Social Media and Then Some

Here is another episode from A Simple Discussion Podcast that I wanted to upload to this podcast. I have created some episodes that could be on either podcasts at the end of the day really. I enjoy having two podcasts that can be versatile on either one. It was a great episode to put together when I was working on it.

Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:14

Hello and welcome back to a simple discussion. My name is Hannah Covington, and today I'm so glad to be back with Ryan Stilwell. I know it's been so long since last time we talked.

SPEAKER_00 0:30

Yeah, it's been since it's been a few weeks. Cool to be back on with you.

SPEAKER_02 0:36

I know. It's we have a lot of exciting things coming up. I hope the weather will be permitting and I get to go.

SPEAKER_00 0:44

I've been seeing a lot of stuff on social media about snow days. People are getting pretty creative with their snow days.

SPEAKER_02 0:54

I know. Because I've actually just been using it as a time to do a lot of work, is what I've been doing.

SPEAKER_00 1:02

Yeah. I like seeing some people post that so it's mostly ice, right? It's like snow, then ice, and then snow here. So they're they can't even make snow angels, so they're saying they're making ice angels.

SPEAKER_02 1:20

Yeah, and I'm seeing a new trend also of people daring other people to go out in the snow and doing snow angels.

SPEAKER_00 1:28

Yeah, in shorts, right?

SPEAKER_02 1:31

Shorts or pants, but you can't have a coat on.

SPEAKER_00 1:34

Yeah, that's true. I've wanted to do that, but I don't know how well I would do.

SPEAKER_02 1:40

I am the same way. I was afraid one of my co-workers was gonna dare me to do it. And she did not dare any of the staff at all, and I was like, thank Lord Jesus.

SPEAKER_00 1:53

Yeah, nobody has dared has dared me yet, thank goodness.

SPEAKER_02 1:58

Yeah, so how did you survive?

SPEAKER_00 2:02

Watching TV mostly, and playing cards with my mom.

SPEAKER_02 2:08

I saw where you watched Oh Brother Where Art Thou.

SPEAKER_00 2:12

Yeah. I I watched the funny ones mostly. I didn't I didn't want to watch dramatic movies that much.

SPEAKER_02 2:20

I've seen Oh yeah, I I have. I consider it a southern classic.

SPEAKER_00 2:26

I do too. I mean, it's probably the best bluegrass album out there, maybe soundtrack.

SPEAKER_02 2:33

I am 100% gonna agree there.

SPEAKER_00 2:37

Yeah, I mean, I just love the music. It makes me think of the South, you know, in Kentucky and Tennessee. So I really love that album.

SPEAKER_02 2:48

I I do too. And my favorite song off the album is Man of Constant Sorrow.

SPEAKER_00 2:56

Yeah, that's like the best scene of the movie too, when they dance towards the end.

SPEAKER_02 3:02

Oh yes.

SPEAKER_00 3:03

Yeah, that's like the best scene of the movie.

SPEAKER_02 3:06

I'm gonna 100% agree. And the siren scene.

SPEAKER_00 3:11

Yeah, that's pretty good too. I mean, I love when they bring up R U N N O F T.

SPEAKER_02 3:18

Oh. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 3:20

How they spell Runoff.

SPEAKER_02 3:21

Oh yeah. Um, but it sounds like you just been watching a ton of stuff.

SPEAKER_00 3:29

We watched a pretty funny movie. It's new. It has Kevin James. Have you heard of him?

SPEAKER_02 3:36

Yes, I have.

SPEAKER_00 3:37

And a guy, he's mostly an action actor. His name is Alan Richson. Have you heard of Reacher? Um No. Well, he's in Reacher, and him and Kevin James are in the movie, and it's so hilarious.

SPEAKER_02 3:55

That sounds good.

SPEAKER_00 3:57

Yeah, it's a action comedy.

SPEAKER_02 3:59

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 4:00

I love when they mix action and comedy together.

SPEAKER_02 4:03

I I would actually agree to that.

SPEAKER_00 4:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 4:07

Did y'all get more snow or ice?

SPEAKER_00 4:11

I think we got more snow. Last night, I think we got more snow, but that's pretty much it.

SPEAKER_02 4:18

Okay. I would say we probably got more snow than ice, but I heard in Bowling Green it sounded like they got more ice.

SPEAKER_00 4:27

Western was off all this week.

SPEAKER_02 4:30

Yeah, they haven't done that since 2024.

SPEAKER_00 4:34

And I remember they had a I mean the whole state of Kentucky had a big one in 2016. I don't know if you remember that. It was like 12 to 13 inches if I remember.

SPEAKER_02 4:46

I I was still in high school, and I don't know how I don't remember that.

SPEAKER_00 4:51

I was in middle school and I was about to miss the rest of the school year because I was having ankle surgery.

SPEAKER_02 5:00

Oh. Yeah, I don't remember that at all. I don't know why. I think that was probably during the year I tuned out a lot of stuff.

SPEAKER_01 5:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 5:16

Because of family situation stuff that happened that year.

SPEAKER_00 5:20

Oh.

SPEAKER_02 5:20

Yeah, I just don't feel like talking about it.

SPEAKER_00 5:23

Nah, you don't have to.

SPEAKER_02 5:24

Thank you. I just remember the big one in 2024.

SPEAKER_01 5:29

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_02 5:30

Because I had to keep asking Kelly, my cap advisor, like almost every single day. Because she would check in on me in 2024 of are the w roads any good? Because I was worried of driving on not great roads. But I just remember oh sorry. But the roads were pretty good uh the day I started my internship. That's good.

SPEAKER_00 5:56

Yeah, that's good. I was just gonna say it was fun when I was little because my Korean parents live in the woods. That's why I tell everybody. They live in the woods, and whenever we had snow days there, it was pretty fun because we were stuck there, but we would still go sled riding and stuff because there was hills over the place. So it would just be fun to ride to go sled riding down a steep hill.

SPEAKER_02 6:25

That sounds like a lot of fun.

SPEAKER_00 6:28

It's not just my grandparents that lived back there. It was like my cousins and my uncle and aunt. We would all get together and ride sleds.

SPEAKER_02 6:37

I like sledding when I was younger, but as I've gotten older, I'm not a fan.

SPEAKER_00 6:42

I don't know if I could handle it now that I'm older.

SPEAKER_02 6:46

Yeah, I'm the same way. Did you try I don't know. I'll have to try it, but Yeah, because you have a little brother and he's probably of age he probably wants to do it.

SPEAKER_00 6:56

Yeah, I mean he don't know yet, but he didn't like the snow yesterday. We took him out yesterday. Aww. He has really bad sensory issues. He don't like having the big coat on or gloves or any of that kind of stuff.

SPEAKER_02 7:12

And that's very common on the spectrum.

SPEAKER_00 7:15

Yeah. And he don't like wearing a toboggan.

