Hour 2: E.T. The Extra Terrifying

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 our head of news, Melissa K, good morning, head of production, Seth Habagger,

good morning, and the best listeners in radio, thanks so much for joining us everybody,

we are here to give you a good show, we're gonna take it right to the top of the hour

with nothing but fun, we got a bunch of great things lined up for you, and a little

bit, we're gonna get into the sandwich method, the easiest way to get dressed in the morning

possibly?

I'm looking forward to this, I really am curious.

The most commonly mispronounced dessert names, that will be coming up for you as well,

and of course some good stories of the day and some local good stuff we want to talk

about too, but we kick off our segment with entertainment news, and Ryan Reynolds posted

a Deadpool and Wolverine trailer Monday that included a hidden QR code, the code leads

to a video of Ryan reading a disclaimer of the movie.

This film is a paper, this is as paper thin as a sequel to Battlefield Earth, we're mostly

going to beat each other senseless and make enemies with Disney.

Make a few jokes at my expense, made a lot of jokes at Hugh Jackman's expense, and completely

sidestep Marvel's mandated after credit sequence, so sit back, relax, let us lower your IQ

and raise your heart rate while we travel to a vapid dream land, a place where grown

men and grown women walk around in tights and act like it's not a giant cultural cry for

help.

God, I love Ryan Reynolds, yeah, Deadpool is a marketing genius, he really is, Deadpool

and Wolverine hits theaters July 26th, it's officially Marvel's first R-rated film, and

there are a few movies I've been more excited about than this moment, since the moment

that they talked, that they announced that this was even possible, that Hugh Jackman was

going to come back as Wolverine, I got excited, let alone him and Ryan Reynolds working together,

they are great friends, they've been friends for a very long time and they've really wanted

to do this, but Marvel did not believe in Deadpool.

For those that don't know, Ryan Reynolds put that first Deadpool movie, that's him and

his buddy, that's all them, that's their money, that's their writing, that's everything,

the directing, so much of that, Ryan Reynolds angle on things, it was out of Mickey, wasn't

it?

Yeah, because he's good friends with him too, you don't see these things happen in the movie

industry.

No.

And the success of Deadpool is noteworthy as well with this, especially considering this

is basically the only superhero thing right now that is getting good traction, they're

filming the Fantastic Four right now, and they're a little nervous because there's

not the hype or the excitement that they were hoping for with this already, with this

movie, it's just in five times what they were expecting.

This may kickstart more interest though, with what they're planning on doing with this

movie and moving forward, so we'll see what happens, but yeah, to be fair to Disney actually

was Fox is the one that had the characters at that point, so yeah, yeah, I'm excited

about this, I think it'll be good to cannot wait for it to come out, and again, you mentioned

Ryan Reynolds marketing, he's got a movie out if right now that he's in, and he has his

mint mobile business, he has tied some of that with the if crowd thing and everything,

and done that.

I keep hearing from people that they haven't switched mint mobile yet, because apparently

it's much cheaper, much, much cheaper, yeah, it's just interesting what he's been doing

and what he's been up to with this, and I cannot wait for this movie, it looks good.

We've got one other one I wanted to talk about here, because this is very noteworthy,

and some people out there, especially if you're in the listenership in the organ area,

you might consider this as any right story.

Robert Plant has a complicated relationship with Stairway to Heaven.

It played a very big part in getting him where he is today, but he spent decades trying

to distance himself from it as well.

So much so that he once paid a radio station not to play it.

We take you way, way, way back to the year 2002.

Plant was driving in Portland, Oregon, where he came across a listener-sponsored radio station

called KBOO.

As he was listening, the DJ came on and asked people to donate to the station, and he

said that if they raised enough money, that he would never play Stairway again, so plant

called him and donated.

Plant was so amused by what he had done that he told Atlantic Records President Ahmet

Etchred, and even got a kick, and he even got a kick out of it.

That's weird.

At a benefit for a cancer charity last year, Plant sang Stairway for the first time since

2007.

Wow.

There is a lot of great versions of that song.

I think the no-quarter tour that him and Plant and Page did.

