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 am joined by
CEO of your United Way of Southwood and the Ames County's Terry Johns. Good morning.
We got the band back together. We're here to have some fun. Get you ready for the weekend.
Good things on the way for you, everybody. Some entertainment news coming up after that.
We're going to get into 10 things that turned 50 this year and see if that makes us feel
older young. We'll find out. We got that one coming up for you. The states with the
most and least overpackers will get into that as well. I got that one coming up for you.
Well, you might need, you know, you never know what you might need. You never know.
Overpacker. Of course, our long time listeners out there made of notice that we weren't
able to do our start of the day with our friends from Culver's in the eight o'clock
hour and a little bit technical difficulties. Everything is working smooth. So at the end
of this segment, we're going to make you a star of the day with our friends from Culver's.
Be sure to visit our friends over at Culver's and get some Culver's in your life. Let's
go ahead and kick things off with entertainment news and it happened. I've been waiting
for this. I think a lot of people have been worrying about this and it's finally happening.
Jennifer Aniston is producing a remake of nine to five. It's actually being called
a reimagining, which, you know, is basically them taking the things that they like that
adapt to not modern times and doing something with it. I don't know. Yeah. The film is still
in the early stages of development with Diablo Cody writing the script. She's the one
behind Juno, Lisa Frankenstein and some other big movies. If you've never seen the original,
of course, Dali Parton, Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin as office workers who getting revenge
on their sexist boss, Dabney Coleman. There was talk in 2018 about the original cast doing
a sequel, but Jane said in 2019 that the idea got dropped. There was also a nine to five
TV series that ran for five seasons from 1982 to 1988. It started me read a marano and
Dali's younger sister Rachel Deninson. Interesting. I know about that. Yeah, I didn't know
about that. Now, I mean, we've talked about remakes, reimagining, all this stuff, a billion
times and everything. So I feel like that's been pretty out there pretty well known because
they've done so many of these now that there is some examples of, oh, that actually worked
out okay, but there's more examples of it not really working out very well. What I would
I have noticed though, and this has only happened by accident, really, because I happen
to be a teacher of young minds and working with young actors and comedians and all this
and everything. When these things happen, what the younger generations tend to do is kind
of like push back on the remake and go and watch the original, yeah, which is really,
really cool. Like nobody told them to do that. They've just kind of instinctively done
that and been like, well, I don't this is this is kind of being like, have you ever tried
to seem cool to a teenager? It fails horribly. You look like the lamest person of all
time. Hey, I just wanted to wrap with you guys for a moment. Where are you going? No, it
doesn't work. And that's the same thing with entertainment. When you're, when you're trying
so hard to get younger, that coveted 18 to 34 market, when all you do is do, I'm going
to hit that, going to hit that, got to hit that. Well, guess what? That market, that age
range, especially, doesn't like it when you just do things just for them. They don't like,
they're not a big fan of that. So you're best off just kind of making stuff and seeing
where the chips fall and hope it goes your way. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I will for so much money
and so much time that is spent in the marketing and figuring out what do people want? What
is that coveted demographic want? We've always known that what they want is not to have
things shoved down their throat. And that group too seems to be much more responsive
if an influencer picks it up. Yeah. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like if you can be fortunate
enough to be trying to market a product and an influencer picks it up, you're likely
to get a better following than all the other marketing that you might have put into it.
I think a big part of this, certainly, obviously, the script is going to matter first and foremost,
but it's, it's really going to come down to it. They're going to keep the like the concept
of three, three women in that. They've got to have three incredible actresses. Like not
just three, going up against those three. Yeah. Not just one good actress and two sort
of good actors or anything. I mean, three incredible actors. Like and that's not that hard
to do. There's a lot of great actors out there. It's fine in the right combination. And
the chemistry's got to be there. Yeah. I've seen the original as an adult. I watch it
a lot as a kid. I might not have loved nine to five. I movie was on all the time when
I was a kid. But as an adult, I've gone and I've watched it when Danny Coleman passed
away, I believe I went and watched some scenes because of him and everything. And there's
some stuff in the movie that, you know, doesn't age that great. But the movie itself is made
from the chemistry of those three actresses. All three of those actresses, I don't know.
I wasn't on the set, but they seemed to really like working together. They seem to really
enjoy each other and really enjoy their time together. And that matters in making a film.
No throughout the human history, there's a famous example of Julia Roberts and Gary
Bucy. I think it is or them working together in a movie. And they can stand each other.
And the movie bombed horribly, of course. And you can tell when you're watching, they're
working together that they don't like working together. And they're both very good actors.
But they didn't enjoy it. Like it shows. It's obvious when that happens. So to me, if
I'm casting this movie, the first thing I'm doing as soon as I get, you know, shuffled
down to the actors I want, I'm going to have them read together. I'm not even casting
them yet. I'm just having them read together first to see how they seem together. Then
maybe we'll talk about contract signing and everything. That's an integral part of that
movie. If they're going to do it, if it's going to have any success, we are mentioning
today is Carol Burnett's birthday, a very happy birthday to one of the legends of
comedy. You can't talk about the history of comedy without mentioning Carol Burnett,
who is 91 today. And about a month ago, live with Kelly and Mark, she was on there
and she was asked what she wanted to do for her birthday. And she answered Bradley Cooper.
