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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It is eight oh five here on a Wednesday morning.
Thanks for hanging out with us here, it's ready eight
forty whas coffee and company with you. The Jefferson County
Public School System is running out of money. No really,
that sounds like hyperboly, like an exaggeration, something to get
your attention, But it's true. They're running out of money.
(00:20):
They now have a real issue on their hands with
a one hundred and eighty eight million dollar deficits. So
I think what really made this hit home for me
as far as just the situation they're in, because I mean,
we've heard about budget issues and a lot of people
sharing the opinions that sharing their opinions on how the butt,
what the budget is, what that money's used for. I mean,
(00:42):
that's probably a conversation that's never going to end. However,
when you hear that they are going to have to
sell assets in order to make payroll next fall, and
after that they may have nothing left to sell, that
should really put in perspective the situation that they're in.
So doctor Thomas Aberley is the executive director of Executive
administrator of the budget and that is what he said
(01:03):
yesterday that they if they don't make some substantial cuts
and really find a way to free up some funds
and really reduce expenses. That's that's the situation that they're
going to be in, and that's not a good situation
to be in. Obviously, Doctor Yearwood, the new superintendent in
his first year, did say that cuts are unavoidable and
did say that they're gonna They're gonna the schools themselves
(01:25):
are going to be shielded as much as possible, meaning
they're they're not gonna they certainly don't want to do
any of this, I'm sure, but going in and taking
away resources that are there for children in schools because
you can't ford to pay those people anymore. I mean,
they're gonna try as as best they can to avoid that,
but as far as you will they be able to.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
When you hear about one hundred and eighty eight million
dollar deficit, there really isn't any position I can think
of that I would just assume, well, Okay, they're safe,
that person's safe. In fact, you probably become a bigger
target the more money you make, and maybe the realization
that you'll role is maybe not quite as I mean,
this is the situation where you truly not only give
(02:05):
it some thought, you examine, you look into truly how
much an individual is needed, right, I mean, how you
know when it comes to being crucial to the everyday operations.
I'm sure there are many positions that they like having.
Things are better off with that position, that person there,
(02:26):
But is it truly is it truly crucial? Is it
something that has to happen because I mean, one hundred
and eight million dollar deficit, that's that's a lot of money.
Now they're on a hiring freeze, which again just think
about that. We know they've got a big time teacher shortage,
and they're not alone. There are school systems all across
the country that are having an issue with finding teachers.
(02:46):
That's a nationwide issue, not just here it locally, but
they've had an issue with it. And there aren't a
hiring freeze because even though they need the positions filled,
they can't afford to pay them. So the cuts are
going to be targeted to central office staff first there,
and there's no across the board salary cuts that are played,
because I mean, that would make things even more difficult
for you, given the fact that this salary for a
(03:07):
teacher has been a real incentive for some teachers moving
from other school districts. So the central office staff, they're
going to be targeted first. And I don't I wouldn't
pretend to know what those positions actually are, what they do,
what the title is, But it has been said for
a while that there are many positions that are not involved.
These are people that are not in the classroom, not
(03:29):
in the school that you know, maybe maybe those positions
and some of those salaries maybe being pretty hefty, maybe
that maybe, look, I know somebody who works in a
position like that that has acknowledged that if they ever
did really have to start trimming, that's where they would start.
And that's it sounds like that's exactly what's going to happen.
So the deficit is being caused by staff salaries up
(03:54):
fourteen percent in four years time, and that now makes
up for eighty four percent of the budget they had.
