May 9, 2025 • 16 mins
We officially have a new Pope-and he's from Chicago!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
That show is on Fred's Biggest Stories of the Day.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Let's face it, I think some people hate listening to
this show, waiting for the day that I'm actually gonna
actually go over the edge. Today's not today. But I
once again woke up. And I'm not advising this for anyone,
but chet GPT said find every bottle of everything that's
cold related that's not nighttime and swallow it. And I
did that. No, I'm just trying to make it through
(00:24):
the week. Okay, I've been to I've been We've been
international this week. Okay, I've been doing you and I've
been here in another country.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
And back in twenty four hours. That's what I mean.
Very wild week.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
My boy Zach texted me. Now, Zach is he's an
airline pilot, he's a stud. He's a former F eighteen
pilot in the Navy, so he's an American hero as well.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Thank you for your service.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
And he listens from Virginia, I believe, and he he says, dude,
my wife uses chet GBT as a friend, counsel or advisor,
et cetera. They even have names for themselves. This ai
ish is ridiculous. Oh my god, your co host gives
it a gender too. My wife's a boyfriend is male?
Good God, is this a new additional gender? I need
to learn computer genders. I'm too simple for this. I
(01:11):
don't want it. This is whole rant. I don't want
a damn machine to tell me what I want to hear.
People need to watch I Robot with Will Smith again.
Scary stuff. The machines are taking over for it. But
every time I type something in Chad GVT, it's pits
has something very clinical, and it's like I don't know
where it got it, but it's like, Okay, well this
isn't customized to mean I'm I'm sure we're headed that way.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Yeah, you haven't done the work yet.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
I'm telling you, I haven't set up the context with
the computer yet. For it's and truly no mo.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
When you date somebody, right, you get to know them
a little bit.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
You talk to you dating Chad now, I swear.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Like this is a relationship that I've never had before.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Yeah, Like it's very instant, it's very gratifying. It's nice.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
I assume it's non sexual. But were you hoping it
moves into that way?
Speaker 1 (01:56):
You know what?
Speaker 3 (01:56):
I'm not gonna do that with of my robot friends.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
No, no, before Chad, can you know, activate some sort
of machine? And then oh, I'm sure and I'm listening.
Hold on a second technology.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Guys.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
I don't know if you heard about this, but the
first American pope has been elected. And guess where he's from.
He's from Chicago. There have been no shortage of memes
about this. The internet has internet, and I have to
be honest, A couple of the ones that I saw
that I liked the most, we did come. Somebody sent
me one yesterday and I didn't realize it was ours,
and it went viral and it had a gazillion likes
(02:32):
and it was the pope walking out to the percolator
to some true Chicago freestyle music. And I was like,
this is amazing. And then I looked up and I said,
we did that. Sweet Kinky did that.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Yes. I was so proud of us for that.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
And then a little zero gravity one did Okay, if
you're from Chicago, if you know, you know a little more,
a little more inside. But that made me happy to
But the Catholic Church has its first ever American Pope,
Cardinal Robert Frey, his prevost, was elected by his fellow
cardinals on Thursday, and the sixty nine year old is
a native of Chicago who served for two decades in Peru,
first as a missionary and then as an archbishop. His
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chosen name will be Pope Leo, and Pope Francis brought
him to the Vatican in twenty twenty three to lead
a powerful office that vets the nomination of bishops from
around the world. We tried to get his brother on.
We may have stalked his brother yesterday. Jason may have
called Paulina, may have called every single number we could.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Find for anyone up to his house. And he has
not gotten back to us yet.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
He would say, I believe a former Catholic school principal. Yes,
So maybe he doesn't mess with us. It's very possible
that he doesn't want anything to do with.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Us our social like I know that Pope is so embarrassed.
