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Yeah. Yeah. It's frustrating. Our phones only can take one call at a time.

It is. We got to figure that out.

Yeah. There's this thing called call waiting that's been around for a while.

We should be able to do.

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And apologies to Brittany.

She puts a lot into this. So we don't like wasting her time or anything like that.

Oh, it's, you know, and Brittany is amazing.

We appreciate you guys hanging out with us. Mel and I got some fun stuff right up for the

El Caffe birthday anniversary club. It's right around the corner.

You've already heard of preview.

Oh, yeah.

We, we've got to say goodbye to a boy, an internet mainstay that has closed shop

that we got to talk about a little bit later.

How much is drive through AI helping fast food employees?

It's not.

Yeah.

Because every time it rolls up and like, no, real person, real person.

I feel, yes, I feel like we already know the answer to that one.

And we'll get into some entertainment news in the 9 o'clock hour.

And we got a good one lined up for you.

Things that people are 100% brain washed and believing we need.

Could be a good one. Could be a good one right that coming up a little bit later.

But I got some great stuff to start off our show, Melissa.

And I've mentioned before in the air, I don't play the lottery.

I don't do lottery tickets or anything like that.

I don't gamble or any kind.

It's not my thing.

It doesn't do anything for me.

That's the way I usually say it.

There is one other caveat to that, everybody.

I'm not very lucky.

I don't necessarily think that luck is something that you can't make.

You know, I think you make a lot of your own luck in life and everything.

But just in general, I don't feel like a very lucky person.

And I feel like that even if I did win, this is what would happen to me.

A Columbia South Carolina man initially thought it was a joke.

When the South Carolina education lottery called to tell him he had just won a million dollars.

Uh-oh, okay.

I guarantee this is how I would handle this.

Like, no, I didn't.

No, no, no way.

But sir, you really did.

Like, I get out of here.

No way.

He hung up and called his wife who was on her way home when she arrived.

He told her he might be a millionaire.

Her response was, oh, come on.

Get out of here.

Accurate response, yep, yep.

The couple didn't believe the news until they visited the lottery's claims center

and received a check for the full amount.

Oh, wow.

The man.

That's what would happen.

The man won the prize in the Royal Millions second chance promotion.

Players were able to submit both winning and non-winning scratchoffs for a chance to at the top prize.

Oh, wow.

That just gave them money away.

That's a pretty cool prize.

That's pretty cool to be able to do that.

Quote, it's unbelievable.

The man told lottery officials.

It's more money than I have ever seen in my life.

Recently, a 60-year-old Michigan man won six million from a scratch off ticket after playing the lottery for more than 40 years.

He said he would use the money towards savings and vacation.

Nice.

That's a cool story.

That's the best.

I mean, that's what I think any of us would do that don't aren't able to save money or be.

Go on vacations.

Yeah.

Which are most of us.

Right.

Yeah.

And then there's this one, Melissa, that I, boy, this is a, that ain't right, what?

A woman in Kentucky named Ahali says her second grader ordered 30 cases of dumb, dumb suckers on Amazon.

Each case has 2,340 suckers, which means she is getting over 70,000 suckers or nearly $4,000 worth of suckers.

Oh, my God.

She, uh, contact, she contact, real quick time out.

Um, with all the stuff going on and everything and the way that certain, we treat certain words, the fact that there are still a brand of suckers called dumbdums.

That's, that's, I don't know, that's kind of interesting, I think.

I don't know.

It's iconic.

Oh, they're great suckers, I love them.

And they're the best.

You're getting for free at the, at the bank.

And when you drive through.

As far as I know and can remember, they're the only ones with a peanut collada flavor sucker.

Uh, I think you're right.

And those are the best.

Those are the blue raspberries.

Yes, yes.

Those are really good suckers.

Yes.

She contacted Amazon as soon as she realized what happened.

And initially they were chill about it.

A rep said she could just refuse the delivery and they'd refund them her money.

But when the driver came, they didn't knock.

They just stacked all the cases on her porch.

Oh, no.

Once they were delivered, Amazon said they couldn't take them back.

Oh, no.

She told her story on social media and a few news stations.

And people started ordering boxes from her to help her out.

Oh, that's awesome.

She managed to quote sell them all.

Cool.

Eventually, Amazon reached out and said that they'd refund her money either because they were taking some heat.

