Good morning, Wisconsin. Morning, world. It's a new day. Thanks for kicking it off with
us here at WFHR. Sing it, Marvin.
Got your host, James J. behind the mic. I am joined by our head of production, our
co-host, Seth Habhacker. Good morning, everyone. And the best listeners
on radio. Thanks for joining us, everybody. We hope you're having a great Wednesday
out there. Seth and I are going to get in some entertainment news in a little bit. We've
also got a great article on why our brains prefer live music to pre-recorded music.
That sounds cool. That should be a good one.
We kick off the 9 o'clock hour here with our good friend, Friend of the Station.
Bria Hoyett is joining us right now. Bria is coming in on the phone lines here. Talk
a little bit about working the polls yesterday as a poll worker. Bria, thank you so much
for joining us.
Well, thank you for having me.
I don't want to brag, but you know, every once in a while is a scheduler. I land a pretty
good guest, you know, and I got a pretty good one here, a good one. Bria, we appreciate
you joining us so much. It's starting off. I got to ask, how are you doing? How are you
holding up?
I'm doing well, right. Yesterday was a long day. Thankfully, I got to work the morning
shift, the AM shift. So just recovering a little bit still was a lot to do, but good work.
I'm really good to hear that. And Bria, I apologize, but every single one of our listeners
have heard multiple, multiple times how excited I am about you being pregnant. So that's
out of the bag. But I mentioned that just for context, not only to give you credit and
thank you for working the polls and doing that and volunteering like you did, but also
the fact that anybody out there that has any excuses, the kids, the kids, they're like
it would seven months and out there doing that. That's pretty impressive, Bria. Thank you.
I'm not one to pat my own back often, but there's a pat in there for that.
Right, right. Nice. Bria, I want to ask how it went. How were things yesterday? You've
mentioned to us on the air before when we've talked about this. You've done this, been
doing this for a long time, and you've kind of gotten to know some of the other poll
workers there as a lot of the time there's the same people showing up for this to volunteer.
How did it go with everybody there? How did it go for everybody there and for just our constituents,
are people out there voting? That's a great question. Yeah, I've been, thankfully, I've been
a poll worker since the 2020 election. So wow, yeah, it has been a long time. But everything
was very smoothly yesterday, actually. As far as my shift goes, I was at the registration
people the whole time in helping process absentee ballots. And everything went really smooth.
Maybe one of the smoothest elections that I worked. I don't know about the PM shift because
that's usually there's a lot of heaviness going on with counting and everything, but I
was just thankful that everything went smoothly. Yeah, very, very happy to hear that. Really,
whether it's locally or across the country, we heard really good things about the, not
only the smoothness people getting in and out, but people getting, you know, treating each
other with respect. I think we heard a lot of that in this election cycle, which is very,
very, very, very comforting, very good to hear. Yes, it is. And especially because we need
poll workers. We need people volunteering doing these jobs. I've talked to many of our poll workers
locally here in rapids, ones I see every election cycle. And they'll be the first to tell you
that they love what they do. And there's a reason you see a lot of the same faces every year,
but those same faces are getting older and older. And we need more and more younger people to be
involved in this. Breathe, you've mentioned this to go ahead. Sorry. No, I was just agreeing with you.
Absolutely. You've mentioned to us before with this. You're probably the youngest person there
and have been for the last couple of election cycles. Yes. By a little bit. Yeah. No shade to
the other workers at all. No, not at all. I just bring it up because again, part of what I wanted
to do about with this segment is certainly kind of get an insight and a little, a little behind
to see what it's like to be a poll worker, but also to encourage people to be poll workers
and get more people involved in this when it comes to back and going back to 20, 20. How did
you get involved in this? How did you get started doing this? Thank you for asking. I got involved
because I saw a social media post that said that because of COVID, it wasn't safe for a lot of
the people who are traditionally poll workers to be out there, which is a traditionally older
demographic, and that they really need younger people to step up. And I don't know if it's just
because it's my parks and rec obsession with what we know. I thought, I can do this, and I want
to. I want to be a part of my community and feel a part of it. And every since then, every time
I work in election and I've lost count now, I just feel, I do feel like a deep connection with
the community, and it feels like you're a part of something bigger than yourself. And I believe in
democracy, and it's beautiful to be a part of it. And I would just encourage people to, if they
feel a little imposter syndrome, like I'm not qualified to do that, you are. You are. You are.
Just people work. Yeah. Your parks course. It's a great note, Bree. I think that a lot of us feel
a similar thing. I've been voting since I was 18. I voted in every election that I can vote in.
Not just presidential, but every single election. And yesterday was the first time I'm in the
politics because of my mom and her side of the family and how into politics they are. And yesterday
was the first time I got to go with my mom and dad to go vote. And we all went together and
everything. And I've never really seen my mom at the polls. I've never seen her walking into that.
And you would have thought we walked into an art museum. And she was just an awe of everything.
It's never, neither none of us had ever seen it that busy over where we are polling place.
And it wasn't as if my mother was, was seeing the Mona Lisa for the first time. But it was,
it was, it was hitting her like she had never voted before. Like it was her first time there.
