Good morning, Wisconsin, morning world. It's a new day. Thanks for kicking it off with
us right here at WFHR.
Hope you're having a great Wednesday out there, everybody. Happy hump day. Melissa and James
hanging out with you right now. We got some good things lined up for you. And just a little
bit, we will get into the people magazine named their sexiest man alive. We'll get into
that. Got some local things entertainment-wise to touch on. And got this topic that'll
be fun. What's popular right now that you have zero interest in?
And I also want to get into this one with you, Melissa, and just a little bit. I've been
hanging on to this story. Ring the camera people, the, you know, doorbell. Like ring
doorbells? Yeah, ring doorbell people. Yeah, the ring doorbell camera people are offering
$100,000 for undeniable footage of a real ghost. Oh, I thought you were going to say
Sasquatch. No, I think we are. Oh, I wonder if they turned that down. Like, I'm sorry.
This is what we're looking for. We're looking for. We're looking for. You have an actual
picture of a Sasquatch and like, Oh, no, that's, I, we don't want that. Let's let it go.
No, we just, we're looking for ghosts right now. We're ghosts and nothing else with, let's
dive right now. I think that would have been better last month. Yeah, right. Yeah, yeah.
Let's dive into this one right now in entertainment news. And we, we kick things off a little
bit with Amy. I was one of Amy Adams. And I couldn't remember if we had done this story
or not. So I just want to touch on this one for one because I'm a big fan of Amy Adams.
I will admit that. She was very nice to me and I will, you know, let's just get that
out of the way. She's just awesome. Great. She's a really good actor. Yes. Very talented
actors. Very good. Well, Amy Adams is a stay-at-home mom who turns into a dog in her latest
movie, Night B word. Yeah, yeah. We did talk about this briefly because I had to look
up. Right, right, right. So she mentioned how she let her chin hair grow for this role.
Well, she kind of had a follow-up to this too where she had mentioned that she also, she thought
it was noteworthy. Like an interviewer brought this up that she had brought this up in an
interview. And she, she kind of also mentioned, oh, and I forgot to say that I grew up my mustache.
She grew that out too. She wanted to include that in there and everything.
Right. Don't forget. Yeah. I also have hair on top of my lip that I like grow.
And, and, you know, I just, I, I think in this day and age, somebody, you know, being that
honest in that, you know, yeah, someone who's that much in the public eye in the spotlight,
saying, Hey, guess what? I'm human too. So everybody out there, you don't have to strive for
perfection. You can just be you. Yeah. Yeah. I, I, she, she did mention she was very excited
to take a ball, take it all off. Yeah. You know, that, that's also it's an interesting experiment
when you do get to do that. Like when I was playing an older character during glass
mastery last season at W R C T, I let my hair grow as gray. I, I didn't dye it for a while.
And it was just interesting to see. I, I think it's one of the fun things,
when it rolls challenges you or even just asks you to do something like this. I've done just
about everything with my hair. I have bleached it. I have dyed it about three different colors,
short, long dreads. I've done just about everything with it. And every time that I'm doing something
like that, it, it helps me kind of become this person, this different thing. And if that's what
helped her, you know, the more, the first thing that you have to do as an actor is make yourself
believe it. If you can't believe it, you're never going to get the audience. You're never
going to get anybody else to. So whatever you got to do to get to that place, I usually don't
have a problem with. I think there are some extreme circumstances. And there are some people
that I feel like kind of miss the mark. But I, I do think that, you know, hey, if it's growing out
your facial hair, if it's changing your hairstyle, if it's lightening your hair or letting it go gray,
whatever it might be, that's what you do to get to the role. And there's no, um, they have so many
acting teachers out there will tell you this is the Stanolowski method is the greatest method or
method acting. It's great and method. What's the best way for you to do it? However, it takes you
to get to that part, to you to get to that place. Um, and for those of us who aren't actors and who
aren't, you know, are just having lived our lives, trying to conform to societal norms,
trying to be the person that is expected of you, it is also okay to do whatever you want with
your hair or with your face or with your body. Because you don't have to conform to anybody else's
opinion of you. You can just be you, whatever makes you feel good about yourself, your face, your
body, more power to you. I've always wanted to get, uh, Bart Simpson, um, like, uh, like etched into my
hair in the back. So I think I'm going to finally, you just inspired me, Melissa. I think I'm
going to do it. Thank, I'm finally going to do it. I mean, you know, all of those things can be
done differently hair grows. I'm being told, I'm being told by my agent, they are letting me go.
