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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, killing Nat, Good morning, Jonathan Russ.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
It's tomorrow show today. Let's talk about it. Talk about
Shi t so happy. It's Thursday, getting closer to the weekend.
It's gonna beautiful weather.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Not as nice as we had originally thought with the
ninety degrees, but I don't know where they came from.
That was for those of you who missed the early
morning show. That was part of the fun and for volity,
was that we might have had an old forecast in there.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
And because of the Thanksgiving celebrations opportunities back here of
football and the like, I went ahead and looked at
the forecast for the next weekend. Not nearly as nice.
I mean, it's gonna be sunny, but it's gonna be
like fifty two on Saturday.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Well again, we're ten days out or more, so it
can move a little bit. But you know, it's traditionally,
from what I remember, pretty stinking cold, usually at the
Clemson game.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
So all right, so we got we're gonna wear through
tomorrow first will be one week away from Thanksgiving. Oh
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Speaker 1 (01:04):
Now this word, I'll tell you something about this word after.
But the word of the day for what you're talking
about para social, para.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Parasocial, parasocial. I know this word. Do you know parasocial?
I'm going to say that this was a relatively newly
minted word that comes specifically from people's usage of social
media and their worship of artists like Keith Urbin and
(01:38):
the like or Taylor Swift. So you have this now
unbelievable daily connection with someone who has absolutely no idea
that you exist.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Interesting how you used it. It was minted in the
nineteen fifties. Parasocial was that it is the feeling you
have a peer. It's parasocial if you feel as if
you know someone who you've never met. Oh and I
was they deemed that because all of a sudden, people
(02:14):
like in the fifties and sixties, the late night talk
show hosts or the news anchors or whomever, the people
felt as if they knew them although they had never
met them. So that was the phrase. Now that is
the word of the day for tomorrow. What you're talking
about Saluta Shoals Holiday Lights on the River will get
you a car pass for that. That's November twenty sixth
through December thirty first, between six and ten at night,
(02:34):
and a pair of tickets to go see what is
becoming I guess one of the hottest artists in America
who we had never heard of until last week. And
so if you want to go see with his name,
Sam Barber at the Township Auditorium on Saturday, February seventh,
you'll get a pair of tickets to that. As well.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
You can have a pair of social relationship with Sam
Barber because a lot of people follow him on the internet.
So how we got going on TikTok? Now, like you're knowing.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
The reason I'm using that word is because Cambridge Dictionary
announced yesterday that parasocial is their word of the year.
Really and ironically, Jonathan Rush, you stumbled into it. The
word parasocial took a dramatic rise because of Taylor Swift
(03:22):
and Travis Kelcey's engagement. That engagement drove people into believing
they had a relationship with Taylor Swift and Travis Kelcey,
and so that word they said took off on social
media in the last few months, and that made it
their word of the Year.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Swifties are in fact for the majority, well the major
majority of their para socials. When you can pack a
stadium with people, there's no way she has a relationship
with all of you, but you have a relationship with her.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Now, Jonathan, you've been in the show business entertainment world
for fifty years or so, right, You started when you
were in high school, so yeah, it's forty eight years.
I guess. Now you've been doing this, you have met
probably minimum a thousand legitimate stars in your life. Legitimate,
(04:16):
not these like B listers who are here for five
minutes and then they fall off the stage like they're
never here again. Legit zz Top, Eddie Money, big Name,
some movie stars, Arnold Schwarzenegger. The list goes on and on.
With the people you've met, Who is the closest to
what you thought they would be like and or who
(04:38):
is the furthest from you thought, oh, I think I
have a pretty good vibe on this person, and then
you met them and you were like, they were nothing
like I imagined.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
This one is so easy because it's it's Zzy Top okay,
because I knew when I saw the cover for Eliminator. Okay,
I knew these guys are gear heads. So if you
ever had an op opportunity to sit around a gas
station or a mechanic shop, you'd want to hang around
with Zazy Top, all right, because they not only do
(05:07):
they love the cars, they love to work on them,
so it's like a hobby for them.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
So they were the closest. They were the closest that
they would be.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Yeah, And I did have an opportunity to talk to
them for about ten or fifteen minutes, just me in
the room, all along with Zzy Top, and we're talking
about automobiles, and they were arguing over who actually has
the title and owns the Eliminator?
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Who does own it? They never figured it out.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
They're still arguing over that. Well, the two of them are.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Was there anybody that you were like shocked, like this
is oh my gosh, what a jerk?
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Or Jackson was the biggest shock of all? Really? Yeah,
total total b Now, maybe I took it as an
insult because I was there with a bunch of winners
from w win ok And we're supposed to do a
meet and greet. She literally walked in the old Elephant
room at the Carolina Coliseum. She walked in one day
and out the other, kept walking and just waved it everybody,
(06:04):
and she walked through the room.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
That's funny. My Janet Jackson's story was that I attempted
a joke that clearly went way. You know, it didn't Land.
