Buns. Clocked It. (Hour 1)

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

Sometimes I'm right, and I get me wrong. My own beliefs are in my song.

Time for the morning show here on 97-5 FM, 13-20 AM WFHR.

Locally grown radio, got your host James Bindemike, joined by our head of production, our co-host, Seth Hebhagger.

Good morning. The other end of production, our great co-host, Laura.

I am also the head of production, hi.

Yes, also head of production, what I meant to say as well as trying to say that.

I got to get my writers working on this. I need a better teleprompter.

We got fun things lined up for you, everybody.

We're going to get into a bunch of stuff this morning.

We kicked things off the way we like to with our good friend, Brittany Merlot.

How you doing, Brett?

Oh no, we lost her.

Oh no, she was here. No, she's gone.

I was so excited.

It's, I do it all right, Brittany.

It's really cold out there right now.

Might want to wear a sweater or something.

But then around noon, it's going to get really warm.

And then you're going to want to take that sweater off.

And a little bit later, it's going to get a little bit colder again.

You're going to want to bring that sweater back.

This is Brittany Merlot from WFHR.

You can fuse ready with Don Cornelius, I think, is what you did there.

That's what it was. Yeah.

No, that's how my Brittany impression sounds too.

Oh, wow. Maybe you're off.

Maybe I am. Maybe I'm the one that's not right on the Brittany.

Please, please, nobody tell Brittany I did that.

Please, we wanted to come back.

Oh, we do, we will get our forecast in there for you, everybody.

Yes, it is, it is going to be a nice start to the week from what I saw on it.

That's what it looks like as a cover reporter on weather and everything.

It's just some good stuff.

We'll be talking about Brittany tomorrow.

I'm sure.

We also got plenty of other great things lined up for everybody.

We got to kick things off with talking coffee.

Is it a national coffee day?

Oh, we're back to coffee day.

Oh, yay.

Get into the Elcafe birthday and anniversary club a little bit later.

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Clocking it.

We are clocking it a little bit later.

What aren't they saying?

Those teenagers.

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A poll that found it if you're under 30.

You probably are no good at reading clocks.

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You're clocking it.

One, I really...

Nice.

What I really wanted to get into.

What food was the biggest disappointment once you finally tried it?

Oh, we will dive into that one.

That's all interesting.

Yeah.

Should be good.

My thinking cap for that one.

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It takes you a little snappy times in the morning.

Coffee.

Coffee can do that.

Sure.

And it is national coffee day.

And coffee has definitely been on most people's minds by this point in the morning.

If you're just getting going, maybe not, but yeah.

Here are some coffee themed stories and promotions making the rounds online right now.

You know, celebrating this day.

Of course, Seattle, you know, is going to celebrate.

Oh, sure.

There was a time when Seattle was the coffee capital of the US, but is it still?

An annual report on the best coffee cities in America ranked 100 cities based on things

like local coffee population or popularity.

A coffee roasters and shops, coffee spending and prices and coffee culture.

And this year, Portland, Oregon came in number one.

Of course.

Oh, Oregon.

I was going to say if they managed to not do Portland, it was going to be Portland.

If they stolen the crown, man, wow, followed by Orlando.

Long Beach, California.

Okay.

Miami, Seattle, Tampa, San Francisco, Austin, Texas, Oakland, California, and Pittsburgh.

Pit.

Yeah.

Pittsburgh.

That was sure.

Okay.

Let's roll that in one in there.

Okay.

Okay.

Okay.

Somewhere over Laredo, Texas brings up the rear at number 100 among larger cities.

Detroit is one of the worst at number 97.

Okay.

Memphis at 94 and Cleveland at 88.

Okay.

Wow.

Here's the thing though.

Two things.

One.

How many coffee days do we have?

I feel like we've already had like three of them this year.

It seems that way, doesn't it?

Right.

And then also, I would literally have coffee in any of those cities plus more.

So like it's fine.

That's a great point.

That's why they have like one coffee place.

We're good, right?

Right.

Right.

Well, even it's fine.

Even a small community like Rapids.

How many coffee shops do we have?

We've got at least three.

Like four?

Maybe five?

I don't know.

Yeah.

Three local ones and two chains.

Mm-hmm.

If you stretch it to Steven's point, we have over.

Oh my gosh.

There's so many.

So many.

If somebody told me there was a thousand coffee shops in central Wisconsin, I would not

be shocked.

No.

I think you're right.

Chicago came in at number 30.

