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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Okay, everybody, look alive.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Look alive. I'm over here.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
I'm playing this.
Speaker 4 (00:15):
I was taking the longevity of our state, longevity as
far as how old we were living, our age because
I just heard Forrest Lucas, founder of Lucas Oil, dies
eighty three years eighty three years old.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
I only met him one time. I met his wife once.
I just think they're glorious. They're big time, but they're
small time.
Speaker 5 (00:35):
What a legacy that he's leaving behind.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Truly, they're just small town people from southern Indiana and
just nice people.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
You know what.
Speaker 5 (00:43):
Seeing that Greg Cooper sold the house to him was so.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
What Kylan listened before. Okay, so that used to be
owned by the Hilberts, right.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Steve Hilberts.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
When Steve Hilbert put that up for sale. This is
a glorious piece of land, a beautiful home, I mean everything.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Where is it like Ditch and.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
What's it's one hundred and sixteenth Street and just back
east of Ditch, Okay, and it's it's a beautiful place.
It goes down in a little bitty valley and there's
these great big gates. It was built by a friend
of mine who had just.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
The pool and the land itself. I mean, it's just
beautiful for lots of woods.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
And everybody thinks that the real house is right past
the gate. No, that's a guest.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Yeah, that's the guest.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Big the big thing is And when you fly over
it next time, Kylin, next time we fly, I'll fly
you over that estate. Yes, it's beautiful.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
But before it was sold to the Lucas family, it
was owned by the Hilberts, and so they put it
up for sale and we did a morning show there.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Is it true with this empty Is.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
It true that in the bathtub there was there.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Was a mural of.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Mister Hilbert. It was missus Hilbert on the ceiling if
I remember right.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
It was lots that there was murals. It was. It's
just a beautiful place. But we did we did the
morning show there. It was for where didn't you do
we get to go in? I mean we were casted
from out by the pool.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
And the craftsmanship at home. It was built by Leonard
Watson from artisans at home and Leonard is one of
the craftiest. He has the people to do really really
neat things.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
And then the Lucases opened it up really for events
and it's it was just one of those places if
you had an event out there at the Lucas Estate,
it just was. I mean it's just phenomenal just being there,
not done, no matter at the food or anything.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
You know, that's too being on this that's two big
names on one hundred and sixteenth Street that just passed
away because Jim Mersey is just back to them. That's right.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
So we heard that so and truly, truly the legacy
that he leaves behind and everybody that he's I mean
truly he the giving family.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Did you know how he started off in life? This
is a micro kind of story. Today in dollars and cents,
I'm gonna talk about micro. He was an over the
road trucker, is that right, That's what he did, and
then got into the and he got into lubrication. But
he just had ambition, drive and unbelievably hard working guy.
And his wife too. I mean they started that.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
For me to talk to and and uh, just like
you know us kind of what do you see?
Speaker 1 (03:13):
I know where it came from.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
That's that's a cool story. Well, this is the first
day and we're glad that you're here. On Terry that's Denny.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Kylon is here too, Kylon Tally.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
She's wearing pearls today on I Braved.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
The wet Man. I was just talking to Terry and
Denny about it. Pearls are one of the hardest things
to style in my in my opinion.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
They go with everything.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
They have always been so weary of wearing pearls.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
So I did it.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
We put on some pearls today. They matched the little
pedals on my dress, a little dandelion, white dandelions.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
You can see that on YouTube. For those of you
who want to see your pearls she's doing.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
She'll show your pearls. This is your last day. What
a fringe right and for you? Oh poor Denny. Do
you think leaving happened?
Speaker 6 (04:01):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (04:01):
What's the last day of your performance? Yeah? What you
said is the last day? And I thought, no, she's leaving.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Oh no, she's not going anywhere.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
No, my last performance of the Indie Fringe Festival. Today's
the last day for everything. Performances start at twelve thirty
and run through nine o'clock tonight, so book your day
out if you haven't already. My performance is at six
thirty at the District's Theater. With a Bollywood dream. It's
been a fun time.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
I saw the great.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
You know, she's the narrator, right, I am, Yes, I
need you through the history of Ballliywood.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Did you do it in English? Sure? You're doing with
the oxide.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
I do it in English.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Okay, there you go.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Well, anyway, she's our little actress and she's done with that,
and then she's going to go out and have some
great dinner with Devour downtown, which is cool, have a
great Oh yeah, she's going to do that. And she
mentioned I'll mention history because I love history. On this
date in history, something happened. I'm going to act it.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
Out acting you're our actor.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Now, Oh, just get anywhere in.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
For waiting for the show. She still got her clothes on,
so it must be something easy. Okay, okay, what is it?
Come on, get your mic.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
You know, I don't know what that means anyway, Okay,
I'm not really gonna act it out.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
I'm just gonna tell you this happened.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
It popped up on I like to follow history, Indiana history,
and on this day in history, and on this day
in history.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
This happened.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Okay, something's happening where the man says to his wife, Dolly,
we've got to run. We've got to go grab something
before we leave. That's important.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Oh they burned down the White House eighteen twelve. Yes,
I did, fourteen.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
You've scared her.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
She would have did that out.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
She would have acted that out.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
I wouldn't have No, Nope, nope, no, that's what happened
on this details.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Dolly fled.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
They left the city, and she grabbed the portrait of
George Washington. She grabbed the portrait of George Washington, and
then they left.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
You just came in.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
They had a nice dinner, They ate everything that they
could find, and then they burned it down.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Tom Rose, who used to broadcast from that very seat
where you're sitting, was working for the Vice President, and
he invited me to go to the White House my
one and only trip. We went around the back down
to the basement where the culinary stuff takes place, and
you could see the smoke and where the char over
this stone plan and Tom was telling me that is
from the smoke from the fire of eighteen twelve. Yeah,
(06:22):
it's still there. They did eighteen fourteen.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
That's pretty awesome. It was glad they left. It is
a reminder in its history.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Never trust the English.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
I think all the kids are back in school today.
Speaker 7 (06:35):
That was.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
A good gay.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
But I want to get to this because I think
this is funny. I follow everybody I think in Indiana's
back in school now right, even college back getting back.
And so there's a guy that I watch on social media.
His name is mister Lindsey, and he's a middle school
special ed MATT teacher. And here's a little bit of
here's what he's telling parents you need to know. And
(07:00):
it comes to new words that kids just still can't
stop saying.
Speaker 8 (07:04):
Words you hope we're going to die over the summer,
but are definitely coming back this school year, and what
they mean. Mister lindsay here to remind you of some
of the words that are coming to a classroom near
you this fall.
Speaker 7 (07:13):
Word number one giat still going strong.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Okay.
Speaker 8 (07:17):
It does not ego you athletic teens. It does not
mean get you act together. It is a reference to
a big butt. And when they say this, they are
referencing a big butt.
Speaker 7 (07:27):
Next, we have skivity, it's alive and well, are we.
Speaker 8 (07:30):
Any closer to a consensus on the definition.
Speaker 7 (07:32):
Of this word? Absolutely? Not.
Speaker 8 (07:35):
Some say it means something good, some say it means
something bad. Most of them just use it as a
filler word whenever they have the impulse.
Speaker 7 (07:43):
To say it.
Speaker 8 (07:44):
Skivity sigma, Are you sigma? If you are, that's a
good thing, because sigma.
Speaker 7 (07:49):
Means the best. Next we have what the sigma? Or
ir what the sigma?
Speaker 8 (07:55):
You would think that it has something to do with
the definition of sigma.
Speaker 7 (07:58):
Well, if you thought that, you would.
Speaker 8 (07:59):
Be absolutely wrong, because all it is is a filler
phrase to express anger or bafflement. What the sigma? Similar
to what the heck? Hope this helps get you ready
to welcome those kids back.
Speaker 7 (08:13):
This fall word you hope for.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
Skibbity is now officially in the dictionary.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Hibbitty? Skibbitty, Oh, skibbety.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
That's okay. Word.
Speaker 5 (08:24):
It is a gibberish word. This is Miriam Webster's definition
of it. It's a gibberish word from Skibbity Toilet, a
popular YouTube show featuring human headed toilets battling camera headed humans.
That's funny, quite nonsense.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
I'm going to play mister Lindsay every week so you
can keep us up on our on what we need
to know.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
If you had grandparents or parents that grew up in
the twenties, there were skiddamernki danky dank skida marinki do.
They had all of this stuff, and they when they
were young, and so they made fun of us when
we came up with our own words, but they had
their own goofy wood.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
You know what, this is nothing new.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
It's just another generation that is doing the same thing
every other generation before them has done. We're going to
take a break. Code word, yeah, secret codewords. It's eleven fourteen.
