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August 7, 2026 32 mins

Do you have to accept a Facebook friend request from someone you DON'T know? The surprising response from neighbors when a mom asks them to let her autistic son trick-or-treat in the Summer! Plus a genius hosting trick for serving steak to a crowd. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Murphy Salmon Jody Daily Show Podcast.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
If you ever get a friend request on your social
accounts but it's somebody you don't want to be a
friend with, uh huh on social do you decline it
or do you just let it sit and sit and
sit and expire.

Speaker 3 (00:20):
I don't remember if I've ever had been in that situation. Honestly,
I pretty much accept everybody. Really, Oh yeah, unless there's
people sitting there that I haven't seen.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
Well, I think it depends on the context, because now
you know, like I think, almost all the social media,
whether it's Facebook, Instagram, or whatever, will give you the idea.
Let me grab your context and send friend requests to everybody.
So some people I think send them out to mutual
friends or whatever, so you never know if it's really
intentional that's even coming to you in the first place,
I'll give them.

Speaker 3 (00:49):
To the point, Murph, I will say this, realize, though
your account is your party. You can invite who you want,
and you don't have to let in who you don't
want want to. It's a party that's always going on
and people can enter and leave when they want to.
But your account is your party. My account so you yeah,
you can say no in the decline.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
This is not a stranger, this is somebody you know. Uh,
this is somebody I know. Yes questions. Yeah, well I'm
just kidding because not an they're not they're not going
to know if you don't accept the request, you know
what I mean?

Speaker 4 (01:24):
And NLUs they hear this and then they start, oh.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
If we're going to be specific here, how did you
find out on the radio?

Speaker 2 (01:32):
No timing is bad on this one, but.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
The you know, I mean, there was I know that
I had I had to go purge my friend request
recently because I had some from and this is just
because I didn't I don't know if I never got
the notifications or what they were like five six, seven
years old. But they were also from people that I
didn't really know, and I think it was the friend
of a friend of a friend thing. So I don't
know that. I mean, you have to decide whether this

(01:54):
is legit or not.

Speaker 3 (01:55):
People you don't really know. There's nothing wrong with you
saying I don't want to clutter. You don't want to
clutter your feed if you want to be intentional when
you are there. Murphy's rarely on social media anyway, if
you want to be more intentional, then I think keep
your list slim.

Speaker 4 (02:08):
It's your list, it's your party. Remember that.

Speaker 3 (02:11):
Okay, that's the way I described it honestly to your
dad when he first got on social media years ago.

Speaker 4 (02:16):
He was trying to understand it. Yeah, and that's like
a party.

Speaker 3 (02:19):
You can go into it anytime you want to, you
can leave anytime you want to, and you can let
who you know, whoever endo your room that you want.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
So are we going to be in this situation where
somebody reaches out to me and Jody and says, hey, look,
Sam will accept my friend request.

Speaker 4 (02:34):
I'll accept it.

Speaker 5 (02:38):
Direct message us on Facebook.

Speaker 3 (02:40):
Love having you along there. We read and see every
single comment that rolls in and emails as well. To
Murphy Samonjody dot com. I love this because you never know.
You say something, you hear something, and it can stay
with you your whole life, right, even just little hacks. Okay,
Hi MSJ this is a message on Messenger from Franny.

(03:01):
I just wanted to take a moment and shout out
to your daughter Phoebe. Several years ago she was going
through a life hack phase.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
Murphy, You remember this, which is awesome.

Speaker 3 (03:13):
Yeah, look, hacks are awesome and she was going through
a phase. Anyway, You would sometimes share them on the show.
The greatest of these was how to clean your scented
wax melt warmer using cotton balls game changer.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
I don't remember.

Speaker 4 (03:28):
I don't even remember.

Speaker 3 (03:29):
This, Franny, but this is what she says for those
of you who don't know. After using the warmer, when
wax is still melted, drop three or four cotton balls
directly into the wax. It absorbs into the cotton balls,
which you just pick up and throw away. Oh wow, right,
no wax drips or dried chunks to clean. Exclamation, exclamation, explamation.

Speaker 4 (03:51):
This is from Franny.

Speaker 3 (03:52):
I still use this trick on a regular basis and
say a silent thanks to Phoebe each time. Keep on
being awesome on this show and sharing seemingly tiny things
that could enhance one's life. I don't remember, but I
used to have the wax melter thing a lot, and
I would love to sort of play with the wax

(04:13):
when it was sort of getting it's still soft but
hardening up, and I love that.

Speaker 4 (04:18):
I'll stop doing it because wax was everywhere.

Speaker 1 (04:20):
Yeah, I remember that you too.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, I used to get it everywhere.

Speaker 4 (04:24):
Just got kind of got tired of.

