Fred's Biggest Stories of the Day: LA News Anchor, United Flight, Average Commute Time, Ohio Amusement Park, & The Sperminator Retires!

An LA News caster spilled his marriage problems on air. Some people were offended by what the United Airlines television said. The average American commutes 26 minutes for work. An Ohio amusement park is telling customers to keep their mouths closed while riding roller-coasters because they don't want them to swallow cicadas! "The Sperminator" is retiring from donating his sperm, he has 176 biological children.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:28):
All thanks to the Live Nation Bright the biggest stories
of the day.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
This is news, but he Fox Love and la Errol reporter,
a dude named Stu Mondel was caught I guess on
the air talking about his marriage or lack thereof. This
was during the No King's protest coverage, but instead it's
him talking about I guess how things aren't going so

(00:54):
well at home and this was all on TV.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
Apparently. I hate it when that happens. Terrible.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
The answer is yes, you know what, I don't care.
I don't care about my.

Speaker 4 (01:11):
I I am married, I am I am legally married.
I am legally married. That's about the only way you
can really say it. I am legally married, but I
am not looking at now at all. I I uh,
just had a bunch of debacles with my personal life. Yes,
it's true. I know it's hard to believe somebody that

(01:33):
doesn't even know what he's talking about in a relationship
and you know, yeah TV.

Speaker 3 (01:38):
But yeah, I got.

Speaker 4 (01:40):
Nothing right now, got nothing, got nothing, not really looking
uh you know, trying to trying to find myself and
be happy. I'm being serious about that.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
So I don't know if this is like a stream
and he didn't realize that, like you could watch this.

Speaker 3 (01:57):
I want to behold I want to be beholden to
no one.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
At this he's still going, I mean sad.

Speaker 3 (02:04):
Of course.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
He's got cats, he said's got cash.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
Anyway, So I'm thinking this was some kind of stream
because if it were on the actual television, I feel
like somebody, a director or somebody would have been like, Okay,
we got that, or maybe maybe we just we roll
with it, maybe we stick with it, you know, so
that we go viral.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
I'm not sure. But you know, poor guy, he's legally married.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
Is this stew but he's you know, I guess things
aren't going well legally married, but he's not looking. In
case you're wondering, I think a lot of people have
been asking he wants to beholden to no one, which
I like that. I I I like that too, So anyway,
I had that's my list of little sound clips today.
I want to be beholden to no one, says helicopter

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reporter man. The Oklahoma City Thunder defeated the Indiana Pacers
to tie the NBA Finals at two games apiece, and
in the Stanley Cup Finals, the Panthers run the verge
of repeat after blowing out the Oilers in game five.
If you were offended by this and nothing surprises me anymore,
the level of the very low bar I think it
takes to offend most people these days. I think we

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need to be a little tougher like as a society.
I think we need to be a little tougher because
United Airlines passengers were shocked, according to the headline, by
a loud message that greeted them on every in flight
video screen on the plane. When they recently got on
a plane to Chicago, they were greeted with a loud
message that said welcome a board flight bite me one

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to Chicago.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
WHOA, Now that's silly.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
I mean I would laugh, first of all, but bite
me one like that hurts your feelings.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
Really, it could be so much worse.

Speaker 2 (03:50):
It could be a dude in the helicopter trying to
cover a protest, but instead of talking about his personal life. Okay,
it was displayed on every single screen. The message came
to appear remains a bit of a mystery, although some
experts say that it could be traced to how the
inflight entertainment system is set up. Some systems require member
of the groundstaff for a flight attendant to manually input

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the flight number as well as the destination and origin.
Others pulled the information from the flight information system in
the cockpit. It could be that an engineer was carrying
out some maintenance and was testing it and type that in.

Speaker 1 (04:24):
I don't really know.

Speaker 2 (04:25):
It was a joke, but apparently people are very upset
and they want, you know, I don't know, free flights
and psychological treatment, and you know, councils are standing by.
I have no idea of all the things that are
happening on planes these days. I feel like that's the
least of my concerns. If I got honest, says, you know,
bite me, he's going to Chicago and be like, yeah.

