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 WFHR. We are locally grown radio. It is 804 on
the clock. Got your host, James J. I am joined by Melissa K. Good morning. Seth Habagger.
Good morning. And all of you, the best listeners in radio. Thanks for joining us, everybody.
We'll be joined by our friend Paul Tromley any moment now from a get our weather update
for the day, whether we want it or not. It's going to happen no matter what we want, right?
Yeah, yeah. We are going to get into some fun stuff this morning. We got the most festive
state. We'll get into that. Okay. We have an interesting one a little bit later in the
day about the, we'll get into this in a second. I want to get to Paul. We got our friend
Paul Tromley joining us from the Weather Eye Weather Center now. Paul, how are you? I'm
doing well. How about you guys there? Doing good. Doing good and good. A little darker out
there this morning than it's been last couple of mornings, but that's a slow start for
the sun out there and just cloudy. Just cloudy out there today, Paul. Exactly. Yeah, still
stuck in the clouds here today and still looking at some clearing moving into the area as
we get into the day on Tuesday and then Wednesday as well. Some more sunny breaks expected
in the mid-week, but yeah, still some clouds today. 32 for the high. Southwest went 5 to 10.
Cloudy is 22 tonight and then the winds pick up out of the West Northwest here for Tuesday.
Guys become partly sunny upper 20s with West Northwest winds, 12 to 25. Our coldest night of the week,
Tuesday night, 14 for the low part of the cloudy sky and then from there back into partly sunny
skies Wednesday, 33, 22 Wednesday night and then thawing back out with these temps in the 40s,
Thursday, Friday, Saturday, highs right around 42 each day, at least with a mix of clouds and sun
as well late week, early weekend looking at as well here for us. So yeah, certainly a quiet month
of December still expected to continue here looking forward. Do we have any any look right now, Paul?
I know we're a little ahead of this and everything, but Christmas, looking like we're going to
get any snow between now and then. You know, nothing that's looking too optimistic this point.
If it does happen, if it does happen, it probably will be like right on the heels of Christmas.
Well, I will say though, Paul, now that we've talked about it out loud and Mother Nature's heard us,
I mean, I think we all know what's going to happen. It's probably going to happen.
Yeah, it's coming after us. Yeah. You can blame me for that, everybody. I apologize. I did not.
I just, I really into weather and I can't help asking Paul questions.
Like, you've got the last word. She's got the last. Always. It's your job.
Always. Yeah. We appreciate you, Paul. You have a great one. We'll talk more tomorrow.
All right. I'm good. You guys do. Have a good one. Best in the business right there.
Fred Paul, probably from the weather. I weather center. So a little bit later, we're going to get
into the five biggest mistakes parents make around Christmas. Oh, we've got that one coming up.
They celebrated it at all. That's the. These things parents need to know. Yeah.
What? Daddy, why is there no December 25th of the calendar? Don't ask. We cut it out.
We did. That day's not around here. We don't celebrate that one.
We're going to get into some entertainment news for you. Of course, a little bit later.
And in that entertainment news, we have to discuss is diehard a Christmas movie?
Oh, no. We're getting into it. We're getting into it. It's a tradition like no other
that we are getting to get to that. And speaking of divisive questions, we have eight to nine
divisive questions for you to get into the nine o'clock hour. We're going to have some fun with
that one. It's a perfect Monday topic, I think. It is a perfect one. Got all that lined up for
your good stories of the day and plenty more coming up. Let's kick off right in our weekend.
How was everybody's weekend? Melissa, how was yours? What weekend? Yes. Yes, Melissa. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. No, I had fun. I got to go to the Rudolph Country Christmas and do a live remote
from there on Saturday. That was that was enjoyable. There were a lot of great vendors. There's great
music. Santa was there. I got a picture of Santa and Mrs. Claus and two of the reindeer dancer
and Vickson were there. Oh, wow. Nice. Nice. Yeah. Yep. And there were horse-drawn sleigh rides
and hot chocolate. We won't talk about the mint chocolate chip whiskey that I may or may not have
found. Oh, I try that. It was pretty good. And then so, so many people came and got their
postcard or their holiday cards and letters stamped at Rudolph to get that commemorative old-fashioned
ink stamp, which was cool. Back in the day, we had one of the postmasters over there on the
air with us, Carl and I did. And it was so cool talking to them. And in how it's exhausting this
time of year for them. If they're not, they're not used to getting as many people as they do over
there. Right. And this time, like it's the way they talked about it. And this was years ago,
but the way they talked about it literally December 1st. And it's all they got to change their shifts.
I'm sure they do. Yeah. I know that. It's a big, big gigantic shout out to one of our favorite
cities in this whole state, Rudolph. We love our friends over Rudolph here from them all the time.
And hoping they're having a good start to their day out there. That's really cool to hear Melissa.
Nice. Nice. Yeah, it was fun. It was a fun time. And thank you, Seth, for running the board. He
did a great job. Not a problem. Sounded good. Did all right as a team. Yeah.
We're not in the same room. That's why that's all we got to do. You guys work so good together
when you don't have to be in the same room together. Yeah, I just can't be physically next to each other.
That's all I just don't want to see your face.
In Zoom calls, Melissa always has to put a thing up over. Yeah.
She just puts a picture of Charlie Brown up. She puts a picture of Charlie Brown.
