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 behind the mic. I am
joined by Melissa Kay. Good morning. Seth Habagger. Good morning. The best listeners in
radio. Thanks for joining us, everybody. A little bit later, we're going to get into
some fun topics. We've got the 10 of the most memorable TV moms, 10 things that we're
supposed to be big that just kind of vanished. If we don't have time for them on Monday, we
will get into the woman that spent her a year in a grocery store and the restaurant with
the knucklehead in this. Knucklehead in this. Yes, we'll get into those a little bit later.
But I got to touch on this one right away as we get into our entertainment. I'm going
to talk about what's new in your small screen, big screen, and on your local theater stage.
This is really big news, I believe. And I, again, I'm not, I saw an article at CNN, otherwise
I've not seen anybody reporting on this. Okay. The Oscar winning team behind the nearly
six billion dollar blockbuster, Lord of the Rings and Hobbit Trilogies is reunited and
you produce two new films. The first of the new projects from Sir Peter Jackson, Fran
Walsh and Philippi Boyens is tentatively titled Lord of the Rings, The Hunt for Gollum.
Warner Brothers Discovery announced Thursday. It will be directed by the Lord of the Rings
alum Andy Circus. Wow. Who was Gollum? Who was Gollum? That would make sense. He knows
character well. Walsh and Boyen have been tapped to write the screenplay along with Fobie
Gittens and Artie Pabbalon, all great writers. And Andy Circus went right away to social
media with this. Yes. Yes, precious. Oh, yeah. My precious. So he has his precious back.
This is gigantic. This is pretty big news. Yeah. In the day and eight, we're just now,
now I know that a lot of people are saying that we're seeing the end of the whole superhero run.
We're not seeing the end of it. They're just getting smarter with it. Yeah. We're not
going to change it. It's evolving. It's evolving. We're not going to get bombarded by them
every month anymore. Yeah. I think that that part, that is just the, you know, things evening
out a little bit. But every, every, every studio is looking for a trilogy.
Is looking for something they can get more than one movie out of built in revenue, right?
Yeah. It's one of the oldest things. And after the original Lord of the Rings first
through Lord of the Rings movie, really going back to the original Star Wars movies.
But really, as far as modern times go, that was kind of dead for a while. And then the three
Lord of the Rings movies comes out and they saw how everybody was looking so forward to that
second and third movie and how those numbers that they brought in. Yeah. And then the third movie,
I believe it was the third movie, one Oscars. Yeah. I love them. That changed everything too,
because all of a sudden you had to start treating them with a different eye and looking at them a
little bit differently. This is, this is what they've been begging for and the fact that they
got all these people to come back together to do these. I don't know if they're going to be good.
I don't know how, how good they'll be, but everybody's going to watch them. Like they,
yeah, people will do well. It'll put butts in the seats for sure for sure, which I mean, I'm,
I'm movie theaters need it. They do. Yeah. I'm apprehensive. I have to say about this whole thing.
The Lord of the Rings trilogy was awesome. The original one, the Hobbit trilogy.
Yeah, it wasn't. It was, but it was, yeah. No, it was rough. It was rough. The first one was,
pretty good. After that, for me, anyway, that's my opinion. Yeah, yeah. But so I, I don't know.
I mean, the fact that it's been directed by Andy Circus makes me feel better that Peter Jackson
will not be directing it because for the Hobbit movie, he indulged in his own stuff. Yeah.
Yeah. Like heavily and that's, I think, why they suffered was because of that. I don't think I saw
those. Yeah, I don't know. Look up the titles. Hobbit, an unexpected journey, the desolation of
Smog and the Battle of the Five Army. First of all, it should have been two movies, not one. Yeah.
Because that was too much. And they, yeah, just too much. That 100% agree with you on. Yeah.
I'm hopeful about these. And along with the rest of Hollywood. Oh, they're really hopeful.
They're really hopeful. They really hope this works out. This is going to be something we'll continue
to talk about as we, you know, more and more details on. It should be interesting. I want to look
at what's new on your small screen. On Max tonight, the streamer of the Iron Claw Sports drama,
starring Zach Efron and a couple of other really good actors. It's all about the,
the Von Erk family, the rest of the family. Yeah. Zach and these guys got into wrestling
shape for this too. Did their homework. I've heard a lot of good things about that movie. Yeah.
Although I have to say that it's because if you know the family's history, it's a very dark story.
Oh, yeah. But it's still interesting. Yeah. Is it one of the darker stories I've heard?
I watched a lot of the dark side of the ring. A lot of those that do a really deep dive on a lot of
these wrestlers. I grew up loving and everything. My God. Yeah. That family. It's rough.
Tonight on ABC, Game Seven and Eight of Jeopardy Masters. Let's see. The 14th season premiere of Dr.
Who shows up today on Disney Plus. Also on Disney Plus today, The Simpsons. May the 12th be with you.
