James J. I am joined by Melissa K. Good morning. Seth Havager. Good morning and all of you.
Thanks so much for joining us everybody. We hope you had a great Thanksgiving weekend.
Had some fun. We're going to catch up and see how everybody's turkey day was. We'll do that in a
moment. We've got hot takes to get to. Hot takes. That's coming up. Hot takes. Hot takes. Good day for
right? Yeah. It is. Good day. We're going cold takes. We got hot takes today. We're going to talk
leftovers. What we'll be doing that as well. How much we spent on Black Friday. Plenty more coming
up. But let's go ahead and kick things off the way we like to with our friends from the Weather
Eye Weather Center. Good morning, Paul. Yeah. Good morning. How's it going, sir? Pretty good.
How are things there? Good. Things are good here. We're going to do a good. Do you have a good
Thanksgiving? I did. Yeah. Do you as well? Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Very good to hear. Very good to hear.
Now what's up with the snow? What's going on with that? We hit the nice. Enough with the pleasant
trees. Get to the dirty. It did take us a little bit off guard, Paul. But what is the rest of our
week looking like? Templates. Yeah, you know, get a little more in the Christmas spirit, I guess.
Yeah. It's one way to look at it, right? Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, it's going to be not much more
snow to speak of here the next several days. So it looks like a pretty quiet trend here the next
week. And as we head into early December, it looks like it may stay that way as well for some time.
We do stay with some clouds out there today. And the cold air temps still hanging on here with some
highs in the low 20s. Northwest wind, 10 to 20. Tonight, partly to mostly cloudy, about 6 above
for the low. So quiet, but cold in a Tuesday with partly sunny skies, about 22. And on 17 Tuesday,
night, mid 30s, Wednesday, mix of clouds and sun. Still going to waste some upper 30s, maybe
a 40 out there, Thursday, partly sunny. Mid 30s on Friday and more mid upper 30s for the weekend
as well. So far the weekend of whether outlooks looking pretty quiet. So things still on that type
of trend here after a little bit of snow over the weekend. And the cold temps still behind it for
a few more days of four things style. So yeah, not too bad though. No, no. From what I'm seeing
from a lot of the projections and everything come winter, this is going to be a bit of the kind
of a bit of a theme we might have this winter of this this kind of like odd weather. And it's a bit
of a dry winter's what we're looking at. And we may not get as much snow, but the snow we get it,
we're going to get like in clumps. It looks it's it's seeming like right now. Of course, this is all,
you know, Mother Nature's just sitting back listening to us and being like, yeah, right,
sure you plan for that. And I'm going to check that.
I keep telling me what's going to be kind of a weird winter.
You know, it's the strong El Nino that's in place. And when you get these stronger El Nino, it's
you know, the biggest pull it is on temperatures. Usually your winter as a whole stays on the very
mild side. You know, you still get cold snaps, but they tend to be, you know, shorter live, not as
frequent. The thaws are more pronounced, but yeah, it's always difficult with the snow, you know,
with the with the El Nino, it can go either way. But yeah, like you said, just a couple of
events could change the whole face of the winter, you know, to get two or three bigger.
I was up all I was up a late late Saturday in the Sunday morning and we saw the snow coming
down. And I was thinking about you, you and the team over there, Paul a little bit talking about
this today because the job that you do is difficult already and weird and tough one as it is.
With the climate change, with all these climate effects that we're having and stuff, it's almost
hard to to look at the data of previous years because of so much change that is coming and happening.
It's a wild job you've got, sir. It's an interesting goal. Yeah, yeah. Not only is it weird,
but now you have James thinking about you on the weekend. Yeah, that's that's probably not bad.
That's got a little weird too. Yeah. As I said to them like that, that might have come across some
comfortable for Paul. And I had to point it out. Appreciate all of you. I'd appreciate you, Paul.
Thanks. Your thoughts are positive. Yeah. All right. Just stewing about that Paul. I'm just going
to appreciate you, sir. We'll catch up tomorrow. All right. So I'm good to go. Thanks, Paul. Thanks.
That's that's the business right. I generally got red faced. What would Paul
probably do? That was good. That was great. We got so that it is thankfully though with this
weird weather, well, weird as our wheelhouse. So we got you covered. We'll roll with it, buddy. We'll
get you covered. We'll take good care of you. We're going to take good care of you throughout
this hour. It missed these menu birthday and anniversary club coming up. As I mentioned,
we'll get into leftovers. How much we spent on black Friday wedding etiquette. We've got that
coming up. It's a Monday in the 9 o'clock hour. You know how things kick off. We're going to the
kitchen. Kitchens open. Yeah. Melissa segment that she wonderfully produces and writes for us is
going to be kicking off our 9 o'clock hour. We'll have some entertainment news in there as well.
Bradley Cooper, John Ham all showing up along with Denzel Washington.
Very handsome. Very handsome hour. Yeah. That's why they've worked it out. After that,
we're going to get into some odd turkey days. Five times Thanksgiving dinner made the headlines.
Uh oh. That's, that's, that's just sound like a good thing. Yeah. It's some interesting ones.
We're not going to get into all five, but we do have some interesting ones there. I just saw this
morning, marrying Websters word of the year for 23. So we'll touch on that as well. Nice.
