Good morning, Wisconsin. Morning, world. It's a new day. Thanks for kicking it off with us right here at WFHR locally grown radio. Got your
host James J behind the mic. I am joined by our good our our co-host our head of news. Melissa K good morning in studio. Yeah,
you made me come here. You know, just like on all the good things that happened on Friday the 13th, the
catastrophes happened like my second marriage. Yeah. Oh, she's great. Nicely done right off the gate right
out the gate. Had a production co-host set the head back. Good morning. Follow that. Yeah, I can't. Got good things like
Nupfrey with everybody. He's only been married once. We've got great things lined up for you today
everybody after we get done with our entertainment to kick things off this hour. I want to get into who is the the
ideal who is the I want to say best but your Christmas voice. Who do you like to hear the most? Who do you
think is the quintessential Christmas voice for you? Okay. I wanted to open this up to the audience. I was
right there. Yesterday. Yeah. Feel free to call up because we can take the call and turn our mics off and
listen to him possibly. I guess it's hard to interact that way. Yeah. We'll just save that from Monday.
Text us. Text us on the text line because we can absolutely interact with you that way. Yeah. If you hit us
up on our Facebook pages, I'm keeping an eye on my phone. I'll be looking for direct messages. But you
should also have that app downloaded on your phone because you want to enter the text to win contest. That's right. Get in on the
winning everybody. We'll get in on that. We also get some other fun things that going on. You are
supposed and drones and Jersey and all that. We got to talk about that one. And clear the air on some of
that. Actually had something. I don't know how many people. Oh, I imagine a lot of people heard and felt
the sonic boom we had yesterday. Oh, that was pretty crazy. I missed that. My mom and dad flipped out
and and where my dad is blaming the trains. And my mom. I mean, that's easy. And my mom right away is
Jimmy. You just don't know. You don't know. Like mom, they on the Facebook page, the National Guard said
that the doing sonic boom testing. I feel confident that that's what is it? Is it?
So yeah. Are those drones flying over? Yeah, exactly. But we of course kick off our entertainment section
as the home of Dolly Parton news with Dolly Parton news. In case you didn't know, the nationwide
search is underway for someone to play Dolly Parton. And we've been talking about this a little bit.
This is about the third time we've actually touched on this story in a short amount of time. Because
it is one of the bigger things that is going on right now in the entertainment industry. But not
on the national media front. Like I got to say, I'm looking, I just actually got new representations.
So I have a new agent and she's amazing. She's been in the industry for a long time. And she is a
talker and a gossiper. She owns this right away. It's like the second thing I learned about her.
But she's been talking about how this is one of those things that they're talking a lot about
behind the scenes and the hype and the energy behind this and a lot of good energy. But
there's already been some castings of roles in Dolly's life that you can imagine that I've been
going on. But the one key role people have known there's nothing. And she couldn't remember one time
in her 40, 50 year career where she there was something this kind of a role. And there's no like,
oh, so and so is going to play this or oh, so and so is going to play this. There's nothing.
Nobody knows who's going to be playing Dolly. That's crazy. Makes sense. Yeah. In some ways.
So because Dolly's behind it. The show will be called Dolly an original musical. It's set to
premiere on Broadway in 2026. Dolly even encouraged people to post their auditions videos online
from around the world. And people have shown up. They have been doing this.
Currently, the internet is freaking out because they think they found the perfect Dolly.
And honestly, it might be one of the best impressions of her scene. There's a young lady,
her name is Kelly O'Brien. And she has Dolly's accent, mannerisms, and laugh down to a science.
So much so that she has made a career out of it in the UK. She called her her act the Dolly show.
All right. Okay. And impersonator. That's cool. Yeah. Impersonators abound. Yeah. That's so
cool. Some of the comments are lined. The English accent straight to Dolly's precise southern draw.
