Good morning, Wisconsin. Good morning, world. It's a new day. Thanks for kicking it off with us right here at WFHR, locally grown radio. Got your host, James Jay. I am joined by Melissa K. Good morning, Seth Habeck. Good morning. We got the James game together. We're here to have some fun this hour, everybody. We got good things lined up for you in a little bit. We're going to get into how what is the percentage of us that are drinking coffee we don't like.
And how many questions a year do kids ask? I'm going to get into that. Wow, I'm thinking big numbers here. Yeah, it's going to be pretty fun. We kick off this hour with our entertainment section. And this is kind of entry. Actually, I want to kick off a local real local as in this building. Earlier, we played a little Chuck Mangione and Pam sent a text in that I didn't get to see until just during the break there. Carl and her saw Chuck Mangione.
Johnnie and concert in 1984 at UWSP. Oh, really? Oh, that's cool. Very cool. It's pretty cool. But I if I got this right, if I remember this right because I think I remember Carl talking to me about this and everything. That's a pretty cool show. He thought it was a great show.
It was April 7, 1984. Oh my gosh. 1984. Go check him. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, wow. Oh, that's awesome. That's cool, Pam. Thank you for that. No, that's great.
Oh, that was your birthday present. No, that's a good present. Yeah, that's a good present. Very, very nice. Cool. That wasn't a good concert. Yes. Oh, cool. That's a good concert. That's good. That's good. Very cool. Good morning to you, Pam. Good to see you. Always good to see you. Hard to WFHR right there. That was cool. If I got this right to, if I remember, the venue they saw that it's the same place that I got to see the Globe Trotters play in same building. Oh, right. Right. Yeah. That kind of thing. That's just a fun note. I thought we mentioned that. So Disney hasn't released a movie this year that's cracked
at 1 billion at the box office. And that's not good. It's the first time this has happened since 2014, not counted the pandemic years of 2021.
Major releases like the Marvel's Indiana Jones and the dialed Destiny and live action remakes like the Little Mermaid all failed to meet expectations.
Even Guardians of the Galaxy volume three only made 845 mil only a right. Yeah, and the newest animated movie wish has only made 48.9 million worldwide.
One industry analyst says, quote, Disney set an impossible high bar for itself during the 2010s firing every cannon, firing every cannon in its arsenal.
The downside to success is that it becomes expected every time. Ask Bob. I hear about that.
The studio was always going to be in a challenging position where the well starts to run dry.
Disney's always known this. Disney back in the day are the creators of the Disney Vault.
That's right. This idea that Cinderella is going away and it's never coming back.
Unless we decide to bring it back into 10 years. Yeah, driving up demand. Yeah, exactly.
They've always known that in its part of the other reason why Disney was kind of smart about, well,
all right, we've got all this stuff. Why don't we buy some more stuff? Hey, the Simpsons is really popular. Let's snag that.
Oh, Marvel. Everybody loves Marvel. Let's grab that. So we have more content, more and more content.
And they're not alone here either. The thing that bothers me about like places like movie web.com and some other sites like this when they do articles like this.
They got to expand this. Listen, I were talking about it yesterday with Napoleon movie, which is an Apple production.
This is Melissa's nose. I'm taking every chance I can take shots at this movie.
This movie cost almost four hundred million to make. And for those who don't know, you got to make about half of that to make you to make even.
So they were hoping to make a little bit over two hundred million dollars at worldwide box office around the world on this movie.
They have as far as I could check that yesterday, late in the day, I saw thirty three million dollars.
And a movie does not do better after its first week if it is a bomb.
And it's just this is going to go down as one of those bigger bombs, one of the top ten bombs in human history.
Probably as Melissa quoted yesterday, you hire an American to play a Frenchman.
One of the most famous Frenchman of all time. Yeah, exactly, you know, that's going to be one of the problems.
Also, the storyline was not very good, apparently. The writing wasn't very good.
Now, the one thing that does save movies like this nowadays is the cinematography.
Because our our cameras have never been better. Right. And I know people like I think a good example is the revenant.
I know people who do not like that. I love, love, love that movie. I know people who don't like it, but they will talk endlessly about the scenery.
Oh, it's an gorgeous. It is. Yeah. Right. But that that movie is an apple production. And that is bombed horribly.
Like there aren't many hits. What they're what they're not saying is is that there's not many like like Barbie or Oppenheimer.
Those were outliers. Those that that's the biggest hits we've had this year, though. Yeah, right.
Which is, which is, you know, you get something like so you know, you see that. So those are the two big hits.
You have some more minor hits that cost less like five nights at Freddy's. That was a hit.
Yep. But that's one of those cheaper, you know, horror movies. They don't cost very much to make.
So you can make up a decent, you know, revenue on that one. And the Taylor Swift concert.
Yeah. Yeah. Yes. Those are the big movie money makers in terms of, you know, investment, not in terms of total dollars.
But in terms of what they invested in them and the return on it has been good. But that's about it.
You know, it's like, wow, what is going on?
