Good morning, Wisconsin. Good morning, world. It's a new day. Thanks for kicking it off
with us here at WFHR, locally grown radio. Got your host, James J. I'm joined by Melissa
Kay. Good morning. Seth Havagger. Good morning. And the best listeners in radio. Thanks
so much for joining us, everybody. We hope you're having a great start to your Wednesday
happy hump day to everyone out there. Indeed. Got some fun stuff coming up this hour.
We're going to get into in a little bit this great article Melissa came across from UW knowing
what dogs like to watch could help veterinarians. We're going to get into that really looking
forward to it. Fascinating. Yeah. Want to touch on that. Want to of course we'll cover
cats as well. We've got cats in there. Cats and dogs. Melissa, it sounds like Melissa even
did some research with her a research assistant Kevin. So that's fantastic. Such a great
research assistant. Yes. Like most cats would be. Yeah. He's probably as good as it
assisted as my fur brother Sam is. Yeah. Yeah. But we kick off talking a little entertainment
and of course the Oscar nominations were announced yesterday. And we've got to talk about
it. Certainly we'll get into the nods. Let's go ahead and start there. Let's get it.
Let's get into the actual nominations. All right. We're not going to go through every
single category of course, but best picture. American fiction and an enemy of a fall barbie,
holdovers, killers of the flower moon, Maestro, Oppenheimer, past lives, poor things, the
zone of interest, all nominated for best picture. Okay. Best animated film, The Boy in
the Heron, Elemental, Neemana, Robot Dreams, and Spider-Man across the Spider-Verse. Best
director, Justine Triott for an enemy of a fall, Martin Scorsese for killers of the
Flower Moon, Christopher Nolan for Oppenheimer, Yogor, Yorgos, Lanthamos for poor things
and Jonathan Glazer for the zone of interest. Best actor, best actress and best supporting
we're going to go through those categories and that'll wrap it up for us. Best actor,
Bradley Cooper, Maestro, Column and Domingo for Rustin, Paul Giamatti for the holdovers,
Celian Murphy for Oppenheimer, and Jeffrey Wright for American fiction. Best actress,
Annette Benning for Nye Ed, Lily Gladstone for the killers of the Flower Moon, Sandra
Huller for an enemy of a fall, Casey Mulligan for Maestro and Emma Stone for poor things.
Best supporting actor, Sterling K. Brown for American fiction, Robert DeNiro for killers
of the Flower Moon, Robert Downey Jr. for Oppenheimer, Ryan Gosling for Barbie, and Mark
Ruffalo for poor things. And finally, best supporting actress, Emily Blunt for Oppenheimer,
Daniel Daniela Brooks for the color purple, America Friara for Barbie, Jody Foster for Nye Ed,
and Devine Joy Randolph for the holdovers. Those are your lists of these 2024 Oscar
nominees of the, I would call the major categories. All of the categories are important.
I'm not making light of any of them, just the big ones, and we only have so much time
on the show. Exactly. So you cut out the sound. Best
sound design. I'll dare you. So Barbie was nominated for best picture, but director Greta
Gerwig and star Margaret Roby were snubbed. However, Ryan Gosling did get nominated for
best supporting actor. And now they do note that American Friara was nominated for best
supporting actress. So they did recognize one woman from the movie. Barbie got eight nominations
in total. Oppenheimer led the pack with 13. Poor things followed, but with 11 and killers
of the Flower Moon came in with 10. Those include A. Bex, Astros, not for Lily Gladstone,
who is now the first Native American with an acting nomination. That's cool. A big
congratulations to her for that. That's awesome. Also Martin Scorsese now holds the record
for the most best director nominations for a living person. Steven Spielberg is second
with nine, but they are both behind the late William Wiler who had 12. He did a
Worthing Heights Roman holiday. Ben her great director. Oh, man. When you talk about great
directors, I think the list almost has to start with William. Yep. Just my opinion. Yeah,
I'm with you. And what's widely been considered another snub, Leonardo DiCaprio, did not
get nominated for his turn and killer killers of the Flower Moon. And the color purple
only got one nomination best supporting actress for Daniela Brooks movies that got shut out
completely were saltburn, air, air, all of a strangers, Priscilla, origin, Wonka, Astroids
City, and Iron Claw. All were very, very highly loved by critics. Yeah. And a lot of them were
apparently supposed to be nominated. A lot of people thought they for sure were going to be.
Right. First time nominees include The Great Lily Gladstone, American Fiarra,
Divine Joy Randolph, Jeffrey Wright, Silly and Murphy, Emily Blunt, and Sterling K Brown,
and Godzilla. What? Godzilla minus one, a Japanese Godzilla movie that became a huge
international hit is up for best visual effects, making it the first nomination ever for Godzilla flick.
All right. Finally, finally, Godzilla getting his due. A lot of people, you know, look at,
you know, some actors who have been shut out for many years, Martin Scorsese up until his Oscar
for the departed was one of these. Right. Godzilla really is the top of that list of,
you know, performers who have never gotten their due. 1958. He's been around since 1958, man.