Marge Simpson celebrates an intergalactic mother's day. Oh, geez. Oh, I like that. Oh, I can't wait
to watch that. Oh, that's exciting. I didn't even know that was coming up. That's awesome. I can't wait
to watch that. Nikki Glaser is a stand-up special on HBO. And on Saturday on Netflix, Mark Twain
prize goes to Kevin Hart. Very deserving. Really? Wow. Let's see. NBC. Maya Rudolph returns the
30 rock to host. You know it's going to be good. Yeah. She's one of the greats, SNL Alums. She
is definitely one of the greats. Let's see here. And then, yeah, that's about doing it. Oh, well,
on Sunday on ABC, time 100, the world's most influential people, if you're curious about that.
Oh, interesting. New on your small screen this weekend. New in the big screen. Nothing too much
coming out. And you're going to see that a lot going forward. Not only because of the movie
industry kind of trying to catch up with itself a little bit, but also it's the summer block
busters. They're really trying to like, like, pick the perfect dates to release these movies.
And the thing that's so funny to me, like, every once in a while, you'll have a Christopher
Nolan. He's like, I'm releasing Oppenheimer. Okay. But are you sure? Because Barbie and this,
and this is coming out, I'm releasing Oppenheimer. And then they release it. And then look what
happens. Everybody went and saw Barbie and Oppenheimer. But they worry so much about, oh my god,
everybody's going to go see Barbie and they're not going to see my movie. And so they worry and they
worry. And what do they end up happening? They end up releasing the movie at the same time and
other big movies coming out. I have a theory. Make your movies good. Yeah. Then people will watch
them because word of mouth is still the best advertising. That's your friends going to go,
oh man, you got to see this. It's so cool. And that's what happened with Barbie and Oppenheimer.
As somebody who is in this industry loves this industry, I'm writing that down. That's good.
Make good movies. Good movies. That's great, brother. Kingdom of the planet of the apes,
PG-13. That is the big one that is out this week. If you're two of those. Yeah. Yeah.
The title, two of those. It's one of the worst titles I've ever heard in my life.
They cannot stop making these movies. I just got to tell you how much they love franchises.
Whether they, if they do even semi-good, most of them will continue to go on. Yeah. Yeah.
You're right. And there's a lot of people that like these movies. I don't get it. It's not my thing.
But I teach their own, you know. Well, if you're a fan of James, you don't know,
Aprilaw. Nicely done. So how would you know you're supposed to be watching this?
I didn't want to take more time to really put some focus on our local theaters.
We've got a couple of great shows hitting these stages this weekend. One of them, post-mortem.
Seawack, our good friends over at Central Wisconsin Area Community Theater have this great show kicking
off yesterday. And they've got shows today, tomorrow, Sunday. Yes. You can catch them all at 1800
North Point Drive and beautiful Stevens Point. You can find out more and get your tickets at seawack.org.
You can also get tickets right there at the day of at the Century Theater. Yeah.
The getting at seawack are some of our favorite people. They're so good, so creative.
And they got a great first time director and Kerry with this one.
I know I haven't seen it. I know I've been at the rehearsals, but I know Kerry pretty well.
And I can guarantee you this. I know some of this cast very well and all incredible good cast
members. That's a great show. And of course, Ken Ludwig, we know a little something about himself.
A little bit. A little bit. A little bit. A little bit. Great, great writer.
Yeah, you know, this is this is one of those ones. All you got to do, sit back and enjoy.
Yep. That's it. Get your ticket. Go back. Enjoyable. Yep.
You do have to enter on the Michigan Avenue from parking level two, though. The North Point Drive
entrance to Century is closed. It is. Keep that in mind. Last time I went there.
Opening. Yeah. Keep that in mind, everybody. And find out more at cwack.org.cwack.org.
Support local theater, everybody. There's some great work over there.
And as long as you're taking in shows, be sure to take in Wisconsin Rapids Community
The Theater's production of rumors. Yes, indeed.
Main stage. Main stage production of rumors goes again. This Melissa was telling you it's in action
tonight, Seth. It is. So we got seven o'clock tonight, seven o'clock tomorrow,
plus a two p.m. matinee tomorrow on Saturday. So I'll go in and join the fun.
This is it for this season, like James said.
That's right. And so we got a new season coming up later. But man, this is, I have a special
place in my heart for this show, of course, because this is where I met my wife.
Yeah. So, but still it's such a funny show. It's so it's so entertaining.
But so I would absolutely recommend it to anybody.
Shout out to Christine Sullivan in the Great Direction and the good work that she,
along with Evelyn, Chris, Cassidy, Jeff, Heather, Dick, Andy, and Bethany and Phil,
all done. You guys have done a great run. You've had them in a great run.
Leave it all on the stage, you guys. Yes, indeed. Enjoy yourself.
Don't watch fun this weekend. Yeah.
Get your tickets. You can get them right at the front desk when you show up at the central
of the WRCT's theater. Otherwise, you can go ahead and get them at wrctheeter.org.
Keep in mind, and we're going to have Gretchen join us along with some members from
Three Bridges Recovery next week. We're just hammering out what day they'll be joining us.
