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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, this is a crazy story, especially as someone who
uses Instacart a lot. The grocery delivery app has apparently
been using a shady algorithm that charges different prices to
different customers on the same grocery items in the same store,
you know, without telling them so. At a Target store
in North Kanton, Ohio, the app charged to customer two
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ninety nine for Skippy Creamy peanut butter one day in September,
while other Instacart users that same day paid as much
as three point fifty nine for the same jar of
peanut butter at the same location.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Now that might not sound like a lot, but that's
still messed up.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
It is messed up.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
And then at a Safeway in Seattle, shoppers using Instacart
paid five different prices for the same oscar Meyer Deli
turkey three ninety nine, four thirty one, four fifty nine,
four sixty nine, and four eighty nine, which is a
range that spanned twenty three percent between the lowest and
the highest markup. And they saw the same pattern at
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Target and Safeway stores across four cities. And they used
four hundred and thirty seven different shoppers in its survey,
so they got a pretty sample of people. Yeah, they
said nearly three quarters of grocery items surveyed were sold
at different price price points on Instacart.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
And I also thought it was important to note that
the algorithm this study says could cost a regular Instacart
user like you up to twelve hundred dollars more per
year in grocery. See, so you know that one example
of the Skippy peanut butter might not sound like a lot,
but you add that up, or everything you buy over.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
The course of a year getting the high end of
the pricing again, it's going to add up really quickly.
So Instacart told the New York Posts that their price
tests are not based on personal behavioral characteristics of the shop. Sure,
but the study noted that it is absolutely possible with
all the technology that Instacart, if they wanted to, could
base prices on demos like age and household income if
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they wanted to. And then Target said they don't set
Instacart prices, and they kind of backed out of it, like, hey,
this isn't us. Our price is the price what you
pay Instacart, that's their decision.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
And it was all kinds of different stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Eggs went from like three ninety nine to four seventy nine,
Cereal two ninety nine to three sixty nine, wheat thins
three ninety nine to four eighty nine. Although you should
always pay the higher price for wheat thins, that's garbage
food gross.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
But yeah, I mean for.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Somebody like you who uses instacart all the time and
you worry that, like if you just keep buying the
higher price and you don't even realize it, or or
they could take that behavior and say.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Well, she's willing to pay yes, yeah, right, jack up everything.
I thought I was getting a good deal on this
pre made chicken that I've been getting from Target.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
It's so good.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
So I got one yesterday and the price had been
dropped down. It's usually like eight ninety nine and it
was six fifty nine. I was like, oh yeah, let
me get one of these. It expired on December third.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Well, that's why I didn't.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Realize it until after I had opened it and I
took a bite of it, and then I looked at
the expiration day to see like how long do I
have And I'm like, oh my gosh, I shouldn't have
eaten that. It expired a week ago.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
I'll give you a great deal on chicken, Yeah, expired chicken.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Former MSNBC host Joy Reid shared a video on x
that claims jingle Bells is racist.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Of course.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
It shows a young black man standing in Medford, Massachusett's
wearing a Santa hat, and then it flashes to a
plaque marking the place where James Pierpont is believed to
have written the song back in eighteen fifty.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
He then puts the.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Camera back on himself, removes the Santa hat, makes an
angry face, and types captions on the video, changing the
verbiage on the plaque to say that a racist Confederate
wrote jingle Bells to make fun of black people at
minstrel shows that were popular at the time, and he
said people in those shows were wearing black face, and
that Laughing All the Way is likely a reference to
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those racist shows that were known as as Laughing Darky
at the time.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Yeah, so a couple of things. Not surprising Joy Reid
would put this out. It's what she does. Jingle Bells
was performed at minstrel shows back in the day, but
a lot of other popular songs were performed at their
shows too, so it wasn't like only Jencobos and the
composer did eventually side with the Confederacy. There is zero
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evidence that jingle Bells was written to like mock black
people or they're.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Laughing all the way she had to do with it.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Yeah, zero evidence that's the case.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
So some major leaps are being taken here in this video.
It's just another one of those things like we talked
about with Pantone and the Color of the Year.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Like you've got these people.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Who they're trying to incite racial division in this country.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
It's so abnopious. It's exhausting too.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
The Secretary of State Marco Rubio just made a very
important change to how the State Department communicates. They've been
directed tovert back to using the Times New Roman font
instead of Calibri. Two years ago, then Secretary of State
Anthony Blincoln made diplomats switch to Calibri, which is considered
by some to be a more inclusive font because it's
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apparently easier for people with visual disabilities in dyslexia to read.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
In the action.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Request, Rubio said switching to Calibri achieved nothing except the
degradation of the department's official correspondence. So the State Department
has used Times New Roman as its official font since
two thousand and four until it was changed. Before that,
they were using Curer New. Okay, so now they've got
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to use Times through Roman to make it look more official.
I feel like Times in Roman, like it's definitely more
of an official, fancy, diplomatic looking font.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
I hate it. Don't either Times New Roman.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
I use Calibri and the other one that I think
is stable is Aeriel.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Yes, uh, those are the two.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
You use Calibra to do the show sheet and then
when I printed in the morning, I switch it to
Aerieal because I try to get it all on one page.
