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Starting Christmas Shopping Early · The Cubby and Christine Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: Gloria Estefan, and get on your feet. I love that one.
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  Speaker 1: 106.7 Light FM. Cubby, Christine, producer Christine, and you, thank
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  Speaker 1: you for having us on this Tuesday, September 15th, Christine.
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  Speaker 1: Seven days away from autumn. Autumn begins Tuesday, September 22nd
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  Speaker 1: at 8.05 p.m.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: It feels like fall this morning.
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  Speaker 3: It does, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It's 58 here in Midtown, but some suburbs in Jersey
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  Speaker 1: reporting upper 40s. Sunshine today, high 72. Let's just fast
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  Speaker 1: forward to Christmas. Why not?
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  Speaker 3: Do it. Cubby, every year I say I'm not going
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  Speaker 3: to wait until the last minute. I go into panic
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  Speaker 3: mode to my Christmas shopping, right? I'm not going to
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  Speaker 3: do it this year. I'm starting early. I haven't started
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  Speaker 3: early enough.
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  Speaker 1: Again, you failed. New survey finds.
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  Speaker 3: I know, fail before I even started. 34% of consumers
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  Speaker 3: have already started their holiday shopping.
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  Speaker 1: And when you see that headline, does that make you
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  Speaker 1: feel more behind?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, of course it does. Every year, I feel, I'm
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  Speaker 3: sure we all do, 25% have started their holiday shopping
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  Speaker 3: early to spread the cost across several paychecks, a strategy
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  Speaker 3: especially popular with parents. I know Producer Kristen sharing with us,
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  Speaker 3: and your family maybe have gotten started. Certain items could
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  Speaker 3: be very hot this year.
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  Speaker 1: Correct. Yes. Yep. We've gotten the ball going on that. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And then... You know what? I have to hit the
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  Speaker 1: kids up and we have to get a Santa list together,
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  Speaker 1: you know?
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  Speaker 3: Oh.
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  Speaker 1: Because Santa's got to do some work too.
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  Speaker 3: Put Santa to work. My niece, Sam, I'm going to
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  Speaker 3: out her on the air right now, who is a
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  Speaker 3: full-on grown-up, sent me her Christmas list this morning. Like
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  Speaker 3: I woke up to an email and there it is.
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  Speaker 2: Really?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that makes it easy, right?
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  Speaker 1: Because it's like.
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  Speaker 3: Elfster or something like that. You know, it does make
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  Speaker 3: it really easy. That just means she input what she
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  Speaker 3: wants for Christmas and it goes out to friends and family.
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  Speaker 3: But like she's on top of it.
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  Speaker 1: While we're at it, what do you want for Christmas
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  Speaker 1: slash your birthday?
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  Speaker 2: I have.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, my goodness. No idea.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, December 26. For those who don't listen regularly,
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  Speaker 1: you are a Christmas baby. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: As producer Kristen, December 29. So we just don't we
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  Speaker 3: just don't want to do for please like, you know,
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  Speaker 3: this is your Christmas and birthday. If you're going to
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  Speaker 3: give us anything. But I think world peace. That's all
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  Speaker 3: I ask. For everyone to be happy and healthy. If
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  Speaker 3: you could just make that happen, Cubby.
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  Speaker 1: Today's Greenpeace Day. Did you know that? Oh, yeah? Not
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  Speaker 1: world peace, but Greenpeace. A reminder that we need to
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  Speaker 1: take care of the planet that we all live on.
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  Speaker 3: I like that, too. I'll take that as a wish.
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  Speaker 1: It's National Voter Registration Day.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, it is.
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  Speaker 1: A good day to register to vote or check to
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  Speaker 1: make sure you're registered. It's National Linguini Day. A good
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  Speaker 1: day for some pasta. Did you know it's World Afro Day?
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  Speaker 3: I did not know that.
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  Speaker 1: A day to celebrate the beauty of Afro and natural hairstyles.
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  Speaker 1: It's National Double Cheeseburger Day. You know, why just have
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  Speaker 1: one patty? It's National Cheese Toast Day, a.k.a. Grilled Cheese.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 1: And it's National IT Professionals Day, a day to thank
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  Speaker 1: all those people who ask, have you tried restarting? Like
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  Speaker 1: good old Raj Patel.
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  Speaker 3: I was going to say you can't rush in here
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  Speaker 3: at just.
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  Speaker 2: Move over.
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  Speaker 3: You know, like, just get out of the way. Just
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  Speaker 3: hand over the computer.
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  Speaker 1: You have to give, like, an extra Christmas gift to Raj.
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  Speaker 1: Because what does Raj do for you that I always,
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  Speaker 1: I think about doing it, but I don't.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. cubby while we're on the air talking
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  Speaker 3: about these things i what i don't be scared no
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  Speaker 3: idea rush it's he.
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  Speaker 1: Goes around he has some kind of like he's connection
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  Speaker 1: where you don't have to change.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody's listening but he's not going to be able to
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  Speaker 2: help us in a month because our passwords here at
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  Speaker 2: iheart radio are require 15 characters starting i believe next month.
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  Speaker 3: Okay Listen, I can't get into like any of my apps.
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  Speaker 3: I can't get into anything.
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  Speaker 1: Authenticator. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I know. No, just let me in. Just look at
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  Speaker 3: my face.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 3: I hold up the phone. I'm like, it's me. It's me.
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  Speaker 3: Sometimes I have to take my glasses off.
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  Speaker 2: Still me.
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  Speaker 3: Just let me in.
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  Speaker 2: Let me in.
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  Speaker 3: But I always have to change my password.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I hate it.
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  Speaker 3: And then, yes, it's got to be.
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  Speaker 1: You've used that password before.
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  Speaker 3: So you couldn't have accepted it. That would have been
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  Speaker 3: too easy. We need numbers. We need special symbols. Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 1: Uh-huh. Thank you, IT people, though, for all you do.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we love you.
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  Speaker 1: We love you. And Raj Patel here at iHeartRadio, thank
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  Speaker 1: you for taking care of us.
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  Speaker 3: He's incredible.
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  Speaker 1: All right, you got the news coming up, Christine?
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  Speaker 3: I do. So let's check out the headlines and the
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  Speaker 3: best time to get guests.