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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time time time time walking load. So Michael
Very show is on the air. Ye ain't no, wasn't
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the mad sholl on here?
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (00:28):
You darn this is sheriny cute little girl.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Michael Bell was supposed to send producer Kennedy and Chadley
and one of these old uh what's the one that
danger bell romote? They both succumberly here and put me
in a microphone where I sound right now here. I'm
trying to get on here and do some stuff, and
every time I do this, lady come back with a
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Hawaiia Airport coat.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
She told him.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
I'm clear the land on runway twenty six hunting. I
don't know what's she talking about, what medications she own?
Speaker 1 (01:04):
The hell?
Speaker 2 (01:06):
But if something needs to be did, because I only
get five channel on this damn antenna, y'all cut my
cable off down here the help they can't see me
TV and I sit down over it?
Speaker 1 (01:21):
The hell? You know what? My butter?
Speaker 2 (01:25):
What do they call it?
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Doctor and Nutrician?
Speaker 2 (01:29):
No the one to do a hemmero or that's a
guy a cat?
Speaker 1 (01:34):
The doctor did the news.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
I got it, Cas love you.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
I read yesterday that seventy three percent of US adults
have experienced an online scam, with most receiving scam calls, texts,
and emails at least weekly. Nearly all consumers view scams
as a major problem and one that's rowing in the
AI era. The most common scams consumers are experiencing online
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hackers stealing credit or debit card info and making fraudulent charges.
Forty eight percent of people experienced that bought an online
item that turned out to be counterfeit or never arrived
and was not refunded. Thirty six percent of people a
personal online account was taken over without permission. Twenty nine
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percent a scam email, text message, or call led them
to give away personal information. Twenty four percent of people
experience that ransomware blocked use of their computer until they
paid money, ten percent gave money to a fake investment
opportunity seven percent. Consumers are most likely to view scams
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as a major problem on text message, email, social media,
shopping sites and apps, bank making sites and apps, and
payment sites in apps, but dating sites and cryptocurrency sites
are growing areas of concern for scam conscious consumers. While
more than eight in ten consumers say that elderly consumers
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are scammed more often. Adults thirty to forty nine are
the most likely to have experienced at least one type
of scam. While experiencing a scam is common across race
and ethnicity, Black consumers are the most likely to have
been targeted with three plus scams. Lower income consumers are
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most likely to experience multiple scams, while higher income consumers
are most likely to have experienced one more elaborate scam.
Nearly one in three. Nearly a third of US adults
receive scam phone calls daily, and more than two thirds
receive them weekly. L and text scams are nearly as common,
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and social media scams are becoming more common, with one
third now experiencing them weekly. One in five US adults
have lost money to a scam, with under thirties, black
consumers and lower income consumers the most likely to have
lost money. Of those who lost money to a scam,
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three in ten say it had a significant impact on
their household's finances. More than two thirds of consumers say
AI will make scams and attacks more common, but the majority,
regardless of political affiliation, say the government and tech companies
are doing a bad job at curbing online scams and attacks.
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So of all the things that Donald Trump could do,
has done, will do executive orders, go after these bastards,
hang some of them out to dry. I honestly don't
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think a single thing is done to catch the people
doing this. I want you to think about, in the
course of your day, how many unwanted intrusions you have
by people that you wish would leave you the hell alone.
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Just wait till about January February, when we start into
the Republican primary season. You're going to be getting text messages,
probably with your first name on it, and they're going
to tell you to vote for their guy. The other
guy's a pedophile, cannibal, awful person, monster. They're guy's a
great guy, and here's a nice picture of them with
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their kids. Oh aren't they just adorable? Vote for them? Why?
Why do we allow this? Now? Full disclosure. I don't
believe that it should be legal to walk up to
someone's door and try to sell them something. My property
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begins at the sidewalk. If you want to stand out
in the street and say, hey, can I tell you
this vacuum cleaner? Look at this. All the dirt will
be in the water. You'll see how much you're cleaning. Hey,
would you like to buy some encyclopedias for me? Hey,
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we're bringing back Columbia House. If you want to stand
out in the street, okay, that's fine. I don't believe
you should be able to go to somebody's door. I
don't care if you're a Mormon with your little short
sleeve dress shirt and you clip on tie, riding your
bicycle around trying to bring me to whatever the hell
crazy religion you're selling. I don't care what you're selling
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registering people to vote. I don't believe you should be
allowed to go door to door and knock on people's doors.
That's just my opinion, But I certainly think that we
don't take seriously. Do you realize how inefficient it is.
How many times during the course of the day you
can't log into your bank account online without them saying, well,
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now we'll have to send you a text and you'll
have to put in the code. You've got to have
a different password. And then about the time you remember
what the password is, they tell you, oh, it's time,
let's go ahead and change your password. Well, hell, I
can't remember what my last one was. And then you're
getting locked out of accounts, and then you're calling somebody
in the Philippines. They don't even pay for India anymore.
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You're calling for somebody from calling somebody in the Philippines
and trying to get back into your account. How much
time we waste conducting business that is our money that
we have earned, that other people are stealing from us.
