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. I'm joined by Melissa.
Good morning. And Seth. Good morning. And the best listeners in radio. Thanks for joining
us, everybody. Hope you're having a good one. Wonderful eight o'clock hour. That was
a lot of fun. It was. We're going to keep that momentum going into the nine o'clock
here with some entertainment news a little bit later. We're going to get into a fun one.
Fifteen things we miss about being a kid. That'll be coming up a little bit later.
And I've got this really exciting conversation I want to have with the two of you. It does
start off with sports, but we'll get to get to it. It's going to be fun. I promise. We're
going to be coming up a little bit later. But for right now, we're just going to touch
on some entertainment news real quick for you. And sources say, so this is something that
has been coming up with the rock for a little bit now. The rock has been late for some
things. There's a reports that he's chronically late to various projects. And it's been
causing a lot of concerns for him in the industry. And it's part of the reason why his
star has faded a little bit over the last four to five years. His movies have been doing
as well. He hasn't had the hits that he's had. And you all you got to do is listen to
the rock to hear how his movies have not been as big as they're supposed to be at all
this, which I don't know. Interesting. Yeah. So for instance, when he was filming Red
Notice back in 2020, his lateness caused a rift between him and Ryan Reynolds, supposedly
to the point that if that Ryan had to tell him, he was affecting the shooting schedule.
And this was during COVID when there was strict protocols that already made it difficult.
Source to say the issue wasn't as bad as some media outlets are making it to be. They
got past it enough to do Red Notice too. However, it should be noted. Ryan Reynolds, while
he is a funny guy, you know, known for a lot of things, welcome to Rex and all this stuff.
One of the most professional actors in the game, like on time, last person to leave stays
late, goes above and beyond, does things for free. Ryan Reynolds is one of the reason part
of the reason why you see Ryan Reynolds work so much is because of all these factors, not
just that he is incredibly talented. The rock on the other side of this has gotten work
because of his name. And that's starting to fade. And so it'll be interesting to see
how this goes. Yeah. Meanwhile, the rock is currently in production on a Christmas action
movie called Red One for Amazon and Insiders say his tardiness has caused the budget to
balloon to over 50 million. Whoa. Supposedly, he could be up to eight hours late at any
given shooting. What? And one one source says there's a producer on set that has said
Duane truly doesn't care. And he will not, we will not be working with him again. Wow.
Wow. Amazon is denying some of these reports because it doesn't really help promote
the new. No, it doesn't. That has not even been finished filming yet to promote. But
this stuff is coming out in droves right now. This is, I mean, this is what happens. This
is karma. You know, this is, I don't care who you are. Everybody in the world knows how
I feel about Rob Williams. If this was Rob Williams in this role, I'd be saying the same
damn thing. Like you can't, you can't do this. There is no star. There is no talented
person on the planet worth this. I will take the person who is their day one and giving
everything they got over talent any day. And that's in entertainment. That's in sports.
That's in everything. It's in everything. It's any job. You can't do that. I mean, I
know it's different in terms of entertainment because these are people that are famous.
A lot of people know who they are and they're very well compensated. I mean, the top let's
just say that the top are well compensated for their thing. But you can't, no, you can't
do that. That's ridiculous. That's just a mess of eight hours. Eight hours. I've seen
we've all seen, especially in the last 10, 15 years, a lot of people lose their careers
over silly things. I can't think it's one of the more sillier things of something that
you can control. Exactly. And you don't have to do. And this is part of why your star
is fading. I couldn't imagine working so hard to get to this point, getting to the level
he is at. The love that that man has. It's very hard. It leased up until a couple of
years ago or two. It was pretty hard to find somebody that didn't like the rock. This
is one of the quickest ways to destroy that. So I thought that was an interesting story.
One of the touch on that. I got another one that I thought was kind of cool here.
Love Colleges are offering classes on Taylor Swift and Beyonce. And there's a number
of those out there. We've touched on some of them. And a curriculum. Now, here's one
for the rest of us. Vermont State University is offering a course on Weird Al Yankovic.
Oh, nice. Professor Brian Warwick says, quote, Al Yankovic's work is not just about
the parodies. It's also about his tribute to past J songs, past J past D's songs, where
it's actually an original work of Al Yankovic. And he's paying tribute to another artist.
The course will analyze what makes a good parody how to pay tribute to another artist
Al's lyricism and the context of the world when the songs were written. Yes. That's an
interesting part of there. Warwick says, quote, it just gives us an avenue to start studying
the 20th century and pop culture in 20th century. Yes. So while it is a Weird Al kind of named
after Weird Al, it's really, really diving into pop culture in the world. Right. And
you see that a lot with with co courses, especially like in culture and stuff like that.
