Hour 1: Calorie-free Vacation

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 behind the mic. I

am joined by our head of News Melissa K. Good morning. Our head of production, Seth

Habagger. Good morning and the best listeners in radio. Thanks for joining us, everybody.

We got good stuff lined up for you. We're going to kick things off, talking a little

mother nature with our friend, Brittany. Good morning, Britt. Good morning. How are you?

Horrible. No coffee two days in a row. Oh, poor guy, rugged. But don't feel too bad for

me. I had the sunrise this morning. Blue skies. That's so bad. That's so bad. So I need

help. So yeah, that's pretty cool. It is pretty nice out right now, Brittany. How's

the rest of the day looking? Well, it's going to be nice enough to energize all of you

who missed the coffee. You're good. You're good. Yeah, you're going to be solar powered.

That sun is going to be bright and beautiful all throughout this morning by this afternoon

now after lunch and clouds are going to start to roll in. It's going to get a pretty cloudy

year by tonight. And we do have chances overnight of some scattered showers before rain hits

us all day tomorrow. So yes, the dreary end to my forecast. But today, oh my gosh, we

are storing the high of hitting 70 degrees. Whoa, whoa. Yeah. Yeah. Window down, sunglasses,

clothes boxed out the shorts. If you preferred to do so. Yes. Yes. Should be a fun time.

Would you consider this weather, Brittany? Dino weather, though. Would you know, well,

I should be a little more specific, maybe. But during the pandemic, if anybody

remembers this, one of the really early on videos that cheered us all up was this guy

going to get his mail in a dino costume. It was incredible dinosaur was actually in Milwaukee.

It was in Wisconsin story and everything. And we have a record attempt. We're going to

talk about with the dino costumes. So I was curious. Oh my gosh. You can do it today.

Get the costume, the dino costume out and go for it today. Let me increase above average,

right? Yeah. Wow. 20 degrees above average. My God. That's not that. Yeah.

Forget my silliness. That's insane. Is that a, I mean, a record is that something that

you saw, the meteorologist saw coming because I didn't hear much about that. Sure. We

kind of saw it coming. We didn't think it was really going to happen. But the system

that is bringing the rain tomorrow is really coming out of Texas. So it's grabbing all

of that warmth from the Gulf of Mexico and shoving it right up here for us today and

tomorrow. And it's going to be nice. In fact this weekend, we could be hitting 80s. Oh

my gosh. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I know. Bring is here. Be happy about it. Yeah. Just going

to take it. Yeah. Well, it's not like we have a choice. No, no. And it just kind of came

out of nowhere. It just feels like a little bit. But again, we'll take it and we'll always

take a good forecast. Brittany, we appreciate you so much. Have your self a great day.

Thank you. Thank you. That's the business. Our friend, Brittany Marlowe. I think we

have experienced every season in April this year. Oh, yeah. I think we have experienced

our all four seasons in one and like within two weeks. That's what I was going to say.

I am. Then we haven't even gotten through. No, we haven't. We are on April 10th, boys.

I know. It's insane. It's crazy. We have got some insane stuff, of course, to cover

today because that's part of what we do. Our niche is weird and we do a good job covering

it. If it's weird, we got it. We got it, man. Nobody's covered it like we do. No

morning show has weird covered like we do. I stand on that hill. We've got some good

stuff coming up for you among those things. Also, of course, the Elcaf Aperty and Anniversary

Club. We're looking forward to celebrating all of you. We'll get into a little bit later.

Also how the best road trips I want to talk about, especially with this nice weather road

trip. Yeah. Yeah. Like those. We're going to talk about the best parts of a road trip

and get into that. We want to hear from the audience about that as well. I want to know

what you feel like is the best part of a road trip from all of you while there. There

is a less intimidating version of Scrabble out. They finally made a Scrabble for my brain.

Unfortunately, by...

Is it come with spell check? Yeah. That's good. What do you probably make some money

off that? I want to Scrabble with broken English. Every other word is ain't Scrabble.

That would be fun. Ain't every other word that I wasn't allowed

to use as a kid. I'm finally able to use. How about that Scrabble version? Oh, boy.

We get all that coming up for you. It's Wednesday. So that means we are going to hear

from our friends at Quality of Pleas Perty with our Wicked Awesome Word of Wednesday. We

all get to use a boss in accent coming up. That'll be fun. Ironic considering fillers

from Maine. Yes, yes. A little weird. We'll have fun with that one. That's a couple

of a little weird stuff. We should talk like the guy from those old

Pepperidge Farm Courageals. Pepperidge Farm remembers the New England accent. There

you go. It's a little Pepperidge Farm, a little bit of Kennedy. Yeah, exactly.

