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August 18, 2025 14 mins

The University of Michigan were fined tens of millions of dollars in result of a sign stealing scandal. Blaize and Louie became the first male cheerleaders on the Minnesota Vikings. Scientists are working on robots that can carry and give birth to a baby. Surcharges are becoming more popular for restaurants to add at the end of your bill.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Creb's Biggest Stories of the Day, You guys, I'm supposed

(00:43):
to be doing these trending stories, you know, for everybody,
but sometimes, you know, I pick stories just for people
in the room. And the top story today is for
Cailin and for Kalen only. And if you went to
the University of Michigan, which of course Kaelyn went to
Michigan State rivals. If you went to the University of Michigan,
you can just you can turn away for a second.
You don't have to hear this if you went to
Michigan State or Ohio State, or anyone who hates Michigan,

(01:05):
turn it up a little bit, because the NCAA has
fined Michigan tens of millions of dollars on Friday and
suspended the head coach for a third game as punishment
for a signed stealing scandal. The NCAA said that it
has overwhelming evidence of a cover up by the Wolverine
staff and noted that there were sufficient grounds for a
multi year postseason ban against the program, now considered a

(01:27):
repeat violator, but the governing body stopped short of program
crippling punishments, saying a two year postseason ban would unfairly
penalize student athletes for the actions of coaches and staff
who are no longer there. The coach who's facing a
school and posed two game suspension this season will also
set out for the first game of the twenty twenty

(01:48):
six to twenty seven season. The biggest blow came from
the financial penalties. We're expected to exceed twenty million dollars.
You're not supposed to do that. I guess hi cheeters.
There's a whole documentary about this. It was actually pretty interesting,
but there's I guess there was one assistant coach or associates.
I don't know. He was not a I don't think
he was a main guy on the team, but it's

(02:10):
on Netflix. I think it's pretty brilliant how he managed
to figure out by watching video and going to games.
And mean, it's cheating, but he was able to like
figure out what the other teams were going to do
based on watching and studying, you know, all the different
methods from the sidelines into the game and whatever. And
then he would go back and report this to the
team allegedly, and then they knew, you know, what defense

(02:33):
is to put out or what was coming because this
one guy figured it all out. And then of course,
now this guy can't get a job, even though it's
kind of brilliant. I mean, it's cheating, but it's kind
of brilliant, you know, if you're that I don't know,
to be able to figure all that stuff out, because
every team has different methods for whatever they're doing. But
thoughts on this klan. I mean, I'm not shocked. There

(02:54):
are a bunch of cheaters.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
They always have been.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
I just wanted I was going to give you a
chances to say freely what you feel. I feel like
that that is on track with them, that fan base.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
I'm in a fight with them on TikTok.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
If anyone is interested, they will not stop coming at
me because I just simply posted a video being loving
Michigan State and uh yeah, they cheat And that's how
I feel. Thank you, Kley, thank you, thank you very much.
Have you guys met Blaze yet? Blaze the Minnesota Vikings
male cheerleader. Have you seen him?

Speaker 3 (03:27):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (03:28):
Seen it?

Speaker 1 (03:29):
Have you seen Blaze? Because Blaze is that girl? He
really is. Put two new cheerleaders, Blaze and Louie made
history this season by joining the Minnesota Vikings cheer squad
as its first men on the squad. But not everybody's happy.
Does that shock anyone? Some fans complained online and even
threatened to give up on the team because we put

(03:52):
two men on the on the cheerleading team. Instead of
backing down, though, Blaze He's not backing down from anyone.
He posted a picture of himself and Louie in their
uniforms on Instagram with the cheeky caption wait did someone
say our names? The Vikings quickly stood by them, pointing
out that male cheerleaders aren't new, Plenty of college teams
and even about a third of NFL squads already have them.

(04:14):
The team also stressed that Blaze and Louie went through
the same tough tryouts to everybody else and earned their
spot fair and square. Despite the noise of backlash hasn't
hit the team. Spottom line, No fans have actually canceled
their season tickets. But people are very upset about this,
and I really don't think it's that big a deal.
It's it's it really isn't that uncommon. It's it's true.
It's been in college forever and I don't know, it's

(04:37):
not as I know, there are debates about other things.
This is not that so anyway, But Blaze is that girl,
and Blaze Blaze rocks it. Like I got to say,
he is, he is. He understood the assignment.

Speaker 2 (04:51):
The hair for me right here, and.