They'll focus on one thing, Weird Al or, you know, like Taylor Swift or something like
that, but they're not just studying the artist. They're studying the context they're in,
the culture that, you know, created them and what they created in return, that kind of
thing. So it's much more than just, let's talk about Weird Al songs, you know, I heard
him talk about this in an interview before about the difference of a parody and what
he does. And a pastiche and everything. And it's really kind of interesting. It's kind
of cool. And you, you really do have to be creative. Like it's not just sitting there and
coming up with, okay, beat it, eat it. Like it's not just that. No, it's for one, you've
got to master this. Oh, well, it should be noted. Weird Al Yankovic never paraded a song
that he didn't ask the artist if he could. Right. Which he didn't have to do. Did not
have to. You do not have to do that. Yes. Nothing about it that had to. I always think
that's really noteworthy about his career. Exactly. Yeah. And it just is noteworthy that
we wouldn't have heard these songs if those artists didn't okay it. So I think that's
pretty cool too, where there's a lot of artists like Michael Jackson and some of those that
don't necessarily have the greatest name that is kind of cool that they did that. I think
those things are noteworthy too. And it's just the idea of also, okay, I'm going to
stamp, I'm going to do this song and everybody's got to know it's beat it, but I can't do
beat it. I can't use those exact words, those exact lyrics or even notes or songs because
copyright issues. So to be able to work around copyright issues creatively, it's one thing
to be a songwriter and to write a song and an original and all that. It's a completely
different thing I would think to be able to do something like this. It's just a different
art form. It is saying it's better or worse or anything like that. It's just something
I really respect. Even if I don't listen to his music anymore or anything I haven't
since I was 13, probably to be honest, but I respect him so much.
Yeah, and it's fascinating. This is actually a really good lens to look at this stuff because
a lot of his stuff is of the time, okay? A lot of his joke like, for instance, he does
a parody on our loves and jeopardy by the great kid, Ken band. I lost on jeopardy at a
time when jeopardy was like first coming out was really popular and stuff like that. So
I mean, it's a great way of looking at, well, what was going on at this time? What was
big in pop culture because he spoke to a lot of that, which is really interesting.
I lost on jeopardy. Yes. Baby. Got Don Pardo on it too. Right now. That's so good.
So when the humiliation of nothing, it's great. I would definitely, I hope they offer
that online. I love to take my class. This is the last show of the week that we're going
to be together, the gang and I. So one of the two was get into the WBAs a little bit
with you guys as that is going on this weekend. I, so let's go ahead and let everybody
know what the WBAs are. Their Wisconsin Broadcaster Association has been doing this for many, many
years where they award Wisconsin radio stations and shows highlighting them, promoting
radio, supporting radio, WBA and TV station. TV station. I knew we should mention that.
I really, I really appreciate what they do. And I have never, like I've gotten the newsletter,
I've paid attention to the WBAs for a very long time. Being honest with the audience,
I never want for one second of ever thought about winning in one of those awards or even
the award categories or anything to be honest with you. It wasn't something that was in
my radar. This is a busy job. It's a 24 seven job. It's something that you got to keep.
So, you know, spending a brain bandwidth on awards wasn't something I ever did with
Pacific Media. We have a new company here over the last couple of years. We have a young
company. One of the ways to get noticed is to get nominated for awards and just throw
your hat in the ring, you know. So, we are asked to do this. And we, we thanks to the
great work by our team behind the scenes. It starts with Chuck Genaro and the great work
that Chuck was doing, getting this stuff filed in, helping us stay on point, helping us
understand how to find category, what to categorize and all those things. How long things
needed to be? I have to send a humongous shout out to Melissa and Seth and the amazing work
that you guys did on this front and all that you did to make it to this point. I appreciate
that so very much what you guys did. We're not in this point without you two. Just point
blank. We're not here without you two. That needs to be said and I don't want it ever
to be law. I don't want to normalize how different this station has been since adding
you to it. We are we are better for it. Awards or not. We are better for it. And our listeners
are and that's the most important part. All of those factors and all those things and
here we are where this Saturday the WBA Awards are going to be taking place and our team
is going to be there. I do have to and I don't need to do this on the air but I just realized
I'm about to. I don't know if I will be there with you guys. I planned on being my parents
are doing kind of rough being honest with the audience and I don't know how confident
they feel me being overnight out of town for a weekend. But we'll see. We're going to
play that by ear and see how that goes. More importantly, you guys are going to be there
I understood from what I understand. Yep. And you all can be there. You all can watch.
You all can take this in. This is going to be live streamed. So you can go and catch
it live. You can go to w i dash broadcasters.org w i dash broadcasters.org or if you just
type in your search bar with constant broadcasters association, you will find it. This is going
to be a fun one and we are gang. We are representing. All right. I want to take our I'll give
this on the clock here. All right. 915. Let's give ourselves a minute to brag. Okay. It's
a feel good. Right. Real quick. There's two things I want to point out. Okay. Really
quick about how this works. So we the awards are by station. Yes. They're not by network.
So while civic media is like, Hey, guys, get your stuff in. This is all by station. So
the awards go to us W F H R if we win these awards. That's what we get. They get here. Second,
the judging happens out of state. Yes. Yes. They send all the stuff to a different
states. We don't know who it is. And if all the stateers listen and they're the ones
that choose the top three for each category, send it back and say, Okay, these are our
choices. So that's that's what we're dealing with with here. And there are people in the
industry. Yes. They are people in the other state. Exactly. And while something just one
thing, those are great notes. You guys, again, this is why you guys are so good at this
and why you have such a benefit to our station. It is also it should be noted where we thought
we were just in the running for these. That actually what we found out is we are in the
top three. Yep. So all of these things that we're about to mention, not only us, but
our good brothers and sisters out there that are working here at Civic Media that are also
nominated. We're all walking away with something at least a bronze medal. Yeah. Exactly.
