Good morning, Wisconsin. Good morning, world. It's a new day. Thanks for kicking it off of
us right here at WFHR. Locally grown radio. Got Seth and James here with you. We hope you're
having a fantastic day out there. Thanks so much for joining us. We got good things coming
up for you this hour, getting some entertainment news. A little bit later, we'll touch on the
internet rediscovering this poll that we got to talk about. Also got another interesting one
here about millennial junk and the top things our kids are going to throw away when they get it
from us. It's fascinating. Yeah. We'll get into all that. A couple of programming notes real quick.
So Connie from the Alexander House is going to join us next week. I misunderstood the schedule.
So I apologize for that everybody. We'll have her join us then and I do want to apologize to
our good friend Mike Clemens who was going to join us. Was not able to because I thought we had
other guests joining us. We have had a lot of people in in the last couple of weeks. In an out, man.
I have done over 50 interviews in less than two weeks. Yes. Consider the midday magazine and
everything. Yeah. I have no voice. I have no voice. And I am so tired of asking people questions.
I'm joking. I'm just kidding. I'm kidding. But we do have some great show lined up for you in
this hour. And I want to kick things off talking a little entertainment with you Seth in knowledge.
Knowledge is I am a big believer that nobody should have to pay for education. I'm in that
here in this one. I find it ridiculous that you have to pay more like why does Yale have better
more education or better more knowledge or something than the state run. Supposedly.
Supposedly. Yeah. A lot of that stuff frustrates me. Yeah. So I love stories like this. Okay.
Where we take education and we have a little more fun with it while also you know and for me,
people. Enough colleges are offering classes on Taylor Swift and Beyonce.
So here is a curriculum for the rest of us Vermont State University is offering a course on
Weird Al Yankovic. Oh yeah. Professor Brian Warwick said quote Al Yankovic's work is not just
about the priorities. It's also about his tribute to pastichy songs where it's actually an
original work by Al Yankovic, but he's paying tribute to another artist, which is a difference
than a cover or exactly the parody. The course will analyze what makes a good parody,
how to pay tribute to another artist, Al's lyricism, and on the context of the world when
the songs were written. That's a key part of this too. That is part that's the thing that would
be fascinating to me. His parody of that was fat right or something like that. Yes, it was
tried doing that this in this day and age. I don't know. I don't know how that ages or anything.
Right. I don't know if he does that one anymore. But still, it's a great point. To me, that's why
music is you can use it to study. Take any point in time, any point in time, you can use music as
history. You go back to Beethoven, you can go back to Bach, you can do whatever it is. You can find
out there's something in that music that's referring to something of the day. And to me,
that's just really fascinating. Warwick says quote, it just gives us an avenue to start studying
the 20th century and pop culture in the 20th century. Really, it sounds like Al is kind of like a
a bit of a beginner. Yeah, springboard. Yeah. Springboard to get into this more the bigger wider
topic. Exactly. That's pretty interesting. That's a great idea. I think that's fun.
I would take that class. I would teach that class. So we finally know what slime tastes like
everybody. If you've ever wondered what slime tastes like from the Ghostbusters and that stuff,
well, Finn Wolford is your guy. He takes a face full of it and Ghostbusters froze an empire
and here is his review. It really didn't taste like anything. It was almost like minty thick water,
which sounds gross, but it is so much better than having like fake blood in your mouth or some of
those things that his characters have had before. Right. Fake blood has a horrible sugary kind of
taste to it. I've had to have it out of the corner of my mouth just to trickle once. And even just
that trickle, I was in my mouth all day. It was all day. I couldn't get it out of my mouth.
Kensington Gore is not a good taste. Not a good taste. As for the experience itself, he says,
quote, it was really awesome. I read that scene in the script. It was like, oh, this is going to be
crazy. I like this. I get to I get the what I get to be the one to get slimed. Right, right.
From the the iconic scene from the first film. Right. Yeah. That was it was one of the
fun. You know, I love the idea of minty thick water. That was interesting. It's interesting. Yeah.
Not so that appetized. But hey, it's not I'm guessing it could be a lot worse like you said.
Yeah. Let's take a look at what's new on your small screen and your big screen this weekend.
Taking a look at their TV basketball people. That's it. That's all there is. Nothing but basketball.
Why would you want to watch anything else? Why? The first round of Etsy and March Madness,
of course, wraps up tonight and the second round runs through the weekend. Check your brackets.
