Gaston and Lefou! (Hour 2)

Good morning Wisconsin, morning world, it's a new day.

Time for the morning show here at 97.5 FM 13.20 a.m.

Your host James joined by Seth.

Good morning.

Oh, good morning.

Thank you.

And the best listeners in radio.

We appreciate y'all being here.

We're here to have some fun this morning.

Seth and I are going to get in some entertainment news in a little bit.

We got plenty more other great things like that.

What was that story I wanted to touch on?

Make sure this is a viral trend that's going out about a great lock-in.

We'll get into that.

Okay.

All those things coming up.

It is a Thursday and you all know what that means.

Oh!

Time for the pet of the week.

With our friends at the South O'Cottia Main Society.

We have Denise with us right now.

And Denise, you have our, we got to start right with the pet of the week.

We got to get it to that right away.

How are you doing for it?

I'm really good thanks.

How are you guys doing?

Doing well.

Who do we have with us for our pet of the weeks today?

I've got a pair of brother kiddies about four months old.

They are mostly white with some orange tabby markings named Gaston and Lafou.

Such great names.

And they are just as mischievous as those two.

Yes, they are.

I can only hold one at a time and barely that.

Well played.

That's well played.

They are, they look young.

What, three, four months?

Yep.

Right in there.

They came to us as kittens, tiny little kittens,

and the rest of their brothers and sisters have been adopted.

So these guys need to, need to find a home.

When it comes to their, their breed looks pretty traditional.

Yep, absolutely tabby of sorts, I guess.

More white than usual.

Yeah.

They're very soft and fluffy.

And I know I heard this story a long time ago about that particular,

this breed, a tabby and everything with the kind of almost M on their foreheads.

Yeah.

They both have almost a white stripe in between it, though.

And I don't know if I've seen that very often.

Very unique patterns.

Yeah, they're unique looking cats.

That's why people overlook them.

I'm not sure.

But yeah.

Very easy and handful.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

They are kittens.

They are definitely kittens.

And they, these kittens have their shots and their microchips and everything.

Yep.

They're chipped, vaccinated, and neutered.

They're ready to go.

Very cool.

Very cool.

I really enjoyed them.

They're very sweet.

I got to take some pictures of them.

We'll get them on social media for you.

Everybody.

And you can check them out.

Of course, you can check them out right now at SWCHS.com.

Head on over there and bookmark that page.

Denise wanted to find out certainly this time of year as we're getting a little bit colder out there.

We like to remind everybody a couple of things.

Keeping a look out of your vehicles if you park outside in the morning and you're driving.

Make sure to look under your vehicle.

Yep.

Some of that.

Also, understanding that not every animal is an outdoor animal.

True.

Now, some cats, some dogs, just not always, they don't want to be out as much.

Exactly.

And it depends on the breed.

It depends on how they were raised.

And we have a great population of outside cats, working cats, feral cats, whatever the term you want to apply to them.

But they love to be outside.

They want to be outside.

And it's hard to bring them in if they don't want to be inside.

Right.

Yeah.

Keep that in mind, everybody.

As you're getting ready for work in the morning or heading to school or something like that.

We know a lot more.

You know, back in school session and all of that's right.

Also, getting closer and closer to holidays.

And oftentimes, I know that animals can be a gift in a pet and everything.

That is a gift.

That's something that you definitely want to know your audience for.

Really, really, really, really.

How to make sure that this is right.

And not just throw, you know, just on a whim.

Do something like this.

Right.

I do bring this up in part.

So the other day Denise was National Dog Day.

And we went over some stats.

And I just wanted to include them in our segment here, if you don't mind.

Because this new poll by a Hills brand food company found how we get our animals more than likely.

And if you got your dog from a friend or a family member, that's how a lot of people do.

33% of dog owners got their last dog that way.

Very right after that.

Very close after that are shelters and that in shelters.

So just keeping in mind how important it is to, you know, I think start with shelters.

If you are looking for an animal starting with a shelter, I think is the one place to go.

Certainly, if you have allergies and similar situations like that, that's a whole different story.

Right.

But if you were looking for an animal, I almost guarantee you that that animal is at a shelter.

Yep, you can find something at a shelter.