All on the medal stand here. Yeah. One. We're just going to find out what place we're in. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Which is so cool. I want to send a shout out for the best radio show nominated.
Maggie Dawn show. Best continuing coverage. Their old Ingram show. Two of my favorite people in
this network on this in this company that I love hearing from. Love that they are a part of the
team. I'd like to get to know both of them a little bit more as well. We also want to send a
shout out to Minino. Mino in the mayor. Mino in the mayor. Mino in the mayor. We don't play
in that state that show yourself. We didn't want to send a shout out to them. Still good stuff.
Yeah. Chad Holmes got nominated for best interview. Oh, shout out to him. We're up against him.
Yeah. That's right. Yeah. Yeah. And then there's us. So in the category of best morning radio
show mornings with WFHR. Listen right now. Yeah. Best radio show. The kitchen's open.
Shout out now. Best continuing coverage. Peefas in Warsaw. The coverage on that again.
Shout out. That's a melissa. Best use of audio in radio news. Anti-mask resolution.
That's a melissa. I want to say for best specialty programming. Set faces the music.
Oh, big shout out to you on that one. Also for best specialty programming. Directors cut.
Yeah. Set this up against himself. I am up against myself on that one. That's okay.
All right. The. I'm a winner. Two ways, man. Yep. Yep. If you win for set faces music,
you get to do all the talking. If it's directors cut, I'll do all the. Yeah, there you go.
I'm joking. I'm so kidding. I'm joking. And a best humorous commercial or underwritten
underwriting announcement doorworks voicemails. That's a melissa. That's a fantastic one.
Featuring James's voice and Pam's voice. That's true. A couple other voices, yeah.
Best promotional announcement. Set faces the music promo. One of my favorite promotions.
I've ever heard commercials. I've ever heard on the radio. And I got to get once again.
I got to give James credit for submitting that one. I did not want to submit it. I didn't think
it was that great. But he's like, no, no, no, you got to do it. So good. I give you credit for that one,
that's the one where I'm like whispering behind you guys. Yes, that is correct. Yeah.
I did that in one take. Oh, really? Really? Yes. I didn't know that. I wish that out in five minutes
to send it back. That's fantastic. That's even cooler. And finally, best interview,
directors cut the interview Seth and I had with some mystery science theaters Mary Jo Peel.
Yes. So these are all. And that's why that one's up against Chad Holmes. And he's like,
I can't even be mad about it because I love her so much. It's his favorite show. Yeah.
Which is hilarious. That's fantastic. I do want to send a big thank you to the WBAs for this.
This is the easily the one of the most humbling things never happened to our station.
Absolutely. I have to send a gigantic shout out to civic media and to in particular,
say, while who we wouldn't have even done this if they didn't encourage us to. Yeah,
if he hadn't pushed us in everything. So a big, big thank you to them. We don't get to shout out
our higher ups very often. We appreciate them. Appreciate at the same time. I say,
hires up, hires up, but they don't treat us that way. No. We got a great company here.
We do. And we got some great people we get to work with. And I haven't been able to say that a
lot in my life. I haven't gotten to say that a lot in my career. So I really do. I'm going to take
that moment. It's different. Yeah. It's different. It's nice. Again, you can catch the whole entire
event at the WBAs website, WI Broadcasters.org, WI-Broadcasters.org. Be sure to check it out this Saturday
every Saturday and ruin on our team. This is your team. This is your hometown team.
Just like you root for your rafters, your river kings, you should be rooting for us that way.
That's us. I'm trying. As you know, I try to, I'm not trying to be overly, you know, optimistic
or anything. But there's one thing I do hope that I can do is one of those pictures with an
arm full of like a horse. Oh god. That's because it would be fun to do. That'd be cool. That'd be awesome.
As a side note, I don't think they're live streaming the whole event. I think they're just live
streaming the awards for a station of the year and radio or TV station of the year and radio
station of the year. Oh, good to know. Good to know. Thank you for that. It's just that because it's
said something in the email about we don't know what time it will be because it depends on when
things wrap up. Oh, okay. Makes sense. Appreciate that. Yeah. With us up for winning nine different
things, you know, guys, we could be in the running for that. Oh, yeah. That is true. That is true.
It's points. It's awarded by points. Wow. And wow. That is a good note to mention as well of
all the radio stations, WFHR, biggest nominated out of our network. Out of our network. Yeah,
yeah, out of our network and everything. That's pretty darn cool. That's cool. That's it. I hope
everybody spent more than a minute on congratulating ourselves, but well spoken, James, well done.
Yes. And I want everybody in this studio and everybody in part of the WFHR team to take a victory
lap on this one. And most importantly, I also want our advertisers to and I want our listeners to
this is a team effort. And none of this happens without the other piece. Absolutely. We are all
connected and we all make this work together. So I just work by everybody. We're going to take
a quick time out. Come back. We're going to talk local theater when we come back on the morning
show at WFHR. Welcome back, everybody. Morning show here at WFHR locally growing radio.
I cannot believe you put this in the bumpers of all the bumper songs you can choose.
