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June 5, 2025 33 mins

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Morning, I run the bathtub.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
He thinks I'm taking a bath, but I'm really doing
what I gotta do, and do that soon.

Speaker 3 (00:10):
The Frend Show is ONOD Morning Everybody Thursday Tune fifth.

Speaker 4 (00:15):
Hi Caitlin, good morning, Hi, Jason Brown, Hello, Paulina, Hey,
Heky's here?

Speaker 1 (00:21):
Good morning.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
Mean on the phone of the text eight five five
five five hit us up anytime headline are the biggest
stories of the day. The entertainer of Fort blogs this hour,
waiting by the phone from the vault.

Speaker 4 (00:34):
Why did somebody get ghosted? A brand new one?

Speaker 3 (00:36):
Tomorrow Morning Throwback throw Down Keeking Yo. Two games left
in the Showdown until Shelley comes back at tie this morning.

Speaker 4 (00:46):
Two hundred bucks is the prize.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
Yeah, forty and six is your record.

Speaker 4 (00:51):
That's right, So no matter what, you're gonna keep it.
Single digit losses. That's good.

Speaker 3 (00:55):
Nice job, Yes, thank you, no matter what, and earn yourself,
you know, a little bit of money to go get
yourself some wings or something like that.

Speaker 1 (01:03):
I was gonna buy you off some Pisa or you.

Speaker 3 (01:05):
Yeah, okay, that's so nice as opposed to the tropical vacation. Right,
but you could have had if you just never lost well,
you know I was going to feed some children. I
was going to start an organization. Yeah, you know, I will,
and generous were taken. You know, were those children in
Turx and Keikos? You were going to go visit them
and you just see if they needed anything first?

Speaker 1 (01:22):
No, no, no.

Speaker 3 (01:23):
You're gonna feed some children? Yes, okay, where those children?
Your nieces and nephews on your Disney vacation? I mean
they might be included. But yeah, I've been crazy exactly.
The Entertainer Report is coming up to you.

Speaker 4 (01:36):
What are you working on?

Speaker 5 (01:37):
The lead singer for an iconic early two thousands band
has created an only fans and also Kylie Jenner's plastic
surgeon is getting blown the hell up.

Speaker 3 (01:46):
Yeah, you know it's our job, you know, my job,
Our job to sort of to sift through all the
content available in the world and present you with the
very best. And this morning, I want to hit you
with some revolutionary new research that's come out on the
cutting edge. And here's the headline. I'll just get right
to it. You know, why bury the lead? You want

(02:10):
to look good in photos, research says, and I kid
you not stand next to someone ugly. Now, I've been
saying the opposite. For a while, I've been saying that
when I was on the dating apps, what I would
see is that people would post group pictures and multiple
group pictures, and it would be a little hard to
discern which one it was that I was supposedly swiping

(02:33):
right or left on in the pictures. The problem is,
and I'm just being honest, what I have found in
the people who have a multitude of group pictures on
their dating profile is that they're trying to elevate themselves
because they're not the most attractive person in the picture.
First of all, why do that to yourself? Like if

(02:54):
I look at a group of people, it's only natural
in my head, especially if it's a dating app, and
we all know that's a hot or not game. Until
you swipe one way or the other right, I mean,
that's all it is. Until I meet you and talk
to you and get to know you, it's hot or not.
But I look at the picture and be like, well,
she's hot, or maybe she's hot, But there's a lis'sen
There are five.

Speaker 4 (03:11):
People in the pictures.

Speaker 3 (03:12):
You only now have a twenty percent chance that I
think you're the hottest person in the picture. Like, there's
a very good chance that I will like someone else,
so why do that to yourself? But in this case,
what you should be doing is getting a bunch of
ugly people around you and then taking pictures with ugly people.
Another thing is about the group pictures is that people
will ultimately only post on their social media the one

(03:33):
where they look the best. They don't care how you look,
which is why we had to go to a group
We had to go to a group review when it
comes to pictures on this show, because I think we
all have a tendency to pick the one that makes
us look the individually look the best. Paulina, No, I
think we all are honestly, we are business. We have

(03:53):
to keep the circle smaller now and involve people from
the outside because I'm not. Because otherwise it's like we
all look like donkeys and Kaylen's perfect, or you know,
you all look like donkeys and I look perfect.

Speaker 4 (04:05):
This is the way that it goes.

Speaker 5 (04:06):
But I had to go through our group photos, and
that was also very difficult because there's a lot of
us and somebody's eyes always closed, somebody's always looking the
other way, Like we're gonna really need folks what you
don't know is the pictures you saw went through eight
layers of filtering before you saw them.

Speaker 3 (04:21):
Well for sure, But I'm saying like like you only
like Jason saw some, I saw some Hosea say something.
So the ones you got were narrowed down from about
a thousand, so we had multiple layers of approval.

Speaker 5 (04:32):
My point is that it was still extremely difficult to
find one where we all looked good.

