My Minute of News with Jeff Caplan
540 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsKSL Newsradio's Jeff Caplan offers his own unique spin on the fun, quirky things that happen alongside the news.
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How to Go Viral: WORK!
June 13, 2023 22:38 - 3 minutes - 1.83 MBThis is the story of someone who has honed the craft. This is the story... of "Mr. Beast"
The Most Expensive Mid-Life Crisis EVER.
June 08, 2023 21:43 - 2 minutes - 1.55 MBA mid-life crisis is always expensive. But when Jeff Bezos is involved, it quickly gets out of hand.
Quitting Diet Coke will improve your jump shot
June 08, 2023 21:43 - 2 minutes - 1.53 MBIf you quit drinking diet coke... your jump shot might get better
Intermittent Fasting.
June 07, 2023 21:46 - 2 minutes - 1.75 MBIntermittent Fasting. Ever heard of it? This form of dieting has some benefits to your health and the practice goes back further than you might expect.
Chinese Leader’s Graduation Speech: Lump it.
June 07, 2023 21:23 - 2 minutes - 1.51 MBChina slowing economy has left many young graduates bitter. But they'd better not show it.
Should you refrigerate butter?
June 05, 2023 21:42 - 2 minutes - 1.57 MBJeff tackles the not-so-clear answer of if you should refrigerate the golden gooey goodness
The Most Popular Person on Twitter
June 05, 2023 21:40 - 2 minutes - 1.53 MBDo you know who it is? Can you guess?
I read the tag on my shirt.
May 31, 2023 21:09 - 2 minutes - 1.39 MBLet me read you the tag on my T-shirt. Put on my reading glasses. It was made by a company called Blue 84. 52% cotton 48% polyester. Made in Mexico RN#99659. There are four little emojis. An iron.. a cup.. a triangle with an X through it. And a record player. I have no idea what they mean… but THIS IS THE LAW. The shirt or blouse you’re wearing has to have a tag or label. Your pants your dress… your underwear must be tagged with its fiber content… country or o...
This time, American Idol was different
May 24, 2023 21:40 - 3 minutes - 1.85 MBIt’s been years since American Idol actually mattered. In my mind… it’s a show full of warbling wannabee divas … who can stretch out the word you… and make it last for 10 seconds of scales and trills and drama …and okay whatever. But this season was different. Iam Tongi is from Hawaii… moved to Seattle… and then straight into the hearts of viewers… because his talent isn’t flashy finesse. It’s the emotional connection he creates. This was his audition… a little bi...
Eating your curds and whey
May 23, 2023 21:40 - 2 minutes - 1.37 MBCottage cheese ice cream. Frozen curds of bland… in a creamy swirl of honey. Delicious ice cream and chocolate chips punctuated by little icy curds of flavorless lumpage? Does it sound good? Are you wondering why anyone would go through all the trouble to make such a weird ice cream recipe? I’m glad you asked. The short answer is … what goes round comes round. Back in the 1950s… cottage cheese was a diet fat. Your grandma would eat gobs of the stuff because it’s lo...
Work Life Balance? Nope!
May 23, 2023 21:10 - 2 minutes - 1.79 MBHere at work, I said something about work-life balance. And one of my friends said … I don’t do work-life balance. I do work-life chemistry. Because there's always changing mixture of work and life Sounded profound… but chemistry can be dangerous A lesson learned by a couple of CEO’s who added just a little too much work… and not enough life to the chemistry equation. — This is Andy Owen… the CEO of a fancy furniture company….called Miller Knolls. Times were tou...
The Weekend Golfer’s Dream
May 22, 2023 21:10 - 2 minutes - 1.69 MBHumility oozes from every pore. And why wouldn’t it. Michael Block is just a golf pro at a public course in California. Here he is doing a commercial for the gift shop He makes his living giving lessons for $150 bucks an hour. And if you don’t follow golf. There are loads of club pros just like him. Good enough to teach but not great enough to show up on TV. Til last weekend. Michael Block qualified for the big PGA Championship… and by luck of the draw… he was p...