Oh, she's still got it. She's still got it. Like without missing a beat, without missing
a beat. Just boom right there. Just, it's funny. She laughed it off and everything. It
said, of course, that she's just, you know, kidding around and everything. She did send
a video or she did have some fun with that one. Carol was on Jimmy Kimmel live Wednesday
night. And he had a special birthday surprise for her. Unfortunately, Bradley was not there
in person, but he did show up. He sent a video and he said, quote, I've been such a massive
fan of yours ever since I was a kid watching your show regularly. And it's a thrill to leave
you this message. I hope to meet you one day and maybe even work together. I hope you
have a great day. See you. Even though, you know, it's not maybe exactly what you wanted.
It was a really cool moment between the two. So he didn't jump out of the cake. I didn't
jump out of the cake. But first of all, 91 years old and looks amazing. Carol Burnett
looks awesome. Great to see her. Great to see her. When I say she looks awesome, I'm
talking about her appearance, necessarily, her movement. She looks like she's healthy
for 91, you know, just pretty darn cool to see. And Bradley Cooper is one of the best
people in the business. Easily one of the best people in the business is a kid who has
not forgotten where he's come from. And I love that he does stuff like this. It's pretty
cool. Happy birthday to Carol Burnett. That's good. She's still, she is still just sharp
as I'll get up at. I thought this was kind of interesting, Terry, before we get into
our star of the day and we announced, let you know what's new on your small screen this
weekend. In the era of three hour movies and three hour plus movies and everything, one
of Americans won. Do Americans want three hour movies? Is this something that we're looking
for? The overwhelming answer is no. I get a little sleepy. According to a new poll, Americans
think that the perfect movie length is just 92 minutes. Only 2% think that a movie should
be longer than two and a half hours and only 15% think movies that are two hours are
longer or any good. The poll also covered another hot button topic, subtitles. A third
of people say that they never use subtitles while 16% say that they always do and 15% say
whether the captions should be on or off is a hotly debated topic in their home. Yeah,
we have that. I say off. They drive me insane. And I think it's the movement of it. You
know that like it distracts me. One of my daughters has them on always. And then she leaves
and then I go to the TV and the darn things around. I'm like, you know, I'm like, how do
I get these turned off? I have not been able to get a straight up answer of why, but the
younger generation seems like everything they watch has their watching with the subtitles
on. I haven't gotten a real, I'm sure there's a reason behind it, but I haven't gotten
any real reason why. It's different than what we do. Oh, yeah. Because for me, like I watch
a lot of foreign films. I've watched a lot of like action movies from Japan and China
and stuff. And those are usually dubbed. When I was a kid, we used to sneak into the theater
and watch a lot of those. And I didn't. We pay for our ticket. It's out of the bag,
man. You probably brought your own snacks too. But yeah, subtitles kind of distract me
a little bit. I find myself reading. Me too. And not watching. I think 90 minutes to
two hours is a good is a good length. Unless it's Titanic. Fine by me. I'll sit there the
whole time. I firmly believe that if you cannot make your movie in two hours and 15 minutes
to two hours and 20 minutes, go back to the script. Go back or you're or you're read or
make two. Make two. You're you're redoing something. You know, I mean, like you're probably
you should be able to do it. Yeah, I love it. If you need more than that, then I feel like
you either need to make another movie or you need to go back and work on that script
again because you're you are putting your this is something that is happening with one
of my favorite directors of all time, Martin Scorsese. He can't make it to our movie anymore.
And it's all because of what he wants, what he is, what his vision. And I get that and
I respect that all get out at the same time. It ain't about you. You're not just making
this movie for you. Like if you want to just make the movie for you to watch, that's one
thing. Just release it for yourself in your own home theater. But if you're making movie
for people, think about the people. Like, yeah. And like to me, I think like, you know,
a romcom, excuse me, or a, you know, maybe like a horror film, which I'm not watching.
But like those can be shorter. Like you don't have to beat that plot to death. But but there
are some like like Braveheart is a little longer. I love that movie. But but you're I mean,
you're sucked into that like the entire time you're watching it. So sometimes, but just
in general, this whole marathon of, you know, movies have to be three hours. Yeah. Let's
go ahead and take a call. Good morning. What's on your mind? All right. I wasn't going
to call on buggy guy today, but you can't resist. I just hear it. It's scary. I got a
bug. Jerry. With the close captioning thing, you know, that's the passion. The passion
story. I don't think I've read any of those because I was just captivated by just, you
know, like, even though they were doing different language. So I never really read it, read
the captions during the, during that whole movie. And I probably watch that movie if I
had half a dozen times. But for, for the kids, I would, what Terry said, mine, he would
have captions done, but also have a earbud in watching something on his phone while watching
something on TV. And it just takes really. Yeah. It's so annoying. What are the other? Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. I, you know, if something's in a different language or something like the
passion, like that, I get like, you know, in case you want to know what's going on. But
the whole just regular TV is on or a movie and to have those. Yeah. The captioning
on it drives me crazy. Yeah. I don't, they seem to be able to focus on like three or four
different things at once. And nothing at the same time. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And I don't
know how that you're, I don't know how you're enjoying any of that. Whatever you're doing
there, but it's each their own. I mean, you know, everybody, everybody's different in
the way they take things in. But I, I watched this happen before and not can just marvel
at how they can do all this and at the same time, not register any of it. Anything. Yeah.
