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September 19, 2025 12 mins

Americans are numb to debt because most owe money. Electric refrigerators are airing advertisements on their screens. And Fred goes on a rant about public restrooms!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's the biggest stories of the day. Talk to the
booty because the hands off duty.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
That's a good one, Messa, Ben.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
Talk to the elbow because you don't deserve an extension.
I got to think about that one, all right, I think. So. Okay,
So Jason is in Las Vegas for the iHeartRadio Music Festival,
and he sent us his pics in no particular order.
He just sent me a list of teams that I
assume these are the ones he thinks are going to win.

(00:32):
I'm guessing that's what he meant.

Speaker 3 (00:33):
Yeah, I got it.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
When you're a genius like he is, you know, it's
just the information just comes to you and you don't
you know, it's like you can't control what the spirit
sends you. Now have we Basically he's lost a bunch
of picks and it has not been good. Week one
and two is nothing.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
Was Week two? Six and ten was week one.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
Yeah. So he's eleven and forty or something something like that.
I don't eleven in twenty Okay.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
I might need you to like go slow so I
can prom.

Speaker 1 (01:03):
Okay, Well, he had the Bills over the Dolphins, which
I assume I know he picked the bills he had
to pick the Bills because of Hiley Steinfeld. Yes, and
Josh Allens. I knew that one. All right, Here are
the games for Week three in the NFL, and then
we'll tell you which one which team he decided would win. Yes, okay,
so Jason Brown's hold on where Jason Brodn music? He's

(01:23):
not here, so I didn't have the music ready because
he's not staring at me. Here we go, okay, Jason
Brown's music, Steelers Patriots?

Speaker 3 (01:32):
Okay, hold on, hold on, okay, okay, he took.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
The Steelers, Raiders, Commanders.

Speaker 3 (01:37):
Hold on, let me find on this out of order list.
Where the hell of the Raiders. We'll see the Chargers.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
Well, did he have the Commanders? I'm trying, Oh god,
this is good.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
Yes he did.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
Okay, Rams, Eagles. Okay, why don't you tell me the
teams that you tell me the teams he picked?

Speaker 3 (01:58):
I have both of the same thing. I'm just trying
to figure out just so many he picked.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
He goes, Okay, tell me the next team that he picked.

Speaker 3 (02:05):
Okay, I'm going to go in order for you.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
Okay. So he has the Vikings over the Bengals.

Speaker 3 (02:09):
Yep, he has the Texans.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
He has the Texans. This is going to take forever.
Damn it. Jason over the Jaguars.

Speaker 3 (02:18):
Okay, he has the Colts.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
He has the Colts over the I'm not doing this,
just over the Titans.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
This is.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
You're so damn organizing. This is awful. Right.

Speaker 3 (02:31):
He has the Falcons.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
He did some purpose.

Speaker 3 (02:35):
I'm trying my best. I know it's live radio, but
he has the Falcons. If it's not, no help can
be done.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
At the Panthers.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
Yea.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
He has the Packers, which is.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
I don't know why he keeps picking them. I know
it's his mom's favorite team for absolutely no reasons. But
he has the Packers over the Browns. Yes, he has
the Buccaneers. The Buccaneers over the Jets. Yep, he has
the Chargers. He actually did some research on this. These
are not bad picks. Actually over thecos I don't know
about that. Okay, the Seahawks. He has the Seahawks over

(03:06):
the Saints.

Speaker 3 (03:07):
He has the Cowboys, of course he does.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
He has the Cowboys over the Bears.

Speaker 3 (03:10):
He says Cowboy Nation.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
He's sick.

Speaker 3 (03:13):
He's sick. He did this on purpose. He's confusing us.
He's a mastermind.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
Of course, he had the Chiefs over the Giants yep.

Speaker 3 (03:20):
And then he had the forty nine ers.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
The four nine ers over the Cardinals, which okay, and
the Ravens, and he had the Ravens over the what
team is remaining? I don't know. I'm trying to find him. No,
this is ah God, Jason, I love you so much,
but this was terrible.

Speaker 3 (03:35):
We'll learner a lesson for them.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
Oh that's Monday night football over the Lions. The Lions.

Speaker 4 (03:40):
He's literally like, I'm I'm I need one way ticket
to Las Vegas right now?

Speaker 1 (03:44):
What is he doing? And then he had the par sleay.

Speaker 3 (03:47):
Okay, so I have his par sleay, he says.

Speaker 4 (03:49):
Dereck Henry and his perfect smile will score one touchdown.

