The government shut down is nearing to end as Senate approved a 60-40 vote. Northern lights were visible throughout the Chicagoland area. McRib is back at select McDonald's. And Fred and the crew go on a rant about their favorite fast foods.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the preas show.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
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Speaker 1 (00:25):
Friend's Biggest Stories of the day.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Pauline, I want you to know, Yeah, if I had
a top five list and I don't, you would be
on it for sure, because I agree with this texture.
Paulina is the definition of being funny without trying.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
No, it's true. It's true.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Like people think I'm making fun of you with the
definitely Gonna beat Paulina segment or whatever else. No, I'm
giving you it's an opportunity for me to sit back
and because I never know what's going to come out
of your mouth.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
No, it's and I love it. It's not making fun.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
It's it's it's the softball pitch. It's we're just gonna
very softly throw the ball. And then you're going to
hit it really far, and you usually do. I would
say at least three out of five make me laugh
really hard, and that's a very high percentage. Kiky, enough,
if you could try harder, okay, I need you to,
I'll get the work.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
I need you to try a little harder, Okay.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
I love to make you laugh. Kiki's quick, Yes, the
secure You're quick. And sometimes I'm like, damn, I'm as
quick on that.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
I'm kidding as you're hysterical. No, you're a hysteric.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
No, Like damn, that's a good thing. Like how quick
you are? Like how quick you think of something?
Speaker 1 (01:30):
I just be talking. It's doubt every single.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Day myself laugh with say with me? Although it really
matters is if I thought it was funny. So, for
whatever reason, of all the insecurities I have, of all
the insecurities I have, that's that one of them. I
really don't care if you don't laugh at me. I
don't really because if I laugh at me, then that.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Makes me happy.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
I don't care that I have many other insecurities. I
need to be liked, but I don't have to be
the funniest person in the room. I don't care because
for me, if I get a gaffall out of it,
there's a second. No, it was kordal yesterday. If I
get a gaffa out of it.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
I don't know what that is.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
It's a laugh.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Oh I remember yesterday.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
It's a laugh. It was a quardal yesterday.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
There was a gaffaw today and I was come up
with a new one for tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
I don't know where.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
I don't why I remember these things because I would
never win on Jeopardy. You know, there are two kinds
of brains, and I have the other one. But there
we all know people who have the kind of brain
where they can just remember facts like just just they
like details, facts like they just remember every statistics and
words and dates. And I'm more of a conceptual memory,
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like I don't know. I can I can embrace the concept,
but if you were to ask me something very specific,
I don't. I can never remember. I can't memorize anything.
I just don't have that skill. Like these people who
could do whole TV shows, they can memorize like pages
of scripts like as they go.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
It's remarkable.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
But then those some of those people can't put their
own shoes on you know, like they don't know how
to like brust their own teeth, or you know, they
wouldn't know if a car was coming have to like,
you know, to pull them out of the road. So
that I think I cannot get hit by a car,
But I can't memorize a script or anything.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Same year, Like I've got good street smarts, but I
can't play my own game of beat Paulina for same
my life.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
I can't win.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Yeah, no, I'll good balance, baby.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
The Senate has approved a funding bill for a sixty
to forty vote, or in a sixty forty vote rather
on Monday, that would end the longest government shutdown in
US history. The bill now heads to the House for
a final vote as soon as this afternoon. They need
this quickly because of all the travel delays affecting airports
across the country, but neither the House nor the Senate
was in session yesterday for Veterans Day. The funding package
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extends money for most agencies until January thirtieth. That includes
three full year funding bills for some parts of the government.
House Republicans are confident that the bill will pass in
the lower chamber, and President Trump is expected to sign
the legislation which would officially end the shutdown. However, airlines
will need time to adjust their schedules and staffing even
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if the government shutdown ends today, so you can expect
flight delays to continue. Their warning comes. It's just two
weeks before the busiest travel days ahead of Thanksgiving, and
as air traffic controllers missed their second full paycheck after
the shutdown began on October first, record numbers of travelers
are expected for the Thanksgiving holiday period. So, unfortunately, just
because the government shutdown will end does not mean that
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you are guaranteed to make your flight for the holidays
or that there won't be some other kind of issues.
So I guess for a reason, I thought maybe that
was it, like okay, good, now we can get back
to it.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
But they're still canceling.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
I think it was ten percent of their ramping up
to canceling, ten percent of airline flights and different limitations,
So I don't know.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
I think it could be a huge mess.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
However, I'll be okay because the Mega Millions jackpot nears
a billion dollars. It's my time, It's my Friday, is
my time, and it won't matter because I'm going to buy.