Thank you for joining us here on WIBC. Also for
those of you that are watching on YouTube, thank you.
It's eleven fifteen, sixty nine degrees. It's a beautiful day.
This first day ninety three WIBC penrod Artspare at Newfields
(09:19):
coming up September sixth, but the evening before is the
twelfth annual Evening with Penrod. I had a chance to
talk to Ryan Stevens. He's this year's coach or this
year's chair, i should say, and I asked him what
you can expect.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
So the evening round event is a twenty one one
up event. It's a VIP style gala that has an
art preview, so we open up our about one hundred
artists in our premier artist area. Then we have live entertainment.
We have a nationally touring band out of Nashville that
is a yacht rock band, so that's that's going to
be really fun. And then we have some local artists
(09:54):
from doing Pianos and Touch of Grass. Then we have
food light appetisers from Rootstock Hospitality Group. They are the
group that's behind Capri and the new Aberdeen Social on
the north side of Indianapolis. I'm really excited about that.
And then we have some drinks and cocktails from our
liquor sponsors. This year, what's new and kind of exciting
(10:16):
is we have a new partnership with sun King, so
they're offering a Penrod cremail, which is great, and then
we also have a special Penrod bourbon from West Fork Whisky.
You can get tickets for about one hundred fifty dollars
a piece. The prices will go up at the end
of next week, so I would get those now while
it's sill available. You can go to Penrod dot org
and get tickets for that. The other thing I'll say
(10:37):
that's unique about the evening event before we switch to
the Art Fair is if you attend the evening event,
you get a free ticket to the art for the
next day. So there are some value you baked into that.
Oh great, it makes me smile so much. Talking about
the Penrod Archer's one of my favorite days of the year.
You know, it's in its sitgate year and it really
started on the grounds of New Fields to raise money
(10:58):
for the art museum that's there now. So our history
in our kind of partnership of Newfields has gone all
the way back to the beginning and the Newfield team
has done an unbelievable job. The gardens look fantastic. It's
going to be the perfect setting for the Art Fair.
This year's art Fair, well, we have over a thousand
performing art performing both visual and actual artists. We have
(11:22):
six different performance stages, so everything from music to dance,
to la to symphony. And then we have our three
hundred and fifty artists that are there coming from all
over the country to showcase their amazing artwork at the
Art Fair. We use the funds for from the Art
Fair and from Evening with Penrod, and then are also
(11:43):
our Spring event, which we talked about which you to
easel and then we put that into our grant program
and then through that last year we gave out three
hundred thousand dollars back into Central Indianapolis in Central Indiana,
I should say, and to almost eighty I think it's
eighty two or eighty three organizations.
Speaker 7 (11:58):
So to us, that's why we do that.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Right And I think this year we are having kind
of record sponsorship, record ticket tails so far. So we
expect this to be just another incredible weekend that allows
us to fund, you know, more grants than we weren't
able to fund in the past. For both events. We'll
have tickets at the door. Is cashless is what we're
(12:22):
trying to go this year, So please bring up, Please
bring a debor a credit card if you're going to
buy tickets at the door. But we're really excited to
see you here in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Anything else you want listeners to know Ryan.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Before we let you go, No, just we really appreciate you, Terry,
and thanks for always being such a big supporter of us.
And like I said, I hope that we see a
lot of your listeners at the fair and at our
evening with Penrod event. My name is Ryan Seems. I'm
going to be the tall bald guy walking around in
a white and a white Paulo. To make sure you
come and say hi. If you're there, I'd love to
see you. I'd love to talk to you about your
(12:51):
experience at the fair.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
That is Ryan Stevens.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
Penrod Arts Fair Chair Evening with Penrod September fifth, five
point thirty to eleven thirty Penrod September sixth Both events
are on the grounds of New Fields. Penrod dot org
for advanced tickets, but you did here they are going
to be selling him at the door as well. I
had a chance to also to check in with Brent
Burris a Blue Angel Connect to see how tickets are
going for the Little House on the Prairie event, and
(13:15):
that's coming up on the fifth and six. That's in Greenfield.
The meet and greet with Dean Butler who is Almonzo,
Karen Grassley who is Ma, and Nellie Olsen Alison Ingram
is sold out. However, there are still tickets for Allison's
comedy show on the fifth titled Life as a Prairie
b Word, and then there are still tickets to the
dinner on Saturday evening Blue Angel connect dot Org coming
(13:40):
up in just a few minutes.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Kylin and I had a chance, Denny to talk.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
To Craig Schultz, who is the son of the great Charles.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Schultz, Oh Peanuts.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
About their seventy fifth anniversary of the Peanuts Gang.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Seventy five years. They're older than you, Denny.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Thank God.
Speaker 5 (13:58):
See here Charles talk about it when he was alive
and talk about how he didn't even want to name
it Peanuts. He would have rather it just be Charlie
Brown and Friends or Charlie Brown's Something. But then is
the recommendations were for it to become Peanuts, which is
iconic today. But to hear him say that, man, it
would have been a completely different series.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
I liked it just because the anthropomorphized Snoopy. Snoopy was
just a dog, but she, you know, he was able
to make him into a real human being.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Kind of with all the human feelings.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
That's exactly right.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
But I think animals have human feelings. I do. I
believe they thought they dream like that too.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
I like to think that they do. No I was
checking Powerball. Nobody won Powerball last night, guys, So you've
got the numbers. I'm wondering how much it will be
for Monday night? Is that tomorrow night's drawing? Yeah? I
don't know, but it was seven million.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Do you play same numbers? Always quick?
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Just quick pick, just a quick pick.
Speaker 5 (14:55):
You know who did win yesterday?
Speaker 1 (14:58):
The Colts?
Speaker 5 (14:59):
Oh, I don't even know if that counts do preseason?
They don't count. The players weren't even on the field.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
I think it bounce and for fans mentally, I think,
I do you know? I saw this trivia question yesterday?
If I may, who or what was the name of
the Colts first mascot?
Speaker 2 (15:19):
What the skibbity?
Speaker 6 (15:21):
You know?
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Does anybody?
Speaker 4 (15:24):
Does anybody know the Colts first known? I remember the
Colts when they first came. There was a horse, a
real horse, a beautiful white horse. It was a pony,
a pony, and anytime there was a touchdown, you remember,
the beautiful Colt cheerleader would be the one.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
She'd ride the horse out.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
No no, no, no, no no no. She had a
flag and remember that. But we had another mascot, and
you know, you can't think of its name. I'll give
you choices. Was his name hoof Bolt Huddles or captain Colt.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Do you know I don't know, oh, Huddles, Huddles.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
Else and then didn't, And then I started thinking, wait
a minute, didn't the RSA girls open up a yogurt
store called Huddles?
Speaker 2 (16:08):
I have note? Where are you digging this stuff?
Speaker 1 (16:10):
I got a dream. I thought they had a yogurt
place one time and it was called the Huddles.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
What the sigma?
Speaker 6 (16:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (16:16):
How stuff?
Speaker 5 (16:17):
Hey.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
Nominations are open for the Indianapolis Colts twenty twenty five
Fan of the Year. All you have to do is
nominate yourself or nominate who somebody who you think is
the biggest celebrant of the Colts that you know of.
Go to nfl dot com slash Fan of the Year.
You have until the end of September and then the
now the winner will be announced in December. Do you
(16:38):
remember who the Cult Fan of the Year was last year?
Speaker 2 (16:40):
He was the singer. I've got to talk to him. Yeah,
I don't remember his name.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
Though, do you Sean? His name is Sean and what
is it is it?
Speaker 5 (16:48):
Sean Sean blue eyed, Sean blue eyes y d Sean.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
Yeah blue eyes on social media? We should talk to
him because the first game comes up in a couple
of weeks.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
He's already been doing his song.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
I know it. He's he really is.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
Everybody wants to sing with him, and he's did very
He truly was Fan of the Year last year, right Seth?
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Yeah, Seth, I don't know if that's what they called him.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
Oh, I really enjoyed not Sean Seth.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
I enjoyed the third string back in his interview, just
pure joy of a kid that was enjoying playing football.
And he threw that sixty yard pass and you know,
he just they gave him the ball and he said, well,
you give me the ball for it's a nice ball.
He gives it back and then to keep giving it
to him. But it just was pure joy of an
athlete that was having fun. I know, we don't see
that very often in professional sports.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
Well, we're going to take a break because coming up, Denny,
we're going to talk to Craig Schultz. You'll hear this conversation.
