Fred's Headlines: Lots Of Airplane Issues, Gen Z Binge Watching TV at Work, & More!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Is on Friend's Biggest Stories of the Day. Ay, so
the final four has been set. Every team that entered
the twenty twenty five NCAA Men's basketball tournament with the
top seed will play in the Final four in San
Antonio this weekend. All four number one seeds in the
bracket made it to the final four, which is rare.
It's been seventeen years since that has happened in tournament.

(00:24):
I guess in the history of the tournament has been
seventeen years. Number one Auburn survived against the second seed.
I'm sorry, Michigan State Spartan, Sorry, I apologize, apologized, came in.
Let's see, Houston routed Tennessee, Florida, held off Texas Tech,
and then Duke took care of business against Alabama. So

(00:45):
you get the final four number one seeds this weekend.
A United Airlines plane made contact with a kite while
it was attempting to land at Reagan National Airport on Saturday.
The airlines of the aircraft landed safely, customers to play normally,
and upon inspection, there was no damage to the aircraft.
The Metropolitan Washington Airport's authority. It rolls off the tongue
so that officers warned about some individuals flying kites in

(01:08):
an area near the airport. I guess. And then that
was after the Delta Airlines plane another one nearly crashed
with an air with an Air Force T thirty eight
near DCA. That was the day before Delta Airlines Flight
twenty nine eighty three and Airbus three nineteen headed to Minneapolis.
It was on its way when four US Air Force

(01:30):
T thirty eight talents were inbound to Arlington National Cemetery
for a flyover. The FA said the Delta plane received
an onboard alert. Then another aircraft was nearby and air
traffic controllers issued corrective instructions to both aircraft. The NTSB
said that they're aware of a loss of separation between
Delta Flight twenty nine eighty three and another aircraft shortly
after take off from DCA. I mean, I'm a pilot.

(01:51):
Still don't know if this is all really just all
happening at once, or if we're just really hyper focused
on it, because I think this kind of stuff is
probably happening, it has been happening, and we just weren't
talking about it, or we didn't know, we weren't necessarily
paying attention looking for I think this kind of stuff
has been happening and uh, and everyone's alive and okay,
so I wouldn't worry too much about it. Why you

(02:13):
flying your kite near the airport? My first question?

Speaker 2 (02:18):
I've never thought to do that one time?

Speaker 1 (02:20):
You know, why are we doing stuff like this? I mean,
I agree, but I guess if you're just a normal
kite flyer and you don't know much about it, and
you just well, I don't know, I mean, you're just
out there and flying a kite a kid or something.
Why I'm not sure who flies a kite except somebody
with a kid. But maybe the kid wanted to fly

(02:42):
the kite and here you are. I mean, it's been
some time, but I have to admit it's been quite
a while, perhaps many many years. Who know exactly, But yeah,
maybe maybe we don't fly our like really our kites
for very long strings near the airport. I don't know.
Come on, is that? Hey it's kiki for nine flying

(03:09):
a kite netar the airport? How are we doing with that?
The air flights have the airport. Go fly your kite,
but there should be a rule you can't fly kite
within certain distance from the airport. Yes, let's work on that.
Somebody won five hundred and twenty seven million dollars in
the California Powerball lottery jackpot. The ticket was sold at
a seven eleven in Anaheim. It's only the second time

(03:30):
that the California power Ball has been won this year.
The winner, who's currently unidentified, can get paid over thirty
years or a lump sum of two hundred and forty
three point eight million dollars, and the seven eleven that's
sold the ticket gets a million bucks too. Another airline story,
this one not about a kite, but a guy is
or excuse me, a woman issuing American Airlines after a

(03:50):
guy who sat next to her made himself happy for
an hour on a flight from New York to Milan.
I'm a little concerned about that. Chasing the guy. He
had many glasses of champagne, and then he started experiencing

(04:15):
things with himself, and then the cabin lights dimmed. I
guess to make things a little more romantic, guy, I
don't know. A woman asked the flight attendant if she
could ask the guy to stop. She was there was
nothing she could do, And apparently this is the quote.
This I'm sorry, this is not funny for this woman

(04:37):
who experienced this. But imagine there's a passenger next to
you doing this and you go to the flight attendant
and you say, can you make him stop right in
front of him by the way, And then the flight
attendant says, and I quote, men just do stuff like.

