Good morning, Wisconsin. Good morning, world. It's a new day. Thanks for kicking it off of
us right here at WFHR, locally grown radio. Got your host, James J, at 904 on the clock
right behind the mic. Joining me, Melissa K. Good morning. Seth Habagger. Good morning.
And the best listeners in the radio. Thanks so much for being with us, everybody. We're
going to have some fun this hour. Got good things lined up for you. We're going to get
into odd laws throughout the U.S., America. How bizarre. How bizarre. How bizarre. America's
oddest laws and other 90s references. How bizarre. Why did that song pop in my head? I don't
know. It's the word. Yeah. We've got some then ate right stuff, some local good stories
of the day that we're going to cover and plenty more coming up. But we kick off our
eye nine o'clock hour with some entertainment news and talking about an old colleague of
mine, Ed O'Neill. I don't know if I ever mentioned this, but I did a TV show in California.
And happened to work with Mr. O'Neill for like five, ten minutes. Like it really wasn't
that long. It really wasn't very long. Five, ten minutes longer than I am. So you know,
that's something. Ed O'Neill of course, famous is Al Bundy and modern family. A lot of
great character work he has done. I love out. I love Ed O'Neill, the human being that
alone the actor. One of those giving actors, a lot of young actors, child actors talk
about Ed O'Neill being very similar to Gary Oldman, stays with him after after filming
is done, works with him on their script, a lot of those things. Very good hearted man.
And in all seriousness, it took like four or five minutes to talk to a young silly looking
weird actor and changed his life. Like talking to Ed O'Neill changed my life. And it was
like four minutes. It was like three, four minutes. And he didn't, he came over and sat
by me. I was just so, I just talking about against me. And he didn't have to do that.
It's such a cool move. And there's a chance that that never even happens. And we, none
of this ever happens. We don't see him as Al Bundy. We don't see those him four touchdowns
and one high school game, none of this stuff. Have you ever been so broke that you've considered
joining maybe some, maybe not some, well, the mob. I'll just say it. I'll just say it.
The mob. Are they hiring? Like many other Chicagoans, Mr. O'Neill thought about this.
Oh, dear. Before he was an actor, he was signed by the Pittsburgh Steelers in 1969. But
unfortunately, he got cut during training camp. So there's another parallel universe where
Ed O'Neill might be playing actually scoring touchdowns. Exactly. I remember hearing about
that he was actually a very good football player in high school. And, and, and he almost
got, he almost made it. If I remember right, the character of Al Bundy actually was never
supposed to have any like high school moments or anything bureau proud of, Ed thought it
would be funny if Al had like one moment. The one thing. Yeah. Yeah. Like, like a lot
of people do. It's like that. So that's, I believe if I remember that right, that was
his addition to the show. That would totally make sense for him. Yeah. Yeah. Since Ed was
unsure of what to do next, he reconnected with an old friend named Jim, who offered him
a job in organized crime. It was not my father. It was not my dad's disclaimer. Um, both
of them around the same age, both of them in Chicago at that time both have connections.
But no, no, no, wasn't my dad. Your dad was in boxing. Come on. It's a lot of gyms.
There was a lot of gyms. His friend told him, quote, I'll give you an easy stuff just
to collect here and there. That's how they get you. That's how you. Yeah. Yeah. Um,
but it's dad talked him out of it by asking him if he could handle doing time. Ed's answer
was a hard no. So he took off to New York to pursue acting and the rest is history. Very
good. Wow. Wow. There's an actual scared street story that worked. Hey, you think you
could do this? Yeah, I could be tough. Yeah, I could do these things. Can you do time?
Nope. I'm honest with myself. No way. No way. Yeah. That's great though.
It's a good way. It's a good way. It is. Yes. Prison is so good at what it does, uh,
that it doesn't even need to do it to work. Like, prison itself sometimes get not everybody,
not everybody, but, um, yeah. So I think this is an interest. That's a whole nother
conversation. Yes. Yes. Uh, yeah. I need to have prison. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um, Nicole
Kidman is five foot 11. But early in her career, she used to lie about her height because
she was afraid casting directors would think she was too tall. She, she brought this up in
the Guardian recently. And I really appreciate her doing this. She says, quote, I was told
you won't have a career. You're too tall. People would say, how, how's the air up there?
Now I get, uh, now I, uh, now you're so much taller than I thought or men grappling with
how high my heels should be. Oh, good. Um, she's been doing this most of her life. Uh,
like when she was a kid auditioning for the lead in the musical Annie, uh, the cutoff was
five foot two. Nicole was five foot four. Um, so she started even then lying about her age in
these things. Yeah. Exactly. Wow. She managed to talk her way into into the audition. But she says,
quote, I didn't get the part. I didn't even get a call back. And it really changed her. It really
hurt her. Wow. Um, and going forward, she learned from that moment and, uh, it's just the most
ridiculous stuff. Isn't it? Like, I deal with, um, hit your noses to a crooked or you're too tall
to work with this actress or you're too short to work with this actor. I get some of that stuff.
But I've got it sparing. I've done at least a million auditions. And I've got it maybe in, uh,
50, 60 auditions that I've done. Uh, she deals with this every time and not even just early in her
career. She's still dealing with it. She's Nicole Kidman and she's still dealing with it. Yeah.
