11 28 2023 Do you turn your phone off for security?

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Episode Transcript

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Hello, killing Ash, it's tomorrowshow today? Yeah, sure, tomorrow
will be the twenty ninth of November. I think that's the I think the
first of December is when Sally sayswe have to start mailing out Christmas cards.
Outdated, says most Americans. Wedon't send Christmas cards anymore. Most
Americans say they'd prefer to not receivea Christmas card. Good because I'm the

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saver, as we talked about,I don't want to pay all that postage.
Yeah, they feel like it's aguilt trip when you send that.
Oh I'm guilting them into sending mea card back. Huh. Yep.
One and a half billion dollars spentannually on Christmas cards and sixty percent of
Americans don't want them. Wow,Okay, this is new information I can

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take to the table today. Don'twant it? Stop it? Send me
an email sending cards. Emails arefree and I don't feel as guilty.
Huh. Now did we still dothe little animated elf cards that was so
hot around twenty ten? It wasabout a three year window. I don't
think Staples was the first one tocome out with one. I think I

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don't remember. I remember there wasa thing where you had to pay for
it, the dancing elf. Yeah, you had to pay like eighty nine
cents or something. Yeah. Idon't think anybody gives a rip about that
either anymore. So are you?But you are sending the holiday card?
I guess I think we are too. I'm not going to argue with old
fuddy duddies now. I don't know. I know Sally that today was looking

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at some cards and she said,no, we're just going to do our
own. Okay, So you're creatingyour own Christmas card? Yeah, I
have to get up a speed onthat. So you're spending even more money
to send something that people don't want. I'm sending up a picture from last
Christmas. Yes, So they getit and they open it up and they

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go, oh crap, what havewe got to send them? One?
Now? To them against the list? Did we send them a card?
Why are we still on this list? How do we get off of it?
Or maybe you're somebody who doesn't agreewith that, Maybe you're in that
forty percent who loves it. Youget the Christmas cards, you hang it
up over the fire mantle or whatever. You're all excited and you're looking not

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giving up my Christmas traditions, Kelly, look at all the love I have,
all the people who love me,like my dentist. My dentist loves
me. He sends me heartfelt Christmas. Yesterday, we get the first Christmas
card of the season. I wenta thumb through the mail. Wow,

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already and picked out my stuff Isaw. I saw a very decorative envelope.
It look Christmas. That's another question. When do you send them out?
Because he's not even December. No, I think we've already gotten it.
These people cousin, Sally's cousin.She brags she always would get the
first card of the year, youknow, just to tick her off,

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you got to send her one likefor Labor Day. Marry Christmas there,
Diane, I hope you have asuper Christmas. You know what? This
is so funny because I think Isaw this up. I wondered until you
mentioned it a minute ago. Iwondered, why would I have put that

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in my calendar? And I thinkshe beat me to the punch again.
I think it's all my upcoming calendarbecause I was looking at my schedule for
the week. Uh, it's onmy upcoming Yes, for December the first
Oh you're so late mail mail,and I'll leave the name out Male Sally's

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cousin Christmas card, and she beatme again. Yeah, you got to
do that for Labor Day. Man, you gotta be way out front.
And I'm like, why did Iput that? What am I supposed to
mail her? That's exactly what itwas. Male card. You gotta put
Christmas on it, and you gotto bump it up two months. I'm

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now going to go in while we'rehere, I'm gonna go ah and put
it in for twenty twenty four.I put it in, what do you
think Halloween and then say something abouthonored to send you the first Christmas card
of the season. I can't believeI had that on my calendar and then
I didn't even remember what it meantbecause I didn't get enough description to myself.
We must have had a similar conversationlast year. Audience. Yes,

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I'm sure that's what it was.That's hysterical, Okay. Anyway, So
okay, I'm going to scheduling nowfor twenty twenty four. Well, we
will definitely talk about Christmas cards tomorrow. Also, when you think of teenagers
college students, typically we imagine thatthey are the least clean, you know,
especially young bachelors, that they walkaround in their same underwear for days

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on end, and so on andso forth. Turns out that this group,
what are we calling them now,they're the gen zers. The gen
zers are the most what they're thephrase that was being used in the survey,
hyper conscious of germs, okay,out of any generation, and that

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the older you get, the lessconcerned you are with germs. So gen
Z forty five percent say that they'rebasically germophobes. Then you go to millennials
thirty eight percent, thirty percent ofGen X, twenty seven percent of Baby
boomers, and only eighteen percent ofthe Silent Generation. I guess they figured,

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if I've made it this long,I survived World War two, right,
I'll be all right with a coldand flu season. So uh and
when how this kind of shows itselfwhen you're a germophobe. According to this,
thirty one percent of people in thegen Z category change their bed sheets

