May 25, 2025 • 16 mins
Mindy and Mikaela talk with callers about the advice they would give their younger selves!
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
We are back on Sunday afternoon, and we are celebrating,
but we are also honoring and remembering. So obviously it's
graduation season. You were just at a graduation party before
coming into the studio.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
I was in your neck of the woods. I was
shocked there were two food trucks. There is that a
thing in Western l.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
I think that's a thing at graduation parties. I haven't
had two food trucks, but I've had I've been to
graduation parties where they've had a food truck, like a
Mexican food truck.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
What were your worst pedabilities? And this delicious sliders truck.
I had two little sliders that were so good.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
So does that make you want to have to give
more money to the card for the graduates?
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Well, part of me says, because it takes a certain
amount usually to bring a food truck out. So yes,
I was shocked, mindy, I mean I felt good for
my friend Chris.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
You know Chris. Oh yeah, her oldest graduated.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
From North South.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
I think he is at their right off string Town
on road.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
What part what? I don't know which school that way,
the way.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
They have the zoning, it's all different.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Might be Central I feel like it might be central.
He plays for the Warhawks.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
That's central.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
That's central. Okay, then that's what it is. He's a
baseball player.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
So then he was coached by my classmate Jeff Kiefer,
who's the head coach of Western Center.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
And there you go.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Yeah he probably was obviously.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
So I was shocked to see these two food trucks
sitting there.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
I was like, good for you, Chris, But it think
be a little costly.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
I think that anymore parties of anything. You know, we've
talked about before when people have a bachelor party or
a bachelorette party. Gone are the days that you get
a limousine and just drive around town. Now it's a
destination bachelor or bachelorette party, and it's like everybody's trying
to outdo the others. And then if your neighbor is
doing that, then my gosh, you got to do that too.
(01:48):
For a graduation party.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Two food trucks. That's a little over the top, but nice.
Yeah you ate well before you came here.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Yeah, I mean I did. I had a couple of siders.
I didn't have the cake. I was bummed I didn't
get any cake.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
But it looked really good, and a Gathoy was sitting
next to though, whose son plays lacrosse at Central. She's like,
I made my own food, and then you had She
made her own food for her own party.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Thought, do you know what I thought you meant? You
guys are listening. I think that she I thought you
meant she didn't like the food truck food, so she
made and brought her own food.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
To the party. Good.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
No, I did not mean that.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
So she made her own food for her own graduation party.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
She's a smaller amount of people.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Maybe maybe a smaller amount of people, but you all,
like you combined Cammy's party with like the end of the.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Season senior day. Yes, even didn't even get to walk
for graduation.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
She's going this week, I think to take pictures of
a cap and gown.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
She didn't even order a cap and gown.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
When you play a spring sport like softball or baseball
in college, chances are you're not going to be able
to walk because you're playing either home or away that
weekend that you have graduation. So she borrowed Kirsten's, my
son's girlfriend's cap and gown for just pictures or whatever.
We're talking about graduation because we want to hear your stories.
We have a giveaway to give you and you my friends.
(03:06):
Maybe you had a bad experience at prom all those
years ago, Well guess what. You get to get a
new dress on or a new tuxedo and you get
to go back to prom.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
You could do that, or you can try to fit
into the one you wore years ago and have a
better memory in it.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Can you imagine could you fit into your Absolutely not.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
I mean I was like a little stick.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
So Cammy and my nieces used to try on all
the dresses that my sister and I saved, either through
weddings or proms and homecomings.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Didn't she wear one to one? Am I wrong?
Speaker 2 (03:36):
I know she would never Well, okay, cause she's I
mean she's taller.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Yeah, but I mean I'm not short.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
No, you're not sure, but Hilton stuff.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
She was not as tall as she is now.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
But anyway, so we want to send you to prom.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
But we were looking for your graduation stories or something
that maybe happened at a party you were at, something.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Just fun to share with us. And what do they get, Mikayla?
