Speaker 1: Welcome to Wednesday's Hero. Today's hero is Richard Pittman, Lance Corporal,
Speaker 1: US Marine Corps. Name of the story is moving from
Speaker 1: rear to front. Richard Pittman was fifteen years old when
Speaker 1: he heard John F. Kennedy's ask not what your country
Speaker 1: can do for you speech and decided he would do
Speaker 1: something for his country when he got out of school.
Speaker 1: After graduation and high school in nineteen sixty three, he
Speaker 1: tried to enlist in the Army, the Navy, and the
Speaker 1: Air Force, but was turned down by each because he
Speaker 1: was legally blind in one eye. However, he managed to
Speaker 1: get accepted by the Marine Reserves. Then, at one meeting
Speaker 1: during his Marine recruiting training, an officer asked him, anyone
Speaker 1: present want to go active duty right now? Pittman immediately
Speaker 1: raised his hand. In the spring of nineteen sixty six,
Speaker 1: Lance Corporal Pittman went to Vietnam as part of the
Speaker 1: fifth Marines. By Midsummer, his unit was involved in a
Speaker 1: search and destory operations in northern part of South Vietnam,
Speaker 1: near the DMZ, which separated the south from the north.
Speaker 1: On July twenty fourth, Pittman was at the rear of
Speaker 1: his company's column near the DMZ when heavy gunfire erupted.
Speaker 1: His company had been ambushed by elements of the North
Speaker 1: Vietnamese Army in one of its first major incursions into
Speaker 1: South Vietnam. As Pittman and a Navy corman started forward,
Speaker 1: he almost colliding with the marine standing in the trail
Speaker 1: holding an M sixty machine gun. Pittman said, you going
Speaker 1: to use that weapon? The marine stared back blankly. Pittman
Speaker 1: grabbed the gun, several belts of ammunition, and moved towards
Speaker 1: the heaviest of the fighting. He was surprised by a
Speaker 1: number of dead and wounded Marines littering both sides of
Speaker 1: the trail.
Speaker 2: When his helmet was shot off, he hit the dirt.
Speaker 1: He saw the corpsman get up and tried to get
Speaker 1: to the wounded man, but he was hit and went
Speaker 1: down also. As Pittman continued on, he quickly destroyed two
Speaker 1: positions that shot at him, then standing up, cradling the
Speaker 1: machine gun in the crook of his arm and firing
Speaker 1: as he went. Pittman moved to the head of the column,
Speaker 1: where the North Vietnamese regulars were rushing his beleaguered comrades.
Speaker 2: As he reached the position.
Speaker 1: Where the leading marine had fallen. He was suddenly attacked
Speaker 1: by thirty to forty of the enemy. He calmly established
Speaker 1: a position in the middle of the trail, and with
Speaker 1: bullets whizzing past his head, he raked the advancing.
Speaker 2: Enemy with still the stading machine gun fire.
Speaker 1: He continued firing until he felt a concussion on his side.
Speaker 1: At first he thought he had been wounded, but his
Speaker 1: gun had been struck by an enemy fire and disabled.
Speaker 1: He dropped it, picked up an AK forty seven from
Speaker 1: one of the enemy soldier and he started wailing away,
Speaker 1: and he continued to fire until he ran out of ammunition. Next,
Speaker 1: he picked up a forty five pistol left by a
Speaker 1: fallen marine, and he used it to kill two more
Speaker 1: of the enemy soldiers as.
Speaker 2: They were almost on top of him.
Speaker 1: Finally out of ammunition altogether, he threw his only grenade.
Speaker 1: The remaining North Vietnamese retreated. Back at his own lines,
Speaker 1: he discovered that two thirds of his company had been
Speaker 1: killed or wounded in the intense engagement. Richard Pittman was
Speaker 1: discharged from the Marines in nineteen sixty eight, who went
Speaker 1: back home to Stockton, California, looking for work. When he
Speaker 1: learned that he was going to receive the Medal of Honor,
Speaker 1: It was presented to him by President Lyndon Johnson at
Speaker 1: the White House ceremony May fourteenth, nineteen sixty eight. Pittman
Speaker 1: re enlisted the Marines in nineteen seventy and retired for
Speaker 1: good in nineteen eighty eight, having served for a total
Speaker 1: of twenty one years.
Speaker 2: Today's Hero is Richard.
Speaker 1: Pittman born May twenty sixth, nineteen forty five, in French Camp, California.
Speaker 1: He died October thirteenth, twenty sixteen, in Stockton, California. Name
Speaker 1: of the story is moving from rear to front gets
Speaker 1: me every time.
