Good morning, Wisconsin. Good morning, world. It's a new day. Thanks for kicking it off
with us right here at WFHR locally grown radio. Got your host, James J. I'm joined by Melissa
Kaye. Good morning. And the best listeners in radio. Thanks so much for joining us, everybody.
We hope you're having a great one out there. Appreciate you being here. We're gonna have some
fun this hour, Mel. All right. Got some entertainment news. We're going to touch on including
some local entertainment that we want to get to as well. Touch on some of that. And a little
bit later, the top 30 food turn-offs, including picking your teeth and slurping soup and that
kind of thing. Oh, wow. Yeah. We've got that. We've got to cover that. What not to do on your
first date? Yes. Yes. Very well said. Looking forward to that. And plenty more. We got a
then a right story for you. We haven't had one in a while. I got a good one here. We got
that coming up. And yeah, these knuckleheads stealing Venus fly traps. Yeah, that's, that's
her. Yeah, there's we're going to get into that. Yeah, that's going to be an interesting
one. So all that coming up for you. But let's start things off with a bit of entertainment
news. And I thought this was pretty interesting. So Spotify can now answer all your burning
questions with a new feature called Song Psychic. Yes. Song Psychic. It does not give you
the winning lottery numbers. I believe that's not what this is about. I'm pretty sure.
I haven't set those to music yet. No, users can ask a question from nine different categories.
They are school, friends and family, love, career, life's greatest mysteries, my future,
myself, style, and lunch. After choosing a category, the user can pick from a selection
of different questions. The question will then be answered with a song title. Of course,
it's all in fun. And there's even a message that says, remember, the spirits unreliable,
don't take them seriously. If users don't see the features feature on their home page,
they can also type Song Psychic in the search bar on their, you know, Spotify app. So
this is, is this the magic April? Is this basically a music version of the magic
April? This is a distraction from how they treat their users, their, their artists and
musicians. 100%. 100%. Like, I'm giving you other features because we want you to not
think about the fact that we don't pay the people that whose music you're listening
to properly. Couldn't they, couldn't they be paying the, you know, the people that,
the only reason they have an app for more instead doing this kind of stuff, I completely
agree. I got 100% agree with you, Melissa. It's, it's part of the, it's part of the reason
why I'm curious to see how much people care about artists. Like you, you, you, you, you
got your favorite artist, you've been listening to them your whole lives, you, you enjoy all
their work. Now it's going to be put to the test. Now, now we're going to really see
how much do people actually care about creatives? How much people, how much people want new creative
work? Like, because that's the other thing too. Artists are going to be pushed into a corner
here where they're going to have to decide, do I want to take, you know, a half a cent
on the dollar for every download I, or every play I get? Or, you know, what, I'm going
to try to do this on my own. I got a YouTube page. I've got that I can do and that, you
know, YouTube has their stuff too as well. All these apps do. But none of them, I think
are in the data that I've seen in the musicians I've talked to. None of them are as bad. And
podcasters I've talked to too, because this is another end of this that doesn't get a lot
to do as podcasters. Spotify is the, the, the most guilty of all of them. Yes. Just looking
it up quick, the first stat that I found, sorry, with a stutter stat, is between 0.003 to
0.005 cents per stream. It's insane. That's insane. That works out to an approximate
revenue split of 7030. You know, I know it sounds stupid to say. And I admit that in
the, you know, ahead of this and everything. But what incentives are we giving anybody
to be creative anymore? Where is that? Like most of us, like I didn't choose to be an actor.
It chose me. I do this because I love it. I have a passion for it and everything. But that
has a shelf life for a lot of people. You know, that passion or whatever. Whatever that might
be, insert, you know, passion there. That there's, there's a lot more reliable work out there.
There's a lot more reliable jobs. And we're seeing more and more people go look for. I want
I want a career or not a job. I want reliability. I want to be in an industry. I know it's going
to be there in 10 years. We're seeing more and more of that. And more and more people in the creative
arts are going into more reliable things in that field. You see this with teaching where, you know,
starting out, I want to teach kids. At a certain point, you see the paycheck and some of the
things that our teachers have to go through. You know what? I'll private teach. I'll do private
teach. We're seeing more and more of these things happening. And we can, we can help this from
happening. It isn't one of those things where we're just sitting back and eating popcorn and
watching it happen. We could be a part of these things. We can make change. Part of that change
don't use the app. Like it's, it's not that hard. You're telling me there's no other way to listen
to music. How, how I ever find the songs I love. First off, how dare you? How dare you forget about
our friends, the CDs? How dare you? How dare you forget about CD players and boom boxes and
everything? Well, artists got their money then. They got their money then when we are listening
to stuff that way. That's true. But that's the thing. How do we consume music now most of us
stream it? We don't buy CDs anymore for the most part. I mean, I have, you know, recently I bought
a Tommy Emmanuel CD. Actually, we've gotten back into records in my household. My boyfriend bought
me a Tommy Emmanuel record. And those are, but those aren't as portable. I do still have a CD
player in my car. But most often, I, well, I'm listening to audiobooks when I'm driving. But
if I'm listening to music, sometimes it's streaming. Sometimes it's good. It's the CDs. But
we don't consume music the same way we did 20 years ago. I want to see Cadillac or one of these,
you know, beamers or something like that with now the new 2025 Beamer featuring the record player.