I just love so much of the music from that tour, and that CD that I had of it and everything

is really good.

But the best version you may ever hear this song is actually Ann Wilson doing it, and

at the Kennedy Center Awards.

That's right.

She's all man.

And to be fair, her voice is weathered the storm better than Robert Plant has.

The original is a classic, and if you like the original, there's not taking anything

from it.

If you haven't seen it, look at your search bar Ann Wilson, Stairway to Heaven at the

Kennedy Center Honors.

She made Robert Plant cry.

She made Robert, and she made Jimmy Page look like 40 again, because he looked like such

a guy who was so excited and he's standing up and he's cheering her on and all this.

It was a really cool moment.

That's very cool.

Very cool.

And yeah, to this now, anytime I think of that song, that's the version I think of.

That was a pretty cool moment.

We talked about this.

We've been touching about on this one.

We've been foot dancing around it.

It's time we finally tackle this one.

Do we find ET scary?

Oh, we finally got there.

Okay.

All right.

Finally, do you think ET is scary?

Well, almost 50% of Americans do, and we're not talking about the movie, which does have

some intense moments, but the actual alien himself.

According to a new survey, 1,000 people, 13% find ET to be very scary, and 36% think

he's somewhat scary.

Even while 23% say it's not very scary, and 18% say that it's not scary at all, 11%

are missing out and haven't seen ET.

I'm one of those, by the way.

Me too.

You haven't seen it either.

Wow, two of us.

Wow.

Wow, you guys just blew my mind.

Wow.

In related news, 37% think aliens live among us in disguise, which is.

Depending on where they're living, I mean, I don't know if we know.

They're in disguise.

Right.

Right.

So I think I've told this story, but the second movie that I ever went to in the

the theaters was to see ET, and I saw it on the South Side of Chicago with my dad and

a couple of friends, and we go there, and immediately my dad does this thing that he would

do a lot back then, and just sits down to somebody, and immediately they start talking.

They don't know each other, but somehow they just hit it off.

My father's a master at this, it's just being able to charm people and walk into a room

and find nobody that he knows, but be able to talk to everybody and leave that room

knowing everyone.

Strangers, just a friend you haven't met yet.

Yeah.

It's, I marvel at it as much as it frustrates me because I'm the opposite of all of those

things.

And we sit down and ET's on, and there's the famous scene that you guys may not know.

Maybe you do.

We've seen it in pop culture enough.

Elliott leaves a bunch of Reese's pieces, and we see ET for the first time in the little

shack.

ET comes out, and you can hear kids in the audience, and you know, the odds and everything,

and I'm on the edge of my seat.

I'm like seven years old or something like that, and I'm just dying in the movie theater.

I'm getting to see a movie, and I'm enjoying it.

My dad leans over, and he's, for him, he's using his quiet voice, but he's talking as

loud as the people on the screen.

Jimmy, you ever see something like that, you come and find me and your mother.

I don't care what it is, what's happening, you come and find us, because I don't trust

that thing.

I don't know what it is, because I don't know if he didn't understand the movie, if

he thought it was a scary movie, or whatever, but like for the first 20 minutes of ET's presence

on the screen, my dad's eyeballing him like he owes him money, like, dude, you could tell

that story a hundred times, I wouldn't care, I love it, I love that story.

It speaks to where this article I think comes from, but I think that the, it's interesting

the character, I don't know, there's no way with the Steven Spielberg mind that they

didn't think about, well, are we making this character kid friendly?

And this is with that effort, and it's still kind of a, you know, to some people, a creepy

looking character, and I don't think anybody looked at ET and thought he was cute.

No, I guess, well, maybe some kids did, but when the thing was over his head, yeah, yeah,

when he had the sweater, whatever, the little cloak on, yeah, yeah, then it would, that

was kind of cute.

But ET, the actual alien, they, they actually went pretty above and beyond, I think, with

the design, something we had never seen before, design we had never seen before for an alien,

and they didn't go the cute route.

They didn't go just, we're going to make him cute and fluffy and, and cuddly and all that

and everything.

They kind of, I have a hard time doing this, but they kind of tried to go real with it

a little bit, as much as you can, yeah, realistic, yeah, I know what you're saying, yeah.