The highest grossing movies of 2023, Barbie, the Super Mario Brothers movie, Oppenheimer,
and Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3, which we just said was what did not run as expected. Yeah, exactly.
That's crazy. People aren't, people just aren't going to the movies like they used to.
They haven't been doing this for decades. It costs an arm and a leg and a lot of a lot of the problem
is too. This is something that needs to be talked about that doesn't get talked about very often.
And especially from a studio that we speak about so highly about buying local and sporting local.
But a lot of movie theater owners have let their politics run their business.
And a lot of people have chosen not to purchase movie tickets at those places.
I personally go way out of town. I'll be honest about that. I've been honest about that from day one
on this radio station. I'm not going to lie to the audience. I'm not going to tell you guys,
I'm not something that I'm not. I have my reasons. I'm not going to get into that here on the air.
It's not time for it. But I have my reasons for that. I encourage people to look into it,
to look into businesses that actually spend money in this town, that put back into this town,
to support the community. I'm a big believer in that. If you have a monopoly and you have,
you got that monopoly from this from this town and you don't put anything into it,
that's a problem to me. If you let your political beliefs, it's about that and it's not about
the community. And you choose to not play certain movies because you politically don't believe
that they should have that movie or something. I don't agree with that. Even if it's not my
politics, I don't agree with that. This is business. This is capitalism, baby. What are you doing?
That ain't right. To me, that is not right. I think that there's something to be said for that.
Even putting all that aside, though, people just ain't spending 30 bucks. How much does it cost
for you to take the boys to the movies? Like, you don't give me an exact number. But the fact
that you say, oh my gosh, after I ask that, answers the question. It's like over $50, I think,
all told to go to see one movie with four people. South works in radio. Who can afford that?
That's probably not with concessions. Actually, I was including, but even that, I mean,
that's still, who can afford that? To do it more than every three months, something like that.
Seriously. Share and father time are not friends. Even though she is 77 years young,
I'll say, she'd give anything to be 70 again. She is not happy about aging. In fact,
she's not even impressed with her song, her song, I believe, is turning 25.
It's not that amazing. It ticks me off. That's me putting the words that I could say on the air
here. I kind of like this. For one, it's on brand. This is shared. But she's not talking about she
doesn't like that she doesn't think she looks pretty anymore or any of those things. She just
isn't like aging. Especially when we ask celebrities these questions, you're supposed to,
you have the normal vanilla answers you're supposed to give everything. I just kind of like that
she's just giving up on it. It sucks, man. A lot of people say, we've all heard it from our
family members, anything like that. It sucks to get old. I beg to be as in good a condition as
share at 77 is. You saw her recently at the Thanksgiving celebration and everything.
If it wasn't for Dolly Parton, stealing the show, we'd have been talking about share on
that's probably true. That's a great job. She's amazing. Still amazing. Still doing good.
Just wanted to wrap up with kind of a fun one entertainment-wise. Buzzfeed put together a list of
costumes that actors have worn in movies that were uncomfortable, painful, or damaging.
I don't know if it's common knowledge or not, but the whole cast are the Wizard of Oz.
Oh, yeah. The rest of their lives were affected by the costumes that they wore.
Especially the great actor that played the Tin Man. I can never remember his name.
Jack Haley. Thank you very much, Seth. The great Jack Haley. If you notice, if you look at his
career, if they did after that because of his health conditions, because of all the paint.
The poisoning on there. The famous story of it was originally supposed to be Buddy Epson,
who played the Tin Man, but he had an allergic reaction to the paint, so he had to bow out of the
picture because of that, but you're right. It did not help Jack Haley after he was done with that
movie either. There was tons of asbestos on the set. In fact, I think that the cowardly lion
costume had asbestos in it or something like that. There's just countless things that were
tormenting on that set and everything. And Margaret Hamilton, the Wicked Witch, also the
green paint for the right time. That's right. God, the great Margaret Hamilton. She's great.
She was good. Oh, she was good. So this has been a thing in Hollywood since the dawn of Hollywood.
Famously, I think that to me, maybe infamously, maybe stretching here a little bit, but the cast of
Genghis Khan, the great Khan or whatever. Oh, yes. The one where they actually filmed during
nuclear testing just like a few miles down the road. Yeah, how many people got cancer from that?
John Wayne, Elizabeth Taylor, John Wayne, and like almost every other actor on that
movie. There was 160 people that worked on that movie, and like 90 of them all died from cancer.
Yeah, I mean, just, you know, there's some extremes to this too. That is a very
extreme thing, but still that happened. So looking at this list, Scarlett Johansson, her black
widow costume in the Avengers was like a wetsuit. She got so hot filming a rooftop fighting scene
that she started hallucinating and actually needed that they needed to stop filming and to get
the suit off her because it was too tight. She couldn't breathe. She couldn't breathe, yeah.
Vel Kilmer, his bat suit and Batman forever was so restrictive that people had to help him sit
and stand. He couldn't hear. He couldn't hear because the mask was, yeah, it was blocking his hearing.
Yeah, it wasn't until George Clooney put the suit on and said, I'm not doing that.