Or because she was working with her bank to resolve it since they wouldn't.

Amazon wasn't taking these suckers back.

So Holly told her dumb dumb buyers that they donate that she'd donate their money.

Oh, good.

Or the suckers if nobody was able to take them.

This is such a weird story to do with the terms dumb dumb and sucker thrown in there.

But here's the part about it that I absolutely love.

This is the power of the people.

This is the power of the people against giant corporation who doesn't care about us.

But we care about each other.

And it's fabulous.

I love this so much.

We got a story a little bit later that is a little similar.

But you might see a theme a bit today, everybody, of how we handle things when things don't go right.

And the adversity or the way that people adapt or what we talked about earlier,

or what you touched on earlier, Melissa, the way our audience has adapted with us and everything.

Holly says she will change some settings on her phone.

So this doesn't happen again.

So it's unclear if her son got any trouble or he forgot any of the dumb dumb.

Or if he got any.

He didn't even get any.

You almost feel like.

And this is a sign for mom to either take your credit card off of Amazon or your automatic approval

or like change some kind of setting in there or lock your phone.

I just, I first off admired the way she handled this and just rolled with it and everything.

But I got it.

I don't know if you can give the kid a sucker.

I don't know.

I mean, I feel like.

I don't know.

I don't know.

You don't want to reward this necessarily.

But you also, you know, it's also a kid being a kid.

I mean, I don't know.

This is one of those things where, and I really hope other parents take note of this too.

You know, with my kids being in their mid to late 20s.

I really didn't, you know, deal with this with little kids and phones and everything.

I didn't really have a cell phone until my kids were a little older.

So I didn't run into this stuff.

It's a whole new world.

There's so many, you know, the idea.

There's so many things you have to think about.

It's not just worrying about your kid putting their finger in a light socket anymore.

It's a million of these other things.

Well, it's not doing a hot stole.

Yes, yes.

It's so many other things.

Oh, man, I just a big tip of the hat to the parents out there, man.

That's a way to handle it.

That is so many.

For $4,000 worth of dumb dumb.

Just the mind-bogglingness of seeing that email.

And I'd like to do, duh.

Well, to be honest, the dumbfoundedness of it, I mean, just really.

Yes, right.

We will take a time out.

We'll come back doing some celebrate with the LKFA birthday anniversary clubs.

Melissa and James, taking it through your morning right here at 975FMWFHR.

It's time to do some celebrating with our great friends over at LKFA.

They're open today.

Yes.

Get on over there, everybody.

Treat yourself.

Get on over there.

Check out some of their great food.

And if you want an idea of the kind of things that they got for specials and everything today,

we can't recommend enough checking out their Facebook page.

Yes.

Oh, they have great updates.

They're so clever.

I love them.

Did you see the post today, Melissa?

No, I didn't get it.

Oh, it's really good.

It's really good.

I don't know who's in charge of their social media or doing their Photoshop.

I go over there, but they're fantastic.

And I want to be a part of it.

I want to be Photoshopped into some of these things.

I want a whole team in there, something like that.

They do some great stuff over there.

And some really good specials today.

Oh, yeah.

I'm not there yet.

Holy.

They've got a chicken cord on blue.

Oh, a chicken cord on blue Benedict.

Oh, my gosh.

Oh, my gosh.

The ham steak and eggs.

I want that right now.

I'm hungry.

James, you got this?

I'm going to go.

I'm going to go completely understand.

You are only human.

You got to do what you got to do.

Yes.

Love that they should Photoshop the heads.

All their heads on other bodies in front of El Cafe.

I don't know what it is, but I have a fan of that stuff.

I love that.

I am, too.

And it's obvious.

It's so obvious that they're not trying to make it look perfect or anything.

Even if you're not that hungry and you're like me a little bit,

you can't really eat a big meal in the morning.

Go over there for a cup of coffee and a piece of pie,

because they've got so many great flavors over there.

Oh, yeah.

And it's just become a community center.

Important words.

People just gather and they sit and they chat and they have a good time.

And that's what Fadel really was wanting when he started the business.

You know, I'm glad you mentioned I'm a list.

It's been a while, but I remember hearing a couple of people say that,

that I gone to El Cafe.

And it's really cool to hear, especially for Port Edwards and for that whole community.

