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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Red Show is on Fred's Biggest Stories of the Day.
The people are asking for Bella's mom to come on
and explain herself, and I'm open to this. I'm open
to an apology. Is when I'm open to I'd like
an apology. Oh yet, I want to make sure that
we are very clear on who it is that you know,
maybe mom would want to go after and who they wouldn't,
(00:20):
because I don't I think she may have missfired on
that one. Like I don't know, I don't know. I
can give her some emails of people that she can
contact if she'd like to, you know, chat about what's
right and wrong. So yeah, I don't know. Why me though,
Did you guys get anything in your junk mail? Or Oh?
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Yeah, I know, I'm good, Miss Judice. I don't want
any smoke.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Well, I thought I was too, only to find out
I wasn't.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
I realized that she's in the Bay Area, so it's
rather early there. We don't have to wake her up.
I don't want to do that smoking a cigar somewhere
that's a pipe or something. Really, so, you know, the
end of a long day of doing nothing, you just
according to Bella, Bella said that not mean. Yah. Bella
is the one for the record, mom, Mom is the
(01:09):
Bella is the one who said you don't do anything
all day and then you smoke a cigar at the
end of the day. That's aggressive though, like it really is,
but it's kind of goals. It is gold.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Why you tired? That's gonna be me somewhere.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
You'll see me with a cigar palm springs it to
you with a big stoga hanging at your mouth.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
I found my spot when I was there on vacation.
I found my spot. It's actually you can drink wine
and have a cigar at the same time. Wow, ran
the patio booth.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Okay, all right? Good alcoholism and mouth cancer?
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Great? Yes, say gambling.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
I mean, I guess you get to a certain point
in your life where you may as well just enjoy, right.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Right, wouldn't you.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
I don't get cigars. They look cool, but they don't
do nothing to me.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Nah, well they I think people like the taste and
the experience.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
Yeah, I feel like Tony Soprano when I smoke one,
But other than that, I'm like, what am I really doing?
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Well?
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Does it have to get you high? Seems is it Okay,
if it doesn't, it is, but it.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Seems pointless, like why are we doing.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
It's kind of like a relaxing activity, and I think
the nicotine does get into your system.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
I used to work in a cigar store.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
So I guess I'm defending the practice two different ones,
high school and college.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Yeah, I'm really envious. What did you do there? I
sold cigars o like Stockholm. I didn't roll them. I
didn't sit there with a straw hat. Yeah, I got fired.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Remember that, I've only been fired from one job in
my whole life, and it was that one. Well, in retrospect,
I probably should have gotten fired. But then again, well
there's two sides of this. So I worked at a
cigar store in college, right, so college students, I should
have gotten fired from two jobs cause I was working
in radio at the same time college students. As you know,
like the semester ends on the tenth of December or something,
(02:45):
and you don't go back until the tenth of the anywhere.
So I was unavailable to work during the holidays, which
in retail is the busiest time, and then it's when
everybody gets vacations.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
So I go to the radio station.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
I'm like, hey, I'm out of here, see in January,
and they're like, like, you know you work on Christmas.
Bro I'm like, but I don't because I don't live here,
you know, I live somewhere else and going home. So
somehow I didn't get fired for that, but I mean
in retrospect, they should have, because it's like, wait, wait
a minute, this is the reason that you this reason
we put up with you so that you can be
on the you know, in the middle of the night
when the middle of the night guy wants to go
and you know, celebrate Honaker or whatever. And then the
(03:20):
same thing with the cigar store. They were like, really
your limb, But I taught they knew that when I
got the job. So I get back from holiday break
and the manager did not like me, and he said, hey,
you know, I called say hey, when am I working.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
He was like, well, come down here. So I go
down there.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
He takes me in the back room and this is
a kind of cigar store where you could you could
smoke in the store.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
They had like a little lounge. Yeah, and all of
the all of.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
The customers were like lawyers and doctors and stuff, and
they'd come at the end of the day and they'd
all sit around and like it was kind of a
I don't know. There were like some notorious people that
in town that would come smoke in this little lounge
and have their little whiskey or whatever they and.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
So they have.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
They walk me through the lounge, take me to I
taped into back, and he was like, we don't have
any need for you here anymore, like you're off the
schedule because we went a month without you.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
We were fine. Wow.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
So I'm like, wow, okay, I mean here, I am,
what nineteen eighteen years eighteen years old, never been fired before.