Minneapolis at number 23.

I don't know why, but I'm not seeing Madison and Milwaukee on this list.

So therefore, it is not a real list.

There.

No, you're right.

I've never done this before.

Madison would be shocking they weren't on there, actually.

Wallet hub is a great site they've done good by us for a long time.

They do great data.

They're one of the sites where I don't have to double check their data very often and everything.

But this is the one they've ever done.

You may have to.

Sounds like they've got a Wisconsin-shaped blind spot.

Oh my gosh.

Huge one.

How do you not have?

So I think that anybody has spent time in this state.

You see how popular coffee is, especially in Madison or up in Appleton across a lot of our areas over there.

I don't know Milwaukee as well with the coffee thing, but I'm guessing that...

Isn't they do their share?

They do their share, yeah.

How weird would it be if Karen Rapids and Point and some of these places that we have this influx of tons of coffee shops with the rest of the state?

Like, ah!

All right.

That seems weird.

That would be shocking.

If they did it per capita, that would be interesting to see how we rate in here.

That would be interesting.

How many coffee places per person do we have?

More coffee stats?

66% of Americans say they drink at least one cup daily, up nearly 7% from 2020.

Oh, okay.

Wow.

It must be the new influx of adults.

Hmm.

You were now allowed to drink coffee, yes.

Congratulations.

Or the opposite.

I like the idea of from 2020, which we all know what happened around that time and everything.

As parents, we are just like, you know what?

You want a coffee fight?

Right.

Even the worst thing we've been doing.

They were already drinking it and now they're adults.

That's like, let's just go ahead.

Now you can be counted, right?

Specialty coffee is surging in popularity for you.

Yeah.

80% of adults say that they're into specialty coffee, up from 37% in 2021.

Would you say that is just your kind of flavored coffee?

I think that it's part of it.

Is that more of a like a local roaster?

Is that a specialty coffee?

Or are they talking, is it something less specific?

I think it's more than just like your regular dark roast light roast.

I think it is.

Like a local roaster, right?

Yeah, yeah.

If they do.

But I don't know if it's like specifically for, you know, we added flavor or, you know,

this other whatever, you know, thing to it.

If it's a local coffee shop, it probably counts.

Yeah.

I have no idea.

Or are they talking about a coffee drink with whipped cream on it?

Is that what makes it specialty?

Maybe.

I don't know.

I make some specialty coffee at home when I tell you.

We have in the state and they're not sponsors, but I'm going to shout them out anyway.

In the state of Wisconsin, bear's brothers coffee.

Water talent is where they're from.

And I don't know how they do it, man.

They have all these different flavors and they somehow are, they infusion of these aromas.

It's amazing.

I don't know how they do it.

It's so good, though.

Oh, man.

My coffee is currently brewing, so I'm having a hard time over here.

Concentrating.

I said, coffee is coming.

Coffee prices have been soaring largely due to tariffs and weather.

Last month, the average price of a pound of ground roast coffee, $8.88, up 40% from a year ago.

Whoa.

Yeah, I don't think you're going to see those prices go down anytime soon.

I've seen some information about Brazil.

You know, one of the top coffee bean producers in the world.

Most of their stocks go into China because they don't have tariffs.

And actually, China's become like a huge coffee place country.

They've got them all over.

They're like the top coffee-drinking country now.

That's fine.

We'll be fine.

This year, a study showed that coffee can boost your mood.

We talked about this.

Regular caffeine drinkers feel happier and more enthusiastic after a cup.

And that joy lingers more than two, five hours.

And we also did a study show that we talked about a study that showed that drinking caffeinated coffee daily

is associated with a lower risk of death, particularly heart issues.

Okay.

But only if you don't drown it in a ton of cream and sugar.

Right, right.

The sugar will get you.

And we also did a study found that coffee drinkers do live longer.

But only if you stop drinking it by noon.

All day coffee addicts don't get the same benefits.

Okay.

Yeah, but I need that 3 p.m.

It could even be long excited about the surface.

And I'm going to keep doing it, too.

It could even save you from sedative, sedative issues.

It raises a study found sitting on your butt all day.

It might not be good for you, shocker.

Shocking.

But maybe not if you drink enough coffee that coffee drinkers who still sit all day are 24% less likely to die.

Right, because my heart's going like I've been running three miles.

Deal the rabbit beating heart, you know.

Would you give up coffee or mac and cheese?

In a recent poll, 56% of Americans claimed that they'd be willing to give up coffee before giving up mac and cheese.

