We hope you're having a great Tuesday out there.
Thanks for hanging out with us here at WFHR, Melissa and James here with you.
Hope you're having a good one.
We got some stuff getting into our schedule a little bit later, talk about these five
overused phrases at work, got that, let's see, we got a couple of other fun things to
see what we can fit into the hour, but I want to kick things off a little bit of entertainment
news, get right into it, and Game of Thrones, the replica throne, the famous throne from
that, just sold at an auction over the weekend for more than 21 million.
That included nearly 1.5 million for the Iron Throne, so they sold, okay, so they sold
21 million of memorabilia, 1.5 of it on the throne itself.
I am not the audience for this, I don't like Game of Thrones and I have like zero anything
for it.
Part of the reason I'm bringing this up is because we get really caught up in things and
momentum and stuff, and this show was gigantic, the books are huge, the show was gigantic
it's got an 18 spin-offs to it and everything.
I know, and then people are crazy about it, but I just, I don't.
I'm going to, I got to say something that I've been feeling, and I tested this out on
my sister who was a big fan of the books and everything, overrated, sorry, it's kind of
overrated, kind of like a low hanging fruit, like with, like, it feels like somebody who
read Lord of the Rings and wanted to do an R-rated version, but wasn't a good enough
writer to do it.
And I'm not trying to say George R. Martin is not a good writer, he's a best-selling author.
I'm not saying that, but I don't feel, I feel like-
Have they finished the series yet?
No, no, he is not.
In fact, there's a lot of conversation about that one.
So publishers, if you're, if you're George R. Martin, if you're Stephen King and you write
a new novel, you send it to the publishers and they look at over and everything, but
that thing's getting made, you know?
That's the name like that, you did, it's just straight to press pretty much.
If you're somebody who's just starting out or something, you send it there and they
send it back with notes or things that they do or don't like, or what have you and everything.
Or thank you for your submission, try again next time.
From what there is being said, and it's some reputable sources and some just kind of,
you know, hearsay, so I wouldn't, I wouldn't go ahead and put your name on this necessarily,
but what is being said is a lot of his resistance is those publishers seeing it and not liking
it.
Oh, he's finishing the series.
Yeah, it's not even just the fans, he's worried about that as well.
Didn't this one kind of get out of control with like, he hadn't finished the book series
and they took it over and kept writing that the TV show ahead of him?
Yeah, they wrote the, yeah, yeah, he finished-
It's so messed up.
Yeah, it's kind of weird.
It's always interesting.
We just talked about this a little bit with Wicked where when you take the original work
and spin off of that, or you're doing the original work, but you make artistic liberties
with it.
You know, how much of that works and how much of it doesn't, it's always tricky.
At least the books are done for Wicked, you know, not like they took a half done thing
and went, all right, well, we're going to take and make this our own.
Well, I watched a little bit of a similar thing with Lois speaking of Lord of the Rings.
The Amazon series, Rings of Power, is all based on notes from JR Token that he had written
and they kind of put them together and everything and tried to make a story out of it and kind
of continue or give a prequel to the Lord of the Rings books and everything.
And I only watched the first season, first off, pretty a show you'll ever see.
They spent millions and millions on it and you can tell.
It's a beautiful look and move, a TV show, even if you're just watching the background
and everything.
It wasn't bad acted.
They had some nice actors.
I would have liked them to develop the script a little bit better, but there were some
things that they took chances on that I thought, okay, that worked or you could tell they
were real fans, they did their homework and were really, you know, doing right by it.
A couple of weeks ago, Stanley Kubrick, one of the better directors of all time passed
away before he could finish a movie, AI, that he wanted to do.
Steven Spielberg was one of his best friends and a guy who knew him better than most anybody
and decided, okay, I'm going to honor my good friend, Stanley Kubrick and I'm going to
do this movie, but I'm going to direct it like Stanley would.
And even that, a lot of people had trouble with the ending because they felt like it was
too Kubrick.
You know, so it's Steven Spielberg, maybe the greatest director of all time and even he
couldn't get this right, you know, it's dicey, it's tough, but at the end of the day,
you have to stand on your work.
And if it's good, it's bad, whatever, at least it's yours, at least you did it.
And I think also a big part of this too that the creative has to figure out and understand.
Once you publish something, it's not just yours anymore.
Nobody know the name George R or Martin if it wasn't for his fans.
You're not going to finish it for yourself, finish it for the fans.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It becomes a point where it's just selfish and you don't seem, I don't feel like you
appreciate your fan base.
Well, and to all the fans of Lord of Game of Thrones out there, I have a tendency to push
back on things that are so huge like that, that's just my, I don't know, natural rebellious
energy.
Everybody loves this.
I'm going to hate it.
I could not agree with you more.
And I wish I understood that part of my brain.
I wish I understood why I'm like that.
And to be, you know, like it was such a huge sensation at the time, I did try to give
it a go.
