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Businesses That Will Die Out With Our Parent's Generation · The Cubby and Christine Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: Light a fmcubby and Christine and your variety from the
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  Speaker 1: eighties through today. Big announcement coming up at eight point
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  Speaker 1: five we will reveal the Broadway and Bryant Park lineup
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  Speaker 1: for July. Yes, so hang on for that. That's not
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  Speaker 1: going anywhere. But sadly, Christine, some things are dying out
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to businesses.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, like with a certain say our parents with their
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  Speaker 2: grandparents generation, these things may longer exist after them.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. We found this article on Reddit and feel free
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  Speaker 1: to call one one hundred two two two one oh
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  Speaker 1: six seven and add on to this. But some of
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  Speaker 1: the responses of things that might be going away this generation,
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  Speaker 1: like Elvis impersonators, people are saying they can't have more
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  Speaker 1: than a decade left.
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  Speaker 2: Huh. But I don't know Elvis, Marilyn Monroe, they're kind
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  Speaker 2: of timeless.
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  Speaker 1: They seem to catch on to that new generation, right.
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  Speaker 1: You think they're dying out and then they catch on again.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't know about that one, right, Mary kay
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  Speaker 1: makeup oh thoughts on that.
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  Speaker 2: My thought is, they have like the best Miss Scarra.
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  Speaker 1: So not going any anywhere.
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  Speaker 2: I need them to stick around there. They're black. Misscara
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  Speaker 2: is incredible.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, my grandpa's encyclopedia collection. See, I gotta tell you.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I know they're old news when you see
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  Speaker 1: them on the bookshelf, but they're also classics.
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  Speaker 2: They yeah, they are, but nobody uses them anymore.
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  Speaker 1: Which one on this list stands out to you?
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  Speaker 2: This because I was just talking about this with my
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  Speaker 2: sister in law, Barbara. The fine china and fancy tablewhere
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  Speaker 2: that you used to get as a wedding gift and
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  Speaker 2: then pass along to the next generation.
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  Speaker 1: That's not a thing anymore.
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  Speaker 2: They're not interested. Like I know, my niece Sam is like, no,
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  Speaker 2: she doesn't want any of that stuff. So Barbara's been
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  Speaker 2: in the thrift stores and she said, there's beautiful, like
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  Speaker 2: expensive china sets like you get the whole. Yeah, that's
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  Speaker 2: available because people given them up. I don't want them anymore.
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  Speaker 1: Interesting. Poor QVC is on the list. And when I
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  Speaker 1: think about KVC, I think of my mom, who's no
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  Speaker 1: longer with me, but every time I would go to
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  Speaker 1: her house it was on twenty four to seven. She
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  Speaker 1: loved it. But if you think about it, you can
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  Speaker 1: get you know, a lot of places now offer what
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  Speaker 1: QVC has. But what do you think home shopping. Can
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  Speaker 1: you ever see that gone? I feel like there's always
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  Speaker 1: there's some market for that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, like we said, with a certain generation. I I
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  Speaker 2: don't know, but magazines are that makes me sad. Magazines
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  Speaker 2: and newspapers, like physical newspapers still feel comforting.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, landlines are soon to be gone this generation. Now
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  Speaker 1: here's one I thought was gone a long time ago.
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  Speaker 1: Christine Avon. Oh no, it's I know Avon. The product
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  Speaker 1: is yeahroun it is what. They don't ring on doorbells anymore,
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  Speaker 1: do they.
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  Speaker 2: The Avon lady hasn't shown up at my door for
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  Speaker 2: a while. Yeah, but I do see friends on Facebook
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  Speaker 2: who sell Avon. So I know. Hallmark card stores that's
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  Speaker 2: a problem for me.
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  Speaker 1: I love a good Hallmark store.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know how I love the paper store And
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  Speaker 2: now they're uncharted or something. Yeah, huh, I need those around.
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  Speaker 1: He give us a call one hundred two two two
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  Speaker 1: one oh six seven. It's sad but true. What businesses
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  Speaker 1: do you think could be going away? Uh? This generation?
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  Speaker 1: Wah wah. Don't mean to bum me out, but you know,
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  Speaker 1: we have to talk about it.