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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, Killy Nash. Hello, it's Tomorrow show. Today we'll be
getting over the hump tomorrow on the sixteenth of October,
two days after the big Christopher Columbus celebration. You can't
even find a bag of pot in this town. Good morning,
it's oh and we will be celebrating the first victory
for the women's basketball team for the game Cocks. Although
it's exhibition A does count steel Oh well, it counts
(00:23):
in your heart, yes, but not in the record books.
Not in the record books. All right. And then we
got men's basketball kicks off here what the thirtieth, the
thirtieth of October is their first game.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
And I saw that CMB was made the All SEC teams.
So congratulations to mister Boyle.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
All right, now let's talk about the sen Well, but
six thirty. You know you're going to win to what
you're talking about, because we've got more tickets before you
can buy them for Caine brown.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Well and Jonathan I kind of, you know, maybe did
a little bit of an honor to you. I used
you as the example, oh good, in our word that
we're coming up with for what you talk about. And
again the answer is always posted at ninety seventy five
to b CS dot com. So lexicographer lexic and Jonathan
(01:10):
Rush is an amateur lexicographer.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
All right, so obviously I'm creating a book or a
collection of some type. Correct, and it would be photographs possibly,
but I don't do scrap booking, so it's just words.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Somebody who compiles words, often put into a dictionary form
would be a lexicographer or an amateur of that. And
by the way, tomorrow is the birth we say it's
the birthday. I guess it is the birthday. If they're dead, right,
it's still their birthday. Sure they were born on that day.
Birth anniversary, Yeah, whatever, heavenly birthday. Noah Webster born on
(01:53):
October sixteenth, seventeen fifty eight. You want to guess where
he's from? Boston, mass Hotford, Connecticut.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Oh, and no reason to celebrate Hartford.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
I went to his house when I was a kid,
did you. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. We went to Mark
Twain's house. We went to Noah Webster's house. We see
all the houses. There's like ten famous people from Hartford area,
so you have to go visit their houses.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
And I'm trying to think of the famous people Woodrow
Wilson's childhood home. He lived here. One summer, I.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Went to Woodrow Wilson's home in I want to say Virginia, okay,
but it seems like it would have been New Jersey
because wasn't isn't isn't that's where he's from. Now you
got me, brother, But I remember that was a bizarre,
inadvertent rendezvous with history.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
All right.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
I pulled off to go find gas and they were like,
Woodrow Wilson's home is right here, and I went in.
I was like, well, we got to see it. It's
Woodrow Wilson's. I mean, the chances of being in front
of Woodrow Wilson's home ever again is.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
He's got a restroom here, which is really what I
was looking for. Later I got to go to the visitor.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
We go in and it was like they were it
was like his birthday or something. Oh wow, So they
were celebrating and I got a free piece of cake
that day. I think, this is awesome. That's great. I
want to look that up where that is. But yeah,
I remember going to Woodrow Wilson's house once, you know,
as a.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Dad, I think one of my and there are many failings,
many many, We won't get into all of them. But
as a kid, and I don't know why this didn't
stick with me more when I became a dad. As
a kid, my dad, my mom, But I think it
was my dad's idea would take us to all these
you know, historical places like Thomas Edison's workshop. Now that
(03:48):
was a cool place to visit, Okay, and you could,
you know, wander off into all of the areas of
the workshop because it was cordawned off. But you know
you're sitting there thinking, this is where he was thinking hot.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Thoughts.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
I've tried about a thousand times to make something I
want to call a light bulb. Let's try it one
more time. I mean, he was a hardheaded man.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
What if I did this instead of that?
Speaker 1 (04:15):
How did that work?
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Yeah? By the way, the name of the town that
Woodrow Wilson's home is, and it's a presidential library as well,
is Staunton, which is just off of eighty one, Staunton, Virginia.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Staunton, Virginia. Yeah, but I never took my kids anywhere
like that. I should have.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
It's not too late.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
I remember the first time I went to the Washington monument.
Was the first time I saw a guy who had
one of those change makers on his belt.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Okay, that was the first time you'd ever seen that,
first time I'd ever seen that. I loved that. When
I was a kid. I just have memories of the
ice cream man, yeah, wearing those yeah change That's the
first time I'd ever seen one, and I was I'm
going to get I.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Was like seven, Okay, that is so cool. You go
to the store, you know you're gonna buy like some
blow pops and stuff. You spit quarters and nickels out
no matter how many you need, area are right there.