Speaker 3: Well done, TONI and Wednesday's Hero.
Speaker 1: That first part where he looks at the marine and says, hey,
Speaker 1: you go, you're gonna use that. The Marines like you
Speaker 1: can have it. He takes it and goes up the path.
Speaker 1: And then you think of these movies you see where
Speaker 1: there's marines littered on the path as he's moving forward, right,
Speaker 1: and he goes and they're all laying there and as
Speaker 1: he's fighting, he just and that's the that's one of
Speaker 1: the reoccurring motifs of all these stories. Is that you know,
Speaker 1: once they're finished with whatever they have in AMMO, they
Speaker 1: just keep picking up the weapons of people that are dead.
Speaker 1: Whether it's the enemy's rifle or your rifle, you pick
Speaker 1: up and keep moving. It's just an amazing story. And
Speaker 1: the fact that he's like, eh, we went back to Stockton, California,
Speaker 1: needed a job. So especially the other day World War
Speaker 1: Two VET just said, you know or Vietnam Vet said
Speaker 1: they both were there and said, in World War Two
Speaker 1: you had to get on a boat and it took
Speaker 1: three weeks to get back to write home. Right, and
Speaker 1: you had you were with other guys, you talked about
Speaker 1: your experiences. You got to to to kind of level off. Right.
Speaker 1: The Vietnam guys they got on, Hey, you're out, And
Speaker 1: in twenty four hours they were standing on a street
Speaker 1: corner in San Francisco twenty four hours later, and they
Speaker 1: didn't know.
Speaker 2: That.
Speaker 1: Me. Did you hear that?
Speaker 3: I didn't hear anything in me. I didn't hear anything, Rick,
Speaker 3: did you hear anything?
Speaker 4: They saved time, But if you.
Speaker 2: Hear in here, damn it.
Speaker 1: We were gonna say, you know, I.
Speaker 3: Think you're having a stroke. I think you're having a stroke.
Speaker 3: Me Rick and I we don't hear anything.
Speaker 4: Yeah, all of my buttons are off.
Speaker 1: So if you're hearing it sound like it sounds like
Speaker 1: computer my new sound of stroke sign.
Speaker 3: Hey, if you hear a computer noise, be called number
Speaker 3: seven at five four, get hugs from Rick.
Speaker 1: Rick, find that disdained history or something like that. Find
Speaker 1: me some music that What the hell is National Geographic?
Speaker 1: Find me the National Geographic? Find me that one, find
Speaker 1: me that one, and start playing graphic music.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah right.
Speaker 1: Are you older or younger than National Geographic?
Speaker 2: Greek?
Speaker 4: Well, how is I'm younger?
Speaker 3: How does national listen hear?
Speaker 1: Uh? I'm going to say National Geographic is way way older.
Speaker 1: How old is National Geographic?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 3: You know it was eight yeah.
Speaker 1: One hundred and thirty seven. So I don't think you're
Speaker 1: there yet.
Speaker 3: So it's a tie.
Speaker 1: It's a tie. Yeah, it's close. It's a push push okay.
Speaker 3: So here, here's a story. Here's part of a story.
Speaker 3: They'll come up.
Speaker 1: Okay, I hear it.
Speaker 3: Will you hear what?
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm turning everything down.
Speaker 2: It's not me.
Speaker 1: Okay, go ahead, you have this this day.
Speaker 3: I have this day in history. So let's go ahead
Speaker 3: and get going.
Speaker 1: But today Rick, today, Okay, it's Wednesday and ten twelve,
Speaker 1: it's here, it is I think. Okay, have you been
Speaker 1: drinking today?
Speaker 5: Okay, now where the goment from?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 1: Okay, someone confirmed to me that they're hearing computers. Okay,
Speaker 1: what the hell is this?
Speaker 4: Well, this is not gonna work. This is mom for
Speaker 4: the suns.
Speaker 1: That's not okay, John saying he's hearing it too.
Speaker 3: I'll do it dry. No, unlike Rick.
Speaker 1: Drinking this morning, Rick is a confident silver Okay.
Speaker 3: Hey, uh hey, rig go ahead and take your time
Speaker 3: searching for there.
Speaker 1: I'm we're just on live radio.
Speaker 3: Hey, Tony, Yeah, I mean the guys obviously drinking again
Speaker 3: because you can just tell, you know.
Speaker 1: And they asked us, they said, look, if Rick starts
Speaker 1: to drink again, they need to know exactly.
Speaker 2: I wanted to.