I'm not wearing that. That's when all of a sudden, if you notice every other Batman costume,
the head, the cowl is not attached to the suit anymore. Right. And Batman can actually do this
amazing thing where he turns his head. I remember Michael Keaton in the original one. He could not turn his head.
Turn his head. I didn't fight the Joker. Can't turn your head, man. The Joker's masterful
plan of going to the left. Serpentine. Serpentine. Quick pegwood. Serpentine.
I don't know how they get away from me, Alfred. Every time they go to the right.
Kit Harrington, his fur coats he wore as John Snow in the Games of Thrones weighed a ton in
smelled awful. I bet they did. I'm a fan of Kit Harrington. I was a fan of the first couple
seasons of Game of Thrones and I love John Snow. Love that character. Not one time that I see him
with those big costumes and did it make sense. Kit Harrington's like five five. He's got a big dude.
No. And those jackets they put on him, they got up to his head. The shoulders were almost up
to his head. It's just like, what are the costume people think? Trying to make them look
both of you or maybe I don't know. They made him look like a little kid, like a teenager
half the time in those. He's supposed to be John Snow. He's supposed to be this big. And they put
him in those jackets and it's kind of like, no, man, take that away. No, no. I was believing the
bit. I was buying in. Another famous one, at least to me, Jim Carey. He said his makeup from how
the Grinch doll Christmas was like being buried alive. It took eight and a half hours. Wow.
And Ryan Reynolds, he wore a motion capture suit for Green Lantern. The D-describes as the most
heat-conducting substance known to man. I'll bet. There's a lot of these though. We're just
touching the scratch and the surface on some of these. Rachel Broshan, and I was mispronounced her
last name, which is horrible as a Jew, but I do. She got a corset-related injury from her outfit
on the Marvel Miss Maisel. Some of her ribs became fused together and she could no longer take
deep breaths. Oh my gosh. Really? Well, of course, it's remade to torture women. That's all I know.
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. That's absolutely insane. I had to wear for my, for playing in
corpse and playing evil in the Rupert, the twin brothers. My opening scene, I come out and drag,
and I've got a corset that I wear under that. And I had to ask them to take it up or take it down
a notch because it was just I couldn't breathe in it. I am skinny as I'll get out. They had to work
to get that thing tight on me. Dave and me, so it wouldn't slide off. Right. And it still was too,
you know, I can't even imagine if you had breasts. I got no pecs, man. I got nothing.
So I mean, it was nothing for me. I can't imagine how awful.
There's unfortunately the most the history of this is tied with women and the customs that they
have worn and everything. But it's an interesting list. I encourage people to check out.
If you talk to actresses that have worked in period pieces, where they have worn, I mean,
that's like the first thing they say was like, well, what were you happy about when you ended
oh, getting out of that corset? Oh, man. It's the first thing they say usually.
We'll take a break unless you had anything, Melissa. Sorry. I didn't mean that.
Just that they, you know, the costumes look so cool. Like that was always one thing. I'm like,
oh, if I could wear those big long skirts in the corsets, that would always be so. But then you
you learn like, no, these were actually painful. Yeah. Not good at all. Just look cool.
One of the bigger things that wake up calls I had an acting was that. Yeah.
I feel bad for all. No, I'm so sorry. For so long looking at all these cool costumes and especially
in period pieces or movies or TV shows in the 1920s or whatever and all that. And then I,
my first big role and I'm in drag. And I got to, I got to learn, I'm trying to learn how to fence
and how to do an English accent and all these things. And at the same time, walk in heels.
Like, and out of all the things I had to learn for that role, Shakespeare fencing, how walking in
heels was easily the hardest thing. I still don't know how women do that. I admire it. I don't know.
We will take a break. We'll come back and we're talking how much of us like the coffee we're
actually drinking right now. Coming up on the morning show at WFHR.
Boy, we went from Patsy Klein to Anita Baker, baby. Yeah. That's right. That's right.
Welcome back everyone. Morning show here at WFHR.
We're going to give you something you like. Maybe, maybe, or maybe you need something to like
here. Something to drink at least. We're talking coffee. Do you have a favorite coffee you always
buy? Do you have a favorite brand or a favorite style? I'm a big mocha guy. I love caribou.
Big fan of caribou. And I love their mocha. But basically, anybody that's serving a mocha,
I will show up in pies. That is the, like, it's not a big, I'm not really that picky about coffee.
I think there's some advantages of growing up poor. I tend to notice a lot of my tastes are very,
I like the generic. Yeah. But as long as it's a bacon double cheeseburger. Yep. You know
your audience. They make that flavoring coffee. If only Jesus' world would collide. Reach out to
our friends over at Culver's here. I thought about this for a coffee idea. How about you guys?
Do you have a favorite type of coffee or anything like that? Do you like the sweetest? Dark roast.
Dark roast. Okay. Good choice. Good choice. Honestly, no. I have, I have, I will, if it's hot and
black, I will drink it. I seriously, I've had some of the worst coffee ever. I've had some of
the best coffee ever. Now, we at home, Beth likes more flavored coffee. So, you know, just drink
whatever we make. We don't have a specific that we go to. At this point, we look, you know,
sales and stuff or maybe some interesting flavors we haven't tried before or something like that.