I, I hope people, I'm not asking everybody to be, you know, have, uh, start a go fund me or anything
for actors or anything like that. But I would really, I really think that empathy,
our world could go a long way. You being more empathetic to people that are in different
situations than you are. Right. It doesn't mean that you have to feel sorry for them.
I don't mean that. I think that you should hold a certain levels of empathy for certain things
in life. Nicole Kidman's had a good life. So you can millions of dollars. She's all right.
It's a good career. And it's so ridiculous. But you can empathize with it to a, to a degree.
Exactly. And, and, but it doesn't matter in film. No, she did it a whole movie.
Ever stopped Tom Cruise. I was going to say she did a whole movie with her
then husband, Tom Cruise, who was decidedly shorter than her. And you couldn't tell.
You would never know it. So, yeah, it's ridiculous. It's ridiculous. Well, to me, it's a, like,
every, every director that turned her down is a bad director because a good director. Maybe,
maybe this is something that when you're in the casting process, you're, you're like thinking
about, but once you see talent, okay, we got to change this up. How do we make so and so taller
and make her shorter or whatever we got to do filming wise? We'll film at this angle,
whatever we got to do. Her, she's too talented. We, she wants to be in this movie. Let's get her in
this movie. Right. It's not like she was trying to get theater gigs. Yeah. She's sure. That would
have definitely then should have played a part in it. Yeah. Yeah. But she was doing movies in TV.
It's stuff where you can, you can always do that stuff right. Yeah. Exactly. I did. I caught it. I
got it. Boy, I think that it's kind of cool when you hear these stories too. And you know, she's
been dealing with this whole career, her whole career. And she's still Nicole Kidman. She's still,
she's still got that level of a career. Yeah. And sharing this stuff, I hope that there's other
actors out there that hear those stories and are encouraged are like, okay, she, she made a
through this stuff. I can make it through the stuff. This is the first time I actually heard
how tall she actually is. Yeah. I didn't know that. I had no idea. So it's, it's not, it's not
an issue. It should be an issue. I, I, an embracing body positivity. You are who you are. Yeah.
Change your height. I mean, you can obviously do some things about your weight to some degree. But
be you. Exactly. Darryl DMC McDaniels has a new hustle. He is selling cookies. What? The brand
is called Darryl Makes Cookies. That's DMC. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The cookies are chocolate chip
and they're called the coolest cookies in the universe. What makes these cookies the coolest?
Well, they can, uh, Brent, they could bridge the generation gap. Darryl says, quote,
the young people don't listen to the old people and the old people think the young people don't
know enough. I want to change that. If you sit down and break bread and eat some cookies with
a kid, you realize that you have more in common than you have that you don't. Hey. That's a good
part. That's great. Bring in people together with cookies. Together. Yeah. I, uh, I have definitely
purchasing some of these. I have definitely going to try these and not just because of my huge
run DMC fan, but it's still so cool, man. Are they? I do have one, one hold up question, though.
No, very important. And I don't, I apologize for going serious on everybody and just a fun topic.
Okay. But are the cookies tougher than leather? Are the. Oh, geez. Guys, if anybody got that
reference, thank you. Thank you for getting that reference. Yes, growing. That's exactly how
you should respond to that. You grow, you grow and I'm eating it up. I love it. Oh, I love it.
Grown all you want. But, but since you brought up the topic of cookies, I have to share something
with our listeners that nobody has ever tried before. Okay. Okay. Okay. We have a wonderful
listener who brings us cookies to the station. Yeah. And they are the most fabulous cookies,
but nobody ever gets to eat them stale because they're gone so fast. That's very true. Guess what?
Diane's lemon cookies are still amazing completely dried out. It's like a whole new cookie.
It's like, it's like this crispy deliciousness in your mouth that that begs to be dipped in coffee.
I'm so red faced. I can't talk right now. Okay. We do need context for this. So the last time
Diane brought cookies in, Melissa wasn't able to get here. So James very thoughtfully put some aside
for Melissa, but it was, you know, a week since they were there so they were dried out. But,
but I heard no, I heard Melissa after she took a bite, she's like, yeah, they're very stale and
they're awesome, you know. So she was not light. She's not light. They were still really good.
They are. And I can't wait to eat the other two that are still sitting on my dining room table.
Oh, the coffee dipping is a great idea though. I think that's awesome. Yeah. I just have to make
more coffee. That's all that's holding me back right now. This is the story of one of the stories
of my life, man, of wanting to do something good, doing a good deed, but just not thinking it through
completely. It's still a great story. It is. And it proves that Diane's cookies can, can perform
the test of time. Exactly. But you are so right about the way you started this too, because we never
find out if they're stale because they're just not around. No, we eat too fast. Great opening. Great
opening. And I very much appreciate you saving them for me, James. It's very humble. And a huge
shout out to Diane. Yeah, absolutely. And bringing us cookies, you're the best. Yeah, best Diane,
we appreciate you. Appreciate all of you out there. I want to wrap up our entertainment segment,
talking a little bit about the glass minashery, the Tennessee Williams production that is going to
be coming up to WRCT. This winter, March 1st is opening night. And we're excited about this.