Speaker 4 (04:37):
Yeah, I want to read you on that one.

Speaker 1 (04:38):
I don't want to be picked. Yeah, we didn't look good.
I know what I'm talking about.

Speaker 3 (04:42):
Same Caylen picked the one where she looked the best,
and now everybody's upset.

Speaker 4 (04:46):
That's what we're see.

Speaker 1 (04:48):
This is what I mean, she's serving supermodel.

Speaker 3 (04:50):
It's a natural tendency to only look at yourself in
the picture.

Speaker 1 (04:54):
Photos and you will understand I'm good.

Speaker 3 (04:56):
But if you want to look good, I mean, here's
the problem on this show. I couldn't tell you it
was impossible. I wasn't able to do it. I wasn't
able to stand next to ugly people because it doesn't exist.
But our perception of someone's personality can be influenced by
the attractiveness of the people around them, And I think
it can go the other way too. If everyone around
you is really attractive, and somehow maybe you're around a
bunch of tens and you're a nine, this is a

(05:18):
problem if you're the nine, he really is. When a
moderately attractive person is seen next to someone less attractive,
they are more likely to be judged having positive traits
like kindness or friendliness. Even this effect, known as the
ugly bystander boost, suggests that our brains make snap judgment
based on comparisons with those nearby. The study found that

(05:39):
moderately attractive faces were rated more positively when paired with
less attractive faces. Imagine having to be that person who
gets to decide what the baseline is for good looking
and bad looking. Additionally, people made judgments when they made
judgments more quickly in these pairings, indicating an emotional response
influencing influencing their decisions. He's finding highlight how our social

(06:01):
perceptions not only solely based on individual features, but are
also shaped by the context of comparisons that we make,
often without conscious awareness. So there, if you want to
be seen as the hottest person in the group, then
just be the hottest person in the group.

Speaker 4 (06:14):
Hello, I'm really glad we did his research. Let's crib
the biggest stories of the day.

Speaker 3 (06:18):
Jason R VP of Sports Reporting The Oilers of Ontario
Edmonton one in overtimeon a thrilling Game one over the
Panthers the Florida Panthers in Game one of the Stanley
Cup Finals. Don't mess around with door Dash, Okay no.

(06:39):
A DoorDash delivery turned into a dangerous confrontation with a
fifty nine year old driver named Robert allegedly showed up
drunk and armed at a customer's home demanding a tip
for a previous delivery. The customer, whose name is Anthony
I got to hear both sides here, was at his Vancouver,
Washington home with his grandchildren when the driver claimed that
his daughter owed him a tip, despite her already having

(07:00):
tip the guy via the app.

Speaker 4 (07:01):
A physical struggle.

Speaker 3 (07:03):
Ensued, during which the customer discovered a gun in the
driver's waistband and managed to disarm him. Doorbell footage captured
the incident, which ended with the driver's arrest on charges
including felony harassment, DUI and assault DoorDash. He confirmed that
the guy was one of their drivers and emphasized their
zero tolerance policy for harassment, stating he was immediately deactivated.

Speaker 4 (07:23):
Well that's good.

Speaker 3 (07:24):
No, I'm glad to hear that, you know, show up
drunk with a guden to someone's house staff that they
didn't tip.

Speaker 4 (07:29):
What do you ever think about that?

Speaker 3 (07:30):
Like, I really don't mean to get you know, too
cerebral about it, But that's what I do. If I
ordered DoorDash once a day, or I don't know, even
three times a week, that's three different random strangers at
your front door. Let's say you do that times three
times twelve, that's hundreds of people at your door, strangers
that you invited. Now brand they're supposed to just took
the thing down and walk away. But god forbid, you know,

(07:52):
you don't act right or you don't tip enough for
something like that. And then this is what I mean.
I this is kind of a one of one situation.
We're not doing stories this all the time, but I mean,
come on, you maye. We got crazy people out there,
and this is a risk we take. We're risking our
lives every time we ordered DoorDash.

Speaker 1 (08:08):
Yeah I need the McDonald's. I'm cough with it.

Speaker 5 (08:10):
Yeah, I'm hungover I need it, just tip right right now.

Speaker 6 (08:15):
I guess I used to think about exposing people like
starting like a TikTok series when I used to door
Dash about like exposing people that didn't tip, like showing
their order, showing their address, and we're like, oh, this
person ordered this, this, and this.

Speaker 4 (08:27):
Okay, well this may be why Jason is not doing.

Speaker 6 (08:29):
Anymore frustrating like how do you sit there and hit
zero dollars?

Speaker 4 (08:33):
That is crazy?

Speaker 7 (08:34):
Do you know?

Speaker 4 (08:35):
Do you know this guy Robert?

Speaker 6 (08:37):
Yeah, he was my trainer.

Speaker 3 (08:41):
Yeah, trainer Jason with a firearm in his waistband to deliver.

Speaker 6 (08:48):
Yeah, like, don't hit zero and if you're going to
hit zero, then don't order door dash, go get it yourself.

