August 19, 2025 • 11 mins
Hurricane Erin is expecting to affect the Outer Banks in North Carolina. Flight attendants for Air Canada went on a strike due to low wages and it caused the airlines to shutdown. The Cambridge Dictionary added 6,000 new words. Fake Labubus are posing major safety concerns for children.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the press show.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Let's get you Hotel a trip for tunis you Jennifer
Lopez her brand new Las Vegas residency.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Jennifer Lopez Up All Night Live in Las.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Vegas March thirteenth, twenty twenty six at the Coliseum at
Caesar's Palace, Texas Night to three seven three three seven
right now for a chance to win two tickets to
the March thirteenth show at two Night Hotel's Day March
twelfth through the fourteenth, at Py Flamingo Hotel Casino, Las
Vegas and at the Brown tre Fair Fair. A confirmation
text will be sent Dennard message and data rates may apply.
(00:31):
All Thanks Live dation tickets are on sale now at
ticketmaster dot com for all shows running December thirtieth through
January third, and March sixth through the twenty eighth. On
Fred's Biggest Stories of the Day, I'd probably have to
burn the mattress.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
I'd probably have to start over.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Oh really, yeah, it didn't go all the way through.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
I don't know, I don't know. I'd have to sleep
in a different room.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
We'd have to like maybe having a team come in.
I don't know what we Yeah, team we'd have to
have a team, like a hazmat situation.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
I don't know what we would do. I had to
treat the thing.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
I don't know if I could, because I mean, his
natural reaction to not want to get back in bed
with you.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
I think it's very honest.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
I don't blame him one bed, but I didn't want
him to continue to sleep on the couch, so I
would him in the bed.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Yeah, I would have lied on the dogs.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Oh so bad.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Yeah, boy, it's like that. It looks awfully human to me.
I don't.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
I mean, it looked like never mind, okay, probably No.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
No, No, We're good. We're good, We're good. We're oh wow,
all right. Biggest stories of the day. Hurricane Aaron has
prompted authorities to issue tropical storm watches for much of
North Carolina's outer banks, meaning that winds of thirty nine
is seventy three miles an hour if possible within the
next forty eight hours. Extensive beach erosion is also likely,
which means waves of twenty feet or more forecast. While
(01:56):
the large Category three storm, which has exploded in strength
over the weekend, is not expected to make landfall, it'll
spark life threatening grip currents, towering waves, and storm surge
as it tracks up the East coast this week. So
it's all very dangerous. So we know people in the
outer Bank check on them, make sure they are all good.
This is a wild story. I don't know if any
(02:17):
of you are planning to fly airic Canada anytime soon.
Fortunately none of you did. I don't know if you
guys heard about this. The flight attendants, they are standing
on business so they were and they said no more.
You know, we're not getting paid the way we want
to get paid. And so they went on strike late
last week and the airline had to shut down. They
had to cease all operations. So imagine that you're in anywhere,
(02:40):
not just in Canada, but you know Canada. Air Canada
is the biggest airline in Canada, so imagine that you're
in anywhere. There were people I saw in Prague, there
were people in Egypt, all over the world that were
trying to get home, but the airline they had a
ticket on didn't fly for four days. And imagine then
all the backups, you know, all all the other people
(03:01):
trying to get home. The Union for Air Canada's ten
thousand Flight Attendant said early this morning that it has
reached a tentative agreement to end to strike. Air Canada
and the union resumed talks late Monday for the first
time since the strike began over the weekend and the
strike's affecting one hundred and thirty thousand travelers a day
at the peak of the summer travel season. The union
(03:21):
said the agreement will guarantee members pay for work performed
while planes are on the ground, resolving one of the
major issues that drove this strike. Unpaid work is over.
We have reclaimed our voice and our power, the union
said in a statement. When our rights were taken away,
we stood strong, we fought back, and we secured a
tentative agreement that our members can vote on and now
they can start operations again. But it will take weeks
(03:44):
for the airline to get back to normal, and in
the meantime you've got people. I saw someone spend twenty
thousand dollars just to get home on a different airline
because they had to buy tickets because the airline that
they were on wasn't operating at all. It's pretty nuts,
but their issue was This is an issue for a
lot of flight attendants, is that there are lots of
phases of their day that for whatever reason, they're not
(04:06):
paid for. And I don't know if maybe a flight
attendant can clarify this eight five, five, five, nine, one
one oh three five. I know they all are, you know,
their unions have renegotiated over the years different contracts. But
apparently they get paid when the door is closed and not,
you know, so if the door's open, any of those
duties they don't get paid for. And I don't know
if that's I don't know if they pay them more
when they're in the air to compensate for the times
(04:27):
that they're not. But it's not like apparently it's not
like a normal job where you know, if you you
clock in at nine and you know you clock out
at five, you get paid for all those hours. I
guess there are a lot of duties that the Air
Canada flight attendants and it's pretty standard in the industry.