Of course, it is being directed for those that haven't heard by our own Seth Habhagger. Melissa K
is also starring in this. It is fantastic. Well, well, one of the best well written, one of the
most well written plays you'll ever read. You'll ever see. And we're going to give you something a
little different with this performance. Seth, we are as we continue to tell you about the,
we're going to be adding some little extra bits there. We're going to be doing some filmed parts.
We're going to be doing some voiceover silhouette. We're going to make it. I don't want, I say it
like this, but I make it. It sounds a little grandiose. It's like it's going to be an experience.
Kind of thing, but it is going to be an experience. Exactly. So, but I got to say so far,
you know, that we're in the second week of rehearsals. And this group is so wonderful already.
I'm enjoying what everyone is doing. And I'm getting more excited every time we dip into this.
There's a lot of technical stuff we got to go through. Still, of course, because we've got to
get all the bells and whistles together. But man, I'm so far and I hope Melissa is the same with
you. I'm already having a lot of fun. Oh, yeah, it is fun. Other rehearsals are fun. We're still
obviously in the midst of blocking. So, and our books are in hand. Only Wes, our Tom,
has he's practically off book for his opening model. I think he's starting to memorize already,
man. Oh, it's awesome. I love it. He's new to the WRCT stage and hasn't acted since high school. So,
this is really going to be an awesome performance. I can't wait. Yeah, it's going to be good.
We're really looking forward to talking more and more about it as we build up to the show. We're
hearing about how things are going with the rehearsal process and appreciate you guys sharing these
things with our audience. It's going to be fun for people to be able to kind of like have all of
this information and then go and see the production. Yes. It's going to be a little bit of watching
the behind the scenes, how it was made kind of thing and then being able to watch the actual movie.
So, that's going to be a lot of fun. But you got to have tickets to be able to see it.
WRCTheter.org by local support local, including the arts. WRCTheter.org, get your tickets over
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Can you encourage and do that? Take a quick time out. Come back and have some more fun on the
morning show here at WFHR. I'd like to thank the guy who wrote the song that made my baby fall in
love with me. Welcome back everyone. Morning show here at WFHR. Locally Growed Radio. I would like
to thank the bumper king Seth Habagger. I love that song. That's a fun one. That was good.
Let's have some fun everybody. Let's get into weird laws. Weird laws. We're bringing it back.
Odd laws take two. We're going to go into America's oddest laws. We're going to get into right now
and have some fun with this one. This is reposted by a couple of different sites and news outlets
that listed together the oddest laws on the books around the US. You've probably seen some of them
before and you've even heard us talk about them before in years past. This comes up usually in
January because of a lot of laws. Grandfathered out or grandfathered in or just laws that were on
the books. We got to get that off the books. This is crazy. Why is this still a law? If you're
under the age of 13, you can't fish on Sundays. Wait, why do I say weird laws? Let's go ahead and
here are a few. You may or may not know and let's have some fun with these. In Alabama, it's
against the law to dress up as a priest or nun unless you really are one. It even applies on
Halloween. Oh really? I hope they told like spirit Halloween that that they can't sell those in
that state. No extra cyst costumes for you. Really? Can't be scary. What I'm guessing this had to
do with, of course, someone doing dressing up as a priest or a nun and doing something wrong,
you know, robbing people or something like that. This is the only part of this that I wish we could
do a little bit differently. I just didn't have the resources of the time to be able to go too
extensive on this. But what I want is to give you that air, so you know, Alabama, the laws,
you can't dress up as a priest or nun unless you really are one. Yes, I want to know why. I want
to know the story behind why this happens. There's got to be something really interesting.
Almost every one of these, there's no story though. There's no background to it. There's no bet.
I don't know that this one would be very interesting. I mean, have religious people being charlatans?
That never happened.
Arizona has a law that specifically bans rigging claw machine games so they're impossible to win.
Oh, that's good. Yeah, one where you can never win is awful. The one where you play until
you win is the best. Yes. Oh, those are rare. Yeah, those are very rare. There's one at Jack's
here in my town. You can you can win a duck every time you play. Oh, all right. So we have a
sheet full of rubber ducks. Oh, I love it. Been waiting for things to calm down a little bit in
everything, but we have a coffee date, the three of us. We're doing that when we go up there.
We're going to get some rubber ducks, man. Yeah, yeah. Little Rock Arkansas has a law that bans
begging your beeping your horn outside any sandwich shop after 9 p.m. If it's not a sandwich shop,
it's perfectly fine. Pizza place. That's cool. That's all right. That's all right. Just make
sure there's not a sandwich shop around the corner. Yes, yes. I love how specific it is. Very
specific. Very specific. We only want to target these things that we don't want anything else.
And then the fact of the process you have to go through to get a law put in place. I mean,
exactly. I want this to be a law. Well, now it is one. Okay. I don't know if we talk about that
enough. Like how how how how you the pull these things out like how you actually get this past
like some of these laws or what the vote actually was. You know, like who voted for it and who
what you know, the numbers of who voted for it against zero. Nope. It was five and a half to
wait a minute. How do we do that? I really really love the idea of you're starting out.