That's what I'm still scraping the stickers off of my screen.
I told you not to use stickers. I told you that.
Dean? Seth, how was your weekend? It was good. Although I have to concur with Melissa there.
I think I was here at three separate times on Saturday because of all that was going on.
So it was a busy weekend for everything. But yesterday, we actually had a decent family day at home.
Which, right, this time of year is kind of hard to do. We just have all the craziness, of course.
So that was really nice. I enjoyed that little change of pace.
Yeah. I'm really happy to hear that, man.
Especially because we, not only at any time of the year, to get those days, but especially,
like you said, this time of year and a half with it, those moments of quiet, those moments of calm,
or anything. Exactly.
Because I'm going to make it three for three at what weekend? Incredibly.
That's just this time of year. Yeah. It is.
My sister surprised us and came into town and we haven't seen each other since
my papa's passing. And Jill and I have a bit of a different perspective than most of our
family with this, where not a papa kind of raised us as well as being our grandparents.
And so it was so good to see her, her boys. My back is still sore.
I love my nephews so much. Can I tell you how much I love my nephews? Seven and four.
They are dinosaurs. They are not boys. They are dinosaurs. They are just dinosaurs.
And Seth knows better than I do it. I'm talking about it. That's an age, man.
Yeah. Yeah. It was wise. They're rampunctious.
We got two, like the Hanukkah lights together. And my sister and I haven't gotten to do that in a
while. That was really meaningful. That felt really good to be able to do that. And my
second oldest nephew, Charlie, actually read them with us.
Read the Hanukkah prayer with us. No. It was really beautiful. It was really cool. He was so excited.
That's nice. But Charlie wants to blow the candles out because his fire has...
Of course.
It's been fun going over that. It's been a lot of fun. I've enjoyed that part of it.
He's a smart child. You know, however.
No, no, no, no. We want to leave him alone.
Two little kids. I imagine that's going to be confusing.
Jew Gentile don't matter. Like I always tell me to do your whole life from literally
your first birthday on. You see it, can't you? You're told about it.
And yesterday spent some time up in point with my oldest Brie. We recorded with
Puppet Masters of None, another amazing podcast and encourage people to go check out.
We did a crossover episode with them for their Christmas episode. And then we did a...
And they did a jittered episode with us on ours. And before all that,
Brie and I recorded our Christmas episode. Very nice.
I also taught a little bit yesterday. So my throat is gone by the way.
The audience is going to be really happy because I'm not talking too much today.
I'll go ahead and take it over the show.
But we did this podcast with the Puppet Masters of None. And these guys are actual puppeteers
that went to school for the retired now. Incredibly intelligent guys. And they really
know some cool stuff. And I wanted to share one little nugget that came up talking with them.
Because they joined our show and randomly Miss Piggy comes up and we're talking about Miss Piggy.
One of the biggest iconic characters in all of entertainment. Not just muppets, but
entertainment. Miss Piggy's that big. Kermits that big when you think about it. Miss Piggy,
though, wasn't always that big. And when her stars started to jump, they had to make more Miss Piggy
puppets. And they couldn't make them fast enough. Mainly because there was one person making
them. Oh my gosh. Bonnie Erickson. Wow. Bonnie Erickson designed and built the
the Miss Piggy in 1974 for an early muppets television special produced by Jim Henson.
And she continued to make Miss Piggy up until her retirement not too long, not too long ago.
So during the rise of Miss Piggy and the big star Miss Piggy and everything, they
named Miss Piggy over here in CBS. They need her in LA. They need her all over the place.
And she can't make these things fast enough. So you notice every time you see
Miss Piggy pretty much now, she's got gloves on. And most of us think, well, that's a style choice.
That's a Miss Piggy, the devil, that stuff. It's the hardest thing to make. When you go to school
for puppeting, you don't just go to learn to the puppeting, like how to move them. You go to
learn how to make them. I didn't know that. I didn't know that part of this. Yeah.
And the hardest thing for them to make, at least according to the guys, Ben and the guys,
is the hands. So what she had the idea of, instead, I'm just going to grab these gloves
and I'm putting stuffing in them. And so most of the time we see Miss Piggy with her hands,
they're just stuffing in there. That's great. And it saved like an hours on her time.
I'm sure it did. Yeah. I don't know what was the more interesting thing to me. The thing
about her hands or that there were Miss Bonnie Erickson was the one person making this puppet
for decades. They were all handmade. That's crazy. That's amazing. It's pretty cool.
And other things like that came up during the show. It was awesome. That's really fun talking
with them. I just used up every little bit of my voice. I have none left. He's gone. He's
going to be silent John for the rest of the show. I did want to, I do have to save a little bit
because I did want to touch on, we need your help, everybody. And it's getting to like,
die your time here. No, no. I've been trying to have some fun with this, but trying to be
light about it and everything. But we got this mischievous, merton, merlin elf, just
bopping around quality foods, IGA, where you got people trying to stock shelves,
got people trying to buy their food and everything. And boom, there's an elf. There's an elf
right there. Let's make this self pay. And by that, I mean, take pictures of him. Yeah.
You take a picture of this wonderful, mischievous elf and you put it on our Facebook pages.
You use the hashtag WR quality foods. And we're going to grab those pictures. We're going to grab
those names of you people and you're going to be our qualifiers. They're thrown in a hat.