SPEAKER_02 7:19

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 7:20

So very big spectrum stuff.

SPEAKER_02 7:23

I mainly have been staying in to a degree. I've gone out once, and that's about it.

SPEAKER_00 7:31

Yeah, the first time my mom, brother, and I went out was yesterday. So and it was hard getting out. It was fun.

SPEAKER_02 7:40

Uh I got out a hint before the storm hit. I had a game a day before the storm hit, and we we did the game until our Shelbyville station went off air during the third quarter of the game. That that was not pretty.

SPEAKER_00 8:01

Yeah, I feel bad. I won't be able to get my s get to see my dad again this weekend. I mean, we're meeting him tomorrow for lunch, but that's pretty much it.

SPEAKER_02 8:11

Aw. Yeah, I've been practically staying in working on stuff, reading, practically read a whole book.

SPEAKER_00 8:19

Yeah. It's been hard, like, keeping up with groceries and stuff because we keep running out of stuff. We have to keep ordering more groceries.

SPEAKER_02 8:31

I've been working, we did a game night on Discord with with a bunch of us alumni, and that was a ton of fun. I was sad you weren't there, you would have liked the games we were playing.

SPEAKER_00 8:43

What games did you all play?

SPEAKER_02 8:45

Uh there was a game called Bad Cards, kinda like What Do You Meme, which was really fun. You would have liked it.

SPEAKER_00 8:53

I know I would have. What do you mean's my jam?

SPEAKER_02 8:56

I know. And I was like, dang, I wish Ryan was here.

SPEAKER_00 9:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 9:00

Because everybody was like, this is a small crowd, and we just played until about close to ten o'clock at night.

SPEAKER_00 9:09

Wow.

SPEAKER_02 9:10

Yeah. So and uh and I've started watching, of course, Richerton. I'm taking my Stranger Things break.

SPEAKER_00 9:19

Yeah. Some people need a mental break from Stranger Things.

SPEAKER_02 9:24

And so I'm in the middle of watching that. I don't like that Netflix is starting to split up the good shows.

SPEAKER_00 9:32

True. I don't like shows ending early though, like five seasons in. It would be cool if they would make ten seasons again, like a regular sitcom or something like that.

SPEAKER_02 9:45

So we had a little bit of an issue with the internet agreeing because of the cold weather outside. Yeah, so we are back, and we were talking about seasons ending early, and we do not agree with it.

SPEAKER_00 10:06

No, we don't. But I tell you what we can agree on though.

SPEAKER_02 10:11

What?

SPEAKER_00 10:11

In that social media. See how I did that there?

SPEAKER_02 10:14

Oh, it's such a good turning point, which is today's episode.

SPEAKER_00 10:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 10:20

And this was one of those topics the newbies were wanting to do, and I was like, well, Ryan and I could talk about this separately.

SPEAKER_00 10:30

Yeah. It's a pretty interesting topic, especially people who are on the spectrum see how they're represented in different types of social media.

SPEAKER_02 10:39

I 100% agree because I have been on a social media break myself from Instagram, which was the best decision I have made.

SPEAKER_00 10:49

I still haven't I still haven't done a social media break. I'm trying to pick the best time.

SPEAKER_02 10:56

Honestly, w you will decide on your own. But I have been off of Instagram as of right now three weeks, as of yesterday.

SPEAKER_00 11:06

How has that been?

SPEAKER_02 11:08

Honestly, very relieving. It's been a good mindset.

SPEAKER_00 11:12

Because you were on Instagram more than Facebook, right?

SPEAKER_02 11:16

Yes, I was. And since being on that break, I swear I spent more time on Facebook, which I'm not mad at, but it's made me explore Facebook a lot more since taking a break from Instagram.

SPEAKER_00 11:29

Yeah, for me, when I go on Facebook, I mostly do like debates over songs and stuff. I don't because I'm a music buff, so I don't really do much of the drama type of stuff, if that makes any sense.

SPEAKER_02 11:44

Yeah, and I'm about the same way. Like I don't like put debates about anything. Like the only things I might post about is uh this podcast.

SPEAKER_00 11:54

But music's pretty interesting though, because I like seeing other people's opinions. I mean I do like the other songs that uh debate over, but I just pick this one song and that's it. And I see if anybody else answers which song they like better.

SPEAKER_02 12:13

And have you gotten any interesting answers? Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 12:18

I mean it's hard right now. I mean, I have to actually go on Facebook and see an example. I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_02 12:27

You're totally fine. Um And most of them are rock songs.

SPEAKER_00 12:32

Yeah. As you know, I'm a big rock guy. I get that from my dad.

SPEAKER_02 12:39

And some of them some of the songs you picked, I'm like, hmm, interesting choices.

SPEAKER_00 12:44

If you have never heard those songs, you should listen to them.

SPEAKER_02 12:48

Yeah, I am slowly trying to expand my level of music.

SPEAKER_00 12:53

That's what my cousin's doing. He's expanding his range, and I've been like that for a long time now. I just like listen to everything, and if I like a song, I like it. I don't care what genre it is.

SPEAKER_02 13:08

And this is something I wrote down is which platform do you feel shows autism in a positive light?

SPEAKER_00 13:18

It's hard because there are some platforms that it shows a positive and negative light, and I feel like the biggest one right now is TikTok. I've been I'm seeing a lot of reels about parents taking care of their child that is on the spectrum, and it's pretty positive to me.

SPEAKER_02 13:40

Okay, and I'm not a big TikTok user, so this surprises me.

SPEAKER_00 13:44

I mean my mom mostly watches those.

SPEAKER_02 13:48

Okay. I was gonna honestly say I'm like you. There's a positive and a negative light. Yeah, I I felt like it was Instagram for me before I took my break because I follow a lot of positive accounts. I follow fathering autism and his wife and their son who's not on the spectrum, and they post a lot of positivity. I follow a few people from Love on the Spectrum.

SPEAKER_00 14:22

I was gonna ask that.

SPEAKER_02 14:24

Yeah, I follow them because a lot of them I want to see behind the scenes of what is going on like when the show is not being shot.

SPEAKER_00 14:35

True. And there's a couple of people from Love on the Spectrum that are open to doing podcasts because I've seen that.

SPEAKER_02 14:45

Oh yeah. Um I know there are two moms who appear on the show that actually run a podcast.

SPEAKER_00 14:53

I've watched that because it shows one episode in their perspective, and in their son's perspective, then their brother's perspective, their sister's perspective, then their father's perspective.

SPEAKER_02 15:08

Y Yes, I know which podcast you're talking about because I have listened to that podcast.

SPEAKER_00 15:14

They would be cool to have on.

SPEAKER_02 15:16

And I've thought about emailing them a year ago, and I kept forgetting to. You're talking about Talk to Me Sis, aren't you?

SPEAKER_00 15:24

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 15:26

That is the best I mean podcast.

