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December 10, 2025 • 15 mins
Some shoppers have admitted to stealing from self-checkout lanes, which may be prompting stores to gradually phase them out. Mark also wonders: Do young people know the classic Christmas songs that have stood the test of time?

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Markimo, the issues you really care about on seven ten
wor Well, it's a little better today, it's not as
cold as yesterday. We got a lot to get to
this hour, the affordability crisis, we got Mom Donnie to

(00:24):
talk about, and Christmas and a whole lot of stuff.
When you're in the supermarket more and more, have you
started using the self checkout or you still? It depends
if your cashiers. They always have like seven lanes and
only three cashiers, and I've never seen have you ever

(00:44):
been in the supermarket? We're every single aisle, every single
lane has a cashier and it never ever, ever, why
did they do that? Like when you go to the bank,
they have twelve windows, there's always two tellers. Why did
they build twelve windows. There's never been twelve tellers working
at the same time ever in a bank. So when
you go to the self checkout, it's pretty easy unless

(01:06):
you got stuff that's got to be weighed, and then
it gets a little tough. Now, be honest, did you
ever steal anything at the self checkout? You know, you
don't have to run every single item right by that scanner.
You run one or two. You got your bag set
up you're throwing them in the bag, be totally honest.

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Did you ever maybe one item you didn't ring up
or two or three? Well, it happens a lot. There's
a couple of chains that got rid of self checkout
because of that exact problem. They were losing too much
to theft. Now there's been a study done about this apparently,
Now who would steal like that from the self checkout?

(01:48):
Wealthy Americans apparently are stealing much more from self served
checkouts than anybody else. A sizeable for if wealthy Americans
have admitted to not scanning an item in a store. Now,
sometimes you try to scan it, it doesn't scan, or sometimes
it's bananas or something. You got to weigh it and

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theda don't know, you know how to you just throw
it in the bag. If you break it down by sex,
men steal far more than women do, almost more than
double the rate. Well okay, I mean, it's pretty obvious
men do more bad things than women do. Generally, many
of those surveys said they feel justified in stealing some
minor items. Thirty percent say the store is too large

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and profitable. They don't feel the petty theft will do
anything to them thirty five percent. So they feel that
having to scan the items and self checkout is unpaid labor,
and this is compensation for it. It's kind of true,
you know. Remember Amazon opened those stores. They had one

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in Time Warners Center, they had one near Grandson. Remember
Amazon tried doing stores, these little stores where you could
walk in, grab a little shopping cart thing and take
whatever you want and leave because each item had some
little tag on it that as you walked out, the
door would click and it would build your Amazon account automatically. Now,

(03:18):
whatever happened to that? Why can't I guess it's tougher
for a supermarket to do it, But that's the best
system Amazon tried that. I noticed those stores are all
gone now, but it was a great idea. Walk in,
grab whatever you want. Everything's got a little tag that
like a little Bluetooth tag on it. It'll when you
walk out, you go through a scanner, it'll see exactly
what you took and charge you for. It makes perfect sense.

(03:40):
Luigi Mangioni. The hearings going on, and I keep reading
all these things about how good looking he is. Do
you find him really good looking? Luigi Mangioni, there is
something about him, women like, I don't know, they like
his eyes, they like as this, I don't know, they
like those big enormous eyebrows whatever, and a good looking

(04:04):
I don't know, you kind of look. If you're making
a movie about Lenny Bruce, I could see hiring him
to play Lenny Bruce. He kind of has that look
about him. But Lenny Bruce was like a good looking guy,
but kind of ratty looking, a little scruffy looking. So
I don't know. But there's more and more of this
where on the left they just idolize any kind of criminal.
You could be an illegal alien, you could be a

(04:26):
narco terrorist moving drugs. You could even be an assassin.
To hear a criminal. The left loves you. They're out
there fighting for you. And even these candidates Brad Lander
talking about fighting for immigrants, they're not immigrants. They're illegals.
They're illegals that broke into the country. There's nothing more
insulting to immigrants than putting illegal illegals across the border

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illegally into the same category with them. It's just a
awful awful thing to do, but it's happening more and
more so. It is also a movement right now to
get rid of you know, no more cell phones in
the classroom. Kid comes to school, got to lock up
his cell phones for the day. When he leaves, he