And I ended up getting one of those. You had one.
Yes as a child. I think I was at a
yard celle with my grandmother and I said, I really
(05:21):
want one of those, and nobody was betting on it.
I think she got it for a quarter okay, and
then she gave me some change to put in it.
And I used to wear I used to wear that
thing in Newberry. I'd be peddling around and going to
the store and get a get up. What was a
push up? Remember the push ups?
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (05:41):
The ice cream the ice cream treat stuck in the
toilet paper wrapper.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
You got the toilet paper roll inside some a tasty
treat was great out. I wonder if I had one now,
if I would think they were tasty.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
I bet I bet you they would.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
You think, Yeah, I don't know. It seems like a
lot of things that I remember being nice when I
was a child. Yeah, when you try him after like
twenty five or thirty or like, this is not as
good as I remembered then.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
I remember having that thing as a kid. I used
to wear it all the time.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Must have been the cool kid in the neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Yeah, well, I have change in your pocket. I got it,
strapped them up belt.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
The other thing that I was fascinated with because I
too was fascinated by that idea of just pushing that
little chinger thing or whatever.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
I still got it, by the way, can you imagine
that I still have that in my room and saluta.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
The other thing that I was obsessed with as a
child was when we would go We used to go
to the A and P. Grocery store. They had those
not here, oh yump, So the A and P grocery
store When I was little, before we started going to
shopwrite and stopping shop. It was the amp. And I
can remember the cashiers in the early seventies. They would
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they would all seem to fly when they were typing
in the numbers, like they they never looked at the
cash registered. They could work it is and it's hard
for anybody under the age of imagining forty to know
that there was a time when there was no scanning available, right.
So they they would look at there would be like
a little price sticker on the canopies or whatever, say,
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you know, probably back then thirty nine cents.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Yes, I used to put those on my grandfather's store.
I had to stamp.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Them, okay, And so they would just they would be
looking at whatever they were pushing along and they were
able to type it. And then when they would they
would have to hit like a bigger button and they
would usually hit it with the like the right fat
side of their palm, so the opposite of their thumb,
and they could type, type, type, type, hit that with
that thing, brink and it would just not g it
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to the next level. And I would be so fascinated.
I would be practicing it, you know, practicing it. I
would be typing on my knee in the car on
the way home pretending that one day I could be
a cash register attendant, Like that would be a huge
goal for like a six year old.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Do you remember the very first time you went to
a cashier to purchase something on your own? No, I do are,
Or you were going to buy something, not like with
your mama's groceries. You were gonna buy it on your own.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
It was probably something illegal. It was probably me trying
to buy alcohol at like fifteen. I'm imagining that'd be
the first time I would try to buy.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Something, so I'm in line with my mom. Or maybe
it was my grandmother. I can't remember now, but I
had like five different candies. It had to be my grandmother.
My mom would let me buy five different cans.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
She kind of sallied it up.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
And I am sweating like a whore in church. Why
I in my little mind, I think it's incumbent upon
me to know exactly how much money I need. Oh,
because I'd never checked out before. All right, so I'm
adding it up, all right, twenty five and fifteen it's
forty and okay, I get it's like seventy and then
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the tax. Oh so you did fact. Oh yeah, I
was sweating it I'm like, okay, I know that. I
know there's a tax because i've you know, I've been
I don't know why I thought I had to come
up with this. So I remember having the yes, yeah,
I get it, I get it all that lined it
up like this, and she looks at me and she
goes and I'm ready. I'm handing it to her before
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she even gives me the total, and she says, well,
it's eighty two cents or whatever, and I'm I'm looking
at him like and I remember thinking, oh my god,
I got it wrong. I'm a penny short, so I
had to get another penny and then I couldn't get
the penny out. And my grandmother's like, it's okay, calm down,
it's all right. I'm like, I thought, for some reason,
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when you get there, you had to know how much
you had to give her.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
If you were a good customer, you would I don't
like it when people I get the fact that a
lot of people don't want to use credit cards. Understood,
if you're using a check, there should be some sort
of special place for you to go write the check. Yes,
but if you want to use cash, don't wait until
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they give you the total and then begin the process
of getting the cash out. So though you know you'll
be at the grocery store of the bay. That's one
hundred and twenty three dollars and sixty two cents. Would
you say, one twenty three sixty two Okay? And they
reach into their bag and they pull out the billfold
and they start licking their thumbs. All right, here's ten
(10:26):
twenty thirty. Goodness, gracious, you knew it was going to
be over one hundred dollars. You don't even have to.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
And if you're writing a check, go ahead and write
sign it, go and put the date on it. Go
ahead and write which you know which grocery store put
that in there? Now, all you needs the total. I
got behind one of those the other day. She was
like eighty years old. This one in the other day.