Have some fun. Enjoy everybody. Netflix has a really cool movie up called Shirley. It's starting
the amazing Regina King as Shirley Chisholm, a schoolteacher from Brooklyn who became the first black
woman elected to Congress in 68 and then made a run for presidency in 72. There I would recommend
watching this. There's also a fabulous documentary about Shirley Chisholm. She was an amazing
an amazing person. I would recommend it and Regina King, man. Yeah. What an actor. I have a
perfect casting. I got goose bumps when I first heard about that. She's so good. Tonight,
I'm sorry, tomorrow on NBC at seven o'clock, the two-hour special world figure skating
championships. You know, my dad will be probably watching that. On Sunday at seven on ABC,
the American Idol Auditions, also on Sunday at seven, the one-hour special 2024 National Women's
Hall of Fame Inductation Induction ceremony. Oh, cool. All that coming up for you this weekend,
on your small screen. There you go. And on your big screen this weekend, just a couple of,
well, only really as far as like wide releases go, the boy in the hair on is returning to theaters,
rated PG-13. This is the re-release of last year's studio GB movie. It's just one best Oscar for
best animated pictures. So that's why that's back out there. That's because that's all that studio
Ghibli does. It's make Oscar-winning animated film. No, I'm serious. You go back in there. They've
made some amazing movies. Go back and check them out. I love the fact that they're putting it on
the big screen. Yeah. Immaculate horror movies, starring Sydney Sweeney is, got some limited release,
but might be in the theater near you. And the big one coming out today, Ghostbusters, Frozen Empire,
rated PG-13, Paul Rudd, Finn Wolfer, who we just mentioned, McKenny Harris, along with,
of course, the OG Ghostbusters, Bill Murray, Ernie Hudson, Dan Ackroyd. And I believe there's
a couple of other actors from the old show in there too. Okay. Any pots, any pots? My God.
I want to apologize to any pots. I am so sorry. I almost forgot your name. I love any pots.
She's great. She's in it. Pat Nazwold is in it. Kamaji Najahari.
Oh, Kamil Najahari. Kamil Najahari.
Najahari, thank you. They're all in this. Now, keep in mind, of course,
Fin and McKenna play the grandkids of Harold Ramesh's character, Egon, who passed away 10 years ago.
And in this one, the sprinklers move from Oklahoma to New York City.
Of course they do. It's the fifth movie in the franchise in the first
since original director, Ivan Reitman passed away in 2022. His son, Jason Reitman,
co-wrote the script and new director, Gil Kinton, took over the reins of this one. Wow.
I didn't know that Jason had something to do with this one. Yeah. Jason's cool.
He's a good filmmaker. He does a lot of good work for a lot of young artists out there. He's a
good one. I'll see it. I'll see it. I got to say that I didn't, you know, the first one of these,
the most recent Ghostbusters or whatever, when they brought back Phil Murray, Ernie Hudson,
and all that, had the greatest tribute to a lost actor I've ever seen. Like, maybe.
And I know it sounds silly. It was the Ghostbusters movie, but the way they honored
Harold Ramesh, it teared me up, man. I mean, that's that second city's own.
That's as Harold Ramesh meant a lot to a lot of people. He was a, a, a consummate. I mean,
all around performer, director, writer, actor. I mean, I know he was a reluctant actor. He didn't like
acting. He liked to, behind the scene stuff, but he was really good. I wish I would have been
able to tell him how wrong he was. He was, he was a great actor. He was my favorite character
from them. I loved him. And as great as Ghostbusters is and everything, I will always come back
to Stripes. I love Stripes. Love that movie so dang much. I haven't seen it in probably 20 years,
but I loved it. And I can't imagine anybody else in that role than him. Like, he played it perfect.
He was great in that. Bill Murray was great. John Candy's great. And of course they are.
But Harold Ramesh was very good in that role. I really liked him in that particular part.
We want to talk a little bit about our weekend lineup here for everybody. Things kick off on
Saturday without doors with Dan Small. Great show host to buy outdoorsman Dan Small.
This is a really good job with that one. And at seven, of course, oh, do you have some?
Nope, nope. Keep going. At seven, the sunshine poker show with
them. Maybe the greatest show of all time with our main man Tim Hubble. The poker guy.
You, you, you know it and you love it. Yeah, check it from seven to eight every Saturday.
And of course, keep in mind on Sundays, we have a one o'clock rearing of that when we're able to.
Well, there's not a Julian sports going on, right? Terry talks nutrition from Terry Limeron is
brought to us from our friends at family and natural foods every Saturday at eight.
Great way to hear from the man himself. One of the architects, one of the godfathers of
really when it comes to supplements and it comes to bringing new things to our country here.
Terry's amazing. You can get to check that out. Be sure to everybody.
And of course, over the back fence hosted by my man, Seth. Yeah, no sports this week.
We were up in the air last week because of the badgers. Of course, it was a good reason not
too, because they advanced in the tournament and everything. But, uh, yep, I will be on the air
tomorrow at 11. Everyone get your get ready to call in with your stuff.
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We need your interactions. Call up and join the conversation every Saturday from 11 to noon when
we don't have sports on the dial. Yep. Uh, of course, on Sunday, we've got a great lineup for you
from six to eight. Join us for Seth faces of the music. Uh, fantastic shows. Seth takes a different theme
and surrounds it with great music and audio. What is your theme this week? My theme this week is
touching. Oh, yeah, that's right. That's right. Stop that. Stop that. I know what you're doing. Stop that.
Sorry. Somebody. Somebody. It's gonna be a fun one. It should be a fun one. Uh, of course,
we have to see it with the badgers end up too. We know they may be playing that in the evening
as well. So we don't know anything can happen, you know. Yeah. Um, and, uh, if these shows are not
able to be played in their entirety, we'll play them next week. Absolutely. Uh, we, of course,
are your home for Badger basketball. So we'll follow them throughout the whole tournament. We will.
