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?
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Good morning and taste tag.
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Time for small talk to get you through random conversations with random people.
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The G7 commencing its annual meeting today in France, and it will run through Wednesday.
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I'm guessing the gift bag is just a baguette and a very expensive bottle of wine.
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Microsoft reportedly preparing to announce massive layoffs inside the Xbox division.
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I guess that's one way to tell your employees that it's game over.
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Papa John's has begun to shut down over 50 stores across 17 states.
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They have plans to close 300 stores in America.
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Apparently better ingredients, better pizza either wasn't true or wasn't appetizing enough.
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I don't know.
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I dug around.
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I don't think the Fayetteville store is included in the shutdowns.
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And I'll be honest, is there one in Benton County?
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I don't know.
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I had someone ask me over the weekend and I laughed at them.
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And then I felt bad because I realized they were serious.
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They asked me, what are the little ridges on the F and the J computer keys for?
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Why do they have little bumps?
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Every keyboard I've ever had, they've got little bumps on them.
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Yeah, they're considered homing markers.
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So you can locate the keys by touch.
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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.
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They're homing buttons.
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They're not just.
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It's not crumbs that got permanently stuck on the keys.
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That's not what's going on there.
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The Race Across America bicycle race kicks off tomorrow, challenging riders to cycle 3,000 miles from California to New Jersey in 12 days.
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With over 175,000ft in total elevation climbs throughout the race, it's pretty wild.
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I'm sad that it doesn't go through Arkansas.
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With northwest Arkansas, Benton county becoming the kind of the.
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One of the mountain biking destinations of America.
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I'd like to see that come a little south.
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It goes up through the Kansas City area.
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Let's see here.
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Photography actually enhance, enhances and heightens an experience.
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According to new research, people enjoy moments more when photographing them.
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It's not a distraction.
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I do not buy this research.
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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.
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And I was just like, oh, come on, you can look up a picture on Google Maps.
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I'm.
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I'm just not into all the pictures everywhere.
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The Southern Baptist convention voted overwhelmingly for a formal ban on women serving as pastors in the Southern Baptist denomination.
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The Mega Millions jackpot did not get hit.
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Almost to a half billion now, up to about $430 million.
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So enough money to afford a full cart of groceries at the supermarket and the gas to get home with those groceries.
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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.
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Wow.
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Mine's got to be broken.
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I barely can remember what I went to the kitchen for.
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Travis Kelsey.
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Taylor Swift.
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I know you're sick of hearing about him, but you know Taylor was inducted into the Songwriters hall of Fame.
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Well, it turns out Travis left training camp early to fly there and watch the induction.
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Both of their mothers were there.
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And lastly, a woman in New Mexico is dead after being exposed to the plague.
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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.
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But I think by cotton time, they mean the 14th century, the plague.