Let's just say that. I don't want to say it
went above her head. I'll say it didn't Land. I
took a group of winners to meet her, and we
were all backstage and she came and for us, she
(06:27):
did post for the photograph, and so we took the picture.
And I'm the last person to leave the room, right,
So every single person in front of me is saying goodbye,
and they're shaking her hand as they leave. So all's
Janet Jackson is saying, over and over. She changed not
(06:49):
one syllable, nothing was added or taken away. Bye Hi, bye, Hi,
bye hi bye hi. And then when she got to me,
I said she started to say hi after she just
said bye, And I said, are you supposed to buy
(07:11):
low and sell high? And she stared at me and
I said, never mind. I walked out the door, never mind,
and The only other Jana Jackson story that I have
that I always liked was a guy named Billy Mann,
who you may or may not have heard of. He
had a couple of little hits back in the mid nineties,
but he's going on to be a pretty big songwriter
for others. And Billy Mann is a tall man. He's
(07:33):
probably six four six', five and so he was telling
this story on my show back in like nineteen ninety,
four ninety five about how he had just gotten signed
TO a AND M, records and it was an event
going on At Disney world or, something and they wanted
to get a photo Of Billy, mann the NEW a
(07:55):
AND m, artist with one of their biggest AN m,
Artists Janet. Jackson and so they got him outside and there's,
probably he, said like three or four other people Who
i've never, met and they're all posing in the. Photograph
so he's so much taller than, Everybody Like Jana jackson's
like five five, whatever so he's a foot taller than,
(08:16):
her AND i guess all the other people were pretty
short as. Well so.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Shut, up he didn't what do you think he? Did
he like squatted down so he like matched their head.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Level, no, no, no, No, WELL i think this was
like kind of shortly thereafter the uh the late, eighties
she had that big, hit that whole album where she
was always wearing The Black Ray band Sunglasses Rhythm. NATION i, guess,
okay so she and all the other people all put
(08:49):
On oh, wait we're taking a. Photo hang on a.
Second they all scramble and they all find their sunglasses
and they put them. On now he's standing there and
he puts his hands like on their, shoulders and he
he's thinking That janet was to his, right and he
says to the person in his, left like not that
even really knew, him but he just, said kind of,
(09:10):
QUIETLY i WISH i had some sunglasses SO i could
look cool, Too and it was he's actually talking To,
Janet jack said as she looked, up and she's.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Like, no you look.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Okay he's LIKE i was, humiliated LIKE i was mocking
them for putting on their, sunglasses AND i actually said
it right in her.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Ear oh.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Lord so, anyway we got our big word of the, day.
Parasocial And jonathan this man owns the. Home he owns the.
Home when WHEN i say he owns the, home he's
like most, homeowners the bank owns the.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Home, okay so he's still making the mortgage.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Payments but he recently invited his girlfriend to move, in
and she does not know that he owns the. Home
she's under the belief that he rents the. Home right,
now renting the home is much more expensive than owning a. Home,
(10:15):
sure when you own the, home the payments on the
mortgage on that's going to be probably sixty percent of
what it would be to rent. It so when he
when he's charging her, more, well it's almost eighty percent
of his mortgage. Payment. Wow but that is a discount
(10:36):
compared to what the other half of the house is.
Going so she feels like she's getting a. Deal she
feels like she's getting a. Discount because if you and
your friend wanted to go rent that house down the,
street it would cost eighteen hundred, dollars so you would
each pay nine hundred dollars to live in that. House
i'm charging you seven. Hundred but what you don't know
(10:56):
is that my monthly mortgage is only like eight point.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Fifty.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Wow DO i have to tell her, that, YES i
gave you a, discount but it's almost paying my entire.
Mortgage DO i have to tell her, that?
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Wow this is? Uh this from from the outside looking,
in this seems, Abusive but is? It he's giving. It
she's getting a great. Deal so she didn't have a. Complaint,
no she has no complaint That she's, like are you?
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Serious she only want to charge me seven hundred dollars
to live in this incredible. HOME i couldn't even rent
an apartment for this by, myself never mind get a fantastic.
Home it's only seven hundred a. Month what a?
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Deal so is she is she a vineyard worker who
worked all day and she's complaining the venue workers who
only worked a half day but got the.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Same she's not. Complaining she doesn't know. Anything, no She's
the question is DO i have to tell? Her because
his friends are, like, bro you should at least let her.
Know she's paying off the mortgage for were you, like
you're living here rented for almost, well you're paying one
hundred and twenty five dollars to live. There that's all you.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Paid he's paying seven to.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Fifty she's paying seven, yeah seven. HUNDRED i think it
was seven hundred a, month but like she, said it
was nine hundred a. Month it was eighteen hundred dollars
for a less nice house down the street that her
and her friends were looking at a couple of months.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Ago, Okay i'm, saying you can't say it. Now you.
