Good morning, Wisconsin. Morning, world. It's a new day. Thanks for kicking it off with
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us everybody. Hope you're having a good one out there. We got good things coming up for you.
In a little bit, we're going to get into the great musicians who aren't necessarily great singers.
And we've got a way for you to get through that three o'clock slump a little bit later. We got
in fact, we got four ways to get through it. Oh, a little bit later. That's coming up for you
along with our schedule. Good stories of the day and plenty more. Kick off the 9 o'clock hour
with some entertainment news. And Travis and Jason Kelsey are taking their new heights podcast
to new heights. They are they just signed a humongous deal with Amazon. Okay. So this is this
podcast was incredibly popular before Travis started dating Taylor Swift. Okay. And it is only
obviously gained momentum and power and all that and listeners as that that happened and that
is developed and everything. So this was already a very sought after podcast over a lot of people.
And it looks like Amazon is looking to get more into the podcast game as they have spent 100
million over three years on the on these two's podcast. The Kelsey said quote, we couldn't be
more excited to team up with Wonderly for the next phase of new heights. We love this show
in the fan base that has grown with us over the last two seasons. Wonderly understands the shared
vision and will offer a wealth of experience and resources to take us to new heights. As
you did there. Travis and Jason are started new heights before the 2022 NFL season and won
podcast of the year at this year's I heart podcast awards. And I haven't listened to a ton of it.
I don't I don't listen to a ton of podcasts to begin with, but I have heard exactly that's
just said if I had the time I might listen to more of them, but I gotta I will say I think they
both do a good job. Travis is not a bad talker. He he is a very free form. He really lets loose.
He doesn't have much of a filter. His brother Jason was not born with a filter.
Jason is a wild man and he has he is also a he's a controlled wild man like his energy. He keeps
down until like things really bring it out of him. He just retired after last season and this is
his first time, you know, being in the I would say probably since he was a kid not having to train
get his body ready for another another NFL season. So this man is living his best life.
And I can only imagine where this podcast is going to go. They don't need the money. These are
both former football players made a lot of money in their careers are doing well. What they're
able to do with something like this is put that money into the podcast along with other ventures
and nonprofits and a lot of the good work that they do with this because say whatever you want.
These are a couple of Midwest boys. These are these are guys from Ohio. They have had a
Travis has never made any bones about trying to be out there and be a big name.
Jason doesn't really shy away from the spotlight, but these two have not
from everything we can tell have not lost their roots. Their mom and dad are very grounded and
keep them grounded and it should be interesting to see what happens with this. If I'm a fan of
the podcast whenever these things happen, I remember when Pat McAfee signed the ESPN deal.
There was a lot of fear. Like is it going to change his show? Is it going to be different
and a lot of those things came up? Well, that happens when you worried about that. Like just when
an artist you love gets signed on a record label and then their music changes. Yeah, yeah.
I thought this was kind of interesting. I actually just mentioned Kiss the other day when we
are talking about concerts and you know, farewell concerts. My first real big show was seeing
Kiss at the Coles Center during their 96-97, you know, farewell tour.
But if you ever wondered what was more important to Kiss style or substance, this story makes
it very clear. Marty Friedman was contracted by Kiss many years ago when they were changing
guitar players. Marty had played for Megadeth from 1990 to 2000, so he knew how to play.
But he didn't get the past, but he didn't get past the phone interview because of his height.
They were looking for someone over six feet tall, but he told them he was only 57.
And that was it. Marty said, quote, I totally get it, but I would have done anything.
If there was an operation that available at the time, I would have done it.
That is such a painful operation. Yeah, I can't imagine something like that.
Marty didn't say what when this happened, but Tommy Thayer was the last guitars to take over for
Ace Freely and he joined Kiss back in 2002. And I'm not sure how tall Mr. Thayer is, but I'm guessing
at least six feet tall. I mean, if it's their band, if they want to have that kind of requirement,
well, and the aesthetic then the talent. What do I know? I have never sold one record or one song
in my life where Kiss is one of the biggest selling bands of all time. Their legacy is set.
So I don't want to pick at them or anything here, but another thing about Kiss is I know Gene
Simmons is at least if not, I'm pretty sure all the guys in the band are in, you know, platform shoes.
Right. I mean, what is the height part matter?
Just put, just put, just put about some bigger, put them in bigger platforms in Gene or Paul or
anything like that. Like, I don't get it. I don't know why he's a good guitar player. It feels,
I wonder if this was more, oh, I don't, I don't really want to tell him no. I don't really want to
tell him no. You know what? Let's just say it's something about height. Yeah. Hey, it's not you,
it's your height. It's not, I don't know. It feels like something where they're, it's not you,
it's us. It's the kind of thing. I don't know what that was. I hope it honestly was height.