And plenty more 9 o'clock hour. You know how this goes. Um, did I just hear Kevin? Yes.
Oh, that's awesome. Maybe this morning. That's all right. That's all right. I was wondering what
that sound was. I was wondering how that. Oh, I was wondering how long it would go before we heard
from Kevin. Uh, that's what happened. Yeah. Well, Kevin's chiming in now. All right.
Good morning. The bell's new cat. Uh, Kevin, let me say good morning again.
So, um, I wanted to catch up with you guys. Uh, we didn't talk over the weekend. How was your
Thanksgiving? Uh, how was your break? Melissa? How did everything go for you? Um, it went good.
We were down in Madison for a turkey day and, um, hanging out with Aaron's brother and,
and sister and Arlo is five year old nephew. Cool. Cool. Cool. Very cool. Yeah. So it was a fun
relaxing Thanksgiving day. Oh, good. Kevin missed us. Yeah. Yeah. And he paid us back by being sick
multiple times all day yesterday. Oh, oh, what you expressed his displeasure. Yeah.
With cats, you, you, you, you never want to take a chance, of course. You just, if they, if they're
acting sick, you certainly want to, you know, go with that and everything, but they also can be so
dramatic. It's hard to tell sometimes. Like, are they being sick or are they just, you know,
kicking up a hair ball just because I, I didn't pay him attention today. That's right.
Or something like that. Yeah. Get you. Yeah. I don't know if that was it or what, but he seems
better today. Just a little needy. This is the thing though about cats, though. When they are
needy, it, it, it seems to, it takes you off guard if you're not used to them because they,
they're not traditionally, or they're not always like that. So when they are, really always
brought me right out there. There's something about when a cat shows you affection. It, you,
you feel so like rewarded. Like, what is this? It's so odd. Like, I love, love, love, love,
love dogs, but they are, they're so fleeting with their loyalty. They're so, like, they,
they come, you're going to pay me attention. Okay. I love you now. Exactly. Oh, you have a treat.
Okay. You're, you're not my new favorite person. Yeah. Cats, you really have to earn it. You
really work at it. Yeah. It feels good when you do. Like, oh, this cat likes me.
Kevin's a little bit of an oddity, though, because he is a very affectionate cat. And he likes
to be picked up and held and, and, you know, for, for fleeting moments, but, sure, yeah,
but still appreciate attention. That's true. I would not expect anything less from you, Melissa.
You have to have, you could not have a normal cat. You can't. Well, no.
Good to hear. You got out of town. I got to, I love Madison. Got to love Madison.
One of my top five favorite cities in America, period. We were on the fringes, but we were,
you know, that area. I've spent a lot of Thanksgiving in the Madison area,
having friends over there, my ex-wife, and now my sister living over there and just love that
area during holidays. I was your Seth. Oh, it was pretty good. Went down to my sisters in Southern
Wisconsin, not too far from where Melissa was actually in Lake Mills. Hey. Hey.
And, uh, got to spend a little time there with the, the nephews. My nephews who keep, for some
reason, keep getting older and going, you know, graduating and going, what's going on here?
Yeah. Yeah. What is going on here? This time keeps passing. And I just can't, I can't deal with it.
Other than that. It was fun to see them though. I see the family. And then did have to come back,
had to work the cranberry classic, of course, which was great fun. Got to do that this year with
Mike Comer on the mic this for Friday and for Saturday. So that was really enjoyable.
Get to be part of a, a tradition in the area here. I remember for many, many years, having come
in the studio and do that and everything. I greatly appreciate you doing that. Wonderful. I
listened and it sounded great. You guys did a great job. You guys are a good team. You guys do a
good job. That was great. And I really do appreciate that. Our audience does too. We've had listeners
over the years, many, many times calling in during the weekend not to get on the air, but to just say,
hey, thanks for being there. Thanks for playing the game or something like that. We have great
listeners when it comes to that. And I greatly appreciate you doing that. Yeah, not a problem.
I want to also take a note to thank Melissa and the great production that she does behind the scenes
for us, not just with the things you guys hear, but a lot of, a lot of our organizing or scheduling
or a lot of those kind of things happen thanks to Melissa and the work that she does there with that.
Over the weekend, Pam and I didn't know what to do with ourselves. We did not know what to do
with ourselves Friday. We texted each other. We almost basically holding each other's hands
that they didn't like to hold each other back. We don't we don't have to be in. It's so weird.
I just have a reminder, Sweet Shother, do not go to studio. Yeah. Yeah. And certainly with the
last couple of weeks, it's been I have not had my head in the game. I'll be completely honest
and that is on me and I apologize to you and listeners for that. That will change going forward.
I'll get better as things go on here. But I'm lucky that I got the team that I got here and that
we have the people we do. You guys did a great job over the weekend, the work and the production we
had was fantastic. Her great things from our listeners. They like the liners liked everything about
it. Excellent. They also Melissa, I heard from two different listeners and then my mother.
So three different people. They want a tradition of a best of kitchens open. They liked that a lot.
Very good. So that's something to keep in the back pocket there. Thank you to our listeners.
