Fred's Biggest Stories of the Day: Average Car Price, Amazon Workforce, Dirty Talk To Talk To ChatGPT, & Scared Of The Dark!

The average price for a new car in the United States is $50,000. Amazon is gearing up their staff for the holiday season. Chat GPT is allowing dirty talk for verified age users soon. 3 out of 10 adults are still afraid of the dark!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:02):
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
It's all thanks to Live Nation Friend's Biggest Stories of
the Day.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
All right, So, for the first time ever, the average
price of a new car in the US has passed
fifty thousand dollars average price for a new car. A
big reason is that more people are buying electric vehicles
and luxury models, which are more expensive. Eves made up
about eleven percent of new vehicle sales in September, and
average EV selling for fifty eight thousand dollars. I guess

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a pob. Luxury cars also pushed prices up. Over sixty
vehicle model priced above seventy five thousand dollars contributed more
heavily to overall averages. Meanwhile, entry level cars those in
the twenty thousand dollars range are getting rare, and many
buyers are sticking with used vehicles or keeping their old
ones longer. To deal with the higher prices, Many buyers

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are taking on longer loan terms seven years or more,
and monthly payments now exceed seven hundred and fifty bucks
for a car seven years for a car. Amazon is
once again beefing up its holiday workforce. If you're looking
for a job, the company announced plans on Monday to
hire two hundred and fifty thousand workers for the upcoming rush.
This is according to CBS News, it's the third consecutive

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year that Amazon has added at least a quarter million
part time in full seven employees to handle the surge
in online shopping from October through December. The company said
that it's seasonal positions pay an average of nineteen bucks
an hour, while regular full and part time workers earn
about twenty three an hour plus benefits. The new jobs
include a mix of warehouse and delivery positions. Two Not

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Just one Chat GPT stories for you Today, Walmart is
teaming up with open Ai to let shoppers browse and
buy Walmart products inside of Chat GPT using a feature
called instant Checkout, Now why do I need it? Instead
of leaving the chat to go to Walmart's website, you'll
just chat about what you need, like for example, best mattress,

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under a thousand bucks gift for a reader, et cetera,
and then buy it right there in the app.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
They're calling this ag. I don't even know how to
say this word.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
I feel like that kid in school that was like
it was my turn to read it agnetic agonetic commerce.
The idea is to shift from reactive shopping searching for
things to more proactive AI driven experiences that anticipate your needs.
Walmart already has an AI assistant called Sparky that they
use internally. This move is a step towards making AI

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core part of the customers shopping experience. According to Walmart
Corporate News and Information, it'll be available to Sam's Club
members as well. So I don't know now I'm now
I'm talking to some ladies computer about what I should eat,
and and it brings me the food from Walmart. I
guess also open AI. The CEO announced that by December
of this year, Chat GPT will allow erotic and mature conversations,

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but only for users who verify their adults. We're so screwed,
they are, y, yes, all we need like you remember
when we were younger, and it was like like like
a disc. This is how we sound. I'm going to
sound so old, but I think you guys can relate.
Like a disc would get passed around school and on
the disc would be like naughty pictures or you know,
like or like when you well, this is before you
could get all that on the internet.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
Oh I didn't have that disc. You didn't have a disc. No,
I mean I tried to download like years older.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
Than you guys, but like we didn't like it took
like dial up internet. It would take eight hours to
download one pixelated picture of you know that you weren't
supposed to look at. So then people would download them
like in mass and then then it would pass around
my their little collections in mass in mass like mass
quantity at church where I would go for my adult content.

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But now my point is now you're going to have like, okay,
you have to verify the year of age. Well, like
people are young, people are going to misuse this. Old
people are going to misuse this. But they're saying. It's
there's an age gating system that will treat adult users
like adults, is what they're saying. Previously, chat GPT's content

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was limited to avoid risks mental health issues, but then
the CEO says it Opening Eye has built better safeguards
so it feel safer to loosen those limits. Along with Erotica,
Opening Eye plans to let users customize the chatbots tone
or style, how friendly the person would be or not person.
It's not a person, it's a physic computer emoji used

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Like at what's already happening to me? I'm already referring
to my AI companion as a person. I haven't named
her yet, but I'm thinking, Tanya, do.

Speaker 1 (05:04):
You want to be nice to you are a little mean?
I'm thinking, Tanya, I need nice. I need nice because
I get the sass from everybody else. So like I'm
good with nice.

