What's Trending: The FTC Is Making It Easier To Cancel Subscriptions

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's the breadshell. This is what's trending, all right. I
mean the text is all over the place on this
on the p topic. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
I just don't see the purpose. I don't see why
you need to do it. You don't need to do it.
Let me do one serious story quickly, just one line.
Caylen's got the rest of it in the Entertainer Report
in the next ten minutes or so. But former One
Direction member Liam Payne has passed away at the age
of thirty one after falling from the third floor of
a hotel room. There's more to that story. We'll get

(00:34):
to it in a second, all right, Jason, Yes, week seven,
oh boy in the NFL, and only one game tonight,
so you only have to have one pick. Okay, I'm
reading one pick. Yes, last couple weeks have not been great.

Speaker 3 (00:48):
That we're skipping the mind games. We're skipping trying to
make people happy. I'm getting back to my craft. I'm
getting back to my art. I'm locked in, I'm focused.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
I was gonna say, you've been playing around with this
a little too much to make other people happy, and
the results are, as we can see, not very good.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
Right, and then I get I get roasted. So I'm
done making people happy. I'm gonna do what I do
and I'm gonna be right.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
Okay, is not playing this week tonight, Thursday night football
on Amazon Prime. So you were super simple. You just
navigate through like eight menus, you find.

Speaker 3 (01:20):
It, and then I got it lost to the Broncos
of Boston.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
Yep, that's you're getting, good man. And here's the thing.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
Like for any of you who think that that's written
or the Polina stuff, if it's just not it's just
not like I wish someone. Yeah, it wouldn't be better,
it'd be worse. It'd be worse. And the Saints of
I know that.

Speaker 3 (01:46):
You do the South right somewhere in the South.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
Super b.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
Loopy, non work through it.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
No, it's oh my god, what is the name of
the city. He is what we see in a Britney Spears,
New Orleans.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
Okay, So it's the essay, was it again? The Boston
Broncos versus the Louisiana somewhere Saints.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
Who will win?

Speaker 2 (02:13):
Oh boy, the Saints. Okay, all right, there you go.
So the central wind tonight and then we'll get the
rest of the picks.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
Tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
Yes, all right, I'm ready. Okay, yeah, not sure that
you are. We'll have those picks tomorrow morning on the show.
Around this time, the FTC is making it easier to
cancel subscriptions. If you ever tried to cancel a subscription,
you know that it can be difficult. You ever tried
to cancel a gym subscription?

Speaker 1 (02:36):
Maybe? When did you have a gym membership?

Speaker 4 (02:41):
I have one right now, okay, but I'm not canceling her.
But I used to have one, and one of those
big gyms that is in every neighborhood and you literally
have to take them your birth certificate and write a
dear diary letter on Wow, you.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
Got to get a senator to write the proclamation to rise.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
It was crazy. Yeah, yeah, you go. Really you want
to cancel? So you've met all your goals. I tried
to cancel.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
I moved.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
From from North Carolina to here and I and I
tried to cancel and they're like, well, you need to
stop by and we can talk about it.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
I'm like, well, no, I can't. I moved. That's why
I'm canceling it.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
They're like, oh, we probably have one there, Like, well,
I don't care like, I gotta need to cancel. They're like, wow,
you just got to come by and sign something. I'm like,
let me reiterate. I don't live there anymore, which is
why I am canceling.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
Oh then you know we just send something to.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
Us by, you know, like Tony Express. Yeah right, it's
crazy anyway, the FTC has recognized this. The Federal Trade
Commission is changing all of that. They announced that it
would soon put in place a final click to Cancel rule.
It would require sellers to make it as easy for
consumers to cancel their enrollment as it was to sign up.

