Costume Ideas?(Hour 2)

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Costume Ideas?(Hour 2)

Mornings with WFHR · Fri Oct 4, 2024

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Friday edition of The Morning Show got your host, James J here.

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Fooled you.

I tried to mute his mic.

I secretly wanted him to do that.

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It was weird.

It was like I had it this hand telling me that.

And of course, the best listeners of the radio.

Thanks for joining us, everybody.

We kicked things off with our good friend, Brittany Merlot.

Brittany, how are you doing?

Good.

How are you?

Happy Friday.

We were doing good over here.

Blue skies once again.

I feel like it's been all week this way.

Yeah.

Yeah, how about we put it on repeat for next week, too?

Yeah.

Let's do it.

Yeah, let's do it.

All right.

We pretty much are.

The gorgeous weekend ahead, too.

Honestly, today we're probably nice and comfortable.

Under sunny skies.

We'll hit about 70 degrees.

Call them our winds.

And the reason why I say that is because by tomorrow,

those winds are going to get feisty again.

Casting up to about 30 miles per hour, pumping out of the south,

warming this up to summary highs.

Or we're going to hit possibly 70 upper 70s on Saturday.

So near 80, a still unseasonable under sunny skies.

Just spoiled here.

Wow.

Yeah.

Yeah.

We'll take it.

We'll take it.

It could be a very warm time for trick-or-treaters.

Yeah.

We'll see.

We really appreciate the nice weather.

We've got science by the river going on here in town tomorrow.

And, you know, last couple of years,

they've had some rough weather.

It's nice that they got something to look forward to.

The weather should be a little bit nicer out there.

And so many events this weekend.

People are going to just love the world.

Yeah.

Yes.

Yeah.

100%.

Thank you for that, Brittany.

You have yourself a great weekend.

We'll get together Monday.

Sounds good.

You, too.

Bye-bye.

Best in a business right there.

Our friend Brittany and we're all joining us every Monday through Friday,

right in this time slot.

We got good things coming up in the next time slot.

With our LKF Abertane in our versory club looking forward to that.

A little bit later,

salsa cereal we'll discuss.

Oh.

Woah.

Wrong.

Boy, still too early for that.

Yeah.

It's your friend.

I mean, I like savory in the morning but salsa cereal too.

We've got that one coming up.

We're also going to get into the new hot trend.

And what that is.

It's not salsa cereal too, you know.

No, no.

It is not.

We've got some entertainment news to kick off the nine o'clock hour.

We're looking forward to that.

Of course.

We'll get into all of them.

And then I want to talk Halloween costumes with you guys.

Oh, yes.

Of course.

We are going to get into not only what, you know, if we have ideas,

but I want to know what the audience is thinking as we're

in the beginning of October here.

Because I need ideas, people.

Let's be real.

This is why we're doing this segment.

We'll get into it.

Yeah.

It's a whole reason.

The whole reason.

The whole reason.

The whole reason.

It's a good reason to me.

We will get into all of that.

And we got plenty more getting into it.

We got plenty more going on today.

Not only do we have the LKF Abertane in our versory club,

but we're going to make you a star of the day with our friends

from Culver's in just a little bit.

Yeah.

Looking at that, we got our local schedule to get into and plenty

more to dive into this morning.

All right.

But first up, we have five things to look forward to in October.

Okay.

Got a bunch of stuff going on in October.

Let's dive right in.

This is broken up in categories as it is at the beginning of

every month for us.

Sports.

Got the MLB playoffs hard in going strong right now.

Yes, they are.

Of course.

We'll be talking about this on Playmakers a little bit later.

They'd be sure to join us from five to six for that.

NHL season gets kicking off.

NBA season starts on the 22nd.

And of course, football going strong.

We're going to be wrapping up a lot of high school football

for a lot of local teams in October and this month too.

So we're going to be covering a lot of that for you right here at

WFHR and WYRI.

In the movies, new movies coming out.

The Joker's sequel lands today.

Saturday night about the early days of SNL hits theaters on the 11th.

The horror sequel Smile 2 arrives on the 18th.

And Tom Hardy's last run as Venom comes out at the end of the month

with Venom the last dance on October 25th.

All right.

So I don't know if these are how big these movies are going to be.

They are, they've got their audiences.

Each one of them.

Each one of them could do well in regard.

But they're probably not going to be due blockbusters necessarily.

Right.

And a ton of fall TV shows are back.

Love is blind returns tomorrow.

Law and Order SVU starts Thursday.

And Abbott Elementary is back October 9th.

Season 2 of tracker.

It's CBS 13th.

NCIS returns up for the 14th.

Season 4 of American Horror Stories comes season 4.

That's going to be more than season 4.

I was going to say it would have been more than that.

Yeah.

A little typo there.

It comes up on the 15th.

Shark Tank and Bluebloods is back on the 18th.

And I believe this is the last season of Bluebloods.

I think it's the last season for that.

Wow. That's been on for a while.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's what CBS does.

They do shows like that.

They do.

They find a thing and they just stick to it, right?

Yeah.

And not just that, but they will make you like 20 of them.

NCIS, Albuquerque, NCIS, you know.

Yeah.

But is that any better or worse than just canceling something people like after a season or two?

I'm guessing that's why CBS is doing better as they actually keep that stuff.

I think it's like a nine or a 10 year run.

CBS has been the number one network.

The big three.

Yeah.

So whatever they're doing, they're going to keep doing it.

It's working for them.

You know, when it comes to originality, you've got to listen to your audience.

You know, what do they want?

Do they want something completely different that nobody else is doing?

Or do they want that?