I'm going to buy a seven eighty seven with the
billion dollars that I win, just part of it, and
I'll fly you guys wherever you need you air Fred
Drake has a seven sixty seven. No me seven eight
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eighty seven. I don't know if the Gary Airport can
accommodate that, but Lynn make the runway longer something, because
I'm coming. I'm coming with my seven eighty seven out
there at the Gary Jets Center, Okay, And you got
to build me something. I don't know where I'll build
it and then so I'll fly to where I gotta go,
and then i'll have it come pick each one of
you up. It'll be a kind of a quick trip
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to Detroit in the seven eighty seven. But Pontiac Airport
here we come.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Now, why I got to go to Detroit? If you want,
I can.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
That's where you were going for the holidays. I just
you know it'll come. Grab you the seven eighty seven.
Speaker 5 (05:31):
Take your right over, seven honey, take me somewhere tropical.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Baby, let's go.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
I can miss Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Now.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Jason, you're gonna have to go a little further than
than a place where you can not see your house anymore,
like we're gonna have to go somewhere, you know, but
we can take everybody because it's mine.
Speaker 6 (05:45):
Okay, so everyone gets on the dogs of course, are
you kidding me?
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Okay, of course they will. Yeah, there'll be a whole
outdoor area for them.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
I don't know how. We haven't figured that out yet,
but you were working on it. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
I'll get job rolled on there and we'll just fly.
I'm here for the wedding. It'll be great.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Let's make sure we pay the traffic controllers though, because
we need to stop them up to please.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
What you're taking me on your plane and there's no
stop signs up there?
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Well, we'll take care. I'll make sure everybody along. I'll
grease every air traffic controller along the way. It'll be fine, Okay,
But it's a billion dollars nine hundred and sixty five
million dollars, the eighth largest since the game began in
two thousand and two. Mega Million's Friday. Did you guys
see the northern lights last night? If you live in
a city, you probably did, or if you live in
US city, you probably didn't see it. But a severe
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solar storm is painting northern lights in the sky as
far south as Texas, Alabama, Georgia, and even northern Florida.
The breathtaking phenomenon occurs when charge particles from the Sun
interact with gases in the Earth's atmosphere, causing glowing curtains
of green, red, and purple light in the sky. The
Space Weather Prediction Center that's a place I guess, issued
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a G four Severe geomagnetic storm watch for Tuesday and today.
Four is the second strongest level on the five step scale.
So it's four, but it's not like me, G five.
I'm G five. I'm the fifth on the list the
funniest people. But for most people this impact the impact
will be limited to stunning skies, but the event may
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also post risks for voltage control problems and power systems,
GPS navigation errors, and intermittent issues with radio and satellite operations.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
You ever seen them before?
Speaker 2 (07:25):
They're beautiful, yes, Aurora borealis say, wow, defall, that's really good.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
I love them.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
I saw them. I was in Iceland. I saw him.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
I've seen them a couple other times too, but I
went on a specific like like guided tour to see them,
and I thought, you ever been on a what was
that thing that you used to do in the Okay,
I had it in a minute ago in summer camp
when you were a kid, you'd go on a hunt
for something that never existed.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
What was it called.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
It was like a joke that the counselors would be like,
we're out here and someone will know it.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
We're doing it.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
You go out at night with flashlights and it was
a hunt. You were trying to find something. But it's
it's now it's a metaphor, but like it wasn't a thing.
It was a joke, Like kids didn't realize that you
were looking for something it didn't really exist.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Oh gosh, somebody will text it.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
But I felt like that's what I felt like, that's
what we were doing, because we drived it like pitch
black in the middle of nowhere in Iceland, and it
gu'd be like, no, no, I know, I know where we
can see him, and we'd drive to this place and
we just sit in complete pitch black, like six or
seven of us in this bus and no, no, no, no,
don't worry, like I always see them when we're here.
And then we sit there for like forty five minutes
into silence, and I'm like, do we have to be
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silent for them to come or right?
Speaker 1 (08:33):
And it didn't really weird.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
We drove around for like three hours, we never saw them,
and then like I was walking into my hotel and
then I'm like, oh, that's really cool.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Now what was it called? Us?
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Snipe hunt? Is that what it was called? I hope
I didn't just say something highly offensive. No, I think
that was what was called because it would be like
the counselor is a summer camp when you're young. W'd
be like, all right, get your flashlight for going out
looking for him. But then and it was just basically
a hunt for nothing.
Speaker 5 (09:01):
Type of practical joke or fool's errand errand in existence
in North America. Okay, thank you, Yes, as early as
the eighteen forties.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Yeah, so we're going on a snipehunt and then you
go out there and look at it. He says, there's
no such thing. That's what I felt like we were doing.