Those people are crazy.

What?

Much more easily give up mac and cheese and coffee.

Yeah.

I've given up mac and cheese before.

That's no big deal.

James, I'm curious about you, mac and cheese guy.

What do you want?

And then you're also a coffee guy.

I really do love mac and cheese, but I cannot think I feel bad for mac and cheese in this scenario.

They don't stand a chance.

Who's choosing mac and cheese?

I don't know.

There's inlays.

Are they the monster people?

The people who don't drink coffee, but they'll drink an energy drink right there.

Red Bull folks.

There you go.

I don't know.

Who else is doing that?

Yes, serious.

Anyway.

And if you love coffee, explore what's out there.

A blind taste test found 45% of us are drinking a roast we think we like when we actually prefer something else.

For example, a third of people who say that they like.

A third of people who say that they like dark or medium roasts actually prefer one that's lighter.

Well, that's okay.

I thought that was obvious.

Actually, I didn't know that.

I just recently found out if you're just drinking black coffee, it's actually lighter roasts are better.

Yeah.

In general, than the darker roasts.

Right.

I wasn't at that.

Really?

Oh, I thought it was the other way around, but.

It was obvious.

Maybe if you're fortunate, maybe you do remember.

Maybe you don't, but I don't think a lot of people necessarily remember who helped them tie their shoes or certain things.

Like there's certain stuff in life we just kind of find out or figure out or were taught.

I don't know that anybody ever sat me down and said, James, this is the type of coffee you would like.

Try all these coffee.

Right.

We just inherit our coffee from whatever our parents are guarding.

Basically.

Basically.

This actually makes a lot more sense.

I didn't really thought much about it.

Yeah.

No, I've thought a lot about it, but I'm also a person who will buy a different bag of coffee every time I buy a bag of coffee.

Hey, well, that's not trying new things.

Right.

And so I've explored that, I guess.

There you go.

Because I have had partners who like very, very dark roast coffees, and I knew I didn't like that.

There's something else.

I've always skewed a little lighter after that.

Yeah, that makes total sense.

And you know, maybe when I was younger, I'd be one of those purers.

Oh, drink black, straight black coffee, whatever.

Now I like trying the flavors.

I do, because I think that's interesting and it's fun.

It's fun.

So yeah.

I like to go try mine a little bit.

Yeah.

I like my taste buds.

I like to, you know, I don't hate them.

So I have stopped just drinking just black coffee.

But everyone's strong black coffee.

I think they like the black coffee, everyone's a little wild.

You're thinking of you.

Yeah.

Yeah.

National coffee day.

A lot of places offering cream coffee deals, of course.

Dunkin' Starbucks.

Coffee bean and tea leaf.

Circle X.

You know, Panera.

A bunch of them.

Yeah, one around you.

Be sure to check them out.

Yeah.

Other places have deals for coffee and other goodies, including Krispy Kreme and Dutch Bros.

and Shake Shack.

Stuff that we don't have around here.

Yeah.

Nope.

You can go to your local coffee shop and have a really dang good cup of coffee.

That's right.

And there are places.

Thank you, Agent Cooper.

There are places online where you can grab some coffee deals.

Atlas Coffee Club.

Eight o'clock coffee.

Cureg.

A lot of them are offering big deals on their products online today.

And yes, as Laura said.

Most importantly, we encourage you to support our local coffee shops in our area.

Yeah.

Got a lot of them.

So, hey, go to, you know, have a cup at each one.

Yeah, that's right.

Yeah, support them all.

Enjoy.

You know, you can add variety of to your morning.

But maybe not all of them today, yes.

And oh, no, don't want to do that.

So, vibrating.

And do keep in mind that we are always looking for sponsors around here.

So, you call local coffee shops.

Can't think of a better place for you to advertise.

You know, James, the morning show.

Yeah.

Great place.

You know, our logo is even a cup.

I mean, a coffee cup.

There's our logo.

A coffee cup.

There's our logo.

We could not be more set up for you.

Did I mention I'm about to drink some coffee?

That could be your cup.

She could be mentioning your cup right there.

It's good.

You should have reached out to ourselves.

You'll find a jackalope on it.

424-1300.

We'd love to hear from you and be a part of things here.

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And stick around.

Because we got good stuff coming up with the LKFA birthday and anniversary club.

It is Laura Seth and James right here.

I love morning show.

Happy birthday to you.

Happy birthday to you.

Happy birthday to you.

