October 2, 2025 • 42 mins
Greta Thunburg. They say you need to spend $1.3 million to buy into the top 10% of homes. Rover thinks people just spend more frivolously nowadays then they did 75 years ago.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's one way to tell that Caffrey is lying.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
No, it's a little smooth co quit belis. Go back
to Rover's Morning Glory. She's coming up in just a moment.
What do you have on the way? Dog?
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Update to a story we did a while ago about
the Nirvana baby that was naked swimming in the pool.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
There was a lawsuit brought by that man. And I'll
give you.
Speaker 5 (00:32):
An updated Nirvana album had the little baby chasing a
dollar bill or something and never mind.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Yeah, and.
Speaker 5 (00:42):
The original album cover there was a baby with a
little baby pecker on there, and then they airbrushed the
baby pecker out on some like like Walmart I think
refused to sell that with a bit which you know,
of course, right, what a weird thing to put on
the cover of an album. And anyway, so they had
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to airbrush that little babypecker out.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Here is.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
Some Well you can see how people are divided over everything.
Dude says, it's really sad and horrifying to listen to
the Week and Police reliant group of ignorant people that
you work with. The people I think the bouncer and
the wrong are just astoundingly stupid. However, Sam Magma rights. Obviously,
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the bouncer is not.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
In the right. He lost his job, he got arrested.
Over and.
Speaker 5 (01:48):
Twenty says if Charlie had his head put through a
window as a kid, he would have more respect for
authority now, So that would have been the answer to
all of Charlie's issues.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Great upbringing.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
Put his head through a window, Douji, Are you ready
for the shizzy?
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Yeah? Here we go.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
On rovers morning Glory.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
The UK is on alert after a possible terror attack
against Jewish people on the high holy day of Yam Kapoor.
Witnesses say a man drove a vehicle at a crowd
outside of a Manchester synagogue, then got out and stabbed
some people. Police say one person, actually two people have
been fatally shot, believed to be the third person the attacker.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
It was gunfire exchange.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Four were injured by the vehicle collision and established authorities
have declared a Plato incident, which means they're treating it
like a potential marauding terrorist attack.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
A Plato incident, that's not a very good that's not
a good name.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
If that's p l a t O potential, that's not
a good.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Marauding terrorist attack.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
Not a good not a good name for that, Like,
you can't be the prime minute, prime minister, please describe.
You need to call a Plato incident, but hunt, that's not.
Speaker 6 (03:11):
Oh, you can't do that. And I have a better
name for a disaster like that.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
All right, go on, Jane Goodall, I'm saying that.
Speaker 6 (03:20):
Right, goodall, goodall.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Jane Goodall, a renowned researcher who documented the behavior and
social lives of chimpanzees and later became a leader of
the animal conservation movement, has died.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
She died yesterday natural causes. They say she was ninety
one years old.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
She was in California and she was there for a
part of a speaking tour.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
According to the statement that.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Was Oh so she didn't even die at home or whatever.
She was going.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
These are photos of her as an old I mean,
she's been doing this. I think like the first kind
of came onto the scene and the maybe the early
sixth these or something, as a young woman who basically
is just out there interacting and living with these chimpanzees
out there.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
I get where is this in Africa or whatever? I guess?
And US and Nia.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
Yeah, it's just crazy that I guess she really was
the maybe I don't.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Know if the first, but one of the first fossia.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
That really sort of, you know, sort of documented all
of the human like behavior I suppose of chimpanzees and
gave us a better understanding of what they were really
doing out there.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Go on.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Walmart will remove artificial dyes and other additives from its
private brand food and bread, food and beverage products by
twenty twenty seven. The move reflects a growing trend among
companies to adapt to shifting consumer preferences and heightened the
scrutiny of food additives. According to Walmart, they say, our
customers have told us that they want products made with simpler,
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more familiar in green and we've listened. That's the statement
from the president and CEO John Ferner. Major food companies,
including Kraft, Hindes, General Mills, Kellogg Company, The Campbell's Company, Pepsi, Coo,
and Uttz they have similarly pledged to remove artificial dies
by twenty twenty seven. A household name in the coffee
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industry that many have grown up with is changing that name,
at least temporarily. Maxwell House, the coffee brand that sits
in a lot of people's pantries. They're going to rebrand
for the first time at one hundred and thirty three.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Years to Maxwell Apartment. Oh, come on, it'll.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Be a limited time to meet the needs of consumers.
In twenty twenty five, pres rely said, in a time
where value matters now more than ever, Americans seek value
in areas of their everyday, including where they live, with
nearly a third opting to rent versus purchase a home.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
So to celebrate the name.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Change, mac Well Apartment is offering a twelve month lease
of their coffee as a way for consumers to stock
up on coffee for the entire year.
Speaker 6 (06:07):
Do she falls for every one of these stories where
people go, let's just get in the news.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
I like it.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
Let's get some free publicity by doing something really, really dumb.
I forget the last name change one that there was
a one that everyone's I can't believe.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Now they're just doing it for a week, all right,
go on.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Coffee available for a limited time only. Thursday Night Football
eight fifteen pm tonight on Amazon. The Rams will be
hosting the forty nine Ers.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
I never remember to watch football on Thursday. I just
it's not.
Speaker 6 (06:43):
Part of my routine. I never have done it. I've
never done it. It's just not I don't know.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
And I like al Michaels is the guy who does
Thursday night football right now on Amazon Prime. I like him,
although I did see when he started doing it people
are like, dude, this guy's like a thousand years old.
He's too old, and he's not on top of his game.
But I think maybe he's having some sort of issue
or something, because I think he's been doing just fine
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since then.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
And then, finally, a lawsuit over Nirvana's nineteen ninety one
album cover for Nevermind has been dismissed. Spencer Elden, who
was photographed as the Naked Baby on the album's cover,
filed a lawsuit claim that the image was child pornography
and his guardians didn't consent to.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
The photo being used.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
A federal judge ruled that neither the pose, focal point setting,
nor overall context just the album cover features sexually explicit conduct.
He also pointed out that Elden has embraced and profited
off the images by signing memorabilia and referring to himself
as quote the Nirvana Baby.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
Eldon's attorneys are allowed to appeal the ruling.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
Do you imagine being a judge and you're like the
way you were describing that, where he's like, oh, the
angle and the focal length of the lens and all this,
it doesn't amount to kitty part. Imagine having to be
a judge or whoever that has to review this. Look,
probably you wouldn't do that today, put a naked baby
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in the cover of an album.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
But no, you know, this guy's lawsuit.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
I think was just a money grab and he was
very proud to be the Nirvana baby until he figured
out I don't actually have a real job. I could
probably get some free money from this, so it really
was more of a money grab.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
I think he is thirty four years old. Now that's
Cisy and Rose Wonder Glory.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
Big Al wants to know whatever happened with the medical
crew that gave the guy the anti venom. After Yeah,
there's a guy innes who who got bit by a
very very poisonous snake. The ambulance workers gave him this
anti venom and saved his life, but they weren't wilderness
(09:03):
ems is, so they had to have a disciplinary hearing.
I think it was yesterday or the day before day
before yesterday, I think it is, and the complaint was
dropped at the hearing, so they did.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Not lose their paramedics license.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
Speaking of Jews, four says, did you hear your girl, Greta.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Tuneberg was just captured by Israel? I don't I.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
Can't think of too many people that are more annoying
than Greta Toneberg. But she's been up, I dad, you yeah,
just over dramatic. I can't believe she got to be
such a big thing either, Like people were taking this
push she like fifteen year old, fifteen year old girl, seriously,
like she's some sort of expert.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Wasn't isn't sure that sounds that's something?
Speaker 5 (10:03):
Well, she wasn't really captured what she's been trying to do,
and she's done this multiple times. Apparently she loves the
spotlight any for whatever reason. If she can get in
the spotlight, she's gonna take it. So maybe she's done
saving the planet, but now she wants to save Palestinians.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
So she's been trying to.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
Get in a flotilla of like fifty boats and take
some supplies to Gaza. She's been stopped numerous times in
the past by.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
The Israeli.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
Armed Forces, Navy, whatever the hell they have there. They
don't have a whole lot of supplies. It's more a
symbolic sort of thing. And they keep saying, no, you're
not allowed in, you're not allowed get out of here
from essentially a war zone and we have a blockade
and blah blah blah blah blah. And I know they
intercepted Greta Tuneberg yesterday and Zero Loves says, you guys
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are getting screwed in Allentown. They go to commercial break
and then advertise somebody else's podcast. Then they play a
song before coming back to the show. Makes me not
want to listen. Well, I guess you just got to
wait through that until they come back to the show. Now,
(11:30):
they wouldn't get back to the show any sooner. They're
not delaying the return to the show. Our commercial breaks
are certain. I've always been the same amount, exact length.
Every commercial break is the same, Like we played the
same number of commercials every day. So what's happening is,
for whatever reason, at the moment, they're filling some of
this time there in Allentown. They moved to a new
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computer system that runs the station and they're filling it with.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Short songs for some reason. That's fine, you know, nothing.