But they're going to join us to talk about stand up and improv comedy.
It is the benefit that they are going to be doing on May 18th, where the proceeds are going
to go to help Three Bridges Recovery. Nice. That's awesome. That is very cool.
Also, you, while the main stage is going to be done for the season, that stage is still
going to be used. Everybody, the kids are going to be on there. Yes, they are.
Be sure to support these kids. Get to these shows. Disney's news. These juniors kicks off on
July 11th. They'll have shows in August from it's a madhouse directed by Stephanie.
And midsummer ish is also going to be coming up at the end of summer.
I have someone who's in that. And so I've looked at the script. It's funny. It's hilarious.
They do such an amazing job. It's going to be a lot of fun. They're summer youth production.
They're hopo production. The director's showcase production. All of these are waiting for you.
All summer long, you're going to have some great theater to enjoy. Yes.
Support the arts. Support local theater. WRC theater dot org.
Take a time out. We'll come back. We're talking TV moms.
When we come back on the morning show at WFHR.
Welcome back, everybody. Morning show at WFHR.
I'm coming home, baby. I'm coming home now right away.
God, I love this song. We want to send a big, big shout out to our good friend Anna
Rebecca and her friend Carly and her them joining us yesterday on the morning show.
Be sure to check out T for two. Their Mother's Day event is going to be performing on Mother's Day
at the hotel made from 11 to 3 this Sunday. Support the local arts, support locals,
and taking some amazing music you guys. They are something that they sound so good.
Oh my gosh. Awesome. Anna's joined us at least four or five times so far.
And when she joins us, one of the things I've learned to do is when she's playing,
I just listened to her. I'm paying attention to other stuff.
And if you just listen to her voice, you will not be able to guess her age.
She's got an old soul and a blue soul, a soul soul.
Like, she's got a heck of a voice, a heck of a talent to human beings.
She is a quintessential jazz vocalist. She's perfect for that kind of music, yeah.
You dig jazz, you dig that kind of style. Go ahead and check out T for two.
This Sunday at the hotel made for their Mother's Day special. It's going to be fun.
That's going to be a good one. I hope to get over there and check that out.
And if you are curious, you want a preview of that, be sure to listen to yesterday's
morning show. Yep, it's at the website. Yeah, check that out, everybody.
We're talking TV moms now and the phone lines are open.
I want your favorite TV mom of all time, 715-424-2600-424-2600.
Do you guys have any names you want to mention before we get into the top 10 here?
Or do you want to wait and see what names are mentioned?
I want to wait and see because I don't know if she is the one I was going to say was a mom,
but she wasn't a mom of the kids. She was a mom of a mom.
So that's why I want to wait on that one.
The other end of this that I would like to hear if you guys want and the listeners as well,
not only if who may be your favorite TV mom is, but hey, who would you like to play your TV mom?
I like that one. Doesn't have to be somebody that resembles your mother.
It could be anybody. I think that Florida Evans, Escheroll from Good Times,
one of the greatest TV moms of all time. I love her. For the audience, it does not know what I
look like. I am not African-American. It would not make a lot of sense to have her as my TV mom,
but I love it. She's amazing. She was awesome. She was great.
Let's go ahead and take a look into the list then. We'll just go ahead and dive right in.
Here they are in alphabetical order by TV show. This is something that the Hollywood reporter
and a couple of other different organizations put together.
So again, just in alphabetical order, Edith Bunker, Jean Stapleton from all in the family.
Ajay!
That voice. God, that voice. Oh, man. She was so good.
She was Marge Simpson before Marge Simpson. She was. I mean, you think about everything that
that that woman put up with and everything that she dealt with. Like, yeah, yeah. I mean,
meat had a low. Great show. Great show. Dr. Rainbow Johnson, Tracy Ellis Ross from Blackish.
Oh gosh. She's very, she was so good in that, man. Yeah. She's such a great actor.
I really like her as an actor. Yeah. I was so happy. Like, Anthony Anderson is one of my
guides. I like him. He's great. I was really happy for her that she got such a lead role.
She's done a lot of interviews where, yes, there's been a lot done, you know, as far as getting
more and more people of color and more and more ethnicities on TV and representation.
But now it becomes what happens to the lighter skin African Americans or the, you know,
somebody like her was freckles and all that. Not sure, quote unquote, traditional beauty.
Right. Beautiful. Yeah. Beautiful. Good jeans. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But, but you go into casting
sessions and oh, I'm sorry. You're not black enough. Oh, I'm sorry. You're not, you know,
white enough. This is the thing she's heard and everything to see her get a role like that and be
on a list like this. That's pretty darn cool. And a great name. Dr. Rainbow Johnson.
You knew this one was coming up. Carol Brady. Florence Henderson from The Brady Bunch.
Florence Henderson. Floen. I never saw it nicely done. I never saw one episode of The Brady Bunch,
but I know how great Florence Henderson was. I know that way. She was great at that.
