Be careful feeding your neighbors cat… (Hour 2)

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Coming up, words and phrases that are overused

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Got a then-a-right story about a woman in the cat.

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Good stories of the day for you all that.

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It's the same as always.

The Met Gala was just recently, I don't know exactly what day.

It was, but I know people were talking about it, so it just happened.

And I know because it was also going on at the same time.

Oh, yeah, it was the other day because it was going on at the same time

the game one of the Nick's Boston series began as part of the NBA playoffs.

Right.

And a very exciting series.

You've got two rivals going against each other.

Two very good teams and all that.

And that's all pretty good.

But this is quite interesting.

Kylie Jenner flew solo to the Met Gala on Monday.

Because Timothy Chalamet was spending time with his other person, the New York Knicks.

Sorry.

The Nick precedents.

They kind of do.

The Knicks had a big playoff game that night against the Celtics.

And Timothy was hold up somewhere watching it on a tablet.

After New York came back from a 20-point deficit to win by three and overtime.

He posted a picture saying, quote, blank something.

Myself, this game is insane shaking what a win.

He has been on the record as being a gigantic New York Knicks thing.

And this is not the first time that he skipped things to do this.

The only thing he will not do is if he has work.

The work comes first.

But he is, I mean, any chance, this is important for actors like him.

He has got a rising star going on.

And he's got to hit on that and keep that momentum going for as long as he can.

It will end.

It ends for everybody.

And hopefully we'll probably come back and then go away again or whatever.

But right now, he's riding a high.

The few actors get.

And he's got to hit on this.

And I guarantee you, his creative artist's agency, which is the greatest in the world, is on him.

That's one of the biggest events of the whole year.

Right.

You get your face out there, pretty boy.

You get out there.

You put on a funny costume.

And you get out there with one of the genders.

And you sell us some movie tickets.

There's no way that they're not on him about this.

And this kid, just like, look, you can fire me if you want.

I'm watching the Knicks.

And totally calling their bluff, by the way.

They're not firing Timothy Shelley.

But he's been, to that point set, he's always been this way.

That's true.

Like even before he was no household name and everything.

And not just with this, but he has missed, like, big events like the Met Gala took

to, like, I think a cousin's birth or something like that.

Like, things like that.

That's cool.

Which is just, these actors are human beings and they should be allowed to live their lives.

Not just be at the back-and-call of these giant corporations and people with the money.

People don't realize that as soon as you sign that contract as an actor,

that studio feels like they own you.

And they set you all over the place and everything.

And these younger actors, I say, even going back to Daniel Radcliffe,

they're not doing it that way.

No.

They're not going to do it that way.

And if you don't like that to Daniel Radcliffe, he comes to Hollywood after Harry Potter

and is taking this M.O. with him.

And they're like, no, we're not going to agree to that.

So he's like, okay, I'll just find work in the independent film industry.

And does this, and this, and this, and this.

And does theater, does other things.

Yes.

It is so below.

It is so successful.

So successful and so.

It proves that they don't have to cow-tow to these big giant movie makers.

I've been thinking this for three or four years now.

And I don't know.

I've been waiting to say it, waiting to say it.

I'm not talking about the old school actors, like Shirley Temple and some of that or anything.

I'm talking more like modern era, greatest like child actor career.

There's been like Daniel Radcliffe.

Yeah.

Period.

It really seems that way.

Yeah.

And the discussion.

Like there's some great ones.

There's Drew Barrymore's 10, Haley Joel Osmond has had a nice career and everything.

Elijah Wood.

McCulley Culkin.

Yep.

You know, great, great careers.

Nobody has had to break type like Daniel Radcliffe has with one of the most famous characters.

And all of fiction.

Let alone done it successfully to the point where I never even think about him as Harry Potter anymore.

Right.

I never even think about it.

There's at least four or five roles I could say off the top of my head that I really enjoyed him in that I think about before I even think about Harry Potter.

It's incredible to think about how hard some actors have had to work and struggle to break type and still haven't done it.

Yet this kid has just done it right.

And the younger actors and most of that Harry Potter class, you know, Timothy Chalamade, these young actors.

They're handling this game completely different.

And a lot of us older actors are kind of looking at this like, oh, we could do that.

