Speaker 1: You're listening to Later with mo Kelly on demand from
Speaker 1: KFI AM six.
Speaker 2: Forty Technologic Tech Thursday on Later with Mo Kelly, KFI
Speaker 2: Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio at Marcia Collier joins us
Speaker 2: in studio. Marsha, good evening, is great to see you.
Speaker 2: You're looking very lavender. This evening so lavender.
Speaker 3: You know, we've only been working together, right, like four
Speaker 3: or five years, right right, and for the past two
Speaker 3: years you see me once a week. I love color.
Speaker 3: I love to wear color. It's just my thing.
Speaker 2: No, it looks good on you, and I make mention
Speaker 2: of that because when I came in I saw you
Speaker 2: and your husband.
Speaker 4: You both look very summary today.
Speaker 3: Well you look pretty summary too.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: We're Pollo shirt. Yeah, al size though.
Speaker 2: Look, I'm trying to eat better, live better, you know,
Speaker 2: so yeah, losing a little weight, trying to I was
Speaker 2: telling people on air a few weeks ago, getting ready
Speaker 2: in a very slow, low manner for semi annual physical
Speaker 2: So we're just trying to get everything better. I don't
Speaker 2: like hearing bad news from the doctor, sure.
Speaker 3: Though, No, no, you know, I know you're going to
Speaker 3: be talking about it in the next segment and I
Speaker 3: won't be able to listen Conpy in the market, But
Speaker 3: tell me Mel Gibson, movie go on the line.
Speaker 2: Yeah, look, we're gonna have this spirited discussion later on.
Speaker 2: As you said, you won't be able to hear it.
Speaker 2: But it is a movie that I discovered on Netflix
Speaker 2: a few days ago, and I'm thinking, like a Netflix movie,
Speaker 2: Mel Gibson. He's a radio host, a shock jock, and
Speaker 2: I heard nothing about it. You always know about movies
Speaker 2: which have to do with your industry. Yeah, and I
Speaker 2: knew nothing about it. It came out in twenty twenty two,
Speaker 2: and the other night I said, let me just see
Speaker 2: what this is about, and I saw it and I
Speaker 2: was blown away. Now, there are some real licenses that
Speaker 2: they've taken with someone's perception of what a radio host does.
Speaker 2: And if you work in a business, you're going to
Speaker 2: point it at the screen and say, oh, yay, you
Speaker 2: can't do that.
Speaker 4: That can't be real.
Speaker 5: But as far as a movie goes, it was entertaining,
Speaker 5: and I was surprised.
Speaker 3: All entertainment, that's all it was.
Speaker 2: Tawala's gonna take one side of it. I don't know
Speaker 2: if you can hear us right now, he's doing some
Speaker 2: stuff and Mark Ronner is going to take the other side.
Speaker 2: But I encourage people to just check it out, and
Speaker 2: if anything, for me, it highlights the beauty of streaming
Speaker 2: in this technological revolution of how we consume entertainment.
Speaker 3: We get to rediscover things we missed.
Speaker 4: Or see things that we never would have considered.
Speaker 2: What look, most movies, I'm not going to spend eighteen
Speaker 2: to twenty dollars to go see Get in the Car,
Speaker 2: Waste Gas, what have you.
Speaker 4: But there are a lot of movies on the line.
Speaker 2: It's another one's like, wait a minute, it's included as
Speaker 2: part of my subscription. For me, that's a win. I've
Speaker 2: already paid the money. I might as well get some
Speaker 2: value out of it. So that's that's the movie we're
Speaker 2: going to be talking about.
Speaker 3: That absolutely. But I'll bet you a buck that Ronner
Speaker 3: is the one who didn't like it.
Speaker 2: Well, that's that's not exactly that's not exactly a bet.
Speaker 4: He doesn't like much of.
Speaker 3: Anything, like much of it he is.
Speaker 2: He is a centophile and he has very very high standards.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you've watched this movie for enjoyment
Speaker 2: or he watches them. So he can offer a treatise
Speaker 2: and critique on the decline of cinematy.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, I'm waiting for one of you to invoke
Speaker 6: Mikey from Life Cereal.