Great. Great to hear you guys as weekends where the week the break was good. You guys
deserved it. Everybody did earned it. Our whole staff here. I really had civic media. Everybody
did. Yeah. But I was touching on this on the sunrise show, which I encourage you to listen to us
Monday through Friday, seven to eight on West Country, one of five five W.I., right? Kick off
your morning with us and catch some great country music. Yeah. Yeah. When you do talk, I don't know
if you guys have felt this yet. You've been in this business for a couple of years now, but it might
take a little bit longer. You do talk radio long enough and you get there's a couple things that
happen. One, you think your opinion matters. And two, that people want to hear your opinion. Yeah,
because you have to talk for a living and you have to fill time and especially the majority of us
to do this job, we come from old radio where you didn't let things set. There was no such thing
as dead air. You had to fill every single second. Kick off. Kick off. There was no taking a breath.
There was no like you really did. There were you take and all of a sudden you're worried about
people. Are we off air? Exactly. In today's modern and more modern radio, you actually do let
kind of think set a little bit. It is more of a real conversation. It's not so much this anymore.
It's this. And that's cool. I think that's the part of the reason why radio has survived.
I think you're in grown. Yeah. It's also difficult because people in your day-to-day life that don't
really care about your opinions and everything have to hear them. As my family has been through
a lot over the last couple of weeks, I didn't want to put them through more. So I kept my takes to
myself to bring to all of you. Oh, there we go. Time to place. Now, I want to hear from you guys
though too because I think as I mentioned a couple of things that might get the ball rolling and
you might think of some stuff. Oh, you know, I thought of this too and I wanted to bring it up
but we didn't get a chance to. And it's not just Seth and Melissa. I want to hear from all of you.
I want to hear from how your Thanksgiving weekend was and I want to hear if you got any takes or
anything like that that you didn't have time to get to or anything like shower curtains.
Shower curtains? For the love of all that is why are we still being haunted and just devastated by
shower curtains? Get off me shower curtain. I love taking showers. They're very clingy, very
clingy and it is 2023 and we are still dealing with the same problems we always have with shower
curtains. Still, still, it's a mystery. Get off me shower curtain. It's still a mystery. I'm trying
to clean here. I don't need to get off my shower curtain. Why do they blow inward? That's what,
you know, that's that's still something that science has not figured out. Nothing. It's one of
those little mysteries of life. Why do shower curtains do that? I threw this into the search
engine. How cup shower curtains won't stay closed. How do I say? There is bi-awaited curtain.
Upgrade your curtain liner. Install a curved shower curtain rod. Grab suction cups. Try
magnets. There is literally 20 to 30 different things. How about making a better shower curtain?
They've tried. I don't know. How have we not figured this out? We have walked on the moon.
We have traveled to the depths of the ocean. In depth, we have never thought we'd ever
what the what bad? News flash. Shower doors. Yes. Oh, there you go. I am. They don't
blow in on you. Except for hurricanes. No. I know that there's shy novelists. I'm so sorry
that you and I. But the shower now. So I asked my mom and dad a little bit about shower curtain
doors because they come, you know, those are more popular in the 60s, 70s and a lot of that.
They went away and part because my dad said that they'd break so easy. Okay, let's make that
better. All right. We got to throw those in the washer. True. True. You have to do a little more
labor intensive to clean. I will take that. I will take the possibility of breaking. I will take
all possibilities over a shower curtain that just will not get off my. Oh, shower curtain.
Darn shower curtain. Hey, hey, you know what? We still need some mysteries in life. You know,
there's certain things that will never be solved and you know, maybe the mystery of the shower curtain.
You know, maybe that'll keep the spiced alive. Yeah. You awake at night. Oh boy. I got to admit
that the curved shower curtain run. I haven't tried that. Maybe that's no snack. Yeah, maybe that'll
take. I take I take rest. I don't have a problem with the curtain blowing in on me. Okay,
well, there you go. The answer. Yeah, I think that might be it. I think I think all my, my gripping
might have just been solved just by getting. Oh, wait a minute. Never mind. It was a quick solve.
More takes coming though. I got more takes to more hot takes. More takes a Tuesday,
more at Wednesday. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see if this goes. But we want to hear from all of
you as well too. 424, 2,600, 715, 424, 2,600. If you're listening to us on the Civic Media app,
you are just one touch away from connecting with us. Mm hmm. Go ahead and just touch that button
and get right to us, everybody. Right. Right. Keep that in mind because we might want to call
in your birthday or anniversary. It's coming up. All right. Mm hmm. All right. Here on WFHR,
locally grown radio. It's time to do some celebrating with our good friends at Misty's menu. We
encourage you to treat yourself. Get on over to Misty's. They're open right now till two,
but six to two, seven days a week. And 9041, Stead Highway 13 South of Wisconsin,
Rapids. When you get there, wish them a great day from all of us here at WFHR. Keep in my Misty's
menu as back open after their holiday break. Yes indeed. But for the time being, they are still
closed on Wednesday's. Yes. So keep that you're going to get over there Tuesday through Thursday
through Tuesday. Mm hmm. Get on over to Misty's and treat yourself. And if you have a birthday or
anniversary, get it to us, everybody. We want to hear from you. Get them. Get us those birthdays
and anniversaries. Send them to info at WFHR.com, james.mailafetsificmedia.us. You can really
email any of our staff here, your birthdays and anniversaries, direct messages on Facebook,
hate any of our pages that way. Mm hmm. And, uh, you know, Katrina when she was in
less Wednesday had a great one, telepathy. We have not tried that yet. All you ESPers out there.