Anita. We in the nine o'clock hour, we'll also get into most Americans now think nine to five

jobs are outdated. Let's discuss. Discuss. Talk amongst yourselves. There's so much that happens

in a family at five o'clock though. You can't work till five. That's true. That's true. All of that

we will cover. But as I mentioned, we cover weird better than anybody around here. And we've got

a story just about almost a month old, but got to us late. Want to cover Lego Land, California.

It's where we go where an attempted Guinness World Record was made by gathering 1,273 people in

dinosaur costumes for a dance party of prehistoric proportions at Lego Land. Yeah. Okay. Okay.

All right. Keep going. The Dancing Dinos gathered Sunday at the theme park in Carlsbad to attempt

the Guinness World Record for the largest gathering of people dressed as dinosaurs. And they are

in those costumes as I was referencing before. The current record of 252 people was set in Los

Angeles in 2019, a 2023 event in Durvin Saskatchewan reported featured 1,187 people in dinosaur

costumes. The Lego Land Dance Party was held in anticipation of the park's new Dino Valley area,

which officially opened back in March. Oh. Got it. It makes sense. It all comes to go. It does.

Yes. I also like the idea of bringing some of these things back. If any other reason, just to kind of

now I'll think of this before I'll think of maybe I'll also think of the guy in the

Dino costume during the pandemic. This is I'll think of this along with it. I like the idea of

updating some of those things. Revisiting some of those things if you will. We've got enough

reimagines and remakes and all that. I don't know if we necessarily have to take anything from

the pandemic and redo that. Well, James, I'm here to tell you that's what they want you to think.

Yeah. You know why? You know who's driving this? Giant dinosaur costume manufacturing.

Big dinosaur costume manufacturing. They're behind all of this, man. I wanted to do a little more

research on this before we talked about it, but you know, let's go ahead and just throw caution

to the wind and dive right into this topic. You know, I've been wondering, I've been waiting for the

pushback from the, you know, every every year Halloween comes around and all of a sudden you're

town as a Halloween one of those Halloween stories. Yeah. Yeah. One day one month's not going to

be enough for them. No, they're going to they're going to come for all the other months, everybody.

You're going to see you're going to see. This is Halloween. Yes, Christmas Halloween.

Thanksgiving Halloween. All of the holidays, Halloween. You're going to be wearing a costume

on our predict. It's good. It's good. It's good. But we all know that costumes are fun.

They are. They are. They are. They are. In the right setting. They are. No, in all settings, James.

Oh boy. I had one of the team go well. Oh, I can't talk about it. I was going to say that sounds like

it sounds like a story for Ashley. I think you're right. I think you're right. But it is worthwhile

looking up the video from this because all the variety of dinosaur costumes at this was was really

neat. I was expecting to see all the same. No, they're all different. I mean, there are some

replicas. You know, you're boring otherwise. Yeah. They really went above you. There's inflatable ones,

there's kids running around and little purple dinosaurs. It's pretty good. It's pretty good.

It seems like one of those ones where I would want to like, I don't know many people that wouldn't

want to attempt that. That seems like a fun one to attempt. Those costumes seem kind of fun.

They also seem kind of comfortable as far as a costume goes. You know, you got plenty of room.

It seems like you can breathe okay in those things and everything. Yeah, right. There's a lot of

costumes out there that would be, you know, for a rare record attempt, it would be a lot more

uncomfortable. I would think I'm still paper mache comes to mind. Yeah. Yeah. Anything with a lot

of makeup like. Yeah, right. Yeah. Some of those. I like the idea of this. I also like the idea

of these challenges that seem to go on with Guinness World Records where, oh, okay, that was a good idea.

Now, we're going to try to top it. Right. And somebody else will try to top that one and, you know,

yeah. And in another part of the world, you know, it was attempted in Saskatchewan. Yeah. That's

cool. That is a great point, Melissa. That is another fun part about this. In countries competing.

That's fun. We know I want to say, okay, now, but now, you know, what you just set up, Melissa,

what we got coming up this summer and the greatest games ever in the Olympic games.

Oh, baby, maybe this is a new, this is where the Olympics are going, where like in 50 years from now,

we have no more like real competition. It's just people trying to break world records and

top each other. That's really, you know, they should have a parallel Olympic games about with all

the ridiculous games, you know, the world ridiculous games where you want to call it, right?

