Lighter Side of the News 9-19-25

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ninety three point nine. Night Yessa. The Lighter Side of
News with Melissa Foreman. Welcome to Friday. It is September nineteenth.
Let's get you caught up to date on what is
going on? All right? A woman in Virginia did exactly
what we did a few weeks ago and use chat
GPT to pick her powerball numbers and guess what she won?

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One hundred and fifty thousand dollars. She's now giving the
money to a firefighting charity. It's awesome. Toys r Us
is coming to the Chicago Premium Outlet Mall just in
time for the holidays. The store will open September twentieth.
I'll remind you it's thirteen thousand square feet and there
will be a dedicated Babies are Us section. I read
it wrong, this Mory. I thought it was a BARBIE'SRUS section,
which I think would be brilliant. Right, Babies are Us

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Barbie's r US. Oh, I love it all right. The
FDA has approved a new Apple Watch feature that could
save your life. The watch's optical heart sensor will use
light to detect the amount of blood flowing through your
wrist at any given moment, so that way, you'll find
out your heart rate and your blood pressure. It's pretty awesome.
If you had planned to attend the twenty twenty eight
Summer Olympics in La, get ready to buy your tickets

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in January. I'll remind you about that. This is cute.
Sabrina Carpenter will guest start an upcoming special installment of
The Muppet Show for their fiftieth anniversary. Oh gotta love
the Muppets. And finally, for those of you that love Christmas,
the Hallmark Channel announced the return of Countdown to Christmas.
The programming will start Friday, October seventeenth. I will remind

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you about that too. All Right, there you go, my friend.
Some happy news for you this morning. If you're fully
up to date with the lighter side of the news.
For this Friday, September nineteenth,