Cats, dog, guinea pig, rabbit, you name it.

And I also bring this up in part because the big difference between dogs and cats with this.

Cats are more likely to, people are more likely to adopt a stray cat.

Whereas they're more likely with a dog to go to a humane society or something along those lines.

Yep, absolutely.

When we bring up cats and we have cats here today, it just made me think of the article in the stats.

And the importance of starting with shelters, I think.

I will say, though, when it comes to cats, bringing in stray cats, you know, I don't necessarily recommend that.

But I do appreciate people wanting to do that.

Absolutely.

People help out in any way that can.

Sometimes they don't know if it's an outside cat, but they're just looking out for the safety of the animal.

And that's we appreciate that.

All the help we can get.

I don't want to throw a curveball at you, Denise.

I didn't give you any prep for this.

I apologize, but if you're bringing in a stray cat, if you are going to do something like that,

are there things, you know, I don't want to say tips, but things you should keep in mind?

Absolutely.

We can't have cats or animals of any sort just brought in the lobby.

We request that you call either our business office 4-3-0-5-0-5.

That's during business hours if we're not there.

If it's after six o'clock, I'm calling on call phone, and we will instruct you what to do with that animal.

Often we take pictures, get them online on social media, and we can reunite that animal with the owner without it ever showing up at the shelter.

So call us first.

Just a great hitter right here.

I can't throw curveballs at her.

I give her my curveball.

She knows what she's doing there.

I can't hit someone.

You guys got a great event coming up, a home run event, if I say,

a Southwood County 5K-9 walk run with our Humane Society is coming up September 20th at Red Sands Pavilion.

Right, it'd be beautiful, like was each.

This is a really fun event.

How was this coming together in these last weeks leading up to it?

It's gaining momentum.

We have a lot more registrations.

Excellent.

We're just looking for more.

Go on the website and register right away, or you can register day off as well.

Excellent.

The top pledgers are going to earn some really cool prizes, like a $5.00 gift card from Walmart,

a Calary Package, and a third place has got $100 quality seeds and feed gift card.

That may be the best one.

I don't know.

That's a tough one to give up.

That's a great place.

Yeah, that's a great place.

Shout out to them.

They'll well-behaved dogs, current on rabies vaccines are welcome to attend.

Right.

Keeping that in mind.

You can pre-register, or if you want, you can register for this one by going to the Humane Society's website.

Encourage you to do that.

Otherwise, if you see one of their flyers, you can scan their QR code.

Correct.

And those should be up.

Posters should be up at a lot of local businesses.

That's right.

I also want you to know that if you're not able to ahead of time, there is on site registration at 8 a.m.

Yeah.

And the start of the walk will kick off at 9.

Yeah.

It's looking to be a good event.

Rain or shine.

If it rains, we're still walking.

All right.

Sounds good.

Really looking forward to this.

I cannot wait to see how this one goes.

And all that said, there's going to be raffles, merchandise, a big sale, a broad fry.

Come hungry.

Come hungry.

And come support our Humane Society.

And I encourage people too while you're there.

Here's a great opportunity to find out more about your Humane Society.

Denise and the great staff over there are always able to answer questions or help out, especially with any gray area, anything you're unsure of.

Yes.

And maybe finding out about volunteering opportunities or something like that.

Absolutely.

Yeah.

We have a lot of volunteer opportunities available.

So give us a call or stop down.

We encourage you as well when you're doing that to maybe bringing items if you can.

We know we're always in need of what cat food and cat litter and anything else that you could do is over there.

Dog food.

We're always looking for the sensitive skin sensitive stomach food for dogs and cats.

That's a high need as well as the cat litter.

Excellent.

Denise, we appreciate you.

Thanks so much for being here.

We appreciate you.

Hey, one more thing public service announcement.

We are close to the public on Saturday.

The floors are being redone so we cannot be open on Saturday.

All right.

Okay. Good to know.

Good to know.

Thanks.

And awesome to hear about the floors getting done.

Yeah.

That's how it's good things.

Fingers crossed.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Find out more about our pet of the week and our great friends over at this other County Humane Society.

You can email them office at SWCHS.com.

You can give them a call if you'd like at 715-420505.