And if that's the reason that you didn't get it, I mean, that's from, from their point,
it's a fair reason. I mean, you know how often those kind of things happen in movies or theater.
Like you, you're taller than the other person in the scene and it doesn't work. So I'm sorry,
I'm, I'm going to go with the other choice. Yeah. Because aesthetically, they look better together.
Like that happens in art. It, it happens. Um, I, I would say it happens more times than whatever
number you were thinking out there of how many times out of 10 times it happens. It happens twice
as much, uh, especially in theater. In movies, they can get away with things a little bit more.
A little more, because they have camera angles and whatnot. And Tom Cruise has made a career out of
this. Uh, it is portrayed as a lot taller in all of his movies. Yeah. I want to be really clear.
I, that is not me taking a shot at Tom Cruise. That, that is a compliment to Tom Cruise. Tom Cruise
is like five four and nobody in the world thinks he is. Right. Uh, it, it's a, it's a very well done
thing for camera work and everything on stage. Um, I've lost out on roles and I've also gotten
roles because of my height. Uh, and, and I, I could see how that could be a factor in the,
that world outside of that. Yeah. I don't, I don't quite get it. I don't know. Uh, I didn't want to
note this. We don't have to go too deep into this one. But the, um, con film festival is, uh, uh,
taking place. Uh, they are, or the, um, the Venice, I'm sorry, the Venice film festival is taking
place right now. The Venice one. No, it wasn't the con festival. So the Venice film festival,
one of the bigger film festivals in the world, uh, I would say the third or fourth biggest film
festival there is a lot of, uh, different things come out to this. Well, uh, Scorney Weaver, uh,
like teared up at the Venice, uh, after reporting, uh, after, after reporter links aliens
Ripley, her character from the, her famous character from the alien movies to Kamala Harris.
Uh, what? Uh, she, she got really, uh, she got really moved by this and, and just said that,
you know, nobody has ever made her so happy comparing her character to somebody and just really,
um, like, she had to, like, you don't see Scorney Weaver, um, you know, out of place very often.
This is a very composed human being. Uh, even when she gets asked a question, she didn't see coming,
she just rolls with it. Um, she's one of the more, uh, like, uh, when, when actors talk about
people they love to work with, she's one of the top names on the list. Uh, she just rolls with
things. A billion things go wrong on a movie set. And Scorney Weaver is one of those people
that keeps things moving. Uh, it's, it's a really just, you know, team player, a lot of that. Um,
so, uh, chances are she is, like, uh, I've seen her do a lot of, at a lot of, uh, festivals and a
lot of things where she's being interviewed. She always talks about her other actors. She's always
really, uh, got that really ready to go. I imagine that she was being interviewed and she's
ready to talk about the other actors in the alien movie or some of this and just is kind of blown
away by this comparison by this, this reporter makes that just comes out of nowhere. Um, she says,
quote, to think my work would have anything to do with her rise makes me very happy.
Because there have been, uh, memes and a lot of different things with, uh, using her character
from alien, uh, to go with, uh, um, Miss Harris. I've been kind of just need to see. And this is
one of the things that's been going on, uh, for a while now, um, where you, you, um, you have to
have a social media team. If you are a politician, you, you just do whether, whether whether that's
right or not or wrong or not or any of this stuff, it doesn't really matter. I mean, we are where
we are in this world and you want to get young voters. This is how you do it or one of the ways you
do it. You also do things that young voters care about because these are not people that, oh,
you have a TikTok dance. So they're going to vote for you. No, they may pay attention to you.
They may know your name, but they're not going to vote for you unless you're actually doing things
for, you know, their, their generation and the, in the future and young people.
Well, and the fact that that character she played in Alien inspired so many women to be able to,
you know, like empower themselves and be themselves in their authentic cells. And that's,
uh, that, that is really cool. You know, there's, um, there, there is a long history of this, of,
characters inspiring, you know, other characters, especially women, uh, when it comes to these things.
I, I think that when I was a kid growing up, uh, the, the one that stood out the most was, uh,
Sally Field is Norma Ray. Um, that performance in that movie, I, I can remember my mother, uh,
getting a teary during that movie. Um, and, and, uh, just the, the way when the, even when the trailer
was going around, how the women in my life would stop and watch the trailer, let alone when the
movie was on and everything. Um, that character that Sally Field played magnificently. Maybe you
could make the argument, maybe her, her key role in her career, which is really saying something.
Um, it, that one stood out to me. So I could see, I could see things like that, uh, where,
where there is inspiration. That's what good art does. It inspires.