It's time to do a little bit of celebrating with our great friends over at LKFA and the

birthday and anniversary club.

We encourage you to treat yourself tomorrow when they open their doors at 221 Market Avenue

and beautiful boardedwards.

Hoping they're having a nice off Monday right here and getting ready for the week ahead

because they got some great stuff going on.

Find out about those specials and more at their Facebook page.

Get on over there today.

Type it in your search bar.

Like what they're doing over there.

Buy local support, local support, our friends at LKFA.

Wish them a great week ahead.

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And of course get us those birthdays and anniversaries.

We love celebrating with you.

Yes.

Info at WFHR.com.

You can email us.

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And you can call a line up.

715-424-2600 if you want to talk to us.

But if you'd rather talk to Pam, wait until tomorrow and call 424-1300.

Yes.

Either way, just get it to us everybody.

We look forward to celebrating with you all.

Thank you so much everybody.

You got us birthdays and anniversaries to kick off our week.

I need a one or two.

Laura, you'll be in with us tomorrow.

So I'm going to put Seth on there.

One or two.

Ah, one.

I think it's as they call us random.

Oh, okay.

And first up, I want to wish very happy birthday to Pamela Jean Stern, mail off.

Oh, happy, Pam.

Happy birthday, Pam.

Happy birthday to the strongest and smartest human being I've ever known.

And that is exactly the way you wrote it, mom.

Exactly.

Well, she didn't write my script and I'm a big fan.

Very nice.

We had to put it off a little bit.

But yesterday we finally had time in the morning to go down to the river

and celebrate the new year as it Jews tend to do and everything.

And we had a, it's always a meaningful moment for her and I.

Me in particular, I will say it's the closest I feel to some of those things.

But I don't expect to laugh with her.

And I forget sometimes I focus on her, her intelligence or her superstitions

or some of the other things that have commented on her.

I forget how darn funny my mom is sometimes.

I just got a great dry sense of humor.

Oh, you had to get it from somewhere.

Yeah, love it.

Just appreciate her very, very, very much.

I hope she is having a great start to the day.

And we'll talk to you soon, mom.

Talk to you soon.

Happy birthday, Pam.

We also didn't want to note how many years of service my mom put into this area,

working over in McMillan and some other places like that in this area.

I really do appreciate that.

And I know how many great relationships she's made through there.

So all her library, friends and family out there would want me to mention that.

Yeah.

Have a great day, mom.

Have a great one.

And we wish a very happy birthday to another friend of ours around here.

Mozelle Stoiber.

Oh, happy birthday, mom.

Yeah.

Happy birthday, Dr. Mo.

Of course, you know her and Aaron and the team over there and Cory and everybody.

Or running things over at Stoiber Healthcare.

We wish all of them a very happy morning and enjoy your day, Mo.

It's good for you.

Yep.

And we wish a happy birthday to our friend, Pam Denny.

Oh, another Pam.

Happy birthday, Pam.

Our qualify.

We like a Pam around here.

We like the Pam's.

We may be biased towards Pam's right here.

I think we are in a little bit.

That's all right.

Pam has been getting us this birthday for quite some time.

We appreciate that, Pam.

Enjoy your day.

You're our qualifier today.

Mm-hmm.

Congratulations.

Congrats.

We take a look at who you share your birthdays and anniversaries with.

Halicy is 31 today.

Oh, Halzy.

Halzy.

Yeah, yeah.

Halzy took me a minute.

She's a fantastic singer, songwriter.

Yeah, yeah.

I didn't know her really that much until she did her.

I don't know.

I think it's her latest album she did with Trent Reser and Atticus.

Atticus Finn from Atticus Ross from Ninage Nails.

Yes.

And my God.

What a singer.

Mm-hmm.

Well, she does some pipes.

She does some stuff with her voice.

I don't feel like I've heard singers do before.

Yeah, that's awesome.

She's good.

Happy birthday, Halzy.

Great singer.

Great songwriter, too.

I like her lyrics.

One of the greatest big men shooters of all time, Kevin Durant is 37.

Mm-hmm.

Very, um.

It's only 37.

God, it's been around for so long.

Yeah.

One of those guys in his age is only going to.

Only.

His game is only nice.

His game is only going to age with him, too.

Is he such a three-point shooter, such a arc from there?

One of the better nicknames, too, in basketball.

I think the Slim Reaper.

Yes.

Classic.

It's a great nickname.

Calvin Johnson, 40 years old, former Detroit Lions wide receiver,

and all the time, great Hall of Famer.

