January 1, 2026 • 38 mins
(January 01, 2026)
We could use a return to gallantry. 26 predictions for 2026. CEOs say they’re unplugging by canceling meetings and playing with Legos over the holidays. Viral ‘6-7’ tops 2025 list of overused words and phrases.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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I listening to the Bill Handle Show. Here's Nil Savedra.
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Nil Savadra in the morning crew here had the Brookery
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And Matt's here and I see conow.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Bill's off this week. He'll be back next week, and
I'll be off next week. I think it is the
longest I've gone without seeing that man in some time.
If you'd like to happy New Year to you. By
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answer what eight or nine of them kno, something like that,
so we'll see what we can do. I'm humored by
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talkbacks that have no logic or reason to them. They
just don't like your politics. I hear them for handle
all the time. I'm like, listen if you want to say, hey,
here's some information you don't have, or but like it's
like yelling at somebody for going.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Oh my god, you like vanilla ice cream? Oh my god,
who's Vanilla Bros? All about chuck a lot.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Anyways, still humors. Saw a story and it comes at
a weird time. This story by Peggy Noonan in the
Wall Street Journal about gallantry, and we'll talk a little
bit about what gallantry is and why she says that
it needs to come back for twenty twenty six, and
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I could not agree anymore. It just is, we have
really our moral compass and our desire to serve each
other has been out of whack for some time, but
it is it's gotten to the point where it is
really really bad. But this also comes at a time
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where Heather Brooker and I just realized, you know, everybody's
on tape today, So it's kind of hard to be
have gallantry when we're kind of like.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Sacrificing. Yeah, right, where is everybody? What on earth?
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Oh it's it's New Year's Day. You think Chanon's going
to come in when there's football on?
Speaker 3 (03:15):
That's true. I asked her yesterday I was doing. She
said she was going to be relaxing at home and
some comfy clothes and.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Yeah, get some fat pants on and get some snacks,
watch television on a cold day. Doesn't sound magical. I don't, definitely,
but I wish for everyone to have that. So gallantry, Uh,
basically it's acting without expectation, you know, no reward, no credit,
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standing up for week weaker people or causes that you
that can't repay you, and.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
You know, having strength and not using it cruelly.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Confidence but not the ego kind, doing the right thing
and you know, saying it wasn't anything. It's like that's
the normal thing to do when you know it's like
I don't look for a reward from my wife because
I don't sleep around like look at me, you.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Know, sticking to our oathh who's a good guy?
Speaker 1 (04:25):
You you do it because that's those are the promises
you put out there or those are the things that
you said. We've gotten to this place where even if
you have a right to do something doesn't mean you
should do it.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
And I've said this before on the air.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
You know, as somebody who is a person of faith,
by no means doesn't make you perfect in any way,
shape or form.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
But also, just because it's legal.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
To do in the United States doesn't mean that a
person of faith can do it. You go to Nevada,
it's legal to get a prostitute. But just because just
because you can do something doesn't mean you should. And
the reason why I point that out is because yes,
we have rights in America, and there are rights, individual
rights that we can utilize, but there's times when you
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have to look at the hole and that that's more important,
and that just exercising your rights just because you can
is not a good thing. I see people doing stupid
ass things more than ever before, Like driving on the
side of the you know, when there's traffic on the freeway,
driving on the shoulder, and one guy will do it
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and you go, okay, that's a wing nut, and then
another person does it and it gives permission that old
concept of And I've seen this firsthand when my wife
and I lived in an apartment when we first got married.
We lived in an apartment in Hollywood, and someone left
something out front, maybe they moved out of the apartment complex,
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and I don't know, maybe it was a table or
a chair, or someone left a cup there or whatever
it was. And I'm like, just watch, and sure enough,
by trash day there was a couch out there. Now
like people just started piling garbage. It's what we do well,
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just any anytime you loosen up anything, we will go
for the loosest point, that the weakest link, we will
go through. And so this this call to reclaim gallantry,
not not just courage, but the expression of courage, bravery, bravery,
but with humility, restraint, and moral style. Rejecting bragging or
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winning loudly. I love that that saying you should lose
with your head up and win with your head down,
having the balance in life. If you do have the
chance to get a win, if you have these things,
don't shove it down people's throats. Don't you know there's
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if people ask or want guidance or advice, give it freely.
Don't gate keep the concept of winning loudly and I've
said this before, is insecurity is loud. Confidence is quiet,
And so when people start to get loud about things,
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that shows me a weakness.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
It happens, happens to all of us. But when people
get you know.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
This, better than you, higher than now, whatever you want
to call it, do things because they're right. Don't look
for expectation, not credit, not reward. Standing up for weaker
people I think is important. Unfortunately, I think we always
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assume the weaker are right though. You know, we have
a thing about people that are oppressed in this country,
and then you have to go, well, yeah, criminals may
be oppressed in prison, but why and things like that,
So understanding more about if you're actually helping or if
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you like people will often go look, I'm helping the poor,
and it's like, well are you.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Are you really doing?
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Are you trying to get them? You help people out
of situations, not lifestyles. If there's a situation in which
you can reach out and say, hey, man, I know
you got kicked in the in the goodies because of
this happened or whatever it is, that's a situation. But
if somebody is living a certain way, they don't want
to work they don't want to do.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
So you can't help anybody out of that. They're an alcoholic.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
You have to Yeah, you can't just give them a
little something to get them out of it. So I
like this, Peggy Noonan. I like this article. We need
to return to gallantry. And this is preaching to myself too,
that core message. You can be decisive without being brutal.
You can win without humiliating others, you can lead without boasting,
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and we could be better. January first, twenty twenty six,
We're here.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
We did it. You. Uh, you're a.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Pretty positive guy, aren't you. Kono, Yeah, you are. You
love your family, you got kids.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
I do.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
All those things are true?
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Yeah, yeah, right?
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Are you looking forward at twenty twenty six?
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Brother?
Speaker 4 (09:45):
I guess I don't know. It's I don't know all
the same other people like you. Just this is going
to be the start, like you should have started in October.
I don't think that moth matters, So it doesn't. I
don't care.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Every moment, every day is a new beginning all that.
But do you get hopeful of the new year?
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Do you go? I'm gonna no, I guess I'm hopeful.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
If I'm hopeful I'm hopeful in the day all that,
like the January one, doesn't be like I'm a beautiful
now I don't.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
It's not.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
That's not a me take, that's not a mean to. No,
that's that's uh, the year changed. Oh this is my
don't do that.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
No, I'd get it's an arbitrary mark, a line in
the sand that we go, Okay, here's something. But whatever
gets you kicked off. I mean, you can't win a
race unless someone says, Okay, this is the starting line
and this is the finish line.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
It's just what we do in life.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
Yeah, I guess my starting line is just on my eyes.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Open the wake up. That's a good day. Well.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Vox put out like a breakdown of twenty six things
they think will happen in the year twenty twenty six,
and a lot of these have to do with politics,
but it looks at the economy and climate and tech
and health and all these things and culture. But breaking
down a lot of people try and guess as to
what's and go down with politics.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
The problem is you can't out think Trump. You can't.
