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man look at this story too, But is our beloved
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mine not? In like three stories this week are beloved?
It is yes, our beloved mine not. North Dakota is
proud affiliate of the French. I don't know if they're proud,
but they're affiliated to the fren. I don't even know
if they had a choice, but we're proud of them.
Well we are. But you know, there was this whole
thing between the B fifty two bombers and the Delta
Airlines flight. I don't be heard about that, but the
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B fifty two was doing a flyover and then the
Delta Airlines flight was trying to land and they saw
the BFT two are like, whoa, And this is my
reenactment of it, whoa, and then they turned away from it.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
It was this whole thing.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Of course, thanks to TikTok, the captain's announcement went viral.
I'm not really sure what happened there, But then there's that,
and then I read this morning that our beloved town
of mine not as being overrun by squirrels. Squirrels are
overrunning might not. There are so many squirrels they can't
get rid of them all. They're everywhere. Apparently, oh no,
and I'm worried about this, and apparently, you know, the
people they've asked, like the you know, wildlife experts are like, well,
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you built a city in the middle of the prairie,
so like where they supposed to go. But there are
lots of them, and they have six babies at a time.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Oh whoa.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
So it's a difficult problem for them. But I just
I'm thinking of you guys this morning mine not I am.
And then and then I saw another thing. This was
on TikTok and unrelated to like breaking news, but they
have the nuclear bombs in min Not and they showed
like the people that go down and they live in
these like silos way under the ground at the at
the military base, and they're just they hang out there
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for days, way way down because if you're like blasted
off the nuclear bombs, then you got to be protected
because well nuclear bomb right there, you know what I mean.
So they go way they way down in the ground.
And then they I guess it's like this thing someone
would president would call state bombs now. And then there's
the codes and keys and turns and not everybody has
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the code and everybody has the key. And I watched
this whole thing about it was fascinating. I hope that
they let this guy go down there with his little TikTok.
I hope that I when I visit, may not that
I get to did I get to go see the
nuclear bombs.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
I want to see that.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
That's cool, cool, that is you know, but I guess
it was all built like in the you know, cold War,
like in the fifties, and so it's like a time
capsule of the fifties down there, because how often do
you change that stuff out right?
Speaker 1 (02:57):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Maybe I can fly at B fifty two over the
stadium and then a Delta guy can be like whoa,
and then maybe that maybe that Christian Cabot lady can
bring me some rum and we can all just party
and mine not. You know, that's probably where she's hiding
out right now with the squirrels, hoping that nobody comes
for her.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Yeah. I couldn't imagine driving with all those squirrels.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
You know how squirrels like to play that little game
of like ooh.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
I'm going to get out the way, Oh you might
hit me up nut. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
If you're watching on YouTube, you can see she's she's
reenacting what the little games did the squirrels play, which
a big problem though it is a serious issue. We
have rats here and they have squirrels. I think I'd
rather have squirrels. So the heat is on, guys, and
millions are about to feel it. A new heat dome.
We'll be ceiling in hot, humid air in the central
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and eastern US this week, sending temperature soaring. Sizzling conditions
will start to build from the Gulf coast to the
plains today before expanding to the Midwest. Wednesday and Thursday
could be the new hottest days of the year in Chicago,
Saint Louis, and Memphis. The heat will ramp up considerably
on Thursday day in parts of the Ohio Valley, Detroit, Cleveland,
and Cincinnati.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
I saw in Chicago.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Tomorrow or Thursday ninety five and it will feel like
over one hundred.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Do you have any good news?
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Well, we'll get there. Not in the beginning, maybe in
the end. Yeah, no, I'm sorry, but the heat. Yeah.
So it could come within a degree or match the
hottest day of the year so far. The most intense
heat for the East Coast is expected to arrive on Friday,
with high temperatures in the middle to upper nineties and
a heat index of one hundred degrees or more as
possible for Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, d C.
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I'm sure you'll have more on this than the entertainmer report.
But Emmy nominated actor and Grammy winning musician Malcolm Jamal
Warner died on Sunday in a drowning accident in Costa Rica.
He was fifty four, and Bill Cosby's commenting on it,
which I thought was very weird. I was watching the
news yesterday and they and of course you know Bill
Cosby because we show Malcolm Jamal Warner was his son
on the show. Became very famous from that. But I'm thinking, wow,
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I mean, I guess he would know, but weird to
hear that we're I guess I kind of forgot about
Bill Cosby. Honestly, I don't know. It was weird to
hear him on the news commenting about something that wasn't.
It didn't have something to do with him.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
He was just commenting on well, on his relationship.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
With this with yeah, with this with Matham Jamal Warner.
Well again because Cosby show, and I think that, you know,
that's where he got his start. I would many would argue.
So I just I was like, oh, yeah, you oh
we called him at home. I guess you again?
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Yeah you still blind?
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Line?
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Is he still blind? I don't know, No, he was
never blind.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
I just didn't think he was in favor, you know,
such that we were calling him for quote, but that
being said, if he you know, yeah he knew the man.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Yeah right right.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
I thought you meant he was like commenting on the
way in which he died, like they were going to
him for what. No, they were just of all the
people to ask. I guess they called Bill Cosby. But
I'll tell you if it's like it used to be,
you know, way before all the scandal. This is like
sixteen seventeen years ago. I met Bill Cosby. He came
to where I was in Charlotte, where I was living,
and it was a very interesting. I mean, I went
back it was very strange. No, I went backstage at
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the show and it was just it was No, it
wasn't weird like that.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
It was just were you tired.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
I didn't drink anything. No, he didn't serve me at
Cosby teen or anything. No, It's just it was I
don't know, it was it was a level of access
that I've never.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
But that you when we interviewed him.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
When we interviewed him the first time, they were like
at this and Jason knows this, and I've told the
story before, but.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Let me finish the damn story. Show me on the
little Boo boo doll stopped.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
I know you're you're you're stressed about the squirrels but
in the nuclear base.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
But no.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
So normally when you interview somebody, they'll have like a
handler call up here at the allotted time and then
we'll put them on the air. Well, no, this time
it was, Hey, he's playing a show at this thing,
sold out, two shows sold out, and and call this
number at this time and asked for Bill. So we did,
and it was his house and his wife answered the phone. Hello,
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Like can I talk to Bill? She's like yeah, hang
on hey Bill, Bill like literally like when you're a kid,
you know what?
