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And we are Daminsky and More. I'm Jeff Daminsky. I'm Kylie Moore. You can always reach us at 181. I mean, yeah, between 2 and 7. Uh, Mondays through Fridays, you can reach us at 1 800283101.5. You can always reach us on the app. Don't worry, I get those emails on the weekend. The app chat, it's always right. Yep. That that that is 24/7. And uh and if you never got that app, you will need it because yes, we are in the middle of another $1,000 at work payday. Uh your shot at $1,000 is coming up. You just have to listen for that code. That next one is coming up in about 10 minutes. So, make sure that you don't go anywhere. Um, we have one next hour in the 4:00 hour and the 5:00 hour as well. So, riddled with cash codes. Yeah. So, we have um we have a lot to get to today. Uh we have uh Kylie's disdain and paranoia about something that she saw happen on the on the road yesterday. We have a story about a little baby in New Jersey born on the side of the road. Hope it was a toll road. That would just make it more even Jersey, you know. Um we um we've got a we've got a crazy story about something we talked about once when it was first announced, but today is the day that AOL is end. Actually, could we play the sound? AOL is ending dialup connections today. And I know what you're thinking. Oh my god, this lives rent free in my head. Right. Listen to how listen how harsh this was. [Applause] This is what it sounded like. But do you know how many people thought it was already gone? There were still thousands of people using dialup and today is its final day. I don't know if AOL has pulled the plug already or if it's pulling the plug, you know, in later afternoon or when exactly, but it is the very final day today that AOL is uh is allowing dialup connections. Thousands still used it, which blew my mind. I know we're going to get to this later, but do you think a later thing? Do you think that AOL still does the welcome? You've got mail. Got mail. I don't see why not. Do you think it's the same voice from the 90s? Why not? Kids, ask your parents about having a computer room. Um, hello tram lady. Watch the tram car, please. Watch the tram car, please. Yeah. I mean, it's the same vibe, right? Right. That voice for the tram car in the Wildwoods, that was decades old. They never changed that. Why would Why would AOL change it? I don't know. I don't know. Um, Trev, Steve Trevaliz, who comes on after us would be the guy to ask because he still uses AOL. So, yeah, I don't know if they still have that voice, but they still all these years, even though it was dwindling in numbers, they still had dialup, which blew my mind. Someone's writing it on the app, by the way, that the dialup sound is their ringtone. No. Why would the Well, I guess you're you're going to notice it and it'll it'll get you to the phone fast enough cuz you're going to be like, I need to stop. That should be actually your wake up alarm to be honest because you I want to wake up pissed. Oh, like you don't already. Yeah, that's true. Like what's wrong with the internet now? All right, so our phone number is 1 800 283101.5. Serious business though happening in New Jersey news and this is just sad. We have talked about ebikes before. Um, we've talked about whether they ought to be regulated somehow, if they are too dangerous, but I want to know, I mean, you can speak to that obviously, but when it comes to these ebikes that can go far faster than a regular bicycle, do you have one? Do your kids have one? Was yours modified? How fast can the thing go? Are they really too dangerous? Because there are stories out now that there are three teenagers, three teenagers in one week in two separate ebike incidents that were killed. God in just one county in Union County. Three kids in one week. That's terrible. It is. And if I could go back first to a story out of Montil, this one happened um several weeks back. Uh this one the the person did not die but they suffered injuries. Um there was somebody that was coming out of uh a gas station and the person that was pulling out of the gas station had somebody some kid on an ebike coming from the left and there's no other cars. You see them slow down as they're about to make a left turn in front of the ebike, but the ebike is way far back at the point that the driver, in my mind, probably looked. And then they look to the right. I'm assuming that's usually the last spot you're going to look before pulling out. Well, the ebike was going so fast and the car pulled out in the path of the ebike and uh the the kid on the ebike ended up slamming into the fender uh flying off the bike, didn't get killed, uh but went, you know, uh went hurtling through the air and got and got injuries. And that had made the news earlier this summer. The thing of that is I bet you the person coming out of that gas station though probably looked to their left probably saw somebody on a bicycle and because we're so used to bicycles being you know 10 15 m an hour whatever was probably processing the bicycle at about the normal bicycle speed not thinking in that fraction of a second how we have these ebikes now understandably so Right. And so probably looks to the left, sees, well, that's a bicycle. I've got time. Starts to pull out looking to the right to make sure that, you know, there's nobody going to come. And then all of a sudden, this person on the ebike and to me it looked like easily 3540 m an hour. I don't know that for sure, but to my eyes, it looked like that. Slams right into them. And I know they're probably going to find the driver at fault, but I almost feel like it's not fair because all you're really seeing at first from a distance is a bicycle. You don't expect a bicycle to be doing 40 m an hour. And um and then this happened in Union County. Like I said, three teenagers killed. There were two kids who were struck and killed in a crash just late yesterday afternoon. And it was in the same week that another ebike uh riding teenager in Union County was also killed. Um so apparently it was like I think two people on one uh ebike. It happened at about almost about 5:30 um in the afternoon in Cranford and uh the other one was a and those were two girls and the other one was a 13-year-old boy. Scotch planes fatally collided with a landscaping truck while driving an ebike. And I'm telling you, I'm not sure who's going to be, you know, at fault here, what exactly went down, but the way ebikes operate, drivers have to now suddenly get used to, you see a bicycle, you have to assume it's an ebike. You have to really take extra time now to judge the speed of the thing because you can't judge it by what we used to always believe was the speed of a bicycle because they're not, you know, and they are growing exponentially in popularity and that's what I want to talk about. Um, first of all, do you think that ebikes are a nuisance? Have you had uh too many ebikes in your neighborhood and too many close calls with an ebike? 1 800283101.5. But do you own one? Does your kid own one? Are they too dangerous? 1 800 283101.5. It's 219. Here's Fast Traffic. Time to take a look at Subaru and fall in love. So, we're talking about ebikes because sadly, just in one county in one week, three teenagers were killed. Two girls uh and one young boy, 13-year-old 13-year-old guy. That's awful. Uh don't know the ages of the uh girls, but they say that they were like high school age apparently. And um yeah, and you know, I mean, at first it might seem like, well, maybe it was the driver's fault of the car. I don't know because again, you know, that one out of Montil where the car was coming out of a gas station. If you're trying to judge the speed of what you are looking at and you are regarding because most of your life a bicycle was just a bicycle as a bicycle, you could be gravely mistaken. And I would have a hard time if I were on some jury, say, or a judge in a courtroom really faulting a driver for not yet being used to what looks like a mere bicycle going 40 miles an hour. You know, I mean, honestly, if I'm making a left and I see a bicycle like a block away, I don't think it's going to be on me within two seconds. No, I don't think that I have time. Exactly my point. Right. And so, yeah, I'm not sure about the these these fatals and and exactly how it all went down, but I mean, it's sad. It is sad. And they say these are growing in popularity. So, any thoughts you have about this? I mean, whether you know, you think they're too dangerous, they should be regulated. But big thing I want to know, cuz we never really asked this all that much. Do you even have one? Do you have an ebike? How old are you that you have an ebike? Like, I saw a guy, I swear he must have been a middle-aged dude. He was probably like 45. and he was on an ebike the other day and he was crossing a fairly uh busy road and he looked like he's paying attention. So, I didn't have any issue with him. But the problem I have is young people seem to just treat them like a bicycle, not really stop for stop signs, things like that, and they're just moving too fast to treat it like just a mere bicycle. Uh so, do you have an ebike? Have you let your kids have an ebike? 1800 283101.5. Calling in from Mount Laurel. John, you're on New Jersey 101.5. Hey guys. Hey. Hey. Uh, real quick, I just would like to say uh thoughts, prayers, and condolences with those uh families in Union County. Yeah, that that's very sweet, John. Thank you. No problem. Um, yeah, I'm It's weird. Uh, it's funny you bring this topic up. I've just noticed in just the past week a bunch of the neighborhood kids where I live in my development, I guess they got them or their parents got them, but um I mean I'll be honest, they're I feel like an old man on the porch, but they're a nuisance. I mean, these kids, they're they're going on our walking trails, doing donuts and spinouts on like uh the athletic fields. It's just, you know, it's they're not using sense at all. Well, now when you say you feel like an old man, uh how old are you, could I ask? Oh, I'm 29, but I used to Right. And I used to like skateboard and BMX as a kid. So, you know, like I get both sides of the story, but at the same time, it's like we had some sense when I was younger. I don't know about these kids. Yeah. You're not skateboarding uh in traffic usually. I mean, some kids did. Some kids did, but usually, right? Yeah. Yeah. You're going to find a halfpipe, whatever. Um do you guys think that there should be an age limit on these ebikes? Yeah. Yeah. I think, you know, cuz there's an age limit on those golf carts. What? And you know, you see kids driving those all the time. I think there definitely should be a limit on um on these ones as well. Well, I don't know much about this. And if anybody is I mean like I should I'm old enough that I should know about this, but I never had a moped. But mopeds decades ago used to be the big thing. But I believe that when they had mopeds, I think that they were regulated. I think that you had to be registered or licensed or maybe both. I think Motor Vehicle Commission back then called DMV. I think they were involved. If anybody knows that, feel free to jump in here because how are these really any different than the speed that you could get on a moped? They're not. And especially a lot of people are modifying these ebikes to make them go even faster than they're naturally meant to go. And so you've definitely got like a moped situation, but with no regulation at all. So yeah, if these can go 40 miles an hour, I don't want a 13-year-old on there. Right. Yeah. It's right. You're not going to let them drive a car. So, why are you letting them do this? John, thank you for calling New Jersey 101.5. We're talking about ebikes because again, and there's a story by Dan Alexander on NJ1015.com about this. Three teenagers in one week in Union County in two different ebike collisions have died, which is just tragic and it's not going to be the last. So, do you have an ebike yourself? Do your kids have one? What's your opinion of them? 1800 283101.5. I'm being told that our next caller is actually a a retired police officer. So, I want to give him more time as opposed to going up against the news. Yeah. So, John, if you're listening on hold, please hold on because Yeah, we would love to get uh a retired more than 20 seconds of your time. Right. So, I'm just going to ask you, Jeff, how frequently are you seeing these ebikes? Because I'll be honest, I I'm not seeing them at all. So, the video that you showed me was very eye opening and terrifying. Yeah, that was the one of the person coming out of the gas station. And in my opinion, you're probably just misjudging the speed of what he probably thought or she was a bicycle. Um, when I lived in Flemington, it was a more residential area than where I'm living now. Um, so I'm living in Madawan, but only, you know, a month or so. Uh, so I'm not seeing a lot there, but in Flemington constantly. Wow. Constantly. I mean, there was not a day that they were not zooming through the neighborhood and uh at least eight or nine different people had them um shooting right through stop signs, uh going the wrong way down streets, you know, on the wrong side of the street against traffic, things like that, not obeying any of the rules. And I know it sounds like I'm like get off my lawn, but it's just I mean I had one that I almost took out who uh it was early in the morning and I'm driving down Broad Street and I had the right away and this uh young guy on a on an ebike came right across, never even hit the brakes um right out of a stop sign from side street and nearly hit him. I had to slam the brakes on. I would have killed him. I would have killed him, I'm sure. Or at least put him in the hospital. So yeah, I've seen him a lot. But what about you? 1800 28311.5 seen gold prices higher than 30 238 with Jeff Deinsky and Kylie Moore. We want to know your thoughts on ebikes. Do you have one? Do your kids have one? Are they rampant in your neighborhood? And do you think that they're dangerous? Should there be some sort of regulation on them? 1800 283101.5. Uh let's talk to John from Newark. Now John, our producer was telling us that you are a retired law enforcement officer. Yes, sir. Okay. Yeah. Well, what are your thoughts on this? Well, to echo the first Cor's sentiment, prayers and condolences to the family, but I I'm I'm surprised it took this long for something like this to happen. And I'm not wishing it on anyone. You know, death is a terrible thing, but the way they zip around and cut traffic off, wrong way onway traffic, operating in construction zones with heavy machinery. This was bound to happen. Let's let's be honest with each other. This was bound to happen. Do you think, and I know I'm putting a lot on you, do you think there's any sort of solution? Is it regulations? Is it uh to be perfectly honest with you, it's hard to I it falls into the bicycle realm except it doesn't have a motor, but it gets up in the speeds of 30 40 miles an hour. If I could jump in, what is if you if you even know, I mean, you're saying it doesn't have a motor. Okay. It doesn't have a gasoline motor, but it's got And I mean, couldn't you argue that the electric is a motor and Oh, absolutely. Yeah, absolutely. But but but under current law, it's exempt under current