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July 28, 2025 11 mins
Do you keep any items from your childhood that you still hold dear, such as a blanket or a stuffed animal? We often discuss the sentimental blankets and stuffed toys that we cherish even as adults.

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Jery, Katy and Josh makes one hundred.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
This came in from Vanessa last week and we're like
this would be a fun topic. So it says, hey,
JKJ in the morning, I've started dating somebody new. Things
have been going well until I noticed something at his
house that threw me off. On a shelf in his
living room, he has his childhood stuffed animal and a

(00:25):
baby blanket displayed. I asked him about it. It was
a little dog. It looks like that he had, and
his name is doctor Theodore Wigglebottom. That's gonna doctor Theodore Wigglebottom.
He said, he was completely serious, had a serious look
on his face. He says he keeps it out because

(00:46):
it makes him feel safe. I didn't say anything negative.
I just mentioned that I don't have anything like that
from my childhood, and she said, this got kind of weird.
He looked surprised and said, you don't have anything, not
even your blankie. I said no, I got rid of
that stuff a long time ago. And then he told
me he was kind of sad and seemed a little disappointed.

(01:07):
Now I don't know what to think. Is this a
red flag? Is it normal for adults to still keep
and display all this stuff. I'm honestly trying not to judge.
Yeah you are, but I was taught off guard wrote
into a radio show curious what you and your listeners think?
And that is Vanessa. So she was thrown off because
this dude had doctor Theodore Wigglebottom up on a shop.

Speaker 3 (01:28):
I mean, he's got his doctorate.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
He does have his doctorate.

Speaker 3 (01:32):
I just wonder like, is he.

Speaker 4 (01:35):
I don't think it's necessarily a red flag to have that,
my humble opinion, but is he calling it that all
the time?

Speaker 3 (01:41):
Because if you're going, oh, that's my widow.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
Doctor doctor, that's you know, play your cards right, Vanessa,
maybe you'll be doctor.

Speaker 3 (01:50):
This is doctor Wigglebottom to you.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
So here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna open up
the phone lines three oh three six nine one one
mix three three six nine one sixteen forty nine. Do
you still have a blankye from your childhood or a
stuffed animal? Call in and tell us about it immediately?
Should we just go ahead? Hopped onto Elizabeth really quod
so she doesn't have to sit on hold?

Speaker 5 (02:14):
Hi, Elizabeth, good morning guys.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
Good morning to you. So do you stall a stuffy
from your childhood. I do.

Speaker 5 (02:21):
He's hanging over my bed in my bedroom. His name
is Teddy, Teddy.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
Why is he hanging?

Speaker 3 (02:26):
Yeah? Hanging? How describe that like a noose?

Speaker 2 (02:30):
No?

Speaker 4 (02:30):
No, He's kind.

Speaker 5 (02:31):
Of being displayed with all of my concert teddy bears
that I used to get when they used to sell
them at concerts and my A lot of my family
want to just grab him and throw him out because
he's so ugly and old to them, but he carries
precious moments for me, and he helped me through so
much in my childhood and adult life. And my grandmother

(02:55):
gifted him to me during Christmas, and I kept seeing
him over at the sea in the window and I
wanted him so bad. And my grandmother lived in Denver.
I was out of state at the time. She mailed
him to me, and he was already pre wrapped, and
I just had a hunch that was my bear. So

(03:15):
I actually crawled under the tree and punched a hole
to see him. And that was like the first gift
I opened when they arrived in set.

Speaker 3 (03:25):
Yeah, I love that.

Speaker 5 (03:28):
Yeah, like all my friends. My best friend totally hates him.
I carried him everywhere and my best friend and I
have been friends since we were like, I don't know,
eight years old, and my parents practically raised her as well,
so we were you know, we're sisters. And I show
up to college first day of college and he's in
my suitcase and she just wants to throw him out.

(03:51):
Every time she had she threw him over that we
were on the third floor in the girl's dorm and
she kept throwing him over for her and I was like.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
Story, we almost lost Teddy.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
She got against and what is probably because I gave
him more attention than her.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
Yeah, yeah, yez, Well you're not lovers.

Speaker 5 (04:18):
And the whole thing is is he's so tore up
that he still has one original eye, nose, and mouth
and the original boats that he came with.