And you know, CBS seems to listen to their audience, knows their niche.

The other special events you've got American Music Awards are coming up on Sunday.

And the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony airs live on Disney Plus October 19th.

Nice.

Oh, what we do in the shadows is coming back October 21st.

That's the last season of that too.

Oh, okay.

God, I love that show.

I love that show.

You guys see it in a little bit, but it was fun.

Oh, it's so good.

And finally, the holidays.

Of course, we got to celebrate Russia Sean earlier in the week.

Yom Kippur comes up on the eleventh.

For those who don't know, that is the Jewish New Year.

We'll talk more about the Yom Kippur next week.

Columbus Day is on 14th, which is also, of course, Native American Day.

And Halloween is the 31st.

The 31st.

Of course, you've got other holidays like International Beer and Pizza Day is on the 9th.

They both have their own separate.

I think that was an international day.

Yeah.

It is now.

I think it's funny.

Yes.

And we talked about this already a bit about looking forward to.

I think they're missing the biggest thing to look forward to in October.

And that's the season.

That's being outside, taking in some of the outdoors.

Yeah.

It's thick of fall.

The fun fall.

Festival is going on.

And we have a ton of them this weekend.

Yeah.

You do.

There's so much going on this weekend.

We're going to be talking about it in our good stories of the day.

But I encourage you, of course, to stick around and be listening to Melissa's news breaks.

You'll hear about stuff there, too.

And really, throughout the whole weekend, we'll be covering this stuff as much as we can.

A lot of good things.

Is there anything out of this list that you guys are looking forward to?

Or you out there?

The listener are looking for 2-715-424-2600.

I am looking forward to Halloween.

Yes.

I do enjoy Halloween.

Even though I don't, you know, I mean, I don't do the dress-up thing much anymore.

But I don't know.

It's just the season.

And the scene, you know, the decorations out and stuff like that.

You know, Beth and I were talking about this the other day.

It's like, why do adults like, you know, holidays like Halloween so much?

And I think it's the same reason we like Christmas and stuff.

It's out of the ordinary.

You know, it's a little different.

It's like a chance to take, you know, a little bit different.

A little bit different view of things, you know?

Yeah.

That's why I think people enjoy it so much.

It's not the routine.

It's like, oh, it's a little different, you know?

Tonight, we're going to take the kids out and they're going to go house to house and beg for candy, you know?

Yeah.

Which is like, well, they don't normally do that.

And it's fun and you get to see, you know, talk to people you normally wouldn't talk to.

And that kind of thing.

It's a very social thing.

And so are so many of these like festival things that are going on on the weekend or even during the week.

I mean, you have opportunities to go through corn mases and see people's really large vegetables that they grew and nurtured all summer.

I mean, come on, who doesn't want to see that?

Seriously.

It's the Harvest Festival time, right?

Right, right.

This is the traditional harvest time.

For people who aren't in theater and don't normally dress in clothing that's not their own or that's not their style.

Halloween is a great time to be able to express yourself in different ways that you don't normally do it in every other day.

That's right.

Really good point.

Both of you, really good points there, especially with what you're saying they're set about.

We note this all the time.

There's less and less opportunities to run into friends or adults and be other people and make new friends or any of these things.

Halloween is a really social time.

It's a really, it is a real opportunity for that.

And we don't have enough opportunities in society to kind of let our hair down, to kind of be out.

Let our freak flag flag, any of these things.

You're right, Melissa.

Halloween is an opportunity for that as adults.

At some point, there was a parent or a guardian or somebody helping their little kid with their Halloween costume.

And it was taking hours and it was driving him crazy and they're looking at this kid and they're like, why are they having all the fun?

Wait a minute, I want to have fun.

Wait a minute.

Wait a minute.

Why can't we do this?

We're actually going to get into a little bit later adult Halloween.

Or adult ween.

Adult ween.

Adult ween.

And I love the collaborative costumes that families do now.

Yes.

You know, the parents coordinate with the kids.

I love those so much.

Yeah.

I cannot get enough of those.

Every year they blow me away with some of the combinations or some of the things they think of.

I think you have been challenged.

I'd love to see you guys do something.

I have one who's like done with Halloween.

He's done.

Nothing.

He doesn't want to dress up.

No, no, no.

I really want candy.

Well, he'll take that, of course, but you know, he doesn't want to go out and get it though.

You got to do the effort part two, buddy.

I was never a, I was never somebody that fell to peer pressure.

I usually pushed against it.

But I think one time that stands out to me that I was was around that age or around the time

when you know, kids start pushing back.

And yeah, dressing up as silly.

Yeah, right.

You know, they had that stretch there.

And then, of course, you turn like 16 or 17 and you want to do it again.

And you're 16 year old out there.

Halloween trick-or-treating.

You get people looking at you.

I totally support.

Absolutely.

Aren't you little too old to be trick-or-treating?

100%.

Don't say that.

Those should be forbidden words on Halloween.

Yes.

I agree.

We all go through that right-of-pass at the little stretch there.

When my friends were going through that, I still wanted to dress up.

Because I don't know.

I was just starting to be able to like do more things like that.

And I remember kind of giving into it, not dressing up with my friends.

You know, following the trend and everything.

Which I never really did that kind of thing.

I didn't get to trick-or-treat as a kid.

I mean, number one growing up in the country.

And then also being part of a religion that shunned Halloween.

That frown upon it, yes.

I think that we should perhaps consider allowing adults to trick-or-treat.

Ooh.

Ooh.

Okay.

I think I'm going to start this campaign.

I think we should do it.

I'm good with it.

I'm going to back you 100%.