That would be fun. Athletically inclined. Yeah, exactly.

I, uh, I, of course, they have the Florida games.

Uh, so the Florida man games, Florida man games, Florida man games.

I think that one needs an overhaul. Yeah, probably.

We are going to come back with the LKFA birthday and anniversary club looking forward to doing

since celebrating with all of you coming up on the morning show here at WFHR.

It's time to do some celebrating with the Misty's Menu Birthday and anniversary club.

I'm sorry about that. I said Misty's because I was trying to do a joke.

That's what happens. That's what happens. That's all right.

It's all right. Well, he threw me with the weather.

Uh, there was this pause. Yeah.

Everybody else heard that. Okay. Thank you. It wasn't just big.

Oh, Sean Cable. What are you doing? Uh, it just threw me for a little bit.

So I was trying to have some fun. And of course, I got, I got bit.

I got bit. Oh, that's what happens.

We got the LKFA birthday and anniversary club rolling right now.

We want to send a big shout out to our friends over at LKFA.

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Potato comes with potato or fruit. Got a nice lunch special today.

A London broil, sirloin steak topped with grilled onions, uh,

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I can't hear London bro without thinking about a couple.

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Oh, let's go with one.

All right. It gives us that qualifier.

Get right into these celebrating.

First up, want to wish happy birthday to Nicole Hofer.

Happy birthday, Nicole.

Happy birthday.

Wish you a good day.

Nicky. Have a great one.

Hope it's a good day for you.

Mm-hmm.

And we wish a very happy birthday to our qualifier.

Gloria Kekowski.

Oh, happy birthday, Gloria.

Gloria.

Gloria, enjoy your day.

We hope it's a good one for you.

Enjoy.

And you're our qualifier for today.

Yeah.

Congratulations.

Keep in mind as April is, uh, you know, just flying.

Roman, I know that she's at the beginning of next month.

We're going to grab one of these names out of our hat and go ahead and announce a winner

for the two gifts certificates from LCAPA.

$2.20 gift certificates are up for the grabs here.

All right.

Big thank you to LCAPA for that.

That's pretty cool.

Appreciate it.

That's a lot of food.

It is.

It is.

Yeah, especially with the deals they have at everything.

Yeah, yeah, you can really really come away.

Hunk full.

Yes.

Let's take a look at our celebrity list.

Uh, let's see here.

Sophia Carson is 31.

Avon Pretty Little Liars, the perfectionist,

and Eevee in Disney's Descendants movies.

Oh, okay.

Okay.

Speaking of Disney, Daisy Ridley is 32 today.

Ray is 32.

Wow.

Oh, wow.

She's good.

She's good.

I like her a lot.

I like, uh, I like her as an actress.

And I, I, I feel like she seems like a pretty solid person as a human being

because she has handled stuff very, very well with not easy.

No, she had to go, no, that's not for anybody who had to do that, yeah.

Out of these last three Star Wars movies,

I don't think anybody took more heat than that young lady.

Like, uh, yeah, exactly.

I, why she did.

Yeah, I have nothing for you.

I've got nothing.

I know other than people are just babies are just just winers.

It's not what I wanted.

It's not like the, it's not like the fan fiction that I wrote.

My parents' basement 10 years ago.

How dare they?

That was awesome.

Uh, by the way,

who knew the Star Wars fans were such jerks.

I mean, come on.

Yeah, you know, other were nice.

I'll say this.

I'm more of a Star Wars guy than a Star Trek.

Right.

I respect Star Trek, but it's never been my thing.

You don't hear like that stuff from the Star Trek.

Not as much, no, not nearly as much.

Yeah.

Star Wars fan base way over spoiled and, and, and, and babies.

Babies.

Well, you heard from those.

That's, that's all I'm talking about.

Yeah, that's all I'm talking about.

Is that part of the fan base?

Yeah.

And it just, it just jerks.

We waited how, and it's mostly people are aged.

Oh, I know.

It's mostly that I'm totally with you on that.

I know what you're talking about.

You would think our generation of all,

among all others would just be thankful to get anything.

Yeah, we, you know, we, it's not like the young kids are just

discovering for the first time.

Yeah, because they don't know.

They've never seen it before.

So yeah, definitely.

Yeah.

But, you know, you always got your fanfic.

Yeah, so you can always see that fix it.

Fix it, quote, unquote, fix it.

Oh.

Maureen Morris is 34 today, country singer.

Her charity, Dear Hate, is a response to the Las Vegas shooting.

And it's one of the greater charities out there,

right now, from what I'm reading.