Speaker 2 (05:12):
Yeah, just like when I ask you to do something,
just say okay and then just do it and don't
like give me one hundred reasons why you don't have
to or or why I'm wrong.

Speaker 1 (05:19):
To do it. Just do it. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (05:21):
So yeah, Tanya, I need to work on the name
a little bit. That's first in the game to mind
and a new survey by Talker Research from two thousand
people found what people are the most afraid of an
honor of Halloween. Twenty nine percent of people say that
they still fear the dark, thirty three percent of men
and twenty six percent of women reporting in response to
that fear, twenty four percent sleep with a night light,

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ten percent leave lights on, with men doing so more
than women, and eleven percent sleep with a comfort item
like a stuffed animal.

Speaker 1 (05:52):
You guys afraid of the dark. No, I enjoy it.
I don't think so. I mean, you're laughing.

Speaker 2 (05:57):
But apparently twenty thirty percent of people, so three out
of ten people are still afraid of the dark.

Speaker 1 (06:02):
You are. No, I'm not. I'm not afraid of the dark.
I know somebody that would prefer to have the TV
on every night all night. I bet I can get.

Speaker 3 (06:12):
All night with you.

Speaker 1 (06:15):
No, I wouldn't. I couldn't do that exactly. It's so annoying.

Speaker 2 (06:19):
I kind of wonder sometimes why I put a TV
in my bedroom. I wish I hadn't. Like it's nice
when it's there, Like it's nice in the moments where
you want it, But like then there are The other
thing is the people who are able to leave their
phones in the other room.

Speaker 1 (06:30):
I wish, I wish I could do that, crazy.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
Because I find myself every time I roll over at
any point look at my phone, like there's the phone
sitting there that I have to check it, and that
could be any time. And then while I'm checking it,
like before long, it's been forty five minutes and I'm
still on TikTok see and it's three in the morning.

Speaker 3 (06:47):
Yep, Like what are we doing? I had to stop
that because it was bad. I was realizing that if
I did that, I would not be able to go
back to sleep ever. So now I'm like, okay, like
I can't check it until my alarm goes off in
the morning, but.

Speaker 2 (06:58):
I probably need to buy like a like a real
alarm clock and then just put the alarm clock in
there and put the phone in the other room and
then set it up so that like the only time
it would ring out loud is if it's something bad,
like doing right exactly otherwise, because I'm afraid of because
it's my alarm, it's everything, So I'm afraid I'm gonna
miss my alarm and then I'm afraid that you know,

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it's just me, so someone need to get a hold
of me, like for some reason.

Speaker 1 (07:22):
Then they that's the only way they could do it.
So it's right there.

Speaker 2 (07:25):
But then I find it if I roll over at
three in the morning, I'm like, why, I may as
well get some emails out of the way. A survey
also looked at how horror films affect sleep and nightmares.
Twenty eight percent of people so that they love horror
movies men more than women. Women are more likely to
feel fear during and after horror movies. Men are more
likely to report nightmares afterward. After watching horror films, people

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more often experienced night walkings, lower sleep quality, and less
total sleep. We have a lot of days today, a
lot of days. And if I don't tell you the days,
and we have problems. So we only do it one
time a show, not every time. You know, I was
thinking about incorporating the days into every time we talk,
but I decided not to. I was never considering that.

(08:09):
In fact, I think I think we started doing days
to make fun of a show that does days. And
yet now if we don't do the days, then I
hear about him National Esthetician Day, National Pregnancy and Infant
Loss Remembrance Day, And maybe we could balance these days
out a little better, because.

Speaker 1 (08:23):
Today's like eight day eight names, you know.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
National Schwarma Day, National Cheese Curd Day, National LATINX AIDS
Awareness Day, National White Cane Safety Day honors the independence, achievements,
and rights of people who are blind or visually impaired.
National I Love Lucy Day, not to be confused with
Marilyn Monroe Day, which would be killing you know's favorite,
of course, and I always confuse it to She's a
Lucy girl, But I think that she's a Marilyn Monroe girl,

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and I, for some reason see them as the same
human being. I'm not sure that they're not. I think
we need to look into that a little further. National
broad Day, USA Rest Can Reconstruction Awareness shines a light
on options.

Speaker 1 (09:00):
Have to mistake to me and look backt to me.
There you go?

Speaker 2 (09:02):
Are those are all all important? There's no there's tons
of days there