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I mean this hang those people. Prosecute them, at least
put the fear of God in them that you are
scamming little old ladies because they are. I'd like to
see some of these people caught. I'd like to see
them arrested. I'd like us to flog them in public
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to death. I would enjoy that, I really would. But
I'm sick, and I would enjoy that.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Because Michael Berret get on him blowing all.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
That baby.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
This morning. Texas soda brand takes claims from soda buyers
after class action settlement. So my wife brought this drink
up to me the other day. I'd never heard of it.
I had seen it on the shelves. Ramona, have you
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ever heard of this drink? It's spelled poppi poppy. You
were okay. The article says an Austin based brand that
bills itself as a gut healthy, low calorie soda, agreed
to settle a class action lawsuit describing its prebiotic representations
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as false and misleading. Recently acquired by PepsiCo, Poppy's former owner,
VNNGR Beverage agreed to settle the lawsuit for eight point
nine million dollars after false advertising claims bubbled to the
surface that Poppy did not actually provide meaningful prebiotic effects.
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The allegations come after Poppy's popularity boosted in recent years
after the product, then known as Mother Beverage, appeared on
Shark Tank in twenty seventeen. A rebrand followed, and Poppy
made it into major retailers nationwide, also gaining partnerships with
celebrities such as post Malone. Well that's who I'm going
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to take health advice from, and it's got tattoos on
his face. The brand faced false advertising claims in twenty
twenty four, as plaintiffs argued Poppy Soda contains two grams
of prebiotic fiber, which the complaint argues is too low
to cause meaningful gut health benefit for the consumer from
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just one can and even if a consumer drank more
poppy sodas defendants said, the drink's high sugar content would
offset benefits. I think you meant plaintiffs there. I'm just
wondering who's a plaintiff here. This has got to be
a plaintiffs attorney that figured out that this soda doesn't
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deliver on what they promise, because I can't imagine Ramone
or Jim. I can't even imagine Chad because he doesn't
drink anything that's not healthy, or eat anything that's not healthy,
or do anything that's not healthy. I mean, I'm just
imagining Kunda out there and he's been buying poppy soda
and telling everybody he knows. Man, it's really good for
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gut health. You drink this stuff right here. Oh it's
not as good as fresca or tab don't get me wrong,
but it's good for gut health. Would you like one?
Would you like to work on your gut health right now?
And somewhere out there there would be this guy that says, hey,
wait a minute, I had it tested and it's not
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as good for gut health as I thought. I think
I would like to file a lawsuit. No, that's not
how that works, because you don't actually make any money.
According to Poppy's settlement website, people who purchase Poppy between
January twenty third, twenty twenty and July eighteenth, twenty twenty
five who submit and approved claim are eligible for payments
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ranging from seventy five cents per single can of the
product purchased, two nine dollars per twelve pack or fifteen
pack unit. What kind of goober can prove how many
cans of a soda he purchased over the last five years.
If you can do that, you have a bigger issue
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than the fact that your gut health soda that you've
been drinking, because that's as close to good health as
you ever gonna get, is not delivering on what they promised. Okay,
we got mister Kunda over here. Let's see, he's got
four hundred and thirty eight dollars of receipts here. Well,
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we can't pay it all. We're gonna cap it at
four hundred. But here's four hundred dollars for all your
trouble of five years of keeping up with your receipts,
you freaking weirdo hoarder. Here's four hundred dollars. Kunda, Go
knock yourself out. Go find some other scam to improve
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your gut Health. Claim forms must be submitted online or
postmark no later than September twenty six, twenty twenty five.
Payments for approved claims will be issued only if the
Court gives final approval to the proposed settlement and after
the final approval is no longer subject to appeal, the
settlement website notes. Meanwhile, PepsiCo appears poised to continue touting
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Poppy's alternative soda drinks, which come in flavors such as
Classic Cola and root Beer. When announcing in May that
the Beverage Giant had closed the acquisition of Poppy for
one point nine to five billion dollars, PepsiCo CEO Rom Krishnan,
is there anything that a white dude is still in
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charge of? Just out of curiosity? We are incited. We
are excited to scale Poppy's momentum and unlock new growth
through our capabilities. We're just getting started. So let's see,
they made one point five billion dollars selling a soda
company which probably didn't have one point nine to five
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billion in sales. Maybe it had twenty million. But they
made two billion dollars selling a soda company to the
big soda company, PepsiCo. And the sales of the soda
were based on people erroneously believing that it was good
for gut health. And they're going to have to pay
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nine million dollars of a fine. Oh no, don't throw
me into the brier patch. They did exactly what they
wanted to do. They did exactly this script played out perfectly.
They knew exactly how much gut health they were contributing to,
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which was very little. They promoted it as being a
whole lot. People bought it. Pepsi noticed they got paid.
Oh no, we have to pay out nine million dollars
in a settlement. But the nine million dollars is only
based on a bunch of people actually filing the claim.
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But Kunda's the only one that's got receipts and bothers
to come in and go, all right, here we go,
because there's some dude out there who's retired, who, like Rainman,
keeps every single receipt for every single purchase. And he
went back into his files. Remember when Mitch Hedberg was
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asked if he wanted a receipt for his sixteen cent donut,
and he said, nine, I don't think I'm gonna file
that one away. There's a dude out there that filed
this show. It's a damn shame. It's a damn shame.
