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October 21, 2025 34 mins
Joanna and Sean discuss a list of 5 things that people just don't have in their home anymore; The show asks the question, "Would you want your spouse to remarry if you died?"; What places in Las Vegas boost your feel-good hormones?; Chinese public bathrooms are making people watch ads before giving them toitlet paper! 
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning.

Speaker 2 (00:00):
It's Joanna and Sean. So we're doing this twice a morning.
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Speaker 1 (00:18):
So, Sean, who are we looking.

Speaker 3 (00:20):
For right now? We're looking for Tonia a Tensio. Could
be Tanya as well. I'm not sure, honestly, Tonya or
Tania Atensio call us back here. Seven oh two seven
nine six, one oh six five. You got ten minutes.

Speaker 4 (00:34):
Seven oh two, seven nine six, one oh six five.
Good luck to you. So, Joanna, I was scrolling Instagram last.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
Night, all right, dude, doom scrolling, yes, a little bit before.

Speaker 3 (00:42):
Bed, which I'm trying to break that habit. But I
found this list. It said it's five things that nobody
has in their home anymore.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
And ah, okay, some of these I.

Speaker 4 (00:52):
Don't have in my home. I wanted to give you.
You might have these in your home.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
Okay, let's hear it.

Speaker 4 (00:56):
Okay. Number one DVDs do you have DVDs in your home.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
In a box in the garage, but not physically inside
the house anymore.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
And no, I do not know, neither do we. Everything
can streamed these days, right, I know? Number two CDs?
Do you have any CDs in your home?

Speaker 4 (01:11):
Every now and.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
Then I see a CD pop up. I don't know
how they still exist in my home, but you know,
it's like every now and.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
Then I'm like, ah, where did this CD come from?

Speaker 3 (01:19):
Magically appears I have CDs, but at this point I
have nothing to play them on. True, nothing exists in
my home that will play a CD. It's all been
phased out of a new technology, even like.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
New cars don't even have CD players anymore.

Speaker 3 (01:31):
Right, exactly exactly? How about this? A file cabinet? Do
you have a file cabinet in your.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
I do, yeah, I do, yeah, paperwork and just I
keep receipts for certain things, so I do have one
of those in our like little computer office area.

Speaker 3 (01:45):
I think it's probably good idea to have a file
We have a file box.

Speaker 1 (01:51):
It's not really good shift anywhere.

Speaker 3 (01:55):
Number Four of things nobody has in their home anymore.
A wall calendar.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Oh well, I don't. My husband does okay, And I
always make fun of him about it because he was
like so on me about doing like a shared calendar
on our phones. I'm like, why do you still have
that ugly thing up? Please take it down?

Speaker 3 (02:13):
Oh the judgment. I have a wall calendar. We have
a big one in the kitchen. I judge a wall
calendar three feet across.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
Is it like an actual like like sheet or is.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
It a whiteboard?

Speaker 4 (02:22):
No, it's a sheet can rip off the pages.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
You're right, I would judge that slightly.

Speaker 3 (02:28):
I'm actually pushing for digital on the wall calendar, believe
it or not. And number five of things nobody has
in their home anymore.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
Takeout menus just in my junk drawer, Yeah, because I
still feel like I get them like left, like you know,
on my front door, like a pizza place randomly every
now and then.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
I just throw it in the junk drawer.

Speaker 4 (02:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:47):
I don't think we have a single takeout menu in
the house because anytime we want to look something, I
need to yelp it and find.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
The mag I know, I know, it's so sad when
you think about things that just are not in our
homes anymore. What about this, don't I got this not
too long ago. An actual like tabletop alarm clock. I
use my phone for it. Yeah, do you have an
alarm clock in the house.

Speaker 3 (03:08):
We do in the bedrooms, just okay, just for the
sake of knowing what time it is, but no one
uses them for anything other than that.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
Yeah, you peek over, it's just there.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
Yeah. We got rid of ours just to make a
little space on the on the end table and just
use our phone for everything.

Speaker 3 (03:20):
And the last thing I will add to the list
here is a landline. Oh yeah, I know no one
has landlines anymore.

Speaker 1 (03:26):
They don't.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
Oh man, I remember when you used to like be
on the phone and like someone else would pick up
the phone in the house.

Speaker 4 (03:32):
Yeah, get up.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
The good old days.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
Right.

Speaker 5 (03:37):
This is Sunny Mornings with Joanna and Sean on Sonny
one oh six point five.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
Let's talk about a conversation that should happen in every marriage.
Good morning, It's Joanna and Sean right here on Sunny.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
One o six point five.

