December 1, 2025 • 28 mins
Vigorous debate erupts this week on the show over which West Virgnia city is the friendliest, dealing with bad hair and research reveals that many people are "sad about stuff" during the holidays.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
We've got a little situation going on here, which West
Virginia town is the friendliest? Is it Kaiser or is
it Fairmont? Fairmont claiming to be the friendliest city I
believe in West Virginia, Kaiser saying no, no, we're the
friendliest city in the United States. Who will be victorious?
You are on the Jack and Nicky Show. What you
got for us about.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
The friendly city Fairmont? Science says the friendly city. I
don't think it says the friendliest friendly es a friendly city?
Speaker 2 (00:46):
The friendly city.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Yeah, I'm unable to Google that as I'm driving, so
you might own a double check, but I'm pretty sure
it's friendly.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Well, I'm gonna be honest with you, ma'am. I'm disappointed
in your lack of effort here. I don't see any
reason why you can't pull off and take time out
of your day to do some googling. But okay, that's
a fair point. So you're suggesting that the people in
Fairmont know that they're friendly, but they themselves have looked
at Kaiser and said, we can't compete with that kind
of friendliness.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
I don't know if that discussion has been hacked, but
for sure they're the friendly city.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Are you from Fairmont?
Speaker 3 (01:22):
I live near the vicinity, coming outskirts of it, so
I remember seeing the signage of the friendly study.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Have you been to Kaiser?
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Not in a very long time?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
M How long has it been a small child? How
were you treated?
Speaker 3 (01:41):
I was at Science Pam, and I would say I
was treated very well.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
You're treated well? Okay, so you don't have any quarrel
then with Kaiser's claim that they are in fact the friendliest.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
City, No, I won't contest that.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Okay, Well, I'm going to go ahead and do the
googling that you're just apparently too lazy to do, and
we'll see what we get figured out. That's right, lazy man,
all right, thank you for the call. Bye. You know,
the word hero does get thrown around a lot, and
often it's an exaggeration, but I think in this case
(02:15):
it's fair to apply that to me. I am I
am a hero. I'm doing the best I can.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Oh, okay.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
So the argument then is that Fairmount is the friendly city,
not the friendliest city.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Oh okay, but some.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Are texting in now and saying the fact that it's
identified as the friendly city would indicate that they are
implying that they are the friendliest of the cities, because
if it's the friendly city, that's singular. So therefore, of
all of the cities, it's the friendly.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
One, the friendly one.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Yeah. Now, let's try to get that sorted out. So
that is the question. Let's go to the many texts
that are pouring in here three five sixty five one.
You can text us. It's also at triple at triple
seven sixty six forty and yeah, that's also the studio
line that you can call if and you would like
(03:07):
to make your case. Nikki Drake, let's jump right into it.
What are you seeing on the text line?
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Oh gosh, a lot of people standing up for Kaiser.
For sure. Clearly Kaiser is friendlier. There's fewer people lumped
in one area, so there's fewer chances of meeting a jerk.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Not lumped, not lumped in your face.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
That's a good point, you know what.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
I go to Kaiser once in a while that's a
motorcycle destination. My brother in law lives over there around Kaiser.
It is breathtakingly beautiful, I mean achingly beautiful to behold,
and the people have been generally pretty nice to me Kaiser.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Okay, yeah, that's good.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Yeah, So I mean I'd have a hard time arguing
against Kaiser.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
All right, Okay, let's see, I've moved from Kaiser to
Elkins Junior than Fairmont. It's hard to say which one wins.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Oh, why do you keep moving?
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Is there trouble or these?
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Do you keep getting kicked out because you're not friendly?
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Is that maybe you're the problem?
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Okay, let's see. My sister, who lives in Delaware said, uh,
and is a world traveler, says, Bucannon is the friendliest city.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Well, you know, Buckhannan is a fantastic town. Yes, it
is one of my favorite places in the state. So,
m boy, that's a good place.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
This person texted in my teenager said definitely not Fairmont. Okay,
we need a written essay as to why. Yeah, back
up that point, Fairmont hands down. I watched a grown
woman from Kaiser try to fight a high schooler at
a Lincoln basketball game. She sat next to the Lincoln
(04:46):
student section and was mad they were loud.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
You know, I think I'm familiar with that story. Oh yeah, yeah,
I think I know a little something about. Yeah, there's
been some trouble.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
You know.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
That's one of the interesting things too. And this is
watch me stir the POTNYK. See that hornet's nest over there.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Yeah, you're gonna kick it.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
I got a rock, right, I watched this. It's interesting
because sometimes a town that you really like, where the
people are really friendly and you feel very comfortable there,
sometimes they're sports fans are are real jerks and have
a bad reputation for being nasty, even though the town
itself is a nice town.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Yeah, yeah, now that can happen.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
I'd like to name names, but I'm not going to. Okay,
that's nice, Yeah, because I don't. I don't need any
trouble now. But I'm just saying I've been kind of
surprised by that, like, really those people from there.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
But but but my wholesomeness, but my wholesome news. Okay.
We have a continuous Philippy fan that keeps texting in
and they say Philippy is the friendly city because they've
got a butler named Lurch, a covered bridge to keep
you out of the weather, and the sheets. What more
do you need.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
That's a solid argument, That is a solid Yeah, I've
taken I've taken shelter in the covered bridge. Yes, and
I've also gone over to sheets on many occasions for
a nice sandwich. So, okay, that's true. I've had no
trouble with Philippians as they are known.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Is that what they're called? Okay, I go Philippians.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Yeah, And so what I'll do is sometimes I'll walk
through town and go down and get something to drink
and go a little Mo's.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
You've been, Yeah, I've been Little mos.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
That's right, That's exactly right. You can read this and
other stories in my book about Philippy entitled He Walked
among Them Jack Loger and the Philippians.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
I will say, uh, I am. I am Facebook friends,
and I keep track of their family because I'm a
stalker with a family from the Philippi area. And they
are all delightful, right, they are so cute.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Yeah, So anyways, I don't want to call them out
because I don't want to. Yeah, they'd be weird. And
I'm already a Stoker.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
So it's fine, it's already geting weird. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
On the text line, here's another friendly city. Friendly West
Virginia is the friendliest city. It's in Tyler County and
the friendliest thing I've seen this side of Friendsville.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Well it's hard to argue with that. What do you
name your friendly? Okay? What is this? Somebody just texted
in No, in response to the anti Kaiser story about
the grown woman trying to fight a teenager sit down Fairmont.