We didn't know we could do that.

But they're paving the way for change in that industry, which is exactly what needs to happen.

Long overdue.

Long, long, long, long to be sure.

Let's see here.

They want to talk about the mech.

I don't want to talk about it.

Do you guys want to talk about it?

No, not at all.

I don't want to talk about it.

I'd rather much talk about a popcorn bucket.

Sounds more fascinating to me.

More interesting to me, yes, indeed.

This is one of the ways that they have found.

It's no longer they're trying.

It works.

They're getting people to come to movie theaters because of these popcorn buckets.

These are different.

Collect your sedition things.

It's funny.

There's been a handful of them.

And certainly any big movie.

Now you've got to have your marketing team come up with some kind of creative idea for it.

Yeah, gimmick for a popcorn.

It's kind of funny.

It's kind of cool.

I'm sorry.

Real quick, James.

The movie industry has, through its history, had some great gimmicks.

It's always been there.

Sometimes it works.

Sometimes it doesn't.

But I love it when they come up with fun ones like these that really seem to be doing something.

Smello vision.

Exactly.

But this is in my mind.

I don't know.

I just, this was the connection I just made.

This is almost like the happy meal toy.

Oh my gosh.

Yeah, that's true.

That totally makes sense, right?

Right.

Yeah.

Yeah, because we don't have them anymore.

Like we did, especially in the 90s, where you would go just to get the whole series of things from the movie.

Of Muppet Babies.

Yes.

I did that.

That's why I know they did one on Muppet Babies.

I collected all of them.

Yes, I did.

Well, I had to go for all of them from like the Emperors New Groove.

Or, you know, like those movies when they were coming out.

You had to get all the little action figures or all the little whatever they were.

Totally.

We were so poor and so broke.

And I tried so hard to collect all the Star Wars McDonald's Cups.

I wanted those so bad.

I love those.

Remember those, yeah.

Great.

I, a while back, I tried to pitch to McDonald's in adult, you know, happy meal, where it just comes with like a pack of cigarettes and a thing of oil.

A thing of oil?

Yeah, yeah.

Like engine wheel?

Yeah, yeah.

Is it worth whatever?

Yeah, I know.

Only limited by your imagination.

Burger fry.

It's a boil.

Maybe if it was the little figurine as a keychain, you might have something there.

Oh, you know, that's what I thought of that.

Yeah.

You would have made it then, James.

Or when I made it.

Totally would have bought it then.

So the next movie to be doing the popcorn bucket thing, the bucket that Regal Cinemas came up with for Mission Impossible, the final reckoning, might be the coolest one yet,

because you have to open it with two keys.

Ooh.

Oh, now that's cool.

That is cool.

That's a good idea.

It's not, for those that have not seen the movie, it's not to the, basically, the big baddie in the movie, which is AI in this big machine,

and the only way to operate it is with two keys, which is very ala, no, any nuclear machine.

Like the nuclear.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So this is, I don't know.

They just show you the bucket.

But I liked it.

So describing it to the audience.

It looks like a capsule.

Yes.

That's right.

So it's got a lid and it's, it's see through in the middle.

It's see through in the middle.

Yeah.

And it's got a tap in the bottom and you must have to open the tap with two keys.

Yeah, yeah.

To get to your popcorn.

Cool, cool.

That's pretty creative.

Right.

That's pretty good.

And it takes two people because it's big enough that you'd have a hard time holding it without, you know, someone else's hand on it.

Right.

That's pretty cool, actually.

So bring a friend to the theater.

The final reckoning in boy, I say final in parentheses.

It hits theaters May 23rd.

I will say this.

Tom Cruise for all that can be said.

And I could say plenty about that guy off the field and everything.

He pretty much, if he says it, he sticks to it.

Like this is, you know, for whatever you want to say about this guy, he doesn't really put on heirs.

Yeah.

And in parentheses, as far as like trying to come across a certain way.

He is very image conscious.

He's been very, you know, clear about that and had his career and everything.

Right.

And he says, no matter what pandemic or not, I'm not releasing Top Gun, no matter what the studio tells me or anything.

I'm not releasing Top Gun until it can go into theaters.

Like he did.

That's what he did.

And he said it would save the movie industry.

