Chicago is preparing for St. Patrick's Day by dying the river green. The search for a University of Pittsburgh student in Punta Cana is still ongoing. An American Airlines plane catches fire in Denver. MLB hats are causing a controversary after a new design of the hat is released. Researchers believe that consuming alcohol can lead to more sunburns. A Florida man was arrested after he didn't pay for a lap dance.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Fred's show is on Fred's Biggest Stories of the Day.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
So we have tens of listeners in Chicago.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
We have two in Norfolk, for example, but I think
we have one in Salt Lake City.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
That's exciting.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
But you're gonna hear about the Chicago River anyway, Why
because you've probably seen it at least and this weekend
they die at green. I feel like everybody in the
world sees the Chicago River turned green every year. Have
you ever asked yourself though, self, why does it do that? Well,
the Chicago River is about to be died green for
Saint Patrick's Day tradition that started back in nineteen sixty two.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Do you guys know why we do it or how
it started? No?
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Actually no, So Chicago's famous green river started with a
simple idea by the head of the plumbers union. According
to a dude named Jim Coyn, a general chairman of
the parade. The Saint Patrick' Day Parade, Stephen Bailey, saw
one of his plumbers with a green stain on his overalls,
and he said that he was trying to discover a
broken pipe. When a dye hit the water, it bubbled
(00:55):
up green. So this guy happened to be with friends
and then Mayor Richard J. Daily since nineteen to the
river is then died every year on the Saturday before
Saint Patrick's Day. It takes two boats, a lead boat
to drop the dye and a chase both to mix
it up. The river dying and parade that follows draws
hundreds of thousands of people every single year and generates
millions of dollars for Chicago. And the river dying event happens.
(01:18):
When it happens tomorrow, it'll be live stream. And I
guess that's a it's kind of like a fat of
some kind. The green itself is not a dye. It's
like a some kind of I don't know if it's
like a I don't think it's animal. What is the
green dye exactly? I thought it was just de Just
to be clear on this. What is it come on AI.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Generating?
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Yeah, I just told you why. I don't know. I
thought it was some kind of like a weird.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Orange red vegetable based powder. Interesting.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
It comes out looking orange, Yeah, that's another thing it does,
and then it turns green in the water. But that
that's how it started. In case you're wondering why it
is it that happens or who came up with it.
Police are still investigating the University of Pittsburgh students' Dominican
Republic disappearance. Today work marks one week since a University
of Pittsburgh student went missing in the dr Police say
(02:15):
they are not ruling out foul play in the case.
The student can be seen on surveillance video with a
previously questioned twenty four year old man from Iowa walking
to the beach in an upscale Punta Khana resort on
March sixth. Police in the woman's hometown of Virginia say
that he is not a suspect, but a person of interest.
(02:37):
Divers have been looking for the twenty year old's body
in rough surf waters around the resort. They're saying that
she'd drowned, and I don't think the local authorities. Those
back here domestically are saying a whole lot. An American
Airlines plane caught fire at Denver International Airport in Colorado
on Thursday, the Boeing seven thirty seven. This has to
be a mistake. You know how much we love bowing
(02:58):
a them a go and iron going. This is a
new feature on the plane. Everyone just freaked out. But
it's some kind of new innovation, it could be, but
it was diverted to Denver shortly after departing from Colorado Springs.
While the plane was taxiing at the gate. The engine
then caught fire and the passengers had to evacuate. One
hundred and seventy two passengers six crew members aboard the flight.
All passengers were able to exit the plane. Only a
(03:20):
few minor injuries were incurred during the evacuation. Six passengers
were transported to the hospital. The FAA is looking into it.
Have you guys heard about these baseball hats, these Major
League Baseball hats that came out that are causing all
kinds of controversy. So it's the new era major League
(03:41):
baseball collector hats that have just come out. The motif
of the new Caps overlays the team name with the
team logo. For example a for the Oakland Athletics, the
word athletics large y over the middle of the word
Yankees for example in New York Yankees. Well, unfortunately a
few of them didn't turn out so great, like for example,
(04:03):
the Texas Rangers. It looks like tetas across the front
of the hat, which means breasts because it's Texas, but
are the big tea. So it looks like the word tetas.
You should look up the one for the California Angels.
