What's Trending: Jason's Sports Report, TGI Friday's Bankruptcy & More

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's the Fresh show. This is what's trending, all right.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
So you may not know who Quincy Jones is, but
I promise you know what Quincy Jones has done. He
passed away at the age of ninety one. He's a
Grammy Award winning producer. Was born on the South Side
of Chicago. At fourteen, he introduced himself to then sixteen
year old Ray Charles, who he cites his an inspiration
for his own music career. Jones began traveling around the

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country on tour with different acts playing the trumpet, including
in the studio band that supported Elvis Presley. This guy
went on to work with Michael Jackson, Frank Sinatra.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
He's a producer on Thriller. M a thriller.

Speaker 3 (00:41):
If you ever heard the there's the original. It was
called Starlight Michael Jackson Starlight, look it up. That was
the beat to Thriller. But he was not singing about
what thrillers about. And Quincy Jones is like, Yo, this
is this track. Who gotta change this? And then he
came up with thriller. Oh wow, well the whole album. Yeah,
off the wall, bad as well. Lionel Ritchie goes on

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and on.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
He later produced the color purple in the television series
The Fresh Prince of bel Air. He received a record
eighty Grammy Award nominations, twenty eight of which he went
on to win. He later received the Grammy Legend Award
in nineteen ninety two. He was also nominated for an
Academy Award for Best Original Score for his work in
the nineteen sixty seven film In Cold Blood. He passed
away Sunday in California at his home. Guys, just an

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election tomorrow. They're voting on some things. I'm not really sure.
There's some stuff you might want to look into it. However,
one billion dollars has been spent on political ads over
the past week.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
Crazy, So that's.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
Not just presidential, right, Yes, one billion dollars on political
ads up and down the ballot in the last week.
According to data from an ad tracking firm, ad Impact,
the most expensive race over the past week presidential race
two hundred and seventy two million dollars spent on ads.
There's been more than two hundred and sixty seven million
spent on ads in down ballot races, meeting all the

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other races outside of the races for president, governor, and Congress.
Two races drying the most spending are in Florida and
California Senate races. I mean all this different in Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Texas, Pennsylvania.
Over a billion dollars in ad spending. And I wonder

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how much they pay for those texts I've been getting
all day too, you know.

Speaker 3 (02:29):
Emails, yeah, yeah, yeah, donate this, Yeah, it meets yeah. Hi.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
This is Kamala Harris, it is right right, and then
it's high this is Donald Trump. They both have my number, Hio.
It's your buddy, Barack.

Speaker 4 (02:40):
I'm like, yeah, right, finally gotten one. I'm so happy. Really, no, yes,
they must think I don't vote or something.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
I have not gotten one text. Well, you get more.
If they thought you didn't vote, I don't know.

Speaker 4 (02:52):
It probably like she don't pay a taxes, she don't
pay your souls. I got wonder from Kamala that told
me Bratt summer was over.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
I Rest summers never over for me. Yeah, seriously, I'm
still doing Brad summer. Brest Summer's never over for me. Now.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
TGF Fridays has officially taken the next step by filing
for bankruptcy protection. They said in a statement, it will
look for ways to ensure the long term viability of
its brand. During the Chapter eleven process, they've been closing
restaurants left and right. We must save TG Fridays at
all costsantly must. And now, granted I have not been
to one in a very long time. Did you go
on over the weekend?

Speaker 4 (03:27):
I did not over the weekend, but I went to
one recently. But you know what I have with you
on this one. You know, I think this is a
conspiracy where all these restaurants are now filing for bankruptcy
because they saw what we did with Red Lobster and
they want us to, you know, come out in the safe.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
So it's like, okay, thank you, Oh my god, Red
Lobster's closed. We have to go right. And so now
it's TJF Fridays. Just oh my god, we have to
go right. Hooters, don't play with me like.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
Oh, I see what It's a pump fake, is what
you're saying. Yeah, that's what I think. Now here's a question,
and I will admit this is this is true.

Speaker 2 (03:56):
But there are restaurant brands that are actually keeping in
higher shopping malls open. This is a real article today
and it's trending. The restaurant brands that are driving Americans
back to shopping malls. What would you say is the
number one?