I downloaded the first audio book and I listened, but I couldn't get past, I don't know,
the first 20 minutes.
Yeah.
And I was like, nope, done.
There's certain stuff.
It's the same with the first episode that I tried to watch.
Oh, yeah.
That first episode was tough.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I don't blame you.
I don't blame you.
If it wasn't for my little sister, I probably would have stopped her.
Just stick with it.
No.
No.
No.
Yeah.
Here's the thing about it.
It's going to get better.
Here's the thing about that.
Speaking of good authors and good directors and everything, a good author or a good director
will tell you right away, catch him early.
If you catch him early, you'll have him for the whole book.
I read that.
I guess if you're going for shock value, then maybe you'll get those people early and that's
okay to each their own.
That's not me.
Yeah.
Well, you've got to have a good beginning.
The whole waiting, you don't just hang in there.
It'll get good.
No.
No, that's not how it's supposed to work.
If you're a good author or a good director, you get people within the first moment and you
keep them throughout the whole rest of the movie.
That's why so many movies and books start up with, you know, you start in the middle of
the story and then they come back and catch you up and then you go back and it's to get
you caught.
It's to get you caught up in it.
Right.
And I don't mind books, especially books, that are a little slow going in the beginning.
You know, that you have to, you got to get the backstory, you got to understand the character
development and all of that before you can get to the meat of the story.
I'm okay with that.
But if you're going to throw something in the beginning to just for shock value to,
to, I don't know, gross people out or wow them or that isn't the hook for me.
What might get somebody for a minute will not keep them for five, you know, if you really
want to catch people that shock value, it wears off pretty quick.
It doesn't have a lot.
I mean, shock, that's natural art.
And for some people that they like that, great, good for you.
You probably also like jump scares.
I'm not a fan.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So to each their own.
Melissa, I have been, and I know you did a little bit of this too when you were doing the
Sunrise show with me and everything over on 105, 5 working over there and diving into
the country music world a bit more.
I've really been enjoying it.
I've really been having a good time with it.
It's been fun.
I've always known a little bit of country music.
It grew up on some Johnny Cash and Patsy Klein, but didn't really, never really knew too much
about the music in the genre and been learning a lot more in the last couple of years.
But one of the things that has stood out to me that I couldn't quite understand, hip
hop and country music, more than any other music, is about authenticity and about being
real.
And the artist popular in those genres all tend to be real, you know, quote unquote real.
And somebody that you can get behind and you believe in them and everything.
But like one of the things that I know happens all the time in hip hop, you know, look at somebody
like Jay-Z or Sean Combs or some of these artists in history.
They come out and they look like they're gangsters.
They try to act tough or whatever.
They grew up on the north side, man.
These guys don't know it.
Just putting on a costume.
Yeah.
That's all they're doing.
They're just playing a character and stuff.
Whereas there's some artists like Nipsy Hussle or Tupac or some other artists that actually
do come from rough beginnings and rough backgrounds.
And when they're writing and they're talking about these things, they actually know what they're
talking about.
There's something a little bit more to that.
One of the things that I discovered, I found out right away, the artist that I like, I would
look them up.
I like Miranda Lambert.
I like Tim McGraw.
I looked them up.
Sure enough, they write a lot of their own music.
It just tends to be that way.
It's like that for me and other genres of music too.
I just didn't know if it would be that way with country.
And I came across this article that I thought was actually pretty cool and give you a little
bit of background on this.
So if you think it's easier to break into country music industry, if you were rich versus
growing up poor, or is it solely about determination and talent, Parker McCollum was starting out.
When he was starting out, his dad offered to buy him a tour bus and put his entire band
on salary until they kickstarted their career.
Parker turned him down because he thought no one would respect him.
And that is a pretty darn good call.
Here are some country artists who did not do what Parker did.
And this is a little interesting.
Now Kid Rock, who used to be famous, and now is his famous basically for acting a fool,
I'm not quite sure how he ever became famous to be honest with you, I'm not sure that
his music ever really held up even at the time.
Yeah, I'm one hit wonder.
It had its moment.
It had its moment.
That's for sure.
But he quickly immediately, as soon as he made some money off of the hip hop community
immediately left them and wouldn't do anything close to it now, this guy kind of bragged
and talked about growing up poor and some of these things.
He did not.
He grew up in a 5,600-foot home, five acres, a horse barn, his dad owned a premium car
dealership.
We're talking about Parker now.
Kid Rock.
Oh Kid Rock, okay.
Taylor Swift.
Her dad was a stockbroker from Errol Lynch and had a very nice upbringing.
Dave Haywood from Lady A described his dad as the Bruce Springsteen of the Dental World.
I like, they put on this list.
Interesting description.
Yeah, they put on this list Hank Williams Jr.
Okay, yeah, I feel pretty confident.
I know who Hank Williams Jr.'s dad was and why he had a pretty good upbringing, Hank
Williams Sr.
Ellie King.
