Thanks to The Gal for authoring this meme. Click on the Sat-9 title of song on the next line below to play.
Saturday 9: Hello (2015)
Unfamiliar with this week’s tune? Hear it here.
1) This video begins with Adele and her flip phone. Is your cell phone a simple or a smart phone? It’s been a smart phone for a long time, a decade I would guess. I remember seeing an original iPhone that a customer bought. I thought “Who’d need these features? I do have a computer after all.” But then I was offered one as an upgrade after whatever mobile company had it first. I know it wasn’t Verizon, since I’ve had them since 2004 at least.
2) As soon as her cell is fully charged, Sam disconnects the adapter from the outlet to save electricity. Are you careful about conserving energy? I try to be. I joined Northeast Utilities (now Eversourse) in 2000 as a marketing person in energy conservation. I didn’t enter “green” but I have been green ever since.
3)Adele sings that she must have a called a thousand times but her former lover neve
r picked up. Think about the last call you made. Did you get through? Did you leave a voice mail? Or did you just hang up? I got through. Johnnie Walker texted me and I called him last night. He’s lived in Colorado over a year now. Next year is WTIT’s 50th birthday and I told him again that we (he four current recording DJs) would pay to have him flown out for it. He started to cry. He finally said, “I love you guys…”
4) Adele brews a cup of tea in the video. How often do you drink tea? Year round? Only in winter? Never? Never.
5) Adele told Glamour magazine she like two sugars in her tea. Do you watch your sugar intake? No.
The night four of the original DJs recorded together in 2014. The time before that was in 1973.
6) This song is about reaching out to someone and extending an apology. When is the last time you said, “I’m sorry?” It was to my wife about something. At WTIT we did a bit on that subject once. It was: “If you want a relationship to work you need to know the 6 magic words, “I’m sorry, my fault, you’re right”. I found that it’s true in sales as well.
7) Adele was a heavy smoker who enjoyed the habit and didn’t quit until 2015, after doctors convinced her it contributed to her chronic throat problems. What’s something you know you should do for your health? I certainly could eat better. I would have said “Stop drinking” a year ago. In March I decided I needed to stop being a daily drinker. I haven’t had a drink during the week since. Some weekends I don’t do it either. The important part of it is this: Liquor used to control me. Now I’m in control.
8) Even though she is one of the world’s highest-earning entertainers, she recently had her credit card rejected while shopping at H&M. She admits she was “mortified.” Have you ever experienced that moment at the counter when your card was rejected? Of course and it sucks.
9) Random question: When you were a kid, did you keep a neat or messy bedroom? Neat. My mother was strict about that.
We will return for Stealing tomorrow. Enjoy your day. See you then. Same time. Same blog.
1. Do you like blue cheese? This is not a question that you’d expect me to start with even though it was the first question on the actual meme. I always dislike yes or no questions and also questions where you pick something, say like your favorite spice. But I left it alone because there was so much to rework in this meme that was originally called “44 Things You Don’t Know About Me” I left it as a “place holder”. I figured I’d substitute a question later. But then the whole irony thing made me laugh. I’d worked so hard trying to make this fucker unique, I decided to leave the bloody question in. Oh and the answer is yes, I love bleu cheese. (It was hard not to correct the spelling as well!)
or so. A nurse I was dating told me of a patient who lost his voice to throat cancer and with me wanting to be a DJ it seemed the obvious choice. I quit by staying a weekend with a pot dealer friend of mine, Hunt Winklee. I smoke weed at the urge to smoke and slept a lot. But by Monday with the nicotine gone, I thought I smoked my last one. But after my first divorce I spent much time at bars where smoking was still allowed in the 90s. I smoked occasionally until dating someone who smoke and there I was again smoking two packs a day. Some ten years later I was diagnosed with heart disease and quit for good in 2004. I quit cold turkey. No pot dealer or the like.
3. Do you own a gun? How are your feelings about gun control/2nd amendment rights? This amendment was passed to enable folks to defend themselves against an invasion or the return of the English. I feel it’s out served its purpose and would be fine without guns. I hope that gun control becomes a mainstream desire.
Smirnoff Sour Apple. But I don’t drink it for that reason. I drink a ton of flavored water and cherry is my favorite.
9. In a dating situation, have you ever misrepresented yourself to seem cooler or hipper? (Yes we know for most of you it was long ago…) I don’t think so. I may have avoided a question or answered with one. After my first marriage I was only 39. I was asked by women on a first date constantly, “I know you have four children, would you have another with me?” First fucking date. It baffled me at first until a woman that I worked with said that I had to come up with a better answer so that I could move forward. Tammy said, “What’s the odds that you gonna marry the bitch anyway? Just lie.” She had a point. So I found myself responding to this asinine question by responding, “I have four children because I love children. Why wouldn’t I have another one with you?” And she was correct. But I didn’t even have to lie. I just asked the question back to her. (Whoever “her” was at the time…) Although I was married twice more, both women did not want a child with me or anyone else.
13. What’s a thing you dislike or would change about yourself? I’d talk less at work. It gets you into trouble and serves no useful purpose. No one cares about my opinions. Unless you count the sales thing. They do care about what I think about what I’m presenting.
party tomorrow. I’ve been out of it since the turn of the millennium, so I’m thrilled to be asked. It’s about the people who worked for my favorite station growing up. Ironically, it’s one of the few I never worked for. But I have a ton of friends who did and they invited the folks who worked at the rival station, which I did.
16. Name 3 drinks you regularly drink. Tell us a bit about them. Diet Coke wakes me up. I’ve become addicted to Dunkin’ Donuts’ Frozen Hot Chocolate and can’t wait till they stop selling it. Then there is my love of Smirnoff. I never thought I could just drink it occasionally, but now that is what I do.
22. Have you ever walked into a room with just shoes on? No.
Tell us about a person who made you smile today. Someone suggested I try a new Asian restaurant. I have severe reservations.
Kathy was asking me if I found everything to make my bagel. I think she felt guilty for not doing it for me. I keep telling her that I don’t expect her to do that. But it is an ongoing issue.
