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right, let's find out who remembers what a five and ten is? Do
we start Jay with you? You probably know what it is. I probably
can go right to James. I was going to say, Interstates in California.
Okay, well, I guess I should start with you then. All
right, So a five and ten also known as a five and dime store
back after World War Two. Actually I think they were first opened after the
Depression. If memory serves me correctly, they were stores where you could buy
things like the dollar store. Today you go to everything there supposedly is a
dollar. Well, back in the day that five and dime stores were prevalent,
you could buy things in the five and dime store for five cents or
ten cents. It's why they called him the five and ten cents store.
On a dime, a nickel and a dime. All right, James isn't
even way in on that. I think he just gave up before we could
get ourselves wrapped around what the five and dime store is? I was gonna
say, it's when the clock says it's five to ten. Oh, okay,
not bad. That's creative anyway, not a bad. It's good to
be creative. You got to dedicate your mind to creativity. Creation is in
my mind kind of an art. This will get me off on a tute
here because I see this story about the baby who scribbles on the walls?
Who became this? A four year old who started just scribbling on the walls
at his house, and then his mother recognized that this might be something special,
has never stopped him from writing on the wall, and now this youngster
paints every day, produces new pieces every day, including his own version of
Van Go's Starry Night. You know the piece, yeah, the song by
what's his face? Starry starry Knight? Who did that song? That was
the fellow from Canada whose name I am now Gordon Lightfoot. Anyway, So
this is a way think about what you do or them asking is a general
sort of blanket question to all of you. Have you let your children be
themselves so that they could develop into whatever it is that they were possible that
they could do that, they were capable of doing. That was a possibility
for them. This mother buys this youngster some colored pencils and so the well,
she said she didn't want him to ruin those, so she got him
some crayons as well, and then he painted every wall in the house,
the bedroom, the hallway, the kitchen, the living room, all covered
with the drawings from this youngster. And they were such that the family had
to repaint the apartment before they moved out of it. Here you go,
raised, you can always repaint. It's okay, you can always repaint.
Yeah. I think everything that youngsters do is art, frankly, and what
we It's all part of self expression, which is what painting is about.
If you go back to van go and any of the like Rubens, any
of the Impressionist artists, any of these for you today, anybody who is
able to express My friend Eric Geller is a line of dishware, and it's
basically all his paintings. If you look at it, you wonder, okay,
what's that about? But it's a creation. I'm sure that you have.
We all know somebody who is he They're a good painter, or sculptor
or somehow a poet maybe that's something also, or just a writer. If
your mind is conscious then and that's what obviously is going on with this youngster.
He had a conscious ability. Maybe it's subconscious, but it was a
natural ability. You've heard of automatic writing, right, Jay, you know
what automatic writing is? Oh, yes, it's so fascinating. Yeah,
so that's the same sort of thing as well. We have so much potential,
all of us to stay fully present during the process of growing, and
rather than focusing on the outcome, what you do is you let people.
This is how people get inhibited when they're told no, don't do that,
don't touch that, don't think Well, yeah, I guess it's hard to
tell people not to think that. Then it is to not it's let people
be who they are, let them do unless it's something that's that is will
hurt them or somebody else, And certainly in this circumstance is nothing that's hurt
is paint over the wall. But anytime you stifle somebody's passion for what would
be all right, I suppose or thinking I think that that's what killing passion
and creativity. To have somebody fit into a box or to try to get
them to think like you do. It's very dangerous for them and actually kind
of for you. There are so many how many people do you know?
I know I'm thinking of any number of people right now that I know who
are in their forties, who have had their lives shaped and formed by their
parents. For the most part, conventionality, you know, be a good
boy or be a good girl. Yeah, I've seen not heard right?
Children should be yeah, yeah, obedience, obey without question and because it
was easier for the adults. That was always my trouble. It still is.
I'm sort of I'm a light anarchist in a way because I don't think
that we should go through life without questioning almost everything that we're around. Many
things, you can appreciate something more if you understand it. I remember when
I would ask my mother why can't I do that? Because I said so,
Yeah, that doesn't tell you anything, doesn't help be anything. Then
there's that whole thing about discipline. We do need to have discipline, We
need to have law and order, we need to have rules, yep,
but that's for the greater good. Then there are the laws and the rules
that are put into effect for the convenience of those who are in power or
who have control, and that's wherein the problem lies. So I would,
I hope. And I'm thinking about my own my own children. We had
when they were here this weekend, a long chat about this very thing.
