What's Trending: We're Getting Stupider

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's the breast show. This is what's trending. I miss

(00:04):
whatever you're laughing at, but I'm sure it was funny.
Then again, you laugh like that over things I say
that aren't funny. So why this morning her? Yeah, yeah, no,
it is Honestly, this guy gases us all up. The
other guy is our buddy over at WGCI, Leon Rodgers.
I found this with comedians comedians like good comedians I

(00:25):
shouldn't say, because there are good comedians that don't do this,
but a lot of comedians have been around They make
you feel funny, like he laughs at things that you say.
And I don't know why I've found that in comedians,
because some are very dark and don't laugh at anything.
Some roast me on stage, like Cannibal Bursted several times.
But I don't know. I've been around comedians that like,

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I don't know. Every time I'm around Leon, I feel funny,
and he's the funniest person I know. So I'm like,
wait a minute, why do I feel funny right now? Anyway?
Mystic Dan won the one hundred and fifty is Kentucky
Derby the Kentucky Derby.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
Jason, Yes, horses, Okay, good and hats and beautiful hats.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
It was a three horse photo finish, edging out Sierra
Leone by a nose, with Forever Young the third in
the tightest finished since nineteen ninety six. What were your thoughts?

Speaker 2 (01:13):
You know it was tight? Uh, but there were horses,
so they ran, I think, but there were horses. Yes, Rufio.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
You get an invite to go friend to the Kentucky Derby.
Yeah no I didn't. Yeah I didn't. Who all was there?

Speaker 3 (01:30):
Boss man and then the boss man's boss man where
they're both there? Oh yes, No, I never get invited
in checking. No, you got the outfit already, but you
just never get no.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
No idea secker. I had my searsucker, I had my
what do they call those hats like a fastener? It
was a fascinator or something. Oh yeah, I don't know.
It was fascinating what I had. I don't know. I
don't wear hats like that. I was ready to go
and I was waiting for them to come by. I
actually had the outfit on the day before your suit. Yeah. No,
I was just standing there with a mint julip in

(01:59):
my hand and my fascinator. Fascinating fascinator on Yeah, and
I was standing out in front of my house for
about three hours and then finally no became So then
I got on my own horse and I wrote that, Yeah,
it's what you're supposed to.

Speaker 4 (02:12):
Do, right.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:13):
I saw a boss man and then the other boss
man posts on Instagram and I was like.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
Oh, that's been a trip that's been going on for
over a decade. I've never been invited to, but that's fine. Yeah,
I know it's happened for a long time now. I
also heard rumors about that trip that Big boss Man,
one of the suits brings an entire like kitchen set
up to his hotel room and then cook's food in
his hotel room for everybody or something like that. I mean, yeah,

(02:37):
I guess the guy travels with like burners and stuff.
Are you allowed to do that? No? I don't believe
you are, actually, but you know, because like I guess,
like room service or like a restaurant or something what not,
we wouldn't do that. And fire is that a common thing?
Do people really do that? Do people bring like I
mean I've heard of people bringing snacks and you know,
I don't know, like stuff to eat that, so I

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don't have to spend a bunch of money on room
service or hotel restaurants or whatever, especially if I have kids.
I've heard of that. My mom used to bring an
entire suitcase full of just crap for us to eat,
especially when I was younger, because I would just I
was it was too expensive to feed me. I mean
I would eat like two meals. It was ridiculous. They
try and take me to buffets because that was where
they like felt like they were getting like a hotel
breakfast buffet. They ate that up because my parents were

(03:20):
like thirty nine bucks, Sure, this kid's gonna eat you
out of house, and I would I just sit there
and just shovel food in nice they saw me coming
my parents. At least we're getting on our moneys were
out of this thing. But otherwise, yeah, I've never heard of.
This is what the Big Suit does, is it he
brings burners and like meat and he cooks it in
the hotel room. I heard that's everywhere he goes, not

(03:41):
just to the Kentucky Derby. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (03:44):
One of my friends pulled out a sandwich when we
were on the beach in Brazil, and I was like,
where'd you get that? It looks good and she's like, oh,
I made it at home. I was like, we got
here four days ago. Yeah, yeah, like home, home, home home.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
You're also not supposed to I don't think bring like raw,
not raw, but like I don't think you're supposed to
bring perishable items us the border, right.