I know how much that block area is as popular in businesses like this

that put into the community like that.

It makes sense.

It's a hub.

That's cool.

Check it out.

James, James, James.

Butterfinger, butter scotch cream.

I saw that.

Yeah, that does sound really good.

I want to know what that is.

Oh, that sounds great.

Blueberry crumb.

Even the New York cheesecake sounds pretty good.

And of course, you're just dying to have the death by chocolate.

I got to have it.

Got to have it.

We will meet you over there.

Everybody head out over to 221 Market Avenue and beautiful port.

Edwards, say hi to the gang over there for us at El Cafe.

And tell them you heard about it on our station.

Yeah, please do.

Please do.

And you heard one of our listeners calling in earlier to give us a birthday.

Keep in mind, you can do that, everybody.

Seven of them.

Call up.

Join us.

Yep.

Seven of five, four, two, four, twenty, six hundred.

I don't want to step on your line.

Didn't want to.

Yeah.

Well, man.

You can.

I memorized that number just for this segment.

That's the only time I can remember it.

Feel free to direct messages on our Facebook pages or email us.

Info web to be a feature.com.

Calling up.

Hope you get to do it.

If you have the civic media app, it's just a single button dialing.

You don't have to memorize the number like me.

Right.

And you can also text right through there.

We will get that.

I keep my phone up just in case trying to let it distract me.

But certainly if you guys text in or something, I want to be able to catch it.

So feel free to do that, everybody.

Mm-hmm.

Taking a look at our local list here, we had an extra name.

So now I need a one through three Melissa.

Ooh.

I'm going to pick one.

There you go.

Nicely done.

All right.

So we got our names to get to.

And first up on our local celebrity list, Walter Anderson.

Oh, happy birthday, Walter.

I really like the name Walter.

It's a good name.

I don't know why.

I just like it.

Oh, I like it too.

There's one of those names.

I like the shortened like Walter and Walter.

Both of them are good.

Mm-hmm.

And a very happy birthday to Betty Polanski.

Happy birthday, Betty.

Another name I absolutely adore.

Happy birthday, Betty.

Happy birthday, Betty.

Enjoy the day, Betty.

Hope it's a good one for you.

And our qualifier that just came in less than five, ten minutes ago.

David Fait.

David.

I thought it's birthday is tomorrow.

Oh, it is tomorrow.

It is tomorrow.

You're right.

I'm sorry.

It was for tomorrow.

Sorry, David.

Well, he's an automatic qualifier tomorrow.

There you go.

That's how we slide that one in.

Yes.

And we will grab a new qualifier tomorrow.

We'll also include David in there.

There we go.

I'm sorry, Melissa.

So, oh, you know, one or two then, you know, I know the names and everything.

I say everybody gets in.

That's okay.

How about everybody gets in.

Yay.

I love that brand.

Yeah.

And everybody gets in.

Wait a wait a wait a be just, you know, roll with with the roll with it.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Make everybody a qualifier.

You're such a good teammate.

Walter, Betty, David, you're all going into the list.

But you know what, they're all favorite names.

So we've got to pick them all.

And we will get David's name on the list tomorrow.

I apologize for that, everybody.

You know what's all good.

Taking a look at who they share their birthday with, who Walter and Betty share their

birthdays with.

Naomi Scott is 32.

Oh, I think I know who she is.

Hold on.

I got a look at her though.

She's good.

She is Jasmine in the live-action Aladdin remake.

Her kids out there.

I don't get to watch that yet.

I've seen it either.

Yeah.

Kimberly, the pink ranger and the power ranger movies.

Oh, I never watched those.

Nobody's surprised by that.

Let's see here.

Oh, she was in Charlie's Angels in 2019.

Yeah.

She's good.

Yeah.

And she was in the Martian.

Oh, that's right.

Yes.

That's what she was in.

Yeah.

I knew there was another one I wasn't thinking of.

Yeah.

Which actually, okay, I love the book.

The Martian, the book is fantastic.

But what's his name here?

Matt Damon.

Yeah.

Doesn't really good job in this.

Yeah.

I've only seen bits and pieces, but I've heard it's really good.

And my mom really liked it.

Yeah.

But the book by Andy Weir is absolutely fantastic.

That's, that's the thing.

You got to read the book.

Mm-hmm.