It seemed enough clips. I've seen enough of her job on there. It's a great actor and great
performance. I want to I want to shout out Florence Henderson because so many people remember her
as that. The Brady mom. She was such a great theater actor stage. She was a fabulous stage actor
singing, dancing. She could do it all. Carol Brady. Oh, I'm sorry. Claire Huckstable.
Felicia Rashad. Oh, yeah. Cosby Show. Kevin Mechner there. Yeah. It's a great one. It's a great
one. And yes, amazing. Felicia Rashad is so cool. I love her. That she just seemed to just walk
with class like breathe with it, like just embodied it. Tammy Taylor, Connie Britton from Friday night
lights. Oh, I never saw that. I like Connie Britton a lot. She's a very good actor. Yeah.
Sophia Pratallo Estelle Getty from The Golden Girls. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's
what Getty was awesome. If I was casting my Nana in a movie, not only would Estelle Getty get it,
but I would have a hard time on set. Like, which one's my Nana? That's how much I love that.
As Estelle Getty, as Sophia looked like her. Now, of course, those who were paying attention
and everything, Estelle Getty was actually like younger. She was actually closer. She was the
youngest of the cast. That's right. She was the youngest of the cast. That's right. Yeah.
All the gold girls. Yeah. We don't give enough credit to that hair and makeup team.
Cos a lot of people were surprised by that. Yes. Including casting directors that she would go
out for casting jobs like a stopper. My mom will shoot or something like that. And people didn't
realize, oh, she's younger than me really. Yes. Thanks for making me think of that movie. James
Thanks. Son of the theater would have waited anyway. Yeah. I know. I shouldn't admit that.
That's fantastic. I think that these are the two back-to-back that I would probably choose
as playing my TV mom. Okay. I think one of these two. I mentioned before the great
of Florida Evans measure role from good times. My first real favorite TV show and her performance.
I get emotional thinking about her work on that show. Like she was so good. And Peggy Bundy
Kathy Singles from Maryville Children. Absolutely nothing even close to my mom. But I loved her
performance. She was so good. I would dare say if it wasn't for the next name on the list,
she might be my number one TV mom of all time. I love Peggy Bundy. The boof on hair. I love that.
Hair is real big. Yeah. Oh, God. Her performance and that, especially the early seasons,
when they were getting away with stuff. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Some great stuff right there. My number one
pick, March Simpson, voiced by the great Julie Kaffner from The Simpsons. Nobody in human and TV
history is put up with more than March Simpson. No. Nobody. And not just from Homer. Not even just from
Bart, but she got a little little one that has never spoken. Said one word in 30 years. Yeah,
one word. Yep. Her kids always wear the same clothes. So she's constantly doing laundry.
Imagine the headache that poor woman had that much hair piled up on that. Oh, yeah. I want to give,
I want to give credit to Julie Kaffner. She has a thankless task on The Simpsons. She's the
straight person. Yeah. She everyone else has got their thing and their and their silliness and
everything like that. She's got to be like the, the eye of the store, the calm presence.
And I like some of the some of the episodes they've done that focus on March or some of my all-time
favorites. Same. Yeah. Because of giving her a chance. Yeah. They just the most recent episode was a
March episode and it was a really, really good one. They do some great work with that. And it's
nice to see and they're able to bring attention to a lot of different things too with that show.
The writing on The Simpsons is never appreciated, but it's some of the best writing that you're
going to see. It really is. They've got an incredible team. And unlike any other TV show on TV,
what you see is what the writers want you to what you hear is what the writers want you to hear.
There's nobody saying, hey, you can't do this. You can't say that. No. That's what happens when
you've been in the business for three years. Yeah. Maybe. Yeah. Cash cow. And last on the list,
Rebecca Pearson, Mandy Moore from This Is Us. Oh, I never saw that, but Mandy Moore is a good
from what I understand. Yeah. A phenomenon. Part of the conceit, the gimmick of the show,
was it go back and forth in time. So it shows when she was a young mother and then it goes to what
happened now after the father, the whole idea is the family after the father passes away. That's
the thing. So they show her early in her, her life with her husband, who's the father. And then
later on as they deal with, you know, life stuff. No wonder it was so popular. Yes. That's a great
idea. Fabulous job. I was surprised. I didn't watch a whole lot of episodes, but the ones I did see,
wow, she was good. She was really. When I didn't realize it went on for six seasons. I know. I
didn't realize that either. NBC wishes it was seven hundred seasons. They could have gone away
with it. Hands due too. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then let's get some honorable mentions in there,
like any that you guys have. Okay. Was the mom on Little House on the Prairie? A good mom?
She, she a good one. Yeah. Caroline was a good mom. There was one episode that focused on her
when she almost had to cut her own leg off. Yeah. Well, she got what?
What? What? What? It's not Little House of the Prairie. It's saw. Yeah. I didn't realize that.
