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June 3, 2025 11 mins

A Saharan dust cloud is heading towards the the United States. It costs around $1,500 a year for a dog. A new trend in China includes pretending you have a job. Uber Eats driver admits that they've eaten some of their customers food while their delivering it. Environmental activists are looking for a replacement for toilet paper.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The show is on Friend's Biggest Stories of the Day.
My wife uses a knife to remove corn kernels from
corn on the cob, and it drives me insane. I
feel like, if you're gonna do that, that's something that
you do before you sit dine at the table, Like
if you're gonna if you're gonna take the corn off
the cob, that you do that like in the kitchen
and then you sit down. Because if you're like trying

(00:21):
to do that in front of everybody and the corn
slips and goes somewhere like spraise people. It's kind of
a delicate art of removing corn from the cob.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
Yeah, y'all too BOSSI as someone who used to have braces,
Like just let me use my knife, let me use
my fork, let me get the kernel off this corn.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
I'm not hurting anybody. If you're at a corporate dinner
and you're hosting, you should eat something easy to entertain
and talk, like a salad. Yeah. I guess I've thought
about that, Like there's stuff I would eat if I'm
with my friends, and then there's stuff I would eat
if I if I'm with it, you know, trying to
impress people or something you know what I mean, Like
I wouldn't order them messiest thing.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
And then if I'm alone, I'm way different.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
Forget about it.

Speaker 3 (01:05):
Forget about it, especially if it's late at night. Some
activities that took place.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
I am like you slipped and fell and a gummy
came in your mouth exactly, yeah, I do you know
when that happened. It seem to happen well more regularly
these days, where I'm like just walking, I'm just minding
my own business. Probably I'm running on the lake fron
I'm eating a carrot or something, you know, something healthy,
and then it's just out of nowhere, just pop and
it just flies through the air and it masticates itself,

(01:33):
It chews itself and goes down my throat and then
I don't know what happened, didn't even chew it. And
then before long I'm starving and I'm eating like combinations
of everything you can find. I hate it when this happens.

Speaker 3 (01:43):
It's hipping the things. I'll like my finger around the plate.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
I mean, it's really I think I said this last week.
And I don't know if you were here in a
caml but I believe that if I were in a relationship,
I would be I would lose the additional thirty pounds
I'm trying to lose because I and people say it's
the oppositey you eat more. No, I think I would
lose the weight because the way that I eat now
is disgusting, like in private, like I'm a disgusting person,

(02:08):
Like I'll go run three miles and then I'll eat
a hold Jet's pizza by myself, and I guess that's
called balance. But I wouldn't probably do that in front
of another person. I would probably like eat regular portions
because I would be afraid of judgment.

Speaker 4 (02:22):
You would find time though when you're in a relationship
you like has to plan that Jet's pizza, but you
will still do it because you're not gonna let go
of good the good times.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
More like how I orders like I want this and that,
and I just get all of it and then put
it in the fridge and eat off of it for
a couple of days. But I wouldn't probably do that
in front of someone else because that person would be like, hey,
you're disgusting, like you're a gross person, you know, and
they wouldn't want to, like, you know, sleep with me,
So I would probably not do that for a while.

Speaker 3 (02:48):
You I'd like that's how I am too, and I
lose wee because I'm like, I'm cute.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
You know, I'm eating this.

Speaker 3 (02:52):
I mean yeah. But then like you'd get tired, he
goes away, it goes away, Yeah, and you do pick
your chie. I was alone last night and I was
real getting after it.

Speaker 1 (03:01):
Yeah. Yeah, Okay, here's the latest weather phenomena that you
didn't know that you have to be concerned about. It's
the Saharan dust cloud. Ah, yes, did you know. I
didn't know this was a thing. There's such thing as
a Saharan dust cloud. And it smothered the Caribbean yesterday
and it's heading towards the US. It's a huge cloud

(03:21):
of dust from Africa's Sahara desert. Yeah, and it covered
the entire Caribbean yesterday. I said it both ways, in
case you have a problem with the way I say it,
Caribbean and Caribbean. I said it both ways, so don't
have me. It's marking the biggest dust event this year
at the dust Event, right, it's stretching two thousand miles