Speaker 4 (04:01):
And her husband was like, yeah, we just like put
it at the top where it's cold.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
I'm like, oh, you had an ice bag. He's like no,
it was cold on the plane. I'm like, this sandwich
is not going to be good for you. Guys don't
have sandwiches in Brazil. The girl figure it out. You
guys like you make good money. I'm richie, I can
buy you a sandwich, like like they're negative twenty five cents.
So I was like, are times that to hop because

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you make more than me. I all know what's going on,
but yeah, from home, Well, I was actually thinking about
how because you were in Brazil a couple weeks ago
for the wedding and you were talking about how inexpensive
it was. And I went to visit my aunt and
she you know Saints and aunt has an apartment in
one us aures where she moved. I mean this lady's
like never had any kids, married a couple times, whenever divorced.

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She just did whatever she went. We went to dinner
with her. It's like friends of hers or four of us.
And it was at this steakhouse. And I've never I'm
not embelliching, I've never seen more food in my entire life.
Everybody had a steak the size of like Fred Flintstone steak.
I mean like there was just sides everywhere. Dessert had
like twelve flavors of ice cream wanted. I mean, I
don't even know what was going on. And then this
guy and I were like haggling over who was going

(05:06):
to pay for it at the end, and so finally
I get my bill and it was one hundred dollars
US and I paid it and I'm like, well that's
my half. And it was a ton of food, and
so my aunt we walk out, She's like how much
was that. I'm like, well, my half was one hundred bucks.
She's like, that's pretty good. I mean, look at all
the I mean, this was the nicest restaurant in ba
and look at all the food. We ate, like, that's
that's pretty good. It was by far the most expensive

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meal i'd paid for there. The next day, this guy
call says, hey, thank you so much for treating us
last night. I want to take you to dinner tonight.
And I'm like, what are you talking about. I paid
my half. He goes, no, you paid the whole thing. Remember,
like you won the haggle or whatever. The biggest meal
I've ever seen in my home. Literally, like more food
than I could even imagine, twenty five dollars a person.
It was wild and it was good, it was delicious.

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It was supposedly one of the top two or three
steakhouses in the entire city. Twenty five I'm like, how
do they make any money?

Speaker 3 (05:58):
Yeah, that's how it was when I went to when
I went at the Philippines for the first time, Like
I went with all my family and we went to
this fancy restaurant. We had like four of everything, and
then the bill came. It was like forty five dollars.
I was like forty five dollars, and I was like,
let me treat you, y'all, treat you all right.

Speaker 1 (06:14):
My nicest sushi meal was twenty nine a person. That's
drinks and a ton of rolls for Oh, we had
wine too. I forgot to mention that. Yeah, oh yeah,
it was. It was wild.

Speaker 4 (06:22):
I was like, I can't get a salad in this
building for twenty nine dollars.

Speaker 1 (06:25):
Like we're being rock right. We did, and then we
walked by Gucci and I'm like, let's go in. She's like, no,
it doesn't work that way. I guess all those places
they charged the same or more but for whatever reason.
Like and then I remember looking at my my my
credit card bill and my ubers. I think I was
mentioning this last week. Yeah, my ubers were like a
dollar twenty nine, a dollar four like and I mean

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for an uber that would cost twenty dollars here, yeah,
oh my hot I mean gas is gas making money.
The max tip you could leave I said on Uber
was five percent. And even then they were really weird
about it.

Speaker 4 (06:59):
I was, I want it to be more and they're
like no, no, I'm all right, fine, I'm moving.

