Good morning, Wisconsin. Good morning, world. It's a new day. We hope it's treating you good. We're certainly gonna
We're gonna have some fun today. Melissa and James here with you. Take a right to the top of the hour. Good things on the wave for you
We're gonna get into some entertainment news. Kick off the hour a little bit later. Eight habits of the world's happiest people
That should be some good tips. I hope yeah, yeah, we got some that ain't right stuff for you a little bit of good stories of the day
Local good stuff as well. We'll get you getting into all that coming up for you and we'll preview our schedule ahead for the day
Getting into all of that
But to kick off the hour Melissa and I'm gonna be playing this a little bit through the audio this the board here
Just for a moment as soon as I can get this thing to work with me. All right. There we go. Here we go
The mood is right, the spirit song
We're here tonight
And that's enough
To be having a wonderful Christmas time
To be having a wonderful Christmas time
So that is the classic Paul McCartney song wonderful Christmas time
One of the more popular Christmas songs this time of year certainly a modern classic in some ways if you you know kind of stretch the term of modern I suppose but
Maybe not one of the like white Christmas from Bing Crosby or something like that, but up there. It's up there. Yeah
Absolutely, but it also could be it's considered to be one of the most if not the most polarizing holiday song of all time
Really seems like people either love or hate it. There is no gray area
There's not a lot of in between and the people who love it love it for the same reasons the haters hate it
Okay, are you confused? Well a music musicologist named Nate Sloan and man
I would love to have like if I was a musicologist that was that would be how I introduce myself
Have the people of my life wouldn't even know my name just really go that guy's a musicologist
I don't know what his name is never told me his name
You just just title. I think that's an awesome title. That's a great name, man
So this musicologist Nate Sloan laid out the reasons why
first up structure
Stir or there are the lack thereof the songs verse course verse structure is simple to a fault at the same time
The song's harmonic patterns are diabolically complex
Diabolically complex Sloan says those chords are deep and jazzy drawing on the rich harmonic vocabulary of the 40s and 50s pop music
When most of the current holiday canon was composed
Okay, so you see where McCartney was what was doing with there
He he's taking a little bit of those 40s 50s classic Christmas songs and and looking to introduce some of that and when this comes out
And I believe the 80s
Kevin doesn't like it. Yeah, yeah, the synth the synthesizers. Yes. Yes, Paul recorded gets me
Paul recorded the song with a synthesizer synthesizer that was pretty new at the time. It sound is
Staco staco and harsh and tiny staccato staccato. Thank you Melissa staccato harsh and tinny synthesizers aren't terribly common in Christmas songs
But when they're used they tend to be a lush and sustained adding in or core orchestral feel to the track
Yeah, orchestral feel to the track and then there's the lyrics
They're simple and repetitive. They don't say much other than quote we're here tonight and that's enough
The phrase simply having a wonderful Christmas time is repeated 17 times before the song is over which makes it catchy and
Possibly maddening and duck in your head. Yes
Again another thing from one of the the world's greatest songwriters
Whether you love or or love the song or hate it Paul probably doesn't care
He's earned to a vestibated $400 a thousand dollars up the in six over four hundred to six hundred thousand dollars every year from this song
Every year own your music people dig ity own your music own it. Yeah, own those own those rights of those songs
I was talking about this the other day and and every you know every year we have these things
We Melissa Seth and I are going to be getting together this week to record our our Christmas episode of directors cut and
I was looking for topics for us to go through and everything and one of the things is
Forgotten Christmas songs and you know bad quote quote unquote bad Christmas songs and it's from like big name artists
Elvis and other artists and stuff they recorded Christmas music that we don't really think of for everyone don't hear
Yeah, yeah, and and and a lot of them our original songs and and and it kind of like was on to the people
I'm talking to it stuff about this where
Well, why would you do that? Why would you take that chance or something? Why would you hurt your career or something?