I didn't know that the writers from saw were inspired by Little House of the Prairie. I didn't realize
that. No, there was an episode where she, she was alone for some reason. Like, everybody else
was gone off somewhere and she got, she had a scrape from some barbed wire on her leg and it got
infected really bad. She had fever and she got really sick and she was like, ready with the knife
to, she wasn't obviously going to cut her leg off. Yeah, but still try to treat it. But yeah,
that that episode resonated. Let's say stuck with you. Yeah, stuck with me. It was like a very dramatic
episode. Right. Little House on the Prairie, 28 days later or so. I didn't know that. You know,
one of the things I was curious about that show was, and I like about shows like that time-sensitive
shows or time period shows is giving people an idea of what it was like to live back then and some of
that. It sounds like that show did a pretty good job of that. Yeah, that's cool. Yeah. And the actress
was Karen Grassel. Thank you. Thank you. I didn't have time to look it up. Yeah.
Some of her book mentions Moira Rose, Catherine O'Hara from Shits Creek. Anything with Catherine O'Hara.
She's awesome. Yes, she's fabulous. Yeah, because she could never play my mom.
Claire Dumpfie, Julie Bowen from Modern Family. That's a good one. That's a good one. Yeah,
that's a good one. Yes, I know that the actor playing the character is, got quite a bit of,
you know, tension to her name nowadays and everything. But I think you have to mention Roseanne
and Roseanne Bar. Yeah. I don't feel like I can mention Peggy Bundy and I mentioned Roseanne.
It's important the course of history, where movies, where TV shows went with the family dynamic.
Ozzy and Harriet kind of take some shots as like, oh, it was corny, it was this or that or whatever.
But that is the beginning of this where we are today. Ozzy and Harriet having a lead where the
dad could be made fun of, those sorts of things. That's everything that we see nowadays. Before that,
dad was, you know, everything dad said was gold and everything dad did was great.
Mother knows best. That was the actual name of a show. Yeah. Yeah.
Ozzy and Harriet was integral to the course of TV and where we are today, where you do have
an imperfect fit. Now, your show is not going to last an episode if you put a perfect family up there.
Yeah, that would never work. Never work. Because there are no perfect families. It's true.
They're, they were all the mess. We're all going to lead to that. Yeah, it's related. We've
gotten to rare. It's now reality, not reality, relatable TV.
Representation. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And it's not just, you know, it's important whether it is not
just that representation means something when it comes to certainly age and sex and race and
these things. It also means rich and poor. It also represents, you know, single family,
single mothers and things like that. A lot of that. Wendy McLeven-Covie, Beverly Goldberg from
the Goldbergs. Right. I don't like watch the first couple of seasons, but that woman is amazing.
And now she would be the closest. She's blonde, so she doesn't, that part doesn't work,
but everything else she would make, she could play my mother. Oh, that's right. She definitely could.
I, and this is not her because she was very good. I do struggle with that show because of some
of the behind the scenes stuff that was with Jeff Garland stuff like that that was not taking care
of when it should have the producers and stuff should have. Yeah. So that, I got a little
thing with that, but yeah. We mentioned Father's Knows Best. Got to mention Jane Wyatt, Margaret Anderson.
That's right. Yeah. Definitely has to be mentioned as one of the TV moms. I had to get that one
in there. Let's see here. I'm trying. Oh, well, Barbara Belgettis, Ellie Ewing from Dallas.
Oh, woo. That's a mom for her. Oh, here we go. Rhoda. Rhoda, Nancy Walker is
Adam Morgenson and Rhoda. Yes. Rhoda is one of those ones that's gotten lost in the shuffle.
Yeah. I mean, incredible TV show. That was a good show. Groundbreaking TV show, I should say.
Groundbreaking, covering things way ahead of its time. Right. It should be mentioned,
especially the, the, the sopranos, one of the most iconic shows of all time, the great,
the legend Nancy Martian, who played Lillian, Lillian on soprano. Okay. She was incredible.
Everything about Tony soprano almost pretty much starts with his mother. And you got to be,
you got to play this evil character. And you're an older actor who is probably playing, you know,
probably playing your last role. And this might be the thing that people know you for. And I could
see some hesitation from some actors or anything, not Nancy Meshard. She was incredible.
If she had lived longer and been on the show longer and everything, I think you could make
the argument. She was the best actor on that show. And that is saying something. There were some
actors. There were never a bad actor. You go ahead and watch the sopranos from cameos to
regulars, not one bad actor. So I think that's saying something. She was incredible. Be
witched Agnes Morehead and Nora. The great Agnes Morehead. Oh, one of my favorite actors of all
time. A great actor. Yeah. Actor that doesn't get mentioned nearly enough. Alison Janie,
when she was Bonnie on mom. Yep. She was so good. Alison Janie is very good. Alison Janie can do
it all. Yep. She is great. Yeah. There's some great ones out there. And I want to wrap up with
the amazing Caroline Jones Morticia Adams. Yes. And the Adams family. Now the family that I would
like to be a part of. I have to throw out there that if I had to pick somebody to play my TV
mom, it would be Ann B. Davis who played Alice in the Brady Bunch. She wasn't the mom, but
she was a mom figure. She was a mom figure. Yeah. She was. That's a great one. And more similar to
what my mom was like living growing up, you know, doing all the cooking, cleaning,
cleaning of the children, which did not happen, you know, it wasn't right. A different dynamic there
in the show. Okay. What'd you got, Pam? Oh, you got some names. Oh, great. Great. Thank you,
sir. I can't hear Melissa. Oh, oh, oh, oh, yeah. Well, you go ahead, Pam. Okay. I've got a couple
of names here. Michael Learned who played Olivia Walton on the Walton. Oh, good one. Yes. Yes.
