Good morning, Wisconsin. Good morning, world. It's a new day.
Thanks for kicking it off with us right here at 97 5 FM 13 20 AM W F HR locally grown
radio. 905 on the clock. Got your host James behind the mic. I am joined by Seth
Habagger. Good morning, all. We are here to have some fun. We got some entertainment news
for you coming up a little bit later. Gonna get into a couple of more Christmas stories
as well. But we like to do this on Fridays and 9 o'clock hour. We welcome in our own local
sports reporter, Mr. Mike Clemens joining us right now from Green Bay. Mike, how are you doing?
James, I could listen. I can hear you just for a secondary cue. Were you guys talking about
Snoop Dogg? Yes. Yeah, we were. Yeah, we were. What's that story?
A couple of weeks ago Snoop came out with a big social media post saying that he was quitting
smoking and he's done this a couple of times and I have to admit that he really got me. I thought
he was. The very next day comes out with you should try this smokeless grill bar, you know,
grill or whatever. And he completely got me. I'm glad he's sick of got me. I don't mean to be,
you know, a day of dropper or topper or something like that. I just, you know what I get to do.
And especially I've gone to 18 Super Bowls. Wow. You know, every day is a Taylor Swift day.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. There goes this guy. It's 2007, actually 2008. That's the one where the
Packers lose to the Giants. You know, far throws the intersection right. And a Giants, you know,
who is scratching and clawed their way to the Super Bowl or taking on the 18 and 0 Patriots.
On the Saturday before the game, you're really busy all for six, seven days,
leading up to, you know, the hype of the Super Bowl. But on Saturdays, it's kind of free.
It's kind of a free day. And I'm looking at the program guy that things to do. And it says,
the Snoop Ball. Oh, I know. We're Snoop Dogg. The famous and rich,
rapper would go into help city youth programs like the Pewy guys, you know, ages 9, 10, 11,
play football. And what I even read in an article like on a plane or something that
what's cool about is that even the kids, you know, he changes things. Instead of their name,
their Jersey, you know, their sponsor on their little, you know, helmets and shows,
he gives them nicknames like, you know, I might be my dog, you know. Yeah, yeah. Oh, is that
cool? Or something like, yeah, little hipnames and kids loved it. So I thought I was going to
check this out. So we're out in Phoenix and I drive out to this little high school out there in
the desert, not far from Glendale. And I walk up to this thing. There's about 4, 5,000 fans there.
And the parents are there. And they got two teams and celebrity coaches. Snoop Dogg and got his
team from L.A. And the honorary coach on the other team was Matt Linerd. Wow, USC quarterback.
And now I see him on college day. Yeah, Saturday morning, right? This was the best
Pewy game or high school game I'd ever seen. Because in the middle of the field, they had a DJ
like a Snoop Dogg, you know, yeah, yeah, spin and tunes. Oh, is that so? You know,
when the kids were huddling up or there was a time out, there's a don't, don't, you know,
it's perfectly that there's a soundtrack to the game. It was the coolest thing I ever saw. And,
you know, I don't, because of security, whatever, these things seem to go away each year.
But I could just walk up and introduce myself, just take some pictures of him and the kids,
just wander around, whatever. Yeah, and any nicest guy, incredibly talented. So fast forward 15
years later, now every day that I'm at practice under Matt LaFlure, they got those big speakers
going all the way through practice at the Green Bay Packers. That's right. You know, hip hop,
whatever. So anyway, that is awesome. Oh, God, great story. Thank you so much for that.
I appreciate the information that Mike brings to us. Nobody gives you the information Mike does
on the reporting. Never stop telling stories, sir. Never, never, at least with us, please don't.
Yeah, right. And speaking of stories, Mike, I imagine some came about during the Packers win
over the Chiefs last weekend. Nice victory for a young team or a young quarterback, I should say.
Yeah, well, you know, the Taylor Swift thing. I think it's great. I think she's great. I don't
understand some people complain like, oh, they got her on TV too much. You know, it's like, listen,
it's a great story. Everyone's looking for heroes. And this one's done nothing controversial,
except sell so many tickets to her concerts last year that there was congressional hearings
with ticket masters and live nation, ticket broker about how it screwed up or if they were,
jacking up prices, you know, I actually read the person of the year article on from time,
the other day, it's, you know, she's amazing. So she comes in and some of the local people are
trying to get some pictures of her. And a Cassidy is a friend of mine. She shoots video. So these
I was upstairs doing a pregame. And otherwise, I probably wouldn't down there just to see what's
going on. And so Cassidy, she's all set up. They figured out the only way they can get her in,
well, that have to get through fans and security would be the loading dock. Oh, brilliant. Okay.
So they're down there and you saw those videos of her walking in, right?
Yeah, on social media. So just before they get the sense that maybe, you know, they're arriving,
one of the security guys comes up to the Cassidy grabs her elbows and says, man,
you got to move. You got to move like, no, no, I'm just going to take a picture. No, you got to move
and he moves her back up the ramp like behind a line where some other TV cameras were.
If you watch some of the other local TV stations, there's Cassidy at the last second being moved.
And she's hustling and trying to carry her tripod. And behind her, Taylor Swift to the
entourage, her friends walked past. And by the way, she, by the time she was able to swing around,
drop her tripod and get the camera going, she was going up the top. Oh, wow.