I'm like wow, okay. So I walk out and all
the regulars in the room were like, where are you going.
I'm like, uh, what's his name? I can't remember his name?
Just fired me and they're like what. And so I'm
like okay. So I go home and the next morning
(04:28):
the owner of the store calls me and says, I'm
on firing you. I never I never authorized that, and
the regulars want to know why.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
They're not happy. So you get to come back. Yes.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
So that was a great working environment where the manager
manager loved me because every basically he had no juice
on me anyway, like, no juice over me anymore.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Like, yeah, you know I could do.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
I could blow smoke in his face now because I
couldn't get fired by him.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
But imagine that. Imagine if you.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Fired someone as a manager, Jason, and then a bomb
goes over your head and was like, really you fired
that person?
Speaker 3 (04:57):
No, unfired? Well, then that person's a respect you anymore. Right,
it seems likely, but it would still bug me. Yeah, No,
that does sound like something it would happen around. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Yeah, I did talk to the guy the other day.
He's doing very well, the guy who they forgot to fire.
If you've been listening for a while, you might remember
that story. The first time I was on the radio
during the day, I showed up. It was a Saturday
at like nine forty five. I was ten to two.
First time I'd ever been on with light shining through
the window. It's so nervous. I show up and the
(05:26):
guy who normally would have been on at that time
showed up at the same time, and he's like, what
are you doing here? And I'm like, I don't know.
They called me last night and told me to come in.
He's like, why would they do that? You know I
do this six days a week. I'm like, I don't know, man.
So he goes out in the hallway, gets on the phone.
I can see him through the glass. He's not in
the sad. He's like, okay, all right, comes Dany, grabs
his bag. He goes they forgot to fire me, and
watch out. They were supposed to fire him at five
(05:49):
o'clock or like two o'clock whenever, got off the air
on Friday, and somehow they just they failed to mention
that to him. They forgot, and so they called. But
they remembered to tell me to come in to cover
for him, right, But they forgot to tell him for
the reason why.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
So that was awkward, got it?
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Yeah? At least, hey, at least they did the post
planning part. That's usually the part that we forget about.
We are really good in this company at firing people.
But what we forget to do sometimes. And I hear
Stephanie Spielberg just walked out of the room. She wants
nothing to do with this. She's actually she's physically hiding
from me. Now she's under the table. No, we're really
(06:28):
good at firing people. And then we remember, oh, wait,
they did something here that we needed them to do,
and then and then we have to figure that out.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
But yeah, that's what you've been fired from. Ever been fired,
never fired, none of you.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
No one's ever been fired in this room. Well wow,
that's amazing. Have you ever quit in glorious fashion? I
feel like most people have been fired from jobs. I've
just have been very lucky, especially in this business.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Not that what. But today's a new day.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
So I live in fear of it constantly.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
But I have not no but why you're not doing
anything to anybody?
Speaker 4 (07:04):
I don't know. I've seen it happen for much less.
I don't know. I'm just I have imposters syndrome.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
I've seen it have it for way more. So yeah,
yeah that's true. Also yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
I'm trying my boss to not do anything to get
myself fired.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
But fair I I can tell you if I can
give you a few ideas things he wouldn't want to
do headlines. George Went, who played Norm Peterson on the
beloved NBC comedy Cheers, passed away peacefully in his sleep
at his home on Tuesday. He was seventy six years old.
