August 15, 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 making yoga more Italian by
adding spaghetti to your workout, Stretch your noodle, find your sauce,
and achieve your inner Aldente. With Laser Stories al segment
where we read weird news stories around the globe, just
like everyone else does, except we've got a laser.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
There's other feedawinis, just don't Oh, I.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Thought you're gonna go with Nama pasta.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Yes, that's good. This first laser story is out of France.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Fifty nine year old Lauren van Wassenhoven was hired in
nineteen ninety three by a French telecom company as a
human resource specialist.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Yeah she sounds like a boring job, but people need
to do it. Yeah, good for you.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Well, due to some health issues, though, she was instead
offered a secretarial position and her employer adapted her workplace
to suit her needs.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Oh that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
I hear stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Yeah for sure until two thousand and two, when the
company got purchased and new managers put her on standby,
meaning they paid her still full salary but didn't give
her any actual work.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Okay, like none at all, even like Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Some French telecom company.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
But a little while later she was told that she
didn't even have to come into the office anymore. And
for the last decade she has collected paychecks and literally
didn't even have to show up for work.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Better than winning the lottery because then you get health insurance.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Well yeah, well it might sound like a dream, Lauren
says it was a total nightmare because she felt like
a complete outcast and was treated like she didn't even exist.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
That's what we've always dreamed our company to do for us.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Now, if you can believe it, she's demanding to come
back and work, and she is going to four's her
way in by suing the company's.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Office and instantly regret her decision.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Watch they settle out of court. She gets one one
sum and she's like, no, I wanted to go back.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Yeah, so you don't know what you're missing.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Before she arrives, she has asked for an undisclosed sum
of money from her employer and a full time office job.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Don't want that.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
She even told the courts that being paid for not
working was literally the most difficult thing in the entire world.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Oh my god, I can't with this girl honestly took
your headphones off.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Yeah, stormed out of the studio because of that.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
So two weeks later she's like, guys, I think you're
overpaying me.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
His next Lazer story is out of London.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Forty one year old Matt Barr has been in the
news a lot over the last few years because he
has a certain body part that has helped him win
a dubious worlds record.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Oh okay, don't brag an event that we can tell.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Yeah, I'm not going to go in any of the
details of what body part or where it is. I'm
just gonna say, yeah, I'm just going to say in number.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Okay, fourteen point four.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Fighting.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
The reason the reason Matt is back in the papers
is because recently he broke his arm. It was his arm,
but he blames it on his world's record situation.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
No, wa, wait, did he actually trip on it?
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Apparently he was in the shower and couldn't see his
own feet, so he stepped somewhere where he shouldn't have.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
He didn't trip on it, he just.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Couldn't see where he was stepping because it was blocking
the view and it caused him to slip on some soap.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Gosh, is he telling you this? Why.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
He told the news outlet, he's frustrated that this happened
to him. You should be concerned because any sudden movements
can also mess with his balance and make him feel lightheaded.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
I bet he's really thankful that skinny jeans are out.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
As for relationships with Matt, he says they're hard.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
I bet yeah, that would be.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
No pun intended.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
He recently told a story about how he was with
a woman once and swung his hips too quickly and
she ended up with a concussion.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
You don't want to dance with him. They're dancing right,
knocking her out.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Weirdest, he just turned too quickly.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
He wasn't on purpose.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Plus there's more than a few vacation resorts who've asked
him to leave because of his board shorts. We are not.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Just watch it seems like ten inches. We're not old
enough or mature enough for this news story.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
We're almost done.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Because he is trying, even wearing compression stuff underneath. It's
still not helping though. So now there's a photo going
around of Matt with his broken arm in a sling.
He's in some loose fitting slacks and let's just say
nobody's looking at his arm.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Yeah, and where's the cab waits?
Speaker 1 (05:17):
This next Lazer story is out of the TikTok Treehouse.
The other day, a gen Z woman posted a video
on her socials of her walking out the door of
a hotel and out into the parking lot yeah, with
the tagline.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Hey boomers, this is how you check out of a hotel.
