What's Trending: The Upcoming Election Is Stressing Out Gen-Z

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
One on three to five Kiss FM, Chicago's number one
hit music station, show this is what's trending. The Dodgers
beat the Yankees, They've beat our Yankees. Are Yankees Man
Paulleen has got her Yankees head on the day. I'm
surprised no one's worn a Dodgers hat. I'm surprised I
haven't warn a Dodgers hat. No, no wear it? Oh,
I mean Cayln's meme, they're the ones she found encapsulates

(00:23):
it best. It's the series of the people who've ever
been to LA and New York and bought I had.
That's what this is. Yeah, I feel like most people
own either a Dodgers and or a Yankees had. You
know it? You're right, couldn't wear the Dodgers have. But
they're gonna win tonight. It looks like Game four Yankee Stadium.
They're up three to nothing in the Fall Classic, And
if you are interested, the Boston Red Sox were down

(00:47):
three to nothing to the Yankees. Incidentally won four in
a row to win the two thousand and four American
League Championship Series and advanced to the World Series. No
team has ever come back, though, from three to nothing
in the World Series itself. I could see him winning
tonight and then they lose in La or I guess
it's three.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
Straight here, yea three in New York. Yeah, and I'm
gonna lose. They're not gonna win. At least win one. Please,
you never know. And it was all because ice Cube.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
That ice Cube intro was so cold, cold and hard
and other things too. It was really good. Yeah, it
was well. No, Kiki was sick.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
Literally.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
More than sixty percent of people in gen Z specifically
said that their mental health has either been slightly, moderately
or significantly negatively impacted by the upcoming election. Forty six
percent reported feelings of anxiety, thirty seven felt stress, thirty
one experienced feelings of fear, suffer, and silence. Like the
rest of us, I don't feel that you're not first.

(01:49):
Why are you right? I don't think there's any generation
that's going, Man, this is gonna be great pleasure. Whatever happens,
it's gonna be great. Like it's gonna be so good.
We discovering things that have been around forever. I mean,
I think it's going to be a catastrophe, not maybe
in the long term, but in the short term. It's
going to be a catastrophe no matter who wins, because
it's gonna be one. You're gonna be a bunch of

(02:09):
people saying they're leaving the country. If one person win,
another person say any that that person didn't lose. God,
who knows, honestly, who knows? But I can't wait. Not
US airlines are not required vote yeah, go vote US.
Airlines are now required to refund passengers automatically if their
flight is significantly to later canceled. The Department of Transportation

(02:30):
says the final federal rule requiring that the airlines do
allow refunds, not vouchers, went into effect on Monday. Passengers
deserve to get their money back when an airline owes them,
without headaches or haggling. The rule says that airlines must
refund passengers affected by significantly changed flights within seven business
days if they bought a ticket on a credit card,
and within twenty calendar days if they use another form

(02:52):
of payment. The move has faced pushback, of course, from
the airline industry, and is being implemented only a month
before the start of it was likely to be a
huge holiday travel season. Oh, they'll take your money real fast.
Like a lot of places, one click take your money,
no problem, one click sign up, and then you try
and get your money back. And I think, like the
insurance companies and a bunch of other industries, I think

(03:14):
they're just hoping that you'll give up. It's not that
they're not going to give it to you. They're just hoping.
There's just too many steps, and they're hoping at some
point that you'll just say, you know what, I don't whatever,
I don't care, and then not take it. No no, no,
no no. If you're denying me my money, then I
am rightfully out. I will I will fight. I will fight.
I will because I don't know. It's principle right, like

(03:35):
insurance company right now, not trying to pay me for
something for like multiple years, and it's one thing after it. Well,
you didn't do this, all you did well, you didn't
do this, but I did but then all but then
because you didn't do this, you didn't do this all
but you did that, but you didn't do this, and
that should be against the law. I agree pay me
to day have money. Y'all make enough off of me,

(03:56):
I know, no, So I just keep calling them, and
I feel bad because the people who answered the phone.
They're the people that make the decision, but they're the
ones that get yelled at. And I try not to yell,
you know, for all the reasons that we talked about before,
because like and I don't yell. But but sometimes it's like,
are you even listening? Like are you paying attention? Did
you understand what you're being asked to say to me
right now? Like you know that what you're saying doesn't
make sense? Right, Like like I know you're reading a

(04:18):
script or whatever, and I know you're following orders, but like,
you wouldn't put up with this, right I did? I
asked that question finally the last time I called, I'm like,
you actually know this is wrong as a human being, right,
Like you wouldn't do this, right? Yeah, And there was
just a lot of silence. ID think they're all being
The calls are being recorded in our daily food news.
TGI Fridays it's melting away and if you like TGI Fridays,

(04:42):
you need to go. You need to go support your
local TGI Fridays. Go vote and then go to TGI
Fridays because more TGIF Friday's locations are shutting down. The
chain abruptly closed almost fifty restaurants over the past week
as they head for bankruptcy. There are only one hundred
and sixty four left as of Monday. Last week, there
were two hundre than thirteen. At the beginning of twenty

(05:02):
twenty four, there were two hundred and seventy. So if
you love TGI Fridays, then you need to go. Now.