He's a wild card.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Not on a particular topic, but every day, like moment
to moment.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
He's a wild card. And I know Handle.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
This is the thing I've known Handled for thirty years,
and I tease him all the time that he has
gotten more hyperbolic. But Trump brings that out in people.
And although I'm not a fan of the guy as
a person, that doesn't mean everything he does is going
to be wrong.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
It just doesn't.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
And so I look at everything across the board individually
and I pick and choose.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
That's what a brain is for.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
You know, not everything is going that comes out of
this guy is going to be bad. I'm sorry. I
don't believe that in anybody. And like I said, if
the devil looks me in the eye and says two
plus two equals.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Four, they're still right.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
So this kind of takes on a lot of it
that the democracy, US democracy is going to weaken. I
don't know what that means. I know I hear a
lot of people think, you know, we're losing our rights.
And I would say that if I were a woman
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and I looked at you know, reproductive rights, I'd say,
I hope someone re looks at this because you know,
or looks at this from the point of view of
the woman.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
If I were gay.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Yeah, I would be annoyed at the very least to say, hey,
are they really re looking at whether gay marriage is
going to be legal. I don't think that's going to flip.
I don't think that's going to change. But other than
those things, do I think that we're losing our rights?
Speaker 2 (12:57):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
I think we have checks balances in place, and they
continue to do what they're supposed to do. Right, not everything.
You know, the president's not even getting away with everything.
There are checks and balances. And as I've said before
and we'll say again, I'm a big we the people person.
There's more of us than them, and the more the
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larger government we get, the worst things will be. Smaller
government makes sense. Strangely enough, is the left and right
both have these hypocritical stances on things. The left wants
bigger government to take care of more people. Yet if
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it's not a liberal mind in there, then what are you.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Going to do?
Speaker 1 (13:50):
So it's so the structure should be on a case
by case basis as to you know where things can
be because if if you can do it as a president,
when if you're okay with it when your person's in there,
then you got to be okay with it when your
person's not in there. Democrats taking back at least one
chamber of Congress. People are saying that that could be
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a ninety five percent chance. Historically, yeah, that's probably gonna happen.
The midterm always punishes the president's party, whoever's in so
that's probably gonna take place. But again, we keep seeing
things that are that word that we love so much, unprecedented,
and it keeps popping up.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
So how is that going to play out? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
At least one major education department function survives. They say
that Trump can't fully dissolve the department without Congress, so
maybe something will stay. But again, if we're looking around
saying if Trump likes this, then we can't, or if
the left likes this, we can't. If you get into
that mentality, man, that's a cult. That's not politics. Now
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you've lost your mind and you just are doing whatever
or reacting to whomever's in office that you don't like,
because ultimately I would rather them go. Okay, We'll look
at this regardless of who's in office. Look at the
Department of Education. Is America bursting at the seams with
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great education? No we have highly problem highly problematic education
in California.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Now, my kid goes to a public school and I
rather like it.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
I think they do a nice job, and I think
that the principal and the teachers are attentive. But my
wife's very involved in that too. They're at the school
and being a participant. And I am too, just not
as much as she is. And that's a big part
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of your kid's education, how much you're involved in it.
Supreme Court rules against Trump on tariffs. That's a belief
that is going to be a big thing throughout twenty
twenty six, so says Vox. Lower courts say that Trump
exceeded authority under emergency powers. Trump is absolutely, without a doubt,
testing what the powers of the presidency mean and where
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they can go. But he's only in for four years,
no matter what anybody thinks, and he keeps goating people.
He really owns people like nobody's business. I don't know
who owns me like that. I don't know nobody lives
rent free in my head like that, not even the
President of the United States.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
I've never known you. Kono you think you do? I gotcha?
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Listen Cono on do you buddy.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
It's really refreshing.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
At at eight fifty eight is when you leave my
head eight fifty eight morning, I go, there's no I
don't know about that.
Speaker 6 (17:04):
Okay, there's what messages memes that's one fourteen in the morning.
I love you, buddy, I love you buddy. You gotta
put a block. I miss you, buddy. But it is funny.
It's like that people are owned like does this make
you mad? I go, that takes takes a lot to
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make me mad. I don't want anybody owning me like that.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Ever, Trump replaces at least one Supreme Court justice. They
say there's a seventy five percent chance of that, but
that's you know, people age out. That's that's the one
thing that I'll give anybody. Trump got a lot on
the Supreme Court and that's forever. But most things that
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he does can be reversed by someone else. They are
saying that in the World Affairs that net Ya who
will no longer be Israel's Prime minister by the end
of twenty twenty six, so that there's going to be backlash.
You know, there's still uncertainty, political maneuvering, delays, all that stuff.
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No Ukraine Russia ceasefire lasting thirty plus days by the
end of twenty twenty six, sixty percent say that that's
a a rough one.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
I hope for that. I hope for that.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
I mean that the bullying in the garbage that Ukraine
has suffered under Russia and Putin is just absolutely insane.
China does not invade or fully blockade Taiwan in twenty
twenty six. Seventy five percent says that more pressure showing
up in that, so it isn't really positive this look
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by Vox for twenty twenty six. I tend to look
at every new year as an opportunity for us to
find ourselves in a better way.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
We shall see, we shall see.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
CEOs are saying there unplugging over the holidays. Some say,
is that really unplugging, But they are setting some boundaries,
and this is a big deal. I think, even though
it's been exploited, that one of the good things that
came out of COVID, at least in my point of view,
was that we took a second look at our lives
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and the work life balance.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
And I've always been like.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Work, work, work guy, never been very balanced at all.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Like work was me.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
I was work, must work, and was always annoyed when
people didn't. I mean, I believe people deserve to take
time off, but it's like in this industry there it's
not always a whole lot of opportunity. So take it
where you can get it and show your dedication. And
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I was basically right in this, starting as an intern
here at KFI in ninety four, but I was already
in radio before that. I've been in radio since I
was I don't know, eighteen nineteen something like that.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
So over half my life.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
And I've always taken pride about being here at KFI.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
It's not.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
It's the best of the best. It doesn't play by
the rules of others, and so I take that seriously.
And yeah, I overworked a lot of times. I was,
you know, married once before, and I take my you know,
my part of that in the failed marriage or the
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marriage failing rather because you know, I worked a lot
and I've learned from that. But a lot of CEOs,
a lot of people don't do that. They just they
think that you're a men do this a lot too.
You're not a real man if you're not working all
the time and and doing all those things. And it's hard,
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but CEOs admit that they're They rarely fully unplug and
now now's the time you got to start doing these things.
Otherwise you're no good to anybody. And I'm sorry. Companies
just don't care about you like they used to. There's
not even a gold watch at the end of it.