We don't, we don't hear enough stories about the sideline reporters or the sideline photographers
and everything and how crazy and dangerous that world is. It's an interesting game.
Yeah, you're trying not to get arrested. You're just trying to get a picture.
Mike asked for the game. Yes, yeah, asked for the game. No, I didn't. I was telling people,
all right, if you must bet on the NFL, yeah, no, take the chiefs, so sure. But here's what,
here's what happened. You know, after we covered the game in Pittsburgh, after they lost
the sealers, I said, they may have lost the game. And I'm telling you, I saw something in
Jordan love. And it was rhythm. There was just another step up in, you know, command of the
huddle, line of scrimmage, look around, snap, drop back, calm, release, throw. There was just
the next step. And since then, they beat the chargers, which isn't up and down team and probably
going to have their coach fires, then I beat the lines on Thanksgiving, unbelievable, unbelievable
game. And they scored first and scored early and often two or three scores, you know, in the
first half, and they're, you got defense with scoop and scores after Jared Cook, you know,
fumbled that ball, ruled the fumbled out of bat. And now here you are, prime time with an extra
day arrest on Sunday night against the Kansas City Chiefs. And, and the difference is, it
sounds so simple. Your offensive line is in sync and making the right pass protection call
just before the snap. The quarterback takes the snap. And like Tom Clements, the quarterback
coach has said to him, look, okay, you back up, you take your five step drop, your seven step drop,
step plant, now you're feeling the pressure. Some guy coming in on your blind side, don't take
five steps to the right. Because now you're the place completely out of timing. Take one step
and throw, one step and throw, step to your right, throw. And that way the play is still in
timing. You gain a half second, you know, before you get hit, and, and, and now the receivers,
they're, you know, they're diving for the balls like their life depends on it, like they're diving
for a hand grenade. And then Christian Watson finally clicks in. Unfortunately, at the end of the game,
you know, he does that slide move, grabs the back of his right knee, hamstring area, he's dealing
with a hamstring again, but he talked to us yesterday. And, you know, he didn't give us much
details to what the scan showed, but at least you've got that down. And now you know, you've got
things rolling on, on offense and your defense beat Patrick Mahomes. Yeah, yeah. Mike, I know you've
got a story of the day for us. We want to get to, but real quick at this, and we only have so much
data on this young man. But do you think that the, we can stop the debate? Do, does Green Bay have
a quarterback or not? Yeah, everything's giving. Brian Guderkins and the staff, after they finished
their turkey, they come in the week to the office that weekend, and they say, okay, look, college
regular season just ended. We got bowl games coming up. They start making the grocery list then.
Okay. Where do we need to move on? They already moved on and came to Result Douglas.
And that's right. Because they wanted to see what those, the deep and winning these games with
rookies. Yeah, yeah. They won four of the last five with rookies in the secondary. And so they make
out a list. Well, what's the first position you build a football team with quarterback? That's
checked off. He's the starter next year. Yeah, right? And that's one of the things I also worried
about, say five weeks ago, you thought, okay, you know, it's the worst thing to good to happen
the Green Bay Packers. This sounds silly, but just play with me. You know, Jordan Love fractured
ankle, you know, he'll be backed by March or so. But like, could you say, like after the
Steelers' Laskies say, do we have a starting quarterback? Right. I mean, he was making some progress,
but you're not sure yet. Okay, I think they're sure now. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Which, you're going to
have a higher draft pick than you hope to have in the next couple of years. You're hoping to have
a lower draft pick over the next couple of years. So with that high pick, you've got to make a call
if you're coming out of that Steelers game. Like, geez, we got to think about the future here.
Do we have a quarterback or not? And they get the answer. In a Ted Thompson school of draft,
it's like you take the best player available, even though you have bread farve. And there's a
quarterback that's dropped you to 24 that nobody thought would go there. That was Aaron Rodgers
with the last guy above the first round space that Ted had on his board. And instead of drafting,
instead of trading down, he said, no, you know, I got a 36-year-old quarterback. Yeah, let's take him.
Maybe I'll take him. And you make that decision. Speaking of Aaron Rodgers.
Monday night against the Giants. Now, the Giants are a team that beat the Packers last year in London.
They're off to a horrible start this season, except they won their last three games with this
Tommy DeVito. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's out of Illinois. He's a Jersey kid.
I, yeah. I have to admit, but my dad and I are huge Homer Italians. We've been all over this kid.
We've been all over him. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. He's fun. I mean, he's fun. And there's suddenly,
winning, I mean, and, you know, New York's going crazy. Yeah, this morning's New York's post.
He's out reviewing Italian restaurant. That's awesome. That's awesome.
They love this guy. Yeah, Tyrod Taylor. He went out about two or three weeks ago with the hip injury.
And he got told, yeah, we're going to go with Tommy DeVito. He's going to sell some tickets. So
that's what they're up against on Monday night at the metal ends at MetLife. But let me rewrite,
remind the jury. It was a year ago. The Packers make their trip to London. And you see Aaron Rodgers
and his buddy, wide receiver, Los Art, making the tours all over London and the restaurants and the
museums and whatnot. Then it comes game day and the New New York Giants under Brian DeVito,
former, you know, Bill's guy and Wink Bartondale, who is nicknamed after the game showhouse back in
that guy is one of the best defensive coordinators. That guy, he's so good on picking up on
everything. So they're playing the game and it's smash mouth. The Packers are getting smashed in
the mouth. This is a very physical Giants team. And now you're down by four. And so Rodgers,
and this is the game where Rodgers and one of the very last place, he gets fact and fractures his
thumb. And they lose the next five games because he's got a thumb all taped up and missing practice.