Speaker 2 (03:50):
So I was with my girlfriend Blanca recently, and we
were just catching up and she told me about a
conversation her and her husband recently had, and that was
is either one of them were to pass on. Would
they be okay with the other person moving on? And
she told her husband that she was fine. She encouraged

(04:12):
him that if she were to pass on, he should
go fine love, he could get married again. She would
be okay with it. Now his answer was different. He
told her that if he were to move on, he
would prefer her not to remarry.

Speaker 4 (04:26):
Well, if he were to pass on.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
Yes, yeah, yeh, pass on, sorry, pass on? That he
would not want her to remarry, and she was surprisingly
okay with it. She respected that, and she said, you
know what, I think I'd be okay being single forever
if you were to pass on, And she was okay.
But I thought it was interesting. I have not had
that conversation in my marriage yet, have you?

Speaker 4 (04:48):
No?

Speaker 3 (04:48):
And I hate that we're talking about this because inevitively
it's going to come up now.

Speaker 4 (04:51):
When I get home.

Speaker 3 (04:52):
Now, I think we haven't had this conversation because my
wife knows I hate these types of hypotheticals. Right, it's
a little macab I don't like thinking about death ever.
And two it's just one of those like, well would
you love me if I was a worm type conversations,
you know, like I cannot stand there's always a major
disconnect between what answer you want me to say and

(05:14):
what eventually, I what inevitably is going to come out
of my mouth. Right, Men think practically, men being think emotionally,
and these things never work out well.

Speaker 2 (05:22):
I just thought it was interesting that they both had
very different responses and they were and she was okay
with it, because even though she told him like, yes,
move on, fine, love, marry again, he was like, no,
don't do that, stay single, and she was like okay,
she respected his wishes, even though on the other side
of it she was okay with him moving on.

Speaker 1 (05:42):
I thought that was interesting.

Speaker 4 (05:43):
Man, I don't want my wife being with anybody after me.

Speaker 3 (05:46):
I know, No, You're mine. I don't care if I'm dead.
You belong to me.

Speaker 2 (05:51):
I think that it is a weird thing, of course,
to talk about, and but it's it is a good
conversation to have with your significant other. I my reactive
answer is what you just said, Sean, don't move on.
I only want you to have ever been married to me.
But then the more I think about it, like I
also know want my husband being lonely. I want I

(06:15):
don't ever want to be forgotten though, like I have
so many.

Speaker 1 (06:17):
Rules to this now, I'm talking it out loud.

Speaker 3 (06:20):
Look, my wife's got sisters. They could keep her company, Okay,
they'll help out with the kids. I don't need another
man out there trying to raise my kids for me
if I'm not around. I know.

Speaker 2 (06:29):
But but then, like a see, I don't know. It's
such a tough conversation to have. It's easier obviously for
other people, but it is a really tough one to have.

Speaker 3 (06:39):
I can't imagine some dude, I don't know, Like, what
if that dude wears Birkenstocks, Like, that's just I don't
need that dude in their life.

Speaker 2 (06:45):
Then you can come back and haunt him, all right.
You can haunt the house. You can mose Birkenstocks around,
you can scare them.

Speaker 1 (06:53):
Out of their house.

Speaker 4 (06:55):
I'm into it. I'm into that one.

Speaker 3 (06:57):
Six.

Speaker 2 (07:01):
So it looks like there's destinations out there where we
may need to visit just to boost our feel good hormones.
Good morning, it's Joanna, and it's Sean and according to
bookretards dot Com and a Harvard psychologist, they created what
is called the Holiday Happiness Index, which combine science and
data to find the best vacation spots to make us
feel our very best.

Speaker 3 (07:21):
So what they did here is they looked at forty
seven different destinations and used five different what they call
feel good factors that are shown to boost the body's
happy hormones. Right, so we've looked at sunlight, quality, sleep,
a healthy diet, time in nature, and physical exercise as
the factors that will contribute to the best feel good.

Speaker 2 (07:43):
Experience right right, And here in the US, it looks
like Orlando, Florida is the number one city to really
boost those feel good hormones.

Speaker 1 (07:53):
You used to live by there, right.

Speaker 3 (07:55):
I grew up in South Florida, so it was about
three and a half four hours to get to Orlando.
But you know, it's a doable drive. It's like here
to La Basically, you want to go to theme parks
and things like we do.

Speaker 2 (08:05):
Yeah, exactly, And I haven't been to Orlando in years,
but there is a lot of stuff for like families there.

Speaker 1 (08:10):
You can feel like a kid again, great weather. I
could see.

Speaker 2 (08:13):
Why that may be a great city to boost those
feel good hormones.

Speaker 3 (08:16):
The international choices were interesting to me because I never would
have guessed that Lisbon, Portugal would be number one on
this list, but also Helsinki, Finland, Athens I think made
sense to me. Athens, Greece, I feel like there's probably
a lot of feel good energy there. And Edinburgh, Scotland
rounded out the top five there with Orlando in that
three spot.

