September 20, 2024 • 18 mins
Today we talk about how much you're ACTUALLY working on a daily basis, plus why setting multiple alarms is bad for you (but is it as bad as being late?) PLUS - special bonus, the Toy Hall of Fame is set to pick their three inductees this year, and we're gonna debate it with the same veracity we would when trying to pick our favorite child or Mexican food spot. Enjoy!
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
I do not know how your morning has started. Mine
began with the the Hollies.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Yeah anybody else? No, no're just me.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Welcome Friday, gottle Blaze through another edition of this girly
show because I have stuff I gotta.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Get done today, and I'm sure you do as well.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
And you know this what we'll call this a little break,
a little reprieve from everything that's happening in your world
as you get ready for the weekend. I know my
kids were up late last night. One of them was
at the baseball game. The other one was with me
on doing the academy sports run. We had to we
had to get volleyball stuff and basketball stuff and then
some new shorts. Apparently these kids grow they don't stop.
(00:53):
So my son's been wearing just the tightest shorts that
aren't supposed to be you know, basketball season coming up.
He's playing football right now, so it's like, all right, man,
sure you don't want to show off those like thighs.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Okay, I get you. So me and the daughter made
a run last night. Welcome. I'm excited.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Today we're going to talk about toys specifically. Did you
know that there is a Toy Hall of Fame, and
that there are some toys right now being considered for
that Hall of Fame. It is absolutely subjective, but I
think you and I can find a consensus of the
twelve finalists which three should be inducted this year. Plus
why setting multiple alarms? It's actually real bad for you.
(01:35):
And how much are you actually working when you include
not just work but your family as well, plus a
couple of other things, including a real creepy photographer. In fact,
we'll start there, And I think this is because so
I work a lot without a microphone on. You understand that, right,
I mean we all you know you've got teams meetings
(01:56):
and stuff. Consider like this like a teams meeting that
I have to do every day. The rest of the time,
I just microphones off, cameras off. I'm not doing on
the air stuff. I'm just doing computer stuff. And lately
it's been a lot more of that.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
It feels like.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
So I like to watch TV. When I do it now,
if I watch TV, it's mostly just listen, right, I
have the three screen setup, so on the screen to
my left, I put the TV on, and then stuff
and stuff on center and right. You don't care about
any of this. What you do care about are the
shows that I watch, and I have a rotation. I
like to go through shows that I've seen before, never
(02:29):
new stuff, because if it's new, I can't work. I
just need it for noise. And at this point eighteen
years in, I'm just music.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Nah.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
I will listen to music if I want to actively
listen to it. If I want to passively listen to something,
I'm gonna put the TV on shows like thirty Rock,
The Office, New Girl, and uh, what's the other one.
Let's do a break about this, Clint. Let's talk to
everybody about it and then not remember the four shows
(02:58):
you put into rotation. Of the comedies, by the way,
because I also do shows that I love that are dramas,
but typically I'll do comedy comedy drama show and then
comedy comedy drama. So I was bace them out the
West Wing. I mentioned that yesterday actually dead Wood, which
is my favorite TV show of all time, And no
(03:20):
judgments on this one, but it's absolutely true.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
The X Files. I'm not a nerd.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
I just have a there's a very special place in
my heart for the X Files. I'm not even that
big into sci fi and by not even, I mean
not at all. Don't care about sci fi one single bit.
There's something about me when I was a kid in
the nineties and watching the X Files on TV and thinking.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Well, this, this is amazing. Everything I've heard about this
Internet is real.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
People can reach through the screen and kidnap you if
you go into a chat room, you know, stuff like that.
It brings back whatever feeling of nostalgia I had from
a kid. My dad and I actually went saw the
X Files movie in the theater together. He's not a
big sci fi guy, but he just it was kind
of like a thing we did for the X Files.