They did have some big time expenses with school upgrades,
incentives for bus drivers, weapons detectors, but really the expiration
of federal COVID nineteen relief money, that money wasn't gonna
last forever and it's gone now. So if you are
somebody that is employed at JCPS. I'm sure this is
(04:16):
something that you you probably could could feel this coming eventually, right,
that they were going to have to do something, And
now that's where they are because again, they would have
to sell assets just to be able to pay teachers
next fall unless they make some drastic changes to free
up some funding.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
LE mean, think about that.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Out here, hustling selling I mean Facebook marketplace for a
you know, something they've got in storage. I mean, I'm
not to be so you know, sarcastic about it, but
having to sell off assets that aren't used because you
can't pay the teachers because you're running out of money,
that's a dire situation. So desperate times call for desperate measures,
and that's exactly what we're looking at here. It sounds like,
(05:00):
all right, coming up at eight thirty five, we're going
to bring in Rory O'Neil of NBC News. We'll get
the latest on what we now know about Tyler Robinson,
who has been charged with killing Charlie Kirk. We now
know what he was saying to his partner boyfriend before
he committed this act, and of course what was said
before he was apprehended and it. I mean, his defense
(05:26):
here will be interesting because it's quite clear that.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
He did it.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
So we'll talk to Rory about that. Also, interest rates
could be coming down. That's the expectation for the first
time in nine months later today that not only is
good to hear there are many people with many different
types of jobs that have been impacted by this. Interest
rates not moving in nine months, so could be some
relief coming your way. We'll talk about that in a
lot more right here on news Radio eight forty Whas.
(05:54):
It is eight seventeen. Here at news Radio eight forty whas.
Thank you for hanging out with us. Don't forget take
us with you wherever you go. Listen live on the
iHeartRadio app. Also listened live at whas dot com. It
was nostalgic earlier talking about lime wire because that's how
I first ever downloaded anything I believe, and it wasn't legal,
but I didn't care and I do believe real quickly.
(06:17):
Just to not get too far sidetracked, I think right now,
because of just the access we have to really get
anything we want on our phones as far as watching it,
that has led to people losing sight of the fact
that you're supposed to pay for this stuff. I mean,
you've heard many people complain that it's way too difficult
to find a game and I shouldn't have to get
(06:38):
out of my Roku and then go to the Apple
TV app and watch this way, and there's no doubt
it is way more complicated. But I think also people
just don't like the fact that they have to like
it's not just included in base packages anymore, with like
certain channels, and that's never going to change, by the way.
But anyways, I know I'm not the only one that
(06:59):
was download music of Longwire, and it was a different
time back then. That's how we burnt CDs, right like
whenever we got our light when everybody my age that
hung out with got their license, if there was a
CD in your CD player, there was a good chance
that it was not when you purchased at a store.
It was a blank CD that you put music on
that you got from LimeWire. And LimeWire was recently in
(07:20):
the news because I didn't know it still existed, but
they've purchased the Fire Festival music festival, which, of course
if you don't know what that is, it's quick to
find out. It's a music festival that really never it
didn't happen, and it was the ultimate sham and the
depths in which this Billy McFarlane character went to try to,
I guess, live in his own delusion.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Right.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
If you watch the documentary, you can tell it was
clear to everybody with a brain that this was not real.
But yet he went George Costanza, it's not alive. You
believe it. He believed that it was real, and he
fully acted as if none of this was fake. But
talking about LimeWire is it takes me back? And I
found here some y two K throwbacks that would baffle
Gen Z and Gen Alpha. What is jen Alpha?
Speaker 3 (08:03):
They're the new generation?
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Okay, I was not aware of what they're.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Like timeline or time like where you start at for
Gen Alpha, but they're the new ones.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Gaming without guides, one game for the entire summer, no
YouTube walkthroughs. If you needed help, you had to go
buy a paper strategy guide or call a nine hundred number.
I didn't play a lot of video games that I remember.
When I would get stuck on tomb Raider, I couldn't
go to YouTube and watch somebody play it and figure
out how to get past something just because that wasn't
that wasn't a thing.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
I had my fair share of strategy guides back in
the day.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Me too life with landlines, sharing one house phone with
the whole family, plus the constant battle of phone versus
dial up Internet. Man, that is my childhood right there.
That is me and my sister who we are roughly
the same age, fifty one weeks apart, Irish twins. So
once AOL was a thing, we wanted to be on
there talking on AOL instant messenger with all of our friends.
