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Got your host James Day behind Mike. I am joined by Seth and Beth. Good morning. Good morning. I didn't know which one of you would go first if I did it that way. It was a race. Next time we'll do it together.
Fun things on the way for you. I like that. In a little bit, we're going to get into things younger people don't get about the past decade. That sounds like fun. That's going to be a good one coming up. I got a little bit of science news and some other fun stuff we'll get into as well. I want to touch on and some other things too. We're going to get to but we got a call coming in. Let's go ahead and take it. Good morning. What's on your mind? Hey, you guys were playing some good Christmas music.
You did not play Bruce Springsteen in the Eastery band. Merry Christmas, baby. Yeah. Yeah. That's a good one. It's one of those ones. It's actually a cover of an Otis Redding song. Yeah. That is probably my number one song. I just wanted to sneak that one in after the break.
That's a good one. That's a great one to mention. And Otis's version is really good. I heard it the other day. That's an amazing song. That's a great one, man. Thanks so much for the mention. We like it. We're going to throw that one into our playlist too.
Right on that. Merry Christmas to you and your brother. Right. Hey, we appreciate you guys this calls. Keep coming 424 2600 715 424 2600. Love hearing from the best listeners in radio. Let's dive into some entertainment news.
Madonna thanked her lucky stars and some special friends during a recent concert in Brooklyn. That was a bad line. That was bad. Wow. That was bad, especially with what I'm about to tell you.
Many don't know. She just released this information that back in June. She was in she was in hospitalization revealing that she was put into an induced coma. Wow.
Quote, there are some very important people in this room tonight that were there with me in the hospital. Madonna said during the concert, according to footage posted on a Twitter. I'm not calling an ex from a concert this weekend on her celebration world tour.
She continued to say there's one very important woman who dragged me to the hospital. I don't even remember. I passed out on my bathroom floor. I woke up in the ICU. Oh, wow.
For somebody who, I mean, there was a point in time where Madonna broke a nail and we knew, you know, like remarkable. Yeah, yeah, it really is.
And in reading this story, it reminded me of a conversation that I had over this weekend or the weekend before I don't remember. It actually came up because we were talking about the king of pop and who that is.
Because, you know, Michael Jackson was always considered the king of pop. But now removed from the 80s and 90s a little bit and we have some time to think about these things.
I think it's a fun debate to have. I don't have I don't there's no wrong answer.
And unless you say Buster Point Dexter, there's no wrong answer.
And that's that is objectively wrong. Yes, you are correct. Where in God's name did that that come from?
I even thought of that name and ages. I don't know why I just pulled that of all the 80s names. I can pull Buster Point Dexter. I found in this brain of mine.
I don't remember what I had for breakfast this morning, but I pulled out Buster Point Dexter at any rate.
We're talking about this and this is a fun debate, I think, because we're Michael, obviously, the hits, the dancing, his iconic status and everything.
But for me, I think of a guy like Prince and I think of the artist that Prince, it wasn't just Prince's music.
It was all the other artists that Prince helped rise up or gave them a song or something like that.
And the different genres, like Prince hits so many different genres than Michael did in everything.
So I don't know who the true king of pop is, but I am positive without a shadow of a doubt who the queen of pop is.
And it is Madonna and there is no question about this.
When you can look at, you can name so many great artists and we're going to talk about one of them in a moment,
Cher, who fantastic artists, but Cher kind of took a break from singing and stuff and kind of went into acting.
Wonderself and Oscar, you know, and stuff.
There's a lot of great female Diana Ross. There's a lot of greats. None of them have hits in like four to five decades long,
where her career, Madonna is still a relevant name in 2023.
People who are 23 know who Madonna is, it's incredible what that woman did.
You don't have to like her. You don't have to be a fan of Madonna's or anything like that.
You have to respect her game though.
The only name that I would throw out there, and we wouldn't, we don't won't know because she was taken too soon,
would be Whitney Houston. That would be a name I would throw out there because that's who also,
I think of when I said from 1980s, 1990s, she was up there with Madonna.
Right. I have no doubt that if Whitney was still around, she'd probably have hits in those decades.
And this would be such a fun conversation to be able to have.
Because that's a perfect, perfect name to mention. Yeah, perfect name.
And probably the only one that, like you said, would have been able to compete with her on that level.
So just a chance to appreciate the material girl for a moment and I wish in her well.
Yeah, exactly. I mentioned share.
Share was on the Kelly Clarkson show recently and shout out to Kelly Clarkson who was the new queen
of daytime. Apparently did not see that coming, but a real credit to her and her really enjoying this.
Same thing to Drew Barrymore too. Like daytime TV was dying and these two are two of the voices
that brought it back along with all every like 90 judge shows.