Holds all the wide receiver records and Detroit.

All of them.

Yes.

Probably well for a while.

Zachary Levi is 45.

Shazam Stark.

He also was Kurt Warner, an American underdog.

He was Flynn and Tangled.

I was in the Thor movies a little bit,

and got his break as Chuck.

Yes.

And he showed Chuck.

He was supposed to.

Chuck.

Let's see here.

Oh.

Greatest bass player I've seen.

Sorry, Flee.

Sorry.

But Les Claypool.

Oh, sure.

62 for Singer, bassist for Primus.

Oh.

Yeah.

Seeing people.

Primus.

Just like smash around to the South Park song.

I will never forget that as long as I live.

It's great.

Mark Farmer is 77, original singer for Grand Funk Railroad.

That's right.

All right.

Mark left the band in 98, but they replaced him and moved on.

They are still touring, I believe.

Good for them.

There was a moment in time where Grand Funk Railroad was touring

and they were building up such steam

that they were opening for Led Zeppelin.

Big deal.

That's a big deal.

There was a show in particular where the crowd

was so rowdy for Grand Funk Railroad

that Zeppelin would not go on for a half an hour

because they didn't want to follow what just happened.

That's hilarious.

That's crazy.

Led Zeppelin.

Of all bands.

Wow.

Like any great American band you could think of right now.

They're insanely famous.

That's what they thought was going to happen

in the Grand Funk Railroad.

Right.

Well, they were an American band.

They were.

You beat me to the joke.

I was working on it.

Got you.

Bright Gumball 77.

Oh.

Wonderful journalist and talk show host

are a really morning show host for a very long time.

It's really where he made his bones.

And a whole other generation got to know him

as a sports reporter on HBO's Real Sports.

Real sports, yeah.

The Gumball's though incredible journalist.

Mike Post is 81.

Wow.

Genius who wrote theme songs.

Oh, just a couple.

Magnum PI, the 18, Hillstreet Blues, Quantum Leap,

The Rockford Files, Dougie Houser MD,

the greatest American hero.

Maybe the great theme song of all time.

Oh, you know, yeah.

Just top it off all three law and order series.

The song.

Yes, that they continue to use, by the way.

Yes, the same.

It's very iconic.

Kind of a cool note about all of those.

None of them sound alike.

You know, outside of the law and order ones.

No.

None of them sound alike.

That's really interesting to me.

When an artist can do that.

Whatever the medium, whatever they're doing.

No, but I was already, I'm such a nerd

that I'm trying to think of all of them in my head

and find the commonly.

Right.

Well, there's so many.

There's got to be a couple.

There's got so many.

I might have already found my rabbit hole for later.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, there's a lot of them.

The Mike Post rabbit hole.

The great Ian McShane is 83 today.

Elsewhereanger on Deadwood.

He swore so much is that character having the name

Elsewherean.

That had to have been inside Joe.

That had to have been.

Blackbeard in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies.

He was also brother Ray in Game of Thrones.

Six season.

A lot of people know him from a couple.

Quite a few different things.

But just incredible actor.

He was also in the John Wick movies recently.

Yes.

He was, if you remember, way back 1990s.

Ian McShane was Lovejoy on A&E.

It's the first thing I remember him from.

That's that was his first big break.

A while to see him as Lovejoy.

Let's see what he's turned his career into.

Completely.

Yeah.

A while.

And some people no longer with us.

In both names, as Seth and I were touching on,

you have to mention if you're going to talk about the history of music.

Jerry Lee Lewis.

Rock and roll pioneer.

You're immortalized so many different things.

I remember as a kid watching the Jerry Lee Lewis movie.

My balls fire.

Dennis Quaid did.

We know the writer in that one.

There is a ton to say about this guy off the field.

Boy isn't there.

It all is noteworthy and needs to be remembered and said.

At the same time, change the face of the way music was looked at.

The way the piano certainly was.

He had a tremendous influence.

There's a lot of history of rock like that where there are people

who are less than stellar, but they changed rock music for what it is.

In Gene Autry, Born in the State in 1907.

The singing cowboy.

Singing cowboy.

Got five stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Each for a five different categories.

Radio TV movies, records and live performances.

He's been in the country, Hall of Fame since 1969.

And one of the definitive names of country music.

He wrote and recorded one of the most iconic Christmas songs of all time.

Rudolph, the red nose reindeer.

That was Gene Autry.

The OG one.

That's right.

