We Start the Day Weird (Hour 1)

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Got your host, James here.

I'm John by CEO of your Nightaway

of Southwood and Ann's Counties, Terry John.

Terry, good to have you with us.

Thank you for being here.

I blame you.

No, I'm joking.

I mean go ahead.

No, no, no.

Should I go home?

No, for the day.

You might be able to.

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OK, so we can go ahead and just do our show.

We're going to go ahead and keep rolling here

while we're waiting for things to get work up

behind the scenes.

While we are doing that, Terry, I would love to talk

with you about the Nightaway, getting update on things

because I know you got a couple of big events coming up

including the shred day coming out right around the corner.

Yep, so on April 17th, which is two weeks

from today, we have our annual shred day.

This is an event provided to the community

by Proveil Bank.

And what happens is from 9 to noon,

but there is a capacity.

So you maybe want to come early if you're bringing stuff

because a lot of times we don't make it till noon.

But we do have shred day.

So this is an opportunity for you

to get sensitive documents out of your home.

Bring them over to us at Proveil Bank

and they will be shredded on site.

Jerry from Shredsafe brings his big trailer

and he shreds right there in the trailer.

So this is free for two boxes or bags of paper,

but then thereafter you make a $5 donation to United Way.

So you get to help the community,

as well as get those things out of your house

that maybe have just been hanging around longer

than the spare sock.

Oh yeah.

Right?

But this is also sponsored, not only just provided

by Proveil Bank, but they also donate $1,000 to United Way.

So for the first 1,000 pounds of paper shredded,

they donate a dollar for each pound.

And then our friends at bank account

sponsor the second 1,000 pounds.

So that's really awesome.

So we can get a $2,000 donation

and that then turns its way back out into the community.

We also have going on right now,

a book drive for our Great Book Giveaway.

Great Book Giveaway happens the week

right after school lets out

and this is an opportunity for us

to make sure that kids have books for summer.

We know that that is a challenge

and it has been expressed that

this is a community need that we could fill.

We've been doing this event for a really long time.

This might be like year 14, 15 even.

And so this is an awesome opportunity for us

to make sure kids have books.

So we ask the community to donate to us

their gently used books, or of course,

we take new books as well.

But this is just a way that we can,

you know, as parents, well, I always struggle with this.

Maybe mom's struggle with it is that,

you know, we have these books,

but we don't just want to get rid of them,

but our kids don't, you know what I mean?

They've all grown them, right?

They're either outreading them

or they're just, you know, maybe not a favorite

or something like that.

But this is a great way to get them

in the hands of other kids here in our community.

So we are accepting donations through the end of April.

And our location is 351 Oak Street here in Wisconsin Rapids

and they can be dropped off between 8.30 and four

Monday through Friday.

So we do appreciate any books that people have.

We're not looking for your old encyclopedias.

I say that cheeky, but I'm not kidding.

Someone brought me a set one time.

So I mean, I get it.

You back in the day, pay a lot for them

and you don't know what to do with them,

but just, you know, newsflash.

Like there's not a second grader

that really probably wants them.

So we don't want encyclopedias.

We want kids books.

Our greatest need right now is like baby board books

and early readers.

So, you know, that, but we would take any book

that's appropriate for birth through elementary age.

And like I said, it's a great event.

We have 10 locations that we visit.

We have guest readers that come.

You know, it's just, it's a really cool event.

So we are taking books and then coming up in May

is our diaper drive.

Yeah.

Runs Mother's Day to Father's Day.

Great opportunity again to, you know,

give a little lift to people who might be struggling

in the community.

So in preparation of that, we are accepting diapers,

wipes, and then paces and creams.

And large sizes of diapers are needed most.

You know, we did this for the first time last year

and we got a, we had a great showing from the community.

It was fabulous.

But a lot of people donated like size one diapers.

And I think, and I do it too,

because like you're looking at the box or the package

and there's more than there is if you do a size five.

But what we're hearing from programs

that are getting the diapers is that the need

is for the larger sizes because they do get donations.

I don't want to discourage you if you, you know what I mean?

If you want to give size one, that's totally fine.

But the greatest need is size four, five, and six.

And if that's what you're looking to help with,

that's where you want to go with it.

It's helping you out where it's so needed.

It's a great opportunity to, you know, help out.

I love so much of what the United Way does

where it's stranger's helping strangers.

It is neighbors helping neighbors.

It is a hand up, you know, so you can stand up in that.