Speaker 3: I wanted to smoke one last cigarette before we came
Speaker 3: in on the air. But I saw him in the
Speaker 3: parking garage. Alcohol was so strong I thought I'd explode.
Speaker 1: If they say, here's the funny thing, they say, you
Speaker 1: can't smell all you.
Speaker 3: Can smell it on Rick.
Speaker 1: Let's go back and talk to Rick.
Speaker 3: Hey, Rick doing a good job. I take your time
Speaker 3: on that, dude, because.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thing then.
Speaker 4: I'm still working on about okay, what everything?
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 5: Know?
Speaker 1: All right, let's start off this day history.
Speaker 3: All right, it was this day, nineteen forty three, April sixteenth.
Speaker 3: All this is the wreck.
Speaker 4: There we go, I get it sooner or later.
Speaker 3: Oh wait a minute, we're out of time. Right, let's
Speaker 3: take a break. It was today, April sixteenth, nineteen forty three.
Speaker 3: A Swiss chemist by the name of Albert Hoffman, unintentionally.
Speaker 1: He's good, took the first LSD trip.
Speaker 3: Really, the first LSD trip happened today in nineteen forty three.
Speaker 3: Here's what happened.
Speaker 1: Jim Morrison said, I will take that. Thank you. For
Speaker 1: four days in a row.
Speaker 3: Albert Hoffman unintentionally discovered the hallucinogenic qualities of LSD. LSD.
Speaker 3: He created the compound in his laboratory, but a small
Speaker 3: quantity accident seeped through on his skin and his finger, yeah,
Speaker 3: causing him to take a trip.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to say that I might have an
Speaker 1: experience with that.
Speaker 3: Hey uh, hey, professor Hobbman, where did you put the
Speaker 3: McKinley file. It's over there next to that Polka Dot
Speaker 3: and elephant what.
Speaker 1: The CIA did a lot of those early nineteen seventies.
Speaker 1: They believed the tap into the real power of the
Speaker 1: mind was through LSD. They failed miserably, but people volunteered
Speaker 1: for those programs. Yeah you're like, yeah, yeah, I'll do
Speaker 1: acid for one hundred days in a row.
Speaker 3: And helped Jim Morrison outcause he came up with great
Speaker 3: lyrics like Indians bleeding on the downs Highway red and
Speaker 3: a lot we want a song about a picnic, Jim.
Speaker 3: It was today April sixteen, nineteen forty seven, the zoom
Speaker 3: lens was first demonstrated. What year nineteen forty seven?
Speaker 1: Wow, then zoom lens until forty seven.
Speaker 3: This is right up your alley. It was today. In
Speaker 3: nineteen seventy two, Apollo sixteen blasted off on a voyage,
Speaker 3: Yeah to the moon.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Apollo sixteen. That is one of the last ones.
Speaker 1: I think sixteen is when they took a car.
Speaker 3: Did you see where all the ladies went up on
Speaker 3: Amazon rocketers.
Speaker 1: It seemed pretty silly to me.
Speaker 3: It was all lady crew. You know, you can tell
Speaker 3: how the right blinker was on on this rocket all
Speaker 3: the entire time.
Speaker 1: Uh. It looks ridiculous. I mean it was they how
Speaker 1: selfies the entire time, look out the window.
Speaker 3: I wonder how many times during the rocket ship they
Speaker 3: were going, are we there yet? Are we there yet?
Speaker 3: They were Are you sure you know where you're going?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 3: Do you really know where you're going?
Speaker 1: Is this gonna tell? It?
Speaker 3: Look like you think?
Speaker 1: When are we going to get there?
Speaker 3: It was today. In nineteen seventy two, the two giant
Speaker 3: pandas ling ling and sing, sing yeah, arrived in the
Speaker 3: USA from China. They were gifts to Richard Nixon from
Speaker 3: his recent visits.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, Nixon. Only Nixon can go to China.
Speaker 3: Here's two pandas. Hey. To express our gratitude, we'd like
Speaker 3: to give you this giraffe.
Speaker 1: You are a panda. You understand that I am a
Speaker 1: animal world you are a panda.
Speaker 3: Oh I am a fan like I just like fall over.
Speaker 1: They're so crazy that they roll wherever they go. They're like,
Speaker 1: I don't feel like walking, so all they do is
Speaker 1: roll head over heels and they get there. They just
Speaker 1: lay there for a minute and start eating what I'm drinking.
Speaker 3: I'm definitely a panda because all I do is eat
Speaker 3: stuff and roll around in my fat.