Like Chicago showed out yesterdays.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
It was Pope Leo with my Lord, it was Pope
Leo with an Italian beef. It was Pope Leo handing
out deepest pizzas as hosts. You know, if you're a Catholic,
then you know you just want to.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Be pope, like you know what I mean, like the
highest isn't that like the highest honor or like thing?
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Closer is the most powerful religious figure in the Catholic Church,
you could argue, one of the most powerful people in
the world now and apparently as of a couple of
days ago, if what I saw on TV is true.
His brother asked him, do you think it will be you?
And he said, absolutely not. There's no way that American pope,
it will ever be an American.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Pope, correct, and then it's him.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Can you imagine, like you're in this meeting with all
these other guys, like it'll never be me, and then
it's you. I wonder how they had closed it fit
in perfect pope clothes that fit in perfectly. From day one,
they got little people making that stuff, like real little
nuns back there were just sewing stuff up, right, because
this all happened, like you know, in a course of hours,
(04:41):
minutes really, But the former Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, first
American to be elected pope. He we're not really quite
sure yet which direction he wishes to take the Catholic
Church in the months to come. Rebrand well, I hope
so He's a sixty nine year old. He is from Chicago,
the two hundred and sixty seventh Pope, which I were
there already, two hundred and sixty seven of them, and
(05:02):
I know the Catholic Church has been around for a while.
But yeah, he beared a message of peace yesterday at
Saint Peter's Basilica. He's already performed his first mass. I
guess this morning Leo is going to be his name
tied for the fourth fourth most common name chosen by popes,
along with Clement.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Really whereify man? I guess not alive for very long.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
According to a family historian who researches genealogy, the new
pontiff has Creole of Color roots. That's what this says
in New Orleans, Louisiana. He went to Villanova. He earned
a bachelor's in mathematics and has a diploma theology from
the Catholic Theological Union of Chicago. He's a dual citizen
(05:46):
of the US in Peru and enjoys playing tennis. Sounds
like a dating profile. Okay, wow, I don't think he's
dating currently, but yeah, side of Chicago.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
And I love it. I've been upsessed with that. Somebody
just texted this in which I discovered yesterday he was
a substitute teacher at Rita High School. Like this is
very local.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
I think people.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Had this dude as a teacher and now he's the Pope.
That's wild.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
I know, do anything from Chicago.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Well apparently apparently you can.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Yeah, And we absolutely were showing out and there was
a rumor going around. I think if I again, if
this wasn't a meme or fake, I haven't been able
to verify it. Apparently Wrigley Field claimed yesterday he's a
Cubs fan. Oh yeah, put that up on the Marquis
if that's true. And again, I could have been Chad Gpeat.
He could have been your boyfriend Chad doing that maybe.
But turns out his brother says he is a Sox fan.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Yeah, he clarified, he went hard.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
He is a Socks fan and his mom was a
Cubs fan and his dad was a Cardinals fan, which
I can deal with the Socks, obviously, I prefer the Cubs.
The Cardinals. I can't. I can't with that. That's unacceptable.
I'm sorry, Pope, your most amazingness, But I don't know,
I mean, the Pope. I don't think it's been in Chicago.
There hasn't been a pope in Chicago since nineteen seventy nine,
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and I believe it was John paul second year. And
so I would imagine we're going to be seeing a
potmobile around here.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
That would be awesome.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
You think he would like be our friend, like you
know what I mean to have.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
To have that much like closeness and access to Heaven.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
I think if he's listening to the first hour and
a half of the show, he would pray for us.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
But we need that, so give it. Yeah, give us
the prayers. But I want to be his friends so
bad to come out at jingle Ball.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Let's get supposed to come to jingle watch. Maybe he
wouldn't mean bless us. All is possible, here's Carlott. Let's
put that out there. Yeah, well again again, Kiky, don't
move to uh well honestly, and you know we're on
in Virginia, but you probably don't want to be based
there full time because starting January first of twenty twenty sixth,
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Virginia will enforce a law restricting people's access to social media.
