WRFH/Radio Free Hillsdale 101.7 FM - Thursday Lunch: Kiss Me Under the Light of 1000 Stars

Episode Date: November 22, 2024

This week, join Bella and Jillian for Thursday Lunch as they discuss one of the most interesting topics there is: Crushes. From foul-mouthed redheads to Fox News hosts, the possibilities really are endless. Which one of us would be YOUR crush? :)

You're listening to Radio Free Hillsdale, 1-1.7 FM. I'm Bella. And I'm Jillian. And this is Thursday lunch. That's the third time we recorded that. Yeah, so... It's because we're too loud. I hope you guys like it. I hope you guys liked that.

And that's it for the day. This was Radio Free Hillsdale, 101.1.7 FM. Anyway. Okay. So today we're actually talking about a really important topic, a really needy topic. Oh. I'm trying to keep with the lunch theme. Is that bad?

The meat and potatoes. Well, we'll start with. the potatoes and then we'll go to the meat well the meat and potato you never heard someone say it's i have i'm just like trying to split it up for appetizer entree okay well it's probably like you eat a salad then you eat the meat and potatoes oh really oh you're saying it's not a side dish you have you feel this weird feeling about the word appetizer and entree so i have this really weird feeling about it and i think there's people out there who agree with me but i don't we're both wrong so no me and the people who agree with me you and all of them you and all of anyway um today we're talking about

What are we talking about? Some of our first crushes. Oh. The most, the worst ones. We're picking, well, in my opinion, I picked the worst ones. What did you pick? Well, I picked one that is still loki my crush it. He's a good one. Are you talking about the famous one? Yes. Okay. We'll get to that in a second. We're going to start with our appetizer stories. I decided to give mine a food. I think it would be boiled carrots. Oh. Wait, this is good. Is that good? Yeah. Should I go first? Wait, because I already said the food. Yeah, you should go. So back in the day, I left elementary school. I graduated from elementary school and was on to a new school.

Sixth grade, I went to a place called Vogel Intermediate School. And it was hard because high school, no, I wasn't in high school. Middle school is the place where nobody wants to be your friend. At least that was my experience. Nobody wanted to be my friend. I showed up to the first day of school, hair curled in a like floral skirt and some sort of purple shirt. And I remember thinking, I'm going to walk in that door and everyone's going to be like, who is she? And I can tell you, I can tell you right now, that did not happen.

Nobody was wondering who I was. In fact, nobody really knew who I was, nor wanted to be my friend. This was a good humbling thing for about a year and a half. And then I graduated from the humility and snapped right back into place. So I'm going to tell a story about one of my first crushes at this intermediate school. It wasn't a real crush. And you'll start to understand why. I had PE physical education with a group of spry young gentlemen and women and then me.

I suck. I suck at PE. I suck at physical activities. I'm terrible. I can't throw a frisbee. I can't catch a ball. I'm just like very bad at all of it. I cannot run for more than like a couple seconds.

Like it's very bad. It's very bad. I'm able to do many hard things, but none of them are physical. So in this PE class, there was a boy in the class who was maybe 85 pounds max. Probably more like 60 pounds. Like super skinny boy. Bright red hair.

I don't think I'm going to say his name. I don't think he'll find this. You could say it. I can put a little. I don't think he knows who I am at all. So we never spoke. Him and I never spoke. We literally never even made eye contact.

Like I only ever saw him and he was pretty good at Dodgeball. And here's the thing that really set him apart from the other. he was really vulgar. Like he would listen to Drake on the bus. Oh. Sorry. He would listen to Drake on the bus. Wait.

And I was like, wow, I only listen to Jesus music. And he would swear in class. And the teachers would be like, here, you have to believe that I was name. Teachers would be like, you cannot be talking. Sorry, his name is. Yes. And maybe like, you can't talk like, you can't talk like. that but they like wink at him like he was like the cool kid of the school little redhead skinny boy and

i was like wow and he was on the he was on the same bus as me and he would be in the back like having a blast yelling swear words getting referrals referrals were like disciplinary measures and i would sit in the front of the bus and be like wow him and i would be such an unlikely pair opposites attract opposites attract opposites attract opposites attract oh um so the the real ending of the story is that one time I was in my neighborhood and I went outside when it was it had gotten dark. It was probably 5 p.m., but it was dark outside. And I laid on the grass at this playground in my like really sketchy neighborhood. And I stared up at the stars as I listened to this song.