And somebody's going to win this amazing prize from our great friends of quality foods, IGA.
This wonderful basket, this hand basket, this holiday hand celebration basket, I should say.
We're going to give that away on the 21st. This is a real fun contest. We really appreciate all
of our friends quality foods, IGA, making this happen. Yeah. We'll give you a hint for this coming
up in the next tomorrow. We're going to give you a hint. No, the next hint coming up. Nice.
Appreciate everybody that's already played and had some fun with this one. I talked to a listener
this weekend that was driven crazy trying to find this thing. So much so that one of the
one of the people I quality foods actually asked them twice, can I help you? Can I?
Yeah. He's going to try to find this self. All in the self can help me and we can help you.
We can help you by giving you a hint. Yeah. We'll give you a hint coming up tomorrow.
Be listening for that everybody. Very cool. For now, we're going to get to a break coming back
with Misty's Menu, Birthday and Anniversary Club. We also have an update regarding Misty's
Menu. We're going to touch on that coming up right here on the morning show WFHR, locally grown rated.
Yeah. I would love you on your birthday. I'd love you better than time to get into some
birthday and anniversary celebrating now with our good friends over at Misty's Menu.
We encourage you to treat yourself. Get on over to Misty's. They are open right now till
two open six to two six days a week and 90 41st did I with 13 South in Wisconsin Rapids.
When you get there, thank the gang force. Wish them a great day from all of us at WFHR.
Melissa has done a really nice job of keeping up to date on things that Misty's through their
Facebook page and encourage you to go out there and subscribe to their page. If you do, you can
go ahead and see the post that they had recently. She sent over to me and again, thanks for that now.
Reading this right from their post, they are excited but also a little bit sad to announce that
they will be closed December 24th through January 1st for a Christmas break and will reopen on
January 2nd and they will be open starting the new year. They will be open seven days a week
again. Nice. That they are also going to be making a change in ownership that Mike, I'm sorry, Mike
and Chrissy Fleishman will be the new owners of Misty's Menu. Mike and Chrissy, they've been in
this town and done this for quite a while as far as running restaurants and these things. As far
as everything is said, everything is going to stay the same. They are going to add some things
possibly to the menu. I imagine but as far as that menu that you know and love is staying the same,
that staff that you know and love is going to stay the same. It's just a very deserving of Misty
and Brian to be able to do this. Congratulations to them on their retirement. Yeah, that's awesome.
And they're able to do this and a huge congratulations to them and they deserve a bit of credit.
You know, it is very difficult. Ask anybody how, you know, the restaurant industry,
how hard it is to make it work. Let alone in a small town and let's be honest, their location
is in downtown Wisconsin Rapids. Exactly. And yet that place, because it's run so well,
because the people are so amazing, the food is so good, that is a strong business right there.
And they earn this through not only their hard work and everything but also this community,
help them earn this. This community is supported Misty's menu for over 20 some years. And that's
pretty cool. I think everybody can take a bit of a tip, a tip of the hat on the back. Yeah,
20 years though in the restaurant. That's a long time. That's a rugged, that's a rugged industry,
like you said, James, and they deserve it. Yeah, it's making a lot of hamburgers. Yeah, a lot,
and lots of pie. And if you're celebrating a birthday, get on over to Misty's. Let them
know it's your birthday and you get a phrase slice of one of Brian's pies. Yum. Seth highly
recommends Seth. I do. I can't recommend it enough. Get on over there. And if you happen to see
Misty and Brian, thank him. Wish him well. Wish him well. They're still going to be bopping around.
Congratulations. There's still going to be bopping around and everything. We'll see him still.
Let's go ahead and dive into our list. Before we do, I want to remind everybody to get us those
names and birthdays and anniversaries, send them to infowfhr.com, James.mailup at civicmedia.us.
You can direct messages on our Facebook pages as well. And of course, you should have already
by now, you know, you had homework, download the civicmedia app. Yeah, right. If you haven't, we'll wait.
Doesn't take on. This little tiny thing is crazy, man. Yeah, I know.
Okay, all right. So you should have had it by now. Go ahead and use that civicmedia app to go
ahead and just use that one touch dialing to call right up to our station. And that is very
useful for any time. We got a conversation going on and you can join any conversation we have
here. Exactly. During the morning show. Or when we have Friday, our star of the day or we're
giving other things away and you want to be the first to call in, that civicmedia app helps a lot.
Can you do it faster than that? Yeah. And we talk a lot about buying local supporting local.
I may horrible salesman because I don't think about myself. I don't think about our station,
our company often enough. We are local. We are the definition of this. We are a local business
ourselves. It's true. By supporting us and civicmedia radio stations and other network
stations that we have, you are supporting local. Yeah. Go ahead and download the app and give us a
call if you got a birthday or anniversary out there. We want to hear from you. Let's dive into our
list and Melissa, give me a one or two. I'm fine. All right. It gives us that qualifier so we can
get right into it. And we first up want to wish a very happy birthday to Walt Baker. Happy birthday
Walt. Happy birthday Walt. It's a strong name. Walt. I love Walt. That's such a great name.
Salt of the year's name. It is. And I know we should name more kids that, but then we'd have
a bunch of kids named Walt and that seems weird. Everyone named Walt should be at least like 30 years
old. Yeah. Your Walter up until you turn 30. Happy birthday Walt. Have joy your day. And we
wish a very happy birthday to our qualifier, Amy Lewis. Happy birthday, Amy. Congratulations.