law that they actually have to pass something in order to try to regulate this, I guess. Exactly. And let's f let's be honest again again with the government. We're facing a government shutdown and now you're going to regulate ebikes. You know how long it's going to take for them to get that into into legislation? That's going to take till 20 240. So, do I think it's possible? Yes. Is it a long ways off? Absolutely. Absolutely a long ways off. Have you personally witnessed this just in your private life just driving wherever where young people are on ebikes and they're not even paying any attention to stop signs and things? I'll go one step further. I've seen young people with kids on them as passengers just zipping around, no regard for the law. And then you look at her and you say like, "Okay, if it's just you, okay, you're taking your life in your own hands, so be it." But you take a little kid out on that thing and you're ripping around, you know, intersections one way streets. I just I'm again, I don't want to wish this on anybody, but it's it's been a long time coming. I'm surprised it took this long to be honest with you. Yeah, that's uh it's a daunting problem. I don't know. I mean again I remember I remember mopeds back in the day and I believe right that they had some form of regulation with them but it was again it was a different type of engine. It was a different type of power. Yeah. John, thank you so much for your insight. We appreciate you calling New Jersey 101.5. Andy in Franklinville, you're on New Jersey 101.5. Yeah, I I think the the the bikes uh should be regulated. uh you know uh when I was 15 I had a moped and I had to take a course for it and you know they're just the bikes are zipping around today and and you know there's no responsibility you know at all for them. What did you Okay, back in the with the moped because I mean I remember from when I was a kid but I never had one. What exactly did you have to do? I had to take a like a motorcycle course. you know, I had to go with do the figure eight, but you know, it was anything under 50 cc's and under. And then when you got your license, your regular car license, and then you were able to drive it. But if you were under the age uh uh of 17, you needed to get a moped license. So, they had a spec Okay. So, it was regulated. They had a specific moped license that you had to have. Did you also have to have them registered with motor vehicles back then? Uh they were registered and insured. They did have to be just like any other motor vehicle like a miniature motorcycle. You had right you had to know your hand signals left and right stop, you know, you had to know all that and and as I say, you had to take a figure eight course and uh yeah, then you were permitted to have your license at 15. Yeah, I really I mean other than what's powering the the bike, I I I don't see any other difference. And you would think that they need to do the same thing with these ebikes. Andy, do you remember I don't know how I'm sorry. Do you remember what the hand signals are? It It's different ones for left, right, and stop. Correct. Right. For people who don't know, if you remember, what are they? Well, uh, uh, holding your hand up is, uh, uh, is a left turn. No, no. Straight, no, straight out is a left turn. Holding it up is a right turn. Right. Right. Correct. And down and down hand is a stop. Yep. Yep. Yeah. I don't know if they still teach that. I mean, I guess they do with even drivers for if your signals go out on your vehicle, but if they do still teach it, nobody uses them. I've seen people use them. Have you really? Right. Wow. Okay. Even I I have a motorcycle and and I still use them there if my turn signals are out. So, even if I feel like the area is congested, I I will use my hand signals just to let somebody know, hey, I'm here. That's where I've seen them use. I see the I see motorcyclists use them and I learned this once in Girl Scouts and this was like 20 years ago. So, I'm like, "Huh, I wonder what they're trying to signal to me." Right. Andy, thank you so much for calling New Jersey 101.5. By the way, and I'm asking in the newsroom, but I haven't heard back from them yet. But uh a number of people are uh either calling off air or uh sending messages through the app chat and they're saying that two of these three deaths the the young women who were killed on an ebike in Cranford that now the claim is I'm not saying this is true because I have not seen this anywhere but that that the driver of the car intentionally hit them. The only thing I'm seeing is that the driver of the car, according to authorities, did not stop, that it was a hit and run and that they did catch this driver later on. I'm seeing nothing from our newsroom, from CBS, from many other sources that are saying that this was intentional. I I'm not sure where that's coming from. I just want to recognize that there are people that are trying to contact the station saying that. And we appreciate you uh if if it's if true. We're not saying it is. We appreciate you giving us the scoop. Yeah, absolutely not saying it is because I would have to have that from a verified source, not just, you know, somebody calling. Um, but I'm just I'm I'm not reading it. If you've got something that's actually a bonafideed news site, want to let us know, hey, send it to us. Absolutely. But um but yeah, we're talking about ebikes and the and the danger. Or do you think they're safe? I would I would have a hard time believing anybody thinks that they're actually safe when they can go 40 miles an hour or faster if they're modified. But do you have an ebike? Have you allowed your kids to have one? What do you know about modifying them? 1 800283101.5 unfold savings event is here. So, the one source I've got here that is mentioning anything about uh the two Cranford girls on the ebike being killed intentionally is from ABC. And we're not verifying this, but just telling you that uh ABC is saying authorities have not released details have not released details about the driver or whether the collision was an accident or intentional. So apparently that is maybe being looked into, but authorities are not confirming that one way or the other. And that was only within the last 50 minutes that that was out. So we thank everybody for saying that, but again, we don't want to be irresponsible and report something if that's not the case. Uh anyway, but ebikes, too dangerous or not, do you have one? Do your kids have one? 1800283101.5. Ryan in Tom's River, you're on New Jersey 101.5. Hey, how are you? Ryan, we're good. What do you want to say about ebikes? So, I'm actually surprised that the state of New Jersey has never uh put regulations on these. They they are motorized vehicles. It doesn't matter whether it's gas, whether it's electric, it's actually under under statute, it is a motorized vehicle. I agree with you. Look at all the e cars that we have and those are motor vehicles, right? It's also like the one thing that New Jersey hasn't put a law on, right? Yeah. So me and all my friends, we had the moped back in the late 80s, early 90s. You had to take the test, you had to have insurance, you had to have registration, and you had to have a DOT uh motorcycle helmet on. Like the fact that these kids riding around with no helmets on these things, some of these things are going 40 plus miles an hour. Yep. It's It's crazy. And I've been on one before. One of my neighbors has one. He let me ride it. I went down the street. I hit like 35 miles an hour and I'm and it's not stable. It's it's it's crazy. I I can't believe that they haven't done more about this in the you know in the past. How fast would a moped go? They were most mopeds did like 25 to 28 miles an hour. Oh, wait. Are seriously? I thought they went I thought Yeah, I thought they went a lot faster than that. No, no. In fact, I think I'm pretty sure they weren't supposed to go over 25. Um, they had to be under 50 cc's, but every moped that I've ever been on, you're talking under 30 without a doubt. 25. Well, if that's accurate, then this is even more interesting because a lot of these ebikes are clearly going even faster than that. And yet, those were regulated. Yeah, that's startling. Yeah, good point, Ryan. Thank you. Yeah, thank you for calling New Jersey 101.5. Ryan, Mike and Clark, you're on New Jersey 101.5. Hey guys. Hey. I just wanted to say uh this past summer uh I was sitting at a red light at a at a really dangerous intersection and there was a pack of about six or eight kids, no older than 14 um at the red light in traffic in the in the car lane. And I took a quick picture of it and I put it on the Facebook page in town. And I said, "Listen, you know, your parents got to do a better job with your kids and teach them this isn't okay." Man, I got chastised by all the women in a group saying, you know, leave the kids alone. They're having fun. You know, it's not against the law. Yeah. They're having fun at 40 miles an hour. Yeah. It's Exactly. So, that that I really think parents need to be better educated. These things are very dangerous and very fast. Thanks, guys. Yeah. Thank you, Mike. We appreciate you. And I think Yeah, I think Mike is right. I mean, you does a good parent simply have to wait for there to be a specific law to recognize, hey, maybe that's dangerous. No. You know, just like think about it a second further. I'm not sure that there's a law that says you can't hand a knife to a three-year-old in your kitchen, but you know, not to do it. Don't give the people in Trenton ideas. They're going to focus on that instead of the important things. All right. True. This is true. All right. Uh, we've got Rick Rickman's news coming up in about five minutes and another cash code. It's a $1,000 rat payday. That'll be coming up in about 20 after the hour. Don't go away. New Jersey 101.5. Jeff Deinsky. Are you tired of looking at the parks casino chime time is 311. It is a Tuesday afternoon and we are Dinsky and more. I'm Kylie Moore. I'm Jeff Deinsky. If you would like to be in the running to win $1,000 today, then I would. Yeah. Then make sure that you are listening. It's about 10 minutes or so. about 20 minutes after the hour. It's another thousand at work payday. Listen for the code. Enter it on the app. So, um I understand that uh something happened to you yesterday. You hadn't brought it up, but uh you've been thinking about it and uh you've been getting more disgusted or more paranoid or both. Oh, thank you for asking. Both. Both. But I'm not the only one who's been seeing this because there was also a post on the New Jersey subreddit about it and it's the people who are throwing the dang lit cigarettes onto the road while driving. Uhhuh. It was always thus and thus shall always be. Sure. What is that? Midsummer's night dream. I think anyway. Absolutely. We both knew that reference. Midcigarette night dream. All right. So I mean mid-cigarette nightmare. I don't like it either. I just don't know how to ever stop it, but I do find it obnoxious. But, uh, tell me about it. What went down? Okay, this was where, when, why. This was yesterday. It was on the way to work. Um, I was at a stoplight and the person in the I was in the left lane. The person was in the right lane who was smoking. And then they just willy-nilly just tossed out the cigarette. Still lit, still smoking. The driver or the passenger? Driver. Driver. All right. So, uh, did they toss it like towards your car? Um, no. It was it was just outside their window. Okay. But it was just enough for me to be to be like, "Is this going to set a car on fire? Is someone going to melt their tires on this?" God forbid it had been the the other side of the car. What if a dog walked by? A dog doesn't know what a cigarette is. A dog. Oh. And then like tried to pick it up. was [Laughter] none of these is why it bothers me. I mean, and well, they should be. Okay. Well, when you say set a car on fire, do you mean like if a gas tank is leaking? Maybe. Okay. Because I've had that paranoid thought, but I know scientifically they say it's virtually impossible for a gas tank to explode that way. And yet knowing that intellectual be damned, I still will have that thought. I I I don't actually think it could happen, but yet I have had that crazy thought. Yeah. To quote Arrested Development, the jury is still out on science. No, I mean, I hear you. So, like I'm laughing more at myself, too, because I too have had that crazy thought like what if there's a leak? What if it goes just right? But I I don't believe that's the way that that gasoline is going to actually ignite. But, you know, I mean, at least that's what I've heard. But I have thought of it. Yes. But I'm just more annoyed that they do it because Well, okay, in my opinion, a much more real scientific threat is wildfires. And that's exactly what the person on Reddit was saying. Excuse me. Sounds like I've been smoking. The Yeah. Hey, did you pick that up and bring it in your car? I was like mine. The person said, "Can we stop with the throwing of lit cigarettes on the road while driving?" Seriously, did everyone forget about when we had to breathe in wildfire smoke for 2 weeks? Yeah. Yeah. And I think you you two make a great point. And it's not just a big wildfire, even a small thing. I mean, you've got I mean, we're in fall now. You're going to be having so many dried leaves along the gutters, along the roadways, and that that that that can be very flammable. I mean, okay, it might not be a huge wildfire, but who needs it? You don't need somebody's lawn catching fire because you threw a cigarette out. Yeah, it's a wildfire nonetheless, right? Yeah. Just smaller, but Yeah. Yeah. And uh you know what? I want to know, maybe a lot of people think this is okay because it it never seems to be something that you hear about people getting a ticket for. I don't know if cops even bother getting uh or giving tickets for this. Oh, I don't know. And I'll be honest with you, I know that more people don't smoke today than do. But still, all walks of life will still smoke. Cops will even smoke. And I bet you that there are some cops who are smokers who will probably do the same thing. They'll probablyand Yeah. They'll probably just like chuck the burning butt out of the window and they know it's wrong. We all know you shouldn't do it. Even when you're doing it, you know, you probably shouldn't do it, but it becomes a habit. So, I'm not excusing it. It does bother me. It burns me when I see it. No pun intended. But I wonder how many people think it's okay. Is it okay or does it bother you? Is it okay for drivers to toss cigarettes out of a car window or does it kind of bother you? And have you ever actually Because I've heard about this sort of thing, but this has got to be pretty rare. Did you ever actually mouth off at somebody for it? Did you ever actually confront somebody? Yeah. I mean, I've heard of it happening. I don't know if it's urban legend. Like, I've heard of people picking it up and walking up to the driver at a red light and saying, "Excuse me, you seem to have dropped this." But I mean, that takes some coahones. It does because you're asking for a potential fight. Or is that just urban legend? I don't know if anybody's actually done it. I don't know. In Jersey, we have that kind of attitude. Yeah, but we also are smart and I don't know if it's worth it. Speak for yourself. All right. So, is it okay to chuck a cigarette out of an open car window? 