Now after Seth says, Seth's faith is music this week will have unlabeled for you. That's right.
Episode two, tape two. Um, we're looking forward to that. It was a fun one to record. I will admit to
the audience. I have not voice tracked in a long time and you can tell. Oh, I think it's better
than that. I really have been having a lot of fun with this and you guys have two. You've
getting us a lot of requests. The essence of the show is basically your mixtape when you were a kid.
If you, our generation was one of those earlier generations that didn't really have genres.
We just like music. Yep. And, uh, which is weird to me because you look at the 90s and 90s was so
about labeling things. Everything was labeled. You couldn't walk into one CD or music store and
not have everything broken down by categories and all that. Whereas the majority of us liked a
little of this, like a little of that and all that. So that's the essence of unlabeled in the,
the title of the show. I have, you know, I was thinking about that and I came up with another great
a metaphor for unlabeled. It's like you're digging through your, your basement and you see a
whole bunch of old tapes, but all the labels have been scratched off because you've been, you've
used, you recorded on them a hundred times and you don't know what's on it. Oh, I forgot about
that, man. And you just put it in there and say, why did I have on this tape? We all did that. Yeah,
we all had a table. What did I do? Yes, that's great. Oh, I had one I came across when I was first
putting the show together. I had to been like three months ago and I didn't know what the tape was.
It was my first week at GLX. It was my first week on there. It was one of the most god awful things
I've ever heard in my life. It was horrible, but you have it. Oh, you have it, man. Yes, I have it.
And you have our, our, our ear, everybody. So get us your requests for unlabeled. We want your 90
songs. Remember if it was released from 1990, our, 1999, 1990, the 1999. Yep. You can go ahead and
get it to us, a James. mail of heads of media. US and could encourage you to do so. It's going to
be fun. We're going to have some more fun. Episode two coming up this Sunday. Be sure to join us for it.
And we've got a really exciting thing coming up for you in the next weeks. We're going to be
taking up four hours on Sundays. That's right. Yeah, we've, we've gotten the green light. And by
that, I mean, we could do our job. I really, I got to tell you guys this. So Seth and I, we're,
one, what we want to do is have a director's cut episode where we're going to have Gretchen from
Wisconsin Rapids Community Theater on. And after that, we'll have Seth face music for two hours
and then unlabeled. So that's a four hour block on Sundays of original content. Yep. We've been waiting
so long to be able to do that on weekends and have something like that. Like, this is something,
I know that we've wanted here, our listeners wanted for many years. It's in the time that Seth's
been here. It's something we've been picking our working at and everything. We're finally getting
here. So I was a little unsure of this though. Like, that's a big block of time. I reach out to
Chuck, our engineer and our GM. And Chuck asked me why I'm wasting his time. Change, this is your
job. This is what this is true. Yes. Your job. I have plenty of my play. Why are you bothering me?
So we're going to have some fun with that. That's going to be good. Do you want to remind everybody?
If you are an artist or you know of an artist out there, I don't care if they're a mind,
they're a musician, they're a photographer, whatever they do, reach out to us. We'd love to have
you on director's cut. Yes. 100%. Be listening for that episode of director's cut in the next
couple of weeks. For now, this Sunday, as long as the badgers don't win, which we kind of hope they
do. So we won't be doing this. We might, yeah, we'll see. It's a mixed back. It's a mixed back.
Be sure to join us for our great lineup on the weekends. And thank you so much for supporting
local supporting local radio. We appreciate you. Yes. Take a time out, come back and have some
more fun on the morning show at WF HR. Welcome back, everyone. Morning show here at WF HR,
locally grown radio. Welcome back. Hope you're having a good one out there. Everybody getting
funky around here. James and Seth here with you. And we're going to get into some fun stuff
at a moment, but do want to send a big shout out to our Wisconsin Rapids River Kings who were
victorious last night. Nicely done, Kings. Five to three victory over the Ontario Junior Rain.
The Kings move on. I mean, follow your Kings as they build hockey up and down the river.
River Kings hockey.com find a more information. And yeah, and we got a really cool report from
the city yesterday. I think it came out that they sent it out and press release. How much,
how impactful the river King over 10,000 or not. Yeah, no, 10 something like that, 10,000 fans.
Or I can't remember what it was. Anyway, a lot of people showed up to the South,
Southwood County Rec Center to watch the Kings this year over $300,000 in economic impact. I mean,
I'm telling you, these guys are big. The way that we support in this area, our river
Kings, our rafters is noteworthy to the through the leagues that they are in. And a big shout out
to this community to this area for doing so and to all these local businesses to work with them as
well. Yes. That's a huge part of this and a huge part of this economy in this community.
And why it is doing as well as it is compared to other communities in our surrounding areas.
Exactly. Big shout out to them. Big thank you to them. Keep marching on. Game on, Kings. Game on.
Keep going. Come on. I want to get into this one with you, Seth.