You're in Little Rock. You got your new sandwich shop opened up and you feel good. You know,
you got some customers at all this and after night of clock and you're like, oh, where
did everybody go? What is it? What is it? What is it? What is it? What is it? What is it? What is it?
If you didn't know this law, that would be very confusing. I would think in California,
you're allowed to eat frogs. You're you're allowed to eat frogs unless they died in a
frog jumping competition, then you can't. That was a throwback. That must have been what you
guys did. I don't remember that one at all. I've forgotten to tell us reading the sentence.
Yes. So you can go out and like like like you know, hit him over the head with a hammer, but you
can't. I love love love the idea of like a French restaurant. There's a police officer in there
just sitting there watching the coach. Hey, where'd you get those frogs? Where'd you get those
frogs, huh? Huh? Where'd you get them? Looking for frogs with blue ribbons. Let me see here.
Little teeny blue ribbons on them. Oh, that'd be great. This one, this one finished fourth. It's
okay. You can go ahead and throw that one. He didn't play. He didn't play.
You have to think if they want a jumping contest, they'd have really strong leg muscles. That's
true. They'd be very tasty, right? Yeah. I mean, if you like frogs legs. Yeah. A lot of people
do. That's true. In Colorado, you can't use indoor furniture as outdoor furniture.
Well, you know, I don't like that one too much, actually. In Colorado. Okay. I'm okay.
I can't let us know in rain. And if it's not graded for how? I guess. But did you
were people like just like flagrantly? It's like putting their couches on the lawn.
Is that what it was? Yeah. Really being overdue. All right. You guys stop it.
I just want to couch on my porch. What's wrong with that?
I love the idea of the lawmakers being like parents. Like if you don't stop it, I'm going to make
a law about this. You keep it up. I'm going to make a law about this. I'm going to. All right.
I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to set their dining room
chairs in the front yard just to make a mad. Yes. Yes. I like that.
In Delaware, whispering in church is technically illegal if it disrupts the service.
Well, then obviously you don't know how to whisper. Yeah.
Yeah. Obviously. Man. That's the stage whispering. Yeah. I think the pastor is really,
you know, what? Oh, she's in Florida. It's illegal to feed wild alligators, which is
probably a good idea. That's a good idea. Yeah. Yeah. No. No feeding the wild animals, please.
Really? Well, in Louisiana, I got to feed them a different state, obviously, but they like
marshmallows. Oh, really? You fed alligators? Marshmallows. Yeah. Wow. Really? Oh, is that cool?
Get to that seat. Well, you're on a boat and they were in the water. I mean, you just throw
the marshmallow in the water. Oh, okay. You don't hand-fed it to them. Let's get a say. Wow,
you're brave. I did kiss a baby one on the nose, but that's a different story. No, that's
wow. That's kind of strange and weird. You couldn't have done that in Florida, in other words.
You can only do that in Louisiana, apparently. Just go next door to Louisiana. Yeah, there you go.
Stay sober. We continue to, in Idaho, it's illegal to walk around carrying a white cane
unless you're blind. Okay. Again, someone impersonating my person probably for
nefarious purposes. We're making these fancy white canes. No, you can't have it. Yeah,
do it. Fashion statement for you. I do remember this one in Indiana, Newtling, also called
Hillbilly Hand Fishing. Yeah. It's illegal. You're also not allowed to fish with dynamite.
That was one of my favorites. So good. So good. You know, you know what we can do? We can
get a whole bunch of fish. We just throw the stick and dynamite in the water. I know exactly
how this went down. I know our Midwestern people. They're sitting in the boat, they're not catching
anything. Nothing's nothing's biting. Just all of a sudden, like this like literal light bulb
goes over one of the fishermen's head. Yeah, yeah, stick a dynamite like pops up and say like,
hey, wait a minute. I got an idea. Why didn't anybody ever think of this?
Now, I believe that Newtling is still legal in many states in the South. Any Arkansas and
Tennessee and stuff, you can still do it to sell. Yeah, why would that be illegal? That's weird.
Yeah. That is weird. I mean, like, guttling a trout is a skill. It's not a skill. I know.
It's a, yeah, it's an awesome skill. And as far as I know, and I've heard, and I actually,
I don't want to say a research just, but I've talked to people about it and everything.
It's not inhumane to the fish or anything like that. Oh, you can make the argument that it's
actually more humane than actual traditional fishing. You're stabbing them with a hook. Yeah,
exactly. You just grab them and help, you know, throw them into a bag or throw them into a, you
know, a boat or something. Yeah, blowing them up with dynamite. And I do think, and I only say this
because I know some people where it's like a literal family tradition. They did this. I grew up with
a couple of kids from the South that did this as a family. Yeah, exactly. I feel like when you're
making laws like against like cultural traditions or things like that, like that's a little
dicey to me. That's a little, especially if no one's getting hurt by it. Yeah, it's
seem really, really harmless. Yeah. Again, we need the history. Yeah, exactly.
In Maryland, it's illegal to make sell or trade stink bombs.
I know how that one did. Okay, this is what happened. Okay, so the state legislature was meeting.
You know, they were, they were in session and some kid in the gallery through a stink bomb
into the middle of the proceedings. And they immediately made a law.
