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Good morning. Had a production, our co-host Seth Haggar.
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And the best listeners in radio. We got my darn mouth.
We, it was a long weekend. We appreciate you all joining us. We got fun stuff in this 9 o'clock
hour. I do have to mention a programming note. I got confused. I thought Tom was in today. He
is in tomorrow. We'll have a monthly veterans update tomorrow. Very nice.
Very nice. Did that. Appreciate Tom joining us tomorrow. Look forward to it.
Join us right in this time slot tomorrow. We'll be joining with our monthly veterans update.
We kick off entertainment news now. And this comes to us from Forbes.com, who recently did a
piece on Tim Burton. And for this piece, Forbes does some pretty fair reporting for what I've
seen over the years. And they shut up to Tim Lamer's contributor on this one. So they go back to
an old interview with Conan O'Brien, where Tim Burton and Conan O'Brien are talking about
just the projects that Tim Burton has done over the years and everything. And this interview was
back from 1999. And the, my former, the best boss I ever had, my former boss, Conan, asked the
famed director about the weirdest reactions he got from a big studio executive when discussing his
film ideas with them, which is a pretty good question, I think, because it's Tim Burton.
And now a days there's a lot of, quote unquote, weirder directors and directors that do odd
and eccentric stuff. But he was kind of one of the originals of this, of our generation at least.
And this is what he said, quote, well, I've been lucky because I get to keep making films. So
that's good. But I remember once the reaction I had when I said I wanted Sammy Davis Jr. to play
Beetlejuice. Really? Wow. Burton said the reaction he got from the studio executive was like
with the Davis pitch was akin to the look a cat gives you when it when you want to put it in the
water or a deer in the headlights. Right. Now, of course, Davis known. I genuinely believe that
Sammy Davis Jr. was the most talented human being I've ever seen in my life. Period.
Not the most popular dancer or the best dancer I ever saw, the best actor I ever saw or anything
like that. The greatest entertainer I've ever seen in my life all around. Nobody can even come
close to Sammy Davis for me in my book, not saying I'm right, just my own opinion. Right.
The way I looked at this and everything. And Davis certainly would have fit the mold. Like,
think about some of the things that maybe seem weird or stand out about the movie. But like,
Deo and Sammy Davis is in that role with the Deo scene and some of that stuff and everything.
There's so many things that he didn't change with Michael Keaton. He just kept them in there.
But if you put Sammy in there, it's a whole different ballgame. And I love Michael Keaton.
I want to stress this. I'm a gigantic Michael Keaton fan. I don't know how you can grow up in the 80s
and not big. Big, big fan of Mr. Keaton. And one of the most, I think, talented actors I've seen
in the long, you know, in his career. He's done such a good job and he's done everything there is.
But I love the idea of younger generations getting into Sammy Davis, Jr. because of Beetlejuice.
Like, I could have seen that happening. That could have. Absolutely.
I think the movie may have been even more popular if Sammy's in there.
Ooh. Michael Keaton is not a gigantic film star at the time Beetlejuice comes out. He's a star.
He's got Batman. He's got some of that. But people might might forget. They pulled away from him
after Batman because he's Batman. They don't want to cast Batman in a movie. So he wasn't working
as much and everything. And the studio didn't necessarily want Michael Keaton. He had to fight for
Michael Keaton. So his first two options that Tim Burton brings to the table for Beetlejuice
are turned down. And Sammy Davis, Jr. and Michael Keaton, they ended up obviously working it out
when Michael Keaton and he comes in and does the job. And another interesting part of this
article is is talking about, well, they've been trying for years. They've been talking about for
years to do a sequel. And it wasn't until the writers got together, the original writers and
that and everything. And like, well, we got something here. And they decided to do it. And they
they pitch it to Michael Keaton first. Keaton reads the script, loves it, signs up right away.
Shows up day one on set in character. Like in Tim Burton couldn't believe it. Like he just he
just flipped a switch and he was Beetlejuice, like just immediately. He's so good. He's really good.
He's an amazing actor. Anyway, yeah. It's just an interesting parallel universe to think of Sammy
Davis, Jr. in this role. And I genuinely think it might the movie is a cult classic. And I love
the movie. I couldn't imagine if somebody had told me before I read this article and really got
the confirmation because this has been around for years, this conversation that Burton wanted Sammy
Davis, Jr. But there was never any concrete evidence. The interview that he did with Conan was
lost in the shuffle. This is interesting to me. And that's really cool. And while I love the original
and I can't wait to see the sequel and everything, I would love to have seen Sammy Davis, Jr. in that
role. I can't imagine how great he'd have been. You know, and James, you know, this better than anybody.
You know, every project goes through that kind of thing. So and so was, you know, the first person
for to consider this role and they turned it down. And then this other person stepped in and now it's
an iconic role kind of thing. But you're so right. It's one of the most fun things to do with movies
is the whole what if this is actually happened. What do you know, would that have some changed the
course of Hollywood or something like that? What if Nicholas Cage had become Superman?