You won't let our football tunnel on fire and slashed
a bunch of vehicle tires during a football game when
(07:32):
I was in high school. Oh my gosh, Well, now
that's that's that's that's not that's not friendly behavior.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
There, that's not friendly behavior.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
It's unfriendly.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
I think who I think Kaiser may be winning after
that story?
Speaker 2 (07:46):
All right, give me one more. Let's say, Oh gosh, I.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
Don't know if I have another one?
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Is that it?
Speaker 4 (07:50):
I've got one that came in that said not Kaiser,
But I still have to see. Hopefully it's not dirty.
Not Kaiser received a parking ticket in the mail for
a car I sold three years prior. Parking officer refused
all my documentation. It was that it was no longer
mine and I had to call the police chief, who
was nice and eventually dismissed the citation. Well there you go,
(08:13):
So eventually we found a nice person.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Sure. Okay, by the way, a headache somebody has repeatedly
texted in Morgantown with about fifteen explanation points after it.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Yeah, we got a couple of those going.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Has anybody ever accused Morgantown of being the friendly city?
Speaker 4 (08:27):
Accused of being friendly ever been a thing? I don't
think that's been a thing.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
No, okay, all right, well duly noted, it's on the record.
I don't know that we've solved anything here, but it
seems to be people kind of leaning toward Kaiser.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
People are leaning towards Kaiser.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
All right, very good. Well, I'd like to say that
this was not a huge waste of everyone's time, but
that would be difficult to argue. But what I do know, Nikki,
is that I'm going to gavel this one out. Excellent, Okay,
I want to bring this all together right now with
Was it Mary Povich who used to have the final
(09:02):
thought that was a very heartwarming he'd finish up the
episode with what have we learned here today? My guests
are scumbags and they hit each other with chairs. It
was something like that, right, sure, yeah, Well this text,
I think is a nice way to wrap this up,
the debate over Kaiser Fairmont, who is friendlier? Says this Texter.
(09:23):
West Virginia altogether is way more friendly than Maryland or Pennsylvania.
And God knows we are friendlier than people in Virginia.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
That's true.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
I like this because it pulls us all together and
gives us a common enemy, and that is the outlander.
So thank you so much. We shouldn't be fussing in
a feud amongst ourselves here in West Virginia because as
a state, as a whole, as a group of people,
(09:53):
we are generally friendlier than people from everywhere else. Yes,
and frankly better. I think you could make that argument.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Now.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
I will tell you this is this is one of
my favorite things about West Virginia. And you know, I'm
not known to gush about how much I love West Virginia.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
No, not at all.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Ever, not something that generally happens here. But one of
my favorite things about West Virginia, and I think a
lot of people listening can relate to this. No matter
where I am in West Virginia, I feel completely at home.
I feel like I'm in my hometown. I can walk
down the street in Morgantown perfectly comfortable. I feel like
these are my people, this is my place. I can
(10:34):
do the same thing in Beckley, Bluefield. It doesn't matter Kaiser,
wherever I am. It's just this perfect level of comfort,
like this is my hometown. Right Ah, Jack, Well, I
don't feel that way anywhere else, and I think a
lot of people are probably like that. To me. West
Virginia is like one big small town.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Yeah, yeah, right, Yeah, it's pretty accurate.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
So we've all come together as people and that was
quite heartwarming. You greeney Hea Drake.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Yeah, the Jack and Nikki Show on wv AQ.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Time to get awkward. Yes, that's right. Let's talk about
that hair of yours. Well, with it being National Hair Day,
which seems kind of vague. Honestly, you're not really suggesting
that you you do anything. I guess just celebrate, was
(11:26):
it having the hair?
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Yeah, I'll be washing my hair today's hair washing Day.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
To theay, you'll be washing your hair. Okay, they're good
you know, I'll probably wash my hair today.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
Too, Okay, good, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
And that concludes today's segments. Jack and Nikki talk about
basic hygiene.
Speaker 5 (11:41):
Right.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Now, here's what I wanted to get into, honestly with this.
With this hair day is the talk of haircut horror stories,
bad hair day situations where the hair has just gone
horribly wrong for you, because that can be so awkward
and uncomfortable. It's just miserab right. Yeah, Okay, studio lines
(12:02):
are open eight eight eight seven seven seven sixty six forty.
You can call this. You can text us at that number.
You can also text us at three five sixty five one. Nikki,
would you like to begin with hair day horror stories?
Do you have anything? Have you been in a bad
situation with the hair?
Speaker 4 (12:20):
I've had a couple unfortunate cuts. Sure. One was in
middle school and it didn't turn out the way we
expected it to, I guess. And it was a little.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Mullet esque, is that right?
Speaker 4 (12:35):
Yeah, it wasn't blended well like the layers who cut it.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Was it a professional person or somebody at your house?
My aunt, oh, did she have any experience cutting? She
did have hair cuttings?
Speaker 4 (12:46):
Okay, now, was the last time she cut my hair.
I see, Yeah, there's that, okay. And then there was
another time in high school. I had a major surgery
and I really long hair at the time, but after
you're in the hospital and everything, and it got tangly
and it was just not healthy. So we had to
chop my hair off, and that process was very traumatic
(13:11):
for me. Going from having very long hair to very
short hair was jarring and I was not a fan.
And so yeah, that was it was fine. Like, you know,
I was dating Dave at the time and he said
it looked good. But I'm pretty sure he would always
tell me I look Yeah, I'm pretty sure he would
never tell me I look bad. But that was a
(13:34):
traumatic experience. So I don't never chop my hair short
again since then.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
I see.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
But yeah, those are my two bad haircut experiences. Never
let family cut your hair.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
I'm going to expand on that. Oh yeah, So here's
the thing. I was known in high school as Captain Hairdoo.
