Latest / Aired Out / LOOK UP - there's a much bigger picture staring you right in the eye. Take notice.

Transcript

LOOK UP - there's a much bigger picture staring you right in the eye. Take notice. · Aired Out

• 1:47
  Speaker 1: Good morning. Thanks for your get your day started with
• 1:53
  Speaker 1: a soul fella here the aired out podcast. Fifteen degrees
• 2:01
  Speaker 1: below zero at my house this morning. That's partly the
• 2:10
  Speaker 1: reason why I'm still wearing my coat this morning. Negative fifteen.
• 2:18
  Speaker 1: Come on, JD. I know, I know it gets colder
• 2:23
  Speaker 1: than that. What are you complaining about, JD? You live
• 2:27
  Speaker 1: in Vermont. Get used to it. You should be used
• 2:31
  Speaker 1: to it by now. What are you some kind of flatlander?
• 2:36
  Speaker 1: Negative fifteen, JD. It's not that bad. I know that's
• 2:41
  Speaker 1: what some of you are saying. Some of you are thinking,
• 2:45
  Speaker 1: and I know others of you, like Stacy Holton, who
• 2:50
  Speaker 1: have spent their whole lives up here in Fromont are
• 2:55
  Speaker 1: now basking in the sunshine in the ball me temperatures
• 3:01
  Speaker 1: of North Carolina. Well, we up here are suffering. This
• 3:08
  Speaker 1: is one of those mornings in Stacy, you know exactly
• 3:11
  Speaker 1: what I'm talking about when because you remember when you
• 3:14
  Speaker 1: pull out of your driveway and it feels like you've
• 3:19
  Speaker 1: got concrete in your tires. That was this morning for me.
• 3:26
  Speaker 1: Right here in Barry, I'm showing negative eleven right now.
• 3:31
  Speaker 1: I'll give you the details here on the forecast. In
• 3:34
  Speaker 1: just a little bit. But first, good morning, Thank you
• 3:38
  Speaker 1: for starting your day with me. Where the hell's my
• 3:42
  Speaker 1: coffee somewhere? I hope wherever yours is it's still hot.
• 3:54
  Speaker 1: Thanks for checking out our website aired outvt dot com.
• 3:59
  Speaker 1: It's all right there. The Facebook, the YouTube, what We're about,
• 4:03
  Speaker 1: what we do our digital platform here at the Airdop
• 4:09
  Speaker 1: podcast that fills quite the void between traditional mainstream TV
• 4:17
  Speaker 1: and print and radio outlets. We love to promote civic engagement.
• 4:29
  Speaker 1: Where am I going with this? This morning I received
• 4:39
  Speaker 1: a phone call that is really really significant for me.
• 4:48
  Speaker 1: I probably shouldn't talk about it too much because I
• 4:52
  Speaker 1: don't want to tease it anymore than I could or should.
• 5:01
  Speaker 1: But there's an episode that's coming up that I can't wait.
• 5:04
  Speaker 1: I just can't wait for it. And yes, of course
• 5:13
  Speaker 1: it's it's Thursday with g of course it is and
• 5:19
  Speaker 1: Rex and and of course tomorrow is going to be
• 5:24
  Speaker 1: a huge, huge show, And I can't wait to have
• 5:35
  Speaker 1: this lady on tomorrow with sweethearts and heroes. It is
• 5:48
  Speaker 1: going to be an episode that is going to stick
• 5:54
  Speaker 1: to your bones. I promise you. Doctor Katie Ralston, the
• 6:05
  Speaker 1: superintendent of Silver Creek Central School District, will be with
• 6:10
  Speaker 1: me tomorrow morning, and she's going to say things that
• 6:22
  Speaker 1: you will remember throughout the day, things that will hopefully
• 6:29
  Speaker 1: reverberate in your soul, not just throughout the day, but
• 6:34
  Speaker 1: for the rest of the week and maybe beyond, as
• 6:38
  Speaker 1: is the case often with my guests from Sweethearts and
• 6:43
  Speaker 1: heroes on Wednesdays, it's going to be amazing. Hey, happy
• 6:48
  Speaker 1: birthday today to my good pal who is really really
• 6:56
  Speaker 1: starting to cut his teeth in podcasting. Can lose twenty
• 7:02
  Speaker 1: three today? I think I'm pretty sure see the twenty
• 7:08
  Speaker 1: three or twenty four. It's twenty three. I believe the
• 7:13
  Speaker 1: host the brainchild of the Athletics podcast on Saturday Mornings
• 7:21
  Speaker 1: at ten thirty. He's a good dude. He's a great dude,
• 7:27
  Speaker 1: and he's doing some great things with his new podcast
• 7:31
  Speaker 1: Saturday Mornings. Right here where we are now, Logan lose
• 7:35
  Speaker 1: Brittany White, who I've known forever on the birthday list today.
• 7:39
  Speaker 1: Don't want to know how old she is. Giselle Schweenard,
• 7:50
  Speaker 1: Liz Reid, McCullen McQuillan, rather on the air. We're doing
• 7:55
  Speaker 1: it right now, Liz, Happy birthday to you. We have
• 8:03
  Speaker 1: Mia Montoya, we have and I don't know if if
• 8:09
  Speaker 1: Mia is listening this morning, but I could do a
• 8:15
  Speaker 1: whole episode just about that woman alone. What an angel
• 8:21
  Speaker 1: she is, Angels that walk among us. That's one right there,
• 8:27
  Speaker 1: Mia Montoya. And if you're listening, Mia, I'll never be
• 8:36
  Speaker 1: able to thank you. And you know what I'm talking about.
• 8:41
  Speaker 1: Let's see who else do we have? Justin Pelanquin, there's
• 8:48
  Speaker 1: a guy that I haven't spoken with in a long time. Great, great,
• 8:52
  Speaker 1: great guy. Damn well, it's just like getting my heart
• 8:57
  Speaker 1: going this morning. Tom Laired, Happy birthday, Mike Lannon is
• 9:01
  Speaker 1: on the list today, Travis Fadden, Jane Thompson, Randy Tuller,
• 9:07
  Speaker 1: These are all birthdays today on December ninth, Jim mcsparron,
• 9:17
  Speaker 1: Mikaela LAMBERTI look at this and if she were with
• 9:24
  Speaker 1: us today, it would be Case Santimore's birthday. It is
• 9:34
  Speaker 1: Case Santamora's birthday, and not only do her friends still
• 9:41
  Speaker 1: miss her, but her community does still. Before even get
• 9:52
  Speaker 1: started this morning, I want to say this if you
• 9:56
  Speaker 1: are looking, and I'm going to be heading over there
• 9:58
  Speaker 1: like either today tomorrow, if you're looking for a gift
• 10:04
  Speaker 1: for someone this year that wears classes prescription or otherwise
• 10:16
  Speaker 1: maybe needs a new pair of shades or driving cross
• 10:24
  Speaker 1: country skiing, downhill skiing. Here's your opportunity to get over
• 10:31
  Speaker 1: to Optical Expressions. And this is what everyone's going to
• 10:35
  Speaker 1: get there, not only great service and great quality, but
• 10:39
  Speaker 1: a gift certificate that they're offering only until the twenty
• 10:42
  Speaker 1: second of this month. That's it. Fifty dollars gift certificates
• 10:49
  Speaker 1: for forty bucks, one hundred dollars gift certificates for seventy
• 10:55
  Speaker 1: five bucks, frames, contact lenses, even eye exams. They're open
• 11:04
  Speaker 1: Monday through Friday from eight to six in twenty four
• 11:09
  Speaker 1: to seven at oe Berlin dot com. Staff is outstanding.
