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February 18, 2025 10 mins

Freezing cold temperatures sweep the nation, a plane crashes at the Toronto airport. and see what experts say social media addiction can do to you!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Fresh show. This is what's trend.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
It's cold. It's gonna be cold. A lot of places
where you can hear US today. Harsh freezing temperatures hit
the nation's midsection on Monday, as a polar vortex gripped
the Rockies and northern Plains on the heels of weekend
storms that hummeled the eastern US with floods, killing at
least fourteen people. It's the tenth polar vortex of the season.

(00:22):
The National Weather Service warned if life threatening cold as
windshields dropped to minus sixty fahrenheit in parts of North
Dakota on Monday and minus fifty in parts of Montana.
Minus fifty this morning. Was forecast of even colder. Extreme
cold warnings were issued for an eleven state swath of
the US stretching from the Canadian border to Oklahoma and

(00:42):
central Texas, where the arctic front was expected to bring
near record cold temperatures and windshields in the single digits.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
By midweek.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
Meteorologists had predicted the parts of the US would experience
the tenth and coldest polar vortex event this season.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
So it's cold a lot of places. It was cold.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
In Canada, yesterday in Toronto, a Delta air Lines flight
forty eight nineteen operated by Endeavor Air crashed while landing
at Toronto Pearson Airport. The flight was arriving room from
Minneapolis with eighty individuals on board, including seventy six passengers
and four crew member. During the landing at approximately two
to fifteen local time, the plane flipped upside down on

(01:20):
the runway and then caught on fire. Eighteen people injured,
no fatalities. And if you look at this thing, it's
amazing that the people survived. It is truly amazing.

Speaker 3 (01:31):
I couldn't wrap my mind around how the plane perfectly
ended up on its upside down like that?

Speaker 1 (01:38):
Like would did the wing stop it? When the tail?
I think? Did the wing break off? One of them?

Speaker 3 (01:44):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:44):
Both broke off? I thought of you.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
I was why, because an airplane, an airplane flips over
lands upside down?

Speaker 1 (01:51):
Like man was s Frends flying that thing over there?
I haven't seen him in a while. I know he's
been in Salt Lake City, but like, did you get a.

Speaker 3 (01:59):
Job over there?

Speaker 2 (02:00):
No?

Speaker 3 (02:01):
No, no, no, you're my friend though, Like you know
anything I want to know about airplane?

Speaker 1 (02:05):
I can actually your pilot yeah, I don't know what.
I even called a friend of mine. I was like,
what the what happened?

Speaker 2 (02:10):
I mean it was snowy and it was windy, but
I mean flipping completely over.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
The incident led to a temporary suspension of airport operations,
which resumed last night. So there was somebody There was
a TikTok video yesterday. If somebody sitting at the gate
in Toronto on a plane watching the CNN coverage of
the crash and then looking out the window and there
it was. Look, I'm a pilot, I'm an aviation guy.

(02:37):
I might take a break, you know, if if the
plane just slipped over, I might, you know, grandative everybody
had to go home, I guess because the airport was closed,
but I might just say, you know what, today is
not going to be the day, Like I'm not going
to Toledo today.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
You know, I'm gonna go home and I'm going to.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
Have a nice coffee or something and take a nap,
and I'll come back later and coffee and take a nap, becaff.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
I'm just gonna have a nice I'm gonna have nice
stroll this afternoon in the polar vortex, and I'm gonna
come back tomorrow. We'll try this again. They might not
be the day.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
I'm nervous, man.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
No, don't be okay, it's very safe. Air travels very safe.
I know it doesn't look like it lately, but you know,
I thought.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
It was just a bowing thing.