Speaker 1 (07:03):
It was crazy. Filipinospring rice cookers? Is that true? That's
that is true? Do you guys travel with rice cookers? Oh? Yeah, okay,
I don't know. I mean I've been tempted if I've
stayed at those hotels that have like little kitchenettes. I've
been tempted, but I don't know like all the food. Oh,
I don't know what's going on with the pots and pans,
and yeah, I don't know what's going on with it,

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you know, like who used it last, what did they cook?
Who cleaned it? Really? Like really who cleaned it? You know?
And I'm not I don't get too weird about hotel
rooms because, as you know, I am a germophobe and
I'm a total weirdo. But I just I sort of
let Jesus take the wheel when I walk into a
hotel room, because there's just no way, Like, you know,
you got these people that are like I bring my

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own sheets, and I bring my own pillows, and I
don't wear I wear socks at minimum in the hotel room.
I don't walk away around barefoot. I clean the whole
place myself. You're never gonna like it's a hotel room
three hundred and sixty five days a year, somebody's in there,
a different person. More than likely, you're never gonna like
they'll never They're gonna have to tear the building down

(08:06):
to make and then burn it all to make it clean,
like really clean. So I guess when I walk into
a hotel room, I just I just I acquiesced, like
it just is what it is. I can't it just
just let the germs make me stronger. Yeah right. I
don't stay with airplanes. Like I've been on airplanes before.
People clean in all the seats with these wipes and
weren't a meta. It's like, you know what, I'm sorry,

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as soon as you walked in, do you just breathe
in thirty years of oh, god knows what.

Speaker 4 (08:33):
Every time I fly someone has the black lungleg right
next to me, I'm like, that is not that's COVID
forty five.

Speaker 1 (08:37):
Like I don't even know what that is. Like why
are people so sick on the flight all the time.
My buddy flies for an airline and he was standing
in the cockpit like door. Someone gets on the plane
and says, there are no peanuts on this plane, right,
And the flight at Tenant was like there have we
haven't served peanuts for years? Like we can't, you know,
like whatever, peanuts whatever. She's like, that's good because if

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there's any remnant of oil or anything any form of
peanut on this plane, I'll die. Oh and my buddy's like,
no peanuts on the plane. She walks in the ail.
He's like, this airplane's thirty years old. We served peanuts
on it for twenty five of the thirty. Like there's
peanut oil and dust everywhere. She was fine. And I'm
not saying that. I'm not saying that that's not dangerous.
And I know that it's a very serious issue. But

(09:18):
the point is, like what the filth got? You know
how many thousands and thousands of people have been on
these stas. It just is what it is. Yeah, you know, Kiki,
it is what it is. It is what it is.
But I'm not taking no pots and pans on vacation.
That's too much. Yeah, do you use the pots and
pants that are in the room. No, Why would I
be cooking on vacation. I also agree with that, But
it's cheaper if you're there for like a week. I

(09:41):
don't know. I mean, it seems expensive to eat out
every single meal. Have you seen the price of groceries
in this camp? That's true. That's true too. That's the
interesting question. What is the strangest thing that you have
to have on vacation that you bring with you? A
rice cooker is that's something I mean, but that's easy
to take.

Speaker 3 (09:58):
Like the rice is dry, you just fill with the
with water, plug it in and it stays warm all day.

Speaker 1 (10:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (10:05):
I bring my own pillow everywhere I go, oh yeah,
but I feel like the pillow is just getting covered
in whatever mess you brought it.

Speaker 1 (10:12):
I wash it.

Speaker 4 (10:12):
But I can only sleep with a pillow with like
the microbeads in it. I can't sleep with a normal pillow.

Speaker 1 (10:16):
So you're not really worried about no, no, come on,
no over here.

Speaker 4 (10:21):
I'm because I carry a microwave pillow from Amazon.

Speaker 1 (10:24):
Why do airplanes have carpets? It's a better question. What
do you want to put marble in the thing? Like
hard hardwoo would be narsy. I think it has to
do with flammability and some other stuff, but I really,
actually I don't know the answer to that. YouTuber turn
Price fighter Jake Paul is promoting his summer fight with
boxing legend Mike Tyson while the Formula one Miami Grand
Prix on Sunday, which was the star sud that everybody

(10:46):
seems to have been there. He said, I love Mike.
I'm super respectful of him. It's an honor to be
in the ring with him, but I have to end him.
The twenty seven year old will fight the fifty seven
year old on July twentieth at eighteen and T Stadium
in Arlington, Texes. It'll be available on Netflix. I don't
know about that. I saw it's a legitifight too, like
it's gonna go on. The record is yeah, they're not

(11:07):
gonna have head gear and all that stuff. I know.
There are all kinds of rumors and I now it
was like one two on a right there he was
gonna be a little tag team and like all this.
I saw Mike sparring the other day and he I
don't know, I don't.