(08:57):
And she would have her allotted time, and then I
would have my time, and then mom would realize she
needed to use the phone and she couldn't because we
were using dial up and it you know, that was
that when I think back to really middle school, that's
that's what I remember now, the phone. I didn't talk
a lot on the phone with friends just because you know,
friends for me, I mean if I called them and
(09:17):
be like, hey, I'm coming over, like that was what
it wasn't like we sat around and chatted. Now, uh,
I remember my first girlfriend that I talked on the
phone with, which, believe it or not, it's actually who I'm.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Married to today.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
We were in middle school and I remember just sitting
on the phone wasting time, like just just sitting there,
not really saying anything. And I guess that's what what
what kids did. But uh, if you this is am
I am I crazy here? John Shannon, you you you
were an adult in this era? Am I wrong that?
If you this gonna sound really stupid, But it's been
so I'm so far removed from house phones.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
If I was on the phone.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
In in in the dining room and and my mom
picked up the phone that was hanging on the wall
and the.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Kid and you could hear right, yeah, okay.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Yeah, yeah, And you do that sometimes and try to
do it quietly, just to make sure, you know, sometimes
you want to see what they were saying.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Yeah, oh, or or I would be talking to my
girlfriend and have a paranoia that my sister had picked
up the phone without because you could hear when somebody
would pick up the phone, and I would have paranoia
that she was listening to me, that was going to
make fun of me for things I was saying, or
something like that.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
I was always jealous of my friends that their parents
got them their own phone line, Oh wow, own number,
their own number for their room so they didn't interfere
with the parents.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
That was not your comment phone now, yeah, it's probably
more common because the parents knew they needed the phone
right More than anything, I will say this is I'm
looking at this list, I'm going back. It's nostalgic and
this is one thing I was so glad to experience.
And if you didn't get to experience that, you missed
out Blockbuster Fridays. Yes, she just being in a Blockbuster
on a Friday.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
You kidding me.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
You were talking about the gaming. Here's one from that
era for you. What about the game Shark?
Speaker 2 (10:56):
No clue? What over my head?
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (10:58):
It was a cheat code.
Speaker 5 (10:59):
That was the thing you could plug into your game
and then put the okay, yeah, it was a physical
device device and plugged into your like your Super Nintendo
and they play jail broke all your games you did. Yeah,
that wouldn't be fun though, would it.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
It depends on what you're If you're playing Doom, then yeah, man,
Castle Wolfenstein, Yeah you needed all that.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
This is this is actually making me feel old because
I can't mean the fact that I had to second
guess the whole picking up a phone in another room thing.
But like it's been so I can't remember. Like, let
me give an example. When my kids go to hotels
and they see how they see landline phones. They don't
know what it is. They're looking at it like, what
is this contraption?
Speaker 4 (11:33):
We keep a landline phone in our house simply for
the fact, Hey, the internet fails.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Yeah, I guess it's true. All right, quick break, we've
got trafficing weather on the way. Also in other sports
that day coming up right here and there's ready to
wait forty whas it's our final segment here on a Wednesday,
we'll have Tony and Dwight come in your way here shortly.
They are live on location today. I'm not sure where.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
They are the pool. They could be anywhere, John, where
are they?
Speaker 3 (11:55):
I believe they're at Unlimited Landscapes. They may be. They
may or may not be doing the show from inside
of a pool. I can't confirm more than there's water.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
Dwight will be.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
They may or may not be clothed. We know Dwight
will have his boot on those Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
All the pictures I saw Dwight this weekend just being
Dwight Whitten and holding court at Bourbon and beyond. I mean,
he's a celebrity, he's a big deal, and the boot
stands out. I mean, when Dwight loses the boot, I'm
gonna miss the boot. He's not gonna miss it, though,
I'm sure he's not.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
But it's it's like become part of his personality.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
I mean when you rupture your achilles that you're gonna
end up in a boot for quite a while.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
It's just that's part of the process.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
So I have good news to share with you guys
that I'm sure you will not give a flying rats
behind about. But I just found my wedding ring after
thinking that I've lost it.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
So you're not sleeping on the couch tonight. No, have
you ever lost your wedding ring? I'm not I have
was it? Did it fall off? Did you remove it
and forget what you did with it?
Speaker 4 (12:56):
So it's okay. I I gotta give you a minute here.
