Carol ReMarks
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Carol ReMarks
Wigs, Gestures, and Social Perception
Ever wondered why someone would choose a 39th-year high school reunion instead of the big 4-0? Join us as we take a nostalgic trip down memory lane, starting with a sunny Southern Ohio greeting and a candid discussion about the emotional complexities of wearing wigs. We reflect on the transformations we saw at our high school reunion and what they signify about our shared past and present. It's a heartfelt conversation that mixes personal anecdotes with broader social observations, making you question how much of our self-image is shaped by public perception.
Switching gears, we delve into the early days of Nick Saban's career at Alabama, exploring how he turned initial skepticism into resounding success through sheer perseverance. We draw some interesting parallels with public figures like Kamala Harris, analyzing how hand gestures play a role in communication and public perception. Does gesturing reveal a lack of confidence, or is it a powerful tool to engage an audience? Tune in for our unique take, as we blend insightful analysis with a touch of humor, promising a thought-provoking and entertaining experience.
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Hello, good morning, happy Sunday.
Speaker 2:Good morning one and all. What a beautiful day it is outside.
Speaker 1:Yeah, what is the weather going to be today in southern Ohio?
Speaker 2:That's a really good question. I think it's going to be actually pretty warm. It got up to 90 degrees yesterday.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I didn't bring any shorts with me because I didn't think it'd be this hot Mistake, but I wore my tank tops and I didn't wear any of my wigs, so that helped. Speaking of which, I want to talk about our my wigs here in a minute, but go tell us what the 87 degrees and sunny today.
Speaker 2:Okay, light, variable winds. Uh two percent chance of rain. Uh, winds are going to be out of the east, so it's going to be a pretty day. There you have it.
Speaker 1:Awesome, so I want to ask you a question.
Speaker 2:Ask me a question.
Speaker 1:Why do you think I go back and forth with my wigs? Like right now I'm on a kick where I don't want to wear any of them, Because I feel like I'm not myself. I feel like I'm hot. I feel like if I wear a wig, I'm trying to hide something I don't feel and I don't feel comfortable. I don't. It's not that I don't feel comfortable. I feel like I'm not being myself, Like I'm trying to hide something when I wear a wig and I don't know why. Um, and I feel much more comfortable without wearing a wig. Why? Why do I? But then I'll go look at pictures of wigs and say, oh, that's cute, that's cute, that's cute, and then I want to wear them again. So what is the deal? Be honest.
Speaker 2:I think you've already stated it. I think sometimes you're looking to be someone who you're not and then when you get out there and you're wearing the wig and around people, you can't be who you are. You've got to be who the wig is and I've seen you when you've worn wigs and you know, before we leave, you're very comfortable with it. When we get out there, you're like I don't know if I like this or not. You know you're uncomfortable in it, not because you're hot, but you're uncomfortable. And I'm like and there, you know, there are times that, uh, you know, I've seen that and it's like well, you know, but then again, you know, I think that has really mostly the what. I think that's what it is. You just you're not.
Speaker 1:You don't think you can be yourself in a wig yeah, and, and the wigs that I have, they're not horrible wigs, they're nice and decent wigs and they look realistic. It's not that I think they look fake or anything, they're nice wigs.
Speaker 2:And it's not that you look like an alien when you're not wearing one.
Speaker 1:Well.
Speaker 2:You don't, because you know, the first time that we went after you got, after we got your hair cut off when it was just falling out and uh, you know the two pictures that I took, you know you see how bright and how much you loved it. And then, of course, when we left to go out, you had of the barber shop, you had brought a hat and all this stuff. And you know, we went out and you were like I don't need a hat. And we went to the restaurant and there actually happened to be a bald man there and he walked by and looked at you and goes we look great. And you know some other people made comments about how good you looked. I was like, wow, okay, cool. So you know some other people made comments about how good you looked. I was like, wow, okay, cool. So you know, and you get a lot of comments about how wonderful you look.
Speaker 1:Well, I think they're just being nice because they think I have cancer or something.
Speaker 2:Well.
Speaker 1:They're just trying to be nice, which is okay. There's nothing wrong with being nice. I'd rather be nice than be nasty.
Speaker 2:Maybe so, but I think part of it's genuine, just because you look good well, thank you, I just.
Speaker 1:I've always wanted a signature. Look, I just didn't think the ball, it would be bald yeah, well, there you have it, you know and then I look at people on tv with their beautiful, perfect hair. You know it's like why can I find a wig like that? And then I'll find one beautiful, perfect hair're beautiful, perfect hair.
