OF WHAT REMAINS — with Jeremy Vickers

THIS SATURDAY MORNING:

 OF WHAT REMAINS — with Jeremy Vickers on 92.7FM WOBM

A brand-new show built from a familiar voice.

Of What Remains returns — reformatted, reimagined, and finally set free to go wherever the conversation leads.

Hosted by Jeremy Vickers, this new version of Of What Remains is a wide-ranging, unscripted journey through the things that made us… and the things that changed us. From growing up in the 1980s to surviving the chaos of the modern world, from pop culture to personal stories, forgotten history to everyday absurdity — nothing is off the table.

Some days it’s reflective.

Some days it’s funny.

Some days it’s raw, weird, nostalgic, or unexpectedly deep.

But it’s always real.

This isn’t a nostalgia show.

This isn’t a news show.

This is a conversation about what’s left after time moves on.

Memories. Culture. Stories. Laughter. Regret. Curiosity.

The strange, messy, beautiful pile of things that remain.

Of What Remains with Jeremy Vickers —

Because the past never really goes away…

and the present keeps giving us new stories to tell.

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:02

Hey everybody, it's your old pal Jeremy, and we are back again with uh another episode of What Remains with Jeremy Vickers. Um, I've been out for a couple weeks, it's been busy, busy, busy. My son is back from Harvard um for the summer. And well, technically he's in California now, just having uh having a ball. But um, and yes, I I told him not to not to trust anybody from California. Um, and I that's a going sort of thing I have. But I just got done doing a fantastic show with Dr. Gabriel Jasper MD. Um, it's painless with Dr. Gabriel Jasper. If you're listening on 92.7 W OBM, uh his show is right after my show. His show is from 7 to 8, mine is from 6 to 7. Uh, two great shows right before church. You can't you can't go wrong. If you have any wonderings or or what have you about your back pain, um go on Facebook, press like, and you will get notifications when the doc goes live. So you can actually ask him your questions right there. You don't have to wait in a waiting room or anything. Uh, one thing Dr. Jasper really loves to do is diagnose you right there over the radio. And so there's you so you know going in that this is the right place for you. And um yeah, he's amazing. He's he changes lives, he changed mine, he can change yours. Uh, and it doesn't matter how old you are, you don't have to be scared. Uh, everybody's scared if anything uh is done to you. I remember when I I first had a big open back surgery um before I met the doc. And I was nervous. Um, I squeak I even squeaked a tear out. I didn't know what was going on. This was the first big thing that ever happened to me in my life. Um, and Dr. Jasper right away put you at ease. I went to all other doctors, all these other so-called pain management doctors who throw pills at you. One thing Dr. Jasper doesn't do is throw pills at you, he fixes you. That's his one of his catchphrases. I I can fix that, and um, it's it's really no joke. He can, he can fix that. Uh, just be sure when you go in that you go in with a positive attitude, you need to be able to understand what's being done to you and what your pain is doing to you. Okay, so um you stick with this man and you'll come out shining, I promise you. And if indeed uh you have something that is going to be prolonged, he can he can make it better, you know, he can make it uh bearable. Um when I went to other pain doctors, I had people who I now know because I I I I've been you know learning this business for oh a long time now, 13 years. And um it's it's Dr. Jasper makes it so easy, makes it sound so easy, and he teaches you. That's the important thing. And a lot of people go in and they've been to so many doctors and they're rolling their eyes and they don't want to hear it anymore, and that's not the best attitude to go into. You have to go in open-minded and give a give your new doctors a chance, and that's what I did for Dr. Gabriel Jasper. I trusted him. Um, even though everything inside me was screaming, oh, this is just gonna be a waste of time. I waited in this office and nothing's gonna happen. And on my fourth visit, they wheeled me in on a gurney and uh I walked out over just a little over two hours later. And my life was changed for the better. He gave me my life back. So uh Dr. Gabriel Jasper at the Jasper Spine Institute. Uh call Monday for an appointment at 732-262-0700. And for more information about Dr. Gabriel Jasper and all the wonderful things I just spoke of, um go to jaspermd.com. Okay. Uh, but totally tune in tomorrow, excuse me, tomorrow morning from 7 to 8. We did, we just did the best show ever. Uh, and we had such a huge laugh at the end of it. Um, you guys are just gonna love it. You can watch it now if you go to uh Jasper Spine Institute's Facebook page. You can just click on it or Jasper Spine Institute's YouTube page. Click on it and watch it right now, you know. So, anyway, it's been a while, folks. How have you been? All of you, no, no, you know, don't tell me all at once. Um, a lot of stuff's been happening in the world in my life and probably in your lives too. Uh, did you hear? No, I was gonna talk about this uh the Disney firings um at Marvel Cinematic Universe Division. Um, they fired 1,000 artists from Marvel Cinematic Universe Division. That means everything they did, all those spectacular scenes that we all love in the Marvel Universe, uh Cinematic