They are, they have let me go. I, okay, yeah, that's understandable. I get that. Yeah. Uh, in six
weeks, Bart would be no, no longer missing. So I don't know why it's a big deal. My, the way my hair
grows six days, like, it's, my hair grows like a weed. It's crazy. Um, and it's, it kind of leads
into Jeff Bridges actually. Uh, Jeff Bridges is in the news. Uh, he is an internal optimist. Uh,
and, and one of those, uh, people that I think a lot of people are, are looking to hear from
right now. And I'm maybe even not looking for just appreciating the Biggal Bowsk actor set some
light on how he is currently maintaining a positive mental posture when he appeared on Monday's
episode of Jimmy Kim alive. Uh, quote, I was disappointed like you were and like others were, uh,
speaking about the results of last week's, uh, US election. He added that he is to going through
the grieving process and, quote, as he works through that, he said he now feels like he's being called
to be a courageous person. Quote. So I am looking for community that shares my dream of how the world
could be. And I'm aligning with that, doing my best to create that dream. Uh, to that end, Bridges
spoke about his share our strength and organization that helps kids, families and communities through
there are, there are no kid hungry campaign and working on the roots cause of hunger to create
more financial security for families. You hear those in our PSAs, uh, Mr. Bridges and our PSAs, uh,
once in a while, uh, talking about this. And earlier in the interview, uh, Jeff mentioned, uh,
recalled a motto of the US Coast Guard, Semper Paratus, uh, meaning always prepared or always ready,
which he learned when he served as a member of the reserve from 67 to 75, uh, because Jeff
Bridges is not a draft Dodger. Um, with the motto in mind, Bridges said he found himself thinking
about how he can be prepared during these times. And, and being prepared and being, you know, ready,
being prepared for things in life, it doesn't always mean physical or action things. Sometimes it
means mentally being prepared for whatever's coming. And, and like, like a Wednesday. And that
doesn't mean, uh, so life right now and, and things like that are a little bit like what they tell
you to do when you're falling. They often say if you're falling, uh, the last thing you want to do
is tighten up and lock up because that, that can hurt yourself even more, especially if you're
falling onto your legs. You know, it's a quick way to snap an ankle. Now, you, what you got to be
is some type of balance between being, you know, prepared while also being loose, being loose,
being, you know, and your body just flows with that. It's, uh, something we learn in football,
uh, when you're taking a hit, uh, don't try to, but, you know, uh, tense up for the hit. Just let it,
just take it, absorb the blow, if you will. We learn it in boxing as well. It's a great way,
especially if you're, you're a fighter like me and, and had no body. So, and you're going to take
a lot of body punches. So you absorb those hits. Uh, that's what life is asking us to do right now.
Well, you, you, you take that energy and you do something with it. Uh, you, these are all terms
that we, as human beings, gave these things anxiety, fear, stress. We define those things. We label
those things. We can also take those things and make good use of them. Mm-hmm. Yeah. I mean, it doesn't,
it doesn't do any good to be angry. I mean, yes, if you're feeling angry, uh, acknowledge the
feeling, but then turn it into something useful, you know, volunteer, donate, um, find a way that
you can help in your community, connect with people in your community because we need that more than
ever. Every election cycle, this happens. Half the country's happy, half the country isn't. Uh,
and, and we've got to live together and work through this. That's how our democracy works. Yeah.
And, and, and there is no, um, to me, this is the best system we have. This is the best
system in the world, this democracy we have. Um, and, and I don't, um, I, I'm not going to,
you know, just because it goes one direction or goes the other direction or what have you,
it doesn't give us the, uh, the, the, uh, the ability to just like, oh, I don't like that.
So I'm going to be grumpy. Like, that's not how life works. Like, uh, yeah, yeah.
Our work continues. You didn't get all green lights going to work today.
So that you're going to be grumpy. Like, no, no, yeah, you roll with these things. You,
you're prepared for everything. You, you, you absorb the hits and you keep moving,
keep moving, keep it going. I don't know, James, I had a lot of really loud trucks driving past
my house this morning when I was trying to, uh, record the news and I was a little bit angry
about it. We'll see in that case. Yeah, just get angry. I, I see yell at those trucks. I said,
I did. I did yell at them. That lot of good it's it. You know, I mean, I'm up here in my tower.
I can't, I can't hear me. No, but you did this, but I did not, I did not include those,
those outbursts in the news. So they go. We've done nicely and good editing by you. Um,
I, it does show you, like, I don't know about anybody else, but every once in a while,
this happens to me where I, I, I, I almost make myself laugh when the middle of an anger,
anger bow or something where I'm yelling at an inanimate object. Like, come on, alarm clock.
