March 9, 2026 • 13 mins
A tornado outbreak swept the midwest this past weekend. Travelers are complaining about long lines at the airport due to the partial govenment shutdown. Using multiple AI tools can create "brain fry". Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime performance breaks record as most watched halftime show ever. Gen Z wants to bring back shopping at the mall.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Friend's biggest stories of the day.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
So we had tornadoes this weekend while we meaning this
country did we not meaning me specifically or any of you,
I hope. So your weather system spawned a tornado outbreak
in parts of the Midwest and the Plains.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Four people were confirmed.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Dead in Michigan on Friday, and the deadliest tornado outbreak
that the state has seen in decades. The strongest twister
was an EF three. Now you're a weather guy, Jason,
I know you love a weather situation, of meteorology, situation situation.
We're try of the meteorologists that you're into the right.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
More than the science. Yeah, yeah, I'm here hot.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
But an EF three tornado tour through Union City, killing
three people, and that was the deadliest twister to hit
Michigan since nineteen eighty And that one was in Kalambazoo,
which I know you know that because you're a weather historian.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Of course.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
In Oklahoma and EF two tornado killed a mother and daughter,
while another twister left two dead. Over a dozen confirmed
tornadoes have touchdown in both states over the past few days.
If you're going to the airport in the next few days,
I have bad news again. There's a partial government shutdown
going on again, and travelers are complaining about long wait
(01:12):
lasting hours and hours in some cases in Houston and
New Orleans, three to four hours. They're saying, three to
four hours of security lines to get to the gate
so that I can go get my cinnabon. I got
to wait three to four hours to get my cinabi
to go to Chili's two right into the macaroni grill.
(01:34):
You know, people swear about a frontra in O'Hare. They
swear every time I walk by, it's like there's a
line around the building. I'm like, you know, they got
a few of these, like they got real restaurants. You
don't have to Maybe it's the best of the options.
I don't know, but officials are blaming these long lines.
When the government shutdown, the estimated wait time at the
standard security checkpoint at William P. Hobby Airport in Houston
(01:55):
was at one point three hours. The Hobby Airport and
social media said that it was expecting longer lines and
the average to arrive three to four hours early, in
some cases four to five hours early for your flight. Now,
you know, if I show up five hours early, then
I'll walk right through. If I show up an hour early,
(02:15):
it'll be four hours long. That's just how it works.
If I'm early, I just cruise through. They don't even
they don't even scan my bag. They just wave at me,
you know what. They don't check my I D nothing,
you know, they just go way Ford. How you doing
the flights over there? You know? And I just walk
right so you can come through the exit this time.
It's fine, you know, like we know you you're good.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
But if I show up and I've got fifteen minutes
to spare because there was traffic or something, It'll be like,
oh no, take your pants off, bro, you know we're
gonna be here for a while. They pull out some swab,
like what is this? Go to the back room, Yes exactly.
I mean you were traveling, how long was you? You
had VIP treatment? I noticed it was so beautiful, But
I mean, did you have to go through normal security
or did you get like fanned the whole time?
Speaker 4 (02:54):
And they didn't in Chicago, I had to be regular
but out of town? About which tree you are nicer?
Which is so New York was beautiful, but Chicago was like, ma'am,
I actually went through the like priority line to check
my bag, and the girl told me just go up
to the front. I get to the front, She's like,
you have pre check. I was like no, She's like,
you have clear I was like no. She said back
to the line, broken way to the bag and wait
(03:18):
in line with everybody else. And now I'm considering tsa
pre check for once in my life.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
You need to do it. It's time. It is time.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Look like a Staples and get it now, can't you
like when I got it a million years ago. You
had to drive to the airport and you had to
park your car like you were going somewhere.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
By the way.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Yeah, going to the airport where you're not going anywhere.