Her dad is Rob Schneider.
So had a bit of a nice upbringing that way and everything.
But then there are the artists that came from the other side of the tracks, like Johnny
Cash.
His parents were cotton farmers in Arkansas.
At the age of five, he was out there picking cotton.
Dolly Pardon.
Her family was so poor when Dolly was born, they paid the doctor with a sack of corn
meal.
She is fourth of 12 children.
Darius Rucker from Hoodie and the Blowfish, and of course, has made a great second act
in country music.
He said that growing up, lived in a three bedroom house with his mom, grandma, two aunts,
and 14 kids.
I mean, brown.
More recent.
Isn't that recent recent?
But you know, been around for a little while, but more recent artists.
Real tough childhood.
It was homeless for quite some time, at times growing up, experiencing that.
And Tim McGraw.
He didn't get any help from his biological dad.
This is interesting because he had a famous father, Tom McGraw, famous pitcher and everything.
The Tom McGraw famously did not acknowledge Tim or help his mother at all.
Instead, he was raised by his mom in a low-income neighborhood and experiencing that life, which
is interesting that, you know, when you hear him talk about Tog and some of that stuff
and everything.
But I bring this up in part because when you're listening to these artists and they're
trying to get a rise out of you, or they're trying to get you to, you know, talking about
being on their farm or talking about, you know, being a hardcore hustler or something
like that.
And just do a little deep dive into these artists.
Do a little bit of digging and see when, you know, Jason Aldean's writing these songs,
he's doing it on a private jet, billions of miles up in the sky.
You know, some of these artists have never had dirt under their nails.
Some of these artists have never seen a street corner, a little alone hustled.
It now, whether it matters to you or not, is completely your call.
But if we're going to talk real, if we're going to talk authentic, you know, look it
up.
I think that part's important to this conversation or to music, to creativity, I think.
Well, and kind of beware of anybody who's saying, I understand you.
I know where you come from when they have zero, zero relatable experience.
If my doppelganger was standing right next to me, I would say I empathize with them,
but I don't know what it's like to be them.
There's a big difference in that.
I agree with you.
Beware of the person.
You know what, man?
I know exactly what you're talking.
I know exactly what you're being.
Do you?
Do you?
Do you?
Do you?
Yeah.
And whereas music for each of us is an individual thing, like you say, as soon as something
is published and put out there, it's no longer the artists necessarily.
It's up to everybody's interpretation of it.
And if something that an artist has done really strikes a chord for you and you really
can identify with it.
I mean, you know, that's to each individual, but don't let them exploit you because of
it.
Yeah.
That's the biggest part of this to me.
Whether you like the music, buy the music, and all that, that's cool.
That's your business and everything.
But don't let them exploit you.
Don't let them take advantage of your situation and be like, yeah, man, I know exactly what
that's like.
Hang on a second.
I got to go tell my butler something.
Wait, wait, wait.
We'll hold up.
Hold up.
It doesn't add up.
We got some great local theater going on in this area here in Central Wisconsin, whether
we're talking about Marshfield or Steven's Poland or Rome or any of these great areas.
Of course, a WRCT that we'll talk about in a second, but I didn't want to take a second
to focus on Warsaw Community Theater.
Yeah.
This Friday, they've got their great Dane, their fundraiser for Wisconsin Community Theater.
Oh, good.
It's a fundraising gala.
It's a night at the Cabaret, enjoyed evening of a three course meal along with a cash bar,
high performances.
It's an auction, raffle, and much, much more.
They've got that going on this weekend and they wish them well with that.
I hope it goes well.
You want your 20s gear?
Yeah, yeah.
Really.
Have fun with that one.
They've got some great shows coming up as well.
Keep an eye on our friends over on Warsaw and help them keep theater alive in that area
at wasalkcommunitytheater.org, wasalkcommunitytheater.org.
I don't know if they know, but we're thinking of them.
We're sending the shout out to all of our local theaters out there.
Absolutely.
Including our own here in Wisconsin Rapids, our Wisconsin Rapids Community Theater.
Once again, saying congratulations to the cast of White Christmas.
It's a big cast, too, it's so exciting.
That's why we had to do it two days back and back.
I mean, some of the people in the cab might not have heard us yesterday.
On December 5th, Markier calendar, that is when the show will premiere.
And be sure, while you got the calendar out, Markdown October 18th, this Friday, spooky
karaoke.
I want to see little kids doing the Monster Mash, like singing it and doing the dance.
I want to see that badly.
That just seems so much fun.
Yes, that would be really good.
You're right.
That would be good.
Catch this.
But this is open to all ages from six to nine on Friday, I believe.
Yes.
And they got concessions available.
They're going to have a ton of fun with this one.
I hope that-
We're costumes.
Why not?
Yes.
I hope they keep this up like seasonally.
Like they do a Christmas karaoke or whatever and they-
That's a fun idea.
And in between all of the seasons of the holidays, they can do Disney karaoke.