And it just hit dawns. I mean, I'm yelling at an electronic device. Like, okay, that's,
that's pretty silly. That's pretty good. Well, and, you know, if we can laugh at ourselves,
that, it's all still okay. If you can't laugh at yourself, chances are you're not getting the joke.
Stephen Cobair revealed people magazines sexiest man alive last night on the lake show.
And the winner is John Krasinski from the office, Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan and a quiet place movies,
which he also directed and co-wrote. John appeared on late night and taught Stephen how to be sexy.
He also, he also told Stephen he's doing a Jack Ryan movie right now, which a lot of people
are excited about. There was some talk that he wasn't going to reprise the role in everything. Jack,
I'm sorry, John was also, I would say that another thing that really got him very popular during
the pandemic, he was doing good news kind of stories on YouTube and everything. And I think that
really put him to another level as well. As far as how he felt when he got the news, he told people
quote, just immediate blackout actually, zero thoughts, other than maybe I'm being punked.
Will this change anything for John? Probably not, he lives in Brooklyn with his wife Emily Blunt
and as two daughters. I think it's going to make me do more household chores.
After this comes out, Emily will be able to see how sexy you look taken out the garbage.
Exactly, Emily will see how sexy you look, sweeping the kitchen floor there, buddy. Yeah, I want to
get pictures of that quote. After this comes out, she'll be like, all right, that means you're going
to really earn it here at home. The nice context of that, Melissa, that was perfect. That was perfect.
You get, you can of course check that out if you want out there and everything. I don't, I don't know
if they need to be folks on this. Yeah, I want, I have so many follow-ups every year that this
happens. I mean, I don't disagree that he is a handsome man. Definitely, definitely.
Very handsome guy, but I don't know that he's any more handsome than any other necessarily
actor out there or anything. I would love to know how they make this, you know, the qualifications
for this and everything. Who picks it? That would be interesting to know. Just out of curiosity.
But I also wonder, like, I'm a little surprised this is still a thing. Is anybody else?
I don't know in this day and age. I don't know. You brought it up as a topic and I just kind of
groaned. I don't know if you noticed, but I did. Yeah, I did. I don't really care.
I don't care. I know that in the day and age of magazines, this was a bigger deal, certainly.
Well, because that was that sold magazines, you know, sexiest man alive and then it's on the cover
and then there'd be a full spread inside. You get lots of pictures and blah, blah, blah, blah.
Let's get away from looks, you know? Yeah. I mean, do looks really make the person
or should we judge people by their actions? Yeah, you know, what they do.
There would be no way in the world people magazine would do a sexiest woman alive.
I don't think we're going to see that and I'm not trying to do the whole flip it of thing and
you know, well, whether they can't do men if they're going to do women, and vice versa and all
that. I'm more so talking about what Melissa is hitting on. Like we keep doing that. We just switched,
so we're trying to get better as far as representation for women and all body types and all these
a lot of these things. It's a game you grow chin hairs. Chin hairs, all that. But you definitely
won't be sexiest woman alive then. But you can, but we're going to still do it to men.
We're going to. And especially, you know, look, guys are just can be just as sensitive about
their looks and feelings and all that as women are human too. Yeah. Yeah. So I don't know where
we're necessarily raising a generation of guys to necessarily be. I don't know. This doesn't
seem like a positive thing. I don't I don't find the positives in this. Other than if you are
named people sexiest men, maybe it's positive for that person. Although John Krasinski is going to
have more house chores. So I don't know. His reaction, his reaction to it though is is I speak to
him as a person in a way. Yeah. You know, I mean, obviously we've got a pretty, I don't know,
narrow view of his reaction. We weren't there. Yeah. But it doesn't seem like, oh, well,
yeah, I earned that. I deserve that. That wasn't his response. It was just kind of like, oh,
okay. That's great. I would never win this award for a lot of reasons. All of them physical,
almost all of them physical. But one of them would be they usually asked the person to talk to
the person beforehand. And sometimes this isn't even their first choice. Six other people
turn this down. Would you like this award? Yeah. Yeah. That has happened in years past. I believe
the year who Jackman won or something like that. But in the inner they always interview the person
too. And I would be right. I'd be very blunt about this. This is ridiculous. Like this is very
stupid. Like, why are we doing this? And actually, I would start the interview with like, I would like
to thank everybody that I stepped on. I worked very hard for this. I've been working on my appearance
since I was a child. It was really, it was really high school that I realized that I need to,
you know, I don't just say, well, what? What are we doing here? Why? I don't understand it. I don't
know. It's an interesting phenomena being human. Yes. Yeah. We'll take a time out. We'll
come back. We get some local stuff. I want to focus on entertainment wise. We've also got a couple
of other fun topics for you coming up right here on the morning show at WFHR locally grown radio.