There are 100 judge shows on TV now. They've run out of my weird.
But so share was on there the other day and she said, quote, they brought up about her not being
in the Rock Royal Hall of Fame. And this is of course been coming up recently with Ali Parton
and that. She says, quote, and I'm not in the Rock Royal Hall of Fame. After the studio audience
led out a collective groan, share told them it was okay with her. You know what? I wouldn't be in
now even if they gave me a million dollars. I'm not kidding you. She doesn't want to be in the
Rock Royal Hall of Fame because they didn't ask her soon enough. That's pretty much it. That's
pretty much what it comes down to. I love that Dolly Parton. It was oh honey, I'm not I'm not a
rock star. I'm you shouldn't put me in there and everything. She's too humble all this share.
Share is still share. Yeah. Yeah. And she to be to be perfectly blunt, she should be in the
rock and roll. Yeah, absolutely. Like again, many decades of success that we're talking about.
She used to assume she was. Yeah, I do assume that she was like that's that's a failure on the
hall. That's absolutely. If we could turn back time. Oh nice. We could put her there.
Nicely done. Nicely done. Thank you. That's my husband just rolls his eye. I love it. I love it.
It's a great grief. There there's a great article from billboard.com about the 12
recent share belongs in the Rock Royal Hall of Fame. There you go. We're not going to go through
that, but she does. Yeah. I think that it's such a given that she does. You don't need us to go
through 12 reasons. No. Like if you know the name share, you understand she blogs in the Rock
Royal Hall of Fame. Yeah. I wanted to take a moment to talk about the upcoming auditions for
the Glass Managerie. Wonderful. One of the Tennessee Williams better shows coming up with Wisconsin
rabbits community theater. It's going to be their next production auditions are coming up January
2nd and 3rd. I'm going to try to get their director on. He's hard. He's a hard get.
Suthuber. I'm doing it. I practice this. Very reclusive. You know, he's one of those guys.
If I say it quick, it's and get away with it. Bless you. Yes. Set Habagger is going to be
directing this one. And Seth, this is an important piece to you. We'll talk about this more close.
It probably as we get you come back. So it's going to be gone. Actually, both of you guys are going
to be gone next week. He is taking us with him. Yes. Yes. Yes. I tried. I'm not used to having
you both on the air. The family is going to be out of town next week and stuff. So we won't
have Seth with us. This is actually your last shows for the year. These coming up couple days.
Yeah. Right. Everything. So I wanted to take some time to be able to get like you talk about
this not just me rambling about it. Seth, we of course encourage every single person out there
listening to audition or or you know, try out for behind the scenes things and stuff except for me.
Yeah. Yeah. Oh, you're going to be a help just that way. Yeah. Is there anything else you
think people it'd be good for people to know going into an audition for something like this?
Yeah. You know, it's Tennessee Williams is an interesting, you know, playwright. You know,
last year they did a streetcar name desire. And there are certain things about his plays that are
a little difficult in terms because there's a lot of monologues and that kind of thing. So you
have to be ready to memorize, you know, certain big chunks of dialogue, that sort of thing.
For this one specifically, this was his first published play and it was his first big hit.
And in the in the introduction to it, he says, you know, this is a memory play. Okay. It's loosely
based on his own life. But it's not he didn't go back and say, you know, like this happened at this
date and this thing. He called it a memory play because it's about memories about what he was
thinking going back in his mind. And he knows that, you know, you're never going to remember things
exactly the way they are. There's things are going to be a little foggy kind of thing. And that's
the way I'm going to be approaching this show. That's why we're going to be doing it in a multimedia
way. So what we're going to be having is a film segments. Yes. Actually, you're going to be in front
of the camera and we're going to film it. We're going to have a voice over things with some other
video projection stuff that we're going to be working on. Some of it's going to be in silhouette.
Some of it's going to be in so there's going to be a lot of different ways interacted with
actual performance on stage. I don't want to take that away to think it's all going to be that
because it's not. There's going to absolutely be performances on stage. It can be a very intense
show. There's only four people in the cast. So one thing I would like to encourage is if we
could get some younger people to audition because especially the Laura, the younger daughter in
there and then the gentleman called Jim are both supposed to be in the younger side.
All right. Fine. You get this a masquerade in the beard there.
So I'm encouraging people. If you're in your 20s or in 30s even, I'd be great if you could
come out for an audition for it as well because you never know. This might be that one of those
roles that really breaks it out. I was able to play Tom, who's the main character. He's the
stand-in for Tennessee Williams once many, many years ago. I have to say it's probably my favorite
role of all time was him just because of his Tennessee Williams writing is so beautiful. His
words are just wonderful to recite on stage. So yeah, I encourage as many people to come out as
are able to use a metaphor from your favorite sport. Seth knocked it out of the park.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I have no doubt. No doubt about the poster. I found the poster that we put out.
