Hawaii is enacting a "green fee" to help combat climate changing. Faizan Zaki is the Scripps National Spelling Bee champion! A girl sung a Moana song on a flight that had a 2 hour delay. A Jacksonville man put a ferret down his pants and stole it. A viral video of Burger King teen worker went to work right after high school gradation. He went to work right after to help save money for college and a customer recorded him and posted the video online and has raised over $40,000 for his college funds!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Fred's show is on Fred's Biggest Stories of the Day.
Noone texted handwriting, not even curse up, just general handwriting.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
No one taught you that is getting scary.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
I kind of believe it depending on how old you are,
because I mean, you got laptops at iPads and tablets
and whatever plenty, so it's like, you know, it's gone
of the days when you got to pick out your
trapper keeper, you know, And if you don't know what
that is, I'm not that old. So if you don't
(00:30):
know what that is, you missed. You missed out, you know.
I guess now you can pick the cover that goes
on your iPad or something. I don't know, but like
a trapper keeper, man, that that spoke to who you
were at the time, your style, your interests.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Yes, you know if you were that girl? Were you?
I was sometimes that girl? Sometimes I was that girl?
Speaker 1 (00:49):
You know every now that you My mom would like
to come to the peer pressure and be like, fine,
you can have the fatty thing that everybody wants.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
But for the most part she would never let me
do that.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
She never she'd never keep up with the joneses my mom,
except for the Nintendo games. You know there was that,
there was that moment I will never forget.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
To look in her eye. I was maybe six years old,
seven years old.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
We went to Chicago and she bought me a Nintendo
at Fao Shorts, and it was a big deal. I
think it was mostly because I was an only child
and my parents were beating divorced, and I think she
wanted me to like play the game instead of watch
my watch my father drink and move out but and
smoke cigarets. But Pauline and I can relate to so
many in so many ways, more more than you would
(01:27):
ever know. Hey, honey, you go play duck Hunt. It
so much fun, you know. I'm pretty sure that was
the motivation. But anyway, and so it came with like
one game that had three games on it. It was
I think it was Mario Brothers Duck Hunt. I don't
know what the third game was. And so that was
fine for its six seven year old whatever. And then
(01:47):
I went to my neighbor's house. My neighbor had one
and he had like eight games. And I came home.
I'm like, mom, so and so has eight games. And
she didn't like this neighbor kid. She's like I'm sorry,
Chad has how many eight games? I'm like, yeah, come on,
get in a car. We go to home depot or no,
not home deepo. We go to towys Ters whatever it was.
And it was now I had ten. I had ten games.
(02:09):
Then she's like, pick out how many you got one?
Pick out seven or eight more, like there's no way
that kid will have more than you. But then most
of the time she wouldn't fall for that, Like, you know,
you know the kid that had more money than everybody else.
They always had the brand new shoes, and they always
had the brand new this and that. My mom wouldn't
she wouldn't fall for that trick. I tried, Yeah, might
(02:30):
be so much cooler mom if I had. She's like,
I guess you're not gonna be cool. You are not
gonna be cool. Then headlines. So it's official. Starting January
first of twenty twenty six, Hawaii is introducing the new
green feet that we talked about to help combat climate change.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
It's gonna be kind of expensive.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
This initiative will raise the states transient accommodation tax from
ten point two five to eleven percent. County SURD charges
will bring the tax a hotel and vacation rentals to
almost nineteen percent, which is the highest in the nation.
So your hotel room is going to be nineteen percent
more just from taxes. Forget about the resort fee. Oh
my god, which a Vegas guy rid of resort fees?
(03:08):
By the way, now the number is the number. I
couldn't stand that. You know, you'd be like, oh, I
could go two hundred bucks, that's cool. You show up
at seven hundred dollars, Like, what is all this? Wat
Weren't you gonna go to the gym? You fatty? I mean,
oh you weren't. You were gonna look at the pool,
weren't you. That's gonna cost you? Oh you thought, oh
you wanted to go in the lobby of the hotel. Oh,
(03:30):
they got to pay the resort fee. Then now it's
all lumped him, but almost twenty percent, the highest in
the nation. To go to Hawaii, the twenty twenty five
scripts National Spelling BEEE has taken place. I cannot even
say the word I know. I mean either that Faison
spelled correctly. And what a story of redemption. To my
understanding as I read it this morning, is that Faison
lost last year and came back and won it all
(03:50):
this year. But I come here, Kiki, come here. I
want you to look at this word. I want you
to look at this word, and then I want you
to tell me how to say that that right there?
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Yeah, how do you say that word? This is a win.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Forget about spelling it? How do you say that word?
Clare cemente cement? That might be the closest, that might
be the closest to anyway the winning word right here? On?
