Good morning, Wisconsin. Good morning, world. It's a new day. And thanks for kicking it off
with us right here at WFHR, locally grown radio. Got your host, James J behind the mic.
I am joined by our head of production, Mr. Seth Havagger. Good morning, everyone. We're here
to have some fun. Everybody, we got good things coming up for you. We're going to get into
this morning. I want to touch on a couple of fun things like calling all Ryan's. We're going to,
we're going to get this thing for Ryan's coming up that we'll get into. Who are you, Ryan's?
If we have time, I want to get into with you, Seth, the most uncomfortable costumes actors
have wore in movies and TV shows. That sounds fascinating. I think that could be a fun one.
That should be good one, yeah. And we got some other fun topics throughout the hour to take us
through. Now, longtime listeners will know that we usually kick off our Thursdays with our
pet of the week from the South of County Main Society. It was not sure if they'd be joining us
today or not have not heard from them, but we do want to promote them, support them and let
you know that you can be a part of things that the Main Society and help out with all the good work
that they are doing over there. You can email them SWCHS at SWCHS.com. Give them a call at 715-423-0505-423-0505.
Be sure to follow them along on their Facebook page, connect with them that way, and reach out
to our friends at the Main Society and I'll find out about all these amazing animals they have over
there. Since we don't have a pet of the week, Seth, I'm just going to choose my own. I'm not going
to choose my own. A lot of great pictures on there. There are so many. Now, this is the catch.
You got to choose one. And my God. How did Madison do this? How did she choose? I'm really curious.
How would she ever even do this? Well, I'm going to go ahead and shout out a couple of animals because
I can't choose. Like Iris. Iris is a mixed breed medium, about 44-pound fully dog. She is a mixed
dog and she looks awesome. She's about 10 years old and will make a great dog for a wonderful
family out there. I see here Scarf. Scarf has been in foster for 180 days. He's a very similar
five years old. Newtard has all of his shots and everything. He's about 44 pounds. And just so
handsome. Scarf. I like that name. And Willow. Willow is a German shepherd mix. She's about two
years old and a beautiful looking dog. Just beautiful. Yes. There are no bad animals at the
Humane Society. All of them are wonderful and just looking for a new home, given their forever
home and find your new best friend by visiting your friends at the South of County Humane Society.
Yeah. Let's get into a little bit of entertainment news. All right. And speaking of dogs and national
walk your dog day, a Harry Potter fan named her dog, Dobby. Dobby. Dobby. Dobby. Dobby.
Dobby. Dobby. Dobby. Dobby. Dobby. Dobby. After the elf character in the series, he was
the one at the sock, right? Yeah. The sock. And then he became free. Yeah. That was a nicely done.
It was very well written. I thought that was a cool scene. But for her, but her fandom goes way
deeper than that because she actually taught him to respond to Harry Potter spells. Oh, wow.
So for instance, a Seaco or a sea, oh, oh, oh, means come because in Harry's world, you say when
that when you want something to magically come to you, right? At Pomerius. A spell that
disarms a would be opponent means drop it. So he drops it. And when Dobby is told to go to
ask a band to get to his into his crate, ask a band is a prison in the franchise.
So I don't know about that. Wow, that seems a little dark. But it works. I guess it goes there.
And Dobby. Yeah, he even plays dead with the killing curse. With that one and everything.
I got to see the video of this. It's on Tantac. Go ahead and check it out, everybody. I have to
find that. I have got to find that. You know, you can teach dogs just about anything. I love that
part of being training dogs. You get to do whatever you can want to do. That's really cool.
I like that. That'd be fun. That's pretty fun. Let's see what's on your mind. Good morning,
you're on the show. Good morning. Hi, my name's Elizabeth. And so I love that it is take your,
you know, dog for a walk day because I've been a professional dog walker basically for 28 years.
And what you were saying about, you know, how fun it is for the dogs to, you know, just get to
get out. And, you know, it's one of my fun things is to like change out my routes. You have like
people get into runs. Yeah. And they just go on one route. And that, you know, that's it. And my
husband actually, he walks our dog every night. And he lets her lead. Oh, I know that some people
probably would think that's a terrible training thing, but she kind of gets to choose the direction.
He'll let her do that. And they have such a fun relationship. And it just, you know, it makes
sure it makes her day. And she does love it. And, you know, I try to take dogs out in the woods.
They're out to napcoast and times and stuff. And oh, my goodness. They just, they love all the
different smells. And yeah, like you said, letting them take a little bit of time to sniff.
As long as they're not rolling, there's something. Oh, yeah. We have limits here. Yeah.
Catch. I first off, thank you so much for listening and calling up. Really appreciate the insight.
I did a little bit of dog walking back when I lived into Cal. And I have so much credit for what
you do. I have so much respect for what you do. I had like two little dogs and they would go
in like different directions. And I give a lot of credit to our dog walkers out there. And
really people in the animal industry and the care for animals so much. We need more and more
people like yourself out there and appreciate what you do. Oh, thanks. Well,
appreciate what you guys do too. You're welcome. Thank you. Thanks for the call.
Yeah. Great morning. Okay. Appreciate it. Oh, give that dog a rub. Give him a scratch for us.
Yeah. There you go. That's a great call. That was wonderful. Keep him coming. Everybody,
seven, one, five, four, two, four, twenty, six hundred. Love hearing from all of you.
There's a trend that I'm noticing that I want to get a head off. Okay.
If you have not heard Rob Manford recently in a press conference mentioned that he was going
to be leaving retiring or whatever he word whatever. Yeah. In five years in his position.