You are so young. Look a lot younger. Yeah. That's cool. That's cool.
It's one I mentioned before. It's one of my favorite monologues, the opening monologue that Tom
does and that is one of my favorites. I feel like this is one of those ones where you do this,
you do this show 20 years from now, you'll be talking about it just like Seth is. We have a
perfect example of it right here. Yeah. And it seems like a bit of a full circle thing for you to
doing this. It is because the production we were in that was the same like what I want to do and
the reason I wanted to do it in a similar way is that unfortunately when we did it not many people
came to see it. And I was very disappointed by that because it was an amazing, you know,
technical feat and all this stuff. And I thought all of us, all the actors gave really good
performances. So in order to honor the director of that, my good friend Jill Nadeau,
that I wanted to do it the same way that she did it. And man, not exactly the same way, of course.
Sure. But as much as I can honor the way she did it, because I think it's just a different
a new way to look at it. No, classic. This is one of the standards of American theater of plays
as the Glassman Ashery. So I want to be able to have people looking at it in a new way.
I've been working as a professional actor since 2008 and I've gotten a chance to work with a lot
of really cool, wonderful people. Seth is one of the most talented human beings I've ever shared a
stage with and I cannot imagine what you're going to be like as a director. You're one of the more
giving actors I've worked with too. So as a director, I can only imagine how you will be with that.
If you are a somebody who especially has been on the fence and you've never done a show before,
I got to think that this is a really good one to join the working with a director like Seth. And
that is certainly encouraged behind the scenes too when it comes to people and props and stuff
and with a lot of the things that you are doing with this show, can imagine that you're going to
need all hands on deck. Yeah, especially for some of the technical aspects of it, making sure
everything timing is going to be of the essence on this one. It's got to have to be very
some very precise timing on certain things. So yeah, I'm going to need all kinds of people to help
on this. Did you have some? Sorry. The glass. The glass of an ashery audition dates will be
January 2nd and 3rd 630 over at the various WRCT auditorium. They'll have the read through on
January 4th. I like how you have all that already planned out. I'm not surprised, but I just love
that. And then we're going to hit it. Yeah, that's right. And the show will hit the stage in March.
So keep those things in mind. You do not have to compete against me. You don't have to.
I wanted so badly to play time. I wanted that role, but I have a couple of auditions coming up.
And one of them in particular, I was told from the director to keep some time open. So I just will
not be free at the end of February and in the beginning of March probably for what the auditions
are going to. I don't do this very often, but I have to with these because I'm doing these back
to back Friday. It's the same casting company that's casting both of these so kind of works out.
There's one that I'm doing. It's a voiceover role for dead encounters. It's a fictional podcast
of a horror writer who where he interviews fictional witnesses and victims who have experience
encounters and afterlife and all this. Sounds really interesting. Yeah. And with my background
and radio, they kind of thought, oh, this will be good. This will be something good for this.
But what I'm really excited about, so excited that I shaved my beard down for it because they really,
this sounds really good. I'm already it's already down to me and three other people.
It's an independent one, but blue gum. A powerful short film set in the late 70s in a world
where the black power movement and vampires collide. Yeah. Yeah. It's side me up. I don't care.
I'm like, I'll do it for free. It's black Elon steroids, man. I'll do that for free, man. I don't
tell my agent that, but it's exciting. It's exciting to me to have all these things to be back
and running. We've got our local theaters back. We've got movies and things back and running and
all of this. It's an exciting time if you are, you know, if you like entertainment, if you like
we will take a quick break. We're going to come back with more fun on the morning show here at WFHR
locally grown radio.
Is that difficult to do that as a singer? What he does right there?
Two. No, this seems like it. It depends. It depends. I admire it every time I hear it. I've
been hearing it since I was a little kid. Every time I've ever heard it, just I admire him being
able to do that. I don't know. I believe in singing. That's called a swoop, isn't it? It's a
swoop. It's hard to distinguish the swoop from a slide. The swoop from a slide. Yeah. You want
to swoop, not slide. Very cool. I give some glad I ask. I have a Castello routine.
Who's on first? Let's get into a little bit of science news. Science, science. She blinded me.
We need that as a bumper. We do enough science stuff. I think we need that. I want to get into
just a couple of quick notes on science. What I like to do with this segment though is we'll talk
about a little of this, but I want you guys to do some homework. I want you to look into some
of these things yourselves. Do your own research on this stuff and find out what you can learn.
If you're a morning person, it might be because you're a partner and a thought.