Kylin and I had you got some news coming up next.
It is a beautiful Sunday, whatever you're doing, but I
hope you're here with us for a few more minutes
anywhere as long as you can stay We've got seventy
degrees and really mostly blue skys. There's a lot of
clouds out there, but it is gorgeous. Poorgeous. This is
the first day. Thanks for joining us. Ninety three WIBC.
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The Peanuts Gang is celebrating their seventy fifth anniversary with
a new special Snoopy Presents, a summer musical, which premiered
globally just a few days ago on Apple TV Plus.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
And joining us now is Craig Schultz.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
He is the president and CEO of Schultz Associates and
son of Peanuts creator Charles M.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Schultz. What a pleasure to meet you, sir. How are you.
Speaker 6 (18:24):
Good morning, Terry, Good morning Indianapolis.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Good morning to you. Thank you so much for your time.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
So what does this seventy fifth anniversary of Peanuts mean
to you personally? As probably a fan i'm sure, and
also the son of Charles Schultz?
Speaker 6 (18:36):
Yeah, well, I think personally what amused to me is
that I think my dad's legacy is alive and well,
and Panus continues to grow and grow and grow as
we can see through our studio, and the amount of
love for the brand gets better and better every year.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
What are some of your most vivid memories of watching
your dad create Peanuts.
Speaker 6 (18:55):
Well, very special to go into his office because it's
funny to see what he created. But basically sat behind
a desk. He had three things, a piece of paper,
a pen in the drawing board, and he would draw
these things and he'd lay them out on the on
the desk, and I would walk in and look at them,
and I'd laugh at a couple of them, and I
would say, hey, that's funny or not. I look back
(19:16):
at it now, and I didn't appreciate the talent he
already had, because now I look at his art and
I can appreciate the ability to draw those lines he
did and create the emotion and the emotion and the
motion he did with the characters. And it's something when
you're young, you don't quite appreciate the talents he's putting
into these things. Nor do you appreciate the amount of
years of studying and practicing he did to get to
(19:39):
where he was.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
You know, how important was it to your dad to
create those characters Charlie Brown and Snoopy, who were you know,
just kind of like just a real humans, you know,
vulnerable and not perfect and really very human How important
was it to your dad, do you think?
Speaker 6 (19:56):
Well, I think that was the essence of it all.
You know, he was a phenomenal observed and no matter
where he went he could come up with an idea
for a commis ship. But it's already a matter of
just observing human nature. And I think he was a
humanist in general, and he liked studying humanity and within that,
you know, he dug to the human soul and told
those emotions that we all have, you know, through little children,
(20:18):
And I think they're more related. When the little children
tells you how they're feeling emotionally, it's more powerful than
it is from someone to thirty five or forty, you know,
telling you they have some kind of emotional problem. So
I already struck a chord there on what he created.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
Oh would it be unfair for me to ask you
how was there any particular character that you loved most?
Speaker 6 (20:42):
Well, that's pretty much none of my all my friends
as pig Pen. But people kind of laugh.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
At do you think you're do you think you are?
You are pig Pen?
Speaker 6 (20:54):
Well, yeah, I ask my name take on my death,
says big Pen. But because maybe they're up kind of
racing VMX and I had I raced motocross for years
and years and years, and my wife says I still
should clean my pants more often. But again, the other
thing I like about Big Bin is it big Pin
knows who he is. He's happy with who he is.
(21:16):
He doesn't want to change where some most the other
characters have some kind of a mental flog going on, Becau,
it's not. He's happy and he's happy in this dirt,
and I'm happy in my dirt.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
This is Craig Schultz. He's the son of Peanuts creator
Charles M. Schultz. He's president and CEO of Schultz Creative Associates.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
So we've got a new special celebrating seventy five years now.
Snoopy Presents a Summer musical. It is streaming right now
on Apple TV Plus. And you know, seventy five years later,
what do.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
You I mean?
Speaker 1 (21:41):
It's just amazing the staying power.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
Do you have any thoughts on why it has really
stood the test, why the Peanuts characters have stood that
test of time.
Speaker 6 (21:52):
I think that's a little doubt. With does the test
of time. It's mainly because no matter who you are,
no matter what country you are, no matter what your
relate in or background, everya is there's some character you
can relate to. You know, again, I relate to pick Pen.
You might relate to Lucy or Pepper and Patty whoever
knows it is. But there's little bits of all of
us within each of those characters. You know, my dad,
(22:14):
for example, was like ninety percent yarning Brown, but he,
you know, he wanted to be Snoopy, and we all
want to be Snoopy. Snoopy's got the dream life that
none of us already have. So I think that's what
makes it so relatable. You know, you don't have to
get too involved in reading the thing to understand this. Okay,
I relate to that kid. He has the same problems
I'm dealing with. So yeah, that's why I think it
(22:36):
will go on forever.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Yeah, me too, Me too.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
Are there are there any untold stories or maybe behind
the scenes moments from the creation of Peanuts that you
wish people wish you more people knew about.
Speaker 6 (22:47):
I've never been asked that before, but I can move on.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
You don't have to answer that question.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
If that one is a it's a something that's a
hard That probably is a hard question.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
I guess, but should I move on?
Speaker 7 (23:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (23:02):
Okay, that one has me stopped.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
It's okay, that's okay, okay.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
Will you think there was ever even a minute when
you're when your dad considered ending the strip or changing
it significantly.
Speaker 6 (23:14):
Yeah. The only time he really did things about ending
the strip, and that happened a couple of times, was
already dealing with the Corporate America, you know they when
he had he had the contract that was due for
renewal in the early seventies. And most people don't realize this,
but in the early days, you never actually owned the property,
whether it be Dennis or Matis or PMS. So you
see any of those companies, the syndicate owned the rights
(23:35):
of those things. So in the nineteen seventies, my dad
comes to the line, said, hey, I want to have
you know, creative control. I want to have ownerships with
these of these characters. And it set up a legal
battle and he said, well, I'm just going to quit
raw on the strip, and they eventually caved into him,
and he kiny was I think he was the first
cartoonist that ended up owning his characters.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
Wow, I wonder you know, can you here's the thing.
I mean, you're carrying that towards you're continuing this legacy
of Peanuts as a producer and creative contributor yourself. Was
there ever a question that you wouldn't do that?
Speaker 6 (24:07):
Yeah, Yeah, we answered that question every day, so Pow.
In a previous interview we have when my dad started,
it was him. He had a business manager of the
secretary of those threes in the office. Now we have
twenty people in the office. We see like fifteen thousand
items that didn't have a month come through a studio
for us to approve. We look at every single one
of those things and we turned down a great deal
(24:29):
of them because either the art Marcus is not done right,
or that the themes are not right, or they don't
fit the you know, the Peanuts world. And we're doing that,
you know, all the time, every day with a huge
staff of people that do that.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
Looking forward, what's next for Peanuts after this major milestone?
Before we talk about the movie about the any major milestones.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Are there new projects or shows or.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
Commemorations that you've got thinking that you're thinking about on
the horizon.
Speaker 6 (24:56):
One of the big things always obviously the seventy fifth anniversary,
and I think Ross to Globe, our licensees will put
out all sorts of different things for the seventy fifth
anniversary special events and so forth. We have a new
Macon's Day Parade balloon coming out this year. Oh yeah,
which is always exciting. Yeah, stoop Snoopy has been the
longest running balloon in the Macon Day Parade history.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
Oh wow, Wow, he's been there.
Speaker 6 (25:22):
Yeah, he's been there forever.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
That's a fun fact. Yes, I didn't know. But anyway,
there's a new one coming, a new.
Speaker 6 (25:29):
One coming, which is exciting, and can't we kind of
run him? I think I think you need to do
a three year cycle typically before we create a new one.
And uh yeah, and then we got again these specials.
My son Brian and Neil, his writing partner, have done
seven specials for Apple TV plus under the Steep Presents banner,
and the musical is the latest and the greatest and.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
The latest and the greatest anything you want to talk about,
because it is streaming right now on Apple Plus, anything
you want to talk about before we let you go.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
When it comes to the film.
Speaker 6 (25:57):
Yeah, no, I think I think they were going to
love it. They love it because it's a musical number one.
The music was done by Ben Folds, which people are
huge fans of, Alan Zachary, Michael Wayner, Jeff and Jeff Morrow.
Directed by Eric Baese, it tells a story of Charge
Brown loving the summer camp and the county finds out
it's can be closed down because of progress the mini
malls moving in the area, and he wants to save
(26:18):
the camp. His younger sister, Sally, whose first year at camp.
