1 00:00:05,440 --> 00:00:07,600 Speaker 1: It's the radio segment that wants you to do something 2 00:00:07,640 --> 00:00:10,119 Speaker 1: positive for the world and go to Brooke and Jefferys 3 00:00:10,200 --> 00:00:13,520 Speaker 1: Merch for a cause T shirts and sweaters where one 4 00:00:13,600 --> 00:00:17,439 Speaker 1: hundred percent of the proceeds go towards LA wildfire relief 5 00:00:17,800 --> 00:00:20,360 Speaker 1: and definitely not towards Brook's secret honeymoon. 6 00:00:20,440 --> 00:00:21,480 Speaker 2: Fun with a mystery Man. 7 00:00:23,120 --> 00:00:26,680 Speaker 3: Second day Update logo, it's on off. 8 00:00:26,440 --> 00:00:29,960 Speaker 1: It's so cool and her mystery Man of so go 9 00:00:30,200 --> 00:00:32,440 Speaker 1: check it out. No chance putting out that fire. 10 00:00:32,520 --> 00:00:35,480 Speaker 2: Not with laser stories. This segment where we read weird 11 00:00:35,520 --> 00:00:36,320 Speaker 2: news stories around the. 12 00:00:36,320 --> 00:00:38,400 Speaker 1: Globe, just like everyone else does, except we've got a 13 00:00:38,440 --> 00:00:41,040 Speaker 1: laser and those other dirty shirties just don't. 14 00:00:41,320 --> 00:00:43,520 Speaker 2: This first laser story is out of Hawaii. 15 00:00:45,520 --> 00:00:48,199 Speaker 1: A fifty one year old guy named Gordon Cordiero got 16 00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:51,560 Speaker 1: out of prison recently after spending thirty years behind bars 17 00:00:51,600 --> 00:00:57,480 Speaker 1: for a crime he did not commit. Tens of millions 18 00:00:57,520 --> 00:01:00,600 Speaker 1: from the government or something. He was convicted of killing 19 00:01:00,600 --> 00:01:03,360 Speaker 1: a guy in nineteen ninety four over a drug deal 20 00:01:03,440 --> 00:01:06,440 Speaker 1: gone bad. Yeah, but he always maintained his innocence and 21 00:01:06,640 --> 00:01:08,759 Speaker 1: DNA evidence finally cleared him. 22 00:01:10,480 --> 00:01:12,760 Speaker 3: Backlogged. We couldn't have gotten to that a little bit so. 23 00:01:14,120 --> 00:01:16,280 Speaker 1: One of the first things Gordon did was go out 24 00:01:16,319 --> 00:01:18,680 Speaker 1: for a nice steak dinner, which was a little a 25 00:01:18,720 --> 00:01:20,760 Speaker 1: little bit different than the prison food he's been eating 26 00:01:20,760 --> 00:01:24,119 Speaker 1: for the last three decades. But he said, the craziest 27 00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:28,560 Speaker 1: thing that he's experienced so far is everybody is constantly 28 00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:29,920 Speaker 1: looking at their phones. 29 00:01:31,840 --> 00:01:33,679 Speaker 3: He hasn't been in the world in thirty years. It's 30 00:01:33,680 --> 00:01:34,520 Speaker 3: like a TimewARP. 31 00:01:34,680 --> 00:01:37,720 Speaker 1: He'd never seen cell phone zombies before because smartphones weren't 32 00:01:37,720 --> 00:01:40,200 Speaker 1: a thing in nineteen ninety four. We didn't even have 33 00:01:40,240 --> 00:01:41,959 Speaker 1: flip phones until ninety six. 34 00:01:42,280 --> 00:01:44,840 Speaker 4: They had the big brick ones like Saved by the Bell. 35 00:01:45,319 --> 00:01:48,240 Speaker 4: Can you picture that? It gives you an instant brain tumor. 36 00:01:48,240 --> 00:01:49,120 Speaker 3: I think we use it. 37 00:01:49,200 --> 00:01:52,560 Speaker 2: All that he ever owned was a beeper. He was 38 00:01:52,600 --> 00:01:56,760 Speaker 2: a drug dealer, he told a reporter, don't say that. 39 00:01:56,680 --> 00:01:59,080 Speaker 3: According to my parents in the nineties, okay, And. 40 00:01:59,120 --> 00:02:02,560 Speaker 1: That he told a reporter he got his first cell 41 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:04,040 Speaker 1: phone as soon as he got out. 42 00:02:04,200 --> 00:02:06,640 Speaker 2: But he's not obsessed with it yet. 43 00:02:08,040 --> 00:02:08,440 Speaker 3: TikTok. 