Woman Accused of Stabbing Hubby Over Hot Dogs

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ALISON STEWART, host:

Thank - I was going to try to thank you-hoo, but I decided let's just spare everybody. Welcome back to the Bryant Park Project from NPR News. We're always online at npr.org. I'm Alison Stewart, along with Rachel Martin.

RACHEL MARTIN, host:

Hello.

STEWART: Oh, we've talked about all the big stories today. We've talked about politics. We've talked about the World Health...

MARTIN: Global health.

STEWART: Global health, but do you really - you know what...

MARTIN: We've done it all.

STEWART: We need to talk about the casting of the new movie about the Bush administration. We need to talk about couples that fight about hot dogs. We need The Ramble.

MARTIN: We do. We need to talk about the potentiality of living in a bizarro universe that would include this weird twin - solar system twin. OK, let me explain. Astronomers from St. Andrews University in the United Kingdom have discovered a distant solar system that looks very much like our own, and they've got - so there's a planet resembling Jupiter, and one that shares characteristics with Saturn.

And the system is about half the size of our solar system, but the planets in it share similar ratio of planet to sun mass, as ours does. And their planets, in this other solar system, take roughly the same amount of time to orbit their sun as ours do. Now to date, astronomers have found nearly 300 planets outside of our own solar system, but their systems never resembled our own in quite this way.

So you're asking, I'm sure, to yourself, why do planetary twins matter? Well, young listener, if the planets are similar, it means the way our solar system formed may have happened elsewhere. So this is the big takeaway here. This means more solar systems similar to ours might be out there, which means the possibility of more planets like the one we're broadcasting from here at BPP World Headquarters.

STEWART: Here's something everybody can relate to. You're in a relationship. You're maybe married, living with someone, and you have a fight. You have a really big fight. You fight about a lot of things. You fight about money, commitment, hot dogs...

MARTIN: Oh yeah, the hot dog - the old hot dog fight.

STEWART: Things can go really too far when wieners get involved. A Florida woman accused of stabbing her husband in a hot dog-related fight. She apparently made hot dogs for dinner. He snatched the plate away. She stabbed him in the shoulder with a steak knife. I think they may have had other issues before the hot dogs.

MARTIN: There might have been some other issues involved.

STEWART: Check it out, this thing - it really escalated, actually. You know, he allegedly pointed a gun at her, threatened to kill her. So they're both facing charges.

MARTIN: But this is a lesson on how the smallest of issues can really explode into...

STEWART: Work them out, people. Work them out!

MARTIN: Just talk. Just talk to each other. OK, staying on the alleged-crime beat, authorities are saying that last week a man suspected in several armed robberies - OK, get this, he filled out an application at this place, the Golden Pantry Convenience Store in Athens, Georgia. So you think, great, he's applying for jobs, trying to be part of society.

STEWART: Sure.

MARTIN: No, not so much. Apparently, after he filled out the job application, using his real name, mind you, he then allegedly pulled a knife and robbed the Golden Pantry. So, he filled out the job application, and then robbed the place he was trying to find employment. So did he possibly suspect that the Golden Pantry actually contained gold? Maybe?

STEWART: Perhaps.

MARTIN: That can make people delusional. Investigators say he was filling out the app to kill time until customers left the store. That might make a little more sense, but he is not redeemed. I mean, he did use his real name.

He used a fake address and his uncle's phone number, so he was thinking like maybe not give all my biographical information, but an anonymous tip led authorities to him, and he was arrested Saturday morning. Probably using his real name, not such a good idea. We suggest the following alternatives for armed robbers contemplating a similar path.

STEWART: OK.

MARTIN: Unsuspicious Wertheimer(ph), Innocent P. Skokalot, or Thandie Newton.

STEWART: Thandie Newton! That brings me to our next story. That's what they call a "seg" in the business.

MARTIN: A segue.

STEWART: All right, Oliver Stone, casting his new movie. It's going to be called "W." It's about President George W. Bush. Some of the casting we've already heard. Josh Brolin of "No Country for Old Men" going to play George W. Bush. Elizabeth Banks, she was a nymphomaniac from "The 40-Year-Old Virgin."

Yeah, OK. She's going to be playing Laura Bush, OK. James Cromwell from "Babe" fame, he's going to play George H.W. Bush. Ellen Burstyn to be playing Barbara. Now, here's the one that - this is one why I pitched this as a Ramble. Thandie Newton, who is stunning...

MARTIN: Gorgeous.

STEWART: She's skinny. She's in that new movie...

MARTIN: But very pretty.

STEWART: "Run Fat Boy Run." She was in "Mission Impossible."

MARTIN: She was in "The Crying Game."

STEWART: "Crying Game"?

MARTIN: Right? Oh, was she? Oh, no. Take that back.

STEWART: No!

MARTIN: That was a transsexual.

STEWART: Oh, my goodness, that was Jaye Davidson, and he/she is very attractive as well. No, she was in "Crash."

MARTIN: "Crash," I knew that, yeah, "Crash." It starts with a C.

STEWART: Anyway, Thandie Newton, going to play Condoleezza Rice.

MARTIN: That is so crazy.

STEWART: Now, that's like me saying, "Bryant Park Project the movie," I think Halle Berry will play me. Like the most beautiful women in the - and I'm not saying that Condoleezza Rice is not an attractive woman. A lot of people find her - incidentally, but Thandie Newton?

MARTIN: She's no Thandie Newton.

STEWART: Thandie Newton on a scale of one to ten is about a 12 and a half. So anyway.

MARTIN: Hey, reach for the stars. It's the movies. It's a big fantasy.

STEWART: Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld, and Karl Rove, yet to be cast. Maybe we'll put that on the blog. That would be a good blog post.

MARTIN: Submit your suggestions.

STEWART: All righty.

MARTIN: Hey, folks. That's your Ramble. These stories and more on our website, of course, npr.org/bryantpark.

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