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Yeah, so four tickets to Kosai after dark it's their
prom version and it's happening June twelfth, So June twelfth
is the date. So check that calendar and then give
us a call and give us your stories.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Yeah, and if you don't have a story to tell,
you can answer this. What would you say?
Speaker 1 (04:15):
What kind of advice would you give to yourself when
you were in sixth grade? We bring that up because
there was a boarding school in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and they
did this to these sixth graders how many years ago
if they're graduating from high school now, you're looking at four, five, six,
seven years ago. So they saved whoever did this at
this boarding school saved all these videos of these young
(04:37):
men and then they played them on an iPad and
so they each watched their sixth grade self asking questions
of their future self. We have a little bit of
sound that we want to share with you. Go ahead,
Chris and play that, and we're going to talk more
about this after the other side of the break.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
But go ahead, Chris.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
It is your favorite hobby, still solving your Rubik's cube.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
Just like me, I thought it was so tough for
being able to do.
Speaker 5 (04:59):
That back in the day.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Heyward, is your favorite food still Mexican.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
Oh, definitely, yeah, Chipotle for sure. Takamo Mesda.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Is your favorite movie still The Water Boy?
Speaker 1 (05:10):
My favorite movie? He definitely is still The Water Boys
a classic.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
Is your favorite subject world history? Or is it math
and science?
Speaker 5 (05:18):
Not world history anymore? I'm a science guy now.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Also, what is your favorite What's your favorite sport? Is
it still soccer?
Speaker 1 (05:26):
The study is crazy? No, football definitely? Gobirds?
Speaker 5 (05:29):
Is your favorite sports still basketball?
Speaker 1 (05:31):
My favorite sport is still basketball. I've loved it, Alter McCauley,
I love basketball.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
Is your favorite movie still Star Wars?
Speaker 4 (05:38):
My favorite movie is probably still Star Wars.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Yeah, what is the biggest life lesson?
Speaker 3 (05:44):
You have learned this far?
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Try your hardest, no matter what.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
You'll feel bad.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
If you didn't do it.
Speaker 5 (05:49):
You take enough ap classes and hard classes over the
four years of high school. You'll realize what happens when
you don't try hard, So you better do it.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
And then he tells him, so you'll do it.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
And then another kid was asked that same question of himself,
and he said, what's the biggest life lesson?
Speaker 4 (06:06):
And he said, be kind?
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Kindness matters so much, And you'll realize that as you
get older. In life, So we're looking for that kind
of a thing too. What would you tell yourself now
that you didn't have the chance to tell yourself when
you were in sixth grade or any grade?
Speaker 4 (06:21):
What would you kind of advice would you give your
young self?
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Such a good question.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
So we do want to hear from you. We have
this four pack of tickets to give away. So think
about this, what advice you would give to your younger self,
and also think about funny grad stories. We'll take either
one of them in an attempt to give away these
four tickets.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
I love the fact that they did that at that
boarding school. I would imagine more schools would do that
just to hear you know what, I you know what?
Speaker 4 (06:46):
I hit me the most? What listening to that? What
the voice changes?
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Oh yeah, six voice to a high school graduate voice.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
It makes my mom heart sad because in't that you know,
Christian's finishing sixth grade and your logan is just turned
fifteen yesterday.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Yeah, and this.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
We'll talk more about the video too, because I know
we're at the break because some interesting things have come
out of the video of like people saying we got
to do this. So six one four eight two one
nine eight eighty six is the number six one four
eight two one at WTVN. Give us a call, give
us what you would tell your younger self or funny graduation,
great graduation story, and you could have these tickets to
Kosai after dark.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
This is what matters on sometimes.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
I really wish you guys were watching us on the
Facebook feeds because we were talking about different things.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
And Mikayla was trying to figure out what a bunt
is and she's like, is that where they like? And
she didn't say anything.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
She just went over and k, yeah, yeah, that's what
it is.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Yeah, you're trying to lay the ball down like right
in front of you.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
They have to run to get it.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Okay, okay.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Anyway, we have all these conversations during commercial breaks that
I actually saw Mackay's Mikayla square up for a bunch time.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Ever ever seen that?