But if we had, you know, our druthers and we felt like we could spend the head a little bit
extra money to spend on coffee or something like that, we would definitely go with a very proud
Wisconsin brand of bears' brothers. Nice. Because they make some really cool flavors and they just,
they make some really good coffee. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I do buy Cameron coffee brand sometime
or Door County. They actually sell. Door County's pretty good too. Yeah. And they have some fun
flavors. I like to buy one package of dark roast and then I'll buy a flavor and I mix it when
I'm making them. So, I put both in my, my coffee filter and my pour over. Melissa, I'm so sorry.
I do that too. I'm so sorry. However, however, opposite of you, I bet you, I put a heck of a lot
more grounds in there and so much so that I can drink half of my cup and after it gets cold,
I, I read a boil some more water and I add more water to my cup to warm it back up and it's still
dark enough to drink. Yeah. Wow. You got, you and my sister are exactly alike on that one.
I am I, that is, that is, you know, that is something that I like strong coffee, but man,
I don't know about that. That is, you know, that seems so to be fair.
Melissa's get a slice of coffee. Melissa gets up at like 330. She's up at like 330 in the morning.
So, yeah, I can see that. She needs it strong. And I really only have the one cup,
two and one. I didn't realize this until recently and it's interesting when you lose somebody,
the things that your brain goes to and the memories you collect and everything. And,
and my, my papa, when I first moved up here, it was living with my grandparents, my non-em papa,
and my papa drank straight black coffee didn't put anything in it. That's the way you liked it.
And I basically wanted to be a hip. And so that's what I would do is, is I,
not I would offer me chocolate milk in my favorite thing in the world. I mean,
no, I want coffee like pop. And so I'd have a black coffee right there. And I'd take a sip of it
and I'd look at that man and be like, do you hate your taste buds? You know, there's sugar.
They, they, they invented this thing called sugar. That's great. Like, you, why do you dislike your
so readily available now? Yeah. That man loved his black coffee. We got somebody calling up.
What's on your mind? You're on the show. Good morning. Hello. Hello. Oh, I call
I'm back 424, 2600. Yeah. They had to go make the coffee they like.
Yeah. It was going off. They had to go do it. Exactly. Yeah.
You know, the first thing I'm trying to remember, I think the first time I ever had coffee was
with, with cream and sugar. And I just, I love. I was like, what is? Oh, yeah. No, no. And so,
and so I just decided, you know, I'm just going to make it simple for myself. If I'm just going to
learn how to drink black. Yeah. So then I can drink it anywhere. I don't have to waste time. I don't
have to just pour it and drink, you know. Well, and the thing for me with that is I, I like
black coffee. But if you add any kind of sweetener to it, I also have to add cream. Yeah. Oh, I
hear what you say. I can't, I can't have just black coffee sweet with sugar in it. Yeah. Really?
No. I also need the cream in there. I'm weird too. Like, if I could buy a mocha flavored coffee,
I would prefer to buy regular coffee and use mocha flavoring, like, creamers in the, yeah, right?
I don't, for some reason, the brands, like, when they flavor these coffees, I don't usually like
the flavors of the flavor coffee. Not always. Sometimes the flavor, especially if you get cheap
flavored coffees, it's so artificial. Which I, I actually threw away an entire bag of grounds
because it was just like, oh, this tastes like chemicals. I can't drink this. Okay, another side,
a side quest we're going on here. Does it take, it's got to be something big for you to do that,
right? Melissa? Like, for me, I know from the, I know from the,
the grounds of the unused groundsway, unused anything away. If I just bought said food,
and it's got to be something really, really, unless it's expired or something, that's completely
different. But it's got to be really, really bad for me to not finish it. Like, I'm thinking of
like candy bars I've tried. Like, they come out with a new flavor and I take a bite and I'm like,
oh, ah, like, you know, yeah. Yeah. No. If it tastes like I just poured a cup of
windex in my coffee cup, yeah. That's going to get thrown out. No thanks. One of the greatest
ways to get me to do something is for me to spend money on it because I will get my money's
worth out of it. If I buy a meal and it's bad, I'm still probably going to finish it. So you're
going to, so this is what I know what I do. I don't know about you guys. So if you do that thing,
you're buying something, you don't like it, but you don't want to throw it away right away.
So it just sits there. Yep. Yep. So they all use it. And you're in your pantry. Yep.
Taunting you. Yeah. You're going to throw me away. Yeah. Right? You're going to throw me
away. Are you going to make that I have for 10 years? I'm forever. Yeah. I will always be here.
It's usually a box of cereal. A new study found there's a 45% chance you don't actually like your
favorite coffee. They pulled 5,000 coffee drinkers to find out what Americans like.
Then they did a blind taste test on different roasts like light medium or dark. It turns out 45%
of us think we like a certain roast, but actually prefer a different one. For example,
a third of people who say they like dark or medium roasts actually prefer one that's lighter.