Oh, I love that. Our each and ancestors got it on with, got it on with them and we still have
up to about 4% Neanderthal DNA. That's right. A study found a lot of those leftover bits affect
genes that govern our internal clock and certain variants make you more likely to be a morning
person. How about that? Don't tell your sister. Oh, no, I'm going to tell you that. Yeah, I got
the Andrethal. Fascinated. Fascinated. I think for some that might be news to them, just the
4% and the Andrethal that is in us still. I think to a lot of women out there, that's not surprising
at all. That's a low-hanging joke. That's really interesting though.
To think. It's been a long time since then. That's something that's come out recently
about the intermating between Neanderthal and humans, what became humans, because they're
two different species. They're not the same species, but they were able to comingle, I guess you
could say, which is why, like James said, they found out that we do have a small amount of
Neanderthal blood for most humans, I think. Oh, that's fascinating. Yeah, this is. In dog news,
a TikTok went viral claiming dogs are actively trying to make us laugh. It's a bit of a stretch
based on the actual study from 2014, but it did find that they're good at reading emotions and
might prefer laughter over other sounds. Oh, who doesn't? Right? Laughter, I'm telling you.
It's universal. I'm telling you, in some ways, there are some things that I see with dogs or
hear about dogs, and I'm like, they're smarter than us. They really are. They get it.
They don't, you know, when's the last time you saw a dog stressing over something that they
can't do anything about? Right. Exactly. There's so many things about them. They also eat their own
poo. Maybe they know something they don't know. Yeah, it could be. We know cats are smarter than us,
and maybe I think you're right, dogs might be too. In cat news, a study found cats are cut throat.
They are willing to kill and eat just about anything. This study identified
2084 different species they consume. Wow. Birds, mice, lizards, insects, they'll eat it all.
So cats are part goat. Yeah, yeah. Didn't get it. Yeah. So they don't have the discriminating
taste that the commercials told us. Right, yeah. They lied to us. So fancy feast, it's a lie. It's
just a big lie. I smell like conspiracy. In bird news, a study found parents like to dunk their
food in water just like we enjoyed dunking cookies and milk. Maybe they watched us do it.
I was going to say, is that because that they've seen humans? Or did the first person to dunk a
cookie and milk do it because I saw a parent coming in there. Which came first. Oh, man, that's perfect.
We've got some more of these I want to do. Some whale, some interesting news about whales.
And came across a story yesterday about apes and their memory that is fascinating.
We don't have the time for them right now. So we'll get in and do them tomorrow. We'll have more
science for you then. That's good. I want to do a little bit more of these. This is a topic that
does not get covered literally at all. Nobody's covering science news. Nobody's covering these
things. And some of the most fascinating, interesting research is going on. Absolutely.
Some of the more important stuff is going on as well along with just fun, interesting things.
So we're going to do that a little bit more of that around here. You're going to have some more of
that. But for now, we're going to get to some state and local news. We'll come back and have some
fun with. Where is that? It's things younger people don't get about the past decade. Coming up. I
will learn them. And Morty's show here at WFJ.
One thing here could use on chair. And that's you.
Because everyone, you know where everyone you don't.
Oh, where in Christmas weather. So it's crazy that you won't.
A picture Christmas sweater on. Little Michael Boobleyade. Play us in.
Beth, Seth, and James here with you. I'm the morning show. Thanks so much for joining us,
everybody. We hope you're having a great one out there. His Christmas album is just nonstop
great. Yes, there's not one bad song. I agree.
Great one. Really good.
No, we gave it to you. That's right.
You know, it's around that time of year where we gather around the fireplace, young and old
family and friends, loved ones and new loved ones joined together and reminisce and talk about how
was better in the old days. Younger people don't understand any.
No, don't understand. Just kidding, just kidding. But all the other part is true.
So we have here younger jokes that things that younger people might not get jokes about.
It's things younger people, quote, don't get about past decades.
This could be a pretty fun list. So here we go. We want to start at, let's start at one.
Let's go right here at the number one. Decades ago, it was common not to have photos of everything
or anything. Now you might feel disappointed about doing something or going somewhere and not
taking enough pictures. But before cell phones, it was normal to go months without any photos being
taken or waiting months to get the photos that you had taken. That's the thing because it was a
process. You had to take the pictures with your camera. Then you had to take out the film and
you take it to the processing store and then they had to get a process and then they'd make a
mistake and then they have to do it over again and then they'd have to give, you know,
then you have to go pick up your pictures. It was, yeah. Now it's so, it's just, everything's
right there. You want to get that great picture next to the leaning tower of Pisa and you know,
holding it up and everything. And you get one shot and you don't know it for like maybe a couple
weeks or did it come out or is my arm like gone and you can't see it or something. And you're
only going to be an Italy once. That shot is gone. I don't think, I think this, I actually think
that younger people might understand some of this a little bit in part because they don't see
maybe pictures of them when they were, as many pictures of them when they were little or pictures
of their parents or something like that. But I would like to also flip this on the other side and
give credit to so many people that nailed it on the one take. Yes. How many times we've got great
pictures and like, oh, that's one of my favorite shots or that's, yeah, there's one of my little
brother when he was like two. My Nana's took off him and he had one of those little white plastic,
kind of like a fourth of July hats. Okay. And he was on his trike and my Nana goes, Nicholas,
and he looks over and he tips his hat to him. And my Nana got a picture of it. That's one of my
favorite pictures of all time. Like things like that. Like, not nailed it. Like she got it. It's not,
it's not like Nick Cross side. It's like, you know, Nick looking down. It's just him right looking
at those moments. Yeah. Like we did not give enough credit to people nailing it on the one take.