Cool.

Just some good work there.

Let's see, Haley Joel Osment is 36.

Oh, now it's time to field old, everybody.

Yeah, but actually thought he'd be older in some ways.

In a weird way, you know, he was, he was so young.

Yeah, so young when he started acting.

I mean, man, and actually another one of those stories,

it does not come up very often when we're talking about child

actors because he seems good.

Yeah.

So unfortunately, we don't think of him very often as a child actor,

but he is a former child actor.

He stepped away for a while.

Yeah, he was a child actor in the sixth sense.

Yes, yeah, he was.

For a scump.

Yeah, look, I love Bruce Willis.

And Bruce Willis, maybe you can make the argument

as best acting as in the sixth sense.

That kid stole the show.

That kid stole the show every, almost every scene he was in.

Second hand lions, AI, artificial intelligence,

paid forward, paid forward, he was good in.

But AI, again, he works with Jude Law mostly,

another incredible actor.

And the kid steals the show most of the time.

This is the weird thing though, Haley Joel Osment.

He kind of went away and kind of came back to acting.

In part for work, in part because he loves what he does.

And I don't know that he's the actor he was when he was younger.

I don't mean this in a negative way.

But as an adult, he doesn't have the dramatic,

you know, a lot of those things.

He also hasn't had the opportunities

to do a lot of roles like that.

So who knows?

But he has got a wide range of emotions, can do it all.

And I'm very, very happy to see him have a consistent career.

He deserves it.

He's really entertained us as a kid.

It's great to see him have a steady career, as an adult.

Well, and it's going to take him a few years

to age out of his baby face.

Yeah, yeah, I don't know.

He may never age out of that.

It doesn't, the beard doesn't even disguise it.

Yeah, no, no, it doesn't.

No, no, no.

And let's see here.

Mandy Moore is 40.

Rebecca Pearson, and this is us.

She's also the voice of Rapunzel in Disney's Tangled.

Yeah, very good singer.

She's got a good voice.

I like Mandy Moore.

Yeah, man, that's a good one.

Let's see, oh, oh, Laura Bell Bundy is 43,

country singer who got her start as a child actress and played Dr. Jordan

Denby on Charlie Sheen's anger management.

She's the young version of Bonnie Hunt's character

in the original Jumanji.

Wow, that's pretty cool.

That's pretty cool.

She's also the stepmom on the live-action reboot

of the Fairly Odd Parents.

I didn't know there was a live-action.

I didn't know that.

Weird, I didn't know that.

She also performed in legally blonde the musical in 2007.

How about that?

Hmm, nice.

The great Charlie Hunnam is 44.

Jackson, sons of Anarchy.

He's been in a ton of other movies since then.

He's been working with Guy Richie a lot.

And that's a great fit.

That man is handsome for all day.

He is way more talented than the opportunity he has been given.

I think as he is getting older and maybe a little bit more

get more opportunities, you're going to get to see him

do something.

I don't want to say Oscar, no word, caliber,

but something along those lines.

I think he's that kind of...

What do you mean, yeah?

He's got that kind of arsenal, that kind of tool belt

as far as skill sets just needs the right opportunity.

Give him the right shot.

That guy is going to win you something.

He's good.

Also good, David Harbro, 49 for Jim Hooper from Stranger Things.

Yes.

Natasha's super soldier dad and Red Guardian in Black Widow.

He was in the Hellboy remake.

Big fan.

I like David Harbro.

He's a very charming actor.

He's got so much charm.

It's great.

I love him.

I most recently saw him in violent night.

Oh, yes.

Yes, I got to see that.

I got to see that, yes.

It was worth watching.

He played a pretty good drunk Santa.

All right, nice.

He is one of those guys too that I look at like a Morgan Freeman

or Hugh Jackman.

A lot of these guys get their break late in life.

You know, this is why you keep hustling.

This is why you keep pushing.

You never know.

You could be celebrating, you know, one day or 50th birthday

with a nice career.

Yeah, exactly.

He's not even 50 yet.

Yeah, and he's got a really nice career.

It's a very nice career.

Yeah, really.

So a really nice solid career for Orlando Jones.

Two 56 for Mr. Nancy and American Gods.

Frank Irving and Sleepy Hollow.

Of course, the 7-Up guy and the old commercial too long time.

It's really funny in those.

A lot of us came across him in Mad TV.

That's right.

That's where he started.

Some big names on that original cast of Mad TV

or Alex Borstein and a couple of other big name at Will Saso.

I know Orlando Jones and Will Saso.