He grew up in Chicago, got to start at Second City.
He received six straight Emmy Award nominations for Best Supporting
(07:36):
Actor in a Comedy Series for his role on Cheers,
but he never won. He had many other roles on
stage and screen during his long career, and starred in
the short lived George Wentz Show after Cheers ended.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
I met the guy one time. He's a very nice guy.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
I am not posting the picture that I have with
him because there's a pet peeve that I have that
many of us in this room have that you know,
a lot of us in his industry are fortunate enough
to have met famous pele. We don't know these people
in ninety nine percent of the time. They are not
my friend. Ninety eight percent of the time, I'll never
see him again, and they don't remember me. So for
me to post a picture standing next to them that
(08:11):
one time that they were forced to take it with
me when they died, as if I somehow had some
role in their life, would be wrong to do. Yet
everybody in this industry does it. It's like one time
I met the guy at a wiffle ball tournament in
Chicago at Wrigleyfield, and one time would be the only
time I ever saw the guy, so I don't haven't.
(08:32):
There's no reason why I would make it about me.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
It's not what you know. How I feel about this.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
I feel like you should post a photo because when
I go, I want everybody in here to post photo.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
I know you, I know you, I love you, but
you're my sister.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
I know you.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Even the people I've only met once. If you have
a photo of us together, post I want the timeline
lit with me after I get up out of here.
I hear you, But it's like honoring the person. Like
you know, man, I got a chance to meet this guy.
He was great, he was funny. Like, it's not you know,
it's honoring him.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Can we honor them without inserting ourselves like.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
I might post a picture of you, befirst of all,
I'm going to go far before you. But you know,
in the event of your untimely death, I don't need
to be included in my tribute to you. I'm not
because you're all about me. I didn't do anything. It's
your life that we're honoring.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Well, let me sell you.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Yeah, if any of y'all get up out of here
before me, I am going to post our pictures together.
It's gonna be a whole collage of us, all of
our memories, all of our fun time.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
And it sounds like Stephanie Spielberg. The audio Lady's going
to post a bunch of audio and me saying stuff
I should.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Never have said.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Oh, but I'm dead at that point, I'm dead, So
go right ahead.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Yeah, it's fine.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
The Senate passed the No Tax on Tips Act, which
rolls off the tongue with the unanimous one hundred to
nothing vote, a surprise move that removes federal income text
on tips for service workers like waiters, bartenders, and hairdressers.
The bill, which was introduced by a Democratic Senator of
Nevada and our republic senator of Texas, would let workers
(09:59):
keep more of their tip money. It was a key
promise from President Donald Trump's twenty twenty four campaign, gaining
popularity among voters. That act allows a tax deduction of
up to twenty five thousand dollars for cash tips, but
most workers must report tips to their employers.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
The Senate passed it quickly.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
The NFL is going to the Olympics, guys, But this
doesn't sound that cool. Maybe it's flag football. NFL players
playing flag football in the Olympics, which seems kind of
like an I don't know, she's kind of like an
exhibition or something like. You got these dudes that can
like tackle each other, you know, these these strong athletic specimen,
(10:40):
and now we're like just daintily ripping flags off I mean,
I mean. NFL owners approved a proposal that clears the
way for players to be involved in the flag football
tournament at the twenty twenty eighth Summer Olympics. The owners
voted to approve the proposal at their spring meetings in Minnesota,
of all places. The twenty twenty eight Summer Olympics will
be held from July fourteenth to July thirtieth. Under the
(11:01):
terms of the resolution, all players under NFL contract would
be allowed to participate in tryouts for flag football teams.
