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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The show is on Fred's Biggest Stories of the.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Day, all right, So, mediorologists are warning that this could
be another year of volatile hurricanes, with the season officially
starting on June first. Between thirteen and eighteen name storms
are expected in twenty twenty five, including seven to ten hurricanes,
three to five major hurricanes that reach Category three strength
or higher, and three to six direct US impacts.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
So we had that to look forward to.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Then again, I feel like, wasn't this supposed to And
I'm knock on wood, it's not. It's not over yet.
But wasn't this supposed to be like a wildly terrible
winter two? And I think it was for some people,
but not for everybody. I feel like every year there's
there's that forecast, it's like, you know, oh, this year,
there's gonna be a blizzard like no blizzard ever before.
And maybe somebody got it, but I know we didn't
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really get it too much in the Midwest. So you know,
I'm hoping that that's the case for the hurricanes. O.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Well, I guess so.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
But I read all this in a group chat that
I got added to, so I know.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
And I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Not another political statement, honestly, like, there's just a lot
of funny stuff going on in the world right now,
and I'm not intending to.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Make a political statement.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
I just it's like, Wow, I've been I've been part
of a group chat before where like I look at
the recipients or whatever, and like people, some people in
there are just phone numbers. And because I maybe it
was like a I don't know an event I was
invited to, or I don't know a bachelor party that
got invited to, and so like here, here's what's going on.
I don't know the guy's cousin or whatever. So like,
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but it makes me a little nervous to text into
a group when I don't know everybody who's that random number,
like who got added to this?
Speaker 1 (01:38):
And I don't I don't usually like to say a
whole lot.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
But I did read that there was gonna be a
major hurricane this year in that group chat, so anyway,
I trust whoever said it. I also read this that
the Mega Millions people say that they're putting a new
rule into play next month that will make the minimum
jackpot fifty million dollars. So that would mean the jackpots
are expected to grow fast and to get higher dollar
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amounts more frequently. In the new game, the non jackpot
prizes go from between two and two dollars and one
million to between ten dollars and ten million. What's the catch?
You're gonna have to pay more to play? Tickets that
are currently two bucks will now be five, but they'll
now include a random multiplayer of two, three, four, five
or ten. And Kaitlin's not here to explain to us
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how all this works. People listening to the show for
a while. Caitlyn has a lot of lottery anxiety because
and I will admit I confuse Powerball Mega millions. I
don't know which every one's bigger. That's the one I
buy if I can remember to buy the ticket. But
I don't really know what I'm doing. I mean, I
feel like it's just an agreement between me and the cashier.
It's like I walk in, I kind of nod at him,
and like he just seems to hear sheet. They just
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seem to know what to do, you know. It's like,
you know, I guess I don't stress too much about it.
It's you just you just show up and stand there,
and I feel like they'll give you a ticket of
some form.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Right with some numbers on it, probably a barcode. But
I almost feel like I would run. Can't you pick
numbers or just get like random? Like I would want
the random?
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Right, you can pick your numbers, But that's what I'm saying,
Like I don't stand there and fill out the little car.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Yeah, no, with my lucky numbers on it.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
And the other thing is like every time I see
the winning numbers for like the gazillion dollar prize, they're
never numbers. I never would have picked seventeen. I never
would have picked seventeen. I never would have picked thirty four.
I never would have picked thirty four, Like I just
wouldn't fifty three. Who picks fiftieth? Nobody would have picked that.
So it's none of the numbers that I would have
picked her. Ever the winning numbers anyway, but fifty million
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minimum Mega million surprize, but it will cost you a
little bit more. Chewing gum is the latest item that
will kill you. Oh, in case you were wondering, it's
the latest item found to release microplastics into our bodies.
Study from the American Chemical Society found that chewing gum
can release hundreds to thousands of microplastics per piece into saliva,
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which can then be potentially ingested. It's still unknown what
harm microplastics may cause in the human body, but studies
in animals and human cells suggest that they're harmful. Researchers
say that they're not trying to alarm people, but rather
provide information to reduce exposure to microplastics. Hot take, I know,
I know, but hot take, I mean, I don't buy
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gum as often as I may once have because a
man seems so much more convenient.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
I agree.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Yeah, I feel like when you chump it on gum
too much, then it it goes all of a sudden
from like tasting good to just like real bad, like
real quick, and then it starts like falling apart, Like well,
you love gum.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
I do love gum. Yeah, I love a little piece, Yes,
but I.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Guess I wind up chewing the gum for about four
hours longer than I should have for that exact reason,
because oftentimes I don't have any there's no place to
put it, like I'm you know, my my nana always
seem to have like a random scrap of paper on
her you know, and then she also had like that hat.
When my nana passed away, and my mom went through
all of her stuff in every jacket and I don't
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know if this is nana thing your what And I
don't know if this is dying generation.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Maybe they're all dead. I'm not sure.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
But like in every coat and in every bag that
she had was like a little half half roll of
SERTs with the little with the tinfoil at the end.
Let's say the search are like two inches long, and
then you eat half of them, so you had like
that little like errant paper and then every grandma would
just crumple it up and push that up against the
next one, so you had like a little you know
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what I'm saying, to keep the lint off.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
It or whatever.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
So but but never gum, Never gum, because I feel
like I never have a place to put the gum.
Like I'm chewing the gum and then I go into
a restaurant and then like what are you gonna do?
You got to go to the bathroom, I guess, because
unless there's a paper napkin, what do you get?