Yeah.

I'm not going to do it.

But I'll back you 100% Melissa.

I love the...

I'm immediately thinking of you having...

Of course you do.

That's it.

That's a very big of you.

It's very sweet.

It's sort of...

Sort of.

I love the idea of you have your bowl of candy for the kids.

And then you have like just something here for adults.

Like you just got like a six pack.

And you just grab it like...

Actually, I have some friends in Tomah that do that.

They have a pumpkin that they hollow out inside.

And they stick a wine bag in there and the spout out the front.

Nice.

And they get candy and the adults fill up their cup.

The house...

Because there's always a house that hands out like apples

or toothbrush or something.

That house they've got like tums.

Yeah.

Or something like that.

Oh my god.

I would go to that house.

I would definitely go there.

I like this, actually.

So we were out of something here.

You're out of this up here Melissa.

And the best part is there are all these little towns around us.

They all have different Halloween trick-or-treating times.

So because I'm in a new house this Halloween,

I'm looking forward to actually giving out candy at my house this year.

Hopefully I actually get some trick-or-treaters,

because I didn't in the last two places I lived.

Yeah.

Whatever.

But maybe this year I will.

So better.

I'm going to go trick-or-treating myself in other towns.

That's awesome.

That's great.

And I might need to borrow a child.

Yeah.

So that I can actually look like a legitimate.

So now she's trying to be sneaky about it.

Come on now.

I encourage this so much.

Be by myself walking up to people that I would feel awkward.

I don't blame you.

I do not blame you.

But if you see the kids out there that are looking for more candy,

I need an escort.

Reach out to your ambulance.

I'm doing.

I don't know.

Yeah.

Something about this whole thing.

I don't know.

Can I borrow your kid?

I don't need the candy myself.

Right, right.

You just want to do the experience.

We are coming up with business idea after business idea.

Rent a kid.

Rent a kid for an hour for trick-or-treating.

Oh boy.

I can go wrong with that.

What?

We're going to go wrong.

We're going to go to Broadway.

We got to get on the Halloween bandwagon.

We're going to make some money off this.

Like everyone else's, right?

Yeah.

We're going to break before we get any more trouble here.

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Love to hear from you, everybody.

Love your birthdays and anniversaries being called live in.

Yes.

Getting them to us.

Love to hear from you.

Let's dive right in.

We got a lot to do with this segment because we got three days to cover.

And for today, I need a one or a two from you Melissa.

One.

All right.

Is that qualified?

We can get excited.

So excited.

We have Saturday already covered and then we have four Sunday.

We need a one or two Seth.

Two.

All right.

Give us those qualifiers.

So we can get right into the Celebratin.

And first up, I wish you a happy 38th anniversary to Dale and Jenny Damero.

Ooh.

38.

Congratulations.

Congratulations.

Dale and Jenny, enjoy your 38th.

Hope it's a great one for you.

Yes indeed.

And our qualifier for today celebrating their 30th birthday, Colin Liska.

Happy birthday, Colin.

Happy birthday, Colin.

Enjoy your day, Colin.

Hope it's a good one for you.

Oh.

Bragged everybody that you're qualified today.

You qualified.

Go for it.

On Saturday, we have Vera Keller, who is our qualifier.

Happy birthday, Vera.

Vera is a great name.

I like that.

It is.

It's a good name.

Enjoy your day, Vera.

Hope it's a good one.

Some non-qualifiers and people that can't win.

But we wanted to mention Pam's goddaughter, Sarah Najam.

Might have a birthday, Sarah.

Yeah.

Happy birthday, Sarah.

And Cash, Ken Ashburn, Brenner.

Pam's friend, Ken.

Oh, yes.

Happy birthday, Ken.

Happy birthday, Vera.

Hey, enjoy your day, Ken.

That's a good guy.

That's a good guy.

We like Ken.

That's a good guy.

Enjoy your day, Sarah.

Hope it's a good one for you.

Yeah.

We take a look at October 6th.

Sunday, birthdays.

Wish you a happy birthday to Brad Young.

Happy birthday, Brad.

Happy birthday, Brad.

Brad, an old high school teammate of mine.

Great guy.

Great guy.

Wonderful individual.

Enjoy your day, Brad.

It's a good one for you to talk to you later.

And wishing you a happy birthday to our qualifier on Sunday,

Abby Wilson.

Happy birthday, Abby.

Happy birthday, Abby.

Happy birthday, Abby.

That's the second Abby we've had.

That name seems to have come back or something.

At some point.

Yeah.

Good name.

I like that name.

Good name.

Abigail, right?

That would be sure for Abigail.

It can be, yes.

Happy birthday, Abby, and your qualifier on Sunday.

To all of our qualifiers, brag, brag to people.

Brage your friends, family.

And better yet, get more birthdays to us.

Yes.

We want to keep talking about them.

We take a look at our celebrity birthdays for today.

Rachel Lee Cook is 45.

A lot of people know her from she's all that.

I like that movie a lot.

Yeah.

That's a fun one.

She had a nice run on psych.

The show psyched for a while too.

Yes.

She did a very good job on that one too.

She is a wonderful, wonderful actor.

And it really does, has been doing some fun work too.

Doing some conservation work and doing like that.

She did a recently, went to Vietnam on a tourist trip

and really celebrated that area.

It's really good out there.

Oh, wow.

That's a good actor.

Alicia Silverstone is 48.

A share from Clueless.

She was a back girl and a George Clooney Batman and Robin.

And he man's mom and Netflix is Masters of the Universe.

I didn't know that.

I didn't know that either.

I've been doing a bit of voice acting.