Welcome back, everybody. Morning show here at WFHR locally grown radio. Melissa James hanging out with you.
I really don't like cutting off her voice. I really don't. We got some good stuff to get you to
the top of our news break here. I'll lead you right into that. And as you heard during our commercial
break, we got a brand new show on the airwaves for you from five to six every Tuesday and Thursday.
Community stories with Melissa Kay. That is Tuesdays Tuesdays Thursdays is a community stories
junior, correct? Melissa? Correct. And they're kind of under the umbrella's name of community stories.
I believe that's how they'll appear on our website. Once that's the the podcaster up and running,
I didn't see him there yet this morning. But you will be able to access them if you missed it.
And the pilot episode I thought was a lot of great interviews. We had Gunner, which was Mike Pol
interviewed and then Tim Helverson and Darryl Hinling. And they're all veterans in our area who
are doing great things with our veteran organizations. They were great interviews and I enjoyed
speaking with those gentlemen so much. I first off I want to say it's so good to hear you back
to interviewing again. It was part of the for one of the first things I noticed about you before
we even met that I really enjoyed. I like your style. I like the way that you make people not only
comfortable but ask really great questions and follow up questions and all of that. Your guests
were phenomenal. And the stories they shared had me just locked in. I was I'll be honest. I put it
on and wanted to make sure it was playing. Everything was going okay. And I wanted to hear a little
of it. I got to I was fortunate enough to get here. You know the pre you know kind of the pilot
episode if you will already. So I just wanted to check some of it. I was trying to do a couple of
other things while it was on and just got locked in and got completely sucked into it and everything.
Great conversations. So yesterday we had our premiere episode. You've got a new one tomorrow
coming up Melissa. Do you want to preview that at all? Yeah. This one is going to introduce you to
the students at Nikusa Alexander Middle School. And these young people in this tech ed class are
they're in a classroom that is unlike any other in Wisconsin. Possibly the nation because they
have one-to-one ratio of students to 3D printers. And these young people are learning 3D printing.
They're learning how to solve problems. You know they can they they they get an assignment. They
design a 3D printed item. They print it then they design it one day. They print it the next day
while they're designing their next product. So they are are learning quick ideation iteration
and then realizing that they can make these things in a snap. They're also learning words I've never
heard. And actually you can read an article about it that I published yesterday on wfhr.com if you
want to sneak peak. And then the article or the episode of Community Stories Junior will air
tomorrow from 5 to 6. It it starts off with an introduction by the Middle School principal there.
Jason Julius he talks about how the program came about and the great minds behind it the tech
ed teachers Benjamin Peters and Marcus Wilcox. And then you get to meet each one of the students
that are that that agreed to this you know like they all had to sign permission slips and and forms
their parents did. And um but there's almost 30 kids involved in this particular segment of
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self-promotion. But at the end the very last segment on Thursdays of Community Stories will
include a special story time just for kids it's called tail time. And and we're starting off with
stories about Kevin the cat. Yeah. Our our longtime listeners will have heard me talk about you
know my pet Kevin the cat who is just who's an awesome dude. Well this is his story. So you'll
get to hear hear his story about how he was rescued in this first episode tomorrow. Very excited
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It's a fun one. We have got premieres got we've got two episode I want to keep on to say episode
two shows two shows coming up everybody. Can I just let everybody know we've got like
18,000 things going on behind the scenes right now that I'm trying to do. There's a lot of
plate spitting. There's always more to do. Hate mail is premiering this Friday in Saturday seven
o'clock at the Lewis Canton studio theater that is right there in the Centrelius Center right next
to WRCT. Get your tickets at WRC Theater dot org. This is this is definitely a fun one but this
is the one for adults. This is an adult show everybody. This is an adult show and it stars Beth
Habhager and James J. Mayloth. It's directed by Seth Habhager. So it's like the whole WFHR crew
over there is just putting on another show. Yeah we got a good team doing this. We had another
rehearsal yesterday and we're really looking forward to this one everybody. It's going to be a lot
of fun. Encouraging to check this out along with Wisconsin's rapid theater. Make sure to make
notes for their LFT party they have coming up December 8th. That is going to be fun. Get tickets
for that and of course I think you need to get tickets early for that too because they sell out
for that one. Make sure to do that right away everybody and get your tickets for White Christmas
Irving Berlin's White Christmas premieres December 5th. Check out the Christmas the holiday show
that they've got coming up everybody. Yeah the first musical that WRCT has done in a long time so
you don't want to miss this one. And of course we always encourage you to support the kids
taking local theater and that includes our high schools and my own moderately good high school
theater department is presenting 12 angry jurors. Oh this is going to be so good. This will be
Friday and Saturday 730 shows and then November 17th they will have a two o'clock matinee for you.
