May 21, 2025 • 7 mins
Weird news stories from around the world… with a healthy dose of lasers added in. Does it make sense? No not really, but it doesn’t HAVE TO… it’s Laser Stories!
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
It's the radio segment that's starting a community support group
called No Child Left on Red. Traumatized teens recover emotionally
after being ignored in their group.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Chat Reading Books is doing some good work, Jez, This
is an epidemic and it stops here.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
With Laser Stories, the segment where we read weird news
stories around the globe, just like everyone else does, except
we've got a laser and those other meme fiends just
don't this first Laser Stories out of Derbyshire, England, an
elementary school was having a World War two themed show
in Tell day where students were asked to bring in
memorabilia from their homes. Okay, and there were military uniforms
(00:46):
that came in, antique war signs, even a piece of
rubble from a bombed factory.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Wow, that was the crowd and tell the.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Staff even approved of one little boy bringing in an
old bullet casing. But what they didn't expect is that
little boy's friend, Noah, also had something to share. Noah
reached into his pocket and sent into the microphone, I've
got something too, and that's when he pulled out a grenade.
Oh my god, Oh my god. He'd taken the World
(01:18):
War II family heirloom without his parents' knowledge. Yeah, I
would hope so, and couldn't say for sure if it
was active or not.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Wait, they just have it up in their house on
a bookshelf or something.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Apparently the head teacher thanked him for his show and
tell and quickly took the grenade while the principal began
evacuating the school.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Yeah carefully, Yeah, but he just won show and tell
to Then she walked it all the way out to
the parking lot, where she slowly placed it underneath the
vice principal's tie.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Do you think she admire I'm just kidding. It was
behind a substantial tree.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Do you think she was so worried about tripping that
whole walk?
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Yeah? The bomb disposal experts were called to the scene.
Using X ray equipment. They were able to determine the
grenade was safe, deactivated, and from now on the school
will still have World War two day, but just not
the show. Intel parks. Okay, kids like I ride something,
I have a flamethrow this next lazer. Stories out of
(02:22):
Arizona that all across America national parks are struggling.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
I know it's bad.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
You mean, like business wise, money wise.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Yeah, they get funding is getting cut.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Oh geez. Apparently it's got to the point where they're
saying desperate times call for desperate measures. So cue the
twerking video. I say that because Arizona's Petrified Forest National
Park is fundraising now by showing us old torking videos
of Megan the Stallion. The clips are being shared on TikTok,
(02:56):
hoping to go viral. So after you watch the twerk footage,
they advertise an annual park pass for eighty bucks. They
could for them.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
I follow a couple of park accounts and they get
pretty creative on the Dude, that's what I were to say.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
It was the park rangers working. Yeah, it's Megan thee Stallion,
and it's got some risque innuendo stuff like Petrified Forest
is here to rock your world. Yeah, that's so funny though,
and yes, the wood is still hard after two hundred
million years.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Funny and educational. I get behind it.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
They go on to say the wood is so rock
solid it's basically nature's viagra. Right now, let me get
the joke.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
That one wasn't quite as funny.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
It's gone too far, growing out too much. He doesn't
love a good firm piece of wood joke. Yeah them. Anyways,
parks are desperate and we'll see if this torking strategy
actually pays off. I mean it is Arizona. They could say,
like it's getting hot out here.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Yeah, old Nelly reference.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Yeah. So let's go to your next laser story out
of tech town. Great news, jets and cartoon fans. The
first mass produced flying car will go on sale early
next year. It's finally happening, is it.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
You know? I keep seeing prototypes of these and I'm like,
that just looks like.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
A helicopter, y'all.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
That doesn't look like a flying car.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
I'm gonna show a picture of the car right now
to my co host. You can see it up on
the Brook and Jeffrey Insta stories. Is that Is that
car looking enough for you? Brooke? I mean it looks like.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
An airplane with the car seat in it. Yeah, and
some wheels. I don't want a lexis behind.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
The driver wheel. Can I just put it?
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Is there?
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Like something we can sign that make some people from
flying these?