Very cool.

Very cool.

Speaking, you're doing great voice acting.

The Great Leaves Shriver is 57.

Ray Donovan, Sabertooth.

I mean, so many great roles.

But you hear him do a lot of narration for the NFL.

Yes.

And the first time I ever heard his voice was way back in 1995.

He narrated a documentary on PBS about the history of rock and roll.

I've been a fan ever since.

Yeah.

He's good.

He is very good.

The Great Christopher Waltz is 68.

The bad guy in James Bond's Spectre.

The bad guy in Inglourious Baster.

He sees a pattern here.

But the good guy in Django Unchained.

Oh, see.

Why don't we be a good guy now, Chris?

He came out of nowhere and blew everybody away with that Inglourious Baster's movie.

And won an Oscar for that.

There's a lot of great performances in that movie.

It's way too dang long.

But it's worth watching.

In part because of his performance.

He's really good.

The Great, one of the legends.

Susan Sarandon is 78.

Oh, wow.

Wow.

Damn it, Janet.

The Rocky or a picture show.

Thumb on the Wii's Bull Dernam, The Witches of Eastwick.

So many good performances.

I mean, she is just so good.

And now he's finding this one interesting.

A couple of great authors we celebrate with some people no longer with us.

Anne Rice, born in this day in 1941.

Author of Interview with the Vampire Menach, the Devil.

So many great books over the years.

She's got to be one of the better selling authors of all time.

Considering all of this.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I really liked her work.

I read a lot of her books over the years.

And Jackie Collins, born in this day in 1937.

A saucy author.

Speaking of selling a lot of books.

Oh, yeah.

Not many of sold as many as Jackie Collins has.

Very two very different authors.

It's always interesting when you see these things when singers are authors or something

I've shared a birthday.

And completely the other direction.

Charlton Heston, born in this day in 1923.

Great actor.

Oh, my gosh.

Solid actor.

Solid actor.

Let my people go.

No.

Spent her the Ten Commandments.

Planet of the Apes.

Silent Green.

Silent Green is actually what I really want to watch.

It's made of people.

Yeah.

Well, you know, that's not his actual line.

But I have to say that is actually a very good movie.

Yeah.

People remember it for that, you know, the ending and all that stuff.

But the whole lead up to it.

That was for me.

I haven't seen it.

I'm not going to.

I mean, it's got some, it's got great performances.

I know it was, it was 1973, but I haven't seen it yet.

Great final performances from Edward J. Robinson and Joseph Cotton.

Oh, my gosh.

They are so good in that.

The thing that I don't think Charlton Heston ever got credit for that he deserved.

Look at the movies he did.

Soil and Green.

Planet of the Apes.

Some of these movies.

A lesser actor would go into those and be like, well, these are silly.

Or this isn't going to be believable or something.

Everything Charlton S. did.

He gave you everything he had.

He did.

He left it all on the stage.

He would go all in.

He believed in everything he was doing.

You can't ask for much more out of an act.

No.

Very professional actor.

And Northwestern's own.

I graduated out of Northwestern.

I should mention that as well.

Oh, touch of evil.

I forgot touch of evil.

I got to watch touch of evil.

That may be the one.

That may be the one.

He had a lot of great performances late in life too.

Yes he did.

Where he would show up in westerns and things.

He was in true lies.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I remember that.

I forgot about that.

And Jamie Lee Curtis.

He was in tombstone too.

Yes.

Yes.

He was very little tombstone.

Bit part, but a very good one.

His cameos were some of his best work.

Interestingly.

Yep.

Saturday, birthdays.

Travis Kelsey is 35.

He's still playing football.

He's still playing football.

Oh, she's off.

No, I mean, you've seen his production the last couple of weeks.

Yeah.

He's kind of running around on the field, I guess.

But, you know, he's still out there.

Jesse Eisenberg is 41.

The social network.

Now you see me.

Zombieland.

A good actor.

Good actor.

I was going to say good young actor.

But I'm like, oh, I don't think he's that young anymore.

You think of him though.

I know.

He looks so young.

One of the best actors in the game.

And I think you could make the argument.

Top five actresses in the game for sure.

And she has been her whole career.

Kate Winslet is 49 tomorrow.

Yes.

Fabulous.

We're just talking about her the other day as far as the movie Titanic and her performance.

The way the critics have fallen for her from Mayor of Easttown or she was in the divergent

movies.

I mean, just an incredible, incredible career.

I love her work so much.

It could be something that I have no interest in.

But if I see Kate Winslet as in it, I will watch it.

Yeah.

She's one of those actors that you've got to pay attention to.

She's good.

She is good.

Guy Pierce, 57.

Another good actor.

Another fellow actor from Mayor of Easttown.

I was going to say in another Australian too, I believe.

Yeah.

So yes.

The Hurt Locker.

He had a run in Iron Man 3.

Momento is one of the more difficult movies to ever watch.

But it's such a great performance.

It's such a good performance.

But I will throw out there the Kanta Mati Crisco.

Really?

Yes.

Yeah.

I like his performance in that.

I love that movie.

I will admit it was one of the first books I read as a kid and I could understand.

And I really enjoyed as a kid.

And one that I felt like I could really get.

I was way too young to be reading that book.

But I got it.

Hey.

That's good.

That's good.

And that movie is still, I think, the best interpretation of that book.

That's cool.

It's very well done.

It's in his performances.

Fantastic.

And I want to throw out there the time machine.

Oh.

Good one.

Listen.

Good one.

Yeah.

He's been in so many interesting projects he really has.

There's a couple we haven't even had.

Yeah.

Now, I might be wrong in this.