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The rule will end business tricks and traps, saying that
they make people jump through endless whops just to cancel
a subscription, or they'll be like, well, well do you'll
give it to you cheaper or cheaper than that they
always get me, or cheaper than that, And then you're
just like, oh my god, fine, I have one. The
other day, I'm trying to cancel and they were like,
you have what was it? It's just so ridiculous. It

(04:21):
was you can pay us to pause it. I'm like,
the whole point of me pausing is I don't want
to pay for it. Right now, or then you can cancel,
but you'll never get back in, and there's a board
of people that get to decide if you can cancel.
I'm like, how can they tell me I can't cancel? Like,
how can you? This is not I'm not this is
a prison sentence, a right, Like you can't do that, Like,

(04:44):
just I don't know, and then you know, I did nothing,
and that's what that's what they're all paid for.

Speaker 1 (04:52):
It's scared. I don't know what.

Speaker 2 (04:53):
I just didn't do anything. I'm like, well, what if
someday I want? Oh god, all right, so I didn't
do anything. Recognizing the daters are increasingly prioritizing politics in
their search for the one, many dating apps have introduced
features that make it easier for users to match with
potential partners based on their politics. In the run up
to the election, we're like nineteen days away or something.

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Tinder last month launched its Take Action Center, which introduced
profile stickers that will allow users to share whether they'll
be voting and the issues that are important to them.

Speaker 1 (05:24):
Hot people vote, I'm voting.

Speaker 2 (05:26):
You can get a little sticker and put it on there,
voting for reproductive writing.

Speaker 1 (05:29):
With that on their tube.

Speaker 2 (05:30):
I didn't realize that people on Tinder were even really
worried about anything other than what you look like and
if you could come over right now. I thought that
was what Tinder was for. I know, Jason, you haven't
been on these ever, You've never done well.

Speaker 1 (05:41):
You did Grinder.

Speaker 2 (05:43):
Yeah, you did Grinder back in like the dial up
internet days.

Speaker 3 (05:46):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.

Speaker 2 (05:52):
So I didn't realize on that particular app anybody was
really worried about what you thought about anything, but some
of them maybe, And unlike is the one I've been
on and off. It says on there like you know,
conservative or moderate or whatever you put on there, and
apparently you can't. You can't put moderate. People get upset
with that. They think that's a compound. You're not allowed
to be moderate. You're not allowed to have varying opinions.

(06:14):
You either have to be in one camp. I've put
moderate on. I just took it off because I'm like this,
I think this about this, I think I don't know
what to put I'm a libertarian and that you know,
you have to pick one or the other. And then
you've got people like that will be like if you
if you're this then don't even bother and you got
I mean it can become very well. It represents society.

(06:36):
The dating app to represents society. True, you've got to
be in one camp or the other. You're not allowed
to have varying views. You just can't to keep This
is an interesting one this morning, guys, And what's trending.
Drinking rates have hit the highest level since the nineteen
seventies and tequila demands source. This is what interest is
what is interesting to me about this. In my group

(06:57):
of friends, in places where marijuana is lead, I think
drinking has gone way down, like significantly. My friends who
are using THHC are drinking far less, like far less,
almost to the point where they replace the alcohol with
the THHD in the places where it's legal, because I
think they think it's a similar effect, different but similar

(07:19):
sort of you know, feeling of relaxation or letting down
or whatever, the same sort of thing they're getting from
the alcohol, except there's no real hangover the next day.
Because if you drink a lot, everyone knows and the
older you get, the worst it gets the next day.
And drink you're both drinking a glass of water for
every drink before long now I'm being in the shower, ye,

(07:39):
and I don't want to be in the shower, so
I don't do that. And who is really like, I
don't know who's got there, like gallon of water next.

Speaker 1 (07:45):
To them while but no, no one's doing that.

Speaker 2 (07:47):
And so according to this though, six decades of US
per capita alcohol consumption data shows that war and economic
misery can impact drinking rates among consumers. And it's really higher.

Speaker 1 (07:59):
Right now.

Speaker 2 (08:00):
People are drinking a lot and tequila has become the
top spirit choice among US drinkers, a trend that began
in twenty sixteen.

Speaker 1 (08:06):
Do you guys think you're drinking more than ever? Yes? No,
if anything less?