Going back and everything, I kind of admire Spielberg's choices and stuff, he didn't

go with the low hanging fruit, he didn't make it his ease, and, and with all that being

said, one of the biggest movies of all time, absolutely, even with that, I imagine if he

did make ET with all cute and cuddly and stuff, who knows, it might have gone a little

bit.

I might have gone either way, yeah, I darn sure know that I wouldn't have that moment

with my dad.

Yeah, that's true.

That's true.

I know, I know who found ET, 100% scary, Atari, somewhere, somewhere there was a land

fill.

They found it.

They found the land filled.

They did.

And they found all those cartridges there.

I still got to watch that talking about it.

It was an urban legend that turned out to be true, catch the audience up that doesn't

know.

Yeah, I thought Melissa might know.

Okay, yeah.

When ET came out, that was also in then 1982, that was also the first home video game

boom and Atari, knowing that this movie was going to be big because Steven Spielberg had

a lot of buzz or like, we want to make a video game of ET and they went out and they did

it.

Unfortunately, they, they gave it to like brand new programmer and designing team and

they were on a very tight schedule.

Well, it came out and it was awful.

Yeah.

It was the, I mean, it was one of the worst games ever produced and they had manufactured

like, I don't know, like 500,000, a million cartridges of this thing and they couldn't

give it away.

And so the urban legend was they just dumped them all into a land fill secretly dumped

them all because they knew they wouldn't be able to sell them or do anything like that.

And then like 20, 30 years later, someone, some intrepid person was looking for this and

they found the landfill and sure enough, that's where all the cartridges were.

So it was true.

They had actually done that.

That's crazy.

Yeah, amazing story.

It's amazing.

And it's so cool to think of what, growing up, we heard this as an urban legend and then

it turns out it was true.

It was true.

That's crazy.

It's just crazy.

I, I remember playing that game and I remember my friends and I, and I kid you not true

story.

We played pong instead.

That was more fun.

One was more fun than the ET game.

So bad.

It was so bad.

It was a pretty fun game though to be fair.

It's true.

Pong is fun.

Pong was fun.

We will take a time out.

We'll play some pong.

And we'll come back.

When we get back, we're talking, we're going into the most commonly mispronounced dessert

names.

We'll be right back.

Ah, the morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio.

Welcome back everybody.

Pong show here at WFHR, locally grown radio.

Melissa, Seth and James hanging out with you.

Hope you're having a good one out there.

Oh, desserts or deserts or deserts, deserts, deserts, deserts, deserts, deserts, deserts.

I like that one.

Ah, the most commonly mispronounced dessert names.

Nothing worse than being hungry for one thing and you don't know how to say macaroon, mac

maca.

Maca, maca, maca, maca, maca, hi, maca, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi,

if you're a fancy restaurant and you are going to want dessert, you might have to,

maybe this list will help you.

So you want to be able to pronounce some of these words, some of these famous desserts

that we like.

You don't know how to pronounce them maybe.

For whatever reason, business inside a recently put out a list of the most commonly mispronounced

desserts and how to actually pronounce them.

Actually, do you pronounce them?

Okay.

The first one up on the list is macaroon.

It's macaroon, macaroon are, it's not macaroon with a K, like Ron, it's not macaroon, it's

macaroon, right?

Macaroon.

How about baguette or a baguette?

It's not a baguette or a baguette, it's a baguette.

A baguette.

A baguette.

Okay.

Nice.

That sounds cooler.

Creps, they're not crepes, they're crepes.

They're crepes, that is correct.

I remember hearing about that and we've been pronouncing them wrong all these years.

Yeah, we've always said it crepes.

Yeah.

The only reason I know that one is a French girl I did, that's it, that's it, I would

not show it all the way.

Very offended when you said crepes.

She was offended by everything.

Yeah.

Okay, get those French, get me those shots at the French.

Do it, I don't know why I chose to do this article, oh dear God, I was kind of wondering

when you said it.

You've given himself a chore this morning.

Dulce de la Che.

Dulce de la Che, I believe it is.

