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All right welcome everyone to ask the neighbor it is January 21. It is Friday and we are ready to rock it out and here we go

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all right DJ Yeah,

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right, rocking it out right now Friday, January 21. Boy February's right around the corner, and then we're going to have March, then we're going to have April, everything's moving along smoothly. Give us a ring. 248557 3300 is the number. We are here to talk. Alright, give us a ring. Give us a text. You can text us at 330333 work. That's 330333 work. We're going to have a great show today. We're looking forward to all the different callers are going to be calling in. There's going to be very Detroit that's going to be playing at 1030. And all kinds of things have been happening since this week. And yesterday, we had some great calls and some great questions. And we talked about Dolly Parton. And thank you to Karen for giving us that information yesterday. It was great. We got to talk about you know the details about Dolly Parton's life and I know DJ choker. You're a big fan of Dolly Parton on June. Yeah. What's your favorite song by her?

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I probably I will always love you. Oh,

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really? Yeah. Wow. I didn't know that one man would be your favorite. There we go. What's your favorite song? If you're looking for a song to be played today? Give us a ring 248557 3300 We play some songs. We play some content right here on Ask the neighbor. I'm your host Danko Center. offski coming to you every day Monday through Friday. And right here on 690 am WNZK I hope Dolly Parton's listening out there man. I'd love to have her call into the show. I wonder if somebody's got some connections. Right. Maybe David could call up his people down there in the south and get some things cooking over there. So we could talk to Dolly. I don't know I'm gonna make a ring out there. I'm gonna give a call I'm gonna shoot an email see if we can get her on the on the show. And if anybody has any connections to Dolly Parton us let us know. I know that we would love to hear her on our show. And I know she's doing so many great things with charities she just celebrated a birthday Hey, you know I think we've got the ability to have anybody on our show that's how good I feel like our audiences and everything that we're doing so keep it coming let's keep the calls going 248557 3300 Is the number um we're gonna go to a song till we get some callers here we go I was lying on the grass Sunday morning myself first I was crying on the street

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Alright folks, you're listening to 690 am WNZ UK. I'm your host Danko Sutter offski coming to you Monday through Friday right here on w NZK. And trying to bring you the most interesting information that we can find food for thought. That's an idea that I had the other day as I was driving. We do discuss food for thought. So every single day, that's what we're up to here. Give us a ring 248557 3300 Yesterday, Tony was looking to remodel the whole inside of his house. Right? DJ he was looking to tear it all down. Yeah. from Shelby Township, and I hope that he connected with Alfredo. Alfredo is painting and home remodeling. This is a fellow that I've actually done business with and have worked with Alfredo's painting and home improvement. So we shared that number yesterday. And I hope Tony got it. I also shared Tony's number with Alfredo so that he could give him a call. And I hope that you got it all settled up, at least you have someone taking a look at it. If there's other people that want to look at that work. That's what we're talking about. Here. We got Tony in Shelby township talking about a major remodel of his house. He wants it all we done inside, and he's looking for people that can do it. Give us a call 248557 3300 I'm sure there's some guys out there hungry for some work right now, even though most people might be busy. But you got to remember, you got to feed that pipeline. If you're a small business, if you're an entrepreneur, if you're a service contractor, you got to remember that you got to keep putting yourself out there. Otherwise, people are going to forget who you are. Keep putting your name out there. And so give us a call. Even if you're busy right now, we want to know who you are, where you're at, might take a few weeks to get back to us or whatever, that's fine. Give us a ring 248557 3300 We're looking for callers. Like I said 248557 3300 That's the number to call, you can text us at 3303303335330333 work is the number that's 330333 work is where you can text us and let us know what's on your mind. That way. You can also go to the website, ask the neighbor calm and connect with us there. That's easy to do. You can put in your question right into there, and then we can answer it. We can share it here on the radio. You can also connect with us on our Facebook facebook.com forward slash ask the neighbor facebook.com forward slash Barry Detroit, and also on our Instagram asked at Ask the neighbor and at very Detroit. That's the way to connect with us. You can also go to very detroit.com Where it's a digital guidance system for the city where you can look at art music food style, you can also click on the WNZK button and catch our stream wherever you are, you can be listening to WNZ K by going to very detroit.com. It's the quickest, easiest way to catch that stream to be listening to WNZ K I'm telling you right now very detroit.com Also, if you want to listen to any of our past shows you go ahead and go to very Detroit calm and then click on the listen button on the left on the bottom of the screen. And it will take you to our SoundCloud page where all of our information lives. So share it know it connect with us. That's the way to do it. 248557 3300 is the number let's keep the calls come in. Let's keep everything moving. We've got something here. Repeat Alfredo's number. All right. I can do that. Let's look at that for sure. I can repeat Alfredo's number. Absolutely. Here we go. Alfredo's painting and home improvement 586-419-9849. That's 586-419-9849 for Alfredo's painting and home improvement again 586-419-9849 If there's other contractors, other suppliers out there that we can connect with let us know give us a ring we're gonna play a Rolling Stone song right now. And I hope you guys like it

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alright DJ

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yeah those are the Rolling Stones with play with fire

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What do you think of that song? My man?

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That's a That's a good one that's a old one by them

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what was it really?

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yeah, that was cool you know, I heard that song last night actually having some dinner at frame bar in in Hazel park right next to Mabel gray. And they've got a certain pop up right now which is a Pakistani pop up and I'll give you more information about that but it was excellent food. Excellent environment. You do have to make a reservation most of the time. It's like I said a Pakistani and pop up and I'll give you more information. It's a it's a really interesting chef and all this other stuff that's been going on so give us a call 248557 3300 is the number we're going to be playing songs until we get some action and what our next song was what we had a request right?

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Yeah, a day from wash land called meatloaf the popular rock singer passed away yesterday Yeah, I'm sorry to hear that rest in peace. Yeah, he was 70 What was he? He was 74 so he wanted to know if we could play two out of three ain't bad you got it

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ad we can talk I've told you everything I possibly can there's nothing left inside baby you can cry but the snow is really a shoe trying to show you just have

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on a sandy beach sound so man remember how she left me on a straw man she kissed me she packed her bags

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donkey cars to free

alright DJ

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yeah those meatloaf two out of three bad and that was for Dave in Westland

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All right. Yeah rest in peace.