It is very like is not to pick someone that
you love up is very depressing. Like I'm sitting in
trying for an hour and a half. At least, I'm
excited to go to my destination. No, I pulled up,
walked in, no bag. No, you know I had to
sit there for a while, get interviewed. Yeah, yeah, no,
it's time. No, it really is time. Like I thought
(03:56):
of you because there were so many people just walking
past me.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Maybe start a real real ide first, Maybe, well you
are't talking realize I got an appointment, but you don't
even have to realize you have the appointment in the
real idea.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
We've had so many will never show up. She blocked
a place out of the whole day and never gos
get it in order. But that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
I was in Charlotte last week and I got to
the airport and I walk in there and they have
like the regular security, you know, the regular schmegular, and
then they have the t S A pre check, which
of course I have because you know, of course I do.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
And global entry. You need global entry too, what's that?
Speaker 2 (04:46):
That's only if you're traveling, which I don't travel that
off and you know, out of the country.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
But like it's pretty like that is what I described.
Are you like every continent this year? I'm trying to but.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
They're like they did scan your face and you're like, hey,
you're cool, bro, welcome back, welcome back, homie, Like they
just skin good. Kiki saw it firsthand coming back from
Toronto and oh boy.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
He's a pilot. So I was like, oh, hey, he
got it because he's a pilot. Then I saw our
boats go I'm like.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
It's not a pilot, yeah, pilot is great. It's any
pilot of anything. I just flashed my pilot slcense. Everywhere
I go they just let me through. You don't do that, Yeah,
they don't care, but I see it. There's like no
line for normal security, and then there's like a line
for pre check, and I'm like, I don't want to
(05:35):
take my shoes off. So I waited in line. I
waited in line. I could have gone to the other one.
I would have had to taken my shoes off. That's
all that would have happened. And I would have you know,
I would have been at the Chilis to go way faster.
But instead I'm like, no, no, no, I'll wait for
TSA pre check. It's fine, big long line anyway. So
I guess you supposed show up to the airport four
to five hours early.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Now, yeah, it's wild at the airport right now.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
So this is for you, Paulina. You know, I like
to tailor the biggest stories of the day to all
of you in this room. Using too many AI tools
can cause brain fry. This is according to a new study.
They suggest that AI may be giving some workers what
researchers are calling brain fry. The study from The Harvard
Business Review, which I trust at, found that people are
(06:22):
constantly using multiple AI tools, those people reported more.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Decision fatigue and more errors.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
The study also found that AI can reduce burnout as
well as creative The study revealed that less brain fry
was seen among employees whose managers were intentional with their
AI use. One consulting group and the author of the
studies says the findings are an early warning sign that
expectations around AI productivity may need recalibrating. I think we
(06:49):
mentioned this last week, but it's been confirmed. Bad Bunni's
halftime show shattered records. The Super Bowl halftime show was
bigger than originally thought. Apple Music, the NFL, and Rock
Nation are confirming that Bad Bunni's halftime show shattered the
global viewership record. The Apple Music Super Bowl sixty halftime
show Rolls Off the Tongue drew over four point one
(07:09):
billion views worldwide Baby in twenty four hours across the
global broadcast. So for all of you who made a
big stink about not bad money not doing it, all
you did, I think was draw more eyes to it.
So that's the thing, you know, when people are like,
oh my god, this is terrible. This is so terrible
for the world. Okay, well I gotta check this out.
(07:30):
I gotta make sure I watch that.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
But also like, okay, think about it, like your family
back in like Columbia or something like, people were watching
all over the world because well, hey, they love bad
Money and they know who he is, like, no shade,
no tea. I don't think you know, my family back
in wherever is going to watch you know the who
Like now people aren't having parties and tuning in front.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Of it was a huge in Poland's huge jar. Well
you would know.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
I went into However, all I know is that bad
Bunny did his thing.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
I would know because I'm going to Poland next month,
my ambassador. Yeah, okay, well I gotta go and that
I'll come back and report on how big your mom's
got to be stoked excited. I'm going to the homeland.
