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- 0:00Speaker 1: If you're on a budget. It's a very smart thing actually,
- 0:03Speaker 1: because you need to save some money. We're all doing
- 0:05Speaker 1: it right, kind of watching what we're.
- 0:07Speaker 2: Seriously spending on.
- 0:09Speaker 3: I know times are tough, and you know, I keep
- 0:11Speaker 3: getting stories like I have a news story this morning,
- 0:13Speaker 3: how we're rethinking what we're paying for it because everything's
- 0:17Speaker 3: getting so expensive. Ninety two percent of people in this
- 0:21Speaker 3: survey said they are slashing things like streaming services, high
- 0:26Speaker 3: end coffee and coffee makers, and paper towels, using usable
- 0:30Speaker 3: cloth towels instead, Like these are some of the things.
- 0:33Speaker 3: Like as you follow the economy, you see people aren't
- 0:35Speaker 3: using these things.
- 0:36Speaker 2: You know, it's tough and it's sad we have to
- 0:38Speaker 2: do it, but it's also smart. I mean we need
- 0:41Speaker 2: to kind of watch our anny. Well, I know everything's high,
- 0:44Speaker 2: and the grocery store is high, the gas is high.
- 0:46Speaker 3: Do you want to hang out with Eric?
- 0:49Speaker 2: Am I like you? Well?
- 0:51Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, So Friday, he's driving up to his gig
- 0:55Speaker 3: in Connecticut, right, and he does a lot of driving
- 0:58Speaker 3: for his work, and I get it. He's trying to
- 1:01Speaker 3: conserve gas as much as he can, but you know,
- 1:04Speaker 3: gas is over four dollars a gallon. So it's really
- 1:06Speaker 3: high right now. And we had to go up to
- 1:10Speaker 3: Nod Hill I think that's rich Field, Connecticut from New Jersey.
- 1:14Speaker 3: Drums are loaded in the back of the car. I'm
- 1:16Speaker 3: going with him and he's not putting the air conditioning on,
- 1:20Speaker 3: and okay, hevy it was Friday. Friday was like, he said,
- 1:25Speaker 3: it's sixty seven degrees outside. I'm like, I understand that
- 1:28Speaker 3: it's sixty seven degrees outside. It's eighty something in the car.
- 1:32Speaker 2: You know.
- 1:32Speaker 3: The car like retains the heat like a greenhouse.
- 1:35Speaker 2: When that sun comes in, the car is always much hotter.
- 1:38Speaker 3: So We're getting onto the Garden State Parkway and he
- 1:40Speaker 3: still has all the windows rolled down and I'm like, Eric,
- 1:43Speaker 3: my hair, I can't do this. And he's like, do
- 1:45Speaker 3: you know how much gas prices are? And I said,
- 1:48Speaker 3: you are being such a dad right now.
- 1:51Speaker 2: No, he's being very you know, no money conscious.
- 1:55Speaker 3: He was. He was being a dad. He was telling me,
- 1:57Speaker 3: He's like, if we just all four windows are down
- 2:00Speaker 3: just a little bit, we'll get the cross ventilation. Not
- 2:03Speaker 3: exactly not. It was so uncomfortable in that car. No, Like,
- 2:10Speaker 3: I can't tell you how long until he finds like, okay,
- 2:13Speaker 3: put the AC on.
- 2:14Speaker 1: Well, the one thing he could have done, actually, he
- 2:16Speaker 1: could have brought all the windows down all at once, Yes,
- 2:19Speaker 1: got that cross ventilation and then put them up. Then
- 2:22Speaker 1: the AC wouldn't have to struggle to bring the temperature
- 2:25Speaker 1: down so quickly.
- 2:25Speaker 3: That's basically what we did. We did. Okay, thank you
- 2:28Speaker 3: Dad number two, the other dad I hang out with.
- 2:33Speaker 1: Well, here's the question at four four three sixty three,
- 2:36Speaker 1: what small things like your fiance Eric, do you do
- 2:40Speaker 1: to save money?
- 2:41Speaker 2: Because I think these are all smart things.
- 2:42Speaker 1: I think you really need to kind of like you
- 2:44Speaker 1: mentioned streaming services, I go through what you're paying for
- 2:47Speaker 1: you might forget.
- 2:48Speaker 3: And I think I'm doing that.
- 2:50Speaker 2: You're paying for something you totally don't use.
- 2:52Speaker 3: You just never use. I think there's a bunch of
- 2:54Speaker 3: stuff in the house. Yeah, I'm really gonna have to
- 2:55Speaker 3: look at but AC in the cars is kind of important.
- 2:59Speaker 2: You do want read like it? Four four three six
- 3:02Speaker 2: three on text, please