Speaker 3 (11:22):
I know for in fifty I still would not take
it for a million dollars.

Speaker 1 (11:27):
I don't think I would do it, yeah, because I
feel like if he hit me wrong, I would die.
So it's not worth it him man, Like I mean,
if you if you can't like fully, yeah, very dangerous.
So it turns out that we're getting stupider guys. IQ
scores in the US are on the decline for the
first time ever, and experts are saying that technology is
to blame. And you know, I believe this because I

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don't know how to spell anymore. I don't even bother.
I don't even bother spelling anymore, because all I do
I even bother. I am bother trying to get anything
right on the just text real asked. The phone either
corrects it or tells me it's wrong, and then I
click on it and change it, or I go back
and edit it if I didn't. But like, I'm not
even trying to spell words correctly because if you just
get kind of closed and it tells you what it is.

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So then when I go to write like a handwritten
thank you note or something, I have to sit in
front of Google because I have to like type in
the words and be like, oh that's how you spell that, Okay. Like, honestly,
I believe that we don't have to remember stuff anymore.
We don't have to be able to do math anymore.
I mean, you really don't. You don't you don't need
any of this kids, Oh all right, kick you well,
don't say that I'm a Both times with the average

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intelligence test score fell from one hundred and ninety eight,
which is a two point decline. Test takers are quizzed
on matters of logic, spatial reasoning, visual and mathematical problem solving,
and vocabulary and scores have only been tracked since the
beginning of the twentieth century. So let's see here. The
smartest state is New Hampshire average IQ of one three

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and the least smart New Mexico at ninety five. So
New Hampshire Jason's favorite state. Massachusetts, Minnesota, and Vermont, North
Dakota and Wyoming the smartest and the dumbest, according to
this New Mexico, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Nevada. Have you
ever taken the like You test? Friend? I apparently I have.

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I don't know what the score is. My mom claims
I'm smart, but that's what That's what my mom is
supposed to say. That's what I'm saying. She's not important.
She's not gonna tell me if I'm a complete imbecile.
I made it this far. She knows the score, but
she won't. But again, I don't know. My mom is

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never like if I were a total moron, she wouldn't
tell me, Like she'd be like, yeah, you're smart, even
though she knows I'm dumb and I made it this far.
You know what I mean maybe they sit at home
every night they're like, oh, thank god, thank god you
thought a job where he can be an idiot. But
if you ask her, But then again, I you asked her,
I'm the best at everything. You ask her, I'm Ryan Seacrest.
Do you ask her? I'm you know, I'm Oh my god,

(14:06):
No one on earth gasses me up like she does,
so I might be actually like stupid. Now that's why
I say that, Like my mom knows the score and
says it's good. She won't tell you. No, No, my
dad is actually brilliant, though he has he is like
he is. I think he's borderline mensa my dad. And
you can tell because he just kind of sits in
his chair and just kind of shakes. He just he

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reads books and kind of just vibrates. He's like, that's
your kid. Oh yeah, no, trust me, No, I didn't
get any of that. No. No, I mean sometimes talking
to my dad is an inconvenience to him because whatever
whatever words you're using or not, just not at his level.
And a zebra that I told you about last week
has been captured in Washington State after six days on

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the run. He's no longer on the lamb, or she
rather a female zebra name sug was one of the
four zebras that escape from a trailer east of Seattle.
Sugar ran through the foothills of the Cascade Mountain Range
for six days and was captured by a group of
private citizens, and she will now complete her trip to Montana,
where she's going to live. I guess it's National Melanola
Monday and National Nurses Day today as well.