Who knows if Eric Stoltz had stayed on with back to the future and done that one and everything.
It's such an interesting thing. Yeah, it's fine. And I wonder then if he wouldn't have probably
been able to make tap with Gregory Hines that they did in 1989. Because that happened
like around the same time period. And then Sammy Davis Jr. died in 90.
That's right. Yeah. Wow. See, this is this is part of why I love doing these segments with
you Melissa. You see things and you have angles on things that we don't always do. If you don't
know the movie tap with Sammy Davis Jr. and Gregory Hines, it is the quintessential dance movie.
Period. Singing in the rain is my favorite dance movie. And it's one of it's top one to all time.
Like you're never going to defeat that movie. But right there, right there at number two or three
is taps. And to think that that movie might not have been made like actually made me shudder.
Like so that's a strong point. That's I mean, you're right. That's a strong point. This is
this thing still happens. Yeah. Wow. Amazing. A one tree hill sequel series is in the works at
Netflix with Sophia Bush and Hillary Burton Morgan returning as Brooke in Peyton. I don't know
any of the words I just said. They'll also produce the show along with former co-star Daniel
Ackles. And there's no word if she or any of the other cast members are going to be a part of
the series or will appear on camera right now. They're just signing on as producers. Okay. I
know I had nine seasons. What? Yeah. Really? I've heard the name of the show. That's it. I
didn't even know. Wow. How about that? One true. I don't know the show. I know that there was
like the Chad Michael guy or whatever was on the show for a while. He was popular.
So you wanted those three name guys that was there for for the 90s. The most famous thing about
this show is this there is a scene where they're in a hospital and the dad is supposed to be getting
a heart transplant or something and a guy walks in with them in the cooler the heart and he trips
and the heart goes flying in the middle of the ER and a dog comes out and eats the heart and runs
away with it. And then they cut to Chad Michael Murray who who who looks at the dad and
and gives him this look like told you so like what is going on in this scene? Please.
It's definitely club novel. Please do yourself a favor. If you need a pallet cleanser today
this may be the worst scene in TV history. That sounds so bizarre. There is Fonzie jumping the shark
and then there is this one. Yeah. If you need a pallet cleanser my good friends out there,
please look up this scene. Dog eats heart on one tree hill. Do we need to change it?
Do we need to change it from jumping the shark to eating the heart? Yes. Yes. I think we do.
I do. We have to go eating the heart. We got to change it now. It is though. It is easily the
worst seed I've ever seen in TV history. Like period. There is no number two. There is no
number three. I am like this has blocked up my brain of thinking. I can't even think right now of
other bad scenes I've seen. I've seen some bad ones in my day. This is it. It's all you got left.
So if they're bringing that back. It's described as a sports drama. How have you guys not
seen this? That's a great sports drama. A sports drama coming of age sports drama romance.
Wow. No idea. I didn't know it. I didn't know it. Wow. But yes, Melissa is right. One tree hill
aired for nine seasons 2003 to 2012. First on the WWB and then the CW. I forgot about the WB.
Yes. That's right. At its own channel for a while too. We wrap up our entertainment section here
talking about Adele. Adele announced that once her Las Vegas residency is over she will take a
break for an incredibly long time. Quote a quote an incredibly long time. She told the crowd at
her final night at her Munich residency on Saturday quote, I have really enjoyed performing
for three years, which is the longest I've ever done and probably the longest I will ever do.
I will hold you dear in my heart for that whole length of my break. I just need a rest.
I have spent the last seven years building a new life for myself and I want to live it now.
Adele will be in Las Vegas from October 25th to November 23rd. So she's still got some work
to do here. And this news is not a surprise back in July. She said that she doesn't have plans
for new music and wants to take a big break to do other creative things. Acting probably. Which is
where a lot of but that's not that that's just me spitballing because that's what a lot of
singers do. Yeah. They just naturally go into acting. I couldn't not agree with you more
Melissa on this one. It's such a difficult. I look at this as an actor certainly but one of the
biggest things they tell you as an actor. Hey, you got that break. That's wonderful. That's really
cool. Don't look behind you because there are 19,000 other actors waiting to take your spot.
So you got to stay relevant. You got to keep working. Keep working. But then you can't work
too much because then the audience is get tired of you. So overexposed. Yeah. And you're told
right away. You're not supposed to say yes to every project. So before you know it, it's been
two years since you've been in the movie. So of course you just keep working. Keep working.