It was like six months ago. It did happen the
other day, but about six months ago. I got behind
a little old lady and she pulls a check book out.
(10:54):
You know, I'm sitting there thinking, Lord Jesus, let her
live through this. This is going to take forever. And
I noticed that when she opened up her check book,
you know, there's that little clear plastic piece that holds
the part of the chetbook in.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Oh yeah, she's got one hundred dollars bill just waiting
to be stolen, waiting.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
To be stolen. And I'm looking at it and I'm like,
oh my word, this lady's just waiting to get mugged
in the parking lot. So I'm walking out and I
see her, and I walk over to her, and I
talked to her and I said, man, I hate to
bother you. That'd bit scared her to death, sir. And
now I'm like, okay, how am I going to bring
this up without without sounding like give me all your money?
(11:41):
Because now I got a full attention. So I did
get through the conversation without alarming her further. Okay. But
she was like, well, I've never thought of that, And
I said, well, I get it. In your day you
wouldn't have had to think about that.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
But well, in your day you also would have started
writing the check before that time.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
I don't know what, how when do you get flash
dollar bill around here? You're gonna have twenty people following
you to the park a lot to see which car
are you gonna get in. They're gonna take your money
still your purse, take your car. It's half a tank
of gas. Exactly, all right, Jonathan.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
According to this new poll of over one thousand US adults,
this will be the most heavily participated Halloween ever.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Oh good, I like it festive.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
And according to this survey, seventy three percent of people
under the age of thirty five and older than twenty
five plan to host a Halloween party. Overall, it looks
like about sixty percent of Americans are having Halloween parties.
I don't think I've been to a Halloween party in decades.
(12:47):
I might say more about me than anything else. Maybe
nobody wants to invite me. But the other thing that
we notice here is, and this is the part that
I find ironic, We've got a great number of Americans.
I think sixty eight percent of Americans plan on putting
out some sort of Halloween decorations. Now that's maybe a
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little interesting, But this is the part that I find fascinating.
Seven point three eight percent say they won't put them
out until at least a week before Halloween. They're they're
sitting there holding hold Dan, It's two weeks to Halloween
right now, not yet yet. Don't want to spoil the season.
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That'st seven percent of Americans are like, I'm waiting.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
See.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
It's kind of like when when in the olden days
before I was born, people would not decorate their Christmas
tree till Christmas Eve. And I always remember, like watching
these old videos of people trimming the Christmas tree as
they called it, on Christmas Eve, and then you got
to put all that crap away on Christmas Night or whatever.
It's like, but what was the point? Why not leave
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it up for a while so friends and neighbors will
see your good works.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
That's great, But you know, when you buy tickets to
go to the state, fear if you're going to go
go all day, because dads are already pro rating it.
Per hour, douse, it costs you sixty bucks to get in. Well,
if you're there for six hours, it's only ten dollars
an hour. Now we're starting to get reasonable. But if
you're there for like two hours, you just pay thirty
bucks for two hours.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Well, by the way, Christmas decorations not that much being
budgeted for it, far less than we would for Christmas
or most other holidays. It says here twenty six plus eighteen.
