Mattress Nightmare Edition (Hour 1)

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But we have to begin here.

All right.

I will.

I don't know.

I have to.

I have to ask this to the audience, even though I feel like I know the answer.

Okay.

And I feel like this is one of those situations where, you know, every once in a while, this happens where you think you're the only person this affects or it's happening to or that is thinking or feeling this.

And then you share it with friends or family and like, oh, I'm not alone.

Not alone.

People feel this.

I feel like this is not that situation, Seth.

Okay.

My back has been bugging me the last week or two.

Okay.

And I have a horrible mattress.

I have a mattress that it's begging me to let it go.

Please.

Just please.

I've done my job.

I want to got your money's worth.

I want to rest.

Let the mattress rest.

Just let me go.

Yeah.

And I can't yet.

I do because I don't have a new mattress yet.

So I have to use this one.

With my back problems, I've been trying different things.

And I forgot about this.

But when I was younger, it used to work.

And this morning, it's been working.

I've been barefoot.

Oh.

And walking barefoot.

I got socks out and everything.

And clean socks.

I'd be fair.

But I, I don't know why, but barefoot.

Like, my back doesn't feel as bad when I'm, especially when I'm standing.

All right.

It's not perfect, but it's helping a little bit.

All right.

And you figure these things out when you, you know, you have a bad backer.

You're like legs hurt or any of these things.

And especially when you have a bad mattress.

Yes.

Now, I had not had a day, a morning that, where I was like, oh God, I, you know, I'm glad I have that mattress.

But I am this morning.

I'm thankful to have that mattress.

Yes.

Banged up, beat up my mattress.

That is, like, it seems like it's a tackled dummy in football.

That mattress that I use and everything.

But it's better than this one.

Right.

In our opening story, it turns out a lot of, quote, smart homes.

They have gotten a little bit.

Yes, not as smart.

Little dominant.

A little dominant, yes, definitely.

A company called Eight Sleep makes bed frames that tilt, and a $2,000 mattress covers that

Let you dial in the temperature of your bed, but it all runs on the cloud.

And it was hosted by Amazon's web services, which has a lot of stuff.

It's huge.

And in the last couple of days, we've had shortages and outages over the Amazon.

I know a number of different apps, some in struggling and having issues as well.

One thing to keep in mind, sometimes these are just struggles, sometimes this is just technology

in the way it goes.

But if you have a security team that is intelligent, they also see this as, well, that could be people

trying to get into our system.

It could be, it's not to say it's one or the other, but they oftentimes are hand in hand.

Right.

Hey, we had a security problem last month ago or whatever, well, that was hackers testing

this out.

Is that related?

Right.

Exactly.

Who knows?

You know, but it's certainly something to keep an eye can eyeball on.

If your bed was any, so it ended up being a big issue for the Eight Sleep comes to customers

on Monday, because once Amazon systems went down, it bricked the whole smart mattress system.

If your bed was in a seated position, you couldn't make it live flat.

You just had to sleep like that or move to the couch or floor or something like that.

Whatever, right.

The outage happened around 3 a.m. Eastern time and 12 midnight Pacific.

So a lot of night owls had big time issues with them.

I bet they did.

When guy tweeted at the CEO and said, would be great if my bed wasn't stuck in an inclined

position.

Then someone in the comments said, it's all fun and games until a hacker folds you into

a taco.

It's very true.

Very true.

Actually.

Yeah.

Other customers described issues with the mattress overheating.

One guy said his bed was stuck in a 9 degrees warmer than the room compared to sleeping

in a sauna.

Oh, said that's what it felt like.

Oh, that's rough.

The bed started working again once Amazon servers went back online.

The CEO of Eight Sleep said that they were working on adding an outage mode this week.

So it doesn't happen again.

Sounds like something they should have done in the first place.

First place.

You know, it just feels that way real quick.

I want to give some stats on this specific item.

So it's a smart, okay, it starts at $2,700.

Man, it's not a mattress.

You provide your own mattress.

It is a mattress cover and a quote unquote pod that acts as the brain of the system.

If customers want to spend a few thousand more, few thousand more, they can get a base

that adjusts the position of the mattress, provides biometric sleeping data and heats

and cools the sleeper customers must must also subscribe to a service for eight sleep

which ranges from 17 to $33 a month.

Met that is a hustle.

That is a hustle right there.

I am telling you this is I mean, and this is the first I've ever heard of this company

before.

I've never heard about this.

But I mean, talk about a cautionary tale about quote unquote smart appliances or smart

whatever.

Man, you need backup plans for all of these things because I mean, it was a not that

long of an outage.

I mean, it was a decent, you know, kind of thing.

But that's what happens, man, something happens in Washington state.