That was my nickname because I was just obsessed with
my hair in lieu of having an actual personality. But
it was a long road to get to becoming Captain Hairdoo.
I had essentially no discernible hairstyle through elementary school, just
(14:10):
kind of a mop top, just a bunch of you know.
And I was very, very blond, you know, just the
tow head. And then when I was in middle school,
you know, start hitting puberty. Now you're concerned about your appearance,
you know, trying to turn on the old Jack charm
with the ladies. And so I'm trying to comb the hair.
And then I remember I would get in high school
(14:32):
so upset, like if I couldn't get my hair comb
the way I liked it, I just wouldn't go to school.
I just would go, well, forget it, I'm going back
to bed.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
Shack.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Well I could do that, because who's going to stop me.
I live by myself. Yeah. I was just like, yeah,
this doesn't look right for yourself. Yeah, please excuse Jack.
He had a mental breakdown because he had a calick
in his hair and couldn't come in. But here's what
happened to me. This was the most awkward hair experience
that I've had in my life to this day. My
brother offered to cut my hair, and for some reason,
(15:05):
I agreed to let him do that. And this was
in middle school when I was hyper sensitive about the hair. Yeah,
I don't know what I was thinking. But he you know,
he's older, and he's he's pretty smart, and he just
basically somehow convinced me. He was like, yeah, I can
do it because I needed a haircut.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
Right.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
We lived in the middle of nowhere. Getting a haircut
was a big process. You know, you had to you
had to bring up like an ox cart and you
had to load it with supplies, and then you had
to go through this this pass through the mountains.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
Right, and.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Three months ly we lost a lot of people in there.
And then like three months later, you would arrive in
town and you'd go over to Snuffy's place and then
you know, he would all right. So so he was like,
yeah I can I can cut it for you this evening.
I mean it's like on a weekend. He's like, yeah,
school Monday, I'd cut it for you right now. And
I've said, are you really you can do that? I
was like, yeah, sure, that's a problem. Really he went yeah, yeah,
(15:58):
no problem. Okay, Well he cut it and needless to say,
he had no idea what he was doing, nor did
he care, and it was it was gapped all over.
It was all different lengths, and at one point he said, well,
here's what we'll do. We'll just spike it across the top,
and even that he got wrong. And so when he
(16:20):
was finished, we put a bunch of like gels and
creams and stuff to try to make it work. And
it was a disaster. It looked like somebody came at
me with a weed eater and it was spiked across
the top, but but not evenly spiked like it just
looked like you know, brass that was at different lengths.
And I had to go to school that way on Monday.
(16:41):
I had to walk in and try to act like no,
I wanted it to look this way. This is this
is the look that I was asking. I was not
able to sell that. It did not go well. It
was pretty humiliating. And again it took a while to
get that correction.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
So, yeah, did you have to wait for it to
grow out to get it?
Speaker 2 (17:00):
You go somewhere shave it off?
Speaker 4 (17:02):
Yeah? Oh you shaved it off.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Yeah. By the way, this is the haircut I had
when Mom decided, oh, let's go have a portrait made together,
and then she cut me out of the picture and
kept herself in the well, el said, pink eye. Okay,
studio lines are open eight eight eight seven seven seven
sixty six forty call us. You could text us at
three five six five to one talking to you about
(17:24):
your hair. Yes, that's right, it's National hair Day. And
hilarity ensues as we talk about the awkwardness, the uncomfortableness,
the humiliation of a bad hair day, a bad haircut,
which of course is much worse than just a bad
(17:44):
hair day. Right, you got a bad haircut? Oh, you
got to grow that out or shave it off.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
You're out how to style it? Yeah, or pay more
money and go to somebody else to fix it.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Yeah that's right, yeah, yeah yeah. Whereas if you know
you just have a bad hair day, well that happens.
You just you try to get power through it. Let
me go to the surprisingly ringing phone lines eight eight
eight seven seven seven sixty six forty again call us.
You can text us three five sixty five to one.
What you got for us here, guy?
Speaker 5 (18:14):
My story is is that I don't have any hair,
so I shave it every other day, so you know
I do. It's one of my biggest step peeves about myself.
I don't like going anywhere without a hat. And I
was just talking to my fiance the other day and
he they had, uh, these two pays that you can
glue to your head.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
You mean a hair replacement system.
Speaker 5 (18:39):
It's I guess it's a replacement, but it's like a
it's a two pay thing you get your own lines
called Lord Hair. I don't know, like I really was
thinking about it.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Hang on it wait, wait, this sounds hilarious. It's called what.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
It's called Lord hair.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Lord Hair.
Speaker 5 (18:55):
You can get a box and it gives with the
everything you.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Need, comes with everything you see here.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
It's like it's like adult toy for people with their hair.
But I was thinking about it, but I'm like, I
don't know, Like, but it would be worse if I
got a twope and it looked good and people were like,
did he not have hair before? Right? Explain that and
then and then or it would it be worse just
to it would be better just to keep it the
way it is. And then people be like, man, you're bald.
(19:23):
So it's oh my god, there's brosen cons. If you
wear glasses, someone wears glasses for a long time, you
see him with glasses and you're they're wearing them and
they take them off and you're like, oh, they'll put
them back on me. He looks a lot different, you know,
you look without him? Well, you know, it's like it's
like that.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Yeah. Well, I think he makes some interesting points here
because you're right. If you if you are known for
not having hair and then one day you show up
with just a full head of hair, people are gonna
know it's it's a hair replacement system, right because they're
gonna know if you go to work on Monday and
you're completely bald, and then you go in on Tuesday
with a full head of hair. Even if you could
(20:00):
grow hair, you can't grow it at that rate. You
can't do it that fast. So that's definitely an issue.
