Speaker 1: Shortage of dumb people doing really stupid things. Welcome to
Speaker 1: another edition of idiotology. We let your taco one on
Speaker 1: one one w JRR.
Speaker 2: But you're freaking idiots, all right. A reminder of a
Speaker 2: couple of things coming up. The first rock the bank,
Speaker 2: one thousand dollars cash keyword run around nine oh five.
Speaker 2: You're gonna be listening for those each hour today, thirteen
Speaker 2: chances in all for you to one one thousand bucks,
Speaker 2: thirteen different one thousand dollars cash giveaways, get keyword each hour,
Speaker 2: enter a WJR dot com and someone's randomly picked twenty
Speaker 2: grand and rock the bank. Right, so nine oh five,
Speaker 2: right after you say it, we play it speaking Which
Speaker 2: have you voted for that?
Speaker 1: Yet?
Speaker 2: Still get about fifteen minutes? Jr Facebook page Mud Vaine
Speaker 2: featured band this morning. Which one do you want me
Speaker 2: to play? Happy there? A cover of King of Payne
Speaker 2: from the Police or not fall. One with most votes
Speaker 2: will play back at nine. Then I'll randomly pick one
Speaker 2: of you who votes send you to jr R's October
Speaker 2: Fest this weekend. All right, let's get that done. On
Speaker 2: the Facebook page Taco, a lot of you wondering where
Speaker 2: the hell is Taco. I thought you guys are on
Speaker 2: vacation last week, Lynch, you're back. What about Taco. Well,
Speaker 2: he was supposed to be back today. Then I guess
Speaker 2: he had a snaff foo trying to get home from
Speaker 2: the Keys, which is where he apparently went. This weekend
Speaker 2: fantasy fest is going on down there. I guess he
Speaker 2: flew rather than take his vehicle, so he went to
Speaker 2: get to the airport, got stuck in traffic, missed his flight,
Speaker 2: says he'll try to get back today.
Speaker 3: So that's what I know. That's what I know with that.
Speaker 3: Let's get into some idiotology.
Speaker 2: All right, Halloween, we'll counting down the days to Halloween.
Speaker 2: Trick or treat? Right, have you got a Halloween candy
Speaker 2: yet this year? If you haven't, get ready for sticker
Speaker 2: shock Seriously, if you normally hand out, especially chocolate based
Speaker 2: Halloween candy, seriously. The prices of skyrocketed on a lot
Speaker 2: of candy this year. There is a cocoa shortage. The
Speaker 2: fact the price of cocoa has more than doubled since
Speaker 2: the start of the year due to severe weather and
Speaker 2: trouts in West Africa, which is responsible for about seventy
Speaker 2: percent of the world's cocoa supply, so what's happening here?
Speaker 2: Candy companies are compensating by shrinking bags and raising prices.
Speaker 3: Shrink flation, Yeah, don't you just love it.
Speaker 2: There's also talk of some of these companies using less
Speaker 2: chocolate in some of their products. You might see them
Speaker 2: swapping out a layer of chocolate for other fillings like
Speaker 2: wafers or nuts, or they might fill their variety packs
Speaker 2: with candies that don't require as much chocolate. A lot
Speaker 2: of the candy companies right now are pushing their non
Speaker 2: chocolate candies more than they ever would before. Take, for example,
Speaker 2: the people who run Mars. They say they've expanded their
Speaker 2: fruity and gummy candy lines because young people like that stuff,
Speaker 2: but in reality, it's because chocolate prices have a lot
Speaker 2: to do with it, and a lot of variety packs
Speaker 2: have also shrunk. You might be paying the same as
Speaker 2: you did last year, but be getting less candy in
Speaker 2: each bag. Add it all up, it means your kid's
Speaker 2: Halloween hall might have a lot more fruity candy in
Speaker 2: it this year and fewer of the chocolate based goodies
Speaker 2: that we like to poach.
Speaker 3: From her kids.
Speaker 2: Right, I guess you could take this however you want,
Speaker 2: you know, a strictly financial situation.
Speaker 3: It sucks.
Speaker 2: It's funny because my wife last night, she went to
Speaker 2: the grocery store, came home with the Halloween candy.
Speaker 3: She goes, man, this is ridiculous. I what pretty much she.