Speaker 4 (04:27):
I wanted to ask you really quickly. Do you ever
pull him off the shelf and still sleep with him?

Speaker 5 (04:33):
No? I don't know.

Speaker 2 (04:34):
He stays having a bad day. You don't rub the teddy.

Speaker 5 (04:38):
Yeah no, But that's an idea.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
Appropriate may call it something maybe maybe something else.

Speaker 3 (04:48):
Direct like teddy.

Speaker 5 (04:51):
No, he hanging there and he's wearing my bon Jovie
cap and he's any happy where he's happened is what
we're talking about.

Speaker 3 (05:04):
This is great.

Speaker 2 (05:05):
It's sentimental. You gotta hold onto those things. You really
super cute, super cute story. Thank you for sharing, and
you have a great Monday.

Speaker 5 (05:13):
We'll take care. Guys.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
Bye bye. We're talking if you still have your blanky
or your stuffed animal from your childhood. If anyone else
wants to sound off, we're getting some texts. Three oh
three six nine one one mix three oh three six
nine one sixteen forty nine. Now, Katie, because this is radio,
brought her blankie in today.

Speaker 3 (05:31):
Let's go ahead and tell the whole story.

Speaker 1 (05:33):
How on Friday when we said on Friday, when we
said we're talking about our baby blankets and our stuffies
and things from our childhood, and then we were like,
oh my gosh, do you have yours because we could
bring them in and talk about I have.

Speaker 3 (05:48):
My blanket, and so I had it.

Speaker 2 (05:50):
We all agree on this or is it just you
talking like we should?

Speaker 3 (05:54):
None of us sack me up, Homie. I think I
said I could bring my name.

Speaker 2 (05:57):
Yes, okay, did you.

Speaker 1 (05:58):
Any agreed that bring our blankets?

Speaker 3 (06:01):
A lot has happened since Friday. I got my blanket.
I should have.

Speaker 1 (06:06):
I've worked with you long enough to know that a
reminder text is necessary.

Speaker 3 (06:10):
So you're right, that's on me.

Speaker 1 (06:12):
But I did bring in my blank I don't think.

Speaker 2 (06:14):
I'd want to bring it in though I want to,
I don't want it to get ruined, like very did
you just this is how they're fragile.

Speaker 3 (06:23):
It's funny my grandma pat it's a patchwork quilt.

Speaker 1 (06:26):
Because I just there's so many stories to this blanket.
And my grandma, uh, she has a lot, had a
lot of grandchildren, and so the first round of grandchildren,
the first eight of us, got these heavy duty for blankets. Yeah, oh,
I know, there's so many grandchildren. But after that she
did the lazy tie the blanket together blankets for all

(06:47):
the kids. Right, So I'm one of the special grandchildren
who got the blanket that actually has middle to it. Seriously,
I there used to be a little girl holding a
basket a kitten on here.

Speaker 3 (07:01):
That is since there used to be.

Speaker 1 (07:03):
But when I was a teenager, I used to take
these these patches and put them on my pants and stuff.
So I had no idea what I had when I
had it, so off I kind of destroyed my own quilt.
And then when I was like twenty one, I'm like,
oh my.

Speaker 3 (07:17):
God, why did I do that?

Speaker 1 (07:18):
And so I was like, I take super special care
of it now, but it is tattered, it does I
fold it up and I put it at the bottom
of my bed, and I do use it everywhere, like
it is such a warm blanket. Like when Zoe comes
over to visit, she said, can I use cook Them's blanket?

Speaker 5 (07:36):
Please?

Speaker 3 (07:37):
Cook them is what we call my grandma.

Speaker 1 (07:38):
It's Chippewa for grandma, and so cook them and mushom
or what we call my grandma and grandpa. And this
is cook Them's blanket that she made me. And so
I've just I have moved, so I can't even tell
you how many times I've moved in my life, across country,
different states, different cities. This blanket has always come with me.
And it's one of the few things I can say

(07:59):
I have kept with me in all of my travels.
And I would run in the house to get this
kind of that's like thank you.

Speaker 4 (08:06):
That's validating for me because I've moved several several times
throughout my life and it's the same thing. I have
a blanket that was hand stitched for me. It's not
like a patchwork quilt. Ye, but it is still one
of the warmest blankets that I have. It brings back
so many good memories. It smells like you, if that
makes sense, and it just brings like a comfort.

