Like a sitcom from the 80s and 90s, every person is innately tied to their family members in the best and most difficult of ways. JC, a millennial with 6 Gen X siblings, a boomer mother and a greatest generation dad talks about taking care of the ties that bind.
On Thursday, we talk about caregivers, all those people who end up taking care of other people. At the end of the day here, JC Lippold jumps on to talk about the ties that bind. Bob Newhart is the only individual who's ever had three sitcoms. Alive and Kickin uses rock music to reclaim the voices of senior people.
Well, hey there, everybody. Happy, happy Thursday. My name is JC Lippold, and this is family ties. On Thursday, we talk about caregivers, all those people who rather, who, by choice or by reality, end up taking care of other people, right? Whether they be their children, their parents, their loved ones, their neighbors, strangers. And at the end of the day here, I jump on to talk about the ties that bind. So I'm the youngest in a big family. I'm the one millennial child with six Gen x siblings. And then there is my boomer mother and a greatest generation father with a couple adopted siblings, and a couple half siblings, and a couple divorces and all the things.
Family ties, of course, a great sitcom from the eighties. And the ties that bind, when it comes to families, are real. Sometimes they can be put into a sitcom, a situational comedy, and sometimes they can't. Well, I'm sitting right outside a tv station right now. I'm sitting outside KSTP, Channel Five, the ABC syndicate in Minneapolis, Minnesota. And I'll pause for a moment to say hey to some of my friends. Hey, doctor Andrea. Nice to see you. Hi, Marisa. Hey, Jules. Thanks for tuning in to the last live stream on this Thursday.
If I've never shared space or time with you before, thank you for the opportunity to share some space and time with you right now. It means a lot to me. Well, normally I'm sitting at my piano because at the end of family ties livestream, normally I play a little sitcom theme song to wrap up this live stream, to mix it up a little bit. Right now, I'm in my very hot automobile. Why? Because that's how this live stream wraps up. Because we love to mix things up a little bit. You may be going, okay, JC, but why are you sitting outside of a tv station?
Well, every once in a while, I spend some time doing some wellness segments here at KSTP. Today, not the case. I spent some time with some of my friends who make music in a group called Alive and Kickin. Alive and Kickin is a group of senior individuals. This year, they range from the age of 63 to 80, 1889. And this nonprofit group uses rock music to reclaim the voices of that generation of people. Why? Because as we know, once you retire in this culture, you're supposed to kind of be quiet, retire and go sit on a beach somewhere.
Well, this group says, nah, we still got life to live. So today I helped assist to get these people on tv to share about their big end of their season concert, and they rocked it. So one of the cool things about this tv station is. This building has been around for a long time, and everybody who comes into the station gets to sign the wall. So I found spaces. By golly, it's hot in Minnesota today. Let me wipe my face. Everybody who jumps in to hop on one of the tv shows here gets to sign the wall.
So the three individuals, sherry and Tom and Deb. I was like, hey, let me grab a sharpie, and let's find a spot on the wall for you to sign. And I took them to my favorite brick on this wall. It's Bob Newhart's brick. Bob Newhart signed brick on this wall in 19, 60, 64 years ago. Here's my favorite tidbit about Bob Newhart. Bob Newhart. Maybe I'm wrong about this, but I think I'm right. Bob Newhart is the only individual who's ever had three sitcoms. A sitcom named after his first name, a sitcom named after his last name, and a sitcom named after his first and his last name.
That's pretty cool. What does this have to do about the family ties or the ties that bind about family today? Well, I'll tell you this wonderful group of individuals who's a part of a nonprofit, all about reclaiming the voices for the older generations. Well, I got to be their music director last year, and I tell you, I learned a lot from this generation of people, not because they're older and we're supposed to learn from our elders, but because I treated them like humans. You know, sometimes I look at how we treat the older generations, and half the time, we don't treat them like people.
We treat them like kids. We don't treat them with the same respect we treat everybody else. We treat them different and not different like, with more respect or different respect, but we treat them like they don't matter in the same way these three humans today that I got to kind of get ready to be on tv. Cause they were nervous. They didn't want to do it wrong. They didn't want to. They were nervous because they were doing something big. I joked around with them when they needed to be joked around with, and I let them know it was okay to be nervous when they needed to know it was okay to be nervous.
I gave him a hug when it was okay to get a hug. It was a good reminder today that even though I'm 42 and they're in there, let's see. Tom's 63. Sherry's in her seventies. Deb is, I think, 68. Guess what? The ties that bind, whether it's blood ties or the family ties that we choose. There's an opportunity for us to see people as people. That's your opportunity today. What do people need you to see him as? I think it's always people first. Start there. Have a good one.
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