Speaker 4: No, no, no, we wouldn't.
Speaker 3: No, no, we're too high brow for those.
Speaker 4: Yes, and you're really dating yourself.
Speaker 2: I get the reference, But everybody knows that that's fifty
Speaker 2: years ago, literally fifty years ago.
Speaker 3: That's right, that's right.
Speaker 4: I think it's like seventy four.
Speaker 3: Yeah, could yeah, easy, seventy four. No, maybe even sixty eight.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: All I know is it's much older than Stefan. That's
Speaker 6: all I know for sure. You two senior citizens, please
Speaker 6: carry on, all right.
Speaker 4: Marcia Collier, all right, I got some for you.
Speaker 6: Mo.
Speaker 3: You are just gonna love for those lonely days. You
Speaker 3: and I have talked about the pleasures of being quiet. Yes, well,
Speaker 3: but there are some people who have too much of that,
Speaker 3: and they don't have any close friends and there's nobody
Speaker 3: that texts them ever. So there is a new product out.
Speaker 3: It's a pendant that you can wear around your neck.
Speaker 3: It's kind of it's kind of I guess a man
Speaker 3: could wear it.
Speaker 4: With if that pendent as opposed to necklace, right.
Speaker 3: And it's a pendant on the necklace that has Ai
Speaker 3: in it, and it listens and you can ask it questions.
Speaker 3: It's called friend.
Speaker 2: Are we talking about the actual embodiment of the imaginary friend?
Speaker 3: Exactly exactly? And you can talk to it, you can
Speaker 3: ask it questions. I don't know that it has a
Speaker 3: camera because I haven't seen when I've just read about
Speaker 3: it in multiple places. But you can be watching a
Speaker 3: movie or it would hear the movie because it has
Speaker 3: a microphone and he hears everything that you do, and
Speaker 3: it communicates with you by texting you.
Speaker 4: This is really unsettling.
Speaker 2: We know our foes listening to us, but now it's
Speaker 2: become interactive.
Speaker 3: This is a little black mirror here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we'll go in. Go ahead, take us further
Speaker 2: down a rabbit hole.
Speaker 3: Yeah, now, this is it. It's not a joke. It
Speaker 3: was developed by a young man, twenty one year old
Speaker 3: Abby Schiffman, and he was named Weby Person of the
Speaker 3: Year and the whole thing. He's a smart young man.
Speaker 3: He thinks, you know, they've been yacking about AI, AI
Speaker 3: and AI, so what's it really going to do for people?
Speaker 3: And he decided to make a product where it would
Speaker 3: actually do something for people. Now remember the failure of
Speaker 3: that rabbit pin Yes, yeah, and that just died and
Speaker 3: the whole thing. But this just sounds kind of interesting.
Speaker 3: Has a battery life of about fifteen hours, doesn't You
Speaker 3: don't need a subscription, and it's a LLM powered conversation
Speaker 3: with you on a regular basis. You don't have to
Speaker 3: worry about not having anybody to talk to.
Speaker 4: And since it's AI, it probably is learning.
Speaker 3: It learns whether it's the LM large learning machine.
Speaker 2: With the questions you ask, and the response is that
Speaker 2: it will give and the other external stimuli which you're
Speaker 2: feeding into it because it's listening all the time, not
Speaker 2: just your voice, but your environment.
Speaker 3: The inventor says he feels like he has a closer
Speaker 3: relationship with his beep pendent around my neck than I
Speaker 3: do with literal friends in front of me, which.
Speaker 2: That's ooh again, that's unsettling because he's probably telling the truth.
Speaker 2: But I think there's also a statement about how we socialize.
Speaker 3: But and it's always with you. It's hearing everything you hear.
Speaker 3: It knows what you're doing, and it independently talks to
Speaker 3: you without prompt without prompt through your phone.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's going to be unsettling, especially if there
Speaker 2: are other substances involved.