If you were a child of the 80s, you know this one, you know, this was the most,
this is one of the most quintessential 80s songs like it's gotta be as far as the lyrics,
I want to be rich, but that just is the 80s. That was the 80s, man. That was so the
everything, image, money. You better believe it. Melissa, Seth and James here with you. Hope
you're having a great, great Wednesday out there. Happy Humpty, everybody. Thanks so much to
joining us. Thanks to the best listeners in radio. And of course, all the guests we've had on
the show today appreciate all of them. And speaking of guests, we had Phil Hartley on
earlier, Phil, a part of the cast of rumors. We're going to get to rumors in a moment at how
you can get tickets. I did want to spend a couple of minutes, though, on Warsaw Community Theater.
Warsaw, we're going to be joined tomorrow, actually. Seth and I are going to be recording
a director's cut with a good friend, Amber, who is over at Seawack and works with Warsaw as well.
We're going to talk about some great shows and great things that they have going on over there,
Warsaw. While we can, yeah, because Warsaw Community Theater is in a financial struggle to
stay afloat. During the pandemic, we lost a lot of community theaters, a lot of local theaters.
We are extremely fortunate here at WRCTA at Wisconsin-Rapis Community Theater right here in
town that we have a community that has supported them. At the time, Tim Young, who was the executive
director over there, I was really working closely with Tim during the pandemic and covering a lot
of this stuff with him. And I have in a few times, we all know Tim pretty well. A few times in my
life, I have seen Tim more like on the verge of happy tears, just like Tim usually had something to
say. He could talk, but a few times I saw him speechless. He was speechless when he saw that we
were going to be okay. We found out early on in the pandemic, we were going to be okay because
this community, while they could have had their season tickets returned to them, their money
returned to them, they did not do that. Other community theaters were not as fortunate.
The WRC community theater is in financial struggles. I want to encourage people to go
to bullsfallradio.com. Bullsfallradio.com. There is a fantastic art of there.
Article on there by our good friend, Brittany Merlot, who did an amazing job on that article.
Brittany, great job, great reporter by the way. We don't get shout-out to Rowley. She doesn't
just do the weather. Yeah, she's very good at what she does. I appreciate the attention being
brought to this, especially I will bring this up until the end of time or hopefully until it
changes. Wisconsin finished last in the whole entire country in funding the arts.
People keep saying, and especially politicians, we got to keep people in state. We got to keep
our young people in state. How do we do that? Oh, no taxes. Let's do a Florida did. That seems
to be working out wonderfully for them. Let's do this. Let's do that. This does not take a lot
of brain power. There are certain things you can do. We've mentioned childcare. We have mentioned
a minimum wage going up and supporting the arts. And this isn't just me saying this as a creative.
Like, I know it comes across a little biased. I get that. But you go ahead and look around at
other countries that are doing other cities and states that are doing well. They put into the
arts. It's the same thing. Mayor Blazer and I have talked about this about dogs.
One of the biggest rises, every community that is growing in population, the overwhelming theme,
dog friendly. Same thing with this. Overwhelming theme when it comes to coverage or people moving
to a state or people staying in a state or staying in a city, the arts, they have culture, they have
arts. This is important. It's a community theater. It may not seem like a lot. It is an
opportunity for people to not only get out those creative feelings and emotions and everything.
It creates jobs. It betters the community tax wise. It adds to the to the economic economy
of a city quality of life, quality of life, a billion other things. Do what you can. We encourage you
to do what you can to support local theaters wherever you live. And in particular, if you're in
the wasa area around that area, we really appreciate you supporting their theater and helping them
stay afloat and keep this going. Yeah, because there's nothing, I gotta say there's nothing
sadder than a community, especially the size of wasa that doesn't have a community theater.
That seems really wrong to me. That seems like that should not be the case.
Yeah. Yeah. You can find out more going to wasacommunitytheater.org or wasacommunitytheater.org.
And we do encourage you to like their Facebook page as well. Keep up the date on what they're
doing over there with that. We're about to go to a news break and one of the reasons that we
love we we fought to have live radio and to be here live is to be able to cover breaking news
and be able to talk about things when they are happening in the moment.
And we do have a police showing up to the UW-Madison campus with shields to break up the
student protests that are going on right now. We will try to keep up to date on that and that
coverage. They've arrested some people. Some people are being let away or detained.
There's some pushing and shoving going on. But this it's it's I don't even know what to say.
You'll have the right to to peaceful protests. Part of our our right is Americans.
Yes, peaceful peaceful protest. We do. So we will we'll be keeping you up to date on this as
best we can and covering it and appreciate that Melissa nice notes. We'll get to our news break.
We'll come back and we'll talk some more on the morning show here at WFHR locally grown radio.
Welcome back everybody. Morning show here at WFHR locally grown radio. Melissa,
Seth and James hanging out with you. A little haul of notes to play us in.
I like it it. I'm liking it. Got some 80s bumpers going on. Yeah, I know. I realized that.
I got lots of 80s in there. That's cool reason. I did want to send a shout out to our good friends
over at Wisconsin Travis Community Theatre's production of rumors. What did what did want to
mind everybody? You can get your tickets for rumors at wrctheater.org. They kick off their production
this Friday. Yes, that's it for the year. Right. They got shows on Friday, Saturday,
seven o'clock shows. And then they'll be back on the 9th, 10th, and 11th with seven o'clock shows.
On the 11th, they will have a two o'clock matinee. Nice. Enjoy yourself.
Laugh along with the team at rumors. Get your tickets at wrctheater.org, wrctheater.org.
