August 26, 2025 • 13 mins
Cracker Barrel has received backlash on their rebrand and has decided to add their beloved Uncle Herschel. In January 2026, Southwest will start charging plus sized passengers who cannot fit in one seat. A dust storm is effecting attendees to Burning Man. And a man was accidentally charged $15,000 for a $16 meal at White Castle!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the fread show.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
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Jennifer Lopez her brand new Las Vegas residency. Jennifer Lopez
Up All Night Live in Las Vegas March thirteenth, twenty
twenty six, at the Coliseum at Caesar's Palace. Text Lopez
to three seven three three seven right now for a
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Stories of the Day Night Top Story. Kiki is in Games.
(00:48):
It really happened, and we really didn't miss the announcement.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
No, no, you just held it in for a whole day.
I had to.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
I couldn't get my mind right frid Okay, we never
thought this was happening for real.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
I just I think we were last on a PR plan.
That's what I think. I think we were last on
the PR plan, PR plan.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
If I had a PR plan, you see the video,
my outfit, hair nails, everything.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Would have been different.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Michael Bay producing the video, my videograph, the explosions and fireworks.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
I mean, oh my god, it's so good.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
I'm watching just like I hate to say this, but
you know, you joke so many times about about not
getting engaged, and I start to watch this, I'm like,
there's a joke about to happen, like like, this is
a video, it's a skits You're right, there's like she's
about to go ahead and just kidding, you know, or
something like that. And I'm like, no, wait a minute,
Oh my god, it really happened. Yes, that really happened.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
That's what I tell myself every morning, Like this really
is real. This is so awkward. I've never felt like
this before, really happened, Like sitting on my couch crying. Officially, man,
I know, it's weird. Man.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
The streets are morning this morning, they're very upset. They're
very very upset.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
The indivigil later another.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Is hosted by me. I hope I remember to attend,
but I hope I remember to tell you what it is.
You can stop buy.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
If you want.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Well, please thank you.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
So Cracker Barrel guys, let's just roll right onto Cracker Barrel.
You know, let's talk about another vigil. Cracker Barrel admits
that they failed with their rebrand. They did, but they
say that they're going to include Uncle Herschel on the menu,
in the store, on the road signs, but not the logo.
So that's the dude next to the barrel and that
used to be next to the barrel in the Cracker
Barrel logo.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
His name is Uncle Herschel.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
But they responded to customer backlash over their recent logo redesign,
which removed the iconic image of an elderly man leaning
against a barrel whose name is Uncle Herschel. In a
statement titled our Promise to You, the company acknowledged the
criticism and pledged to retain Uncle Herschel's image and its branding,
including on menus, the road signs, and in store displays,
but not the new logo. The statement emphasized that the
(02:52):
brand's core values hard work, family, and scratch cook.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Food remain unchanged.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
The company also reassured customers that the beloved items like
Uncle Herschel's favorite breakfast platter are not going away.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
I was very worried about it.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Where is Uncle Herschel and where is his favorite breakfast platter?
Speaker 4 (03:09):
I want to see what comes on that.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
I probably I think it's one of everything. I've probably
had it before. When I lived in Charlotte, there used
to be one down the street from the radio, quite
a ways down the street from the radio station, but
it was on the same road, and so we used
to go there, and I hated myself the rest of
the day.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
But boy was it delicious.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
The cheesy hash brown Oh my god, No.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
It's everything deep fried, cheese over salted. The pancakes, Oh yeah,
what's on it? Sausage, eggs, bake, it has every biscuit.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
If this is accurate, this is a photo.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
It looks like some ham, the hash Brown's eggs, and
then you get biscuits.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
It looks like, yeah, great, comes on the stee Well,
everybody knows what Uncle Herschel.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Likes, so everybody knows that that's.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
What it is.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
The message concluded with Uncle Herschel wouldn't have wanted it
any other way. Hey, The real win here is we
know the guy's name is uncle Hershel now, which is
exciting even though you removed him him.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
You took him out of the logo is why.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
This is why they do it.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
I'm very upset. Now I have to go to a
cell phone store cracker barrel. You know it doesn't it
needs to smell like every candle scent at once when
I walk in.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Have you eaten there before? You've been to a cracker barrel?