Speaker 3: I mean think about like remember the Tamagochi. Yeah yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: you had a Tamago Chi And that to me was
Speaker 3: a little upsetting because I had this little plastic thing
Speaker 3: and it was going to die unless I did certain things,
Speaker 3: and somehow the human mind, I don't want this thing
Speaker 3: to die, so it becomes like an obsession. What is
Speaker 3: this going to be? Think about this as AI grows
Speaker 3: and there are these AI companions. Personally, I think it's
Speaker 3: really unhealthy.
Speaker 2: But I'll take you back again to the nineteen seventies.
Speaker 2: My sister had this doll called Baby Alive where you'd
Speaker 2: have to change it every twelve hours and it would
Speaker 2: actually defecate or some approximation of it, and you have
Speaker 2: to change its diapers. I wonder when the point is.
Speaker 2: I wonder when AI meets these physical dolls, what that
Speaker 2: would look like and sound like.
Speaker 3: I think the men in Asia have figured that out.
Speaker 4: Oh, you knew exactly where I was going.
Speaker 2: Okay, those companion dolls, but.
Speaker 3: You know, and they're talking about the there aren't enough
Speaker 3: people in the world there's not enough growth in the
Speaker 3: world that we have to go forth and multiply, and
Speaker 3: people aren't doing that. And I don't think that AI
Speaker 3: sex dolls are going to help anything.
Speaker 2: Well beyond the sex dolls, I think we are moving
Speaker 2: down that path where we will have full actual companions
Speaker 2: AI rather.
Speaker 3: Than talking to you through the phone. I think they're
Speaker 3: going to be able to talk to you, just like
Speaker 3: every sci fi movie. Remember there was that series where
Speaker 3: they had the AI robots like Westworld. You're saying, well,
Speaker 3: Westworld was evil. This one was a nanny to children
Speaker 3: and she cared for the children of the family.
Speaker 4: They had a little bit an eye robot.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't remember which it was, but anyway, they
Speaker 3: were nice. They were nice, and they became members of
Speaker 3: the family. And the husband had an affair with one
Speaker 3: and it EO who knows, I don't know where it
Speaker 3: goes or guy, I don't know.
Speaker 6: Are you talking about the Bradbury story I sing the
Speaker 6: body Electric?
Speaker 3: No, I'm not, but that was a good one.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to think there are so many sci fi equivalents.
Speaker 2: Part of this is kind of like the movie Surrogates,
Speaker 2: where we start withdrawing from actual society and kind of
Speaker 2: pulling into this inter interest society.
Speaker 3: I'm picturing the name of the show in my head,
Speaker 3: which you can't google because it doesn't work. And it
Speaker 3: was human I think it was human And there was
Speaker 3: a v Was that the one with the AI robots?
Speaker 6: No? I mean they adapted that Bradbury story to Twilight
Speaker 6: Zone at least once, but I'm not sure which one
Speaker 6: you're talking about. If it's no, it was a series
Speaker 6: whole series about that one story.
Speaker 5: Okay, let's let's take a break and see if we
Speaker 5: can find it during the break so we can put
Speaker 5: a pen in that.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 6: Yeah, this is going to drive us nuts.
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly. It's Later with Mo Kelly. That's what we're
Speaker 4: here for to drive you nuts.
Speaker 3: Drive your nuts and entertain you tech.
Speaker 1: You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on demand from
Speaker 1: KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2: This Tech Thursday. And you know, Marsha Collier always joins
Speaker 2: us in studio Marshall, where do you want to pick
Speaker 2: up this segment?
Speaker 6: Mo?
Speaker 3: How many people are there in the.
Speaker 4: World last night? It was wasn't like seven billion or
Speaker 4: something like.
Speaker 3: That, say billion, something like that. Well, guess what three
Speaker 3: billion of them were just breached.
Speaker 4: That sounds invasive.
Speaker 3: Billion that's with a B. Personal data including full names,
Speaker 3: former and complete addresses, life history going back thirty years.