Sayer Zamata is 39 former SNL cast member and was also

had a nice part on Agatha All Long, the recent Marvel show.

Chris Paul is 40.

Fantastic point guard.

Currently still playing.

It hasn't retired yet for the San Antonio Spurs.

In basketball to say a 40-year-old point guard.

It's just such a rarity.

But nowadays, I think we need to get used to it.

Because these guys are playing longer and longer nowadays.

And that's good.

Good for them.

Yeah.

It's cool.

You know that they're not destroying their bodies before they get into their middle years.

Yeah.

That's a great point, Melissa, because so much of this is, if you can stay healthy, it was sports in general.

Yeah.

The difference of, you know, having a long career or not, that's what it all comes down to.

It's mostly because of injuries.

Yeah.

The great Gabrielle Setibi is 42.

Becky on Empire, Queenie in American Horror Story, really came to note with the movie Precious,

her breakout performance.

She is such a wonderful actor.

We don't get to see more of her because in part of her size and her look, essentially.

And that's from her and her agent and other people that I know that are struggling with this in the industry.

Every actress like her that has made a break, I know a lot of actresses that are similar in size and look,

that just, they get typed and they don't have a, they don't, they get one of the toughest things as an actor.

When you walk into an audition and you already, you look at the casting directors and you know you have no chance.

And I can't even find her on Google.

So there you go.

She, yeah.

And it's Bella's last name.

S-I-D-I-B-E.

Oh, there we go.

And she's phenomenal.

She is an incredible actress.

Oh, she's gorgeous.

Oh, beautiful.

I think she's beautiful.

Yeah.

I'd cast her in a second.

Yeah.

I'd cast her for anything.

But you are correct.

That is why she is not getting the roles that she should.

Yeah.

From her talent is just because she is a large, big, beautiful woman.

You watch the movie Precious.

You go ahead and you try to watch that movie without crying or looking away or something like that.

Her performance is just incredible.

Martin Brodor is 53.

One of the greatest, some considered the greatest goalie of all time.

Hall of Famer.

He's the NHL's all-time leader in wins.

Shutouts and games played.

Fantastic goalie.

The great George Clooney is 64.

Sorry, I was drinking my coffee right when you said that.

That's the worst name for me to say while you're drinking coffee.

I still managed to make a happy sound.

I did a nice job.

George Clooney is one of these guys who really bet on himself

and I think has shown for everything.

He took a little heat for his Oscar speech that he sounded like

that he was padding actors on the back and everything.

And I think if you really read that speech, listen to it.

Where he's coming from and trying to talk about what...

Back in the day when this first started out, the entertainment industry,

actors were not household names.

Being an actor was not considered a good job or something that you...

If you went to your family and told them that you wanted to be an actor,

you're almost shunned in that.

And that's where acting started.

And that was what he was noting with that.

The actors understood what they were and were rebels and were pushing against a lot of things.

And because of that, most of the acting industry were very good with women

and minorities and paving the way for a lot of that stuff in the industries.

Jewish people alone, Jews when they were in the first migrating to this country

were not offered jobs, were not able to work in many industries.

That's why they went to work as accountants because nobody wanted to do it.

That's why they went to be bankers in Hollywood and that because nobody wanted to do it.

And now, of course, we're stereotype that we all run Hollywood and run all banks and all this.

But that's where it all stems from because just like with the Irish one,

when they first came to this country, nobody wanted to be police officers.

So guess what? The Irish became police officers and firefighters and that.

This is just history. This is just the way this worked out.

And that's what George Clooney was going at with his speech in that speech.

The other thing about George Clooney, he gets his big break.

He's got a contract with ER that he has to fulfill.

He should fulfill the producers.

Everybody on that show is like, no, George, you go ahead and do your thing.

He's like, no, I got a contract to fill.

I signed up for this.

I wouldn't be here without this job. I'm going to fulfill my contract.

Behind the scenes has reached out.

Now, just not just me directly, but actors like me, he will send out a mass email too.

And like, hey, reach out to me if you need anything.

Here is my personal email.

Things like that that nobody knows about.

But us that, you know, are in the industry and stuff.

I think not only is he the chairman of the board for the modern age

and the modern day Frank Sinatra in many ways.

But he is also just a good guy by all rights.

Just seems to really be good about the industry and good for the industry.

Yeah, and that's wonderful.