Bring your favorite vinyl. Yeah. Yeah. We have a new compartment to hold them too. And
that's the other problem. Where do you put these things? In complete journalistic integrity,
I have Spotify and iTunes on my phone. And you know, I look this up and I'm going to read this to
you directly from the Spotify website just so that we are journalistically correct.
Contrary to what you may have heard, Spotify does not pay artists royalties according to a
per play or per stream rate. The royalty payments that artists receive may vary according to
differences in how their music is streamed or the agreements they have with labels or distributors.
So they don't even pay artists directly. It goes through their record label or distributor and
whatever agreements they have with them. Yeah, I listen to podcasts on Spotify. That's it. I don't
listen to music on there in part because of that. But then you're you're just hurting the artist.
They're not. They're Spotify's fine. They'll just live. They'll be fine. But I don't know the
perfect way of doing this other than just buying directly from an artist and making sure that the
money goes directly to them when you when you buy from their sites and that. And that's one thing
we can do. You know, we we rail against these giant corporations like Amazon and Walmart and
Coca-Cola. But then we go to their websites to buy stuff because it's easy. Yeah, yeah. If you want
to put the money in the direct, you know, directly in the hands of these businesses and these
artists that have put the work in or produce the goods, buy directly from them. So it takes
three, you know, three to five extra days to get it in the mail. If you order from the book company
versus from the book company through Amazon, where then they only get a smaller cut, but you get
your product quicker. You know, you does everything have to happen today. Yeah, right. We live in this,
you know, you talk about the 24 hour new cycle all the time and and how this instant gratification
that we live in, the only way that's going to change is if we make it change.
And that is true of almost on every front, especially in a year like this, keep that in mind.
Just to wrap up here, one of the writers at Loudwire tried this question thing on Spotify.
They asked it, what should I have for lunch? And they got back rock lobster.
Rock lobster. Yes, yes, because that's something all of us have in our fridge. Right, yeah.
I just keep a aquarium of rock lobster whenever I have a disco lobster that I just just
right there for me. It's right next to my blues lobsters, right? And my hip hop lobster.
Yeah, that's a really good one. Hard to catch though. Hard to catch.
It's a horrible joke. Horrible movie out. Dakota Johnson is in. That's a bad segue. I apologize,
Dakota. I apologize. I'm sorry. It's not me saying that the masses have spoken.
And Madam Web is a flop. One of the more newer releases, Superhero-wise, the vehicle,
Madam Web, starring Dakota Johnson is a flop. It has already been pulled from a lot of theaters.
In fact, in fact, she doesn't, she doesn't think she will ever do another superhero movie
because she doesn't she doesn't think she makes sense in that world. Dakota says, quote,
sometimes in the industry, you sign on to sign on to something and it's one thing. And then as
you're making it, it becomes a completely different thing. And you're like, wait, what? But it was
a real learning experience, she admits, quote, of course, it's not nice to be a part of something
that's ripped to shreds, but I can't say that I don't understand. So she's even kind of like,
she's trying to cover her bases and it's not any any agent worth their salt will tell an actor,
don't bite the hand that feeds you. The producers of Madam Web, the casting directors,
the, you know, these people that are in positions of power, they're going to work in other movies.
And she's going to want to she may audition for one of those movies. You don't want to burn
bridges that you haven't even crossed yet, you know. That's a big thing in acting. You don't hear
many actors. You got to be, you got to be Russell Crowe, Christian Bale, you got to be on a different
level to be able to rip your own movies. Not most actors do. You don't see that very often. I
will tell you this right now, if I am fortunate enough to have a movie career and I do 20 movies,
you will never hear me complain about a dang one of them. Not one of them. But what Dakota saying
is incredibly important, I think, and I appreciate actors talking about this. Now, I'm not expecting
anybody to feel sorry for actors for it. I just hope that their context is there. When your
favorite actor is in a bad movie, keep in mind that might not be the movie they signed up for.
That might not be the script, the original script that they got.
Well, because a lot of changes happen in movies and even TV as things go along.
This is my issue with producers. And I will again, journalistically mention, we are our own
producers here at WFHR. Anything you hear Melissa doing, she produced Seth, myself, all of the above.
