Home & Garden Full Show 11-28-25

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Speaker 1 (00:12):
I missed you so much.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Who's that?

Speaker 1 (00:15):
It's me?

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Pat?

Speaker 1 (00:18):
How you doing, Jared?

Speaker 3 (00:19):
I'm doing well.

Speaker 1 (00:20):
It's been so long, I know.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
I just told Denny not too long ago. I feel
like you guys have been out of studio forever.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
We have been. My headphones in the back of the
truck were like eighteen inches deep. It's really hard to
find them. So how's everything? Did you? Were you here?
You weren't here for the big lighting of the world's
largest Christmas tree? Were you?

Speaker 2 (00:41):
No?

Speaker 3 (00:42):
I saw videos though I didn't miss it completely.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
Yeah, they're trees. We actually put the trees on the
stage our company and this we have this nice little
benefit of having the MS lobby, and so that's the
trees that are down there, and the lobby happened to
be the ones that were on the stage, and then
our guys will come and pick them up later. So
here's the question for everyone. So we normally put a

(01:08):
twelve foot tree up in the lobby here, and no
one knows that I do that. It's kind of like
the whole Cherub thing. I put a tree in the
AMS lobby. But we're moving now.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
You're a little different from Elane.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
We're moving so don't you think I just don't put
it up? Is that?

Speaker 2 (01:24):
Is it still up?

Speaker 1 (01:25):
I didn't No, No, we didn't put it up yet
because they were going to come down and get the
trees that we used on the lobby in and they
were going to put up the twelve foot tree, the
MS tree. And I said, wellld on just a second.
I think we're just here a few days.

Speaker 4 (01:38):
Yeah, I'm not putting up Christmas decorations and here in
the studio either, Okay, because it's supposedly in two weeks
we'll be out of this building.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:48):
Urban One will be in their new building off Meridian.

Speaker 1 (01:51):
Yeah, don't tell Jared he's not invited.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
What you're here? You're staying here? Jared, Hey, I just
got a news alert. The snow is in Hamilton County.
The six inches of snow we're expecting.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
You know what.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
I'm not.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
I'm not either.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
It'll be great for the kids on the train pad
think how neat that will be?

Speaker 1 (02:12):
Yeahs as the train is sliding sliding off the track
into the into the bushes. Jared, All right, this, you've
got the floor. So what do you I mean, what's
bugging you right now? Obviously there's something wrong.

Speaker 3 (02:26):
Ringing noise I hear in the background. I'm not sure
where it's coming.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
You're hearing my tonight. That's weird.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
It's spreading. Oh, I hear it.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
You know what? That's an angel got its wings.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
I didn't. It's not a jingle.

Speaker 3 (02:44):
I didn't hear any bell.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
Wow, I'm old. Hold on, Yeah, it comes and goes,
angels getting this. We look at Danny's disgusted with me.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
I'm not disgusted with you. I didn't even make a man.
You're you are not my wife, Sullivan. I can look
at my wife and move my eyebrows and she goes,
what's wrong?

Speaker 3 (03:02):
Jared ask Ethan what time he came into the studio today?

Speaker 1 (03:05):
What time you come in? Ethan?

Speaker 6 (03:07):
Five fifteen? Fed the birds five fifteen.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
Ye hey, Pinocchio, watch how your nose is growing?

Speaker 1 (03:14):
We have we have birds.

Speaker 6 (03:16):
Yeah, yeah, I fed him right before six am meetings, just.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
Like your warehouse, Pat.

Speaker 1 (03:20):
Yeah, I'll be darned. So it was somebody a little late, Jared.

Speaker 3 (03:25):
Well, we uh, Dinny and I were here earlier eating breakfast.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
We knew it was desperate when I was handling the.

Speaker 3 (03:32):
Board and Ethan was nowhere to be found.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
He was with me, and now we have this background.
He was with you.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
He was with me, and we had a flat tire.

Speaker 6 (03:41):
Yeah, we saved that old lady.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
That's right.

Speaker 6 (03:43):
She got to her destination before the team.

Speaker 1 (03:45):
Yeah. I hope it was a boy. I know she
wanted a boy.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
Yeah she did so, but you know, I.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
Think she'd happy happy with a boy or girl.

Speaker 6 (03:53):
Yeah, judgment the.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
Lady we had to take to the hospital. Oh, she
had a flat tire.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
Yeah, Oh, I see the liars.

Speaker 6 (04:01):
You can tell her telling the truth because he says.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
The same time, it must be true.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
Do you believe Sullivan?

Speaker 1 (04:08):
Hey, Jared, we gotta go.

Speaker 3 (04:10):
That's that's what you gotta show.

Speaker 1 (04:11):
And you're sitting there going, uh, what do you think
I'm doing?

Speaker 2 (04:14):
Now?

Speaker 1 (04:15):
There's six inches of snow coming in. I got things
to do, all right, Jared's in the news center. We
are here. We're about oh wait, this is where we
play the pump song.

Speaker 2 (04:23):
Pump song.

Speaker 7 (04:30):
Well, some folks see the grown up men, the stud
just little boys.

Speaker 1 (04:35):
Really.

Speaker 8 (04:36):
The only difference is the price of our toys. Were
going for macho symbols like guns, running shoes, pickup trucks,
un dugs, and power dudes, power.

Speaker 2 (04:50):
To power to you, just gloving in the wall and
thick morning do you? Good morning, Uncle Sullivan?

Speaker 3 (05:01):
How are you?

Speaker 2 (05:02):
I'm doing well.

Speaker 1 (05:03):
It's Saturday's Home and Garden Program bruction part by the
Michelis Corporation. Water storms, fire and wet basements. Life happens.
Michelis happens to help you through it.

Speaker 2 (05:13):
Hey, God bless him. We're going to have him as
a sponsor for another twelve months. Michaelis's thank you. I
don't know what is it. Fifteen years now, sixteen sixteen.
It used to be Angie's List and then they went
big time and then we haven't.

Speaker 1 (05:28):
Had Angie Shalis.

Speaker 2 (05:29):
Used to be Angie No no, used to be our sponsor.

Speaker 1 (05:33):
That's what you're leading are Oh?

Speaker 2 (05:35):
You and the English teachers in your commas? Okay?

Speaker 1 (05:38):
Oh, how's everybody doing.

Speaker 2 (05:40):
I had a great Thanksgiving. I had a great day
after Thanksgiving, but I dug and dug and doug. I
had to dig a thirty six inch post hole and
I forgot how old I was. It's a lot of digging.

Speaker 1 (05:52):
Huh. Jane says she wanted a bird feeder in a
certain place.

Speaker 2 (05:56):
Put up a twenty five foot flagpole, so that I
could bring up a flag pole tree. No, so a
flag's whole tree with lights and stuff. And in that
fifty mile hour wind, it snapped it. No way, snapped
it right off. So I was just with light strands.
How did they pick up? The fifty mile an hour
wind is a lot, but it's like a windsail. So

(06:16):
I dug that one up and I'm planning another one
that's twice as wow. But ready. I was supposed to
be able to do it yesterday, but they didn't put this.
They didn't send me the sleeve. So now the sleeve's
coming today. So I'm pouring three hundred and fifty five
hundred pounds of concrete today.

Speaker 1 (06:32):
You shouldn't do that on your own. I hope you
have somebody to Hello.

Speaker 2 (06:35):
I got Jane check check.

Speaker 1 (06:36):
That was good, Terry. Let me see if you can hear.

Speaker 2 (06:40):
I'll try it and I'll hey tears back.

Speaker 1 (06:43):
No, you're you're real garbled. No, try that. Try that.
Allison was fine.

Speaker 9 (06:48):
But I know it's me.

Speaker 10 (06:50):
It is, it's really me.

Speaker 2 (06:51):
It's your attitude, Terry. That with your parents the whole time,
when things went wrong in the family, they'd always say
it's your attitude, they say, Tommy, it's your attitude. Dinny
gets your attitude. Counnie Sue was always perfect.

Speaker 5 (07:03):
So well, maybe maybe it's just a broken microphone.

Speaker 10 (07:05):
Hey, the lights are on.

Speaker 5 (07:08):
Beautiful, this morning was beautiful.

Speaker 10 (07:10):
The cherub is here.

Speaker 1 (07:13):
I saw the cheruff this morning.

Speaker 11 (07:15):
Mac.

Speaker 10 (07:16):
You know I never get tired of it. Did you
do it? Did sullivans?

Speaker 9 (07:19):
Did you guys do a beautiful holiday?

Speaker 2 (07:21):
We did TV commercial.

Speaker 1 (07:23):
We did a take off a couple one.

Speaker 2 (07:27):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (07:28):
It is very I thought, very uh inspirational, you know,
instead of like it showed, uh, a man and a woman.
It was very realistic because they had each other holding
each other. We know what never happened?

Speaker 2 (07:40):
Did you find them?

Speaker 1 (07:44):
And the thing is she was scrolling and she's scrolling to,
you know, shopping online, and she said, this just doesn't
feel like Christmas. And the man says Sullivan's and then
it just goes to Sullivan's. But the one we just
we've been running that for about I think with about

(08:06):
four weeks.

Speaker 2 (08:07):
The one he's new this season. This is the first
time you've done that. Strolling, not scrolling. That was the theme.
Oh that's right, strolling, scrolling that's a good one.

Speaker 1 (08:17):
That's a good one. The one we just released was
a kind of a takeoff of Tim Allen in Santa.

Speaker 2 (08:24):
Claus, one of my favorite Christmas movies.

Speaker 1 (08:26):
So remember the scene where uh, he's now starting to
look more and more like Santa and he goes to
watch his son play soccer and the kids line up
right right, So we have Santa is working at Sullivan
Hardware and Garden in the grill department, and the sky
walks up and so do you work here? You know,

(08:48):
and kind of throws out his list real fast of
what he wants and then when he looked, there's a
whole line of guys.

Speaker 2 (08:55):
That's a good one too.

Speaker 10 (08:56):
Is that one new for the season. I love that Maybe.

Speaker 9 (09:00):
Those will be classics, like some of the classics.

Speaker 1 (09:03):
Some of the classics we can before.

Speaker 9 (09:04):
Santa coming down, the going down the hill on a Narco,
Yes that you know, you can see that every year.

Speaker 10 (09:11):
The ladies from Amazon.

Speaker 9 (09:13):
Now, I hope that will be a one every year
where they're just you know, they're they're watching the kids
all sledding along. Oh.

Speaker 2 (09:19):
I love that one, My gosh.

Speaker 1 (09:20):
I love see the thing is is that an Amazon commercial?

Speaker 10 (09:23):
Yes?

Speaker 9 (09:23):
See you watch the whole thing and then you're not
even really sure.

Speaker 1 (09:25):
That's the weird thing. Sometimes on the best commercials, yeah,
I watch them and then I go, wait, who was that?

