WEBVTT - The Morning SHow w/ Thom Brennaman -- 12/23/25 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:00.800 Take notes. 0:00:01.600 --> 0:00:06.240 This is the Bloomberg moneyman at on seven hundred WLWHA. Alrighty, 0:00:06.280 --> 0:00:08.520 we say good morning once more to the pride of 0:00:08.560 --> 0:00:12.480 Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, Dan Schwartzman from the Bloomberg 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:16.680 newsroom in New York, New Yawk a struggling restaurant chain. 0:00:16.840 --> 0:00:19.640 Dan is making big cuts and changes. 0:00:20.280 --> 0:00:23.040 That is correct, Tom red Lopster, confirming to Bloomberg gets 0:00:23.079 --> 0:00:25.280 cutting ten percent of its corporate staff and roughly two 0:00:25.320 --> 0:00:28.160 hundred people at the restaurant level as dozens of low 0:00:28.160 --> 0:00:31.560 performing locations have dragged down its results. The restaurant chain 0:00:31.600 --> 0:00:35.479 also working to renegotiate costly leases, which have hampered its 0:00:35.520 --> 0:00:39.159 post bankruptcy plan to return to profitability. Red Lobster suffered 0:00:39.200 --> 0:00:42.480 due to high rents, bad decisions by former management, including 0:00:42.840 --> 0:00:46.960 the costly unlimited endless shrip promotion, as well as the 0:00:46.960 --> 0:00:51.160 overall decline right now in casual dining, Tom, everybody's into AI. 0:00:51.280 --> 0:00:54.080 We talk about it all the time, including our next guest, 0:00:54.120 --> 0:00:56.000 Greg Stebben coming up here in a minute. But the 0:00:56.320 --> 0:01:01.320 Department of Defense they're all in as well. Yeah, there 0:01:01.360 --> 0:01:04.280 are artificial intelligence platform through a new partnership with Elon 0:01:04.400 --> 0:01:09.039 Musk's XAI. The system's capabilities, including those of its chatbot Grock, 0:01:09.400 --> 0:01:12.560 will be embedded in the DoD's own AI platform, which 0:01:12.600 --> 0:01:16.199 is called jen Ai Dot Mill, set to run early 0:01:16.240 --> 0:01:18.800 next year. Earlier this month, the Department announced it at 0:01:18.840 --> 0:01:22.679 chosen Google's Gemini AI to deliver AI capability first three 0:01:22.720 --> 0:01:26.240 million or so civilian and military employees. So AI is 0:01:26.240 --> 0:01:28.640 going to play a big part of the DoD, no 0:01:28.680 --> 0:01:31.559 doubt about that. And our future is this morning, Dan, Well, 0:01:31.640 --> 0:01:34.280 we got some red now, the SMP, the NAAZAC and 0:01:34.319 --> 0:01:36.759 the now they are all down a tenth of one 0:01:36.840 --> 0:01:41.720 percent from Bloomberg. Dan Schwartzman on news Radio seven hundred WLW. 0:01:44.760 --> 0:01:48.440 Always love our weekly get together with our friend Greg Stebben, 0:01:48.520 --> 0:01:52.440 our business insider. You can follow him on Bluesky at 0:01:52.520 --> 0:01:57.120 Greg g r e g g Stebben st e b 0:01:57.280 --> 0:02:00.840 as in boy b as in boy e n Now 0:02:01.000 --> 0:02:05.160 Greg over at to Harvard Business Review, there was a 0:02:05.280 --> 0:02:10.240 great story recently called finish the Year Strong with a 0:02:10.480 --> 0:02:16.040 team wrap up Week. What does Harvard Business Review mean 0:02:16.160 --> 0:02:18.600 by team wrap up Week? 0:02:19.760 --> 0:02:22.480 Well, I'm going to describe something that, as you said, 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:25.200 Harvard Business Review calls a team wrap up week. 0:02:25.520 --> 0:02:26.799 Even if you're not part of a. 0:02:26.760 --> 0:02:29.040 Team or you're just doing this on your own, it's. 0:02:28.840 --> 0:02:30.480 Going to work, and it's a great idea. 0:02:31.040 --> 0:02:33.280 The idea here is for the rest of the year, 0:02:34.360 --> 0:02:41.440 don't start anything new, don't answer your phone, don't respond 0:02:41.480 --> 0:02:45.000 to your emails. I mean, obviously there's certain things you 0:02:45.000 --> 0:02:48.480 have to do, but make it your number one priority 0:02:49.080 --> 0:02:52.800 to look at everything in your work life that is 