Because this is, man, I don't know what to do with this. So the stuff that we hoard today is
a little different than what our grandparents refused to throw out maybe. Things like baseball cards
and figurines, that kind of stuff. Now it's video game cartridges and beanie babies and all that
stuff. Someone asked people to name things millennials save that their kids will immediately
probably toss. And here are some of the fun ones we came up with. Okay. Like that box,
your phone, it came in. Why are you saving that? Why? Why do we save those things? I'm so guilty.
Oh, same. So guilty. Same here. And say it's under my pad. Yeah. Yeah. It's sitting there.
I don't even know why. I don't know why I kept it. Although, no, I'll say this as much as this phone
ding will cost. I want everything from it. I want the cardboard box. I want the plastic bag.
My money's larger. Yes. And I'm going to find a use for those things. I'll find some more.
Yeah. There's no reset. I don't know. How about that box of random cords and do higgies and
everything that we have? Six of those. Yeah. You don't even know why. I don't know. You've got a
charger for something that you haven't had for 10 years. Exactly. For some reason. I got it,
man. All those rubber bracelets promoting different charities and causes. That was, I forgot
about that. That was like for like with the early odds or something like that. It was it was
everything. There was there was a time too, where it was right when I first started teaching,
where like young people would notice if you didn't have any bracelets on and oh god,
help you if that happened. Oh, you don't support anything. That's basically what it is. Oh,
you don't care about child literacy. What? Charity shaming. Yeah. That's basically what it was.
Yeah. That Dave Matthews band shirt, you stood in line for a concert in 2001.
There are going to be a lot of those type of shirts showing up a good will. They're a lot,
but you know what's going to happen. Same thing that happened with like heavy metal band shirts
from the 80s. Yep. It's going to be like kitschy. Yes. And people will like, hey, I got my day
Matthew shirt on, man. You know, you see the student come in going back to that,
came in with a misfit shirt. Like, hey, nice shirt. I didn't know idea what it was for.
I had no idea. We're the misfits. It said misfits on it. And they have no idea who the
misfits were. It was my mega death shirt, man. Yeah. That's the same thing where it's something.
The hundreds of plastic shopping bags we have saved. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. How about all those DVDs?
Like just period. Oh, those DVDs. Oh, no, I'm going to push back in that one. I'm going to push
it. That's coming back, man. Yeah. Physical media is never going to go away, man. I don't think
I think DVDs will have their day once again, just like vinyl records. I couldn't I couldn't
agree with you more. Yeah. I think we're even seeing this in the economy right now, where certain
things are just selling again that didn't before. And I think that you even go back to the pandemic.
I don't think that if you told somebody 20 or 10 years ago that baseball cards and sport,
you know, card collecting was going to be big again. They wouldn't believe you, but the pandemic
proved it. No, man, that's huge again. Well, there's another aspect to it too. You have to
remember, okay, everybody, even if you go to a streaming service and you like buy a movie or
something like they go to Amazon and buy a movie, you, you don't own it. Yeah. They can take it
away from you at any time. PlayStation did that. So we did that. And because people who thought
they had purchased things, nope, we're shutting it down. You don't get to keep it at all.
So I think part of that has to do with like, if you get a DVD, you own the DVD,
then you have to worry about anyone taking it away from you. All that, like, old makeup and
and like, like, like, clones and stuff that we keep, all those things. Yeah. That's just gonna,
you might as well just throw that away. How about all the bottles and thermoses and cups and everything
we have? We have so many of those. So many. So many. The random workout gear you have that you never
used. It's on YouTube. I've got a couple, not a lot. A couple of these things. So there's
there's a number of different things here. There we go. Now we had Jackie Kerantini in yesterday.
One of the things Jackie and I were talking about when we have discussed before is kind of getting
as much of that clutter out of the way as you can while you're here. And so it's not only less on your
you know, your relatives and your kids and all these things. But also so you can have a little bit
more of a less cluttered life. You can have a little bit more of a enjoyable life. That's really
cool. And I would I would recommend everyone listen to the podcast of that show yesterday. Well,
you know, I know you kind of you have fun with Jackie, you know, say, just turn the mic on.
Yeah. But she has got so much great information about so much stuff that we don't like to talk
about. Yeah. And she does it in such a great way. I love it. Big shout out to her and a big shout
out to the best listeners and radio. Let's talk to you a little bit. Good morning. What's on your mind?
Hey, guys. Um, yesterday and I'm sorry, not a different radio statement.
I hate to say it is. But I was listening and they came up with a story and they said that
out in ass juices. Now this is for us guys that are maybe might have to clean out a relative's house
fact that like to drink beer and maybe collected those cans might not want to be so fixed to throw
those out. Okay. There's one vintage can that was sold on auction. Open can. Now this was
on this is open. That's on open. $51,000. My God. Whoa. Wow. Wow. Okay. So be a little careful
with recycling on that one. All right. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Do not just throw things away. That
that thing with all that dust on it could be a lot of worth a lot of money. It's an interesting
story. Yeah. If you have a relative that works a lot of things, find why to just take your time
of growing things out. Might be worth it. Yeah. You know, you never know. You never know what you
might come across that may be an heirloom that's priceless to you. That's true too. Yeah. Take
it your time with those things. All the more reason to do it for for you, the person with the clutter
or with the stuff is it's not clutter to you. It's your things. It's stuff. It's important to you.
