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Cats, Chaos and Christmas Village Secrets · Rik and that Michele Chick

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Welcome to Rick and That Michelle Chick, the weekly
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podcast where your hosts, Rick and Michelle, confidently dive
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into topics they know absolutely nothing about and somehow make
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it sound legit. They're not experts.
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They're not qualified. Honestly, they barely googled
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it. So grab a drink, lower your
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expectations, and let's pretend this counts as content.
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So buckle up. Facts are optional, but the
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bullshit? That's premium grade.
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This is Rick and that Michelle chick.
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Will you have some good news that you want to discuss?
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I I do as well. So you go first with your good
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news because I think, I think one of mine's going to be long
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Maybe. I don't know.
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Who knows? I, one of the things we talked
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have talked about before in the podcast is I have this once I
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decide I like something, then I then I'm all in, right.
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That's just kind of my personality.
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So, so you know, sadly, I'm a Dallas Cowboys fan.
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I shouldn't have to make excuses for the Dallas Cowboys, but I do
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make excuses for the Dallas Cowboys.
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So if I, so if I become a, if I'm a fan of something, then I'm
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then I'm a real fan And, and you and there's nothing you can say
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or do that's going to change me. So, you know, I like Pepsi over
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Coke. And so when I go to restaurants,
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I always say, Hey, do you have Coke or Pepsi products?
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And if they say, oh, we have Coke, I have a Sprite, you see
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me do it? Yes, yeah, I do the same thing.
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Yeah, yeah. Yeah, so, so I mean, so for me,
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once I pick something, it's usually my usually my lane.
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And one of the things through the years that I have always
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been made fun, not necessarily made fun of, but people have
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always went what they just didn't understand.
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So I'll, I'll ask you really quick, do you do you have a
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favorite musical artist of all time?
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Yes. Have we talked about it?
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Yes, and you. Nobody ever knows who they are
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or remembers who they are. Keen Remember the British band?
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Yeah, yeah. So that really that truly, let's
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just put it into perspective, that truly is your favorite
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above Taylor Swift, above anything from high school,
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anything from, you know, I am familiar with them.
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Yes, like we, I flew to Los Angeles to see them in concert
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because that was the closest to they were going to be on their
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last tour. OK.
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Well, good. I don't.
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I got nothing else to say. I can't beat that.
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I mean, I mean, hey, you pay for your comic books and that kind
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of stuff and like, this is my Comic Con, so to speak.
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I. Guess so I think about what I'm
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going to say. What makes it unique is most
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people, let's just say like Bob Seger or they like Journey or
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they like Styx or they like, you know, Taylor Swift.
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Well, those people tour like non-stop, like like even being a
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big. They're like mainstream people.
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Yeah, but but even from a a, a great example is my number two
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favorite of all time is Toto. And I've seen, I've seen Toto a
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ton of times because they're out on the road.
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They're going to be out this summer with Christopher Cross
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and the Romantics. So that was just announced.
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And then I just saw him last year with Men At Work,
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Christopher Cross and Toto. Now, it was funny back in 2007,
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I saw them in Spokane in a club of 600 people.
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This is before 'cause remember, Africa went viral again.
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So they couldn't, so Toto couldn't get arrested in America
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for like 20 years. Like, and so I was at this, I
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went to this thing and it was, I'd, I'd never seen Toto live
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and I paid $25 and it was a club in Spokane and, and it's called
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the Knitting Factory. It's called the Knitting
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Factory. Oh yeah, I know the knitting,
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but it's a. Bar Club and they could barely,
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I mean it could barely fill let's say 600 people in there
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and it wasn't and it and it and it wasn't even full.
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I literally walked right to the front of the you know, so I have
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a photo of Steve Lucas there and Bobby Kimball agme and I
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literally went right to the front to snap a picture for 25
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bucks. I was by myself.
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Nobody was with me. No one wanted, nobody wanted to
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go with me if. You can find a date to go.
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Yeah, no one wanted to see Toto with me, so the So this is not
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what this is about, but it just puts into perspective.
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So if you want to see your favorite band, for the most part
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they always tour most people's favorite band.
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I don't know about Keene, Do they tour a lot?
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They just said their 20th anniversary.
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I mean, they're from Britain and so.
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They 2 are more in Europe. Over there, yes and so when they
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do come here, it's hit in this or it's only a month so.
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Yeah, so you can, so you can relate.
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So the exciting news I have for you at least, at least it was a
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Merry Christmas for me, is all the the the four original
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members of Mr. Mr. got back together and they performed
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Broken Wings. So it's the 40th anniversary
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this month, Broken Wings went #1 and it's the 40th anniversary.
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And so they decided to get back together or they're not back to
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get, but they decided to do a one off video.
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All original members, you know, much, much grayer, much wider,
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more more balding. But what was so crazy about the
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my favorite band Mr. Mr. was they they had the 2.
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They had big hit. They had like for one year they
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had three big hits, right? You know, they had Broken Wings,
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they had Curie and they had Is it Love and the, and their album
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went #1 the album was #1 Welcome to the Real World.
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That was, you know, and then they literally just imploded.
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Like the next album had a, a song called Something Real that
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was top 29. And then that was it.
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They then they had problems in the band and they, they
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basically just, they broke up. So there was only that about a
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year and a half or maybe if you were lucky, 2 years where you
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could see, you could see them out on tour basically.
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And so I remember hearing this commercial, I never got to go
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see him, but there was a commercial that was running for
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the Beasley Coliseum, or it was Seattle and they were opening up
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for Tina Turner. And so I remember being 15 years
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old and going, Oh my gosh, I want to go see that show, 16
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years old. Of course, being a poor kid, I
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never got to, I never got to, to, to see him ever, ever live.
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And then and then they literally just went away like.
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Yeah, they just kind of fell off the face of the earth.
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Basically and, and, and they've and they've all been in other
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bands. So it's not like they, they
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didn't stop working, but they just wanted, they just went
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their own separate ways. And so and they just didn't
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tour. Like it wasn't one of those
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things. Richard Page, the lead singer is
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a, is a big songwriter. So that's what he did after Mr.
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Mr. Is, he wrote Madonna's song I'll Remember, which was a big
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hit, big number one hit for Madonna.
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He wrote that for her and he wrote for Céline Dion.
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He wrote for the list just goes on and on.
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So he just didn't tour. Like he he just didn't tour.
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And so and people would always ask him and he's like, he's
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like, no, he goes, we had this little blip, this little blip of
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time. He goes, it's not enough to tour
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on. He goes, he goes.
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I don't desire to be an the the third opening act.
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Well, I mean no, I mean. I mean.
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He's real, he's realistic about it.
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He's like, he's like, we had our moment.
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We played stadiums for that two years there.
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One one big show was the Bengals and Mr. Mr. Touring.
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Oh wow. That would have been a cool
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show. Yes.
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Right. So and and and they and then
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again, they opened for Don Henley, they opened for Harden,
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they opened for Tina Turner. I mean, so they were they had
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their like you said, they had their little brief moment son.
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And so they were always realistic about about the fact
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that and then they just didn't get back together.
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Like they liked each other, but there was like, we're not
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getting back together. Oh, it wasn't like an eagle
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situation where they all. Just well between.
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Each other for. A while no between the
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guitarist. So the guitarist did leave.