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Oh yeah to meet low fat bad outta hell is one of the best selling albums 14 Platinum,

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man. Wow, I did not realize that oh yeah. Well we're trying to bring you interesting information interesting content here on Ask the neighbor DJ chub pKa and I we're bringing you as much of the music variety as we can. We're always looking for callers to call in to 48557 3300 we're bringing you some content. We're talking right now about frame bar which is located in Hazel park right next to Mabel gray. What happened was it was Joe bar before and now it's says that frame bar took over Joe bar frame was a part of Joe bar where they would do different pop ups from different chefs around even the world. And now they've done the whole place like that and they currently have kind of Detroit is going on from January 5 through February 6 at frame bar, you can go to Joe bar.com and check out what they're doing. It's kinda Detroit, a Pakistani Pakistani pop up by Mario Khan and Carlos Parisi, inspired by DESE kitchens found across the pond. Next up frame bar chefs and residents, Mariam Khan and Carlos Parisi of Kana Detroit bring us modern takes on Pakistani fare via casual shared plates. Think Pakistani fish and chips masala rubbed with season nine chips that's what I had butter chicken nachos, lamb spare rib with chimi chutney and fried butter chickens and Dory. That was excellent as well. So check it out, claiming a spot among the 50 best street food eateries in the world by urban adventures, which is really amazing, right? So one of the 50 best street food eateries in the world kinda is 100% halaal with vegan dishes popping up throughout this list worthy menu. And yes, meat eaters and vegetarians alike. Get in there. This one is for all of us. All right, folks, thank you for listening to the show and thank you to fathers justice law 313-819-9176 Fathers justice law can help you with your family law concerns. That's father's justice law. 313819176 Thank you to tech solutions consultants.com 248566336 to Renee concetti can help you be ready for whatever may come. When you are securing your finances as a business or as an individual. You have protections you've got ways that you're protecting your interests hedging against a future devaluation, give her a call, figure out where you're at 248-566-3362 That's Renee Carcetti. From tech solutions consultants. Don't forget folks to use one mag.tv For your waiting room media solution. Go ahead and download it, print it, put it on your magazine rack, make sure that you're not sharing magazines and spreading disease and bacteria. One mag.tv is eco friendly touchless and connects to all of our local media. So you can go to one mag.tv and then connect a very Detroit calm very Ann arbor.com Very Chicago. You can see all of our shows right from there. So one mag.tv Spread the word. Alright, Detroit bold coffee.com boldly brewed in Motown check them out Detroit bold coffee.com is also available in Meijer and Kroger and different retailers. You can also check them out at the Eastern Market every Saturday, when you pick up a cup of the freshly brewed that those proceeds go to cast cord are homeless and helping people out. So Detroit bowled coffee.com Put in the very Detroit promo code in the site and you're going to get yourself a discount. All one word all lowercase. Thank you to kebab island located on 13 Mile Road, just decide to Shaner 586-751-7511 Thank you to Troy jewelers. 2485 To 8096 to thank you to Louis Tire Service located on eight mile just west of I 75. Louis Tire Service 317 East Eight Mile Road Hazel Park 248 My 420930 Lewis Tire Service half off of your tire pair when you mentioned asked the neighbor sent you Alright folks, we're gonna go to a little tech talk and we will be back after that.

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1984 I was nine years old. I was in my bedroom in Richmond, Virginia. And this song was playing in my head

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I was Daniel son. I was the Karate Kid. I was ready to do the crane. Four years later, I'm in Rubeus middle school my best friend Sean Harrington. We're preparing for our track meet. And he hands me the headphones that this will get you pumped up push it real good. All right. I did not know that three women from Queens would change my life forever. Few more years walking in to my dorm first day of college and Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg. And I hear this song at the end of the whole

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show La la la la la la yeah

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Mrs. Jones, I still don't know that's a song. But I still sing and every time I hear on the radio, I eventually walked into that room. And I met Alario Ellis guy who would eventually become my best friend and investor in many of mile my companies and the namesake of my third son. The cheeseburger

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not the two bananas. We're talking about music here for a minute. Because that Music Man, it brings us right back where we are.

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And the music is about the memories. So I'm the guy from hoarders. I'm not here to talk about music. No. Right? I'm gonna talk about stuff. I'm gonna talk about a lot of stuff, but just like music, the memories attached to our stuff. Put us right back in a really happy place. If you don't know me yet. I'm Matt Paxton. I am from that TV show hoarders Man, I have seen it. All right. I've seen everything from 300 cats to actually finding Babe Ruth baseball bats. I've been on Howard Stern, I've written books, I even got to clean out an office with Jimmy Kimmel. But I have spent almost 20 years helping people deal with their stuff at a very personal level. I'm in the offices, I'm in their homes, I'm going through their closets, I'm going through their memories. The one thing I've learned in my 15 years is the stuff actually holds us back. We buy the stuff because it brings us happiness, or we think it's gonna bring us happiness. What I found out is just like heroin, and you might wanna believe me on this, right? It's short term gratification. It's not long term. Let's talk about my hoarders. That's a nice little level five Hoard. It's a much skinnier version of me, I need to update that picture. All my hoarders. They're good people. Really good people. Bad stuff has happened to they're looking for their happiness and self worth and stuff. And it turns out, they look for so much happiness. They're trying to cover up that pain. And so they go to buy more stuff. And it doesn't solve that pain. All it does is build up and it actually holds them back from living. Most of my clients, they've lost their jobs. They lost their spouses. They've lost their homes. They've lost everything, in hopes that they would get it actually had a lady. She collected yarn. skeins, right, not scones, Koenji Skanes unit, and it shed 8000 things a yarn in her house is still because she made blankets for babies. And she gave them away and people say oh, you're the best thanks. And they give her hugs. They say love you. Awesome. So she started buying more yarn, because the more yarn she made she bought, the more blankets she made. The more love she received. Problem was she couldn't give us blankets away. Phasma couldn't make them fast enough. And she actually lost her house because she had so much yarn. And it actually was the mice that we're living inside of the yard. That was the problem. Now I work on my downsizing seniors. This is our grandparents. Their stuff represents decades, and decades of hard work. And their self worth and happiness comes from passing it back down to the next generation. The dining room is a great example of this. Our grandparents, my mom and my aunt fought over who got the china cabinet. The grandkids were fighting over who has to take the dining room cabinet. Right. The problem with all that stuff is I think we got a bunch of millennials in here. Nobody wants it. Nobody wants any of that stuff. Right? And I've learned is the reason our parents held on to the dining rooms. Well, it's because their families, their time with their family, their loved ones, their happiness stuff worth, it started in that dining room. But now, ours is in the family room. Or it's in a car, or so go on vacation somewhere else. Many of my senior clients now, they actually can't move out of their house into St. Louis, because they're dealing with their stuff. How many of you have your adult children's stuff still in your house? How many of you still have your adult children in your house? Right? It's kind of a thing. All right. And a lot of my clients can't move. Because they're holding on to that stuff. They become storage units. Then there's Gen X, that's me. And we've spent a long time trying to buy everything for our kids. And we work so hard to provide everything for our kids, cars, schools, camps, toys, clothes, books, man, I spent 900 bucks on a cell phone the other day, would my grandfather spend $900 on a cell phone? Not a chance. He would literally spank me for doing so. All right. My self worth comes from buying all that stuff. So I go to work. I work really, really hard to get as much money as I can to buy those and becomes a pretty bad cycle. Because I work hard. I buy things I miss the things with my kids and I feel bad for not being there. So what do I have to do? I got to buy more stuff. And it's a vicious cycle. Right? Turns out our kids don't want that stuff.