Oh, nice.
Wow.
Yeah, wow.
I mean, they're doing that over at Seawack already, so I can't, you know, like say it's an original
idea.
It's still a good idea.
It's a lot of fun.
Mm-hmm.
Find out more about that and the Silver Foxes with the Let The Spirit movie.
They got a new production coming up October 24th.
Yeah.
Next week.
We're waiting for you at wrctheter.orgwrctheter.org.
Be sure to follow Wisconsin's Reps Community Theater on social media as well.
And it's not too late to get your shoes and tickets.
Yeah, get them, everybody.
Get those tickets and we'll meet you there.
We'll take a time out.
We'll come back and when we come back, the karaoke get this year's International Cad Expo.
We shall discuss.
Whoa.
It's coming up on the morning show at WFHR.
Welcome back, everybody, to the morning show.
WFHR, locally grown radio.
Melissa and James here with you.
Hope you're having a good one out there.
I have to be honest with the audience.
I got a little side-tracked.
I need about 30 seconds of playmakers, Melissa.
Give me 30 seconds for playmakers.
Thank you.
Thanks.
A lot of sports fans out there have been waiting on this news if it was going to happen.
Las Vegas Raiders are finalizing a deal to trade Devante Adams to the New York Jets
for a conditional third-rounder that could possibly be a second according to Adam Schefter.
That news has been waiting to be broke for a while.
A lot of people predicted that's where he would go.
I thought Kansas City might be a dark horse, but it looks like he is going to Jersey.
That takes up my 30 seconds.
All right.
Thank you, Melissa.
Be sure.
I was holding my breath.
That was really good.
That was nice job.
We will be talking about this on tomorrow's playmakers from five to six.
Be sure to join us for that and shout out to Quality Plus Pretty, getting your words out
here in Rapids, sponsoring that segment, speaking of Quality Plus, they'll be joining us tomorrow
with a Wicked Awesome Word of Wednesday.
It's wicked awesome.
And let the audience know this a little bit because I think Phil, I know Phil likes these
kind of things.
We're kind of thinking of updating that segment a little bit maybe.
They're going to maybe tinker in with it a little bit.
We'd love your feedback on that one, everybody.
Go ahead and let us know your feedback.
You can get a hold of us, of course, on our Facebook pages, call up here at the station
or email us any of our staff with any of that feedback any time.
This year's karaoke at the International Cat Expo.
Now I know that a lot of you out there were paying very close attention to the International
Cat Expo that took place in Cleveland this weekend.
I did not even know this was a thing.
I got to be honest.
Cat fancier's association.
That is a thing.
That fancier's association had this annual International Cat Expo.
The karaoke session this year was fire.
If you are looking for a pallet cleanser looking for some fun or you're a lover of cats,
I encourage you to search cat oaky.
Cat oaky.
It's normal karaoke, but you meow the lyrics, oh my, oh my, and you know I'm going to
play some of this for you right now.
Of course I am.
Let's go ahead.
Check out some of this right here as soon as my computer will work with me.
Oh, I like that.
Oh, I like that.
Oh, a little YMCA with me out, oh, I like it, I like it.
This is great.
Now this is singing I can do.
Yeah, I mean, you don't need to know the lyrics, just the tune.
Now I'm trying to, I don't know why, but I've got ACDC's thunder struck and I'm like,
meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, I don't know, now I'm doing
the guitar part, though.
I think you just do the lyrics, I think you just, oh, there's somebody good one you can do.
The song that runs through my head, I couldn't get my app open quick enough to hear if you
played this.
For some reason, and I don't even like Abba, but Dancing Queen runs through my head all
the time.
Oh, okay, okay.
Meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow.
Nice, nice.
I like it better with the cat, cad-cat-yokis, I would it's called.
Yes, cad-yokis.
I like the, there was one other word, a cat rapper.
I like that.
Oh, a cat, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, I like that.
Let's hear a little of this one.
I want to hear how this went.
I can't go.
I don't hear.
It's called.
I know why you're different.
Oh, he's actually rap.
I go, okay, no, that's not.
I don't want to hear that.
I don't mind rap, but I wanted to hear him, meow, meow, meow.
We just got mules in the background.
There's so many great rap songs you can do with meow.
This opens up karaoke to me.
It's easier because you wouldn't have to like try to squeeze all those words in every
just saying.
Yeah.
I'm too much of a performer.
I don't know if there's an amount of alcohol that could get me to really go up there
and do karaoke for fun.
It should be done in fun.
It should be.
I wholeheartedly agree.
And there's a reason I stay away from that microphone because I'm too much of a performer.
I know myself too well.
The few times I have done karaoke, I was, I was, you know, inebriated.
It was a little bit.
It would encourage you to work or, in your case, enough to take away your inhibitions
of perfection.
Yes.
Absolutely.
100%.
Yes.
You know your audience closely.
No, the inhibitions of perfection.