And it kind of did.

It's really helped.

Yeah.

I'm not looking to give Tom Cruise any credit here or anything.

But I do believe you have to give credit where it's due.

Right.

And this is a guy who has bet on himself since he jumped on Oprah's couch.

And it worked.

And it's, you think about in the day and age that we're in where any of us could get canceled any second now.

For something we did four or five years ago or something like that, that we don't even remember.

And this guy's jumping on Oprah's couch, the Scientology, all of these things.

And people still will go to see the mission of this movie will do great.

This movie will sell like crazy.

Yeah.

That's just unheard of.

Right.

I dare you to come up with an account to this guy.

It boggles the mind when you approach the industry the way so many of us do as performers.

And like, how do I get a career?

What's that one little thing I could do that nobody else is doing that is going to get me seen or get me noticed or something like that?

And God help me.

Don't mess up James.

Don't post the wrong thing.

Don't kill your career before it even happens.

And this guy is just, it doesn't matter.

It doesn't matter.

Tom Cruise is just Tom Cruise.

I'm not saying any of this is a critique to him or a positive.

I just am marveling at it.

Right.

Because you could not do this.

I couldn't sell that movie.

Like, I got this guy.

He's an actor.

He does this and this.

And yet still has one of the biggest, if not the biggest box office star of all time.

There's no way that could happen.

That's insane to me.

And I will see that movie, not in the theater though.

Although I wouldn't mind that popcorn bucket.

And that's probably the only way you'll get it.

Yeah, that's true.

Yeah.

I still want the Deadpool Wolverine one.

I never got.

I'm so mad about that.

And I don't have room in my cupboard.

And I don't know if I'm mad about this or not.

I got to be honest with everybody.

I have not pre-read this story.

I actually had not heard about it.

I heard a little bit of rumblings about this.

But I didn't know they were this far along in the process.

Okay.

It's been 27 years since one of the worst sequels of all time.

Blues Brothers 2000.

Hit theaters.

And maybe it's been long enough that the Blues Brothers brand

can be rebranded.

The families of Dan Ackroyd and John Belushi

are actually planning a full on universe in the coming years

that include TV shows, movies, music, and live events.

Oh, dear.

And it all comes down to one of Seth's favorite initials, IP.

It's just something you remember.

Yes, it's very true.

It all kicks off with a graphic novel called The Blues Brothers,

The Escape of Joliet Jake.

There's no publication date.

Dan will have editorial oversight

and will write a forward for the book.

Of course, John passed away sadly in 1982.

Now, there's a part of me that this is my life.

The Blues Brothers.

This is one of the earliest memories I have

is doing the Blues Brothers dances with my dad

or watching the sketches on SNL or seeing the movie.

There may not be a movie.

I've watched more of my life than the Blues Brothers.

Just with it being on WGN and my father.

I was going to say it was like every day on WGN.

Every day it was on WGN.

And when you only have one channel.

You're watching that movie a lot.

I adore that movie.

I could repeat almost every line in that movie right now.

I never saw The Blues Brothers 2000.

I didn't get a chance to.

I didn't see it because of any reasons

other than it just slipped through the cracks on it.

There's a part of me that thinks this is one of those few things

that age is well in comedy.

That could do well.

And I could see it being okay.

And there's a part of me that loves the idea of younger generations

loving these movies and maybe going back and seeing

the original and everything.

I think that's really cool.

I also, I feel like it died with John.

I don't know that you're going to find anybody.

You could get Jim Belushi out there.

They tried.

You could get John Goodman who is one of the greatest

funniest people I've ever seen in my life.

They ain't John.

And I'm sorry.

I don't say this with a lot of stuff.

But this is one of those things for me that I can't see anybody.

I couldn't see Robin Williams doing that role.

There's nobody in my mind that can do what John Belushi did.

And I just, for in that factor, good luck casting that.

Because there's not a loan on this one.

No, no, no.

In fact, and I've seen, I saw when it came out.

The Blues Brothers 2000.

And it's not a good movie.

It's not.

It really isn't.

But, but I will give it one thing.

The musical performances in it are fun.

And they're great.

You're right.

The thing that didn't work was the fact there was no John Belushi.

You have to say that.