Ask Whitney Houston
I'm sorry ask ask as Mariah Carey ask
Ask you know any artist that has that has already had a career, but then you have a Christmas classic
Being Crosby's one of the better singer-cruuners of all time, but we know him just for Christmas songs basically
Right, like there's being big and then there's being a legend
There there's having your songs played well after you're long gone
There's still playing your songs every year on this at this specific time
So if you if you have a new Christmas hit you're you're good you're not just
It's not just being good for that year or for a time. It's okay. I'm getting royalties the rest of my life from that hit
If I'm a musician this is one of the things I'm gunning for I want a Christmas hit
I wanted something like that. I get why Mariah Carey. I'm sorry about the the miscar misnaming there earlier
We were talking about Diane Warwick earlier and I was looking I was going down the rabbit hole
I've heard Whitney Houston there. I was trying to figure out why they never did a song together
That would have I bet they would have sounded really good together
Oh, yeah, but yes, Mariah Carey with her big hit or you know anybody
Debbie Lee who we are celebrating the other day, you know, I mean
Debbie Lee was a fantastic artist and had a number of hits
But I don't know if modern people would know who Debbie Lee is really without that, you know rocking around the Christmas tree
Mm-hmm. I get it. I if I'm a musician this is something I'd be trying for a big time
I think more musicians need to write Halloween songs. Yes
And hotica songs for God's sake. Yeah, we really don't have many come on Neil Diamond
Neil Diamond got a got a best-selling Christmas album out there
He's a Jew for God's sake read a Christmas song Neil
I mean right right a hotica song Neil
Got a billy the greatest Christmas songs I argue with the greatest Christmas songs of all time Irving Berlin, Jew
Hey Irving you couldn't a route in a hotica hit you could come on
It's sitting here playing the Dreadel song our whole lives
I mean give us something else give us Willie's one other song just one other song
That's all I'm asking for we've got the hotica song from Adam sailor the Dreadel song end of list. That's it
Give us another song
Well, if you don't like wonderful Christmas by Paul McCartney
There are a lot of other artists who have redone it like Kylie Minogue
Jars of Clay Diana Ross the shins straight no chaser. Oh good band Ellie Roland
Interesting I'd like to hear a couple of them Mac tomorrow Mac tomorrow did one. Oh, yeah
Oh, I got to hear that. I like Mac tomorrow. That's one of our own. That's midwesterner right there
I like the monkeys
There's lots of options get a try got a try we were we were unable to do it this year
But next year we're really gunning for this really planning on it Seth Melissa and Pam and us are gonna do our own Christmas album
We're gonna get in on this. We're gonna get in on this one everybody. Yeah, we're bigger on Christmas album
Don't shouldn't we bright a Hanukkah song. Yes, that's why we're doing it
What we're gonna have so we can have a Hanukkah song
Yes, so it's it's a holiday album. Yes a holiday album. Yeah, we holiday. Yeah
We're gonna cover our back because this is how we're this is how we get even bigger Melissa
We have we have we have we have a Christmas hit Hanukkah song that nobody else has
Maybe maybe we'll write a hit quants a song to there's not there's no quants of songs for this time of year
He's either I mean that's a whole market nobody's hit not at least not that's playing on our stations true
Well the friends of mine to do celebrate
Quants of make a similar joke that I do about Hanukkah so okay
Well, that's good
I know next to nothing about quants except I think it's it's African, right? Yes, yes
It's a beautiful holiday
Encouraged people to learn about those things, you know, it's a fun one to learn about you may even find things that you might want to incorporate in Christmas
nominees for the 2024 golden globes were announced yesterday and
Here's what's really important Nicholas Cage got a nod
That what really yeah Nicholas Cage got a nod for a golden globe
Wow for what we'll get to that okay Barbie and the TV show succession have the most nods with nine
Oppenheimer is next with eight and killers of the flower moon and Emma Stone's movie poor things
Both have seven Emma has two chances to win as she was nominated for poor things in the TV drama the curse in the TV categories
The bear and only murders in the building have five nominations each
Speaking of the amazing TV show only murders
Merrill Streep is up for the golden globe for her supporting role in season three that gives her 33 overall nominations
That extends her record by the way everybody
There is to me is no debate at all I can I can go ahead and I can throw in there Benedict Cumberbatch or James McAvoy
I can throw out a couple of names. There is not a better actor in the world for I'd say the last decade at least and then Merrill Streep
Merrill Streep will go down as one of the greatest of all time she is a legend and
She does this TV show because she's very good friends. I should really enjoy Steve Martin and Martin short
She's become friends with Selena Gomez over the years
So she's like I'd like to do this Merrill Streep does a TV show. Okay, that sounds good
But then you see her do it and in the opening in the beginning of season three the opening scene you have with Merrill Streep
She shows you in the first minute
Why she is the greatest in the game today?