Speaker 1 (04:25):
The trick with the cotton ball is you don't want
to leave the cotton ball just sitting there when it's
melted like that, right, clean up? You clean it before
it gets yeah, too hot.

Speaker 3 (04:33):
Little Sometimes when you use a little hack like that
in your life, you always remember where you heard it.
For instance, our friend Randy told you every Christmas, Sam,
he thinks of you. When he goes out of town
or whatever and he has point settas at his house,
he'll just put like an ice cube or two in
it and leave. They go, they travel whatever, and he

(04:54):
comes back and they're not dead. It got a steady
slow stream of melting water.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
My other favorite hack is the is the duct tape
or the masking tape hack when you have flash shards
to pick up.

Speaker 3 (05:06):
Yeah, yes, will we drop the wax melter and break
it right?

Speaker 4 (05:11):
Thank you, Franny.

Speaker 3 (05:11):
Keep it coming coming up next to Hollywood Outsider.

Speaker 6 (05:16):
Trending now Jody's Hollywood Outsider.

Speaker 3 (05:19):
A lot of movies coming out today to take on
Spider Man.

Speaker 4 (05:22):
Good luck with that.

Speaker 3 (05:23):
I mean, I think he's still going to be the
number one, But we have a romantic comedy with a
very big cast, including Callum Turner. And I'm going to
remind you who he is before you hear this.

Speaker 2 (05:33):
He's the luckiest man in the world.

Speaker 3 (05:35):
He's married to Dua Lipa and he's also in the
running one of the top three contenders to become our
next James Bond. But he can also do comedic acting.
His name is Callum Turner. He stars in this movie
called It's a romantic comedy called One Night Only.

Speaker 5 (05:49):
What about us? Your ears look like car doors.

Speaker 2 (05:52):
Well, your nose is way too small for your face.

Speaker 5 (05:54):
Your chin could plow a field at making any sense.

Speaker 2 (05:57):
Your hairline doesn't make any sense.

Speaker 3 (05:58):
Okay, this one is rated R for sure and a
huge supporting cast. Maya Hawk is in this movie. Julia Fox,
Molly Ringwald is in this movie. Guys, excited about that?

Speaker 1 (06:10):
Absolutely?

Speaker 4 (06:11):
Okay, So One Night Only is new today.

Speaker 3 (06:15):
I'm excited about seeing him on screen like he's already
been doing a lot of acting.

Speaker 4 (06:19):
But I was never aware of him.

Speaker 3 (06:21):
Yeah, until the James Bond conversation started happening.

Speaker 1 (06:24):
Do you think he's a centch for that?

Speaker 3 (06:26):
I don't know, because if you'd have shown me only
a picture of Daniel Craig years ago, I would have
been like what, yeah, but he's my favorite.

Speaker 4 (06:32):
He was my favorite.

Speaker 3 (06:33):
Yeah, So as long as you bring this, it's about
the energy and how you behave more than anything for
Bond One Night Only starting.

Speaker 4 (06:42):
It's in theaters today.

Speaker 1 (06:43):
Coming up next. Sam has music News.

Speaker 5 (06:48):
Sam's got music news.

Speaker 2 (06:49):
We've been here in for a decade now that Rihanna
has got new music coming because her last album was
in twenty sixteen. But it looks like we actually may
see some new music from Rihanna. And this is because
our asap Rocky on a podcast the other day. We

(07:10):
know it's legit because he said he said, look, I'm
going to get in trouble for this, sorry, babe. But
she's in the studio right now recorded.

Speaker 3 (07:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (07:16):
I love that. Everybody likes that little inside thing. She's
been busy. They've got babies, she's got a lot going on.
She's running a multi million dollar like.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
Yeah, he did clear up to it that there was
the kids and the family and the fenty stuff is
not the reason she's been delayed. She's just once. She's
a perfectionist and she wants to get it right. So
that's most great hard to start right, So hopefully in
the next year we see a new album from Rihanna.
Got some big artists who are creating their own cheap
ticket plans because of you know, ticket prices being so

(07:45):
high right now, like Olivia Rodrigo. I didn't know they
were doing this, but Olivia Rodrigo has what are called
silver Star seats at some concerts. They're very limited and
they're only twenty bucks. And in order to combat the reseller,
you buy the tickets, you have to pick them up
at we'll call at the venue, so it's not anything
that's going to be shipped around online or anything like that,

(08:07):
and you don't know where you're sitting until the day
of the show when you pick up those tickets.

Speaker 4 (08:10):
I love that.

Speaker 2 (08:11):
At twenty bucks, you can't beat it. She's doing it.
Coldplay has them called Infinity tickets, and other artists are
doing it too for twenty dollars. So if you got
a concert, you still want to go to look it
up and see if they have twenty dollars tickets might
get them. A country superstar, Meghan Maroney is getting the
doll treatment. What all American girl?

