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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The French Show is on Fred's Biggest Stories of the Day.
All right, So the post Office wants you to know
that it's going to take longer for you to get
your stuff, now what, But it might also be more expensive.
So big changes are coming to the US Postal Service
and they're going to slow down your delivery. Starting April first,
the Postal Service is rolling out new policies aimed at
(00:24):
saving thirty six billion dollars over.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
The next decade.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
So most first class mail won't be effected by about
eleven percent of customers could see delays by a few days.
Plus evereer's shipping packages on Saturdays right before a holiday,
you can expect an extra day for delivery. The USPS
says the changes will improve service for rural areas and
help tackle their financial struggles. But for some the trustees,
(00:47):
snail mail might get even slower. So let's take antiquated
technology and let's make it even worse and that'll work.
That's like Southwest saying, let's take away the one thing
everyone liked about us, which was that'll certainly boost business.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Yakiki, I better get my value pack though, that's all
I'm looking for.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
You open that you're the one open the value pack.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
You guys don't appreciate somebody took their time to put
all those thin little ads in one envelope for our good.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
All the coupons you use them, No.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
But they say you might.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
You might open it and win one hundred dollars or something.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Oh, I'm gonna say I or a free car wash.
I've done a free car wash in there.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Really, don't sleep on those. Don't sleep on some.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
I just can't believe somebody's sitting there putting all They're
so thin, the little peger.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
I wonder if someone steals mine. I never get one. Really,
no value pack comes in my ouse. That's my favorite
piece of mail. Remember when I was a kid, I
wanted mail. I think this was around the same stage
that I was carrying a briefcase to school for three
or four days. I really wanted like the mail to come,
and I wanted something to be in there for me,
(01:58):
And so my mom used to give me like the
junk mail or whatever was. You know, I don't know ads.
Stuff you say was for me and says you give
it to me. And now I get all kinds of mail,
and I don't want most of it because it's bills
or ads or bills or you know whatever, some form
of UOEUS money or here's how you can spend money
(02:19):
on something that you don't want to, or they trick us.
I've already complained about this, that they trick us with
some kind of official looking piece of mail that you
open and it's not official at all. It's an AD
for something. You tricked me. But then I start throwing
stuff away that looks official, but I'm like, no, you're
tricking me. But then I find out later there was
a check edit or something. You're like, oh, I needed
that one, but I don't. I resent the fact that
(02:41):
people send mail to our homes that looks like you
got to open it, but then you open it only
to find out that it's like, you know, I don't know,
the Official Insurance Institute of America with some abbreviation and
all that is is all it really is is an
AD to get you to change your car insurance.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
And I'm like, well, I look like this looking official
to me.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
This it came from the from the White House or something,
and I opened it and now I find out that
it has nothing to do with anything. Yeah, And they
make it look like a check and you have to
rip off the sides first and then rip off like
the top right.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
You're like, oh my god, my check.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
And then it's like, you know you are right alone, girl,
I know I'm brief, Like, no, I don't need it.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
You can have that, right or whatever.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
They make it look like there's a credit card in there,
but there's not. It's just a little plastic thing. But
they can call and get Ah, it's me crazy. The
DNA genetic testing company twenty three in Me is filed
for bankruptcy.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Booms. This is why I didn't do it, you guys.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
This is why I didn't do the twenty three in
me that you gave me for Christmas seven years ago,
because where is where is my DNA going? Well, we
don't know, because they're filing for bankruptcy and they're going
to have to sell their assets to pay their creditors.
If you're one of the over fifteen million people who
have provided to LIE samples to those guys, unless you
take action, there is a risk that your genetic information
(04:05):
could wind up elsewhere and potentially used in ways that
you didn't want.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
So here's what you have to do.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Yeah, if you have genetic data with twenty three in me,
then you got to follow a bunch of steps to
delete your account and personal information. You go your website,
You go to settings, You go to twenty three and
meet data at the bottom of the page.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Click view.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
You can download the data and then delete it and
then also permanently delete it, and then you'll get a
confirmation email from them saying that it happened. And then
if you want them to destroy your twenty three and
ME test samples, then you can go in there to preferences,
I guess, and then revoke permission for your genetic data
to be used for research, and then they get rid
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of it somehow.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
But why am I upset about that? Like, I don't
care what they do with my DNA, And what are
they going to do? Make another klin that's terrifying for
the rest of the world. No one needs that might Okay,
I don't.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
What they're gonna do with it.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
You know they already have The government already has our DNA.