SPEAKER_00 15:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 15:29

I love that they brought other family members from the show on their podcast. I love that.

SPEAKER_00 15:36

Yeah, they're pretty cool people.

SPEAKER_02 15:38

I actually like the episode where they had James's dad on. That was straight up hilarious. Because if you don't know anything about James's dad, is he is a interesting spirit.

SPEAKER_00 15:52

Going to the negative light, I feel like it's mostly seeing news stories, you know? Like about I'm gonna get sensitive here, but it's mostly like tragic deaths and about cops around people with autism. I've been seeing a lot of that. People on the spectrum drowning and stuff. I mean, that stuff gets to me.

SPEAKER_02 16:18

And you know what's funniest I talked to some fire EMS people back in August and and a lot they get a lot of autism calls where a kid has went in the water and went away from home.

SPEAKER_00 16:33

I mean that scares me with Reed because he's nonverbal, you know, he can't talk to people and he can't tell them their name or who the who their parent who his parents are. That's what scares me.

SPEAKER_02 16:48

Have you thought about getting him a medical bracelet?

SPEAKER_00 16:53

So here's my thing. I never wanted to put my brother on a leash or anything. I was weird. It's just like treating treating the kids like a pet.

SPEAKER_02 17:06

See, I you know I have a medical bracelet and I wear it m religiously because of my epilepsy. Which I have openly talked about on this podcast.

SPEAKER_00 17:17

Yeah, you have.

SPEAKER_02 17:18

If you've not listened to my favorite DJ episode one or two, we talked about my epilepsy.

SPEAKER_00 17:26

With Andy, right?

SPEAKER_02 17:28

With Andy, and guess what? Uh in February, we're gonna be back together again, so that's gonna be I know I'm with my favorite human again, other than you.

SPEAKER_00 17:39

Yeah. I talked to Tony Rose about that, and he was like, Who's her favorite DJ? And he was like, Oh yeah, that Andy Morgan.

SPEAKER_02 17:50

Of course Tony would say that. He's not surprised.

SPEAKER_00 17:53

Yeah. They're buds too, because I see pictures of them together.

SPEAKER_02 17:59

Yeah, and they literally talked to each other the whole time I was doing my internship. Which I'm glad they're talk like at least those two, like, are keeping in conversation. At least.

SPEAKER_00 18:11

I feel like I don't know if it seem it sounds like you got them two closer together.

SPEAKER_02 18:18

That is so weird.

SPEAKER_00 18:21

Yeah. I didn't think about it like that, but I'll have to ask him about that. Yeah, there's some times where I don't think when I say something.

SPEAKER_02 18:34

Yeah, same here.

SPEAKER_00 18:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 18:36

But what were you saying about the negativity?

SPEAKER_00 18:39

I was saying that it was just news stories basically from Facebook and Instagram. There's some news stories that are pretty negative.

SPEAKER_02 18:50

I would 100% agree. I think the biggest one being the Tylenol.

SPEAKER_00 18:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 18:57

That's okay. I I mean, I felt like that is very wrong. You can't find a cure for autism. Don't be putting news articles out saying you can cure autism.

SPEAKER_00 19:10

Yeah. I saw the Tylenol story and I was like, hey, this is the best fairy twale I ever heard.

SPEAKER_02 19:18

I I remember thinking in my head is how many people are gonna ask me if I feel like this is true? Yeah. Because I know we did a trial run on this and talked about it with Dave. I didn't say much, but you had some very interesting thoughts, and I was like, I'm just trying to process it.

SPEAKER_00 19:39

Yeah, which I won't say on this episode, but I was just like I was just like, that's the best fairy tale I've ever heard.

SPEAKER_02 19:48

Yeah, you you had some interesting thoughts.

SPEAKER_00 19:51

Yeah. It was weird, the tile naw story.

SPEAKER_02 19:56

Oh yes.

SPEAKER_00 19:57

You remember the RFK Jr. while back?

SPEAKER_02 20:00

Oh yeah, like the first thing he said when he came into his position was I'm a cure autism.

SPEAKER_00 20:07

And I don't want to get into that, but I was just wondering if he remembered it.

SPEAKER_02 20:13

I do because I remember looking at my mom and going, is he psycho?

SPEAKER_00 20:19

Yeah. And somebody was like, I think he did some he did something before going up there.

SPEAKER_02 20:28

Yeah, he did. I think him and a certain somebody were devising a plan. And we don't want to get too political on this podcast.

SPEAKER_00 20:39

We don't. I don't even know why I brought him up. That's my bad.

SPEAKER_02 20:43

But honestly, it needed to be addressed to a degree.

SPEAKER_00 20:47

Yeah. But a lot of people know about that one. Anyways. I want to go to back to positive light one. I thought about a story that was pretty cool.

SPEAKER_02 20:58

I'm interested to hear this.

SPEAKER_00 21:01

Yeah, so I'm not good at explaining things, but it's about this kid who uh is on the spectrum and really smart, if you can imagine. Really smart. He was good at hacking computers, he was good at fixing his parents' technology, all of that. His parents were talking about, man, if he could go to a college, it would be awesome. And then he started applying for colleges and he went I forget what college he went to. I have to rewatch this story, but he went for engineering.

SPEAKER_02 21:39

I feel like I know what you're talking about.

SPEAKER_00 21:42

It's hard to explain that story, but it's a pretty cool story.

SPEAKER_02 21:47

Yeah, and it was made into a film if I feel like I know what you're talking about.

SPEAKER_00 21:52

Well, there is a lot of m movies about there's one I remember about a kid on the spectrum hacking into the government. And they're after this kid, and Bruce Willis is in it, and he's protecting this kid.

SPEAKER_02 22:07

Okay. The the movie or documentary I'm thinking of is called Deege. Okay. And this is a guy who was non-verbal, went to college, got a four-year degree, lived on campus. Very bright.

SPEAKER_00 22:25

Yeah. I do want to see this one documentary. I don't know if you know who Brendan Fraser is.

SPEAKER_02 22:32

Brendan Fraser.

SPEAKER_00 22:33

Yeah, Brendan Fraser. So he produced a documentary about an older autistic man who wears a superhero cape and he does these good deeds for people.

SPEAKER_02 22:46

I didn't know about that.

SPEAKER_00 22:48

And I'm like, man, this looks pretty interesting. But I knew about the the only reason I knew about this is because he was on the Kelly Clarkson show talking about it, and he teared up because he thought about his son who was also on the spectrum.

SPEAKER_02 23:07

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 23:08

Yeah. He's tearing well he's tearing up a lot now, but I support him for it.

SPEAKER_02 23:14

Is it rental family?

SPEAKER_00 23:16

I'm not sure.

SPEAKER_02 23:17

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 23:18

But I just remember Brendan Fraser came on and talked about it. Kelly Clarkson brings a lot of. I really love her for this. She brings a lot of people who are on the spectrum. Not just the spectrum, but Down syndrome, and I really respect her for doing that.