But more so, Will Saso never got the shots that he deserved.

No.

Way funnier than the opportunity he's been given.

He's a very funny actor.

Well, and I know mostly from the early 2000s,

double take, drum line, the replacements.

Oh my god, drum line.

Yeah, that's right.

The replacements.

I love the replacements.

The replacements is a sneaky good football movie.

That's the key honorees in Gene Hackman in it.

Yeah, yeah.

And he's good and everything.

Melissa, I got to say, I'm sorry, everybody.

I have to do something really quick.

I have to call an audible.

Because you just mentioned Gene Hackman.

Uh-oh.

And you can make the argument.

The worst newspaper in this whole country is the New York Post.

Yeah.

And I think that's a fair argument.

I don't believe I'm going to get a lot of pushback on that one.

This is saying something that they have gone too far.

They're basically stalking old actors now.

And they had some pictures of Gene Hackman recently,

looking to shoveled in Gene Hackman and poor man's clothes.

Gene Hackman's okay.

Gene Hackman's older.

He's not working anymore.

Tyres were tired.

He's a retired human being.

What are they now?

The star tribune?

Well, they're TMZ for, they're TMZ daily.

It's a rag.

It's a tabloid, yeah.

If you are, if you are buying those things or watching TMZ

or anything like that, I got nothing good to say to you.

It's just tacky, sad.

This is a person who has entertained us and worked.

And I'm not saying he, uh, you know, he's above anybody else or anything like that.

They do this to Elle.

These celebrities and everything.

But you messed with Gene Hackman, man.

There is, there are some bad karma coming your way, I believe.

Kenneth Babyface Edmunds is 65 today.

Gene is songwriter and producer.

When you're 65, can they really still call you Babyface?

I mean, it's like, it's the Nick Baby's had forever.

But it's like, wow.

Brian Setser is 65 as well.

Stray cats, Brian Setser orchestra.

Mm-hmm.

Gonna rock this time.

He reinvented himself a couple of times.

Yeah, yeah.

Stray cats struts.

He's been a lot of swing dancing to his music.

He did, yeah.

I'll be listening to Stray Cats strut at some point today.

Oh, man, that's a great one.

And don't want to celebrate him.

And then let's go ahead and just get to some people

don't look or with us.

All right.

Like Liz Sheridan, born in 1929.

You may not remember her name, but she was Jerry's mom

on Seinfeld.

Oh, yes.

So good.

She was very good.

Great actress.

The great John Madden, born in this day in 1936,

just passed away a couple of years ago.

Football sports casting, legend, coaching, legend.

I believe he still has the all-time winning percentage for coaches.

And of course, we would not, video games would not be the same

without John Madden.

I'd just like to mention that John Madden is born

in Raising Minnesota.

I just want to put that in there.

He's for me.

He's taking it from Nice to Nice to throw that out there.

It's interesting.

Madden's game was the first football game really to come out as far as,

you know, with actual NFL teams and all that.

And I'm talking about Techmob with all the teams, all the players.

Yeah, right.

Techmobol is in its own world.

You cannot touch Techmobol.

Ever.

Greatest game possible ever.

It wasn't seen.

Possibly ever.

You got to take the Raiders.

You got to get Bo Jackson and Marcus Allen.

But what John Madden's game did,

not only was set the bar,

but every other game that came out after them, they're all gone.

It's the only one left.

It's the only one left.

That's, it's that dominant of a game

that nobody even bothers trying to come out with other football games

or anything like that.

And he lent his voice to it,

which lent legitimacy to the video game industry.

Yeah.

And to gamers.

Yeah, him and Pat Someral did it for many years, yeah.

And look where things are now.

It's not, I'm not saying that's because of him,

but it's one of the reasons why the video game industry

started to get more respect.

And where it led to it, where it is in this day.

Where sports games,

they're working on the greatest game possibly ever in my opinion

and the next NCAA football game.

And when that happens,

you guys will wait for me to take a vacation.

But wait for me to take a vacation.

That's it.

He's going to be holed up just playing that hours on it.

I got a dynasty to create.

Yeah, that's what I'm going to create a dynasty.

And a quote, I got to throw out there from Jan Madden.

Always have class and be humble.

Yeah, the thing that doesn't get talked about nearly enough

is how boisterous and how big his personality was.

His heart was bigger.

Remember watching an old, the old game they were doing.

And there was this big display on the side of him of his face.

It's like the greatest John Madden.

He didn't know what to say.

Yeah, he was like, I don't know what that is.

What is that?