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Steve Ferris did leave the band. And so in 1990 they did an album
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and the record company wouldn't release it.
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So there was there was a final Mr. Mr. album and in 2020, Oh
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no, 2010 they did finally release it after like like 20
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years later, they released it on And so, but they and then they
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had talked about, Oh, well, maybe we'll tour.
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And they, and there was a word, there was word that they're
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going to be with Tears For Fears, level 40, Level 42 Tears
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For Fears and Mr. Mr. Co headlining would have that would
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have been a cool tour right that.
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Would have, yes. But but Richard Page is the lead
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singer of of the band. Got offered to be in Ringo's All
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Star band. So for seven years, he was in
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Ringo's All Star band singing the two big hits.
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Because that's the cool thing about Ringo's band is you come
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play your hits. And so.
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Yeah, so. So, yeah.
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So to me, so having them all back together is like #1 having
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the original guitarist who had left the band, right And and
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then they got back together. So they, they did a big video.
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I'm hoping they'll do some more. They they definitely and they
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did AQ and a for the fans and the, and, and they're like,
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what's new music? Let's tour.
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And they're like, we're like, no.
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They're like no. They're like, we're too old.
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We don't. No, they're yeah 'cause they're
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in their mid what, early? They're in their early 70s.
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I was going to say they have to be late 60s.
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Yeah, they're early, early 70s and I and I like what he and
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like what Richard Page said. He just says he just goes, hey,
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we had our blip and he goes grateful.
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It's awesome, you know, we had that moment in time.
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But he goes, he goes. I just don't have a desire to be
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at the State Fair. Right.
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I mean, at least he's realistic about it.
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But all these 80, like you just said, you've seen Toto Men At
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Work, all these 80s artists that we grew up with and love, They
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had the audience. Like we all had that disposable
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income now and we have to relive our youth and we want to go see
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them and they have the 80s cruises and the 90s cruises.
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And so I could see them doing something like that.
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Yeah, they're. So they do just a big like 80s
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festival on the island, like 80s artists.
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Well, yeah, so they so so Richard Page himself, he does a
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lot of charity work. So he so he he will come and do
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the the two big, basically the two big songs.
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You know, I mean he so he you see him, it's not like he's not
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done anything. He just right.
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It's just not like a full blown he's put out two or right, he's
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put out albums through the years, but you know, they're
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very they're very few and far between.
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And it's one of those things he's not a big social media guy
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at all. So it's like he very seldom ever
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seen on social media. But but to get those four back
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together for my Christmas present?
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Merry Christmas. You know I still.
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Don't know why they haven't invited me yet.
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Come on man, invite me to the when they do get together so.
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I'm surprised that Richard Page doesn't have a restraining word
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against you by now. I know, I know, so it's so.
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It's so fun. So there's the the the good
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humor. I mean, for me, that was the
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Christmas present. Now you, I mean, it is like they
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say never meet your idols. But I mean, I actually have met
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him, you know, multiple, multiple times when he got into
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Ringo's band. Right, that's why we've talked
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about meeting people on a past podcast and like who's our
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favorite meet and greet are and. So, so, yeah, so I've, so I've,
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so I've got to, to meet him at four times at Ringo, you know,
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and along with Steve Lukather of Toto a couple times.
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That was, that's the highlight. I mean, for me, that's the
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highlight of my, my life period. That's the gravy on top.
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I even told back in, back in 2008 when I finally got to, to,
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to interview Richard Page, I said, I told Cheryl, our old GMI
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said, OK, that's it. I could, I'm done.
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I've been to the mountain for me, you know, and so anyway, it
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was just cool to it was just cool to see them back together
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doing even if they're doing a couple songs.
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And that was my Christmas present.
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So go check it out. I got it on my Facebook.
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It's probably on my Instagram. And the cool thing is he does it
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in the original key. Oh nice.
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Like so so because. Because the cool thing about
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having not toured for 30 years or 40 years, guess what?
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That voice is intact, great. And he even talks and even talk
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not not, he's not, he's not, he's not egotistical about it.
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But he's also says that's his biggest fear is his voice.
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He's like, he's like, he goes, I'm afraid I'm going to wake up
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1 morning and it's going to be gone.
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And you hear great performers like Steve Perry.
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You know, I love the new Steve Perry album, but I'm like, boy,
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that voice is, you know, or I or I hear, I hear other artists
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from that period that I love so much.
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And it's not the same because, but that's because it's the
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concert touring. Right, which I saw Jordan Sparks
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was just on I it wasn't Jimmy Kimmel.
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I'm not sure what it was, but I was watching.
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But she was talking about after she won American Idol and how
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the how they just have to tour so much and the pressure is on
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to just go, go, go, go, go. And she just finally wore out
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her voice to the point where she couldn't sing any keys and it
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really scared her so. Yeah, yeah.
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I get that when they, yeah. No.
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So it's so, yeah. So it's one of those.
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It's just. Bread and butter so.
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Well, I've always thought about that from, from from a radio
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standpoint, because you and I, you know, been in radio forever
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and we just had another layoff at Town Square Media.
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I'm like, oh geez. Oh no, another one.
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Another late not not in our building, but elsewhere.
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I'm like, oh geez, there's hardly.
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Any people left to like? I know, I know, and I and I, and
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I always think that for me, I've got, I, I look at it like from
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a, from a, so I could retire hypothetically, worst case
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scenario, 62. I mean, that's worst case
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scenario. Then there's 65 and then
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there's, and then there's 70. And so I would love for the
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voice. I mean to, I mean, number one,
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I'm a poor DJ or just jockey. So I mean, I've got a little bit
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of savings and a little bit of four O 1K that I've done myself,
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but no one, no one ever matched MY4O1K or any of the you know,
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it's all, it's all what I've done.
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And so and so my biggest fear more than anything else is,
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well, what if my voice does go and I, and you already know,
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Michelle, I my biggest advantage not, not that I have a great
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radio voice. It's not about having a great
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radio voice. I still sound like I'm 25 years
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old. I was going to say, you sound
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young. That's your advantage.
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That that has been the ultimate 100% advantage, not deep voice,
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none of the the regular radio stuff and you can talk fast,
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right? I truly sound super, super or
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young, well, younger than what I am at 50.
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I'm going to be what I'll be 56 And, and I've had so many people
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go, Oh my God, you're not 56 or, or you know, there's a, they
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can't believe that because when they hear me on the air, they're
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like, well, he sounds, he sounds young.
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So it's interesting when I talk about Logan, that's 30.
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Logan's going to be 32. And but, but again, I understand
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like you look at like a Ryan Seacrest who's now what pushing
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is he mid 50s now He's getting there.
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He's over 50 at least, or he's close.
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Yeah, he has to be. He's close to be in his 50s.
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You know, but he. 50s. But he but he's got he's got way
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he's got way more gruel than gruel grind than than I do
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because I don't have to care about my looks.
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Yes, which I just saw him on Good Morning America this
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morning and I thought, but he's looking old but.
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But what? But he's got to do a lot.
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Yeah, I mean, you could tell he has like some, he has filler or
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something. Yeah.
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He just doesn't look right anymore.
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You know when you have stuff done and you just don't look
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right? You want to have stuff done to
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the point where you can't tell that you've had stuff.