(05:13):
gets it back. But now there's more and more of
a movement to take it away from kids in general,
like no more cell phones, no more social media for
a kid. And this is both sides of the Aisle,
Republicans talking about it, Democrats talking about it. You might
have seen the ram Emmanuel I don't know why he
thinks this is a big issue for him. He wants

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to run for president in twenty twenty eight. All over
the airwaves now talking about no more social media for kids,
keep it away from them. Even Lara Trump on a
show said they got three kids. They got one iPad
for the kids, and they lock it up most of
the day. They want their kids reading books. Well, okay,

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but this has gone on forever, this debate. You know,
you got a kid now he's spending too many hours
looking at his phone, looking at social media, looking at this.
But it is the same thing years ago when you
were a kid, only it was television, it wasn't social media.
You know, your parents would yell you stop watching TV
all day, Go outside and play, Go do your homework.

(06:17):
Why you don't just sit there and watch TV. And
you might think that's not as bad, but it was
just as bad. What were you watching on TV? Nothing
Worthwhile you're watching Gilligan's Island reruns, you're watching The Monsters
every day. I mean, it wasn't anything great you were watching.
You probably learn more on TikTok than you did back
then watching The Monsters every day and reruns or I'll

(06:39):
leave it to Beaver was a show with some substance
to it. So there's more and more of this movement
to get kids to read books. But you kind of
need the phone to read a book. You need your
kindle there to read it. But I guess you could
still read actual books now. But we'll see where this goes.
So Tucker car and people keep asking about this, What

(07:01):
the hell happened to him? You know, Tucker Carlson was
a pretty respectable, legitimate figure when he was on Fox News.
There he was discussing the issues with great American politicians.
Now you see the guy and he's like a raving
maniac online and he's got this anti semi creep weirdo

(07:22):
on he's allowing this guy to have his say on
his show, and then what was it earlier this week
he's in cutter talking about how he's moving there. Just
one wacky thing after another, and then you see a
bunch of these people doing that, Megan Kelly, all these
people acting like wacko lunatics, and what it is they've

(07:43):
all been fired. They don't work anywhere anymore. You know,
if you're on the Fox News channel, it's got millions
of viewers, and if you do a show there millions
of people we'll see you. Now if you get fired
and you're doing a podcast out of your bedroom and
you're not on a network, nobody sees you. So the
only way what do you do? How do you get attention? Well,

(08:04):
you got to do some crazy thing that goes viral,
even if it's on the left, left wing stuff, you know,
the left wing sites start attacking you like crazy. At
least it get your attention and publicity. So that's why
Megan Kelly became a total wacko. Also Tucker Carlson, Now
there's a few others. It's kind of like you remember
Alex Jones, who you know, normal people didn't pay attention

(08:28):
to him. But all the rednecks and hillbilly's and wackos
and all they love this Alex Jones and they went
crazy with him. And he made a fortune, made hundreds
and hundreds of millions of dollars. Tom. So that's Tucker Carlson,
Megan Kelly, there's a few others like that. They just
have to act totally nuts, outrageous. They're trying to become
the new Alex Jones. You know, you would think Tucker

(08:50):
would know better, but apparently he would not know better
than that. So now Charlie Kirk was a different case.
Now here was a guy who had a huge audience,
didn't have to do wacky things. He was preaching great stuff,

(09:12):
and he was preaching a lot of stuff you'd want
somebody to try to get across to younger people, you know,
take more interest in religion, go into church and read
the Bible, and I mean, this is all fine stuff.
But the left wing went after him like crazy. It
led to his assassination. He apparently had written a book
before he died, and his wife has now put out

(09:35):
the book and it's going around promoting it and it's
riled up these left wing nuts again. There's a left
wing podcaster, Jennifer Welch, and there's Trump derangement syndrome. There's
Hagsith derangement syndrome. There's Charlie Kirk derangement syndrome her. Now
here's another one who went viral with this wack o stuff.

(09:58):
It's about Charlie Kirk screaming and wildly unhinged rants. He's
a racist, he's an opportunistic grifter. The wife is a grifter.
This woman should be kicked to the curb. She goes
just like Donald Trump, just like her unrepentant, racist, homophobic husband.
There's no truth to any of this. It's just lunacy.

