00:00How about concerts? You guys have been to a number of concerts. Do you pay a lot for tickets, right?
00:03I don't, which is why I don't go to a lot of them. They're so expensive.
00:06Yeah, they're expensive. Okay, so that's kind of the crux of this story.
00:09So this is in the Wall Street Journal. It says, artist crowd pleaser, $20 tickets for shows.
00:14So it turns out artists like Coldplay, Olivia Rodrigo, they're offering these tickets that are like $20.
00:20That's great.
00:21So Coldplay did it. They're called Infinity Tickets. Olivia Rodrigo called it Silver Star Tickets.
00:25Even Charlie XCX, she's going to do something like that. To keep the resellers away, though, there are certain rules
00:31you have to apply by.
00:32The tickets have to be picked up at the box office.
00:34You've got to go.
00:35You've got to go there, and you don't know where you're going to sit until the day you go there.
00:39Interesting.
00:39So those are things. But they sell out fast, and that's something. But it's not new.
00:43I mean, Kid Rock has been doing this. Garth Brooks. The Rolling Stones have this program called Lucky Dip that
00:48they've been doing.
00:49It's going to help people. They want them to enjoy their music, but they need to make it a little
00:52bit affordable, too, at the same time.
00:54Someone in my household eager to see Olivia Rodrigo playing at the Barclays Center in a few months.
00:57Look at the ticket prices. $7.39 each.
01:00What?
01:00$7.86, $8.54.
01:02Come on.
01:02It's been a hard conversation to have for one ticket.
01:05And these are not great seats. They're seats within the arena, but I'm good to know about this.
01:10But this is the same thing with, like, World Cup prices, where you get these crazy fans that just can
01:14never see these games.
01:15And that's not fair. You know, kids should get to go see their favorite artists.
01:19Well, that's a deal, because I paid $2.50 a pop for Garth Brooks.
01:23Garth Brooks?
01:23No, not Garth Brooks. It was...
01:25Friends in Low Places.
01:26No, no, no. I've seen Garth Brooks.
01:28His alter ego?
01:29Zach Bryan at MetLife.
01:31That's who it was.
01:32A generation away from Garth Brooks.
01:34I'm telling you, it's expensive out there.
01:36Okay, so you mentioned going to these things.
01:38You do concerts with your kids.
01:40When you go to the concerts, you buy them, like, hoodies?
01:42There's always a push for that.
01:43See?
01:44There's always a push for that at games as well.
01:46There's always a hoodie associated with everything.
01:48This is in the Washington Post.
01:49Teen hoodies are testing their closets' limits and their parents' patience.
01:55Okay?
01:55So if you've ever seen, I know my daughter's closet lined up, stacked hoodies right across.
02:01And the problem is that they're worrying about how they're going to store these things.
02:05Okay?
02:06Because the closets are running around space.
02:07They're bulky.
02:08They're big.
02:08You know, how are you going to fold them?
02:09How are you going to fit them?
02:10And now these young teens are going to college, and so parents are like, how are you going
02:14to fit all these in a dorm room?
02:16I did take some agitation on Lisa Mateo's part here.
02:17I feel like this is a personal story that Lisa has selected for reasons we don't really
02:22need to do.
02:23And what do you do?
02:24So they have, like, all these solutions.
02:25There's Facebook groups out there for this.
02:27To get rid of them.
02:28For people, how to do it.
02:29Yeah.
02:29My daughter says she's taking half.
02:31Okay.
02:31She's taking half the hoodies.
02:32Yep.
02:32And then she comes back from break, brings those back.
02:34Yeah, it'll be the fall.
02:35I'll get a new set.
02:36See?
02:36You get a new set.
02:37That's smart.
02:38It seems like fresh brand new.
02:38That's for, like, such a...
02:39Bat Mitzvahs.
02:40It's like the gift you've got.
02:40Yes.
02:41Oh, really?
02:41Oh, yes.
02:42Yes, yes.
02:42Bat Mitzvahs.
02:42Is it a Bat Mitzvah if you don't get a hoodie?
02:44I don't know.
02:44Oh, I understand.
02:45I know this.
02:46It's a thing.
02:47You go down the Jersey Shore, you get a hoodie.
02:48There you go.
02:49And I saw on your video there, the old Goat USA.
02:52You know that brand.
02:53Boy, do I.
02:53See?
02:54I was...
