Trending News With The Krew – March 3, 2025

Today's news includes predictions of the egg shortage, bananas that don't brown, and a Hot Cheeto that was auctioned off.

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We're powered by Leonard Truck Outfitters. Truck around and find out. Now I was in Walmart Exit 5 in North Augusta yesterday Uh-huh. And there were definitely some eggs on the shelves. Yep.

Is there a limit? I didn't see anything that said a limit. I think, like, a dozen eggs, though, was about $6. Wow. And I gotta go to the grocery store later today, and I've gotta get eggs.

So I've laid out my financial plan. I don't know if I'm I don't know how much money I'm gonna put down, but I do know what I'm willing to do as a monthly payment on these eggs. Well, you may have to keep on doing that for a while because ABC is saying that the egg shortage could last until 2028. This is in that's insane. That is that's that's three years Yeah.

Of this. So it's due to increased demand and bird flu outbreaks. That's cool. Analysts predict egg prices will keep rising because of a potential shortfall of 500,000,000 eggs this year. Bad time to be a chicken, man.

It's a bad time to be a chicken. Or a really good one because, I mean, you're very valuable. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

You got job security for a little while if you're a chicken. I guess so. Now here's what's now here's what's gonna happen. Then there's gonna be a shortage of, like, chicken nuggets and, like, chicken tenders and things like that because they're keeping all the chickens because they need the eggs. Yeah.

That's true. Oh, wow. Okay. It's a vicious cycle. It's a vicious cycle.

And we talked about bananas last week in trending news, but we were talking about it for skin care. Yep. This is, this makes me a little nervous. I'm right there with you. Because, like, the fact that they can do this now.

What else can they do? So some British scientists have developed a banana that does not brown. So that's Sorry. But just, like, don't mess with my food. Yeah.

Like, stop. Like, I mean natural. Bananas are a cheap fruit for a reason because you're only gonna get so much life out of them. Yeah.

So this biotech company, Tropic, is behind this genetic modification. The banana stays firm, fresh, and yellow for twenty-four hours, even when sliced. And you know that, like, when you slice up a banana, like, I mean, you got about twenty-seven minutes before it starts to brown, if that. Yeah. They've apparently identified this enzyme called polyphenol oxidase. Yeah.

And it causes banana browning, so they disable it. They just disabled an enzyme? I guess. It's again, like I am not a fan of this genetic modification of my food. Again, what if they can if they can just disable an enzyme to cause a banana not to brown, what's next? Yeah. What's next? Scary.

Why don't y'all genetically engineer some eggs? How about that? Help us out here.

Okay. So this right here is another example of somebody that's got too much money and not enough sense. Yeah. Are you familiar with what a Charizard is? No. Okay. It is, and I only know this because I've watched the people that auctioned this off is Golden, the Golden Auction Company. They've got a show on Netflix.

It's actually really cool. They sell all these collectibles. They auction them off and stuff. So I'm watching. It's a pretty cool show.

But, anyway, they've sold Pokemon cards and stuff like that, these special edition Pokemon cards. So that a Charizard is a is a Pokemon. Okay. And, there was a hot Cheeto that apparently was shaped like a Charizard, and it was auctioned off for $72,000. 70 2 thousand.

One single hot Cheeto that just looked like a Pokemon character, and it sold for 72. Now with the, like, the commission and all that stuff that the auction company made, cost about $87,000. 87 thousand dollars for a hot Cheeto. No. What what what are you doing?

What are you gonna do with it? What exactly. You're gonna show it to your friends? I'd laugh if somebody just stepped on it. Okay. At that point, you take out insurance on it? You call an insurance company to take out a policy on your hot Cheetos that you just bought? Look. Hey. You're okay. This is me. If somebody came up to me about, hey. You ain't gonna believe what I got. Oh, cool. What do you got?

I got a hot Cheeto shaped like Charizard. Alright. Cool. Where'd you get that? I paid $72,000 for it.

$87,000 when you throw in the commission and stuff for the guy that sold it. You paid $87,000 for a hot Cheeto that looks like a Pokemon? Come here. Let me punch you in the face. Come here.

I was like, that's exactly how I would handle that.