(03:43):
from Jamaica to Barbados and seven hundred and fifty miles
from Turks and Caicos to Trinidad and Tobago, and it's
caused hazes, guys, sneezing, coughing, and watery eyes. Forecasters warn
people with allergies or asthma to stay indoors or wear masks.
The dust, which is part of the heron air layer,
is expected to reach Florida, Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi by

(04:04):
the weekend, but it will be less dense. The dust
can block some sunlight and stop tropical storms from forming
during a hurricane season, which runs through November thirtieth. I've
never heard of this. We're all scared now of a
dust cloud. Dust cloud, that's crazy. It can travel. So
what is happening? If you have a pet, then I
don't know what. You sort of estimated that it would

(04:27):
cost to own Benzo or luck Short or any of
your animals that you guys have, but I guess the
average answer has been for cats fifty seven hundred bucks
and for dogs eighty one hundred dollars to own for
fifteen years. Now they're saying the real number, though, is
three times that. According to a survey that came out today,

(04:50):
and that depends on what type of food you buy,
you know, vet bills, how sick your dog or cat gets,
and how much you spoil them. Caring for a cat
now cost any We're from twenty grand, they say, to
forty seven thousand dollars over the life of your cat.
For dogs, it's twenty two grand to juice under sixty
one thousand dollars. Yeah, whoa to have a dog for

(05:13):
fifteen years? That's thirteen hundred bucks a year for cats?
Who fifteen hundred dollars a year? For dogs? They say,
something like a rabbit can cost over one thousand dollars annually.
I thought they were always sick. I thought rabbits got
sick a lot. And I've never owned a rabbit. Yeah,
I don't know much much about rabbits. I don't know.
Would you say, though, would you say you spend fifteen
hundred bucks a year on menzo one hundred percent?

Speaker 4 (05:32):
Well, yeah, because you get like the shots and the
heartworm and all of that at the vaccines. Plus like
if you do any grooming for them, that costs a buck.
So now I got to like go in the backyard
with a hoe. Is because I don't I don't I
can't look afford to do it all the time, and
he's a stinky boy. But honestly, like if it's sixty
one thousand whatever you said for the lifetime, Like, bro,
that is like another kid, right, you know, it's kind
of heading up.

Speaker 1 (05:52):
It's never family member. I had some outfits over here.
You putting on lucks Yep, that stuff all costs money.

Speaker 2 (05:57):
Oh yeah, his wardrobe. His mental health service is his nails,
his teeth, entertainment.

Speaker 1 (06:06):
Travel. There's a Chinese newspaper called Youth Daily, and they
did a story on how young people in China are
paying five dollars a day to pretend they have a job.
So you pay five bucks, you go to a shared office,
but you don't do any actual work because it's all
a ruse. This is also you don't have to tell
your friends and family that you're unemployed. So the job

(06:27):
was rated in China is only five percent, but youth
unemployment's more like seventeen percent. So I guess a lot
of people just that they pay money, They go sit
at a desk, it's Wi Fi and coffee and they're
pretending to work. They will even assign you fake tasks.
So if anyone asked what you did at work today,
You can show them an email and say I did
this or I worked on this project. There are even

(06:49):
places that have fake bosses and you can pay extra
to have fake fights with them, like maybe they were
roots you in an email or whatever, and then they apologize.
You can go tell all your friends like, all my
workplace is so terrible, whatever, whatever it sounds like. Most
people then pay the five bucks and then go and
try and find a real job. But apparently this is
cheaper than sitting at a coffee shop all day and

(07:11):
pretending that you have a job when you in fact
do not. And we've done I think we've done stories
about this before in the past. But I wonder if
anyone out there has ever had to fake that they
had a job until they did have a job, so
that they didn't have to tell, you know, go home
and tell their wife or you know whatever, kids whomever,
that they don't have a job.

Speaker 3 (07:30):
We did a Sarah go like that, I remember, and
he would like be missing. He would go he would
leave for work quote unquote during the day. We were
like where did you go? And he would go to
like the library and just sit all day.