Yeah. Congrats. Amy, wish you the best. Hope it's a good one for you. We take a look at our
celebrity list. Haley Steinfeld. Steinfeld is 27. Kate Bishop and Hawkeye, Emily and
Pitch Perfect, Gwen Stacy, Spider Gwen and the Spider-Man into the Spider-Verse movies. I really
like her. She's a very good actress. She's got some great facial expressions. She's just nice.
Well, with those cheekbones, how could she not? Yeah. Yeah. That's true. She's cute as a button.
So I mean, yeah. Yeah. I give her credit to because her career was going one direction where she
could have kind of just played out the kind of a Pitch Perfect type roles. She really wanted to not
get into the Marvel universe, but prove that she could like do the stunts. Do the archery.
Yeah. She learned archery to be able to play the Hawkeye character and everything. I like actors
to go above and beyond like that. They make it they make the character that much more believable
when they do those things. When you see it's her actually pulling back on the bow and not
you know, just the back of her or the back of the stunt person's arm or something.
She was the little girl and true grit in 2010. I forgot all about that. She was a child actor.
Yeah. Yeah. That's one of the I'm sorry. That's that's not a great remake to me. I don't think
it's very good. I love the co-embrothers. I love Jeff Bridges, but she is the best part of that
movie. She is my final and I'm so glad you mentioned that Melissa. Thank you. I had to
forget to mention. Ryder Strong is 44. Sean and Boy Meets World and Girl Meets World.
That was a popular one. One of the better rappers vault at least out in the game for quite some
time. I don't know how much he is anymore. Most deaf is 50. Oh my gosh. Most deaf is 50. That's
crazy. That's crazy. Monique is 56. Really? Wow. I remember when she was she was kind of
riding the wave. Yeah. Nikki Sixth from Motley Crew is 65. I believe he just recently
like finally got the rights to all of Motley Crew's music. Oh, did he? I believe so. I believe.
So I may if I had the right I was talking with Don about this during my tattoo.
Of all the hair metal bands, Motley Crew to me was the one that actually had talent.
They did have quite a bit of talent. None against like your CC devils or people like that
and stuff. There were some certainly some people in the hair metal genre that were pretty good.
And I don't actually put deaf leopard in that because I feel deaf leopard was right before
the hair metal thing. They got their brand. I never really considered the metal. Yeah. Well,
that too. That too. Yeah. But Motley Crew, like I don't like a ton of their songs or anything.
But every member of that band very talented musically. Yeah. Yeah. 100%.
Speaking of talented bands are coming from talented bands and families.
Jermaine Jackson is 69 today. Tito's brother. Wow.
Teri Gar is 76. Oh, the wonderful Teri Gar. Beautiful. Wonderful. Teri Gar,
Tootsie, Mr. Mom, Young Frankenstein. Apparently she was Fobie's real mom and friends apparently.
Oh, really? Oh, really?
Underrated, a funny character in that movie. Like I would pay so much attention to these other
greats and understandably so. But she is so sneaky good in that movie. She's great.
The great Brenda Lee is 79 today. Yeah. We were talking about this on, of course,
the West Country. You know, you forget she started so early. I mean, I know she's in her 70s,
but she's been around for so long because she was like a teenager when she recorded so much
of her music. I always think of rocking around the Christmas tree with her. I forget I'm sorry.
I forgot about that one. She had, she had, you know, if you go back and look at the charts from
like the late 50s. She has so many hits. Yeah, from the to the 60s. She had tons of pockets.
Yeah, before she kind of went country, but yeah, good stuff. But I do love that she rerecorded
the video for the Christmas song and rocking around the Christmas tree and that it hit a number one.
I know. Again, or for the first time. For the first time. Yeah. Did you hear Mariah Carey
felt it was unfair? Like I've all the, like how, like how can you not see the hypocrisy in that
statement, Mariah? How can you be that like that in a bubble that you don't see the hypocrisy of
that? Yeah. If it was somebody younger than Mariah, maybe she could get away with saying that.
It's still cringey. But to say that to an icon, uh, yeah, I wait it, wait a shoot yourself
in the foot there. Yeah. Yeah. Her sales started to go down. I can't help but think that
had a little bit of the deal with it. Um, I do encourage people to check out that video.
Melissa's talking about it. It's really cute. I didn't expect to enjoy it as much as I did. I
really, I, uh, big happy birthday to a John Carey who is 80 today. Uh, former president Obama
secretary of state. Of course, right for president for a while there. Yep. Uh, the great Donna Mills is
83 today. Oh, Abby on nots landing. Got those shows Dallas nots landing the prime time soaps.
Yep. Man, there's a secret storm. There was a run there. There's a run there of those shows.
Yep. And, uh, David Yates from bread is 83. Oh, okay. Yeah. I don't know why, but I've always felt
I, that's got to be top five weirdest band names ever. Bread. Yeah. Yeah. It is. We're bread. Okay.
How do you get excited to see bread? Yeah. We're going to see bread tonight. Woo.