Speaker 4 (04:16):
I've been there once, yeah, I have no memory of
it though.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Really.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Yeah, so I'd like to attend this rebrand launch party.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
No, we need to find you an old one.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
We need to go find you an old one's stat
before they go change it, because everyone knows you need
like a potholder, you know, some form of cinnamon scented candle,
random candy.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Dream catcher.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Yeah, and everyone needs a dream catcher or whatever those things. Yeah,
and they have those in there too. But anyway, so
they're sad about themselves, but they're not going to change anything. Really,
Southwest Airline is implementing a new policy effect. Here's another
brand that managed to screw everything up. I feel like
I tried to buy a Southwest ticket the other day.
I kid you not, and I'm not bagging Southwest.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
You know whatever.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
They're fine, but it was a first class ticket on
another airline, was the same price as a regular ticket
on Southwest. And I'm going yo, like, no one's bringing
me warm nuts in a predeparture cocktail in Southwest.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Okay, So I may go with the bigger seat.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
You better get your warm nuts.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
It's Christ. Give me the rle with the warm nuts.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Come on.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
But they're implementing a new policy affecting plus sized travelers,
and I eat enough of the warm nuts.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
This will be me.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
But starting January twenty seventh of twenty twenty six, passengers
who can't fit within the armrests of a single seat
must purchase an additional seat in advance. Refunds for the
extra seat will only be available if the flight isn't
fully booked, most seats are in the same fair class,
and the request is made within ninety days of travel.
The change coincides with Southwest transition to a signed seating
moving away from its traditional open seating policy. Critics argue
(05:42):
this policy may increase travel costs for plus sized passengers
and reduce accessibility can someone explain to me Burning Man,
because like I understand that it's supposed to be some
kind of like music culture lsdfest. I mean you go
there in the middle of the dead I guess you
go in the middle of the desert and you can
(06:03):
take a bunch of drugs and nothing bad's gonna happen
to you because you're in the middle of the desert.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
So, like you know, and you like trade goods with people,
you trade goods. I'm not even kidding, Like there's like
people sell thing, but you can like trade for stuff.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Yeah. But the part about that I don't understand about
Burning Man is every video I see looks miserable. Like
it never looks like that's a great time. It looks miserable.
And this year especially, it's off to a rocky start
as a fierce dust storm swept across the Vata's Black
Rock Desert, sending tense tumbling and reducing visibility to almost nothing.
(06:36):
The storm, which truck on Saturday night, brought wind gusts
stopping forty five miles an hour and prompted the National
Weather Service to issue a dust storm advisory describing a
wall of blowing dust barreling north thirty miles an hour. Now,
I know some people who have gone, and one guy
describes it, and I believe this guy. He's an older guy,
and he went, he's rich, because I guess you guy
(06:57):
like the young sort of like randoms that go, and
then you got the old like rich, techy guys that
go because it's like, you know, an excuse to use LSD.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Now I'm not saying, I'm not saying this guy did that.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
I'm sure he did, but I'm not sure. But he
was saying to me, like he drove in there. He
was there for a couple of days, and he said,
I drove This is a real story. He goes, I
drove out. I stopped at the very first hotel, which
was like some nasty, fleabag, disgusting, middle of the desert
whatever hotel.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
He said.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
I stood in the shower for ninety minutes until the
water ran clear from the coming off my body. There
was so much dirt on this man from like blowing dirt.