She was so blown away by the, the democracy in work, democracy in action. We talk a lot about,
we, there's a lot of big words we use a lot in democracy and freedom and these things. But when
you actually get to see them in action, I, I don't know how you can't feel that. I don't know how
you can't be a part, want to be a part of something like that. And when it comes to being a part of
that and one of the great ways is being a poll worker and using your time, it's one of the greatest
things you can do as far as volunteering goes. And, and Bria, for you learning to be a poll worker,
doing, how did that go? Did you, did you take a class? Did you have to fill out a bunch of surveys?
Did, did you just have to wear the right clothes? Did, well, what do you do for that?
Oh, first, thank you for sharing that story. That was very awesome and sweet. Thank you.
Hi, I, I got to reach back to four years ago. I don't use that. I, I got in touch with the county
clerks and then I, I'm fairly sure there is some paperwork involved, but that's mostly like
background check information. Yeah. Right. Yeah. The house that I think that every
couple of, every couple of years, if you were on the list, they have a class. So to speak,
it's more so just informational like this is the process of the election, this is how the
machines work. So everyone's on the same page. And what's kind of interesting about being a poll
worker, you're on your toes, you don't really know which job you're going to occupy until you
sit there and your cheap inspector, kind of the person in charge of your polling locations
direct you to what you're going to do. So it's, it's exciting in that way. You don't really know
where you're going to end up. Everyone is always so nice and you get trained and you're ready to
go. You're not going to just be set off into the wild and must defend for yourself. Everybody's
always really nice. And really, thank you for that, Brie. Appreciate it, that rundown. When it comes
to this too, one thing to younger people out there, especially those that are getting ready to
get into college or in college right now, this is a wonderful thing to have on your resume. This
is a really nice thing to have on that resume. Every college, every university, and especially a lot
of jobs nowadays, are looking, hey, did they put any volunteer hours? Absolutely. They've done
volunteering wise. Boy, well, this look good on there. Yeah. And not to mention all the things that
we have talked about as far as the way that this makes the soul feel and how it feels to be a part
of your democracy, a part of keeping the wheels of freedom moving. It's something that really,
you have to feel to experience. You really can't put its words. But you can find out more about
being a poll worker and the training and learning more about it and becoming one at myvote.wi.gov.
That's myvote.wi.gov. Be sure to bookmark that and take all the training to what you need to do.
So you're all ready to go and you can be a poll worker. Our next election, which is, let me see
here tomorrow. No, it's not tomorrow. It's right. We do have another one coming up very shortly from now.
So, Bree, before we let you go, I did want to promote, I mean, talk about what them up it.
I cannot help it. This is the podcast that Bree and I do. There's a new episode every Monday for you.
And I wanted to take the chance to not only promote the podcast, or encourage everybody,
hit check it out wherever you get your podcasts. It's a fun, relaxing, especially today.
Like, you need a palette cleanser today. It's a perfect palette cleanser for today. But I do want
to also take the chance to, with Bree, thank the audience because I know so many of our listeners
out there have become fans of the pod. We really appreciate that. Well, yes. Thank you so much.
It's such a, it's such a joy to do that show and it's a passion to do anything with that involved
some of it. Whatever you like about that show, you have her to thank. I just show up on X,
and I do, I deliver the lines. It's your cues and you're good to go. Yeah. You've done amazing
work on the podcast, Bree. I really do appreciate that. And I've been a terrible father. I've
been pressing her with questions. I made her get up in this early in the morning and everything
to do all this. I can't thank you enough for putting up of our questions. Really, in seriousness,
for the time. And most importantly, for the work that you did yesterday, thank you so much for
volunteering and doing that kind of work like you do, Bree. Absolutely. Thank you to you,
Ancestr for having me on. And it's always a pleasure to talk to you guys. Absolutely. Talk to
you real soon. You take care. Thank you. You guys have a good day. You too. You too. I could talk
to her for like, yeah, I have to go to break otherwise I will keep talking. You'll just keep going.
I did want to remind everybody that Bree also is a very successful author. You can go to just
type into your search bar, B.A. McGray and her work will pop up. Barnes and Noble, Amazon. There's
a couple of different places. Then not only can you purchase her work, which I encourage you to do,
but certainly there's some free stuff on there too. If you want to get an idea of her writing style
and some of that, I guarantee you, you start, you won't be able to stop. And the website again,
if you are interested in pole working, that is my vote dot w i dot gov my vote dot w i dot gov.
Come back, talk a little entertainment and some more fun on the morning show at WF HR.
Welcome back everybody. Morning show at WF HR. Or should I do this like Bruce?
I want to say I love him. Welcome to the morning show.
We got entertainment coming up anymore. I'm not trying to insult Bruce Bree.
No, no, that's pretty good. Yeah, you're really up to the mic.
You really like that close talker. Actually, it's a little bit more like a guy that's
had too many and he doesn't realize he's close talking to you.
Let me tell you, man, I don't tell you. Did you see the score from that?
That's more of what it is. It's one of the best ever.
You don't get the nickname the boss for being average.
No, no, not at all. You don't get that for nothing.
One of the more interesting stories that coming out out of the entertainment world right now
is what to do with the Oscars. They've been trying to figure this out since Billy Crystal really.