What now you have to be under sixteen? Whoa which
you're not anymore. But if you're under sixteen in Virginia,
starting January first of twenty twenty six, you'll have just
one hour of social media use per day unless parents
provide consent. I'm not exactly sure how they're going to
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mandate or like you, enforce this. The measure, though, which
is part of the Amended Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act,
requires social media platforms to verify users' ages and limit
usage accordingly. The governor signed the bill citing concerns over
youth mental health. I think this is all valid. The
law mandates that platforms use commercially reasonable methods, such as
(08:27):
neutral age screening mechanisms, to access users' ages. It also
prohibits these platforms from collecting data for purposes beyond age verification.
While the bill received bipartisans support, its implementation and effectiveness
are uncertain, as experts worn that tech savvy children might
circumvent their restrictions. That's why I think people are going
to do is just go give themselves a Finsta and
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put whatever age in.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
So I'm not sure how they're going to do them.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Bill Gates has announced plans to donate ninety nine percent
of his estimated two hundred billion dollar fortune over the
next two decades and to close the Iilla Melinda Gates
Foundation by December thirty first to twenty forty five. Now
here's the thing of Q undred billion. That's a tremendous
amount of money. It still leaves a fair amount of
money for his kids. I mean, they're still going to
(09:13):
get tens of millions of dollars from this guy, which
is far less than it could be.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Right, you know, if I'm his daughter or what, and
it's not.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
You know, she outed him last week for having Asberger's allegedly,
and now all of a sudden he's given all the
money away.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
This is class bag. Yeah, believe I'll take that.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
You want to help me like that, Well, guess what,
I'm conscious enough and I am I'm with it enough
to take all your money away.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
But I would imagine that.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
You know, everyone's going to be okay in that family,
but you're not going to be a billionaire just because.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Right It doesn't sound like.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Because I'm a billionaire, I'm your billionaire dad, doesn't mean
that you get to be one. Due I will set
you up, But if you want to get there and
meet me up here, like you need to work your
way up.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Yeah, I mean I'm a believer in that.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
No, I think I think a lot of there are
a lot of rich people who feel that way. It's like, hey,
I'll make sure you're okay, you're going to be good,
you'll be better than me, of course, but you don't
just get billions period. Just I think it really would
ruin people. You know, like if you knew and I
know it exists out there, you know you're gonna be
wildly wealthy.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Well then what is there to what are you? What
are you working for? You know?
Speaker 2 (10:11):
And I guess you could look at it a couple
of ways where it's well, I could do anything I
want now, so you know, money doesn't matter. So I
want to be a park ranger, you know, and they
don't get paid very well, and there you know, it's
it's a job I think that people do because they
love being in the outdoors and they love the cause.
But you're not gonna get necessarily rich doing that. Well,
you could go do that. You could go be an
uber driver. You don't have to make a ton of money.
(10:32):
You could do whatever you want whatever your passionate passion is,
Go be a teacher, go, you know, open an animal
rescue and volunteer all your time. You don't have to
make one dollar, because I'm gonna make sure you're paid for.
But I don't know if a lot of people would
do that, or if they just say no, I'm just
gonna go buy stuff and sit around and drink expensive tequila,
which is what came to mind, because that's probably what
I would do. But with a bunch of rescue animals, though,
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I would do that. So this is a list I
was talking about before that's upsetting a lot of people
that way. I have no idea who these people are.
But they analyzed fifty of the most populatest cities across
the US, ranking them based on key factors associated with
being cool. So this includes the median age of residence,
so I guess you can't be too old if you're
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gonna want to be in a cool city, the number
of street art murals, the number of vegetarian vegan bars
and restaurants, the number of record stores, the number of
upcoming music events, and the number of tattoo parlors. Okay,
so that's how we're deciding if it's a cool city.
And so I guess they also looked at like food hotspots,
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laid back vibes. I'm not sure how you measured that.