It's a damn shame. It's a damn shame. When Tulsey
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Gabbert declassified documents that proved a treasonous conspiracy by the
Obama administration in twenty sixteen, you weren't surprised, and I
wasn't surprised. What I found particularly interesting was the claim
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that religious organization religious organizations, possibly churches, were going to
receive increased funding if they supported Hillary Clinton. I think
that confused some folks at the recent press conference held
by Toulci Gabbern. I mean certain folks got really upset.
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Ramon't play that press conference audio.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
Bed evening, folks, we take you now live to the
Tulsi Gabbert press conference where she is describing a detail
how the state Department had plans to fund millions of
dollars to religious organizations, including possibly churches, but only churches
that supported Hillary Clinton.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
This could be a bombshell.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
Let's go live had which Hillary Clinton, which included possible
criminal acts like secret meetings with multiple named US religious
organizations talking.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
About churches chicken. He wait wait now just one peanut
oal prime minute. Are we talking about y'all funding them
churches as in the chicken fried churches? Sir, who are you?
Speaker 4 (17:20):
Well? Excuse you, sonny, I'm g Reese Forcracket founder CEO
of PAPIs Fride check them now.
Speaker 6 (17:27):
This continued funding of the churches my direct competitor, who
happened to be an establishment with a frequent physitor called
mister Bill Clinton, who loved his wonderful Lasanhi well.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Just shave on me.
Speaker 6 (17:45):
I can only imagine how much money was propped to
the but apply from the Clinton, especially Bill who loved
them rests ama and whatever.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Else peace he could get his hands about a hallowla. So,
in my conclusion, there is collusion in.
Speaker 6 (18:06):
The fried chicken industry. As the holder of Popeye, I
tell you churches your funding must be in it.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
So there you have it, a chicken fight for the
right to which party we'll discuss tonight at ten headline.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Mother says octopus attacked her six year old son at
San Antone Aquarium. In an interactive exhibit, This kid looks
like he's got measles or something. I mean that that
octopus got the better of this fellow. Brittany Tarin says
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that she and her son Leo. Kids aren't named Leo anymore.
What a good name. We're visiting the octopus in the
interactive exhibit. When it grabbed hold of it. Leo was
left covered in purple bruises. He was curpled. He was
left covered in purple bruises after the octopus clung on
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to him, refusing to let go. Ksat TV in San
and Tone reports, Tarn said she reached out to the
Texas State Aquarium, which recommended she file an animal welfare
complaint to the United States Department of Agriculture. Wait, what hey,
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your octopus? It kind of stung my kid. And here's
a picture. It's really bad. Oh, you should probably send
a note to somebody in DC. In the complaint, she
said her son sustained extensive suction bruises, and the employees
on site down played the incident.
Speaker 7 (19:53):
How does that work, I'll walk it off, Leo. It's
not that you know he does that? You know that
o octopus. Sometimes he's the craziest dead burned thing.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
When he really likes somebody, and clearly Leo he you
know what, let me get you a sucker, because I
think you are one, and this is his sign. You know,
he doesn't just latch on to anybody. He really this
means he likes you. In the past, the mother said
an employee would stand near the tank encouraging people to
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interact with the octopus. On their most recent visit, she
said no staff member was nearby. When the octopus clung
to Leo and started coming out of the tank, Tarren
said she yelled for help. She said an employee walked over,
noting how playful the octopus was that day. In the end,
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Arren said it took about five minutes and three employees
to get the octopus off Leo, which left him with
marx from his wrist to his armpit. The story from
ksat TV tag let go.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Yeah, it was suctioned onto him and so we kind
of I kind of tried to help him get down
and like away from the glass. So the octapus started
to come out over the glass and my friend and
I were like, we don't know what, we don't know,
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We're not sure what to do. There's no employees around,
so We started yelling for help, and I tried to
have Leo get it off of him. The employee came
walking up and just said, oh, she's super playful today,
and then he could not get the octavius off and
then he radioed for like other people to come help,
and they brought ice packs, and the ice packs didn't
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really do a whole lot. It was like suctioning onto
the employees and then releasing, but it still was not
releasing him. And I started to see some of the
tentacle like sections come off of his arm.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
How far up do you have this?
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Did you have the suction mark song alaena? Yeah, all
the way from like your wrist, all the way to
your armpit. It was all over and I started to
see that his arm was purple with little suction hickeys.
They finally got it off of him. Then a couple
days later, after everything blew up on TikTok, I went back.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Just to check.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
I was like, surely they have shut it down, and yeah,
the octopus was still there was no anything couch.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
We told my scammers, and the buddy of mine said,
how in the f I can't buy gasoline on my
debit card anywhere? East of Baytown without getting my debit
card shut off. But somebody in Detroit can use my
debit card to buy eight hundred dollars worth of air
Jordan tennis shoes. Ain't that the damn truth? And the
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thing about it is nobody ever talks about it. So
much of our economy is fraud. You're being defrauded day
in and day out, your credit card stolen. I've had
to replace my credit card three times in the last
two years. And they don't even mind anymore. It's just
they bake it into the process, they build it in.
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They just assume, you know, four percent of transactions are fraudulent,
and we'll just make it up on the interest rate.
You call them and say, hey, I got I got
four today. I've had four charges on my account. I
don't know how somebody got my they skimmed my account number.
