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Thanks for listening!
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Made it back to Friday, and don't forget, we'll have one less hour this weekend after
turning those clocks back for Daylight Saving Time Saturday night.
Actually more on that later in the show, but for now…
My favorite stories of the day!
Houston's annual livestock show in Rodeo kicked off Tuesday at the Astrodome and around
NRG Stadium with a heifer bringing loose from Handlers and running off.
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I don't know.
That lady said it all.
This sound was taken from video Houston Police Officers Union posted on Twitter or X, showing
one of their Handlers running after the cow down OST, Old Spanish Trail, also Highway
90, a major road through the city's south side.
And that one Handler was trying his best to grab the rope around her neck, but got tripped
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up by one of the orange traffic cones set out.
Cow's Run for Freedom was a day before Wednesday's Junior Dairy Cow Show, and no follow-up to
know if she made the competition, but the rest of the Handlers did eventually catch
the heifer and brought her back.
And hey, that cow was funny, but Houston's Rodeo concert lineup is usually no joke.
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This year it ends on a 24th with Luke Bryan, but today Friday, rapper Bun B of UGK and
owner of Trill Burgers, he'll headline with Brad Paisley, Journey, Post Malone, and Old
Dominion among the others in Houston's Rodeo concert lineup.
And as long as we're on animals running off, police and firefighters in North Jersey City
of Garfield were busy on Monday chasing after a poodle named Molly.
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And Molly was easy to spot by whoever called 911 to report seeing her that afternoon because
her owner dyed her fur pink.
So here's this pink furry poodle running around a neighborhood in Garfield where a cop told
ABC 7 that it was like running after cotton candy, and they were chasing this dog for
about an hour.
And Molly was not trying to be caught, nor could she have cared less about her pink fur
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because police say she gave them a slip by jumping into the Paseig River and started
dog paddling towards the city of Clifton on the other side.
But the pink furry poodle only made it to a small island in the middle of the rivers,
and that's where firefighters had to drive a rescue boat to scoop up Molly and warm her
up because it was chilly, so that pink fur was shivering and got her back to her owner.
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She was all right.
Now here's the latest proof that some people just have too much money.
Somebody paid $87,840 for Cheeto.
Not even a bag, just a Cheeto as in cheesy dust and orange fingers.
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Clumpy three inch flaming hot Cheeto, sort of shaped like the Pokemon dragon character
named Charizard.
And that was the selling point at New York City's Golden Auction House on Sunday when
they put that Cheeto up for bids and 60 bids later.
The highest came in at $72,000 plus a buyer's premium and that added up to $87,840 for our
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clumpy flaming hot Cheeto.
Encapsulated in a clear card storage box read the official description from Golden, who
should be giving kudos for hustling off a three inch flaming hot Cheeto for $87,000.
That's enough to pay for a new BMW i5 sports car by the way.
Back after this break, but first, check out DJ Greg H's podcast.
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They not like us.
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Drobots are sold absolutely nowhere.
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And now for the world around us.
A Chinese man is hopefully recovering now after falling for the old if you love me you would
sweet talk that his fiancee laid on him.
The South China Morning News credits NetEase news for first reporting this woman took her
fiancee to a labor pain simulator to test his love before they got married.
Writing on social media that he should experience women's challenges so that he will treat his
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future wife better.
Now no word if this guy was not treating his fiancee well enough before the procedure.
If not then ending up in an emergency room for a three hour surgery might have been slick
payback.
But that is what ended up happening because the guy went to this Burt simulating center
which used electric shocks to his stomach.
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She wrote on social media that he was screaming and struggling at level eight, cursing and
crying at level ten and by the end of it gasping for air.
And a week later he was in a hospital emergency room with abdominal pains which doctors think
came from those electric shocks damaging part of his small intestines so badly that they
had to remove that part.
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As of Monday no word on how the man is doing after the surgery and the girlfriend cannot
go to find out because she posted on social media that her fiancee's mom told her not
to visit him in the hospital and that the wedding was off.
And they're about to sewer.