Tickets are just seven bucks you can get your tickets at showticksforu.com showticksforu.com or
you can get them at the door of the performing art center the day of the show. This is an ambitious
show for adults to do. For a high school yeah oh yeah for adults to do but for a high school to
pull this off it's going to be fantastic. That's impressive like that's impressive a shout out to
their director to the kids to everybody involved in this one I imagine that they have adapted
it a little bit for them and I cannot I am so excited for this it's one of my favorite plays
and one of those ones that I've always wanted to do and I cannot like in this day and age so good
like that's a good one to be doing now like that that fits nice job item and go ahead and get your
tickets for that everybody when we come back we're going to help you maybe get some footage of a
ghost and get some money and we're going to talk about what's popular right now but maybe you
could care less maybe you know it's probably let them have that that's cool that's for that
well I'm getting all that coming up after our news break right here on the morning show at WFHR
welcome back everybody morning show here at WFHR Melissa and James hanging out with you
thanks so much for joining us so if you're sitting on some legit footage of a ghost you've got
today and and you got to get this in there you got to get this into people so and you got to
get it to the ring people the doorbell camera company ring is doing a contest called Great Ghost
Search now they did this for Halloween I don't know if they are continuing it or not this article
that I came across actually was outdated so I apologize for that but I did I did think this was a
fun one to dive into so they announced that you've got you've got you had to get this similar out
of the out of this world contest they did last year it's very similar and they're going to do it
again next year so while you don't you know you you have a certain amount of time to get it into
them I would imagine that if you get ghost footage in June they're going to take it you know
probably so you know hang on to that maybe sure if if no one gets a real ghost on camera the 100
grand would go to whatever video their judges liked best unique and entertaining and all that
so send one in anyway right right so the follow up to this is kind of interesting because guess
what nobody nobody found a ghost everybody I got there there is there is footage that they put
on there of like you know of people like they're what they thought some images that looked a
little similar oftentimes can be explained by just technical difficulties or you know the
the something on the camera lens yeah yeah stuff like that um but I am I am like how how great
would it be if we do get footage of a ghost and it's it's like Casper it dismissed no no I mean
like it's no it's like it's like it's like the stereotypical old cartoon white
sheep white sheep black yeah that's what the actual ghost looks I used to think when I was a kid
um that when you'd see like the typical image of an alien little green eyed you know weird head
all that stuff like what if they actually did look like that like well we got that right
well hey I five everybody we are or we find out it's actually what be Goldberg
yeah oh the whole time they didn't didn't even know didn't even see it come didn't see it the
whole time every ghost looks like Patrick's waist uh I'd be interested I'd definitely be
interested I got it I don't know um I like the idea like see to me I think you actually hit
on something earlier Melissa that I agree and that I think they should be doing any any like
supernatural thing you know that why leave this open just for ghosts you you catch a footage of
any kind of thing hmm you found Sasquatch yeah you you caught footage of the Loch Ness must I mean
how often I've it's kind of funny to see a company like Ring who they can't be hurting for money
no um to do something like this a promo about potentially fictitious
phenomena I mean to be to be real about this uh and I'm not trying to be you know
what what you believe is what you believe I would never squash any of that or anything
but if I'm like I'm the head of marketing and I'm doing this and I'm offering a hundred grand
or whatever like why I might not offer a hundred million I mean it's not as if somebody's
I mean you know if you're asking hey I'll offer like 20 billion dollars if you can find a picture
of Sasquatch like nobody's gonna be able to do it here's here's the one of the things that I
I think there are a lot of positives much more I think actually there's much more positives
than negatives as far as everybody having a camera now in the ring cameras and in this cameras
everywhere um I there's more positives than negatives but one of the the downsides to what I think
is is missing out on these kind of things I I don't know how I can be alone in thinking if there
is a lock this monster if there is a Sasquatch if there are ghosts if there are aliens any of these
things won't we have some footage if not now by now or soon everybody's got a camera everybody's
got something so and we've had this for this technology for quite a while now so it kind of
takes away some of that you know mystery a life like oh I don't know maybe there is a Sasquatch
in the woods probably not probably not we got drones we got cameras everywhere we have we have
satellites in the sky that can tell you what the temperature is you know and any part of the world
right now I feel like if we could if they're hiding like well done well done you win the game of
hide and seek you win but and I'm gonna play devil's advocate and say I choose to believe that
some of these things could still be out there could be happening and we we don't have proof of
it because I like a little bit of mystery in life I do too that's unfortunately I have a reptilian