The Giants ruin their season, what turned out to be Aaron Rodgers last year in Green Bay. Rodgers
is at the line and he picks up his, he pinches his shoulder and he throws a little short pass to
Los Art who could just float over to the right hand side of the end zone wide open. Except,
except the outside linebacker knows what the play is, puts his hands up in there and blocks the
pass, blocks and Aaron Rodgers pass. The Packers end up losing the game. The time runs out.
A couple of days later, when the team got back from London, I watched the TV version of that game,
and Mark Sanchez, the former quarterback that Jets was at the butt fumble guy. He's calling the
game and he says, wait a minute, back that up. And he says, see what happened here? Look at Aaron.
He is pinching his jersey on his right shoulder. That's the signal the play is going right.
And he big draws a big red circle around him. I'm like, oh my god. We've been watching Aaron Rodgers
do that. I just thought he was just trying to tighten up his jersey over his shoulder pad.
That's a signal. I'm going right. We're going right. Wow. Wow. I a couple days later,
it's like a Friday. It's kind of quiet in the locker room. And I had a pretty good relationship
with Los Art. I told him that story and his jaw dropped. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I guess we should pass
that on to twelve. Four weeks go by. They're in Detroit losing to the stinking line,
15 to nine. They're in the same kind of area, about five, six yards out from the go line. They need
a touchdown. They're down. They're down 15 to nine. And Rodgers comes to the line. He's in the
shotgun and he drops back and he's got Sammy Watkins. Remember the veteran they had there for
he's lined up outside the left tackle. He goes into the end zone. He's got some inside leverage,
some inside coverage. But he puts his hands up. Rodgers throws the ball to the corner of the left
corner of the end zone. It drops into air. Like what? And you know, the play by play guys are saying,
well, that must have been a miscommunication there in complete. And the packers ended up losing the
game. Watkins got had to go into concussion protocol. So a couple weeks after that, he's
sitting in his locker shirtless. And we wandered by to, hey, you're doing, you're doing better,
you think you're playing? Yeah. He goes, hey, that game in Detroit, you know, where you were
over the middle and airing through the ball to the empty space there. What happened on that
playing? Oh, I miss the signal. And he pinches his shoulder. Wow. Wow. I mean, Mark Sanchez has
got this. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Who you're going to face on Monday night? I got this. Wow.
I tried to tell a Zard. And you got Sammy Watkins with his head down and looking straight ahead,
not looking up over his right shoulder to look at Rodgers to see which shoulder he's pinching.
And it cost them a game. That's something. That is a great story. And it's now New York's problem.
Yeah. Yeah. Appreciate you, Mike. Thank you so much for the time, sir.
Be a safe travels this weekend. Enjoy and we'll talk again next Friday. Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you. That's one of the best in the business. That's a good stuff. That's a battle of
talking. We can talk to him for hours. We'll come back with a little entertainment news.
It's more fun on the morning show at WFHR.
Welcome back, everyone.
Seth and James walking along with him through that winter wonderland.
A sort of a green kind of brownish wonderland out there right now.
Well, you know, they're working on the sewer here on the roundabout and they're throwing
a bunch of steam up in the air. So it's kind of like it's snowing. If you walk through it,
it'd be kind of like a snowstorm maybe. Yeah, almost like, yeah, a little of feel like that, too.
I don't know if I want to walk through that steam, though. Probably not.
We do said to shout out to our city workers working really hard this last morning on this whole
street down here. The sewer here right now by the roundabout. If you are coming by the roundabout,
right next to us here, keep that in mind, everybody. So drive slow, keep an eye out for our city workers.
Yep. Getting to a touch. Just touch on a little bit of entertainment news.
I don't know if you know this or not, but Ryan, she crests in his foundation have built
actual studios inside 14 children's hospitals, most recently in Salt Lake City.
Wow, cool. Yeah, the purpose is to provide an outlet for pediatric patients to learn new media,
experiment with radio broadcasting and just to have something to look forward to during the hospital
stays. How about that? So why is Ryan still such a believer in radio after all these years
and all the success he has had with TV and why has he not turned his back on radio?
Quote, the first job I ever had when I got a paycheck was from a radio station.
And that was when I was 16 years old. So I've come into a studio every day of my life forever.
And it's just something that's such a part of my DNA. And I think honestly that there's a lot of
value in camaraderie and the companionship that one can establish through audio. He adds, quote,
there is a real intimacy and unvarnished presentation to live radio that I love.
And I think there's a lot of value in the frequent connective moment that with an audience.
And it's something that I've built over my overtime and I want to continue to do.
It's much different from much different than presentation on television where it's highly
produced and in many cases very rehearsed. This is different. And it's something that I just wake
up every morning with a smile on my face thinking, I get to do it again today. Wow.
I would, if you asked me five minutes before this conversation, what do Ryan C. Creston
I have in common? I would say, well, we both worked in radio, end of discussion.
Right. Well, we both worked in radio and we both feel blessed every single day to be able to do
this for a living. Wow. It's amazing. That's, yeah. A whole new, I had no clue. I had no clue.