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Done right. Oh yeah.
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That is the goal. I think of people like Dana
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Delany. The actress looks absolutely
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amazing like that. She's incredible.
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And then and then, is it Joy Behar from the view?
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From the View, yeah, she's yeah, I was going to say she, I she is
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80 years old. And she looks, yeah.
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And she's like, she's there. Oh yeah, yeah, she can fire off
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1 liners left and right still where sometimes I struggle to
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get out a damn sentence. Yes.
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I love her because I'm like and I'm like, man, she's 80.
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What would wouldn't that be cool to be 80 and be be that on it on
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it? So anyway, that was my Christmas
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present to me. I didn't need any cash.
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It's just cool to see it happen And and I hope they do more.
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But again, there's no promise that they're going to do more
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any of those different things. And and RP is so picky to even
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talks about. You know, he doesn't want to
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release anything unless it's perfect.
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And us fans are like, I'm nothing.
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Can be perfect though you. Can I know us fans are like,
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yeah, us fans, you know how fans are?
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Just put it out there. Yeah, you're just clamoring for
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more music. You don't care.
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It could sound like shit, probably.
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You guys don't believe it? Probably, absolutely.
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I'm sure you know, I mean, so anyway, there you go.
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That's a little little Christmas thing for me.
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And and, and I don't know why, when I wrote my book, I don't
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know why I didn't mention Mr. Mr. I should have.
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That's surprising. I know I I.
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Surprised you didn't. Well, it was more of a love
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letter to my foster parents, but my foster family there's.
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Really something do you have, do you have something with Mr. Mr.
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that correlates with them that you could have wrote about or
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was that later in life, Mr. Mr. Recall it was so funny.
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I do recall going over to my foster mom's house.
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I was what 1516 and I remember I had I had a little 45
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collection, right And she had a record player.
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So I get to play my my music and I do remember one time she came
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home and I was playing Billy Vera and the beaters at this
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moment. And my foster mom goes that she
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goes, she goes Virgil. That's the most depressing song
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I've ever heard. That was from Remember that was
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popular from Family Ties. Yes.
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Yeah, you know, so that's where. But I love that.
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I do love that song, but man, you want to be depressed.
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Yeah, Billy Vera at this moment. So anyway, that's that's one of
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the songs I I, you know, that I have the recollection of my
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foster mom going Virgil. That's like the most depressing
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song I've ever heard. So anyway, so and now I know
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you've got some good news. Let's hear your good news.
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I do. I'll say my Christmas miracle.
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Let me start with the. 1st I know what's happening here.
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Oh, Christmas miracle. Now I know where we're going.
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Well, so first good news is we caught that Mama cat.
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I know that, I just knew the minute you said that.
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Well, there's another Christmas miracle after this, so yes.
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So we trapped the Mama cat, which we have been trying to
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trap her for weeks. If you've listened to past
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podcast, we trapped her, we found out she had kittens.
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I'll just like condense it. We found out she had kittens.
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We had to re release her. We found the kittens, we got the
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kittens and then we were having trouble trapping her because she
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knows the trap now. I went and got a drop trap,
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which is the one where you like, set it up, pull the rope, but
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you have to be out. You have to be there physically.
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I went and got one of those traps from one of the ladies in
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the rescue that we foster for. So pick that up last week and
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all weekend we were out there with this drop trap.
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No sign of her. No sign of her at all all
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weekend. Then yesterday the coffee girls
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text me and they're like she is sitting out.
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So she used to sit outside the window and they would feed her
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because I left food for them. After we found out she had
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kittens and we re released her and they were feeding her for
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me. Well, she started learning that
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they had food and she would sit out and stare at them in the
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windows. And so she was there yesterday
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staring at them. And so I ran down with the
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traditional trap thinking, OK, if she's hungry, hungry enough,
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maybe she'll go in this trap, right?
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Oh no, she did the same thing where she goes to the back and
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she tries to get the food, but she would not go near the
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entrance of this trap. So I go home, I pick up the drop
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trap. I had a dentist appointment at 2
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yesterday. So I set up the drop trap.
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She sees me setting up the drop trap.
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She is over where this dumpster is and there's a stump.
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She's sitting on the stump watching me set up this drop
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trap. And then I get in my car and I
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have the window down. With the rope, because I'm
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thinking, OK, she's not going to see me sitting in my car.
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No, she stays on that stump the entire time.
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And then I have to go to my dentist appointment.
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So Shelly comes, my daughter, she comes and so I pull away and
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she stays there. Well, it must have been because
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my car left. I'm sitting in the dentist chair
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and I feel my watch like vibrate, vibrate, vibrate and I
20:26
know something's like happening but I can't look at it right.
20:30
You know them in the dentist chair.
20:34
Well, Shaylee caught her after I left.
20:36
She went under the drop trap. Shaylee pulled the rope and it
20:41
fell on her. She didn't freak out, she was
20:43
just scared. Well, then you have to try and
20:45
get them into the smaller crate out of the big drop trap.
20:49
There's two little doors, one on the drop trap, one on the crate,
20:53
and so you kind of like match them up.
20:55
And anyway, usually it takes two people to do this.
20:58
Oh no Shaylee like got her in by herself.
21:01
So this all happened while I'm at the dentist.
21:04
She trapped her, got her in the transfer cage and was home by
21:08
the time I was done at the dentist.
21:10
I love it. Yes which Shaylee?
21:13
She is the cat whisperer so it is probably good that it was her
21:18
because she is cool as a cucumber under pressure.
21:22
Like I swear she should be an ER doctor where I probably would
21:25
have been like the adrenaline probably would have kicked in
21:27
because we would we, we get one shot with this drop trap.
21:31
Otherwise she is going to also know what this trap is and we're
21:35
going to be back to square 1. I don't know what we would have
21:38
used to try and catch her. We would have been out of luck I
21:40
guess. So yes, we trapped her.
21:44
She is scared. Luckily she's not freaking out,
21:48
she's not aggressive. She did kind of growl at Shaylee
21:51
a little bit this morning, but I think that's just because she's
21:54
still scared and doesn't know what the heck's going on.
21:56
And anyway, so yay, we have her, we find.
22:00
She's at your house. Yes, she is yeah.
22:02
So we have a house full. We have her two kitties, We have
22:05
her, we have our other two fosters that I've had for two
22:08
years that we can't find a home for because they're older
22:11
bonded, which they are up on our highlights in our Instagram if
22:15
anybody would like to check them out and adopt them, FYI.
22:18
So, so yeah, we are our, the inn is full basically at our House
22:23
of fosters and cats and animals and, and the kitties had fleas.
22:28
So I had to take them to the vet because, you know, they have to
22:31
be a certain weight in order to have the medicine that goes on
22:35
their back. And I wasn't, they were not at
22:37
the weight. And so I took them to the vet
22:39
and luckily by the time I took them to the vet the next day,
22:43
somehow they were like 1 LB point 2 oz like barely over the
22:48
weight limit for this flea medicine.
22:50
And the vet, he gave it to them and he was like, I'll go double
22:54
check because even he was a little bit worried that they
22:56
were not of the right weight to have this flea medicine.