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They used to celebrate anniversaries. I remember that they slowly
stopped doing it. You They'd celebrate your one year, your
five year, you're ten, you're fifteen, and you're twenty, something
like that. And that ended pretty pretty early on when
I was here, but it was like a big deal.
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You've been with the company. Now you can be here
thirty years, and it's like grab your box by And
I don't think that's unique to this business. I think
it's everywhere. But so devoting yourself to a company is
kind of stupid. You devote yourself to yourself. Think you
better yourself to the best you can in whatever thing
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you're doing in front of you. I love when I
see somebody who's good at what they do or puts
themselves into it. I don't care what they're doing, I
don't you know, whatever they're doing. If they're dedicated to it,
that always impresses, impresses me and will continue to and
I go, that person's gonna gonna grow.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
They're just gonna grow. People see that.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
It was Steve Martin who said, be so great that
they can't ignore you. And I don't think that's just
for entertainment. I think that's in life. So you have
to take care of yourself. On the flip side of that,
setting those boundaries, smalling thoughts, finding small ways to disconnect.
So this story talks about CEOs doing that, finding this
holiday season to be quieter, setting up these micro boundaries.
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They call them, not full shutdowns, but balance. And you know,
I've known people who would just disappear, like come the weekend,
you couldn't get a hold of them. And I'm not
saying you have to do that, especially in certain industries,
but you know, the work meetings. I'm not a fan
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of meetings. Brainstorming, yes, but a lot of meetings. The
old saying, when all is said and done, as much
as said little is done, just point me in the direction,
tell me what you need, and let me go do it.
The longer we talk about it, the more bored I get.
I don't want to do it. So they're saying, CEOs
are starting to look for outdoor adventures, unplugging that happens
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in chunks, not completely, but a chunk here, chunk there,
and some of it. They find time to do things
like using legos, which I love. I think anytime you're
creating or building, it's a healthy way to go through
life and to focus and push yourself into problem solving,
I think is one of the best things. Nothing better
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to me than problem solving. When I'm in my shop
at home and I'm building something, or I'm troubleshooting something.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
I designed something and i'm.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Working it out in CAT or computer aided drafting where
I'm designing something in the digital realm, three D printing
it or C and C cutting or whatever it is,
and I get past that problem.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Oh my gosh, my poor wife. I come in there.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
I'm like, I figured it out. But it's a great release,
a relief, and I think playing with legos and doing
these things that we're seeing CEOs finding is part of
that of that goal. Having a beginning, middle and end,
I think is one of the best ways to get
yourself focused. But finding this time, says the guy who's
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working on New Year's day. But finding this holiday time
as a demarcation for you, I think is a great
way to do it, stepping away between Christmas and New Year's,
having that time, focusing on a book, walking, uh, non
work relationships. It's another thing I've broken away from a
lot of, you know, the phony work relationship garbage, and
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focus on the people that have been there for me,
that I love and that I care about deeply. You know,
when there's firings or layoffs or things like that, you
start seeing as to who's who and what relationships were
built upon, just familiarity with the same location and all
of that. So being fully unplugged, finding a way to disconnect.
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And I said this earlier in the week that when
I left my management for those of you position here
at KFI, for those of you didn't know, I was
the assistant program director for many years before that, I
was the director of marketing, the director of promotions, and
I've been in a lot of management positions here at
the station.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
And I walked away from that.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
I was just like, it's it's not conducive to the
life that I want anymore. Got a young boy, older father,
and I want to be there for my family. And
the first thing I did was turn off the ringer
on my phone. It has not been on. It's almost
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never on. Now I have an Apple watch that you know, vibrates,
and I can glance at it if I've got it
on and go, okay, write a note.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
I'll get back to that person.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
But the whole, the whole thing about having to respond
right this moment or be anywhere. I make jokes about
it all the time, but the reality is, you know,
on my honeymoon in India, I got to call it
one in the morning. I tease her about this all
the time. When Robin Bertolucci was my superior and I've
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been called back from vacation because of fires, you know
that that was working long hours getting things done. In
news talk is there is no sleep. I mean, it's
no joke when you hear Heather Brooker going, uh, yeah,
I went to bed late last night at eight because
she's got to get up at one. You know, it's
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no joke when you have crazy hours. You know, Codo
going out just to have a night with his wife
or something. You got to calculate that in the sleep
time and all of those things play apart. But if
you're not finding that balance in there. If you're not
looking to unplug at some point, you're you're giving your
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life in a way that's not going to pay you back.
Nobody's going to say, hey man, you really did it.
You're not going to get that big bonus. I should explain. Uh,
cono bonuses were something they used to give out years ago.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Yeah, what what is that opinion? For two years? Haven't
got a raise? Wow, I'll give you a raise, buddy,
what do you want?
Speaker 1 (27:56):
How much you want? Oh, he's doing some math name
you got a pedil? Now's the time. No, I'm not
doing that. Yeah, I've done that. Shouldn't I've done it.
You're worth it for me, so you know, we all
say it, and I know that I haven't always been
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great about it. But finding that time for yourself, I
think it only makes you a better employee. Getting out
of the getting away from it the office and looking
at things differently, I think is so powerful and ends
up being super refreshing and makes you better at your
job by seeing a perspective. If you're in the bubble
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of work all the time, I think you become stagnant.
I think you become part of the wallpaper, rather than
seeing things and going, oh my gosh, I got a
great idea. This came to me where while I was
playing legos, you know, or watching a movie or reading
a book or playing with your kids. That's where the
ideas come from. They don't come from the mandate. I
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hate that kind of creativity. They just do that all
the time. Hey, we just got money for a billboard.
Come up with something now. I'm like, okay, well give
me a minute think about it. And you know, have
some time for creativity, So take some time for yourself.
Good old uncle Neil's given you permission.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
That's good advice.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Thanks, there's some good advice.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
We got good advice for you.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Yay.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
On a KI show.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
She's like, I'm taking off right now by me.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
It's New Year's Day everybody, January first, twenty twenty six.
And I will tell you this having a nine year old, yes,
you do learn about these things very early on, even
without cell phones and social media. This stuff travels in
schools with the young persons. So every year the Michigan
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Michigan College Annual Banished Words List takes aim at viral
slang and here's thing with social media slang has a
shorter shelf life, so it comes quickly, it gets loud
and annoying, and then it kind of dies down. But
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you know earlier, like we say in radio, the more
clever the spot or the more clever something is, the
shorter the shelf life. You hear the first time and go,
oh that's very funny, that's clever. Then you hear it
second time you go oh yeah, it's still clever, and
then the third time you're all a little less clever
because I just heard it for the third time and
it burns itself out well. Well, social media you get
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a lot of these things and at the top is
six seven.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
See sat of it? Brother? Uh it seeks sad.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
To see my son grow up and do these things
is kind of fun because it's like, oh, he's growing
into a little you know, a little human where they
have their own sayings with his his buddies and they're
all boys and girls as in.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Their sixcess don't don't know. I see what you're doing now, kono.