Speaker 2 (08:36):
Yeah, so we were talking off the bike a little
bit and instead of thinking about cities that we've been
to that has boosted our field good hormones, let's talk
about what's right here in Las Vegas, Henderson, Voulder City,
wherever that boost your feel good hormones? And Sean, I
know you and your family get out in about a lot.
Have you kind of found your happy place in the

(08:57):
city that you know is your go to place where
you guys can just feel good?

Speaker 4 (09:00):
Well, I think there's two for me.

Speaker 3 (09:02):
One of them is just I mean, if it's just me,
I love the Arts District because I just I love
the food and the shops and the breweries and the
antique stores. My daughter doesn't like all the walking quite
as much as I do. Sure, but as far as
a family destination, it's fox Hill Park in Summerlande. I
adore that park. I think it is the most beautiful
one in the city. It's about fifteen minute drive from

(09:24):
where I live, okay, but it's worth it. I just
pack everyone in the car and it's gorgeous and we
can spend hours there because it's just so big, there's
so much to.

Speaker 1 (09:30):
Do and you just feel good.

Speaker 4 (09:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (09:32):
I love that for me. I've got two as well.
Right now. I experience it every time.

Speaker 2 (09:39):
This year it is Gilcrease Orchard, and I love just
going there early. I love the sun rising, I love
picking the pumpkins, I love the apples. I love everything
about that place. And it took me years to discover it,
but now that I have found it is now our
annual tradition this time of the year to go, and
it makes me feel so good just parking in that

(10:01):
parking lot and getting out and like heading that way
automatically start feeling good.

Speaker 4 (10:06):
Yeah right, I love.

Speaker 1 (10:07):
That for this time of the year, but year round.

Speaker 2 (10:09):
Honestly, I think it's gonna forever be Las Vegas for me,
not only because I got married there, but just because
it doesn't feel like Las Vegas. I truly feel like
I'm in a different state even when I'm out there,
and I just forget about the hustle and bustle of
the city life, you know, and I just forget everything.
I just automatically feel good when we're in Lake Las Vegas.

Speaker 4 (10:29):
I have to put that on my list of places
to go.

Speaker 3 (10:31):
Call us if you want to jump in on this
and tell us your feel good spot here in Las Vegas.

Speaker 4 (10:36):
And speaking of feel good.

Speaker 3 (10:37):
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Speaker 3 (10:50):
It feels like we're seeing ads literally everywhere these days,
including maybe the last place you would ever want to
see an advertisement. It is Sonny one was six Sunny
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the Cross's article here, okay. And in Chinese public restrooms,
they are testing out dispensers here that require users to

(11:13):
watch advertisements before receiving toilet paper.

Speaker 2 (11:18):
I thought you're gonna say before they flush. I was
like that, come on, this is getting ridiculous, but this
is just ridiculous overall.

Speaker 1 (11:24):
I hate this.

Speaker 4 (11:26):
I don't blame you at all.

Speaker 2 (11:27):
I mean going to using a public restroom is already
super uncomfortable for a lot of people out there.

Speaker 1 (11:34):
I have friends of mine that just absolutely refuse.

Speaker 2 (11:36):
To do so, so I can imagine this is just
going to make people hate that experience even more so.

Speaker 3 (11:43):
The way this works is these machines are going to
display a QR code that you scan with your phone,
and that it triggers a video on your phone, like
a video ad that you have to watch before it
will release a controlled amount of toilet paper.

Speaker 2 (11:58):
Wait what so now you even have to use your
own phone?

Speaker 4 (12:01):
Yeah, to watch the ad.

Speaker 3 (12:02):
I think we all knew we were bringing our phones
into the bathroom to beginning, but this makes it required.

Speaker 2 (12:08):
I think that makes it even worse than what I
already thought it was gonna be. I thought it was
just gonna be like, you know, like like a little TV,
like if you're in an airplane, right, and it was
just gonna play automatically. Like, the fact that I have
to use my own phone while sitting on the toilet.

Speaker 3 (12:22):
Is really annoying unless you pay around seven cents. If
you pay the equivalent of seven US cents, you can.

Speaker 4 (12:28):
Skip the ad.

Speaker 3 (12:29):
But the this is all being described as a waste
reduction effort because they're saying that people have been taking
large amounts of free toilet paper from high traffic facilities,
so this is meant to curb that.

Speaker 2 (12:42):
Behavior, really and not not help a company make more
money by showing their ads. I find this hard to believe. Look,
here's the thing.

Speaker 3 (12:51):
My thing is, if you are desperate enough to be
stealing toilet paper from a public facility, you probably really
need it, right, Like, go ahead, take that TP exactly.

Speaker 1 (13:00):
I feel the same with.

Speaker 4 (13:01):
Probably not great, it's probably single play.

