game?
So the first couple of years it took we
did 400 to 500 hours of commentary. So
there's updates every year, but the old
days of recording 400 to 500 hours uh
per year, that is kind of whittleled
down to about a hundred now. So still a
lot, but not what it used to be.
Oh, looking good.
Come on, baby.
Oh man,
you're on the board, baby.
He's got a man at the 15. That's Dobson.
And Dobson is into the end zone. Do you
find that it's more difficult to voice
from a script, you know, compared to
when you're just at a game and you're
seeing it live?
It is two totally different things. Much
more different than I even thought it
would be.
The way I describe it is doing the
Madden game is like being an actor,
right? It's just it's simply like being
a voice actor. There's a lot of ad
living. There is some script reading,
but whether you're doing ad living or
script reading, you're bringing
something to life that isn't actually
happening, right? And so that is the
challenge and that's what I had to get
used to. But it was a challenge that I
loved.
Why don't we put your voice to to work
while you're not at work.
Okay, they're going to go old school eye
formation here. Penn under center. Have
not been able to get the run game going
at all. Just three carries, seven yards.
Play fake. Pennock and down he goes.
Huge loss. 12 yardds the other
direction. Phillips gets in there for
his second sack of the season.
Dang it,
dude. I brought the blitz. You were
ready that time.
This is awesome.
Pop quiz hot shot. In the timeline of
human evolution, what is the closest
extinct species to homo sapiens?
Homohabilis, pan paniscus, neandrathol,
or pongo pyigmus.
If you said Neandrithol, you get 10 out
of 10. Shorter and stockier than modern
humans, they're believed to have gone
extinct 40,000 years ago. An ancient
skull found in China has some scientists
saying that early humans have been
around 400,000 years earlier than
previously thought. Archaeologists have
a general consensus that mankind's
oldest ancestors began to evolve into
Neanderthalss about 600,000 years ago.
But now, researchers believe one of two
skulls found in an area known as Yong
Shen are actually 1 million years old.
After digitally reconstructing the skull
fragments, the artifact is now thought
to be an early version of Homolongi, a
sister species that had similar features
to Neanderthalss and Homo sapiens.
Genetic evidence suggests it existed
alongside them. So, these scientists
believe that if this skull comes from a
million years ago, then early versions
of Neanderthalss and our own species
probably did, too. This next story is
crapsolutely clawsome. A wildlife
photographer in Japan noticed a
troubling trend. hermit crabs who were
using trash as their homes. Now he's
helping the curious crustaceians level
up. Shello. He's swapping their trash
for living arrangements that have them
looking like celebrities. Shalon,
anyone?
In 2010, I found my first hermit crab
climbing up a tree in the forest with a
bottle cap. And that's all I could think
about. Then I started exploring the
coastal forest that night and I started
finding a bunch of hermit crabs adapting
with plastic. So, I offer hermit crabs
available shells in trade of plastic
that they're using. My name is Sean
Miller. I'm a wildlife photographer and
I've been living in Okinawa, Japan for
over 25 years. This has been a long
journey. So, I started to make the
switch for nature crab conservation
project. When I find a hermit crab
that's adapting with plastic, I'll have
some shells in my backpack and I'll pull
that out and I'll put the shells around
the actual hermit crab. It switches over
into it. And uh right here there's 175
pieces of plastic that I've traded.
I called this one elbow. The lug nut
cover. This one was almost looks like a
shift knob, right? I can't put the lid
on anymore.
Yeah, it's full. So, they're temporarily
adapting with the plastic until they
find a better option. More than likely,
it is bad for them, right? Because they
can't fully pull into the shell to
protect themselves. And obviously
plastic have chemicals in there, right,
that can leech into the sensitive part
of the permit lab which is the abdomen.
We get a lot of the shells from kind
people around the world uh that donate
them. And on the shells I'll actually
carve a message MTS4N and then the
number of the shell that it actually is.
Sometimes I'll carve a positive message
on the back side of the shell. When they
get in it and they switch, they
immediately run away like it's the best
thing they ever had. So, what people can
do to support uh hermit crabs is first
avoid collecting shells that have
spirals for the hermit crabs to live in.
A lot of people contact me and they're
just like, "I didn't know that I was
taking homes from marine life." Another
thing I recommend is participating in a
beach cleanup. Small actions with big
impact, right?
[Applause]
Today's story getting a 10 out of 10. A
heroic high school football team and
their players in Oregon who jumped into
action to save their coach's life.
During the Nestucka Valley Bobcats first
summer practice, their new offensive
coordinator collapsed on his first day
with the team.
And I was just starting to set up the
offense and explain the positions and
then I said, "Oh, coach is a little
lightheaded." And then I went down on
the turf. Turns out he was having a
massive heart attack. So his players
sprang into action using the first aid
skills they'd learned in school.
Me and another teammate, Zth Chapen,
immediately we were taking turns on
chest compressions.
We flipped him over and after a few
seconds, he just went silent. Now, as
his teammates continued CPR, quarterback
Brady Hurleman sprinted to an automated
external defibrillator, or AED,
something that all the students at this
school had been trained to use, and the
quick thinking saved coach's life.
Amazingly, he was back on the sidelines
just weeks later following triple bypass
surgery. The team's head coach is still
in awe of his players.
I've been coaching for 20 years. I've
coached college. I've coached the state
championship team in California. I was
on the staff there and I've never seen
kids respond like that.
There may be no I in team but there is
definitely one in lifesavers. All right,
superstars. Congratulations to Nelson
County Middle School in Lovingston,
Virginia, for submitting the word
mesmerizing, an adjective that means
capturing one's complete attention as if
by magic. And did you know the word
actually derived from a name, German
doctor Fran Mesmer? Now, our first shout
out of the day goes to Denver Language
School in Denver, Colorado. Mr. heart.
You are so talented. Thank you for these
characters. They are definitely going up
on our wall of friends. You uh nailed
the haircut. And Miss G at West Campus 1
Juvenile Unit 5 in Modesto, California.
Thank you for the kind letters and these
custom M&M's. This is literally sweet.
Go on out. Make someone smile today. You
are more powerful than you know. I'll
see you right back here tomorrow,
everyone. I'm Koi Wire and we are CNN
10.