How to balance the family budget: Cash stuffing
May 17, 2023 22:08 - 2 minutes - 1.41 MBThis is sorta satisfying in a world where nobody takes cash. According to Credit Karma… Gen Z is discovering the joy of the crisp green "hold-it-in-your-hand” bona fide Dollar Bill. Apparently…. these younger adults are a bit befuddled by the game of life… in this electronic world… and they’re coming to realize that nothing says “dolla dolla dolla… quite like an actual dollar. buck a bill a greenback a physical financial rectangle with George on the front ..and the...
A newborn baby name makes the list!
May 15, 2023 21:10 - 2 minutes - 1.42 MBI’m not exactly sure why baby naming is headline news here in Utah. Maybe because we have more babies to name… but whenever the list of top baby names of the year comes out… we pour over the list looking for the names of our own kids and grandkids… first to see if they made the list… and second check whether our offspring were given a name that’s unique enough. It’s a cutthroat business… and here’s a perfect example. A family member of mine had selected a name for he...
It’s OK to Spoil Shows!
May 12, 2023 21:40 - 2 minutes - 1.25 MBI have a granddaughter who loves spoiling movies on me. Her greatest moment. Papa… I don’t know how to tell you this… but I saw Avengers End Game Last Night. I say how was it? She says… I don’t know how to tell you this but Iron Man died. Beautiful Wait. Did I spoil it for you? Come on… the movie’s four years old. But in any event… spoiling a movie or TV show on someone is ok according to new research published in the journal Applied Cognitive Psychology. ...
DATING APPS: Getting ZOMBIED
May 09, 2023 21:40 - 2 minutes - 827 KBThe dating world is brutal. If you’ve been married for a couple of decades… you probably only have a hint about how insane the world of swiping right or left is… are some of the words we’ve learned from dating apps. Ghosting. Catfishing. When somebody creates a fictitious persona with fake beautiful pictures…. lures you in… then leaves you hanging. There’s also breadcrumbing. Where you send short flirty messages — not because you want to meet the person. But just ...
Is Utah the “Hardest Working” state?
May 03, 2023 21:40 - 2 minutes - 775 KBAre Utahns the hardest-working people in America…. or Not? I’m looking at two different studies that supposedly answer the question… and I can’t figure out if I’m living among people who toil til their fingertips are nubs…. or if we’re the biggest slouches in America. I do know this. US News and World Report just named Utah the best state in the Union… we’re number one according to their subjective list. Number 1 at what? Everything put together. They’ve decided ...
Be Real… or be fake?
April 26, 2023 21:35 - 2 minutes - 663 KBAlmost exactly a year ago… I did a minute about a new app taking high schools and colleges by storm. It’s called BE REAL … Unlike Instagram where people post pictures of their make believe glamorous and glorious lives… BE REAL was the antidote. The app would command you “take two pictures right now.” One with the lens on the back of your phone … and one with the front. And you would post them. You’d see people without beguiling makeup. Without bulging muscles and ...
Food of the Future: Bleh
April 25, 2023 21:50 - 2 minutes - 691 KBIt’s possible that civilization has run out of ideas for food. Instead of dreaming-up new dishes… big food is resorting to resizing to make the register ring. As eating turns to grazing throughout the day… Nestle is now selling what it calls selling smeals. Smeals. Small meals… or in their case pint-sized snacks. Often mashups... Cocoa Puff popcorn. Or Dr. Pepper Cotton Candy. In business.. they call it brand extension but it’s proof we’re out of ideas. However. ...