Yeah, that's a, you can't do stink immediately immediately.
And no more stink bombs before the stink cleared. It had already passed, yeah.
In California, there is a law that protects the right of residents to access sunlight for their
laundry needs. This law guarantees tenants the right to hang its clothes lines to dry their
laundry outdoors. So the right to sunlight in California is, oh, that's more of, that's a
positive law. Yeah. That's pretty cool. It has to do with housing as well. Yeah.
I'm getting, I'm guessing there were like complaints from people. Why, you can't hang your
laundry out here? Yes, I can. Yeah. I don't want to see your underwear. Too bad.
According to Louisiana Revise Statute 32771, it is unlawful to bring or possess
life snakes with specified parade areas during martygroff parades or processions. Oh, dear.
Leave the snakes at home for martygroff. Just, just do it. Was there like a proliferation of it?
Everyone's bringing their snakes. We got to stop this. Way too much of it. Yeah, there were way too many snakes.
In New York, there is a peculiar law that prohibits greeting someone by putting one's thumb to the
nose and wiggling the fingers. This gesture commonly known as the thumbing of the nose is
considered an unconventional and impolite way to greet or mock someone. So yes, New York has a
law in the books about being rude. New Yorkers have a law about being rude. You just can't write this.
I was going to say they do not apparently see the irony of this. Yeah. It's very ironic.
Because it makes you look funny, not the other person. That's, that's awesome. Something
you know is it somewhat? Has anyone ever used that as a greeting? I can't think of that's usually
just a rat, you know? Silly faces of kids. Yeah. I think, you know, famously in Romeo and Julia,
do you bite your thumb at me? Yes, I bite my thumb at you, sir. I think of that right away.
Guys, this is the only way I'm going to greet you in the future.
Yes, yes, yes. As you should. And we wrap up with drunk bingo. Under, under North Carolina general
status of 14 309, it is illegal to operate or participate in a game of bingo while under the
influence of an impacting empire, impairing substance. This law is essentially aimed at promoting
responsible gaming practices. I actually can't serve alcohol. They're bingo halls then. No,
can't do it. I could not disagree with this more. I think that like not that you have to, but if
you choose to have a couple while you're playing bingo, I think that that just makes it more fun.
I think that to each the road. I want the bingo caller to be drunk. Yes, that would be hilarious.
Yeah. The players not so much experience that. I don't know. Oh, nice, nice. Okay, yeah.
So Melissa's agreement with this law. She's like, no, no, no, you need to be sober. We can go at
the family Christmas every year. Nice, nice. Elbow macaroni for, you know, the marking our spot.
Oh, I like that. That's a new macaroni, though. You know, we were using the same stuff for decades.
Oh, good to get the new stuff. Yeah, yeah. I think you changed that out every now and then.
Yeah. I think I changed it up every once in a while. Yeah. We're going to take a time out,
get some local news. When we come back, we're going to get into this new thing that Taco Bell is
trying. And we have four mistakes to avoid at a new job. No, okay. Got those coming up for you
right after our news break here on the morning show at WFHR.
Welcome back, everyone. Morning show here at WFHR.
Locally grown radio. What's wrong with you guys?
It's the, it's the music. It's the
Oh, great choice. Good one to have in there. Seth Melissa, James here with you.
This is why we need to be on camera. Yes.
One of the greatest theme songs ever. Oh, good stuff. What's it from?
The greatest American hero. Yeah. Yeah. A show didn't last very long, but the theme was a big hit.
The theme is eternal. The show nobody remembers, but the hair. Nobody or millions of cats hair.
Yeah. That's all we remember from it. I, I seriously, every time I hear that song or anything,
I remember being in a white castle as a kid and being angry in my mom and dad because we
stopped to get food and we weren't going to get home in time to see the great American hero.
Oh, my God. I never forget it. I'll never have such an awesome story. Love that show.
Love that show. I don't remember anything about it. And I know it was bad. I know it was bad.
But we didn't have like a superhero shows or anything like that back and then on.
Yeah. People like, like they were into that stuff and been waiting for this time period.
Like this is what it's like it was a generation of people that you wonder why Kevin Feige and some
of these guys where this stuff comes from. They grew up in the same way we did. Yes.
Like Watten these things. Yeah. Superman was kind of cool, but yeah. Yeah.
It's about it. It really wasn't much else. It's weird to me that they they have a hit in the Batman
original Batman TV show. And then they just kind of like, all right, well, we're just done with
that. We're not going to do these things anymore. Like they they they had the material just sitting
right there. They did. And not only in the comic books, but in the actual TV show and all this.
And they never even tried to bring it back. Like there's no, no words of like, well, they they
tried this pilot and it didn't work or something like that. They just don't know. We're not going to
not. We're done. Yeah. This is interesting. Taco Bell just announced its first ever serial.
Yeah. A breakfast take on their cinnamon twist dessert option. Oh, okay. That's not too bad.
Only fans in a handful of cities will get to try it this week. They're not selling it in
stores or online at least for now. Instead, they're partnering with Uber Eats and they're giving
boxes away for free. Interesting. Between now and Monday, people in New York, LA, Chicago, Miami,
Dallas, and Atlanta can get a box of cinnamon twist serial if they use Uber Eats to order Taco Bell
breakfast before 11 a.m. Now, actually, that's that's a pretty smart move, I think. It is.