So that don't feel like that's a stint setting. Somebody says I'm the fact that they were like
soft rockers. Yeah. Yeah. That, you know, I guess that fits. I'm sorry. I don't think anyone said
woo when they're talking about bread. Okay. But everybody loves bread. Yes. That's true. So
maybe that has something to do with it. I mean, some people can't eat it, but
yeah. Make it with you. Baby, I'm a want you. That's the mentioned words. That the song that
every English, every English teacher in history. That's so bad. Legend. The great Rita
Moreno is 92. Oh, she's awesomeness. Um, I, I, I, one of the, I, she, no, I don't think
she's the original, but one of the original, one of the first E got winners. She won an
Emmy for being on the Muppet Show, a Grammy for a lecture company, an Oscar for West Side
Story in a Tony for Ritz. Nice. Wow. Man, her, her parents on the Muppet Show is so awesome.
Outtakes of that are so cool. Yeah. We, uh, we, uh, Bri and I have had the discussion a couple
of times of greatest cameos in, in Muppet history. And there's so many. Um, I, I always come back
to Johnny Cash's, uh, cause I feel like it's one of the few times I saw happy Johnny Cash. Yeah,
he was actually smiling. Yeah. So happy to be on there. Like he is so genuinely just enjoyed
being on the Muppet Show and stuff. Prince being on the Muppet Show. Um, because Prince,
uh, would not speak so often in, in public, uh, and, and really didn't like doing interviews
and all these things. It's one of my favorite moments because as a kid, I saw that and I just
thought that Prince was a really nice guy. Yeah. And it really seemed to like kids and puppets
and everything. Uh, I curse people to check that out if you haven't seen that. But Rita Moreno
may get the top spot. Yeah. Rita may have the top spot. I didn't realize she played
Tupped him in the King and I. Mm-hmm. Oh, yes. Oh, sure. Her career is amazing. So all the stuff
she has done. Yeah. Have you guys seen 80 for Brady yet? No. No. I was thinking about it. I do
want to see that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Because of the actors in it. Yeah. Yeah. That would be the only reason why.
Yeah. Right. Yeah. And, uh, and one more for you, Walter Nott, born in the state in 1899, uh,
founder of Nott's Berry Farm. Oh, jam. Oh, so much. Good jam. And the nation's first theme park.
That's right. Nott's Berry Farm. Yeah. Uh, he's still around. Uh, he's also responsible. Walter
Nott is also responsible for naming Boysen Berry. Oh, the flavor. The Berry. Yeah. The Berry. The
Boysen Berry. How about that? He named it after, uh, uh, after the man who created it, Rudolph
Boysen. How about that? Oh, yeah. He was the first person to successfully produce it. I
think we're one million pounds. Never knew that. I didn't either. That's crazy. Wow. Um,
that is pretty cool. Yeah. It is pretty interesting. One more time we want to wish very happy
birthdays to Walt Baker. Happy birthday, Walt. And our qualifier Amy Lewis. Happy birthday, Amy.
Happy birthday. Enjoy your days. We hope that our great ones for you. We encourage you to treat
yourself and get on over to missed these many. They're open right now till two open six to two
six days a week at 9041. Instead, I weigh 13 South of Wisconsin Rapids. Get there. Enjoy
yourself. Say hi to the gang for us. Wish them well. Uh, we are going to get to some state and
local news when we come back. Santa, uh, we may have found a way to use Santa and AI and make AI
actually a good thing. Oh, interesting. Okay. Okay. Coming up on the morning show at WFHR
locally grown radio. Welcome back, everyone. Morning show here at WFHR locally grown radio.
Got Melissa, Seth and James here with you. We hope you're having a great start to your Monday
out there. Thanks so much for joining us. It is go time. We are in the holiday season.
Weeks away. Uh, we wouldn't say a very happy Hanukkah. Everybody out there celebrating.
And of course, uh, everybody getting ready for Christmas and this time of year, artificial
intelligence is about as popular as tinsel these days. But uh, Santa has found a way to harness
the power of AI for good. All right. Finally, Santa is using quote robot elves to produce the
and message messages and send messages to children possibly for free with the help of a company
called handwritten, uh, and written is with a Y instead of an I, uh, uh, and a quote automated
handwritten writing solutions company. They offered to help Santa send out holiday cards and
hear how it works. Parents can be put, uh, parents can parents can be put in a, put in a good word for
their kids by going to hand written by Santa dot com. That's all one word. And again,
written is with a Y. So written with a Y. Gotcha. Hand written by Santa dot com and, uh,
signing up with your email to receive a code. The first six, six thousand requests are free.
Then they'll begin charging a small fee. As of last night, there were about 1,900 free codes left.
So you got to act fast on this one. Yeah. Okay. Then Santa with the help of AI will make sure
the good kids know that their notes and wish lists have been received. Cards should arrive,
uh, peppermint scented and containing a sprinkle of a look like snowflakes. With a return address of
the North Pole, uh, they recommended placing orders by this Friday. Okay. Yep. Okay. I'm sorry,
but, uh, as somebody who lives through the old anthrax thing, uh, sending anything snow-like
through the mail. I just don't know. I thought about that. I can't help it. I'm sorry that my
brain went there with such a fun good story. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. And, um, James ruins
everything. I really do. I really do. Uh, try living with me. I love this idea. And I,
I want us to get to a, uh, we got to get to this place with AI. We really did. There's things to
worry about with AI. There's things to that should bug us a little bit. Um, we have a, we,
we are in the cusp. Man, politics are getting like sports, like the NFL. The NFL has no off-season.