Bare Minimum Monday
April 24, 2023 21:13 - 2 minutes - 862 KB2020 it was the Great Resignation. In the face of the pandemic record numbers of people took this job and shoved it. Next … at the tail end of the pandemic we got quiet quitting. Where you lope through the workday expending the minimum amount of oxyge. but still collect a paycheck. Now…. the new trend in work life balance… have you heard this? Bare Minimum Monday. Here’s the young woman who dreamed up the term. --- That is Maris Mayes… who creates Tik Tok vide...
Are the Pandas going home?
April 19, 2023 21:40 - 2 minutes - 884 KBAn era is coming to an end. Richard Nixon started up the first relationship between the United States… and Communist China. Back then… a backward 3rd world country… where running water was a luxury. As a gesture of friendship… the Chinese government loaned us a pair of zoo animals never before seen in the United States. A pair of Giant Pandas. At the National Zoo in Washington… Ling Ling and Sing Sing became a sensation. Chewing on imported bamboo… and generally...
Forget about Influencers. Now it’s DE-Influencers!
April 19, 2023 21:14 - 2 minutes - 818 KBOver and over again I’ve talked about influencers… and the fake beautiful lives they have to lead …as they pimp products for a paycheck. All this time I’ve been whining and moaning… turns out I coulda been doing something about it. I could go on Tik Tok and become a DE-influencer. DEinfluencing is a new trend on social media… where… instead of posting videos about awesome lip gloss or a lawnmower that’ll change your life… … you post videos about what NOT to buy. Abo...
Money for Nothin!
April 18, 2023 21:09 - 2 minutes - 661 KBLast few days you might have heard… welp… it’s the tax deadline. The only thing you can do to cut your tax bill is quick! Open an IRA. Sock away 6 or 7-thousand grand… and you can deduct it from your income. But before you do it…. be aware that millions of Americans open retirement accounts… and then… forget about ‘em. Thousands of dollars are sitting in an account somewhere… and folks have no idea the money’s theirs… with their name on the account. Think back ye...
Don’t you DARE lose weight!
April 14, 2023 01:15 - 2 minutes - 625 KBYour entire life… for many people…. you hear that you need to lose weight. It affects everything from your blood pressure to your bedonkedonk…. and now as I grow older …. for the first time, I’m hearing don’t lose the weight. Stay right where you are. Don’t gain a pound. But for goodness sake don’t lose any. There’s a new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Researchers looked at 2-thousand Americans age 65 and older. Lo and behold t...
Just what we needed: Lemon8
April 11, 2023 21:43 - 2 minutes - 764 KBWhen the Chips are down… what do you do. Double down and fight harder right? Well, that’s EXACTLY what Tik Tok is doing. A couple of weeks ago their CEO had a rough day in front of Congress. Representatives made it crystal clear - they want it banned. Tik Tok CEO Show She Chew said we’re an honest adorable sweet and caring company But while he’s making promises out of the right side of his mouth… he’s busy with his left… introducing a new app that’s growing like wi...
You are what you eat, Mr. President
April 11, 2023 21:09 - 2 minutes - 865 KBA couple of weeks ago… a story circulated about the way Ron DeSantis consumes food. An anonymous former staffer said the Florida Governor eats like a starving animal who’s never seen food. The staffer says one time.. on a private jet DeSantis ate a bowl of chocolate pudding with three of his fingers. Some Democrats are obsessed with this - performing re-enactments and guessing which three fingers. Did it involve the thumb? In a recent interview, Piers Morgan simp...
Adopting a Rhinoceros
April 10, 2023 21:39 - 2 minutes - 922 KBSouth Africa’s largest Rhinoceros farm has gone bankrupt. And so… they’re looking for anyone who wants to adopt and love 2-thousand of these giant behemoths. Talk to your family about snapping up a few ,,, and helping preserve the species. Ask your kids. Should we buy our family a Rhino They’re so so big… I know I know But cute and wrinkly as animals get A rhino might just be a pet The giant horn won’t attack you She’d probably just try to smack you. Because the...