That one looks like a really fun weekend or a
special occasion. Yeah, however, you know these have sold out.
(04:23):
They've gone, especially the tetas one. Everybody wants that one.
But I saw a story yesterday about how many different
people these designs go through before they make it to production.
And it's like the Commissioner looks at them, major League
Baseball looks at them, New Era looks at them. They
were obviously designed by somebody, and then they go to
each individual team and each individual team looks and approves them.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
So this is not like a mistake.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
I mean many many people decided that a Texas Rangers
tetas out needed to be out there, and it's kind
of brilliant because now we're talking about it, but they're
sold out. If you want one of the Rangers ads,
you have to pay somewhere between seven hundred and fifteen
eight hundred bucks on auction sites.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
The Angels had did you look at the Angels head?
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Oh, I sure did. We should get one for you.
I was going to say that represents me very well.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
You will.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Listening for a while. Then you do know something called
Pauline has promise?
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Yes, got this ring? Yeah, something like that.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
If you're a true historian of the show, then you
know the reference. But we'll get you that ahead if
we can find. It's five hundred bucks online though, if
you want to. If you want the birthday gift alcohol,
This is a story today in the top story and
biggest stories.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Of the day.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Drinking alcohol increases the likelihood of a sunburn. In a
national study, twenty one and a half percent of sunburn
individuals reported drinking alcohol at the time, likely due to
impair judgment, reduce sunscreen reapplication, and longer sun exposure. So
if you're traveling for spring break and you're not on
a plane that breaks or catches fire, and I hope
that you're not, or in a spirit flight where someone
(05:53):
you know wrestles somebody else or whatever, make sure that
you're putting on sunscreen, flame and hot cheeto shape. Like
Michael Jordan's iconic Jumpman logo is up for sale, I
don't it resembles Jordan Donking during the nineteen ninety one
NBA Finals. There's more than two weeks left for bidding,
so I'm still, you know, bidding on this for you.
I know you're big Cheetos. Oh yeah, hot Cheetos girl.
(06:14):
Two hundred and seventy five is the current offer. Oh okay,
I can afford that. Yeah, that's a light work.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Well, my husband loves Michael Jordan, like I think every
Chicago nineties kid does. And if you see my basement
what you have, Fred, you can definitely tell he loves
Michael Jordan. So that Cheato might end up down there
one way or another. Yeah, cue your basement concerned me? Yeah,
me too, because I was at your home and we
went to the basement and at the time, you know,
you would I guess somewhat recently moved in. So yeah,
(06:40):
that was going to be your husband, Hobby's space, yeah,
the man cave, and he was going to be able
to put his memorabilia on whatever else down there.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Okay, So imagine this. You walk down to someone's basement, okay,
and there's there's stuff everywhere, And I understand why that's
not the part that you know because you just you're
just figuring out where to put everything right. So you've
got frames hanging, you know, leaning against the wall, not
much as hung up. You've got just items kind of everywhere.
And then you look at a wall and just randomly
completely off center, just just literally like someone just threw
(07:12):
a nail at the wall and then hung something. It's
just a random item just hanging just like in no
location specifically whatsoever. Yeah, And I looked at you, I go,
what what is the plan here?
Speaker 4 (07:27):
Things about it? I know because I think about it too.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
I have to look at that every day, like how
are you going to arrange the rest of this around that? Yeah,
we didn't even start in the middle or the top,
left or the top.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
We didn't even stop.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
No, no, no, no, he had one of those guys
come to it.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
We got.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Guy professionally that we take away the tequila.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
It was a random framed item, completely off center. Just yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Yeah, I was so bothered.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
I don't get bothered by that kind.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Of stuff, but that one photo really it really it's
me when I go down to do my laundry and
I'm like trying to pull my chonies that I have
to look over.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
And I see it off settered photo and like, what's
the plan here?
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Man?
Speaker 4 (08:09):
What did you what are you thinking? Well, I'm lucky
or lucky to us.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
We're gonna have to knock down the walls because we've
gotta do some plumbing stuff because the floods and stuff.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Thank you, sir, We're gonna start.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
We're gonna do a whole new canvas. I want to
read you here because I gotta put some stuff up too. Yeah,
it's gotta go.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Because he's had a ton of stuff and so I'm
just I mean, I'm worried. I'm like, first of all,
that's not a fishing use of wall space. Second of all,
it's not centered. Is going crazy?
