What do you miss from the past? 11/16/25

Mindy and Mikaela speak with callers about what they missed from the past!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
All right, we apologize for the dead air. We're trying
to get everything worked out, the kings and all that stuff,
and we're back now.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Back in action something like that. Well, you've been in
action for the last two hours, so I don't know.
I can't really say that I haven't been back in action,
or I can say that I am back in action.

Speaker 3 (00:23):
I can't say you're back in action. That's what I
was trying to say. Well, we're back to get did
you hear me say I think we have dead air?

Speaker 1 (00:28):
Yeah, I think we're on there. Now we're here, so
we apologize for the dead air and it won't happen
for the rest of the two hours.

Speaker 3 (00:34):
We have a lot of women in with us today,
which is.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
So war girl crew, girl crew, and usually you could
ride along for the girl power.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
We just got it.

Speaker 4 (00:44):
We talk.

Speaker 3 (00:45):
Oh you should have seen as the issue we talk.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
Kyleen grew up with Boots, like has known Boots his
whole life, so we had to we had to just
give Boots some fun crap.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
We had to roast him a little because do you
know where the bodies are buried? Because it whoa whoa, Well,
you know what's saying it's anaphorism.

Speaker 5 (01:08):
I know where the pig firms are exactly.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
So we were mentioning how he changed his Facebook status
to in a relationship.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
I saw that on my feet a few times this weekend.

Speaker 4 (01:19):
The pictures and.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
The status give him a couple of jabs. You know,
he deserves it.

Speaker 6 (01:23):
And laughing because people do that for attention. You don't
have to if you're uploing, you know, But so we laugh.
It's like, so true, right.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
You're letting people know what's going on when you do
something like that.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
Yeah, and it's your choice. You don't have to put
that out there, right, he does.

Speaker 5 (01:41):
He does everything is last Boots, right, it's some blast.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
So we just poke a little bit of fun because
who better to poke fun at Boots than the woman
who's literally known him. You've known him your whole.

Speaker 5 (01:54):
Life, my whole life.

Speaker 4 (01:55):
Yes, So what's the key to Boots?

Speaker 7 (01:59):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (01:59):
Well, that's it's a loaded question. I mean, that's yet
to be figured.

Speaker 8 (02:02):
It.

Speaker 6 (02:03):
Boots his boots. I guess that's the only thing to
He's just going to be Boots.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
I love it because Boots, really he tries to get
a rise out of me, and he thinks he's going
to but now does. But now I'm at a point
that I don't really think he does.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
He does try it, though he.

Speaker 6 (02:16):
Tries, you just have to like bounce back, you know,
you just come back at him and you just say, hey,
you know, you just have to give him the same,
you know.

Speaker 3 (02:24):
So I haven't done that yet.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
I'm just kind of like, okay, Boots, Like I'm very
mild because it really doesn't bother me anymore.

Speaker 3 (02:30):
After I havn't.

Speaker 4 (02:32):
Whatever he's audition.

Speaker 5 (02:33):
Now you just give it back.

Speaker 4 (02:34):
I think.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
By so, I think the the person who knows Boots
second best to you in our clan of people here
or who were related to is actually Marcus.

Speaker 3 (02:44):
Marcus interviewed Boots.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
Like one of the first interviews on Channel four that
he did when he was bringing auto information onto Channel four.

Speaker 4 (02:54):
Did you know that on the five o'clock show. Yeah,
that's what he did.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
So, yeah, he's done Boots longer than everybody but Kyleen
in this room.

Speaker 3 (03:02):
I don't know what that says.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
I don't know I was going to say. I don't
know if he should brag about that. I'm only saying
this because Boots is still here. He's like right in
the room next to us, he's still talking to Joe
Schmid's from Peak retiremant planning.

Speaker 4 (03:14):
One of my favorites of your friends.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
I know, of our friends.

Speaker 3 (03:18):
He's your friend, he's my friend now too.

Speaker 1 (03:20):
Yeah, but he's he's a great sponsor to bow shows.

Speaker 3 (03:22):
Really, I want my boys to grow up and be like, yeah,
and you're.

Speaker 1 (03:26):
One boy followed him around all day.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
He did, and he felt really special being there, and
he was I think the only high schooler that's gone
in for like a shadow day, I want to say.
So hopefully he behaved well enough that they have more.

Speaker 1 (03:38):
Yeah, that's very cool. So Mikayla and I have such
a neat show planned for all of you, so many
different things, but one of these first things we're going
to talk about, we one hundred percent absolutely want and
need your input, the listener. We want you to call
up because we want to reflect on what life is
like now and look back to your childhood or from

(04:00):
years ago. What do you miss that is no longer here?
And it can be restaurants, it can be stores, or
it can be just a feeling of like when we
grew up, Mikayla, we were always outside playing like the
neighborhood kids were always together, playing kickball, playing ghost in

(04:21):
the graveyard, playing late, late, late in the night where
our family had a bell, and when we would hear
mom and dad ring the bell.