And I don't know if I trust them any more
than I trust twenty three and meters.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
No, I don't.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
I don't know what I'm chilling, Like I'm good. I'm glad.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
I know that I was, you know, related to some
Irish king eight hundred years ago.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
It's fine.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
I mean, if you want to look at my browsing
history and see what kind of naughty videos I occasionally
stumble on to, then fine.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
But I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
I don't really necessarily think I need people nefarious people
to have my DNA candy.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
I don't know. It just doesn't sound out of you.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
You don't need it anymore, you've got it, so.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Oh, I think it's still an important part of you know,
like living and survival. I don't know it's with Ai
and and yeah, I don't.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Up to Fred. I feel like I'm worried, like what
are you doing.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
I don't want people to have my DNA now granted
on you know, sometimes on the weekend I give it
out liberally. Other than that, I don't you know that
they don't know what's holding on to it. Okay, I
think I don't know. For some reason, I don't want
people to have my DNA. Let me have it, let
me get We've heard a lot of airplane stories that
are that are frightening and dangerous, and this is one
of them. Except with a happy ending. A pilot and
(06:09):
his two daughters are rescued this week after their plane
crashed into an icy Alaska lake. So lots of layers
of potential issues here, but the Little Piper Supercruiser was
on a sightseeing tour over the Key Nine Peninsula. My
friend Trevor is from the Key Nine Peninsula on Sunday
when it went missing. Social media posts written by the
pilot's father prompted about a dozen residents to launch aerial
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searches for the missing family. Twelve hours after the plane
went down, one of the pilots flying over a lake
spotted the partially submerged aircraft with the trio standing on
top of the wing. Members of the Alaska Army National
Guard rescued the family. They were taken to a hospital
with non life threatening injuries. It was literally the best
possible scenario and outcome, said the commander of the two
(06:53):
hundred and seventh Aviation Regiment. But yeah, they crashed on ice.
The plane went into the eye and they still lived
and somebody came found them. I mean, yeah, you know what,
I want their DNA because those people are survivors, okay,
And I'm I feel like I would I would give up.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
I feel like I would.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Get a little cold and be like, there's no there's
no Duncan around here, there's no McDonald's, there's no where's
my mom, where's my briefcase? Where's Pauline and her power
her woman power suit? And if I can't have any
of that, then there's just nothing worth that. It's not
worth living anymore. And then I would get eaten by
a polar bear that I that I tried to reason
with so and ask for directions. That's what happened to
(07:33):
me in that situation. Nostalgia is one of the most
powerful things on earth. I contend people's memories and their
association with the past and with our childhoods. I think
is more valuable than anything when it comes to music.
When it comes to food, but a new study says
that two and three Americans would pay extra to bring
back their favorite retired products. Can you think of anything
(07:56):
off the top of your heads and it's I don't know,
maybe it's from recently, but probably from growing up that
doesn't exist anymore. Be it food or be it I
don't know, cosmetic or whatever it is. Can you think
or even a restaurant or a kind of food. Can
you think of anything that you wish would come back
from your childhood?
Speaker 5 (08:12):
I mean the snack crap they play in my face
every year, and like, where is the snack crap?
Speaker 4 (08:18):
I'm upset, period one.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
I mean anything else.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
I was just you have. I was going to make
sure you got it all out.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
I mean, you know, well they keep announcing it like
it's coming out, it's coming out every year they're playing
in my face.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
Was it really that good?
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Yes, it's chicken strip I never had one too, No
tortilla chicken.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Strip lettuceded cheese. Okay, that sounds good.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
It was nobody sails.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
It not the same.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
I tried the burger King one, you know, respect to
Burger King, but it just wasn't the same.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
You tried to make one at home? Could it recreate?
It didn't hit the same. They're just playing in my face.