The flight attendants are not paid for. So I don't know,
maybe be nice to do the flight attendants when next
time you want to blow up on one, you know,
(04:49):
realize that I'm not sure. I don't know if I
don't know if the hourly wage for the in flight
is high to compensate for the time that they're not
being paid for the other stuff. I don't even you
know how that's legal, But Eric Canada said hell no.
And I think they've made a lot of people mad
in the process. But the airline also had pretty high
(05:12):
profits over the last few years. I think that didn't
help anything. A group accused of using fake accounts to
buy over three hundred thousand Tailor Swift and Bruce Springsteen
tickets through Ticketmaster are being sued. Federal regulators have sued
this ticket reselling reselling operation that used fake accounts in
illegal software to buy three hundred and twenty one thousand
(05:32):
tickets to popular shows, including Taylor Swift, and then resold
them for millions in profit. The group used fake IP addresses,
repurposed credit cards, and paid strangers to create Ticketmaster accounts
to bypass purchase limits. They made five point seven million
dollars in profit from buying forty six million dollars worth
of tickets and reselling them for fifty two million for
(05:53):
Swift's Vegas shows. They used forty nine accounts to buy
two hundred and seventy three tickets and sold them for
one hundred and twenty grand, which was far exceeding Ticketmaster's
six ticket limit. These are the people, Jason and Kaitlin.
These are the people stood in your way.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Get him out of here, Get him out yet, lock
him up, Lock him up, take them somewhere else.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
I got new words for you guys, new words to
learn this morning from the Cambridge Dictionary. They've officially added
over six thousand new words. Every year we do this
story and every year they say this, there are six
thousand new words. I don't think I know six thousand words.
I don't think I can pre installed with six thousand words.
I don't think I know six thousand words right now.
(06:37):
But we have new words. Delulu has been added, which
is a playful shorthand for delusional to find his believing
things that are not real or true, usually because you
choose to. Then we have trad wife, which is a
blend of traditional and wife. This term describes women who
embrace nostalgic homemaking like cooking, cleaning, child rear ring, and
(07:00):
often broadcasts that aesthetic across Instagram and TikTok. There are
number of influencers I guess who who are set at
as examples, people like Hannah Nielman and Nara Smith. I
don't I don't follow them.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
She make him go every day like girl.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Skibbitty A gibberis skibbitty.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Yeah, I don't know. I shouldn't know that word. I
don't need to know that word. I'm too old to
know that word. A gibberish term coined by the creator
of an animated YouTube series. And it can mean cool
or bad. Oh, that's good. It can mean cool or bad,
all right, and bonus auditions running out the update, including
mouse jiggler. I don't know if I want to know
(07:44):
what that is and forever chemical. So these seem like
multiple words actually, and I don't know why two words
make a word.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
I'm not clear. I don't understand.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
A controversial surgery known as cosmetic leg lengthening is on
the right eyes, Paulina. Don't get any idea googling. Wait,
don't get any ideas, Paulina. I mean, you know, we've
we've we've we've done a lot of adjustments to our body, Paulina,
and we're not doing this one. If you if you
come in one day and you're six foot six and
(08:14):
you're tower than me. I'm gonna know what you're up to.
Well after I get my veneers, I might get do it. Paulina,
Stop it's becoming body dysmorphic. Stop like you are a
beautiful woman. You don't need any more aftermarket products. You
don't okay my appointment. You're you're a beautiful woman. You
(08:35):
don't need teeth or to add two feet to your frame.
But this is a real thing where doctors break the
thigh or shin bones and slowly stretch them using external
fixators or internal rods, forcing new bone growth millimeter by millimeter.
