(KMN) 10.2: Deficit - Hour 3

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It is seven oh five here on a Thursday morning,
coffee in company with you, fueled by Thornton's here on
news Radio eight forty whas. So I've learned as I
get older that I really cannot relate to a lot
of a lot of experiences that many many of you
have had, and that is dating. And it's not because
I'm single. It's because I've been married for a long time.

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In fact, I should know this fourteen years, fourteen years,
fifteen years in May, so I've been with my wife
as a duo if you will, for longer than that.
So I never dated as a young adult, and I
never never experienced any of that. So I mean, I've
always known that is pretty rare. I guess the older
we get, the more rare it is. But a lot

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of experiences when it comes to dating, I just I
can't relate to it all because I never experienced it.
But to see now that dating is now not as
as big of a thing for some because of cost,
I initially think, well, wait a second, I mean is
that because that go on dates they just assume they
got to pay for everything. And again, what do I know,

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no experience on my end, But I don't think that's
as much of a thing as now as it was
back then. Maybe I'm wrong, maybe I'm way off here.
But also another aspect of it is not really about
who's paying. But even if you're splitting the bill, or
maybe you're you're going out socializing, not on a date
per se, but you're out living the night life, trying
to make dates, if that makes sense, meet people. I

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mean that alone costs money, and everything of course costs money.
But if you're making sacrifices when it comes to your
expenses doing things that either get you on a date
or maybe set up a date, a lot of folks
are choosing to cut that out for financial reasons. So
this is a new research study from Dating News and

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the Kinsey Institute. It shows that forty three percent of
young US singles are going on fewer dates, with a
third of them blaming it on high costs. So nearly
one in four admit they'd move in with a partner
sooner just to save money, and gen Z leads the
trend with thirty eight percent saying they'd cohabitate. They'd cohabitate
earlier for financial relief. Some are willing to go even Further,

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twenty six percent of gen Z and twenty percent of
millennials say they'd marry sooner to cut costs. Men are
more likely than women to rush things twenty eight point
six want to move in faster compared to eighteen point
eight of the women. Likewise, men are slightly more likely
to tie than not quickly. So those for those that
are still testing the waters, many are cutting back. Thirty
seven percent spend less on dating overall, thirty five percent

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shoes coffee drinks over meals in thirty five percent opt
for cheaper restaurants. Yeah, what might have have previously been
a nice steak dinner. It might mean a table for
two at the at the waffle house. Maybe white Castle,
And I get.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
It, people get married in white Castle.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
I know. White Castle is like the perfect kind of
place to actually make their Valentine's Day gag an actual thing.
Actually know a couple of friends of mine who have
made it not an annual thing. But if they don't
have any real plans and they just maybe don't want
to go do it big for Valentine's Day, they'll they'll
make a reservation and go have dinner at Whitecastle. And

(03:13):
I can respect it, but yeah, I mean the moving
in with each other sooner. Again, can't relate with any
personal experience, but I think it used to be you
would do everything you could like that would be a
real big step that you may not be looking to
rush into because I think you could make the case
that And I know back in the day, and heck,

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even whenever my wife and I were not married, not
even engaged, but we lived together, there were still people
in both sides of our family that expressed how they
did not approve, didn't like it. And I mean we
even had people and her family offer to I mean
we weren't even engaged yet that said, hey, you know
you want to get married, we'll pay for it, because
they just couldn't. They didn't like the fact that we

(03:55):
were living together. Which I mean this was twenty years
ago roughly, and I still think that was a an
archaic way of looking at it. But I'll say this,
I don't know how you could marry somebody if you've
never lived with them. I mean, living with somebody is
the ultimate test, I feel like, as far as you
being able to exist with them and share life together.
So to now know that there's that that process is

(04:19):
being sped up more so just because it could financially
put people in a more comfortable situation. It's wild, but
again not really surprising given the given the situation here.
We've talked about this before, but I feel like John,
you and I had the same same playbook because I
feel like.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
We did we actually we did not live with live
with each other first before we got married. This one
thing we did differently.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
You all were married. I mean you were attempting to
get married initially during the pandemic.