Dulce de la Che.

Dulce de la Che.

Oh.

Dulce de la Che.

Dulce de la Che.

Oh, I've been saying it wrong.

How about Cougain Yom, Cougain Yaman, that's Queen Yaman, Queen Yaman, I don't even know

what that is.

Queen Yaman.

K-O-U-I-G-N-A-M-A-N-N, Cougiman, Cougiman, that sounds Japanese.

Queen Yaman.

Yeah.

How about one eye?

It's a sweet, bright, Breton cake made with laminated dough around multi-layered cake originally

made with bread dough containing layers of butter and incorporated sugar.

I want to try it.

It's cake bread.

Cake bread, yes.

Similar in fashion to a puff pastry.

Yeah.

I'll be it with fewer layers.

That sounds really good.

I want to try that right now.

It sounds really good.

Actually, a lot of these are making me hungry.

How about croissant?

It's not cross-ant.

Croissant.

Croissant.

Croissant.

Croissant.

Croissant.

Croissant.

You don't really pronounce this.

All these French words.

Well, they do make the best desserts.

They do make some pretty good desserts.

Well, a lot of people don't know that when the French people were first putting together

their language, it was all about, how can we frustrate people?

We can make fun of French.

I don't think we have any French listeners.

No, I'm pretty sure.

We can make fun of them.

If we did, they're gone.

Very offended right now.

New get.

New get.

Please call up and correct us.

Yes, please do.

Please do.

Oh, don't start that.

Seven on five, four, two, four, twenty-six on cheese.

Nice.

New get.

A lot of people, like I just pronounced it, new got, is how it's, but it's new got.

New got.

Oh, really?

New got.

Okay, so for those of you who are familiar with the odd couple female version, where they

switch the genders of all the characters, so instead of the the cuckoo pigeon sisters

from Britain, the two men they invite over are from Barcelona, Spain.

And I know that because I played one of the brothers at one point.

And one of the gags they have on there is that he brings over some candy and it's new

good.

What?

It's no good.

No, no good.

No good.

Very chewy.

It's so good.

It's a running gag.

It's hilarious.

It's a great gag.

I got to see the female version.

It's great.

That sounds really good.

Now I want a three musketeers.

Oh, yeah.

It's full of new get.

I do like a three musketeers.

Those are good.

Madeline.

It's not Madeline.

It's Madlen.

Madlen.

OK, don't know what that is.

Is it?

Melissa, come on.

I'm looking at it.

I'm looking at it.

I'm looking at it.

Yeah.

It's a traditional small cake from a commissary and liver done to communities of the Lorraine

region in northeastern France.

France, yeah.

OK.

Small sponge cakes with a distinctive shell-like shape acquired from being baked in pans

with shell-shaped depressions.

Ooh, I got to try that one.

That looks as good as it tastes.

It's sweet.

Like it.

We're talking sweets.

And chances are, that's where the most adventurous you'll find me, isn't it?

Yeah, obviously.

Does it have sugar in it?

Yeah, right.

Yeah, so that was it.

I'll eat it.

Creme brulee.

Yep.

It's not Creme brulee.

It's Creme brulee.

How's it going to say?

Creme brule?

Yeah.

Yeah, I think so.

Creme brule.

Give me some of that Creme brule.

Sounds all right.

Just get back there.

Any more of that Creme brule?

It's got a lot of accent marks over the words.

It does.

It's more fancy.

More than necessary.

Yeah, I think so, yeah.

More than necessary for, especially for what it is.

Yeah, it's good.

Hey, it's a rich custard base.

It is.

With a layer of hardened, caramelized sugar.

It's cool to watch them make.

Yes.

Then they bring out the blowtorch and yeah, yeah.

Okay, it's a torch, but whatever.

It is a blowtorch.

I like any food that they have to do that with.

Yeah, I wish to start on fire at a table.

Yes, I love them all.

I love them all.

They're all good.

And there was a dessert that you ate.

It was like a butter scotch thing or something like that.

One of the Apple Bees or TGF Fridays, one of those kind of places.

And you served it to on a hot plate.

It was served hot.

I wish to got I could find that somewhere.