The Olympic rosters will be selected by each country's national
Olympic committees. Just one player per team would be allowed
on each national team. Each team's designated international player would
be allowed to play for his home country.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Okay for the gamers.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
After five years, Fortnite returns to Apple's app store. At
one point, they had said that it violated its policies.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
The app store.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Apple had said that, but introducing a way for users
to circumvent Apple's in payment app system. I don't know
they're mad about that, but it's back. If you're into that,
and the party is over you guys, if you want
to rent an Airbnb, they're going to make the no
fun police have taken over. This summer, Airbnb is turning
up the heat on party prevention with its latest anti
party technology. So just in time from Memorial Day and
(11:56):
the fourth of July, the platform is deploying machine learning
tools to identify and block high risk bookings that could
lead to disruptive gatherings the symptom. The system analyzes factors
like trip length, booking timing, and distance from the guest
location to flag potential party plans. Since implementing these measures
in twenty twenty, Airbnb reports a fifty percent drop in
(12:18):
party incidents across the US. In twenty twenty four alone,
over fifty one thousand attempts to book potentially problematic rentals
during holiday weekends were blocked or redirected. So, if you
want an Airbnb, go there and sleep only. Don't talk,
don't listen to loud music, don't eat anything, don't use
the bathroom. Clean up, Yeah, clean up after yourself. I
(12:41):
would be so angry if I got an Airbnb and
like it was, I was expected to leave the place spicking.
Is that part of it? I thought that was part
of the deal. It's like I'm renting your house. I mean,
I can't trash it, but I don't if I'm on
vacation and I'm renting your home, I don't want to
then like sweep before I go.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
I don't want to be housekeeping.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
That's what I'm saying, because it's my vacation and they
charge you a cleaning fee.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Yeah, you get charged a cleaning fee.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
And they also leave the brooms out and you are
supposed to do your laundry and follld the clothes and
put it back.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
I have never been asked to broom to sweep. I'm
gonna telling you they do it.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
I'm seeing one next week and I will just like
out of my own kindness, like take the trash out
and take the sheets off the bed.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
But I'm not gonna sweep, clean the fridge, mop the floors,
pank the house.
Speaker 5 (13:22):
And also we need technology to know if someone's partying,
like oh they watch oh for sure everybody has a
ring camera.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Yeah, well that's the other thing, you know, the cameras,
and who knows where all the cameras are. That's been
a thing that's been a problem by the way they put, oh,
these are security cameras to protect my investment. It's like, then,
why is it in the toilet? He didn't need to
be there.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
Enjoy whatever you see.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
He weirdos and the Chicago Sometimes Summer reading list, Man,
I wish they had I wish they had a chat
GPT when I had to submit a summer reading list
to Mike, did you have to do that? You know,
you're supposed to read a bunch of books during the summer, like,
and then you're supposed to prove it by submitting a
list on the first day of school. I had english
be like, what'd you read this summer? And you know
(14:02):
there was always that one kid that had like a
binder full of books they read, and I had to like,
I think I was the same list of books every
year that I submitted because I didn't read anything in
the summer, which surprises no one, but The Sun Times
says it's looking into how a reading list that featured
fake books made it into print. Many are saying that
it was made by AI and it included books that
(14:24):
don't even exist. So it was in Sunday's newspaper and
included books that don't exist by real authors. Social media
users have alleged the list was created by AI. The
newspaper said that the list was licensed content that was
not created or approved by the paper's newsroom. The paper
went on to say it's unacceptable for any content. It
provides two inch readers to be inaccurate, and then later
(14:45):
confirmed that it was an AI generated list. So Paulina
works at the Suntimes Now and she typed into her
friend Chad GPT, I need a summer reading list for
the people, and they spit out a bunch of books
that you can't even buy.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
No, that don't exist.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
All right, that would be my luck, though I would
do that probably in school too, if I had this available.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
This is where we're headed, you guys, this is where
we're head. No, it's really read.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
It's Emergency Medical Services for Children Day, National Weight Staff Day,
and you don't have to pay tax on tips now
and National American Red Cross Founder's Day. The Entertainment Report
will do it next. Blogs After that are audio journals
waiting by the phone.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
He's new this morning. Why did somebody get ghosted?