So he danced together with his group of crazy characters
and they come up with a plan to save the
Summer Camp, which is really a metaphor for life. I
tell people to use stories all about once things are going,
they're going forever, you know. I look at school with
school and music and shop and wood shop and car shop.
(26:39):
Those things disappear, they don't come back, and that's what
this special represents. So I think a lot of people
and a lot of adults will be able to relate
to it beyond the fact that the music is phenomenal.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
Oh Snoopy presents a Summer musical premier globally just a
few days ago, streaming now on Apple TV Plus as
the Peanuts Gang celebrate seventy five years. And what a
pleasure to have a few minutes with you, Craig Schultz,
the president's CEO of Schultz Creative Associates and also the
son of Peanuts creation creator Charles M.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Schultz. Really nice to meet you. Thank you, thank you,
thank you for continuing on his legacy. Thank you, sir.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
How about that coming up, Denny and Denny will be
speaking about what in Dollars and Cents today.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
My friend Mike row dirty Jobs one of my heroes,
and he's got some lessons for all of us and
we're going to share them.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
We should get a chance to eat. He's awesome.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
We should schedule himy really, did you leave an opera singer?
Speaker 1 (27:29):
I did.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
I knew he's not for singer, but you know the
things about him and I did not. But we'll work
on that for you, Denny. But anyway, coming up, Denny's
Dollars and Cents right here on the first day ninety three, WIBC.
Here we go, singing, singing time, everybody together, wherever you are.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
It's a highlight of my week.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
You know, you've got a friend and Denny, Oh, you've
got a friend.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
And Denny.
Speaker 5 (27:52):
Oh, Miles.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Oh, just remember what your friend Denny said. Oh you
got a friend in Denny. Everybody you.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
I have a question for you when you were growing up.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Is it a math question?
Speaker 2 (28:16):
No, No, it's a lady question.
Speaker 5 (28:17):
Math is so long.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
When you were growing up, did your parents ever say
to you, boy, I hope you marry a craftsman, like
a good carpenter or.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
An hvac teching Yeah, ball player.
Speaker 5 (28:27):
My daddy, my dad, he grew me right. He grew
me right.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Yeah, care I say it again.
Speaker 5 (28:33):
My father raised me right. He was a carpenter, so
I was always in the shop with him.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
There you go, There you go. Micro Carpenter Micro from
Dirty Jobs is one of my heroes. He what he
The story is is that when he was in high school,
there was a poster on the wall said work smart,
not hard, and it was a slam against craftsmen. Okay.
I grew up in a family of plumbers. My grandfather
had a master plumber's license in thirty eight States, and
(28:59):
when I got my man plumber's license, it was like
I became a member of the man core in my family.
I mean, it was really something. But next time you
have a leaky toilet, you're not going to call a
philosopher who has a master's degree in Greek theology. And
the point that Mike has been making is that all
of ai that is coming in, they're not going to
be replacing, you know, plumbers and welders, auto mechanics. That's
(29:23):
exactly right. And so we're educating a whole generation of
boys and girls to you know, walk away from the trades.
For every five guys that are leaving the trades, or
guys that are leaving the trades right now, I'm going
to talk about electricians, drywall workers, carpenters, you know, certainly
plumbers and welders. For every five that are leaving the
(29:45):
trade right now, only two are coming back in. I
am aware of a plumbing service tech down in Fort
Myers Beach, Florida who is making four hundred thousand dollars
a year.
Speaker 4 (29:56):
Gosh, you guys, I'm telling you this is the way
to go.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
It is do something with your hands. When your water
heater goes out at midnight, You're not gonna call somebody
with a master's degree. My mom has a lot of friends.
Mom grew up in the thirties and forties, and she
has very sophisticated people that say that if you don't
have a master's degree, you'll never amount to anything. Well,
that's hogwash.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
Why do you think that there isn't more people, more
young people just flocking to HVAC to electric.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
I mean, it's a great question, and it's cultural terry.
You know, we want our kids to be doctors, we
want them to be lawyers, we want them to be
something anything. But somebody who works on a toilet. I mean,
somehow that is a degrading situation and it's not right.
Your daddy was a carpenter. Kai.
Speaker 5 (30:40):
Yeah, I feel like it comes in waves because we
went in this wave of like you said, we want
elite air quote jobs where it's exactly.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
That's doing this big stuff.
Speaker 5 (30:49):
But then for me, I'm looking forward to that too,
where you go into a trade, you can you have
all of those options open to you. It's not just
a family thing exactly.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
I agree.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
I could say there's so many opportunities, and I guess
the message and.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
Jenny, they I mean they'd really offer a training and
everything right, education.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Their training, their gre education, and you don't have student debt.
These kids are coming out. I had a client once
who was a professional. He was a physician, had over
four hundred thousand dollars in student debt, and it's going
to be with him forever. I mean, that's as much
as a second house, not even a first house. So
what I'm wanting to share with you is avoids student debt.
(31:27):
You know, it's not anything for you. And don't be
embarrassed about going in the trades. It's very, very honorable
to do things with your hands. Your grandparents and your
great grandparents, they weren't philosophers. They maybe they were physicians,
maybe they were lawyers, but most of them were craftsmen.
They did things. They were tile layers, you know, maybe
they were you know, drywall workers, maybe they put up,
(31:48):
you know, wallpaper. The point is, there are so many
opportunities out there. And the poster that that Mike always
got mad about was work smart, not hard. The poster
that we had in our business forever was a picture
of a plumber in overalls with a lead pot behind him.
It says, the plumber protects the health of the nation.
So those trades are taking.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Care of And if you think about that for.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
A minute, year it's exactly right. It was an American
standard Oh it was they put out, but it made
it made him look like a god. And I grew
up with that, and Grandpa Clark always talked about that.
Grandpa was the one with the Grandpa Clark he had
an eighth grade education, but he could do anything with
his hands, you know, And and he could multiply four numbers,
(32:33):
four figures in his head, four figures by four figures
in his head. He was an amazing guy. He was
the master plumber for what they called the tunnels at
Walt Disney World down in Florida.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Oh that's cool.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
It was cool. He kept inviting us down, and of
course we didn't understand what Walt Disney World was because
we were from Central Indiana. But I was so proud
of that. And he did the at our high school.
He was the master plumber at Speedway High School. And
I remember him calling me over after school one day
to show me that there was a bald eagles nest
and he told me all about bald eagles. Now this
is a plumber.
Speaker 6 (33:06):
I know.
Speaker 4 (33:06):
Grandpa's are so cool, you know, And you believe, I
mean I believe you could trust your grandpa. I mean,
your grandpa knew about everything. He could he could catch
a fish in his hands in a creek.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
I mean he could and tell you, I mean.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
Just Grandpa's here's the treasure. The lesson is, artificial intelligence
is coming along. We all use it. And when anybody
who says that they're not using it, they're in radio
or if they're in journalism, they're lying because there are
so many ways for them to check your errors and
do it very, very quickly, where we used to have
to share stuff with each other. But AI is not
replacing plumbers. It's not replacing the guy who does the
(33:42):
alignment on your front end of your old Jalopi. They're
not the ones who can tune a carpuretor.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
You know.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
AI can't do those things. So pay attention, coach your kids,
stay away from debt. There is nothing wrong with an
honorable trade where you work with your hands and be
a friend.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
Remember four hundred thousand dollars Is.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
That amazing that could be And that's not unusual. You
can get two three hundred thousand in some of the
big cities.
Speaker 5 (34:09):
You know what, Denny, maybe today is my last day.
I think I'm gonna I think I'm not.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
You'd make a great plumber. He'd make a great but
you've got to be all of it's the same. You
just have to be detail oriented, you have to have
a little bit of ambition, and you've got to be humble.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
And the jobs are there.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
The jobs are there, are.
Speaker 4 (34:27):
Just nearly begging young people to come in and they'll
train you and on the job training and so many benefits.
So yeah, just please make keep that as an option.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
I'll tell you one more. The young man that cuts
my grass, he's cut my grass for five years. He
ran up student loan debt and he came to me
one day and he said, I've got an opportunity to
get an apprenticeship with about ib e W. I said,
jump on it, jump on it. Do you know what
he's paid back a student debt. He's as an as apprentice.
He's he's just under a grand a year as an apprentice.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
And eighty grand a year.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
It's fantastic, it's wonderful. So pay attention. It's uh and uh,
you know we'll be back after the break. And no,
I'm not going to clean the bathroom.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
No, No, I think that was good. That was from
your uncle Danny, and that was a good one. Uh,
it is eleven fifty seven and we've worked today's top stories.
