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BTW: Headlines You May Have Missed This Week

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It seems cat lady Taylor Swift is actually dog mom Taylor Swift.

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So when you hear it is like how you discontinue.

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Okay, so when Swift's husband, Travis Kelsey walked off their private plane

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recently with a Samoyed dog, Swifties took note.

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Searches for Samoyed on the American Kennel Club website jumped 15% the week

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Swift and Kelsey Sami made its runway debut.

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Um, it's right now the 55th most popular dog breed in America for now.

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Yeah, Swift and Kelsey, I'm sure they can change that.

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So if you can see this where we're showing pictures of these beautiful big

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white fluffy, I'm thinking about to interrupt the little rollers.

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How many lint rollers? It's a lot to do.

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I know people had some odds. And it was.

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We had one when I was a kid and I used to.

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Mine was so beautiful and I was three years old.

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There are pictures of me riding my riding it like a horse of yeah, didn't.

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We were best friends. Here's some trivia for you.

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The same words come from Siberia. They can cost as much as $7,000, and

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they need to be groomed every 6 to 8 weeks.

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Wow. Absolutely not.

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Take that. Brutus.

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Um. Brutus has also written on top of one of

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these docks. Oh, I was going to say that they did not

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know her name. What?

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She thought it would be fun. So we plopped my little £5 dog on top of

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a very giant fluffy cloud. And it was pretty Lady Gaga though.

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Back in 2014, when she had the French Bulldog, we saw a big resurgence in

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French Bulldog ownership. Breeders take the talked about dogs

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since this week. Maybe some months will be all right.

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Moving on to a Bloomberg story I found this week.

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Um, and you can follow this one under nice if you can afford it.

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Parents spending nearly $100,000 on gap years to give their kids an edge in the

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workplace. So there is something called the Gap

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Year Association. It says its membership has doubled in

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the past six years to include 90 programs.

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I'll give you an idea of what they do there.

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Uh, an eight month trip around the world, bungee jumping near the Victoria

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Falls in southern Africa. How about visiting a Brazilian bank,

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learning how to code an app overseas? You know, I remember to Nick Kristof,

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the comic at the times always promoted this, but not in this way.

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So go do AmeriCorps. Go on some adventure of your own design.

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I can get behind that. I think between like thinking about

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where I was as a senior in high school. I could have used that center myself,

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but I don't know about paying 100,000. In many cases, more than a year of

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college. And some of these parents are saying

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their kids are getting an experience here.

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They wouldn't get a college, and they're saying you're giving them an edge in the

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workplace. I don't know if it gives you an edge in

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the workplace, but it certainly it would just be the insufferable guy who was

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like, well, you know, when I was in Thailand, one might get like a

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sweetheart from these places. You get to where I hope at least that

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for that amount of money. All right, all right.

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Uh, Washington Post okay. Most Americans have lived unmarried with

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a partner by the time they're in their early 30s or actually early 40s.

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Excuse me, early 40s. So living together before marriage used

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to be taboo, right? Well, now it is the dominant way

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Americans are forming partnerships. It is called cohabitating.

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By the way, that's the proper phrasing here.

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And according to the Pew Research Center, 77% of adults have lived with

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two or more partners they're not married to.

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By their early 40s, about two thirds of couples save together out of the same

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time. No, not at the same.

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That's competition. Three's company.

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Right. Okay.

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All right. About two thirds of couples who live

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together do eventually get married. And then that figure jumps to 77% if

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they each have a bachelor's degree. So I guess they looked at education

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here. What if they've taken a gap year?

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That throws the whole thing off. A typical cohabitating relationship last

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18 months before ending in either marriage or a breakup.

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Okay. All right.

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And older adults, I don't see how it's going to go test drive the relationship

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in the crucible of a home or apartment. Just don't tell her it's a test drive.

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Don't tell her. Of course, I don't use that terminology.

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Just where we are. Okay.

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Wall Street journal. I don't know if you guys do the Burger

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King Whopper thing or McDonald's, but. Okay, one time since I've had a Whopper.

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But I know they've gone through some reinvention and famously have fired the

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King. Yes, I know that's gone through a lot of

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revamping, but apparently it's paying off because it's signature Whopper with

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a premium brand new mayo and a box to preserve freshness.

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Um, is now overtaking the, uh, McDonald's and Wendy's when it comes to

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sales growth. Wow.

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So Burger King has reclaimed the number two spot among U.S.

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burger chains in terms of sales, and it's been a whole bunch of things.

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It's helping, you know, it's. Ordering kiosks, digital menu boards.

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It's expanding its marketing, a whole bunch of different things.

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But it's we're talking about relativism here.

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They were at a low point. They're a business.

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They're they're kind of club adoption.

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Yes. A famous well known whopper nadir, as

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David Gura has put it today. I would like to point out Burger King

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things I was not expecting from you, uh, knowledge about Burger King's

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advertising and having fired the king. And also knowledge of Meghan Markle's

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jams today. But, you know, I'm sorry.

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You know, I try to keep abreast of all of the latest in popular culture.

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Um, I'm not a Burger King fan. I'm going to say that I don't mean to

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be. They are slam cha.

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They. So they've always said.

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But on the occasional times I stop at a roadside fast food restaurant, rarely

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Burger King. No.

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You think I've eaten a one in 20 or 20 years?

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Maybe they need a jingle. They need a jingle like the Whopper.

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Though their chicken options aren't great.

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They're chicken options. Oh, you're a chicken eating chicken.

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Wait, I'm going to do it. This is the jingle to all beef patties,

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special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed.

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But you got. That's the big the big man.

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That's a big man. That's what I'm saying.

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What? The Whopper needs that.

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Okay. They're going to work on it.

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All right.

Interactive Summary

This video covers a variety of pop culture and lifestyle trends, starting with the influence of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce on Samoyed dog popularity. It then transitions to the expensive trend of parents funding high-cost gap years for their children, shifting social norms regarding cohabitation among adults, and finally, Burger King's recent business turnaround and sales growth.

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