And I like this quote in the, in the article on variety that says, suddenly we stop
becoming a joke in a mother-in-law and we actually started to be real people because a lot of
our audience are real people. Yeah. Uh, it's, it's very similar to, uh, Linda Hamilton in the
Terminator movies where that, uh, it was, it was, it was, it was the director, writer, everybody
in that was very adamant about our lead, our lead super here, our lead, you know, hero in this
is going to be a woman. Uh, and, and Linda Hamilton to her credit took that on and like really
embodied that really wanted to do that. She took the ball and ran with it, especially in Terminator
2 where she isn't good shape. She, she's in good shape in both movies, but in Terminator 2, her
character is a little bit more, you know, prepared for the Terminator in these things and she got into
shape for that movie. Well, and I also appreciate that Hollywood is starting to embrace, uh, women,
older women in strong roles and, and because they have for so many years just focused on young,
pretty, perfect bodies. Wow. And that, that has needed to change for a long time. And I'm glad
that that change has started to come about. 100% agree with every word. Uh, I will say, um, you
know, similar to sports, especially the NFL, uh, they realize, hey, wait a minute, we've been
completely ignoring a whole half of society. We want their money too, uh, you know, and that's where
a lot of this comes from, uh, is, is whether it's making movies like Barbie or it is the NFL,
you know, putting a focus on breast cancer awareness. A lot of this does start with money, but that
doesn't, that doesn't mean that that's what it has to mean to us. Like it can still take, we
can still take empowerment from these things. We can still still take like, okay, it's similar.
Oh, when I was young, uh, when they had, um, when PCism got really big and there was affirmative
action, I got a job for it because of affirmative action once. And instead of, um, being discouraged
by that, I was like, okay, I'm going to prove I belong here. I'm going to prove, I'm going to,
I'm going to take this opportunity and I'm going to not only prove that I belong here, but hey,
every ethnic person that, uh, you know, uh, goes for a job, give them an opportunity, give them a shot
or at least give them a look. Um, I, I think that there's, you, you can take the opportunities,
however you get them or however they came about and make the most of them.
Well, and you can look at just what happened with orchestras across the country when they started
doing blind auditions, women started getting positions. Yeah. Previous to that, women were not
in orchestras across the entire world. That's, but the, the bias of, well, a woman can't play at a,
a trombone. It's great. Yeah, right. That's just insane. Just insane. But as soon as they started
doing blind auditions, women started getting those parts. Mm-hmm. It's a great note too. And I don't
think a lot of people knew that one. That's, that's a good note. Melissa. Oh, yeah. If you start delving
into the orchestra world, it's, it's kind of crazy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We will take a quick time out.
When we come back, we're talking about musicians. Are they good singers or not? We'll get into the
list. We'll decide ourselves. We'll, uh, we'll make, we'll make the final cut when we come back.
Our own, our own American idol coming up. Uh, uh, the, uh, the board show at WF HR.
Welcome back, everybody. Morning show at WF HR.
Coming out of my cage and I've been doing just fine. God, I got to be telling me because I want to go.
Melissa and James here with you. Thanks so much for joining us, everybody. Hope you're having a good one
out there. Mm-hmm. Some killers to play us in. Fantastic band. Uh, was actually lucky enough to
get to see Brandon Flowers, the lead singer from the killers, uh, at a small show, uh, when he
hit a solo album coming out and he was kind of previewing it to, uh, select, uh, members. There
was about a hundred people maybe in the bar, uh, that night. Um, very intimate setting and very
close to the stage. And I was not, I'm not a big killers guy or anything. The girl I was with,
uh, her and her sister wanted to go. So I was just kind of shaperoting almost, um, just the big guy
standing there with them and everything. But I was blown away by that by him. He, he is a showman,
he can sing and everything that, because God, these two love the killers and they played them all
the time, Alyssa. So I know that music pretty good. And I've heard him sing plenty on CD or whatever
on the radio, all that, uh, to hear him back it up on stage. Life was very impressive to me. Nice.
Um, mentioned this weekend. Uh, so co-heat and incubus and, uh, Brandon Boyd, lead singer of incubus,
very powerful singer, very good singer. I've heard him on CD. Okay. Sounds really good. You see him
live. Oh my God. Like, uh, not only does he back it up, but he's an amazing showman. His voice was
intact the whole time. It was really impressive. Um, I came away a bigger, I have been a bigger
respect for not only him in the band, but just musicians in general that can pull that off. Um,
I remember going to Osfest and, uh, seeing White Zombie and seeing Rob Zombie and about two songs
in Rob's voice blue, like just, just went and he, and he, he did like 10 more songs and every song,
he just kept trying to sing. And it was, it was like painful. Um, I'm thousands of feet back and
I, I can hear how painful it is and everything. It was just really rough. And I tell you, get
nodules. Don't do that. I don't know anybody. I, I think Rob Zombie and, and White Zombie is a,
a fine band and all that and everything, but I don't know that anybody that's going to say, well,
that's a great singer right there. Um, you know, there's, there's a difference between
being a, a great musician and maybe being a great singer. And that's what this list puts together.