Speaker 2 (04:21):
What you got memos? How do you spell it? Come on?
Clack system on? How do you say? How you come on?
Is right to a great start?
Speaker 1 (04:35):
This p yeah, sounds like.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Clack syphilis? What is it? Syphilis?
Speaker 1 (04:48):
No, no, no, they'll make the kids spell that. Nobody
wants that E C L A I R C I
S S E M E N T M like there's
just absolutely no way.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
There's no way.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
I can't even spell definite, so there's no correctly most
of the time, So there's no way I would have
gotten that right. But Faizan got it right. And it
means a clearing up of something obscure. The winner gets
fifty thousand dollars, which if you can spell eclect SYSTEMA,
then you you should get more than fifty thousand dollars. Honestly,
fifty thousand dollars is not enough money. We need to
(05:23):
adjust for inflation and tariffs. In my opinion, what would
you do in this situation? I gotta find the audio
and I'm played for you in a second. I don't
have it in front of me right now. But flight
attendance let a child sing Mawana songs on the intercom
during a two hour tarmac delay. I've been watching this
video different people's point of view.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
I gotta find it. It's so bad.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
I gotta I'll play it for you to manut. I'll
find it during the song, Well she does.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
But like imagine being trapped on a plane for two hours? Yes,
so it was.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
A two hour tarmac delay a Delta flight to Orlando.
A preteen girl took to the plane to intercom to
sing how far I'll go from Disney's Mowana. Sounds like
that'd be a situation where I'd be asking myself how
far I'll go to not wind up on the no
fly list, but also get off of this plane. The
impromptu performance shared on TikTok by one a Bunch of
users now quickly went viral. Some passengers and Allline viewers
(06:17):
found the gesture heartwarming, others were less amused. The here
is some of the reactions. This is actually my worst
nightmare and personal helm. Absolutely zero hate to this girl,
but major side out of her parents. Yes, she's actually
really good, someone said, And I think it's cute considering
it's a flight to Orlando. Someone else said, but I'm
assuming a flight attendant said okay, yeah, sure, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Whose idea with it? But two hours of.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Saying okay, hey, hey guys, we're gonna be delayed for
a while. We're gonna pass out some water and stuff,
and hey, just the little girl's going to Disney. She's
so excited. You know. Here's a little whatever her name is,
little Sally gonna sing a song from uh Mowana.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
And then she does it.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
And it's like two or three minutes, and even that
I'd be like, oh god, okay, and.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Then oh hey, that was so good.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
To eat some pretzels or whatever, like I don't know.
And then I have two final stories for you here.
One's nice, and one, of course is Smundy. There has
to be a Smundy story, and there has to be
a food related story if I can help it.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
In biggest stories of.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
The day, Jacksonville, Florida police are searching for a guy
who allegedly stole a ferret. So that's bad. You can't
steal ferrets. Where do we if you were going to
steal a ferrot? Where would you think would be a
good place to store the ferret after you've stolen it?
Speaker 2 (07:30):
You know, during your escape? Where would where would you
think a bag? Backpack?
Speaker 1 (07:35):
He put it in his pants. Survalance footage reportedly shows
the guy handling the ferret before placing it down his
shorts and leaving this store. Authorities are actually looking for
this guy. If you know who stole the ferret in
his pants, then you should contact the Jacksonville Sheriff's office.
I mean they got little teeth, yes, and claws right
how big this thing was? And here's a nice story.
(07:57):
McHale is a young man eighteen years old from Georgia,
just half just hours after dawning his cap and gown
headed right to his shift at Burger King, still wearing
his graduation stole and his medals and everything. While his
classmates celebrated, he was making burger King saving him for
college because he had a shift.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
His commitment didn't go unnoticed.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
A fellow customer was so moved by his work ethic
that she shared the video on TikTok. The clip has
gone viral, massing over three million views. She also launched
to go fundme for this young man for his college dreams,
and the community so far has responded, raising forty five
thousand dollars. He was presented with the donations, he was
overwhelmed with emotion. He shared that he'd been considering a
(08:38):
gap year because of financial constraints, but now, thanks to
this incredible support, he's hopeful about attending technical college to
pursue mechanical studies.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
So here's what.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
He graduates high school and he could very easily have
just said, you know, forget you job, I'm going to
go hang out with my friends, which he would have
earned and deserve. No, he went and did his job.
Somebody saw it, and now he's well on his way.
So there's a lesson there. It's National Creativity Day, National
Mint Juleb Day, National Water of Flower Day. Today, I'm
gonna make this little girl famous, get her a record deal.
