Giftin’ Ain’t Easy (Hour 2)

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I am joined by Melissa K.

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Friday, everybody.

Good things on the way.

Getting some entertainment news to kick things off.

A little bit later, what kind of shopper are you?

We want audience participation on that one.

Let us know what kind of shopper you are.

We'll get into that.

We're going to talk about how many of us are okay with overnight guests getting that one.

And we're going to get into this guy who had a really bad day.

We got stuck in a well and nobody believed him because they thought it was a ghost.

That is a bad day.

It's a rough day, man.

It's a rough day.

Dolly Parton is turning 79 next month and she is still as active as ever.

If you listen to our shows, you know that.

A little, a bunch of other things.

But this is a story that I have been waiting and waiting to talk about with Dolly Parton.

And I am very excited about this.

There's one thing she is not doing.

Of all the things Dolly is doing, there's one thing she refuses to do.

And she says that she would refuse this at any point in her career.

She is not going to be playing herself.

And she darn sure it could be playing herself on Broadway in two years.

Dolly just announced a nationwide casting call for her upcoming Broadway musical Dolly

in Original Musical.

It is set to open in 2026.

They're looking for performers of all ages to play her at different stages of her life.

That makes sense.

In a video on social media, she directed interesting performer, interested performers to dollymusical.com.

That is dollymusical.com.

And invited people to post audition reels online with the hashtag search for Dolly.

A few finalists will be chosen to audition in person.

Now there's certainly good.

You're going to be going up against some Hollywood actors.

Of course.

There's no getting around that.

And I'm not saying that from Dolly, I'm saying that from a lot of the producers and a

lot of the way this world works.

Right.

But that does not mean this would not say some unknown gets cast in any one of these roles.

Say all of them are cast by unknowns.

Not going to be surprising.

That's not going to be a shock.

That would be kind of good.

Yeah, because if Dolly's in on it, there's more of a chance.

Yeah, I agree.

And there's no, like they have been trying to tell this woman story her whole life.

If we've gotten to this stage, I put everything I put my entire name on the fact that she has

got say on these things.

There's just, she's been too smart, too good with her career.

Fabby.

At this point in her life, be like, oh, yeah, I just gave him my name, you know, and let

him do whatever they want.

No, no, no, there's just no way.

So I think there's a very good chance that anybody out there listening, anybody that

wants interest, that is interested in this.

Go for it.

Mm-hmm.

I am.

I'm trying.

I think I could play Dolly in her 30s or 40s.

Okay.

Maybe late 40s.

I can't wait to see you in the wig, man.

Definitely.

I want to see that.

Definitely late 40s.

Yeah.

No, that doesn't get away with it.

That's not going to happen.

Dolly with a gray beard.

Yeah.

I, since I was a little kid seeing her in 9 to 5, I wanted to know more about her.

And everything I've ever learned, everything has told me, this is one of the most amazing

stories and entertainment in world history, maybe.

This story needs to be told, and it's the definition of, you know, why we make biographies

is people like her.

But you got to get it right.

You got to get that casting right.

And man, I, that is a tough call.

That's a tough call.

That'll be a challenge.

But if this is done right and it's successful on Broadway, you know where that leads.

It leads right to the big screen.

And that is just an incredible idea.

Because they can't help themselves.

Yeah, exactly.

And you know, and I'll say, for me, myself, I love that because I love movies, and look,

most of the time they do get it wrong.

But for every time they get it wrong, they get it right or they get a part of it right.

I think I'll walk the line as a great example.

They nailed it so strong with Reese Witherspoon as June Carter.

It's still to me, I think her greatest performance, her greatest work.

And that's saying something because I think she's one of the best actors out there.

And Joaquin Phoenix left a lot to be desired.

A lot.

I did not believe for one second that he was Johnny Cash, but I only saw Joaquin Phoenix

and it was really hard to watch that movie for me.

But I think that's a great example of for every ray where you get Jamie Foxx that you close

your eyes and like, oh my God, is that Ray Charles, Rami Malek with Freddie Mercury.

You've got roles like that.

So it could go either way.

But again, with her at the helm, her SEP, her in the casting sessions, I feel good about

that.

I feel good about those chances.

And I encourage Melissa to try.

Go Melissa, go, go, go, go, go, sure.

I got to clear my throat a little bit for this one because I got to be really careful.