Potato Painting
April 06, 2023 21:40 - 2 minutes - 832 KBWhat a sad state of affairs. Some families don’t want to buy eggs at sky-high prices… so they're painting potatoes for Easter. At the national potato marketing organization… they usually post about potato retail sales… and offer spellbinding podcasts like this Well. These Nematode researchers at Potoes USA saw people painting potatoes on Tik Tok . and they were like whuh. And they immediately jumped on board. Yeah… they say … it’s fun. It’s family bonding. It’s...
Home Buying
April 06, 2023 21:10 - 2 minutes - 642 KBWe’re heading into spring home-buying season. You’ll soon see the signs and balloons leading you to open houses. Interest rates will put a damper on buying this year…. but there are people ready to buy at the right price. And according to Zillow, this is what they’re looking for. Mind you these are people who can pay cash… or afford a mortgage at 6 percent plus. Let’s start with what they don’t want Things that’ll hurt your selling price. First? Tile Countertops...
You’ve been doing winter all WRONG
April 05, 2023 21:10 - 2 minutes - 868 KBWe’ve all been cloistered indoors… sick of the relentless snow. Skiers can’t get to half the resorts because of Canyon Closures. And so we wait for the warmer weather promised for the weekend… and dream of taking a stroll… riding a bike or just sitting on a lounge chair breathing some spring air. But I think each and every one of us missed an opportunity here. We all sat around overcome by cabin fever and suffering from the winter blues. But when snow hit Boston… K...
The April Fools Stages of Life
March 31, 2023 21:19 - 2 minutes - 785 KBThere comes a point in life… when wrinkles deepen…reading glasses appear … and the skip in your step slows to a shuffle. THAT is the point when you stop being the culprit… and become the casualty of the April Fool jokes. Oh… As a child I started on fake dog poop… then cake pops made from brussel sprouts .. and eventually telling the family I got fired. Satisfied with their horrified reaction… as a kid I’d bellow April Fools. As a teen, it was calm and cool. Dude ....
The ONE place left where it’s OK to Fat Shame.
March 24, 2023 21:28 - 2 minutes - 744 KBFat Shaming is terrible. In fact there’s only one place left where they’re allowed to fat shame. The doctor’s office. I was there last week… y’know… you walk in. First thing - they put you on the scale… which is located in the middle of a busy hallway. And if you’re sensitive about your weight… as you balance your feet… you cringe as you wait for the number. Oh you bargain. Can I take my shoes off. Here. Hold my phone. But it doesn’t work. The number is the nu...
VVIP Seating
December 05, 2022 18:32 - 1 minute - 758 KBI know for most of us… the World Cup is over. The US is out… that’s that. See ya in four years. But in Qatar… they’ve created something so repulsive for this World Cup Tournament… that I have to share it with you. Y’know the luxury boxes stadiums have for VIPs? The climate controlled boxes with the endless food and drinks and a hostess. The beautiful people are often sealed behind glass like zoo animals for the rest of us to gaze upon? Well in Qatar … where oil billionaires outnumber ...
Artificial "Intelligence”
December 05, 2022 18:32 - 1 minute - 904 KBI wanted to do a minute of news about tennis players. They are almost to the point of protesting and their chant would be “Pickleball will not replace us.” Towns are repurposing tennis courts for pickleball… interesrting But I didn't feel like writing today. So I thought… why not download one of those artificial intelligence apps… where you type in a subject… and your computer writes the story . So I got one called Nexbot AI. My instruction… “In a sarcastic tone write an article showing...
Dogfooding
December 05, 2022 18:31 - 1 minute - 753 KBThe tech industry has turned dogfood into a verb… creating an entirely new word. Ever hear this? Dogfooding. For some reason… in the tech industry… it dogfooding is when an employee uses the company’s products. When I listen to KSL… because I work here… that’d be considered “dogfooding” Bosses love when loyal employees use the product. Some people think the term comes from the Old Alpo Dog Food Commercials. 40 years ago the late actor Lorne Greene would talk to the audience as he fed A...