They've and your steady going into hey, I didn't make
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these charges. I don't buy things on s H E
I N dot com, Shine dot com, some Chinese knockoff
account and there's four of them in a row, first
one for a dollar and then for fifty and then
they steadily go up and they go, oh yeah, there's
a lot of fraud with that site. A lot of
fraud with that site. Okay, well that wasn't me. Oh,
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don't worry, sir, we know it wasn't you. We'll just
close that account and have you a card on its
way here shortly and it'll up. Well, well, wait a minute.
I don't want to have to pay for something I
didn't charge, but I want y'all to be a little
more shocked about it. I want y'all to be, you know,
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sort of upset that this is going on. Y'all don't
even seem to Uh, y'all don't even seem bother.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
This happens all day we're in the fraud department. They
just build it in Walgreens, CBS. They just assume little
punks are going to come in and steal stuff. And
it's not until they steal so much that they lock
everything up. Now you have to get it out of
the commissary like you're in prison. Was in DC earlier
this summer, and there was which is just east of
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the capital, a decent neighborhood, not a bad neighborhood, And
you go in and everything you could possibly want is
locked inside a cage. There is no human being at
the checkout that it's self checkout, so you'll just have
to figure it out on your own. There's a menacing
police officer when you first walk in the store and
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he stands there. In fact, I honestly thought it was
a cutout figure because he was so rigid and so stiff,
and he has sunglasses on, like the chips sunglasses that
Eric Astrada war because he wants to give the impression
that you shouldn't steal stuff there. But I think I'm
the wrong person to give that impression too, because I'm
not going to steal anything. So you go in and
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there's mister police officer.
Speaker 7 (25:49):
Guy.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
He's black, because you want him to be black so
that if you ever do actually bother to arrest anybody,
it's better if it's a black cop doing anything of white.
So there's mister police officer right at the front. And
then you go to buy something and everything is locked up,
so there's buttons and you call for it and they
come and they say what do you need? Or you
go up to the front and go, hey, is it
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possible I could buy a ballpoint pin? I see them,
but they're in the cage Oh, yeah, we need somebody
on all three to help us do buy a pin? Yeah,
just go and wait there and they'll come to you.
And so there's several roving employees who come with their
key and they open it up and they hand you
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your ballpoint pin and then you take your pen and
you go to the front for the self checkout. So
the only thing that human beings are still used for
in this store is opening the cage so that your
very low value item can be handed to you after
you've waited on it, which is sort of awkward. I
can't imagine a woman buying a summer's Eve and she's
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got a call and ask and they hey, can we
get somebody at the do she's on our five? Do
she's on all five? And what she's just standing there
waiting to buy it. That's what you're left with when
you don't prosecute these little turds. So then you buy
your item, and you go up to the front and
you do the self checkout, which you can't figure out.
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You've got to hit the button ten times. And then
at the end of it. As if this has in
any way, shape or form been a rewarding, satisfying experience.
They ask if you would like to donate to some
inner city, cause hell no, I would not. I would
like to get out of here right now. This has
been a very unpleasant experience. And then you go on
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your way. And that's how you live in environment where
you let these little turds run them up. And that
was the liberal dream, is that we won't arrest these people,
we will rely on them to be their own limit
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of how much they'll steal. Well, the problem is when
they think you're going to throw them in prison for life,
they'll steal a certain amount. Once they realize you're not
gonna throw them in prison for life, they don't steal
that same amount. Now they just walk in with a
bag and they don't even bother to cover their faces.
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They just rake everything on the shelf into the bag.
The city of San Francisco passed a law that said
anything under one thousand dollars we are decriminalizing. So now
you've got some sort of a daytime game show network
creation where well, let's just keep it around nine to
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ninety or so and it won't be a problem. It
doesn't take long until every hood rat in San Francisco
can walk in with a bag and wipe over nine
hundred dollars worth of value retail granted, and you don't
have that in it. It doesn't take long until you
start wiping the entire contents of a shelf into a bag,
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and then the next guy, and the next guy, and
the next guy, and the next guy and the next guy,
and before long you don't have any inventory, so you
have nothing to sell to make up for the fact
of all of everything that was stolen, and nobody wants
to come in your store anymore when you're already at
a point in the timeline of retail that more and
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more people are buying things from Amazon. I truly believe
that Amazon's growth was partly occasioned by the fact not
the convenience, but simply not having to be around democrats.
People don't want to go to a store because you've
got the homeless people standing out front, pastering you and tweaking.
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They're on you know, they're shaking. You know their eyes
are golf ball sized. You know bad things are happening
in that dude's head, and he just assumed knocked in
the head to get your money and get another hit.
And then you go inside and did I mention that
the people who work there are not exactly well schooled
in customer service. The items are being stolen, the bad
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guys are coming in because this is where they go
to rob. You're going to get knocked in the head
in the parking lot coming or going, well, heck, i'll
just have the Amazon guy. And so that's what I
think that was a big part. It didn't have to
be cheaper, it didn't have to be more convenient. You
just avoided the experience that the companies refused to do
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anything about.
It's that time time time time walking load. So Michael
Very show is on the air. Ye ain't no, wasn't
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the mad sholl on here?
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (00:28):
You darn this is sheriny cute little girl.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Michael Bell was supposed to send producer Kennedy and Chadley
and one of these old uh what's the one that
danger bell romote? They both succumberly here and put me
in a microphone where I sound right now here. I'm
trying to get on here and do some stuff, and
every time I do this, lady come back with a
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Hawaiia Airport coat.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
She told him.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
I'm clear the land on runway twenty six hunting. I
don't know what's she talking about, what medications she own?
