From Fentanyl Scare To Dating Stunts To A Pop Star Meltdown

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A damp pink flyer that reportedly tests positive for fentanyl. A single guy holding a sign over the 101 to find a date. A backstage birthday cake launched like a prop. Three wildly different stories, one thread: how fear, spectacle, and attention shape what we believe and how we behave.

We start with the Texas flyer report and pull apart the timing, the symptoms, and the gap between public fear and practical risk. The question isn’t only whether paper can make you sick; it’s how our minds link cause and effect when panic, headlines, and real safety concerns collide. We challenge assumptions, weigh plausibility, and talk about the line between caution and hype.

Then we pivot to the overpass love stunt. Is it bold or just reckless branding? We get candid about dating fatigue, why apps feel stale to many, and how performance culture nudges people toward stunts instead of showing up in real life. The point isn’t to shame anyone hunting for connection—it’s to ask whether we’ve forgotten the slower, braver ways people actually meet.

Finally, we break down the celebrity cake clip: the optics of waste, respect for crews, and why small gestures blow up when trust is thin. It’s not just a dessert on the floor; it’s a symbol that taps nerves about entitlement and labor. And to bring it back to something we all share, we close with a simple question that sparks community: what’s your favorite cake?

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Episode Transcript

SPEAKER_00 (00:00):
Well, good morning, everyone.
Hello, and welcome to Thursday.
Okay, I have three stories foryou.

The first one (00:06):
Texas maintenance workers poisoned by fentanyl
lace flyer outside of library.
Who knows if this is reallytrue?
And I tagged Jeffy in it becauseI know he's uh one of those
downplayers, uh naysayers thatthis could actually happen to

(00:27):
anyone about being poisoned bysinking by by it sinking through
the skin.
I don't know.
But here we go with the storyfrom the New York Post.
Two workers fell ill after beinghanded a fentanyl-laced flyer
outside of a Texas library,according to authorities.
Alright, before I go anyfurther, who would be aware

(00:51):
enough to think that someonehanding you a piece of paper
would make you sick?
They didn't become sick.
I don't think they became sickright away.
It was maybe an hour.
I'll finish reading it here in aminute.
If a couple hours later, maybethey became I I don't think I
would have associated somebodyhanding me a piece of paper and
me being sick a couple hourslater.

(01:12):
I just wouldn't have associatedthat together.
But let's finish reading it,shall we?
The pair of Montgomery Countyworkers told police they were
approached around 2.25 p.m.
Very specific Tuesday by a womanin a parking lot of RB Tullis
Library in New Caney, who handedthem a damp pink stained flyer

(01:33):
precinct for constable.
Okay, this is obviously nothappening here.
It's somewhere else because wedon't have constables here in
America.
Okay, about 30 minutes later, so30 minutes still, I would not
have associated this.
First of all, I would not havetaken the piece of paper from
her.
I'd be like, no, I'm moving on.
Thank you.
Have a great day.

(01:54):
The employee, after about 30minutes, the employees began
feeling shaky, dizzy, andexperienced hot flashes.
Cops said, Look, I'm all I Iknow all about hot flashes.
I certainly wouldn't have uhassociated hot flashes with
somebody handing me a piece ofpaper.
Menopause, anyone?
Now I know these might be guysthat are doing this.

(02:14):
I think guys have hot flashestoo, but it's not menopause,
obviously.
But you know, dizzy and shaky,maybe I I would have if I had
experienced that, I probablywould have thought, okay, I'm
having a hot flash.
Even though I've already beenthrough menopause.
I think you can still have hotflashes, but uh, and then
hungry, uh dizzy and shaky, I'dbe like, I need some food.

(02:38):
That's all I need.
After bringing the suspiciouspaper to the they kept the
paper.
That's another thing.
After bringing the suspiciouspaper to the constable's office,
an evidence technician tested itand confirmed the presence of
fentanyl, police added.
The letter appeared to contain atyped religious message

(02:59):
according to photos by thepolice.
And they do have photos of thepaper here.
Authorities urge residents toproceed with okay, whatever.
You know the rest of the story.
Be careful, don't take stufffrom strangers.
I mean, come on, really?
You gotta be told that.
Alright, we need to move on tothe next story, and it is about

(03:20):
I'm so desperate for love.
I'm taking this drastic andpotentially dangerous measure to
find it.
Again, a story from the New YorkPost.
Now, I did not even read this.
All I did was read the headlinewhen I was searching for
articles to share with youtoday, and I was running out of
time, so I didn't even read it.

(03:41):
So let's hope that it's a goodone.
On the hunt for love, Eric Jonesfirst looked for a sign from
above.
But when none of the twinklingstars in the sky granted his
wish, he resort the resourcefulsingleton decided to take
matters into his own hands.
Who wrote this?
I'll tell you who wrote it.
Asia Grace.

(04:02):
It's okay.
Oh, is she a romance writer?
Stick to your little romancewriting.
If you're gonna write somethingin the New York Post, write it
differently.
Alright, I'm sorry, I got offtrack.
I bought some poster board, madea sign that says I'm single, and
stood on an overpass aboveHighway 101 in Los Angeles.