Wasn't he in Two Wong Foo?

Thanks.

Thanks for everything.

Julie Neumar.

Boy, was he?

I think he might have been Hugo Weaving was in, because it was an Australian movie.

And it had some, at the time, top, more top, Australian.

Before he hit it big.

Yeah.

I might be wrong on that.

So I think.

I'm with Wesley Snipes and John Ligwazama and Patrick Swayze.

Oh, gosh.

Oh, no.

I'm thinking of it.

No, no.

For Sila Queen of the Desert.

That's what I was thinking.

Yes.

He's in that.

Yeah.

Yeah.

There was two of those two of us.

The same time.

Yeah, they did.

Yeah.

Arguably the greatest hockey player a lot of us got to see, because a lot of us didn't see

Wayne Greskey play.

Mario Lemieux, 59 today.

Super Mario.

So is he still playing somewhere?

He's definitely.

I know he owns a team.

He's awesome.

Got to love Mario Lemieux.

Great player.

Great player.

Clay Barker, 72 on Saturday, one of the kings of horror author and film director of horror.

Yes.

And let's see here.

Ryan Johnson is 77 ACDC lead singer.

How can he still sing like that?

Yeah.

How can he, as he not shredded his vocal cords?

I don't know.

It's it.

There's a special technique that you can.

God.

Let me see.

Well, he's got it down, man.

Yeah.

And Steve Miller sharing a birthday with Brian Johnson.

Oh.

Steve Miller 81 on Saturday.

Oh, wow.

Another big one.

In people no longer with us, the great Bernie Mack born on Saturday.

One of the greatest stand-up comedians of all time.

Period.

Like you.

Ben, you go ahead and you look up.

Especially look up Bernie Mack at the deaf comedy jam.

I'm afraid of you.

Like nobody.

If people would go out there shaking, they were so afraid of that crowd.

It was the Apollo, but like on a high school level where everybody was right on top of you.

The audience is right there.

And if you don't make them laugh, there's heckling.

And then there was there was what that audience would do to you.

Bernie Mack would go out there and just challenge them.

What are you talking about?

I'm afraid of you.

I'm afraid.

Oh, so young Bernie Mack was everything that Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy was building,

had built up comedy too.

Bernie Mack was a legend.

Legend.

They did that tour of Kings of Comedy.

Yep.

I remember that.

There's some good comedians apart of that.

The only thing that made me so Bernie Mack being a part of that.

Yeah.

Bernie Mack when he was around was one of the Kings of Comedy.

Oh my gosh.

One of the greatest part Friday.

It's so good.

It's so good.

It still makes me laugh just thinking of it.

He's got so many funny scenes where he doesn't even say anything.

It's something he's doing.

It's so good.

He's got that expressive face.

I'm telling you.

Yeah.

On Sunday we got some birthdays to celebrate like Elizabeth.

She was 61.

Oh.

The cry to kid and Cobra Kai and adventures and babysitting leaving Las Vegas.

So many greats.

Very good actress.

I love that.

She was really good on the first season of the boys.

She was really good on that show.

And let's in Tony Dungey celebrate in the birthday on Sunday.

69 for the former Indianapolis coach.

And the first African American when he had coaching Super Bowl.

That's right.

Also on NBC's Sunday Night Football now.

We encourage all of our qualifiers and all of our friends out there to head on over to LKFA

and treat yourself and join some great food over there and let them know how much we appreciate them.

Yeah.

221 Market Avenue, beautiful port Edwards.

Stick around everybody.

We're going to make you a star of the day with our friends from Calvars coming up after our news break.

Right here on the morning show.

Lights, camera, action.

It is time to make somebody a star of the day with our friends from the Wisconsin Rapids Calvars.

What Melissa, Seth and I are about to do is play a famous theme song from a TV show.

Now, if you know it, you call up 715-424-2600.

And as long as you haven't won anything in 30 days, boom, just like that.

You're going to win yourself a family pack of four from our Wisconsin Rapids Calvars.

That's two adult meals.

That's two kids meals.

That's free Calvars.

All right.

I love it.

Get ready to call up 715-424-2600.

Let us know what TV theme song this is.

I might take a minute.

Oh.

Come on.

Oh, there we go.

There we go.

Let's see what we got here.

Let's see what we got.

All right.

Let's see.

Good morning.

What's your answer?

Well, I'm going to guess family time.

Yes.

And you guessed right.

All right.

Yeah.

Nicely done.

Let's see.

There we go.

Now it's official.

Yeah.

That's a good guess, sir.

Were you a friend, a fan of the show?

Oh, I maybe see it six times.

Yeah.

Even cooler.

Man, that was awesome.

But you will always remember it.

I don't even know I remembered it.

Yeah, exactly.

It's one of those theme songs.

Yeah.

It sticks in your head.

And now you'll remember it because it got your free call first.

You know what I mean?

I'll remember it.

I'll remember it.

You're old.

I forget a lot.

You were not alone on that, sir.

You were not alone.

Don't forget where we're located.

That's right.

Yes.

I know where you're located.

Can I get your first name?

Ron.

Ron, awesome.

Thanks so much.

Ron, where are you calling us from?

Grand Rapids.

All right.

I got ourselves a Grand Rapids winner.

I love that.

Ron, you know where we're at.

So you come by and pick this up anytime.

Monday through Friday in 9-5, okay?

Yeah.

Thanks, guys, and thanks, Colvers.

Thank you.

All right.

Thank you, sir.

Thank you.

Have a good day, Ron.

Yeah.

Have a great week.

That was awesome.

That was very good.

I don't know.