And because it's just in the middle of like just dirt,
you get black buggers too. Yes, you bring all this
stuff in, So I don't get it, Like, how is
this enjoyable for I am a friend of mine's there
right now. I should call him. I'm sure he's not
(07:47):
in a very good condition to talk to me, but
he's probably covered in dirt. He's probably buried in dirt.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Let's call him live on the air.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
No, I want to call him on my phone and
no one can hear it. I want to call it
privately during a song so no one can understand. I
don't I don't want. I don't want anyone at home
to enjoy the conversation. I'm gonna play it during a
Katy Perry saw. I'm gonna call him personally. No, I
don't understand why anybody goes to this. I don't get it.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
A lot of hot girls though too on a TV.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
I can't see him. They're covered in dirt.
Speaker 6 (08:12):
Well, okay, I can see what. I'm sorry. I'm married,
you're covered in dirt. Doesn't matter. Are you married? You
forgot to tell us when did you get married?
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Oh man? What you did? I know? I just I don't.
I don't know that.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
I understand it can when you've gone to these like
Coachellas and things, and those are a little like boogier
than this.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
A little less uh tactile.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Yeah, they still get the dust storms at Coachella, which sucks.
That's why everyone has their face covered. It's not for
to look cool. You literally like have black buggers after
But I don't know.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
I mean I always were contacts, So that's why I
never went to Burning Man. And I wish I was
joking because I have friends that went, and I was like,
this seems like we just.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Wore those goggles that everybody wears.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Well, yeah, those like steam pall goggles that everybody wears.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
Yeah, it's not as much my vibe.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
And is there concerts too?
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Yeah? Yeahh like who's performing? Who's on the lineup this year?
Speaker 1 (09:11):
I heard this.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
I mean like Diplo is always there, hold on with
the lineup, But.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Like people fly their jets in there somehow, but then
they have to like tape them all up so the
dirt doesn't get the engines and stuff.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
It's like this little airport. It's crazy.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
I think it's supposed to be more of like a
magical like ethereal like experience than then you're minimizing it too.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
Like I think it's supposed to be like spiritual for
some people.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
We could just go to like a hollow an Express
and Sacramento and do LSD, and it would be the
same thing.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
I'd feel very similar. It'd be spiritual for me too.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Yeah, I'd like to see you out there, and you'll.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Never see me out there. I'll never be that dirty
in my life. Okay, basically dirty.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
So this is the most burning Man thing ever.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
Burning Man does not have a scheduled or traditional lineup
of musical acts or performers. Instead, it relies on the
community to create and share experiences, including prompt to musical
performances by participants and art cars.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
This is Jason Brown's worst nightmare.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Yeah, he's Jason Brown's line at Burning Man right now
in his black outfit with his combat boots, his ear
piece and clipboard, and he's trying to figure out what
time diplo is going on.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
But one will tell you. There's there's no schedule, right,
it's giving like fire festival. It's just like the desert.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
We're not going to tell you what's going on except
on purpose imagination performance.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Right.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
It's a concept of a festival, a website. You're on
the website.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Yes, like goods, they're trading goods, they're painting they're making
like art projects.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
What am I training money there by trading like that?
You made scores?
Speaker 2 (10:43):
It's just timely so that you haven't made at home
trading yarn for you know, toilet paper?
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Right? I just I don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
It doesn't sound appealing to me. And then there's this
so a guy going through a White Castle drive through
with shotwin the restaurant, this new AI ordering system charged
him fifteen thousand dollars for what should have been a
sixteen dollars meal. Funny fifteen grand. Now, I've been very
hungry when I go to White Castle. I tend to overorder,
(11:15):
but fifteen grand would be excessive. It was supposed to
be sixteen bucks. A system mistakenly added dozens of extra
meals to his order, and the whole thing was caught
on camera. The error had people complaining about fast food
change relying too much on AI, and customers are being
reminded to always check receipts. Yeah, I think I would
check my receipt if I ordered one meal and they
charged me fifteen thousand dollars.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
Don't victim blame though, Like you should not be charging
me that much and I shouldn't have to check I agree.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Ah, I might look and say, I know there's something
that right here, something is a miss and guys. According
to new research, swearing contemporarily enhance physical strength and activate
motivational brain systems. People who repeated a self chosen swear
word before performing tasks showed increased grip strength and higher
motivation to pursue goals. These findings suggested might serve as
(12:01):
a tool for short term performance enhancement by boosting emotional
arousal and motivation. I know that right, that's my two
year old comes in a whole bunch. Now, how many
words do we know?