Speaker 4 (08:55):
We talked about this before.

Speaker 3 (08:56):
If you get a nice tip, then make sure that
you like actually complete the mission. If you're a door
to astraver, I think that's fair, right, you know, if you.

Speaker 6 (09:05):
Give clear instructions, because some people give like crazy instructions
that make no sense. But if you give clear instructions,
then yeah, they should follow that.

Speaker 4 (09:13):
Okay for sure, we're on the same page.

Speaker 3 (09:16):
If you're into adult entertainment, you know, if you didn't
do that kind of thing, either by yourself or in
a group, you know, whatever it is. Then no, go
to France because adult entertainment company i low has blocked
users in France from accessing a number of different sites
that are of interest to most of us in this
room at one point or another, I would say, because
it objects to a new law requiring pornographic sites to

(09:38):
verify the age of their users. So there are actual
states in the United States, by the way, that you
can't see a lot of these sites.

Speaker 4 (09:44):
Places where you go.

Speaker 3 (09:45):
I mean here, you are just you're lonely in the Hilton,
just mine in your own business. You stumble upon a
little entertainment. You're just looking for a little something to do,
and then here it is in this state you're not
allowed to do it because they have age verification.

Speaker 4 (09:59):
But now, all of how am.

Speaker 3 (10:01):
I supposed to get randy in France if I don't
have a little French girl with me?

Speaker 4 (10:06):
You know, I don't know what I'm supposed to do.

Speaker 3 (10:10):
According to a new report this morning, a growing number
of tech users believe that AI is actually God.

Speaker 1 (10:17):
Oh no, They like they're accessing the.

Speaker 3 (10:19):
Secrets of the universe through chat GPT. Many people have
been dipping their toes into AI by trying chat GPT
for recommendations on places to go, suggestions on DIY repairs,
and to summarize information. But some are really diving into
the deep end. People say that they believe that they
see AI on are treating AI like actual companions.

Speaker 1 (10:42):
Therapists, yes, maybe lovers.

Speaker 3 (10:45):
And even magical spiritual forces. And even if they don't
believe the messages are actually from a religious entity, some
people believe that they are able to speak to God
and angels through chat GPT. The report says that there
are already thousands of people online with spiritual delusions about AI,
with a big ramp up over the past few months.

(11:07):
So that's where all this information's coming from, not the
interwebs or anything.

Speaker 4 (11:11):
You're actually talking to God.

Speaker 2 (11:13):
Yeah, maybe not God, but I will say CHAGIBG Like
you guys know, the info that it provides is so
on point that I'm like, this is something greater than me,
Like this is greater but not God, but it's just
greater than what we know.

Speaker 4 (11:25):
Okay, you know, yeah, I don't know. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (11:29):
Actually this isn't really worthy of biggest stories of the day,
but it was a little debate and people are talking
about it today. But a Delta flight incident occurred when
a passenger was trying to enjoy his personal air vent
but ended up having an unexpected confrontation. So despite the
vent being directed solely at him, his seat mate repeatedly
closed it, saying I paid for my seat, not the

(11:51):
communal AC system. The situation escalated then when the seat
mate requested hot water for the flight attendant to warm himself,
using it to pour it on his pulse points while shivering.
Online communities have been buzzing about the incident when comment
or saying the mental gymnastics this guy had to do
to say, people don't get their way on public transportation.
Wilst I love when people use whilst I don't use

(12:12):
wilds enough continuing to demand that he gets his way
on public transportation.

Speaker 4 (12:16):
Now, we've talked about.

Speaker 3 (12:19):
Who gets the who gets the arm rest In a
three seat configuration, the middle person gets both armrests the
middle seat, and then you get yours on the left
and you get yours by the window. You get to
lean up on the window. So we agree on that,
I would say, okay, we agree, or we share. You know,
someone takes the front, or someone takes the front and
someone takes the back, depending on how big you are

(12:40):
where you're sitting. Okay, who controls the window shade?

Speaker 1 (12:46):
The window seat?

Speaker 4 (12:46):
Yeah? I agree.

Speaker 3 (12:47):
I don't think I get to tell you if I'm
in the aisle what to do with the window seat.
And a lot of people these days want the shade down.
In fact, I've been on flights where that most of
the shades are down. That is weird to me. Really,
Why would you not want to look out the window?
It's very colost your phobic.

Speaker 2 (13:02):
No, if I want to sleep, like, I don't need
the big glaring light, you know, but that's only one.
I want to take a nap now with a baby,
she's sleeping all the shades like I will go on
the intercom like that little girl did when she was.

Speaker 3 (13:12):
Singing, Okay, shades down?

Speaker 4 (13:16):
Okay? Now who controls the air vents?

Speaker 3 (13:18):
You control the one that's over your seat exactly, And
you pointed at yourself and that's how that goes.

Speaker 4 (13:24):
Right, Yep, don't we all agree?

Speaker 1 (13:26):
Yes?