I'm tired.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
I want the sidekick phone back, Yeah, the little slide
up the screen. I want to be on my sidekick.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
I remember I sent three of them back because I
didn't realize this. But after after ten, like ten messages
or something, I don't know it was ten or twenty
or fifty or whatever it was. You had to delete
the messages to get more. And so I would get
to a point where I wasn't getting messages after like
three days, because that was very popular when I had
a sidekick, obviously, because everybody who had a sidekick was
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wildly popular. And if you remember, it was the little
phone that you like held in your hand like a
little rectangle, and then you'd push with your ring or
your point your finger and the screen would flip around
and then it turned into like a little computer looking thing,
and and everybody, I don't remember if it was like
Paris Hilton that had one, or somebody had one in
the in the two thousands, and then it became the
(09:47):
thing everyone had to have. But anyway, I'm like, this
thing's a piece. I got to keep going in there
and wherever and be like this doesn't work. Look I
can't get messages. And then finally, after like the third one,
I gave them back this. Oh you know you're supposed
to delete your messages to get more. Oh fun, right, No,
I don't know. I was very upset. This is that's
my sidekick memory is that I had to keep remembering
(10:09):
to delete my text messages or otherwise my sidekick would sidekick.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
I was upset.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
I was upset, so I had to put on my
woman power suit and I had to go in there
and I had to I had to stand on business
with them. Before I was standing on business was four,
which is what This is what you need to do, though,
This is what you need to do, uh kaylen You
need to put your woman power suit on and march
down there to the McDonald's headquarters and let them know
(10:35):
what you need.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
Maybe that's what I'm missing.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
I mean, I've I've played with them on social media,
you know, I mean the comments I'm manifesting.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
But maybe I need a woman power suit. I got you.
I got one for you.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Cool.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Have you ever done something like that with a tech
item where like you insist it doesn't work and you're
like mad about it, and and you go in like
this doesn't work, I want a new one, and then
they show you something extremely basic that you were doing wrong.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Have you ever had that happen? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (11:01):
My iPod it was also Apple, and like the logo
has like a little dash through the apple, and I
thought my screen was broken, like every time, and then
I realized, like that's just how it appears.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Oh that was just normal.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Yeah, it was just normal for my iPod.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
I don't know if they don't even have the Apple
logo anymore on this, but yeah, I thought my screen
was broken and they were like, you're just an idiot.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
I very rarely like get uppity, very very rarely normally,
like if I'm getting bad service or something's broken, I'll
just sort of like cower and leave because I never
want to be that person. But I remember, for whatever reason,
few years ago, I had to have a record player.
I had to have one. Will Records, well Jason went
through his record era, yeah as well. Yeah, but I
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wanted one of those, like like one of those the
cool DJ turntables that technos. I wanted the twelve hundreds.
I wanted the wheels of steel, you know, like I
don't know why. And then so I found a place
that in a random neighborhood. I swear this guy, if
he's still open, then it's a miracle. But he repaired
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record players and VHS players and tube televisions. That was
his business in twenty twenty one or whatever it was.
I mean literally you'd walk in and it was like
one hundred thousand million tube televisions, like the big ass
heavy TVs. And then he had a bunch of VHS
players and like record players. And that's what this guy did.
(12:26):
I think he also repaired vacuum cleaners. I don't know,
but anyway, it looked like a front of a business
to me. But anyway, so I go in there and
I'm like, right, said I called him. I said, I
want this kind of record player. He's like, yeah, I'll
find you one and i'll fix it up. And it
was stuper expensive and you can come and get it.
So I go down there and I get it and
it was kind of hard to get to and a
pain in the butt to park and the whole thing.
(12:47):
And I go in there and he's like, here it is,
and it looked really nice. And I bought it and
I was so excited. And I go home and I
plug it in and I started to play a record
and it doesn't work, and I'm like, what the heck?
And so for like an hour, I'm looking at all
the connections because you got a play this thing in
it's not digital. I'm like, what is going on with
this thing? And I'm so mad, And so I called
this guy, and I'm just annoyed after like this three
(13:07):
hour adventure to try and get my new record player.
And I think I had my like Paul Abdual record
right there ready to go, and I ordered it online.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
I was I had my Whitney Houston right there.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
We were gonna jam out to Madonna's Immaculate collection on LP.
It was gonna be so exciting. And I had my
power seat on everything. And the guy is like, well,
did you try this? Did you try that? And then
he goes, well did you take the plastic cover off
of the needle on the record player? And I'm like,
of course I did that. What do you think I am?
