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All the water wants to know the love things that they have.

Oh, you want to see your laughter in your world away.

Melissa and James here with you with a little prince

serenading us into the break into the segment here.

We appreciate the purple one helping us out there.

We got some entertainment news coming up.

After that, we're going to get into these nine plants in your home

that can help with healing and all kinds of good stuff.

Also coming up this hour, we're going to get into everyday things.

People do super disrespectful.

Get into all of that coming up.

But right now we kick off with entertainment.

And that song that you heard right there, Purple Rain,

is being turned into a musical.

Really?

Broadway is about as creative and innovative as Hollywood is these days.

So this is not a brand new idea.

The latest big idea is a stage musical based on Princess Purple Rain.

The producers say, quote,

we can't wait for a new generation to discover Purple Rain

and for lovers of the original film and album to experience its power once again, this time live.

The original movie came out in 84,

and I don't believe that this is common knowledge.

You want an Oscar for Best Original Score?

Prince did have an Oscar.

Really?

Yeah.

I'll never forget it.

It was one of those moments when I felt the Oscars got it right.

And unfortunately, there's not a ton of history of that.

Any nominees in 84?

Good nominees, all good category.

There was nobody that did what Purple Rain did.

There was nothing that did that, what that movie did back then.

If you were alive in 84, and you remember that time,

everybody was talking about that movie, everybody knew it.

There was nothing like it.

A couple of movies that came out after that under the cherry moon

and some other stuff of Princess didn't do as well.

But in part because Purple Rain sits such a standard, I think.

I can't speak to it because I have not seen it.

Yeah.

It's going to make a good musical.

I'll tell you that.

Oh, that song.

The music is so well loved.

It has a proven audience with it, not only winning an Oscar,

but the success of the movie.

They got to get it right.

And I wish them, well, I hope this is successful.

I really, really do.

I would like to know a little bit more about how this,

how Prince is, you know, family ties into this.

Right.

Yeah, who's doing it?

Yeah.

I need a little more information when it comes to that part of it.

But outside of that, I'm very intrigued by the idea.

So I've been told by a number of people,

including a good friend of both of ours,

that I should dress up as Prince for Halloween one year.

I would love to be able to do this.

I would do it, of course, with just my own skin tone.

I would not be doing well.

I'm not stupid enough to one of these idiots doing the face stuff

or anything like that.

But I don't know.

I don't know.

The idea of being in this is very interesting to me, too.

I can't help but think about it as an actor,

what it would be like to be in a movie, a play like this,

where it's brand new, and it's such a raw, good material.

Like, you have so much you could do with this.

I'm afraid to get my hopes up of it being good.

I should say Broadway, but it's really a hair difference

between the two nowadays.

They need this to be a success.

They didn't, with the success of Wicked or Spamalot

or some of these other, the Book of Mormon,

some of these more modern plays.

They didn't really hit on that.

And then Hamilton comes out.

And Hamilton is the biggest thing in the world.

Like, it's huge.

And instead of kind of like using that as a pivot point

for a Broadway to go a different direction

and embrace that, because obviously it worked.

I'm not talking about wrapping theater.

I mean just different theater, just approaching it differently.

They instead went back to doing Oklahoma.

They went back to doing the hits.

And if you've been paying anybody this paying attention

and then I'll blame you if you haven't been,

Broadway's been hurting because of it.

They need fresher stuff.

They need in the heights.

They need Lin-Manuel Miranda.

They need more of that.

The audiences have spoken.

And they have started with more of these types of shows.

I mean, jagged little pill.

The one about the last more set has done quite well so far.

Yeah.

I don't know how much it's going to change.

You're absolutely right.

And it deserves to be noted.

I just don't know how much it's going to change

until some of the old heads that still run things in Broadway

decide to let them change.

Or to be blunt, move out of the way.

Right.

As the younger generation.

And by younger generation, I mean people our age.

Right.

Stepping into positions of with a little more power

are going to start making those changes.

You're not only going to see more of that.

You're going to see a lot more representation.

A lot more of those things too.

But and I do think that that's something to talk about there.

Because I understand how some people can push back on that sometimes.

I think that I even push back on that sometimes.

I think of the affirmative action.

I got a job once because I was mixed.

And I didn't know how to feel about it.

And then eventually I needed the job.

So I wasn't going to quit it.

I wasn't going to not take the job.

But I didn't know how to feel about it.

I eventually came around to, well, this may have got me in the door.

But I'm going to stay in the room because of my talent.

I'm going to stay in the room.

I'm going to make it hard for them to get rid of me.

I think of that a little bit with this.