You've lived a long life. You deserve to have all these things. Um, but you know, do you need them
all? It's just under, you know, you only you can make that decision. So debating on to get rid of
and hang on to those old beer cans, apparently. I hang on to those.
I appreciate the bracket commemorating bracket misery together by the way. Thank you so much for
that. It's rough. It's rough. I really thought I had the bracket in their way. Things were going
yesterday. We found a week that we only had one up to that going in the morning. You know,
but felt good, felt good. I felt confident yesterday. And I knew as soon as I felt confident,
I was going to come down. It was going to come down on Monday's playmakers. We're going to go
we're going to go over our brackets a little bit more. Okay. Here's one of the same things that
I bought that day. Get from my Oakland. He walked you. He's only taken four two point shots
all year long. Yeah. Yeah. It's crazy. It's crazy. The kid is just a marksman. Oh, wow. I look
forward to seeing Oakland in the tournament, like continuing the tournament. You would see how far
this can go. It shows a lot of how the three point game has affected the tournament affected
basketball just all around the game. Always good talking to you, man. Thanks for the time.
All right. Well, see you guys on Monday. Have a great weekend. Have a great week and be safe
out there. We're going to get to our state and local news. We'll come back and have some more
fun on the morning show here at WFHR locally grown radio.
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Oh, God. It's small.
That's the day.
Seth and James here with you. Thanks so much for joining us. Everybody. Appreciate the time.
Let's get into this one, Seth. Have you ever made a reservation at a restaurant
than no showed when the timing didn't work out? Or you found a better option? Well,
in the future, you might be charged for that. No. Yeah. Whoa. A new report says that many restaurants
operate on slim margins. And when they hold a table for someone who doesn't show, they lose money.
So many are starting to non-refundable deposit when you reserve a table. Wow. Some high-end restaurants
and bigger cities already charge a reservation fee, which is then deducted from your bill after
you show up and dine. Drink there. Right. Makes sense. Yeah. There's no specific amount. Reports say
it can vary from $50 to $100 to $50 per person. It could be easy to implement, especially using
apps like open table and Rhett's Rezzi by just taking your credit card when you book. Other
industries already do this. Vacation homes, resorts and hotels will keep your deposit if you don't
if you cancel it by a certain don't cancel by a certain time. Right. And doctors and dentists
can charge fees if you skip out an appointment at the last minute. Naturally, none of us want more
fees added to going out, but this could be good in a one way for people who don't skip out.
Restaurants say that this would be a way for them to recoup losses from holding a table that
doesn't punish other diners, like having to quote, adjust the price of food. Right. Right.
According to data from open table, 28% of Americans admit that they haven't shown up for a
reservation they made within the past year. Oh. Quarter people. That's pretty high number.
I'm sure that this has happened to me with appointments, like doctor appointments, that kind of thing.
I've never had a restaurant appointment that I've canceled on. Right. Granted, I've probably made
like five or six of these in my life, though. Right. I haven't had a whole lot of this happen,
but I've never like had a had a cancellation like that. And I feel like I'm going to lose the
audience on this one, but I have no issue with this. I'm no problem with this. I think it's a little
bit different. They're not going to be doing this at Mickey D's. They're not going to go McDonald's
because they're not reserving a table in McDonald's. Exactly. So I think the majority of people that
are going to be affected by this is very small. Yeah. You know, we're talking big five-star restaurants
for the most part and everything. Very, very true. And yeah. And if it's like 50 bucks, you know,
you're if you're going to high end place, you know, you're going to spend a couple hundred probably,
you know, depending on how large your party is. But yeah, actually, that does make sense to me.
And I have no problem with it either, especially since it's not an extra fee. Yes. You know,
like they said, if you show up, you just take it deduct it from your bill and there you go. It's
not a big deal. So yeah. Especially the bigger part to the meeting about this too is if it keeps
the restaurant alive. If it keeps it in business, it helps keep it in business overall. Yeah.
These kind of things that slim margins they're talking about. I think, you know, if you've
watched like Bar Rescue or any of those shows like those ones or anything, that you right away,
and I think the for the beginning of the episode, they tell you how many restaurants actually make it
a year, like 22% or something like that. New businesses, new restaurants make it a very low. Yeah.
Really low. It's a really hard industry to really make it. I feel like it's on us as consumers
to to work with these businesses. Like it's a thin line because I'm also the person that says
that if you can't survive in business, you don't survive in business. I'm sorry. You know,
another business will show up. That's that's the economy. That's the way the world works.
But I do think that this idea we're getting we've gotten into a place where we want things for
nothing. I mean, I don't know where that happened or how that happened. And it's not young people
that this is happening with. No. It's happening with like our generation older people in that.
Because they're I think they're more used to paying for stuff to be honest. Yeah. Yeah. The idea
of I make a reservation. I don't cancel the reservation and then I'm charged for said reservation.