Patients can gain several inches in height, but at the
cost of intense pain, long recovery, and serious risks like
(08:57):
nerve damage, blood clots, and pert deformities. There is one patient,
a dude thirty eight years old from Great Britain, and
he paid about thirty two grand in istanbul to grow
from five to six to five nine. Each day he
had to manually turn a key oh no to expand
his bones. He said it was agonizing. I mean, look,
(09:19):
I know I'm tall and so maybe it's easy for
me to say, but you know, don't worry. I was
given hair and I was given heighth, but I was
also given you know, deep mental illness and the inability
to communicate well with humans. So I mean you can't
have it all. You know, you might be a very happy,
well adjusted person, but you're a little shorter.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Not me.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
I'm tall and screwed up. So I mean you can't
have everything all right, And so don't do it. It
sounds very, very painful and for three inches.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
No, yeah, that's not worth it, not at all.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
For three inches. I got to turn a key now.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
And finally, guys, this is in today's Consumer Product Safety
News because you know we're big on that here. Fake
LaVoo boos are a danger. The Consumer Product Safety Commission
urged An issued an urgent warning about fake la booboo
dolls that post choking hazards to children. The knockoffs, called lafufus,
can fit in the small children's mouth, in the mouth
(10:17):
of a child, I guess, and block the airways. Some
are so poorly made that they break into small pieces
that kids could swallow. Real labooboo dolls from PopMart retailing
to thirty bucks and have holographic stickers, QR codes and
UV stamps. Authentic dolls have nine teeth. Fakes often have
different numbers of teeth, and parents should only buy from
reputable sellers and immediately stop using any fake versions they own. Plus,
(10:40):
the street cred of rock and a dupe is just
not it's not it. You know, I can't have you guys.
I can't have Jason. You know you specific I know
you're labuou guy. Yes, I can't have you rock in
fake labuobus. It's like wearing fake Jordan's. I can't have
you on the street, you know, with knockoffs. It's it's
just not our brand, you know, the fufu around here.
(11:02):
Plus you might choke on something, so I I don't
want that to happen. Maybe I didn't think you were
playing La booboos in your mouth, but anyway, I or laffoo?
Is there any in the little anything? I didn't think,
but I don't. I don't know. You did poop the
bed last night, So it's and that's that's not a that's.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Not a h you know, that's not a metaphor.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
That's not a metaphor. I know you, And that's not
a metaphor. That really happened. It's a natural aviation day
Today
This is the press show.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Let's get you Hotel a trip for tunis you Jennifer
Lopez her brand new Las Vegas residency.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Jennifer Lopez Up All Night Live in Las.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Vegas March thirteenth, twenty twenty six at the Coliseum at
Caesar's Palace, Texas Night to three seven three three seven
right now for a chance to win two tickets to
the March thirteenth show at two Night Hotel's Day March
twelfth through the fourteenth, at Py Flamingo Hotel Casino, Las
Vegas and at the Brown tre Fair Fair. A confirmation
text will be sent Dennard message and data rates may apply.
(00:31):
All Thanks Live dation tickets are on sale now at
ticketmaster dot com for all shows running December thirtieth through
January third, and March sixth through the twenty eighth. On
Fred's Biggest Stories of the Day, I'd probably have to
burn the mattress.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
I'd probably have to start over.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Oh really, yeah, it didn't go all the way through.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
I don't know, I don't know. I'd have to sleep
in a different room.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
We'd have to like maybe having a team come in.
I don't know what we Yeah, team we'd have to
have a team, like a hazmat situation.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
I don't know what we would do. I had to
treat the thing.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
I don't know if I could, because I mean, his
natural reaction to not want to get back in bed
with you.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
I think it's very honest.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
I don't blame him one bed, but I didn't want
him to continue to sleep on the couch, so I
would him in the bed.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Yeah, I would have lied on the dogs.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Oh so bad.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Yeah, boy, it's like that. It looks awfully human to me.
I don't.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
I mean, it looked like never mind, okay, probably No.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
No, No, We're good. We're good, We're good. We're oh wow,
all right. Biggest stories of the day. Hurricane Aaron has
prompted authorities to issue tropical storm watches for much of
North Carolina's outer banks, meaning that winds of thirty nine
is seventy three miles an hour if possible within the
next forty eight hours. Extensive beach erosion is also likely,
which means waves of twenty feet or more forecast. While
(01:56):
the large Category three storm, which has exploded in strength
over the weekend, is not expected to make landfall, it'll
spark life threatening grip currents, towering waves, and storm surge
as it tracks up the East coast this week. So
it's all very dangerous. So we know people in the
outer Bank check on them, make sure they are all good.