This is a perfect example of how silly the rating system can be at times.

The makers of Meet the Parents almost got an R rating because the last name of Ben Stiller's

character was Falker.

On the latest episode of the YouTube show Hot Ones, which is one of the biggest shows

out there, biggest interview shows out there.

There is.

I'm actually trying to rework Midday magazine to where we people eat hot things just

and I'm kidding.

The host asked Ben Stiller, who's of course out there promoting some new stuff.

If it's true that the ratings board made them prove that that was an actual last name

in order to get the PG-13 rating, and he said, quote, oh, I think that is true, yeah.

They thought it was too close to the word, you know, that we all know.

And so they had to clear the name.

And later in an interview, Ben said that it was misunderstood that that the name had

been cleared.

It's an actual late last name.

An actual last name.

An actual last name.

So that was pretty cool.

Thank goodness.

Ben said his most misunderstood movie is a Zoolander 2.

They thought through that one and they're two, I thought that was interesting.

Taking a look at what's new on your small screen this weekend, Friday, tonight on Netflix,

a nonsense Christmas with Sabrina Carpenter, premiering on Max, the streaming premiere of

Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice.

Oh, wow.

I watch it.

Already on streaming?

Yeah.

They're doing it very quickly these days.

Yeah.

There's a couple of things I have to watch this weekend.

That is one of them.

I haven't seen it yet.

I'm dying to see that.

And I am really, really interested in seeing another thing too.

Also on Apple Plus TV tonight, fly me to the moon.

This got some nice, Channing Tatum, Scarlett Johansson.

It's based on the launch of the Apollo 11 moon landing.

And it actually got some pretty good, it's got a romantic comedy, right?

Yeah.

I heard those two were really good together.

And I love Scarlett Johansson.

This is amazing.

But I really want to see this.

Tomorrow on HBO at 7 o'clock, premiering Super Dash Man, the Christopher Reeve story.

The people that have seen this have talked about how they could not stop crying, but

also being inspired.

That's cool.

And the life of Christopher Reeve is one of the more amazing, interesting ones.

I think in acting history, just, it is a Hollywood script that's Superman has that happen

and then turns it around and becomes an inspiration bigger than Superman, which is really remarkable.

There are writers in Hollywood right now working their tails off.

They can't come up with even half of that.

That's real life.

It's just life is stranger than fiction sometimes.

Powell Mascale is hosting Saturday Live with Shabuzy as musical guest.

That should be a really good one.

And the Kansas City Chiefs host of Los Angeles Chargers on Sunday night football.

You got those all coming up.

And find some way to win.

Yeah.

Not a lot coming out this week.

Most of the big releases were last weekend.

You do have a Y2K rated R. It's all about New Year's Eve on 9th in 1999.

Okay.

And we're Wolves.

Frank Guerillo movie comes out to us all.

I don't know what that one is.

None of these have very big budgets to them.

I was going to say Frank Guerillo, you know, he really opens a movie for me.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Dude, what you're going to do this weekend?

Enjoy your entertainment, but I strongly recommend going to our local theater here for

the three of us, our second home Wisconsin Rabbits Community Theater and the production

of White Christmas.

Day two.

That's right.

Yeah.

They had the opening last night.

I have this good authority that everything went very well.

Good crowd there last night.

Ace reporting.

Yeah.

Nice health.

You know, like a source close to the wall.

It's nice when you got one on the inside.

Yeah.

No, it's true.

Yeah.

He does.

That's really cool.

So she said good thing.

Yeah.

It was a lot of fun.

It was a great feedback from everybody.

It was a very fun show and they're underway.

So they're ready.

Come on down everybody.

Go check, go online to wrctheater.org.

See what tickets are still available whenever, whatever day you're looking to go and check

it out because I got a feeling that word of mouth is going to get around and the tickets

are going to start going fast.

Man, it's so exciting to be a part of a production like that where it is a word of mouth thing

and this town talks and they will talk about that and they will fill those seats.

Yeah.

Sure.

Those seats are filled.

WRCtheater.org.

We've got a production, another production tonight at seven.

Then tomorrow there will be a two o'clock matinee and then we do it all over again next week.

Thursday, Friday, seven o'clock shows, Saturday wrapping up with a two o'clock matinee.

Get to all of these shows.