• 11:15
  Speaker 1: They're going to help you out quality eye care that
• 11:18
  Speaker 1: literally you can see, it's the only place I go.
• 11:23
  Speaker 1: Glasses I'm wearing right now. We're from Optical Expressions made
• 11:30
  Speaker 1: by Will. He did such a great job and this
• 11:34
  Speaker 1: is one of two specs that I've got from Optical Expressions.
• 11:38
  Speaker 1: Still need to use my gift certificate from last year
• 11:42
  Speaker 1: to get those shades that I really want, you know,
• 11:45
  Speaker 1: the ones that I won't lose, the ones that I
• 11:50
  Speaker 1: won't sit on, the ones that will never fall, and
• 11:55
  Speaker 1: get scratched those sunglasses. I'm just checking the roads this
• 12:04
  Speaker 1: morning and they're pretty clear. However, uh, there are some
• 12:11
  Speaker 1: slick spots in areas where things have melted and then
• 12:20
  Speaker 1: stuffing up a little bit. I don't want to say
• 12:22
  Speaker 1: the F word freeze, but just be careful. Even though
• 12:27
  Speaker 1: the sun is shining, even though things may you know,
• 12:32
  Speaker 1: soften up. In some areas, you could come upon a
• 12:36
  Speaker 1: patch of black ice easily. That's Hartford. That's Brookfield right now,
• 12:43
  Speaker 1: literally right now, there's Hartford again, Brookfield again, and it
• 12:49
  Speaker 1: looks like there's Bethel so as you can see see
• 12:54
  Speaker 1: see that shining stuff right up there top left of
• 12:57
  Speaker 1: your screen. Just be careful on that stuff. That's all
• 13:01
  Speaker 1: I'm saying. And I don't want to sound like your mother,
• 13:06
  Speaker 1: but just be careful. Drive, be careful driving south Burlington.
• 13:14
  Speaker 1: There's Waterbury Route one hundred. You know, just go easy
• 13:19
  Speaker 1: this morning, use some you know, common sense. Remember that yesterday.
• 13:29
  Speaker 1: Just a big thanks and a shout out to Josh Miller,
• 13:34
  Speaker 1: the head of Vermont Fatherhood. What a great freaking guy
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: he was yesterday is I really look forward to having
• 13:45
  Speaker 1: more conversations with him. Yesterday when he left, I was
• 13:48
  Speaker 1: like damn, I got more questions, I got more ideas,
• 13:51
  Speaker 1: I got more comments. Fatherhood. That's that's a word that
• 14:00
  Speaker 1: not many of us here too much anymore. Fatherhood. What's
• 14:06
  Speaker 1: the difference between being a father and a dad? I
• 14:14
  Speaker 1: have a lot to say about that, a lot, and
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: I will in time. Josh is going to be a
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: regular guest the first Monday of I'm sorry, the second
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: Monday of every month, second Monday of every month. And
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: here's why, because in a millisecond of meeting this guy,
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: when I met him months months ago, I knew right
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: away that this is the kind of dude that I
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: want to be connected with. This is the kind of
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: guy that I want to be part of. His mission
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: to promote good fatherhood, what it means to be a
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: good father, which is very much biological term, but what
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: it means to be even more so a great dad.
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: And this guy's really He's on it from mydfatherhood dot
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: org is a website that you really should check out.
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: He's right here on North Main Street. And I was
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: getting wind of Josh Miller before he opened up the
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: good folks. My buddy Phil over at the well Space
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: building was telling me about him. That this is a
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: massive movement right here in Barry to bring fathers together
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: to be better, to do more for our kids, to
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: do right by them, to make better decisions, and to
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: evoke thought and conversation about fatherhood and the role that
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: fathers play. And that very thing happened last night at
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: my house. Charylyn said, I watched a podcast today with
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: Josh Miller and we got into a conversation and it
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: was a really good one. It was a healthy one.
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: I love that. I love stuff like that. So much
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: more to be said in that department, And we're gonna
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: do it again second Monday of every month. It's gonna
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: be great. It's gonna be great morning to everybody. Gosh, yeah, yeah, Cabot.
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: What do we have in Cabot? Minus thirteen And we've
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: now warmed up in Cabot according to Shirley up to zero.
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: That's a whole thirt thirteen degrees warm up up to
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: zero negative fifteen at my house this morning. Has anyone
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: else other than me heard over the last couple of days. Wow,
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: it's been such a cold winter already so far. It's
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: not even the middle of December yet, and we've already
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: had you know, this arctic blast, polar vortex, whatever the
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: hell this cold usually and I'm no meteorologist, but is
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: it just is it just me? Or does this seem
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: like just a little bit exceptionally early. I don't know
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: what say you? Is it seems like these are like
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: January February tempts or my off base, I don't know,
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: it's cold. I'm to give a shout out this morning
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: to a great lady who is doing so much with
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: her team over at the Central Vermont Chamber of Commerce,
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: Jeanette Kingsbury. I don't know how many of you know
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: Jeanette Kingsbury. I'm assuming many of you do, daughter of
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: George Mallick, go Getter, huge go Getter and the head
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: of the Central Vermont Chamber of Commerce. They have been
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: so active in sharing what's happening in and around Central
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: Vermont and putting the spotlight on new members and others
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: who have really gotten involved in their community. Lately. We
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: are just a couple of weeks from twenty twenty six,
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: a couple of weeks left in twenty twenty five, and
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: the Vermont Chamber Advocacy team is so busy right now
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: getting ready for the upcoming legislative session in twenty twenty
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: six on Thursday, that would be the day after tomorrow,
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: December eleventh, at nine o'clock in the morning, I'm going
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: to tell you what's happening. The State Chamber is going
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: to be coming to the Central Vermont Chamber of Commerce
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: office at nine o'clock. They'll be there for about an
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: hour and a half, probably longer, but this is an
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: opportunity for you to hear directly from the legislative priorities
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: that are going to be impacting you and your business,
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: small or large in twenty twenty six and beyond. This
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: is an opportunity for you to not only hear what's
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: going on, but also to share your voice on issues
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: that matter most to you. Everybody's welcome, whether you're a
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: member of the Chamber of Commerce or not. We encourage
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: you to take part in this conversation, which is going
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: to be important and discuss the future of small business
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: in Vermont. And I know that everybody and their brother
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: has got an opinion about that, and so do I.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: So big stuff happening. Also want to give out a
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: shout this morning to the Family Center of Washington County.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: They continue to do such incredible work. And I'm thinking
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: of them because they're a member of the Chamber of
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: Commerce and the programs, one of the almost two hundred
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: and ninety six members right now, and the Family Center
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: of Washington County is making a real difference in our community.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: I don't know if you have seen their Facebook page
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: of who they're collaborating with and the good things that
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: they're doing, making a real difference for not just children,
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: but families. They're bringing dads together, they got dad playgroups
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: that they do. It's just awesome everything they do. So
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: if you get a chance, check them out. I'm gonna
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: see if we can connect with my buddy here, Tom.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: See if we can get him on Tom Murphy from
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: Sweethearts and Heroes. See if he answers this morning. Usually
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: when he sees me calling, doesn't answer. I let's see
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: if we can get them on though this morning.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: See there, Ad, I'm on the other line. Can I
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: call you right back?
