Thank you for putting up with me,
and welcome to new day now.
I recently learned about
a tick tock challenge.
It's been known to make
grown men and women cry.
It's called the one chip challenge,
and it involves eating a chip made
with the hottest Peppers on the planet.
I mean, look at this man is crying now.
I figured out who better to
talk with this about than the
ladies on the hot topics panel.
And we have local lens host Kelly Hansen,
Seattle author and entrepreneur
Leisha Howard and new.
The producer Rebecca Perry.
So I'm not,
I'm not going to make you try
these because they I was watching
the tick tock challenge last
night in preparation and they're
made by a company called Pockies
and they're laced with Carolina
Reaper and Scorpion Peppers.
OK, Reaper and scorpion Peppers.
I'm already a heavy now on this.
School districts are now banning them.
Yeah. I guess they've sent
kids to the hospital.
Yes. I read one article in which the
teacher in North Carolina was like,
I've had kids, had to go to the nurse.
They have kids up to the hospital.
And if you watch these videos,
one lady she just drew up.
No, I was not prepared for that.
Tick tock. Thank you for that. This does
not sound fun. And I read that
there's like the Peppers that are
in pepper spray are in that chip.
And when I read that I was like hard. No,
hard, no. Yeah. And they're like
super expensive too, I guess. Like one.
I guess the the packages come with just one
chip inside of 1 chip.
It's like a package,
a box shaped like a coffin.
Yeah. Which no. Alright.
Ready? Come on now and then.
It has a one it it has like
the one chip wrapped in foil.
And actually I watched a
clip from Kelly Rippon.
She's like you know, to be wary of
a trip when it has a condom, right?
Kelly Ripa said that y'all her words,
not mine.
You have a daughter who's an older age.
What do you think?
Oh my God,
you know the hot Cheetos?
They love them. So I think
that kind of demographic,
they're gonna go for it.
But you, you could not pay me to do it.
You could not pay me to eat it,
so will not be touching it.
Alright, well, I do have a one chip
challenge for you here today on
much less aggressive, spicy chips.
So here we have the the frito jalapenos.
We also have the flaming hot Doritos,
which are a color of red that I
don't think I've seen in nature.
And then we have the talkies.
Also same color.
Tim's potato chips, jalapeno.
And finally we've got a lazy chili lemon.
So I actually love the lays.
OK, I haven't tried that one.
I'm gonna try that.
It's good. The talkies are good.
The jalapeno, so the ones that are the tins.
Ohh, those are really good.
What did you. That is really good.
What did you have there? This is
the chili lemon. And it's got a
little punch of citrus at the end.
I like too spicy, but a little punch. I just
put the whole chip in my mouth. Or were
we not doing the chip challenge? No,
we were doing the chip challenge. Can you
eat just one? Umm, OK, that's a jalapeno.
I thought it was. Yeah,
it's got a little spice to it,
but it's good. I like spice.
I just don't like the coffin chip idea.
And I'm not into challenges like I
don't have. Peer pressure. Doesn't work
for the jalapeno. Would be good.
With cheese. With cheese.
OK. Alright. Well,
thank you for doing the new day one chip,
can you eat just one challenge?
I've got the whole bags right next
to me if you'd like them. Alright,
well, let's talk about packing a punch.
Did you hear about what NASA did this week?
I was super stoked about this.
So they said what's called the dart?
Which is this. Space vehicle that they
basically crashed into an asteroid.
Yeah. To kind of test out what we can
do when it comes to planetary defense.
I think it's the.
I wanna work for the Department of
Planetary Defense. So there it is.
That's the asteroid, the offending asteroid.
There's start approaching it.
I mean, it gets so
close. My favorite thing
though are the people in NASA.
Look at that. Say you was like,
I wanna work there. They look so
happy and good for them.
That's incredible. Look at them.
I'm super Happy workplace comedy
or something with the NASA people.
They're so smart and so they just seem
like they have great personalities.
High fives for
everyone. I I heard that like,
as they were, as it was approaching,
because you never know.
I mean, talk about smart,
the amount of brains it requires to
figure out the trajectory of that
versus the speed of the asteroid.
I'm not going to make anyone
do physics right now.
I swear. Please. But I mean,
they said as it was about 2 minutes out,
they knew it was gonna make impact
and like the feeling in the room,
I was just like, wow,
that would be so cool to be a part of.
Like, that's some serious history
that you'd want to be a part of.
Do you think?
Do you have a favorite movie
about an asteroid, anyone?
Yes. OK, share Armageddon.