And now suddenly your bread, your bed is broken and you can't use it anymore.

If I spent all that money on that thing, I would still be stuck with the same mattress.

They don't even sell you a mattress, they don't even sell you a mattress.

Like at least give me some feathers.

Let me make my own.

Like I mean, there's something and it's really funny because I mean, there's a lot of

great quotes on like on the social media and stuff.

ESPN host Victoria Arlen has one and she said mine is not working.

It went super haywire and it still seems to be turning on and off randomly with the

inability to stop or control it.

I had to unplug it.

I tried to get it going again and it's still uncontrollable with the system turning on

and off.

I say, go old school, get yourself an offline bed.

Get yourself an offline.

Hey, you know, mattress technology, I mean, just regular mattress technology has got

come a long way in the last, you know, a couple of decades.

Yeah.

You can get some really nice mattresses that don't move and consequently don't go insane

when the web server is when it gets off the cloud.

I remember my aunt Pat talking about this that there was a stretch there where like everybody

like rhinestones were big and then it got too big where people were putting on rhinestones

on everything.

Oh, the 70s and everything.

Yeah.

Then we saw this in the 80s a little bit with, you know, especially certain like, you

know, plastic products and everything.

We've seen it in the 90s and we've seen it in the OTS.

We see that we overuse these things.

We have done this with Bluetooth.

We have done this with technology.

We are throwing it in things.

Any day now you're going to get, you're going to go to buy milk and you're going to have

to like, you know what, know a code to be able to open it seriously.

We've gone way too far with it.

James and I were talking off air about this and it's like, it's actually not convenient

though.

It's actually adding steps.

It's making it less convenient to do a lot of things that we can easily do before.

So sleep is one of the most important things in our lives and especially when it comes

to things we don't do enough about, don't pay enough attention to.

You could be a seven, eight hour night sleeper and still not be doing everything we need

to to sleep.

It's so vitally important.

I joke about it all the time, but in just, or in the sense of hopefully getting people

to remember that it's such an important thing, it is.

I can't imagine spending the money that some people do on these things or the ability to

spend the money on these things.

I found an article set, AmeriSleep, with the most expensive mattresses, expensive beds.

AmeriSleep.com.

Yeah, good luck with that.

Hey, well, hey, whatever, you know, they have a starry night sleep.

Technology bed for 50 Gs.

The starry night sleep technology bed features a surround sound stereo and video projector

you could use to display stars across your room to turn your bedroom into a movie theater.

And by the way, this is for adults.

Yeah, this is for kids.

This is for adults.

It doesn't even look comfortable.

The bed doesn't even look comfortable.

Man, half a million dollars on that bed or the CosmoVootingBeauty bed.

You can't even pronounce the name of that.

All right, you know, as a side note, you can't buy it if you can't pronounce it.

No, seriously.

Like, I don't care how much money I have.

No, I'm with you.

The egg, like, it's like an egg-shaped bed.

Oh, wow.

That is an interesting design.

Almost like a sea on its clothes.

It looks like a sled.

Yeah.

Looks like an old sleigh kind of thing.

Yeah.

It comes with a built-in phone, DVD player, a TV set, surround sound, all the fixings to

keep you awake.

I'm excited for sleep.

It's an entertainment center.

It's not a bed.

Oh, goodness.

The quantum sleep bed is where, as without we're talking.

Okay.

Now, give me something different.

Reinvent the bed if you're going to spend all this money to your thing.

If you're preparing for a disaster or simply want to live out of your bed, take a look

at the quantum sleep bed.

The watertight bed closes in on itself and is built to protect you against natural disasters

and truters and weapons.

It is a safe room.

Or what do they call it?

Yeah, it's a safe room.

Yeah, our panic room.

It's a panic bed.

It's a panic bed.

It's a panic bed.

You got yourself a panic bed.

Wow.

Have you ever wanted to know what it feels like to be Dracula?

But comfortable.

Or possibly not able to get out again.

What's the failsafe on that one?

That's what I want to know.

20 failsafe sun.

Oh, my God.

It needs to be buried alive.

Yeah.

Oh, it'd be freaky.

At least 20 different things.

And I want, like, I'm doing that if I haven't.

You didn't even mention that it's $160,000.

$160,000.

Wow.

The magnetic floating bed for over, what is that?

That's over $1 million.

That's over $1.6 million.

That's over $1.6 million.

One of the most unique beds in the world is a magnetic floating bed designed by architects.

The bed feels like you're floating on a cloud.

And for its price range, it better.

The bed-kitting.

The bed manages to hover off the ground thanks to 150,000 pounds of magnets beneath it for safety reasons.

Right.

The bed from floating.