I think I don't think that there's much in the world

I would have ever thought that I'd have in common with John Madden.

But the way he was about taking compliments,

I think a lot of us can relate to.

Yeah, he had a hard time with it.

Yeah.

Max von Siedem, born in the state of 1929,

the three-eyed Raven in Game of Thrones,

brilliant, brilliant character actor.

Minority report is a wonderful performance of his.

Father Marin in the extra-sist, of course.

Ming the merciless in the flat in Flash Gordon.

If you want to see early Max van Siedem,

you need to watch the Seventh Seal.

Yeah.

The Igmar Bergman film.

He plays, I believe he plays,

does he play Death in that or does he play that guy?

Well, he plays Death.

He plays Death, yeah.

Henry Morgan, born in this day in 1915,

Colonel Sherman Potter and Mash,

Joe Friday's partner on the original dragnet.

He had one of the great voices of all time.

He loved Henry Morgan's voice.

Henry Morgan's voice.

The legend Omar Sharif, born in this day in 1932,

passed away in 2015.

Unfortunately, forgotten in the annals of acting history.

He was good. He was brilliant.

Now, to be fair, he only did a couple of movies,

like Dr. Geago, Funny Girl, Lawrence of Rabia,

Top Secret, of course.

Want to mention Top Secret, get back there.

84 classic featuring Val Kilmer.

I think it was Val Kilmer's first book.

Omar Sharif, though, man.

He was the epitome of Swav.

Yeah.

He was such a Swav guy.

Yeah.

An Egyptian, he was from Egypt.

That's right.

I have to say, I'm a little biased towards those actors.

We're not a whole lot of those kind of actors

when I was growing up.

No.

They may have paid quite a bit attention to Dr. Geago,

and didn't quite understand that that's a kid.

Probably not.

I didn't do much.

Very Russian, you know.

Don Meredith, born in this day in 1938,

Don Meredith and John Madden celebrated a birthday.

I didn't know that.

I didn't either.

Danny Don, both a Monday night football broadcasters, of course,

and a good, very good quarterback, by the way.

Don Meredith.

Yeah.

Yeah.

He was a very good player.

And Danny Don.

Danny Don, yeah.

Sheb Wolley, born in this day in 1921,

passed away in 20303,

a rodeo rider and country singer,

best known for the 58 novelty song,

the purple people leader.

People purple people, that's right.

And, of course,

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remember they took Nicole and to our qualifier,

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right here at WFHR.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show here at WFHR.

Locally grown.

Hang on a second.

Radio.

He just said a sip of my coffee.

He just got some coffee, buddy.

That's a good thing.

Let's go, go, go.

After one sip?

Yeah, that's all it takes.

Woo, one sip.

I'm sorry, I'll calm down.

We have got our friends from Quality Plus

printing joining us in a little bit here.

Looking forward to getting our wicked

awesome word of Wednesday.

Also want to get into this one before the end of the show.

Pet smart wants to cover up your worst tattoos

with new ink of your pet.

Oh, okay.

Got that one coming up as well.

Interesting, interesting.

And of course, we're going to still talk road trips.

We're looking forward to that.

But right now, I mentioned this earlier,

a James version of Scrabble is coming out.

That's not actually what it's called.

No, no, no, no.

Make sure people know that.

Look at that.

First was James' version they're talking about.

They have a King James version of that.

Oh, wow.

They've only used the English from the James Bible.

That would be hilarious.

I did not be to offend.

I'm so sorry about that.

No.

I really should be on the air today.

The makers of Scrabble say that younger folks find the game to be too intense.

So they have just released a new version,

which is supposed to be more collaborative and accessible.

It's called Scrabble Together.

Scrabble Together.

It's a lot different.

In this version, players team up to compete in complete mutual goals.

Like play a word containing two of the same continents.

Continence.

Continence, right?

Continence would be very difficult to do.

That would be interesting.

There's only seven, so yeah.

Play a word containing at least two different vowels

and complete a vertical word.

If that isn't easy enough,

you can also flip helper cards,

which introduce things like make S tiles a blank.

Oh, there's a lot of S's.

Yeah, I get it.

Okay.

That kind of bugs me though a little bit.

Oh no, that blank one was so valuable.

And now that you just make them move,

you just make them whatever you want.

It's like a wild card.

It's not really not worth points then.

And the trick at the company says the new game

brings people together,

including people who think word games aren't for me.

It's also designed for Gen Cers.

Their research shows competitiveness

is declining in younger generations.

They say younger folks,

quote, avoid competitive games

in favor of teamwork and collaboration.