Can't you can't just bring this up. Now you don't
even know where this relationship is going to. Go the relationship. Ends,
look no, Foul, no we might end right now if
You but, yeah if you bring this up right, now
you're creating a problem in a relationship that you think
you want to go forward with enough that you invited
(12:41):
her to move. In oh you, yeah you're stuck with this,
now this this is like you got to like you
can't let regular mail come to the to the to the.
Mailbox you can't mortgage with the. Mortgage you. Can't, no, no.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Maybe now is a good time for a po.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Box and at some point when the refrigerator, Breaks now
she's gonna. Go DO i call? It who's the? Landlord
DO i call the landlord?
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Agency who's the Mo i'm responsible for everything in, here
that's part of My at LEAST.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
I mow the. LAWN i can't tell. Her now you're
stuck in.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
It toilet's overflowing that's on me. Too everything's on. Me
it's LIKE i own it without any of the, benefits
except you pay for.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Everything, yeah you can't tell her, now so fully take
advantage of, Her, JONATHAN.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
I didn't take advantage of. Her she it's seven hundred a.
Month that's a.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Deal that's the left, Shoe but the right shoe knows
what's really going.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
On just BECAUSE i cut a great deal for myself
doesn't mean That i'm not still offering you a very good.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Deal this is bad. News this is not Good.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
And guess what if we ever get, married then the
rent will be.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Free you can't back up, now, Brother.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
By THEN i hopefully paid it, off so that'll be
free for both of.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Us you got to pay it off and in such
a way that you can burn the. Mortgage you got
to have a private ceremony to burn the.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
MORTGAGE i didn't tell you it was at least to
own option.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Then because you cannot ever let her see what the
mortgage payment, was because then the gig is?
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Up what if you stayed? Together see, Now, Jonathan now
you're setting this relationship up for failure because if.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
He, did if you.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Don't come clean on, this what if we decide to
get married and or not even get, married but continue
in a spouse like, relationship AND i have to sell the.
HOME i can't tell her THAT i just pocketed like
eighty grand on the sale of the house Because i've
owned it for fifteen years or.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Whatever, no you got to that. Point at that point
you got to think a thirty year. Mortgage you got
to refy. It suck all the equity. Out do a
fifteen year mortgage so you can raise the monthly cost
and then put the other money in your. Pocket that
way you can get like fifty to. Fifty then you
(15:02):
still have an extended the timeline of when you pay
the house.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Off but you're like a. Mobster now now you're trying
to hide.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Cash, YES i.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
CAN'T i can't put it in my bank. Account she
might see. It so NOW i got a loan to.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Another bank and open up A. Cd you gotta hide, it, Brother.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
DO i have like an offshore ACCOUNT i can? Open,
Hey Tony tony beck of? Donuts what DO i do over?
Speaker 2 (15:23):
HERE i don't. Look do not take financial advice from,
me of all. People For god's, Sake i'm not saying
that's the way to do. It i'm just saying that's
the way you could possibly do. It, now does it seem?
Underhanded why salvaging your relationship?
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Here AM i slvaging on a bed of? Lies he
hasn't lied to her at this.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Point carry it to The gray.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Brother i've never lied to. Her he's never lied to.
Her he, said you know, what you're looking for a
place to. STAY i, MEAN i don't know if you
were adamant about moving with your, girlfriend BECAUSE i really
like you AND i think we could make a go of.
It they're charging you nine hundred a month over. There
what IF i was to only offer you seven hundred a.
Month you can move in here for seven hundred a,
month mean you could be together all the. Time and
(16:06):
she said that's a. Steal why is it not a steal?
Anymore BECAUSE i only pay eight to fifty a month
to live.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Here usually my first instinct is the Best i'm going
the lie is the. Best suck the equity, OUT refi.
It put it at a, Fifteen put.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
It in a blind trust or.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Something, yeah go hide that money, somewhere and good luck
if she ever finds out you're.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Barbecued all, right There's Jonathan russe's, Advice what is your
advice to tell you.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
What after the first, anniversary after you get, married first,
anniversary you pull that money out and you go buy
your something really really really. Nice but then she'll know
we don't have the money for you to, say where
did you get that up? In you, know squirreling away
my nickels and? Dimes you have another Account i'm not aware.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Of, Why why do you have hidden?
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Money why did you get A christmas card from? This
thank you got to guard the?
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Mailbox oh my, gosh it never. Ends all, Right, well
we got that story as, Well so we'll talk about
what's going on with these stories and more tomorrow in
The Morning.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Rush see what kind of lies you keeping from your.
Spouse i'd love to know about.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
That, yes if you want to go on and make it, awkward.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Let's do that. Tomorrow you can always. Email let's let's
set it up and we'll hide your identity and then
we'll try to help you get out of the trick.
Bag we get people out of the trick bag up
here all the. Time it's what we. Do we help
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