Right. Politics are getting like that. Used to be, oh, we get a breather for a year or two.
And that does, that's ended. Um, and with that being said, the, the, uh, fake news, the, the,
you know, stuff using AI to generate images of people in these things, um, are going on. We
are currently in a battle of this where, uh, we have right now in this state, uh, up for, uh,
a possible bill, a bill to say, Hey, if you're doing that, you have to have it in your commercial
to say this. Right. Yeah. That you're using fake, you know, uh, outtakes or our fake, uh,
generated pictures. Yeah. Exactly. Um, so obviously there is a concern with this. I'm not trying to
make light of that. Um, but like a lot of things that happen, it's snowballs and it becomes, oh,
all of a sudden, we got to worry about AI and everything. And AI is going to take over the
world and all this, um, look, uh, AI makes great sci-fi writing. Really cool sci-fi writing. Right.
That's about where it ends. Uh, well, and the fact that AI has been part of our lives for
already for a lot of years. AI took over a long time ago, man. Long time ago. Have you ever used,
have you ever texted someone? Yep. Because spell check is AI. Right. I mean, it's been telling,
it's been correct. Auto correct. Yep. Yeah. How long have we been frustrated with, uh, just I
didn't say generated words. I didn't write shoot. That's not. I never, I never text the word duck.
I just don't know. Not once. Not once. Uh, and yet AI does not learn. No. No. This, I mean,
the AI is not going to take over. They're just going to keep frustrating us. That's all. It's just
minor inconveniences. That's the, this stuff. And that's the whole thing. You know, that's why we
know what we call AI is not AI. Of course, it's not artificial intelligence. It's just, you know,
shortcuts. It's, it's even calling it machine learning is kind of a misnomer, you know, because
we still, it still has, it's still completely. We still have to input all of the information.
Everything is still dependent on what we put in it. Even Isaac Amnoff is kind of like,
geez, man, calm down. Even he's like, look, I wrote, I wrote. Yeah, come on. Come on. I mean,
I was the old different, you know, it was, it was the sci-fi. I was. Right. Exactly.
Um, stuff like this, I think, um, makes it a little bit more, more understanding for the people
that may not understand what AI is or, or, you know, um, maybe, maybe getting a little bit too much
headlines in their, in their diet, you know, maybe too many headlines in their diet.
It puts a lot more meaning into the garbage in garbage out analogy, especially with computers
absolutely. Yeah, I'm very curious to see what these letters sound like, what they look like
and everything. If it works, this is awesome. This is a really cool thing. Yeah. I, I, well,
that's the thing. AI can be very useful if we use it correctly. I do love the idea of like the
early steps of this and it's not that good. Charlie, nice, great, great job. This is very clunky,
very, like, like when we used to, for the old, you know, automated messages, right? Did sound like
that, you know, the, you've been smile this calendar term. Those are great. Those are great.
I love the idea of like people being scared by that AI. Yes. We here take over,
take leader, take leader, take, take, take us to your leaders. I would you try to say,
take leader, take leader, your base belong to us. That's, that's an old video game.
Text across the screen. Yeah. We are going to come back with the five biggest mistakes parents
make around Christmas. Uh oh. Yep. Coming up on the morning show at WFHR. We are a locally grown
radio. So this is Christmas. And what have you done?
I love the year over. And you won't just become. And so this is Christmas.
I hope you have fun. Let me ride the deep one.
Well, come back everyone. Morning show here at WFHR. Locally grown radio, Melissa,
Seth and James here with you in that holiday season. We hope you're having a great, great Christmas
time of year out there. Yeah. Again, happy. Happy. Everybody celebrating. Uh, we got to get into
this. How can we help parents this time of year? Um, well, look, if you want to hang out and
just hide in our studio for a little bit of time and then you go right ahead. We got plenty of
room around here. We can handle that. We got some chairs up front. You can just hang out here.
We won't tell anybody you're hiding here. Okay. I think we got better ways to help though. I think
we got better ways. Yeah. The holidays are a fun time of year, especially for kids. But if you're
not careful, they can be the worst time of your year for parent at the time of year for parents.
A parenting expert. Um, God, I love that term parenting expert. Have you ever heard of
sillier words put together? Yeah. Yeah. Uh, came up with a list of the five biggest mistakes
parents make this time of year. Um, keep in mind, this is not to make people feel bad. This is not
to, uh, to make you make a parent you like call people out. I, uh, I think one of the biggest
things we got to get better about in society is parents supporting parents, parents looking out
for each other. Parents supporting teachers, parents having teachers backs and everybody
realizing we're all on the same page here. Everybody wants the same thing, a better future for our
kids. Right. Um, unless, unless I'm wrong and less like it. No, no, I, I got into teaching for
the paycheck, which no teacher in human history has ever said. Um, we're, we're doing this for the
right reasons. We all really are. Let's work together on this as we go forward and let's be
better to each other as parents. Yeah. Um, it is the easy, one of the easiest things in the world
as a parent to look at another parent and say, that's not how I do it. Man, right? Yeah.
Well, they eat your kids. Exactly. Uh, you know, focus on your, your little kids, your little
bambino and b-nats. All individuals, man. Um, here they are. Here's some ways to help out
parents creating unrealistic expectations. That means don't let kids think that they're getting
everything that they ever wanted. But also don't try to do too much. You can have a great
memorable holiday without putting up 10,000 lights or baking a billion cookies around the clock.