Speaker 6 (12:00):
Wrong with that, I guess, just be aware that that's
what's going on. And what else would you prefer?
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Zero Love? Do you want them to just play.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
I do?
Speaker 2 (12:12):
It?
Speaker 5 (12:12):
Does annoy me about the advertising? You never hear rovers
Morning Glory advertising anywhere else on any of the other
iHeart stuff in the iHeart app radio station.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
You never hear any ever.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
But man, oh man, do they use my show to
advertise every other stupid ass thing they have going on
every dumb podcast, every other radio show they have?
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Me?
Speaker 5 (12:36):
Oh man, So I would like them to reciprocate every
now and then. But so, Zero Love, what would you prefer?
I'll throw a suggestion out. Do you just want to
hear more commercials?
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Do you want to hear public service announcements?
Speaker 5 (12:55):
Do you want to hear our music bed that plays
during the commercial break, which you can hear on RMG
when we go on commercial break. If they're not playing
commercials on r MGTV, which is totally an individualized experience,
we don't run the commercials here. If you see, occasionally
commercials will run, but that's all done like on the fly,
through third party, and you're not seeing the same stuff
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that other people are seen. But that music that plays
in the background, you want to hear that. I don't know, Jimmy,
says Rover. It's a venomous steak, not a poisonous steak.
Snakes aren't poisonous. They're venomous.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
E've been Actually, actually, isn't venom poisonous?
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Though?
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Isn't that a poison in my body?
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (13:49):
What's the difference. I mean, you're really splitting hairs here.
I think the ads play than the song plays when
the app comes.
Speaker 5 (14:02):
Back a disaster, says the rock station in Binghamton KGB.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
They do advertise your show throughout the day. Yes, I
know that a lot. Yes, yes, I grant you that.
Speaker 6 (14:13):
Sometimes they play our recycler promos and stuff on other stations,
but they never do like what they do here, where
they play commercials for our show during other morning shows
on their other radio stations.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
They do that during this show on a lot of
our stations. All Right, I've got to take a break.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
Our number is eight six six year over eight sixty
six nine six seven six eighty three seven.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
I saw an astonishing figure. Fact, I guess.
Speaker 6 (14:47):
If you buy, Charlie, you're a homeowner almost.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
What do you mean almore?
Speaker 6 (14:53):
I mean, I guess I'm buying a home. You will,
and you have to pay property taxes, which means you
never really truly own your home. You're always you're a
government boot liquor, always until always paying them off until
I go off grid and I'm a what are the
uh A citizen on my own what do they call
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those guys? So sobergn citizen? Until then, you never really
own anything. So you've owned a home for a while,
at least been in the process of over for years.
If you were to buy a million dollar home a
million bucks, you consider that a luxury home, wouldn't you
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It would be awesome?
Speaker 5 (15:36):
Yeah, of course, Well something might change your mind about that.
Let me explain it to you in just a minute.
We'll be right back on Rover's Morning Glory.
Speaker 6 (15:44):
Hang uh, ladies and gentlemen, Father of the Year nominee
Jeffrey Larok.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Prior to my head and you have my kids and
my wife and I were really happy. We did a
lot of stuff together.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
So that means that you would go back and not
have kids. Yeah, this is rovers morning Glory.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
There's a battle of di thease happening, not to these
nuts on your mama's chin. It's the battle of the disasters.
I had read a text message earlier from disaster, however,
that prompted a response from this Asderer, who says, why
is there another disaster that's not me? What the f
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I am the one and only disaster. They need to
change their name, he says, please let these ass crumbs
know not to use my name as the original never left.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
That's the ass crumbs.
Speaker 6 (16:53):
And Jay rum Kidd says Rover, I have to say,
you're one of my favorite.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
People, and so is the crew. But to smack talk
a fifteen year.
Speaker 5 (17:03):
Old girl who has the balls to actually get out
there and risk her life is pretty rich. She probably
is talking about Greta Tumberg.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
She probably has twice the IQ you have. What do
you do?
Speaker 5 (17:12):
You sit around on your ass and make your commentary
how dumb your colos are for four hours a day.
Speaker 6 (17:19):
See these are this guy. Actually, I'm one of his
favorite people. Who look at the way that he speaks
with me.
Speaker 5 (17:26):
Greta Tumberg is not fifteen anymore, by the way I
think she's I don't know, twenty two, twenty three something
somewhere along those lines.
Speaker 7 (17:34):
And and.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
She's just annoying, that's all I have to say. I mean,
she's she was annoying.
Speaker 5 (17:40):
She was annoying as a kid, and she would get
up there and she would make those speeches about how
we're all going to drop dead. And remember I think
that she had said we were going to drop that
by now, because that's how little she knew about it.
But she's just annoying. And now she moved on from
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her climate activism to her pro Palestinian activism, and she
keeps pulling the same stunt, trying to get on a
boat and go to Gaza. I say, let her go. Hey,
you want to go to Gaza. Sure, here's the deal
we'll make with you. You get to take your boat
and go to Gaza. But you don't get to get
back on the boat and leave. You have to stay
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there once you get there. And I think she'd be
singing a different time now.
Speaker 6 (18:28):
Nobody likes what's going on in Gaza, in Palestin whatever
I don't, I don't like, you know, I hope that
a resolution is.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Coming.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
I know that the President I didn't read exactly what
it was. But I believe he's what's going on with this.
I think they have somebody's going to be a peace governor.
They're going to be in charge of Gaza or something.
I forget who it is cut Her. No, No, like
a person. Oh it's just a single person, that's right.
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But there is still going to answer to Donald Trump,
who's like has the title of like peace master or something.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
And then I yeah, I forget who it is Cutter.
Now we're defending Cutter.
Speaker 5 (19:11):
Now, sure they're you know, have given money to terrorists,
harboring Hamas.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
All the leaders there.
Speaker 5 (19:18):
But you know, now we just signed an agreement that
says that we are going any any attack on Cutter
is like an attack on the United States.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Okay, let's see here. Oh I was going to tell you, so,
if you bought a million dollar home, you're living in
the lap of luxury, right, I.
Speaker 6 (19:37):
Mean, that's gonna be pretty much anything every feature you'd want,
I would think. I mean, obviously if it's in New
York City, probably not so. But most places that think
a million dollars is going to get you a pretty
nice everything you want, everything you want.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
The house, yes, yes, uh, Now they say that because
of rising home prices and inflation and so on and
so forth, that a million dollars it used to be
enough money to get you into what they consider the
top end of homes in the United States of America,
luxury homes, meaning the top ten percent of home listings.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
So if you were to spend a million dollars just
let's say ten.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
Years ago, you are buying a home that is more
expensive than ninety percent of the rest of the homes
in the United States of America, or more top ten percent,
not top ten percent, that's right.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
However, that has now changed.
Speaker 5 (20:39):
In order to get into the top ten percent of
homes in the United States of America, a million bucks
doesn't do it anymore. We are now at one point
three million dollars to get to the top ten percent.
Back in twenty sixteen, it was only eight hundred thousand
dollars actually to get into into the top ten percent,
and a million at the time to put you in
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the top five percent. Now, just to get into the
top ten percent of homes in the United States, it's
gonna cost you one point three million dollars to get
in the top ten You want to be top five percent,
two million bucks.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
Wow, to get to that level, I don't need a
two million dollars home.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 5 (21:19):
I mean, hey, look, everybody wants nice things. You spend
money whatever you can. But it really it does seem
like it has gotten outrageously expensive to get a home
for anything.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Oh yeah, I agree.
Speaker 6 (21:36):
Oh and try to buy what did I most recently
interested by? And I was like, I'm not even gonna
buy this ground beef twice as much as this. I
don't get to the grocery store so like B two
handles that stuff, so I'm not really aware of like
pricing changes. But I've read stuff that ground beef is
super expensive, right, what are we talking about?
Speaker 2 (21:54):
I think it was twenty bucks for a pound. Now,
there's no way that's and I ended.
Speaker 6 (22:01):
Up buying whatever it was. It was twice as much
as what I was used to paying. I don't think
it was even really that greatest stuff?
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Is that eighty?
Speaker 6 (22:10):
I don't know, because I looked at the price and
I quit looking at it immediately, and I was able
to get for some reason. And maybe it's not even
cow meat. At this point, they had pre I wanted
to make burgers.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
That's what I want.
Speaker 6 (22:20):
I wanted ground meat to make burgers, and I was like,
I want eighty twenty pound and a half. It was
like twenty bucks. I went, well, I'm not buying that.
And then they had pre formed patties. What are you finding.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
I'm just looking at Walmart right now because that's my
go to for me, you know.
Speaker 8 (22:35):
And I could get five pounds of seventy three twenty
seven ground beef for twenty two dollars ground chuck for
twenty three seventy three for five pounds.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
I wasn't in it.
Speaker 6 (22:46):
I wasn't in a fancy grocery stores, but the middle
of the road grocery store, just normal. And for some reason,
their ground beef was so expensive. I just said no.
And it said they pre formed patties of wagu beef.