It was so good.

Ice cream on a hot plate was so good.

I wouldn't have ever thought that, but it was really good.

Have you ever had the deep fried ice cream?

Yes, yes.

No, I want to though.

I love Chi Chi's restaurant in La Crosse when I was a little girl.

They would do deep fried ice cream on your burger.

A lot of Mexican places do that.

Yeah, very good stuff.

I really got to try that.

Yeah, I've lived way too long without trying that.

How about a Claire?

Okay.

It is not E Claire.

It is Ah Claire.

Ah Claire.

Ah Claire.

And then you do the back of your throat thing.

Aren't French?

Cheese?

A language.

That's one.

I know better and I still mispronounce it all the time.

And no one notices.

You're fine.

I think you're good.

Yeah, actually, I don't think I'm sure.

Just when you have one stuffed in your face.

Yes, yes.

Who cares?

They are pretty good.

Yeah, pretty good.

It's an oblong shape with a pastry bag.

Oh, no, no.

Sorry.

Okay.

The inside.

It was like, where did it wrong?

I'm sorry.

What's a pastry bag?

A cake filled with custard.

So what you do is you get your pastry bag, right?

All right.

You got your pastry bag right here.

Which is your donut.

Your donut.

You dump it on there.

Just dump it right on there.

And then you slather the top with some chocolate and you're good to go.

Boom.

You clap.

There you go.

Not a thing, but it should be.

Yes.

I want a pastry bag now.

Yes, yes.

Definitely.

Good job, Melissa.

You came up with something new.

There is a pastry bag, you guys.

It's what you used to pipe the fillet topping on or the filling inside.

But I want the pastry to be called that.

I want that as a new liner.

I want that as a new liner.

Margino cherries.

Margino cherries.

It's not margino.

It's marisquino.

Marisquino cherries.

Oh, marisquino cherries.

Oh, I've heard that before, but I'm not going to change.

I'm simply going to call it marisquino.

Marisquino.

That's always so I said it.

I'm a marisquino.

You know, I marisquino.

I don't think anybody would know what you're talking about.

No.

A what?

I really don't.

I don't think people would know that.

At least in the United States, they wouldn't know.

A Palmer.

It's not Palmer air.

It's a Palmer.

Palme.

Palme.

Palme.

P-A-L-M-E-I-R.

Palme.

M-I-E-R.

Yeah, sorry.

French once again.

Yeah.

That's the French.

Ugly head rearing.

French language.

Do we know what this is?

No.

It's also known as a pig's ear.

Palm heart.

Elephant ear.

Oh, that's a good pastry.

Yeah.

French pastry in the palm leaf shape or a butterfly shape.

It's called palm leaves.

I've heard them called elephant ears in the United States, so yeah.

We always made elephant ears with leftover pastry dough.

Oh, because they're mishapened and, yeah, right?

Yeah.

And then mom would just lump all the extra pieces together, roll it out and put it on a cookie

sheet, cover it with powdered sugar and cinnamon and bake it.

That sounds really good.

That sounds good.

Yeah, that sounds good.

And on this episode of the kitchen's open, no.

And our final one, Nutella.

It's not Nutella.

It's Nut-No-Tella.

No-Tella.

No-Tella.

No-Tella.

Really?

Oh, I didn't know that.

Brown sweetened hazelnut cocoa spread.

Yes.

It is good.

It is very good.

I enjoy it.

But I got to say some people that I know that like it, like the way that they rave about it

and the way that they have this love passion for it.

It's almost like, I feel like you're overselling it in some way so it's good.

Yeah.

Rain it in a little.

A little bit.

It's just a spread.

I'm surprised.

I'm getting nutty.

Well, you could tell James ain't getting any sleep last night.

Nope.

There's one that wasn't on there that I'm kind of surprised.

Tiering me Sue.

Oh, yeah.

Because that's one that gets mispronounced a lot, I think, too.

And lady fingers in it.

Which is just a weird thing.

Yes.

Yeah.

That's a good one.

Yeah.

Fun list.

That was a fun one.

Yeah, go ahead and feel free to bring us yours.

