This week Gina and Gary are back with another round of unbelievable service industry chaos, questionable customer logic, and the kind of entitlement that makes professionals everywhere want to flip a table.

From beauty services to tattoo shops, we dive into stories where people seriously underestimate the time, skill, and cost behind professional work. Let’s just say when people try to cut corners on professional services… it rarely ends well.

In the middle of the episode we also break down some bizarre headlines including a North Carolina mother who resurfaced after being missing for 24 years, new research suggesting semaglutide may help reverse damage from osteoarthritis, scientists teaching living human brain cells to play Doom, chocolate being locked up in stores as theft spikes, and the online backlash after OpenAI’s military partnership sparked a growing “Cancel ChatGPT” movement.

This week’s stories

• When a “Quick Haircut” Turns Into a Group Discount
• Apparently Being Good At Makeup Means Working Weddings For Free
• When “Going Somewhere Cheaper” Backfires

NEWS:

• Missing North Carolina mother found alive after 24 years
• Semaglutide may help reverse osteoarthritis damage
• 200,000 living human brain cells learned to play Doom in a lab experiment
• Chocolate kept in anti-theft boxes as shops warn it’s being stolen to order
• The growing “Cancel ChatGPT” movement after OpenAI signs a military partnership

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