Speaker 5 (13:26):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (13:27):
So if I'm negat So if you're really cold on
the airplane, that's a global issue, Like that's something if
you're actually shivering, it is not that little, tiny, little fit,
little like elf blowing at you from the ceiling. That's
not what that is. It's the fact that the pilots
have to make the whole airplane warmer or colder. That's
what she go to the flight attendant and you say, hey,
this is the thing. It's cold or whatever. But who

(13:49):
wants to be hot on a plane?

Speaker 1 (13:50):
Going to say, oh.

Speaker 3 (13:53):
Well, I'm glad that we agree then, because you don't
get to tell them what to do with my vent.
We live in a free world.

Speaker 1 (13:58):
Yeah, people try to put their vent on you or
vice versa.

Speaker 3 (14:01):
Well, I don't know that's what this guy's saying. I'm
just hey, I'm just reporting the news, Klen. I don't
know what to tell you.

Speaker 5 (14:06):
I don't use those vents because it just takes air
from all over the plane and blows it in my
face aka everybody's germs.

Speaker 3 (14:12):
So I don't recycle there. The airline airplane is recycled.
It's just like it goes outside and be filtered.

Speaker 1 (14:17):
I just I'm not messing with it.

Speaker 3 (14:19):
It's not it's not like if I blow into it.
It's like it makes it to you and Row twenty
seven c.

Speaker 1 (14:23):
Or whatever Vince it does.

Speaker 4 (14:25):
You're not blowing the.

Speaker 3 (14:30):
Vent and it's gonna get to Kayla. And it is,
it is, it is, And finally a food story for
you guys. Goldfish is introducing their Awesome Sauce Flavored Crackers.
It basically it's a chicken sandwich flavored cracker. Apparently it's
a new flavor for the summer, and it's all about
the sauce. Awesome Sauce Flavored Crackers is sweet, smoky, and tangy,
according to the company, described as being the kind of

(14:52):
sauce that you put on a burger, with notes of
sweet mustard and creamy vinegar with a mild smokiness. You
compare them with the Spicy Deal Pickle Cracker, which are
returning this month, both for a limited time. Have you
had what are they called, like Miss Vicki's or missus
or whatever, the Spicy Deal pickle ones. Hello, you need it,
you need if you.

Speaker 1 (15:12):
Haven't had all.

Speaker 3 (15:14):
This pickle stuff out there. There's a guy on TikTok
that reviews all the pickle stuff too. Yes, it's national
and they got pickle festivals and they got to think
called the Big Deal it's like a pickle festival and
a bunch of pickle vendors get together to get cells
out of every year.

Speaker 1 (15:28):
Yeah, how do we get in to that? Do you
get a pickle corn dog in Disney for me?

Speaker 4 (15:31):
No?

Speaker 1 (15:31):
But I was looking for her, you know what? Okay,
really quick?

Speaker 2 (15:34):
I hate TikTok or and everybody who wants to do
like food reviews because I don't know where they are,
Like they don't tell you the exact location, like, oh,
it's behind the castle to your left, Like where do
I go for the food?

Speaker 1 (15:45):
So I was missing out on so much.

Speaker 4 (15:46):
I feel, oh, yeah, that place is massive. So there's
one stand that has it. Then you could be walking around.

Speaker 1 (15:51):
Forever maybe better like directions.

Speaker 3 (15:53):
So it's like a fried pickle on a stick. Okay,
I'm here for that.

Speaker 6 (15:56):
That's good.

Speaker 3 (15:56):
Yeah, what's it? The old I don't even know if
Disneyland has it any more. They used to have, Like
the was the name Jimmy Crockett. What was the guy's name,
Jimmy Crockett?

Speaker 4 (16:05):
What was that?

Speaker 3 (16:06):
What was that guy's name, the Crockett guy, Jimmy Cricket.
It's a whole different thing. It was like it was
like a log cabin village they had I don't remember
what it was called.

Speaker 4 (16:16):
I don't even know what it was based on.

Speaker 3 (16:17):
But it was like a log village kind of area
of Disneyland. And within that area you could get those
big pickles that are in the huge jar. And we
used to go there as we used to go Disneyland
because I grew up on the West Coast and we
would go there and like we had to go to
this one.

Speaker 4 (16:32):
I don't remember what it was called.

Speaker 3 (16:33):
You had like tomorrow Land, which is basically now, but
it was in the nineties, so you know whatever. It's like,
oh wow, electric cars. I can't believe it, you know whatever.
And then and then you had this like someone will know.
It was like a like a log cabin sort of
fortress area. I had little attractions. It had like a
little I don't know, you could buy all kinds of
old timey stuff and anyway, if they had these pickles

(16:56):
and that was you had to go there though, to
get them.

Speaker 1 (16:58):
I love a big Davy Crockett's canoes that one.

Speaker 3 (17:00):
Maybe that's Davy Crockett, that's what it was.

Speaker 4 (17:03):
I don't know. I don't know what we're doing with Davy, but.