How do you how did you grow up? How did you become the thinkers
that you are? They were exposed to a lot of books, and they
read a lot, and they got a lot out of it. And hopefully,
you know, whatever the experience is, maybe you're a good kettleball player
who goes let them play kettleball or pickleball or whatever. Shape your your children
by letting them shape themselves as long as they're not doing anything to hurt themselves.
I think that's it all right. Our Christmas good News story for this
portion of the program is a focus on an Oklahoma man who seems to be
making Christmas a bit brighter for those in his neighborhood. The entire neighborhood literally
is covered in Christmas lights. This guy's name is Stephen Dunkelberg. He decided
to bring all of the lights this wonder if he will, of the holidays
of the season to his block. He noticed his house was the only one
that had the lights on it. He said, quote, I knew there
were some older people who lived on the streets, so I figured they weren't
going to hang their own lights. I knew how expensive it could be.
So he had a bunch of extra lights around and he was physically the ability
to hang him up. So he thought that he would do the right thing
and see if the neighbors wanted to have some lights put up. And then
he went around and asked everybody. So he started decorating seventeen hundred bulbs.
He had twenty two homes on the road where he lived. And that's what
better Christmas gift can you gift the people in your neighborhood to celebrate the season?
Right, And he asked everybody's permission to make sure nobody was against it.
And there are some neighbors who he who he had ever even met,
and he they became close. He's developed all these all these new relationships with
his neighbors by doing this. And he used to own a landscaping company and
one of their offerings was to hang Christmas lights, so he had no problem
scaling these roofs and yeah, hanging things up around, Yep, good for
him. What a neat. It's just neat, neat, neat, neat.
Here's another. This is sort of thinking about how people can overcome odds.
A teenager named Peter park What is the what's the what's Peter Parker?
Was that the name of the Spider Man? Yeah, this guy's name is
Peter park He's not like Peter Parker, but he is brilliant and that has
seen him become the youngest attorney in California. How about this. Listen to
this, listen talking this kind of I'm putting all of these in case you
haven't figured out what I'm doing here. I see what you're doing there,
putting all these stories together of people who have achieved a great deal and how
they've done it. This was a moment in history. He is working now
at the Tulari County District Attorney's Office. He passed the California bar and he's
seventeen. How about that. He started high school when he was thirteen.
Let's see Cypress, Californias, where he's from. He enrolled in a four
year doctorate of law degree at Northwestern at the same time he started high school.
Good for him, and so he has passed, graduated from high school
a couple of years ago, focused on law school. Graduated this year and
so he's taken the bar and he's passed it at seventeen. He says he
aspires to become a prosecutor because he's driven by moral obligation to uphold liberty,
equality and justice. About that, there's something to admire, right, His
parents are proud of him. But just think of what it took the focus
and back again to what I started with a few minutes ago, the whole
business. But let people be who they are. How do you know what
they'll amount to unless you let them and encourage them to do what it is.
I find, especially on the West Coast where there are a lot of
Evasians who have immigrated from various parts Korea, Vietnam, some Chinese. They're
very good students in the main and they are very serious about it. And
so in this circumstance, God loved this guy. Wondering what his career is
going to be like over the next twenty thirty forty years. Huh. Part
of what we do in our social media segment is focus on people who are
celebrities. Some of the trending things and one of the names that's trending today.
Jay is Alicia Keyes, who did something that surprised a lot of people.