In recent months, Dan Patrick has come out and said that he is going to retire in like four
years or something. Okay. So I wanted to let the audience know. And it'll tie into our story
here in a second that in the year 2077, five years from then, I might retire from radio and
acting. I might. For those of you who know how old James is, that means he's going to be over
a hundred years old. Yes. Yes. Yes. And we'll see. We'll play it by ear. You know, we'll see.
I'll talk to my people at that time and everything. See how my career is doing. You're people. See
you. I don't know. I don't understand the count man. I don't understand. No, it doesn't.
No. I don't understand the point of the announcing your retirement. If it's not going to be that day.
Yeah. I don't get it. It's okay. You're going to retire. Okay. The manford thing, I guess,
is kind of interesting because it's like, okay, that means they haven't got to get a new commissioner
blah, blah, blah. But Dan Patrick does his own show. Yeah. And it's all on his his thing.
It's all hit like yeah. I got I want to say right out the gate. I am a gigantic Dan Patrick.
I love Dan Patrick. I admire him both on air off air. I've learned a lot about him over the
years. I've even reached out to some people in his team back when we were going through the pandemic.
And they couldn't have been nicer to me. Oh wow. The Danettes awesome people. Just as cool as Dan.
Dan's a great guy. But yeah, I see your point there. I mean, honestly, I look at it this way.
If you're like like the manford situation or Dan Patrick situation, any situation,
you've got to find somebody to fill that next gig. Right. Okay. You can do that behind the scenes.
You don't have to announce that. If you're announcing it, I feel like there's a bit of ego
in there. What's going on with that? Yeah. Maybe my flowers before I'm gone kind of thing,
which I don't begrudge. Right. I don't begrudge that. Just that's the only way I don't know the
technical reasons for something like this other than that. Yeah. And weird. And now Jimmy Kimmel is
into mix. Jimmy Kimmel might be abandoning his late night posts in a few years. He says, quote,
I think this is my final contract. I hate to even say it because everyone's laughing at me now.
Each time I think that and then it turns out to be not the case. He added, I still have a little more
time than a little more than two years left on my contract. And that seems pretty good. That
seems like enough. He could still change his mind, of course, quote, I'll take the summer off
or I'll go on strike and you start going, yeah, I miss that fun stuff. And then of course,
he wants to get back into it. Right. Athletes go through this a lot. I do. Tom Brady went through it.
Several times. Very publicly. There's people out there who still think he's coming back.
It's stuck. Thank you. Like a trauma with it or something. Like just looking over the shoulder.
You see that big jaw coming to that. Again, I don't begrudge this stuff. I just don't understand
the point other than if you tell me, hey, I just want my listeners to look behind the curtain.
I just want them to be able to see what we're talking about here, what we're saying to my staff
and everything. Then, okay, come out with that. I tell me that because that's cool. I have no
problem. We do that quite a bit around here. It could also be a slide negotiating tactic.
There is where I was going to wrap up. Okay, because, you know, he's pretty, Jimmy Kibble's
pretty popular. You know, he's got a popular show. People really like to watch it. So maybe he's
like, you know, my contract's up in two years and come back or not. We'll have that dump truck
over here. Yeah. Get that money for me. I have no issue with that. No, not at all. Again,
I also would, you can't necessarily come out the gate and say that's why you're doing it. No,
but that is something like that's the case. That's the answer. I have no issue with that part.
Can we start calling that Anthony Rendoning? Yes. When you say stuff, you probably shouldn't say
maybe public. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, he totally Rendoned that. He totally Rendoned that. That is
we are starting that. It's just you and I. We are starting that. Yes. Oh, that was a red
don't right there. Yeah. Oh, that was good brother. That was good. Mark, that look at what's
new on your small screen. Tonight, the series premiere of Avatar the Last Airbender on Netflix,
live action version of the classic animated show. I had not seen a whole lot of the original
animated show, but what I saw, I loved. Oh, I thought it was cool. One of the coolest shows I've
seen. Very well illustrated, great voice actors, like a little bit of a notch above your regular
everyday cartoon. Yeah. It was really good. Then I saw the trailer for this live action,
holy cow man, like wow, they got a heck of a cast in this. Almost every great Asian actor is in
this show. Right. Daniel Day Kim from Lost, like if you saw him on Lost, do you know him from
that? Like, oh, Daniel King Dick or Hawaii 50. I think he was on or something too. I don't know.
Yeah. He's a good actor. He got built for this. Like that man went into the gym. He looks good.
It looks good. I've got a great cast. Yeah. And I have to say that it's good that they're doing
this to kind of wash away the really horrible movie a couple of years ago that came out.
No, that was me. Yeah, you're lucky. It was M Night Shyamalan that directed it. Oh, that's right.
And it was it was whitewashed and it was just it was terrible. The creators of the show had no input.
They did have input into this. The guys who created the animated show. So, and Danny Putty is in this.
What are my favorite young actors? He's in the two. I'm sure I'm sure it's going to be much better.
Yeah. It's always interesting to me how well they do making these these actors are casting actors
that look like the characters that are also good at acting. Like finding that in the the needle in
the haystack of that is just insane to me. And we see it all the time. It's normalized. We've
seen it so much. Especially with animated because you know animated characters don't necessarily look
you know like normal people, you know, they're stylized, right? So it'd be interesting.
Law and Order is new tonight. Law and Order is on at seven tonight on NBC. So help me Todd,
Law and Order SVU and Law and Order organized crime all new on your screen tonight.
