What's Trending: Billionaire Is Attempting First Commercial Spacewalk

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is what's trending? All right? What do I have
for you guys? I thought we were already on the
Entertainer Report. I forgot we haven't even done What's trending yet? Like, oh,
I'm up, always time for me to talk, all right?
So what do I have for you guys this morning?
A wide variety of things, except that didn't refresh. I

(00:20):
was about to tell you about the Uh, did you
guys hear about a presidential debate that took place? I
hear about that. Yeah, nobody would know really to talk
much about it. Not a lot of things happen. There
was a Taylor Swift endorsement of sorts that do we
hear about that? Yeah? The VMAs were last night. We
don't have to talk about them. I'm sure Calein's all

(00:40):
over it, right, I got you. We're talking about chapelon
off the air a minute ago. What was the quote?
She's acting like she's been through ten years.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
Of Yeah, like how artists act ten years into their
career after they've you know, put up with a bunch
of crap and whatnot like that. She's acting like that now.
But I don't necessarily think that that's a bad thing
because it maybe can change how people experience the come up.

Speaker 1 (01:03):
You know, Yeah, yeah, maybe, I mean, and she said
it all happened so fast for chamberone. I she's you
were talking this morning, Camale and she's so immenseally talented,
And I get the boundaries thing, but I I don't
know some of it. I feel like that's what you
do if you've been famous for a while and you're
like I'm done with it, like you know, I'm me,

(01:23):
and you deal with it because I have this big
body of work and like I'm so famous. People are
going to be cool with it no matter what I say.
But it's a little early, don't you think.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
Yeah, But I mean she was ready to go, like
she's been at this for ten years already, and she
said if this album was not a success, like she
was going to bounce really where she was just anymore.
So I think at this point, like she finally has
what she has worked for for like a decade, so
she's kind of like, I'm gonna do this the way
I want because she was ready to be out anyway.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
Yeah, you know, I just think maybe I'm just a
little bit scoring because we seem to see it all
the time in the last several years around here is
artists that come through and then we just never see
him again because they were, you know, TikTok famous or
they had us song and there's just not and so
and some of them are very very, very cool, and
some of them have a lot of attitude, and when
they come through and they have attitude and it's like

(02:09):
you had one TikTok kit and I'm just being I'm
being transparent. In the back of my mind, I'm like,
you know, we've had people come through here who Snoop
and Beyonce and you know, you've been doing this for
a long time, and they're much friendlier. So you know,
it's sort of like, let's see what happens. I think
Sheil Barone's probably the exception. I think she's you know,
maybe like a generational talent. But I don't know. I

(02:33):
guess I like the humility in the beginning and then
we and then we developed, you know, the ego and
being scored and the rest of it. But I may
not be seeing it right. Hurricane Franccene made landfall after
six PM as a Category two storm, increasing in strength
to one hundred mile an hour maximum sustained wins just
before reaching the Louisiana coast. I have a friend in

(02:54):
New Orleans. Actually, she runs our stations there, and it's
just like it's like a just a flippant comment, like
another hurricane coming, Like that's just what they do there
again in the South. It's just like, ah, yeah, another
hurricane and it maybe it happens, and maybe it doesn't,
and maybe it comes right through and maybe it doesn't.
But you're just like, eh. But I think if you've
lived there long enough, it just becomes part of part

(03:17):
of this time of year, I guess. But yeah, there's
flash flood warnings in several parishes near New Orleans. You
got to feel for them too, because when it does hit,
as it did several years ago, it's devastating. So a
billionaire named Jared Isaacman is going to attempt the first
commercial spacewalk today. This is the guy that's on the SpaceX.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
Ship.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
He and three of his buddies and he and a
woman are going to attempt the first private spacewalk in history.
When he climbs out of the hatch of the SpaceX
Polaris Dawn that he rode into orbit. This week, only
two hundred and sixty three people representing twelve countries have
conducted a spacewalk, and all of them were government operations.
The capsule is coming back to around four hundred and

(04:01):
fifty miles above earth for the spacewalk. Until now, it's
been orbiting at eight hundred and seventy miles above the ground,
the highest orbital altitude that humans have reached since the
last Apollo mission in nineteen seventy two. Also, they don't
have I guess I was reading this this morning. I
was reading this this morning. I don't know where that
came from. Astronauts typically when they go out and do

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these things, they're connected, but then they have like their
own like like well like a survival pet, like it
provides the oxygen and everything they would need, sort of
like self contained. This doesn't have that. This is two
cords or hoses or whatever. They are connected to them
and that's their entire like oxygen and everything they need

(04:44):
to live. So we you know, I'm not wishing this
on anybody, but like I guess, if things get a
little out of control, they've still got the NASA astronauts
still have this like self contained suit these guys don't
necessarily have that. Wow, so we're hoping both hoses stay attached.
It looks like he just did it. Oh, the yard's
already done. Ah good, Yeah, so they stayed attached. Yeah, okay,

(05:05):
good news. That's excellent. Ye right, the VMAs will get
to those in a minute. With Kaylin, you can no
longer make a fat joke at Northwestern University. You could
get in huge trouble with the actual school if you
make a fat joke. Of course, Northwestern, in Evanston, near Chicago,

(05:28):
a prestigious college, recently adopted a policy that would punish
students for making fat jokes. The university included weight and
height on its list of protected characteristics in its twenty
twenty four discrimination, harassment and sexual Misconduct policy, placing the
traits alongside attributes like race and gender. Making jokes about
these protected characteristics goes against the policy and can result

(05:49):
in sanctions for students, staff, or faculty. Punishment for violating
the harassment policy ranges all the way from a verbal
warning to expulsion, depending on how severe the university determines
the interaction was.