Speaker 1 (08:34):
Oh really?

Speaker 2 (08:34):
Yeah? She's going to be an American Girl doll. It's
going to debut in American Girl Dolls stores nationwide and
Target online right before Thanksgiving and then in the stores
in December. And of course she's going to be loaded
up in pink, just like she always is because that's
her favorite curl pink sequin dress. The bows on the Cowboys.

Speaker 4 (08:54):
It makes a really good doll. I'm just saying, yeah.

Speaker 1 (08:57):
So you're gonna have tea with Megan Maroni now if
you go to.

Speaker 2 (08:59):
The Oh Oh. She also comes with a guitar and
a mic stand too.

Speaker 4 (09:05):
Excellent.

Speaker 1 (09:06):
Coming up next. Three things to Know Today.

Speaker 6 (09:10):
Here's three things to Know today, telling.

Speaker 1 (09:13):
You about this now so that you have a little
chance to plan for it. Next Wednesday, it'll be a
combo of a meteor shower and a solar eclipse on
the same day, with a catch though it kind of
two things at once. The percied media shower is going
to peak on Wednesday evening going into Thursday. It's going
to be a new moon in most parts of the US,

(09:34):
and so that means dark sky, so you'll have a
better chance of actually seeing the meteor shower at that time.
You gotta stay up laid for it.

Speaker 2 (09:40):
Though.

Speaker 1 (09:41):
The total solar eclipse, in case you hear about that,
we're not really going to see here in the US
because it's mostly for Greenland, Iceland, and northern Russia, even
though some parts of the US could see partial but
nothing to write home about.

Speaker 2 (09:53):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (09:54):
Number two scammers have stolen over one hundred million dollars
with a gold bar scheme. Sadly, this is one of
those that the targeting seniors with and it starts with
a fake computer pop up claiming to be for Microsoft.
You know, it's the whole virus hack you've been hacking.
The people are falling for it because of just different
you know, things in the economy right now, and so
so far, you know, it's been over one hundred million

(10:16):
dollars that has been scrolling from seniors. So tell your
mom and dad'd be aware.

Speaker 2 (10:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (10:21):
And number three this is really sweet news. It was
a team of garbage workers in Italy that helped a
woman recover a lottery ticket worth a million dollars. She
accidentally threw it away. I didn't realize it was a
mistake until it was too late. Yeah, it went in
the trash at the convenience store, but the trash had
already disappeared. So the company that collects the trash actually

(10:42):
went through all of their trash that had been collected
in the collection system that day, like six tons worth,
and they somehow found it.

Speaker 2 (10:50):
I sure hope she gave them a little bit of
that million dollars.

Speaker 1 (10:52):
Well, they actually they made her. She had to pay
for the time and efforts that it took. But yeah,
but she had enough to cover it because she was
a winner.

Speaker 6 (11:00):
You're up to date. Three things to know today.

Speaker 5 (11:04):
Judy's Top five entertainment stories of the week.

Speaker 6 (11:07):
Number five.

Speaker 3 (11:08):
People are getting excited because Macaulay Culkin was spotted outside
of Disney Studios in Burbank and everybody thinks they're talking
to him about a potential new home alone movie.

Speaker 1 (11:21):
He'll have to be a dad grown up, but that's okay.

Speaker 3 (11:25):
Look, it's still one of the most streamed holiday movies.

Speaker 4 (11:28):
Of all time.

Speaker 5 (11:30):
Number four.

Speaker 3 (11:31):
Ryan Murphy who brought the world American Horror Story and
the Monster Series, which is the anthology series based on
true crime, whether it be really old stories like the
ed Geen story. He did Dahmer, He's done the Menindez Brothers,
The next one lands in September on Netflix. Netflix. It's

(11:51):
Monster the Lizzie Borden Story.

Speaker 1 (11:54):
Oh that's an old story.

Speaker 3 (11:56):
The tagline is one young woman changed what the world
believed Killer could be and all it took was an.

Speaker 4 (12:02):
AX number three Barbie. The sequel is stalled for now.

Speaker 5 (12:09):
Hey, Barbie, can I come to your house today?

Speaker 3 (12:12):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (12:12):
I talk the whole He was gonna get paid how
much exactly?

Speaker 3 (12:16):
So rights to this film go back to Mattel in December,
so they're scrambling, but they're sitting down with Margot, Robbie,
Ryan Gosling and director Greta Gerwig, which you really need
her because all of it was her vision. The original film,
by the way, Oscar nominations and it made a billion
dollars globally, so better believe they're going to make this
happen number two.

Speaker 4 (12:38):
So excited.

