A Microcosm For Wisconsin And The Nation (Hour 2)

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So here's how it works.

By the way, the host of the Chad Holmes show is Chad Holmes.

Welcome Chad Holmes.

Good morning, Chad.

How are you doing?

He's on mute again.

Yeah It's like the old days.

Yeah, I tell you I mean when I get on these as a guest I It's

like when you watch when you watch late night talk show hosts late night talk shows and they have a late night talk show host a guest and you just can't see them Navigate the world of being the interviewee.

It's very fun to watch but Chad you are the host of the Chad Holmes show which is back on the air you are on from eight to nine on WXCO and then

The entire show 8 to 10 is online on YouTube, correct?

Yeah.

I actually enjoyed hearing you try to explain that last week.

Thank you.

Honestly, like as I'm explaining it, I remember that moment because I'm like, you are doing a terrible job right now, but you can hear the entire show on YouTube.

You can catch the first hour on on civic media.

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From wherever you are in the world and then just go go go to your computer and turn on the rest and you'll be good to go

Yeah, basically the first hour is like normal just 806 till 9 o'clock here on WXCO you can tune in on the radio on on WXCO dot FM Civic media mobile devices, whatever they may be and then because myself and my Engineer have more things to talk about we just stay on and you said the YouTube is

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To quote Rick Moranis and the movie Spaceballs.

Everybody got that?

So Chad, you're back on the air and you're talking about everything that is the community.

And that's something that I really, you know, I talked about last week and spoke about you this morning, which is you are very dialed into the Northwood specifically Wausau community.

What's going on?

Not just the news and politics, but you also are a big, you are a bit, you cover the sports, local high school, those types of things.

And we spoke to Isabella Nieto last week about her work she's doing in Wausau as well.

Let's just start the big grand picture about Wausau.

Like, you know, what goes on in Wausau is important to what happens in Wisconsin.

And just tell us about your, you know, your, what you're seeing in the community right now.

Man, that's a rather big question to start things off.

Yeah, I

know.

Well,

okay, what's your favorite color Chad?

Wasta is a very interesting

place

and actually I was talking a little bit earlier We had a guest on By the way, I gotta I gotta share really quickly.

Yeah, go ahead You know one of the one of the what's the worst thing about a starting of a show day is being off the air and we had technical difficulties this morning

Get on the air for a while and the good folks in Madison I was able to reach out and it took them a little while to figure out why we could not get connected here in our studio And ultimately we got going so that that was like and I had a guest coming in and it's like I go out there Sorry, we were having some technical difficulties here Yeah, and it was a gentleman who was talking about a big event going on through the was was a conservatory of music and I was talking to

him and also talking to my producer.

And I think there's a little microcosm of what you're trying to ask me about is that Warsaw is a community that I think in some ways is like a bigger city, but in other ways, like a smaller city.

It has a lot of things that we are very fortunate not to have to travel to Minneapolis or Madison or Milwaukee or even Green Bay for.

And yet at the same time, I don't think we're losing

that small town feel to it as well.

I mean, we have a wonderful venue of the Grand Theater that brings in Broadway level productions, and they are in the midst of raising money for a redo,

a

renovation.

starting in May, they'll be closed down actually from May until I believe early November for this $17 million renovation project.

And it's just wonderful.

And we have the conservatory and I was saying to my guests, I said, you know, it's amazing that folks here that have that love of music don't have to leave the community to get that extra training that you have the ability here to get the things that you could get, say,

in your part of the state and not have to travel multiple hours and leave the community to find a lot of these things.

So in that case, and also I think that we are, especially the Wausau metro area, I call Wausau, Rothschild, Schofield, Weston, Cronin, Wetter, this.

They're all connected.

It's not just Wausau, it's connected.

And it's very much a microcosm of the state of Wisconsin.

It is very much a, I would call a purple area.

It is very much a place that can go either way.

As you get outside of that in Marathon County, it gets very red very quickly.

So again, that's used County a little bit.

But I think in a lot of ways we are a microcosm.

We have the same concerns that folks have throughout the state of Wisconsin.

I think that we

expect our elected officials to be present for us.

I think we ask a lot of our elected officials and I think that we get a lot from our elected officials for the most part as well.