(04:22):
Jonas, who is 38 and a fashiondesigner and brand marketing
expert.
Brand marketing expert.
What does that mean, fashiondesigner?
What does that mean?
Come on, uh, he told the post.
All right, let's continuereading.
He is kind of a cute little guy.
He's kind of attractive.
It's a bold, slightly bizarrestunt the millennial pulled

(04:45):
Saturday, hoping to catch theeyes of potential significant
others as their cars zoomed by.
However, the California HighwayPatrol recently warned its
residents against attachingsigns and banners on overpass
fences, according to a recentreport from ABC.
But Jonas tells the post he dida quick internet search to

(05:08):
ensure that his signs wouldn'tcause any ruckus.
What do you mean?
How do you Google searchsomething like that?
Come on.
Ugh.
His sky high hack for attractinga significant other was a move
he made on a whim.
I've been telling my friendsthat I'm single and soon to be
desperate, laughed Jonas, who'sbeen without a plus one since

(05:29):
May 2023.
I've joked about putting my faceon a billboard over the highway
to see if I can get a date.
Then have he's has he not heardof going out and meeting people
in real life?
Or if he really does desperatethose online dating apps, which
I don't suggest.
But you know, who knows?
People have found love outthere.
I don't know.
Then over the weekend I woke upand said to myself, I'm just

(05:51):
gonna effing do it.
And they have a picture of asign.
Uh would you stop?
Would who and woman in theirright mind would stop and say,
Hey, okay, I'm single too, let'sgo on a date.
No, thank you.
It's the same what have I got tolose attitude that the unlucky

(06:12):
in love are adopting nationwideowing to the dismal dating
landscape.
Why is it dismal though?
Can we ask ourselves that?
Is it because people stay intheir basement and they don't go
out and socialize and they'retoo afraid, and here's why, to
offend anyone.
Other than being raised byparents who well, never mind.

(06:37):
Swiping left and right onmatching sites such as Tinder
and Hinge has lost its lusterwith guys and gals on the prowl.
Well, that's good.
In fact, a large fraction ofunattached folks would rather
score a sweetheart at a protest,oh god, or a funeral than on an
apt.
Goodness gracious.

(06:58):
This is what our country hasbecome.
Go to a protest and meet yoursignificant other, your future
significant other.
Because we have so many protestshere now in frickin' America.
It's unbelievable.
Look, if you want a liberal,ugly, nasty, skanky woman, then
yes, go to a protest.

(07:19):
Sorry.
But when no, I'm not.
But when all else has failed,desperate daters have you know
what?
I'm not gonna finish this.
You can finish that, you knowwhere it lives.
It's on my uh X file.
We need to move on to the lastthe last article.
Katie Perry.
What is wrong with her?

(07:40):
First of all, she's datingJustin Shardot, so there's
number one reason what somethingis wrong with her.
This is from page six, which ispart of the New York Post.
If you didn't know that.
But anyway, she had she's turned44.
Her birthday was, I don't knowwhen it was, but she just turned
44.
Her staff gave her a birthdaycake uh after one of her

(08:02):
concerts, I guess, because shewas still in costume when she
came backstage and was picturesare seen of her blowing out her
candles on the birthday cake.
And then what does she do?
What does she do?
She doesn't stand around andthank her her her staffer, she
doesn't slice the cake and handout pieces.
No, what does she do?

(08:22):
She picks up the cake and hurlsit at someone.
What in the hell is wrong withher?
Katie Perry is getting blastedonline for destroying her forty
first birthday cake, which herbackup dancers ended up eating
off the floor, bless.
The pop star celebrated themilestone backstage following a
recent stop on her ongoinglifetime.

(08:43):
So here's the thing, thepictures of her blowing out her
candle, she doesn't look mad,she looks happy.
So I don't think she was I don'tthink she was upset or mad at
anybody.
She wasn't throwing a hissy fit,but it sure does seem like it.
Still dressed in costume fromthe show, Perry was filmed
surrounded by her crew membersas she blew out the candles on a
large sheet cake.

(09:05):
She then picked up the cake andtried to chuck it at a suitclad
man wearing a headset.
So a crew member who was workingthere probably has nothing to do
with her.
He probably works for the venue.
But she missed and it ended upon the floor.
What a fucking bitch.
I'm sorry.
The singer laughed as a few ofher dancers approached the

(09:28):
demolished dessert, bent downand scooped up some of the bites
to try.
I genuinely confused and upset Xuser, who claims, perhaps
somewhat sarcastically, that hermother baked the cake, posted
the video and criticized Perryfor her behavior.
What?
My mom was the one who thatbaked this cake.
She was so excited about theopportunity to make a cake for

(09:50):
Katy Perry and spent so long onit, I'm genuinely confused and
upset as to why she would dothis, the ex user shared,
prompting furious fans to weighin.
Oh my gosh, really?
Someone's mother baked well,somebody baked it, that's for
sure, but somebody's mother ofthe crew baked it for her?
What?
Like I said, effing B.
I wonder what having them thatmindset is like to just throw

(10:13):
away a whole cake for everyonecould have enjoyed, and then
leaving that mess on the floorfor somebody else to clean up.
Cause I know damn well she ain'tpick up no broom and mop after.
Okay, I don't know.
That's a quote from somebodyelse.
Someone else echoed thosesentiments, writing, the
craziest, craziest part is thatsomeone else is gonna have to

(10:35):
clean that shit up.
Another uh Netizen noted, neverunderstand why people throwing
or push people's faces in themsuch a waste, blah blah blah,
and they show pictures of thisguy taking a piece up off the
floor.
This is disgusting.
I'm sorry, it's cringy.
According to one person, Katiecan't do anything without being
cringe.

(10:56):
All right, well, there you go.
There's how Katie Perry rolls.
That's how she rolls with herpeople.
All right, we need to move on tothe question of the day.
Oh, how about this?
What is your favorite cake?
Mine is red velvet.
There's your good there's yourquestion of the day.
What is your favorite kind ofbirthday cake or cake in
general?
Whatever.
I love a good red velvet cake.

(11:18):
Okay, that's my favorite.
I gotta go.
Thanks for listening.
Bye.