Speaker 2: You know, this goes back to what I always said, like,
Speaker 2: you know, your information is out there, whether you like
Speaker 2: it or.
Speaker 3: Not, it is. And what the reason that was around
Speaker 3: is By the way, it was put up for sale
Speaker 3: on the dark web for only three point five million,
Speaker 3: which that is a steal. I think that's a deal.
Speaker 3: But uh, the company was National Public Data, which you've
Speaker 3: never heard of.
Speaker 2: That's the country that excuse me, the company that got breached. Yes,
Speaker 2: so here you got one job. That's what job protected data.
Speaker 3: Their job is investigating. Have you ever applied for a
Speaker 3: job and had to be investigated? Yes, that's who did it.
Speaker 4: They do all the background checks.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, it's the company. I mean I've only been
Speaker 3: investigated by the FBI or Homeland Security, but I've never
Speaker 3: had that. But you know how much information you had
Speaker 3: to give them?
Speaker 2: Well, I have Global entry, yes, and I also been
Speaker 2: investigated by Sheriff's department. Working for the City of Carson
Speaker 2: as a referee, we have to get fingerprinted and background
Speaker 2: checked because we're working with kids. So yeah, I'm in
Speaker 2: plenty of databases.
Speaker 3: It was one of those databases right to two point
Speaker 3: nine billion people. So I mean what they did with
Speaker 3: the bad guys, you don't care who they are. They
Speaker 3: just scraped the website. I don't know how they did this.
Speaker 3: I mean, one would think the security for this data
Speaker 3: corporation would be insane, but no, no, So what are
Speaker 3: we going to do about it? One more time? If
Speaker 3: you somebody found out about it because they subscribed to
Speaker 3: a service that let them know. I went to that
Speaker 3: service that I also subscribed to, and I don't think
Speaker 3: I was on it because, like I said, I've only
Speaker 3: been done by governmental people, but everybody, almost everybody has
Speaker 3: had a job where you have to do it. So
Speaker 3: this is what you have to do. Don't throw your
Speaker 3: hands up in the air. First of all, they're going
Speaker 3: to give you free credit monitoring. I think we all
Speaker 3: must have one of those set up somewhere.
Speaker 2: Well, I have credit monitoring and it's locked where you
Speaker 2: can't even pull my information without my permission.
Speaker 3: Right, And that's what we're going to talk about, real briefly,
Speaker 3: is how you do that. And I'm with LifeLock, who
Speaker 3: is one that you know, they supposedly have an insurance
Speaker 3: policy if somebody does this, so those you have to
Speaker 3: pay for. What I'm going to tell you about is
Speaker 3: totally free, and that's freezing your credit reports. Now you
Speaker 3: might have noticed ever since this breach. And as a
Speaker 3: matter of fact, my husband got one of these texts today,
Speaker 3: some random texts from a random person. Just want to
Speaker 3: go out for pizza today. I got one the other day.
Speaker 3: You applied for that job, we'd like to call you
Speaker 3: back for an interview. Well, just pession phi say right,
Speaker 3: And what you do is you just move them to spam.
Speaker 3: If you have that, don't respond, don't respond, never respond.
Speaker 3: If you don't know who it is, don't even say
Speaker 3: who is this? Just leave it be. If it's someone
Speaker 3: that knows you, they'll let you know. So that's free
Speaker 3: info too. So anyway, you can go through this online
Speaker 3: process of freezing your credit. What freezing your credit does
Speaker 3: is nobody can open your credit report. They cannot touch it.
Speaker 3: Now there are three major credit agencies. We got Experience,
Speaker 3: we got TransUnion, and we got Equifax. Now, you, as
Speaker 3: I said, you can go online. But guess what, when
Speaker 3: you go online, it's a much more overbearing Experience than
Speaker 3: if you just call them. I know, we don't like
Speaker 3: to call people.
Speaker 2: I get it online and there's some hoops to jump
Speaker 2: through right to verify what you're saying.