If you can get to any shows, take them in and enjoy and help us celebrate the Christmas

season and the spirit of the season too with this one.

It's a classic and this cast is amazing.

They're doing a really, really wonderful job.

That set is beautiful.

There is so much to enjoy about this one and keep in mind WRCTS, some other fun things

going on this holiday season.

They have their elf tea party taking place on December 8th from one to four.

That's on Sunday, yeah.

That'll be a great one.

And their first ever Children's Theater Christmas program, December 20th at six o'clock.

Join them there for that.

It's going to be a fun one.

All of these events are great.

You can get tickets at wrctheater.org, buy local support local.

And keep in mind that they got auditions coming up in just a couple of weeks.

Our SNICK and OLD lace auditions happen from 630 to 830 at the WRCTS auditorium.

Be sure to check this one out and know that you can actually fill out an audition sheet

right online.

Right online.

Get that all taken care of.

You don't have to worry about it when you get there.

Yeah.

I like to put all 101 roles on my list.

So I started a couple of weeks ago.

I'm in the 50s.

I'm in the 50s.

I'm in the 50s.

No, no, no.

But do encourage everybody to audition and keep in mind that if you don't feel comfortable

being on stage, we could always use backstage.

Always need people backstage.

You know, handing out.

It's just a fun environment, a fun family to be a part of.

Find out more at wrctheater.org and be sure to follow them on social media.

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Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show at WFHR.

Otolay.

Melissa Seth and James hanging out with you.

Thanks for joining us, everybody.

We want to get into a interesting one here.

We want to get into it with all of you.

715-424-2600 called up and joined the conversation.

Just a touch or two away on the Civic Media app.

Thanks so much for downloading the app, everybody.

What kind of shopper are you?

What kind of shopper are you?

Did that shake you when we said that?

You're like, Oh God.

You're like, Oh, shopping.

Christmas.

I just wake up at the two in the morning Christmas.

Black Friday has come and gone.

And some people got a lot of their stuff done on Cyber Monday or Black Friday or Small

Business Saturday or any of these days.

But Paul asked people recently, what type of holiday shopper you are?

And the four choices they gave us were bargain hunter, early bird, last minute, and year

round.

Now, I think that it's pretty fair to say that there's probably some combinations of those

things.

Overlap.

There's some other versions of shoppers.

Well, that's where you guys come and fill in.

Let us know.

Let me know what kind of shopper are you?

715-424-2600 because you need a label.

You need labels for our society.

I am a reluctant shopper.

See, there we go.

You've already got it.

Nice.

And I had a bet in my head that Melissa would choose something off the list and I just

knew it.

You were right.

And it's perfect, Belle.

I think you're not alone on that one.

I think that there's others that have that one too.

I consider myself a year round person.

That's not me.

That's my Nana.

I just saw her doing it and she just, she loved Christmas and for her, she loved

the gift giving.

It was part of her love language and that's something that I've kind of inherited too.

I've learned that it's part of my love language is giving things and stuff.

And it's something that almost when you do a year round, it is a great feeling.

One thing my Nana and I don't have in common, I am bursting at the bit to give these things.

I got a gift that I picked up from the Central Wisconsin State Fair with my Melissa and everything

for my daughter.

I'm dying to give her.

I saw her yesterday and everything in me took me not to give it to her.

Or spill the beans or something like that.

It's so cool.

Oh, I nailed this one.

I got this one.

I know.

Be ready to cut his mic, Seth.

Yeah.

I can't.

But yeah, that's the crux of that one, though, isn't that got something sitting there for

four months and I'm like, I chew it out of everything.

But where do you land on this list, everybody call up and let us know.

As far as the how the numbers shook out, 40% are bargain hunters.

You prioritize deals and promos like Black Friday, the whole weekend, basically.

Yeah, it really doesn't matter anymore, there are probably.

And statistically, there are some businesses where they have even better deals like around

now.

Yep.

Yep.

27% are early birds.

They defined it as people who finished their shopping at least a one month in advance.

Wow.

Gikes.

Overachievers.

I'm telling you.

I like that.

Come on.

Month in advance.

16% are last-minute shoppers, people who buy most of their gifts in the last few days.

Is that used to be me?

For sure.

I was terrible.

I can't say we haven't heard what Seth said.

No.

I've gotten a lot better about it as the years have gone by, but man, in like my 20s, I was

terrible.