And you know I want to dive into that a little bit more as far as the politics of Warsaw is just far as like who represents you and what's going on but really quick I think I think one of the beautiful things about Wisconsin

Even when you go to a place like Milwaukee Medicine or Green Bay or Appleton, even though those would be considered the big cities of the state by measure of coverage or, you know, how people understand a big city, we're still all smaller cities, like Milwaukee is a half a million people or so.

Like that's nothing compared to other cities.

And, and it's a big city here in Wisconsin, but it still has, I feel like every big city here in Wisconsin still has small town feel to it.

Cause there's still that small town attitude and that tradition.

Even if there are a half a million people there, it's still like, Oh, you know, they, they, you know, the things, and that's what, and I think that's why it's important to talk about what's happening in Wausau because I think that translates to what's happening all over the state.

And when you talk about the politics, I mean, Wausau is almost indicative of

the country because you had Wausau who had Mayor Katie Rosenberg, who was a liberal firestorm.

Like she made her, she made her bones on social media and became very, very popular.

And then they switched to Doug Denny, who is a conservative.

So like it shows that like the people of that community, their attitudes and opinions can shift.

And it sort of reflects what happened in this country in 2016, in 2020.

So I'm sorry, in 2024.

So,

I just think it's very interesting and I think people should pay more attention to what's happening in your neck of the woods.

I think in actually Katie Rosenberg came here last week.

It was the first time that we've had a chance to talk to her since she had lost the election.

She basically intentionally stepped away and did not want to come in and talk in a long form way with me until this.

Didn't want to you know be one of those like no when trump lost he was he never went away Yeah, I think I think that you you may you may not like what the result is but you have to respect what the results

Yeah,

and I think that she was ready to to recharge a little bit But as part of the discussion we mentioned and I mentioned to her that that election in the spring of 2024 was a bit of a bellwether for what we saw not just

in Wisconsin, but throughout the country and even throughout the world that I would say the left-leaning incumbents have a very tough go of it in 2024 worldwide.

And she agreed with that and that was like one of those early indicators that

Hey, maybe there is something here that says something bigger than just what the vote is within our community.

And I think too, and if you're just joining us on civic media mid mornings, we're talking to chat homes, who is the host of the chat home show.

To find out more, go to WXCO.

fm.com as far as tuning in because he's both on the air and on online, but check out the show from eight to 10 Monday through Friday.

Um, I think that real, real quick,

wxdo.fm.

Oh, sorry.

My, my mistake, wxdo.

So many radio stations.

Uh, thank you for correcting me.

And I think, and we can talk about this on the other side of the, the, you know, the break, we can talk about the fact that like the election in Wausau and reflecting directly of what the attitude was here in

in the country, but also the behaviors of the mayor, reflecting the attitudes of the people in power at the federal level, specifically to one big incident that took place in 2024, where, you know, he got himself into some hot water for what I think was a big stunt, but went really wrong and got a lot of attention regarding a ballot box.

But I want to talk more about that.

moment.

And then just other things, especially the discussions you're having with the gubernatorial candidates who are coming through, because I'm seeing them all come to WXCO.

And I think that's great.

Cause I think it's important for those candidates to make sure that the Northwoods know that they're thinking of them.

Cause I feel like folks in that area of Wisconsin tend to believe the politicians don't really pay attention.

And that's not true, but that's more with Chad Holmes on the other side of that break.

But yeah, I mean, I think that, I think that,

when it comes to the conversations that you guys are having up there and the, and the stories that you guys are covering.

Once again, we talked to Isabel Nieto last week about just a referendum in Wausau to fund firefighters.

I mean, that I feel like reflects a lot of what's happening in different communities as far as, you know, lack of funding, how, how cuts to shared revenue cuts by the federal government have to be applied and who is seeing.

which services cut and how that's going to affect people.

And I think that firefighters referendum is also a big deal that I wanted to make sure people knew about.

Oh, absolutely.

And it also goes back to when you make decisions on who's going to lead your government.

Exactly.

It has significant.

consequences because the way that Katie Rosenberg went about that issue and the way that Doug Denny goes about that issue and generally in terms of filling some of these positions are diametrically different.

And I think a lot of people don't think that deeply.

And again, I shouldn't make a blanket statement, but sometimes, you know, the whole idea of the feel is one thing that we try to do.

So again, yeah.

And that's all part of that conversation.

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After the 1030 news, how are you winterizing your life?

Still in these last few weeks of the cold weather, can always use tips, hacks, advice, whatever you want to tell us.