It is crazy. Like their brains are just why you're different, including what we're asking
them to do. Like they don't register that either. They don't register that either.
It's like talking to the cat. Yeah. Very, very, very true. You know, it's like, you
don't know what I'm trying to tell you. If I keep you on the phone, we are going to
end up talking NFL draft. So I have to let you go. I have to. But Monday, you and I are
talking Monday, sir. I took a deep practice form before I dial the number and I'm
self control. We're going to self control. I did my, I did my, my, my, my venting a little
bit at work. Just right up, right up. I'm going to wait on Monday for James. I appreciate
that so much. We'll be talking on Monday. I'm playing back with brother. You have a good
weekend. See ya. You too. You too. Best listeners of radio. Be sure to join us for
playmakers on Monday, three to four of a big shout out to quality plus printer and sponsor
in that segment. We appreciate them. Sponsor in that hour. Looking what's new on your
small screen this weekend, the NFL draft rounds two through threes to kick off tonight
at seven on ABC at 11 tomorrow morning. Yeah. 11 tomorrow morning. The rest of the rounds
will be wrapping up by then it'll be storming. So yeah, I do want to say a real shout out
to the end of to ESPN to ABC to the coverage that they do. I, I think that we can easily
make fun of that every, every one of these kids has a tragic story and we get their whole
back like the Disney story, like the, a quick Disney story of every one of these kids.
And I, and I, and I, every one of them, I eat up every one of them gets me. I'm not that
kind of person. I'm not the kind of person that usually gets like pulled into those things.
There is something about the NFL draft. I've seen these kids. Every one of these stories.
I love every one of them. I cannot get an, and I want to draft every one of these kids.
I feel, they, they sell me. They, I am not a person that can be sold a bill of goods
usually with the NFL draft man. I would make a horrible GM because ever one of these,
oh, this seems like a good kid. Like so many of them seem like, you'd have to have a pretty strong
team because they'd be like, yeah, no, no. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's, but they really do do an amazing
job. And we have no idea, no idea if any of these kids are going to work out. We're really not
going to know for a good three or four years. But what we do, and, and there's a lot of moral
trouble so people have with the NFL draft and drafting in general. All that stuff can be put to,
you can compartmentalize, put it to the side. You're getting to see not just one, not just two,
but back to back to back to back. Kids getting their dreams fulfilled. That's pretty darn cool.
And it just works out even better when they happen to fall on your team or something like that.
You have an extra, and even added more reason to be excited or something. So I don't know.
I think it's kind of fun. And I'm, I'm still excited to be able to watch looking forward to it.
Today on Hulu, thank you. Good night. The Dvon Joby story. A lot of people have been talking about
that. Oh, I didn't even hear about it. But I would watch that. There is a huge Bon Joby fan.
There is apparently some pretty like they, they share some stuff that isn't common knowledge or
hasn't been talked about before. Richie Sambora is apparently very like forthcoming in it.
There's been a lot of talk about it. Interesting. It's been a really good one. Tonight on Max,
Call Me Country, Beyonce and Nashville's Renaissance. Also on Paramount Plus tonight,
Knuckles, a six episode Sonic the Hedgehog event featuring the side character, Knuckles.
Sonic the Hedgehog has a TV show. I guess so. Yeah.
And as I mentioned on Saturday, the NFL draft continues with the fourth issue seven thrones.
On Sunday, American Idol on ABC. Be sure to check that out at seven o'clock on ABC.
Also one of the mentioned My Fair Lady, the Lincoln High School theater and music department
presentation going on. I heard great things about yesterday's premiere. Tonight, they have a show
at 730. Saturday is 730 show and Sunday at 2 o'clock, Matt and A. We're going to give you a chance to
win some tickets to one of those shows. Be listening for that coming up. But you can get tickets for it
right now. It's showticksforu.com. That's showticks for you or get them at the door at the performing
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Let's go ahead and do what we like to do around here. Do our star of the day. It's a little bit
different, a little bit different, but there we go. Lights, camera, action. It is time to make
somebody a star of the day with our friends from the Wisconsin Rapids callvers. What Terry and I
are about to do is play a famous TV theme song. You call up 424-2600. Get the answer right and as
long as you haven't won anything in 30 days, boom. Just like that, you win yourself a family pack of
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That sounds amazing. Cannot beat that. Get ready to call up everybody 424-2600 and let us know what
TV theme song this is. Didn't even have to worry about them saying the name. Didn't even have to
worry because you guys are that good. Good morning. What's your answer? Green acres. Nice job.
Nicely done. Nicely done. New that one right away, didn't you?
Yes, yes indeed. Were you a fan of the show growing up?
Watched it many times as a kid. Yeah, same here. Yeah, that's a fun show. It was the theme song.
