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Diving into other entertainment news, Martin Short is 75 years old that everyone seems

to love him right now.

You could make the argument, Martin Short has never been more popular in his career.

I would agree with that.

I think that is true.

He has always been a household name for quite some time.

And he has been a movie star for quite some time.

But I don't know that when he was at his peak, say, you know, inner space, late 80s, maybe

early 90s.

Yeah.

Three amigos, these things.

You're doing those films, right?

He was always the second bill or the third name.

They're going to third banana, basically, yeah.

He's the lead now in some things, including the murder, only murders in the building, where

I didn't go, I went into it thinking that Steve Martin was the lead actor.

And especially the way that it kind of starts with the pilot episode, but you learn pretty

quickly, oh, this is a vehicle designed to not only give you good entertainment, some

the best writing you're going to see in TV and acting you're going to see in TV.

But something that an old friend came up with to help show the complete talent of one

of his favorite people he's ever known, right?

And favorite people he's ever worked with.

And Steve Martin and a friend of his came up with this plot and this idea and immediately

were like, Martin short only, and we're not doing it unless Martin short is the actor for

this role.

And we see now why?

Because I've studied everything Martin short's done.

I was a little kid running around trying to get my hair to be ed grimly and everything.

Oh my god, it's only freaking up.

And and and all that being said, I didn't know he had this in him.

The pilot episode you watch Martin short and you've never seen him like that before.

And he's still the funny, ridiculous Martin short that can only do things that only Martin

short can do in your laptop.

Yep.

Well, at the same time showing you this guy's got heart, he's a thaspian, dramatic chops

all the way through.

He, you know, from so many years, he was the over the top guy, right?

And he did that deliberately.

You know, that was kind of his stick was to be totally flamboyant, too many, yeah, all

that stuff, you know, that he was always that way.

So it was revelation, man, to see him in that show and watch, whoa, drama, awesome, love

it.

I mean, it was for me, it was definitely revelation.

So I bring this up for one to kind of tip our hat to one of the greats and somebody who's

entertained us for decades.

And since you and I were little kids and everything.

And also there's not much left for him to do some years back before only murders in

the building, him and Maya Rudolph were on a tour together where they were singing and

dancing and doing comedy.

I mean, he's, there's just not much left for him.

He's done Broadway, he's all this stuff.

So why not game shows?

Hey, why not?

And if I told you Martin short had just been tapped to host a game show revival.

Okay.

Anything you come up with out there, probably good, and he'd do a good job at it.

But not as good as he's going to do at the match game.

Oh, really?

Yeah.

Yeah.

He's going to be the host of the new match game.

Oh my gosh.

I literally literally read the first, uh, uh, uh, inklings of this when it was first

in the kind of running of it and everything because they were taking, uh, people that wanted

to be a part of it and stuff and, uh, they were looking for not just hosts, but people

to work behind the scenes.

Right.

And I've been trying to work more, get more work as a writer.

Oh, okay.

They're running for this and everything and I'm like, Oh, wow, they're, they're bringing

back the match game on that slame.

Oh, Martin short's hosting.

Oh, wow.

Completely changed my opinion of it.

Wholeheartedly changed my opinion of it.

Now, uh, the most recent version of the game was back in 2016 with Alex Baldwin as a host.

Yeah.

And that was when Alec was at kind of a peak with 30 rock and some of that.

I remember that.

Alec Baldwin's very talented, wonderful voice.

Yeah.

Great actor.

Yeah.

Just not good at hosting.

I didn't think he was good at the show and I didn't think the show had a chance in

part because of that.

I think that had a lot to do with it.

The only reason to bring this back is if Martin short is the host.

Right.

Right.

The any game show is only as good basically as the host.

I mean, even for one like Hollywood square, the new Hollywood squares, you know, I'm not

only, I mean, it's the panelists.

You know, we want to see the comedians make jokes and all that kind of stuff.

But without Nate Brelson, who's actually really good at it, man, I was surprised with how

good he was at hosting.