And everything he said, I was nodding my head. I'm like, yes, this is the, especially the intimacy
that radio is the most intimate media that there is out there, but bar none. That's when,
when radio first came out, that was why people were afraid of it. Because it's like, oh,
so intimate, you can, you can get people to do things that you normally wouldn't kind of think
the whole danger. But the fact that he's talking not just radio live radio, which is something.
Of course, we pride ourselves in here at WFHR and WRI and civic media.
And civic media has a hole, yeah. You know, we, we, our audience is smart. They know, they know
that some hours and scheduling things have changed around here. That we, you know, we've lost
a little bit of time here and there and everything. With all that being said, civic media has shown,
they've shown you their hand. They are local. They are, they are going to make sure that they are
taking care of local radio stations. Our station, I don't know what happens with previous
ownerships. I don't know how things go for us. We are with a company right now that is very
concrete, that is very strong and is only getting stronger by the day. And a big part of civic media
is representing and taking care of local radio, making sure that not only that, that there's good
this station and stations like ours throughout the whole state of Wisconsin are around, not just for
this generation, but for future generations. Right. And then we keep doing this to support local
radio that we support local live radio. We are broadcasting live from Wisconsin Rapids right now.
We do this Monday through Friday. On the weekends, we have live broadcasts that we do with whether
it's local high school sports or river kings. We, we cover our rafters. We are the definition
of local. Yep. We're able to do all that because of civic media. We're all able to do all that
because they, they give us that opportunity to do those. They do. They believe in this.
What Mr. Seacrest has done is not, it's great in hospital patients having something to look
forward to. That alone you got me. All right. Cool. Thank you, Mr. Seacrest for that.
Awesome. But he sees that this industry is so important and that we need more and more young blood
in this industry. I've talked about this for years on the radio. I came into radio and it was
a boys club. That has changed since I've been here. How many women have you heard me bring on the
air as whole host as sales as producers. We need more of that. We do. We need more representation in
radio. We need a lot more if we want radio to survive. I love radio. It was one of my first
loves. I never dreamed that I get to do this for a living. I didn't go to school for this. I'm
not supposed to be here. 22 years a little on here. Yeah. And it's given me that. Radio has given me
that radio. This community has given me that. I will always be thankful to it. So he's not just
and he is too. He's not just still that 16 year old kid that is so freaked out. Oh, I get to do
this for a living. I'm getting I'm getting five bucks an hour. Whatever it was. I'm the richest man
in the world. Like it's not just that. He sees. Okay. How do I pay it forward? I've gotten all this.
I have I'm one of the biggest names in entertainment. I'm Ryan Seacrest. If something needs MC, I'm the
first person people call. All this stems from radio. Yep. And I'm going to pay my I'm going to pay
it back. Yeah. That's amazing. More of that in society. Oh, 100% man. 100%. That's remember in your
roots, man. I never I've never thought much about it. I've always respected Ryan Seacrest's skills.
But I've never thought much too much about him as a person other than oh cool. He got his
word starting radio too. Yep. You know, Carson daily is very similar to that and stuff. I will
always respect him from going forward. That's awesome. Always. It is the Hanukkah season as we're
getting you ready for our local holiday season. Oh, wait. Nice. Nice. Hanukkah started yesterday
at sundown. And if you'd like to celebrate, I think that you know, certainly the Hanukkah
song is one of the ways too. I've already listened to it three times. And here's a list of Jewish
rock stars. Some of them that you hear in the Hanukkah song. That's right. Bob Dylan, of course,
famously was born Jewish. Robert Zimmerman, yeah. Converted to Catholicism. But once you when
you're born a Jew, especially if you're born of a Jewish mother, you're a Jew. Like you can change
your religion 15, 16 times. It doesn't change your DNA. Right. Being Jewish is a part of your DNA.
Many people may know that Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley are both Jewish. In fact,
Gene Simmons was born in Israel. That's right. Yeah. David Lee Roth. Yes. The diamond. He tells
you right there. I mean, the diamond was a big thing for him. Yeah. I don't know about that.
Lou Reed. Lou Reed. I can say this. If you looked at Lou Reed and you didn't know he was Jewish,
like I think that's on you. I'm sorry. But I can say that. I can say that. Neil Diamond.
Neil Diamond, of course, famously Jewish. Just as famously has a lot of Christmas albums.
Yes, he does. It's pretty remarkable. Billy Joel. Yeah. Simon and Garfunkel got both of them.
I think Billy Joel is actually very very much like you because I think his father is Italian.
If I remember correctly, yeah. Me and Mr. Joel have a handful of videos. Yes, you do.
That in common. Getty Lee from Rush, arguably the greatest bass player ever. I did not know that.
Yeah, I don't think a lot of the people knew that. That's cool. I cheated. I only know these because
I see him at the meetings. Yeah. Yeah. Every couple of months we get together, all Jews in the
world, we get together and you know, that's your space lasers. Yeah. Yeah. That stuff. You know, we
got it. I mean, you can't just like let that stuff roll. You've got to figure that stuff out.
Worked together as a team. Perry Farrell from a part of our pyros and Jane's addiction.
Mm-hmm. Joey Ramon. Oh, that's right. Yeah. Yeah. I don't think a lot of people knew this one.