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Game Show Wednesday, Big Money with Kiki and the Showdown
all coming up.
The Red Show is on Fred's Biggest Stories of the Day.
The people are asking for Bella's mom to come on
and explain herself, and I'm open to this. I'm open
to an apology. Is when I'm open to I'd like
an apology. Oh yet, I want to make sure that
we are very clear on who it is that you know,
maybe mom would want to go after and who they wouldn't,
(00:20):
because I don't I think she may have missfired on
that one. Like I don't know, I don't know. I
can give her some emails of people that she can
contact if she'd like to, you know, chat about what's
right and wrong. So yeah, I don't know. Why me though,
Did you guys get anything in your junk mail? Or Oh?
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Yeah, I know, I'm good, Miss Judice. I don't want
any smoke.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Well, I thought I was too, only to find out
I wasn't.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
I realized that she's in the Bay Area, so it's
rather early there. We don't have to wake her up.
I don't want to do that smoking a cigar somewhere
that's a pipe or something. Really, so, you know, the
end of a long day of doing nothing, you just
according to Bella, Bella said that not mean. Yah. Bella
is the one for the record, mom, Mom is the
(01:09):
Bella is the one who said you don't do anything
all day and then you smoke a cigar at the
end of the day. That's aggressive though, like it really is,
but it's kind of goals. It is gold.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Why you tired? That's gonna be me somewhere.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
You'll see me with a cigar palm springs it to
you with a big stoga hanging at your mouth.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
I found my spot when I was there on vacation.
I found my spot. It's actually you can drink wine
and have a cigar at the same time. Wow, ran
the patio booth.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Okay, all right? Good alcoholism and mouth cancer?
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Great? Yes, say gambling.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
I mean, I guess you get to a certain point
in your life where you may as well just enjoy, right.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Right, wouldn't you.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
I don't get cigars. They look cool, but they don't
do nothing to me.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Nah, well they I think people like the taste and
the experience.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
Yeah, I feel like Tony Soprano when I smoke one,
But other than that, I'm like, what am I really doing?
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Well?
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Does it have to get you high? Seems is it Okay,
if it doesn't, it is, but it.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Seems pointless, like why are we doing.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
It's kind of like a relaxing activity, and I think
the nicotine does get into your system.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
I used to work in a cigar store.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
So I guess I'm defending the practice two different ones,
high school and college.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Yeah, I'm really envious. What did you do there? I
sold cigars o like Stockholm. I didn't roll them. I
didn't sit there with a straw hat. Yeah, I got fired.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Remember that, I've only been fired from one job in
my whole life, and it was that one. Well, in retrospect,
I probably should have gotten fired. But then again, well
there's two sides of this. So I worked at a
cigar store in college, right, so college students, I should
have gotten fired from two jobs cause I was working
in radio at the same time college students. As you know,
like the semester ends on the tenth of December or something,
(02:45):
and you don't go back until the tenth of the anywhere.
So I was unavailable to work during the holidays, which
in retail is the busiest time, and then it's when
everybody gets vacations.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
So I go to the radio station.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
I'm like, hey, I'm out of here, see in January,
and they're like, like, you know you work on Christmas.
Bro I'm like, but I don't because I don't live here,
you know, I live somewhere else and going home. So
somehow I didn't get fired for that, but I mean
in retrospect, they should have, because it's like, wait, wait
a minute, this is the reason that you this reason
we put up with you so that you can be
on the you know, in the middle of the night
when the middle of the night guy wants to go
and you know, celebrate Honaker or whatever. And then the
(03:20):
same thing with the cigar store. They were like, really
your limb, But I taught they knew that when I
got the job. So I get back from holiday break
and the manager did not like me, and he said, hey,
you know, I called say hey, when am I working.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
He was like, well, come down here. So I go
down there.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
He takes me in the back room and this is
a kind of cigar store where you could you could
smoke in the store.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
They had like a little lounge. Yeah, and all of
the all of.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
The customers were like lawyers and doctors and stuff, and
they'd come at the end of the day and they'd
all sit around and like it was kind of a
I don't know. There were like some notorious people that
in town that would come smoke in this little lounge
and have their little whiskey or whatever they and.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
So they have.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
They walk me through the lounge, take me to I
taped into back, and he was like, we don't have
any need for you here anymore, like you're off the
schedule because we went a month without you.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
We were fine. Wow.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
So I'm like, wow, okay, I mean here, I am,
what nineteen eighteen years eighteen years old, never been fired before.