We were just driving around and this dude from Iceland's like, no, no, no,
this is my secret spot.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
We always see him here. No, never happens anyway.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
You can see him outside your house and you know,
in the suburbs, if you're lucky. The legendary McRib sandwich
is back on the menu of McDonald's, but with a catch.
The sandwich returns this week for a limited time, but
only in select locations Miami, Dallas, Cleveland, Saint Louis, Atlanta, Chicago, Seattle,
and LA. The McRib, according to the company, is the
most mentioned limited time product online and it will cost
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you anywhere between five bucks and seven bucks, depending on
where you live. And there was a big scandal here.
Very early in the history of our show, there was
a big McRib scandal. I think it was within my
first ninety days. I mentioned that I did not like
the McRib and I didn't get it, and.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
I I liked McDonald's a lot. I do.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
I continue to like McDonald's. I had it yesterday. I
like McDonald's a whole lot. I don't like the McRib.
I don't really get it. It doesn't First of all,
it doesn't have to look like a rib. I do
this rant every year. It doesn't have to look like
a rib. Why did it look like a rib? There
are no bones. There are no bones in the McRib,
but they may form it like it's a rib. But
it's not a rib. They took the meat off, so
why did they do that? It doesn't have to And
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then it did they dip it into barbecue sauce. It's bread,
barbecue sauce, onions and pickles. There's nothing wrong with it.
It's just I don't need it. I don't need I
get something else at McDonald's. So I said this, and
then I get a call from Earl Jones, the the
market president.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
What did you do? What did you do? Screaming at me?
Speaker 2 (10:46):
What did you do? Screaming at me? I said, what
do you talk? I mean, I barely knew this man.
He used to play in the NFL, very intimidating guy.
I said, what are you talking about? You'll say you
didn't like the McRib and McDonald's canceled all their advertising.
A million dollars gone, all because of you. I remember
saying to him. I go, dude, I love McDonald's. I
don't like the McRib Like I don't eat every flavor
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of ice cream at thirty one flavors. I don't have
to like all of them, do it? So the compromise
was were you part.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Of the chasing?
Speaker 3 (11:13):
I heard about it, but I don't think I was involved.
In the room for that.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
The compromise was that I had to eat a McRib
on the air and apologize, and I did, and the
representative from McDonald's came and brought the McRib and they said, ha, like,
we just wanted some free advertising. We were gonna do it.
Yeah you like it, Yeah I did. It's pretty good.
It's pretty good. It tastes like barbecue sauce in sort
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of solid form. It was really good. You won't catch me.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Saying I love the McRib but like I don't. I
don't have to love everything. I don't want to. Every
day Sense.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Now buys of them when they come out and freeze them,
and that was actually another part of the deal. I
have to eat one a day. No, Hey, I didn't
dislike it. I just don't really get it. I don't
think it's the best thing at McDonald's. And then people
go nuts for it, which is which is genius, right
because they only bring it out certain times a year
or whatever.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
It's brilliant, the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
But there are ten things I would order McDonald's before
i'd order that. And don't tell Gideon and the Assassin
my trainer. But I'm a regular at McDonald's. They know
me downstairs, they know me by name. They're very nice
people down there. But you know what I mean, Like,
can you think of places where you love something other
than the thing that everyone goes crazy for.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
I'm sure you can come up with it.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Right now, right, I wouldn't dare say it? Come on,
come on, tell me, I don't know that phone call.
I'm not trying to do this today.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
No he doesn't. He doesn't work here anymore.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Anyway, shut up to McDonald's and you're welcome for the
ten minute commercial because you look. I don't know people
like the filet of fish at McDonald's, Like that is
not the thing that I'm going to order McDonalds. I'm
gonna go down and get a big Mac quarter pounder.
I'm gonna I have my first big Mac like two
years ago, change my life. I don't know how I
went all this time without ever having a big market
delicious a lot of bread, but it's delicious a lot.
But I'll go down there. I get like a two
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cheeseburger meal, get some nuggets. I can go crazy. Breakfast
is my favorite. I love breakfast a McDonald I love it.
But I just did I don't like the McRib but
it was. It was tasty, and you can get him
if you live in one of the cities I mentioned.
And speaking of someone who loves fast food, a Florida
woman was arrested after deputies clocked her doing one hundred
and seven and a fifty five.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
I believe this was in Florida.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
When stopped, the twenty one year old said that she
was just trying to get to Little Caesar's before it
closed at midnight for her hot and Ready pizza. She
was booked for reckless driving and later released unbond. Okay,
so I'll ask this question around the room and then
we'll move on. But if you were to be clocked
Kiki going one hundred and seven and a fifty five
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to get to a restaurant before it closed, which one
would it be? I would guess, but I'm not sure
I know the answer.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Don't guess Culver's.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Oh oh god, it's delicious. If you don't have a
Culver's near you for some reason, that's a shame. I'm
sorry for it. It's a shame, Kaylin.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
So I'm in between these two. It's either Culvers or
Taco Bell. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
That's excellent choices.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Oh I ordered. So have you ever used the app?
