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My colleague, Adam Hess is, uh, he's based out of Richland center and he is the director of technology at a, uh, the Southwestern school district.
And he is just here to talk about everything they're doing out there at W R C O and W R C E Adam.
Good morning.
How are you doing today?
Oh, Adam, there you go.
Adam.
Yeah.
Can you hear me?
Okay.
I can hear you.
There we go.
I think
Hey, glad to have you guys along.
Glad to be a part of it as well.
Yeah, Richland Center, not only, you know, I always tell people halfway between Madison and halfway between La Crosse.
That's where you find us.
That's
not our only claim to fame.
We do have a lot of great stuff going on and glad to be here, Greg, to chat with you.
So yeah, I mean, that's actually where I was gonna start with is Richland Center.
I mean, I'm going to admit I was born and raised in Wisconsin.
Really, Southeastern Wisconsin is my home.
I've lived in a bunch of counties.
here.
But when I started working for Civic Media, I kept hearing Richland Center, Richland Center, tell me not just the geography of where it's located, but what goes on there?
What's happening around that area?
What are the things that you are keeping a lookout for when regards to the news or just events and what makes people want to
visit?
one of our main claims to fame is it's the birthplace of frank Lloyd Wright the architect of course he uh... he moved from richland center to spring green just down highway fourteen and he moved uh... out to uh... arizona of course and and tell yes and not to out there
but that's one of our claims to fame uh... but more recent i tell you what we have such outstanding areas uh... rolling hills uh... we get snowmobiles we get uh... hikers we get snowshoers
fishing kayaking canoeing uh... and and we have uh... just lovely cabins for people to stay in throughout southwest wisconsin so you can immerse yourself in that nature uh... the nature walk uh... you know we have a we have a couple of great radio stations
school districts are great uh... within richland county we have uh... the other school district the richland school district and the western school district and we touch right on the riverdale
uh... school district which is right down in in much today so we're kind of a hidden jam work were positioned smack dab between madison and uh... lacrosse
and more and more people went right on the highway fourteen corridor no interstate runs through here but more and more people are are finding out we're doing some great advertising in like milwaukee in chicago uh... the the metro areas miniapolis to get people to to enjoy what we've enjoyed for you know all of our lives if you if you grew up in the southwest wisconsin richland county area so uh... yeah in a nutshell that you were big into outdoor sports
uh... we're big into uh... phishing with fishing we love our brandy olfactory love uh... standing cabins and so just a little bit of everything and then we have uh... we have a radio station that's been a part of this area since nineteen forty nine returned on our transmitter uh... w r c o a m fourteen fifty which is transition to w r c e still a part of the civic media network uh... much like w r c o f m is that came out in the sixties when when the uh... the f m signal uh... went strong so uh... yeah great
i i i was born and raised here i moved around lots of states and counties in different areas and different uh... careers and jobs and when when i had the opportunity to come back i didn't ask twice i think i came running back to uh... southwest wisconsin absolutely love it if you've never been out here great you need to come out ask for adam the great fishing spots
No, no problem.
I mean, I'm always looking for new places, especially in Wisconsin to visit.
And a couple of things, you know, one thing I wanted to talk about was the, the shows that you host two shows, the weekend, wake up and prime mover Saturdays.
Can you talk to us about prime mover?
I sure can.
So prime mover Greg has been around longer than I have.
I call myself an old man in radio, but it, it started, I believe in 1970 or 71.
It was a 15-minute program, and at that point, being a 15-minute program, people could buy, sell, trade, or give away their
items.
Adam, we got some background there.
At
that point, they would have people call up, and they would sell their items, and they would give their items away, or they'd be looking for items.
then it moved to a thirty-minute show and then it moved to a uh... uh... one-hour show and then an hour-and-a-half well within an off-and-on since nineteen ninety four took a few years off uh... when i moved on to do some software engineering and then came back in for the whole thing job of it again but here here's a little known fact
okay run from eight thirty two to ten o'clock when i was a kid
It was a half hour show.
I believe it was hosted by a man that I've had an opportunity to work with, Bill Twining.
He still provides wrestling coverage for the radio station 50 years later, but I was seven years old, Greg, and I sold a bike on Prime Mover.
I called up.
It was a banana seat with the Ram Horn handlebars, and it was yellow, and it was hideous, and it was my favorite bike in the world, but I had outgrown it.