Oh, it'll take me.
It works.
It works for you, James.
It's 9.30 in the morning.
It works.
It works.
I think this could really open up karaoke, though, for others.
Like, even if you're not a cat person, what about a dog, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough?
You can have fun with it.
Do we get any animal noises with this one?
The variety of them available.
What I would be more interested in is if this, like, spins off into a whole new genre
of music.
And you've got like serious performers and everything, like doing cat, like, meow versions
of songs or...
I hope not.
We've run out of ideas in the music industry.
This is where we are.
This is where we...
You're kind of fun for a novelty thing.
Yeah.
I don't know if I would actually buy and record deal with that.
Before you go to...
You can find out more just searching International Cat Expo, a shout out to all those performers,
every one of them.
Brave is all get out and having fun with it.
Good autumn for doing that.
That's awesome.
I didn't want to talk a little bit about our newsletter, Melissa.
Yeah.
We just kicked this off last week with our very first debut newsletter.
We've got a great team at WFHR that is contributing to the efforts on this.
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So you can sign up on WFHR.com slash newsletter.
I think it's actually on our homepage now, even.
Yeah.
You can just go to WFHR.com and you'll see right there.
You can sign up for our newsletter.
And it will come to your inbox, the scheduled plan, if we can keep to it, is new it on Thursdays.
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And so much more.
Got a lot of really cool articles on there too and a lot of great work being done.
I see that Chuck has written some articles on there.
Or one of our new team members, Laura has put on some stuff.
Of course, Terry Barr has.
There's a lot of great things on there and it takes you.
I signed up for the newsletter last week when it first premiered and took me five seconds
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Yeah, it's really easy.
There's multiple things you can enter, but you can also just enter your email.
Yeah.
Go right ahead and do that.
Everybody, keep up the date on things.
And this newsletter is specifically designed for you, the Central Wisconsin listener.
We want this to hit home for you.
Yes.
And it's going to focus on stories and news and things that are happening right here in
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We look forward to not only this growing and becoming better and better, but hearing
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Yeah.
Shout out.
We would love to hear your feedback, what you would like to see in our newsletter.
Because like I said, it's always going to be growing and changing, evolving to meet
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I am working on this on my own section of this newsletter that is just focused basically
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I will work on it.
We'll see if there's room.
We'll see if there's room.
We'll see if there's maybe a segment space in there for you, James.
I don't know.
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I had to let that play out.
There's something about that style of music I still love.
I don't know how much I can listen to it or anything all day.
But every once in a while, I love hearing that stuff.
It's very nostalgic.
Yeah, even if you weren't around at that time, it brings you to that time.
That's how powerful that music is.
It's an interesting article, five overused phrases to avoid at work.
Finds out most bosses don't necessarily like some of the work speak.
They call it like the popular phrase, give 110% or thinking outside the box.
That's a yeah.
You might think vague jargon is helpful or makes you sound smart, but it can actually
do the opposite.
And here are a few more phrases maybe to avoid at work.
Oh gosh.
I don't want to say this one.
I don't want to say this one.
Who are you trying to impress?
Collab?
Talking about a company.
What's the word in the term?
I know.
But it sounds like the name of a company.
I wasn't sure if it was calm.
It used to be used a lot.
It doesn't feel like it's been used as much recently.
So I wasn't sure.
Sorry about that.
Yeah.
Just say collaboration.
Just say team effort.
Right.
Work together.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Why do we need to make up new words for the things we already have words for?
It's a catch all term that isn't always used right.
See what you really mean, like utilize or capitalize on.
Yeah.
We've got.
And there's multiple words that refer to something.
Use the correct one.
This just feels like a good idea.
It feels like a good way, a good place to start.
We're a circle back to that one.
A circle back.
Try revisit or check back in.
Yeah, I got a little overused.
And then I got, I don't know, the pendant took it and flew with it.
And then yeah, now we're done.
Move the needle.
Try, try influence outcomes or advance our goals.
Or just, hey, this is doing well.
It's one thing when you're marketing things to your clients or your constant, you know,
it's people, but to your boss, to your fellow co-workers or anything like that, you
don't got to reinvent the wheel here, man.
You know, you know, save that for the advertising, save that for the creativity part.
Low hanging fruit.
She goes up at number five.
You might use that one now and then.
I believe if you go back and listen to our podcast, you may have heard me mention this
once.
Only wouldn't know.
I like having it referred to it in the, I don't know, the proper way of, like, as a negative
almost.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Some better options are easy wins or simple tasks.
Now, a part of the reason I'm doing this article is for accountability and to own things
like I like to do in here and you know, I'm not pointing fingers at anybody who ever uses
those other terms.
Exactly.
Exactly.
But it's also something that hopefully you don't, instead of like, and I'm not saying this
to other people, I do this myself too, instead of getting defensive or, you know, getting
a little bit hurt or you're pride to take this as an opportunity to be creative and challenge
yourself and push yourself.