You can reach out to them on Facebook as well.

Be sure to like their page and subscribe to it.

Stop by at 3621-64 Street North right here in Rabbits.

And of course, bookmark that great webpage of theirs, SWCHS.com.

SWCHS.com.

Get on over there, register for that race.

We'll meet you there.

Thanks, Denise.

We appreciate you.

Thank you both.

We'll talk with you again next Thursday, right in this time slot.

Look forward to it.

Right now, Seth and I will take a quick time out.

We'll come back with more Morning Show on WFHR.

Welcome back, everyone.

Morning Show at WFHR.

I remember.

The purified, sweet device.

Hope you're having a great morning out there.

Thanks for joining Seth and I here on a Thursday.

Big thank you to Denise and our pets of the week.

We appreciate her to appreciate them joining us.

I appreciate her putting up with...

That cat was really wanting to get out and do stuff.

Yeah.

And she did a great job of hanging on to it.

That cat heard the other cats that were here

and talking about all the cool things it got to do.

They're like, what's up?

Why can't I do that?

What's going on here?

What's going on here?

We got some entertainment news to dive into and I would...

I've mentioned many times, top five actor of all time for me,

one of my favorite actors, biggest influences.

Den Zal Washington.

Oh.

Den Zal Washington.

Den Zal.

Den Zal.

Really?

Yeah, we've been saying it wrong, everybody.

For how many years?

For a long time now.

We have been doing this.

We've been messing this name up.

And he was recently on a Seth Meyers show.

Okay.

And it's really not your fault though.

We've been pronouncing it wrong.

Right.

Den Zal's mother started calling him Den Zal.

Oh.

Yeah.

So really?

Mama Washington.

More to blame for this one.

We have a little bit of a clip here where he can speak for himself.

All right.

Guys, and they were usually both.

Did you know that there are currently four players named Den Zal in the NFL?

I know.

And before you're...

There's a lot of Den Zals now.

There weren't that many before your first Oscar.

There were zero on 1987.

And this is how you know they named themselves after me.

Because, wait a minute, because my name's not pronounced Den Zal.

My name's pronounced Den Zal.

Oh.

I'm Den Zal Jr.

My father's Den Zal Hayes Washington senior.

I'm Den Zal Hayes Washington Jr.

My mother would say.

Den Zal?

And we both show up.

Now on your Den Zal.

Well, that's how we got to announce Den Zal.

Oh, that's smoke.

You said your Den Zal.

So it's Den Zal.

Wow.

Oh my gosh.

This may be the only moment in my life I get to relate to Den Zal Washington.

Right.

My name in my family was the same thing.

The reason I go by James is because everybody was Jim.

And my mother got really sick.

My, literally, my first word is what?

My, we're in the old apartment.

And my mom is in one of the apartment.

My dad is in the other.

Yeah.

And I'm in the hallway playing with toys.

Right.

And my mother's yelling.

Jam, jam.

And all of a sudden they start hearing this.

What?

What?

What?

And that's me.

That's my first word was what?

That's all you heard of.

What?

It was in that moment that my mother decided.

That's James.

Yes.

Yeah.

Yeah.

They called me Jimmy instead of Jim.

You got to do something different.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I kind of picked James.

Nobody liked it.

But I picked it.

But they called me Jimmy from that moment on.

Like the, after my first word was said, they would call me Jimmy from that.

But this is kind of like if, if your mom instead instead of calling you Jimmy decided to call you like James.

Right.

Or something like that.

Yeah.

A little bit different.

But I, I don't know if I'll ever forget this now.

And Den Zell.

And Den Zell.

And Den Zell.

Den Zell.

Den Zell.

Den Zell is such an actual name.

That is, that's a great story.

Oh my gosh.

That's so cool.

And I apologize.

Jimmy Kimmel.

That was Jimmy Kimmel doing the show.

Yeah.

I might have been confusing to some people.

That doesn't, that's not what Seth Meyers sounds like.

But I mean the fact that, okay.

So that, that stat that Jimmy said for Den Zell's in the NFL.

That means how many more Den Zell's are there out there?

That's pretty well.

There's got to be a bunch.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

And the fact that, that's got to be wild to think about.