So my dad said, hey,
we'll pitch in some money for a bike, but you know, you've got to pitch in a little money.
Why don't you sell this bike?
So I went on Prime mover and I sold the bike and then, you know, 20 years later or 18 years later after that, I came back to host
it.
Wow.
I did.
I've seen the, I've seen the art.
I've seen the advertising for prime movers.
I wasn't sure if it was like a, I didn't know idea what it was about until I recently, but that's, that is an amazing, I didn't realize it was long around for that.
long.
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We're talking to Adam Hess of WRCO hosts prime mover as well as weekend wrap up and has been you've been part of the station's history for a very, very long time.
You've been listening to it even longer and we're talking about what you can find at WRCO when you and WRCE when you
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And if you want to listen to WRCO, as I said earlier, you can get the Civic Media app and you can actually stream those stations right from your home in Racine, Kenosha.
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And one of the things that we were discussing before this show was the fact that there's some
news, a health news going on in at the Richland Hospital in Baraboo.
And can you talk more about that?
Oh, I sure can, Greg.
So lots of great things.
A lot of people, when they think of the rural area, they think, okay, well, you know, maybe rural health care isn't as advanced as larger city health care.
And that may be the case in some situations, Greg, where, you know, we might not have as many on staff.
We might not.
You
know,
have all the latest technology, but the Richland Hospital, they do great work.
And also, SSM St.
Clair Hospital in Beirut.
specify those two are unrelated hospitals they're just hospitals in our area uh... that are within our our signal area that we we just love to cover uh... one of the things richland uh... the hospital clinics recently done is uh... they they held a food drive right for for uh... disadvantage individuals and three or four truckload
goodness truckload of food from a city of five thousand people uh... that that's pretty that pretty uh... darn decent
and uh... if you uh... you know if you look at uh... richland hospital they have a lot of new technology coming on and you can always go to w r c o or dot com or w r c e dot f m and you can see the stories one of the big ones uh... was up in biribu the s s m health st claire hospital they transformed neurological care greg by uh... bringing in an a i powered device it's an e e g so that's the uh... electrophysiography device uh...
Normally, when you have an EEG, and I'm not sure if you've ever had one, but they put on the electrodes.
They put on the headband.
You sit there.
They get this digital readout or a paper readout.
And then it takes a little while for a doctor or a specialist to read that.
The AI-powered EEG, and I had the opportunity after we got a press release from St.
Clair FSM, I did a little research.
I'm like, this interests me because I'm an AI guy.
I'm a technology guy.
I absolutely loved it.
The turnaround time, it's instantaneous.
The AI will take those readings from the EEG, Greg, and they will sort of gather a game plan.
Okay, here's what we think might be happening.
Now, granted, AI is not going to make the health decision for any individual.
It goes on to a specialist.
It goes on to the doctor, the board of review.
But you can eliminate that time.
uh... that it takes and you know doctors are human and there might be only one doctor to read the e-g results and there might be seven people today getting e-g or ten people or twelve people and your number eight in line you may have to wait till tomorrow or the next day to get your reading that's not a an indictment of of the doctor that's just the way the system is that's the way it works uh... with with a i
uh... it will it will take those readings it will send them on to the doctor who's going to look at it but it's going to give the doctor a little direction so the doctor's not starting with a uh... blank slate and i know the folks at fs m health saint clarin bearable they are there static about getting this device it is a to do some research on it is there a bell system
You put on a headband, uh, set up takes less than 10 minutes.
You have a portable recorder.
You have a AI driven software with a little hard drive about the size of a little MP3 player.
And I'm not talking like the Microsoft.
You chose the zoom as your example, Adam.
Oh my God.
It's like having a Sony Walkman.
If you remember the zoom, yeah, this is the iPod mini.
Yeah, just really, really small.
Yeah.
Not only my technology guy, but I told you I'm pretty old.
When this discussion started, Greg, so I'm gonna go back to the zoo every day.
There you
go.
Well, we're going to keep the conversation going with Adam on this.
There's a couple of things I want to talk about.
One, we were talking to Dr. Cernich earlier in the show about staying healthy as far as vaccinations and just keeping yourself healthy around family.
But one of the things that you also did report on was staying safe and avoiding falls this winter because it's going to get really cold again.
We're going to see ice.
We're not going to see ice.
And I mean, it doesn't matter your age.
We want to help you try to avoid slip and falls.