The great Roma Downey is 65.

Touched by an angel.

She is married to a survivor producer Mark Burnett too.

She's good.

Touched by an angel.

I remember that show vaguely.

I don't didn't see it, but I do know that it was very popular.

Yeah, but it ran from 1994 to 2003.

So it was on for a good amount of time.

And that's the one thing I was going to mention when you're talking about George Clooney and I got distracted.

But, you know, even challenge me one person out here in the world,

besides, you know, people who don't have television that don't take in movies

or some form of entertainment.

Yeah.

Find me one.

And I'm a good candidate for this.

I don't have television.

Like, I mean, I have a TV, but I don't have any subscriptions to anything that I pay for.

So, and I still take in media.

I still take in entertainment.

Where would we be without it?

Right.

And we want to shun those people.

Why?

That's a really good example.

You are a really good example.

And that's a really good statement there.

We're just talking about this guy the other day.

Tom Bergeron is 70 former dancer with the stars host.

Also hosted America's funniest home videos and stuff.

Oh America's funniest home videos.

That is one show we were allowed to watch when I was a kid.

Tom Bergeron is kind of a throwback.

He's such a good host.

Like, there's not that many guys.

Most of the hosts nowadays are comedians or former singers or some of that.

Tom Bergeron's just a host.

He's just a classic host and he's so good at what he does.

He's the best of the modern era as far as hosts go.

I think, I think.

And I would theorize that America's funniest home videos was like the precursor

to all of the memes that we have now in the TikTok videos.

100%.

Yeah, the funny little clips, the shorts, you know, those, all those things.

That's what started it.

In my opinion.

Yes, oddly, or I couldn't agree more on Melissa.

I've never thought about this until you said that.

But oddly or fittingly enough, that paved the way and is going to be like history.

He's going to look back at that show as is really the starting point of a lot of this stuff.

You're right.

Yeah, because those videos were longer.

And now we definitely have, you know, like the shorter, shorter clips.

But that's really, these things are funny.

We want to see them.

But it's the beginning of the, the videos of, you know,

man gets hit in the groin with a football.

I mean, now that's all over TikTok.

That's all over here.

You're right.

Bob Seeger is 80, Motor City King.

And.

Seeger.

Hollywood nights against the wind.

We've got tonight, old time rock and roll, risky business.

A lot of hits for Bob Seeger and Bob Seeger in silver bullet band.

And then some people no longer with us.

My dad maintains his favorite player is Roberto Cometi.

But the greatest baseball player he's ever seen, Willie Mays,

would have been 94 today.

Baseball Hall of Famer.

Say, hey, kid, the reason that people say five-tool player guy who can field,

play positions, bat, steal, do it all.

Willie Mays was the complete package.

And if you look up one baseball play in your whole life,

look up Willie Mays and the Willie Mays catch.

Guarantee you throw that in there and you'll see this catch of Willie Mays in black and white,

making a behind the back catch that is just something that me and every kid that ever played catch

tried to do their whole life just doing that.

I played left field all the time, Melissa.

And I can't tell you how many times I would let a ball go over my head just so I could try.

Just so you could try.

Yes, yeah, yeah.

And how many times did you get it?

A couple.

I got a couple of legs.

I got long arms.

It helps.

It helps a good long arms.

Your arms are very long.

If I misgaged it, I usually can make up for it.

And I need your long arms.

Yes.

Get this off the top shelf for me.

It's a story of my life.

Yeah.

And the great Orson Wells born in the state in 1915, Pestwie in 1985,

Citizen Kane, also the narrator of History of the World Part One,

so many things that he did in his life.

And the greatest prank in human history.

Yes.

You will never be topped.

You can have all the prank shows you want.

You can do all the Ashton Kutcher, Anthony Davis, all these different things.

Nobody will ever top.

Because nobody can top an alien invasion.

Like if he had made one household believe it, it would be,

I would say all this still.

But he made a community, a whole portion of the country,

thinking that there was an alien invasion.

It just by God.

Yeah.

And to be fair, I really hope that that would never happen again.

Absolutely.

Oh, yes, 100%.

Yeah.

And I don't know that that was his objective, was it?

No, I think his objective was theater.

Yes.

His objective was trying to do something at the time,

something different with this new medium and radio.

And trying to combine literature and radio.