Speaker 4 (04:27):
It's like an old school bell.

Speaker 1 (04:29):
Yep, we had, we knew it was time to come home.

Speaker 4 (04:30):
We had the same we never talked about.

Speaker 2 (04:34):
My parents were really into antiques, and so they had
the bell and they would ring that thing. We played
something called ditch. Did you have you ever heard of ditch?
Is that an Illinois thing?

Speaker 1 (04:42):
It might be an Illinois thing. I never played ditch.

Speaker 3 (04:44):
Don't think it was hide and seek in the dark.

Speaker 1 (04:46):
So it just hide and seek in the dark.

Speaker 3 (04:47):
Yes, we called it ditch.

Speaker 4 (04:48):
I don't know why we called it ditch.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
Did you ever play Ghost in the Graveyard?

Speaker 3 (04:51):
I mean, I know what it is.

Speaker 4 (04:53):
We did not play it as much as we played Ditch.

Speaker 1 (04:55):
So our point is we want to hear. We're kind
of being nostalgia a little bit. We're gonna hear what
do you miss?

Speaker 7 (05:01):
Like?

Speaker 1 (05:01):
Honestly, when it comes to restaurants, I used to love
going to the kahiki restaurant. I love the kihiki restaurant.
Not just because it was great food, but it was
just a whole different type of environment. It was Polynesian food,
but it was such a great atmosphere that we would
go there. Boots, just step back into the office. I'm
in the office.

Speaker 4 (05:19):
I mean this is the studio.

Speaker 1 (05:21):
Hold on, we don't have your microphone on.

Speaker 4 (05:24):
Loaf on the way.

Speaker 9 (05:28):
Oh, I love I missed it so.

Speaker 1 (05:29):
Bad about damons in general.

Speaker 2 (05:30):
It's not a cheese I've got you on that one. Yeah,
che cheese was It was really the first exposure to
quote unquote Mexican.

Speaker 9 (05:37):
It was the most fake Mexican food you ever eat.

Speaker 3 (05:39):
But yeah, but it was so good.

Speaker 9 (05:41):
Yeah, it was like americanized Mexican.

Speaker 1 (05:43):
What about the Antigo? Do you remember the Antigo's a pizza? No,
it was a taco bell.

Speaker 9 (05:49):
I didn't get taco Bell.

Speaker 10 (05:49):
So I moved to Columbus in eighty eight, and I
thought the place was cool. No, it's like it's a
go too if I have to.

Speaker 1 (05:55):
But what about like how you grew up, Boots. You
were guys, were always outside. You would rough it, you
would play hard, and you just don't see that because
so many kids are on technology.

Speaker 9 (06:03):
These days, called bloody murder.

Speaker 4 (06:05):
Which I played that too. You would say it over
and over, wouldn't you if.

Speaker 9 (06:10):
You caught him? You had screen bloody murders.

Speaker 10 (06:12):
Yeah, but then we played a lot of smear the
queer you can say that nowadays.

Speaker 4 (06:16):
I don't.

Speaker 3 (06:17):
I don't know.

Speaker 10 (06:19):
Kid has a football football You all tackled a tackle
and then he throws.

Speaker 4 (06:22):
The ball, but queer about it?

Speaker 1 (06:26):
Just rhya, buddy, So you can say that again. So
I'm like, cool, Well, most people can't say that these days.
But that's what I mean. What has changed so much
in life that we really missed the old days. I
for one, think the old days are better than these days.
And I know technology is outstanding. I get that. I
am so glad I grew up when I grew up.

Speaker 10 (06:44):
Oh yeah, really, Michael, you're ten years younger enough, so
I am. It's not that big of a difference. Though, No,
video games weren't out of control when you were ten.

Speaker 2 (06:52):
It was the first Nintendo came out when I was ten,
So like Mario Brothers Original and we we but we
weren't obsessed by we weren't.

Speaker 9 (07:02):
I was only a lot of an hour, maybe a week,
two hours. My dad just said, you couldn't do it.
You have football to focus on and go build the
car out in the driveway.

Speaker 4 (07:09):
It wasn't that that.

Speaker 2 (07:11):
I don't think the graphics and all of what we
have it was. It wasn't as cool and it was
not as it didn't suck you in like the way
that it does now. But I mean we had to
remember the power pad and Duck Hunt. Do you remember
Duck Hunt from Nintendo?

Speaker 9 (07:26):
You put the gun right in the middle of the screen.