70-year drought people. I'm telling you. 70 years. Suzan Luchi ain't got that.
The Oscars will air Sunday, March 10th on ABC Jimmy Kimmel will be the host for that one.
Okay. Now that we got that out of the way, let me get, let me get on my, let me get on my,
hit it. Where did my soapbox go? It doesn't matter. Okay. Yeah. It doesn't matter.
He's just going to go in. I'm going to do it anyway. Just do it anyway.
Doesn't matter. Life isn't endless circle. I have it anyway.
Melissa, it's late nod to for Best Supporting Actors, Melissa Kay.
Extremely well done. At a morning radio show. Yes. So by now most people have heard
the snub to Greta and to Margaret. It's shocking. It's, it's, it's, you know what said?
Is it though? It's shocking. No, it's not. Yes, that's the sad part to me. Yeah, I guess you're right.
I understand why you say it's shocking. Yeah, it's exactly why, but we all three of us understand
that it's not and that's that that is the part that's so disappointing about this. I had a,
and I don't, I don't say like a, like a real bet, but one of my favorite teachers,
a guy that was my first teacher, Brian, him and I had a, a, a kind of loose bet about.
A friendly bet. Yeah. Like, because I didn't believe Margaret Roby was going to get nominated
and he didn't believe Greta was. And we're both like, okay, well, one of us will be wrong.
We were both right and we've never been more unhappy to be right. Right. It's insulting.
It's literally insulting to, to, if you, it's not just to Greta and Margaret, because,
especially and I did not see the Barbie movie, but I understand female empowerment. I was raised
by a feminist and in one of the things, and I understand it as far as I can understand it, I
should say. Right. The thing that stands out so bad about this to me is this movie. One of the
intentions of it is to inspire young women to, to, to create female empowerment, to show the
strength of women coming together and all these things. There are women that vote for this.
There are women on this board. There are women that act, and they didn't vote either for this.
So it's, it's, it's an insult there too. Yeah. It isn't as if it's just a bunch of old white
men making these votes. I vote on this stuff. I'm one of the people, and there's many people
that all around the vote on these things. And I know who I voted for. I know I voted for her.
I voted for her for best director. I told, I thought she should win the board, let alone be nominated.
She, there was a woman director, weren't there women on the writing team? Like there were a lot
of women involved in that movie and a guy gets nominated. Hollywood years ago expanded the best
picture category in order to kind of include like movies like Transformers and stuff like that.
They were never going to win best picture, but their feeling was, oh well, fans of the movie
will watch the Oscars. That hasn't worked out. No, but that's why they expanded the list.
And then they include movies like Barbie in there. In part because I, whether they realize it or
not, the only way we still get paid ridiculous amounts of money to do this for a living, to play
make believe for a living is by people coming to the movies. People came out in droves to see Barbie.
It was literally a record breaking movie. You nominate these people not only for the skill set,
not only for what they did, but for basically helping save the movie industry. Ask every
movie theater owner in the world, maybe not here in rapids, but every other movie theater owner in
the world. Ask them how thankful they are for the Barbie movie. Absolutely. Yeah, they needed it
badly. And a, a, a, a, a credit to Ryan Gosling. Melissa, I'd like to get your thoughts on this,
but I just want to read what Ryan Gosling had here just real quicks. I think it was very noteworthy.
Quote, I am extremely honored to be nominated by my colleagues alongside such remarkable artists
in this, in this year, so many great films. Never thought I'd be saying this, but I'm also
incredibly honored and proud that it's for portraying a plastic doll named Ken. But there is no
Ken without Barbie. There is no Barbie without Greta Gerwig and Margaret Roby. The two people most
responsible for this history making globally celebrated film. No recognition would be possible for
anyone on the film without their talent, grit, and genius. To say that I'm disappointed that they
are not nominated in their respective categories would be an understatement against all odds with
nothing but a couple of soulless scanty clad and thankfully, uh, crotchless dolls. They made us laugh.
They broke our hearts. They pushed the culture and they made history. Their work should be recognized
along with the other very deserving nominees. Having said that, I am also happy for American Fiarra
and the other incredible artists who contributed their talents to making this such a groundbreaking film
Ryan Gosling. I've always liked him. I never thought about my respect for him until now and I got
quite a bit of respect for that man and what he did there. Yeah, absolutely. I personally haven't
also haven't seen the movie, but I'm glad that that's the way he went with this. That was the
right response. Yeah, right. And I'd say it was a very, you know, a very diplomatic response to,
I mean, he was smart about it. He didn't just like rage on Twitter or something about it,
but he made his point. It's like, yeah, it's great. I appreciate everyone saying I was good in it,
but what about the people who like really made it happen? It makes more sense that they had
something to recognize them for, yeah. And it's very noteworthy that he said there is no
Ken without Barbie. Exactly. I don't, there's so many people in the industry that live in bubbles
and I don't think that they realize that they keep doing that this has a shelf life.