Speaker 4 (03:17):
But no, that's where one of the people in CNN,
one of the you know whatever reporters said that like
when they look at that, they see that like this
catastrophe happened, and like there were no casualties, Like that
just shows how safe the airplane really is. That the
fact that that happened, like whatever. She was like, Oh,
that's a different way of looking at it, but positive way.
It's a miracle. It's like it's a miracle.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
And I don't I don't know.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
I think I think it's honestly, I think people just
got lucky. An airplane flips over, wings break off, there's
fuel in the wings. You know, the thing didn't burst
into flames. It makes amazing like it truly is. I
don't want to go through all the bad things it
could have happened, because I'm glad that they didn't.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
But no fatalities at all.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
But I don't know if they have video of this
because we were all kind of trying to figure out,
like wow, I mean, you know, because the wind would
have to be really strong to flip a plane over,
you know, without the without the pilot being able to
do anything to correct it. So I have no idea
if there's an IRS rebate scam. It's texts that are
going out. This is for you, kick you know, you'd

(04:16):
have to fil your textes in order to actually I
don't know if you do have to fail your texes
because it's a scam. The scammers are at it again,
and this time they want you to believe that they're
the IRS. So there are reportedly text messages going out
they say that they have to that you would need
to click a link to receive a fourteen hundred dollars
payment from the IRS. I think when you know when

(04:36):
it says hello, sir or madam, right, But that's the
first giveaway for me that it's not exactly the IRS.
They're not that polite. Plus they don't text. They call, Yeah,
they call a lot and then when you don't answer,
Not that I know this from any particular reason, but
if you don't answer, then they just come take the money.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (04:50):
They ask you nicely at first, kind of, and then
they don't ask you nicely anymore. Then they just come
and take him. But the scammers are playing off recent news.
In late December, the agency that it was sending out
two point four million dollars in total to a million
people who didn't get all of their federal stimulus checks
during the pandemic. However, those payments are happening automatically, and

(05:11):
the link in the text takes you to a fake
site that looks like an official website. The IRS is
warning that the only way that anyone will contact you
is through the postal service, never text or emails. They
will call you. People have said they won't call you anymore.
They'll call you.

Speaker 4 (05:27):
I don't think I would believe that if the IRS
called me. I wouldn't like I wouldn't trust that.

Speaker 2 (05:31):
It was a long time ago. But I did get
a call from the IRS because I was ignoring their
invitation to be audited. Oh my god, I didn't really know.
I didn't really realize what was happening. But I I
thought this must be a mistake. It was something wacky.
It was a long time ago. But it was like,
and I have a guy that does my taxes, so
I called him. But it was like I deducted something

(05:53):
on a rental property at the time that they said
you can't.

Speaker 1 (05:57):
I mean they wanted. They didn't want much.

Speaker 2 (05:58):
It wasn't a lot, but they were to get me
for the penalties because I've been ignoring them.

Speaker 1 (06:02):
Just the off shore accounts.

Speaker 2 (06:03):
Right well, they about one of the offshore accounts. I
had to move some money around me. Yeah, I called Colin.
I said hey, and then I got banned from Venmo
just like you for money laundering using Venmo. But then
my my text guy was like okay, well then we'll
pay them.

Speaker 1 (06:19):
But like that.

Speaker 2 (06:20):
But then whatever it was they wanted, it was it
right off the next year. So it was like, okay, yeah,
write them to check then we'll get it back next year.

Speaker 1 (06:27):
It was like dumb.

Speaker 2 (06:27):
I don't even remember what it was, but it was
something we tried to do and it didn't work. I
honestly have no idea and it wasn't that big a deal.
But they wanted all these penalties because I, you know,
ignored them.

Speaker 1 (06:37):
Well, I don't want to talk to them right that
sounds scary. I don't want to I don't want this letter.
What does to sound like you? I feel like you
would answer that. I don't know why I was ignoring it.

Speaker 2 (06:47):
I was like, there's just no way, though, there's no
way this is right, like this a way, and I
just threw it.

Speaker 1 (06:51):
Away the word audit. If I got anything that an audit.

Speaker 2 (06:55):
Didn't say that it was there was a discrepancy of
I think that was the next step though. Anyway, I
got an ill straightened out. But this is a long
time ago, and you know I'm able to vote. Let
me vote again now I can vote. A lot of
talk about asteroids lately, guys, and I just want you
to know that the odds of an asteroid striking Earth,
they keep going up. So we got planes slipping over,

(07:18):
We got all kinds of crazy stuff happening, you know.
We got people being swallowed by by whales. We got
people trying to take pictures with sharks. Did you hear
about this? This is over the weekend, I guess. So
one was trying to take a selfie with a shark.
It bit both of her hands off. Why would we take.