44 00:02:08,480 --> 00:02:11,560 Speaker 1: For the first he mainly thinks it's just weird how 45 00:02:11,600 --> 00:02:13,560 Speaker 1: messages are constantly flooding. 46 00:02:13,600 --> 00:02:15,840 Speaker 2: In quote, it just keeps beeping. 47 00:02:16,080 --> 00:02:22,120 Speaker 1: Yeah, notifications, text I bet he's like, hey, we're snake. Yeah, 48 00:02:22,440 --> 00:02:25,200 Speaker 1: this next lazer, sorry is out of the complaints cafe. 49 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:29,040 Speaker 1: There are two kinds of people, those who will do 50 00:02:29,120 --> 00:02:32,040 Speaker 1: anything they can to troubleshoot on their own problem to 51 00:02:32,120 --> 00:02:35,160 Speaker 1: avoid having to deal with customer support yeah, and those 52 00:02:35,200 --> 00:02:38,600 Speaker 1: who just immediately call because it's not their issue. 53 00:02:38,800 --> 00:02:39,400 Speaker 3: Okay. 54 00:02:39,560 --> 00:02:41,720 Speaker 2: I feel like I'm the second one. Yeah, Well, bad 55 00:02:41,800 --> 00:02:42,880 Speaker 2: news for that second group. 56 00:02:43,360 --> 00:02:46,600 Speaker 1: You may be waiting for an artificially long time because 57 00:02:46,760 --> 00:02:50,760 Speaker 1: Hewlett Packward or HP has just added a minimum fifteen 58 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:58,040 Speaker 1: minute wait time for everybody dialing into their call set. 59 00:02:59,560 --> 00:02:59,880 Speaker 3: I don't know. 60 00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:01,519 Speaker 4: I feel like there's going to be a trend though, 61 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:03,680 Speaker 4: to see how many times you could call in and 62 00:03:03,720 --> 00:03:04,839 Speaker 4: just punish yourself. 63 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:06,640 Speaker 2: Lady, because they always want to get you to the website. 64 00:03:06,680 --> 00:03:08,000 Speaker 1: So I bet you they're like, look, you want to 65 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:11,280 Speaker 1: wait the twenty minutes fifes, just go to the website. 66 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:11,760 Speaker 4: And ask our box. 67 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:12,800 Speaker 2: And they're not hiding it. 68 00:03:12,840 --> 00:03:15,480 Speaker 1: In fact, they're admitting the purpose is to encourage people 69 00:03:15,480 --> 00:03:18,880 Speaker 1: to use their online resources to try and solve your 70 00:03:18,919 --> 00:03:19,679 Speaker 1: own problems. 71 00:03:19,760 --> 00:03:22,760 Speaker 2: Yes, Delta will be like, you can solve this in 72 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:23,680 Speaker 2: two minutes online. 73 00:03:23,680 --> 00:03:25,840 Speaker 1: I'm like, put me on hold for an hour later, 74 00:03:26,600 --> 00:03:28,960 Speaker 1: I'm not going to talk to someone. They're targeting the 75 00:03:28,960 --> 00:03:31,680 Speaker 1: customers who are clogging their phone lines with issues that 76 00:03:31,720 --> 00:03:36,040 Speaker 1: could easily be handled themselves or by using virtual chatbots, 77 00:03:36,360 --> 00:03:38,080 Speaker 1: or let's face it, with just common sense. 