Speaker 3 (08:02):
So what's not successful?
Speaker 2 (08:04):
We were asking the question what would you tell your
younger self? After this incredible viral video has made it
everywhere about these boys at a boarding school in Chattanooga.
They recorded themselves in sixth grade asking themselves some questions
and then they had to wait seven years to have
their high school selves answer those questions.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
It was so cool and maybe you saw because it
did spread like wildfire. What was some of the reaction
that you saw across the country from this video?
Speaker 2 (08:32):
So you know that I traveled as a graduate consultant
for a year for a sorority. So I was like
a traveling leadership consultant for one year for a national organization.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
And a lot of people in the fraternal.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Community are saying, why don't we do this when people
are freshmen coming onto campus and then four years later, Yeah,
and then four years later you see how much you've grown.
So that is one reaction I saw amongst the fraternal
community and throughout the United States.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
If you could go back in time and talk to
your sixth grade self, not so much about your life
in general, on things that will happen, but to give advice,
because that was part of the video too. What's the
best piece of advice you would give your sixth grade self?
Speaker 4 (09:13):
What would you tell yourself.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
You're only going to be awkward for a little bit.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Really, yeah, I wouldn't be awkward.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
I was awkward in sixth grade. Yeah, I was awkward,
and six is awkward.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
I mean I had like a haircut where people would
like bounce a grape off my haircut, and I was
just like this little stick lag kid with a big
belly in it round head, and.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
I just was a little awkward.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
That's what I'll say.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
And you don't stay awkward forever. You grow, you change.
So that's what I would tell myself.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
How about you.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
I think if I could go back in time and
look at my sixth grade self, I would say, keep
being fun, keep not getting embarrassed, and keep making friends.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Well, you've taken that advice.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
I would tell myself that same thing though, because I
think sometimes you get so worry worried about what other
people think and and things like that, and just don't
worry about it. You keep being you, keep having fun,
and keep living life to the fullest. Don't ever stop
doing that. I want That's what I would do.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
I want all sixth graders to hear that, because I
do think these kids, especially in an online world.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
And we won't go down that path.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
But like we didn't have that though.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Yeah we did have cell phones, we did have any
of those worries that parents have today.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
No, so just keep keep having fun and just.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Keeping weird and wild weird, wild, fun and enjoy every
single moment.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Don't take life too seriously for sure.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Six one four eight two one nine eight eight six
six one four eight two one at WTVN is our number.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
If you want to.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Tell us what you would tell your sixth grade self
or a great graduation story, we are giving away a
four pack of tickets to Kosi after Dark, which is
June twelfth. That's the next one.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Before we go to the phone lines. We're looking for
advice you would give your sixth grade self or a
funny graduation story or a funny prom story. So, Chris,
our producer, you never went to prom right, Nope, but
you did graduate, yes, So what was your funny graduation story?
Speaker 5 (11:04):
You want high school or college?
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Both? You to do it quickly.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
So high school I didn't get they. I went to
my friend's graduation party and I was like, where did
you get your diploma from? Because they didn't put them
in the slots like in the actual case. You had
to go a different direction and get them. So about
half of our class apparently didn't get our actual diplomas.
So we had to go back that Monday to the
(11:28):
high school and get them because we were graduated from
the shoe that's oh okay. So then in college at
Ohio State, I think I told you this before, is
I sat behind somebody who decided to wear a reflector
on their cap because I can't say that on air,
but you know, just I don't know why. And yeah,
(11:50):
when we went to go eat dinner afterwards, my mom
was like, Chris, you look like two face. My half
my face was burnt.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
Oh yeah, did you have shades on at all that
you could where Soka?
Speaker 5 (12:01):
No, because where I was at in the stadium when
we had graduation practice, I was like, I don't need shades.