That's the acting industry. A music times that by a thousand because every day on your radio,
there is a one-hit wonder out there. And they don't want to be a one-hit wonder. They didn't start
out. You know what? I'd like to be a one-hit wonder. I don't mean this whole career thing. I just
want to have one hand. I can put my whole career out. That's not the game. So they're working even
harder than I think the acting industry. You can make the argument. And you have somebody like
this, like Adele, who was an overnight sensation. She kind of came out of nowhere and became a gigantic
star overnight, not just here, but in England. So she's got nowhere she goes where it's not people
don't know. I mean, she goes by Adele. Like you know it's big. So she's not kidding. These
last seven, nine years, whatever it's been since she got her break, non-stop in the studio. And if
she's not in the studio, she's out touring. More power to her. Yeah. Enjoy the break. Man, a three-year
I didn't realize it was that long. Wow. Rest rest your instrument Adele. Yes. Yes. And I can tell you,
she's one of those, she's one of those stars. The fans will wait. Yes. She has such a dedicated
fan base. They'll say they'll be behind her the whole time. So take as much time as you want.
And when you come back, we'll be here waiting for you. You put out another album. We'll buy it.
Yep. I actually, I think that it's easier to do this. I shouldn't say easier. I think it and
makes it works easier to do it in the music industry because of the fan base thing. Yeah. Whereas
an actor, you forget about acting. There's like nine thousand other ones that are waiting to be out
there and stuff. But it also, I don't take that lightly. It doesn't mean necessarily that
whole her career is going to be fine when she picks it back up. I'm sure that she, you know,
it's going to take some work. But more power to her. Yeah. And enjoy the break.
Totally. We've earned it. We've earned it. And if you're looking for something to do, I mean,
hey, you know, come on, a co-host would be sometime Adele. That's not fair. Be bored. She's.
Come on. Give her something. Just be too good. You just say whatever. It's awesome. I'm just saying
that, you know, if she needs some hobbies or something to do in the meantime, you know,
come on. I'm a radio and Wisconsin rapist. Wisconsin. Yeah. It's a pur... How many artists have
gone from the Las Vegas residency to right to doing co-hosting with me? It's, I mean, endless.
The list is just what you do. It's what you do in the entertainment industry. Come on over.
We'll take a time out. We'll come back and have some more fun on the morning show.
Well, come back, everybody. Morning show here at WFHR. We are locally grown radio.
Hope you're having a great day out there. Thanks for joining us here at 97.5 FM 13.28 AM.
Gotta get into a couple of fun topics yet before we wrap up the show. And this one is quite interesting
to me. Rucking is what we're going to talk about right now. Rucking. Rucking. If you don't like
walking and running because they're boring, here's an easy way to make them less enjoyable.
The hot new workout trend. Rucking. Oh, dear. Walking around while wearing a heavy rucksack
or backpack. I have a cousin that did that and he lost a ton of weight. Really? This is huge.
It's huge in major cities. It's been going around for a while now, actually. Wow.
I real quick, I want to say, I'm a little disappointed in the name. I feel like it's horrible.
Yeah, they could have come up with a better name than Ryan. I feel like. But regardless,
there is evidence that this works for a number of people. It's based on how members of the military
train. They have to do a lot of walking and running while they carry their equipment around.
Which is a lot of weight. It's gotten popular in social media because you probably have everything
you need to do it and don't need to buy any special equipment for it. Ah, that would be a
reason. Yeah. Just grab a backpack from your closet and fill it with something heavy like books.
And you can start small or just toss a water bottle in there. Adding some extra weight gets your
heart rate up faster than if you just walk in a leisure pace. And it adds more strength training
into your mix. Hmm, true. Okay. You're carrying more weight. Now, hearing the process sounds,
it makes sense. Yeah. Well, but what else would you call it? You're carrying a backpack. So
back walking. That's weirder. Actually, it sounds like you're walking backwards. Yeah.
Pack walking wouldn't be too bad. But then that sounds like you're at a pack.
Trying to think. I'm trying to like because because Rucksack. I like the name Rucksack. Yeah,
right. I'm going to court. How about naps? No, no, no. Like, like, how about naps? Let's see,
what else you call a backpack? Okay, like a napsack? Napping? Oh, no, that would work.
That's what I like to do. I'm going to go napping now. There's a new exercise trend. Napping.
Huh? Now, you want to stretch me gain 20 pounds of the last three years. See? That works.
You know, that's the exercise your team James needs. That's what it is. Yeah.
That's a bad thing. Yeah, it's a weight. It's stretching.
I will say if you want to do some professional napping blackout curtains, blackout curtains, man.
Oh, that doesn't really do help. Yeah. One of the greatest investments I've ever made.
I like this trend. One of the things I like about this, um, I'm joking about the name and everything.