I'm going to square back to that.
See?
See?
Huh?
That's pretty good.
It's pretty good.
You know, it's.
Take a few left turns.
Yeah.
That's fine.
I'm going to take left turns until I get back to this issue.
Nice.
Nice.
Oh, that actually is pretty funny.
That's pretty good.
Make a laugh.
And get them thinking.
And you know, that's going to take up a second too.
That's definitely going to take me a second.
How many left turns do we have to make?
It's just, it's nothing wrong with trying to, you know, really get excited and explain
something and make sure that you sell it.
These had to kind of do presentations and things before.
But one of the things that I've learned in classes about that, about how to present
and how to be a good public speaker and everything, is that more times than not, again, coming
back to catching people.
Yeah, maybe that opening phrase, maybe that opening sentence or whatever, you're using
as a catch to grab their attention or whatever.
But the rest of that, you want to be coherent, you know, don't stick, try to stick too many
buzzwords in there.
It's not going to, it's not going to fly well with your audience.
For every person that might understand it, there's another person like, what the heck
is synergy?
What are they talking about?
And while you're talking, they're sitting there thinking about what is synergy.
Trying to figure out what that means.
Yeah.
And you've completely lost your audience.
This all comes back to that same phrase, no, your audience, which is another phrase
on here.
No, I'm kidding.
That's not that obvious.
At least I'm not that predictable yet, but.
But in reality, I mean, we all know that in today's world with, you know, the 24 hour
news cycle and in TikTok and short videos, the people's attention span has lessened.
I mean, I heard somebody say in a presentation once that you, you've got about eight seconds
of attention from somebody before they check out.
That's not very long.
No.
So if you throw a bunch of buzzwords at them or things that they are not going to hear,
talk, talk in plain speech if you want people to understand what you're saying.
Mm-hmm.
It, it, it, know your audience.
Understand the people that are listening to you or, they're hearing you're watching
you.
Mm-hmm.
Instead of maybe just that.
Try to relate with them.
Mm-hmm.
Uh, we're going to rectangle back when we come back on the morning show here at W.F.H.R.
Welcome back, everybody, to the morning show.
I was not the witcher's book and the sound of the wind and the trees.
Give a tip tap of that black cat dancing in a dark and stream.
Melissa and James here with you, uh, I, that is the most of the wiggles I have ever heard.
I, I have never heard the wiggles before the most.
I, uh, I just did a story on them the other day because they are the newest act to be going
country, apparently.
Well, the wiggles have gone country, so that, I, I don't, but I, I know there are kids
band, right?
They, they, they, they do kids music or something.
I think so.
It's a kid's show.
Mm-hmm.
Uh, we got a, I don't know if this is that right story or not.
You can go ahead and choose yourselves out there.
It might be to me, but to others, maybe not.
Burger King and Hidden Valley Ranch are teaming up to give, uh, out giant tubs of ranch
with sandwiches at, quote, select locations starting tomorrow.
Giant tubs?
Yeah.
The tubs are free and are capable of dipping an entire burger.
Like these are, these are true tubs like there.
So the picture is somebody with a whopper, which is a pretty good size burger, that
holds, not the whole burger, but like, you know, if you're dipping it with your, you
know, half of it will fit in there.
That's, um, just, they're not even trying anymore.
Um, Burger King, uh, next will be, uh, bringing out, giving out, uh, just a bag that you
can just wrap around your head and just eat just to vow or the food.
These so called big dip tubs have eight ounces of ranch compared to the typical sauce
container, which is just one ounce, uh, you do have to request the tubs, and they're
only available in select locations like New York, LA, Chicago, Miami, Dallas, Houston,
and San Francisco.
There is a tracker on the BK website where you can find participating locations when I
looked into this, the closest I saw was Chicago, um, as far as, uh, locally for us here
at everything.
Um, and it doesn't sound like they're adding more locations because it doesn't sound
like the tubs, uh, will be around very long.
It's a limited supply thing, um, and, uh, hidden valley as, uh, charging a dollar a piece
for these, uh, but they're free at the Burger King locations.
Yeah.
That's the thing.
I mean, that's a, that's eight times the amount of ranch they're giving you, which is eight
times the calories and the cost.
And, um, are you going to actually use an entire eight ounces for one burger?
I don't know.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I, um, like on a salad, I don't mind ranch every once in a while.
I'm an Italian dressing guy, but every once in a while ranch ate so bad, um, but I, um,
that's about it.
That's about it for me with ranch dressing.
Oh, let's see.
With, ranch is such a dippable dressing.
Like, you can, you can dip anything in ranch vegetable wise at least for almost 40 years.
My little sister has been trying to get me to see this Melissa and realize that, uh,
carrots and fries and other things.
Salary.
Oh, yeah.
Salary.
I think she's done that one.
All flour, broccoli.
She's, uh, keep track.
Keep track.
I mean, they're all so good in ranch pizza.
I know.