Those are the people you remember.

These are Monty Hall, you know?

The old match game.

It was Gene Rayburn, the amazing Gene Rayburn, you know?

The old Hollywood squares with Tom Bergeron.

And before that Peter Marshall, these guys were, you know, we're so good at it.

That's why people watched.

I would say the last of these, right now at least the last of these guys that you're talking

about is Tom Bergeron.

Yes.

He's underrated.

Yeah.

I saw a little bits of dancing with the stars or, you know, the America's funniest videos

or some of those things.

I've never watched a lot of them.

I've watched enough to know he's really, really, really good at that job.

Very good at that.

Yes.

He's an old school in that.

Very much.

I don't know.

I think this is the only way we can do this now.

I don't know that you're going to find those talents anymore.

The people that are just specifically good at that.

Right.

Your Bob Barker's even or something like that.

Because grabbing a Wayne Brady or a Drew Carey or something is kind of your best bet

nowadays.

Right.

And every once in a while you might get lucky and get somebody like Martin Short who's

a legend at doing this.

There were some other game shows that came up that were like really the premise was great

and everything, but they had like, you know, Fred Savage as the host, nothing against

Fred Savage.

Just not a game show host.

No.

No, he's not one of those guys.

They do this way too often where they grab somebody because they're a name and it's

just not their thing.

Because it's on right before the Simpsons, I've caught a little bit of that floor show

or whatever they're a Rob Lowe host.

Rob Lowe is incredibly talented, a wonderful actor.

He had a really good career, very happy for him and considering he kind of got canceled

before we had cancelling and all that and he kind of had a comeback and I was admire

that in an actor in a will of a person.

He's not, he just, it doesn't do anything for me.

It's not.

It's a good, a good game show host.

It looks like he's up there and he doesn't necessarily know what to do with his hands kind

of thing.

Right.

But with his whole body and his voice and all that, I don't know.

It's hard for me to believe Martin Short will not excel at this because if it's the,

because it's not only interacting with the panelists, right?

It's interacting with the contestants.

That's the important thing.

That's the biggest good are you and I think he's going to be very good at interacting

with the contestants, right?

What's his name from family, family, family feud?

Yeah.

Steve Harvey.

Steve Harvey now, but the guy that was doing it back in the day, I kissed everybody and

stuff.

Richard Dawson.

Right.

Yeah.

The charisma of Richard Dawson, the ability that the way he was, relate with people every,

was so good at that.

He made every single person feel like they were the only person on that stage.

He was almost underrated and underappreciated away.

And I got to give Steve Harvey credit because he's doing the same thing and he's been doing

it now for a while.

My dad, I'll catch my dad watching that, you know, and stuff.

And my mom like, they'll yell at the screen answers and all that.

So I've seen a little of him do it.

He is really good at it because he interacts so well with the people, yeah?

Um, I, uh, journalistically should mention that one of my top five actors of all time

and biggest influences is Jody Foster.

Um, so I should mention that this story involves Jody Foster.

Okay.

As cool as it would be, don't expect to see Jody Foster cameo in the upcoming Freaky Friday

sequel.

Freaky Friday.

Oh dear.

Jody, of course, was the star of the 76 original.

She turned down the offer from director Nisha Gantara and never, uh, never said why, quote,

we begged her and she's not going to do it.

Uh, we're going to make her the principal, uh, we're going to, they were going to make her

the principal, uh, uh, but weren't able to.

Uh, and so Freaky Friday hits their, uh, its theaters August 8th, it, uh, it'll reunite

Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan for some more body swapping and some of that stuff.

Right.

That was from the remake, if I remember correctly, right?

Yeah.

Okay.

Um, I can tell you in part by probably part of the reason Jody Foster didn't do it is

because probably didn't have the greatest memories from that.

Uh, there were not a little kid.

Yeah.