The ratings for the Oscars have gone down in recent years and they were never the greatest
since the Billy Crystal days. They haven't been that great. That's right. And this is not how many
people are already saying that they are going to be protesting the Oscars, not watching the Oscars
because of this. There's already a rise of that and there's going to be more of it. You're just
losing people left and right from the stupidest, most self-inflicted reasons. It doesn't make any sense.
And as somebody, I, look, I love this industry. I love acting. I love creating. It's one of my biggest
passions in the universe. And even I am getting dual point where, you know, I can always act in
community theater. I can always do that. I can always, I can always still do those things.
I don't have to be working for Hollywood. I don't have to work for these studios. I don't,
like, I, seven-year-old me would be dumbfounded by that. But that's where I've gotten with this,
where it's in the politics of it and the, the, the smacking of the faith, the insult of it and
everything. It's getting more and more to the point of, well, I can make a living doing a lot of
things. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know. It is, it is disappointing for me. I, I really,
I, I, I'm very surprised, very surprised. I do want to take note to, to the nominees though.
Then the, the, the first time nominees and how cool that is. Yeah.
To see so many of them. And I do want to make a note of Robert Downey Jr., who proves that we
still do have bona fide great Hollywood actors. We do. Those, those great, carry grant,
Humphrey Bogart type actors, those leading men, those, and I'm not saying just men. There are,
other women, there are women that are of that category as well. Helen Mirren, Jody Foster,
Diane Lane. I'm going straight, you know, there's a lot of them. But I don't believe that we have a
lot of male actors like this anymore. That, that do this kind of work. That take it this seriously,
that get this passionate about it. I'm telling you, you watch Oppenheimer and you're not even going
to bear, you're barely going to recognize it's even him. Yeah. It's, it's such an incredible
performance. It's, it's the more I watch it, the more I think about it, the more I have no
problem saying it's his best work by far and away. I, I can't guarantee anything when it comes to
award shows. But I, I will put my name on this. I believe he is going to win Best Supporting Actor.
I think that that's a given. I, I think it's almost a given at least. And it's not an insult to
anybody else in that category. A lot of great nominees. It's a, it's a good list this year with
the Best Supporting Actors for female end men. But yeah, that's a good one. And Silly and Murphy
has taken home that Oscar. Boy, I can't, I can't think of, I, Paul Giamatti might steal it,
but I, I think it's going to Silly and Murphy. Yeah. I think so. Let's take a look at this wonderful
article that Melissa sent over to us. And this is a bit of a reach, but it's still entertainment.
It's just entertainment for dogs. Yes. Knowing what dogs like to watch could help veterinarians assist,
assess their vision. So wonderful article. And it comes to us from our, our grandparents at UW
Extension who joined us all the time. They'll be joining Matt Lippert. They'll be joining us
this week from UW Extension. It's a great article. Melissa, how did you come across this?
It was in my email. Love it. Fantastic. You got a great deep dive there. Great, great.
Did you get a chance to read the entire article? No, I did it. And I can't even find it right now.
Okay, that's cool. That's cool. That's why I asked because I didn't want to put you. So, Melissa,
what were your takeaways from the article? I saw a dog TV and I sent it to Jane. Yep.
And this is a play on something that we've joked about before. The three of us, I think, actually,
in all Melissa and I have about dog radio. Why did they create radio for dogs? It's a market,
it's untapped. But this is actually a really cool article that talks about this. And it comes
to us right here from our own state from the University of Madison School of Veterinary Medicine,
one of the greatest in the country. It provided some answers about dogs and you know,
ever wonder what dog, what kind of TV shows your dog might like or what they're watching.
But the study was more interested in solving a long-standing problem in veterinary medicine that
turning canine companions onto into couch potatoes. Oh, really? Wow. According to Freya Mawat,
veterinary orthopologist and professor in the School of Veterinary Medicine's Department of
Surgical Sciences, researchers wanted to determine factors including age and vision and the
influence a dog's interest in interacting with video content. Ultimately, the goal of the study,
which launched two years ago was to support development of more sensitive ways to assess canine
vision, something that has been sorely lacking in veterinary medicine. Wow. Yeah.
Yeah. Published recently in the Journal of Applied Animal Behavior Sciences, the study found
that dogs are most engaged when watching videos that feature other animals.
Makes sense. Content featuring other dogs was the most popular, but if a National Geographic
Documentary about canine evolution seems too high-brow, the Scooby-Doo works too.
Tell about representation, man. Even for animals.
And they found that even animated animals weren't. Really? Yeah.
Oh, that's fascinating. Your Disney show. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Wow. That's clues. Yeah.
Moat received 1,600 responses from dog owners across the world when she asked for input on this survey.
And it included the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the European Union and Australia's.
And of those responses, 1,246 ultimately completed the study. The following are some of the
interesting highlights. Age and vision were related to how much a dog interacted with a screen.
The younger they were, the more they interacted. The older they were, the less they care.
Sporting and hurting dog breeds appear to watch all content more than other breeds.
Okay. They're watchers. Yeah. That's part of their breeding. Yeah, exactly.