You just walk out. I mean, yeah, it's the best
thing ever. Or use your phone, but you.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Don't even have to.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
In the caption, she added, the front desk doesn't need
you to tell them that you're leaving, and they don't
need you to hand them your room key.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
The only time I.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Do that is when it's like early, if I have
like a six am flight that way, I'm like, hey,
I'm already out this room.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Someone could check it early.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
My mom works at a resort, and they think it's
helpful because then they can mark that that one's ready
for cleaning yea, and they can get it cleaned earlier.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Yes, there is a former housekeeper who says it does
make the job a lot easier if you're polite.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
About that, even before check out total.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
But if you're leaving at noon anyway, you just just
leave otherwise, Like, it's technically true at a lot of
hotels that you don't need to tell the front desk.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
But some people in the comments are saying that's rude.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Because you need to go give goodbye hugs.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Yeah, that's the proper way to leave the four seasons.
The way are you supposed to just sit on your
bed and wait for housekeeping. An older travel expert weigh
in on the debate and said you should always be
checking out at the front desk in order to get
your receipt and to make sure.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
That there weren't any additional charges.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Okay, I alt to say, I just left my biggest
hotel and I purposely checked out on my phone because
I did.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Not want to see my room service receipt. Yeah. I
was like, I know.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Room service twice, this is gonna suck.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Let's just check me out. The thing is that may
be a little bit more of a boomer take on it.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Because nobody takes paper receipts anymore.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
A lot of the places we'll leave a receipt at
your door, they'll have it digitally sent to you through
email or through your app. And finally, someone says, just
let them know as you're walking out. It takes ten
seconds max quote. It's a weird thing to feel like
a bad.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
As over though, but oh, it's the TikTok video.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Yeah, feel like.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
I'm just leaving.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
I'm so cool not telling anybody. It's like an explosion
as she walks out. But what about when this guy
checks out.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Or checks it?
Speaker 2 (07:28):
The front desk says he calls down ahead of time,
but for some reason, it takes him three whole days
to reach the low. I feel like he gets distracted
with other activities in between. But that now means Laser
Stories has come to an end for the day. We'll
do it again, same time on Monday, Brooke
Speaker 3 (07:45):
And Jeffrey in the morning,
It's the radio segment that's making yoga more Italian by
adding spaghetti to your workout, Stretch your noodle, find your sauce,
and achieve your inner Aldente. With Laser Stories al segment
where we read weird news stories around the globe, just
like everyone else does, except we've got a laser.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
There's other feedawinis, just don't Oh, I.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Thought you're gonna go with Nama pasta.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Yes, that's good. This first laser story is out of France.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Fifty nine year old Lauren van Wassenhoven was hired in
nineteen ninety three by a French telecom company as a
human resource specialist.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Yeah she sounds like a boring job, but people need
to do it. Yeah, good for you.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Well, due to some health issues, though, she was instead
offered a secretarial position and her employer adapted her workplace
to suit her needs.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Oh that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
I hear stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Yeah for sure until two thousand and two, when the
company got purchased and new managers put her on standby,
meaning they paid her still full salary but didn't give
her any actual work.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Okay, like none at all, even like Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Some French telecom company.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
But a little while later she was told that she
didn't even have to come into the office anymore. And
for the last decade she has collected paychecks and literally
didn't even have to show up for work.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Better than winning the lottery because then you get health insurance.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Well yeah, well it might sound like a dream, Lauren
says it was a total nightmare because she felt like
a complete outcast and was treated like she didn't even exist.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
That's what we've always dreamed our company to do for us.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Now, if you can believe it, she's demanding to come
back and work, and she is going to four's her
way in by suing the company's.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Office and instantly regret her decision.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Watch they settle out of court. She gets one one
sum and she's like, no, I wanted to go back.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Yeah, so you don't know what you're missing.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Before she arrives, she has asked for an undisclosed sum
of money from her employer and a full time office job.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Don't want that.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
She even told the courts that being paid for not
working was literally the most difficult thing in the entire world.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Oh my god, I can't with this girl honestly took
your headphones off.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Yeah, stormed out of the studio because of that.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
So two weeks later she's like, guys, I think you're
overpaying me.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
His next Lazer story is out of London.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Forty one year old Matt Barr has been in the
news a lot over the last few years because he
has a certain body part that has helped him win
a dubious worlds record.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Oh okay, don't brag an event that we can tell.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Yeah, I'm not going to go in any of the
details of what body part or where it is. I'm
just gonna say, yeah, I'm just going to say in number.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Okay, fourteen point four.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Fighting.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
The reason the reason Matt is back in the papers
is because recently he broke his arm. It was his arm,
but he blames it on his world's record situation.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
No, wa, wait, did he actually trip on it?