Yes. And Elizabeth Montgomery who played Samantha Stevens on Bewitch. Good one. Yeah. Nice.
I remember watching that show when I was quite young and just fascinated with her. Oh, yeah. Great
performance. So yeah, those are good ones. Just a couple to throw in here. Thank you for that.
I was going to, that was awesome. That was awesome. That was fantastic. Thank you, Pam. No
question. I know we got to go and I got to here. One of my favorites growing up Mona from who's
the boss? Yes. I can't remember her act, the name of the actor, but I can't remember her name. Yes.
Yes. Yes. But she was hilarious. I always thought she was funny. Oh, that's a good one. And if
we want to go way back after in Helmand, Catherine Helmand, that's right. Yes. Thank you. I love
Catherine. Nice job. No. But I am going way back on this one. And it's because she was a star
before she was on the show, but then she became one of the great moms, Barbara Stanwick from the
Big Valley. Wow. Oh, great. Classic Western too. But yeah, she was so good in that.
Okay. One more. Okay. Vicki Lawrence, Thoma Harper from the Carol Burnett show and Mama's
family. Yep. Oh, Vicki Lawrence was so good. Oh, she was good.
Underrated underrated. Oh, absolutely. Very underrated. We will go ahead and get to our
news break. But we'll keep this conversation going. If you want to keep calling up everybody,
we'll continue to do this and have some fun on the morning show at WFHR.
Welcome back, everybody. Morning show here at WFHR locally grown radio. Melissa, Seth James here
with you. Hope you're having a great one out there. Thanks for joining us. Happy Friday,
everybody. Haven't wished you have happy Friday yet. It is Friday. We are going to get into some
fun topics before we wrap up the show. Got some local things we want to touch on good stories of
the day. That ain't right story, maybe. And this is filled with that ain't right stories.
There are the next big thing all the time. This is going to be the next big thing and then
it turns out that it isn't. Usually when it's next big thing, it's something we don't predict or
we don't see coming. That happens more often than not. So people are listing things that were once
hyped as the next big thing, but never got close and they eventually just vanished.
Let's go ahead and take a look at this list and they're not really in any chronological order
or anything like that. So we're just going to go ahead and write down the list. And first up,
Google Plus. Oh, yes. Google social network that was supposed to rival Facebook. I remember that.
I don't. I don't blame you for that. No. The only reason I knew about it is that was when I was
going to a grad school. I was doing it online and the school I went to was trying to use Google
for all their stuff, you know, for other their their meets and stuff like that. And they were
trying to use Google Plus as the social media thing. Yeah. They were probably the last group that
tried to do that. Interesting that had they put the time into their their chat and their meetings,
where event things eventually went, you know, they're great there. They had those all set up.
Well, a lot of people use them. I mean, I shouldn't say that I don't know if they're great,
but they everybody uses them. Right. I say they're great because I don't know how many other
versions or things there are like that that they've done. They've done a pretty good job of being
able to do lots of people, multiple people being able to share information. Right. And most of
their other I mean, Google Plus is just in the long list of failures from Google. Remember Google
cars, everyone self driving cars. How about Google Glass? How's that working out for you? Yeah,
there's one. How about the metaverse Facebook's alternate reality virtual space that is can let me
just double check. Yep, it's still losing money. Still losing money. A lot of it too. They put,
I mean, millions, billions, just billions of this. And there's like, when you look at the,
you know, when you look at a outline of what you're going to be spending and what you could possibly
gain the ceiling and the floor, that is business 101. That is one of the things that you do with
whatever you're starting off, whatever, anything else. When you're spending, this is a similar thing
with the most recent Lord of the Rings TV show. Amazon spent billions on that and understood right
away. We're not going to get our money back from this. And that's okay. You know, we're trying
to establish Amazon TV and all this stuff and everything. So they understood the investment when
they went into it. Mark Zuckerberg with the metaverse believed somehow in his brain. He was going
to make billions back from this. And that's how they got investors to throw so much money and so
much into this. And yep, double checking again. And it is still losing money. Yeah. That is,
I mean, one of the last couple million just to these, well, last couple seconds that we've been talking
about it. Yeah. And we're not even kidding. Like that's that's literally what's happening.
You know, again, I got to say this is not the first time that it happened with Facebook either.
Remember the pivot to video. Yeah. Yeah. Failure. No.
Newsflash everyone. Mark Zuckerberg. Not that smart. Not that smart. He's not that smart.