I'm going to the homeland.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
I know.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Well, today I'm attending. That could change tomorrow. We're depending
on what these bozos around here side.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Yeah. Really, I have not seen a.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Ticket yet, but I have been invited to Poland by
the Country of Poland.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Supposedly period the country.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Via a woman named Cocaine. There's a woman in negotiating this.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
She's just going to meet you in the back alley
with Yeah, I know.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
She now has my ID and my passport information which
I heard from her and my Social Security member. For
some reason, she wanted my bank routing information.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
I don't know why.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
All I know is she has all of that and
I haven't heard a word. But supposedly I'm going to
Poland next month. I don't know. Well, yeah, well we'll
see the Motherland. I gotta go get in line now,
just in case I am going.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
It's it's it's what I'm about, going to Europe. We're
going on our own honeymoon. We're going.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Give me don't get me started on that. I will
not Well that's a topic for another day. But yes,
I am taking myself on a honeymoon this year. I
decided it's not happening in real life, so I'm I'm uh, yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Be the change you want to see.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Fred Hayter, what's his name is not it's not Lauren.
He just he lets us call him by his wife's name,
which is because he's yeah, Fred's opinion, if it doesn't
match mine, then it's wrong?
Speaker 1 (09:29):
What did I what have we disagreed about? Also? Like
what I mean, I do have a lot of My
opinion is pretty great at.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
About seven am with a disagreement.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Yeah, I was gonna say, I think we've all been
pretty copasetic so far today.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Yeah, he just had to get that in there. You
know it.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
She's not a day unless someone tells me how much
I suck. Thank you for listening.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Again. This guy's been listening for years, so he's a
one and I love that. I do too. I do too. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
I can't imagine and complaining about something every single day. Yeah, like,
what a miserable way to start your day and then
quoting the thing that I hate so much. It's amazing. Anyway,
have a good day, John, Sure, the people at Butler
are really proud of you. Gen Z is bringing back
mall shopping. Now we want mall shopping. Younger consumers are
(10:19):
heading back to the stores, I guess, motivated by TikTok
influencers and a desire for hands on experiences. Last year,
buyers between eighteen and twenty four purchased sixty two percent
of their goods in person. In response, malls are retrofitting
spaces with social media friendly designs.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Oh what does that mean? Little photo activation? Probably stepping
repeats everywhere. I don't know what safety booths. Yeah, have
you been to the mall lately? Like there's places to
go in just to take Instagram photos. There's all those
like international markets that are like you can take photos
like it's crazy. Yeah, Like there's stores everywhere, so now
to go get you're not gonna sell man.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
To go get some underwear, I got to take a
three six shot with your shopping doing a little boogie like.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
My skims bag.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
Yeah. Right, So they should do that though, like for
fitting rooms, because girls like to go in there and
do their try on halls. They don't buy anything, but
they go in there and playing on people clothes and.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Yeah, so it could happen. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
I will say that there are a number of things,
and especially as it comes to like variet. I mean,
so you have all the variety in the world on
the internet, right, you can get anything you possibly want,
you can watch anything you want, you can buy anything
you want, even to our detriment. But there was something
about going to the mall, like with your friends on
Saturday and running into other kids it was a social thing, yes,
(11:38):
But I don't know how many kids even care about
that anymore because a lot of my friends kids, they
have a lot of friends, they just don't want to
talk to them in person. They'd rather text them or
talk to them in a video game or something. But
I mean there was something like on Saturday, like, Hey,
drive me to the mall. I meet up with my buddies.
The girl group would be there. We'd go to the
food court. My dad would give me twenty bucks or something.
We'd go to somebra ro.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Yeah we are your secret. Yeah right.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
I mean, but like if you felt like there, I
mean I couldn't have money for anything, but it felt
like you could eat anything and have anything, and you
could go look at all the stuff that you aspired
to have, you know, for your birthday or whatever.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Now I don't know, like Amazon, Alexa, you know, buy
me this and then it just comes.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Yeah, there was just something about it, and I get it.