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: Of course you can, buddy.
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: Okay, I'm gonna call you back, and you better be
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: ready for me, baby, because I'm gonna eat you alive.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: I'm always ready for you. All right, Bye, there is
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: timepy Uh, you know listen. Many great things have happened
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: to me over the last year, and I reflect on
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: them often. One of the greatest things on a well
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: you know, I was going to say a professional level,
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: but it's also on a personal level, is Sweethearts and
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: Heroes and my collaboration with them to bring their mission
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: of the great things that they're doing and have done
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: and we'll do tomorrow onto my airwaves. I don't know
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: how much Wednesday programming you have caught, but it is,
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: in my opinion, always inspiring and always so enjoyable to
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: have Sweethearts and Heroes on the air. Just great. And
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: Tom Murphy, the CEO, I want to just pause here
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: for a second and tell you about Wednesday tomorrow over
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: at the well Space building right here in Barry at
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: twenty three Summer Street, something that's started a few years ago.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: It is not every Wednesday, but it is tomorrow, and
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: I've got the dates here going through. There's only going
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: to be one in December, two in January, three in January,
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: three in February, three in March, but only one in
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: December because this is such a busy month. I'm talking
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: about wellness Wednesday over at the well Space building. This
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: is a community effort in conjunction with not only all
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: of the practitioners in that building, but through Washington County
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: Mental Health. They open up their doors over there to
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: everyone in anyone who wants to come in on a Wednesday,
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: beginning at four point thirty for a little bit of
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: free peace. I'm to unplug. From four thirty until seven o'clock.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: You can try all of the services for free, from acupuncture, meditation, yoga.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: They've got hot tea, chair and table massages, reiche MYO
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: facial body release, and the list goes on. If you
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: would like to reserve your time for one of the
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: chair or table massages or maybe the sound healing, just
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: call rop in four seven nine four zero five five.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: You should call it right now and say this is
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: the time I want to be there, from four thirty
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: until seven o'clock. Again, leave your wallet at home. It's free.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: Four seven nine four zero five to five. Washington County
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: Mental Health serve in our central Vermont community for over
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: sixty years now. We're talking about nearly ten thousand Vermonors
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: every year that benefit in some way directly or indirectly
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: from Washington County Mental Health. They do amazing work. Make
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: sure you find them on Facebook, give them a like,
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: give them a share, WCMS let's see get in a
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: note here. Please go to the Facebook to donate to
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: Jen Anderson the GoFundMe to help help her fight cancer.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: Needs to go to Boston. Thanks Tammy for letting us
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: know that. Wow, that is one fight that I hope
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: I'm never fighting, and one fight that I know so
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: many people who are so brave and are fighting have
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: fought fight. And I was thinking about Rosian and Sayers
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: just a couple of days ago. It was her birthday
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: and the vicious fight that she put up against cancer actively,
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: I mean everything that she embodied constantly fundraising and doing events, walks,
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: Penguin Plunge. I think she did well. That was that
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: was for that was for special Olympics. But there was
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: something else that she did in Burlington that was huge.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: I think it was the big cancer walk that they
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: do every year. But Rosian and Sayers was what a fighter,
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: what a lady. I loved having her on the air
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: here and she was always so positive, full of life,
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: joking around, goofing around. Came in here addressed as what
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: Grinch one time and got on the air with me.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: It's amazing. Our community calendar is it is so full
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: right now with stuff going on, and I'm posting as
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: much as I can and as frequently as I can.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: But the community calendar is front and center because of
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: the World Newspaper, our favorite weekly newspaper reaching well over
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: twenty two thousand readers every single week vtdashworld dot com
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: for the digital version. But I get on there and
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: I have so much fun thumb and through the world.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: One of the items that's always in there is the
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: Tuesday night dinner at the Berry American Legion. It is tonight, yes, Tuesday,
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: twelve dollars. You can dine in the heats on or
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: you can take out. It's served up at five point thirty.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: Please order head if you can four seven nine nine
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: zero five eight and keep an eye on the Barry
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: Post ten Facebook page and the World Newspaper for the menu,
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: which I got the world right here in front of me,
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: and it says tonight chicken Alfredo. Last Tuesday was beef
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: stroking Off, and I think the weekend before then it
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: was Shepherd's Pie. I know it's so sad that I
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: would have these memorized, but These are the comfort foods
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: that we love so much this time of year. Chicken
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: out fredom God, when's the lasagna coming up? They had
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: that not too long ago. Can't get enough of it again?
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: Four to seven nine nine zero five eight for the
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: Tuesday night meal at the American Legion. I'm always talking
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: about the Legion. I love them over there, great people also.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: That's today tomorrow. Wing Wednesday at the VFW Post seven
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: to ninety in Barry starts at five. You go in there,
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: you throw them a couple of bucks. I think it's
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: what a dollar a wing, and they're big. You sit down, relax,
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: and you put your order in. They've got the honey barbecue,
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: they've got spicy stuff. They got dry rubs, they got
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: wet rubs. They got what's the one that Ron Tallman
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: does over there, the garlic parmeersan. Has anyone smelled Ron
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: Tolman's breath after he's had a couple of those? Go
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: in there, enjoy some wings. Wednesdays at the VFW Post
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: seven ninety five o'clock. Go in there, do it, just
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: walk in. You don't need a reservation or anything. They'll
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: give you the menu. It's simple. Tell them how many
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: you want and then sit down. They will take care
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: of the rest for you all. Right wing Wednesday, let's see,
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: am I getting a cold? I don't know what else
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: do we have? Thursday? This week Bingo at the Canadian
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: Club at seven o'clock. Friday this coming the Nutcracker is
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: going to be at the Chandler in Randolph. Get the
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: family out, get your tickets now, Chandler in Randolph. Don't wait,
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: don't wait. That's Friday. Saturday. This weekend, the US Veterans
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: Motorcycle Club Vermont Toy Drive will beware of course at Wilkins.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: Where else would it be. It's going to be fantastic.