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They say they do. But I found this the other day. This was a note that my son had drawn. It's actually in his feelings diary. And it said lonely. And he wrote Will someone please play with me? My son asked me that every day. I said buddy, I got to finish this email. Just let me finish this real quick. I even justified buddy, I can't We can't live in this awesome house. I can't buy you all these things if I don't work here, so I'll be there in a few minutes. I pass off my kid to work. So does the stuff holding us back? Yeah. Everywhere. All right. So how do we fix it? I can give you a lot of things, but it's real simple. Less stuff. He goes more time. My money, Mo Problems. Okay. 99 problems and my stuff is one. Okay? Do I need to keep going? Alright, there's a couple ways out there that we look at. Do the item spark joy. That's a very popular method now. And that does work for a lot of people. That's great. But for me, my seniors and my hoarders. This doesn't work because the problem is all of it sparks joy. That's why I bought it. Okay, that's like saying which? Which cheese it Do you like? I like them all. Right. minimalism. Minimalism has, has actually come a long way. I was really against it at the beginning. But the more I study it, man, it's got some real beliefs in there. Alright, their core belief is having less stuff. leaves room for more experiences. And I believe that's true. Theory on paper. Love it. But I gotta get rid of my other stuff. And that's hard. Alright, how about I just go cold turkey. I'm gonna get an RV. I'm gonna move out to California. I'm a living organic farm. I'm gonna get rid of all of it. Because we think about that every once in a while. That's not realistic. We live in America. We buy stuff. That's what we do. And then we judge people for did or didn't buy the stuff. Okay, so what I believe in, use it or lose it. It's a really simple philosophy. If you actually use it, keep it. Because if you don't actually use it, guess what? You're going to lose it. And I don't mean lose it. Physical item, I mean, lose it. mentally. I got people to lose in time, money, space, relationships, and opportunities every day, because they're holding on to this stuff. So what are tips? Well, first, you just got to get started. I struggle with weight clearly. Alright, this has become an issue for me in my life. I've gained 50 pounds over the last five years. Did I do it overnight. That took me 25 years. It's one season at a time. Right? And you can't clean your house that you've been in for 30 years in a weekend. That's not realistic. You can go 10 minutes. That's realistic. You can do what's called a 10 minute sweep. You can clean for 10 minutes every night, five nights a week. Can I go walk in for 10 minutes a night? Every night? I should yeah. I could. I don't. So I acknowledge the janitor that but you can. And this is how you get started. 10 minutes sweep one foot by one foot area. That's it. You can do that every night. All right. I want you to get brutally honest with yourself. This is my closet. Over there on the right. Those are size 28. As we move left, I go from 28 to 30 to 30 twos. I got a long run a 30 fours and I got three pair 30 sixes and wearing one of them right now. Right? Three of 30 pants fit me. That means 90% of the pants in a closet. Do not fit me. Can I get rid of some of those jeans. There's a pair of black stonewashed jeans I got with a Bell Biv DeVoe t shirt. And it was cool back then they have gone from being cool. To not cool to ironically cool to not cool again. Alright, it's time to get rid of this. Alright, now I'm using humor on purpose. Because if you don't use humor, when we're talking about stuff, you can get really depressing. I got families that break up over this stuff. Right? And you're all laughing because you all got a closet like this. That's what guestroom closets are for.

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Last one was like labs Donate. Donate, donate, donate, donate. This is my belief. If you got here today. If you're watching this at home, guess what? Your life is better than a lot of people. Right? You can donate. I promise you. I've been working with seniors for a very long time. Every one of my clients would rather when given the opportunity, they would rather give something away than sell it for their own money. And I had a lady she her husband was a master carpenter in the 40s 50s and 60s. And we're cleaning out his tool shed that these are not regular tools that you and I get at Lowe's These are masterful things. And we had an offer of about $30,000 for that toolset. And our kids really wanted to take it because that's okay us a lot of money. She said, Man, I don't want to sell it. He had an apprentice to my son's don't know about his apprentice down the street, and it's a really nice guy and he and his wife are starting a family. They don't have any money. What do you think, and I give this stuff to him. As the man matures, you do whatever you want to do. And she said, I'd like to be there when you give it to him. And man, it was like a TV show. The baby's crying. The mom is crying. The husband is crying and his change to it literally changed his life forever. That is worth no money. There's no amount of money. That's as good as actually given that away. Donate. Donate, donate. Last one, paper, bills, books, cards, pictures. I got three young sons. I got a lot of mediocre art coming home every single day. Right? It's fine. It's okay. But it's not. He ain't gonna be an artist. Alright. But it's too much. All right. It's all memories. Pictures of the hardest. I'm telling you stuff is attached to memories. reason we can't get yet most people inherit photo albums. You know, I find pictures from I live in Richmond and I found a lady she had like three carousels full of slides from a trip to Virginia Beach in 1984. So what, okay, but we feel an obligation to go through all that stuff. Most of my clients that are moving, downsizing, moving, they say I'm happy to move, I'm ready. Just got to go through all the pictures real quick. I say take the pictures. Best rule on the pictures is if you don't know the name of anybody in that picture. I think it's fair to go. Okay, because a lot of times your parents were the last ones that knew who was in the picture. Right? If you are the last person that knows who are the pictures, then this is the tip for you. Keep 20 pictures. That's it. I get a Ziplock gallon bag. And I put 20 pictures in there. I don't want them to be old pictures. You see this lady? That's someone's grandma. She's hot. She's smoking. She's hanging out with someone that's not grandpa. That's the story your grandkids need to hear? Not the one of you holding your purse at the zoo. Yesterday, right? This actual picture, I had a client where we were showing it to her granddaughter, she's like, that's not grandpa. She's like, Oh, that's Fernando. And I want to know more about Fernando. Hey, and she's like, you know, I was working at MIT. I was an art professor and a granddaughter you worked at MIT. And that's how that daughter found out that her mom was a professor at MIT. The pictures hold the stories. And the stories are what matter. But if you don't tell the stories, that's why you got to hold on other stuff. So what's visionary about this? Well, I'm a lifelong entrepreneur. Since I was 2320 years, I've been an entrepreneur. I'm tired, man. I'm really, really tired. And I'm looking for energy to keep going. I got another 20 years of this. And it's exhausting. And I found a new thing. Balance. I'm not particularly good at it. What I found is the stuff is what distracts me as an entrepreneur. When I'm looking at buying a car when I'm looking at buying a farm when I'm looking at something else you don't I'm not doing working on my business. I'm not working on my family. So I've learned the money that we make we go we begin it all to go buy stuff. Well, me buying stuff is hold me back from making more money. Mo Money, Mo Problems. Now can I put the phone down and say I'm never gonna check my email after five again? I'm not gonna answer the phone. No, we're in a global economy. Sorry. You're gonna be hustling if you're an entrepreneur. It's just the way it is. Right? So that's not realistic. Right? Now what is realistic?