This is great. And then to my surprise, I'm like,
oh no.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
Couldn't you and yours? He's so nice, Mikayla. So he
would never tell them take your reflector off your cap.
Speaker 5 (12:17):
No, I would actually ask why did you put a
reflector on.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
Your What are they graduating?
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Like?
Speaker 4 (12:21):
What was the deal? Why reflector?
Speaker 5 (12:22):
I don't know. We were the College of Art and
Science is like, you know, so we're you know, communications
majors and all that. So we're like why why that's funny?
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Why?
Speaker 5 (12:32):
I mean, but and then and that it lasted for
a good like week and a half for this. So
I was like, I didn't want to leave the house
for a while because like it looked like two face
And they're like, why.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Well you look fine now?
Speaker 3 (12:45):
All it all even doubt?
Speaker 2 (12:47):
So Pete, we see you on the line. Six one
four eight two one nine eighty eight six is our number?
Speaker 3 (12:53):
So which one? Which one do you have to give us?
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Is it a graduation memory of funny story or what
you would have told your sixth grade self?
Speaker 4 (13:01):
I would stay positive, stay positive?
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Tell us there's more behind that story than just stay positive.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Tell us a little more.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
I yeah, m be there, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Yeah, why why stay positive? Those are two strong words?
But why would you pick those two words?
Speaker 5 (13:27):
You know, it's a good outcome.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
I mean it's good. It's a good outcome. Mh for
everybody to show uh, to show them, uh, just to
show uh positivity everybody.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Okay, So now we have another question for you. Did
you go to prom back in your high school days?
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (13:50):
I did? Going again? What fine?
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Why huh?
Speaker 4 (13:56):
We we went on a high school prom? And uh
so someone chow for us.
Speaker 5 (14:01):
Hie huh yeah, I want to prom with my wife.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
Oh well, you.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Guys get to go back because they're having like a
prom remembrance day at Kosai after Dark.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
Do you still have the tucks you wore? No, I
don't know. I don't I was just a stab in
the dark. I didn't think so.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Well.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
We hope you have a blast, Pete, a blast from
the past when you go. And if you hang on
the phone, our producer Ashley will get all your information.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
We'll make sure that COSI reaches out to you.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Hey, hey, well we're glad you called in. Thanks for listening.
Do you listen normally on Sundays? No, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
I don't. Now I'm going to list Yeah, you better
get an opportunity like this.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Let us know what the prom is like at Kosai
after Dark. Okay, call us back after you go.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
Okay, thanks, thanks Pete, Thanks Pete.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Ah anyone with his wife originally that that was supposed
to happen.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
I wonder, and we'll have to do some research on that.
I wonder how many people did marry their high school sweethearts.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
I know several people. I mean, I am like floored because.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
My best friend did see you know that my restaurant, Carrie,
who came to visit a couple years and they're still married.
We're still married. They have three boys. The oldest just graduated.
He was prom king at his high school in Springfield, Illinois.
And yeah, Aaron became a surgeon. He went to med school.
And Carrie's a special end teacher.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Because we always tell people, don't worry about it, it
won't last. If you break up, you break up.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
You're never going to marry your high school sweetheart. But
some people do. Some people do, Okay, So we.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Are going to end this Memorial Day show with such
a meaningful, significant over the phone interview Mikayla.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Yes, Joey Riley, many of you remember him. Gosh, how
long ago has it been?
Speaker 4 (15:48):
Eleven years?
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Eleven years fourteen, was a paratrooper for the United States
Army and died within an ied drove right over it
and killed him. And if you are familiar with Joey
Riley or Grove City where he grew up and played
baseball and football and was such a hometown hero, this
just had lines and lines of people across the streets
(16:11):
when they brought him home, his body home. We're going
to talk to his mom because she's at Fort Bragg
and she's been sharing all of these pictures with us.
So we're going to talk to her because she has
always said, you know, on Veterans Day it's one thing,
but Memorial Day is really supposed to be set aside
for those who have died.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
It really is, and so she is living that and
celebrating his life this weekend and the life of many others.