One of the reason that we look at the game is completely changed for child actors is

because of the way that Jody Foster was treated when she was a kid, whether on that set or

think about this, that set, a Disney set, she had a more difficult time and had more, had

to take more therapy for than being on the set of taxi driver.

Think about that.

She talks about her time on the set of taxi driver and talks about Robert De Niro was

like a big brother to her.

And Martin Scorsese looked at all that stuff, um, um, uh, Harvey Keitel was going out

of his way to get a lunch and stuff like that, like, and everything where she does not

talk about being on the Disney set, but that tells you a lot right there.

So I actually, I mean, not do I not only blame her, but I kind of wish this niche might

have done a little more homework and kind of maybe you put this public for one reason to

cover your own back, back side, your own butt, your own butt, your own, your own bat,

your own bases and you cover your bases and all of that and everything.

Um, and, and all it does is make another actor look bad.

And this is something I'm very tired of says the guy who takes shots at chemicals or any

chance he gets owning my, my, my hypocrisy here, but I am a little tired of, uh, actors

not supporting actors, entertainers, not supporting entertainers, artists, not supporting

artists.

You can think what you want in your head, man.

You don't have to share everything, not everything's got to be, it's, it's send on everything.

I, I feel like this does more damage than good and to anybody who are fans of any of

the above.

And again, it's something you know who you're talking to, Jody Foster has, it's like semi-retired

from acting.

Yeah.

I mean, she does.

She directs some films and stuff and she only comes out to do things she really wants

to.

Why would she?

Just because, you know, she was in the original version of this, no, I'm totally with

her on this.

So what she doesn't have to do, it's like, I would never speak for her, but I've watched

almost every interview that woman's done and I almost guarantee you that the major reason

for this is creatively, it didn't make sense.

Right.

It was shoehorned in and she's not going to do a project like that.

I like that.

Uh, she's gone out of her way to do cameos and things.

She's not a, she, it's not as if this is a diva we're dealing with here.

Jody Foster, I think, has proven for over 40 years, that is the, that is the opposite

of what she is.

Yeah.

She's picky about what she wants to do, but that's her prerogative.

I mean, yeah.

Yeah, there's a difference of, oh, I don't want to hurt my career and do a bad project

and I've got my nose in the air.

You're right.

The big difference.

She is, she is right there on the other side of that.

Uh, let's see.

I had another one here.

I don't care when it says contact is a good movie.

It is.

I don't care what I mean.

Yes, it is.

Yes, it is.

Uh, on Saturday night, Steven Spielberg and George Lucas presented Francis Forkopola

with a Lifetime Achievement Award for the, from the American Film Institute.

Okay.

Cool.

Just those three in the same room on the same stage together.

They all came up together.

They were part of that generation.

They're all friends.

They've been friends for decades.

Just want to literally be the phrase to be a fly on the wall was invented for that situation

right there.

Well, during his tribute, Spielberg named what he believes is the greatest American film

of all time.

Whoa.

One of our, I, you know, not in hyperbole or anything like that, but I think if you and

I are looking at our generation, that's the best director of our generation.

He's artistically box office wise.

You can't, you can't argue really these, even if you don't like him, you can't hurt

you.

Yes, yes.

Uh, the impact he had.

Yes.

Uh, the versatility with his career from jaws to Shindosh Lister, the color purple, I mean,

just amazing.

Incredible career.

Incredible.

This guy tells you he thinks it's the best film of all time.

It's the greatest American film that there's ever been.

It carries a little weight.

And he chose the Godfather.

Wow.

Man.

High praise.

Uh, he says, quote, many artists can do, uh, can do a can and do take a bow from their

work on a page on a canvas on a screen.

But for our applause for you, Francis, is from a different kind of audience.

When we're young, it's our parents we make, we want to make proud.

And then it's our friends and then it's our colleagues.

And finally, it's our peers, but you, sir, are peerless.

He had a quote, you've inspired a generation of storytellers who want to make you proud

of their work, proud of our work.

And I always want to make you proud of my work.

Think about the idea that Steven Spielberg to this day is working on things.