Day's top stories are coming up next on ninety three
WYBC
Okay, everybody, look alive.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Look alive. I'm over here.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
I'm playing this.
Speaker 4 (00:15):
I was taking the longevity of our state, longevity as
far as how old we were living, our age because
I just heard Forrest Lucas, founder of Lucas Oil, dies
eighty three years eighty three years old.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
I only met him one time. I met his wife once.
I just think they're glorious. They're big time, but they're
small time.
Speaker 5 (00:35):
What a legacy that he's leaving behind.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Truly, they're just small town people from southern Indiana and
just nice people.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
You know what.
Speaker 5 (00:43):
Seeing that Greg Cooper sold the house to him was so.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
What Kylan listened before. Okay, so that used to be
owned by the Hilberts, right.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Steve Hilberts.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
When Steve Hilbert put that up for sale. This is
a glorious piece of land, a beautiful home, I mean everything.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Where is it like Ditch and.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
What's it's one hundred and sixteenth Street and just back
east of Ditch, Okay, and it's it's a beautiful place.
It goes down in a little bitty valley and there's
these great big gates. It was built by a friend
of mine who had just.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
The pool and the land itself. I mean, it's just
beautiful for lots of woods.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
And everybody thinks that the real house is right past
the gate. No, that's a guest.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Yeah, that's the guest.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Big the big thing is And when you fly over
it next time, Kylin, next time we fly, I'll fly
you over that estate. Yes, it's beautiful.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
But before it was sold to the Lucas family, it
was owned by the Hilberts, and so they put it
up for sale and we did a morning show there.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Is it true with this empty Is.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
It true that in the bathtub there was there.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Was a mural of.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Mister Hilbert. It was missus Hilbert on the ceiling if
I remember right.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
It was lots that there was murals. It was. It's
just a beautiful place. But we did we did the
morning show there. It was for where didn't you do
we get to go in? I mean we were casted
from out by the pool.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
And the craftsmanship at home. It was built by Leonard
Watson from artisans at home and Leonard is one of
the craftiest. He has the people to do really really
neat things.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
And then the Lucases opened it up really for events
and it's it was just one of those places if
you had an event out there at the Lucas Estate,
it just was. I mean it's just phenomenal just being there,
not done, no matter at the food or anything.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
You know, that's too being on this that's two big
names on one hundred and sixteenth Street that just passed
away because Jim Mersey is just back to them. That's right.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
So we heard that so and truly, truly the legacy
that he leaves behind and everybody that he's I mean
truly he the giving family.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Did you know how he started off in life? This
is a micro kind of story. Today in dollars and cents,
I'm gonna talk about micro. He was an over the
road trucker, is that right, That's what he did, and
then got into the and he got into lubrication. But
he just had ambition, drive and unbelievably hard working guy.
And his wife too. I mean they started that.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
For me to talk to and and uh, just like
you know us kind of what do you see?
Speaker 1 (03:13):
I know where it came from.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
That's that's a cool story. Well, this is the first
day and we're glad that you're here. On Terry that's Denny.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Kylon is here too, Kylon Tally.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
She's wearing pearls today on I Braved.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
The wet Man. I was just talking to Terry and
Denny about it. Pearls are one of the hardest things
to style in my in my opinion.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
They go with everything.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
They have always been so weary of wearing pearls.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
So I did it.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
We put on some pearls today. They matched the little
pedals on my dress, a little dandelion, white dandelions.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
You can see that on YouTube. For those of you
who want to see your pearls she's doing.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
She'll show your pearls. This is your last day. What
a fringe right and for you? Oh poor Denny. Do
you think leaving happened?
Speaker 6 (04:01):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (04:01):
What's the last day of your performance? Yeah? What you
said is the last day? And I thought, no, she's leaving.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Oh no, she's not going anywhere.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
No, my last performance of the Indie Fringe Festival. Today's
the last day for everything. Performances start at twelve thirty
and run through nine o'clock tonight, so book your day
out if you haven't already. My performance is at six
thirty at the District's Theater. With a Bollywood dream. It's
been a fun time.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
I saw the great.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
You know, she's the narrator, right, I am, Yes, I
need you through the history of Ballliywood.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Did you do it in English? Sure? You're doing with
the oxide.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
I do it in English.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Okay, there you go.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Well, anyway, she's our little actress and she's done with that,
and then she's going to go out and have some
great dinner with Devour downtown, which is cool, have a
great Oh yeah, she's going to do that. And she
mentioned I'll mention history because I love history. On this
date in history, something happened. I'm going to act it.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
Out acting you're our actor.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Now, Oh, just get anywhere in.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
For waiting for the show. She still got her clothes on,
so it must be something easy. Okay, okay, what is it?
Come on, get your mic.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
You know, I don't know what that means anyway, Okay,
I'm not really gonna act it out.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
I'm just gonna tell you this happened.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
It popped up on I like to follow history, Indiana history,
and on this day in history, and on this day
in history.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
This happened.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Okay, something's happening where the man says to his wife, Dolly,
we've got to run. We've got to go grab something
before we leave. That's important.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Oh they burned down the White House eighteen twelve. Yes,
I did, fourteen.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
You've scared her.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
She would have did that out.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
She would have acted that out.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
I wouldn't have No, Nope, nope, no, that's what happened
on this details.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Dolly fled.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
They left the city, and she grabbed the portrait of
George Washington. She grabbed the portrait of George Washington, and
then they left.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
You just came in.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
They had a nice dinner, They ate everything that they
could find, and then they burned it down.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Tom Rose, who used to broadcast from that very seat
where you're sitting, was working for the Vice President, and
he invited me to go to the White House my
one and only trip. We went around the back down
to the basement where the culinary stuff takes place, and
you could see the smoke and where the char over
this stone plan and Tom was telling me that is
from the smoke from the fire of eighteen twelve. Yeah,
(06:22):
it's still there. They did eighteen fourteen.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
That's pretty awesome. It was glad they left. It is
a reminder in its history.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Never trust the English.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
I think all the kids are back in school today.
Speaker 7 (06:35):
That was.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
A good gay.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
But I want to get to this because I think
this is funny. I follow everybody I think in Indiana's
back in school now right, even college back getting back.
And so there's a guy that I watch on social media.
His name is mister Lindsey, and he's a middle school
special ed MATT teacher. And here's a little bit of
here's what he's telling parents you need to know. And
(07:00):
it comes to new words that kids just still can't
stop saying.
Speaker 8 (07:04):
Words you hope we're going to die over the summer,
but are definitely coming back this school year, and what
they mean. Mister lindsay here to remind you of some
of the words that are coming to a classroom near
you this fall.
Speaker 7 (07:13):
Word number one giat still going strong.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Okay.
Speaker 8 (07:17):
It does not ego you athletic teens. It does not
mean get you act together. It is a reference to
a big butt. And when they say this, they are
referencing a big butt.
Speaker 7 (07:27):
Next, we have skivity, it's alive and well, are we.
Speaker 8 (07:30):
Any closer to a consensus on the definition.
Speaker 7 (07:32):
Of this word? Absolutely? Not.
Speaker 8 (07:35):
Some say it means something good, some say it means
something bad. Most of them just use it as a
filler word whenever they have the impulse.
Speaker 7 (07:43):
To say it.
Speaker 8 (07:44):
Skivity sigma, Are you sigma? If you are, that's a
good thing, because sigma.
Speaker 7 (07:49):
Means the best. Next we have what the sigma? Or
ir what the sigma?
Speaker 8 (07:55):
You would think that it has something to do with
the definition of sigma.
Speaker 7 (07:58):
Well, if you thought that, you would.
Speaker 8 (07:59):
Be absolutely wrong, because all it is is a filler
phrase to express anger or bafflement. What the sigma? Similar
to what the heck? Hope this helps get you ready
to welcome those kids back.
Speaker 7 (08:13):
This fall word you hope for.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
Skibbity is now officially in the dictionary.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Hibbitty? Skibbitty, Oh, skibbety.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
That's okay. Word.
Speaker 5 (08:24):
It is a gibberish word. This is Miriam Webster's definition
of it. It's a gibberish word from Skibbity Toilet, a
popular YouTube show featuring human headed toilets battling camera headed humans.
That's funny, quite nonsense.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
I'm going to play mister Lindsay every week so you
can keep us up on our on what we need
to know.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
If you had grandparents or parents that grew up in
the twenties, there were skiddamernki danky dank skida marinki do.