Speaker 1: They were trying to give the food and they were
Speaker 1: poking the panda in the back of the food, and
Speaker 1: he's it's like watching Dwight and he's laying there and
Speaker 1: he kept just hitting the guy's hand like give me alone,
Speaker 1: and he was like bang bang. But when the panda
Speaker 1: realized it was a carrot, he starts preaching for it,
Speaker 1: and he's like, but he won't, he won't roll over.
Speaker 1: He's just like, give me the carrot, Give me the carrot,
Speaker 1: Give me the carrot. And he finally gets it and
Speaker 1: slowly goes.
Speaker 3: Can't you chew it for me? Sometimes? Why my wife
Speaker 3: baby birds me?
Speaker 1: I watch Kung Fu Panda, which, by the way, that
Speaker 1: trilogy is rated as one of the greatest trilogies of
Speaker 1: all time. The Kung Fu Panda trilogy, you are put
Speaker 1: leave the weapon of you are Jack Black's panda. Watched
Speaker 1: the series and you go, oh my god, it's me
Speaker 1: to a t it's you.
Speaker 3: It was today April sixteenth, nineteen eighty three, that Emi
Speaker 3: Records began producing Yeah CDs, otherwise known as compact disc
Speaker 3: Back then, when the CDs debuted, the shelf price was
Speaker 3: twelve dollars. Yeah, I just looked up a CD on Amazon. Well,
Speaker 3: I was in there, Pink Floyd CD. How much do
Speaker 3: you think it is? Twelve dollars?
Speaker 1: Yeah, twelve dollars.
Speaker 3: But I did the I did the what do you
Speaker 3: call the inflation calculator? Twelve dollars in nineteen eighty three
Speaker 3: value today, let's take a poke at it, Tony.
Speaker 1: Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 3: Seventeen dollars rick twenty bucks, twenty six fifty three.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's quite something, all right. Yeah, I remember radio stations.
Speaker 1: I wasn't radio yet eighty three, eighty forty five. They
Speaker 1: were advertising their like this next song is played off
Speaker 1: laser disc. The clarity of a laser disc.
Speaker 3: Remember when they told us not to smoke in the
Speaker 3: KMF studio because he screwed the CDs? Yeah, okay, well
Speaker 3: we still smoked anyway. It was today in two thousand
Speaker 3: and seven. I'd forgotten about this, and shame on me
Speaker 3: for it. The Virginia tech Masker took place so far
Speaker 3: as the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history. The
Speaker 3: gunman killed thirty two people and twenty three people were
Speaker 3: injured before he committed suicide. Piece of track what year
Speaker 3: was that? Two thousand and seven?
Speaker 2: Wow?
Speaker 3: It was today? In twenty thirteen and to an envelope
Speaker 3: addressed to Senator Roger Wicker tested positive for rising, potentially
Speaker 3: a fatal poison. Also was sent to Barack Obama in
Speaker 3: a judge He later pleaded guilty with sentenced to twenty
Speaker 3: four years in prison.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't know what they're trying to recall. It's there
Speaker 1: because I'm a nobody and I don't answer. I don't
Speaker 1: open my own mail. What are you doing?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: But most of it, if you read it, you know
Speaker 1: what it is. Tear it in half, throw it in
Speaker 1: the recycling, right, No, I know this is an auto
Speaker 1: auto insurance whatever. Tear it in half, throw it in
Speaker 1: the recycling.
Speaker 3: Let me ask you a question. When somebody gives you
Speaker 3: a birthday card, how long do you sit there and
Speaker 3: make pretend that you're reading it in front of them?
Speaker 1: How are many words there.
Speaker 3: Are that dictates it? If they write stuff, you gotta
Speaker 3: kind of make face your expressions where you go and go.
Speaker 1: But be careful because here's the deal. For years, I
Speaker 1: didn't realize that if you glance down, if you're talking
Speaker 1: to a girl, and you just because it's involuntary. It's
Speaker 1: not our fault.
Speaker 3: They're magnets.
Speaker 1: They're magnets, so you just it's the one second you think.
Speaker 1: For years, I thought I did a boot boom back up,
Speaker 1: No you can't. And they know I didn't realize that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they till like a couple of years ago called boob
Speaker 1: dar it is and you don't know how fast. The
Speaker 1: same thing is with the money and the car. So
Speaker 1: when you open it, you can't do the side eye too?
Speaker 1: Is it two fifties?
Speaker 3: No, you got it. Listen, you never count your money
Speaker 3: while you're sitting.
Speaker 1: At the table. Just yeah, let me write that down.