It's twenty six plus eighteen. Don't do math on the radio,
but that's thirty forty four. Yeah, so forty four forty
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five percent something like that, because there's a point four
to three and a point sixty eight in there, but
we'll put it at roughly forty five percent of Americans
say that they will spend between fifty and one hundred
dollars on all of their decks cs for Halloween, and
only thirteen percent said they're going to spend over one
hundred dollars. So most Americans kind of in that fifty
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to sixty dollars range for their Halloween decorations, which means
you're not getting any of those cool inflatables. I see
it lows true. Yeah, those things are very expensive.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
So I don't know when you were a kid, if
this happened, it didn't happen when well, it wouldn't happen
in my circle anyway, But nonetheless I believe it was.
I know it was my friend Mike in Cleveland. So
everybody loved his house at Halloween because he would open
up both garage doors and that there was the open bar.
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So you come by with the kids, they go to
the front door to get their candy from his wife.
All the dads are out there in the carport. You know,
they're mixing it up whatever their favorite liquor drink is.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Oh okay.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
And then you know, I'm just sitting there kind of
not hosting it. I'm like the bar back, yeah, because
I don't have kids, I'm not married or just in Cleveland,
and these dads are like the kids are like, come on, damn,
let's go go ahead across the street. I'll catch up,
you know. So now now we got like twenty dads
in there drinking. All their kids are scattered all over
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the neighborhood. Nobody's watching them.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
That's the way life was. I think my parents walked
with me probably till I was about eight on Halloween, okay,
I think somewhere around nine.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
That's a little different out in the country. Unless you
had an older cousin who was going to drive. You
had to get in your car and drive from house
to house because it was a couple of miles between
each house. So you didn't want to walk. We're not
walking that far for a day of Snickers bar anyway,
of course, not so.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
But I think you know, in the seventies, in the eighties.
I think most kids probably by the time you were
double digit. If you're ten, you and your ten year
old palace can walk the streets.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Why not?
Speaker 2 (16:50):
We all walked to school too.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Yeah, totally different growing up in the city.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Yeah, nobody. Nobody would have thought twice if you were
like thirteen asking for a ride, it's wrong with you
and a parent who is like we would have called
them helicopter parents. Your mom won't let you go out
at thirteen? Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Bro?
Speaker 2 (17:11):
But nowadays everybody's parents go with them everywhere. Are you
getting geared up for Halloween? And what you got planned
for the kids?
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Especially you that you parents that are out there ready
to scare the hell out of some young kins.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Now, and here's interesting, it's almost fifty to fifty thirty
four percent say they're doing family friendly decorations. Yeah, thirty
three percent say they're going for the scary kind. And
then the other like fifteen percent or so say they're
trying to do a combo. Part of their decorations are
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going to be scary and part of them will be
family friendly, which kind of ruins both.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
You got to be careful when you do the scary
don't put down on the porch. You're scared a kid
he falls backward off the porch. You your homeowner's insurance age.
It wouldn't be happy with you doing that. Put it
on the front lawn with they fall down and they
just fall on the ground, and not on the walk
where they can bust their head open.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Well, I'm just wondering who's got the good decorations this year.
I got one house that I know of in Wildwood.
I think it's like Wildwood four that really goes all out.
They probably spend I'm guessing a thousand dollars. They got
the light show, They've got they got the fake cobwebs
all throughout the yard. They've got all kinds of inflatables.
(18:26):
You got people like that because for Christmas we'll be
looking for that as well. We don't do that for Thanksgiving. No,
who's got the best turkey decorations? But we'll be doing
it for Halloween and for Christmas.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
I can make a note on my phone when I
go see my dad Thursday, I gotta get my chainsaw back.
My brother wanted to borrow my chainsaw and he's had
it for like two months. Well, Halloween's coming up. I
got to have my chainsaw. Oh yeah, gotta take the chain.
So you gotta take the chain of rank that up
and scare the hell out of the kids.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Now, there's no chance they're going to fall backwards off
the porch.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
And I don't do it on the porch. I do
it when they're coming across the lawn because I'll stand
behind one of the bigger bushes. Fire that thing up.
It even makes some of the parents anxious.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Tear an acl trying to get away from you.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
What do you got going on in your neighborhood? Who
wants to win cane brown tickets? What's happening here? The
numbers the same. If you want to be talking, you
want to be winning. It's a oh three nine seven
eight ninet two six seven eight oh three nine seven
eight w cos tomorrow in the morning. Rutch
Hello, Killy Nash. Hello, it's Tomorrow show. Today we'll be
getting over the hump tomorrow on the sixteenth of October,
two days after the big Christopher Columbus celebration. You can't
even find a bag of pot in this town. Good morning,
it's oh and we will be celebrating the first victory
for the women's basketball team for the game Cocks. Although
it's exhibition A does count steel Oh well, it counts
(00:23):
in your heart, yes, but not in the record books.