Now it seems judging from all the people playing it all over the world the video puzzle game
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app Candy Crush is already addictive enough but a British woman just earned 170,000 pounds
or 215,000 dollars for being hooked on the game.
The Daily Mail is reporting a court award at this to the woman two weeks ago and the
NHS, England's national health service, agreed to pay up because she went to her doctor to
get treatment for her legs always twitching while she was in bed trying to sleep, restless
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leg syndrome for which that doctor prescribed her two dopamine agonists, rapenarole and
promapixel.
Lawyers argue those drugs have side effects including loss of impulse control and they
say the woman started playing Candy Crush non-stop weeks after she started taking the
pills.
They got hooked on virtual slot machine games.
In England, ruled doctors should have warned her the drugs could make her lose impulse
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control and now everyone with twitchy legs who like playing Candy Crush would be jealous
wondering if they could pull off this addiction to get a payout.
An Iberia Airlines pilot is reportedly doing fine now after a tarantula bit him in the
middle of a flight the Friday before last from Dusseldorf, Germany to Madrid, Spain.
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British newspaper The Mirror is reporting the pilot is also allergic to spider bites
but managed along with the co-pilot of course it still make it to Madrid where the pilot
was treated anti-inflammatory medicine while passengers on the plane were treated to the
news that there was a tarantula on board with him.
The stop in Madrid was actually a three hour layover on the way to Vigo on the island of
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Galicia off Spain's coast so Iberia Airlines officials say a grounds crew fumigated the
plane while they waited and Galicia newspaper Lavaz de Galicia's reporting passengers actually
got back on the plane after it was fumigated.
They also said they were checking their bags and clothes left and right to see if any more
spiders were still around.
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They got to Vigo around midnight that night probably freaking out on that last leg every
time they felt anything on their skin.
Could you imagine?
Back in...
I'm tuning in on this beautiful day.
This is Mike Mann bringing all the fire like this oldie from the bishop supreme himself.
Sammy, Sammy, do your thing.
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I was with my friend Ray just the other day.
Girl slipped a mickey in my Bombay.
I woke up in a bed and took some salut to the head.
She didn't know I was the player from my hangout.
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I said baby don't you touch.
What's up with what's going down though?
Yeah, because did we not learn anything from the Jurassic Park movies?
Sky News is reporting researchers at the Dallas, Texas based Colossal Biosciences announced
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on Tuesday that they have edited seven jeans and mice embryos to create a colossal woolly
mouse.
As in a Mickey version of a woolly mammoth that's been extinct for about 4,000 years.
And the lab's ultimate goal is to recreate a woolly mammoth by eventually genetically
modifying Asian elephants to basically turn them into woolly mammoths.
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Now, at this point, the folks at Colossal Biosciences say the mice embryos they injected
produced a mouse with long thick woolly hair along with the mammoths accelerated fat metabolism.
The results have not been published yet in a journal so no peer review at this point to
say if their findings look legit.
Still, Colossal researchers say they hope this will help create a vaccine to fight a virus
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that kills 20% of baby elephants and they think they'll be on pace to be ready to recreate
this woolly mammoth by 2028.
But Asian elephants are an endangered species so a lot of red tape will have to get cut
for that.
Not to mention having to overcome the lesson Jurassic Park movies should have taught us
all and not messing with animals like that.
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Who knows the woolly mouse could escape and start making woolly mouse babies around Dallas
and then what?
And one more note on daylight saving time kicking back in this weekend.
Now, several state and congressional leaders are pushing for this to be permanent arguing
extra sunlight in the evening hours will cut down on energy use and give us more time to
spend outside.
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But just like the previous story on recreating woolly mammoths, have we not learned anything
from the past because we've been down this road before.
Back in December of 1973, I was three months old so cannot recall this first hand but President
Nixon signed off on daylight saving time staying in effect for all of 1974 and 75 to cut down
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the nation's energy use during the energy crisis.
But when the time changed started the sun was rising after 8.30 a.m. in much of the country
so parents were not happy with kids walking to school in the dark and headlines about
several early morning fatal traffic crashes led to Congress ending that two year trial
in eight months.