realistic brain that will not let me just enjoy things sometimes it's very sad it's very sad
because I also have a crazy imagination so I I hope weird combination it's it's not easy Melissa
it's not easy I hope people like I hope they they're like at some point we get some crazy footage
like that's the best part and that's why I said potentially fictitious because you know they're
gonna be people going well they're if if they don't actually get proof they're gonna pick the
best one let's make the best one mm-hmm yeah right even if it is fake yeah it doesn't matter
let's go ahead and dive into this one uh someone asked the internet what's popular right now
that you have zero interest in and there are some fun responses out there um I really good being
not a very hit person and a cool person I really don't know really what's what's going on right
now that is not interesting to me but let's see if we can come up with something here like
the endless cycle of reboots and remakes I've complained about that quite a bit we've been saying
that for quite some time yeah yeah I feel like how many fast and furious movies do we need right
right fast and furious 50 they're uh heading they're speeding into retirement
they're in the slow lane now they're in yes they can't get past gear second gear but you know
what we're still here fast and furious 25 they can't drive at night
number two on this list AI generated influencer content or AI anything or influencer anything
you know people have really had a short shelf life yeah yeah it really did yeah I mean it was
first like be afraid be afraid be afraid wait oh it's here oh well this is our what we already
had okay now we're sick of it well and and there's a real pushback on the influencer thing too
like a lot of people that are struggling out there are looking at people making money and making
a living doing just being an influencer and getting very you know kind of pushing away from it
it at first I think these companies had a really good idea oh we're going to bring real people
in to have them advertise our things um but they didn't just choose real people they chose people
that basically are already doing modeling and act you know those things and um a lot of people
are just tired of it uh you nobody wants to be peddled uh things uh every 24 7 and there's social
media or anything like that there's enough it's very difficult to advertise I'm not at all saying
that it's easy marketing or anything like that but there's certain things like oh hey you
mean people don't want to be beat over the head by this or people don't want to be told that
they don't have it have it kind of shoved in their face hey you can't afford this look at this
you know people get a little tired of that yeah or you you want to do some research on something
you pull up images of I don't know pcox and half or three quarters of the images you pull up our
fake because they're AI generated no sorry no thank you sports betting yeah that I don't get it
I don't get it yeah so so far three for three as far as these trends are these things that are
going I'm um are these are actually popular okay the uh those Stanley cups those uh those
those Stanley cups or or whatever they're no Stanley Stanley Stanley I've been calling them
Stanley because to me there's only one Stanley cup and and that is what uh everybody the NHL
fighting for yes yes but yeah the Stanley cups those are big for a long time and I don't
know if they still are I mean that they were like had led in them or something like that was
something negative that like people were buying all of these and I don't know I don't get the
craze look any cup that costs you like a mortgage like of your house like I know they're not that
expensive but I don't know um I still haven't bought like a traveling coffee mug mmm and it's
just it's not something that I absolutely you know can't live without obviously because I'm living
without it but but it's not a very expensive thing to buy and they have them everywhere I just
haven't managed to buy one yet why would I buy a a Stanley cup I'm sorry I do see uh I do know
the people that have them really enjoy them I'll say that so you know the the people that have one
in every color and every style that's a little excessive yeah to each their own again I am not
you know casting any shade I collected bottles for a lot of time I can't I can't I'm not even
sure the company of mine but I've got one it's definitely not a Stanley but man is it good
like this thing keeps everything hot and cold like at least you know I'd say five six hours if not
longer fillers Botox and plastic surgery yeah yeah yeah that's been around for a long time yeah
yeah it's still popular yeah yeah yeah yeah broccoli haircuts what the what this one I'm going to
push back against a little bit because I don't think that we should be I don't know
huh okay I'm looking it up right now and um yeah I mean it's curly on top and shaved in the back
it's it's a hair so I don't I don't begrudge anybody their hairstyles you know even the mullet has
made a comeback yeah I'm with you so do you do you I will say this um to the guys out there
perming or dying their hair or whatever like that's not fair that's not fair like you I
I have to deal with this hair I have to deal with this hair they're everybody with curly hair wishes
for straight hair and most people with straight hair wish for curly hair so just you know it's
just a thing that we all do the grass is always greener yeah I don't get it just don't get it
cyber trucks uh cyber trucks around here as well is absolutely something I do not get yeah I want
I want to drive around a truck that looks like I was drawn by my my nephew it I do yeah
there there's a lot it like um there's a lot of things about those that need any of these