I'm like wow, okay. So I walk out and all
the regulars in the room were like, where are you going.
I'm like, uh, what's his name? I can't remember his name?
Just fired me and they're like what. And so I'm
like okay. So I go home and the next morning
(04:28):
the owner of the store calls me and says, I'm
on firing you. I never I never authorized that, and
the regulars want to know why.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
They're not happy. So you get to come back. Yes.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
So that was a great working environment where the manager
manager loved me because every basically he had no juice
on me anyway, like, no juice over me anymore.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Like, yeah, you know I could do.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
I could blow smoke in his face now because I
couldn't get fired by him.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
But imagine that. Imagine if you.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Fired someone as a manager, Jason, and then a bomb
goes over your head and was like, really you fired
that person?
Speaker 3 (04:57):
No, unfired? Well, then that person's a respect you anymore. Right,
it seems likely, but it would still bug me. Yeah, No,
that does sound like something it would happen around. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Yeah, I did talk to the guy the other day.
He's doing very well, the guy who they forgot to fire.
If you've been listening for a while, you might remember
that story. The first time I was on the radio
during the day, I showed up. It was a Saturday
at like nine forty five. I was ten to two.
First time I'd ever been on with light shining through
the window. It's so nervous. I show up and the
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guy who normally would have been on at that time
showed up at the same time, and he's like, what
are you doing here? And I'm like, I don't know.
They called me last night and told me to come in.
He's like, why would they do that? You know I
do this six days a week. I'm like, I don't know, man.
So he goes out in the hallway, gets on the phone.
I can see him through the glass. He's not in
the sad. He's like, okay, all right, comes Dany, grabs
his bag. He goes they forgot to fire me, and
watch out. They were supposed to fire him at five
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o'clock or like two o'clock whenever, got off the air
on Friday, and somehow they just they failed to mention
that to him. They forgot, and so they called. But
they remembered to tell me to come in to cover
for him, right, But they forgot to tell him for
the reason why.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
So that was awkward, got it?
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Yeah? At least, hey, at least they did the post
planning part. That's usually the part that we forget about.
We are really good in this company at firing people.
But what we forget to do sometimes. And I hear
Stephanie Spielberg just walked out of the room. She wants
nothing to do with this. She's actually she's physically hiding
from me. Now she's under the table. No, we're really
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good at firing people. And then we remember, oh, wait,
they did something here that we needed them to do,
and then and then we have to figure that out.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
But yeah, that's what you've been fired from. Ever been fired,
never fired, none of you.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
No one's ever been fired in this room. Well wow,
that's amazing. Have you ever quit in glorious fashion? I
feel like most people have been fired from jobs. I've
just have been very lucky, especially in this business.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Not that what. But today's a new day.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
So I live in fear of it constantly.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
But I have not no but why you're not doing
anything to anybody?
Speaker 4 (07:04):
I don't know. I've seen it happen for much less.
I don't know. I'm just I have imposters syndrome.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
I've seen it have it for way more. So yeah,
yeah that's true. Also yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
I'm trying my boss to not do anything to get
myself fired.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
But fair I I can tell you if I can
give you a few ideas things he wouldn't want to
do headlines. George Went, who played Norm Peterson on the
beloved NBC comedy Cheers, passed away peacefully in his sleep
at his home on Tuesday. He was seventy six years old.