Speaker 4 (08:31):
I know when you be.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
I let me come over with a laser level like
we It'll take me two or three days, but I'll
get it'll look amazing.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Yeah, I think he had a photo plan that's supposed
to be I think like a little more skinnier or something.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
I'm like, I still don't think it's gonna fit.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Though. The other pop of my head is my OCD
is so bad that when I move from my house,
I'm going to have to have the walls like retextured
and repainted completely. Because if you take if you take
my frame stuff off the wall, there are about four
holes behind each one where I I measured, but it
wasn't quite perfect.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
So I'd take the thing down, move it.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Over a little bang bang bang bang bang, and so
now there's two holes, and I'd put it up and
I'd stare at it for a one bit. That's not right,
you know, and then I would put another and finally
get it right. But like, honestly, there are probably seven
hundred holes in my walls from about ten different pieces
of art that are up on the wall.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
It's hard, it is. People don't talk about how hard
it is.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
You got to look at it every day. It's gotta
be right.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Yes, thank you, you're not crazy anyway. I am though,
But flaming hot Cheeto two hundred and seventy five bucks
ago for a lot more. And finally in biggest stories
of the data, simple story. But a Florida man this
is in Tampa, by the way, so not for our friends.
Never would this happen in Palm Beach County ever, But
a Florida man was arrested for a lap dance heist
a lap dances. He received one hundred and sixty dollars
(09:46):
worth of dances but did not pay, and a deputy
said that the guy may have displayed the indications of
alcohol influence, but he was charged with misdemeanor theft. It
is against the law to receive a lap dance and
not pay.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Oh as it should be.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
I agree, and stole the services from these poor young ladies.
Just try to make it through nursing school. How dare you?
You can get arrested for that, So don't do. It's
National Potato Chip Day, National Children's Craft Day, and National
Pie Day three point one four, whichever year. I wonder
why we have that day, but we do, so happy
(10:23):
three point one day. I would prefer it with pie Day,
like apple pie. So maybe maybe I'll make it that. Yeah,
I'll make it something where I can stuff my face
with the sugary substance because I love that.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
The Entertainment report in three minutes stretch out
Fred's show is on Fred's Biggest Stories of the Day.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
So we have tens of listeners in Chicago.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
We have two in Norfolk, for example, but I think
we have one in Salt Lake City.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
That's exciting.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
But you're gonna hear about the Chicago River anyway, Why
because you've probably seen it at least and this weekend
they die at green. I feel like everybody in the
world sees the Chicago River turned green every year. Have
you ever asked yourself though, self, why does it do that? Well,
the Chicago River is about to be died green for
Saint Patrick's Day tradition that started back in nineteen sixty two.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Do you guys know why we do it or how
it started? No?
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Actually no, So Chicago's famous green river started with a
simple idea by the head of the plumbers union. According
to a dude named Jim Coyn, a general chairman of
the parade. The Saint Patrick' Day Parade, Stephen Bailey, saw
one of his plumbers with a green stain on his overalls,
and he said that he was trying to discover a
broken pipe. When a dye hit the water, it bubbled
(00:55):
up green. So this guy happened to be with friends
and then Mayor Richard J. Daily since nineteen to the
river is then died every year on the Saturday before
Saint Patrick's Day. It takes two boats, a lead boat
to drop the dye and a chase both to mix
it up. The river dying and parade that follows draws
hundreds of thousands of people every single year and generates
millions of dollars for Chicago. And the river dying event happens.
(01:18):
When it happens tomorrow, it'll be live stream. And I
guess that's a it's kind of like a fat of
some kind. The green itself is not a dye. It's
like a some kind of I don't know if it's
like a I don't think it's animal. What is the
green dye exactly? I thought it was just de Just
to be clear on this. What is it come on AI.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Generating?
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Yeah, I just told you why. I don't know. I
thought it was some kind of like a weird.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Orange red vegetable based powder. Interesting.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
It comes out looking orange, Yeah, that's another thing it does,
and then it turns green in the water. But that
that's how it started. In case you're wondering why it
is it that happens or who came up with it.