Right. But in all honesty, I grew up with a father who didn't have a gym membership,
but was an athlete. Like all the training he did outside of maybe a, you know, a bit of weight
training in the Wendy city gym shout out to the Wendy city gym. There was no way for him to
build up his body other than his father who was a marine and training him and teaching him,
hey, Jim, Jim, you do this. You do this. It should help your back pain or it should help your
your power on your power and your legs on the ice and some of these things. And it worked
for my dad. Yep. I, uh, I love the old rocky mentality of training. Like I don't need a gym to
train. This is what you have. Right. Exactly. That's spending any money. I think, I think it depends
on knowing you, not depends on you have to know yourself. And what kind of, what kind of worker
argue do you do? Do you get more encouraged to work out around other people in a gym setting?
Does it put you in the right mindset to get into the workout? Uh, for a lot of people,
that's how it is. The gym life is the only way that they're going to really keep on this stuff.
Some people that's equipment thing, you know, and I get that. But,
and I got a shout out our local YMCA, which is amazing. And if you, they will work with you,
they want to work with you. I would never let anybody, oh, I can't afford the Y. Now,
go on over there and check it out. Yep. Go talk to them. They can, they can help you out with that.
Absolutely. But I would say with this, make sure you load your backpack properly, put the heavy
things on the bottom. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Because if you don't do this carefully, I mean,
you could lead to injury very easily too. So you want to, you want to be careful with that.
You know, James, it's interesting you're saying about, you know, like, well, like how working out
for me, because I know me personally, just working out is the problem. If I have a point to it,
then that makes it a lot easier for me. So like, say, I want to go for what, like, this is a great
example. Okay. So like, oh, I'll go to the library. The library where I live is like just over,
you know, like a mile away. Okay. I fill a backpack full of books. You know, maybe I need to return
to the library. So I go up and walk the library and maybe get some more books for the way back kind
of thing. Or, you know, it's like, so that, actually, I can see that working for someone like me,
like motivating me more to like get out more. You need to go grocery shopping.
There you go. Walk there with the bag on the backpack. Yeah, there you go.
I love the idea of our library is becoming more and more popular, but people are just going in
there looking for heavy books. Yeah, right? Do you have a copy of Warren piece? Do you have it?
Anything by James Mitchner. I'll take the whole section. I borrow a through
end of your work out. Yeah. Yeah. Just getting my work out and back for the rest of the
alphabet. Yeah, exactly. See? Just another fabulous user library. I really do love the idea of
not only people working out more and caring more about their health and everything,
because we want you around. But the idea of doing it, what fits them? Absolutely. The 80s
actually kind of had this a little bit. When we were growing up, there was like 90 different
people, B celebrities or celebrities out there. There were, you know, Suzanne Summers and her
machine that she had Richard Simmons had a bunch of workouts that, you know, the leg warmer workouts
is what my dad used to call them. I mean, we brought everything else from the 80s. Let's bring
back sweat bands. What they were trying to do was give multiple options to multiple people,
because everybody's a little bit different when how they work out and how they want to take care
of themselves. I feel like we're getting back to some of that where, yeah, if you're not a gym
person, you know, that's okay. We want you to still take care of yourself. Just do it at home.
Do it privately. Some people feel more comfortable in that atmosphere. Some people, for me,
I don't mind the gym, but I go to the gym for cardio. I like to walk around or play some basketball
or something like that. When it comes to weights, I'm more of a, I want to be alone. I want to,
you know, I don't mind a spotter with me or something like that. I work out a lot. You should have
a spotter with you. I definitely need a spotter. I definitely need it. That's my father will tell you.
Him, not as much. No, man's still a good shape. Oh, bad, but man. Yeah. Yeah. I, it's important
to do because what is one of the biggest factors keeping you from working out? You, like, yeah,
you know, keeping a, we talk ourselves out of it or we don't run out of time or any of these things.
So one of the quickest ways of doing that is, well, I got a gym membership. I paid so much money
for it and then you guilt yourself because you didn't go and then you just beat yourself up more
and more and then you get in a hole. Never end up going anyway. Yeah. Maybe the gym ain't for you.
Maybe this is more for you or maybe it is the opposite. Maybe you've been trying to work out at
home and you just haven't stayed motivated. Maybe going to a gym will motivate you. How about,
do you like to swim? Yeah. Again, go back to the Y. I mean, that's a great way to get a workout.
This is in the pool. I got to get some swimming in, man. I got to get it. Like usually we get
towards the end of summer and I realize, oh, God, I didn't do anything. This year, I feel like I
actually did some stuff for some reason, but I did not swim enough. Okay. I just got to get some swimming.
I never swim enough. No, no, no. No, you're good. It's a good point. We will take a quick time out,
check it with our local and state news and some sports news. Take care of some partners. And when
we come back, we're going to get into another fun one. Did a leaked memo confirm advertisers
are listening to our commercials? No, our conversation. Our conversation. Oh, yes. I think I've
heard of this. And a website is going to pay you to taste all of their pumpkin spice stuff.
Oh, good. Oh, wow. All of it. I might lose my team here. I might lose some people.