And he's still wondering is Francis going to like this?

I should say is Frank going to like this because I think he calls him Frank.

Yeah.

Um, that's, that's incredible.

That's incredible, man.

That is so cool.

It also, it makes us remember the important part that Francis Ford Coppola has in American

film.

We, we cannot doubt that, you know, we, we could have weird stuff happen like

the metropolis movie, you know, what is this film?

It's weird.

It's, it's, it's, ah, I don't get it, whatever, that kind of thing.

That's okay.

His, his legacy is set.

Not only the influence he had, the films he made, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's to say,

like, Spielberg didn't have to say that, okay, that it was his favorite.

He could have said, the Godfather, one of the great American films of all time.

You know, it's amazing.

The, you know, the, the, the accolades, the box office, everything came together.

You know, even though it was such a hard film to make all this stuff, he could have said

all those things and been completely right.

But even if it's the greatest movie ever made, you don't have to like it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

He says he loves it.

It's his favorite movie.

To me, that's even bigger than saying this is one of the greatest films of all time.

I, what's funny to me too about this is there's so many people that agree, but like Godfather

too more.

It's, which is, isn't that funny?

That's amazing.

I don't know, man, that, that first Godfather movie is just, I don't think there's such

a thing as a perfect movie, but there's some that get close.

And that is so close to being a perfect movie.

Would I look forward to be able to say a statement like that is, is it, is it at a 10 in everything?

And I'm not just talking acting in script.

I mean, I want the editing.

I want the lighting, the sun, everything at a 10.

And I do not disagree with him.

Yeah.

It's a perfect film.

It's a perfect film.

You would not go back and change one little thing about it.

No, there's nothing.

There's no modern tech that you could go back with and enhance that movie.

It is enhanced.

It is, it is, it is, it is perfect as a film can be.

Right.

And, and all that being said, I like Godfather too more to, real quick note about Francis

for Coppola.

I don't think a lot of people might know this about there about the him.

He's one of ours.

He's a midwesterner.

That's a Detroit boy.

That's true.

Yeah.

You forget he's, he's living California so long.

You freed us from Michigan.

He's one of ours, man.

That's a midwesterner.

Yeah.

We're going to go to break right now, but I, I do want to come back Seth and take some

time to talk a little bit about local theater.

Very nice.

Get into that a little and the WBAs and some other fun stuff.

When we get back here on Mornings at WFHR.

Welcome back, everybody.

Mornings at WFHR, Seth and James hanging out with you.

Thank you so much for joining us, everybody.

Yes, indeed.

Want to talk some local theater with everybody and some local events going on?

We will wrap up our show, talking about some big events going on in our area today and

throughout the week here and everything, but I wanted to take a moment to touch on some

fun stuff.

Yeah.

Recently with our show director's playhouse, which you can hear a part of our Sunday lineup,

you can catch it every Sunday right after Seth faces them, or right before Seth's

face music.

Yes.

We're five to six and Seth faced music, six to eight and of course unlabeled after that

from nine to eight to nine.

So one of the things we got to do this past week was talk to Susan Egrin, director of

Don Cioted, De La Center, a show that's going to be performed by our friends over at

Central Wisconsin Area Community Theater.

Their opening night is May 8th, I got shows going through the 11th.

We had a great time talking with Susan, it was a lot of fun.

And they got to really dive into the show, into the cast, and for those that don't know

the play, I encourage you to check the episode out.

It'll be again this Sunday.

This Sunday.

But it's got so many relatable themes to it, especially for I think our area that has

a little bit more of a senior population.

This takes place in a nursing home and it involves a lot of issues that a subject matter

that I think can be really heavy, but the play does a great job of hitting those marks

while also making your laugh.

Absolutely.

Two things I want to bring up, but I do want you to listen to the interview with Susan

because she brings a lot of great points.

One, this is the only, I think the fourth time she said this has ever been performed.

So it's also the Wisconsin premiere of this play, which is very, very cool.