Police are still investigating the University of Pittsburgh students' Dominican
Republic disappearance. Today work marks one week since a University
of Pittsburgh student went missing in the dr Police say
(02:15):
they are not ruling out foul play in the case.
The student can be seen on surveillance video with a
previously questioned twenty four year old man from Iowa walking
to the beach in an upscale Punta Khana resort on
March sixth. Police in the woman's hometown of Virginia say
that he is not a suspect, but a person of interest.
(02:37):
Divers have been looking for the twenty year old's body
in rough surf waters around the resort. They're saying that
she'd drowned, and I don't think the local authorities. Those
back here domestically are saying a whole lot. An American
Airlines plane caught fire at Denver International Airport in Colorado
on Thursday, the Boeing seven thirty seven. This has to
be a mistake. You know how much we love bowing
(02:58):
a them a go and iron going. This is a
new feature on the plane. Everyone just freaked out. But
it's some kind of new innovation, it could be, but
it was diverted to Denver shortly after departing from Colorado Springs.
While the plane was taxiing at the gate. The engine
then caught fire and the passengers had to evacuate. One
hundred and seventy two passengers six crew members aboard the flight.
All passengers were able to exit the plane. Only a
(03:20):
few minor injuries were incurred during the evacuation. Six passengers
were transported to the hospital. The FAA is looking into it.
Have you guys heard about these baseball hats, these Major
League Baseball hats that came out that are causing all
kinds of controversy. So it's the new era major League
(03:41):
baseball collector hats that have just come out. The motif
of the new Caps overlays the team name with the
team logo. For example a for the Oakland Athletics, the
word athletics large y over the middle of the word
Yankees for example in New York Yankees. Well, unfortunately a
few of them didn't turn out so great, like for example,
(04:03):
the Texas Rangers. It looks like tetas across the front
of the hat, which means breasts because it's Texas, but
are the big tea. So it looks like the word tetas.
You should look up the one for the California Angels.
That one looks like a really fun weekend or a
special occasion. Yeah, however, you know these have sold out.
(04:23):
They've gone, especially the tetas one. Everybody wants that one.
But I saw a story yesterday about how many different
people these designs go through before they make it to production.
And it's like the Commissioner looks at them, major League
Baseball looks at them, New Era looks at them. They
were obviously designed by somebody, and then they go to
each individual team and each individual team looks and approves them.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
So this is not like a mistake.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
I mean many many people decided that a Texas Rangers
tetas out needed to be out there, and it's kind
of brilliant because now we're talking about it, but they're
sold out. If you want one of the Rangers ads,
you have to pay somewhere between seven hundred and fifteen
eight hundred bucks on auction sites.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
The Angels had did you look at the Angels head?
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Oh, I sure did. We should get one for you.
I was going to say that represents me very well.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
You will.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Listening for a while. Then you do know something called
Pauline has promise?
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Yes, got this ring? Yeah, something like that.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
If you're a true historian of the show, then you
know the reference. But we'll get you that ahead if
we can find. It's five hundred bucks online though, if
you want to. If you want the birthday gift alcohol,
This is a story today in the top story and
biggest stories.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Of the day.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Drinking alcohol increases the likelihood of a sunburn. In a
national study, twenty one and a half percent of sunburn
individuals reported drinking alcohol at the time, likely due to
impair judgment, reduce sunscreen reapplication, and longer sun exposure. So
if you're traveling for spring break and you're not on
a plane that breaks or catches fire, and I hope
that you're not, or in a spirit flight where someone
(05:53):
you know wrestles somebody else or whatever, make sure that
you're putting on sunscreen, flame and hot cheeto shape. Like
Michael Jordan's iconic Jumpman logo is up for sale, I
don't it resembles Jordan Donking during the nineteen ninety one
NBA Finals. There's more than two weeks left for bidding,
so I'm still, you know, bidding on this for you.
I know you're big Cheetos. Oh yeah, hot Cheetos girl.
