Season 9, Episode 5 - New York City grocery stores, Starlink satellites, how AI systems are making money, photo ID required for restaurant promotion, Florida's GDP, new baby names, and much more!

This week in our Stupidest thing I’ve heard all week segment, we’ll tell you about a plan by the Mayor of NY City to put local grocery stores and Bodegas out of business. In our quote of the week, we have a clip from Bill Maher explaining why Trump won the last Presidential election. In our science minute, we’ll tell you how many Starlink satellites there are in orbit around the Earth and how often one of them falls out of orbit. We’ll tell you how much money some AI systems are making for the companies that develop them and some scary things that have been happening during the testing of the most recent models. We’ll tell you about a restaurant promotion that might be racist because it requires customers to show a picture ID to use it. It’s no secret that the economies of Texas & Florida are booming, partially as the result of companies and high net worth individuals moving to those states from high-tax blue states. We’ll tell you where Florida’s economy now ranks compared to the economies of other countries around the world. We’ll tell you what one of the least used names for new babies was last year and what that decline has to do with President Trump. In 2024, Scotland increased its top income tax rate to 48%. We’ll tell you what impact that rate increase had on tax revenues in 2025. We’ll tell you how a bureaucratic delay got a woman killed a decade ago and why that story is still relevant today. Our taxpayer relief shot segment this week is from Detroit, where two home invaders break into the house of a 75-year-old man at 3:00 o’clock in the morning.