And then the other thing I would suggest in Nikki,
I think you may want to get involved in this. Okay,
I've never seen a person wear a wig that is
not obviously a wig. I don't know that you're going
to be able to pull that off. That that's not
easy to do.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
I don't know if it's the angles of the cameras
or whatever, but when I've seen some of these hair
systems on Instagram and TikTok. They look better than they
have before.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
And I don't know if it's because they do it.
Speaker 5 (20:35):
I don't know if it's like too good to be
true to make you be like, hey, by this too.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Good to be true.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
It could be that, but also like because you can
get it customized, and people younger people are trying to
look more natural because like, older people don't care. They're
just like, just put something on top of my head.
They stopped to carry.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
To squirrel on there, it's not a raccoon. Glue it on. Yeah,
they don't care. Yeah. Well, but here's the other thing.
And I would suggest too that the younger you are,
the more likely you are to get something that looks
more realistic. Yes, because the problem is once you're a
certain age, it's hard to get the right color. And also,
(21:14):
you know, there should be some thinning by the time
you're like in your seventy So if you have like
a thick, full head of jet black hair and white eyebrows,
you know it stands out all right. Yeah, we'll tell
you what, buddy about it. Do us a favorite it?
Speaker 5 (21:29):
She said, there's no difference in a man doing that
than a woman getting her hair extensions.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Or churacup or yeah, it's all hair to their bodies.
Speaker 5 (21:38):
Yeah, there's no really difference. It's just that you know,
if you know that people, if you know the person
that's bald, and difference. But if you go out to
a random place like nice hair.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Yeah, well, I'll tell you what a couple of things
you can do. Number one, by a series of wigs
and each day, put on a different wig each week,
and now you're gonna look like you're slowly growing it.
Will it cost you a fortune? Yes, yeah, it's gonna
cost a lot of money for you to do that. Okay.
And then number two, whatever you end up doing, please
(22:10):
stop by the studio, said Nick, and I can take
a look at it. Appreciate the call, buddy, Thank you man.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
All right, bye, I forgot to tell him that I
have a local hair guy that would be able to help.
Potentially we have a project now with his hair system.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Yeah yeah, all right. Look, we've got some more texts
to get into here from you guys coming up in
a minute. But I'm gonna go ahead and float this
out to the ladies. Would you prefer a man who
is bald to a man who is gluing hair onto
his head as part of a hair replacement system. Because
(22:52):
the thing about it is, you know, at the end
of the day, he's still bald. He's just gluing hair
onto his head. And it's kind of like that scene
from Star Wars where you see them putting the helmet
on Darth Vader. From the back of the helmet's coming down.
That's what's happening when he gets back to the house.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
It's like a cause play at that point, right, like
with the wig. Yeah, the hair system.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Excuse me, Yeah, that's right, it's causeplay. Yes, pretending to
be a man with.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
Hair, right, I mean they're not cheap, but you could
order you know, a bunch of different styles and what
colors and lengths and all that.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Souff I don't can just get a Darth Vader helmet
and be done with it. I mean you could do that.
It's the holiday season, you guys, and that means one thing.
Pretending to be happy. Yes, that's right. If you listen
to this show, you know that Nicky and I come
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in every morning and work very hard pretending to have
a good time. So we're not strangers to this concept.
But for most people pretending to have a good time
just makes you a great, big phony. Let's take a
look at what's going on and why people feel the
need to pretend to be happy during the holidays. I
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have the research right here, Okay, actual research, Nikki Drake.
If this was not actual research in my right hand,
would I be able to do this?
Speaker 4 (24:16):
Probably not.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
No, I would tear a hole in the space time continuum,
send us all back to the future. According to Life
Stance Health, sixty nine percent of Americans feel pressure to
appear happy during the holiday season. My question to you,
are you one of these people. Do you feel the
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need to appear happy during the holidays? If so, why
is that eight eight eight seven seven seven sixty six
forty the studio line to the show, Call us or
textas at that number. You can also text us at
three five, six, five to one. I'm curious about this.
I guess depending on who you are, what you do
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in the family, or maybe even where you work, you
may need to put on a brave face. People may
be looking to you. You might be the foundation of
the family, and if you appear unhappy or troubled, then
the whole thing just goes into a state of collapse. Yeah,
(25:20):
because there are people well, I mean, you know, I
think a lot of times, especially in families, when you
know you have kids and they're looking to the parents
to kind of make the holiday season magical. You know,
you got to put up the decorations, and you got
to do the presence, and you know, all of the
hard ball negotiating with Santa, all that stuff that goes
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on stressful, Yeah, with the parents. And I think if
if you're a kid and you're looking to your parents
to make the holidays magical, and instead what you find
is one of them intoxicated in an undershirt, belching up
big beer clouds in the living room, and the other one,
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I don't know, let's say, reading from the Bible and
calling the police.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
This is very specific sounding random, just random than anything.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Okay, then you're you're gonna look at this and go,
where's the magic? This is making me sad. So you,
as parents, maybe you feel the pressure to try to
be happy, at least fake being happy during the holiday season. Nikki,
do you pretend to be happy during the holidays.
Speaker 4 (26:39):
No, I'm not good at pretending.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
I don't think that's true.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
Usually what you see is what you get so if
I'm stressed, like my family kind of knows I'm stressed,
but I'm I will try to be less stressed, but
I don't know. I have a hard time hiding my face.
Everything kind of just shows on my face. Does that
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make sense? Yeah, okay, yeah, sure, yeah, so I could try,
but I don't think it's gonna work.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
There are other pressures people feel during the holidays, including
the pressure to overspend, sure, the pressure to pretend like
they're not lonely, the pressure to attend holiday gatherings.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
Oh my gosh, no, yes, don't don't. No, Okay, here's
the thing about holiday gatherings. You always have an out
because you're always committed to a different holiday holiday gathering
that you are going to. Oh no, they're on the
same day. I'm so sorry. I said yes to them. First.
I've got to go to.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
This one, right, I have to go to this non existence.