I agree. I don't like the the idea of some of these things where, okay, you can win this if you
hit this QR code and go through this and jump through a burning higher fire and all these things
and stuff. But that actually I feel like is a smart move. That's that's not I can't argue with
that one. Well, they're trying to get people get their food delivered now. It's true. It's true.
And now they can see if people actually like it or not. I mean, that's a good way of a little
market testing too. And it's not a far-fetched product. No, it's not. I mean, their their cinnamon
dessert, puffy thingies are practically serial anyway. Is that what they're called? Melissa,
is that their actual name? Yep. And I am by no means a marketing genius or anything like that.
But I have been in this industry for over two decades and I do study marketing. I do study
sales and I think it's very interesting. In part because it's fascinating to me, it's interesting to
me what makes this work and this not exactly those things. And if there is one of the first things
I learned in radio, people love free. I don't care what you're giving away. If you're giving
away for free, people love it. Yeah. I see our t-shirts all over town. I saw one in a point the
other day. All right. I was walking up to my daughter's house and I saw a person wiping off their
car and they had a WIRI shirt on. Nice. They did not know me. They did not know who I was already.
They did gave me a funny look because I was staring at him. Why is this guy staring at me?
Yeah. But now that I don't know if that happens if we're selling those for 10 bucks.
I'm the right. I don't know. I don't know how many people are wearing them. I don't know how
many of people are having or anything like that. People love free. So, okay, I'm on the fence
about this whole new cereal that's it. Oh, wait a minute. It's free. Oh, I'll try that. Yeah,
exactly. It's just smart. It's a smart move by them. For everyone else, here's the actual
advice Taco Bell gave. Oh, okay. Today in Tamao Uber, Uber won subscription members in those cities
can also order a free box. No purchase necessary. For everyone else, here's the actual advice Taco Bell
gave. Just order some normal cinnamon twists, crush them up and add milk. So it sounds like
that's what they the actual cereal is. Oh, my gosh. It's exactly what Melissa said. Wow.
I had to hold it together while we finished the rest of the segment because they've nicely done,
Melissa. Nicely done. She's she needs to start working on in marketing, I think. That's what she needs
to do. That's what. Yes. For Taco Bell. For Justin, get back there. Seven layer burrito, which is the
most amazing thing on their menu and they took it away and it was really dumb of them.
I love the idea of Melissa shows up tomorrow and she's like, guys, I'm leaving. I'm going to start
a career Taco Bell. I'm going to go work there and everything and she goes to work there just so
that she can do this. You know what? I'm getting a sneaking suspicion. James,
James may laugh that you bring up Taco Bell just to hear Melissa rage about their burrito that
they no longer make. I believe the fifth. I have to give a nod to Taco Bell. I believe this
or not. Okay. So I had to go there the other day because I needed food and there weren't other
options. We had this relationship for this long time of not speaking to one another.
And I come to find out they do have an alternative vegetarian burrito.
Okay. All right. It's called the Festia. Festia. Festia. Festa. Festa.
Viesta. Maybe that's it. Yeah. Viesta. Veggie. Burrito. Okay. It's no seven layer.
But it wasn't bad. Okay. All right. Very cool. So I mean, if I was if I was starving again
and there were no other options. And I didn't want subway. Shout out to
damning with fate praise. Very good boys. I love it. Shout out to Taco Bell.
Feel free to reach out and advertise with the city time.
42430. Bring back to seven layer burrito you guys. We'll be back with more.
He does it to himself. It's a to himself. Morning show here at WFHR. We are locally grown radio.
Welcome back everyone. Morning show at WFHR. Locally grown radio.
Seth Melissa James here with you. Hope you're having a good one out there.
Everybody. Man, that's some good bumper music right there. Like that. That's some good stuff
right there. Tentation. Let's go into this one right now. And this is kind of again,
as we try to evolve here at the show, our that ain't right segment has been fun for many years.
And we're still going to do those traditional that ain't right stories about those crazy fellow
human beings of ours. That's right. But I want to also kind of take it this year to be any
opportunity we have to be more positive, genuine positivity, not fake, not corny, just genuine
positivity. Want to leave our set, leave our listeners with that whenever we have an opportunity.
So this then a right story is kind of telling you about things that you might not want to do at a
job or a job interview. Okay. A bunch of career experts came up with a list of the worst mistakes
you can make at a new job, like constantly talking about Taco Bell items and wanting to know,
unless you're going for a job at Taco Bell. Yeah, completely different, completely different.
You probably shouldn't slam them then. No, no. Pretending you know everything. You might worry,
you'll seem incompetent if you ask too many questions, but ignore that instinct and ask away.
Not asking questions will just slow you down and keep you from learning how things operate.