When you're in the military, we have we do motor
pool maintenance on all the vehicles on Mondays, and one
of the safety things they do is we have to
take off rings because if you're jumping off those vehicles,
there's sharp objects I've seen people's ring finger degloved because
they hook their wedding ring on it. So rings go
in the pockets. And apparently at one point when I
was either reaching for my car keys or getting my
(13:18):
knife out or something, it fell out and I never
found it.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
I was at dinner last night with my wife and
I realized I didn't have my wedding ring on, and
I showed her and she says, did you know, did
what happened?
Speaker 2 (13:28):
I'm like, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
I mean, I was kind of freaking out, but I
know I never take it off intentionally, and there are
rare situations where it can actually come off. And I
was thinking last night it could have been in the shower,
could have been whenever I do something fast paced with
my hands. It's not loose by any means, but there's
just a certain I guess speed velocity in the way
(13:53):
I moved my hand down that it can slide off.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
But it's really rare.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
So I'm thinking, Okay, maybe it fell off in my
sleep whenever I would had my hand it on my pillow.
Maybe it fell off in the shower and it wasn't there,
but I just assumed I was going to find it
because there's only certain situations where it could actually come
off of my hand, and she was of the opinion
that I wasn't going to find it.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
She was sad.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
She was kind of bothered by my casual confidence that
I was going to track it down, and I ended
up finding it where I And this goes back to
something I talked about not that long ago. It is
a pain in the ass when it comes to putting
a kid in a car seat and moving it around,
especially so whenever I the buckle for my son, he's
(14:34):
in a booster seat. But for some reason, the booster seat,
it's why it's wide enough to why I've got to
do a little moving to actually get it to fit
down there.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
So I guess I put my hand.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
I was making roof of a seat belt to buckle,
and it got clearly I guess it got lodged in there,
and when I when I yanked it up, I didn't
realize that it took my ring off. So it hit
me during the during the break earlier, that that may
be where it is. I walked out to the garage
and sure enough, that's sitting right there next to his
seat belt.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
So see, I'm I'm impressed and proud of you that
you actually told her it was missing, because a lot
of guys I know, and maybe it's just my generation,
just the people I hang out with, says something about them,
but they would they would not say anything and try
to find it before their other half Ley was missing.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Let me throw a little scenario, John Shannon, Okay, what
would be better me telling her I don't know where
it is or her randomly realizing I'm no longer.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Wearing my wedding ring. She probably didn't.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
I mean, she would be bothered that if she noticed,
and then I played like, oh, I didn't even notice.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
That would There's no coming back from that.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Either I didn't notice because I don't care, or I
didn't notice because you know.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
I think. I think that's your next viral TikTok video.
What if you fake you're losing your wedding I guess
maybe you couldn't do it now because you just lost it,
But before you did that, that could have been your next,
you know, hanging out with the guys at the bars
type video.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
So it's not a common to lose your to lose
your wedding ring. I don't think.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
I mean it's happened to people, and thankfully I've been
able to track mine down now. But we did have
a we went to Fort Lauderdale. This was actually we
don't even married a couple of years, no kids just yet,
and it was loose enough to where when I would
get it, and I think in the early time, it
was such a thing that like, oh, I don't want
to lose my wedding, right, better make sure and take
it off and put it up. Now I don't even
ever notice that I have it on, but I didn't
want to lose it in the ocean. You lose it
(16:17):
in a pool, you can get it back. I mean,
it would be difficult, but you could get it back.
So I took it off like an idiot and just
put it inside my T shirt that was on the sand.
Came up from the beach, not realizing, not remembering that
I put it there, and I picked it up, and
then it just falls in the sand and we're digging
for it, and two or three couples that are nearby
they see what we're doing.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
They come over.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
There's like fifteen minutes of eight people strangers helping me
dig up this tiny ring, and finally we're just accepting
that it was gone, and we get up to head
up to the beach and she steps on something and
feels it and there it was so wow. Yeah, she
was very worried, which made me happy that I don't
(16:59):
want her to worry, but she doesn't want her man
running around these streets unclaimed, right, I mean, she's got
to make sure that everyone's aware that I'm spoken for.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
So yeah, I avoided disaster there, good job. All right.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
We were back at it tomorrow morning, bright and early.
I hope you guys will join us. Tony and Dwight
are coming your way next. Right here on news radio
eight forty, whis
It is eight oh five here on a Wednesday morning.