Speaker 1 (04:45):
Exciting planes and land. Yeah, right sure.

Speaker 2 (04:50):
They've listed the ten American cities with the worst commutes. However,
they're saying that the average commute time in the US
is only twenty six minutes, and some of these commute
times are list for the longest commutes.

Speaker 1 (05:01):
I don't really buy.

Speaker 2 (05:02):
For example, and let me see the twenty twenty three
Census Bureau data is how they came up with this
New York City forty minute commute, Chicago thirty three minute commute.
I feel like there are people listening. I'll going thirty three.
I wish that's that one little stretch from where you
can go to Milwaukee to the city. That's where everything's
closed and it's reversed and flippant reverse it. You're panicking, Yeah,

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like missy Elliott, I can see it, but I'm nowhere
near it.

Speaker 1 (05:28):
Kind of thing. That's I think that's no.

Speaker 2 (05:31):
Thirty one minutes in LA thirty one in Philly, thirty
in San Francisco, thirty in Long Beach, thirty in Washington,
d C. Thirty in Boston, thirty in Oakland, twenty eight
in Baltimore. If you want the shortest commute, moved to
Tulsa nineteen minutes, which a time my favorite place. Nineteen minutes,
Omaha twenty, Memphis, twenty, Minneapolis, Columbus, Ohio, Kansas City, Oklahoma

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City too, Sun of Milwaukee, all around, somewhere between twenty
and twenty two minutes. Thirty three minutes in the cargo
is the average at four.

Speaker 5 (06:01):
Am when I'm driving and there's not another car. Yeah,
in the expressway. But yeah, no, I don't know about it.
Tis Yeah, I don't think so. Visitors, I'm offended by this.
This is extremely hurtful to me, and I'm I need
psychological help in general, but also for this specifically. Visitors
at King's Island Amusement Park in Mason, Ohio, we're told

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to keep their mouths closed on the rides all weekend
to avoid swallowing a cicada, because I guess they're flying
around so much hell that if you open your mouth
on a ride, you're gonna suck these things. In Ohio
has seen the brood fourteen cicadas hatch a little bit
later this year, and they're everywhere, including this amusement park.

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So visitors have been told to enjoy the rides, but
for the next few weeks should probably keep their mouths closed.

Speaker 1 (06:48):
Well on them. No, I'm not enjoying no rock.

Speaker 2 (06:51):
Okay, Yeah, and insad news, guys. Father's Day was the
day that marked the end for a man known as
the Sperminator oh other than one hundred and seventy six children.
He announced his retirement from babymaking on Father's Day yesterday.
The guy's name is Ari Nagel, and he said that
it's time for women to start finding somebody else, somebody
younger to impregnate them. His mission is over. He's turning fifty.

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In audience, I know you were dreaming. I've been trying
to get you and Ari together for some time now
and it hasn't worked as scheduling wise. Yeah, but he
said that it's healthier and better to be safe than
sorry for women to find a younger guy to do this.
He's been donating for seventeen years now and he has
one hundred and seventy six children a cost of course,
across twenty states, ten countries, and five continents. He has

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five more children who were due this year, but he's
done so limited edition. These these kids are all numbered
and we're done with this at the end of the year.
After His main draw has been that he's never charged
a woman for his donations. What a guy, allowing them
to avoid thousands of dollars in sperm bank costs. He
said that his legacy will never be about Famer money,

(08:00):
but about family.

Speaker 1 (08:02):
What a guy. What a guy? I know? And I
wonder if he's one of these guys.

Speaker 2 (08:05):
It's like it has to be the natural method, you
know what I'm like, Oh, do it if it's a
natural you know what I mean, Like one of these guys.
I've seen these guys on traxlist before. Oh you were
looking yeah, well, I mean I'm always looking for new
business opportunities. I was looking to see. Well, it sounded
like an interesting side hustle, you know. Okay, I was
the one who posted it, but whatever, it doesn't matter.

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It's National Fudge Day today. The Entertainment Report will do
it next.