Speaker 3: Let's do let's do one more and we'll get out
Speaker 3: of here. It was today. In twenty eighteen, Kendrick Lamar
Speaker 3: became the first rapper and non classical or jazz musician
Speaker 3: to win the Pulitzer Prize for his album Damn. It
Speaker 3: was a tribute album to the great Florida Evans record.
Speaker 1: Damn, Damn, Damn. That's the wrong Florida Evans, Damn Damn Damn.
Speaker 3: Then you got the Jack bid and that's this day
Speaker 3: in history. Who do we Yeah, we.
Speaker 1: Have Elan and Edland five nine twenty eight hundred man houses.
Speaker 1: I don't even know. Seriously, it's like five days. Most
Speaker 1: of these houses are for sale. Whatever price you put
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Speaker 1: Five nine nine twenty eight hundred. Why are you laughing
Speaker 1: over there?
Speaker 3: Because our dear friend from Honor Flies, Jeff Toki, says,
Speaker 3: are you guys on drugs or ding dong?
Speaker 1: I would like ding dongs. Jeff, come on down and
Speaker 1: bring to ding dong. Why can't it be both, Jeff, ja,
Speaker 1: that's exactly right. The drugs and the ding dong sounds
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Speaker 1: Let's pretend that just pretend and they don't have the officers. Uh,
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Speaker 1: We got it yesterday. I believe we beat Gus.
Speaker 3: Yes we did.
Speaker 2: We beat us.
Speaker 3: Even though he tried, he tried to be a saboteur.
Speaker 1: Rick. He is no sabatour, no good enough for us.
Speaker 6: I have to tell you about today's reeling guys, this
Speaker 6: was an interesting year for me. I was a top
Speaker 6: forty DJ, and I was in between women.
Speaker 1: Well, let's make it about you. Let's make it about
Speaker 1: you for sure. But hey, what do you mean you
Speaker 1: were in between women? Were you divorced or was it
Speaker 1: a marriage or was just you were shacking up?
Speaker 4: No, this is way before I got married.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you were just shacking up with these lonely women?
Speaker 4: Hey man, pretty much?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just.
Speaker 4: Dump one and I picked up the new one.
Speaker 3: So his preacher might be listening.
Speaker 1: But it was easy to move in and out there.
Speaker 1: What year are you talking about?
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna tell you, all right, No, no, no, no
Speaker 4: almost thoughts.
Speaker 3: We were so close, but Rick out smart of this,
Speaker 3: all right, Rick, Here we go, reeling into the years.
Speaker 4: Baby, Okay, here's song number one, number one.
Speaker 3: Oh, we're definitely in the seventies. I can see a
Speaker 3: fish boat with a bunch of car keys in it.
Speaker 3: Look at me roller skate with my satin shorts on.
Speaker 3: Look how short they are.
Speaker 1: It really was. The boomers were just they were just
Speaker 1: a lost generation. They couldn't forget what kind of music.
Speaker 3: Did At least their ourt fists.
Speaker 1: Look, I mean, geez, they couldn't forget what kind of
Speaker 1: music it's kept changing.
Speaker 3: Hey, mister Anderson, what are you wearing. It's called a
Speaker 3: polyester pantsuit.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's one big yeah.
Speaker 1: Pull it out in the hampa. Yeah, no wrinkles.
Speaker 3: All it is is one big piece of thing that
Speaker 3: you step in. It's called a pantsuit.
Speaker 4: Okay, ready for the next one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, okay, I have no ideas.
Speaker 4: By the way, number two.
Speaker 3: Hooked on a feeling. Baby, this is uh blo swede
Speaker 3: seventy stop this feeling deep inside of me.
Speaker 1: You know the words you got another year bro sixty nine?
Speaker 3: No, no, seventy one No, was that a question or
Speaker 3: an offer?
Speaker 1: Seventy seventy one.
Speaker 3: Let's get another one. I'm not confident on it.
Speaker 6: Okay, we're gonna get the uga chaka out of here. Okay,
Speaker 6: here we go. Song number three.
Speaker 3: Ben in the Jets, Man, I'm liking uh uh seventy four. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm liking Price seventy.
Speaker 1: Four, seventy four, seventy five.
Speaker 3: That first song sounded like disco. That's the only thing
Speaker 3: that threw me off on feeling. You know, Ben in
Speaker 3: the Jets, Price seventy three or four? Right, dude, I
Speaker 3: didn't see the movie. Did you watch the movie?
Speaker 1: I have no interest in seeing that movie. No.
Speaker 3: I just wear his glasses because it makes me feel pretty.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 2: One more Fedora the whatever.
Speaker 3: Sometimes I dress up like Donald Duck too, just like
Speaker 3: because he did it.