Like if you don't watch anything else the rest of the season if it's the only bit of murders in the building you watch
I encourage people to do it
Just if you want to be able to see why I say this is a this is an art. This is a craft
It's the way Merrill Streep does it that's that's a acting at its greatest is in that opening scene there in that first minute or two
And you see air all these emotions all these different things on her face and then she flips
It most actors will flip a mood or a dialect or something like that from word to word
Merrill Streep does it in the inside the word as she's saying the word she does it
I don't know many people have ever seen do what she does like it's just incredible
This will be the 81st Golden Globes. It's scheduled to go down Sunday January 7th on CBS. There's no word yet on a host
I threw my name out there. Haven't heard back
Haven't heard back. We'll see. We'll see
Um
That'd be hilarious if they actually took me up on it. That would be my luck
Maybe like Melissa Seth. I need you guys to cover for me on January 7th
And by the way, what do you know about emceeing? What do you know?
So it looks like a lot of people the most famous part about this right now is the people who have turned it down
Chris Rock has turned it down
Everybody's asking Chris Rock to host everything right now. Oh man
Yeah, yeah
Also Ali Wong will our net Sean Hayes Jason Bateman were all asked to do it and they have turned it down as well
So maybe Melissa and I will do it, you know
Maybe or ask Jack Black. I'd like to see him host more stuff
You know, that's such a great. Oh, it's a great choice
Yeah, I was thinking to him the other day while you know you have a lot of actors that they don't necessarily they can't keep the career going
They're not getting as many roles so they go and they do talk shows or you know
Maybe host a talk show or something Chevy chasted this famously in a bombed
I think Jack Black would be perfect for something like that like absolutely like a male version of Drew Barrymore, you know
Where her show is so fun and so popular? I would think the Jack Black show would be like that. Oh, yeah
That's a great one a great right. I him as an emcee too. He's got such a Billy crystal type of quality and energy to him
uh
So energetic and and personable and I think Bob Hope was the greatest MC. I'll ever see
Just my opinion, but I think Billy crystal was awfully darn close
Billy crystal hosted the Oscars like our whole our whole childhoods and Billy crystal was like the
You knew who was the host that you didn't know who was gonna host the Golden Globes or the Emmys
But you know Billy crystal was gonna host the Oscars every year. Yeah, he was great
Looking at the just a quick glance at the 24 Golden Globe nominees
For best drama an enemy of a fall killers of the flower moon Maestro Oppenheimer past lives in the zone of interest
Best actress Annette Benning
Lily Gladstone Sandra Huller Greta Lee Carrie Mulligan and Kayleigh Spaney
Best actor Bradley Cooper Lee and out of the caprio Coleman Domingo Barry Cobbeth
Silly and Murphy in Andrew Scott
A lot of great names a lot of great a lot of great people attached to this one now if you're wondering
Well Nicholas Cage was nominated you said James where was he nominated he was nominated for best actor in a musical a comedy for the movie dream scenario
Um, he was nominated for that Timothy Shalame was nominated for Wonka met Damon for air Paul Giamani for the holdovers
Joaquin Phoenix for a view as afraid and Jeffrey Wright for American fiction
Okay, I have a Nicholas Cage getting a nod that's interesting for a musical. Yeah, I don't think anybody had that on their
You know 2023 you know
Board and we wrap up our entertainment section talking local of course this week
We encourage you to check out while you can a candle in the window the wonderful Wisconsin Rabbits community theater production holiday production
They had a great opening weekend from what I heard it went really really well
We encourage you to attend and support local this weekend the 14th 15th and 16th they have shows at seven on the 16th that Saturday
They got a two o'clock matinee
I'm excited. I've got my tickets for Thursday
Yeah, Melissa's gonna enjoy yourself
We encourage you to join Melissa and and fill up that whole entire auditorium make sure that they have got a full crowd there
And take in as many shows as you can because they have two different groups with this
That's right. They have two sets of
Children actors. Yeah, the group one child actors will be a part of the
Saturday show and
The group two will be a part of Friday and Saturday shows
Nice
Man, I encourage you to check this out
It's live theater so every show is gonna be a little bit different and a little more unique
And that's another reason to go ahead and take these in and the cast is amazing got a great cast in this one
WRCT just does a nice job knocking it out with these casts every every
Season they they bring in a new one and they bring in great casts and new members and people that we also have gone to see in many times and love and enjoy