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Use it or lose it. Right. Now what do I do? I'm a clear my physical space and my mental space. I do put the phone down at night. I go to bed earlier now. So I can get up. I used to stay up really late and do emails till two or three in the morning and always somehow watched like a Fast and the Furious six, somewhere along the way there. Okay. Or Goldberg's that loses me. I'm gone on that. Right? Here's the deal. You can put your phone down. You can wait to answer emails in the morning. Every minute. You can't when my son says hey, can we play? The answer needs to be yes All right, we now have a one no rule. Anytime my son says, I want to go play great. We play one game. Oh, no. And guess what that does? Gives me a little more balance gives me a little more time. And when I'm hanging out my son's guess what I don't need to go do every month I go buy a bunch of stuff to make up for the time. I'm not there. Be selfish with your time. It'd be really specific. Because when you say yes, you're creating the memories. You're creating the time for your kids to have 30 years from now when your way gone. Because when I hang out my boys, I need to be doing some karate chopping. I need to be blasting my 80s rap in the car, and I need to be singing a ridiculous song as loud as I can. Because that is like is my balance. And my time with my boys. Thank you guys. Hope you enjoyed it.

Speaker 1 45:57

Alright, DJ,

Unknown Speaker 45:58

yeah, that was stuffed the unintended result of our attachment to personal belongings. And that was Matt Paxton. All right.

Speaker 1 46:05

What do you think about all that? DJ?

Unknown Speaker 46:08

Yeah, uh,

Speaker 1 46:09

your generation is different. Yeah. Like you in your generation buying more stuff or less stuff?

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I don't buy much. No, but, uh, I'd say we probably buy less. Yeah, yeah. than the previous generation. So much stuff on the phone, you know, right in there. The physical belongings are

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right. And that's it's kind of interesting, because it is it's all about digital more digital collections that Yeah, your generation has. And what a wild change, you know, because I know a lot of the people that are in their 20s and 30s. Right now. They don't identify with stuff. Like this video just talked about, you know what I mean? Yeah, they don't care about stuff

Unknown Speaker 46:54

in terms of music. You know, people would collect vinyl albums or CDs. Now you just get it off the internet or whatever. And right. It's all on one device.

Speaker 1 47:03

Yeah. And it's accessible anytime. Yeah. And there's no anywhere around. No moving around with it. Please give us a call. 248557 3300 is the number. We have a request. We got Rodney Pearson in the studio. Right now shooting video of DJ Chubb CA, and myself, and that's going to be probably out there somewhere soon. And maybe one of your channels right the monthly standard dot news is where

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our website later today. Actually standard that news.

Speaker 1 47:34

All right. All right. And then Ronnie's got, he's got a request for a Dolly Parton song. And we're gonna be playing a Dolly Parton song every day until she calls into the show. And that's that you know what I mean? And I don't know what's gonna happen, but when she calls she calls we're gonna play a Dolly Parton song every day this is coming from Rodney right now his request here we go.

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Oh right I just want to get myself to you. Just like you've done and wrap my heart man dude that's what I'm about to make it to you live and live and breathe. Buddy has to and shaken me again The body has a right to and shaken me up alright DJ

Unknown Speaker 50:52

yeah that was Dolly Parton here you come again and that's for Ronnie in the studio right

Speaker 1 50:58

man he brought that in. What do we have on the line right now we got David David from Detroit what's happening David down there see what's moving forward man dolly is only days away from calling man

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I tell her that she got apart you know she got Dollywood. Yeah

Speaker 1 51:28

yeah, he was in India India man in Bombay no Mumbai Mumbai

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Mumbai Mumbai. Pakistan.

Speaker 1 51:44

No Yeah, right India. Yeah. Bollywood

Unknown Speaker 51:48

you guys remember what that guy won or the manager

Speaker 1 51:53

This is what neighbors can do together.

Unknown Speaker 51:57

I can I can can you have that nice lady doubted part calling the this radio program because they need to talk to her about something. I bet you that fans have said yeah, they the lover of Detroit.

Speaker 1 52:15

Oh, yeah. And everybody up here loves Dolly.

Unknown Speaker 52:19

Oh, yeah, I met her I met her. Man they get together. Gangster friend of mine. Oh, Gilbert. More like more. Shawn. We met Dallas pirates. Wow. And

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the Lone Ranger. You know, one more break along

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with the Lone Ranger David

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at the State Fair.

Speaker 1 52:50

Oh, man. Yeah. Oh, wow. So that was a conversation that we had last week and we're gonna talk about again today it very Detroit about the State Fair. Man, so they're trying they're tearing it down right now as we speak. I drive down eight mile every day and that Coliseum is calming down.

Unknown Speaker 53:15

Frank Hamer sent me

Speaker 1 53:17

yesterday it's a bummer it's Obama that they're just ripping apart our history. The armory?

Unknown Speaker 53:24

Yeah. National Guard Armory next door. I

Speaker 1 53:28

think it is. Yeah, that's they may save that. Do you know anything about that run?

Unknown Speaker 53:34

Further down eight mile.

Speaker 1 53:36

Okay. All right. Oh, man. Thank you David for calling down in Dollywood man, he already made the connection and he's already got the call out. So it's already in the universe. It's just a matter of her. What what calling dude what time is she gonna call what day is she gonna call we just have to arrange the particulars. And I'm sure that we're gonna get her on the show.