Yep.

You need a secured, still, like a tent almost.

You need four things at the end.

You just keep floating.

Okay.

I want to try it.

I would like to try that.

It's not as interesting to see.

Yeah.

And to see what it feels like.

That'd be interesting.

That's one of those situations where I'm going to this place that you can sell this.

And I'm pretending I have money.

Right.

I'm acting like I have a lot of money.

Yeah, exactly.

You're the greatest role.

Absolutely.

But one of the most difficult acting jobs I've ever had to do.

I like you're just floating.

Yeah.

And the most expensive bed that's over $6 million.

$6.3 million.

The Ambalbucci Supreme Bed.

Desired by Stuart Hughes.

A man famous for designing the world's most expensive items, including yachts and all kinds of other things.

Oh, for crying out loud.

The bed is hand built by Italian furniture makers.

The frame is made from ash, cherry, and chestnut woods.

And has incarnate carvings.

The bed's class canopy is made from over 250 pounds of 24 karat gold and Italian silk.

Oh, there we go.

That's where the cost comes in.

I was like, so what?

It's a wood.

Okay.

Yeah.

That's not a million dollars.

But I was looking into this.

Yeah.

The mattress, the frame, everything.

Very, very basic.

Very normal.

All the money is in the fixing.

In the frames.

Yeah.

You're going to get that $6 million.

A year or two into that bed.

And you're going to be in the same position.

What a racket.

This guy has.

This is one of the greatest hustles I've ever seen in my life than the sleep industry.

He's it.

I mean, even, I mean, who knew?

First of all, that what's going on there?

It's better than my nose the whole time.

I mean, and everyone here is like, you know, like, can I get my compressed mattress when I bring it home and it inflates?

You know, can you pull it out of the packaging that kind of like unfolds itself kind of thing?

Which is, I mean, kind of entertaining.

But you can only do it once.

Only once.

Yeah.

I woke up on the floor of the other day.

Free, completely free.

You know?

Yeah, I hate it and cost anything, you know, except for, you know, the back surgery you may have to have.

But other than that, it's definitely going to cost me that stuff.

I can't believe that.

That's a wild story to me.

That is wild.

The, um, it's so this feels like something that would have happened to me too.

As far as the bed, you know, we have an electronic bed.

All of a sudden it starts going to haywire.

It starts folded in half kind of thing.

Yeah, that'd be crazy.

What is the three stooges routine?

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And how do you rebound from that?

You can't just take it.

Like, I don't know about you guys out there, but I wake up, like, crummy or I wake up in a bent position

because my mattress isn't an L or something like that.

I'm fighting against it.

How do you get into that good mood and stuff?

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But the pumpkin cheesecake.

I don't think I've tried that before.

Wow.

Pumpkin something that I have not had.

I will bet you that will taste a lot like pumpkin pie with a twist on it.

With the cheesecake twist.

That bitch.

You know, I'm not a cheesecake guy.

But I might try that just because the pumpkin part.

Sign me.

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Seth, you don't have to work this morning.

All right.

It's a layback.

Yeah, just a one possible qualifier.

So we'll detect that.

Nice.

First up, we want to wish you happy birthday to Pam's great niece.

Molly, Luke.

Happy birthday, Molly.

Molly is three.

Aww.

Happy birthday, Molly.

Even better.

Yeah.

That just gets you those young birthdays.

That's fantastic.

That's so cool.

It is.

Happy birthday, Molly.

Happy birthday.

Enjoy your birthday.

You don't get to do that too much.

That's fun.

And we wish happy birthday to our qualifier, Linda Lou Miller.

Happy birthday, Linda Lou.

Linda Lou, enjoy your day.

Yeah.

Hope to take one for you.

Absolutely.

Linda's a long time listener and has been getting us this birthday for a long time.

We appreciate it.

Yeah.

Fantastic.

We take a look at who you share your birthdays with.

Jonathan Lapinski is 35.

He was the little Ray Boyd in Jerry McGuire.

It's a little kid.

Oh, Jerry McGuire.

Oh, oh, oh, oh.

I knew that name was somewhat familiar.

It couldn't remember where it was from.

I had a couple of acting jobs here and there afterwards, but not too much.

Right.

He was great in the Jerry McGuire.

He was great in that.

Zach Hansen is 40.

That is the youngest Hansen member.

Oh.

Hansen brother, I should say.

He was the drummer.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I think he was the drummer of the Hansen band.

And I would never be able to guess which Hansen was what.

I'm just going to go with that one.

They had enough years between them that it was you could back then.

You could decipher.

I'm sure you can't now because they probably all look at the same age.

Yeah.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson is 50 years old.

Mitchell Unmodern family.

The Red Hat.