Make sure you give yourself room to relax. That's a good time. Time with the kids is something
they're going to remember more than a bazillion lights. And you could offer me a penguin,
uh, an Oscar, you could offer me anything in the world. All I want is five more minutes with my
papa. Mm hmm. That's it. That's right. That's it. And that's all I'm thinking about this time of
a year. Yeah. Um, I think that's all most of us would want is time with our loved ones. Yep.
Um, that I, I do think they could have just said, make sure to give to yourself room to relax.
Mm hmm. Feel like that right there is a big one right. Exactly. We may even be able to end the
list. Right? I just say that. Moving on. Um, don't, uh, here is another thing that a mistake
the parents can make using Christmas as a bribe. Be careful about saying things like be good or
Santa mind.com. The holidays are about peace and goodwill. And it can turn them into a quote,
selfish gain, a selfish gain on the part of your children. Mm hmm. I agree with that one. Yeah.
And the expectation of being rewarded for good behavior is, is, um, and, and I think too
as adults, not just parents as adults, we have to see this better than they do. And we have to be
better about this. It's tough. Kid won't do what you're asking to do. That's a difficult situation.
You, you are literally trying to push a concrete wall. That's what you're trying to do. And that
ball is not going to budge. Uh, so of course, bribing comes to mind. Of course it does. And sometimes
you end up doing it and, and give yourself grace when it does happen. Yeah. Don't, don't be too
hard on yourselves. Yeah. So this time of year happens and, and with all the added stress,
as intention and everything, of course, this will come to mind bribing the kid, but it, it,
it can have a, you know, a miscalculation in their brains. Right. This isn't the child's fault.
Children, of course, they're going to, you know, this makes sense in their brains or some,
but then it also would make sense for them to start to connect Christmas with possibly bad feelings
or possibly manipulations. Yes. Yes. Yeah. Well, I, I don't think I've ever bribed my kids.
I just, I just tell them that, uh, if they're not good, then Krampus will come and take your soul.
Well done. Well done. Yes. Yes. That, that, that, that works. That's too much. Just tell them the facts,
just the facts.
Making yourself a holiday martyr. No. Don't put everyone's needs ahead of your own running
yourself into the ground doesn't make you make you a hero. It makes you a parent who just ran
themselves into the ground when they didn't need to. You know, that is, that, that is an excellent
point. You know, and, and it's easy to get into that, you know, even not meaning to, you know,
just, just, it kind of, you just, how I get this done and I gotta, I gotta run here and I gotta
do this and that and the other thing. And then in the end, yeah, you're exhausted and you're not
going to enjoy it. You've got nothing left. Exactly. For the, for the part you're supposed to be,
you know, the, the fun part, the good part. Yeah, this is me. Yeah. I wasn't going to say anything,
but, you know, this is so mean. Not even just holiday martyr. Just like any time. Yeah.
And, and, and I'm thinking about this, I didn't come to that right away, though. My mom and my
grandmothers are, we're like this. And I, I am no doubt, I think we, I heard it. I think we know a
lot. Everyone has people they know, even if it is themselves or something, they know someone in
their family that was like that. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Oh, we all do. Moms are grandmas, typically. Yeah.
I mentioned my mom and we had my sister in town this weekend. She stayed at my parents' house.
And when I stopped over there, they, they were, they were going to make cookies this weekend. And my
mom, you know, for years, like a lot of moms that out there would make cookies this time of
year, like from December 1st to like the 23rd. That's all she's doing is making cookies. Not,
not this version of my mom, not the retired mom. She went out and bought cookies that you could
decorate. The kids could decorate. They thought, you know, they got all the sprinkles and they decorated
themselves and bake them and all that. They didn't make cookies. They just bought those. I love it.
That's awesome. Shreddy go mom. Yeah. And they were able to spend more time playing. They were
able to spend more time having fun. Yeah. Just relaxing, but spending time together. It's
cool. And it is, it is not become normal to me yet to see my mom and dad with the, the good
hips moving around the way they do. I was joking with my dad. Yeah, you would bow Jackson man.
Moving around good. And then, and then come Sunday night to see them. And they're so beat.
Those. Oh, yeah. They're exhausted. Here's another one to keep an eye out for parents.
Being grinchy around your kids. Be careful how much you complain or vent about the holidays
around your children, especially if they're young. Kids up to nine years old process information,
egocentrically. That means that when they find out there's a problem, they often assume it's
their fault. That's a good one. Yeah. Some of us don't grow out of that.
It's a very, again, this is a very easy thing for parents and kids to fall into. This is not
appointing the finger thing. It's something you, we get comfortable around our kids. We vent
around our kids. We say a lot around our kids. But in most parents understand better than most,
their kids are sponges. But because we're around our kids so much, we don't think of this stuff
all the time. It's understandable that it happens. It's something to keep in check.
Especially this time of year, it's so easy to do that because we all want everything to be good
and we want to do all the traditions and we want to make sure everything's perfect that kind of thing.
And yeah, it can really get legia to being like that, being bummed out. We weren't able to do this
and stuff. I would say that's good advice for all the time. Don't do too much of that around
your kids just in general. But yeah, this is another time because, you know, it could color the way
they think about it moving forward. I know that it had a huge effect on me, that kind of thing.
