Running Swagger, Creepy Dino Toy, & Sneakerina Hype

The Headlines:

• 2% of People Think They Can Outrun a Horse

• AI-Powered Dino Plush Is Listening to Your Kids

• “Sneakerinas” Are the Next Big Thing

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The Confidence? Wild. The Science? Not So Much.

A new “Running Swagger” poll asked 2,000 people which animals they thought they could beat in a sprint—and the delusion is STRONG.

• 2% think they could outrun a horse in a 100-meter dash. (Reminder: Horses hit over 40 mph. Usain Bolt tapped out at 28 mph.)

• 27% think they could outrun a crocodile. (They run up to 10 mph—so maybe, maybe, you’ve got a shot.)

• 20% believe they could beat an elephant. (Good luck with that. They can run 25 mph.)

• 11% are convinced they can outsprint a house cat… for 30 feet. (Bold. Very bold.)

Sometimes, confidence is the real winner.
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Dino the AI Plush is Cute… and Kinda Creepy

Say hello to Dino—a $249 plush dinosaur with a built-in AI chatbot that listens to your kid’s every word. It’s being marketed as a “screen-free companion,” but let’s be honest: It’s a soft, cuddly surveillance device.

Made by Magical Toys, Dino connects to an app where parents can eavesdrop, review conversations, and see insights about their child. It tells stories, plays games, and promises to “boost creativity”… but also records everything.

So… bedtime stories and Big Brother in one huggable package.
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“Sneakerinas” Are the Balletcore Sneaker Trend You Didn’t Know You Needed

If you mash up ballet flats and sneakers, you get the trendiest hybrid of the season: Sneakerinas.

From Puma to Louis Vuitton, brands are rollin

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's time for Nina's what's trending.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
There's a new poll out there that's trending right now,
and it's all about running swagger is what they're calling it.
What More than two thousand people were asked which animals
they thought they'd be able to outrun, and ever since
they posted it, everybody else is starting to chime in too,
so you can see where you fit on this list.
But two percent of people think that they can outrun
a horse in one hundred meters dash.

Speaker 3 (00:21):
I think I'm more bunny.

Speaker 1 (00:23):
That's exactly what I was saying. Bunny, they go fast.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
They do man, I can sprint with them.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
Turtle, Twenty seven percent of people think that they could
outrun a crocodile, and they run about ten miles per hour.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
On land that down. That's a lot to go fast.

Speaker 4 (00:38):
I thought it was faster though.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
Twenty percent of people think that they can outrun an
elephant that can run more than twenty miles per hour.

Speaker 3 (00:45):
Event also is huge. And all they have to do
is don't run pat fast faster than you, but run on.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
Top of you, like to step on you, right, We'll
just get you out of the way real quick and
then eleven percent of people think they can outsprint a
house cat.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
How fast they run.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
It says that we're around thirty feet. It doesn't say
how fast that they run, but it says that they
can last longer. So, no matter what, they're gonna last
longer than you.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
Hear that.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
I just want to see Victoria e Razor cat outside.

Speaker 4 (01:12):
Humans run about twenty eight miles an hour. Oh okayo humans.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
Actually, it says Usain Bolt. The fastest speed that he
was ever recorded running was twenty eight miles per hour.

Speaker 4 (01:23):
Yeah, so that's still like, yeah, well this is just
a Google.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
Yeah, there's a new stuffed animal right now that's got
everybody talking and it will only cost you two hundred
and forty nine dollars. It's a dino. It's an ugly
plush dinosaur. They called it ugly. Actually it's really cute.
But the thing about it that makes it two hundred
and forty nine dollars is that it comes with an
AI chatbot that records your kids every word.

Speaker 4 (01:51):
Yeah. No, so it's there.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
For your kid to sit and have a conversation with it.
It'll talk to your kid that you can talk about
all of these things.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
But it records on people. You know what else could
talk to your kid you as a parent.

Speaker 3 (02:03):
That just reminded of the movie the movie Megan.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
That's what the girl did to watch her knees and
then she ended up killing everyone.

Speaker 3 (02:12):
Like no, no, the movie it was so creepy. It's
had a doll named Megan who the aunt leaves with
the kid, like watch the kid. And at one point,
the Megan even goes with the kid.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
To a park with her friends and someone started picking
on the kid, and so Megan.

Speaker 3 (02:28):
Got the kid out of the way, you know what
I mean.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
So they're like listening there there she was.

Speaker 3 (02:33):
Listening and learning everything about the kid and how to
protect the kid. So it became overprotective of the kid
and had to knock people out of the way.

Speaker 5 (02:43):
I'm into if we can get to that that dinosaur
that just starts running into everybody.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
But okay, well there's one thing to maybe look forward
to that's crazy, not forward to, okay. And last, are
you into the sneak arena trend? No, sneak arenas are
all the rage right now, and it is exactly what
you think it is. It's a mashup of a sneaker
and a ballerina flat.

Speaker 3 (03:12):
Don't those hurt? Like, don't ballerinas like get bloody like
your toast?

Speaker 2 (03:15):
Well, if they're doing the point, like when you're up
on the point or whatever. But they're these like little
shoes that look like ballerina flats, but they're sneakers, So
like Puma, Louisa, like, all of these brands are doing
this and that's what it's all about right now. So
if you've got a sneak arena, you in it, why what.

Speaker 4 (03:30):
Makes it a sneaker? Though a sneaker companies making flats?

Speaker 3 (03:35):
No, it's like it looks like.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
A sneaker, but like kind of it's like a ballerina flat,
but maybe it's like sneaker material. Yes, Actually the Puma
one does have a little like Puma thing.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
On it, so it just looks like pumas.

Speaker 3 (03:50):
I've just googled it.

Speaker 4 (03:51):
They just look like pumas.

Speaker 1 (03:53):
But they're like ballet flats. Why did anybody ask for
this mashup? I don't know.

Speaker 4 (03:58):
Someone say, hey, you know what you need comfortable ballet
slippers that were never going to wear in ballets.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
Well, the hot deeds are wearing them, so now everybody is.

Speaker 4 (04:06):
I couldn't care less about what the hot deeds are doing.

Speaker 1 (04:08):
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