I think that really brought them in though. I'm sure that they laughed and enjoyed the show,
but that theme song. People love this theme song. It's still popular. What's your first name, sir?
Patrick. Patrick, thank you so much for listening and playing along. Patrick, what town do you call
this from? Saratoga. All right. We're going to Saratoga when we're in a long time. That's awesome.
I appreciate that. Patrick, hang on the line. I'm going to get a little information from you.
I also got to make sure that my agent gets your information because you are our newest star of the day.
Excellent. Excellent. Thank you, Patrick. Hang on the line. We'll talk to you in a moment.
Yeah, that's one of those classic theme songs, Terry. We're doing this one because earlier this
week, we got to celebrate Eddie Albert's birthday. Eddie, of course, the start of Green Acres.
Eddie Albert, a long time actor, heartbreak kid, a couple of other big roles. He was nominated twice
for Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor for Roman Holiday as one of those performances,
a great performance. But I think Eddie Albert, while he's known pretty much for Green Acres, I think,
for a lot to a lot of people. Great, very well celebrated actor before that. And Green Acres,
of course, ran on CBS from 1965 to 1971. And kind of had a reprise, reruns, of course,
were brought on and everything. It's one of the Gabor sisters. That is a very recognizable
theme song. It really is. It's one of those ones. It's pretty snappy. Did you see that
show growing up? A little bit, not a lot. Yeah, I mainly remember a little bits and pieces of it.
I have to be honest with the audience. I saw Eddie Albert's birthday. I'm like, oh, I want to do,
I wanted to do Green Acres. I don't know if we've done that one. I was mixing up Green Acres
and the Beverly Hill billies for like the first for like all of Monday and Tuesday. I kept mixing
the two shows up. I don't know why. I always laugh because my dad will like tease my girls about
something from Green Acres. And they're like, yeah, Papa, we don't even know what you're talking about.
You know, I mean, like they have no clue, but it's kind of funny.
We'll come back after we're done talking with Patrick, our newest star. The day be listening
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Welcome back to the morning show, everybody.
I think Jolene was made up. I don't believe there's a woman alive that could make that
Dolly would be I don't know. I think maybe Jolene was made up. I don't know. Maybe it was all
in her head because I cannot imagine somebody being able to compete with that woman.
We appreciate Dolly playing us in Terry and James here with you. I'm just kidding. Of course.
I'm sure there's some silly enough to try. Right? Right. Oh, God. Oh, I wish you guys could
have seen the look on her face. I mean, you know, that was well. That was good. That was good.
That's something it sounds like. Yeah. Yeah. So here's an interesting one to get into. What is your
approach when you're packing suitcases for a trip? Pack as lightly as possible to limit the stuff
you leave to lug around with you or anything or cram as much as you can into that luggage?
There's a new survey out on Americans packing habits and it found that there's one part of the
country that is packed with overpackers and that is Pennsylvania. For a seven day trip at the
average Pennsylvania and we'll pack 10 shirts, tops, seven pants, bottoms, three pieces of footwear,
three sets of pajamas, 11 pairs of underwear, nine pairs of socks, and four pairs of shoes.
Indiana has the second biggest overpacking problem followed by Kentucky, Mississippi,
South Carolina, Louisiana, New York, and Alabama. Wait, if you're going on a seven day trip,
how is 10 shirts? How is that first descriptor overpacking? Yeah. Yeah. I think that that's a fair
question. Yeah. I don't know if I've ever really been on a trip like that long or anything before,
so I'm not sure. I mean, if I was traveling with someone for seven days and they were the same
shirt for four of those seven, I'd be like, yeah, dude, put some more shirts in your suitcase.
Okay. We might have been traveling together for three days. We're not traveling for four.
Nothing. Indiana has the one quick note about this. Usually when we do these kind of things and
they come down to states, they seem to be lumped together a bit or there seems to be a pattern like
it's all eastern states or all southern states or something like that. This is all over the place
it feels like. Yeah, you've got almost every area the country represented with this one. That's
interesting. The state that packs the lightest is Minnesota, which is a little weird considering
how cold it could be up there and everything, but I don't know. Maybe it's the traveling.
These are all Caribbean tropes. Yes, yes, out of Minnesota. Yeah, and I'm not taking any of the winter
weather with me or winter clothes with me. For a seven day trip, the average Minnesota will bring
eight shirts or tops, five pants and bottoms. You can imagine where the rest of this goes.
So not as much as the other people. Oregon is the state that packs the second lightest
fellow by Washington, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado, Nevada, and Hawaii. In general, the West
packs lighter than the East, particularly the Southeast. Overall, the average American will
pack eight shirts or tops, six pants and bottoms, and two pieces of formal wear,
in two cents of pajamas. When it comes to your week trip, a seven day trip.
45% of Americans say that they purposely overpack while about 10% say that they try to pack lightly.
25% of people say that they always return home with clothes. They did not wear at all on their
trip. And 8.3% of people say that that never happens. That almost always happens to me.
I'll come back with stuff that hasn't been worn. But what if you need it? Yep.