Speaker 9 (09:31):
Yeah, because you'll just like the story. Yeah, you like
the I love I love the commercials.

Speaker 1 (09:36):
I love the hobby Lobby has a great commercial too.
It's very emotional.

Speaker 10 (09:40):
I don't know that one.

Speaker 11 (09:41):
Are you?

Speaker 2 (09:42):
Are you?

Speaker 10 (09:42):
How come you're smiling when you say emotional?

Speaker 1 (09:44):
I mean it's just real, tender and warm.

Speaker 2 (09:47):
And how do you have time?

Speaker 1 (09:47):
I just don't think of hobby Lobby like you know,
you don't.

Speaker 2 (09:51):
Have time to watch television, but you always know the commercial.

Speaker 11 (09:53):
You don't.

Speaker 1 (09:53):
I don't watch the shows. I just watched the commercial.

Speaker 9 (09:56):
I like the commercials. Too big on commercials, and I
don't love a lot of them. But during the holidays
they've come up. These agencies or whoever's doing it, you
come up with some good ones. The ones I don't
get to you agencies listening. I don't know what you're
doing with perfume. The perfume commercial commercials. You've got women

(10:19):
that are running in Africa with the lions, and then
they're running and running and all of a sudden they're
sweaty and dirty, and then they look into the camera
and then they say, like, I don't get it.

Speaker 5 (10:32):
It's true. I just saw the Johnny Depp one where
he was wrestling a lion.

Speaker 9 (10:36):
Yeah, I mean, I don't so those of you that
are doing that, that's always what they're saying about perfume.

Speaker 10 (10:42):
I don't know what you're doing.

Speaker 2 (10:44):
Have you seen the new Men's cologne commercials where they
have women just sitting talking to them and the guy
sprays himself and it must be some sort of pheromone
and these women just melt on stage and he goes,
what's that? He goes a dream? A dream, but he
hits it again, And that's what it should have been.

Speaker 1 (11:05):
Yeah, and it should have been pulled out of the
dream by his wife yelling him to take out the trash.

Speaker 2 (11:11):
Okay, I have to ask you a question, Sullivant. I
wanted to ask you this yesterday, but I happened to
come in at O dark thirty about eight oh five,
and you were panic stricken restarting every machine in that building.
You restarted the pumps, the cash registers, the computers. You
were what happened?

Speaker 1 (11:29):
Well, what happened was sometimes we have trouble on the
day after a big holiday that maybe some of our
staff showing up on time and it doesn't take much.
They can be five minutes late when because it's it's
Black Friday. So uh, I was actually there. I was
opening the north pole. Oh yeah, and this is Friday,

(11:50):
this is yesterday, yesterday, opening the gates, and all of
a sudden, I walked towards the front. I knowed the
lights are still off in the in the greenhouse where
we have Sully's real so I turned those on and
then I go up front and all, well, what happened
was Mary Lou God love her because she was trying
to help is she runs the Yellow House. She was

(12:11):
trying to help her on the lights. But what she
did was turn off all of the breakers.

Speaker 2 (12:16):
Oh oh, so that's why Shelley and Joe were so.

Speaker 1 (12:20):
So when we turned everything back on, and you know,
we had just put in new computers and they hadn't
put the battery backups on him yet. They took thirty
five minutes of the recent Shelley.

Speaker 2 (12:32):
Shelley was beside herself and Joe. She was just staying busy,
and of course what's anger. Well, what I thought was
funny is the one guy came in. It was ahead
of me, and he was mister, mister jovial, having a
good time. You guys are panic stricken in this.

Speaker 1 (12:47):
Yeah, you talk about a guy that can't read the room.
I about punched that guy in the.

Speaker 2 (12:51):
You know what. I thought he was doing a stand
up routine. He was trying. No, he's like, Shelley was
just looking.

Speaker 1 (12:56):
Its Shelley has died hair. It's like, oh, what colched
your hair? I really like your It's like, shut up
and get out of here.

Speaker 2 (13:03):
You could tell the stress left. I'm not normally like.

Speaker 1 (13:05):
That to customers, but it's like, read the room, pal,
we got problems here and so, and he just kept
going on and on and on. He goes, my name
is this, It's like, what's your name is?

Speaker 2 (13:16):
Like, get out of here. Well, he was in front
of me, and I just wanted to check out my pellets.

Speaker 10 (13:23):
I mean, wow, you really snapped.

Speaker 2 (13:26):
He didn't know he did not snap. Pat kept is cool.
Shelley was wanted.

Speaker 1 (13:30):
I wanted to snap.

Speaker 2 (13:31):
Shelley should get the Nobel Peace Prize because she was
still at the end of her road.

Speaker 1 (13:35):
So go uh. And then one last thing, I wanted
to throw out a public thank you to two of
the guys that work for us, Greg Moburg and Andrew Cuppy,
because they are in charge of our warehouse, so they're
also in charge of getting twelve hundred Christmas trees to
their two people's homes and set up all so in

(13:59):
the middle and yesterday because as you can imagine, a
lot of people want their tree the day after Thanksgiving.
So they had fifty five deliveries yesterday and they made
it downtown to get the trees on the stage for
the lighting of the world's largest Christmas tree.

Speaker 2 (14:18):
That's amazing.

Speaker 1 (14:18):
And then they got them back off and then they
put them in the MS lobby and then they'll pick
them up today. So but what they found out I
got a text from him. They had they brought flatbed
carts this year, and they said, this is amazing. He goes,
people respect the cart. He goes, if you're going into crowd,

(14:40):
take a cart because everyone.

Speaker 2 (14:42):
Just gets out of the way.

Speaker 1 (14:44):
Yeah, he goes, game changer.

Speaker 2 (14:46):
He probably he's probably right.

Speaker 9 (14:47):
I didn't think about it, but yeah, you think about
yourself when a cart's coming through.

Speaker 1 (14:51):
Oh yeah, you move out of the way because it
looks back and it looks official. It looks official. So
but thank you to both those guys too for their
little little bit of helping the city get the the
tree lit on time and all that stuff. So all right,
we are going to come right back. We have a
very special guest that we're going to talk to. It's Fulton.

(15:15):
Fulton's got things to do. He can't sit around online
for two hours. He's got stuff to do. Ninety three WIBC.

Speaker 2 (15:29):
Our gratitude to the Michellis Corporation. We understand they're going
to be our title sponsor for the next year. Either
they're slow learners or they really do like you. Pat Sullivan,
I'm very proud him too.

Speaker 1 (15:43):
Before before our relationship with Micheliss, the longest we'd kept
an advertiser was eighteen months.

Speaker 2 (15:51):
Hey, listen, yesterday Ethan Hatcher's apartment had a fire, a
serious fire, and he reached out to Ethan Hatcher from WIBC,
and he says, where do you go? I said, there's
no question. Micheleiss gave him the phone number. He says, thanks,
I needed that from me and my insurance company.

Speaker 1 (16:05):
Oh that's great.

Speaker 2 (16:06):
So they're the real deal if you need them in
any disaster car driving through the front door, fires, storms, water.
Did I get them all close enough? It's Michelis eight
four four fixed Indy. Thanks guys.

Speaker 1 (16:21):
You know who else we need is Fulton? Hi Fulton?

Speaker 11 (16:25):
Good morning, Pat, Your morning everyone?

Speaker 1 (16:27):
Are you Fulton? Fulton's been sick this week?

Speaker 5 (16:30):
I can hear in his voice.

Speaker 2 (16:31):
Yeah, that's the after pressure.

Speaker 12 (16:33):
I got a bad cold.

Speaker 1 (16:35):
Oh man, I'm sorry about that at least it.

Speaker 13 (16:40):
Yeah, you guys excited for me to come to the show.

Speaker 1 (16:45):
Yes we are. Yes, you're going to come to the
the w IBC radiothon to benefit the Salvation Army. And
that is on. It's it's our store seventy first and
Keystone and I believe is it the twelve, thirteen, thirteen,
twelfth and thirteenth, and so Fulton will be performing an original?

(17:05):
Are you performing an original song? Or what song are
you playing?

Speaker 2 (17:09):
Well? I wote my new one.

Speaker 14 (17:12):
It's a surprise for you guys.

Speaker 1 (17:15):
It's called Chris.

Speaker 13 (17:17):
Yeah, my own Christmas song.

Speaker 14 (17:21):
So I've been working on that.

Speaker 2 (17:23):
I'm laughing at your voice. You sound like gravel girdie.

Speaker 13 (17:27):
I know, I know, I do.

Speaker 10 (17:30):
You need to take a tablespoon of honey.

Speaker 9 (17:32):
And go back to bed.

Speaker 11 (17:34):
Yeah that's good. But anyways, the song I'm doing is.

Speaker 6 (17:42):
My original Christmas song I will with my music flpe.

Speaker 13 (17:47):
So I'm still working that up and.

Speaker 15 (17:51):
Let you know.

Speaker 2 (17:52):
All right, Sullivan's in therapy. Do you guys go to
the same therapist?

Speaker 11 (17:56):
No, no, no, I don't think.

Speaker 1 (18:00):
Yeah, that's right. We don't tell each other.

Speaker 12 (18:02):
I do have a physical FLP on the December so
on my knees.

Speaker 1 (18:08):
So all right, man, hey, uh get better?

Speaker 2 (18:12):
Okay, yeah, I will thank you.

Speaker 1 (18:15):
Boddy, there's Fulton.

Speaker 5 (18:18):
Oh man, everybody.

Speaker 9 (18:20):
A lot of people sick right now, a lot of
people sick. Unfortunately. It's that time of year.

Speaker 1 (18:25):
It's that time of you when the colds come creeping
in the hacking boys.

Speaker 2 (18:34):
And the soul.

Speaker 10 (18:39):
I've sing.

Speaker 2 (18:41):
Yeah, there's a reason.

Speaker 10 (18:42):
For the costume.

Speaker 2 (18:43):
So I usually people would tell the story about you
as the singing the elf costume, that your mama sets
you up here to sell me. You didn't know.

Speaker 1 (18:51):
That's that's a trigger.

Speaker 2 (18:52):
I know.

Speaker 1 (18:53):
My therapist says, that's a trigger.

Speaker 2 (18:56):
Is the greatest Christmas story ever. That's Christmas Trees. It's
cell of a hardware we're not selling.

Speaker 1 (19:01):
This was in the nineteen sixties.

Speaker 2 (19:03):
They were his mother and took matters into her own hand.

Speaker 1 (19:06):
She took she got a couple of yards of Greenfeldt
and she cut them into an elf con costume for
me and my brother, and we had little elf hats
and we stood out on Keystone Avenue waving at the car.

Speaker 2 (19:23):
Did they honk at you? No?

Speaker 1 (19:26):
My brother got kidnapped though, No, and they brought them
right back.

Speaker 2 (19:32):
Oh what a sweet story.

Speaker 1 (19:34):
But anyway, and a sweet story, it's a very painful story.