Thanks for hanging out with us here, it's ready eight
forty whas coffee and company with you. The Jefferson County
Public School System is running out of money. No really,
that sounds like hyperboly, like an exaggeration, something to get
your attention, But it's true. They're running out of money.
(00:20):
They now have a real issue on their hands with
a one hundred and eighty eight million dollar deficits. So
I think what really made this hit home for me
as far as just the situation they're in, because I mean,
we've heard about budget issues and a lot of people
sharing the opinions that sharing their opinions on how the butt,
what the budget is, what that money's used for. I mean,
(00:42):
that's probably a conversation that's never going to end. However,
when you hear that they are going to have to
sell assets in order to make payroll next fall, and
after that they may have nothing left to sell, that
should really put in perspective the situation that they're in.
So doctor Thomas Aberley is the executive director of Executive
administrator of the budget and that is what he said
(01:03):
yesterday that they if they don't make some substantial cuts
and really find a way to free up some funds
and really reduce expenses. That's that's the situation that they're
going to be in, and that's not a good situation
to be in. Obviously, Doctor Yearwood, the new superintendent in
his first year, did say that cuts are unavoidable and
did say that they're gonna They're gonna the schools themselves
(01:25):
are going to be shielded as much as possible, meaning
they're they're not gonna they certainly don't want to do
any of this, I'm sure, but going in and taking
away resources that are there for children in schools because
you can't ford to pay those people anymore. I mean,
they're gonna try as as best they can to avoid that,
but as far as you will they be able to.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
When you hear about one hundred and eighty eight million
dollar deficit, there really isn't any position I can think
of that I would just assume, well, Okay, they're safe,
that person's safe. In fact, you probably become a bigger
target the more money you make, and maybe the realization
that you'll role is maybe not quite as I mean,
this is the situation where you truly not only give
(02:05):
it some thought, you examine, you look into truly how
much an individual is needed, right, I mean, how you
know when it comes to being crucial to the everyday operations.
I'm sure there are many positions that they like having.
Things are better off with that position, that person there,
(02:26):
But is it truly is it truly crucial? Is it
something that has to happen because I mean, one hundred
and eight million dollar deficit, that's that's a lot of money.
Now they're on a hiring freeze, which again just think
about that. We know they've got a big time teacher shortage,
and they're not alone. There are school systems all across
the country that are having an issue with finding teachers.
(02:46):
That's a nationwide issue, not just here it locally, but
they've had an issue with it. And there aren't a
hiring freeze because even though they need the positions filled,
they can't afford to pay them. So the cuts are
going to be targeted to central office staff first there,
and there's no across the board salary cuts that are played,
because I mean, that would make things even more difficult
for you, given the fact that this salary for a
(03:07):
teacher has been a real incentive for some teachers moving
from other school districts. So the central office staff, they're
going to be targeted first. And I don't I wouldn't
pretend to know what those positions actually are, what they do,
what the title is, But it has been said for
a while that there are many positions that are not involved.
These are people that are not in the classroom, not
(03:29):
in the school that you know, maybe maybe those positions
and some of those salaries maybe being pretty hefty, maybe
that maybe, look, I know somebody who works in a
position like that that has acknowledged that if they ever
did really have to start trimming, that's where they would start.
And that's it sounds like that's exactly what's going to happen.
So the deficit is being caused by staff salaries up
(03:54):
fourteen percent in four years time, and that now makes
up for eighty four percent of the budget they had.