Speaker 3 (12:39):
All eight Harry Potter films set to return to theaters
for the twenty fifth anniversary of the first film. But
you can go see all of them August twenty seventh
through September third, like, pick your favorite one or go
see them all. But the tickets are priced per movie
nine dollars and seventy five cents, which is.

Speaker 1 (12:58):
In three quarters quarters.

Speaker 3 (13:00):
Just like the platform, this is only regal right at
Regal cinemas. And of course this is all getting ready
for the upcoming HBO series one season will be one
book that debuts in December.

Speaker 1 (13:11):
Gotta see it in the theater. That's the experience.

Speaker 3 (13:14):
Number one Spider Man Brand New Day. I know, you
know what a big deal this is.

Speaker 1 (13:19):
Hi, my name is Peter Parker.

Speaker 4 (13:21):
This movie made one billion dollars in six days.

Speaker 1 (13:23):
That's another billion dollar movie, Joe.

Speaker 3 (13:25):
I mean, were you just thirsty for it? Or is
it really that good? I guess you have to see
it to know. But they do say this one feels
deeper and more thoughtful and more mature than the other,
you know, movies in this trilogy in this world. A
lot of new movies opening this weekend, but expect this
one to still be number one.

Speaker 1 (13:43):
JODI's top five entertainment stories of the week. Coming up
next to your morning Pick.

Speaker 3 (13:47):
Me Up, Morning Pick me Up Time, This is a
special story about what a community is willing to do
for a kid. So there's this mom and her eleven
year old son has autism and he loves to trick
or treat, and I say eleven. He just turned eleven.
So for his birthday, she asked, she put it out

(14:09):
on social media if anybody in the area, in the
community would be willing to let him come trick or treat.
He loves to dress up and trick or treat, talks
about it all the time.

Speaker 1 (14:17):
That is so sweet.

Speaker 4 (14:19):
So she puts this out in social media.

Speaker 3 (14:21):
His birthday rolls around and eighty three families decorated their homes,
had toys, had gifts for him. The family was worn out,
and eighty three homes said come on now. He NonStop
trick or treated for hours, went to seventy homes.

Speaker 1 (14:42):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (14:43):
Yeah, and he loves it.

Speaker 1 (14:44):
That's more than I thought. He could have done it
one night for anybody.

Speaker 4 (14:47):
Night lu bucket.

Speaker 3 (14:49):
And by the way, he was dressed as a banana.

Speaker 4 (14:53):
His name is Soren. And isn't that just beautiful?

Speaker 3 (14:56):
Like just first of all, it's fun for everybody to participate.
It's a great way to meet your neighbors too. Like
I want to organize suggar treating in the middle of
the year just for fun anyway.

Speaker 4 (15:06):
Now, although it's it's not cool or whatever. And they
did it. It seemed like in the daytime they didn't do
it late late at night, but they did it into
the evening. Yeah, but isn't that cool?

Speaker 1 (15:16):
I love that, you know. It just shows you how
giving people are. You put a message out there and
people respond.

Speaker 4 (15:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (15:21):
I would participate in that. Break out the spiders and
the skeletons and leave them.

Speaker 2 (15:25):
Out yet and think of the extra candy you have.

Speaker 4 (15:27):
But he got presents too.

Speaker 3 (15:29):
At some houses, he got actual birth because this was
a birthday thing for him, you know, and certain kids.

Speaker 4 (15:35):
You know, it's not all birthday parties are the same.

Speaker 3 (15:38):
I heard last year about a kid whose birthday party
was at Costcoal.

Speaker 4 (15:45):
He loved Costco.

Speaker 1 (15:46):
I could do a birthday party at Costco.

Speaker 4 (15:47):
Yeah, set up right there. Just make sure they know
you're coming.

Speaker 3 (15:50):
Everybody gets to go around, have samples, and then you
sit down at the food court.

Speaker 1 (15:54):
Start with shrimp cocktail. You know they've always got that
there in the big thing.

Speaker 2 (15:58):
Plus for every gift, you don't just get one at
ten of each.

Speaker 4 (16:01):
It's true.

Speaker 3 (16:02):
By the way, you can see him online trick or treating.

Speaker 4 (16:05):
He loved it.

Speaker 3 (16:06):
Okay, time to trick or treat is something he says
almost every day, so he got to say it seventy
times this week.

Speaker 1 (16:12):
That's beautiful. Coming up next, Jody has your Hollywood Outsider, The.

Speaker 5 (16:17):
Latest buzz Jody's Hollywood Outsider.

Speaker 3 (16:20):
Another couple of movies opening this weekend at the box office,
all trying to take on Spider Man, and I don't
think they're going to do it.

Speaker 4 (16:27):
But there is.

Speaker 3 (16:30):
A horror movie that's getting a lot of buzz. It's
a slasher, if you will. It's called ice Cream Man.