Ron might be the new winner.

I don't think we've heard from Ron before.

I know.

That was really cool.

I love the idea that he only saw the show.

I saw it.

It's fantastic.

That's even better.

That's so much better.

Honestly, it took me a minute.

When I was looking this up, the other day,

it took me a minute to be like, well, wait a minute.

Was that the theme song?

Because I know we watch the show.

My mom and dad like the show.

Yep.

I knew I was on it.

You watched it regularly, too.

I've never seen it.

Yeah.

That's a shock to no one.

It started off, of course, a couple of great actors.

I actually really had almost a perfect cast.

It was close.

It was close.

Yeah.

Of course, it was how we all got to find out who Michael J. Fox was.

That's right.

It was his big star vehicle and everything.

The reason we chose that one is because we celebrated

on the 30th Johnny Mathis' birthday.

And that, of course, is Johnny Mathis singing the theme song there.

Oh, I didn't know.

I shouldn't have known that.

Ah.

One of Johnny Mathis' last hits was this because the theme song

and that of turning into an actual radio hit for him.

Yes, it did.

The duet that they did there.

So, yeah.

With Mr. Mathis' birthday being celebrated and everything.

And this, I couldn't help.

I also have to make a note.

One of the better...

I don't know if the theme song is one of the better theme songs of all time.

But the video.

The opening montage with it.

Yes.

The snapshots and everything.

Like, I really...

Very clever.

Very well done.

For a family show, very well done.

And a show back in the day.

So, you know, one of the big talking points of the show was

the family were very democratic.

Very liberal.

Yeah.

Whereas their son, Michael P. J. Keaton, was a big fan of the Republican party

and being Alex P. Keaton.

Alex P. Keaton.

Alex P. Keaton.

And Nixon and all that.

So, I think it was great would that show have been nowadays.

You know?

Like, it had been a very different show.

Oh, yeah.

It was actually way ahead of its time when it comes to some of those things.

Michael's character also dealt with addiction and some stuff like that.

They actually tried to do some things.

They did some things with that show.

They really did.

It was a good show.

And then they, of course, they also had that whole Scott Valentine thing.

Yeah.

That was rough.

That was rough.

That was a dark moment in TV history.

But the theme song was...

Well, they're right.

The theme song was good enough.

Thank you, Ron, our newest star of the day.

Yeah.

Be listening every Friday, right in this time slot.

We'll make you a new star.

We'll make a new star of the day every Friday.

Thanks to our great friends at the Wisconsin Rapids callers.

Visit them on A Street and wish them a good one and support callers.

They support our community.

Go ahead and support them.

Get some callers in your life.

Yeah.

I mean, you can only get the Carter Burger until like the 14th.

That's right.

That's right.

Gotta go now.

Yeah, get down over there and get it.

Be like Ron.

Get down over there and get it, everybody.

It will be back with our flood here on the morning show.

We got started breathing on the night we kissed.

When I came to know the world I ever did before.

Welcome back, everyone.

Morning show at WFHR.

Melissa, Seth and James here with you.

We hope you're having a good one out there.

Thanks so much for joining us.

We're going to take you right to the top of the hour.

Want to send a big shout out to Ron again.

Ron out of Grand Rapids, our newest star of the day.

Yeah.

Congratulations, Dave.

Yeah.

Ron's going to get some great food of the callers.

We don't know what he might order, but he is definitely going to get some great food from callers.

I feel confident in saying that.

And I feel confident saying Ron is not going to order salsa cereal.

Toastitos says that they spotted the new trend on social media called salsa cereal.

And apparently former NFL wide receiver Julian Edmund is the early adopter of this, the creator of this or whatever.

The process is simple.

You take a handful of tortilla chips, crush them into a bowl, top it with salsa and go to town.

Okay.

They've created a social media campaign around it with a video starring element.

And they even put on a put amount of box of so-called salsa cereal.

You can enter for a chance to win the box and snack it in a snack kit following at Toastitos on Instagram,

liking their official post, and you know, following along from there.

Or you could just try this snack hack if you want to snack at home.

I don't know.

Who of us hasn't already done this with the end of the bag of the chips and the last little bit of salsa?

The crumbs and the little bit of salsa.

Mix it all together.

You don't necessarily have to put it in a bowl.

You just dump the chips into the end of the jar as also.

All he did was add a spoon.

That's it.

That was it, just add a spoon.

I mean, it kind of gave it a name.

That was about it.

Yeah, really.

Following it cereal is misleading.

Yeah.

I think you're correct on that.

Yeah.

You're thinking there's going to be a liquid added into this at some point or something.

The liquid that I've added to cereal is orange juice.

And that's awful.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Have we all tried that?

Has everyone tried the orange juice?

I think you all have done that.

Yeah.

Yeah.

My sister and I.

You've got to use something.

Yep.

That's exactly what happened to us.

And as a side note, if you're going to try it, don't do it with orange juice and it's pulping it.

Oh.

That was wrong.

That was wrong.

Or with any kind of sugary cereal.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's a good point too.

Is it making me feel horrible right here?

Has anybody ever put...

Well, we're talking about salsa cereal.

So I don't know if it works.

Where's the line, right?

Has anybody ever accidentally put creamer in their cereal and thought it was milk?

No.

No, I have not done that.

Oh, man.

It was one of my early times doing the morning show with Bob and I woke up in the morning and

I'm just...

It's just me and my...

Yeah.

And I've got a basic creamer.

And I...

I didn't normally have that, but it was just a basic regular creamer.

I grabbed that and I'm half awake and I got like one contact in and I'm pouring this

and I'm trying to eat while I'm running around and getting ready and everything is running late.