And of course your talk show gamut is all full. Got plenty of people working there.
I wanted to wrap up touching a little bit on the Wisconsin Rep's Community Theater production
of the Glass Managerie. And mentioning of course the Silver Foxes production. Yes.
Going on today. Yes, it's starting today everyone.
Encourage everybody to check that out at the Golden Age of Radio. It's a great show, great
great idea first off. It's a great idea to do this. I really think it's a fun idea. Yeah.
And it's going to be just a wonderful time to be able to take in. And I also encourage people
that not only to keep in mind, you could be one of those people. You could be one of those
Silver Foxes. If you were in that age range, you could be up there on that stage.
And I think you know what? If you wanted to help them out, I don't think it matters what age you are.
I think they'll take you anyway. Yeah. Reach out to our friends over there and a shout out to
Chris Williams and the team doing a great job with the Golden Age Radio premiering today at
two o'clock. And then they'll be a show tomorrow at six. And then on Saturday, a show at two o'clock,
all these shows taking place at the Lewis Canton Studio Theater at WRC Tico. Go ahead and check
that out. You know, I say that because I think I'm going to crash one of their things because I
love it when the radio stuff. I just want to be a part of that. I want to do the radio stuff.
So I want us to get back to doing that. Yes. I'd love to be able to have us to have the time to
be able to do another radio show. Yep. Also keep in mind, an April tiny beautiful things is going
to be directed by Mystique Macimer. The director's showcase. Mystique does an amazing job with this.
She's got a really strong cast. That is going to be good. Yes. She did that last year or
yeah, last year with who's afraid of Virginia Woolf and that same base. Such a great product. And
that was, yeah, she's great. She's really talented. I want Mystique to direct me. I really do.
And of course, the WRC T winter production of the Glass Menagerie. Get your tickets for that.
It premieres on March 1st. You heard during Midday Magazine a little bit of the conversation
about that. And you'll hear more as we go forward here and we get closer to go time for the show.
Yep. But how did rehearsals go last night? Everything's going very, very good.
The only thing that I'm selling, telling is everyone, positive thoughts and vibes, illness.
We want to avoid illness. Yes. Yes. Because we got a couple here and there's like,
I don't want it to be able to get sick. Many listeners may wonder, well, why isn't Melissa on the
show today? We have her in a room. We have her in a room just isolated in a bubble. She can't go
anywhere. She's in a room while also inside a bubble in that room. If you've ever seen the
TV show Monk, the favorite scene on that show, there's a scene where the police chief, great actor,
great job by him, takes him into this white room where it's like the quiet or the most like,
it's the cleanest room in the world. Oh, okay. Yeah. It's the cleanest room in the world.
And Tony Shaloub has this smile at his face that it's just priceless. It's one of the best
moments in TV, I think. Were he, we have her in that room? That's the room we have her in
right now. Yes, yes. Along with the rest of the cast. But no, we shouldn't say, we shouldn't
help. Yeah, but I'm telling you, it's, this is coming together just so fabulously. It's,
it's been so much fun to do this show. And we still got a little bit more work to do, especially
I do with more technical stuff. I think you're working on it. But I'm telling you, everyone out,
the actors, the crew, everyone is just, it's pulling together so nicely right now. And big
shout out to everybody who's been a part of this. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I mean,
I've got to put that out there for all the great work you've done. Really happy to hear the
brother. Would the W RCT winter production of the glass menagerie by Tennessee Williams,
directed by Seth and Beth Havaker premieres March 1st, 2nd, 7th, 8th and 9th. All shows at 7 o'clock
on March 9th. You will have a two o'clock matinee and all these taking place at Wisconsin
Rabbids Community Theatre. Indeed. Get your tickets at wrctheater.org, wrctheater.org.
Taking a quick pause, checking with our partners. We'll come back and have some more fun on the
morning show here at WFHR. Give me a second and I will. No, now. Look, I'm a Durant
Ran fan and all, but I mean, give me a break here. Just give me a second to jump in.
Okay, now I can talk. All right. Welcome back to the show, everybody. Morning show here at WFHR,
locally grown radio. Seth and James here with you. Got some fun and we got some fun stuff to
get into this morning and this is a big one. For the past few years, the city of Kyle, Texas,
has been trying to break a record by assembling an army of kiles in one spot. We've covered this story
a handful of times when they've done it over the years. They have needed more than 2,325 kiles
to break the world record of the largest gathering of people with the same first name. Okay.
The current record was set in 2017 with 2,325 Ivans got together in Bosnia,
a person of Guine, his son of Guina. Wow. I guess there, I guess in Eastern Europe,
there are a lot of Ivans. I was like, Ivan. Oh, but over there. Oh, yeah, there's lots of
hands. Yeah. And I remember us covering that story. I believe Carl and I covered that story.
I thought it was great. The kiles have failed so far. So now it's up to you, Ryan's. Uh-oh.
The Ryan's are trying their hand at it. There is an open call for anyone with the first name Ryan
to attend a Ryan rodeo. And it's a Ryan rodeo meet up in Austin, Texas. It's a bit short notice
it's happening this Saturday. Whoa. That is short notice. Yeah. And it doesn't have to be spelled
Ryan. There will be no Tom fool. Oh, I'm sorry. And it does have to be spelled Ryan.