What if the weather is, you know, this or that? I don't know. I'm an overpacker. I guess I don't
think about the quantity. I think about it. If I can have 50 pounds of suitcase, I'm probably at
like 46 pounds. Right, right, right. I get that. I get that. It depends on if I've been there
before. If it's somewhere I've been before, like the first time I went to Texas, I overpacked
because I've never been, I never really spent that much time in a warmer climate before. So I
didn't know what to expect. And I've heard so much about Texas. The second time I went out there,
I was a little more prepared. I understood the weather a little bit better. And so I was much more
of a light packing. For me, that's usually what it comes down to, is if I've been there before. And
am I, am I just, you know, stereotyping what I think the weather is going to be like? Or am I,
you know, actually talking to somebody from there. And oh, okay, California's not really as hot as
I thought it would be or something like that. Yeah, I'm just not, I don't know. I'm just not
the, that could have a packer. Maybe you're talking to somebody, you know, and they have just,
just their carry on. I'm a little suitcase. And oh, yeah, I'm going to be somewhere over for 10 days.
I'm like, 10 days, like, yeah, that's all you have. I think it, I don't know. Since she's become a mom,
I'm not sure how much this might have changed. But my little sister was always so good at packing.
And it almost would drive me nuts because she could fit so much, bring so much, but it was all
perfectly put away and it would all like, it looked like a professional in Dunnether or something
like that. I don't know. How about you out there? Let us know. 715-424-2600. How do you pack? I
imagine a lot of people getting ready for a spring and summer travel and love to hear how you're doing
it. Maybe you can give some people some tips. After our news break, we'll come back and get into 10
things that turn 50 this year. See if that makes us feel young or old. We'll find out when we come
back on the show here. Looking forward to that. That's it. It should be a good one. We've got
that coming up for you in plenty more here on the morning show at WFHR where we are locally grown.
Welcome back everybody. Morning show here at WFHR locally grown radio. Terry and James hanging
out with you. Hope you're having a great Friday out there. Get ready for the weekend. Good stuff
coming up for you. Get into some bad ain't right stories and good stories of the day. We'll
touch on some great local events in our area. You want to take some time for that. That coming up
for you. But right now, let's see. Do we feel young or old from this list? Do you? Yeah,
feel free to call up. In fact, call up right now. I guess. Let's go ahead and take a phone call.
Good morning. What's on your mind? Good morning. You were talking about packing.
You can't even find one set of pajamas in my house. We grew up poor. We didn't have money for
pajamas. I hear you. Yep. I completely hear you, sir. I've never owned a pair of pajamas.
I've never I've never understood that. I have one. Yeah. I have one pajama bottom if I'm really sick
and I have a worn nose and ears. I can completely relate to that. I get I hear you.
saves a lot of room on past saves you room in the bag. Yeah. Yeah. Always appreciate the call, sir.
Thank you. Appreciate those calls as always, everybody. Keep in common. 715-424-2600. We love
here and from you. What kind of packer are you? Yeah. Let's hear from you. Mid-March seems like a
random time for this. Bemento floss just posted a list of things that turning 50 in 2024 and here are
some big ones. If you were born in 1974, here are 10 random things that are as old as you are.
I was a 77 kid. I turned 50 last year. I mean, I'm sure I'll remember all this stuff. Some of this.
Post-it notes. A guy accidentally invented a week glue in 1968 but didn't know what to do with it.
Six years later, another guy wanted a way to bookmark pages in his hymnal book at church and post-its
were born. Post-it notes from 1968 over and how about Rubik's Cube? Yeah. Kind of figured that one
would be at least 50 years old. It was invented in 1974 by a guy, a Hungarian guy named
Erno Rubik. He originally called them magic cubes. Really? You thought they were that old?
I thought they came out in like 1980. I would have... Okay, so I wouldn't have thought 50 maybe,
but a close. Yeah. Yeah. But you know, you're right. I would have thought... I just feel like when I was
like an elementary-ish school is when they... It does feel like that. Maybe that's just when they got
over to us. Right. This is an interesting one. Bar Codes. Now, on the surface, I would think,
oh, Bar Codes have been around since like the 50s or something like that. I would think at least 50,
60s, maybe 60s more likely. Oh, Bar Codes. A guy from New Jersey named Joe Woodland. Joe Bar Codes.
It would... It came up with the idea and drew it in the sand while vacationing in Florida.
The first Bar Codes was scanned on June 26th in 1974 and then completely revolutionized shopping
Yeah. And inventory systems and reordering. Yeah, that's amazing. I definitely would have thought that
was older. Bailey... See, and I think it's newer. I wouldn't have put that as older.
Bailey's Irish cream. Cream-based lacours. I mean, that I remember.
But it debuted as the first Irish cream on the market in 1974. That's interesting. That's good.
Yes, it is. Very good. Yes. The Heimlich maneuver. Dr. Wow. Dr. Henry Heimlich described it in an article
in 1974. It started as a theory and it turned out to work really well. Before that, the advice was
to smack a choking person on the back over and over again. And we're not kidding. That was the actual
medical term. What you want to do is just wind back. Really hard. It's work.
Have someone else pull your arm back and then release it and keep doing... How many people did we lose
the choking like before the Heimlich maneuver? Like, I'm just going to win it here. You got people
that went to school for like eight years to be a doctor. Like, I don't know. Just wide up.