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: You can all get together and get some toys together
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: for kids locally and talk about how much you miss
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: riding your motorcycle and where you plan to go next spring.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: Also on Saturday, the Holly Jolly Holidays at the Berlin
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: Elementary School. That's huge. Next weekend, on Saturday, the twentieth,
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: we have the Falling into the Holidays craft event going
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: on over at the Barry Elks Lodge. The VFW has
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: their big breakfast that they do every what is it
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: third Saturday of the month, I think, but We'll be
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: promoting the crap out of that all over the page
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: starts at seven in the morning, Cook to Order ten Bucks.
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: It's incredible. And then in February, looking all the way
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: ahead to February Night to Shine, you talk a lot
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: about a lot about that on the air, Freezing fun
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: for Families, I'm gonna be talking a lot about that.
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: Got the forty third annual Central from on Gun Show.
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: In February, You're gonna talk a lot about that too.
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of stuff happening again. I started out
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: this morning telling you that I received a phone call
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: about an upcoming episode that was questionable whether or not
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: it was going to happen. And I have just learned
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: literally minutes ago that it is going to happen. And
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: I don't want to say too much more about it
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: other than I'll be well prepared. Here's your Tuesday morning forecast,
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: and then I'm going to close with some I don't
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: know if Tom's going to give us a ring back
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: or not, but I want to. I want to close
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: with something this morning. Or We're gonna have plenty of
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: sunshine today, maybe some clouds rolling in for the afternoon.
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: Highs around twenty. Okay, so we got a ways to go.
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: It is gonna be going upward Tonight. It is going
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: to be another cold one snow showers, cloudy, and fourteen
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: for the low, thank you, Glenn. Wednesday Tomorrow cloudy and
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: snow thirty three for the high. How much snow? Couple
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: of inches? I don't want to say three, I don't
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: want to say four. I don't want to say one.
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: But a couple of inches of snow, all right, And
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: there's gonna be you know, some snow bands coming through
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: that are gonna put down more than that, Just try carefully.
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: Thursday looks like a mix of sun clouds, more clouds
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: in the afternoon than sun highs around twenty eight. Okay, okay,
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: had some electrical issues at my house last week. Boy
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: was that fun. You never know when you're gonna have
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: electrical issues. But when the lights in your house are
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: doing their own light show and you have no control
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: over that light show, like strobe lights, things are short.
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: Now there's a big problem somewhere. And I'll say I'll
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: save the rest of the story for g on Thursday,
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: because quite honestly, uh you you probably won't believe it,
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: but I'm gonna tell you anyways. Oh, I hope things
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: warm up soon for the electrician to come back. I
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: pray that they'll come back and get on the outside
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: of the house. I would not want to do that today. Uh,
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: try Tom one more time here. He is literally literally
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: one of the busiest guys on the entire planet that
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: that I know. Tom Murphy from Sweethearts and Heroes. Rick.
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: By the way, rick Yarish is going to be down
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: at Cody Chevrolet on Monday the fifteenth, and Tom's gonna
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: tell you a little bit about that. But yeah, he's
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: gonna call us here, not only with his book A
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: Bridge named Amos, but he's going to be signing him
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: and meeting with folks again Monday the fifteenth at Cody Chevrolet.
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: Rick Yarish, don't miss it. Go see him, say hello
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: to him, Thank him for his service not only to
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: our country but also to our communities. What he brings
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: to schools, what he brings through his message, his heart,
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: his love to again, not just schools, but businesses and
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: thousands of ears. Rick Cars, It's gonna be amazing Cody Chevrolet.
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: Tom You're going to be there.
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: Oh, shoot him.
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: I an live yeah, you're live right now.
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: But oh man, what an honor it is to talk
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: to the great j D.
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, here we go.
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: Oh, hold on.
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: A second, Hold on now. You wanted me to say
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: something about how you give the charity and how you
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: rub your wife's back every night, and how.
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: You I told you how much? How much did you.
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: Want me to say? You want me to make you
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: look really good?
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: You said, oh, yeah, right, yeah, thanks Tom.
• 40:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I could keep going, you know, like
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: the poor kid with the crutch and it's Christmas time
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: and you.
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: Know he doesn't have enough to eat. What was all
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: that stuff you wanted me to say? All the time?
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: The time you you gave up your future for the town,
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: and all of a sudden this guy Clearance showed up
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: and he made you see that all the sacrifice you
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: made for others.
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: Wait, that's a wonderful life.
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: Hold on, yeah, that's a whole different.
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: I'm kidding, No, I won't. Thanks j D for letting
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: me jump on here. This morning, I was on the
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: phone with one of our guys and we were just just.
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: Tearing it up about some of the work that you know,
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: Pat Fish is doing out there in the world today.
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: And he had a transition today, which is pretty rare.
• 41:42
  Speaker 3: People usually fight to get pat into schools, and yeah,
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: he had a little transition today and I covet those
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: because then I get a chance to, you know.
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: Break it down with him. And you know, we're like
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: a couple of.
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: Teenagers that haven't seen each other for a long time,
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: and you know, we're back and forth, like I gotta
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: tell you about this, I gotta tell you about that,
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: and you won't believe what this kid did or that
• 42:04
  Speaker 3: kid did. And so sorry, I really wanted to jump
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: on with you a few minutes earlier.
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, no, no worries. Rick has been making his
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: way to a couple of different Chevy dealerships, doing kind
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: of a meet and greet and bringing his book there
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: and giving his book away and in many cases reading
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: his book a bridge named Amos, which he did recently
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: right here on aired out. What a great guy man,
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: And and the fact that he is making one of
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: his stops right here to Cody's Chevrolet on Monday the fifteenth.
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: I think it's like three in the afternoon. I'll be there,
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: can't wait, man.
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, let's back up for a second.
• 42:48
  Speaker 3: Remember when he was on your show reading that book
• 42:50
  Speaker 3: and he got off and.
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: He called me on his way out of there, and
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: he's like.
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: Can you believe JD made me turn the pages by myself?
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, bastard, Hey, how come you're so fun to pick on?
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: Man?
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: I just love it. Everybody needs a j D.
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: In their life, listen, man, But yeah, go ahead, No.
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: But seriously, I'll actually I should be there as well
• 43:16
  Speaker 3: at the Cody Chevrolet.
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: Is that next Monday? Monday evening, three o'clock Monday afternoon?
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, three o'clock.
• 43:27
  Speaker 3: Now are you gonna Are you gonna come watch a
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: cup one or two of these elementary presentations next week?
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: Wait a second, are you officially inviting me to one?
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: Dude?
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: Don't do me sent you?
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: No, don't I sent you a certified letter on that.
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: No you did not, No, you did not I. If
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: it wasn't for, I think it was Pat Pat fish that. Yeah.
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: Let's see. Pat has invited me, Louden has invited me. Uh,
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: Brian has invited me. Josiah has invited me. Rick has
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: has invited me and said to completely bypass you. But
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: are you officially inviting me to come to one of
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: these schools?