Video content featuring animals was the most popular with other dogs being by far the most
engaging subjects to watch. Even for other animals. Wow. Even other animals liked watching dogs.
Dogs are just so popular with everybody. That's amazing. That's pretty interesting.
Humans do not appear to be very appealing for dogs to watch.
Humans ranked 9th out of 17 pre-determined categories. Oh my gosh. That's hilarious.
That is hilarious. That's got to be the funniest part of this. That's got to be hilarious.
But that makes owners feel a little bit better too. You are their favorite person.
Nobody should replace you. Not even anybody that's on TV.
Man, she's too smart for it, but if Melissa ever got in the politics,
oh wow. The way that she does. That was well done, Melissa. Very nicely done.
And cartoons were engaging for more than 10% of dogs. How about that? That's pretty interesting.
That's fascinating. Wow. Movement on the screen was a strong motivator for screen attention.
So if it is, like I remember, I talked about this before back when we had the rise of dish TV
and a lot of that, and they were trying to fill the dish TV with channels. They didn't have channels.
So they had dog TV for a while, and my ex and I got, it was one of those free channels.
So we had it on. Half the time it was just like a bouncing ball, things like that.
And our dog, Gonzo, wasn't too interested in it. It didn't really care too much about it,
but I think it was because it didn't have the research to go along with the channel.
Right. They need to be a dog. They need to be a dog playing with a ball.
Yeah, they're better and more interested in it. Yeah, it's pretty interesting.
Encouraging to find, check out this in plenty of more topics with our friends at the University of Wisconsin
Madison on Wisconsin news.wisk.edu is the website. You can check it out news.wisk.edu. Go and
check that out. Get a little science in your life. Science, science. Continuing our science,
we can't talk about dogs and not cats. Melissa was nice enough to send that to me.
I sent to her something I kind of crossed on YouTube 24, seven cat TV for cats.
Forest friends in winter wonderland. It's in 4k. Mine too.
Oh, very clear. Very nice. Because that really mattered to you.
That real quick, real quick one thing that I thought was very unique and interesting about this.
This really is built for cats. The sound on it is up because cats like the noises and the clicks
and whistles and everything like that that animal the nature nature makes. So while they're
paying attention like right now, it's 24, seven. It's always going. Yep. And right now there are,
it's a winter wonderland. There are birds, beautiful birds, picking at seeds right now.
Yep. Jumping on the ground and yep. The volume of it is incredibly loud of those noises
and everything. Melissa, what did Kevin think of this?
Well, Kevin had an interesting day yesterday. I'm pretty sure he slept for about 23 and a half hours.
I was actually a little worried about him. Oh, no. He was asleep when I got up.
Other bedroom on the bed and he didn't come out here until like after seven.
And then he just jumped up on this little thing I have behind me and continued to sleep.
So when I opened this up, he lifted his head up and he had his mouth open for a second.
And he listened. He couldn't see it because it was on, you know, on the desk. But it's like he paused
mid-yawn for a moment. What is this? Okay. And then he continued his yawn and turned over and went
back to sleep. His interest is peak for a minute. But when he's active and he's up and he's
moving, if we're watching something on YouTube, which is often what we're watching now,
when we do watch TV. Watch the TV, I should say. Any bird sounds he responds to.
Oh, yeah. For them. Interesting. Very cool. I think they got the right idea with that YouTube
video. Nice. Just yesterday, there really wasn't too much that was an interesting. Yeah,
except sleep apparently. Yeah. Man, that is the life. That is a good life right there. I was
completely jealous. Yeah. I'm not worried. But it seems fine. He's fine. He's just he was just
worn out. We're glad Kevin's all right and just well rested. That's very good to hear.
If you're curious about finding this out and see how your furry friend would like it,
check out 24-7 Cat TV on YouTube. You can go ahead and just type that in your search bar.
And of course, we use this as a segue to remind you that tomorrow in this time slot, we'll be joined
by Madison Rafter from the South O'County and Maine Society with our pet of the week. Indeed.
Find out more about that tomorrow and find out ways that you can help out at SWCHS.com.
Be sure to check them out at their website. Was it you getting another animal for her
for that? Yes, she did. Maybe we have to ask her about that. As she was leaving last week,
we're walking out. She was telling us about this. Oh, no, she was going to be. I'm curious to know
how that story ended and she did adopt another animal or not. That'll be funny to find out.
But we'll find out together tomorrow. Be sure to join us for that. It's going to be a lot of fun.
I didn't want to touch on before we go to our news break. Just a couple of quick notes here
that I'm seeing and breaking news around the state of Wisconsin. As our caller told us earlier
and broke the news, the Packers have fired defensive coordinator Joe Berry after three seasons.
And news right after that out of Milwaukee, the brewers filled a big hole at a good price with
Reese Hoskins. I was wondering if he was going to go there. Oh, that's a good right-handed bat.
And he's got him on a two-year deal. He can leave after the first, but they're talking about
already made a possibility of an extension there. So that's a nice fit for this high reward.