Speaker 1 (07:27):
It's pull trigger in the middle of the middle.

Speaker 9 (07:30):
An inch away is pull a trigger or something like that.
I get perfect score.

Speaker 1 (07:34):
So what do you miss? Mikaela so Boots.

Speaker 3 (07:36):
It brought up some of the things.

Speaker 2 (07:37):
I mean, I would have said chee cheese and I
you know, I'm gonna this is just an observation.

Speaker 1 (07:41):
Wait, did they have chea cheese in Illinois?

Speaker 3 (07:43):
They did in Springfield.

Speaker 2 (07:45):
But I will tell you this, that isn't it amazing
how many Mexican restaurants there are in my hometown now
and when I was growing up to get anything quote
unquote Mexican.

Speaker 4 (07:56):
I'm just making an observation.

Speaker 2 (07:58):
You had to go to Springfield to go to chee
cheese and then Eventually there was something called Carlos o'kelly's,
which was like chee cheese for us.

Speaker 3 (08:04):
I think it was a chain. Maybe there was no noise.

Speaker 2 (08:07):
We didn't have Don Pablos, but Carlos o'kelly's was like that,
so I would say chee cheese. We had a place
called the Brown Jug where you would throw peanuts on
the floor. Way before there was a Texas roadhouse. I
do miss ditch. I miss block parties. We would like
practice for weeks, dances to songs we would play, and
then perform in front of one of the neighbor's houses.

Speaker 3 (08:26):
At a block party.

Speaker 2 (08:27):
That's cool, Yeah, I mean those were the kinds of
things we did. So no ten years difference. We're all
gen xers and so we've grown up in these two
different worlds, right, this digital world, but we grew up
very analog, so I'm not that far.

Speaker 9 (08:40):
From what was your curfews when you were sixteen.

Speaker 2 (08:46):
My parents were very, very conservative, and so when I
was sixteen, I think I had to be home by eleven.

Speaker 9 (08:52):
Mine was ten on school nights, midnight on the weekends.

Speaker 2 (08:55):
Oh, I didn't even ask for a curfew on the
school nights.

Speaker 1 (08:58):
Yeah, Yeah, you went out on school nights.

Speaker 10 (09:01):
We had girlfriends and you're but nine o'clock. Nine o'clock
was during football season. You had to be home every
night and coach called at nine o'clock.

Speaker 1 (09:08):
Coach called you, guys, all your position.

Speaker 10 (09:11):
Coach called. You had to be off the phone five
to nine until five after nine, and if you didn't,
you came in the next day and ran until you
almost puked or puked.

Speaker 1 (09:20):
Andrew's on the line.

Speaker 3 (09:21):
Let's see what he and people are catching on. This
is what we wanted.

Speaker 1 (09:25):
We're just going to take time to really do this
and reflect. But it's not going to work if you
guys don't call in because serious. We can sit here
and talk about it all day, but it's really more
fun to hear from you. So before we go to break,
Andrew will take your phone call and then we'll figure
out what maybe we can bring back some things that
we missed so much of. Andrew, what's your comment.

Speaker 7 (09:45):
Okay, fast food restaurants I remember as a kid, burger chef,
you remember, yes, and then I saw in one of
your posts, Gold Circle. I remember those stores, and I
remember mom and dad taking them in there to I
think I got like coats and stuff there. But here's
one thing I really miss and get this. So back

(10:06):
in the day, your parents got a big, big, thick
Sears catalog or a like a JC Penny catalog where
you could go through and they had the toy section
all that stuff.

Speaker 1 (10:19):
I missed that, you know what.

Speaker 3 (10:22):
Yeah, I would dog hear the pages.

Speaker 2 (10:24):
Or circle it with a pen when I wanted it
was Sears and I think the JC Penny catalog if
I'm remembering correctly.

Speaker 1 (10:31):
Do you guys remember service merchandise?

Speaker 9 (10:32):
Yeah, we had best.

Speaker 1 (10:34):
Service merchandise would do. It was only that type of
a store where you could only circle what you want.
When you would walk into the store, they had everything
written out, this is what you want, and then you
bring them bring them the paper, and then the people
in the back find it, and then you wait your
turn in line, and then they bring out what you
were just bought.

Speaker 11 (10:53):
Wasn't it fun?

Speaker 2 (10:54):
I was?

Speaker 1 (10:55):
I used to love service merchandise.

Speaker 2 (10:56):
I think we had a version in Illinois and this
guy made a lot of money.

Speaker 4 (11:00):
His name was Ray.

Speaker 2 (11:01):
He had K's Merchandise and it was around for years
and years until Marcus and I got married. Some of
our furniture from when we got married. It's from Kays
and I think it's gone. I think he's now ninety,
you know, but similar, I'm sure concept.