He corroded it too.

Yeah.

Fantastic.

One of my first favorite actresses and first crushes,

if I'm being honest at everything.

The wonderful Madeleine Khan Born in the State in 1942.

Well sure.

As a kid growing up, loving Mel Brooks movies,

how could you not fall in love with Madeleine Khan?

Yeah.

You and everybody else, man.

Yep.

Yep.

She used that marvelous voice that she had for such good comic effect.

Yeah.

I mean, even if you watched other stuff she went in,

not Mel Brooks stuff, she was, man, she was so good.

Madeleine Khan had a delicacy with her voice that could cut through glass.

Yes.

It doesn't make sense to what she heard.

Her voice was excellent.

Oh.

That was so good.

God, I love her.

Great actress, great actress.

And we're hoping you have great birthdays out there,

every one of you celebrated.

Thank you very much.

I wish you all a wonderful birthday and a wonderful day.

Enjoy.

And get us more of these birthdays and anniversaries

so we can celebrate with you and ramble about you too.

Woo.

Get us, get them to us.

Everybody so we can celebrate with you

and make plans ahead to El Café tomorrow.

Over there, we wish them a great one for today.

Enjoy your day off, everybody.

Mm-hmm.

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When we come back, we'll be clocking it, or will we?

We'll figure out what that is.

We'll find out what that is.

We'll figure out what that means.

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We got to get into some terminology right now.

We're going to improve all of our lexicon's out there.

No matter how old you are,

going to make you feel young, get you some new key words

that the kids are saying.

The young people are saying.

Get your learning hats on.

And just by that sentence alone,

I have now killed whatever it is I'm about to say.

Whatever moment.

I destroyed whatever it is.

Oh, that wasn't the goal.

Mm-hmm.

You know, it challenges them.

Makes them another way.

There you go.

We take over these words.

They're going to come up with new stuff and everything.

Is your teenager's newest, new favorite phrase, clocked it?

No.

Google says searches for it just hit an all-time high.

All right.

It means what you think to notice something

and make a mental note at clocked it or noted.

I always said noted.

I guess that's not a thing anymore.

But kids are usually using it in a much broader way

than their parents would.

A TikTok mom explained that the difference ways she's seen it used.

They might say, your nails look nice, clocked it.

Or they might hear some juicy gossip and say,

ooh, clocked that tea.

It's been popular on social media since last year,

but it's trending right now, particularly because more kids

and parents have been hearing it since the new school year started up.

Oh, that's when the all-the-new phrases get bandied about.

And really thought about that.

To make sense though.

Yeah, over the summer.

Yeah, yeah.

Using the, now, hmm.

So you used to have, I never experienced this or anything like that.

I honestly, I thought that going to camp,

like kids going to camp in the summer,

was just a movie and TV show thing.

Show me too.

Seriously me too.

I thought that that was just something that made me doubt.

I didn't think that was real life.

It turns out we were just poor.

Yeah.

Turns out we were just poor.

I wasn't that sit there.

That's hilarious.

That was hilarious.

I was wearing a laugh button.

I would hit a laugh button on that one.

When it comes to, like, the modern way of getting these words

out there and everything, I wonder how much of that has gone away

because kids, they're not going away from each other

anymore in the summer.

They're still connected.

They're still talking to everything.

Huh.

I wonder if that's made it more or less or I don't know.

I don't know.

It's just constantly changing lexicon.

That's what it is.

So it's using the word clock to describe something you noticed

isn't really new at all.

Mary Webster says the first known usage was almost a century ago

back in 1929.

Wow.

Wow.

Okay.

And that is a big part of why I wanted to do this story.

Back.

I'll be honest with that.

Back.

I just think that's kind of cool.

But it's not surprising.

But I feel that they're not using it right.

Like, I know I sound old and I'm going to own that right now.

You sound very old right now, yes.

I'm only old.

But I feel like, so to me, saying those nails look good,

clocked it is redundant.

You already said the nails look good.

Oh, okay.

Like, right.

Now, with the T example, right, clocked that T,

are they suggesting that the person saying clocked it,

predicted the T that is coming out of the other person's mouth

because in which case they're using it correctly.

In any other instance, they're not.

I like the idea of, you know, the evolution of language

where we can take some things and make them new.

Sure.

Still, it's still somewhat connected to the original, you know,

what James was just telling us about there.

Yeah.

But it is different.

It's used in a kind of a new and updated way, which is great.