Oh it was way less, and I was like, that's
that possible. So I don't know what I was eating.
It was also wrong. It makes with a little soy
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in there's something. The color was also wag you very mixture,
very very different color than normal beef. And I said,
I don't know why that's cheaper. So uh yeah, everything
just everything's more expensive, any little thing. It's just so
much more.
Speaker 9 (23:24):
Oh, I just got a couple quotes. I'm going to
get my roof done. M just blew me out of
the water how much it's going to cost me. And
I knew it'd be expensive because my homeowner's insurance won't
cover my roof. We've tried multiple times, and it's I
mean thousands upon thousands of dollars.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
What are we talking? How much?
Speaker 9 (23:44):
The few quotes I've gotten twelve rand, twelve grand, Yeah,
on the low end or the mid range, high end,
that's that pretty much what everybody has come back with
is around twelve thousand dollars, which makes my butthole clench
up because I definitely then have to tighten everything that
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I do. I cannot spend any money because I do
need a roof, so I'm going to divert Any extra
spending like on fast food will no longer happen.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
It will all go towards a new roof.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Makes your butthole clench and you have to tighten everything.
Speaker 5 (24:19):
Do you think her boyfriend Charlie brings that up in
the middle of backdoor action, Yeah, he just falls out.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Twelve makes your butthole just tighten, and he's like, oh,
I love it.
Speaker 6 (24:31):
I'm looking at me, I'm on Zillo now looking at
million dollar homes for sale.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
They're nice, but it's not.
Speaker 6 (24:37):
But it doesn't blow you away, Like here's a regular
million dollar home Evon, Like, uh, it's really nice. It's
a really nice nice but it's like it's gots a
million dollars.
Speaker 9 (24:48):
That's probably in a housing development. That looks like one
of those housing development homes. Just that's to me, that's all.
Is that a million dollars to you? Yeah, she doesn't
look like a million dollar to me. To me, but
it looks like five hundred thousand dollars house. But I
guess that's what prices are now. I mean, it looks
like it's got a pretty decent size. Yeah it's square footage.
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Not saying it's not nice, but it's a lot different
than what you think.
Speaker 6 (25:12):
When I think a million dollar home, I'm thinking there's
gonna be a pool, maybe an indoor pool, even.
Speaker 4 (25:19):
A basketball court.
Speaker 6 (25:20):
There's gonna be a small half court or basketball and
access access to the tennis courts too.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
But this is not.
Speaker 5 (25:28):
This is not Things have changed, Like like when I
was a little kid, the idea of being a millionaire
and look, being a millionaire is still obviously a nice
place to be, right, everyone can agree, But being a
millionaire is not what being a millionaire was when I
was a kid, Like, when you were a millionaire, is
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that you're you're like you have a butler, I don't
have to ever work.
Speaker 6 (25:52):
You have like a helicopter or something that were flying
into work. I mean, it was just at least that's
the way you thought of it when I was a
little kid, Like, oh, a millionaire, you're gonna have maids
and butlers and you name it.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Now that's just a family of far.
Speaker 5 (26:08):
Now that being said, would you say, Charlie that it
is easier or harder for people to afford a home
and a car and things like this? Does this generation
have it harder or easier than past generations?
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Harder much harder?
Speaker 6 (26:23):
Would you say, yeah, because like a lot of people
will never own a home now ever that you don't
even look at it. We're just what we're just talking
about that we're looking at people now buying homes together,
friends having to buy homes together, sharing bank accounts, all
the stuff. Because there's plenty of people right now that
are looking at a home and go I will never
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own one.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Ever.
Speaker 6 (26:45):
It's not even in the realm of possibility for me
to ever own a home. And that's a lot more
than there were Beck I don't know how long ago,
thirty years ago, I think it was a possibility that,
you know, you have the American dream, you're going to
eventually own the home.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
There's so many people. If you go talk to young.
Speaker 6 (27:02):
People now, they go, I'll never I don't even I
can't even before my health insurts. There's no way I'm
ever gonna be able to afford a home.
Speaker 5 (27:09):
Now there might. I don't know if this will change
your mind. I haven't watched this entire thing. It's like
a five minute video from John Stossel. Do you remember
Nimy used to be on twenty twenty. He was always
the give me a break guy. You do a segment
on I don't know, government waste or some.
Speaker 6 (27:30):
Sort of garbage, some sort of nonsense, and it was
always give me a break.
Speaker 5 (27:34):
That was his home pess. Yeah, he's also the guy
that we just played him a few weeks ago. He's
the guy that was doing a story I think it
was for twenty twenty, or at least ABC News he's
doing a story on professional wrestling back in the day
when professional wrestlers used to be like this is real,
and people were like, you know, would believe it.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Some people still real to me.
Speaker 5 (27:57):
And so he was backstage at somewe event or some
sort of professional wrestling event and the wrestler just you
think this is fake and they bam, just blast John
Stossel right upside the head, knocks him down. So that's
the same guy, but he has I don't know what
STOSCILETV is.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
It must be his.
Speaker 5 (28:18):
I don't know if it's actually on TV or if
this is on his if he has some sort of
service website, social media, I don't know, but he has.
He has a different take on this, and I'm wondering
if it will change your mind. Listen to this, and
I'm not gonna play you the whole thing, but just
listen to some of the points he makes, or you
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can watch along on RMGTV at roverradio dot com or
with the Rover Radio app on your phone, your tablet,
or your TV.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Listen to this as you heard how young people suffered today.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
Nay scream out the top of my lines.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Social media is filled with videos that say.
Speaker 6 (29:00):
Younger generations are finding it harder and harder to get
reliable jobs, afford comfortable homes, stot a family.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
We baby boomers had things so much easier. Your father
could somehow afford a house, a car, and also put
multiple kids through college.
Speaker 6 (29:14):
But and now it's deemed near possible for normal people
to get ahead financially or shoot even own a home.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
This meme gets millions of views. Once upon a time,
meaning when I was a kid, a family could own
a home, a car, and send their kids to college,
all on one income. This meme is all over the internet.
People believe it, and that's really a fantasy. Economist Norbert Michelle,
it's not true.
Speaker 10 (29:41):
No, it seems really great to think that everything was
so awesome back then, but it wasn't. Materially, we are
so much better off now than we were in the
sixties and seventies.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Well, young people get clicks asking what's the point of working.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
You can't even live in a house. Most people don't
live in houses. That's too expensive. That's just the factual mistake.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Census stat to show more Americans own homes today than
did when I was a kid.
Speaker 5 (30:08):
People, so they show the statistic here. In nineteen fifty,
fifty five percent of people own homes. In twenty twenty five,
sixty five percent of people own homes. What age that's gone? Well,
all age? Oh oh okay, yeah, just of all of American's.
That's that's a surprising step.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
All right. Then there's a couple other surprises in here.
Speaker 6 (30:30):
And I know this.
Speaker 5 (30:32):
I know this is not like you know, Yes, I'd
like to be talking about Crystal's but hoole puckering up too,
But we can't always talk about that, right, So.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
I know it's not the most exciting thing. But he
does make some good points.
Speaker 10 (30:45):
Listen, when I was a kid, people are still buying homes,
but it's just far more expensive for them to be
buying homes.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Progressives like Columbia professor Jeremy Nay, you're giving out ted
talk about how inequality is a matter of life and death,
say the meme right off.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
This is correct, that is correct, but it's misleading.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Houses are more expensive today, but they're bigger and nicer.
Speaker 10 (31:08):
The homes that we're buying now are not the homes
that people were buying in the fifties, sixties, and seventies.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Forbid, three bath with a two car garage. We have
bigger homes, better equipped homes.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Modern homes are much bigger than homes were when I
was a kid.
Speaker 5 (31:24):
So in sixty three, the median home size was thirteen
hundred square feet.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Now it's almost twenty three.
Speaker 6 (31:31):
Hundred square Maybe, and maybe the problem is that builders
aren't incentivized to build those smaller homes anymore. Maybe they're
not building those. So, yes, the homes are bigger. But
if you're just starting out, that all doesn't exist. The builders,
I think, would be when you say they're not incentivized,
they're going to build what is going to sell and
make that money. So if they thought they could sell,
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if small homes were the thing and everybody they go
off only I could find a thirteen hundred square foot home,
they would build it so that so people would buy it.
Speaker 9 (32:01):
Well, maybe they're not for some reason, but they are.
Tiny homes exist for that reason, right, Nobody.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Actually uses to c not a real sense.
Speaker 5 (32:07):
Now there's a real statistic in here that I want
to that I think is probably the best point that
they make.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Well, they'll get to it.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
On a SHI twice as likely to have central air dishwashers,
garbage disposals. Almost all homes now have washers and dryers
they didn't used to. The popular meme doesn't mention that
homes were cheaper then, because they're what people today call
lousy homes.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
The costs are still ten twenty times higher.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
No, they're not not if you adjust for inflation.
Speaker 10 (32:38):
Plus, we spend a smaller share of our income on food, clothing,
and housing than we did.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Here's the data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Americans
now spend less of our money on food, clothing, and shelter.