So we'll be right back with that conversation this
We are back on Sunday afternoon, and we are celebrating,
but we are also honoring and remembering. So obviously it's
graduation season. You were just at a graduation party before
coming into the studio.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
I was in your neck of the woods. I was
shocked there were two food trucks. There is that a
thing in Western l.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
I think that's a thing at graduation parties. I haven't
had two food trucks, but I've had I've been to
graduation parties where they've had a food truck, like a
Mexican food truck.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
What were your worst pedabilities? And this delicious sliders truck.
I had two little sliders that were so good.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
So does that make you want to have to give
more money to the card for the graduates?
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Well, part of me says, because it takes a certain
amount usually to bring a food truck out. So yes,
I was shocked, mindy, I mean I felt good for
my friend Chris.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
You know Chris. Oh yeah, her oldest graduated.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
From North South.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
I think he is at their right off string Town
on road.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
What part what? I don't know which school that way,
the way.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
They have the zoning, it's all different.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Might be Central I feel like it might be central.
He plays for the Warhawks.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
That's central.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
That's central. Okay, then that's what it is. He's a
baseball player.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
So then he was coached by my classmate Jeff Kiefer,
who's the head coach of Western Center.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
And there you go.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Yeah he probably was obviously.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
So I was shocked to see these two food trucks
sitting there.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
I was like, good for you, Chris, But it think
be a little costly.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
I think that anymore parties of anything. You know, we've
talked about before when people have a bachelor party or
a bachelorette party. Gone are the days that you get
a limousine and just drive around town. Now it's a
destination bachelor or bachelorette party, and it's like everybody's trying
to outdo the others. And then if your neighbor is
doing that, then my gosh, you got to do that too.
(01:48):
For a graduation party.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Two food trucks. That's a little over the top, but nice.
Yeah you ate well before you came here.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Yeah, I mean I did. I had a couple of siders.
I didn't have the cake. I was bummed I didn't
get any cake.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
But it looked really good, and a Gathoy was sitting
next to though, whose son plays lacrosse at Central. She's like,
I made my own food, and then you had She
made her own food for her own party.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Thought, do you know what I thought you meant? You
guys are listening. I think that she I thought you
meant she didn't like the food truck food, so she
made and brought her own food.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
To the party. Good.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
No, I did not mean that.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
So she made her own food for her own graduation party.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
She's a smaller amount of people.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Maybe maybe a smaller amount of people, but you all,
like you combined Cammy's party with like the end of the.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Season senior day. Yes, even didn't even get to walk
for graduation.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
She's going this week, I think to take pictures of
a cap and gown.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
She didn't even order a cap and gown.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
When you play a spring sport like softball or baseball
in college, chances are you're not going to be able
to walk because you're playing either home or away that
weekend that you have graduation. So she borrowed Kirsten's, my
son's girlfriend's cap and gown for just pictures or whatever.
We're talking about graduation because we want to hear your stories.
We have a giveaway to give you and you my friends.
(03:06):
Maybe you had a bad experience at prom all those
years ago, Well guess what. You get to get a
new dress on or a new tuxedo and you get
to go back to prom.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
You could do that, or you can try to fit
into the one you wore years ago and have a
better memory in it.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Can you imagine could you fit into your Absolutely not.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
I mean I was like a little stick.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
So Cammy and my nieces used to try on all
the dresses that my sister and I saved, either through
weddings or proms and homecomings.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Didn't she wear one to one? Am I wrong?
Speaker 2 (03:36):
I know she would never Well, okay, cause she's I
mean she's taller.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Yeah, but I mean I'm not short.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
No, you're not sure, but Hilton stuff.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
She was not as tall as she is now.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
But anyway, so we want to send you to prom.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
But we were looking for your graduation stories or something
that maybe happened at a party you were at, something.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Just fun to share with us. And what do they get, Mikayla?