Speaker 3: Yes, right, if you just call them, and I'm going
Speaker 3: to give you the numbers, so you have to play
Speaker 3: the podcast again if you miss them right now to
Speaker 3: get TransUnion that's eight hundred nine one six eight eight
Speaker 3: zero zero, Equifax eight eight eight two nine eight zero
Speaker 3: zero four five, and Experience, which is eight eight eight
Speaker 3: three nine seven three seven four to two. You call
Speaker 3: those three credit bureaus because there are three. I don't
Speaker 3: if you do it with one, what does that mean
Speaker 3: about the others?
Speaker 4: No, you have to do all three.
Speaker 3: You have to do all three.
Speaker 2: I had to do all three because some businesses don't
Speaker 2: use this one or that one. Some use Experience, some
Speaker 2: use Equifax, some use TransUnion, and I had to learn
Speaker 2: that the hard one.
Speaker 3: And did they try and sell your stuff for what
Speaker 3: was called a lock a lock? Yes, lock, which is
Speaker 3: don't do it. It's a marketing thing. It's just a
Speaker 3: way to sell you something. Go to a company that's established.
Speaker 3: Like I said, I have nothing to do with a
Speaker 3: LifeLock or anything like that. I pay for it like
Speaker 3: everybody else, but it seems to work. And remember that
Speaker 3: Google has that free. When they find your name on
Speaker 3: the web, they will let you know and they will remove.
Speaker 4: It for you and the source where it's found.
Speaker 3: Right, because sometimes my email is found, especially different apps
Speaker 3: that do my podcast, so it'll be there, and yeah,
Speaker 3: we can leave it there, I guess. And identity to
Speaker 3: theft protection can cost you as little seven dollars a
Speaker 3: month to have that. On top of freezing your credit,
Speaker 3: you're home free. You just you have to do this
Speaker 3: and you can unfreeze your credit when you do it
Speaker 3: on the phone with them. By law, they have to
Speaker 3: freeze your credit I believe within twenty four hours, correct, So,
Speaker 3: and you can unfreeze it just as easily.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you'll get alerted if someone tries to pull it.
Speaker 2: Let's say they want to run your credit to see
Speaker 2: if you can afford this or that the other you know,
Speaker 2: be at a car or house.
Speaker 4: Nope, they won't be able to do it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is folks. There are a lot of ways
Speaker 3: to stay safe in this world. Probably not to tell
Speaker 3: your secrets to a little AI pendant that you're going
Speaker 3: to win your friends.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's one of many, one of many. Marcia Caryer.
Speaker 2: I wish I had more time, but you always come
Speaker 2: with sage, advice, great wisdom, great warnings, oftentimes to.
Speaker 4: Keep us safe.
Speaker 3: Well the g I brought you some good stuff about
Speaker 3: the Oh yes you did, oh yes, well, thank you
Speaker 3: so much. I so enjoyed coming here, and thank you
Speaker 3: everybody who hits me up on Twitter. And I know
Speaker 3: sometimes I don't check, but I'm working on a book
Speaker 3: really hard, so I will answer everybody. Thank you so much.
Speaker 4: You do.
Speaker 2: You're very good about responding to people who reach out
Speaker 2: on social media.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 4: I see you next week.
Speaker 3: We miss you on Twitter.
Speaker 2: I miss you as well, but you know, but I'll
Speaker 2: be here next week, all right, Then I'll see you.
Speaker 1: Then you're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand
Speaker 1: from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2: I think it's about time to give away some free stuff,
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Speaker 2: and Great Kite, each built by contemporary Italian artisans according
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Speaker 2: dozen full scale models. You can marvel at the extraordinary
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Speaker 2: visionary spirit and endless curiosity. This special exhibition, Da Vinci
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Speaker 2: Exposition Park. We have a family four pack to give away,
Speaker 2: and I think it's about time to open the phones.
Speaker 4: Yeah, let's do that.
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Speaker 2: been to the California Science Center. I highly recommend, regardless
Speaker 2: of age. I used to tutor there an a school program,
Speaker 2: so I got to go every single day. I was
Speaker 2: tutoring fifth graders. This was a long time ago when
Speaker 2: it was relatively new, and it has grown tremendously since then.