Speaker 9 (19:39):
We were long ago, when we were when we were
w k l R ninety three point one, w k
l R before after it was w N A P.

Speaker 10 (19:46):
And it changed, it changed often.

Speaker 2 (19:49):
Maybe the Eagle it was wk I D. Yeah, I
don't remember what that was, but it was the radio now.

Speaker 9 (19:57):
Yeah, before the the just before the lighting of the tree,
w k LR was invited Steve Simpson to be like
a you know, kind of a Santa that was over
over off the street, not on the circle, but off
the street before things got started. And myself and another
the copywriter here, Jane Nelson, we were the Santa's helpers

(20:21):
and it was about ninety degrees and Steve's all.

Speaker 10 (20:25):
We only had it this time.

Speaker 1 (20:27):
It was the lighting of the tree.

Speaker 9 (20:29):
The lightning of the tree, it was very very warm,
and Steve Simpson as Santa. We did not have that
that day because it was the olden days. We didn't
really have any good eyebrows or anything, so we used
white out.

Speaker 10 (20:44):
All over to make a bit.

Speaker 2 (20:46):
It was a terrible Santa.

Speaker 10 (20:47):
I'm not gonna lie, but.

Speaker 6 (20:49):
It really was.

Speaker 9 (20:49):
But he was so hot that it started to melt
down his face. It was there in the big chair
with melted eyebrows, that was white out and mustache just
melting down his face.

Speaker 1 (21:02):
I'm really surprised that Stever would do that well he did.

Speaker 10 (21:07):
He fit the costume.

Speaker 9 (21:09):
He fit the costume, and he really looked the part,
especially when he was fresh.

Speaker 2 (21:13):
Before these before he melted with the melting. Hey, I
have every request from Rob Kendle. He wants to know
if there is a picture that exists of Pat Sullivan
in the Elf costume. Oh I bet there's a picture.

Speaker 1 (21:25):
You know what. I don't know and I'm not gonna
find out. I don't think so. When your sister Jill,
so there's out to Julie, there's a picture in my mind.

Speaker 2 (21:35):
You know there is.

Speaker 9 (21:36):
Well, Pat's related to seven thousand people in this area,
so somebody's got that picture.

Speaker 2 (21:43):
Do you realize how relaxed I was this week? Because
Rob Kendall was speaking, which who asked about your helf consume?
He wasn't ranting and raving, not Monday, Tuesday or win.
There was a best of But man, I was so cool,
calm and collected. I mean I was. I was loving
the dog and everything.

Speaker 1 (21:58):
You know what we could do for Rob? What that?
Just like my mother knew, we need to get Rob
a green velvet costume and have him and maybe before
we move he could stand out on Monument Circle and wave.

Speaker 16 (22:12):
If we do that, I will I will buy the
cost of the Salvation Army. I will buy the cost
be good if you building good lunch? Yes, Glinda the
good Witch is Casey.

Speaker 2 (22:24):
She puts up with him.

Speaker 1 (22:25):
I think she should just have the day off. But
I really do think that that would help Rob.

Speaker 9 (22:31):
So I'm not to put an outfit on like that. Yeah,
and do something good.

Speaker 2 (22:35):
You know somebody probably has the picture is Joe Polizzi
from Michelis's. I bet he has a picture of it.

Speaker 1 (22:42):
He probably does because he cleaned out the house after
I set it on fire. Joe Polizzi from the Michaelis
Corporation joins us.

Speaker 17 (22:47):
Hi, Joe, good morning everybody.

Speaker 2 (22:50):
How you doing doing well? Boss?

Speaker 1 (22:52):
I don't I.

Speaker 17 (22:53):
Don't have an actual picture, but thanks to you, now
I do have that picture in my mind.

Speaker 1 (23:00):
It's disturbing, wonderful. It's disturbing, wonderful, disturbing. Joe, So, any
what do you think about football this weekend? Wow, We've
got the high school games. I mean, Joe used to
be a coach at at you Indy for I mean
he's been a football coach for literally decades and decades.

Speaker 17 (23:17):
It was it was it was a great way to go.
And uh, this is this is as good as any
day of the year. You got the high school championships
going on. You got both Marion and you Indy from
locally playing in the playoffs, and uh, you know all
the big eiaest Michigan High State and Alabama Auburn. So
it's a great football weekend. Yeah, and uh, this is

(23:41):
the topic that I want to kind of discuss today.
Is sure is one that I get to Uh, I
get to be most like a coach when I get
to talk about this, this fire prevention topic, because around
the holidays and supposedly especially Pat, you and I remember
Black Friday. I think there are so many tips that

(24:02):
homeowners and business owners can use to h to make
sure they're they're sharp, they're vigilant, they're on high alert
this time of year. There's no cutting corners. Those are
all coaching terms you get to use. But we all
know most, uh, most fires start from something that's preventable.

Speaker 1 (24:20):
Yeah, whether you're.

Speaker 17 (24:21):
Cooking or heating equipment or electrical issues, they're all things
that are going to be preventable. And uh, that's the
kind of like the what I.

Speaker 1 (24:29):
Like to preach about is take care and the thing
about being on top of it right and Joe, the
thing about the holidays. In our case, we had a
big breakfast on Thanksgiving morning and uh, family came in
and everyone was in the kitchen, and so you have
different people doing different things with appliances. And again, always
blame myself for starting the house on fire, but it's

(24:52):
like if I would have number one, never, should I
have been leaving a toaster plugged in always well now
I mean always on lugging the appliances always so as
a matter of fact, and you know what, it was
tough love. I mean you talked about, you know, you
being the coach and Joe shows up at my house
our house, I say my house when I talk about

(25:13):
the fire, because Beth doesn't want to be associated with
the fire. So Joe shows up, fire department is still there,
rolling up the hoses. Immediately, I'm doing ten pushups.

Speaker 5 (25:24):
Immediately, ten pushups, I know.

Speaker 1 (25:27):
But it's like you said, drop and give me ten
right now? What'd you do? So that's tough love, Joe.

Speaker 17 (25:33):
Yeah, Well, I mean it's just you see so many
just broken hearted people that take place, and they're all
not preventable. But you've got to do everything you can
and more to make sure you turn things off if
you're cooking something, make sure you stay there with it.
If you're turning on your Christmas lights, to make sure

(25:54):
that you when you leave the house they're turned off,
or the extension cord is new and in a smoke
alarms are are batteried up and replaced if they're old.
There's just so many things you can do to help
avoid the bad situation.

Speaker 11 (26:09):
But that's that's kind.

Speaker 14 (26:11):
Of like the whole thing for us, and certainly most
of all, if you do go through something like that,
as unfortunate as it is, have michel Us on your
speed dial so we can get there and help immediately.

Speaker 1 (26:24):
I remember where I was standing in the street, Joe,
standing in the street, looking at the house going up
in flames, and it's like at that point I'd been
doing the micheless for I don't know a few years anyways,
and that was already stuck in my head. I got
on my phone eight four four fixed Indy and then

(26:45):
you were in church, yes, sir, and you saw it.

Speaker 17 (26:48):
I was done down in Saint Rock's made the trip up,
and at that point you just do all you can
to listen and make sure that everything is okay with
the homeowner. You in this case, then do the best
we can to reassure that it's all gonna be all right.
We're gonna take care of it, and then explain the

(27:09):
steps where you go from here, and then.

Speaker 11 (27:12):
We go to work and try to get your rehabbed.

Speaker 2 (27:15):
That's what a real coach does. He waits till you're
at the lowest point, and that's when you're coachable for
the first time in your life you were coachable.

Speaker 1 (27:22):
I had to give my driver's license too that I
thought that was weird. Pelzsi, Yeah, he took my driver's
license right away. Punishment, Joe, we got a roll. Thank
you very much. Have a great weekend watching football. Hope
you had a happy Thanksgiving. The Micheleiss Corporation eight four
four fixed Indie, water storms, fire and we basements. Life happens,

(27:42):
Micheless happens to help you through it. Hey, good morning,
welcome back. Hey, bad news. We only have a two
hour show, so we're out here at eleven today.

Speaker 2 (27:56):
Excuse me, No, Denny's all right?

Speaker 1 (28:00):
How am I going to get six hours worth of
material into a two hour show?

Speaker 2 (28:05):
You figured it out up to this point. That's what
Let's see. A two hour show is an hour and
thirty minutes talking about Sullivan thirty minutes of programming.

Speaker 1 (28:14):
Steve joins us on the program. Hi, Steve, Hi Pat.

Speaker 11 (28:17):
First of all, at our house, we do have the
Pat Sullivan rule is that when I've done using the paster,
I have to unplug it.

Speaker 1 (28:24):
Thank you very much. Good for you, Steve, as you should.

Speaker 11 (28:28):
And I want to apologize because there I was yesterday
at the store at eight ten, wishing everyone a very
happy Black Friday, not realizing that the annual Sullivan hard
Work Black Friday crisis was going on.

Speaker 2 (28:40):
Oh, it was dramatic. I saw you there. I noticed
you stayed away from Pat.

Speaker 1 (28:45):
Yeah, it's always something, Jenny.

Speaker 11 (28:50):
My question is for you. So I just came back
from Japan and they have the most amazing toilet seats there.
They're heated.

Speaker 2 (28:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (29:00):
My question is because of your legendary plumbing performance and
if there was a plumbing hardware plumbing Hall of Fame,
I'm sure you'd be in it, Denny. Why don't we
have heated toilet seats here in the United States? Is
it because the electricians and the plumbers don't get along?
Is there a trade? That's kind of funny that it

(29:20):
was really amazing, Steve.

Speaker 2 (29:22):
They have everything in Japan. They have music, they have lights,
they have below the rim accouterments that wash and do everything.

Speaker 1 (29:32):
But the Japan Okay, it seems.

Speaker 2 (29:37):
Like acuterments are just attachments, but that it is never
it's never caught on in But we America.

Speaker 1 (29:45):
We have bidets seats that have are heated.

Speaker 2 (29:48):
Well. In Japan they have some that massage. They have
really small rollers go all the way around.

Speaker 18 (29:55):
That is.

Speaker 2 (29:57):
Well, Steve, did you like the heated seat? I mean,
did it warm up your keyster?

Speaker 11 (30:02):
You know? It's it was very It was a new experience.

Speaker 2 (30:07):
They are just incredible engineers and inventors in Japan, and
I wish they would bring it here, but they don't.
They do have the Toto, which is the main brand
of Japan, is one of the best flushing toilets ever.
And Americans learn technology from Japanese Kohler and Elger and Mansfield.
They all learned some of that because they would cut

(30:29):
them apart and they'd see how did they put this together?
But the Toto's I don't know.

Speaker 1 (30:33):
I think they Toto can flush six golf balls at
a time.

Speaker 2 (30:39):
It's always, it's always at.

Speaker 1 (30:40):
The trade show. That's what they're always doing.

Speaker 2 (30:42):
That might be true, they're always it is true.