Speaker 2 (04:47):
Right Like the initial wedding was during the lockdown was
April of twenty twenty. We pushed that up about a
month to try to get something in. It was very
small because of all the COVID stuff that was going on.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
Talk about terrible timing. I mean, I think April was
the ultimate month of uncertainty as far as what are
we doing here? What happens? Is the world coming to
an end? So uh yeah, a memorable experience for more
reason than just you know the fact that you, you know,
you guys tied the knob. But no surprise, you guys
made it work. Of course, that's that's what you do.
All right. Let's get to a quick time out. We've

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Thursday morning. We've got a giveaway. We've got another pair
of tickets for the Wine on the River Louisville Festival
coming up next weekend, October the eleventh, from two to

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six pm at the Belvidere. And here's how we're going
to give them away. We have our first two callers
that got in line. We've got Teresa and Josh. I'll
start with I'm sorry, Thomas, Teresa, and Thomas my mistake.
Thomas and Teresa, Teresa start with you. Are you with me? Yes?
All right, So we've got Teresa, Thomas you good, sir.

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All right, here's what we're doing. So one of the
bigger talking points recently, really since I've been in this
position is JCPS and the mess, the new superintendent, all
that stuff. So what we're gonna do is, I'm going
to give each of you a chance to go round
for round naming public JCPS high schools in Louisville, and
we'll go until somebody runs out of high schools. To

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think of, this could last a long time, This could
last very very very short amount of times. So Teresa,
we'll start with you give me a high school in
JCPS the school system. That's one, Thomas. Yeah, Thomas, what's what?
Which one? Do you got? Assumption?

Speaker 2 (07:05):
That's a private high school?

Speaker 1 (07:06):
Yeah? I think it's already over. Oh no, Thomas, Teresa,
you win. Thanks thanks to thanks to both of you
for playing stick around. We will, uh, we'll get your
information and you'll be notified how you can get those tickets. So, yeah,
I knew it was either gonna be a really quick thing,
or it was gonna be potentially lengthier, maybe somewhere in between.

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But my guess is that Thomas may have a daughter
that goes to Assumption and he's just thinking that, yes,
it is in Jefferson County. However, h it is it
is a private school. So uh, that was relatively quick.
So again, thank you all for playing, and again John
will get your information and uh we'll do it again tomorrow.
I think I may have the ability to, uh to
maybe reset that one. The fact that I don't know,

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maybe I shouldn't get people a heads up as to
what we're gonna do, then they can prepare or maybe
have a list in front of them. But uh, yeah,
I was hoping that would be a lengthier giveaway. But
you know, I'm gonna assume that Thomas maybe is an
out of towner originally transplant, and he's got a kid
in school system and he just wasn't thinking about And
I did say within the JCPS public school system. So

(08:11):
now now I'm overthinking it. Did I not? Did I
not give him a fair shake? Because you know, JCPS
is specifically what I was aiming for, And of course,
if you're private school, you're not within JCPS. So anyways,
thank you both for participating, and if you want to
buy tickets for this event because you weren't able to
be one of the winners, you can do that. Wine
on the Riverloo dot com it's not just wine, it's

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also a bourbon festival. And again it's next weekend at
the Belvedere from two to six pm. Hopefully mother nature
cooperates and we get we get some good weather. But yeah,
Wine on the riverlou dot com is the website always.
That's one of the downsides about giving away anything on
the air and doing trivia and different contests in order
to uh to find a winner, because I always feel

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bad when whenever we've got somebody that participated and they
didn't win, and I feel bad for Thomas. But hey,
he can try again next or tomorrow. I mean, we've
got another pair of tickets to give away tomorrow and
maybe he'll maybe he'll be the winner. Then he'll have
a chance to redeem himself if he wants to. But
of course you got to get through all right. We've
got a quick time out tracking weather updates on the way.