Yes.

If you did notice the show or didn't pay attention to the show too much.

Right.

He's a very good actor.

Yes.

He's excellent.

Got a great approach, a great touch to his style of acting, to his delivery and everything.

It's just a little bit different than his normal speaking voice, which I find interesting.

Because it seems like that's, oh, that's just the way he talks.

Yep.

But no, he's a little bit, that just was the character.

That was the character who's playing.

And a lot of the character he's kind of gets typed into.

Of course.

Yes, he's very good.

Yes.

She's good.

Shelby Lynn is good.

57 for the country singer songwriter.

Yeah.

What a Grammy for best new artist back in 2000.

Nice.

Shaggy is 57.

I'm going to about that.

Boy, one of the most distinctive singing slash wrapping styles you will ever hear in your life.

Yeah.

I mean, you hear that well, you know exactly who it is.

There's, I wouldn't say this is the wildest or anything like that by any means.

But for some reason, one that has always stood out to me was Shaggy.

I don't think of his one hit or, or even some of the things you mentioned there and everything.

I believe that he was a military member and I have some other things too.

So he's got a very interesting life.

Yep.

But he did a collaboration with Sting.

And it's a weirdest, I don't know why, but it's so weird to me.

They seem worlds apart.

Although they both have reggae in their background, you have to give that because if you remember the early police,

they were kind of an old reggae group in a sense.

And you can still hear it in a lot of their hits.

Yeah, that's right.

And a couple of them.

Staring at the sun or something like that.

Yeah, I mean, there's so many you can name.

A couple of them that they got almost a Jamaica reggae.

They do?

Yes.

Brian Botano is 62.

What would Brian Botano do?

I knew you were going to do.

I couldn't help myself.

Much more important than the wonderful song from South Park.

The wonderful, like, incredible athleticism of the wonderful legend Brian Botano.

And just an incredible athlete.

Incredible athlete.

One of our guys, Seth, one of our favorites, Bob Odenkirk is 63 today.

Wow.

Bob Odenkirk is 63.

That's incredible.

He doesn't really look it.

He actually looks pretty good.

You know, he's looking, he looks pretty young still.

He looked for SNL for almost a decade.

Of course, I was on the Ben Stiller improv show.

Yes.

The Ben Stiller show.

Yeah.

Many of us know and remember and love him for Mr. Show.

Mr. Show.

David Cross.

Yeah.

Many years old.

A lot of younger people out there, though, only know him as a serious actor or an action star.

Which I never saw coming.

Yeah.

Nobody had that.

I don't know that you're going to find.

Look at his 50s and 60s.

You're not going to find many bigger fans, Bob Odenkirk than Seth and I.

Yeah.

That's what I've ever seen this coming.

No.

It's so cool to see.

Honestly, if you see interviews with him, he didn't see it coming either.

It was very wild when he got on Breaking Bad, when he got that role.

I mean, it was just a role for him, right?

He had no idea it was going to come to better call Saul and all these other things.

He had no idea that was going to happen.

One of the good guys in the industry is so cool to see that happen to him.

He's worked really hard to get to this point.

And it just is luck that he's getting his 60s and he becomes an action star.

He's still my favorite rage.

Yes, rage.

Yes.

So well.

It is where, like, farly would go from zero to 100.

Yeah.

If you're noticing, Odenkirk goes from, like, four to 100.

Like, he's just a little bit different, but it's a pace that's so good.

And he's so good at it.

God, he's funny.

Yes.

You have to support me.

That looks so good.

The legend, the wonderful Jeff Goldblum is 73.

It's my Jeff Goldblum.

I love actors who have a style that just is there.

Yeah.

It's never going away.

Christopher Walken, of course, is probably the most famous of those.

But Jeff Goldblum is right up there.

He's always the same.

He's always does the Jeff Goldblum.

He's a good actor.

I'm not saying he's not.

He's a very good actor.

But it's always in a specific way that he does it.

It's so interesting.

It's a wild thing you're talking about because, obviously,

his actors, our job is to make these lines feel like they're our own,

make every character different.

The death kiss to an actor is being typecast.

But there is this also uniqueness to a walken, a Goldblum.

Yeah.

Certain actors like that.

Yeah.

That where it is really part of the reason why they continue to work.

Now, you've got to be talented.

It doesn't hurt you a little.

Absolutely.

It doesn't hurt to be a little bit.

It's a good looking, yeah.

But it almost speaks even more to their skill set.

And their likeability or their workability or availability or any of these other things

that you're able to do that when you're Dennis Hopper, when you're Christopher Walken,

when you are Jeff Goldblum.

Yeah.

And you don't maybe change that much from character to character.