But exactly who are these people? They're imaginary people.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
There is no pressure.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
There's something I have to do because I have to
do anything other than to your holiday party.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
You an well, no, t.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Don't you be and you
Speaker 4 (28:12):
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
We've got a little situation going on here, which West
Virginia town is the friendliest? Is it Kaiser or is
it Fairmont? Fairmont claiming to be the friendliest city I
believe in West Virginia, Kaiser saying no, no, we're the
friendliest city in the United States. Who will be victorious?
You are on the Jack and Nicky Show. What you
got for us about.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
The friendly city Fairmont? Science says the friendly city. I
don't think it says the friendliest friendly es a friendly city?
Speaker 2 (00:46):
The friendly city.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Yeah, I'm unable to Google that as I'm driving, so
you might own a double check, but I'm pretty sure
it's friendly.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Well, I'm gonna be honest with you, ma'am. I'm disappointed
in your lack of effort here. I don't see any
reason why you can't pull off and take time out
of your day to do some googling. But okay, that's
a fair point. So you're suggesting that the people in
Fairmont know that they're friendly, but they themselves have looked
at Kaiser and said, we can't compete with that kind
of friendliness.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
I don't know if that discussion has been hacked, but
for sure they're the friendly city.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Are you from Fairmont?
Speaker 3 (01:22):
I live near the vicinity, coming outskirts of it, so
I remember seeing the signage of the friendly study.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Have you been to Kaiser?
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Not in a very long time?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
M How long has it been a small child? How
were you treated?
Speaker 3 (01:41):
I was at Science Pam, and I would say I
was treated very well.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
You're treated well? Okay, so you don't have any quarrel
then with Kaiser's claim that they are in fact the friendliest.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
City, No, I won't contest that.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Okay, Well, I'm going to go ahead and do the
googling that you're just apparently too lazy to do, and
we'll see what we get figured out. That's right, lazy man,
all right, thank you for the call. Bye. You know,
the word hero does get thrown around a lot, and
often it's an exaggeration, but I think in this case
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it's fair to apply that to me. I am I
am a hero. I'm doing the best I can.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Oh, okay.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
So the argument then is that Fairmount is the friendly city,
not the friendliest city.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Oh okay, but some.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Are texting in now and saying the fact that it's
identified as the friendly city would indicate that they are
implying that they are the friendliest of the cities, because
if it's the friendly city, that's singular. So therefore, of
all of the cities, it's the friendly.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
One, the friendly one.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Yeah. Now, let's try to get that sorted out. So
that is the question. Let's go to the many texts
that are pouring in here three five sixty five one.
You can text us. It's also at triple at triple
seven sixty six forty and yeah, that's also the studio
line that you can call if and you would like
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to make your case. Nikki Drake, let's jump right into it.
What are you seeing on the text line?
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Oh gosh, a lot of people standing up for Kaiser.
For sure. Clearly Kaiser is friendlier. There's fewer people lumped
in one area, so there's fewer chances of meeting a jerk.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Not lumped, not lumped in your face.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
That's a good point, you know what.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
I go to Kaiser once in a while that's a
motorcycle destination. My brother in law lives over there around Kaiser.
It is breathtakingly beautiful, I mean achingly beautiful to behold,
and the people have been generally pretty nice to me Kaiser.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Okay, yeah, that's good.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Yeah, So I mean I'd have a hard time arguing
against Kaiser.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
All right, Okay, let's see, I've moved from Kaiser to
Elkins Junior than Fairmont. It's hard to say which one wins.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Oh, why do you keep moving?
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Is there trouble or these?
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Do you keep getting kicked out because you're not friendly?
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Is that maybe you're the problem?
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Okay, let's see. My sister, who lives in Delaware said, uh,
and is a world traveler, says, Bucannon is the friendliest city.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Well, you know, Buckhannan is a fantastic town. Yes, it
is one of my favorite places in the state. So,
m boy, that's a good place.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
This person texted in my teenager said definitely not Fairmont. Okay,
we need a written essay as to why. Yeah, back
up that point, Fairmont hands down. I watched a grown
woman from Kaiser try to fight a high schooler at
a Lincoln basketball game. She sat next to the Lincoln
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student section and was mad they were loud.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
You know, I think I'm familiar with that story. Oh yeah, yeah,
I think I know a little something about. Yeah, there's
been some trouble.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
You know.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
That's one of the interesting things too. And this is
watch me stir the POTNYK. See that hornet's nest over there.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Yeah, you're gonna kick it.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
I got a rock, right, I watched this. It's interesting
because sometimes a town that you really like, where the
people are really friendly and you feel very comfortable there,
sometimes they're sports fans are are real jerks and have
a bad reputation for being nasty, even though the town
itself is a nice town.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Yeah, yeah, now that can happen.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
I'd like to name names, but I'm not going to. Okay,
that's nice, Yeah, because I don't. I don't need any
trouble now. But I'm just saying I've been kind of
surprised by that, like, really those people from there.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
But but but my wholesomeness, but my wholesome news. Okay.
We have a continuous Philippy fan that keeps texting in
and they say Philippy is the friendly city because they've
got a butler named Lurch, a covered bridge to keep
you out of the weather, and the sheets. What more
do you need.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
That's a solid argument, That is a solid Yeah, I've
taken I've taken shelter in the covered bridge. Yes, and
I've also gone over to sheets on many occasions for
a nice sandwich. So, okay, that's true. I've had no
trouble with Philippians as they are known.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Is that what they're called? Okay, I go Philippians.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Yeah, And so what I'll do is sometimes I'll walk
through town and go down and get something to drink
and go a little Mo's.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
You've been, Yeah, I've been Little mos.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
That's right, That's exactly right. You can read this and
other stories in my book about Philippy entitled He Walked
among Them Jack Loger and the Philippians.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
I will say, uh, I am. I am Facebook friends,
and I keep track of their family because I'm a
stalker with a family from the Philippi area. And they
are all delightful, right, they are so cute.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Yeah, So anyways, I don't want to call them out
because I don't want to. Yeah, they'd be weird. And
I'm already a Stoker.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
So it's fine, it's already geting weird. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
On the text line, here's another friendly city. Friendly West
Virginia is the friendliest city. It's in Tyler County and
the friendliest thing I've seen this side of Friendsville.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Well it's hard to argue with that. What do you
name your friendly? Okay? What is this? Somebody just texted
in No, in response to the anti Kaiser story about
the grown woman trying to fight a teenager sit down Fairmont.