You may lose. Yeah. Yeah. You might be on your own. I refuse to taste candles. Let's put it in
spoiler alert. You can eat wax. Wax lips. Oh, yeah. I never liked those things. You're not
supposed to swallow it, Seth. Well, you could. My sister. Not saying I did.
Nice. You're not alone, man. My sister, like, she got some of those for Halloween and was playing
with them. And like two minutes later comes running into the room. I swallowed part of it. I
swallowed part of it. She was freaking out because she thought that she couldn't eat them. Like
they're unedible. And like she had just eaten all your plastic or something like that. I'll
never forget to look her big blue eyes. Oh, it was good. We will take our time out. We'll come
back. We're going to have some more fun in the morning show here at 975 FM 1320 AM. We are
locally grown radio. Welcome back, everybody. Morning show here at WFHR. Locally grown radio.
40 seconds. We've got big gym. A walk out here. Bulls, shootings, son of a gun.
Melissa, Seth and Jim here with you. No, I'm just. Yeah, I hope your dad's listening.
Actually good. That one. Yeah. So probably the first and only time you'll ever hear
me call myself that we appreciate you guys listening. Thanks so much for joining us, everybody.
This is an interesting one right here. The big companies like Google and Amazon have always
denied that they let companies spy on us listening in on our conversations, but maybe keep being
paranoid. The site 404 media just published a leaked memo from a large marketing company where they
brag to clients about a feature called active listening. And it's not the first time they have
been exposed for. Cox media group actually bragged about it last year and on their own website.
They took the page down after people freaked out, but it looks like they're still bragging
about it when pitching to potential clients. Their leaked pitch says they use AI to capture
quote real time intent data by listening to people's conversations. Then they use it to pinpoint
potential customers. It is not clear exactly how they're listening. Google, Facebook, Amazon,
all say they're not involved in the program. Google even said that they dropped the company
from their ad partners program. Quote, when we identify ads or advertisers, they violate our
policies. We will take appropriate action. The big question is, how could this be legal?
And some experts say it is not. But the marketing companies seems to think it is as long as the
software companies bury it in their frying print. Uh-huh. That's they think. Yeah. They told
a potential customers, quote, it is totally legal for phones and devices to listen to you because
consumers usually give consent when accepting terms and conditions. Because we don't read them
because they're six miles long. Intentionally. Yep. Intentionally. Yep. They're like that. Yep.
So vaguely. We do not that you can't possibly understand it without a lawyer explaining it to you.
Exactly. Um, I'm not a friend of any big corporation. I'm not in anybody's pocket or anything like
that. I do think it is noteworthy when a company like Google has, has put in the effort that they
have over the last 10 years to, uh, privatize data and, and to not do this as much as other companies.
That being said, they still do it. Um, you know, they, they're still just there. If you do it once,
you're just as guilty as everybody else. Um, it, this is one of those things. Amazon Facebook,
they do not shy away from this stuff. Um, they, they pretty much tell you they're doing it every time
you pull up one of those pages and you see suggestions that you did not look up. Exactly.
Um, you got something you just talked about. Right. Um, I read the story and I want to give a
shout out to 404 media. It's an excellent website for technology news, privacy news. Um,
it was for reporters used to work for Gismoto, who was now, it was now defunct basically.
They went off on their own and they do excellent reporting. Really good to report. And, uh,
so any kind of stuff like this, I mean, they are right spot on. Uh, but I mean, it, it just,
it goes to show where we are in the thing. And, you know, talking about the fine print,
this is going to come to a head very soon. Cause I don't think that human beings can sign
away all of their rights by agreeing to this, one of these terms and conditions things.
You can't just give away your right to privacy. That's not, no, that's not something you can do.
Right. Right. So I think that's, this is, we're going to, there's going to be some legal things
coming out of these. We're going to be seeing those very soon, I think. And, uh, what we,
well, and I said this before, what we need is a comprehensive privacy law. Congress needs to
get on this because it has not been updated since the 80s. We need a privacy law that gets to all
of this stuff. Other countries are further ahead on that than we are. Yeah. Exactly. And, um,
and I got to say this part too, we need younger people in politics. Yep. We really desperately need
that. We understand this. Yes. We need experience of it. Exactly. We need people that understand
this world a lot better than any of us do. Um, you've got people in office right now that don't
know how to send an email. They predate the internet. Yeah. And this is not me taking shots. This
is not me. It's just factual. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, we, we need people in, in these positions that
understand the tech world better than we understand the tech world. Exactly. Because it's part of their
job. Um, and the idea of what you said there Seth about, you know, I, I don't think many people
would disagree with you about that. Uh, and getting something like that in the books and, and
in our, uh, in our, in our laws, we're living in a, uh, gray area. We're, we're, we're trying to
figure out the internet in the middle of using the internet. Right. We are trying to fix the boat
while we're on the water. Uh, I think a lot of people have some grace with that. A lot of
understanding on that. Uh, but we also, some of us are getting sick of bailing. Yeah. That's
true. Yeah. Yeah. That's exactly where I was going with this Melissa. Cause I'm, I'm really sick
and tired of saying, well, we need a bill for this. So we need a law for this. And then first
thought I have is, well, they can't even change them in a language. Yep. They can't even do that.
