Tim Phillips Show, 4/6/26

A new survey by Retail Times reveals that 34.4% of people let their laundry pile up. Other findings: 

- On average, men change their underwear and socks every three days 

- 73.5% of men say they handle their laundry themselves

 - 21.5% of men say laundry is their partner's job 

- 23.2% of men always sleep in the same underwear and socks they wore that day.

Monday Morning Mystery - TEQUILA    THE CHAMPS   #1 in 1958    (5 weeks)

Hints: SEALS & CROFTS    GENE AUTRY    GLEN CAMPBELL

Rock and roll instrumental band from Los Angeles, California. Named after Gene Autry‘s horse, Champ. Eight months after recording “Tequila,” Flores and Alden left; replaced by Jimmy Seals (sax) & Dash Crofts (drums), later a hit recording duo ( Seals & Crofts ). Other personnel changes followed; in 1960, guitarist Glen Campbell spent some time in the group.

Wouldn’t it be great if we could only work four days a week and still get all of our work finished? New research suggests we can and that the five-day workweek is actually a waste of time. According to a new study from the nonprofit advocacy group 4 Day Week Global, employees are able to complete as much in a 33-hour work week as they do in a 38-hour one.

It’s the largest study of its kind and the first to analyze the long-term benefits of the four-day workweek, and it finds losing those five hours actually increases productivity.

Researchers tracked workers in the U.S., Canada, the U.K. and Ireland over 18 months, as they were given a paid day off every week, but their workloads stayed the same.
It turns out, they were able to get the same amount of work done in less time, and the longer they kept a four-day work schedule, the shorter their workweeks became.

During the first six months of the study, employees cut their average work time by about four hours.
Even better? There were improvements in burnout, overall health, and job satisfaction.

What didn’t change? Output and productivity.

According to researchers, employees were able to shave hours off their average work time by eliminating time wasters, like meetings, so they have more time to devote to uninterrupted work.

Those who kept their four-day schedule for another year cut another hour off their workweek and reported even more improvements in their mental and physical health. But it wasn’t just good for the employees, it was equally good for the employers, who saw a 15% increase in revenue over the course of the study. The workers involved enjoyed the four-day weeks so much, 89% voted to keep them going, and every company participating agreed to it.⠀

Source: NY Post

Tim's News You Can't Use 

National Today says Joey Chestnut recently dominated a cake-eating contest at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa. The competitive eating icon easily defeated four Tampa Bay Buccaneers players. Chestnut devoured 10.5 cake slices in five minutes. The four players ate 9.5 slices combined.
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Mashable says Uber is pausing its in-car vending machine tests. Uber says it will focus on advertising displays instead.  Observers say this shows a shift from selling snacks to selling ad space. 
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The NY Post says people are booking Royal Caribbean's Ultimate Family Treehouse Suite even though it costs $200,000 a week for two people. The suite is located on the new Hero of the Seas ship. The suite cost for the maiden voyage on August 14th is $224,493. A New Year's Eve trip can cost as much as $375,320. The suite sleeps 12, has three decks, a private hot tub, spiral staircases, teen rooms and a game room. The Hero of the Seas can hold up to 5,654 guests and 2,350 crew members.
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A German language instructor at Cornell University is fighting the rise of AI-written assignments by dragging her students back to the 20th century — and having them use manual typewriters to complete their assignments. Grit Matthias Phelps had to teach her students how to use the typewriters, but now those students have to actually write and edit their own sentences without taking cut-and-paste shortcuts and using AI.
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The Daily Star says the world's oldest man passed away five days short of his 126th birthday. Marcelino Abad Tolentino lived in a remote village in Peru.  He never married or had children. Guinness World Records did not recognize him because of missing documents.
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A South Carolina boutique owner has been arrested for the 15th time this year for allegedly scamming online customers by taking their money without delivering the items. Pamela Brooke Schronce, 30, of Anderson County, who runs Thomas & Turner Boutique in Belton, was booked in Greenville County on April 2nd on five new counts of obtaining property under false pretenses. Dozens of customers have complained that they never received refunds. The boutique is no longer accepting online orders, and the South Carolina Attorney General's Office is working to determine how to best prosecute the case.
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WTOP says the Centreville, Virginia police are looking for a naked burglar. The man was recently caught on camera attempting to enter a home in the London Towne neighborhood. This is the fifth attempted burglary in the area in the past month. Cops have posted pics of the nude intruder in hopes someone can identify him.