Where make it hard for them not to put these shows on.

Make it hard for them not to give the younger generation a chance to do more of these things.

And it's also on the other side of that.

I think this representation, I think a lot of those things are going to happen organically.

I think much more of that is going to happen just because this is just the right person for the gig.

They just happen to be this.

It doesn't mean that we should do away with affirmative action and those types of things.

Diversity in our colleges and in our schools and support for that because it's still needed.

It's proven too that not only is it needed but our society is better for it.

Different people in different positions think differently.

Look at the world differently.

We need that.

We especially right now.

We need that.

We need all perspectives.

All perspectives.

That includes everybody.

Melissa, I know I ramble about the Simpsons all the time.

But if you press to be, what is the greatest TV show I've ever seen?

I would have to say it's a sopranos.

It's the greatest show I've ever seen.

Written, acted, edited, music, everything.

It's just that kind of TV show.

And the sopranos is celebrating its 25th anniversary with a special collection available for streaming on Macs.

In addition to all six seasons, there are 15 deleted scenes including three that have never been released and over five hours behind the scenes footage.

There's also a new official TikTok account dedicated to 25 second clips of every episode.

On Thursday there will be a quote, family reunion fan screenings in Los Angeles and New York City with special guest appearances from sopranos from some of the sopranos cast.

And sopranos theme snacks in trivia.

There will also be a sopranos inspired Italian sandwich available through the Postmates delivery app in LA in New York.

Really going all in on the celebrating of this.

Yeah, well good for them.

It's a little melancholy to me because James Gandalfini is past.

And that TV show had no bad casting, had no bad acting.

I'm talking about people who had one line, people who had a thousand.

He was kind of the powerhouse in that show.

Yeah, yeah, he really was.

And such a lovable human being in real life too.

And it's a little melancholy to me. I'll be an element.

But this is pretty cool.

And I cannot express to you how badly I want to see these 15 deleted scenes.

I tried to watch that show.

I got through the first season, but I couldn't.

I couldn't do it.

It was dark for me.

I don't blame you.

I do not.

It's as much as I love the show, I've never recommended it to everybody.

I've never recommended it.

If somebody asks me, hey, I'm going to give this a try.

I'll be honest with them and I'll tell them how I feel about it.

But it's one of those shows where I don't expect everybody to get into it.

I'm a dego with ties to the boot.

That's all I'll say about it.

So I've got some, obviously, some biasness with the TV show and some insight on the TV show

that, like good fellows or the godfather or any of these movies or TV shows or anything,

that pull on people like myself, that have that background, that have that history.

Well, and even shows that have such great acting and great writing,

like Breaking Bad is supposed to be just a phenomenal, amazing show.

I'm sorry, I couldn't get past the bathtub scene.

I'm like, no, I'm out.

I'm out.

No, no, no, no.

I really don't blame you.

I really don't.

I don't care how good the acting is or the writing.

No, that's an important thing to know as a watcher, I think.

I think knowing yourself, knowing what.

And not giving into the masses, not giving into what other people are watching or other people

I think, you know, want to see or anything like that.

I think that's awesome.

I encourage more and more of that.

I'm curious to see how this goes though.

I want to see those deleted scenes right now.

Congratulations to the cast and the crew and everybody who worked really hard on that show.

You know, my opinion on viewing it has nothing to do with I have all of the respect

for the people who put the work in on those shows.

Looking at what's new on your small screen tonight, celebrity jeopardy.

I didn't imagine that was going to be tough to say.

The semi-finals are tonight at seven on ABC, Stephen Weber, Katie Nolan,

and DuLay Hill are on there.

All great people.

Katie Nolan is one of my favorite people in sports talk.

If there is baseball information, I will go to Katie Nolan.

She's one of the better minds in sports and she's just fun.

She's just a fun human being.

Okay.

The third season premiere of La Brea comes up at nine on NBC.

It's the final season of La Brea to all the fans of that show.

Whose line is it anyway?

A new episode.

Really?

I haven't really gotten into the new one a whole lot, but I love that show.

I haven't gotten to see much of it myself either, but I love that there's new episodes.

That is on at nine on the CW tonight.

And the big one, the series premiere of Echo drops tonight at eight.

Eastern time on Disney Plus and Hulu.

Al Quadana, a Cox returns as Maya Lopez, the definite of American who was raised by Wilson Fisk.

This is, of course, a play side story of the Marvel Universe.

Okay.

It's interesting.

They're doing a couple of interesting things here.

One, this is a lot darker.

This is a lot more violent.

It's rated differently.

This is not for kids.