Speaker 2 (16:38):
Can you guys see that weird ice creamenta?

Speaker 6 (16:40):
What do you mean weird?

Speaker 5 (16:41):
You just popped ups following?

Speaker 1 (16:44):
Yeah, the trailer is scary. It's pretty scary.

Speaker 3 (16:46):
It's a scary concept. This sweet little summer town. Everything's
fine except until this ice cream Man's serving kids stuff
that has that have just horrifying results.

Speaker 1 (16:56):
It turns them into little demons or something. It's that's
what it looks like. And it's a good thing they
waited till the end of the summer to put this
one up because I feel for any ice cream truck driver,
it's gonna be gonna sail her down this summer. I
don't know why.

Speaker 3 (17:10):
Okay, So ice Cream Man, if that's if you're into
the scary horror movies, that's what it is.

Speaker 4 (17:15):
But Murphy and Sam are scared. Just know that, kids.

Speaker 3 (17:18):
The other one that's in select theaters this weekend is
it's called Tony.

Speaker 4 (17:22):
It's a drama about Anthony Bourdain. John, you're working a
good to before Sorry, Yeah, listen, we open Wednesday to Sunday.

Speaker 5 (17:33):
Started living.

Speaker 2 (17:35):
And that means that you are here at ten forty five.

Speaker 3 (17:40):
That's Antonio banderas as like his teacher, it's his early
life about Anthony Bourdain in select theaters.

Speaker 1 (17:47):
Coming up next, it is Grateful Friday.

Speaker 5 (17:51):
Murphy Salmon Jody's Grateful Friday.

Speaker 3 (17:53):
This one comes from one on Facebook and Instagram messenger.
Hi want it's high ms my Grateful Friday as you guys,
I'm grateful for dedicating the time and doing a whole
podcast to answer my question about leadership books. Remember, he
wanted to know from Murphy he got assigned a lot

(18:14):
of more people that he's managing it work.

Speaker 1 (18:16):
Like double the amount, like from forty to ninety or
something like that.

Speaker 3 (18:19):
And so he had said, what are Murphy's recommendations for
leadership books? And Murphy's got a mountain of them, so
he says, it goes on to read. I'm already on
one of them, and so far it's pretty good. So
thank you, thank you. I asked him.

Speaker 4 (18:32):
Back, wait, wait, which book? Which one so I can share?
And his answer was Radical Candor.

Speaker 1 (18:39):
Okay, I think that's probably the best and most contemporary
current one to start with, because the others are kind
of I said, The Effective Executive is written in a
way that's kind of older. I know, it even sounds boring,
I know, but it's but it's it's timeless in terms
of you know what. It focuses on on getting things done.
But Radical Candor is just such a great book on

(18:59):
how to interact with others and at tech problems not people.

Speaker 3 (19:03):
Yeah, that's what we learned from it. Good for you one,
I know, I'm excited for you. And look I pick
on you about all.

Speaker 4 (19:08):
Of this just because it's just so you.

Speaker 3 (19:10):
You know, when I first met you and started dating you,
I remember thinking, man, he doesn't read fiction at all.

Speaker 4 (19:15):
I can't even talk to him about Harry Potter.

Speaker 2 (19:17):
This is never going to work, right.

Speaker 4 (19:20):
But I get it. It's who you are.

Speaker 3 (19:21):
Well.

Speaker 1 (19:22):
I mean, look, the girls used to love our daughters
love the book The Success Plan that Never Fails.

Speaker 3 (19:28):
It made fun of that for it. When they read that,
they died laughing. I'm like, what are you? And it's
a real book.

Speaker 1 (19:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (19:35):
It is.

Speaker 3 (19:38):
One of my favorite things about Murphy's books stash. He
has a lot of books and they're all like that.
And I was donating some books and a bunch of
my fiction like even some trash like and even some cookbooks.

Speaker 4 (19:53):
I was donating them up.

Speaker 1 (19:54):
There, and I gave you a pile of those.

Speaker 3 (19:56):
It gave me a He added his box of you know,
management things, and they turned it away.

Speaker 4 (20:02):
They were alive. I'm sorry, we don't take these because
they don't sell.

Speaker 5 (20:06):
Well.

Speaker 1 (20:07):
That wonderful, right, Okay, I'll keep them anyway.

Speaker 4 (20:10):
The book is called Radical Candor.

Speaker 3 (20:12):
Thank you Jan for that grateful Friday.

Speaker 6 (20:17):
Three things to know today.