And really doing a lot of this stuff that we're trying to do with VR

and some things nowadays.

We're really interacting with the audience and meeting people in their homes.

It was way ahead of its time.

And maybe too ahead of its time.

Obviously.

Yeah.

Also an incredible writer.

Incredible director.

One of the world's greatest directors too.

I mean, I'm looking through this movie list and I didn't even realize.

He was involved in the original Muppet movie from 1979.

Yeah.

If I have this right, he asked to be a part of it.

Oh, cool.

Orson Wells, because of the way his career ended and everything,

kind of gets lost in the shuffle in some ways.

But Citizen Kane maintained is still one of the greatest pieces of film

or art you will ever watch.

There's certain things that just hold the test of time.

And a lot of it, he's done.

One more time.

A very happy birthday to Walter and Betty out there.

Happy birthday, Walter and Betty.

Yeah. And David, we'll get you in there tomorrow.

We'll get you in there tomorrow.

But you're all winners today.

Yes.

Everybody qualifies today.

We'll be back after our news sports and entertainment break.

And we'll take care of our partners as well.

Melissa and I will be getting...

Say goodbye to a long time mainstay on the internet.

Coming up.

On mornings at WFHR.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show here at WFHR.

Melissa and James here with you.

Thanks so much for joining us.

This isn't interesting.

We gotta say goodbye, everybody, to the tech world

is mourning a big loss today.

A true pioneer in video chat.

Skype passed away 22 years.

Skype.

Creston piece.

Yeah, I have to say.

I used Skype quite a bit over the last 10, 15 years teaching.

It's how I did most of my...

I would say a couple months ago they informed us that we were moving to Zoom.

And kind of saw some of this coming.

I don't know.

What platform was using Skype?

Was it Microsoft?

Yes, yeah.

Now, I think a lot of people saw this coming.

It's not too much of a shock.

Microsoft announced it a month ago and started moving users over to their more modern Microsoft Teams platform.

If you go to Skype.com, it now prompts you to start using Teams.

Teams.

Skype was founded back in early 2003 with the first beta version came out later.

2003, you mean?

Yeah, yeah.

I do that too.

Did I do that?

Oh, yeah.

2003?

Yes.

Oh, that too.

Microsoft eventually jumped in and bought it for 8.5 billion 2011.

Oh, wow.

Wow, God.

We've never heard from the creators of Skype since.

I know.

I mean, as far as I know.

Why would we?

Yeah, exactly.

It had around 150 million monthly users at that point.

But then Zoom caught on during the pandemic.

And it probably just over 20 million users.

Skype's underlying software wasn't really designed for mobile.

So Microsoft decided to do a euthanize it as an effort to streamline their services.

If you want to save your contacts or your old Skype data, you have until the end of the year to export it.

After that, it's gone for good.

That's right.

But that is a great way to do this.

Yes.

Yes.

Yeah, to give you the opportunity to still save your data from that, that's good.

And granted, especially early back in the day, there were freezing moments and stuff like that.

But that was the internet in general.

Before Facebook Messenger.

And this is the thing with Skype will never get remembered in the pathion of internet history or anything like that.

But they should.

Well, I think they will as much as my space will.

Yeah, that's a good point.

Because, therefore, whether it's Facebook Messenger or Zoom or anything else, Skype paved the way for all that.

The popularity of that.

I know that for me, it was a way that I mentioned teaching.

But back in the day, it was how I did a lot of my auditioning.

And as far as doing an audition for California, I did a lot of auditions out east.

And I was able to do it off of Skype.

A lot of casting directors.

And a lot of the movies you watch and TV shows you watch, people have been cast because of Skype.

Because they were able to use that service and everything.

Right, because it's a heck of a lot cheaper to do that than try to get on a plane and fly somewhere.

Yep.

And not only is it more cost efficient, but casting directors were able to be able to cast more or see more people.

Right.

Because of it and everything.

You weren't just stuck with people in your zip code or your area.

They could be physically there for, yeah.

The worry that I have about this is, of course, you know, a consolidation of everybody using one thing.

AKA monopoly.

Yeah.

There is no good monopoly.

No.

There is no good.

No such thing as a good monopoly outside of maybe the board game.

But even that honestly isn't good because it was created by a woman to point out the fact that landlords.

Right.

Control.

Yeah.