Yeah. Go ahead and give it a shot. Give it a shot. Let me
wrap up again. That's nothing yet. Okay. Nothing. All right. The other thing. Oh, wait, wait, wait,
I'm getting one. Mm hmm. It's my nephew Cole's birthday today. Oh, nice. Nice. Happy birthday.
Happy birthday. Happy birthday. Cole. Oh, that's great. And telepathy worked. Yeah.
Yeah. That's pretty cool. That's pretty cool. Or I got a text message from my brother.
Oh, yeah. That could have been one of those two. One of those two happened. Yeah.
We'll be some more calendar reminder from Google. Do some more research on that one. Do some more
research to see if that works. We wish a very happy birthday to Cole though. That's in the happy
birthday call. I love that name, by the way. I got a godson Cole. Yeah. Just love that name.
Do you also call him Cole? Because that's just good. Oh, no, I like that. Oh,
I will. Well, uh, his full name is Colson. So I already got it. I already call him Cole. I'm
already, you know, John, you're my father does and shortly every day. And of course, of course.
But we have one name on the list this week for today. I'm sorry for today. We want to put the
spotlight on Barb Thorsten. We hope you enjoy your day, Barb. First, I don't, this doesn't happen
very often where we have a last name that we don't do very often. I don't, I don't believe we've
had Thorsten before. That's a great last name. That's a very good Scandinavian name. Yes. Yes.
Barb, we wish you a fantastic day. Hope you it's a good one and enjoy and you're our qualifier.
Yes, indeed. We take a look at our celebrity list real quick here. See the other thing with the
shower curtain is when you're putting, like, to keep it back, you'll let it go. Let it go.
Your shampoo conditioner on them. No. Let it go. Let it go. Oh. Oh. Oh.
Sorry. Couldn't help it. That was not a boy. You're really in trouble. No, it's your fault, Seth.
That's that. No, it's on me. Todd me. We take a look at celebrity list here and, uh,
a first up on the list. Joliel White is 47. Hercules 47, everybody. Oh my gosh.
Joliel is actually a really, really intelligent young man. He is. I say young man.
He's your age. My age. I hate it when I do that. Oh, you're young. You know, you're so
condescending when I do that. I don't mean to be. He's a good actor that, uh, he's also one of the
the, uh, tell tales that we tell other actors of why it's important to be able to, uh, when you
have this big part, this big, uh, to appreciate it. Uh, Joliel, Joliel White has been
urquil his whole life, basically, but he was a young man when he got that. He was. Yes.
He was tight cast right away with it. You've never heard him complain about it. Mm-hmm.
You've never heard him say a bad thing about that. He appreciates it. He's very thankful for it.
He's spun it off into other jobs. And yet, it's been really difficult. I imagine as an actor trying
to get other work, which sucks quite bluntly. Um, but at the same time, he's been able to make a
living doing what he loves to do. Yes, he has. And, and, you know, I, I don't see enough actors
really appreciative of, uh, really people appreciative of their, of their place and where they are
and where they could be and they where things could be on the other side of stuff. Yep. Yeah.
Now, there's, there's a, uh, another version of this where somebody beat him out for that role
and who knows? Might not even know. He may not have had a career. Exactly. Yeah.
I think of this when I hear a lot of musicians, um, like, uh, the lead singer can't
think of his name from, uh, uh, men at work, uh, the Colin Ham. Yeah. I heard him in an interview
once talking about this and I'm, I'm asking him, you know, hey, are you, are, does it bother you,
that you only really had your known for this one song and everything? And so, and he, he starts
talking about, we've been touring for over 20 years. We've made a, you know, we've, we've done
shows and all seven continents. We've, uh, entertained thousands and thousands of people
off of one song. Yeah. One song gave us that opportunity. So, I mean, you know, having that
perspective to me, I think is important. Uh, everybody wants to be the Rolling Stones. Of course,
everybody wants to be, you know, a band with multiple, multiple hits or, or, you know, Tom Hanks
with multiple movies and being able to be a chameleon and play all these different roles.
Just don't happen for everybody. You appreciate what you get, you know, in some ways and keep working
for more. Uh, oh, exactly. He had this great recurring role on the show, Psych. I was just going
to say that with, uh, he's great chemistry with Dewey Hill and, and everything. So, yeah, he,
it's very funny role. I forgot about that. That's a good one to mention. Uh, one of the, uh,
bigger actors of the 80s Fisher Stevens is 60. Oh, wow. Uh, he was Marvin on the black list and
I know that because of my father. My father loves that show. Um, Steve Gutenberg's buddy Ben in
short circuit. Uh, now, uh, now here's something interesting about this. Uh, two things. First,
I liked Fisher Stevens. I think he's a good actor. He has gotten behind the camera in recent years.