Like, or whatever your thing is. Yeah. Why have said that been done? Why hasn't that been done?
I'll tell you the politician of old for one thing can get things done. Yeah. One that's actually
going to work like that though. That sounds good to me. It's easy. Oh, look at,
guys, corporations aren't putting money behind those candidates. Well, that's true. Right.
That's very true. But look at the, it's very, these people are pulled on this stuff all the time.
You can find out what's popular with people. It's like, well, let's see. Well, this is popular.
There's, but I should run on these things that maybe people will love for me. Yeah. Yeah.
Instead of having your campaign being run by a business. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. We need
more, but this is where we can't, so this is one of those things that I do believe power to the
people because you're not going to, you can't expect them to get it done for us even though
that's their job is listening to us and doing the constituent thing. This is going to be something
that we have to do as our, as people, a grassroots kind of thing that we demand.
Pressure stuff and we put the pressure on them and don't vote for people that are not going to
work with you on this and care about these things. Man, politics, I learned this real quickly
doing the interview game. You don't have to ask hardball questions. You don't have to ask
you got your questions and these kind of things. That is some of the lamest stuff in journalism.
You just ask simple questions. Let them hang themselves or enlighten themselves or give
you their constituents whatever version of them, whatever it might be, they're able to do that
themselves. You don't have to work too hard at this. Listen to them and listen to the politicians,
especially the ones that you're thinking of voting for in November and listen to direction they
go. Listen to people, the things that they are touching on and that they will talk about.
You ask a politician, hey, how would you fix the economy? Well, my opponent, no, no, stop,
stop right there. I didn't ask about your opponent. I asked about you. How are you going to do this?
They tell you so quickly the game that they are playing. Yep. That website that Seth mentioned
404 media. That is 404media.co. 404media.co. Big shout out to them and thank you to them on the
reporting. And James, do you remember us talking about the Disney was trying to dodge the wrongful
death suit of the woman who died after eating? So now they have reversed their position. So this is
kind of the first instance. Oh, wow. Well, this is our fine, you know, fine print said that you
can't sue us for anything. Well, that's not going to hold up in court. No. And they realize that.
So plus one shots fired. Yeah. Yeah. And I will say that that I think from what we talked about
Melissa, that was the PR thing to do too. Right. That really works out for them. It would have been
really dumb. Yeah. Yeah. Really dumb. Yeah. Let's touch on this one before go to break. A website
called finance buzz will pay someone $1,000 to try all of the pumpkins flavored products,
Trader Joe's stocking up this fall is stocking up this fall. Trader Joe's you also have to rate
each one the actual job title is pumpkin spice pundit. You'll have to try dozens of products.
Everything from pumpkin waffles to pumpkin spice ginger brew and you'll have about two weeks to do
it. You need to be 18 or older to apply and you have to live close enough to Trader Joe's to shop
in person on top of that on top of the one thousand you'll get paid $500 gift card to buy
everything. Is that enough? No way. It's Trader Joe's. What are you talking about? I walked into
a Trader Joe's once once in my life. I walked in there to my face. Things are jacked up in price
too. In the first ILA walk down they had a a a a jar, you know, your jam jar, you know,
that kind of I forget what you call those. But just a regular old jam jar with a piece of broccoli
in it and it was in water and they were selling it for $13 and that was the cheapest product. I
didn't even know James when you walked in the door they charged you 10 bucks. I don't know how
they did it. No, I can't even afford to talk about Trader Joe. No, no, I don't know. 500 bucks
are going to get you by any of these. So I'm like, maybe I want to advertise. No free advertising.
Yes. So yeah, you will have from September 13th to October 6th to try and review each item.
If you're interested, you've got until next Tuesday, the 10th to apply at financebuzz.com,
financebuzz.com. I don't even know where the closest Trader Joe's is to us. So I think we're just
qualified. Yeah, probably. But I would love to follow up with us after somebody gets the job.
Yes, that would be interesting because we talk about these kinds of jobs all the time,
but we never do the follow up. Yeah, to see if they actually have, you know, what I wonder is
what if they do this in the person's like, oh, this is all terrible. And they maybe that's why
you never hear about it. Yeah, it's like, let's move on to the rug under the rug. Pay no attention
to the man behind the car. Exactly. Pumpkin spice twinkies head that's a thumbs down.
Is there a store you would like to do this set? Oh, now that would be a good
interesting. But it's not a cap to be pumpkin spice. Oh, no, no. I was going to say yes.