You know that you are the reason people are dating.

That kind of thing.

It's like, oh, that would blow my mind, man.

Blow my mind.

I was uncomfortable naming my son James.

Keeping up the family tradition for a fifth decade.

Yeah.

I couldn't imagine people doing that.

Yeah.

Oh, wow.

I could imagine, though, being undancing with the stars.

It's maybe the one reality show I could see wanting to do.

I don't, I wouldn't seek it out.

Right.

But I would have a hard time turning it down.

I liked to dance.

I like to be pushed as an artist.

Yeah.

And I have no problem making a fool of myself.

CC, everything I've ever done in radio.

But I, you know, it's also one of those things where I think it's,

you know, people that follow the show, they know the show really well,

will tell you that it's not always about the best dancer, you know.

And so there's that, too.

It's about a lot of different things.

But it's kind of a cool thing because it is different.

I used to say that other reality shows in that sense,

where a lot of these celebrities were outside their comfort zone to do this.

And some of them really do a good job.

I don't like to put you on the spot with this,

but I know that usually we go to our,

our dancing with stars correspondent Beth for these stories.

I apologize to you, Beth.

I'm sorry.

I didn't wait for you on this story.

I should have.

But as, as, as her partner in crime, if it was,

do you watch this show, too?

Because that's, we know how coupling works.

We were talking about this earlier about the positive influences,

along with that, there is also, you're going to probably watch a TV show

or some form of entertainment that you would not watch on your own.

Right.

And that's both ways, man.

It is.

You know, the coupling of things, it's both ways.

I would say, for our successful relationship,

one of the things you, what you really need to be honest with each other about,

what kind of entertainment you like?

Mm-hmm.

Okay, do not put on air, please.

I'm begging you, just be honest about what you like and don't like.

Because the other person will be okay with that, okay?

Yeah.

If they're not, that's an issue.

That's something you should really, you know,

hmm, it should raise your eyebrow.

So we found out, Beth and I realized very early on,

there's not a lot of entertainment that we actually are in common.

We just don't.

There's a few things.

Yes, sure.

Yes, we do.

We like Star Trek.

We like watch the Star Trek together, okay?

That's cool.

A few other things here and there.

So I have watched Dancing with the Stars in the past.

If I can avoid it, I do.

Right.

I will put that out there.

It's funny.

She didn't mention she saw that the new season was opening.

She mentioned something yesterday, so she's very excited about it.

But yeah.

They got some big names with this too.

When it comes to that, what you're talking about there and everything.

I honestly, it's one of my favorite parts of a relationship,

is being turned on to new music, different shows.

Right.

Now, I don't like a lot of them some of the time.

I wouldn't watch them on my own, but that's part of the point to me.

I like getting different takes on things and different.

That's it.

And, you know, I dated a girl when the first reality, like the craze kicked off.

She was dating somebody and she was really into Project Runway.

I think I get the model one, the fashion model one.

Maybe I got it wrong.

The one where they make clothes.

Or is that what you're right?

You're right.

It's a fashion one where they design clothes.

I think you're right.

I saw a couple.

It was fascinating to me.

Right.

To see the creativity and what it takes.

That's interesting.

To work with fabric and all that stuff.

I thought it was really interesting.

I've never watched it since.

But I probably will you.

Yeah.

So I think that giving yourself, giving these things an opportunity, a chance is at least a good idea.

Keep an open mind.

I don't want people to think that, no, yeah, you know each other's likes and dislikes.

Now you're going to never watch anything.

No, keep an open mind.

Because you never know.

There might be something you like.

Well, and just as important I think is what you said about being able to, again,

going back to being individuals in a team, maybe you got your own shows.

You're not going to like everything.

Exactly.

I'm guessing that doesn't sit in a much ton of baseball with you.

Or I should say old baseball with you.

No, no, no.

She wouldn't do that.

No.

But I have to say, two examples of her with me is that, yeah, she knew I was a big baseball fan.

And so she, yeah, she actually got into baseball because she knew I liked it.

The other thing is, I'm sure before we were together, she never would have gone to a superhero movie.

But we went to the Avengers and then she became a fan of Marvel movies.