(13:37):
Of course I everyone knows to do that. That's not
what the problem here is. Forget about it. And I
hung up and I went over to the record player
and sure enough, there was the plastic cover on the needle. No,
and I took it off and I record player worked fine,
and I I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry to that man,
but that was what it was. It was a little
plastic thing on the end. It's like, huh, I'm in
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a radio, you know, you think I would know how
to work at the equipment. But then again, if you listen,
then you know that I don't and I should have
called the guy back. I didn't get like mad at him,
but I was just like, ah, this thing's busted. And
it was you know, he was an expert and fixing
record players, and I probably should have called and apologized
to him.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
But that's what.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Happens, I guess when I get all uppity, and then
it was my fault the whole time. It was like
the pizza story from earlier in the week where the
guy delivered the pizza and it wasn't at my house.
It was exactly where I told him to go, in
the wrong state. Sorry about that. But if people want
Crystal Pepsi back, they want Banana ness quick back, they
want Atari, and they want Nintendo. Oh yes, Nintendo. I Nintendo.
(14:38):
I don't know why they don't just make the consoles again.
I guess they kind of do that. I mean, you
can't get like an nes I, you know, per se,
but you can get those emulators that all those games
or I've ever seen those ads on TikTok It's like
eighty seven gazillion games on this little thing, and then
you can plug in your Nintendo controller and it acts
just like it did when we were kids.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
But that's the only I want. That is because that's
the only caliber of game I could play. Like two
buttons and a little joystick, that's it. Like you start
adding buttons on the top and on the bottom, and
I'm like squeezing triggers and all. No, if I need
to push more than two things at once, then that's
not the kind of game for me. But people want
stuff from their past. Seventy three percent of people would
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keep buying from their favorite brands even if prices started soaring.
They want high quality products, great experiences, and a history
of trust. I guess people feel like there was more
value back in the day than there is now. And
a story that I think a lot of people resonates
with a lot of people. A woman says that her
rescue dog eight five pair of skim underwear skims, leaving
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her with a thirteen thousand dollars vet bill. Now, Jason's
not mad about the vet bill. He's mad about the
wasted five pair of skims underwear, which were probably also
thirteen thousand dollars exactly.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Those are not cheap, but.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
A terrier mixed rescue dog from a dog shelter was
was in this woman's home and after a couple of months,
she came home and saw the pup lying on top
of a dirty clothes pile. It wasn't even clean underwear,
it was Underwell, it's.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
A dog, so they love those.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Yeah. Yeah, and her underwear was missing. Yeah, that's that's gross.
It is that, but she is. I guess she had
to have some kind of procedure. Oh, she had her
intestines removed after an emergency visit to the VAT and
a thirteen thousand dollars bill.
Speaker 5 (16:29):
Oh, they must be like the skinny thongs. You know
what I mean to get wrapped up in the intestine.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
I wear the fatter thongs, that's ye, not the skinny
one ones I wear. I wear the granny ones. Yeah, yeah,
the granny thong. Yeah, that's what I wear. It's actually
more on at all. But she's doing Okay, this dog is.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
We don't like, is she going to pay for her skims,
because that's that's a crime.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Yeah, you better get a job. You better get you
a power student, get to work.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Come on.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
My sister has a main coon which is like an
eighty seven thousand pound bobcat that she adopted, you know,
like I don't know. She went to the pounds and
got this little kitten that turned out to be a
forty pound cat.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
His name is Adler. He's huge.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
And she found out after like a year that he
needed two brand new hips, both of like he didn't
have it was either hip sockets or like the there's
something wrong with the way that both of his hips
were five thousand dollars a pop. Yeah, you need pet
insurance and do one, but it's not really nice not
to do the other one. Or in this case, it
wouldn't have been a good like they could have gotten
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away with one, but it was like, yeah, you should
probably do both. So yeah, she gets a free cat.
Basically that needed ten thousand dollars worth of surgery that
she had to do and figure it out. But I
feel like that's that's pet ownership, that's home ownership, that's
that's having kids. That's pretty much anything that depends on
you well at any given point maybe caused you a
(17:57):
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show
The French Show is on Fred's Biggest Stories of the Day.