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Also we've got a sports update coming up right here
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John Shannon. It's seven thirty five here Kentucky and it's
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(09:36):
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needing to speak to an actual human being on the phone,

(09:58):
when you got to call a wanting number or a
customer service number. And I think now we're just programmed
to understand that that is not going to be a
quick and easy process. We're all battle tested when it
comes to wanting to reach a human being to express
whatever it is, we need to share a question, an

(10:19):
issue that needs to be resolved, and there's a there's
a breakdown here that is that has given you some
tips because we've all been there, right, the endless phone
tree yelling representative, I'd like to talk to somebody. And
then what really frustrates me and makes me want to
throw my phone through the wall is whenever they're they're
speaking and telling you something and you know what they're

(10:40):
going to tell you, but it just takes them a
long time, so you just try to cut them off. Representative,
need to talk to somebody, and then I'm sorry, what
was that you said? And then it's just it's just
an endless cycle and it drops me insane. So we
actually had to do that the other day because once again,
we pay for the Walmart whatever it's called where they
deliver grocery. So we pay a monthly fee for them

(11:02):
to bring our groceries to us if it's a certain
price range, and of course we tip the you know,
you also pay for tip if you tip the driver.
But for reasons unknown, they they were on the way
and all of a sudden they weren't. Your order can't
be delivered we don't know why, and look, things happen.
But if you tell me you're gonna be able to

(11:23):
do it, and then you at the last minute, as
I'm waiting for my order to arrive, I'm tracking it
on your app, and then it's just not going to
be there going back to the store. That's an issue.
Meaning don't tell me you can help, you can handle
this for me, and then leave me at the last
minute finding out you can't do it. We had the
issue when we were traveling in Florida for vacation. Haven't

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had the issue here until this week. And again, if
I know I don't have the ability to utilize your service,
I'll go get it myself. Well, if I've waited because
I assume I can rely on you to bring me
the items I need for my wife to cook dinner,
and then it's dinner time or close to it, and
you are thirty minutes late, and then we just find

(12:06):
out you're not coming at all. Like that, that's beyond inconvenient.
It's not about you know, things happening. If I put
in an order and you tell me that you are
too busy, or you're understaff, whatever it may be, and
you won't be able to bring this order to me
until forty eight hours. I'll probably just decide, well, I
gotta go get it myself. So anyways, because Walmart outsources

(12:29):
the delivery, it's just nobody. It's a setup to where
nobody's truly at fault. Right, you got multiple people really
sharing no true accountability. They can easily just say, well,
you have to talk to them, or you'll have to
talk to them, and it's a pain in the rear end. Luckily,
we did end up getting our order the next day,

(12:49):
and guess what they gave us a five dollars coupon.
Can you believe that? I mean talk about looking out
for your customers. I mean, they didn't have to do that,
I suppose, But what I just and I just needed
to just not worry about it and realize that it's
not that big of a deal. But whenever you're talking
to the person on the other end and it's clear

(13:10):
they either don't understand or just simply don't care or
sympathize at all. My point, which again, whenever they tell me,
because this happened, this was a nightmare situation when we
traveled to Destined and it happened because their resolution somebody
who was not near where we were, that was across
the country, maybe another country, because they didn't speak great English,

(13:30):
them letting me know that the relution the resolution is
I can just go to the store and get it.
And I'm wanting to scream as loud as I can.
Do you not understand I would have done that two
days ago had you not continue to tell me that
you will be able to fulfill what you are supposed
to fulfill for me, because that's the service that we
pay for. You know, just tell me if you can't

(13:50):
do it, I'll figure it out. Don't keep telling me
you can and then at the last minute screwing me over.
I don't mean to get this worked up, but it's frustrating. Anyways,
back to these tips really quickly. I think most people
would just let me keep hitting zero and eventually I'll
speak to a human that that's a tried and true
method that oftentimes does work, asking for a supervisor, phrasing
it as quote someone who can solve my problem. Quote

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That works best because what you're doing there is you
are letting indirectly. You're letting the person know that you're
talking to you. You can't help me. You've tried, we've
we've done the song, song and dance, and I need
somebody else. And then if you stay silent, it says
here that sometimes it can time out and write you
to a person. I've never had that happen. If I
stay solid, it's just going to be a loop of