Some people are going to lose their minds over that. Yes. But I you're expecting something for
nothing then because you're expecting the restaurant industry to be able to survive on that. Right.
That's that's no different to me than it's like paying taxes. Yeah. Like the person that sits there
and winds and complains about paying taxes, but then wants a good roads. Like you you got to meet
people halfway in life. Yeah. That's the way this life works. That's the way all of this works.
The whole society doesn't work without us working together. And if you know you're not going to make it
call them. It's like a common courtesy first of all. And then they can use that table for someone
else. It's not a big thing. It's like, oh, sorry, you know, we can't make it, you know, just cancel
a reservation. Easy, easy, easy, easy. Don't have to worry about it. If you just did that, then they
wouldn't have to worry about charging people to come to make the reservation. It's not the same thing.
But if you make plans with somebody and they don't show up and they just ghost you, you feel
it sucks. It does. It does. It feels good. Now think about it when money is involved. You know,
your business, your livelihood. 100%. Most of the time restaurants are run by families.
Yeah. Oh, absolutely. We should be looking out. We should be helping out that.
You know, I've seen, you know, people I know who did everything right. They were, you know,
a very accomplished chef, you know, they got the restaurant together. They had great food,
great atmosphere, everything. And they failed in six months. Yeah. And you know, because everything
has to come together. Location, you know, tastes, you know, what kind of crowds. I mean, it's,
it's just such a hard business to break into. It's, it's one of those things, too, where I,
look, I think there's a difference here of, okay, I can't pay people, you know, a good wage.
And if you can't do that, then you probably aren't going to be able to survive. And you,
you probably don't, shouldn't be in the business industry. Right. I shouldn't run a business or
something. There's, there's certain things that you need to be able to do in this day and age.
And there's other things where, hey, as consumers, we need to meet you a part of the way here.
We need to help these businesses survive and work. If they're a good business, if there's
something, I mean, look, it, if I open up a restaurant and I'm serving mud pies, I don't expect
it to do very well. No matter how much people might like me or, or like the, the restaurant or
I think, if I'm not paying my employees well, if I have a product that did the people don't like,
okay, it's not going to survive. That's business 101. It's okay. But if you are a business,
it's good. And the only reason you're not surviving is because of these, these gray area things,
reservations that don't come through or something like that. That's, that's on us as a society.
We can't let that happen. Right. Right. It's a, um, uh, we're right. I had to point that
loss. Right. That's all right. It's too much. I apologize. Let's get to see. Oh, no, because the,
the best kind of advertising is still word of mouth. Yeah. It is still. That will never,
ever change. You get someone that you trust, someone you know and says, hey, this place,
man, it's great. You should go there. That's the best type of advertising. Still. Yeah.
People on social media are loving an old poll. The internet just dredged up.
Someone asked people which animals they think they could beat in a hand-to-hand combat.
Look, I'm going to, I'm going to break some news to a lot of you out there. Most of you couldn't
beat a penguin. That's where I was going to go. Maybe a penguin? Maybe? And that has nothing to do
with your fighting abilities or your strength or anything like that. There's a big difference
of the way we, our brains approach fight and the way an animal does. Sure. All right. Uh,
there's a big, big, big, big difference of, uh, in our brains, it's about at, at this point in
society and the evolution of human beings, fight or flight is very different in our brains,
where we're more inclined to fight for, uh, against another human being than an animal. Right.
We're more inclined to flight it with an animal. Right. An animal, it's, it's fight.
It's fight. It's survive. I don't care if it's a possum. It'll find a way to survive. And, uh,
and, uh, they played a win. Yeah. Yeah. Which means you're dead. There's no tapping out.
There's no, hey, that's against the rules. Hey, that's dirty fighting with an animal. And, and
with all that being said, six percent of our fellow Americans who we love, uh, six percent of our
fellow Americans think that they could beat up a grizzly bear. What? Oh, come on now. I don't care
if you are the rock, the rock and every, uh, and every action star we've ever seen combined,
combined, put them all into one person. Oh, man. You won't last five seconds with a grizzly
bear. Oh, maybe 10, maybe 10 seconds if you're a fast runner. I'll give you that. Hey, remember,
remember the guy that like took pictures of grizzly bears for a living and he knew was around
him everything. Guess what? He died. He was killed by a grizzly bear. Come on. It's a grizzly bear.
Come on. What are we doing? What do you think you are? That, you know what? I could take that bear.
I could take him. I could take him. Like, I bearhanded too. I've got some great news for you. You
can't, and you don't even have to try. Just stay away from him. Just, just, yeah, just stay away.
Step away. Let the bears do their thing. Let them do their thing. Move it up. Don't, don't,
don't none of this. That, that bear's looking at me funny. What, what, what, what, like, the bear's
a fan of another team or something like that. I don't dare. You're gonna start a fight with a bear.
What are you doing? What are you doing? I want that honey. I don't want that honey. You can't have
that honey bear. I wouldn't fight Yogi bear. Hey, boo-boo. This guy's starting something. What's up?
I'm gonna take him out. Don't come for the king of lifts. Don't best not miss.