So anyways, I turn on the X File. So I've
(04:09):
been rewatching it lately as I work, so re listening
to it basically, and today a story comes up and
it just hit all the right X Files buttons, specifically
Chittham Elementary in Chesapeake, Virginia, very very much an X
file setting East Coast Virginia, near where they would be
as far as like the FBI offices and stuff. Anyways,
(04:33):
a photographer hired to take the school photos, tell me
this doesn't sound like an X file. A photographer scheduled
to take the kids photos. Showed up to school on
Monday and then was almost immediately asked to leave when
the first class came in and he started asking the
children as he's taking their pictures, things like, and these
are direct quotes.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Can I steal your identity? Can I eat your soul?
Speaker 1 (05:00):
One of the students told his mom, who then told
the school quickly. The photographer was also heard to respond
to students with things like, oh, demons don't eat noodles
and things like that. The school quickly addressed the situation
and started an investigation. It's molten in school. Due time,
(05:23):
you guys moving on. That's not gonna make the air.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
That was just for me.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Announcement today was I'm sure we'll come in handy because
we every day this week. I think twice in the show,
I've had to talk about the new kids on the Block.
We played their new song it sounds like one Republic,
So it's good. They just announced that a residency show
in Las Vegas. They're going to perform at the Dolby Theater.
The MGM. All of them are back, Danny, Donnie, Joey,
(05:48):
Jonathan and Jordan Bros. They're all back and Yeah kicks
off in June and then in November as well, very
like you would imagine these guys have some time, you
know what I mean, Like they're gonna play our iHeartRadio
Music Festival this weekend, so no shock, here's a big
announcement that coincides with that. But then it's like, we're
only gonna do sixteen days and then fifteen days. You
(06:14):
wonder because Adele does, like, you know, a weird schedule
like that, but her sell out the whole time, and
if she did every day, they would sell out every day.
You wonder if they do this because you know how
many people are really going to Vegas just for the
New Kids on the Block. Not that that's the only
thing in Vegas, but you understand it's exciting. Don't get
me wrong, there are some people with nostalgia. I came
in right at the end of New Kids on the Block.
(06:35):
So like my boy bands were Boys to Men first,
then the Backstreet Boys and in Sync. They were all together.
But I was in junior high by that point, so
my sister's five years younger than me, big time into
those guys. Boys to Men was pretty much the only
boy band. And I don't even know if you call
them a boy band. I would call boys to men
the same way I would call Beastie Boys a boy band.
(06:57):
And I really like the Beastie Boys too. Maybe I
did have influences. Mine were just a little cooler than
everybody Else's a.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Weird laugh. Sorry.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
The Countdown to Christmas will begin Friday, October the eighteenth.
That's because that's when Hallmark is starting it. You know,
they do their big countdown to Christmas by airing a
new Christmas movie every day. This year they have fifty
of them, and I have to tell you, we do
like a good Hallmark Christmas movie around here. I don't
know if we're going to launch into it October eighteenth,
(07:29):
but this year fifty new films. The ones that are
on Netflix and stuff. By the way, the ones that
are like go on demand not nearly as good. They
don't hit the right spot in I don't know if
it's even my heart anymore. Maybe it's just like my
stomach brain. It just doesn't ring like a Hallmark movie.
There are parts and it kind of looks like it,
and it kind of feels like it, but they're not
(07:50):
the real deal, you know. It's like the TMU brand
Christmas movies anyways, get ready. October eighteenth, Hallmark says this, this
Christmas time, the average working parent puts in about eighteen
hours a day. When you total it all up, that includes,
you know, their actual job plus the stuff they do
(08:11):
for their kids, eighteen hour work days. Hold on, how
is this? I don't understand this at all. It says
the average working parent pulls eighteen hour work days when
you consider everything they do for their kids plus their jobs.
Non working parents. Oh, that makes a lot more sense.
It was taking like non parent workers are putting in
seventeen hours a day. No, no, no, it's non working parents.
(08:33):
So still, these are long days. The kids pay very little.