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more than once a week. Sothese college kids that we just imagine are
doing nothing, they're changing their sheetsall the time, they're washing their clothes
multiple times, they're constantly according tothis, thirty two percent say they wash
their hands between eleven and twenty timesa day, eleven to twenty. Let's

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say that they're sleeping six hours.We'll just shave it down from a typical
eight to six. Okay, okay, all right, So do the math
on that they're washing their hands likeevery forty five minutes. Yeah, especially
if you're doing it twenty times aday. But I mean, I don't
think you're going to the bathroom thatmuch. I mean, what do you
how often you go to the bathroomfour or five times a day? So

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I mean that's four or five handwashings there, hopefully, Although I noticed
that a lot of the people inmy age group don't do that, at
least the men who work around here. They'll strut out of that men's room
very old in a second. Yeah, but these people eleven to twenty times
a day. Sally had found somethinglast week. She was talking about because

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we had the baby with us.Oh yeah, oh well, you gotta
definitely stay clean around the baby.So we have been to the grocery store
and she said to be sure anduse the wipe. I use the wipe
all the time, okay, becauseI know that's where I picked the flu
up in twenty eighteen. The almostkill me. I'm like, yeah,
I used I used those wipes onthe grocery store. Now the thing I

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know, supposedly in the office,the keyboard is the nastiest. Thankfully,
not many people come into the wCOS studio, so you'll be picking up
my germs if you come over hereand get on this. Well. Interestingly
enough, they say that about eighteento twenty percent of flues are given to
themselves. In other words, you'realready carrying the flu, and you've put

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it on their keyboards, You've putit on your own, You've put it
somewhere, and we gifted the bacteria. Yeah, and then you got a
bad night's sleep, your immune youdidn't take your supplements, your immune system
was down, and the next dayyou gave yourself the flu. Eighteen to
twenty percent of the flues are givento yourself. Got it. I found

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it interesting because I think, likemost people, when COVID hit, we
all became immuneologists. We started studyingeverything you could find on the internet about
it. And one of the thingsthat I found fascinating was the one of
the doctors said cold and flu seasonis a lie. There's just as much
cold and flu floating around in Augustas there is in December. You are

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exposed to all of the same germsall of the time. The problem for
the reason we have what we calla cold and flu season, as he
said, it's actually a lack ofvitamin D season. That as the months
get colder, you exposed less andless sure well, and you also expose
less and less skin to the sunlight. And so he says, you know,

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that's why it's important for you tosupplement with vitamin D, zinc,
copper, those types of things,the things that you would normally be able
to build up if you're like,you know, going to the beach.
If you're to the beach all day, you got a lot of vitamin D,
right, But in the winter time, you're wearing coached you know,
long sleeved shirts. You're not outthere very often because it's cold. So

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he said, you have a lackof vitamin D, which is what brings
on the cold and flu season.I've started when we read that about cold
during COVID, I started taking asupplement that have vitamin D and everything else.
Sure, take it every night.I take like ten handfuls of supplements

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every morning. I am so loaded. Really pour his milk over his supplements.
You know what, that's probably nota bad idea. It takes me
because I I distribute a week's worthof supplements into this massive jar thing that
I bought, okay, and Iwould say it takes me thirty minutes to

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distribute all the supplements. Oh mygod, So you know, Oh it's
it's it's a ton. It isa ton of supplements. But very rarely
get sick. I feel great allthe time, so I'm very happy that
I'm doing it. I don't feelgreat all the time, but it don't
feel sick typically. Yeah, andif I get like, like you know,

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if I do have a sickness,it usually is very short. I'd
tell you one thing that happened outyesterday, and it just dawned to me.
What happened after four days of eatingfor Thanksgiving yesterday, I went well.
I had dinner Sunday night, whichwas a light dinner, okay,
because we had a big lunch.I went the entire day ate nothing.

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By seven o'clock when I'm heading homelast night, I want to stop and
get something to eat. Yeah,of course, my head's pounding. Yeah,
I know I've got to have.And every time I would see a
sign Arby's, Yeah, which Ithought I would like because it's get the
one without the sauce, just getthe something bland roast beef on a bun.