This is a wild story. I don't know if any
(02:17):
of you are planning to fly airic Canada anytime soon.
Fortunately none of you did. I don't know if you
guys heard about this. The flight attendants, they are standing
on business so they were and they said no more.
You know, we're not getting paid the way we want
to get paid. And so they went on strike late
last week and the airline had to shut down. They
had to cease all operations. So imagine that you're in anywhere,
(02:40):
not just in Canada, but you know Canada. Air Canada
is the biggest airline in Canada, so imagine that you're
in anywhere. There were people I saw in Prague, there
were people in Egypt, all over the world that were
trying to get home, but the airline they had a
ticket on didn't fly for four days. And imagine then
all the backups, you know, all all the other people
(03:01):
trying to get home. The Union for Air Canada's ten
thousand Flight Attendant said early this morning that it has
reached a tentative agreement to end to strike. Air Canada
and the union resumed talks late Monday for the first
time since the strike began over the weekend and the
strike's affecting one hundred and thirty thousand travelers a day
at the peak of the summer travel season. The union
(03:21):
said the agreement will guarantee members pay for work performed
while planes are on the ground, resolving one of the
major issues that drove this strike. Unpaid work is over.
We have reclaimed our voice and our power, the union
said in a statement. When our rights were taken away,
we stood strong, we fought back, and we secured a
tentative agreement that our members can vote on and now
they can start operations again. But it will take weeks
(03:44):
for the airline to get back to normal, and in
the meantime you've got people. I saw someone spend twenty
thousand dollars just to get home on a different airline
because they had to buy tickets because the airline that
they were on wasn't operating at all. It's pretty nuts,
but their issue was This is an issue for a
lot of flight attendants, is that there are lots of
phases of their day that for whatever reason, they're not
(04:06):
paid for. And I don't know if maybe a flight
attendant can clarify this eight five, five, five, nine, one
one oh three five. I know they all are, you know,
their unions have renegotiated over the years different contracts. But
apparently they get paid when the door is closed and not,
you know, so if the door's open, any of those
duties they don't get paid for. And I don't know
if that's I don't know if they pay them more
when they're in the air to compensate for the times
(04:27):
that they're not. But it's not like apparently it's not
like a normal job where you know, if you you
clock in at nine and you know you clock out
at five, you get paid for all those hours. I
guess there are a lot of duties that the Air
Canada flight attendants and it's pretty standard in the industry.
The flight attendants are not paid for. So I don't know,
maybe be nice to do the flight attendants when next
time you want to blow up on one, you know,
(04:49):
realize that I'm not sure. I don't know if I
don't know if the hourly wage for the in flight
is high to compensate for the time that they're not
being paid for the other stuff. I don't even you
know how that's legal, But Eric Canada said hell no.
And I think they've made a lot of people mad
in the process. But the airline also had pretty high
(05:12):
profits over the last few years. I think that didn't
help anything. A group accused of using fake accounts to
buy over three hundred thousand Tailor Swift and Bruce Springsteen
tickets through Ticketmaster are being sued. Federal regulators have sued
this ticket reselling reselling operation that used fake accounts in
illegal software to buy three hundred and twenty one thousand
(05:32):
tickets to popular shows, including Taylor Swift, and then resold
them for millions in profit. The group used fake IP addresses,
repurposed credit cards, and paid strangers to create Ticketmaster accounts
to bypass purchase limits. They made five point seven million
dollars in profit from buying forty six million dollars worth
of tickets and reselling them for fifty two million for
(05:53):
Swift's Vegas shows. They used forty nine accounts to buy
two hundred and seventy three tickets and sold them for
one hundred and twenty grand, which was far exceeding Ticketmaster's
six ticket limit. These are the people, Jason and Kaitlin.
These are the people stood in your way.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Get him out of here, Get him out yet, lock
him up, Lock him up, take them somewhere else.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
I got new words for you guys, new words to
learn this morning from the Cambridge Dictionary. They've officially added
over six thousand new words. Every year we do this
story and every year they say this, there are six
thousand new words. I don't think I know six thousand words.
I don't think I can pre installed with six thousand words.