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: You're breaking up on me.
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: What, Oh yeah, of course.
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: Hey listen, listen, you have a bed at my house
• 44:21
  Speaker 3: if you need one. So I don't have an extra bedroom,
• 44:24
  Speaker 3: but you have a bed at my house if you want,
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: which means you have to snuggle up between my wife
• 44:29
  Speaker 3: and myself. Well that's a little weird, but anyway, more
• 44:35
  Speaker 3: Town Elementary School, Wadefield Elementary School, what is it faced
• 44:42
  Speaker 3: in Elementary? Yeah, and Warren Elementary. So you should get there.
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: You're gonna see one of the greatest shows on Earth.
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: And let me tell you a little quick story. And
• 44:57
  Speaker 3: if you get a chance, flip over on another have
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: on your computer to Sweethearts and Heroes Facebook page.
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: And if anyone's listening and they can pull it up,
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: I want to tell you a quick little story.
• 45:11
  Speaker 3: So as I turned on my Facebook to watch you,
• 45:15
  Speaker 3: which I don't know why I would do something like that,
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: the first thing that comes up on my feed is
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: the Sweethearts and Heroes Facebook page, and there's a wonderful
• 45:27
  Speaker 3: picture of the great rick Yarish, who is actually in
• 45:30
  Speaker 3: Texas today attending a funeral of a friend that he
• 45:34
  Speaker 3: served with that he just lost, which is really sad,
• 45:39
  Speaker 3: and it was self inflicted, which is very difficult to
• 45:43
  Speaker 3: talk about.
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: But if you look at that page, you'll see a
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: great picture.
• 45:51
  Speaker 3: And I have been very fortunate in my lifetime to
• 45:54
  Speaker 3: witness thousands of these. And you know, when you see
• 45:59
  Speaker 3: Rick for the first time, especially as a kid, the
• 46:02
  Speaker 3: first thing you think is monster, because he's what a
• 46:05
  Speaker 3: monster looks like to a little kid.
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: He says this all the time.
• 46:10
  Speaker 3: If you described him to a student or a child,
• 46:14
  Speaker 3: no years, no nose, half a head of hair, half
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: a head of hair, gnarly hands, a kid would just
• 46:21
  Speaker 3: picture a monster and that's what they would draw. But
• 46:24
  Speaker 3: I've seen this damage thousands of times in the last
• 46:27
  Speaker 3: fifteen years. And I remember the first time JD that
• 46:32
  Speaker 3: someone asked us to do an elementary presentation, probably eight
• 46:38
  Speaker 3: years ago, nine years ago, and we had tried, and
• 46:44
  Speaker 3: so many schools had said, well, I think the kids
• 46:46
  Speaker 3: might be scared of him. So we just like a
• 46:49
  Speaker 3: board like, don't even try it, because we didn't want
• 46:53
  Speaker 3: to be responsible for trauma.
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: But one school was just adamant and they said, no,
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: you're doing little kids, so come up with a presentation.
• 47:03
  Speaker 3: We're like, oh, okay, so I am a huge mister,
• 47:07
  Speaker 3: incredible fan, and for a lot of reasons. If you
• 47:10
  Speaker 3: ever want to know, someday, I'll tell you got three
• 47:12
  Speaker 3: great reasons that mister Incredible is my guy. But so
• 47:17
  Speaker 3: my stick was I was gonna go out there in
• 47:20
  Speaker 3: front of the student body kindergarten through second grade and
• 47:24
  Speaker 3: we have a separate third through fifth grade presentation. But
• 47:27
  Speaker 3: I was gonna go out there, and I was gonna
• 47:29
  Speaker 3: stutter around, and I was gonna say it's nice to
• 47:32
  Speaker 3: be here, and turn my back and then rip my
• 47:34
  Speaker 3: shirt open and I would have mister Incredible, my mister
• 47:38
  Speaker 3: Incredible shirt on underneath my formal pink shirt that you
• 47:42
  Speaker 3: can see.
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: Rick in in that photo. I'm gonna take a quick breath. Here,
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: are you still with me?
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: JD? Yeah, yeah, I've got it, said the photo of
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: him bending down and looking at a little girl with
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: a purple shirt on.
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, yeah, and she's like doing a dance move
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: or something.
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: But so, so that was going to be my stick.
• 48:04
  Speaker 3: I was going to put Rick off to the side,
• 48:06
  Speaker 3: and I was gonna rip my shirt open and become
• 48:11
  Speaker 3: this goofy animated mister Incredible, and at least I would
• 48:16
  Speaker 3: get their attention.
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: Right, There's nothing like starving for the attention of a
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: first grader, right.
• 48:24
  Speaker 3: I think I still do that with my own wife,
• 48:26
  Speaker 3: because she says I act like a well I think
• 48:29
  Speaker 3: she's upgraded me to about third grade now. But anyway,
• 48:33
  Speaker 3: so I'm going to rip this shirt off and then
• 48:35
  Speaker 3: I'm going to just explode into fun and and teach
• 48:38
  Speaker 3: them about bullying. And I think loud and then we
• 48:41
  Speaker 3: won't go over this now, but I think Louden went
• 48:43
  Speaker 3: over with you the four things that make something bullying,
• 48:47
  Speaker 3: because most people confuse bullying behavior with bullying, and there's
• 48:53
  Speaker 3: a lot of things that could turn into bullying that
• 48:55
  Speaker 3: are bullying behavior.
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: But you have done those same things to your wife,
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: You've done those same things to your daughter, to your friends.
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: But we wouldn't call you a bully.
• 49:07
  Speaker 3: No, we would say JD's having a bad day and
• 49:10
  Speaker 3: he was mean to someone, And those are good things
• 49:13
  Speaker 3: to talk about with young people.
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: So I was going to come out, rip.
• 49:16
  Speaker 3: My shirt off and you know, explode into this crazy
• 49:22
  Speaker 3: goofy mister Incredible, and at least make it sticky for
• 49:26
  Speaker 3: little kids so they could go home and say, mommy.
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: Mister Incredible, tell us about bullying.
• 49:30
  Speaker 3: And these four things and we win. Now everybody in
• 49:34
  Speaker 3: the room is on the same page. We share a
• 49:36
  Speaker 3: perspective on this thing called bullying, and now maybe we
• 49:41
  Speaker 3: can do something about it. So that's like the beginning
• 49:44
  Speaker 3: of the K two presentation. And then you got to go,
• 49:49
  Speaker 3: you only got about thirty minutes with these kids before
• 49:51
  Speaker 3: you really lose their attention. And especially in today's world
• 49:55
  Speaker 3: where kids have nothing but fractured attention that we did
• 49:58
  Speaker 3: to them, we did to them and then I got
• 50:02
  Speaker 3: to keep their attention after fifteen minutes or so. So
• 50:07
  Speaker 3: I start searching around the room and I'm like, you're
• 50:10
  Speaker 3: not gonna believe this. But the real reason I came
• 50:12
  Speaker 3: here was to talk about superheroes.