How do you take care of yourself during these wintery months as we slowly move out of

the groundhog shadow into springtime.

But we're talking about that coming up in a little bit.

But right now we're talking with speaking to our buddy, Mr. Chad Holmes, host of the Chad Holmes show from eight to 10 online, from eight to nine on the air to find out more, go to WXCO.fm for details, but it's a great show every single day, Monday through Friday.

Talking about how Wausau is a microcosm of the state.

And I believe the country right now, when it comes to

political choices, the landscape and how people are interpreting our candidates.

And, you know, one of the things we talked about was the fact that the, he's not newly elected, but he is the, he's the latest mayor in, in Wausau, Doug Denny was the center of attention on a stunt he pulled where he decided to relocate a drop box for ballots at city hall.

And he got in a lot of trouble and they, they went through ethics meetings and talk more about that.

I gave a little brief overview, but I mean, I feel like this was,

a major story that I don't think a lot of people were talking about.

One of the odd aspects of this story that baffles me to this point.

And I

mean, I can talk a lot about how we got here, but I want to talk about where we are now.

Because a couple of weeks ago, Josh Call was in Warsaw.

So he came by here and we had a discussion.

Before we started, I wanted to make sure

Whether or not he could talk about this because I know sometimes I can't talk about the ongoing investigations because frankly I have not heard anything at all concerning the DOJ investigation into this and that they had they had a special counsel and The the special counsel is Josh calls opponent in the race first data attorney general and Again Tony is the yes

Forget what his first name is off the top of my head.

Um, but I asked him, oh, can we talk?

No, no, I can't talk about a bill.

I'm going to investigation.

How do we get into the situation where?

Well, it's been, we're coming up on a year and a quarter, year and a half and, and they're investing.

And it was like all in broad daylight.

It was not a, uh, a hidden aspect of what was going on here.

Why does it take so long?

for those with political influence and those that may have economic influence, whatever you may be, it just seems to take such a long time to get to the bottom of an issue that should have been pretty more straightforward.

And that frustrates me.

I just find this to be odd that we are still trying to figure out, because one thing that I talk about on the program over the years is that, because now we're into the second year of talking about this, is that

There should be accountability.

Yes.

A lot of the folks who are supporters of Doug Denier saying, Oh, you know, you just want you want him to be impeached.

You want to be removed from office?

No, I don't want him impeached.

I don't want him removed from office.

Mainly.

But but I don't expect that.

And I don't I mean, I have no problem with.

But I would like him to acknowledge what he did was wrong.

I would like to see some acknowledgement from the state DOJ.

That's what he did was wrong.

But

you know accountability seems to be lost and we saw that with Trump over the years.

Why do certain people get this benefit of the doubt where it's like they're looking for some way to just kick this down the road and not have us worry about it and it really bugs me quite a bit and even the whole ethics committee aspect of it that went on and on and on.

It's everything goes so slowly when it comes to certain people.

But boy, if you're the average citizen who went over there and tried to haul away a dropbox, I'm guessing that justice would have been handed out in a much swifter way.

Well, I mean, there's a gentleman I think in Muskego who just wrote something in chalk out in front of a pump.

post office and they went after him immediately, issued tickets, arrested him, arrested him again.

I mean, that's accountability is out the window for certain people in power.

And the gentleman's name is Eric Tony.

Um, and I don't disagree with you.

And the thing is, is like, when it comes to the impeachment or the consequences, I want the consequences to take place.

If evidence has found that wrong, do it like once the process has done due process, then we go from there.

It's not just an automatic get rid of him.

It's no, let's find out what happened.

And then we come up with a solution.

And if that solution means removal, then fine.

If it's a censure, if it's a slap on, I mean, whatever, but like, yes, there needs to be accountability, transparency, a process, and then a viable outcome that affects the community, I think for the positive.

But yeah, I don't disagree with you.

I don't disagree with you at all.

Really quick.

We only have about two minutes left.

Gubernatorial candidates coming through Wausau.

Anything interesting at this point or is it too early to tell us saying, hello, I'm here.

Can't wait to meet you at the coffee shop.

Well, actually, it's very interesting because during the course of this discussion, these discussions, there's a person that I know here from Wasos who's a teacher and also a member of some organization that was down in Madison and he was down in Madison one day and he sent me a note and saying, well, what question?

Because he had some meetings with the folks down there.