And Melissa and I will tell you as much as we love our fellow actors and the the hardworking people behind the scenes and everything
You got to check out these stages, too
Oh, yes, they do such a wonderful job with the stages at
The community theater there in rapids. I'm impressed every time because you walk in and it's a completely different place
Had a meeting with Gretchen new executive director over there at WRCT last week and we just could I went in and I had to go say hi to the stage
I had to
So went in there and I got and see how it changed yeah
Yeah, yeah, and I got to see the set and it looks like a train station the whole play takes place in there
And it looks just like an old school train station. They did such an amazing job with this
Wonderful by local support local support our arts locally here and take in this great show get your tickets at wrc theater dot org
WRC theater dot org you can also get them the day of right there at the front desk show up have some fun and
Joy some great theater this holiday season
We'll take a break we'll come back and have some more fun on the morning show at WF HR
I
Have to tell you on the break. I was gonna listen to Kylie Minneau's
Oh, yeah, yeah, her sister's got sent to
Yep, I don't know she'd synthesizers be allowed at Christmas songs. I'm starting to wonder
I'm starting to wonder here. That's too fitting. We we don't get to choose which bumpers pop up and boy
This is the one it could have happened better good one that's pop up
Ship me
We hope you're having a set has a hand in it though. I think so I think I think somehow somehow he has done this is
He just waved his magic wand figured out a way to do this
It would you know imagine having a magic wand and that's all it does though
Like this just said that's it
It only affects the bumpers on the radio station
Like the only bad you can do the all the things of the world and that's it
I guess it's better than nothing. Yeah, yeah and speaking of
appreciating what you got we're gonna get into eight simple eight habits of the world's happiest people
Dan let me get his name right here Dan
Bioner is a best-selling author who's traveled the globe studying how people live long happy lives
And in a recent interview he laid out the eight top eight habits of the world's happiest people
This is based on research and and that many people he's met and he says there are eight things you can do to feel happier every day
One of the things that I thought was interesting about this is a place to see visited and there's this village in Italy
That has been known for centuries for the like life expectancy there is in the late 90s
Yeah, yeah, and they've done tests on people there to see why
Um
I'll tell you I mean they could have saved the time on the test and everything Italian food
Definitely definitely
I can't prove more pasta more pasta in your diet. That's what he did
So based on the research and the many people he met here are the here are the things that he can't took from this
Number one get at least eight hours of sleep. Dang it
Hahaha
Don't um the happiest people sleep eight to nine hours and a half hours a night
So I guess I would say trying to get close to that certainly is the best most of us can do
Yeah, and I know I'm always I always want more sleep
For my alarm goes even if I get eight hours I I want more sleep. Yeah
Eat a plant-based breakfast
Stay away from too much meat and dairy in the morning sugary seal cereal isn't good either. Dang it. Oh
Fail again James. Hey, I'm not doing good of this
Socialize the more the better Italy
Italy with people ideally with people you actually like
Hey, there's the kicker. Well, that one I'm getting better about that one
That one's a little bit better. That's good. That's good. And that is a really good tip
It's easy to get isolated or to get you know
Keep to yourself especially at this time of year when it gets colder out and you're not out as much
Yeah, and when you have a lot of like family obligation not actually family gatherings
Which could sometimes feel like obligations depending on the family, but uh digress um
It's easy to get into that circle of of well, you know what?
I just want to hold up on the couch with my Netflix and chill. Yeah. Yep
Volunteer people who do tend to who people who do tend to feel happier more satisfy with their lives and have fewer symptoms of depression
Hmm. That's a great one
You know, it's so it's the crux of this uh whether you're volunteering or you just need to get things done around the house
It could be so hard to motivate yourself. It could be so and and well if you don't get things done then what happens
Of course you beat yourself up for not getting things done
All right, but I think one of the things that's a motivator for me that really helps me get up is is thinking on my future self
Like oh my future self is going to really appreciate this
I'm going to be so happy on Friday that I cleaned the mirror today. Yeah. Yeah
And and I know how good it's going to feel and I deserve that and and darn it
I'm going to I'm going to fight for that. I'm going to I'm going to work towards that
Um, it's it's not that different than volunteering
Uh, oh, how would I ever fit the time in for meals on wheels?