Speaker 2:They probably got extensions and they've colored it and they've tweaked and twerked it and you know, shimmer and shined and waxed and glued and it's their perfect look. Yours is easy, you know you don't have to mess with all that stuff. Think about that. You don't have to mess with all that stuff. Think about that. You don't have to mess with all that.
Speaker 1:I know that's all fine and good, but you know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it is all. Okay, it is good.
Speaker 1:All right, we're going to move on to the high school reunion. We went to last night, my high school 39th year, high school reunion. And it was good, it was fun. It was weird, though, to see everybody old, how they everybody has aged, Because the last time I saw everybody was when they were all young and you know, I recognized some faces and it was weird to see them all old now.
Speaker 2:Well, there were two things that were weird for me. Number one was the fact that I asked several people you know, I thought we were coming up for your 40th anniversary and it turns out it was the 39th and I asked many people. I said let me ask you this, why did y'all decide to do a 39th instead of a 40th? And every answer was I don't know, I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 1:I don't know.
Speaker 2:It just seemed like the right time, I guess so you know, that was the first weird, real weird and the second weird part of it was the fact that I was probably the oldest person in the room the whole time and as I looked around the room there were some old people in there, but yet I realized I'm probably the oldest person in here. Oh Sunny, give me some more water.
Speaker 2:You're not that much older than us, I know, but still you know, when you come to realize that you walk into a room and it's the 39th, 40th anniversary and you're the oldest person in the room. 39th, 40th high school anniversary and you're the oldest person in the room Let me say that slow to people who don't have cognitive abilities that can process this when it's the 39th high school reunion and you're the oldest person in the room. Okay, that's all I need to say about that. So those are the two things I thought were weird. Didn't know why, and I was the oldest person in there. The other thing that I loved about it was, as everybody was kind of talking about stories and rehashing stuff, I realized two things Everybody has the same stories. That might minor, that might be a little bit different. Everybody has the same stories as high school kids. Growing up, we did stupid stuff and we lived through it. That's the first part, and the second part was everybody's recollection of those events is different. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:It's like and he was on the windshield of the truck and we were flying down the road making tracks through this thing, and the guy says that wasn't me on the truck, I was the one driving it. No, you weren't, you were on the truck I was the one driving it. No, you weren't. You were on the windshield. It was like everybody has their own memory of how it really happened and he.
Speaker 1:That was an actual story that the gent just recited that was an actual story, so it was fun.
Speaker 2:Then the food was good too, so the cake was really good. It was good. I won a prize. Yes, I forgot why I won it. Oh, it was just a drawing. The cake was really good.
Speaker 1:It was good, I won a prize.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:I forgot why I won it.
Speaker 2:Oh, it was just a drawing. Yeah, I don't know. They drew my name out. They had the strawberry shortcake. That was really good.
Speaker 1:Yeah, all right.
Speaker 2:Well, that was that what did you think about all of it? Because I rambled on what I thought it's okay, you did a good it was a good recap, a good thing.
Speaker 1:Well, the thing is with me. I don't remember a lot about high school because I didn't really hang out with anybody. I didn't have best friends and a group of girls or a boyfriend, and I just didn't. I didn't have that I did. I was in the rifle corps and I worked a job part-time after school and then I was at home. I never I went to football games because I was in the band, you know the rifle corps, but I didn't really hang out with anybody. So I don't, and it was my last two years of high school with them. So you know, I didn't really bond and have friendships, like most people who grew up and had their friends since elementary school Because this is a small town and that's what they did. They grew up through kindergarten, elementary, junior high to high school, so they they've been around. Some of them are family even.
Speaker 2:they're all related yeah, small town, they're a lot in our inter intertwined relationships which may be a good thing because which may? Not be a good thing.
Speaker 1:When I grew up I went to elementary school 30 miles from here, maybe 20 miles from here, not that far. But then I left and lived in Florida, lived in other places. Then I came back here for my last two years of high school. So I know them but I don't know them them. If that makes any sense makes perfect sense. Yes, absolutely, yeah, absolutely but you know, I have a sister that lives here, so we came up to visit her too.
Speaker 2:All right, we're gonna go see her kids today yeah then we'll head back to the sunny south. Yeah, well, which has not been sunny, it's been raining the whole time since we left. Yeah.
Speaker 1:There was something else we were going to talk about, oh, football. Oh yes, how did Georgia do?
Speaker 2:Oh, we thrashed Kentucky. It was a mauling it was. You know, every year we have that one game and that's usually the SEC opener for our home schedule. That comes down to being a nail-biter. This year was no different, even the years when we went undefeated and won the national championships.