Unknown Speaker 53:58

The monthly standard is on it okay, I

Unknown Speaker 54:05

don't know. I'm a dinosaur.

Speaker 1 54:10

Sometimes it's better to be a dinosaur. I tell you that and stay away from the technology.

Unknown Speaker 54:16

I agree with a lot going on. What's going on? Valley Porter Wagner. I see him and Wayne Michigan at the state field and that was years ago. Country gambling and Dolly Parton little Jimmy Dickens little gimmick and that other guy was there and other other hosts have to shut the Browns that's really the brown. The Brown takes a bomb bomb bomb bomb a jackal bells were ringing when he was born Jim Brown my pictures got burned. Oh, man.

Speaker 1 55:08

Yeah, too bad. See now, that's what that's the bummer about, you know, physical pictures, you know, they're gone when they're gone. And, you know, it's it's really terrible. You know, I just ran into a guy this week that had a fire, he lost everything man and it was in an apartment and in Midtown and he's an artist and he lost some paintings. He lost everything that you know, his whole life, man. I mean, like when that happens, you lose it all.

Unknown Speaker 55:44

I love my guitar, and Godot, your yo, yo, Jones. Tree legend.

Speaker 1 55:55

Man, David, you've met some people, man.

Unknown Speaker 56:00

Remember one day? Oh, yeah, yeah, I was. I had me a couple of drinks and I knocked on the door. Knock down the middle. Bingo. You know when they drive a

Speaker 1 56:16

trailer? Yep, that is the super big super van

Unknown Speaker 56:25

he had a name for the damn thing. So the guy said go ahead and knock on the doors. He might be I don't know. I was well back then I went over liquid kind of drink shadows

Unknown Speaker 56:55

that's the workup that might courage. The courage. Yeah, so I have a guitar and a partner. What can I do for you? I said, I said George, can you sign this? Oh

Speaker 1 57:13

man, that's a cool thing to do you did you have your guitar with you all the time?

Unknown Speaker 57:20

No All right, and then you know Jack White, you know that.

Speaker 1 57:32

Jack like we played some tunes of Jack.

Unknown Speaker 57:35

Yeah. Okay. Let me tell your story and I won't hold up the phone. He was down there to place the ranch do rent a ranch to go rent or when do little rental rates. He he told to sit down she said sit down. Get them go bake some bread for you. They made I heard it bad bowl of beans or something going on. And so he made a couple of songs I guess.

Speaker 1 58:12

Oh, alright. He's coming. He's coming in the concert. Here in Detroit man. He's starting his tour from Detroit in April. I think Jack White. He's got a new couple of tunes an album out I believe.

Unknown Speaker 58:26

I'm trying to get you I'm trying to get a hold of John for you.

Speaker 1 58:30

Oh, nice. Oh, I love you, man. Thank you, David. We're gonna be an international show here before you know it.

Unknown Speaker 58:41

We got to got to got to spread the good word. Yeah, and I met Danny Jett. And he

Speaker 1 58:55

was Westlab Oh, man.

Unknown Speaker 58:58

It was a token lounge. And I said can you do that we got and he said no, I'm not to get color. Ha the copyright laws.

Speaker 1 59:13

Yeah, so. Oh, yeah. Token lounge man. goes way back

Unknown Speaker 59:19

does. Hey, what part of town are you in? What part of town are you from?

Speaker 1 59:27

Downtown downtown.

Unknown Speaker 59:29

Do you live downtown Detroit? Yeah.

Speaker 1 59:34

Oh, gotcha. Downtown downtown.

Unknown Speaker 59:37

Yeah.

Speaker 1 59:38

Great location.

Unknown Speaker 59:41

Good place to be painful.

Unknown Speaker 59:45

All right. Yeah. That was the last payphone I heard in Detroit. I'm like you go to six, six. And Howard did agree on

Speaker 1 59:56

does that. Wait, that payphone actually work? That payphone actually works.

Unknown Speaker 1:00:01

Now this is what happened geiko somebody somebody wrote this girl's number on the wall in the yellow bow, and so I know about dollar 75 in there I love I tried to make it the long distance call Okay, and so oh nice the telephone ring. Yeah, all night Sunday sound the landlord said that. He said, can you turn off the phone but that that phone actually worked,

Speaker 1 1:00:37

man? Yep. All right. Well, if anybody knows Ivana another payphone in Detroit give us a holler. David saying he's got the last one in Detroit and his place

Unknown Speaker 1:00:48

yeah well,

Speaker 1 1:00:52

let's hear it I want to I want to hear it. And thank you so much for reaching out. I feel like you know if we've got you reaching out and some other folks reaching out it's just a matter of time before dolly and Elton give us a call

Unknown Speaker 1:01:07

while I'm working out what wait the girl didn't show up that she works at the rack up but I had another girl and nice lady and I want to hook you up and she wouldn't give us down yet what this need land or this man 40 And she knew the main the main hook up the main guy up for all the big appearances like Elton John. Paul McCartney call

Speaker 1 1:01:42

Oh yeah, he got he's got a call to because he's been doing a lot of stuff. You know.

Unknown Speaker 1:01:48

Paul McCartney called that one radio show? I think it was was it w Jr. Or somebody called on the show but by that I finally found what Bob Harris is that now?

Speaker 1 1:02:04

Oh good. Good

Unknown Speaker 1:02:10

he's been rode in Michigan.

Speaker 1 1:02:13

Yeah, you know what I'd like to get jack on the on the phone to over here Jack White could give us a call as well. After dolly gives us a call first you know I mean?

Unknown Speaker 1:02:23

Yeah

Speaker 1 1:02:30

better believe it you better believe it. Man see that. That's that's your can

right, David, do you have a song that you want to hear my man?

Unknown Speaker 1:02:52

Well, you know what? You know, there's so many good songs out there. Gamble.

Speaker 1 1:03:05

Oh, boy. There we go. Let's do it. Let's I'm gonna play that song for you. Right after this. Id break. All right. Thank you so much for the call and thank you for your energy. David, man. We love you.

Unknown Speaker 1:03:18

I'm working on getting old i Okay, have a good day. Keep up the good work. All right.

Speaker 1 1:03:27

We'll do. We're only

Unknown Speaker 1:03:31

you got it. Roundstone.

Speaker 1 1:03:33

You got it. We're gonna go to take care. Now. We're gonna go to an ID break and we will be right back.