Speaker 6 (31:11):
Know, I know?
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Uhh, I see it. Well, it's worded about this one.
Speaker 4 (31:15):
To be honest, is that slang is usually like it
means something like cat no cat like you're lying.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
You're not lying. Yeah, you know, I get it. It's
just one is it's nothing.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
There's no meaning.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
It means nothing, it will never mean anything. It's it's
the world's biggest inside joke that has no real punchline. Yeah,
it really doesn't mean anything.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
I mean.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Parents are always like, well, what does that mean? It doesn't.
It's it's it's less meaningful than skivity. Like there they
get progressively or digressively less important, uh or meaningful as
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they go.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
But that's one of the ones.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
It's the most overused phrase of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Exactly. Yeah, that's one of them. That's at the very top.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
And I believe that what you do as a parent,
if you don't want to hear it is you don't
say hey, don't say that. You keep saying it. I'm on, like,
this is cool. I'm in the joke, and trust me,
they will run from it.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
My daughter does is doing this thing where? And I
don't know if your son is doing this or or kno,
your kids are. I think of older kids, right, except for.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
No, his you're younger. You have an eighteen year old.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
Yeah, yeah, doesn't say he's an older one older kid
there she does this thing where she like does this
line across her jaw, like they touch their jaw like this.
You have you ever seen that? Like it Like it's
like schul they pull their their cheeks in, they suck
their cheeks in, and then they go they drag their
their line on both sides, on both sides. Yeah, And
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it's like, I'm like, what is that? And she's like,
you don't get it. You wouldn't get it. And I'm like, huh,
so now I've started doing it and she's like, what
are you doing?
Speaker 2 (32:59):
Did you say you wouldn't get it, you wouldn't understand?
Speaker 3 (33:02):
Yeah, pretty much. You got to give it, you got
to serve it right back to them.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
I learned it at work. I learned it at work,
doesn't she said?
Speaker 3 (33:10):
It's I guess it's like indicating having like a tight
jaw line, a strong jaw line, strong jaw. That's what
the kids and the and the boys are wanting right now.
So the boys do it, and then the girls you know,
repeat it, and they start doing this.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
Does something similar where.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
They touch their jaw or he also does that like
the uh the wonder wondering or thinking emoji where you
put your thumb on one side of your and yeah,
and then they're pointing finger on the other side of
your jaw like.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
Hmm, yeah, she does that too, She'll do this.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Yeah, that's it's I don't know, but there's a bunch
of these banished words lists.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
The words that are on there.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
Demure, which came up was at the beginning of last
year when being demure and.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
It was some I want to say it was maybe
earlier this year. There was a TikToker that was saying
that she was very demure, very mindful, and that went
crazy viral and everybody was saying, I'm very demure, very mindful.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
Boy.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Incentivized was another one.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
They say incentivized, The kids say incentivized.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
These are overword over used words.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
Just not for kidding, Okay. I was like, I've never
heard my daughter say incentivized.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
You know.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Mad my Bad made the list again. It made the
list in nineteen ninety eight. Reach Out made the list
again this year. It made the list back in nineteen
ninety four. So some of these things cycle again. Gift
or gifted, like like someone gifted me, oh, gift. Oh,
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as a matter of fact, you gifted me something. The
other day, you sent me a link to the coffee
that you loved.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
Yeah, did you get that?
Speaker 4 (34:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (34:57):
I would have had and ordered it.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
Did you really?
Speaker 2 (34:59):
Of course?
Speaker 3 (35:00):
I'm so glad.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
I want to hear what you think when somebody recommends
food or something to me. I take that as very wow.
I gotta tell you, in all honesty, Cono is laxadaisical.
He takes his job very loosely, and so I'm not
used to watching him move so fast. He jumped on
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that like he was he's waiting, waiting for the fat joke.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
And he's got a big smile on his face. He's
proud of himself on that one.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
He as.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
He moved so fast he almost slipped off those four
yellow page phone books that he's sitting on.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
Boy, no I do. I'm not gonna get through it.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
I do take it seriously when someone recommends something to me,
because that's like a personal like, hey, can you try this,
not just food but a movie or things like that.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
Cone, well, enjoy it. I want to know what you think.
It's delicio. I had people actually message me on Instagram
asking me about it as well.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
Oh smelling it. So if it say the name and
explain so that people know sure.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
So it is called Cometeer Coffee and it is frozen
concentrated coffee that comes in little pods that gets shipped
to your house. It's like a subscription service if you
like it and you keep it in the freezer and
then you just thow it out at hot water and
you got fresh coffee. And it's like comes in blends
that you can choose, like almost like a wine blend,
Like I want something a little more bold with notes
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of chocolate and almond, and you can.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
Just no pretense, but a slight, precocious finish.
Speaker 3 (36:42):
A precocious finish on my java.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
But I will tell you, as you were opening it,
you said, just give it a smell, and I was like,
holy smokes. And I'm a very I'm very dedicated to
Cafe Leave, which is our that's an espresso that we use. Yeah,
it's from the Don Francisco family, and it's huge.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
We buy we buy lots of it.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
And but when someone tells me you've got to try
this and it has that aroma, I'm like, dad, you
got to try that.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
There is something really just amazing about the smell of
a fresh coffee and the way that they're able to
capture that in like a frozen pod. It's pretty impressive.
Speaker 1 (37:19):
And you can add cold water and have it as
iced coffee, or you can add hot water and have
it as absolutely Yeah, So forward to it on your
best and I'm looking forward to trying it yay, And
it's I do take it seriously, Cono when someone offers something,
not just food, but are you going to finish that
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bigel in there or.
Speaker 3 (37:44):
Share it with us?
Speaker 6 (37:45):
Now?
Speaker 3 (37:45):
I can't believe nobody brought in like, nobody brought in
some New Year snacks for the crew. That's here.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
I was up till we get that you're talking to
me because oh no, I was just.
Speaker 3 (37:54):
Talking like management. Maybe if any managers are listening, help
help us out.
Speaker 2 (37:58):
We're the only people.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
No, I mean, they could have had like some portos
or something sent to I don't know, pizza. We're the
only people working today. When I sign off today, there's
no other live people the rest of the day. So
it's like, come on, send us a cake.
Speaker 2 (38:15):
Wow, you heard it here.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
Neil Sevedra and the morning crew more to come. We
have one hour to more to hang out together before
the station goes off the air. Apparently at am and
farewell suck it listener.
Speaker 2 (38:30):
All right, let's get the no, let's just go to
the top of the hour.
Speaker 1 (38:33):
Deal in the morning Crew KFI AM six forty six Saturday.
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Speaker 1 (00:17):
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Nil Savadra in the morning crew here had the Brookery
in for Amy King, you got Trey Alexander in for Well.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
And Matt's here and I see conow.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Bill's off this week. He'll be back next week, and
I'll be off next week. I think it is the
longest I've gone without seeing that man in some time.