From what I understand, fifty six percent of parents, even
though they spend that much time doing stuff for their
kids and with their kids, fifty six percents still feel guilty.
Give yourself a break. You're doing fine. Think about how
(08:54):
much time you spend with your kids versus how much
time your.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Parents spend with you. You're doing absolutely fine.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Sleep experts say that setting more than one alarm isn't great.
Sleep medicine. Sleep medicine doctor, Well, that sounds like a
child wrote this. Sleep medicine doctor Alisha Ruth. I don't
ever use their names, and I won't use.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Her title either.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
I'll just say, like a sleep expert, doctor lady, it's
better explains that more than one alarm is bad for
overall sleep quality and health because it can trigger your
fight or flight.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Hormones and make it even harder to wake up.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
I mean, I'm a just in my very subjective experience,
completely agree. I want to fight every time those multiple
alarms go off. I haven't set though multiple alarms in years.
In fact, the last time I think I did it. Yeah,
I don't even think I've gotten to the second alarm
in a really long time. I used to do it
when I was in college because we would have really
(09:56):
really early like football workouts and stuff, and you do
not want to be to those, because it turns out
if you're late to a football workout and make your
workout even more and it's just running, it's no fun.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
They need you big, they're also run you. None of
it made any sense to me.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Don't set two alarms, just set the one and then
obsess about it while you're falling asleep that you're gonna
miss it until you have just a terrible night's sleep
and wake up because apparently setting two is worse. Cool
cations are the new hot trend for travel. It's where
you know you're already in a blazing hot place, or
you've been real hot for a long time, so it
goes somewhere cold, like the Pacific Northwest or Yellowstone or
(10:36):
Montana or Salem, Massachusetts. Boy, I wonder how much of
the I mean, I know it does. I know what
picks up around this time of year. I'm sure for Salem, Massachusetts.
Do you think if you live in Salem and go
other places, like people immediately are like, you're a little spooky.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
It's a dumb word.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
That'd be weird, right, Like they assume things about ever
buddy from everywhere that's just happens to be Salem's Like, mm,
we'll creep you mentioned earlier, and we'll talk about this
a lot.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Today on the air, So I don't want to talk
about it too much.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Here. Our iHeartRadio Music Festival kicks off tonight from Las Vegas.
It's gonna be the weekends first and only scheduled US
festival date this year. This two two and a half
months of it left, So there you go Paramour, first festival.
They've been on tour with Taylor in Europe. Du Aalipa
doing her first festival of twenty twenty four, first festival,
(11:33):
Look First, Pit first, mm hmm, first festival. Halsey doing
her first festival of the year. And then Victoria Monet,
who I really like, Victoria Money.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
That's a talented girl.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
She got a new album coming out soon, so she's
gonna pronounce that, and then she's got some new music
with Usher as well. All right, have we done everything
that isn't about the toys we have? All right, let's
get into this. The Toy Hall of Fame, which is
a thing up apparently, has named their finalists for the
year twenty twenty four. Each year they pop out twelve
(12:07):
and then narrow that down to three who will be
inducted into the Toy Hall of Fame. Here are, in
no particular order, and I want you to listen to
these closely, the twelve because you and I need to
be objective and only a little subjective when it comes
(12:29):
to putting three in. If it's just you and me,
all right, here are the twelve Transformers. The game Apples
to apples, choose your own adventure game books, Pokemon, trading cards.
Those are two different things. Balloons, trampolines, my Little pony, hes,
(12:57):
toy trucks, remote controlled vehicles, the stick Horse, you remember that?
And phase ten.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Is that?
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Well did that miss any all right? It took up
half my page, so I had to scroll, all right,
So let's go. We need three. Which one of those
would be the first one you would put in because
you know it has to be in. It is you know,
it's the Babe Ruth of toys in this list. To me,
(13:33):
it's trading cards. And I know I'm a boy, right
and I traded cards when I was a kid. But
the history of trading cards, the way that that has
evolved over time, not just into it started with baseball cards,
then basketball and football and all the sports. Now you've
got games where you do like trading card things as well.