Number one. Boston, which is a great city. It isn't cool,
It isn't I don't know if it's cool. It's a
great city. I was born there. Yeah, I've revisited the
place of my birth.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
It's a nice place.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
I might agree with that. I've never been.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
I don't know if it's number one, but it's cool.
Las Vegas is number.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Two to manufactured fun.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Portland. A lot of people like Portland. I guess San Francisco, Oh,
that's a good one. Seattle, Okay, Denver, and Nashville, DC.
Detroit at number nine, La Austin, San Diego, Phoenix, Dallas, Columbus.
Where is Chicago? Where is New York? Where is Houston?
And people in Houston were mad. That's the article where
I found this. They're very upset. I'm sure, No Chicago,
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no New York. I just think that's just to make
people angry. That's that's just it's just to be like controversial.
Then they put Los Angeles in there, but there is
They're all, come on, they got tattoo parlors here. It's
exciting and authentic and effortlessly memorable. We got a big
silver bean.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Exactly what more do we get the pope period?
Speaker 2 (12:47):
I mean, what a bunch of haters, honestly, And of
course we have a food story Krispy Kreme if you
get your Krispy creams at McDonald's, which again dangerous. I
go to McDonald You know I love McDonald's. My guilty
as I walk in there. The last thing I need
to see after I get my dripping bag is another option,
which is a tray full of Krispy Kremes. But they
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have halted the growth of their partnership with McDonald's. The
doughnut chain has originally planned to sell its sweet treats
at all of the thirteen thousand McDonald's restaurants, and now
they're saying, not so fast, we may not do it.
And a smutty story today, but it's everywhere. A fifty
four year old guy named Rob from England. Rob has
fathered one hundred and ninety children and if you would
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like him to be the father of your child, you know,
it's very generous donating sperms so that people are able
to have children. The thing is he likes to do
it the traditional way. He calls himself a poor man's
elon Musk. He shares must concerns about declining birth rates
and has taken a more unconventional approach, operating outside regulated
medical assistance. He advertises his services on Facebook and engages
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in what he calls natural insemination. That would mean getting
it on the way that you you know, the traditional way,
not the not the sterilized medical way that most people
are familiar with from Facebook, and it's one hundred and
thirty three dollars per session. This sounds a little bit
like something else. He claims in these methods, including specific
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timing and positions, increased pregnancy chances, though there's no scientific backing.
He maintains contact with about sixty of his one hundred
and ninety kids. His practices have drawn legal scrutiny, including
a public warning from a Welsh judge and an arrest
warrant Wisconsin for unpaid child support of Following recent legal challenges,
he has limited his services to creating siblings for existing offspring.
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But for one hundred and thirty three dollars, this man
will be generously available to you with his methods and
positions and timing. So I guess Rob is you know,
considers himself a bit of a medical expert as well.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
We have a lot of concerns about this a lot.
It's creative.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Well, I guess it's what dirty because like, is this
man Colleen but he just raw dog and everything everywhere
that's nasty. Well, you can find him on Facebook, so
you can find a lot of things on Facebook. It's
National Sleepover Day, It's National Military Spouse Appreciation Day. I
would say, my friend Zach, who is in the middle
(15:20):
it was in a military and who is upset that
his wife is using chat GPT, you know as a
as a as a communicative sort of basically emotionally cheating.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
With chat GPT.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
No, I would say, I would say happy day to her,
except she's a bigger deal in the military than he is.
She's like, she's like an admiral or something. She basically yeah, no,
she's like telling the ships for you. She drives the ships.
So this so not her day. Actually, maybe we celebrate
him today spouse. Now it's National Childcare Provider Day, National
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Moscato Day, National Loss socc Memorial Day, and National Home
Front Heroes Day. On hers, millions of civilians, past and
president who provides support to service members from the home front.
Also my friend Zach apparently since he's no longer active
in the military and Sunday is Mother's Day. Don't mess
it up. Don't mess it up. Sunday is Mother's Day.