Speaker 5 (32:54):
I think that this here is an incredible statistic. Here,
and you'll see, no, nobody remembers nineteen oh one, none
of us were alive. But at the time in nineteen
oh one, if you were to spend you know how
much of your income went to food, clothing, and shelter.
Those are your three main things main Those are your
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basic necessities. And in nineteen oh one, about eighty it
looks like about eighty two eighty three percent of your
income was spent on food.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
Clothing, and shelter.
Speaker 5 (33:28):
In nineteen fifty, when Fossel was a kid or born
or whatever, it looks about maybe sixty two percent of
your income was spent on food, clothing, and shelter.
Speaker 6 (33:42):
And now if you've said the same sence to seventies,
if you bring this down here, snitz, I can't see here.
In twenty twenty three, it looks like approximately thirty seven percent,
roughly thirty seven percent of your income is spent on food, clothing,
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and shelter. It has gone down significantly. If you look here,
in nineteen eighty five.
Speaker 5 (34:08):
It's almost fifty percent of your income was spent on food,
clothing and shelter.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
And now we're at the lowest it's ever been.
Speaker 5 (34:14):
Only about thirty seven percent of your income is spent
on that.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
So pretty much since the same since the seventies, pretty
much Now in the.
Speaker 6 (34:21):
Seventies it looks to be over over forty percent, forty
three percent. Sixty one, it was fifty two percent. Eighty five,
it was forty eight.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
It's gone.
Speaker 5 (34:32):
In ninety seven it looks about forty five percent. Two
thousand and three we're down to about forty one percent.
Ten years later we're down to about thirty nine percent.
And now in twenty twenty three we're at the lowest
it's ever been, down to about thirty seven percent. You
go back one hundred years, a little more than one
hundred year, about one hundred years, it's eighty percent or
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more of your income was spent on all those things.
So if you wanted to spend eighty percent of your
income on food, clothing, and shelter or even more, people
would it would.
Speaker 6 (35:01):
Have When do baby boomers, like, I don't what is
the age of baby boomer? What year would have been
age year range of when they would be buying a
home or when they would be buying a home. Well,
they were born right after World War two, right, probably
would baby.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
Boom, so they'd probably be no, not the sixties. Oh
you're saying, would they be born and worn up to
the sixties? You know, I don't. I don't know.
Speaker 5 (35:28):
I would say baby boomers would be from about forty
five to nineteen forty five to what I don't know,
but yeah, they're buying they're probably buying homes when they
are in their thirty years old, when they're buying homes
in about nineteen eighty to eighty five, that's when they're
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buying homes. Yeah, seventy three right there now, eighty five,
forty six, baby boomers forty seven.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
Forty six.
Speaker 5 (36:00):
Forty six to what you said, sixty four. Oh yeah,
from nineteen forty six to nineteen sixty four. So baby boomers,
the bulk of baby boomers are buying right here in
nineteen eighty five, and it's about forty eight percent.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
So what do we spend a year instead?
Speaker 10 (36:17):
Well, here we have a lot more things and we
don't have to work as hard to get them. When
I was a kid, few people lived like people do now.
Now it's the norm to go out for lunch. It's
the norm to go out for dinner, or to order
in or to get uber eats. My family never went
out to eat. People didn't have enough money.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
Also, back then, families didn't fly places for vacation because
flying costs so much more. Adjusted for inflation, across country
flight costs more than one thousand dollars. Now it's about
three hundred dollars. People did not just go on vacation.
People did not fly all across the country. But TikTokers say,
we young people have it so much tougher. Anyways, they
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go on and on.
Speaker 6 (36:56):
I'm not going to play you this whole thing, but
I think that's interesting points to be made.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
I'm not an economist. I don't know. I don't know if,
but things are different, there's no doubt about it.
Speaker 5 (37:07):
So people who complain, oh, it was so much easier, well, actually,
in a lot of ways it was harder back then.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
And they're right.
Speaker 5 (37:16):
We have a lot more luxuries that I think we
take for granted. I take for granted, you take for granted,
we all take for granted. Charlie, think of all the
countries you've been to in the world. In nineteen fifty,
nineteen sixty, nineteen seventies, people weren't doing that.
Speaker 6 (37:33):
I'm not saying I have it that bad. I'm saying
people my age, people younger have it. I'm personally doing
pretty good. So no, I'm not saying but I think
if you according to this, they're saying. People who are
complaining you really don't have it bad.
Speaker 5 (37:48):
In fact, you have more money and things are easier
than it was back in the fifties.
Speaker 6 (37:56):
Like people claim all the you know, I have to
be a trend wife or whatever now that we've never
had back then.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
But you need a cell phone that's one hundred dollars,
that's a that's a that's a good chunk of change.
You have to have that.
Speaker 5 (38:08):
You could say, but you used to have a landline
back then, and adjusted for inflation, your landline was one
hundred dollars a month.
Speaker 2 (38:15):
Back in between the whole family, I guess. Uh.
Speaker 5 (38:18):
And so there are things I'm sure, I don't know
what else, but there are I'm sure there were things
that you used to pay for back then that you
certainly don't need today, that's for sure. But I'm just
just giving you a different perspective there. I don't know
if they're right or wrong. Joe in Rochester, you Ron
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rovers morning the morning.
Speaker 7 (38:40):
Joe, Hey, roer, Hey, I'm caller listening, says Day one
of Rochester.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
Thank you. I appreciate that.
Speaker 7 (38:49):
Yeah, no problem. So I think he's got some amazing
points about we do spend a lot more money on
certain things we don't need these days. But the main
thing he's leaving now is the cost of homes versus
the wage is not the same. If you look at
any type of graph that shows the average income versus
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what they average houses, it's been going down and down
every year.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
The wage now.
Speaker 6 (39:18):
But I think that's that's I think that's covered in
the chart that they showed, which is people now are
spending thirty seven percent of their income on food, clothing,
and shelter.
Speaker 2 (39:29):
It used to be.
Speaker 6 (39:32):
You go back one hundred years is eighty percent. But
you go back more recently, it was you know, sixty
percent or something. So we're paying less. So that's the
argument that he's making you.
Speaker 5 (39:43):
If you wanted to pay fifty sixty percent of your
income on food, clothing and shelter, way more people would
have a home. But people have deprioritized that in order
to go out and get a seven dollars Starbucks and
go on four vacations a year with all their girls friends.
So I think that that's that's the point that they're
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trying to make everything is. You know, for instance, people
let's make America great again.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
Well, it's like dating a girlfriend. You look back and
you go you forget about.
Speaker 5 (40:16):
Oh yeah, that part of her sucked, no wonder I
broke up with her, but you you sort of forget
about the negative things that have happened in the past.
Speaker 2 (40:25):
So that's the point that he's.
Speaker 7 (40:27):
Trying to Can I give you some anecdotal evidence. I
know this isn't sure. So my father in nineteen seventy two,
ahead of this conversation with.
Speaker 2 (40:35):
A recently moved actually went through it. So I was curious.
Speaker 7 (40:37):
He walked into a place at eighteen years old, high
school education, no college, no skill, got a job thirty
two dollars an hour for today's twenty twenty five equivalent.
Nobody could do that today. Not only did he get
thirty two dollars per hour, he got full medical, full
four to oh one k match pension. I mean yearly
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Raises worked there for thirty five years before retiring. Nobody
could do that today. And because he was able to
do that at eighteen, at twenty two about a house
at twenty four, he got married. At twenty six, he
had a kid. At thirty he had another kid, stay
at home, wife, two cars. Nobody could do that today's
They'd be unheard of for an eighteen year old to
do that today.
Speaker 2 (41:20):
Look, I don't know.
Speaker 6 (41:22):
I think some eighteen year olds you can leave and
go into the trades. They make an incredible amount of
money in the trades. And do you do it right
out of the gate. No, But machine shop people, I
know they're making pretty good dough. So I don't know
if that's entirely true.
Speaker 5 (41:43):
But again, your father was spending seventy percent of his
income on those things as opposed to thirty seven percent
of his income on those things. So the eighteen year
olds or the twenty five year olds could do that,
they just have to spend money on that kind of
stuff instead of video games and things like that.
Speaker 2 (42:04):
So I think that's the difference. Joe, thank you. I
appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (42:07):
Day one listener there, Joe Is, I've got to take
a break, Dougie, what do you have coming up in
the shizzy?
Speaker 3 (42:16):
Coming up in the news, we have a little bit
of insight into Keith Urban and what he does on
stage that has people talking about the divorce.
Speaker 2 (42:28):
Oh yeah, this is the pitman the divorce with Nicole Kidman.
Speaker 4 (42:30):
Yeah, that's pretty interesting.
Speaker 6 (42:31):
How come the guy is always want to play? He's cheating?
He must be cheating on her. Those are the rumors
that are started immediately, probably buying Nicole Kidman's people, pr
people to take a look and decide, Uh, how do
we know that she's not the one that's running around
on him, the poor guy.