Speaker 3 (03:53):
I doubt it. I just got him off my fantasy team.
Caleb Williams will score at least two times, okay.

Speaker 4 (03:59):
And Daniel Jones, who should always wear a hat to
hide his crazy eyes, will not get the sack.

Speaker 1 (04:08):
That was the best part of the hope you Jason. Yeah, Now,
in the future, if you could just I don't know,
maybe print out the games and circle the one that
you'd like of.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
The Yeah, don't perceive that so there we go live.

Speaker 1 (04:21):
I don't know if you can go back and listen
to that and try and figure it out. Maybe we'll
take a picture of it something, because I don't I
don't know what that was. Disney is apparently trying to
find a way to bring back Jimmy Kimmel Live. Executives
are hopeful, but know that the future is up to
Kimmel's willingness to participate in the cooling off process. Of course,
the future of Jimmy Kimmel Live is also, at least

(04:42):
sort of up to the ABC affiliates. A source could
not say how many affiliates would have to be on
board for ABC to continue business with Kimmel. A new
survey finds that Americans are numb to dead. I believe
that because most of us are in some form of dead,
But people feel this is the interesting part. People it
feel stressed when they owe a little bit of money

(05:02):
somewhere between three and five thousand dollars, but oddly stress
because sometimes goes down as debt climbs higher, even up
to five hundred thousand dollars. Experts think that this happens
because people get used to being in debt and step
stressing about it as much. While it might make them
feel better, it can still cause problems for their money,
habits and mental health. This is my theory. I think
that people if you've got student loans which you're significant,

(05:25):
or you have a house, yes, or a car, these
are all big numbers, but they're just assumed to be
big numbers, right, Like I would be stressed out if
I had five hundred thousand dollars in credit card debt,
right because that's just crap I bought, like or just garbage,
you know, or something like that, or even wow. But
then if you know a house, like if you bought
a house, then you know that it's three hundred thousand,

(05:45):
four hundred thousand, that you know that it's a lot
of money, and you know that you're gonna pay it
over thirty years and you're going to pay a mortgage anyway,
or a rent or something. So I feel like people
kind of just forget about the number because it's just
an expense that you have to have anyway. So I
don't really stress over how much I own my house
because I have to have a house, you know what
I mean. I don't necessarily stress over my car because

(06:07):
while I have to have a car, you know, and
hopefully you bought what you can afford to begin with.
I guess I would stress if I lost my job
or if I, yes, if I know, bought something that
was too expensive. But you know, student loans, like if
you went to college to be a lawyer or a
doctor or whatever, then you know that's going to cost
hundreds of thousands of dollars. It's just part of the deal.
So there's really no point in stressing too much over it,

(06:27):
because well, you had to do it to get to
where you wanted to be, right, So I think that's why.
But then if you went and spent three grand on
a vacation and you didn't have three grand, then I
think what happens is your brain starts going, well, I
didn't really need to go, or it's going to take
me forever to pay this off, or I didn't have
I really didn't have to spend that. So I think
it's like discretionary versus what's required for life. And I

(06:50):
also think that five hundred thousand dollars is just a
massive number that people can't really wrap their brain around anyway. Yep,
But I like.

Speaker 3 (06:56):
Your theory, you know, what's for life? What you need?

Speaker 2 (06:59):
Like I need this bag, a knee, this, this pair
of shoes.

Speaker 1 (07:03):
Yes, I said the opposite. Actually I said the opposite
of it.

Speaker 4 (07:06):
With you.

Speaker 3 (07:07):
You made good. So you need your honey, you need
you need your car on me those shoes. Yeah, okay,
thank you.

Speaker 1 (07:16):
Yeah, it is understood. So now ads are going to
pop up in places that you're not gonna want them.
For example, Samsung is introducing advertisements to its Family Hubs
smart refrigerators in the US through new software. The ads
will appear on the refrigerators cover screen when it's idle.
So if you have one of those eighteen hundred dollars
plus refrigerators that has a screen on the front of it,

(07:37):
now you'll just be like sitting in your cereal or
whatever and an ad for you know, uh, the paper
towels will just pop up in the middle of your kitchen,
which is annoying. I guess you can cancel them, but
you normally this would have like an art gallery theme,
or it would you have the weather or something. The
ads can be dismissed and once removed, they will not

(07:58):
appear during the current can pain. Samsung has confirmed that
it's a pilot program for certain Family Hub models, which
range in price from anywhere from eighteen hundred to thirty
five hundred. If I pay thirty five hundred bucks for
a tea for a refrigerator, I don't don't put an
AD on my screen, right, Like I didn't ask for that.
I paid you already. It's not like the radio that's
free or the TV that's free, and you gotta listen

(08:18):
to the ad because that's how we get paid. Like, No,
I paid for the refrigerator.