And then I want to go back to something you just discussed, which with regard to Rich,
and center.
And I think Wisconsin as a whole, as far as brand deal fashions as far from what I understand, there is a person on this call and his name may be Adam Hess, who has a brandy old fashioned recipe.
And I'm not asking you to divulge it.
If it's secret, I'm merely wanting to talk to you about the topic.
So
I'll tell you what, Greg, I put the recipe online.
You know, I'm a transparent guy.
Release, release the recipe files.
That's what I say.
But we're going to keep that conversation going more with, uh, WRCO and civic media's own Adam Hess.
When we come back, if you have any questions, if you want to talk about Richland center, I'd love to hear from you about this because as we said, it's, it's Wisconsin.
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Good, good morning.
Welcome back to Matt and air on air.
My name is Greg box joined by sweet kelby, the Kelvinator, the board lord here on the ones and twos and you were listening to us on civic media and you can get in touch with us, call or text the numbers, the same eight, five, five, seven, five, two, eight, five, seven, five civic.
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The reason why I bring that up is because we're talking about, we're talking with my colleague from Civic Media who works at WRCO, Adam Hess, and we've been talking about the wonderfulness of Richland Center, all the things you can do, some wonderful innovations for medicine out in their hospitals, which I think a conversation that's always needed to be had is about rural access as well as just making sure you go see your,
We were talking to our previous Dr. Surnich, Adam, we were talking about staying healthy in these winter months and one thing that you talked out and you wrote a story about was staying safe in the winter months, specifically having to do with avoiding falls this winter, which is not just for older folks.
I routinely will with it on two times during the winter and talk more about that.
There's a story on the WRCE website about this
matter.
our news director w r c d r c o news director joe and crew lots uh... had written a story that was a press release and then she wrote a rio county and it sparked this this thought of me because one when i had fifty years old i realized i don't as well as i did it forty or thirty or twenty right and i don't want to know i'm going to be
great uh... and and so it was uh... it was a personal interest to me we all have uh... we all have people uh... older parents
siblings friends community members church members whoever in their you know sixties and seventies and eighties and beyond and i thought you know i'm gonna i'm gonna construct a story around what joanne started so i give i give join a lot of credit for for sparking that with me uh...
Yeah, so the biggest thing is, and you can always head to the website or our Facebook page and get the numbers, and it's in the millions of,
you know, how
many people fall in the US, how many are ICE related, how many are age related, but the bottom line is,
if it's icy,
And you know, you start out by writing 19 when you write your birth year.
You're definitely going to want to just take it slow.
There are a few things you can do, obviously.
You can shovel, you can hire somebody to shovel.
You can put down ice melt, you can put down salt.
Out here we use something called barn lime, and it melts ice.
it, uh, it, it sticks to ice.
So it makes it a gritty traction and stuff that we farmers used to use in our barns to, uh, to put down.
So, so cows didn't slip on the cement when they're coming in and out of the barn.
And then somebody got the great idea, but while living in Wisconsin said, Hey, if it works on cement and my, uh, my, you know, one ton cow is not going to fall down.
How about we try this on ice and it works.
Is that, is, is barnite as barn lime, uh, is that pet friendly or should you keep pets away from that?
I don't have, I, you know, cause I'm just kind of winging it on the barn line, cause it didn't include that in my story, but we always had it around the cows and the calves and the dogs and the humans.
And there's a dust, there's a dust level to it.
So I always put on a mask when I put barn lime down, rather if it's in a barn, when I was younger or now, if I'm putting it down on ice and snow, I always wear like the respirator mask, like if you're a boy or you're doing drywall, it's almost like a drywall dust.
but uh... yeah so as far as environment and pet friendly uh... party he said yeah we're good to go but i don't have the official of the official numbers are great so uh... but so definitely want to stick with the uh... the ice melt for sure uh... the the type of salt that uh... uh... that you know directed to to take care of ice
It's always good to put up handrails.
If you own your area or if you don't, you could talk to your landlord.
If you know there's a place that's always icy every year and you're getting older and you're thinking, one of these years, I'm going to go down walking to the garage or walking to the mailbox.
Handrails are good.
I know a lot of new constructions they're putting in.
Heated pipes in the cement.