Speaker 2:Go look back at our season road opener. Our first road game in the SEC we've had trouble with, it was either Missouri or it was Kentucky a couple years ago. This year it was Kentucky and we allowed them four field goals. They scored 12 points and we had two field goals and scored a touchdown in the second half to take a 13-12 lead. And we hung on by the skin of our Well, we hung on and won the game. So it was a victory. And you move on. Next week we've got a bye week and we can kind of get healthy, and then it's on to Tuscaloosa in two weeks. All right, get to play Alabama. All right, so we play Alabama, all right. So we're looking forward to that. So it was an average college day lots of good teams, lots of good games, lots of fun.
Speaker 1:Is the Georgia-Alabama game daytime or nighttime?
Speaker 2:They'll probably. Who knows, it may be a. I don't know if they've set time. It may have been a to-be-determined time.
Speaker 1:I figured they already had that in play.
Speaker 2:Well, sometimes they'll do prime time, sometimes they'll do it as a 2.30 game. I probably know, matter of fact. I probably do know. Yeah, it is at 6.30 at night.
Speaker 1:All right, I figured it'd be prime time, mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:All right, we'll have to do something special.
Speaker 2:And do you remember the last time Georgia played Alabama at Alabama? No, you don't. The last time Georgia played Alabama at Alabama, we were there.
Speaker 1:That's been such a long time. They haven't ever played Alabama at Alabama. We were there. That's been such a long time. They haven't ever played Georgia at Alabama.
Speaker 2:They weren't on the regular scheduling like that. That was like over 10 years ago, georgia and Alabama regular season games were on the revolving schedule and the last time Georgia and Alabama played regular season game at Tuscaloosa, that was over. That had to have been 10 at Tuscaloosa.
Speaker 1:That was over. That had to have been 10 years ago. It was. That's crazy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was crazy. And what happened in that game, Carol?
Speaker 1:Georgia won at the very last minute In overtime.
Speaker 2:Yeah, in overtime Georgia won. And here's the funny story about that. Okay, that was Saban's first year.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, Was it his first or second?
Speaker 2:Yes, it was his first. I think it was his second. Yeah, it may have been his second year, I can't remember. No, maybe it was his first, but anyway, he was new. He was new and they had lost. I think that was the third game of the year or the second game of the year.
Speaker 1:They lost Right or a male.
Speaker 2:But anyway, I think their record was 2-2. After that game They'd won two and lost two, and we drove from Tuscaloosa back to Huntsville that night and getting out of Tuscaloosa is a pain in the butt.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2:So you know, I'm sitting there finding it. I finally get radio stations and I'm listening to the after game and there every caller there was called in. We gotta get rid of this damn Saban. He's awful. It's terrible. We've lost two games this year. I gotta drink some coffee at the beginning of this. It was at the beginning of the year this is the beginning of his career at Alabama.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:We got to get rid of him. He's terrible, he's awful. We got to get rid of this Saban. Blah, blah, blah, blah. And I just laughed and laughed and laughed. I made some comment. I'm sure somebody researched my Twitter or Facebook or something. I'd be on there, you know, scrolling, it's like you know, folks, y'all are trying to get rid of a great coach. Hang in there. Look at these Alabama already trying to get rid of him.
Speaker 1:And sure enough, he had a pretty good career. I mean, you don't just step in and the next day you're a winning, most winningest team. It takes time, right.
Speaker 2:Well, he was not left with the best of players and teams.
Speaker 1:That's what.
Speaker 2:I'm saying Sorry y'all. I'm sorry. Yes, he was not left with the best of situations and it turned out it was a good thing they kept him.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So you know, sometimes the people who make those decisions makes good decisions, but sometimes our leaders don't make great decisions.
Speaker 1:All right, we've got to come up with a question of the day and let these people go. Yeah, all right, here with a question of the day and let these people go. Yeah, all right, here's the question of the day. You know, you watch some people talk and they talk with their hands sometimes, or their hands are always moving when they're talking. What do you think that means? That's the question of the day.
Speaker 2:I personally think it means they're trying to distract you from what they're saying. Watch Kamala Harris when she speaks. Do you really think?
Speaker 1:she wants us to hear what she's saying. Yeah, I know, I think, and I sometimes I talk with my hands too, and I think I think it's a cover-up as well or they're crying, they're they, or they don't really know what they're talking about, so they start using their hands. Uh, you kind of said the same thing, I guess to me it's like they're reaching for words.
Speaker 1:They're reaching for something because they don't know really. They don't know really. They don't know what they're talking about absolutely. They're not real confident in their speak speech yeah, to articulate something yeah, there you go.
Speaker 2:I like that too all right, all right.
Speaker 1:Well, we gotta go. Thank you all for listening go dogs.