Speaker 10 (11:12):
From what Andrew Burger King the chef Burger chef they
had your your hamburger came into a house. Yeah, remember,
and they had hot wheel. They gave you a hot
wheel thing to put on the floor for your match
boxes and hot wheel. But the bad thing is my
mom said you got to empty the boxes first because
it was smelling.

Speaker 9 (11:33):
I was like ten and they.

Speaker 10 (11:35):
Were still cheese melted inside the little carton of the
like the grocery store they gave you and stuff, and
then I also had an old lettuce in there and stuff.

Speaker 9 (11:42):
So my mom throws away, Yeah, we didn't know we
were boys.

Speaker 1 (11:45):
Andrew brought up Gold Circle and I loved Gold Circle,
went there all the time. Now, I just think Coles
became the Gold Circles and Amazon, because the Gold Circle
in Westerville where it used to be is now the
Coles is.

Speaker 9 (11:57):
That right behind me though?

Speaker 10 (11:59):
Okay, yeah, well I can tell you that I am
addicted to Amazon and I'm done with going to stores.

Speaker 9 (12:05):
I hate to admit.

Speaker 4 (12:06):
That I'm really surprised by that tho.

Speaker 9 (12:08):
I'm done, I'm over it.

Speaker 3 (12:09):
That doesn't that just does not seem it was me.

Speaker 9 (12:11):
I fought it and fought it and fought it.

Speaker 1 (12:13):
But it's yesterday.

Speaker 10 (12:14):
I ordered grinding wheels and are already at my address.

Speaker 4 (12:18):
It's hard when I can't, Yeah.

Speaker 10 (12:19):
I can't. The convenience it's so easy. Is the only
that bothers me is they always have different drivers and
I want to tip them. So you never like my
male lady. I always take care of her with the
rooster Bucks, but the Amazon guy, you won't get the
same guy.

Speaker 9 (12:32):
For a year.

Speaker 1 (12:32):
Well, and you never want the mom and pop stores
to go away.

Speaker 9 (12:35):
I don't.

Speaker 1 (12:35):
As much as you really want to support local, you
don't want those two.

Speaker 10 (12:40):
Parts that I can't get a Jagg's on Amazon. I
get buy my Pepsi on Amazon. Everything I buy on Amazon,
my deodorant, my my hair, my hair, my razors for
my hair, what little hair I got. I'm sorry, I'm
addicted to it, and I hate to admit that.

Speaker 3 (12:55):
Well, and I think part of it right, What are
you going to say?

Speaker 1 (13:00):
No? I can you stick around for the next segment
because I found sound that I think you guys will
really appreciate and it deals with this. Okay, it deals
with this.

Speaker 3 (13:08):
Andrew, thank you for calling me.

Speaker 4 (13:10):
I really appreciate you.

Speaker 3 (13:10):
Hit us up.

Speaker 2 (13:11):
Yeah, keep calling six one four eight two one nine
eight eight six six one four eight two one WTVN
call in.

Speaker 3 (13:17):
What do you miss about your childhood?

Speaker 1 (13:19):
And it doesn't have to be things. It can also
be a feeling of playing outdoors that's just kind of
gone from the wayside.

Speaker 3 (13:25):
This is what matters.

Speaker 1 (13:30):
Yeah, look up, Kayla, here you go. All right. So
I sent Kyleen this piece of sound that I thought
was so true to how so many of us feel.
So she gets it. Ready, give me the thumbs up, Kyleen,
And I want you boots to hear it. Mikayla, you
hear it, and please call in and let us know
if you agree with this. And also we're taking here calls.

(13:51):
What do you guys miss from years gone by that
isn't around anymore either? Restaurants, grocery stores. Remember the IgA
super duple.

Speaker 2 (14:00):
They're still an IgA in my talent in the town
where my dad grew up. I think it's more of
a rural thing right now, because do you know it
stands for Independent Grocers Association.

Speaker 1 (14:08):
But I knew if anyone would know what it's to be.

Speaker 3 (14:11):
Yeah, that's what IgA stands for.

Speaker 1 (14:13):
Okay, So go ahead and take a moment and listen
to the sound. And yes, we want your call, so
keep them coming. Go ahead and kyleen play this and
listen to this. You guys.

Speaker 12 (14:20):
People born between nineteen sixty and nineteen eighty nine are
the best generation ever, hands down, no debate.

Speaker 13 (14:28):
They grew up without Google, without smartphones, without social media,
yet still managed to thrive in a world that demanded
grit and resilience. They knew how to actually talk to
people face to face, how to solve problems without searching.

Speaker 9 (14:42):
For every answer online.