Speaker 2: It is a great place, especially for young people and
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Speaker 4: Wait a minute, we can't skip over the fact that
Speaker 4: you said used a tutor. What did you tutor?
Speaker 3: What did you what did you.
Speaker 4: Specialize that it was interesting? I taught three different mini classes.
Speaker 2: I taught chess, Spanish and also martial arts. Wow, yep,
Speaker 2: it was Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and I would yeah. It
Speaker 2: was just an after school advanced learning program. It was
Speaker 2: called the Elite Program LAAP, and it was started by
Speaker 2: one of my fraternity brothers, a Megasci five Fratney Incorporated.
Speaker 2: One of our cardinal principles is scholarship, so we would
Speaker 2: this is a way of it was.
Speaker 4: An actual business.
Speaker 2: But for me, it was a part of my personal
Speaker 2: community service giving back. Yep, I was teaching introductory Spanish
Speaker 2: chess and also martial arts.
Speaker 7: Yeah, dude, like this is something no one ever knew before.
Speaker 2: I didn't have reason to talk about it, and so yeah,
Speaker 2: when I started talking about the California Science Center, then
Speaker 2: it reminded me how I used to go there a
Speaker 2: bunch of times a week, just helping out fifth graders.
Speaker 2: Look at that California Science Center is something else, something else.
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Speaker 2: artist dreamer. And you got to get the tickets. You
Speaker 2: have to use them before August eighteenth. And you know
Speaker 2: what that means. That means next segment, we have some
Speaker 2: other tickets we gotta give away, because we've been promising
Speaker 2: to give away two pairs of tickets for the Australian
Speaker 2: Pink Floyd Show on the fourteenth at the Orpheum. So
Speaker 2: since we didn't do that this segment, let me see
Speaker 2: maybe next segment. Yeah, definitely, next segment. It's Later with
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Speaker 1: You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 2: My wife has a Costco membership, my mother has a
Speaker 2: cost Co membership.
Speaker 4: I personally have never felt any need for it.
Speaker 2: Now my wife swears by getting gas at Costco. She'll
Speaker 2: wait in line and get gas in her car washed
Speaker 2: at Costco. I don't get it. I think the time
Speaker 2: and the money that you're wasting burning gas in that
Speaker 2: line kind of offsets any savings you get. But she
Speaker 2: swears by Costco. And my late father he used to
Speaker 2: go to Costco just for the hot dogs. Me personally,
Speaker 2: I don't get it, but a lot of people do.
Speaker 5: And when they go to Costco, from what I've seen,
Speaker 5: sometimes they would check your membership card.
Speaker 2: Sometimes they don't. But Costco is trying to put an
Speaker 2: end to that. If you're using your friend's membership card.
Speaker 2: They're going to implement stricter policies. They're going to crack
Speaker 2: down on non members, you know, people like me who
Speaker 2: might be using other people's cards, by requiring shoppers to
Speaker 2: scan their membership cards to enter stores.
Speaker 3: Quote.
Speaker 2: Over the coming months, membership scanning devices will be used
Speaker 2: at the entrance door of your local warehouse. Once deployed,
Speaker 2: prior to entering, all members must scan their physical or
Speaker 2: digital membership card by placing the bar code or QR
Speaker 2: code against the scanner.
Speaker 4: This is what I close. Quote.
Speaker 2: This is what I don't understand. I've been to Costco
Speaker 2: and if you have a digital scanner there, I don't
Speaker 2: think your photo pops up. So how are they supposed
Speaker 2: to know that I have my wife's membership card or
Speaker 2: Tuwala's using.
Speaker 4: My mother's card.
Speaker 2: I don't know how that's supposed to work because the
Speaker 2: pictures I've seen it's it's unmanned. It's like you know
Speaker 2: a checkout kiosk where you do it yourself, and I'm
Speaker 2: quite sure there's a beep who probably says or lights
Speaker 2: of green or something, but it's not the DMV or
Speaker 2: the TSA where your actual photo comes up.