Speaker 1 (01:04):
The hell?
Speaker 2 (01:06):
But if something needs to be did, because I only
get five channel on this damn antenna, y'all cut my
cable off down here the help they can't see me
TV and I sit down over it?
Speaker 1 (01:21):
The hell? You know what? My butter?
Speaker 2 (01:25):
What do they call it?
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Doctor and Nutrician?
Speaker 2 (01:29):
No the one to do a hemmero or that's a
guy a cat?
Speaker 1 (01:34):
The doctor did the news.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
I got it, Cas love you.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
I read yesterday that seventy three percent of US adults
have experienced an online scam, with most receiving scam calls, texts,
and emails at least weekly. Nearly all consumers view scams
as a major problem and one that's rowing in the
AI era. The most common scams consumers are experiencing online
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hackers stealing credit or debit card info and making fraudulent charges.
Forty eight percent of people experienced that bought an online
item that turned out to be counterfeit or never arrived
and was not refunded. Thirty six percent of people a
personal online account was taken over without permission. Twenty nine
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percent a scam email, text message, or call led them
to give away personal information. Twenty four percent of people
experience that ransomware blocked use of their computer until they
paid money, ten percent gave money to a fake investment
opportunity seven percent. Consumers are most likely to view scams
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as a major problem on text message, email, social media,
shopping sites and apps, bank making sites and apps, and
payment sites in apps, but dating sites and cryptocurrency sites
are growing areas of concern for scam conscious consumers. While
more than eight in ten consumers say that elderly consumers
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are scammed more often. Adults thirty to forty nine are
the most likely to have experienced at least one type
of scam. While experiencing a scam is common across race
and ethnicity, Black consumers are the most likely to have
been targeted with three plus scams. Lower income consumers are
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most likely to experience multiple scams, while higher income consumers
are most likely to have experienced one more elaborate scam.
Nearly one in three. Nearly a third of US adults
receive scam phone calls daily, and more than two thirds
receive them weekly. L and text scams are nearly as common,
(04:03):
and social media scams are becoming more common, with one
third now experiencing them weekly. One in five US adults
have lost money to a scam, with under thirties, black
consumers and lower income consumers the most likely to have
lost money. Of those who lost money to a scam,
(04:24):
three in ten say it had a significant impact on
their household's finances. More than two thirds of consumers say
AI will make scams and attacks more common, but the majority,
regardless of political affiliation, say the government and tech companies
are doing a bad job at curbing online scams and attacks.
(04:48):
So of all the things that Donald Trump could do,
has done, will do executive orders, go after these bastards,
hang some of them out to dry. I honestly don't
(05:08):
think a single thing is done to catch the people
doing this. I want you to think about, in the
course of your day, how many unwanted intrusions you have
by people that you wish would leave you the hell alone.
(05:28):
Just wait till about January February, when we start into
the Republican primary season. You're going to be getting text messages,
probably with your first name on it, and they're going
to tell you to vote for their guy. The other
guy's a pedophile, cannibal, awful person, monster. They're guy's a
great guy, and here's a nice picture of them with
(05:48):
their kids. Oh aren't they just adorable? Vote for them? Why?
Why do we allow this? Now? Full disclosure. I don't
believe that it should be legal to walk up to
someone's door and try to sell them something. My property
(06:10):
begins at the sidewalk. If you want to stand out
in the street and say, hey, can I tell you
this vacuum cleaner? Look at this. All the dirt will
be in the water. You'll see how much you're cleaning. Hey,
would you like to buy some encyclopedias for me? Hey,
(06:31):
we're bringing back Columbia House. If you want to stand
out in the street, okay, that's fine. I don't believe
you should be able to go to somebody's door. I
don't care if you're a Mormon with your little short
sleeve dress shirt and you clip on tie, riding your
bicycle around trying to bring me to whatever the hell
crazy religion you're selling. I don't care what you're selling
(06:53):
registering people to vote. I don't believe you should be
allowed to go door to door and knock on people's doors.
That's just my opinion, But I certainly think that we
don't take seriously. Do you realize how inefficient it is.
How many times during the course of the day you
can't log into your bank account online without them saying, well,
(07:18):
now we'll have to send you a text and you'll
have to put in the code. You've got to have
a different password. And then about the time you remember
what the password is, they tell you, oh, it's time,
let's go ahead and change your password. Well, hell, I
can't remember what my last one was. And then you're
getting locked out of accounts, and then you're calling somebody
in the Philippines. They don't even pay for India anymore.
(07:39):
You're calling for somebody from calling somebody in the Philippines
and trying to get back into your account. How much
time we waste conducting business that is our money that
we have earned, that other people are stealing from us.
(08:01):
I mean this hang those people. Prosecute them, at least
put the fear of God in them that you are
scamming little old ladies because they are. I'd like to
see some of these people caught. I'd like to see
them arrested. I'd like us to flog them in public
(08:21):
to death. I would enjoy that, I really would. But
I'm sick, and I would enjoy that.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Because Michael Berret get on him blowing all.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
That baby.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
This morning. Texas soda brand takes claims from soda buyers
after class action settlement. So my wife brought this drink
up to me the other day. I'd never heard of it.
