Episode 277
Small Talk - Spelling Bees & Grocery Triage!
Small Talk - Memorial Day Travel, Spelling Bee Shenanigans & Grocery Triage! Buckle up, buttercup! We’re diving into the wild world of summer travel, where despite sky-high gas prices, 45 million Americans hit the road for Memorial Day like it’s a race to the last hotdog at a BBQ. And speaking of races, Felix Rosenquist zoomed past the competition to snag the Indy 500 crown by the skin of his tires—talk about a nail-biter! We also spill the beans on how grocery shopping has turned into a battle zone, with folks making tough choices like they're in a triage unit. Plus, we’ve got some giggles lined up with the Scripps National Spelling Bee—those kiddos can spell words that sound like they were prescribed by a doctor! So grab your snacks, kick back, and join the fun!
Takeaways:
- A whopping 45 million peeps hit the road for Memorial Day, despite gas prices being higher than my hopes for a nap!
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert crushed it with a finale that snagged 6.74 million viewers, proving late-night’s still got the juice!
- Millennials are dropping a cool $252 on dates, while boomers are keeping it less than half that—guess romance is getting pricey!
- EV owners might be facing a new fee of $130 to make up for all that gas tax they’re dodging—talk about a shocking charge!
- 61% of us are playing grocery triage, making tough calls like it’s a reality show—sorry kale, you’re getting left behind!
- The Scripps National Spelling Bee kicks off this week—247 kids spelling words that sound like they belong in a pharmacy, and I can barely spell 'cat'!
Transcript
Good morning.
Speaker A:It is time for Small Talk, where I run down some random headlines from pop culture, news, entertainment, whatever, studies making it easy for you to have random discussions with random people.
Speaker A:Despite high gas prices, a record 45 million Americans traveled at least 50 miles over the Memorial weekend, making it the busiest Memorial Day travel period in US History.
Speaker A:So nothing will stop summer travel, I suppose.
Speaker A:Not high gas prices, not anything other than maybe a toddler throwing up in the backseat.
Speaker A:The Late show with Stephen Colbert pulled a record setting 6.74 million viewers for the finale.
Speaker A:A new survey says millennials spend an average of $252 on a date.
Speaker A:It gets cheaper with each generation, with baby boomers averaging less than half that number or right at half that number.
Speaker A:At $126, EV owners may soon face a new annual federal fee of $130 to offset the gas taxes they do not pay.
Speaker A:EV owners are discovering that the government always finds a charger.
Speaker A:Felix Rosenquist won the 110th Indy 500 over the weekend on Memorial Sunday.
Speaker A:As always, the closest finish in race history beat David Malikis by 0.023 seconds.
Speaker A:200 Miles an hour and still somehow more organized than I 49 at 5pm A New York Times survey has found that 61% of Americans have changed their grocery habits recently by cutting back purchases or giving up in products entirely.
Speaker A:You know, it's.
Speaker A:It's pretty bad when Americans have to walk grocery aisles like battlefield medics making hard choices.
Speaker A:It's like triage.
Speaker A:Why?
Speaker A:We can put this one in the car.
Speaker A:We can't save this one.
Speaker A:This one's got to go back.
Speaker A:Memorial Day next year will fall on May 31, which is the latest possible date for Memorial Day.
Speaker A:This year's date was the earliest possible date.
Speaker A:And I suppose enjoying calendar trivia is how I know that I'm a nerd or how I know I'm old or how I know I'm an old nerd.
Speaker A:The Scripps National Spelling Bee will begin this week.
Speaker A:247 Competitors from around the world.
Speaker A:Those kids spell words that sound like prescription medications.
Speaker A:It's impressive.
Speaker A:This year's winner of the Cannes Film Festival was fjord.
Speaker A:Runners up included Mercedes and V, Oaks, wagon and D. And lastly, according to the website unscrambler.com the most misspelled word in America is bougie, which is taken from the French word bourgeois.
Speaker A:Go ahead and try to spell that.
Speaker A:I'm so bad at spelling.
Speaker A:When I can't spell something, I ask chat TGP.