If you'd like to happy New Year to you. By
the way, if you would like to leave a question
for any of us tomorrow during ask Handle anything, well,
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and you get thirty seconds to ask us a question
and we'll be we'll do our best. Well, we usually
answer what eight or nine of them kno, something like that,
so we'll see what we can do. I'm humored by
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talkbacks that have no logic or reason to them. They
just don't like your politics. I hear them for handle
all the time. I'm like, listen if you want to say, hey,
here's some information you don't have, or but like it's
like yelling at somebody for going.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Oh my god, you like vanilla ice cream? Oh my god,
who's Vanilla Bros? All about chuck a lot.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Anyways, still humors. Saw a story and it comes at
a weird time. This story by Peggy Noonan in the
Wall Street Journal about gallantry, and we'll talk a little
bit about what gallantry is and why she says that
it needs to come back for twenty twenty six, and
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I could not agree anymore. It just is, we have
really our moral compass and our desire to serve each
other has been out of whack for some time, but
it is it's gotten to the point where it is
really really bad. But this also comes at a time
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where Heather Brooker and I just realized, you know, everybody's
on tape today, So it's kind of hard to be
have gallantry when we're kind of like.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Sacrificing. Yeah, right, where is everybody? What on earth?
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Oh it's it's New Year's Day. You think Chanon's going
to come in when there's football on?
Speaker 3 (03:15):
That's true. I asked her yesterday I was doing. She
said she was going to be relaxing at home and
some comfy clothes and.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Yeah, get some fat pants on and get some snacks,
watch television on a cold day. Doesn't sound magical. I don't, definitely,
but I wish for everyone to have that. So gallantry, Uh,
basically it's acting without expectation, you know, no reward, no credit,
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standing up for week weaker people or causes that you
that can't repay you, and.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
You know, having strength and not using it cruelly.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Confidence but not the ego kind, doing the right thing
and you know, saying it wasn't anything. It's like that's
the normal thing to do when you know it's like
I don't look for a reward from my wife because
I don't sleep around like look at me, you.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Know, sticking to our oathh who's a good guy?
Speaker 1 (04:25):
You you do it because that's those are the promises
you put out there or those are the things that
you said. We've gotten to this place where even if
you have a right to do something doesn't mean you
should do it.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
And I've said this before on the air.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
You know, as somebody who is a person of faith,
by no means doesn't make you perfect in any way,
shape or form.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
But also, just because it's legal.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
To do in the United States doesn't mean that a
person of faith can do it. You go to Nevada,
it's legal to get a prostitute. But just because just
because you can do something doesn't mean you should. And
the reason why I point that out is because yes,
we have rights in America, and there are rights, individual
rights that we can utilize, but there's times when you
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have to look at the hole and that that's more important,
and that just exercising your rights just because you can
is not a good thing. I see people doing stupid
ass things more than ever before, Like driving on the
side of the you know, when there's traffic on the freeway,
driving on the shoulder, and one guy will do it
(05:42):
and you go, okay, that's a wing nut, and then
another person does it and it gives permission that old
concept of And I've seen this firsthand when my wife
and I lived in an apartment when we first got married.
We lived in an apartment in Hollywood, and someone left
something out front, maybe they moved out of the apartment complex,
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and I don't know, maybe it was a table or
a chair, or someone left a cup there or whatever
it was. And I'm like, just watch, and sure enough,
by trash day there was a couch out there. Now
like people just started piling garbage. It's what we do well,
(06:26):
just any anytime you loosen up anything, we will go
for the loosest point, that the weakest link, we will
go through. And so this this call to reclaim gallantry,
not not just courage, but the expression of courage, bravery, bravery,
but with humility, restraint, and moral style. Rejecting bragging or
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winning loudly. I love that that saying you should lose
with your head up and win with your head down,
having the balance in life. If you do have the
chance to get a win, if you have these things,
don't shove it down people's throats. Don't you know there's
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if people ask or want guidance or advice, give it freely.
Don't gate keep the concept of winning loudly and I've
said this before, is insecurity is loud. Confidence is quiet,
And so when people start to get loud about things,
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that shows me a weakness.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
It happens, happens to all of us. But when people
get you know.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
This, better than you, higher than now, whatever you want
to call it, do things because they're right. Don't look
for expectation, not credit, not reward. Standing up for weaker
people I think is important. Unfortunately, I think we always
(08:10):
assume the weaker are right though. You know, we have
a thing about people that are oppressed in this country,
and then you have to go, well, yeah, criminals may
be oppressed in prison, but why and things like that,
So understanding more about if you're actually helping or if
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you like people will often go look, I'm helping the poor,
and it's like, well are you.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Are you really doing?
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Are you trying to get them? You help people out
of situations, not lifestyles. If there's a situation in which
you can reach out and say, hey, man, I know
you got kicked in the in the goodies because of
this happened or whatever it is, that's a situation. But
if somebody is living a certain way, they don't want
to work they don't want to do.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
So you can't help anybody out of that. They're an alcoholic.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
You have to Yeah, you can't just give them a
little something to get them out of it. So I
like this, Peggy Noonan. I like this article. We need
to return to gallantry. And this is preaching to myself too,
that core message. You can be decisive without being brutal.
You can win without humiliating others, you can lead without boasting,
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and we could be better. January first, twenty twenty six,
We're here.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
We did it. You. Uh, you're a.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Pretty positive guy, aren't you. Kono, Yeah, you are. You
love your family, you got kids.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
I do.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
All those things are true?
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Yeah, yeah, right?
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Are you looking forward at twenty twenty six?
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Brother?
Speaker 4 (09:45):
I guess I don't know. It's I don't know all
the same other people like you. Just this is going
to be the start, like you should have started in October.
I don't think that moth matters, So it doesn't. I
don't care.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Every moment, every day is a new beginning all that.
But do you get hopeful of the new year?
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Do you go? I'm gonna no, I guess I'm hopeful.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
If I'm hopeful I'm hopeful in the day all that,
like the January one, doesn't be like I'm a beautiful
now I don't.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
It's not.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
That's not a me take, that's not a mean to. No,
that's that's uh, the year changed. Oh this is my
don't do that.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
No, I'd get it's an arbitrary mark, a line in
the sand that we go, Okay, here's something. But whatever
gets you kicked off. I mean, you can't win a
race unless someone says, Okay, this is the starting line
and this is the finish line.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
It's just what we do in life.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
Yeah, I guess my starting line is just on my eyes.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Open the wake up. That's a good day. Well.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Vox put out like a breakdown of twenty six things
they think will happen in the year twenty twenty six,
and a lot of these have to do with politics,
but it looks at the economy and climate and tech
and health and all these things and culture. But breaking
down a lot of people try and guess as to
what's and go down with politics.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
The problem is you can't out think Trump. You can't.