And keep in mind, they've got a bunch of other great things going on over there. We're going to
we're going to talk more and more about some of the fun stuff they have going on. Yeah,
they're looking forward to it. Right now, I've got a good one for us. Chores, homework,
and your parents. These are some of the things that we deal with as a kid. And then there are
some fun things that we deal with and that we miss maybe. Here are the best answer from people
online with the 15 things we miss about being a kid. All right. And we want audience participation.
Yes, we do. One five four two four twenty six hundred four two four twenty six hundred. Call up
and join the conversation, everybody. So we start from the top or the bottom. I can't see if this
is exactly in the crown. All right. Any kind of order or not. Let's start at the top. Yeah,
we'll start right at the top. Not having to pay for anything. Yes. That's a glorious thing.
The days that you don't have to worry about it when like you have ten bucks and it's like all
the money in the world. It's like, wow, all the things I can buy with my not even buying the thing
you want. It's just imagining all the things you could buy with it. Well, and unrealistically,
of course, you know, I can buy the world with this $10. I had a privilege the other weekend of
seeing a young lady get a gift card that was a very up that was a lot higher than I think that any of
us in the head really already think. Right. And how excited she was and how like amazed
as she was. It was so cool to see. It's one of the greatest things about giving a birthday gift to
a kid is not just that, but when it's it registers in their head, what what that means are already
thing. You know, it's kind of cool. It was really. That's really fun. Yeah. Falling asleep in the
car and magically waking up in bed. Yeah. That's a good one. That's a good one. I just never
happened to me, but magically arriving at your don't your destination. Yeah. All of a sudden,
you're there. It's like no time passed. All the same here, Melissa. I deprived my parents of that.
But if I do remember waking up in all of a sudden, you're in another town, another state or something.
Put your shoes on where it grammars. Yes. Oh, yeah. Your knees and back not act aching so darn
much. Yeah. You get like run into a wall and be fine. Nothing. You're fine. No pain at all. Yeah.
It was incredible. How durable. It's still incredible. How durable, you know, kids are
considering how fragile human beings are. Like that doesn't make a whole lot of sense. But kids,
they fall off, you know, playground equipment. Get right back. Go keep going. Keep going. Yeah.
Mike, we used to have a joke in our house about my little brother that you had a bowling ball head
because you'd hear nicks like feet like, like, poop, like, fall and get right back up and keep going.
Like, you're poor. I think I think I was, I had a similar issue too.
And I was scared to big explain so much. Yeah, it does, doesn't it? Not having to figure out what
to cook every day. See now, you may not like what you're having for supper, but you didn't have
to worry about it. And you have to make it. Yeah. I mean, come on. Not knowing how insane the
world is or at least didn't have to worry about it because the adults were in charge. That's
that's right. Blissfully unaware. Blissfully unaware. Now we know maybe the kids should be in charge.
I don't know. We should try that. Sorry to go serious here for a second, but I don't know how
much that exists anymore. What's that for kids that they can just, you know, not that they're not
caught up in the world. And that's that's that's a lot of adults problem. That's a lot of to blame
adults for that one. Right. Because we we wear so much of this stuff on our sleeve. And when the
news is on and you're yelling and barking at the news, yeah, the newscaster can't hear you,
but your kids can. Right. And they're they're understanding and learning more and more. Well,
not understanding. They're getting no context with any of this. Yep. Yep. So it's important.
They're listening. They're sponges. Yes. Those brains are sponges. How we affect how we let these
things affect us. It's I don't do this very often, but there is some there is something to be said
for the old Gary Cooper, you know, strong silent type at times in life. And that got overblown
and it was already done too much to a degree. But there are moments in society and in life, I do
think that is called for. You know, one of these things that we learn as parents early on, your
kid falls and hurts themselves. The last thing you can afford to do is oh my god, your leg is bleeding.
Oh, what are we going to do? What are we going to do? You can't. Right. Hey, we're going to take
care of this. It's going to be okay. Look at me. Look at me. It's all right. Everything's cool.
Like that's what you do. Yeah. How we let these the news affects us. It affects them too.
And then they take that and then and can use it as a weapon against other kids their age.
Yes. Yeah. It happens all. Yes. It happens at a lot of levels and a lot of ages and a lot of
great. Right. Right. Summer break. Like yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's three months off. Oh my god.
Not bad. Oh, I will add on to that Christmas break. Yeah. I don't know. I always looked
forward to Christmas break. Like there was something about that. It's so exciting. It's so much family.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's about a gram and gram bus.
Your evenings and weekends are wide open. Yeah. For a certain point, I think once you start
getting into, you know, the higher grades. Yeah. We have homework and stuff. Yeah. For anyone
middle aged and up, not feeling pressured to be in constant contact before social media and
smartphones with simpler times with that. Right. Exactly. Yeah. Not not true for kids now. No.
No. Not really. Let's go ahead and see what's on your mind. Good morning. You're on the show.
Yeah. I remember as a kid, we used to stay outside until our street lights came on and we never,
ever, ever worried about it. But anybody that happens to us.
That's right. That's that's pretty cool. That's pretty cool. Yeah. Yeah.