Speaker 1 (14:15):
I know, the Taco Bell app.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
It is the best app I've ever used. There's different deals,
there's different combos, it's cheaper. Oh my goodness, I got
meals for two. I don't eat them. Taco Bell all weekend.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
All funny, Jason. Yeah, I don't think Taco Bell is
safety eat. After about fourteen minutes, it doesn't do what
it does to you. To me, no, no, I just
mean like it becomes rock hard.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Oh no, that's that.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Cheese cheese pieces like.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
They're perfect when you get them, but if you wait
about eight to eight to nine point two minutes, then
they all all of a sudden become like molten or
like like not molten, they become like, you know, like like.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Mountain right right. It's like.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
There's a warning label on the paper if you look
at it. So they'll deliver it too, within the app.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Within the app, and they have their own special deals.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
They actually have items that are not on the normal
menu that are in the app. And I apologize to
Jason because he was he was telling you this for
years and all my gootching the app.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Yeah, Jason, taco bells for you.
Speaker 6 (15:12):
Yeah, I mean I stay at like a level of
like craving taco bell, like I'm constantly thinking about. I
have to stop myself from thinking about it, like I
would eat it every day if I can. I saw
a video on TikTok yesterday, this man and I'll send
it to you. Uh tells you how you can get
a full belly of taco bell for fifteen dollars on
the app using all of the little special codes and
rewards and all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Did you see the red Hot menu? I'm little red Hot,
the Frank's Red Hot menu.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
All my mind's familiar. I know they are you.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
A couple of weeks ago going off about this, they
brought back the like the Y two K stuff, the
double decker talk. They brought back to that. I think
the apple little apple pie. Yeah, I mean it leads
someone to the double decker is the bomb. Someone said,
take out the middle bread and the big mackets. E lad, No,
it's true. Yeah, take that now for you. You're gonna
get caught fall. You always drive one hundred and seven
to fifty five. But if you but if this was
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something new, then what would we catch you where would
we catch you going.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
Honestly, it'd be Portillo's. Because I'm a hot dog girl.
I only have one a year. That's not true at all.
I have won the week, but I would definitely do that,
and then sometimes I would even sub it for the plant.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
The Pampley's hot dog. It's a good one. Taste the same, really,
it's amazing, the same.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
I just throw everything on top of it, the relish
and everything, and the onions and the what is it
called sports peppers all that sport.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
I think it's just one sport, but yeah, I think
so it could be multiple, you know, just all peppers, peppers.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
I throw everything on there. I'm a hot dog girl.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Yeah, we've had this debate recently. I think about the
Chicago hot dog that people don't seem to understand. I
think it's more of a salad with meat. It's an elite.
Speaking of elite, I've said that four times in this thing.
But it's it is a It is a perfect combination
of food. In my opinion, it's perfect. You need every
element of it, but it's perfect. It's perfectly balanced. Someone
was very very smart when they came up with the
water burger. Waurger would be mine, okay. And they're spreading
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out slowly Texas Era, and I think Texas is maybe
where they started. It's a Texas company. I think Venture
Capital bought them in Illinois. Actually, I think they're coming
to Illinois. I think they can already be in parts
of the really. I know they just opened one in
Raleigh near the radio station. My understanding because Trevor, who
is our boss there, he is a water burger ficionado,
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as am I. If you've never had it Huata burger,
people don't think I say it right, even though I'm
the only one in here who's eating it.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Huata Burger delicious.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
What can I die?
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Eat?
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Anything?
Speaker 2 (17:26):
There?
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Shows I don't need burgers.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Oh, you're right? What I got? They got chicken?
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Yeah, that's my I'm asking, Okay, I want to try it.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
They got chicken. They got nice chicken.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
They got chicken with a gravy you can chicken fingers
with it, like a homestyle gravy. And they have chicken sandwiches.
I think they have burgers. They have things in them.
Maybe maybe they have some form of I'm not sure
you're right. You wouldn't eat that though, I know there's
something for everybody at Wa Burger.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
That's good.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
The shakes are delicious, No, you gotta have it. And
it's National Friendship Day, so there you go. And now
everyone's hungry. And I'm sorry about that, but that was
twenty minutes of I was talking about food and the
northern lights, which those two things are not connected in
any way whatsoever.