They're dropping every episode at once, so that's an interesting idea too.

And Marvel's needed that.

Marvel has taken some hits, and they need a hit.

This could be it.

You got Vincent Denofrio as Kingpin.

You've got some big names in this one.

And this young lady playing this character Echo is incredible.

She's a very good actor.

Good.

It should be good.

It should be interesting.

If that doesn't turn your dial, maybe you want to check out something Muppety, something furry.

Maybe you want to check out What The Muppet.

We dropped the new episode for you yesterday.

Bria and I.

It's a fun show.

In case you haven't checked it out.

What The Muppet is a podcast where we spend about a half an hour or so rambling about Muppets.

We have a couple of different hats in front of us.

And we don't know.

The whole show is improv.

The first hat is a fact or a quote from a great Muppet head or something like that like Jim Henson or somebody.

And then in the next hat, Bria put in a ton of every Muppet and every Muppet movie.

And we just pull the name out randomly and whatever Muppet we find.

We kind of ramble and talk about that Muppet and put them in funny situations.

We have a lot of fun with it.

We dropped our newest episode yesterday.

Encouraged you to check that out.

The episode's title Goldfish are awesome.

Goldfish are awesome.

Just don't let them loosen the wild.

Yes, yeah.

A big shout out to Bria Hoyet.

I got to get used to saying that Bria Hoyet.

Doing an amazing job with this show.

We appreciate you, Bria.

Nice work.

Check out what the Muppet wherever you get your podcasts.

And if you're interested in the video, go ahead and type in your YouTube search bar,

what the Muppet, and subscribe to the page and enjoy.

Melissa and I will take a quick commercial break.

We will come back with nothing but fun for you.

We got good stuff coming up.

Nine healing plants.

You can grow inside your home.

It's on the way.

On the morning show at WFHR, where we are locally grown radio.

Welcome back everyone.

Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio.

I don't know what to do with this music yet.

I've enjoyed the change though.

I kind of am.

I kind of...

Is it interesting?

It's a bit too some interpretive dance with this.

It feels like we couldn't get Anya.

But we got...

We couldn't get a Nigma.

But we got these guys.

Something different.

Melissa, James here with you.

We're going to take you into our newest break in just a moment.

But if you're thinking of becoming a plant parent, why not choose something with healing properties?

We have here a list of nine medical plants that can grow indoors,

according to plant biology specialists.

Great.

I know that my mother growing up, a lot of our moms,

have a green thumb, enjoy plants, and my mother, even in the projects,

even in the city, this was something that was important to her.

And I would say that almost every apartment, everywhere we ever lived,

including now where her and my father are, there was an aloe vera plant.

Yeah, aloe was a great one to have inside.

And that's the only one I know that ends my knowledge of this subject that's...

Well, it doesn't grow outside here, so I guess my statement was a little redundant.

But it's a good thing to have growing in your house.

If you can keep it going, mine doesn't seem to want to do very well.

My mom ran into that one, too.

It's the first plant on our list, aloe vera.

It can be used for burns, skin irritations.

It also can be taken to help with digestion.

It's great for your skin, it's great for your hair.

There's a lot of things you can do with aloe.

Alright, bear with me, everybody.

G-woga-lan. G-woga-lan.

G-o-ga-lan.

It is spelled J-I-A-O-G-U-L-A-N.

The leaves are used to make tea.

It contains benefits similar to jinsing for brain function.

Sounds like a good one.

Sure.

Love and say it, but you grow it.

Try to go to one of our great nurseries around here or something.

I need this plant, I just can't say it.

It's the lost empire herbs.

Yes.

Lavender comes up next on our list.

Yes, lavender.

It helps relaxing and reducing properties.

It can be used in tea, baking, and other aromatherapy.

I've never tried to grow that indoors.

But it's a beautiful plant.

Definitely.

Again, don't know anything about growing it.

But I do like it and it does grow very well.

Mint is comes up next, mint.

Using it in tea can help with digestion.

It can also help with sore throats, fevers, and healing wounds.

It's good for...

There's so many things, but it's a prolific plant.

If you grow it outside, I think they recommend putting it in pots instead of putting it in the ground,

because some certain types of it will spread.

Lemon balm.

It has relaxing properties that can also aid in digestion and help you sleep.

It can be used in tea, syrups, and salads, and its leaves can be sprinkled on top of dishes.

Yes.

Moringa.

Moringa.

Its leaves are rich in vitamins and minerals and helps with inflammation.

Okay.

I don't think I've heard of that one.

M-O-R.

It's also apparently available as a supplement.

Oh, okay.