Speaker 2 (04:51):
No, we don't.

Speaker 1 (04:56):
We are more discriminate than that. Sometimes usually it isn't
known how much the women is suing. For American allies
so that they are reviewing the allegations against the complaint
and gen Z another day in their gen Z story
if we don't do food stories that it's gen Z
or sometimes you're lucky you get both. But gen Z
employees are streaming shows and movies while working from home,

(05:19):
and they lie to their bosses about it. The survey
found that eighty four percent of younger remote workers binge
TV while on the job. Forty eight percent admitted to
lying to their managers about it. Why would they give you?
One hundred percent of people I want to know is
a person who flew the kite? And did they write
this story? Because of course you lie about it, Like

(05:40):
what are you gonna say to your worry from home? Today.
Did you get that project? Don no, no, man, I'm
right in the middle of Bridgerton, like, like, what are
you going to? Of course you're gonna lie about him.
Most use TV as background noise. Many procrastinate on work
to finish binge watching, and are reluctant to return to
the office for fear of giving it up. I don't
think that would be the problem if I worked from

(06:01):
home consistently. I think my problem would be I wouldn't
get out of bed. I will probably work, or at
least appear to work. Like. It's not that I wouldn't
get out of bed, like I wouldn't wake up in
time to go to work. But I can see myself
not getting out of bed and then have my laptop there,
and then before long it's like three days and I
haven't showered, and I'm like Howard Hughes and I have

(06:23):
a four foot long beard and in bedstrees and whatever else.
Because I don't know what would be watch my motivation
to get up. I mean, it's all right there. I
don't have to go anywhere. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
I worked from home for a short period of time
when COVID first started, and I almost like force myself
into like having a habit, like a routine every day,
because it does get hard, like you know, you get
used to not waking up at three am. That's like
the first thing. But then also like I'm like, okay,
I have to get up at the shower, I have
to make my coffee, like I have to do all

(06:53):
these things by a certain time. Where else like you
go crazy, you do well, that's the thing, Like when
I work remotely in Arizona. The microphoney is in my bedroom,
my childhood bedroom at that where I used to pretend
to play radio at the exact same place. By the way,
it's very strange how things happen.

Speaker 1 (07:10):
And yet like maybe the beginning of the week, I'll
get up like when I would normally get up, I
don't know, an hour and a half before or whatever
it is, whenever I normally get up two hours before
the show starts. And so I'm doing the same thing,
get up to I pretend like I'm there, right, that's
day one. I'm motivated, shower, trim the beard, change my clothes,

(07:30):
we're up or we're doing things. And then I'm sitting
here by myself for ninety minutes. And you know, I
can hear you guys talking, but I forget this. By
the end of the week, I'm getting up, like I
don't know, thirty minutes before I'm not showering. Everything's last minute.
I don't know. I don't think I could do it consistently.
I think I would just get very lazy. I think
you'd had to be very disciplined if you wanted to
work from home all the time. I think you'd have

(07:51):
to treat it like you were going in because otherwise,
I don't know. But I would think, and we've talked
about this in the past during COVID, I would think
you get a lot more done at because you could
be doing two things at once. Not watching TV, but
you could be doing laundry, you could be paying, but
you could be doing a lot of other things that
other people are watching you do and also be working.

(08:13):
So from that standpoint, I think you could be really efficient. Yes,
I agree with that, Okay. Or you could fly kite
if you want to tip very close to an airport.
Shouldn't do that. But here's my tip for the forty
eight percent of people, excuse me, the fifty two percent
of people who don't lie to their managers about watching
TV while working from home. I would recommend lying, and

(08:35):
I don't often recommend lying, but I would say to
be dishonest about that. It's National prom Day, National bunch
and burner Day. We love a bunch of buns and
murner around here. I don't know why, I still don't.
I don't understand why that was an okay thing to
do for thirteen year olds in chemistry, to have just
a wide open flame at every station. I'm not sure
why that was a good idea, but it was a

(08:58):
national Tater tot tape is today as well. The Entertainment
Report will do it next in two minutes after Chapel
We're on waiting by the phone is new. Why if
somebody get ghosted three hundred bucks would showed this Kiki
Kiki's cord. Lots of stuff coming up on the Monday,
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