(06:14):
Two hundred and seventy five is the current offer. Oh okay,
I can afford that. Yeah, that's a light work.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Well, my husband loves Michael Jordan, like I think every
Chicago nineties kid does. And if you see my basement
what you have, Fred, you can definitely tell he loves
Michael Jordan. So that Cheato might end up down there
one way or another. Yeah, cue your basement concerned me? Yeah,
me too, because I was at your home and we
went to the basement and at the time, you know,
you would I guess somewhat recently moved in. So yeah,
(06:40):
that was going to be your husband, Hobby's space, yeah,
the man cave, and he was going to be able
to put his memorabilia on whatever else down there.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Okay, So imagine this. You walk down to someone's basement, okay,
and there's there's stuff everywhere, And I understand why that's
not the part that you know because you just you're
just figuring out where to put everything right. So you've
got frames hanging, you know, leaning against the wall, not
much as hung up. You've got just items kind of everywhere.
And then you look at a wall and just randomly
completely off center, just just literally like someone just threw
(07:12):
a nail at the wall and then hung something. It's
just a random item just hanging just like in no
location specifically whatsoever. Yeah, And I looked at you, I go,
what what is the plan here?
Speaker 4 (07:27):
Things about it? I know because I think about it too.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
I have to look at that every day, like how
are you going to arrange the rest of this around that? Yeah,
we didn't even start in the middle or the top,
left or the top.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
We didn't even stop.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
No, no, no, no, he had one of those guys
come to it.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
We got.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Guy professionally that we take away the tequila.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
It was a random framed item, completely off center. Just yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Yeah, I was so bothered.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
I don't get bothered by that kind.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Of stuff, but that one photo really it really it's
me when I go down to do my laundry and
I'm like trying to pull my chonies that I have
to look over.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
And I see it off settered photo and like, what's
the plan here?
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Man?
Speaker 4 (08:09):
What did you what are you thinking? Well, I'm lucky
or lucky to us.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
We're gonna have to knock down the walls because we've
gotta do some plumbing stuff because the floods and stuff.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Thank you, sir, We're gonna start.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
We're gonna do a whole new canvas. I want to
read you here because I gotta put some stuff up too. Yeah,
it's gotta go.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Because he's had a ton of stuff and so I'm
just I mean, I'm worried. I'm like, first of all,
that's not a fishing use of wall space. Second of all,
it's not centered. Is going crazy?
Speaker 4 (08:31):
I know when you be.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
I let me come over with a laser level like
we It'll take me two or three days, but I'll
get it'll look amazing.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Yeah, I think he had a photo plan that's supposed
to be I think like a little more skinnier or something.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
I'm like, I still don't think it's gonna fit.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Though. The other pop of my head is my OCD
is so bad that when I move from my house,
I'm going to have to have the walls like retextured
and repainted completely. Because if you take if you take
my frame stuff off the wall, there are about four
holes behind each one where I I measured, but it
wasn't quite perfect.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
So I'd take the thing down, move it.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Over a little bang bang bang bang bang, and so
now there's two holes, and I'd put it up and
I'd stare at it for a one bit. That's not right,
you know, and then I would put another and finally
get it right. But like, honestly, there are probably seven
hundred holes in my walls from about ten different pieces
of art that are up on the wall.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
It's hard, it is. People don't talk about how hard
it is.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
You got to look at it every day. It's gotta
be right.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Yes, thank you, you're not crazy anyway. I am though,
But flaming hot Cheeto two hundred and seventy five bucks
ago for a lot more. And finally in biggest stories
of the data, simple story. But a Florida man this
is in Tampa, by the way, so not for our friends.
Never would this happen in Palm Beach County ever, But
a Florida man was arrested for a lap dance heist
a lap dances. He received one hundred and sixty dollars
(09:46):
worth of dances but did not pay, and a deputy
said that the guy may have displayed the indications of
alcohol influence, but he was charged with misdemeanor theft. It
is against the law to receive a lap dance and
not pay.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Oh as it should be.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
I agree, and stole the services from these poor young ladies.
Just try to make it through nursing school. How dare you?
You can get arrested for that, So don't do. It's
National Potato Chip Day, National Children's Craft Day, and National
Pie Day three point one four, whichever year. I wonder
why we have that day, but we do, so happy
(10:23):
three point one day. I would prefer it with pie Day,
like apple pie. So maybe maybe I'll make it that. Yeah,
I'll make it something where I can stuff my face
with the sugary substance because I love that.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
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