There's a number of things that you guys are doing

in all of these two where you can volunteer,

you can be a part of these things

and it doesn't cost you a whole lot,

but you know that what you spend or what you are doing,

whether it's your sensitive documents or diapers

or any of these things, that is putting back into our community.

100% of ways things go right back into the community.

And it's a great opportunity to be able to do that.

And I know talking to so many individuals around here,

how much that means to them,

to be able to put back into this area.

Here are ways you can impact that.

Here are ways you can do that.

And you don't have to wait around, you know,

you can do that kind of thing.

One of the nice things about the diaper thing,

you can get those right now and just wait

and they're not gonna expire.

There's not a whole lot of things in life like that.

They're not gonna expire, they'll be all right.

And I don't think it's a bad idea to even ask

if you're uncertain, hey, you know,

maybe getting closer to me.

Have you guys gotten this size?

What size could you use?

Reaching out to you in that way and asking

or something like that.

And I'll go ahead.

No, I was just gonna say,

it is a pretty wide distribution.

So I mean, we definitely will take whatever, you know,

any and all donations.

And because we're taking these diapers to places

like the food pantry.

So if someone, you know, identifies that they have that need,

we're taking them for distribution to the family center

to first choice pregnancy resource center.

So any place that someone might be,

that, you know, that has children still in diapers

and might be able to, again,

lighten their load a little bit by, you know,

it's not something that's always available for distribution.

But, you know, if this time they can get,

you know, a container of diapers,

I think that it's always appreciated and needed.

The other thing just to remind folks

is that my free taxes is still available.

This is, you know, tax day is April 15th.

Still.

Yes, still.

So you can file your taxes for free.

If your household income was $84,000 or less in 2024.

And you can access my free taxes by visiting our website

at uwac.org.

There's a little banner image that kind of floats around

at the top of the screen.

And one of the options on there is my free taxes.

So then you just click on that.

And I believe it's just one more click and you're in.

But it's super user friendly.

You can do it on a PC laptop on your phone.

So just reminding everyone that that deadline

is looming.

So we encourage you to, you know, to get that taken care of.

And we appreciate y'all for doing that.

Let's go ahead and take a quick phone call real fast here.

Good morning on there.

Hi, James.

Hey, how you doing, Matt?

Good.

I have six boxes of rice diapers

and someone picked them up.

Yeah, yeah, we can work that out.

Yeah, definitely, bud.

And appreciate you doing that.

We will figure that out.

We'll have, we will get your phone number off air, okay?

Okay, too.

All right, bud.

Thank you.

And thank you for listening and calling up.

We'll do that off air as soon as we can.

Appreciate that.

And appreciate you guys being a part of this.

It's all of these things that we're talking about here

are all in one way or another an investment in the future

where we're talking about babies and diapers.

We're talking about kids with books.

These are things that you're doing and able to do

and put back into your community.

I don't greatly appreciate you doing that.

Terry, I real quickly before we move on too fast

because two fast things I wanted to touch on,

the community shred day.

One of the things that I appreciate about that

is this opportunity to be able to get rid of these documents

that is such a vital thing nowadays.

We, we, we, we covet so much being able to get rid

of these things in a safe way.

While also knowing that you're putting right back

into your community doing that.

Like that is a, I love the win-win kind of things

that are available over there at the United Way

when it comes to these kind of things.

You got to get rid of those documents

and here's an opportunity to do that

while also being able to add to the United Way

and the work that you guys are doing over there.

That's a really cool win-win.

Yeah, it is a great opportunity.

It's, I just remind everybody though that it does fill up.

So if you come, I mean, honestly,

it is, it is put out there as a nine to noon kind of event.

But last year, I think by like 10, 30,

we were at the capacity of what the trailer could hold.

And that's awesome.

That's a great showing from the community,

but I just don't, sometimes people get discouraged

and I would too, if you show up at 11.45.

So if, if you plan to participate,

I would encourage you to come on out at 9.15 instead of 11.15.

And a, a, a, a, a question for you,

but I just wanted to, and I feel a little silly asking you.

It actually was going to ask off-air,

but I'm just going to do it right here

because I imagine that there are other people

that might have the thought.

If you don't necessarily, it's been a while

your kids aren't home.

You've already gotten rid of a lot of the kids' books,

but you want to be a part of this

and maybe grab some new books.

Oh, yeah, for sure.

We take new books.

Yeah, yeah.

And sometimes we've just had somebody say,

hey, you know, can I just make a monetary donation?