Speaker 3 (06:02):
I know, that's right, protect the fluffy and fine.

Speaker 1 (06:05):
Okay, but you like it, like you don't have a
problem if people call you fluffy and fine. But if
we're at Northwestern, I call you fluffy and fine, and
for some reason you're not feeling the fluffy comment that
I get expelled.

Speaker 3 (06:15):
That's right, right. I love it. Man, this new era,
they have it so good. They don't I mean, it
may not develop tough skin for them, you know, like
it's gonna get real out here when you leave that university.
You know, like we can go across the street and
I can. But it's just nice to know that they

(06:36):
have the option to be protected in that way.

Speaker 1 (06:38):
You know, I don't want to be a dude from
the from the previous generation. I guess maybe even what
am I considered? What are we considered RUFIO two? Is
it previous or two previous generations? Depending are y'all millennials?
I'm millennial. I'm like just barely yeahs X, yes your

(06:58):
ex millennial like there. But I don't want to be
that guy. But I will say, and look, I don't
think people should be making fun anybody for being overweight
or short or anything. I don't think that. But there
is a toughness thing that concerns me about certain people
in certain depending on what you're trying to accomplish in
your life, Like people are not nice, and by the way,

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you can't. It's worse than ever because of the Internet.
So like we're making it go away, and we're making
it like against the law and against the rules to
say mean things to people, But that doesn't prevent anybody
from saying the worst possible things to you online anonymously,
and that's oftentimes just as hurtful. So I guess I
wonder are we doing everybody a service by making it

(07:44):
outlawing being mean essentially, because people can be meaner than
they've ever been. I mean, honestly, I would not want
to be a kid in grade school or middle school
or high school with the internet. It was bad enough
going to a small school with a bunch of kids
I knew my whole life kids were still mean. But
imagine being able to do all that and not even
have to be accountable for it. I don't know that

(08:05):
I think that we're necessarily protecting people by making it,
by making it against the law to say mean things,
because mean things. Some people are just mean, And like,
is there anything it's part of growing up trying to
figure out how to navigate that, and I, at forty
three years old, still haven't quite figured out how to
navigate that. But I mean still, I guess I didn't

(08:27):
grow up in a generation where everybody told me I
was great and everybody told me I was perfect, and
everyone told me that there was nothing wrong with me.
And I don't know. And by the way, a lot
of people said mean things to all of us growing
up that were just flat out wrong. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (08:38):
Yeah, it's just the reality. You're going to come across
people in this world who say bad things right you poorly.
It's just a reality. So it's a nice thing that
they want to do, but you're never going to be
exempt from those experiences once you get into the real world.

Speaker 1 (08:54):
But now we just get that guy you get and
by the way, that jackass. I'm not saying that anyone
should be saying those things, but now we just get
that guy kicked out of school. Doesn't really solve the
I don't know, And I.

Speaker 3 (09:07):
Just worry, how how are you going to handle real life?
Like that's what I mean, Like we're out here, it's
real out here, and I feel like we I don't
like you said you don't want to be the person
from the generation before that. I'm definitely that person.

Speaker 1 (09:19):
I'm not trying to be the old guy who's going there,
you know. But I honestly am concerned, Like I have
a genuine concern about the thickness of skin of And again,
I don't know what we're protecting people from because I
don't necessarily think it's it's it's easier than it was.
I think it's harder than it's ever been.

Speaker 4 (09:39):
I mean, when a Yorky on Instagram tells you that
the bottom half of your body looks like you're ninety
years nineties years years old, how are you going to
handle it?

Speaker 1 (09:51):
Right?

Speaker 4 (09:52):
Yeah, that was the profile picture that Yorky was mean.

Speaker 1 (09:57):
Yeah, I mean, I look, if we can honestly create
a world where people are nice to each other and
people don't say terrible mean close minded to things, and
people are thoughtful about the way that we communicate with
each other, if that's where we're headed, I'd love it.
I just I don't think we are thinking. If anything,
we're creating more ways for people to be even meaner
and not even have to be accountable for it.

Speaker 4 (10:19):
That's yeah, accountable for it. Exactly and like it's not
it's different from like racism, homophobia. That stuff should be
you know, one hundred percent reprimanded. But what are we
going to go through and ban all the words? I mean,
it's all the other words. It seems like crazy. But
I am also the person that's like back in murder.

Speaker 3 (10:38):
Yeah, like I'm turning into that.

Speaker 1 (10:39):
I watch a school. Well I agree, and I don't know.
Maybe people feel differently about this, but I just I
think back on some of the and look, my skin
should be a lot thicker considering what we do. But
but even where I'm at, I mean, I can't begin
to tell you the number of people that told me
earlier in my career that I wasn't any good, I
couldn't do it. Kids in the high school saying I

(11:01):
was ugly or is too skinny or whatever it was.
And it's like, yeah, you go home and cry and
those people are mean and it's terrible, and I know
it really like affects people. But I also think, like
how you deal with that and how you come through
that can be very helpful when you get into the
real world where that's what are you gonna me? You
can't get everybody fired around you, who's not nice to you.
I guess, well maybe you can. I don't. I don't

(11:23):
know something. Let me see you here. Oh, we'll get
to the a little bit later on. There's a Tyreek
Kill update. There's a Shannon Sharp story.

Speaker 3 (11:30):
Oh my god, is there.

Speaker 4 (11:31):
I haven't had so hower if we don't cover.

Speaker 1 (11:33):
It, yeah, I'd love to know this has happened to anybody.
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