That was the problem with it.

And basically it was just a vehicle to put as many acts as you could.

Especially at the end where there's a giant band of, you know,

like everyone you can think of, you know, that wanted to be in the movie kind of thing.

That part, if they could just cut out like the drama parts of it.

It just played like a concert film.

So it should just be a musical.

It should just be the music and stuff.

That is cool.

Just watch the clips.

They're fun.

But yeah, the rest of the movie.

Yeah.

No, thanks.

I can't say anything because I've seen neither of these.

Yeah.

Well, there you go.

I will say the one thing that doesn't get talked about with the Blues Brothers is not only the,

it's one of the greatest comedies of all time, I think.

And one of the most well-written comedies of all time.

It paved the way for every single Wayne's world.

It's Pat, like every SNL movie that was made where they took a character and made it.

It all starts with that.

You don't get any of those if this movie isn't successful.

Exactly.

In fact, it kick-started the whole thing, which is interesting because more often than not,

those movies have not either done well critically or in the box office.

There's only been a couple that have been big hits like Wayne's World.

I mean, that was one of the other huge ones that came out of it.

But 300 miles, got a full take of gas and a pack of cigarettes.

Yep.

Hit it.

We're wearing sunglasses.

We're wearing sunglasses.

Yes, the greatest part of the line.

That poster, by the way, was on many college dorm rooms when I was in college.

You saw that poster on it.

I kind of love that movie.

One of the talk a little bit about the latest play, coming up over at Wisconsin's Rapids Community Theatre,

and that is Noises Off.

Yeah.

That is the finals.

You celebrate the 50th season of WRCT.

Great.

We wrap it up.

Had a great first week of the run, Melissa.

And you guys are going to be back at Thursday.

Yes.

Back at a Thursday.

We're actually having our line around.

Well, it's our mid-show run-through.

I always call that the sandwich rehearsal.

There you go, sandwich rehearsal.

That's a good way to put it.

Yep.

But it'll be a full run because of there's so much in this show.

Yes.

It's so prop-heavy.

It's so...

Yeah.

The set is a prop.

The props are...

We have props everywhere.

And the actors need to get back in the swing of things.

Along with the crew and lights and sound, everybody.

It's a big show.

And we're having so much fun.

I am so proud.

That's the best part.

I am so proud of this cast and crew.

They are absolutely fantastic, fabulous.

I don't even have the words.

I'm so proud of that.

Well, I have words here and mark the date everyone.

Because this is genuine.

This is genuine.

It's because of the director.

Melissa K.

Everyone needs to give you a big round of applause.

We're not going to do it now.

But people should, because this was...

I was talking to Laura the other day.

And I was like, I would not have directed this in a million years.

That's why I appreciate so much.

Not only you taking it on, but doing it and doing it so fantastically.

So congratulations, Melissa.

You earned it well done.

Now I feel bad for being mean to you.

My plan all along.

That's the only reason he was nice.

The guilt factor that you can put on somebody

when you're nice to somebody that's mean to you.

It's worth it.

I genuinely appreciate that.

She's flipping it back.

Well, it's real.

It's real.

Okay, so we actually like each other.

Now and then, it happens.

It's spoiler alert, everybody.

Look behind the curtain.

We don't always fight.

No, we don't.

But no, that's very nice of you to say.

But I really...

I could not have done it without the fabulous cast and crew that I had.

Christine Sullivan and Penny Weiss that were rocks during this entire...

Nice.

And Jeff Friday with the designing and his crew and building the set.

I mean, we just...

We could not have done it without the fabulous crew and cast that we have.

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This article starts out if they reopen Alcatraz.

Man, I can't believe that's an actual statement in 2025.

What are we doing?

What is going on in society right now?

It would not only cost an exponential amount of money to try to reopen that as a prison.

It would also be a huge loss of income because of the museum that it is.

Right.

And the tourism and the economy there would greatly suffer.

This will never happen.

No, this will never ever happen.

It's just a distraction.

I will put my name on this.

You can take this and rub it in my face if you like if it does.

But I feel dang confident that will never ever happen.

But the fact that we have to talk about it is ridiculous enough.