We are our own producers. We have to do multiple jobs at a station like this. A lot of the people
you hear on Civic Media's network, they have a producer and then the on-air talent. And that's a
fun, that's a great way to be able to do that. Seems really nice. We have to do a little bit of both
where multiple hats around here. And with that, being, to me, I think you do this, Melissa,
I think I've even heard you do this. I may think as a host, this is a great idea. But as the producer
part of my brain, no, only I'm going to laugh at that. The audience won't either get it or won't
like it. So we move on. That's key to do that. Now, as a producer of these kind of things, it's,
well, I got to, I put a lot of money in this. I'm around a lot of creative people. I got to show
that I belong to be here. You know what? I don't like his costume being blue. Make it pink.
And then all of a sudden, the actor that signed up wearing a blue costume is wearing a pink
costume because the person that put money into the project decided that. Not because of any
creativeness or anything like that, just because they like it better. And so it becomes about them.
And that's not producing. That's just being rich. Right. Right. And making choices that you
think might be best. What I'm reading about this is the film was a critical failure, receiving
criticism for its plot, dialogue, editing, the use of dubbing and storytelling. Yeah. Yeah.
But it's still made, you know, it made it grossed 91 million worldwide. And the production budget
was 80 million. So yeah, it made $11 million on it. Which a lot of movies this year would be very
happy with. You know, that's not that's certainly not, you know, great. But it's a lot better than
most. And you know, when you can make your money back in the movie industry, that's heck,
there are movies we'll never see because of because they didn't make enough money. Yeah. Or they
found that it was easier to just cut the whole thing, cut their losses and stuff. Right. One more
note I wanted to get to entertainment wise. And when we come back, we'll get a touch on a bunch of
local entertainment. We'll kind of spread this separate. I'd like to add in on our local.
Excellent. We're wrapping up with Wonder Woman herself, Linda Carter. If you haven't seen the OG
Linda Carter, the original Wonder Woman lately, you need to because she still is looking great.
She looks amazing. She's 72. Linda Carter is. And Linda had some great quotes about this too.
Quote, I don't know that I've changed too dramatically. I don't cut my face. So I probably look just
myself, but older. And the reason I've never had any facial surgery is just because I'm afraid.
It's it's scary because we've all seen some bad ones. Linda hasn't had any plastic surgery done.
And that's that's where the conversation was born of. Linda also wants to remind fans that
how she looks in photos is not how she wakes up. Quote, actors and celebrities always look so great
when they're on the red carpet. But when you see them in real life, they just look like regular
people with no makeup and they're crummy clothes on and everything. Everybody looks the same when
you're when you're not all dressed up. If everyone did a three hour makeover before they left
the house, they look just as good as the rest of us and those in pictures. That's awesome.
I'm afraid to say that. Yeah. Yeah. She's she's the real deal, man. Also, did you know she's a singer?
Yeah. No. I didn't. I didn't. I'm learning with you and everybody else. She has a single letters from
earth that's street that's been streaming or streaming next this Friday. It'll start streaming
this Friday. It's a it's a love letter to her late husband Robert Altman, who passed away in 2021
from leukemia and Robert Altman, one of the greats. Well, that's sweet. And I'm looking at Linda
Carter right now and it's remarkable, man. Like it is remarkable. Like she does just look like her.
She well, that's just I mean, she looks good and I'm not taking anything from that. That's the
thing about it to me. Like, you know, usually when you get older, you know, you have to you have to
squint a little bit like, Oh, there they are. Right. Now I see who they were. That's the Linda
Carter that I grew up like watching the show. Like I love Wonder Woman. I love that show. She had
a visible jet. A visible jet. Come on. Right. That's pretty cool. That's pretty cool. I have
no idea how you park something like that though. I really don't know. Where do you put the baby
on board sign? Where do you? I shouldn't be on the radio today. I really I am not funny today.
We will take take a time out. We'll check in with our partners. We'll be back more fun on the
morning show here at WFA. Welcome back everybody. Morning show at WFHR.
Hope you're having a good one out there. Things just got a little more funky around here.
We got good good local entertainment. We want to touch on right now. Before we do Melissa,
I got a note from the heart of WFHR. Pam Hilke. Pam was listening to our conversation earlier
and heard you talking about the ferry. Oh yeah. This from Pam, there's an auto ferry at Merrimack,
Merrimack, Wisconsin near Barrabo. That's the one I met. Okay. It operates on Highway 113. It's a
free ferry. It operates generally April through November. It takes about seven minutes to cross
operated by the State of Wisconsin Department of Transportation and carries up to about 15 cars.
I wanted to ask Phil about this. You know, Phil's from the main area and I hate to like just
be a mainist. I don't know how you like I was stereotypical to the things to main would call,
but I know out in the East Coast taking ferries and it seems like everybody does that.
