Chapter 1: What are the trends in consumerism discussed in this episode?
On this episode of the Commercial Break. You are willing to be a child star unboxing these gifts. And even then, this market is saturated. There are adults who unbox. I saw the boo-boo unboxing. You would have thought it was Kylie and Kasey. was not Kylie and Kasey. It was a 46-year-old woman who was unboxing 300 LaBooBoos. Really?
And crying when she didn't get the special, or whatever it is, the special LaBooBoos. Chrissy, what in the world is going on? What in the world is going on?
That's so bizarro.
It's like late-stage consumerism run amok. And I love it.
Chapter 2: How does late-stage consumerism manifest in today's society?
I love consumerism. I'm all about it. I love buying things. Who doesn't? When I got this sweater, it made me so happy for one minute until I got the credit card bill. You know what I'm saying? The next episode of The Commercial Break starts now. Welcome back to the commercial break. Again, I'm Brian Green. This is my dear friend and the co-host of the show, Kristen Joy Holden.
Best to you, Kristen.
Best to you, Brian.
Best to you out there in the podcast universe. In case you didn't know, we are testing out our capabilities to go live on Twitch and YouTube for now, maybe other platforms later. And I know we got at least one person watching.
Chapter 3: What insights are shared about the recent Disney cruise incident?
We did.
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Lauren.
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You know how it goes when we test something in the studio. It all goes wrong. So this is like our second, maybe third time starting the show here on the live stream because recording is an important part of what we do since you can't go live on the RSS feeds. No. There you go. Anyway, another person has fallen off a carnival cruise. What? What?
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Chapter 4: What lessons can we learn from the father’s heroic actions?
No. Guys. It's just like, okay, you know what? This is a great topic to talk about because I wanted to discuss this a couple weeks ago. A thorough investigation has been done into the Disney accident that happened on that boat. They have come out with more information. Neither the father nor the mother are going to be charged in the incident.
However, if you recall, let me take you through the timeline of what happened, in case you don't know. Back in June, May or June of this year, I want to say it was months ago, a little girl... Five years old, six years old, I think she was, fell off a Disney cruise ship in the middle of the Caribbean. She fell off the ship like 12 stories, 7, 9, 10, 12 stories, whatever it is.
I guess it depends on how high the boat is sitting in the water, but it's not a small fall. It is a large fall. Stories, you're talking tens of feet, 70, 80, 90 feet. Off of the Lido deck, or the promenade, which is the deck that goes all the way around the boat. People walk around it. You can play games. You know, it's basically the balcony deck. You can go out there and chill after dinner.
Is the pool on this deck or no?
Chapter 5: How do unboxing videos affect children and consumer behavior?
No, the pool is above the deck.
It's higher.
Yeah, it's higher.
So she falls off, and in an instant, her father, who was lauded as a hero as he should be, jumped right in after her, found her, and held her above water for 20-plus minutes while Disney did what they do, which is, and they did apparently very efficiently, effectively, and with, like, they did exactly what they should have done by all accounts, including the sheriff's office who investigated them.
Woo!
Sirens, everything. Sirens, boat in the water. Yes, including the mother. The mother and a bunch of people get on a boat. They take it down to the water, which in and of itself probably takes five, ten minutes to do. And then they find the child and the father who has been now treading water with his daughter. Treading water with his daughter for many minutes.
One minute of treading water with a child in your arms. I can tell you as a guy who has... It's a lot. Children, it's a lot.
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Chapter 6: What are the implications of child stardom in the unboxing industry?
You feel like you're being pulled down under. So God bless that this all worked out okay. The father ended up having a broken back. The child suffered some bruises and obviously emotional distress, but they were found. They were brought back to the ship. And an investigation ensued.
When this became public knowledge the very next day, many people took to all the different platforms, including an unverified source that was supposedly on the boat that said, yeah, that's because the mother had her on the railing taking a picture. And then a couple of days later, the sheriff's office came out and said, there are a lot of stories going around on social media right now.
Please don't jump to conclusions because what you're hearing probably isn't true. That's all I have to say. Period. End of sentence.
Imagine that.
Guess what? It was true.
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Chapter 7: How is Frankie B's approach to relationships portrayed?
What? After investigation, after an investigation and talking to many people who were on the boat and people who saw what happened, the mother asked the young lady to sit in a essentially porthole, a place where there is not glass or plexiglass. Oh, my God.
The parents will not be charged in this incident because the sheriff's office believes they have suffered enough emotional distress and that there was no malfeasance in what happened. In other words, the lady was just dumb. I mean, just dumb as dirt. And I don't want to knock another parent because parenting is hard in the first place. But you don't put your child on a railing on a cruise ship.
No.
Do you know the chances of someone surviving that kind of accident? I don't know what the chances are, but it can't be a lot.
That's like concrete when you hit the water.
You have to hit the water in a certain way to make sure that you don't break every little bone in your body. And the father suffered a broken back because he probably hit the water the wrong way. It's hard to control your body. You know, if you're jumping more than 10 feet, your body wants to go where you're like... I don't know, wherever it wants to go. Gravity takes you.
Yeah, look at all those kids on TikTok and Instagram. I say kids, you know, the teenagers and the guys in their early 20s, mainly guys, doing these incredibly insane high jumps off of all different manner of places high up in the air into water.
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Chapter 8: What are the signs that might indicate a partner is cheating?
One of these kids, one of these guys who is very famous for doing this, broke like 36 bones in his body and he's back at it. Of course. Of course. But, you know, youth is for the young. And I guess if you're going to do that, go ahead and do that. But this goes to show.
Underdeveloped brains.
Yeah. Underdeveloped brain is the woman who allowed her child to sit on a railing.
I know that's like those when you go to the zoo stuff where people go in trying to get a picture with the animals.
Harambee.
Yeah.
harambe is dead because well i don't know if the kid did the kid get into the enclosure or did his mom put him on the railing i don't remember but remember they shot harambe um unbelievable unbelievable that this mother would think this but yet now here we have another incident out at sea of someone just being silly and being silly or on purpose whatever what happened in that instance
There's not a lot of details around it, but apparently overboard. There you go. Some people do do this, by the way, not to talk about unaliving yourself, but some people do do this. Like it's a plan that they have and they go and they do it and it's sad and whatever. And this is actually, there's a rash of these happening right now in Disney World too. People jumping off the contemporary hotel.
Really? Yes. People unaliving themselves at Disney World. I guess they think it's like they want to spend the last day of their life at the happiest place on earth. But it's a problem for Disney because it's caused – it's a problem for Disney because that's not – no one wants to encounter that at any point in the day.
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