All right.

Oregano.

It supports digestion.

The leaves are perfect to add flavor to your cooking.

Got.

These next ones...

My Nana, my parents, everybody's had these in the house.

Rosemary.

It helps relieve gas and bloating.

Rosemary is such a fun spice to use, or herb to use, but it can be overpowering, so be careful.

Ooh, okay.

Good to know.

I wouldn't have realized that.

And time.

I cook with time a lot.

I thought this was a dried version of it, but I like growing it fresh if I can.

If I can get it to grow, I have kind of a brown thumb.

I do too, but that's just my skin.

I couldn't help it.

In school once, I had a kid say that I was a brown nose.

I'm like, that's just a color of my skin.

It's more beige, actually.

More off-tam, more.

But time.

It has cold relieving and digestive properties.

It can be used in tea or sprinkled in didishes, soups, and salads.

Mm-hmm.

And it has antibacterial properties too, so that's good.

It's amazing.

Like out of these nine, five, six of them help with digestion, help with fevers or sore throat.

It's wild.

Melissa, it's almost as if everything we need is already on this planet.

Yeah, well, you know, I mean, the great thing about these, the ones that you listed there,

several of them anyway, are ones that we like to use in cooking because they taste good.

And they're good for us.

So, you know, double whammy there.

But yes, you're correct.

A lot of the medicines that we have today are derived from these natural things that grow on our planet,

because they are good for us and they're helpful.

I have nothing against, I take supplements, I have nothing against supplements or over the counter things

or anything like that.

I think we have these things for a reason and they, you know, have proven that.

But whenever you can use organic or items like this, I got encouragement.

Natural medicines.

Yeah, yeah.

And if you're curious about being able to grow these things or finding out more about them,

encourage you to do so, look into it.

You know, that brown thumb can turn green, you never know.

And it's a fun thing.

I keep trying, I keep trying.

Keep on trying.

And, you know, I got to say, I would recommend reaching out to our friends at family natural foods.

Sure.

Yeah.

If they don't have the information, they will hunt it down with you.

They are so knowledgeable and so helpful over there.

And their doors are even open right now.

They are.

They're at 910 West Grand Avenue, Wisconsin Rapids.

Stop on by and say hi from us here at WFHR.

Go ahead and give them a call if you'd like.

423-3120-715-423-3120.

The gang from family and natural foods actually going to be joining us on Midday Magazine tomorrow.

Awesome.

You're going to be a fool.

And, you know, we have a lot of different options in the community to help you develop your growing abilities.

The community garden with the teen group that does that through McMillan Library.

We've got the UW Extension that talks about gardening options and classes on that.

So there's a lot of different opportunities available.

Maybe not so many this time of year, but you know.

We have a number of friends of ours that talk about this subject from Extension.

They'll be joining us in the next month or two looking forward to that.

And Melissa, you brought up a big one that I was all teed up for.

Our friends over at McMillan Library and that community garden do some great work.

Actually, my best friend, Chris, lives right across the street from it.

Cool.

So whenever I'm over there, I always check it out.

Now, of course, like you said, this time of year, not as much, but we do encourage people to find out more.

You can go to McMillanLibrary.org, McMillanLibrary.org and find out a lot more information about that.

We will take a quick time out.

We're going to get to a news break.

We'll come back and we're going to talk about everyday things people do that are super disrespectful.

Okay.

It's coming up.

Melissa and James, take it through your morning right here at WFHR.

Welcome back, everyone.

Morning show here at WFHR.

Locally grown radio.

I'm not sure if this is bumper music or just a bunch of random sounds.

We're now in a sleuth show.

It feels like that.

I feel like a little bit of the pink panther.

A little little pink panther here, a little bit of that.

Oh, maybe Mr. Colombo.

Just one more thing, one more thing.

I just had one more question before I leave.

Got a little Peterfalk.

Well, I do a horrible Peterfalk, but I'd like love trying to impersonate him, though.

I can't help myself.

Let's dive into a, that ain't right story here.

Now that some places are finally getting ice and snow, including us,

it's even more annoying when people leave grocery carts in the middle of a parking lot.

That's a tough one.

That's a jerk one.

That's a jerk move.

Yeah, you can't do that.

And for other jerk moves, people on social media are talking about the everyday things that people do

that are super disrespectful to those around them, and we got a few of them for you.

In fact, we kind of already had one thanks to one of our callers earlier.

Kev, appreciate that.

Turn your headlights on.

Turn your headlights on, everybody.

It's not just about you, and you should be doing it just so you can see better, certainly.