1 800283101.5. And if you are in the habit of doing it, I mean, I don't know about Kylie. I'm not going to rip your head off. I don't know about Kylie. I don't think she will. I think you do what? That I'm a coward. I'm I'm not going to confront someone. Okay, so she's not going to rip your head off either. But but I will talk about you on the radio. But if you do it, if you are a smoker, and oh, and by the way, this is probably important, too, just so you feel more comfortable admitting it. I smoked many, many, many years ago. I was never a hardcore smoker, but I have smoked. Now, Kylie was not, but I did. I smoked. So, what I'm getting at is I understand how much you enjoy it. I get it. Yes, I've smoked in a car. I will even admit handful of times I may have chucked it out the window, but I stopped so early on because I I felt so guilty. I felt terrible and I just started using like I always made sure like like I had a Snapple bottle or something to, you know, flick the ashes in and then to just drop the butt inside of. Does that only work with glass bottles? I'm sure it couldn't work with plastic, right? I think it would work with plastic. Sure. As long as there's some liquid in there. Yeah, I would always put liquid in there just because to make sure it's not smoldering. So, I was going to say now Snapple's all plastic. Yeah. No, I I would always put some liquid in there. That That's how Yeah. Like I made these like homemade ashtrays. I was never a hardcore smoker enough to actually bother buying a car ashtray, so I just made my own out of a bottle with like 4 ounces of water in the bottom. Uh so, yeah. My point is, I'm not going to rip your head off because I get it, but yeah, I only did it a handful of times and I felt horribly guilty about chucking a cigarette out. All right, so is it okay to toss a cigarette out of car window? 1800 283 101.5 319. Here's Fast Traffic. Dave, you can't 3:24 with Jeff and Kylie. We're going to have Rick's news in just under 6 minutes. He's going to be uh giving us an update on a tragic end to a police chase among other New Jersey stories. Right now, tossing cig right now. We're talking butts. Yeah. Yeah. What do you do with your butt? What's going on with your butt? Your hot butt. Yeah. Yeah. You ever uh you ever in your car and you have it coming out the window? Does that ever happen? 1 800 283101.5. Is it okay to toss a lit cigarette butt out of a car window? Have you seen it? Does it bother you? 1800 283101.5. David in North Jersey, you're on New Jersey 101.5. How are you folks? Hey. Hey, David. We're good. David. And as I start every call, you guys are the best. But I could not pull over fast enough. You're like, they're talking butts. Oh, no. This is a pet peeve of yours. Huge. And I'm going to tell you, I lived in Arizona 29 years. It got to the point I went to the police in the township to say, "You can hire me. Start a task force. Give me a cut. You got dash cams. Give out tickets for it." It is a huge thing out there with fires and stuff. I smoked for years. Never threw one out the window. And I even went so far to say if you stop and bag it and they fight it, you can DNA test it. If it's their cigarette, they got to pay the DNA test and the fine. You tried to go full vigilante. Good for you. No, he was trying to do it legally to be fair. I mean, wait, he's a bit of a Batman. Yeah. Oh. Oh, he is. I have confronted many people. I was on my kid school grounds during a band concert. I walked up, flicked it against the wall. I said, "Excuse me. You're going to flick it with all these kids around. Pick it up." He goes, "What are you, a cop?" And I said, "No, but you're an blank blank blank." Thank you. He goes, he came to walk towards me. I'm 6'3. And I said, "I had a really bad day. I'd love to take it out on you. Pick the cigarette up and get away from it." Oh, I hate something anytime. So he stopped at that when you said, "I've had a really bad day." Stop right there. Stop. I said, "I had a really bad day. I would love to take it out on you." Wow. I would see that parent, Jeff. He wouldn't even look me in the eye for years. Wow. Can I I can't stand it. You know what? I I I can I tell you a brief story? I was going to save this for later on, but I just feel like I want you to hear this cuz if you never did you ever hear the story about an old boss that we had here who was driving a convertible and somebody uh flicked a cigarette, it went through the air and it landed in his back seat. Did you ever hear the story? No. Okay. Dude kick this person's ass. This guy's this this guy's name was Lorenzo. Very cool guy, great boss, very calm sort, very calm. And I think there was a reason why, which we'll get to. So he's So he's driving along, this idiot throws his butt, it lands in his back seat, and it starts uh burning a hole in his leather seat. So, so Lorenzo starts like I can't remember if he flashed his lights or blew his horn, but he pulled over cuz he wanted the guy to pull over because he knew there was going to be damage. So, so Lorenzo pulls over, he gets the cigarette, he puts it out. Um, and and the guy pulled over, but more for road rage reasons because he didn't like being honked or flashed at. And the guy and the guy starts charging Lorenzo very aggressively. And Lorenzo just calmly says, "Your cigarette burned a hole in my back seat. I need I need your information." And he's like, "Oh, yeah. Yeah, you need to get your ass kicked." Or whatever the guy said. And he and he comes at Lorenzo. He was the jerk, but he comes at him swinging. Well, what the guy didn't know is, and part of why Lorenzo was so calm, Lorenzo studied martial arts. Oops. Oh, I love it. And he took this guy right down. The guy never laid a hand on him. I think he got his arm behind his back. He never got hit. He brings him to the ground. The other guy in the other guy's car, uh, you know, chickened out. Lorenzo calls the cops. Guy gets arrested and I think they ended up having to pay for his seat. Isn't that sweet? Yeah. Well, I rode a motorcycle for 18 years. I can't tell you how many times somebody flicked one out at you or just flicked and and like what wasn't watching. And I had an employee that stuck the head out the window just to get the ash off. The head flew off. Behind her was a Phoenix motorcycle cop. She had to pay a huge fine and do community service of 40 hours with my nonprofit. Wow. I will fully pay for the buddy cop film of Lorenzo and David where I am on board as executive producer. Buddy cop film. I love it. I will write it. Whatever you guys need. Craft services. I'll I'll make the grilled cheeses for you guys. David, I love this for you. Thank you for calling New Jersey 101.5. And we're going to call the movie kicking butts. There you go. Right. Yeah. Stop taking your stroke oil. I know. Thank you. But we got to get a PG-13. We got to get some kids involved in the theaters, too. Yeah. Yeah. I want an R. You lose my money if we're not an R. Fine. We'll throw in dirty stuff. All right. So, we're we're talking about what Kylie saw yesterday. She saw somebody chuck a burning cigarette butt out of a window and it bothered her in a couple of levels. One was paranoia that her car was going to explode. The other was the more practical, don't be doing that. How much does it bother you when you see this? 1800 283101.5. It's 3:30. 1800. Not necessarily the temperatures you would expect to hear on September 30th. No, but it's going to be cooler soon. Yeah, you can enjoy your pumpkin spice everything soon. I will. Thank you. I know. All right. And by the way, um, we're not saying it could never happen, Kylie, but according to ye old Google, no. A burning cigarette is highly unlikely to cause a leaking gas tank to explode because its temperature is generally too low to ignite the gasoline vapors and the vapors tend to disperse rather than concentrate around the cigarettes heat source. Okay. So, it's they're not saying it's impossible though, but what did you read the app chat message that we got? Um, I guess not. What is it? And this person wanted to remain anonymous. So, I'm just going to say anonymous in New Jersey. Somebody toss a lit cigarette out the window and it caught the hay that they were hauling with their horses and it set on fire. Everyone was fine. But that's a new thing to be afraid of. What if I'm behind someone who's hauling hay? But, but but hay is not gasoline. What does that have to do with gasoline? It has to do with the lit cigarette. I know that going out of the car. I understand. And causing mayhem and that's what I fear. I fear mayhem. Mayhem. Mayhem. Thank you. And I'm really mad that I didn't come up with that. I know. I know. Um so I'm just going to sit back and let you take over the show. But all I'm saying is your paranoia, like I know you're angry about the littering, but your paranoia part was what if your gas tank had a leak and the burning cigarette butt somehow like blew up your car? You don't know if I'm hauling. You don't know me. All right, this this is getting absurd. All right, our phone number is 1800 283101.5. But seriously, is it ever okay to toss burning cigarette butts out of a car window? You see it all the time. 1800 283 101.5 in Asbury Park. Beth, hi. You're on New Jersey 101.5. Hey. Um, no, it's not. Okay. However, cars nowadays don't have ashtrays. This is true. Mhm. Where are they supposed to put those cigarettes? You can buy I think you can buy an official, you know, aftermarket uh ashtray to just put in your console. You could go to think that. Well, I mean, if you're a smoker, you might or like what I used to do when I smoked, but I wasn't a heavy smoker. But again, I would take like say like a bottle like a Snapple bottle maybe. Yeah. And put it in there with a little bit of liquid on the bottom. Or they could they they they could um what is it? Field dress it where they just, you know, um the lit butt you between your fingers you let that out and then you keep the cigarette in your car. I've seen people do that and that freaks me out. Military The military would do normally would do that. Yes, I've seen people do that. Oh. Oh, Beth, I knew a guy once. I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Beth. Only I'm getting excited. I'm sorry, Beth. No, this is just I haven't thought about this in years though, but you reminded me of it. I knew a guy who was in construction and his hand he was so heavily calloused even his fingertips had calluses. He didn't even have to do that thing where you would wet the fingertips to put out the cigarette. He could just because his calluses were so thick. I swear to God, he would just crush out the cigarette, the burning part between his callous fingertips. I swear to God. Saw him do this all the time. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. So, so you're right. You could do that. Now, did you ever smoke? No. You never did? Okay. Same. No. Only if I went to a bar in college and then, you know, I didn't inhale. Okay. Clinton, what is it about drinking that kind of makes you want a cigarette? Because I get I think it's the social thing. I feel like it's just the social thing. Yeah. I've never smoked a cigarette in my life, but I do get like if you're at a bar I'm like I could try it. Yeah. So, you back in the day we could smoke in bars and restaurants, but my parents were smokers, but nothing. Oh, that's amazing that you didn't go full boore into it then. But then I'm like, "Oh, I can't breathe if I'm near a tree, so maybe I shouldn't try this." Yeah, with asthma and allergies. Yeah, you probably should not ever try smoking. Bad. Thank you for calling New Jersey 101.5. I mean, they say it's still the number one worst thing that you can do for your health is smoking. They still say that. So, yeah. I also watched my grandfather die of emphyma. So, yeah, you don't need that. That'll uh that'll learn you that'll learn you good. So, we're talking about uh when you see somebody tossing a a cigarette butt out of a car window, does it bother you or do you think that it's it's fine? Do you understand why they do it? 180028311.5. Bob in Florence, you're on New Jersey 101.5. Absolutely. It's uh just it shouldn't be done. Don't understand why people do it. But the bigger question I have for you guys, do you ever notice from Hamilton the whole way down to Vorhees, the exit ramps and on ramps to 295 are just polluted with trash? Ju just trash in general. Like all kinds of trash, you're saying? Yeah, correct. You got trash, you got different bottles laying. And it amazes me. I guess the bigger question is why isn't the state weekly cleaning those on-ramps? 295 from time to time. Uh if you I would argue the bigger question is why are people doing it? I'm not gonna put that on the state. I I agree that something should be done about it, but everyone just stop throwing stuff out the window. Yeah, but that's just it. Like you know they won't. So if they won't I mean the next thing is at least right have the DOT crews do something. And you're right, Kylie. I'm not saying I'm not dismissing it. You're right. We shouldn't do it. And you know what else Bob? You notice you'll see that a lot on the on-ramps or or also the off-ramps. And and and you know why? Because they curve, right? And because you will be strategically out of certain people's sight as you're going around that curve. So when they throw it out there, they know they're wrong. I swear to God that that's my theory. They're throwing it out there instead of on the highway because the curvature of the road blinds them to most other cars. It's the safety blanket, right? It's like a safety zone where you won't get seen by, you know, very many people doing it. So, they know they're wrong. That's why they're choosing that moment to throw crap out the car window. That's my thought. No, I I agree with that thought. It just it comes down to don't be lazy. Keep it in your car and just throw it away when you have the opportunity. Yeah. Right. And now I just have to ask because I feel like I'm the only one who's brought it up so far. Bob, do you also have you ever maybe not now because you're logical. Have you ever had the fear of when a lit cigarette is thrown out the car, maybe gas is leaking and your car is going to be set on fire? No. I I I've had that happen. I've had that happen, but no. Um No. I That That makes me chuckle. But no, I needed one person. Bob, I needed one person. I mean, you may be you may be the only person again. Again, I have in a humorous sort of way had that what if it could, but I never really thought it was going to happen and then I looked into it long time ago and found that it's almost impossible. Oh, then I used logic. Good for you. Oh, good for you. Fine. Get mad at me over that. Bob, thank you for calling New Jersey 101.5. I was trying to do the Christian bail video. Good for you. Good for you. But there are a lot of things that are illogical that people have fears of when they're driving. I mean, this is true. I'm always thinking like a tire is going to come flying off a truck. I was behind a a log truck recently and boy did that give me Final Destination 2, right? Exactly. All right. So, uh, is it okay to toss a cigarette out a car window? Have you ever thought it might explode? 