I had seen it on the shelves. Ramona, have you
(08:53):
ever heard of this drink? It's spelled poppi poppy. You
were okay. The article says an Austin based brand that
bills itself as a gut healthy, low calorie soda, agreed
to settle a class action lawsuit describing its prebiotic representations
(09:16):
as false and misleading. Recently acquired by PepsiCo, Poppy's former owner,
VNNGR Beverage agreed to settle the lawsuit for eight point
nine million dollars after false advertising claims bubbled to the
surface that Poppy did not actually provide meaningful prebiotic effects.
(09:40):
The allegations come after Poppy's popularity boosted in recent years
after the product, then known as Mother Beverage, appeared on
Shark Tank in twenty seventeen. A rebrand followed, and Poppy
made it into major retailers nationwide, also gaining partnerships with
celebrities such as post Malone. Well that's who I'm going
(10:02):
to take health advice from, and it's got tattoos on
his face. The brand faced false advertising claims in twenty
twenty four, as plaintiffs argued Poppy Soda contains two grams
of prebiotic fiber, which the complaint argues is too low
to cause meaningful gut health benefit for the consumer from
(10:26):
just one can and even if a consumer drank more
poppy sodas defendants said, the drink's high sugar content would
offset benefits. I think you meant plaintiffs there. I'm just
wondering who's a plaintiff here. This has got to be
a plaintiffs attorney that figured out that this soda doesn't
(10:51):
deliver on what they promise, because I can't imagine Ramone
or Jim. I can't even imagine Chad because he doesn't
drink anything that's not healthy, or eat anything that's not healthy,
or do anything that's not healthy. I mean, I'm just
imagining Kunda out there and he's been buying poppy soda
and telling everybody he knows. Man, it's really good for
(11:11):
gut health. You drink this stuff right here. Oh it's
not as good as fresca or tab don't get me wrong,
but it's good for gut health. Would you like one?
Would you like to work on your gut health right now?
And somewhere out there there would be this guy that says, hey,
wait a minute, I had it tested and it's not
(11:33):
as good for gut health as I thought. I think
I would like to file a lawsuit. No, that's not
how that works, because you don't actually make any money.
According to Poppy's settlement website, people who purchase Poppy between
January twenty third, twenty twenty and July eighteenth, twenty twenty
five who submit and approved claim are eligible for payments
(11:55):
ranging from seventy five cents per single can of the
product purchased, two nine dollars per twelve pack or fifteen
pack unit. What kind of goober can prove how many
cans of a soda he purchased over the last five years.
If you can do that, you have a bigger issue
(12:18):
than the fact that your gut health soda that you've
been drinking, because that's as close to good health as
you ever gonna get, is not delivering on what they promised. Okay,
we got mister Kunda over here. Let's see, he's got
four hundred and thirty eight dollars of receipts here. Well,
(12:39):
we can't pay it all. We're gonna cap it at
four hundred. But here's four hundred dollars for all your
trouble of five years of keeping up with your receipts,
you freaking weirdo hoarder. Here's four hundred dollars. Kunda, Go
knock yourself out. Go find some other scam to improve
(13:00):
your gut Health. Claim forms must be submitted online or
postmark no later than September twenty six, twenty twenty five.
Payments for approved claims will be issued only if the
Court gives final approval to the proposed settlement and after
the final approval is no longer subject to appeal, the
settlement website notes. Meanwhile, PepsiCo appears poised to continue touting
(13:25):
Poppy's alternative soda drinks, which come in flavors such as
Classic Cola and root Beer. When announcing in May that
the Beverage Giant had closed the acquisition of Poppy for
one point nine to five billion dollars, PepsiCo CEO Rom Krishnan,
is there anything that a white dude is still in
(13:45):
charge of? Just out of curiosity? We are incited. We
are excited to scale Poppy's momentum and unlock new growth
through our capabilities. We're just getting started. So let's see,
they made one point five billion dollars selling a soda
company which probably didn't have one point nine to five
(14:07):
billion in sales. Maybe it had twenty million. But they
made two billion dollars selling a soda company to the
big soda company, PepsiCo. And the sales of the soda
were based on people erroneously believing that it was good
for gut health. And they're going to have to pay
(14:30):
nine million dollars of a fine. Oh no, don't throw
me into the brier patch. They did exactly what they
wanted to do. They did exactly this script played out perfectly.
They knew exactly how much gut health they were contributing to,
(14:54):
which was very little. They promoted it as being a
whole lot. People bought it. Pepsi noticed they got paid.
Oh no, we have to pay out nine million dollars
in a settlement. But the nine million dollars is only
based on a bunch of people actually filing the claim.
(15:17):
But Kunda's the only one that's got receipts and bothers
to come in and go, all right, here we go,
because there's some dude out there who's retired, who, like Rainman,
keeps every single receipt for every single purchase. And he
went back into his files. Remember when Mitch Hedberg was
(15:37):
asked if he wanted a receipt for his sixteen cent donut,
and he said, nine, I don't think I'm gonna file
that one away. There's a dude out there that filed
this show. It's a damn shame. It's a damn shame.