This is the preas show.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
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Speaker 2 (00:27):
Pauline, I want you to know, Yeah, if I had
a top five list and I don't, you would be
on it for sure, because I agree with this texture.
Paulina is the definition of being funny without trying.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
No, it's true. It's true.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Like people think I'm making fun of you with the
definitely Gonna beat Paulina segment or whatever else. No, I'm
giving you it's an opportunity for me to sit back
and because I never know what's going to come out
of your mouth.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
No, it's and I love it. It's not making fun.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
It's it's it's the softball pitch. It's we're just gonna
very softly throw the ball. And then you're going to
hit it really far, and you usually do. I would
say at least three out of five make me laugh
really hard, and that's a very high percentage. Kiky, enough,
if you could try harder, okay, I need you to,
I'll get the work.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
I need you to try a little harder, Okay.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
I love to make you laugh. Kiki's quick, Yes, the
secure You're quick. And sometimes I'm like, damn, I'm as
quick on that.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
I'm kidding as you're hysterical. No, you're a hysteric.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
No, Like damn, that's a good thing. Like how quick
you are? Like how quick you think of something?
Speaker 1 (01:30):
I just be talking. It's doubt every single.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Day myself laugh with say with me? Although it really
matters is if I thought it was funny. So, for
whatever reason, of all the insecurities I have, of all
the insecurities I have, that's that one of them. I
really don't care if you don't laugh at me. I
don't really because if I laugh at me, then that.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Makes me happy.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
I don't care that I have many other insecurities. I
need to be liked, but I don't have to be
the funniest person in the room. I don't care because
for me, if I get a gaffall out of it,
there's a second. No, it was kordal yesterday. If I
get a gaffa out of it.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
I don't know what that is.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
It's a laugh.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Oh I remember yesterday.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
It's a laugh. It was a quardal yesterday.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
There was a gaffaw today and I was come up
with a new one for tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
I don't know where.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
I don't why I remember these things because I would
never win on Jeopardy. You know, there are two kinds
of brains, and I have the other one. But there
we all know people who have the kind of brain
where they can just remember facts like just just they
like details, facts like they just remember every statistics and
words and dates. And I'm more of a conceptual memory,
(02:36):
like I don't know. I can I can embrace the concept,
but if you were to ask me something very specific,
I don't. I can never remember. I can't memorize anything.
I just don't have that skill. Like these people who
could do whole TV shows, they can memorize like pages
of scripts like as they go.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
It's remarkable.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
But then those some of those people can't put their
own shoes on you know, like they don't know how
to like brust their own teeth, or you know, they
wouldn't know if a car was coming have to like,
you know, to pull them out of the road. So
that I think I cannot get hit by a car,
But I can't memorize a script or anything.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Same year, Like I've got good street smarts, but I
can't play my own game of beat Paulina for same
my life.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
I can't win.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Yeah, no, I'll good balance, baby.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
The Senate has approved a funding bill for a sixty
to forty vote, or in a sixty forty vote rather
on Monday, that would end the longest government shutdown in
US history. The bill now heads to the House for
a final vote as soon as this afternoon. They need
this quickly because of all the travel delays affecting airports
across the country, but neither the House nor the Senate
was in session yesterday for Veterans Day. The funding package
(03:35):
extends money for most agencies until January thirtieth. That includes
three full year funding bills for some parts of the government.
House Republicans are confident that the bill will pass in
the lower chamber, and President Trump is expected to sign
the legislation which would officially end the shutdown. However, airlines
will need time to adjust their schedules and staffing even
(03:56):
if the government shutdown ends today, so you can expect
flight delays to continue. Their warning comes. It's just two
weeks before the busiest travel days ahead of Thanksgiving, and
as air traffic controllers missed their second full paycheck after
the shutdown began on October first, record numbers of travelers
are expected for the Thanksgiving holiday period. So, unfortunately, just
because the government shutdown will end does not mean that
(04:18):
you are guaranteed to make your flight for the holidays
or that there won't be some other kind of issues.
So I guess for a reason, I thought maybe that
was it, like okay, good, now we can get back
to it.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
But they're still canceling.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
I think it was ten percent of their ramping up
to canceling, ten percent of airline flights and different limitations,
So I don't know.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
I think it could be a huge mess.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
However, I'll be okay because the Mega Millions jackpot nears
a billion dollars. It's my time, It's my Friday, is
my time, and it won't matter because I'm going to buy.