Best not miss if you come for the king. We'll take a time out. We'll come back with some more
fun of the more show here at WFHR. Welcome back everybody. Morning show here at WFHR.
Our Seth and James here to take it to the top of the hour. Wrap up the show for the week.
Think, uh, when we wrap up our week of shows, I think this is the song we got to
kind of wrap up one. I think I think we did it last Friday and I just was thinking
they were thinking about it. Like, we got to do this from now on. Let's do the wrap up song. It's
good wrap up song. The best, best backup singers ever. The Pips. I think they're up there. I love
the Pips. I, you know, that's a really good. I would say this, you know, I wanted to say the
Supremes right away. But actually, you might be, yeah, that's a close race. Good. That's a fun
debate right there. That's a good deal. That would be fun. We wanted to keep the audience informed
and up to date and we are very proud and thankful to be able to let you know that your long
national nightmare is almost over. Melissa is going to be back in Wisconsin here any day now.
Any moment now. She's, she's close. Yeah. She texted Seth and I. We're getting closer to Wisconsin,
hit some freezing rain in Iowa this morning, but back on the road now. So we are very, thank
you for wishing her safe travels. Yes, safe travels. Mal will be back with us on Monday. We're
looking forward to that. I want to send a big shout out to everybody that's been pitching in
and helping with her gone. Yes. Melissa's got big shoes to fill and Britney's been helping us out
quite a bit. Pam has been working with Britney and a big shout out to both of them and Laura over
in the back room. They've been helping out. We appreciate everybody you, Seth, doing so much as
well, sir. Appreciate everything you guys do. I have done nothing. I have not helped out at all.
Just you being here, man. That's all we need. Did you to fill the chair? We got a small staff,
a small team here, but we have people that work their tails off. And man, I am proud of this team.
Good work by everybody. And Melissa's safe travels. We're looking forward to talk with you again
on Monday. Yeah. And pick her brain about her travels. Yeah. The inmates are going back into
their cells. Yeah. Starting out on Monday. So true. So true. We've got to get to this one, Seth.
Two sort of, well, one sort of that a right story and a real true that a right story.
So is this dumb or is this, if this dumb new sport is called ice football becomes a thing,
would you watch? I don't know if it's dumb or not. I'm just reading the article.
Right. Yeah. But fans in Germany got to see a game before the Super Bowl this year. And now a
one-minute clip from it is all over social media. It's like normal football. We're talking about
ice football, basically. It's like normal football, but played on a hockey rink. No skates,
just normal shoes. So half the fun is, of course, watching people slip and slide.
The, I think the greatest game I ever played collegially or whatever, however you want to say,
it was over at the former Eastern High School in playing football over there. And I had a,
there was this kid Sean Gray. He was about three times my size. And I take a, just a button hook pass.
And I see Sean. He's the only person in the way. Now, it we're playing on basically a,
a inch, not even of snow. And under that is a couple of inches of just a block of ice. So we're
slipping and sliding, of course. And Sean tackles me. And I, I grind, I grind, Swip, and I whip out
of him because he doesn't have a rap, he doesn't rap me good. And I get out of it. But everybody that was
watching the play from what they could see, I disappeared. I was gone. Nobody could see me.
I was completely missing for a good 20, 30 seconds there. And nobody knew what happened.
Where James go? Pop on the other side. But it's the hardest I think I've ever had to run in sports
because of on the ice and the way it felt and everything. And I never wanted to experience that
again. I also had a time where not too far from here on the other side of town, a friend and I
ran a pond that we thought was frozen and wasn't. And we had the runoff of it. It was like an
action movie where you feel the ice breaking under your feet and everything. I never want to
experience anything. I was going to say of all the experiences, scary experiences that you've had,
that had to have ranked up there at the top way way up at the top. It's like you're being chased by
something. Yeah. Yeah. It's slow mo. It felt like it really did. I have no interest in this.
Have no interest in watching this. Football is fine as it is. They keep tinkering. We still don't
even know what a catch is. What are we going to evolve the game to ice? Yeah. Let's make it even
harder to do that. You know, I read this book once about the very, very earliest days of baseball
back in the mid 1800s. Okay. And they were experimenting with everything. And there was a time
where they were playing it on ice. Baseball on ice people. Wow. I can't know that just this
is not so wrong. I need to why didn't catch on. Yeah. Yeah. There's there's really there's we've
got enough sports on the ice. We have plenty. We're good. We're good. I stick with curling. Oh,
now that we're talking about it though. Pickle ball on ice. Oh, no. That might be interesting.
That might be tennis on ice. I can't even imagine the injuries. Oh, the human body is not meant
to play sports. It's like the things we ask our bodies to do. I heard doctors when I fractured
and tore my ACL and all that. And a doctor telling me you realize that what we do on a basketball
court, you're not body's not supposed to do that physically or throwing a baseball like a story
of baseball overhanded. Yeah. That is so wrong. It's against everything your body wants to do.
We're already pushing our bodies literally to the limit. Let's not put about the ice too.