We'll go to break. We'll take a look at our state and local news and we'll come back and get
into some fun. We've got coming up for you 10 more predictions about 2024 from 100 years ago.
Well, 100 years ago. We'll find out about that. We'll be back in four after this.
He's at the pledge to know all the people that come and go stop and say hello.
Welcome back to the show, everybody. Morning show at WFHR, locally grown radio. Melissa,
Seth James here with you. Thanks so much for joining us, everybody. Little Beatles to play us in.
How many people would have predicted that the Beatles music would still be played,
still be relevant all these many decades later? Wow, it's impressive.
It's impressive. We've got to say. And we're talking predictions now. Earlier this month,
there was a list of predictions of 2024 made 100 years ago in 1924. We went over that list a bit.
Well, now more of them are making the rounds have surfaced. And here are 10 more things people
thought we'd see by now. Let's have some fun with this list. And let's get the audience involved.
424-2600-715-424-2600. We're going to go through this list as we're doing so. I want to hear
from you some things that you thought maybe would have been in play by now or would have been
a thing by now. Let's have some fun with this. Like, beds would launch kids up and onto their feet
in the morning. Wouldn't that be nice? Then a flying bus would pick them up and get them to school
in two minutes flat. They just described every episode of the Jetsons. Yeah, basically.
Yeah. This is extra funny and extra not funny locally here this morning. I was distracted because
I've never seen our roundabout more busy trying to get kids to ramps. There was a train that kind of
blocked everything up this morning. Yeah, I was in that mess, unfortunately. But yeah, so when
we got there, Ronan is like, I'm late. I'm like, everybody's late, dude. You're fine. Don't worry
about it. You're not the only one. No. I would have thought by the time you guys got there,
like the days almost over, like it's lunchtime almost. Our legs wouldn't work anymore.
By 2024, the muscles in our legs would have antrophied from never being used. All thanks to
the invention of cars. These darn cars are going to keep us from walking. Boy, that's a fascinating
idea. It's Wally. It's the whole plot of the movie Wally. That is got to be one of the most
far-fetched things I've ever heard. Like a hundred years, I understand that's a lot of time.
But enough for us to go to evolve completely the other way. That seems a little weird.
Yeah, in only a hundred years, it's like, you know, we do this all the time, especially with
new technology. Humanity has to deal with it somehow, okay? So like, okay, let's use a contemporary
thing. AI, okay? So, you know, we've heard a lot about the two schools of thought, okay?
Like the Doom Sares or whatever they're called, you know, that, oh no, we got to be careful
because they will take everything over. And then they've got the other ones that say, yes,
and they'll be great. It's like, no, it's probably going to be somewhere in the middle.
You know, just like everything else, you know, every kind of technology we've ever dealt with.
But you know, one reality of today that I think people in the 1920s would have a little bit
harder time believing is the amount that we are pushing ourselves, in some cases, but especially
doctors, to exercise because we have a much more sedentary lifestyle than they did then.
Absolutely. We do have to try to incorporate more exercise into our daily routines because we
are more sedentary. It's very true. Difficult because we have to work. Oh, the time. Yeah, yeah.
Traveling to other planets would be easy and common. They compared it to cross in the Atlantic
Ocean in 1924, just a quick trip to Mars. Let's see what the red planets looking like this time
here. Right. Oddly very orange. Yes, very orange. It's very weird. I love that. See that coming.
Of course, they had no idea of knowing that none of the other planets were habitable, of course,
by humans. You know, we can't. Yeah, so to be fair to them. And number four in the list,
flying clothing. Flying, huh? Flying clothing. Someone predicted we'd all basically wear suits that
made us fly everywhere. Jetpacks do exist now, but they are not common and they are not safe.
And they don't like fold up and fit in our drawers. We have made it to the moon in back
many, many times. We have gotten deeper into our oceans than we ever thought possible.
We still can't figure jetpacks out. We have gotten no clue on jetpacks. The whole flying thing,
unless it's with jet engines, we're still pretty primitive on. You know, that was like the last
big leap in flying was the jet engine, but now it's like no, no flying cars, no jetpacks.
No levitating suits. No anti-gravity, nothing like that. I want a rug. I want it to fly on a rug
like Jasmine. Yeah. Yeah. That seems like the gig right there, but a whole new world for you.
How did they not fall off more? How did they? That's a great question.
You know, Ruggie was very good at keeping them on. Ruggie. It's part of his magic.
Ruggie. Ruggie was his name? I don't know. No, I was going to say I've never heard of Ruggie.
That was Ruggie. No, that's his name. That's his name. That's it. I don't know. They should have
named the rug though. They should have. Flying clothing sounds hilarious to me. Because human beings,
we are not always, how many times do you leave the lights on in the room? How many times do you
forget to turn something off? I love the idea of trying to wash your clothes. I'm like,
oh, no, I forgot to turn it off and it's flying all over the place.
Well, that was the thing is, okay, so it's clothes that you fly in. I was like the first
when you mentioned it, I was like, oh, you mean clothes that fly to you and get put you on,
you know, like put themselves on, you kind of thing. And the only person I know does that is Ironman.