1 800283101.5. How's your back doing? Is your knee flaring? 352 with Jeff Deinsky and Kylie Moore. We're going to have Danny D. Cresenzo's news in 8 minutes. Right now, we're talking butts, baby. Is it okay to toss a cigarette butt out the window of your car? Does it freak you out when other people do it like me? 1800 283101.5. Joe in Flemington has something to say. Hey, Joe. Hey guys. Well, first of all, my wife's a smoker and she would never do that. For five bucks, she got one of these little cup holder ashtrays. Yeah. And they're they're literally five bucks and it's got a little extension on it if you want to rest your cigarette down because you need two hands to do something. Oh, nice. And uh not whether it's lit or not, you know, the the filter is not biodegradable and five years later that filter is still going to be there. It doesn't doesn't biodegrade. Now, I on the other hand, I'm a cigar smoker and I always throw my cigar butts out the window. But a couple of caveats. Number one, I take the little paper wrapper off. And two, I don't throw it in the roadway. I wait till and number one, I typically wait till it's out. And then I'll find a nice deserted spot, you know, along the side of the highway where there's trees or whatever. And I'll throw the dead cigar butt out into the grass and trees, you know, tree, never in somebody's front yard because it's it's it's dead leaves. So you I I have no bad feelings about throwing a dead cigar butt because because that will biodegrade and also you're never throwing it when it's still burning. Correct. Well, there's if it's raining if it's raining and I've got a little cigar stub is still lit. Yeah. I'll throw I'll throw one out into the into the into the edge of the woods if it's raining, but not not if it's not raining because you know it's hard to argue with that. Yeah. You're at least smart about it, right? I respect that. Yeah. Yeah. But I but even even you know lit or not I mean that fiberglass filter is going to be there in five years and particularly if you're throwing it in the roadway and particularly on a residential street you know it's you're just trashing up somebody's property. I've heard this property. Yeah. And you know when you notice it a lot if uh there's like a day that your car is in the shop or something and maybe you walk down the side of a highway to go to a store while your car is being worked on, right? You'll drive that same highway day after day and not really notice it. But that one time you walk half a mile, then you see how filthy the side of the road is because you're walking slow and it's right there under your feet and Yeah, it's kind of shocking. Joe, thank you for calling New Jersey 101.5. Scott in Pennsylvania, hi. You're up. Hi. How you doing, guys? Good. Good. Listen, I I have the same mindset as Kylie. Uh unacceptable. And I just like to dovetail off of what everybody's saying about the amount of cigarette butts you see along the road. Instead of ticketing people that you see do that, why not relegate those individuals on a weekend to take a bag and go out there and clean them up? Oh, put on Yeah. Put on the orange vest like the prisoners and give them a little pokey stick. Are you Don't even give them the pokey stick. That's exactly right. They threw Yeah. Just use your hands, right? You use your hands to throw it out. You guys are harsh. I'm giving the pokey stick. No. No pokey stick. No. Unless I've been overruled. If they have degenerative disc disease, okay, a pokey stick. But other than that, no. No pokey stick. Oh, wow. That's right. Harsh. All right. Little harsh Gretch to quote Mean Girls. Scott, thank you for calling New Jersey 101.5. Uh, we've got Danny Dresenzo's news coming up and he's got an update on that story about the prosecutor in trouble for the Charlie Kirk remarks and other New Jersey news. Another cash code coming up too. New Jersey one 1.5. What if you had the online casino and sports book app chime time? It is 4:10 and it is a Tuesday and uh we are Dinsky and more. I'm Jeff Deinsky. I'm Kylie Moore. Yes. So uh tonight is the night right uh for the Lieutenant Governor debate. The Lieutenant Governor debate. Right. Uh, New Jersey one of 1.5 is going to be carrying that live at 7:00. So, if you're interested in all that and uh I wonder how many of the questions are going to be surrounding stock gate and cheating gate that they're trying to make issues of, but uh yeah, that'll be that'll be interesting. Yeah, as our news anchors has have been saying, don't read about it afterwards. Listen to it here. That's tonight 7 o'clock. So, there is Oh. Oh, yes. $1,000 at work payday. Another code coming up about 10 minutes. Don't go away. So, um there's a there's a story that I always I've been through this as a dad. I can't imagine how terrifying it is for the mother, but yeah, you know, I'm a victim of my own biology and I I I could never know that. I can never know what it's like to give birth. I don't know if that's being a victim. Well, well, I'm saying I'm a Okay, I am a product of my own biology. I cannot know. But it's got to be so amazingly scary for a woman to give birth anywhere other than a hospital. This happened in New Jersey. It happened on Monday morning. A mother successfully gave birth on the side of a road in Monmouth Beach. I cannot imagine. Right on the side of a road. Uh, Monmouth Beach Police officers Matthew Finnegan and Matthew Galveski were, and if I'm mispronouncing the the officer's name, I apologize, Officer Galeski. Um, but they were called to uh the area of 4 Ocean Avenue before 7:00 in the morning yesterday uh for a call about a woman going into active labor. And I mean they were already on the road. So I am assuming that they were trying to get to a hospital and it was just too late. I'm assuming the officers realized that the baby was about to arrive. They helped the woman deliver the baby. Finnegan caught the baby as it was delivered. Uh according to uh somebody from the Monmouth Beach EMS, EMS arrived shortly thereafter and took over. Um, another squad member on EMS, uh, Susan McDonald, who is a retired neonatal intensive care nurse, is the one who cut the umbilical cord. Uh, the mother and baby were taken to a nearby hospital. Both were doing well by yesterday afternoon. And, you know, kudos and, uh, all of that. They don't really, the story that I saw though, it doesn't really get into all the specifics of was the father there. I assume like in my mind's eye, I'm picturing them in a car, them trying to get to a hospital. The father's the father to be is driving. The pregnant woman is in the passenger seat. She realizes it's too late and they make a 911 call. That's what I'm picturing. I could have it totally wrong. I don't know. I mean, I'm picturing that they moved her to the backseat of the car and she delivered there. For all I know, maybe there was no car. Maybe she was literally on the side of the road as reported. I mean, can you imagine that? Could you imagine laying down on the shoulder of a road? I'm not saying that happened. I doubt it, but I don't know. Doesn't really doesn't really get into that part. I cannot imagine, but unfortunately, I'm sure many can. Maybe they were like, you know, maybe this she was like lying on the grass and somebody's front lawn. I mean, God, I don't know. I don't know how this went down. I don't know. Story doesn't say. But yeah, um on the father's end of it, you're so worried in a different way because you feel helpless and you don't know what the woman is feeling. Like I think a woman will often have an innate sense of how imminent something is. The father's just along for the ride, man. And you want to be there and there's really nothing you can do. I mean, for I mean, for for so much of civilized society with babies being born in hospitals, the fathers weren't even allowed in the room, you know. Was your father allowed in the room? Not for me. He was not. He was allowed for my sister. He was not allowed for me. Isn't that interesting? That's how recently Cuz you're in your 30s. They wouldn't let him be in there. Yeah. I I'm I'm paraphrasing how he tells the story, but it's something about like we can't have you in here. And he was like, "How do you think the baby got here?" Yeah. Like I'm I'm well aware of what's going on down there. Right. Right. Yeah. So he wanted to be and they wouldn't let him. Yeah. So yeah. I mean there was just this helpless feeling sometimes. But to be the woman and you know the baby's coming cuz like the guy could be playing this game of no no. Just hang on. You're fine. It's like shut up. I'm fine. You don't know what I'm feeling right now. You're a completely detached separate human being. Shut up father. Seth Myers has a very good bit in his um in his hour Lobby Baby. Lobby Baby. Yes. Yes. Where he basically says that his wife was like she delivered she legitimately delivered their baby in the lobby of their apartment and she was like like the sequence of events before they could even get to a car was just like I think the baby's coming. The baby is coming. The baby is here. Yep. Yep. And he's just sitting there like we have time. And then all of a sudden she like mufases her own child. Oh yeah. Yeah. Here is the baby. Right. Right. Oh my gosh. All right. So, we would like to know and I know this is going to be rare. So, we'll see if there's, you know, if there are or are not any stories, but anybody have a story about a baby being some born somewhere other than a hospital? And are we talking strictly by accident or also on purpose? It could be on purpose because no offense, I know a lot of people who I mean it's not many who do this, but those who do when they want to have a planned birth at home and they'll just have, you know, a midwife and like a tub or right or a tub birth, right? Things like that. We'll take those calls, too. And no offense, I have to be honest. It's your life. it you're I would just be so nervous about something going sideways because I've seen it. I've seen it firsthand and um and anything can go wrong. You could, you know, you could have the perfect pregnancy. There could have been no complications and yet something can just go wrong. And if you don't have all that medical equipment right there, if they can't get Nick you to come, you know, on the run because it happened to one of my kids, um you know, you it could end tragically. And so I would never do it, but if you did it or if you know somebody who did it, if that's the story, that's fine. If it was planned or even just by accident, a baby being born somewhere other than at a hospital. We want to hear your stories at 1 800283101.5. I don't have all of the details uh right in front of me, but I do know that my cousin did this with I believe both of her children where she had an at home birth just in a tub with a midwife. And that's no doctor. That scares the hell out of me. I can't imagine. I mean, it worked out. Both of her kids are perfectly healthy. They're perfectly fine. They're great kids. I don't know if I would have the uh the stones to do that. Is this the cousin you haven't seen in a while? Yes. Yeah. Yeah. You could have guessed that one. Yeah. Yeah. Kind of. Um Yeah. But some people swear by it. I don't get it. Now, my dad um my my dad would have been in his 80s by now had he lived, but he died fairly young. Um but when he was born, it was it was pretty much normal that you would be born in a house. That's Yeah, that's how old my dad would have been had he lived. You know what I mean? And so my dad was not born in a hospital. My dad was born at home and it was uh my aunt who was a nurse who was with my grandmother. It was just my grandmother pregnant giving birth to my dad and my aunt there to talk her through it and that was it. No medical equipment, nothing. And uh my dad was born breach and the umbilical cord was wrapped around his neck three times. Oh my god. She had a struggle with him and yeah and that's why I say I wouldn't do it. I mean they had hospitals back then but not everybody used hospitals. It was fairly common to be born at home but that's exactly why I wouldn't do it. All right. But what about a baby born you know side of a road in an elevator lobby baby 1 800283 101.5 419. Here's fast traffic. fall savings event is here and it's New Jersey 101.5. It is 425 and uh listen to these crazy numbers. We're we're talking about anybody that you know or you yourself having a baby somewhere other than inside a hospital. Whether it was by accident cuz you couldn't make it there in time or they couldn't or whether it was like one of those planned home births. 1 800283101.5. But listen to this. As far as a planned home birth, this is how rare it is. That's why I said I don't even know if we'll get some stories or not, but we're just trying. Um would love it if you have some. But planned home births account for such a small fraction of all the births in the United States. Uh 21 years ago in 2004, it was only 0.5%. So, it was only one out of 200 people, wow, chose to purposely not have a baby in a hospital. It's that rare. Um, by 2009, it had increased to 0.7%. Barely an increase. By 2022, it's higher, but still very small. By 2022, it was 1.35%. So, more than 98 12% of women are trying to have their baby in a hospital. 98.5% of women don't want to have a home birth or at least they didn't go so far as to actually plan it. And uh and I don't know I don't know what's more rare actually. I don't know if it's more rare to have a baby planned outside of a hospital or if it's more rare to not get to the hospital in time and have it like by the side of the road like this New Jersey story, which is why we're talking about it. I would hope it's more rare that it's unplanned, right? Because but I don't know. I'm with you. I I have no clue. Yeah. So, this is really rare stuff, but I just thought it'd be interesting if we had anybody who knew of somebody who went through it. Uh so, yeah. Babies not born in a hospital, either planned or unplanned. 