That one Ed Sheeran song is like this. It's like the kiss me under the light of a thousand stars. And I was sitting there thinking, Place your head on my beating heart. And I remember sitting there and being, it's so memorable that I remember it and can retell it. So overtaken by hormones that I was like, I want him to do that with me. I want him to. I hope he kissed me under the light of a thousand star.

I hope he places his hand on my beating heart. So that's my story. I literally never spoke to him. I don't know the guy. I just had a crush that translated to Ed Shearhan territory. I wonder where he is. He's so 100% he's not in college. So 100% he's addicted to drugs.

That's all I know. Listening to Drake still? Probably. He probably listens to Basie. Wait, was that the Adjus Fada let you know your mine? Oh, you would have loved that at the time. I would have been like, wow, hands on your body. I don't know.

I don't waste no time. Anyway, that's my appetizer. Boiled carrots. Boiled carrots is crazy. So is this like, okay, when I think of the food for this crush, I'm thinking of like him, like, because the situation is not a real situation. Okay. But I fear that he's like lamb chops or something, a beautiful plate. Oh, sorry, I forgot.

It's an appetizer. Oh, then he's definitely like beef tartar. Steak tartar? Yeah. Beef tartar, steak tartar? Would he be a shrimp cocktail? Or is that too feminine? I think it's too feminine.

Oh, anyways. Let me set the stage. I'm maybe eight. I feel like I was probably younger. It was maybe seven. Oh. But my parents every morning, we would watch, they would watch Fox News. And so they were making breakfast.

It was wonderful and lovely. And I was sitting in the living room. And my sister was a baby. So she was like, I'm sitting in the scene. She's like on the floor and front. front of me. I'm like, I don't know, throw it a toy at her face or something. All the sudden on TV, who is this? Oh, who is he? This man shows up on the TV and I literally, I remember being like, what is that? Oh, it was Brett Baer. That's Brett Baer. And still to this day, if I met him,

I would be flustered. You would kiss him? And even though his face is not real. It's not anymore. It is like, you know, wait, did you ever watch Doctor Who? No. Well, there's this one part where they like, I don't even remember. They go to the future or something. There's this woman who exists, but she's just a piece of skin stretched over. Oh my gosh. Why did you watch stuff like that?

It was Doctor Who. Ew. She's just a piece of skin with a face. Do you know that's like really messed up? I'll show you it after. I don't want to see. That's low key what he is now. But I remember being like, oh.

Who is that man? But back then he was handsome. No, he was. And like from afar, like when you see him on Fox News these days, you're not getting a Brett Bear close up. No. So he still looks good. But if you don't go on his Instagram, guys.

I'm going right now. And his wife is the same. Sorry to her, but her face is like tight as can be. But that was your first crush? That was my first crush literally ever. And it actually like sent it awoken. It awoken me. Awaken me.

It made me be like, oh, so this is what it is to like a boy. Wow. And I like, to this day, I like him. But that, that's my little appetizer. It probably, he truly is like a little steak tartar or something. It's fancy. It's nice. It has slick back hair. Like, you know what I mean? Slick back bun. It's kind of slimy. Oh. Okay. We ready for the entree? Yeah, that's just my little. I love it. My entree's a turkey. Oh. Why, Andre's a turkey. And I'm going to quickly tell the story of another PE class. I don't know why I have so many stories in PE because I cannot express to you how much I hated PE. I guess I was just looking for other things to do.

Right. Like when I'm learning division, I'm like, yes, yes! When I'm playing dodgeball, I'm like, are there boys here? What is that? Literally. So this was probably actually my first ever like real serious for serious crush. And it was third grade and our. PE teacher had let us know a week or so prior that this PE class we would be coming in and doing what was called the jingle bell.

I think jig, the jingle bell dance, jingle bell jog, something jingle bell and then I think it's jig. I'm pretty sure, but I can't remember. It's the jingle bell jig or something of that sort. And I went into class ready to jig. And who comes up to me, but he was probably like four foot five. I was probably four foot five too. I remember him being short and he played soccer and he came out. me and he was like and his name is tie can you believe that one too yeah tie and he came up and he

said wait you loki prophes something there yeah i know we'll talk about that later but he came to me and he was like do you want to be my partner and i froze and panicked and so i said i'm already kate's partner wait but you liked him didn't you i did not until he liked me that's how all my crushes start i always like boys when they like me okay never first so in that moment i was like wow he was couldn't ask me to dance and I was the only girl that was asked from what I can remember like I think all the girls had partnered with their friends and all the boys are partners with their friends except for tie I'd probably be so mad at Kate in that moment even though she did nothing well Kate didn't do anything I know that I'd be like I assigned her my partner oh you asked her I was like she's my partner and I grabbed