Yeah. And next up on the list, you had to create your own sources of fun without access to just
about anything you wanted on digital media. It was easy to be bored without inventing games and
activities to do with friends and family. It's this amazing thing called imagination. Yeah. I do
think that the the overwhelmingly majority of young people, young kids and I'm talking like 10
and under 11 and under that kind of thing. Do not need us to remind them they have an imagination.
No, I don't think you're right. I have not been around a lot of that youth, but the when I have
all of the youth I've been around in those age ranges, love using their imagination like playing
outside and joy doing different things. Yeah. I don't see this as a big of a problem as some do.
And maybe it's just because of the kids that I've been around and everything. And I could,
that could have something to do with it. But I think you're right. I don't think there's any,
you know, in inheritance that just because there's a screen or something that they they're
necessarily drawn to it. I think they have an equal amount, you know, like you said going
outside or coming up their own games or whatever it is, playing pretend, dress up.
Well, and we've become scared of boredom in society now. It's not okay to be bored anymore.
And they've done scientific study saying that it's actually good for your brain to be bored
because that's when it does process things for you. You need to get that's where the learning comes.
Yep. I have to put a side note out there, just a side story here. I was, I don't get to see
little kid shows very often. And that's usually when they have, you know, commercials for new games
and things there. And I saw one the other day called the, the original, the floor is lava.
And it's basically all it is is a, you know, a little mats that you throw on the floor.
And it drove me insane. There's a version of this that's 40 bucks. What do you do it?
What do you do it? Like the floor is lava is what are the cheapest games of all time because
cushions are four. Exactly. Exactly. And then mom gets mad at you. Exactly. Put those back.
You don't need this. You don't need this game. You don't, I'm sorry. You know, more power to
make your money. And they still do it. Kids still play the floor. It's a universal thing.
Yeah. If you have any scrap paper at home. Yeah. You can do that. Oh, that's a good one.
It's a piece of little piece of paper. There you go. That there's so many ways to play that game.
There's no reason to have to, I don't know. For those who don't know, FOMO is fear of missing out.
And there was a lot less of that back then. Your access to what was happening our available
was limited to what you've seen or on a handful of TV channels. Well, people around you
talked about and what you'd see on store shelves. That's basically it. Yeah. But wasn't as much
of that. That makes sense. I get that down. Right. Although I'm very curious about what are
they afraid to miss out on? No, that's that's the overarching question of FOMO for me. What
is it? Is it just that you the experience? But how can you enjoy the experience if all you're
you know wanting just I got to do it? Just got to do it. And then I can't think next. I can't
think of many things in life where I've seen somebody do it and be like, oh, I wish I was doing
that or I wish I could just go and do it. Like I don't know. I don't I don't I don't I don't
there's certain things of course that you can't. But yeah, as far as like I'm thinking of seeing
somebody you know cliff diving or something like that. Well, that's something that I could do.
You know, you have to work around the logistics of doing it, but I do it. I don't fear missing
out on that. Right. I think I take this way to like a term like that way too serious because things
I think of are much more heavy than just you know, something fun or random or you know, right?
It was common to wear the same clothes as someone else at least in these suburbs and out in the
country. Most people relied on whatever store was nearby or mall and they had like two or three
shops usually and you know, you were going to get you were going to run into people in class that
had a similar shirt that you had on or the same shirt that you had on and stuff. Man, yeah,
that's the hey day of JC Penny. That's all I can say. That just doesn't happen as much anymore I guess.
No, but there's so many there's so many places you can get stuff now. Even you know, even like cool
one of a kind things. You're going to Etsy or something like that. You know, you can find very
specific things or like a lot of like we've talked about before going to thrift shops. Yeah.