vehicles um whether we're talking about uh any of these vehicles that uh that Tesla is doing or
anything uh they they if they help the environment if they work well et cetera et cetera fine more
power to them um but I'm waiting at least a decade before I'm even looking at these vehicles
yeah because the people that pre-purchased them then they get surprised oh sorry it class more now
yeah oh this doesn't or or half the things aren't working on them or or you got you got the guy that
runs the company saying that uh computers and tech are an important uh like it's also saying
we're going to crash the economy and then it's going to be better no thank you yeah yeah that's
yeah yeah um pickleball shows up on the list I push back against this one I still think it's
cool because I want to play it yeah I do too I want to play too I want to try it yeah um vaping vaping
yeah well have you heard of vape lung thank you yeah I don't want my lungs to crackle uh I leave
that for my rice crispies thank you snap crackle pop yeah um uh we we've done uh quite a bit about
cigarettes and nicotine and and taking them out of uh you know circulation and everything um
we did that because of the data and the research and the science that that we have found about
them we don't know hardly anything about vaping yet and that right there kind of you know makes
me call okay pause uh politics as uh as your personality please stop yes please please stop
like you have a you know grow a personality I'm not trying to be mean I'm not trying to be blunt
I'm not even saying I have a personality uh but I don't attach mine to people who don't even know who
I am or or or or could care less of who I am and that's not saying uh any any personal party or
pointing anybody out I'm talking about all politicians um like especially at this point after
november 5th how much do you think that they care about you I'm not how much do you truly think
like uh attaching yourself to these people only brings you down like stand for yourself
be yourself uh for one uh legally it's time to take down the political science so take them
down uh legally it's time to take them down they should have been down already but your day late
if you haven't taken your political science down everybody um that's one thing but number one on
the number two on the list if not number one on the list is be your own person like this isn't
your sports team this isn't this and I would even say this if you were just constantly wearing
this your sports team guard gear every day I'd say the same thing like be yourself man they grow
your own personality it I don't know I mean maybe I'm an island on this one and go right ahead
and call me up seven one five four two four twenty six hundred my email is james dot mail up at
civic media dot us but uh there's a difference of being backing somebody and wanting them to win
the uh or be elected president and occult there's a big difference and if you if you know the
difference or if you you counter this please let me know please call right up at phone lines are open
phones are working I mean yeah phones are working celebrity brands and celebrity podcasts
uh that's another one oh we lost Melissa and yep our our computers went down that's that's what's
going I was a little curious why Melissa did I thought Melissa would have something to say on that one
it's a real reason I kept rambling there everybody was because I was waiting for Melissa to jump in
but I we lost her connection we lost their connection with clear feed of course um so we got
a more of this list we'll dive into the rest of this list um you know maybe uh tomorrow maybe
Friday we'll get into the rest of this one for now um well we can't go to commercial break we
can't do any of that stuff right now so we're just gonna go ahead and now maybe can I can I go
to commercial break no I cannot so we just gotta keep going we gotta keep talking everybody um
but uh let me see here I'm trying to get Melissa back on with me here on clean clear feed see if
that will work uh and so who want nope nope not uh not working so I'm just gonna keep rolling uh
with with uh this good stories of the day and our local schedule here we'll go ahead and touch on
some of those things let's dive into that how's that sound yeah yeah everybody good good why don't
we uh also wouldn't mind uh knowing if um
yeah well also wouldn't mind knowing uh what you guys think 715 424 2600 feel free to call
join the conversation uh let's see let's dive right into our schedule first for today uh let's
say we got a call coming in uh good morning what's on your mind hey it's me hey thanks for
calling in now nice job nice thinking good thinking uh appreciate the clean feed went down and
I couldn't contribute anymore yeah and uh in there for our computers went down for a second too
but we are back in running so we're gonna go ahead and go to our commercial break uh we will take
care of that and we'll come back and wrap up the show uh thanks for joining us Melissa I'm
gonna keep you on the phone line okay sounds good cool we'll be back with more show coming up
right here welcome back everybody morning show here at wfhr locally grown radio
Melissa and James hanging out with you
we hope you're having a great one out there happy wednesday everybody thank you so much for
hanging out with us and we really appreciate you hanging out and putting up with our uh
technical difficulties and everything that's life that is radio that is how it works
we just gotta be flexible that's all yeah that's it that's you know we are certainly uh
have experience with doing that around here um want to dive into our schedule real quick let you
know what's up and coming here at uh wfhr join us a little bit uh stick around we've got
Matt and Aaron there that's coming right up for you everybody looking forward to that
Jane and Greg got a great show lined up for you today and of course after that we will uh