And to the point, I just, I did not enjoy Christmas up until about maybe three, four years ago,
I first started trying to enjoy the holiday more. Just now. And it's actually, to those two
Grinches out there, I'm never going to tell you how to feel, how to do. It's so much better,
man. It's so much better on this side of things. Well, let's energy to not be a Grinch actually.
It really does take a lot less. I'm able to like focus on so many other things. I have so much more
energy. It takes more muscles to frown than it does to smile. I heard that somewhere. What's
where? Your mother. That's such a good thing. Nicely done. Oh, with the accent too. Oh,
I love your mouth. Making the holidays all about getting not giving. Let me say that one more
time for people in back. Making the holidays all about getting not giving.
Making wishless and opening gifts is fun. Just make sure to teach your kids the holidays are
a time to be generous to other people too. One way to do it is to loop them in on other gifts
you're giving so they feel like they're a part of it. Yeah. I would help make cookies with my mom.
And then if I did on the, you know, from Pam and Jim and James, like, you know, that kind of
thing is she would add that little inclusion on it. She did it anyway. But you know, she did. Yeah.
I felt like you were part of it. You feel that generosity too. I felt so big. I took the cookies
out of the oven. That's what I do. Yeah. I didn't do anything. But I felt like a king. I felt
awesome. That kind of stuff goes a long way. Exactly. It shows you don't really have to do that much.
I've met you before. The very first Christmas. I remember it wasn't my first Christmas,
but the first one I remember. We were going to my grandmother and grandfather's in Naperville.
And we had to, we have our nice clothes on and we didn't have much stuff like that. And we take
all this pomp and circumstance and then we go like a block over to go to the soup kitchen.
And I didn't understand what we were doing there in our nice clothes. Actually kind of thought we
should be in line. That has never left me that moment that time. And while I haven't always
loved this time of year, I do love what it can bring out of people. And I think that that
perspective from a young age when we didn't have much gave me so much. I'm not saying that you're
going to take your kids to a soup kitchen. But we got a billion great nonprofits around here
that are always looking for volunteers. And I cannot think of a better way to show your kid,
give your kids perspective than volunteering or being a part of something like that.
Right. Absolutely. And by the way, has no one ever watched every single Christmas special ever?
Isn't that, isn't that the message on all of them? Giving is better than getting.
Yeah, that's what I thought. It's the last Christmas special you saw that was all about
material. Right. It's all about like whoever gets the most gifts wins. Well, they're probably
out there guys. Yeah. Yeah. I really generally wonder though. It'd be curious to see. I understand
like, you know, we went through a pretty materialistic time in the 80s and everything. But even
80s like Christmas specials, I don't remember being like being like that. Get all you can get.
That's a funny perspective though. I think one of the biggest things you could do,
we hit on right away. Make sure to give yourself some room to relax. Melissa mentioned giving
yourself some grace in this time of year goes a long way. Well, and you know, you spoke about it
earlier. I believe when Beth was here for a midday magazine, you know, if if everyone's just,
you know, giving yourself time is the same as, you know, like allowing yourself to get a gift from
somebody. It gives them the same feeling you get when you give to something. So what we're not
saying is, you know, don't accept gifts. We're not saying that. We're just saying you can do all
of this stuff at the same time. You don't have to be all one way or the other. You could take some
time. You can you can enjoy yourself. You don't have to be running the whole time and at the same
time, you can also be the gracious gift getter at the same time. You let people have that same
feeling. So yeah. You mentioned that Seth. I just wanted to take a moment to mention the blue
Christmas worship is going to be taking place next Wednesday at six o'clock at the Wisconsin
Rapids Moravian Church. This is what one of the things Beth and I got together to talk about the
other day. All are welcome. This is sponsored by Grace, the Greater Rapids Area Churches for a
humanism. A humanism. Thank you, Seth. That might have taken us a little tonight. Yeah.
A cumula. A cumula. A cumisinsky. A cumula. Around here, you just add ski at the end of
everything. Yes, I just add a cumiskey. That's an old teacher's joke. A teacher of ours.
We'd ask him how to spell something. How do you spell, you know, dawn, DAWN SKI? Like everything,
everything was that way. I love it. It would never fail. You're here one student. Dang it.
Like did you hear they wrote it down? They wrote it down. Oh, good.
This blue Christmas worship taking place next Wednesday, six o'clock at the Wisconsin Rapids Moravian
Church. A worship designed to recognize our grief and struggles even in the midst of the most
wonderful time of year. You are not alone and you don't have to be alone. That's right.
Big thank you to our friends, a part of Grace making this happen. And we'll talk more about this as
we get closer to it next week. For now, we're going to get out of the way coming up in the 9 o'clock
hour. You know, it's a Monday. You know, we do. We open the kitchen on Monday mornings
in the 9 o'clock. We do. Looking forward to that. Also a little entertainment news for you.
And a little bit after all of that, we're going to get into some divisive questions.
A bunch of divisive questions. Get my gloves on here. Yeah. Yeah. Get them on. Get ready.
Is diehard a Christmas movie? All of this. That's just one of the questions. Just one that we'll
be getting into next hour. Have your phones ready. Please, Helen, we want to hear from you on this.
Melissa, that's exactly where I went to the rap.
Nice. Get ready to call up next hour, everybody. We want to hear from you.
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