That's such an easy one to fall into because you don't want to appear like, oh man,
I'm going to, I don't know anything. And they're going to see that. No, I think that's a great
piece of advice. Yeah. And I've always told people that I'm training in a new job, never hesitate
to ask questions. I'd rather answer the same question 50 times than you struggle or or not know
how to do something. Right. I think one of the best compliments I was ever given as boy James,
you don't mind seeming stupid because I don't. I don't care. It's a way of putting it, but yes. Yeah,
yeah. It was a director. I generally, I think that's one of my superpowers. I don't care what you
think of my intelligence. I spent half my over half my life worrying about that and I got to a point
where I was like, I'd rather learn. I'd rather know than worry about what other people think. Yeah,
if you think I'm dumb, go write that, that just plays right into my hand because my whole life,
I've been under a smate. Yeah, and you can't control what other people think. Right. And having
that come home more and more in life, I think is important for not just me, but a lot of people.
Yeah, ask questions. Ask away. Being anti social. Uh-oh. Don't be shy and isolate yourself. Put
yourself out there and talk to people or you might miss opportunities to build connections.
You don't want them saying things like, has anyone talked to the new guy yet?
I think that's said about me at every job of her. The guy standing over there. Look at me.
That's a really good note, I think. Yeah, that is true. You're already. You're going to make
those connections. Yeah, and you're already in kind of an uncomfortable position,
you know, because you're new and you don't know anything. You might as well. You might as well
just go ahead. You know, you know, you know, you know, you know, the water's cold,
just jump in. Yeah, you know, doing it. Well, it's not going to work. You know, just dive right in.
Bad mouthing your old job. This is a huge shift and not to say that it was ever kosher,
but there was a point in time. And I want to say early 80s mid 80s, where this was not only
done, but it was kind of laughed about what the person you were interviewing with. And then there
was this shift where it just changed like it changed. It went the complete other direction.
There have been people who I've heard from that I was going to hire this person until they
started bad mouthing their former employer. This is also very good dating advice.
He's going to say bad mouthing your ex. Nobody in human history has ever been like,
oh, this person was bad mouthing their ex. All right. I'm sure they will never do that again.
Well, that's it. I mean, it's one of those things where if they're bad mouthing where they
work before, guess what? They're probably going to get a bad mouth you and they move on to
another job. It's more about you as a person than it says anything about the job. Exactly.
Perfectly said. Yes. Yes. And finally, talking about how things were done better at your old
job. It doesn't flip the coin there. And then, yes, boy, I've never done that one. That's that's
good. You're so much better there. At our old job. That doesn't seem like a recipe for disaster.
It really does. If there's something that you did at your old job that is a good idea,
there's a better way to promote that or to present it at the current job you're at.
Yeah, exactly. And it can be a helpful thing and it can be a positive, but don't present it as
well. The last place I worked, we did this all along. Which was way better than here.
Tax. Why are you still not there? Yeah. Yeah. We're home. Nice. Yeah.
Tax will take you to many places in life. It's true. It goes a long way. It is about
presentation the way you word things. You know, thank you, mom. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
It's a real thing. I think of this in many ways with if you've ever been around or you've
had your child hurt themselves in front of you. I remember my son. He's climbing, he's climbing
stairs and everything and he slips and he gets his tooth right under his lip and punches a hole
right in there. And he is gushing. And my ex-wife at the time, no, no fault to her sees this and
immediately, you know, starts freaking out. JC, my son sees her eyes right away and he's about
to start crying. I get in the vision, I get in, I cut her, I get in between the two of them.
And I'm just talking to him, all calm and collected and everything and just very,
making eye contact. And he slowly sort of slowed down. And like a minute later, he's laughing
as we're trying to put the band-aid on him and all the way to the R and all this stuff. Yeah,
right, right. This is life. This is life. It's how you handle things and how you the attitude and
emotion you have when it's going on. It's very important to keep on this in mind and life
and especially in election year. You are going to be around people that you are not going to agree
with. You are going to be around people that you are not always going to see eye to eye with.
Be the bigger person. Be the better human being. There you go. It's a good way of putting it,
yeah. And keep calm, cool, collected. Like it doesn't, it doesn't face it. You're not,
even if you live with this person, you can make it work. Like it's okay. It'll be all right.
I like that one. That's it. In other words, forget about it.
Forget about it. We got to, we got to cover this one too. Again, it's certified the record.
So halfway through January and we've already got a, our first massive scandal.
Oh no. It's a big one right here, but we got to address it. It's important. That's what we do
around here. The record for the world's oldest dog might be bogus. Oh no.
No. Guinness certified the record last January and said a dog in Portugal named Bobby was over 30
years old. Sadly, passed away in October, supposedly at the age of 31, but Bobby's legacy might
forever be tarnished after Guinness just announced the record is now under review. His owner,
a guy named Leonel Costa had a vet-submit documentation that Bobby was born May 11th in 1992,
meaning he died at 31 years and 165 days old. But after Bobby passed away, people started
questioning those credentials. He was a type of livestock guardian dog called a,
a ha, a fario. Do, do, do Allen, tizio. They usually live about 12 to 14 years. So 31 would be
more than twice that. That seems pretty remarkable. Yeah. And pretty unlikely and unlikely.
People also claim photos taken of him in 1999 show a dog with significantly different colored
paws. Okay. Council member at the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons in England was pretty blunt
when asked about it. Quote, not a single one of those, not a single one of my colleagues believe
Bobby was actually 31 years old. Guinness put out a statement saying a formal review is underway.