Fisher Stevens has done something that not a lot of actors do. That role that he played,
he played an Indian guy, a Pakistani person. Uh, who, uh, now for those, no, Fisher Stevens is not
Pakistan. No, uh, uh, uh, nowadays that would never happen. Of course, instead of kind of being
canceled though, he really owned this early on and came out way before PCism and a lot of that
stuff saying, Hey, I should not have been cast in this. I was a young actor. I took the role
because you take the roles you get. Yep. And you're just lucky to get anything you can, IE,
my, our previous conversation. Right. And, and, and, but he's owned this. And I, I think that's
part of the reason why it's been so the movie is still appreciated to a degree. It's taken with
a grain of salt and it's kind of funny to me in this day and age with so much PCism, a role like
that in a performance like he that he gave, I think in part, it's a little going back to Ben
Kingsley and Gandhi, where it's done with such respect and, and done so well that even Pakistani
people are not necessarily, um, up and arms about it, which is impressive in this day and age.
It is. Fischer Stevens got in behind the scene in recent years. He's directing now and
directed the recent David Beckham documentary that Beckham only, only did it because it was Fischer
Stevens. Like, and, and Fischer Stevens was like, I heard him in an interview recently talking
about, he's like, I don't know why. I don't know why he let me do this, but he let me do this.
That's cool, man. It is getting a lot of great reviews, a lot of good reviews.
Let's see here, uh, Caroline Kennedy is 66, uh, Neil Diamond's inspiration for sweet Caroline.
That's right. I hate that, sir. Uh, you are not alone, Melissa. Um, oh, one of the greats,
Bill Nye, the science guy is 16 today. Bill Nye. Yeah. Um, my brother and sister actually got me
into Bill Nye. They were watching him as kids. I was a little older. Yeah. I'm, I'll never forget
I'm watching them one day and Bill Nye's up there. He's in front, he's standing in front of a
dam and he's talking about the power of water and everything. And he said the dam's going. He
looks at the camera, looks at the dam. Their water's still going. Looks at the camera. That's a lot
of dam power. And he's delivery. He's delivery with some of the fun, like one of the funniest things I
I bust. I still laugh at that line, whatever I think of. He has got really good timing. He does.
I appreciate that about him, but what I love about Bill Nye is that he can explain things that I
and I've wondered about my whole life and explained it to where I can get it. Uh, guys like him
and Neil deGrasse Tyson, I marvel at how they do this and people in life, we all know people
like this in life that can explain complex things and break it down to where we can get it.
I love, I love what Bill Nye has done, uh, what Carl Sagan and so many greats before him did,
he has carried the torch off. Yep. Oh, I didn't know his news. The end is Nye. Yes, yeah,
yeah, it's great. It's a new documentary. It's go one season in. It's about natural and unnatural
disasters. Oh, cool. Some people, uh, oh, Kathleen Bigelow is 72 today, Oscar winning director of
the Hurt Locker and many other greats. Mm-hmm. So people no longer with us. James Avery, James Avery
born in the state in 1945, Uncle Phil on Fresh Prince Belair. Oh, he's so good. He was good at
it. Yeah, so good. Um, who has liked his beard? Yeah. Get a nice beard. Uh, arguably one of the,
not arguably, one of the greatest guitar players of all time. Top three, I don't know if your list,
if you can't have them in your top three, Jimmy Hendrix born in the state in 1942, passed away in
1970 at the only the age of 27. Uh, of course, uh, I'm not going to get into the whole eight, uh,
27 thing Kobe, no, no, no, no, no, all that stuff. Um, but I, I did want to focus on, uh, Jimmy
Hendrix's, uh, creativity in his imagination. Um, because we, we don't really talk about that with
Jimmy Hendrix. You talk about him being a great guitar player, talk about the drugs, talk about this,
that whatever. We don't talk about his creativity. Some man who, uh, where he was, one of the play
guitar, all they had was right handed guitars. He, he bought one and re-strung it left handed.
Um, you've heard Jimmy Hendrix by now. You've never heard anybody. You don't have to tell me he's
the greatest guitar player of all time, but you cannot tell me you ever heard anybody make a guitar,
make the noises that Jimmy Hendrix did to this day. Nobody's done that. That's him. That's his
imagination. He's playing the same notes everybody else does. Right. He's just his creativity. His
imagination was so different. Right. Um, while he was, uh, you know, kicked out, he was, he did try
to serve his country. Um, and it was a very, his father and it was very important to him,
service and, and serving your country. Uh, very, not something talked about with Jimmy Hendrix,
but a, a, a very proud American. And that does not get brought up with him very often. Uh, and
just one of the most creative creatives in the game. Yeah. Period. Yeah. He was, you know, if you look
at the stuff he wrote about when he wrote music, I mean, he would incorporate science fiction. He
was a big science fiction fan. And he would, you're right. I mean, his, his creativity was just
off the charts. He was, uh, his, his one time manager, Chaz Chandler once said about him,
there was a reason he was so good. He would walk around with a guitar for 16 hours a day. Yeah.
He would go everywhere. He go to the bathroom with it because he liked the way it sounded when he
was playing in the bathroom. So there was, there was, it was not a mistake. It was not an accident.