So I mean, and like I've mentioned many times, the hallmark movies and that kind of thing.

I never would have done that if she hadn't been watching them.

When I was thinking of sports, it wasn't, you know, sports and women.

It was more so Beth knowing sports.

Right.

Exactly.

And I think that she felt that way.

That was that kind of what it, it's kind of fun telling people who know nothing about a sport.

Oh, I love it.

That's great telling you what things are, right?

Yeah, it's fun.

To me, I have no, yeah, I got no issue.

I like, I like answering questions like that.

It's one of the few times of my life I get to feel smart.

Yeah, please give me that.

Give me that.

Even if you know the answers, just ask anyway.

Just ask anyway.

Hey, what's that thing?

Well, let me tell you, it's a football.

I've honestly made them, and it's really interesting.

The complete celebrity cast of Dancing with the Stars season 34, wow, was announced yesterday on Good Morning America, Alfonso Rubriaro and Julian Ahoff will return as co-hosts.

The new season premieres September 16th on ABC in Disney Plus.

So here is the list of the, quote, stars that are going to be a part of this.

Jen Affleck, she is a, I guess, one of the Mormon wives.

Oh, either of those, anything I just said, I don't know anything about her.

Hilary Baldwin, Alec Baldwin's daughter, I believe.

Okay.

Olympian Jordan Childs.

Oh, that's cool.

That's cool.

Wow.

Also, I'm already hedging my bets towards her.

I'm already hedging towards her.

Being a gymnast?

I mean, that helps.

That's got to help.

It's got a little bit at least.

She's amazing, too.

Yeah, she was awesome.

Former NBA All-Star Baron Davis.

Really?

I'm actually really interested in that.

So one thing that Baron Davis took some heat for in his playing career,

especially towards the end, was being a little pudgeier for a basketball player,

especially a point guard.

Now, it didn't affect him.

He was amazing.

Yeah.

He was a fan.

I love watching Baron Davis.

So before Golden State went on this run, Baron Davis was over there doing some of that stuff before Steph Curry.

Right.

You could be sneaky good in this.

I'm telling you, never discount the athletes, man.

They are sneaky good.

I don't know how long I will have to live to feel like a normal saying this.

TikTok star.

Those three words together, man.

I don't know.

I know it's a thing.

And I'm not even trying to be old man about it.

It doesn't roll off the tongue.

It just feels weird.

It does.

I'm with you.

Alex Earl is going to be there.

Dylan Efron.

He's Zach's brother and one trader's season three.

So he's already been on a reality show.

Oh, interesting.

Okay.

Cory Feldman.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

The audience didn't get to see Seth's shocked look, but I was just a shocked when I read.

Cory Feldman's sighting.

Wow.

Daniel Fisher, official from Boy Meets World.

Oh, which, which Daniel.

Daniel Fisher.

Daniel Fisher.

Oh, she played Daniel Tupeng.

Yeah, Tupeng.

That's it.

Elaine Hendrix, Meredith Blake in 1998's The Parent Trap.

Okay.

Penatonics member Scott Hoeyn.

Oh, interesting.

They don't really need to be boosted in any way.

They're very popular.

So it's interesting when you see names like that or on that in a moment.

Robert Irwin, his sister, Bindi, won season 21 back in 2015.

Oh, okay.

That's kind of cool.

Son of the, of Ceverwin.

Yeah.

The crocodile hunter.

Yeah.

Great.

The great crocodile hunter.

Fifth Harmony member, Lauren Jergo.

Jer-woo-woo.

Yeah.

Oh, it's an eye.

Oh, that's all right.

But yeah, another band that's pretty popular.

Yeah, right.

That they need this necessarily.

Whitney Levitt from Secret Lies of Mormon Wives.

Another one of the lives of Mormon wives.

That is just a horrible name.

Man.

It rhymes, though.

I guess that's, you know.

And, Andy Richter.

Conan O'Brien's Sidekick.

A man I've been compared to more than once in my life.

Yeah.

That you like, hey, you look like Andy Richter.

And not just in Looks, man.

Not just in Looks.

You guys have very similar comedic taste and timing.

That's why I'm not kidding.

I want to meet him someday.

I just want to say, hey, anybody gets a chance.