I don't get it. Let's see. Thank you, Mr. Heimlich.
Dungeons and Dragons. The very first copy... The first people to own a copy got their hands on it
in the early 1970s and 1974 to be exact. Dungeons and Dragons, as many probably know out there,
has some Wisconsin ties this. I believe the creator of Dungeons and Dragons is from Wisconsin.
So when they're saying in 1974, people got their hands on it. What a book or the video.
Like, what is it that they're identifying? So I'm guessing like the actual like the game,
like the board and stuff, like you started going around or started being able to be bought by
other people. Because I believe Dungeons and Dragons started as something that was this grassroots,
I think. I was one of those boards. Like shoots and letters. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Just speaking of Connect 4, Connect 4 shows up. A guy named Howard Wexler wanted to create a board
game that was played vertically. Milton Bradley ran with it and started selling it in February
of 1974. I loved mine. Yeah, that was fun. Yeah, that was fun game. Skittles. Oh, I love Skittles.
They were invented in the UK in 1974, but didn't hit shelves here in the US until 1979.
Their chocolatey cousin Eminem's are a lot older. Eminem's have been around since 1941.
Yeah, what's your favorite color? Skittles. And they do not all taste the same. So don't even say
that orange orange. Yeah, it depends on the like you're talking the regular. Just plain
brain, plain brain. Yeah, the orange ones. I like orange. Yeah. Okay. How about you? Red and purple.
Don't care about the rest. Oh, it's so good. Yeah, red and purple. Those are good. Those are
our guys. I love the purple ones. Don't care about the other ones. No, what can I change my answer?
Yellow green and orange. Somebody else can eat purple is a good one. That's a good one.
Dayquil. Nightquil hit pharmacies eight years earlier in 1966, but dayquil landed in 1974.
It was originally called daycare. See why they changed the name. Yeah, because not to be given
to your children to keep them sitting in the corner. There's a lot of bad things. There's a lot
of bad there. A lot of bad marketing there. And the meow mix jingle. What about that one? Yeah.
I remember that a lot from when I was a kid in the commercials. The cats just sing me out
over and over again. And if you remember the lyrics, I want chicken. I want liver. It's only because
you've seen Austin Powers. The old ads had similar subtitles though. I forgot about those.
Oh, those were great ads. Those were popular. Those are good. Those are good ones. Yeah. So
there's there's a plenty of other things that are out there that like a let me see here.
I'm trying to look at mental floss dot com, which is where you can find the complete list mental
floss dot com. The US privacy act, US privacy act is as important as is important today as it was
when it was enacted in 1974. Think about it like this. Imagine the government has a huge filing
cabinet with folders about everyone containing things like your name and where you live and all that.
The privacy act regulates how federal agencies collect, use and disseminate just disseminate
that people's personal information. That's something that I don't think a lot of us would have
thought is around that long. Stephen King's first novel, Carrie. It's another one that came out
in 1974. I remember that. I think it's on that movie. Yeah. Yeah. And let me see here.
Liposuction came around. So liposuction, people started doing this in 1921, but it didn't come
to a common thing and an actual practice until 1974. Probably became much more accessible to people.
Yeah. Yeah. Kinder surprise eggs. Those little surprise egg things.
Kinder joy. Yeah. Kinder joy. Those just made like a research, probably like maybe what,
like five years ago or something. Yeah. Yeah. And now they're you see them everywhere.
They didn't even understand what they were. Yeah. Yeah. And now they're you're so right.
Now they're everywhere. And they're good. Yeah. They are. The bold laundry detergent or really
a lot of the popular laundry detergents really came around and bound in the 70s and people magazine.
People magazine with nearly 26,000 issues under its belt people magazine is one of the most iconic
pop culture magazines in the world. And it debuted in 1977. You know, and they've evolved nicely.
You know, I mean, like they've stayed relevant where a lot of other magazines have just kind of
I mean, relevant. If you're if that's your interest. But I'm just saying you don't see
as many magazines around as you did when we were kids. And they seem to have whether the storm
of the change in media pretty well. They adapted quicker than most. Yeah. And I think you can see
some of the new space or the magazines and newspapers really. But a lot of the magazines that
really got ahead of this and understood, okay, we have to have an online presence as well and
tie those together. People magazine, one of the bigger one. Maybe the best one that is done
out of all of them. There's a lot of I'm not counting like sports magazines and stuff.
Right. Just entertainment entertainment. I guess. Yeah. It's interesting.
It's also interesting to me too. One of the things that I if you asked me like five or
10 years ago and somebody said, well, you know, 20 years from now there will be no more magazines.
I'd believe you. But now we're seeing there's a lot of people there's people that have a
love for these. And it's not like who you expect like dentist office, you know, like that kind of
thing. Like there's lots of people that actually do still read magazines and collect them and
have a journal or subscriptions for them. It's interesting. We will take a time out. We'll come back
after checking in with our partners and talk about we'll wrap up the show. We've got some good stories
that they want to get to, including some local stuff I want to touch on. I'll come it up for you
on the morning show here at WFHR. Welcome back everyone. Morning show here at WFHR,
locally grown radio. Terry and James hanging out with you.
