Speaker 1: It's the radio segment that was almost a billionaire. Wow,
Speaker 1: he's back in nineteen ninety seven. He actually invented Google,
Speaker 1: but he only did it.
Speaker 2: With one oh, so it was Google.
Speaker 1: Nobody even knew what that meant, so Google Gongle would
Speaker 1: be two genes, so ended up with nothing.
Speaker 2: See even cause confusion.
Speaker 1: Today we all know what Google is all.
Speaker 2: It's laser Stories, a segment where to read weird.
Speaker 1: News stories around the globe, just like everyone else does.
Speaker 2: He said, we've got a laser. There's other googie nubies.
Speaker 2: Just dumb.
Speaker 1: This first laser story is out of Michigan. Police responded
Speaker 1: to a burglary alarm the other day when forty two
Speaker 1: year olds Cody Bellamy tried to break into a former prison.
Speaker 2: Yes you heard that correctly, not out.
Speaker 1: He attempted to break into a non operational prison.
Speaker 2: Wait, there's nobody even in there.
Speaker 3: I felt like maybe he was looking for a buddy.
Speaker 2: Or a former lover.
Speaker 1: That was a closed down prison. So police showed up
Speaker 1: and found out what the deal was. Turns out Cody
Speaker 1: was actually going to be incarcerated the next day, so
Speaker 1: he thought he'd get his sentence started early by checking
Speaker 1: in a day before.
Speaker 3: I overachiever that Cody always been yes, smart.
Speaker 1: And that's when officers told him that's not how it works,
Speaker 1: and he was at the.
Speaker 2: Wrong prison anyway.
Speaker 1: The one that he broke into was the Standish Correctional Facility,
Speaker 1: which closed way back in two thousand and nine.
Speaker 2: To not tell, He's like, this was easy to get into.
Speaker 1: They also found that he'd driven a twenty fifteen Lexus
Speaker 1: to the prison, and when the police looked inside they
Speaker 1: found stolen jewelry, cash, burglary tools, and an unregistered firearmy.
Speaker 2: Nobody got to.
Speaker 3: Like, you're going to jail anyway, you know, you might
Speaker 3: as well get a couple things in.
Speaker 1: Well. Yeah. When officers asked what was the plan with
Speaker 1: all that, he said he was going to park his
Speaker 1: car in the prison parking lot for three years and
Speaker 1: then drive off with all of his stuff when he
Speaker 1: got outs.
Speaker 2: Stupid question. Cops obviously that.
Speaker 3: The typical parking policy in a prison.
Speaker 1: I would assume, So yeah, could just lock her door
Speaker 1: so nobody breaks in. Cody was then arrested and hit
Speaker 1: with four new charges, including breaking and entering and possession
Speaker 1: of burglary tools.
Speaker 2: They take him to his next sentences.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, public transit.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: This next laser stories out of Illinois, a mom woke
Speaker 1: up in the middle of the night because her baby
Speaker 1: was crying, so after soothing the child, she tucked him
Speaker 1: back into bed.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's go to your next laser story. Good to him.
Speaker 1: The thing is that she had trouble falling back asleep
Speaker 1: to pass the time. She opened the lottery app on
Speaker 1: her phone and it showed that she just won one
Speaker 1: point four million dollars.
Speaker 3: No matter what, she just woke up the whole house.
Speaker 1: Then the baby did wake up because of all the
Speaker 1: joy is screaming and yellows.
Speaker 2: Wake up, baby, celebrate with mom now.
Speaker 1: The unnamed mom matched all five numbers in the Lucky
Speaker 1: Day lotto, using all three of her children's birthdays.
Speaker 2: As lottery numbers. That's awesome.
Speaker 1: The winning numbers were six, eight, sixteen, seventeen, and twenty.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, she's almost gonna be able to recoup
Speaker 3: the cost of raising them.
Speaker 1: After choosing to remain anonymous, Lucky Mom was written in
Speaker 1: all caps in the section for the winner's name. Yeah.
Speaker 1: When she went to lottery headquarters the next day to collect,
Speaker 1: she was quoted as saying she thinks that winning this
Speaker 1: much is quote absolutely whack a dudle.
Speaker 2: What out what that's like? Cool?
Speaker 1: Mom?
Speaker 2: I'll tell you that.
Speaker 1: She added that she plays the Lucky Day lotto here
Speaker 1: and there and always uses her kid's birthdays as her
Speaker 1: lucky numbers. You guys, the other day I scanned my
Speaker 1: scratch ticket and.
Speaker 2: It was like air roar, go see attendant, And I was.
Speaker 1: Like, I won and it was literally just a broken bark.
Speaker 2: Let's go to your next Lazer story out of in
Speaker 2: the air up there. I hope it's up there.