Speaker 2: Just spewed out in them, you know, basically what I
Speaker 2: just shared with you. Specifically, She's like, yeah, everything is like,
Speaker 2: you're super expensive. She goes, I just bought X amount.
Speaker 2: And when it's gone, it's gone. It's like, all right,
Speaker 2: all right, well me shutting her down early, I guess,
Speaker 2: so just be prepared for that if you haven't got
Speaker 2: your Halloween candy yet. New survey ask people here in
Speaker 2: the United States how you would do if you would
Speaker 2: have to take a driving test right now driving test.
Speaker 2: Forty percent of the respondents are confident they could ace
Speaker 2: it just forty percent. Are you in that forty percent
Speaker 2: of you going, I don't know. It's been a while
Speaker 2: since I've had to take the driver's exam. It's not
Speaker 2: just knowing the rules of the road though, when it
Speaker 2: comes to this stuff. A lot of they asked about
Speaker 2: other things about driving habits. Many Americans we don't even
Speaker 2: know our own vehicles. Average driver understands about seventy eight
Speaker 2: percent of their dashboard indicators and warning lights. Most people
Speaker 2: know what the oil light and check engine lights are
Speaker 2: when those go off, but less than half could identify
Speaker 2: the tire pressure lights and the brake system warning.
Speaker 3: A lot of.
Speaker 2: People say that I'll just google it when a warning
Speaker 2: light comes on, I don't know what it means, which well, yeah, sure.
Speaker 2: And then there's the fifteen percent who admitted that they've
Speaker 2: never even looked at their car's owner's manual.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to.
Speaker 2: Think I.
Speaker 3: Have looked at my Actually I have looked at my
Speaker 3: I had to look.
Speaker 2: Something up in there about tire pressure that I couldn't
Speaker 2: We couldn't read it on the side of the tire.
Speaker 2: It wasn't in the door jam at least it wasn't legible,
Speaker 2: So I found it in the Owner's man So forty
Speaker 2: percent think they could ace the driver's exam, which means
Speaker 2: about sixty percent of us would be a roll of
Speaker 2: the dice. And finally there's this when it comes to
Speaker 2: the band tool, right, you think, well, you know, kind
Speaker 2: of cutting edge type stuff. They've always been kind of
Speaker 2: ahead of their time musically right, and they've been around
Speaker 2: quite a while at this point. Now, Maynard James Keenan
Speaker 2: is coming clean and making the admission that he and
Speaker 2: his bandmates made quite a mistake for ignoring digital platforms
Speaker 2: for about twenty years. Maynard thinks it was a mistake
Speaker 2: for the band to hold out as long as they did.
Speaker 2: I'm going to quote what he said here, because we
Speaker 2: missed twenty years of reaching two generations of people to
Speaker 2: understand what it is that we do in a format
Speaker 2: that you know. I I don't like listening to MP three,
Speaker 2: so I listened to CDs and vinyl And that.
Speaker 3: Was his his take.
Speaker 2: That's he listens to CDs and vinylly doesn't not a
Speaker 2: fan of MP three's, which when we talk digital platforms,
Speaker 2: that's where that all started. And that's there were certain
Speaker 2: bandshore like Nope, not going there too was one of them,
Speaker 2: he says, now looking back, that would have been the
Speaker 2: gateway to get them into the vinyl and the CDs,
Speaker 2: and I feel like we made a mistake not being
Speaker 2: on those mediums for twenty years. And then the final
Speaker 2: nail was he said, my son just finished law school
Speaker 2: and his classmates have no idea who we are. They
Speaker 2: just weren't exposed to it because it's not on their phone. Hey,
Speaker 2: if you're ad her near my age, you get this right.
Speaker 2: You totally get where Maynard's coming from because a lot
Speaker 2: of us were the same way.
Speaker 3: No, just old school, that's all good.
Speaker 2: It might have taken a little while too, but you
Speaker 2: go down a few generations, it's the exact opposite. They
Speaker 2: brought up knowing what they know. You can't blame them
Speaker 2: for that. Although I think what he's really getting at
Speaker 2: here is we've missed a lot of financial opportunity along
Speaker 2: with way.
Speaker 3: They're not not.
Speaker 2: The tool or any of those guys in that band
Speaker 2: are hurting for money, right, So I mean, come on.
Speaker 3: Follow Cruisin Down Night four.
Speaker 1: Thanks for cranking up Orlando's rock station one on one
Speaker 1: one w j R R