So your sidewalk
is heated or your your uh... your your driveways heated which does a really good job of keeping the ice off so the numbers are there if you just go to w r c o dot com w r c e dot f m r facebook page we're actually as we head into the holidays here greg we're gonna boost that uh... story again we're gonna do a refresh on it and it'll go towards the top so you'll be able to find it uh... lots of great tips in there a lot of staggering and almost depressing numbers if you look at all the people that are impacted and what we say falling off
you're not just bruising yourself there are broken bones there are fatalities great people are dying they die when they fall yeah they hit their head they get internal injuries uh... you you can you know maybe not be able to get up you knock yourself out lost blood uh... so it's it's uh... it's pretty serious and and you know i'd joke a little bit i i i do a lot of joking in life and talking about how i don't bounce once i hit that yeah mark but
Uh, taking all the jokes aside, Greg, that's, that's pretty serious
stuff.
Well, and we're going to take that article I've got right in front of me and we're going to put it in our show notes so people can go directly to that story and find out for themselves because yes.
And, and, and, and I am, I am still of.
bouncy sort of age, but I tend to whiff it at least two to three times.
And I wear boots and I wear the stuff you're supposed to wear.
And I still slip on ice that I don't see because it's not looking like ice.
So really just be careful, be vigilant and take care of your property.
So you, and, and also just for your neighbors too, you don't want to be, you don't want to be Adam.
You don't want to be the guy who doesn't salt your driveway and your, your walkway.
Don't be that guy.
So,
and then one of your neighbors or somebody passing through or the mail person or somebody goes down uh... not only you know
Obviously there's always the chance of litigation and different things, but you have to live with that Yeah, it was it was your reason exactly that you didn't take care of your property and somebody got hurt and it could be your mom It could be your aunt could be you know somebody you didn't know but still nobody you're right You don't want to be that guy and you don't want to have that on your conscience
exactly We don't have enough time to talk about old-fashioned Which means you have to come back because we're coming up on the New Year So maybe we're gonna have a discussion then because I want to know more about this and tell you a story but Adam Hess has been our guest he is
is one of one of the hosts at WRCO here on the Civic Media Radio Network.
Adam, have a lovely, lovely holiday.
Stay safe.
Try to bounce if you can.
Merry Christmas, my friend.
Merry Christmas.
We'll talk old-fashioned.
Exactly.
All right.
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Good, good morning.
Welcome back to Matt and air on air.
My name is Greg Bach and I'm here with sweet Cal be the board, Lord, the Kelvinator and Santa Cal.
That's your nickname for the holidays.
Santa Cal.
Are you okay with that one, Calvin?
Yeah, it works for me.
There you go.
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Lovely.
That is where we take a step back from all the news we're talking about during the show and we have some fun.
Talk about some frivolity and it's holiday season.
It's holiday week.
Folks, are you done with your shopping?
Are the presents wrapped?
Are you still looking at Amazon going?
Oh, God, I gotta buy something.
Where are you at with your holiday shopping?
I want to know.
Are you done?
Are they under the tree?
Are you kicking back?
Maybe having an old fashioned, maybe not this early, but if it was a Bloody Mary, you'd be fine.
I don't know.
That's our culture.
Anyways, we're talking about the worst holiday movies ever.
What do you think the worst holiday movies are ever?
What are the ones you just could never watch again?
I feel like I don't want to say that you can't say things like a Christmas story or it's a wonderful life because they're constantly played.
But if you don't like them, you don't like them.
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Calvin, we were talking about.
Holiday movies last week, but are there any holiday movies that you just stay away from?
Well in all in reality, it's all Christmas movies.
I
not really
a fan, but I'll get a little more specific Okay, anything on the Hallmark channel.
I know those aren't like Recognizable they're kind of just like one-offs.
They produce
massive amounts of them, but if it's on the Hallmark channel, it's probably bad
Well, and that's the thing though, Calvin, that's a very interesting topic you bring up.
Cause we could easily say I'm tired of miracle on 34th street or I don't like, um, yeah, a Christmas story or whatever.
Esther on the, on the live stream says that jingle all the way is a terrible movie.
I, so Esther, if you're still watching, is it, you think it's a terrible movie?
You think it's a terrible movie?
movie that you love to watch.
Is it both neither?
But yeah, Jingle all the way.
That one has grown in popularity over the years.
And I believe they made it one of those direct to DVD.
In fact, I think it's starring Larry, the cable guy, which makes total sense.