I mean, as difficult a language as English can be and is,

that's one of the fun parts about it is that it's so flexible.

Yeah.

It's so changeable.

That's part what makes it hard.

There's some languages like friend and not picking on French,

but it's a language that you can't update really.

It's very stuck, you know, it is a very, this is how it is

everything.

You've got all your rules and all that stuff.

English is very flexible.

It can add and subtract and all these kinds of things,

which I think makes it.

That's the fun part of English.

So, you know, why it shouldn't be surprising, I guess,

and maybe it isn't to some, maybe it is to others,

but we do this with fashion.

We do this with all kinds of things.

Entertainment in general, no matter what the medium comes back around.

Sure.

Even when you look at like there was a push with the role of radio,

with the role out of radio and then of TV,

there was a big drawback from people of going to the theaters.

But then you saw in the late 60s, early 70s,

and then into the 80s, this gigantic rush that everything had to be live

and live theater and so much of that.

A lot of TV shows back in the 70s would do live episodes

or just film live, right, exactly.

And kind of going back to that and everything.

Fashion, we talk about it all the time.

This, what was old is now coming back.

Yeah.

So, terminology doesn't seem like it's different.

No.

Yeah.

With a few exceptions, you know.

Sure.

Not as hard as I try.

The cat's pajamas, not coming back.

No, that's a bummer.

I want that.

You know, the bees need it.

Okay, but I want that.

23 ska do.

Yeah.

You have teenagers.

I do.

Do you have any interesting words flying about your house right now?

Not recently.

There's every now and then, I've heard a few that I'm like,

kind of think, I have not heard this phrase from my teenagers.

I haven't heard this one from my teenagers yet either.

But I was wondering if you had any weird ones that were currently floating about.

Because I have one.

Oh, okay.

That I was stunned by.

Okay.

So, the first week of school, right?

At first day, even, my sixth grader comes home.

And I say to them, I'm like, hey, how was your day?

Oh, buns.

And like, is that, is that bad?

Or is that, what is buns?

I love that you asked to follow up.

I had to.

I, 100%, but I don't know if I'd be brave enough as a pair to ask to follow up.

You write on.

Good, good idea.

I'd want to ask, but I don't know if I would.

I'm still not sure.

I'm pretty sure buns is a pejorative.

I have heard something similar, but not from a kid.

I've heard it on a podcast where the speaker is trying to,

he's trying to not use a certain word.

Sure.

So he's like, it was, you know, if something was bad, he would say, yeah, it was butt.

Or it was buns.

He would use buns in that sense.

So I think you're right.

I think that's what she's doing.

I think it is a pejorative term in a very, kind of funny, very mild way of saying, you know,

it wasn't good.

It was a bad day.

What was the one that all the kids were saying like a year ago?

Like for like two years and felt like they were, it went lame.

And then something that was lame or something like that.

I know what you mean, but I cannot remember.

My brain, my brain is protecting me right now.

I'm not thinking it's blocking that word.

I don't want to remember.

I don't want to either.

Because the ones my kids were using a word never the popular ones.

And I know that now deep down inside.

It's a great, great follow-up question, though, because I hadn't thought about like, you know,

what currently right now, what are some words that are going on in the area?

And what?

Because every area is going to be different.

Right.

Well, and I call my rabbit buns.

I have a rabbit.

It was just short for buddy, right?

Bones.

Like bunnies or something like that.

Yeah, like I'm just, hey, buns.

But now I'm like calling her a pejorative.

It depends on how you're saying it to the rabbit.

It doesn't matter.

I love it deeply, and she knows it.

Bones.

It makes our buns.

If in the animal kingdom, when these words get to them, and if, you know, what?

Does it mean anything?

Or am I just flapping my mouth at you?

Are they still using like to be learned radical?

Are they using words like that?

They have a good mother.

Yeah, they have a good mother.

Mother words, yeah.

I wonder if the animal kingdom is up to date on that stuff.

It's marvy.

Yes.

We will take a quick time.

I'll come back with some more fun.

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Interesting one here.

And not too surprising, I don't think, though.

In a new survey, the average kid under the age of 18 is holding a phone 52% of the

time when their parents are trying to have a conversation with them.

Yeah, that sounds right.

And it's not just a kid problem, the same parents say their partner is holding a phone 58%

of the time that they're trying to talk to them.

And keep this in mind, both partners are saying this about the other.

Oh yeah, no, I'm 100% guilty of this.

We're talking to my child with their phone in their hand.