What

question would you want to ask?

And he was talking about how they were anxious to make an endorsement.

I said, no, it's way too early to be making an endorsement.

There's so much we don't know yet.

So basically what

been trying to do here is almost introductory conversations for the people in this area because I don't think a lot of people know David Crowley.

Yes, I don't agree.

A lot of people know Fran Hong that well.

I don't think a lot of people know some of these candidates, Missy Hughes, which frankly, I didn't know a lot about Missy Hughes as she came in.

So again, just giving us an opportunity to get to know these people and not just go based strictly on name recognition.

So I think that's one of the things that

we're trying to do, I bring Isabella in because sometimes I can be a little less journalistic than maybe she is

and she asks

some really good questions.

And, and just find out a little bit more about some of the basics.

And then as we continue, because we got till August before the

primary learn more

learn more stay here for those conversations because it's going to be going out through the rest of the year we'll be hearing from these candidates who frankly want the job and do you want to hire them and this is their your time to get to know them so keep it locked here on civic media throughout the year we'll be having these discussions with our friends our colleagues as well as the candidates chat homes as the as the host of the chat home show on wxco chat thank you so much for being here this morning i can't wait to talk to you again

Thank you, Greg.

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You were doing great, but you're now where they were almost two hours in we're warmed up Ready to go.

What's going on my friend?

How are you feeling this?

How are you feeling about the news of punks at Tony Phil's seeing his shadow and thus making it because this is how it works This is how weather works because the the

The groundhog seeing a shadow we now just officially have six more weeks of winter

Yeah, you know, I'm disappointed but I don't blame him.

No, I blame the Sun Yes, if the Sun was away if the Sun was hidden this wouldn't be the problem and it would be springtime Tomorrow, I think that's I think that's how it works is if he doesn't see a shadow then spring just officially starts tomorrow, correct?

I think.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's how it works.

Okay.

Uh, but we do have about 42 more days of winter, five, six weeks left.

Doesn't mean that on the 43rd day or 44th day, it's immediately going to become spring time feeling warmer weather with thawing.

I was alive to see snowstorm in May.

So, but my question is with these last, with these few days left, these few weeks, how are you still winterizing your life?

What are you, you know, what do you, what do you do when you winterize your home?

What do you do to winterize your car or yourself?

Tips, thoughts, ideas on this.

We'd love to hear from you.

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Tell us how you are winterizing your life in the last few weeks of this chilly, chilly time.

And yeah, I mean, I think...

I am a homeowner.

I feel like in the timeline of owning a home, I've owned my home for a relatively short time, a little less than like three and a half years.

And so I still feel like there's a lot of learning to do.

So this is as much about me as it is for other people, but tips, hacks, things you do to make sure your house is protected from the weather and from the winter.

One thing I had to learn very quickly is that I have to cover up my air conditioning unit, which I'm sure a lot of you are sitting there going, well, yeah, of course you do.

I didn't know that.

I always lived in places where it was someone else's job.

Now it's my job.

And I actually spent more time than I care to admit shopping for an air conditioning cover because I want to make sure I got a good one, but that's just part of the, the, the plan when it comes to winterizing your home.

Calvin, do you help with any of that stuff at your house?

Like when you're getting ready for the winter or you're, you make like checking things, filters, whatnot.

Uh, no.

Now that you're saying that out loud, I don't even think, I don't think we cover our air conditioner.

Oh, really?

Yeah.

I mean, we've never had any problems.

Knock on wood.

Now you're, you're good.

That's it.

That he's like, yeah.

Yeah.

We don't, I mean, we shovel our driveway.

We don't really do anything special.

Gotcha.

Well, one thing we were looking at too was a, um,

story here from the mutual benefit group.com.

It's on mutualbenefitgroup.com.

And these are things mainly for the car.

And we talked about this, I think last week or the week before, and it said, you know, you should always winterize your car early, wash the car, apply.

I didn't know this, apply a layer of high quality wax that creates a barrier for your car and the elements.

I feel like I'm giving these tips to people like four months too late, but I didn't know, I've never heard anyone say wax your car before the winter.

says wash your car regularly.

And that's the thing I I've had ever since you and I talked about this as far as washing the car during the winter.

I've heard more people talk about yes versus no, like you got to wash your car regularly.

Do not wash your car during the winter.

Only wash it at this weather.

Never wash it at that weather.