Appreciate that, sir. I missed that for kids. I never experienced that. That's right. That's
true America's where I'm from. That was not the case. No, no, but I appreciate that. I want more
of that for our society. Exactly. I'd love to see more of that. That's something that all children
should feel. Right. That's where we should be. Right. And growing up in the country, you know,
we didn't have street lights, but we got to play in the woods until mom blew the car horn to call
us home. Oh, that's something we'd hear it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Miles away. Wow. It wouldn't
have thought of that. I grew up in the in the in the in the in the country too in the woods.
And I'm trying to think, you know, as I know as dangerous as James where you were, you know,
your environment where you grew up, I was like, you know, but there's some things I did too. It's
like how far did I go in the woods and did get lost? I don't know how I did that sometimes. You know.
And I think you find your way. Yeah. Seth, we would jump from one high rise to another.
What the what, man? How am I still here? How? How? I'm a clutz by the way. Like I have huge
gigantic feet that easily could have gotten caught in it. Yeah. I don't know. I have to
heck out here. It wasn't much better. We jumped on trains, which these are things you should never
do. Never, never, never do. I am extremely fortunate to be here. Being spoiled rotten by your
parents or grandparents. It depends on your parents. Yeah. I don't know how many of us got to
experience. Yeah. Yeah. That's again. That's a kind of a. What's depending on your situation?
I was a person. I will say it will just say grandparents. Like for for a lot of us that don't have
them. You know, just knowing there's something about having grandparents. Yeah. Like, you know,
there's just that. And maybe not spoiled rotten, but you know, the special things that you got
only when you were at grandma's house. Yeah. Or the special times like for me was fishing with my
grandpa. No, those things you always remember that stuff. Yeah. I joke about my mom being my
biggest fan and my harshest critic and stuff. My Nana and Papa, just my biggest fans. Yeah.
Just just period. Like half the confidence I have in this world is from them. That's nice.
That you could get that from them. And your parents have to be a certain way.
Yeah. Parents. They could just. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Sugar them up and send them home.
Yeah. Being oblivious to how dysfunctional your family was. I don't think that was a lot of us.
I, again, kids are sponges. I think kids pick up a lot more than might realize. Right. And,
and like my, my father-in-law loves to say all families are dysfunctional as just a matter of
degree. Yeah. And that's the truth. Good line. Good line. Very good line. Your home feeling much
roomier. Either because it was a house or you're in, because in your apartment now or because you
were just smaller. Smaller. Exactly. Everything seemed bigger when you were little.
It was the, there was a great sketch with Lily Tomlin on a big chair. Oh, or to ski.
Yeah. I always think of that when what I think of things like that. Those pre-teenage years
when you weren't insecure yet. You ever, uh, you ever see a, a grade schooler dress
themselves? Do you, do you, do you think that they worry if they're matching or, if they're
wearing something that's cool or anything like that? Nope. It's like, what's ever colorful?
Yeah. Or whatever it is. Yeah. I love it. I love it. Wearing the same outfit multiple days in a
robe. Oh, yeah. Refused to take it off. Yep. One of my favorite things in the world was watching
my kids dress themselves. Yeah. Like that sounded bad. Uh, but I'm not the clothes and everything.
I'm with you, man. So much fun. Naps. Just naps. Oh, well, how about end that carton of milk you
got in preschool? Yeah. Honorable mention there. Yeah. That's good. Yeah. Um, being, like,
there's a different excitement as an adult compared to when you're a kid for birthdays and like
Christmas and Hanukkah and that kind of thing. So that excitement, that, that kind of feeling,
as one of the bigger things that people miss and, uh, wrapping up, unless you, uh,
audience members have anything out there, you guys want to add anything to it wrapping up the list.
The world was your oyster. Your whole life was ahead of you. So it felt like you could do anything
and you've still got the rest of your life ahead of you. It's just a little bit harder to feel,
you know, hopeful sometimes or, or, or, or, or that you can pull off this or pull off that.
But I push back on all of that. Yes. And whatever you want to do, whatever you're trying to
accomplish, I think that there are plenty of room for that. Um, you are only as old as you feel.
You know, an old dog can learn new tricks. Does the dog want to learn? I got one.
Saturday morning cartoons. Yeah. Yeah. That was the one I want to go with. That was the special
time for kids. Yeah. Just for kids, right? Because you got, I mean, I, it was very cynical. I mean,
you're trying to get them to buy toys and cereal and stuff like that. I get it. But that was just
for you. Your mom and dad were not interested in this and they wanted to sleep in anyway.
So let's go watch cartoons on Saturday morning. That was our time to be kids, you know,
oh, it was so great. Yeah. Uh, and parents loved it because if they were lucky,
they got to sleep in a little bit. A little bit of that as we controlled that we, we controlled
ourselves. We got ourselves cereal or whatever. And yeah, they had a mess to clean up probably.
But yeah. Yeah. Um, teaching moment. Yeah. Yes. I want to, I, that's how I, actually,
it's a good point, Melissa, because that's how I learned how to make breakfast pretty much
for my sister and I was doing that kind of thing. Yeah. That's cool. Um, I will throw in their,
throughout their honorable mention, um, playing sports with your friends. Like there was
something about being able to do like activities with your friends after school or during recess or
something like that, that, um, I was not good. Wherever I moved, I was never good at making
friends. I, it was always difficult for me to sports gave me that avenue. Sports broke the,
the, the ice for me with people. Right. As soon as kids saw, I was fast. I was like, Oh, okay.