I'm going to buy a seven eighty seven with the
billion dollars that I win, just part of it, and
I'll fly you guys wherever you need you air Fred
Drake has a seven sixty seven. No me seven eight
(05:00):
eighty seven. I don't know if the Gary Airport can
accommodate that, but Lynn make the runway longer something, because
I'm coming. I'm coming with my seven eighty seven out
there at the Gary Jets Center, Okay, And you got
to build me something. I don't know where I'll build
it and then so I'll fly to where I gotta go,
and then i'll have it come pick each one of
you up. It'll be a kind of a quick trip
(05:20):
to Detroit in the seven eighty seven. But Pontiac Airport
here we come.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Now, why I got to go to Detroit? If you want,
I can.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
That's where you were going for the holidays. I just
you know it'll come. Grab you the seven eighty seven.
Speaker 5 (05:31):
Take your right over, seven honey, take me somewhere tropical.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Baby, let's go.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
I can miss Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Now.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Jason, you're gonna have to go a little further than
than a place where you can not see your house anymore,
like we're gonna have to go somewhere, you know, but
we can take everybody because it's mine.
Speaker 6 (05:45):
Okay, so everyone gets on the dogs of course, are
you kidding me?
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Okay, of course they will. Yeah, there'll be a whole
outdoor area for them.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
I don't know how. We haven't figured that out yet,
but you were working on it. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
I'll get job rolled on there and we'll just fly.
I'm here for the wedding. It'll be great.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Let's make sure we pay the traffic controllers though, because
we need to stop them up to please.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
What you're taking me on your plane and there's no
stop signs up there?
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Well, we'll take care. I'll make sure everybody along. I'll
grease every air traffic controller along the way. It'll be fine, Okay,
But it's a billion dollars nine hundred and sixty five
million dollars, the eighth largest since the game began in
two thousand and two. Mega Million's Friday. Did you guys
see the northern lights last night? If you live in
a city, you probably did, or if you live in
US city, you probably didn't see it. But a severe
(06:32):
solar storm is painting northern lights in the sky as
far south as Texas, Alabama, Georgia, and even northern Florida.
The breathtaking phenomenon occurs when charge particles from the Sun
interact with gases in the Earth's atmosphere, causing glowing curtains
of green, red, and purple light in the sky. The
Space Weather Prediction Center that's a place I guess, issued
(06:55):
a G four Severe geomagnetic storm watch for Tuesday and today.
Four is the second strongest level on the five step scale.
So it's four, but it's not like me, G five.
I'm G five. I'm the fifth on the list the
funniest people. But for most people this impact the impact
will be limited to stunning skies, but the event may
(07:15):
also post risks for voltage control problems and power systems,
GPS navigation errors, and intermittent issues with radio and satellite operations.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
You ever seen them before?
Speaker 2 (07:25):
They're beautiful, yes, Aurora borealis say, wow, defall, that's really good.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
I love them.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
I saw them. I was in Iceland. I saw him.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
I've seen them a couple other times too, but I
went on a specific like like guided tour to see them,
and I thought, you ever been on a what was
that thing that you used to do in the Okay,
I had it in a minute ago in summer camp
when you were a kid, you'd go on a hunt
for something that never existed.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
What was it called.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
It was like a joke that the counselors would be like,
we're out here and someone will know it.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
We're doing it.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
You go out at night with flashlights and it was
a hunt. You were trying to find something. But it's
it's now it's a metaphor, but like it wasn't a thing.
It was a joke, Like kids didn't realize that you
were looking for something it didn't really exist.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Oh gosh, somebody will text it.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
But I felt like that's what I felt like, that's
what we were doing, because we drived it like pitch
black in the middle of nowhere in Iceland, and it
gu'd be like, no, no, I know, I know where we
can see him, and we'd drive to this place and
we just sit in complete pitch black, like six or
seven of us in this bus and no, no, no, no,
don't worry, like I always see them when we're here.
And then we sit there for like forty five minutes
into silence, and I'm like, do we have to be
(08:31):
silent for them to come or right?
Speaker 1 (08:33):
And it didn't really weird.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
We drove around for like three hours, we never saw them,
and then like I was walking into my hotel and
then I'm like, oh, that's really cool.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Now what was it called? Us?
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Snipe hunt? Is that what it was called? I hope
I didn't just say something highly offensive. No, I think
that was what was called because it would be like
the counselor is a summer camp when you're young. W'd
be like, all right, get your flashlight for going out
looking for him. But then and it was just basically
a hunt for nothing.
Speaker 5 (09:01):
Type of practical joke or fool's errand errand in existence
in North America. Okay, thank you, Yes, as early as
the eighteen forties.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Yeah, so we're going on a snipehunt and then you
go out there and look at it. He says, there's
no such thing. That's what I felt like we were doing.