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Yeah, so four tickets to Kosai after dark it's their
prom version and it's happening June twelfth, So June twelfth
is the date. So check that calendar and then give
us a call and give us your stories.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Yeah, and if you don't have a story to tell,
you can answer this. What would you say?
Speaker 1 (04:15):
What kind of advice would you give to yourself when
you were in sixth grade? We bring that up because
there was a boarding school in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and they
did this to these sixth graders how many years ago
if they're graduating from high school now, you're looking at four, five, six,
seven years ago. So they saved whoever did this at
this boarding school saved all these videos of these young
(04:37):
men and then they played them on an iPad and
so they each watched their sixth grade self asking questions
of their future self. We have a little bit of
sound that we want to share with you. Go ahead,
Chris and play that, and we're going to talk more
about this after the other side of the break.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
But go ahead, Chris.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
It is your favorite hobby, still solving your Rubik's cube.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
Just like me, I thought it was so tough for
being able to do.
Speaker 5 (04:59):
That back in the day.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Heyward, is your favorite food still Mexican.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
Oh, definitely, yeah, Chipotle for sure. Takamo Mesda.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Is your favorite movie still The Water Boy?
Speaker 1 (05:10):
My favorite movie? He definitely is still The Water Boys
a classic.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
Is your favorite subject world history? Or is it math
and science?
Speaker 5 (05:18):
Not world history anymore? I'm a science guy now.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Also, what is your favorite What's your favorite sport? Is
it still soccer?
Speaker 1 (05:26):
The study is crazy? No, football definitely? Gobirds?
Speaker 5 (05:29):
Is your favorite sports still basketball?
Speaker 1 (05:31):
My favorite sport is still basketball. I've loved it, Alter McCauley,
I love basketball.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
Is your favorite movie still Star Wars?
Speaker 4 (05:38):
My favorite movie is probably still Star Wars.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Yeah, what is the biggest life lesson?
Speaker 3 (05:44):
You have learned this far?
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Try your hardest, no matter what.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
You'll feel bad.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
If you didn't do it.
Speaker 5 (05:49):
You take enough ap classes and hard classes over the
four years of high school. You'll realize what happens when
you don't try hard, So you better do it.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
And then he tells him, so you'll do it.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
And then another kid was asked that same question of himself,
and he said, what's the biggest life lesson?
Speaker 4 (06:06):
And he said, be kind?
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Kindness matters so much, And you'll realize that as you
get older. In life, So we're looking for that kind
of a thing too. What would you tell yourself now
that you didn't have the chance to tell yourself when
you were in sixth grade or any grade?
Speaker 4 (06:21):
What would you kind of advice would you give your
young self?
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Such a good question.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
So we do want to hear from you. We have
this four pack of tickets to give away. So think
about this, what advice you would give to your younger self,
and also think about funny grad stories. We'll take either
one of them in an attempt to give away these
four tickets.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
I love the fact that they did that at that
boarding school. I would imagine more schools would do that
just to hear you know what, I you know what?
Speaker 4 (06:46):
I hit me the most? What listening to that? What
the voice changes?
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Oh yeah, six voice to a high school graduate voice.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
It makes my mom heart sad because in't that you know,
Christian's finishing sixth grade and your logan is just turned
fifteen yesterday.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Yeah, and this.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
We'll talk more about the video too, because I know
we're at the break because some interesting things have come
out of the video of like people saying we got
to do this. So six one four eight two one
nine eight eighty six is the number six one four
eight two one at WTVN. Give us a call, give
us what you would tell your younger self or funny graduation,
great graduation story, and you could have these tickets to
Kosai after dark.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
This is what matters on sometimes.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
I really wish you guys were watching us on the
Facebook feeds because we were talking about different things.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
And Mikayla was trying to figure out what a bunt
is and she's like, is that where they like? And
she didn't say anything.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
She just went over and k, yeah, yeah, that's what
it is.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Yeah, you're trying to lay the ball down like right
in front of you.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
They have to run to get it.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Okay, okay.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Anyway, we have all these conversations during commercial breaks that
I actually saw Mackay's Mikayla square up for a bunch time.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Ever ever seen that?