Speaker 1 (20:19):
Number One, several groups are challenging an FCC approval from
a few weeks back. You might remember this story. There's
a communications satellite with a giant mirror that's going to
be tested for searches at night. It's going to help
large construction sites other experiments. Basically, it goes up with
this large mirror and reflects sunlight back to Earth. The
company is called reflect Orbital, and so they want to

(20:39):
see fifty thousand of these satellites or so in the
air by I don't know, within the next ten years,
but several environmental groups are already pushing back to the
FCC and saying, hey, wait a second, won't this blind pilots.
Won't this blind people driving their cars? You know what
happens once the because one satellite then becomes a very
different story when it's fifty thousands. So we'll see number two.

(21:00):
So uh mega millions tonight, Powerball tomorrow night where you
can play it. You know, the powerball is up to
eight hundred and fifty six million dollars. That may even
grow again before we almost a billion, yeah almost, it'll
it'll be the billion with a B again and then
uh may mega millions of course, right around seventy million,
which is not chump change. And finally, a new number

(21:22):
three new survey from datingadvice dot com says that thirty
percent of people who are going on dates admit to
just going on the date because they want to want
the free meal. Oh really, Now here's the thing.

Speaker 2 (21:33):
It is a break it down by male female.

Speaker 1 (21:36):
Actually, well, I think you know the answer, right, the
dudes are gonna But anyway, you know that this trend
I've never heard of sport. It's called a foodie call
and just saying yes to the date. Uh, you know,
for the free food and drinks. Actually, so the real
reason it's about a third. The real reason is okay,
so it's casual. No, I'm not interested, but maybe it
turns into something. And oh, by the way, I get
a free you have a free meal. Right, you're up

(21:57):
to date.

Speaker 6 (21:58):
Three things to know today.

Speaker 4 (22:02):
Join us anytime.

Speaker 3 (22:03):
It is grateful Friday eight seven seven three one zero
four ms. J.

Speaker 1 (22:08):
Yeah, I know some summer gatherings are coming to a
close now because it's back to school a lot of
places over the next four weeks. By the time you
get to Labor Day, everybody's back in school, right, So
but the if you're doing a get together, I thought
this was such an incredible idea. Jody and I got
to experience this first hand with their friends Mark and Audra.
He had a pretty large group of people that were
coming in for dinner and he wanted to He found

(22:29):
some really nice Ribbi steaks and he wanted to make
sure that everybody got to, you know, enjoy those. And
so he cut the steaks up and rather than try
to serve them as individual stakes to everybody with knives
and forks, he cooks them and then he just slices
them into pieces so they become then strips and bite
size that you can grab and go if you want.

(22:51):
You can add it to you know, bread or something
else if you want, but you're not trying to coordinate
everybody sitting down a steaks and steak knives and all
that kind of stuff. And I thought it was such
a great idea and it was.

Speaker 4 (23:03):
Delicious, and you know what, I liked it.

Speaker 3 (23:05):
Why do you think looking at that they sliced it
up in strips and put it on on a big
beautiful board and there was just nothing but steak on
a board.

Speaker 4 (23:13):
But why do you think I liked seeing it cut up?

Speaker 2 (23:15):
Does it look like a charcooterie board?

Speaker 3 (23:16):
No?

Speaker 1 (23:17):
Yes, Oh you liked it because you knew how it
was cooked. I could he had the medium portion and
he had the medium rare portion.

Speaker 3 (23:24):
I could tell which pieces I wanted. I would never
have like wasted it because I wouldn't have picked up
anything too rare it was.

Speaker 1 (23:30):
It was sheer perfection. I mean he was doing he
was using a meat thermometer to make sure that it
was perfect. I've never seen that many steaks coordinated into
something so perfect where it literally you could see this
is medium rare, this is medium. There was no well
done by this. Of course, not.

Speaker 3 (23:49):
Good stuff. It is a good idea. You learn those
things along the way when hosting.

Speaker 4 (23:53):
You just do.

Speaker 1 (23:54):
And I guess you and I've never had the occasion,
you know, to do that that sort of thing that way,
not I mean not with steak.

Speaker 3 (23:59):
When we've done steak. It's been a few people and
it's been here's your steak knife, here's your steak.

Speaker 1 (24:04):
Yeah, as well organized though, and in the kitchen area
and just everything lined up. Everybody just grabbed their stuff
and does take.

Speaker 3 (24:10):
Some planning with any of what they were doing. And
he also made macaroni and cheese. Yes, yeah, he made
his own homemade mac and cheese which just has his
name and it's just like heavy whipping cream was the.

Speaker 1 (24:21):
Liquid and extra cheese.

Speaker 3 (24:26):
First days of school for many families this week this month,
you know, And it's a roller coaster of emotions. Even
guilt parents feel guilt at back to school time. Don't
it's normal for you to want your kids to be
back in the routine and for you to be in
the routine.

Speaker 1 (24:41):
I never felt that guilt, did you, Jodie.

Speaker 4 (24:43):
Well, I it's it's complicated.