Seriously, sadly, it's true.
Yeah, an interesting thing that the last time this came around and the Oscar
talking who's going to host the Oscars and that big conversation came up.
I did a little research and I never really got to get into this one on the air
because it just didn't have time. But I went back and looked at a lot of the hosts
over the decades over the years and certainly if you, you know, of a certain age,
you remember Bob Hope and I've said this many times and I've gone back and looked and I can
back it up. I have the data. Bob Hope was the greatest MC of all time. Bar none.
There's nobody even second place. He's got first, second, and third place.
But Billy Crystal's in the top five and one of the greats and he
continued that legacy very well for a long time and there's even some talk right now
that Billy Crystal may come back and host the Oscars this year.
Wow. So there's a rumor out there. There's a rumor. Nothing that has been, you know,
brain assault, big brain assault. Yeah, yeah. But that's how I don't want to say desperate,
but that's pretty much if whatever is the next stage or the stage right before desperation,
that's where they are with this. Yeah. And they wanted to build on the momentum
of a couple of years ago and then last years happened and they weren't, they did not see that in
the ratings. So they're, you know, panicking again. They're back to panic mode. And so they're
trying to figure out, you know, hey, who will host the Oscars this season? No matter who takes the
gig, it always is, it's almost a, you can't win for lose and kind of thing. If you do a good job,
everybody expected you to do a good job. Right. And maybe they'll talk about you on the morning,
you know, morning shows the next day and maybe they won't. But boy, if you do a bad job, you'll
be everywhere. Yeah, coming after you. Yeah. So some reliable sources are cool. And that is a very
in parenthesis thing are saying that Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman are in the mix to host the
Oscars together. Okay. Deadpool and Wolverine might be hosting the Oscars. Okay. Okay. Well,
that might be good. There's a, there's a, there's others that are being rumored like Will Ferrell,
Annie Polar, Dwayne the Rock Johnson. They're all being rumored. Okay. They're throwing these names
out there for two, one, to see, hey, what do people think of the rock host? Yeah. I'm going to see
what this is like. And also in hopes that these individuals will do it. Sometimes this happens
where, and I can't say verbatim, this is happening here, but I put a lot, I put a lot into it
that every once in a while, they will throw something out there without checking with a publicist
or a contact. Hey, does Dwayne have any interest in this? But if we put public pressure on him,
and we just throw it out there, maybe he will do it. Exactly. One of those situations where,
you know, beg for forgiveness after. Yep. Kind of thing. I have no doubt that has happened with
at least one, if not all of these individuals. They're, they're, they're, again, that stage right
before desperation. I don't know. I feel like this is, this is one of those things where I actually
will, like, I support them on, on their stress with this, on their panic on this, because
there's so much is made with a host. You, you, you can have, you can't guarantee that people are
going to watch or people are going to jolate or whatever, but if you have a good host, at least you
know that is set. Yes. And many people can't remember which, how many Billy Crystal hosted or Bob
Ho posted or anything like that, but how many of the bits do you remember? You remember Jack
Palace coming out there with a one hand and push up. Yep. That was Billy's idea. That was Billy
Crystal's idea. Like, you, you need a good host and then you can build off of that. The awards,
who wins these things or not, that really almost doesn't matter. People are watching. And say
you're watching just for this one category to see this one individual winner lose. Right. Well,
once that award has been announced, you've already won them over. You've already, you've already
got them their viewership. Yep. So whether they go away and watch something else or not, you've
already won. You won the ratings war. So that part almost doesn't even matter in some ways.
It's so important to have a good host. It is. That is more important than almost any other part of
an award show. I don't know several years ago they tried to do it without a host and that didn't
go over well either. I mean, so they have litter. I think they've tried everything. I mean,
seriously. I just got an email from them. They're asking if you and Melissa and I are interested.
Okay. Wow. I mean, they're really scraping the bottom of the barrel now. I mean, we'll talk
about it off here. We'll figure that out off here. But I will try to talk you guys into it.
Maybe the closest I ever get to it off. Speaking of Oscars, Tom Hanks seems like he'd be a great
dad, right? I mean, everybody thinks Tom Hanks is a pretty good dad. And he wasn't. That's
according to him. Oh, wow. In a new interview, he says, quote, I made every mistake. You know,
you scar the kid somehow in the same exact way. And as they get older, you come back around and say,
Hey, can I talk about what not had I was with all those all those years? And they say, yeah,
sure, dad. Yeah, I've been kind of waiting for this. Why don't you unload? Wow. He said, quote,
but I would say at the same time, does it come up to be 50, 50? Maybe the attitude and the life
that we led, the laughs, that stuff's worth it's weight in gem and trusted gold. Wow.
For one, this is one of the reasons why we back, why we like Tom Hanks, why we see his movies,
those kind of things. He is not only the real deal, but in a time in AIDS, where we've got people
out there who can't admit they're ever wrong. God help them if they admit they're wrong about
something. Yeah. Do something. I don't know why. Not only owning something like this and being
for right with it, but also like showing his humanity with it and only building like it's not
like a lot of people like, well, I think less of Tom Hanks now because he wasn't a good father.