I was always last-minute, you know.

Yeah.

Typical.

And another 16% are your round gathers, people who spread it out and buy presents throughout

the year.

So I don't buy my presents.

I gather them.

Yes.

I like that gathers.

It goes on into that.

Yes.

Going back to my roots, literally.

It feels like an interesting way to put that.

Yeah.

But.

So what do you mean by?

I want Melissa to explain and tell us what she means by reluctant shopper.

We need to define it, too, because we're humans and we have to do these things.

Yes.

Yes.

Okay.

But it's very involved and it's a little dark, to be honest.

We can do dark.

That's kind of our wheelhouse.

Yeah.

Okay.

Well, I mean, since my mom died, Christmas has really taken kind of a very not great connotation

for me.

Okay.

And the fact that I have never had a partner, I can't say never.

My last partner did okay.

That previous to that.

Any partner that I was with was terrible at gift giving or didn't, didn't, didn't think

of, of me or what I would actually want as a gift.

So receiving gifts has been rather, I don't know, traumatic isn't quite the right word.

Maybe anti-climactic would be a good one or like my mom made such a big deal at a Christmas.

It was such a special time and it was so great.

And it built me up to this, this future of having special people in my life that would,

you know, want to do what I would do for them and give these wonderful, thoughtful gifts.

It didn't work out that way.

So giving for me, I am a reluctant shopper now because it, you know, what do you say,

twice, once burned, twice shy, I don't know what I'm saying is.

Once burned, twice shy.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's kind of negative for me.

I'm working on it.

This is something.

And going through therapy myself of just trying to be positive about it and think good things.

But it's been years since I've made a, Chris, I used to make lists.

I would make lists of, okay, these are all the people that I'm making gifts for and I planned

for it all year and, you know, and now it's just, I don't know, it's just negative, no.

So there you go.

I appreciate you sharing that with us, it's not bad, it's not a bad thing.

And you are not alone in a lot of that.

I'm going to be real with the audience.

A little look behind the curtain here and everything.

I have had one, maybe two good Christmases in my life, some of the worst moments of my

life happened on Christmas or right near Christmas on Christmas Eve or something like that.

It's triggering for me, this holiday.

It's part of what I enjoyed about being in California for a little while.

Just to be honest with everybody, but I've really, I've been really working on changing

that.

I want to write my own history.

I want to, I want to be in charge of these things and I'm working on that stuff.

And I'm very fortunate.

I'm spoiled.

I got great kids and it's almost hard not to when it comes to them and everything.

But when it comes to these, any of these things, Melissa shared with any of you have felt

out there or anything, a lot of us are missing loved ones around this time and it's part

of why we're thankful for certain things and certain events like Blue Christmas set.

I didn't want to touch on this really quick before we go to our next story.

Let's do that.

It's coming up on Thursday, December 19th at the St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Church

at 320 Oak Street in Wisconsin Rapids.

This is at 6 p.m., the all are welcome to attend.

The holiday season can be hard for many, especially those who mourn.

Join them for a time of worship as you reflect, celebrate and find hope.

This is specifically for people who like Melissa and James just kind of shared that have

struggles this time of year.

And everyone, you're supposed to be happy and joyful and cheerful, right?

We all know that's not always the case, like you guys just articulated.

So this is for those who are interested, this is to help you out a little bit during

this time of year.

So this is Thursday, December 19th, 6 p.m. at St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Church

at 320 Oak Street in Wisconsin Rapids.

I think that they do that because it's a nice reminder that it's really important to

give grief at space.

And that is a safe space where you can acknowledge your grief because if you don't, it

just builds up.

That's sad.

In December 19th actually also happens to be my mother's birthday.

Oh wow.

Wow.

Well, I do have to mention one thing though, by the way, I am the best gift giver.

You just ask, ask my wife, ask my children, I'm going out, I am very good at giving gifts.

So the best.

How's that?

Yeah, it's true.

So I'm telling you that before.

She really has.

Take pride in my gift giving.

So they exist.

They do.

Yes, they do.

Unicorn gift givers, they exist.

You got to find it.

How's a few of us, you know?

You got to find it.

You got to find it.

That part is more difficult.

That's on all of you.

Yeah, you got to do that yourself.

That is right.

They are out there.

Now, you may be thinking of yourself.

Well, how is James going to wrap this up on a high note?