And I have a pretty savvy shopper at the office, you know,

so she'll get the best, she'll get the best bang

for the bug guy on that, but, but, you know,

I think we just started it as people have, you know,

way back, like people have books

and they don't know what to do with them.

I mean, yes, of course you can donate them other places,

but, but I think there's something about that

that it's a special, I mean, for me, especially as a mom,

it was books were a little more special

than maybe other toys.

You know, like, it just, and so I think that, you know,

that's really how we started.

But yes, of course we will also accept new books

for Great Book of Boy as well.

Want to see something here real quick, Terry,

let's see what happened.

Oh, okay, so there's nothing going on

on the airway right there.

I'm trying to see if I can get to a commercial break here

or we just have to keep talking,

because that can make things very interesting for us.

Why don't you see?

You know what, we had a great shout out from Cat from Katrina.

She mentioned a great idea,

and I think she might be on to something there.

So yes, we will try to go to commercial break right here.

And we'll be back with the LCA,

pay birthday anniversary clip right here on the morning show.

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And we're back, everybody.

Alright, well.....

James's a seizure is over.

That was great.

That was a really nice break right there.

That felt really good.

Yeah, I think you might be able to, Terry,

so I'm going to go ahead and try to talk to our listener here

to get that information.

And you know, I'm not sure if that's going

yep, that might not work, Terry.

I mean, we'll go ahead and give it a try here.

Yeah, nope, not sure if it's going to work.

Yeah, I'm not sure, but we must,

the show must go on.

We will keep moving here and keep going.

We do appreciate you guys being here.

You can try, I've done, yeah.

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They got some great specials going on today.

And story time with Kathy McGraph is going on this Saturday

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That's awesome.

She's so good at that.

She's so good.

Kathy has kicked me out a couple of times.

Like look, I know you're not a little kid.

Get out of here.

I'm just not even in your room.

No, it's not.

No, it's not.

But she's awesome.

I could tell her to see you like in the very last booth

in there right before you go in that room.

You know, just like trying to hide.

Yeah, yeah.

You can't have your hood up on that on that ear side

because you won't be able to hear.

But you're so right now.

And you know, and congratulations to Kathy

on her reelection to the Port Edward School Board.

She is a great advocate for all things kids

and all things learning.

So really cool that she is at Alcafe doing these reading

opportunities.

Really appreciate her and appreciate her friends at Alcafe.

Visit them today at 221 Market Avenue

in beautiful Port Edwards.

And of course, get us those birthdays and anniversaries.

Love celebrating with you, everybody.

Terry, I need a one or two.

Two.

All right, it gives us that qualifier.

So we can get right into the celebrating.

First up, we mentioned this late in the show yesterday.

But one more time, when I get the belated birthday,

a happy 60th to Mary Callahan.

Happy birthday, Mary.

Mary is Laura's mom and Mary is amazing.

She's awesome.

She's a wonderful person.

We appreciate her and wishing her a happy belated birthday.

Since we didn't get it in yesterday, Mary,

you go ahead and celebrate today too.

You celebrate today too.

I mean, you should.

You should.

I don't know if this counts as a doctor's note,

but you know, a DJ note.

A DJ note.

Right?

Oh, you're writing is about the same.

Yes, but definitely.

Anybody asks why you were celebrating your birthday today?

Just, oh, well, the DJ said I could.

Yeah, you're going to.

And looking at our local birthdays for today,

we wish a very happy birthday to Kara Schultz.

Happy birthday, Kara.

Enjoy the day, Kara.

Hope it's a good one for you.

And we wish a happy birthday to our qualifier Bill Owens.

Happy birthday, Bill.

Bill, enjoy the day, sir.

We hope it's a great one for you.

Have a great one.

And thank you so much to everybody

for getting us these birthdays and anniversaries.

We just love celebrating with you all.

Let's go ahead and take a look at our celebrity list

of birthdays.

Rachel Bloom is 38, star of CW, a couple of CW.

Oh, CW show crazy ex and some other stuff.

Amanda Bines is 39.

Are you in that?

I don't know.

Crazy ex.

Oh, well, I was probably on that show.

Yeah.

I just didn't know.

I better get an acting critic.

I mean, you probably should.

Amanda Bines is 39, a child star, I believe, former child

star.

I think she was on a couple of kids shows, not 100% on that one,

but I don't know.

I do know this one, Kobe Smolders.

She is 43, Robin, and how I met your mother, Maria Hill,

and the Marvel movies, and Wonder Woman in the Lego movies.

She a good actor.