Well, and you don't even think about it, because our headlights are automatic now.

So, you know, I give you a pass for that one, but this is your reminder.

Turn them on.

Yeah, yeah.

And we're talking about as well, slowing down.

That's on this list, drivers who just hang out in the left lane driving slowly.

So, that's something that I think is a little touch and go, but you definitely want to be...

That is for the fast, and that is for going faster.

Yeah, slower traffic, stay right.

Abandoning stuff in a store in the wrong place or shelf.

If you're too lazy to return it to where you got it, then just hand it to the cashier at checkout.

Yeah, it's much easier if you give it to them in the front of the store than just leaving it on some random shelf.

So rude.

I worked as a, from about two and a half years, I stocked shelves over at cops.

It's now a pick and save, but it used to be a cops here, grocery store in town, and worked overnight shelving and unloading the trucks and all of that.

I think because of that, I've never done this really.

Since then, I would say, I'm sure I probably have done it in my life.

I'm not saying I'm perfect, but I tend to do more of that.

I don't really even think about it, but I also, I don't grab a lot of it.

If I grab some, chances aren't buying it.

Right, you don't fill your cart with a lot of unnecessary things.

I mean, sometimes you'll find something like, okay, this is going to work.

But then you find the thing you're actually looking for.

And then you don't want the original thing that you found,

but just give it to them at checkout.

Because they can add it to the cart of these items need to be reshelt,

as opposed to trying to reshelt items.

Oh, there's rice errone in the produce section.

Great.

Or worse, something frozen or refrigerated on a shelf that now it's going to go bad.

Yeah, yeah.

It's good notes right there.

Parents who let their kids run a muck in public spaces and don't do anything when a kid makes a nuisance of themselves.

The excuse of their just a kid translates to bad parenting.

I will piggyback on that and say if you are judging other parents, that's a jerk move too.

Yeah.

Yeah, this one I have, I have, I have, I don't know, a varying array of feelings with.

There's a big difference of not parenting your kid, of not, you know, disciplining them,

and of children who act out and do these kind of things because they can help themselves.

It's a medical thing or it's a maybe it's a part of each thing.

That too.

There's that.

There's a lot of, there's a lot on this one.

There's a lot of gray area with this one that I don't think, I don't think we've done a great job as a society of,

I don't think we've done a great job as a society of supporting parents.

There's period.

And the biggest culprits are other parents.

It's so easy to...

Parents judging parents.

Yeah, it's so easy.

And we've got so many parents out there that hold back asking for help because they don't want to be judged.

And imagine how many kids are suffering because of that.

And I don't even begrudge those parents.

As a young parent, as somebody who was freaked out by parenting, I took parenting classes.

My whole life I thought about parenting.

I always dreamed of being a dad.

I get to be a dad.

I don't know what I'm doing.

I got no clue.

What parenting classes?

What do you mean what my mom and dad taught me?

Doesn't come with how to manual.

Where's the manual?

I was told there'd be a manual.

I'm looking that under the diaper, I mean the back of the kid, nothing.

The store didn't bring it.

But there's definitely a difference between a toddler having a meltdown in the middle of the grocery store,

versus sitting at a restaurant table and ignoring your kids running through the restaurant.

Big difference.

Big difference.

Big difference.

And with that difference comes all my empathy.

You have it up until the second part of what Melissa was saying.

No, no, no, no.

There's a big difference there.

Neighbors who don't respect the quiet hours, especially after midnight.

Oh yeah, that's a rude one.

That's going to get the law enforcement involved, that kind of thing.

But there's also the neighbors who don't respect the non-quiet hours.

You're practicing your instrument in your apartment during the daytime.

And your neighbor upstairs has a problem with it and wants to come down and be a jerk.

You know, I mean there's two ends of that spectrum as well.

Absolutely.

And I think that's a good thing to keep in mind with all of this.

And more importantly, in life, like in life, the phrase used to be a lot more popular.

It needs to come back more.

You never know what's going through another person's head.

Right.

You never know what they're dealing with.

But we also all have to live on this planet together.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Unless you've figured out how to colonize Mars.

Which if you have, please, 715-424-2600, love to hear more about that.

And unless you're Elon Musk, I really don't want to hear more.

No, please do not bother calling Elon.

Please, don't quit bothering us.

The emails are just a little much.

It's annoying.

It's annoying.

It really is.

And we don't have any interest in talking to you.

Contact someone who cares.

Yeah, yeah.

He would not want to talk to you when I'm a listener.

He would not want to talk to us.

He doesn't like anybody who questions him or has follow-up questions.

And we're not, we're not yes people.