(13:55):
I know you play them too and everything. But still
it's it's been like America since the what twenties, that's
been a thing that every kid, and I say every kid.
I know it's a lot of boys, but those have
just I mean, if you were to tell the kid
who made who got a nineteen twenties trading card that
(14:16):
in twenty twenty four, these would still be popular and
be not just like sports, but like you know, I mean,
Pokemon's in there too. And by the way, Pokemon is
the largest most richest franchise in all of game history,
you know, So I think if you're gonna put trading
(14:36):
cards in, you have to put Pokemon in. That's one
and two. Okay, I'm just gonna say that right now.
My kid brought home a bunch of moving too little
garage sale up the street. He bought three dollars worth
of all gold Pokemon cards. I don't think that they
are expensive. Uh he did get them for three dollars
at a garage sale, so you never know. But I
mean hundreds of them, just strewn about the floor. Still huge,
(14:57):
still making money trading cards in Pokemon, the rest Transformers.
I mean, yeah, it's a big franchise. Apples to Apples,
I hate that game. I immediately disqualify it. To choose your
own adventure game books, those were so fun. I loved them.
But then you get to something like Balloons and you're like, well,
(15:18):
that's so universal, keep it up. Eat Plu's just I mean,
every kid under the age of three years old, thinks
balloons are the most magical thing that's ever been created.
You can't discount that fact. Trampolines super fun, super dangerous,
probably not going to make the list. My Little Pony again,
super fun, super dangerous, and they're horses after all. Okay,
(15:41):
I think those are cool, and My Little Pony's a
great brand name. I don't think it's as big as
like Pokemon obviously, you know.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
And I don't think it makes the top three toy trucks.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
I would put it in the same category as Little Pony, right,
my little Pope. You just got two different genders who
traditionally played with them. Little girl not so much with
the toy trucks. Little boys not so much with mind
Little Pony, unless they were using the toy trucks to
run over or jump.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Very cool explosion the mind Little Ponies.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
So I think those are not so much remote control cars,
that's a maybe. And I loved them as a kid.
They used to ask for them every Christmas and would
the majority of the time break them. Every Christmas Day.
I would just run them into the curb or something dumb.
They're sturdier. Now my kids have like four or five
different little remote control cars or trucks, or one of
them is a shark. I think sticks are indestructible, man,
(16:31):
they never die, So that's a maybe for me. The
stick horse, I mean, yeah, that's a classic toy. I
just imagine some kid in the forties, you know, and
turn the depression. We had to eat the real horse.
But here's a horse on a brute stick. Oh no,
that's awful. That's terrible. It's a good one though. And
(16:54):
Phase ten Yeah, all right, no thanks. So I'm gonna
get rid of transformers. Choose your own adventure game books.
I think those were super cool for you and me,
But I don't think there's any these weren't big enough.
Balloons that's definitely a maybe.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
The stickhorse and remote control vehicles. I just.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
To me, it comes down to balloons and the vehicles.
I'm going to go with balloons. I know it's so
generic and so dumb, but you're telling me those don't
bring so much to my kids.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Even now.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
If I was to bring a balloon home today, and
not even one that has helium in it, you don't
even have to go expensive. Just a balloon you blow
up my kids guaranteed. If I just left it in
the middle of the floor. Within five minutes of them
coming home, they would be playing with that balloon.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
In some way.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
I think that has to go into so trading cards,
Pokemon and balloons. Those are my picks. Do we just
spend ten minutes talking about toys? What a great Friday
this Islad you were here for it, man, have a
great weekend. We talked to you this afternoon. Awesome. If
not whatever, you were here for the most important discussion
we've ever had since the Mexican food thing. Don't go
(18:12):
back and listen to that episode, by the way, that
is purely self serving and not at all I think informative,
just me ranting about Mexican food. Anyways, Glad you were
here for this. Have a good weekend. We'll talk to
you on Monday.
