'You Get An F': Australians Go For The Gold | Koreans Pet Rocks

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Live from KFAB Studios in Omaha,Nebraska. Done delocation. To be specific,
it's you get an l with yourhost. I'm Arie sooringut all right,
mare, we go time to giveFS. We don't usually do this
in the two o'clock hours. Sofar two o'clock listeners. This is a

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special occasion, I'm gonna get.It started off with something that I'm sure
you're going to be excited to hearabout. Somebody decided that they were okay
to go to the restroom while ona plane in a cup, while still

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being surrounded by all the other passengers. Man or woman. Well, it's
a man, he's fifty three yearsold. And it was in Australia.
It was in Sydney Airport. Theywere the ones that had to find the
guy. But could you imagine awoman trying to do this? I feel

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like they would have been able tostop her a lot quicker. You know,
some guys they're really good at justyou know, speed, speed run
and its subtle. Yeah, wellthis apparently wasn't subtle. There was a
delay in a flight and they weretrying to deplane this flight, and a

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New Zealand website reported a passenger inthe same row said she reported the behavior
to the aircrew. Her and herfifteen year old daughter were sitting in the
isle in middle seats when the manin the window seat pulled out. They
pulled out his shoot her and decidedto go in a cup. And she

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heard that, which he thought thesound was of a person going to the
restroom in a cup. And thenshe looked and there he was going in
a cup. Yeah. So basicallyhe got up and he was stumbling drunk

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as they were trying to get himoff the plane, and he spilled his
cup onto a flight attendant. Ohyeah, So they didn't say the name
of this guy. I'm guessing forsome reason, like their country, they
don't just say the name of thepeople who've created these issues. But guy
fifty three year old man who wasfined four hundred American dollars six hundred Australian

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dollars for offensive behavior, you getan f all right, man, what
you got? Well, we're togo to South Korea for this one,
so a very international we're staying inthe Eastern hemisphere. Yeah, well,
you remember that fad in the nineteenseventies, And okay, now I did
not spoken as someone who did notlive a second in the seventies. I'm

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gonna pretend like I'm an authority onthe subject. I do feel like there's
a rather large amount of things thatpeople kind of poke fun at about the
seventies, like disco disco? Whatwas the pants that people use? Mailbottom
pants? Yeah, this one alwaysworks its way into the conversation if you
talk about the seventies enough pet rocks? Oh yeah, it wasn't that more

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of an eighties thing? This articlesays, fad of the nineteen seventies A
right, fair enough. I'll dosome checking, but I'm sure there were
there were rocks that were pets.Even though I mean, come on,
what are we talking about here,I would say that that was a widely
panned trend that most people look backon and kind of laugh at and think,
what were we thinking? That's ridiculous. Well, it's just like I

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can have a pet rock right nowand nobody'd know, And yeah, I
don't even like like it has noemotion, it's an inanimate object. Well,
South Koreans have picked up the trendand taken it to a new trendy
level. You mean the people thateat dogs are running out of pets.
So now they're gonna have pet rocks. I don't think they do that first
thing you said anymore. Are yousure that there was legislation recently that banned

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that? And I don't think thatthat was a common part any Honestly,
I can't speak on authority. You'regonna speak authority on a decade that you
didn't live in, but you're notgoing to speak on authority of a place
you've never been to. Exactly,all right, fair enough, I got
to pick my battles, you knowwhat I mean. I got you.
I got you. Lis So,he a thirty year old office worker.
You used to live alone in Seoul. That all changed in November when a

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friend gave her a rock. Ah, if you really think of your rock
as a pet, she said,I do think it makes things a bit
less lonely. That's a mental thing. If there was ever a thing that
just showed people like small tweaks whatyou're doing in your life could like change
your mentality on what you're doing inlife. This is a rock. I

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could go outside and find one rightnow, bring it in here, and
if I just will myself to believethat it's a living breathing thing that is
mine. Maybe it would increase mymood and make me feel less lonely or
anxious. And you can you canfind rocks. Of course, they go
for ridiculous amounts of money, unspeakableamounts of money, frankly, but you

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can find rocks that are dressed upas different themes, Oh boy, glasses
and apparel. You can buy newapparel for your rocks. So just imagine
the spinoff merchandise. This, Imean, this is capitalism here. You
know, you were talking about itearlier in the hour like that. You
know, there's a lot of franchisesthat are possible with this new uh not

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new invention but hit rehashed idea.Yeah, yeah, it's just a little
ironic. The people that brought youeating dogs now telling you that it's okay
to have rocks. Wait till theytry to slice into one of those bad
boys. Could have saved some moneyby just deciding to make your lamp a

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pet, you know, hey lampy. Yeah, I don't know, but
I think they already see that asa lamp. That's the problem. If
they saw this as like a theysee this as like an object that actually
can like love back project feelings.This is like a rock. This is

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honestly like this is This is agreat argument for white dogs or cats or
live animals are so important. Youhave toly feel like you have a purpose
to care for them. That's likenumber one. The second thing is generally
they love you back, and therock can't. You're just you're you're lying
to yourself now caring for the rock. You could trick yourself into caring for
the rock even though it doesn't needcare. You could trick yourself and to

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be like, well, I needto polish it or I need to feed
it somehow. I don't know whata rock seat. Yeah, well mineral
like, I don't know. I'mgonna push back on that point though,
Like Philosopher Share once said, whatis love? No? No, no,
no, baby, don't hurt me. No, that was hataway.
I'm sorry. That wasn't Share.You know, do you believe in love
after life after love? That's that'swhat Share said. Yeah, now,

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we watched that so much from beingalive in the seventies, he's already in
eleven ten kf ab