Speaker 1 (17:04):
Colonel Davy Crockett, Yeah, I'm not sure.

Speaker 3 (17:07):
I don't know if is that what he won't do
things for Buddies and the Eight Pigles together.

Speaker 4 (17:09):
I'm not sure.

Speaker 3 (17:10):
But it's National start Over Day, which I've been considering lately,
National Veggie Burger tame a National Moonshine Day today as well.

Speaker 4 (17:18):
The Klan's Entertainment Report, he's on The Fresh.

Speaker 5 (17:20):
Show in the ongoing federal trial of Sean Ditty Colmbs.
A fashion designer named Brianna who goes by Bona, recalls
a twenty sixteen incident where he allegedly dangled her over
a seventeenth story balcony in la before throwing her onto
patio furniture, even injuring her.

Speaker 1 (17:38):
Brianna said that she didn't report the incident.

Speaker 5 (17:40):
Out of fear and continues to suffer from psychological trauma,
including nightmares and paranoia. Also spoke about another occasion during
a Malibu photo shoot, where he allegedly threatened her life,
saying I'm the devil and I could kill you. The
designer ended up filing a lawsuit against Diddy in November
of last year, with him denying all allegation.

Speaker 1 (18:00):
And the civil case is ongoing.

Speaker 5 (18:02):
And I believe I've heard that story before, but she
did testify in court this week. Justin Bieber could be
entitled to a significant chunk of wife Haley's one billion
dollar Road skincare fortune if they divorce because they don't
have a prenup.

Speaker 1 (18:17):
Haley launched her yeah, exactly, and.

Speaker 5 (18:20):
I'm sure at the time it was like he was up,
you know, she necessarily wasn't. Now she's up, and we're
hearing that he's not so great with his money, which
is why he had to sell his music catalog. Of course,
she launched Road in twenty twenty two, four years after
their twenty eighteen marriage, so it may be considered marital
property under California law, potentially granting Justin acclaim to its value.

Speaker 1 (18:42):
Remember, Hailey's Road brand was.

Speaker 5 (18:44):
Recently acquired by Elf Beauty in a billion dollar deal.
She's the one who created that phone case that has
like a lip gloss holder on the back. If you
see girls with that or guys whoever, Hey, Happy pred month.
But that is what she kind of coined us her thing,
and then she launched into skincare and all kinds of stuff,
So that will be very interesting. I mean, I hope
they don't break up, but interesting to think about, right.

(19:07):
Kylie Jenner's recent TikTok speaking of billionaires posts about her
rest augmentation has led to a surge in consultation request
for her surgeon, doctor Garth Fisher, who does beautiful work.
Paulina and I were looking at some boobies yesterday and
he did a great job if you missed it. When
a fan asked how she got him to sit that way,
Kylie wrote four hundred and forty five CCE moderate profile

(19:28):
silicone implants placed partially under the muscle, which I didn't
know you could do, crediting doctor Fisher for the procedure.

Speaker 1 (19:35):
His Beverly Hills office says they're now getting.

Speaker 5 (19:37):
Hundreds of calls daily people asking for similar procedures and
citing Kylie as their inspo for wanting, you know, their
boobies to sit like that.

Speaker 1 (19:47):
So I don't know.

Speaker 5 (19:48):
And lastly, Tyson Ritter, frontman of the All American Rejects,
has launched a free OnlyFans account, which kind of had
me excited, but then I read the fine print. It's
offering fans just an exclusive behind the scenes look at
content and promoting the brand's new single, Easy Come, Easy Go.
I thought he was gonna do naughty stuff. He says,
he was cute. Remember him. He's skinny, skinny boy, but

(20:11):
he's cute. He describes the venture as full frontal rock
and roll with all access, aiming to provide a more
intimate connection with the fans. They have insights into his life,
songwriting process, bandmate cameos, giveaways, and backstage access to their
upcoming tour with the Jonas Brothers, which would be cool
for Jonahs Brothers fans as well. And he said they're
just trying to get very close to their fans.

Speaker 1 (20:33):
I mean they've been doing.

Speaker 5 (20:34):
All those backyard shows, very tiny like either houses or
small venues across the country, so this seems like another
attempt into that.

Speaker 1 (20:42):
So I'm here for it. They're having like a comeback.

Speaker 5 (20:45):
It's very much giving me like the early two thousands
nostalgia from Laguna Beach. By the way, guys, did you
know we have a YouTube page and we're gonna, you know,
mess around with going live.

Speaker 1 (20:57):
It's kind of like our own only OnlyFans account.

Speaker 3 (21:00):
I think we're currently messing around. I can't believe you
don't know. OK, we're messing around right.

Speaker 1 (21:04):
Now, have no idea, but they can see that.

Speaker 4 (21:08):
Yeah. I was just I was kidding like it was
a it was a player.

Speaker 1 (21:11):
Words were we are messing around, So please describe.

Speaker 4 (21:15):
I was messing around.