None of us are judging him as a father. No, none of us know whether or not he's he's being too hard
of himself or he's not being hard enough on himself or any of those things. Only his kids know that.
But we do know he's giving you an answer that not every typical person does. Right. And I mean,
just celebrities. I mean, you ask your average person, hey, are you a good parent? And you're going
to be able to tell real quickly the good parents are not because the good parents are going to
tell you they're not good parents. Right. Very rarely does that happen. And I'm not saying that if
they say they're a good parent, that doesn't mean they aren't. But I am almost guarantee you that
every person that says they're a bad parent is probably a good one. I mean, think about it.
And I he ride on this one. Right. Because he's he's this one. Yeah. Right. Because he's basically
doing the, you know, the old saying, the old, I think it's Aristotle, the unexamined liar play
to one of those two, the unexamined life is not worth living. And he is he is showing you right now.
He is examining his life. And he says, you know what? I think I might not have done a good job
in certain areas of that, which is I mean, we don't have to share with everybody when we do those
kinds of things. I think it's pretty brave of him to do that to come out and say, you know, hey,
you know what? I think I made some mistakes. And then this is, this is why. So I admire that. I
really do absolutely. And I did want to mention this one as well. This is kind of interesting. So
and not just with this part, we're going to talk a little bit about the Goonies House, the
the face house from the Goonies. And I want to talk just broadly about locations of famous buildings
and houses and some of those things. Because the Goonies House is in Estonia, Oregon, a popular
tourist attraction, as you'd imagine. Right. But one of its neighbors would like that to stop.
Oh, a guy named Betham Zachari. What a name. Nice name. Oh, he bought the house two years ago
for 1.65 million. He loves the movie and he welcomes fellow fans. But a neighbor two houses down
put a sign up saying, quote, Goonies, not welcome. Oh, oh, no. I mean, didn't he see the movie?
That's only going to encourage the good. Yes, seriously. That that prompted Zachari to put up his
own sign saying, Hey, you guys, Goonies, welcome. And a friend of his and a friend of his bought
the house in between them and put up a sign saying ignore Karen. Zachari said, quote, why would you
want to live in this neighborhood knowing for the last 38 years, one of the greatest iconic movies
of all time was filmed in the house and you chose to live two houses down. Why not move out? Right.
That's a bit much about that movie. But still, I get what he said. I get what he said. Yeah,
it's an iconic movie, but slow down. Yeah, with the greatest. I don't know about all that. It's
fun. I'll give it that. You know, I would agree with him if I knew the owner of the house that
doesn't like this, their story. You know, why they don't move? Well, maybe it's a family home.
Yeah, maybe there could be a lot of reasons why, right? We don't know. Maybe they don't have the
money to move. And it's California for God's sake. I don't know. I'm not sure how people live
there. No, seriously, like I understand people visiting. I don't understand how anybody lives
there. So yeah, I love California. I'll say it's a real, like just own that and everything.
I'm a big fan. But if you know anything about California, you know, it's expensive to live
out there. Very. With that being said, I don't know that, you know, this guy who really has any
right or wrong in this situation, I would like to see a little more of a neighborly thing going
on here where, yeah, you know, hey, reaching out and trying to make this right. That would make
sense. That would very much make sense. Maybe they've, they've, they've buried the hatchet as it were.
Seth, I think we've done a very good job of not spending every single show promoting hate mail.
I've waited. I have waited till we got a little bit closer. We're getting closer now. Yeah,
very close right now. Man, are we close? Join us on November 15th and 16th for a director's showcase
hate mail directed by the wonderful Seth Hatiger will be in the studio theater at Wisconsin Rapids
Community Theater. You can get your tickets at wrctheater.org. Yep, right now. Seth and I are going to
Seth and I and Beth who are doing to show together. Yep. Three of us. Three of us. Yep. It's a very
stripped down show. It's not here typical theater. It's, it's what I have done. What I consider
grill a theater where I'm sorry, go ahead. Oh, I was just going to say, for those of you who are in
the 70s, I think in the 80s, there was a, there was a very popular play called Love Letters.
And it's basically two people on stage reading letters through their lives that they write to
each other. Well, the basic premise of this show is the opposite of that, which is why it's called
hate mail. And I have to say that what drew me to it is it's, it's kind of bonkers. It's pretty
bananas and it's very, very funny. So that's one of the reasons I want to do this. And thankfully,
both James and Beth agreed to do this with me. And I'm very excited about putting this on for
you. But like James said, yeah, it's, it's basically two people writing back and forth to each
other. And it takes, you know, like, like, like actual letters, but also little notes. And they
end up in a chat room. So it's, it's, it's, it's a, it's a lot of fun. And, and I got to say, it's
very funny. I do want to let everyone know there's like some adult language in there too and some
situations. So just keep that in mind. Not for, you know, under 18 years. Right. Yeah.