1-800 283101.5. Corey in Hamilton, you're on New Jersey 101.5. Hi, how are you? Hey. Hey, Corey. What's up? Good. So, I was born on my grandmother's couch. Oh. Um, on purpose. Um, I guess you can say on my on purpose. So, my mom, you know, she was heavier, she was, um, you know, a little overweight back then, and she had no idea she was pregnant with me. And here I am 44 years later. Wa wa wa. So wait, you go so much to impact. Yeah. So it was one of these it was one of these rare cases where for whatever medical reason she she couldn't tell I mean correct. Did she realize that? I mean did she have like not to get too personal but did your mom have like an irregular period and was that part of Yeah. So that's also right when this happens they say that's part of it. It wouldn't be uncommon to miss one. Um, yeah, she was irregular. She had no idea. Um, my brother and my sister were up at the local pizzeria and I was like the talk of the town. They come home to my grandma's house and my grandfather's on the porch. Your mom just had a baby. They were like, "No, I have an older brother." "No, your mom just had a baby." Um, no, she didn't. On your grandmother's couch. And thank God your grandmother left that plastic on the sofa. Huh? Yeah, I'm sure. Um, who was with her when she gave birth to you? That I don't really know. I So, my godmother I know was there and she was the one that caught me. I guess that's why she's my god. Okay. So, that Yeah. So, you know that. Yeah. But other than that, I don't really know who was there. All I know is they were all up at the local pizzeria and I was the talk of the town for god knows how long. And I still am. Everybody's like, "Oh, you were born on your grandmother's couch. Nobody believes me." But here I am. Sounds like a country song. So your godmother, this has to be one of your mom's friends or is it a sibling of hers? Is like is it an My mom used to ride ambulance back in the day and um and they all rode ambulance with her also. So then you know they all grew up at the firehouse hanging out together. I guess my aunt just happened to be there. Maybe they called the ambulance after the fact or while she was giving birth. I don't know. But here I am. Crazy. Now, here's the armchair psychologist in me just asking this question. Oh, boy. Was there ever any talk? Did your mom say that it took longer to bond with you because she didn't realize that she was pregnant? Like it was so sudden. Did she ever speak of that with you? No. It was kind of like I was the only child at that point. My brother was 11 years old. There's 11 years difference between me and him. Wow. And there's eight years difference between me and my sister. Yeah. So I guess you can kind of say I was like the only child growing up. So she really she started all over again. I guess. Oh, that's interesting. I have a family member with a very similar experience. Yeah. Right. That doesn't feel like siblings. Exactly. There was literally 20some years between my uncle and my grandfather. Oh wow. That's my mom's uncle. Yeah. Yeah. My old And nobody believes me when I say I was born on my grandma's couch. Why would nobody believe you? Well, I mean, people are born on the couch these days. Yeah. Well, hey, look at the stats on that. 1.3. It's so interesting you ask. Well, you have two people who believe you right here, totally believe you. That's a great story. Thank you for calling New Jersey. Want a 1.5, man. All right. If there's any others. Yeah. Uh, we're talking about babies born somewhere other than a hospital. 1800 283 want. Fall in love with your next vehicle. New Jersey 101.5. It is uh 4:37 and we are Deminsky and more and we're talking about uh we're talking about this because of a story uh a New Jersey story uh about a a woman who gave birth on the side of the road in Monmouth Beach. This happened yesterday morning and I guess this was in the backseat of a car. The story on NJ.com it didn't really make that clear, but I'm assuming that it was a couple maybe trying to get to a hospital. I guess. But uh you know if the baby is conceived, any baby, I'm saying if any baby is conceived in a back seat, that would kind of like bring everything full circle, wouldn't it? It's a circle of life, right? It kind of is. It kind of would be. I mean, it's not the worst thing, I guess. All right. So, who's got a story about a baby being born anywhere other than a hospital? 1 800283101.5. And poor Seth Meyers. I mean, you were saying the whole lobby baby comedy special. How many people were watching his wife give birth in the lobby? There had to be other residents of the apartment. Oh, he says at least I believe I'm getting this right. He says at least two doormen. And it changed their relationships. Oh, I bet that's right. Cuz it wasn't just the EMS or the cops. I mean, the doorman that you see all the time. Like one can't make eye contact with the wife. The other is just like gives a a knowing nod. I think I'd prefer the no eye contact. It's a great special, Lobby Baby on Netflix. All right, let's talk to Jill in Manalopin. You're on New Jersey 11 1.5. Hi, how are you? So, my older brother is 15 years older and he was born in the toilet. What? Oh my. So, my dad worked in the city. He said goodbye to my mom and said, "How are you?" She said, "I'm fine." She went to the bathroom as if everything was normal. Felt a little pressure and here came baby boy. Did she know she was pregnant? Oh, 100%. Okay. Okay. She did not think in that moment. Right. And so she wasn't having uh she wasn't having any labor pains. No, just felt like I have to go. when she did her normal, you know, routine and the shock of the century. Oh my. And was this her first baby? Her second baby. Her second baby. Okay. So, the first baby was more the normal route of things, right? But the Yeah, this is a shock. And he didn't hit his head. She immediately realized and picked him up and called my aunt and said, "We have a baby." Oh my gosh. Called your aunt, not 911. I don't I I was I think she called my aunt. It's a lot of Yeah. Yeah. That's wild. Yeah. Uh so what do you even do? Can you like uh you you're a parent, Jeff. I don't know how this works. Can you cut the umbilical cord at home or do you have to like just leave it until you have a medical professional? Uh, well, Jill, I don't know if you know, but I think they want you to wait to make sure everything's okay before cutting it. I think you're supposed to leave that intact until a medical person does it. Yeah, I believe so. So, my brother, when they sold the house, he said he wanted the toilet for Right. That's crazy. Right. In the old American Standard Bowl, right on the throne, huh? That's fascinating. Yeah. Wow. Jill, thank you for calling New Jersey 101.5. I'm I'm glad everything worked out. Kids middle name should be king. Good backstory, you know, right? Oh, that's Wow. Uh Carolyn in Brooklyn, New York. You're on New Jersey 101.5. Hi, good afternoon. My story is very similar. I'm a program director of um a preschool, so I hear lots of birthing stories and I have two of them. So, I do have a family in my school. um her oldest son is now seven, so he's not there anymore. But when he was at my school, um his mom went into labor with his younger sister and they actually came to pick him up because she was birthing at home and she wanted him to be present and both of her children were born at home. And similar to the story that you just heard just last year, one of my moms and it was also her second child, she too gave birth in the toilet bowl. She got up. She knew she was in labor. She wanted to take a shower before she headed off to the hospital. Her contractions were light, so she figured she had time. So, she did not wake up her husband. The same thing. She had the urge to go to the bathroom. She sat down on the toilet and one little small push. And her little guy, the same thing, was in the toilet bowl and she scooped him up and started to scream for her husband who ran in to a scene that he was not expecting. Was he uh uh was was this her 18th child or something? I mean, this was her second. No, it was her second. Okay. I'm just trying to figure out how that happened. Contractions and she, you know, she felt the urge to go what she thought was to the bathroom and instead it was one push and and he was out. And again, you asked about the umbilical cord, and they do want you to uh keep the baby attached, but in that instance, for whatever reason, I guess our husband got very excited, and fortunately, the baby was fine, but he did cut the umbilical cord before 911 um you know, the ambulance got there. So, they had a quite the exciting u birthing story to tell. I am going to have such vivid nightmares tonight. I I cannot imagine. It happens more than we um we expect. I guess. I keep thinking about that. I keep thinking about that seven-year-old brother that they picked up cuz they wanted him to sit there and watch mom give birth. I don't know. I mean, hey, it's their business, but Whoa. I'm picturing myself at seven. I don't want to see that. I want no part of that. I want no part of that now. Yeah. Carolyn, thank you for calling New Jersey 1.5. Ain't nobody got time for that. Sean and Ringo, you're on New Jersey 101.5. What's your story? Hi. Um, I was actually born in a car back in 1976. Uh, do you know the details? Did your parents know that you were coming and you just couldn't make it to the hospital on time? Yeah. Yeah, they uh they knew I was coming. Um, they sent my brother over across the street to a neighbor's house, packed their bags. Uh, they lived in Hunter County. They're going to Somerset County because that's where their doctor was at the time. Mh. And um going around the Somerville Circle there before the overpass was put over. Um, I was born right there in Somerville Circle. Um, my dad. You were born in one of the circles of hell? Yeah. What? Yeah. A notoriously horrible traffic circle. No kidding. And uh did your dad have to do it or did the cops get there in time? Um no. Actually, he pulled off to the side at um it was an SCS uh service station at the time. Yeah. Check make sure I was breathing and then continued on to Somerset Hospital. Wow. No kidding. Somebody did ask my dad years ago um if I wasn't breathing what he would have done. And my dad being an old school veterinarian said that he would have just thrown me in the snow like the uh uh baby lambs used to do so he can get him to breathe again. And how do you feel about that? As long as I was breathing, I don't care. Yeah. Really? You're It's not like you're ever going to remember it, you know? I would have just punched him in the stomach until he started breathing. Yeah. Really? Wow. Oh, that's good for dad. That's crazy. Yeah. I mean, a calm guy. Yeah. Really good for him. He handled it well. As opposed to me, I would have been just been screaming. Right. Sean, thank you for calling New Jersey 101.5. All right, if you have any others, uh, call them into us. We're we're swapping stories here about babies born somewhere, anywhere other than a hospital. 1800 283101.5. Invincible, just a couple times. New Jersey 101.5. Jeff and Kylie with you on a Tuesday afternoon. It is 452. Danny D. Cresenzo's news coming up in about eight minutes. And uh, one of the things he'll be covering is what's the likelihood of any peace in Gaza. Also, we're about a little over two hours away from a lieutenant governor debate tonight with a gubanatorial election almost upon us and uh 101.5 will be carrying that live and another cash code coming up as well. In the meantime, who's got a story about a baby born somewhere other than in a hospital? Lisa and Asper, you're on New Jersey 101.5. Um, I came regarding my daughter. Um, she's also from Ringo and back in August she had gone to the hospital in labor, but her contractions were not regular. So, they sent her home and she woke up about 5 minutes at 3 and gave birth in the home by 3:28. Oh. Oh, that hospital messed up, didn't they? in with her husband and my hus my husband had just come to um babysit their other child. Yeah. Whoa. So, who all was in the room with her? Everybody. Um her husband and my husband. Okay. And her. Yeah. Yeah. And it just came out. She kind of slipped on the floor. Oh. Um her dad was trying to catch it. No. No. No, no, no. The baby was slippery, but they had a bunch of towels underneath. Okay. Right. So, the baby was not Well, yeah. Who Who was serving as catcher? Who was supposed to catch it? Dad. So, so her husband. Yeah. Oh, boy. I bet. Oh, he's not going to live that down. How does your daughter feel about the whole story? Can she laugh about it or is she still like, "No, she was fine with it." I think sometimes it's still in shock. Yeah, because I mean here when you go to the hospital and then the experts in the field tell you, "Nah, you're not ready. Get out of here." And then it happens. Oh, and it happens that fast, right? Wow. Well, Lisa, thank goodness everything worked out. Thank you so much for calling New Jersey on a 1.5. Oh, that is rough. No, if I was her daughter, I'd be like, "They sent me home and then you slipped the baby." Oh, I would not handle that as well as she did. Yeah. So, all these stories making you think about it, huh? My legs are currently crossed. I was going to say, yeah, seriously, we're going to have Danny's news in 5 minutes on New Jersey 101.5. Don't go anywhere. Most money possible. Your top priority. The Parks Casino chime time is 510, which means you're only 10ish minutes away from another at work payday cash code. It's the Dinsky and More Show. I'm Kylie Moore. And I'm Jeff Daminsky. You can reach us at 1 800283101.5. Hey, real quick, uh before we uh talk about this car thing, um do you happen to see this story? This guy who had stashed his dead cousin's body in a closet for 8 months. No, he has rejected a plea deal. This is in New Jersey. Oh, yeah. Oh, yes. He rejected a plea deal and he was he he he he was he did it to I mean authorities say to continue to collect his now dead cousin's state benefits right and they finally caught him but this psycho according to authorities was storing his own family members's body in a closet right so they offer him this plea deal and in this plea deal it would recommend and uh a 12-ear sentence and he he says no. Like seriously, you're going to turn like do you think any jury is going to give you something better than that? Do you really think you're going to get away with this? That's a disturbing story, right? I know. I know. Uh if any of my cousins are listening, you have nothing to benefit from murdering me. You can have my Gilmore Girls DVDs. Just ask for them. That's Kylie's takeaway. Okay. So, I heard from um my my little boys um they have not only me, but they have a stepdad now. And um I heard from uh their stepdad, and it was just kind of a funny story. Um, my one little boy has this uh it's it's like a talking device. It he's non-verbal. He has autism. So So basically it's an electric tablet and there's this like proloquo software thing on it and um the school gives it to him and he uses it to try to communicate a little bit better, right? Well, they have it in like this fairly durable case, but like how durable can a case really be if it really goes through the ringer, you know? So, he was bringing him somewhere for an evaluation. And long story short, he says to himself, "Well, I will remember this. I am putting the tablet on the roof of the car while I get the boy uh in there." And then, of course, he forgets. So, he he gets my son in there. He totally forgets that he's got this talking tablet on top of the car and he takes off and he doesn't even realize it apparently until he gets all the way to this appointment and Yeah. and it's gone. So then their mom has to bring the other boy somewhere. So, she's going she like makes a couple turns or whatever and he's telling me the story that she's going down now like the the main road where like the speed limit goes up and this is obviously where he lost it cuz she looks over and there's what looks like the the first boy's tablet on the side of the road and she's like what the and something made her stop and sure enough it's his like like I think she didn't even realize that that that her husband and had lost it already. Right? So, that was one thing that just happened. But two days before that, same guy, my kid's stepdad lost something else off the roof of his car. He was getting into his car like going to work or something and he's got like this bottle like a like a protein drink, some kind of energy drink. Hule, I think it's called, right? So, same thing. He was like, "I'm just going to rest this on the roof for, you know, a minute." And while he gets situated, forgets that it's up