Darryl Hall. No. I did not know that. Now, what I said about Lou Reed, you look at Darryl Hall
and that's the last thing you're probably going to think. If you look at John Oats, you think he's
the original one. He was Jewish. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Definitely.
Robbie Robertson. I think I knew that one. Yeah. Yeah.
Robbie, of course, famous from the band. Yeah. Yeah.
A couple of Canadian Jews in there. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Adam Lambert.
Yep. Of course. I think, well, maybe I say famously known. It may just be famous in my house.
Lenny Kravitz. Yes. Yes. I did know that one. Again, I think his mother. Yep.
Donald Fagan. Mm-hmm. Steely Dan Genius. Yep. Jeff Tweety. Oh, from Wilco. I did not know that.
Oh, I love Wilco. I love Jeff Tweety's. I'm a sneaky Wilco fan. Yeah. I'm a big Wilco fan.
Max Weinberg. Oh, one of the funniest people I have ever met. I don't think a lot of people would
pick that up maybe from the Conan O'Brien show. But Max Weinberg is first one of these people that
you can't, you have to remind him he's a star because he will walk around the crowd and be talking
to people and like, security has to come up there and stuff. I saw it happen at least six or seven
times. Like, he's just so like, just, hey, how are you doing? Yeah. Just really, really like casual,
nice guy. I mean, come on. Okay. First of all, he's the leader of a band on a, you know,
popular TV show, which is cool. By the way, yeah, he's Bruce Springsteen's drummer. I mean, come on.
The things that he would like the bits behind the scenes, I saw this happen at least two or
three times off the top of my head. We're in the writer's room and we're talking about a bit that we
want to do and Andy won't do it. So they go to Max right away. And it's just always these horrible
bits like where he's naked on a street, like, you know, putting them in these horrible situations.
And I'm new in the studio. So I'm like, I'm thinking of my head, like, why would the band,
one of the band members of the E Street band put himself in these situations? I actually went with
one of the writers as they walked up to him to go talk to him about this bit. He didn't even let him
finish. Yeah, I'll do it. Yeah, I'll do it. Whatever. Like just complete team player. Like a really
good guy. Love Max Weinberg. Randy Newman. Famous. Yeah. Oh, oh, oh. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
You know, a source of contention in your household as well. Yes. At the Jewish meetings, Randy and I
are on opposite ends of loop. We were on opposite ends. We are not allowed to talk. And Scott
Ian, wonderful guitarist of anthrax and many other great bands. Yeah. There's a lot of good ones
out there. A lot of great Jewish artists out there. That's a fun list. That was fun.
Quick look at what's new on your small screen this weekend. That really a whole lot coming out
on the big screen. I would really like to see this tonight at seven o'clock on CBS. Norman Lear,
a life on television. Oh, nice. Nice. Kind of rewind. Kind of a telling of the great life and
legacy of the great Norman Lear. And also great chance to kind of catch some old clips from some
great TV shows. Oh, man. I bet you there's going to be full of some great stuff. Yeah. Yeah.
Tonight on Amazon, your Christmas or mine too. It's a sequel to the 22 holiday classic with Ace
of Butterfield and Korakler. Let's see on Netflix. Leave the world behind it. It's a thriller with
Julia Roberts and Ethan Hawke. Michelle Ali is also in this one. Kevin Bacon. Wow. That's a nice
cast. It's a really nice cast right there. Julia Roberts is at this point in her career where she
ain't working a list script really speaks to her. Yep. So that gives me a little bit of like,
should be pretty good. Yeah. And of course, tonight, live this weekend, Adam Driver hosting.
He's great. I don't want to see that Olivia Rodrigo is the musical guest. And Sunday night,
football, Dallas Cowboys hosting the Eagles. And on CBS this Sunday at 730, a Grammy salute to
50 years of hip-hop. Gonna be a lot of great artist, Kamen, De La Soul, Elo Cool, Jay Queen,
Lateefall. Gonna be the old school. Yeah. All the old schools gonna be there. That's my kind of
hip-hop. Yeah. That sounds pretty good. That's the stuff. We'll take a break. Get to our state and
local news. We'll come back with a bunch of fun and serious comedy start your dates to Morning Show
on WFHR. Welcome back, everyone. Morning Show at WFHR. Locally grown radio.
Seth and James hanging out with you during this holiday season. Thanks so much for joining us
everybody. We hope you're having a great Friday out there. Happy Friday. Yes. Good stuff coming up
for you're gonna get into our schedule in a little bit to know. Touch on some local great events.
Probably ain't gonna have a Danny Wright story today. Probably just gonna go right into the
let's just do the good today. Yeah. Yeah. Someone pulled thousands of Americans and when they're asked
about nostalgia. So we're nostalgic about all sorts of stuff from movies, TV shows, anything.
How simple life was before the internet blah blah blah. We romanticize all of this. We do. We do.
Someone pulled thousands of Americans to see what we will be nostalgic about in 20 years.
Interesting. Coming ahead and stuff. And here are the top things that we think we'll look back on
and say, wow, remember that. I want to start at the top of the bottom of this list. Let's go
from the bottom. I guess I'll start there today. Number six, virtual reality and augmented reality
apps like Pokemon Go and things like that. 15% of people think that we are gonna be nostalgic about
that one. That's best possible. I can see that crop tops. Again, not new. They were very popular
in the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s. They came back for a while here and they will go away and then come back.