A ranker.com had people voting on which of the greats aren't great singers.
So these are big acts. These are big names that not necessarily are great singers.
All right. So, uh, looking at the list, we're going to go through a couple and then I'll give
some examples. I'll, I'll, I'll play some examples for people here with some of these more obscure
or maybe voices you haven't heard in a while. Um, I apologize, Melissa. I know that you, that
audio wise is a little difficult for you. Sorry. Okay. I got, I got streaming.
So first up, number 20, Jack White from the White Stripes and the Recounters.
Okay. I could see, I like his voice. I like his singing. I could see how people could say that.
Um, Chris Christofferson, uh, famous singer, songwriter. I believe in the country music hall of fame.
Mick Jagger from the Rolling Stones. Okay. Uh, I, I found that one interesting, but okay. I'm,
I'm not going to, I don't know enough about singing to really combat any of these. I know what I
like and I know voices that I like. But if, if somebody had asked me, hey, do you think Mick Jagger's
a good singer? I wouldn't argue that. I'd be like, yeah, I think he is. They say he's not. I, I can't argue
that either. I don't know. Okay. Yeah. Just roll with it. Um, I, to, to me, I, you know, I,
I think one of the tricky parts of this to me is, well, he, but he got a record deal, but, but he's
got a great career, you know, and, and I forget sometimes that that doesn't always mean that, you
know, you're a great singer. Great. Joe Walsh. That's about who you know. Yeah. And, and, and even
sometimes the band, the type of music you sing or play or anything like that. So Joe Walsh is on this
list. Um, that's an interesting one. I, I, I don't think of Joe Walsh as a bad singer. Huh?
Maybe that's why he's lower on the list. Maybe that's it. Ozzy Osboard. I, I, I don't think of
Ozzy as a great singer traditionally or anything, but I just mentioned seeing Ozfest. I've seen,
I've seen Ozzy five, four times. I've seen Ozzy. And, um, I, I seen him obviously latent life in his
late 60s, 70s, all of that. That man gave like an hour and a half show. His voice never left,
was, was, was, it felt like he was the youngest person in the arena. Like, um, just an incredible
energy to him. And, and, and while he may not have a singer's voice, his voice held up great. And
he sounded just like he did when he was in his 30s. Hmm. I, I think Ozzy has taken care of his
voice very well. Yeah. And that there's definitely a difference there. Where there was a guy 20
years younger than him and Rob Zombie, who was voice blew out right away. Ozzy was perfectly fine
every time I saw him. So, you know, yeah, some of it depends on technique. Maybe not a great singer,
but certainly, uh, uh, you know, it's taking care of his voice. Right. Lou Reed shows up on this
list at 15, um, a distinct voice. I think that's going to come up here on this list a little bit too.
A unique voice. Uh, sometimes that's necessarily a, maybe a good or a bad singer, but just a very
unique voice. Okay. And now it's going to get a little interesting because at number 14 on the
list, Taylor Swift. Really? I, um, I know how popular she is. I know how a big of a name she is
in how popular a singer she is. Her albums sell out right away. Uh, her concert sell out right
away. She is, uh, gotta, she is the biggest name in pop culture and, and, and arguably the biggest
name in music. Yeah. But I honestly, I've never heard anybody say anything about her singing voice.
I've never heard anybody comment on it other than, um, she, her twang went away when she started
doing pop music, uh, when she went from country to pop. It's the only time I've ever heard anybody,
say anything about her voice. So when I, when I think about her as a, I think about her as a,
a songwriter first before I think of her as a singer. Hmm. Well, and I guess I think of her as a
performer. Oh, yeah. That's a good way to put it. I mean, she is the whole package and gives long
performances. Um, but there are, there have been times where like most recently, and actually,
I think this just happened a couple of days ago. I heard a song and they said it was Taylor Swift
and I was like, Oh, wow. Okay. So I think she has this slightly changeable voice, um,
depending on what she's singing, which is something that some singers are able to do. And I,
I think that that's an admirable talent. I think that doesn't necessarily detract from her,
you know, singing ability. Yeah. And certainly you can have the, there are plenty of singers that
have amazing, amazing voices, but don't have amazing careers because they, it's not,
quote unquote, the complete package and everything. Susanne Boyle is a, is a good example of an
overnight sensation who has a beautiful voice. Amazing voice. Yeah. But yeah. And, and to be fair,
I have to put out there that I don't listen to a lot of Taylor Swift music. I mean, I heard more of her,
you know, early, early stuff like tear drops on my guitar. Yeah. Yeah. I want to be very clear to
all the Swifties out there. I am not taking shots at her. I don't want that small. I am not
interested in that. She is an incredibly successful and talented young woman. And I, I have nothing
but respect for her. She, her fan base is such though that we feel like we have to do that.