No.

It's just really not because it doesn't, it's again, not power to the people.

It's power to corporations.

Well, and outside of those old school hats, like the one size fits all hats, I think that's the only thing I could think of where one size fits all really.

Like, outside of like clothing and everything, that doesn't work for other stuff.

There's almost no medium where one size fits all or it will work.

And one size fits all only counts if it's spandex.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Oh, goodbye, Skype.

We'll miss you.

So speaking of...

Competition is a good thing.

We need more competition.

Well said.

Staying in the tech world, if you will, in 2025 and at fast food restaurants artificial intelligence is almost as good as human employees at messing up orders.

I was going to say, I hope you're not going to end that sentence the way I think you're going to end that sentence.

So we're not friends anymore.

There's a new report out on AI at fast food drive thros and it found that AI-powered interactions provide faster service, improved efficiency and customer satisfaction.

It looked at a series of test cases involving three things.

AI voice ordering, mobile ordering for pickup and in-store kiosk ordering.

The results were perfect.

22% of the time the AI voice ordering system glitched and needed an employee to step in and help.

So the results...

I'm sorry, everybody, my dyslexia is kicking in.

We're not perfect.

We're not perfect.

We're not perfect.

I would think the only ones that would be perfect were if like the customer was ordering it on a screen.

Yeah.

And touching the buttons of the things they want.

But even then, it doesn't always work.

So the results weren't perfect.

22% of the time AI voice ordering were glitched.

There were also order inaccuracies with the AI and 65% of those involved AI's inability to deal with a customization request.

Hey, I want a hamburger or no pickles.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I want to, I want to sandwich no cheese.

Yeah.

Mobile ordering cut time spent in the drive through by one minute and 54 seconds and mobile ordering reduced in-store wait times by three minutes and 31 seconds.

So you can see the wants to use it.

You can see the idea of wanting to use it.

And you know, the idea that it's getting harder for some retail businesses to find in a retail and fast food to find employees.

Now, Melissa and I have a very quick solution for this.

Pay them more.

Yeah.

Pay them more.

Pay them more.

You're welcome, everybody.

We just solved it.

There you go.

Raise minimum wage at the very least.

The thing is, and you can ask people who work in the industry about this when you have mobile ordering or AI order whatever.

You know, it's coming in a different way versus the customer coming into the store and ordering it at your kiosk or through the drive through.

You've got more orders coming in.

How are the people that are actually making the food supposed to make it any faster?

Yeah.

You know, I mean, and that requires a good system.

And I know for sure there's one restaurant in town, one fast food place in town that really struggled with that when like door dash orders would come in.

It would you serve the other orders of the people in the drive through.

So it increased the wait time for people who are coming there in person.

Yeah.

Well, here's something else.

How is that?

How is that okay?

Yeah.

That makes sense.

How is that good business?

Yeah.

None of it adds up.

And when's the last time somebody said, you know what?

I would much rather talk to AI than a real person.

I don't know if anybody's ever said that in human history.

I'm not sure if anybody's ever said that.

Anytime it comes down to a human being or AI, I would, you know, I don't know.

I think a hundred times out of a hundred, you're picking the real person.

And part of that is brought up in this survey, the kiosk ordering lagged friendliness.

People complained that there were no connection with the employees or the restaurant

with no one greeting them, acknowledging them or thanking them.

So they didn't feel like they felt like it was very mechanical.

Right.

Mechanical, cold and personal.

Like, where's the, you know what?

That's, I don't know, food.

Let's think about food and it's place in society.

Food brings people together.

Food is community.

Food is, you know, interaction.

That's the big thing around family gatherings is food.

Yeah.

And now we're going to turn it into a transaction only.

You know, this is certainly important in the fast food industry for the economy

and what we were talking about with minimum wage and some of that.

But honestly, one of the first things I thought of in reading this this morning

was meals on wheels and the importance of that.

And we talked about it a lot and we're going to continue to talk about it.

The ADRC has great opportunities to be a part of this community volunteering

and delivering meals on wheels.

And when we talk about this, we talk about how important that meal is

and how oftentimes these individuals, this may be the only good meal they have that day.

But the real, real bringing home factor and the importance of meal,

we could have maybe drones doing this.

Maybe have one of these little pizza delivery machines that you see in big cities,

delivering these meals.