They'll come back. They always do. Yeah. That's the way fashion works. Yeah. You don't have to get
nostalgic about that. That's not really good to go anyway. Once the nostalgia starts, they'll be
showed up at the stores. Yeah. Here's an interesting one. Working from home, 34% say that,
that we're gonna be nostalgic about that. So come 20, 40. Wow. So they're saying we're actually
doing less of that in the future. Interesting. Yeah. Yeah. I'm very curious to see how that plays out.
Yeah. That would be interesting. I've got a number of levels. Boot cut jeans and flares.
No. Again. No. Again. They may go away for a while and then they'll go to the skinny jeans again,
you know, and the tight bottom. And they're gonna come back. It's always gonna. It's a cycle,
everybody. Nothing fashion wise needs to be on this list. No. It'll all come back. It'll all come
back. Here's another interesting one. Trending music on TikTok. 43% think that we'll be nostalgic about
that. That includes songs that are used and reused in videos like the infamous Oh, no song,
or things like that. When I, I will, I will kind of like split the atom a little bit on this one.
I don't think that music has evolved along with the apps. And no matter what social media
you're talking about, TikTok has done something that no other app has done. Instagram, you know,
if I'm an artist, I'm established or I'm just starting out, I go to Instagram and I put up my
reels and my videos. And that's pretty good. And Instagram kind of gets a bump from me.
But it doesn't create me. No. I can go on TikTok, put a two-minute song out there,
and get record deals. Yes. Let's offer to me. TikTok has done something that no other app or
anything has really ever done. And I'm not a huge TikTok guy or anything. No. I just
get to get credit where it's due. Right. TikTok is actually creating artists. Yeah. Like people
are getting careers off of this and stuff. Right. Like that's a whole different ball game. And I
think that, you know, if anybody's smart, of course, they're paying attention to this and
everything is parody. So the next app, the next big name app is probably going to be something
similar to this where it isn't just an outlet for artists. It helps artists springboard.
I think that's the next step. And that I don't think is going anywhere. I think that's the new way.
And that is not, artists have gotten control of how to not only sell their sales, but put
themselves out there. A lot of rappers are doing this logic, chance the rapper. They're not, yeah,
I can get the big studio contract and get the big three record, you know, three record deal.
Right. Or I can own all my own stuff. Yeah. Which is, that is a game changer. And,
considering if you look at the history of recorded music, it has always been one-sided.
The producers. Yeah. The people who put out the music, the distributors, that kind of thing.
Now, it is in that sense. It is a new day because you're right. If you're willing to take that
chance on yourself, not get that big bar. I mean, it's that big advance. It's so tempting.
And I understand why. But if you're willing to take a chance on yourself, you can, you could,
you could probably make out pretty good. More people than ever are betting on themselves. Yep.
And number one in the list, smartphones. 52% think we'll be nostalgic about those. Like,
remember when we all had iPhones? That was before they started implanting the phones in our bodies.
Yeah. I don't know. I don't know what phones will be. That's a little bleak. But yes, it could,
you know, that could be, that could be. Yeah. We, I really think we overthink these.
That could be Google Glass. No, no, it's not going to be any kind of virtual reality thing going
to think like that. I think that the time has already shown us how these things are going to evolve.
Yeah. They're going to get maybe smaller, lighter, that kind of thing. But we still have watches.
We still have watches. You know, they're a little different now than they used to be, but we still
have watches. I remember people saying that the phone, that the rise of the cellular phone
was going to kill the watch industry and things like that. I know it's probably isn't as good as
it used to be, but they're dead. I don't necessarily think that this idea of, you know, we're going
to have telepathy. We're not even going to need phones or anything like that. Like, you know,
I love sci-fi, but something to watch a little too much sci-fi sometimes. Yeah. I think you're going
a little bit far there. Yeah. Don't see that happening. No. Here's a couple quick stats on what
Americans are currently nostalgic for. In general, we're most nostalgic about our teens and
tween years. Specifically, stuff we experience between the ages of 11 and 20. No matter how old you
are, the top three things we're nostalgic for are fashion, slang, and famous actors from our
heyday. Oh, that's an interesting one. Yes. I understand the nostalgic for the slang. That's
interesting. I will say I haven't, like, I have an evolved past the slang that I used to use,
but I'm not really nostalgic for it. I just haven't grown up. I still use it. You just
don't use it. Sure, Steve. By the decade, the top shows were nostalgic about our, from the 80s
cheers. We're just talking about that with Dawn. With Dawn and that, we're going back to
four years. Oh, that's hilarious. 90s Baywatch. Interesting. And the early 2000s breaking bad.
Oh, yeah. I suppose. And the top holiday movies that give us that nostalgic feeling,
home alone, the Santa Claus, and a miracle on 34th Street. Interesting. Two 90s movies,
and then one back from the 50s. Wow. That is an interesting. I have, because I've watched both
of the updated version. I think was from the 90s of a miracle on 34th Street. It's not bad,
but it's not nearly as good as the original. That one is so good. That's, you can't touch the original.
No, it's classic. Yeah, it's a classic. They are not a bad job. The old, new one. No, no.
Yeah. We are going to take a quick break. Come back with something, but fun for you.
Good stuff on the way on the morning show at WFHR.
Welcome back, everyone. Morning show here at WFHR.
Locally grown radio. Seth and James here with you. Take it at the top of the hour.