And I didn't realize what a completely, you know, very opinionated

topic this is and I personally feel for me that I just wash my car once a month just to get all the gunk off so that way I'm not washing five months of gunk off in March versus you know little by little when I can because it's just I think that that Helps your car's body keeps it from the rusting especially the underbody portion where I mean sees all the salt all the wet all the gross nasty stuff.

I just think that's

Good practice it says here.

I think it's funny is it avoid driving before and after snowstorms well Yeah, I think that's something we'd all love to do but sometimes you don't have a choice don't drive across snow covered roads I sometimes you do not have a choice and I think this is interesting too is as fix any minor damage prior to winter and that Scratches chips rust spots.

I think that's I think I'm very guilty of that where

things that were on my old car, rust spots that were in summertime, small dings.

The next year, the year after became much, much bigger.

So yeah, what do you do to winterize your life here in the last few weeks of winter?

You still do as a practice tips, hacks, things like that.

Love to hear from you.

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We found out from Calvin, they do nothing in the Butenhof home.

They shovel their driveway and that's all they do.

I'm learning nothing from you guys.

Peter from, Peter from New London, listening on WISS, Wisconsin's Groundhog, Sun Prairie Jimmy predicted in early spring.

Wait, what?

Calvin sun prairie Jimmy.

Have you ever heard of this in your life, Calvin?

I have not heard of.

Sun Prairie Jimmy, I have heard of local groundhogs though.

So I'm not totally surprised.

Cause I mean that bet as soon as, first of all, Peter, thank you so much for reaching out.

If you see my uncle Charlie, Charlie Bach in New London, tell him I say hi and I miss him.

Uh, as soon as I saw that, I realized something, you know, if the sun is shining in punk, the Tony or punk punk, the Tony, um, might not be shining here.

So, okay.

I'm, okay.

Jimmy, Sun Prairie Jimmy is the local Wisconsin.

And this is the 70th, 78th annual.

How did, how does Punxatoni get all the play?

78 years, they've been doing this, the Groundhog Day prognostication in Canary Square.

The event was scheduled for today with festivities starting at 645.

Oh, it took place at 7 11 a.m.

When Jimmy the groundhog revealed whether Wisconsin could expect six more weeks of winter or early spring Jimmy predicted an early spring I Do not know what to do with myself right now Calvin that is new I've in its 78th year and I've lived here in my entire life I've never heard anyone so much as mention Sun Prairie Jimmy Do you think we get some prayer Jimmy on the show?

Maybe.

Apparently when I looked him up, one of his shining moments for national acclaim was in 2015 when he bit the mayor.

I was going to say, it's got to be something he did.

It's not going to be, it's not going to be something like, you know, he saved a busload of Girl Scouts or, you know,

lifted a car up in an accident.

It's like, yeah, he cost, I was thinking it was either going to be a bite or some sort of bodily function that happened in the, in the broad daylight of the live crowd.

But yeah, that doesn't, that doesn't surprise me at all.

But Sun Prairie Jimmy, I'm a little mad at myself, Calvin.

I'm mad at myself for not knowing this at all.

And now I trust Sun Prairie Jimmy way more than I trust a Pennsylvania groundhog.

You know about those Pennsylvania groundhogs, they just, they never bring a dish to pass.

They say they're going to leave when they were going to leave, but then they stay for another two hours.

I'm tired.

I want to go to bed.

I don't, I don't hang out with Pennsylvania groundhogs anymore.

Not since college, but, uh, we are talking about how do you winterize your life?

Also, just finding out about Sun Prairie, Jimmy, the Wisconsin groundhog that predicted an early spring as of this morning at 7 11 AM for the 78th prognostication.

in Sun Prairie.

I'm now just absolutely, this is all I may think about for the rest of the day is Peter from New London.

You have blown my mind and informed me so deeply.

I want to know more about this and talk to people because I think that this is as Wisconsin is what we need to be raising up is the voice of Sun Prairie Jimmy, not some, some trash ground hog in Pennsylvania.

So John and Oshkosh listening to WISS says, I used to cover the AC, but found it made great nesting.

Habitats for rodents.

Now I leave it open with Noah.

Okay.

All right I found one thing where you just you you cover it and then you pull at the bottom and it like kind of seals it up It just keeps it from the elements Leaves rain or not rain the snow.

So okay.

All right.