SPEAKER_02 23:36

Yeah, she's one of my favorite talk shows to watch if I'm working out, to be honest.

SPEAKER_01 23:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 23:42

I I most of the time we go to the gym during like when her show was on. I made sure to be at the gym working out while her show was on.

SPEAKER_00 23:52

I was actually thinking about this interview that this kid had, and it was about him and this cop, and oh his mom was scared of how cops would be around him, and so she took her son to the sheriff's office. I had to think about it for a minute, but he they took him to the sheriff's off sheriff's office, and he met this one guy, got along really well during the whole tour. They were showing him around and stuff, and he sent this letter to him asking if he would be his godfather.

SPEAKER_02 24:33

Oh, that's so sweet.

SPEAKER_00 24:36

Yeah, and every time I watch it, I tear up a little bit.

SPEAKER_02 24:41

That is so, so sweet. We need more talk shows like Kelly Clarkson.

SPEAKER_00 24:48

We do. I think Jennifer Hudson's trying to do what she's doing.

SPEAKER_02 24:52

Uh uh, yeah, I agree. And I have watched some clips from her show, and I really like it.

SPEAKER_00 25:00

Yeah, I really love the talk shows. For some reason, I feel like I would be good at it. Because I'm watching two. I'm watching a lot of them. I don't just watch Jennifer Hudson and Kelly Clarkson. I watch a lot of them.

SPEAKER_02 25:15

I am a big watcher of the today show.

SPEAKER_00 25:19

Is Hoda your favorite?

SPEAKER_02 25:21

No. You know what's surprising? Al Roker. Oh, he's your favorite? Yes. Huh.

unknown 25:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 25:29

And it's because and it's because he has a son on the spectrum, and he's pretty open about it.

SPEAKER_00 25:36

Yeah, that's true. I forgot about that. That's pretty cool. Because his son likes to cook, don't he?

SPEAKER_02 25:42

Okay, we are back and we were talking about Al Rauker.

SPEAKER_00 25:48

Yep.

SPEAKER_02 25:49

And his son, who is also on the spectrum, and what they did during COVID, which I really liked, and I would see that as a positive light. And his son is actually in college.

SPEAKER_00 26:04

Yeah, I forgot what college he goes to though.

SPEAKER_02 26:07

It's one up in New York.

SPEAKER_00 26:10

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_02 26:12

It's in New York, and it's kind of more of like a life works, is the best way I could describe it, because Al does give updates sometimes, but not all the time. Cause me and Alexi um had conversations about this because we were wondering if Al's son was gonna come to the Kelly Autism program for a little while. And we were gonna look forward to meeting Al actually.

SPEAKER_00 26:43

Oh, he was thinking about coming?

SPEAKER_02 26:45

I think we thought they had looked at it.

SPEAKER_00 26:49

Oh.

SPEAKER_02 26:50

Cause Alexi and I are big today show people. What TV show do you think represents autism well?

SPEAKER_00 27:00

I mean, I feel like we talked about some, but I feel like a TV show, I would say I mean we talked about Love on the Spectrum a little bit. That's probably the biggest one right now.

SPEAKER_02 27:13

And I would have to agree. There's been some other shows. There was another one from Netflix. I can't remember it off the top of my head.

SPEAKER_00 27:24

Was it atypical?

SPEAKER_02 27:26

Yes, atypical.

SPEAKER_00 27:28

I haven't watched that one yet, but I heard he's treated really well.

SPEAKER_02 27:34

Yeah. That's one Good Doctor.

SPEAKER_00 27:38

Good Doctor.

SPEAKER_02 27:39

Thoughts on Good Doctor.

SPEAKER_00 27:41

Haven't seen Good Doctor, but I've heard that the actor does a really good job.

SPEAKER_02 27:48

And he did. I think they showed the real world very well of how he got treated. There was zero sugarcoating. They showed how we do well in a workplace and what happens if we have a mental breakdown.

SPEAKER_00 28:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 28:08

Which is what I Oh. Which is what I liked about the show. I only got to watch a few episodes because life got busy and we couldn't keep up with it.

SPEAKER_00 28:20

My mom and I want to try and watch Good Doctor.

SPEAKER_02 28:24

You should.

SPEAKER_00 28:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 28:25

At least at least give it a shot.

SPEAKER_00 28:28

I want to watch Love on the Spectrum, but I don't want to watch it by myself.

SPEAKER_02 28:33

I think you and your mom would enjoy watching that together.

SPEAKER_00 28:37

I feel like it would be cool seeing because I bet it's their first dates, right?

SPEAKER_02 28:43

First dates to the struggle of keeping a relationship. Just all the ins and outs.

SPEAKER_00 28:51

Yeah. It would just be cool to see their reactions because it's their real reactions, you know?

SPEAKER_02 28:57

Oh yes. The longest couple on the show is Abby and David.

SPEAKER_00 29:04

Oh.

SPEAKER_02 29:04

That is the only longest relationship, and I don't want to spoil spoil the show for you.

SPEAKER_00 29:11

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 29:12

But that is the longest so far.

SPEAKER_00 29:15

Okay. But I do know I watch interviews though, and I really like Tanner and Connor. Oh, yes. And I really like Connor because he reminds me of me. Because he's he can memorize different things. He's really into Vikings and Dragons. And he could tell you what all this diff different stuff is from that time.

SPEAKER_02 29:42

And you know something else? He's a big movie buff.

SPEAKER_00 29:46

Yeah, that's true. I've seen that.

SPEAKER_02 29:48

He thinks the perfect day is watching a good movie.

SPEAKER_00 29:52

That's me?

SPEAKER_02 29:53

Uh yeah, I would pick Love on the Spectrum. So far there hasn't been a show that has not done a good job. Now the only thing I will say about the shows we feel that do show Possive Light is they only show one gender.

SPEAKER_00 30:12

Yeah. I mean Big Bang Theory, they don't really say it, but there's Amy Farah Fowler. There's a lot of rumors about her.

SPEAKER_02 30:23

Yes. Her and Sheldon both uh being on this spectrum.

SPEAKER_00 30:27

Yes, and I've I don't know if you'll agree with me on this, but I feel like Big Bang Theory shows autism in a negative light, and young Sheldon actually shows it in a positive light.

SPEAKER_02 30:42

I didn't think about it that way.

SPEAKER_00 30:44

Because I seen I don't know if you've seen all of young Sheldon.

SPEAKER_02 30:51

I've seen a decent amount.

SPEAKER_00 30:53

Yeah, but I don't wanna tell you the last season because something big happens and it affects Sheldon.

SPEAKER_02 31:01

I know I know what the big thing is.

unknown 31:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 31:04

He goes to college.

SPEAKER_00 31:06

No, there's another one.