78 00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:39,560 Speaker 2: Yeah right now. 79 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:42,680 Speaker 1: HP has the system in place only in Europe and 80 00:03:42,760 --> 00:03:44,360 Speaker 1: no word on when it could make its way to 81 00:03:44,400 --> 00:03:44,840 Speaker 1: the US. 82 00:03:44,880 --> 00:03:47,680 Speaker 2: But you've got to think it's coming any day or I. 83 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:49,920 Speaker 4: Feel like management and companies should do this, Like, if 84 00:03:49,920 --> 00:03:52,160 Speaker 4: you've had a problem and you're an employee, you're going 85 00:03:52,200 --> 00:03:53,680 Speaker 4: to have to wait fifteen minutes for me to help you. 86 00:03:53,680 --> 00:03:54,600 Speaker 2: Should it in the studio? 87 00:03:55,640 --> 00:03:59,480 Speaker 1: Next lays theer's stories out of Pixel Paradise. How many 88 00:03:59,480 --> 00:04:01,800 Speaker 1: hours have you wasted playing games on your phone? 89 00:04:02,080 --> 00:04:02,440 Speaker 3: Yeah? 90 00:04:02,480 --> 00:04:02,920 Speaker 2: Too many? 91 00:04:03,880 --> 00:04:07,760 Speaker 3: Dude, I'm really into word Still, I still really like it. 92 00:04:08,240 --> 00:04:09,400 Speaker 2: Does anybody still play that? 93 00:04:09,440 --> 00:04:12,200 Speaker 4: One nice thing is you only play it once and 94 00:04:12,200 --> 00:04:13,680 Speaker 4: then you don't have to play it again that day? 95 00:04:14,760 --> 00:04:15,920 Speaker 3: Yeah, totally, you can't. 96 00:04:16,080 --> 00:04:16,240 Speaker 2: Well. 97 00:04:16,279 --> 00:04:19,080 Speaker 1: A few years ago, a British woman's candy crush addiction 98 00:04:19,200 --> 00:04:22,560 Speaker 1: got out of control. She started with an hour a day, 99 00:04:22,880 --> 00:04:26,040 Speaker 1: then two, then a lot more, to the point where 100 00:04:26,080 --> 00:04:30,160 Speaker 1: she couldn't physically stop playing it. Oh, it was like 101 00:04:30,200 --> 00:04:33,479 Speaker 1: a gateway drug. And then she moved over to virtual 102 00:04:33,520 --> 00:04:34,360 Speaker 1: slot machines. 103 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:37,479 Speaker 4: Okay, so there's the gateway you were talking about. 104 00:04:38,240 --> 00:04:40,719 Speaker 1: She lost a lot of money eventually got a lawyer 105 00:04:40,800 --> 00:04:45,000 Speaker 1: because of it. And no, she did not sue Candy Crush. 106 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:46,919 Speaker 1: She sued her doctor. 107 00:04:48,320 --> 00:04:51,200 Speaker 4: Why does the doctor have anything to do with it? 108 00:04:51,400 --> 00:04:54,680 Speaker 1: Because turns out, a few weeks before she downloaded Candy Crush, 109 00:04:54,720 --> 00:04:57,279 Speaker 1: she went to her local clinic and complained about restless 110 00:04:57,320 --> 00:05:00,200 Speaker 1: leg syndrome. So they put her on a medication and 111 00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:03,960 Speaker 1: called ropepin rool, and that can help people with that affliction. 112 00:05:04,080 --> 00:05:06,400 Speaker 1: But it also mimics the effects of the feel good 113 00:05:06,400 --> 00:05:07,680 Speaker 1: hormone dopamine. 114 00:05:07,800 --> 00:05:11,400 Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, so you feel good. 115 00:05:11,520 --> 00:05:13,400 Speaker 4: Because she was on the drugs, she wanted to play 116 00:05:13,440 --> 00:05:14,400 Speaker 4: Candy Crush more. 117 00:05:14,640 --> 00:05:14,800 Speaker 3: Well. 118 00:05:14,800 --> 00:05:16,719 Speaker 1: One of the side effects is it can make you 119 00:05:16,800 --> 00:05:20,320 Speaker 1: more impulsive, and her doctor didn't warn her about that, 120 00:05:20,400 --> 00:05:22,760 Speaker 1: even though they put her on twice the normal dose. 121 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:24,000 Speaker 2: Okay, so the. 122 00:05:23,880 --> 00:05:26,680 Speaker 3: Court ruled this is stress. 123 00:05:26,720 --> 00:05:29,680 Speaker 1: The court ruled that her meds were the reason that 124 00:05:29,720 --> 00:05:34,320 Speaker 1: she got physically hooked onto Candy Crush, and they awarded 125 00:05:34,320 --> 00:05:37,520 Speaker 1: her over two hundred thousand dollars in damage. 