Thank you.

I saw maybe two minutes, maybe two episodes of how I met

your mother, but she stood out to me.

She's a very, I thought she was very good.

Adam Scott is 52, wonderful character actor.

We're currently just killing it on Severance, one of the

more popular shows that are out there right now.

Ben White on Parks and Recks.

Will Ferrell's younger brother in Step Brothers.

Great, great character actor.

Very good at what he does.

Jenny Garth is 53.

Kelly on Beverly Hills, 90 to 90.

In that one of those names, like, this is,

I really don't want this to sound bad towards Jenny Garth

or anything like that, but I have not heard her name

or seen her name in many things.

I don't know if I've seen her act outside of Beverly Hills,

90 to 90, but you see that name and right away,

I do exactly what I was.

Yeah, that's, I think I'm saying this as a credit to her,

as a credit to her career and her acting.

That's a good one right there.

Let's go ahead and keep looking while we're at it.

Let's see, Sebastian Bach is 57,

Skid Row lead singer and songwriter.

Okay.

Mike Nass is 63, lead singer and songwriter

is also distortion.

Ah, that's a good one.

And one of the most talented human beings

to walk the earth, Eddie Murphy is 64.

Also, one of the better laughs you'll ever hear.

I like a lot of kids our age,

grew up loving everything about Eddie Murphy.

I remember being a little kid and stealing my dads

Eddie Murphy cassette tapes.

So me and my friends could listen to them

and you know, I didn't hide it.

Because you shouldn't have been listening to them.

Yes, we were not supposed to be.

Don't do that kids.

And yeah, just a big influence on me,

but I really got into him getting a chance

to watch Senator Live when I was a little kid.

And I didn't, you know, I was too young

to understand a lot of those sketches or anything,

but there were little things that he would do

that no matter what age you were,

like instance, he's doing Mr. Robinson's neighborhood

and he's talking like this and how you're doing children.

Oh, there's a knock at the door.

Who is it?

Like just the changeups that Eddie could do so quickly.

You saw from right away on the center of life stage,

what he would be doing eventually

in like the Nutty Professor and the clumps

and all these things.

And almost everything.

He's just a master at this.

And seeing him on the center of life stage,

maybe the last time at their 50th anniversary special,

I know I mentioned this already.

I'll mention it again at his age at 64,

doing live entertainment, a three hour block like that

and being jumping on and off and everything.

And while there were other SNL current SNL cast members

on there and former ones, of course,

in legends of stage, including Meryl Streep

and people like that, nobody,

nobody among all of them stood out more than Eddie Murphy.

And nobody seemed more in the moment

and more prepared and more professional.

And I say all of that as a kind of like,

wow, where he started and where he is.

But you know, 64 is the new 54.

Yes, definitely, definitely.

Happy birthday to Eddie Murphy.

One of the best laughs you'll ever hear too.

David Hyde Pierce is 66, Niles Crane on Frazier.

Also done a lot of other good movies and parts here.

The perfect host or the perfect guest,

I can't remember what it is,

but it's an independent movie he did a while back.

One of the most strange and scary performances

I've ever seen without him actually hurting anybody.

Like I'm not spoiling anything here,

but I love suspense horror movies like that

where they can do that to you

and they don't need a bunch of blood and gore and all that.

And he also accredited to him as an actor

because he got a real good opportunity

in the Hellboy franchise when that first re-kicked off

and was doing really well.

And he did, I believe he did the voice

of one of the characters,

but he didn't do the movement in the body.

And he thought that the character was so well done

by the actor Andy Circus,

who was in the body meant in everything

that he wanted his name out of the credits,

which is literally unheard of in this industry.

You may never hear of another actor ever doing anything

like that again,

but he didn't feel like he deserved credit

even though he did all the voice work.

He didn't think he deserved credit.

It's pretty remarkable though.

Yes, yes.

Just a stand up solid actor.

Alec Baldwin is 67, another great actor, you know.

There is plenty you could say about Alec Baldwin off stage.

And there's plenty, you know, that I'll listen to.

I don't know that I'd want to have a beer with Alec Baldwin,

but you can't really fight his acting,

a solid, solid actor who has done a lot of great work.

And I, he's one of these things

we were talking about this the other day

about Bruce Willis's advice to Samuel Jackson about,

well, you know, you find that one character you can play

and you can always come back to.

And it'll, it could be the thing that saves your career

and takes it to the next level or what have you.

Alec Baldwin was supposed to be that with the shadow

or some other movies he did.