If you see Andy Richter in public, of course, be respectful

in all of those things.

But I know this from hearing him say this in person.

How much he appreciates fans.

That's cool.

And appreciates people.

And he would get a kick out of you, man.

He would get a kick out of you.

Oh, man.

I've mentioned before about nice people and everything.

To me, nice and putting on airs being nice.

Oh, I'm meeting a fan.

I'm going to be nice, that kind of thing.

Andy Richter is just Andy Richter.

There is no airs.

There is no being anything other than him to the point

and nothing against him.

But you kind of notice this when he, quote unquote, acts.

Yes.

It's kind of Andy Richter.

It is because it's so funny.

If you think back to the early days of Conan, you know,

when he was the sidekick, you know,

and he was, you know, overweight and all this kind of stuff,

you know, the old Ed McMahon thing.

And he would be just, you know,

if they were just talking, he'd be just like, you know,

kind of a normal person kind of thing.

But then every now and then, they'd have him do a skitter

or something.

It's like, whoa, Andy Richter.

Wow.

That's really cool.

He's good.

He's good.

I love him.

He's who I'm pulling for.

I want to see him go far.

That would be awesome.

I love that he's doing this.

Yeah.

He doesn't have to do this.

I think it's cool when people, like,

there's one thing of people's, you know,

clawing for fame.

And they're 15 seconds of fame or whatever.

But then there's people like that and a couple of others we mentioned

that I think it's just cool.

And it says a lot about the show.

Yeah.

It's all like they just want to do something interesting and have fun

while they're doing it.

Yeah, that's kind of, that's cool.

Still should have Tom hosting it.

I'll say that.

Yeah.

Even though I don't watch it, I have no right to say that.

I do think Tom Berger is.

I will say the team from what I've seen and started been a whole lot.

But the team they have now is actually quite good.

They're actually very good.

That Alfonso is incredible.

Whatever he does.

He's great at all that stuff he does.

Wasn't he a dancer on the show once?

He won it one year.

He won it one year.

Yeah, he did.

To my point.

Yeah, exactly.

Man, he's talented.

And as we get ready for our news and sports break here and we hear a new update

from Melissa and everything, we're going to talk about our newsletter

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Yep.

Keep that in mind, everybody.

Some news stories are still working on.

Well, maybe some good economic news here.

CDs and vinyl albums will not be affected by the tariffs.

Oh.

They'll be exempt because they're considered, quote, information materials.

They also include cassettes, publications, films, posters, photographs,

microfilm, microfeach, CD-ROMs, artworks, and newswire feeds.

All right.

75% of which nobody, you know, necessarily uses every day.

But, you know, I'll admit, I am scraping the barrel here looking for positives here.

But, you know, I think they're important to note as much.

We can't just be a negative society.

Right.

I look at this like a lot of people call the compliment sandwich.

You know, you start off, compliment, you know, critique compliment.

You compliment.

Yeah.

I think that we can do this.

We can do this.

Yeah, exactly.

You look at some of these tariffs and look at them and say, okay, I can see exactly what that is.

That's a political move that you're using people's lives for.

Oh, right.

Exactly.

That's all it is.

And then there are positives.

Where, you know, some of it makes sense.

And in some of the, you know, some of it is electrical.

I'm glad you said that because it's, it's not, we, we have to be able to separate to these

kinds of things.

Okay.

That's something we have to do.

We have to do it every day now.

All right.

This is something it's a lot more complicated than, than we kind of make it out to be or the

news media makes it out to be.

Let's be fair.

The thing that I'm interested in in this, are we going to see a spike?

Yeah.

In CD sales and in all these, you know, all of these things that you just listed because they're

already kind of a CD's were already coming back a little bit.

They're on a lot on rise.

You've mentioned this in cassettes.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Physical media is making a comeback, kind of a comeback right now.

And I wonder if this might just be another catalyst that boom, we see an explosion of CDs

and other physical media.

So it could be a real positive to come out of this.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Exactly.

You'd be really interesting to see.

Yeah.

Definitely going to be following a lot of that story and seeing where that goes.

We will follow Melissa's news and Mike Sports and our partners here and we'll come back and

we're talking about this new viral trend, this great lock in viral trend going on.