It's a damn shame. It's a damn shame. When Tulsey
(15:58):
Gabbert declassified documents that proved a treasonous conspiracy by the
Obama administration in twenty sixteen, you weren't surprised, and I
wasn't surprised. What I found particularly interesting was the claim
(16:20):
that religious organization religious organizations, possibly churches, were going to
receive increased funding if they supported Hillary Clinton. I think
that confused some folks at the recent press conference held
by Toulci Gabbern. I mean certain folks got really upset.
(16:40):
Ramon't play that press conference audio.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
Bed evening, folks, we take you now live to the
Tulsi Gabbert press conference where she is describing a detail
how the state Department had plans to fund millions of
dollars to religious organizations, including possibly churches, but only churches
that supported Hillary Clinton.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
This could be a bombshell.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
Let's go live had which Hillary Clinton, which included possible
criminal acts like secret meetings with multiple named US religious
organizations talking.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
About churches chicken. He wait wait now just one peanut
oal prime minute. Are we talking about y'all funding them
churches as in the chicken fried churches? Sir, who are you?
Speaker 4 (17:20):
Well? Excuse you, sonny, I'm g Reese Forcracket founder CEO
of PAPIs Fride check them now.
Speaker 6 (17:27):
This continued funding of the churches my direct competitor, who
happened to be an establishment with a frequent physitor called
mister Bill Clinton, who loved his wonderful Lasanhi well.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Just shave on me.
Speaker 6 (17:45):
I can only imagine how much money was propped to
the but apply from the Clinton, especially Bill who loved
them rests ama and whatever.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Else peace he could get his hands about a hallowla. So,
in my conclusion, there is collusion in.
Speaker 6 (18:06):
The fried chicken industry. As the holder of Popeye, I
tell you churches your funding must be in it.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
So there you have it, a chicken fight for the
right to which party we'll discuss tonight at ten headline.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Mother says octopus attacked her six year old son at
San Antone Aquarium. In an interactive exhibit, This kid looks
like he's got measles or something. I mean that that
octopus got the better of this fellow. Brittany Tarin says
(18:47):
that she and her son Leo. Kids aren't named Leo anymore.
What a good name. We're visiting the octopus in the
interactive exhibit. When it grabbed hold of it. Leo was
left covered in purple bruises. He was curpled. He was
left covered in purple bruises after the octopus clung on
(19:07):
to him, refusing to let go. Ksat TV in San
and Tone reports, Tarn said she reached out to the
Texas State Aquarium, which recommended she file an animal welfare
complaint to the United States Department of Agriculture. Wait, what hey,
(19:29):
your octopus? It kind of stung my kid. And here's
a picture. It's really bad. Oh, you should probably send
a note to somebody in DC. In the complaint, she
said her son sustained extensive suction bruises, and the employees
on site down played the incident.
Speaker 7 (19:53):
How does that work, I'll walk it off, Leo. It's
not that you know he does that? You know that
o octopus. Sometimes he's the craziest dead burned thing.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
When he really likes somebody, and clearly Leo he you
know what, let me get you a sucker, because I
think you are one, and this is his sign. You know,
he doesn't just latch on to anybody. He really this
means he likes you. In the past, the mother said
an employee would stand near the tank encouraging people to
(20:25):
interact with the octopus. On their most recent visit, she
said no staff member was nearby. When the octopus clung
to Leo and started coming out of the tank, Tarren
said she yelled for help. She said an employee walked over,
noting how playful the octopus was that day. In the end,
(20:45):
Arren said it took about five minutes and three employees
to get the octopus off Leo, which left him with
marx from his wrist to his armpit. The story from
ksat TV tag let go.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Yeah, it was suctioned onto him and so we kind
of I kind of tried to help him get down
and like away from the glass. So the octapus started
to come out over the glass and my friend and
I were like, we don't know what, we don't know,
(21:23):
We're not sure what to do. There's no employees around,
so We started yelling for help, and I tried to
have Leo get it off of him. The employee came
walking up and just said, oh, she's super playful today,
and then he could not get the octavius off and
then he radioed for like other people to come help,
and they brought ice packs, and the ice packs didn't
(21:48):
really do a whole lot. It was like suctioning onto
the employees and then releasing, but it still was not
releasing him. And I started to see some of the
tentacle like sections come off of his arm.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
How far up do you have this?
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Did you have the suction mark song alaena? Yeah, all
the way from like your wrist, all the way to
your armpit. It was all over and I started to
see that his arm was purple with little suction hickeys.
They finally got it off of him. Then a couple
days later, after everything blew up on TikTok, I went back.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Just to check.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
I was like, surely they have shut it down, and yeah,
the octopus was still there was no anything couch.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
We told my scammers, and the buddy of mine said,
how in the f I can't buy gasoline on my
debit card anywhere? East of Baytown without getting my debit
card shut off. But somebody in Detroit can use my
debit card to buy eight hundred dollars worth of air
Jordan tennis shoes. Ain't that the damn truth? And the
(22:57):
thing about it is nobody ever talks about it. So
much of our economy is fraud. You're being defrauded day
in and day out, your credit card stolen. I've had
to replace my credit card three times in the last
two years. And they don't even mind anymore. It's just
they bake it into the process, they build it in.
(23:20):
They just assume, you know, four percent of transactions are fraudulent,
and we'll just make it up on the interest rate.
You call them and say, hey, I got I got
four today. I've had four charges on my account. I
don't know how somebody got my they skimmed my account number.