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: Now every kid wants.
• 50:16
  Speaker 3: To pay attention again after this bullying thing, and you know,
• 50:21
  Speaker 3: you can't just have a conversation because everybody's got their
• 50:24
  Speaker 3: own favorite superhero and it would degenerate into a mess
• 50:29
  Speaker 3: if we just started talking about this superhero and that superhero.
• 50:33
  Speaker 3: So I turned to the kids and say, you're not
• 50:35
  Speaker 3: gonna believe this. I brought a real live superhero with me,
• 50:41
  Speaker 3: and the kids are like what and they expect, like
• 50:43
  Speaker 3: Spider Man to come swinging in or you know, Batman
• 50:47
  Speaker 3: to charging the door and I start searching around the room.
• 50:52
  Speaker 3: And we used to use Amos for this, and that's
• 50:55
  Speaker 3: why the Book of Amos is so important. Old Amos
• 50:59
  Speaker 3: would come wandering in the room and I would say,
• 51:02
  Speaker 3: that's not my superhero. And at the same time, now
• 51:06
  Speaker 3: Rick starts coming in behind Amos. And when we used Amos,
• 51:11
  Speaker 3: the place went crazy because you got a dog in school.
• 51:15
  Speaker 3: And this is before the real introduction of a lot
• 51:18
  Speaker 3: of therapy dogs and stuff like that. But then Rick
• 51:21
  Speaker 3: comes out and it's like crickets, like just slammed the
• 51:27
  Speaker 3: brakes on. But that's what happens in today's presentation. I
• 51:31
  Speaker 3: start searching around the room. Rick comes in and the
• 51:34
  Speaker 3: kids are like, what is that? And again crickets and
• 51:38
  Speaker 3: you'll see it if you come. And then I introduced
• 51:42
  Speaker 3: Rick as my superhero and that he wants to talk
• 51:46
  Speaker 3: to you about a couple of things.
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: Number one, he wants to talked about being different.
• 51:49
  Speaker 3: But number two, he wants to talk about what heroes
• 51:51
  Speaker 3: give to everyone.
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: And he just unfolds this beautiful little message.
• 51:57
  Speaker 3: And he brings Amos back into the picture that Amos
• 52:01
  Speaker 3: was his hero, because heroes do one thing. They help people,
• 52:05
  Speaker 3: especially people that other people don't take the time to help.
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 52:10
  Speaker 3: It's that great story of the good Samaritan, right, You've
• 52:13
  Speaker 3: got to help those people that are unfortunate.
• 52:15
  Speaker 2: So that's what you'll see, man, as you get the formal.
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: Invite, I'll be checking my mailbox for that. But man,
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, dude, and I just said this
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: a little while ago on the air while you were
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: on your call. You guys have been one of the
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: greatest gifts that I have received in the whole year.
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: And what you've brought to my programming, what you've brought
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: to the ears of my listeners has been so profound
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: and stuff that people are really sticking to. Man, It's
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: like it's really amazing stuff. Not only what you're doing,
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: but the fact that once a week you get to
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: bring that goodness onto my microphones is massive for me.
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: It's a really big deal. And I love all you
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: guys to pieces, every single one of you except for Leon.
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: Hey, j JD. Let me can I can I interrupt you?
• 53:15
  Speaker 3: And I know I just blabbered for I'm very self
• 53:18
  Speaker 3: aware of it, but I want to correct you, man,
• 53:24
  Speaker 3: because it is not us that gave you and your
• 53:27
  Speaker 3: listeners a gift.
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: It is you that have given us a gift.
• 53:31
  Speaker 3: And I don't say that to just flip the tables
• 53:34
  Speaker 3: or to be snarky. I say it from the bottom
• 53:37
  Speaker 3: of my heart, because you know, you turn the news
• 53:40
  Speaker 3: on Man, and you know everybody's addicted to the juicy stuff,
• 53:48
  Speaker 3: and somebody pants is someone or prank some and.
• 53:53
  Speaker 2: It gets millions of views.
• 53:55
  Speaker 3: We've been at the sixteen years Man, two million students,
• 54:00
  Speaker 3: two million, and you're like, well, you got twenty thousand followers.
• 54:04
  Speaker 3: You've been in front of two million students. Yeah, you
• 54:06
  Speaker 3: know why, men, Because it's not juicy.
• 54:11
  Speaker 2: It's not juicy to.
• 54:11
  Speaker 3: Go out there and help someone and to care for
• 54:13
  Speaker 3: someone and to love someone and to be there when
• 54:17
  Speaker 3: someone's struggling.
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: It's like, yeah, but let's get to the good stuff.
• 54:22
  Speaker 3: Let's get to the political rhetoric. Let's get to the divisiveness,
• 54:26
  Speaker 3: let's get to the you know, you against me and
• 54:30
  Speaker 3: me against you. And you know Rick said it perfectly, Man.
• 54:34
  Speaker 3: This year, I found myself not going down that rabbit
• 54:38
  Speaker 3: hole or getting stuck in that trap, but I found
• 54:41
  Speaker 3: myself like really trying to push this cell phoned thing
• 54:46
  Speaker 3: and taking it out of schools, and which I believe in.
• 54:50
  Speaker 3: But I wanted to have the conversation and let teachers
• 54:55
  Speaker 3: and gen xers know that they created this mess and
• 54:58
  Speaker 3: that you know, they're ripping phones out of kids hands,
• 55:01
  Speaker 3: but the same people that are ripping them out put
• 55:04
  Speaker 3: them in their hands.
• 55:05
  Speaker 2: And you should acknowledge that to these kids. Acknowledge it
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: you screwed up, because.
• 55:09
  Speaker 3: How's the kids supposed to know that that they at
• 55:13
  Speaker 3: what to do when they screw up if they've never
• 55:14
  Speaker 3: seen you admit it.
• 55:16
  Speaker 2: So and and here's what Rick said to me this year.
• 55:19
  Speaker 3: He said, Tom, this is why I freaking hate him
• 55:22
  Speaker 3: sometimes because.
• 55:23
  Speaker 2: He calls me out like this.
• 55:24
  Speaker 3: And he said, he said, Sweethearts and Heroes is not
• 55:29
  Speaker 3: for fifty percent of the country.
• 55:31
  Speaker 2: It's for one hundred percent of people.
• 55:34
  Speaker 3: Hope action, you know, empowering people to do good. It's
• 55:40
  Speaker 3: not for fifty percent, dude, It's for one hundred percent.
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: So stop it. And I thought I was doing good, man, I.
• 55:46
  Speaker 3: Got sucked into the same vortex. And anyway, man, it's
• 55:52
  Speaker 3: it's you that we need. And I'm going to come
• 55:55
  Speaker 3: right back and then I'll flip it to you. And
• 55:58
  Speaker 3: but it's you that we need, man, because I tell
• 56:01
  Speaker 3: news people all the time, you're the one that has
• 56:03
  Speaker 3: to get this message out. But it's not a sexy,
• 56:06
  Speaker 3: divisive message. It's a good message. And it's so sad
• 56:11
  Speaker 3: man that that's where we are in America. Is you know,
• 56:16
  Speaker 3: goodness just doesn't proliferate into you.