Unknown Speaker 1:03:40

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Speaker 1 1:04:17

back to the top of the second hour here, Folks, you're listening to ask the neighbor. I'm your host Danko Sutter offski with DJ Chaka and special guest Rodney Pearson from the monthly standard dot news is in the house. We'll be talking to him this next first half hour right now we're gonna go to the song for David Rhinestone Cowboy I've been walking

Unknown Speaker 1:04:47

the streets so long. sang in the same old song. I know a big crack candies dude, it's sad. Well sobro We were also the name of the game and nice guys get washed away like the snow and the rain

Unknown Speaker 1:05:15

there's been a load compromise and all on the foot I'm going to be where the lights are shining on

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me

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come in oh really no rain at all the fame for your town your ride train that's taking and dream of the things I'll

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do will the subway

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dollar sign my shoes good I'm going to be where the lights are shining on me.

Speaker 1 1:08:03

Alright DJ,

Unknown Speaker 1:08:04

yeah, Rhinestone Cowboy by Glen Campbell and that goes out to our Connected man David in Detroit. All right,

Speaker 1 1:08:10

David. Alright folks, you're listening to ask the neighbor. I'm your host Danko. sidarsky here with DJ Chubb, CA and special guest Rodney Pearson in the house. We will be getting to him after our first caller right now we've got Karen on the line Good morning Karen.

Unknown Speaker 1:08:26

Good morning. Oh David is a riot

Unknown Speaker 1:08:28

yes

Unknown Speaker 1:08:31

you know he and I must be close in age because everything he's mentioning I remember the songs and places and I bought hit the floor when he mentioned the token lounge oh yeah oh gosh in the 70s we used to go there it's still there it still says token lounge I don't know with the virus and stuff if they're open oh but up to a few years ago it was still open

Speaker 1 1:09:02

interesting so I wonder if you ever bumped into David at the token lounge you know

Unknown Speaker 1:09:12

you know i I've never been a drinker I wouldn't nurse one drink the whole night you know to go with some friends there but you know, my husband and I and some friends and stuff but hadn't anybody mentioned that

Speaker 1 1:09:30

yeah, what does that mean come from the token lounge.

Unknown Speaker 1:09:34

Ah, I really don't know. I hope it doesn't. Right. Like comes from somewhere but I

Speaker 1 1:09:41

don't know. Like a token like a coin token token I'm guessing

Unknown Speaker 1:09:46

or where people token Yeah. Oh, boy. Oh, no. They would have a lot of, you know, local man's performing there. Oh, It's fun in a dance floor and stuff. So, you know, I never saw anything bad going on and but I don't know where the name comes from.

Speaker 1 1:10:09

Oh, good question. Good. I mean, out there. I'll have

Unknown Speaker 1:10:13

to look next time. I drive by there to see if they got because they used to have like a marquee that you know who would be there like a little small marquee, right? If it says anything? Well we

Speaker 1 1:10:26

have all this information, you know, kind of connects the dots for all of us. You know, it's like a control breakdown.

Unknown Speaker 1:10:32

If you bought three drinks, they would give you a token to cross over in the Windsor. Detroit. Oh, that's how Yeah. toking lounge.

Unknown Speaker 1:10:43

Maybe.

Speaker 1 1:10:44

There you go. Rodney Pearson longtime Detroiters isn't in the house. Letting us know his opinion on that. That's really cool. Yeah, it's the way

Unknown Speaker 1:10:54

and then I know he grew up in Kentucky net for well, from where Laura Revelin and

Speaker 1 1:11:00

Detroit hollow but the butcher Yes. We never

Unknown Speaker 1:11:03

made it to put your Hallo but we did stop. But I was wondering if you ever went to run for a rally as you're on i 75. There's a Renfro Valley accent. And there's country music shows we saw the reticle in there. Oh, a few years before she had a stroke. And she had her family, her twins and everything they're performing and stuff. It's, you know, country music. Kind of show. Yeah. Yeah. He knows. Go ahead.

Unknown Speaker 1:11:38

I want to ask you something. Is this the caller? Last week that spoke about shades of blue?

Unknown Speaker 1:11:46

Yes, yes. Yes.

Unknown Speaker 1:11:48

Yeah, I was. I was listening to you. And on my website, if you go to it right now. www that the monthly standard that news I put a video on just for you. Oh, great.

Unknown Speaker 1:12:01

I'll get that. They are awesome.

Unknown Speaker 1:12:06

And they have the dance routine going on. You would love it.

Unknown Speaker 1:12:10

I know we go to wild. Before the pandemic. We were seeing them all the time in in Dearborn at their Michael guide. Oh, theater there at the Rec Center. Oh, yeah, bring a lot of Motown's older Motown stars in there. And you know what? These people are fantastic. They sound just as good as they did. Way back. When is that remarkable? And shades of blue? That way they can move? Oh, my goodness. They can still move? Yes, I'll have to look at that.

Unknown Speaker 1:12:44

So please do I put it on just for you? Because I thought you would like that.

Unknown Speaker 1:12:49

I would. Yeah.

Speaker 1 1:12:52

Now, what do you think of our chances of getting Dolly Parton to give us a call. We're gonna play a Dolly Parton song every day until she calls?

Unknown Speaker 1:12:59

Well, that's a good idea. I noticed she has a Facebook page and everything. Maybe we could message something there on the Facebook page.

Speaker 1 1:13:07

Well, would you mind messaging over there? I can. I can let her know. We got some really big fans in Detroit have asked the neighbor show and we'd love for her to call in and talk about our charities.

Unknown Speaker 1:13:19

I will I will Oh, that Imagination Library I was talking about yesterday. Yeah. She was inspired to start there because her father couldn't read. Oh, she's been since 1995. Giving away like a million bucks a month or something so incredible.

Speaker 1 1:13:39

Like, it's it's those are stories that people don't know about Dolly Parton. You know, yeah. All the great things that she does. So I'd love to share that.

Unknown Speaker 1:13:49

You're very charitable. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Oh, and then even when David mentioned Jim at Brown, we saw him at the Grand Ole Opry, right and when we went there, we just went to go to the library. I didn't know who the people were, you know, but that song he was speaking of it's, it's very interesting. It's about when the guy was born to the day dies. It's little Jimmy Brown. I think it is so DJ wants to look bad.

Speaker 1 1:14:20

Little Jimmy Brown. Ronnie Pearson's like Oh, yeah.

Unknown Speaker 1:14:31

Tara knows music.

Speaker 1 1:14:33

Yes, she does. Yes.

Unknown Speaker 1:14:35

It starts with church bells. He's born and it goes all through his life to the day he dies.