Light roasts are our favorite overall older Americans are most likely to actually prefer
something bolder than that. And here are a few more coffee stats. The average coffee drinker
has two cups a day. Most of us want that caffeine only 9% drink decaf. Half of us think coffee
shops aren't worth the price, but the average person will spend 50 bucks a month on coffee.
I don't like it, but I'm still going to do it. And most people don't use creamer. Only 43%
said that they do. I found that the real shocking thing of all this. Yeah. That was pretty
interesting. I wonder, though, if you look at all these things together, if so many people are
buying their coffees, the creamers already put in the flavors and stuff. Yeah, or if they would
prefer it otherwise, but yeah, it just comes anyway. But yeah, it's interesting. I'll go. Did you say
50 bucks a month at coffee shop? Yes. Yeah. That's not that much, guys. If you went to a coffee shop
every day and you'd have to spend $1.60, you cannot buy a coffee at a coffee shop for $1.60.
True. Yeah. That's true. But at the same time, I mean, it's still, I mean, if you make it yourself
at home, it's much cheaper. Yeah. Kind of thing. But yeah, so yeah, it's still 50 bucks, but I see
what you say. I know what you're saying there. So I'll go anywhere you want with this, but just to
wrap up the conversation, I am a little curious, why? Why we do this? Why is it that we would
both drink something that isn't our favorite? That we don't like. Yeah. You know, outside of the
hole, I think we can, you know, there's plenty of people out there doing it for the gram, you know,
they got to have the Starbucks cup so that people see them with the Starbucks. Yeah. I'm putting that
to the side though. Like why outside of that? Why we would lie to ourselves? Like, now I'm questioning,
do I really like mocha? Is it the call of the caffeine? I mean, is that what it is more than
anything? Or maybe not even the caffeine itself or the idea that caffeine is wakes you up in the
morning because a lot of it has to do with that too. For like Sundays are the one day that I can
kind of ease into my day. That doesn't start off with a rush or I got to get this done or anything
like that. And I love being able to relax and have a cup of coffee. I just love it. It's one of my
favorite things in the world. But I always forget. I usually, like I couldn't tell you the last time I had
coffee on a Sunday, like I get busy or something comes up and I forget about it or whatever. I
definitely don't do it for the caffeine. I really don't think it's that. But now I'm questioning
if I really like mocha. Why would we do this to ourselves? We think we like this certain coffee.
We put a blindfold on and we drink this other coffee that turns out to be our favorite. That seems
better. What is it in our brains and our taste buds that makes this happen? I couldn't find any
science behind it. And I'd really like to know. That would be a fascinating study. Yeah. Yeah.
See, some of it is habit. And then the other part of it, too, is referencing back to you trying
your your Papa's coffee and going, do you hate your taste buds? Why are you drinking this?
It's an awful bitter thing that we do. Right. Right. We will get to our state and local news.
Now we'll come back and we're going to say, how many kids ask, how many questions do a kid
does a kid ask a year? I'm going to learn to talk and we're going to go over that when we come back.
Got a few minutes, man. Let's come from this and learn that words. I got to figure out words.
We'll figure those out. This is your auction, your chance.
Yes. I'm going to have it out. I'll be back in a couple of minutes.
WFHR locally grown radio. Welcome back everyone. Morning show at WFHR locally grown radios.
Here to have some fun. Got some good stuff to get to before we wrap up the show for the day.
Seth Melissa James here with you and how many questions does a kid ask a year?
Have you ever had to google the answer to something your kid asked you or a child asked you
and then felt very silly afterwards? Because I have. I don't know. Someone pulled.
I know about feeling silly. Someone pulled 2,000 parents with kids six and under and the average
person can't answer half the questions their kid asks. That actually sounds just about right.
Some of the kids questions they ask are pretty in depth. They are. On average, young kids ask 11
questions a day or just over 4,000 a year and parents only know the answers to 42% of them.
The most common questions have to do with understanding the world around them,
things like animals, nature and current events. Parents were asked to name the most interesting
question that the child has ever asked. Answers included, why is the sky so high?
Why can fish keep their eyes open underwater?
Thanks to questions like that and stuff that they learn in school, 81% of parents say that they
learn just as much from their kids as their kids learn from them. I totally agree.
Count me in that. Yep. On average, children teach their parents five things a week. That's
260 things a year. Another great reason for kids. They teach, they learn you good.
When we talk, when we say talk to your kids, I think that an important part of that is not just
talking to your kids listening and not treating your kids like you are the boss of a factory
or you are a principal or you are a teacher. I know that we can't necessarily be best friends
with our kids, but you can be a really good friend with your kids. You can.
I think that the strongest bonds I see with a child and parent is usually that. I know it is in
my family. My mom and dad, I respect them as my mother and father. They're my two oldest friends.
Right. The two oldest friends I have. They always have been. I could talk to them about anything.