Speaker 2 (42:48):
We'll be right back. Hang on
It's one way to tell that Caffrey is lying.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
No, it's a little smooth co quit belis. Go back
to Rover's Morning Glory. She's coming up in just a moment.
What do you have on the way? Dog?
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Update to a story we did a while ago about
the Nirvana baby that was naked swimming in the pool.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
There was a lawsuit brought by that man. And I'll
give you.
Speaker 5 (00:32):
An updated Nirvana album had the little baby chasing a
dollar bill or something and never mind.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Yeah, and.
Speaker 5 (00:42):
The original album cover there was a baby with a
little baby pecker on there, and then they airbrushed the
baby pecker out on some like like Walmart I think
refused to sell that with a bit which you know,
of course, right, what a weird thing to put on
the cover of an album. And anyway, so they had
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to airbrush that little babypecker out.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Here is.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
Some Well you can see how people are divided over everything.
Dude says, it's really sad and horrifying to listen to
the Week and Police reliant group of ignorant people that
you work with. The people I think the bouncer and
the wrong are just astoundingly stupid. However, Sam Magma rights. Obviously,
(01:39):
the bouncer is not.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
In the right. He lost his job, he got arrested.
Over and.
Speaker 5 (01:48):
Twenty says if Charlie had his head put through a
window as a kid, he would have more respect for
authority now, So that would have been the answer to
all of Charlie's issues.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Great upbringing.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
Put his head through a window, Douji, Are you ready
for the shizzy?
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Yeah? Here we go.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
On rovers morning Glory.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
The UK is on alert after a possible terror attack
against Jewish people on the high holy day of Yam Kapoor.
Witnesses say a man drove a vehicle at a crowd
outside of a Manchester synagogue, then got out and stabbed
some people. Police say one person, actually two people have
been fatally shot, believed to be the third person the attacker.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
It was gunfire exchange.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Four were injured by the vehicle collision and established authorities
have declared a Plato incident, which means they're treating it
like a potential marauding terrorist attack.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
A Plato incident, that's not a very good that's not
a good name.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
If that's p l a t O potential, that's not
a good.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Marauding terrorist attack.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
Not a good not a good name for that, Like,
you can't be the prime minute, prime minister, please describe.
You need to call a Plato incident, but hunt, that's not.
Speaker 6 (03:11):
Oh, you can't do that. And I have a better
name for a disaster like that.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
All right, go on, Jane Goodall, I'm saying that.
Speaker 6 (03:20):
Right, goodall, goodall.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Jane Goodall, a renowned researcher who documented the behavior and
social lives of chimpanzees and later became a leader of
the animal conservation movement, has died.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
She died yesterday natural causes. They say she was ninety
one years old.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
She was in California and she was there for a
part of a speaking tour.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
According to the statement that.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Was Oh so she didn't even die at home or whatever.
She was going.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
These are photos of her as an old I mean,
she's been doing this. I think like the first kind
of came onto the scene and the maybe the early
sixth these or something, as a young woman who basically
is just out there interacting and living with these chimpanzees
out there.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
I get where is this in Africa or whatever? I guess?
And US and Nia.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
Yeah, it's just crazy that I guess she really was
the maybe I don't.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Know if the first, but one of the first fossia.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
That really sort of, you know, sort of documented all
of the human like behavior I suppose of chimpanzees and
gave us a better understanding of what they were really
doing out there.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Go on.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Walmart will remove artificial dyes and other additives from its
private brand food and bread, food and beverage products by
twenty twenty seven. The move reflects a growing trend among
companies to adapt to shifting consumer preferences and heightened the
scrutiny of food additives. According to Walmart, they say, our
customers have told us that they want products made with simpler,
(04:58):
more familiar in green and we've listened. That's the statement
from the president and CEO John Ferner. Major food companies,
including Kraft, Hindes, General Mills, Kellogg Company, The Campbell's Company, Pepsi, Coo,
and Uttz they have similarly pledged to remove artificial dies
by twenty twenty seven. A household name in the coffee
(05:24):
industry that many have grown up with is changing that name,
at least temporarily. Maxwell House, the coffee brand that sits
in a lot of people's pantries. They're going to rebrand
for the first time at one hundred and thirty three.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Years to Maxwell Apartment. Oh, come on, it'll.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Be a limited time to meet the needs of consumers.
In twenty twenty five, pres rely said, in a time
where value matters now more than ever, Americans seek value
in areas of their everyday, including where they live, with
nearly a third opting to rent versus purchase a home.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
So to celebrate the name.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Change, mac Well Apartment is offering a twelve month lease
of their coffee as a way for consumers to stock
up on coffee for the entire year.
Speaker 6 (06:07):
Do she falls for every one of these stories where
people go, let's just get in the news.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
I like it.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
Let's get some free publicity by doing something really, really dumb.
I forget the last name change one that there was
a one that everyone's I can't believe.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Now they're just doing it for a week, all right,
go on.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Coffee available for a limited time only. Thursday Night Football
eight fifteen pm tonight on Amazon. The Rams will be
hosting the forty nine Ers.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
I never remember to watch football on Thursday. I just
it's not.
Speaker 6 (06:43):
Part of my routine. I never have done it. I've
never done it. It's just not I don't know.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
And I like al Michaels is the guy who does
Thursday night football right now on Amazon Prime. I like him,
although I did see when he started doing it people
are like, dude, this guy's like a thousand years old.
He's too old, and he's not on top of his game.
But I think maybe he's having some sort of issue
or something, because I think he's been doing just fine
(07:10):
since then.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
And then, finally, a lawsuit over Nirvana's nineteen ninety one
album cover for Nevermind has been dismissed. Spencer Elden, who
was photographed as the Naked Baby on the album's cover,
filed a lawsuit claim that the image was child pornography
and his guardians didn't consent to.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
The photo being used.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
A federal judge ruled that neither the pose, focal point setting,
nor overall context just the album cover features sexually explicit conduct.
He also pointed out that Elden has embraced and profited
off the images by signing memorabilia and referring to himself
as quote the Nirvana Baby.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
Eldon's attorneys are allowed to appeal the ruling.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
Do you imagine being a judge and you're like the
way you were describing that, where he's like, oh, the
angle and the focal length of the lens and all this,
it doesn't amount to kitty part. Imagine having to be
a judge or whoever that has to review this. Look,
probably you wouldn't do that today, put a naked baby
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in the cover of an album.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
But no, you know, this guy's lawsuit.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
I think was just a money grab and he was
very proud to be the Nirvana baby until he figured
out I don't actually have a real job. I could
probably get some free money from this, so it really
was more of a money grab.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
I think he is thirty four years old. Now that's
Cisy and Rose Wonder Glory.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
Big Al wants to know whatever happened with the medical
crew that gave the guy the anti venom. After Yeah,
there's a guy innes who who got bit by a
very very poisonous snake. The ambulance workers gave him this
anti venom and saved his life, but they weren't wilderness
(09:03):
ems is, so they had to have a disciplinary hearing.
I think it was yesterday or the day before day
before yesterday, I think it is, and the complaint was
dropped at the hearing, so they did.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Not lose their paramedics license.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
Speaking of Jews, four says, did you hear your girl, Greta.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Tuneberg was just captured by Israel? I don't I.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
Can't think of too many people that are more annoying
than Greta Toneberg. But she's been up, I dad, you yeah,
just over dramatic. I can't believe she got to be
such a big thing either, Like people were taking this
push she like fifteen year old, fifteen year old girl, seriously,
like she's some sort of expert.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Wasn't isn't sure that sounds that's something?
Speaker 5 (10:03):
Well, she wasn't really captured what she's been trying to do,
and she's done this multiple times. Apparently she loves the
spotlight any for whatever reason. If she can get in
the spotlight, she's gonna take it. So maybe she's done
saving the planet, but now she wants to save Palestinians.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
So she's been trying to.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
Get in a flotilla of like fifty boats and take
some supplies to Gaza. She's been stopped numerous times in
the past by.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
The Israeli.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
Armed Forces, Navy, whatever the hell they have there. They
don't have a whole lot of supplies. It's more a
symbolic sort of thing. And they keep saying, no, you're
not allowed in, you're not allowed get out of here
from essentially a war zone and we have a blockade
and blah blah blah blah blah. And I know they
intercepted Greta Tuneberg yesterday and Zero Loves says, you guys
(11:10):
are getting screwed in Allentown. They go to commercial break
and then advertise somebody else's podcast. Then they play a
song before coming back to the show. Makes me not
want to listen. Well, I guess you just got to
wait through that until they come back to the show. Now,
(11:30):
they wouldn't get back to the show any sooner. They're
not delaying the return to the show. Our commercial breaks
are certain. I've always been the same amount, exact length.
Every commercial break is the same, Like we played the
same number of commercials every day. So what's happening is,
for whatever reason, at the moment, they're filling some of
this time there in Allentown. They moved to a new
(11:51):
computer system that runs the station and they're filling it with.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Short songs for some reason. That's fine, you know, nothing.
Speaker 6 (12:00):
Wrong with that, I guess, just be aware that that's
what's going on. And what else would you prefer?