But the thing though, Calvin, do you know that the Hallmark Channel's Christmas movies are almost its own industry now?
They make them nonstop and so much and they're so popular now.
that other streaming services like Netflix basically has their own version of the Hallmark Christmas movie where it is.
And it's usually starring a woman and it's usually a woman is in a situation where she is done.
So she goes somewhere else like home and then she reconnects with a kid she went to high school with.
And whether or not she's in a relationship originally is up to the writer, but then they realized the beauty of Christmas.
and love and everything is great, but that is a cottage industry now.
I mean, they're making tons of money off of those movies because like you said, they make a bunch of them.
They hire very non-famous people to star in these movies.
So I don't imagine they're getting huge paychecks and then they just pump them out there and they're making money.
And then every once in a while, there'll be some kind of fun, B list, C list celebrity who
is on one of these movies.
And then that becomes their identity.
They are now the Hallmark Christmas actor on all of their films.
I mean, that is, I get what you're saying, Cal, that it probably, I would say when it's not that it's not good, it's predictable, but it will definitely be entertaining.
Cause you want to see how they retell this story for the 79th time this year.
Yeah.
I guess I don't find it entertaining at all.
I mean, it's just,
First of all, like you said about they're always the one Not to single out women, but they're the category that they're the main character protect yourself
calvin of
movies.
Yeah, of course the
woman is always presented as like oh She falls in love with someone else and the person that she leaves behind is always presented as the bad guy but like if we looked at it like if it was
Happened in reality.
I think the woman who leaves her boyfriend and then falls in love with someone else is the villain not the guy that gets broken up with
Well, I mean I think I mean a lot of times what happens you're like Well, you should really break up with that person before you enter into relationship with but yeah, I get what you're saying and I will say that it's also usually it's a woman
who is got a high power job.
She's living in the big city.
It's, it's a lot of time it's the big city.
They present the big city as the problem.
They say, just that city living, come back to where you're from, whether it's, whether it's the country or whether it's a small town, it's always the stressors of, of the city lights have gotten to this person and they just need to, or they burn out or they get fired.
It's, it's never anything other than that, but it's
That is basically the premise of it.
I'm looking at a list here of the worst Christmas movies as told by rotten tomatoes.
And I guess, you know, here's, here's a couple of that, you know, Ernest saves Christmas.
I know a lot of people my age would fight someone who says any Ernest movie is bad because we grew up watching Ernest films and they're all fantastic.
Here's one that popped up that actually Jenny just said here for Christmases with.
Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon, a story where all the characters are unlikable, especially the leads.
Yeah.
Yes.
I don't want, I mean, I'm sure he's not listening right now, but Vince Vaughn is someone that I can take in small doses and that, that Vince Vaughniness of him, am I like?
You know, you shouldn't be the lead in this movie because you don't, it's all about, no, thank you.
But I saw a little bit of it and I don't disagree with you, Jenny.
It's like, yeah, none of you should be around each other for the Christmas time.
It's just what you should all be in, four separate Christmases in four separate like regions of the United States.
No, I thought you were gonna say something Calvin.
You were told in the mic
there.
I thought of another terrible
Christmas.
Yeah,
go for it.
Go for it.
Well, I don't even know if they're terrible cause
As a child, I thought they were kind of fun, but when you really dig into the premise of it, the Santa Claus movies with Tim Allen.
Okay.
Go on.
Just that- My mom's gonna want to fight you.
I mean, they're, I guess, kind of interesting, but the idea that Santa Claus dies on this guy's lawn and he has to become Santa Claus now is- Well, it's a Disney movie, right?
Is it?
It might
be.
Yeah, if it's a Disney movie then you are accustomed to tragedy happening in the first act of a film to force the story to move forward.
I mean, I was raised on characters being whacked up and killed
off immediately.
You know what?
I've actually in thinking about the Santa Claus have completely rescind my opinion about it being terrible.
I actually think it's awesome.
What happened right there
Calvin?
I just like started think about how like bizarre the idea that like
this guy just evolves into Santa Claus and then like the person he marries just evolves into Mrs. Claus and he just like has to be Santa.
It's actually kind of a interesting premise.
I don't know if I've ever heard someone change their opinion.
So who says in this world that people can't change their opinion with a little bit of information.
And what the thing with that movie though is funny is that when he goes to the doctor, even the doctor's like, yeah, I guess, you know, but no, this is a medical anomaly that needs to be studied.