How would I ever fit the time in to read the kids with the united way or or something like that
And then you find the time and you do it and I promised you and I only use the pay word when I can back it up
I promised you you are going to feel incredible from this um
It I could especially younger me. I was a cynical jerk. I really was um doing meals on wheels changed me on that
And and and maybe well what what can this really do is it really as great as it is
Uh, it's one of the greatest things that I'll ever do with my life
Uh, and and I think that's saying something
Doing these kind of things volunteering goes so much farther than um, Melissa and I could ever word
Mm-hmm. It gives more to you than
What you're you're giving
Reach out to our friends at the ADRC find out how you could be a part of meals on wheels call 211
Reach out to our friends at the united way and find great up and volunteer opportunities out there
Encourage you to do that everybody. Reach out to the local food pantry. I'm sure they could also use some help
You want to give a gift this holiday season give it to your community help out
Mm-hmm take naps comes in at number five dang it
I love naps started this naps are the best. Yeah, just I need to take a class at midstate on how to nap because I really really really bad at it
I'm gonna let you in a little secret
This is how my boyfriend and I date now
We don't go out to dinner
We nap together
It's wonderful
No, you I miss Melissa. I made my ex-wife for like that too. Yep. Yeah, yeah
Yeah, this is this is one of the great there are a handful of signs that you know you got something you know
You got a good relationship going it's it's these bot like one to me at least on my side and the guy saying the things
I'll say I always I always felt comfortable in a relationship or or woman felt good with me and we were in a good place
When she was wearing the sweatpants would would you put the sweat
Yeah, yeah, that's okay. She's comfortable with me. This is we're in a good place here and stuff
Naps are another one if you you can do that. That's another one of those things. Yes
Another thing on this list. It gets a little interesting to me
He adds on this number six have faith
It doesn't matter what you believe in study show people who are religious or faithful are more likely to describe themselves as very happy
Um, I I don't I don't argue with that at all um and I don't think that he has a bad point there
But he this the point of this list is to try to help people encourage people to try to incorporate some of these things
I imagine faith is not something you can just throw into your day
I I personally believe
Just and I don't think I'm alone on this one the faith is something that calls you
And you either calls you or it doesn't I don't believe that you
I've spent my whole life
admiring
People with with religious faith in strong faith my brain is very logical my brain does not work that way
I pray I believe I have my beliefs
But I don't I don't pretend to be like my mom or my grandmothers were or anything like that
And I admire it very much. I admire it so much that I'm not going to fake it
I refuse to fake that kind of thing
I'm not going to just phone it in I'm not going to show up at these things and just go through the motions
If I don't feel it
So I feel like having faith that's very very nice to say but some of us weren't born with that and and
Are learning more and more how to either incorporate that in our lives or how to have that
It's not as simple as just you know what I'm going to have some more faith
Well, and I think that you can have faith in you know more than just
Like the Christian God. I have faith in humanity. I have faith in
My friends and the people that care that I care about and that care about me
So I think I think you can look at it with a with a broader
Brushstroke as well. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. I have faith that I believe in the universe
I believe in that you're always where you were meant to be no matter where that is good bad no matter what
There's certain things like that and I think you get you there's a comfort in that
There you know whether it's faith or it's it's it's whatever version of faith that is
Yeah, limit TV and social media the idea the ideal amount is no more than 30 minutes a day of each
So that's one show and a quick skim of your favorite social media platforms
I think that there's a that's would be difficult for a lot of people. Yeah, yeah
I I don't know if I even get 30 minutes a day in of social media like
I think if you added it up. I first I don't have the time
But I also even when I do have the free time and I think oh maybe I should go through
Yeah, you know, I'm gonna do this instead
I I'm not very good with the social media thing. I've pulled back from it a lot over the last couple of years
Well, and I think that the study speaks to it
I think people who spend a lot of time on social media have a tendency to not you know, feel better after
Binging on Facebook for hours
Well, and I think that everybody is their best judge on this stuff even though we can be our own harshest critic
You know how you feel when you get done scrolling through Facebook or Instagram or any of these other apps
You know how you feel afterwards. How do you feel? You know, okay, you know what I need to I need to take a break from this
Or maybe you know, I need to suspend my account and just take a break from that completely or or something
um and trust your gut on that
And the final one on this list this one's not doable for most of us, but don't work full time
You won't be happy. Yes, please. Yeah, yeah, right
You won't you won't be happy if you can't make ends meet but in a perfect world part time is better
People who work less than 35 hours a week tend to be the happiest overall because they're working less than 35 hours a week
Yeah, but can they afford housing and uh, you know groceries
I don't
Only possible for some people and that's like like of these eight things
I counted at least three or four things on that list that are not exactly doable by everybody or just aren't in everybody
Right, which only which makes me feel like putting this list out there is only another it does the opposite of what it's trying to do
You can be happy only if you accomplish these eight things. Yeah, well, and if you can't accomplish them then
Then that's just one more thing you're kind of beating yourself up about
So I recommend this
Put your own list together make your own list you know what makes you happy you know what can bring your mood up this time of year
And keep your expectations realistic. I think that's one of the better things to do this time of year like with anything
We're talking about a Christmas party a Christmas gift just a holiday season in general and keep your expectations and check
And what's the downside if things go even better than you expected?