Universe, um, that were created by these artists, they can still use and reuse all of that, but from now on, I guess I don't know what they're gonna do. Is it is it AI? Let's see. Oh, yeah, and are replacing them with AI. So these are 1,000 artists that have been replaced by AI. So what you see now on your screens was not made by a human being, it was made by AI. How does that sit with people out there? I mean, AI is blowing up everywhere. Uh, I use it, I use it for my business, and um it's it's great as a tool, but should it replace human beings? I don't think so. I really don't. I don't think AI is where we hope it is now. I think AI is five years away from replacing 1,000 artists at Marvel Cinematic Universe. And even then, I mean that's like uh oh, what was that? Casey, Casey and the and the train engine thingy, where he was digging in the tunnel. Casey Jones. He's digging that tunnel, he's trying to fight the the engine that was gonna replace people. And uh Casey Jones was like a hero. We we they taught us about him in elementary school, Casey Jones. If I got that right. If I didn't get that right, my elementary school sucked. But um, yeah, Casey Jones uh beat the machine, but now in 2026, Disney fired 1000 Casey Jones Ziz and replaced them with a machine that will produce art from a uh a machine. That is massively disappointing. And I don't know if I can sit through another Marvel Cinematic Universe movie if I know it's all been done by a stupid AI machine. You know, we go to museums to see artwork made by humans, but Disney wants to automate. And uh they even, I just read about this. What was this yesterday, day before? Disney fired the head of Marvel Comics. So where what I mean, like, what's the future of Marvel Comics now? I I this get this gets me because I I'm a lifelong comic book reader. Um the first two comic books I ever got, uh, my grandfather bought me. He we we went down to um Hilltop. Uh there's a there was like a Hilltop card. That was it. Hilltop Card was this like stationary place, but they had this big wall with magazines and uh comic books, of course. Comic books were on the bottom near the floor, and uh, and I was just a wee boy. And uh he he said, Okay, go on, pick out two, and I picked out a Green Lantern and I picked out a Spider-Man, and God I wish I still had them, I really do. But um, and then he would take me to Flip's Tavern, which is no longer there. That was a speakeasy. I've talked about that in previous shows. He'd put me up on uh the stool next to him, he'd have one beer, a Budweiser, that was his choice, and he would buy me a Coke and Andy's pub fries, Andy Cap's pub fries, and my greasy fingers were turning the pages as I read them at the bar. And it was one of the most memorable things that I've always carried with me for the rest of my life. I'm so glad I never just that didn't just disappear into my past or that memory. It was a cornerstone point in my life where I had this special moment with my granddad, and uh and he introduced me to comic books. And seriously, I feel like I don't know how I would be if I didn't read them. I read them today. Um, I binge read them today. But anyway, what is this saying? Oh, yeah, Marvel. Uh, so that meant uh so that means if you ever had a dream about being an artist who brought superhero movies to life, and many kids may have when they saw these movies and how spectacular they want. They want to be uh digital designers or whatever, graphic designers. Well, you're not gonna get a job at Disney. Um, you've just been made obsolete, it says here. Human artists are no longer needed. This is one of our biggest fears. What are we doing? I don't know. Yeah, I don't know if you follow Disney, but this is uh this is horrible. Um, Disney hasn't been Disney for the longest time, though. Let's just say that. Disney hasn't even been Disney forever. Uh but Stan Lee is spinning in his grave. I can guarantee you that. So let me see. What do we got here? What do we got here? Uh people, yeah. I was gonna talk about this. Uh people are just people suck, don't they? People, people's like default is negativity, you know, and you know what? It's my default too. I mean, um I I like to think that you know, you know, I always preach kindness and begets tolerance, and tolerance begets resiliency. But am I practicing that in my own life? You know, sometimes, yeah, a lot of times, yeah. But sometimes no. And that is where I get concerned about myself. Like, why I get irrational hatreds, and every once in a while I have to check myself. I'm like, well, why am I, you know, why am I not liking this person? Uh, for what reasons? And um it happens really easily, like especially with actors and stuff. If you're if you're looking at movies and you watch a lot of movies, um, if an actor does something, maybe it's their politics, maybe it's um you know, something in their life that you just don't agree with, or or maybe it's just their face, you just don't like their face. Your your default is to be intolerant and not like them, and we don't lean on kindness whatsoever in those moments. And I do check myself, I do, um, but when we live in an age where people act like every single person around them is a potential threat that they need to lash out, uh it's it's the gong that ushers in the beginning of the end of modern soci uh civilization and becomes something completely different. The definition of the word society is a group of people living together in an organized way, sharing rules, values, and relationships.