Like that. Keep that in mind. Yeah. And when I say gorilla theater, this is something where your
traditional play, they have got about two months to rehearse. They go over their lines and have
a memorized before you ever see them on stage and a lot of that. With a show like this, there,
it is a little more, not so much the overall preparedness and much more about the real time emotions
and feelings as we're reading these things and getting that reaction. Yeah. It's actually
encouraged to not necessarily have the lines memorized, quote unquote, memorized as much as,
you know, understanding how to say certain words. You know, you know, back kind of, you know,
it's coming. In other words, yeah, as you go along here. Yeah. It's a very, like, interesting
and different process in a much different way to take in theater. And, and with the Lewis
Canton studio is such an intimate setting. Yes. It's an opportunity for you to, it reminds me very
much of like high school basketball where you feel like you're right on the court with everybody.
It's such a cool experience, everybody. And I am so proud to be a part of this. Beth is doing
amazing. Seth is a fantastic director. The three of us are going to give you a darn good show.
Get your tickets right now for hate mail coming up November 15th and 16th at the director's
show case that will be featured in the studio theater at a Wisconsin Rebs Community Theater.
Yep. Get your tickets at wrc theater dot org wrc theater dot org. Indeed. We'll be back to talk
more about hate mail. No, I'm joking. Another one, a mail. We will be, we'll be talking about
this one, but it will be encouraging to get those tickets and we'll be back with more show right
here at the morning show on WF HR show. Welcome back, everybody. Morning show at WF HR,
locally grown radio. Seth and James here. Easily the weirdest name song. Yep.
Just, I would love to know. Hey, Sting, could you guys just not come up with a name for the song?
It was just, it was like the guide vocal, but he just didn't change, right? Yeah. Yes, yes,
that's hilarious. That's exactly the stick with this. Yeah, okay. I believe now that is
exactly, or if you're tight, you know, they don't have, they don't have email back then when you're
typing out an email, but you don't put a title in there. So it just takes the first line and put
out their life that feels like that. And speaking of music, all right, you may like the live version
of that song better than the recorded one. Your brain prefers live music to something pre-recorded.
You may not know this, but it's the truth. And that's not just an opinion, it's science. Oh,
cool. A neurosurgeon who goes by the name Dr. Nas on Instagram posted a video explaining why.
He said, quote, live music will activate entire brain networks involving experiencing pleasure,
processing emotions, and retrygaring memories of the past. The bigger the brain experience,
especially in the emotional parts of your brain, the more deeply you will be stuck,
struck, or feeling immersed in the music. Okay. But why is live music so much more of a treat?
Well, unpredictably, quote, the rhythm, intensity, and speed of notes will be slightly different from
what you hear on, like, you know, a CD or a Spotify or something like that. We're not going to be
exactly the same. And your brain loves this because not knowing what is coming next is like a little
treat. Oh, wow. So say you are, you know, like we do, you know, you've heard that song probably
9,000 times by now. But for some reason, it's still, you may not, you may flip the channel,
you may not like the song, but parts of your brain are feeling certain feelings. Right. And
and it can also be kind of confusing in some ways. But it's fascinating. That's really how this
works. And that's, I mean, I, that's got to be why people behave the way they do at concerts.
Because yeah, they want to hear, you know, the songs that maybe the band made, we have,
that they're big hits or whatever, whatever they're playing. But, but it's not going to sound
the way, you know, that you heard it on the radio or anything like that. But it doesn't matter.
People are going to like, you know, rock and roll, you know, you know, they're just going to be
be acted a little something they would never normally do that. I mean, you're not going to the
grocery store and waiting in line and say, well, groceries. That's not doing that. That would be
weird. You know, I do love that. I got the apple. I like that. I like that. Maybe a little more
you know, like, but yeah, that makes sense. So we're, this is one of the things that I think is
kind of cool and underreported if you, I think, as far as as we're learning more and more about
the brain, some years back, we did a segment on why why we are so nostalgic about music. And
and we found that science has figured out that there, we will always get that feeling from the
first music you chose. When you're young, like all of us, we grew up on the music that was
played for us by our parents, our guardians, et cetera, whatever on the radio. Yeah. If you were
like me and you had older friends, they played music for you and you got turned on by some of that
too and everything. But for the most part, you were given, you were, you were given music. You
didn't choose. But all of a sudden, one day, you get to decide. You get to choose what album,
what CD, what song you want to download. And those songs, the rest of your life will hit that part
of your brain. Right. It doesn't matter if you go two minutes or you go 20 years without hearing it,
it'll make you feel like you were 10, 13 again, first buy in that Kung Fu fighting see a record
or something like that or electric avenue or something like that. It takes you back. So this
makes a lot of sense to me with that. It's hitting on similar, you know, frequencies if you will.
Right. And your brain, yeah. Exactly. That totally makes sense. It's pretty wild, too, to think of.
Yeah. Like I guarantee that there are plenty of people out there that don't necessarily care about
how the sausage is made. They just love that music still does this. Right. And then, you know,
you get that. And then, you know, they're talking about there. But there's a little difference in
there. And you get another hit. It's like, yeah, I know this song inside and out. But oh, look at
what they did there. You know, that's that's part of it, too. Well, as plenty of people out there
are looking for pellet cleansers or things to keep their mood up or get their mood going,
sometimes we think of things like music. Oh, wait, now music won't do it. Oh, it might, it might,
might, might, might want to give it a chance. Man, you never know. I mean, we're, we're,
we're not talking opinion. We're talking science, science, science. Music science. Science. Uh,
we're, and this isn't exactly scientific set. But uh, before we go to the end of the
seg, I'll get to the end of the segment here. I didn't want to touch on this one. Would you say
you're a people pleaser? Hmm. If so, you are in good company. Oh, wow. 48% of, 48% of Americans
admit that there are people pleaser. That's cool. Yeah. 47 say they're not. So I'm pretty close.