Speaker 1 1:14:41

DJ DJ chuckling Did you hear this? Karen's looking to play Little Jimmy Brown. Song by Jim Ed Brown by Jim Ed Brown

Unknown Speaker 1:14:52

are the Browns you could look up the brown

Unknown Speaker 1:14:56

classic.

Speaker 1 1:14:58

And you know what's interesting because Kira Before the pandemic was it was down in the Smoky Mountains all the time and driving down there and all this other stuff. And now I feel like you're missing it a lot, Karen, you know,

Unknown Speaker 1:15:10

we are. We used to make our vacations around seeing people we would go to Lancaster, Pennsylvania. We drove all the way there to see.

Speaker 1 1:15:21

The Amish mafia guy. No, no. Lancaster. Amish mafia is down in Lancaster.

Unknown Speaker 1:15:30

Lancaster Pennsylvania is beautiful. Frankie Valley, we drove all the way down there to see him we. We saw Glen Campbell in the early 2000s. Down in Branson.

Speaker 1 1:15:45

Glen Campbell song is no you know what, Rhinestone

Unknown Speaker 1:15:48

Cowboy? Wasn't Dolly Parton in that movie?

Speaker 1 1:15:52

I think she was that was a classic movie.

Unknown Speaker 1:15:57

Connection. There's

Speaker 1 1:16:00

Well, I think we're getting really close to getting a lot of different people were talking about to give us a holler. Why not?

Unknown Speaker 1:16:06

Yeah, that's right. Yep.

Speaker 1 1:16:08

Give us a call for 510 minutes. You know, that's what we're all we're all we're saying is hey, you know, we love you say hello to our fans, you know, that's it.

Unknown Speaker 1:16:17

That's right. That's right. So anyway,

Speaker 1 1:16:19

thanks for the call. Karen. It's always good. Always good to hear your voice and all your knowledge about everything. It's really amazing.

Unknown Speaker 1:16:26

These are great call. Back we couldn't afford to see these people now. We're going around and seeing them as they're older.

Speaker 1 1:16:34

Yes, yes. Well, still good.

Unknown Speaker 1:16:36

Amazing. How many of them are still kicking? They sound just as good as they do. did back then.

Speaker 1 1:16:42

Well, I know Peggy was bummed out when she couldn't see Frankie Valli was performing at the fox in the show got canceled just recently. So hey, you know we'll we'll keep everybody abreast of shows that are happening through our neighbors and the knowledge that we have and we'll connect up through this beautiful radio station this way. Meanwhile,

Unknown Speaker 1:17:02

have a great weekend everyone all

Speaker 1 1:17:05

right, you too Karen thanks all right. All right. Here's the song now that Karen wanted boom Saturday

Unknown Speaker 1:17:23

morning live

Unknown Speaker 1:17:26

was all of the chapel bows were ringing in the valley and the songs that they were seeing was for me Jimmy brown

Unknown Speaker 1:17:49

and a little congregate

Unknown Speaker 1:17:54

right bar guy from Lead us not into temptation less this hour of meditation guide him with hidden D the need the mountains high and 20 years Jimmy was to meet his boss all the

Unknown Speaker 1:18:27

chapel bells were ringing was a great day in his father's songs that they were seeing was for Jimmy and his wife and a little congregation right far guys from Lead us not into temptation Bless the Lord this celebration May their lives be filled from hidden D one rainy

Unknown Speaker 1:19:09

more dark gray so when this way to have Jimmy Brown had passed away bom bom bom just alone was farewell that it was seeing to our good old Jimmy brown and the little congregate. Break for guys. Lead us not into temptation major. So find the salvation of a great eater.

Unknown Speaker 1:20:02

ala

Speaker 1 1:20:11

Boyle boy DJ.

Unknown Speaker 1:20:13

Yeah, the Browns had little Jimmy Brown. Thank you for that. Karen. Yeah,

Speaker 1 1:20:16

we have taken it all around the world. Do we play that song yet?

Unknown Speaker 1:20:22

No, we never played. That's coming.

Speaker 1 1:20:23

So, you're listening to ask the neighbor. I'm your host Danko singer offski with DJ chub calm and special guest today is Rodney Pearson is in the house from the monthly standard dot news. And he's bringing a wealth of knowledge every single day. He's listening to our show we're connecting the dots between very detroit.com and the monthly standard dot news you can actually access it when you go to very detroit.com and click on today and local and it's gonna connect you the first spot is the monthly standard. And you can click on it and go right to the information. Right now. We got Peggy on the line. Hello Peggy.

Unknown Speaker 1:21:05

Can't get rid of me.

Speaker 1 1:21:06

No we don't want we want you around forever and always Peggy Come on.

Unknown Speaker 1:21:12

The thing is, I was listening to dekaron talking there and it broke back my high school days when I thought I was into hillbilly music for quite a long time. Oh, okay. And she mentioned the Renfro Valley and they they're still on the air. Oh, cuz I listened to my I don't know exactly when it's you see there Saturday morning. Sunday morning. Okay, and they broadcast and WJ our is a regular our program that's that's still going strong.

Speaker 1 1:21:41

How do you spell the first word? I don't know. I heard it kind of like run for something and fro Valley

Unknown Speaker 1:21:48

Renfro probably are you en fr

Speaker 1 1:21:51

o random thing like that? Okay, Renfro Valley.

Unknown Speaker 1:21:55

They've got the fellow who's there. And they've got the regular singers who sing all these old songs all the time to

Speaker 1 1:22:02

like a blue like that that

Unknown Speaker 1:22:04

place like Bluegrass

Speaker 1 1:22:05

or more country,

Unknown Speaker 1:22:08

country,

Speaker 1 1:22:09

country.

Unknown Speaker 1:22:10

Pretty much country western, okay, that sort of stuff. But they're still going strong. Oh, I listened to them because I have my radio right next to my bedside and I wake up at strange times and turn things on. So very early in the morning.

Speaker 1 1:22:29

I'm thinking like four, maybe four 4am.

Unknown Speaker 1:22:34

And I think because of the old times that I had, and I liked Elton Brett's doing his yodeling song and Ernest Tubb, I haven't heard in a long time. So anything by Ernest Tubb, I think would be kind of an interesting mountain. Oh, yeah. My memories.

Speaker 1 1:22:51

There we go. We will get to that first

Unknown Speaker 1:22:53

blast from Chico. It's just that I that that brought back. Oh, we love it bro Valley because I know it's still going strong.

Speaker 1 1:23:02

Okay, good to hear and good to let our neighbors know, actually. Because I mean, this is excellent information. And they could

Unknown Speaker 1:23:09

probably call W Jr. To find out what time it comes on. But it's sometime on the weekend. It's either Saturday morning or Sunday morning.