Speaker 1: We all accept you for who you are.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 4: Okay. Last song? Where is it? Here we go?
Speaker 3: Is this number one? The number one song of the week?
Speaker 4: No, no, no, it's just a song. The instrumental was the
Speaker 4: number one song for the week.
Speaker 3: I'll go seventy four.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go seventy five.
Speaker 3: Let's seventy five, Rick seventy bra come and get.
Speaker 4: Your Okay, your final answer is nineteen seventy.
Speaker 3: That's what we're saying. Absolutely well, Dwight, if you would
Speaker 3: have stuck with you.
Speaker 1: Nineteen seventy four, damn my bad.
Speaker 3: Let me give you a Jack Bauer. Damn it, damn it.
Speaker 3: We guys got to record.
Speaker 1: Seventy We both said seventy four right away. We should
Speaker 1: have stuck with it. But Elton John, Hey, Rick, Elton
Speaker 1: John can't push me to seventy five.
Speaker 3: Ricky may have won the battle. How's they haven't won
Speaker 3: the war. Okay, we're coming for you tomorrow.
Speaker 4: I've got two more I got two more days, so right,
Speaker 4: that's right.
Speaker 3: Who do we have?
Speaker 2: Who you got?
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Speaker 3: you get me sick, are you calling?
Speaker 1: Would you stop? Call Tony's breaking alignment. They're great. I
Speaker 1: took my car to Tony's breaking alignment a couple of
Speaker 1: years ago. I had one place to where they told
Speaker 1: me to fix your window in your son's car. It'll
Speaker 1: be twelve hundred dollars. What happened, Dwight?
Speaker 3: You went there and I think it was twenty eight
Speaker 3: to fifty it was. It was literally, I'm serious, it
Speaker 3: was twelve. It was like it was like one hundred.
Speaker 3: They're like, you just need to replace those little clips
Speaker 3: of plastic clips. You don't need any more to the
Speaker 3: motor works he had done.
Speaker 1: And I was like, oh, I never went back to
Speaker 1: the other place. Don't get off Tony's breaking alignment. Papa
Speaker 1: Level Road.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right, gone now everyone now, everyonard stop it, every.
Speaker 1: Job hey, river Folk gone.
Speaker 3: Now you get a three year, thirty six thousand, my wards.
Speaker 3: These Tonys put your mind at rest. Go with the best.
Speaker 3: Tony's breaking the line now, yeah, get out now, well
Speaker 3: skin it for us. Hey, the clock in boys.
Speaker 1: Welcome back News Radio eight forty WHS. Jeff Tokey has
Speaker 1: not showed up with our ding dongs.
Speaker 3: No he has not.
Speaker 1: He understand how important ding dongs are in our lives.
Speaker 3: You don't just say ding dongs and run away. That's
Speaker 3: I mean, what's the matter with you tokey.
Speaker 1: Ding dong ditch? Don't do that anymore?
Speaker 2: This is why.
Speaker 1: Yeah, when my wife ran for Save the City Council.
Speaker 1: The first year I went, walked and put the little
Speaker 1: hanging things on the doorway. The second time she ran,
Speaker 1: I said, I'm not doing it. She was like why,
Speaker 1: and I was like, because it's not nineteen seventy five.
Speaker 1: People will shoot you these days.
Speaker 3: Didn't your wife run on the platform of ding dong ditch?
Speaker 1: Yes? Or was it yes?
Speaker 2: No ding no ding.
Speaker 1: Dongs no ding do Yeah.
Speaker 3: Boy, that's a good that's a firm stand.
Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 3: It worked, of course it did one well. Tattoos could
Speaker 3: be leaked linked or leaked linked to cancer. A new
Speaker 3: study out Denmark looked in the possibilities of the links
Speaker 3: between tattoos and cancer.
Speaker 1: The study right, okay, this is interesting to me. Why
Speaker 1: why are they saying that because the ink?
Speaker 3: I guess, yeah, but specifically one type of ink which
Speaker 3: I found alarming. Actually two types. Specifically, it's linked to
Speaker 3: skin cancer and lymphoma and people with large.
Speaker 1: And dye number five or whatever.
Speaker 3: Are you serious that's one of them.
Speaker 1: The second Oh my gosh, I was making a joke.
Speaker 3: The second one was more alarming, and we'll get to it.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 3: Skin cancer and lymphomas was linked to and people with
Speaker 3: large tattoos by large researchers referring to body art that's
Speaker 3: bigger than the size of your hand. That's not very large.
Speaker 3: I was thinking about back place. I mean that could be,
Speaker 3: you know, like.