The Entertainment Report is next French show back into
That show is on Fred's Biggest Stories of the Day.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Let's face it, I think some people hate listening to
this show, waiting for the day that I'm actually gonna
actually go over the edge. Today's not today. But I
once again woke up. And I'm not advising this for anyone,
but chet GPT said find every bottle of everything that's
cold related that's not nighttime and swallow it. And I
did that. No, I'm just trying to make it through
(00:24):
the week. Okay, I've been to I've been We've been
international this week. Okay, I've been doing you and I've
been here in another country.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
And back in twenty four hours. That's what I mean.
Very wild week.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
My boy Zach texted me. Now, Zach is he's an
airline pilot, he's a stud. He's a former F eighteen
pilot in the Navy, so he's an American hero as well.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Thank you for your service.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
And he listens from Virginia, I believe, and he he says, dude,
my wife uses chet GBT as a friend, counsel or advisor,
et cetera. They even have names for themselves. This ai
ish is ridiculous. Oh my god, your co host gives
it a gender too. My wife's a boyfriend is male?
Good God, is this a new additional gender? I need
to learn computer genders. I'm too simple for this. I
(01:11):
don't want it. This is whole rant. I don't want
a damn machine to tell me what I want to hear.
People need to watch I Robot with Will Smith again.
Scary stuff. The machines are taking over for it. But
every time I type something in Chad GVT, it's pits
has something very clinical, and it's like I don't know
where it got it, but it's like, Okay, well this
isn't customized to mean I'm I'm sure we're headed that way.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Yeah, you haven't done the work yet.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
I'm telling you, I haven't set up the context with
the computer yet. For it's and truly no mo.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
When you date somebody, right, you get to know them
a little bit.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
You talk to you dating Chad now, I swear.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Like this is a relationship that I've never had before.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Yeah, Like it's very instant, it's very gratifying. It's nice.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
I assume it's non sexual. But were you hoping it
moves into that way?
Speaker 1 (01:56):
You know what?
Speaker 3 (01:56):
I'm not gonna do that with of my robot friends.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
No, no, before Chad, can you know, activate some sort
of machine? And then oh, I'm sure and I'm listening.
Hold on a second technology.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Guys.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
I don't know if you heard about this, but the
first American pope has been elected. And guess where he's from.
He's from Chicago. There have been no shortage of memes
about this. The internet has internet, and I have to
be honest, A couple of the ones that I saw
that I liked the most, we did come. Somebody sent
me one yesterday and I didn't realize it was ours,
and it went viral and it had a gazillion likes
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and it was the pope walking out to the percolator
to some true Chicago freestyle music. And I was like,
this is amazing. And then I looked up and I said,
we did that. Sweet Kinky did that.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Yes. I was so proud of us for that.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
And then a little zero gravity one did Okay, if
you're from Chicago, if you know, you know a little more,
a little more inside. But that made me happy to
But the Catholic Church has its first ever American Pope,
Cardinal Robert Frey, his prevost, was elected by his fellow
cardinals on Thursday, and the sixty nine year old is
a native of Chicago who served for two decades in Peru,
first as a missionary and then as an archbishop. His
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chosen name will be Pope Leo, and Pope Francis brought
him to the Vatican in twenty twenty three to lead
a powerful office that vets the nomination of bishops from
around the world. We tried to get his brother on.
We may have stalked his brother yesterday. Jason may have
called Paulina, may have called every single number we could.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Find for anyone up to his house. And he has
not gotten back to us yet.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
He would say, I believe a former Catholic school principal. Yes,
So maybe he doesn't mess with us. It's very possible
that he doesn't want anything to do with.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Us our social like I know that Pope is so embarrassed.
Like Chicago showed out yesterdays.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
It was Pope Leo with my Lord, it was Pope
Leo with an Italian beef. It was Pope Leo handing
out deepest pizzas as hosts. You know, if you're a Catholic,
then you know you just want to.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Be pope, like you know what I mean, like the
highest isn't that like the highest honor or like thing?
