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Speaker 1: It is just going thirty three minutes after nine o'clock.

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Speaker 1: Of course, my name is saskiam In for Clarenceford on

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Speaker 1: Views and News, and one of my favorite parts of

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Speaker 1: his show is where we get to chat to Barbara

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Speaker 1: Friedman for Bob's Wire, looking at what's trending in her

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Speaker 1: world on the socials.

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Speaker 2: She gives us the scoop.

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Speaker 1: She's not in studio today though, you're joining us via zoom.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I am.

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Speaker 3: I'm working from home, very unusual for me, and I

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Speaker 3: don't love it, but here I am least I.

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Speaker 2: Can see you, and you look great in the world

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Speaker 2: of modern technology. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: The first story is one that that's been around for

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Speaker 3: a few days, but I just don't know that anyone's

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Speaker 3: actually noticed. It's it's an Everest related story, and the

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Speaker 3: Nepali police say they've uncovered I mean, this is quite

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Speaker 3: an incredible story. They've uncovered a major fake risk linked

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Speaker 3: to everys Trekking with the guides rescue operators accused of

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Speaker 3: making foreign climbers ill in order to trigger costly helicopter evacuations.

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Speaker 3: This is apparently not people that have gone beyond basecams,

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Speaker 3: so it is the sort of lower slightly, probably more

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Speaker 3: not amateurist, but not the serious hikers. But nevertheless, they

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Speaker 3: say more than four thy seven hundred international climbers have

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Speaker 3: been effected between twenty twenty two and twenty twenty five,

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Speaker 3: with over three hundred alleged fake rescues nearly twenty million dollars.

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Speaker 2: In inflated insurance claims.

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Speaker 3: Police say the scam involved the treking guides, helicopter operators,

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Speaker 3: and even hospital staff with methods like spiking food with

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Speaker 3: baking soda or using excessive water with medication to mimic

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Speaker 3: altitude sickness symptoms. So basically these people were getting altitude

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Speaker 3: sickness and they were being evacuated out by helicopters, and

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Speaker 3: then insurance claims were basically being scammed. These people were

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Speaker 3: unaware that two people have been charged, eleven arrested.

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Speaker 2: You know, you've got it. I mean, I'm quite gobsmacked.

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Speaker 3: And the comments online it's everything from saying, oh well,

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Speaker 3: everyone who climbs emriates obviously rich, so it doesn't really

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Speaker 3: matter to people saying I know, terrible, people saying you know,

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Speaker 3: if ever there was like the soul of Nepal, and

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Speaker 3: ever rest was taken out of the equation.

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Speaker 2: It is very hot. I think what's the word. It's disheartening,

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Speaker 2: is it not.

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Speaker 1: It's incredibly disheartening, but also well done to Nepal, which

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Speaker 1: actually I'm like, well done because you could easily just

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Speaker 1: want to believes under wraps, right, you could easily just

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Speaker 1: want to be like, we're just gonna because at the

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Speaker 1: end of the day, people could be like, oh, but

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Speaker 1: it's only insurance companies. Everybody's fine, every you know, but no, actually,

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Speaker 1: well done.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And you know, how does it make you feel

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Speaker 3: if you've ever thought that as everest was an aspiration?

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's terrible.

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Speaker 3: And those particular those thousands of international climbers who thought

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Speaker 3: that altitude sickness.

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Speaker 2: I know, I know that's actually bike baking powder in

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Speaker 2: their food.

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Speaker 1: Don't get ideas.

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Speaker 2: So that's quite a story. Yeah. The second one I

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Speaker 2: think is kind of delightful.

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Speaker 3: There's so many stories to tell about space and the

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Speaker 3: amazing photos that have been released by NASA, the of

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Speaker 3: the dark side of the Moon, But the one that's

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Speaker 3: got everyone talking is not long after take off, a

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Speaker 3: jar of Ntella did a little orbit around the cockpit

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Speaker 3: on its own, obviously without any you know, it was

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Speaker 3: floating in space for want of a better word, A

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Speaker 3: lot of people on social media saying, oh, that must

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Speaker 3: be product placement. Natela and NASA actually said it absolutely

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Speaker 3: isn't product placement. We have no control over exactly what

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Speaker 3: the astronauts took up with them, But of course very

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Speaker 3: cleverly jumped on the bandwagon and tweet an x honed

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Speaker 3: to have traveled further than any spread in history, taking

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Speaker 3: spreading smiles to new heights, and a lot of people

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Speaker 3: obviously commenting, I mean, you know how many people love

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Speaker 3: love Natella, But I just thought that was.