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Ye, you're parallel parking in the sky, yeah, Camp, So
it's technically a flying car, but not the hover car
we were promised in movies like Back to the Future. Yeah,
it's got a hefty price tag with it, Yeah, and
a death trap attached to it.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
The company in Slovakia says it'll cost a very reasonable
eight hundred thousand dollars day, up to a million if
you add upgrades. Though. The seat warmersay they'll hit this
guy in early twenty twenty six, at least over in Europe,
and they're hoping to get them approved for sale in
the US coming this fall.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
I'm sure that'll work out.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
This next laser stories out of the commencement tenth. If
your kids graduating this month with one of these degrees,
pat them on the back and tell them it's important work,
then sprint back home and clear out the office because
they could be moving back in. So I say that
because a popular publication just posted a list of the
top ten college degrees that earned the least amount of
(05:42):
money straight out of school.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Oh, it's going to be depressing for so many years,
a lot of degrees. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
The median income for all the jobs listed is between
forty and forty two thousand dollars a year. Okay, so
number five. Early childhood education.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
So important though, Yeah, you're a baby teacher.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Like preschool teachers or nannies. Maybe. Number four anthropology the
study of anthros. Don't know whatever it is, it does
not pay a lot of money. Number three performing arts
stud theater work, singers, stage hands, media.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Oh, but there was no like they didn't think they
were going to make a lot of money out of college.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
You know, you're in the world. Yeah, you know what's happening.
Number two general social sciences jobs like youth counselor or
teacher's aid. And finally, the number one job that will
make you the least amount of money straight out of
college is if you studied a foreign language, like majoring
(06:47):
in French and only French.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Yeah, you got to go back for like a teaching
degree or business.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
You're not doing anything. Foreign language is the lowest paid
major at forty thousand dollars Google translate. I don't need.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Anything, but you gotta go encourage that kid to go
live in that country.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Yeah, there you go. Claus isn't French the language of love?
That's what this guy majored in. And look at that
who says you don't use your major once you graduate college.
There you go, he's using it, right, now, and that
means Laser Stories has come to an end for the day.
We'll do it again at the same time on Friday,
Brook and Jeffrey in the morning,
It's the radio segment that's starting a community support group
called No Child Left on Red. Traumatized teens recover emotionally
after being ignored in their group.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Chat Reading Books is doing some good work, Jez, This
is an epidemic and it stops here.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
With Laser Stories, the segment where we read weird news
stories around the globe, just like everyone else does, except
we've got a laser and those other meme fiends just
don't this first Laser Stories out of Derbyshire, England, an
elementary school was having a World War two themed show
in Tell day where students were asked to bring in
memorabilia from their homes. Okay, and there were military uniforms
(00:46):
that came in, antique war signs, even a piece of
rubble from a bombed factory.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Wow, that was the crowd and tell the.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Staff even approved of one little boy bringing in an
old bullet casing. But what they didn't expect is that
little boy's friend, Noah, also had something to share. Noah
reached into his pocket and sent into the microphone, I've
got something too, and that's when he pulled out a grenade.
Oh my god, Oh my god. He'd taken the World
(01:18):
War II family heirloom without his parents' knowledge. Yeah, I
would hope so, and couldn't say for sure if it
was active or not.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Wait, they just have it up in their house on
a bookshelf or something.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Apparently the head teacher thanked him for his show and
tell and quickly took the grenade while the principal began
evacuating the school.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Yeah carefully, Yeah, but he just won show and tell
to Then she walked it all the way out to
the parking lot, where she slowly placed it underneath the
vice principal's tie.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Do you think she admire I'm just kidding. It was
behind a substantial tree.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Do you think she was so worried about tripping that
whole walk?
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Yeah? The bomb disposal experts were called to the scene.