You're a wizard. The resemblance is truly uncanny too. And just going to try to show you guys a
little picture of her here. Yeah. It does look a lot like Dolly. She's got the hair. She's got
the figure. I'd say that's a dead ringer. Not bad. And from what we're hearing, the voice seems
pretty similar to what I will say. It does sound like if they're doing, if they're sticking with
the original concept, this is Dolly at multiple stages of her life. Right. So you certainly need
somebody to play Dolly at this age range. And I could see her fitting that. But there's also,
you know, the what is it? The AI that they used for Tom Hanks and. Oh, yeah. Oh, the D aging stuff.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Right. The Department. Right. Thank you. The Irish was all the same buttercup.
I knew that wasn't right. Yeah. They did it with the Irishman too with the heroine's peshy and all
that. So yeah, you're right. Yeah. They could easily do that with any of these actors too. That's
a really strong point. And honestly, that of all the AI stuff, that hasn't really bothered me that
much. It's kind of cool. They're still paying the actor. They're still, you know, that
always still getting that, you know, exactly. And well, it's one actor versus the potential what,
five or a lifetime. Another good point. It has more consistency for the audience, I would say.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Which I really is a huge part of this and pulling something like this
off. Man, I can't wait to see what happens with that though. Yeah. It's going to be exciting to
follow. And I really, I have a hard time believing that that won't be good. You know, I understand
it's Broadway. We've seen some really big disasters. Oh, wait. It's Broadway. I don't know how they
could use that AI on Broadway, though. Well, when they make the movies, they will make the movie.
Especially if it's a hit. Yeah, they will. Yeah. We just mentioned earlier Dick Van Dyke turned
99 today. And just the other day, his neighbors had to come to his rescue because he couldn't get up.
Oh, no. You know how he had to evacuate his Malibu mansion because of wildfires.
Right. Well, he's back home now and gave some details about how the evacuation went down. Dick
said he tried himself. He tired himself out trying to untangle his fire hose. Quote, I was trying
to crawl to the car. I had exhausted myself. I couldn't get up and three neighbors came and
carried me out. They saved me. Oh, that's awesome. He added that the neighbors also put out a small
fire in the guest house. Oh, wow. Okay. Um, I have no place to say this, but as somebody who cares
for people, uh, you know, uh, and has cared for people in that age range before and everything.
Why is Dick Van Dyke alone? Yeah. That's a great question. What he's got a huge family. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. It's certainly. Well, I mean, probably part of it is his independence and wanting to live
alone. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. And, and maybe this just happened to fall this way. Like people
usually home, they just happen not to be home or there's a caretaker that comes in and checks in.
Yeah. Yeah. This is the one moment it didn't happen without wanting to dig into the man's
personal life. Let's just assume that. Yeah. Just that, you know, he's 90, 90 years. And he
obviously knows his limitations. He said it. He's like, I wore myself out. He exceeded his
limitations. Yeah. Right. Exactly. So he knows he understands that knowing, uh, just, and I don't
mean knowing him, but knowing a little bit about him, just from watching every single interview,
the man's pretty much ever done. Uh, I, I will say a guy who loves a little bit of darker humor.
I can only imagine him looking back at this and like with all the pret falls he did in his life.
He turned it into a skin. Yeah. He definitely did. He definitely did. I have no doubt my mind.
He did. Because that's a, that's a, that's a man that's, you don't get to turn off the
comedian brain. It's always working. And that's perfect fodder. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely.
Just very happy he's doing well. Yeah. There's one of your good stories of the day.
That is a good story. Looking at what's new on your small screen, big screen and your local
theater stage. Uh, today, uh, Max, uh, premiering, uh, the second Joker movie. If you are curious
about wasting a couple of hours, uh, no, to each their own, uh, it's just, there's been a,
it's been a long time since I saw a, like almost people coming together to universally pan this movie.
Right. It's been like since Morbius that people have come out of the woodworks to just kind of be
like, you know, this wasn't a good idea. To dunk on it. Yeah. I mean, that's a little cheesy. And
it's not about the movie or the performances. It's not, it, it isn't. It isn't. Part of it is what
made that movie so popular. They completely went against for the next one. And people are a little
tired of not, you know, not paying attention to your fan base. Uh, the, the, the guys that, the
people that really made this movie, they kind of pushed, they, they went away in the other direction.