We just got done building a brand new jail here because the old jail,

which isn't nearly even a half as old as Alcatraz is,

was not safe for the, not talking about the people that were using the jail as far as it did something wrong.

The inmates.

Not the inmates.

The officers running.

The staff.

Now, imagine the staff that you're going to have to fill for Alcatraz

and how unsafe that would be just in general,

just their job is already unsafe.

Let alone in a prison that hasn't been used in over 50, 60 years.

Why do people put up with this?

And why are we talking about it?

And why are we talking about it?

Why it got shut down is because it was too expensive to run.

I really try very hard to do this.

I talk about waste, fraud and abuse.

I really try not to give time to this stuff.

It doesn't deserve our time.

Right.

So, you know, the idea of this, having this super prison or some of these things and everything,

I don't know.

There's some people that want to put this lady there and this is wild.

I'm saying that sarcastically.

A 60-year-old woman in Switzerland was in court yesterday accused of repeatedly feeding Leo, her neighbor's cat,

over a 10-month period.

What?

That's what she brought the court for, for feeding her neighbor's cat.

To court for feeding the cat.

Yes.

The woman lives in the same building as Leo and she hasn't just been feeding Leo.

She has let him into her apartment and even added a cat flap to her door so that Leo could come in and out as she pleases.

Leo's owner was not cool with this and the things escalated over those 10 months.

Naturally, the biggest issue was that Leo liked his new digs and never wanted to go home.

Under Swiss law, and this is interesting.

So under Swiss law, cats are, quote, other people's property.

In systematic feeding and giving up a home to another person's cat is considered, quote, unlawful appropriation.

The woman is facing.

It's stealing, yeah.

The woman is facing several finds which could exceed over five grand.

Whoa.

Well, I mean, she made that choice.

It does seem a little wrong, like putting in a cat flap for someone else's cat.

Also, why is that, I mean, I guess people do let their cats outside.

So I can't really comment on that.

But I don't know if that just seems really weird.

I love the idea of the cat doing this specifically so it could just mess with its owner.

Or also just get more food.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Which is something, oh, you know, outdoor cat, what do you call them?

Wild cats, not wild cats.

Cats that owners and they let them.

Farrell.

Farrell cats.

That's how they survive.

That is very true.

By the way, little side note here, even though my last name is Swiss.

My last name is Swiss indeed.

And Switzerland, you know, sounds like an interesting place to visit and stuff like that.

I am not interested in looking under the hood.

Yeah.

The country.

Yeah.

Something tells me there's a lot of stuff I wouldn't want to know about.

Yes, Switzerland.

I got my own stuff with that one.

I bet you do.

Yeah, yeah.

Actually, my people's got a little bit of that, but I agree with you overall.

Right, yeah.

That's a wild story.

I'm actually going to be following this one.

I want to see how this court case goes.

I can't help myself.

Oh, that's fine.

That's fine.

And who knows?

It could end up being a new precedent, depending on where the judge goes and everything.

Because traditionally, they go to the owner of the cat.

Right.

If they go a different route, that could change.

I think they're going to do the old element.

It's silly.

I know, but it could say it could change like some of the way that they approached that law over there.

Maybe the old Solomon trick from the Bible, you know, bring out a sword and cut this cat in half.

And you both get one half of the cat thing.

I don't think that that's going to be the way they want to do that.

The judges are sitting there for like five minutes.

Please, somebody make a decision.

You call my blood.

You're calling my blood.

Please, call my blood.

This isn't a real sword.

They could clone the cat.

Ah, there you go.

We will take it.

To make an AI cat.

Oh, boy.

There you go.

Why not?

I've just threw it out there.

Like, everyone else does.

AI everything, right?

Instead of me out in barks.

We've got to tell them apart somehow.

We will get to our news.

It's in part of the trick.

Be back with more show.

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Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show here at WFHR.

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Melissa, Seth and James here with you.

We are here, but we want you here as well.

Audience participation is demand.

Right now.

Wow.

Pretty strong.

Pretty strong demand.

I would really like it if you called it.

I think you guys are going to want to.

This is an interesting one.

Words and phrases that are overused.

So much, they are meaningless.

All right.

My sister loved the word love.

Loved it.

And as a little kid said it all the time.

Loved this, loved that.

Loved you, loved that.

