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All right, it is mojo in the morning. You know, it's funny as I see these things all the time and I think to myself, uh should it just be something that happens to a child that just doesn't understand uh i don't want to see a child get hurt but at some point do children ever see a tiktok challenge and go i don't need to do it i can just watch it did you hear the story about this tiktok challenge that they say that everybody's doing this viral social media challenge that everybody's doing And when they say that, I go, ah, not everybody's doing it because I don't know anybody doing it. But then I talked to a person that works at a local hospital here, and they said that they had a kid in not that long ago, like the last couple of days that did this. The squishy toys, Shannon, that your kids are so in love with?

The Neatos and the dumplings and the butters.

They love the little soft, squishy things. Which, by the way, you know what they are? they're the things that they sold at staples that was like stress balls you know what i mean

cost cancer and by the way i buy them all for my kids but if when you open one of those it literally smells like chemicals and it does gasoline it's like the weirdest smell like

these they are they cannot be good for you well keep those things away from your kids in a microwave because kids i guess are doing uh this on social media they're microwaving their squishies and then they're touching them or holding them or even putting them on their their face or bodies and they don't realize they stick to you then and they're hot and they're burning you uh there's a kid in new york i guess that just got uh sent to the hospital by the whole time in williston park

to explain. We know, Paisy, they are such a hot item. Literally. I know, Natalie. Here at Joanne's

Variety, they have trouble keeping these shelves stocked with squishy toys because so many people come to buy them. But there is this dangerous new social media challenge, like you said, that has kids putting these toys in the microwave. The latest victim, a four-year-old girl from Floral Park. A nine-year-old Illinois boy burned on his face, all because he placed a squishy toy in the microwave. Nassau County officials are sounding the alarm about a social media stunt

gone wrong. Bad idea, very dangerous, you're going to get hurt, don't do it. Chief Michael

Uttara says last Thursday, two sisters from Floral Park, four and eight years old, placed one of these

squishy toys in the microwave. When they removed it from the microwave, it exploded and oozed its gel on them. The four-year-olds

suffered burns to her uh her legs i believe her arms and a little bit of her face the girls were

rushed to n-umc with second and third degree burns these are all the squishies county officials want to raise awareness because of how popular these toys are very popular a golden dumpling and it's rare why did you choose these because they look nice and by the way i will say this when we were

younger we were dumb and we would try to put things into the microwave yeah just to see what it would do yeah so i get it but you know come on you you see this you see these kids doing it

you're like why are you doing it i mean it's it's an experiment didn't you guys all do like fun experiments when you were bored in the summer so my kids don't put them in the microwave they also don't have tiktoks i don't know how they would know to do that but um they what they do do is they will poke they like suck the air out of them somehow so they like poke them with something and then suck the air out so it's just actually the gel and there's like that's a thing that i don't know how they've figured out i mean it's just and i keep telling them don't you don't want to touch the gel that's inside yeah like that gel is encased for a reason we didn't do

anything like this. Probably not great to touch. I don't know what we were doing when we were younger, but... Masturbating.

Diet Coke and Mentos. Yeah, that's what... We were doing experiments like that.

We were outside, bro. In our bedroom with a sock.

Yeah, that's literally it. All this cinnamon challenge, all this... I did the cinnamon challenge.

Yeah, all that's dopey. Can I ask you this question? What do you think about these squishy toys? What do you think about grown-ass people that have these things? Because I heard that some of the bigger buyers of these squishy toys at those, like your favorite toy store place, Toyology, they say are 30-year-old women.

Yeah, well, it's also like a fidget thing. Like if you're at your desk all day.

Yeah, yeah. I'm not mad at that

though. Do your thing. Whatever makes you happy. If you're a 30-year-old and you're going on a date with you, Kevin, and the girl's got a butter. Which is the weirdest thing ever, by the way. I'm like, is that butter?

We have the huge butter too. What are you doing there?

I will tell you this, though. There are times where I sit there and I've touched, like, I know this is weird. I've touched my friend's kid's squishies. Don't make sure that that doesn't. Don't say that again. No, but you get it.

You get the infatuation. Yeah. Bring in some squishies. Because I've never seen one. Oh, my God. There's so much.