Speaker 7: Yeah, your photo's not even on your Costco card.
Speaker 2: Hello.
Speaker 7: Having a person there at least allows them to look
Speaker 7: at the car that can see, hey, this is you're
Speaker 7: not legally yeah right, you know?
Speaker 6: Yeah, so Mark, are you a Costco member? I just
Speaker 6: came from there on the way to work today.
Speaker 4: Yeah I am.
Speaker 6: I go there pretty often. Okay, does your membership card
Speaker 6: have your photo?
Speaker 4: I don't. Actually, yeah, I think they do.
Speaker 6: But you got to understand that the humans that they
Speaker 6: have in the door, you just wait your card at them.
Speaker 6: It's not like Checkpoint Charlie in Germany. This is not
Speaker 6: the membership card you're looking down.
Speaker 4: No, no, no.
Speaker 6: And the new scanners they have, you're right, it's just
Speaker 6: beeps and you go in. It's not a high security outfit,
Speaker 6: but they do check them pretty closely at the check stands.
Speaker 6: And there was a guy in front of me recently
Speaker 6: who was using somebody's card and it was about equal
Speaker 6: parts awkward, and I felt bad for the guy as
Speaker 6: much as I was irritated that he tried to get
Speaker 6: away with it right in front of me while I was,
Speaker 6: you know, on a lunch break. They it's it's a
Speaker 6: high security setup they have there for sure. Okay, so
Speaker 6: there are membership cards with photos on them. I honestly
Speaker 6: don't know if you don't, sorry, yeah, you take your
Speaker 6: photo when you get your membership.
Speaker 4: You can't, I don't know that.
Speaker 6: You can't just let anybody in there to get the
Speaker 6: dollar and a half hot dogs. Okay, You've got to
Speaker 6: check people out before you allow access to that.
Speaker 2: I was under the impression that Costco was pretty lenient
Speaker 2: on it because they would rather you come in and
Speaker 2: spend money. I don't know how it is at Sam's
Speaker 2: Club or any of these other wholesale warehouses, but usually,
Speaker 2: for what I understood, they weren't tripping because they want
Speaker 2: you to come in and spend money. And like that
Speaker 2: song we played as the bumper buying all this stuff
Speaker 2: that you know you don't need.
Speaker 4: But lots of it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but if they want to crack down, that just
Speaker 2: gives me another reason not to show up. I mean,
Speaker 2: I guess this is the warehouse equivalent of Netflix with
Speaker 2: the password sharing. I get the need to maximize their
Speaker 2: quarterly revenues. I just don't know whether it's going to
Speaker 2: go over as well as they may expect it to.
Speaker 6: I don't know what the cost benefit analysis is I
Speaker 6: don't know what prompted them to start this crackdown, but
Speaker 6: I'm fine with it.
Speaker 4: Keep people out. Let let the line get.
Speaker 6: Shot when I need and a half tube steak. Let's
Speaker 6: let's get those lines moving. Well, we're not talking about
Speaker 6: the pole vault anymore. We've gone not yet. No, I'll wait.
Speaker 6: Oh I earned that one, Thank you very much.
Speaker 4: Oh week.
Speaker 5: To Mark's point, yeah, keep them out because uh an,
Speaker 5: And to Moe's wife's point, the gas is pretty cheap,
Speaker 5: but the amount of time you spend waiting, it's not
Speaker 5: worth it at that point because I moves right along.
Speaker 4: I don't know how you can see now. She does
Speaker 4: say it.
Speaker 5: Depends on when you go. She'll go real early in
Speaker 5: the morning. Yeah, it depends on when you go. Because
Speaker 5: when I used to do Uber, i'd go there before
Speaker 5: they open, so I was like the only one there.
Speaker 5: Or when I go there when I'm done, they're closing.