Cover. I do. I'm just joking. I know you don't, but I'm just kidding. Cheryl Crowe comes up at
number 13. Really? That's surprising to me. I don't agree with that one. I don't either.
And in part, not only Melissa and I don't agree with the music industry didn't agree with it.
Cheryl Crowe made her bones as a backup singer and a backup and a songwriter. And it wasn't until
late in her career that she finally got a record deal. And, you know, all I want to do is have fun
and a lot of her hits. She's got a unique voice, like you said. Yeah. Yeah. And her way of singing maybe
doesn't jive with, but oh my goodness. You can listen to like regular teeny-bop radio right now.
And they're all auto-tuned. And they, they all sound the same. And, and I mean, that's very
much generalizing. And I understand that. But you don't hear a Cheryl Crowe on the, the regular,
quote unquote, regular radio right now. Yeah. No, I completely agree with you. I am, it's
hard to get into a lot of new music from me because it all sounds so similar to me. And I've
never been a big fan of Brian Johnson from ACDC shows up on the list. Again, not a not a great singer
maybe, but perfect for that band, perfect for that style of music. You wouldn't want whatever,
whoever you think of as a beautiful singer, you wouldn't want them in the covering ACDC.
Michael Bubley, C-E-A-C-D-C.
Thunderstruck. You've been thunderstruck. I like that. I like that.
Elvis Costello. Elvis Costello shows up very similar to Lou Reed to me, very unique voice,
very, you know, distinct one. Leonard Cohen, another one famous for hallelujah, some of that.
I would never have thought of Leonard Cohen as a bad singer though, or a guy who can't sing.
I thought he has a nice voice. You know, I don't, I haven't listened to a ton of Leonard Cohen,
but what I've heard over the years, I was a little surprised by that. And then the list gets a
little interesting as well because there's some famous names on this list and famous for different
reasons. One of them coming in in the top six, famous opera singer Florence Foster Jenkins.
And those many of that there might not be familiar with Miss Jenkins, she was kind of famous
because of her bad voice in being off key and some of that. I'm going to play a little of you play
a little of her for you right now. All right, I want to play a little bit more. This is a little
older to have from Florence here from this is from 1934.
That is Miss Jenkins. That is Miss Jenkins. So that's that's what she came a long way.
Yeah, she really did. Yeah, yeah. Because that first clip you played, I thought that sounded
fantastic. Yeah, yeah. And that is her, you know, well tuned. But before that, you heard her,
she apparently had a very hard time hearing the band sometimes back in those days. And so that
was part of what it was. I've had that happen to me. She became famous essentially because of this,
though, and got a lot of work from it. Well, I mean, however it happens, she obviously turned out
all right. Next up on the list at coming in at number five, Mr. Bob Dylan playing a little
Dylan for you right now.
So Dylan, I think a famous voice. One of the more unique, famous voices there is. But I,
yeah, very similar. I have never heard it by, you know, comment. I really love his singing voice.
Never necessarily. Yeah, I mean, he's definitely unique. But he's Bob. Yes, yes.
Paul Abdul comes in at number four. I thought that was interesting.
And at number three, Mr. Tom Waits, going to play Mr. Waits for you right now.
Tom, I love Tom Waits voice. I will, I will, I will say that with journalistic integrity right
away, like I am a big fan of Mr. Waits, his writing, his style, his singing style, all of that.
I will never say that he's necessarily a good singer, though.
Well, but he's, it's his style of singing, though. It's almost a little reminiscent of Louis Armstrong.
Yes. With the, with the gravely gravel in there for that particular clip you just played.
I think that that is a stylistic choice.
Okay. Yeah. Yeah. It's, so I, I hadn't really thought much about this before. So,
so much of our conversations about singing is really enlightening me and gave me insight to
some of these things. Along with talking to a lot of musicians and directors caught in a lot of
this. I, I think usually I thought, or I thought most people, they start to sing. This is how
their voice sounds. Oh, I have a good singing voice and they just go with it. It takes a little
more than that. It takes a little more trading to that. You can fine tune it to sing a certain
way in some of those things. So it's interesting. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I do a really bad Louis Armstrong
impression. I want to, I need to hear this someday. I need to hear this. I need this in my life.
I don't know if I can whip it out today because it's actually it's kind of damaging to, to a voice
when you try to go that lower gravely. Yeah. It's like a, hmm, I see trees of gray. So, you know,
it's a thing you can do with your voice. I'm broken skies of blue.