0:02:52.960 --> 0:02:56.800 unfinished for the year and finish as many of those 0:02:56.840 --> 0:03:00.519 things as you can. And in some cases, while you're 0:03:00.520 --> 0:03:03.920 looking at that list of unfinished things, think to yourself, 0:03:04.400 --> 0:03:07.840 could I eliminate this next year? And if you do 0:03:08.000 --> 0:03:10.840 that as a team, that's going to be great because 0:03:10.919 --> 0:03:13.200 everybody around you is going to be doing the same thing, 0:03:13.680 --> 0:03:18.000 even if it's just you. Tell your team what you're doing, 0:03:18.600 --> 0:03:22.040 explain the benefits, and here's the benefits, you know. I 0:03:22.040 --> 0:03:24.480 think if you look at your own personal experience, when 0:03:24.560 --> 0:03:27.080 you start something new, which we're avoiding now for the 0:03:27.080 --> 0:03:30.160 rest of the year, in your brain, you're like you're 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:33.680 creating space for more work and thinking about new things. 0:03:33.800 --> 0:03:37.200 When you finish things, you're actually opening your brain up 0:03:37.560 --> 0:03:40.520 for you're kind of relieving it of things right, So 0:03:40.600 --> 0:03:42.800 we're looking for I hate to use like a California 0:03:43.200 --> 0:03:46.280 pop psychology word, but we're looking for closure on as 0:03:46.280 --> 0:03:48.640 many things as we can so we don't have to 0:03:48.720 --> 0:03:51.360 drag that stuff into the new year. And on the 0:03:51.400 --> 0:03:54.160 first work day of the year, we feel like, Wow, 0:03:54.320 --> 0:03:56.920 I could do anything because I'm not dragging that stuff 0:03:56.960 --> 0:03:58.280 around behind me anymore. 0:03:58.400 --> 0:04:02.440 All right, let's get into your school business experience and acumen. 0:04:02.600 --> 0:04:07.360 How would you suggest you structure a team wrap up week? 0:04:08.160 --> 0:04:10.280 Okay, well, if you're a manager or you're an owner 0:04:10.320 --> 0:04:12.480 and you're going to embrace this for the whole company, 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:14.640 I think you sit everybody down. 0:04:14.720 --> 0:04:15.240 You explain. 0:04:15.360 --> 0:04:16.960 First of all, go read the story. It's at the 0:04:17.000 --> 0:04:20.440 Harvard Business Review. It's real short, it's a five minute story. 0:04:20.800 --> 0:04:23.320 But you sit down and you explain why we're doing this. 0:04:24.120 --> 0:04:28.200 You say, we're prioritizing finishing overstarting, and you basically do. 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:28.800 What I just said. 0:04:28.839 --> 0:04:30.480 You said, you know, we're not going to have any 0:04:30.560 --> 0:04:33.120 meetings for the rest of the year unless it's an emergency. 0:04:33.640 --> 0:04:35.720 I want you to put an auto response on your 0:04:35.760 --> 0:04:39.960 email that says, look, I'm focused on finishing things for 0:04:40.000 --> 0:04:41.760 the rest of the year, so I may be slow 0:04:41.800 --> 0:04:45.360 to respond to emails. I'll talk to you after January fifth. 0:04:45.920 --> 0:04:48.960 Don't touch your phone unless you have to when you sit. 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:49.560 Down in the morning. 0:04:49.640 --> 0:04:52.000 Don't open a lot of browser windows on your computer 0:04:52.120 --> 0:04:54.360 so you stay focused on the things you can finish, 0:04:54.360 --> 0:04:57.000 and finish as many as you can. And then here's 0:04:57.040 --> 0:05:00.960 an interesting thing. Think of this almost like the opposite 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:04.479 of making a new Year's resolution. Think about instead of 0:05:04.520 --> 0:05:07.240 starting something new, that's what a new year's resolution is. 0:05:07.560 --> 0:05:09.640 I'm going to knock as many things off as i 0:05:09.680 --> 0:05:14.800 can and then break as many small ritualistic habits as 0:05:14.800 --> 0:05:17.200 you can. If you sit down and the first thing 0:05:17.240 --> 0:05:18.640 you do in the morning when you get to work 