The way the font spacing is it fits better on
one page.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Yeah, that way.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
I'm a Calibri fan. I had no idea that Calibri
was woke. I didn't know there was a Wolke font,
but I knew you were a liberal. Yeah, exactly, be outed.
But I just always used it. I just think it's
I don't know, I just like it. It looks clean,
it's very simple.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
I can't stand when when people use when they use
Times New Roman in their email and you can tell
that they deliberately changed it from what the standard is yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Yeah, but I guess the state's parent they're switching back now,
very important change.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Yeah, but I guess on international treaty documents and presidential
appointment paperwork that still has to be courier new at
a twelve point, So maybe they have like an outline
that everyone can follow to figure out what exactly they
should be using.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Yes, turning point.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
USA CEO so Erica Kirk is fed up with conspiracy
theories and crazy claims about her late husband, Charlie Kirk.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Now.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
During this interview with Fox News, she didn't mention Candice
Owen's by name, but it's pretty obvious who she was
referring to. So first she talked about the ongoing speculation
about where Charlie is buried.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Can I have one thing? Can I have one thing?
Can my babies have one thing where we hold it sacred,
where my husband is laid to rest, where I don't
have to be worried about some secular revolutionary coming and
destroying my husband's grave. Well, my daughter is sitting there
praying one thing.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Yeah, So I guess nobody knows where he's buried. I
know it, totally understand and I hadn't even thought about that,
but I totally get why they've kept it private yet absolutely,
And then she addressed the conspiracy theories about how he
died and who was responsible in all the nonsense.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
Call me what you want, go down that rabbit hole, whatever.
But when you go out after my family, my turning point,
USA family, my Charlie Kirk Show family, when you go
after the people that I love and you're making hundreds
and thousands of dollars every single episode, yep, going after
the people that I love because somehow they're in on this.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
No, you don't have to say it.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
I've never seen you like that.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
No, I'm this is righteous anger because this is not okay,
it's not healthy. This is a mind virus.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Yeah. Again, she never named Candace Owens, but she has
been floating crazy theories and it's something different every day.
I mean, it's really insane. So the producer of The
Charlie Kirk Show says they'll be rebutting Candace's claims on
Monday's show, and they invited Candace and she said, oh,
I can't make it, and they said, well, let's do
it by video, and she said she can't make that.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
An I hope honestly, I hope McCrone and his wife,
I hope they bury her. I mean, she's just like
a cancer on this.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
She really people believe her politics.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Yeah, and I see, we don't spend a lot of
time talking about can't. We don't really spend any time
talking about her, aside from like right now, Nick Fuenttest
he's another one. He's been all over the place, dudes
of Nazi likes Hitler, Like, I don't have time for
these people. They're not worth the time or energy, and
nothing they say matters to me because they're just that
you can tell, just in it for Oh yeah, they're in.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
It clicks and money and to people that are stupid
that buy.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Into it right exactly.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Pinterest has released their list of predicted trends for twenty
twenty six. This is based on the massive uptick and
searches on their platform and Pinterest as their trend predictions
have been eighty eight percent accurately wow the last six years. Yeah,
so we're in for it. So one of their predictions
and home decor is that afrohemian funhouse and neo deco
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style will be one.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
So Afrohemian includes textiles, walalart baskets, natural fib rugs, things
that are kind of like natural. Oh okay, then funhouse
boomers and millennials will prompt a rise. And circus inspired
vintage circus esthetic has seen a seventy percent rise in interest.
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Circus nursery was that fifty percent in circus interior rose
one hundred and thirty percent.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
That makes sense. Life is a circus these days. Politics
is a circus. Everything's a circus. So yeah, why not
decorate your house.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
That you don't want to decorate your apartment like a circus?
Speaker 3 (10:32):
I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
And then when it comes to fashion, brooches and lace
are going to be really in style. Laces predicted to
have a boom in beauty and fashion, and then brooches.
They're predicting that men are expected to drive a surgeon
interest in wearing brooches on their lapels, on their sleeves.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
What is time?
Speaker 1 (10:55):
A brooch is like, is like one of those things
that like your grandmother would wear with like kind of
like a profile of like a brooch, like it's like
a pin.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Oh okay, all right, well I got a first uh,
I gotta learn what it is before you before I yeah,
before I put it on, look.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
It up and see if you if you let me, I'm.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Not wearing that.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Oh it shows a picture of a guy wearing like
a bunch of them.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
No freaking way.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
That's gonna be the fashion for twenty twenty six. You're
gonna have to step it up. Yeah. And then when
it comes to food trends, cabbage back choy, all kinds
of I mean basically cabbage, they say the search interest
Rosen recipes for cabbage dumplings, cabbage, alfredo fermented cabbage.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Oh my go that's awful.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Yeah, no, yeah, all right, So between the circus looking
home decor and the dopey brooch on my jacket and
the cabbage, I'm gonna that's not twenty twenty sixth freak horrible, terrible, Yeah,
like an awful year.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
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