You won't let our football tunnel on fire and slashed
a bunch of vehicle tires during a football game when
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I was in high school. Oh my gosh, Well, now
that's that's that's that's not that's not friendly behavior.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
There, that's not friendly behavior.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
It's unfriendly.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
I think who I think Kaiser may be winning after
that story?
Speaker 2 (07:46):
All right, give me one more. Let's say, Oh gosh, I.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
Don't know if I have another one?
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Is that it?
Speaker 4 (07:50):
I've got one that came in that said not Kaiser,
But I still have to see. Hopefully it's not dirty.
Not Kaiser received a parking ticket in the mail for
a car I sold three years prior. Parking officer refused
all my documentation. It was that it was no longer
mine and I had to call the police chief, who
was nice and eventually dismissed the citation. Well there you go,
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So eventually we found a nice person.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Sure. Okay, by the way, a headache somebody has repeatedly
texted in Morgantown with about fifteen explanation points after it.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Yeah, we got a couple of those going.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Has anybody ever accused Morgantown of being the friendly city?
Speaker 4 (08:27):
Accused of being friendly ever been a thing? I don't
think that's been a thing.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
No, okay, all right, well duly noted, it's on the record.
I don't know that we've solved anything here, but it
seems to be people kind of leaning toward Kaiser.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
People are leaning towards Kaiser.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
All right, very good. Well, I'd like to say that
this was not a huge waste of everyone's time, but
that would be difficult to argue. But what I do know, Nikki,
is that I'm going to gavel this one out. Excellent, Okay,
I want to bring this all together right now with
Was it Mary Povich who used to have the final
(09:02):
thought that was a very heartwarming he'd finish up the
episode with what have we learned here today? My guests
are scumbags and they hit each other with chairs. It
was something like that, right, sure, yeah, Well this text,
I think is a nice way to wrap this up,
the debate over Kaiser Fairmont, who is friendlier? Says this Texter.
(09:23):
West Virginia altogether is way more friendly than Maryland or Pennsylvania.
And God knows we are friendlier than people in Virginia.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
That's true.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
I like this because it pulls us all together and
gives us a common enemy, and that is the outlander.
So thank you so much. We shouldn't be fussing in
a feud amongst ourselves here in West Virginia because as
a state, as a whole, as a group of people,
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we are generally friendlier than people from everywhere else. Yes,
and frankly better. I think you could make that argument.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Now.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
I will tell you this is this is one of
my favorite things about West Virginia. And you know, I'm
not known to gush about how much I love West Virginia.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
No, not at all.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Ever, not something that generally happens here. But one of
my favorite things about West Virginia, and I think a
lot of people listening can relate to this. No matter
where I am in West Virginia, I feel completely at home.
I feel like I'm in my hometown. I can walk
down the street in Morgantown perfectly comfortable. I feel like
these are my people, this is my place. I can
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do the same thing in Beckley, Bluefield. It doesn't matter Kaiser,
wherever I am. It's just this perfect level of comfort,
like this is my hometown. Right Ah, Jack, Well, I
don't feel that way anywhere else, and I think a
lot of people are probably like that. To me. West
Virginia is like one big small town.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Yeah, yeah, right, Yeah, it's pretty accurate.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
So we've all come together as people and that was
quite heartwarming. You greeney Hea Drake.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Yeah, the Jack and Nikki Show on wv AQ.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Time to get awkward. Yes, that's right. Let's talk about
that hair of yours. Well, with it being National Hair Day,
which seems kind of vague. Honestly, you're not really suggesting
that you you do anything. I guess just celebrate, was
(11:26):
it having the hair?
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Yeah, I'll be washing my hair today's hair washing Day.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
To theay, you'll be washing your hair. Okay, they're good
you know, I'll probably wash my hair today.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
Too, Okay, good, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
And that concludes today's segments. Jack and Nikki talk about
basic hygiene.
Speaker 5 (11:41):
Right.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Now, here's what I wanted to get into, honestly with this.
With this hair day is the talk of haircut horror stories,
bad hair day situations where the hair has just gone
horribly wrong for you, because that can be so awkward
and uncomfortable. It's just miserab right. Yeah, Okay, studio lines
(12:02):
are open eight eight eight seven seven seven sixty six forty.
You can call this. You can text us at that number.
You can also text us at three five sixty five one. Nikki,
would you like to begin with hair day horror stories?
Do you have anything? Have you been in a bad
situation with the hair?
Speaker 4 (12:20):
I've had a couple unfortunate cuts. Sure. One was in
middle school and it didn't turn out the way we
expected it to, I guess. And it was a little.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Mullet esque, is that right?
Speaker 4 (12:35):
Yeah, it wasn't blended well like the layers who cut it.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Was it a professional person or somebody at your house?
My aunt, oh, did she have any experience cutting? She
did have hair cuttings?
Speaker 4 (12:46):
Okay, now, was the last time she cut my hair.
I see, Yeah, there's that, okay. And then there was
another time in high school. I had a major surgery
and I really long hair at the time, but after
you're in the hospital and everything, and it got tangly
and it was just not healthy. So we had to
chop my hair off, and that process was very traumatic
(13:11):
for me. Going from having very long hair to very
short hair was jarring and I was not a fan.
And so yeah, that was it was fine. Like, you know,
I was dating Dave at the time and he said
it looked good. But I'm pretty sure he would always
tell me I look Yeah, I'm pretty sure he would
never tell me I look bad. But that was a
(13:34):
traumatic experience. So I don't never chop my hair short
again since then.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
I see.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
But yeah, those are my two bad haircut experiences. Never
let family cut your hair.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
I'm going to expand on that. Oh yeah, So here's
the thing. I was known in high school as Captain Hairdoo.