Speaker 3 (08:02):
So what's not successful?
Speaker 2 (08:04):
We were asking the question what would you tell your
younger self? After this incredible viral video has made it
everywhere about these boys at a boarding school in Chattanooga.
They recorded themselves in sixth grade asking themselves some questions
and then they had to wait seven years to have
their high school selves answer those questions.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
It was so cool and maybe you saw because it
did spread like wildfire. What was some of the reaction
that you saw across the country from this video?
Speaker 2 (08:32):
So you know that I traveled as a graduate consultant
for a year for a sorority. So I was like
a traveling leadership consultant for one year for a national organization.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
And a lot of people in the fraternal.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Community are saying, why don't we do this when people
are freshmen coming onto campus and then four years later, Yeah,
and then four years later you see how much you've grown.
So that is one reaction I saw amongst the fraternal
community and throughout the United States.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
If you could go back in time and talk to
your sixth grade self, not so much about your life
in general, on things that will happen, but to give advice,
because that was part of the video too. What's the
best piece of advice you would give your sixth grade self?
Speaker 4 (09:13):
What would you tell yourself.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
You're only going to be awkward for a little bit.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Really, yeah, I wouldn't be awkward.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
I was awkward in sixth grade. Yeah, I was awkward,
and six is awkward.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
I mean I had like a haircut where people would
like bounce a grape off my haircut, and I was
just like this little stick lag kid with a big
belly in it round head, and.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
I just was a little awkward.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
That's what I'll say.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
And you don't stay awkward forever. You grow, you change.
So that's what I would tell myself.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
How about you.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
I think if I could go back in time and
look at my sixth grade self, I would say, keep
being fun, keep not getting embarrassed, and keep making friends.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Well, you've taken that advice.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
I would tell myself that same thing though, because I
think sometimes you get so worry worried about what other
people think and and things like that, and just don't
worry about it. You keep being you, keep having fun,
and keep living life to the fullest. Don't ever stop
doing that. I want That's what I would do.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
I want all sixth graders to hear that, because I
do think these kids, especially in an online world.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
And we won't go down that path.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
But like we didn't have that though.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Yeah we did have cell phones, we did have any
of those worries that parents have today.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
No, so just keep keep having fun and just.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Keeping weird and wild weird, wild, fun and enjoy every
single moment.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Don't take life too seriously for sure.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Six one four eight two one nine eight eight six
six one four eight two one at WTVN is our number.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
If you want to.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Tell us what you would tell your sixth grade self
or a great graduation story, we are giving away a
four pack of tickets to Kosi after Dark, which is
June twelfth. That's the next one.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Before we go to the phone lines. We're looking for
advice you would give your sixth grade self or a
funny graduation story or a funny prom story. So, Chris,
our producer, you never went to prom right, Nope, but
you did graduate, yes, So what was your funny graduation story?
Speaker 5 (11:04):
You want high school or college?
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Both? You to do it quickly.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
So high school I didn't get they. I went to
my friend's graduation party and I was like, where did
you get your diploma from? Because they didn't put them
in the slots like in the actual case. You had
to go a different direction and get them. So about
half of our class apparently didn't get our actual diplomas.
So we had to go back that Monday to the
(11:28):
high school and get them because we were graduated from
the shoe that's oh okay. So then in college at
Ohio State, I think I told you this before, is
I sat behind somebody who decided to wear a reflector
on their cap because I can't say that on air,
but you know, just I don't know why. And yeah,
(11:50):
when we went to go eat dinner afterwards, my mom
was like, Chris, you look like two face. My half
my face was burnt.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
Oh yeah, did you have shades on at all that
you could where Soka?
Speaker 5 (12:01):
No, because where I was at in the stadium when
we had graduation practice, I was like, I don't need shades.
This is great. And then to my surprise, I'm like,
oh no.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
Couldn't you and yours? He's so nice, Mikayla. So he
would never tell them take your reflector off your cap.