If there's words, I think it doesn't have to be French words or even dessert words.

But words commonly mispronounced words in the crowd way to say that.

That's right.

Always have fun with those.

We will get to our news.

Break.

We'll come back.

And we're talking sandwiching and clothes.

Sandwich clothes.

Sandwich.

Sandwich method.

The easiest way to get dressed in the morning.

Is it or isn't it?

We'll discuss.

Oh.

On the morning show here at WFHR.

Welcome back everybody.

Morning show here at WFHR.

Or Wednesday morning.

You know, either on every order.

Yeah.

We'll just groove in here into the break.

Yeah.

Melissa, Seth and James here with you.

Hope you guys are having a great day out there.

Thanks so much for joining us.

Let's talk about this new one here.

If you need an easy way to choose an outfit in the morning, tick tock is in love with something called the sandwich method.

Okay.

Unless it means matching your shoes to your shirt.

Usually, it means matching your shoes to your shirt.

So they're the same color or close to the same color.

Okay.

And your pants or skirt are sandwiched in the middle.

Oh.

But it doesn't have to be shoes.

You could also wear jeans and a blue hat or blue sunglasses.

So they're the breed and the shirt or the same meat.

The bread and the shirt are the same.

Gotcha.

Right.

The idea is to just create balance in your outfit without being too matchy matchy.

Okay.

This is the closest I've ever come to being hit.

What I was going to say, isn't that your kind of your method, James?

That's how you kind of work it with the shirt and the shoes.

Yeah.

He really does.

I've been doing this for years.

So in the early days of doing this show, I am nocturnal.

I don't sleep much at night.

I also run a morning show.

These are not a good combination.

Get sleep people.

It's very important.

I am a PSA for that every morning.

So I was looking for things.

What can I cut out and save time on?

And immediately thought of Albert Einstein.

And how Einstein didn't want to put any thought into his outfits.

He literally had the same clothes every day he wore.

So we didn't even have to think about it.

Just throw on the white shirt with the black pants.

Blah blah blah.

Right.

I am no Einstein.

Again, I have evidence of that every morning on the air here.

But it was simple to me that, okay, gray and gray.

Blue and blue.

So just easy.

And I didn't really care too much.

I started doing that just to try to, you know, for the mornings and everything.

It was one less thing to think about.

But what ended up starting to happen was I started to like it.

I started to enjoy it.

And I've had students rip on me as much as they've complemented me on it.

I've gotten a little bit of 50-50 on it.

Sure.

But in the last year, I have gotten more comments and I've ever gotten about,

yeah, I like that.

I like this or whatever.

And I keep thinking, I don't believe them.

I'm thinking that they're messing with me.

And we've got, I'm doing a lot of this on Zoom.

So time is of the essence.

And there's not communication can get a little tough.

So I just kind of move on, laugh it off or whatever.

I think they might have been serious.

I think they actually might have meant that a little bit.

I don't know.

I don't know.

Take a compliment.

Just say thank you.

Yes.

Well, and I think I might be overdoing this.

I think I might be doing this too much.

No, no, no, no.

No, it's your thing, man.

But if everyone else starts to like it and do it, that's cool.

But then they're probably going to stop at some point.

Yeah.

You're going to just keep doing it.

I'm going to keep doing it.

Yeah, nothing wrong with that.

So this is more and more evidence of something we've been saying for a while, though.

If you're doing something, if you've got a style, just keep at it.

It'll come back around.

Eventually something.

Well, yeah, people start latching on to it again.

And ever once in a while, you may not realize you are actually doing something that is,

that is hip, just by accident, by fear, by pure folly falling into it.

Here we are where this is the closest I've ever become.

I've been to hip.

Hey, it's the easily got to take your wins, man.

But I just lost whatever ground I gained by calling it hip.

Darn it.

No, just get me hip and call it hip, man.

Is there more to this though?

And again, not to over serious a conversation, but that's my thing.

He's a real house.

Right.

It does speak to some other things, though, I think, of so much of people.

And especially the younger generations, really pushing back on what is style, what is, you know, cool.

And the idea of it has to be something new or something that a celebrity made popular or something like that.