Speaker 9 (30:45):
Yeah, I can't imagine the cost, but.

Speaker 2 (30:47):
I'm not sure who's cooking golf balls. Well, it's not
one hundred and twenty volts. It's probably low voltage like
a twelve DC you know, direct whatever it takes, just
so it doesn't you're a of ad.

Speaker 10 (31:01):
And you mentioned Toto. Did you see the Wizard of
Us was on last night?

Speaker 1 (31:04):
Oh? I love that.

Speaker 2 (31:05):
Can I speak to Steve for one moment?

Speaker 1 (31:07):
I'm still scared when I see Steve.

Speaker 2 (31:08):
Did you pass your certification? And it was lady Lady
Monkeys we're talking to one of our listenings.

Speaker 10 (31:16):
Total made me think of it was on last night?

Speaker 2 (31:17):
All right, Steve? Did you get certified as a train
train driver yesterday?

Speaker 15 (31:22):
Yes?

Speaker 11 (31:23):
And then uh, I did receive some counseling later in
the day about a mistake that I did make on
the course, and uh, Sullivan, isn't it horrible?

Speaker 1 (31:34):
It seems like whenever someone's gonna have a problem, I walked.

Speaker 2 (31:37):
On exactly was it verbal canceling or was it hand gestures?

Speaker 1 (31:42):
No, it was just a winch and uh you know
some cable and uh toe motor, so, you know, just
a regular.

Speaker 5 (31:49):
It's the classics.

Speaker 2 (31:50):
Steve. I believe in you, and I'll call Coach Pelosi
to bring you up because you're a good one man.

Speaker 11 (31:56):
And I have one last question for Terry very how's
the move going for you? Do you have enough moving boxes? Oh?

Speaker 9 (32:04):
Steve, you know, okay, I've only just begun and it
is going to take an actual moving truck.

Speaker 2 (32:12):
It is. It looks like a bomb went off.

Speaker 9 (32:13):
And then I start to think, I don't know what
I'm gonna do with all this stuff.

Speaker 10 (32:16):
Steve.

Speaker 9 (32:16):
You know what, You get to that point in your
life and you're like, do I need to keep carrying
this around with me? Do I really need this straw
that you know at ae Stever drank out of? Do
I really need that? And so so I might just
sell it all for the Salvation Army and raise some money.

Speaker 2 (32:34):
No, that's a good idea.

Speaker 9 (32:35):
Yeah, are Kettle virtual Kettle's live today? They are our
virtual kettles are live today, Steve Brocko Bronco.

Speaker 2 (32:43):
We are taking on all the day part shows. We're
taking on Tony Katz, Big Hammer and Nigel Kendall and
Casey versus the Home and Garden Show, and we can
take him, buddy, we can take them.

Speaker 14 (32:55):
Well.

Speaker 13 (32:55):
We hope Sole raise more money in a four hour
one week and a four hour show than the hundreds
of hours that the STO shows get during the week.

Speaker 2 (33:08):
Thank you, thank you.

Speaker 18 (33:11):
Well.

Speaker 5 (33:11):
I'd like to think Hammer and Nige would be a
close second.

Speaker 1 (33:14):
Oh that's right.

Speaker 10 (33:15):
She's got to say that she doesn't mean it, but
she's got to.

Speaker 5 (33:17):
Say it depends on the day of the week.

Speaker 2 (33:21):
You're saying Friday. Yeah, that's her. It's her day job.

Speaker 10 (33:25):
Right, Yeah, that's your day job.

Speaker 2 (33:27):
Thank you, Steve.

Speaker 11 (33:28):
Happy all right, Thanksgiving and we'll see at the hardware store.

Speaker 1 (33:32):
Yes, sir, see Steve, there was something we wanted to
talk about me.

Speaker 5 (33:39):
Oh, you want to talk about it?

Speaker 1 (33:42):
So we have something new at Allisonville.

Speaker 2 (33:45):
Yeah, and it's called Humility Winter Wonderland.

Speaker 5 (33:48):
But to Wonderland. We were upt there a couple of
weeks ago talking about last week.

Speaker 2 (33:51):
It was just last weekend Saturdays.

Speaker 1 (33:53):
A lot of people don't realize that I named I
named that store after Allison.

Speaker 5 (33:57):
It was. It was quite the honor. There was a
big presentation.

Speaker 10 (34:02):
As long as.

Speaker 4 (34:07):
Okay, there's a special throne for me every time I
walk it's right. Actually don't have to walk in the
carry me in, which is really just very cool, unnecessary.

Speaker 2 (34:14):
But I is it a heated seat?

Speaker 5 (34:17):
Uh in the winter?

Speaker 2 (34:18):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (34:18):
Yeah? All right, So it's called the what is it
called the Allisonville.

Speaker 5 (34:23):
Yeah, Winter Wonderland at Alison.

Speaker 1 (34:25):
Winter Wonderland at Allisonville.

Speaker 4 (34:27):
I think today's like their big kickoff because Today is
the first official Santa Saturday. So if you want to
go out and see Santa, you can get a ticket
online and go see him. But they also have reindeer
visits from ten to one today.

Speaker 2 (34:38):
For free real reindeer, real reindeer.

Speaker 5 (34:40):
So we got some reindeer on the Santa Path.

Speaker 9 (34:42):
But where did you get those?

Speaker 1 (34:44):
Thankta?

Speaker 10 (34:45):
Did you just pick out some deer and put some
antlers on them?

Speaker 5 (34:47):
They're legit?

Speaker 2 (34:48):
Actually they were lamas, but we don't get there's some
neighbor dogs that run.

Speaker 9 (34:52):
Around Thereiner's a couple of bulldogs. Actually the reindeer, they
really are real.

Speaker 10 (35:00):
Where did they come from the North Pole?

Speaker 5 (35:02):
No, there's two of them visiting. I don't know who.

Speaker 1 (35:05):
Maybe north of town.

Speaker 9 (35:06):
Then I'm just wondering if you got these on the underground.

Speaker 2 (35:11):
On around right network, reindeer dot com.

Speaker 10 (35:17):
That seems legitimate.

Speaker 1 (35:19):
I'll find out.

Speaker 2 (35:19):
All right, Allison, you were so okay?

Speaker 1 (35:21):
So what else goes on Santa? You get to check it.
It's just it's five bucks to see Santa.

Speaker 4 (35:26):
Five Santa or they have some extra add ons as well,
so you can do crafts with the kids.

Speaker 5 (35:30):
There.

Speaker 4 (35:31):
There's also a beer garden so you can just go
out and get some holiday adult beverages or this hot chocolate.

Speaker 1 (35:37):
And there's a it's kind of a walk through, just
a walking path, walking path with animation and stuff that's
kind of the kids would love.

Speaker 9 (35:44):
Yeah, Wonderland a good jobs something to do because I
know at the Sullivan Express, I mean we you know
we because of what we do there, you know, we
have to charge.

Speaker 1 (35:54):
And if you're looking for something for free or virtually nothing,
that would be a great thing to do.

Speaker 15 (36:01):
You know what.

Speaker 10 (36:01):
This is a big day. This is a big day.
All everything kicks off.

Speaker 9 (36:05):
And one of the little hidden gyms that people don't
know so much about or hear about maybe is the
one out at the airport when Santa arrives and he's
on the tarmac and he's running on the fire truck
and everybody right and everybody other kids, thousand kids or so,
they're there and they're packed. There's all kinds of things,
very interacted. Yeah, and there's all kinds of in. All

(36:28):
the spots to actually see Santa are gone, but you
can still come out, but you also have to take
advantage of you have wrapping presents for the USO. There's
all kinds of interactive things going on out there, and
it's kind of a hidden gym. You know. You think
about all the cool things that are going on, but
you never think out at the airport there's a really
cool event with Santa.

Speaker 1 (36:46):
I only think of rushing around at the airport, Rush, rush, rush,
because I'm getting on a plant.

Speaker 10 (36:50):
I love our airport.

Speaker 9 (36:51):
I love and when if we were a kid, but
we used to go out to the old airport and
watch the plane's land you could get that close. There
was a little strip of around there that you could
sit next to, next to a runway.

Speaker 2 (37:02):
Honest to goodness, I know now they'll shoot you.

Speaker 1 (37:05):
Hey, listen, we gotta go. Yep, we gotta go. We're
coming right back with more right ninety three WIBC Hey,
good morning, welcome back. Hey, Pat's Olivan, Terry, Stacy, Alison Lemons.
I'm gonna sneeze and Denny Smith.

Speaker 10 (37:25):
Oh will sneeze into your arm? Oh and not to
your hand, into your arm.

Speaker 1 (37:30):
Oh you gotta wait a minute. I will wait a minute.
Look at look right here, don't move. This is sneezing
in my room. I would have elbowed Alison.

Speaker 9 (37:42):
Elbows, elbows, elbow.

Speaker 1 (37:44):
I'm I'm right handed, and you were warned.

Speaker 10 (37:47):
You knew it was coming.

Speaker 9 (37:48):
You are welcome to your left side. Now it's on
your hands, and now you're going to touch everything.

Speaker 4 (37:52):
And then well, I appreciate you didn't sneeze on me,
because I thought that's what's gonna happened.

Speaker 1 (37:55):
I was trying to get out of the way.

Speaker 5 (37:57):
I was plugging something in and I need to go.

Speaker 1 (37:59):
Watch now, now my elbow is all sticky.

Speaker 10 (38:05):
Yeah, but that elbow is not gonna we.

Speaker 9 (38:07):
Haven't touched thee.

Speaker 2 (38:09):
And look around here and see if you have some
of the old mountain dew. We could sterilize his help.

Speaker 15 (38:12):
But I thought you're about to ask for tissue. I
was like, we barely had a mic this morning.

Speaker 1 (38:18):
All right, you have some reindeer, uh places you can run?

Speaker 2 (38:23):
Where do you go for a reindeer?

Speaker 9 (38:25):
Well, Pat said he got it at the When we
were investigating, you said you went where you got it?

Speaker 10 (38:29):
To the rent of Reindeer or Sam dot So.

Speaker 15 (38:32):
There is live Reindeer dot com. There's Rudolph Rudolph rentals
dot com.

Speaker 2 (38:41):
Wow here in India.

Speaker 6 (38:43):
I think these are like Express they might do shipping.

Speaker 15 (38:46):
I think it's Amazon actually send them in the sky
and express.

Speaker 6 (38:52):
Backyard bounced events.

Speaker 2 (38:55):
This does not.

Speaker 10 (38:57):
I don't try to question where people.

Speaker 2 (39:00):
I don't believe you. You know, we've had a good
relationship so far, but you're lying out your socks man,
all right.

Speaker 5 (39:06):
So Alsonville Nursery House them from ten to one today.

Speaker 1 (39:08):
Ten to one. That's part of the winter Wonderland at Allisonville.
So it's more than just reindeer. Yeah, it is walking
through a winter path with animation and they have a
fourteen foot uh lit ball that you get to walk through.
It's going to be very, very cool.