I see them for me and you. And I think to myself, what a wonderful world. Oh, that was bad.
Oh, that was great. It was great. It was. This is going to go down as one of my favorite moments.
This is one of my favorite moments. That was awesome. That was fantastic. Nicely done.
I think we're not on camera yet because now I'm red. So good, so good.
The top two positions out here. I gotta pull myself together. Okay. Focus. Neil Young. Okay,
I can see that. I can see that a little bit. And I'm sure Seth might agree with that one.
And number one on the list, Jennifer Lopez. I'm a little surprised by that, but I guess
what was interesting to me too was seeing Paul Abdul and Jennifer Lopez in the top five.
Both of them started out as dancers and got their break kind of because of dancing and the
pop music scene and everything. I guess when I think about it, I've never heard anybody say
Jennifer Lopez is a great singer or anything like that. She's just been through the ringer
the last couple of weeks. And that come up number one on this list. I will feel for her a little
bit of that. Well, but you know, once they're that famous and they're able to kind of choose to do
whatever they want to do, why not try singing? Yeah, really. I mean, plenty of singing. Plenty of
notice on this list, we didn't have any of the actors with singing careers like Bruce Willis and
the return of Bruno or something like that. It's a fun list. That's fun. That's fun. Thank you so
much, Melissa. And thank you, Louie. Thank you, Louie. We appreciate you. We will get. You'll
make it come back someday when he practices. We'll make it. We'll get to our news break. Take care
of our partners. Come back and we're talking hump day and how to beat that three o'clock slump.
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Melissa and James hanging out with you. Hope you're having a good one out there. And hopefully
here at 942 on the clock, you are not feeling a slump already. You're not feeling a little tired.
If anything, you've got that for some of us that have an upsince five, you might be getting that
second or third wind or some of you might just be getting your day started and getting that first
wind going and everything. But we are looking to your future self. We are looking to that part of you
at three o'clock today when you are dragging a little bit. I called at the trough of my day.
I like that. Well, happy Wednesday everybody. Happy hump day. Here's something to help you get
over the hump before we head into a nice long weekend. Three o'clock tends to be when a lot of us
hit a wall. So someone asked a productivity expert how to blast through it. And we got four
ways to beat that afternoon slump. All right. I got my pen. I do have it. I do have a side
question here. Does does everybody feel that at three o'clock? Is it a different time of day you
feel it? I feel like I hit that around maybe around one noon, one o'clock. And that's what I need
to kind of like get some lunch or something like that in my system to read. If you ate, you know,
the normal times of the day, James, it might help. This is now this is okay. I'm glad you brought
this up because this is what a lot of people will tell you. My mom has been trying to tell me this
my whole life. And look, people, I, yeah, yeah, you got to point. You got to point that.
But no, I do think that it depends on when you start your day because when I worked a day that my
work actual work times was like seven thirty. As opposed to six or earlier, I did hit my trough
at about three or slump or hump or whatever. And we do want to hear from the audience because
well, we're going to give you some tips here and some ways to do this. How do you do it? How do you
get through that three o'clock slump? Let's hear from you. Energy drinks don't count. I mean,
they can help you. But we've already got that as one. We've already got that. Well, and if you do
that at every day at three o'clock, gosh, I wouldn't be able to sleep if I drank an energy drink at
three. And after a couple of years of that, your stomach's not going to be able to take things in
that stuff just eats the lining of your stomach. It's just. So number one on this list of how to
beat the afternoon slump. Know how you're wired. If you start anticipating your slump, you can
front load your day and knock the hardest stuff out early. Yeah. Yeah. Plan for it. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. And that is one of those things that that is a go-to for me as far as getting the hard stuff
done out of the getting that out of the way first. I'm always a big fan of that. Anytime in my life,
anybody has ever said, I got bad news and good news. You want the good news and just give me the
bad. Give it to me first. Let's get it out of the way. Leverage small wins. And boy, take this one
to heart, everybody. Crossing something small off your list creates a sense of accomplishment.
If you can give you it can give you a burst of energy and keep you motivated.
That's true. So while it's good to have those tougher things front ended on your your list when
you have energy and everything, keep in mind that that list, it doesn't have to just be okay. I
call the big things. Yeah. I was able to move this boulder up the hill. Well, take us something,
hey, you got to the boulder. You got your job started or something like that. It may seem silly,
but like one of the things I love doing, my mom, whenever she would make a grocery list,
and she would get a little discouraged because of whether it was money or it was time or just not,
you know, not remembering everything or something like that or hitting everything on the list.
So she would let us as kids sometimes put things on the list and I would always put a penguin.