Yeah, I'm just saying a store that yeah, that would be funny. Just a store that you would like
to be able to do like sample out their products and everything, but maybe one that you don't go too
very often. I think that would be okay. I think that actually would be kind of a fun job. It seems
like it's always right. I'm more just curious about the job itself. But the more they're talking about
this, you got to do all the legwork. You got to do it. Like they're going to do the shopping. You
got to find the products. You got it. And I'm going to need another $500 gift card. You will. I
mean, otherwise, I don't know. I think you've already spent it all, you know, for a thousand bucks,
like just thinking about this, I feel like we spent it all. Yeah, I don't know. It's all a
trader joke gift cards. You buy three things, you know, that's it. That's it. You're walking
out of there with some salary, you know, mason jar of water. That's some sunflower seeds. That's all
you get. No, those things are pumpkin spice flavored guys. Come on. Wait a minute. There's pumpkin
spice sunflower seeds. I guess somewhere. There's gotta be. Yeah, there's gotta be. Yeah,
there's still pickle one. Yeah. If not some marketer out there, just heard that. Like,
whoa, Jason, they're like running running to the store right now. We got to make these quick.
There's something we haven't made pumpkin spice up. Let's go to our time out. Our final one
of the show will come back and wrap things up at 97 5 FM 13 20 AM WF HR.
Welcome back, everybody. Morning, show at WF HR.
Melissa, Seth and James here with you. Thank you so much for joining us. Everybody,
we'll take you to the top of the hour. Get into our schedule and some local good stories of
the day in a moment. But we told you about the new AI companion necklace that keeps you company.
If you don't have any friends necessarily, there's this that's been going around for a little while.
But a new study found that's not really the case for most people. The American Friendship Project
looked at how many friends the average American has in 2024 and how many compare compared to 50 years
ago. And even though we're all overworked and constantly online now, nothing has really changed.
The average American has four to five people they consider true friends. That's pretty much
in line with every year since 1970. Wow. Only 2% said that they have no friends,
which is also about the same as it was in 1970. One thing we do wish we had more of though is
additional time with our friends. Most people said that they're good with the number of friends they
have. But 42% aren't as close with their friends as they'd like to be or don't have the time
that they would like to put into their friendship. That's interesting. Yeah, that makes a lot of
sense too. It really does. So technology has not destroyed our friends or for friendships or
anything like that. If anything, it is, you know, nothing has changed, which is fascinating.
Yeah. That's 50 years. I mean, that's a long time. Yeah. Whether you have technology in this
conversation or not, the fact that something hasn't changed like that in all this time is pretty
noteworthy. And it's also I think like I, I've mentioned before, I'm horrible at making friends.
I'm really bad at this. I always have been. I thought that one of the things that would come with
being online foolish as I am, I thought we'd actually be able to meet more people, be able to talk
to more people, be able to make more friends. And I was part right on this because there are a lot
of people out there who break this up. You have your friends and then you have your online friends.
Exactly. A lot of people look at the world, especially younger generations. Look at the world,
the world of friendship that way. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely, man. And it's interesting that
the whole study there, by the way, the American Friendship Project or the AFP, as I'm going to call
from now on, I didn't even know that existed. I have never heard of this before. I was like, wow,
we have a project about friendships. Sorry. That was an aside though. But you're so right. You are
so right. It's totally it's a time thing. And I think that now you have to divide your time
between online and you know, IRL. And what's the difference? Which do you value more? It seems
like people want that in person time more. But they just don't have the chance to do it. They
just have as much time. Well, there's also science that backs up how many connections we actually
can handle as a right. Exactly. Only so there's only so much level of deepness you can have in
a relationship based on how much time you spend together. Right. Yeah. Right. And you have a limited
amount of time. So many of the best conversations I can think I've ever had with a friend were organic.
I didn't want to get into the conversation. I'm going to open up to them today. Like it just
happened organically because we were around each other and having these opportunities to have that
happen. I think that part of it is really noteworthy. And especially, Seth and I were joking during
the break. You know, you were saying the days felt like a really good show. Yep. And it's been great.
But that doesn't usually how it goes for us. Usually we come back after a long weekend and we
got to get our bearings back. Yeah. It kind of feels like we have some good evidence for a four
day work week. I agree. 100%. Yeah. Yeah. We're always on. Straight money. That's what we
call her behind the scenes. Melissa, straight buddy. Straight cash on me. Okay. It's better than
two sheds, I guess, but the American Friendship Project to note that Seth is a collaborative project
between Colorado State, Michigan State and Kansas State universities. The goal is to create an
accurate and complete account of American friendship. It's health and how it has changed over time.
That's really cool. I think that's a really worthwhile project. I hadn't heard of this either.
That's really neat. That is pretty cool. That is pretty interesting. And let's go ahead and dive
into some good stuff for the day and our schedule. And we got some great things lined up for you.