Speaker 1 (04:55):
It doesn't move. You'd be doing flips and stuff right
popping up. I'm sorry, but someone named Blaze chic Blaze Cheek.
If that's Blaze's real name, then Blaze was either meant
to be a cheerleader or a porn star or both.
And I think it's wonderful. So there you have it.
Would you allow a robot to carry your baby? Because
that's a real story this morning, Chinese scientists working on

(05:17):
something straight out of science fiction, robots that could one
day carry and give birth to human babies. The plan
is to build humanoid robots equipped with artificial wombs machines
that could nourish a baby for nine to ten months,
just like a natural pregnancy. Nutrients would be delivered through
a special tube, and when the time comes, the robot
would even be able to give birth to the baby.

(05:40):
The technology for artificial wombs already exists, but putting inside
of a robot brings challenges fertilization implantation to figure out
exactly how a mechanical body would deliver the baby. Even so,
a working prototype could be ready by twenty twenty six
for about fourteen thousand dollars, which is cheaper than human surrogacy.
Would you guys do this either because you don't want

(06:01):
to carry the baby, or because maybe you wouldn't be
able to have a baby. Would you go for this? No, no,
it's all right. You'll stay in the hotel room with
no doors on the bathroom. Okay, I got it right.

Speaker 2 (06:14):
So we're worring.

Speaker 1 (06:16):
Okay, so we're willing to accept you know, modern technology
to a certain point.

Speaker 4 (06:20):
Right, because what if my baby start acting like the
thing from Wizard of Ours or like you know, sorry, yeah,
my baby just randomly started like malfunction, got.

Speaker 1 (06:29):
To oil up his joints, would be good.

Speaker 2 (06:31):
No, I don't need we don't need this.

Speaker 1 (06:35):
We don't need this.

Speaker 4 (06:36):
Come on, man, we're racing ourselves half babies. Okay, pay
somebody else to make me a beautiful baby.

Speaker 2 (06:45):
Oh no, my shop is closed.

Speaker 1 (06:49):
I mean I recognize that, you know, accepting technology and
and and if any you know, things to help families
who aren't able maybe to conceive or carry a baby
or whatever, But you gotta remember that. I mean, what
was it last year we did a story about how
an ai fake person fell in love with a human
and then was like saying that it I mean it

(07:12):
sort of went rogue and even the people, the scientists,
and it was saying all this crazy stuff and that
people are you know, why is it saying this? And
the scientists are like, we don't really know. We know
you've got a mind of its own now, like coming
up with all this, So is that what we need
is like for babies to come out of something like that?
And then I mean, we don't really know. It's crazy
to me, like we don't really know.

Speaker 4 (07:31):
No, we don't like, let the robot write your essay,
you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (07:36):
Let the robot do your homework or whatever. But come on, man,
that we're in.

Speaker 4 (07:39):
Family court, get child custody or something like, I don't know, right, baby.

Speaker 1 (07:51):
All of a sudden, I'm on judge mathis versus a robot.
It's like, what's going on?

Speaker 2 (07:57):
Not paying a robot child support?

Speaker 1 (07:59):
No, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (08:02):
If they research it, I'm okay with it.

Speaker 4 (08:04):
But you don't even like Chad GPT, I don't have
your baby, yes, but yes, but.

Speaker 1 (08:10):
I'm always opening new ways for people to be able
to have babies that I know it is. I mean, no,
I would, Yeah, I would care my own if I could,
but I would if I needed other options, I would
want other options available.

Speaker 2 (08:23):
Would pay Jason?

Speaker 3 (08:24):
What so you'd rather have them put a uterus in me. Yes, okay,
got it.

Speaker 1 (08:31):
Actually, I honestly I would rather that too. I used
to I used to data Obgyn briefly. I wish I
could call her. I don't think she really liked to
hear from me, but I wish I could call her
because what I'd like to know is about sort of
what that would mean for the baby, Like like how
how influential or how important is the human touch or
the human element of this, you know the I don't.

(08:54):
I don't know, or does the baby come out and
then it bonds with whoever you hand it to. I
don't mean sound dumb. I just don't know, Like if
you know, is there is there some form of of
all of this that a robot can't duplicate that a
human can, you know? Like, like, what does this mean?
What does it mean for the kid? Is what I'm wondering.

Speaker 4 (09:14):
I do have to put it on a charger, right?
And what if I don't What if I don't bring
the right charger, like the right us. Because what I'm saying,
see you and Jason, all those margaritas to carry your baby,
quit those kidneys and liver.

Speaker 2 (09:31):
All of our parents did a little song while we
while they were pregnant, you know.

Speaker 1 (09:34):
Hey, but it would be a brand new uterus. So
there's that.

Speaker 3 (09:37):
Yeah, bran spaking new right up in here.