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Zero Love? Do you want them to just play.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
I do?
Speaker 2 (12:12):
It?
Speaker 5 (12:12):
Does annoy me about the advertising? You never hear rovers
Morning Glory advertising anywhere else on any of the other
iHeart stuff in the iHeart app radio station.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
You never hear any ever.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
But man, oh man, do they use my show to
advertise every other stupid ass thing they have going on
every dumb podcast, every other radio show they have?
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Me?
Speaker 5 (12:36):
Oh man, So I would like them to reciprocate every
now and then. But so, Zero Love, what would you prefer?
I'll throw a suggestion out. Do you just want to
hear more commercials?
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Do you want to hear public service announcements?
Speaker 5 (12:55):
Do you want to hear our music bed that plays
during the commercial break, which you can hear on RMG
when we go on commercial break. If they're not playing
commercials on r MGTV, which is totally an individualized experience,
we don't run the commercials here. If you see, occasionally
commercials will run, but that's all done like on the fly,
through third party, and you're not seeing the same stuff
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that other people are seen. But that music that plays
in the background, you want to hear that. I don't know, Jimmy,
says Rover. It's a venomous steak, not a poisonous steak.
Snakes aren't poisonous. They're venomous.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
E've been Actually, actually, isn't venom poisonous?
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Though?
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Isn't that a poison in my body?
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (13:49):
What's the difference. I mean, you're really splitting hairs here.
I think the ads play than the song plays when
the app comes.
Speaker 5 (14:02):
Back a disaster, says the rock station in Binghamton KGB.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
They do advertise your show throughout the day. Yes, I
know that a lot. Yes, yes, I grant you that.
Speaker 6 (14:13):
Sometimes they play our recycler promos and stuff on other stations,
but they never do like what they do here, where
they play commercials for our show during other morning shows
on their other radio stations.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
They do that during this show on a lot of
our stations. All Right, I've got to take a break.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
Our number is eight six six year over eight sixty
six nine six seven six eighty three seven.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
I saw an astonishing figure. Fact, I guess.
Speaker 6 (14:47):
If you buy, Charlie, you're a homeowner almost.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
What do you mean almore?
Speaker 6 (14:53):
I mean, I guess I'm buying a home. You will,
and you have to pay property taxes, which means you
never really truly own your home. You're always you're a
government boot liquor, always until always paying them off until
I go off grid and I'm a what are the
uh A citizen on my own what do they call
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those guys? So sobergn citizen? Until then, you never really
own anything. So you've owned a home for a while,
at least been in the process of over for years.
If you were to buy a million dollar home a
million bucks, you consider that a luxury home, wouldn't you
(15:36):
It would be awesome?
Speaker 5 (15:36):
Yeah, of course, Well something might change your mind about that.
Let me explain it to you in just a minute.
We'll be right back on Rover's Morning Glory.
Speaker 6 (15:44):
Hang uh, ladies and gentlemen, Father of the Year nominee
Jeffrey Larok.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Prior to my head and you have my kids and
my wife and I were really happy. We did a
lot of stuff together.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
So that means that you would go back and not
have kids. Yeah, this is rovers morning Glory.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
There's a battle of di thease happening, not to these
nuts on your mama's chin. It's the battle of the disasters.
I had read a text message earlier from disaster, however,
that prompted a response from this Asderer, who says, why
is there another disaster that's not me? What the f
(16:37):
I am the one and only disaster. They need to
change their name, he says, please let these ass crumbs
know not to use my name as the original never left.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
That's the ass crumbs.
Speaker 6 (16:53):
And Jay rum Kidd says Rover, I have to say,
you're one of my favorite.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
People, and so is the crew. But to smack talk
a fifteen year.
Speaker 5 (17:03):
Old girl who has the balls to actually get out
there and risk her life is pretty rich. She probably
is talking about Greta Tumberg.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
She probably has twice the IQ you have. What do
you do?
Speaker 5 (17:12):
You sit around on your ass and make your commentary
how dumb your colos are for four hours a day.
Speaker 6 (17:19):
See these are this guy. Actually, I'm one of his
favorite people. Who look at the way that he speaks
with me.
Speaker 5 (17:26):
Greta Tumberg is not fifteen anymore, by the way I
think she's I don't know, twenty two, twenty three something
somewhere along those lines.
Speaker 7 (17:34):
And and.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
She's just annoying, that's all I have to say. I mean,
she's she was annoying.
Speaker 5 (17:40):
She was annoying as a kid, and she would get
up there and she would make those speeches about how
we're all going to drop dead. And remember I think
that she had said we were going to drop that
by now, because that's how little she knew about it.
But she's just annoying. And now she moved on from
(18:00):
her climate activism to her pro Palestinian activism, and she
keeps pulling the same stunt, trying to get on a
boat and go to Gaza. I say, let her go. Hey,
you want to go to Gaza. Sure, here's the deal
we'll make with you. You get to take your boat
and go to Gaza. But you don't get to get
back on the boat and leave. You have to stay
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there once you get there. And I think she'd be
singing a different time now.
Speaker 6 (18:28):
Nobody likes what's going on in Gaza, in Palestin whatever
I don't, I don't like, you know, I hope that
a resolution is.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Coming.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
I know that the President I didn't read exactly what
it was. But I believe he's what's going on with this.
I think they have somebody's going to be a peace governor.
They're going to be in charge of Gaza or something.
I forget who it is cut Her. No, No, like
a person. Oh it's just a single person, that's right.
(19:00):
But there is still going to answer to Donald Trump,
who's like has the title of like peace master or something.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
And then I yeah, I forget who it is Cutter.
Now we're defending Cutter.
Speaker 5 (19:11):
Now, sure they're you know, have given money to terrorists,
harboring Hamas.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
All the leaders there.
Speaker 5 (19:18):
But you know, now we just signed an agreement that
says that we are going any any attack on Cutter
is like an attack on the United States.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Okay, let's see here. Oh I was going to tell you, so,
if you bought a million dollar home, you're living in
the lap of luxury, right, I.
Speaker 6 (19:37):
Mean, that's gonna be pretty much anything every feature you'd want,
I would think. I mean, obviously if it's in New
York City, probably not so. But most places that think
a million dollars is going to get you a pretty
nice everything you want, everything you want.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
The house, yes, yes, uh, Now they say that because
of rising home prices and inflation and so on and
so forth, that a million dollars it used to be
enough money to get you into what they consider the
top end of homes in the United States of America,
luxury homes, meaning the top ten percent of home listings.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
So if you were to spend a million dollars just
let's say ten.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
Years ago, you are buying a home that is more
expensive than ninety percent of the rest of the homes
in the United States of America, or more top ten percent,
not top ten percent, that's right.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
However, that has now changed.
Speaker 5 (20:39):
In order to get into the top ten percent of
homes in the United States of America, a million bucks
doesn't do it anymore. We are now at one point
three million dollars to get to the top ten percent.
Back in twenty sixteen, it was only eight hundred thousand
dollars actually to get into into the top ten percent,
and a million at the time to put you in
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the top five percent. Now, just to get into the
top ten percent of homes in the United States, it's
gonna cost you one point three million dollars to get
in the top ten You want to be top five percent,
two million bucks.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
Wow, to get to that level, I don't need a
two million dollars home.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 5 (21:19):
I mean, hey, look, everybody wants nice things. You spend
money whatever you can. But it really it does seem
like it has gotten outrageously expensive to get a home
for anything.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Oh yeah, I agree.
Speaker 6 (21:36):
Oh and try to buy what did I most recently
interested by? And I was like, I'm not even gonna
buy this ground beef twice as much as this. I
don't get to the grocery store so like B two
handles that stuff, so I'm not really aware of like
pricing changes. But I've read stuff that ground beef is
super expensive, right, what are we talking about?
Speaker 2 (21:54):
I think it was twenty bucks for a pound. Now,
there's no way that's and I ended.
Speaker 6 (22:01):
Up buying whatever it was. It was twice as much
as what I was used to paying. I don't think
it was even really that greatest stuff?
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Is that eighty?
Speaker 6 (22:10):
I don't know, because I looked at the price and
I quit looking at it immediately, and I was able
to get for some reason. And maybe it's not even
cow meat. At this point, they had pre I wanted
to make burgers.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
That's what I want.
Speaker 6 (22:20):
I wanted ground meat to make burgers, and I was like,
I want eighty twenty pound and a half. It was
like twenty bucks. I went, well, I'm not buying that.
And then they had pre formed patties. What are you finding.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
I'm just looking at Walmart right now because that's my
go to for me, you know.
Speaker 8 (22:35):
And I could get five pounds of seventy three twenty
seven ground beef for twenty two dollars ground chuck for
twenty three seventy three for five pounds.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
I wasn't in it.
Speaker 6 (22:46):
I wasn't in a fancy grocery stores, but the middle
of the road grocery store, just normal. And for some reason,
their ground beef was so expensive. I just said no.
And it said they pre formed patties of wagu beef.
Oh it was way less, and I was like, that's
that possible. So I don't know what I was eating.