unknown 14:45

Wow.

SPEAKER_01 14:47

That sounds a lot better than what we call society today, doesn't it? A group of people living together in an organized way, sharing rules, values, and relationships. We're people who don't like you even stopping by our homes unannounced. But once upon a time, back when I was a kid, and I say this a lot, that was a welcome thing. We liked company. We you know, we were humans that and and and to be human, you it's almost uh an atrocity to live life without anybody else in it. You're just throwing away your life at that point. We need people to feel whole. But today, you know, it's this is why I say it's a dis it's a dystopic world. Uh and and yeah, this is great. This this you'll like to hear. A dystopic world is what happens when society's rules stop protecting the people and start hurting them. So that group of people living together in an organized way, sharing rules, values, and relationships. Yeah, that's no more. Now we live in a dystopic world because society's rules stop protecting people and start hurting them. That's why people in like New York are afraid to even defend themselves because they can be arrested themselves. It's mental. People just lose their minds. Have you ever just you go on YouTube and type in like Karen's or you know, people against police officers or just people flipping out at McDonald's or at Walmart? You know, we live in our we live in this like uh self-contained microcosm where we only allow into our lives and into our homes what we want. And we think this is a uh this is a satisfactory way to live. And the outside world's problems aren't our business, but that's wrong. They are our business. What became wrong was not thinking they were. So it used to be we could check one another, you know, like just I mean, you can't even you can't even like pull someone's leg or just have a laugh, and then they, and this is the important thing, they laugh it off. Ah, get out of here, you. I was watching Lethal Weapon 3 last night, and it really got me thinking about that. Like everybody's like uh poking fun at uh Murtalk because he was wearing a girdle, you know. Also, all the cops in the shooting range were laughing, so was Riggs, and um, but he just laughed it off. And in Lethal Weapon 2, when they were making fun of his daughter being in the condom commercial, eventually he just laughed it off. But that's what we used to do. Now we get we personalize everything and then we weaponize it, and we lose our minds, and we don't even have the wherewithal to realize that we're losing our minds over nothing. But I think we do realize it. I think if you're like um well, let's just say at a Karen. And how many men are Karen's? Not quite, not as much as women. I mean, if we're honest. But if you're a if you're a Karen, you've gotta know at some point that you effed up. But at that point, you're sold. You have to keep on going. And that's when you win, that's when you've won the argument argument. When you see that that glimpse of doubt in their eyes, and it's not doubt against you, it's doubt about themselves. Once you see that glimpse, you won. Walk away. You're just asking for more trouble. But but then the phones come out and we're recording this atrocity or this like street level atrocity, let's just call that. Um, yeah, we'd rather record it so we can put it up online. Uh, but then again, if we didn't, we wouldn't see how these people are, you know, and that's what you have to do. You have to you have to take responsibility and relearn all the stuff we knew back then, back in back in the day, where we can deal with stuff. I grew up in the 80s, early 70s or late 70s, early 80s. And the one thing that we had to do was deal with anything that came around. If a barricade went up, we we figured out a way under it, over it, around it, or we broke right through. That's what you did. What the one thing you didn't do was freeze in your tracks, scratch your head, complain about it, and then give up. That's what people do today. Because it's easier just to not deal with things. Um, but then you've got these people who flip out. And say the say the barricade is uh let's just say it's a police officer, for instance. And this show is all about the police. I just want that said aloud. Police officers get a bad rap. Um, they always well, they didn't used to, so I I can't say they always have, they didn't used to. When I was a kid, I watched um Mr. Rogers Neighborhood. I've mentioned this before. Uh Mr. Rogers was my first teacher, and one of the lessons he taught me was that when you know crap hits the fan, look for the helpers, and those helpers are police officers, fire men, um people of that nature, because they're there to help. Help you and to prevent harm to the you know the surrounding populace. That's what a police officer's job do. Uh, do they worry about themselves and not do their job? No. Are they more concerned that they'll be taken from their pa uh their family if this guy or this woman ends up being a nutcase? Yeah, I'm sure they worry about that, but they work through their fears. See, that's a barricade that they need to leap over to be there for us. They're representatives of the people, police officers. They are there to protect us from ourselves. And um, I don't know. I think I think we need to give them more respect. That whole, I mean, over the last several years, that whole defunding police and all of that. We have to fund these people. Are you kidding? We should have a a police officer on every corner. That's how important these men are and women. Especially during the summer months in uh at the Jersey Shore. We got people coming from everywhere, everywhere. We don't know who these people are, and how many are undocumented. And we don't know if they're psychopaths and or rapists, or you know, someone who's going to do us harm when we've come to the Jersey Shore for a vacation. Sad things happen. Uh, recently there was a there were these boys who were racing their car by uh um one of the high schools here, and they were going way too fast on the road, way too fast. And this freshman kid on his bicycle was just riding his bike uh to school, I guess. And they plowed right through him, and he's dead now. Uh, his parents, their lives are destroyed. The kids who were driving that car and who killed inadvertently, however, that boy, their lives are ruined.