Speaker 1: Like I'm getting addicted to that too, like I have.
Speaker 1: You don't have any tattoo.
Speaker 3: I just got one. What do you have? It's Susan's
Speaker 3: face and it's on the lower back.
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: I never said I've seen beautiful that. Look you just
Speaker 3: muscot that just got that I did wednesday. But don't
Speaker 3: touch it, sore man.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: And look where her mouth is. Yeah, I know, let
Speaker 3: me spread it out. Watch your saying hang on, watch it.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's get back.
Speaker 3: I think, uh, watch one more time.
Speaker 1: Yeah. That story was in the news yesterday, in the
Speaker 1: National News. I was interested about that because you see
Speaker 1: these people that sleeve up.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, and people.
Speaker 1: Well what's that sleep? Rick, old person, you know what
Speaker 1: a sleeve tattoo is?
Speaker 4: A sleeve tattoo.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, let's inform the old people. Yeah, hey, Rick,
Speaker 1: from your shoulder all the way down to your wrist,
Speaker 1: it called a sleeve tattoos, the whole tattoo.
Speaker 4: That's good to know.
Speaker 1: All right, good?
Speaker 3: You want to see my wife's butt tattoo doesn't want
Speaker 3: to see us?
Speaker 4: Step step around the camera.
Speaker 1: You're saying, you gotta do this, don't zoom in.
Speaker 3: See how she opens her mouth. When I do that,
Speaker 3: I'm might have to get that tattooed red. Can we focus,
Speaker 3: Let's refocus, let's regroup. Here we go.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: Any large tattoo is it could be linked to skin
Speaker 3: cancer lymphoma. The definition of large is something bigger than
Speaker 3: the palm of your hands. They call it the dose effect,
Speaker 3: where more ink is injected, the greater chance of triggering
Speaker 3: inflammatory responses. The researchers specifically sided, like you said, the
Speaker 3: red ink. But here's the alarming there's two types of
Speaker 3: inks that were the main offenders, red ink and black ink.
Speaker 3: Every tattoo has black in it.
Speaker 1: I guess right. No, no, I don't know anything about tattoos.
Speaker 1: I don't have any tattoos. You see people walking out? Yeah, right,
Speaker 1: you're right, yeah, yeah, I look. I always thought I
Speaker 1: told you. Tony Danza, Yeah, Tony Danza. I saw a
Speaker 1: video with Tony Dancer when I was a teenager, and
Speaker 1: I said, he put it in my head. He is
Speaker 1: on trucking, He's got to keep on trucking with the
Speaker 1: guy in the zoot suit and the leg is really long,
Speaker 1: and the big feet, the big feet, and the under
Speaker 1: the keep on trucking is his leg goes the length
Speaker 1: of keep on trucking. And he goes and they're like,
Speaker 1: why are you against tattoos? And he raises his arm
Speaker 1: and he goes, I got this in nineteen seventy five,
Speaker 1: I said, he goes. Do you know how long this was? Cool?
Speaker 1: I go and the guy was like, no, he goes
Speaker 1: for three weeks in the summer of seventy five. He goes,
Speaker 1: and I have this stupid zoot suit thing on my
Speaker 1: arm forever.
Speaker 3: Remember he had the big long beard. Yeah, keep on, keep.
Speaker 1: On trucking guy, so I said, And for some reason
Speaker 1: a teenager, I was like, he's right, there's nothing. There's
Speaker 1: nothing that I would want to permanently put on my
Speaker 1: It's like buying a shirt and go wear that shirt
Speaker 1: for the rest of your life.
Speaker 3: No, I've got a shirt or too where the rest
Speaker 3: of my life.
Speaker 1: Terry Miners has got like a Paisley shirt you won't
Speaker 1: let go from the nineties. He still wears it.
Speaker 3: Well, what's the magic number when it comes to retirement?
Speaker 3: The magic number that Americans feel they need to retire
Speaker 3: money or year money?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 3: Who knows the amount of money Americans feel they need
Speaker 3: to retire comfortably in twenty twenty five has dropped by
Speaker 3: two hundred thousand dollars. Don't know why they're saying it's
Speaker 3: one million point one point twenty six million is what
Speaker 3: Americans feel they need to retire comfortably. That doesn't I mean,
Speaker 3: it seems like a.
Speaker 1: Here's here's what you need to know. Yeah, because I'm
Speaker 1: an expert on retirement, Yes you are.
Speaker 3: You're the one that Susan and I will look to
Speaker 3: for wisdom whenever we want financed.
Speaker 1: You are welcome, Yeah, advice, You're welcome free of charge.