Like even the video store experience, if you're old enough
for that, there was something about it, even though there
were you know, I don't know, five hundred videos in
there versus the eight gazillion that you have access to now,
there was just something very like, yes, I can have
anything I want. I could watch anything I want.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
You read the back of the little cover to see
what the movie is about.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
You know it was great, Yeah it was, and kids
these days are not experiencing that.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
But nope, watch this. Now, they're just going to rebuild.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Like all those malls that are sitting empty now they're
gonna fill them again, and then and then people will
go for a while and then they'll be empty.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
And watch this.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
It's like Amazon closing bookstores and opening their own. You
like you, guys, Iconic messing with us. It's National get
over a Day. It's National meatball Day, National Crab meat Day,
National Barbie Day today as well, it's a big day
Friend's biggest stories of the day.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
So we had tornadoes this weekend while we meaning this
country did we not meaning me specifically or any of you,
I hope. So your weather system spawned a tornado outbreak
in parts of the Midwest and the Plains.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Four people were confirmed.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Dead in Michigan on Friday, and the deadliest tornado outbreak
that the state has seen in decades. The strongest twister
was an EF three. Now you're a weather guy, Jason,
I know you love a weather situation, of meteorology, situation situation.
We're try of the meteorologists that you're into the right.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
More than the science. Yeah, yeah, I'm here hot.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
But an EF three tornado tour through Union City, killing
three people, and that was the deadliest twister to hit
Michigan since nineteen eighty And that one was in Kalambazoo,
which I know you know that because you're a weather historian.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Of course.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
In Oklahoma and EF two tornado killed a mother and daughter,
while another twister left two dead. Over a dozen confirmed
tornadoes have touchdown in both states over the past few days.
If you're going to the airport in the next few days,
I have bad news again. There's a partial government shutdown
going on again, and travelers are complaining about long wait
(01:12):
lasting hours and hours in some cases in Houston and
New Orleans, three to four hours. They're saying, three to
four hours of security lines to get to the gate
so that I can go get my cinnabon. I got
to wait three to four hours to get my cinabi
to go to Chili's two right into the macaroni grill.
(01:34):
You know, people swear about a frontra in O'Hare. They
swear every time I walk by, it's like there's a
line around the building. I'm like, you know, they got
a few of these, like they got real restaurants. You
don't have to Maybe it's the best of the options.
I don't know, but officials are blaming these long lines.
When the government shutdown, the estimated wait time at the
standard security checkpoint at William P. Hobby Airport in Houston
(01:55):
was at one point three hours. The Hobby Airport and
social media said that it was expecting longer lines and
the average to arrive three to four hours early, in
some cases four to five hours early for your flight. Now,
you know, if I show up five hours early, then
I'll walk right through. If I show up an hour early,
(02:15):
it'll be four hours long. That's just how it works.
If I'm early, I just cruise through. They don't even
they don't even scan my bag. They just wave at me,
you know what. They don't check my I D nothing,
you know, they just go way Ford. How you doing
the flights over there? You know? And I just walk
right so you can come through the exit this time.
It's fine, you know, like we know you you're good.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
But if I show up and I've got fifteen minutes
to spare because there was traffic or something, It'll be like,
oh no, take your pants off, bro, you know we're
gonna be here for a while. They pull out some swab,
like what is this? Go to the back room, Yes exactly.
I mean you were traveling, how long was you? You
had VIP treatment? I noticed it was so beautiful, But
I mean, did you have to go through normal security
or did you get like fanned the whole time?
Speaker 4 (02:54):
And they didn't in Chicago, I had to be regular
but out of town? About which tree you are nicer?
Which is so New York was beautiful, but Chicago was like, ma'am,
I actually went through the like priority line to check
my bag, and the girl told me just go up
to the front. I get to the front, She's like,
you have pre check. I was like no, She's like,
you have clear I was like no. She said back
to the line, broken way to the bag and wait
(03:18):
in line with everybody else. And now I'm considering tsa
pre check for once in my life.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
You need to do it. It's time. It is time.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Look like a Staples and get it now, can't you
like when I got it a million years ago. You
had to drive to the airport and you had to
park your car like you were going somewhere.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
By the way.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Yeah, going to the airport where you're not going anywhere.
It is very like is not to pick someone that
you love up is very depressing. Like I'm sitting in
trying for an hour and a half. At least, I'm
excited to go to my destination. No, I pulled up,
walked in, no bag. No, you know I had to
sit there for a while, get interviewed. Yeah, yeah, no,
it's time. No, it really is time. Like I thought
(03:56):
of you because there were so many people just walking
past me.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Maybe start a real real ide first, Maybe, well you
are't talking realize I got an appointment, but you don't
even have to realize you have the appointment in the
real idea.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
We've had so many will never show up. She blocked
a place out of the whole day and never gos
get it in order. But that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
I was in Charlotte last week and I got to
the airport and I walk in there and they have
like the regular security, you know, the regular schmegular, and
then they have the t S A pre check, which
of course I have because you know, of course I do.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
And global entry. You need global entry too, what's that?