Not in the record books. All right. And then we
got men's basketball kicks off here what the thirtieth, the
thirtieth of October is their first game.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
And I saw that CMB was made the All SEC teams.
So congratulations to mister Boyle.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
All right, now let's talk about the sen Well, but
six thirty. You know you're going to win to what
you're talking about, because we've got more tickets before you
can buy them for Caine brown.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Well and Jonathan I kind of, you know, maybe did
a little bit of an honor to you. I used
you as the example, oh good, in our word that
we're coming up with for what you talk about. And
again the answer is always posted at ninety seventy five
to b CS dot com. So lexicographer lexic and Jonathan
(01:10):
Rush is an amateur lexicographer.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
All right, so obviously I'm creating a book or a
collection of some type. Correct, and it would be photographs possibly,
but I don't do scrap booking, so it's just words.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Somebody who compiles words, often put into a dictionary form
would be a lexicographer or an amateur of that. And
by the way, tomorrow is the birth we say it's
the birthday. I guess it is the birthday. If they're dead, right,
it's still their birthday. Sure they were born on that day.
Birth anniversary, Yeah, whatever, heavenly birthday. Noah Webster born on
(01:53):
October sixteenth, seventeen fifty eight. You want to guess where
he's from? Boston, mass Hotford, Connecticut.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Oh, and no reason to celebrate Hartford.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
I went to his house when I was a kid,
did you. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. We went to Mark
Twain's house. We went to Noah Webster's house. We see
all the houses. There's like ten famous people from Hartford area,
so you have to go visit their houses.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
And I'm trying to think of the famous people Woodrow
Wilson's childhood home. He lived here. One summer, I.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Went to Woodrow Wilson's home in I want to say Virginia, okay,
but it seems like it would have been New Jersey
because wasn't isn't isn't that's where he's from. Now you
got me, brother, But I remember that was a bizarre,
inadvertent rendezvous with history.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
All right.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
I pulled off to go find gas and they were like,
Woodrow Wilson's home is right here, and I went in.
I was like, well, we got to see it. It's
Woodrow Wilson's. I mean, the chances of being in front
of Woodrow Wilson's home ever again is.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
He's got a restroom here, which is really what I
was looking for. Later I got to go to the visitor.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
We go in and it was like they were it
was like his birthday or something. Oh wow, So they
were celebrating and I got a free piece of cake
that day. I think, this is awesome. That's great. I
want to look that up where that is. But yeah,
I remember going to Woodrow Wilson's house once, you know,
as a.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Dad, I think one of my and there are many failings,
many many, We won't get into all of them. But
as a kid, and I don't know why this didn't
stick with me more when I became a dad. As
a kid, my dad, my mom, But I think it
was my dad's idea would take us to all these
you know, historical places like Thomas Edison's workshop. Now that
(03:48):
was a cool place to visit, Okay, and you could,
you know, wander off into all of the areas of
the workshop because it was cordawned off. But you know
you're sitting there thinking, this is where he was thinking hot.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Thoughts.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
I've tried about a thousand times to make something I
want to call a light bulb. Let's try it one
more time. I mean, he was a hardheaded man.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
What if I did this instead of that?
Speaker 1 (04:15):
How did that work?
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Yeah? By the way, the name of the town that
Woodrow Wilson's home is, and it's a presidential library as well,
is Staunton, which is just off of eighty one, Staunton, Virginia.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Staunton, Virginia. Yeah, but I never took my kids anywhere
like that. I should have.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
It's not too late.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
I remember the first time I went to the Washington monument.
Was the first time I saw a guy who had
one of those change makers on his belt.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Okay, that was the first time you'd ever seen that,
first time I'd ever seen that. I loved that. When
I was a kid. I just have memories of the
ice cream man, yeah, wearing those yeah change That's the
first time I'd ever seen one, and I was I'm
going to get I.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Was like seven, Okay, that is so cool. You go
to the store, you know you're gonna buy like some
blow pops and stuff. You spit quarters and nickels out
no matter how many you need, area are right there.