Speaker 1 (24:47):
After organizing summers of camps, and you know, when you
get back to the routine, it's sort of like.

Speaker 4 (24:51):
A roller coaster.

Speaker 3 (24:54):
Is this camp this week, you know, grandma's house this week,
hanging out with this friend next week. It's exhausting when
there are work king parent and you don't have you know,
you have to you have to schedule them so much.
So yeah, when I knew it was going to be
months and months of the same schedule, I.

Speaker 4 (25:08):
Was like, hellelujah.

Speaker 1 (25:10):
Correct.

Speaker 4 (25:10):
And then you're like, oh, I feel guilty about that.
So it's a parent guilty thing.

Speaker 3 (25:15):
Anyway, back to school time, a lot of feelings rolling
in about it. Terry said, my youngest is a high
school freshman this week. I have such conflicting emotions. She
is kind, smart and beautiful and a joy. Yeah, high
school freshmen.

Speaker 1 (25:32):
Any of the transitions are certainly you know one of
those where you're like, you know, I'm not saying so
I don't. We never felt guilty about things, but you
do have a little bit of angst when there's some
change elementary to middle and middle to high business.

Speaker 3 (25:47):
Kind of with them in your heart all day. First age,
you can't wait to hear how did it go? How
are you so checking them for how they feel? Yeah, okay,
so Dawn said, I'm feeling it. I dropped off my
senior and fifth girl, oh wow, both. Let me get pictures.
That's another thing we talked about the other night during
my Facebook live. Kids, let your mom or dad get

(26:08):
that first day of school picture, even though you don't
want it, just it means the world to them to
see that, you know, bright new school year and backpack.

Speaker 2 (26:17):
Keep this in mind, two kids. If you don't get it,
wait till you're a senior and then you see all
those pictures together and it's like, okay, this is I'm
glad mom did this.

Speaker 1 (26:26):
But the thing is when you hear that and then
you're in the fifth grade, yeah, you don't care about that.

Speaker 4 (26:30):
Whatever mom are they or you.

Speaker 3 (26:33):
Know, and kids also have the right to go. Please
don't post this on social and if they ask you
not to post it on social, don't you know, respect
them that that honors your relationship with them, But keep
it for yourself because one day, like Sam said, when
you're a senior, you're going to see how far you've
come based on just mom's pictures.

Speaker 2 (26:49):
That collage in the hall.

Speaker 4 (26:52):
Or that collage on social Happy back to school time.

Speaker 1 (26:55):
Up next, Jodi has your Hollywood outsider.

Speaker 5 (27:00):
He's Hollywood outsider.

Speaker 4 (27:01):
Guys.

Speaker 3 (27:01):
I have Molly Ringwald news and I only share it
because I know you guys light up like a Christmas tree.

Speaker 1 (27:06):
Love any money Molly for the love of.

Speaker 4 (27:10):
Molly, you guys say.

Speaker 3 (27:11):
So. She did an interview recently Andy Cohen, and she
dropped a bomb that we didn't know is that she
turned down a role that was offered to her first
and it went to another former brat packer and you're
and and and that person was Demi Moore. So I'm thinking,
was she supposed to be insane almost fire Molly.

Speaker 1 (27:30):
Ringwald, which would have made sense brat packed.

Speaker 4 (27:32):
But it wasn't that.

Speaker 3 (27:33):
It was actually the Academy Award winning movie Ghost.

Speaker 2 (27:38):
You mean, why don't I ever say I say it
all the time.

Speaker 6 (27:40):
I know what you say, Dido, and that's not the same.

Speaker 4 (27:44):
She was supposed to play.

Speaker 3 (27:45):
She was offered the role of Molly, which was played
famously by Demi Moore. I know you remember the pottery scene.

Speaker 1 (27:53):
I'm sure that Molly could have but Demmy really made that.

Speaker 4 (27:57):
That's what she said.

Speaker 3 (27:58):
However, Andy Cohen is like, not to upset you, but
that could have changed the trajectory of your entire career.

Speaker 1 (28:05):
I could have worked the pottery just as well, and she.

Speaker 3 (28:08):
I know you want to imagine that, but I can
say she actually said, it just wasn't the right time.

Speaker 4 (28:13):
Wasn't meant to be that one for her.

Speaker 3 (28:15):
The reason she's in the conversation again, she's still working
all the time. There's a movie that's dropping today. It's
called One Night Only, that romantic comedy starring like Callum Turner.
We told you about that one. She plays well the
mother in that movie. Sorry, guys, Welcome to reality.

Speaker 5 (28:35):
Sam's always up on the new eats. He's the food dude.