Everybody, you know, there's been done by almost everybody out there. That's one of the ways
of transportation. I was curious to ask him if he had ever done that. I got to do this. I got
to get over there and do that. It seems awesome. It's a bit of a rush. That's been pretty cool.
That seems pretty cool. So we wanted to get to some local good things and Mel, did you have something
you want to start with? Yeah. So the showcase players in Kobe have their opening weekend coming.
They opened their show Love or Best Offer on Friday and I got to see the show last night.
Yeah, they're having their tech rehearsal this week and the director Kevin had reached out to me
and he sent out an email to all of their mailing list for everybody for showcase players
promoting our show at the Wisconsin Rapids Community Theater and that was very nice of him.
And then I was like, you know, I'm sad I'm not going to get to see your show unless maybe I could
come to a tech rehearsal. I was like, yeah, by all means. So I got an invite and a private
showing of Love or Best Offer last night and it was really cute. It's a show about online dating
for seniors. So the two, there's two main characters and then there's the friends of those
characters and it takes place kind of on a split stage where you've got one apartment and then
the other apartments and they interact on they have these zoom dates. And it's hilarious.
It's really it's fun. The actors are doing a great job with the characters. I highly recommend
everybody go see that. They open this weekend, the eighth and ninth and I think they have a show on
the 10th and then the following weekend as well. Yeah, they got a show on the 10th, 15th, 16th and 17th
Friday and Saturday shows are at 730. The Sunday will be a two o'clock matinee. Be sure to like
their Facebook page. It's great way to keep up to what they're doing up there over there in the
Colby. Have it's for an area. Yeah. That's a great one. Thanks for bringing that to us, Mel. I did
not sure. I'll be honest. I haven't heard of the showcase players before I am liking their
Facebook page and I am following what they do from now on. Love our local theater companies.
Love, love, love them. And there's so many community theaters that, you know, we don't have a big
advertising budget. Yes. Surprise, surprise. Well, and here's the other part of this too. Melissa,
apparently it is on us because the state of Wisconsin is not supporting the arts. The state itself
is not putting any funding or any money into the arts. And that's okay because nobody in Wisconsin
likes to be entertained. Nobody in Wisconsin likes music, theater, movies. So apparently it's okay
that we don't put any money into the arts. Yeah. You know, I'm sure this so that'll be fine.
There won't be any, you know, anything to happen to that. Nothing bad could come of that. I'm sure.
You want to get people to move to your state. Quit worrying about a flat tax that is either
not going to happen or isn't going to give you the outcome you think it's going to have.
And actually put some darn money into things that people want and care about like childcare,
like a healthcare, like just giving them some fun to do. Yeah, entertainment on the weekends.
How do you like this too? This year we get that stat. We get those numbers that Wisconsin is dead
last by far and away in the whole union when it comes to the arts and putting funding the arts.
In the same year that our most of our local businesses, whether you're up north or you're down south,
you're hurting. You're hurting this winter. Well, yeah, because we had zero snow basically.
Sure would be nice if we had money in the arts to have some backup to that, wouldn't it?
Be a really smart idea for the people in your state, I feel like that's something to do.
That's on every politician. That's on every one of them and it's on every one of us that voted
for them and vote and vote on these things. That falls on everybody. So of course,
we have to talk about these companies. Of course, we got to talk about these local theater
companies. Nobody else is going to do it. Yeah, I don't know what else is covering this stuff.
And we don't have the money to advertise outside of Facebook, which is free.
Look at half of the entertainment conversation. The quote unquote entertainment conversations
you hear. It's about who's got who's dating who or or something like that or some low hanging
fruit, like just pulling up online. What movies are coming out in the next month or whatever. Come
on. That we do local entertainment. We cover. Yeah, we cover big stuff. I'm not going to say we
don't, but this is what we do around here. And thank God that we there are other places like us
doing this. So that somebody's actually covering the darn arts. Well, and thank goodness for places
like the South, the art council of Southville County and what Sally Kisner does there at the
PAC center and and the things that are happening at the Wassath theater. Our central, yeah,
central Wisconsin Cultural Center as well. Yeah, exactly. Places like that. And we need to invest
and and visit those places. Once again, it, it, please. And again, 424, 2600 call right up.
If you don't like music or movies or TV shows or plays or anything like that, if you've never
enjoyed any of that in your life, please feel free to call up and I completely understand if you
don't want to support the arts. That one person out there, I get it. Otherwise, everybody else
get on the right side of history on this one. We want these things in our our towns. You know,
I have an aunt and uncle who used to live here in Abbessford. And after they moved to Eau Claire,
they were like, we have to see week, we can go to concerts outside in the park. We have all
these opportunities for entertainment right in our in the town. We need that all across Wisconsin.