The second thing is, after the matinee on the 11th of May, it's at two o'clock, they're

actually going to be bringing in someone to talk, to have a little panel discussion about

mental health because that, especially Alzheimer's dementia, more of the old age things that, you

know, that so many people have either experienced in their own family or know people who have.

It's really cool that they're doing that because a lot of what this play deals with that,

about aging, about dementia and the difficulties that come along with it, which is really cool.

I love the idea of doing that.

There are certain roles that I dream about when I get older, I can play like Atticus Finch

and Killamockingbird or something like that.

Reading up on this play, one of my first thoughts was, well, I wish I was older.

This is one of those ones I want to do when I'm older, but I want to be a part of this

play.

We encourage you to check out the interview again from 5 to 6 this Sunday and be sure to

support what they're doing up there in point.

Man, they're doing some cool good work up there at CWAC.

Support local theater up there in point, cwac.org is where you can get tickets and find

out more, cwac.org.

Of course, our great friends over at Wisconsin's Rapids Community Theatre are second home.

Have their 50th year that they're wrapping up on the main stage.

Tomorrow.

Tomorrow is opening night everybody.

Tonight tomorrow.

Noises off.

It's finally here.

You've been sitting there wondering, where's my less up?

Where's Mal?

She's busy.

She's busy, everybody.

She is the director of Noises Off.

And for those who don't know this, a director is hands on and understands in a part of this

show more than anybody involved with the show.

Right up until tomorrow.

And then her job is done.

She's completely done.

Now it's up to the actors, the backstage people, the whole well-oiled machine.

No, you know, I'm sure that's what she's hoping will take over and give us a very good

show.

I'm sure.

Now, especially in the community theater level and being Melissa, she's going to still

be involved and she still has some.

I'm sure she still feels some things to do, but really today is her last day with Noises

Off.

That's right.

And I want to congratulate her, you know, for you guys, and this is no fault of you guys

out there.

This is our job.

What we do here, if we're doing our job right, you have no idea what's going on behind

the scenes.

Right.

Behind the scenes, Melissa is one of the hardest workers any of us have ever known and is so much

on her plate.

And then she decides to do this show and not just a show, yes, but this one, which is

it's not the acting, it's not the, you know, the lines you have to remember.

It's the stage craft of doing this show because there's so many moving parts.

That's why this is going to be not only a real task that they set for themselves, but

that's why I think this is going to be an amazing show to watch.

And you know why she did this, everybody, and I hope I don't come across, like I'm speaking

for her, just in talking to her many times, she's doing this because she's insane.

No, she's, she does this, maybe a little column, maybe a little bit, but that's all of

us here.

That's all of the theater people.

Yes.

The inmates are running to your side.

This is what's happening here.

She does this because she loves theater.

She loves this area so much and she wanted to do this.

She knows that we're looking for directors at all local theaters wherever you're listening

to.

Exactly.

They're in need of directors and she stepped up.

All of us love to act and may prefer to be on stage as an actor, but looking at this

from a similar perspective of her, myself, I threw my hat in the ring to direct next

year.

Right.

I'm desperate to act.

There are great, you know, grade school teachers out there that have had to kick me out because

I'm trying to be the third tree on the left in a grade school play.

I want to act so bad.

What is this?

What's trees to tall?

Mr. Mailoff, please, please, we've told you before.

You can't be the tree.

You cannot be the tree.

But I am more needed as a director than as an actor.

We got a lot of good actors out there.

We could always use more and we always encourage you to audition, of course.

But this is something that was in need that as she saw and it jumped on and I'm trying

to do the same.

I know you did this the year before.

That's right.

That's right.

And the satisfaction of directing are different, of course, than being on stage.

But man, it is, it's a great experience.

I can't say enough how much I enjoy doing it and now make me want to direct more.

You know, that kind of thing.

It was an experience that that really helped.

And Melissa being part of the cast that I did helped me when you have good people there.