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Closer is the most powerful religious figure in the Catholic Church,
you could argue, one of the most powerful people in
the world now and apparently as of a couple of
days ago, if what I saw on TV is true.
His brother asked him, do you think it will be you?
And he said, absolutely not. There's no way that American pope,
it will ever be an American.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Pope, correct, and then it's him.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Can you imagine, like you're in this meeting with all
these other guys, like it'll never be me, and then
it's you. I wonder how they had closed it fit
in perfect pope clothes that fit in perfectly. From day one,
they got little people making that stuff, like real little
nuns back there were just sewing stuff up, right, because
this all happened, like you know, in a course of hours,
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minutes really, But the former Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, first
American to be elected pope. He we're not really quite
sure yet which direction he wishes to take the Catholic
Church in the months to come. Rebrand well, I hope
so He's a sixty nine year old. He is from Chicago,
the two hundred and sixty seventh Pope, which I were
there already, two hundred and sixty seven of them, and
(05:02):
I know the Catholic Church has been around for a while.
But yeah, he beared a message of peace yesterday at
Saint Peter's Basilica. He's already performed his first mass. I
guess this morning Leo is going to be his name
tied for the fourth fourth most common name chosen by popes,
along with Clement.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Really whereify man? I guess not alive for very long.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
According to a family historian who researches genealogy, the new
pontiff has Creole of Color roots. That's what this says
in New Orleans, Louisiana. He went to Villanova. He earned
a bachelor's in mathematics and has a diploma theology from
the Catholic Theological Union of Chicago. He's a dual citizen
(05:46):
of the US in Peru and enjoys playing tennis. Sounds
like a dating profile. Okay, wow, I don't think he's
dating currently, but yeah, side of Chicago.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
And I love it. I've been upsessed with that. Somebody
just texted this in which I discovered yesterday he was
a substitute teacher at Rita High School. Like this is
very local.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
I think people.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Had this dude as a teacher and now he's the Pope.
That's wild.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
I know, do anything from Chicago.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Well apparently apparently you can.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Yeah, And we absolutely were showing out and there was
a rumor going around. I think if I again, if
this wasn't a meme or fake, I haven't been able
to verify it. Apparently Wrigley Field claimed yesterday he's a
Cubs fan. Oh yeah, put that up on the Marquis
if that's true. And again, I could have been Chad Gpeat.
He could have been your boyfriend Chad doing that maybe.
But turns out his brother says he is a Sox fan.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Yeah, he clarified, he went hard.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
He is a Socks fan and his mom was a
Cubs fan and his dad was a Cardinals fan, which
I can deal with the Socks, obviously, I prefer the Cubs.
The Cardinals. I can't. I can't with that. That's unacceptable.
I'm sorry, Pope, your most amazingness, But I don't know,
I mean, the Pope. I don't think it's been in Chicago.
There hasn't been a pope in Chicago since nineteen seventy nine,
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and I believe it was John paul second year. And
so I would imagine we're going to be seeing a
potmobile around here.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
That would be awesome.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
You think he would like be our friend, like you
know what I mean to have.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
To have that much like closeness and access to Heaven.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
I think if he's listening to the first hour and
a half of the show, he would pray for us.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
But we need that, so give it. Yeah, give us
the prayers. But I want to be his friends so
bad to come out at jingle Ball.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Let's get supposed to come to jingle watch. Maybe he
wouldn't mean bless us. All is possible, here's Carlott. Let's
put that out there. Yeah, well again again, Kiky, don't
move to uh well honestly, and you know we're on
in Virginia, but you probably don't want to be based
there full time because starting January first of twenty twenty sixth,
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Virginia will enforce a law restricting people's access to social media.