Speaker 4 (12:10):
So she does it in Polish and then in English? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Any right?
Speaker 6 (12:14):
Yeah, So when she drops something, it's you know, like
me os, I'm like bilingual cussing. Yes, And then my
mom's like, you gotta stop saying the other one because
she's saying it now, and I'm like, oh, yosh, I'm
just disappointed. She doesn't stay it in Spanish too. Well,
it's coming, can we get with it? She didn't counting
all three? You know, people smart baby.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Growing up.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
I don't know if your teachers were like this, but
when you're young and you'd cuss at school or whatever,
and teachers would say, you know, teacher, things like, well,
you know, only people who don't know a better word
use a word like that, you know, like it's like
like it's unsophisticated. No, No, I disagree. For me, I
know a lot of words, and so do all of you.
I prefer the effort most of the time, and I
just drop it regularly now. And if that offends you,
(12:52):
then I'm not for you. I just I just like it.
It feels good to say. A few others do too.
There's a couple other words I've started pulling out that
I used to think I couldn't like. It takes a
little a little more, like I gotta put a little
more energy behind the word. There's a couple of words
I like to drop now that you know. At first
I thought we're pretty taboo. But now I'm just you know,
in the right circumstance. But cussing just feels good. It's
(13:12):
just sometimes that's what needs to be said, you know
what I mean?
Speaker 4 (13:16):
Yes, I sure do.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
And my iPhone still doesn't get it. I'm just learn
the words, iPhone because I'm trying to cuss. I'm not
talking about ducks, right, never under any circumstances, a National
Dog Day and National Women's Equality Day, which we probably
could have put those days up. It probably could have
been on different days. I would have probably not had
(13:38):
them on the same day. But we can celebrate them
independently and completely separately.
This is the fread show.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Let's get you Hotel a trip for two to see
Jennifer Lopez her brand new Las Vegas residency. Jennifer Lopez
Up All Night Live in Las Vegas March thirteenth, twenty
twenty six, at the Coliseum at Caesar's Palace. Text Lopez
to three seven three three seven right now for a
chance to win two tickets to the March thirteenth show
at twout Hotels day March twelve through the fourteenth at
(00:24):
the Flamingo Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas and Ron Trevert
Fear a confirmation text will be sent. Dennered message and
data rates may apply. All thanks to Live Nation. Tickets
are on sale now at ticketmaster dot com for all
shows running December thirtieth through January third, and March sixth
through the twenty eighth. Fred's Show is on Fred's Biggest
Stories of the Day Night Top Story. Kiki is in Games.
(00:48):
It really happened, and we really didn't miss the announcement.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
No, no, you just held it in for a whole day.
I had to.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
I couldn't get my mind right frid Okay, we never
thought this was happening for real.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
I just I think we were last on a PR plan.
That's what I think. I think we were last on
the PR plan, PR plan.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
If I had a PR plan, you see the video,
my outfit, hair nails, everything.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Would have been different.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Michael Bay producing the video, my videograph, the explosions and fireworks.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
I mean, oh my god, it's so good.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
I'm watching just like I hate to say this, but
you know, you joke so many times about about not
getting engaged, and I start to watch this, I'm like,
there's a joke about to happen, like like, this is
a video, it's a skits You're right, there's like she's
about to go ahead and just kidding, you know, or
something like that. And I'm like, no, wait a minute,
Oh my god, it really happened. Yes, that really happened.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
That's what I tell myself every morning, Like this really
is real. This is so awkward. I've never felt like
this before, really happened, Like sitting on my couch crying. Officially, man,
I know, it's weird. Man.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
The streets are morning this morning, they're very upset. They're
very very upset.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
The indivigil later another.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Is hosted by me. I hope I remember to attend,
but I hope I remember to tell you what it is.