All right, So the post Office wants you to know
that it's going to take longer for you to get
your stuff, now what, But it might also be more expensive.
So big changes are coming to the US Postal Service
and they're going to slow down your delivery. Starting April first,
the Postal Service is rolling out new policies aimed at
(00:24):
saving thirty six billion dollars over.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
The next decade.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
So most first class mail won't be effected by about
eleven percent of customers could see delays by a few days.
Plus evereer's shipping packages on Saturdays right before a holiday,
you can expect an extra day for delivery. The USPS
says the changes will improve service for rural areas and
help tackle their financial struggles. But for some the trustees,
(00:47):
snail mail might get even slower. So let's take antiquated
technology and let's make it even worse and that'll work.
That's like Southwest saying, let's take away the one thing
everyone liked about us, which was that'll certainly boost business.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Yakiki, I better get my value pack though, that's all
I'm looking for.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
You open that you're the one open the value pack.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
You guys don't appreciate somebody took their time to put
all those thin little ads in one envelope for our good.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
All the coupons you use them, No.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
But they say you might.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
You might open it and win one hundred dollars or something.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Oh, I'm gonna say I or a free car wash.
I've done a free car wash in there.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Really, don't sleep on those. Don't sleep on some.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
I just can't believe somebody's sitting there putting all They're
so thin, the little peger.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
I wonder if someone steals mine. I never get one. Really,
no value pack comes in my ouse. That's my favorite
piece of mail. Remember when I was a kid, I
wanted mail. I think this was around the same stage
that I was carrying a briefcase to school for three
or four days. I really wanted like the mail to come,
and I wanted something to be in there for me,
(01:58):
And so my mom used to give me like the
junk mail or whatever was. You know, I don't know ads.
Stuff you say was for me and says you give
it to me. And now I get all kinds of mail,
and I don't want most of it because it's bills
or ads or bills or you know whatever, some form
of UOEUS money or here's how you can spend money
(02:19):
on something that you don't want to, or they trick us.
I've already complained about this, that they trick us with
some kind of official looking piece of mail that you
open and it's not official at all. It's an AD
for something. You tricked me. But then I start throwing
stuff away that looks official, but I'm like, no, you're
tricking me. But then I find out later there was
a check edit or something. You're like, oh, I needed
that one, but I don't. I resent the fact that
(02:41):
people send mail to our homes that looks like you
got to open it, but then you open it only
to find out that it's like, you know, I don't know,
the Official Insurance Institute of America with some abbreviation and
all that is is all it really is is an
AD to get you to change your car insurance.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
And I'm like, well, I look like this looking official
to me.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
This it came from the from the White House or something,
and I opened it and now I find out that
it has nothing to do with anything. Yeah, And they
make it look like a check and you have to
rip off the sides first and then rip off like
the top right.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
You're like, oh my god, my check.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
And then it's like, you know you are right alone, girl,
I know I'm brief, Like, no, I don't need it.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
You can have that, right or whatever.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
They make it look like there's a credit card in there,
but there's not. It's just a little plastic thing. But
they can call and get Ah, it's me crazy. The
DNA genetic testing company twenty three in Me is filed
for bankruptcy.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Booms. This is why I didn't do it, you guys.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
This is why I didn't do the twenty three in
me that you gave me for Christmas seven years ago,
because where is where is my DNA going? Well, we
don't know, because they're filing for bankruptcy and they're going
to have to sell their assets to pay their creditors.
If you're one of the over fifteen million people who
have provided to LIE samples to those guys, unless you
take action, there is a risk that your genetic information
(04:05):
could wind up elsewhere and potentially used in ways that
you didn't want.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
So here's what you have to do.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Yeah, if you have genetic data with twenty three in me,
then you got to follow a bunch of steps to
delete your account and personal information. You go your website,
You go to settings, You go to twenty three and
meet data at the bottom of the page.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Click view.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
You can download the data and then delete it and
then also permanently delete it, and then you'll get a
confirmation email from them saying that it happened. And then
if you want them to destroy your twenty three and
ME test samples, then you can go in there to preferences,
I guess, and then revoke permission for your genetic data
to be used for research, and then they get rid
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of it somehow.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
But why am I upset about that? Like, I don't
care what they do with my DNA, And what are
they going to do? Make another klin that's terrifying for
the rest of the world. No one needs that might Okay,
I don't.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
What they're gonna do with it.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
You know they already have The government already has our DNA.