How is he going to find a way to find the funny?

How is he going to find the laughter in this one?

I go from that conversation to ghosts.

And a 22 year old man in Northern Thailand fell 40 feet down an abandoned well last month

and survived.

He's okay.

Everybody has, if you listen to the show long enough, we're not doing that any right story

and it ending bad.

Maybe.

Coming a real ghost, right?

Yeah.

So he's down there and he starts screaming for help, but no one came.

The well isn't a remote forest, but there's a small village nearby where people should

have been able to hear him.

So why didn't they come?

Well, it turned out several people in the village didn't hear them, but didn't investigate

because they assumed he was a ghost.

And I mean, the interviews with these people, there's a couple of different articles.

Mally Male, M-A-L-A-Y Male, if you want to look up this article, interviewing them and

they say this, like, it's just, yeah, this happens all the time.

We hear ghosts out there and we just don't even think twice about it.

Oh my goodness.

Well, one person said they turn up their radio when they hear him.

No.

So of all the places for this poor man to fall.

He really chose a terrible place, yes, because he did it on purpose.

He did.

It's so good.

It's time to fall down the well today.

He was stuck in the well for three days.

Oh no.

Oh poor guy.

He told them he'd only been yelling once an hour to conserve energy.

So it's lucky.

That was smart.

Yeah.

The people, the police officers actually heard him and came and saved him.

He took 30 minutes for rescuers to get him out.

He was covered in bruises and a close head injury in a broken wrist, but he is okay

and he's healing well and is actually left about this a little bit.

He has found the humor and he survives.

That's always a good thing.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But the same time.

I'm like, what is he shouting?

I'm not a ghost.

That's just what a ghost would say.

You're right.

Exactly.

Exactly.

Well, if I'm in the well.

Did they know?

No.

Don't do it.

Don't do it.

That's how they get you.

He should have done the old trick, you know.

It's like, you know, we all fire because, you know, if you fell in and fall into a

bad chocolate because no one's going to come save you, you all chocolate, you know,

it's going to, it's going to, it's just a fire.

Maybe that would have helped.

I don't know.

You know, by day two, I'm trying anything.

Hey, free candy.

There's a puppy in here.

Hey, you want a free dog?

Is it free?

Please.

We're going to get this well.

Oh, well.

Oh, well.

Deep subject.

We will.

Nicely done.

Can we fill it out the well?

There's like eight promos in the segment.

Where's Lassie when you need it?

Where's Lassie?

He's the tyled version of Lassie right now.

Exactly.

As a wrap to this, the poll found that this year, the 61% of Americans believe in ghosts.

61%.

That's pretty interesting.

We will take a time out to our news break.

We got some entertainment news in here for you one.

Just change it up a little bit.

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We appreciate them so very much.

We'll be back with more show coming up on the morning show at WFHR.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show at WFHR.

Seth, Melissa, James, here with you.

We hope you're having a fantastic Friday out there, everybody.

Thank you so much for joining us.

A couple of topics to get to before we wrap up this show.

I want to get into this one too.

How are you on this one, everybody?

Go ahead and get in.

Call up.

Join the conversation.

Really any of these topics we're talking about.

Of course.

We're all asking for audience participation.

Thanksgiving is over.

And if you hosted overnight guests, they're probably left by now.

Or should have.

I hope so.

No.

I'm doing this whole article because there's somebody stinking my parents' house right

out here.

I love the idea of that, actually.

A new poll asked people how they felt about hosting overnight guests in their home, such

as friends and family.

And 61% of people have a positive view, oddly enough, if you notice, they 61%.

We had 61% of people believe in ghosts and 61% of people are okay with overnight guests.

Is there a connection?

I think so.

I don't know, but I want third of people.

But yeah, 61% of people have really enjoyed this, actually, and have a very positive

view of it.

With one third of them saying they love having people stay over.

Okay.

There you go.

26% of people have a more negative feeling about it, of course.

With about one third of them saying they cannot stand it.

Really?

Wow.

And 14% of people are not sure, of course.

Of course.

I have big feelings about it.

Yeah, yeah.

I think the rule of thumb is don't stand any longer than leftovers keep.

Whoa.

I've never heard that, but that's perfect.

That's not bad.

I like that.

That's perfect.

I think I am overly sensitive to the whole, there are a few things I hate more in this

world than being where I'm not wanted.