Speaker 5 (12:17):
No, I would actually ask why did you put a
reflector on.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
Your What are they graduating?
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Like?
Speaker 4 (12:21):
What was the deal? Why reflector?
Speaker 5 (12:22):
I don't know. We were the College of Art and
Science is like, you know, so we're you know, communications
majors and all that. So we're like why why that's funny?
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Why?
Speaker 5 (12:32):
I mean, but and then and that it lasted for
a good like week and a half for this. So
I was like, I didn't want to leave the house
for a while because like it looked like two face
And they're like, why.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Well you look fine now?
Speaker 3 (12:45):
All it all even doubt?
Speaker 2 (12:47):
So Pete, we see you on the line. Six one
four eight two one nine eighty eight six is our number?
Speaker 3 (12:53):
So which one? Which one do you have to give us?
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Is it a graduation memory of funny story or what
you would have told your sixth grade self?
Speaker 4 (13:01):
I would stay positive, stay positive?
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Tell us there's more behind that story than just stay positive.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Tell us a little more.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
I yeah, m be there, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Yeah, why why stay positive? Those are two strong words?
But why would you pick those two words?
Speaker 5 (13:27):
You know, it's a good outcome.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
I mean it's good. It's a good outcome. Mh for
everybody to show uh, to show them, uh, just to
show uh positivity everybody.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Okay, So now we have another question for you. Did
you go to prom back in your high school days?
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (13:50):
I did? Going again? What fine?
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Why huh?
Speaker 4 (13:56):
We we went on a high school prom? And uh
so someone chow for us.
Speaker 5 (14:01):
Hie huh yeah, I want to prom with my wife.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
Oh well, you.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Guys get to go back because they're having like a
prom remembrance day at Kosai after Dark.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
Do you still have the tucks you wore? No, I
don't know. I don't I was just a stab in
the dark. I didn't think so.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Well.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
We hope you have a blast, Pete, a blast from
the past when you go. And if you hang on
the phone, our producer Ashley will get all your information.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
We'll make sure that COSI reaches out to you.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Hey, hey, well we're glad you called in. Thanks for listening.
Do you listen normally on Sundays? No, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
I don't. Now I'm going to list Yeah, you better
get an opportunity like this.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Let us know what the prom is like at Kosai
after Dark. Okay, call us back after you go.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
Okay, thanks, thanks Pete, Thanks Pete.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Ah anyone with his wife originally that that was supposed
to happen.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
I wonder, and we'll have to do some research on that.
I wonder how many people did marry their high school sweethearts.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
I know several people. I mean, I am like floored because.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
My best friend did see you know that my restaurant, Carrie,
who came to visit a couple years and they're still married.
We're still married. They have three boys. The oldest just graduated.
He was prom king at his high school in Springfield, Illinois.
And yeah, Aaron became a surgeon. He went to med school.
And Carrie's a special end teacher.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Because we always tell people, don't worry about it, it
won't last. If you break up, you break up.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
You're never going to marry your high school sweetheart. But
some people do. Some people do, Okay, So we.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Are going to end this Memorial Day show with such
a meaningful, significant over the phone interview Mikayla.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Yes, Joey Riley, many of you remember him. Gosh, how
long ago has it been?
Speaker 4 (15:48):
Eleven years?
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Eleven years fourteen, was a paratrooper for the United States
Army and died within an ied drove right over it
and killed him. And if you are familiar with Joey
Riley or Grove City where he grew up and played
baseball and football and was such a hometown hero, this
just had lines and lines of people across the streets
(16:11):
when they brought him home, his body home. We're going
to talk to his mom because she's at Fort Bragg
and she's been sharing all of these pictures with us.
So we're going to talk to her because she has
always said, you know, on Veterans Day it's one thing,
but Memorial Day is really supposed to be set aside
for those who have died.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
It really is, and so she is living that and
celebrating his life this weekend and the life of many others.
So we'll be right back with that conversation this
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