So I've got this little bowl of cereal and I'm just devouring it.

And I took like two bites before I'm...

Is the milk bad?

Did the milk go bad?

And I'm getting all mad at myself.

Like, oh.

Is this the thick milk?

No.

Milk didn't go bad.

Didn't go bad.

It was creamer.

Creamer was fine.

It just doesn't go well with frosted flakes.

Just doesn't go well with that.

I think some people would actually like that to be fair.

I might like it, might like it.

I like my cereal with clotted cream.

Mmm.

If that didn't do you for anything for your salsa cereal, maybe this will.

It's Friday and you may not be in the mood for hot chocolate yet, but you might be in the mood for this kind.

Swiss mess teamed up with Indianapolis based spirits, a maker called a hotel tango distillery,

to create Swiss mess Shimalo, a Shimalo.

A cocoa infused bourbon whiskey that has hints of caramelized sugar and toasted marshmallows.

Oh, wow.

Yes.

Wow.

The boozy mess Swiss mess is 60 proof and it'll start showing up this month on select realtors.

It's also available online through casccartel.com, casccartel.com.

It's a fun name.

Wow.

It's a little threatening too.

It sells in two to three to six bottle bundles.

You might want to make sure you stock up because they are going to selling fast, apparently.

The website drink Shimalo.com also has some recipes on there for a cocoa old fashioned or a spiked hot cocoa or a white Russian.

I think they're they're bespoiling the good name of the Swiss mischaracter.

Yeah, they're really saying that she's a drunk or drinker or something like that.

Oh, wait a minute.

That's it.

I would try that.

I would try.

But I'm not a huge on that.

I'm not going to buy a bottle of it.

No.

No, no.

No, I can't see doing that.

I can't see doing that.

Oh, gosh.

I don't know about that one.

Wait.

Okay.

So, you know, as someone who doesn't drink anymore, I got to ask people who still do that, you know,

that overly sweet with alcohol, is that does that something you like?

That does not sound good to me at all.

No, alcohol with sweet stuff.

Drink it straight.

Usually you put something.

Right, right.

Sure.

So you could just use the salt and water.

Yeah, I suppose.

Yeah.

I suppose that would be one way to do it.

Yeah.

I don't know.

But worth a try if you're up to it though.

And finally, one of the get into this one and this kind of leads into our nine o'clock hour where we're going to be talking about Halloween costumes and some of the new item.

Items that are out there for decoration for your yards and things like that.

And we're talking about adult wean.

Adult o' wean.

God, it's a terrible word.

The Chicago, I'm sorry, the chocolate company Ferrario.

Ferriero?

I always forget how it's called.

I forget as well.

Ferro Rocher.

Is that what it is?

Ferro Rocher.

Ferro Rocher released their 2024 Halloween survey and they're trying to claim that the hot new trend is adults celebrating Halloween.

Yeah, that's nothing new.

It's been around for a decade now.

And they're trying to start the trend adult o' wean.

Stop.

Yeah.

Stop it.

And here are a few stats to kick off the spookiest month of the year.

69% of adults plan to buy Halloween candy even if they don't plan to even if they don't expect trick or treaters.

Nice.

Some of us, it's just an excuse to eat more sweets.

Yeah, exactly.

Me and I want more candy.

I mean, I don't want the candy to go bad.

I'm going to eat it.

This is my dad's art.

Oh, there's a lot out there extra for sale right now.

And there's good sales.

So now's the time, right?

That's true.

That's true.

I love the idea for the whole year of candy going bad.

Oh, that was my dad.

I love that.

Every year my dad, he would say that.

He would say that.

He would say that he didn't want the candy to go bad because some of this is going to go bad.

Yep.

He had to check our candy, which meant he had to take some of our candy.

Of course, little tax on that.

And all of this and the man would have a stash.

He would have a stash of candy.

And then like after the night was done with trick or treating, he would like miraculously find this stash.

Oh, I got this extra candy.

I don't want it to go bad.

God eat it.

It's about right.

Even though I'm probably pretty sure that what they wrap candy in could withstand.

Probably a nuclear attack, but okay.

67% of parents will buy extra candy just in case they need it.

Then secretly stash it away from them, away from themselves.

We see your game.

You parents.

Oh, yeah.

Man.

58% will decorate their house in some way, even if it's just a pumpkin on the porch.

60% of people said that they enjoy pumpkin carving.

That's awful.

I love pumpkin carving.

Pumpkin carving is fun.

It can be fun.

It is.

And I like all the newer techniques that people are doing.

So many cool things.

Oh, yeah.

There's so many cool things.

I think they involve actual sharp implements.

Yeah.

They end up cutting you.

Yeah.

I even like the painting.

Like where people just paint.

Oh, yeah.

You know, they didn't even cut it up or anything.

They just paint it.

I think that's cool too.

I'm going to.

Some really pretty ones with like floral.

Yeah.

Oh, yes.

Yeah.

I do want to tell people that if you are going to carve a pumpkin, please, please be careful.

There was a friend of my family that almost died.

What?

They accidentally, when they were carving a pumpkin and they accidentally sliced their arm open.

So, yeah.

Dang.

So, be careful, please.

Hey.

That's all I'm saying.

Hey, back off, man.

Making a fun topic serious is my wheelhouse.

That's what I do.

Don't use power tools.

Yeah.

He didn't.

But you know what saved his life?

Huh.

Duck tape.

Oh, of course.

Of course.

You needed to find a way to stop the bleeding.

So he used it.

It worked.

Speaking of my dad, it's made my dad extremely happy.