I do not know how your morning has started. Mine
began with the the Hollies.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Yeah anybody else? No, no're just me.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Welcome Friday, gottle Blaze through another edition of this girly
show because I have stuff I gotta.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Get done today, and I'm sure you do as well.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
And you know this what we'll call this a little break,
a little reprieve from everything that's happening in your world
as you get ready for the weekend. I know my
kids were up late last night. One of them was
at the baseball game. The other one was with me
on doing the academy sports run. We had to we
had to get volleyball stuff and basketball stuff and then
some new shorts. Apparently these kids grow they don't stop.
(00:53):
So my son's been wearing just the tightest shorts that
aren't supposed to be you know, basketball season coming up.
He's playing football right now, so it's like, all right, man,
sure you don't want to show off those like thighs.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Okay, I get you. So me and the daughter made
a run last night. Welcome. I'm excited.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Today we're going to talk about toys specifically. Did you
know that there is a Toy Hall of Fame, and
that there are some toys right now being considered for
that Hall of Fame. It is absolutely subjective, but I
think you and I can find a consensus of the
twelve finalists which three should be inducted this year. Plus
why setting multiple alarms? It's actually real bad for you.
(01:35):
And how much are you actually working when you include
not just work but your family as well, plus a
couple of other things, including a real creepy photographer. In fact,
we'll start there, And I think this is because so
I work a lot without a microphone on. You understand that, right,
I mean we all you know you've got teams meetings
(01:56):
and stuff. Consider like this like a teams meeting that
I have to do every day. The rest of the time,
I just microphones off, cameras off. I'm not doing on
the air stuff. I'm just doing computer stuff. And lately
it's been a lot more of that.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
It feels like.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
So I like to watch TV. When I do it now,
if I watch TV, it's mostly just listen, right, I
have the three screen setup, so on the screen to
my left, I put the TV on, and then stuff
and stuff on center and right. You don't care about
any of this. What you do care about are the
shows that I watch, and I have a rotation. I
like to go through shows that I've seen before, never
(02:29):
new stuff, because if it's new, I can't work. I
just need it for noise. And at this point eighteen
years in, I'm just music.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Nah.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
I will listen to music if I want to actively
listen to it. If I want to passively listen to something,
I'm gonna put the TV on shows like thirty Rock,
The Office, New Girl, and uh, what's the other one.
Let's do a break about this, Clint. Let's talk to
everybody about it and then not remember the four shows
(02:58):
you put into rotation. Of the comedies, by the way,
because I also do shows that I love that are dramas,
but typically I'll do comedy comedy drama show and then
comedy comedy drama. So I was bace them out the
West Wing. I mentioned that yesterday actually dead Wood, which
is my favorite TV show of all time, And no
(03:20):
judgments on this one, but it's absolutely true.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
The X Files. I'm not a nerd.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
I just have a there's a very special place in
my heart for the X Files. I'm not even that
big into sci fi and by not even, I mean
not at all. Don't care about sci fi one single bit.
There's something about me when I was a kid in
the nineties and watching the X Files on TV and thinking.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Well, this, this is amazing. Everything I've heard about this
Internet is real.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
People can reach through the screen and kidnap you if
you go into a chat room, you know, stuff like that.
It brings back whatever feeling of nostalgia I had from
a kid. My dad and I actually went saw the
X Files movie in the theater together. He's not a
big sci fi guy, but he just it was kind
of like a thing we did for the X Files.