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Apparently he was in the shower and couldn't see his
own feet, so he stepped somewhere where he shouldn't have.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
He didn't trip on it, he just.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Couldn't see where he was stepping because it was blocking
the view and it caused him to slip on some soap.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Gosh, is he telling you this? Why.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
He told the news outlet, he's frustrated that this happened
to him. You should be concerned because any sudden movements
can also mess with his balance and make him feel lightheaded.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
I bet he's really thankful that skinny jeans are out.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
As for relationships with Matt, he says they're hard.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
I bet yeah, that would be.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
No pun intended.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
He recently told a story about how he was with
a woman once and swung his hips too quickly and
she ended up with a concussion.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
You don't want to dance with him. They're dancing right,
knocking her out.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Weirdest, he just turned too quickly.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
He wasn't on purpose.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Plus there's more than a few vacation resorts who've asked
him to leave because of his board shorts. We are not.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Just watch it seems like ten inches. We're not old
enough or mature enough for this news story.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
We're almost done.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Because he is trying, even wearing compression stuff underneath. It's
still not helping though. So now there's a photo going
around of Matt with his broken arm in a sling.
He's in some loose fitting slacks and let's just say
nobody's looking at his arm.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Yeah, and where's the cab waits?
Speaker 1 (05:17):
This next Lazer story is out of the TikTok Treehouse.
The other day, a gen Z woman posted a video
on her socials of her walking out the door of
a hotel and out into the parking lot yeah, with
the tagline.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Hey boomers, this is how you check out of a hotel.
You just walk out. I mean, yeah, it's the best
thing ever. Or use your phone, but you.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Don't even have to.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
In the caption, she added, the front desk doesn't need
you to tell them that you're leaving, and they don't
need you to hand them your room key.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
The only time I.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Do that is when it's like early, if I have
like a six am flight that way, I'm like, hey,
I'm already out this room.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Someone could check it early.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
My mom works at a resort, and they think it's
helpful because then they can mark that that one's ready
for cleaning yea, and they can get it cleaned earlier.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Yes, there is a former housekeeper who says it does
make the job a lot easier if you're polite.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
About that, even before check out total.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
But if you're leaving at noon anyway, you just just
leave otherwise, Like, it's technically true at a lot of
hotels that you don't need to tell the front desk.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
But some people in the comments are saying that's rude.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Because you need to go give goodbye hugs.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Yeah, that's the proper way to leave the four seasons.
The way are you supposed to just sit on your
bed and wait for housekeeping. An older travel expert weigh
in on the debate and said you should always be
checking out at the front desk in order to get
your receipt and to make sure.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
That there weren't any additional charges.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Okay, I alt to say, I just left my biggest
hotel and I purposely checked out on my phone because
I did.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Not want to see my room service receipt. Yeah. I
was like, I know.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Room service twice, this is gonna suck.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Let's just check me out. The thing is that may
be a little bit more of a boomer take on it.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Because nobody takes paper receipts anymore.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
A lot of the places we'll leave a receipt at
your door, they'll have it digitally sent to you through
email or through your app. And finally, someone says, just
let them know as you're walking out. It takes ten
seconds max quote. It's a weird thing to feel like
a bad.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
As over though, but oh, it's the TikTok video.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Yeah, feel like.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
I'm just leaving.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
I'm so cool not telling anybody. It's like an explosion
as she walks out. But what about when this guy
checks out.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Or checks it?
Speaker 2 (07:28):
The front desk says he calls down ahead of time,
but for some reason, it takes him three whole days
to reach the low. I feel like he gets distracted
with other activities in between. But that now means Laser
Stories has come to an end for the day. We'll
do it again, same time on Monday, Brooke
Speaker 3 (07:45):
And Jeffrey in the morning,
Hosts And Creators
Brooke Fox
Jeffrey "Young Jeffrey" Dubow
Alexis Fuller
Jose Bolanos
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