(09:09):
In just a second, I gotta find his splip for
the Mowana singing, and then I'm gonna play it for
you all, and she can have even more fame if
she wants to. I mean, surely we have more people
listening than people on an airplane. What was that about
one hundred and eighty Maybe okay, never mind, maybe you
should probably know
Fred's show is on Fred's Biggest Stories of the Day.
Noone texted handwriting, not even curse up, just general handwriting.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
No one taught you that is getting scary.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
I kind of believe it depending on how old you are,
because I mean, you got laptops at iPads and tablets
and whatever plenty, so it's like, you know, it's gone
of the days when you got to pick out your
trapper keeper, you know, And if you don't know what
that is, I'm not that old. So if you don't
(00:30):
know what that is, you missed. You missed out, you know.
I guess now you can pick the cover that goes
on your iPad or something. I don't know, but like
a trapper keeper, man, that that spoke to who you
were at the time, your style, your interests.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Yes, you know if you were that girl? Were you?
I was sometimes that girl? Sometimes I was that girl?
Speaker 1 (00:49):
You know every now that you My mom would like
to come to the peer pressure and be like, fine,
you can have the fatty thing that everybody wants.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
But for the most part she would never let me
do that.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
She never she'd never keep up with the joneses my mom,
except for the Nintendo games. You know there was that,
there was that moment I will never forget.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
To look in her eye. I was maybe six years old,
seven years old.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
We went to Chicago and she bought me a Nintendo
at Fao Shorts, and it was a big deal. I
think it was mostly because I was an only child
and my parents were beating divorced, and I think she
wanted me to like play the game instead of watch
my watch my father drink and move out but and
smoke cigarets. But Pauline and I can relate to so
many in so many ways, more more than you would
(01:27):
ever know. Hey, honey, you go play duck Hunt. It
so much fun, you know. I'm pretty sure that was
the motivation. But anyway, and so it came with like
one game that had three games on it. It was
I think it was Mario Brothers Duck Hunt. I don't
know what the third game was. And so that was
fine for its six seven year old whatever. And then
(01:47):
I went to my neighbor's house. My neighbor had one
and he had like eight games. And I came home.
I'm like, mom, so and so has eight games. And
she didn't like this neighbor kid. She's like I'm sorry,
Chad has how many eight games? I'm like, yeah, come on,
get in a car. We go to home depot or no,
not home deepo. We go to towys Ters whatever it was.
And it was now I had ten. I had ten games.
(02:09):
Then she's like, pick out how many you got one?
Pick out seven or eight more, like there's no way
that kid will have more than you. But then most
of the time she wouldn't fall for that, Like, you know,
you know the kid that had more money than everybody else.
They always had the brand new shoes, and they always
had the brand new this and that. My mom wouldn't
she wouldn't fall for that trick. I tried, Yeah, might
(02:30):
be so much cooler mom if I had. She's like,
I guess you're not gonna be cool. You are not
gonna be cool. Then headlines. So it's official. Starting January
first of twenty twenty six, Hawaii is introducing the new
green feet that we talked about to help combat climate change.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
It's gonna be kind of expensive.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
This initiative will raise the states transient accommodation tax from
ten point two five to eleven percent. County SURD charges
will bring the tax a hotel and vacation rentals to
almost nineteen percent, which is the highest in the nation.
So your hotel room is going to be nineteen percent
more just from taxes. Forget about the resort fee. Oh
my god, which a Vegas guy rid of resort fees?
(03:08):
By the way, now the number is the number. I
couldn't stand that. You know, you'd be like, oh, I
could go two hundred bucks, that's cool. You show up
at seven hundred dollars, Like, what is all this? Wat
Weren't you gonna go to the gym? You fatty? I mean,
oh you weren't. You were gonna look at the pool,
weren't you. That's gonna cost you? Oh you thought, oh
you wanted to go in the lobby of the hotel. Oh,
(03:30):
they got to pay the resort fee. Then now it's
all lumped him, but almost twenty percent, the highest in
the nation. To go to Hawaii, the twenty twenty five
scripts National Spelling BEEE has taken place. I cannot even
say the word I know. I mean either that Faison
spelled correctly. And what a story of redemption. To my
understanding as I read it this morning, is that Faison
lost last year and came back and won it all
(03:50):
this year. But I come here, Kiki, come here. I
want you to look at this word. I want you
to look at this word, and then I want you
to tell me how to say that that right there?
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Yeah, how do you say that word? This is a win.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Forget about spelling it? How do you say that word?
Clare cemente cement? That might be the closest, that might
be the closest to anyway the winning word right here? On?
Speaker 2 (04:21):
What you got memos? How do you spell it? Come on?
Clack system on? How do you say? How you come on?
Is right to a great start?