They temporarily pause the records for the records for oldest living dog and oldest dog ever
until they get this ironed out. Yeah. The world record world rock by skin. It's not like they
get a prize for it. It's true. There's no money involved here. But I do believe if I have this
right, you can be fine. You can get charged for these kind of things. Oh wow. So while the ceiling
isn't that high, I mean, you know, yeah, okay, maybe you're in the public eye for a couple of
minutes for breaking a record or having a record. But that fades pretty quick. The floor is
very hot on this one. You can do time for this for this. Wow. If Bobby's record does get nullified,
it would go back to Australia, cattle dog named Bluey. She was born in 1910 and lived to be 29
and a half. Wow. That's impressive. That's pretty cool. Is the Bluey character named after that
Bluey? That's a famous Bluey. Yeah. It could be. It could be. That'd be interesting.
I like that cartoon. Yeah, it's a fun cartoon. It's a fun one. It is. It is. I love the dad
and mom and I like it. They're great. I really do. I love their characters. So sad we know all
this. It is. What is wrong with us? Oh man. I have a problem with it. It's a Wednesday. We all
know what that means. Bingo. Bingo. Non-drunk bingo. Yes. Yes. Bingo at the whisker. We can do
that here. It's not North Carolina. True. Very cool. You know, maybe you should not. Okay.
Bingo at the whisker. It's Ellis Lodge. Going on tonight, their doors open of five. Bingo
kicks off at 6.30. Head on over there at 4.30 West Jackson Street and Wisconsin Rapids. We send a
big shout out to our Elk Slodge. It does so much for our community and of course host a great
event like this along with other great events. They do. Shout out to the Elk Slodge. That's awesome.
Go ahead and get some bingo in your life. They doors open of five. Bingo kicks off at 6.30.
Every Wednesday except for if the school is closed for due to bad weather. Keep that in mind
this time of year. All right. They have a cash bar and if you want a bingo partner,
choose me over Seth. I'm more fun. Nice. Nice. I actually I can't disagree with that. Yeah.
I think you're right. I think you would be more fun. Seth, we're excited about the winter
framer's market. Is back in runner? It's up and running once again, everyone. Unfortunately,
last week was supposed to be the grand reopening but they had a cancel because of the weather.
So they just moved it to this Saturday. So stop by from 9 to 1 over at the Moravian Church 310
1st Avenue South and they'll have some fun stuff going on for their grand reopening. Go check
it out. Find out all the cool vendors that are there. You can check out their Facebook page and
it's also see who's going to be there this week. It's going to be going all the way through May
this year, May 18th. They are going to be closed at March 30th for the holiday on that weekend.
But other than that, every Saturday, market calendar is 9 to 1 over at the Moravian Church. It's
the market at the Moravian Winter Market. Find out more at www.muravian.org and Seth had one more
thing on one of the touch on. Oh, yes. Don't want to forget the Wisconsin Department of Veterans
Affairs and this really cool cards. They're doing again this year, cards, valentines cards for veterans.
Going to the veterans homes at Chippewa Falls King and at Union Grove, they do ask,
please mail your valentines a cards to the veterans no later than January 31st so they can arrive
on time on or before the 14th. Please do not include any candy, food snacks, anything like that,
just cards. You can send all those to the Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs,
attention, veterans valentines, PO Box 7843 in Madison, Wisconsin, 537-07.
And thank you to everybody who has already done that. Yes, we'll do that. We appreciate you.
Beach, one more good story of the day when it sticks with our veterans. A 101 year old
Royal War II of that in Oklahoma broke down in tears while meeting his great-great-granddaughter
for the first time. That video is online. You can check it out. If you get the chance,
they had him blindfolded and everybody's really quiet and a mom and dad are sitting there
right with him and she's holding the baby. They remove the blindfold and present the baby to him
and it's instantaneous. It's a beautiful, beautiful moment. That's beautiful, lovely. And it's another
reminder that we only have so many of our World War II veterans still with us. Appreciate your
veterans. Appreciate those out there that are still here for us. Yes. It's a beautiful moment. Check
it out, everybody. When he turns and look at her, it gets me. Actually, don't watch it, dude. I gotta talk,
I gotta talk, so I can't watch. It would be a blubbering mess. Yeah, yeah. Join us for a great line
up today. During Midday Magazine from three to four in part one, our good friend Wisconsin
Rapids Mayor Shane Blazer joining us. He's only got a few left. Yeah. Yeah. Looking forward to
talking with Shane a little bit later along with also having Wisconsin Rapids Community Media into
record. You can check out their work over at YouTube. Just subscribe to their page at W Wisconsin
Rapids Community Media dot com. And Lacey Ailing events and engagement director with our harder
Wisconsin Chamber of Commerce going to be with us in part two. We're going to talk a little
bit about the leadership class and some other great events coming up over there. And it is a ball
night. Box on the radio tonight, six o'clock. Cleveland, Milwaukee. It face off right here.
Good series. There are not got a hot street. Yeah. Have a great day, you two. You two, man.
Have a great day, everybody. We'll talk to you soon in the later right here at Oh, you do it, James.
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