We hope you had a fun time today with the show. Encourage you to stick around,
Matt and air on the air coming up for you and plenty of other great programming throughout the
day. We'll get into midday magazine for you in just a little bit and got some local good stories
of the day we want to touch on. But here's that ain't right story for everybody. A couple in Utah
is thrilled to be reunited with their cat Galena who mysteriously disappeared two weeks ago.
They looked all over for her and even put up signs in the neighborhood. But it turned out Galena
didn't run away. The couple shipped her to Amazon. I mean, seriously. Ah, Galena loves hiding
in boxes and she was inside a box of worker boots that was labeled that was later packed up,
dropped off and returned to Amazon. Okay. A boot box. A boot box. I mean, I'm envisioning this
is going to be like some great big box that had like a comforter in it that you could, you know,
boots, boots in a cat. Oh, I didn't notice the cat. I ordered my work boots to match my cat.
I'm pushing boots. I mean, you know, the cat was in the box for six days without food and water
before being discovered by the Amazon employee named Brandy who immediately started caring for
the cat. She took her to the vet who scanned her microchip. Galena's owner Kerry says she was
stunned to get a call that the cat had traveled from Utah to California. I mean, that cat was
singing the meal. Yeah. Yeah. She traveled. She traveled to California to get her. Thankfully,
she recovered. She's recovering without any serious issues. Although it's very good to see that
she was found when she was severe several lucky breaks help help this story have a happy ending.
Galena was in a big box. There weren't just that weren't just shipping boots, but other pair of
five pan five pairs of boots because they were doing Amazon's try before you buy program.
Okay. Well, that makes me feel a little bit better, but still I hope that they practice more with
their cat before they have children. Right on. Yeah. Yeah. I don't even know how you can accidentally
do this and how you don't hear the cat. Like the cat's probably going to make noise.
Yeah. That ain't right. That ain't right. I don't know if we're kitty.
Thankfully, the weather was okay. So that also played into the factor of working out for Galena,
but yeah, that another good reason of microchip in your pets and looking at what you're doing,
paying attention to what you're doing a little bit. I mean, yeah, turn off the subtitles so you
can pay attention to what you're doing. So I love these stories where it's a that ain't right story
about these people. Yeah. But it's a good story of the day. Good for the pet. And this lady who
took care of the pet, the worker or the employee. That was really cool of them, I think. But could
you imagine you're like undoing stuff and all of a sudden you're like, oh, cat, you know, it's
got to, it's got to be a freaky situation. I guess that cat's probably better than some other
alternatives. Yes. Yeah. Raccoon or something, you know, jumping out your face. Yeah. We,
we got to get a palette cleanser in here. Let's get to our good story of the day. And it kicks off
with Midday Magazine. Be sure to join us from three to four today. Good conversations to wrap up
the week. We have a great one in part one, Mike Rea, executive director at the aging and
disability resource center of Central Wisconsin. It's going to join us looking forward to
catching up with the ADRC. And in part two, we're going to have our good friend and you're both
of our good friend, Craig Braun, Wisconsin's Rapids Public Schools Superintendent and Julie Colorick,
Principal over at Woodside Elementary School. Nice. We'll talk with them, get to know Woodside a
little bit more, catch up with Craig and about all things relating our public schools. Talk on
Rapids area here. We'll get into that and looking forward to it. It's going to be a great
set of conversations. We, of course, always want to send a big shout out to Pam Hilke and the
amazing scheduling sheet Juz week in a week out Midday Magazine. Appreciate that, Pam. It is
playoffs, baby, Bucks basketball right here on WFHR. All the games they play throughout the
whole run here. We're going to be playing them. It kicks out another one tonight, four o'clock,
a little bit earlier, start time actually four o'clock for the Bucks hosting Indiana that
series is tied one one. Let's see if we can get Milwaukee in the wind column and there will be
a game on Sunday right here at WFHR. That game will kick off at 530. That means that we will not
have any of our original Sunday programming for you. Unlabeled directors cut the set faces of
music. We'll not be playing those shows this Sunday. Be listening for next opportunity to hear
those. And of course, you can catch old episodes at civicmedia.us. Just go under shows and check
out those. We encourage you to do that. Some great things going on in our area this weekend,
Terry. We've got to take a deep breath. There's a lot to cover. Now, this event is wrapped up,
I believe, for registration. But I did want to send a shout out to our friends at the historic
point boss with their campfire cooking sessions. They'll be doing tomorrow. I do believe that those
sessions are they've got all the people they can for those all registered. But it's such a great
event. And while this event might be booked, there's a lot of other great events going on over
at this historic point boss. I encourage you to help keep history alive and maybe volunteer out
there looking to doing those things and helping our friends over at this store point boss.