It just never really happened for him.

It just never really caught on.

And I think he's a good leading man.

I think he's a great leading man

when he's working with other leading men

and other leading actresses.

I think he's one of those actors

that really shines when you put him with the right people.

The departed 30 rock.

There are almost any bit he ever did on SNL.

He's practically a center-of-life cast member.

He's been on there so much

and had such famous sketches on there.

I think that's where he shines

when you put him with really talented people,

which is not shocking to anybody

because that works for almost anyone.

But with him, it enhances what he already does.

Tony Orlando is 81 and Wayne Newton is 83.

How crazy those two celebrate a birthday?

Yeah.

Together, together.

That's pretty cool.

They probably have a Vegas show.

Now, that would be a big time.

Vegas show, I love you.

Wayne Newton at 83, still performing.

I don't know about Mr. Orlando,

but Wayne Newton is still performing in stuff

and Vegas, of course.

But, you know, still doing it.

I saw him in an interview about a year ago

on the Dan Levertard show

and he was the funniest person on that set.

He's still very talented.

And very self-deprecating.

I've always appreciated that about him.

He gets what he is and everything.

Dr. Jane Goodall is 91,

chimpanzee expert and anthropologist,

incredible writer, incredible work she has done in her career.

You know, isn't that interesting?

chimpanzee expert?

Yeah.

Yeah.

We had a fun, wouldn't it?

Of course, famously played by Sigourney Weaver

in Gorillaz and the Mist.

And one of the more classic movies from our childhood.

And some people no longer with us.

Like The Legend Doris Day, born in this day in 1922,

passed away in 2019, legend.

Like you don't know about Doris, go ahead and look her up.

You're gonna learn some.

Billy Joy Royal, down in the Boundox singer from 1942.

One of the more controversial

and one of the more powerful and important actors

in the game of acting.

You've got to talk about the history of acting,

history of movies.

You have to bring up Marlon Brando,

born in the state in 1924, passed away in 2004.

Brando at a time when, well, there's this style of acting

and there's this style of acting and that's it.

Marlon Brando was the first person

who was really pushing against that.

And trying to not create a different style of acting,

just show, hey, this works for me.

Like this is my style of acting.

Exactly.

And really, in major part, not because again,

he was trying to break ground or anything,

that's just who Brando was.

There's a lot of things off the field to be said about him

and I think I have to be mentioned when you talk about him.

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It's not very easily done.

It's pretty vulnerable.

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We got some fun stuff to get into

before we wrap up the hour.

I want to dive into this one, Terry,

because this is our wheelhouse.

We're talking 80s fashion.

Oh, good.

Huge 80s style shoulder pads are fashionable again.

I saw, okay, we were shopping.

The girls and I were shopping over in Appleton.

There's no malls around anymore, right?

So we zip over there.

And we were in a store that's kind of,

you know, professional dress,

but there's also some casual stuff.

And I'm looking at the jackets,

you know, like blazers, I guess,

kind of work jackets and suits.

And I'm like, what in the world is going on?

Because they all have the big shoulder pads back in them.

It threw me.

I didn't see this one coming.

But it makes me wish I would have saved some.

Yeah, right.

Financial Times just did a big story

and Vogue recently covered the trend too.

It was popular look back in the 1980s,

for women who wanted to seem hip or metropolitan,

but then people quickly decided shoulder pads

were not working.

That wasn't really, it didn't really hit the mark.

I don't know.

They were a big thing for,

I mean, maybe we're just slow here in the Midwest,

but I mean, I feel like it wasn't a quick inout.

I feel like it was several years.

So I remember my mom doing it

and I remember her sisters in Chicago doing it as well.

So maybe you're right about the Midwest thing,

but even in the big city, they were still doing it.

So in for quite a while.

And you know, they were in there,

but then I recall toward the end,

even in the early 90s.

Yeah.

But then the shoulder pads were velcroed in.

So you could take them out.

Okay, see now I remember if you wanted to,

but otherwise they were sewn in.

I remember seeing my mother unstitching.

Yeah, they were just tacked in,

so you could.

Yeah, so you could clip them out,

but yeah, crazy.

They were all over fashion runways last fall.

So now suits, blazers and blouses

with big shoulder pads are showing up in stores.

The question is, will they have more staying power this time

or be a fat?

Now it'll be the same.

It'll be the, it's everything is a fad.

Everything is a fad.

I can't.

I have no issue with it.

I will say this doesn't affect me,

but that's also, you know,

I still don't have an issue with it.