Speaker 2 (13:03):
I just exactly, if you're not, they're not getting the
highest quality with that public toilet paper anyway. But I
just think this is absolutely ridiculous. This is one thing
that is starting, you know, on the other side of
the world that does not need to come here to
the States, Like let's let's not have that happen anytime soon,
especially here in Las Vegas, like such a you know,
a tourist destination, Like I mean, right, we've seen such

(13:26):
an increase in ads on taxi caves on the side
of actual people's cars, like we it's in our face
all the time. The last place I need to be
disrupted is in a bathroom.

Speaker 3 (13:37):
Like it's bad enough having the tip bathroom attendance, and
now I got to pay to get toilet paper.

Speaker 1 (13:41):
That's the worst too.

Speaker 4 (13:42):
I know it says.

Speaker 3 (13:44):
Public reaction has been largely negative. You don't say yeah,
I think so?

Speaker 1 (13:48):
Sure? Yeah.

Speaker 3 (13:50):
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Speaker 2 (16:02):
Looks like they're's close to five thousand new words going
to be entered into Marion Webster's dictionary. Good morning, It's
Joanna and Sean.

Speaker 1 (16:11):
And this list is.

Speaker 3 (16:13):
Very interesting, don't I don't have I don't know there
were five thousand words that we didn't know already.

Speaker 4 (16:18):
I mean five thousands a lot.

Speaker 2 (16:21):
I feel like that's excessive, right, And I mean also some.

Speaker 1 (16:24):
Of these are acronyms.

Speaker 4 (16:26):
Yes they are, yes, so I did not know that
that was the thing.

Speaker 2 (16:29):
But some of them very interesting and probably words that
maybe you use or your kids used.

Speaker 3 (16:34):
Yeah. Well, first of all, I love the posts. They
used to announce this. They said, we have some new
words for you, Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, the new twelfth
edition made of paper. I like them, made of papers.
Remind you dictionaries were in fact manufactured and still are.

Speaker 4 (16:48):
They're not just on your phone all the time.

Speaker 1 (16:50):
And this is crazy.

Speaker 2 (16:51):
This has been a full twenty two years after its
last update.

Speaker 4 (16:55):
I get the Collegiate edition.

Speaker 2 (16:56):
Yes right, Still, that just seems like a really long time,
I find.

Speaker 3 (16:59):
Out sense right, I just I can't believe they've waited
this long to do it. But I guess five thousand
new words pop up in twenty two years.

Speaker 1 (17:06):
I guess.

Speaker 3 (17:06):
Let's let's go through some of these. What's your favorite one? So, like,
just to start with dadbod, dadbod. It's about time we
got some recognition in this place.

Speaker 1 (17:15):
Dads are finally getting the respect.

Speaker 3 (17:17):
Data via the dictionary looks like, thank you Mirriam Webster's
for validating.

Speaker 2 (17:22):
But here's the thing, though, Like we can see this article,
I want to see what the definition of that is?

Speaker 4 (17:27):
That's true? How they describing it? Cold? Can we google it?

Speaker 3 (17:31):
Can we google Miriam Webster's definition of death exactly?

Speaker 1 (17:34):
Like I want to see how they are going to
be describing this to the entire world.

Speaker 4 (17:38):
All right, go to the next word.

Speaker 2 (17:39):
Well, all right, let's see cancel culture is being added.

Speaker 4 (17:43):
That's not surprising. Actually, cold brew okay, cold? Oh cold?

Speaker 3 (17:48):
You know here, here's the thing about cold brew, right,
Why does that need its own entry? It's like the
words buzz cut right, Like I was thinking about this earlier,
Like cold and brew both kind of exist on their own.

Speaker 4 (17:59):
Do we need cold brew in the dictionary?

Speaker 2 (18:01):
Yeah, that one's a little odd, But this one you
use quite often. Doom doom's doom scroll doom scroll I
heard yesterday.

Speaker 3 (18:08):
That's my comfort What do we call it? A your
comfort joint comfort routine? Is doom scrolling a night? Oh
all right, so let me backtrack real quick. The dad
bod I googled it. Here's what Miriam Webster says. A
physique regarded as typical of an average father, especially one
that is slightly overweight and not extremely muscular.

Speaker 2 (18:29):
Trying to say that in the nicest way possible, slightly overweight.

Speaker 3 (18:33):
That is like, I don't know, I feel not offended
by that. I feel like that's accurate.

Speaker 2 (18:37):
I mean, I do feel like we are living in
a world where things need to be equal. So if
there's dadbod, is there mom bod in there too? I
don't know because I'm rocking a mom bod right now
after maternity.

Speaker 4 (18:48):
I have not googled that one just yet. I don't
know that I'm going to risk.

Speaker 1 (18:52):
You watch it on the work computer, right.