Well, then you're even more surprised you're even more enjoying it better and all that right right
But I mean don't go into things with a with a pessimistic view. Oh, yeah
You definitely don't do that that will make make things not enjoyable. Yeah, trust me. That is not fun. That is not fun
We got miss a Melissa's local news coming up right after our state news
We'll be back after that with some fun stuff. We're gonna get into the latest specialty street food
I've got a touch on that with you Melissa street food is so fun got that coming up and
Plenty more on the morning show here at WF HR where we are locally grown radio
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Gone we now are gave
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Little Nat King cold place in the de segment right here. Melissa and James with you
Thanks for starting your morning with us everybody
We're over having a great day out there
Oh, yeah, we're gonna get into a that ain't right story in a little bit and we've got this new street food
I want to talk about with you Melissa as well for right now and then this may be a that ain't right who knows maybe
Okay, have you ever bought a bag of ice and wondered what that means by by it being print premium ice
Premium ice like you know the bags is a premium ice or something. Yeah
It probably means nothing because there's only one way to have a elevate ice and that's by grilling it
What yeah, there are some tic-tocks making the rounds claiming that grilled ice has become a specialty street food in northeast China
Okay, the vendor I make ice better at fire
The vendor the vendor takes some ice throws it on a grill seasons it with spices like chili
Camine scallions and sauce and then serves it up one serving of grilled ice reportedly costs two bucks
A lot of people wonder if the ice would melt but the idea is to use big chunks of ice and to grit quote grill it quickly
Right one customer described it as spicy and interesting
Interesting we're gonna give you some spiced water
In nice form. Yeah, interesting's good thing to say except for with food like that
Nobody ever says interesting after eating something or taking a bite of something and then plans to eat it again
Right right right interesting when you don't want to say oh
As we all know you can't believe everything you see on social media and some locals say they've never seen it
So it must be a joke, but others say that it is legit. There's a real 50-50 thing going on here of half the people say it's real half the people say it's not
We say it ain't right
Yeah, I mean
Yeah, right what do you do with that?
Well, we need to come up with a new idea for street food everything's been done
I mean we've sold every kind of meat you can have
Every part of the animal what have we not done every vegetable every fruit? What about ice?
We are running out of ideas of the food world apparently we are
We can't do the snow cone because those are expected to be sweet
But if we keep it in cube form I like that. I like and grill it. I like it'll be smoky
Spicy I like the reference to snow coats. I forgot about snow coats. That's great
We've already been doing this and we just have been grilling it. We just that
I it does just make you want to try to do this
Like get a big chunk of ice out of the freezer and see if you could do this at home see like I
There's a part of me that's tempted to try. There's a part of me. I'll end up there's some just to see just to see
I don't know
Let's just just get a snow cone machine
Yeah, and buy yourself a bottle of marinade and boom. There you go. Mm. Yeah, well, you know
We wrap up that article talking about you know nowadays. Is it real? Is it not you know social media
This is a big question going forward here, especially as we're getting close to a political
We're always in a political season one of my talking about yeah, but it's gonna ramp up here pretty soon
We're gonna get into what is real and what isn't in our next segment first. Let's take a phone call good morning
You're on the show. What's on your mind?