Speaker 3 (21:16):
And no one even knew. It's a terrible feeling when
that happens.

Speaker 4 (21:19):
It was just a joke. Okay, Yeah, so uh.

Speaker 3 (21:23):
Fridchip radio dot comment on the iHeart Radio abserts for
the Fred Show. Make us a pre set, please. So
I've seen this on the internet this morning. They're calling
it I like the world. They're calling it. The Internet's
calling it poor people habits.

Speaker 4 (21:38):
Now I don't like.

Speaker 3 (21:39):
I don't like to see it that way because there
are very wealthy people who are doing some of these things.
Let's call it frugality. Let's call it frugal. Okay, maybe
you have money and you still do this stuff. But
what is something that you do. Maybe maybe you came
from humble beginnings and now you're wildly wealthy. Maybe you
came from humble beginnings and now you can just afford
to pay your bills.

Speaker 4 (21:59):
Maybe not.

Speaker 3 (22:01):
You could be very rich and do this, you could
still not have a lot of money eight five five
five nine three five. What is something that you realize
that you do cheap? I go with cheap install I
think the word cheap is better to me than poor. Yeah,
for example, but my house plastic container and then this
is not in my house, my mom. Plastic containers from

(22:23):
almost anywhere tend to get washed and reused on a
regular basis, So you don't have to buy tupperware. I
wouldn't say that's I wouldn't say that's poor. I mean maybe,
but cheap, like it's you you could go and you
get on Amazon, if for not very much money, get
yourself a couple of containers, right.

Speaker 4 (22:39):
No, not in our house.

Speaker 3 (22:42):
There was a time when when cups that some might
believe should have been thrown away disposable cups were being
washed and reused. That's true, there was a time. There
was a time. Now I would have thought that it
was a kind of solo cup that just sort of
that you had in college.

Speaker 4 (22:54):
It just kind of goes away. But no, it was viewed.

Speaker 3 (22:57):
By some in our home growing up as something that
could be washed and reused. There's nothing wrong with that
at all. Can you guys think of anything that you
do and it's probably probably from your parents. It's probably
from childhood.

Speaker 2 (23:06):
I own a dishwasher, and like most people do in
their home, and I never use it. I never like AI,
it never comes to me to do it. My body
like rejects turning to.

Speaker 3 (23:17):
Put it in the dishwashing because you think it's too
expensive to run it or something.

Speaker 1 (23:20):
I just never used one growing up, so.

Speaker 4 (23:22):
I think it's more efficient than washing it yourself.

Speaker 1 (23:24):
It is. I should be using it, like that's what
it's there for.

Speaker 2 (23:26):
And I just don't like to load it and then
and maybe I'm little lazy, but like I like to
load it unloaded all that. But also I'm like, no,
like put the dishes in the sink. I'm gonna get
my little sponge, the sponge that I have to use
until it like fall apart, and I'll just grub things myself.

Speaker 1 (23:40):
I can't use a dishwasher. It's so hard for music.

Speaker 7 (23:44):
We had one in our house growing up, but we
were not allowed to touch it.

Speaker 3 (23:47):
I know some people use it as like another cabinet, yeah, like,
and some people would seek the storage. Yeah, this is
another place of store pots and pants, but we don't
actually turn it off.

Speaker 1 (23:54):
People do that you could never use it.

Speaker 4 (23:56):
And it wasn't a money thing in her mind.

Speaker 7 (23:58):
I think it was, But I also so think she
just wanted us to do some work around the house
because the one time I did sneak and try to
use it, I use dish detergent and it was bubbles
all over the house. Yes, so ever since that moment,
I don't use my dishwashert either.

Speaker 1 (24:14):
It's I'm like scared of it. It's weird scared. But
from sheep stuff.

Speaker 7 (24:18):
I mean, you just got to take some napkins wherever
I need extra nap oh where I am for the car,
I do not like.

Speaker 3 (24:26):
Yeah, that's why Subway gives you the napkins. They don't
leave one, they don't leave it out there for you.
Imagine how much they save. I'm sure someone's done the
math on this, because everybody grabs five times more napkins
than they need, and most of the time that stuff
winds up in the trash. But at Subway, no, they
give you like a little you can use your receipt
if you want to wipe your face off. Yeah that's
what that's what you got. And then but then there's

(24:48):
not a bunch of wasted napkins. I think they get
ten times more out of their napkins supply than everybody
any other fast food chain.

Speaker 4 (24:54):
Does, oh for sure, for this reason.

Speaker 3 (24:57):
Okay, so some examples were to use every single drop
from products, squeezing the life out of toothpaste. Here's how
I do that, mainly because I usually don't have a backup,
and I'm a little too lazy to go get one.
But I'll tell you something, when my brain tells me
I need a backup, It's amazing how I can get
two more weeks out of that little thing by just

(25:17):
contorting it into different positions.

Speaker 5 (25:19):
Oh, I cut it and stick my toothbrush like literally
every inch.