And making your own thing, you know, getting different styles from different times or whatever
and making your own style. Our students range from about 16 to 25 and certainly have older
students and everything, but that is the average range. And that's that all they're doing. I mean,
almost every one of those students that I've had over the last 10 years have been doing a lot of
that but going to thrift stores, buying clothes, putting patches on them or if there's a hole in
something putting something over it, I don't know. It's way out of my my rage. I could never do
that kind of stuff. I'd still be at home trying to sew something and be missing class after class
after class because I couldn't. What happened to the teacher? Yeah. That's that's the rise of that
is really cool to me. Well, there are a whole like YouTube channels just on that kind of thing.
Right. Yeah. The rise of it is really cool. The reason for it not so much. Right. The younger
necessity. Yeah. They get and they also get that our landfills are filled with thousands and
thousands and thousands and thousands of articles of clothing that nobody wore once or or people,
you know, that kind of thing. Right. Right. And repurposing a lot of things in life, not just
items, but clothes, I think is really important for our planet going forward. They don't need
they didn't need anybody to tell them that. They didn't need a law for it or anything. They just
did it. Yeah. And that is that that younger generation, they're doing a lot of that kind of
stuff. You see them in politics. You see them getting involved in a lot more things than I think
our generation did. Yeah. I want to tip my hat to them for that and thank them for doing that
because we need all the hands on deck. Yes. Yeah. Sometimes you just couldn't find the answer to
something. This is my favorite one. Oh, yeah. It is true. I kind of we were talking about this
the other day and I kind of miss the when you when you this is more of a guy thing, I think, but
I know that there is a female version of this. Seth, who won the World Series in 86, man? Who was
that again? Oh, no, it's 87. Who won the World Series in 87? We're going back and forth.
It was the meds. It was this. It was, you know, back and forth for hours and hours and hours
and never having an answer. But but the debate continues. Yeah. Exactly. That was the fun part.
Yeah. It was the debate. Yeah. Now who won the World Series in 87? Well, let me look it up on my
hand. And now we know. Now we know. I kind of miss that. I miss some of the fun of that. I miss
the I do one thing that I do miss and I see a theme here with some of these things, especially
going to the first one where decades ago we took photos of everything and and Beth, what you
were touching on there, how we had to wait forever for the photos too. It feels like we had to work
more for the things we wanted. Even if it didn't seem like traditional work, you know,
quote unquote work, it seemed like we had to really we need to really fight for a lot more.
It was delayed gratification. We understood that in that generation. And now because everything is
at your fingertips, if it doesn't happen for you instantly, you get upset. We've lost that verse.
Yeah, you're used to getting things very quickly. Yep. And the thing that I push back on is older
people getting, you know, you're making fun of or picking on or complaining about younger people
being that way. We did it to them. Yeah. They didn't create society. No, they didn't make it where
minute rice and fast food delivery and all these different things. They just happen to be
growing up in a generation where everything is there is no more three minute commercial breaks.
There are no more of those things. You can't begrudge them that anymore than you can be grudge
our generations for what we grew up with and everything. They just happen to be growing up at a time
where it's like that. You're a product of your environment. And if that's what you know,
that's what you know, that's what you've learned. Does anybody ever do this? And I got to feel
silly admitting this out loud. Even though I know I have a super computer on my hip and I can look
up anything I want, I test myself sometimes. And I refuse, I will like fight myself.
This is all going on in my head where I'm like, no, I'm not going to look it up. I'm not going
to look it up. I'm not going to look it up. No, I'm not going to look it up. I really want to know,
I really want to, I can't express how much I love knowledge and how much I love learning new
things. And for the whole back on it, it takes so much willpower out of me. But I'll do it. I'll do
it just just to try to test my brain. You'll get that in groups sometimes. I've noticed that you'll,
you know, you're like you're trying to remember something as a group of people you're discussing
something. And then you're like, well, and then, and then this happened. And that thing,
wait, did that happen on this day or did that, you know, we could look it up. And then you don't.
Yes. I actually enjoy that. I think that's actually funny. It's like, you know, we could,
we've all got phones. We could look it up. Ah, we're not. I don't want to. That's the other side
of it. Yeah. We're just kind of like, like bored with it. It doesn't matter. Yeah.
Not really. Let's go move on. Yeah. Sometimes I wonder if we did this just that we could,
you know, refute our math teacher when, when the math teacher said, you're not always going to
have a calculator with you. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's good. We'll take a break. We'll come back.
We got more fun in store for you on the morning show here at WFHR.
Welcome back, everyone. Morning show here at WFHR.
Seth, Beth and James here with you. Take you to the top of the hour.
Christmas. It's the best time of the year. I don't know if there'll be snow,
but have a cup of cheer. Oh, we're going to need an extra cup of cheer.