Speaker 2 (04:46):
That's only if you're traveling, which I don't travel that
off and you know, out of the country.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
But like it's pretty like that is what I described.
Are you like every continent this year? I'm trying to but.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
They're like they did scan your face and you're like, hey,
you're cool, bro, welcome back, welcome back, homie, Like they
just skin good. Kiki saw it firsthand coming back from
Toronto and oh boy.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
He's a pilot. So I was like, oh, hey, he
got it because he's a pilot. Then I saw our
boats go I'm like.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
It's not a pilot, yeah, pilot is great. It's any
pilot of anything. I just flashed my pilot slcense. Everywhere
I go they just let me through. You don't do that, Yeah,
they don't care, but I see it. There's like no
line for normal security, and then there's like a line
for pre check, and I'm like, I don't want to
(05:35):
take my shoes off. So I waited in line. I
waited in line. I could have gone to the other one.
I would have had to taken my shoes off. That's
all that would have happened. And I would have you know,
I would have been at the Chilis to go way faster.
But instead I'm like, no, no, no, I'll wait for
TSA pre check. It's fine, big long line anyway. So
I guess you supposed show up to the airport four
to five hours early.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Now, yeah, it's wild at the airport right now.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
So this is for you, Paulina. You know, I like
to tailor the biggest stories of the day to all
of you in this room. Using too many AI tools
can cause brain fry. This is according to a new study.
They suggest that AI may be giving some workers what
researchers are calling brain fry. The study from The Harvard
Business Review, which I trust at, found that people are
(06:22):
constantly using multiple AI tools, those people reported more.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Decision fatigue and more errors.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
The study also found that AI can reduce burnout as
well as creative The study revealed that less brain fry
was seen among employees whose managers were intentional with their
AI use. One consulting group and the author of the
studies says the findings are an early warning sign that
expectations around AI productivity may need recalibrating. I think we
(06:49):
mentioned this last week, but it's been confirmed. Bad Bunni's
halftime show shattered records. The Super Bowl halftime show was
bigger than originally thought. Apple Music, the NFL, and Rock
Nation are confirming that Bad Bunni's halftime show shattered the
global viewership record. The Apple Music Super Bowl sixty halftime
show Rolls Off the Tongue drew over four point one
(07:09):
billion views worldwide Baby in twenty four hours across the
global broadcast. So for all of you who made a
big stink about not bad money not doing it, all
you did, I think was draw more eyes to it.
So that's the thing, you know, when people are like,
oh my god, this is terrible. This is so terrible
for the world. Okay, well I gotta check this out.
(07:30):
I gotta make sure I watch that.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
But also like, okay, think about it, like your family
back in like Columbia or something like, people were watching
all over the world because well, hey, they love bad
Money and they know who he is, like, no shade,
no tea. I don't think you know, my family back
in wherever is going to watch you know the who
Like now people aren't having parties and tuning in front.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Of it was a huge in Poland's huge jar. Well
you would know.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
I went into However, all I know is that bad
Bunny did his thing.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
I would know because I'm going to Poland next month,
my ambassador. Yeah, okay, well I gotta go and that
I'll come back and report on how big your mom's
got to be stoked excited. I'm going to the homeland.
I'm going to the homeland.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
I know.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Well, today I'm attending. That could change tomorrow. We're depending
on what these bozos around here side.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Yeah. Really, I have not seen a.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Ticket yet, but I have been invited to Poland by
the Country of Poland.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Supposedly period the country.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Via a woman named Cocaine. There's a woman in negotiating this.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
She's just going to meet you in the back alley
with Yeah, I know.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
She now has my ID and my passport information which
I heard from her and my Social Security member. For
some reason, she wanted my bank routing information.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
I don't know why.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
All I know is she has all of that and
I haven't heard a word. But supposedly I'm going to
Poland next month. I don't know. Well, yeah, well we'll
see the Motherland. I gotta go get in line now,
just in case I am going.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
It's it's it's what I'm about, going to Europe. We're
going on our own honeymoon. We're going.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Give me don't get me started on that. I will
not Well that's a topic for another day. But yes,
I am taking myself on a honeymoon this year. I
decided it's not happening in real life, so I'm I'm uh, yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Be the change you want to see.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Fred Hayter, what's his name is not it's not Lauren.