And I don't know if I trust them any more
than I trust twenty three and meters.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
No, I don't.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
I don't know what I'm chilling, Like I'm good. I'm glad.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
I know that I was, you know, related to some
Irish king eight hundred years ago.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
It's fine.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
I mean, if you want to look at my browsing
history and see what kind of naughty videos I occasionally
stumble on to, then fine.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
But I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
I don't really necessarily think I need people nefarious people
to have my DNA candy.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
I don't know. It just doesn't sound out of you.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
You don't need it anymore, you've got it, so.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Oh, I think it's still an important part of you know,
like living and survival. I don't know it's with Ai
and and yeah, I don't.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Up to Fred. I feel like I'm worried, like what
are you doing.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
I don't want people to have my DNA now granted
on you know, sometimes on the weekend I give it
out liberally. Other than that, I don't you know that
they don't know what's holding on to it. Okay, I
think I don't know. For some reason, I don't want
people to have my DNA. Let me have it, let
me get We've heard a lot of airplane stories that
are that are frightening and dangerous, and this is one
of them. Except with a happy ending. A pilot and
(06:09):
his two daughters are rescued this week after their plane
crashed into an icy Alaska lake. So lots of layers
of potential issues here, but the Little Piper Supercruiser was
on a sightseeing tour over the Key Nine Peninsula. My
friend Trevor is from the Key Nine Peninsula on Sunday
when it went missing. Social media posts written by the
pilot's father prompted about a dozen residents to launch aerial
(06:32):
searches for the missing family. Twelve hours after the plane
went down, one of the pilots flying over a lake
spotted the partially submerged aircraft with the trio standing on
top of the wing. Members of the Alaska Army National
Guard rescued the family. They were taken to a hospital
with non life threatening injuries. It was literally the best
possible scenario and outcome, said the commander of the two
(06:53):
hundred and seventh Aviation Regiment. But yeah, they crashed on ice.
The plane went into the eye and they still lived
and somebody came found them. I mean, yeah, you know what,
I want their DNA because those people are survivors, okay,
And I'm I feel like I would I would give up.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
I feel like I would.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Get a little cold and be like, there's no there's
no Duncan around here, there's no McDonald's, there's no where's
my mom, where's my briefcase? Where's Pauline and her power
her woman power suit? And if I can't have any
of that, then there's just nothing worth that. It's not
worth living anymore. And then I would get eaten by
a polar bear that I that I tried to reason
with so and ask for directions. That's what happened to
(07:33):
me in that situation. Nostalgia is one of the most
powerful things on earth. I contend people's memories and their
association with the past and with our childhoods. I think
is more valuable than anything when it comes to music.
When it comes to food, but a new study says
that two and three Americans would pay extra to bring
back their favorite retired products. Can you think of anything
(07:56):
off the top of your heads and it's I don't know,
maybe it's from recently, but probably from growing up that
doesn't exist anymore. Be it food or be it I
don't know, cosmetic or whatever it is. Can you think
or even a restaurant or a kind of food. Can
you think of anything that you wish would come back
from your childhood?
Speaker 5 (08:12):
I mean the snack crap they play in my face
every year, and like, where is the snack crap?
Speaker 4 (08:18):
I'm upset, period one.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
I mean anything else.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
I was just you have. I was going to make
sure you got it all out.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
I mean, you know, well they keep announcing it like
it's coming out, it's coming out every year they're playing
in my face.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
Was it really that good?
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Yes, it's chicken strip I never had one too, No
tortilla chicken.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Strip lettuceded cheese. Okay, that sounds good.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
It was nobody sails.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
It not the same.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
I tried the burger King one, you know, respect to
Burger King, but it just wasn't the same.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
You tried to make one at home? Could it recreate?
It didn't hit the same. They're just playing in my face.