But look at the consistency of all three of those actors I've mentioned.

Right.

And they always were working.

Always had stuff going on, yes.

You can make an argument, Jeff Goldblum's never worked more than in the last 10, 20 years.

10, 15 years.

Yeah.

With the commercial work and a lot of that stuff he's doing.

Yep.

And honestly, he did a couple of years ago.

He did a kind of a reality show where he would go and, you know, like, see how things were

made kind of thing, you know, specific things he'd go and find out about it.

And he's exactly the same.

He's still Jeff Goldblum.

And it's interesting as all that is.

I think one of the most shocking things about it.

And this is something that I don't think a lot of people put a touch to him.

But we do with action stars all the time.

He is one of the biggest box office selling actors of all time.

Yeah.

Look at his career and what the movie he's been in.

Yes.

The fly certainly, but he's been a part of the Jurassic Park series the whole time.

He's got the wicked franchises he's a part of now too.

Yeah.

Almost all of his movies going back to the body snatchers, the big chill.

Anything is done very well.

Have been very successful.

Yes.

He hasn't had a lot of flops.

No, not really.

He hasn't.

Maybe Earth Girls are easy.

Maybe that.

Maybe that.

That's a cult classic though.

A cult classic.

There were some great actors in that movie.

And another legend we have to talk about Christopher Lloyd is 87.

Oh, wow.

Doc Brown himself, of course, many of us as a little kid.

I loved him in taxi.

Uncle Fester in the Adams family movies.

You forget about that one because he doesn't look like Christopher Lloyd.

Perfectly cast.

Clue, of course.

He is a Klingon in Star Trek III.

Yes.

I did a job with that one.

Yes.

I know that one.

That's one I did.

I know Christopher Lloyd.

And he could still very much tell it's Christopher Lloyd.

I mentioned this the other day when back that a future came up that one of my favorite comedic scenes of all time favorite scenes and movies of all time.

It seemed damn, damn, damn, damn.

It gets me every time since I was six to now.

That scene gets me every single time like the first time I saw it.

But if I could recommend a movie for one, of course, for Lloyd, also a great voice actor.

Yep.

Appreciate and love so much his relationship with Michael J. Fox and then bringing attention to so many different things that have affected both of them in their later lives and everything.

You give a chance if you love Christopher Lloyd.

You have to see things to do in Denver when you're dead.

Oh.

It is Andy Garcia.

It's one of those acting movies where there's a bunch of great actors and Andy Garcia and a bunch of mothers.

It's a darker role for him in many ways.

Yeah.

It's kind of a dark comedy, right?

Yeah.

Yeah.

He plays a film projector runner.

But his hands are all messed up.

Oh.

It's a much darker, serious role of his.

But he has this charm to it still.

It's really good.

Him and Andy Garcia work really good together.

Oh my gosh.

Andy Garcia, Christopher Lloyd, C. Bismis in it.

Christopher Walkins in it.

Yeah.

I've heard about that film, but I've never seen it.

One of those late 90s movies that I just, I will watch to the end of time.

I love, love, love that movie.

It's a weird movie.

It's not anything that's that great of a movie, but it's a good one I think we're seeing.

The heyday of indie films.

Yes.

In the 90s.

Lots of indie films.

That was a good indie film.

Those are my movies, man.

I love those.

And Leslie West born in this day in 1945.

One leg of guitars from Mountain.

Mississippi Queen.

Oh, yes.

And Curly Howard born in this day in 1903.

One of the original three stooges.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Nice.

Happy birthday to that diversity to everybody out there.

We'll be back more.

Show.

Welcome back, everyone.

Morning show here at WFHR 9755FM 1328.

I'm Seth and James hanging out with you.

Thanks for hanging out with us.

This is an interesting one, Seth.

All right.

For single people, the holidays can be a little rough, but you usually figure, well, Halloween is a exact opposite.

It's almost a single person's kind of holiday in many ways you think about it, because you tend to think about it when you're young.

Right.

No matter how old you are right now, when you first think of Halloween every year, when it's getting closer,

your first thoughts are from when you were young.

Yes.

And it kind of goes from there.

It's just the way the brain works and operates.

The brain, oftentimes more than not, and we're finding this out more and more, works chronologically, whether you want it to or not.

And you don't get to choose what memory you go up first.

No, you do not.

So that's just kind of how it works.

And I think that's part of where it comes from a lot of that.

According to a new survey from dating.com, 59% of single people say Halloween is one of the hardest days of the year.

And 57% say it's actually worse than Valentine's Day.

Really?

Wow.

And as much of it as I am a foolish romantic, I kind of agree with that.

It's a very social holiday.