We were just driving around and this dude from Iceland's like, no, no, no,
this is my secret spot.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
We always see him here. No, never happens anyway.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
You can see him outside your house and you know,
in the suburbs, if you're lucky. The legendary McRib sandwich
is back on the menu of McDonald's, but with a catch.
The sandwich returns this week for a limited time, but
only in select locations Miami, Dallas, Cleveland, Saint Louis, Atlanta, Chicago, Seattle,
and LA. The McRib, according to the company, is the
most mentioned limited time product online and it will cost
(09:47):
you anywhere between five bucks and seven bucks, depending on
where you live. And there was a big scandal here.
Very early in the history of our show, there was
a big McRib scandal. I think it was within my
first ninety days. I mentioned that I did not like
the McRib and I didn't get it, and.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
I I liked McDonald's a lot. I do.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
I continue to like McDonald's. I had it yesterday. I
like McDonald's a whole lot. I don't like the McRib.
I don't really get it. It doesn't First of all,
it doesn't have to look like a rib. I do
this rant every year. It doesn't have to look like
a rib. Why did it look like a rib? There
are no bones. There are no bones in the McRib,
but they may form it like it's a rib. But
it's not a rib. They took the meat off, so
why did they do that? It doesn't have to And
(10:28):
then it did they dip it into barbecue sauce. It's bread,
barbecue sauce, onions and pickles. There's nothing wrong with it.
It's just I don't need it. I don't need I
get something else at McDonald's. So I said this, and
then I get a call from Earl Jones, the the
market president.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
What did you do? What did you do? Screaming at me?
Speaker 2 (10:46):
What did you do? Screaming at me? I said, what
do you talk? I mean, I barely knew this man.
He used to play in the NFL, very intimidating guy.
I said, what are you talking about? You'll say you
didn't like the McRib and McDonald's canceled all their advertising.
A million dollars gone, all because of you. I remember
saying to him. I go, dude, I love McDonald's. I
don't like the McRib Like I don't eat every flavor
(11:07):
of ice cream at thirty one flavors. I don't have
to like all of them, do it? So the compromise
was were you part.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Of the chasing?
Speaker 3 (11:13):
I heard about it, but I don't think I was involved.
In the room for that.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
The compromise was that I had to eat a McRib
on the air and apologize, and I did, and the
representative from McDonald's came and brought the McRib and they said, ha, like,
we just wanted some free advertising. We were gonna do it.
Yeah you like it, Yeah I did. It's pretty good.
It's pretty good. It tastes like barbecue sauce in sort
(11:41):
of solid form. It was really good. You won't catch me.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Saying I love the McRib but like I don't. I
don't have to love everything. I don't want to. Every
day Sense.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Now buys of them when they come out and freeze them,
and that was actually another part of the deal. I
have to eat one a day. No, Hey, I didn't
dislike it. I just don't really get it. I don't
think it's the best thing at McDonald's. And then people
go nuts for it, which is which is genius, right
because they only bring it out certain times a year
or whatever.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
It's brilliant, the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
But there are ten things I would order McDonald's before
i'd order that. And don't tell Gideon and the Assassin
my trainer. But I'm a regular at McDonald's. They know
me downstairs, they know me by name. They're very nice
people down there. But you know what I mean, Like,
can you think of places where you love something other
than the thing that everyone goes crazy for.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
I'm sure you can come up with it.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Right now, right, I wouldn't dare say it? Come on,
come on, tell me, I don't know that phone call.
I'm not trying to do this today.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
No he doesn't. He doesn't work here anymore.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Anyway, shut up to McDonald's and you're welcome for the
ten minute commercial because you look. I don't know people
like the filet of fish at McDonald's, Like that is
not the thing that I'm going to order McDonalds. I'm
gonna go down and get a big Mac quarter pounder.
I'm gonna I have my first big Mac like two
years ago, change my life. I don't know how I
went all this time without ever having a big market
delicious a lot of bread, but it's delicious a lot.
But I'll go down there. I get like a two
(13:04):
cheeseburger meal, get some nuggets. I can go crazy. Breakfast
is my favorite. I love breakfast a McDonald I love it.
But I just did I don't like the McRib but
it was. It was tasty, and you can get him
if you live in one of the cities I mentioned.
And speaking of someone who loves fast food, a Florida
woman was arrested after deputies clocked her doing one hundred
and seven and a fifty five.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
I believe this was in Florida.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
When stopped, the twenty one year old said that she
was just trying to get to Little Caesar's before it
closed at midnight for her hot and Ready pizza. She
was booked for reckless driving and later released unbond. Okay,
so I'll ask this question around the room and then
we'll move on. But if you were to be clocked
Kiki going one hundred and seven and a fifty five
(13:48):
to get to a restaurant before it closed, which one
would it be? I would guess, but I'm not sure
I know the answer.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Don't guess Culver's.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Oh oh god, it's delicious. If you don't have a
Culver's near you for some reason, that's a shame. I'm
sorry for it. It's a shame, Kaylin.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
So I'm in between these two. It's either Culvers or
Taco Bell. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
That's excellent choices.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Oh I ordered. So have you ever used the app?