Speaker 3: And you sure you're positive that we need to buy
Speaker 3: right now? Blockbuster video stock. Because it's low. You said
Speaker 3: say that on the radio. Oh god, I've not every
Speaker 3: ga now everybody. She I'm so sorry, dude, hang on,
Speaker 3: I give you ruined it for everybody because by now,
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, I just ruined our for one K.
Speaker 1: Because I'm an expert. Go ahead, because I'm an expert.
Speaker 3: So stupid.
Speaker 1: Uh, you have to figure out like you and Susan
Speaker 1: probably spend eight to ten thousand dollars a month.
Speaker 3: Oh no, we probably spend three hundred and eighty two
Speaker 3: dollars a month.
Speaker 1: But if you are, for example, if you are spending
Speaker 1: six to eight to ten thousand dollars a month here,
Speaker 1: then that's what you hang on. That's what you're going
Speaker 1: to need when you retire. Do you think you're going
Speaker 1: to need less? You're going to spend six dos If
Speaker 1: you spend six thousand dollars a month, which is a
Speaker 1: low number. I know you're thinking that's a water number.
Speaker 1: No it's not. No, it's not. Look at what you're
Speaker 1: spending a month. I already found a flaw in your plan.
Speaker 1: Oh really, yeah, what is it?
Speaker 3: I have social Security to fall back on, and that's
Speaker 3: gonna give me probably twenty grand a month.
Speaker 1: And don't get me started on all security. Oh I
Speaker 1: don't don't because I saw another story on it CBS
Speaker 1: Sunday morning and he says, and they go, well, here's
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen if it starts to fail because all
Speaker 1: of the boomers are dying and there's not enough gen
Speaker 1: X to cover. That's an actual audio from the TV show.
Speaker 3: You pulled that so quick.
Speaker 1: Thank you. He goes, well, we're gonna have to raise
Speaker 1: taxes or raise the age. I went, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I said, you bailed out. I said you bailed out
Speaker 1: saving into Launch, not once but twice. You're bailed out
Speaker 1: the auto industry, not once but twice. You bailed out
Speaker 1: the airline industry, not once but twice.
Speaker 2: So when it.
Speaker 5: Comes down and bailing us out as old people, you're
Speaker 5: gonna write a check. And I don't care if you
Speaker 5: have to go to Philadelphia and print out a trillion
Speaker 5: dollars your ass is gonna shore up my ass in retirement.
Speaker 4: Right on, Tony, thank you.
Speaker 3: Now just do that again at the State Capitol, like
Speaker 3: on the floor in front of everybody.
Speaker 1: Don't have to die my prayer purple and have a nosery.
Speaker 3: Anyway, Northwestern Mutual says that most Americans say that they
Speaker 3: could retire comfortably on one point two six million. So
Speaker 3: of course, unless you live in Jefferson County, that's what
Speaker 3: it's gonna cost you annually by time they get done
Speaker 3: just playing the property taxes for JCPS.
Speaker 1: I told you when my son did his semester abroad
Speaker 1: in Madrid, he was like, there are a ton of
Speaker 1: retirees here from America, because he said, look, you get
Speaker 1: a sandwich, you get a drink, and usually in Europe
Speaker 1: there's some sort of alcohol. You love Europe, Dwight. So
Speaker 1: there's some sort of alcohol in the coffee or the martine, Like,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter what meal you're eating, there's like there's alcohol.
Speaker 1: So he's like, he's like, it's it's it's everything. The
Speaker 1: whole meal is like five dollars. And he goes to
Speaker 1: crime is not. He goes there's no violent crimes. He
Speaker 1: was like, so all these Americans are like, my dollar
Speaker 1: goes farther in Europe than it does in America. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so they're moving to Europe. Good on them.
Speaker 3: It's where the spaghetti trees are.
Speaker 1: It's true.
Speaker 3: So anyway, my wife texted me back. Evidently the host
Speaker 3: Spaghetti Tree bit that I was talking about it was
Speaker 3: an actual hoax that people believed in. At one point
Speaker 3: she said it was a famous hoax. That's why she
Speaker 3: sent it to me.
Speaker 1: And the thing is that you've blown past, is that
Speaker 1: your wife thought you thought that was true.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, in all fairness, I'm not what's known
Speaker 3: as a mental giant. Look how shocked Rick is.
Speaker 4: Look how he just blew my whole day there.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 3: See two things. First of all, I let the cat
Speaker 3: out of the bag about Blockbuster video. Oh damn, I
Speaker 3: just didn't. Again, let's get it.
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