• 56:20
  Speaker 2: Know, into the world at the rate that it should anyway,
• 56:24
  Speaker 2: So one of them.
• 56:25
  Speaker 3: Anyways, you're man, You're the one that is making this happen.
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: Now. I want to hear what you have to say
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: about this, Okay, I I have I have felt and
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: I have heard from others over the last couple of
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: weeks that there's like, you know, and you could get spiritual,
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: you could talk about the planets and and all of
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: this stuff, but that's there's just it. Maybe it's just
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: stress to the holidays, but that there's a weight that
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: people are feeling right now that is pretty significant, and
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: that it's there's just a vibe and energy that honestly,
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: Tom is just is not great. Of course, there's plenty
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: of good stuff that's going on. There's a lot of
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: warmth and a lot of love that is happening, and
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of holiday nostalgic cheer and goodness that's happening.
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: We've got the horse drawn wack and rides around town.
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: We got the lights are up, the music is on.
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: We've got Christmas for kids, the big coin drop that
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: took place over the weekend, that is on track of
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: nearly nine thousand dollars raised in a matter of a
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: couple of hours to bring make sure that kids in
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: our community are getting their their wants and their needs.
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: There's a there's plenty of good stuff that's happening, but
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: there's like this this negative vibe of weight that people
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: are carrying around and you can't always see it until
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: it comes out. And maybe it's it's fueled by a
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: lot of the crap that's on social media. Maybe it's
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: fueled by a lot of these keyboard warriors that are
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: using their platform as it means to vent their own struggles,
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: their own stresses. But man, it's like not to be
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: negative here, Tom, But what do you have to say
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: about this, buddy?
• 59:03
  Speaker 4: I mean, well, gonna I'm gonna take you off and
• 59:06
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna tick off any listeners when I say this,
• 59:10
  Speaker 4: But I've been saying it for twenty seven years, twenty
• 59:15
  Speaker 4: seven and I can tell you why if you.
• 59:17
  Speaker 2: Want to know, twenty seven. But oh man, I'm hesitating
• 59:23
  Speaker 2: because I'm gonna get some hate over this.
• 59:27
  Speaker 3: Maybe looking out your window, maybe thinking about the coin drop.
• 59:33
  Speaker 2: Maybe that's the problem.
• 59:35
  Speaker 3: Do you know that on December the twenty sixth, those
• 59:38
  Speaker 3: kids that are hungry are still hungry. And on the
• 59:41
  Speaker 3: twenty seventh, and the twenty eighth, and the twenty ninth
• 59:44
  Speaker 3: and the thirtieth in January and February. I don't understand
• 59:50
  Speaker 3: how we can thanksgiving hits and everybody goes into this
• 59:56
  Speaker 3: charity Christmas mode. And are they doing it to help
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 3: people or they doing it out of their own guilt
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 3: and their own wanting to be virtuous. I don't know, man,
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 3: But I've been watching Christmas for twenty seven years. And
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 3: the reason I tell you that is I stopped celebrating
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 3: Christmas twenty eight years ago, and I love talking about it.
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 3: I celebrated Christmas my whole life. I didn't do it
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 3: because I became a Jehovah's witness or something like that.
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 2: I did it because I had.
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 3: A moment where I didn't want my children and when
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 3: my daughter was less than a year old.
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 2: I just said, like, that's the problem. Man.
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 3: We get sucked into this conformity, and it's an ancient
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 3: set of circuits in the human brain, the conformity biased.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 2: You can look it up. Solomon ash did work on this.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 3: Seventy two percent of people just conform and we all
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 3: go into this hyper donation hyper world and we make
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 3: it look and feel like we're helping, and we are.
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 3: And this is where people will kind of send kind
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 3: of hate mail to me and say, oh, well, we
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 3: raised this for these kids and did this for this
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 3: homeless group. Well, dude, what about on the twenty sixth man,
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 3: when you pack it up and you get into.
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 2: You know, New Year's mode and now it's time to party.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, like in the middle of January, those kids are hungry,
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 3: and I just come right back to this work that
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 3: we're doing. Hopelessness does not take a day off, and
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 3: neither do I and my wife will tell you, man,
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 3: seven days.
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 2: A week for sixteen years.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 3: And I don't say that to get a pat on
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 3: the back to seem ultra virtuous, but.
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 2: It just doesn't. Man.
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 3: You know, last week on Monday, I got called I'm
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 3: going to leave the school unnamed, and they say, we
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 3: lost a senior.
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 2: And if you line thirty.
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 3: Kids up, you wouldn't have picked that kid.
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 3: He's a musician, he was an athlete, and he was struggling.
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 3: And when I went to this school, JD. The first
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 3: kid I saw, the first kid that came down to
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 3: the library to talk to me, was a kid he's
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 3: in tenth grade.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 2: Now. I met him two years ago. And I met
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 2: him in ISS and in school suspension.
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 3: It's one of my favorite places to go because you
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 3: find some of the neatest kids there, young people.
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 2: And I sat with him, and.
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 3: That one little interaction, me fooling around with him, telling
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 3: some stories of how I left up in school and
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 3: how I got sent to ISS and I got suspended.
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 2: It bonded us. And he was the first kid that
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 2: came down.
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 3: And he used to play basketball with this young man
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 3: a couple of days before, and he said, man, he
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 3: just wasn't acting like himself. He wasn't joking around, he
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 3: wasn't fooling around, and he fell through the cracks man,
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 3: and now he's gone. And I got to sit with
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 3: his parents after school seven days after losing him, and
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 3: and it's brutal, man, And you don't ever want to
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 3: have to do that sit with parents after something like
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 3: that's happened. And and it doesn't take a day off, man.
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 2: And so I'm gonna.
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 3: Get back to you know, answering your question then landed
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 3: here for you. But I don't know, man, maybe looking
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 3: out your windows the problem? How come those lights are
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 3: aren't up?
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 2: How come you know?
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 3: Even a good book says this, and I'm not getting theological,
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 3: but it says your only responsibility, man, is to take
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 3: care of the widows and the orphans, And what it
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 3: meant was the hopeless, the people that have no oubt,
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 3: And like, what are we doing every single day to
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 3: build a community, to love your neighbor the person you
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 3: want to strangle.
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 2: Half the time? I don't know, Man. To me, that's
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 2: the problem, JD.
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 5: Is we put this this this facade on, We wear
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 5: this mask that everybody, Oh, I'm doing good all year,
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 5: every second of the day, you're doing good.
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 2: That's hard to.
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 3: Do, man, because you got to look at your own
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 3: failings and your own inadequacies, and your own challenges and
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 3: your own wicked, evil heart.
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 2: You know that we all have. So I don't know.