They had all of this stuff, and they when they
were young, and so they made fun of us when
we came up with our own words, but they had
their own goofy wood.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
You know what, this is nothing new.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
It's just another generation that is doing the same thing
every other generation before them has done. We're going to
take a break. Code word, yeah, secret codewords. It's eleven fourteen.
Thank you for joining us here on WIBC. Also for
those of you that are watching on YouTube, thank you.
It's eleven fifteen, sixty nine degrees. It's a beautiful day.
This first day ninety three WIBC penrod Artspare at Newfields
(09:19):
coming up September sixth, but the evening before is the
twelfth annual Evening with Penrod. I had a chance to
talk to Ryan Stevens. He's this year's coach or this
year's chair, i should say, and I asked him what
you can expect.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
So the evening round event is a twenty one one
up event. It's a VIP style gala that has an
art preview, so we open up our about one hundred
artists in our premier artist area. Then we have live entertainment.
We have a nationally touring band out of Nashville that
is a yacht rock band, so that's that's going to
be really fun. And then we have some local artists
(09:54):
from doing Pianos and Touch of Grass. Then we have
food light appetisers from Rootstock Hospitality Group. They are the
group that's behind Capri and the new Aberdeen Social on
the north side of Indianapolis. I'm really excited about that.
And then we have some drinks and cocktails from our
liquor sponsors. This year, what's new and kind of exciting
(10:16):
is we have a new partnership with sun King, so
they're offering a Penrod cremail, which is great, and then
we also have a special Penrod bourbon from West Fork Whisky.
You can get tickets for about one hundred fifty dollars
a piece. The prices will go up at the end
of next week, so I would get those now while
it's sill available. You can go to Penrod dot org
and get tickets for that. The other thing I'll say
(10:37):
that's unique about the evening event before we switch to
the Art Fair is if you attend the evening event,
you get a free ticket to the art for the
next day. So there are some value you baked into that.
Oh great, it makes me smile so much. Talking about
the Penrod Archer's one of my favorite days of the year.
You know, it's in its sitgate year and it really
started on the grounds of New Fields to raise money
(10:58):
for the art museum that's there now. So our history
in our kind of partnership of Newfields has gone all
the way back to the beginning and the Newfield team
has done an unbelievable job. The gardens look fantastic. It's
going to be the perfect setting for the Art Fair.
This year's art Fair, well, we have over a thousand
performing art performing both visual and actual artists. We have
(11:22):
six different performance stages, so everything from music to dance,
to la to symphony. And then we have our three
hundred and fifty artists that are there coming from all
over the country to showcase their amazing artwork at the
Art Fair. We use the funds for from the Art
Fair and from Evening with Penrod, and then are also
(11:43):
our Spring event, which we talked about which you to
easel and then we put that into our grant program
and then through that last year we gave out three
hundred thousand dollars back into Central Indianapolis in Central Indiana,
I should say, and to almost eighty I think it's
eighty two or eighty three organizations.
Speaker 7 (11:58):
So to us, that's why we do that.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Right And I think this year we are having kind
of record sponsorship, record ticket tails so far. So we
expect this to be just another incredible weekend that allows
us to fund, you know, more grants than we weren't
able to fund in the past. For both events. We'll
have tickets at the door. Is cashless is what we're
(12:22):
trying to go this year, So please bring up, Please
bring a debor a credit card if you're going to
buy tickets at the door. But we're really excited to
see you here in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Anything else you want listeners to know Ryan.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Before we let you go, No, just we really appreciate you, Terry,
and thanks for always being such a big supporter of us.
And like I said, I hope that we see a
lot of your listeners at the fair and at our
evening with Penrod event. My name is Ryan Seems. I'm
going to be the tall bald guy walking around in
a white and a white Paulo. To make sure you
come and say hi. If you're there, I'd love to
see you. I'd love to talk to you about your
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experience at the fair.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
That is Ryan Stevens.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
Penrod Arts Fair Chair Evening with Penrod September fifth, five
point thirty to eleven thirty Penrod September sixth Both events
are on the grounds of New Fields. Penrod dot org
for advanced tickets, but you did here they are going
to be selling him at the door as well. I
had a chance to also to check in with Brent
Burris a Blue Angel Connect to see how tickets are
going for the Little House on the Prairie event, and
(13:15):
that's coming up on the fifth and six. That's in Greenfield.
The meet and greet with Dean Butler who is Almonzo,
Karen Grassley who is Ma, and Nellie Olsen Alison Ingram
is sold out. However, there are still tickets for Allison's
comedy show on the fifth titled Life as a Prairie
b Word, and then there are still tickets to the
dinner on Saturday evening Blue Angel connect dot Org coming
(13:40):
up in just a few minutes.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Kylin and I had a chance, Denny to talk.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
To Craig Schultz, who is the son of the great Charles.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Schultz, Oh Peanuts.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
About their seventy fifth anniversary of the Peanuts Gang.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Seventy five years. They're older than you, Denny.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Thank God.
Speaker 5 (13:58):
See here Charles talk about it when he was alive
and talk about how he didn't even want to name
it Peanuts. He would have rather it just be Charlie
Brown and Friends or Charlie Brown's Something. But then is
the recommendations were for it to become Peanuts, which is
iconic today. But to hear him say that, man, it
would have been a completely different series.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
I liked it just because the anthropomorphized Snoopy. Snoopy was
just a dog, but she, you know, he was able
to make him into a real human being.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Kind of with all the human feelings.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
That's exactly right.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
But I think animals have human feelings. I do. I
believe they thought they dream like that too.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
I like to think that they do. No I was
checking Powerball. Nobody won Powerball last night, guys, So you've
got the numbers. I'm wondering how much it will be
for Monday night? Is that tomorrow night's drawing? Yeah? I
don't know, but it was seven million.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Do you play same numbers? Always quick?
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Just quick pick, just a quick pick.
Speaker 5 (14:55):
You know who did win yesterday?
Speaker 1 (14:58):
The Colts?
Speaker 5 (14:59):
Oh, I don't even know if that counts do preseason?
They don't count. The players weren't even on the field.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
I think it bounce and for fans mentally, I think,
I do you know? I saw this trivia question yesterday?
If I may, who or what was the name of
the Colts first mascot?
Speaker 2 (15:19):
What the skibbity?
Speaker 6 (15:21):
You know?
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Does anybody?
Speaker 4 (15:24):
Does anybody know the Colts first known? I remember the
Colts when they first came. There was a horse, a
real horse, a beautiful white horse. It was a pony,
a pony, and anytime there was a touchdown, you remember,
the beautiful Colt cheerleader would be the one.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
She'd ride the horse out.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
No no, no, no, no no no. She had a
flag and remember that. But we had another mascot, and
you know, you can't think of its name. I'll give
you choices. Was his name hoof Bolt Huddles or captain Colt.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Do you know I don't know, oh, Huddles, Huddles.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
Else and then didn't, And then I started thinking, wait
a minute, didn't the RSA girls open up a yogurt
store called Huddles?
Speaker 2 (16:08):
I have note? Where are you digging this stuff?
Speaker 1 (16:10):
I got a dream. I thought they had a yogurt
place one time and it was called the Huddles.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
What the sigma?
Speaker 6 (16:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (16:16):
How stuff?
Speaker 5 (16:17):
Hey.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
Nominations are open for the Indianapolis Colts twenty twenty five
Fan of the Year. All you have to do is
nominate yourself or nominate who somebody who you think is
the biggest celebrant of the Colts that you know of.
Go to nfl dot com slash Fan of the Year.
You have until the end of September and then the
now the winner will be announced in December. Do you
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remember who the Cult Fan of the Year was last year?
Speaker 2 (16:40):
He was the singer. I've got to talk to him. Yeah,
I don't remember his name.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
Though, do you Sean? His name is Sean and what
is it is it?
Speaker 5 (16:48):
Sean Sean blue eyed, Sean blue eyes y d Sean.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
Yeah blue eyes on social media? We should talk to
him because the first game comes up in a couple
of weeks.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
He's already been doing his song.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
I know it. He's he really is.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
Everybody wants to sing with him, and he's did very
He truly was Fan of the Year last year, right Seth?
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Yeah, Seth, I don't know if that's what they called him.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
Oh, I really enjoyed not Sean Seth.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
I enjoyed the third string back in his interview, just
pure joy of a kid that was enjoying playing football.
And he threw that sixty yard pass and you know,
he just they gave him the ball and he said, well,
you give me the ball for it's a nice ball.
He gives it back and then to keep giving it
to him. But it just was pure joy of an
athlete that was having fun. I know, we don't see
that very often in professional sports.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
Well, we're going to take a break because coming up, Denny,
we're going to talk to Craig Schultz. You'll hear this conversation.