He was so good. That's because he was always, always playing. I don't think we had anybody push
the envelope until Eddie Van Halen with the guitar. And, and I'm very curious to see who will be
next. Uh, you know, you, you've got some greats out there. Uh, but yeah, they're just the creativity
of what he's, what he did with that. It's legend. Legend. Absolutely. Uh, another legend. Uh, I,
I believe just my opinion, the greatest action star of all time Bruce Lee born in this day in 1940
way too damn young and 73 at the age of 32. Um, Bruce Lee, uh, in this day and age, okay. So I,
I did a, I knew his birthday was coming up. Double check this. One of my favorite stories about
movies is during enter the dragon. They're filming. It's one o'clock at night. And Bruce Lee was the
stunt coordinator. Uh, he choreographed all the fight scenes. Everything you ever saw. A lot of
people, uh, this was a, nobody had done that before. Uh, they'd bring in a steak course stunt
coordinator. They'd bring in a fight coordinator. They didn't, you often have a actual martial
artist doing this. Now that's all they, they do ever since. But, um, they actually, they're,
they're filming. It's late at night. And they finally get the right take and they look at the
dailies. They look, are they, they look at the still the daily. So that's usually, um, when they're
filming, they, they right away have the TV on the side so they could see what they just filmed.
Okay, we got it. Let's go to the next scene. They had to keep doing the scene over and over again
because Bruce Lee was too fast for the cameras. He had to slow down for the camera to be able to
pick up his hands and everything. Wow. Uh, just incredible actor, underrated actor. And in one of
the, and easily to me, greatest action star of all time by far and away. Yes, indeed. One more
time we want to wish Barb Thorce in a very happy birthday. Happy birthday, Barb. Enjoy your day.
Yes. Stick around for some state and local news. We'll be back with some more fun on the morning
show here at WFHR. Welcome back, everybody. Morning show here at WFHR. Locally grown radio. Melissa,
Seth and James. See, you get the shower curtain all set and you put your shampoo and conditioner
there to hold it back. And then those fall down when the curtain comes in on you. So you're,
you got the shampoo bottle hitting your feet and just it's called the shampoo and conditioner tango.
It is. It is. And it's a dance. I don't enjoy it. I don't enjoy it. And then people always stepping
on my feet. That's you stepping on your own feet. Let's go ahead and dive into some leftovers.
All right. All right. Thanksgiving. Let's get some leftovers. It's been four days since Thanksgiving.
Lots of people still have leftovers in their fridge. In a new poll, 7% of people say that they
are still eating leftovers, but food scientists say you should wrap it up by today. Okay.
Put together one last meal or pack it up in the freezer, but everything else should be tossed
after today. Okay. The US Department of Agricultural's Food Safety and Inspection Services
recommends throwing out refrigerated leftovers after three to four days. If they're kept in the
freezer, they can stay good for about three to four months. Right. Okay. This is more some flexibility,
depending, I'm sorry, there is some flexibility, depending on the type of food, but be careful.
The smell test is not 100% reliable. And if you are a grown adult, we should not have to tell you that.
Yes. Yes. Yes. Please. Dad works. It works for socks, not for leftovers, especially turkey,
because it smells bad already. Yeah. You know, after you put it in the fridge, you know,
you know, I'm talking about it. Yeah. You ain't lying. It's like you can't tell. So yeah,
better safe than better safe than sorry. Also, Thanksgiving dishes may spoil faster than other
leftovers because the food sits out longer than typical meal. That's a good, very good point
that I don't think I've never thought of that before. Yeah. Yeah. I do not think of that part.
That's definitely something to keep in mind. And just going over to this one too. So we,
it's Cyber Monday, but do we need it anymore? The evolution of Black Friday is kind of like
taking over and I don't know that Cyber Monday is really even important anymore or really a thing.
The whole weekend is just so many people shop online on Black Friday. That's true. I mean,
every day is almost Cyber Day, but when it comes to shopping online and everything.
They still use the word Cyber. Who does that anymore? Right. That's a great point. That's a great
point. Wow. Is that a good point? What is this? 1997? I mean, come on. The Fisher Stevens movie
hackers. Come on. That was a great movie. It's a great movie. Great movie. I just couldn't help
the tie in. I couldn't. But even by that hackers was like a lot of fashion by the time that movie
came out. So wait. We're so right. So right. Yeah. With Matthew Lillard's hair. Oh, yeah. That's
right. Yeah. I can't remember who the other. There was an actress in it that really liked
who I can't think of her name. Yeah. That's right. And Johnny Lee Miller. The Johnny Lee Miller.
Miller's in there. Her husband at the time. Yeah. Yeah. Americans spent a record 9.8 billion online
on Black Friday this year. That's a 7.5 increase from last year, according to Adobe Analytics.
A lot of them. They don't track in-person sales, but Mastercard only saw a 1% bump at physical
stores this time. Just over half of us, half of those online purchases were made on phones,
which tends to mean a lot of impulse buys. So it wasn't all gifts. We bought plenty of stuff
for ourselves as well. I'm sure. Some people got in on deals even if they didn't have cash on hand.
79 million of those sales came from by now pay later plans up 47% from last year. 79 million.
That's a big number. People worldwide spent more than 70 billion on Black Friday products.
The best selling categories included electronics, toys and video games. Thanksgiving Day is also
becoming a popular one for online shopping. Americans spent 5.6 billion worth of stuff online.
Thursday up 5.5 from last year. Wow. Wow. So you strip all these stats and these analytics away
and everything and you come back to something that we were actually touching on last week.
You're going to see this. We saw this here in such a Wisconsin. We saw this here in Wisconsin
Rapids and you're seeing this in a lot of towns like ours throughout the country. People don't have
money to spend and they're still spending it because there are things we need and we have people
that we love and we still want to do things for them. But they're trying to be smarter about
their money. So you have seen the rise of dollar stores and dollar generals and a lot of this.