You can stop buy.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
If you want.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Well, please thank you.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
So Cracker Barrel guys, let's just roll right onto Cracker Barrel.
You know, let's talk about another vigil. Cracker Barrel admits
that they failed with their rebrand. They did, but they
say that they're going to include Uncle Herschel on the menu,
in the store, on the road signs, but not the logo.
So that's the dude next to the barrel and that
used to be next to the barrel in the Cracker
Barrel logo.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
His name is Uncle Herschel.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
But they responded to customer backlash over their recent logo redesign,
which removed the iconic image of an elderly man leaning
against a barrel whose name is Uncle Herschel. In a
statement titled our Promise to You, the company acknowledged the
criticism and pledged to retain Uncle Herschel's image and its branding,
including on menus, the road signs, and in store displays,
but not the new logo. The statement emphasized that the
(02:52):
brand's core values hard work, family, and scratch cook.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Food remain unchanged.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
The company also reassured customers that the beloved items like
Uncle Herschel's favorite breakfast platter are not going away.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
I was very worried about it.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Where is Uncle Herschel and where is his favorite breakfast platter?
Speaker 4 (03:09):
I want to see what comes on that.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
I probably I think it's one of everything. I've probably
had it before. When I lived in Charlotte, there used
to be one down the street from the radio, quite
a ways down the street from the radio station, but
it was on the same road, and so we used
to go there, and I hated myself the rest of
the day.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
But boy was it delicious.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
The cheesy hash brown Oh my god, No.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
It's everything deep fried, cheese over salted. The pancakes, Oh yeah,
what's on it? Sausage, eggs, bake, it has every biscuit.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
If this is accurate, this is a photo.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
It looks like some ham, the hash Brown's eggs, and
then you get biscuits.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
It looks like, yeah, great, comes on the stee Well,
everybody knows what Uncle Herschel.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Likes, so everybody knows that that's.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
What it is.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
The message concluded with Uncle Herschel wouldn't have wanted it
any other way. Hey, The real win here is we
know the guy's name is uncle Hershel now, which is
exciting even though you removed him him.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
You took him out of the logo is why.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
This is why they do it.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
I'm very upset. Now I have to go to a
cell phone store cracker barrel. You know it doesn't it
needs to smell like every candle scent at once when
I walk in.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Have you eaten there before? You've been to a cracker barrel?
Speaker 4 (04:16):
I've been there once, yeah, I have no memory of
it though.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Really.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Yeah, so I'd like to attend this rebrand launch party.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
No, we need to find you an old one.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
We need to go find you an old one's stat
before they go change it, because everyone knows you need
like a potholder, you know, some form of cinnamon scented candle,
random candy.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Dream catcher.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Yeah, and everyone needs a dream catcher or whatever those things. Yeah,
and they have those in there too. But anyway, so
they're sad about themselves, but they're not going to change anything. Really,
Southwest Airline is implementing a new policy effect. Here's another
brand that managed to screw everything up. I feel like
I tried to buy a Southwest ticket the other day.
I kid you not, and I'm not bagging Southwest.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
You know whatever.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
They're fine, but it was a first class ticket on
another airline, was the same price as a regular ticket
on Southwest. And I'm going yo, like, no one's bringing
me warm nuts in a predeparture cocktail in Southwest.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Okay, So I may go with the bigger seat.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
You better get your warm nuts.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
It's Christ. Give me the rle with the warm nuts.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Come on.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
But they're implementing a new policy affecting plus sized travelers,
and I eat enough of the warm nuts.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
This will be me.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
But starting January twenty seventh of twenty twenty six, passengers
who can't fit within the armrests of a single seat
must purchase an additional seat in advance. Refunds for the
extra seat will only be available if the flight isn't
fully booked, most seats are in the same fair class,
and the request is made within ninety days of travel.
