Nina's What's Trending - Chromebooks on Fire & Popcorn for Eternal Life?

🧯 STORY 1: Teens Are Setting Chromebooks on Fire (Please Don’t)
A new reckless trend has hit social media where students are intentionally destroying school-issued Chromebooks by sticking metal objects—like paperclips or pencils—into the USB ports to cause internal sparks, sometimes even resulting in fire. Some schools have reportedly had to evacuate due to the risk of flames and exploding lithium-ion batteries.
➡️ Source: USA Today - Viral Chromebook destruction trend sparks safety concerns

🍿 STORY 2: Want to Live to 100? Eat More Popcorn (Maybe)
A “sustainability expert” claims air-popped popcorn might help you live longer thanks to its high fiber content, antioxidants, and low calorie count. Fans of the snack say it even helps with brain health and could lower the risk of dementia—especially if you keep it clean (read: not drowning in butter).
➡️ Source: EatingWell - Is Popcorn Good for You?
➡️ Bonus source: Blue Zones – Longevity Foods

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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 with Nina's what's trending.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
So there's a new social media trend that's quite dangerous.
I'm not sure what's worse, eating the tide pods or
setting your chromebook on fire on purpose?

Speaker 3 (00:11):
Why would you set your chromebook on fire.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
That's what they're doing as the year comes to a close,
the waste of money. I mean tidepods where it's too
but like dang, it's not theirs. So these are school
issued chromebooks that people are taking. And what they're doing
is that they're sticking pencils and paper clips or whatever
else they can find into the USB ports of these chromebooks.

Speaker 4 (00:31):
Let's see if it'll And then are they setting dolls
on fire?

Speaker 3 (00:33):
And by doing that it sets it on fire?

Speaker 4 (00:36):
Really yeah, and they film it. It's not cool. Don't
do that. Don't do so, I'm interested, don't do that.
Jubile buys a chromebook just to do it.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
In some cases, schools have actually had to evacuate because
they needed to avoid the dangers of flames or toxic
fumes emitted from the burning devices. Also, the lithium batteries
are exploding. By doing this, I just so dangerous. I
don't understand why that's fun.

Speaker 1 (01:03):
It seems like they figured out the college debt problem
because not a single one of these people should be
going to college.

Speaker 4 (01:10):
They should. They probably all are well. Pencil in the
US port set on fire because the leads. It doesn't
that doesn't sound lead in pencils.

Speaker 3 (01:24):
The lead people like when you write with isn't that
what you write the pencil?

Speaker 2 (01:28):
Lead is not lead, it is it's graphite. Okay, something
so angry that people. Nobody taught us that they always
don't have a lead pencil.

Speaker 4 (01:37):
Nobody told us that this is the problem. They called
them lead pencils.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
Teaching these kids anything, they're just sitting there jamming things
into their laptop instead of like doing school work.

Speaker 4 (01:48):
Look everything, yes, pain, gas, all kinds of everything. Yeah, well,
there's still fun fact there still is lead in aviation fuel.
There still are and we're back to Brad's up.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
I'm just saying it's an interesting thing that lead is
still in for some reason.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
That is interesting. Either way, this is a trend that
probably should go away. So please be safe out there.
Don't stick things in US b ports do money, don't
stick things in US B port.

Speaker 4 (02:15):
What difference is I'm an adult, you know, no insurance.
That's not different. Also would be your laptop.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
Myself, and I don't want you to blow up or
hurt yourself or explode your howls with your dog and
everything in.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
I think you'd be fine. But that's just a waste
of money.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
Ruin all the music that you've been recording because you
exploded your hose.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
He's literally going to buy a brand new Chromebook just
to do this in his driveway.

Speaker 4 (02:44):
It's fully safe for explodes. You just rebuild.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
No, Yeah, I have not to do as an adult
or a person in But if you're a person not
like that that wants to actually live to be one
hundred years old, al.

Speaker 4 (03:00):
There's a snack you should be eating.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
It does sound awful to me too, but some people
want to live to be one hundred years old, and
a lot of people are still alive and kick it.
Not a lot, but the people that are still drinking.
I shouldn't say a lot that was bad. But let's
just focus on the snack. Eat more popcorn, air pop popcorn.
What do you buy air pop air pop popcorn? Like
you go and you get the kernels and then you
pop it yourself.

Speaker 4 (03:23):
You buy companies that make air pops.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
Yeah, well, they say, actually this comes from ooh, what's
he called himself a sustainability expert.

Speaker 1 (03:33):
So anyone who calls himself anything experts an idiot. And
he has stock in an air popper company, obviously.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
Well I don't think he does. But he was just
talking about how you could lower your risks of dementia
and you could live longer because it's high in fiber
and LDLs and polly something. I will say, I have
an air popper, and I every now and once in
a while I'll put my own popcorn.

Speaker 3 (03:55):
And it, honestly, ten times tastes better than the popcorn
from like.

Speaker 4 (03:57):
The bags, one hundred percent it does.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
I love pop but like your own, like butter, and
like whatever you want al put butter, but like you
can do whatever you want with it.

Speaker 4 (04:04):
Why are you taking it?

Speaker 1 (04:06):
When's the last time something good for you tasted good?
It does taste not bad for me very.

Speaker 4 (04:10):
Much, butter exactly. It's the butter that your taste.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
That's this is what I'm saying. When's the last time
something was truly good? For you tasted good, and you're
telling me it tastes good. Tells me that's cut in
the lifespan, not extending it. Actually, my new hack is
to put olive oil on it. So I pot my
own popcorn. I put olive oil on it and some of.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
That yeast stuff that tastes like cheese, and then I
put grapes in it, and it is so way, what
are you.

Speaker 4 (04:33):
Eating cheese all of popcorn? You never heard of that? Yeah? Uh,
A stupid idiot,