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them telling me my options and the other extra strategies.
Repeat your request to push reps past their past their
scripts makes sense, right, And then this is this is
this is a last resort, but I guarantee you it works.
I've never done it, but they list this is the
last resort. Choose a sales related option like upgrades are billing,

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and then those are people that are going to be
hungry for your business. And then you can just say sorry,
I didn't mean to talk to sales. Can you transfer me?
That may lead to them actually being able to transfer
you to somebody that I don't know, maybe across the
hall or down the down the hall, in a different
cubicle in the sales or support or in the support department.
So yeah, I don't see this ever getting any better.
In fact, you know, one of the pizza places, I'm

(15:18):
not sure which one it is. It might be Domino's
when you call an order like it's somebody in another country,
and I guess that can still work. But when it
doesn't and you need to get it figured out, not
exactly an encouraging sign to know that the person you're
talking to is in is, you know, maybe on another
planet taking your call. They don't sympathize at all. They
don't even know what it is they're saying. They can

(15:38):
read a script, but they might they can read it,
but they may not even understand the language. And you know,
it's frustrating, But I do. I do at least find
some you know, some level of a challenge that I
can accomplish when I can tell that they're clearly reading
the playbook, right I'm saying this, they know to look
here and give me this response, And I guess maybe

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I just laugh and enjoy that to keep from wanting to,
you know, put my head through the wall. All right,
quick update of Travigan Weather's on the way right here
our news radio eight forty w h as. I'm sure
many of you can relate to finding the excitement that
you get when you find a new show to binge
and my wife and I we are. We are all

(16:19):
in on a new Netflix show with Jason Bateman and
Jude Law. It's called Black Rabbit, and I believe it's
eight episodes, and I had I had not seen a
preview for it, didn't know it, didn't I knew nothing
about it. However, it's it's right up my alley, and
I saw it right there. In fact, we were going
to watch a different show that I'd heard about, because

(16:40):
every now and then we try to we try to,
uh to find shows we like together. There's certain things
she would like more than me, and vice versa, and
I watched my own stuff. Really, when I'm at the gym,
my my my treadmill, my daily treadmill experience usually is
me just getting lost in a show or a documentary
or something, just to distract myself from the fact that

(17:01):
I'm that I'm running, because you know, running is it's
great mentally, but also you know it the mental component
it times can get in the way. So if I
distract myself, it makes a little bit easier, especially if
I really get into it. Mostly documentaries, documentaries will interest
me if there's a good one and just consume me
to where I'll end up not realizing, Wow, I just
did four miles and I did pretty good timing. That's
like best case scenario. It's not like it happens all

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the time. But anyways, there are shows I want to
watch with her, and you know, sometimes it's harder to find.
But she's a big Jason Bateman fan, as am I.
We really loved Ozark and Black Rabbit. We haven't finished yet.
I think we're about four episodes in, but it is
really really good. It's I guess I'm trying to think
of the best way to describe it without really giving
any any any kind of spoilers, but it is. It's

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about two brothers, and it's Jude Law and Jason Bateman
that are brothers, and it's it's there's a lot of
layers to it. They own a restaurant together, one gets
bought out. There's a botched robbery that starts the show,
and then from then it kind of looks back as
far as things that led led them to the situation
that they're in when the show starts and you see

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that robbery. So it's still a lot of unknown, but
each episode they have given a lot of a lot
of it's been it's been good enough to keep me interested.
And I tell you what, I can't think of a
show that Jason Bateman has been in as an actor
or a writer or even you know, a supporting role,
because he was a lot, he was doing a lot
of stuff behind the scenes. I think he's he's one

(18:30):
of the best out there, one of my favorite actors.
And yeah, not I really can't think of anything that
he's put to that he's been involved in that that
I didn't really really enjoy. And not only you know,
but this is a really this is a very serious
role as it's kind of a dark crime, gritty show.
But also you know, I'm thinking of movies like Horrible Bosses.
That's one of the that's one of my favorite movies

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of his. So yeah, check it out if you have.
And it's it's really good at least so far. I
guess it could have an awful ending and maybe I'll
have a different opinion, but so far, so good. It's
Black Rabbit on Netflix. All right, quick time out. We've
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