Speaker 1 (07:40):
I know about a number of people over the years
who've lied about the circumstances as to why they don't
have a job. Oh yeah, Oh they'll say that this
is what happened, but they got fired, or they'll say that,
you know, oh I got laid off or this or
that thing happened, but really they screwed up. And I've
heard about that happening before because they're too embarrassed to
tell their partner that they messed their job up as

(08:00):
opposed to just telling the truth. But I ever heard
of that one before. An Uber driver has shared that
some drivers eat customers fries and other behind the scenes things. Now,
you were a DoorDash driver at one point, Jason was,
and you say that you were never you were tempted,
but you never actually went with eating anyone's.

Speaker 5 (08:20):
Food because it's like all you do is smell other
people's foods. So like I would just get so hungry,
and then when there would be something that was really good,
like five guys, I'd be like, oh, like the fries
smells so, you know, fills up your car.

Speaker 1 (08:33):
So I think I would get fat doing that because
I think I would go in there and I would
wind up ordering food at these places like, well, i'm here,
I said.

Speaker 5 (08:40):
I once a taco bell I was like, well, I'm
waiting for this order. I might as well just go
to this Kioskin order something for myself.

Speaker 1 (08:45):
Get somebody. Yeah, while we're here, they said. The problem
is in tent places at night. So it's like, oh,
I guess that's the other thing too, is you're spending
all the money that you're making.

Speaker 2 (08:54):
How do you not eat the fries though? Like, I
can't ride with fries in my car and not just
have a couple.

Speaker 1 (09:00):
It's hard, It's very hard.

Speaker 2 (09:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (09:02):
Yeah. The guy admitted that he's taken fries from people's
orders in the past, but doesn't do it often. He
says he tries to remain professional, but sometimes attempted to
take food from orders that aren't fully sealed or closed,
especially if he's stuck in traffic. He says he also
punishes impolite customers by taking his time getting to their
home to complete the order. He said if someone asked

(09:22):
him where are you or to hurry up, he will
purposefully slow down. He said that people increase their chances
of getting their food on time if they tip and
say thank you. That's The only problem I have with
tipping ahead and I do it, but you get whatever
service you get ran like I've had it. I've had
it where they like they take the tip, but then

(09:44):
they don't actually bring it to my door. They leave
it somewhere else or whatever whatever, and it is like, wait
a minute, I'm not going to take the tip away
because I'm not that much of a savage, but like
the tip is. I mean, if you do, like an
awesome job and it shows up quickly and to my
door whatever I've paid for, well, then I'd be more
likely give you a bigger tip than what I'm gonna
give you up front. But then I sometimes I'll give
you the tip up I mean, I always give the

(10:05):
tip up front, and then they don't do the thing
all the way. You're like, wait a minute, well you
got your tips, so why are you lazy bring it
all the way to me? And toilet paper, guys, you
can tell it's just stow. News day with toilet paper
might be a thing of the past. Environmental concerns are growing,
and studies reveal that producing a single roll of toilet
paper consumes thirty seven gallons of water. The industry heavily

(10:27):
relies on virgin forests, contributing to deforestation and climate change.
So what are the solutions. The solutions are a bidet.
So everybody would have a bidet in their house, and
I guess that would then negate the need for toilet paper.
But then how do you walk around like a little low,
wet little butt. Yes, you walk around like a wet
little booty. That way we spray the booty down. Okay,

(10:48):
so everything's good. But then I gotta walk around with
wet booty. I gotta dry it off somehow exactly okay,
and I gotta check coct. It's like if I if
I did my deal with the bidet, okay, fine, but
then I got a double I need like some quality
assurance that like we are in fact good, You're right? Yes,
So I don't know about that. And then the other
thing would be reusable cloth toilet paper. Come on, now,

(11:09):
I don't think I could do that either. Maybe if
it were just me, maybe, But like in a house
you got like a bag full of like I don't
know who this is, let's watch it. Oh no, I
throw up.

Speaker 5 (11:22):
Think of a poop cloth filled bag in my house.
I mean, like that's just I don't care if it's
my poop or any.

Speaker 1 (11:31):
I don't know about that.

Speaker 2 (11:32):
We gotta find a different way. We got to the environment.

Speaker 1 (11:35):
Yeah, but I don't mind paper struggle, not a no.
That's the legg Day and it's National Chocolate Macaroon Day.
Macaroon Day.

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