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Bill?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
And then he picks up the other phone because they
only have one line, I guess in the house or whatever.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Hello, Like is this Bill? Cos me?
Speaker 2 (07:20):
He's like yeah, Like is this your house? Is your
home number? He's like yeah, I can I call it
like whenever I want? Because he was in good favor
at the time, so this was like can I call
you for advice? He's like sure, and so we do
this whole thing and then he says, Hey, I want
you to come to my show. I want you to
bring me on stage at my show. On Sunday and
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we're like, uh really, So we all show up to
the backstage and they usher us in and then there's
Bill just sitting in this resting room drinking Starbucks. And
we sat there and talked to him for like forty
five minutes. He was very very hard on one of
my co hosts who wanted to be a comedian, very
hard on him.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
It was a very strange thing.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
He was African American guy that was on my show
and he as a comedian, and Bill was asking him
very pointed questions about his comedy and and he didn't
like the answers, and he was very hard on him,
like in a mentorship kind of way, but he was like,
you need to be able to answer these questions what
I asked. I was very uncomfortable because this guy's getting
yell affect. Bill Cosby in his temple sweatshirt looks like Grandpa.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
I was strange.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
And then he goes, Okay, now I want you to
walk out on stage with us with me, and we're
like what It was just very okay.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
So we all walked out on stage.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Together and I'm like, dad, ladies and gentlemen, Bill Cosby,
and they're like, whoa, I hope not.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
If they are, I hope they're dated.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
No, it was just it was just I mean, at
the time, it was like, wow, this is really kind
of surreal, you know, Bill Cosby. But unfortunately then the
stories weren't so good. How did we get here? Oh?
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Because he was because because peop were asking him for
coming yesterday. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
I guess maybe I would have called somebody else from
this cast at the Cosby Show. Maybe, but you know,
it was Bill Cosby Show, so he's we know he's free,
so well he's available. Yeah, and apparently his home number
is just out there, so easy to doom. It's the
end of an era for Southwest Airlines passengers. On Monday,
the airline announced a start date for its new assigned seating,
which will bring the airlines long standing open seat boarding
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tradition to an end. For flights beginning on January twenty seventh,
of twenty twenty six, passengers, we'll have options for seat
selection at the time of booking, Southwest said in an announcement.
So no more of this free for all stuff, no
more of this uh you know, ce C one through
ninety seven or whatever. And then the person who has
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c is standing up there when a one is getting
on and you're like, you, bro, you ain't getting on
for forty five minutes. Like have a seat, go go
to the cborro, you know, or whatever. Like you're not
getting on this thing for a while, you may as
well go over to the Hampton News, you know, and yeah, right,
get yourself a new book or something, right exactly. A
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Another study shows that early smartphone uses linked to poor
mental health and young adults.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
I believe this.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
The global analysis of over one hundred thousand people aged
eighteen to twenty four finds that receiving a smartphone before
the age of thirteen is linked to poor mental health
later in life. There was an executive in our company
the other day. We were talking about phones and the
influence that has on kids, and he said this, and
at the time I thought he was being dramatic, but
he was. I bet you in ten years we look
back on giving phones to kids. We look at that
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the same way as we did cigarettes and alcohol. You know,
with young people, it's like it's bar it'll be that
damaging yep when we reflect on it, And he might
be right at the time, I'm like, oh, that's that's
that's a leap. The addiction is strong well and all
the negative mental health influence that it's having. Young adults
who got phones are early reported higher rates of suicidal thoughts, aggression,
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emotional detachment, and hallucin hallucination like experiences. The decline in
overall mind health with sharpest the younger the smartphone was obtained.
For example, those are thrones at age five scored drastically
lower than those who got them at thirteen. The main
contributing factors include early access to social media, cyber bullying,
sleep disruption, strained family relationships, explaining a large share of
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the negative outcomes.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Here's the happy story. You're ready.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
According to a recent you gov survey, Nashville, Tennessee ranks
is America's favorite major city.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
What do we think Nashville? Oh, I love, Yeah, it's
a good time. It's crowded now, but yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
It's just a bunch of shiny new bars named after
country singer. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
You got to stay away from badway though, you got
to go to the other places. So yeah, I mean
that are like more fun anyway.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
The city's close behind San Diego, Colorado Springs, Virginia, Beach,
and then Raleigh. Among the people who've actually visited, Raleigh
tops the list. What you don't have to go to
the place to say you love it. I love Nashville.
I have never been, but I think it's amazing. But
if you actually into Raleigh, that tops the list with
a huge score, and then Nashville right behind it. In
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terms of popularity, Nashville is seen favorably by sixty percent
of Americans and is recognized by ninety seven percent of them.
It's National fragile X Awareness Day. Fragile X syndrome is
a mutation of the FMR one gene and is the
most common form of inherited intellectual disability. That is a
very specific day. Thank you for the explanation, because I
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would have gone high.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
I'm not sure