I'm tired.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
I want the sidekick phone back, Yeah, the little slide
up the screen. I want to be on my sidekick.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
I remember I sent three of them back because I
didn't realize this. But after after ten, like ten messages
or something, I don't know it was ten or twenty
or fifty or whatever it was. You had to delete
the messages to get more. And so I would get
to a point where I wasn't getting messages after like
three days, because that was very popular when I had
a sidekick, obviously, because everybody who had a sidekick was
(09:25):
wildly popular. And if you remember, it was the little
phone that you like held in your hand like a
little rectangle, and then you'd push with your ring or
your point your finger and the screen would flip around
and then it turned into like a little computer looking thing,
and and everybody, I don't remember if it was like
Paris Hilton that had one, or somebody had one in
the in the two thousands, and then it became the
(09:47):
thing everyone had to have. But anyway, I'm like, this
thing's a piece. I got to keep going in there
and wherever and be like this doesn't work. Look I
can't get messages. And then finally, after like the third one,
I gave them back this. Oh you know you're supposed
to delete your messages to get more. Oh fun, right, No,
I don't know. I was very upset. This is that's
my sidekick memory is that I had to keep remembering
(10:09):
to delete my text messages or otherwise my sidekick would sidekick.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
I was upset.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
I was upset, so I had to put on my
woman power suit and I had to go in there
and I had to I had to stand on business
with them. Before I was standing on business was four,
which is what This is what you need to do, though,
This is what you need to do, uh kaylen You
need to put your woman power suit on and march
down there to the McDonald's headquarters and let them know
(10:35):
what you need.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
Maybe that's what I'm missing.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
I mean, I've I've played with them on social media,
you know, I mean the comments I'm manifesting.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
But maybe I need a woman power suit. I got you.
I got one for you.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Cool.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Have you ever done something like that with a tech
item where like you insist it doesn't work and you're
like mad about it, and and you go in like
this doesn't work, I want a new one, and then
they show you something extremely basic that you were doing wrong.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Have you ever had that happen? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (11:01):
My iPod it was also Apple, and like the logo
has like a little dash through the apple, and I
thought my screen was broken, like every time, and then
I realized, like that's just how it appears.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Oh that was just normal.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Yeah, it was just normal for my iPod.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
I don't know if they don't even have the Apple
logo anymore on this, but yeah, I thought my screen
was broken and they were like, you're just an idiot.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
I very rarely like get uppity, very very rarely normally,
like if I'm getting bad service or something's broken, I'll
just sort of like cower and leave because I never
want to be that person. But I remember, for whatever reason,
few years ago, I had to have a record player.
I had to have one. Will Records, well Jason went
through his record era, yeah as well. Yeah, but I
(11:43):
wanted one of those, like like one of those the
cool DJ turntables that technos. I wanted the twelve hundreds.
I wanted the wheels of steel, you know, like I
don't know why. And then so I found a place
that in a random neighborhood. I swear this guy, if
he's still open, then it's a miracle. But he repaired
(12:05):
record players and VHS players and tube televisions. That was
his business in twenty twenty one or whatever it was.
I mean literally you'd walk in and it was like
one hundred thousand million tube televisions, like the big ass
heavy TVs. And then he had a bunch of VHS
players and like record players. And that's what this guy did.
(12:26):
I think he also repaired vacuum cleaners. I don't know,
but anyway, it looked like a front of a business
to me. But anyway, so I go in there and
I'm like, right, said I called him. I said, I
want this kind of record player. He's like, yeah, I'll
find you one and i'll fix it up. And it
was stuper expensive and you can come and get it.
So I go down there and I get it and
it was kind of hard to get to and a
pain in the butt to park and the whole thing.
(12:47):
And I go in there and he's like, here it is,
and it looked really nice. And I bought it and
I was so excited. And I go home and I
plug it in and I started to play a record
and it doesn't work, and I'm like, what the heck?
And so for like an hour, I'm looking at all
the connections because you got a play this thing in
it's not digital. I'm like, what is going on with
this thing? And I'm so mad, And so I called
this guy, and I'm just annoyed after like this three
(13:07):
hour adventure to try and get my new record player.
And I think I had my like Paul Abdual record
right there ready to go, and I ordered it online.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
I was I had my Whitney Houston right there.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
We were gonna jam out to Madonna's Immaculate collection on LP.
It was gonna be so exciting. And I had my
power seat on everything. And the guy is like, well,
did you try this? Did you try that? And then
he goes, well did you take the plastic cover off
of the needle on the record player? And I'm like,
of course I did that. What do you think I am?