Thanks so much for joining us, everybody. Hope you're having a great holiday season out there.
And enjoying your Friday. Wishing you a good one throughout the weekend.
There was a BBC news anchor. There is a new, be great news anchor over at the BBC Myram Moshear.
She's been around a while. She's really good at what she does. She got caught up the other day,
though. She was doing a live segment. And for those that don't know, as you're coming out of the
break, you're a producer or your cameraman will give you a countdown. Five, four, three, two,
the one is silent because that's when sound is supposed to start rolling, right?
Right. Turn on the mics and stuff. That one is really giving you that, okay, we're live.
Yeah. Okay, we're live now. And we got to be a pay attention to that. But producers and
anchors and everything, they build a bond over time. And they find ways to kind of like
signal each other and have fun with it and everything, especially when you're covering news,
which is so heavy, you find the light moments where you can. Right. Look at Jerry Orbok in
law and order with it with his one liners and stuff to try to lighten the mood over a homicide and
stuff and miss Jerry Orbok. Anyway, me too, every day. She, as she, as they give the one, she gives a
one back. The one that you're thinking of. The one that you probably shouldn't be doing in a visual
medium. No. And she's been doing this a long time. So she's got the timing down. She's done this
before. I'm sure she does it. And then pulls her hand away in time so that you don't even know
she did it. But this time she held it up for like a half a second too long and the camera's caught
it. And she had to give a whole apology and everything. Oh, that's embarrassing. I get it. But
still at the same time, I just, can you imagine coming back to them? What? Wait, did I just see what
I just thought? I was hesitant to do this story because I feel like I've like, I've gotten lucky
that things like this haven't happened to me at all. I'm doing is just tempting fate.
Fates just sit right there like, oh, come on, boy, come on. Yeah. I was going to leave you
alone, man. But now, my room is amazing what she does. And I appreciate her apology, but I
don't think it was necessary. It just happens. It's just a little thing that happens. It's fine.
The adults come on. Yeah. But I do think she's all right. I do like that she shared that.
That she was so honest about it too and everything. We got some local good stories to get to. I want
to touch on those in a second, Seth. But I did. I did want to reference something that happened
to me last night with my mother as we were lightening the candles for Hanukkah. I have a Torah
and my mom has one and she was going through hers. We usually read from mine, but she was going
through hers. She found something that she thought she had lost from my grandmother and it really
moved her. And then she was going over to the candles to light them and she was kind of staring at
them and I didn't want to bother her, but it took a minute. I kind of faced her and I'm like,
mom, what's going on? How are you doing and stuff? And she was so upset because it dawned on her
that when she was a kid, there were tons and tons of family members that were lighting these candles
every year. And now she looks at me and she's like, Jimmy, we're all that's left. We're the only ones.
And it hit me hard. Wow. But I immediately a second later thought, well, wait, mom, we're doing
this at sundown. Like all these other Jews around the world are doing this. Right now,
open point, my oldest daughter is doing the same thing. Bri is lighting the candles. Yeah. And
this is new for her doing this, but she's picked it up and she knows it better than me in some ways.
And she is something, this is something she's going to carry on to her children and everything.
This isn't just about Jews. It's about human history. Yeah. And keeping it alive. 100%
and with the rise of anti-Semitism and some of these things, this is why it's bigger than just
being a religious thing. It's bigger than just being a Jewish thing. They're trying to take our
history. They're trying to take our people. And this point in society, there's nobody who hasn't had
a Jewish person that they've liked or they've been influenced by something like that. It is
important for us to come together. Not just Jews coming together with Jews or Muslims and Jews
coming together or Christians and Jews coming together. I'm talking about people and people coming
together. Everybody. And having each other's backs on these things. And I appreciate
the great feedback that we've gotten here locally at this station. And it's part of the reason
why I feel like I want to share this poem that my daughter wrote about Hanukkah. I think it's
really cool. And I think it's also informative. I genuinely believe the way we kill hate is with love
and information. Knowledge. Knowledge. Knowledge. It is much harder to dislike somebody
doing you understand why they do the things they do. You may dislike them, but that's because they're
a jerk. And I think that that's one of the only things we can hope for in society that we get to
a point where we dislike each other just because we're jerks. Because we're jerks to each other.
Yeah. Yeah. Nothing else matters. Here's the poem from Bria. I need the Nish Doh with my hands
covered in flour waiting for the sun sets resting hour. Those before me survived. And so I am here.
Though their physical presence is absent, their impact will not disappear. I feel on my heart
with each flicker in spark as I watch the Hanukkah light beam. I am my ancestors wildest dream.
Oh, well, that's lovely. That's good. That's a good piece of poetry. Good job. That's good.
That's good stuff. We've got some other great good stuff locally going on around here, Seth.
We do indeed. Let's start off with the seventh annual Christmas tree walk. It is happening once
again this weekend. In fact, you can do it tonight from five to eight over at the Southwood
County Historical Museum located at 540 Third Street South. They'll be open again over the weekend
on both Saturday and Sunday from 12 to 4 p.m. This event is free and welcome to all ages.
Rudolph Country Christmas going on this weekend. Enjoy our friends over at Rudolph. Things kick
off about 9 a.m. with their holiday card mailing. They're going to have at 1030. The run run
Rudolph 5K run walk registration at 10 a.m. for that. Legion Hall from 11 to 6 will have
soup and pie sales. In Mainstreet, he got things to do from 11 to 8. Yeah, six at night.