Speaker 3 (18:55):
You're right, mom, But that can come up with a
lot of interesting results some of these other ones.

Speaker 4 (19:00):
Dumb phone has been added after twenty two years.

Speaker 3 (19:02):
I think we've been saying that one for a while,
like your old Nokia flip phones and things, right, okay,
w f H, which is the acronym for work from home?

Speaker 5 (19:11):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (19:12):
Interesting?

Speaker 2 (19:13):
And this one I don't use it, but I think
a lot of kids these days do RIZ are izz?

Speaker 4 (19:19):
Do you know what RIZ is short for? By the way,
isn't it? Oh?

Speaker 1 (19:21):
Is it short?

Speaker 2 (19:22):
I just thought it means it means like cool factor, Yes,
but it is.

Speaker 3 (19:25):
Actually derived from the word charisma. It makes sense when
you think about it that way, right, No, I like
the word charisma. Let's use that more than REZ.

Speaker 1 (19:34):
Please.

Speaker 2 (19:35):
C six. Have you ever thought about where you would
want to retire to one day? Which city in the US?
Would be your retirement home. Good morning, it's Joanna and Sean, and.

Speaker 1 (19:52):
I don't know about you.

Speaker 2 (19:53):
Sean.

Speaker 1 (19:53):
I have not given this.

Speaker 3 (19:54):
Any thought, no, because I don't have enough money to
move anywhere that would merit retiring too.

Speaker 4 (20:00):
I frankly like it here pretty well.

Speaker 3 (20:02):
But this was interesting because we saw this study from
wallet hub, which does a lot of these kinds of rankings,
but they ranked the best retirement cities in the country
based on a number of things like affordability, activities, quality
of life, healthcare, all all other kinds of methodology.

Speaker 4 (20:20):
But Las Vegas cities, a couple of us did pretty well.

Speaker 2 (20:23):
Actually, yeah, shout.

Speaker 1 (20:24):
Out to Henderson.

Speaker 2 (20:25):
Looks like landed fifty ninth on that list, and Loss
of Vegas number eleven, right outside the top ten.

Speaker 4 (20:34):
Right, that's pretty crazy.

Speaker 3 (20:36):
Yeah, So I was looking at the breakdown on some
of these categories, right, sure, So Las Vegas was number
eleventh because under affordability we were thirteenth. I think people
don't realize that this city is actually pretty affordable off the.

Speaker 1 (20:47):
Strip compared to other places.

Speaker 5 (20:48):
Yep.

Speaker 4 (20:49):
Activities sixth of all the ones that were ranked.

Speaker 3 (20:52):
Good weather not surprising, activities, quality of life, and healthcare will.
I don't think anyone's surprised at affordability and activities carrying
a lot of the weight and getting us that high
up on the list.

Speaker 2 (21:04):
Absolutely, So I know we fell outside the top ten there,
but I'm curious to know at least the top five.

Speaker 3 (21:12):
Okay, Well, what do you think outside of Nevada? Like,
what do you think it is arguably one of the
most popular states in the country to I think your
home state Florida. Yes, for sure, so Florida's number one state.
But that would probably lead you to believe that one
of the cities there would be the number one city
the entire two What do you think that is?

Speaker 2 (21:28):
I mean, I have not seen the list, so I'm
just guessing your home city Book of ratone.

Speaker 3 (21:33):
No, the great guess actually, and I'm surprised maybe it
is on the list, but Orlando.

Speaker 1 (21:38):
Land really okay?

Speaker 2 (21:40):
Because I was thinking I was going to say Orlando
just because it's the first city I think about what
I think of Florida. Then I thought, every person that
I know that retires of Florida always tells me Book.

Speaker 3 (21:48):
Of ratone, believe me that we do have a lot
of retirees down there. For sure, and just okay, oddly enough,
I just did one of those like control F word searches,
and of the one hundred and eighty two cities on
this list, Boca ratone is not but Orlando certainly is
up there at number one. Also in the top five,
we'll just kind of roll through them, and you're Scottsdale, Arizona.

(22:08):
Minneapolis at the number three spots surprises me. Miami number four, okay,
Tampa number five, there's some more Florida city.

Speaker 2 (22:15):
I was gonna say that the Minneapolis that surprises me
so much.

Speaker 1 (22:20):
Snow, when you retire, you really want to deal with that.

Speaker 4 (22:22):
Yeah, I'm not. I was actually pretty surprised by that
as well.

Speaker 1 (22:25):
Surprise.

Speaker 5 (22:26):
No.

Speaker 2 (22:26):
I mean, listen, I know California is expensive, but if
you are a rich retiring I would assume someplace like
San Diego would be a dream to retire.

