Quitting to Sail, Racing Wieners, and America’s Most Misspelled Word

In this episode of Nina’s What’s Trending, meet Oliver Widder, the 29-year-old who quit his job, cashed in his 401(k), and sailed to Hawaii with nothing but determination—and his cat, Phoenix. Diagnosed with Klippel-Feil syndrome, Oliver set out for Oahu and was greeted by fans and even the governor. His next stop? French Polynesia.

Also in this episode:

• The Slaw Dog wins the inaugural Wienie 500, a race between six Oscar Mayer Wienermobiles in Minneapolis.

• With the National Spelling Bee approaching, we break down America’s most misspelled words. Can you spell “definitely”? Because most people can’t.

Source Links:

• CNN – Man Quits Job, Sails to Hawaii with Cat

• NPR – Oscar Mayer Wienie 500 Highlights

• Google Trends – Most Misspelled Words in the U.S.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Give us three minutes and we'll give you everything you
need to know for the day. But it's time for ninas.
What's trending?

Speaker 2 (00:04):
So by now you may have heard of Oliver Widger.
He's the guy that also is known as the one
that quit his job, uses four oh one K to
buy a boat and sail to Hawaii.

Speaker 3 (00:12):
Wait what that's six?

Speaker 1 (00:14):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (00:14):
Well, his story has gone viral over the last week
or so, and he's twenty nine years old. He's from Oregon,
and the reason why is he was diagnosed with something
called clipple feel syndrome, which could call cause paralysis. So
he's like, you know what, I'm gonna quit my job.
I'm gonna tap him buy four one K. I'm gonna
take my cat and we're going to sail to Hawaii.

Speaker 3 (00:32):
Wait, he already had a pretty good four oh one
K set up at twenty nine. Yeah, I guess so
him as Cat Phoenix. They're just balling.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
That's impressive.

Speaker 3 (00:40):
The boat was fifty thousand dollars, so he a small boat. Hey,
but you don't need a big boat out of Hawaii.
Fifty thousand dollars is a lot? Is that not a
lot for a sailboat?

Speaker 1 (00:49):
No boats.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (00:53):
I don't buy boats a sale boat.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
A sailboats are a little cheaper I think though, than
the boat, so yeah, it might not be too bad.
But yeah, are expensive, man.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
They are expensive.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
But this that's how much he paid for his and
he did all the up keep himself and got it
all ready to go. So I'm telling you this story
because there's kind of a happy ending. So his plan
was to sail from Oregon all the way to Oahu
in Hawaii, and he did, and when he got there,
there was a whole group of people, cheering fans, including
Hawaii's governor, just cheering for him and his cat Phoenix.

(01:23):
They're just ready to welcome him and all all that
cool stuff, just to be like, you did it, bro,
good job. And now he plans to sail to French
Polynesian next, but he's got to repair his boat first.
He's gonna pay do some stuff to his boat and
then go.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
I mean, at this point he could start to go
fund me and he'd get a yacht with the yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
Yeah, yeah, he's definitely gone quite viral, so it's kind
of it's kind of cool.

Speaker 3 (01:46):
Though, you know, he may say French Polynesia with a
captain and a bunch of girls on it.

Speaker 1 (01:51):
There's no cat to be seen anymore.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
All the girls holding the cat like, oh, we're here
for Phoenix.

Speaker 4 (01:59):
Don't you see how great life can be if you
make a purchase like a boat or a plane or
something like that.

Speaker 3 (02:04):
I tried.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
I spent on a plane with you.

Speaker 4 (02:09):
To convince you will to go have he's on a
plane with me. It hasn't worked yet. I just wanted
to see the fruits of our labor. Could be the
governor of Hawaii could meet us.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
Yeah, cooled to stop and fix up our plane before
we fly somewhere.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
That's terrifying, But Brad, you could probably wear him down
just keeping Yeah.

Speaker 4 (02:28):
To be honest, I've been working on this for like
a decade.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
Speaking of vehicles, the Slaw Dog won the Wieni five
hundred this week, and yes, the inaugural Weenie five hundred
happened at Minneapolis Motor Speedway and that was six Wiener
mobiles for the Oscar Meyer Fleet get it against each other,
which is pretty funny. The slaw Dog is the one
that passed the Shy Dog to take over the.

Speaker 3 (02:56):
It's really funny.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
Just report on it and they got a trophy and
then a whole into hot dogs and buns.

Speaker 3 (03:02):
Pretty cute.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
That's sweet. I know I want to go to that
next year.

Speaker 3 (03:05):
Cheer on the slot off.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
Yea.

Speaker 4 (03:07):
Aren't they official Oscar vehicles or no they are?

Speaker 3 (03:10):
No, no, no, they're Oscar Meyer vehicle.

Speaker 4 (03:12):
And the prize these employees got for driving this truck
was more Oscar Meyer.

Speaker 3 (03:17):
Well it was a good point. It was a trophy
that was full of Oscar Meyer.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
Oh, I thought it was people making these guys wieners
on Wieners on Wieners. That's what they do there. So
the Nation's Spelling Bee is coming up too, And do
you guys know what the most misspelled word is in
the United States? At a monopia? No, actually, that's not
even on the list. Definitely nailed it. It's so infuriated

(03:44):
it is. That's the number one most misspelled word, followed
by separate and necessary superrit.

Speaker 3 (03:51):
I thought that was a little easier than necessary.

Speaker 2 (03:53):
That always definitely always gets to me.

Speaker 4 (03:56):
Yeah, always do, definitely yea in my head, just like
b e a utiful.

Speaker 3 (04:02):
Oh that's on the list too, dang, what about what else?
What about restaurant that kind of restaurant. Yeah, restaurant rest
our rock.

Speaker 4 (04:10):
Yes, guarantee, I'm out, I can't do it.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
Gets me.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
Restaurants number ten favorites nine business is eight, neighbor is seven,
is gorgeous is six, through is five, Believe.

Speaker 3 (04:23):
Is neighbor only gets me because I'm like, is there
one O? Or is there two neighbor?

Speaker 1 (04:28):
Or you don't think that's the normal?

Speaker 3 (04:32):
What is it?

Speaker 1 (04:34):
Probably the E I? Yeah, g h Yeah.

Speaker 2 (04:38):
There's like a saying where if it's like something something
something I before E and E four I, it's the.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
Right, have nothing to do with the o's.

Speaker 3 (04:44):
Before except after C Well not awkward, Okay, that's trending.

Speaker 1 (04:48):
Ned anyone that thought there are two o's a neighbor to.

Speaker 3 (04:50):
Catch a cheat here is coming up right after this.

Speaker 1 (04:53):
What the Jubile show. It's hits one of six point
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