So anyways, I turn on the X File. So I've
(04:09):
been rewatching it lately as I work, so re listening
to it basically, and today a story comes up and
it just hit all the right X Files buttons, specifically
Chittham Elementary in Chesapeake, Virginia, very very much an X
file setting East Coast Virginia, near where they would be
as far as like the FBI offices and stuff. Anyways,
(04:33):
a photographer hired to take the school photos, tell me
this doesn't sound like an X file. A photographer scheduled
to take the kids photos. Showed up to school on
Monday and then was almost immediately asked to leave when
the first class came in and he started asking the
children as he's taking their pictures, things like, and these
are direct quotes.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Can I steal your identity? Can I eat your soul?
Speaker 1 (05:00):
One of the students told his mom, who then told
the school quickly. The photographer was also heard to respond
to students with things like, oh, demons don't eat noodles
and things like that. The school quickly addressed the situation
and started an investigation. It's molten in school. Due time,
(05:23):
you guys moving on. That's not gonna make the air.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
That was just for me.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Announcement today was I'm sure we'll come in handy because
we every day this week. I think twice in the show,
I've had to talk about the new kids on the Block.
We played their new song it sounds like one Republic,
So it's good. They just announced that a residency show
in Las Vegas. They're going to perform at the Dolby Theater.
The MGM. All of them are back, Danny, Donnie, Joey,
(05:48):
Jonathan and Jordan Bros. They're all back and Yeah kicks
off in June and then in November as well, very
like you would imagine these guys have some time, you
know what I mean, Like they're gonna play our iHeartRadio
Music Festival this weekend, so no shock, here's a big
announcement that coincides with that. But then it's like, we're
only gonna do sixteen days and then fifteen days. You
(06:14):
wonder because Adele does, like, you know, a weird schedule
like that, but her sell out the whole time, and
if she did every day, they would sell out every day.
You wonder if they do this because you know how
many people are really going to Vegas just for the
New Kids on the Block. Not that that's the only
thing in Vegas, but you understand it's exciting. Don't get
me wrong, there are some people with nostalgia. I came
in right at the end of New Kids on the Block.
(06:35):
So like my boy bands were Boys to Men first,
then the Backstreet Boys and in Sync. They were all together.
But I was in junior high by that point, so
my sister's five years younger than me, big time into
those guys. Boys to Men was pretty much the only
boy band. And I don't even know if you call
them a boy band. I would call boys to men
the same way I would call Beastie Boys a boy band.
(06:57):
And I really like the Beastie Boys too. Maybe I
did have influences. Mine were just a little cooler than
everybody Else's a.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Weird laugh. Sorry.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
The Countdown to Christmas will begin Friday, October the eighteenth.
That's because that's when Hallmark is starting it. You know,
they do their big countdown to Christmas by airing a
new Christmas movie every day. This year they have fifty
of them, and I have to tell you, we do
like a good Hallmark Christmas movie around here. I don't
know if we're going to launch into it October eighteenth,
(07:29):
but this year fifty new films. The ones that are
on Netflix and stuff. By the way, the ones that
are like go on demand not nearly as good. They
don't hit the right spot in I don't know if
it's even my heart anymore. Maybe it's just like my
stomach brain. It just doesn't ring like a Hallmark movie.
There are parts and it kind of looks like it,
and it kind of feels like it, but they're not
(07:50):
the real deal, you know. It's like the TMU brand
Christmas movies anyways, get ready. October eighteenth, Hallmark says this, this
Christmas time, the average working parent puts in about eighteen
hours a day. When you total it all up, that includes,
you know, their actual job plus the stuff they do
(08:11):
for their kids, eighteen hour work days. Hold on, how
is this? I don't understand this at all. It says
the average working parent pulls eighteen hour work days when
you consider everything they do for their kids plus their jobs.
Non working parents. Oh, that makes a lot more sense.
It was taking like non parent workers are putting in
seventeen hours a day. No, no, no, it's non working parents.
(08:33):
So still, these are long days. The kids pay very little.
From what I understand, fifty six percent of parents, even
though they spend that much time doing stuff for their
kids and with their kids, fifty six percents still feel guilty.