You've got towns that don't have a coffee shop but they got like two or three dollar stores.
Right. And you see things like this, like the stats that we get from this, where there's
the buy now pay later thing. What we used to be lay away back in the day is now this is the modern
day lay away. Yes. More and more people are using these services and it's not what you might think
in your head. It's the person that you wouldn't think of that is needing these services in that
nowadays. Right. To where we are. And I think it's kind of fascinating to see where all this is
going. And how hard this is for people to make a living. But people still wanting to put into
the economy. Still wanting to purchase things and do things. It speaks to comes back to an argument.
The three of us have been talking about for quite a while. Raise the Dan Menman wage.
Give people money to spend. You want the economy to go? You want money to go through the economy?
Give them money to spend. Go ahead. Pay them a living wage. Yeah. That's the great way to do it.
Yeah. Yeah. A rising tide races all boats. Well, wait a minute. But how does a small business
pay this employee? If they can't, they probably shouldn't be in business. I'm sorry. That's not
that's not the the PC way to put that. I understand that. Do I want? I would like to think by now
you have heard me long enough talking about in supporting local businesses that I don't have to
go into a tangent about how much I care about local businesses. But whether you are a conglomerate
or you are a small business, if you can't survive, that's the capitalist society we created.
Yeah. That's what we chose, right? You don't get to pick and choose. You don't get to change
the rules in the middle of the game. You don't get to do that. Like if you can't pay employees,
if you can't raise them in the wage and you can't handle that, then you probably shouldn't be in
business. And businesses are hermit crabs people. It's not as if, oh my god, we lost all business.
All businesses are gone now. Every bank in the world is looking for new businesses. Every bank
in America is trying to give small business loans to businesses. They're still people out there.
They're still plenty of work being done. Yeah. Just gotta raise it. I'm just gonna say this
since you brought them up. But dollar stores, one business model we should not support because
they do not take care of their employees. They don't take care of their products in their
warehouses. Well, and apparently they don't have a rundown on it. Yeah, they don't have good
pricing because there's a lawsuit going on right now about that. Yep, yeah, that one. Make sure
to touch it. Oh, rundown on why you don't want anything from a dollar store. Watch the latest
John Oliver. Yeah, no dear. It's it's awful. Yeah, it made me say rats in warehouses. Yeah, no.
Yeah, it made me double, double think about that. That's true. But I usually don't shop at them
anyway because I don't, I don't like how, you know, one pops up in a tiny town and pretty soon
there's three of them. Yeah. And no local retailers. Yeah. Like no mom and pop shops anymore.
Yeah, yeah. The thing of that is I will say, and I'm not trying a thousand percent
agree with you, Melissa. The only thing I will say about that is that most of these businesses,
they are owned by chains, but they are run by local people. And when we're talking about
buying local supporting local, we don't talk about that very often, but your local McDonald's is
run by somebody who lives in town here, who, you know, people that work at that place. Yeah,
usually it's it's it's it's this thin line that we've got to walk as we try to buy and support
local and not being, you know, not losing sight of that part of it too. I say you start with
the mom and pop places, but I think that you can also take something from going to a place like
a McDonald's and take wealth. That's a plate. Like I'm using our local McDonald's as an example
because it's an easy one. I'll be honest. It's a very, yeah, this is a place that for year for
over 50, almost 50 years, they've worked with the United Way. Yep, they put into this community.
There's not many bigger kilometers than McDonald's. Yeah, but ours here in Rapids is owned by locals,
is run by locals, has locals working there. So it's hard to walk that line of supporting local
while also not wanting maybe to support a conglomerate and that kind of thing. It's difficult.
And maybe it's the difference of like I choose personally to shop local as much as I can. Like
you said, if, you know, there's something I can't find or I need to pick up quick stopping,
I still frequent dollar stores. No, I wouldn't say often, but everyone's in a while. Yep.
You stop in one. I just recommend disinfecting the packaging before you open it. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
Take it a break. We'll be back on that note. Yeah, I don't think the dollar store is going to be,
I don't think they're going to be advertising with us anytime soon. Sorry.
Nope. Well, to be honest, Melissa, they don't advertise anyway. Yeah, that's true.
Because to your point, Melissa, they don't have to. Yeah. So it all just came full circle.
And there's plenty of resale shops in town here anyway that are not connected to that,
that you can find things probably you need. So that's the way to wrap up.
Nicely done. We'll take a break. Come back more fun on the morning show.
Welcome back, everyone. Morning show here at WFHL, locally grown radio. Melissa,
Seth and James here with you.
So really smooth song. There's not got an old to me though. Not got an old to me. That this one.
I dare say it's velvety. That's terrible pun. I don't know. That's okay. Stay
to next hour for more bad dad puns. Yes. Yes, everybody. Yes. We will be looking forward to
the kitchen's open segment coming up and let's kick off the nine o'clock hour looking forward to that.