I remember my Nana talking to her about, well,

Jillian, you use a word.

I love it.

I love it.

I love it.

I love it.

I love it.

What did you talk about, well, Jillian,

use a word too much.

It loses its meaning.

It does not have as much significance.

Right.

And Jill just ho-o-o-o-o.

So then she like went forever without saying it.

And I would say it all and everything.

And then just with the other way.

But I think that Nana had a point there about the words and,

and you know, what they mean and how much inputting meaning

is put to them I think, context and tact.

All these things come into play.

And that being said, what are some of the ones we could stop saying now?

We're just, we're done with these.

People have started the list online.

As far as words have lost kind of all their meaning.

And not any particular order.

So we'll just write it right at the top.

Longer than usual wait times.

Yes, that has lost all meanings.

Yeah.

Because what is usual?

Yeah, first of all, you know.

Was that always a hustle?

That's always been a hustle.

Yeah, probably.

Yeah, probably.

Just setting you up for however long it takes.

Right.

You can wait.

AI.

And powered by AI.

Even our new fridge is powered by AI.

So it really hasn't lost a lot or hasn't,

it doesn't have the impact it used to.

It doesn't have the meaning.

A1, right?

That's what you're talking about.

A1.

Yeah, right.

Oh, AI.

Oh, I'm sorry.

I remember that one raw.

I thought it was a one, sorry.

Well, it's supposed to be a selling point and it used to be.

And now it's kind of like something people were like,

I don't know.

It's a bubble just like everything else.

Listen, when you got tired of hearing crypto currencies and...

Yes.

Pivot to video.

Crisis.

When everything is a crisis, nothing is a crisis.

Crisis, yes.

Very good.

Yes.

My biggest problem with 24-7 news is the idea of breaking news.

That is not breaking news.

New crisis every 10 minutes.

Breaking news.

A celebrity broke a toenail.

That is not breaking news.

That is not, you know, and because of that.

Although technically it is breaking news because they broke something.

But it's not the...

Well done.

Well done.

It loses its meaning.

That's the only way we should use that for now on.

Breaking news.

Seth broke his arm.

That's right.

Sorry, sorry, James.

Breaking breaking news.

I literally just broke something right now.

It loses its meaning.

And when we do need people to pay attention to actual breaking news,

they're numb to it now.

Right.

Yep.

It's like crying wolf.

Yeah.

And nobody is worse that it's an ESPN.

Nobody.

Nobody is worse.

They are terrible.

Right.

Okay, but what are you watching ESPN for?

Oh, no.

I mean, like, just like the app, the updates, everything.

Breaking news.

Breaking news.

So-and-so ain't playing tonight.

Like it's the...

Yeah, right.

Breaking news.

That's like, you know, the actual breaking news matters.

And it's lost all its meaning with that.

For sure.

I would guarantee, and I'd love again to hear from anybody out there,

when you hear breaking news, how...

What's your reaction?

Yeah.

How quickly are you?

That's a good point, yeah.

Cleans, cleanse products and detox or detoxifying.

Oh, yeah.

Those have been such a buzzword and like a...

Oh, what do you want to say?

Like a quick fix for all your health problems.

You can just do a cleanse.

Right.

No, you can't.

We're like the old way of using that.

I'm going to know cleanse my hands.

That's the best way to cleanse my hands.

I'm going to take a shower to cleanse my body.

Yes.

When I worked at G&C, that was a big one.

That was a...

Oh, every day I worked there.

I said I said that we're...

Well, how could you not?

And when you're in that industry...

Yeah, in the industry.

You should be using it in.

Yes.

Huge part of their sales.

But it's also a big part of like...

I don't want to say scam, but can we say like snake oil?

Yeah.

I mean, some of those are just...

Copy it into our...

Right?

Yeah, fire beware.

Yeah, unfortunately for any good products, there were about four or five other ones

that were exactly that.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Now, there's a couple of these here that I lean on too that are bothersome to me because

of the way that they have been numbed.

We become numbed to them.

Or they've lost the meaning that they had.

Like, woke.

Which is...

I agree with this list.

It has gotten numb.

And it has lost all of its meaning.

But not because we've overused it.

It's because it's been misused.

It's been...

Yeah.