Speaker 2 (28:38):
Got some August deals for you, fast food deals to
save you a little money. What a Burger celebrating their
seventy sixth anniversary this year. So every Wednesday this month
you can get a certain meal iem for seventy six cents.
Like next Wednesday it's going to be the what a
Fresher for seventy six cents. Okay, but the big one
is this Saturday. It's a Bogo deal. You buy a
what a Burger, you get a whatater Burger free eleven

(29:00):
until eight.

Speaker 4 (29:01):
Nice, Murph. We could go on a date.

Speaker 1 (29:05):
Is that what you're looking for, Jony, A waa burger?
Well you are usually I love it. I'd share one
with you or I could keep both myself.

Speaker 2 (29:11):
That's right at that price. And also Sonic they're doing
the ninety nine cent corn dogs, but they're doing it
every Thursday this month, So every Thursday this month ninety
nine cent corn dogs.

Speaker 1 (29:20):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (29:20):
Something about that is just so happy, not just the price,
but corn dog in general.

Speaker 2 (29:25):
Yeah, corn dogs are fun.

Speaker 4 (29:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (29:27):
McDonald's teaming up with red Bull for the first time
for one of their energizers, the Red Bull Dragon Berry Energizer.
It's a cool purple looking color. It's made with Red
Bull blue raspberry flavoring and freeze dried dragon fruit pieces. Nice,
and it comes in regular or zero sugar.

Speaker 4 (29:44):
Thank you. You know, that's the word that everybody is
in the drink game now. That is a. I didn't
see that coming. It's the new chicken sandwich.

Speaker 2 (29:51):
You can add energy and protein to it. We'll drink it, okay.

Speaker 1 (29:54):
I like the freeze dried dragon fruit pieces too. There
are a couple of the coffee shops. Do those two?

Speaker 4 (30:00):
Yeah, super manly, No, I'm joking.

Speaker 2 (30:02):
I'm thinking thanks a couple of things from Annie Ann's Pretzels.
Right now, they just drop the new mozzarella stuffed pretzel nuggets.
Oh the little things mozzarella inside, So look for that one.
And they've also teamed up with Gabby's Dollhouse on Netflix,
so you can get the Gabby's Dollhouse Cattastic Kids meal
all the way through the end of September. So it's

(30:23):
the pretzels or a pretzel dog or whatever, and you
get a dip and you get a drink and this
is cool. The prize it's Caddiers.

Speaker 4 (30:31):
Oh yeah, work that in.

Speaker 2 (30:32):
A dinky prize. It's actually cattiers.

Speaker 4 (30:37):
Look, it'll end.

Speaker 3 (30:38):
Up on the floorboard, but at first it'll make everybody happy.

Speaker 2 (30:40):
And with Ted Lasso now back on Apple Plus, he's
teamed up with KFC, they have the comeback bucket. Since
you know Ted Lasso's team was a comeback.

Speaker 4 (30:49):
Ha ha ha.

Speaker 1 (30:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (30:51):
Ten wings for ten dollars, you get two dipping sauces
and it comes in the KFC bucket.

Speaker 4 (30:55):
Nice.

Speaker 1 (30:56):
Coming up next. Three things to Know Today.

Speaker 6 (31:01):
Three things to know Today.

Speaker 1 (31:02):
Number one, so here's a bright spot. If you're concerned
about AI taking your job over, they're saying there are
The Bureau of Labor and Statistics has actually come out
with a list where they say these are probably the
most resistent jobs to AI, and it's mainly because of
human interaction. It's really needed healthcare professionals. That's probably not
a surprise at the top list, right. Would help you
use it for tools, but you know that could be

(31:25):
everything from registered nurses to CNA's home health AIDS. It's
all the hands on patient care that really can't be
replaced by, you know, AI. And another one that's high
up on the list is education. So you know that
means teachers literally land it number three because the teachers
and teaching assistants. Even though you can use it again
as a tool, it still hands on about human interaction.
So there you go. Number two. In New Mexico, court

(31:48):
is ordered Meta to pay five hundred and sixty seven
million dollars to address the the harm and the platform
This is that ongoing suit that's been taking place for
quite some time. Meta, by the way, is going to
appeal this. But this is that ruling that basically says
that you know, I've met a harm children and you
know child exploitation, failed to protect basically from child exploitation

(32:11):
on the platforms. And number three, it's so much awaited
biopick about the legendary NFL coach John Matten. There's finally
a premier date for this biopick.

Speaker 2 (32:21):
I can't wait to see Nicholas Cage doing this.

Speaker 1 (32:23):
I can't either. I wonder what that So the day,
just so you know, has been set for it actually
is November the eighteenth. But it's an all star cast.
Jody I think mentioned this in the Hollywood Outsider, Nicholas Cage,
Christian Bale, you know, Cienna Miller, John Mullany. I mean,
it's a huge cast. But yeah, see Nicholas Cage and
the role is going to be interesting.

Speaker 6 (32:41):
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