(13:37):
Of course I everyone knows to do that. That's not
what the problem here is. Forget about it. And I
hung up and I went over to the record player
and sure enough, there was the plastic cover on the needle. No,
and I took it off and I record player worked fine,
and I I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry to that man,
but that was what it was. It was a little
plastic thing on the end. It's like, huh, I'm in
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a radio, you know, you think I would know how
to work at the equipment. But then again, if you listen,
then you know that I don't and I should have
called the guy back. I didn't get like mad at him,
but I was just like, ah, this thing's busted. And
it was you know, he was an expert and fixing
record players, and I probably should have called and apologized
to him.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
But that's what.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Happens, I guess when I get all uppity, and then
it was my fault the whole time. It was like
the pizza story from earlier in the week where the
guy delivered the pizza and it wasn't at my house.
It was exactly where I told him to go, in
the wrong state. Sorry about that. But if people want
Crystal Pepsi back, they want Banana ness quick back, they
want Atari, and they want Nintendo. Oh yes, Nintendo. I Nintendo.
(14:38):
I don't know why they don't just make the consoles again.
I guess they kind of do that. I mean, you
can't get like an nes I, you know, per se,
but you can get those emulators that all those games
or I've ever seen those ads on TikTok It's like
eighty seven gazillion games on this little thing, and then
you can plug in your Nintendo controller and it acts
just like it did when we were kids.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
But that's the only I want. That is because that's
the only caliber of game I could play. Like two
buttons and a little joystick, that's it. Like you start
adding buttons on the top and on the bottom, and
I'm like squeezing triggers and all. No, if I need
to push more than two things at once, then that's
not the kind of game for me. But people want
stuff from their past. Seventy three percent of people would
(15:20):
keep buying from their favorite brands even if prices started soaring.
They want high quality products, great experiences, and a history
of trust. I guess people feel like there was more
value back in the day than there is now. And
a story that I think a lot of people resonates
with a lot of people. A woman says that her
rescue dog eight five pair of skim underwear skims, leaving
(15:42):
her with a thirteen thousand dollars vet bill. Now, Jason's
not mad about the vet bill. He's mad about the
wasted five pair of skims underwear, which were probably also
thirteen thousand dollars exactly.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Those are not cheap, but.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
A terrier mixed rescue dog from a dog shelter was
was in this woman's home and after a couple of months,
she came home and saw the pup lying on top
of a dirty clothes pile. It wasn't even clean underwear,
it was Underwell, it's.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
A dog, so they love those.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Yeah. Yeah, and her underwear was missing. Yeah, that's that's gross.
It is that, but she is. I guess she had
to have some kind of procedure. Oh, she had her
intestines removed after an emergency visit to the VAT and
a thirteen thousand dollars bill.
Speaker 5 (16:29):
Oh, they must be like the skinny thongs. You know
what I mean to get wrapped up in the intestine.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
I wear the fatter thongs, that's ye, not the skinny
one ones I wear. I wear the granny ones. Yeah, yeah,
the granny thong. Yeah, that's what I wear. It's actually
more on at all. But she's doing Okay, this dog is.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
We don't like, is she going to pay for her skims,
because that's that's a crime.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Yeah, you better get a job. You better get you
a power student, get to work.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Come on.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
My sister has a main coon which is like an
eighty seven thousand pound bobcat that she adopted, you know,
like I don't know. She went to the pounds and
got this little kitten that turned out to be a
forty pound cat.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
His name is Adler. He's huge.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
And she found out after like a year that he
needed two brand new hips, both of like he didn't
have it was either hip sockets or like the there's
something wrong with the way that both of his hips
were five thousand dollars a pop. Yeah, you need pet
insurance and do one, but it's not really nice not
to do the other one. Or in this case, it
wouldn't have been a good like they could have gotten
(17:37):
away with one, but it was like, yeah, you should
probably do both. So yeah, she gets a free cat.
Basically that needed ten thousand dollars worth of surgery that
she had to do and figure it out. But I
feel like that's that's pet ownership, that's home ownership, that's
that's having kids. That's pretty much anything that depends on
you well at any given point maybe caused you a
(17:57):
tremendous amount of money as a surprise. It's epilepsia awaar
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