Speaker 5 (08:10):
And I don't know if it's just because I'm getting
to be an old lady or what. But you know
what I noticed I gifted two people recently tequila.

Speaker 1 (08:16):
Right.

Speaker 5 (08:16):
I was like, oh, you think you were helping me
with something, you know, a little gift. And I heard twice, oh,
I don't even drink like that.

Speaker 1 (08:21):
I don't even drink.

Speaker 5 (08:22):
I don't drink a lot, but you know, thank you,
And I'm like, when don't people stop drinking? First of all,
who accepts the gifts and said, I don't use this.

Speaker 4 (08:28):
I know.

Speaker 2 (08:29):
I know.

Speaker 1 (08:29):
I first too, I wouldn't do that.

Speaker 2 (08:32):
What I say, he wouldn't do that gifts and doesn't
oh that part.

Speaker 1 (08:37):
You're right.

Speaker 2 (08:37):
I haven't accepted be the butt bleaching gift that I
was given by somebody at the office. You're right. I didn't.
You're absolutely right. I didn't waiting for you to. Yeah,
you never complained.

Speaker 1 (08:51):
You're right.

Speaker 2 (08:51):
I didn't use that. You're absolutely right. No one who
takes a get oh, thank you for this.

Speaker 1 (08:55):
I don't drink.

Speaker 2 (08:55):
Even if I didn't drink, I think i'd take it
and be like thank you, yeah, and then I'd gifted
to someone else regifted.

Speaker 5 (09:01):
Don't tell me nothing, right, like I already know you're
probably gonna regift it.

Speaker 1 (09:04):
It's okay, just not back to you. Or is that okay?
That's okay too, to send it right back. But you
know what I'm saying.

Speaker 5 (09:10):
The whole thing was weird, Like I keep hearing people
say that, and I'm like, so are we drinking less?

Speaker 1 (09:14):
Going out more? Okay, drink Yeah. I was surprised by
that though. Actually, and two more stories for you.

Speaker 2 (09:23):
It's trending and these are ridiculous, but it is possible,
and I'm gonna have to be very careful with this one.
It is possible to be a man born with three
man parts, and it happened in Birmingham, England, only the
second known person to be born with three of them.
It's called trifalia. A seventy eight year old man's condition

(09:43):
was only discovered after his death because his body was
donated to science, so somehow nobody knew about this except
for him. Doctors said that one of these was functional,
the other two were attached, but he may not have
even known that he had it. I guess they he
said the guy could have suffered from all kinds of
different issues during his life because of the condition. But

(10:04):
I guess for something to go to the doctor and
no one ever looked at it, and I'm not sure
somehow he didn't know. The first case of the trifallium
was found in a three month old boy from Iraq.
Doctors learned that the two extra ones didn't have urethras
so they could surgically remove them. So I don't know
if this guy just never went to the doctor, or
if they just were smaller or what. I have no idea,

(10:25):
or if the other one was we can deduce whatever,
but he had this and he lived with it.

Speaker 1 (10:31):
Oh, that man was definitely peen in the shower.

Speaker 2 (10:34):
I don't know because the other two didn't. Maybe two
I am not know. You're right, you know. And then finally,
a woman was caught trying to sneak a Samurai sword
into her carry on bag at LaGuardia in New York City.
TSA officials stop the woman after the weapon was found

(10:55):
as her luggage went through the X ray machine. Let
me just sneak in this Samurai sword. They won't have
any issue with this. But TSA quickly called the police,
who were able to confiscate the weapons. Not knowing what
charges a woman is facing, but she was issued at
court summons for later that year. Man, let me you
know what I forgot. I forgot my sword. Let me
just just take that in there. We'll get that through Samurai.
So you can't have a razor blade to shave your face.

Speaker 1 (11:21):
And have a bottle of anything.

Speaker 2 (11:24):
I can't even have a normal size of toothpaste, and
you're talking about a Samurai sword.

Speaker 1 (11:29):
What what are we doing?

Speaker 2 (11:33):
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and National Edge Day promotes a movement of youth refraining

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