SPEAKER_02 31:08

Is it Georgie and Mandy having the baby?

SPEAKER_00 31:12

No, it's I it's his dad.

SPEAKER_02 31:17

Oh yes, yes, yes, I watched that episode.

SPEAKER_00 31:21

And it was rough watching him like after he heard his dad died, because that makes me think, like, if we lose someone that close to us, would we be thinking about the last time we talked to that person?

SPEAKER_02 31:37

You know what's funny is I've been there.

SPEAKER_00 31:40

Yeah, I feel like that was me too, but it was hard because I was doing a play and I wasn't really thinking about this person during the play.

SPEAKER_02 31:52

You know, I I would say I've lost some people, but as I've gotten older, it's like I've been learning how to process and people don't understand why do I not cry right like on the dog, and I like how young Sheldon showed that because most of the time the crying face didn't hit me until like days later or even weeks.

SPEAKER_00 32:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 32:18

Cause I just went through a pretty big death back in May.

SPEAKER_01 32:25

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_02 32:26

I wasn't close with this person, but all the emotions hit me like two weeks after we put this person in the ground. All my emotions just flooded me, and I was sitting on my bed curled up in a ball crying.

SPEAKER_00 32:41

I feel like it's from the day the person died until the after the funeral that I'm usually emotional.

SPEAKER_02 32:52

And people don't get why it takes this longer.

SPEAKER_00 32:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 32:56

And young Sheldon was the first time they showed that.

SPEAKER_00 33:00

And I feel like that showed that in a very awesome way because I feel like some people on the spectrum have dealt with death like that.

SPEAKER_02 33:12

Yes. And I also liked how they dealt with how Sheldon reacted with his siblings. That was the other thing I was gonna bring up.

SPEAKER_00 33:23

Yeah, that's true.

SPEAKER_02 33:24

Because Sheldon's a twin. And him and his are Missy and him the polar opposite of him.

SPEAKER_00 33:32

Yeah. That's usually how it is, too.

SPEAKER_02 33:35

Oh yes. And I like her. Because I'm I know twins, so and moving on from TV shows, I'm talking about your favorite thing in the whole wide world.

SPEAKER_00 33:48

Oh, movies.

SPEAKER_02 33:50

Because there's been plenty of movies that have shown representation of autism from documentaries to scripted.

SPEAKER_00 34:01

There's there's a lot for me. Thinking about positive and negative. Probably positive. It's hard to think of positive though. I would have to say I've heard a lot about this movie Ezra.

SPEAKER_02 34:16

Oh, that's the newest one.

SPEAKER_00 34:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 34:19

I've kind of been interested in watching that one.

SPEAKER_00 34:23

All I know is it's about his dad and his mom are separated.

SPEAKER_02 34:29

And they're living and the dad's a comedian.

SPEAKER_00 34:34

Yes, and they're living with his dad, who is Robert De Niro.

SPEAKER_02 34:39

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 34:40

Who has a son on the spectrum.

SPEAKER_02 34:44

I didn't know that until like there was like I think an interview possibly, and he talked about it.

SPEAKER_00 34:50

Yeah, and he plays Special Olympics, if I'm correct, because I thought he plays tennis.

SPEAKER_02 34:56

It was tennis or basketball.

SPEAKER_00 34:58

I saw tennis, but could be basketball too.

SPEAKER_02 35:02

Yeah, I've been waiting to watch that, and the big one I always hear about is Rain Man.

SPEAKER_00 35:13

So I feel like that's a mix of positive and negative. There's some that's like there's like some things about him that's don't show autism, but like count number of two picks that's pretty weird. And he can actually this actually sounds right. He can read a number off a calculator, how it is, like how to add and multiply certain stuff, which I think is pretty cool. And he can also count cards, which his brother takes him to a casino and uses him to count cards for this game Blackjack.

SPEAKER_02 36:00

I didn't know that.

SPEAKER_00 36:01

Yeah, that's like the biggest scene of Rain Man him taking to the taking him to the casino.

SPEAKER_02 36:09

Okay, I haven't watched it, but I knew they were on a road trip of some sort.

SPEAKER_00 36:15

Sorry I spoiled that for you, but it's a little older.

SPEAKER_02 36:20

Yeah, it was it was gonna be spoiled at some point. I'm honestly surprised we didn't do an autism movie week during my internship.

SPEAKER_00 36:31

Yeah, that would have been awesome. Like talking about different movies?

SPEAKER_02 36:36

Yeah, I was like what I was gonna say.

SPEAKER_00 36:38

I'm surprised that didn't cross either of our minds, but I feel like I haven't watched this either, but What's Eating Gilbert Grape, that's a movie.

SPEAKER_02 36:49

Never seen that.

SPEAKER_00 36:50

That's Leonardo DiCaprio. He's on the spectrum.

SPEAKER_02 36:55

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 36:56

And try to think of another movie where it's someone who's who loves to run.

SPEAKER_02 37:04

Oh, run for oh, run forest run.

SPEAKER_00 37:07

No, no, not forest gump.

SPEAKER_02 37:11

Well they debate that well they debate he's on the spectrum.

SPEAKER_00 37:16

Yeah, that would actually be pretty cool. Because I I don't know if you know this, but Forrest Gump is my favorite.

SPEAKER_02 37:25

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 37:27

Yeah. So it would be interesting that he's on the spectrum.

SPEAKER_02 37:32

That is very interesting. The other one I've heard mix reviews on is the one Sia created. Oh. Music. Okay. Have you heard about that one?

SPEAKER_00 37:48

No.

SPEAKER_02 37:49

It was due to them not casting a person on the spectrum.

SPEAKER_00 37:53

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_02 37:54

In how the autistic character was represented.

SPEAKER_00 37:59

I mean, that's kinda like Big Bang Theory. I mean, Jim Parsons, he's not on the spectrum.

SPEAKER_02 38:06

But he's played several characters who they suppose are on the spectrum. Because the character he played in Hidden Figures acted like he could have been on the spectrum.

SPEAKER_00 38:19

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_02 38:20

You've watched Hidden Figures.

SPEAKER_00 38:22

I have watched Hidden Figures, but it's been a while.

SPEAKER_02 38:25

It's been a while. That's actually one of my favorite black history films.

SPEAKER_00 38:31

Yeah, that's Taraji, right?

SPEAKER_02 38:33

Taraji, Key and Henson, a lot of big names.

SPEAKER_00 38:39

It was a good movie. I remember I liked it.

SPEAKER_02 38:42

Yeah. Same here.

SPEAKER_00 38:44

But it's been a while.

SPEAKER_02 38:46

I would like to watch it again.

SPEAKER_00 38:48

I bet it's on Streaming App somewhere.

SPEAKER_02 38:51

Yeah, I think it was on Disney. Any other films you can think of?

SPEAKER_00 38:56

Um I mean, I don't know if this is a movie about being on the spectrum, but there's a movie called I Am Sam. Oh Sean Penn playing.