And the idea of staying too long, whether it's a party of friends house, whatever it is,

horrifying.

Yeah, it's more than moments and comfortable things I could be in.

I do not want that.

I don't want to do that to people.

So if anything, I think I leave too early sometimes from things.

Where were James go?

All right.

You know, another thing I do is I just don't even show up.

That way I don't have to worry about not talking to him.

The poll was conducted before Thanksgiving.

So for those people who were on the fence, maybe they have an opinion now, I could be the

most hospitable us hospitable, hospitable people in the poll were younger people and mostly

men living out west.

The least hospitable were older folks and this time mostly women living in the Midwest.

Least or most?

Least.

Least.

Interesting.

That's very, I would never have guessed that.

I would have actually probably had that the opposite.

Little on man, we got a little bit our facade cracked a little bit there for the Midwestern

thing.

I would not have expected that.

I would not have expected that.

But I also think that there's another factor here that I don't know if they're considering

or not.

You can go to yougov.org to find a complete article.

In the Midwest, we also have the long goodbye and to Melissa's point as far as the staying

too long or left to Oyo with all of that and everything.

Some of these people may have tried to leave, but they're just still there saying goodbye.

That's quite possible.

I love that idea.

Like days.

And as much as I'm joking here, I guarantee everybody out there listening was all doing

the exact same thing Melissa did, like laughing a little, but also like, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Melissa, you were half right.

You were half right.

The well is always there, but it's always followed by.

So there's always the side afterwards, yeah, but there's also the, I suppose, I am so guilty

of that.

Oh my God.

It's so good.

It's so good.

I was reading a thread the other day of, well, how do you get rid of guests when they've

stayed too long and somebody said, you know, just get out the broom, people leave real

quick.

That's actually not a bad idea, the cleaning, because people tend not to like to be around,

you know, or think you're good, or yeah, think you're going to put them to work.

I was going to say just like, just say, hey, can I get a hand in here, man?

Can you do these dishes?

That's pretty good.

I'm going to clean up.

Oh, boy, you know, I got off.

Oh, you know, it's complete.

I guess it's time.

I got to, you know, the kids we got to get home.

So do you guys remember the days when people would randomly show up and do caroling and

fixing Christmas carols at your door?

That still exists.

It still happens from time to time.

Well now there's an app for it.

Uber eats, announced a new quote holiday hub section where you can hire someone to go

pick up your Christmas gifts or even pick out your tree for you.

There's also an Uber calmer carolers option where you can hire people to sing on your

doorstep.

But it sounds kind of cool.

It's a one day only thing and only available in five cities, New York, LADC, Dallas and

Miami.

The quote one day is tomorrow, December 7th, which is pretty early for carolers and kind

of just, you know, came out of nowhere.

So I don't know.

They hired McCulley Culkin for the ad because he needs the company quote, during the holidays,

I've been left all by myself not once, not twice, but three times and I'm not by myself

anymore.

It's actually I think a pretty good ad, not bad.

The thing that I like the most about it is just seeing how healthy and happy McCulley

Culkin seems to be.

I had to be honest, I root for child stars, whether I think they're good or not, I root

for them and too often they don't turn out like he did and he almost didn't turn out

like this.

He had struggles, but yeah, he's doing all right.

Big shout out to his younger brother, Karen, who was a big help in that, big, big help

become quite, he said it quite the career.

I will watch anything Karen Culkins in, anything, I still haven't caught up on succession

though.

But yeah, that's a great show and he's great.

And it's cool.

I just think it's a cool idea too.

I'm with you, Melissa.

I think, would I like this to be more organic?

Absolutely.

But I'm the realist.

Oh, it seems like the thing, like the singing ballon grams that you can hire to do at valentines.

Yeah.

It seems kind of similar.

It is similar, but I think part of the problem is the boy, the caroling thing,

really, with a pandemic that really wrecked that, I mean, because we would, every, you

know, place that every church that Beth and I have been at almost every year, we would

put together a group of people to go around, especially to like nursing homes and assisted

living places and go in and same to one, yeah.

And boy, but since, you know, since COVID, it's been, it's gone way downhill because of

the concerns about health and all that stuff.

So, yeah, which is too bad, but I understand why they do it, so much like trick or treating

or some other things.

Maybe it doesn't go away.

Maybe it just evolves.