We'll get into that and sound probably old.

We'll be coming.

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Kent.

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Welcome back everyone.

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Hope you're having a good one out there.

We may be behind on this one.

It's already gone viral.

It's already been around.

So it may be getting to the story late.

That sounds about right for us.

Yep.

It really does.

Or it may be that we're getting information to people that they did not know.

There you go.

Have you ever decided to make a healthy change in your life but purposely held off on starting until January 1st?

New Year's Eve making those resolutions and everything.

Just so you can make the resolution and then of course bail out a month later.

Right.

Well now you don't have to wait until New Year's Eve.

There's a huge, a huge, and I mean huge trend on social media right now called the Great Luck Inn.

The idea is similar.

You commit to making a change now and carrying it through to the end of the year.

Oh, okay.

It's supposed to be a way of, quote, fully hyper-focusing on a task, goal or activity.

Across the final 100 plus days of 2025.

Okay, makes sense.

It doesn't have to be traditional resolution, quote, unquote.

It's just meant to be a way to shake off the summer laziness and quote,

lock in on success for the next few months.

Okay.

Yeah, okay.

I hear you.

Yeah, yeah.

According to Know Your Meme, I don't know what that is.

Is that a website?

What is that?

I think that might be a website.

Yeah, it is, yeah.

And K.Y.

Know Your Meme.

Wow.

This is the first time I've ever heard of this.

I gotta look what that is.

According to Know Your Meme, the original Great Luck Inn post started gaining steam

a few weeks ago.

And now a ton of people have joined and quote, and quote, joining public,

uh, public, uh, publicly is just a way of holding yourself accountable.

Oh, I see.

So putting this out there in social media is instead of just what we were talking about,

maybe with significant other or something, you're doing this to the masses.

Yep.

Interesting.

Wow.

Depending on your, uh, reach, it's also a way to get supporters and followers.

Mm-hmm.

Of course, the concept isn't totally new.

People are pointing out that it's essentially a rebrand of last year's winter arc.

75 hard and several other self-improvement online quote challenges over the years.

Sure.

Sure.

Yep.

All that said, um, and, you know, we making jokes about the silliness of viral things and all that,

uh, the new planking, whatever we're talking about here.

Sure.

If there's some positive to come out of it, I'll take it.

Yeah.

And it's, you know, it's a funny thing about fans like this.

Is it will stick with some people?

It will absolutely work for them.

It's just, it's, nothing is a one-size-fits-all.

Mm-hmm.

We have to, we have to realize that, right?

Yes.

You know, that's why I know there's no magic diet plan for everybody because, yeah, it's gonna work for some people.

It's not gonna work for other people.

We are individuals, you know, we've all had a very unique experience going through this life

and different things are gonna work for us.

But I'm sure there's get, for some people, it's gonna be great.

And then I think they'll be like, wow, this is the most amazing thing I've ever done.

Yeah.

You know, I like the idea of this.

I also note, note, one of the things that we, I didn't have a chance to bring up,

we were talking about the weight gaining and weight loss of, you know, being with a partner that's on a weight loss

or a program or something along those lines, is the, a lot of the younger generations are pulling away from relationships.

And this is another example of that to me.

And we're wanting that accountability from others and from strangers.

We're wanting that.

Yeah.

When you're not able to get it, you know, tap into it at home or a more intimate relationship.

Right, yeah.

I also, I, you know, there's been a couple of articles that kind of made this into, well,

some people just trying to get more followers or whatever.

But out of those followers, there might be people who are influenced in a positive way.

Exactly.

Exactly.

That's why we cannot judge social media as a whole.

Just like, I mean, I think that's been a theme this morning.

We've been kind of going over this.

It's like, you know, we, yes, technology can be bad.

Technology can also be good.

There's ways we can use it.

The technology itself is not the issue.

It's how we use it.

And that's always what it's going to be like.

That's the issue we'll always have to deal with.

My sister was having so much trouble putting on turning on my Papa's PC.

The first real computer, her, I ever were on or anything like that.

She's throw frustrated with it.

And my Papa jokes with her, you know, the computer is only as smart as a person working

at Gill.

It's had a jam.