He grew up in Chicago, got to start at Second City.
He received six straight Emmy Award nominations for Best Supporting
(07:36):
Actor in a Comedy Series for his role on Cheers,
but he never won. He had many other roles on
stage and screen during his long career, and starred in
the short lived George Wentz Show after Cheers ended.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
I met the guy one time. He's a very nice guy.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
I am not posting the picture that I have with
him because there's a pet peeve that I have that
many of us in this room have that you know,
a lot of us in his industry are fortunate enough
to have met famous pele. We don't know these people
in ninety nine percent of the time. They are not
my friend. Ninety eight percent of the time, I'll never
see him again, and they don't remember me. So for
me to post a picture standing next to them that
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one time that they were forced to take it with
me when they died, as if I somehow had some
role in their life, would be wrong to do. Yet
everybody in this industry does it. It's like one time
I met the guy at a wiffle ball tournament in
Chicago at Wrigleyfield, and one time would be the only
time I ever saw the guy, so I don't haven't.
(08:32):
There's no reason why I would make it about me.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
It's not what you know. How I feel about this.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
I feel like you should post a photo because when
I go, I want everybody in here to post photo.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
I know you, I know you, I love you, but
you're my sister.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
I know you.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Even the people I've only met once. If you have
a photo of us together, post I want the timeline
lit with me after I get up out of here.
I hear you, But it's like honoring the person. Like
you know, man, I got a chance to meet this guy.
He was great, he was funny. Like, it's not you know,
it's honoring him.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Can we honor them without inserting ourselves like.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
I might post a picture of you, befirst of all,
I'm going to go far before you. But you know,
in the event of your untimely death, I don't need
to be included in my tribute to you. I'm not
because you're all about me. I didn't do anything. It's
your life that we're honoring.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Well, let me sell you.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Yeah, if any of y'all get up out of here
before me, I am going to post our pictures together.
It's gonna be a whole collage of us, all of
our memories, all of our fun time.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
And it sounds like Stephanie Spielberg. The audio Lady's going
to post a bunch of audio and me saying stuff
I should.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Never have said.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Oh, but I'm dead at that point, I'm dead, So
go right ahead.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Yeah, it's fine.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
The Senate passed the No Tax on Tips Act, which
rolls off the tongue with the unanimous one hundred to
nothing vote, a surprise move that removes federal income text
on tips for service workers like waiters, bartenders, and hairdressers.
The bill, which was introduced by a Democratic Senator of
Nevada and our republic senator of Texas, would let workers
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keep more of their tip money. It was a key
promise from President Donald Trump's twenty twenty four campaign, gaining
popularity among voters. That act allows a tax deduction of
up to twenty five thousand dollars for cash tips, but
most workers must report tips to their employers.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
The Senate passed it quickly.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
The NFL is going to the Olympics, guys, But this
doesn't sound that cool. Maybe it's flag football. NFL players
playing flag football in the Olympics, which seems kind of
like an I don't know, she's kind of like an
exhibition or something like. You got these dudes that can
like tackle each other, you know, these these strong athletic specimen,
(10:40):
and now we're like just daintily ripping flags off I mean,
I mean. NFL owners approved a proposal that clears the
way for players to be involved in the flag football
tournament at the twenty twenty eighth Summer Olympics. The owners
voted to approve the proposal at their spring meetings in Minnesota,
of all places. The twenty twenty eight Summer Olympics will
be held from July fourteenth to July thirtieth. Under the
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terms of the resolution, all players under NFL contract would
be allowed to participate in tryouts for flag football teams.