Pretty, pretty 50, 50 there. 52% of women are people pleasers compared to 44% of men and young
people were more likely to say yes than others. Okay. And if you're not sure if you're a people
pleaser or not, see how many of these categories you fall into. Okay. Uh, do you often go to great
lengths to avoid conflict? 71% of Americans say that they do. Really? Wow. That's high. That's
higher than I expected, actually. Wow. Um, now what about what if you're just like you've had a
very stressful and very conflicted life and you just want to spend the last, like however long
you got, just not, just none. What's the point? I don't know if I'm a people pleaser, but I could tell
you for darn sure it takes a lot for me to get bent out of shape nowadays. Like it really does.
Is it worth it? I mean, that's the question, right? Is it worth getting worked up about? And usually
the answer is no. Yeah. Do you put other people's needs ahead of your own 69% said that one? Wow.
Oh, I won. Wow. Do you feel like you can't say no when someone asks for a favor? 52% of guilty
of that one. Okay. All right. And do you feel responsible for other people's feelings? 48% say
that they do. Um, that's, I mean, these are all really like even numbers. Yeah. Outside of that
top one there, we're talking almost 50, 50 with a lot of these. Right. Do you struggle to establish
boundaries? 36% of people say that they do with that.
Struggle to establish boundaries. And do you agree with people even when you don't really agree?
Oh, 25% said that they do. So 25%. Okay. So that's quite a bit lower. Yeah. Um, and so, so this is
like not just all like good things. These could be not, not some of, I mean, you don't really want
to agree with someone and you don't actually agree with them. That can lead to some really not
good stuff. Yeah. So that's something to think about. We got a phone call coming in. Good
morning. You're on the show. I got a bone to pick with you, Seth. Oh, oh, good morning. This
is Melissa Kay. I'm on here on the road. And I tuned in to you guys because you know what? I
just missed the sound of your voices. Wow. I almost believe you. That thing that people pleasing
was good. No, no, Seth, it's not. I didn't know. I didn't make a blanket statement. Um,
so, so I know you probably didn't, but you just heard that part. I'm like, I got to call in.
I got to call in because that's wrong. And I need to tell them that's wrong. And for you, Melissa,
what is it about it that's wrong? Because it is exhausting. Um, I have been a people
please are my entire life. And it's taken me a long time to learn how to set those boundaries
and be able to say no. Right. To learn that no is a complete sentence. I don't have to qualify
why I'm telling you no. I just, you need to accept that I, I can say no. And that's okay.
All right. I'm in the same boat. Uh, and my, my family has joked for many years that I am the
referee. Uh, that I'm always the one taking the middle spot that I'm never taking a side,
all those things. And it is exhausting. Uh, CC, what I was saying earlier about being exhausted,
and not, you know, maybe, maybe this isn't a hill I want to die on. You know what? You go ahead,
you win this fight. Yeah, yeah. You go ahead and let it go. Just let it go. That's not much
people pleasing as it is. I'm exhausted. You know, I, I do think that there are. Yeah, but it
takes us until we're in our later years to figure that out. James. Yes. Uh, hundred percent later,
like, like middle years. I don't, I don't mean later. Like, I mean, later than than our 20s. Right.
Yeah. Well, I gotta say, Melissa, I have to say personally that, uh, I, um, I'm very happy
that I've been able to help you on this journey. Um, because you have no problem saying no to me.
So I, I feel like I've had some hand in helping you. I take pleasure in that.
Would you guys say that there are part up, you know, qualities of this that are good to inhabit.
Maybe just like anything else in life, too much of anything is like that. Don't go overboard.
In other words, yeah. Right. I mean, there's definitely a certain amount of like wanting to be
helpful and wanting to, to be the, the party that helps to settle things, um, wanting to,
you know, be a positive influence. Those are all good things. But they can, you definitely can take
it too far with not being able to set those boundaries and, and bringing yourself out to be
everything for everybody else and having nothing left for yourself. Right. And you're not poor
from an empty vessel. Right. And you're, and you're going to, and you're going to fail anyway,
because you can't please everybody all the time. You cannot do it. So because you, I am not pizza.
No, no, we are not tacos. We are not, we're not tacos. We're back to tacos. How do you think there?
We're only human. You know, I mean, really, I'm only human. Melissa, you take it easy today.
And excellent work last night. We really appreciate all the work that you, you guys put in last night.
Thank you for that. Oh, thank you very much. We'll be traveling back at some point today.
So it'll, you know, and, and then everything goes on. And then everything keeps going.
It's more work to do. Always. And a quick reminder to the audience. Community stories is going to
be premiering next week, everybody. Tuesday. Right. No pressure. It's going to be amazing.
It'll be great. Is that my outside voice? Yeah. You didn't say that in your head. No.