So if Congress and state houses want to try this again that's cool but at least look back
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up or read up to see what we'd be in for which is basically either a morning commute in a
dark under daylight saving or an evening commute in the dark under standard time.
My life, my life, my life, my life in the sunshine.
As long as we're talking about sunshine, get a quick note here to throw in just jumped
online Thursday here before taping the C. Jazz, funk, composer and producer Roy Ayers
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died Tuesday at the age of 84.
His family posted on his Facebook page.
He was sick for a while but it left his mark.
On that vibraphone Ayers gets a lot of love from fellow artists who sampled his work and
credited him for inspiring the neo-soul sector of R&B.
Godfather of neo-soul as he's known Roy Ayers.
Physically gone but music stays with us.
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Everybody loves the sunshine right?
Famous at a birthday today.
Celebrity birthdays next.
Tired of grocery store sticker shock when you see the price of eggs?
Come to J-Dubb's rooftop market for premium eggs straight from J-Dubb's pigeon coop.
$5 a dozen for eggs laid minutes before fresh out the mother pigeon.
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It can't get more organic than that.
So swing by J-Dubb's rooftop market at the corner of Clinton Avenue and South 17th in
Newark.
Drop off.
Out in the office.
Time for birthdays.
Celebrity birthdays starting with Friday the 7th.
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Actor Laura Propone Jersey girl 45.
Actor Peter Sarsgaard 54.
And so is Rachel Weiss 54.
Comedian and actor Rhonda Sykes is 61.
Singer Taylor Dane 63.
Actor Brian Cranston Walter White breaking bat 69.
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The Isley Brothers guitarist and songwriter Ernie Isley always rocking that do-rag 73.
Jay Giles band singer Peter Wolf I love Cinderfall but that bloodshot album was fire.
Wolf is 79.
Seth Jussman killed that organ solo there.
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Actor Captain Frank Ferrello in Hill Street Blues actor Daniel Trevante 85.
Then on Saturday James Van Der Beek the actor will be 48.
Actor Freddie Prinze Jr. will be 49.
Actor Boris Kojo 52.
Singer Sean Mullins will be 57.
Actor Cameron Mannheim 64.
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Actor Leon in Five Heart Beats and Cool Runnings also 64.
Actor Aiden Quinn will be 66.
And so will outgoing NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt 66.
And singer Gary Newman will be 67.
Then on Sunday the 9th.
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Rapper and actor Bowa will be 38.
Actor Britney Snow will be 39.
St. Louis represent rapper Chingi 45.
The Daily Show reporter and comedian Jordan Klepper 46.
And so is actor Oscar Isaac 46.
Webster actor Emmanuel Lewis will be 54.
Actor Linda Fiorentino will turn 67 on Sunday.
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Singer Jeffrey Osborn LTD will be 77.
ABC World News and Good Morning America anchor Charles Gibson 82.
Then on Monday the 10th a lot.
Singer Emily Sunday will be 38.
Actor and filmmaker Olivia Wild 41.
Singer and actor Carrie Underwood will be 42.
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And lost without her.
Singer Robin Thick Allen's boy will be 48.
Rapper producer versus co-founder Timbaland 53.
Don Draper actor John Hamm will be 54.
Singer Edie Burkell and her bohemian 59.
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Producer and Def Jam co-founder Rick Rubin 62.
Widley and a different world actor Jasmine Guy just saw her in the show Harlem.
She's 63.
And wait, hold on, let me bring that Jay Giles back up.
Let's jam this Peter Will's birthday weekend.
Magistrate Lance Burton 65.
Sharon Stone 67.
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Shark Tank judge and real estate guru Barbara Corcoran 76.
Actor Richard Gant 81.
Joey and Guess Who's coming to dinner.
Actor Catherine Haudenosaun will be 83.
And martial artist and actor Chuck Norris 85.
Done.
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Have a great weekend and don't forget move those clocks ahead an hour Saturday night.
Back on Tuesday.
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