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Tease: Coming up in ___________ minutes, how many Americans quit their jobs in August
A record 4.3 million Americans quit their jobs in August. That’s up 2.7% from July according to the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey report released yesterday. That marks the highest quit rate since the report began in late 2000. The number of workers who quit rose by 242,000 from July as more Americans demanded higher pay, better working conditions and more flexible arrangements. Hence why every fast food joint you go to has like one person working and they look like they just ran a marathon. (Additional Out) So a more accurate way of saying it would be, 4.3 million people quit their crappy jobs to look for less crappy jobs.
Tease: In ______ minutes, how much Kyrie Irving is losing per game
Kyrie Irving is losing about $380,000 per game by refusing to get vaccinated. Yesterday the Brooklyn Nets GM Sean Marks said that Kyrie’s decision to not comply with New York City’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate left the organization with ‘no choice’ but to send him away from the team until he’s able to fully participate. Missing a whole year would forfeit his entire $33 million-dollar salary. So he’s got 16 and a half million reasons to get each shot. (Additional Out) And leave the Nets with only two of the best five players in the league.
Tease: Coming up at _____, why the FDA wants us to drastically cut our salt intake
The FDA wants Americans to drastically cut salt out of our diets to lower rates of heart disease. Over the next 2 and a half years the FDA has asked food manufacturers and restaurants to cut the overall sodium in their products by 12 percent. Current dietary guidelines recommend adults consume no more than 2,300 milligrams of sodium per day, but the average American consumes about 3,400 milligrams a day. If you’re wondering what foods are high in sodium, basically its everything that tastes really good. (Additional out) That’s why every time someone asks me to pass the salt I throw it across the room and yell ‘not on my watch buddy’.
Tease: In _____ minutes, this pop star is standing up for extraterrestrials
Demi Lovato says its derogatory to refer to extraterrestrials as ‘aliens’. The pop star who identifies as nonbinary has a docuseries on Peacock titled Unidentified with Demi Lovato that explores what life there may be beyond this planet. In an interview Lovato explained that they believe that beings from other planets do not intend to harm humans. Then why did Will Smith have to punch one in the face and Randy Quaid sacrifice himself just to save President Bill Pullman and company? (Additional out) Tell that to my uncle who’s been abducted and probed twice.
Phone Topic/Web Poll: A new survey of adult Americans found that 39.4% admit to never working out or vigorously exercising in a given week. 22.5% say they work out 1 to 2 times per week, 19.6% 3 to 4 times, 10.6% 5 to 6 times and only 7.8% work out every day. What about you, are you working out more or less since the pandemic began and how often do you work out or vigorously exercise in a week?
Contest Tease: Coming up at _____________, how many of us have watched this? The correct answer wins ________.
[Contest setup] Squid Game is now officially Netflix’s biggest-ever series at launch. According to the streaming giant, how many accounts have now streamed the global phenomenon?
A: 105 million
B: 111 million
C: 117 million
Answer: B, the South Korean show Squid Game has already been viewed by 111 million accounts. I say they follow it up with a Squid Game-Tiger King mash up and break the internet for good.
[DIY Feature] What in the World Wednesday: I’ll give you riddle clues about a place, person or thing and the first person to guess it correctly wins _________. If no one gets it I’ll give you more clues.
Hint: Place
Clue 1: There are 275 species of them in the world, the Eastern gray is the most prevalent in the US with a population of roughly 2 billion
Clue 2: They can smell and find food buried under a foot of snow
Clue 3: They help the tree population by not digging up all of their buried nuts
Answer: California
5 Things You Need to Know
1) A record 4.3 million Americans quit their jobs in August. That’s up 2.7% from July according to the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey report released yesterday. That marks the highest quit rate since the report began in late 2000. The number of workers who quit rose by 242,000 from July as more Americans demanded higher pay, better working conditions and more flexible arrangements. Hence why every fast food joint you go to has like one person working and they look like they just ran a marathon.
2) Kyrie Irving is losing about $380,000 per game by refusing to get vaccinated. Yesterday the Brooklyn Nets GM Sean Marks said that Kyrie’s decision to not comply with New York City’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate left the organization with ‘no choice’ but to send him away from the team until he’s able to fully participate. Missing a whole year would forfeit his entire $33 million-dollar salary. So he’s got 16 and a half million reasons to get each shot.
3) The FDA wants Americans to drastically cut salt out of our diets to lower rates of heart disease. Over the next 2 and a half years the FDA has asked food manufacturers and restaurants to cut the overall sodium in their products by 12 percent. Current dietary guidelines recommend adults consume no more than 2,300 milligrams of sodium per day, but the average American consumes about 3,400 milligrams a day. That’s why every time someone asks me to pass the salt I throw it across the room and yell ‘not on my watch buddy’.
4) Demi Lovato says its derogatory to refer to extraterrestrials as ‘aliens’. The pop star who identifies as nonbinary has a docuseries on Peacock titled Unidentified with Demi Lovato that explores what life there may be beyond this planet. In an interview Lovato explained that they believe that beings from other planets do not intend to harm humans. Then why did Will Smith have to punch one in the face and Randy Quaid sacrifice himself just to save President Bill Pullman and company?
5) Squid Game is now officially Netflix’s biggest-ever series at launch. According to the streaming giant, how many accounts have now streamed the global phenomenon? A) 105 million, B) 111 million, or C) 117 million. Answer: B, the South Korean show Squid Game has already been viewed by 111 million accounts. I say they follow it up with a Squid Game-Tiger King mash up and break the internet for good.
How Often Do You Work Out?
A new survey of adult Americans found that 39.4% admit to never working out or vigorously exercising in a given week. 22.5% say they work out 1 to 2 times per week, 19.6% 3 to 4 times, 10.6% 5 to 6 times and only 7.8% work out every day. What about you, are you working out more or less since the pandemic began and how often do you work out or vigorously exercise in a week? We posed those questions to our _________ listeners, click below to hear their responses, take the web polls below to weigh in, then listen Monday at _______ to hear the results.
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(Web poll)
Are you working out more or less since the pandemic began?
More
Less
How often do you work out or vigorously exercise in a week?
Never
1-2 times per week
3-4 times per week
5-6 times a week
Every day