Speaker 3 (05:08):
Are all these restaurants just doing this now because they
saw how we say red lobster, right? You know, because
now it's starting to feel like, oh, let's just put
out they were found of a bankruptcy and then rally all.

Speaker 1 (05:17):
The time everybody in Yeah, because I was just at
a TGI. You know, I have no problem with TAJ
at Friday's, But what are the like? Okay, you know,
Chili's is known for the baby back ribs and the
triple Dipper and the margaritas and the margaritas and the chips,
and Chili's has done a nice job with the marketing.
What is TGI Fridays? Like? What am I going? I

(05:38):
know what I'm getting when I go there, but what
I'm what specifically spinished it is that what their thinking is?

Speaker 4 (05:43):
Oh my god, Yeah, they used to have everything with
Jack Daniels. Jack Daniels, Jack Daniels.

Speaker 1 (05:47):
You need to lay off the dairy. Are you're right?
Friday had like these. I used to go to well.

Speaker 4 (05:54):
My friend used to work at one and he used
to have like the bartender competitions because they were all
that flare and they flip all the stuff, like the.

Speaker 1 (06:01):
Pretzel bites, beard cheese. Their buffalo wings look good like
saucy wet Wow. Well there you go, go get you some
saucy wet today dollar happy hour. Oh why are we
going to that well? I don't know. You better find
one and go before it closes like tomorrow. And the
Florida woman says an uber each driver spit in her

(06:23):
face and stole her fall yard decor after she confronted
the woman about taking some of her food. So an
Uber each driver went to this home shortly after midnight
to make a delivery. The woman inside the home said
she went outside and confronted the driver after seeing the
delivery woman take some of her food from the bag
that she ordered. The victim said that she saw her

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holding a ten dollars happy fall y'all sign. When the
victim grabbed the signs, she said. The pair began arguing
and the woman spit in her face. The driver took
a decorative urn from the victim's yard and then walked
back to her car, where the victims said that she
saw her decorative column by the suspects vehicle. She said
she was missing four decorative plaster pumpkins as well, each

(07:05):
worth seventy five dollars. Seventy five dollars pumpkins in your yard,
so I want to take an inventory here. She took
the happy fall y'all sign and a decorative urn and
four plaster pumpkins. Unbelievable, they called the cops. She was
charged with burglary and a salt and a grand theft

(07:25):
from a dwelling. So yeah, that's bad. That's bad karma.
You can't steal people's yard decorations for the holidays. The
only way I think you should. You should be allowed
to steal their yard decorations if they leave it out
ninety days or more beyond the holiday, then I say
you can steal it. I'm giving you permission. Like if
you've got a pumpkin out in February, I can steal that,

(07:48):
and I.

Speaker 4 (07:48):
Wouldn't want to touch a pumpkin Effebuary.

Speaker 1 (07:51):
Well, these were decorative. So if you've got your if
you've got your happy fall y'all sign out in March,
then it's not it's and we're not and it's going
away and I don't feel bad about that. Or maybe
you could take it and like hold on to it
and then return it when it's fall y'all, you know
what I mean? Yeah, like that that would be the
right thing to do for them, right exactly, because it's
not fall y'all, and I that drives me crazy. Or

(08:13):
like Kiki here who left her Christmas tree up all year,
I did and never took it down, and now all
of a sudden, it's like, oh, look see it's the holidays,
and you plug it in like it wasn't there in July,
which it was. Yes, you gotta plug it in. Did
you even like cover it up or did you literally
just leave a Christmas tree as it?

Speaker 3 (08:30):
Because I decorated it to match my living room, so
you know, after so long, it just blends in.

Speaker 1 (08:36):
I told you, my mom has a rich friend and
she has a closet for the tree in the living room,
and so like literally she when it's Christmas She opens
that closet. All that's in it. It was designed for
a Christmas tree. She pulls the Christmas tree out into
the corner like you know, five feet boom, Christmas. It's Christmas.

(08:56):
It plug it in. It's fully decorated. And when it's
like you know, I don't know, January first opens the door,
wheels it back in, closes and plugs closes the door.
It is no longer Christmas problem solved. I love that
you've got storage, you've got utility, you've got convenience, you've
got efficiency all in one. That's what happens when you're rich.

(09:20):
You can have stuff like that. That happens. Yeah. Me,
on the other hand, I got to go down to
the cave where the tree is and the parking garage.
I gotta wheel that thing and pull it up, and
then I gotta, you know, refluff it, because you know
it's got like all bent deck his faith so it's
all bent down. So you got to like make it
look not like not like the Peanuts Christmas tree. You know,
it's then it may it look for They got to

(09:41):
decorate in the whole thing, and then yes, it's a
it's a whole thing. But that's because I don't have
a rich person closet. It's National Cat Day and National
Hermit Day, a person who lives to some degree in
seclusion from society. Thank you for celebrating me today. I
appreciate that. It's wonderful. That was like somebody on Friday
at our event, going, I know you don't like people. No,
I do like people, especially these people, but not all