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Thought if I imagine myself eating it, thought i'd throw up McDonald's.
Thought i'd throw up Wendy's. No, I mean I ended up going all
the way home before I and Igot home and a like, just fix
me as smoothie, and I mightthrow that up. Well, you went
too far. I went from gorgingto drop off the cliff. Not a

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morsel. Now at Arby's, Iwill I'll vouch for their I forget what
it's called. But they have amenu there where it's like, I don't
want to say, garden Fresh orsomething like that, where it has no
roast beef in it or anything likethat. It's because when you think of
Arby's, you think of the roastbeef, curly fries, vomit. But
they also have like this, likechicken salad on a roll. Okay,

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all right, what do you calla wrap? Yeah? And that's it's
like four hundred and twenty calories andtasty good and uh yeah, I would
vouch for that stuff. Speaking ofArby's, did I imagine that I saw
a commercial where they're serving a hamburger? Now, Oh, I hadn't seen
it. We've got the meats.They do have the meats. If you

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like me, they got help partof it. I like Arby's, particularly
when I want something bland, becauseif you just get the roll with the
roast beef and none of the hotsauce or anything, it's a good,
safe meal anyway, no grease anyway. I don't know why I thought about
that, because what were we talkingabout? Because I just realized that's what
happened to me. I went fromgorging to dropping off a cliff. We

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were talking about food or assuming wewere talking about germs, and we're talking
about supplements, and then turned intoa diet thing. I tell you that
if you eat sugar, then yourbody's immune system dropped for approximately an hour.
Yeah. I don't think a wholelot of sugar. Yeah, so
if you eat one candy bar,you're now suspety. Oh well, that's

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one of the reasons why I thinkI fell sick before I left Salute I
grabbed a pepsi out of the refrigerator. I don't know the last time I
had a pepsi, okay, AndI just drank like half of it,
just glp, golp, gulp.And I think that kind of could have
turned my stomach a little bit.Oh, I bet it did, especially
if you haven't had it in awhile. No, I haven't had a
pepsi in I don't think more thana year. We've got a story here.

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One in three Americans are worried abouttheir devices listening to them. Seventy
six percent believe that their smartphones arelistening to them. I can't believe it's
not one hundred percent of Americans.I talked to my phone all the time
because I know somebody's listening. Youcould be think of the most abstract subject

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matter. Just say it out loudnear your phone and you'll start getting ads
for it. I'm interested in dogprosthetics, and suddenly in your Instagram feed
there's dog prosthetics popping up. Itdoesn't matter what you say, You're gonna
get super serve at you know,Oh, I really need to shop for

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an artificial leg for my dog.You will be inundated with ads. That's
hysterical. If I get a damncrutch ad for a dog, or maybe
one of those little carts you seedogs with their legs are broken, a
little little cart for his butt.Now, according to this survey that we

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have here from iHeart, one outof three Americans regularly turn off their phones
out of fear of being tracked orlistened to. They could still hear you
when you turn it off, Thatbattery wouldn't. Yes, it's off,
but it's not. It's still listening. It's still tracking you. So you're
so are you? So you're partof this one out of three who are

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very concerned or you don't give arip? Oh, I say, stuffed
into my phone that could get mearrested. I don't give a damn Okay,
but what about the speak anti governmentthings and on my phone? You're
ultramatic. One in three have turnedoff their phones. Now you're saying,
even turning it off doesn't do anything. So what if you put what if

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one in three shut it off andthen put it in a different room in
a box. Okay, you gottaput it like next to a noisemaker or
something, all right, So takingit too that level Yeah, how many
people do you think are doing that? Do you think that that's one out
of ten or doing that? Oh? No, probably one out of one
hundred, one out of one hundred, but one out of three are actively

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shutting off their phone to make surebecause they believe that somebody in the government.
Probably it might not even be thegovernment, it might just be I
don't want Verizon or AT and Tor whomever tracking my conversations, don't.
I don't want them to know aboutmy intimate life. I don't want them
to know about whatever. Interesting.Yeah, so maybe we'll talk to somebody

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who's a What kind of precautions doyou take? Ever, since I saw
I've forgotten who it was. Nowit's one of the DIA, one of
the intelligence officers in the government hada piece of electrical tape over his camera
on his laptop. Oh. Ever, since I saw that, I'm like,
yep, it's interesting how they listedthe American fears. Number one fear

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is cyber criminals. Number three fearUS government one. I guess what the
number two fear is. This ishysterical. This makes me laugh out loud.
I don't know advertisers. Wow.Number one cyber criminals number two,

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advertisers number three, the government.They're more concerned about somebody trying to pedal
you dog food or whatever, thenthey are certainly not your friends, Nathan
and killing. No, we neversteer you wrong, absolutely not. That's
pretty funny to me. So anyway, those are a couple of the subjects
we can get into tomorrow. Okay, Hey, what's going on in your

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Hey, tomorrow, we start talking, you start talking. You do
that at old school rotary or rotary, Yeah, if you don't want the

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government to track it, that's right. Is that why my dad still has
the rotary? Yesterday we got yourrotary phone ninety seven eight, ninet two
six seven night seven eight w COS