22:59
But they were fine. Got the flea medicine, no
23:02
problems. So we assume Mama cat has fleas
23:06
and so we have to isolate her because we don't want everyone
23:10
in our household getting fleas. Yeah, that would be like crazy.
23:15
So yeah, so finally, we finally caught her.
23:19
Now we have to get the flea medicine on her today.
23:21
That is today's project. So wish us luck that she doesn't
23:25
scratch us to death. But we we do have these cat
23:30
gloves that are like bite proof that go up to your elbows now.
23:33
So so we'll probably have to use those, probably going to take a
23:37
couple of us, but we'll get it done.
23:39
So yay, we caught Mama cat. That whole saga is done, but I
23:44
also have another Christmas miracle.
23:47
All right. Because look what I found.
23:51
It's a cassette. I found my air checks.
23:54
Look, look. Look, look.
23:56
Look, look, look and look it. I even have a reel look at this.
24:00
Look at that. I found them, they remember in
24:04
storage. I felt like they were gone and
24:07
missing. They were in with the Christmas
24:10
stuff. Wow.
24:11
In the hall closet. Can you believe that?
24:15
So they're not gone? I was ecstatic.
24:18
I'm like, I can't believe this. I can't believe you have a reel
24:21
to reel because I there's, there's, there's nowhere to play
24:24
that reel to reel. You'll have to go to a recording
24:26
studio or somewhere to find. What you mean like legacy box
24:29
you're open it? Oh, oh, yes.
24:31
Oh, send it into legacy box, of course, Yeah.
24:33
Do they? Yeah, they could do.
24:34
That they do that. I don't even know.
24:36
It says Michelle's master reel #1 and then I have another one
24:39
and it's #2 I don't, I have no idea what that is on these
24:42
things. So yeah, yeah, this one.
24:46
So this is like KMW. That's called a legacy box.
24:49
This is like the fair 1998. This is me and Kramer.
24:54
So wow. Yeah, you got, you got the gold,
24:58
you got the gold. Yeah, I know.
25:00
I'm so excited. I found them.
25:01
Like I was like, Oh my God, I thought these were gone.
25:06
So yeah, yeah. So that's my 2 exciting good
25:10
news for for this podcast, I guess.
25:12
I think one of these podcasts will whip out some of the old
25:15
air checks and I have a good laugh.
25:17
So, yeah, yes, which I probably should get, Yeah.
25:20
I mean, we probably should get these off of our cassettes
25:24
because they do degrade. So we probably should do that.
25:28
Oh yeah, I've got a I've got a few of those.
25:30
Oh, I saw they're there's, they're just horrible.
25:32
I know, I know they're. Horrible, but I but I do have
25:35
them. We I mean, if we just legacy
25:38
boxer doesn't do cassettes right.
25:46
So I I think the mailman is here.
25:49
It's either, it's either delivery.
25:52
Yes, they are. Are they not halfway through all
25:54
the time? Uh huh.
25:55
Yeah, actually sounds. Walking by the house.
26:01
Hang on. This is where you play the
26:03
little intermission. Go get.
26:06
Go get some snacks. Go, go get some snacks.
26:09
Now you got Roxy Rox Roxy. Roxy's working.
26:18
So Megan just got a package. So.
26:21
So they're. So the mailman is in our yard
26:24
and we have a glass door, so you can hear Roxy now over.
26:29
That's rock. Yeah.
26:31
Roxy. Roxy.
26:32
You never hear her bark, but so sparkly.
26:37
And then Roxy and then Bodie's outside.
26:40
So anyway, Merry Christmas. Happy holidays, UPS.
26:47
So this time of year it's kind of interesting because what
26:50
FedEx is going to the neighborhood, UPS is going
26:53
through the neighborhood, that the Postal Service is going
26:55
through the neighborhood. And yesterday I was waiting for
26:58
a package for Megan's Christmas present and I swore the delivery
27:01
trucks went like four or five times by they did.
27:04
And then finally the package came.
27:05
But I was like, man, I'm like, you know, because they're just,
27:08
they're just remember, they're just, they're just, there's so
27:10
many different delivery people these days.
27:12
Oh, that it might be different trucks, not this.
27:15
Yeah, there's different, there's different, you know, there's
27:17
different, there's Amazon, there's FedEx.
27:20
I mean, they're all different when they're coming through the
27:21
neighborhood. So.
27:22
And Bodhi Bodhi is very reactive to the.
27:27
Yeah, yeah, my dogs are too. I get it.
27:30
Yeah, Yeah. Still barking so and what they
27:32
do too. I think they know that Bodhi
27:34
lives here. They will park in front of the
27:36
house to sort to sort the mail. Oh yeah, we have AU shaped
27:41
driveway and they do that at our house too.
27:43
And then the dogs go bananas for longer periods of time because
27:48
they're sitting out there. Yeah.
27:50
That's what that's what they're doing right now.
27:52
I'm like, I'm like, they already dropped off this package, so
27:54
they're now they're sorting. Right.
27:56
Yeah, and now because they haven't moved, they haven't
27:58
moved their ass. Yep, Yep.
28:00
The dogs see the vehicle and they know hang.
28:02
On, let me just take one little peek.
28:04
I think it's still. So yes, I've got I've got Amazon
28:10
and I've got the US and the the Postal Service sitting in front
28:13
of my house. Oh my goodness, both of them.
28:15
What are they like Chit chat? So.
28:16
Our neighbor, so the neighbor across the street, I don't know
28:19
what the neighbor does, but they get a lot of packages, like all
28:22
the time. I swear.
28:23
They do nothing but online shopping.
28:24
So, so right now, yeah. So the UPS guidance or the
28:28
postal guide is pulled out now I got the Amazon guy across the
28:31
street. I'm like, Oh my gosh.
28:32
So yeah, yeah. But yeah, cassettes.
28:35
I know Air checks, yeah. Now, is there a way we can play
28:40
audio on the podcast ever at all or anything like that?
28:43
I believe so, yes. We'll have to, we'll have to
28:45
experiment because I know we wanted to do what AI sounds
28:49
like. It sounds like these days, yeah.
28:51
And and then we also could play some really bad air checks.
28:55
But yeah, some really horrible air checks.
28:58
Oh my gosh. That would be painful to sit
29:00
through, but. It is.
29:02
People don't. People don't realize that just
29:04
because we get to talk on the radio that it's not like I want
29:06
to sit around and listen to myself talk.
29:08
No, I mean, it's kind of, you know, when you see actors and
29:11
actresses talking about their movies and usually they'll ask
29:14
them, we'll have you, you know, watch the movie.
29:16
And they're like, no, I don't like to watch myself.
29:18
So I get why they don't want to watch themselves back because I
29:21
don't want to listen to myself. I.
29:23
Listen to myself, I watch what was that?
29:25
Just saw a great saw a great interview with Zoe Deschnall
29:27
from ELF and she was talking about they're like, oh, how many
29:31
times have you seen Elf? And she's like, I saw it when it
29:33
premiered. That was it.
29:34
She goes, she goes. I don't like, like you just
29:36
said, I don't like to go back and and watch my performances.
29:40
Right. Yeah.
29:40
So and a lot of people, and it's the same with one of the things
29:43
you have to get used to is the sound of your own voice.
29:45
A lot of people don't realize it about radio.
29:47
They're like, you know, now Now don't get me wrong, some people
29:50
love the sound of their. Yes, we know.