Um, it would make her laugh and she would cross it off, but she, after a while of doing that,
she started feeling good having something crossed off her list. Yeah. I don't care. It made her
smile too. So there you go. I don't care. I don't care if it's, uh, I'm creating a list for my
vacation. Number one thing on the list. Make a list. Okay. That's okay. It is. It is. And
sometimes I, if I'm having a rough day, I will add small things on my list just so I can cross
them off. I like putting breath in my bed. I think that's great, Melissa. That's, that's really good.
Yeah. And it does add to these, these things do add up. They do mad and mad. You feel accomplished
and no matter how small it's important. Connect with others. Take five minutes to check in with
your coworker. Micro breaks can help shake the afternoon fog, especially if you interact with
people. Yeah. Just getting up and moving around. That's a good one. And then talking to people,
yeah, that definitely could help. I like that one. I like that one a lot. Let's, you're also not
working. Yes. Yes. Take, and micro breaks are something that boy, Americans have just really gotten
down for, for many reasons. Yeah. Not, not a lot of them good. Right. Not a lot of them good.
You could hear that in my voice, couldn't you? Yeah. And change your environment comes in at number
four, wraps up our list to move to, move to another room or step outside for some fresh air,
staying in the same spot too long can make you sluggish. Yeah. Yeah. I, I've done some factory work
in my time. And I ran into this a lot. And when I was working in factories, you're just standing
in line for, you know, eight hours a day and I'm doing one thing. I would, honestly, I would
go around in the circle sometimes. I would, I would, I would, I would just make myself do that,
or I'd go get a drink of water from the water cooler or something. Even the little things like that,
at least got my legs moving, got me out of that, that mindset a little bit.
Just change your location, change your view. I honestly, every once in a while, I'll throw
like a handful of pushups in that does it. Or I will not, not go running, but I'll take my,
my fur brother Sam for a walk or something like that. And that I think along with the fresh air
kind of gets me that, that fourth, fifth wind I need. Or you could do simple like stretches at your
desk. There's a lot of them out there that you can look up that are easy to do seated or,
you know, without any kind of equipment or anything or without getting down on the floor.
Which is often something you do when you're stretching, but just simple things you can do that
wouldn't be inappropriate at work to help get your blood move and wake you up a little bit.
Yeah, yeah, those are good ones. And honestly, I think focusing on your breathing a little bit can
help. Take a moment to breathe. It really does kind of add up to this and kind of help with this.
That's a more oxygen in your body. It's going to help wake you up.
That is an interesting list. Interesting. We are always looking forward to hearing from you
and how you stay awake and how you keep going. Maybe it's us. Maybe we help you keep going.
We certainly try to. We appreciate you out there, everybody.
Absolutely. We'll take our final news break, our final break, I mean,
and checking with our partners one more time. Come back and wrap up the show Morning Show here at WFHR.
Welcome back, everybody to 97 5 FM 13 20 AM WFHR's Morning Show.
Melissa and James here with you taking you to the top of the hour. We'll get into our schedule and
some local things going on in just a moment. Got some great local events. I want to touch on, but
want to get to then a right story in with you Melissa. All right. And this is a doozy. There was
an open house last Sunday for a home for sale near Stratford, Virginia, about 40 miles south of
DC. One of the people who toured the home was 39-year-old Napoleon Booyakay. He apparently
talked to the seller about how much he liked that place and thought it would be a great for him
and his four kids. And it looks like he was very serious because he just moved in two days later.
Okay. He didn't make it off or anything. He just showed up with his kids got inside and refused
to leave. Oh, whoa. Police got there and ordered him to come out, but he just started,
he just stared at them through the window so they went inside and arrested him.
It turned out he was on probation, had warrants out in two different neighboring counties. He's
facing a long list of charges. And unfortunately, the children being involved in this one makes it
not nearly funny at all. But the idea, if we put that aside and the kids are okay there in child
protective services now and that, but putting that to decide, this is, there are squatters and then
there is just like not even, you got to at least go through the squatting part. Like he's trying
to, he's trying to get cut that part of it. Right. Because typically squatters are people who
for whatever reason are being kicked out of the home that they've lived in for a while.
Like, you know, their lease is done or, or they've been evicted and they refuse to move out.
But yeah, this skips that whole process.
That guy got the order wrong. He got the order wrong and it's not how you do it.
Anyway, right? Or he read about that and was like, I could do this.
Okay. Yeah.
You'll find a nice one.
Right. Yeah. That's the thing. Is he like a hermit crab?
Like, if he finds a better house, he'll just move over to that one.
What is it or that?
We need a palette cleanser and we got a good one for you today.
Join us Monday through Friday from four to five from Midday magazine.
