Episode 320
Small Talk - Baguettes, Layoffs, and Random Ridges!
Small Talk - G7 Meeting, Baguettes & Plague Chat! Get ready to spice up your conversations with some juicy tidbits! We dive into the G7 meeting kicking off in France, and I can't help but joke that their welcome gift is just a fancy baguette and some pricey vino—classy, right? Then we switch gears to some wild news about Microsoft’s Xbox layoffs—talk about a game over moment! Plus, we’ve got the scoop on Papa John’s closing a bunch of stores, proving that “better ingredients, better pizza” might not be hitting the mark! And don’t miss my hilarious thoughts on photography and memories, because let’s be real, I can barely remember what I had for breakfast! So grab your snacks and tune in for laughs, puns, and all the randomness you can handle!
Takeaways:
- The G7 is meeting in France, probably discussing important stuff like baguettes and fancy wine.
- Microsoft's Xbox division layoffs are a bummer—talk about hitting the pause button on fun!
- Papa John's is shutting down 300 stores, which means more pizza for us if we can find one still open!
- Did you know the bumps on F and J keys help you type without looking? Mind blown!
- The Race Across America is about to kick off—3,000 miles of cycling awesomeness, but no Arkansas stops!
- Turns out taking photos can actually enhance your memory of moments—who knew Instagram could be educational?
Transcript
Good morning and taste tag.
Speaker A:Time for small talk to get you through random conversations with random people.
Speaker A:The G7 commencing its annual meeting today in France, and it will run through Wednesday.
Speaker A:I'm guessing the gift bag is just a baguette and a very expensive bottle of wine.
Speaker A:Microsoft reportedly preparing to announce massive layoffs inside the Xbox division.
Speaker A:I guess that's one way to tell your employees that it's game over.
Speaker A:Papa John's has begun to shut down over 50 stores across 17 states.
Speaker A:They have plans to close 300 stores in America.
Speaker A:Apparently better ingredients, better pizza either wasn't true or wasn't appetizing enough.
Speaker A:I don't know.
Speaker A:I dug around.
Speaker A:I don't think the Fayetteville store is included in the shutdowns.
Speaker A:And I'll be honest, is there one in Benton County?
Speaker A:I don't know.
Speaker A:I had someone ask me over the weekend and I laughed at them.
Speaker A:And then I felt bad because I realized they were serious.
Speaker A:They asked me, what are the little ridges on the F and the J computer keys for?
Speaker A:Why do they have little bumps?
Speaker A:Every keyboard I've ever had, they've got little bumps on them.
Speaker A:Yeah, they're considered homing markers.
Speaker A:So you can locate the keys by touch.
Speaker A:You can put me in a pitch black room with a keyboard and I can type up whatever because I'll find those little ridges and then I know that's where my index fingers go.
Speaker A:They're homing buttons.
Speaker A:They're not just.
Speaker A:It's not crumbs that got permanently stuck on the keys.
Speaker A:That's not what's going on there.
Speaker A:The Race Across America bicycle race kicks off tomorrow, challenging riders to cycle 3,000 miles from California to New Jersey in 12 days.
Speaker A:With over 175,000ft in total elevation climbs throughout the race, it's pretty wild.
Speaker A:I'm sad that it doesn't go through Arkansas.
Speaker A:With northwest Arkansas, Benton county becoming the kind of the.
Speaker A:One of the mountain biking destinations of America.
Speaker A:I'd like to see that come a little south.
Speaker A:It goes up through the Kansas City area.
Speaker A:Let's see here.
Speaker A:Photography actually enhance, enhances and heightens an experience.
Speaker A:According to new research, people enjoy moments more when photographing them.
Speaker A:It's not a distraction.
Speaker A:I do not buy this research.
Speaker A:I was on a date Friday night and we went to a nice place and the girl wanted to take pictures in front of the restaurant.
Speaker A:And I was just like, oh, come on, you can look up a picture on Google Maps.
Speaker A:I'm.
Speaker A:I'm just not into all the pictures everywhere.
Speaker A:The Southern Baptist convention voted overwhelmingly for a formal ban on women serving as pastors in the Southern Baptist denomination.
Speaker A:The Mega Millions jackpot did not get hit.
Speaker A:Almost to a half billion now, up to about $430 million.
Speaker A:So enough money to afford a full cart of groceries at the supermarket and the gas to get home with those groceries.
Speaker A:And a new study by Memorial University says the average age of a person's earliest childhood memory is two and a half years old.
Speaker A:Wow.
Speaker A:Mine's got to be broken.
Speaker A:I barely can remember what I went to the kitchen for.
Speaker A:Travis Kelsey.
Speaker A:Taylor Swift.
Speaker A:I know you're sick of hearing about him, but you know Taylor was inducted into the Songwriters hall of Fame.
Speaker A:Well, it turns out Travis left training camp early to fly there and watch the induction.
Speaker A:Both of their mothers were there.
Speaker A:And lastly, a woman in New Mexico is dead after being exposed to the plague.
Speaker A:Santa Fe, New Mexico, Health department says no one around the woman is showing any symptoms, and the illness is highly treatable if cotton time.
Speaker A:But I think by cotton time, they mean the 14th century, the plague.
Speaker A:What.