Speaker 4 (25:24):
What.

Speaker 1 (25:24):
We don't want you doing that.

Speaker 4 (25:29):
Tougher out here, but they're not that tough.

Speaker 1 (25:31):
No, I need every less drop. I can't wait.

Speaker 3 (25:33):
But it goes to show that normally, when I would say, okay,
I need a new toothpaste thing. Maybe I should get
an Amazon or go to Target or whatever. I can
throw this away now. No, two weeks later, I'm still
using it somehow. I mean every I don't know why
I got this thing. I've rolled it one way, I've
rolled it the other. At some point I pushed the
toothpaste container through the I don't know, and it has

(25:53):
nothing to do with frugality. It's because I'm lazy and
I never have a backup. It seems like, I mean,
this is always checking the clearance section of clothing stories.
That's not I don't think that's frugal or cheap. I
think that people looking for a deal. Oh yeah, sometimes
you go to the clearance aisle and you wind up
spending money that you didn't intend to spend. Yeah, because
well it was such a good deal.

Speaker 1 (26:14):
Yeah, target haads is figured out.

Speaker 3 (26:16):
Yeah, keeping leftover screws, nuts and bolts from furniture kits
and old broken appliances mm hmm, except when do you
ever wind up using them? Very rarely? But it's like,
I can't throw this away. It's still Allen wrench. It
gave me an Allen rench. It's a tool. I can't
throw this away. Well, how many of those do you
have to have before? It's like I have never used
this thing twice because everything comes with the new Alan wrench.

(26:40):
Never wasting food again. This is like this is a
list from the internet like that people have put together
from all of the comments. Okay, using grocery bags as
trash bags.

Speaker 1 (26:50):
Oh yes, oh yeah, I see that. Yeah, you have to.

Speaker 5 (26:52):
And I also use them to like pack my shoes,
Like I'll keep pack plastic bags and then if I pack,
I'll put my shoes.

Speaker 1 (26:58):
In them and I'll use them over over again.

Speaker 3 (27:00):
Okay. Checking restaurant prices before looking at the menu. I mean, well,
you you would like go online and yeah, like there's
someone's like, hey, we're going to outback this weekend, and
you're like, okay, so you go to the to see
how much you're gonna have to spend.

Speaker 4 (27:16):
I've done that before.

Speaker 3 (27:17):
You Usually if there's an accent mark in the restaurant,
or for it's in a different language, and someone invites me,
that's when I will usually go on the internet and
go how much is it gonna send?

Speaker 1 (27:24):
How many money?

Speaker 4 (27:25):
Signs?

Speaker 5 (27:25):
Right?

Speaker 4 (27:25):
Exact, exactly right exactly.

Speaker 3 (27:28):
If it's like I'm away, I'm a you know, some
kind of like or if it's called like teds, you know,
or like if it's a one word restaurant, then I
know that some dude who has a James Beard Award
opened the thing up and he's you know, he's he's
serving mushrooms that tastes like oranges or somehow, and you're like,
this is eighty seven dollars.

Speaker 4 (27:47):
Let me see here.

Speaker 3 (27:48):
Collecting all the complimentary soaps and products at hotels. Well,
that used to be a thing, but now they just
have that little communal thing, which scares me because it's
supposed to be locked in a way that only the
housekeepers can access. But most of the time I can
lift that thing right up, which means you could do
you could some nasty person could just do anything to
this soap. It's gross. Let me see what else here.

(28:16):
Fixing things yourself. I wish I could fix things myself.
Turning off lights when leaving a room. Yeah, walking everywhere.
Hand washing ziplock Yeah, this is what I'm talking about.
Hand washing ziplock bags.

Speaker 6 (28:28):
Mike's mom does this, And when I first saw for
the first time, I was like, what are you doing?
You will use it, wash it, and then leave it
on the disc track like upside down to dry, and
I'm like, wow, Okay, Like I'm.

Speaker 3 (28:41):
Confused about this because some of this is just being responsible,
like walking when you don't have to uber or or
looking for deals on stuff or whatever, eating all your
food like that. I think most people should be less wasteful, right,
But washing a ziplock bag that's intended to be disposed of,
now that's another level.

Speaker 4 (28:59):
Yeah. I was like, wow, it's.

Speaker 1 (29:01):
Like kaylin and the soup passes.

Speaker 4 (29:03):
Well, yeah, what about like yum.

Speaker 1 (29:05):
There, I do it all.

Speaker 3 (29:07):
My mom has a cabinet in her house that's like
any any wrapping paper or usually it's tissue paper that
was like in a bag.

Speaker 4 (29:15):
Yeah, so it wasn't ripped or anything.

Speaker 3 (29:16):
There's a little stack of flattened tissue paper and re
and gift bags.

Speaker 4 (29:21):
Which I mean, wait, yeah I do that too. So yeah.