That was my nickname because I was just obsessed with
my hair in lieu of having an actual personality. But
it was a long road to get to becoming Captain Hairdoo.
I had essentially no discernible hairstyle through elementary school, just
(14:10):
kind of a mop top, just a bunch of you know.
And I was very, very blond, you know, just the
tow head. And then when I was in middle school,
you know, start hitting puberty. Now you're concerned about your appearance,
you know, trying to turn on the old Jack charm
with the ladies. And so I'm trying to comb the hair.
And then I remember I would get in high school
(14:32):
so upset, like if I couldn't get my hair comb
the way I liked it, I just wouldn't go to school.
I just would go, well, forget it, I'm going back
to bed.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
Shack.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Well I could do that, because who's going to stop me.
I live by myself. Yeah. I was just like, yeah,
this doesn't look right for yourself. Yeah, please excuse Jack.
He had a mental breakdown because he had a calick
in his hair and couldn't come in. But here's what
happened to me. This was the most awkward hair experience
that I've had in my life to this day. My
brother offered to cut my hair, and for some reason,
(15:05):
I agreed to let him do that. And this was
in middle school when I was hyper sensitive about the hair. Yeah,
I don't know what I was thinking. But he you know,
he's older, and he's he's pretty smart, and he just
basically somehow convinced me. He was like, yeah, I can
do it because I needed a haircut.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
Right.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
We lived in the middle of nowhere. Getting a haircut
was a big process. You know, you had to you
had to bring up like an ox cart and you
had to load it with supplies, and then you had
to go through this this pass through the mountains.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
Right, and.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Three months ly we lost a lot of people in there.
And then like three months later, you would arrive in
town and you'd go over to Snuffy's place and then
you know, he would all right. So so he was like,
yeah I can I can cut it for you this evening.
I mean it's like on a weekend. He's like, yeah,
school Monday, I'd cut it for you right now. And
I've said, are you really you can do that? I
was like, yeah, sure, that's a problem. Really he went yeah, yeah,
(15:58):
no problem. Okay, Well he cut it and needless to say,
he had no idea what he was doing, nor did
he care, and it was it was gapped all over.
It was all different lengths, and at one point he said, well,
here's what we'll do. We'll just spike it across the top,
and even that he got wrong. And so when he
(16:20):
was finished, we put a bunch of like gels and
creams and stuff to try to make it work. And
it was a disaster. It looked like somebody came at
me with a weed eater and it was spiked across
the top, but but not evenly spiked like it just
looked like you know, brass that was at different lengths.
And I had to go to school that way on Monday.
(16:41):
I had to walk in and try to act like no,
I wanted it to look this way. This is this
is the look that I was asking. I was not
able to sell that. It did not go well. It
was pretty humiliating. And again it took a while to
get that correction.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
So, yeah, did you have to wait for it to
grow out to get it?
Speaker 2 (17:00):
You go somewhere shave it off?
Speaker 4 (17:02):
Yeah? Oh you shaved it off.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Yeah. By the way, this is the haircut I had
when Mom decided, oh, let's go have a portrait made together,
and then she cut me out of the picture and
kept herself in the well, el said, pink eye. Okay,
studio lines are open eight eight eight seven seven seven
sixty six forty call us. You could text us at
three five six five to one talking to you about
(17:24):
your hair. Yes, that's right, it's National hair Day. And
hilarity ensues as we talk about the awkwardness, the uncomfortableness,
the humiliation of a bad hair day, a bad haircut,
which of course is much worse than just a bad
(17:44):
hair day. Right, you got a bad haircut? Oh, you
got to grow that out or shave it off.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
You're out how to style it? Yeah, or pay more
money and go to somebody else to fix it.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Yeah that's right, yeah, yeah yeah. Whereas if you know
you just have a bad hair day, well that happens.
You just you try to get power through it. Let
me go to the surprisingly ringing phone lines eight eight
eight seven seven seven sixty six forty again call us.
You can text us three five sixty five to one.
What you got for us here, guy?
Speaker 5 (18:14):
My story is is that I don't have any hair,
so I shave it every other day, so you know
I do. It's one of my biggest step peeves about myself.
I don't like going anywhere without a hat. And I
was just talking to my fiance the other day and
he they had, uh, these two pays that you can
glue to your head.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
You mean a hair replacement system.
Speaker 5 (18:39):
It's I guess it's a replacement, but it's like a
it's a two pay thing you get your own lines
called Lord Hair. I don't know, like I really was
thinking about it.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Hang on it wait, wait, this sounds hilarious. It's called what.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
It's called Lord hair.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Lord Hair.
Speaker 5 (18:55):
You can get a box and it gives with the
everything you.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Need, comes with everything you see here.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
It's like it's like adult toy for people with their hair.
But I was thinking about it, but I'm like, I
don't know, Like, but it would be worse if I
got a twope and it looked good and people were like,
did he not have hair before? Right? Explain that and
then and then or it would it be worse just
to it would be better just to keep it the
way it is. And then people be like, man, you're bald.
(19:23):
So it's oh my god, there's brosen cons. If you
wear glasses, someone wears glasses for a long time, you
see him with glasses and you're they're wearing them and
they take them off and you're like, oh, they'll put
them back on me. He looks a lot different, you know,
you look without him? Well, you know, it's like it's
like that.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Yeah. Well, I think he makes some interesting points here
because you're right. If you if you are known for
not having hair and then one day you show up
with just a full head of hair, people are gonna
know it's it's a hair replacement system, right because they're
gonna know if you go to work on Monday and
you're completely bald, and then you go in on Tuesday
with a full head of hair. Even if you could
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grow hair, you can't grow it at that rate. You
can't do it that fast. So that's definitely an issue.
And then the other thing I would suggest in Nikki,
I think you may want to get involved in this. Okay,
I've never seen a person wear a wig that is
not obviously a wig. I don't know that you're going
to be able to pull that off. That that's not
easy to do.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
I don't know if it's the angles of the cameras
or whatever, but when I've seen some of these hair
systems on Instagram and TikTok. They look better than they
have before.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
And I don't know if it's because they do it.