That's my can't even dress himself. Yeah. Exactly. And you cannot be fired from your company.
Right on. Yeah. Right. Yeah. He's made it so that too.
3D televisions and 3D movies. I mean, every once in a while that came up when we were kids like,
hey, 3D and then at the movie theater, you get the 3D glasses. It was kind of cool. Yeah.
This happens cycles. When we talked about fashion cycles, 3D goes in cycles, my friends.
It first came up in the 50s, right? Yeah. Next big thing. 3D movies. Everyone's going to do it.
Yeah, it petered out. 80s. 3D movies. Yeah. You mean the next big thing. And then again, 30 years later,
3D movies. Let's buy our TV that does 3D. Are you talking about buyers remorse? Yeah.
Yeah. I hope you didn't spend too much. Everybody sit around with a 3D TV right up. Yeah. Yeah.
Well, because if you ever did go to one of those 3D movies, you kind of felt the little ill.
Yes, I know I did. That's part of it, too, for a lot of people. There's that vrgo thing. Yeah.
Yeah. It didn't say well. Look away from the screen for a while. I want to say, I want to say
Jaws 2. 3D. Oh, it was Jaws 3D. Oh, that's right. Yeah. Yeah. I remember that's the one that did
it to me. I like I didn't I couldn't do it. Yeah, I can imagine a little seasick. Yeah.
Quibi. It was a streaming platform focused on short form content. Again, a lot of money put into
this. A lot of people that had a lot of yes men around them and said, Hey, what they're doing on
TikTok. Let's make a network of that. It's not the same. It's not the same thing. People want
on their phones, those kind of videos on their TVs or on their laptops. They're looking for
something different. Seeing a pattern here of people who do who have done one thing good,
okay? Google, okay? They did one thing good. In terms of business, I'm not saying that Google is
great. Obviously, now it's not. But you know what I'm saying? You know, they did the thing,
the big search thing, okay? Facebook. Wow. Social media. The one that everyone uses.
Jeffrey Katzenberg. Yes. Did one good thing with Disney. And now he keeps failing. Yeah.
Yeah. They have these, they have these one, they're one trick ponies. Yeah. All of these guys,
almost every CEO in the world right now is a one trick pony. And they keep giving them,
they keep giving them chances, though, that's the thing that tries me crazy. And I'm not just saying
this, you guys, I've done my homework on this one for many, many years. In part because I am a,
as you all know, a sports nerd. And I, I for a long time couldn't understand why do these owners
continue to hire the same coaches? They just recycle these coaches, football, basketball, hockey,
they all do the same thing. Well, most of these owners come from big corporations. And what do big
corporations do? Hey, we had a, we had a negative profit last year. Let's give our CEO a race
and fire a bunch of employees. That's what they like to do. It's easy for them. And guess what?
They continue to get away with it because we continue to buy their products.
But he, so it's never going to, it's not going to change until we change.
Right. Like we can talk all we want and bark all we want about corporations doing these things.
As long as we continue to spend our dollars on them, we are not just as to blame, but we are
adding to it. And anti trust too. That's, that helps. Yeah. A lot of that's going on right now.
A long way. A long way. Two-wheeled segways, personal transporters. Other than Joe Bluth. I don't think
anybody else really made up a real fun with those. They're basically butt of jokes anymore. So
Theranos, the company Elizabeth Holmes started the claim that it had developed some kind of
special blood test technology, where he sent them all pricking all this. And of course,
if you've heard anything about Elizabeth Holmes, you know how. That was actually just a fraud.
Yeah, I'm not going to say that was a trend. It was a fraud. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. She's in jail
rightfully. So new Coke. Crystal Pepsi. I will throw in there as well.
Both terrible experiments. Yes. Boy. The only cool thing about new Coke is it gave us some
pretty cool Max Headroom ads. Yeah. Yeah. That was cool. So that's cool. I'll take that. But
virtual reality. It hasn't fully vanished. It still keeps coming back. Oh, as we've touched on
in a couple of different things. But really, it's never hit the mark. I think it'll always be around
in some way, shape, or form. But I don't know if it'll ever be as popular as people expected it to be.