The change coincides with Southwest transition to a signed seating
moving away from its traditional open seating policy. Critics argue
(05:42):
this policy may increase travel costs for plus sized passengers
and reduce accessibility can someone explain to me Burning Man,
because like I understand that it's supposed to be some
kind of like music culture lsdfest. I mean you go
there in the middle of the dead I guess you
go in the middle of the desert and you can
(06:03):
take a bunch of drugs and nothing bad's gonna happen
to you because you're in the middle of the desert.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
So, like you know, and you like trade goods with people,
you trade goods. I'm not even kidding, Like there's like
people sell thing, but you can like trade for stuff.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Yeah. But the part about that I don't understand about
Burning Man is every video I see looks miserable. Like
it never looks like that's a great time. It looks miserable.
And this year especially, it's off to a rocky start
as a fierce dust storm swept across the Vata's Black
Rock Desert, sending tense tumbling and reducing visibility to almost nothing.
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The storm, which truck on Saturday night, brought wind gusts
stopping forty five miles an hour and prompted the National
Weather Service to issue a dust storm advisory describing a
wall of blowing dust barreling north thirty miles an hour. Now,
I know some people who have gone, and one guy
describes it, and I believe this guy. He's an older guy,
and he went, he's rich, because I guess you guy
(06:57):
like the young sort of like randoms that go, and
then you got the old like rich, techy guys that
go because it's like, you know, an excuse to use LSD.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Now I'm not saying, I'm not saying this guy did that.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
I'm sure he did, but I'm not sure. But he
was saying to me, like he drove in there. He
was there for a couple of days, and he said,
I drove This is a real story. He goes, I
drove out. I stopped at the very first hotel, which
was like some nasty, fleabag, disgusting, middle of the desert
whatever hotel.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
He said.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
I stood in the shower for ninety minutes until the
water ran clear from the coming off my body. There
was so much dirt on this man from like blowing dirt.
And because it's just in the middle of like just dirt,
you get black buggers too. Yes, you bring all this
stuff in, So I don't get it, Like, how is
this enjoyable for I am a friend of mine's there
right now. I should call him. I'm sure he's not
(07:47):
in a very good condition to talk to me, but
he's probably covered in dirt. He's probably buried in dirt.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Let's call him live on the air.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
No, I want to call him on my phone and
no one can hear it. I want to call it
privately during a song so no one can understand. I
don't I don't want. I don't want anyone at home
to enjoy the conversation. I'm gonna play it during a
Katy Perry saw. I'm gonna call him personally. No, I
don't understand why anybody goes to this. I don't get it.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
A lot of hot girls though too on a TV.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
I can't see him. They're covered in dirt.
Speaker 6 (08:12):
Well, okay, I can see what. I'm sorry. I'm married,
you're covered in dirt. Doesn't matter. Are you married? You
forgot to tell us when did you get married?
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Oh man? What you did? I know? I just I don't.
I don't know that.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
I understand it can when you've gone to these like
Coachellas and things, and those are a little like boogier
than this.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
A little less uh tactile.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Yeah, they still get the dust storms at Coachella, which sucks.
That's why everyone has their face covered. It's not for
to look cool. You literally like have black buggers after
But I don't know.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
I mean I always were contacts, So that's why I
never went to Burning Man. And I wish I was
joking because I have friends that went, and I was like,
this seems like we just.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Wore those goggles that everybody wears.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Well, yeah, those like steam pall goggles that everybody wears.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
Yeah, it's not as much my vibe.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
And is there concerts too?
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Yeah? Yeahh like who's performing? Who's on the lineup this year?