SPEAKER_00 24:43

Bad things happen.

SPEAKER_01 24:46

We have to be even as kids, we have to realize that things happen to you when you don't when you don't follow rules, which is in this particular case, speed limit laws. They're not there for other people, they're there for all of us. And your lives would be different now had you, you know, had you obeyed the speed limits or watched where you were going. When I was a kid in high school, they they taught us uh defensive drive-in. We had these uh, they brought in these uh what do you call them, simulators, and uh it was like a big half trailer, and we'd go in and there'd be there'd be you know chairs and all that. Then at the end of the trailer, there'd be a big movie screen, the whole side, the whole size of the back wall of the trailer. And they would project this um simulation of driving. And we at each desk there was a steering wheel, and at the floor there were brakes. Um and the they would play the movie of the of the road and you're driving, and anything could come out, like a ball bouncing across. So, oh crap, if there's a ball, there might be a kid. Maybe I'll slow down, you know, and they would grade you that way. You had to be you had to be alert, and they taught you alertness while you're driving. And you know, when I was a kid, uh one of the one of the the the guys that I grew up with, I mean we were in every single class together. His name, you know, started with a V, my name starts with a V. So we were in every class. And um Jason was this great guy. And then in my what was it, my senior year of high school, he sat right behind me and we were always passing jokes back and forth because you know we were buds. We've we we you know we spent our lives knowing each other. And then one day they were speeding, he um and a couple of other guys. Uh, I know their names, but I won't I won't bring them up. But um they hit some black ice and they plowed into something and they were just obliterated. Um and that empty chair behind me in law and society class. No, no, it wasn't law and society, it was history, Mr. Sandor's history class, uh, which I loved, but I loved it less with that vacant chair, you know, sitting obviously behind me. Um I've thought of Jason through the years, uh how tragic how tragic that was. But um, yeah, we have to we have to listen to laws, we have to obey. You know, when you when you go up to a police officer, uh you I don't know, you like to complain about your tax oh my taxes pay your salary. Do you do they though? I mean, like how much of it that goes to them, or how much of yours specifically goes to them, you know? I mean, it all gets bundled up and it gets distributed, and you know, and it's not that's not an excuse to talk poorly against these people. They're here for you, and you're giving them uh crap. Ah, see, I'm not allowed to say S-H-I-T. I looked it up, but uh this will make the job easier for Paul back at the studio. Yeah, this show was on 92.7 W OBM on uh Sunday mornings from 6 to 7, right before church, and then follows Painless with Dr. Gabriel Jasper and myself. Uh, you know, and we talk about back pain. So that's from uh 7 to 8. So uh, you know, that should be your Sunday morning. You're gonna have a laugh no matter what it is. You're gonna first you're gonna hear me droning on, and then you can have a laugh with Dr. Jasper. But um let's see. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 29:58