Speaker 1 (07:33):
A picture with sharks? If you see a shark.

Speaker 2 (07:36):
Why are you like, hey, hold on once a day,
Hey grab the phone, guys, let's take it.

Speaker 1 (07:39):
But no, I'm running. I'm swimming fast. I'm running. Yeah,
she kind of had the day she deserved at that point.
I mean, you hate to see it, but like right,
you hate to see it, but you see it.

Speaker 2 (07:50):
And you, guys know, if you've been listening for any
period of time, you know that I believe that I can.
I can reason with most wild animals. I do believe
that a shark is not one of them. No, I
don't believe I can reason when the shark. I also
think the shark could hear me if I tried to.
It's in the water. Hello, and I'm out of the
water probably. But my feet, of all things, don't taste good.
My hands don't bite them. They don't even taste good.

(08:10):
It's not worth them, Like I guess, honey, bees, if
they sting you, don't they die instantly? Ye, yeah, honey,
And I see it. I don't like bees. And they
swarming around, swarming whatever they're doing, and I'm like, don't
even bother, don't sting me. I don't taste good, and
you're gonna die. Yeah, you know, so that works sometimes
with it with a bee, with me reasoning with wild animals.

(08:32):
But the chances of an asteroid hitting Earth in twenty
thirty two were going up. A new estimate from NASA's
Jet Propulsion Laboratory says the asteroid, called the twenty twenty
four y are four has a two point six percent
chance of an Earth impact, which is up from two
point three last week. If you were worried about this,
if you're betting on it like Camlin probably is. NASA

(08:52):
says the near Earth asteroid measures up to three hundred
feet across and has a very small chance of hitting
Earth December twenty second of twenty thirty two. That said,
the probability has been increasing since the asteroid was discovered
weeks ago. In late January, the chance of a hitting
Earth was only one point two percent, so it's going
up quickly. And a therapist who treats phone addictions Kiki,

(09:14):
says that the withdrawal symptoms that people suffer are similar
to those experienced by drug addicts.

Speaker 3 (09:19):
Yes, oh yes, this is what happened when TikTok went now.

Speaker 2 (09:23):
So Lee Fernandez says that in the last five years
he's seen a significant rise in phone technology and social
media addictions, with one of his recent clients spending between
fifteen and seventeen hours a day on YouTube.

Speaker 1 (09:35):
Oh wow, really yeah, I guess so.

Speaker 2 (09:38):
And for those who try and quit, you can suffer
withdrawal symptoms which are as serious as those experienced by
drug users trying to quit heroine, like shaking, sweating, and insomnia.
All jokes aside. You were not shaking or sweating the
insomnia maybe.

Speaker 3 (09:55):
Fred I was shaking this way. Stop now it's real.
In that jet, I'm not alone, Jason, I cried, Yeah,
it's for real. It was like I got into an
argument with my man. Like it was just I wasn't myself.

Speaker 2 (10:07):
I wasn't myself all because you knew you couldn't look
at TikTok.

Speaker 1 (10:10):
Yes, oh boy? Yes? When did he get you a
hobby or something?

Speaker 3 (10:14):
No.

Speaker 2 (10:14):
People gravitate to their phones and social media for a
quick hit of dopamine, a hormone that boosts your mood. However,
he warns that doing this can actually burn out the
rewards centers in your brain, making it more difficult to
enjoy other activities.

Speaker 1 (10:27):
Are you able to enjoy life? Yeah? I love life?

Speaker 2 (10:30):
Yeah, with TikTok Okay with TikTok in It National Drink
Wine Day Today. The Entertainment Report will do it next.
Blogs after that are audio journals. It's Tuesday, which means
Tuesday stuff, stay or go. Coming up on The French
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