Speaker 1 (04:11):
No? But think bigger. Yes. Cheesecake Factory. Yes.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
Cheesecake Factory and Din Tai Fung, which is a newcomer,
have been named the top mall brands this year according
to analysis by yelp. So these are the places. This
is the reason people are going back to the mall,
I guess, And to be honest, the last time I
was at a cheesecake Factory it was in the mall,
So I guess the only reason I was at the
mall was to eat at the Cheesecake Factory and perus

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through their eighty seven page menu, which I have no
idea how that restaurant makes any money if they have
that many ingredients to make that many that many food items.

Speaker 1 (04:45):
Every page has got six ads a jeweler. Yeahs in
the Cheesecake Factory.

Speaker 2 (04:54):
But it's not like Tyco belt Wore. It's the same
seven ingredients. I mean they got Chinese food, they got
Indian food. Every you get a pizza and I can
also get an egg rollie. Yeah. And I'm going, what
the hell? Who makes all this stuff? Who knows how
to do it? All these people know how to make
all that stuff like it's wild? But yes. Making up

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the rest of the top ten, BJ's Restaurant and brew House,
True Food Kitchen, Starbucks, Olive Garden, Target, California Pizza Kitchen,
and Panera Bread. Brat speaking of brat is the Collins
Dictionary word of the year, characterized by a confident, independent,
and hedonistic attitude. Brat is also the title of Charlie
XCX's sixth studio album. Other words that have stood out

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the top ten for the year to Lulu, brain rod,
romance wait, romantics all right, rom a and romantic sassy
romantic wait, a literary genre that combines romantic fiction with
fantasy romanticy.

Speaker 1 (06:00):
No one is about a word.

Speaker 2 (06:01):
It's hard to say era, of course, raw dogging, but
spots not in the context that Kaitlin's thinking this morning.
It's the act of undertaking an activity without preparation, supporter equipment,
like going on a long flight without your phone or
other distractions. Look smaxing attempting to maximize the attractiveness of

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one's physical appearance. Anti tourism, opposition or action against large
scale tourism is I think super majority and yapping. These
are all the words that they've said are the trending
words of Collins Dictionary. I'm not a college I don't
even know what that is. Where's Merriam Webster. That's the
only dictionary I use. Come on National Candy Day. It's

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National Broadcast Traffic Professionals Day, not weather.

Speaker 1 (06:47):
Roof you.

Speaker 2 (06:47):
It's not about you. It's traffic people, broadcast traffic people
and guys. I didn't forget, and I can't forget, because, Yes,
an incredible week of picks, Jason. Ten wins and four losses.

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That's it. Even you seem surprised by this.

Speaker 1 (07:11):
Yeah, I mean I watched all the games.

Speaker 3 (07:13):
Yesterday obviously, but obviously forgot what I picked that Jason
Brown are regional president of sports reporting.

Speaker 2 (07:22):
Yes, you picked the Texans on Thursday, they didn't win.
You picked the Falcons they did, the Patriots, no, Raiders, no,
But you picked the Ravens yes, the Chargers, yes, the
Saints no, which that was surprising. You could have been
eleven and three because that's that was a surprising one.
The Bills, yes, the Commanders, yes, the Eagles yes, the

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Cardinals yes, the Rams yes, the Lions yes, the Vikings yes,
and we still have one tonight. We got the Chiefs
over the Bucks. That's what you picked, obviously, and they
can't lose. Parslay two out of three in bed, Carol
Santos won't miss a kick, he didn't. Juo will score two.
He did goubull catch three times. He did not chub
Look me down, bro, But man.

Speaker 3 (08:07):
Jason, I'm so proud of you.

Speaker 1 (08:10):
This is really really good.

Speaker 2 (08:12):
So we'll see if you go eleven and four tonight,
because I mean the chief should win.

Speaker 1 (08:15):
They should. Yeah. Wow, good job you. Oh my gosh,
I feel back. I feel vindicated.

Speaker 2 (08:21):
You know, it must have been weird not knowing who
to cheer for yesterday since you couldn't remember who you picked.

Speaker 1 (08:30):
Okay,