It's your error.

Yes.

And whatever we're talking about, human beings got to take some responsibility on it.

And when it comes to anything in technology, especially, especially, AI doesn't run itself.

You know, none of these things are running on their own here.

No, nothing like that.

It still needs the human element.

You're right.

Absolutely.

When it comes to some of this, you got that human element of accountability in there.

Maybe encouragement.

Some of that.

So, I don't know.

I don't see a downside.

I do pull back on the part of it being new.

That part, that part of it.

Like, come on.

Not only is it not new compared to those other, you know, viral trends, I mentioned.

But this isn't not new from the first person that gave a New Year's resolution.

Right.

Exactly.

I mean, there's been a thing for a long time.

It's been a very long time.

This obsession with it has to be new in order for it to be good or interesting or anything like that.

That gets a little old to me.

That gets a little, I'm all for change.

I'm all for growth in those things.

Right.

But there are some things that are just, you know, it's all right that we did this before.

Right.

And a lot of new, quote unquote, new things are just reworked old things, right?

Yeah.

I said it this morning on the sun ratio.

There's nothing new under the sun, right?

A lot of the stuff has been done and tried before.

And maybe it's been gussied up a little bit, you know, put a little paint on it or whatever.

And brought out once again, here we go.

It's new, you know, nothing new under the sun, but the moon is a different story.

Oh, I like that line.

That's not in the Bible.

The one line is that one.

You can go to hellomagazine.com if you want to read this complete article and find out more about this.

Or I suppose you can go to TikTok.

I probably find out more.

You probably hear someone talking about it on TikTok, right?

Yeah.

There you go.

One of the other things I was looking for here is, you know, if there is a more of this than not, like a lot of people doing this that are trying to lose weight.

Or a lot of people that are doing this to try to build up their metabolism or their endurance and racing.

Sure.

I haven't seen anything that's really locked in there.

It seems like just a wide variety of stuff.

Yeah.

It could be, well, they make it vague enough, you know, it's like a goal.

What is your goal, right?

This is just, so it can be one thing, maybe it can be multiple things.

So, yeah.

We wanted technology to bring us closer together.

And it didn't really do that.

We've heard a million people talk about it.

You've read a billion articles about it.

It's kind of divided us in some of these things and stuff.

But that's early.

We're so early into this process.

Still early.

We can make that happen still.

We can be more connected because of technology still.

We're so early in this.

We talk about it a lot, or at least I ramble about this all the time about our country.

Our country is a teenager.

We're teenagers compared to the rest of the world.

America ain't that old.

It's understandable that there's going to be growing pains.

It's understandable that there's going to be times where it seems like the sky is falling in some of these things.

That ain't meant we'll be fine.

We will be here.

We're going to be here after that.

We've handled hard days before in this country.

It's the same kind of thing there with this.

I'm touching on the technology angle real quick.

Think about something.

We've had the internet since 1995.

That's 30 years.

Sorry, 30 years, my math.

30 years.

We've had it widely available.

Now it was there for years before that, but it just wasn't widely available to people.

Think about this.

The horseless carriage, the automobile came out basically in the 1890s.

That's when it really started to be sold as a consumer product.

Car culture, as we know it today, did not come until about the 1950s.

That's 60 years, everyone.

And it's hard to see that now because cars are a way of life in the United States and most of the world.

It's ubiquitous.

It's something we'd take for granted, but it took a long time for it to become what it was.

And along the way, there's naysayers.

I'm never giving up my horse.

What are you crazy?

That car will break down.

My horse never breaks down.

All the arguments that you hear about new technology, it always comes out and all these kinds of things.

So it's like to your point, man.

It's still early.

It really still is early.

And it feels, I know it feels a lot like it's accelerating every day.

It's faster and ever, all these things.

In a way, yeah, but in a way, no.

Because we're still humans and we still have to deal with it.

And it takes us a while.

Well, and while I think it's a perfect example and very well said by you with the car example,

one thing that it stands out to me, cars, they grew, they changed a little bit here and there.

Technology in those 25 years.

Within the first day, it evolved.

And then the next day it evolved more and more and more and more.

And we haven't really been able to keep up with the technology.

Exactly.