(10:22):
You saw Letterman doing the same thing last night when
he was on Jimmy Kimmel. Listen, we got a lot
of people we don't like, we don't like Mom Donnie.
But I don't see anybody go nuts about him. It's
not derangement syndrome. And we just can't stand Mom Donnie.
But if you listen to people, they'll say, you know,
he's only thirty four, he's never even run anything, he's
never even had a job. Okay, well, that's a legitimate argument.

(10:43):
And things he said are anti semitic. He's been quite
anti semitic and some of the things. Yeah, okay, that's
a good seems to be very pro criminal. Yeah that's true.
But we don't go on and on and on screaming
that he's a thief of there's no ranting and raving
and nut I don't know what it is. Psychologists have
studied this. It's and they say it's not just about Trump,

(11:08):
it's about other things in their life. They hate their father.
It's daddy syndrome. I mean, if there's all these explanations
you can read online from psychologists, they're seeing things in
Trump that set them off about other things in their life.
They just get it's they get childlike, childish. You know,
if you said, yeah, I really don't like that, mom, Donny,
I don't like anything he's saying. I don't like what
he stands. Okay, that's fine. But if you start ranting

(11:31):
and raving and screaming about it's just childish. And you
look at these people doing it about Trump, it's just
out of control. It's just childlike. It's you know, it's
been going on for ten years now, and ten years
ago we thought, well, all right, it'll get better after
a few it's this has gotten worse and worse and worse.
It's never gonna stop. We're gonna have to live with

(11:53):
this disease for the rest of our life. Hey, Judge,
who's ordered the release of the Epstein case grand jury transcripts.
So this is the other thing with the left. They
always think they got Trump. They got him now on something.
This is a big deal. They've got him on this.
They're going to Judge is ruled the grand jury transcripts

(12:14):
from the Epstein case have to be released now. Again,
if you talk to people that have seen everything, they've
seen these grand jury things. They've seen the full Epstein files.
You talk to people in the US Attorney's office that
saw them. If you talk to even Alan Dershwitz, who
was the attorney for Epstein and or Yeah, he was

(12:34):
Epstein's attorney for a while, so he saw everything. People
have seen everything. Tell you there's absolutely nothing in any file,
in any grand jury transcript, there's nothing anywhere in any
of these documents that would tell you anything you haven't
heard already. All the names that are in there, you've
already heard all. There might be one or two little names,
unknown people. But there's every major name that's in there.

(12:56):
You've already heard about it if you talk to them, Well,
what's in those Epstein fault It's basically just witness transcripts
of witness interviews. Nothing to outrageous. But remember the same
thing with the MRI. They we're trying to get Trump's MRI.
The Left went nuts trying to get that MRI. Well
they finally got it in the same thing, Eh, it

(13:18):
was nothing. There one thing I like about Christmas all
these artists you get to hear. You know, obviously you
can walk around in the world today and hear Taylor
Swift all the time or Dual Liapa, but how often
you get to hear Elvis nowadays? So every Christmas, if
you're in your teens or even in your twenties, every Christmas,

(13:38):
who the hell is this guy? And then it's your
only exposure to Elvin And then I don't know, maybe
I would think a lot of them. If you get
interested in the guy, Oh, this guy's pretty interesting, they
start googling him, youtubing him and start to hear his
other hits. Like if you're twenty six, you're never in
your life heard of this guy bing Crosby, Who the hell's
this guy? And they have no idea that I'm like.

(14:00):
Nineteen thirty to nineteen fifty, this guy was the single
most famous singer in the world. This guy was the
biggest figure in entertainment for like twenty five years before
Sinatra took over. This guy was the voice of America
for decades. Looking back on it, well, you admit you
were nuts listening to this still still so you hear

(14:20):
all these people now, you would never hear Nobody would
ever hear Andy Williams today if it wasn't for Christmas
or Perry Como. I love Perry Como lived right there,
right in Long Island, lived in Sand's Point. Earth a
Kit that's one of the biggest Christmas So I love
earth a Kit. She was one of the greatest singers
I know. Her daughter. Her daughter has a kit. Shapiro

(14:42):
store in Westport, Connecticut. Clothing store actually put out a
perfume called Eartha if you want a great perfume. And
I hate to break it to you, but there's a
lot of kids today who really wouldn't know who the
hell Paul McCartney was about. Another the Beatles broke up
fifty five years ago. I mean, there's a lot of
wouldn't know so one great thing about Christmas. Hey, we'll
take some calls. Next. Eight hundred three two one zero

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