Give yourself a break. You're doing fine. Think about how
(08:54):
much time you spend with your kids versus how much
time your.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Parents spend with you. You're doing absolutely fine.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Sleep experts say that setting more than one alarm isn't great.
Sleep medicine. Sleep medicine doctor, Well, that sounds like a
child wrote this. Sleep medicine doctor Alisha Ruth. I don't
ever use their names, and I won't use.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Her title either.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
I'll just say, like a sleep expert, doctor lady, it's
better explains that more than one alarm is bad for
overall sleep quality and health because it can trigger your
fight or flight.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Hormones and make it even harder to wake up.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
I mean, I'm a just in my very subjective experience,
completely agree. I want to fight every time those multiple
alarms go off. I haven't set though multiple alarms in years.
In fact, the last time I think I did it. Yeah,
I don't even think I've gotten to the second alarm
in a really long time. I used to do it
when I was in college because we would have really
(09:56):
really early like football workouts and stuff, and you do
not want to be to those, because it turns out
if you're late to a football workout and make your
workout even more and it's just running, it's no fun.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
They need you big, they're also run you. None of
it made any sense to me.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Don't set two alarms, just set the one and then
obsess about it while you're falling asleep that you're gonna
miss it until you have just a terrible night's sleep
and wake up because apparently setting two is worse. Cool
cations are the new hot trend for travel. It's where
you know you're already in a blazing hot place, or
you've been real hot for a long time, so it
goes somewhere cold, like the Pacific Northwest or Yellowstone or
(10:36):
Montana or Salem, Massachusetts. Boy, I wonder how much of
the I mean, I know it does. I know what
picks up around this time of year. I'm sure for Salem, Massachusetts.
Do you think if you live in Salem and go
other places, like people immediately are like, you're a little spooky.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
It's a dumb word.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
That'd be weird, right, Like they assume things about ever
buddy from everywhere that's just happens to be Salem's Like, mm,
we'll creep you mentioned earlier, and we'll talk about this
a lot.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Today on the air, So I don't want to talk
about it too much.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Here. Our iHeartRadio Music Festival kicks off tonight from Las Vegas.
It's gonna be the weekends first and only scheduled US
festival date this year. This two two and a half
months of it left, So there you go Paramour, first festival.
They've been on tour with Taylor in Europe. Du Aalipa
doing her first festival of twenty twenty four, first festival,
(11:33):
Look First, Pit first, mm hmm, first festival. Halsey doing
her first festival of the year. And then Victoria Monet,
who I really like, Victoria Money.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
That's a talented girl.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
She got a new album coming out soon, so she's
gonna pronounce that, and then she's got some new music
with Usher as well. All right, have we done everything
that isn't about the toys we have? All right, let's
get into this. The Toy Hall of Fame, which is
a thing up apparently, has named their finalists for the
year twenty twenty four. Each year they pop out twelve
(12:07):
and then narrow that down to three who will be
inducted into the Toy Hall of Fame. Here are, in
no particular order, and I want you to listen to
these closely, the twelve because you and I need to
be objective and only a little subjective when it comes
(12:29):
to putting three in. If it's just you and me,
all right, here are the twelve Transformers. The game Apples
to apples, choose your own adventure game books, Pokemon, trading cards.
Those are two different things. Balloons, trampolines, my Little pony, hes,
(12:57):
toy trucks, remote controlled vehicles, the stick Horse, you remember that?
And phase ten.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Is that?
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Well did that miss any all right? It took up
half my page, so I had to scroll, all right,
So let's go. We need three. Which one of those
would be the first one you would put in because
you know it has to be in. It is you know,
it's the Babe Ruth of toys in this list. To me,
(13:33):
it's trading cards. And I know I'm a boy, right
and I traded cards when I was a kid. But
the history of trading cards, the way that that has
evolved over time, not just into it started with baseball cards,
then basketball and football and all the sports. Now you've
got games where you do like trading card things as well.