R-Y-A-N. Yes. And there will be no Tom Fulori or Ryan Fulori. I don't know. You will have to show
official identification. Jeez. Taking this serious. I guess. Well, if you're trying to
say I suppose you got to be got to be right. You got to make sure. Yeah. They also note that
Brian's B-R-Y-A-N-S are not on not a that doesn't accept that doesn't work. The group's website
explains quote, Brian's are just B list Ryan's out. Oh, that's not cool. That's not good.
It is clever. That's very clever. I got to give her a clever. The Ryan rodeo will feature
music by local artists are at Ryan Hunter. Of course. And a bull riding competition.
Wait a minute. Bull riding. I'm just going to throw that. I'm just going to throw that in there.
It's text. You have to do they have to do that, you know, and wear your hat. Not pretty sure. I
actually I'm pretty sure that in the state legislature, you can't have any event not having
be tied to a rodeo or bull riding or something. Or even a mechanical bull, whatever it is. You
got to have it there. Okay. I love this stuff. I love this stuff. Is it silly? Is it ridiculous?
Yes. Yes. Yes. But does it also bring people together? Does it bring strangers together?
Yes. Does it bring strangers together? Does it remind strangers and remind us as a society?
How much we have more in common than we don't? I'll take every opportunity for that we can get
the sillier the better. Yeah. Like we we've and again, most serious person in the universe here talking
we have taken all of this way to serious like life. I'm talking about life. Like there's a lot of
it that needs to be taken seriously. We just we started our show talking about mirror elections
and just local elections and everything and the the cost and effect of that. That should be
taken serious. But when you have the chance to take life lightly, do it and and look for
those connections. Yeah. Look for those opportunities for empathy. Look for those connections between us.
I had a listener. So on the morning on a sunrise show today, did an article about Beyoncé's mom
talking about how Beyoncé is country. She was born in country. She's born in Texas. They got
pictures of her as a little girl wearing cowboy hats. They used to go to rodeos all the time in
Texas. Like that girl is country. And the idea that she isn't country enough or the idea that
she doesn't belong in country music in these kind of things. Like what are we doing? It's music.
It's music. Like what are you taking this so seriously for if you don't like it to listen to it.
Yeah. Who's getting bent out of shape about this stuff and they are they're they're I mean like a
mo not a mountain out of a molehill if I've ever seen one. They're all there 20s. You remember how
you were. Yes. Oh, you're so right. You're so right about this. I was Mr. Cause. I was the guy
in high school in math class that one most three lawns and gets paid five dollars. How much
money did one make it? I raised my hand right away. Why is his name? God be one. Why can't it be Joe?
Well, I can't be. Yeah, man. I'm bad. I was bad. I was a rebel without a pause. Yeah. That's
what my mother always called me. But again, yeah, even I know what I'm talking about. Look what it's
done for me. It's not good. It's not a good thing. It's I'm learning from those mistakes. Right.
Take life lightly. We can't and look for those connections because we are more connected than not.
You might have looked at Beyonce and thought, Oh, that's an R&B star. She's probably from a big
city or you know, urban area or something like that. That girl is country as a gets. Like
miss me with that. Yeah. You know, James, this might be the golden opportunity. If the Ryan's cannot
pull it off, maybe it's time for the James. Well, I get there's a lot of James around, you know,
throughout the United States and North America. I think you could maybe I really I want to say that
I like the name Seth. I think it's a good name. Strong name. It's versatile. I like it. We're
probably not as many sets as James. Oh, no. So I was going to go that route too. I wanted to go
set. I want not enough. No, this is another option. I think there's a lot of Melissa's out there.
Melissa's but I feel still like James is the one out of the three names mine is probably the most
common yet. We've been talking about breaking a world record. Maybe all we need is a place for all
James is to meet up. That's the thing. Now, here's the other thing about this everybody that might,
you know, might if you're on the fence about, you know, getting in on this or something like that
and us actually pulling this off. We've already got a head start. I've got another James. He's got
one more. We got two. Oh, I got two. I think you're on my son and I grabbed my dad. Oh,
see, you got two right there. Boom. We already got three. We're halfway there. Sort of.
Well, it'd have to be somewhere in Wisconsin. We got to do the Wisconsin. Yeah. We just have
to find a location to be able to put over 2000, you know, people. That'll let the coal
centers busy. I don't know. Okay. Check that out. Check out. Maybe we'll find a venue somewhere.
I actually, like, I was doing this as a joke, but now that we're talking this out, I'm going,
well, maybe, maybe, we got to come up with a good name for it too, though. Yeah. James Jam.
Like, you know, that's not bad. We have to come up with better than that. All right. That's the
starting point. That's that will throw it on the board. There's no bad ideas, but we'll let's
hope we can come up with better. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to James Jam. Yeah. Wow.
Let's go stay there. James Jamboree. Yeah. Actually, I like Jamboree better. I do like Jamboree
actually. Yeah. I said that a lot. I kind of like Jamboree. James Duke joint. I always, when I was a
little kid, I wanted to open a place like the juke joint. The juke joint is great word, by the way.
I got to admit, too. It is a little look behind the curtain to hear it, everything. So back when
we were owned by harder Wisconsin media and Marcus was with us and everything. Marcus, when we were
talking about doing the morning show, he was like, this is one of the things we butted heads on.
He wanted this show to be called Mornings with James. And he was very adamant about that.
And I appreciated where it was coming from on it. And it meant a lot to me, actually. I never
really, I don't think I really got to express that to him, but I was because we were too busy
putting heads. And that's on me. But it meant a lot to me that he meant, he thought that highly of me.
But I like this show to be for everybody. And I like the idea of if I wasn't here, which,
who knows if that's going to happen. I'd have to go on vacation and all that. You said 105 years.