I have my whole life and I know that push comes to shove. There's nobody's got my back like those
two. I think that there's something to be said for that. I certainly have worked on that with my
children and that's the bond we have. It's always fun to be able to do that. You don't have to
always be the quote unquote, the parent, the one that they do something wrong. Yeah, and yell at them,
you know, or whatever. It's fun, especially as they get older to explore those kinds of things
together. I'm going to discover things together. Yeah, exactly. There's nothing I like more than
doing that with my children. That's one of the best things about being a parent. I love learning
things in general. But when my kids were young and learning things with them, some of the happiest
moments of my life, easily, easily. I was very sad now that my oldest is just starting with like
pre-algebra and I can't help him with his homework. Yeah, yeah, that's that's the top part. I'm
not like, oh my gosh, I don't remember any of this. Well, I expected that to happen when they
get to high school or whatever. Not like fifth grade middle school. Like one minute. That's not a
horrible thing, right? Can you guys remember any time you did this in life as a kid?
Because my family has a famous wonderful story that they like to use. Whenever I bring over
a girl that updated herself. I'm going to say does it involve you? Oh, yeah, of course it does.
Yes. My parents were early. They raised me, my brother and sister. My mother's Jewish, my
father's Catholic. They wanted us to know all religions and to let us choose. They thought
that it would be a calling. They shouldn't be forced on us. So in this process, I learned
quite a bit about Judaism as you'd imagine. But they also wanted me to learn about Catholicism.
So I went to one day of Sunday school in my life, one day. And I go to this and I've never done
anything like this before. And I'm like 11, 12, something like that, 9, 10, something, I don't know,
I have the average age of a kid in Sunday school. But I go to this and they've got all these
wonderful pictures up there. And there's a wonderful teacher and she's explaining to us all this
stuff and she starts reading from the Bible. And she reads that Jesus said, skin of bronze and
hair of sheep's wool. And I'm looking at the picture of Jesus and you don't look like that.
And this confuses me. And so I raise my hand and I just asked why, why he looked like that.
This woman who was this one of the sweetest, nicest people I'd ever been around and seen
turned in just like fire in her eyes. And just all the sudden grew horns and everything.
It's just like go to go. I had to sit outside the rest of the class. I had to sit outside
in my chair on the rest of the class. I got a lot of trouble for that. And man, they called my
parents. Oh my god. I called my mom and dad. And my mom and dad had come pick me up and they
like at first they were very angry with me. Jimmy, how do you get kicked out of Sunday school?
How do you eat? You go, well, you weren't even there for 10 minutes and all this stuff and
everything. Yeah. Years later when I told them why and stuff like that. Oh, no, you were right
to do that. Yeah. I wasn't trying to be insulting. And I'm still, I bring in this up. I'm not
trying to be insulting. Last thing I want to do. I just, it was a genuine question. It was,
yeah. Under the miles, under the miles of babes. But I, I, I, whether we remembered or not,
we've all done this. Oh, yeah. Asked our parents or a teacher or somebody like that,
the questions. I, I think it's fun as an adult to, to put yourself in the shoes of a child.
Because kids have the greatest brains, the most wild imaginations, the brains are sponges,
yet they are the most literal people ever. Yep. Concrete thinking. Concrete thinking. Yep.
I, I, I talk so much in idioms and metaphors and these things. Children just, I can't talk to kids.
Kids don't understand me at all. No. Actually, I think it gets you out of your own headspace.
Yeah. Well, being around kids and talking with kids and you, you can't expect them to adapt to
you. You have to adapt to them. And I think you grow as a human being through that. Whether it's
learning some of the questions they ask or just, you know, being a good adult and I think part of
being a good adult is bringing out the kid and you have sometimes. Yeah. Looking through the eyes
of a child, you can learn so much doing that because yeah, the further away you get from it,
the less you remember about being what it was like to be a kid. So it's nice having that
reminder around every now and then. We will take a quick break. We're going to come back and
we're talking license plates and, and some, that ain't right stuff when we come back along with
some local good stories of the day. All that coming up for you right here at 975FM1328MWFHR.
Welcome back everyone. Morning show here at WFHR.
Christmas music time. Yes, it is. Christmas music time. And we're going to be playing that here
all around it. Coming up in the next week or two, that's all our bumpers will be as the
Christmas ones. I'll try using those over and over again. It's the season. It is. So I do this to
set the Melissa every day where I bring up stories that they have no idea about just so I can get
their first reactions from it because I am a mad scientist. And I think that it's also makes
good radio. I think it's a great way to do this. Getting your first reactions are often your
most pure, your most funny, that kind of thing. But I don't get a chance to do this myself very
often. But I saw this headline read a bit of the article coming into this and thought, well,
it's a light enough topic. We can dive into this without doing all the homework maybe necessarily.
Kansas is going back to the drawing board after hundreds of people blasted the state's new
license plate design for next year with many saying it resembles those of other states in a
rival state university from neighboring Missouri. Oh no. Can't do that. Quote, I've heard you
loud and clear, Kansas governor Laura Kelly said in the statement Tuesday, elected officials should
be responsive to the constituents, which is why we are adjusting the process. So Kansasans
can provide direct input on our state's next license plate. Kansasans. That's what I just
realized. What do you call people from Kansas? Yeah, I didn't know. I didn't know. Kansasans.