And only 74% of parents report that they have had a device-free conversation with them the

past week, 74%.

Woo, that's a really high number.

So at least some parents are making, quote, no phone rules of certain times, like during

dinner, family movie nights, or family meetings.

Yeah, you've just got to.

Overall, 78% of parents are worried about spending a less time in real conversations with their

kids.

Can we do real quickly?

Just take a, and I admit that I might be scraping the barrel here a little bit and everything.

Overall, 70% of parents are worried about spending less time in real conversations.

That we're aware of this, that parents are putting action into it.

Can we just take a little bit of a win with that right there?

Yeah, yeah.

It shows that they're paying attention.

Yeah, as a former child, I can say that the odds when I was a kid, it wasn't a 70% of parents

caring.

I'm sorry.

Didn't see that way.

Right, and so this does feel like a win.

I'm really glad you brought that up.

Sorry.

I have to say it that way.

I have to contextualize everything.

I'm a monster.

I started out as a child, yes.

Many such cases.

Very noteworthy.

Very noteworthy.

I completely forgot where I was going to go.

That was hilarious.

That was hilarious.

That was hilarious.

That was great.

When it comes to what we do about this, I also think that it's a great idea to keep it

in mind with this one is there is no magic bullet.

There is no.

Oh, we just did this in the house and everything was better.

Like, every household is going to be different, so there is no one size fits all for every family.

Right.

And I really genuinely think that we're better off trying to merge these worlds than just being like,

as soon as you walk in the door, technology doesn't exist.

Or some of the things I just, I had a student the other night that was talking about the house

that he grew up in and how it was literally like that.

They walked in the door.

They put their phones in a bowl like you would keys or something like that.

And he did that for, I think he said four or five years, like his last years in school and all this,

came out of school and had no idea how to basically do school work on a collegiate level.

Because everything in college is on your phones and all these things now.

They have programs that are all online stuff.

So I went to college almost entirely online.

Exactly.

Yeah.

Entirely online.

We're not doing our kid.

You don't do your child any good, just, you know,

wrapping them in bubble wrap and pretending that the outside world doesn't exist.

No, you can't shield them from it.

You have to grow with it.

That's right.

That's evolution, baby.

And it's great to have parameters, you know, that's up to each individual family.

You know, what do you want to, what do you want to think is acceptable?

Yeah, I don't think you're helping anyone by just saying, you know, like any,

anytime the answer is to, you know, like just, just get rid of it.

That sounds, that doesn't sound right to me.

That sounds like something.

It's like, first of all, you can't.

And then second of all, what, what, you know, trying to do it, you're going to fail anyway.

And how does that help?

Yeah.

How does that help anyone?

Right?

Yeah.

As we've seen with late night TV quite a bit, when you tell, we're all teenagers still.

Oh, absolutely.

What your age, I don't care if you're 99 years old, you are still a teenager at heart.

As we've seen, you tell people not to do something.

What do they do?

They immediately go tell me a lot.

Late night television hasn't had decent ratings in almost two decades.

And as soon as they tell people, hey, hey, this is going bad.

You know, there you go, turn up.

They hear about late night TV, Jamie.

I mean, seriously, this is something, this is why I'm saying we are all teenagers.

None of us really grow out of this.

And I use that story kind of tied into this one.

This is kind of, I think the amount of screens in homes is where we're going next.

A TikTok mom is going viral after counting up all the different gadgets with screens her family has.

She and her husband have four kids, age two, five, seven, and ten.

She counted everything with the screen, so it's TVs all the way down to Apple Watches.

And her grand total was two dozen screens in her home.

That's about right. Yeah.

Almost half of them were TVs and is somewhat somehow have nine.

They are somewhat.

I don't know about that part.

Both adults and all four kids have their own iPad, even the two-year-old.

And her five-year-old has a second one for speech therapy.

So even so seven tablets total.

Wow.

She also counted two Apple Watches, two computers, three iPhones, an Nintendo Switch,

and a total of 24 different screens for an average of four per person.

Wow.

That is old.

That's a lot.

Now, I think this is, I don't think, I believe this is an extreme example.

And this is a larger family.

Right.

For kids, yeah.

Yeah.

But of course, you know, Mark these numbers towards your household and everything.

And keep in mind, the majority of things I just said were not entertainment-based.

They were either work-related or health-related or something along those lines.

Right.

They are still used for entertainment purposes, certainly.

But their initial intention was to, you know, the Apple Watch, in particular,

was meant to be a health device kind of thing.