Episode 386
Small Talk - Robots, Weddings, and Tall Barbie Stamps!
Small Talk - U.S. Treasury's $24B Interest & Robot Surgeons! Grab your snacks, fam, 'cause we're diving into some wild chit-chat to spice up your day! We kick things off with the U.S. Treasury shelling out a whopping $24 billion each week in interest on our national debt. Like, that’s more than I spend on snacks in a month! Then we chat about how fiction is soaring while self-help books are flopping harder than my attempts at adulting. And did you hear about those robots performing gallbladder removals on pigs? Yup, we're officially living in the future, folks! Plus, we spill the tea on the latest wedding that sounds more like a Super Bowl budget than a ceremony. Let’s embrace our geekness and giggle through the chaos together—tune in for all the laughs and absurdity!
Takeaways:
- Did you know the US Treasury is dropping $24 billion weekly on interest? Talk about a money pit!
- Print books are in a weird place: fiction's up, nonfiction's down, and self-help books need a serious pep talk!
- Humanoid robots are getting their surgical groove on, removing gallbladders from pigs like it’s no biggie!
- The USPS just dropped some taller-than-life Barbie stamps—guess they're aiming for the stars, just like Barbie!
- Sir Anthony Hopkins is now a classical music composer—who knew Hannibal had such a musical side?
- Funeral gossip just got a twist with a silent lady in black at your send-off—what a plot twist!
Transcript
It's haystack time for small talk to get you through your day with random discussions with random people.
Speaker A:So some things you could talk about the US treasury now paying $24 billion every week in interest on the national debt.
Speaker A: flat during the first half of: Speaker A:Apparently self help books could use some help.
Speaker A:Fiction, of course, up because reality has been exhausting, so I can understand that one Construction has started on the final office tower at the new World Trade center campus, where American Express is expected to occupy the building when it opens.
Speaker A:Researchers have successfully used humanoid robots to remove gallbladders from pigs, including one procedure that was completed by two robots working together.
Speaker A:France is facing Spain.
Speaker A:England is playing Argentina.
Speaker A:The third place match and championship finale will follow, of course, later in the week as we're down to the last four in the World Cup.
Speaker A:The United States Postal Service has released a 10 released 10 taller than normal Barbie Forever stamps featuring career outfits including an astronaut, a surgeon, a soccer player, a music star.
Speaker A:Even the stamps are taller and more accomplished than I am.
Speaker A:Top five most popular dog names in the United States last year.
Speaker A:Bella, Luna, Max, Coco and Daisy Sir Anthony Hopkins Two time Oscar award winner Sir Anthony Hopkins has released his first classical music single after signing a recording deal as a composer.
Speaker A:Fascinating.
Speaker A:Maybe I'll sit down with some fava beans and a nice Chianti and listen to it.
Speaker A:A service in New York lets people arrange for a silent woman dressed in black to mourn mysteriously at their funeral and to leave guests wondering.
Speaker A:I love that.
Speaker A:A way to create gossip after your God.
Speaker A:Speaking of New York, the big wedding.
Speaker A:Taylor and Travis.
Speaker A:The massive Madison Square Garden wedding estimated to have cost $30 million, which sounds less like a wedding budget and more like an NFL salary cap violation.
Speaker A:Goodness.
Speaker A:Lastly, it is the 13th day of July, which is embrace your geekness day.
Speaker A:But don't get too geeky.
Speaker A:You might become a nerd or even worse, a dweeb.