SPEAKER_02 39:10

I feel like I've heard of that.

SPEAKER_00 39:12

He's taking care of his daughter, and her name is Lucy Diamond Sky, which is a reference to Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.

SPEAKER_02 39:24

Oh.

SPEAKER_00 39:25

By the Beatles.

SPEAKER_02 39:27

How have I not heard that song?

SPEAKER_00 39:29

Oh, that's a good song. That's a recommend.

SPEAKER_02 39:34

Yeah, and I listened to a lot of Beatles.

SPEAKER_00 39:37

And Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds is not what you think it is, though. And I don't know. I can't think of any other movies though.

SPEAKER_02 39:47

They did a portrayal of Temple Grandon.

SPEAKER_00 39:52

Yeah, I do want to watch that one.

SPEAKER_02 39:54

I do too. And that was made by HBO.

SPEAKER_00 39:58

Mm-hmm. I mean there's movies where I feel like some people could have autism, but they never say it, you know?

SPEAKER_02 40:07

Yes. And it's hard to think of those off the top of the my head and probably your head.

SPEAKER_00 40:13

I feel like well one comes to mind and it's blended with Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore. I've Oh yes. I've watched And it's the kid who plays baseball. Oh. And he gets I don't know if that's autism, but he gets upset that he's not he's not doing really well at it, but Adam Sandler helps him.

SPEAKER_02 40:42

Oh yeah. Is that is that the one where they went to Africa?

SPEAKER_00 40:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 40:48

Okay, yeah, I know what you're talking about. Because that was a good film.

SPEAKER_00 40:53

It was. And I loved how that film was done, if that makes any sense.

SPEAKER_02 41:00

It makes sense. And I feel like there was a certain character in Old Brother Were Art Thou that could supposedly be on the spectrum.

SPEAKER_00 41:10

Are you talking about Delmar?

SPEAKER_02 41:12

Yeah, I'm talking about Delmar. I can see that. Because sometimes he seems to be in his own world and they have to snap him back into reality.

SPEAKER_00 41:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 41:23

Especially when he says one of the characters turned into a frog.

SPEAKER_00 41:27

Yeah, that's that's one of the best scenes too. Like when the Bible salesman beats them up and kills the toad.

SPEAKER_02 41:37

Oh yeah. I forgot about that.

SPEAKER_00 41:41

Yeah, that was good. Now I want to watch it. Oh, it's a I watched that movie. I would watch that movie over and over again if I could.

SPEAKER_02 41:51

I know. I'm the same way.

SPEAKER_00 41:54

And George Callooney's from Kentucky. I knew that. He based it off of his uh grandfather, that voice, like that country voice that he does.

SPEAKER_02 42:06

That makes sense.

SPEAKER_00 42:08

Yeah. So I was just wondering, do you think local media has done a good job with representing people on the spectrum?

SPEAKER_02 42:17

I was thinking about talking about that. I it depends on the town.

SPEAKER_00 42:22

In this case Hodgeville's a mix.

SPEAKER_02 42:26

Uh Frankfurt, like, not really until I really started working at my station I'm currently at. Bowling Green would probably be the biggest.

SPEAKER_00 42:41

Oh.

SPEAKER_02 42:42

Because you have the fun run.

SPEAKER_00 42:46

You have the Kelly Autism program.

SPEAKER_02 42:50

Yes. And LifeWorks.

SPEAKER_00 42:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 42:54

And they're always like in the news doing something. Of course, Tony's involvement and taking interns on.

SPEAKER_00 43:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 43:04

And then I would say my media company, but it's kind of mixed. It depends on if they're willing, because right now at the current moment, there really isn't anybody in the building who is on the spectrum.

SPEAKER_00 43:23

Which is a question that you wanted to ask, and it's do you feel stations are more hazard hesitant in hiring someone on the spectrum?

SPEAKER_02 43:34

100%.

SPEAKER_00 43:35

Oh, I agree too. Because I had to be open and say that I am on the spectrum.

SPEAKER_02 43:42

And in the biggest company that will actually throw your file away if you say you have a disability is iHeartMedia.

SPEAKER_00 43:52

Yeah. I'm like, I feel like I have to say it though, because it's just a way for people to understand. What I'm like, you know?

SPEAKER_02 44:01

Yes. I've done a mix, if that makes any sense.

SPEAKER_00 44:07

So you've told some stations that you're on the spectrum and some Yep. You were like, yeah, I'll just act normal during this.

SPEAKER_02 44:17

Yeah, until I get hired and then I'll tell.

SPEAKER_00 44:20

Yeah. And then then people change their minds.

SPEAKER_02 44:25

You know what's funny is IHart threw my file away after interviewing me, and I said to the guy, Hey, I'm on the spectrum. He threw my file out after interviewing me when I told him I was on the spectrum.

SPEAKER_00 44:39

Yeah, I don't like that.

SPEAKER_02 44:41

No. And Andy did not take that well either.

SPEAKER_00 44:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 44:46

And he's I would have And he's been my biggest advocate while I've been applying for jobs.

SPEAKER_00 44:52

I feel like mine has been Tommy.

SPEAKER_02 44:56

Yeah, he's one of our biggest advocates other than Tony.

SPEAKER_00 45:00

He sometimes texts me out of the blue and says, Have I gotten the job yet? And I'm like, no, man. I'm looking for some.

SPEAKER_02 45:11

I'm possibly getting close, but the snowstorm has held up a lot of stuff.

SPEAKER_00 45:19

Yeah, that's true. Oh Mother Nature.

SPEAKER_02 45:23

Oh Mother Nature. And there's been some not nice comments said to me within my own company, which is even sadder. And not Alan. Alan's a saint.

SPEAKER_00 45:36

Yeah, Alan's awesome.

SPEAKER_02 45:37

Yeah, Alan's awesome. No, Alan wouldn't say that.

SPEAKER_00 45:43

Nah.

SPEAKER_02 45:44

He wouldn't. And I honestly don't like that they kick Tony out of number one. Yeah, Tony lost his number one spot, by the way.

SPEAKER_00 45:54

Oh, that's tough.

SPEAKER_02 45:56

Yeah, with an uh with a different morning show.

SPEAKER_00 46:00

I bet he's talking a lot about that.

SPEAKER_02 46:04

Yeah. And I and I haven't said anything because I'm gonna be Tony's side all the way, even though I work for a different company.

SPEAKER_01 46:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 46:14

That that morning show's under. I'm like, I'm still always gonna support Tony and that he's always number one.

SPEAKER_00 46:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 46:23

And Tommy said he is still number two and he's A-OK. Cause he posted about it. I don't know if you saw that.

SPEAKER_00 46:32

Oh yeah. Tommy's always in good spirits. Oh yes.