Speaker 1 (09:40):
Yeah, I'm not sure about this. Diners are frustrated with
unexpected surg charges added to restaurant bills. That's trending today.
Big cities like Chicago and San Francisco are seeing this.
I'm not sure if you've noticed it, but fees, often
ranging from three to four percent of the total bill,
include charges labeled as sustained sustain I just added high
powenom sustainability surcharge. The fees that are attributed to factors

(10:02):
like rising food costs and tariffs. Customers argue that these
search charges are deceptive because when they're not disclosed upfront
on menus, they're only visible when the bill arrives, so
you don't really know what you're paying, which I guess
is I mean, I guess you can't reprint menus all
the time. But I would rather It's like they got
rid of the hotel search charges. I think everywhere. I

(10:23):
would much rather just just put on the what does
it cost? You know what I mean? Like, when I
order it, what does it cost? Not as thirty dollars
for this, and then when I get the bill it
was really forty. Like I guess I feel kind of
duped when you do it that way. I mean, just
change the price of the item. You know. It was
like when you'd go to the hotel and it was, well,
the hotel was one hundred and ninety nine dollars a night,

(10:44):
but then by the time you got out of the
door was three hundred because you had to pay for
the door to go in the bathroom, and you didn't
know that when you did it. I mean, would you, guys,
would you rather just know the price up front or
would you or do you mind getting charged more at
the end?

Speaker 2 (10:57):
Now tell me up front exactly I need to budge
any more money around.

Speaker 1 (11:00):
Let need to ask, right, Yeah, I think so too.
One of a kind basketball card featuring Kobe Bryant and
Michael Jordan is expected to be sold for six million
dollars at auction. The card is from the two thousand
and seven two thousand and eight Upper Deck Exquisite collection,
features autographs from both players, as well as different NBA patches.
It's currently available on the Heritage Auctions website As of

(11:23):
Saturday for five million. It's expected to sell for about
six point one million dollars for a basketball card. It's crazy,
six point one million dollars. And you know this wasn't
really all that well thought out, I don't think, but
a California woman tried to smuggle a million dollars worth
of crack cocaine hidden in a giant wheel of parmesan

(11:44):
cheese into the UK. The woman was searched after landing
at Heathrow with the seventeen pound wheel of Peruvian parmesan.
The drugs were studied and the crack was considered ninety
four percent pure after undergoing a forensic analysis. The woman
has been set in a five years and three months
in prison after puting guilty to charges of importing Class
A drugs. I mean, if you're going through customs with

(12:07):
an entire wheel of cheese and know something from Italy
you came. I think she came from California. I don't
know where she came from, but you got a seventeen
pound wheel of cheese. You don't think that someone's gonna
say in customs or immigration or what. You don't think
someone's gonna go, hey, can we talk about this the
wheel of cheese. It's in your bag, Like really, you

(12:27):
don't think anyone's gonna check it, or that's the best
way to do this.

Speaker 3 (12:32):
I've seen enough of that to catch a smuggler to
know that any food that comes in goes through very
strict text testing. Yeah, yes, yes, I forgot you watch that.
I love that show. It's so interesting the way, like
what people come up with to try to get their
drugs then like cheese, you know.

Speaker 1 (12:51):
Well, and I'm always amazed by the stupidity of the
people and to catch a smuggler. If you've seen this show,
because it's and by the way, the acting is just stellar.
I mean they find people. I think it's the same
people who do our HR training videos. But you know,
it's like a random person walks up to you and says,
do you want an all expenses paid trip to Ibitha?

(13:11):
And you're and and forty thousand dollars in cash in
a briefcase and you're like, sure, why not? Yeah, you know,
and then when you get there you find out that
you have to stuff you know, a wheel of cheese
up your butt or something, and then go through customs.
I just I don't know, I might I might think
about that a little bit before, and then you wind
up in some guatemal In prison with no running water.

(13:32):
It just doesn't seem worth it to me. But you know,
then again, big wheel of cheese and forty grand Do
you know the days, Kitlin? Do we have? The national days?
Do we know? Are we just going to skip over them?
You know? I thought I had sent I do know them?
Hold on, No, truly, not that big a deal. Maybe
it's a Peruvian wheel of cheese and your butt day. Yes,
I'm going to celebrate.

Speaker 2 (13:50):
I've been waiting home all right ready.

Speaker 1 (13:53):
It is a National ice cream Day and National fahira Day.

Speaker 3 (13:57):
Yes, that is right.

Speaker 1 (13:59):
That is a fantastic day. I don't know about both together.

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