In the nine o'clock hour, we'll also get into a little bit of entertainment news. We've also got
a couple of odd turkey day leftover stories left over some stuff from Thanksgiving and Thanksgiving's
past. Do you have things that smell bad? Nice. And what and Mary Websters word of the year. We'll
get into all of those right now. Baby talk. Baby talk. Treating your pets like they're your
children is common. Very, very common. We even call them fur babies. It's one of the more
common phrases there is. So how far down the road have we gone? A new study found we're more likely
to use baby talk with our pets than with actual babies now. Oh dear. 47% of Americans admit to using
baby talk on pets. 44% use it on kids and 19% sometimes use it while talking to the romantic
partner. Yeah. Oh man. That is one of the weirdest things in the world to me. Yeah. Moving on.
The poll looked at the most common baby talk words we use with pets and the number one is the word
widow like all your widow and cute. No. I'm not going to use baby talk as I give these. Please
don't. Because I think it's funnier if I say them like with my normal voice. Yeah. Exactly.
Like you're so widow and cute. I'm going to just say it like that. The rest of the top five are
potty, boo boo, night night, oopsie. Oh, looks like an oopsie. See, it just doesn't. If you don't
wait, you got to do it in the baby talk. Yeah, right. Otherwise it just doesn't really work. What is
he talking about, right? A few of those also made the list for most annoying baby talk words.
Um, numb, numb. All of them. Yeah. Numb numb and boo boo are the biggest annoying baby talk words.
Babies have actually learned to talk just so that they could tell their parents not to say that. Stop
that. Stop doing that. Oh my gosh. Talking. Yeah. Yeah. Enough with enough with them talking. Would
you please stop that? Yes, I can talk. Big deal. We don't mind them as much with pets though.
69% of us find baby talk annoying when used on kids. Only 41% find it annoying when used on animals.
So, uh, as in this world as, as James and we like to talk about here, you know, there's mostly,
it's mostly gray. Very little black and white. Yeah. In this issue for me, it's all black and white.
I can't stand baby talk in any way shape or form. Yeah. Yeah. I'm when I, when my kids were
babies, it was like, you know, like, hey, kid, how's it going? I'm not, I'm not doing it. You will never,
will never cross my lips ever. Um, now that they have, um, they, they have noted on this that's when
it comes to like kids, the science is there talking to kids in a normal voice. They tend to pick up
English quicker and using real words. Yeah. So I think that that parts should be noted. I don't,
I don't expect that to be common knowledge. Maybe it is. So I apologize if it is, but just in case,
any parents, young parents out there and stuff, you know, it's like when you're a young parent,
every bit of information you're taking, you may not listen to everything, but you're taking it all
in. Yeah. Um, and there's a lot of it. Yeah. And every parent in the world wants to give it to you.
Of course. Um, yeah. But so there's that too. So that part put that aside. Um, it, I've never
understood this where you're, when you were doing this with kids, the other people in the room,
like kids don't understand what we're saying. We know that we're adults. We understand this,
but we yet can we go to this level to try to get them to understand and, and there's no science
behind this. There's no, well, uh, you know, back in the day, our ancestors talked in baby talk
because of all that. No, nobody knows where this came from. Like you go to, you get on a rabbit hole
on this one. And there is no history of where baby talk started or why we started doing it or any
of these things. This just kind of came out of the ether. Like it's so weird. It's very strange.
And it's been around since they, they, they, they note that this has been around since like this
17, 1800, something like that. I mean, it's been around a long time. Yeah. Right. Uh, but there's no,
like, well, it started because of this queen or this king or something, you know, like a lot of
that stuff does pin it to something. It was one condescending person who just continued started
the trend and it continued. It was somebody who who really loved sarcasm. I guess, but wasn't very
good at it. That's good. We all, we all know those people that love sarcasm, but they cannot
deliver it at all. Yeah. And, and, you know, I get, I'm going to the pets thing with baby talk
of the pets, which apparently people seem to seem to think it's okay. First of all, again,
animals can't understand, you know, they understand certain words because you use them at certain
times and they get, you know, and they repetitive, you know, they get that. But they don't, I mean,
it, because usually what are you doing when you're talking? You're like petting them and stuff.
And, and that's all they care about. They don't care about what you're saying to them kind of
things. So it's, is it because that people like find the animals so cute or something they just
had a loss for words? Is that what it is? I guess I don't understand. Well, I have heard some
studies that say the tone of voice matters. And when you use a certain tone of voice, they know
you're talking to them. So if you always use a baby talk tone of voice, then they know that
would be used to it. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. But if you, I mean, when I talk to Kevin, I do use a
little bit higher register. It's not baby talk, but it's, it's directed at him. And I think he,
he's recognizing it because it comes when I call him. If I just say Kevin, he's not coming. But
if I go Kevin, it's the tone that they catch more. Sorry, you can't do baby talk with a cat name
Kevin. I'm sorry. Is it going to work? No, no, no. I do call him Kevin, though. Oh boy. Nice.
Perry Adolia is the phenomenon in which when we see faces and patterns and things, you know,
look at your, your, your tub and you see the two handles and the, it looks like it looks like
he's right. I think we do this with animals quite a bit. I think you're right. Where we, we,
we see human tendencies and things in them. Absolutely. They do not have. They do not have
animals. Yes. Take it a break. Coming back with more fun on the morning show here at WFH. Oh,
you take it back. WFH are Wisconsin Rapids 1320 AM and W248 DE broadcasting at 97.5 FM.