Speaker 3 (22:35):
Yeah, and right, yeah, you're not kidding. I don't know
where we're in San Diego? Are they even on this list.
Let's just do a real quick search, and San Diego
is number twenty nine.

Speaker 1 (22:45):
Okay, so in there.

Speaker 2 (22:46):
But yeah, the affordability factor I think is just the
big thing these days. It's like, yeah, we joke like
we can't even think about retiring. It's so expensive. But
it's true for everybody.

Speaker 4 (22:57):
I'm happy to stay here.

Speaker 5 (22:58):
Though.

Speaker 2 (22:59):
On the list you laugh about it's like a nervous laughter.

Speaker 5 (23:02):
This is Sunny Mornings with Joanna and Sew on Sunny
one six point five.

Speaker 2 (23:07):
It's been quite some time since we went on a
first date. Well, let's talk about who's paying for those
these days. Good morning, it's Joanna, addas Sean. Now, I
feel maybe a little bit old fashionate and traditional here
saying this, but I always feel like the man should
pay for a first date, especially if they're the one asking.

Speaker 3 (23:26):
I look, especially if they're the one asking. But I
do think that we've been progressing in the right way
in terms. I think women are stepping up to the
plate more often and feeling more compelled and empowered to
like ask a guy out, and I frankly like that.

Speaker 2 (23:40):
And in some situations women are feeling more pressure though.
And I want to tell you about the story that
I saw online. It looks like a Reddit user says
that she was left feeling humiliated after going on a
first date recently with a man that she did not
hit it off with now. She ended up paying for
both of them because because when it came time to pay,

(24:03):
he suddenly got a phone call ah could not get
off of and.

Speaker 1 (24:08):
So things got awkward.

Speaker 2 (24:09):
So the woman was like, I just this date needs
to be done, so I'm just going to pay for
this so this can be done because he's on the phone.

Speaker 4 (24:15):
Yeah, well, I think all right. Two things about that.

Speaker 3 (24:18):
One, Uh don't I don't think you're taking phone calls
during a first kate first date. I'm putting my shone
right on, do not disturb. You should be getting my
full attention. There's no phone call that's going to be
pulling you me away from you unless it's life or death. Sure.
Second of all, you've got to make sure that you're
around for the end of the meal too, because you
know that check is inevitably going to come, and you're
saying that you just happen to get a life for

(24:39):
death phone call like right before the check came.

Speaker 4 (24:41):
No, sir, exactly.

Speaker 2 (24:43):
So this woman basically turned to Reddit and she's wondering
whether or not she should ask the man to pay
her back, or at least for his half of the check,
because she was had to put the whole bill, and
so she's like irked by this. And I can understand
like leaving situation like that where you feel like I
should not have paid for that, Like I should not
have done that, and like feeling a little bit angry

(25:04):
and resentful.

Speaker 3 (25:05):
Maybe if you're if you're doing it to stand on principle,
that's one thing, right if you're at a if it
was like a three hundred dollars, if you're at like
a steakhouse like a bvet's kind of a situation, right then, Yeah,
I ask that dude, you're gonna pay you back for that?
Right Outside of that, I just think you just got
to cut your losses at that point. Don't don't let
that person take up any more time in your brain,

(25:26):
in your psyche at all.

Speaker 4 (25:28):
Like, just cut your losses, ghosts them. That's the sort
of thing.

Speaker 3 (25:30):
You don't need to communicate them with them any further,
especially not to ask for half of.

Speaker 4 (25:34):
A meal bag.

Speaker 2 (25:35):
Yeah. I always say that, like just in general, even
not even just like with a first date, but like
with friendships or things that like maybe you've picked up
the tab for somebody and that person turned out to
be like not a good human being and you.

Speaker 1 (25:46):
End up not being friends with that person.

Speaker 2 (25:48):
I always say, like, I look back at that time
where I've paid for things, I'm like, you know what,
it cost me this much money to realize I didn't
need that.

Speaker 4 (25:54):
Person life exactly.

Speaker 2 (25:55):
That's how I kind of, like, you know, kind of
you know, reset my mental there because it is annoying
when like you're like, I didn't really have that much
money to begin with, and I got stiff with this
bill and I and I the guy asked her, so
I get why she feels that way, but you know,
I just started thinking, Sean, you can admit this, hopefully honestly.
Have you ever made a woman pay for a first

(26:16):
date before?

Speaker 3 (26:16):
No, I think I have had a woman say like,
it's like, no pressure, let's split the bill. Okay, no,
just just so there's no expectations whatever the end of
the night. Right.

Speaker 4 (26:26):
But I have always offered to pay at the very least.

Speaker 1 (26:28):
Okay, I love that.