Speaker 12 (14:44):
They relied on resourcefulness, creativity, and their own instincts. They
worked hard, respected what they earned, and valued loyalty. Life
taught them patience, perseverance, and how to balance freedom with responsibility.
They had the freedom of playing outside until the street

(15:06):
lights came on, but also the discipline of respecting rules
and understanding boundaries. They witness life before and after technology,
so they can adapt in ways no other generation can.
They know how to navigate both simplicity and complexity.

Speaker 13 (15:25):
They had real friendships, real love, and real patience.

Speaker 9 (15:29):
They value deep.

Speaker 13 (15:30):
Connections over surface level attention or instant gratification. They know
how to hustle, how to sacrifice, and how to enjoy
the simple things. That balance of old school grit and
modern adaptability is rare. That's why they'll always be the
greatest generation to walk this earth.

Speaker 9 (15:52):
Drop a one.

Speaker 1 (15:53):
Hundred if you agree with me.

Speaker 3 (15:56):
The more generation is the greatest generation.

Speaker 4 (15:58):
We're not the greatest.

Speaker 1 (15:59):
General argue with them, Yeah, but very very valid points.
And he's spot on about all those other things.

Speaker 9 (16:05):
You know, the greatest generation taught us how to be great.

Speaker 1 (16:08):
Yeah, because that's who we learned from.

Speaker 9 (16:10):
And then we came along and spoiled our kids.

Speaker 10 (16:13):
Our generation, I feel, have been too nice, no capital
punishment whatsoever, and pretty much most parents let their kids
do whatever they want because they want a friend and
they don't want to be a parent.

Speaker 2 (16:26):
I'm not I'm not saying that's inaccurate. I think there
is some of that out there. I also, though, thought,
are the generous the greatest generation? I think taught us
how to love better. I think some love and affection
was not as prevalent with our Well, your mom was
a great was your mom a greatest generation? Okay, so
my grandparents were. My grandfather was not someone who said

(16:48):
I love you. He's not someone who.

Speaker 1 (16:50):
Embraced like okay, but you know he did well I did.

Speaker 2 (16:52):
But I'm glad now that I feel like we are
affectionate with our kids as.

Speaker 1 (16:58):
Are too affectionate these days. Men have gotten softer through time.

Speaker 9 (17:02):
Oh please, They're the biggest whims in the world.

Speaker 8 (17:04):
Now.

Speaker 1 (17:04):
It's definitely changed.

Speaker 12 (17:05):
Man.

Speaker 1 (17:06):
I think there's more mental health issues today, and there's
so much more of an emphasis on trying to save
your mental health, and there's more people with issues today
than ever before.

Speaker 2 (17:17):
That is true, but it's for many reasons, not just
the current gen Alpha gen zs. I have something to
do with it, but I think but we're talking about
the things we miss and the things that have gotten
better too. I think Gen X men divide and conquer
household duties a little bit more than the men from
the greatest generation. I am so glad that my husband

(17:37):
does laundry.

Speaker 10 (17:37):
But you work full time and he does too, right,
But in the old day's mom did all the work
and dad worked six and a half days a week.

Speaker 2 (17:44):
True, and so monetarily, we also set ourselves up for
something better. But it also there are things you sacrifice. Lisa,
you are on with us. What are some of the
things that you miss from back in the day.

Speaker 14 (17:57):
I'll tell you. I grew up in the Linden area
until early elementary and then my mom moved us to Gigana.
I miss the brown Derby, Max and Erma's and the
super duper grocery stores Max and Iermas.

Speaker 1 (18:13):
Oh, you brought back some many memories. Remember they had
phones at each table. Yes, so if you saw someone
at a table that you thought was cute, or if
you saw like one of your friends at table twelve,
you could call.

Speaker 4 (18:26):
Up that table.

Speaker 1 (18:26):
Oh yeah, Max and Erma's was great.

Speaker 3 (18:30):
What about Ori production?

Speaker 14 (18:31):
My first introduction? Oh I loved the Victoria.

Speaker 1 (18:36):
Yeah we're gonna say.

Speaker 14 (18:39):
Was my first introduction to what's that? The potato skins?

Speaker 1 (18:44):
Oh? Okay? Didn't they have like a Sunday bar as
well at Max and Erma's. Can you make your own Sunday?

Speaker 8 (18:50):
Wow?

Speaker 4 (18:51):
Wow?

Speaker 2 (18:51):
Like Ponderosa which I love some Ponderosa and Bonanza.

Speaker 1 (18:56):
My brother Mark used to work at either Ponderosa or Bananza,
and when he would come home I remember his uniform
just smelled yuck because you were by the grease.

Speaker 3 (19:04):
All the time. There is one ponderosa left in Columbus.
Do you know this?

