Chocolate Covered & Word of the Year

It's National Chocolate Covered Anything Day and Dangerous Dave talks about the most popular chocolate cover items in each state and Chippers make the list in ND. Plus, our word of the year is "slop".

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is uber in the den with Dangerous Day. Well,
today is National Chocolate Covered Anything Day, and they did
a map of every state's favorite chocolate covered whatever. Unfortunately,
insects did not rise to the top in one state. Overall,
the most popular thing covered in chocolate is bacon, Believe

(00:21):
it or not, thanks to Middle America making it happen. Specifically,
bacon top choice in Alabama, Colorado, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee,
and Wisconsin. Banana's most popular in Arizona, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, Oregon,
and Virginia. Almonds number one in Maryland, in New Mexico,

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New York, Texas, Utah, and Washington, while people prefer pecans
in Arkansas, Louisiana, South Carolina, peanuts in South Dakota, and
maceadamias in Hawaii. So chocolate covered strawberries most popular in
the last Mississippi, Rhode Island, Vermont, Wyoming, while cherries were
in Maine, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, and West Virginia. So

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the unique preferences blueberries in California, apples in Pennsylvania, pineapples
and New Jersey grapes in Kentucky, pickles in Ohio, what ooh,
Florida had popcorn Delaware pretzels, coffee beans in Idaho and Kansas,
North Carolina crickets. Hey, somebody had to do it, and

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most unique chocolate covered item in North Dakota is obvious.
You probably know potato chips, of course, thanks to the
chippers in the two so Merriam Webster's said that word
of the Year for twenty twenty five is slop, as
in AI slop. They define it as digital content of
low quality that is produced usually in quantity, by means

(01:52):
of artificial intelligence. AI content got so cheap and easy
this year. It's unavoidable now, from cookie cutter writing to
fully botched facts to fun videos your dad sent of
an old lady on a sled crashing into a fence.
AI slop is everywhere. They say they picked it because

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it managed to sum up the problem in just four letters,
giving us a fun way to mock AI. They said,
it sends a little message to AI when it comes
to replacing human creativity, sometimes you don't it seems too
super intelligent. Other words made shortlist Jerrymander, touch grass, performative,

(02:37):
Tariff and dictionary dot COM's word of the Year is six',
seven which to me needs to be eighty six to.
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