0:05:18.720 --> 0:05:21.279 is read the news, don't do it. If the first 0:05:21.320 --> 0:05:23.960 thing when you get to work is you know, have 0:05:24.120 --> 0:05:28.279 something you do, just consider breaking as many little habits 0:05:28.279 --> 0:05:30.520 for a week or two as you can, because you 0:05:30.680 --> 0:05:33.400 never know what you might discover about those habits. How 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:36.159 much do they eat away at your time or your brain, 0:05:36.640 --> 0:05:38.920 or what do you discover with the time that you've 0:05:39.040 --> 0:05:42.000 just gained for yourself that you could be just doing 0:05:42.040 --> 0:05:42.840 something else. 0:05:42.640 --> 0:05:44.040 That's more productive for your work. 0:05:44.080 --> 0:05:46.400 Okay, I can feel a lot of the stress even 0:05:46.440 --> 0:05:49.479 around this radio station right now, right from people in 0:05:49.560 --> 0:05:52.520 and around the station. So if you're a manager of 0:05:52.560 --> 0:05:55.600 the station or a small business owner in whatever industry, 0:05:56.120 --> 0:05:59.640 how can I help my team members? I guess prioritize 0:06:00.640 --> 0:06:02.880 what they should complete before the end of the year, 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:04.920 because you know, look, there might be ten things, right, 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:07.600 but how do you help them prioritize what we'd really 0:06:07.760 --> 0:06:09.080 like to wrap up? 0:06:10.040 --> 0:06:11.520 Yeah, that's a really good question. 0:06:11.960 --> 0:06:14.359 So first of all, it's helpful to make a list 0:06:14.880 --> 0:06:17.760 because with a list, your brain is not now thinking 0:06:17.800 --> 0:06:19.839 of all the other stuff you should be thinking about. 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:22.720 You can actually focus on the stuff on the list, and. 0:06:22.640 --> 0:06:24.120 Then look at the things. 0:06:24.160 --> 0:06:26.320 First of all, what can I do right now in 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:29.240 the next five minutes, knock that stuff off as fast 0:06:29.279 --> 0:06:31.280 as you can. Now the list is a half or 0:06:31.320 --> 0:06:32.320 a third less. 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:33.680 Then look at. 0:06:33.560 --> 0:06:36.120 What's left on the list and say to yourself, what's 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:37.440 going to feel better if I. 0:06:37.400 --> 0:06:40.400 Make it go away. We all have stuff we've. 0:06:40.279 --> 0:06:42.719 Been avoiding for months or all year because we just 0:06:42.720 --> 0:06:43.520 don't want to do it. 0:06:44.680 --> 0:06:47.880 Just do it, because that stuff it eats. 0:06:47.560 --> 0:06:50.279 Away your energy. And the whole goal here is to 0:06:50.279 --> 0:06:52.800 start the new year with as much energy all energized 0:06:52.839 --> 0:06:53.320 as we can. 0:06:53.560 --> 0:06:56.320 Okay, let's flip the script here a little bit. What 0:06:56.320 --> 0:06:59.719 if I'm an employee, right, how do I suggest that 0:06:59.800 --> 0:07:02.359 I get my boss and really the rest of my 0:07:02.440 --> 0:07:05.000 team if I'm on a team, to sign on to 0:07:05.120 --> 0:07:06.240 this idea along with me. 0:07:07.240 --> 0:07:09.280 I think you share this article with people and you 0:07:09.360 --> 0:07:12.760 just you don't it kind of It depends on the 0:07:12.760 --> 0:07:15.160 climate that you work in. If you think it's going 0:07:15.200 --> 0:07:17.440 to be a hard sell or not worth the trouble, 0:07:17.960 --> 0:07:20.480 just do this for yourself. Tell people around you this 0:07:20.560 --> 0:07:21.840 is what I'm going to do for the rest of 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:23.840 the year. So if I'm a little slow to respond, 0:07:24.240 --> 0:07:26.440 this is why. If you really need me, you let 0:07:26.480 --> 0:07:28.840 me know. I think that's going to be interesting because 0:07:28.840 --> 0:07:31.080 you may find and your coworkers