He's a wild card.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Not on a particular topic, but every day, like moment
to moment.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
He's a wild card. And I know Handle.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
This is the thing I've known Handled for thirty years,
and I tease him all the time that he has
gotten more hyperbolic. But Trump brings that out in people.
And although I'm not a fan of the guy as
a person, that doesn't mean everything he does is going
to be wrong.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
It just doesn't.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
And so I look at everything across the board individually
and I pick and choose.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
That's what a brain is for.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
You know, not everything is going that comes out of
this guy is going to be bad. I'm sorry. I
don't believe that in anybody. And like I said, if
the devil looks me in the eye and says two
plus two equals.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Four, they're still right.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
So this kind of takes on a lot of it
that the democracy, US democracy is going to weaken. I
don't know what that means. I know I hear a
lot of people think, you know, we're losing our rights.
And I would say that if I were a woman
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and I looked at you know, reproductive rights, I'd say,
I hope someone re looks at this because you know,
or looks at this from the point of view of
the woman.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
If I were gay.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Yeah, I would be annoyed at the very least to say, hey,
are they really re looking at whether gay marriage is
going to be legal. I don't think that's going to flip.
I don't think that's going to change. But other than
those things, do I think that we're losing our rights?
Speaker 2 (12:57):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
I think we have checks balances in place, and they
continue to do what they're supposed to do. Right, not everything.
You know, the president's not even getting away with everything.
There are checks and balances. And as I've said before
and we'll say again, I'm a big we the people person.
There's more of us than them, and the more the
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larger government we get, the worst things will be. Smaller
government makes sense. Strangely enough, is the left and right
both have these hypocritical stances on things. The left wants
bigger government to take care of more people. Yet if
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it's not a liberal mind in there, then what are you.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Going to do?
Speaker 1 (13:50):
So it's so the structure should be on a case
by case basis as to you know where things can
be because if if you can do it as a president,
when if you're okay with it when your person's in there,
then you got to be okay with it when your
person's not in there. Democrats taking back at least one
chamber of Congress. People are saying that that could be
(14:12):
a ninety five percent chance. Historically, yeah, that's probably gonna happen.
The midterm always punishes the president's party, whoever's in so
that's probably gonna take place. But again, we keep seeing
things that are that word that we love so much, unprecedented,
and it keeps popping up.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
So how is that going to play out? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
At least one major education department function survives. They say
that Trump can't fully dissolve the department without Congress, so
maybe something will stay. But again, if we're looking around
saying if Trump likes this, then we can't, or if
the left likes this, we can't. If you get into
that mentality, man, that's a cult. That's not politics. Now
(14:58):
you've lost your mind and you just are doing whatever
or reacting to whomever's in office that you don't like,
because ultimately I would rather them go. Okay, We'll look
at this regardless of who's in office. Look at the
Department of Education. Is America bursting at the seams with
(15:20):
great education? No we have highly problem highly problematic education
in California.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Now, my kid goes to a public school and I
rather like it.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
I think they do a nice job, and I think
that the principal and the teachers are attentive. But my
wife's very involved in that too. They're at the school
and being a participant. And I am too, just not
as much as she is. And that's a big part
(15:54):
of your kid's education, how much you're involved in it.
Supreme Court rules against Trump on tariffs. That's a belief
that is going to be a big thing throughout twenty
twenty six, so says Vox. Lower courts say that Trump
exceeded authority under emergency powers. Trump is absolutely, without a doubt,
testing what the powers of the presidency mean and where
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they can go. But he's only in for four years,
no matter what anybody thinks, and he keeps goating people.
He really owns people like nobody's business. I don't know
who owns me like that. I don't know nobody lives
rent free in my head like that, not even the
President of the United States.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
I've never known you. Kono you think you do? I gotcha?
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Listen Cono on do you buddy.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
It's really refreshing.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
At at eight fifty eight is when you leave my
head eight fifty eight morning, I go, there's no I
don't know about that.
Speaker 6 (17:04):
Okay, there's what messages memes that's one fourteen in the morning.
I love you, buddy, I love you buddy. You gotta
put a block. I miss you, buddy. But it is funny.
It's like that people are owned like does this make
you mad? I go, that takes takes a lot to
(17:26):
make me mad. I don't want anybody owning me like that.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Ever, Trump replaces at least one Supreme Court justice. They
say there's a seventy five percent chance of that, but
that's you know, people age out. That's that's the one
thing that I'll give anybody. Trump got a lot on
the Supreme Court and that's forever. But most things that
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he does can be reversed by someone else. They are
saying that in the World Affairs that net Ya who
will no longer be Israel's Prime minister by the end
of twenty twenty six, so that there's going to be backlash.
You know, there's still uncertainty, political maneuvering, delays, all that stuff.
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No Ukraine Russia ceasefire lasting thirty plus days by the
end of twenty twenty six, sixty percent say that that's
a a rough one.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
I hope for that. I hope for that.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
I mean that the bullying in the garbage that Ukraine
has suffered under Russia and Putin is just absolutely insane.
China does not invade or fully blockade Taiwan in twenty
twenty six. Seventy five percent says that more pressure showing
up in that, so it isn't really positive this look
(18:48):
by Vox for twenty twenty six. I tend to look
at every new year as an opportunity for us to
find ourselves in a better way.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
We shall see, we shall see.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
CEOs are saying there unplugging over the holidays. Some say,
is that really unplugging, But they are setting some boundaries,
and this is a big deal. I think, even though
it's been exploited, that one of the good things that
came out of COVID, at least in my point of view,
was that we took a second look at our lives
(19:22):
and the work life balance.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
And I've always been like.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Work, work, work guy, never been very balanced at all.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Like work was me.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
I was work, must work, and was always annoyed when
people didn't. I mean, I believe people deserve to take
time off, but it's like in this industry there it's
not always a whole lot of opportunity. So take it
where you can get it and show your dedication. And
(19:58):
I was basically right in this, starting as an intern
here at KFI in ninety four, but I was already
in radio before that. I've been in radio since I
was I don't know, eighteen nineteen something like that.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
So over half my life.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
And I've always taken pride about being here at KFI.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
It's not.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
It's the best of the best. It doesn't play by
the rules of others, and so I take that seriously.
And yeah, I overworked a lot of times. I was,
you know, married once before, and I take my you know,
my part of that in the failed marriage or the
(20:39):
marriage failing rather because you know, I worked a lot
and I've learned from that. But a lot of CEOs,
a lot of people don't do that. They just they
think that you're a men do this a lot too.
You're not a real man if you're not working all
the time and and doing all those things. And it's hard,
(21:00):
but CEOs admit that they're They rarely fully unplug and
now now's the time you got to start doing these things.
Otherwise you're no good to anybody. And I'm sorry. Companies
just don't care about you like they used to. There's
not even a gold watch at the end of it.
(21:21):
They used to celebrate anniversaries. I remember that they slowly
stopped doing it. You They'd celebrate your one year, your
five year, you're ten, you're fifteen, and you're twenty, something
like that. And that ended pretty pretty early on when
I was here, but it was like a big deal.