Speaker 9 (19:08):
South High Street?

Speaker 8 (19:08):
No?

Speaker 3 (19:09):
South High Street?

Speaker 2 (19:10):
Do you I keep wanting to take Christian. He would
love Ponderosad.

Speaker 1 (19:15):
Lisa, We're so glad that you called in and to
reminisce and to share these memories. This is why I say,
it's so much more fun when we include you guys.
The listener six one four eight two one nine eight
eight six six one four eight two one nine eight
eighty six. Cat, we're going to you next. We are
looking back at life, things that we missed, or what

(19:35):
about what would you do if something that you have
today would go away?

Speaker 8 (19:39):
Like?

Speaker 1 (19:39):
What would you hate to see go away? Go ahead, Kat?
What do you miss from years gone by?

Speaker 15 (19:44):
When I was about six, my older sister worked at
Isley's ice cream shop, and they had special dips that
were tall and pointed, so your cone was tall and pointed.
And at Chris Miss time, they had peppermint ice cream
and they put little candy canes in it. And I

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would go there and she would scoop up these tall
scoops and it was just heaven, just heaven.

Speaker 1 (20:14):
That sounds like heaven. You made me think of gd ritzies?
Is is that gone?

Speaker 4 (20:19):
There is a.

Speaker 2 (20:20):
Ritzy that I think is a version of that down
in Clintonville.

Speaker 4 (20:24):
Yes, I think there actually is.

Speaker 1 (20:26):
What about Ferrels? Do you guys remember Ferrels? Do you
remember Ferrels?

Speaker 9 (20:32):
Kat?

Speaker 1 (20:32):
Do you remember?

Speaker 8 (20:33):
Yes?

Speaker 15 (20:34):
Yes, I once loaded thirteen people into a van to
all go to Farrells in Toledo, Ohio. And it wasn't
it was It was an ice cream shop and they
actually had an enormous Sunday that they said if you

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ate it all, you would get an award. And my
niece ordered it was served in a like a gallon
brandy snifter, and she ate the whole thing. Man, She
thought she was gonna get this award, And the award
she got was the certificate that said I'm a pig.

Speaker 4 (21:16):
And that's all.

Speaker 1 (21:18):
That's probably why Pharrells went out of business. Farrell's was
the place to go for a party, like if you
had a birthday party or something, and didn't they bring
like a big loan, a loud drum or like musicians
would go through. It was absolutely so funny. It was
my favorite place to go get rock candy too, because
after you ate, they had a little gift shop store
and then you'd load up on dots, the candy and

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rock candy and all that. It was such a fun place.

Speaker 3 (21:43):
Farrells, Kat, thank you for calling. We're up against a break.
We've had such great calls so far, so guys.

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What do you miss from the seventies the eighties? Like
those times were great times.

Speaker 1 (22:00):
We're great times I miss at all.

Speaker 4 (22:01):
Pete.

Speaker 2 (22:02):
I know you're on the line. We will get to
you after the break. This is what matters on six
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Speaker 1 (22:09):
I feel like singing memories like the corners of my
remember that one, I do, but I usually join in
of my mind misty color, the memories of the way
we were?

Speaker 3 (22:25):
Is that the movie?

Speaker 1 (22:26):
I think that's the movie?

Speaker 2 (22:28):
Yeah, right, And I was a little young for that one,
which says you've got.

Speaker 1 (22:33):
To go straight to these calls. You guys are making
this so fun. We're talking about things that we miss
that we're around when we were kids that are gone,
or just the overall feeling of how kids are growing
up today compared to how we grew up. Who do
you want to take, Mikayla.

Speaker 3 (22:48):
Let's go with Pete.

Speaker 2 (22:49):
He's been waiting on the line for a few minutes.
Pete's so glad to hear from you. I think this
might be our loyal listener, Pete.

Speaker 4 (22:54):
Is it yes, Pete?

Speaker 1 (22:58):
What do you miss?

Speaker 15 (23:01):
Well?

Speaker 8 (23:02):
So, I'm fifty four, and I miss the sense of
accountability that was there when I was growing up. For example,
I went to the excellent Westernville school system, and I'll
never forget one time in the sixth grade, me and
my friend we were acting up in the back of
the class and the teacher whipped out his wooden paddle

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and he looked at me and he didn't say anything,
but he basically implied, do you want to get spanked?
And I shook my head and I stopped being I
stopped misbehaving. Well, my friend did not, and he got
spanked right there in front of the class, And you know,

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I just it's They're just that I missed. That seems
like nowadays, you know, if a teacher were to do that,
you know there'd be a huge uproar. And also I
was thinking while I was on hold that you know,
my teachers back then, they grew up with values that
were instilled to them by the greatest generation, So there
was nothing wrong with holding kids accountable. And nowadays it

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just seems like it's not that way anymore. And so,
you know, it's I wish we could go back to those,
to those times where you know what, Pete.