I want to see an interview with where they interview each other.

Where Aaron Rodgers and Elon Musk interview each other.

Because there be no follow-up questions.

It's just both of them just barking at each other, throwing nonsense.

Sharing their tinfoil hats back and forth.

People who park in designated, speaking of other jerks, people who park in designated spaces

that don't pertain to them.

Like accessible spaces for people with disabilities or curbside pick of spots.

Yeah, or, you know, reserve for pregnant mothers.

Yeah.

Reserve for veterans.

There's, there's a lot of those spaces that are there for a reason.

Your legs work, walk.

Yep.

Yep.

A few lots are not that big here in the Midwest.

Right, right.

And this is another one where law enforcement could get involved.

And that's not something they should have to do.

No, no, no, no, not at all.

You got enough other things on their plates.

I'm hoping that's enough to like get people to not do it.

But yeah, yeah, that's the risk there.

I don't we don't want to be bothered.

The other side of that coin too is some disabilities are not visible.

Right.

You know, if somebody has a handicap sticker or a handicap sign and to use, they don't look like they need it.

That's not up for you to judge.

Yeah.

Let's all be grown up on this next one.

Not flushing the toilet in public restrooms.

I will expand that to just not flushing, like a period, like anybody who was not, who was doing that.

Yeah, putting the seat, put the seat down, flush the toilet.

These are basic human things.

Do them.

Yeah.

We don't, we don't use the trains anymore.

Yeah.

Let's move into the 21st century here and have good bathroom etiquette.

Staying in that room of the house, people who don't clean up after themselves in communal spaces,

like bathrooms, a park or even a fitting room.

Yeah.

Or like break rooms at work.

Yes.

You can expand this to a lot of other areas.

Spaces you have to share with other people.

Clean up your own mess.

That's a great way to word it.

That's perfect.

People who just stop walking in the middle of a busy place, like the airport,

just to move over to the side or fidget with their bags or something like that.

I have had that happen a couple of times where I'm booking through the airport.

There's that person who just stops to check their phone or something like that.

I can see that.

I don't know if that's a jerk move, but it is, it's close.

It's bored a lot.

Well, you want to try to be considered of the people that are trying to get around you.

Maybe edge to the side before you stop to stop in the middle.

I think there's two big ones.

Everybody's got their list of things that drive them crazy.

Especially with driving, things that drive you crazy about other drivers.

One of mine is tailgating.

Especially on a day like today.

Do it.

Don't do it.

There's literally no reason in the world to tailgate.

I've been behind people that are going 15 in the 25.

I know how annoying it is.

It's sucking up.

It's a lot better than walking.

It's a lot better than walking.

Driving is not a birthright.

No, and guess what?

Who is that fault when you rear-end somebody?

Exactly.

Yeah.

Always you.

Yeah.

People who cough or sneeze in public and don't cover their mouth or people who spit in public

as they are walking down a sidewalk or something like that.

There's the last one.

Those things are icky.

Yeah.

We know how germs spread.

Yeah.

Cover your coughs and sneezes.

I would like to...

Any honorable mentions, Melissa?

Any outside of the lines?

Any honorable mentions.

I've got one for radio specifically.

Chewing on the radio.

Nobody in human history is ever wanted to hear another person chew.

I'm not talking about James.

Oh my god.

There's nothing wrong with that.

Oh.

Just one of the most annoying things in the universe.

I had to do it.

I had to do it.

I had to do it.

I had to do it.

I had to do it.

I had to do it.

I had to do it.

I had to do it.

I had to do it.

I had to do it.

I had to do it.

I had to do it.

I had to do it.

But you're sitting out there.

You're sitting out there that are like...

Oh, I love this segment.

Because I get to hear them chew.

It's lazy radio.

It's bad radio.

People turn off the radios from it.

Like that.

That's a big one to me.

The bumper music, lower the bumper music.

Every radio station likes to use bumper music, bumper music

is great.

It lets your audience know you're coming back and doing

some live content or use a new talk.

But lower the volume when the guest or host is talking.

It's simple.

It's simple production.

It is not difficult.

Yeah.

There's a lot of things I think that all of us that annoy

all of us on a, hopefully not daily.

But sometimes daily basis that other people do.

I do try to lessen my own stress by working on not being

bothered by things.

Yeah.

I would say one thing that specifically bothers me on

somewhat daily basis is lack of communication.

People just can't clearly communicate with each other.

And it's a hard thing.

It's not an easy thing sometimes in relationships.

Whether they're personal work, you know, neighborhood.

To have those clear lines of communication.

But it's better if you can.