oh yeah like I was like using her as a scapegoat and so we did the jingle bell jig together and obviously I I hurt his feelings and okay I think I'm remembering this story correctly now because the last somebody told you, I think I was wrong. This is what actually happened next. We did a second round of the jingle bell jig. We did one time and I was like, okay, fine, I'll be your partner tied. Like, I'll be your partner for this round. And as we were jigging, I was looking around at all the girls like, oh my gosh,

can you believe this is happening to me right now? I'm dancing with a boy. But not in a good way. And like, he's so cringe sort of way. Like, I was low-key bullying him for asking me, for being brave and manly. I was like, but I think I was just uncomfortable with the fact that like he chose me. So I'm looking around like all these girls like, I'm like laughing. All the girls are like, hey, my gosh.

This is so weird and insane. As it ends, he starts to cry because I've been making fun of him for the duration of this jig. And he was being brave. I'm the evil villain in this story. Wait, he was being brave. He was a little boy. I know. He's being really brave.

And so he got into class. He's crying. I'm like, oh, do I do what I do? My teacher sits us all down and it's like, guys, you cannot be acting. like this you have to be nice to each other i don't really remember what she said to be honest with you but i remember i felt like i was in trouble because i was the reason he was crying i think the thesis of it was like why are you guys crying over this this is not a big deal i took it as like jillian you are the bully you ruined his spirit and i loki did and so in order to make it up to him for the next week

probably multiple weeks i would ask our pete teacher every day if we could do the jingle bell jig again can we do it again she'd be like no we're not really doing that i'm like please can we She was probably like, we can't do it because last time you literally bullied someone. I don't know if she knew. I don't know if our PE coach knew anything. Gosh, what was her name? Mrs. Graham? Oh, wait, I know Mrs. Graham at my school.

Yeah, she was... Mrs. Grom? Grom. I think it actually might have been Grom. Anyway. So she, she like said no and no and no until eventually she was like sedated by my constant asking. And she said, okay, fine, we can do it. And so I tried to make it up to him by dancing with him there.

Did he want to? I don't remember. I don't remember anything past that. I wonder if he was, like, scared. because he was like, I don't know, you kind of laughed at me last time. I don't even know if we danced. I don't even know if we actually ended up doing the jig together. We just, that's what I, and then we ended up having classes together for the next, like, three years.

And on and off, he was my crush. I wonder where he is, too. I think he's... Wait, he was your crush for three years after that? On and off. I had a cycle of, like, five different boys that I would cycle through crushes. I could name them all for you right now. And all of them liked me when I liked them.

That's nice. It was basically just up to me, like, when did I like them? It was awesome. I had some power. In my whole life, I had some power. I think I've had three genuine crushes. I'm just a crush girl. I kind of wish I was a crush girl.

Well, you have a different situation. That's true. My first crush, real crush, was like in second grade. Yeah, mine was third, so, yeah. Anyway, hit us with your appetite. Oh, let's release me! Entree! Sorry, hit us with your entree, Bella.

Okay, my entree. And similar to your appetizer, my entree, it's bland. Perfect. He's like, let me think. cold buttered noodles oh oh like you had butter noodles last night for dinner and your mom didn't make the better the next day yeah so she put it in the fridge and it's like eat that yeah you know so i i also want to preface this with saying this boy has been discussed previously on this podcast say his name say his name say his name when no one is around you say baby i love

love you if you were running game. Okay. Wow. Can we cut that out? No. Okay. So this was the boy from our first episode who I fell off a bike in front of him and sprang to both my wrists and cried. It was really embarrassed because I had a crush on him. But also I think it needs to be said that this was my only choice of crush. There was no other crush to be had. He lived right across from me. He was the only like relatively normal boy that like we knew. And thinking back to it now, like I think all the more like cool boys, like they all lived in a different neighborhood. So like we would only see them if sometimes they came to our

neighborhood to play Manhun. Why did you say Emerson? Emerson, because that's my neighborhood. Oh, perfect. Got it. So I lived in Emerson with like kind of like the homeschooled vibe, you know, and like all the cool ones. Like they lived in, what's it called? Oh my gosh, I'm forgetting. It starts with an H. Wow. That's actually crazy because I've lived here basically in Hollywood. Anyways, they lived in the other cool one. And so this was my only crush to be had. And at this time, it was basically me, him, my best friend, Allie, and these two other guys, one being her brother and one being some random other boy. So we would all hang out and it was a really fun time.