Speaker 2 (26:30):
I remember years ago I had a guy like, want
to split the bill, and I said I was fine
with it. I said that to his face, I was
not fine with it. I obviously did pay. And the
thing with that is like he still wanted to go
on more dates and go out, and I was like,
in my head, I could not get over the fact
that he made me split the first bill. So it
was like a hard note for me.

Speaker 1 (26:51):
And I think I ended up telling him that too.

Speaker 4 (26:53):
Yeah, that's so.

Speaker 2 (26:54):
I was like, listen, like I didn't that rubbed me
the wrong way, that he wanted me to split split
the bill on the first date. I'm sorry, fashion like
you should have you should have covered it. Mud.

Speaker 3 (27:02):
I am all for equality when it comes to, you know,
paying the bill, but I do think as the guy,
you should be equipped or at least that the person
you ask for the day you should be equipped to
pay for the bill when it does.

Speaker 4 (27:14):
Come time for that.

Speaker 2 (27:15):
I think that's what it is, is that if you
are the person who is asking, then you need to
need to be prepared to pay in full for whatever
you're asking that person too.

Speaker 1 (27:23):
I think it's just the right thing to do. Sonny
one or six, good.

Speaker 2 (27:31):
Good morning, it's Joanna and Sean already some things at home.
My son was sent to the principal's office.

Speaker 3 (27:40):
Really, little Brocky Brocky got sent to the principal office.

Speaker 2 (27:43):
Three and a half year old, innocent Brocki sent to
the principal's office, and.

Speaker 1 (27:47):
I'll tell you why.

Speaker 2 (27:48):
But listen, he's also three and a half. Now he's
in a classroom with eighteen kids, twelve of them are.

Speaker 1 (27:54):
Girls and only six boys.

Speaker 2 (27:56):
Okay, so he gravitates towards the boys. You know, they play,
they have fun and you know those magnetic.

Speaker 4 (28:01):
Tiles, yeah, yeah, magnetiles.

Speaker 3 (28:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (28:03):
So they have like some breaks and some fun time
in the class where they get to build things.

Speaker 1 (28:07):
So you know, they build things. But there's this one
kid in the class that.

Speaker 2 (28:10):
He's friends with where it seems like they are picking
up on what each other does, basically copying mannerisms and behaviors.
And this one little boy, I guess I heard from
the teachers, is known for going around and knocking down
kids created magnetile houses and then laughing about it.

Speaker 4 (28:30):
Godzilla.

Speaker 2 (28:31):
That's a perfect way to put it, little Godzilla. And
so I guess Brocott was funny and he started turning
into a little Godzilla himself. But because that wasn't appropriate behavior,
you know, he got sent to the prison's office and
they told me about him copying his friend's behavior.

Speaker 1 (28:47):
And this is new to me. I'm navigating this for
the first time.

Speaker 2 (28:50):
I feel like it's normal for a three and a
half year old to copy what other his other peers
are doing. But I have to figure out a way
to kind of try to intercept this when I'm around
him and the peers.

Speaker 1 (29:01):
Have you dealt with this with Hallow?

Speaker 3 (29:04):
So? Hallow has only ever been sent to the principal's
office once. It was in kindergarten for spitting on the floor.
I remember that, yes, yes, yeah, she has not done
that since, thankfully. But I'll tell you some behavior that
she picked up at school that she has brought home
that we, my wife and I don't particularly look. Yeah,
and that is calling us bruh in the house?

Speaker 4 (29:23):
What bruh? B are u h. It's like what the
kids all call each other. She's six, six.

Speaker 2 (29:29):
Year old are doing I thought high schoolers.

Speaker 1 (29:31):
Were doing that.

Speaker 3 (29:32):
This is a language that is being repeated in like
roadblocks and minecraft and everything. But when she's like, bruh,
I don't want to eat dinner right now, We're like,
you hold on just a second, We are not bruh.
You can call your friends bruh all you want. We
are Mama and Papa, and don't you forget it.

Speaker 2 (29:51):
I am just shocked because I have heard like high schoolers.
I know high schoolers talk like this, but it's getting
as young as sick and they're learning about these things
not just in school. But you said, like via some
of the digital platforms too.

Speaker 4 (30:05):
Yes, exactly.

Speaker 1 (30:06):
Wow, more stuff I have to worry about.

Speaker 4 (30:08):
Awesome, We've put the kaibash on it.

Speaker 3 (30:10):
She's very she is alert as far as not having
like not calling us that sure so much the point
where when she does exclaim it about something, she immediately goes, no.

Speaker 4 (30:19):
No, no, that's not about you. That's not about you.

Speaker 3 (30:21):
I'm not calling you br I'm just saying bruh because
I'm mad about this on the game or something like that.

Speaker 2 (30:27):
Interesting, Okay, that's something I have to look forward to
with a Brock and his Godzilla destroying magnetiles. I when
I was talking to the teachers and the principal, you know,
one thing they said is, Okay, maybe a solution to
this is doing like positive peer partnership, which is basically
partnering him up with better behaved to kids in the

(30:47):
class and you get modern better behavior.