Speaker 1 (08:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (08:24):
And it's one of those things that like, if there
was a fire in my house, that's what I would
go run into. And I said this a couple of
weeks ago, that's what I want to pass on to
my son somehow, like I want him to have it.
I have literally had it since before It's it's been
made since before I was born, so it's older than
me and it was passed on to me, and I
love it and it's something I kind of wish I
brought it in because it's it reminds me a lot
of your blanket. It's kind of torn to crab and

(08:49):
shreds and it, but it's still it means so much
to me, and it's something that I've been looking at
it more often now and I'm like, I might need
to You're like.

Speaker 2 (08:56):
I'm not getting any younger. I need to have a baby,
but I.

Speaker 3 (08:59):
Need to patch it up.

Speaker 1 (09:00):
But they have a child, Josh needs a baby.

Speaker 3 (09:05):
If anybody's willing.

Speaker 2 (09:06):
They have businesses, call now.

Speaker 1 (09:08):
Fix your old baby blanket.

Speaker 2 (09:10):
Sure, it's a bunch of little old grannies working there
and they fix all.

Speaker 3 (09:14):
The Is that not? The cutest thing though.

Speaker 2 (09:16):
Is a bright orange crochete. My mom made it for
me again, like right right before I was born, and
I still have it, and it's it's in my basement.
I don't necessarily have a displayed but I think once
I finished that room, I want down there that has
all my retro stuff. I'll probably throw it on a
shelf and I don't feel like that's too weird. No,
it's still in really good shape. My mom actually made

(09:37):
my two kids they're blankies as well, so she crocheted
their blankets and we have theirs. And it's like, how
can you ever get rid of that?

Speaker 3 (09:45):
Was that a night? Like did you sleep with that
as a child or no?

Speaker 2 (09:47):
Took it everywhere? So yeah, it's bright orange. Still have it.
I'll post a picture to make you feel better.

Speaker 3 (09:55):
We'll take a picture.

Speaker 2 (09:56):
Yeah, now my mom has my stuffy, she has both
my h I had a dog. It was Barkley from
Sesame Street, so I had a Barkley dog. And then
my sister had Bunny, which was like a bunny blanket
kind of. It was a very small blanket, but I
had a bunny head on it. And she has those
like displayed at the house like in a curio cabinet
type situation.

Speaker 3 (10:15):
It's kind of a weird.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
It's a weird shrine I did.

Speaker 1 (10:17):
Mine was more of a cabbage patch doll. And that's
one of those things. I don't know what happened to it.
I wish I would have hung onto my cabbage patch
doll because those are worth a lot of money.

Speaker 4 (10:27):
I had a cabbage call actually, yeah, I had the
ones that smell right.

Speaker 2 (10:31):
They smelled like baby powder. I think when we first
got I had I had a dog. Yeah, no, they did.
They were huge in the eighties. There were lines to
get the cabbage patch dolls.

Speaker 1 (10:40):
And I actually that's one I slept with every single night,
Like my cabbage patch.

Speaker 3 (10:45):
Doll was my doll.

Speaker 1 (10:47):
So yeah, it's it was a thing.

Speaker 2 (10:49):
Do you want to know what happened? How did I
get married? I know? Do you know what happened to
my cabbage patch doll?

Speaker 3 (10:53):
What what your girlfriends in high school?

Speaker 2 (10:55):
White girlfriend in high school? I chopped the head off
of it, Oh my gosh, what And then I took
my dad's drill and I drilled holes in the head.
And we had this big bucket of black cat fireworks,
so we would light them and drop them like into
the eyes of the cabbage patch.

Speaker 3 (11:12):
Your Sid from Toy Story You hurt, you Sid?

Speaker 2 (11:16):
What it made the neatest sound when they blew up
inside the cabbage.

Speaker 3 (11:20):
Head be gosh, your poor cabbage patch. Look, guys, what
is that weird? That's weird weird.

Speaker 2 (11:28):
I think it'd be weirder if I was in high
school and I was sleeping with my cabbage patch stall
a bit more normal.

Speaker 3 (11:35):
Actually, let me put you in a box and then
we sat on but actually the tracks for a boy
in high school. Oh my gosh, that's

Speaker 2 (11:45):
Ch And then I put it in acid and
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