In fact, I would say it is more of a social holiday than Valentine's Day, because Valentine's Day tends to be about couples, you know,

just like two people or whatever, you know, however your relationship has worked out there.

But Halloween, very social.

Yeah.

But it's not family social, like Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, all those other ones.

It's just community social.

Now that I'm thinking about it, it's got, it's more community-based than almost all of the other ones.

But maybe Christmas being the exception?

Yeah.

But it's very community-based, yeah.

Yeah.

Valentine's, if you are single and you know, you know it's coming.

Yeah.

You know it's around the corner and everything, and there are so many different sub-holidays to Valentine's.

Yeah.

That are kind of celebrating singles and some of that.

Sure.

And I think society has realized, oh wait a minute, single people are the ones that have, like,

are the only people left maybe that have any money to spend.

So a lot of marketing and a lot of TV movies that has gone that route to that.

While at the same time, so much has been family-centric, whether it is entertainment or it is things to do.

So I could see, I could see this, and especially with that.

Nearly 80% admit to feeling lonely on October 31st.

And more than half say they've cried after opening the door to Trick-A-Treater.

Oh, that could be sad.

I can see that.

There are a couple of possible explanations.

One, Seth was touching on Halloween is built around groups.

There's Trick-A-Treating kids, parties, couples, costumes,

and families hanging out together.

Mm-hmm.

And even for people who are low-key, a lot of us celebrate Halloween by watching scary movies,

are making festive of foods and treats.

Both of the most of things that are usually enjoyed with multiple people.

With multiple people, right?

Either way, it could be a struggle of 77% of singles and admit they pretended to have plans on Halloween.

And 73% say that social media makes it worse seeing all the fun people are having.

Oh my gosh, that's really sad, actually.

But I think it is scary in its own self, you know, that way.

Yeah.

I think, though, that you also have to find the positives and things,

and I think the silver linings and things.

And in that regard, you know, there's a lot of things that I think that single people will say,

oh, this is, because you've always got that.

And most of us even have that friend who is just happy being single,

or that friend that is constantly dating or is happy in a relationship.

There's a lot of different things going on here.

I think that, well, a lot of that is sad to it and everything.

Right.

I think the fact that we know about these things,

well, give advertisers a chance to find out about this.

There are people out there with, you know, possibly disposable income.

You know, they're, although, they'll find them.

Yeah.

They'll find a way to get people to single people to do on Halloween.

Yes, they will.

And I think that's just, you know, another one of the signs of the times, too.

There was a stretch there where a lot of people were getting into relationships

or getting married because of how difficult it is to have a single income household.

Absolutely.

Starting in the seventies, yes.

We are, we are seeing a shift in that two degrees to a point.

And I think that along with that, you're going to see things like Halloween or other holidays,

you know, get more incorporated.

You know, and it's something we've, we've, there's been a through line to a lot of the stuff.

We've been talking about, you know, adult wean.

We talked about on Monday, I think, you know, and all these kinds of things.

And, and, and we kind of touched on it that that didn't become a thing

until like the seventies and late seventies and the eighties.

And really, if you look at, you know, like Halloween advertising,

which is, which is, to me, is a great bellweather to see what's going on in the culture, right?

Yes.

It's what's, what's being advertised.

Very much.

I remember very much in like the eighties and even into the nineties, like all the beer commercials.

Yeah.

They did Halloween stuff.

You know, El Vira doing like Buzz Lighter, course Lighter, whatever it was.

You know, she was every year.

She was doing that.

But it was very much focused on, you know, adults having fun on Halloween.

You know, usually bar and drinking that kind of stuff.

But it was, I mean, I bet you if you go back and you see the commercials back

from like the late sixties and the early seventies, it's all like candy stuff.

Costumes, you know, kids stuff.

It's all the kids stuff.

And then they realized, you know, hey, we got a whole market here.

Let's do the Halloween thing for adults.

And now to where we are now.

The scandalous or these kind of, you know, costumes where they turn a crayon into a sexy costume

or whatever.

Like the rise of that, I don't think it's helped anything.

No, probably not.

It's kind of silly, actually.

But yeah.

And I think if we're not already seeing, we'll see a pushback to that where people go to the opposite route

and a big, you know, stuffy costumes or something.

Well, the inflatable costumes are pretty popular these days, too.

And as somebody who has been single for quite a few Halloween's.

Right.

I will tell you that while I don't disagree with any of this, and certainly to each the wrong and everything.

And as I mentioned in the beginning of this segment, you know, I kind of agree with that.

I think that Halloween, being single and Halloween might be more lonely or tough than being even Valentine's Day.

Yeah.

All that said, there's a lot of positives that you can find to that being single around these days.

In particular with Halloween, candy.

You don't have to share your candy.