there. Drives away, realizes that he lost it, turns around, goes all the way back. That one surv Oh, oh, oh, oh, and the tablet, by the way, it survived. The tablet survived. So did this uh energy drink. So, both of them were recovered. But I want to know who has done that. You feel so dumb when you do it. Who has done that thing where you just temporarily in your mind anyway set something down on the outside of your car, on the roof or maybe on the trunk of your car, maybe even on the bumper of your car, like those oldfashioned bumpers and um and then you forget that you did it and then you drive off. What ended up happening? Did you ever get it back? Did it break? Lost forever? And what was the thing? Who's lost something by setting it down on their car? 1 800283101.5. I always find it amazing when people have their uh smartphones set on the top of their car and those survive because it feels like these things are made to like if you sneeze at them uh you have to spend another however many thousands of dollars to get one, right? So when they survive falling off a car, I'm like the Lord was on your side. Well, yeah. And when it does, how much of it was the durability of the phone versus you like you got like a good Otter box, you know, cuz that's what I have on mine and I've dropped it enough. Yeah, I haven't I have an Otter box. You got the otter. I'm not going to test it. You got the Otter. Yeah, cuz mine mine drops a lot and my kids are always grabbing my phone, you know. Oh, for me it's just my general clumsiness. Oh, no. For me it's I mean I mean sometimes I'll just drop it, right? But I mean mostly it's they'll just like be manhandling my phone. So, I get out of there. I'm also amazed, and it's h it's almost happened that I still have my It's not a Yeti, but whatever kind of off-brand Yeti that we got a few years ago for the Christmas party. The water bottle that I have or water cup that I have, I put that on my car all the time cuz I have, you know, this bag over here, this phone over here, my keys in one hand. Uh, let me just put it up here. I'll remember that for sure. Yeah. Yeah. You look like you're going off to Afghanistan when you uh when you leave here at night. You look like you're geared up like a soldier. And you're the one who's had to remind me like uh your your your cup. I have. Yeah. And I can never tell cuz you're so low key. At least in those moments. I can never tell if you did or did not remember. I play it off cool. Yeah. Yeah. Well, see. Yeah. I always wondered if you're playing it off cool, but she'll just usually go, "No, I know." Yeah. She'll be like, "Nah, I know. I got it." Uhhuh. But there's always something in the tone where I'm thinking, did she though? Did she know? No, it's up there. I know it's up there. I put it up there. I don't think I ever I had to have done this once, but I don't think I can remember. I feel like I had to have done this with something. Even if it is something as simple as the the co like a Duncan coffee cup. Oh, yeah. It doesn't have to be anything of value. It could just be like your freaking $2 coffee cup. Because if you notice by when you're, you know, going in reverse and all of a sudden there's milk all over your windshield, there's got to be that feeling like Yeah. The coffee cup was still up there. Yeah. Yep. And then you have to do the awkward washing milk off of your windshield. Ew. That is nasty. It's so nasty. I can't verify this because it goes back so many years ago, but I swear I could remember a story, I'm not kidding, that somebody, some harried parent had a little baby in an infant carrier where they lie on their back and you got the handle right in the middle of the seat, you know? Mhm. And that they were so busy. I swear I feel like I remember this. I think it was the trunk that they sat the baby inside the infant carrier on top of the trunk for a minute and then you're supposed to of course like click it into the base in the back seat and rearfacing and all that, but they got distracted and that they drove off with the baby still on the trunk and it stayed there cuz they were still in like a residential neighborhood. I swear I remember this. This goes back years though. And I think it was that like somebody in traffic was blaring their horn and getting their attention and they finally pulled over and they're like, "You got a freaking But yeah, they rode around with the baby, not in the back seat, but on the trunk in an infant carrier." I swear. Yep. I swear I think I remember that. All right. So, um, who's left something on top of their car somehow and then driven off? What had enough happening to it? 1800 28311.5. It's 519. And here's Fast Traffic. Great candidates to hire can be like. We're going to have Danny Dresen's news in 5 and 1/2 minutes. Right now, it is Jeff Deinsky and Kylie Moore wondering if you've ever left anything on top of your car. Did it fall off or by the grace of some higher power did it actually stay on and was unharmed? What was it? Let us know. 1800 283101.5. That's even more wild when it just like somehow clings for dear life and this inanimate object makes it miles home. That's that's really crazy. Uh let's talk to Ron in Pennsylvania. You're in New Jersey 101.5. Hello. Hey Ron. Hey. What's up? How you guys doing? We're okay. How you doing? I'm doing well. So, I was one of those guys that left work and put his phone on the hood of his truck. And I remember saying to myself, "Don't forget your phone." As I was loading my truck up and I get halfway home and I went to call my wife. I'm like, "Son of a gun. I left my phone on the truck on my car and what am I going to do now?" I was going to turn Well, wait. Hold on. I mean, as you're driving, I don't know if it's dark or light out, but I'm assuming it fell off. Or could you still see it hanging on? Well, I just assumed it fell off, but on my truck, I have one of those bug shields that goes on the front of your truck. Okay. When I got home, I told my wife and she came out. You sure it's not in the truck somewhere? Can't even get to my front door. And she goes, "Honey, it slid behind the bug shield of your hood and it's sitting right here." No. Oh, that's amazing. My debit cards in there, my license is in there, my storage card, everything. Has she ever let you live this down? Um, she brings it up every once in a while when I fly out with some friends and she loves to tell this story. When you first realized that you didn't have the phone and that you remembered, but you were only halfway home, did you pull over to check and just couldn't see it or did you not even pull over? I was about 15 miles and I said, "There's no way." I mean, I'm looking on my hood. You can't see behind my bug. It goes down pretty deep on the hood. Sure. There's no way it stayed on. Yeah, I got you. Where would it have come off in 15 miles, you know? Well, if it weren't for that bug shield, it would have been lost. Sure. Thank God. She's the one who said, "You should get a bug shield for your truck. It'll look nice." There you go. God, listen to her more often. Ron, thank you for calling New Jersey 101.5. Uh, Carlen in Maplewood. You're on New Jersey 101 1.5. Hi. Hey. Yes. Um, mine was I'm going to a wedding. I don't know why I was what I needed to get to set up, but I left I'm I put the gift I guess on top of the car. I forgot the wedding gift. And as I'm driving, people are honking me. And I'm like, why are they honking me? I'm driving, right? Yeah. Right. And it's getting you right. And it's making you paranoid like I didn't cut this person off. Right. These jerks honking at me. No, they honking me. I kept driving. I drove all the way to the wedding and then I got out to get the gift from the car. That's why I'm ah I left it on top of the car and that's probably why the people maybe some people saw it and that's probably why they were honking. So are you telling me that by the time you got to the wedding venue that they still were on the car? No, they was no longer there. Oh, they were no longer there. gift. Oh, too bad. I went in without a gift. Oh, no. Oh, and Yeah. And you know, no one believed you when you told them what happened. They're like, "Oh, Carlen was just being cheap." Carlen walks in like, "Are you guys on Venmo?" Yeah, right. I can't write a check. Are you guys on Venmo, please? Oh, that sucks, though. No, that's Oh, that's awful, though. Oh, Carlen, I'm sorry that happened to you. Thank you for calling New Jersey 101.5. And it's such an easy thing to do because I mean you have your hands full with even just two or like more than two things and right you're juggling things. You're like well quick resting spot. Boom. And you think you're going to remember. Well also all you have to do is have one one other thing that you're thinking about that day. Like well why the why did the boss say that? Why did my friend mean it? How is mom doing? And then your mind goes elsewhere. I'm always thinking why did the boss say that? I suck. Don't be naive, Jeff. You're fine. I suck. I'm awful. Kevin and Jackson here on New Jersey 101.5. What's up, guys? Hey, Kevin. We're good. Hey, how are you? I love listening to you guys on my way home uh from work. It's my first time on 1015. But welcome. Well, what what do you mean your first time? Yeah. All the other times his phone was on top of the car. Yeah. Like why? Like come on. Like Well, like what? Like uh like we were just chopped liver to you. feel like you couldn't call us before this. Come on. Hey, I'm always listening. Um, but this is a good one. So, I was a few years back, I was fishing with my friend Mikey. We were at a lake in town and we were taking our poles apart and I I set my cell phone on his tire. And so, we put the poles in the car. We get in the car and we we drive off, of course. And about, you know, 5 seconds later, I'm like, "Where's my phone?" I realized that I left it on top of his tire. We went back to the lake. Um, which was, you know, the parking area was all gravel and my phone was probably in about a thousand pieces. Yeah. I mean, just right just just rolled right over it. Oh, yeah. Just he he put it in drive and Oh. Oh, that sucks, man. Great sound effect, though. And you know what? Thank you. And I'm not telling you anything you don't already know, Kevin. But man, when you're without that cell phone until you can get it replaced, even just one day kills you because I mean, your whole life is in that and you don't remember anybody's numbers to let them know. Well, also, how many times do you like phantom go to like just check it and then you're like, oh, it's not there. That's right. Exactly. My hand in my pocket and I'm like, uh, something's not good here. Sucks. Like I'm getting heartbeats right now just thinking about it. That sounds so frustrating. Kevin, do not be a stranger. Thank you for calling New Jersey 101.5. Yeah. So, uh I knew somebody that left actually two things in two days on top of the car and uh they both flew off. Have you done that? It feels like everybody has. 1800283101.5 $100 gift voucher to everyone. Okay. Friend, marry kill. Ooh. Okay. Getting my pen ready. Things that uh you know you would prefer the most to happen would be marry. the least would be kill. Leaving something on your car, driving off as we're talking about and and losing it. Trying to get into the wrong car, thinking that it's yours and getting caught by the owner. Forgetting to put your car in park and having to run and chase it to try to stop it from crashing. Oh. Mhm. Mary is the one I would most like to happen. Yes. Wrong car. I've done it enough. I've survived. I agree because you know Yes. I'm a survivor, right? Okay. Of trying to get into the wrong car. Um. Ooh. Oh, I think this is obvious. Friend losing something off the top. Yes. Because don't you have to kill you have to run after your car? Because if you can't catch it in time if you didn't put it in park, you could lose the entire car. You could lose the entire car. You could hit someone. You could hit something. There's that, right? Whatever you put on the car and lost is probably not going to be nearly as costly as losing the entire car or a lawsuit. Yeah. I'll try to get into the wrong car any day of the week over the other two. All right. Good uh good uh friend Mary Cole. Thank you. Hi. We're we're talking we're talking about you that moment where you put something on top of your car, maybe on top of the trunk lid, you know, thinking you're going to remember in 5 seconds cuz your hands were full and then you drive off. Tell us what happened. Linda in Punksatonyi, you're on New Jersey 101.5. Hi, this is kind of crazy. My husband was really frustrated because he was fixing the rear brakes on my car yesterday. And so he puts the new brakes on. He takes the car for a test drive and then drives down to the part store to to return one of the wrenches that he'd rented to fix it and then drives home. And we live at the top of the hill and a hill here is like a mountain. And so he went all of those things, tested the brakes where he like jammed on the brakes and everything. His phone was on the back trunk of the car and it stayed there the entire time. It did nothing. How? How? I don't know. Right. Cuz I mean I mean cuz he's even lurching on the brakes for a test. Yeah. He tested the brakes that he had just put on and then he took back a spanner that he rented from the parts store down in town. So there was all the stop lights and then we live at the top of the hill that overlooks all of town. So he drove up and down that hill. And this happened just yesterday. Secured. Yeah, it was just yesterday. And it wasn't secured. It was just laying on the back. And I just have a little Kia. So it's got like I don't know a 6 inch trunk, you know, closure. If this happened, they're like on a 6 in ledge. If this happened just yesterday, do you ever get the feeling Kylie and I are actually monitoring your life for ideas? Dude, be cool. No, seriously. Like, like, how weird is that that that happened just yesterday and now you hear us talking about this kind of thing? That's pretty weird. So funny that this happened cuz he was totally frustrated. Then he gets out and he goes, "Where did I leave my phone? I can't find my phone." And I look out the back door and it's right there. That's Wow. Good for him. Okay, I'm I guess he's a minister, so chalk it up to that maybe. I don't know. I'm going to continue this bit, Linda, just to make sure that you're paying attention. We're going to start setting up topics sometime in the next few weeks. Like, so I was monitoring Linda from Punksatonyi and I realized that she's binge watching Ozark. What are you binge watching? It's entirely possible. Just right. We'll just make crap up. Yeah, we'll just make sure you're paying attention, Linda. Yep. Yeah. So, you've made it the whole way. Linda, thank you. We appreciate your call. Thank you so much, Linda. We'll be watching you. Yeah. Really? Ron and Keyport, you're on New Jersey 101.5. Hey, so last spring, uh, opened my pool. I have a saltwater pool. Went to the pool store. Uh, got 5 lbs of salt because I need to add salt. Took my watch, my wedding ring, and a bracelet that my brother had made for me after my father passed away. put it on the the the back bumper of my truck, loaded the truck, went home, got home, put everything in the pool, got the pool all set up, get up the next morning to put my watch, my wedding ring, and my bracelet on, and they're gone. So, I panic, go out go out to my truck, and I noticed that the the little lever that's in the floor of your trunk had pushed through. My dog must have pushed through. I lift it up and there's my wedding band and the bracelet that my brother had made, but no watch. So, weeks, months went by. I I've never found the watch and it just happened to be um a a limited edition $15,000 Brightling watch that I bought with some of the money that my father left me. Did you have found it? Did you have it insured? It's insured. Uh somebody has it because Brightling actually emailed me saying, "Hey, somebody's trying to change the ownership on your watch." So, somebody's got it. What a I'm still What a jerk. I'm still trying to find out who has it. If I could offer any sort of silver lining, would are are aren't the other two the things that would be more sentimental, the wedding ring and the bracelet that your father made or excuse me that your brother made. There's no doubt. There's no doubt about it. I was thrilled to have both of those things back. The watch not that I'm turning my back on a $15,000 watch. It's just of the of the three. No, you're right. I was happy to have those two back. And to this day, I'm I'm over it and then I heard you guys talking about it. I'm like, I have to call in and rehash this. Unfortunately, I'm going to go in the corner and cry for a little while and I'll be like, "Oh, no." Hey, man. I'm No, I'm kidding. I'm just I'm just still jealous about that saltwater pool. I had one of those for several years, but I had to sell. But those are great, man. None of that chlorine. Five more. Five more years and we're going to move. We're going to move. So, uh, we're going to miss our saltwater pool. A All right. Hey, Ron. Thanks for the story. Appreciate it. If you're going to cry in the corner, at least like have a nice bourbon with it. Ron, thank you for calling New Jersey 101 1.5. Uh, you want to take one more? Yeah, sure. Well, one more before this break. Yeah, before the break. We'll take more after. Just want everyone on hold to hang up. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Chris in North Carolina, you're on New Jersey 101.5. Hey, how you guys doing? We're good. Okay. Um, I This happened four days ago. I was walking out to my car and it was pouring out and I couldn't find my key fob. So, I finally find the key fob, but as I was looking for the key fob, I put my phone on top of my roof of the car. Mhm. And I forgot all about it. I got in the car, started up. I drove seven miles to my house. And as I got in my house, I'm like, "Oh my god, where's my phone? My whole life is in my phone. Where is it?" Right? So, I'm I get out. I'm getting soaking wet because I, you know, I'm hanging in the car trying to find it. Half of me is outside of the car. I stand up. I'm like, Jesus, I lost my phone. Isn't my phone on top of the roof? It was like a suction. The rain formed like a suction. Oh, that's I drove seven miles in a rainstorm and my phone was there. But did the But did the phone still work being water logged? Well, I didn't I didn't power it on or nothing, but what I did was somebody told me if you stick it in the thing of rice. Yes. It'll dry it out. Yes. So, I didn't even bother turn it on. But I did put it in the rice. The next morning when I got up, turned right on and started working. Nice. Wow. Best case scenario, Chris. Best case scenario. Chris with a save. Thank you for calling New Jersey 101.5 now that your phone survived. Right. And yes, we will take more of your calls. We were just talking about before the break. So if you've got a story leaving something on top of your car driving off 1800 283101.5 difference in home comfort with Edison heating it today. Get there rut row 552 with Jeff and Kylie. We want to know if anyone has left something on top of their car and then driven off. Did it survive? Did it fall off? Was it broken? Did you find it if it fell off and it it did survive? Like there's so many different ways you could go with these stories. I know. I know, but I feel like most of us have done it. Uh, Jennifer in Morristown, what do you say? So, hi there. I had um a portable desktop. This was about a few years ago. I was working on my dissertation. So, I had the whole thing on the brand new portable desktop. I left work to go to a meeting. I was in a rush. I put it on top of the car. I drove off. All of a sudden, I heard something like crash. I look in my rearview mirror and I see my portable desktop on the road behind me. Portable desktop. Okay, first of all, that sounds big. How how expensive would that be? About $2,300 fully loaded. What makes I mean like there's like I mean I've heard of like a desktop and then a laptop. What makes it a portable desktop? Exactly. So it it it acts like a desktop. It has everything that you would possibly need at home, but it has a huge screen. So, it was like, you know, bigger than just getting a regular laptop. Oh, okay. All right. All right. I'm kind of getting with it here. Okay. All right. And so, and then I'm sorry. And when you look back in the mirror, was it in a million pieces already? I it it you know, I had it in one of those soft cases. Ah, but I did take off pretty quickly. Um, and when I looked in my rearview mirror, my face just like I wanted to cry because I was working on my dissertation and you know, all you want your research with you at all times. So, I had it on there. I couldn't believe it happened. I was mortified. So, I get to my meeting and I go to open it up and it it it's it like the screen area but on the outside case cracked, but I was able to still open up the top and actually access my documents. Thank goodness I right because um I was you know relying on all my data was sitting here on on my desktop. You must have been holding your breath. I was holding my breath because I I actually did have like a backup of my where I was that far along in my you know my research. Yeah. So I had a backup but still um it was mortifying. I I can't imag like that would ruin my day. Right. Jennifer, we are up against the clock but thank you for calling New Jersey 1.5. Speaking of technology. Yes. AOL. Yes. AOL. remember them. You've got mail. AOL did something or is doing something today that is historic. We will tell you what that is and you're going to not even believe it's been still around, but we'll tell you what it is coming up after the 6:00 news. New Jersey 101.5 group is not allowed for him in Chuck McDonald. The Bet Parks online casino and sports book app chime time is 611 and it's Jeff and Kylie with you. I'm Jeff Deinsky. I'm Kylie Moore. Uh we've got the Lieutenant Governor's debate less than an hour away. Less than an hour away. That is uh coming up carried live on New Jersey 101.5. Um so there used to be kids long ago, maybe before you were born, there used to be this horrible sound. When you heard the sound, it was exciting in that it could open up a world to you where you could discover new things. But you had to get through this monster of a sound first. This is what that sounded like. [Music] No. No. Make it stop. Ears are bleeding. Oh. Oh no. Welcome. You've got mail. For the love of God. That is the sound from the '9s and the very early 2000s of a dialup connection to get on the internet. Mom, get off the phone. I want to check my email. Yeah. Remember this? Anybody old enough to remember this? Uh yeah. Do you remember this from when you were Yeah, I guess you do. From when you were still a kid. Do you remember it or never? Absolutely. You still do? Yeah. All right. Even Yeah, you remember it. Yeah. But yeah, I want to go on AIM to see if my school crush is on there. AIM. Well, so here's the thing. a message pops up and it was it was showing itself today, Tuesday, September 30th, and it said, "This service will no longer be available in AOL plans. The associated software, the AOL dialer software and AOL Shield browser, which are optimized for older operating systems and dialup internet connections, will be discontinued. Today is the day that they discontinued it. RIP. Now, I assume it's already happened. It's 6:14 p.m. Eastern time. I assume it's already done. If it's not, it will be by midnight. But this is making news on Tuesday, today, September 30th, AOL discontinues. It's dialup internet. And it's funny because almost anybody that you would read that to would would probably think they didn't get rid of that years ago. Oh, is this article from 2007? Right. It's not. It's absolutely not. And uh the bonkers thing, listen to this. In 2023, while every year it went down, so you have to realize this is still 2 years ago, but still, in 2023, the government estimated that around 300,000 people in the United States were still using Dial Up. Dang. while 300 million used broadband service, but 300,000 two years ago were still using it. I don't know what it was by now, by 2025, but even if it was a third of that, that's still a 100,000 more people than I would have thought. Yeah, that's honestly stunning, right? It really is. There were still people using dialup and uh and and now they cannot through AOL. So, it's it's done. You know what? One last time. Sort of like, you know, playing taps. If we could again just hear the sound. [Music] [Music] People under under 30 are listening to this thinking this must be an exaggeration. Maybe you had to hear this once a month, once a year. It was every time. And it was that like that was that's the real sound. That is the real sound. That is not exaggerated. This pierces my heart. Like I I hear this and I'm transported into my my parents computer room. Kids, ask your parents about a computer room. Mhm. I feel like when we die, that's what we hear as our brain dies. Honestly, I feel like as we exhale for the last time and we go to the better place. I feel like first you have to hear that and then you're going to hear the slowly fades the AOL man say goodbye. That's sad you brought it up. But then a better voice will say hello. Hey, welcome. It's going to be Siri like some sort of updated version. Oh no. All right. But yeah, this was actually a very big deal with the technology today and I I I couldn't believe it was still around, but it is. And today was the last day for Dialup Connection. So we want to ask at 1800283101.5, what things can you think of that you hardly ever or absolutely never see anymore? What's gone away that you just don't see? 1 800283101.5. Should I go with the obvious one first? Uh, whatever you want. I got weird ones like I mean it could be like technology like electronics, but it doesn't have to be. Like, could I just give you a real quick one before you give me that one? Um, when we used to have glass bottles and you'd have to take like the bottle top off of a glass bottle, they used to have these rubbery things that you would slip over the bottleneck and then curl it over that would serve as a cap to not have the carbonation leave from a glass bottle. Haven't seen those in decades. Oh, I was going a different direction with that. Wait, what? It was like a rubbery thing. One was like a circular rubber and then a band like 3 or 4 inches long and then it was like a fake bottle cap. So you would put the ring around the bottleneck, you would fold it over and then you would cap your open bottle once the once the metal bottle cap was off and it would serve as your bottle cap. You probably never even saw them. So I I understand why you're confused. I was going to say I I don't think I've ever even heard of them. I thought I thought you were going somewhere where there was like something rubber that you could put over the bottle cap so that when you twist it wouldn't hurt yourself. No. No, not that. Not that. But that's just me being dainty. Yeah. No. What was yours? Probably electronic. Yeah. Mine was going to be when's the last time you saw a typewriter. Oh. Of any kind. Yes. Oh, yeah. Manual, electric, anything. Word processor even. You don't see those. I mean, nothing. You They're gone. I mean, you'll see them in Tom Hanks house cuz he'll collect them. Sure. So, right. It's not like that they're never on the planet, but I mean, they're so freaking rare. Yeah. Typewriters. That's a thing of the past, which is why he likes it. And would would people in their I'm going to even say 30s know how to use it with with the how you have to tap tap tap tap tap and then you push something over. I don't know. When you push the thing over? Yeah. The carriage return. Pushing that back over that that's what would mess them up. Like it's still the quarterty keyboard like you know like a laptop would have but right the mechanics of how it works. Oh that would probably be lost on people. It would mess me up. Yeah. All right. So we want to know things like that. What do we not see anymore? 1800283 101.5. It's time for fast traffic. Farm is open for the fall season. New Jersey 101.5. So AOL ends dialup connections today. It's the final day for it. Yeah, we thought they were all done uh as well, but it turns out like two years ago there were still 300,000 people in the United States using dialup, believe it or not. So Trev has that many accounts. Yeah, it's all true. Well, no, there's two people in Iowa and then Trev has 290. Yeah. Um but what do we not see anymore? Whether it's high-tech stuff or just low tech gadgets, what are things that you can think of that we just tend to not see anymore? We're not saying that they're completely banished from planet Earth. You know, maybe your grandma has an old typewriter. It's still up in the attic. Maybe it technically works, but nobody really uses it. Um, and that's another question, too. One of these things where, you know, it's something that you hardly ever see anymore. Do you know anybody who still has one, like a VCR, Jeff, a tape player? That's exactly what I was going to bring up. I was going to say, I bet you if you still have one, it's very rarely to never used. You probably never use the thing. And when you do, you realize how bad the quality is of those of those old VHS tapes. It's fascinating to go back and watch one. It's so rough. The technology is so rough. You You still have the machine and Yeah. And I'll occasionally watch a video on it. Kids, ask your parents, I will watch a video tape. Why? Uh, I mean it's fine. I'm just curious why. Um, I guess well the nostalgia for stuff that's like, you know, actual movies, but then also occasionally I will um I I'll watch my parents wedding video. It's funny. I was actually going to say, was this something like that? Like a home video, a family video, or your parents wedding video? That makes sense. Or I'll watch the video of the Christmas where I got Super Grover and you had zero reaction and my parents never stopped giving me guff for it. You're not a good gift receiver. You have no reaction when somebody gives you a gift. There's too much pressure. I Yeah, we will. And you're proving my point, by the way, that you even took note. We will Oh, trust me. Everyone's taking note. What does that mean? Who we talking to? Everybody knows. Everybody knows that you're not a good gift receiver. You just go blank. You go like, "Yeah, I mean, like, you'll say thank you, but you kind of shut down." It's almost like you get nervous receiving a gift. And why do you think that is? Because of this exact conversation, Jeff, I know we're now on a tangent, but this is exactly why because there's too much pressure. So, I give a polite thank you and I will react inwardly. So, in a couple of months when we're by the holiday season, we must do an hour on that cuz you can't be the only one. I'm also a bad gift giver. Are you? Yes. You also called me out on that. as co-workers anytime like we'll give each other something like the one time I took a photo from your family trip with your sister and your mom, your dad and you and and I had that uh cuz your favorite show is the Simpsons and I had them like turn it into like a Simpsons cartoon, the three I mean the four of you, right? Yeah. Like like like I would give Kylie that. But then as a co-orker for like my birthday, it's always the same thing. Here's a bottle of Jack. Yeah. It's exactly It's always here's another bottle of Jack. Yeah. Does it get used, Jeff? Well, sure it gets used, but there we go. All right, I'm not trying to I'm sorry. I'm sorry for the uh Okay, let's reset. Despite what you've just heard, Mommy and Daddy are done fighting. We want to We want to know because of AOL ending dialup connection today. We want to know what do you just not see anymore? 