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the river. Yes, yes. And let's give Melissa and her team or her fellow castmates of the glass
ministry a great full house as they come back in action tomorrow. Yeah, that's right. We will be
back on the stage at seven at the Wisconsin Rapids Community Theater with the glass ministry.
I'm excited for our closing weekend. We've got four more shows left for opportunities to see
the show. And I think that you will be surprised by this performance because we have the multimedia
aspects to it. There's some filming and voiceover. There's just a lot involved in the show that
you wouldn't necessarily expect from a Tennessee Williams production. So it's a very original
unique show. You've never seen anything like it. And if you've seen the glass ministry 10 times,
you've never seen it like this. Mm hmm. That is true. And you've never seen it with a cast like
this flawless cast. Be sure to check it out. A big shout out to Seth and Beth and our friends at WRCT
doings a great job. All the people working behind the scenes. We appreciate the work. Awesome
crew. Yeah. And nice work. Enjoy their end of the run here. We'll talk more about it tomorrow.
Get your tickets at WRC Theatre dot org. WRC Theatre dot org. I encourage you to do that, everybody.
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our great friends over Quality Plus. If you, you mentioned this is hilarious. Well,
this earlier, when I was teasing about the topic top 30 food turnoffs we have, you mentioned
or what not to do on your first date, the very first line, the very first line in this article.
If you're on a first date and don't want a second one, that's awesome. Well done by you. Well done.
So someone asked people to name the top food related turnoffs we have. We got the top 10 right
here. We may expand this a little bit more. So things outside of the top 10, outside the lines,
double dipping. Yeah. Yeah. Unless you're at home with your family.
You know, you're around your brothers and sisters or something like that or whatever. Yeah,
I don't care. To me, you're getting out of the communal family bowl. Sure. Yeah. Just speaking
for myself, yeah, that doesn't bother me. But if we're we're in a public place or you and I don't
we're just they weren't a first date or we're just getting to know each other.
Not only that, like I've seen I was on I was on a I was at a party and a couple was having
their first date. And I will never forget him. Not only double dipping but like making a big deal
out of it. Like it was funny. Oh, watch me as I contaminate the bowl. Yeah, she didn't find it
funny. She didn't find it funny. I'm guessing there wasn't a second date. Yeah. Yeah. As far as
I know, yeah. Playing with your food is another one. Okay. Yeah. And putting ketchup on everything.
It's good thing my dad didn't have this because my mom might not have got a second date.
Licking your fingers clean comes in at number 10. Yeah, that one's a little frowned on in public.
You know, there are certain things that when you're alone, you go for it. You go all in.
Perfectly fine. You enjoy it. The cheetos you have to lick your fingers. And if I'm eating
Doritos by myself, like that I'm looking forward to that. Like as I'm eating the Doritos.
That's part. Yeah. Yeah. I'm thinking about if I'm around if I'm even in a building with other
people in it, I'm not doing that. A lot of low ones. That's what napkins are for. Right. Right.
The ball is like, oh, just proper. No, I never lick my fingers. I don't know what you're talking about.
That's a good one, actually. I got to get that. Number nine, criticizing the food if you stayed
in and they cooked it and they cooked it. Oh. Yeah. Don't criticize somebody else's food.
That's even not a good thing to do at home with your partner.
I, another memory of mine, first date, we get our, we get our waters and we order like,
you know, appetizers or whatever. And it took a little while because they were busy.
The appetizers come over and the girl that I was with just lost it. Like just lost it on them.
On the server? Yeah. Yeah. Just how long this is taking. The appetizers were cold. She said
it isn't that and right and before I could catch it and before I could say anything and you tell
the chef that it was cold. And then we ordered our dinner. Is that not the definition of,
I ordered a salad, Mel. I did not take any chances. Yeah. I looked like a really healthy eater to
that woman because I did not take any chances. I was not ordering anything that needed a lot of prep.
Now, I think 99.9% of chefs and not 100% of them would never, you know, hurt a customer that
hurts their business, that hurts their job, all that. That being said, I don't believe in biting
the hand that feeds you or taking shots at the hand that feeds you. And that includes servers.
You know, that that I think to me, one of the things that I look for in a human being,
whether it's a friend or a partner, I want to see somebody that's going to treat the president,
the same way, the janitor, the same way as the president. Yeah, compassion and empathy for others.
Yeah. You could, you could, we could have everything in common in the world. You could be the most
beautiful thing in the world. If you don't have that, I got, no, no, there won't be no second date.