Speaker 10 (39:26):
Do you have an abominable snow snowman?

Speaker 9 (39:29):
Yep, because everybody should. I don't know why we can't
make that the popular thing.

Speaker 1 (39:34):
The grinch Ish Grench is so crazy.

Speaker 9 (39:37):
Yeah, but if I loved the abominable snowman, because it's
hard to say abominable, abomitable snowman.

Speaker 11 (39:45):
You know.

Speaker 1 (39:47):
Bob Groves who would have brought us trash can turkey?
Uh he was. I was watching the text thing and
sometimes this text thing because you get the you know,
the first line of it, and it says I'm finished
with family. I know because his son, his son Pat

(40:07):
was in and stuff and then I want to open
up and says I'm finished with same family commitments. But
it just reminded me a couple of times with Beth.
I had just left for a business trip and I
was in Detroit or Minnesota wherever, and she goes. She
sent me a text that I'm leaving you. Is that okay?

(40:28):
It's like you're leaving me and is that okay?

Speaker 5 (40:32):
Well, she asked, it was okay, that's true.

Speaker 1 (40:35):
And it turned out she meant to text Joe because
he was at freshman orientation at Stard and she was
I was leaving you. You okay? And then she sends
me one probably like three months later, says she was
in the gift shop. She said, I'm in the mood.

Speaker 9 (40:55):
Oh, and so what what happened?

Speaker 2 (41:00):
Those texts get mixed up can be so dangerous. I'm
in what's the what's the Mexican tacos?

Speaker 1 (41:07):
Exactly? It was was what's the place? No, it's down
the street, right on Keystone.

Speaker 10 (41:13):
What's your favorite?

Speaker 1 (41:14):
It doesn't matter, pick up Mexican because I'm in the
mood for this Mexican. It's like, well that did not
go the way I was so bad?

Speaker 9 (41:24):
Okay, Okay, So anyway, anyway, is anybody on the phone.

Speaker 1 (41:30):
No, But I did want to talk about this what
you talked about big. This a big day for fresh
cut Christmas trees and tree farm. But because of the
forecast we found I mean, it was so crazy on
our Christmas tree lot. And I really think that it
was people coming for because they saw the weather.

Speaker 9 (41:52):
Yeah, I didn't think about that. You're right, there's going
to affect everything today, Yes, it is.

Speaker 1 (41:56):
Matter of fact. The other thing too, if your local
and didn't get a ticket to the Sullivan Express, some
of the people that are driving at distance are canceling.
So go on our website and you might be able
to snatch a ticket for today.

Speaker 2 (42:11):
I have heard such wonderful stories about families, the kids
three to five. It's a home run experience.

Speaker 1 (42:18):
Yeah, we're very proud of it, and we have a
lot of people that work really hard on it. Matter
of fact, someone stopped me yesterday. This is when it
really makes me feel good about what we're doing. They
were from Louisville and they said they used to live
here and they drive back every year to go on
the Sullivan Express. Not nice.

Speaker 9 (42:36):
It is nice, and it's a long time tradition for
those of us that grew up here too.

Speaker 1 (42:40):
There you go our number two. Hey, Jared, Hey, Terry
was looking at the radar, and it looks like Indianapolis
is being protected. Like it's just like we have a
wall like the snow, like even the snow doesn't want

(43:01):
to come here.

Speaker 2 (43:02):
In visible dome around the street.

Speaker 1 (43:04):
Yeah, the snow doesn't know.

Speaker 2 (43:05):
That's the domes and caramel Son.

Speaker 1 (43:07):
Okay, And I want to tell the snow downtown is safe.
Come on through.

Speaker 2 (43:12):
Really.

Speaker 1 (43:13):
Yeah, it looks like it's splitting and going out to
the suburbs.

Speaker 3 (43:18):
Something against downtown.

Speaker 1 (43:20):
I don't know. Downtown is vibrant. Snow, don't be afraid
to come here, especially during the day.

Speaker 2 (43:28):
We're in the hole.

Speaker 1 (43:29):
I mean, if you're coming in overnight on Friday, I might,
you know, maybe go, you know, go to Greenwood first.

Speaker 2 (43:35):
Jared, you're over your head, take it easy, so sorry.

Speaker 1 (43:38):
Okay, all right, we already talked about Christmas trees. Right,
you have an artificial at the family's stead homestead.

Speaker 2 (43:45):
Yeah, and is it up?

Speaker 3 (43:47):
It is not.

Speaker 2 (43:48):
No, You've got responsibilities. Whoa WHOA whoa are we?

Speaker 3 (43:54):
Is this a crowd of people who are the moment
Thanksgiving is over, the Christmas tree is up.

Speaker 8 (43:59):
No tree.

Speaker 2 (44:00):
We're the crowd that the moment, you know, Halloween's over
the tree.

Speaker 6 (44:05):
Like Christmas year.

Speaker 1 (44:06):
I will tell you, actually, I will tell you trend
trend that used to be a thing. That's like, you know,
the day after Thanksgiving Thanksgiving the tree went up. Now
it's like Denny is correct. Anytime after November one is
fair game to get your tree up.

Speaker 2 (44:23):
That's Jane's rule. I can't put it up before Halloween.
I have to wait time.

Speaker 3 (44:27):
Why don't you just leave it up after Why don't
you put it up after the fourth of July?

Speaker 2 (44:31):
What's stopping you from listen?

Speaker 1 (44:33):
Here's a good idea.

Speaker 2 (44:34):
This is Indiana. We put what's the matter with you?

Speaker 1 (44:37):
Hey, we have a we have a tree that has
you know, like the switch led lights on it so
it can go clear multi. But it has a setting
that is pastel and it's very easter, I think. And
when I when I show it to people, I said,
and here's the Easter setting. If you don't get the
tree down, it's kind of nice.

Speaker 9 (44:57):
The colors are beautiful and brilliant, very spectacular, very bright.

Speaker 1 (45:01):
Yes, And if there's too much of that has a
demmer on it.

Speaker 2 (45:04):
I think it's Jared. If you ever go to Pet's neighborhood,
I would say late April, early May, you'll be able
to see his porch lights. They're still on.

Speaker 1 (45:13):
You mean the Christmas lights Christmas lights? Yeah, you know what.
The company that puts up our lights that I said,
make let me be last, but they get them. I
usually by March there, you know that way. I just
think it's so it's so dreary in January and February,
and I always think that if people would I'm not
saying leave up Santa Claus, but just some nice clear

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lights or something or you know, not flashing and just
brings a little joy to some really really dreary months.

Speaker 15 (45:43):
Yeah, and I think we were vulnerable with jaredt Do
you have any unpopular Christmas takes? Jared, That's what I
want to know, just one question.

Speaker 3 (45:52):
I missed the conversation.

Speaker 15 (45:53):
No, I just I feel like we told you about
our Christmas HAPs, you know. I mean, we just want
to know if you have anything with Christmas.

Speaker 1 (46:01):
Any traditions in your family, any things that you don't like.

Speaker 2 (46:06):
Your Mom's not listing issue where she might be.

Speaker 3 (46:08):
We're a pretty basic I wouldn't say basic, but we
don't do anything.

Speaker 2 (46:14):
Does anybody get socks for Christmas? Oh? Yeah, okay, you're Indiana.
I told her.

Speaker 3 (46:19):
I told my mom last week. My favorite gift is
getting a new pair of socks.

Speaker 2 (46:23):
A couple of pairs of me too.

Speaker 1 (46:25):
You know, if I had all the money in the world,
I would never wear a pair of socks twice or
once twice. Wow, I would just throw them away because
they caused me. They caused me so much pain, so
much pain.

Speaker 2 (46:40):
They just you are in therapy in the sense of.

Speaker 1 (46:42):
They go to the they go to the they go
to the wash, and I don't know what the hell
goes on. They trade logos in there.

Speaker 10 (46:49):
Have you seen the socks that are kind of cool
for Christmas?

Speaker 9 (46:51):
And they hold hands so when you put them in
the wash, there's two little ants that are like magnets
and they hold each other's hands as they go through
the laundry.

Speaker 1 (47:02):
They can't stay together.

Speaker 2 (47:03):
They cannot That's what it says. No way you heard
it in the WIBC newsroom. First, they're the cutest thing.
Hand holding socks. Man holding socks, all right?

Speaker 1 (47:12):
Last question, Jared Clear lights are multi lights on that tree?

Speaker 2 (47:16):
Clear?

Speaker 1 (47:17):
All right, you're okay, all right, Jared, We'll check in
with you later.

Speaker 3 (47:20):
Sounds good.

Speaker 7 (47:26):
Well, some folks see the grown up men a stud
just little boys that really the only difference is the
price of our calls.

Speaker 8 (47:36):
We go for macho symbols like guns, running shoes, pickup trucks,
hun ducks and power dudes, power.

Speaker 5 (47:46):
To power to you.

Speaker 1 (47:51):
Just gloving our number two and today it is our
final hour because I you basketball U takes over at
the top of the eleven.

Speaker 5 (48:02):
O'clock hour, and for once you're not lying.

Speaker 1 (48:06):
It's amazing, isn't it?

Speaker 2 (48:07):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (48:07):
It really is. Blindhog Finds Saturday's Home and Garden program
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Speaker 2 (48:19):
Eight four four fixed indy our gratitude form that would
you say? Sixteen years now?

Speaker 1 (48:23):
I don't know. Let me work on that. Pretty cool,
it's longer than that, I think. John joins us on
the program.

Speaker 12 (48:29):
Hey John, good morning folks. After listening to you guys
for weeks, I received a card the other day that
just sounded like all of you.

Speaker 2 (48:40):
Oh so this is for all of them?

Speaker 12 (48:41):
Okay, now, thank you. Listen hard. You're in a car
headed north and you see a red fire engine to
your right and a fence tor left. There's a horse
in front of you, man, and a helicopter behind you.
What you do?

Speaker 2 (49:02):
Wow?

Speaker 12 (49:04):
They put down your drink and carefully get off the
merry girl.

Speaker 2 (49:13):
Ladies and gentlemen. This is This is Colonel John Kappasik,
who ran Germany for the United States Army. Hey, Opah,
how are you?

Speaker 12 (49:22):
I'm doing fine? I from Ermengard. We're just getting ready
to thinking about what we're going to put up for
this year's German theme for Christmas. Everything every year we
change it, but the trains will.

Speaker 1 (49:35):
Go, John, do you do? Uh? Do you do? The
pickle on the tree? That's kind of a German tradition.

Speaker 12 (49:41):
I think we have a little one that is a
green pickle that goes near the middle of it in front.

Speaker 10 (49:48):
That's cool. Is there another German tradition?

Speaker 9 (49:51):
Other German traditions we might not be that might not
be as familiar to us as the pickle.