Speaker 2 (08:23):
You don't know, and it's in my house, right, I
didn't asks for that, right, opt out?

Speaker 1 (08:30):
And then another thing, no wiping until you watch there's
a toilet I guess this is in China that won't
give you toilet paper unless you watch an ad first.
And this is this is clunky and disgusting if you
think about this. But in some public restrooms in China,
toilet paper dispensers now require users to scan a QR
code and watch an advertisement on their phones before the

(08:51):
role is released. So I gotta be switching my hands
and doing all this stuff so I can get toilet paper.
That's disgusting. If you bypass the ad, there's a fee
of seventy cents in order to get toilet paper. Official
that the move is meant to prevent waste and ensure
that people don't use more toilet paper than necessary. Critics
of raids concerns about privacy, convenience, and whether it's reasonable

(09:11):
to make people watch ads for a basic amenity. The
other thing is like I'm gonna accidentally call somebody, I'm
gonna accidentally take a picture of my stuff or something
like that. You know, before long, I'm canceled. All I
was trying to do is get some toilet paper in China.
That's all I was trying to do.

Speaker 3 (09:26):
Why would they get you kids?

Speaker 1 (09:27):
Now, all of a sudden there's a picture of my stuff.

Speaker 3 (09:28):
You know, would it get us ratings or would it
get you canded?

Speaker 1 (09:31):
Well, I don't know. I mean if I accidentally send
a picture of my stuff to the wrong person because
I'm trying to get toilet paper in China, I mean
I could cause issues.

Speaker 2 (09:38):
I'd be in there for like four hours as much
toilet paper as I like to use if.

Speaker 4 (09:42):
I have, Oh my god, but you use one pie,
but you like to use a lot, especially.

Speaker 2 (09:46):
If you're in a public press room, like if you
have to go, go, go and a problem. Responde like
I am in there making a whole new toilet seat.
So watching ads.

Speaker 1 (09:57):
Kiki's nesting in this, she's making herself right it home.

Speaker 4 (10:00):
You put a lot of I hear you over there
putting toilet paper on the seat.

Speaker 3 (10:03):
Don't you do that in a hotel room to mess around? Yes,
honestly on my own raw stuff.

Speaker 1 (10:09):
I got a hot take. And I've said it before,
I got a hot take. Honestly, you're in a public restroom.
Let Jesus take the wheel. Let's put our cheeks together.
You can, you can cover, you can cover all the
toilet seat you want. But then you touch your stall.
You touched the door, You touched the sink, you touched,
you touched. Honestly, there's there really is no avoiding of
all the places on my body. They're going to get nasty.

(10:30):
It may as well be my booty because I'm not
touching my booty. You put your.

Speaker 3 (10:35):
Raw clapus on that toilet.

Speaker 1 (10:38):
I do I do? You know? Hotel room and hotel
and if if we're in a situation where I'm in
public and I'm having to do that, and you know,
I try and avoid that at all costs. You know,
if there's any chance of that happening, I cancel my plans.
I try, and I'll plan out my whole day based
on on making sure that I don't have to do
a there's not a situation like that on the go.
I really don't like public rest restrooms at all.

Speaker 3 (10:59):
I don't either.

Speaker 1 (10:59):
I don't even like to breathe in them. I just don't.
I don't. But then then I'll go get on an
airplane and sit down and you know, just PLoP down.
Here we go, because you know what, I've lost control
at that point. I've lost control of the germs. Like
they're everywhere. There's nothing you can do. And I feel
the same way about a public restroom, Like, honestly, the
bottom of my booty is I'm never going to touch

(11:20):
that goes right back in my pants. Oh you know
what I'm saying. So like it is what it is.
Like my hands are different, my face that's different. But
like I'm sorry. You can put all the toilet paper
on the seat that you want, and you are not
protected from germys.

Speaker 2 (11:34):
It doors and entries, and then you grab the stoll
lock and open that with your raw hands. I can
wash my hands right away. You are walking around with
stuff on your clapers. That is crazy.

Speaker 1 (11:46):
Why are you massaging your clappers in pubblic Stop touching
your clappers. They're in my pants.

Speaker 3 (11:53):
You have to protect your booty.

Speaker 1 (11:54):
Like my booty is fine. They have never had an issue.
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