We need to, like, is this the new, is Santa Claus, the new COVID, can I catch the Santa?
Will I turn into a big guy with a beard?
Can I never shave again?
Like that is, those are the big questions, Kevin, that are not being asked by the Santa.
And then they made a second one and then they made a third one and then they made a TV show.
But yeah, that is, I mean, between the Santa Claus and the toy store movies, Tim Allen never has to work again.
We are talking about the worst holiday movies this time of year.
What are the ones that you avoid?
Or what are the worst ones that you actually like?
We are looking at a list here from rotten tomatoes.com and the Santa Claus, I think at least two of them are on there.
Deck the halls Christmas with the cranks, surviving Christmas.
You know, there's eight crazy nights.
That's a fun movie.
People can get off.
It's animated.
It's fun.
Leave me alone on that one.
Troy from Mount Horrib is on the phone.
Troy, Merry Christmas.
Happy holidays.
I hope you're, I hope you have your presence wrapped.
What say you on this topic?
Happy holidays to your boss.
Happy holidays.
Almost.
Yeah.
I'm waiting, I'm waiting for an Etsy delivery.
The Calvinator is 100% right.
All these Hallmark movies are basically Sweet Home Alabama.
Nice.
Nice.
Nice reference Troy from Mount Horrib.
Except for one we saw last week, which was overboard as a Christmas movie.
Lindsay Lohan had a ski accident and lost her memory.
Oh my God.
Then did a man employ her to do his housework against her with oh my god
Oh
my goodness See the thing is that that overboard as a story I grew up with them.
I love that movie the original not the remake We didn't know what asked for the remake but the original
I watched it a lot, but now as I'm older, I'm like, Oh, that's a problematic topic.
Like that would be, is that criminal?
And then, and then someone said, let's make a new version with a hotel in Lindsay Lohan.
Everyone said, yes, let's go for it.
Okay.
Well, now I have to look deeper into that one too.
Troy, any big plans for the holidays this year?
Are you going anywhere?
No, just family stuff.
My family lives up, I find a lot.
So I go up there.
That's part of the second round.
All
right.
Good.
Well, thank you so much.
We appreciate you calling in Troy.
Always love hearing from you.
And if I don't talk to you before then have a wonderful Christmas, have a wonderful holiday.
And yeah, we, we appreciate you stopping by.
Thank you.
Thanks man.
We're talking about the worst holiday movies.
What are the ones that you just will stay away from?
What are the worst holiday movies that you will defend?
You know, are you a fan of let's see here.
What's, what's another one?
Calvin, we saw on the list, a horror movie called Jack Frost, where the notorious serial killer Jack Frost is being driven to his, he, he embodies a snowman.
Yep.
Okay.
16% on rotten tomatoes, but I'm sure there are people out there who love it.
Do you love a horror Christmas movie?
That's another question we could also ask.
I don't watch horror movies.
Calvin, do you watch horror movies?
I love horror movies.
I
can't say.
like Christmas themed ones though.
Silent Night, Deadly Night?
Never seen
it.
Oh, that's like the first one I think it was.
Or Black Friday.
So my list of worst Christmas movies is on IMDb.
And one
I just noticed was Unaccompanied Miners.
That is, I think, yep, that is on the Rotten Tomatoes list as well.
There's a very odd movie about Unaccompanied Miners at an airport.
So children flying without their parents and the airport gets snowed in and then they stop a terrorist attack or something.
So it's diehard too with kids.
Kind of.
I don't know.
It's a really weird
movie.
Well, it was also directed by Paul Feig, the same guy who did the Ghostbusters reboot and he did a bunch of, he did a bunch of other, like did freaks and geeks.
That's very funny.
That's, that's one of his films, but that's just diehard too.
with kids.
That's all it is.
I want to know which one is who gets to say the, the catchphrases that I can't say on the air because those are FCC not compliant.
So, but yeah, feel free to tell us more about your favorite bad Christmas movies, the ones you stay away from.
We're going to keep this rolling into this shouldn't be a thing.
Santa is on the naughty list edition.
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Got really quick here.
It's going to be a short week for us this week.
We're going to be live today, of course.
We are live today.
We're going to be live tomorrow.
And then on Wednesday, we're going to have a curated best of episode, which is going to highlight
the, basically the retirement journey of Matt, Jane Mattenair, who retired on December the 12th, a couple of weeks ago.