And I liked him, but like looking back, no, no, no, no, gross, gross. I don't like it. I don't like it. Anyway, so there I am. And I have a little crush, but it's very harmless. And also like we never, there isn't really any indication that we liked each other, you know? Although there was one time that Ali and him and I put Christmas lights up on my house. And I remember being like, this is romantic.

Romantic. Because like my dad got us out the ladder and he would be like, I'll do it. And he would like put the hook. One night we all went over to his house to watch a movie, which was also crazy because I was going to a boy's house. Yeah, that's crazy. And during this movie, we're sitting next to each other. our hands like barely grazing each other and his hands slowly. It starts to tremble near to mine.

And before I know it, like our fingers are interlocking. We're holding hands. And immediately there's vomit in my mouth. Like I hate him. In that moment, I'm like, I cannot believe this. Also, let it be known that I still had the brace on my hands from the prior ball. So he was being brave enough to hold a brace-handed girl. and you did exactly what I did, which was react with disgust.

But like, I didn't react to him. Oh. But I was like, oh my gosh, why this doesn't feel good? I don't like it. I don't like it. Wait, so we're the same. So. I just made more of a show of it.

You made a little bit of a show. Sorry. So in that moment, I was like, Ali, I have to go. I have to go. So we left. Allie and I left. And we're outside of Caleb's house and I'm like, I hated it. Like, I hated it. It was so gross.

Like, I don't want him to hold my heart. No, I don't want him to. And, um, at some, at. some point, I can't remember, Loki, if it was before, after, but we did, like, quote, unquote, date for like two days. And I was like, I can't, I can't date someone. I'm scared. It was like that. Because you threw up in your mouth when he touched you. Yeah, basically. But still, maybe like a week after this, he was posting on his story with Allie. I love my girl. Oh. So I posted on my, like, spam account. And I was like,

life isn't always the people you love aren't always the ones you love and those friends they are fake and they'll type behind your back and they don't even know and they'll throw you under the bus and they won't even care and they don't even cry when you cry and she i was still friends with her for years after that and she dated him up until like my senior year of high school wait they dated a really long time why did they break up because he tried to hold her hand i don't know they're both she's she's really bad so that's probably why so So we didn't. And that's your meat and potatoes.

That's my cold boiled noodle. So for dinner, for lunch, I guess I had beef tartar and then cold boiled noodle. And for your drink? Oh, my drink. So now that we've had her dinner, oh, my mouth is a little dry. I'm a little thirsty. I need a drink. So my song of the week is this wonderful little song by Stevie Nix herself.

And I actually am not 100% sure like when it's from because I, found it on like a compilation album that's like Stephen X best hits they came out in the 90s so I don't know but it's called stand back and it is so good and it has like the synth in it that's very like it's very like energetic and it's such a good feeling and her her vocals in it are like actually amazing in a wonderful way I can't even explain and it's very much I think I said it's kind of like a running song, I think. It makes you want to kind of run and it makes you almost, I feel like I'm like in the 80s, like, and I'm putting on like that funky leotard.

I know the one that goes up super high. And I'm running or I'm doing like a workout class with a bunch of other like middle age people. Like, you know what I mean? Yeah. And so I think that this dress, whoa, this song, it's probably a ice cold blue Gatorade. Yeah.

The blue one. With electrolytes. With electrolyte. So I feel better. Electrolike synth. Oh. Okay, my drink is really Not similar

It's like the song I'm choosing is Comfort Me by Malcolm Todd And it's a little bit vulgar So I wouldn't recommend the kids listen to it But it goes crazy and it kind of Because it's kind of like adult But it's also like really fun I'm gonna make it a white class seltzer Because I feel like that's what a peach

Oh A peach white class Like Malcolm Todd is so peach Yes and that's what he like That song to me is like Oh, oh, we're party. Oh, hey, yeah. It's just really fun and upbeat, but it's also like, I'm a little crazy. I'm a girl and boys love me. Like that sort of thing. So for my meal today, I literally had, oh my gosh, what did I say for my appetizer? Boiled carrots, turkey, and a peach white cloth? These are foul meals. Wait, why do I want to do illustrations of all our meals? We should from now on. Yeah. Ew, but yeah. Wait, so mine is beef tartar, cold bon noodles. in catererate.

So I hope your mouths are watering. And I hope you're like, I'm going to eat that right now. Yeah, exactly. I want to eat it right now. Thanks so much for everybody who tuned in to Thursday lunch on radio for Hillstow, 1.1.7 FM. I'm Jillian. And I'm Bella.

And we'll talk to you next week. Next week. Bye. Not bad at all.