may find they don't 0:07:31.080 --> 0:07:33.080 need you as much as they thought they did. That's 0:07:33.120 --> 0:07:35.440 a good lesson to learn before the end of the year. 0:07:35.880 --> 0:07:40.120 If you work in an environment where everybody collaborates, sit 0:07:40.240 --> 0:07:42.400 down or have a meeting or send a memo and 0:07:42.440 --> 0:07:44.920 just say, read this great article. So blame it on 0:07:44.960 --> 0:07:48.080 the Harvard Business Review. They you know, they're pretty well respected, 0:07:48.480 --> 0:07:50.760 and say, you know, I'm going to try this for 0:07:50.800 --> 0:07:53.360 the rest of the year, anyone want to join me, 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:56.400 So now it's an invitation and just do your thing 0:07:56.480 --> 0:07:59.440 and see how effective it is and keep sharing with people, Hey, 0:07:59.560 --> 0:08:01.280 I'm doing this thing, or at the end of the year, 0:08:01.320 --> 0:08:03.559 I did this thing and it worked out really great. 0:08:03.800 --> 0:08:05.560 And even if you don't get by in this year, 0:08:06.600 --> 0:08:09.400 then sometime around November next year, remind people of this 0:08:09.440 --> 0:08:11.200 and see if you can't get by in a little 0:08:11.440 --> 0:08:13.080 a little back from the end of the year so 0:08:13.080 --> 0:08:14.840 people have time to actually adjust to it. 0:08:15.200 --> 0:08:16.960 Well, it's the time of the year to be grateful 0:08:17.040 --> 0:08:19.120 for all that we've been blessed with and part of 0:08:19.160 --> 0:08:21.800 that each and every week, Greg Steben is having you 0:08:22.040 --> 0:08:26.120 with us, and so a happy holiday season to you 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:28.640 and your family, and I hope it's a great one. 0:08:29.280 --> 0:08:31.280 Thank you very much, and I wish you and all 0:08:31.280 --> 0:08:32.079 your listeners are. 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:35.440 Say thank you, sir, guys the absolute best. Love having 0:08:35.520 --> 0:08:39.200 him on there. Alrighty, Santa Claus is coming to town. 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:41.679 I know he'll be stomping at Julie is freting south. 0:08:43.320 --> 0:08:49.120 I can promise you that question asked Julie, will he 0:08:49.280 --> 0:08:53.679 be bringing you gifts or bringing you lumps of coal? 0:08:55.400 --> 0:09:00.360 Both? Probably? I have some things that I need to 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:02.680 work on and other things I'm kind of proud of. 0:09:02.720 --> 0:09:04.960 And I hope when people look back at their year, 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:07.920 they go, well, here's what I liked, here's what I 0:09:07.960 --> 0:09:10.280 did like, and this is the person I want to 0:09:10.320 --> 0:09:11.040 be next year. 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:15.280 You know, it's interesting, Julie, I was doing some reading that. 0:09:15.720 --> 0:09:19.080 You know, so many Americans, they pretty common they have 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:21.880 New Year's resolutions. And of those that have a New 0:09:21.960 --> 0:09:28.000 Year's resolution, seventy nine percent have to do with improving 0:09:28.240 --> 0:09:32.800 their overall health. Now, it's one thing for people to 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:36.840 have that goal in setting new year's resolutions, right, but 0:09:37.000 --> 0:09:41.760 only nine percent, at least the most recent study, only 0:09:42.000 --> 0:09:48.080 nine percent, closer to eight percent, will actually follow through 0:09:48.640 --> 0:09:52.640 on those New Year's resolutions. 