02:55This was a conversation last night.
02:57I have no idea what you're talking about.
02:59Add that to your wardrobe.
02:59I don't own it either.
03:00I did have so many hoodies in my teens.
03:03It's not something I have as an adult, but my parents, who moved from Colorado, still
03:07have, like, two full drawers of hoodies that I just left there when I went to college
03:11and never...
03:11They haven't given them.
03:12Me warned, Lisa Mateo.
03:14The promises of hoodie, you know, carriage may not happen.
03:17This followed her Hot Topic goth stage that we still need proof of.
03:20Yes, we do need proof of that.
03:21Drawing it all together.
03:22Mom and Dad, I'm on it.
03:23It's a show across two days.
03:25If you're just tuning in today, you've missed a lot of the inside jokes, but tune in on
03:30Saturdays as well.
03:30It's a wonderful time.
03:31It's a wonderful time.
03:31It is.
03:32All right.
03:32Let me take you from hoodies to clothing you can wear to keep you incognito.
03:37Okay.
03:37Let me explain.
03:38All right.
03:38This is from The Guardian.
03:40Adversarial clothing are garments designed to confuse facial recognition systems about
03:45to go mainstream.
03:46So let me explain.
03:47These are carefully designed arrangement of shapes, colors, repeated patterns, and what they
03:52do is they throw off computer vision systems.
03:55So if you're listening on radio, it's kind of hard to describe these patterns.
04:01I don't know.
04:02How would you guys describe it?
04:03Well, they're really varied.
04:03Like you're having a visual migraine.
04:04Yes.
04:05Like a visual aura.
04:06And that's what it does to these visual systems that are out there kind of tracking people.
04:10So that's why they're wearing this.
04:12It's a little odd.
04:15But it's kind of with fashion.
04:16I mean, it's how you speak.
04:20It's a form of expression.
04:21So they're kind of voicing out their concerns against people tracking them.
04:24It's so real that we're talking about concert halls.
04:25I think now when you go to a lot of concert venues, you're being kind of photographed going in.
04:29The one in New York had some controversial moments for allegedly using facial recognition.
04:33And people don't want to be on these lists.
04:36I mean, I think it's really interesting.
04:38And I think it's interesting how they're trying to make them wearable too, right?
04:42As you've put these up here, they're all different.
04:43And some are colorful and some are digitized.
04:47And that in itself seems like a bit of a fashion statement.
04:49Especially the story we did earlier this week about camo becoming big.
04:52It's a different kind of camo.
04:53It's a different camo.
04:53I love that.
04:54Tie it all together.
04:56It's vacation time.
04:57Vacation time.
04:58Oh, David Gura, here it is.
05:00Martha's Vineyard.
05:01Good morning, 92.9 Boston.
05:03You are listeners in the greater Boston area.
05:05To the top of Mount Katana, as Tom Peen would say.
05:08You rolled that out very smoothly.
05:10No comments.
05:11Lisa, one of David Gura's favorite hotspots.
05:13Also, the Obamas have a house there.
05:15So it is a popular place.
05:17This is from Bloomberg.
05:18Martha's Vineyard, Tix, drive tourists to scrap $12,000 rentals.
05:24Tix is a big problem.
05:26They are.
05:26And deer ticks had been an issue there for a very long time.
05:29There were a lot of deer.
05:30It's something that's immediately noticeable.
05:32But now there are these other smaller ticks.
05:34Yes, the Lone Star ticks.
05:35Which transmit this alpha-gal syndrome, which gives you a meat allergy.
05:39That's the thing we can eat meat, right?
05:39You can eat meat, dairy products.
05:42And it's been really wild to watch, A, how that spread.
05:45You hear about it anecdotally.
05:46And then if you go to shops or restaurants, they sell food items that don't have those items in there.
05:51And they call it allagal, like they call it that on the menu.
05:54It's crazy.
05:55But can you not, I mean, can you not go to your fancy beach without, like, trudging through the tick
05:59-laden bushes?
06:00They're just everywhere.
06:02This specific one is everywhere.
06:04And the Lone Star and ticks come after you, unlike deer ticks.
06:07Like, they are.
06:08They're aggressive.
06:09Sad that our radio listeners can't watch me doing my tick impression.
06:11Thank you for, yes, radio listeners really missed that illustration.
06:14But people are canceling their vacations.
06:15They are.
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