be uh hanging out with some other great guests of ours and we'll lead you into the maggie dawn show
from two to four this afternoon be sure to hang out with maggie she's got some great stuff lined
up for you and midday magazine will be on right after that from four to five part one today
our friends and our family from family and after food to be with us Stephen and Katrina hitner
oh great yeah looking forward to that in a part two uh we have encouraged with us
Kim Shields will be here of course from encourage and Kim is bringing in a guest
Tessa Tessa she is a school social worker for Lincoln high school in river cities high school
and also serves as district families in transition coordinator Tessa is uh gonna be joining us
we're gonna talk a little bit about the great work she is doing excellent yeah looking forward to
that uh of course a little bit later today playmakers from five to six phone lines are working
as Melissa's proven right now right i'm proving it right now calling with your sports thoughts and
feelings did i get a James yes you did nicely done well done thank you for that uh we look forward to it
i tried uh we will we will of course lead you into the loop fickle show at seven oh five today looking
forward to hearing what coach has to say not only about uh the by week but going in and placing
uh facing the number one team in the country organ uh that should be an interesting conversation
looking forward to that uh want to remind everybody of a couple of events going on today um our
friends over uh at united way of south wooden ab's counties have their volunteer reception center
training going on today that's right is that McMillan library tonight i believe from five to seven
yeah yeah um now they did already kind of wrap up registration for this but Terry was telling us
yesterday if you would still like to be a part of this encourage you to reach out to Ben and uh he'll
get you on uh you could reach Ben at seven one five four two one zero three nine zero that's four
two one zero three nine zero and find out more at uswac.org and check general also wrote an article
about this on our website wfhr.com that has some um the clips from Ben or from from the interview
that i did with him a while back about this event yeah check that out everybody uh and sign up
for the newsletter while you're there we had one come in already this morning right uh in
recognition of veterans day e a a chapter seven oh six and was council rapids is hosting a
screening of honor in the air the story of decorative Vietnam helicopter pilot and Wisconsin
natives got all win that is happening today at seven o'clock the screening which is free and open
to the public will be held at the large community hanger at the was council rapids airport
oh wow cool that is really really cool uh i hope to do more things like this and and be sure to
check that out and honor one of our own uh mr. scott all win that's a really i cannot wait to see
that i would love to be able to see it there that is gonna be great very cool uh did also want to
remind everybody uh uh that we have got a good one going on here with our friends over the
center with council cultural center Santa is coming to the cultural center oh all right he'll be
there this Saturday at 10 30 a.m. Santa will be ready to uh to uh reading a story to the kids after
the story there are photos with Santa and he cookies make kids crafts write a letter to Santa uh and
mail it uh all while parents get a head start on their Christmas shopping nice and you can get your
photos taken for those Christmas cards you'll go over and have fill make for your quality plus
printing boom boom support uh support local and getting your your checklist done at the same time
everybody that's right uh that's all that's a lot of great stuff going on in their area we're
gonna talk even more about these great events and other great events coming up we have some blood
drives to mention as well uh all that coming up tomorrow on the show we'll get into all of that
uh did also want to mention uh as well uh that we uh some other good stories like
happy world kindness day everybody hey well at hub release it's annual rankings of the most
charitable states in America based on donations and volunteers uh Wyoming is number one overall
so that's really cool that's pretty cool Wyoming is up there uh let's see here and uh uh Utah
Minnesota main in Delaware fill out the top five um Illinois comes in at number 12 and Wisconsin
is at 36 okay so we're a little further down than middle of the pack yeah we usually land
yeah we'd like to be a little higher that just uh hopefully encourages everybody out there to uh
you know the gift it's a great time of year or at two people in Hawaii organized a rescue
effort after a baby goat got stranded on a cliff for four days oh my someone had an animal
sanctuary is taking him in uh the name they named him bala buddy and he's already got his own
Instagram he's already oh of course he does that's fantastic uh that's a good one and Disney saved a
family of four on Sunday after they got stranded on a sinking boat near Bermuda yeah the closest
ship to them was a cruise ship called the Disney treasure and the captain sent out a lifeboat and
scoop them up I know this isn't how it happened but I love the idea of these people they're
they're stranded they're they're you know can't imagine what they're thinking and feeling and
they're looking and oh wait there's a ship coming and it's like Mickey and Minnie and Goofy like
everybody dressed up all right cool well you'll take that um and and we'll we'll take the show
a great show today Melissa thank you so much yeah you two Jen have a great day out there everybody be
good to each other we'll talk to you sooner than later right here at this is locally grown radio
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