By now, I think most people have heard, if you're going after,

if you're going school shopping with your kids more times than not, they want to go to a thrift store.

Right.

They want to go to a garage sale.

They want to, they want to do those things.

Yeah.

They're repurposing these things.

And oftentimes, if they buy a sweater, they put a, you know, their own mark on it.

Yeah.

Something like that.

Yeah, make it their own.

Because who wants to, if you all, if everybody shops at Walmart, you're all wearing the same stuff.

I don't think we do this nearly enough.

I want to compliment the younger generation, not only in their creativity,

but obviously repurposing these things.

We don't need more clothes and landfills.

No, they take up a lot of space.

I wish I could remember the exact, I don't want to throw out a number that I don't have exact.

And I haven't looked at it recently.

But I know that the number, the amount, the percentage of clothes in landfills is way higher than whatever number anybody's thinking out there.

Just, I mean, the shoes alone is super high because of what they're made out of.

Yeah.

And I got to say it's a lot cooler than the stuff we came up with.

Oh, this is a lot cooler than bending the folding, the bottom of your pant jeans.

Yeah, that's a lot cooler than that.

It's a lot cooler than that.

The pin of my jeans.

Here's a statistic for you.

92 million tons of clothing ends up in landfills each year.

Each year.

Each year.

It's incredible.

Well, and that's, and part of the whole fashion thing is, is to sell to sell stuff.

And fast fashion is horrible at that.

Oh my gosh.

It is awful.

Plus, if you, and I don't know how many people do this, I don't pay as much attention to it as I did when I was younger.

But I do kind of think fashion is cool.

I think it's interesting.

Just the industry, I think is.

The creative part of it.

Yeah, I know what you mean.

I don't know what you're saying.

Yeah.

But go ahead, James.

I was just going to say real quick.

But when's the last time they actually started a trend?

Most trends start from people.

You know, the bottom of people just kind of doing something.

Oh, that's cool.

I'm going to do it.

Yeah.

And we don't see that very, Milan just released this and everybody's wearing it.

Right.

That doesn't really happen.

Unless that's all that's in the stores.

So what a hustle, what a hustle the fashion industry is.

I mean, the business side for sure.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Let's go ahead and see what's on your mind.

Good morning.

You're on the show.

Yeah.

I'm going to go off the subject a little bit.

But I was at V.A.

I'm going to V.F.W.

State B last night.

Oh, awesome.

Yeah.

Oh, good.

I was hoping everybody that people turned out.

I got enough for two meals out of that for sure.

I brought home half-life steak and half of a meal.

Nice.

Mushrooms and onions.

Yum.

I don't know.

I love being able to take leftovers back from something like that.

Oh, yeah.

That's a great feeling.

That is.

And it must have felt really good being over there.

Have you been to the V.F.W. before?

Yeah.

I've been there a couple times before.

That's it.

Yeah.

I forgot.

I was going to wear my V.F.

Veterans hat.

And I forgot to do that.

If all those other guys had decked out in their V.F.W.

I just forgot to do that door.

Next time.

Yep.

Next time.

And we always appreciate you sharing these kind of things with us, sir.

Thanks so much for calling up.

We're really good to hear.

Thank you for going last night.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Thank you.

Thank you for everything.

Yeah.

That was great.

Yeah.

He's a great listener, right?

He really is.

And that's great to hear.

Yeah.

I hope they had a good turn out.

Yeah, with the weather.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I want to hear from you guys out there about that event and any events.

Any of these events you attend?

Yes.

Please feel free to let us know.

I mentioned to many of our listeners before when you go to see performances at the pack.

We'd love to hear them, whether it's a high school concert or a grade school concert

or one of these great events that are safe for the arts crew bringing us.

Yes.

Let us know.

I would love to hear how these events go.

It's promoting your area.

It is a way to help these businesses and organizations and nonprofits continue to do these

kind of things.

It's a big, big thank you to our VFW doing some of the best work in this area.

Yeah.

That's cool.

And you're in up for the Quilts of Valor this Saturday.

Yes.

That is going to be an awesome, awesome event.

First, all female Quilts of Valor ceremony in the nation.