So it's like they didn't even care or didn't even pay attention to who made the movie.
Right. Right. And that really turned people off from it. So, right, especially
being so, so, um, so extreme in the difference. I think that had a lot to do with that. Yeah.
If you, if you would have incorporated some things in there, maybe kept some things,
the tone maybe, a few things more the same. Maybe you could have gotten away with it. Yeah. But
in this case, I think because they went so far, a field. Yeah, we're talking about the one
with Joaquin Phoenix. Yeah. That's right. Right. Yeah. Okay. I'm trying to. Um, and, and again,
it's a Joaquin Phoenix strong actor. Lady Gaga only getting better and better as an actor with
everything she does. It's not some, to me, about them or the performances. It's not even about
their director, Todd Phillips, who's an amazing director. Right. It's the concept, I think. It was
the whole idea. Yeah. Yeah. And, and, and just being so out of tune or being so, I don't care what
you think we're going to do what we want to do. Right. That's not what this is supposed to be about.
You want to make movies for yourself, then maybe don't use the studio's money. Maybe don't,
you know, maybe, you know, that kind of, could you have done this and just not, could this have worked
if there was no Joker? Yeah. It was just an original story. That's what I, original characters,
maybe then it would have worked. I would love to have seen these movies with none of the makeup,
with none of the Joker, just a taxi driver type character. Right. Yeah. We've seen actually do well
in cinema many times. I don't think they needed the Joker stuff. Now, see, this actually, I'm
going to play devil's advocate here because this makes me want to watch this movie over. And I've
never watched any of the other Joker movies. See, perfect. So it does appeal to a potential audience
of one. No, but I know I'm not alone in that. Yeah, perhaps. But it's not going to be, yeah,
the box office hit that they want. Exactly. Yeah. But that's a good point though. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you.
You made one point out my good point, Seth. I appreciate that. I won't blacklist you today.
The only way the audience knows if we make good points is if we put up that point it out.
I'm really excited about this one. Netflix today. Carry on. It's starring Terran Egerton as a TSA
agent trying to outsmart Jason Bateman as a bad guy. I love Jason Bateman. I love, especially
as a bad guy. Yeah. I'm going to see that guy off of everything. So that should be pretty good.
And Conclave, a religious thriller starring the Great Ralph Fines as a cardinal investigating
secret political factions, making a power grab for St. Peter's throne after the death of the Pope.
Oh, religious thrillers. Yeah. Thriller mystery. Elton John's never too late concert happens on
Disney Plus tonight. You can check that out. Wow. That is also out there. Still going strong.
And on the CW tonight, the 92nd annual Hollywood Christmas parade. You can check that one out.
Jeremy Renner is this year's grand marshal. Oh, good on him for being able to do that. Yeah, not bad.
And on Saturday live this week, Chris Rock hosts. Gracie Adams is the musical guest.
Anytime rock is this rock coming home, coming home to 30 rock. And evening with Dewey Lupa.
Lupa is, am I saying they're Dewey Lupa or Lupa? Lupa, I think it is. Dewey Lupa. You got me on that.
Anything Dewey is Sunday on CBS. It's at 30. It's a two hour concert starring her and a full orchestra.
The Royal Albert Hall. Wow. And she's got to do it with Elton John during that.
Boy, Sir Elton's everywhere this weekend. My goodness. A lot of stuff on your small screen this weekend.
How about your big screen? What's coming out big this weekend? Not a ton. There are two big ones,
but not a lot else. The Lord of the Rings, the War of Rohheim. I think I'm saying that right?
Yeah, it's an animated one. I believe it's an animated film.
But you do have the Lord of the Rings team behind it. Peter Jackson is behind it. The guy who did
all the other Lord of the Rings movies. It looks like a little bit of a Japanese anime, almost
kind of anime. I'm curious. I'm curious very much about it. It looks interesting.