Yeah. My favorite one on this list as far as like horrible ideas that I could never understand
how got off the ground, let alone people spent money on NFTs. Oh, God. They're the digital
photos that were going that were going for really big bucks for a while there, especially during
the pandemic. And this was going to be the next trading card. This was going to be the next level
to that, the next stage of that. I know at least three or four people that have an NFT that they
spent hundreds on that they're begging people to buy for like five bucks. None of those are worth
anything. No, no return. And for those that don't know, they're a digital thing. So it's not like
something that I can physically pull up and look at or something like that. It's this one time
thing that there's only this one of in the world. And only I can really enjoy it. And some people
like that kind of thing. But I don't know for me, like when I was collecting cards and everything
as a kid, it was cool to put them in the folder and all that. It was also the coolest thing showing
it to your friends, showing them on. Yeah. Yeah. And actually picking them up and turning them over
and looking at the stats. Yeah. I mean, there was much more than just what the value is. By the way,
the whole card market did that same thing. Yeah. If you remember the early 90s, yeah, yeah,
where everyone's like invest in baseball cards, invest in baseball cards and then the market crashed
because that's what happens in a bubble. Yeah. Yeah. Any honorable mentions feel free to call up and
join the show with them. Everybody about crypto crypto is the perfect one. I wanted to go
crypto right away. I will predict one right now. I'm predicting one AI. Another one. I'm going to
predict everybody. Blu-ray. Beanie babies. Beanie babies. Yeah. Good one. Yeah. There's a fabulous
podcast documentary about beanie babies and the awfulness of the owner that guy says, oh,
that guy was he's still around too. It was darn like evil. Like not just like that. That's just a bad
guy, but like evil. That guy was evil. So let's go ahead and take a call before we go to break.
Good morning. What's on your mind? Yeah, James. My understanding is new coke was put out
as a way to transition when coke went from cane sugar to high fructose corn syrup.
Well, that way they kind of screwed up your taste buds and he didn't notice the difference when
they brought back classic coke. Oh, wow. I've heard this. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's an interesting
one. It's it's especially the way they they kind of market these things and the way they handle
them. Give me coke way too much credit. But that's a great one, sir. No conspiracy theory.
It sounds kind of like an urban legend to me. Yeah. It really does. Like, oh, coke, they were,
they, you know, they were 3D chess, you know, it's like they they had all this pick. No, they made a
huge, but they've lost so much money on that. There's like no way it was that. I appreciate the
call, sir. They got so much. I like that. Yeah, but they could lose that much money. Yeah. Well,
they could afford it. They didn't want to though. I don't think they wanted to lose that much much.
Trying to see it was crystal Pepsi after new coke. Yes, it was. Yeah. So they even had an example
before to like what not to do. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They still didn't. That's crazy. Well, take
a time out. We'll come back and wrap up the show. The morning show here at WFHR locally grown radio.
Welcome back, everybody. Morning show here at WFHR locally grown radio.
Melissa, Seth and James here with you to take you to the top of the hour. Nothing but fun.
Good things coming up here. We want to get into some good stories of the day. I want to talk
about our schedule a little bit, but real quick, sometimes criminals come up with elaborate schemes
that are clever. And then there's this person, a 39 year woman in Pennsylvania was caught in a
bizarre scheme where she'd steal from convenience stores by using a self checkout and not ringing
up the items. Then she'd later come back and try to return all the items to get cash back. It's
unclear how that part would work without a receipt, but we move on. She was caught instantly,
instantly, the combined loss from her known theft was about 210 bucks. That's what she was
hoping to gain from this criminal mastermind scheme. All that, all that money right there. Wow.
Thank you so much, money. Yes, yes. Could have the big, the last job, just to one last job,
you can retire. This $210 job. Got to get out of this. This criminal racket, man. I'm going to go
straight, man. I'm going straight. Yep. No, no. That day, right. We need a palette. Let's get to it.
We got some local stuff we want to touch on, including our schedule. Be sure to join us for our
final midday magazine of the week. Melissa Miller will be with us in part one. We're going to talk
about the benefit together for Heather, looking forward to that. That's going to be great in our
audience and everybody learning more about that. And we got our friends from Bluegrass on the
at the lake coming up. Yay! At 3.30 today, doing this for that, we're going to talk about the
Britney sailor Bluegrass at the Lake Memorial Music Festival. We got our good friend Carolyn,
Katie's going to be with us. Lovely. We may even have Sheriff Sean Becker with us. We'll see.
Nice bonus. Be sure to check out all of our great programming all weekend long. Kicks off on
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The AKC fast cat course ability trials are going on. They're continuing our starting today.
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Just got a couple left of the winter market. By the way, everyone wanted to let everyone know this
just again. We're going to be outside on Saturday. The winter's market is going to be
outside for nine to one. So we're going to enjoy the lovely weather. Yes, exactly.
These last two weeks, you know, we're getting ready for the downtown Farmer's Market coming up
here shortly. So, you know, we'll get you outside with the weather as nice it is. Let's do it.
And once again, a big shout out to all of our guests this week on the morning show.
A particular one to Anna Rebecca joining us and T for two. That was so much fun.
Having a live music in the theater at the studio is awesome. Check them out.
Their Mother's Day special. Be at the hotel. Me at 11 to three this Saturday.
Yes indeed. And Melissa, do you have some?
Nope. That was me hitting my mic. Sorry.
And to all the mothers out there, happy Mother's Day. They are the soul of this earth.
The first two, the first time moms to the one celebrating one of many two step moms.
Mother figures, mothers of animals, of mothers of life into the ones we miss every day.
We appreciate you. Thank you to the moms.
Love your moms.
Yeah. Thank you, moms.
Great show you two. Have a great week, man.
You two James.
Be good to each other. We'll talk to you soon in the later right here at.