Speaker 12 (49:55):
Well, we got the nutcrackers all of them big ones,
little ones, metal ones, wooden ones.

Speaker 2 (50:05):
John Here in the States we just call that management.

Speaker 12 (50:11):
Other than that, we put out all the lovely stuff
that we've had over the years from all the bulbs
that we got from the factories over there. And I
think it was last year or the year before we
went up to Carmel and we talked to two different vendors.
One from the bulk factory that we went and he

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updated us on the news stores, and the other one
was a wood carver that knew some of the stuff
that we had gotten from over there.

Speaker 2 (50:46):
Colonel how many years were you were you serving? How
long were you there as the officer in Germany?

Speaker 12 (50:54):
I was there seventeen years as an officer, three as
an individual, and eleven as a civilian. I was started
in the fifties when we had one hundred and twenty
thousand soldiers, and I closed more bases than anybody after
we got up to about two hundred and fifty to

(51:14):
three hundred thousand. And I started in Nurnberg area all
the way to Burchess Garden and ended up in about
kreutznach Wizbut and closing down all you were.

Speaker 2 (51:24):
The first person in Doge. You were the Department of
Government Efficiency. You were shutting them down before. It was
really cool.

Speaker 12 (51:31):
John, Well, I had a couple of interesting things. I
spent five years here as the Indiana Chief Auditor for
the reserves in Indiana and Michigan, and then as the
manager of the areas over in Germany. Found a couple
of times where the like a five hundred thousand dollars

(51:55):
fraud by a couple of military and civilian and Germans
than they had the really clean house. It was sad.

Speaker 2 (52:03):
I can speak personally. He knows how to clean it. Yes,
he knows how to close.

Speaker 1 (52:06):
Well, John, thanks for the call and thank you for
your service.

Speaker 12 (52:09):
Well you guys have a great Christmas and keep up
the great work.

Speaker 2 (52:13):
Yeah, say hey to arm Guard for us too. John
will right warm, all right, Bud, cool guy.

Speaker 1 (52:19):
So who's uhard?

Speaker 2 (52:21):
M Guard is Josh so wife?

Speaker 1 (52:23):
Okay?

Speaker 2 (52:24):
Yeah, but John is known as Opah Grandpa and Armguard
is known as Omah Grandma. But uh, he just a
tremendous guy. Just and he when he says the trains
are running, he is a model train enthusiast. His whole
downstairs is all trains.

Speaker 1 (52:40):
All trains, that is so cool.

Speaker 2 (52:42):
He's a good guy. He uh, he was there in
Germany in some tough times in Germany, but he's he's
the real deal. It's nice that he lives here in Indiana.
I do like the trains, Yeah, I do.

Speaker 9 (52:53):
You know, I wish I had my dad's might it's
long gone, But my dad had a linel train set
when he was a kid.

Speaker 10 (53:00):
You know?

Speaker 2 (53:00):
Did he put it up every Christmas?

Speaker 9 (53:02):
They've had it up every Christmas, goes around the tree.

Speaker 10 (53:04):
But that was long when he's a kid.

Speaker 9 (53:06):
And I wish I had that today because that's a treasure.

Speaker 2 (53:09):
If you know. Me and my brother had train sets.

Speaker 10 (53:11):
Did you have them too?

Speaker 2 (53:12):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (53:12):
We didn't. Met My father built a double deck decker
and my train was on the bottom and Bob's was
up on top.

Speaker 10 (53:19):
And it went around the tree or where.

Speaker 1 (53:21):
No, No, we just had a big thing down in
the basement.

Speaker 2 (53:24):
Did you did you keep it up all the time?

Speaker 9 (53:25):
Kept it up all the time, because I do remember
friends that had I mean like a pool table size
area and it would and maybe it was like on
there pool table.

Speaker 2 (53:34):
Yes, not everybody uses.

Speaker 1 (53:35):
Maybe that's how I ended up with trains.

Speaker 2 (53:37):
Maybe it is it could be. By the way, do
you still have the train up at the store because
you always had a nice model train?

Speaker 1 (53:42):
Yeah, yes, sure do yeah uh. And then Bill has
seven or down at forty ninth and pen Bill does
an excellent job on the train. I would say even better. Hey,
Dana joins us on the program.

Speaker 13 (53:54):
Hi Dana, Dana, good morning, Hi friends, my Pat, Denny,
Terry and aln.

Speaker 11 (54:00):
And before I ask, before I.

Speaker 13 (54:02):
Ask my question, I have to agree with Pat about leaving.

Speaker 11 (54:07):
The lights on away after Christmas because it's just so dreary,
so dreary.

Speaker 5 (54:12):
Especially February. It's just you need some kind of light
in the ground.

Speaker 9 (54:17):
But as people are studying to keep their trees a little,
bringing out little trees and then making them all red
and hanging little Valentine's Day things on them, and oh
kinda to have that light.

Speaker 1 (54:28):
We just need, we just need something. It's so bad.

Speaker 9 (54:31):
Yeah, yes we do, Yes, we do.

Speaker 5 (54:34):
So Okay, here's my question.

Speaker 18 (54:36):
We have some trees that are now, you know, probably
about thirty years older, and their roots are coming up through.

Speaker 11 (54:43):
The yard and a lot more gets close to hitting
them when we mow. What what do we do about
the roots?

Speaker 1 (54:51):
Well, there's nothing really you can do about the roots
because they just get pushed out of the ground because
of our heavy clay soil, and so it's just kind
of I think the best thing to do. Uh Now,
this was Dick Crumbs. If you ever listen to Dick
years years and years and years on this station, he
would just tell you to little let a little bit

(55:12):
of air out of your tires on the tractor. So
it wasn't so bouncy you.

Speaker 2 (55:18):
Get to raise what best answer, I know.

Speaker 1 (55:22):
So, but what we suggest is making those areas where
the roots are, take them out of being a lawn
and make that into either just multch or probably multch
with specimen perennials, not a groundcover, because that will that's
a high maintenance item, you know, maybe just some hostas

(55:44):
or some helliborus or something like that.

Speaker 11 (55:47):
Okay, but it's okay to put molts over it.

Speaker 1 (55:51):
Yeah, sure, yep. Just don't don't let the mulch go
up the trunk of the tree. That's where the danger is,
right right right.

Speaker 11 (55:59):
I've heard you say that a lot, So okay, it's like,
what do we.

Speaker 1 (56:02):
Do, yeah, or let the air out of the tires.
One of those two yeah.

Speaker 11 (56:09):
Yeah, I'm not sure how that helps, but.

Speaker 10 (56:13):
I'll try it.

Speaker 1 (56:14):
Okay, you try it. But Dick is always so bouncy.
People said that it hurt their backhad and hit the roost.
He goes, just let thet air out of the tires. Treasure.
Thanks Dana two three nine three ninety three, coming right
back ninety three WYBC.

Speaker 2 (56:34):
Well, it's a short show here on the Home and
Gardens Show, Terry Stacey, Allison Lemons, pat, Hey.

Speaker 1 (56:41):
Good morning, welcome back. Oh were you already talking?

Speaker 11 (56:46):
Hey?

Speaker 2 (56:46):
You doing Dan? Good? Let's talk about I talk to Uh.

Speaker 1 (56:49):
I just text Brian Wilkes to kind of get.

Speaker 5 (56:52):
A little forecast, up date.

Speaker 1 (56:54):
Forecast, and he said, uh yeah, normally I would be available,
but I'm in Naples in seventy nine.

Speaker 2 (57:01):
Oh what a join it?

Speaker 1 (57:02):
And he said Indy could get two to three inches.
I'm having two to three beers. So I think it
sounds like well, so that's what Brian Wilkes is up
to right now.

Speaker 5 (57:13):
Good for him.

Speaker 1 (57:14):
So two to three inches doesn't see it seems like
it's going to be where it's cold, it comes down
and then we have a period where it could melt
because of rain until it gets cold again.

Speaker 4 (57:24):
So when they were saying it's going to warm up
a little bit tonight, just by like in the forties,
so I don't know.

Speaker 1 (57:32):
Yeah, so it's going to be a mixed.

Speaker 5 (57:33):
Bag, constant changing.

Speaker 1 (57:35):
Hold on, what are we doing here?

Speaker 2 (57:36):
We trying to get Ethan's to turn on Terry's mica
over there? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (57:41):
Goodn't so? Uh, Terry. We were talking about tree farms, yes,
and there's so many Indiana tree farms that people go to.
Doles is a favorite of mine. Yeah, big operation and
uh are they the ones.

Speaker 10 (57:54):
To do with the dogs?

Speaker 9 (57:55):
They actually have the big dogs that actually will at
once the tree is cut.

Speaker 2 (57:59):
Pull them in and pull them in.

Speaker 1 (58:00):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (58:01):
That's a pretty good that's pretty funny. That's pretty neat.

Speaker 10 (58:04):
I think they do it.

Speaker 2 (58:06):
I think I'll have you think that's anyway.

Speaker 1 (58:08):
Yeah, so it's quite the experience, but you know, you
do have to be prepared. I think they probably got
I haven't heard, but they probably got just blasted yesterday
we did at our tree lots, just because I think
people knew the weather's coming in and they were you know,
and with Thanksgiving being late again, the latest Thanksgiving can
be is the twenty eighth, so it was the twenty

(58:29):
seventh this year, so I think it's really okay. Sometimes
when people are putting up their tree on Thanksgiving weekend
and it's like, dude, we got another week of November
and it's really too early. But I think with it
being late, I think it's probably fine for people to
play the tree.

Speaker 2 (58:45):
Does the retailer like Thanksgiving early or late early early?

Speaker 9 (58:50):
So maybe if you got your tree here yesterday or
you get it today while the weather is still okay?
Is there any do you have any advice for extending
its life?

Speaker 1 (59:00):
Fresh cut trees, what you want to do is to
get it if they make a fresh cut for you
at the lot or you know, when you cut it
down at a farm, get it in water within.

Speaker 2 (59:11):
Two to three hours, or cut it again, or.

Speaker 1 (59:14):
Cut it again because the sap will start. It'll start
to seal that that wound, and when it seals a wound,
it won't take.

Speaker 9 (59:20):
Water if you have to make that second cut. How
much do you cut off the bottom?

Speaker 1 (59:24):
They always say any mash. I don't think it really matters.
I think a half inch is fine if you're but
normally we cut a ninch.

Speaker 2 (59:31):
Off remind people not to whittle down the sides.

Speaker 1 (59:34):
Either that's what I was just thinking, Denny, or we're right,
we're on it and we are connected.

Speaker 9 (59:40):
Don't whittle down the sides so to fit your plant stand.

Speaker 2 (59:43):
Yes, so a lot of times that's a problem.

Speaker 1 (59:45):
They do it. They do it for two different reasons.
One to fit it into a into the tree stand.
The other thing is they think that by taking and
knocking the bark off that that's going to allow it
to pick up more water.