They did have some big time expenses with school upgrades,
incentives for bus drivers, weapons detectors, but really the expiration
of federal COVID nineteen relief money, that money wasn't gonna
last forever and it's gone now. So if you are
somebody that is employed at JCPS. I'm sure this is
(04:16):
something that you you probably could could feel this coming eventually, right,
that they were going to have to do something, And
now that's where they are because again, they would have
to sell assets just to be able to pay teachers
next fall unless they make some drastic changes to free
up some funding.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
LE mean, think about that.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Out here, hustling selling I mean Facebook marketplace for a
you know, something they've got in storage. I mean, I'm
not to be so you know, sarcastic about it, but
having to sell off assets that aren't used because you
can't pay the teachers because you're running out of money,
that's a dire situation. So desperate times call for desperate measures,
and that's exactly what we're looking at here. It sounds like,
(05:00):
all right, coming up at eight thirty five, we're going
to bring in Rory O'Neil of NBC News. We'll get
the latest on what we now know about Tyler Robinson,
who has been charged with killing Charlie Kirk. We now
know what he was saying to his partner boyfriend before
he committed this act, and of course what was said
before he was apprehended and it. I mean, his defense
(05:26):
here will be interesting because it's quite clear that.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
He did it.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
So we'll talk to Rory about that. Also, interest rates
could be coming down. That's the expectation for the first
time in nine months later today that not only is
good to hear there are many people with many different
types of jobs that have been impacted by this. Interest
rates not moving in nine months, so could be some
relief coming your way. We'll talk about that in a
lot more right here on news Radio eight forty Whas.
(05:54):
It is eight seventeen. Here at news Radio eight forty whas.
Thank you for hanging out with us. Don't forget take
us with you wherever you go. Listen live on the
iHeartRadio app. Also listened live at whas dot com. It
was nostalgic earlier talking about lime wire because that's how
I first ever downloaded anything I believe, and it wasn't legal,
but I didn't care and I do believe real quickly.
(06:17):
Just to not get too far sidetracked, I think right now,
because of just the access we have to really get
anything we want on our phones as far as watching it,
that has led to people losing sight of the fact
that you're supposed to pay for this stuff. I mean,
you've heard many people complain that it's way too difficult
to find a game and I shouldn't have to get
(06:38):
out of my Roku and then go to the Apple
TV app and watch this way, and there's no doubt
it is way more complicated. But I think also people
just don't like the fact that they have to like
it's not just included in base packages anymore, with like
certain channels, and that's never going to change, by the way.
But anyways, I know I'm not the only one that
(06:59):
was download music of Longwire, and it was a different
time back then. That's how we burnt CDs, right like
whenever we got our light when everybody my age that
hung out with got their license, if there was a
CD in your CD player, there was a good chance
that it was not when you purchased at a store.
It was a blank CD that you put music on
that you got from LimeWire. And LimeWire was recently in
(07:20):
the news because I didn't know it still existed, but
they've purchased the Fire Festival music festival, which, of course
if you don't know what that is, it's quick to
find out. It's a music festival that really never it
didn't happen, and it was the ultimate sham and the
depths in which this Billy McFarlane character went to try to,
I guess, live in his own delusion.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Right.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
If you watch the documentary, you can tell it was
clear to everybody with a brain that this was not real.
But yet he went George Costanza, it's not alive. You
believe it. He believed that it was real, and he
fully acted as if none of this was fake. But
talking about LimeWire is it takes me back? And I
found here some y two K throwbacks that would baffle
Gen Z and Gen Alpha. What is jen Alpha?
Speaker 3 (08:03):
They're the new generation?
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Okay, I was not aware of what they're.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Like timeline or time like where you start at for
Gen Alpha, but they're the new ones.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Gaming without guides, one game for the entire summer, no
YouTube walkthroughs. If you needed help, you had to go
buy a paper strategy guide or call a nine hundred number.
I didn't play a lot of video games that I remember.
When I would get stuck on tomb Raider, I couldn't
go to YouTube and watch somebody play it and figure
out how to get past something just because that wasn't
that wasn't a thing.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
I had my fair share of strategy guides back in
the day.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Me too life with landlines, sharing one house phone with
the whole family, plus the constant battle of phone versus
dial up Internet. Man, that is my childhood right there.
That is me and my sister who we are roughly
the same age, fifty one weeks apart, Irish twins. So
once AOL was a thing, we wanted to be on
there talking on AOL instant messenger with all of our friends.