You know what else I I realized?

SPEAKER_01 30:03

You know, when we flip out on people, especially if somebody was rude to you, and this is why I this is why I was talking about like um uh letting things roll off your back. When was the last time you did that? You know, because if somebody's rude to you or you take them as rude, or they you're you're you you know, you don't understand what they're going through. And uh you don't know what someone is going through, so uh so do you or should you retort back? Uh kindness is a choice, uh, but it's it kind of has instructions, and I'll uh and I and a lot of it's thinking of others before yourself. So if somebody's like, you know, brushes past you, you know, and they didn't even look back. I mean, you don't know if they're in a hurry to get to their kids because they heard something, you don't know what their story is until they hit you and then you attack. Let things roll off your shoulders, let people pull your leg, let people have a laugh, and then you laugh back. It's okay to laugh at yourself. See, we used to do that. I'm a big idiot, all right, and I love it when people point out my like point out when I'm doing or whatever, and and yeah, I can laugh at myself. Yeah, so pulling my leg, laughing it off. They personalize and weaponize if they if they don't. That's what you do. You personalize and then you weaponize, and that doesn't even sound good, does it? Like right now, you might be listening to this and you're like, well, I'm not going through anything harsh right now. Um, but man, I I got this clarity now that you know, yeah, okay, maybe I maybe I do personalize things too much, and then I get angry, too easy. Another thing, irrational dislikes. I I am very guilty about that. I mean, I it does, and it doesn't take much. I try to be better, that's the thing, and that's that's I think what we all need to be like. We need to try to be better, we need the better ourselves. We also need to educate ourselves. Uh, that's that is a big issue. Like the words and the phrases we use, some people don't know how to use them. There's these there's these guys on on Facebook, and they they usually have a panel of like uh brainless bimbos on one side, and then these guys are just asking them basic like third grade information. And I was watching one yesterday, and they asked this girl what species she was, and her answer immediately was that she prefers to be with black men, and then the guy just blinked at her and he says, No, no, no, no, no, no. Are you you are you did you think I just asked you what kind of men you're into? And she was like, Oh, uh, yeah. And he's like, No, what species are you? Um, I don't know. Uh, you know, and then he asked another woman, and she was like, I don't know, like, are we mammals? The obvious, the obvious answer to that question was we're human, that's our species. But it's amazing how people grow up and they don't know basic education. Base and I'm not the smartest guy in the world. I know I pretend to be or whatever in my own private life, you know. Um, but it I it's it's something that you need to do for yourself. Don't stop reading. Television isn't gonna do it. When you read, you're you're actually inputting all this data into your brain. Now you're not gonna risk you're not gonna retain all of it, but there's certain things, certain words, maybe definitions, put in a in a way that uh that explains what the definitions of the words are, so you can use them uh, you know, in your own everyday vocabulary. But uh one thing words should never be is weaponized. So yeah, we personalize things, we weaponize things, and it's a plague. It's a plague that is washing across our country. We saw it in the last administration, everybody, the hatred. I mean, President Trump just had another assassination attempt, and the very first thing people said was, oh yeah, they they faked that, that was or they planned that. Yeah, I don't know. If I want people to believe shit that I oh sorry, uh crap that I um am doing, I'm not going to ask a strange guy to try and shoot me to prove my points. That is mental. And I hope you all know that. Um, but yeah, that happened, it shrugged off. I mean, at this point, the guy is kind of dodging bullets left and right, you know, and it's just that derangement syndrome that they have you have to be conscious of yourself in the moment. That's a really great phrase there. Conscience of yourself, conscious of your of yourself in the moment. Um, and and I when I'm when I mean that, I mean every moment. You should know who you are, you should know what you believe in. You should be able to share what you believe in without crushing other people's beliefs. You should allow for other people to believe what they believe in. It's not your job to teach them, but it's everybody's job to educate themselves, and that's the big deal. This isn't a world where you can just read a headline and you pretty much know what's going on. You need to read a little deeper. Um, because crap happens, and uh you gotta know how to deal with yourself in those moments before it even anything leaves your mouth or anything, even a dirty look. Keep it to yourself. That's something we can do, and that's something we all have control over. You may not think you do, and in the moment, and that's why it's so important to be conscious of yourself in that moment.