I'll look more into that Cindy from Appleton is back on the air Cindy what say you how do you winterize your life and have you heard of Sun Prairie Jimmy?

Oh Heck yeah, I've actually they have a 5k run that they do their Sun Prairie it was actually

Yesterday yesterday, yeah that I've done before I didn't do it yesterday, but I've done before but yeah, I'm aware of Jiminy I like Jimmy better anyway Far as winterizing goes I'm a fanatic about my cars and I have four of them Oh, well then not cheap to winterize my cars But I'm a fanatic about my cars and my furnace and my furnace is gonna have to have a new blower motor soon here.

So Those are the two things I'm very up on

I'm learning so much more about you, Cindy.

This is amazing.

Four cars.

Okay.

We'll have to get into the four cars thing later because I didn't, you know, I'm not a car person, but I'm always fascinated by people who have lots of cars and people who are interested in that.

But thank you so much, Cindy, for calling in.

Appreciate your time.

And I'm getting more and more people here saying, Alicia on the live stream saying, I had been told not to cover the AC unit in the winter.

Okay.

Well, now we're at a whole new point of discussion because.

There is a whole industry and AC unit covers out there.

And I feel like, is it all a sham?

Am I being taken by big AC Calvin?

Have I been thwarted by capitalism again to cover my AC unit when I don't need to?

Is that what it's going on right now?

Very likely, I suppose.

Just a quick note on Groundhog's day.

I looked it up.

There are 77 active Groundhog prognosticators, 65 in the United States and 12 in Canada.

I don't even know doing to myself.

What are we doing here?

We're not, what's it?

I was always told it was punks of Tony or nothing.

Why do we care about them then?

Wisconsin rise up.

Sun Prairie Jimmy for life.

That's what I gotta say.

Really quick.

John from Oshkosh also says, don't buy the big AC propaganda.

And Peter goes on to say, yeah, I heard this morning.

Sun Prairie Jimmy is 60% right.

And Phil is only 40% right.

Even better.

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It is preventable.

go from measles.

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And this one goes to CBS Evening News.

If you're not aware at this point, CBS News has been under massive fire with the

hiring a Barry Weiss who has gone through this much historic news organization and reworked it in a way that is upsetting, concerning, problematic for many people.

And they have, they have put this gentleman named Tony Doku, as their anchor of the nightly news.

What I do know from him right now is that the ratings on his

Evening news show have been tanking.

People are unhappy with the reporting.

People are unhappy with the overall consensus or the overall mission, quote unquote, of the CBS news.

And we're talking about how it's affecting things like 60 minutes as well.

But that all being said, apparently, and this is coming from tvinsider.com, CBS news editor-in-chief Barry Weiss said that she and her team would put a huge emphasis on scoops.

An anchor, Tony doku pole.

I don't know how to pronounce his last name properly responded by interviewing his own mother, his own mom.

He put on the air.

Now you may be saying yourself, well, then he like, she, you know, she a doctor.

Is she a lawyer?

Is she a political strategist?

Is she a deep thinker?

Is she a business owner?

All these things apparently.

He was talking about a study that found that grandparents who care for their grandchildren score better on tests of memory and language and decline more slowly than those who do not.

And he decided to have his own mother on to talk about how great it is to raise a grandchildren.

Now, I'm not totally against that idea on the whole, but that was his guest.

She said, I find that they give me a sense of purpose.

They energize me more than drive me down.

And I think that's great for her.

His mother is, let's see here.

He had, Mr. Dokable has four children, two of, with his current wife, who he's married to Katie Tur and two of his ex-wife, Danielle Haas, four grandkids for her to look after, to play with.

And I think that's great.

If the kids, if the grandkids give you a sense of purpose and keep you energetic, alive and, you know, sharp, I think that's great.

I wouldn't make this interview the center point of your CBS evening news story.

That's my tip from me to you.

Maybe make her the last segment.

Let's talk to someone like my mom.

It's great.

But maybe get an expert on to talk about the cognitive benefits of grandparents playing with their grandkids or at least having the grandkids in their life.

Give it a little more hefty, a little more credibility.

Cause right now CBS news, you are really working to keep that in your pocket.

So that's just my handy tip from me to you.

Maybe.

Section to show up better, plan it better, talk to your producers and give us a full rounded conversation and don't get yourself so caught up in scoops.

And that has been a handy tip from Greg.

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