And we're going to play our best, our favorite interviews from all of that when we were that last week, week and a half, where she was having friends on, having discussions about her career and just taking a wonderful stroll down memory lane.
But you can catch that show on Christmas Eve and that's going to be Christmas music.
basically from two PM onwards through Christmas day.
It's going to be wonderful.
And then we'll be coming back live on December the 29th, Monday, December the 20th.
So live tomorrow, prerecorded on Wednesday.
And then Christmas music on Thursday and Friday back with you live on Monday for two more days.
It's going to be short weeks because I'm taking some vacation time.
Calvin's taking some vacation time.
We're going to relax and have a good time.
And we hope you do too.
Join us for the shows.
always get in touch, but we wanted to give you the overview on that, but is 1054 Calvin.
That means it is time for this shouldn't be a
thing.
And if you ever have a thing that should not be, you can send it into Calvin and me by sending it to Jane says at civic media.us.
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But that is the way you want to get in touch if you'd like to send us something right now.
This shouldn't be a thing.
This comes all the way from CBC News, the Canadian Broadcast Corporation.
The headline reads, thieves dressed as Santa and his elves steal $3,000 worth of goods from Montreal.
grocery store.
Group claims responsibility for a Robin Hood style grocery theft.
And this is Annabelle Oliver with the byline.
Several people dressed as Santa and a group of masked elves were filmed at a grocery store in Montreal on Monday night, filling up their carts with food.
Well, seemingly festive, the group left the grocery store without paying.
Yeah.
Montreal police said that Caroline.
Oh, that's a French name.
Chevrolet fees.
Nope.
Sorry, Caroline, didn't get it right.
Confirmed an investigation is underway in connection with a shop list lifting incident at a large retail store.
And they want to find out what's going on, what happened, masked and disguised individuals who would be left with food without paying for what's seen on the cameras.
And all told, it was about $3,000 in food.
And the group described Monday's raid, this is the group that took responsibility for it.
It was about $3,000, was redistributed under a Christmas tree at Place Voyer.
It's very French Canadian, this story is.
They said it was a great food drive.
So basically they took from the rich and they gave from the poor.
And Calvin, I mean, like, where are you on this one?
Putting the pressure on you, buddy.
You can say if you don't
like it, you can say if you love it.
Understand where the thieves are coming from.
I don't know if this was the greatest smartest way to do it, but I Don't know how big the corporation that owns this store is so I don't if this is was a family grocery store.
I think that was pretty bad, but if this was like Canadian Walmart then I
Don't really care.
It said sharp shoplifting incident at a large retail store.
And they also said, uh, the, the group that took responsibility said a handful of corporations are holding our basic needs hostage.
And they posted that on their social media from the activist group list.
Nope.
No, sorry.
I should have done that.
I should have done a translation on this one.
So French.
I can't do it.
And I'll just feel bad if I get it way wrong.
But yeah, and it goes on to actually talk about this story.
I'm going to put in the show notes, talks about the inflation rate in Canada, the things that
Things that we're going through here in America, happening all around the world, and Canada is not immune to it.
But this is what people are referring to, are resorting to, and it's up to you to decide, are they a good Santa or a bad Santa?
Are they on the naughty list or the nice list?
I'm gonna leave that to the listeners and viewers to decide.
But for now, that has been another edition of... This shouldn't be
a
thing.
Tomorrow we've got a live show.
As we said earlier, we're going to be speaking to the ACLU as well as, uh, uh, uh, Isaiah Holmes, who was a journalist talking about flock tech in Wisconsin.
And we would love for you to be here.
As we said, it's going to be a live show tomorrow.
We'll be here live, having a great time talking about the holidays.
We'd love for you to stop by, contribute, give us your thoughts.
And then Wednesday, it will be a prerecorded best of walk down memory lane of Jane's retirement announcement all the way up until her last show on.
as it was the 12th of December.
I want to thank Calvin.
I want to thank Tucker.
I want to thank the engineers.
I want to thank traffic.
Without any of you, nothing happens.
I'm just a guy talking to a mic that's not even turned on.
I want to say thank you to the listeners, the viewers, everyone who called, commented, everyone who's a part of this to our guests today, Adam Hess and Dr. Chris Cernich as well from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
We're going to be back with you for tomorrow for a live show.
I'm very excited to talk to you guys.
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