I don't think I know six thousand words right now.
(06:37):
But we have new words. Delulu has been added, which
is a playful shorthand for delusional to find his believing
things that are not real or true, usually because you
choose to. Then we have trad wife, which is a
blend of traditional and wife. This term describes women who
embrace nostalgic homemaking like cooking, cleaning, child rear ring, and
(07:00):
often broadcasts that aesthetic across Instagram and TikTok. There are
number of influencers I guess who who are set at
as examples, people like Hannah Nielman and Nara Smith. I
don't I don't follow them.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
She make him go every day like girl.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Skibbitty A gibberis skibbitty.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Yeah, I don't know. I shouldn't know that word. I
don't need to know that word. I'm too old to
know that word. A gibberish term coined by the creator
of an animated YouTube series. And it can mean cool
or bad. Oh, that's good. It can mean cool or bad,
all right, and bonus auditions running out the update, including
mouse jiggler. I don't know if I want to know
(07:44):
what that is and forever chemical. So these seem like
multiple words actually, and I don't know why two words
make a word.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
I'm not clear. I don't understand.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
A controversial surgery known as cosmetic leg lengthening is on
the right eyes, Paulina. Don't get any idea googling. Wait,
don't get any ideas, Paulina. I mean, you know, we've
we've we've we've done a lot of adjustments to our body, Paulina,
and we're not doing this one. If you if you
come in one day and you're six foot six and
(08:14):
you're tower than me. I'm gonna know what you're up to.
Well after I get my veneers, I might get do it. Paulina,
Stop it's becoming body dysmorphic. Stop like you are a
beautiful woman. You don't need any more aftermarket products. You
don't okay my appointment. You're you're a beautiful woman. You
(08:35):
don't need teeth or to add two feet to your frame.
But this is a real thing where doctors break the
thigh or shin bones and slowly stretch them using external
fixators or internal rods, forcing new bone growth millimeter by millimeter.
Patients can gain several inches in height, but at the
cost of intense pain, long recovery, and serious risks like
(08:57):
nerve damage, blood clots, and pert deformities. There is one patient,
a dude thirty eight years old from Great Britain, and
he paid about thirty two grand in istanbul to grow
from five to six to five nine. Each day he
had to manually turn a key oh no to expand
his bones. He said it was agonizing. I mean, look,
(09:19):
I know I'm tall and so maybe it's easy for
me to say, but you know, don't worry. I was
given hair and I was given heighth, but I was
also given you know, deep mental illness and the inability
to communicate well with humans. So I mean you can't
have it all. You know, you might be a very happy,
well adjusted person, but you're a little shorter.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Not me.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
I'm tall and screwed up. So I mean you can't
have everything all right, And so don't do it. It
sounds very, very painful and for three inches.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
No, yeah, that's not worth it, not at all.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
For three inches. I got to turn a key now.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
And finally, guys, this is in today's Consumer Product Safety
News because you know we're big on that here. Fake
LaVoo boos are a danger. The Consumer Product Safety Commission
urged An issued an urgent warning about fake la booboo
dolls that post choking hazards to children. The knockoffs, called lafufus,
can fit in the small children's mouth, in the mouth
(10:17):
of a child, I guess, and block the airways. Some
are so poorly made that they break into small pieces
that kids could swallow. Real labooboo dolls from PopMart retailing
to thirty bucks and have holographic stickers, QR codes and
UV stamps. Authentic dolls have nine teeth. Fakes often have
different numbers of teeth, and parents should only buy from
reputable sellers and immediately stop using any fake versions they own. Plus,
(10:40):
the street cred of rock and a dupe is just
not it's not it. You know, I can't have you guys.
I can't have Jason. You know you specific I know
you're labuou guy. Yes, I can't have you rock in
fake labuobus. It's like wearing fake Jordan's. I can't have
you on the street, you know, with knockoffs. It's it's
just not our brand, you know, the fufu around here.
(11:02):
Plus you might choke on something, so I I don't
want that to happen. Maybe I didn't think you were
playing La booboos in your mouth, but anyway, I or laffoo?
Is there any in the little anything? I didn't think,
but I don't. I don't know. You did poop the
bed last night, So it's and that's that's not a that's.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Not a h you know, that's not a metaphor.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
That's not a metaphor. I know you, And that's not
a metaphor. That really happened. It's a natural aviation day
Today
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