It is so, it makes it that much easier and that much more fulfilling when I put that

out there as well.

I am so happy and proud of her.

I hope that tonight's audition rehearsal goes great.

Enjoy yourself.

Leave it all out there.

And I really hope that she's able to enjoy the run and just have some fun.

And just as much I mean that for the cast, the crew, you guys have worked so hard on this.

You guys have been putting so much time and effort into this.

Not one of these actors or people backstage are paid.

They are here because of love of the game.

They are here because they love this community.

They want to entertain you, give them an audience, everybody.

Let's give them a crowd.

By the way, not only Melissa, but Civic Media, well represented on stage as well.

Of course, our own Laura will be on stage for that.

And our newest team member, Alia Arroyo, who has just started this week with Civic Media,

she will also be on stage as well.

So that's really cool.

We encourage you to get your tickets for Noises Off.

It premieres tomorrow.

Tomorrow is here.

We've got a show tomorrow at 7 and then Saturday, Friday at 7, then they'll have a 2 o'clock

matinee on Saturday.

And then next week they'll do it all over again.

Thursday, Friday, 7 o'clock shows wraps up with a 2 o'clock matinee on Saturday.

All right.

Hopefully that 2 o'clock matinee ends on time because both Melissa and Laura got to make

a run to go to the WB.

Yeah, Madison.

Yep.

The Wisconsin Brack Broadcaster Association Awards are this weekend, everybody.

Our WFHR and WIRI stations, your local stations, are very well represented at the Gallup.

Nine finalists and different categories.

Various things are specials that we did last year for Christmas and Halloween.

We're both nominated.

Some of the stories that we did, some of the news stories that we did, a couple of the

commercials and that sort of thing, promos that we did.

I have to say the one I'm most proud of though is the election coverage.

We are going to be finalists for here in WFHR because that's why we're here.

Ladies and gentlemen, that is why we do what we do is to give you all the, especially

with elections, all the local news, the local candidates.

We included everyone we could pot.

We did it this spring too.

Same thing.

You get as many people here get all the information to you so you can make an informed

choice.

I am super duper proud that we are going to be and I really hope we win that one because

of all the hard work that we did.

Just so everybody knows we'll touch on this on Friday.

Seth and I will be hanging on getting you ready for the weekend on Friday.

We'll touch on this again.

Yes.

But the WBA is the way they do this is they're telling you and you heard Seth say this finalist.

Finalist.

Yes.

We're no less than third place in all of these categories of all the nine things we have been

nominated for.

We are finalists.

Yep.

Want to thank Melissa, Ashley, Laura for going down to the WBA.

Yes.

To represent us and everything.

We appreciate that.

It's such a blast.

One of my favorite days in radio was last year doing at the WBAs.

They're going to have a blast.

Yes.

They're going to represent us well.

Yes.

And as the rest of the media family down there will bring home some hardware.

Yeah.

Bring some home.

I've already asked them all to text me the updates.

I want like the ESPN bottom line.

I want to know how we're doing.

That is what we want.

Yeah.

No, no, no.

Hopefully they're going to be having too much fun to do that.

Yeah.

We will come back.

And when we get back, everybody, we're going to get into outdated slang words that you still

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Or maybe ones that you want to bring back.

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What is some slang that you use that is outdated, but you refuse to let go of?

OK.

Or you want to bring back?

Oh, that's what I like to do.

Yeah.

I think that there is so many great ones out there.

Now, someone asked the internet this question.

What outdated slang word or words or terms do you still use often?

And we're going to go ahead and get through these.

Now, they're not in any particular order.

But I do find it funny that the number one on the list is one that you were going to

gnarly.

Gnarly.

Gnarly, man.

That's a good one.

It didn't even have a long shelf life.

It didn't seem to unless people were using it because I remember more people using it

ironically than actually saying gnarly, you know, that kind of thing.

I know it comes from surf culture, that kind of thing, I believe.

But in the 80s, for a little while, it was gnarly and then it kind of faded pretty

quickly, at least in my remembering.