But you know what I'll bring you? Because somebody just gave them a bunch of dumplings when we were on vacation last week in Colorado. And I want you to, as soon as you open the little thing, the smell is, it's insane. What does the smell mean? It smells like kerosene.

I don't want that.

Like cancer. I don't want that. That's why I said to Smith, he opened his up, I'm like, I can smell it from here. But it's so cute. It cannot be good. And then he's like, I got that sparkly rare one. There's rare ones.

I'd love to know if any listeners have had an injury because of a viral challenge or their kids got into it.

The Tide Pod challenge. No, I didn't really do it. The only thing I did was the Kylie Jenner lip challenge, you know? Oh, where you suction it? Yeah, yeah, with the lips. That's all I did. I was actually really good.

And did it do anything at all permanent to you? No, I was chilling.

I actually wasn't that bad of a kid. Now I am.

Now I am. Yeah, she's grown ass. By the way, let's get these squishies and let's throw them into the radio station microwave and see what happens. Zach, I think I got an idea for you. We might have to.

We should try it on Zach. Yeah.

Back in the day when we used to have stunt guys on the show, we'd have an intern kid that would do it. Before, you knew you were going to get sued. Now, nobody will ever sign up for a job like that. we would have somebody do it what's up kira how you doing what's up how's it going it's going good we're trying to make uh these dummy kids not do stupid stuff but uh what's happening

i used to be that dummy kid doing dummy stuff i used to be bored in my room and melt crayons on my desk lamp oh and get worried when my parents would come in and be like what is that burning smell and i just had this little setup on my desk i think i burned crayons too i think i melted down crayons just to see what it would look like just to kind of like melt them together and then they

never really worked the same again but i definitely smelled glue i mean i was a glue smeller

yeah oh my god i was off the markers on my fingers let it dry and then you peel it off

or i would eat uh i would eat uh glue that was a big i love i love the taste of elmer's glue

um and then remember the paste the elmer's glue paste that was out in the buckets they also There's something about the smell of the glue, though.

Do you know why pens have a hole at the end of the cap?

Why?

Because kids put them in their mouth, swallow them, and they were choking on them so that the air can go through. That's why, you know, those Bic pens have a hole.

We used to do it like, I'm going to see if I can do it with this little thing. We used to, like, stick it from the top of your lip. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, and suck.

Yeah, and do it with that.

That was the extent of my life.

Did you guys ever try to do, like, the pins through your finger? Ew. Like, poke the top of your finger? My friends did, yeah, with safety pins. Yeah.

Just, like, the first layer. Oh, through, like, the skin? Yeah.

Okay, yeah. Those are the same people that do that are the same people that give themselves their own piercings.

Yeah. At first, I thought she was going to say she used to tattoo herself with a melted cream.

Hey, have a great day, Kira. Take care of yourself.

Thank you so much.

Bye. What's up, Abe? Hi.

Good morning, guys.

Good morning. What's going on, bud?

Hey, since we're on a topic of some trends that people did, I don't think, like, nothing was dumber than when everybody was eating Pipe Pops.

I didn't remember that.

Yeah, that one I didn't, I didn't understand.

I mean, the idea that they looked like candy, but you said, hey, maybe they'll taste good. It made no sense to me, you know? uh survive what do they call it uh survival of the fittest well or survive or it's a natural selection isn't it always it's like natural selection those are the people that end up all right well okay what's going on rachel how you doing hi good morning you're bringing back

memories mojo i am all right back in back in middle school we snort guess you used to what's Lucas. It's like the Mexican like seasonings, like it's salty or sweet.

Oh, you would snort it. Oh my god.

What was the benefit?

And then we used to, um, there was no benefit. It would just burn. There was nothing to it. That's crazy. And then we used to put ice on and salt. Put salt on ice and stick it to our skin. Yes.

I see. People used to get burned by that though. They used to have like marks on their arms like that all the little bad kids used to do that look at y'all what did you snore that will

be the next topic on our show ashley what's up i was more of the idiot because i used to think it was okay to sample your finger i don't know why but oh my god that hurts me just thinking

I just stuck to using the vacuum to do crazy things. You want a little suction vacuum?

You tried that?

It's like, where's the vacuum?

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