Forty three years old. She was on a train going into London and
she got off the train and started singing, which is kind of an interesting
thing, a surprise to folks in the London train station for sure. She
played a string of her hits on a piano that had been donated by Elton
John. This is a really accomplished you know, she has fifteen Grammys to
her credit. She was in London over the weekend to headline a jingle Bell
Ball, if you will, at the Big Arena in London. So she
sang a number of songs and the people there obviously loved it. The fans
were recording. You know, everybody's got a camera, so a lot of
the stuff was posted on x. So imagine any place where you travel on
a bus, traine or even a plane and you get off the off the
plane and somebody there is singing entertaining and then you look at oh, I
know who she is. That's Alicia Keys. So good. That's kind of
private concert with a bunch of strangers at the train station. Well, when
you go to a concert, aren't they all strangers? I mean, really
and truly, but that's a bigger venue. This is more of an intimate
kind of situation. Yeah, it's like your own private concert. So did
she say what prompted her to do that? Why did she why did she
find this was the right time to do this? And I go back to
where and saw the piano. Yeah, I mean, this chanel really sits
there. It's the one that Sir Elton John had had donated and so it's
always there, kind of welcoming for anybody wants to come play it. And
she shared her incredible talents. Yeah, isn't that she got a big voice.
I don't remember quite what she looks like, but I know it's surprising
how some people like Celine Dion for example, has a big voice and she's
so slight, matter of fact, she's I saw a preview of a movie
that she's in, first time she's ever in a movie. I forget what
the name of it was, and I forget her with the other stars of
her. It's a romantic comedy and she plays herself, which is kind of
interesting. But I mean to back to having big voices as some people who
you know, Dolly Parton's got a big voice. She's not certainly slight.
And then you think about some of those operetta the opera singers. These women
have big heft and they needed to sing belt out the tunes the way they
do. So I guess it takes all types. But anyway, congratulations to
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Got to have the spirit. So where I am? I wonder if
this is going on in your community? I ask because maybe it's a suggestion
that you can make. In many communities, there are parking meters in the
downtown shopping district, right, and you forget to put the money in,
or you don't have a card or whatever it is, and so you get
a ticket. Well, in many communities, maybe these are forward thinking communities.
I don't think there should be. I actually think parking meters in a
downtown when there are so many malls and you're trying so hard to get people
to come downtown anyway, I think parking meters are dumb in most municipal areas.
But at any rate, if they have them and they're enlightened, perhaps
your town or city is going to give the folks who come downtown to shop.
Give a hand to folks who are just trying to make it the retail
folks. Parking meters free? How about that from now until Christmas? Jay
Good idea? Right, Well, especially if if you grew up or you
were you've been in an area for so long that you remember a time when
there were not parking meters on those side streets or in certain parking lots,
and all of a sudden they're there and it's like, wait, where these
come from? Why are they here now? Well, it certainly will be
open on Christmas Day, so take advantage of all of the things. We
have the annual Pops concert here in Boston, which people will see I think
PBS broadcasts at all over the all over the country. And then there are
the questions about we're going to do a special holiday Christmas and a New Year's
program for those of you who want to listen on the big days, we'll
be here, Jay and I. Anyway, the idea that there is something
else open for business on Christmas. There are a lot of people, you
know, I've had a few Jewish girlfriends in my time, and we always
go to the Chinese restaurant for Christmas because that seems to be what's open.
And you can go in any major area or small wherever there are Jewish people,
they seem to all gravitate to the Chinese restaurant on Christmas Day. Listen.
So, but I think most of especially the local restaurants, but most
of the chains too, will be closed I think on Christmas Eve and Christmas
Day. I think they're too closing early, opening late. Yeah, we
have with their family a local pizza chain that's going to be open. Also,
do you have Dave and Busters where you are and number of those?
Yeah, that's going to be open on Christmas Day here where we are.
But I'm noticing that there are more and more Christmas well Christmas Eve, more
than Christmas Day where and also well obviously New Year's Eve people want to,
you know, going to restaurants and celebrating for the most part. But let's
see here. I see the Uno Pizzeria and Grill is going to be open.
PF. Chang's is going to be open. And I'm giving you the
heads up because these are all national chains. There are some local restaurants as
well, but the national chains there seem to be more the local restaurants seem
to be closed. National chains seem to be open for those of you like
Applebee's is supposed to be open and anything on Christmas Eve. Let's see here
we have a few family owned businesses in our area that will close down for
a few days, a couple of days because they want all of their employees
too to have the opportunity to travel to be with family if that's what they
need to do, so they just fully close down, which is kind of
like good for them. Well, I think some of the restaurant the national
chains will make it be open limited hours, but you better call ahead with
a reserv Buffalo Wild Wings, Burger King supposed to be opened. See a
lot of them. Look at Chili's is supposed to be open Christmas Eve.
