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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Shoplifters will not be prosecuted. It's one more thing.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
I'm strong and Getty one more But first, an important announcement.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
I Joe Getty request, nay demand that. Henceforwarth, I'd be
known as lull Joe. I need a handle. Yeah, it's funny.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
I got into a conversation about this with my son
last night after I was talking to him on the
phone checking in with both the boys since I'm out
of town rare for me. I am fortunate that I've
not had to do a lot of business travel in
my parenting career and I'm mostly home. But so I
checked into the boys and I was telling Sam, who's
really into hip hop music and is like into the
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history of it and has read books about it and
knows a ton about it. Anyway, we're talking about Old
John being on at the convention last night, and we
you know, I was talking about making my usual wisecracks.
Is he learned ol Wayne or the little Kim? Could
Little John put little Kim in his little pocket? Or
how how big are these people right right right the Lowells?
(01:06):
But Little John's not actually that loul.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
No, No, he was our.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Little ever and you can weigh in, Katy, because you
know more about this too. Little Wayne, I guess is
actually little.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Yes, he's like five, he's five six.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
I remember when Barack Obama got a lot of credit
for saying, look, you're not all gonna be little Wayne
at a school when they you.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Know, you're not all going to be rappers study Kim.
I don't know. But you want to be a little Joe.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Yeah, I think so, But my point being, you don't
have to be little right right?
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Yes, it's just a na I just need a moniker.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
I've had like eleven different nicknames through the years, Katie,
as you may know, eleven high Road, uh, big Freedom.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Right, pork Chop?
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Was that me or you?
Speaker 2 (01:51):
I can't I think that you didn't. You have one
briefly in college. I don't need to say it. Yeah,
we don't. We're not going to say that one on
the air. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
I've never had a nickname that I gave a damn
four I'll tell you that.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Here's my here's my nickname story. I went to my
dad one time and told him I'm like ten years old, yeah,
twelve years old, because I wanted a nickname, thought it
would be cool, and I told him I wanted to
be called gunner.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Yes, that's very cool, And he said.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
You kind of have to earn a nickname, like people
have to bestow it upon you.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
You don't have to declare.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
You have a nickname and walk around asking people to
call it. It really took all the fun out of it. Yeah,
and I've never had a nickname.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Yeah, I earned one.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
My dad was my basketball coach and I was the
point guard at apparently I had a game where I
was flopping like Lebron. So after the game he called
me point wimp and that lasted for yeow yeow.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Yeah. And who would call you that? Just your dad?
Would your friends call you that? No, my dad did.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
It turned into it a joke.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
Ived I would like sign his birthday cards as point
wimp and stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Yeah. Wow.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
My parents always called me JW and to differentiate me
from my dad, who's got the same name.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
And I've always won JW or JW.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
You know, it's very you know, kind of average guys,
kind of approachable.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
J Dubbs, heyre doesn't.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Fun on it is good. So have you ever shoplifted?
It's much more common than you might think. Nearly one
quarter of American adults have shoplifted, according to a new survey.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
I would like to flip that on its head. Seventy
five percent of not, which is good. Three out of
four people don't shoplift ath checks ever, so that's good.
Roughly I ever have one in twenty consumer. No, no,
certainly not as an adult. Roughly one in twenty consumers
have shoplifted within the past year.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Wow, So well, it's good. You know what? That is
all kind of encouraging.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
What's considered shoplifting. Or if you pop a grape in
your mouth at the grocery's.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Oh, that's theft, man, I don't do it.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Fellon is theft? Yeah, felony. I don't know if it's Oh,
I know a guy there'll be law and ordering Katie
Green's America.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Yeah, I know a guy who used to at least
graze at the grocery store with the feeling that they
charged too much and they owe.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
It to me anyway. Wow, which, of course, that sort
of attitude will ruin a civilization that is so weak.
Quoting now from Yes.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
No, I accidentally stole something. It actually happened twice, but
I always went back and was like, hi, I'm a
dumb blonde.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
My bad, didn't mean to do this.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
How did you accidentally steal something?