Speaker 1 (30:49):
And I'm like, yeah, you have twelve girls.

Speaker 2 (30:52):
And six boys, Like, let's do like a two girl
to a boy ratio, and these like group activities so
he can learn like gentler behavior.

Speaker 1 (31:00):
Because you know boys that they're wild. So I kind
of liked that solution.

Speaker 3 (31:04):
Yeah, that would I think that would probably feel like
a bit of a ladies man. Probably, that's not say.

Speaker 2 (31:10):
He probably would like it more ways than one.

Speaker 5 (31:12):
One day, right Sunny Mornings with Joyna and Sean on
Sonny one oh six point five, Good.

Speaker 2 (31:18):
Morning studying when I was six point five. So last
night I went shopping at Sam's Club. Yeah, and I decided,
you know what, I'm out here, like, let me just
get some Halloween stuff right now. And because you know,
it's like then I'm just gonna wait until week of
so let me just hurry up and get some things.
And I was, I was putting it in my car.
I was realizing things are expensive. Yes, Candy's expensive decorations

(31:42):
are expensive. I don't remember some of the prices being
as high last year, even though last year I felt
probably the same way.

Speaker 1 (31:47):
I felt like it was higher than ever.

Speaker 2 (31:49):
And it's just is like, oh my gosh, will the
price gouch ever end? On these holidays.

Speaker 3 (31:54):
I've been price tracking on some of these twelve foot
tall skeletons too, and they are and they are still
more more expensive than were last year too.

Speaker 4 (32:02):
No, not as much as my little heart would desire.

Speaker 3 (32:04):
That might that might have to be like a summer
purchase out of season, trying to find a used one.

Speaker 1 (32:08):
Yeah, yeah, trying to find that one. I gets well, right, And.

Speaker 2 (32:11):
It looks like we're not the only ones feeling the
pain because according to a new survey that's out there,
the average person is going to be shelling out a
whole lot more money this year for Halloween.

Speaker 1 (32:22):
It looks like one hundred and fourteen dollars just to.

Speaker 2 (32:26):
Get into that Halloween spirit this year. I know that.

Speaker 3 (32:29):
Well, here's the thing about Halloween, right to me this,
I think most holidays are family holidays, but when it
comes to things that you can celebrate with your kids,
especially something like Halloween, people are willing to spend the money,
right right, So yeah, I think people are cutting back
in other places, even if the if the economy is
hurting and prices are up everywhere, people are going to
invest in their family time.

Speaker 4 (32:50):
And Halloween is one of those hollridays memory, Yes.

Speaker 3 (32:53):
And it's one of those that you can like a
full month to celebrate at the very least, right, So
there's a lot of decorations you can do, craft you
can make, memories that you can make with your family.
I don't blame people for spending the money on a
holiday like Halloween, yeah.

Speaker 2 (33:06):
Because you're right, the longevity factor of it is kind
of nice too. Now, all told up, this year, it
looks like Americans are set to drop a record breaking
thirteen billion dollars on all things spooky. I'm talking about costumes, decoration, candy,
even greeting cards. I don't know why that's in here,
but greeting cards too. I guesst Halloween greeting cards has

(33:27):
become a thing. And I remember on the show last
year we talked about the Boo baskets. Yeah, that's right, right,
and that was like a brand new thing that people
had to spend additional money on. So maybe the Boo
baskets are going strong too.

Speaker 3 (33:40):
I think, as with most things, you can look to
social media as being a source of inspiration for things
like this. People like me, they see the crafts you
can do, like making the big spooky candles out of
pool noodles yep, and they think I can do something
like that, right, So I think you have all these
dedicated like year round spooky accounts, these people that are
super into the macabre and the and the creepy and

(34:02):
the year round post these kinds of things, and I
just think that exposure has just made Halloween bigger than
it's ever been before.

Speaker 2 (34:09):
Yeah, social media is definitely a factor in that. And
of course people want to spend a lot of money
on things like costumes because you're gonna put.

Speaker 1 (34:15):
It up on the gram.

Speaker 2 (34:16):
Right. They actually said that costumes and candy are the
two categories that are taking the biggest chunk out of
people's wallets at four billion dollars each. So the main
spending is in those two areas. And I think you're
right in terms of just social media kind of being
a place that has created the buzz.

Speaker 3 (34:35):
For a lot of stuff and K pop demon hunters.
You're about to see a whole lot of demon hunters.
Is that your daughter wants what it's going to be
the number one costume this year? That is the social
media factor. You will see about a billion demon hunters
at your door.

Speaker 4 (34:49):
Lots of demons. Good to know what's coming, right, s
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