SPEAKER_00 38:24

Um you're not going to yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 38:32

It's like uh oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, so Mr. Roger used to be my teacher. He was my first teacher. I love the man. I think if he was a Catholic, he would be a saint. And um, oh yeah, and I you know, like let's use all of this. Um if you if if you're out in the street and you're just blowing up at the slightest bit of things, what are you like in your home to your kids, to uh your family? How uh if you can't stand the slightest thing outside, what's going on in your in your everyday? I knew a family who would punish their children, all their children, if only one of them misbehaved. They would all have to learn this lesson, and that's crazy. How many of you out there does that make sense to? Uh, but it's true. There was a family that did that. You know, I was um I I oh yeah, I had a couple stories I was gonna tell you. Um one I remembered the weekly reader. That goes back to um, I don't know, my wife hates when I jump all over, all over the place, but uh that's how my brain works. You know, what are you gonna do? Uh the the weekly reader. Do you guys remember that from elementary school? Um I thought that was just it was just an amazing remembrance. And uh it gave you, it was like it was a newspaper for kids, and I thought that was awesome. Okay, so let me see. I wrote this down. Let me see what it what it says. Uh it doesn't matter what stage in life you are, there will still be people. Oh, yeah, no one's gonna give you the benefit of the doubt. That's it. Nobody gives you the benefit of the doubt anymore. Um, if you say something and they misheard it wrong, uh they'll crucify you right there. It doesn't matter how good a friend they are or anything like that, uh, they will crucify you and not blink twice about it. They won't even ask you about what what did you just say there? Or oh, oh, okay. I I I don't know what I was listening to. I heard the wrong thing. No, that doesn't happen. They'll go away, they'll whisper in their wives' ears about it, and they'll be like, Can you believe? Can you believe he said that about us? Or she said that about you. Did she, or did they? I've known people who have misheard something, and it's happened to me. Um have misheard something I've said and lost it, and it's actually damaged friendships of mine uh because of it, because um people don't think people would rather believe the negative than they do the positive. Wow, right? They'll believe the negative over the positive. Isn't that what like derangement syndrome is, you know? Um, not to be political, but you know, with the Trump thing, Trump derangement syndrome, that's because you'd rather believe the negative than you would the positive. The man's doing a lot of positive things out in the world. You don't want to know any about anything about that. Because somewhere along the line, you read a headline that he hates women or he does something like, you know, and uh like take the Epstein uh list and all of that, and um wine or whatever it is, you know, if you ended up in his phone book, you were you're a pedophile too, you know, and a cannibal. I think they ate kids, you know, that's messed up. Um but if you were just in his phone book, you were guilty. Why? Because negative is how we think, positive is something you need to talk me into. So, in a world where you you you know you're innocent until proven guilty, that's all switched around. You're guilty. Until you've proven innocent. That is the foundation of America now. The streets of gold have tarnished. And uh and the Statue of Liberty has gotten a little smaller because we don't realize that we're pretty much all in the same boat. But we can't allow ourselves to feel like someone else is better than us. You know how many people that are better than me? I'll get dizzy if I start labeling uh, you know, shouting out names. Um Dr. Jasper, better than me. That guy is so smart. You know, he I get surprised every single time we hang out and he teaches me something, even on the show. He's sitting across from me. I or his show. He'll say something, and my mind blows. We have to learn from each other. That's what you gotta know. A lot of people, you know? Like, what do you know that I don't know? Let me learn from you. But we don't do that. Our foundation is negativity, and and that's really sad. How do we get back to how we were? A lot of things happened over the last say eight years, um, ten shit, sh uh shoot. Yeah, a lot of things have happened where we just we lost faith in each other, and we we desperately need to get that back. We had a uh COVID, you know, a pandemic that kept us from the church, so we weren't even getting like positivity from God or Jesus every ever at the end of every week or the beginning, um, because they they took us out of the pews in lockdowns and stuff. And those lockdowns were so devastating. Um, not while you were in it, although that was really tough. Not because it kept children out of school, which was super tough, especially for those kids. Uh, they didn't learn social uh graces that they might have done had they been in a situation where they could be around you know, other kids their ages and and learn, oh, this person's acting this way, I can't act that way. Or um this person's giving me like a a decision to make is and I and I feel in my heart that it's it's the wrong thing to do. So I'm I'm gonna take a step back. We don't they they didn't learn all that we had a pandemic that uh isolated us all. We we went to work in our homes, and then when the pandemic was gone, guess what? We still wanted to work in our homes, and then people fought about it and they kicked and screamed about it because they wanted one, they want well, if you could do it in the pandemic, you could do it now. And people suddenly didn't realize the value of a job anymore, they just wanted things their way and they didn't care what you said. That sucks. That's not America, and if you think it is, you are wrong. The what America really is when you when you shovel out all of the uh the bullpucky um is this beautiful land that we've neglected, and this beautiful world we've decided we don't want to be a part of, and we've recreated this dystopic society, you know, a uh a society when rules stop protecting people, so all these laws don't protect you anymore because you why you you made it that way, and the laws start hurting people because they don't they don't obey them and they think they're right. Please go on YouTube and watch these videos. You need to learn this stuff. This stuff needs to be seen and it needs to be um remembered, and it needs to be passed on. How else are we gonna get back to the the better world we used to live in, the better America we used to live in?