It's one of those things that I think like a lot of people,

you hear something like that and you immediately think of yourself.

And I think that years back, I thought I was very good at that.

And somebody had mentioned something very similar, Melissa.

And it got me thinking about them like, well, am I?

You know, I could always be better, right?

And so it's something that I think not just myself,

but a lot of people continue to work at.

It's a daily thing that you try to get better at.

And I hope you're doing that.

I hope you're, oh, everybody can better themselves.

Because really, the way I'd like to wrap this up, Melissa,

is everything on this list or anything you and I mentioned?

Chances are you and I have something like that.

You out there listening, have something like that.

Give each other grace.

Give each other grace.

Yeah, because you never know what you might be doing something annoying

or being a jerk about something you don't even realize.

Or, you know, maybe maybe pay more attention to things.

I think what Melissa brought up is a great one because it's not only a great one,

but it's universal to all of these.

Being better at communicating benefits you in every layer of life.

And I will fully admit I got annoyed with people driving 45 in a 55 last night on my way home.

Yeah.

Yeah.

There was nothing, James.

There was no snow.

The roads were not wet.

There was no reason to be driving 40 or 45.

I did not tailgate, though.

I stayed back until there was a passing zone and I passed.

But it drove me absolutely bonkers.

It's so annoying.

I'm so with you on this.

We will take it.

It's dry.

That's another good way to get these things out of your system.

Just, just, you know, we.

Play loud music in the car and scream.

Yep.

Just don't tailgate.

It's a lot better than tailgating and a lot safer and get you in a lot less trouble.

It will have people driving past you like, what is going on in that car?

What?

So you make people laugh and that's always good.

There you go.

We're taking a quick time out.

Come back, Melissa.

James, on the morning show here at WFHR.

Welcome back, everyone.

To the morning show here at WFHR.

It's time for easy listening.

You can't do it.

We're here to calm you in yourself.

It's a new segment, Melissa and I are trying out.

It is a...

Breathe out.

Breathe out.

Okay.

All right.

That's enough of that.

We...

Hopefully that worked.

Hopefully everybody feels copper now.

We can get into some fun.

Had a moment.

We've got an interesting one here.

Who's in the wrong?

A couple secretly planning a free pop-up wedding at a coffee shop.

This is a vague, that ain't right one.

Wedding venues are...

Pop-up wedding.

Wedding venues are crazy expensive.

So that's a surprise that we don't see.

I'm actually a little surprised.

We don't see more of this.

Maybe it's a new trend.

A coffee shop at Indianapolis called Mason Society is in the news

after a couple held a pop-up wedding there and didn't ask permission.

They showed up with 20 to 30 guests, didn't say anything,

and just started the ceremony in one corner of the store,

which the owners weren't wild about,

because it made it harder for customers to place orders.

Yeah.

They had an efficient and their photographer told a barista

to wait five minutes when they asked them to stop blocking the door.

The owners say they didn't stop it because if footage of them interrupting a wedding went viral,

the internet might cancel them.

Yeah.

Unfortunately, as it is, that's really smart on their part to think ahead like that.

It was, but also terrible.

Yeah.

The owners say they posted a video after initially deciding not to.

They didn't want to shame the couple online,

but eventually opted to post the footage after the bride and groom refused to admit

they did anything wrong.

The coffee shop does host private events,

but they normally charge $500 fee.

Once the bride was shamed for it, she offered them 200 bucks,

but when they asked for the full amount, she called it unreasonable.

What?

Now people online are debating whether a sudden pop-up wedding like this

is really a big deal or not.

The whole thing only lasted 20 minutes.

Only 20 minutes in business is everything.

It impacted their business.

Bottom line, it impacted their business.

I am one of the most die-hard, foolish, romantic people you are ever going to hear in your life.

I guarantee that.

And this is dumb.

Sorry.

I know we're not supposed to say words like that anymore, but it's dumb.

Now it's dumb that they feel like they have to do this, that they're in a situation

where they are not able to maybe afford a wedding or something.

Weddings should be much more affordable, all that, et cetera, et cetera.

Again, you have my empathy until you put your issues on other people.

No matter what the situation is.

I have zero empathy for those people.

There are plenty of places you can hold a wedding for free.

Yep.

Go to the courthouse.

You're back yard.

You're back yard.

Yeah.

Your friend's back yard.

The local park.

I mean, nobody's going to stop you from gathering together 20, 30 people in a park

with an officiant and holding a wedding.

There is no reason to walk into a business and think you can do what?

A flash mob wedding?

Yeah.