Scrabble Together comes with the original version

on the other side of the board.

Nice, smart.

Yeah, that's good.

Oh, that may be the smartest move they've done here.

That is incredibly smart.

There is one caveat.

The new version is only available in Europe for now.

It's being put out by Mattel,

which owns rights overseas.

Scrabble is controlled by Hasbro in the US and Canada.

It's unclear if they plan to follow suit.

Hasbro controls all the toys.

Yeah.

North America, by the way.

Yeah, but yeah, which is different.

That hasn't made different conversations.

Yeah, I didn't want to have.

But anyway, I do have to say that there has been

in recent years a whole bunch of collaborative games

that have started to come out where the object is not like

they were saying in the article to compete,

but to do something together,

to create something kind of thing.

We just got a game called Hanabi.

It's a card game where you try to collaborate to build.

I mean, the conceit is that you're trying to make fireworks.

Because I think it's from Japan.

So, you know, big fireworks is kind of cool.

And I got to tell you, man, you're collaborating to do it.

It is still one of the most intense games.

Yeah.

Because of the gameplay is exciting.

It is fun, but you're not competing.

You're trying to do something together,

but that does not take away any from the gameplay.

It's a fun game.

And those kind of games, you know,

I think that they're taking from those of us

who have made house rules.

Oh, absolutely.

And making games more playable, like trivia pursuit.

My girlfriends and I always collaborate.

Yeah. When we play.

Oh, okay. Cool.

So I like, I like this.

And as a side note, Melissa Menopoli,

Hasbro Owens Monopoly, which is just ironic.

It's just a little considering they have Monopoly.

It basically seems a little.

Of the nose, right?

Yeah.

I want to ask something.

And I want to get you to take on this.

And I love to hear the audience too.

And I'm only throwing this out there.

Because in part of some of the research I was doing this week

for some interviews from a day magazine.

Okay.

Is part of this also because of our

where we stand in education right now?

And our lack of vocabulary?

Yeah.

Is that something that could be playing

into this a little bit too?

That was my first thought, honestly.

Okay, because I felt like a real jerk.

I really do.

And I don't want to, like, it's a fun thing.

It's a fun idea.

And I like the idea of competitiveness.

I have nothing against competitiveness, honestly.

But I really, if the younger generations

are getting more into collaboration,

more power to them, that's cool.

Everybody, it's not my thing.

It's not meant for me, maybe.

The obviously in many ways.

So that's cool.

I'll flip the board and play the other game.

Right.

But I am a little,

little curious about that part of it.

As we continue to take money out of education

and not put anything into it.

As we continue to take money out of the arts

and not put anything into it,

I'm a little curious about that.

And I'm sorry to be Jimmy Sirius,

but it does stand out to me.

Is the number of people saying word games aren't for me

on the rise because of those factors you just listed off?

I know that when I, and this comes from me

being almost one of these kids,

I grew up in many different grade schools,

going from one grade school to the next

where they were learning this in this grade,

in this school, in this class.

In the next class, they already moved past that.

So I didn't learn that.

And as I'm sitting there with my non

and my aunt who worked incredibly competitive,

to try to beat them in Scrabble,

I had to look up words because I didn't know how to spell.

I had dyslexia, didn't have a diagnosed.

Scrabble was a bit of a heart ache for me in some ways.

And I never let it show.

I never said anything because my Nana was so into the game

and it was something I got to feel like an adult.

I got to stay up late and play with them.

But some of my memories of Scrabble,

I know I joke about it on the air in real life

if we're being honest here.

I got some holdups about it

because I didn't, it made me feel dumb if I'm being honest.

If I'm being blunt with everybody here

as I have no filter apparently right now.

And if you can tell, I have a bit of a stigma with that,

where I'm constantly trying to seem to prove

that I have some intelligence.

Right.

Not much, not much, my Jesus.

But some.

I don't know if I'm willing to go as far as all that personally.

I made a good stretch.

Yeah, I made a good stretch.

Because part of the reason is because the prolifler,

oh my gosh proliferation, that's our word of the day.

Of word games on apps, you know,

word or word, I mean there's a lot of them out there

that people seem to enjoy.

So great point.

But so I'm reluctant to take a broader thing on that.

But I think more, I think what they were saying

about the collaborative thing with people,

I think that is true.

I think more and more people are enjoying the more collaborative.

Because when we were kids,

there weren't any collaborative.

It was all competition games.

And I think there's room for both.

You can have competition, you can have collaboration,

whatever you're feeling like that day.