Very cool.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And she's got her shoes.

Yeah.

And she has a style, James.

I would need a whole lot more black and brown shirts.

That's your shoes selection.

The picturesque piece of basketball.

Yeah.

Is that your shoes, selection?

Yeah.

Yeah.

I have a black brown.

Well, I guess I do have a white pair of tennis shoes in my gray and green hiking shoes.

Yeah.

But I don't, I don't have shirts those colors.

Get on it, Melissa.

Get on it.

Come on.

So I use a sheet.

I have, usually, a cardigan or a sweater or something like that matching my shirt.

And like that matching my shoes.

And my pants or jeans or whatever are usually the same color or a similar color.

Or I go, I go real simple and just black and white.

There you go.

That helps.

Yeah.

But I could not be more basic with the way that I see colors and the way that I,

more 2D about this.

And more of a man about it if I'm being honest.

Like, oh, it's gray and matches gray.

No, that's not the same gray.

There's two different grays.

What are you talking about?

It's gray.

Doesn't matter.

Yeah, that's a navy blue and that's a Carolina blue.

Oh, come on.

It matches.

What are you talking about?

It's blue.

Got a lot of room to grow on this.

Yeah.

No, no, no.

No, no.

I don't want you two, James.

I want you to just be you.

That's what I want.

Stay fashion immature forever.

Well, and as it, like, like, like, like, like, like a lot of men out there,

at this age, probably not going to, probably not change my style.

I grow in a lot of ways that I think that we all evolve, you know,

mentally in our part, our soul, all those things, clothes, our hairstyles,

not as much.

We don't grow, we don't change those very often.

If it wasn't for acting, I don't know.

I probably still have the same haircut.

Yeah.

We're bad about that.

I'm with you on that one.

Men, I'm sick.

We are.

I don't know about others.

And I don't even know if the younger generation is as guilty as this,

as some of our generations are when it comes to.

That could be.

I've had the same haircut since I was 20.

There's nothing wrong with that.

Nothing, I don't just say it.

It's as far as fat, you know, keeping up with fashion or whatever.

Just hang on.

It'll come back around.

It'll come back around.

It'll come back around.

I wish we had David Bowie's fashion in the bumper.

Yeah.

Go out with that, dang it.

Not only will come back.

Get out of that, Seth.

Well, I do think that it'd be fun, though, to get into.

What are fashion trends that won't come back around?

Like, I do think, I don't think you're going to see a whole lot of people

doing the folding gene thing.

No.

I don't think that's coming back.

The flip and the fold.

You know that the cliché, the cliché fifties, white t-shirt and jeans.

The only time you see that is when people are dressing up to be from the 1950s,

like if they're in a costume thing or whatever.

That one, I don't think I ever come back.

The gracer look.

Yeah.

I think actual corsets, they were originally used.

I don't think those are coming back.

No.

Because people use them for like cosplay and other things like that.

But that's not every day.

Not every day.

Yeah, exactly.

So tight that they can't, you know, they're internal organs.

Remove, align themselves.

My first big performance, my first lead role corpse.

I'm playing twin brothers, Evelyn and Rupert, and Evelyn comes out on stage

very first scene.

First time you see him in drag.

And I had never done anything like that before.

I come out in big heels and all.

And on stage, Linda had to kind of loosen up the corset on.

Otherwise, it wouldn't go.

This, I was so thin.

And this corset was so tight on me that we had to,

that was one of the things we had to practice almost as much as the fencing.

Just to get that down and stuff.

Because it was so, and we, I think we had to get like a young ladies corset for me

because I was so thin.

I was going to say that thing was just barely able to fit on me.

And that was, and I'm a very thin person at the time, even now.

And that thing, I could barely breathe in that thing.

I can't imagine if you actually have breasts and not just incredible, man.

No, no.

You were fainting coaches for a reason.

Yes, it's true.

You had to invent furniture to, what do we do?

To be fashionable, right?

If that didn't tell you, hey, this isn't maybe a good idea.

I'm glad we have evolved past that.

That's a good thing.

The sandwich method.

Now you got a name for it, man.

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