I'm curious, but I don't know if I'm alone on this one. Part of the reason I'm curious is because
of my first real, other than my grandfather making me read the books, my first real interaction with
the Lord of the Rings was the original animated Hobbit movie. Oh, yes. I love that movie. The
Teenie one. Oh, I love that movie. Man, I watch it right now. I love that movie. And a little bit
creepy too with Gollum. Gollum. Oh, my God. Oh, that's creepy. That's the creepiest Gollum.
It's even nothing against Andy Circus and his amazing performance. But, oh, man, it's good.
The voice actor did that. It was amazing. Yeah, it had great voices in that. Orson Bean, of course,
was playing Play's Bilbo in that one. The great John Houston plays Gandalf, which is perfect.
Oh, his voice is perfect. So I have a little hope for this just because I know Peter Tex does his
homework. Oh, yeah, he had a little bit, you know, wanting to do an animated version of this.
You got Brian Cox from Succession doing one of the voices too. Oh, again, fabulous. That's
pretty good. And the animation in that one is just, it's so nostalgic. And he really did that.
You just got it. 1977. Oh, my God. So it came out. The hero is born too. I didn't know that. Wow,
thank you. It played, they re-ran it several times in the 80s. So, and as a sucker for, oh,
sorry, popularized the, the smoke rings. Yes. Yes. Oh, I got, I got a watch. I got a watch.
And as a sucker for action and superhero movies, you know, I'm excited about Craven the Hunter.
This is a rated R. Superhero movie, though. Oh, I'm bringing the kids to this one. This is Sony Marvel
one, I believe. Yeah. One of the top, I would say right after, like, Glenn Powell or some of the
other actresses out there right now, then the biggest name in acting that's moving up the charts
is Aaron Taylor Johnson. And he has stars as Craven. Russell Crowe is in this one as well. I don't
know how Russell Crowe keeps getting all these roles in the Marvel universe. He's zoos. He's this.
Well, this is a little different because it's the spider Sony one. So it's a little different,
but yeah. Aaron Taylor Johnson and his abs are taking over Hollywood. He's amazing.
And he could be the next James Bond. There's rumors that he could be the next James Bond.
That's he looks the part. He could do it. I'm a big fan. I still want a red head.
He was in the movies, the kick-ass movies. He was a lead actor in those. When he was a youngster,
yeah, right away, I'm like, I'm going to like this guy. I didn't know he'd turn into all this.
He's done some really good work. Bullet train is not a bullet. Yeah, that's the one he's in too.
And of course, more importantly than all of this, what is new on your on your local community
theater stage. That's right. We've got two more shows for Irving Berlin's White Christmas.
Two. That's it, everyone. You don't want to miss it. It's really good. It will get you in the
holiday spirit for sure, saying all the way home. They told me I would and I did it.
Got a seven o'clock show tonight. A two o'clock matinee refs everything up tomorrow.
Just real quickly, a personal thank you and a great run for all of the cast group.
Everybody involved. Thank you so much for taking time out of your busy lives this time of
year of all times of year to be doing this. So many of you, there's very few people out there
that don't have other things going on. This is a big cast and they worked really hard on this one.
Let's give them a good crowd. Everybody, let's make sure they got sold out shows. Both of these days
and while you're doing that, you know that you're putting back into your community and helping your
local community theater do the great work they are doing. Yep. Take a look at what WRCT does.
No, you don't have to listen to three of us. Go ahead and look at their social media. Take
a pay attention to it out the year. How they work with the ODC, how they work with other non-profits
and other organizations. A rising tide raises all boats and that is what WRCT does.
You have been doing for over 50 years. Help them celebrate their 50th anniversary and check out
a great holiday show. White Christmas. Yeah. Just checked. There are a few tickets left for tonight
and tomorrow. Yes. We want you to help get them for one of their biggest shows in like a couple
of decades. Yeah. So far, they've gotten more people to these shows and they haven't a very long time.
Well, and it is with the first time they've done a musical in what? A decade?