Speaker 1 (04:35):
This p yeah, sounds like.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Clack syphilis? What is it? Syphilis?
Speaker 1 (04:48):
No, no, no, they'll make the kids spell that. Nobody
wants that E C L A I R C I
S S E M E N T M like there's
just absolutely no way.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
There's no way.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
I can't even spell definite, so there's no correctly most
of the time, So there's no way I would have
gotten that right. But Faizan got it right. And it
means a clearing up of something obscure. The winner gets
fifty thousand dollars, which if you can spell eclect SYSTEMA,
then you you should get more than fifty thousand dollars. Honestly,
fifty thousand dollars is not enough money. We need to
(05:23):
adjust for inflation and tariffs. In my opinion, what would
you do in this situation? I gotta find the audio
and I'm played for you in a second. I don't
have it in front of me right now. But flight
attendance let a child sing Mawana songs on the intercom
during a two hour tarmac delay. I've been watching this
video different people's point of view.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
I gotta find it. It's so bad.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
I gotta I'll play it for you to manut. I'll
find it during the song, Well she does.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
But like imagine being trapped on a plane for two hours? Yes,
so it was.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
A two hour tarmac delay a Delta flight to Orlando.
A preteen girl took to the plane to intercom to
sing how far I'll go from Disney's Mowana. Sounds like
that'd be a situation where I'd be asking myself how
far I'll go to not wind up on the no
fly list, but also get off of this plane. The
impromptu performance shared on TikTok by one a Bunch of
users now quickly went viral. Some passengers and Allline viewers
(06:17):
found the gesture heartwarming, others were less amused. The here
is some of the reactions. This is actually my worst
nightmare and personal helm. Absolutely zero hate to this girl,
but major side out of her parents. Yes, she's actually
really good, someone said, And I think it's cute considering
it's a flight to Orlando. Someone else said, but I'm
assuming a flight attendant said okay, yeah, sure, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Whose idea with it? But two hours of.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Saying okay, hey, hey guys, we're gonna be delayed for
a while. We're gonna pass out some water and stuff,
and hey, just the little girl's going to Disney. She's
so excited. You know. Here's a little whatever her name is,
little Sally gonna sing a song from uh Mowana.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
And then she does it.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
And it's like two or three minutes, and even that
I'd be like, oh god, okay, and.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Then oh hey, that was so good.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
To eat some pretzels or whatever, like I don't know.
And then I have two final stories for you here.
One's nice, and one, of course is Smundy. There has
to be a Smundy story, and there has to be
a food related story if I can help it.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
In biggest stories of.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
The day, Jacksonville, Florida police are searching for a guy
who allegedly stole a ferret. So that's bad. You can't
steal ferrets. Where do we if you were going to
steal a ferrot? Where would you think would be a
good place to store the ferret after you've stolen it?
Speaker 2 (07:30):
You know, during your escape? Where would where would you
think a bag? Backpack?
Speaker 1 (07:35):
He put it in his pants. Survalance footage reportedly shows
the guy handling the ferret before placing it down his
shorts and leaving this store. Authorities are actually looking for
this guy. If you know who stole the ferret in
his pants, then you should contact the Jacksonville Sheriff's office.
I mean they got little teeth, yes, and claws right
how big this thing was? And here's a nice story.
(07:57):
McHale is a young man eighteen years old from Georgia,
just half just hours after dawning his cap and gown
headed right to his shift at Burger King, still wearing
his graduation stole and his medals and everything. While his
classmates celebrated, he was making burger King saving him for
college because he had a shift.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
His commitment didn't go unnoticed.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
A fellow customer was so moved by his work ethic
that she shared the video on TikTok. The clip has
gone viral, massing over three million views. She also launched
to go fundme for this young man for his college dreams,
and the community so far has responded, raising forty five
thousand dollars. He was presented with the donations, he was
overwhelmed with emotion. He shared that he'd been considering a
(08:38):
gap year because of financial constraints, but now, thanks to
this incredible support, he's hopeful about attending technical college to
pursue mechanical studies.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
So here's what.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
He graduates high school and he could very easily have
just said, you know, forget you job, I'm going to
go hang out with my friends, which he would have
earned and deserve. No, he went and did his job.
Somebody saw it, and now he's well on his way.
So there's a lesson there. It's National Creativity Day, National
Mint Juleb Day, National Water of Flower Day. Today, I'm
gonna make this little girl famous, get her a record deal.
(09:09):
In just a second, I gotta find his splip for
the Mowana singing, and then I'm gonna play it for
you all, and she can have even more fame if
she wants to. I mean, surely we have more people
listening than people on an airplane. What was that about
one hundred and eighty Maybe okay, never mind, maybe you
should probably know
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