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Speaker 2: Like just a really sweet story.

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Speaker 3: I mean, apparently they took all sorts of of quite

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Speaker 3: strange food that I wouldn't have expected into step spilling space.

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Speaker 3: What they're calling quite a stacked menu, from brisket to.

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Speaker 2: Mac and cheese to obviously natilla.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, I thought they were just like eating stuff

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Speaker 1: with powder with water, drinking their things.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, tortillas, hot sauce. I don't know. I was now Lisa.

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Speaker 1: Lisa says it should have been our black at peanut

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Speaker 1: butter that was up there. I'm so over Natala. She says,

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Speaker 1: it's not any too sweet and too expensive, but also

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Speaker 1: has got that whole palm oil situation happening with Natala.

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Speaker 2: So I don't know.

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Speaker 1: But nevertheless, next time we'll sneak, We'll sneak some black

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Speaker 1: at peanut butter up there exactly.

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Speaker 2: I think my last story also, I've been reading for

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Speaker 2: the last few days. I just kind of love it.

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Speaker 3: Apparently online dating, the tinders and the bumbles and all

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Speaker 3: the rest of it have lost a bit of favor,

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Speaker 3: and there's definitely according to industry research, it's gone down

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Speaker 3: in its uptake. The numbers are going down as people

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Speaker 3: are kind of wanting a little bit more of a

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Speaker 3: human in person experience and find this alternative. So I

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Speaker 3: just think it's so funny if it called kind of

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Speaker 3: PowerPoint dating and it's having its moment. So what's happening

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Speaker 3: is singles are getting their friends to deliver these sort

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Speaker 3: of three to five minute powerpoints slide presentations in venues

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Speaker 3: like certain pubs in the UK, Australia and other places

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Speaker 3: are doing less.

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Speaker 2: They're calling it date my mate is at your website.

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Speaker 3: Well picture friend, and you know, people saying, you know

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Speaker 3: that kind of generation, that younger generation. I mean, they

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Speaker 3: so adept at doing their their PowerPoint slide decks at work,

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Speaker 3: that it's not a hard a reach for them to

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Speaker 3: do a little PowerPoint presentation for their mate. And I

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Speaker 3: was for their buddy, and I was watching some of

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Speaker 3: the videos and on the screen, you know, luck for example,

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Speaker 3: this one name Zach, you know, height, tall enough, age,

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Speaker 3: et cetera, and then a few things about him, and

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Speaker 3: I was thinking about it. I think that having your

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Speaker 3: friend motivate for you while you're there exactly. It's so

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Speaker 3: spot on and restickers that say mate or date, So

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Speaker 3: you're sitting in the audience, the date is in the audience,

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Speaker 3: the mate is on, stay on the platform, and I

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Speaker 3: just think, like, what a great what's the word motivation?

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Speaker 3: To have your actual body with pictures and PowerPoint presentation.

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Speaker 3: I would far more want to date somebody that I

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Speaker 3: could see in real life and that their friend was

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Speaker 3: actually like.

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Speaker 2: What goes on on Tinder these days.

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Speaker 1: I'm telling you this is why I said when I

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Speaker 1: entered the dating world a few years ago, it's got to.

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Speaker 2: Come recommendations from the friends. But of course you're very

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Speaker 2: very well hitched at this point.

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Speaker 1: Yes, no, it worked for me, but I'm I'm here

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Speaker 1: to do PowerPoint presentations for my single doll.

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Speaker 3: And you know, I did my first share of online

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Speaker 3: dating for years and actually nearly ten years ago, make

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Speaker 3: mine on Tinder.

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Speaker 2: Oh okay, so it worked for you.

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Speaker 3: It did what it hadn't for years, and then it did.

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Speaker 2: So I don't know what to say, but I do think, oh,

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Speaker 2: did we lose? Did we lose that?

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Speaker 1: No?

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Speaker 2: Okay, there we are, there, we are all right. Bob's well,

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Speaker 2: thank you. It was so lovely to chat.

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Speaker 1: I love this and I love that it's all going

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Speaker 1: back to old school