Cracker Barrel also just on Christmas Eve. Del Taco, Denny's, Domino's,
Duncan Donuts. Wow, five guys, they're around the country. I think
here, there, and everywhere. Golden Corral, how about you stopping there
and have some fried fish. The Eye Hops will be open. Let's see
who else do we have? The Margaritaville restaurants will be open big time.
McCormick and schmicks, you pronounce it there In a lot of big cities,
McDonald's will be open, looks like Olive Garden on Christmas Eve and the outback
the same way Panda Express open. Well, a lot of these big chains
they cater people's Christmas Eve parties too. That's kind of a big, a
big money looking day for them. Yeah. Right, anyway, you look
around and see what's what and who's who? So it's where are we?
The third, fourth day, fifth day? Wait a minute, Honkikah was
last Friday started, It's a Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday wins a
fifth day of Hanukkah and being celebrated as are a lot of other things.
I fought I find myself. I'm fighting with myself as to whether I want
to tell the story or not about this right wing nutcase in the Polish Parliament
who last night extinguished candles on a minora. They were lit for Hanukkah.
Imagine the disruption A lot of you know a lot of Jews who stayed family,
stayed in Poland after World War Two. They were pretty much extinguished.
A lot of them went to Israel, but many of them stayed there.
So obviously lots of denouncement and that sort of thing. But what motivates somebody
to be that thick? Maybe that's what it is to be that intolerant.
How does it affect you? See, this is part of the people who
are The term anti Semite is being misused and overused and improperly used these days.
But maybe xenophobia fits into it anyway. This guy, Uh, there's
he's he's worried quote unquote that Poland is going to be turned into a Jewish
state. And he is somebody in the Polish Parliament who wants homosexuality to be
criminalized. So you talk about going back to the dark ages. And there
are people, you know, in every country who agree with this one way
or another, but there to be this sort of out there with it.
He grabbed a fire extinguisher and put out the candles on it. Yeah,
so it's like it's knowing this was an accident, not his quote unquote punishment.
It's a financial penalty. So he's going to lose his pay half of
three month's salary and then per DMS for half a year. Uh. You
wonder, don't you. I wonder about people and what motivates them all right,
here's some good. The focus on a fellow who had stage four cancer.
This is something again, this is kind of a Christmasy thing because people
think more like this at this time of year. This fellow back in May
was complaining to his wife about having his stomach ache. And the wife of
the man's name is Mike Broderick's wife's name is Emily. He went to the
bathroom and he didn't like what he saw in the toilet, so he went
to the emergency room. These two people have been married for twenty five years.
They had four children, and he thought he had kidney stones, but
after he had a diagnosis turned out to be bile duct cancer. He's a
firefighter and an army veteran. His wife said he was the healthiest guy I
know. Cancer was the last thing on our mind. So anyway, he
has stage four cancer and he couldn't work, so he couldn't pay the mortgage,
he couldn't pay the insurance, couldn't pay for anything. And so apparently
there's a nonprofit called I forgotten the name of the of the nonprofit building homes
for heroes. So they stepped in to assist him by covering his insurance.
And for pay, and they paid off the mortgage on his house. How
about that, he says, humbling. He's been in the National Guard and
he became a firefighter sixteen years. A lot of the firefighters on the job
came to sit with him, spend time with him. So whether he survives
or not, I guess that's the question. He's in pretty tough shape.
But think about how much more I mean, this guy and his wife when
all of this was, when they were told what was going to happen.
Obviously we're up, we're emotionally focused. It started to cry about it well,
and getting a cancer diagnosis is shocking, let alone getting your diagnosis at
stage four cancer. Yep, that's unthinkable. But the fact that there are
people. Is there more of this goodness and light at this time of year?