1-800 283 101.5. Mike and Yuing, you're on New Jersey 101.5. Hey guys, how you doing? Hey Mike, we're good. I actually just thought about something that you don't see anymore. People still use them, but they're like in a drawer. You don't see like countertop can openers anymore. Electronic can openers. Electronic ones. You don't. Are you sure you don't? I don't. I don't. Huh? Yeah. Mike, I'm with you on this one. So what? Like people had them for a while, but then they just went back to the old handheld ones, I guess. So, h Or did people just have like the the tabs on the cans like Campbell Soup? Yeah. Yeah, probably. The new ones now cut the whole top off so you don't get cut. Yeah. You know, we don't have anymore, and it's a good thing are smoke eaters and bars to get rid of the smoke because nobody smokes inside. Oh, that's a great one. What's a a smoke? A smoke eater is a machine that was like super industrial power kind of thing that was supposed to suck all the you know noxious uh stuff out of the cigarette smoke. It's basically like a high-owered filter. Mike, that one is so good. I don't even know what it is. So that proves your point exactly. That is a perfect entry. Yeah, like like whatever salesman was in that business to sell those to bars and restaurants. Oh, they went out of business in New Jersey, man. Went the way of the dodo. Right. That's a great one. I never would have thought about a smoke eater machine. Mike, thank you for calling New Jersey 101.5. All right, so yeah, things like that. It could be, you know, a high-tech thing. It could be a low tech gadget like a can opener, whatever. But what do you just tend to not see anymore? 1800283101.5. Oh, and the guru of gutter protection himself, 637 with Jeff Deinsky and Kylie Moore. We're going to have the debate between the two potential lieutenant governors coming up in under half an hour. So stay with us. Make sure to listen to that because uh it's it's your future. It's important. Right now, we're not talking about the future. We're talking about the past. What are things that have gone away in New Jersey that we just don't see anymore? Think payones. Think, as we were saying before, VCRs. 1800 283 101.5. Olga in Cape May, your New Jersey 101.5. Yes. Hi. I just recently had to move my mom into assisted living. Um, and as sad as that was, it was actually bittersweet because we found the oldfashioned slide projector that you have. And with the popup screen that you put against the wall and it was neat. There was about 20 of us and we actually saw a lot of film that um, my dad was a Korean War veteran and we saw pictures that we never saw before. So, as as upsetting as it was to leave the house, we got to take that and we boxed it up and we now will go through all of those things that we never really saw before. Yeah. Oh, that's so nice. I mean, it comes it's the silver lining. Obviously, it comes from a bad situation, but that's very sweet that you guys got to do that. Yeah. My uh nephew is a producer for one of the major television stations um in New York, and he could not believe the quality of the color that was still on that. I mean, it was sealed up since the the 50s, 1950s, so it was pretty neat. Um, okay. Kylie wants his number. She wants to leave radio behind. Yeah. A TV producer. Yes, sir. No, that's awesome. No, I Are you kidding? What I actually want to do is I want to bring a bottle of wine over to Olga's house and watch these with her. That sounds like such a good time. Yeah. Just reminiscing. You can bring a bottle of Bailey's. I know it's not Jack, but there you go. I I'll have the coffee ready. Make it a Bob. We'll all bring our own bottle. Hey, good enough for this old house. Olga, best of luck with your mother. Thank you for calling New Jersey 101.5. Uh Ben in Bound Brook, you're on New Jersey 101 1.5. One of the things I don't see anymore are rotary dial phones. I actually was funny. There was a video where they show kids looking at old stuff and the kids couldn't even figure out what to do with it when the guy put it in front of them. Well, you know, when you really think about it, there's no other technology comparable to that. Like I mean, think about like like we all know cuz we're older, but I mean, think about that. Like, you stick your finger in this little weird hole and then you like you pull the stupid circle around and god forbid if you got to the final number, but then let it go too soon and so it's a number off and then you got to start all over again. Ah, do you remember that? That was awesome. Yeah, I do. The other thing that I don't see anymore is the 50 million a year mailings of AOL software that you used to get. Remember that? Oh, there's a very very funny image. It's somewhere on the internet. It's the most 90s image ever created. Yeah. And it's uh Matthew Perry and Jennifer Anderson's from Friends. Yeah. Explaining like how to use AOL. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I remember that. Yes. It's so funny to watch now. You're not going to see any more as late night talk shows. James Trump has something to say about it. Oh boy. It's funny you say that, Ben. I don't know if you saw that, um, Conan O'Brien was on Coar and he's joking saying like, oh, so, uh, you know, I've been out of late night for a while. Anything going on? And Colbear responds, I'll send you the obituary. I just saw a thing where David Letterman was telling um was was telling some other talk show host that was retiring that he doesn't really want to retire that he was kind of forced out of it. God, we need it. We need the laughs. So hopefully it doesn't happen anytime soon. Ben, thank you for calling New Jersey a 1.5. All right. Now, he was mentioning um he was mentioning rotary dial phones. just even landline phones. It's starting to get to the point, I don't know about most places, but even certain offices like here, it's harder and harder to even find a desk landline phone here because nobody uses them. It's funny, the only people who use them are the producers who are screening the calls and they're the youngest people in the building. And they're the youngest people in the building, right? But landlines, I mean, a lot of business I I I I can't think we're the only one. People are just using their cell phones. There's not like any mains. Hell, we don't even have a receptionist. No, we have a very very nice front desk. Right. But we we haven't had a receptionist since the pandemic since the before times. Right. Right. Yeah. All right. Things that have gone away like receptionists. 1 800283 101.5. We got inside and we got dark. Mark in Bridgewwater, you're on New Jersey. 101.5. Hello Mark. Hello. Hey Mark. Now we can hear you. Hey Mark, what's up? Hey, what' you want to tell us? What'd you have? Ah, how about an eight track player? Oh boy, that was some technology, wasn't it? Do you remember when one song would start and then halfway through the song it had to switch to the next track and then the rest of the song would play? Yes, it would. I never owned one. I've never played one myself, but my uncle who would have been approaching a hundred years right now. Passed away a couple years ago, but he collected them. Oh, did he? collected them well past the time of his childhood or his teenage years, his music listening years, but he just collected them because I know something about it like Yeah. Yeah. I uh my brother Yeah. I never had one, but my older brother had one. He had an eighttrack player. Weird technology. Yeah. No, but that's one. Yeah. You don't see those? Yeah. I'm trying to think if if I ever saw one like at all, let alone now. I I've heard of them. I I know of them mostly from there. There there's a song lyric from the Simpsons that mentioned one, but outside of that, I couldn't picture what one looks like. Years ago in radio before everything became digitized, um you would play that there were these things called carts for cartridges and they looked Yeah. And they look I mean that's kind of what an eight track tape would look like. Oh, that's helpful. Okay. Yeah, it was very much looking like that. And uh that's what we used to play like every commercial, every song. It was all on those things. Yeah, I'm very happy to just push a button. Yeah, Mark, thank you for calling New Jersey 101.5. Joe and Patterson, you're on New Jersey 101.5. Hey, I I got my points, but you were talking about phones. I remember in the whenever you went into a um a lobby of some New York uh uh building behind the elevators there were like banks of like 20 30 uh pay phones. Uh they all disappeared. Yes, for sure. But um yeah, but uh when I I remember the cars I remember um to make go from high beam to low beam there was a a metal button in the lefthand corner of the floorboard. You had to press it with your foot to get the high beams on, then press it again to go back to the low beams. My dad had that. I know exactly what you're talking about. My dad had that and I thought it was the coolest thing when I was a kid. A And what else were you going to say? The other thing was I remember curb feelers. My uncle had curb feelers on the side of his um uh car for parallel parking. You hear you could hear the curb so you wouldn't rub your tires. I haven't seen those in years. Yeah. Also, whitewall tires. I remember white walls were such a cool thing of tires in the cars in the 60s. You had to pay extra for white walls, but they were so hard to keep clean. And then my the other thing is I remember um people used to use hand signals instead of directionals with flashers. They put their hand out and raise it up. That made a um that made me left turn. Then they turned it down. That made a right hand turn. Yeah. You know, 10 years ago, I saw one guy, an old-timer using hand signals. I couldn't believe it. It's like, wow. Yeah. Yeah. And today, and today it's only the middle finger, but you know, at least that we still use, at least in Jersey. All right. Hey Joe, we appreciate you're calling in. We're talking about how AOL ended dialup connections today. And uh what do you not see around anymore? 180028311.5. Hey, how's your back doing? Is your knee 651? And yes, we have that uh Lieutenant Governor debate, the first and only uh debate between the two candidates for Lieutenant Governor uh coming up on New Jersey 101.5 right at the top of the hour. Uh in the meantime, let's take another couple of phone calls here. We're talking about old technology that has gone away, outlived its usefulness, dust bin of history. Sayara, I was just going to see how many you had at this. I'm stopping. Bob and Edison, you're on New Jersey 101.5. Hey, Bob. Hey. Hey, guys. How you doing? Hey, Bob. We're good. Hope you're Hope you're doing I have uh I actually have two to mention. The first one is a pager. Yes. And and the second one is a Walkman CD player. God, they would skip so much. I know. I still have them both. Do you? I do. The pager I don't use. But I was going to say the pager. You can't even get service for a pager now, can you? Or could you if you wanted to? I have no idea to be honest. Yeah. I'm sure the Walkman could still work obviously. But yeah, I used to think when my mom was using her pager that she was a superhero. I thought that was the coolest thing in the world. Oh, you didn't think that she was either a doctor or a drug dealer? Cuz that's all we used to think about. Um, I did not know what a drug dealer was, so no. All right. So, a superhero. That's fine. Yeah. Yeah. That's all that had them for a while was doctors and drug dealers and that was it. Oh, now we're uh really painting a picture of what Bob was doing. No, no, no. Just in the beginning it was like that. But then more people had pagers. I'm saying in the beginning. Bob, thank you for calling New Jersey 101.5. Sorry we're spreading this narrative about you. You're really getting me in trouble with Bob. Make Bob hate me. Diane in Monroe. You're on New Jersey 101.5. Yeah. Hi. How are you Jeff and Kylie? Hi Diane. What's up, Kylie? It's your aunt Diane from Monroe. Hello, auntie. Do you guys Jeff? Kylie, you would never get this. Jeff, do you remember a Benzy box? A who? Benzy box. Box. I might I might have the name wrong. Describe it. Well, you could remove your You could remove your entire car stereo system. Oh, yes. Okay. I didn't know what it was called, but Yes. I Yep. Yep. Yep. Yeah. It was like an anti- theft measure, wasn't it? Yes. Yes. Everybody and every You went to a house party. Everybody bought their Benji boxes in and nobody knew whose was whose. Oh, that's funny. But by the time you ended the party, it was like this doesn't fit. Doesn't fit. This sounds stressful. Yeah. Yeah. Well, they used to be so common. cars used to be so commonly broken into and they would just like rip your dashboard apart that uh they they started making it well and then it was also for a while maybe you wouldn't remove the whole thing but like the face plate you might remove I think that came next and that rendered it kind of like useless but yeah I do remember things do you remember the steering wheel club the anti- theft device the steering wheel club absolutely oh yeah this one I know yes in in fact I was my car was parked at the hospital with a club on it and some hit it and the club went right through the windshield. Oh my god. Yeah, I don't think I see those around anymore. I don't I don't see a lot of cars with those anymore because anti- theft technology is so superior now or what? Partly that, I guess. But also, thieves figured out ways around them. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Mine was far more optimistic than yours and yours is probably more realistic. No, it was more like the arms race. Hey Diane, thanks for calling New Jersey 101.5. We appreciate it. All right. Uh Steve Trevalis is coming up and uh we will be back with you tomorrow. Uh don't forget more cash codes coming up tomorrow with a thousand at work payday that resumes in the 8:00 hour with Bill Spadia. We have the Lieutenant Governor debate coming up between Democrat Dale Caldwell, Republican Jim Ganon. Uh that is coming up next. Stick around. This is New Jersey 101.5.