And I ended up getting one of those. You had one.
Yes as a child. I think I was at a
yard celle with my grandmother and I said, I really
(05:21):
want one of those, and nobody was betting on it.
I think she got it for a quarter okay, and
then she gave me some change to put in it.
And I used to wear I used to wear that
thing in Newberry. I'd be peddling around and going to
the store and get a get up. What was a
push up? Remember the push ups?
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (05:41):
The ice cream the ice cream treat stuck in the
toilet paper wrapper.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
You got the toilet paper roll inside some a tasty
treat was great out. I wonder if I had one now,
if I would think they were tasty.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
I bet I bet you they would.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
You think, Yeah, I don't know. It seems like a
lot of things that I remember being nice when I
was a child. Yeah, when you try him after like
twenty five or thirty or like, this is not as
good as I remembered then.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
I remember having that thing as a kid. I used
to wear it all the time.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Must have been the cool kid in the neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Yeah, well, I have change in your pocket. I got it,
strapped them up belt.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
The other thing that I was fascinated with because I
too was fascinated by that idea of just pushing that
little chinger thing or whatever.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
I still got it, by the way, can you imagine
that I still have that in my room and saluta.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
The other thing that I was obsessed with as a
child was when we would go We used to go
to the A and P. Grocery store. They had those
not here, oh yump, So the A and P grocery
store When I was little, before we started going to
shopwrite and stopping shop. It was the amp. And I
can remember the cashiers in the early seventies. They would
(06:50):
they would all seem to fly when they were typing
in the numbers, like they they never looked at the
cash registered. They could work it is and it's hard
for anybody under the age of imagining forty to know
that there was a time when there was no scanning available, right.
So they they would look at there would be like
a little price sticker on the canopies or whatever, say,
(07:12):
you know, probably back then thirty nine cents.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Yes, I used to put those on my grandfather's store.
I had to stamp.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Them, okay, And so they would just they would be
looking at whatever they were pushing along and they were
able to type it. And then when they would they
would have to hit like a bigger button and they
would usually hit it with the like the right fat
side of their palm, so the opposite of their thumb,
and they could type, type, type, type, hit that with
that thing, brink and it would just not g it
(07:38):
to the next level. And I would be so fascinated.
I would be practicing it, you know, practicing it. I
would be typing on my knee in the car on
the way home pretending that one day I could be
a cash register attendant, Like that would be a huge
goal for like a six year old.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Do you remember the very first time you went to
a cashier to purchase something on your own? No, I do are,
Or you were going to buy something, not like with
your mama's groceries. You were gonna buy it on your own.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
It was probably something illegal. It was probably me trying
to buy alcohol at like fifteen. I'm imagining that'd be
the first time I would try to buy.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Something, so I'm in line with my mom. Or maybe
it was my grandmother. I can't remember now, but I
had like five different candies. It had to be my grandmother.
My mom would let me buy five different cans.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
She kind of sallied it up.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
And I am sweating like a whore in church. Why
I in my little mind, I think it's incumbent upon
me to know exactly how much money I need. Oh,
because I'd never checked out before. All right, so I'm
adding it up, all right, twenty five and fifteen it's
forty and okay, I get it's like seventy and then
(08:57):
the tax. Oh so you did fact. Oh yeah, I
was sweating it I'm like, okay, I know that. I
know there's a tax because i've you know, I've been
I don't know why I thought I had to come
up with this. So I remember having the yes, yeah,
I get it, I get it all that lined it
up like this, and she looks at me and she
goes and I'm ready. I'm handing it to her before
(09:20):
she even gives me the total, and she says, well,
it's eighty two cents or whatever, and I'm I'm looking
at him like and I remember thinking, oh my god,
I got it wrong. I'm a penny short, so I
had to get another penny and then I couldn't get
the penny out. And my grandmother's like, it's okay, calm down,
it's all right. I'm like, I thought, for some reason,
(09:43):
when you get there, you had to know how much
you had to give her.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
If you were a good customer, you would I don't
like it when people I get the fact that a
lot of people don't want to use credit cards. Understood,
if you're using a check, there should be some sort
of special place for you to go write the check. Yes,
but if you want to use cash, don't wait until
(10:06):
they give you the total and then begin the process
of getting the cash out. So though you know you'll
be at the grocery store of the bay. That's one
hundred and twenty three dollars and sixty two cents. Would
you say, one twenty three sixty two Okay? And they
reach into their bag and they pull out the billfold
and they start licking their thumbs. All right, here's ten
(10:26):
twenty thirty. Goodness, gracious, you knew it was going to
be over one hundred dollars. You don't even have to.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
And if you're writing a check, go ahead and write
sign it, go and put the date on it. Go
ahead and write which you know which grocery store put
that in there? Now, all you needs the total. I
got behind one of those the other day. She was
like eighty years old. This one in the other day.