(21:41):
You've been with the company. Now you can be here
thirty years, and it's like grab your box by And
I don't think that's unique to this business. I think
it's everywhere. But so devoting yourself to a company is
kind of stupid. You devote yourself to yourself. Think you
better yourself to the best you can in whatever thing
(22:03):
you're doing in front of you. I love when I
see somebody who's good at what they do or puts
themselves into it. I don't care what they're doing, I
don't you know, whatever they're doing. If they're dedicated to it,
that always impresses, impresses me and will continue to and
I go, that person's gonna gonna grow.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
They're just gonna grow. People see that.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
It was Steve Martin who said, be so great that
they can't ignore you. And I don't think that's just
for entertainment. I think that's in life. So you have
to take care of yourself. On the flip side of that,
setting those boundaries, smalling thoughts, finding small ways to disconnect.
So this story talks about CEOs doing that, finding this
holiday season to be quieter, setting up these micro boundaries.
(22:50):
They call them, not full shutdowns, but balance. And you know,
I've known people who would just disappear, like come the weekend,
you couldn't get a hold of them. And I'm not
saying you have to do that, especially in certain industries,
but you know, the work meetings. I'm not a fan
(23:11):
of meetings. Brainstorming, yes, but a lot of meetings. The
old saying, when all is said and done, as much
as said little is done, just point me in the direction,
tell me what you need, and let me go do it.
The longer we talk about it, the more bored I get.
I don't want to do it. So they're saying, CEOs
are starting to look for outdoor adventures, unplugging that happens
(23:34):
in chunks, not completely, but a chunk here, chunk there,
and some of it. They find time to do things
like using legos, which I love. I think anytime you're
creating or building, it's a healthy way to go through
life and to focus and push yourself into problem solving,
I think is one of the best things. Nothing better
(23:54):
to me than problem solving. When I'm in my shop
at home and I'm building something, or I'm troubleshooting something.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
I designed something and i'm.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Working it out in CAT or computer aided drafting where
I'm designing something in the digital realm, three D printing
it or C and C cutting or whatever it is,
and I get past that problem.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Oh my gosh, my poor wife. I come in there.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
I'm like, I figured it out. But it's a great release,
a relief, and I think playing with legos and doing
these things that we're seeing CEOs finding is part of
that of that goal. Having a beginning, middle and end,
I think is one of the best ways to get
yourself focused. But finding this time, says the guy who's
(24:46):
working on New Year's day. But finding this holiday time
as a demarcation for you, I think is a great
way to do it, stepping away between Christmas and New Year's,
having that time, focusing on a book, walking, uh, non
work relationships. It's another thing I've broken away from a
lot of, you know, the phony work relationship garbage, and
(25:09):
focus on the people that have been there for me,
that I love and that I care about deeply. You know,
when there's firings or layoffs or things like that, you
start seeing as to who's who and what relationships were
built upon, just familiarity with the same location and all
of that. So being fully unplugged, finding a way to disconnect.
(25:31):
And I said this earlier in the week that when
I left my management for those of you position here
at KFI, for those of you didn't know, I was
the assistant program director for many years before that, I
was the director of marketing, the director of promotions, and
I've been in a lot of management positions here at
the station.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
And I walked away from that.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
I was just like, it's it's not conducive to the
life that I want anymore. Got a young boy, older father,
and I want to be there for my family. And
the first thing I did was turn off the ringer
on my phone. It has not been on. It's almost
(26:12):
never on. Now I have an Apple watch that you know, vibrates,
and I can glance at it if I've got it
on and go, okay, write a note.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
I'll get back to that person.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
But the whole, the whole thing about having to respond
right this moment or be anywhere. I make jokes about
it all the time, but the reality is, you know,
on my honeymoon in India, I got to call it
one in the morning. I tease her about this all
the time. When Robin Bertolucci was my superior and I've
(26:49):
been called back from vacation because of fires, you know
that that was working long hours getting things done. In
news talk is there is no sleep. I mean, it's
no joke when you hear Heather Brooker going, uh, yeah,
I went to bed late last night at eight because
she's got to get up at one. You know, it's
(27:11):
no joke when you have crazy hours. You know, Codo
going out just to have a night with his wife
or something. You got to calculate that in the sleep
time and all of those things play apart. But if
you're not finding that balance in there. If you're not
looking to unplug at some point, you're you're giving your
(27:32):
life in a way that's not going to pay you back.
Nobody's going to say, hey man, you really did it.
You're not going to get that big bonus. I should explain. Uh,
cono bonuses were something they used to give out years ago.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Yeah, what what is that opinion? For two years? Haven't
got a raise? Wow, I'll give you a raise, buddy,
what do you want?
Speaker 1 (27:56):
How much you want? Oh, he's doing some math name
you got a pedil? Now's the time. No, I'm not
doing that. Yeah, I've done that. Shouldn't I've done it.
You're worth it for me, so you know, we all
say it, and I know that I haven't always been
(28:17):
great about it. But finding that time for yourself, I
think it only makes you a better employee. Getting out
of the getting away from it the office and looking
at things differently, I think is so powerful and ends
up being super refreshing and makes you better at your
job by seeing a perspective. If you're in the bubble
(28:38):
of work all the time, I think you become stagnant.
I think you become part of the wallpaper, rather than
seeing things and going, oh my gosh, I got a
great idea. This came to me where while I was
playing legos, you know, or watching a movie or reading
a book or playing with your kids. That's where the
ideas come from. They don't come from the mandate. I
(28:59):
hate that kind of creativity. They just do that all
the time. Hey, we just got money for a billboard.
Come up with something now. I'm like, okay, well give
me a minute think about it. And you know, have
some time for creativity, So take some time for yourself.
Good old uncle Neil's given you permission.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
That's good advice.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Thanks, there's some good advice.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
We got good advice for you.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Yay.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
On a KI show.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
She's like, I'm taking off right now by me.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
It's New Year's Day everybody, January first, twenty twenty six.
And I will tell you this having a nine year old, yes,
you do learn about these things very early on, even
without cell phones and social media. This stuff travels in
schools with the young persons. So every year the Michigan
(29:54):
Michigan College Annual Banished Words List takes aim at viral
slang and here's thing with social media slang has a
shorter shelf life, so it comes quickly, it gets loud
and annoying, and then it kind of dies down. But
(30:16):
you know earlier, like we say in radio, the more
clever the spot or the more clever something is, the
shorter the shelf life. You hear the first time and go,
oh that's very funny, that's clever. Then you hear it
second time you go oh yeah, it's still clever, and
then the third time you're all a little less clever
because I just heard it for the third time and
it burns itself out well. Well, social media you get
(30:38):
a lot of these things and at the top is
six seven.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
See sat of it? Brother? Uh it seeks sad.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
To see my son grow up and do these things
is kind of fun because it's like, oh, he's growing
into a little you know, a little human where they
have their own sayings with his his buddies and they're
all boys and girls as in.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Their sixcess don't don't know. I see what you're doing now, kono.