Yeah.

Maybe it just turns into something new and different.

Maybe this is part of it.

We do it over the phone now.

You can call people up and sing to them, yeah.

Stand outside their windows.

Exactly.

Or you can go to the first congregational church on Saturday and hear the holiday concert.

That's right.

And so, rapids area community, a choir is singing at 4 p.m. at first congregational church

for admission, free well donations accepted.

That's a great job, I hear Melissa nicely done.

It's the most wonderful time of the year.

Check it out, everybody.

Check that out.

And stick around.

Oh, did you have something?

I was just going to say, one of the 6,000 things that are going on on Saturday, yeah.

That's right.

We'll get into that.

We'll get into that.

We'll get into that one in early.

Yeah, exactly.

And it's good we did because, yeah, we're going to take the next segment and take our time

with that.

Make sure that we get all these local events in that are going on this weekend.

But I do want to send one more call out to anybody out there who is a part of a caroling

group or anything like that.

I'd love to know if there's are some out there that are still doing that and everything.

Let us know and we'll spread the word about what you're doing.

It's absolutely.

We'll be back with more show coming up right here on the morning show at WFHR, locally

grown radio.

Welcome back everybody.

Big show here at WFHR, locally grown radio, Melissa, Seth and James wrapping things up taking

to the top of the hour.

We got some great local events going on in our area all throughout the weekend.

We want to get into some of that for you and that's where we're going to kick off this

segment and get all of, make sure we get all of these in.

And I do want to kick things off talking a little bit about our schedule and of course

we encourage you to stick around for Matt and Aaron, Aaron, Jane and Greg have a great

one lined up for you.

They're going to get you ready for the weekend and lead you into your afternoon where you

can catch the Maggie Dawn show from 2 to 4.

Be sure to check that out as well and stick around for Midday magazine.

An amazing set of guests to wrap up the week.

We have Wisconsin State Representative Scott Kruegen with us at 4 and looking forward to

talk.

We haven't got chance to talk to Scott since his reelection.

That's right.

I've got a couple of things, I think I have a curve ball question for Scott.

I think I've got a good one for you.

But we got some other things that we're going to be talking about with him looking forward

to that.

And we wrap up the week with our great great friend Phil Brown of the Southville County

Historical Museum.

Liz Stern is also going to be in with us.

We're going to talk about their Christmas tree walk.

Oh yes.

That's going to be opening this weekend too.

Yeah.

I love talking to Phil.

I only apologize to the audience and I don't get sidetracked just talking history with

him.

I'm looking forward to that one.

We got a great lineup for you as well.

After that, stick around for playmakers from five to six.

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Get them out of your system.

You don't want to go into the weekend with those.

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You don't want to do that.

As we learned last week, those can go rancid.

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It really is.

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After that, we'll lead you into some Wisconsin men's hockey as they're taking on Michigan

state at 630.

Nice.

And of course, on our sister station, WIRI, 105, WIRI, it puked drops at seven for River King's

hockey.

That's right.

They're taking on the Minnesota Blue Ox tonight and tomorrow night, Mike and Seth are

going to have that one for you.

You know it's going to sound good.

Awesome.

Looking forward to that.

It's been fun to hear him.

Mike do hockey.

He's getting so good at it.

He's getting really good at calling hockey games.

You give Michael a chance to work at something and that's what he's going to bring him.

Yep.

He is a hard worker and so intelligent with these new sports and all these things.

I'm really enjoying working with him and being a part of things here.

Yep.

We're enjoying his stuff on the newsletter too, everybody be sure to check that out.

And then our weekend of sports here at WFHR at 11.30 a.m., the big one.

The Badgers taking on the Marquette, Marquette.

It's a battle for Wisconsin.

It's the Wisconsin battle.

It's so good.

But that also means no of the back fence or half an hour, half an hour over the back fence.

So yeah, we'll fill it with something.

Yeah.

We'll play Christmas music out of those.

That's a good idea.

Or your kid just call in.

Everybody.

Yeah.

I'm there for the 11 to 11.30.

So call in and spread the word about that show.

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We want to keep it around.

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And then of course more of Rubik King's hockey Saturday at 7.00 be sure to check that out.

And Sunday at 1.40 Wisconsin waves, basketball, hosting Rutgers.

They're playing just as good as with men.

Yep.

That's good.