It was like six months ago. It did happen the
other day, but about six months ago. I got behind
a little old lady and she pulls a check book out.
(10:54):
You know, I'm sitting there thinking, Lord Jesus, let her
live through this. This is going to take forever. And
I noticed that when she opened up her check book,
you know, there's that little clear plastic piece that holds
the part of the chetbook in.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Oh yeah, she's got one hundred dollars bill just waiting
to be stolen, waiting.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
To be stolen. And I'm looking at it and I'm like,
oh my word, this lady's just waiting to get mugged
in the parking lot. So I'm walking out and I
see her, and I walk over to her, and I
talked to her and I said, man, I hate to
bother you. That'd bit scared her to death, sir. And
now I'm like, okay, how am I going to bring
this up without without sounding like give me all your money?
(11:41):
Because now I got a full attention. So I did
get through the conversation without alarming her further. Okay. But
she was like, well, I've never thought of that, And
I said, well, I get it. In your day you
wouldn't have had to think about that.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
But well, in your day you also would have started
writing the check before that time.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
I don't know what, how when do you get flash
dollar bill around here? You're gonna have twenty people following
you to the park a lot to see which car
are you gonna get in. They're gonna take your money
still your purse, take your car. It's half a tank
of gas. Exactly, all right, Jonathan.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
According to this new poll of over one thousand US adults,
this will be the most heavily participated Halloween ever.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Oh good, I like it festive.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
And according to this survey, seventy three percent of people
under the age of thirty five and older than twenty
five plan to host a Halloween party. Overall, it looks
like about sixty percent of Americans are having Halloween parties.
I don't think I've been to a Halloween party in decades.
(12:47):
I might say more about me than anything else. Maybe
nobody wants to invite me. But the other thing that
we notice here is, and this is the part that
I find ironic, We've got a great number of Americans.
I think sixty eight percent of Americans plan on putting
out some sort of Halloween decorations. Now that's maybe a
(13:08):
little interesting, But this is the part that I find fascinating.
Seven point three eight percent say they won't put them
out until at least a week before Halloween. They're they're
sitting there holding hold Dan, It's two weeks to Halloween
right now, not yet yet. Don't want to spoil the season.
(13:32):
That'st seven percent of Americans are like, I'm waiting.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
See.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
It's kind of like when when in the olden days
before I was born, people would not decorate their Christmas
tree till Christmas Eve. And I always remember, like watching
these old videos of people trimming the Christmas tree as
they called it, on Christmas Eve, and then you got
to put all that crap away on Christmas Night or whatever.
It's like, but what was the point? Why not leave
(13:59):
it up for a while so friends and neighbors will
see your good works.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
That's great, But you know, when you buy tickets to
go to the state, fear if you're going to go
go all day, because dads are already pro rating it.
Per hour, douse, it costs you sixty bucks to get in. Well,
if you're there for six hours, it's only ten dollars
an hour. Now we're starting to get reasonable. But if
you're there for like two hours, you just pay thirty
bucks for two hours.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Well, by the way, Christmas decorations not that much being
budgeted for it, far less than we would for Christmas
or most other holidays. It says here twenty six plus eighteen.