Kylin and I had you got some news coming up next.
It is a beautiful Sunday, whatever you're doing, but I
hope you're here with us for a few more minutes
anywhere as long as you can stay We've got seventy
degrees and really mostly blue skys. There's a lot of
clouds out there, but it is gorgeous. Poorgeous. This is
the first day. Thanks for joining us. Ninety three WIBC.
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The Peanuts Gang is celebrating their seventy fifth anniversary with
a new special Snoopy Presents, a summer musical, which premiered
globally just a few days ago on Apple TV Plus.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
And joining us now is Craig Schultz.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
He is the president and CEO of Schultz Associates and
son of Peanuts creator Charles M.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Schultz. What a pleasure to meet you, sir. How are you.
Speaker 6 (18:24):
Good morning, Terry, Good morning Indianapolis.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Good morning to you. Thank you so much for your time.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
So what does this seventy fifth anniversary of Peanuts mean
to you personally? As probably a fan i'm sure, and
also the son of Charles Schultz?
Speaker 6 (18:36):
Yeah, well, I think personally what amused to me is
that I think my dad's legacy is alive and well,
and Panus continues to grow and grow and grow as
we can see through our studio, and the amount of
love for the brand gets better and better every year.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
What are some of your most vivid memories of watching
your dad create Peanuts.
Speaker 6 (18:55):
Well, very special to go into his office because it's
funny to see what he created. But basically sat behind
a desk. He had three things, a piece of paper,
a pen in the drawing board, and he would draw
these things and he'd lay them out on the on
the desk, and I would walk in and look at them,
and I'd laugh at a couple of them, and I
would say, hey, that's funny or not. I look back
(19:16):
at it now, and I didn't appreciate the talent he
already had, because now I look at his art and
I can appreciate the ability to draw those lines he
did and create the emotion and the emotion and the
motion he did with the characters. And it's something when
you're young, you don't quite appreciate the talents he's putting
into these things. Nor do you appreciate the amount of
years of studying and practicing he did to get to
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where he was.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
You know, how important was it to your dad to
create those characters Charlie Brown and Snoopy, who were you know,
just kind of like just a real humans, you know,
vulnerable and not perfect and really very human How important
was it to your dad, do you think?
Speaker 6 (19:56):
Well, I think that was the essence of it all.
You know, he was a phenomenal observed and no matter
where he went he could come up with an idea
for a commis ship. But it's already a matter of
just observing human nature. And I think he was a
humanist in general, and he liked studying humanity and within that,
you know, he dug to the human soul and told
those emotions that we all have, you know, through little children,
(20:18):
And I think they're more related. When the little children
tells you how they're feeling emotionally, it's more powerful than
it is from someone to thirty five or forty, you know,
telling you they have some kind of emotional problem. So
I already struck a chord there on what he created.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
Oh would it be unfair for me to ask you
how was there any particular character that you loved most?
Speaker 6 (20:42):
Well, that's pretty much none of my all my friends
as pig Pen. But people kind of laugh.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
At do you think you're do you think you are?
You are pig Pen?
Speaker 6 (20:54):
Well, yeah, I ask my name take on my death,
says big Pen. But because maybe they're up kind of
racing VMX and I had I raced motocross for years
and years and years, and my wife says I still
should clean my pants more often. But again, the other
thing I like about Big Bin is it big Pin
knows who he is. He's happy with who he is.
(21:16):
He doesn't want to change where some most the other
characters have some kind of a mental flog going on, Becau,
it's not. He's happy and he's happy in this dirt,
and I'm happy in my dirt.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
This is Craig Schultz. He's the son of Peanuts creator
Charles M. Schultz. He's president and CEO of Schultz Creative Associates.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
So we've got a new special celebrating seventy five years now.
Snoopy Presents a Summer musical. It is streaming right now
on Apple TV Plus. And you know, seventy five years later,
what do.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
You I mean?
Speaker 1 (21:41):
It's just amazing the staying power.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
Do you have any thoughts on why it has really
stood the test, why the Peanuts characters have stood that
test of time.
Speaker 6 (21:52):
I think that's a little doubt. With does the test
of time. It's mainly because no matter who you are,
no matter what country you are, no matter what your
relate in or background, everya is there's some character you
can relate to. You know, again, I relate to pick Pen.
You might relate to Lucy or Pepper and Patty whoever
knows it is. But there's little bits of all of
us within each of those characters. You know, my dad,
(22:14):
for example, was like ninety percent yarning Brown, but he,
you know, he wanted to be Snoopy, and we all
want to be Snoopy. Snoopy's got the dream life that
none of us already have. So I think that's what
makes it so relatable. You know, you don't have to
get too involved in reading the thing to understand this. Okay,
I relate to that kid. He has the same problems
I'm dealing with. So yeah, that's why I think it
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will go on forever.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Yeah, me too, Me too.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
Are there are there any untold stories or maybe behind
the scenes moments from the creation of Peanuts that you
wish people wish you more people knew about.
Speaker 6 (22:47):
I've never been asked that before, but I can move on.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
You don't have to answer that question.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
If that one is a it's a something that's a
hard That probably is a hard question.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
I guess, but should I move on?
Speaker 7 (23:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (23:02):
Okay, that one has me stopped.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
It's okay, that's okay, okay.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
Will you think there was ever even a minute when
you're when your dad considered ending the strip or changing
it significantly.
Speaker 6 (23:14):
Yeah. The only time he really did things about ending
the strip, and that happened a couple of times, was
already dealing with the Corporate America, you know they when
he had he had the contract that was due for
renewal in the early seventies. And most people don't realize this,
but in the early days, you never actually owned the property,
whether it be Dennis or Matis or PMS. So you
see any of those companies, the syndicate owned the rights
(23:35):
of those things. So in the nineteen seventies, my dad
comes to the line, said, hey, I want to have
you know, creative control. I want to have ownerships with
these of these characters. And it set up a legal
battle and he said, well, I'm just going to quit
raw on the strip, and they eventually caved into him,
and he kiny was I think he was the first
cartoonist that ended up owning his characters.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
Wow, I wonder you know, can you here's the thing.
I mean, you're carrying that towards you're continuing this legacy
of Peanuts as a producer and creative contributor yourself. Was
there ever a question that you wouldn't do that?
Speaker 6 (24:07):
Yeah, Yeah, we answered that question every day, so Pow.
In a previous interview we have when my dad started,
it was him. He had a business manager of the
secretary of those threes in the office. Now we have
twenty people in the office. We see like fifteen thousand
items that didn't have a month come through a studio
for us to approve. We look at every single one
of those things and we turned down a great deal
(24:29):
of them because either the art Marcus is not done right,
or that the themes are not right, or they don't
fit the you know, the Peanuts world. And we're doing that,
you know, all the time, every day with a huge
staff of people that do that.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
Looking forward, what's next for Peanuts after this major milestone?
Before we talk about the movie about the any major milestones.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Are there new projects or shows or.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
Commemorations that you've got thinking that you're thinking about on
the horizon.
Speaker 6 (24:56):
One of the big things always obviously the seventy fifth anniversary,
and I think Ross to Globe, our licensees will put
out all sorts of different things for the seventy fifth
anniversary special events and so forth. We have a new
Macon's Day Parade balloon coming out this year. Oh yeah,
which is always exciting. Yeah, stoop Snoopy has been the
longest running balloon in the Macon Day Parade history.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
Oh wow, Wow, he's been there.
Speaker 6 (25:22):
Yeah, he's been there forever.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
That's a fun fact. Yes, I didn't know. But anyway,
there's a new one coming, a new.
Speaker 6 (25:29):
One coming, which is exciting, and can't we kind of
run him? I think I think you need to do
a three year cycle typically before we create a new one.
And uh yeah, and then we got again these specials.
My son Brian and Neil, his writing partner, have done
seven specials for Apple TV plus under the Steep Presents banner,
and the musical is the latest and the greatest and.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
The latest and the greatest anything you want to talk about,
because it is streaming right now on Apple Plus, anything
you want to talk about before we let you go.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
When it comes to the film.
Speaker 6 (25:57):
Yeah, no, I think I think they were going to
love it. They love it because it's a musical number one.
The music was done by Ben Folds, which people are
huge fans of, Alan Zachary, Michael Wayner, Jeff and Jeff Morrow.
Directed by Eric Baese, it tells a story of Charge
Brown loving the summer camp and the county finds out
it's can be closed down because of progress the mini
malls moving in the area, and he wants to save
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the camp. His younger sister, Sally, whose first year at camp.