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: Man, interesting, very interesting stuff that you're unpacking here, buddy,
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: food for thought, stuff to uh, stuff to think about
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: for sure. Wow? Can you are you in a position
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: where you can set us up for tomorrow here in
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: the air with sweethearts and heroes?
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 2: Or would you rude? Can I ever? Can I ever? Oh? Man?
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 2: Katie Rosston doctor?
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 3: And if you look at my how I have her
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 3: programmed in my phone, doctor Captain Marvel. Right that uppy
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 3: down because she's not here in it, Doctor Captain Marble.
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 3: Now I used to give names to principles and superintendents
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 3: that just changed my world, and she's one of them.
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 3: I got chills right now thinking about doctor Marvele. She
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 3: went and got her PhD. A couple of years ago
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 3: at Vanderbilt. I knew her when she was a teacher.
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 3: She came to a seminar we did, and a decade
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 3: later she's now she was a New York State Principal
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 3: of the Year. But she's now a superintendent out in
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 3: Western New York. And I've gone through the fire with
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 3: doctor Marble, and that's what I.
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 2: Call her, doctor Marvel.
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 3: But I'm gonna tell you what, there's no one except
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 3: my wife that bus my chops, like doctor Marble. I
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 3: wouldn't say this on some educational platform, but I can't
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 3: say one word without her calling me out on the carpet.
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 2: Nice, I'm not joking, and you think I'm joking.
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 3: Like if I like, I joke around and I have
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 3: too much fun and if I like, and don't get
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 3: me wrong, she's not This is the term from the fifties.
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 2: She's not a square. She likes to have fun.
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 3: But if I misstep on something I say, man, she
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 3: destroys me. And I can't match her with that's the problem. Yeah,
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 3: so she's incredible. Principal of the Year. She wrestled with
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 3: leaving her school at Cuba Rushford, way out in the
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 3: southern tier, but she got a chance to become a superintendent.
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 3: She's absolutely brilliant. She's taught me a lot about loss.
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 3: I don't think this is too personal, but you know, I.
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 2: Don't want to say I was.
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 3: There for her, but she lost her mom and dad
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 3: over the years to illness, and you know, she's just
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 3: taught me a lot about losing loved ones. I don't
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 3: think she even realizes how much she's taught me about
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 3: that and the resiliency and the strength and how to
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 3: lean on other people.
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 2: But most importantly, she's just taught me.
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 3: What it means to shepherd young people the right way
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 3: and with accountability, with.
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 2: Structure, but also with fun and honesty.
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 3: And you're gonna find out you're gonna get a real
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 3: treat tomorrow with doctor Captain Marvel.
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: Wow. I can't wait, man, I look, I so look
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: forward to connecting with her. Your whole team has been
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: telling me about her for a week now, like, get
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 1: ready for her. So it's gonna be great, man.
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 3: Don't be easier, honor though, don't be easy on her.
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 1: Listen, we're getting a comment here that Barry City Elementary
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 1: is school and Berrytown School needs sweethearts and heroes.
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, just reach out, just go to our website, send
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 2: us a note.
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 3: But the most important thing is we know this because
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 3: you know we're in school every day. You know, we
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 3: just got to get connected to an administrator there or
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 3: just come watch what we do. Like Monday, Tuesday will
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 3: be at all of those schools. I'm not so we're
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 3: at more Town Elementary, which means they might bust another
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 3: school in.
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 2: We're at more Town yep.
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 3: And then on Tuesday we are at Faston.
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 2: Is that what you're saying? And I think Waite River
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 2: is going to come join them. So there's an.
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 3: Eight o'clock and a nine o'clock both days, K two
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 3: and three five. So most schools, if you call them
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 3: and say I love to come and watch the assembly,
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 3: we always ask them to allow adults and parents to
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 3: come because you can't fix something unless you got the
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 3: whole community involved.
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: Man, Wow, well so true. If I wear my free
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: Hugs shirt, can I get in for free?
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 3: Probably they'll have a police officer, a safety person there
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 3: that will put handcuffs on you if they see you
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 3: in a.
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 2: Free Hug shirt. I would be like creeper.
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you, Tom.
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 6: I think, Hey, anybody out there that is listening, if
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 6: you have not followed the aired out podcast, well there's
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 6: a new mechanism right here where we can delete your account.
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 2: So if you're.
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 3: Listening and you have not hit the follow button, you're
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 3: not allowed to take this content without some kind of sacrifice.
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 3: Now do you know that when you make a commitment
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 3: to something JD, a commitment cannot be made without a sacrifice.
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that should be tattooed on your heart.
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 3: So even the ancients, right, you had to make a
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 3: sacrifice if you committed.
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 2: So if people listen to the indelible.
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 3: I don't even know what that word means important, What
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 3: does it mean?
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 1: Permanent?
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, the permanent? You know goodness that JD brings to
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 3: the world. And you have not followed the aired Out podcast.
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 3: And if you go to the aired Out podcast and
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 3: you go to I think those three little dots, the
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 3: three little dots on your Facebook page, listen up people,
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 3: and it says invite friends.
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 2: On the right hand side.
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 3: All about photos, followers, rios more all the way to write.
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 3: It says, invite friends. You should be on the aired
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 3: Out podcast. Invite friends and invite your whole book of people.
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 2: I'm doing all.
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 3: Thousand of forty nine thirty nine right now. I just
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 3: hit my invite to the aired Out podcast to one
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 3: thousand people. Don't be selfish. Invite all your friends to
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 3: the aired Out podcast so you can see JD. You know,
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 3: I don't know if people want to see you, but now,
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 3: but here the words of the great JD.
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 1: Thanks buddy, yep, appreciate you, love you, and I will
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 1: see you very soon. You and Rick on the fifteenth
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 1: for sure, But beyond that as well.
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 2: Okay, buddy, thanks brother.
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: Thanks man, have a great rest of to day.
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 2: Hey, hey JD. Knock knock, say it?
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 1: Who's there? And that's right there, the famous Tom Murphy
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 1: out right there. When he says knock knock, you say
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 1: who's there and then he hangs up on you.
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 1: Don't forget it's Tuesday. Five dollars Tuesdays are back at
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 1: the Capital Theater, skip the line, grab your tickets Fgbtheaters
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 1: dot com. You can follow them at FGB Theaters on
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 1: Facebook and Instagram for updates, ated showtime, special events. But
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 1: five dollars Tuesdays, Capital Feet in Montpellier, get there all right.
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 1: Thanks for liking and following the page. Thanks for sharing
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 1: your morning and your time with me today. Don't forget
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 1: to comment and share any episode that you enjoy. We're
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 1: always live, we're always local, we're never edited, and we're
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 1: seen and heard right here on Facebook and YouTube from
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 1: Flying the Wall Productions, keeping it real, keeping it raw,
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 1: keep it irrelevant, and always keeping it relatable more than
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 1: anything else. Have a great rest of your day.
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 7: Everybody, God bless TTTT.
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 3: Doesn't need to do to do batt
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 1: Passssssssssssssssssssssssssss