Speaker 5 (20:35):
I don't know if it's like too good to be
true to make you be like, hey, by this too.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Good to be true.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
It could be that, but also like because you can
get it customized, and people younger people are trying to
look more natural because like, older people don't care. They're
just like, just put something on top of my head.
They stopped to carry.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
To squirrel on there, it's not a raccoon. Glue it on. Yeah,
they don't care. Yeah. Well, but here's the other thing.
And I would suggest too that the younger you are,
the more likely you are to get something that looks
more realistic. Yes, because the problem is once you're a
certain age, it's hard to get the right color. And also,
(21:14):
you know, there should be some thinning by the time
you're like in your seventy So if you have like
a thick, full head of jet black hair and white eyebrows,
you know it stands out all right. Yeah, we'll tell
you what, buddy about it. Do us a favorite it?
Speaker 5 (21:29):
She said, there's no difference in a man doing that
than a woman getting her hair extensions.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Or churacup or yeah, it's all hair to their bodies.
Speaker 5 (21:38):
Yeah, there's no really difference. It's just that you know,
if you know that people, if you know the person
that's bald, and difference. But if you go out to
a random place like nice hair.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Yeah, well, I'll tell you what a couple of things
you can do. Number one, by a series of wigs
and each day, put on a different wig each week,
and now you're gonna look like you're slowly growing it.
Will it cost you a fortune? Yes, yeah, it's gonna
cost a lot of money for you to do that. Okay.
And then number two, whatever you end up doing, please
(22:10):
stop by the studio, said Nick, and I can take
a look at it. Appreciate the call, buddy, Thank you man.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
All right, bye, I forgot to tell him that I
have a local hair guy that would be able to help.
Potentially we have a project now with his hair system.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Yeah yeah, all right. Look, we've got some more texts
to get into here from you guys coming up in
a minute. But I'm gonna go ahead and float this
out to the ladies. Would you prefer a man who
is bald to a man who is gluing hair onto
his head as part of a hair replacement system. Because
(22:52):
the thing about it is, you know, at the end
of the day, he's still bald. He's just gluing hair
onto his head. And it's kind of like that scene
from Star Wars where you see them putting the helmet
on Darth Vader. From the back of the helmet's coming down.
That's what's happening when he gets back to the house.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
It's like a cause play at that point, right, like
with the wig. Yeah, the hair system.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Excuse me, Yeah, that's right, it's causeplay. Yes, pretending to
be a man with.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
Hair, right, I mean they're not cheap, but you could
order you know, a bunch of different styles and what
colors and lengths and all that.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Souff I don't can just get a Darth Vader helmet
and be done with it. I mean you could do that.
It's the holiday season, you guys, and that means one thing.
Pretending to be happy. Yes, that's right. If you listen
to this show, you know that Nicky and I come
(23:43):
in every morning and work very hard pretending to have
a good time. So we're not strangers to this concept.
But for most people pretending to have a good time
just makes you a great, big phony. Let's take a
look at what's going on and why people feel the
need to pretend to be happy during the holidays. I
(24:05):
have the research right here, Okay, actual research, Nikki Drake.
If this was not actual research in my right hand,
would I be able to do this?
Speaker 4 (24:16):
Probably not.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
No, I would tear a hole in the space time continuum,
send us all back to the future. According to Life
Stance Health, sixty nine percent of Americans feel pressure to
appear happy during the holiday season. My question to you,
are you one of these people. Do you feel the
(24:37):
need to appear happy during the holidays? If so, why
is that eight eight eight seven seven seven sixty six
forty the studio line to the show, Call us or
textas at that number. You can also text us at
three five, six, five to one. I'm curious about this.
I guess depending on who you are, what you do
(24:58):
in the family, or maybe even where you work, you
may need to put on a brave face. People may
be looking to you. You might be the foundation of
the family, and if you appear unhappy or troubled, then
the whole thing just goes into a state of collapse. Yeah,
(25:20):
because there are people well, I mean, you know, I
think a lot of times, especially in families, when you
know you have kids and they're looking to the parents
to kind of make the holiday season magical. You know,
you got to put up the decorations, and you got
to do the presence, and you know, all of the
hard ball negotiating with Santa, all that stuff that goes
(25:44):
on stressful, Yeah, with the parents. And I think if
if you're a kid and you're looking to your parents
to make the holidays magical, and instead what you find
is one of them intoxicated in an undershirt, belching up
big beer clouds in the living room, and the other one,
(26:06):
I don't know, let's say, reading from the Bible and
calling the police.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
This is very specific sounding random, just random than anything.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Okay, then you're you're gonna look at this and go,
where's the magic? This is making me sad. So you,
as parents, maybe you feel the pressure to try to
be happy, at least fake being happy during the holiday season. Nikki,
do you pretend to be happy during the holidays.
Speaker 4 (26:39):
No, I'm not good at pretending.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
I don't think that's true.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
Usually what you see is what you get so if
I'm stressed, like my family kind of knows I'm stressed,
but I'm I will try to be less stressed, but
I don't know. I have a hard time hiding my face.
Everything kind of just shows on my face. Does that
(27:05):
make sense? Yeah, okay, yeah, sure, yeah, so I could try,
but I don't think it's gonna work.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
There are other pressures people feel during the holidays, including
the pressure to overspend, sure, the pressure to pretend like
they're not lonely, the pressure to attend holiday gatherings.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
Oh my gosh, no, yes, don't don't. No, Okay, here's
the thing about holiday gatherings. You always have an out
because you're always committed to a different holiday holiday gathering
that you are going to. Oh no, they're on the
same day. I'm so sorry. I said yes to them. First.
I've got to go to.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
This one, right, I have to go to this non existence.
But exactly who are these people? They're imaginary people.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
There is no pressure.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
There's something I have to do because I have to
do anything other than to your holiday party.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
You an well, no, t.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Don't you be and you
Speaker 4 (28:12):
M hm
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