It's all yours, baby.

That's it.

There you go.

There is no, well, you get the big candy bar.

No, you get the big candy bar.

So if you get all the cake, if you live in a neighborhood, not a lot of trick or treaters, you know, get a big bag of candy.

And a couple of kids come, of course, to be generous, you know, give out what you got.

But then, hey, just to have some, just enjoy.

It's all yours.

At one night, you know, to have some, to have a little five of a party of one, you know, what do you want?

What do you want to be?

What do you want to be for Halloween?

You don't got to check with anybody.

Be yourself.

You'll be you.

Or do what you want to do.

You know, there are positives.

And keeping in mind that's the night where people can get away with stuff.

Yes.

More often than not.

That's the whole costume thing, right?

Being something else.

That's kind of what the deal, at least the modern deal with Halloween is.

So enjoy your Halloween, everybody.

Yeah.

Single or not.

And, you know, keep in mind, we're going to be doing, we have a Halloween episode coming up on the next Friday.

Oh, we do.

Wow.

Look forward to that.

That's going to be a lot of fun.

Always.

We will take a quick time out when we come back.

We got 10 things that were normal 30 years ago, but now we're a luxury.

Weird.

Yeah.

It's going to be an interesting one.

Coming up.

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Welcome back to the show, everybody.

Hope you're having a great morning out there.

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We're going to take you right to the top of the hour.

We're going to hold 10 o'clock hour lined up for you with nothing but great stuff.

People on the internet are talking about things that were normal 20 to 30 years ago,

but are considered a bit of a luxury now.

Here are the 10 highlights.

This first one, maybe one of the bigger ones to me that I didn't think about right away,

but I have from time to time owning the software you purchased.

Oh, yes.

You've touched on this, too.

For better or worse, in theory, subscribing gives you access to updates and upgrades,

but does come with a cost you don't get the hard copy.

The MP3, if you buy music from Amazon or things like that.

That's right.

I think we're seeing.

Software is different, and there's not a lot we can do about that,

but we have seen it in entertainment, at least.

There has been going back to physical media.

I believe CDs now are starting to see a resurgence.

Vinyl has been a thing now, again, for a while.

It's become a whole other thing with artists.

We're seeing people looking getting these really nice blue ray sets and these things.

I see more move back after.

The streaming thing has had its day for a lot of this stuff,

but I think people are getting irritated about losing things.

I can't watch anymore all of a sudden.

It's like, what the heck?

Even if you paid for it, you're going to see a pushback.

Concert tickets.

Technology has made a lot of things better and more accessible,

and the effect on concert tickets is definitely not one of them.

No, no, 100%.

And monopolies.

Monopoly, one to one, is what ticket master is.

I think this is monopolies happen when there's only a certain percentage of people or businesses that have all the money.

That's right.

You're going to see that.

There was a summer, I want to say it was 2021, something like that,

where I went to like six different concerts one summer.

And I guarantee you, I didn't spend over a hundred bucks.

Yeah, I guarantee it.

That's right.

And we're not talking like I went and saw Joey and the Schlecks or something like that.

I saw bands.

I saw good names.

Like actual decent bands, right?

I did not mean to take a shot of Joey and the Schlecks.

I'm sorry.

They got a hit.

They got one hit.

I don't know who that is.

Joey and the Schlecks.

Good quality fabric and clothing.

Household products that don't break within the first year that you have them.

Uh-huh.

That's a big one.

The last.

Here's one that my father and I land obsolescence.

Yes.

Is what it is, the name of the game.

My father and I get really on this one.

A new furniture, a new furniture made out of real wood.

Oh.

Like, you know, it used to be ever once in a while you had those entertainment systems that were basically just a bunch

of like sawdust crammed together or stuff.

Yeah.

That's all that that now pulls a paper board or whatever.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It is single income families buying home.

Haha.

Forget it.

Yeah.

Oh, forget it.

I don't even know if that was a thing 30 years ago.

Uh, no.

You have to think we have romanticized for a way too long.

My parents.

That doesn't happen anymore.

My parents built a house in 1980 and they were already a two income household in order to do that.

Yeah.

We're talking 50 years maybe.

I'm, uh, we're doing something wrong if that can happen.

If, if, if, if, if a single income family cannot buy a home, we have messed up as a society with that.

We have, we have, we have messed this up.

That ain't supposed, that ain't the way this America is supposed to work.

Right.

Uh, leg room on an airplane.

Oh.

I haven't flown in a while.

I guess I don't know how bad it might be now, but bad.

Hmm.

Uh, that, that, when you're tall on a plane, yeah, it's the worst.

It's the worst.

I never had a really that comfortable.