Co-op did whatever you want to call it.

It's been poached.

Yeah.

It's been poached.

We can say that.

It's been poached.

And it's not the only word or only term that has.

And it's not as if this isn't done by the other side of the aisle either.

Both sides do this with words or terms or anything.

Hey, that's working for them.

We're going to take it and twist it.

Right.

Because this is a game to them.

Right.

To the majority of these politicians, this is a game.

Because they're just trying to pit the people against each other.

They got one main job.

Keep their job.

That's their job.

That's...

They're not working for the people.

To them.

Yeah.

To us.

And the way this whole thing is supposed to work, we're their job.

Whatever we're doing.

We say goes.

We the people.

But to most politicians, it's not that case.

It's much more, hey, how do I keep my job?

What do I do to keep my constituents happy enough to where I can keep doing what I'm doing?

Well, also, the money in my pocket keeps coming.

Right.

And that's where you get a term that I think is beautiful like woke.

That comes from a beautiful place.

That has true meaning behind it.

If you don't know what suffering is, you do not understand how important that word was.

Right.

If you have never ever...

Never been isolated because of what you are or something along those lines.

Well, among many things, you don't understand what that word truly meant to many of us.

When it was first being used.

Before it was taken into what it is now to mean something that it doesn't.

The way that they have skewed these things where all anybody who has ever come out of the other side from this word has wanted is equality.

Not more equality.

Just the bare dang minimum.

That's all anybody has been asking for.

And they have taken this word and turned into, look at what they're trying to take away from you.

Look at how they're trying to take power away from the white man and all these things and everything.

Oh God forbid.

Oh, the sky is falling.

Nope.

Nope.

Not the case.

Still a lot of white people in power.

Still a lot of that going on.

Sounds like a crisis.

Yeah.

They've done it with this.

They've done it with other things like gas lighting.

Gas lighting is a terminology that is important and everybody should know the actual term.

Not only the terminology of it, but what it is and to be aware of it.

When it's happening.

So if it happens to you or God forbid, you're doing it to somebody else.

But now it's become a term that people even make jokes around.

Just throw around.

Yeah.

That's the other part of this, Melissa, that I'm getting frustrated about.

Not just the co-opping and poaching of words.

But then being so, like, just blaze with them and just throwing them around.

Like they don't mean anything or making jokes about them or something like that.

Like I got a great sense of humor and I got a dark sense of humor.

Well, sometimes that's the thing.

There's a dark sense of humor.

Like, I mean, I just made a joke earlier about a serial killer.

You know, being a name in your family that you don't want to use.

And yes, I mean, dark humor has its place.

But when it becomes commonplace and overused, it loses all meaning.

One that I hear a lot of younger people use.

I don't think I've ever actually rolled my eyes.

But inside my head I am.

My truth.

There's already a word for it.

It's called opinion.

And it's interesting.

And again, it's a word and a phrase term, I guess, is what I should say.

That, you know, it has something to it.

Yeah.

Because truth is truth.

You know, I'm not against that.

Never mind.

But you're right, you know.

Well, in the morning, the way that you feel about something.

Right.

At the same time, the pitfall with it is saying, you know, my truth.

And that's all the only truth is what my truth is.

Oh, great.

My way or the highway.

Exactly.

You can be like a lot of these things.

You can be used in different contexts, of course, kind of thing.

I guess I haven't really heard that one a whole lot.

Younger folks, maybe?

Yeah.

Is that a little bit more?

Maybe, I don't know.

But influencer.

Just tell us you're trying to hawk something.

Yeah.

Just tell us.

Hey, it is.

And it has, they have a good, the good in the bad.

I mean, because influencers have done good things.

It has, it is, it's old as the old peddler.

Yeah.

That's basically what it is.

It's just a new form of an old job.

Mm-hmm.

Something like you said, Melissa, sometimes it's good stuff.

Yeah.

Sometimes it's, sometimes they bring the copper, the copper kettle that you need.

Yeah.

And sometimes they bring the ointment that is just useless.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Um, another one that I think falls into some of the categories we've talked about here,

thoughts and prayers.

Oh, God.

When tragedy happens, there's not really a great blueprint of, hey, this is what you say,

this is how you handle it.