Speaker 5: You go there at two three, it's I mean, you'll
Speaker 5: wait there for a good ten to twelve minutes. So
Speaker 5: I'm track engine running well yeah, I mean I have
Speaker 5: a hybrid, so I'm kind of lucky in that way.
Speaker 5: But other than that, yeah, it's not worth it.
Speaker 6: I have found that even when the gas lines are
Speaker 6: all the way out to the street, you just shoot
Speaker 6: right through.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I've been in the car where my wife was waiting
Speaker 5: for gas because I'm the one who's pumping the gas.
Speaker 4: It wasn't all that quick.
Speaker 2: We went to the one on Lomita Boulevard in Torrents,
Speaker 2: and we've been to a couple of others, but she
Speaker 2: usually goes to the one in Torrents and those lines
Speaker 2: don't move all that fast.
Speaker 6: Some of the Costco guests they even have attendance. They're
Speaker 6: waiving you to the line to make it go faster
Speaker 6: to whichever line they want your car to go in.
Speaker 5: And that's the problem. People don't pay attention. They start
Speaker 5: honking and like, hey, it's your turn. Yeah, it's too
Speaker 5: out of the way for me. I'm not driving to
Speaker 5: the other side of town to you know.
Speaker 2: Other side of town to save money on gas that
Speaker 2: I'm burning driving to the other side of town and
Speaker 2: waiting in line for the discount of gas.
Speaker 6: No, when you put it like that, that doesn't make
Speaker 6: quite as much sense. But if you live near one,
Speaker 6: it's it's worth the membership fee. Yeah, Now, see my mom.
Speaker 7: She says that, yes, her Cosco card does have a
Speaker 7: picture on it, but she says she doesn't get the
Speaker 7: scanning because you have to use it to pay anyway.
Speaker 7: So it's not like, even if you get in useing
Speaker 7: some of those's card, you're not gonna be able to
Speaker 7: buy the product because you have to scan to pay.
Speaker 4: Okay, you're scanning to pay.
Speaker 2: Is that the person behind the register doing the scanning
Speaker 2: and looking at your car?
Speaker 7: Yes, okay, we'll see. I don't know that, so that's
Speaker 7: weird then. So it's like, what are you doing checking
Speaker 7: me when I'm coming in? If I can't use it
Speaker 7: when I'm checking out and if I have a cart
Speaker 7: full of stuff, and you're like, yeah, you're not Lisa Jones, sir,
Speaker 7: get out of here.
Speaker 3: What are the point of checking me when I'm coming in?
Speaker 4: Here's the thing? Now?
Speaker 2: Are they gonna say we're not gonna take your money
Speaker 2: and you have to leave all these forty five items
Speaker 2: here in the cart?
Speaker 4: Yeah? And please?
Speaker 6: Is it the store? The guy who was in front
Speaker 6: of me who did that. They let him get away
Speaker 6: with it the one time, but it was like, don't
Speaker 6: do it again. But oh, come Okay, don't do it.
Speaker 6: People don't know.
Speaker 2: But Mark Runner held up his Costco card to give
Speaker 2: me a better sense of what they look like. To me,
Speaker 2: it looked like a high school graduation photo.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they don't.
Speaker 6: It's not like they got a professional portrait photographer now
Speaker 6: to get the best possible shot with the least number
Speaker 6: of chins on you. It's just you know, stand here, click,
Speaker 6: keep moving along down the cattle shoot.
Speaker 4: Okay, so there you go. All right, Producer Lindsay's come in.
Speaker 4: You have a Costco card and you didn't.
Speaker 2: You're producing the show, Lindsay, you're supposed to give me
Speaker 2: that advance, have the rundown. You know we're talking about Costco,
Speaker 2: and you did not walk your ass in here and
Speaker 2: say I got a Costco card. You're just gonna let
Speaker 2: me do an eight minute rand about stuff I didn't
Speaker 2: even know about when.
Speaker 4: You're holding the card.
Speaker 2: At least Mark Runner was in a newsroom and he
Speaker 2: said I got a Costco card.
Speaker 4: He at least helped me out. You're producing the show.
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