Speaker 1 (09:11):
I heard this.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
I mean like Diplo is always there, hold on with
the lineup, But.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Like people fly their jets in there somehow, but then
they have to like tape them all up so the
dirt doesn't get the engines and stuff.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
It's like this little airport. It's crazy.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
I think it's supposed to be more of like a
magical like ethereal like experience than then you're minimizing it too.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
Like I think it's supposed to be like spiritual for
some people.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
We could just go to like a hollow an Express
and Sacramento and do LSD, and it would be the
same thing.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
I'd feel very similar. It'd be spiritual for me too.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Yeah, I'd like to see you out there, and you'll.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Never see me out there. I'll never be that dirty
in my life. Okay, basically dirty.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
So this is the most burning Man thing ever.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
Burning Man does not have a scheduled or traditional lineup
of musical acts or performers. Instead, it relies on the
community to create and share experiences, including prompt to musical
performances by participants and art cars.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
This is Jason Brown's worst nightmare.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Yeah, he's Jason Brown's line at Burning Man right now
in his black outfit with his combat boots, his ear
piece and clipboard, and he's trying to figure out what
time diplo is going on.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
But one will tell you. There's there's no schedule, right,
it's giving like fire festival. It's just like the desert.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
We're not going to tell you what's going on except
on purpose imagination performance.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Right.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
It's a concept of a festival, a website. You're on
the website.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Yes, like goods, they're trading goods, they're painting they're making
like art projects.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
What am I training money there by trading like that?
You made scores?
Speaker 2 (10:43):
It's just timely so that you haven't made at home
trading yarn for you know, toilet paper?
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Right? I just I don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
It doesn't sound appealing to me. And then there's this
so a guy going through a White Castle drive through
with shotwin the restaurant, this new AI ordering system charged
him fifteen thousand dollars for what should have been a
sixteen dollars meal. Funny fifteen grand. Now, I've been very
hungry when I go to White Castle. I tend to overorder,
(11:15):
but fifteen grand would be excessive. It was supposed to
be sixteen bucks. A system mistakenly added dozens of extra
meals to his order, and the whole thing was caught
on camera. The error had people complaining about fast food
change relying too much on AI, and customers are being
reminded to always check receipts. Yeah, I think I would
check my receipt if I ordered one meal and they
charged me fifteen thousand dollars.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
Don't victim blame though, Like you should not be charging
me that much and I shouldn't have to check I agree.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Ah, I might look and say, I know there's something
that right here, something is a miss and guys. According
to new research, swearing contemporarily enhance physical strength and activate
motivational brain systems. People who repeated a self chosen swear
word before performing tasks showed increased grip strength and higher
motivation to pursue goals. These findings suggested might serve as
(12:01):
a tool for short term performance enhancement by boosting emotional
arousal and motivation. I know that right, that's my two
year old comes in a whole bunch. Now, how many
words do we know?
Speaker 4 (12:10):
So she does it in Polish and then in English? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Any right?
Speaker 6 (12:14):
Yeah, So when she drops something, it's you know, like
me os, I'm like bilingual cussing. Yes, And then my
mom's like, you gotta stop saying the other one because
she's saying it now, and I'm like, oh, yosh, I'm
just disappointed. She doesn't stay it in Spanish too. Well,
it's coming, can we get with it? She didn't counting
all three? You know, people smart baby.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Growing up.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
I don't know if your teachers were like this, but
when you're young and you'd cuss at school or whatever,
and teachers would say, you know, teacher, things like, well,
you know, only people who don't know a better word
use a word like that, you know, like it's like
like it's unsophisticated. No, No, I disagree. For me, I
know a lot of words, and so do all of you.
I prefer the effort most of the time, and I
just drop it regularly now. And if that offends you,
(12:52):
then I'm not for you. I just I just like it.
It feels good to say. A few others do too.
There's a couple other words I've started pulling out that
I used to think I couldn't like. It takes a
little a little more, like I gotta put a little
more energy behind the word. There's a couple of words
I like to drop now that you know. At first
I thought we're pretty taboo. But now I'm just you know,
in the right circumstance. But cussing just feels good. It's
(13:12):
just sometimes that's what needs to be said, you know
what I mean?
Speaker 4 (13:16):
Yes, I sure do.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
And my iPhone still doesn't get it. I'm just learn
the words, iPhone because I'm trying to cuss. I'm not
talking about ducks, right, never under any circumstances, a National
Dog Day and National Women's Equality Day, which we probably
could have put those days up. It probably could have
been on different days. I would have probably not had
(13:38):
them on the same day. But we can celebrate them
independently and completely separately.
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