0:09:53.200 --> 0:09:56.360 You know what's interesting about all these numbers and all 0:09:56.400 --> 0:10:00.320 this data. Sometimes I wonder, you know, Hugh's collect seeing 0:10:00.360 --> 0:10:05.080 all this data, because like, what about daily resolution? But 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:09.520 tiny habits, little things we've changed. I'm not talking you know, 0:10:09.559 --> 0:10:13.560 when I'm talking about new habits. It's maybe just daily 0:10:13.720 --> 0:10:18.200 small habits that make you a better person, maybe one 0:10:18.280 --> 0:10:21.960 percent better than you were yesterday. And the other thing 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:26.599 Tom and I really believe in this is that What 0:10:27.200 --> 0:10:30.400 do you define as health? Is it intellectual health? Are 0:10:30.400 --> 0:10:33.280 you reading new things? Are you learning new things? Is 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:37.120 it physical help? Are you sleeping a little bit better? 0:10:37.320 --> 0:10:40.440 Are you eating a little bit better? Do you have 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:45.760 routines that are a little bit better? What about emotional help? 0:10:46.280 --> 0:10:49.360 Do you pause during the day and go, gosh, I'm 0:10:49.400 --> 0:10:54.640 so grateful for the law, just the little miracles. I 0:10:54.679 --> 0:10:58.200 always think one day should have these five things. One 0:10:58.240 --> 0:11:02.520 amazing moment, one new life learning, one amazing failure, a 0:11:02.600 --> 0:11:06.400 pretty good success, and for miracles. So if you look 0:11:06.520 --> 0:11:11.280 for that every single day, that's about small habits. So 0:11:11.520 --> 0:11:15.480 what if the New Year's resolution was really a resolution 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:20.640 to have a daily reserce? What's wrong with that? And 0:11:20.760 --> 0:11:23.160 why did you know? The other thing? If you ask 0:11:23.200 --> 0:11:27.199 people the resolutions, a lot of times they focus on 0:11:27.360 --> 0:11:31.360 just physical health. And there's so much more to a 0:11:31.400 --> 0:11:34.320 person than a number on a scale or the size 0:11:34.360 --> 0:11:37.480 of their clothing. What about the size of their hearts, 0:11:38.280 --> 0:11:41.320 all the gifts that they've given away during the year 0:11:41.440 --> 0:11:45.800 in terms of how good they are at certain things. 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:50.480 How about the new relationships? How I mean I can 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:54.800 go on and on and the You know, when you 0:11:54.840 --> 0:11:58.880 think about habits, it's really not about motivation. I mean, 0:11:58.920 --> 0:12:02.520 people think, oh, yeah, she's so motivated she runs every 0:12:02.600 --> 0:12:06.360 day TRIALO, and they think that of me. Tom. It's 0:12:06.440 --> 0:12:10.720 not about motivation some days. It's just about who the 0:12:10.760 --> 0:12:13.040 person I want to be, and I know it makes 0:12:13.040 --> 0:12:15.679 me feel good. So it's not if I'm going to 0:12:15.800 --> 0:12:19.360 run or if I'm going to work out, it's when yep, 0:12:19.920 --> 0:12:22.920 And so don't you think that would be a better approach? 0:12:23.000 --> 0:12:24.440 There's no doubt. 0:12:24.480 --> 0:12:27.200 And I think I think one of the roadblocks on this, 0:12:27.280 --> 0:12:30.040 whether it's the little things you're talking about right and 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:34.199 trying to be one percent better each day, or whether 0:12:34.280 --> 0:12:38.120 it's a full on commitment and a resolution about let's 0:12:38.120 --> 0:12:42.120 just say physical health for a second, is that people 0:12:42.160 --> 0:12:44.640 are so focused about are they perfect. 0:12:44.800 --> 0:12:46.440 You and I have talked about this before. 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:49.680 You know, you can start exercising, and let's say you 0:12:49.720 --> 0:12:51.840 go the first three weeks, which in and of itself 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:54.640 would be a small miracle. According to some of these 0:12:54.679 --> 0:13:00.439 stats of physical activity and getting well. All of a sudden, 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:02.520 a lot of people might go three weeks and they're like, well, man, 0:13:02.559 --> 0:13:06.040 my goal was to lose seventeen pounds, Well I've lost one. 0:13:06.120 --> 0:13:08.160 So this ain't working well. 0:13:08.240 --> 0:13:11.400 I mean, it is working on maybe levels that, like 0:13:11.440 --> 0:13:16.600 you just said, show up, but not necessarily when you 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:18.120 step on that scale. 