29:54
We know quite a few. Yes, I've run into quite a few
29:57
air talent that that they they love the sound of their voice.
30:00
I am not one of those people. I'm usually usually when I've
30:03
done a radio break, I'm usually screaming at the dashboard.
30:06
If I voice track and I'm just hearing as I'm driving around
30:09
I'm usually like shut the shut the F up you piece of shit.
30:13
Damn, yeah, that's usually me too.
30:15
Right. And like, my gosh, you know, and
30:17
then and then I and then I just and then I'll self critique the
30:20
break. I'm like, did I do?
30:21
Did I do enough in that break? I have personality.
30:24
Should I have done this? Should I have done that?
30:26
Why did I say that I could have done this better?
30:29
Yeah. Yeah.
30:30
The kids used to hate it when I was in radio.
30:33
Because you know how most people turn up the radio to hear the
30:36
song, right? Not me, not us.
30:38
We turn up the radio to hear the DJ's talking, especially if it's
30:42
from the other stations or whatever it is.
30:45
Yeah, I used to drive Megan. That's when we first met because
30:48
we'd go into, like, to Portland and stuff and like that, and
30:50
we'd drive down the road in the middle and then, oh, hang on,
30:52
they're going to talk. Hang on, hang on.
30:54
And I turn them up, you know? So radio people are the only
30:57
people who turn themselves up. Yeah.
30:59
Then then actually listening to the songs loud, then they're
31:02
like, OK, bring it down, bring it down, bring it down.
31:03
Don't, don't. I've already heard that song a
31:05
billion times, don't you? Hear yes, and that's the other
31:08
thing nobody understands. So you know, your friends are
31:11
like, Oh my God, I love this new Luke Bryan song.
31:14
And by the time by that time, I'm like, I'm tired of hearing
31:18
it. I no, I don't like the song
31:21
anymore. I'm tired of hearing it over and
31:23
over. And over my favorite one is,
31:26
which I have no skill at, is lyrics because because once the
31:31
song starts, we turn it down. Yeah, we don't continue to
31:35
listen to it. We are planning the next break
31:38
or whatever it is we have to do. We're not actually paying
31:41
attention and listening to the song.
31:43
Right. That's the big misconception.
31:45
Everything, it's all you're. Oh, it must be a great job.
31:47
You're just, you're just sitting there listening to the songs
31:49
back-to-back. Oh, man.
31:50
Like, no, we have work to do. So yeah.
31:52
We're doing other stuff. And, and the music is usually
31:54
down and then we're going to talk.
31:55
OK, now we turn the music up. So we hear that.
31:57
We hear the beginning and the end.
31:59
Yep. So if that lyric is not the
32:01
beginning or the end, I have no idea what's in the middle.
32:04
Yeah, me either. So you were talking about about
32:08
teenagers and social media. Tell me about this.
32:10
I've not seen this story. Tell me this story.
32:12
Oh, have you not heard I? Have not.
32:14
This is. All over.
32:16
So Australia is the first country to ban teens from using
32:21
social media, anybody under 16. So that's Facebook, that's
32:27
TikTok. I mean, the whole works.
32:30
Like this is everything. They have to be 16.
32:32
And it just went into effect today, I believe, or well,
32:36
Australia's like what a day or two ahead of us.
32:38
So, but there were kids, there were teenagers that were already
32:43
posting like, oh, we, we went around the band like we've
32:46
already like figured out a way to get around it.
32:50
But I wanted your thoughts. So, you know, both of us have
32:54
children. What you think about the band,
32:58
if you would think it would have been something good when our
33:01
kids were coming up in social media, would that be something
33:03
that you would be for this band? Or would you be against it
33:07
because the teenagers are saying, well you're, you're
33:11
silencing us basically is their argument.
33:15
You know what I I think it's I don't know what happened.
33:19
All right, so growing up, same as you and I, we same, we grew
33:23
up in the same time period, right?
33:25
Everybody wanted to be the popular kid.
33:27
Everybody wanted the the Nikes, they wanted the the right
33:30
clothes, the right hair. And this is all pre social
33:33
media. Every kid wants to fit in.
33:36
Every kid wants to belong. No one wants to be the outsider.
33:40
No, you know, everybody wants to.
33:43
And and so I think is what's what's for me really changed,
33:46
which I, and I've talked about this before on the podcast,
33:48
which is insane, is little kids in 1st and 2nd grade coming in
33:52
with their Starbucks and their, their, their smart actions.
33:57
Yeah, the list just the list just goes on and on of of I
34:02
don't it's not of entitlement of what they're given to at a young
34:06
age. And so and I think social media
34:08
is another one of those situations to where that there
34:12
are plenty of kids that don't need to be on social media at A
34:17
at a young age that are on social media.
34:19
I don't it but it but again, you and I growing up, it's the same
34:23
thing as going to see an R rated movie.
34:25
Right. There's there's always going to
34:27
be a way around the R rated movie.
34:28
Now an R rated movie, you know, restricted.
34:31
Well, I'll go with my mom and dad.
34:33
So there was so there was always a kid in school.
34:36
They were like, Oh, I went and saw whatever movie was that was
34:38
R rated because their because their parents allow it.
34:41
Now your parents weren't going to allow it, but but, and so
34:45
you're going to, you're going to have you have two, basically two
34:48
different sets of parents. You got those that are going to
34:51
say, no, you're not going to. I remember, I remember it was so
34:53
interesting. It's the same every, every
34:56
parent is different. Every parenting style is
34:58
different. And I remember that there was on
35:00
an Instagram account, a radio friend of mine and his wife,
35:05
they have a, they had a very beautiful daughter and she was,
35:08
I don't know if she was 16 or 15 at the time or whatever.
35:10
And someone says, Oh my God, she's, you know, she's so she's
35:13
so cute, you know, does she have a boyfriend yet?
35:16
And the, and the mom responded, she's not allowed to date until
35:19
she's 16. Like, you know, not, not 13, not
35:24
14, not 15. She just shut it down and says
35:26
you're not allowed to date. Right.
35:28
So. But meanwhile you got 12 year
35:31
olds and 11 year olds and 13 year olds dating.
35:34
Yeah. So every family's different,
35:37
every parent's diffing, everybody's different on what on
35:40
what they're going to allow. I think the.
35:42
Bad thing about like what you just mentioned about social
35:45
media, the Starbucks and the cell phone is now that we have
35:48
that, now those kids see that even more and want that to fit
35:54
in. So I want the latest this, that,
35:56
blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. It's more out there and in your
35:58
face compared to when you and I were were growing up.
36:00
Like, yeah, there were the commercials on TV, but that's
36:04
it. And we didn't have social media
36:07
to try and sell us all this stuff, basically.
36:09
Or the image that you want to portray, or how you want to look
36:13
when you go to school, or whatever it is.
36:16
Well, and I and I, and I'm, I'm one of those people.
36:18
I don't want to, I don't want to be a prude, but I mean, they,
36:22
some of these parents have groomed their kids to be TikTok
36:26
stars or oh. Yeah, they're.
36:28
Making stars off. Of.
36:29
Them and, you know, and they're 12 year old in a bikini, you
36:31
know what I'm saying? Yeah, I mean, I'm sure you've
36:33
seen that in your feed. Yes.