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Remember Americana that feeling of a hometown? Everybody knows your name. Now, in Americana, it's gone.

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And we don't want to know your name. Stay away. Man, what what a what a contrast.

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And it only took uh a few short years to get us here politicians create hate. Let's just say that.

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Uh any of the protests and these people protesting against stuff that doesn't need to be protested about anymore. Um, I don't know where I in New Jersey, okay? And this I know this is a very specific bubble that I live in. I'm not racist. I have friends who are black, and we live together harmoniously. But somehow people say that white people are racist. White people are saying white people are racist, and that's a generalization. That's not just saying, oh, this guy, this guy's effed up, he's racist. That's this is a across the board. All white men are racist, and oh, there was another thing that we were, but it was all it's all BS. Because racism is money, that's really what it is. If they can garnish support funds, look at Black Lives Matter. Everybody had that. White people had it. Posters of it in the background of YouTube videos and such, uh, sitting there, you know, supporting supporting the black culture and all of that. Well, black lives matter was a croc. It was a uh a thing that people used to steal money, and the money that was supposed to go to black people to help them in every facet that they said that they needed help with, they just pocketed. Why? Because people suck. That's it. Sometimes sometimes the things that uh we hate the most, like racism, are self-sustaining now. Uh they so long as we keep talking about it, it's going to exist, right? Um, if you if a kid discovers that there's a problem, that some people have a problem with black people, that's gonna keep his eyes open. He's gonna look for problems. But if you if you don't, if you if you just stop talking about it, the new generations that come across are going to welcome everyone that's in their classes. Yeah, this is my buddy, she's my buddy, they're my buddies. But we have to um we have to persevere through our own BS. It's 2026. I went back in the 80s, we thought uh it the year 2000 was the future, and we were all gonna be better people when we get there. Well, it's 2026 now. Are we better people? Are we the people we wanted to be when we were kids? See, now you now you're not even allowed to pretend you're a princess because you might be who knows. There's nothing wrong with teaching your kids to be proper ladies and proper gentlemen. Um, we need more of that, I would think. If you teach if you teach a kid to be well behaved, and think of others before themselves too. My mother always used to say, um, think twice before you speak, right? If more if more people said that, would there be less like people flipping out against police officers or or each other? Yeah, that's uh that's just the problem of our world, but it takes each and every one of us to actually make that change. We have to actively decide, you know what, I'm gonna start reading again. Uh, and it doesn't you don't have to read about like something that's going on in the world, like a fiction, a non-fiction book. You can read a fiction book just as well and learn things. Intelligent people write books and they write them intelligently. You're gonna learn something