Wonderful dialogue that we have with some locals.
Today in part one, Lance Plymouth, Wood County Board Chairman will be joining us
along with our great friends from Wisconsin Rabbit's Community Media.
Looking forward to that.
In part two, we are going to speak to our friends over at the ODC.
We have Anne, Alisa and Samantha joining us.
We're going to talk about the couple of different things going on with the ODC
looking forward to that conversation.
And a little bit later today at seven oh five, we got the Luke Fickle show.
Join us for Wisconsin Badgers head football coach.
Gives you insight to the team previews the next week and always has a good conversation.
Nice.
Keep in mind this Friday, we have a football on both of our radio stations here at WFHR
six o'clock. Wisconsin Badgers hosting Western Michigan.
Yeah, the college football Badger season kicks off this Friday.
And on WIRI at five, 50, our pregame kicks off for Peppin Alma at Assumption.
There we go.
Join us at 105 five as Randy Mike and Seth will bring you that high school football action.
Awesome.
Looking forward to it's going to be good stuff.
And it's when sports kicking off.
It is Wednesday, Melissa. You know what that means?
Bingo.
Bingo.
Bingo.
Bingo.
Bingo at the Wisconsin Rapids Elks Lodge number 693.
Join them at 430 West Jackson Street.
Their doors open at five.
Bingo kicks off at 630.
Support those that support this community like our Elks Lodge does.
Go have fun.
And plus it's fun.
It is a plus that there is never a Wednesday.
I go past that Elks Lodge and it's not jam packed.
Packed.
It is always.
Yeah, get there early.
Everybody get yourself a good seat.
Good Bingo card and enjoy some Bingo at the Wisconsin Rapids Elks Lodge.
Number 693.
Tonight at 430 West Jackson Street.
The Port Edward's United Methodist Church
is hosting a Blessings of the Backpack event
for students of the Port Edward School District.
The event is being held today from 3 to 6
at the Ripple Creek Park in Port Edwards.
The first 10 students who show up for a blessing
with their backpacks will receive a week's worth
of free lunches deposited into their school accounts.
Each student will also be entered into a drawing
for one month worth of school lunches.
And this is a pretty cool thing.
Go check that out today.
And I want to remind everybody as well
the last splash pad of the year is happening today.
That's right.
The Wisconsin Rapids Fire Department is going to be set
up at the Winter Park Aquatic Center.
Go check that out everybody.
That's going to be a lot of fun.
If it's 1.
1.30 to 3 today.
Yep, 1.30 to 3 today.
And you can find out about that more
if you go to your Facebook page and type in there.
Wisconsin Rapids Fire Department.
You can keep up to date with all the good things
they are doing over there.
And we say a great good morning
and a big thank you to our friends
at the Wisconsin Rapids Fire Department.
Doing some of the most important work in our community.
We are very fortunate to have them.
I don't think I need to tell them.
Remind everybody around there
how many fire departments are being, you know,
in rural areas are really hurting for people.
Yeah.
We're very fortunate to have the amazing people
we do over there.
And again, that last splash pad of the year is happening
today at the Aquatic Center from 1.30 to 3.
Go join them and thank our firefighters while you're at it.
Meet a firefighter.
It's a good chance to help icy pops there
because that seems to be something they often have
at their pop-up splash pads.
So head over, put your swimsuit on.
Probably wear your shoes
and or your water shoes.
Enjoy some fun in the splash.
Okay, I had no idea they might have those over there.
I'm definitely going over there.
That's going to be a lot of fun.
People magazine has a story on an annual event called
the Wedge Live Cat Tour that started as a joke.
A guy in Minneapolis organized a tour in 2017
focused on cats that are always sitting in people's windows.
It started out with 20 people
and over 500 showed up for this year's event in June.
It is so it's an established thing now
and they're already planning next year's event.
Wow.
That seems like a lot of fun.
Yeah, so what they show up at one place
because there's I guess I'm confused.
I am too.
I am too.
But it is for they do raise money
for animal shelters and that's a pretty cool thing.
That's good.
But I do like seeing cats and windows.
There's something about that, yeah.
And want to remind everybody,
tomorrow we're going to be focusing on pets
as we have our friends from south of county
main society joining us with our pet of the week tomorrow.
Awesome.
Be sure to join us for that.
It's going to be a fun show.
We're looking forward to it.
Stick around for Matt and air on air.
I believe Jane is on vacation.
Greg is running things.
They've got the inmates running the asylum over there.
Well, you'll still have a fun time with Greg.
Yeah, and we had a fun time today.
Great, great show.
Melissa, great week.
Yeah, you two James.
Have a good one.
You guys have a good one out there.
Be good to each other and we'll talk to you
sooner than later right here at.
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