Speaker 3 (29:24):
Sometimes I'll get the gift back bag that I put
something in, all I'll be like, oh this, I bought this,
so that's cool. I mean, but it's a gift back
to ten bucks or eight bucks or whatever. And yeah,
I guess my cheap. Maybe they see here licking yogurt
tops to maximize value.

Speaker 1 (29:41):
Oh that's what I'm hungry.

Speaker 4 (29:42):
Yeah, that's because I'm a fat has nothing to do
with it.

Speaker 1 (29:45):
Yeah, everything clean my plate.

Speaker 4 (29:51):
A bunch of texture.

Speaker 3 (29:51):
I washed plastic baggies and reuse dilute or dilute shampoo
and dish detergent, make my own jams, and grow my
own veggies. I only watch free TV, I never eat out,
go to free summer concerts, thrift shop for everything, or
go to the buy nothing groups on Facebook. And this
person will probably die with eight million dollars too. This

(30:12):
is gonna be that librarian that you read about that
was a librarian for fifty years and then graduate or
and then dies after retirement and gives eight million dollars
to the college because they did all of this. But
then you have to ask yourself, so you save a
ton of money, what do you do with the money,
Because sometimes I feel like for some people, I feel
like the flex is to save the money, but then

(30:33):
you die. I'm not saying this person is gonna die,
but you know what I mean. Like it it's balance, right,
Like maybe I maybe I don't watch the baggies sometimes,
and maybe I go out to eat sometimes and I
let somebody else cut my veggies, and then sometimes I
eat the veggies from the yard.

Speaker 1 (30:47):
Some do it with airplane miles. Okay, you know.

Speaker 3 (30:52):
That's a different conversation. You want to start something with
me today? No, are you coming from me? A lot
of people agree with me on the air I just
had a conra.

Speaker 1 (31:01):
Yeah, so you're gonna die with your airplane.

Speaker 4 (31:04):
You're right, I.

Speaker 3 (31:04):
Am, But I'm not going to go coach to the
Zimbabwe for a million miles.

Speaker 4 (31:09):
I refuse. Okay, that's a whole different time. No, you done,
did it?

Speaker 3 (31:17):
Now? My grandpa tried to resh paper plates, paper plates.

Speaker 4 (31:24):
My aunt washes aluminum foil.

Speaker 3 (31:27):
Oh no, no, my god, someone said that they like there,
who says their grandmother? Somebody? Grandfather? A friend of mine
washes the styrofoam trays that meat comes in. Oh, that
cannot be sanitary. There's got to be something like just
seeps into that that you can never possibly get out.

Speaker 1 (31:46):
No, and you know what I just remembered. I also do.

Speaker 5 (31:48):
I freeze a lot of food if I don't want
to eat it right away, Like I'll freeze my jet's
pizza and like eat it later.

Speaker 1 (31:54):
That's why you're able to pay off them student loans.

Speaker 4 (31:57):
You mean we need to learn from.

Speaker 3 (31:59):
It's like, hey, cay Jets pizza. We have Jets pizza
at home.

Speaker 5 (32:04):
It's just a little off from the original, but it's
still good.

Speaker 1 (32:07):
I didn't know you could do that.

Speaker 3 (32:07):
I know you could freeze already made pizza.

Speaker 4 (32:12):
That's gross.

Speaker 1 (32:13):
It's not bad.

Speaker 4 (32:14):
I mean I guess it in a pant or whatever.
And sounds like why are you paying ten bucks for
a gift bag? Like what you ever heard of Dollar Tree?
Someone said, I'm like yeah, except.

Speaker 3 (32:22):
Like that's that's when you stock up on stuff like
oh I have I Oh, I'm gonna need gift bags
some days, so I get them.

Speaker 4 (32:30):
That's never how it goes.

Speaker 3 (32:31):
It's like I'm on my way to something, I'm like,
oh my god, I got to bring a gift yep,
and I'm running too Walgreens or CBS or Target, and they're,
you know, there it is on the you know, glowing
from the you know, from the rich people section, you know,
eleven dollars or whatever, and it's like, ah, same with cards,
you know, it never never fails.

Speaker 4 (32:49):
The cards are all corny.

Speaker 3 (32:51):
And then there's the one that's like fourteen dollars that
like lights up and fireworks come out of it and whatever.
Like that's the one I wind up with because it's
the only one that doesn't say anything stupid on it. Yes,
And then before long I spent more on the on
the car than and the bag. I should have just
handed you fifty bucks instead of a twenty five dollars
kift card and twenty five dollars worth of wrapping.

Speaker 4 (33:10):
But yeah, see, some people.

Speaker 3 (33:11):
Like they they would go to the dollar store and say, Okay,
I know that coming up, I'm going in my life,
I'm going to need paper, and I'm going to need pencils,
and I'm going to need this and that and so
that you stock up on it. That's not I'm a bachelor.
I don't have that same I don't get well, say
see exactly blogs waiting by the phone from the vaulted
tiebreaker in the showdown two hundred bucks, the entertainer of

(33:33):
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