I'm good. I'm good. There's better, there's better things out there. That, that stuff to me matters
that much. Licking your knife comes in at number eight. Yeah, that's, that's not, that's not
something you do ever. Yeah. I was trying, I guess I could see some reasoning why some people,
I've never done that. I've never been tempted to do that either. I don't know. I have done it at home
by myself. Sure. Okay. I don't think that I've ever done it in front of anybody. Depends on what's
on the knife. Hey, hey, hey, you're going to finish that? You're going to finish that and
eating something off of their plate without asking. Oh, yeah. That one's brown down. Yeah. Yeah, you
can't do that. I will say if you've been together for a long time, you know, and you know each other,
like I, you know, I order an Italian sub and it's got ham on it and I don't eat ham and she knows
I don't eat ham. So she's, you know, that kind of thing. That's, that's different. Yeah, you can't,
you can't just go grab it. This is something my boyfriend doesn't have a problem with. And in fact,
I, I, because it's so ingrained, I always ask, I'm like, can I have a fry? And he's like, why are you
asking? Just take one. Yeah. Every time, every time. And, and he always has the same response. So I,
I try to, I still, I kind of like hesitate before I do. Yeah. Yeah. It's so ingrained to, you know,
I completely get that before you take something. 100%. I get that 100%. I, I've joked with you
before about my grandparents house, you know, I, I, I, I lived with them. I knew them my whole
lives. I'm in my 30s and I'm still asking, can I grab a glass of water? Jimmy, just grab the water.
You don't have to ask. Just get it. Oh, overly polite. Sometimes we can be slurping soup comes in at
number six. Yeah. Nobody in human history has ever enjoyed that. Nobody. Other than little kids,
maybe, maybe little kids, yeah, little kids, maybe. Yeah. Well, when they're still learning how spoons
work, I, I should say, nobody's ever enjoyed like hearing it, like doing it. Sure. Yeah. Wait,
you know, I mean, I guess it's kind of fun. Yeah. And I, I will admit, I have done at that time
or two just to be annoying. Yes. Yes. The, the, the last remnants of the glass and you're,
you're out of the straw, you know, yeah, yeah, excessively long picking your teeth. Yeah. Yeah,
that's a, that's definitely one. Yeah. I've seen people do that at the restaurant too. And,
and I, I remember hearing somebody say, well, that's why they give us toothpicks or something.
It doesn't mean you have to do it right at the table. Like you can do it in the car. You can do it
at home. You don't necessarily have to excuse yourself to the restroom. Yeah. Uh, spitting something
back onto your plate. Oh. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's, yeah. No, no, no. Um, so these next two are, are, are,
I think they have a little bit in common. We're going to tie them together. Um, talking with your
mouth full and chewing with your mouth open. Yeah. Yeah. Those are both not, not, not good. I, uh, I've
been saying this for a long time. And it was really one of the few things that, uh, my old
partner here at WFHR Bob. Look, and I, uh, really disagreed on Bob, Bob was very, Bob was old
school and Bob, you know, came from an old school style of comedy and everything. And his comedy,
I think transferred, he's very funny guy and did a great job on the air here. The one thing,
one of the things him and I disagreed on was chewing on the air. Um, I genuinely don't believe
there's ever been a human being in history that wants to hear another person chew.
It's not a, a very appetizing sound. It's, we're an audio medium. Uh, it kind of matters.
You know, these, these things matter. It's important. And I, I just, I refuse to do it. I turn
Microsoft if people are chewing. I think that people would rather have silence than, yeah,
than hearing somebody breathing while they're chewing and all of that. Um, I mean, some of these
topics we're talking about that are a little bit on the side of, of, of gross. I guess you could
say are, are even a little like, should we be talking about this in the morning at breakfast time
or it was people are, are trying to enjoy their breakfast every once in a while. That happens. But
yeah, chewing on air probably not something that anybody likes. Yeah. Um, and chewing with your
mouth open while you're talking or anything like that, you were talking before about asking for
things and how you are. My mother, what have her top two top three things was chewing, was talking
with your mouth with food in your mouth. So to this day, I have a, like anything, I just take a small
bite of something and somebody asked me something, I got to finish chewing before I respond.
And it's, it's such a thing that like, uh, our friends, uh, we love over family natural foods.
They love giving me these taste tests. They did it to Carl too. It's fun. We, we enjoyed the listeners
and joy and everything. They sell things you can eat. I've had to work to like hurry up and finish
whatever they give me so I could get back to the questions and do my job. Yeah. Yeah. That's how bad
it's gotten my own head like it. That woman did a number on me. But you know, I think that's
something that is slightly changing in our society. We've talked before about, um, families not
eating meals together, even, where, you know, the meals prepared and then everybody takes their plate
and goes to their own space. So we're not learning how to eat in front of other people.