Maybe you do want to take it to your friends.

Ah, I'll beat you guys in whatever.

And that's fine.

But maybe it's like, no, we need to team up

and beat the vampire in the cavern,

which by the way, I have a game called Horrified,

which actually you do that.

You kind of, the classic monsters,

you know, you collaborate with each other

to try to defeat the monsters.

It's actually really fun.

I want to play that.

Yeah, I want to play that right now.

Yeah, that's great.

Well, I think as James hit on the nose,

it's awesome that Scrabble is offering both

with this particular word of the game.

You have the original, you have the new one,

and you have the opportunity to play both.

And that's cool.

Makes sense.

America now ranks 33rd out of 44 advanced economies

when it comes to the percentage of young people

attaining a post-high school degree.

We also now rank middleing in science and math

among OECD countries, something to keep in mind.

In an election year, when we are voting into office,

make sure that they care about the future.

Good to know.

I am one of those.

I'm a future of education for all.

For absolutely.

Yes, yes.

And our against banning books, can we get over that?

Can we get over the banning books thing?

I thought we moved past that

when we stopped burning people at the stage.

Like, what are we doing?

What are we doing as a society?

Where is the parent accountability

in monitoring what your children are reading?

Yeah, take some responsibility.

Take some dang responsibility.

Boy, yeah.

What a concept.

We will be back with more fun on the morning show.

WFHR locally grown radio.

Welcome back to the morning show at WFHR.

Locally grown radio.

Melissa, Seth and James here with you.

We hope you're having a good one out there.

Thanks for joining us, everybody.

Usually on Wednesdays, we are joined by our friends

from Quality Plus Printing,

with our wicked awesome word of Wednesday.

Unable to join us this morning,

but we still have a wicked awesome word for you.

We don't want the audiences to counting on that.

Yes, we've got to give them something.

So I painstakingly worked through the

pumpkin wagon and Webster's Dictionary all night.

Fine tooth comb.

Yep, that's why I'm off today.

It's because I just a little off

because I didn't sleep last night.

Looking for this all wicked awesome word.

And I came up with one.

Shubboigan.

Shubboigan.

Does that count?

Yes.

Is that a word?

It's a name.

It counts now.

No, I just wanted to say Shubboigan.

You just wanted to say Shubboigan.

We say good morning to our friends over at Shubboigan.

Yes.

Beautiful day over there at Shubboigan.

Great weather.

We are going to get into this one right here.

I wanted to wrap up the hour hour one

with a fun topic and we'll get to that in a second.

I did want to remind everybody

in the start of the 9 o'clock hour,

we're going to be joined by Paul Weber

from Jeremiah's Crossing.

Very cool.

Talk about the main quilt show that they have

coming up at the end of the month looking forward to that.

Nice.

Yeah, let's talk road trips right now everybody.

Oh, let's do it.

Yeah.

715-424-2600.

Call up and join the conversation.

What your favorite part of a road trip is?

Coming home, sleeping in your own bed?

Oh, there's probably some better parts.

That's not after a while.

That's good, yeah.

Would your ideal vacation include a short flight

or a somewhat long drive?

A poll found 73% of Americans prefer

the road trip hitting the road.

The average person has been on 16 road trips in their life

and here are five of the best parts of one of them.

Road trips in general.

Seeing new landscapes and scenery.

Oh, yes.

That's always cool.

I like that.

Number two on a list and these are in order.

Listening to music on the radio.

Checking out local radio, that's pretty cool.

As much as it is that you don't often get a chance

to be in the car for that long

to listen to your favorite station,

you just hit on something right there, Seth.

I loved as a kid the flipping through stations

and hearing different things and see what's on that frequency.

Yeah, it was actually one of the,

when I first got to Texas, it was one of my favorite things,

like flipping through their radio stations.

And man, they got there.

It's just all over the gamut there.

Oh, man.

Yeah, yeah, it's fun.

It's fun to do.

Getting a break from the routine.

Yeah, absolutely.

You're dating a very different routine.

Yes, indeed.

And you just really like driving.

25% agreed with that.

Oh, no.

Beth does most of the driving when we do that.

Don't drive for a living.

That's right.

And number five, it was a tie between

trying local food along the way.

And getting to your destination.

No matter how good the trip is,

getting there is always the most fun part.

Right, most definitely.

Depends on where you're going, I suppose.

But yeah, it also looked at the most annoying things

that can happen on the road.

So, let's get into that in a second.

First, let's take a pause and get into what we enjoy.

What we like.