Okay, let's talk about grill day
Okay
Yes, Lex. Yeah, yeah, I don't
Suddenly have an inkling to grill ice
but
If there were a way to smoke it at a cold enough temperature and then you throw that stuff
Into a cup that you make a bloody marion to
Mm-hmm beyond to something
Maybe or even like a really decent whiskey
Sorry, okay
Oh, that's a good idea. That's a good idea. I like that. I see a new bar in the future
But the idea of adding a smoke flavor to your ice and putting it in a beverage doesn't sound unappealing
But a natural smoke flavor not like we're gonna add a little liquid smoke to your bloody Mary
Yeah
Yes, I'm like oh darn it. I'm not sure why what we'll have to work on that we'll have to get it was working before
I'm not sure why it's not we'll have to check that out and we will have to hang out with you again
Thanks so much for calling up always good to hear from you
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Melissa and James here with thanks for joining us everybody and Seth McFarland and Seth McFarland right there too
If social media isn't addictive then why do we spend so much darn time on it even though we know that most of it isn't real
well
A new survey found that Americans believe that don't believe only 37% of the content on social media is quote real
That includes struggling to separate authentic images from the ones with hidden filters photoshop and other edits
But it's more than that
People are skeptical of targeting advertisements as well as influential content like those products that can be pitched as friendly tips and hacks
But are usually scripted paid promotions
And there's then there's the business uh that uh quote businesses that friends and followers try to sell you on which are often pyramid schemes bots and often spam profiles
Yeah
Overall 74% of Americans admit that they oh that they can't always tell what's real and what's fake and 71% of people think it's uh
We'll get harder to determine what's real and what's not over the next 10 years with AI and other technology
Uh, yeah
Um, I
I don't necessarily agree with that
Uh, then it's gonna get harder in the next 10 years
Now I'm saying that with maybe the last little bit of hope I have in me
um
Your faith in humanity yes because uh we we do have a a currently right here in Wisconsin
We have a bill that is sitting there waiting to be uh put in the motion
As far as making sure that when during election seasons during political seasons
When you see these political ads
If they are using AI to alter the ads it they have to tell you it in the end
Yeah, older the photos are create something out of nothing
Do you think we're gonna sit back and just let this happen
Like I don't I don't believe we will
I do believe that uh that the American people do believe in truth still that they do believe that they do want that
And they're gonna push they're gonna if we don't get politicians to get these they these kind of bills past
We're gonna get politicians in there that will pass them
Yeah, um, yeah, I I I'm not saying that we're not still a bit of a you not bit
We're still a divisive country and all that guess what we always have been um
We just we just didn't always have social media to tell us this and to tell each other
Hey, I don't agree with you all the time
Well, and that's the beauty of America. We can disagree
But we just need to find the way to work together
We are the country that can good that half of our country one can want us to go to war the other half cannot
So when the rest of the world looks at us we don't look like uh war mongers
Because they'd always want to go to war and we also don't look soft like we can't handle ourselves
Yeah, this is the beauty of our country. We can have our cake and eat it too
But with the rest of the world gets this we're not getting it
Here uh, we need to treat each other that way. We need to respect that about ourselves
We need to embrace that and when you start to embrace those things all the sudden
What's real and what's not on social media doesn't matter as much
Because even if you see an ad for a politician that you were planning on voting for and this you know
They're opponent makes you think differently or something like that. What are you gonna do?
You're not just gonna take that exactly
We we by now I think we know that uh, we got to research these things and look what happened
Melissa with all of this negativity with all these fake ads and this fake AI and all this stuff
It got us to actually have to do some homework
It got us to actually have to think about our vote
So I'm actually not even that mad about some of this stuff because of the the outcome because of the outcome of it
Yeah, like
For decades we've been trying to get people to think before you vote and and nothing can get it done
It took this to kind of get it to happen
You know, I don't like it
I certainly would love our world without it
But I'm gonna take the positives from it because all the sudden
I know people who have never even thought twice about whether it's voting or actually thinking about their vote
All the sudden they're telling me stuff
They did you know this? Hey, did you know that and I'm doing my homework and the things are telling me
Well, that's awesome. Look the act of voting should not be hard
It should not be hard to pass your vote as an American citizen no matter where you live or what your
Financial outcome or any of those things if you've got if you can prove you're an American
You can prove the things that your state or your county needs you to prove you should be able to vote
But yes, absolutely, but once you're in the booth that shouldn't be easy
It shouldn't be easy to know you know what dad. I'm always voting Democrat. I'm always voting Republican
No, man. No, I'm not giving them my vote like that. You got to earn my vote
You've got to earn it by fighting for our people. You got to earn it by representing us. I'm not just gonna walk just what team you're on
Yeah, forget because they're not teams
No, teams quit a pre quit approaching sport politics like it sports and that's coming from me
There
I can't go five seconds. Hey, I said it first
I can't go five seconds without making a sports reference. I mean my god
These are not your sports teams they don't the for one you know the one thing they haven't common
Of the owner of those sports teams probably cares about as much about you as some politicians do
Like I know they'll take your money, but that's about it
So find out the ones that care find out the ones that are actually in this for the right reasons
And are actually doing things while they're in office and and creating bills and trying to make their districts better for the people and listening to the people
It's not that difficult. It is not that hard. And if we do this before you know
We'll wind up and we actually got politicians doing what we asked them to do
Mm-hmm, but you know what is hard for me personally
Deepfakes yeah with celebrities
Yeah, so so I usually don't even like give it two thoughts. I'm like well. That could be real. That could be fake
I don't care move on
Yeah, yeah
Exactly exactly
Now they're I don't make light of this some of this stuff can ruin lives can cost money
Can you can hurt families at all these different things?