36:35
You're like like this kids 12 years old, what the you know and
36:38
the parents are like now they might say this is a parent rent.
36:41
This is a parent run account. OK, great.
36:43
But what the hell is your kid doing a bikini, right?
36:45
No now. Now on the flip side, Michelle,
36:48
you could, you could flip it back my way and say, well,
36:50
you're a grown man. What are you looking at that
36:52
for? Yeah, yeah.
36:54
Like what? Do you that's, I mean, that's
36:55
the argument that go that goes the other way was like, well,
36:59
you know, you should be in control of yourself as a man.
37:02
Right. That you know and.
37:04
That's true. They're not.
37:05
Yeah. You know I mean.
37:06
But my my son and his wife do not want their baby's pictures
37:10
on social media and I completely understand why.
37:13
I mean, especially with AI now. And Oh yeah.
37:16
Weirdos and what you can do with pictures.
37:19
And I mean, honestly, if I would have known how social media is,
37:24
especially now that we know the algorithm and that it is there
37:28
to make us addicted. And there's more.
37:32
I definitely would have not allowed my kids to be on it
37:36
until they were a little bit older if I if I would have
37:39
known. And looking back, we obviously
37:41
didn't know how Facebook and Instagram and all this was going
37:44
to play out in our lives and how we were going to be addicted to
37:47
it. But yeah, I definitely would not
37:49
have allowed them. I mean, remember Jackson, he was
37:52
what, 13? And I still wouldn't allow him
37:55
to have a. Instagram and he had to.
37:57
Write like the 10 reasons why he could have it.
38:00
You know, because he had to show me he could be responsible and I
38:03
could trust that he wasn't going to do bad things stuff.
38:08
Yeah, with his Instagram. Well, and you know, and I know
38:11
that right now, I want to say at least in America, 13, but but I
38:14
knew kids that were 10. God they that.
38:17
That have it and they play this all you put a different.
38:19
Age. You just have to put the right
38:21
age right for the year and any kid can figure that out.
38:25
Like right? Yeah.
38:26
And so, so on one hand, it's like, yeah, I, I, it definitely
38:30
brings up, you know, like, I don't, I mean, it's, I think, I
38:35
think kids are going to find what they're going to find no
38:37
matter what. Some kids, you know, will abide,
38:40
some kids abide by it. Some kids will, they got to get
38:42
on social media. It's, it's a, it's a different
38:46
kind of drug. Yes, yeah.
38:49
You know, creating content, how many likes did I get?
38:52
How many followers do I have? And it's all part, It's all part
38:56
of the ego. Yep.
38:57
Yep. Yeah.
38:59
And and I and I, yeah. So I think it's at at this
39:02
point, I think it's just as bad as alcoholism.
39:04
Yeah, or. Or can be, or can be, or drugs
39:08
or any of those. Yeah, you know, but, but, but
39:11
like anything else, it's like if it's abused, then, you know,
39:16
bad, bad things happen. Because because alcohol in
39:18
itself may not necessarily be a bad thing unless you abuse it.
39:22
Right. Yeah, so, you know, and, and I
39:24
have to, and I, I don't like being on the marijuana train
39:27
because I don't agree with it, but I know it's legal in
39:30
Washington. Yeah.
39:32
So, but now, now I personally, I don't, I don't see the need.
39:35
I don't know why, you know, but again, I came from a different,
39:38
you know, horrific background of addiction.
39:41
Right. And so I so I said that stuff
39:44
doesn't even interest me like. Right.
39:46
You saw a different side of it that most of us don't see.
39:49
Yeah, to me, it's like, you know, why even start?
39:52
Hey, man, you want you want to you want to smoke some weed?
39:55
You want to have an edible? No, you know, Logan and I go
39:57
around and around all the time. Did not interest.
39:59
Now he, you know, he's into it. Cool, you know, But there is no
40:03
amount of peer pressure from anybody that's going to make me.
40:07
You've seen it. Oh yes, I have seen people try
40:10
to get you to drink and you are. You are rock solid in your
40:15
conviction. I have to give you that.
40:17
Like I don't, I don't. I probably would have caved at
40:20
some point in my life. Well, that's your pressure.
40:22
And I always laugh because they all think it's a religious.
40:25
Well, you must be religious. I'm like.
40:30
I never thought of that. Oh yeah.
40:31
Oh yeah, that was yeah, yeah. Is it your religion?
40:35
No. Go Satan.
40:37
You're like, you're like the religion of Rick.
40:40
That's my religion. Hey, I, you know, I do.
40:43
I, you know, because because of my wonderful foster parents,
40:48
there are things I don't do. I don't blasphemy the Lord.
40:51
I don't take the Lord's name in vain.
40:53
So there are things that I don't do just because, you know, if I,
40:57
if I do end up at the pearly gates and I'm wrong, I got to
41:00
make sure that at least half my P's and Q's were being checked.
41:05
Right. Hey.
41:07
You're only you're only getting dinged for half compared to what
41:10
It could have been the entire list.
41:12
So I, yeah, we will not, we will not go into religion.
41:15
But one of the things that I will tell you that what I
41:19
thought about is, and if someone wants to get below me on the
41:22
podcast and go at me, that's perfectly fine.
41:24
I just cannot reason with the fact that let's say at the end
41:29
of my life and I pop up there for judgement and God is there
41:33
and I pop up and Charles Manson pops up.
41:36
Yeah, Charles. Yeah, Charles Manson.
41:40
And, well, he gave himself up to God in his final day.
41:43
But. But, Rick, you didn't believe or
41:44
you didn't have faith. You mean to tell me that God's
41:48
going to go? All right, CC, you come on in.
41:51
Rick, Sorry. Jeffrey Dahmer, yeah.
41:53
Yeah. So, so it's one of the one of
41:56
those things where I just, I guess I just don't buy, I don't
41:59
buy that. Now I also, I'm not going to, I
42:02
mean, I've been to church many times and I am respectful as I,
42:06
you know, as I was raised and, and I don't try to make somebody
42:10
change their religion or I'm like, well, you know, this
42:13
person's Mormon, this person's, you know, Catholic or whatever.
42:16
I just, I just don't get into those.
42:17
I just, I just don't get into those arguments because I just,
42:22
I just, it was funny because I was part of the church.
42:25
I I, I think you knew this. Yeah, yeah.
42:28
We talked about it on a past podcast, which I've had to do 2
42:31
years of catechism as a Lutheran before I could have communion.
42:34
So I've had upbringing in the Lutheran Church.
42:37
So, so, yeah, so being, so being, and I went to Northwest
42:40
Nazarene. So I went to AI mean I went to a
42:42
religious college and disciples of Christ and I think they're a
42:47
Protestant, that Protestant. So I'm, I'm baptized.
42:50
I'm baptized. I got baptized in my, you know,
42:53
but I just remember being with at church and as people would
42:58
speak in tongues. Not now the disciples of Christ
43:01
don't speak in tongues, but I've been to other churches where
43:02
they speak in tongues and and different things like that.
43:06
And and my gram and my grandma King was a wonderful lady.
43:10
She, I, I just couldn't buy it. I was sitting there in church
43:13
and they're all going. I'm like, OK, I'm, I'm, you
43:17
know, snaggle puss. Exit stage left.