Using X ray equipment. They were able to determine the
grenade was safe, deactivated, and from now on the school
will still have World War two day, but just not
the show. Intel parks. Okay, kids like I ride something,
I have a flamethrow this next lazer. Stories out of
(02:22):
Arizona that all across America national parks are struggling.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
I know it's bad.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
You mean, like business wise, money wise.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Yeah, they get funding is getting cut.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Oh geez. Apparently it's got to the point where they're
saying desperate times call for desperate measures. So cue the
twerking video. I say that because Arizona's Petrified Forest National
Park is fundraising now by showing us old torking videos
of Megan the Stallion. The clips are being shared on TikTok,
(02:56):
hoping to go viral. So after you watch the twerk footage,
they advertise an annual park pass for eighty bucks. They
could for them.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
I follow a couple of park accounts and they get
pretty creative on the Dude, that's what I were to say.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
It was the park rangers working. Yeah, it's Megan thee Stallion,
and it's got some risque innuendo stuff like Petrified Forest
is here to rock your world. Yeah, that's so funny though,
and yes, the wood is still hard after two hundred
million years.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Funny and educational. I get behind it.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
They go on to say the wood is so rock
solid it's basically nature's viagra. Right now, let me get
the joke.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
That one wasn't quite as funny.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
It's gone too far, growing out too much. He doesn't
love a good firm piece of wood joke. Yeah them. Anyways,
parks are desperate and we'll see if this torking strategy
actually pays off. I mean it is Arizona. They could say,
like it's getting hot out here.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Yeah, old Nelly reference.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Yeah. So let's go to your next laser story out
of tech town. Great news, jets and cartoon fans. The
first mass produced flying car will go on sale early
next year. It's finally happening, is it.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
You know? I keep seeing prototypes of these and I'm like,
that just looks like.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
A helicopter, y'all.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
That doesn't look like a flying car.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
I'm gonna show a picture of the car right now
to my co host. You can see it up on
the Brook and Jeffrey Insta stories. Is that Is that
car looking enough for you? Brooke? I mean it looks like.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
An airplane with the car seat in it. Yeah, and
some wheels. I don't want a lexis behind.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
The driver wheel. Can I just put it?
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Is there?
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Like something we can sign that make some people from
flying these?
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Ye, you're parallel parking in the sky, yeah, Camp, So
it's technically a flying car, but not the hover car
we were promised in movies like Back to the Future. Yeah,
it's got a hefty price tag with it, Yeah, and
a death trap attached to it.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
The company in Slovakia says it'll cost a very reasonable
eight hundred thousand dollars day, up to a million if
you add upgrades. Though. The seat warmersay they'll hit this
guy in early twenty twenty six, at least over in Europe,
and they're hoping to get them approved for sale in
the US coming this fall.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
I'm sure that'll work out.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
This next laser stories out of the commencement tenth. If
your kids graduating this month with one of these degrees,
pat them on the back and tell them it's important work,
then sprint back home and clear out the office because
they could be moving back in. So I say that
because a popular publication just posted a list of the
top ten college degrees that earned the least amount of
(05:42):
money straight out of school.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Oh, it's going to be depressing for so many years,
a lot of degrees. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
The median income for all the jobs listed is between
forty and forty two thousand dollars a year. Okay, so
number five. Early childhood education.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
So important though, Yeah, you're a baby teacher.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Like preschool teachers or nannies. Maybe. Number four anthropology the
study of anthros. Don't know whatever it is, it does
not pay a lot of money. Number three performing arts
stud theater work, singers, stage hands, media.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Oh, but there was no like they didn't think they
were going to make a lot of money out of college.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
You know, you're in the world. Yeah, you know what's happening.
Number two general social sciences jobs like youth counselor or
teacher's aid. And finally, the number one job that will
make you the least amount of money straight out of
college is if you studied a foreign language, like majoring
(06:47):
in French and only French.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Yeah, you got to go back for like a teaching
degree or business.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
You're not doing anything. Foreign language is the lowest paid
major at forty thousand dollars Google translate. I don't need.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Anything, but you gotta go encourage that kid to go
live in that country.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Yeah, there you go. Claus isn't French the language of love?
That's what this guy majored in. And look at that
who says you don't use your major once you graduate college.
There you go, he's using it, right, now, and that
means Laser Stories has come to an end for the day.
We'll do it again at the same time on Friday,
Brook and Jeffrey in the morning,
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Brooke Fox
Jeffrey "Young Jeffrey" Dubow
Alexis Fuller
Jose Bolanos
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