Kansasans, I guess, this one. Kansasites. I don't know. That's from their governor. I
guess. I hope that would be okay. I guess. I don't know. But yeah, that's so the license plate
is it couldn't be more blank. It's it's pretty bland. Yeah. It's like, what is that black and yellow
kind of? Yeah. It seems like a a darkish blue and a goldish yellow. And it just says to the stars.
To the stars. What does that have to do with Kansas? I don't. I'm really really trying here
to figure this out. Kansas. What is going on in Kansas, man? So technically, the colors were
navy and yellow with black digits, not Mizzou colors. Those are the colors of the University of
Missouri, who of course are arrival by the way. From some I know a few people who went to the
University of Kansas. If you think the rivalry between Ohio and Michigan is bad in terms of
Kansas and Missouri is worse. Oh my gosh. The original, the original design
contributed to the state motto through adversity to the stars below the plate. The word to the stars
is in italics. Okay. Yeah. Okay. All right. Like how many Kansas sins? You even know. Yeah. Yeah.
It's like, it's it's it's a back to the drawing board kind of thing. It's kind of funny.
It's kind of interesting. But also again, going back to a previous conversation we had
kudos to the governor of Kansas. Yeah. You changed your mind. Yeah. You know, you did what
they asked you to do. Exactly. Oh my god. The world didn't stop spinning. A politician changed
their mind. Listen to their constituents. And the world is still, well, yep, the more it's still
moving. Okay. So it's still is turning. You mean, you mean they, they represented their,
they're the people of their state, which is what they're supposed to know. Not represent them.
Yeah. Not the people in their pocket. No. No doubling down. Well, just because people think
this, I'm going to keep doubling down. No, no, no, no, change in the darn license plate.
Smart move by Kansas. Yeah. Yeah. Glad you can do it with license plates now moving on to
health care. Right. Yes. Wow. Yeah. Would that be nice. Yeah. It'd be nice. We'll move on to
textbooks after that. American history. This is our feature that I write story, though. One of
the doctors who saved this guy who saved this guy described his case as very rare. I think that
may be the biggest understatement of 2023. Okay. A 35 year old man in Vietnam showed up at a
hospital on Saturday and said he'd been having terrible headaches for months. So they did a CT
scan and saw a massive amount of swelling in his brain. But the interesting interesting part is
what caused it. He'd somehow gone five months without realizing he had two chopsticks jammed up his
nose. What? What? They were they weren't full chopsticks, but they weren't small either. One
piece looks like it's more about three inches long. So how did they get up there? He said he had no
idea at first, but then he remembered he'd been in a fight five months ago while he was out drinking.
Oh my. Oh no. He doesn't remember how much from it, but he doesn't remember much from it,
but he thinks someone must have stabbed him in his face with chopsticks. That is not how this
happened. No. That is not how this happened. That is what he is telling everybody because it sounds
a lot more manly. Then I was drunk and I wanted to see if I could do this. And then I was drunk
and I forgot that I put them up my nose. I'm going to say more like he fell asleep. I can do with
these chopsticks. Yep. Yep. Check watch this. I will bet every penny I make the rest of my life
that that is how this went down. There is no way this happened in a who's throwing chopsticks.
Look, I've been I've been I've been in fights since I was nine years old. I I lost track how many
fights I've been in. There ain't never been a fight where hey Stan still going to put this chopstick
up your nose. That's my finishing move. I got you. They got that immortal combat. Yeah,
I'm finishing it with chopsticks. It's just really all the game just slows down. Did you try to
no Stan still try to get mini game that you're trying to aim you keep fidgeting and I can't get it
in there. You're right. You guys are totally right. There's no way this involved a fight. No,
no. This is this guy tried to save some grace of face. Yeah, I'm trying to save some face
of their putting chopsticks. That ain't right. That ain't right. This this this five months. We
might be revisiting this one at the end of the year. This is this is definitely going to go down
as one of our best steady right stars. Definitely. I get I just want him to be honest. Just be
honest. I know what really happened. I don't remember really. I don't. That's a good one. That's
that's going to go down to the top 10. Let's get to so let's get a palette cleanser and let's
get some good stories of the day true palette cleanser. And it kicks off our good stories kick
off with Midday magazine today. Our first one of the week and it's a good one. Casey Neumeth
is going to join us. Caregivering Support Coordinator with the Aging and Disability Resource
Center of Central Wisconsin. Very nice. Always talk good to talk to Casey. Love to talk to
our friends at the ADRC. Yes, indeed. In part two Craig Broren, super intended in Wisconsin
rabbit public schools. Always good to talk with Craig. I always love it when he comes and brings
folks in to talk about their specific schools or whatever it's really neat. Craig is bringing in
principal at Grant Elementary School. Nikki Calatex. Very cool. I'm going to make fun to talk with her.
Yeah. I went and had her on the year before. So that's going to be a lot of fun. I know he's
going to talk to Craig and find out how it's going for our kids and our teachers in the school
system, the 2023 school system. I really I have to say I really appreciate how open
and transparent Craig is about what's going on. I think he's so good at being that part of
being a superintendent. He's just he's just saying it like it is. Yeah. We got a good one. We do.