Speaker 1: When you think of first class, the last airline that
Speaker 1: comes to mind is Frontier Airlines. Yeah, first class no
Speaker 1: offense to Frontier, but they're trying to change that with
Speaker 1: their newest perk. What and while you still won't be
Speaker 1: able to get business class or even a free bag
Speaker 1: of peanuts during the flight, they are going to give
Speaker 1: you the option that other airlines are not offering plane
Speaker 1: not that five minutes.
Speaker 3: I actually feel like Frontier would be cool with that.
Speaker 2: Here's what they're doing from now on.
Speaker 1: When you fly Frontier, whether you sit on an aisle
Speaker 1: or on the window, you're able to buy the.
Speaker 2: Middle seat to That's so cool.
Speaker 1: It's all part of their new Upfront Plus seats, And
Speaker 1: if you're sitting in the first two rows, you'll be
Speaker 1: able to throw down an extra forty nine bucks to
Speaker 1: ensure nobody sits in the middle seat next to you.
Speaker 3: When they cancel my flight the day of, I'm losing
Speaker 3: double the money. Now, yeah, that is how it works.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but this will all today good for like plus
Speaker 1: size people too.
Speaker 3: So when you sit down, do you have to let
Speaker 3: the other person know like, hey, I paid for this,
Speaker 3: Like that's an awkward there's.
Speaker 1: A sign that's like this is not your seat. I
Speaker 1: think you should fight to the death over the Okay,
Speaker 1: that's the frontier way.
Speaker 2: That's a good point.
Speaker 1: The CEO says they realize many consumers strongly prefer a
Speaker 1: seating option that offers extra space when flying. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: the it's the leaning back in the leg room is
Speaker 1: what I want. This gives you the option of extra
Speaker 1: leg room and exclusive use of that arm rests. And
Speaker 1: right now it's just a pilot program, meaning they're just
Speaker 1: trying it out. The upfront Plus seating will be available
Speaker 1: on flights from April ten through April thirtieth, and if
Speaker 1: it's successful, they might make it a permanent upgrade option. Okay, well,
Speaker 1: now you can tell people you're flying first class and
Speaker 1: just done.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's next.
Speaker 1: The stories out of hospitality one O one has a
Speaker 1: waiter or waitress ever drawn a smiley face on your receipt?
Speaker 2: Yes, like they think we're so dumb. The fake cheer
Speaker 2: will make us tip more. I know it works for me.
Speaker 2: It's nice of them. Yeah, I'm like, oh, they like me.
Speaker 2: It turns out they might actually be right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because a new study in the Journal of Hospitality
Speaker 1: Management found people actually do tip more if they see
Speaker 1: a smiley face on their receipt.
Speaker 3: Humans are so simple, we all want joy. Okay.
Speaker 1: So they printed different tip suggestions on people's receipts. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like fifteen, twenty or twenty five percent, and then each
Speaker 1: one had a different emoji right next to it. So
Speaker 1: they basically wanted to see if the emojis would shame
Speaker 1: people to tipping more.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's kind of messed up. I thought you meant
Speaker 2: like the server was writing it. Well, this was the study.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, okay.
Speaker 1: So the lowest percentage had a neutral face, the rest
Speaker 1: had smiley faces where the smile got bigger and bigger
Speaker 1: as the tip percentage went up.
Speaker 2: The highest tip looked like it was just on drugs. Well.
Speaker 1: The result was an eleven percent overall increase in tips.
Speaker 1: They also tried it with delivery orders and saw a
Speaker 1: ten percent bump, and takeout orders saw the biggest boost
Speaker 1: thirty three percent bigger tips. Think it's that human connection,
Speaker 1: Like you don't ever see the to go person, but
Speaker 1: if they actually were like, have a nice day, smiley face,
Speaker 1: I'd be.
Speaker 2: Like, well, what a great person.
Speaker 3: Or if the smiley face was even next to the
Speaker 3: tip suggestion and it just said, oh, they will smile
Speaker 3: if I give them that.
Speaker 2: Mile, yeah, probably were Yeah.
Speaker 1: So if you want to get a bigger tip, you
Speaker 1: know what to do or who to see for it.
Speaker 2: Oh wait a minute, if this.
Speaker 1: Guy has a reputation for his big tip, I mean
Speaker 1: tipping style, big tipping style.
Speaker 3: Got its negative emoji face.
Speaker 1: Now look at that smile on his face. He's a
Speaker 1: happy little guy. And that's how it means. Laser Stories
Speaker 1: has come to an end for the day. We'll do
Speaker 1: it again, same time on Monday
Speaker 3: Brook and Jeffrey in the morning