Welcome back to the show. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. We, uh, we are going to get to do a
that ain't right story sort of. Uh, it's science involved and it's just kind of for fun,
but it is interesting, I think. Do you ever need to use the bathroom, but your body knows you're
still 20 minutes out and the urge just won't go away. But then as soon as you pull into the driveway,
you really, really need to go and it just seems to be weird. You know, you've got everybody's been
in this situation. Well, someone asked doctors why it happens and why you can't, what you can do
about it. And here comes the science. Okay. Basically, your brain and bladder are constantly
communicating to prevent you from, you know, doing anything in your pants. Uh, and luckily,
they're good at it. If your brain knows there isn't a bathroom nearby, it tells the muscles
around your bladder to chill. Relax. It's going to be a minute. But as soon as you know your
near bathroom, your bladder, it does too. And those muscles start contracting. So it gets harder
to hold it and the urge to go skyrockets. Oh, wow. Okay. Science. So there is, is there anything
you can do about it? Well, yes, and no. Uh, the, the term for it is lacking in, in continent,
in continents, because it tends to happen while we're fumbling for our keys at the front door.
It's a natural response. And you can't really trick yourself into thinking you have more time.
But the more it happens, the more likely it is to, uh, to happen again. So if you can break that
pattern, it might happen less. Wow. Okay. You're essentially teaching your brain. It's time to go
as soon as you see the front door. So if it's a common problem, you may want to start using the
bathroom before you get in the car, even if you don't need to go. Uh, this, this goes back to our,
our parents or our grandparents telling us, did you go? I don't care. Even if you don't need to go,
go. You should have thought of that before we left. Yep. Fascinating though. Yeah.
It's really interesting. I don't think anybody had our bladder and brain, you know, uh, being,
being a communication and a text chain together. Um, that's, that's pretty interesting. That's
pretty interesting. That's right. Yeah. I don't know. I thought that was pretty cool hormones,
the first form of texting. Fascinating, interesting story right there. That's interesting.
I want to get to, uh, some, uh, local good stories of the day. Uh, and before I do, I want to touch
on midday magazine for the day, we got a really good one for you lined up. Join us from three to four
today in part one, Wisconsin rapids mayor Shane Blazer joining us. A lot to talk about,
with Shane. Uh, I want to talk local. I want to get into some Christmas talk with him. It's
certainly talk about, uh, his, his run here as man. That's right. Get into that with him. We'll
have our great friends with Wisconsin rapids community media who are already here setting up.
Yep. Yes, they are. Send a shout out to them. Big thank you to them. Be sure to like and
subscribe. Other work on YouTube and Facebook. And in part two, we're going to talk to our friends
at the family center. Amy Shide going to be with us and she's bringing some friends. We're going
to focus on volunteering and giving back and ways you can help out our Wisconsin rapids family
center. Excellent. Looking forward to that. That's going to be a lot of fun. Looking at our, uh,
sports schedule, nothing going on today. But tomorrow, we'll remind you that on our sister's
station, WIRI, we got with Sumption Girls basketball hosting Stratfield. Stratford. Yep.
That's going to be a good one. Randy and Seth are going to run that one. You know it's going to
sound good between those two. And on Friday, we're going to preview our 30 hours of Christmas.
Melissa and Seth and I are going to get into that. We'll kick off our show letting you know the
lineup that you're going to have. And we're going to talk about this mischievous merchant Merlin elf
too. He's almost done with his shenanigans. Somebody's got to find him. Yeah. We've got one more,
one more day to do this. One more day to grab those names on the on Friday. We have one more
hint for you. We'll get that out there at a big shout out to our friends at Quality Plus Foods,
helping us with the elf on the shelf on the shelves. That's good. That's good. It's been fun.
We're looking forward to that. And I wanted to get a local here for a second too with the coming
up tonight, Blue Christmas Beth. Yes. At the Moravian Church, the Greater Rapids area,
Churches for Humanism is hosting a Blue Christmas service with the recognition that sometimes even
though you hear things like it needs to be a Holly Jolly Christmas and it's the most wonderful
time of the year. For some, it's not. And that we still deal with the issues that we deal with
every day, even during the holidays. And so you're invited at 6 p.m. to come over. You can bring
a picture of maybe somebody that you lost if you're struggling with grief or a symbol of something
else with what you're struggling. You'll get that back at the end of the service, but it's an
opportunity to just recognize the challenges that we face and to light a candle to offer that
up. There'll be people there to pray with you and some new lyrics to traditional Christmas
Carol Tunes that kind of helped to recognize that challenge. What are remind people as well?
There are stars available at the Moravian Church? Yeah, we're still selling our Moravian stars or
otherwise known as the star Bethlehem or the Advent star. So we've got two different sizes. One,
you can hang outside if you're interested in seeing what they look like. You can drive down
first avenue right past the church of our snitch. We've got one hanging on in front of our house.