0:13:19.320 --> 0:13:22.600 Exactly, the fact that instead of being perfect, just show 0:13:22.679 --> 0:13:26.000 up every day, real small changes. And then the other 0:13:26.120 --> 0:13:29.840 thing is, you know, maybe this person people I know, 0:13:29.920 --> 0:13:32.959 they did work out and then all of a sudden, 0:13:33.240 --> 0:13:36.040 you know, things didn't. The next day they did, and 0:13:36.040 --> 0:13:39.320 the next day they didn't. But you know what, starting 0:13:39.400 --> 0:13:43.560 again is a real skill. You know, there were seasons 0:13:43.559 --> 0:13:47.160 when I missed workouts, I lost my rhythm. But what 0:13:47.440 --> 0:13:51.840 mattered wasn't perfection. It was once again finding the routine 0:13:51.840 --> 0:13:54.840 that worked with you, for you, without beating yourself up. 0:13:55.920 --> 0:13:59.920 And you know, sometimes people don't even realize like, of course, 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:03.520 maybe the scaled and move, but perhaps they found a 0:14:03.559 --> 0:14:07.200 class they enjoyed and met some new people. What if 0:14:07.200 --> 0:14:10.840 they impressed their kids and became a you know, a 0:14:10.880 --> 0:14:14.400 real role model and you didn't realize it, but your 0:14:14.520 --> 0:14:19.920 presence inspired other people. So there's all these little hidden 0:14:20.000 --> 0:14:25.360 miracles that people stop short of. And why don't we 0:14:25.480 --> 0:14:29.240 start with this beat? You know you're already outrageously wonderful. 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:31.800 I know that. I mean, that's what a good coach 0:14:31.880 --> 0:14:36.960 would tell you, but why stop there? It's little. It's 0:14:37.040 --> 0:14:40.120 kind of like everyone wants to grow. I mean, it's 0:14:40.240 --> 0:14:43.880 human nature to want to be a kinder person, to 0:14:43.920 --> 0:14:47.200 be a wiser person, to be a more hopeful person, 0:14:47.280 --> 0:14:51.000 a patient person. I mean, there's all these really cool 0:14:51.080 --> 0:14:53.960 things out there that you want to be, not just 0:14:54.080 --> 0:15:01.200 a skinning person. You're definitely Captain Crunch. So you know 0:15:01.360 --> 0:15:06.480 what if we decided that this like today, like for instance, 0:15:06.560 --> 0:15:08.680 this is what I do every day. And I'm almost 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:12.680 a little awkward saying this on the radio, but I 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:14.800 have during my quiet time in the morning, I have 0:15:14.880 --> 0:15:17.480 one word of the day and it's my north star. 0:15:18.280 --> 0:15:21.880 So if you it's my focus for today or every day, 0:15:21.960 --> 0:15:25.800 so different word every day. So like today's word, I'm 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:29.960 going to be real honest. Here was pause And so 0:15:30.080 --> 0:15:34.800 today if I can just pausing, like listening to people better, 0:15:35.000 --> 0:15:38.200 or before I eat another Christmas cookie, I pause and 0:15:38.240 --> 0:15:42.200 go do I really want this? Or you know, if 0:15:42.400 --> 0:15:45.240 if I pause and listen to you, or pause and 0:15:45.400 --> 0:15:50.160 have time to really respond to a text instead of 0:15:50.280 --> 0:15:52.120 you know, a quick one word or you know, a 0:15:52.160 --> 0:15:55.400 happy a happy face on it, it's or I have 0:15:55.520 --> 0:15:59.200 time to call my mom or so that's so the 0:15:59.400 --> 0:16:02.160 I'm gonna all days they I'm going to practice the pause, 0:16:03.080 --> 0:16:05.280 and that would go into every part of my health. 