I, now if you already have,

like, so this is, again, doesn't affect me necessarily,

but as I already have big shoulders,

I don't really need this.

But it's not even about that.

It's not even about to make like small shoulders look bigger.

It just, it just wasn't.

Is it a dimension, is it a dimension thing?

Like it, maybe broader shoulders, narrower ways.

Yeah, I don't know.

I, I, I don't know.

I, I, I could not have less, you know,

intelligence about this topic.

You know, there is just stuff like you said,

everything is cyclical.

Like I was thrown the other day.

My 20 year old daughter was like,

Mom, do you have a leather jacket?

And I'm like, I'm not anymore.

I'm like, she's like, how many did you have?

I'm like probably three.

Well, I need one.

She's like, I want to wear,

and then she gets out like,

really still had like an old leather, like bomber jacket,

you know, and then she's wanting to wear,

I'm like, what is happening right now?

Like, what's going on?

So I mean, shoulder pads and leather bomber jacket.

It's family.

I have about three or four zootsuits in my closet.

I'm just waiting for that trim to come back.

Just waiting any day now.

But no, I don't think that one's coming back.

I don't think that one.

You know, here's a great topic.

Wait, that was U.S.

Out of the grocery store.

Yeah, that was me.

Yeah, I got to wear them somewhere.

I like this as a topic.

715-424-2600.

What is a fashion trend you would like to see come back,

whether it because you really do,

or you just want to laugh at it?

Just like this.

Make you thankful that Kevin can't call any more during the day.

I, yeah, that's a shame.

That's a shame.

I bet you definitely a good one.

I see he's yelling right now.

He's trying to make sure we hear him.

So I thought that with the Laney Wilson thing,

the bell bottoms would make a bigger thing.

Now it has had a little bit of a push,

but not the push that I thought it would.

But why do pants are bad?

Like in women's jeans, like wide leg is bad.

Not necessarily a bell bottom,

but like, I mean, first of all,

I've always worn boot cut, I guess.

But so boot cut, but even just shopping

like the whole skinny jean tapered jean is kind of out.

So now it is wider leg.

So I think it did, I think it did catch on.

You know where I'm seeing that is not necessarily in jeans.

So the Laney Wilson thing, look is like in like sweatpants.

The girls are wearing like big wide leg,

like bell bottom sweatpants.

That's big again.

It's very interesting.

Wearing big is big again.

Yeah.

So it's definitely a thing.

But yeah, I mean, I thought, I don't know.

I think she is pretty trendy in the, you know, in her,

oh yeah.

Oh yeah.

But yeah, it's shoulder pads dang.

I would love to be able to do like PSAs for high schools

and go around to high schools and tell every kid,

like dress as blank as possible,

at just white shirt, black pants or blue jeans

or something like that.

And because when you look back 20 years

and you're looking at those pictures,

you're gonna be the one person

that ain't gonna be embarrassed.

Yeah, I think dress the trend.

Exactly.

Do it.

Really just do it.

We've all got pictures.

There's a couple of pictures out there of me with,

as much as I like in my 20s

and throughout the rest of my life,

outside of when I have a role or something,

I really lean into the naturalness with my hair.

It just feels better that way.

My scalp feels better.

I don't like putting product in my hair or anything like that.

But when I was in high school,

I was no different than anybody else.

I had the hairspray like the high, high, high.

What was that crap called dipty-dew?

Oh, that gel or dapper or whatever.

Oh my gosh.

You get it in all different colors,

but it was 99 cents.

I thought I was better than my nada and my mom

with their aqua net.

I've got moose.

I'm gonna use moose.

It was no different.

It was my hair.

You could have landed a plane on my hair.

There are pictures of me with this like weird high top thing

going on.

Yeah.

But that's a right of passage.

So actually, I think that the PSA should be more so

what you're saying, embrace these looks and embrace what is.

Go for it.

I kind of like it.

I'm gonna have to go shopping.

It's part of being young.

It's from shoulder pads.

I do want to keep nice.

Next week when you see me.

Just boom, right there.

And then we can actually be able to tell what they're for.

I mean, one of this, like I imagine that this is.

I'm like a lineup.

People in shoulder pads and you can determine

what it's doing for their appearance.

I want to see, I also think that I seem to remember my mom

really liking shoulder pads for phones.

Like you can put set the phone there.

It was really as you don't hold it there.

Yeah, when it was a cradle phone and you were like,

that doesn't matter.

That doesn't matter.

No.

No.