In The Know Episode 6

Manufactures seem to be making their products last shorter amounts of time these days in Canada. A woman buys an I-Phone 5, and only 1 year later, her phone is slow and her charger is broken, but fret not! All she has to do is upgrade to the I-phone 6 to get a new charger!!!! A man finances a Dodge Charger, and only 4 months later, his “Check Engine Light” comes on, and some unexpected electrical fixes need looking at, so the Chrysler Dealership “takes care of it” just like the Mafia does, because we all know: ITS JUST BUSINESS, forget about it!

This is the “Buy It Then Try It” forum In The Know. Travis Twitter is an Economist teaching at Saint Thomas University right here in Fredericton, the city where nothing ever happens, Lol. He is an expert, and the issue of “Planned Obsolescence”, the process where manufactures deliberately make their products last a short amount of time so we, the good obedient sheep, the consumers, get the latest upgrade sooner than we did in the 1980’s.

Of course, those awesome commercials, soon to be on This Hour Has 22 Minutes will have you chuckling, and an amazing parody song based off of “Oh Pretty Woman” by Roy Orbison will have you asking more questions about “Planned Obsolescence” instead of “hearing all the answers” on those other shows!

Enjoy, uh! It’s Joe Canadian, eh!