That's not a vegetable.
What?
It's perfectly dippable.
There's tomato in it.
There's the tradition.
I, I'm surprised that they didn't partner with like pizza hut or Papa Murphy's or, you know,
like a pizza place because dipping pizza in ranch dressing is far more like widespread
than a whopper.
I couldn't agree more.
I, I'm a little surprised by the birdkin connection, uh, just because I, I don't understand
that they do use ranch at the restaurant, but I, I don't, you know, I wouldn't, I don't
think of them right away when I think of it, but maybe that's part of the deal here.
They're trying to, they've already got, uh, the people in some of those genres or some
of those markets.
Maybe they're trying to get people in different markets, which is certainly advertising
one-on-one, but, um, I, it also means you got to hit your audience.
You got to know your audience.
You got to, you know, some of that.
I don't know.
I mean, some of us just have ranch in it to go contain or with them at all times.
So who needs to get it at a restaurant, okay?
I didn't write it.
I, I like the idea of it's just there for you.
It's, you've got to like a holster, like a holster, just right there, whop, whop, whop.
Ranch on one side, catch up on the other.
We're good to go.
Boom, boom, boom.
I like the, I also like the idea of going to a burger king that doesn't have this, uh,
that isn't participating in this and like, I, I, I brought my own.
I got you.
You just have a bottle of ranch with you.
I don't know.
You just dump it on there.
I don't know.
It's their own.
Uh, I want to look at our schedule for a second here so we can make some time for some
good stories of the day.
And we got a great, well, we, uh, great day lined up for you today.
Join us from midday magazine from four to five.
We'll be, uh, taking good care of you all week long with some great interviews with some
of your local favorites.
Like today, we got Mike Hittner joining us from the historic point boss.
Oh, awesome.
Got their spirit walk coming up this weekend.
We'll be talking about that, looking forward to it.
And in part two, we're going to talk with our good friend Terry John, CEO of the United
Way of Southwood and Ames counties, uh, Terry brought in 2024 campaign chair, Shalina,
uh, and we had a great, we're going to have a great conversation.
Looking forward to that.
That will be at 430 today.
Uh, a little bit later at seven oh five, we got the Wisconsin hockey hour.
Uh, the badgers had an up and down weekend.
Let's hear from coach.
Let's hear from the, uh, some analysis of that.
Of course, we'll be covering badger hockey for you throughout the season.
Be sure to join us for that.
Uh, and, and some other great things going on in our area like this blood drive that
is kicking off in just minutes from now.
That's right.
They're from 10 to three today.
Is that right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, 10 to three today over the former, the former East junior high school.
Yeah.
Go check it out, everybody.
All you that are able to donate, we greatly appreciate it.
And if you're not able to make it over there today, next Monday, October 28th, they will
have another opportunity from two to seven at the former East junior high school music
room.
Yeah.
And I believe there's one Friday at McMillan.
That's right.
Yep.
Our friends at McMillan Library have one from 10 to three going on this Thursday.
You can check that out.
That's with the Red Cross.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Check that out, everybody.
That is going on again at McMillan this Thursday from 10 to three.
Thank you to the Red Cross.
And thank you to our friends at McMillan Memorial Library that also have something really
cool going on today.
Zuzort.
Ooh.
Cool.
Zuzort Live Animal Show.
Today at six o'clock, McMillan Library's theater.
Go check that out.
Everybody.
Zuzort, of course, entertaining us over at the, uh, our Wisconsin Rapids Municipal Zoo
all summer.
They are going to be over there, having some fun.
And you just never know what kind of animals might show up because they don't even know.
Um, I've had some of the members and some of the people from Zuzort on the air and they
really do listen to the animals.
Like if this animal is not in a good mood or anything, they're not going to bring it
down.
They're not going to put it in that situation.
Um, they do some really cool things with those animals and you get to learn so much
with them.
It's a fun time.
Go check that out.
Zuzort going on today, six o'clock at McMillan Library's theater.
Hmm.
A lot of great things going on over at McMillan.
Be sure to find out more about those.
Everybody go to McMillanLibrary dot org, uh, uh, McMillanLibrary dot org.
You can also follow them on Facebook.
They're great follow.
Mm hmm.
The River Riders bike share fall community bike ride is kicking off tomorrow.
Yeah.
That's happening tomorrow at, uh, uh, the white sand's beach at Lake Wazicca.
Yeah.
Me that the River Riders bike share station in the parking lot at White Sands Beach.
Bring your own bike helmet or ride a River Riders bike share bicycle for free.
That's right.
Bring your own helmet, though.
I think you can.
Yes.
It's a limited limited number of bikes available, but you can ride with Wood County Sheriff
Becker.
And I believe the Grand Rapids Police Department will be there too.
Yeah.
I know they like to be there for these as well.
Uh, be sure to join Sean and them and, uh, some of our, uh, great locals over there for
this a great event.