43:20
At least my church was a little more normal.
43:23
Yeah, and, and and so was mine. So disciples of Christ, where I,
43:26
you know, where I am baptized, First Christian Church, First
43:28
Christian Church, you know, wonderful people.
43:30
They are wonderful people. I just just didn't want to lie
43:34
to myself anymore about it about, about, you know, now.
43:38
But again, we've talked about I'm an agnostic, I'm not an
43:40
atheist. So I I don't, I don't know,
43:43
right? I don't know the answer, but
43:45
you're not going to. You're not going to convince me
43:46
at the end that I'm going to pop up with Charlie Manson and go,
43:49
sorry, Rick, you're ass going down there.
43:51
Yes, that is also the problem I have is sure if they ask for
43:56
forgiveness and salvation before they die, then yeah, Jeffrey
44:00
doesn't want Charlie. The horrific things they did.
44:03
But but basically, but that's the but that's the like, that's
44:08
the process of what the Bible is saying is that they could very
44:12
well be in heaven when we get there.
44:15
And like you, I've said the same thing if I get there and Jeffrey
44:19
Dahmer's there or who I'm. Not breaking bread with Jeffrey.
44:23
Yeah, it's like, I'm sorry, but I I don't, it's like, no, I've
44:28
I'll be fine going downstairs and live in my hell loop.
44:32
Like, I mean, I just don't, I don't, I don't buy it.
44:37
First off, that that is it's going to be that easy for any
44:41
one of us to do, and I just don't want to be in heaven with
44:47
them Like you, I just I'm like, well, I don't, and I have the I.
44:50
Have the ultimate I have the ultimate respect for people who
44:53
have faith. I do yes.
44:55
That they, you know, and and I'm gonna and I'm gonna put it into
44:59
and, and that are good people. Yes.
45:02
Good people that have faith. I have a lot of respect in good
45:05
people. But you're you're Erica Kirk's
45:08
and all that. I don't buy it.
45:11
You're Jimmy Swaggarts, you know, you're Robert Schollers,
45:14
you're Pat Robertson. Sorry.
45:16
You're you're Tammy Faye Baker. You know y'all?
45:19
You always are going to, you're all, you're always going to burn
45:22
in the effigies of hell because if there is a hell, if there is
45:25
a hell, there's a special place for for people like that.
45:27
So. Have you watched the Righteous
45:29
Gemstones Not to get off. Track No, no I have not.
45:31
Is it? Oh, you have got to watch it.
45:33
It's on HBO. But yeah, it's basically this
45:36
religious family. This is basically how I picture
45:40
how they really are in real life.
45:42
Like, yeah, they put on this front, but behind the scenes
45:45
it's just, of course they're doing cocaine, you know, but.
45:48
It's the truth. It always, it always comes out
45:50
in the end. It always come.
45:51
It always comes out in the end. And, you know, and, and I even
45:56
think that about politics, I think people go in with good
45:59
intentions. Oh yeah.
46:01
And I do believe people going for good intentions and.
46:03
Then they they have to pay the piper because they took money
46:07
from XYZ and now XYZ wants such and such law to not be or
46:13
whatever the case might be I mean.
46:14
Ultimate power corrupts. Yeah.
46:16
Yeah, ultimate power corrupts. I even think that when I see
46:19
articles about embezzlement and different things like that, like
46:22
the Boy Scouts or anything where I, when I see that, it's just
46:27
like, I think it's just too tempting for, for people like,
46:29
oh, I'm, I'm running the Boy Scouts here and I have access to
46:32
the funds. You might be a good person when
46:34
you started that job. And then you're like, oh, crap,
46:38
my car broke down. I need $1000.
46:40
Well, they, they won't know, right?
46:41
I'll pay it. I'll pay it back.
46:42
I'll pay it. Back and then you never do and
46:45
then. And then it and then it just.
46:46
And then it's like 1000, another thousand and another. 1000 and
46:49
then suddenly you're $800,000, you know, so, so you know, I
46:54
mean, you know, I, I would like to think that most people, I do
46:56
believe most people are good. I am an optimist.
46:58
So I do believe people, most people are good.
47:00
But, but I also think that in circumstances, good people are
47:04
going to do bad things. Yeah, I know, I know.
47:06
I sure have. Oh.
47:07
Yeah, we all have. That doesn't make us bad people,
47:10
as long as we don't keep repeating the bad thing.
47:14
And we have had the. Key.
47:15
We had that conversation. But that's that's the proof you
47:18
you. Yeah.
47:19
You don't continue. You, you break.
47:20
Yeah. It's like, oopsie, oopsie.
47:23
I made a poopsie. I've got a right.
47:26
Not gonna not gonna do that again.
47:28
I mean, so yes, it's like, yeah. But someone could argue that.
47:33
Well, I mean, Jeffrey Dahmer could make that case like.
47:38
Hey, you ain't one person. That's enough.
47:40
That's enough. Oopsie, like my bad.
47:43
You know I learned from my mistake.
47:46
You know what? I might be more.
47:47
I might be more sensitive. I might like, OK, OK, well, I
47:50
got to, you know, get a SEC. Yeah, I may not be able to
47:55
forgive that, not forget able to forgive that one there.
47:57
Yeah, I hope not. I.
47:59
Hope. But yeah, I think that, I think
48:00
that I think that with the social media, I don't know how
48:04
you #1 police it. I don't know how you manage it.
48:07
I do. I'm going to get around it.
48:09
Parents are going to do it too. I mean, we haven't talked about
48:12
this. We haven't talked about this on
48:13
the podcast yet. But parents that, oh, I'd rather
48:17
have my kid drink at home. Oh yeah.
48:20
Then then go to a a friend's house and party.
48:23
Yeah, we could talk about that next.
48:24
Yeah, I think that'd be a good conversation next time.
48:27
It's just I'm not I, I I think a parent needs to be a parent.
48:32
Instead of a best friend, yeah. I don't yeah.
48:35
And I and I and, and those are the hard choices you make.
48:37
But I also think every kids maturities, maturity level is
48:41
different. And I think you got to and you
48:43
got to judge kids on the maturity level too.
48:45
I I don't think, I don't think it's fair to clump all kids in
48:47
one, you know, category. No, no.
48:51
So I agree. So that'll be a tough situation.
48:53
I think that I think those kids are going to figure out a way
48:55
around it. I don't think it's definitely, I
48:57
don't, you know, I don't know how they're going to get.
48:59
I mean, the kids are going to get around it.
49:00
Could. I don't.
49:01
That will never happen in America.
49:04
Yeah, that is the next question. Is that going to happen here in
49:07
America? I think the reason that it won't
49:10
is because you're all these advertisers are losing that
49:14
audience to advertise to and they are going to do everything
49:18
possible to keep it from happening.
49:23
Wasn't that the big threat? That was supposed to.
49:25
Yeah, that was that was the big threat.
49:27
I mean, oh, they're owned by the Chinese.
49:28
OK, now it's. Like they had 90 days and then
49:31
it was like another six months. And now it's gone away.
49:34
Too. Yeah, I don't even know what it
49:35
is now. Doesn't even make the news
49:36
anymore. Doesn't even make the news
49:38
anymore. Businesses usually make.