So I mean, that's it. Yeah. Oh, instant derilla. Yeah, that's true. Yeah.
Courts help with that. The animals help. Yeah. Concerts would be happening remotely.
This one almost is true. Yeah. We're almost there. Yeah. They predicted that bands wouldn't have
to tour if they didn't want to. Their live performances could reach people right at home.
That's pretty close. Yeah. One for five thousand. Not bad. Not bad.
Well, you know, no stardom is, but you know, even no stardom is supposed to know he wasn't okay enough.
That's a funny thing about that. We'd run out of diamonds. Jewelers thought that there
wouldn't be any left and we'd be making synthetic gems out of sugar.
We haven't run out of one yet, but synthetic diamonds are a big thing. They do exist. Yeah.
So to be fair, are they mad at a sugar though? That's an interesting one. No, they're not made out of sugar.
Okay. And somebody perpetuated this because they wanted to continue to make bank on diamonds. Do
you know what diamonds are actually worth nothing? Exactly. They are produced with child labor
and terrible, awful, awful things. They're the most overrated stone by far, and I personally would
never buy a diamond for somebody. I have one that my Nana had. I have her wedding ring that she
gave me, and I have that night's one of my most prized possessions. If I were to get engaged,
I would use that. I wouldn't buy a ring though. I wouldn't buy a diamond. And if I was going to buy
a ring, it would not be a diamond. I refuse to add to that. It's not worth it. Not worth my conscience,
not worth my money or my time. I'm with you 100% on this Melissa. New York City would have 30
million people in Canada would have 100 million. The real number is around 8 million in New York
and around 40 million in Canada. Well, Canadians just didn't do a very good job. I mean, you know,
they shouldn't be up to 100 million. We're all 100 million people. Not working hard enough up
their Canada. I actually don't think that that's that big of a far-fetched thought. Boy, 30
million people in New York, how would they live? Yeah, where would you put them? You can only build
so tall buildings, man. You think it's tough to get an apartment in New York now? Yes,
imagine that. Jazz would be lumped in with classical music. A Russian violinist said in 1924
to convince people jazz wasn't a, quote, destructive force in the world. They would attach it to classical
music. To a certain extent, that's true. I think there's some connection there. They're pretty much
basically their own stuff. But I think from the era that they come from where we are now. Yeah,
and I think they both have the same kind of cultural, you know, cash at this time, at this point,
you know. They're not necessarily the popular music, but it's still enjoyed and played by many
people. So that music is doing nothing but riling up the euths and making them want to do things,
absurd things and bad things and all that. I can't believe that this darn mute, and I could be saying,
I can be talking about jazz. I can be talking about rock and roll. I can be talking about country.
Think about the music today. Yes, that's right. In the music today. Yeah. The kids today and
their rock and roll music and talent. We auto tune. Sorry auto tune is ruining music.
We've been doing this a long time. Men would stop wearing corsets. Huh?
What? Gertles and corsets were somewhat common for men in 1924. It's true. Not anymore, but we do
have compression shirts. That's true. I always thought that's what vests were for. Keep your fat
in there, you know. But anyway, that was just let it all hang out. Yeah, yeah, they're just no
word sadly dying over here. That's so good. That was worth it alone. That was worth it. I love the
idea of men in corsets. I did not know this. I'll be honest. I did not know men used to wear corsets.
The girdle thing is funny. The girdle, I know. Yeah. Just because girdle is a funny word.
It is. It's a funny word. Okay. Well, you know, we've come a long way with fashion for some
in some aspects. We realize that cinching parts of our body and really tight is kind of a bad word.
Not a good idea. Not a good idea. Really isn't. Before we get to our final one, let's take a call.
Good morning. What's on your mind? Yeah, we were talking a little bit about technology.
I'm going to be 80 this year. We didn't have our first TV until I was 10.
And Walmart wasn't around. Yeah. So I have to like graduate from high school also.
Wow. Yeah. It's interesting. You know, different time, different place. And it sounds,
it's starting to sound nice to me, sir. Like it actually sounds like some of that sounds pretty
good so far, right? It does, right? No computers, of course. Yeah. Yeah. We would sit around in the
kitchen watching the radio play. Well, I forgot what they even had program was, but we watched
we would stare at the radio like it was a TV. Right. Right. Yeah. Did you ever imagine that you
could see a picture? That's why it's all before that. So I forgot. Yeah. Right up.
There was more technology since I was born than any generation before us. That's a really
strong point. It really seems that way. Yeah. Thank you for the call, sir. Have a great day.
Appreciate the time. Thank you so much. Yeah. That was great. That was really no
word, especially when he said there at the end there. That's staring at the radio. I love that.
Watching it. I love it. And speaking of radios, people would think radios were silly in old school.
Quote, the radio set that so amazed you for the first time you listened in will excite
laughter among Americans in 2024. They didn't think radios would go away just that no one would find
the technology all that amazing anymore. I disagree. I mean, radio is old school, but it is relevant.