I didn't put him on it. You know, and that and all the sudden people knew my name and also
and I started having friends. And, and this is the first area I was able to do that in. I,
I, I didn't, I never had that anywhere else. Um, they, like, that's a big one. Yeah. Like a
pickup game. Yes. You have a ball. Two people. That's all you needed to play catch. Yeah. Yeah.
Didn't matter what the ball was. You could just throw it back and forth. Yeah.
I would throw out their, um, kind of ancillary to that being able to do outside, like, sledding.
Mm. And not worrying about hurting yourself. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly.
You're fearless. You know, yeah. I don't know that I would go sledding now.
Like, I mean, I, I, I would think about, okay, well, is it soft? Is it going to be hard?
Am I going to bounce a whole lot? Because if I bounce a whole lot, I'm probably going to get hurt.
I'm going to have bruises. I don't even know. I don't even know if, uh, if people
sled down and then anymore, but for many years, there was a hill over here in rapids called
Bloody O7 that people went to and all that. And I remember, uh, you know, going on that,
I was in my early 20s when I did it. I'm still healing from it. I'm still like, I'm so with you
on this, Melissa. But the last time I passed that, I thought about like, Oh, God, it'd be cool to go
sledding again. Yeah. Oh, I did not think of this. Thank you, Melissa. You just saved my, my, my tailbone.
Yes. Yes. I broke my arm sledding. Oh, did. I broke my arm sledding. And like two weeks later,
I'm sledding with my cast on. It's like, yeah. Oh, you would build ramps, you know, because my,
I went off a jump, Melissa. That's how it happened. Yeah. Yeah. When we were kids in, in our front yard,
we had small hills. One hill was bigger than the other hill. But on the small hill, we would build
jumps because, you know, you can't get going very fast on the small hill. You got to jump, man.
Something to jump off of. That's funny. That's, that's so good. Uh, we will keep this going. If
you guys have any you want to add, go ahead and call up and join the conversation. For now,
we'll come back with talking, you know, and we got an exciting conversation coming up for you.
Coming up on the morning show here at WF HR locally grown radio.
Welcome back, everyone. Morning show here at WF HR locally grown radio.
Melissa, Seth and James here with you. We're going to take you right to the top of the hour with
nothing but fun. We got some good things to get to. Want to remind you to stick around,
Matt Nair on the air coming up. Stick around for Jane. Yeah. So, uh, I can't help myself.
I, one of the things that came up, uh, when prepping for the show today was this idea of the,
the unbreakable sports records, Seth, uh, that I find just fascinating and really interesting.
Like what makes, what, you know, records would never be broken like, uh,
Wilk Chamberlain's hundred point game or, uh, Cal Ripkins consecutive game streak. These are just
fascinating things, aren't they, Melissa? So fascinating. Yes, yes. Uh, uh, she sounded
distant in several ways there. That was just a way for me to kind of tee up the conversation.
When was the last time you were in a conversation that was so boring that you couldn't get out of?
Nice. Uh, because Melissa has to stay. She's got another 10 minutes. She's got to put up with me.
Yeah, she's got to listen to me. I can't imagine how many times that happens to work.
Uh, this is our feature. That ain't right story for the day. Uh, and it's basically, uh,
how meant the percentage of people that are regularly trapped in boring conversations.
And how to slip out of them. Ooh. A new poll asked how people how often they get bored during
conversations. And almost half of us, 46% say it happens sometimes. Another 31% say rarely.
And 5% claim they never get bored on the flip side. That's kind of encouraged. That's cool.
On the flip side, 10% say that they usually get bored when talking to others. And another 4% say
that they always do. Um, that's interesting. Uh, when they must be a thrill. Yeah, right. Yeah.
Good luck trying to get them to listen. Yeah, exactly. When we do get stuck in full conversations,
we're not all great at wiggling out. 13% of people said that they think that they're better
than most at slipping away. 16% say they are the worst at it. And 45% say that they are just as
stuck as the rest of us. All right. For what it's worth when people were asked how often they
think the other person in the conversation is bored, the numbers were basically the same as the
times they are bored. Oh, man. That's kind of interesting. That is fascinating, actually. Kind of
interesting. You're the one of the boy conversations. It's, uh, what I also kind of find interesting
about this is, you know, we, we talk all the time about how societies this and societies that
and all that stuff, there are certain things that I remain intact. One of them is our
politeness to strangers at times. I'm not saying we always do this, but how often somebody asks you,
hey, come on in and, and we get, we're busy. We got other things to do or whatever, but we do
because, well, it's the polite thing to do. We don't want to see rude. How many things we do in
society just because we're afraid of a stranger thinking we're rude? That I actually put a little
hope into. That's pretty cool. Uh, it's a lot better than the alternative. Um, and it gives you
a little, I would think, uh, and maybe I'm grasping that straws here a little bit, but I do think
that it gives a little bit of hope about society. We still have this intact. We still have, we
experienced this as human beings every day, almost every day. Uh, and we do this for other two,
or two others sometimes. Kindness to strangers. Right. I honestly, yeah, I think we, we can't
function without it. Honestly, yeah, we have to be able to do that. And it's, you know, you said
something earlier, James, about, you know, being that, you know, that way it's in order to,
that's, I think this is kind of one of those things where we're in order for us to, you know, maybe
that's time to be silent. Maybe it's time not to be over reactive, not to be over emotional. I
think there are times for that. And being just, you know, being polite in society, that's an
important thing. I really do. I really believe that. Remembering that you have two ears in one
mouth for a reason. I've been saying it for a while, your ears are next to your shoulders for
a reason. They're there to listen. They're there to be there. You always say, hey, put your head on
my shoulder. Hey, lean on my shoulder, lean on me. That's where the ears are right there next to
the shoulders for a reason. It also would look really weird if they were in another place.