Let's make it harder. And if that wasn't a that a right to you, this one might be what's worse,
doing this in a doing this in a work meeting or what happened to this lady. There was a funeral
in London and that everyone could make it. So the church set up a zoom where people could watch
it online. And one woman accidentally broadcasted herself showering. She couldn't make it to the
service, but she was getting ready to go to the wake later on. She wanted to watch. So she set her
computer up right next to her shower and didn't realize the camera was on. God, poor lady.
And in this report said that there was a screen set up at the funeral so people could the church
could watch. So they saw a lot of this was projected to. Now something now to be a lot of the
people at the funeral have been making her try to feel better about this. I'm not trying to embarrass
her or anything like that. Initial report said that there was a screen set up at the funeral,
but there has also been some talk that there wasn't set up. People have been trying to make her
feel better about this. I don't want to pile on or anything like that. But I do, I do think like
actually the vetting right part of this to me is not so much the zooming into a funeral.
Like if you can't make it to the funeral, I understand and understand so many people that would
want to be there and everything. But only bad things can come of this. I don't see like I feel like
you can honor somebody and miss somebody in many ways without a zoo without a Skype call,
without a zoo. Flowers. Yeah. Yeah. There's all the ways around this. I feel bad for this
way. I know. That's rough. That's rough. Let's get to a palette cleanser to get some good stories
of the day and it clears our lineup for the weekend. We get good things coming up today for
Midday magazine. In part one, our good friend Hannah Larkin, a full seat role C is going to join us.
Hannah is the Elder Benefit Specialist with our Central Wisconsin ADRC. Nice.
Looking forward to talking about talking plenty of things with her. Yeah. And we've got Craig
Braun, Wisconsin Rapid School of Public Schools Superintendent, along with Christine Slattery,
Principal of Think Academy in Rudolph joining us in part two. Oh, yes. It might be the, I don't
know if this is the last show craigs with us, but it's got to be one of the last ones. Yeah.
Looking forward to that. That's going to be a great conversation there. We of course got sports
on your radio dial this weekend. Tonight, it's a ball night. Your badgers back in action against
James Madison in part of the tournament. James Madison is none the sneeze at. That's a good team.
This, I don't want to say anything bad and do the bad karma here, but this is going to be a tough
game, I think, for the badgers. This could be one of their tougher games in the tournament.
Yeah. Continue on and everything. Exactly. This is going to be, I think, regardless,
win or lose, it's going to be a good game. It is. Be sure to catch it right here at WFHR and we'll
continue to follow the badgers throughout the tournament. So if they do win, they will have a game
on Sunday, which means a lot of our original programming will probably not be played. We don't know
what time because they have, they set the schedule up after they get the winners. So we'll find out.
Well, and if they don't win, if even if we don't have that basketball game, we will have more
other basketball game. Milwaukee Boxer playing 530 on Sunday, hosting the Oklahoma City Thunder,
one of the great young up-and-coming teams. That should be a good game, yeah. And hopefully
Yannis is back. So that could be a great one. Yep. And on Monday at 640, Wisconsin Women's
Basketball at the University of Southern Indiana, 640, our pregame will kick off for that.
It's the first time they've been in the tournament in a long time. So cheer on the lady badgers.
That is pretty cool. Yeah. I do want to get to our locals good stuff, but before I do a real quick
big thank you to all the candidates, all the people that we have had on with us. I've counted
I've done over 40 some interviews for the last couple of weeks and it's in thanks to all of you
out there, all these candidates joining us. And this are our listeners. You guys have been so
cool about these interviews and been so supportive and kind, way more kinder than I deserve.
I appreciate it. Thank you so much everybody out there. Got a couple of great things going on
coming up. Some Easter egg hunts that you let us know about there will be an Easter egg hunt in
Rudolph at Village Park, March 30th at 10 a.m. Okay. And annual Grand Rapids Area Merchants
Easter egg hunt will be put on by the GRVRVFD coming up Sunday, March 30th at 10 a.m.
over at Midstate Technical College. Yeah. And the Easter egg hunt in Nukusa at the Nukusa
Community Center with their 5k run walk is going on March 23rd tomorrow or the Nukusa Community
Center at 416 Crestview Lane. Be sure to head on over there and enjoy that and keep letting us
know about all these Easter egg hunts. Everybody call a front desk 424 1300 and get them to us.
Seth, we've of course got the winter farmers market going on this week. Yes, we actually have
winter to go along with it for once. It's going to be after the Bravian Church from 9 to 1 tomorrow.
That's at 310 1st Avenue South. Go check it out. All the cool vendors there. All the
got the food now too. The place has been hopping lately. So get on down. Check it out while they're
still at the the the Bravian Church as they wrap up not until May, but keep it going everyone.
We want to see you there. And if you're a vendor and you'd like to find out more, go ahead and go
to www.maravian.org and find out a way that you can get over to the place. They got plenty of room
over here over there. They do. Keep listening everybody. We got the civic media right in the spring
text to win statewide contest going on. We're going to get to work after this. That's right. That's right.
And a big thank you to you for covering that man. Be listening at the top of the 10 AM hour,
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Great week this week, Seth. Nice work. Good week, man. We made it. We made it.
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