Speaker 1 (14:15):
I know, the Taco Bell app.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
It is the best app I've ever used. There's different deals,
there's different combos, it's cheaper. Oh my goodness, I got
meals for two. I don't eat them. Taco Bell all weekend.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
All funny, Jason. Yeah, I don't think Taco Bell is
safety eat. After about fourteen minutes, it doesn't do what
it does to you. To me, no, no, I just
mean like it becomes rock hard.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Oh no, that's that.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Cheese cheese pieces like.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
They're perfect when you get them, but if you wait
about eight to eight to nine point two minutes, then
they all all of a sudden become like molten or
like like not molten, they become like, you know, like like.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Mountain right right. It's like.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
There's a warning label on the paper if you look
at it. So they'll deliver it too, within the app.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Within the app, and they have their own special deals.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
They actually have items that are not on the normal
menu that are in the app. And I apologize to
Jason because he was he was telling you this for
years and all my gootching the app.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Yeah, Jason, taco bells for you.
Speaker 6 (15:12):
Yeah, I mean I stay at like a level of
like craving taco bell, like I'm constantly thinking about. I
have to stop myself from thinking about it, like I
would eat it every day if I can. I saw
a video on TikTok yesterday, this man and I'll send
it to you. Uh tells you how you can get
a full belly of taco bell for fifteen dollars on
the app using all of the little special codes and
rewards and all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Did you see the red Hot menu? I'm little red Hot,
the Frank's Red Hot menu.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
All my mind's familiar. I know they are you.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
A couple of weeks ago going off about this, they
brought back the like the Y two K stuff, the
double decker talk. They brought back to that. I think
the apple little apple pie. Yeah, I mean it leads
someone to the double decker is the bomb. Someone said,
take out the middle bread and the big mackets. E lad, No,
it's true. Yeah, take that now for you. You're gonna
get caught fall. You always drive one hundred and seven
to fifty five. But if you but if this was
(16:01):
something new, then what would we catch you where would
we catch you going.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
Honestly, it'd be Portillo's. Because I'm a hot dog girl.
I only have one a year. That's not true at all.
I have won the week, but I would definitely do that,
and then sometimes I would even sub it for the plant.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
The Pampley's hot dog. It's a good one. Taste the same, really,
it's amazing, the same.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
I just throw everything on top of it, the relish
and everything, and the onions and the what is it
called sports peppers all that sport.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
I think it's just one sport, but yeah, I think
so it could be multiple, you know, just all peppers, peppers.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
I throw everything on there. I'm a hot dog girl.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Yeah, we've had this debate recently. I think about the
Chicago hot dog that people don't seem to understand. I
think it's more of a salad with meat. It's an elite.
Speaking of elite, I've said that four times in this thing.
But it's it is a It is a perfect combination
of food. In my opinion, it's perfect. You need every
element of it, but it's perfect. It's perfectly balanced. Someone
was very very smart when they came up with the
water burger. Waurger would be mine, okay. And they're spreading
(16:55):
out slowly Texas Era, and I think Texas is maybe
where they started. It's a Texas company. I think Venture
Capital bought them in Illinois. Actually, I think they're coming
to Illinois. I think they can already be in parts
of the really. I know they just opened one in
Raleigh near the radio station. My understanding because Trevor, who
is our boss there, he is a water burger ficionado,
(17:15):
as am I. If you've never had it Huata burger,
people don't think I say it right, even though I'm
the only one in here who's eating it.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Huata Burger delicious.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
What can I die?
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Eat?
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Anything?
Speaker 2 (17:26):
There?
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Shows I don't need burgers.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Oh, you're right? What I got? They got chicken?
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Yeah, that's my I'm asking, Okay, I want to try it.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
They got chicken. They got nice chicken.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
They got chicken with a gravy you can chicken fingers
with it, like a homestyle gravy. And they have chicken sandwiches.
I think they have burgers. They have things in them.
Maybe maybe they have some form of I'm not sure
you're right. You wouldn't eat that though, I know there's
something for everybody at Wa Burger.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
That's good.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
The shakes are delicious, No, you gotta have it. And
it's National Friendship Day, so there you go. And now
everyone's hungry. And I'm sorry about that, but that was
twenty minutes of I was talking about food and the
northern lights, which those two things are not connected in
any way whatsoever.
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