Speaker 1 1:23:18

Okay, good. Well, that's good to know. We'll have to do a little investigation. And if anybody knows the details, let us know.

Unknown Speaker 1:23:25

They say you know, for for broadcast. You know, they'll send it out to you. Oh, okay. Excellent. They usually have a theme each each time that they have.

Speaker 1 1:23:37

Oh, good. Excellent. It's so it's so interesting. What kind of content is available all over the airwaves like our content here. And all of that great neighbors that call and thank you so much, Peggy. And we will play one of these Ernest up songs in a little bit. Okey dokey. Alrighty. Take care now. Have a great weekend. You too. All right. Thank you. All right. That was Peggy from Southfield given us a little bit of additional knowledge about some experiences, right, Ronnie? Yes. And I gotta say, you know, I want to say thank you, for everybody that's calling in everybody is contributing to our show. That's what makes it so interesting to me. Every day, we start a whole different journey in a different path. We're not sure where it's gonna take us to the end of the show. And our guests make it what it is a unique blending of all things in Detroit and the metro and popping out this beautiful program at the end, where we all connect and share ideas and thoughts and songs and I words that are kind hopefully to each other. And I want to just make sure that we introduce Rodney Pearson properly. Again, Rodney Pearson is the founder publisher of the monthly standard news monthly standard dot news is how you get to it, the monthly standard dot news and it's connected from our very detroit.com web sight. But, you know, he's got so many interesting articles every week. So I figured why why not connect up more and have Rodney come in every Friday? And that way we can talk about stuff that you know you're out in the streets all the time I am, you know, you're out in your you're dropping off papers, you're talking to different people. What's the vibe in the city right now?

Unknown Speaker 1:25:21

I tell you, man, people are tripping on

Speaker 1 1:25:25

the virus, the virus, the virus, the virus. The businesses are tripping on it.

Unknown Speaker 1:25:30

Oh man, because it's not going away. So because last last year, in the summer, we thought, or we most people were hoping that the virus was gone. Now this is based on my headline, it's not over yet. Now there are numbers that I quote in my paper were in Michigan, the death rate for those infected with the Delta variant has increased dramatically in the summer of 2021. We thought the Coronavirus was coming to an end, because only 34 people died in a seven day period from July 16 through July 23. However, according to the CDC, the recent death toll has increased greatly. A whopping 1245 people died from December 2 through December 9. That's an increase of 3,562%. The numbers don't lie, the corona virus COVID 19 pound pandemic is far from over.

Speaker 1 1:26:50

Alright, so that's that's something that's really making us a little bit hesitant about moving around doing everything and activating business is what you're saying people aren't doing? Or they're still not doing what we're normally should be doing? No, they're not. They're not going to the restaurants. They're not going

Unknown Speaker 1:27:10

not places frequently as owners would like. Alright, so

Speaker 1 1:27:14

the rest, so there are the restaurants suffering.

Unknown Speaker 1:27:17

Yes. Okay. Everyone is still suffering, the business is down. What about furniture stores? Or furniture stores? I really don't know. Okay. All right. Well,

Speaker 1 1:27:27

we're gonna have to hit some of them up. I know the one on live annoyed, we're gonna have to go. You know what I mean? There's some good furniture stores out there. And

Unknown Speaker 1:27:36

they need to advertise on this show.

Speaker 1 1:27:38

You got it? You got it? Hey, you know what? Because people need furniture all the time. Right. And? And I feel like, I don't know if I would be. And I'm not sure. Right. All these are bigger purchases. You know, when you talk about autos and different things. That's a different purchase. Right? Yes. And so it's a challenge to figure out what the economic data is kind of telling us because there's confusing information, but really care about what's happening locally. You don't I mean, we care about what's happening in our backyard. This is what our show is all about. Very detroit.com. Also, ask the neighbor asked the neighbor.com. We care about what is in our community, what is our neighbor concerned about? What is ultra local information? And our cities not back to where it is and where it should be? Mentally and physically and economically?

Unknown Speaker 1:28:34

Absolutely not. And there's a campaign that the monthly standard is starting for 2022. And what we want to do is bring people together all metropolitan Detroiters. If you love the city of Detroit, we want the city of Detroit to be great again. We want to make Detroit great again. And making Detroit great again is to bring people back into the city. And it's just that simple. So I've been talking to people like Frank Joyce he's he's from Berkeley, it but he's an activist and he's been an activist for 60 years now. Wayne State University student and so he was marching in the 60s been talking to Peter worby emailing back and forth the longtime WRI F host. Give us I'm talking to the you know, the hippie guys from the 1960s they're still around and they're still relevant. Oh, yeah. And and they and they still want peace and love. They believe Hey, give peace a chance. We were talking about the Beatles to have Paul McCartney call in and everything. Beatles is one of my favorite bands. But you know what John and Yoko were doing? I believe it's still relevant to this very day.

Speaker 1 1:30:01

You know, we are in a weird spot, not only is our is our city trying to economically redevelop itself. And after so many years of decline, we had some excellent momentum before the pandemic, all things were firing, everything was going perfectly. And then we got hit with the pandemic and Detroit had the highest numbers in the world, or in the country at the time. Right. And, and we still pushed along, some of our businesses have done better in the pandemic than ever before. You know, I mean, there's some businesses that what their carry out and what they did and what their business model did better. And so, some things are gonna have to be accommodated, you know, and changed in some of this. Some of this has pushed us to be better. And once this is filled, we filter through this, I believe, we're gonna end up having this more beautiful place, but we got to work together on it.

Unknown Speaker 1:31:00

I absolutely agree. And my theory is this. The Metropolitan Detroit area has roughly 4.5 million people in it. If the city of Detroit were to attract just 10% of people living in the suburbs, right, the city would be back over a million people again. All right, well,

Speaker 1 1:31:23

let's talk about that here in a second. We're gonna play a song by Ernest Tubb for Peggy and then we will be back

Unknown Speaker 1:31:41

when we dance to gather my girls in this guy's back Barry LAN tale that's come true. And when you look at me with those stars in your eyes, I couldn't waltz across Texas with you. Waltz across Texas. Whether you and my arm across Texas is whether you like gusto custo re book and I'm lost in your charms and could waltz across Texas with you and Lee

Unknown Speaker 1:33:09

My heart aches and troubles are up and gone. The mo month that you come in and with your hand in mind there I could dance and I could also cross taxes with you all across Texas. What do you and my cause Texas is with you. Chris doe re book in bookending I'm lost in your chart. And I could walk across axes with you