They've and your steady going into hey, I didn't make
(23:42):
these charges. I don't buy things on s H E
I N dot com, Shine dot com, some Chinese knockoff
account and there's four of them in a row, first
one for a dollar and then for fifty and then
they steadily go up and they go, oh yeah, there's
a lot of fraud with that site. A lot of
fraud with that site. Okay, well that wasn't me. Oh,
(24:07):
don't worry, sir, we know it wasn't you. We'll just
close that account and have you a card on its
way here shortly and it'll up. Well, well, wait a minute.
I don't want to have to pay for something I
didn't charge, but I want y'all to be a little
more shocked about it. I want y'all to be, you know,
(24:28):
sort of upset that this is going on. Y'all don't
even seem to Uh, y'all don't even seem bother.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
This happens all day we're in the fraud department. They
just build it in Walgreens, CBS. They just assume little
punks are going to come in and steal stuff. And
it's not until they steal so much that they lock
everything up. Now you have to get it out of
the commissary like you're in prison. Was in DC earlier
this summer, and there was which is just east of
(25:01):
the capital, a decent neighborhood, not a bad neighborhood, And
you go in and everything you could possibly want is
locked inside a cage. There is no human being at
the checkout that it's self checkout, so you'll just have
to figure it out on your own. There's a menacing
police officer when you first walk in the store and
(25:24):
he stands there. In fact, I honestly thought it was
a cutout figure because he was so rigid and so stiff,
and he has sunglasses on, like the chips sunglasses that
Eric Astrada war because he wants to give the impression
that you shouldn't steal stuff there. But I think I'm
the wrong person to give that impression too, because I'm
not going to steal anything. So you go in and
(25:48):
there's mister police officer.
Speaker 7 (25:49):
Guy.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
He's black, because you want him to be black so
that if you ever do actually bother to arrest anybody,
it's better if it's a black cop doing anything of white.
So there's mister police officer right at the front. And
then you go to buy something and everything is locked up,
so there's buttons and you call for it and they
come and they say what do you need? Or you
go up to the front and go, hey, is it
(26:12):
possible I could buy a ballpoint pin? I see them,
but they're in the cage Oh, yeah, we need somebody
on all three to help us do buy a pin? Yeah,
just go and wait there and they'll come to you.
And so there's several roving employees who come with their
key and they open it up and they hand you
(26:32):
your ballpoint pin and then you take your pen and
you go to the front for the self checkout. So
the only thing that human beings are still used for
in this store is opening the cage so that your
very low value item can be handed to you after
you've waited on it, which is sort of awkward. I
can't imagine a woman buying a summer's Eve and she's
(26:55):
got a call and ask and they hey, can we
get somebody at the do she's on our five? Do
she's on all five? And what she's just standing there
waiting to buy it. That's what you're left with when
you don't prosecute these little turds. So then you buy
your item, and you go up to the front and
you do the self checkout, which you can't figure out.
(27:16):
You've got to hit the button ten times. And then
at the end of it. As if this has in
any way, shape or form been a rewarding, satisfying experience.
They ask if you would like to donate to some
inner city, cause hell no, I would not. I would
like to get out of here right now. This has
been a very unpleasant experience. And then you go on
(27:38):
your way. And that's how you live in environment where
you let these little turds run them up. And that
was the liberal dream, is that we won't arrest these people,
we will rely on them to be their own limit
(27:58):
of how much they'll steal. Well, the problem is when
they think you're going to throw them in prison for life,
they'll steal a certain amount. Once they realize you're not
gonna throw them in prison for life, they don't steal
that same amount. Now they just walk in with a
bag and they don't even bother to cover their faces.
(28:21):
They just rake everything on the shelf into the bag.
The city of San Francisco passed a law that said
anything under one thousand dollars we are decriminalizing. So now
you've got some sort of a daytime game show network
creation where well, let's just keep it around nine to
(28:43):
ninety or so and it won't be a problem. It
doesn't take long until every hood rat in San Francisco
can walk in with a bag and wipe over nine
hundred dollars worth of value retail granted, and you don't
have that in it. It doesn't take long until you
start wiping the entire contents of a shelf into a bag,
(29:07):
and then the next guy, and the next guy, and
the next guy, and the next guy and the next guy,
and before long you don't have any inventory, so you
have nothing to sell to make up for the fact
of all of everything that was stolen, and nobody wants
to come in your store anymore when you're already at
a point in the timeline of retail that more and
(29:28):
more people are buying things from Amazon. I truly believe
that Amazon's growth was partly occasioned by the fact not
the convenience, but simply not having to be around democrats.
People don't want to go to a store because you've
got the homeless people standing out front, pastering you and tweaking.
(29:52):
They're on you know, they're shaking. You know their eyes
are golf ball sized. You know bad things are happening
in that dude's head, and he just assumed knocked in
the head to get your money and get another hit.
And then you go inside and did I mention that
the people who work there are not exactly well schooled
in customer service. The items are being stolen, the bad
(30:13):
guys are coming in because this is where they go
to rob. You're going to get knocked in the head
in the parking lot coming or going, well, heck, i'll
just have the Amazon guy. And so that's what I
think that was a big part. It didn't have to
be cheaper, it didn't have to be more convenient. You
just avoided the experience that the companies refused to do
(30:36):
anything about.
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