Yes.

It's all he had.

I made all dads very happy with that one.

47% of adults said that they like to dress up in costumes for their own enjoyment.

And even, you know, whether it's to hand out candy or whether they're walking with their kids or something like that.

I think that number is actually a lot higher.

I think that's a lot higher.

People are ashamed to admit it.

Yeah, I think so.

36% of people plan to dress their pets up this year.

0% of pets want this.

That's, I mean, I don't know.

It's hard to know, but there's obviously some pets that really don't want to have the clothes on.

Like there are, like, so like my fur brother, I think Sam is a pretty good example.

Sam is a different dog because he does actually like a harness on him.

He likes that security.

Right.

Some dogs, especially like that security around their body and everything.

So then maybe a costume could give them that comfort.

But they could get it without the silly hat on their head that hangs on their...

Like, I don't mind people dressing up their pets.

Just don't tell me you're doing it for the pet.

No.

Don't try to convince me.

Oh, oh, Fido really loves this.

Get out of here, man.

You don't know what fight you just get out of here.

I know one thing.

He didn't ask for it.

He definitely didn't ask for.

No.

Well, I don't know, guys.

Have you seen that video of the Golden Retriever going to the basket

and pulling out the cat and going in front of the mirror with it on?

I was like, I've seen this video.

This is a very good dog.

I've seen the very good dog.

Very good dog.

It's a very good dog.

But I maintained that that dog knows what...

Except for the proves rules.

If it does those things, it knows what's coming.

And that means a treat.

That is how dogs tend to work.

Yes, sure.

77% of adults feel nostalgic about trick-or-treating.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Even before October hits, I'm hit with a rush of trick-or-treating

and some of the fun moments that I had with them.

You know, Melissa, you were talking about earlier.

You didn't trick-or-treat partially because you were a group in the country.

I did, too.

And this was where you had to get into the car to get to all your neighbor's houses.

Okay, I go drive to the next house.

It actually was pretty good.

You know, because there was enough of us that everyone usually had candy.

But, man.

I'm a little envious of that.

It sounds like...

From you guys' perspective, I'm sure that it could have been better,

or there were parts of it that were rough, or whatever.

I don't know.

There's something about that that sounds really fun to me about it.

Because for me, we always had to go to...

We couldn't really trick-or-treat where I was from.

There really wasn't that going on.

So we'd go to my aunt's or my uncle's houses or something.

And my aunt, Ne, lived in an apartment complex.

And one year, we got to go there.

And she goes, okay.

And this is like a 300 building apartment complex.

There's like three different complexes next to each other and everything.

And me and my cousin Lisa and my sister hit almost every single one.

We went back and got an extra bag.

Wow.

It was amazing.

Found the mother load, man.

It was amazing doing that.

But I would...

I'd give doing something like that where you're traveling around the house.

This seems kind of fun, too.

It was, except in Northern Minnesota, it was usually really cold.

Oh, yeah.

I mean, there was...

I can't even remember this very few Halloween's where I thought, you know,

you got to...

You plan your costume for warmth.

Yes.

You know, got to make sure you have enough underneath and stuff.

You never went as a hula dancer?

No.

No, no, no.

With long johns on, yes, maybe.

But the older you get in the Midwest, the more you tailor your costume to fit the weather.

You know what, I'm going to be the Pillsbury doughboy.

Yeah, I'll be nice and warm.

No, man.

There's something I...

I'm just going to be somebody getting ready for winter.

That's right.

That's what I am.

That's my character this year.

40% of people pulled this said Halloween is their favorite holiday.

There you go.

That's not bad.

That's a good one.

Yeah, that's fun.

I certainly want to hear from all of you out there.

What are you guys going to do for Halloween?

Are you going to dress up?

Are you not?

Would you dress up if you could?

When we get into Halloween costumes a little bit later,

one of the questions I want to have for everybody is

if you could be anything for Halloween, what would you be?

Anything.

No, no.

Price is not an issue.

All right.

Whatever you want.

Price is not an issue.

And I already took Rich.

I already took that.

I already took that.

I already took that.

No.

What would you...

What would you be if you could be any costume?

No.

Money is not an obstacle.

The coming up with the idea or making the costume isn't your job or anything.

You just go, hey, here is a blank check.

Give me this costume.

You can have any kind of costume you want.

What would it be?

So we'll get into that a little bit after our entertainment section

because we got that to kick off the 9 o'clock hour.

Well, we're not only going to get into some fun stuff

that we got going on as far as stranger things

and talking about some local theater.

But a little bit later, we will get into Halloween

and talking costumes, talking new items that are out there for people to use.

But as far as wrapping up the segment here

and talking about adult wean or just adult celebrating Halloween.

Stop using that word.

No.

We don't get a chance to...

We go through this thing where we're little

and we want to be old.

We're little, want to be old, want to be old.

And then we hit a certain age where we want to be younger.

Yep.

And we kind of go through this back and forth.

And almost every human being goes through this.

If this is the one time a year where we get to have a little fun,

we get to be a little less serious.

Or we get to be a little bit...

Find the kid in ourselves or something like that.

I say embrace it.

Especially this year.

It's going to be heavy.

Let's be honest.

It's going to be a heavy year.

It doesn't have a heavy month.

We're leading up to one of the bigger elections of our lifetimes.

It is going to be...

You're going to be hitting...

Being hit with a lot of political information,

a lot of stuff this month, it can get scary.

Let's look for the light moments.

Yes.

Let's embrace the lightness.

Yeah.

And embrace the joy.

And the fun.

We will be back with more fun.

Ah, the morning show here at WFHR.

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