(08:57):
And she would have her allotted time, and then I
would have my time, and then mom would realize she
needed to use the phone and she couldn't because we
were using dial up and it you know, that was
that when I think back to really middle school, that's
that's what I remember now, the phone. I didn't talk
a lot on the phone with friends just because you know,
friends for me, I mean if I called them and
(09:17):
be like, hey, I'm coming over, like that was what
it wasn't like we sat around and chatted. Now, uh,
I remember my first girlfriend that I talked on the
phone with, which, believe it or not, it's actually who I'm.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Married to today.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
We were in middle school and I remember just sitting
on the phone wasting time, like just just sitting there,
not really saying anything. And I guess that's what what
what kids did. But uh, if you this is am
I am I crazy here? John Shannon, you you you
were an adult in this era? Am I wrong that?
If you this gonna sound really stupid, But it's been
so I'm so far removed from house phones.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
If I was on the phone.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
In in in the dining room and and my mom
picked up the phone that was hanging on the wall
and the.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Kid and you could hear right, yeah, okay.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Yeah, yeah, And you do that sometimes and try to
do it quietly, just to make sure, you know, sometimes
you want to see what they were saying.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Yeah, oh, or or I would be talking to my
girlfriend and have a paranoia that my sister had picked
up the phone without because you could hear when somebody
would pick up the phone, and I would have paranoia
that she was listening to me, that was going to
make fun of me for things I was saying, or
something like that.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
I was always jealous of my friends that their parents
got them their own phone line, Oh wow, own number,
their own number for their room so they didn't interfere
with the parents.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
That was not your comment phone now, yeah, it's probably
more common because the parents knew they needed the phone
right More than anything, I will say this is I'm
looking at this list, I'm going back. It's nostalgic and
this is one thing I was so glad to experience.
And if you didn't get to experience that, you missed
out Blockbuster Fridays. Yes, she just being in a Blockbuster
on a Friday.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
You kidding me.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
You were talking about the gaming. Here's one from that
era for you. What about the game Shark?
Speaker 2 (10:56):
No clue? What over my head?
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (10:58):
It was a cheat code.
Speaker 5 (10:59):
That was the thing you could plug into your game
and then put the okay, yeah, it was a physical
device device and plugged into your like your Super Nintendo
and they play jail broke all your games you did. Yeah,
that wouldn't be fun though, would it.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
It depends on what you're If you're playing Doom, then yeah, man,
Castle Wolfenstein, Yeah you needed all that.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
This is this is actually making me feel old because
I can't mean the fact that I had to second
guess the whole picking up a phone in another room thing.
But like it's been so I can't remember. Like, let
me give an example. When my kids go to hotels
and they see how they see landline phones. They don't
know what it is. They're looking at it like, what
is this contraption?
Speaker 4 (11:33):
We keep a landline phone in our house simply for
the fact, Hey, the internet fails.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Yeah, I guess it's true. All right, quick break, we've
got trafficing weather on the way. Also in other sports
that day coming up right here and there's ready to
wait forty whas it's our final segment here on a Wednesday,
we'll have Tony and Dwight come in your way here shortly.
They are live on location today. I'm not sure where.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
They are the pool. They could be anywhere, John, where
are they?
Speaker 3 (11:55):
I believe they're at Unlimited Landscapes. They may be. They
may or may not be doing the show from inside
of a pool. I can't confirm more than there's water.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
Dwight will be.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
They may or may not be clothed. We know Dwight
will have his boot on those Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
All the pictures I saw Dwight this weekend just being
Dwight Whitten and holding court at Bourbon and beyond. I mean,
he's a celebrity, he's a big deal, and the boot
stands out. I mean, when Dwight loses the boot, I'm
gonna miss the boot. He's not gonna miss it, though,
I'm sure he's not.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
But it's it's like become part of his personality.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
I mean when you rupture your achilles that you're gonna
end up in a boot for quite a while.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
It's just that's part of the process.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
So I have good news to share with you guys
that I'm sure you will not give a flying rats
behind about. But I just found my wedding ring after
thinking that I've lost it.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
So you're not sleeping on the couch tonight. No, have
you ever lost your wedding ring? I'm not I have
was it? Did it fall off? Did you remove it
and forget what you did with it?
Speaker 4 (12:56):
So it's okay. I I gotta give you a minute here.