(13:55):
I know you play them too and everything. But still
it's it's been like America since the what twenties, that's
been a thing that every kid, and I say every kid.
I know it's a lot of boys, but those have
just I mean, if you were to tell the kid
who made who got a nineteen twenties trading card that
(14:16):
in twenty twenty four, these would still be popular and
be not just like sports, but like you know, I mean,
Pokemon's in there too. And by the way, Pokemon is
the largest most richest franchise in all of game history,
you know, So I think if you're gonna put trading
(14:36):
cards in, you have to put Pokemon in. That's one
and two. Okay, I'm just gonna say that right now.
My kid brought home a bunch of moving too little
garage sale up the street. He bought three dollars worth
of all gold Pokemon cards. I don't think that they
are expensive. Uh he did get them for three dollars
at a garage sale, so you never know. But I
mean hundreds of them, just strewn about the floor. Still huge,
(14:57):
still making money trading cards in Pokemon, the rest Transformers.
I mean, yeah, it's a big franchise. Apples to Apples,
I hate that game. I immediately disqualify it. To choose your
own adventure game books, those were so fun. I loved them.
But then you get to something like Balloons and you're like, well,
(15:18):
that's so universal, keep it up. Eat Plu's just I mean,
every kid under the age of three years old, thinks
balloons are the most magical thing that's ever been created.
You can't discount that fact. Trampolines super fun, super dangerous,
probably not going to make the list. My Little Pony again,
super fun, super dangerous, and they're horses after all. Okay,
(15:41):
I think those are cool, and My Little Pony's a
great brand name. I don't think it's as big as
like Pokemon obviously, you know.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
And I don't think it makes the top three toy trucks.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
I would put it in the same category as Little Pony, right,
my little Pope. You just got two different genders who
traditionally played with them. Little girl not so much with
the toy trucks. Little boys not so much with mind
Little Pony, unless they were using the toy trucks to
run over or jump.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Very cool explosion the mind Little Ponies.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
So I think those are not so much remote control cars,
that's a maybe. And I loved them as a kid.
They used to ask for them every Christmas and would
the majority of the time break them. Every Christmas Day.
I would just run them into the curb or something dumb.
They're sturdier. Now my kids have like four or five
different little remote control cars or trucks, or one of
them is a shark. I think sticks are indestructible, man,
(16:31):
they never die, So that's a maybe for me. The
stick horse, I mean, yeah, that's a classic toy. I
just imagine some kid in the forties, you know, and
turn the depression. We had to eat the real horse.
But here's a horse on a brute stick. Oh no,
that's awful. That's terrible. It's a good one though. And
(16:54):
Phase ten Yeah, all right, no thanks. So I'm gonna
get rid of transformers. Choose your own adventure game books.
I think those were super cool for you and me,
But I don't think there's any these weren't big enough.
Balloons that's definitely a maybe.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
The stickhorse and remote control vehicles. I just.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
To me, it comes down to balloons and the vehicles.
I'm going to go with balloons. I know it's so
generic and so dumb, but you're telling me those don't
bring so much to my kids.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Even now.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
If I was to bring a balloon home today, and
not even one that has helium in it, you don't
even have to go expensive. Just a balloon you blow
up my kids guaranteed. If I just left it in
the middle of the floor. Within five minutes of them
coming home, they would be playing with that balloon.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
In some way.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
I think that has to go into so trading cards,
Pokemon and balloons. Those are my picks. Do we just
spend ten minutes talking about toys? What a great Friday
this Islad you were here for it, man, have a
great weekend. We talked to you this afternoon. Awesome. If
not whatever, you were here for the most important discussion
we've ever had since the Mexican food thing. Don't go
(18:12):
back and listen to that episode, by the way, that
is purely self serving and not at all I think informative,
just me ranting about Mexican food. Anyways, Glad you were
here for this. Have a good weekend. We'll talk to
you on Monday.
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