Hey, this is that part too. I can't imagine shoulders anywhere out. No, I can't really.
Or ears like it right in the middle of your forehead. Oh, that would be really weird.
The other one would be really weird. Let's go. And hats never work.
They would look different. This would be hats, but they look different. We really are perfectly
designed for hats. We really got. We really. That's why it's so fancy. We have to make a comeback.
Let's take a look at some good stories of the day. And one of them, of course, is our schedule. As
I said before, stick around Matt Nair on the air coming up. You should join Jane for her show.
Also today, during midday magazine from three to four, Sheriff Sean Becker going to be joining us
from the Wood County Sheriff's Department. We'll also have our friends and Wisconsin
rabbits community meeting in. Of course, there was a recent scam that has been coming out of
coming out of the, you know, some other things to talk about with Sheriff Becker looking forward
to that conversation. Also, Bucks basketball on your radio, I'm sorry, a baseball on your radio
dial possibly tonight, possibly. If all the weather works out, the game was supposed to be on
Thursday. They moved it up to today because of the worst weather that's supposed to be on Thursday.
So 430 tonight at WIRI. We've got Marshfield versus Wisconsin Rapids. Rival regame everybody.
So I'm tuning for that. Mike's got the call on that. I'm working the board right on 430s when
we're starting the pregame. It should be good. And looking forward to that, looking forward to
covering high school baseball all season long, looking forward to covering the rafters all season
reminder to everybody out there. We have 2024 pocket schedules right here at WFHR for the
rafter season. Right in your pocket, if you have them. I did say 2024. I didn't say 2022,
2024. Did I? You said 2024. We don't have that schedule yet. We don't have that one. We got
the 2024 ones. We got those 2224. Wow, he's 200 years in the future. Keep it, Mike. We are the
rafters are still here. Still going to be here. We'll still be covered. Yeah, that's right.
We'll still be playing them. They'll still be right here at WFHRs. They always have been.
Join us all season long for great rafter baseball season kicks off on May 27th. Also kicking off
today is note a moment. Yeah. Nice. Keep that in mind, everybody. You can find out more about the
details of this event by going to wirapids.org. Just a little note here. The city has designated
some spots on the city property to leave on mode 20th Street between two mile and Griffith Avenue
16th Street over there with rock Avenue around the stormwater pond on 16th and two mile.
Robinson Park, the ball fields and spectator areas. Sandlot Park and McMillan Memorial Library.
Very cool. Encourage you all to support each other with this one, whether you're participating or not,
you know, don't be a jerk. Basically, just, you know, just leave it alone.
A couple of other quick notes. When I remind everybody coming up,
next Tuesday, May 7th at 515, our friends at Family Natural Foods have a great presentation going
on. True Grace is going to be there. Local Wisconsin Company. Learn about a new Wisconsin brand
focused on innovation, poll foods, mushrooms and quality supplements. Nice. Find out more by
visiting our friends over at Family Natural Foods at 910 West Grand Avenue right here in Wisconsin.
Rapids, be sure to get your tickets for rumors at wrctheter.org. Go ahead and do that.
Get your team together for the United Weekend event. This is your last day to get a team registered
that will get you nominated for the craft for the tickets. You can still send in team names and
stuff, but today's the last day to get in on those team or sponsor team. Thank you, Melissa.
Contact our good friend Ben 421-0390-421-0390 or Ben at uswac.org. Be sure to keep up the
date and all the things you know the way is doing at uswac.org. I was mentioning our schedule earlier,
keep in mind everybody a little bit later today at 630 right here at WFHR, the third congressional
district, Democratic primary candidate forum, right live and direct from lacrosse student union
theater. Yeah, that first one was really great. Lots of great information. They really talked in
depth about their platform and why they're running and what they hope to accomplish while they're
not, you know, if they win the election. Exactly. Good stuff. Yeah. And we have to put the spotlight on
and ascending very, very special shout out to our good friend, our one-of-a-listener Diane.
Oh, yes. She went good. She was back yesterday. Yeah. Melissa, they got almost the chocolate chip ones,
got like, I don't know, maybe it's just in my head, they got like almost a mint taste to them.
Oh, there's so good. Like Diane always makes good cookies. These are a little buff me off.
These are pretty darn good. But Diane is a perfect example of you all out there and all the things
you have done for us over the years. It never gets old to us. Never. It never stops humbling us.
We can't thank you enough. And I cannot stress enough how much I mean what I was saying earlier
about the WBA awards, whatever shakes out on Saturday. I want every one of our listeners to pat
on the back and take a leap on that one too. Yep. Could you agree with you more, man? We appreciate
the great show out of you too. Have a great week, the rest of it, the rest of the week.
You too. And we will talk to you soon in the later. Be good to each other.