When you're in the military, we have we do motor
pool maintenance on all the vehicles on Mondays, and one
of the safety things they do is we have to
take off rings because if you're jumping off those vehicles,
there's sharp objects I've seen people's ring finger degloved because
they hook their wedding ring on it. So rings go
in the pockets. And apparently at one point when I
was either reaching for my car keys or getting my
(13:18):
knife out or something, it fell out and I never
found it.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
I was at dinner last night with my wife and
I realized I didn't have my wedding ring on, and
I showed her and she says, did you know, did
what happened?
Speaker 2 (13:28):
I'm like, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
I mean, I was kind of freaking out, but I
know I never take it off intentionally, and there are
rare situations where it can actually come off. And I
was thinking last night it could have been in the shower,
could have been whenever I do something fast paced with
my hands. It's not loose by any means, but there's
just a certain I guess speed velocity in the way
(13:53):
I moved my hand down that it can slide off.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
But it's really rare.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
So I'm thinking, Okay, maybe it fell off in my
sleep whenever I would had my hand it on my pillow.
Maybe it fell off in the shower and it wasn't there,
but I just assumed I was going to find it
because there's only certain situations where it could actually come
off of my hand, and she was of the opinion
that I wasn't going to find it.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
She was sad.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
She was kind of bothered by my casual confidence that
I was going to track it down, and I ended
up finding it where I And this goes back to
something I talked about not that long ago. It is
a pain in the ass when it comes to putting
a kid in a car seat and moving it around,
especially so whenever I the buckle for my son, he's
(14:34):
in a booster seat. But for some reason, the booster seat,
it's why it's wide enough to why I've got to
do a little moving to actually get it to fit
down there.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
So I guess I put my hand.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
I was making roof of a seat belt to buckle,
and it got clearly I guess it got lodged in there,
and when I when I yanked it up, I didn't
realize that it took my ring off. So it hit
me during the during the break earlier, that that may
be where it is. I walked out to the garage
and sure enough, that's sitting right there next to his
seat belt.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
So see, I'm I'm impressed and proud of you that
you actually told her it was missing, because a lot
of guys I know, and maybe it's just my generation,
just the people I hang out with, says something about them,
but they would they would not say anything and try
to find it before their other half Ley was missing.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Let me throw a little scenario, John Shannon, Okay, what
would be better me telling her I don't know where
it is or her randomly realizing I'm no longer.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Wearing my wedding ring. She probably didn't.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
I mean, she would be bothered that if she noticed,
and then I played like, oh, I didn't even notice.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
That would There's no coming back from that.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Either I didn't notice because I don't care, or I
didn't notice because you know.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
I think. I think that's your next viral TikTok video.
What if you fake you're losing your wedding I guess
maybe you couldn't do it now because you just lost it,
But before you did that, that could have been your next,
you know, hanging out with the guys at the bars
type video.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
So it's not a common to lose your to lose
your wedding ring. I don't think.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
I mean it's happened to people, and thankfully I've been
able to track mine down now. But we did have
a we went to Fort Lauderdale. This was actually we
don't even married a couple of years, no kids just yet,
and it was loose enough to where when I would
get it, and I think in the early time, it
was such a thing that like, oh, I don't want
to lose my wedding, right, better make sure and take
it off and put it up. Now I don't even
ever notice that I have it on, but I didn't
want to lose it in the ocean. You lose it
(16:17):
in a pool, you can get it back. I mean,
it would be difficult, but you could get it back.
So I took it off like an idiot and just
put it inside my T shirt that was on the sand.
Came up from the beach, not realizing, not remembering that
I put it there, and I picked it up, and
then it just falls in the sand and we're digging
for it, and two or three couples that are nearby
they see what we're doing.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
They come over.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
There's like fifteen minutes of eight people strangers helping me
dig up this tiny ring, and finally we're just accepting
that it was gone, and we get up to head
up to the beach and she steps on something and
feels it and there it was so wow. Yeah, she
was very worried, which made me happy that I don't
(16:59):
want her to worry, but she doesn't want her man
running around these streets unclaimed, right, I mean, she's got
to make sure that everyone's aware that I'm spoken for.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
So yeah, I avoided disaster there, good job. All right.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
We were back at it tomorrow morning, bright and early.
I hope you guys will join us. Tony and Dwight
are coming your way next. Right here on news radio
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