It's a good point. Wow. Yeah. And I thought about that at all. These, these skills that are,
our mothers instilled in us because you know, it was our mother. Yes. Yeah. Of, you know, don't,
don't chew with your mouth open. Don't talk with food in your mouth. Don't just, you know,
pass something when some, you know, don't start eating until everybody's got food on. Oh, yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. You know, like just the dining etiquette that we're taught eating with a family or with
other people growing up, I think that that has changed a little bit. It's going to be very
interesting. Those kind of things, social skills, social things you learn and being in public and
around people. Uh, how much of that stuff we lose or how much of it we need to relearn or how we
learn and that that you, it's a really good point. Number one on the list of biggest turn-offs when
it comes to food, uh, biggest, the top, the biggest turn-offs include it. I'm a little nervous
about what this is being rude to the server. Oh. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. 100%. 100%. I can't,
that's an immediate, like, nope, we're done. Yep. I, I had, I almost would probably walk out of the
restaurant. I wasn't going to say this, but that story I was telling earlier, I ended that date
very early. And it's the only time in my life I've ever done that. I've ever ended a date
early at all. Uh, let alone, uh, like I've had others ended on me. Uh, with the only time,
I've ever done that. Yeah. Well, we know it wasn't because you were chewing with your mouth.
At least it was that. At least wasn't that. We will take a time out. We'll come back and wrap up
the show. It's Melissa. James hanging out with you here at the morning's on WFHR.
Welcome back, everyone. Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio. Melissa and James hanging
out with you behind these mics. We hope you're having a great Wednesday. Happy hump day, everyone.
Mm-hmm. That's Wednesday already. Yeah. That week is going a little quick here, it seems.
Well, let's go ahead and get into a, a, that ain't right story. Melissa, we haven't been able to do
one of these in a little while. Let's go ahead and get to a good one here and it is a doozy.
There are a lot of strange things to steal, but this is a new one. Two people were caught
stealing just under 600 Venus fly traps from a nature conservatory in North Carolina.
That's awful. Yeah. And this isn't slang for like anything. We're talking about the actual
plants here. The thieves were apparently planning on selling them on the black market.
It's unclear what Venus fly traps would go for, but it must be a lot because the thieves were
hit with felony charges for these. They have been caught and the plants have been returned.
Good. Venus fly traps are rare, but they are native to southeastern North Carolina,
and that this is a time when people try to take them because they're flowering around now,
and that makes them easier to spot in the wild. Hmm. So, I mean, these, these, the knuckleheads
are, that ain't right. That's a messed up thing to do. It's also something that's not going to
get you a lot of credit in prison. You know, I can't imagine that's going to go for very well.
What are you in for? Well, you know, carnivorous plants are worth a lot on the internet.
Certain tattoos mean certain things in prison. You have this tattoo. It means you did this kind of
thing. These people just got a big Venus fly plant. They got Maurice or whatever from
little shop of horrors on the side of their arm right there. That's not going to work. Not
going to work. And they're not a cheap plant. I did buy one of those for Laura last, I don't
think for her last birthday. I don't think it was. And, and they're cool plants that really are.
Have you ever seen one grab a fly or have a fly in its trap? It's really kind of cool, actually.
Yeah. When I was a kid, we went to a museum for a school trip, and that's what I bought
was a Venus fly. Oh, that's awesome. At the museum gift store. I don't think it lived very long,
you know, because me and plants, we were, you know, we love hate relationships. But
I did get to see it catch a couple flies. That's cool. That's kind of cool to see.
And I do think that there is a, well, if it's not a good story, an interesting story in here too,
how many people knew that they were native to South Eastern North Carolina? I did not know that.
I thought that was, that's fascinating to me. I thought that was really cool.
I just, you know, I have so many follow-up questions for these people. Yes, yes, yes.
Why? Just why? Like, like, like, cry is obviously a dumb and it shouldn't be done and everything.
But if you're going to steal, like, I mean, there's a billion things to steal out there that I
feel like we could make more money off of or be easier to sell or...
And aren't perishable. I mean, there's a lot of care that has to be done to keep these alive.
That's a great point. I didn't think of that, but obviously not, obviously, they didn't either.
There's no, so the two people with 600 plants, I mean, you know, good luck.
That is such a good point. I think that's hilarious. That ain't right, man. That is a
right story for sure. I also, I love the idea of, if it was Maurice from Little Shopper Horde,
like the idea of trying to steal him. Those are my babies. It's the whole thing when you see
the poacher about to take down the animal and then the mom shows up. And you just, those of us
that hate poaching love those moments. I love the idea of these criminals walking in and then
there's Maurice right behind them. Feed me, Seymour. My name's not Seymour. It's the last thing they
say. That ain't right, that ain't right. Let's get a palette cleanser in. Let's get to some good
stories of the day. And we kick it off with our schedule. We got a great one for you today.