Uh, the bikes themselves, the River Riders bikes share a program.
We were talking about this last week on Midday Magazine and it's a great program.
They're bringing it back next year, but it will be wrapping up for the season pretty
soon, everybody.
So get those bike rides in while you can.
Keep in mind, Riders will also receive a free bike share t-shirt while supplies last.
Mm hmm.
It's a fun event.
It's a great way to get back out there, get some exercise, uh, see some of this beautiful
colors.
Yeah.
It's beautiful foliage, uh, and also build that bridge between us and our, our workers
out there, our, our, our, our public service workers, our public servants, our, our police
departments, uh, everybody working together.
It's, it's great to see these departments, Sheriff Sean Becker, these, uh, they are meeting
us halfway.
Let's meet them.
You know, that's, that's what they're, they're working to do here and everything and
not for nothing.
Uh, you're going to have fun too.
Sean's a fun guy.
That's, that's a good time.
Uh, really fun and good and spooky time is waiting for you with the ODC as they are
presenting their free haunted warehouse.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Coming up this Friday.
This is an amazing time.
Six to nine thirty this Friday over at the ODC, they'll also be going on Saturday from
six to nine.
Uh, it's all in, uh, it's for everybody.
It's free and this is all inclusive wheelchair accessible.
It's community event free to the public.
They're going to have the, the chicken lane, uh, kid friendly experience, the, the haunted
warehouse, a scarier experience.
So I like how they broke that up for people.
Um, they're going to have food trucks at the event.
It's going to be great.
And you could even be a part of this event.
Uh, and while you're walking around these things, say, Oh, I, I donated that.
Oh, that's mine or whatever.
Uh, they are, they are looking for things to keep this free to the public and in that
in order to do that, they could use some help.
If you have lights or beef netting plastic spiders, maybe double A or triple A batteries
or caution tape, anything you could donate would be greatly appreciated.
Yeah.
Get it down there before Friday though.
Yes.
Uh, and help them out and, uh, and then take in this great event again, the ODC presenting
their haunted free warehouse going on this Friday and Saturday from six to nine thirty
over at 11.91 hunting and avenue right here in Wisconsin Rapids have a good spooky time.
Yes.
Some, uh, world good stories of the day.
We don't go too far from here.
A 30 year old Kenyan broke a world record at the Chicago marathon, uh, this weekend becoming
the first woman to run one in under two hours and 10 minutes.
Her time was two hours and nine minutes.
I should beat the old record by almost of two full minutes.
That's a lot in the running world.
And yeah, right.
Yeah.
And, and meanwhile, a Chicago man named Matt Brewish, uh, skipped the marathon and raised
money for charity by running 79 laps around his own block.
Oh, that's cool.
He, uh, he, uh, he called it the homegrown marathon and did it to raise money for his local
homeless shelter.
Oh.
He finished in just under five hours and 52 minutes and raised over $11,000.
Wow.
That's a long time to be running.
Uh, it's pretty cool.
Um, and, and a great money, uh, a great road job by him.
And 11 year old boy in North Carolina named Jamie Parker got, uh, buried in rubble when
a mudslide hit his grandmother's house during Hurricane Helena, but he's okay.
After his family dog found him, uh, the dog's name is Tucker.
He stood where Jamie was and wouldn't budge until firefighters got there and used chainsaws
to get him out.
Oh, that's awesome.
Jamie and his sister used their allowance three years ago to save Tucker when he was about
to be put down into shelter.
So talking about paying a forward, um, uh, uh, uh, many people that were nearby could
actually hear Tucker whisper to Jamie or even, no, no, I'm joking, I'm just kidding,
I'm kidding.
Uh, I had to add that, I did, uh, how cool is that story?
How amazing.
That's like real life.
Lassie right there.
It's just that we don't deserve dogs.
Dogs are so amazing.
So true, so true.
And as I mentioned, a little bit later, we're going to be having, uh, our friends from
the store point boss and we're going to talk about the spirit walk.
That is coming up Saturday, October 19th.
And again, on the 26th, uh, this is a lantern lit tour around the grounds and buildings
of the store point boss and give visitors the chance to meet many of the former residents
of the point boss and the citizens of the area.
I've gotten the, gotten to do this many, many times.
It is such a beautiful, wonderful event, uh, and encourage you to take it in.
And of course, while you're doing that, you'll be able to support local and help them
keep history alive over there at the store point boss.
Yeah.
Find out more at historic point boss dot com.
Be sure to follow them on social media, share what they are doing over there.
Make sure others can see it and sign up for that newsletter.
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Uh, check it out.
Everybody give it a shot, uh, and, uh, and thank you again to everybody who has already
signed up into everybody who has worked so hard on that.
We greatly appreciate all the work you all have put into it.
Mm hmm.
Melissa, great show.
Have yourself a good day.
Yeah.
You two James.
Be good to each other out there.
We will talk to you soon and then later right here at this is locally grown radio W F H R 13
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