The Rising Price of Christmas
December 05, 2022 18:30 - 1 minute - 939 KBHoliday sales are up… but we’re not because we’re buying more stuff. We’re spending more on Christmas because of inflation. And nowhere do you find more proof… than with the CPI. Don’t roll your eyes. The CPI is the Christmas Price Index… which totals up the value of all the gifts in the 12 days of christmas…. and compares them to last year. Buckle in. $280 dollars. Partridge prices are the same as last year. The pear tree way more expensive because of higher fertilizer costsl. Tw...
Gaslighting
December 05, 2022 18:30 - 1 minute - 812 KBThis week Merriam Webster announced its “Word of the Year.” Some of the runners up included Omicron… Oligarch…. and Queen Consort - the title given to the wife of King Charles. But to decide the word of the year… the dictionary publishing company… looked at all the look-ups…for the word that was searched the most and saw the biggest sustaining surge in interest… for the word….. [drumroll] Gaslighting Accepting the award on behalf of gaslighting… Jeff Caplan. Thank you. Gaslighting is m...
American Football in Germany?
December 05, 2022 18:29 - 1 minute - 674 KBOn Sunday… 730 in the morning… they played the first NFL game ever in Germany. The Bucaneers and Seahawks went to Munich and 70-thousand people showed up. 700-thousand expressed interest in tickets… and you wonder …who are these Germans so interested in our uniquely American sport? Turns out… behind Soccer… American Football is the Germany’s second favorite. They get to watch the NFL on Free TV. They quickly snapped-up seats ranging from 65-to 160 dollars. . and you also have countless...
How to buy a Pro Sports Team with Ryan Reynolds
December 05, 2022 18:28 - 1 minute - 659 KBOf the four major sports…. hockey comes in fourth. Anybody want to fight about it. Because to most Americans hockey is just fighting on ice skates. But there’s a celebrity who wants to change the perception and turn you into a hockey fan. First… because he’s Canadian… and second… because he has a lot of money from all those Deadpool movies you paid to see. Rumors started floating around that Ryan Reynolds wants to buy the Ottawa Senators. Which is a real NHL Team tucked away in Canada’...
A Campaign Ad Suggestion
December 05, 2022 18:27 - 1 minute - 907 KBHere is a campaign commercial from 1952. It helped Dwight Eisenhower… better known as Ike… become President Eisenhower. —— So I ask… why can’t they sing the commercials for the Utah Senate race. Instead we get millions and millions of dollars of fear and loathing. If you added-up the price-tag for all the annoying commercikals in this race. … I figured this out… it’s enough to buy a brand new .. bright and shiny …. fresh from the factory… Lear Jet. The sticker-price for a brand new Lu...
Brain Cell Ping Pong
October 24, 2022 18:09 - 1 minute - 687 KBThis is pong. The first video game. Ping pong on a black and white screen. A game that is ancient. A game that is boring. And a game that is so simple… scientists tought a petri dish full of brain cells to play it. Let me repeat that because it sounds so ridiculous. They taught a dish full of living brain cells how to play pong. part of research about the human brain… and how it works differently than a computer … they plopped these 800-thousand brain cells into a glass dish… and t...
Do You Speak Emoji?
October 24, 2022 18:09 - 1 minute - 799 KBI just read Romeo and Juliet. translated into emojis. Boy Emoji Girl emoji Heart Wink Knife the little face with the X’s for eyes… that’s death. The reduced Shakespeare to 24 little pictures. Emojis are a language all their own. And chances are … if you’re over age 40… you might not speak it properly. A new study shows that 91- percent of workers say some of their text messages have been misunderstood. In part… because older workers use the wrong emojis. For instance.. Gen Z only ...
Brother Can You Spare a Quarter?