And one of the window too. Well, the one of the window you can't get at our church. That was
all that's true. That's right. You got that one special, but yes. And then one that you can put
on top of your tree. That's a little bit smaller. Very cool. And appreciate that. You can find out
more by going to www.muravian.org. Good luck with the services tonight. Hope it goes well. We
may see you there. Yeah, or if you can't make it there in person and still would like to have an
opportunity to have a type of service like this, we will be zooming it and putting it on our YouTube
channel as well. Very cool. Thank you, Beth. And thank you to Grace for hosting this. We're having
this. Appreciate that. And Beth, is there a way people can find out more about Grace?
At this point, we have started a Facebook page. So you can try to find us on Facebook, the
Greater Rapids area, Churches for Humanism. And I think I do have it as Grace. It's in there.
So you can look for it. We don't have a lot posted on there yet. But as we start to get things going,
we're still kind of establishing ourselves and figuring ourselves out. But we have a wonderful
Thanksgiving service that was hosted down in Port Edwards. And we've got, we're going to be doing
some fundraising in the in the spring to help pay off some of the food service debt here in
Wisconsin Rapids for the students at the high school. Appreciate the work you and the team are
doing over there with that, Beth. Thank you very much. And we'll talk more about that too as we get
closer further along here and everything. Seth, it is a Wednesday. We know what that means. Yes.
Go place a bingo. Bingo. Bingo. Bingo. Wisconsin Rapids.
Logs number 693 at 430 West Jackson Street. Doors open at 5 o'clock. Bingo starts at 630.
Be there or be square as the kids say. Be square. Bingo. Bingo. Square.
Many little squares. Yes. Yes. Big shout out to our friends at the Wisconsin Rapids.
Elk Slot number 693. Appreciate them over there. Especially with the work that they do for a
community, putting back into our community and with our VFW. And I remind everybody that tomorrow
night, the VFW 2534 monthly meeting will be at VFW Post and Red and Road at 6 o'clock. And then
also at the Rudolph American Legion will be meeting for their monthly meeting at 7.
Keep those things in mind everyone. And to all you superheroes out there and I mean everybody that
is able to donate blood as people make travel plans to celebrate with family and friends this
year, the American Red Cross, Estoners to set aside some time to get blood, patience waiting for
care over the holidays, from a record number of people expected to travel this season, the Red Cross
understands this. So as a thank you, thanks to Prime Video and their new film Candy Kane Lane,
the featuring Eddie Murphy and many other greats. Those who come to give blood between now and
December 31st will automatically be entered for a chance to win a thousand dollar Amazon gift card.
Wow. Wow. And a couple of other cool prizes and everything. You can go to redcross.gridecrossblood.org
to find out more information. And you can donate today right here in the Wisconsin Rapids area,
our friends over at Memel and Library from actually going on in just a couple of minutes, it'll kick
off from 10 to 3 over at 490 East Grant Avenue, you can donate today. All right. And you can
already get yourself in the running for it. Yeah, cool. If you aren't able to today on January
4th, they will also have another opportunity for you to donate blood. That will be from 10 to 3
again at Memel Library and a shout out to our friends at Memel Library and all the great work they
do. And I wanted to just get a world good story in. A morning radio show in Montana brought in
over $77,000 for a fundraiser to support literacy. It's cool. It's called Books for Kids and it's
the third year they've done it. More than 4,300 kids at 14 different schools will get one free book
a month further in the entire school year. Oh my gosh. That's so cool. A shout out to those
guys, the big J-show out there in Montana. Great name. Great name. Great name. Great name.
Way to keep radio alive and also doing some good with it. This is the power of radio people.
The CEO of a brain cancer charity in Australia is gearing up for a big trip. He's raising money
for research by hiking 70 miles across the South Pole in Antarctica. Whoa. Wow. The altitude there
is 9,300 feet and it can get down to 20 below zero. He's planning to start his hike on December 15th
so he's already going and finish up on January 4th so it'll be at the South Pole. I'm Christmas.
Oh look at that right in the middle. That's the South Pole. The South Pole. He's not going to
be with Santa. He might see some penguins though. And that's why I think if I were to do this,
people would never believe I was doing it for the right reason. He just wants to see penguins.
That's all. No. No. I really care about this. No. You're not penguins.
Amazing show, YouTube. Thank you so much. It's been too long since we had you guys together
and everything. Beth, thank you so much for the time. Always a pleasure. Thanks for having me.
Again, find no more at www.maraving.org and be sure to type that into your YouTube search and
keep the data on things that they're doing and their services over there.
And Seth, I'll see you in a little bit. You're going to be back here on Friday.
I will be back. Well, it gets you guys ready for Christmas then. Be good to each other.
Have yourself a great day and we'll talk to you soon and later right here at WFHR was
Constant Rapids 1328 and W248DE broadcasting at 975 FM.