I think right away, thinking about this, part of the reason words stick around in some

don't.

Why is cool?

Still you.

Cool.

Really?

Yeah.

Still used to this day.

It's from like the 40s and the 50s.

That used to be like jazz slang, right, back in the late 40s, I believe is when that started.

What's the difference between that and, and, you know, sick, which is another word on

this list.

Right.

You used to describe something really cool.

That's sick.

Yeah.

Or something like that.

Is it fun to say?

I think that that matters.

Now, I think it does.

Gnarly is fun to say.

And I think that's why, every once in a while, it seems to come back.

Right.

Baudacious.

Like, I've heard people say it, like, I wouldn't say it's common, certainly, but I do

think that that's not the overall, like, decider for this, but I think it plays a part.

Yes.

Stoked.

Oh my god.

Stoked.

I haven't thought of that one in a long time.

So stew.

Does anybody else do this?

You'd be honest.

This is a safe place.

You hear gnarly.

You hear stoked.

But you don't hear of the way I say it.

In your head, you hear a surfer sick.

Gnarly.

Gnarly gnarly.

I'm totally stoked.

I'm stoked for this man.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Absolutely.

A hundred percent.

Sweet.

Sweet is on here.

Still use it.

I still use it.

I still use sweet.

And that one, I don't think is, that one is okay.

I think that one's, that's kind of, that's in the cool camp.

I think you can use it and be all right.

Not many people will give you a weird look, right?

Yeah.

I will tell you this.

Students definitely give you a weird look when you still use the word.

I use word very ironically, you know, or even better word up, you know.

I didn't.

And stopped using it immediately when I saw the reaction I got like my still looking.

So I went into my brain and deleted that word right away.

Well, if you're going to go in, you should go in whole hog.

Word to your mother.

Yeah.

Oh, yes.

Sick.

As I mentioned, that's one in there.

Peace instead of goodbye.

Oh, I still think that gets a decent amount of use.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

If you add the out, peace out, a lot of people use that.

Now, maybe not the putting it to audio, but anybody who watched the NFL draft saw this.

Every one of these young kids, they put, they have the spotlight on and they do, you okay,

do a little intro.

Here's a football.

Go and toss it around.

There's tons of kids that have a move or give a symbol or do something with the ball.

But every once in a while, there's a guard or there's a tackle.

There's somebody who doesn't know what to do with their hands.

Because they never touch the ball ever, hardly.

And they don't know what to do in the situation.

There was one kid who was doing the cutthroat sign.

I'm like, what do you do it?

They go, you get drafted, man.

Who are you cutthroat?

Yeah.

Wait a minute.

It was going to be a sense.

But most of them will go to the peace side.

Yes.

That's what most of them do, which is, which is very cool.

Although, let's take a little bit of anemology, right?

James, what is a common greeting and farewell in Hebrew?

Shalom.

Shalom.

Shalom.

Peace.

Yeah.

So it's not as recent as you'd think.

That's an oldie.

That's an oldie-goldie.

Great reference.

Yeah.

Great reference.

Also one of my favorite words, Shalom.

Shalom.

I love the word.

Again, it's fun to say.

Yeah.

It's fun to say.

It's a good feeling.

Yeah.

I still, I use it totally, I use it.

And very similar to the word cool, where it just has stuck around for an era.

My parents.

I mean, my parents know.

My children use it.

Yeah.

I get, my youngest goes, dude, a lot, when something bad happens, like his brother does

something to him.

Dude.

Yeah.

Okie-dokie.

Okie-dokie.

Okie-dokie.

Okie-dokie.

That's going back even further.

Yep.

I don't know if I've ever really heard somebody say that without being ironic of me.

Right.

Right.

That's the one I've used in the past.

Now, when it comes to words that I refuse to let go of, I think the biggest one of slang

words is dig.

You hear me say it all the time.

I love that word.

Man, dig is such a great word.

But in order to say this one, you have to say it, can you dig it?