You can find out more at historicpointboss.com. Also, one of them mind everybody that the farmer's
market is going on the winter farmers market over at the Moravian Church. This will be happening
until May 18th is when it'll be going on until of course, after that, we'll have our summer
market. But check out the winter farmers market over at the Wisconsin Ravism Moravian Church
at 310 First Avenue South right here in Wisconsin Rapids. If you're a vendor and would like to
be a part of things over there, encourage you to go to www.muravian.org and look for the vendor's
section. There's right at the end of the tab there. Also, one of the touch on this one, the main
quilt show happening going on Saturday and Sunday. Sixth annual fundraising quilt show to
benefit Jeremiah's crossing. They have so many great things with this event. We do not have enough
time, but a judge quilt show, youth categories, feature quilt artists, vendors, class and demos,
viewer choice awards, basket raffle, quilt raffle, door prizes for attendees. It's a wonderful event.
You can find out more at Jeremiah'sCrossing.org, Jeremiah'sCrossing.org. Again, the main quilt show
taking place over at where they taking place at. Where is this going on? You can find out more at
Jeremiah'sCrossing.org, Jeremiah'sCrossing.org. I got it looking ahead here a little bit because
I'm very excited about this event that the Boys and Girls Club have going on today from 7 to 10
at the Ridge's Golf Course. It's a great opportunity to not only learn more about the Boys and Girls
Club, but to have some fun. This is their toast to great futures benefit, wine and beer tasting
event going on today over at the Ridge's. Be sure to check that out. Is that weird or fine?
A little both, a little bit of both. Did you have a note on that?
Yes, so the main quilt show, benefiting Jeremiah's Crossing tomorrow and Sunday,
is at the Nakusa High School Field House. I thought so. I didn't want to say it without
a hundred percent, but I thought it was over there. I have a great time at that event, everybody.
Be sure to enjoy that one. Again, the toast to great futures going on with the Boys and Girls Club
over at the Ridge's is happening tonight from 7 to 10. Be sure to enjoy and tickets are available
at the Boys and Girls Club at the Wisconsin Rapids area or at Richards Lickers over on H Street.
And then just a couple more. One of the touch on like the Run the Rapids 5K Run Walk is
happening tomorrow from starting at 9 a.m. It kicks off over at the Centrelius Center.
Support child abuse prevention. Become part of this beloved event that rolls along the Wisconsin
River. Proceeds benefit the Wood County Humane Services Department. Child abuse prevention
initiatives. Be sure to check that out, everybody. If you want to be a part of this event,
be sure to head on over there. The Kids Dash kicks off at 830. The 5K Run Walk at 9 a.m.
and awards and refreshments to follow. So wonderful event. Be sure to check it out. You can go
ahead and be a part of this great event and add to an amazing cause. Encourage everybody to be
a part of that. Drug take back day is happening this weekend, this Saturday. Here in Rapids,
it'll be taking place 10 to 2 hosted by our friends at the Grand Rapids Police Department.
It'll be taking place over over there. It'll also be involving Wisconsin's Wood County Sheriff's
Department. We'll also be there as well. Encourage everybody to be able to get rid of those items
and a safe way. Get them out of your house. Terry, I want to wrap up talking a little
United Way with you and one other event. Let's touch on the United Way. So we are currently taking
team registrations for United Weeknd. If you'd like to be in and the pre-registration drawing,
we need your registration by May 1st for the event that is June 18th. And so we'll certainly
be talking about that more as it gets close, but we are recruiting teams. And then lastly,
today from noon until 1, we will be out front of the United Way office in our at St. John's
Church across the street and for a volunteer appreciation event. So if you've been a volunteer
with United Way in the last year, we invite you to come on by. It's just a drive-through token
of appreciation kind of event. Ben will be there to to be thanking volunteers. And you know,
of course, always a shout out to all volunteers for all programs. But this today concludes
National Volunteer Week. And so, you know, we just want to show our appreciation.
A big thank you to you and the team over there at the United Way. They keep this community moving
and impact it so much. We appreciate you doing and doing events like that. Find out more at
uswac.org. And be sure to follow the United Way on social media. Got to go. It's a great follow.
Why don't you remind everybody that my fair lady, Lincoln High School Theatre and Music
Department presentation is happening this weekend. It's a great play. You can check out a show
tonight at 7.30 tomorrow at 7.30 or Sunday at 2 o'clock, that matinee. I have tickets here for the
Friday show at 7.30 and the matinee for Sunday. I have two tickets each. Well, yeah, I have two
tickets for each show. If you would like to go, give us a call. 715-424-2600-424-2600.
Call up, join the conversation. Get yourself these tickets to my fair lady. Otherwise,
if you'd like to go, you can get tickets at showticks4u.com. That's showticks4u.com or right at the front
door of the Performing Arts Center. Encourage you to support local theater and to support these kids.
Yeah, great opportunities for our young people. A couple of world good stories want to touch on
real quick wildlife officials in Colorado. Save two mountain lion cubs that got trapped in a
reservoir spillway. They lowered a rope down. Oh, not in an Amazon box. Not in the Amazon box.
And a 22 year old woman in Michigan just graduated from nursing school and the traditional
pinning ceremony was a real full circle moment. She got her pin from a nurse named Sarah Longest,
who took care of her as a preemie 22 years ago. That's sweet. That's cool because you get to select
who does your pinning and so for her to you know, I mean, for her to do that. I think that's really
cool. Very cool. Very cool hanging out with you. Terry, have a great weekend. You too.
Be good to each other. Have a great weekend. We'll talk to you on Monday right here at