Um, we're all in, in, you know, in the same situation with that.

I think it's very, it's understandable to have a, a, a go-to phrase, if you will,

that you're just quick to say because you don't know what else to say.

And you feel like you have to say something.

And I think that's human nature.

Um, thoughts and prayers sounds good.

It sounds like, hey, I'm covering all these bases.

I'm doing something nice here.

But again, it's been used so much.

And the, the one that I really, I, I take a, a TV reporters.

Um, I've never heard a TV reporter say this.

And actually, I felt like they meant it.

Like, I feel like they're just reading lines on a cue card.

And I feel like that is a big part of what has hurt this.

Or a politician.

Oh, God.

Yes.

Oh, that one for sure.

Yeah.

And really, it just, it's become disingenuous.

Yeah.

It's been used in situations where it shouldn't have been used.

And it shouldn't have been said.

Um, I can't use it anymore.

Not even with, I mean it because I, the feelings are there.

I can't use it anymore because it is completely meaningless.

Yeah.

Now, we, we, we've keep hearing it.

Nothing happens.

And it is completely meaningless.

If you're still using it, I think you're a liar.

Yeah.

Basically, that's what I'm thinking now.

You don't mean that.

You're just saying saying that because you need to cover your butt.

Right.

And you don't know what else to say.

Yep.

But if you're going to say something, it should come from a place of genuine concern and genuine thoughts.

I think, uh, one of the things that, uh, I agree completely with you, Melissa.

Um, one of the things that I think is, no, interesting to me about it is,

it tells you right away that it's not necessarily really a good go to or something like that is,

if I come to Seth and I, I tell him something tragic that happened to my family,

he's not going to look at me and say, oh, thoughts and prayers.

Like, no, you wouldn't say that to somebody.

No, you really would.

It's not really a term or a phrase or anything like that.

It's just something that we say to the masses.

Or, yeah, or that you type out on a keyboard.

Yes, yeah.

Or you write in a card.

And, and, and if we can just look at it like that, I don't think it's so bad.

I, I don't think it's such a bad thing.

I think it's more when I hear verbally, you know, and, and, and to Seth's point,

I am automatically, I'm like, all right, well, they're just phoning and they're not even, you know, they're not.

Artisan.

Artisan is one of those words that has lost complete me.

My artisan bread, have you had my artisan milk?

Yes, there's a, have you had my artisan cream pie?

Oh, but you haven't had my artisan cereal yet.

My artisan, sir, it's comes from Tuscany.

My artisan M&Ms, did you know they had those?

All of those things get overused though.

I mean, really, when you, when you come down to it and you gotta, you know,

it's like everything's pretty.

You know, I mean, we could say that about any, any descriptive word.

I, I'm actually, I, when you first said artisan, James, though, my, my,

and this is just because I guess I'm old or something.

I have an old mind.

I don't know.

I go to like the people who actually make things like an artisan.

Right.

A person who is an artisan.

Like in the trades.

Yeah, exactly.

In a skilled trade.

Not, it's like my artisan bread.

That's where my brain went too.

And I was like, why are you guys picking on this?

Like, what is it?

It's like, no.

I know a lot of artisans and they're awesome people.

The marketing artisan.

Yeah.

That's what we were talking about.

Yes.

And finally on the list.

Bra.

Bra.

Bra.

My son.

My son.

Bra.

Where, where have I gone wrong?

Bra.

Bra.

Bra.

Now you've just ruined it for everybody else there.

Yeah.

I have everything.

Or actually maybe that'll help.

That's the new one.

The new one.

The, ah, please.

For my younger son.

Another, that one.

Nice of Chess.

No.

I don't know what that is.

Is Sust still a thing?

Is that still a-

Oh yeah.

Sure.

Yeah.

My kids still use that one.

I got a little one just order a chess burger.

Not a cheese burger.

It's a chess burger.

And when, and the one-

Isn't that at the bill?

No.

It's not what they call it.

When the waitress delivered it.

She's like, here's your chess burger.

And she got such a huge grin on her face.

It was so sweet.

Nice.

Thank you all, Cafe.

Very good.

Very good.

Great waitress.

Great waitress.

Great waitress.

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We'll come back wrap up the show.

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