Tons of fireworks and a basket raffle, horse drawn, wagon rides, all kinds of great stuff. This
weekend, get on the Rudolph and appreciate, you know, enjoy some of these great local events.
Good job. Yes. The greatest Christmas name town ever. Yes.
Next up, we got the market at the Moravian. The winter market, of course, is going on this Saturday
and next Saturday. And then they're going to be taking a little bit of a break. So you get two more
chances to do this before Christmas. It's at the basement of the Moravian Church at 310 First
Avenue South. Go check out their Facebook page, Wisconsin Rapids, Winter Farmers Market to find
out who the vendors are there. If you are a vendor and you would like to join in, they are certainly
welcome. Go to WR Moravian.org and go to events find the vendors page for the winter market
and you can get signed up that way. Again, Saturday 9 to 1 over at the Moravian Church,
that is where the market at the Moravian is. Some great local high school concerts going on in the
Port Edwards district. This Sunday, both the choir and band will be playing at the Christmas
tree lighting ceremony at 445 in the Marshfield Center in Port Edwards. Nice. Enjoy that one.
And then on the 11th of Monday in the Nicos area, Alexander Middle School and Nicos High School
band concert, Monday, December 11th, 7 o'clock in the high school auditorium. And then Rams will have
their show on Monday. 7th and 8th grade bands will be performing on Monday at 11.
All right. 6. 6. That's right. That's right. Yes. The 11th. The 11th at 6. 6 at 11. News at 11.
Good to see you, dyslexia. I didn't know if I was going to see you this morning. My old friend.
Speaking of old friends, a big shout out to my friends Dan and Don over at Images and Inc. Thanks
for the great work as always. If you are looking to get some ink done, go to our friends at Images
and Inc. Appreciate them so much. A bi-local support local images. Inc. Look at it at 221 Oak Street
and Wisconsin Rapids. Missed you guys already. Hope you're having a great day and a great holiday.
Yes. I want to get into our weekend schedule set before we do. We got to wish our great friends
over our second home. Wisconsin Rapids Community Theater. Great opening night, guys. Tonight.
Show starts late. The Christmas show is starting tonight. Get head on over everyone. A candle in
the window. You know, I love the fact that they picked something a little different this year.
Not, you know, not not to say anything bad about the other shows are all great Christmas shows,
but something a little different. I like the change of pace. Yeah, we're looking forward to that.
Bi-local support local support our local arts. They are hitting the stage tonight.
I'm going to be having the shows. The ninth as well. Then they'll come back on the 14th, 15th and 16th.
All shows at seven o'clock on the 16th on Saturday the 16th. They do have a two o'clock matinee as well. Indeed.
They have two sets of casts for the kids. So go multiple nights and see multiple casts and everything.
That's going to be different. Different every time. You can get your tickets right now at WRC Theater.org.
You can also get them at the state right at the front desk when you get there and be listening the midday
magazine today, everybody. In part one, we're going to have Ashley Hagginaw, 76th Alice in Dairyland. Very cool.
She's here in person, too. That's really cool. Yeah, looking forward to hanging out with Ash today.
It's going to be pretty cool. And then we wrap up the week. Talk to Wisconsin Rapids Community Theater. Nice.
Gretchen Powers Executive Director over at WRCT is going to be with us. Thanks to our friends at the
Visit Wisconsin Rapids Bureau. We say hello to Meredith and the gang over there. Absolutely.
This weekend lineup we got is always strong for you. It kicks off 7 a.m. with the Sunshine
Poke Show. Join our friend Tim Hubble. The Poke Guy for a great lineup there.
Good stuff. Terry talks nutrition from family and natural foods and Terry Lemron comes up at eight
and over the back fence 11 new. Yeah, we're back this week. Yeah, more weeks left.
Give Seth a ton of calls. Yeah, please bring him your items. You're looking for items you want to
sell and please spread the word about over the back fence, everybody. We want to keep that show.
We keep it by your calls. Absolutely. That's the best way to do it. Join us Sunday nights.
Every Sunday night the weekend when we don't have sports in the set faces music and directors cut
set faces music from six to eight. Seth, what is your theme this week? I just put together just a
little show this week. My theme is little. So I didn't realize how many songs had little in them.
When I was going, I was a world. Yeah, yeah. So that's what this week is. So next week you're
probably going to find the opposite. Probably going to be songs about big. So yeah, there you go.
I like that. Our directors cut this week and really the next couple of weeks we've got some
fun things lined up. We're going to replay this Sunday, our Christmas special from last year with
Melissa Seth and I. That's right. And then over the next week we're going to record a new one.
And then next Sunday we will have a new Christmas episode with Melissa Seth and I got
new tradition. Yeah. And then two kind of a fun tradition around that we'll be doing around here
looking forward to more of that are all going along. But as we get going along here and everything,
keep on moving. Everybody have yourselves a safe, great weekend. Be good to each other.
And joy and thank you so much. The best listeners and radio for joining us all week long. This
was a lot of fun. Seth, thank you. It was good day today. Yeah, you have a good one. Enjoy great
River Kings hockey and WRI 105 five this weekend. Everybody puck drops at seven. We will talk to
you soon in the later right here. Oh, I like the way Cat does this. You'd go ahead and do it.
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