It was also wrong. It makes with a little soy
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in there's something. The color was also wag you very mixture,
very very different color than normal beef. And I said,
I don't know why that's cheaper. So uh yeah, everything
just everything's more expensive, any little thing. It's just so
much more.
Speaker 9 (23:24):
Oh, I just got a couple quotes. I'm going to
get my roof done. M just blew me out of
the water how much it's going to cost me. And
I knew it'd be expensive because my homeowner's insurance won't
cover my roof. We've tried multiple times, and it's I
mean thousands upon thousands of dollars.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
What are we talking? How much?
Speaker 9 (23:44):
The few quotes I've gotten twelve rand, twelve grand, Yeah,
on the low end or the mid range, high end,
that's that pretty much what everybody has come back with
is around twelve thousand dollars, which makes my butthole clench
up because I definitely then have to tighten everything that
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I do. I cannot spend any money because I do
need a roof, so I'm going to divert Any extra
spending like on fast food will no longer happen.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
It will all go towards a new roof.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Makes your butthole clench and you have to tighten everything.
Speaker 5 (24:19):
Do you think her boyfriend Charlie brings that up in
the middle of backdoor action, Yeah, he just falls out.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Twelve makes your butthole just tighten, and he's like, oh,
I love it.
Speaker 6 (24:31):
I'm looking at me, I'm on Zillo now looking at
million dollar homes for sale.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
They're nice, but it's not.
Speaker 6 (24:37):
But it doesn't blow you away, Like here's a regular
million dollar home Evon, Like, uh, it's really nice. It's
a really nice nice but it's like it's gots a
million dollars.
Speaker 9 (24:48):
That's probably in a housing development. That looks like one
of those housing development homes. Just that's to me, that's all.
Is that a million dollars to you? Yeah, she doesn't
look like a million dollar to me. To me, but
it looks like five hundred thousand dollars house. But I
guess that's what prices are now. I mean, it looks
like it's got a pretty decent size. Yeah it's square footage.
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Not saying it's not nice, but it's a lot different
than what you think.
Speaker 6 (25:12):
When I think a million dollar home, I'm thinking there's
gonna be a pool, maybe an indoor pool, even.
Speaker 4 (25:19):
A basketball court.
Speaker 6 (25:20):
There's gonna be a small half court or basketball and
access access to the tennis courts too.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
But this is not.
Speaker 5 (25:28):
This is not Things have changed, Like like when I
was a little kid, the idea of being a millionaire
and look, being a millionaire is still obviously a nice
place to be, right, everyone can agree, But being a
millionaire is not what being a millionaire was when I
was a kid, Like, when you were a millionaire, is
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that you're you're like you have a butler, I don't
have to ever work.
Speaker 6 (25:52):
You have like a helicopter or something that were flying
into work. I mean, it was just at least that's
the way you thought of it when I was a
little kid, Like, oh, a millionaire, you're gonna have maids
and butlers and you name it.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Now that's just a family of far.
Speaker 5 (26:08):
Now that being said, would you say, Charlie that it
is easier or harder for people to afford a home
and a car and things like this? Does this generation
have it harder or easier than past generations?
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Harder much harder?
Speaker 6 (26:23):
Would you say, yeah, because like a lot of people
will never own a home now ever that you don't
even look at it. We're just what we're just talking
about that we're looking at people now buying homes together,
friends having to buy homes together, sharing bank accounts, all
the stuff. Because there's plenty of people right now that
are looking at a home and go I will never
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own one.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Ever.
Speaker 6 (26:45):
It's not even in the realm of possibility for me
to ever own a home. And that's a lot more
than there were Beck I don't know how long ago,
thirty years ago, I think it was a possibility that,
you know, you have the American dream, you're going to
eventually own the home.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
There's so many people. If you go talk to young.
Speaker 6 (27:02):
People now, they go, I'll never I don't even I
can't even before my health insurts. There's no way I'm
ever gonna be able to afford a home.
Speaker 5 (27:09):
Now there might. I don't know if this will change
your mind. I haven't watched this entire thing. It's like
a five minute video from John Stossel. Do you remember
Nimy used to be on twenty twenty. He was always
the give me a break guy. You do a segment
on I don't know, government waste or some.
Speaker 6 (27:30):
Sort of garbage, some sort of nonsense, and it was
always give me a break.
Speaker 5 (27:34):
That was his home pess. Yeah, he's also the guy
that we just played him a few weeks ago. He's
the guy that was doing a story I think it
was for twenty twenty, or at least ABC News he's
doing a story on professional wrestling back in the day
when professional wrestlers used to be like this is real,
and people were like, you know, would believe it.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Some people still real to me.
Speaker 5 (27:57):
And so he was backstage at somewe event or some
sort of professional wrestling event and the wrestler just you
think this is fake and they bam, just blast John
Stossel right upside the head, knocks him down. So that's
the same guy, but he has I don't know what
STOSCILETV is.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
It must be his.
Speaker 5 (28:18):
I don't know if it's actually on TV or if
this is on his if he has some sort of
service website, social media, I don't know, but he has.
He has a different take on this, and I'm wondering
if it will change your mind. Listen to this, and
I'm not gonna play you the whole thing, but just
listen to some of the points he makes, or you
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can watch along on RMGTV at roverradio dot com or
with the Rover Radio app on your phone, your tablet,
or your TV.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Listen to this as you heard how young people suffered today.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
Nay scream out the top of my lines.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Social media is filled with videos that say.
Speaker 6 (29:00):
Younger generations are finding it harder and harder to get
reliable jobs, afford comfortable homes, stot a family.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
We baby boomers had things so much easier. Your father
could somehow afford a house, a car, and also put
multiple kids through college.
Speaker 6 (29:14):
But and now it's deemed near possible for normal people
to get ahead financially or shoot even own a home.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
This meme gets millions of views. Once upon a time,
meaning when I was a kid, a family could own
a home, a car, and send their kids to college,
all on one income. This meme is all over the internet.
People believe it, and that's really a fantasy. Economist Norbert Michelle,
it's not true.
Speaker 10 (29:41):
No, it seems really great to think that everything was
so awesome back then, but it wasn't. Materially, we are
so much better off now than we were in the
sixties and seventies.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Well, young people get clicks asking what's the point of working.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
You can't even live in a house. Most people don't
live in houses. That's too expensive. That's just the factual mistake.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Census stat to show more Americans own homes today than
did when I was a kid.
Speaker 5 (30:08):
People, so they show the statistic here. In nineteen fifty,
fifty five percent of people own homes. In twenty twenty five,
sixty five percent of people own homes. What age that's gone? Well,
all age? Oh oh okay, yeah, just of all of American's.
That's that's a surprising step.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
All right. Then there's a couple other surprises in here.
Speaker 6 (30:30):
And I know this.
Speaker 5 (30:32):
I know this is not like you know, Yes, I'd
like to be talking about Crystal's but hoole puckering up too,
But we can't always talk about that, right, So.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
I know it's not the most exciting thing. But he
does make some good points.
Speaker 10 (30:45):
Listen, when I was a kid, people are still buying homes,
but it's just far more expensive for them to be
buying homes.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Progressives like Columbia professor Jeremy Nay, you're giving out ted
talk about how inequality is a matter of life and death,
say the meme right off.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
This is correct, that is correct, but it's misleading.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Houses are more expensive today, but they're bigger and nicer.
Speaker 10 (31:08):
The homes that we're buying now are not the homes
that people were buying in the fifties, sixties, and seventies.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Forbid, three bath with a two car garage. We have
bigger homes, better equipped homes.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Modern homes are much bigger than homes were when I
was a kid.
Speaker 5 (31:24):
So in sixty three, the median home size was thirteen
hundred square feet.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Now it's almost twenty three.
Speaker 6 (31:31):
Hundred square Maybe, and maybe the problem is that builders
aren't incentivized to build those smaller homes anymore. Maybe they're
not building those. So, yes, the homes are bigger. But
if you're just starting out, that all doesn't exist. The builders,
I think, would be when you say they're not incentivized,
they're going to build what is going to sell and
make that money. So if they thought they could sell,
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if small homes were the thing and everybody they go
off only I could find a thirteen hundred square foot home,
they would build it so that so people would buy it.
Speaker 9 (32:01):
Well, maybe they're not for some reason, but they are.
Tiny homes exist for that reason, right, Nobody.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Actually uses to c not a real sense.
Speaker 5 (32:07):
Now there's a real statistic in here that I want
to that I think is probably the best point that
they make.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Well, they'll get to it.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
On a SHI twice as likely to have central air dishwashers,
garbage disposals. Almost all homes now have washers and dryers
they didn't used to. The popular meme doesn't mention that
homes were cheaper then, because they're what people today call
lousy homes.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
The costs are still ten twenty times higher.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
No, they're not not if you adjust for inflation.
Speaker 10 (32:38):
Plus, we spend a smaller share of our income on food, clothing,
and housing than we did.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Here's the data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Americans
now spend less of our money on food, clothing, and shelter.