I'm going to share it with everyone. I said it in my head too.
It's echoing echoing. You can hear it echoing. We appreciate you, Mel. Have a great day.
Yep. You two guys safe travels out there. We'll be back with more show here on the morning show at WFHR.
Welcome back, everybody. Morning show at WFHR, locally grown radio. Seth and James here with you,
wrapping up the show, taking you to the top of the hour. We're going to go ahead and
get into our schedule in a little bit. We got some other news and notes to touch on as well.
But I want to wrap up with some good stories of the day. That's good. Let's do that.
And a woman near Detroit put a sign up on Halloween to let kids know she wasn't handing out candy
because her special needs son had to go to the ER. The sign said, my son is in the hospital,
sorry, no candy. She just wanted them to know that she wasn't home. But some apparently thought it
meant her son wasn't getting candy. So they pitched in to help him out. Oh my gosh.
And they weren't necessarily wrong. The kid wasn't able to go to a tree. Yeah. She started a
she started getting doorbell doorbell cam alerts and saw kids dumping buckets of their own candy
on her doorstep. Kids doing this. Kids willingly giving up candy on Halloween. I mean. Whoa.
That's crazy. That's great. I thought it was an online headline. It's crazy. She said,
the kids parents, the kids parents deserve a lot of praise. Quote to do that without your parents
there is remarkable. It is. That's pretty cool. That's a really great story. I love it.
A miniature horse named Butter. I just want to let that sit there for a second. I mean,
picture that horse everybody. Your picture gets butter fell down a well in South
Care, South California, Southern California. But she is okay. Firefighters worked until 10 pm
last Friday to lift her out. They say it's amazing. She wasn't seriously injured. Wow.
See anybody ever watch the videos or read the reports on these things and how especially
firefighters, but EMTs and so many other people, the creativity that they have to use in these
weird situations and they get all kinds of they get all the weird situations. Yeah. It's so
amazing to see the things that they are able to pull off and what they're able to accomplish.
Very cool. It really is amazing. A big shout out to all of our EMT workers and so many of the
great people of you know it, man. And also we have a guy in Tulsa who is color blind. He recently
got a special special glasses to help him see colors for the first time. Really. Now footage is
going viral of him watching his favorite movie, The Wizard of Oz. And it is it is everything you
could ask for when everything comes to color. Oh my God. He freaks out and saw the yellow brick road
for the very first time. Oh, how cool is that? It's amazing. It's also like it feels like I don't
want to say that well, where is this technology been? But when you think about where he's doing this
in movie theater and we've all watched or most of us have watched movie in 3D with the glasses
and everything, it almost feels like, well, huh, that technology must have been right around the
corner. We were just working on that. So he was completely color blind, which means he saw
zero colors. And now he, wow, that's a, I can't imagine. It's suddenly seeing all the colors.
That would be really cool. I wonder too if that is, I mean, it's got to be a bit overstimulating
you would think. And I mean, there's no negative to this or anything, but it does got to be quite,
you know, yeah, a couple of police officers, a Massachusetts borrowed two boats to save a dog
that jumped in a cold lake on Saturday and almost drowned. Oh, no, they used a drone to track it
until they could, they couldn't get there to pick it up. Dogs owners said it swam too far out
and got stranded after chasing some geese into the water. We've all been there. We have all been
chasing geese and end up in the middle of a lake with a cramp, right? No judgment here.
Wild cockatoo flew into a grocery store in Sydney, Australia. Whoa. And was struck, was stuck inside
for almost a month. Well, couldn't find its way out and wouldn't let anyone catch him. Oh, no.
A manager kept him alive by leaving water and bred out each night. They eventually caught him
by bringing in a second cockatoo named Doris. And she calmed him down enough to be caught.
Wow. That's funny. How they did figuring the lady in, I guess. Wow. I'll keep him sitting still,
I guess. I mentioned before my parents old dog Zeppelin. The only way to catch him was to pet
another dog and he'd get jealous. They'd like come running up to you and every single time.
That's the only way to catch it. It's funny. A reporter in Detroit interviewed a 94-year-old named
Donna Maddox after she got to ride around the Michigan International Speedway in a souped up
Ferrari. Whoo. She rode shotgun and hit up to a speed of 155 miles an hour. Oh my goodness.
That's incredible. Wow. She says she's always loved fast cars. So it was a huge thrill. So
she also let slip that she once hit 115 in her own car. Oh, whoa. Hey. Oh, yeah. It's not good.
Probably she didn't admit that. No, no, no. I don't, but yeah. Good on her for doing that at 94.
That's true. Yeah. Wow. That's pretty impressive. That's amazing. I know people my age are your age.
It wouldn't even do that. No, yeah. That's pretty cool. That's okay. I was going to ask.
Yeah. No, I got to admit. I'm kind of, I kind of would like it. I kind of like to try it at least.
You're gonna try. Yeah. I like it. Everything. We've got some local good stories going on around here.
And Seth, it is a Wednesday. Our audience knows what that means. That means Bingo. Bingo.