126 00:05:41,200 --> 00:05:43,120 Speaker 3: She gambled away four hundred thousand, but. 127 00:05:44,279 --> 00:05:45,840 Speaker 2: Still congrats to her. 128 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:48,640 Speaker 1: I guess the moral of the story is addiction really 129 00:05:48,680 --> 00:05:51,640 Speaker 1: can pay off if you blame somebody else. 130 00:05:51,800 --> 00:05:53,960 Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, it sounds like a fun drug. 131 00:05:54,120 --> 00:05:56,920 Speaker 1: This next Lainzer story is out of drizzle district. 132 00:05:58,120 --> 00:05:58,719 Speaker 2: Believe it or not. 133 00:05:58,800 --> 00:06:02,200 Speaker 1: It's almost March, and there's reason to be excited because 134 00:06:02,320 --> 00:06:05,239 Speaker 1: March is National sauce Month. 135 00:06:05,680 --> 00:06:10,400 Speaker 2: Yeah sauce sauce, Yeah sauce. 136 00:06:10,920 --> 00:06:14,600 Speaker 1: To celebrate instacart just release some data on America's favorite 137 00:06:14,640 --> 00:06:18,080 Speaker 1: pasta sauces. First, the states that order the most and 138 00:06:18,200 --> 00:06:22,159 Speaker 1: least pasta sauce. Iowa leads the way as being most 139 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:26,800 Speaker 1: obsessed with it. We're just talking any sauce could be Alfreido, 140 00:06:26,839 --> 00:06:28,760 Speaker 1: it could be Marinera pasta sauces. 141 00:06:28,839 --> 00:06:29,640 Speaker 2: Yes, fasta sauce. 142 00:06:29,680 --> 00:06:32,000 Speaker 3: I mean, how many there are we going with past 143 00:06:33,880 --> 00:06:34,320 Speaker 3: meat sauce. 144 00:06:34,360 --> 00:06:35,880 Speaker 1: You can get a nice vodka sauce with like a 145 00:06:35,920 --> 00:06:36,760 Speaker 1: half white. 146 00:06:36,480 --> 00:06:39,159 Speaker 3: Okay, a bunch of sauce. 147 00:06:39,480 --> 00:06:43,280 Speaker 1: Wisconsin is second, followed by West Virginia, and as for 148 00:06:43,440 --> 00:06:46,359 Speaker 1: dead last, the Golden State California to. 149 00:06:46,600 --> 00:06:54,440 Speaker 2: The crown Calories, Idaho and Maine also do not buy 150 00:06:54,600 --> 00:06:55,880 Speaker 2: very much pasta. 151 00:06:55,520 --> 00:06:58,359 Speaker 3: Sauce too spicy for us in Idaho. 152 00:06:59,400 --> 00:07:01,799 Speaker 1: Not everything in the report was surprising, though. For example, 153 00:07:01,800 --> 00:07:06,440 Speaker 1: one of America's favorite sauces is the least healthy one, Alfredo, 154 00:07:07,480 --> 00:07:11,760 Speaker 1: although overall Marinera is number one ye, followed by Alfredo, 155 00:07:12,080 --> 00:07:17,200 Speaker 1: then Tomato basil tomato, garlic plain tomato sauce, and pesto. 156 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:18,920 Speaker 3: Plain tomato sauce. Who is easy? 157 00:07:23,160 --> 00:07:27,440 Speaker 1: But speaking of going green, this guy makes his own 158 00:07:27,480 --> 00:07:31,920 Speaker 1: sauce at home. Even though I've asked him multiple times, 159 00:07:32,040 --> 00:07:36,600 Speaker 1: he will not disclose his special INGREDI broke any guesses 160 00:07:36,640 --> 00:07:37,680 Speaker 1: you've tasted it before? 161 00:07:38,520 --> 00:07:41,960 Speaker 2: That gross, he's a little je man. I guess we 162 00:07:42,120 --> 00:07:43,080 Speaker 2: never know the secret. 163 00:07:43,120 --> 00:07:45,240 Speaker 1: That's how means Laser Stories has come to an end 164 00:07:45,240 --> 00:07:47,680 Speaker 1: for the day. We'll do it again, same time on 165 00:07:47,760 --> 00:07:48,160 Speaker 1: Friday 166 00:07:48,560 --> 00:07:50,120 Speaker 3: Brook and Jeffrey in the morning.