October 24, 2022 18:08 - 1 minute - 922 KBYesterday the US Mint announced we’re getting new coins… including quarters that depict Maya Angelou… and Astronaut Sally Ride. And for some reason this story… made my producer SNAP. She was losing it. All because the washing machine at her apartment… takes quarters. Five quarters. And apparently yesterday was not easy on a young woman who needs quarters… in the United States of America. what happened, Jess? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Type Emails Carefully!
October 17, 2022 17:55 - 1 minute - 714 KBRemember 25 years ago when the internet was like the Wild Wild West. You could dream up a name… like.. uh… Rockies.com because you loved the mountains. You register the name for 20-bucks…. you forget about it… and if you’re lucky… the Colorado Rockies come along and pay you more than a million dollars…. for the name. That happened But some people are happy to sit on these names registered long ago. One of them… is Gail. Back in 1996… her husband bought her Gail.com as a birthday gi...
Nike and Utah: Just Do It
October 17, 2022 17:53 - 1 minute - 845 KBIt’s one of the most ubiquitous taglines in advertising. W hen I say it… you’ll instantly know which company they go with. Ready? Just Do It. This is the first commercial to use those three words… back in 1988. They never said the words in the commercial - in fact they’re never spoken. At the very end of commercials… they just appear … and this is the guy who dreamed them up. Dan Wyden had a little advertising agency …that worked with this upstart shoe company… from Oregon. But...
Tik Tok’s Push for World Domination
October 11, 2022 19:57 - 1 minute - 714 KBRemember when Washington was contemplating whether to boot Tik-Tok out of the country. The issue is Tik Tok's Overlords in China having back-channel access to your personal information here in America? Tik Tok promised to behave… and now with 70 million active users in America Tik Tok is making expansion plans in an unexpected direction. While you or your kids laugh the 180-billion funny little videos… Tik Tok is getting ready to take on Amazon. And of all the insults… we learn of this on...
The Oldest Tree in the World
October 10, 2022 19:10 - 1 minute - 782 KBOut West … high atop a deser dry mountain in Central California… you’d have a hard time finding it… but if you look hard enough… you’ll find what’s believed to be the oldest tree in the world. In fact you’ll find a few ancient Bristlecone Pines. Thick... twisted wood bent at almost unnatural angles… petrified branches swirling toward the heavens above. And topped by pine needles that look like a crew cut… that grew out a bit too much. The age of the oldest tree among them has been confi...
Meteor Mars
September 27, 2022 18:45 - 1 minute - 666 KBIf it turns out there are martians… do you want them to look like us? Or do you want your martians with six arms and lizard heads? I ask because we’ve just heard the first live recording of a meteor crashing into the surface of Mars. It’d be cool if it sounded just like the meteor that exploded over the Great Salt Lake. Remember … a month ago. Saturday morning started with an earth shattering boom that echoed across three states. We all wondered if it was an earthquake… or a military ...
Netflix and Password Sharing
September 26, 2022 21:17 - 1 minute - 735 KBI may be a little older than you… but I can remember when a Netflix subscription cost 7-99. It’s nearly doubled over the past decade But even at inflation fueled $15.49 … it’s the biggest bargain in the state of Utah. This is not a commercial… this is data,,,, from a new study about Netflix useage nationwide. And it turns out based on Google search… Utahns watch more Netflix than any other state except Oregon. On average… the typical Utahn streamed 782 hours of Netflix last year. Whic...
Yelling at Collecting Stamps
September 26, 2022 21:16 - 1 minute - 692 KBMy dad was a stamp collector and it bored me to tears. Look at this one from England. It’s the Queen’s head …dad. Can I go outside? Janet Yellen and I have the same relationship with stamps. She the US Secretary of the Treasury… you’ll find her signature on the dollar bill. And she does not collect stamps. But somehow… everybody thinks she does. Yellen inherited her mom’s stamp collection. She has little interest… but she had to list the stamps as an asset on her financial disclos...