Speaker 5 (32:54):
I think that this here is an incredible statistic. Here,
and you'll see, no, nobody remembers nineteen oh one, none
of us were alive. But at the time in nineteen
oh one, if you were to spend you know how
much of your income went to food, clothing, and shelter.
Those are your three main things main Those are your
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basic necessities. And in nineteen oh one, about eighty it
looks like about eighty two eighty three percent of your
income was spent on food.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
Clothing, and shelter.
Speaker 5 (33:28):
In nineteen fifty, when Fossel was a kid or born
or whatever, it looks about maybe sixty two percent of
your income was spent on food, clothing, and shelter.
Speaker 6 (33:42):
And now if you've said the same sence to seventies,
if you bring this down here, snitz, I can't see here.
In twenty twenty three, it looks like approximately thirty seven percent,
roughly thirty seven percent of your income is spent on food, clothing,
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and shelter. It has gone down significantly. If you look here,
in nineteen eighty five.
Speaker 5 (34:08):
It's almost fifty percent of your income was spent on food,
clothing and shelter.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
And now we're at the lowest it's ever been.
Speaker 5 (34:14):
Only about thirty seven percent of your income is spent
on that.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
So pretty much since the same since the seventies, pretty
much Now in the.
Speaker 6 (34:21):
Seventies it looks to be over over forty percent, forty
three percent. Sixty one, it was fifty two percent. Eighty five,
it was forty eight.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
It's gone.
Speaker 5 (34:32):
In ninety seven it looks about forty five percent. Two
thousand and three we're down to about forty one percent.
Ten years later we're down to about thirty nine percent.
And now in twenty twenty three we're at the lowest
it's ever been, down to about thirty seven percent. You
go back one hundred years, a little more than one
hundred year, about one hundred years, it's eighty percent or
(34:52):
more of your income was spent on all those things.
So if you wanted to spend eighty percent of your
income on food, clothing, and shelter or even more, people
would it would.
Speaker 6 (35:01):
Have When do baby boomers, like, I don't what is
the age of baby boomer? What year would have been
age year range of when they would be buying a
home or when they would be buying a home. Well,
they were born right after World War two, right, probably
would baby.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
Boom, so they'd probably be no, not the sixties. Oh
you're saying, would they be born and worn up to
the sixties? You know, I don't. I don't know.
Speaker 5 (35:28):
I would say baby boomers would be from about forty
five to nineteen forty five to what I don't know,
but yeah, they're buying they're probably buying homes when they
are in their thirty years old, when they're buying homes
in about nineteen eighty to eighty five, that's when they're
(35:50):
buying homes. Yeah, seventy three right there now, eighty five,
forty six, baby boomers forty seven.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
Forty six.
Speaker 5 (36:00):
Forty six to what you said, sixty four. Oh yeah,
from nineteen forty six to nineteen sixty four. So baby boomers,
the bulk of baby boomers are buying right here in
nineteen eighty five, and it's about forty eight percent.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
So what do we spend a year instead?
Speaker 10 (36:17):
Well, here we have a lot more things and we
don't have to work as hard to get them. When
I was a kid, few people lived like people do now.
Now it's the norm to go out for lunch. It's
the norm to go out for dinner, or to order
in or to get uber eats. My family never went
out to eat. People didn't have enough money.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
Also, back then, families didn't fly places for vacation because
flying costs so much more. Adjusted for inflation, across country
flight costs more than one thousand dollars. Now it's about
three hundred dollars. People did not just go on vacation.
People did not fly all across the country. But TikTokers say,
we young people have it so much tougher. Anyways, they
(36:56):
go on and on.
Speaker 6 (36:56):
I'm not going to play you this whole thing, but
I think that's interesting points to be made.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
I'm not an economist. I don't know. I don't know if,
but things are different, there's no doubt about it.
Speaker 5 (37:07):
So people who complain, oh, it was so much easier, well, actually,
in a lot of ways it was harder back then.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
And they're right.
Speaker 5 (37:16):
We have a lot more luxuries that I think we
take for granted. I take for granted, you take for granted,
we all take for granted. Charlie, think of all the
countries you've been to in the world. In nineteen fifty,
nineteen sixty, nineteen seventies, people weren't doing that.
Speaker 6 (37:33):
I'm not saying I have it that bad. I'm saying
people my age, people younger have it. I'm personally doing
pretty good. So no, I'm not saying but I think
if you according to this, they're saying. People who are
complaining you really don't have it bad.
Speaker 5 (37:48):
In fact, you have more money and things are easier
than it was back in the fifties.
Speaker 6 (37:56):
Like people claim all the you know, I have to
be a trend wife or whatever now that we've never
had back then.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
But you need a cell phone that's one hundred dollars,
that's a that's a that's a good chunk of change.
You have to have that.
Speaker 5 (38:08):
You could say, but you used to have a landline
back then, and adjusted for inflation, your landline was one
hundred dollars a month.
Speaker 2 (38:15):
Back in between the whole family, I guess. Uh.
Speaker 5 (38:18):
And so there are things I'm sure, I don't know
what else, but there are I'm sure there were things
that you used to pay for back then that you
certainly don't need today, that's for sure. But I'm just
just giving you a different perspective there. I don't know
if they're right or wrong. Joe in Rochester, you Ron
(38:38):
rovers morning the morning.
Speaker 7 (38:40):
Joe, Hey, roer, Hey, I'm caller listening, says Day one
of Rochester.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
Thank you. I appreciate that.
Speaker 7 (38:49):
Yeah, no problem. So I think he's got some amazing
points about we do spend a lot more money on
certain things we don't need these days. But the main
thing he's leaving now is the cost of homes versus
the wage is not the same. If you look at
any type of graph that shows the average income versus
(39:11):
what they average houses, it's been going down and down
every year.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
The wage now.
Speaker 6 (39:18):
But I think that's that's I think that's covered in
the chart that they showed, which is people now are
spending thirty seven percent of their income on food, clothing,
and shelter.
Speaker 2 (39:29):
It used to be.
Speaker 6 (39:32):
You go back one hundred years is eighty percent. But
you go back more recently, it was you know, sixty
percent or something. So we're paying less. So that's the
argument that he's making you.
Speaker 5 (39:43):
If you wanted to pay fifty sixty percent of your
income on food, clothing and shelter, way more people would
have a home. But people have deprioritized that in order
to go out and get a seven dollars Starbucks and
go on four vacations a year with all their girls friends.
So I think that that's that's the point that they're
(40:04):
trying to make everything is. You know, for instance, people
let's make America great again.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
Well, it's like dating a girlfriend. You look back and
you go you forget about.
Speaker 5 (40:16):
Oh yeah, that part of her sucked, no wonder I
broke up with her, but you you sort of forget
about the negative things that have happened in the past.
Speaker 2 (40:25):
So that's the point that he's.
Speaker 7 (40:27):
Trying to Can I give you some anecdotal evidence. I
know this isn't sure. So my father in nineteen seventy two,
ahead of this conversation with.
Speaker 2 (40:35):
A recently moved actually went through it. So I was curious.
Speaker 7 (40:37):
He walked into a place at eighteen years old, high
school education, no college, no skill, got a job thirty
two dollars an hour for today's twenty twenty five equivalent.
Nobody could do that today. Not only did he get
thirty two dollars per hour, he got full medical, full
four to oh one k match pension. I mean yearly
(40:59):
Raises worked there for thirty five years before retiring. Nobody
could do that today. And because he was able to
do that at eighteen, at twenty two about a house
at twenty four, he got married. At twenty six, he
had a kid. At thirty he had another kid, stay
at home, wife, two cars. Nobody could do that today's
They'd be unheard of for an eighteen year old to
do that today.
Speaker 2 (41:20):
Look, I don't know.
Speaker 6 (41:22):
I think some eighteen year olds you can leave and
go into the trades. They make an incredible amount of
money in the trades. And do you do it right
out of the gate. No, But machine shop people, I
know they're making pretty good dough. So I don't know
if that's entirely true.
Speaker 5 (41:43):
But again, your father was spending seventy percent of his
income on those things as opposed to thirty seven percent
of his income on those things. So the eighteen year
olds or the twenty five year olds could do that,
they just have to spend money on that kind of
stuff instead of video games and things like that.
Speaker 2 (42:04):
So I think that's the difference. Joe, thank you. I
appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (42:07):
Day one listener there, Joe Is, I've got to take
a break, Dougie, what do you have coming up in
the shizzy?
Speaker 3 (42:16):
Coming up in the news, we have a little bit
of insight into Keith Urban and what he does on
stage that has people talking about the divorce.
Speaker 2 (42:28):
Oh yeah, this is the pitman the divorce with Nicole Kidman.
Speaker 4 (42:30):
Yeah, that's pretty interesting.
Speaker 6 (42:31):
How come the guy is always want to play? He's cheating?
He must be cheating on her. Those are the rumors
that are started immediately, probably buying Nicole Kidman's people, pr
people to take a look and decide, Uh, how do
we know that she's not the one that's running around
on him, the poor guy.
Speaker 2 (42:48):
We'll be right back. Hang on
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