Yeah, I know. If Melissa or you were hosting the show, it seems like it'd be a little weird to
be at Mornings with James. Mornings with James. And I'm your old Seth. Yeah, that would be
strange. And just me and I'm not judging this on anybody. But I've never enjoyed the Steve Harvey
show or when they put their name in the title, the Joe show or whatever. Like I just, it feels
icky to me. It feels like, yeah, like I just, I don't like that kind of a plus ego, I guess.
That creative. No, it's not creative. No, no, no. Now is Mornings at WFHR the Mornings show on WFHR
that original? No, no, it's not. No, but it's, it's open. It's anybody can work under that title.
Yeah, exactly. And I like that. So I'm not really great at things with like putting myself out
in the forefront or with names or the James thing. I'll do it with this one. Okay. So we get,
we found something. Wow. We need 230, 2,326 jameses. If we are actually not even 233, we need
because I've got my, we've got three already. 2,500. Let's shoot for 2,500. There you go. Peace.
Okay. Peace. Okay. And we'll be able to do that. It's gone to the loan. Seth and I will start
working on that. Well, you guys go ahead and check out our news break. When we come back,
we're talking about the most uncomfortable costumes. Actors of war and movies and TV shows.
Coming up right on the morning show at WFHR.
Welcome back, everyone. Morning show here at WFHR. Locally grown radio.
Seth and James here with you. Hope you're having a good one out there. Thanks so much for joining us
on this Friday Eve. Mm-hmm. Man, it Friday can't come fast enough. It's been one of those weeks.
One of those mornings. It's been one of those mornings, man. Crazy morning. No. Good stuff coming up
for you, everybody. Getting some Danny Wright stuff. Good stories of the day. We'll touch
about some local events as well. But let's get into this one. Seth, I've had this sitting here.
Buzzfeed put together a list of costumes that actors have worn in movies and TV shows
that were uncomfortable, painful, or damaging. Yeah. That doesn't sound fun. I don't see it
on this list. So I want to, as an honorable mention outside the lines here, the whole cast of
Wizard of Oz. Oh my gosh. Like, if you haven't heard the stories, if you haven't read up on that one,
mm-hmm. Man, you wonder why there are there's an actors guild? Why? Why? There's a big part of
the reason, man. If nothing else, just to protect the actors, I mean, oh my gosh. Every single actor
that wore a costume had health issues afterwards. Literally, everyone. And I'm not just talking about
the main cast. I mean, people in the monkey costumes. Like, every one of those costumes were
were just horrible. Like a death trap full of poisons and everything like that. I mean, even Judy
Garland, she had to wear a harness to flatten her chest. So she could look younger. I mean,
through the whole shoot, she had to wear this thing. I mean, it's disgusting. And I can't watch
the movie the same. I can't watch the movie the same. It really, I think going forward,
not only are you going to see less of these and things we're going to talk about here in this
conversation. I agree. And that I'm not just because of the actors guild or any of those stuff.
But because we hear everything now, nothing stays under wraps. This is perfect evidence of this.
What we're going to talk about right now with these actors and these big movies and TV shows and
everything. So when it comes to the PR end of things. Yes. No, it doesn't help you any. It doesn't
help you sell your movie or sell your product. If the actors or the people that were in it are
saying like Ryan Reynolds famously wore a motion capture suit for Green Lantern. They did
described as the most heated, conducted substance known to Matt. I mean, he put a funny joke on it.
But still, I mean, that does not sound fun. He looks uncomfortable in the movie and the movie
did did horrible in part because of the costume. In part because everybody didn't like the costume.
It was green screened. It didn't work. We didn't we weren't far along with the technology. And even if
we were, people just aren't in the green screen as much as you think they are Hollywood. They aren't.
If you can, if you can put it here and there, use it as, you know, in spots. That's fine.
People like the real man. I like the real. Maybe you heard about this one. It was pretty
well covered. Jim Carey. He set his makeup for how the Grinch Stole Christmas was like being buried
alive and took eight and a half hours. I'm telling you know, you look at it and it's like, wow,
that's amazing. But I am. I'm just not. I wasn't blown away by that movie or his performance.
No, but knowing what he went through, like it actually made me think like, oh, he did actually
do a really good job at it because working like the facial expressions, he's able to get across
and through all that makeup and everything, you still see Jim Carey. Like that's impressive.
Acting through prosthetics. If you talk to actors about it, it's one of the hardest things to do.
Yeah. To express when you've got all bunch of stuff on your face.
I've got a list of a very short list of dream roles. One of my dream roles is any character that I
have to work through a mask or prosthetics to play. I want that challenge. I need to have that
challenge. I would love to be able to do that to see if I know I can pull it off. I believe in
myself like that. It's the only thing I'm confident about in this world is acting. So I don't
mean to sound ecotistical with that. That's the game you have to be that way in this game.
You have to feel that way. If I don't believe it, I can't, how am I going to make anybody else
believe it? Exactly. Kit Harrington, the first coach he wore as John Snow on Game of Thrones weighed
a ton and smelled awful. Oh, I'm just and not for nothing. He's like 5, 10, 5, 11. Yeah.
Those coats seem to make him even smaller. Yeah. I mean, he's not a small guy. He's like an
average height. Yeah. But it did. It seemed it made him look smaller. It was really weird.
How about this, man? And I don't know if they're going to talk about this a lot on this list.