We got a good one. We do. Yeah. I want to get to some other good stories of the day. In Melissa,
you have a good one over there. Yes. Our high school music events kicks off this week with the
Port Edwards is going to have the middle and high school band concert this Thursday.
November 30th at 6.30. It'll be at the Dorothy Alexander Auditorium.
Excellent. Go check that out, support the kids. There's nothing better. We all have been in that
position in grade school. We have nothing better than looking out in that audience and seeing a
see of people. Get get to there and check that concert out. It's some holiday music in your
in your life this week because you were there already. Yeah. See? That's where we play the bumpers.
I'll give you that one, Seth. Nice. It's Wednesday and man, there's something about Wednesdays.
What was it? There's something about a Wednesday that we love to celebrate. Now just it's on
the tip of my tongue. It's B-I-G-O. Fill in the blank. Bingo. That's B-I-G-O.
Sorry. Wisconsin Rap. You ruined my joke. No, it's good. Wisconsin Rap is out. It's
launched at 6.93. 4.30 West Jackson Street in Wisconsin. Rap is doors open at 5.
Bingo starts at 6.30. Go have fun. Support the Elks. Enjoy yourself. Get on over there. Bring
the controls. Yeah, it's over in the beautiful Rome area going on December 1st and December 2nd.
Christmas craft sale from 5 to 8 and then from 8 to 5 a Saturday. So, 8 to 5 to 8 on Friday,
8 to 5 on Saturday. It's a lovely symmetry there. Yeah. 10 percent off every sale will be
done. 10 percent of every sale will be donated to the Alex C. Dub Foundation. Very cool.
A wonderful group of people. Yeah. We encourage you to check that out. Get some of your holiday
shopping out of the way. And don't forget about Christmas in Rome on Saturday from 2 to 5
over at the town hall and then 5 to 8 at the gazebo. Kick off the holiday season with the annual
Christmas in Rome celebration from 2 to 5. They'll be at the Rome town hall enjoying holiday crafts,
cookie decorating, face painting, popcorn and more. And they got Santa. Santa. Hey. Pam,
another group of people that got Santa and we cannot get him on Midday Magazine. I tell you what.
I tell you what. I would now just go through the events on over the back fence on Saturday. Santa
is going to be here all day on Saturday. He's going to be at the winner's farmers market from 9 to 1.
He's going to be making appearances all over Central Wisconsin. Now is the time. We manage that one.
I don't know. I he's going to be a busy man. A shout out to all these businesses and on
profits that we're able to get that get. Nice and done. I want to sit on Santa's lap to ask him for
I know what I want for Christmas and interview. I want an interview. You have to do it from his lap,
a hard hitting interview. Yeah. Hardball questions. You know, I think this speaks to the number of
people in Wisconsin Rapids on the good list this year. I think you're right. Yeah. Yeah. And some
people that are definitely on that list are friends over at Quality Plus printing. Just one of the
embarrassed. I mean, mention them again. Quality plus printing is proud to announce that their
second annual printing of a season of giving coloring book over 2,000 coloring books were being
distributed in our community free of charge. Yeah. So cool. This local nonprofit or they're sending
this to local nonprofit organizations and agencies that help care for children in our community.
And due to generosity of the sponsors of this project, a check of $5,000 was given to the
United Way of Southwood and Ames counties to help local nonprofits during the holiday season. Excellent.
To all those mighty great wonderful investors to all the people because that is investing.
You are investing in your community. You can call it donating if you want and that's a good
term for it too. But it is an investment. And these are people who believe in this community.
We buy and support local of the people that support us. Encourage others to do that. There are
so many amazing, amazing people in this area. And wherever you're listening to us, I'm gathering
that they're probably are there too. And buy local support local. That's how we make this all work.
Yes, indeed. Fun show YouTube. That's a fun show. Yeah, it's a really fun show.
It was a good Wednesday. Good Wednesday. Remind everybody on this radio station here at WFHR back-to-back
coaches shows at 605. Join us for the great guard show. Find out about everything you need to know
about Badger Hockey. And then at 705, it's Luke Fickle show. Coach Fickle kind of wrapping up the
regular season. Talk about getting Paul Bunions acts and probably going bowling. Where they're going
to go. Yeah, that's right. It does look like they're going to be playing Oliver. Yeah, it does look
like that's going to happen. So we'll be looking forward to that. That's all on your radio dial
tonight. And don't forget tomorrow on WIRI at 655 Lincoln High School Boys basketball host
No Claire North. That's right. Good one. Good one. The only sad thing is that there's no trail
tunes. But that's all right. Because it's high school football. I have football. Basketball.
I'm running the board. Yeah, what do we plan again here? What's this game? You figure it out.
Prokary. Yeah, you got time. You got time. You guys be good to each other. We'll talk to you
soon in the later right here at Oh, you do a pam. W F H R Wisconsin Rapids 1320 AM and W248
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