The seats that are more comfortable than others, but I've never really had a comfortable like seat on a plane.

The experience of flying used to be, uh, uh, an experience.

Yeah.

Used to be a cool thing.

Like, I mean, I know this is like way back when people used to get dressed up.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Yeah.

Because it was that it was an experience kind of thing.

And now it's just cattle, you know.

Yeah.

How many people can we shove into this tube?

Affordable health care.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

God.

Oh, that's, um, now that's one of those ones that we are not nearly, uh, we need to keep our, our hand on, on the button on this one.

Uh, when it comes to health care, and we have not done that.

It's not, uh, it doesn't bring enough people to the table.

The enough eyeballs in, but we're seeing every day, uh, different thing, things affecting our health care system.

Yes.

Every day.

And none of it positive.

None of it helping anything, but the higher the higher ups.

Yeah.

Exactly.

But the doubling down that so many people seem to be doing about that where, yeah, but I mean, there's no one single person in your life or in life in general that should not be questionable.

That should not be able to be like, Hey, that, you know, what you're doing there doesn't work or hey, I don't agree with what you're doing.

Right.

Like there's nothing in life that's right that way should be any sacred cows, right?

Except for our moms.

Outside of moms, outside of moms, nothing else.

He heard the rolling pin.

I didn't hear it.

I didn't hear it.

I didn't hear it.

I could hear it.

I could hear my mother cracking her knuckles.

Privacy.

Uh, another one of those things we did not know how much we had.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Again, this is something else we're seeing more of a pushback against too, which is a good thing, I think, is as we need to start.

We really need to work on this people.

I mean, there's, there's a lot of work to do on this.

And, and we need to, we need to pressure our lawmakers.

We need a privacy law, and that's what, it's a priority.

We need to work on that like right now.

We need to pressure our lawmakers every day on all of these subjects.

You're so right.

You're so right.

We are, our politicians are, are asked to do a difficult job.

They are asked to do a lot.

They're asked to represent a lot of people with a lot of different varying opinions.

And we, and they are not doing enough.

No.

They are not doing enough.

Period.

And any politician that thinks they are needs to get out of the job.

Go find something else.

Yeah.

Go get paid by, you know, some, whoever's in your pocket.

Yeah.

Go do that.

Again, they're bored or whatever.

Yeah.

You can do that and get out of the public eye.

Yeah.

Or at least working with the public.

Exactly.

And calling a company and getting a person on the other end of the phone.

Getting anybody.

How about that?

Yes.

It's even worse than that.

Not just getting a person.

It's about getting any kind of response at all.

Part of the reason it took me so long to get tires is trying to get somebody on the phone.

Oh my God.

Um, the, the, I don't want to say the company, but it's a pretty darn big one.

Yeah.

That everybody's gone to at least once or twice in the last week or two, even.

Yeah.

Um, trying to get somebody on the phone so online, I could order my tires.

Yes.

And it tells me, hey, this is the right tire for my Jeep.

Right.

But then when I try to make the order, it would not click.

It said it was the wrong tire.

Yeah.

Some trying to get somebody on the phone to figure this out because there's only one set of tires to work.

I could see them there on my vehicle right now.

You know, it couldn't get anybody on the phone.

Oh, finally just went there.

Yeah.

Just went there and then I had to weigh a good 10, 20 minutes because not to their fault, they

don't hire enough people to work in these departments at these stores.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's, it is a, a difficult thing at the least to deal with right now.

We're seeing and a lot of this is the same thing.

Yeah.

We're talking about not enough people doing the jobs that we need them to do, just simple

things like that.

I mean, just having enough people to help you with your tires, kind of, you know, it's

having enough people to, you know, any of the healthcare workers, oh my God, having

enough people to do all the things that they need to do.

And ads only on TV in the newspaper are on the radio.

Now they're ads everywhere, literally ads everywhere, YouTube streaming services, websites,

social media, Amazon.

You can't look at, think of this, when was the last time you looked at any web page?

And there was not advertising all over it from anywhere, right anywhere, including our

own websites.

Yeah.

You know, it is, I do not think that they have taught advertisers and marketing specialists

enough about this.

There is a point where it could be too much.

There is a point where people get numb to your advertisements or they get so turned away

that even if you're selling the cure to cancer, they ain't buying it, right?

Because you have bombarded them with too much.

The movie industry gets this to a degree, certain companies more than others.

Sure.

Hey, we're going to advertise our movie a month early, but we're not going to bombard you

at everything.

Now, certain companies are certainly different than others, but that, I mean, they have

a bit of an idea of way to handle this.

There is a way to get yourself out there and to make yourself known without necessarily

drowning people in your work, right?

It doesn't, it doesn't.

It's so irritating.