Speaker 2 (59:59):
Not.

Speaker 1 (01:00:00):
So what you do is what underneath that layer of
bark is these we describe them as little straws, and
that's what sucks the water up. And when you go
and take those off, then it can prevent the tree
from pulling.

Speaker 2 (01:00:15):
Up water about and then just regular water.

Speaker 1 (01:00:19):
Regular water additives are good because that helps fuel the
locipol economy.

Speaker 2 (01:00:24):
God sprite, everybody says, poor sprite down there, which is
sugar water. But what do you think we're as brand? Yeah,
the tree's got a headache.

Speaker 1 (01:00:34):
We've just saw when we had live trees, we just
used water.

Speaker 2 (01:00:38):
Hey, we need to say goodbye to one of our
Wish TV colleagues. Scott Sanders retired after twenty years. If
you remember Scott Sanders, he's the one that took over
for Mike Ahert when Mike retired and now Scott's He
hadn't said where he's going. I think he's just saying
I'm retiring. So congratulations Scott for a great career.

Speaker 1 (01:00:57):
You know, there's a kind of a big shakeup coming
with the local news stations.

Speaker 9 (01:01:04):
They ret just a little earlier than they.

Speaker 1 (01:01:07):
Have Channel six and Channel eight kind of merging.

Speaker 9 (01:01:10):
Right, yeah, under kind of merging, that's right, and then
you have your one ownership you have Channel thirteen. Channel
thirteen is taking quite a hit today after the tree
lighting last night.

Speaker 2 (01:01:22):
That hey, I ran into Bob Gregory, so that's it.

Speaker 1 (01:01:26):
It's and I don't know, they practiced those things and
some you know, whatever.

Speaker 9 (01:01:30):
Went wrong, whatever went wrong, it seemed to go through
the whole television broadcast, and it was upset that they
didn't get to see the end. I agree, you know,
something happened and they had a commercial and so they
went away for they were counting down and then the
commercial came in and they come back and everything was.

Speaker 10 (01:01:47):
Bab snow is flying.

Speaker 5 (01:01:49):
That sounds like a sitcom.

Speaker 9 (01:01:50):
That is something he does, and so I don't know
what happened, but we all had trouble in our broadcasting day.
We have nothing worse when something goes wrong.

Speaker 1 (01:02:01):
And there's nothing, there's no one that feels worse than them.

Speaker 10 (01:02:04):
It's the truth.

Speaker 9 (01:02:05):
And so you got to give them a little grace
because I don't know what happened, and I'm but I
was right there with you, watching away for a moment
and then and probably said the same words you did,
like when it happened.

Speaker 1 (01:02:16):
I don't know, I mean they you know, it's hard
to say where that comes from. But there's been a
lot of changes at all the news stations, yeah, you know,
and a lot more of the reporters now are multimedia journalists,
so they write and shoot and film their own segments.
So a lot of times there's no you know, cameramen
with them. So there's just there's just a lot of

(01:02:38):
going on.

Speaker 2 (01:02:39):
Speaking of disasters, Terry Lynn is trying to clean out
her office and I'm going to forward a picture from
one of our listeners, who longtime listener by name of Brent,
and he wanted Terry to see this picture of him
unloading his office after thirty years and it must be
fifteen bankers boxes on the back of a pickup.

Speaker 10 (01:02:58):
You make it sure mat your home. I mean you
spent in doing.

Speaker 9 (01:03:02):
What I've done here.

Speaker 2 (01:03:04):
This can be this can be done.

Speaker 10 (01:03:06):
It can be done.

Speaker 1 (01:03:08):
There's some words some that's like, uh, some wisdom from
the Middle East.

Speaker 9 (01:03:14):
Hey, I do want to mention we had I was
talking about dolls. You were talking about dolls and the
new Fees. It's the big new Fees, the Newfoundlands, the dogs,
the big ones. And it's December sixth and seventh.

Speaker 10 (01:03:25):
They're out there.

Speaker 9 (01:03:26):
You cut the tree down.

Speaker 10 (01:03:27):
I'm hearing from some friends BC.

Speaker 9 (01:03:28):
Thank you for yeah, but that's next weekend.

Speaker 11 (01:03:32):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:03:32):
Sandy joins us on the program.

Speaker 2 (01:03:33):
Hi, Sandy, oh hello there.

Speaker 18 (01:03:36):
Can you hear me?

Speaker 2 (01:03:37):
We can loud and well pack.

Speaker 18 (01:03:40):
Do you remember when you went on your cruise?

Speaker 1 (01:03:44):
Uh? Yes, I remember.

Speaker 18 (01:03:47):
I called and tried to get in on the show
that day and I've been on hold ever since.

Speaker 3 (01:03:54):
She knows this.

Speaker 2 (01:03:54):
Well, what.

Speaker 18 (01:03:58):
The reason CALLI about that time? You mission that your
dad's first hardware store was on Marshan Street and that
you grew up on Summit Street. What was your address
on Summitt Street?

Speaker 1 (01:04:09):
M You know, I don't remember. And you know what
two twelve. You know what my most vivid memories of
that is how many times I had to paint it
in the summer with my father.

Speaker 18 (01:04:23):
So you were north of Washington Street, Yeah, I think so.

Speaker 1 (01:04:27):
I don't know.

Speaker 18 (01:04:28):
My mother was born and grew up at fifty one
South Summit, and they just in the last couple of
years tore the house down. There were like three houses
in a row, and all the relatives lived, aunts and
uncles and grandparents all lived in the houses next to
each other.

Speaker 11 (01:04:42):
You know, I wonder how much was that Summit and Williams.

Speaker 1 (01:04:46):
Those houses are all now worth a bunch of money. Yes,
that's that whole area is is the holyst You know
that we called the Cross. Yeah, we called the Holy
Cross neighborhood. But the church and their wisdom closed Holy
Cross right when everything was really getting going. So they
held onto that church in that parish for decades, through

(01:05:07):
all the decay and all that stuff. And then right
when the church when it was coming roaring back, they
went in and closed it.

Speaker 9 (01:05:12):
And what did they do with it?

Speaker 1 (01:05:14):
Nothing? As a matter of fact, they they're trying to
there's a big battle over trying to get it to
be a historical historical yeah, a landmark, a landmark.

Speaker 18 (01:05:25):
Yes, so I'm not called Irish Hill.

Speaker 2 (01:05:29):
Yeah yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:05:30):
My dad, my dad laid the tile and holy Cross, oh,
the nineteen fifties.

Speaker 9 (01:05:36):
That's obviously not the Well, the building is still okay, right,
I mean.

Speaker 2 (01:05:38):
No, the building is not okay because they built a
new church.

Speaker 17 (01:05:42):
We went to a funeral there a few years.

Speaker 1 (01:05:44):
Ago and I was there. They took the windows and
these beautiful windows stained glass, stained glass that the Irish
should put in there, and they put them in a
church down south, tore the windows out of them. It's
just like it's really was very very mismanaged. In my opinion.

Speaker 9 (01:06:02):
You seem angry about it, and I am very angry
about it.

Speaker 2 (01:06:05):
You're anger, very angry.

Speaker 1 (01:06:07):
You know, the Irish always get they always get split off.

Speaker 9 (01:06:10):
You know, Irish helped build this city, they really did.

Speaker 10 (01:06:16):
Absolutely. The Germans did too.

Speaker 9 (01:06:17):
There are so many that played a part in.

Speaker 5 (01:06:19):
Building this city.

Speaker 9 (01:06:20):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (01:06:20):
The Germans were just telling the Irish what to do.

Speaker 2 (01:06:23):
You know that. And to this day and to this day,
we're I mean, we're not that smart. We're lovely people.

Speaker 1 (01:06:33):
Where I well, once again, I'll say it and then
we'll go to break where do we go to celebrate
Saint Patrick's day? A German bar the Rascal? Or we
don't think anything of it? That's right, Well, thanks Sandy, Yes,
there you go. That one's going art. We're uh, well,
that really got off track.

Speaker 10 (01:06:53):
You really did take a turn. But it was fun.

Speaker 9 (01:06:56):
It was like sitting in the living room to listening
to you told the stories.

Speaker 1 (01:07:01):
All right, we're leaving, we're leaving now, we're coming right
back ninety three WIBC.

Speaker 2 (01:07:19):
What type of Christmas music is this? Ethan Patterson? You're
over there jamming to put this camera on you. Ethan?

Speaker 1 (01:07:29):
All right, we rented our reindeers a reindeer reindeer.

Speaker 2 (01:07:38):
Okay unless your cousin.

Speaker 1 (01:07:41):
The Indiana Reindeer Company, was that one of the can
you turn her mic on there? Buddy?

Speaker 10 (01:07:48):
Is that where you rented your reindeer.

Speaker 1 (01:07:51):
Reindeers?

Speaker 2 (01:07:51):
Why did they come from?

Speaker 9 (01:07:52):
I mean, where is that out?

Speaker 2 (01:07:53):
I don't remember that on Ethan's list.

Speaker 1 (01:07:56):
The Indiana Reindeer Company is in Lafayette.

Speaker 2 (01:08:00):
Cute they are, they're reindeer, Allison.

Speaker 10 (01:08:03):
They're beautiful creatures.

Speaker 2 (01:08:04):
Do they have antlers?

Speaker 1 (01:08:05):
So they're going to be at Allisonville for the Winter
Wonderland at Allisonville, which includes a and it's a free
event unless unless you get a ticket to go see Santa.
I think it's five bucks. But you can. You walk
through the path and you see animation some Winter Wonderland

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things we have. We're starting to build up so much
animation that we're kind of reusing things, and we had
a lot of extra things that we've retired from Keystone.
So Allisonville is putt into good use. But it's fun
because so it's free. You go to uh, what's the name.

Speaker 2 (01:08:42):
Of the bar.

Speaker 5 (01:08:43):
It's the Winter Beer Garden.

Speaker 1 (01:08:44):
The Winter Beer Garden.

Speaker 2 (01:08:45):
You have a beer garden, Yes.

Speaker 1 (01:08:46):
The Winter Beer Garden. And today we are having reindeer
from ten to one, ten to one, So.

Speaker 5 (01:08:53):
They're there now, they should be there right now.

Speaker 2 (01:08:55):
Now save the reindeer poop because it's going to be
really nutritious for your plants. Okay, Denny, it's really good.
It's like a funny rabbit.

Speaker 1 (01:09:03):
Thank you Denny for that tip. I think it's important
that you contribute to the show, and I think that.

Speaker 2 (01:09:08):
Was that's impossible. You breathe through your ears. Thank you.

Speaker 9 (01:09:13):
It's interesting to know that there is a whole world
of dear reindeer rental going on, especially this time of
the year.

Speaker 10 (01:09:21):
I'm just amazed.

Speaker 5 (01:09:23):
These are Alaskan reindeer.

Speaker 10 (01:09:25):
They most of these Alaskan rangers. Where they trapped?