It's twenty six plus eighteen. Don't do math on the radio,
but that's thirty forty four. Yeah, so forty four forty
(14:46):
five percent something like that, because there's a point four
to three and a point sixty eight in there, but
we'll put it at roughly forty five percent of Americans
say that they will spend between fifty and one hundred
dollars on all of their decks cs for Halloween, and
only thirteen percent said they're going to spend over one
hundred dollars. So most Americans kind of in that fifty
(15:09):
to sixty dollars range for their Halloween decorations, which means
you're not getting any of those cool inflatables. I see
it lows true. Yeah, those things are very expensive.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
So I don't know when you were a kid, if
this happened, it didn't happen when well, it wouldn't happen
in my circle anyway, But nonetheless I believe it was.
I know it was my friend Mike in Cleveland. So
everybody loved his house at Halloween because he would open
up both garage doors and that there was the open bar.
(15:39):
So you come by with the kids, they go to
the front door to get their candy from his wife.
All the dads are out there in the carport. You know,
they're mixing it up whatever their favorite liquor drink is.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Oh okay.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
And then you know, I'm just sitting there kind of
not hosting it. I'm like the bar back, yeah, because
I don't have kids, I'm not married or just in Cleveland,
and these dads are like the kids are like, come on, damn,
let's go go ahead across the street. I'll catch up,
you know. So now now we got like twenty dads
in there drinking. All their kids are scattered all over
(16:11):
the neighborhood. Nobody's watching them.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
That's the way life was. I think my parents walked
with me probably till I was about eight on Halloween, okay,
I think somewhere around nine.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
That's a little different out in the country. Unless you
had an older cousin who was going to drive. You
had to get in your car and drive from house
to house because it was a couple of miles between
each house. So you didn't want to walk. We're not
walking that far for a day of Snickers bar anyway,
of course, not so.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
But I think you know, in the seventies, in the eighties.
I think most kids probably by the time you were
double digit. If you're ten, you and your ten year
old palace can walk the streets.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Why not?
Speaker 2 (16:50):
We all walked to school too.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Yeah, totally different growing up in the city.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Yeah, nobody. Nobody would have thought twice if you were
like thirteen asking for a ride, it's wrong with you
and a parent who is like we would have called
them helicopter parents. Your mom won't let you go out
at thirteen? Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Bro?
Speaker 2 (17:11):
But nowadays everybody's parents go with them everywhere. Are you
getting geared up for Halloween? And what you got planned
for the kids?
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Especially you that you parents that are out there ready
to scare the hell out of some young kins.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Now, and here's interesting, it's almost fifty to fifty thirty
four percent say they're doing family friendly decorations. Yeah, thirty
three percent say they're going for the scary kind. And
then the other like fifteen percent or so say they're
trying to do a combo. Part of their decorations are
(17:42):
going to be scary and part of them will be
family friendly, which kind of ruins both.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
You got to be careful when you do the scary
don't put down on the porch. You're scared a kid
he falls backward off the porch. You your homeowner's insurance age.
It wouldn't be happy with you doing that. Put it
on the front lawn with they fall down and they
just fall on the ground, and not on the walk
where they can bust their head open.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Well, I'm just wondering who's got the good decorations this year.
I got one house that I know of in Wildwood.
I think it's like Wildwood four that really goes all out.
They probably spend I'm guessing a thousand dollars. They got
the light show, They've got they got the fake cobwebs
all throughout the yard. They've got all kinds of inflatables.
(18:26):
You got people like that because for Christmas we'll be
looking for that as well. We don't do that for Thanksgiving. No,
who's got the best turkey decorations? But we'll be doing
it for Halloween and for Christmas.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
I can make a note on my phone when I
go see my dad Thursday, I gotta get my chainsaw back.
My brother wanted to borrow my chainsaw and he's had
it for like two months. Well, Halloween's coming up. I
got to have my chainsaw. Oh yeah, gotta take the chain.
So you gotta take the chain of rank that up
and scare the hell out of the kids.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Now, there's no chance they're going to fall backwards off
the porch.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
And I don't do it on the porch. I do
it when they're coming across the lawn because I'll stand
behind one of the bigger bushes. Fire that thing up.
It even makes some of the parents anxious.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Tear an acl trying to get away from you.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
What do you got going on in your neighborhood? Who
wants to win cane brown tickets? What's happening here? The
numbers the same. If you want to be talking, you
want to be winning. It's a oh three nine seven
eight ninet two six seven eight oh three nine seven
eight w cos tomorrow in the morning. Rutch
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