Ohh my gosh. It's like the first
one I think of exactly the song.
It was so iconic.
Yeah, I really like to don't look up the one.
I think it was on Netflix last,
last winter. I'm not going to spoil it,
but maybe, you know, it was. Yeah.
I felt like that was also a
metaphor for society. Yeah. Climate
change. Right. Isn't that
what they were? Kind of.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Leisha.
I'd say Armageddon. Yeah, Armageddon.
That was one second.
And the soundtrack was pretty amazing.
It was Aerosmith. Come on.
Play it. So yeah, we are listening
to that after this show today.
Speaking of things flying around
the two drones over the weekend,
the one that was at UW and the one
that was at the Seahawks game.
Still don't know the origin
of the mystery Jones.
And The thing is,
is that there are no drones
that are according to the.
I believe it's the FAA and all other rules.
No drones should be flying within 3
miles of any stadium before a game.
But that thing is huge too.
That is not a small drone.
Yeah, that is. I mean, I would be.
I'd be a little bit like you were at,
were you at the game or
somebody was at the game.
Kim Holcomb and she was like,
I got a little freaked out,
yeah, ohh, scary. And like, you know,
the first one, it was kind of like,
OK, maybe it got off course.
But then when it happened at
the Seahawks game, it was like,
this is not a coincidence.
Either this is a copycat or
someone's doing something.
I do have a couple of theories
if you guys want to hear.
OK, well, aliens, right?
I mean, that would be the first one.
And then the second one is we did
just have a quarterback that left that
might need to be getting, you know,
tips on how to be a quarterback.
So maybe
you think the are you calling
out the Broncos? Well, I
mean, I know we already played them,
but, you know, Russell Wilson
doesn't want to be seen here,
so maybe he sent a drone to Rossi.
I don't know.
I think that's a great theory.
2 football games. But OK,
interesting. Either way not OK.
And we need to look at,
I mean the ways that we defend
ourselves against these.
I'm not going to tell you about this.
One news report I heard about drones
that can like, keep recognize the
facial feature and target them.
No, thank you, Terminator,
I am not interested.
Husband flies drones for
his job and it's like you,
you have to punch in the coordinates
and then like if you're in a
place where you can't fly,
it won't even let you launch it.
So that's why I'm a little bit
confused as to how this happens.
Because somebody override this drug,
I don't know, but it's not like
it wasn't like a little toy,
one that you get at the store.
This was a legit drone.
You could see it like on the
television cameras interest.
So either they launched it from like
super far away or I don't know.
Alright, well that's interesting.
We'll keep you.
Updated on the state of the drone situation.
Meantime, the state of the traffic.
So Kelly and I both drove back from
Eastern Washington this weekend
and we knew it was gonna be bad,
so we planned accordingly.
But not everyone did.
I-90 was closed at Island Way,
Way, yeah, on Mercer Island.
But now these are people going.
I'm done. I'm driving off the up ramp.
I don't even care anymore.
Come get me. People
wanna mess ohh wow.
Yeah, I, you know, I one of
the reports was that people's.
Like the the directions on your phone,
it was not updating.
And so it was sending people into the wrong,
you know, into the closure.
And I'm so directionally
challenged that I could totally
see this happening to me.
I agree. I don't think, you know,
if you don't know if there's no alert.
I mean, I got ran into this on the I-5 a
couple of weeks ago when I didn't realize
it was just four lanes down to one.
But I knew what was going to happen.
So I got off at 148th or 150th in Bellevue
and went straight across to I-90 to avoid it.
But not. Everybody knew.
I mean, there should be.
I mean, is there a way to sign up for alerts?
Well, I mean it.
Seriously, to be fair,
there was a lot of messaging
right before this happened.
But I think what happened is that people
maybe thought that they were gonna
get stopped before they went too far.
And that's how everybody ended up
on Mercer Island, unfortunately.
And that took, like hours to get off.
That's what I heard, people.
Someone here at work said that his
wife was stuck in there for two hours.
People were getting out of their cars.
So then there's like
abandoned cars on the freeway.
It's just becomes a hot mess. But yeah,
I shout out to shante because I did.
I did watch KING5.
I did watch her report.
And so I knew I needed
to plan ahead and I'm doing some.
And there were a ton of social media updates.
OK too. So so stay plugged in.
Is is the moral of this story.
Alright, we have tried spicy chips.
Now we need something to cool down
our mouths. Hot topics panel.
You're all going to stick around
because we're going to try this
new green Apple Mountain Dew.
You are welcome.
Ohh no. Ohh yeah.