There's some really good stuff going on there.

Yes.

And Seth, great friends in Nekusa have something going on kicking off tomorrow.

Well, they do.

We have their holiday parade and fireworks to officially kick off the holiday season in

Nekusa.

The parade starts at about 5.15 on Bueller Avenue.

It's a magical evening that will light up both the streets and the sky with festive

floats and a spectacular fireworks show to conclude the night.

Celebrate the holiday season with a joyful community gathering filled with fun entertainment

and the holiday spirit.

Fun holiday parade starting at the library and ending at Goodfellas is followed by fireworks

at Riverside Park, which start at to give or take about 6.30.

Coming up on Saturday.

It's a great way to spend time with the family and friends and to kick off the holiday season

in Nekusa.

And that concludes the day of things they have going over there at Nekusa.

They have a full day.

They heard a jolly day is this happening from noon to four open house at Nekusa.

Fire station, the Nekusa Christmas holiday crafts arts and more at the Nekusa community

center.

That's a craft fair that goes from 93.

They have story time and cookie decorating and the library, Christmas coffee, bake sale

and luncheon.

That's at Market Street Church by the bridge.

And then of course, like you said, the parade.

Yes.

It's so much.

It's with Santa.

Don't forget breakfast with Santa.

Yeah.

And it's good news.

And it's good news.

From 8 to 10.

Nobody does Christmas like Nekusa.

You know, having lived there for a long time and know the people of that area so well,

they do it.

They do it right over there.

Big shout out to that.

And I do want to send a special shout out to our listeners.

I've talked to over the last couple of weeks and some businesses out in that area that

have wanted to come back and work with us again and be a part of things.

Appreciate that and appreciate our connection with the Nekusa area and not letting anything

get in the way of that.

Yeah.

We've been here for 80 plus years supporting that area and it's great to see the locals

getting that and seeing that.

We appreciate you out there.

I do want to also mention our friends from this store point boss are going to be a part

of things with the Heritage holidays.

I'll be sure to check that out.

Everybody great historic crafts, demonstrations, they're going to have a scavenger hunt.

Those are always fun.

I love scavenger hunts.

Check that out.

And of course, keep history alive and find out more at thestorepointboss.com, historic

pointboss.com.

And you could see how that's coming along with the new Saratoga Hall.

They do it new.

Oh, yes.

The old Saratoga Hall that they moved over.

They moved over there.

Yeah.

They moved over there.

Yeah.

We'll fill a little bit later.

But the eighth annual Christmas tree walk kicks off to Mauro from 12 to 4 and they'll be

doing this on the seventh, eighth and ninth from 12 to 4 December 13th, 5 to 8 December 14th

and 15th, 12 to 4 11 rooms of holiday magic.

This is free for all ages.

Help our keep history alive here in Rapids at the Southville County Historical Museum find

out more at SWCH-museum.com.

And again, we'll be talking with Phil about this a little bit later.

And while supplies last, you get a cookie on your way out, too, I hear.

That's right.

That's very good.

You got to get there in time.

I got to get one of those cookies.

Rustic retreat furnishings and DCM landscaping are hosting a fundraising craft sale tomorrow

from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 258 Oak Drive in town of Rome, 10 to 20 percent of the sales go

to the foundation.

And that foundation is the Alexey Dove Foundation.

I care about those people very much and wanted to make sure to put that out there and a big

tip of the hat to everybody involved with that organization.

They do some amazing work.

They do.

Did you want to mention the cookie walk again?

Oh my gosh.

Isn't that one of the great things about Christmas?

Is the cookies?

And this Saturday at St. Lawrence, their annual cookie walk is going on.

The women, the council of Catholic women will be holding it starting at, let's see, where's

the town?

Oh, 8.30.

There we go.

It starts at 8.30 goes to 10.30.

This is at St. Lawrence Church Hall, 5.30 10th Avenue North in Wisconsin Rapids.

The price is $9 per pound.

You heard that right?

Make sure to choose your selection of cookies from a huge variety and pay up when you get

there.

I mean, you'll be having a couple of pounds cookies there.

They're also have raffle baskets and items, raffle tickets are $1 each or $1 each or $645.

The proceeds go to help the Catholic women and parish projects at St. Lawrence.

But doesn't matter, it's cookies.

You want to go get cookies and delicious Christmas cookies.

That's right.