Speaker 1 (24:21):
It's like this, when when a kid gets in trouble
at school, you would go home and that kid would
get in so much trouble because the parent would be
so mad at that kid for getting in trouble in school. Today,
when a kid gets in trouble at school, your parents
get mad at the teachers. So there's no which rhymar reason.
It's like, what do you mean so your dan? If

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you're do, you'r dan if you're done. If you're a
teacher and you try to discipline a kid, because the
parents are going to come down on you, And it
used to not be that.

Speaker 8 (24:51):
I don't understand why why would parents be that way?
I mean, my dad, I don't know when I got
that's that's crazy. When I got in trouble at school,
when I came home, that's why I was. I wasn't
so much afraid of of of the parents of the
teacher's paddle. I was afraid of what my dad was
going to do when I got home.

Speaker 1 (25:10):
That's my point. Yeah, exactly, And now it's just not
that way. I mean, I think we're so protective of
our kids feelings and they don't do wrong, Yes they do.
You have to be accountable. I like the call pete.
I agree with you.

Speaker 3 (25:22):
I did too.

Speaker 2 (25:23):
I got I got hit with the ruler a few
times and go to Catholic school when I was I
think I was in first grade.

Speaker 1 (25:30):
On your knuckles, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (25:31):
Because I talked too much. You're not shocked by that.

Speaker 4 (25:35):
I mean, I did deserve it, but.

Speaker 1 (25:36):
I'm surprised you did anything wrong because you're a rule
follow But.

Speaker 3 (25:40):
It was really talkative, like really.

Speaker 1 (25:42):
So I appreciate you because I like my teacher so much.
I would have felt so bad. No, are you kidding?
I would not.

Speaker 9 (25:52):
I was a good kid.

Speaker 6 (25:54):
I was talking to my cousin about this this week,
and accountability is so it's like these days we're talking
about how kids back then you would get your report
card and if it came home bad, you know, you've
got in trouble.

Speaker 5 (26:09):
Well, now they have these all these links and everything.

Speaker 6 (26:11):
You can track all your kid's assignments, you can track everything.
But again it goes back to accountability. What is that
teaching these kids, Because when you get out in the
real world, you don't have somebody saying.

Speaker 1 (26:23):
Listen, taking care of everything.

Speaker 6 (26:25):
If your boss says you have something, I want this
on my desk tomorrow, you do it.

Speaker 2 (26:31):
So Kylie and I have one kid that I don't
have to worry about it all. And as Mindy knows,
I have another kid that I do, and I do
look at the daily thing and it still doesn't help.

Speaker 3 (26:40):
So I agree with you on this.

Speaker 5 (26:43):
But man, no, man, bizarre right, But I think.

Speaker 2 (26:46):
But I honestly think COVID Yeah, screwed my oldest up.
I think learning from home, I think all of those things.
Jeff One, he's the one that I'm like, are you
going to get a job?

Speaker 3 (26:59):
Are you gonna Are you going to get out of
my house before you're thirty?

Speaker 1 (27:02):
But COVID didn't last forever. Eventually you have to move
on and you learn, you know, you move on from that.

Speaker 2 (27:08):
I agree, but I feel like it was a stunting period.

Speaker 1 (27:12):
Was saying the same thing with that, and we kind
of were arguing, Yes, Boots right and I were arguing
a lot because it wasn't like a foreverthing with COVID. Yes,
it's stunting people's growth for that time, but eventually you
got back to normal.

Speaker 10 (27:24):
But on Randy's behalf, in my behalf, anybody it's an
is athletic or in sales or anything like that, you
tear their guts out, you put them up on the table,
you stomp on them, then you put them all back
and then you make them a hero. That's where parents
mess up. You've got the gut your kids in a
professional way of telling you are a pos, get your

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head out of here, you know what, and then say
but I still love you. Here's how we're going to
fix it. You do you end up with a positive Yeah.
I trained a lot of salespeople in my lifetime and
the thing I always left the office was with pow positive.

Speaker 9 (28:00):
Last statement.

Speaker 10 (28:01):
The problem is parents beat, beat, beat, when it's convenient
for them, and then the kids screws up again.

Speaker 9 (28:06):
They beat beat Like.

Speaker 4 (28:07):
Mentally, Tim we like to call beat.

Speaker 1 (28:09):
We are going to go to Tim. But yeah, accountability
definitely missed out. What do you missed, Tim rug?

Speaker 8 (28:16):
I mean.

Speaker 2 (28:20):
That was like a special Tim, What do you now?