Speaker 5 (04:29):
One time I put a pair of sunglasses on my
head and a target and I forgot they were there.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
And another time that'd be really easy to do that.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Yeah, that was dumb.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
And another time I had grabbed onto this little sour
candy and I was walking around the store and I
had it in my hand as I pulled my wallet
out and didn't realize it was there, and then ended
up going back in and feeling like I was going
straight to.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Hell for it.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
I was at a jewelry store one time and I
asked to look at a bracelet and then I created
a diversion and stuck at my pocket and.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Ran out the door accidentally.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Yeah, it happens, relatable the insufferable USA today. Shoplifting is
a complicated crimes. The motive can change from adolescent rebellion
to adult thrill seeking to hand of mouth poverty.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
I did I do know somebody, a friend of mine
who used to shoplift regularly into the starting in their
teenage years and then like up into their twenties, and.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
It was all rebellion. It was it was like a.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
They're not exactly sure, but it was like a compulsion
and it wasn't for the stuff.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
Like the adrenaline rush of doing it.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Something like that. I get that. It was It's like
like compulsive lying.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
It was like it wasn't like because you lied to
conceal something, you just needed to lie. It was stealing
because something made made you feel something or.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
What I can.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
I get that. I'm not saying I condone it, but
it's thrill seeking. It's uh, it's a can I get
away with this? The excitement of it. It's like a
gambling addict. It's all about the anticipation and the high
of Wow, I'm out on the edge here. You know,
some guy's mountain bikes. Some people steal I guess yeah,
that's what she said. It was just the excitement of it,
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and it took her. It was hard for her to quit.
Celebrities shot.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
I think she got.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Arrested in San Francisco, which will help you quit getting arrested,
like as a grown human being would make they.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
Carry on in San Francisco. If you can steal something.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
She should have done that more recently and been like,
what are you gonna bust me for?
Speaker 2 (06:22):
This, it's less than a thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Here's an article of celebrities who've shoplifted. It's a slide show.
Never mind.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
No one has time for those.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
No, no, no, it's the go go twenty first century.
You get me my shoplifting celebrities right now, or I'm out.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
I have been tempted since you told that story, Katie
of being. What did you see in a liquor store?
Speaker 2 (06:42):
I remember your story.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Now.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
You saw some people steal oh grocery store a sucker?
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
Oh, look at all these dumb mfrs standing in line
to pay as they took an entire cart of booze
out the front door, and no one did a thing.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Y'all suckers? All right? When I was younger and I
who is that handsome man? He's somebody important. He just
waved to us. He is somebody the African American fello
in the nice blue seat.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Yeah, he was somebody. I see him on TV all
the time. I don't know, he's somebody important. He was
a government person. Anyway, I got distracted. That's what happens
when you're here at the Democratic National Convention.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Was it, little John?
Speaker 2 (07:19):
It was not a little John.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
When I was younger and a drinker, I could easily
see that I might have stolen a six pack of
beer at least once, if not regularly, out of anger
about the shoplifting and how they let people get away
with it.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
When I was younger, I could see.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
That I could have convinced myself screw it, I'm not
gonna stand in line.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
I'm just gonna walk out with this damn thing since
nobody cares.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Wow, So you're like the racial activist who paints a
swastika on your own car to point out how much
racism there hits.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
That's bizarre. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
I mean I would protest, I wouldn't do it, and
stealing is wrong, and I don't steal.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
I never have, and I teach my kids not to.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
But man, if other people are and if there was
a line, yeah, I could easily see myself grabbing it
and walking out the door.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
You know what, We should start a nationwide movement to
do this. You go to a store, a Target, whatever,
whatever store, grocery store, liquor store, and you walk out
with the product. Then you walk back in and you yell,
I just walked out of here with this product. Without paying.
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Lawlessness threatens us all. We've got to crack down on
crime and then slap down the precise.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
And product, and then the crowd would give you the
slow clap, right, and then it would build, and that
it would build.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Even more, and you become become a guy with like
you get a nickname, Robinhood, they'd call me. You'd get
a nickname, and you'd have a YouTube channel, and then
you'd finally be something.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Maybe they'd call me Robin Hunk on account of my
handsome note.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
What what the hell? You played this out too far
in your mind? I'm over tired.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Robin Hunk hunk or hum, he's a he's a n
and a crusader for justice. They call him Robin Hunk.
Women are swooning over Robin Hunk.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Just voted the sexiest man Alive.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
With Target Vigilante.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Oh my god, Yes, this would catch on both candidates
begging for his endorsement.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Oh yeah, wish convention. Will Robin Hunk show up at
You know what I'd be? I'd be either Richmond North
or Richmond Guy.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Yes, yes for twenty twenty four, Yes, yes, exactly what
you would be, Robin Hunk.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Now I have a planned and there they'd be memes
of you, and they'd put you to music.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
And oh yeah, I'd be remixed constantly. Yeah, eventually he'd
be the bachelor on the Bachelor. Wow, this is gonna
maybe comes news to Judy. Yeah, okay, that's.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Right to come news to your wife of many, many years.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
Gonna go home the DNC and told Judy, Hey, I'm
Robin Hunk now yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Or r H.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
You'll do Next time you're having intimacy, you might say,
could you conferd to me?
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Is Robin? Could you in my ear? Could you in
my ear? Just say Robin Hunk. We gotta pay. Oh
my god, we need to get these guys home as
soon as possible. Well, I guess that's it.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Oh jeez, get them home.