SPEAKER_02 46:36

Yeah, so it depends on the radio station and what they're wanting. But South Central Kentucky is probably the biggest area with people on the spectrum. And they're not being and they're not being represented, sadly.

SPEAKER_00 46:54

Yeah, I don't I don't like that.

SPEAKER_02 46:56

Me neither. I'm I'm kicking and screaming my way down there.

SPEAKER_00 47:01

Yeah. I just think if you have the experience, they should give you the job. I mean I understand if the other person has more experience, but you shouldn't you should not hire somebody I'm getting my words mixed up, but it don't matter what disability you are, what race you are or what disorder you are. If you are capable of capable of doing broadcasting or whatever job, they should give you that job.

SPEAKER_02 47:35

I 100% agree because I personally think either one of us is gonna end up back at D at some point.

SPEAKER_00 47:44

And between the two of us, it's probably Nah I'm kidding. I was gonna say it's gonna be me, but I'm I was messing around. Because I like they know I like classic rock and hey, we're talking about music right now.

SPEAKER_02 48:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 48:02

Do you think music has done a good job in explaining autism?

SPEAKER_02 48:07

Oh, that's so hard because I don't hear about it.

SPEAKER_00 48:12

There's not really a lot out there, if that makes any sense. No, there's not. I mean, I can't think of any songs off the top of my head, but I feel like there's some songs that could be explaining autism.

SPEAKER_02 48:27

Uh I'm gonna be a hundred percent with you there.

SPEAKER_00 48:30

Yeah, I mean, there's a lot on mental health which affects autism.

SPEAKER_02 48:37

Oh yes. Uh I'm gonna a hundred percent agree. And I probably listen to some of the mental health songs.

SPEAKER_00 48:44

Yeah, and if you think about it, it could be par it could be autism adjacent. Very true. I mean, they just they just try to sprinkle stuff in there in their lyrics and stuff.

SPEAKER_02 48:59

Yeah, it's probably more pop than country.

SPEAKER_00 49:03

I feel like I can see rock too because they're talking more about mental health stuff now.

SPEAKER_02 49:11

I would agree with country because that's I swear all I listen to.

SPEAKER_00 49:16

I feel like rock rock has always done that. There's always mental health. There's a lot of mental health in rock, and a lot of people don't know it. I'm like, Metallica is the big one. Read their lyrics, and you'll see, ooh, there's a lot of songs. I feel like the biggest ones fade to black. And the thing about Metallica is you have to read their lyrics because sometimes it's hard to understand.

SPEAKER_02 49:49

You were talking about Metallica.

SPEAKER_00 49:52

Yes. They're very big on mental health, and a lot of people don't know that. I see that a lot in their lyrics, so I just tell a lot of people to look at their lyrics and you'll see what I'm talking about.

SPEAKER_02 50:07

That that is very interesting because I've only heard a few Metallica songs from listening to certain radio stations because of growing my expansion of knowledge of rock and alternative music.

SPEAKER_00 50:24

I'm just going all over the place, to be honest, with music.

SPEAKER_02 50:29

This is what this episode's about. We're talking all types of media.

SPEAKER_00 50:33

Yeah, I feel like big on mental health, which is why I like this other band, Red Clay Strays.

SPEAKER_02 50:42

I've heard about Red Clay Strays.

SPEAKER_00 50:45

Yes, they're really good. And I really love the guy because he sounds like Elvis, and he sounds like a country singer, Waylon Jennings.

SPEAKER_02 50:57

Oh.

SPEAKER_00 50:58

And Ray Charles, Chris Stapleton, he's all over the place.

SPEAKER_02 51:03

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 51:04

With his vocal range.

SPEAKER_02 51:06

That is very interesting.

SPEAKER_00 51:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 51:09

And and I would also mention Jelly Roll.

SPEAKER_00 51:14

Yeah. He's big on mental health. Especially the album Beautifully Broken.

SPEAKER_02 51:22

Yes. I don't know how many songs I've listened off that album.

SPEAKER_00 51:27

I've heard all of them.

SPEAKER_02 51:29

I have that record and I can't wait to listen to it.

SPEAKER_00 51:33

It's really good. And Red Clay Strays, there's an album called Made by These Moments, and all those songs are good on that album.

SPEAKER_02 51:45

I'll have to check that out.

SPEAKER_00 51:47

There's not a bad song on that album. I feel like a good song that people should hear that's on that is probably God Does.

SPEAKER_02 51:58

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 51:59

Yeah, they're really great band.

SPEAKER_02 52:02

They look like a newer band.

SPEAKER_00 52:04

They are. They've been out since COVID. What no, 2017, I think. The lead singer's supposed to be coming out with a documentary on Netflix. It's gonna be seven episodes.

SPEAKER_02 52:19

That should be interesting to watch.

SPEAKER_00 52:22

Yeah, I'm very excited about that. Because I watched Jelly Rolls and it was really good too.

SPEAKER_02 52:29

Did you where was his posted?

SPEAKER_00 52:31

It was on Hulu.

SPEAKER_02 52:33

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_00 52:35

I think it was called Save Me.

SPEAKER_02 52:37

Oh, I think I wanted to watch it and I was sad because I don't have Hulu.

SPEAKER_00 52:42

It makes you that one makes you cry a little bit because of his story.

SPEAKER_02 52:48

And I've heard of some of his story from interviews I've listened to, and I'm like, if only I could watch that documentary.

SPEAKER_00 52:57

Or one of my episodes where I talked about Jelly Roll being in like my top five musicians one year.

SPEAKER_02 53:06

Ah okay. I talked a little He actually made my Apple uh like what you ever whatever you call it this year.

SPEAKER_00 53:17

He he's really good. I can't wait for his next album. Is he making a new album? I don't know yet, but I would think he is.

SPEAKER_02 53:27

It would be interesting for him to write a album on all of his like weight loss journey.

SPEAKER_00 53:35

Yeah. Or like visiting different prisons.

SPEAKER_02 53:41

Oh, I didn't know that.

SPEAKER_00 53:43

Yeah, that's his big thing now because well, they were juvenile centers because he went to juvenile centers in the beginning, and so he would visit people in juvie and stuff.

SPEAKER_02 54:00

I d I knew he had gone to jail, but I'd totally forgotten about that.

SPEAKER_00 54:07

Cool story, Jelly Rolls, I would look more I would look at his story more, it's pretty sad, but it's pretty cool how he's now a singer and he was Grammy nominated, so yeah. That was pretty cool.

SPEAKER_02 54:24

I don't think he got he has a Grammy yet.

SPEAKER_00 54:27

He doesn't. He was nominated. Yeah. Never won a Grammy.

SPEAKER_02 54:33

I know, so sad.

SPEAKER_00 54:35

Mm-hmm. I just wonder, do you feel that you can be yourself in the media world?

SPEAKER_02 54:43

I'm still trying to figure that out. I when I was doing my D93 internship, I was just barely surviving.