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Gum is just not convenient anymore? Right, I think my
gum over here.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Right, I guess. So yeah, I mean, if gum wants
to sponsor the show. I'd be happy to chew it
like while we're on the air. I don't care. Yeah,
it's fine. Yeah, Friendship radio dot com. If any gum
would like to sponsor tri Dent whatever, whatever we're doing.
Jason Entertainment Report, brought to you by Meet You in Gum.
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It's I don't care about the microplastics were the fact
I have no I'll just stick it under the desk.
I don't care for money. Let's talk about alien shall we?
In headlines today? If et became angry. Here are the
states most likely to survive an alien attack.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
This is a real thing. Uh.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
The Giga Calculator have run the numbers. This is an
online calculator site. They looked at population and population density,
the number of UFO sidings, the average duration, how many
caves each site had, Okay, how much area was covered
by forest or water, the military and law enforcement, as
well as a number of scientists, engineers, healthcare professionals, and
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the number of food and beverage manufacturing companies to produce
an alien survival score of zero to ten. The state
most likely to survive an alien invasion Virginia, Virginia, Yes
to the two people listening to us in Virginia.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
You live, Yeah, Yeah, you're gonna live. Yes, this is exciting.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
This state has the third most military members, which seventeen
per one thousand people. It's also the ninth most forest
covered state, and zero point sixty three percent of the
state is hidden by forest. She could take shelter. Alabama
is the next most likely to survive, followed by Jason's
favorite state, Massachusetts. I'm not gonna ask you to say it,
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because then we'll have to pay another fine. New York, Minnesota.
Shout out to Florida where you will survive an alien attack?
I guess Wisconsin, North Carolina. Look at this, all the
places where people could listen to us, yep, Florida, North Carolina, Virginia.
The said part is the show's based in Illinois, and
I don't know where we are on the list, but
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now it's in the top ten, so we might die anyway,
so it doesn't matter if the aliens come. And two
stories and headlines this morning. There's a thing now called
reservation scalping. Have you heard about this? So the same
way that you can buy And I wonder if anyone's
done this eight five five five three five, and since
we only have two people working on the show today,
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out Jason, I let you know, if the phone rings,
you can.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Run into the room. Literally, I'm watching.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
I got it. Yeah, we don't have anyone to answer
the phone. We don't have anyone to do. Like, everyone's sick.
Everyone is sick, which is why I told you guys,
go find your own isolation booth like I did, and
everything will be fine. Except now I'm getting the sniffles,
so I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
What's going on. Don't go here.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
I'm not even on the same floor as you, guys.
I'm in my own clean room, and I'm still getting
this is crazy. Did Bella come in here and stick
her gum on the micro like what you do? I said,
no gum unless we get sponsored. And everyone knows that.
But just like people buy, you know, sports tickets or
concert tickets or whatever and then sell them at a
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higher rate, people are now doing that with dinner reservations.
They are a website for this, I guess. So they're
complaining that they struggle to nab spots on third party
reservation platforms like Rezi, and restaurants argue that these people
are siphoning away their revenue lawmakers are working in dismantled
services like Appointment Trader and res x. They argue are
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these sites are exploiting the reservation process and creating an
unfair system. One expert says that restaurants typically see about
five to ten percent of their books no show in
a single night, and that jumped to twenty five percent overnight.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
So I get.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
What I'm guessing is that people are getting these reservations
at these fancy restaurants or the you know, trendy restaurants
or whatever, and then they try and sell them, and
then nobody buys them, and then nobody goes to eat
at these places, and that's the problem.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Yes, wow, Yeah, but there are.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Restaurants in every city I guess that are notoriously difficult
to get into, and I guess now you can pay more,
you know, hundreds of dollars to get in. New York
was the first state to take action again the services
by passing the Reservation Restaurant Reservation Anti Piracy Act, at
bands third parties from selling restaurant reservations without the establishment's consent.
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That law went into effect in mid February, and now
California lawmakers are poised to follow suits, he wouldn't be
able to sell your fancy reservation. And the University of
Maryland has chosen this year's commencement speaker.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
It is Kermit the Frog. Yeah, playing well now.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
I first read that and I was like, hmm, but
there's a reason Kermit will deliver the May twenty first
address to graduates, a choice that honors the long history
between the University of Maryland and Muppets creator Jim Henson.
He was a home economics major who graduated in nineteen
sixty from the university, and he created the first version
of Kermit in nineteen fifty five from a have to
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ping pong ball and one of his mother's coats.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
There's a fun fact for you.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Yeah, anyway, I don't know how they're gonna do that.
How do they get how to get Kermit on the stage,
because in Kermit half a body would a hand.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Up his butt. I would love this though.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
I love Kermit, okay, but like his voice for a
whole speech.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Yes, that's a long time to listen. Like, Kermit got
a lot of wisdom. He's been around since the nineties.
Like I would love this, okay, Well, I've been around
since the nineties too. Speaking anyway, me too. Well, you
don't have to hand up your butt, but.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
You know, well, thanks to speak for yourself. Sometimes wear
Jason's hands. I can't see it. You don't know National
day to day and National Joe Day, so shout out
to all the Joe's, but they get their own day,
I guess Joe. Yeah, it's National Paulina Day tomorrow, so
that'll be exciting.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Ye.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Well you did, the entertainer of poor Jason did for Klin,
It for somebody, and for somebody in two minutes