But how about how about costume smell? Yeah. I have to imagine that most are just stinky and
awful. Oh, man, considering like some of them you can't even wash because of the material
they're made out of. When I was a part of the production of Romeo and Juliet on California,
and that we we I played at Mercutio. And I done that. It's the only time I've ever played a character
twice. And the it's a big production. They got a lot of money into this. It's it's you know,
legendary theater out there in San Francisco. I walk into this like, Oh, I cannot wait to see my
costume. It's going to be amazing. Guess where they cut cost because we're doing it as a fun
razor. Oh, okay. They they cut costs in certain places. Costumes. Oh, no props. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
So the costume I got had not been washed. And I don't know how long and I wasn't just mine.
And we had a very limited time to rehearse. So I had to in some of our early rehearsals,
we had to have the costumes so that we could see, you know, what do we have to work through?
Does this fit and all that? And man, working through that on stage where you're trying not to
breathe through your nose. Trying to that makes it hard to act, you know, it really, it really does.
I've seen a lot of people play Mercutio a lot of ways. Not breathing is not a great way to play
that character. He's got this odd look on his face. What is that? He's like, he smells something
horrible. I don't remember Shakespeare writing the character blue. I don't remember.
Mel Kilmer, his bat suit and Batman forever. No. It was so restrictive that people had to
help him sit and stand and he couldn't hear in it. Oh, yeah. Didn't they change that after? Yes.
They they so that they did something so that the actress could actually hear when they're Batman,
yeah. It's Michael Keen had the same issue with his too. Yeah. And then we touched on that for
quite a bit. Yeah. It's pretty good. I'm pretty interesting to how they've changed that up. Yeah.
All of a sudden, Christian Bales character not going forward. They all kind of just have the
the helmet kind of thing. Yeah, right. It's not really attached to that. It's not like a cowl. Yeah.
Scarlett Johansson, her black widow costume in the Avengers was like a wetsuit.
She got so hot filming a rooftop fighting scene that she started hallucinating and passed out.
Oh, yeah. What are we doing? What are we doing here, man? This is entertainment. Calm down.
I get it. And you know, and I know why, of course, they do it because it looks cool. It does.
If you look at on the film, it looks cool, but she looked amazing, but yeah.
Is it there's ways you could modify this stuff. It's not like you have to have it this way.
You can still make it look cool and give your actors a chance to, you know, not bake in what they're
wearing. I'm a big Scarlett Johansson fan. I think she's one of the top 20 actors in the world
today. Top 20 actresses in the world today. I think she's that good. She's very talented and
incredibly beautiful woman. I am not going to lie. She looked amazing in that suit. Not that
amazing, though. Not amazing enough to make her pass out. Not to make her pass out, everything.
Like I'd rather see her in sweatpants than that. You know, at least we know she's healthy.
Right. Okay. It is. And the stone, the favorite, she had to wear a corset.
She wasn't able to breathe in her organs temporarily shifted after a month.
Ah, to piggyback off of that racial brush and she got a corset related injury from her outfits
on the marvelous Miss Maisel. Some of her ribs became fused together and she can no longer take
deep breaths. Oh, no, that's wrong. Okay. Have you seen Emma Stone? She's tiny. Yeah.
She is extremely thin. Why did she even need to wear it? Yeah. I mean, I guess if it's a period,
you know, you want to wear it, but does it actually have to be that restrictive? Can't you make
it so it's not? Yeah. I don't know. I'm all for reality. I'm all for making film as real as it can
get to a degree. Yeah. I've talked about this with James Cameron before. James Cameron,
it wasn't enough that he had amazing actors and Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winsett. He had to
actually make them literally freezing to death in order because it's just not real enough.
For some time, you get down here, Cameron. You get down here and do it. You let's see you play
this. Let's see you direct while in ice cold water and everything. Like, come on, man. Again,
what are we doing here? It's entertainment. Get over yourselves and your seriousness and your
your need to be good. And I'm sorry to not one of the better directors I've ever seen. Like,
he doesn't need, like it'd be one thing if you could back this up. There's a lot of ruthless
directors in human history that have the talent to kind of, you know, you make the argument back
it up and everything. James Cameron, I've never seen one scene where I couldn't see another director
doing that. Right. Right. Just killed my James Cameron career. Don't worry about it. Don't worry
about it. He only makes one movie every 15 years. So you're fine. You're good.
And I hope this also while I feel for all these actors and especially these last couple we brought
up, think about what it was like to wear corsets back then. Every single day. You're telling me,
these sanity, these actors wore them at peer for hours at a time and everything for a cup for a
stretch and they had injuries. What did the women go through back then? I can't even imagine, man.
That's messed up. That ain't right. That is our, that ain't right story of the day. Everybody's
women should demand reparations for having to wear those. Yeah, I'm not against that. I'm not
against that at all. I, yeah, yeah, wholeheartedly. I put you on that one. We will get to our partners
here. We'll go ahead and check in with them. See what they're up to. How you been? What's going on
with you guys? Then I don't know. Okay. I don't have, I'm sorry. The computer is just working.
Funny on us today. We'll come back with, we're talking about KFC. All right. Let's do it. And pizza.
KFC doing pizza. We'll find out coming up on the morning show with WFHR.
Welcome back to the show, everybody. Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio.
Seth and James here with you, getting that forecast from Brittany, maybe think sunny. You know,
get sunny. Yeah, the temperature's under weather. I'm digging it. I'm digging it. Let's
get a way to play ourselves out. We'll take you right to the top of the hour, everybody.
Got some fun stuff to get into. Let's start right here with KFC. Journalistically,
I should mention my, one of my first jobs was working at a KFC. It's the only time I've ever
worked in fast food. I enjoyed it. I like cooking a lot and I enjoyed the people I worked with.