SPEAKER_00 54:54

I feel like I have been being myself.

SPEAKER_02 54:58

I've been trying to since graduating, but I would say I was also trying to find myself the last year college.

SPEAKER_00 55:07

Because that's what they taught us most in broadcasting is to be yourself.

SPEAKER_02 55:14

Which is the hardest thing when people are gonna criticize you from where you're interning to people calling in or leaving messages. I think my favorite thing that was told to me by Tony was was you gotta have a thick skin.

SPEAKER_00 55:34

I think that's why Tony liked me because I had a thick skin with them messing with me, you know.

SPEAKER_02 55:42

I was rebuilding my thick skin when I was with them. I mean because I was I was practically broken.

SPEAKER_00 55:50

Yeah. I was like, if they made a joke at me, I would make a joke at them, so yeah. Yeah. D93 is jokes. I mean, no, I'm not saying that it's a joke, but they like to mess around.

SPEAKER_02 56:12

Yeah, and I could take their messing around after a while because I got used to it.

SPEAKER_00 56:18

Different radio environments do get it they do take a while to get used to it.

SPEAKER_02 56:25

Oh, 100%. I'm so like I like what I do right now to a degree because I'm usually by myself because nobody's really in the building when I'm there except our other producer. We have game games on both stations.

SPEAKER_00 56:42

The thing about D93 was a lot of people were there.

SPEAKER_02 56:47

And I and I love that aspect of everybody was in during that time, and you got to have a social aspect of how a station runs.

SPEAKER_00 56:59

I mean, I'm gonna be honest, Tony and Tommy weren't really around each other a lot, but No. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 57:08

Well, because they're doing two polar opposite shows.

SPEAKER_00 57:11

And they have different sense of humors.

SPEAKER_02 57:14

Oh yes, I would 100% agree with that.

SPEAKER_00 57:18

And I think why I like doing that is because I got to do different types of sense of humor.

SPEAKER_02 57:26

I I would say so too, because the one thing Tony did tell me, because I had originally said and I told this to Alan, I said, I am doing no internship my last semester of college. And Alan Alan was like, okay.

SPEAKER_00 57:42

And what's funny is I didn't I did do the internship my last semester.

SPEAKER_02 57:49

Yeah, I did one my last semester as well, and Tony was like, why'd you not tell me you d were doing one? I was like, Well, I I didn't know when I was starting, who I was working with until a week before I started.

SPEAKER_00 58:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 58:07

What I work and I didn't even have time to tell anybody at CAP I was doing a second internship.

SPEAKER_00 58:13

Oh.

SPEAKER_02 58:15

Because the day I started, my phone blew up. Yeah because because Austin heard me on the radio and was like, wait, Hannah's doing this and didn't tell me. I'm like, I was supposed to tell you the day before, but we were snowed in.

SPEAKER_00 58:32

Oh, Austin and Kim knew I was doing it.

SPEAKER_02 58:36

Yeah. See, that was the thing with D is everybody in the building knew I was doing it with D.

SPEAKER_00 58:42

Yeah. And it was cool because they invited I don't know if you remember me talking about this, but they invited Tommy and Sheila to the graduation ceremony the Kelly Autism program has.

SPEAKER_02 58:59

Yeah. Uh I think if they had known who my person was, I think he would have came to mind. Now, would he have been on time is the next great question.

SPEAKER_00 59:12

Oh, they were on time.

SPEAKER_02 59:14

Well, Sheila runs like she has to be organized. Andy Morgan runs on Andy Morgan time.

SPEAKER_00 59:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 59:22

You haven't met him, and he runs on his own time, and if he's running behind, he's running behind.

SPEAKER_00 59:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 59:29

That's why, like, and he was like asking me if he could go to my graduation, and I was like, I don't know. He wasn't mad that I didn't tell him. He was just respecting my boundaries.

SPEAKER_00 59:41

Yeah, D came to mine.

SPEAKER_02 59:45

Yeah. And I saw those pictures. Those were some good pictures.

SPEAKER_00 59:49

Yeah. D was shouting Rhino when they said my name.

SPEAKER_02 59:54

I'm not surprised.

SPEAKER_00 59:56

Yeah, they were cool. For doing that. I felt bad because I didn't see them afterwards. But it was a big crowd.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:06

Oh, they're huge. It's hard to find people.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:10

Like literally my mom and I were on the phone until we found each other.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:15

Yeah. It was hard finding my family.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:18

I yeah. It's like they try to move you out as fast as possible.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:24

Yeah. I felt like the basketball arena was harder than the football field because I could see where my parents and my dad's girlfriend was at at the football field. The basketball arena was tough.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:40

Yeah. I didn't even know where my family was sitting on. I didn't.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:45

Until they waved at me when I got the diploma.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:49

Yeah, I didn't even look at all. I was just like staring straight because I was barely awake. I was afraid of sleeping through my ceremony.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:59

I didn't.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:00

Well you're more of a morning person than me.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:03

Yeah. And it's funny because I'm not a morning person either.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:08

Yeah, how'd you survive the morning show?

SPEAKER_00 1:01:11

Good question. Um after the morning show, I would go to the Kelly Autism program, and then after the Kelly Autism program, I would go to the Starbucks.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:24

I don't blame you.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:27

Because I was I was tired, I'm gonna be honest with you, but I got I guess I had the attitude that I knew I was gonna get through it, and I knew Starbucks or Spencer's would help me.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:42

And I consumed quite a bit of caffeine myself.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:47

I didn't really consume that much, really, but I did enough for me to be awake.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:53

I will tell you when I did an afternoon show, it made all the difference.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:59

Yeah. Oh afternoon's completely different. I agree.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:04

Because I enjoyed doing the afternoon show a lot more than the morning show because I actually got to sleep in, I had more energy, I didn't look like I had just totally got out of bed and was barely making it.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:19

Yeah. It was cool doing that with Tommy though.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:24

Yeah, you and Tommy seem to get along. I swear I couldn't fly on the wall.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:29

Yeah, it because we have the same interests again. Because we're into the same like artist. I agree. Yeah, we're both into Elvis and Metallica and Kiss, so nice. Yeah, he's cool, dude.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:57

It I feel like we've had a great conversation today.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:01

We have.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:03

I was like, w we have talked about all things media. We talked about radio to music to movies to TV to even social media platforms.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:16

And to snow days. Don't forget about the beginning.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:19

Oh, we can't forget the snow. Snowmageddon 2026.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:25

That's right, and it isn't over.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:27

No, it's not.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:30

Next week.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:31

Woo! And if we get any more, my schedule is gonna be so busy. I've already gotten my pre-schedule for this upcoming week and the week following.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:47

Oh yikes.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:50

Yeah, it's not gonna be fun. I'm just gonna be farewarning some people.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:55

Yeah. Good luck.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:57

Thank you. And this is a simple discussion.