At the Elk Slodge in Wisconsin Rapids, number 693. Their doors open at five o'clock. Bingo starts at
630. Go have some fun. Support the Elks and all the great things they do. They've got some other
great events coming up to in the next couple of months as well. So while you're there, check out
what they've got going on. And we'll be talking about it when we get closer to those events.
Coming up tomorrow, we have the WRASC Award Celebration for 2024. It's a capital at Bullseye Golf Club.
Social hours from six to seven. The presentation is at seven. It's $35 to a 10. And you can call 422-4650-422-4650 from
more information and get some tickets. It's gonna be a very cool event. We've got
Playmakers on Monday. You actually spoke with Kenny and about the whole event. So you can
check that out. Go to civicmedia.us. And you can listen to that and find out what's going on.
Big shout out to, of course, to Paul Peckman from the River Kings. He will be getting the MVP award.
And that's very cool. Very deserving and very cool. And we'll be covering that event for you
everybody. And looking forward to talking about it on Friday's Playmaker. Yes indeed. We also will
be talking about something else going on tomorrow in our area. The Arts Council of South
wood County is proud to present the most sought-after big band in the world today for both concert
and dance engagements. Yes. In the move, the Glenn Miller Orchestra. They are going to be coming to
town tomorrow, everybody. They'll be at the performing arts center at 730. Be sure to get your tickets
at see where the arts.com and come and see this amazing show. It is amazing show. If you even know
a little bit of the Glenn Miller music, you will enjoy this. This band has been touring since 1956
continuously. And they have original connection to Glenn himself. And that's so it's been continuing
since then. It's some of the greatest players in the US. It's really cool. We got to talk to one of
the band members on Midday Magazine. Thanks to Sally and Eric for that. I encourage you to go check
that interview out and get a preview of this amazing show that is coming to our neck of the woods,
everybody. Get your tickets at saveofthearts.com. Saveofthearts.com. And I don't know.
Maybe we will give away a pair tomorrow. Oh, get ready. Gotta be listening to find out. Yes, you do.
We're going to give away a pair tomorrow. We're going to be listening. Be hilarious. We may give it.
No, we're not. We're not. We don't. We're definitely doing that. And we are able to do that.
Thanks to Sally Kissner over at the Arts Council. Big tip of the hat to Sally and of course,
Eric over at the Performing Arts Center. They do such great work over there.
And let's help them continue to do that great work. Support the arts, everybody.
Take in these shows. Take in every single one you can. Great shows.
This is going to be a really fun one. There's a dinner with this. Dinner tickets for Lake Air
Supper Club are available before the show. Yeah, you can even have dinner and a show all together.
You can't beat it. You can't beat that. A big thank you to all the sponsors and everybody promoting
this one, including our us. Yes, we're part of it. That's so we're really proud to be too.
Check in that get their tickets for that show at saverthearts.com. I'll be listening tomorrow
for a chance to possibly win some tickets. Win tickets. Taking a look at our schedule. Be sure to
stick around. You got Matt and air on air coming up from 10 to noon. Jane and Greg will give you a
look at the days headlines and have some fun while they're doing it. Two of the best in the
business. Go ahead and join them for 10 to noon Monday through Friday right here. Maggie Dawn show
a little later today from two to four. One of my favorite voices in radio. Love listening to
Maggie. Great show. I'll doing Yomans work yesterday. So if they're like us a little tired today,
you know, that's all right. Understandable. Very understandable. And stick around for of course
midday magazine from four to five. Today we'll be spending the entire hour with the Wood County
Sheriff's Department. Sheriff Sean Becker will be in with us. Plenty to talk about with Sean.
Looking forward to talking with him. And after that, we've got playmakers for you. Be sure to
join us from five to six today today for playmakers. We want your calls. We want your sports
thought feelings. We're going to plenty to talk about. Michael will be in with us today. We'll talk
a little local sports. Yeah, certainly get into some of that. We want to talk about the NFL
trade deadline. A little of that as well. We got plenty to talk about some river kings this weekend.
Not only got the river kings to talk about, but we also got the BCS standings that came out
yesterday. Oh, yes. Through that. The tournament. Yeah. We'll be talking about it with you
on playmakers. Thanks to our friends at Quality Puzz Printing who sponsor that hour and join us
every Wednesday with our wicked awesome order Wednesday. Big thanks to Phil for joining us today.
It's always fun. Love it. That was a great time. Thanks for that, Phil. And a big thank you
to Briahoyate for joining us. We appreciate that. That was a fun time. Lots of really cool
information and hope it sparks some interest of being a poll worker out there. So keep that in mind
for the next one everybody. Tomorrow, Seth and I will be hanging out and we'll be doing that with
our good friends from the South of County Humane Society. We'll have our pet of the week tomorrow.
We'll be much more energetic tomorrow, I think. I mean, I have to get more sleep tonight.
My body will not. You're going to have to. Yes. Yeah. I'm just going to. At some point,
my body's just going to shut down. Shut down. I hope you're not driving at the time. That's all I'm
going to say. Whether you wanted or not, we're done. We're done. Like, what are you guys talking
about? I thought we were a team. Nope. Nope. You're done. Great show today, bro. Yes, indeed.
And you guys be good to each other out there. We'll talk to you sooner than later right here at