What now you have to be under sixteen? Whoa which
you're not anymore. But if you're under sixteen in Virginia,
starting January first of twenty twenty six, you'll have just
one hour of social media use per day unless parents
provide consent. I'm not exactly sure how they're going to
(08:05):
mandate or like you, enforce this. The measure, though, which
is part of the Amended Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act,
requires social media platforms to verify users' ages and limit
usage accordingly. The governor signed the bill citing concerns over
youth mental health. I think this is all valid. The
law mandates that platforms use commercially reasonable methods, such as
(08:27):
neutral age screening mechanisms, to access users' ages. It also
prohibits these platforms from collecting data for purposes beyond age verification.
While the bill received bipartisans support, its implementation and effectiveness
are uncertain, as experts worn that tech savvy children might
circumvent their restrictions. That's why I think people are going
to do is just go give themselves a Finsta and
(08:49):
put whatever age in.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
So I'm not sure how they're going to do them.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Bill Gates has announced plans to donate ninety nine percent
of his estimated two hundred billion dollar fortune over the
next two decades and to close the Iilla Melinda Gates
Foundation by December thirty first to twenty forty five. Now
here's the thing of Q undred billion. That's a tremendous
amount of money. It still leaves a fair amount of
money for his kids. I mean, they're still going to
(09:13):
get tens of millions of dollars from this guy, which
is far less than it could be.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Right, you know, if I'm his daughter or what, and
it's not.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
You know, she outed him last week for having Asberger's allegedly,
and now all of a sudden he's given all the
money away.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
This is class bag. Yeah, believe I'll take that.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
You want to help me like that, Well, guess what,
I'm conscious enough and I am I'm with it enough
to take all your money away.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
But I would imagine that.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
You know, everyone's going to be okay in that family,
but you're not going to be a billionaire just because.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Right It doesn't sound like.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Because I'm a billionaire, I'm your billionaire dad, doesn't mean
that you get to be one. Due I will set
you up, But if you want to get there and
meet me up here, like you need to work your
way up.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Yeah, I mean I'm a believer in that.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
No, I think I think a lot of there are
a lot of rich people who feel that way. It's like, hey,
I'll make sure you're okay, you're going to be good,
you'll be better than me, of course, but you don't
just get billions period. Just I think it really would
ruin people. You know, like if you knew and I
know it exists out there, you know you're gonna be
wildly wealthy.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Well then what is there to what are you? What
are you working for? You know?
Speaker 2 (10:11):
And I guess you could look at it a couple
of ways where it's well, I could do anything I
want now, so you know, money doesn't matter. So I
want to be a park ranger, you know, and they
don't get paid very well, and there you know, it's
it's a job I think that people do because they
love being in the outdoors and they love the cause.
But you're not gonna get necessarily rich doing that. Well,
you could go do that. You could go be an
uber driver. You don't have to make a ton of money.
(10:32):
You could do whatever you want whatever your passionate passion is,
Go be a teacher, go, you know, open an animal
rescue and volunteer all your time. You don't have to
make one dollar, because I'm gonna make sure you're paid for.
But I don't know if a lot of people would
do that, or if they just say no, I'm just
gonna go buy stuff and sit around and drink expensive tequila,
which is what came to mind, because that's probably what
I would do. But with a bunch of rescue animals, though,
(10:55):
I would do that. So this is a list I
was talking about before that's upsetting a lot of people
that way. I have no idea who these people are.
But they analyzed fifty of the most populatest cities across
the US, ranking them based on key factors associated with
being cool. So this includes the median age of residence,
so I guess you can't be too old if you're
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gonna want to be in a cool city, the number
of street art murals, the number of vegetarian vegan bars
and restaurants, the number of record stores, the number of
upcoming music events, and the number of tattoo parlors. Okay,
so that's how we're deciding if it's a cool city.
And so I guess they also looked at like food hotspots,
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laid back vibes. I'm not sure how you measured that.