He just he lets us call him by his wife's name,
which is because he's yeah, Fred's opinion, if it doesn't
match mine, then it's wrong?
Speaker 1 (09:29):
What did I what have we disagreed about? Also? Like
what I mean, I do have a lot of My
opinion is pretty great at.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
About seven am with a disagreement.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Yeah, I was gonna say, I think we've all been
pretty copasetic so far today.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Yeah, he just had to get that in there. You
know it.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
She's not a day unless someone tells me how much
I suck. Thank you for listening.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Again. This guy's been listening for years, so he's a
one and I love that. I do too. I do too. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
I can't imagine and complaining about something every single day. Yeah, like,
what a miserable way to start your day and then
quoting the thing that I hate so much. It's amazing. Anyway,
have a good day, John, Sure, the people at Butler
are really proud of you. Gen Z is bringing back
mall shopping. Now we want mall shopping. Younger consumers are
(10:19):
heading back to the stores, I guess, motivated by TikTok
influencers and a desire for hands on experiences. Last year,
buyers between eighteen and twenty four purchased sixty two percent
of their goods in person. In response, malls are retrofitting
spaces with social media friendly designs.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Oh what does that mean? Little photo activation? Probably stepping
repeats everywhere. I don't know what safety booths. Yeah, have
you been to the mall lately? Like there's places to
go in just to take Instagram photos. There's all those
like international markets that are like you can take photos
like it's crazy. Yeah, Like there's stores everywhere, so now
to go get you're not gonna sell man.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
To go get some underwear, I got to take a
three six shot with your shopping doing a little boogie like.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
My skims bag.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
Yeah. Right, So they should do that though, like for
fitting rooms, because girls like to go in there and
do their try on halls. They don't buy anything, but
they go in there and playing on people clothes and.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Yeah, so it could happen. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
I will say that there are a number of things,
and especially as it comes to like variet. I mean,
so you have all the variety in the world on
the internet, right, you can get anything you possibly want,
you can watch anything you want, you can buy anything
you want, even to our detriment. But there was something
about going to the mall, like with your friends on
Saturday and running into other kids it was a social thing, yes,
(11:38):
But I don't know how many kids even care about
that anymore because a lot of my friends kids, they
have a lot of friends, they just don't want to
talk to them in person. They'd rather text them or
talk to them in a video game or something. But
I mean there was something like on Saturday, like, Hey,
drive me to the mall. I meet up with my buddies.
The girl group would be there. We'd go to the
food court. My dad would give me twenty bucks or something.
We'd go to somebra ro.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Yeah we are your secret. Yeah right.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
I mean, but like if you felt like there, I
mean I couldn't have money for anything, but it felt
like you could eat anything and have anything, and you
could go look at all the stuff that you aspired
to have, you know, for your birthday or whatever.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Now I don't know, like Amazon, Alexa, you know, buy
me this and then it just comes.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Yeah, there was just something about it, and I get it.
Like even the video store experience, if you're old enough
for that, there was something about it, even though there
were you know, I don't know, five hundred videos in
there versus the eight gazillion that you have access to now,
there was just something very like, yes, I can have
anything I want. I could watch anything I want.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
You read the back of the little cover to see
what the movie is about.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
You know it was great, Yeah it was, and kids
these days are not experiencing that.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
But nope, watch this. Now, they're just going to rebuild.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Like all those malls that are sitting empty now they're
gonna fill them again, and then and then people will
go for a while and then they'll be empty.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
And watch this.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
It's like Amazon closing bookstores and opening their own. You
like you, guys, Iconic messing with us. It's National get
over a Day. It's National meatball Day, National Crab meat Day,
National Barbie Day today as well, it's a big day
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