I was horrible at it. I was going to say famously, there's a reason you don't know fast food.
I want to send a special shout out to all the fast food workers out there. You are impressive.
I admire what you do. Me too. I can cook, but I'm Italian. I take my time. I stretch,
you know, I stretch it out and everything. I like enjoying the process. You got to go. You got
to work. There's no stretching it out there, man. That was not good at that and even cleaning at night.
You got to not only clean really, really, really good, but be fast about it. Yep. And I'm a neat
freak. I take my time. I'm not good in that industry. So a big shout out to all of them. Good
thing you found out early. Let's just say that. You found out early. Now, there are people who are
going to get excited, get excited when fast food chains and outs new healthy options. There are
people out there who do. I know you may not know many, but there are KFC is rolling out a new
menu called Chiza, CHI ZZA. The name is a mashup of chicken and pizza. And it's pronounced
Cheezah. Oh, so it rhymes with pizza. Cheezer. Cheezer. Really? Okay. Then spell it that way.
What the what? Thank you. It's spelled Chiza. Okay. Yeah. Exactly. It wouldn't do that. It feels
like Snoop came up with this. Like it's a Snoop dog creation or something. You maybe ask
you for royalties. It's not fried chicken or it's not fried chicken on a pizza. It's pizza on
fried chicken. Okay. So the fried chicken fillets are the crust with marinara sauce, mozzarella cheese
and pepperoni on top. It sounds like those are the only toppings for now. The Cheezah will be
available at most KFC locations nationwide starting next Monday. That sounds suspiciously like
chicken Parmesan. Doesn't it? It sounds suspiciously like that. I was going to say that off
air. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They say it's a limited time thing, but it's unclear how limited. It
will cost you $9 or $9.99 on its own. And you can make it a combo for $12.99. Okay.
But yeah, it does. It sounds like chicken parm. It's what it sounds like to me. I feel like that's
what my mom and my mom and my dad and my papa would order all the time. Yeah. Chicken parm.
Exactly what I feel like I just described without the spaghetti. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. You know, but I mean, it's a tiny right story to me and everything, but somebody's
going to enjoy it. And I give KFC actually some credit on this front. Like they're where some
places are like they tell you they're coming up with new new food options or whatever, but they're
not really that new. Not to say that this is a completely original, but KFC over the years has
done some pretty original things, I think. Right. You know, getting rid of the bread and just having
meat just a bond and stuff like that. The the the bowl, the famous bowls, you know, we're
made more famous by Pat and Oswald. Yes. Yes. Yes. Shut up, Pat and Oswald. I don't I'm not saying
that any of these are good. Are they're going to work or anything like that. But I and I think
that it's not a bad idea to try these things. People give it a shot. Yeah. Yeah. There's nothing
wrong with it. Now, maybe this doesn't work, but you know, like I'm sure they have the same
feeling when they were doing the bowls thing. And well, I don't know if this is going to work
and everything that worked. Very popular. Yeah. Taco Bell is pretty much built on this
coming up with these weird interesting combinations. Interesting combinations and everything,
which by the way, they're owned by the same company. You know, they but they need to change
their name. Yum brands. Come on. That's the worst name of a company ever. That's really bad.
Horrible. It's really bad. Yum brands. Yeah. So we'll see. We'll see. We'll see how that will go.
Nothing should be. Should be interesting. How that goes. How that goes with that pizza.
Yeah. I don't know. I don't know. Let's let's. She's a she's a she's a she's a she's a she's a
she's a she's a she's a man. I can't even see it now. She's a she's a good like ordering that by
the way. Yeah. Yeah. The what? I don't know. I don't even know what you're talking about.
We kind of need a palette cleanser after that one. Let's go ahead and get to some local good stuff.
And it kicks off with Midday magazine. Today, be sure to join us today from three to four. Great set
of guests. In part one, our great friends from family, natural foods. See even a Katrina Hentner
going to be hanging out with us. We'll talk shop with them. All right. Find out some great
things going on over at family, natural foods. Very cool. Really good stuff over there.
Looking forward to diving into that. And one of our favorite people to talk to Anna James,
natural resource educator with UW Madison Extension is going to be joining us. Nice.
Looking forward to that. And some interesting notes in that interview with Anna as well.
Some fun stuff there. Great interview. Anna really knows her stuff. I learn every time I talk to
her. Very similar with Rachel used to be in that position. Yeah. Big shout out to her. Rachel and
Anna and all the good people. They get a good people working there, man. Really smart people.
We got good stuff on our radio throughout the day. Today, be sure to join us. Mack Mara on the
air coming up right after us. Stick around and join her. Kind of love her voice.
Kind of love her show. Such a good show. Very gracious. So good together.
We mentioned this earlier, Seth. I would like to just touch on the silver fox.
Oh yeah. Going on one more time today. Just a little bit more. There's their
premiering tonight or this afternoon, I should say, at two o'clock with the golden age of radio.
They'll also be performing tomorrow night at six and Saturday at two as well at the lowest
Ken Studio Theater and WRCT directed by Chris Williams. It's the golden age radio. Good stuff,
man. I always love these radio productions. Those are some of my favorite of all time. I love
doing them. Be sure to check that out, everybody. You can get your tickets at wrctheater.org,
wrctheater.org, as long as you're there. Why not pick up tickets for other remaining shows,
you know, like the glassman. I think you should. I think you should pick those up. We're not
biased at all. Get your tickets at wrctheater.org, support local, support local arts. If you are in
Wisconsin and you have been around the past couple of weeks in the news, you have seen the stories.