Join us from three to four for the entire hour. We're going to talk with Wood County Sheriff's
Department. Oh, good. Jail Captain Ted Ashback. He's joined us before. He's bringing on his son,
Ted Jr., who just joined the police. Just joined full-time. He's a full-time deputy at the
Sheriff's Department. Oh nice. We're going to spend some time talking with them about family tradition
and what it's like to follow along in that process or have your son follow along in that process.
I want to talk about some of that. Ted is also, of course, a jail captain. So we're going to be
speaking with him about how the jail is progressing. Here's some updates on how that construction is
going. Yeah, we really appreciate the time from our Sheriff's Department and looking forward to
talk with them a little bit later. Sports wise tonight right here at WFHR at 605. Got the
great guard show. Be sure to join us for that. Wisconsin Badgers head coach joining us right there.
Basketball coach joining us and a little bit after that and about a little after that. A couple
hours after that eight thirty start time. Bucks versus warriors. This is a big one. You got two of
the greatest players of all time. Steph Curry. Yana sent the decouple facing off. It's going to be
a great game. Catch us catch the action tonight. Tip off at 830. Wow. Let's see here. I did want to
mention this as well. Reminding everybody. We'll do this through the rest of the week here. This
Sunday daylight savings time. That's crazy. Yeah. Kind of snuck up on me. Yeah, me too. Yeah.
It's part of the reason for the reminder. I need it too. Just a reminder about that.
Everybody be sure to tip those clocks back and spring ahead. Spring ahead. I'm sorry.
Spring ahead. See that's how off I am on it. Spring ahead. Also keep in mind today is Wednesday and
that means Bingo. Bingo was his name. Bingo at the Wisconsin Rabbis Elts Lodge. Number 693.
Join them as their doors open at five. Bingo kicks off at 630. Great time. Great atmosphere.
And you know that you're doing things with the Elks that they are going to continue to do things
with us. They put back into our community. We appreciate our friends at the Elks Lodge.
Join them at 430 West Jackson Street. And don't forget Fridays. Got a nice fish fry over there.
They do indeed. Check that out and be sure to be there at the Elks Lodge. They'll be busy tonight.
I have no doubt. Delicious food and great company. The grace players were with us the other day.
And we were talking about their new play hotel pickle. It's a great name. It's such a great
name. And this is going to be a great show. Great cast. Be sure to check them out. They have shows
March 7 through the 10th Thursday and Friday 630 Saturday of a dinner show at 6. And Sunday
they'll have a matinee at 130. Wonderful. Be sure to check this out. It's a great play. Great fun
and a great way to support local. Hang on over there. Yes support our arts everybody.
And let's see. Oh yeah. I wanted to make sure to mention this as well. How sweet it is to be
loved by you. That's tomorrow. It's like still going. Sorry. James Taylor. The music of James Taylor
come into town everyone. Grammy award winning songwriter and recording artist Steve Leslie
performs the music of James Taylor and authentic and spellbinding concert event. Steve's warm,
baritone and exceptional guitar technique not to mention his uncanny resemblance. It will
have audiences singing along with Taylor's incredible catalog of songs. You can find out more
about this and get your tickets at saverthearts.com. As Melissa mentioned, this show is going on
tomorrow 730. That's right. You don't want to miss it. It's pretty darn cool. We also appreciate
Mr. Leslie is going to be doing a meat beforehand songwriting little workshop with some of the students.
That's so cool. It's really, it's beyond. It's above and beyond. And it is really, really cool
when they do those things. We really appreciate that. Appreciate, of course, Sally over there at the
saverthearts. Eric Brittnocker over the performing arts center and all the great work that everybody
does on these performances. Also keep in mind this Sunday, March 10th, always Olivia, the Olivia
Newton John tribute special. Be sure to check that out and everything. The arts council is teaming
up with the Spiris to raise funds locally for women's cancer patient fund. Also keep in mind,
Olivia's foundation, OMG cancer fund, the Olivia Newton John cancer fund gets some of the proceeds
from those tickets as well. So you're not just enjoying great shows. You are supporting the arts
and you're also supporting one of the biggest fights we have as a society as human beings
in our fight against cancer. And all of us have been touched by it. Yeah. Yeah. Get your tickets
and find out more at saverthearts.com, saverthearts.com. Always appreciate you spreading the word
about these events as well, everybody. This falls on us to support the arts. Let's make sure we do so.
Indeed. And support our nonprofits like our United Way. They got power of the purse coming up.
It's right around the corner. March 12th. Five to Tuesday. Yeah. Five to seven thirty at Bullseye Golf Club.
Get your tickets. Find out more at UWSWAC dot org, UWSWAC dot org. Melissa, great show today.
Yeah. You two James. There's a lot of fun. We hope you guys had a great time too. Thanks
much for joining us. Be good to each other. We'll talk to you soon and later right here at