So he danced together with his group of crazy characters
and they come up with a plan to save the
Summer Camp, which is really a metaphor for life. I
tell people to use stories all about once things are going,
they're going forever, you know. I look at school with
school and music and shop and wood shop and car shop.
(26:39):
Those things disappear, they don't come back, and that's what
this special represents. So I think a lot of people
and a lot of adults will be able to relate
to it beyond the fact that the music is phenomenal.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
Oh Snoopy presents a Summer musical premier globally just a
few days ago, streaming now on Apple TV Plus as
the Peanuts Gang celebrate seventy five years. And what a
pleasure to have a few minutes with you, Craig Schultz,
the president's CEO of Schultz Creative Associates and also the
son of Peanuts creation creator Charles M.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Schultz. Really nice to meet you. Thank you, thank you,
thank you for continuing on his legacy. Thank you, sir.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
How about that coming up, Denny and Denny will be
speaking about what in Dollars and Cents today.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
My friend Mike row dirty Jobs one of my heroes,
and he's got some lessons for all of us and
we're going to share them.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
We should get a chance to eat. He's awesome.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
We should schedule himy really, did you leave an opera singer?
Speaker 1 (27:29):
I did.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
I knew he's not for singer, but you know the
things about him and I did not. But we'll work
on that for you, Denny. But anyway, coming up, Denny's
Dollars and Cents right here on the first day ninety three, WIBC.
Here we go, singing, singing time, everybody together, wherever you are.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
It's a highlight of my week.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
You know, you've got a friend and Denny, Oh, you've
got a friend.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
And Denny.
Speaker 5 (27:52):
Oh, Miles.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Oh, just remember what your friend Denny said. Oh you
got a friend in Denny. Everybody you.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
I have a question for you when you were growing up.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Is it a math question?
Speaker 2 (28:16):
No, No, it's a lady question.
Speaker 5 (28:17):
Math is so long.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
When you were growing up, did your parents ever say
to you, boy, I hope you marry a craftsman, like
a good carpenter or.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
An hvac teching Yeah, ball player.
Speaker 5 (28:27):
My daddy, my dad, he grew me right. He grew
me right.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Yeah, care I say it again.
Speaker 5 (28:33):
My father raised me right. He was a carpenter, so
I was always in the shop with him.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
There you go, There you go. Micro Carpenter Micro from
Dirty Jobs is one of my heroes. He what he
The story is is that when he was in high school,
there was a poster on the wall said work smart,
not hard, and it was a slam against craftsmen. Okay.
I grew up in a family of plumbers. My grandfather
had a master plumber's license in thirty eight States, and
(28:59):
when I got my man plumber's license, it was like
I became a member of the man core in my family.
I mean, it was really something. But next time you
have a leaky toilet, you're not going to call a
philosopher who has a master's degree in Greek theology. And
the point that Mike has been making is that all
of ai that is coming in, they're not going to
be replacing, you know, plumbers and welders, auto mechanics. That's
(29:23):
exactly right. And so we're educating a whole generation of
boys and girls to you know, walk away from the trades.
For every five guys that are leaving the trades, or
guys that are leaving the trades right now, I'm going
to talk about electricians, drywall workers, carpenters, you know, certainly
plumbers and welders. For every five that are leaving the
(29:45):
trade right now, only two are coming back in. I
am aware of a plumbing service tech down in Fort
Myers Beach, Florida who is making four hundred thousand dollars
a year.
Speaker 4 (29:56):
Gosh, you guys, I'm telling you this is the way
to go.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
It is do something with your hands. When your water
heater goes out at midnight, You're not gonna call somebody
with a master's degree. My mom has a lot of friends.
Mom grew up in the thirties and forties, and she
has very sophisticated people that say that if you don't
have a master's degree, you'll never amount to anything. Well,
that's hogwash.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
Why do you think that there isn't more people, more
young people just flocking to HVAC to electric.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
I mean, it's a great question, and it's cultural terry.
You know, we want our kids to be doctors, we
want them to be lawyers, we want them to be
something anything. But somebody who works on a toilet. I mean,
somehow that is a degrading situation and it's not right.
Your daddy was a carpenter. Kai.
Speaker 5 (30:40):
Yeah, I feel like it comes in waves because we
went in this wave of like you said, we want
elite air quote jobs where it's exactly.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
That's doing this big stuff.
Speaker 5 (30:49):
But then for me, I'm looking forward to that too,
where you go into a trade, you can you have
all of those options open to you. It's not just
a family thing exactly.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
I agree.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
I could say there's so many opportunities, and I guess
the message and.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
Jenny, they I mean they'd really offer a training and
everything right, education.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Their training, their gre education, and you don't have student debt.
These kids are coming out. I had a client once
who was a professional. He was a physician, had over
four hundred thousand dollars in student debt, and it's going
to be with him forever. I mean, that's as much
as a second house, not even a first house. So
what I'm wanting to share with you is avoids student debt.
(31:27):
You know, it's not anything for you. And don't be
embarrassed about going in the trades. It's very, very honorable
to do things with your hands. Your grandparents and your
great grandparents, they weren't philosophers. They maybe they were physicians,
maybe they were lawyers, but most of them were craftsmen.
They did things. They were tile layers, you know, maybe
they were you know, drywall workers, maybe they put up,
(31:48):
you know, wallpaper. The point is, there are so many
opportunities out there. And the poster that that Mike always
got mad about was work smart, not hard. The poster
that we had in our business forever was a picture
of a plumber in overalls with a lead pot behind him.
It says, the plumber protects the health of the nation.
So those trades are taking.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Care of And if you think about that for.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
A minute, year it's exactly right. It was an American
standard Oh it was they put out, but it made
it made him look like a god. And I grew
up with that, and Grandpa Clark always talked about that.
Grandpa was the one with the Grandpa Clark he had
an eighth grade education, but he could do anything with
his hands, you know, And and he could multiply four numbers,
(32:33):
four figures in his head, four figures by four figures
in his head. He was an amazing guy. He was
the master plumber for what they called the tunnels at
Walt Disney World down in Florida.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Oh that's cool.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
It was cool. He kept inviting us down, and of
course we didn't understand what Walt Disney World was because
we were from Central Indiana. But I was so proud
of that. And he did the at our high school.
He was the master plumber at Speedway High School. And
I remember him calling me over after school one day
to show me that there was a bald eagles nest
and he told me all about bald eagles. Now this
is a plumber.
Speaker 6 (33:06):
I know.
Speaker 4 (33:06):
Grandpa's are so cool, you know, And you believe, I
mean I believe you could trust your grandpa. I mean,
your grandpa knew about everything. He could he could catch
a fish in his hands in a creek.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
I mean he could and tell you, I mean.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
Just Grandpa's here's the treasure. The lesson is, artificial intelligence
is coming along. We all use it. And when anybody
who says that they're not using it, they're in radio
or if they're in journalism, they're lying because there are
so many ways for them to check your errors and
do it very, very quickly, where we used to have
to share stuff with each other. But AI is not
replacing plumbers. It's not replacing the guy who does the
(33:42):
alignment on your front end of your old Jalopi. They're
not the ones who can tune a carpuretor.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
You know.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
AI can't do those things. So pay attention, coach your kids,
stay away from debt. There is nothing wrong with an
honorable trade where you work with your hands and be
a friend.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
Remember four hundred thousand dollars Is.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
That amazing that could be And that's not unusual. You
can get two three hundred thousand in some of the
big cities.
Speaker 5 (34:09):
You know what, Denny, maybe today is my last day.
I think I'm gonna I think I'm not.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
You'd make a great plumber. He'd make a great but
you've got to be all of it's the same. You
just have to be detail oriented, you have to have
a little bit of ambition, and you've got to be humble.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
And the jobs are there.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
The jobs are there, are.
Speaker 4 (34:27):
Just nearly begging young people to come in and they'll
train you and on the job training and so many benefits.
So yeah, just please make keep that as an option.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
I'll tell you one more. The young man that cuts
my grass, he's cut my grass for five years. He
ran up student loan debt and he came to me
one day and he said, I've got an opportunity to
get an apprenticeship with about ib e W. I said,
jump on it, jump on it. Do you know what
he's paid back a student debt. He's as an as apprentice.
He's he's just under a grand a year as an apprentice.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
And eighty grand a year.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
It's fantastic, it's wonderful. So pay attention. It's uh and uh,
you know we'll be back after the break. And no,
I'm not going to clean the bathroom.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
No, No, I think that was good. That was from
your uncle Danny, and that was a good one. Uh,
it is eleven fifty seven and we've worked today's top stories.
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