Speaker 6 (31:11):
Know, I know?
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Uhh, I see it. Well, it's worded about this one.
Speaker 4 (31:15):
To be honest, is that slang is usually like it
means something like cat no cat like you're lying.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
You're not lying. Yeah, you know, I get it. It's
just one is it's nothing.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
There's no meaning.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
It means nothing, it will never mean anything. It's it's
the world's biggest inside joke that has no real punchline. Yeah,
it really doesn't mean anything.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
I mean.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Parents are always like, well, what does that mean? It doesn't.
It's it's it's less meaningful than skivity. Like there they
get progressively or digressively less important, uh or meaningful as
(31:58):
they go.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
But that's one of the ones.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
It's the most overused phrase of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Exactly. Yeah, that's one of them. That's at the very top.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
And I believe that what you do as a parent,
if you don't want to hear it is you don't
say hey, don't say that. You keep saying it. I'm on, like,
this is cool. I'm in the joke, and trust me,
they will run from it.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
My daughter does is doing this thing where? And I
don't know if your son is doing this or or kno,
your kids are. I think of older kids, right, except for.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
No, his you're younger. You have an eighteen year old.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
Yeah, yeah, doesn't say he's an older one older kid
there she does this thing where she like does this
line across her jaw, like they touch their jaw like this.
You have you ever seen that? Like it Like it's
like schul they pull their their cheeks in, they suck
their cheeks in, and then they go they drag their
their line on both sides, on both sides. Yeah, And
(32:51):
it's like, I'm like, what is that? And she's like,
you don't get it. You wouldn't get it. And I'm like, huh,
so now I've started doing it and she's like, what
are you doing?
Speaker 2 (32:59):
Did you say you wouldn't get it, you wouldn't understand?
Speaker 3 (33:02):
Yeah, pretty much. You got to give it, you got
to serve it right back to them.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
I learned it at work. I learned it at work,
doesn't she said?
Speaker 3 (33:10):
It's I guess it's like indicating having like a tight
jaw line, a strong jaw line, strong jaw. That's what
the kids and the and the boys are wanting right now.
So the boys do it, and then the girls you know,
repeat it, and they start doing this.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
Does something similar where.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
They touch their jaw or he also does that like
the uh the wonder wondering or thinking emoji where you
put your thumb on one side of your and yeah,
and then they're pointing finger on the other side of
your jaw like.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
Hmm, yeah, she does that too, She'll do this.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Yeah, that's it's I don't know, but there's a bunch
of these banished words lists.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
The words that are on there.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
Demure, which came up was at the beginning of last
year when being demure and.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
It was some I want to say it was maybe
earlier this year. There was a TikToker that was saying
that she was very demure, very mindful, and that went
crazy viral and everybody was saying, I'm very demure, very mindful.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
Boy.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Incentivized was another one.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
They say incentivized, The kids say incentivized.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
These are overword over used words.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
Just not for kidding, Okay. I was like, I've never
heard my daughter say incentivized.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
You know.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Mad my Bad made the list again. It made the
list in nineteen ninety eight. Reach Out made the list
again this year. It made the list back in nineteen
ninety four. So some of these things cycle again. Gift
or gifted, like like someone gifted me, oh, gift. Oh,
(34:50):
as a matter of fact, you gifted me something. The
other day, you sent me a link to the coffee
that you loved.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
Yeah, did you get that?
Speaker 4 (34:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (34:57):
I would have had and ordered it.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
Did you really?
Speaker 2 (34:59):
Of course?
Speaker 3 (35:00):
I'm so glad.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
I want to hear what you think when somebody recommends
food or something to me. I take that as very wow.
I gotta tell you, in all honesty, Cono is laxadaisical.
He takes his job very loosely, and so I'm not
used to watching him move so fast. He jumped on
(35:23):
that like he was he's waiting, waiting for the fat joke.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
And he's got a big smile on his face. He's
proud of himself on that one.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
He as.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
He moved so fast he almost slipped off those four
yellow page phone books that he's sitting on.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
Boy, no I do. I'm not gonna get through it.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
I do take it seriously when someone recommends something to me,
because that's like a personal like, hey, can you try this,
not just food but a movie or things like that.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
Cone, well, enjoy it. I want to know what you think.
It's delicio. I had people actually message me on Instagram
asking me about it as well.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
Oh smelling it. So if it say the name and
explain so that people know sure.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
So it is called Cometeer Coffee and it is frozen
concentrated coffee that comes in little pods that gets shipped
to your house. It's like a subscription service if you
like it and you keep it in the freezer and
then you just thow it out at hot water and
you got fresh coffee. And it's like comes in blends
that you can choose, like almost like a wine blend,
Like I want something a little more bold with notes
(36:35):
of chocolate and almond, and you can.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
Just no pretense, but a slight, precocious finish.
Speaker 3 (36:42):
A precocious finish on my java.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
But I will tell you, as you were opening it,
you said, just give it a smell, and I was like,
holy smokes. And I'm a very I'm very dedicated to
Cafe Leave, which is our that's an espresso that we use. Yeah,
it's from the Don Francisco family, and it's huge.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
We buy we buy lots of it.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
And but when someone tells me you've got to try
this and it has that aroma, I'm like, dad, you
got to try that.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
There is something really just amazing about the smell of
a fresh coffee and the way that they're able to
capture that in like a frozen pod. It's pretty impressive.
Speaker 1 (37:19):
And you can add cold water and have it as
iced coffee, or you can add hot water and have
it as absolutely Yeah, So forward to it on your
best and I'm looking forward to trying it yay, And
it's I do take it seriously, Cono when someone offers something,
not just food, but are you going to finish that
(37:41):
bigel in there or.
Speaker 3 (37:44):
Share it with us?
Speaker 6 (37:45):
Now?
Speaker 3 (37:45):
I can't believe nobody brought in like, nobody brought in
some New Year snacks for the crew. That's here.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
I was up till we get that you're talking to
me because oh no, I was just.
Speaker 3 (37:54):
Talking like management. Maybe if any managers are listening, help
help us out.
Speaker 2 (37:58):
We're the only people.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
No, I mean, they could have had like some portos
or something sent to I don't know, pizza. We're the
only people working today. When I sign off today, there's
no other live people the rest of the day. So
it's like, come on, send us a cake.
Speaker 2 (38:15):
Wow, you heard it here.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
Neil Sevedra and the morning crew more to come. We
have one hour to more to hang out together before
the station goes off the air. Apparently at am and
farewell suck it listener.
Speaker 2 (38:30):
All right, let's get the no, let's just go to
the top of the hour.
Speaker 1 (38:33):
Deal in the morning Crew KFI AM six forty six Saturday.
Speaker 3 (38:38):
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Speaker 1 (38:40):
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