Yeah. I actually, I disagree with this, but I also agree into a sense. We have normalized
radio waves. True. We have normalized that there's these invisible things carrying all this
around right now that you're hearing Seth Melissa and I through invisible radio waves that are
just bopping around all over like we've just normalized this. Yeah. That's an amazing thing
what you just said. It's like, oh my gosh. I really think about it. It's fascinating. It's
incredible. It's one of the most incredible things you'll ever hear. How do we grab and like
I'm going to grab these invisible rays and you will be able to hear sound. I mean, that's
an insane idea, but that's what it is. They couldn't have foreseen a lot of the tech things that
we're going to have. Oh no. And I don't think anybody, no matter how much you loved radio or
believed in it, could have seen the way that radio could adapt to those things. Radio fits perfectly
with the modern podcast, with the modern audio world. Our world has gone much more audio,
has gone much more. Yeah, the visuals cool, but I want the audio first. I need that audio
end of things and that's radio's home, baby. That's where we live. It's pretty cool to see.
So I agree with the idea that radio might not seem that impressive to people because we've
gotten so far with tech. All these other things. Yeah. That we have normalized invisible radio waves
just flowing around. It's pretty cool. That's really neat. Yeah. And I think it's also a chance
for us to kind of, we don't do this a lot. We, you know, even with this article alone, we've made
some fun and everything. But let's give a credit to humanity. Let's give a credit to how far we
have come with technology and how far we have come as a world. Not only that we're still here
and that some of these things aren't happening that they predicted, but that all these inventions,
all these creations, all these different things that we have done. How far they've gone.
It's amazing. Sometimes humans are amazing. Yeah. That's right. And men are not wearing girdles.
All right. That's a big note for me. Enough for the girls. We'll take a time out. We'll come back
and have some more fun. It's Melissa, Seth and James. Take it through your morning at WFHR.
Welcome back everyone. Morning show here at WFHR. Locally grown radio.
Seth, Melissa and James here with you. We're going to take you to the top of the hour.
Fun stuff lined up for you. Got some local good stories of the day we want to touch on. And we'll
have some fun with that. I'm just going to put this out there. Is this a that ain't right story
or not? I'm not saying it is. Is it or not? Okay. And I have been on these airwaves many times
and talked a little bit of trash about PETA. If you've also heard me, you've heard that not
many people love animals like I do. In part because of not having a lot of experience with them
growing up and everything. And I think I'm making up for lost time in some ways. Love animals.
I'm a big supporter of animals. I think PETA is a big supporter of PETA. I think PETA does some
things that I have not agreed with like comparing the Holocaust to animals and things like that.
They lose me on these little little tone deaf there. Yeah. Yeah. But the people for ethical
treatment for animals is already rising, raising a stink about us using real groundhogs for pretend
predicting what the weather. They are again calling for Poxytony Phil to be retired and now they're
offering to replace him with a giant gold coin. Giant gold coin, which would be flipped with one
side calling for six more months, weeks of winter and an early spring on the other. It's unclear
if the coin actually exists yet, but it's one of it's one PETA image. It looks bigger than Phil,
maybe a couple feet in diameter. So why a coin? Well, Poxytony Phil has been making predictions
since 1886 and he's only been about 39% right. So they argue that we'd be better off with a coin.
PETA says a groundhogs can't make heads or tails of weather forecast and shouldn't be jolsted
around by a large members of a different species and thrust in front of noisy crowds. Also,
we need a new name for groundhog day and PETA suggests like whether there will be more winter days,
weather was being spelled a weather. Got it. Got him. Okay. So yeah. That's so clever.
Yeah. So this is and they've got an image to go along with it. They have a guy, a guy in a
tux named Phil standing next to the coin and the coin and all that. It's pretty big. I gotta say
that the coin is large. Yeah. I don't argue with them on the idea of us doing things to animals
that they don't know what's going on and could be unhealthy for the animals. We've seen in years
past that sometimes the groundhog has bitten the person picking them up and that would be safer for
people too. And so I don't that that part I have no issue with and I would like to see some more
work being done on that. I think that there's a lot of things that we could do to have fun with this
still keep the tradition going without actually using a real animal. There's plenty of options
and there's other ideas out there that have been thrown around before. We need a robot.
I think that's an idea. I think that's an okay idea. A robot groundhog. But they they they are so
tone deaf in the way that they talk down to people and judge people. It reminds me of the person
like when like back in the day that goes and whatever the like the keto diet or veganism or
something like that and they think of it as a trend and they just jump on it and they can't
wait to tell you about it. They just got it and they every time you talk to them that's all
they're talking about and they're talking down to you about it. Well I do that will I do will I
okay yeah yeah all right enough like are you just going to talk to me or you're going to talk
down to me and that's all Peter does is talk down to people. Which is why they get a lot of people
turn they turn off a lot of people because of that you know it's it's it's very true. I mean I
get partially why they do it you know they're trying to they're trying to you know be edgy you
know that kind of thing and throw this stuff out there and they and they know it'll get them you
know press and all that kind of thing yeah yeah that's why they do it but at the same time you're
right they have this like holier than thou attitude which is very off-putting for many many people.