But that wouldn't be the point.

It's not only going there and stopping it.

It's saying high to these.

I'm giving them nutrition.

It's the personal interaction.

Yes.

It's trying to kill off some of that isolation.

Checking in.

And yeah, I mean, there's only so much computers can do

and they have their place in society.

AI has its place in society.

It keeps us from sending our bosses swear words and correcting them.

Oh, I didn't mean to say that.

Oh, God.

Does it though?

Yeah, yeah.

Sorry, Sage.

But no, no, no.

It's really, it's something that it does have its place.

I don't like the idea.

I think one of the things that we really got to take a beat on

is things don't have to be one extreme or the other.

There is a middle ground in most stuff.

It doesn't be all AI is evil.

AI is trying to take over the world.

Or AI is great.

AI is wonderful.

AI is everything.

It can be a middle ground.

That it's just this middle thing with this thing in the middle

where we find a balance.

And like, hey, some of it's good.

Some of it we don't need.

And if I could just, you know, throw out there.

What is the purpose of isolating people from each other?

From, you know, removing people from interaction.

Getting people disengaged in their communities.

Making sure that the people aren't gathering together to talk about their rights as Americans

and standing up for what this country was founded on.

What's the purpose of that, James?

Yeah.

It's the one of the oldest attitudes there is, dividing conquer.

Yep.

Exactly that.

Exactly what it is.

We are more powerful than the billionaires because there is a heck of a lot more of us than there are of them.

Yep.

We the people.

We need the people.

Don't let them take that away from us.

And we are also more powerful than autocorrect.

We have to remind ourselves of that once more.

If we're swift-minded enough to go back and reread what you wrote.

Yeah.

Think before you hit send everybody.

Or at least proofread.

Sorry, Chuck.

Sorry.

Sorry, Cass.

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This feels weird when we don't talk to Brittany to kick off the show.

It feels a little off, a little off.

That's okay.

We'll get there.

You know, at the time change is a little rough for everybody.

Appreciate her reaching out though and working so hard to get on the airway.

She loves talking with our audience.

She loves her reaching out to our audience.

You know, her delivery is a spot on.

There are certain things that I don't believe no matter how good of an actor or performer you are,

you can't fake and you cannot fake her energy and her passion.

She just loves what she does.

She is all weather.

This is an interesting one Melissa.

Some people go to great lengths to appear younger.

We're seeing a lot of this and now I can't think of the new one the people are using.

The new new weight loss thing or whatever.

Oh, it was epic.

It was epic.

Yeah, making everybody flat-butted.

That's all I know about it.

That's all I know.

Well, that.

And now I'm reading that a lot of actors, so I actually got a couple of auditions coming up in part

because a bunch of actors have been pulling out of things in late.

A little behind the scenes, everybody.

Right now, early late spring, early summers where a lot of TV shows are being filmed,

especially pilots.

So people like me, this is a great opportunity.

It's a smorgasborg of, oh God, I love that word, auditions.

A bonanza of opportunities.

Yes, yes.

Well done.

And you know, that's where you're competing with a lot of other actors too.

But like, in the sag since 08, and I've never seen it like this where there's just not as many.

And not all of them, but a big part of it is that a lot of actors are getting work done.

And we're talking about older actors and stuff in the main, say.

But this isn't just them.

They're having to get face stuff done, like their lip filler and cheek filler and stuff,

because it's suctioning up their face.

What are we doing?

What are we doing people?

Let's take it off and then put it back on again.

What?

No.

It ain't worth it.

No.

And now, ozempic has its place for sure.

It works really good for some people in some situations with four medical reasons,

just as a straight-up weight loss because you're a size four and you want to be a size two.

Yeah.

Maybe no.

Yeah.

Now, when we're going through all these links and everything to look younger,

people are missing one of the big ones.

If not the biggest one, the biggest tell your email address.

According to a report, Gen Z professionals are using email to guess a coworker's age,

not by the body of the message and not even the decision to use email in the first place,

the actual address, assuming it's a personal account.

Yes.

Anyone's that don't have numbers at the end of them are really old.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Boy, I can't.

Yeah, you can't dodge this one.

One young person says that if someone has a Gmail handle that just is their name and no additional letters or numbers,

they probably claimed they had that address early on, meaning that they are over the hill a bit.

Yeah.