But again, that's why it's on us to figure out the real
Right and figure out how to put safeguards in place that are going to prosecute those who are you misusing it?
This idea that you need to be spoon fed everything
Like that that's never been the case of our society
We've never been that kind of society while the sudden with this are you well, you have to tell me what's real and what's fake
Okay, well, we do need laws for that when as far as politics go
But you also got to kind of do your own homework sometimes too, man
I mean what what what more do we got to do here? The sad fact is
You can't necessarily trust what's coming out of a politician's mouth. No, that's why you got to do your own homework
Yes, yes, definitely
And because for some reason that's okay for them to just make statements which
Which boggles my mind? Well, and I don't care if my father was running for office
I'd be double checking I'd be looking up the homework on him
Like it doesn't matter who it is you should be doing that if it's somebody you've even voted for before
Check it out see what else they've been up to, you know
Yeah, if if if politician has a problem with that that's not somebody you want representing you
Right, it's not that difficult all this stuff is out there nowadays
You can see who is adding to their campaigns and those things look into that stuff
Yeah, don't just expect this to just fall into your lap
And if you can't tell what's a deep fake with the celebrities ask the kids
Yes, yes
And if you're still if you see something you're still not sure of it or anything you do your homework and you still not sure
Well, then just don't don't pay attention to it. Ignore it or don't that's not a real fact possibly
You should be able to find some data for it
Mm-hmm
We need to palette cleanser. Let's take a look at our midday magazine
We got a great one lined up for you today in part one
We are talking with lacy ailing events and engagement director with the heart of Wisconsin Chamber of Commerce looking forward to that
And in part two, it's let's talk real estate with our friends at Cole Baker see your realtors
Lindsay Shider is going to joins us. Lindsay
Sent just sent us over the notes
We're going to be talking about buying a home in the winter and some of the difficulties of that and another fun things
Talking real estate with our friends at Cole Baker see your realtors that'll be a 330 today
Be sure to join us from three to four Monday through our Tuesday through Friday for midday magazine Monday playmakers
A little bit later today at 705 on this here network
You'll have the Wisconsin hockey hour be sure to check that out and a little before that on WRI at 655 our pregame kicks off
For high school boy boy's basketball Lincoln hosting Mozini Michael and Seth running that one
You know, it's gonna sound good roll Raider. Not gonna get our listeners out in Mozini, but roll Raiders
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Looking locally speaking of high school looking at our local high schools here
We got some great events going on in the area all of the concerts at the Rams Auditorium are coming up like we've got one today from
The seventh and eighth grade orchestra is going at six o'clock today
The seventh and eighth grade or eighth grade orchestra over at Rams be sure to check that out on Thursday the six seventh and eighth grade
Choirs will be taking place at six o'clock over at Rams be sure to check those out
And then today as well at 630 grades K2 at 745 and grades three
I'm sorry at 630 grades K2 and this is in the port Edward's district and then grades three through five at 745 will be
Having their their show and that'll be at the Dorothy Alexander Auditorium
Import Edward's cute. Yeah, it's gonna be another fun show. That's gonna be a good one too. We could you in the holiday spirit support and our kids
A reminder that tomorrow is Heroes Cafe at Crossview Church
That'll be at 8 a.m. Be sure to check that out and the American Legion post nine will be having their monthly meeting at seven
That'll be taking place as well
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Keep that in mind everybody and a shout out to Oliver our vets out there and of course our friend Tom for getting us this information
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Yeah, you two James. Thanks. Have a great day. We'll talk soon in the later right here at WFA. Oh, I like the way Pam does this
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