Speaker 3 (28:25):
How did they do that?

Speaker 2 (28:26):
Did we go through a line like you ordered the
burger and did you watch them make it?

Speaker 4 (28:30):
Is that right?

Speaker 8 (28:32):
Yeah?

Speaker 16 (28:32):
And you you got to pick everything. It's kind of
like going through a subway but better.

Speaker 2 (28:40):
And there didn't they have really good fries, like like
a fantastic Yeah.

Speaker 4 (28:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 16 (28:48):
What I missed the most is no responsibility.

Speaker 9 (28:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (28:53):
So you're saying like when you were a kid, you
had no responsibility and now you've got tons of responsibility. Yeah,
that's true. Just free and living life. I do wish
kids did that a little more, you know, I think
that I don't know if they really are just care free.
I don't it bothers me. Now there's a house across
the street from me, Caddy Corner, and those kids are

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outside playing all the time, and I love that. I
don't see that all that much where they do. Forget
your responsibilities for a little bit. Just enjoy and have
fun and enjoy life because you are going to grow
up soon enough.

Speaker 2 (29:24):
Well, I think too, And Tim, I don't know what
you think about this, but I think us leaning into
technology didn't help our kids, right, like the way that
we use cell phones now smartphones, the way that we
use iPads, and now you have iPads and schools for curriculum,
which I am against. And I am in a school
district that uses iPads.

Speaker 3 (29:44):
So yeah, thanks Boots.

Speaker 2 (29:45):
Like I think we created the monster, did I?

Speaker 16 (29:53):
I tried telling her years ago that technology has ruined
America because you come in, you live your garage door,
you go in, you shut your garage door, you stay
inside because you have air conditioning or heat, and you
sit in there and talk on the phone or watch
your TV. And you talk on the phone rather than

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talk to somebody face to face, and you text them.
And technology is I mean, it's good, you know, it
has its good part, but I think it's really done
a bad thing here in not just America but the world,
but here in America.

Speaker 9 (30:29):
And I hate to say this.

Speaker 10 (30:31):
The guy that was shoeing horses and a model T
went by, he went, who in the heck?

Speaker 9 (30:35):
Once that rattle trap pos?

Speaker 10 (30:37):
And guess what a month later he was building at
Ford because horses went away. But now cars are over price.
You I'm a car guy, but if you lose a car, technology.
It's bad, really bad.

Speaker 1 (30:48):
Thanks so much Tim for calling. We're gonna go to Frank. Frank,
what do you miss from Here's gone by?

Speaker 5 (30:55):
Hey?

Speaker 11 (30:56):
Everybody says this, I think, but I missed the kahiki. Yes,
the aquariums. I never wanted to sit near the bird
cages too, for some reason. The ams were really cool.

Speaker 9 (31:13):
That was Monica Day's family.

Speaker 3 (31:15):
Yeah, so Frank.

Speaker 2 (31:16):
You know, Mindy and I both worked with Monica for
a long time in Boots Noser and it was her
grandfather who owned the Kohikie. Right, there's a book about
the kohiki that I've seen inside, like Giant Eagle or something.

Speaker 9 (31:27):
Like that big cop shootout there.

Speaker 10 (31:29):
One time a guy was trying to rob it, I believe,
and they shot and killed him. Buddy of mine's father
was the officer took the guy down.

Speaker 2 (31:35):
So Frank and you guys, since I didn't live here
at the time, what happened to the kehiki was the downfall?

Speaker 3 (31:40):
Then Boots it started. Then what exactly happened?

Speaker 10 (31:43):
The neighborhood went a little south, and I think it
got is it the post office now.

Speaker 9 (31:50):
Something? It got redeveloped.

Speaker 11 (31:51):
You know, I'm not Hey, There's something else I missed.
What is the dollar being worth more towards a dollar?
Remember you, I mean a dollar? Really? Back then a
dollar was like eighty five cents at least now it's
like twenty seven cents or something.

Speaker 2 (32:08):
Wow, do you miss the penny? Now that the penny
has gone away in the last week, Frank, the.

Speaker 1 (32:12):
Smartest thing to do is get rid of Lucky.

Speaker 11 (32:15):
I've got a secret scorel stash, So I'm okay with
the penny.

Speaker 1 (32:18):
I mean it cost four cents to make a penny. Yes,
here dumb to keep making a penny.

Speaker 11 (32:26):
Shoemakers. Did you hear that shoemakers are rushing to make
the new nipple loafer?

Speaker 1 (32:35):
Was that a dad joke or is that true?

Speaker 3 (32:37):
Frank?

Speaker 11 (32:37):
That's babylon. That's Babylon b I can't take credit.

Speaker 1 (32:40):
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