0:16:05.320 --> 0:16:09.880 Maybe I should pause before I say something I don't 0:16:09.880 --> 0:16:10.440 want to say. 0:16:10.560 --> 0:16:13.040 You know, maybe how interesting you bring that up about 0:16:13.080 --> 0:16:15.680 you know, even the part about you know, calling your mom. 0:16:15.720 --> 0:16:17.960 Because my son and I had a very hard to 0:16:18.040 --> 0:16:21.600 art conversation the other day two nights ago, and were 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:24.560 sitting there and he's asking me about my sister. And 0:16:24.600 --> 0:16:26.440 my sister and I grew up in a house where 0:16:26.440 --> 0:16:30.480 our parents got divorced. It was it was an ugly divorce, 0:16:30.720 --> 0:16:34.720 and it was a painful divorce for everybody involved. And 0:16:35.080 --> 0:16:37.280 he said to me, he says, you know, he says, 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:40.280 I noticed, Dad, you know you don't talk to your 0:16:40.320 --> 0:16:43.080 sister all the time, and you know, it kind of 0:16:43.160 --> 0:16:45.880 hit me between the eyes. And I said, Luke, I said, 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:49.240 you know, my sister and I have been through a 0:16:49.240 --> 0:16:51.960 lot of wars. Maybe not as bad as some brothers 0:16:51.960 --> 0:16:55.560 and sisters, and probably worse than some other brothers and sisters. 0:16:55.800 --> 0:16:57.480 But I said to him, I said, you know, we 0:16:57.600 --> 0:17:00.720 could literally go forever and not talk and know that 0:17:00.760 --> 0:17:02.680 one could call the other at four o'clock in the 0:17:02.680 --> 0:17:05.360 morning and you would do anything in the world for them. 0:17:05.400 --> 0:17:08.199 And many of us have people in our lives like that. 0:17:08.640 --> 0:17:11.560 But he got me thinking that, you know what, that's 0:17:11.680 --> 0:17:14.600 a little that's a perfect example of something you're talking 0:17:14.600 --> 0:17:17.160 about here. If you all of a sudden just decided 0:17:17.400 --> 0:17:19.920 whether it's your brother, your sister in your case, your mom, 0:17:20.359 --> 0:17:21.960 where all of a sudden, you know, you're talking about 0:17:21.960 --> 0:17:25.119 a new Year's resolution and you say, man, I'm going 0:17:25.160 --> 0:17:28.000 to call them once more per week than I'm already 0:17:28.040 --> 0:17:30.520 doing it, or message them or whatever it might be. 0:17:31.080 --> 0:17:34.440 That is a win in your life. 0:17:35.720 --> 0:17:39.520 That's a beautiful win, Tom, And yeah, that's exactly where 0:17:39.520 --> 0:17:42.879 I'm going with this. We're not trying to transform ourselves. 0:17:43.359 --> 0:17:45.359 We're just trying to be a little bit better at 0:17:45.400 --> 0:17:48.880 who we are, and we're Everyone is well intentioned. Everyone 0:17:49.000 --> 0:17:53.480 wants to grow in. How you define that is how 0:17:53.680 --> 0:17:56.960 you know is your world. And I think those are 0:17:57.000 --> 0:18:01.000 the type of intentions and small things that make us 0:18:01.080 --> 0:18:03.719 feel good when we go to bed at night. And 0:18:03.760 --> 0:18:05.440 that's what you want to do. You want to jump 0:18:05.520 --> 0:18:07.840 in bed at night and go, you know, jump in 0:18:07.920 --> 0:18:11.240 bed with the finish line Pode and say to yourself self, 0:18:11.880 --> 0:18:15.440 this went right today, and I loved it. This went 0:18:16.000 --> 0:18:19.600 not really well, I'm going to change that. And here 0:18:19.600 --> 0:18:23.240 are my four miracles that happened today, which you truly 0:18:23.320 --> 0:18:27.680 don't know where they came from, but they happened. And 0:18:28.040 --> 0:18:31.440 you know, you think, well, today was the best day. 0:18:31.920 --> 0:18:34.720 And you can say that every day. Right today it's 0:18:34.760 --> 0:18:38.280 the best day because as far as you know, today 0:18:38.359 --> 0:18:39.240 it's the best day. 0:18:39.400 --> 0:18:41.600 Well, and it might be your last day. I mean, 0:18:41.640 --> 0:18:44.639 I read that sad story about Jay Morrison