You got to say it loud.

That's even better.

I can dig it.

I refuse to let go of that one.

I have had students laugh at me.

I've had another one that's older than you think that I believe.

I'm not sure on this one.

I believe this is from a swing tune back in the 40s that's planned to now dig you later.

And I think that's where it comes from, but I'm not 100% sure.

Then there's some fun ones that were, had their moment like debaum.

Oh, that's debaum.

And that was, as quick as it came around, it went away.

Yep.

There's a couple of these are very short-lived, yes.

Bees knees.

Let's go back to the 20s.

That's old school cats pajamas.

I don't know if that's on the list.

Maybe that's another one.

Well, so bees, knees and geese Louise are on here.

I still use geese Louise.

And so is, now we're cooking with gas, but that's more of a phrase.

That's for a term.

I used to call that a term I suppose, but now you're, I like that one.

And I use that one occasionally.

I occasionally still use that one.

How about whipper snapper?

Ironically.

Yeah.

That's just, again, fun to say.

It's fun to say.

And when you say that to a young person,

they have no idea how to take that.

They have no idea.

I only say it one way, though, in the old band voice.

Whipper snapper.

You know, that kind of thing.

That's a good way to do it.

Just like you have to say this one, home slice.

Home slice.

Home slice.

Oh, I forgot about that one.

I don't even remember that one.

I forgot about that one.

That was big home slice, yeah.

It must have been a more brief one, again, yeah.

Fetch and golly, that is so fetch.

Yeah, I think that's from Mean Girls or something.

Oh, wow, fetching, I'm guessing.

Yeah, abbreviations for fetching, okay.

Golly, I like.

That's fun.

Golly is a good one.

But again, I immediately think of

an antigraphy show.

Oh, yeah, yeah, golly.

Gomer pile.

Gomer pile.

Gomer pile is what I'm thinking.

Yeah, that's Gomer pile.

And let's see here.

Oh, snap.

Again, very short lip.

I can't use that one still.

They still use that one, though.

Maybe this one's come back a little bit.

Someone, oh, right on.

I do that one too.

Yeah, I've noticed that my slang is from the 70s.

All my slang is basically from the 70s.

So my dad and I had this thing where we would do

like a weird changes on those, like from the 60s and stuff.

You know, so right on is right arm.

Yeah, you know, far out is far out.

Oh, yeah, yeah, truncular instead of, wow.

We had a whole list of words that we would use.

But yeah.

And then just to wrap it up,

there's a couple of more like smell you later,

which if you are, if you are under the age of 10,

is just golden.

It's golden.

You feel like you are, you are, George Carlin,

you just feel like you're this,

one of the greatest comedians ever.

Right.

If you're using it over that, don't.

Yep, stop.

Pretty much.

Nobody else can use it outside of anybody

under the age of 10.

Yeah, I mean, no, at the age of 10,

if that is, even that.

Even that.

And then bananas.

Like I really like that's bananas, right?

Yeah, my sister constantly, she still uses,

that's bananas.

Yeah, totally.

Yeah.

I love it.

I just realized I was saying totally a lot,

which is again, sort of dating, totally.

Yeah, that kind of that.

That's another one.

Yeah.

Bogus is another one on here.

I love bogus.

Now this is so good.

I'm actually surprised that hasn't stuck around.

That one feels like one of those ones

that would have stuck around.

And some of these get recycled.

Yeah.

Sometimes they go away for a while and then they come back.

Here's one that was like in my sixth grade class.

And maybe this was only local to Northern Minnesota.

And it didn't last very long,

but we had one going around.

Sure, Steve.

Oh, okay.

All right.

It's got, you know, very skeptical about something.

Yeah.

Sure, Steve.

Yeah.

And I don't know.

It was like for like a couple of months or something.

And then it disappeared.

I liked it.

It was weird, I don't know.

I kind of like it.

There's got to be some local variations, right?

And a lot of these.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Man, that was a wicked segment.

That was awesome.

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