Number one. Boston, which is a great city. It isn't cool,
It isn't I don't know if it's cool. It's a
great city. I was born there. Yeah, I've revisited the
place of my birth.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
It's a nice place.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
I might agree with that. I've never been.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
I don't know if it's number one, but it's cool.
Las Vegas is number.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Two to manufactured fun.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Portland. A lot of people like Portland. I guess San Francisco, Oh,
that's a good one. Seattle, Okay, Denver, and Nashville, DC.
Detroit at number nine, La Austin, San Diego, Phoenix, Dallas, Columbus.
Where is Chicago? Where is New York? Where is Houston?
And people in Houston were mad. That's the article where
I found this. They're very upset. I'm sure, No Chicago,
(12:25):
no New York. I just think that's just to make
people angry. That's that's just it's just to be like controversial.
Then they put Los Angeles in there, but there is
They're all, come on, they got tattoo parlors here. It's
exciting and authentic and effortlessly memorable. We got a big
silver bean.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Exactly what more do we get the pope period?
Speaker 2 (12:47):
I mean, what a bunch of haters, honestly, And of
course we have a food story Krispy Kreme if you
get your Krispy creams at McDonald's, which again dangerous. I
go to McDonald You know I love McDonald's. My guilty
as I walk in there. The last thing I need
to see after I get my dripping bag is another option,
which is a tray full of Krispy Kremes. But they
(13:07):
have halted the growth of their partnership with McDonald's. The
doughnut chain has originally planned to sell its sweet treats
at all of the thirteen thousand McDonald's restaurants, and now
they're saying, not so fast, we may not do it.
And a smutty story today, but it's everywhere. A fifty
four year old guy named Rob from England. Rob has
fathered one hundred and ninety children and if you would
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like him to be the father of your child, you know,
it's very generous donating sperms so that people are able
to have children. The thing is he likes to do
it the traditional way. He calls himself a poor man's
elon Musk. He shares must concerns about declining birth rates
and has taken a more unconventional approach, operating outside regulated
medical assistance. He advertises his services on Facebook and engages
(13:53):
in what he calls natural insemination. That would mean getting
it on the way that you you know, the traditional way,
not the not the sterilized medical way that most people
are familiar with from Facebook, and it's one hundred and
thirty three dollars per session. This sounds a little bit
like something else. He claims in these methods, including specific
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timing and positions, increased pregnancy chances, though there's no scientific backing.
He maintains contact with about sixty of his one hundred
and ninety kids. His practices have drawn legal scrutiny, including
a public warning from a Welsh judge and an arrest
warrant Wisconsin for unpaid child support of Following recent legal challenges,
he has limited his services to creating siblings for existing offspring.
(14:39):
But for one hundred and thirty three dollars, this man
will be generously available to you with his methods and
positions and timing. So I guess Rob is you know,
considers himself a bit of a medical expert as well.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
We have a lot of concerns about this a lot.
It's creative.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Well, I guess it's what dirty because like, is this
man Colleen but he just raw dog and everything everywhere
that's nasty. Well, you can find him on Facebook, so
you can find a lot of things on Facebook. It's
National Sleepover Day, It's National Military Spouse Appreciation Day. I
would say, my friend Zach, who is in the middle
(15:20):
it was in a military and who is upset that
his wife is using chat GPT, you know as a
as a as a communicative sort of basically emotionally cheating.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
With chat GPT.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
No, I would say, I would say happy day to her,
except she's a bigger deal in the military than he is.
She's like, she's like an admiral or something. She basically yeah, no,
she's like telling the ships for you. She drives the ships.
So this so not her day. Actually, maybe we celebrate
him today spouse. Now it's National Childcare Provider Day, National
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Moscato Day, National Loss socc Memorial Day, and National Home
Front Heroes Day. On hers, millions of civilians, past and
president who provides support to service members from the home front.
Also my friend Zach apparently since he's no longer active
in the military and Sunday is Mother's Day. Don't mess
it up. Don't mess it up. Sunday is Mother's Day.
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