and his wife, 0:18:44.720 --> 0:18:47.760 and you know, you just you just never never know. 0:18:48.080 --> 0:18:51.280 And you know that's one of the parts about this 0:18:51.320 --> 0:18:53.560 whole thing. I was talking earlier whether plead people are 0:18:53.640 --> 0:18:56.480 believers that Jesus is the savior of mankind or not. 0:18:56.960 --> 0:18:59.359 They have to decide for themselves. But it cannot be 0:18:59.440 --> 0:19:02.520 debated that he walked this earth in the way he 0:19:02.600 --> 0:19:05.639 lived his life, and that you know, people could do 0:19:05.760 --> 0:19:08.280 bad things over and over and over again, and he 0:19:08.359 --> 0:19:12.240 found some forgiveness. And so it's like starting clean over 0:19:12.320 --> 0:19:15.440 and over and over. And you mentioned earlier that's starting clean, 0:19:15.480 --> 0:19:18.360 all right. So before I let you go, two things. 0:19:18.680 --> 0:19:22.920 Number One, are you committing yourself to any New Year's resolution, 0:19:23.040 --> 0:19:26.919 in particular, if I may ask, well. 0:19:26.760 --> 0:19:29.800 What I just want to I'm going for that daily 0:19:30.040 --> 0:19:33.280 for my new New Year's resolution, Tom, I'm going to 0:19:33.320 --> 0:19:38.399 make daily resolutions. Okay, okay, okay, is that fair? 0:19:38.840 --> 0:19:41.199 That's a great one. I mean, I loved it. I 0:19:41.240 --> 0:19:42.720 love the way you laid it out there in the 0:19:42.760 --> 0:19:45.359 whole nine yards. And secondly, I want to wish you 0:19:45.400 --> 0:19:48.440 and your family a merry Christmas. And we are all 0:19:48.480 --> 0:19:51.880 so thankful, not just me as the host of this program, 0:19:51.880 --> 0:19:55.080 but for those that listen, the tens and tens and 0:19:55.160 --> 0:19:57.840 hundreds of thousands, if not millions, that listen all the time, 0:19:58.800 --> 0:20:02.479 that have proven in all of our data that you 0:20:02.560 --> 0:20:06.200 are extraordinarily and this segment is extraordinarily popular. 0:20:06.440 --> 0:20:08.879 And that is because of what you bring to this show. 0:20:09.000 --> 0:20:11.479 And so from if I can speak for them from 0:20:11.520 --> 0:20:13.720 the bottom of their hearts, in the bottom of a mind, 0:20:14.480 --> 0:20:16.520 merry Christmas, and thank you for everything. 0:20:17.800 --> 0:20:21.200 Well likewise, and I do this has been a real gift. 0:20:21.400 --> 0:20:24.520 It's been a dream of a lifetime, and so the 0:20:24.600 --> 0:20:27.280 gift is right in front of me. So I'm really grateful. 0:20:27.359 --> 0:20:28.919 And it's loads. 0:20:28.520 --> 0:20:31.160 Of fun, isn't it isn't just fun, no doubt. 0:20:30.920 --> 0:20:33.119 About it, no doubt. Merry Christmas, Jewels. I hope you 0:20:33.119 --> 0:20:35.800 have a great one, okay you two times? All right? 0:20:35.840 --> 0:20:36.159 Thank you? 0:20:36.280 --> 0:20:39.080 And look, I'm not going to be here through the 0:20:39.160 --> 0:20:41.560 new year. I have a Bowl game to go broadcast 0:20:41.600 --> 0:20:46.040 out with Snoop Dogg. Yep, I announced the entire Bowl 0:20:46.040 --> 0:20:49.240 Game with Snoop Dogg and that'll be on December twenty 0:20:49.280 --> 0:20:51.639 seventh to four point thirty in the afternoon. Shameless Pug 0:20:51.720 --> 0:20:55.120 on the CW Network. But what a great dude, and 0:20:55.440 --> 0:20:57.240 he's good to so many people, and a lot of 0:20:57.280 --> 0:20:59.080 times people just don't know about it. I came to 0:20:59.160 --> 0:21:00.959 learn about it when I've cast a game with him 0:21:01.040 --> 0:21:04.119 last year. I want to just take a moment for 0:21:04.200 --> 0:21:06.439 a couple of things. I thank everybody around here for 0:21:06.480 --> 0:21:09.320 making me feel so welcome. On the Morning Show, Liam Tomlinson, 0:21:09.400 --> 0:21:13.040 great job, Danny Gleaes and Sean McMahon, other producers we 0:21:13.080 --> 0:21:16.480 have on the program, the entire Morning Show team, Brian 0:21:16.640 --> 0:21:20.239 Chuck Seg and others. Rick, everybody who's here in and out, 0:21:20.320 --> 0:21:23.960