You're not going to get people to join your your group by demeaning them. No. Yeah you're not
going to guilt people into things either. You know our parents can do that our mothers can that's
end of list like well maybe you're significant other but that's about the end of the list as
far as gilting you into things if anything it pushes people the other direction all you have to
do is pay attention to politics to see that yeah right or talk to a teenager right like I mean
you know that it makes it like perfect sense and the thing that bothers me so much about this is
they could be doing really good work. Animals do deserve a voice animal do deserve an
organization to look out for them right and that's where I lean on our humane societies right
humane societies and I would even say think about like hunting organizations you know like these
these are the yes they hunt animals but they don't want the animals to go away they want the
they want the space for the animals they they still have basically in a lot of ways they have
the same goal as pita does but they're never going to support pita because pita thinks they're
evil people because they hunt yeah what we want ethical hunting too so exactly yeah yeah
there's there's a there's a lot of work that could be done on this as far as not only pita but
the groundhog thing and we'll see what happens with it and and seriously if we lost groundhogs
day who would really really be sad yeah it's not like it's a huge holiday it's just a thing
New York Pennsylvania Pennsylvania that's my first thought was my first thought was tourism
that the end and I guess in all honesty I don't mean this in a bad way but I say the same thing
about coal mining or any of these other things if if if society is spoken and if we're not using
them anymore you got to pick up a new thing with fear something else out yep we don't have to
keep doing the same old things all the time just because oh that's what we always have done yeah
yeah I've said this before like I got into radio at a time when people told me that there was
no future in this and I understood that and I had backup plans I had other ideas I had other
ways I was going to take my career thankfully radio ain't going anywhere yeah and I'm very proud
of that but if it did okay society is spoken I don't like it but it ain't about me it's not
just about you you live in this world with billions of billions of billions of other people
find a way to get along make it work and got to find a way to make it work yep I don't want to get
along with you guys yeah that's different I don't even I'm not even asking anyone to get along I'm
just saying tolerate each other it just be able to you don't get along with me I'll never talk to you
again and thus wait a minute a little a little pocket look at American politics right there
we we need some good stories of the day we need palate cleansers let's go ahead and take a look
at our schedule we got a great morning magazine a midday magazine lined up for you today what
kind of board chairman Lance Plum will be joining us he's going to bring in our wood kindy
register of deeds Tiffany Ringer we're going to talk a little bit about home deed theft and some
other things with Tiffany interesting looking forward to meeting her and her joining us and in part
two we catch we hang out with our friends at the ODC and Aleepek gonna be and Aleepek gonna be
with us and possibly some friends looking forward to that that'll be fun and coming up a little
bit later today on your radio dial we've got good stuff right here at six thirty Milwaukee
bucks hosting Cleveland has anything happened with the bucks recently I don't know is on the
bucks and well I'm at the game last night Michael Comer was very staunchly advocating Randy Paul
being the new coach of the bucks I like so maybe Randy we'll be showing up there on the bench
I never know I like it but I don't like the idea of losing Randy as an announcer yeah I'm sorry
Randy you can't take that job and Doc Rivers may already have it that's true that's true that's
that's it six thirty the tip off our pre for our pregame walkie bucks hosting Cleveland that's
going to be a good one and especially as you are changing the boats captain in the middle of the
the boy stream right now it's going to be very interesting to see how that develops how that
goes and Seth it is a Wednesday we know what that means it's bingo night over at the Wisconsin
Rapids outslodge number six ninety three doors open at five bingo starts at six thirty go have some
fun and support our good friends over at the outslodge and all the great things they do
and MJ the illusion is a one-of-a-kind music concert that will take you on a journey through the
music performances and visuals of the king of pop Michael Jackson it is going on tonight
we are going to I'm sorry tomorrow night tomorrow night and tomorrow night Michael night will be
in town to perform and portray Michael Jackson as us our good friend Phil was talking about
earlier Michael has worked with Travis Payne who was one of Michael's choreographers he's also
worth with Seth Riggs a vocal coach to work with Michael Jackson everything just to give you a true
performance as close as you can get to Michael Jackson is the true tribute to Michael Jackson yep
tickets are on sale right now you can get them at saverthearts.org a saverthearts.com that's
saverthearts.com or stop on by the performing art center at 1811 16th Street South tickets are
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get a pair of tickets woo 4242600 get yourself a pair of tickets to MJ the illusion it's going to be
a great show be sure to check this out all you got to do is tell us your favorite Michael Jackson
song or one of your favorite Michael Jackson doesn't matter maybe you can't pick so go ahead and
give us one of them there's a bunch of great songs you could choose from go ahead call up join us
and pick those songs yes otherwise wishing you all a great day and Melissa enjoy your break it's
not long enough you deserve longer we hope you have a good one thank you very much yeah we'll
somehow make it without you we'll talk to you all soon and later right here at WF HR locally grown
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