I have to admit, I'm a little surprised that this is not, that there's a debate about this,

that people aren't just automatically all going against this couple.

Well, I would say part of the reason for that is because people like a sensation,

people like drama.

Yeah.

And this is causing drama.

This is like, oh, how cool.

They just like, did their wedding wherever?

Like, they just went to this coffee shop and had their wedding.

How cool.

Let's do that.

Yeah.

No.

No.

No.

It's rude to those business owners.

It's rude to the customers who expected to go and get a coffee on their way to work

and had who can handle a 20-minute delay?

Yeah.

Yeah.

And what should take you three minutes?

There's no scenario where I'm okay with this.

They tell me, oh, but we met at that coffee shop.

Okay.

Well, pay the 500 bucks.

They pay 500 bucks to have your wedding there.

Yeah.

That's nothing for a wedding venue.

I don't think this is a great start to a marriage either, just as a side note.

I just, I don't feel like that's the greatest move either.

And not so much the way they did this or having a pop-up wedding.

I don't mean that.

I mean, starting with, interfering with a local business.

This isn't even a Starbucks or anything like that.

This is a local coffee shop that's just trying to get by.

Yeah.

You're hurting local business.

There's nothing romantic about this.

You know, I may have had less issue with it if it was the couple, the efficient and the

photographer and their two witnesses.

But they brought 20 to 30 people.

Yeah.

And then they're telling that Berista, they wait.

Just wait.

Just wait.

We're having a wedding.

Wow.

That's a whole other level of.

The audacity.

Yeah.

It's a whole other level of privilege and audacity that I have not.

That's a true, that ain't right story.

Yeah.

That's a different one.

All ways you look at it.

It's wrong.

Yeah.

Need a palette cleanser on that one.

Let's go ahead.

And we're going to get a good one for you today.

Midday magazine going strong kicks off for the week.

Join us from three to four.

Monday, Tuesday through Friday for the great guests and great interviews.

We're actually going to be replaying with the weather.

We aren't going to be able to have Lacey in with us from the Heart of Wisconsin Chamber of Commerce.

So we're going to play another interview from the Heart of Wisconsin Chamber of Commerce.

Promise to join us about two weeks ago on December 29th.

That interview is still, it'll still work for this.

So we'll be replaying that in part.

Because she's going to talk about the nominations that you can do.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's going to be a really good interview.

We're looking forward to you guys re-hearing that one if you missed it.

In part two, I have a brand new interview of a brand new episode of Let's Talk.

Real Estate with our friend Lindsay Scheider and director of business development.

Real Estate professional over at Cole Banker.

See what real it is.

Nice.

He was going out in the housing market.

Yeah, I love talking to Lindsay.

It's going to be a fun conversation.

We got a good basketball on your radio dial for you coming up tonight.

It's the Greg Gardshow talking a little basketball.

605.

That'll happen right here at WFHR.

Tomorrow on WFHR Wisconsin men's basketball at Ohio State.

That's going to be a big one.

And then Thursday right here at WFHR pre-game kicks off at six.

Milwaukee Bucks hosting Boston.

Bucks basketball, Melissa.

Oh, it feels so good.

Yay.

I'm sorry.

I'm trying to be excited about it.

I know.

Boston and Milwaukee, the two best teams in the east, I think.

That should be a really good one.

That should be a great matchup.

You can hear it right here at WFHR on Wednesday.

Speaking of basketball, as long as we're talking good stories of the day,

is shout out to the Assumption Girls.

Victorious last night against Nielsville.

52.45.

Congratulations to them.

Hey, sounds like that was a good game.

Yeah.

Be on the lookout for more great Assumption basketball right here at WFHR.

And WRI will be playing those games for you.

Got good ones coming up for you.

And on Thursday also on WRI at 650 high school boys basketball.

Port Edwards at Pittsville.

Join Michael and Seth for that Thursday over on WFHR on WRI.

And I want to send a big shout out to the Rams kids and their concert last night.

Yes.

They did great.

It was awesome.

I want to really think it was constant wrap as public schools for putting that online.

I would not have been able to see it otherwise like many people out there.

And I got to catch a little bit of it online stream too.

So I'm grateful that they did that.

I wanted to ask, OK, good, good, good.

I was really hoping you'd be able to.

I know I meant something to you too.

And we love supporting these kids.

They got another Rams six grade orchestra concerts coming up January 16th at six.

Keep that in mind.

Bookmark that everybody and get to it if you can.

We also want to remind everybody, actually I want to touch on this one.

We'll talk about some other stuff tomorrow.

But there's this great thing.

The Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs is asking once again for carrying individuals