Is it as common as baking chocolate chip cookies? Or do we see
it? Do we just see it and notice it more? Because yeah,
maybe mindset to look for it. Like what is that saying that we don't
see things as they are? We see things as we are? Yes,
that's a great Yeah, that's true. That habits so gratulations there. Here's
a story from an airplane pilot announcing a reveal bringing This is a Make a
Wish Foundation story famous. They are for giving children moments that they will never
ever ever forget. And here was a trick played with the help of a
pilot. This is a youngster named Jacob. He had an experience equal to
almost any other, you know, meeting some big time guy. He was
flying with his mother. The pilot came on the intercom saying that he was
proud of this young man, Jacob. Just before takeoff was you know,
put the Make a Wish people came onto the plane, told a pilot what
was going on, and so he announced it on the plane on the plane
ride. Uh, and they were bringing you my guess he was on his
way to Disney. That was part of the h that was part of the
Make a Wish thing, Yeah, sitting when so when the pipe yeah,
and when the pilot got word from Make a Wish with some very important information
about this child. And they got some people a few rows back in on
this and the pilot said, unfortunately, you no longer qualify for receiving anything
with Make a Wish. And he told the young man to turn around and
the people in the rows a couple a couple of rows back were holding up
signs saying you are cancer free. Uh huh. So he still got to
finish the wish that he was already doing and going to Disney, but learned
in that way that he was no longer free. He was cancer free.
How beautiful? Then, yeah, very nicely done, very nicely done.
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media time here and a sad notes here that is certainly on the top of
most social media trending items when it comes to celebrities. The passing of actor
Andre Brauer, who was only sixty one years old. Man, this guy
was a great comedic actor. He was serious. I think he first became
I said off the Air of You Jay remember seeing him first in Homicide Life
on the Street. But he was in Brooklyn nine to nine. He was
in movies. He was with Denzel Washington and Matthew Broderick in that movie called
Glory. Nobody seems to know why he died, but I'm guessing. I'm
I'm guessing it was some kind of cancer, because so get you fast.
YEA. Only think his representatives have confirmed that it was a recent illness.
Yeah, yeah, I remember Frank Pembleton, a name you wouldn't forget from
homicide. I think that isn't that where Munch came from too? He was
in he started was that maybe it was I think it was. I think
Bunch came from the same show, not mistaken or the Yeah, I don't
know. I just these guys they were really There was a group of really
good actors that came out of this time in television. So anyway, he
was. I saw one person saying he was a megawatt talent and an incredible
human being, apparently a very nice smile. I said to you, jam
when I was looking at some of the pictures from his career. He's got
that big, broad smile, and he had a voice. He kind of
like James zerol Jones. You know, when you heard his voice, you
knew it was him. Even if you didn't see a picture of him,
you knew it was his voice. So anyway, he went to Stanford,
I went to Juilliard and he just went got in and was popular and it
was very serious about his work. Thus he got lots of different different roles
and stuff, and I just found him to be He was in a Good
Fight, which was the offspring from the Good Wife. Remember that he was
in that. He's been in you may look around. He was in the
series Man of a Certain Age with Ray Romano. Scott Bakula was in that
as well. So he's done so much with the movie Duets along with Gwyneth
Paltrow and Huey Lewis. That was a great film. I captain Raymond Holt
in Brooklyn nine nine. Absolutely, that was a silly show. I had.
I liked it, and then I didn't. Then I went back.
You know, he was in a Thief that mini series. He was in
a film called A Soldiers Girl. I'm just looking at some of the things
on his on his resume, ten thousand black men, name George, Yeah,
eleven denominations, two wins, yep. I think he was in I'm
trying to remember what he was in with Chris and Oath. I don't remember.
Well. He was in Tuskegee Airman, remember that. Anyway, passing
of Andre Brower certainly gets noted today. Here's an item from social media following
up on a survey that has been done by several different outlets, the Pew
Research Center among them, so it has credibility studying social media use among teenagers.
Apparently it's as high as ever, what did they expect to find?
Wow, it's going now, it's not going to go down unless you figure
a way to make it go down. To convince teenagers that is bad for
them, and we've certainly had plenty of discussion about that, but it doesn't
seem to have much impact on the social media that the youngsters are using and
the tools that they're using to access this social media. Well, there's a
lot around addiction to phones and devices anyway, and something parents can do as
lead by example and curb their own addiction. I su it's not just teens.
I see so many adults that are constantly scrolling on their phone. Yep,
they are makes bad. It's just bad. Just think about that when
you use it. You just think, folks before you do it. Who
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