The Olympic rosters will be selected by each country's national
Olympic committees. Just one player per team would be allowed
on each national team. Each team's designated international player would
be allowed to play for his home country.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Okay for the gamers.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
After five years, Fortnite returns to Apple's app store. At
one point, they had said that it violated its policies.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
The app store.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Apple had said that, but introducing a way for users
to circumvent Apple's in payment app system. I don't know
they're mad about that, but it's back. If you're into that,
and the party is over you guys, if you want
to rent an Airbnb, they're going to make the no
fun police have taken over. This summer, Airbnb is turning
up the heat on party prevention with its latest anti
party technology. So just in time from Memorial Day and
(11:56):
the fourth of July, the platform is deploying machine learning
tools to identify and block high risk bookings that could
lead to disruptive gatherings the symptom. The system analyzes factors
like trip length, booking timing, and distance from the guest
location to flag potential party plans. Since implementing these measures
in twenty twenty, Airbnb reports a fifty percent drop in
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party incidents across the US. In twenty twenty four alone,
over fifty one thousand attempts to book potentially problematic rentals
during holiday weekends were blocked or redirected. So, if you
want an Airbnb, go there and sleep only. Don't talk,
don't listen to loud music, don't eat anything, don't use
the bathroom. Clean up, Yeah, clean up after yourself. I
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would be so angry if I got an Airbnb and
like it was, I was expected to leave the place spicking.
Is that part of it? I thought that was part
of the deal. It's like I'm renting your house. I mean,
I can't trash it, but I don't if I'm on
vacation and I'm renting your home, I don't want to
then like sweep before I go.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
I don't want to be housekeeping.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
That's what I'm saying, because it's my vacation and they
charge you a cleaning fee.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Yeah, you get charged a cleaning fee.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
And they also leave the brooms out and you are
supposed to do your laundry and follld the clothes and
put it back.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
I have never been asked to broom to sweep. I'm
gonna telling you they do it.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
I'm seeing one next week and I will just like
out of my own kindness, like take the trash out
and take the sheets off the bed.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
But I'm not gonna sweep, clean the fridge, mop the floors,
pank the house.
Speaker 5 (13:22):
And also we need technology to know if someone's partying,
like oh they watch oh for sure everybody has a
ring camera.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Yeah, well that's the other thing, you know, the cameras,
and who knows where all the cameras are. That's been
a thing that's been a problem by the way they put, oh,
these are security cameras to protect my investment. It's like, then,
why is it in the toilet? He didn't need to
be there.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
Enjoy whatever you see.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
He weirdos and the Chicago Sometimes Summer reading list, Man,
I wish they had I wish they had a chat
GPT when I had to submit a summer reading list
to Mike, did you have to do that? You know,
you're supposed to read a bunch of books during the summer, like,
and then you're supposed to prove it by submitting a
list on the first day of school. I had english
be like, what'd you read this summer? And you know
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there was always that one kid that had like a
binder full of books they read, and I had to like,
I think I was the same list of books every
year that I submitted because I didn't read anything in
the summer, which surprises no one, but The Sun Times
says it's looking into how a reading list that featured
fake books made it into print. Many are saying that
it was made by AI and it included books that
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don't even exist. So it was in Sunday's newspaper and
included books that don't exist by real authors. Social media
users have alleged the list was created by AI. The
newspaper said that the list was licensed content that was
not created or approved by the paper's newsroom. The paper
went on to say it's unacceptable for any content. It
provides two inch readers to be inaccurate, and then later
(14:45):
confirmed that it was an AI generated list. So Paulina
works at the Suntimes Now and she typed into her
friend Chad GPT, I need a summer reading list for
the people, and they spit out a bunch of books
that you can't even buy.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
No, that don't exist.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
All right, that would be my luck, though I would
do that probably in school too, if I had this available.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
This is where we're headed, you guys, this is where
we're head. No, it's really read.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
It's Emergency Medical Services for Children Day, National Weight Staff Day,
and you don't have to pay tax on tips now
and National American Red Cross Founder's Day. The Entertainment Report
will do it next. Blogs After that are audio journals
waiting by the phone.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
He's new this morning. Why did somebody get ghosted?
Speaker 1 (15:24):
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