Speaker 5 (01:09:28):
How did they get them home?

Speaker 2 (01:09:29):
Allison? You open to live that you did not want
to open, Allison, careful one.

Speaker 1 (01:09:35):
Of them, one of them, one of them limps because
it was a snare trap stop.

Speaker 5 (01:09:41):
They are spoiled and happy and.

Speaker 2 (01:09:43):
Just oh boy, I'm just backing up inside.

Speaker 1 (01:09:49):
They took a shower this morning.

Speaker 5 (01:09:53):
For soy lattes to be ready for them, right.

Speaker 2 (01:09:57):
I'm Allison gets I think she gets us on the recovery. Yeah,
that she did. Good?

Speaker 9 (01:10:02):
Okay, Well, anyway, I think.

Speaker 2 (01:10:05):
Anyway, that sounds fun. All Right, So that's it, Alison,
You're not invited. Does that go over coming anyway?

Speaker 1 (01:10:12):
Is it just on the weekends the Allisonville the winter.

Speaker 4 (01:10:16):
Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday and hours on their websites?

Speaker 5 (01:10:19):
Okay, but the reindeer it's a special thing today.

Speaker 1 (01:10:22):
And then they have some other special things. Do you
remember what they were?

Speaker 5 (01:10:25):
Uh?

Speaker 4 (01:10:26):
So on Thursdays they'll have crafty Thursdays, craft so on
Thursdays they have I think the first one is on
the fourth. So this upcoming Thursday, and it's porch pots
and process go the one that we were we saw
on Saturday.

Speaker 2 (01:10:40):
Did any were any of the porch pots trapped or
suffer in any way so Terry can relax. I'm okay
with that.

Speaker 9 (01:10:46):
Okay, that is really cool, these crafting things, having a
little zip crafting crafting, Yeah, you gotta do that.

Speaker 10 (01:10:55):
It's there's super.

Speaker 1 (01:10:56):
It's a lot of fun. And all all the greens
that we use for that are cut out of old
oath for us, good for us that.

Speaker 9 (01:11:03):
Had already broken off and fell on the ground.

Speaker 2 (01:11:05):
No, ladies, get your after ladies, get your best friend.

Speaker 1 (01:11:08):
We get in and we get machetes and we go
in and get greens.

Speaker 2 (01:11:10):
Out of they're gonna get you. And the ladies that
we saw coming out, they were not they were not
feeling any pain and they were really enjoying them. They
had the best. They were happy.

Speaker 9 (01:11:23):
Yeah, yeah, take your friends and go. You need a
little do something fun like that.

Speaker 1 (01:11:27):
You know, porch pots have become such a so not
not that many years ago, eight ten years ago, we
would have a tremendous display of little uh you know,
artificial evergreens in like a little urn pots that people
would buy two of them and you put them alongside

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the front door. I mean I'm talking about We probably
had forty or fifty different styles. Today we have zero
because the porch pots, the greens with the.

Speaker 9 (01:12:00):
Uh oh, the holly, the all of.

Speaker 1 (01:12:02):
That has completely just destroyed that market. Nobody nobody uses
those anymore.

Speaker 10 (01:12:08):
They don't.

Speaker 1 (01:12:09):
They were kind of a pain because they're usually the
pot was plastic, so you know, the wind would blow
them over, but.

Speaker 2 (01:12:16):
They were a press peede or something. What were your pots?
They were a hard surface of something.

Speaker 1 (01:12:22):
Are you talking about the greens?

Speaker 2 (01:12:24):
No, no, the pots themselves.

Speaker 1 (01:12:25):
Oh, they were just plastic. Okay, so but it's just
so funny. We had so many of those, and that
trend it's just gone because of porch pots. You know,
everybody either they have their pots that they they changed
their over to winter greens, or they they buy some.
And it's really cool though, but it's like, uh, and

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there's a real you know, you could probably find videos online.
We have Jenny at our Keystone store is just a
master at it. I mean, just a master of how
she puts the skirt on, and the skirt it kind
of hangs over the greens. She uses a soft green
that will kind of hang over. Then she puts the
upright greens in, and then she'll add berries, and she'll

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add a spruce top for taller ones.

Speaker 9 (01:13:12):
Talent.

Speaker 4 (01:13:14):
What I like about it too, which I'm sure maybe
a lot of people do. I was talking to some
of the ladies who are at the craft thing, and
you can't mess it up too much, like if you're
not super crafty or if you you know, you don't
consider yourself a crafty gal. Yeah, just use whatever you
haven't put all together.

Speaker 1 (01:13:30):
It's gonna look glass regards change some basic some some
basic stuff. Jenny. So the governor's mansion called and the
first lady wanted the pots done. They said, could you
could we just bring them over and so it's like,
which is impossible? These pots are huge. So Jenny went
over and did them and they're beautiful.

Speaker 5 (01:13:50):
Yeah, she's a talent.

Speaker 1 (01:13:52):
And I have not gotten any negative emails. I shouldn't
bring it up.

Speaker 10 (01:13:57):
Nervous, but you know.

Speaker 1 (01:13:59):
After a while, after the whole thing, which was we
sold the governor to bird feeders, and this group of
people just got so hateful, and then I realized it's
really their problem. I mean, it's like.

Speaker 9 (01:14:13):
Your businessman therapy is working. You do things with You're
not picking and choosing. No, I'm picking and choosing business with.

Speaker 1 (01:14:21):
And so when they called and said, hey, we want
the porch pots porch pots, it's like we sent the
porch pot lady over, just like we would for anyone.

Speaker 5 (01:14:30):
Michael Jordan said, he even Republicans buy shoes.

Speaker 2 (01:14:33):
So there you go.

Speaker 1 (01:14:34):
We're coming right back with more ninety three w IBC.

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Speaker 2 (01:15:03):
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Speaker 1 (01:15:27):
Whoo's ready, I am small business Saturday is today. And
that was started a few decades ago. It seems like
now it's by American Express. By American Express, which is
really cool, and it caught on and it is small
Business Saturday where you can go out and support. You
can kind of put your get out of your pajamas.

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They are the dressed.

Speaker 2 (01:15:48):
They are the most courageous people in the world. Small
businesses face everything that the business big businesses do, but
it usually is just one or two people sitting around
a kitchen table trying to figure out how to be successful.

Speaker 9 (01:16:00):
There's lots of great deals mass Avenue, each little community
mass Avenue has a big you know, buy one, lots
of lots. Every different shop has different kind of deals
and free stuff and.

Speaker 10 (01:16:09):
The same thing.

Speaker 9 (01:16:09):
In Irvington, they've got a small small business crawl today
that's going on. You just go from one to the
next in that great neighborhood too.

Speaker 1 (01:16:18):
So we have double your points points.

Speaker 2 (01:16:23):
So how many points do you get for a buck?
If I buy a bucksworth, how many points do I get?

Speaker 1 (01:16:26):
You got a point? They get one point, and so
you get rewards of five percent, so that would that
would be ten percent and back.

Speaker 2 (01:16:35):
That's pretty good.

Speaker 9 (01:16:35):
A lot of it have learned to do the swag bags.
Everybody likes having a shop local tote bag. So a
lot of people will go really early to be those
first five hundred or one hundred in those neighborhoods to
get that shop small, shop local business bags because they're
just cool, you know, really cool tote bags to put
your stuff in. And it's kind of a you know,

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you're it's kind of a sick saying something, you know, well,
shopping local.

Speaker 1 (01:16:59):
I hope the weather kind of, you know, calms it
down a little bit. So far in downtown in Indianapolis,
we don't see I really don't see much changes.

Speaker 2 (01:17:09):
Sent me a picture from Hamilton County and it doesn't
look like but a scattering. I mean it's not it's
not deep at all yet.

Speaker 9 (01:17:14):
So we're still in the hole.

Speaker 2 (01:17:17):
We're still in the hole.

Speaker 5 (01:17:18):
Going around or Indianapolis is going out of the hole.

Speaker 10 (01:17:21):
I mean, look at my look at this at eleven.
It's funny, it is.

Speaker 2 (01:17:25):
It's the rightar.

Speaker 5 (01:17:26):
You'll see what she's talking about. It truly looks like
a just a circle, yea protection around Indianapolis right now.

Speaker 2 (01:17:33):
It looks like the maps from Battle of the Bulge.
Remember that the Battle of the Bulch where they were
all trapped in there in Germans around them. That's the snowstorm.

Speaker 1 (01:17:41):
Brian Wilkes sent me a snowfall potential and the big
difference is there's a there's gonna be a really sharp
cut off from uh just south, you know, kind of
on the I seventy corridor. But he said, wherever that is,
you know, you get two to four inches on one
side and you know, just an inch or so on
the other end.

Speaker 2 (01:18:01):
And they said the rain's coming afterwards, so it'll get
sloppy for sure.

Speaker 1 (01:18:05):
Yep. And that's why I think everybody was out getting
their trees. But so there's time. Hopefully, if you're going
to get a fresh tree and you want to get
it decorated today, get out to that farm or your
local spot, wherever it is, and grab yourself a tree,
and hopefully you shouldn't see any price increase. Ours at
our store have come the most popular. The uhichsure my

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brain and I need.

Speaker 10 (01:18:31):
But look, you told all of us we need the answer.

Speaker 2 (01:18:34):
Three of us didsure.

Speaker 1 (01:18:37):
Those are down in price because we are able to
buy him from our regular supplier. You know what. Our
regular supplier's name is, Brunner Sides, Bruner Side, Bruner Sides.

Speaker 2 (01:18:48):
That's his first name, Bruner yep, I kind.

Speaker 1 (01:18:50):
Of like it, Bruner Sides. In the nineteen nineties, a
guy from the North Carolina Tree Growers Association showed up
the store with a price list from Brewer Sides on
a tree and Fraser fir trees were new then, and
we looked at that tree. It's like gorgeous. So I
have no idea who this person is. I I sent
an order in to him. And his real name was

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it to Brunner, And so I send in an order.
And so now we spend like, I don't know, one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars with him or something.

Speaker 2 (01:19:22):
Wow, does he do free delivery?

Speaker 1 (01:19:24):
No? A truckload of trees from North Carolina this year
was twenty four hundred bucks.

Speaker 2 (01:19:31):
Oh so man, oh man, Yeah, well that's all I have.
It's all you have. So we don't have any time
to left.

Speaker 10 (01:19:38):
You gotta go.

Speaker 1 (01:19:39):
Well, no, we have maybe we have twenty seconds. We
have IU basketball coming up. You guys watched the IU
football game last night.

Speaker 2 (01:19:45):
We did. That was a massacre. Yeah, yeah, yes, hundreds.

Speaker 1 (01:19:50):
Ethan, do you want to say anything? We got six seconds.

Speaker 6 (01:19:54):
Glad to see you guys today.

Speaker 1 (01:19:55):
Good to see you, I you basketball coming up next, Hey,