no matter what you read, but read. Once upon a time, that was television for people. Wonderful stories, and they they were they filled your heart with wonder. When was the last time you paused to reflect on yourself or to experience wonder in the world? I always when if I'm outside and it's a beautiful sky, I will stop and just stare up into the sky. And I could be there for a good 10 minutes until my wife asks me, What the hell I'm doing, you know, or I'll look up at trees. Um, see, I was I was crippled for a long time and I couldn't go out really that much without uh severe pain. So I didn't get to see trees as much as I had, you know. You you you realize at that point what you're missing out there in the world. Sometimes you just gotta stop and smell the flowers. I did that, I did that the other week, uh, last weekend, uh last week uh at work. I I uh I was taking some boxes out to the dumpster, and there's this beautiful tree just on the side of the Jasper Spine Institute, and it's not it's got like uh a spattering of white flowers, big white flowers, uh, and that you can miss if you weren't seeing them at the right angle. It's a very, very interesting tree. And I just stood amongst the branches looking up and looking at the tree, and you know, anybody seeing me would though would think I'm a mental case, but uh you know, sometimes you gotta stop and smell the flowers. We forget those things because we're so caught up in like bullpucky, you know. We create these problems because we we thrive off of them. We can thrive off of goodness more so. Be remembered for being a terrific person, not that that crazy chick down the street. So, anyway, this is about my time now, anyway. So it's Memorial Day. I hope everybody finds something to do uh if the rain persists. But um, I will say, why don't you go to Taylor Hardware in Belmar? Um, they're one of my clients, and it they are it's a it's a fantastic. You want to talk about Americana? There's some places in America where they strive to keep it flourishing in our uh in our neighborhoods and in our towns. And Taylor Hardware is one of those places. Uh right now they're selling grills, and there's these grills. I mean, Father's Day is coming up around the bend. These grills are going crazy. People they're they're just people are walking out with them. Uh oh, and these beautiful beach chairs because the United States is 250 years old this year, and they're selling these beautiful red, white, and blue with stars, uh beach chairs with 250 United States 250 on them. They are stunning, absolutely stunning. Um, I want to see if I can uh show you a picture of what they look like. Uh it's not there, it's on my phone. But um Taylor Hardware, like you go in and Joe, the owner and proprietor, he will he knows your name, he knows your family's name. Uh he knows so much about you. It's like it's like going into cheers and everybody yells norm, you know. Oh yeah. Here's the here's the chair right here. It's up on the screen. Look how beautiful that is. If you want to spend some time tanning and you want to show off your uh patriotism, he's even got flags that's that have the uh yeah, here it is, right here. One of these flags you can stick around your house or outside 250 United States. Be proud, be proud about your country. And uh and and go to Taylor Hardware. If you're suffering pain, go to Dr. Jasper's office, Jasper Spine Institute. And until next time, ladies and gentlemen. This has been what remains of me. And I'll see you next time. Take care, guys. I love you.