49:39
Other shit. Because guess Because guess
49:42
what, TikTok has advertisers same as medics, lobbyists.
49:47
Yeah, same. You know, So there's always, you
49:49
know, And so it's what you know, and it's the almighty dollar.
49:51
So yeah, I'll be curious how long that that ban lasts in
49:54
Australia. Do I think it's a good thing?
49:55
I do think it's a good thing. The problem is you're not,
49:58
you're not going to get people to to abide by it.
50:01
No, no. So you don't have to, but.
50:04
There's too much, but I will agree, too much cyber bullying,
50:08
too much trolling, too much, too much.
50:12
I'm not pretty enough for any yeah or yeah.
50:15
The list goes on and on. Yeah, yeah, I agree.
50:18
It's easy being ugly. So I mean, I'm I'm good being
50:21
ugly. Cuz that we left off the podcast
50:26
mentioning that we needed to discuss if Die Hard was a
50:29
Christmas movie. We're running out of time so we
50:32
need to discuss this. I said no, it is not a Christmas
50:36
movie, it's an action movie. I say I say yes because it has
50:41
Christmas time. He's coming back for Christmas.
50:45
It's and even though it's LA, it's LA Christmas.
50:48
He goes. He even makes the what is it?
50:51
Ho ho. They even make some comments
50:53
like that. Oh, oh, I've got a machine gun.
50:55
Ho ho ho. OK, well and if that's your
50:59
argument, there are other movies that have Christmas to them that
51:06
are not a Christmas movie. And I even did some research so
51:09
I would have like debating points on this.
51:12
So Gremlins, Hello, it's a weapon, Batman Returns, Iron Man
51:18
3, Bridget Jones Diaries and there's like a whole list of all
51:23
these movies, so. Now there, now I'll go back.
51:25
I will go back to the Batman or see now I can handle the Super
51:28
one hero ones so Batman returns. Even know The Batman Returns and
51:31
because. It's got snow.
51:33
It does it does have snow. So I'm I'm going.
51:35
I wouldn't call it a Christmas movie, but I'm just saying it's
51:37
definitely during Chris winter time.
51:40
Iron Man 3 definitely during winter because it does, you
51:42
know, it's definitely got the holidays, you know, and Bridget.
51:45
Jones has the Christmas like whole background to it and
51:50
Christmas Eve, so Christmas time.
51:53
But I do know that we do this on, we do this bit on the radio
51:56
every single year, and it's incredible how many comments we
51:59
get off. Yeah, it is or no, it isn't, you
52:01
know, So it's pretty, it's pretty Dang amazing on, on what?
52:03
On what people say about it. I'm just like when like who
52:07
decided, OK, Die Hard, I'm going to make sure that it is on every
52:12
year for Christmas. Even though it's this action
52:15
movie, you could say that about any action movie that like
52:18
again, like Lethal Weapon, if it has Christmas, it has Christmas
52:21
in it. Like, well, you could say that
52:23
about that movie. You could say that about
52:24
Gremlins. All these movies that we've
52:26
talked about, you could say that about any one of them.
52:30
Like how did Die Hard become like that movie that is now the
52:34
action movie that is now a Christmas movie?
52:37
I yeah, it's, it's one of those, yeah.
52:38
It's that, it's that art. It's that argument that gets
52:42
made every single year. I now, to be truthful, I didn't
52:45
think of it when it first came out as a Christmas movie.
52:48
No, I did not. Because and and I love and as a
52:50
kid and as a as a young, a young adult, I love that movie.
52:55
Yeah, it's one of my favorites. I'm an I'm an I'm an action
52:57
movie junkie, so I like. You are, yeah.
52:59
So I like it so, so I never, when I first saw it, I never
53:02
thought of it, even though it had all the Christmas elements
53:04
in there. I didn't when I saw it when that
53:07
come out at 88. I was probably 18 when I.
53:09
Saw it, yeah. Yeah, I went and I think I even
53:11
saw it at the movie theater and went, wow, that's a great movie.
53:14
That was a great movie. So I never thought during it.
53:17
Oh, this is a Christmas movie? Right.
53:19
Right, but I can see how people make the analogy in it, so I
53:22
don't. The war rages.
53:24
The war rages. On to eternity.
53:29
Take the take the Rick and that Michelle Chick pole down below
53:32
and we will discuss the results next week.
53:36
Will we? Yeah, on next episode I do want
53:40
to argue over multi colored Christmas lights or white ones
53:44
and real real and artificial trees.
53:46
Maybe it'll be like our Christmas special or something,
53:48
I don't know. Love to get, I love to get and
53:50
she'll never come on but I'd love to get Megan into the
53:52
conversation because of her OCD Ness.
53:55
That would be awesome. Oh, I could talk about my
53:57
husband's and the Christmas lights too, so.
53:59
Bring them, bring them on, Bring on, Yeah.
54:01
It's the sounds like we have two.
54:03
Yeah, sounds like we have two that are OCD about Christmas
54:05
lights, so. Yeah, yeah, it'd be, it'd be
54:08
fun. Well, I, I got in trouble one
54:09
time because Megan had this little, oh, she has a little
54:13
town, a little Christmas town. Yeah, and then I too, and.
54:16
Then I stuck my superheroes in there and she caught on real
54:19
quick that she's like, you're superheroes, you're superheroes
54:22
don't go in Christmas Town. I said, hey, the Flash in Green
54:26
Lantern are protecting Christmas Town.
54:27
She goes the hell they are. That's actually funny.
54:30
I mean, I would, I would be out in there.
54:32
I would. That's the little.
54:33
Figurines. So I try to intermix the little
54:35
figurines. Yeah, because like, the
54:37
figurines for the houses are like, yay big.
54:39
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
54:41
And they were. They were just hanging out.
54:42
The superheroes just hanging out.
54:43
Nope. They got caught.
54:45
Maybe I'll have to take my son. He has like a Lego.
54:48
I'm staring at it right now, a Lego mini Mickey and Donald.
54:51
And maybe I'll have to go place him because the Christmas
54:53
village is my husband's. Because it was.
54:55
Just go place him and see if he was his.
54:57
Grandma's. It was his grandma, so it has
54:59
special meaning. So all right, so, so your
55:03
Mission Impossible to end the podcast is you're going to go
55:06
place those in the Christmas Village and even and see if Jay
55:10
notices because Megan, the minute those superheroes were in
55:13
there, I didn't say nothing. And she's she she saw that she's
55:17
like right off the bat. They were they were out.
55:19
So I want I'm curious when Jay comes back from work and if
55:21
you'll see it. Well, I have to tell him he
55:23
can't listen to this episode then.
55:26
Right. Not the at least not the tail
55:27
end. Well, no, because when does he
55:29
come home? He'll come, he'll drive home
55:32
Friday, so this episode will have already dropped.
55:35
Usually he listens to us as he's driving home.
55:38
That's the problem. So I'll just tell him he can't
55:42
listen, but then he's going to be curious as to why he can't
55:45
listen, and he's going to listen and tell me that he didn't
55:47
listen. Oh man.
55:49
Is he and is he a faithful listener?
55:51
I think so. Good guy.
55:56
There's got to be something way more entertaining, Jay, I'm just
55:58
letting you know. That's it for today's episode of
56:03
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56:06
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