Small Talk - Heat Waves, Frozen Pops, and Whooping Cranes! Buckle up, fam! We’re diving into some spicy chit-chat, starting with a record-smashing heat wave in London—like, 95 degrees hot! Yikes! Zookeepers are trying to keep the lions cool with frozen blood popsicles. Yep, you heard that right—frozen blood popsicles! And speaking of wild news, did you catch that Florida woman who got a ticket for holding a phone in her right hand? Plot twist: she doesn’t have a right hand! Talk about a ticket to crazy town! We’re also chatting about honey consumption, National Brisket Day (or should I say National Brisket Minute?), and a quick reminder that whooping cranes are birds, not canes! So grab your snacks and let’s get this party started!
Takeaways:
London is melting with a heat wave, and it's hotter than a jalapeño in a sauna!
Zookeepers are treating lions to frozen blood popsicles to beat the heat—talk about a wild summer!
Meta is laying off folks while Zuckerberg's yacht makes waves in Seattle. Talk about mixed signals!
A Florida woman went viral after getting a ticket for holding a phone she doesn't have—cops, get your eyes checked!
Americans are diving into honey like it's the new hot sauce, averaging 1.6 pounds each yearly!
It's National Brisket Day—too bad beef prices mean we might only celebrate it for a minute instead!
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Good morning, It's Haystack and it's time for something I like to call small talk, where I just give you some random things that you can chit chat with strangers about.
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Western Europe experiencing a massive, brutal heat wave.
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One spot in London hit 95 degrees.
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g records that it stood since:
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Ooh, devastating.
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Only about 5% of homes in London have air conditioning.
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And speaking of London, the zookeepers there trying to help the lions stay cool during the heat wave, giving them giant frozen blood popsicles.
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Sounds disgusting, but of course it is a hit with the lions.
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American airlines is adding SpaceX Starlink Wi Fi to more than 500 of their airplanes beginning next year.
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Fewer and fewer Canadians are traveling south of the border into the United States as tourism numbers are down 13% from a year ago, 28% from two years ago.
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Mark Zuckerberg's 387 foot yacht pulled into Seattle so he can attend World cup matches.
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am's parent company announced:
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Uganda has closed its border with the Congo as concerns continue over the Ebola outbreak.
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A Florida woman got a traffic ticket for allegedly holding a cell phone in her right hand.
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If you've not seen this video, you need to go look it up.
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She does not have a right hand.
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Her TikTok video went viral.
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Viral.
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And police have dropped the case.
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But it's pretty wild that the cops still tried to push it even after she showed him, because he specifically said, you had a phone in your right hand and she holds up a nub.
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She does not have.
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It's.
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It's wild.
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He keeps on saying, well, you had a phone.
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I was mentioning Meta earlier.
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Not only are they laying off a bunch of folks, but they're about to roll out a subscription service for Facebook, Instagram for their AI tools.
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Prices range from about $4 a month up through around $20 a month.
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Americans are consuming more honey than ever before, averaging a little over 1.6 pounds per person each year.
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Today is the 28th day of May, which makes it National Brisket Day.
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Although with the price of beef, it's probably only going to be able to celebrate National Brisket Minute in my house.
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It is also Whooping crane Day and a reminder that a whooping crane is a bird.
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Do not confuse it with a whooping cane, which is what your grandma smacked you with when you acted up.