Join us all week long four to five from Midday magazine. Got some wonderful guests lined up. We say
a big thank you to Pam Hilke and the wonderful job she does with that. In part one today,
we're talking to our friends at three bridges recovery. Oh yeah. They have got a great
program coming up that I want to talk about falling into recovery that's coming up in just days
from now, really. So looking forward to that. And in part two, we're going to talk to our good
friends Stephanie and Jacob from the Southville County YMCA. All right.
Excited about that. Talk to our local Y a little bit later. Seth, you had something for us as well.
Yeah, coming up this weekend on Saturday. That's the seventh at 8 a.m. There's the walkoff debt
for school meals. All are welcome to join the one and a half mile walk to raise funds for
Southwood County schools to pay off student meal debt. This is happening at the first congregational
UCC church, 311 Second Street South in Wisconsin Rapids. It's sponsored by Grace, the greater Rapids
area churches for ecumenism. You're just asked to collect donations from your faith community
and bring that to the Port Edward's United Methodist Church. Of course, they will be there to
collect funds as well. This money will be donated to area schools to pay off any some meal debt.
It depends, of course, on how much they get. Cash is also accepted. And also during the walk
prayers will be offered for the community as well. And make sure you, if you have a t-shirt
of your faith community, show it off while you're there. Want to get as many people from as many
groups as we can. So that's a great idea. Yeah. That should be a really good pro. We're looking
forward to that. Yeah. Talk about that more and more as we get closer to it. Wisconsin Rapids
Parkinson's support group meets on the first Wednesday of each month in the legends room at
Riches Golf Course in Wisconsin Rapids. They meet from 130 to 230. There is no charge for this.
The group caters those with Parkinson's diagnosis and as well as their caregivers. They have a great
Facebook page you can find out more at or you can go to WY Parkinson dot org WY Parkinson dot org
or give them a call 715 451 3694. That's 451 3694. We don't get to do this nearly enough.
If you're looking for a wonderful volunteer opportunity to encourage you to reach out to our
ADRC. Our friends at the aging and disability resource center of central Wisconsin meals on
wheels or helping deliver meals or being a leader or peer leader. These are all kinds of things that
you can do over there and it's some of the best use of your time. And the ADRC will work with you
on meals on wheels. Say you live in a certain part of town. You don't really have a lot of time to
drive to the other part of town or something. They'll work with you. Absolutely. And the client
tell that you are working with are some of the greatest human beings you will meet.
You are going to make new friends. You are going to enjoy yourself and have some memories that
you'll hold on to for a very long time. Encourage a great organization. ADRC-CW dot org ADRC-CW dot org.
I want to get some world good stories here. If you haven't seen it. Did you have something else
Seth? I'm sorry. I could be one more thing. I'm sorry. It's all right. It's just mentioned that
we're still collecting books at the Moravian Church for the fall book sale or until Sunday September
15th. So you only got a couple of weeks left. Everybody get those books into us as much as you can
over the next couple of weeks. We'll take them all because we are going to have another great
book sale. Remember all the proceeds to that go to scholarships at MSTC. So yeah. That's a great
program. Yeah. And then thank you for mentioning that. If you haven't seen it. There is a great
video of a Pittsburgh weatherman who recorded his daughter on every first day of school.
It starts with her first day of kindergarten and now she is a senior in high school.
Every time he asked what she wanted to do when she grew up and her answer changed a lot over
the years. It's a fun video and especially today with all the kids getting back to school and
everything. Those are always so cute. Yeah. Please be safe out there. Be smart out there. Everybody
look on the roads. Keep an eye out for the roads. You know, you've been into school when you were a
kid. You know what time usually school wraps up and everything. Keep an eye out for these kids.
Let's have a safe first day of school out there. For school buses too, drivers. Everything.
Cops in Wisconsin used a drone to help find a three-year-old kid who got lost in 100 acre corn
field. He told them he ran into the field while chasing a cat. Oh, cats leading people astray.
Stop. Okay, that was me. I'm not, I'm not me to cats. No, no. If we didn't have a minute left,
I'd have gone right to end the show right there. I ended the show right there. I do want to note
those police officers that is fantastic work by them. And for those that didn't hear, we'll talk
about this on playmakers tomorrow a little bit, but Ricky Purcell, who I'd received a rookie for
the San Francisco 49ers, was shot in a robbery attempt the other day and was still with us.
Majorly because of the police officer that happened to be 10 minutes away and handled the
situation like a pro, like a champ, like she was a baller, like, I mean, just an incredible job.
We don't highlight our officers nearly enough when it comes to these things. We appreciate them
and appreciate the savings that they've put in. We will have more show for you tomorrow. We'll
be having some fun with Wednesday show coming up. You two have a great day. You two, man. You two, Dan.
Be good to each other out there. We'll talk to you soon and then later right here at
this is locally grown radio. WFHR 1320 Hangout W248DE Wisconsin Rapids and always streaming on
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