Wisconsin is dead last in funding the arts. That's embarrassing way down there, way down there.
I know Wisconsinites pretty well. You guys are pretty proud people and you like to be proud of
your state and more power to you for that. There's nothing to be proud of about that.
No, and I would like to think that every single citizen wants to do something about that.
Quality of life issue is what it is. Unless, of course, you don't enjoy any of the arts. You
don't listen to music. You don't listen to Wisconsin artists. You don't see Wisconsin plays or
you don't want to support local. They're okay. If you don't listen to music TV shows, movies,
or anything like that, then fine. Okay. Yeah. That need I have to suppose. But to the 99.9%
of the rest of us, yeah, supports the arts. It's very important. It goes farther.
Everything I could say about sports and the positives of sports, the arts bring the same thing.
It is. Yeah. It's absolutely 100%. We encourage you to stick around because to
are be with us tomorrow, we're going to have Terry Johnson and with a CEO of your
Knight of Way of South Woodenham's counties. We're going to talk about a couple of things going
on with the United Way, including Power of the Purse. You can get your tickets and be a part of
Power of the Purse, which is coming up March 12th from five to 730, a beautiful bullseye golf club.
Find out more by going to uwswac.org, uwswac.org. All right. And we got a couple of great things
coming up with our arts council. Go to savorthearts.com. Get your tickets for how sweet it is.
Steve Leslie doing James Taylor. Man, and he, I mean, does it miraculously? Incredible artists.
Grammy award winning songwriter and recording artist Steve Leslie performs the music of James
Taylor, authentic and spellbinding, a spellbinding concert. This is coming up right around the
corner Thursday, March 7th. Get your tickets at savorthearts.com, savorthearts.com. Be sure
to check that out, everybody. And as long as you're getting tickets there, go ahead and pick them
up for always for Olivia, the Olivia Newton John tour. Always Olivia is a wonderful show that
pays tribute to Olivia Newton John's music and career that spanned over five decades.
We lost this icon a while ago and and chances to be able to, you know, relive her career and some
of her music is fantastic. And then there is the artist that is doing this. It's incredible. Like
any any ILO is one of the more talented fun people I've ever had the chance to talk to period.
Just incredible human being on air, off air, wonderful person. And my God, she sounds like her.
Yes. First of all, first things first, you need to check out the interview that James
on had a midday magazine with her. Because yeah, you almost took up the entire talking to
her. I know. It was great. And so yeah, listen to that. Go to civicmedia.us, go to shows,
click on midday magazine and check it out. Second of all, I watched some of her videos that she's
made as, you know, kind of mimicking the music videos that Olivia Newton John made. They're fun.
Oh my gosh. And she sounds so much like her. It's going to be a heck of a show.
Yeah, be sure to check that out, everybody. And know that portion of the proceeds from your ticket
are going to go into a Spirus Reviews foundation for cancer research. Yes.
And so and the always in the Olivia foundation as well, percentage will go to that.
They always do that with all their shows. So Olivia Newton John towards the end of her life
started a fundraiser cancer fund foundation foundation and appreciate her doing that.
Appreciate our friend Sally and Eric over there. And all the good work that they do at the
Save of the Arts and the Performing Arts Center. Get your tickets at Save of the Arts.com.
Yes. Let's take a look at some. Oh, we don't want to talk about Winders Farmer market.
Let's talk Winders Farmer market. Even though winter really never came or still hasn't come,
I guess, I don't know. But it's still at the Moravian Church at 310, 1st Avenue South. And
they're going to be there till May 18th. They're going to be going up right up till when we do
the downtown farmers markets. So there's no there's no break anymore. They're just going right
into it. Check out their Facebook page and find out all the vendors that are going to be there
this week. Also find out if we have any food trucks there this week. We've had some of the last
couple. It's great. Get some food. The weather, of course, has been so nice. So come on down,
everybody. It's look like it's looked like a party over there. It has. It's been great. Yeah.
And let's get to some world good stories. A guy named Anton Newton Boomb is raising awareness
for men's mental health by walking barefoot across the U.S. from LA to New York. Oh, wow.
He left Santa Monica, California on Saturday. He calls himself the barefoot Dutchman. And in
this ain't his first rodeo. In 2019, he became the first person to make it to Mount Everest
base camp barefoot. So this guy, this guy knows what he's doing. He's also a little crazy.
Just a little insane. Just a little, just a little, but also good on him. Good on him.
Mental health is important. And men, we do not pay enough attention to our mental health.
We don't. We are talking about rub some dirt on it and keep walking. Those days are over,
man. Yeah. You can be the manliest thing you can do is looking inward. Get some help.
One of them. If you need it. Yep. Yep. That is that is being tough. It is. That is being a man.
Admitting to yourself. You need help. Any fool can ignore things. Any, any child can ignore
things. A real man faces his issues, faces his problems and has accountability for them. Yep.
Whether it is himself or anybody else. So men's mental health. Pretty important. And something
that every man should be on top of every man should be taking the initiative of. We are going to
get out of here. But thank you so much to the best listeners in the radio. Crazy morning.
And you guys. They are sticking with us and hung out with us. Great show by you and nice
work by you behind the scenes. It is always an adventure James. It is always an adventure here.
We just can't do a normal show. Can't wait. Maybe next week. Maybe next week.
Find out and stick around everybody. More good stuff coming up for you right here at.