Yeah, it's been a long time. Yeah. So the success of this show both on already with the people that
turned out, that's a big part of this. So that's already success. And then obviously it doing
well box office wise. It means we can do more shows like this. Exactly. Yeah. Because royalties
for musicals aren't cheap. Yeah. They tend to be more expensive. Yeah. Absolutely.
Get on down there and check out these shows and of course get your tickets at wrctheter.org
or you can get them right there at the front desk for the show. And keep in mind we've got some
other cool things going on over at WRCT. They're first ever children's theater Christmas program coming
up December 20th. Get your tickets for that. Everybody, man, this looks fun. Yeah. It's going to be fun.
Told me there was an age limit when I tried to audition for it. Yeah. Sorry.
Thankfully, there is. Well, actually, there is a bit of an age limit for the role of going for it.
I didn't mean to do that. Arsick and old lace. The auditions are coming up next Monday and Tuesday.
Get there from 630 to 830, everybody. And audition for this one. Stephanie is one of our best directors
we have in this area. Mostly does a lot of Hopo stuff. Yeah. This is going to be pretty cool.
Be her second time on the main stage. And she's really excited about this. I believe it.
But you can fill out your audition form right online, wrctheter.org. And fill out your
audition form. Then you don't have to worry about it. When you get to your audition, you're ready to go.
Ready to go. Get your tickets and support your local community theater at wrctheter.org.
Melissa, Seth and James, we back more show right here on the morning show at WFHR.
Welcome back, everybody. Morning show at WFHR, locally grown radio. Melissa, Seth and James,
hanging out with you, being played in by the amazing Lindsey Sterling.
It's like a great voice that you just want to listen to over and over again.
Yeah, it's going on a rabbit hole with our crazy video for this by the way. Lots of dancing.
Dancing playing at the same time is so fantastic. Yeah.
They're seeing like when you see singers like a Beyonce or somebody like that, they could do all
the dancing wall pulling off and keeping perfectly in tone and all that. It's right there with it.
Oh, absolutely. I would say it's probably even harder considering how quickly a violin can
get out of tune or can warble a little bit. That's that's so much control there.
It's my live work is really cool to see too. And I imagine she might have something going on.
She does a lot of Christmas stuff, so she might have something going on right now.
But I purposely played her in because we're going to spend right up to our news break here,
talking a little bit about Christmas voices. This is part one of this. Part two will be on Monday
where we want audience participation. So you guys got all weekend to think about your answers.
Listen to the music. Oh, wow. Well, she's ready. Now there are, I think we'll throw some
voices out there. Plenty. There's plenty of voices. I think that we we've already touched on
before. I think that, you know, whether it's being Crosby or Andy Williams, Johnny Mathis.
Yep. There's some voices there.
Big, frosty. You know, I'm trying to think of some other ones that I listen to growing out
because we had we didn't have all the records, but we did have a few, Nat Cole. Of course,
Nat King Cole, that we had that classic one. We had all the classic ones. I heard them all.
We had Kevin yesterday bring up a great one with Alvin and the Chimax.
Yeah. That was great. That was awesome. That was really good.
That's one of my favorites. Actually, he had that on a record.
Probably a lot of people have that on record. Yeah.
Other people might note maybe it's only one or two songs, but I know that in talking to some
of our listeners in the last couple of days, Elvis came up. Christmas. He had a couple of
Christmas albums. I love that one. I hear all day for Melissa's Elvis impersonations.
All day. Thank you. Also with his bird, they just the other day, Sinatra came up.
I forgot, honestly. Now, if you had said Dean Martin, oh yeah. Dean Dino. Yeah.
He did a couple of classic Christmas songs, but Sinatra did too. In fact, there's a couple of
specific songs. Christmas Waltz is probably the one they play most of his, and oh no, that's Dean
Martin. Sorry, I was thinking about that. That's Dean Martin though.
For me, it's Judy Garland and have yourself a very little Christmas.
Oh, wow. That one is Christmas for me. And then also, of course, the Charlie Brown Christmas.
The Vince Crawley music. Yeah. Oh my gosh. Some of the best instruments are metal.
Music you're going to hear too. Yeah. There's also Manheim Steam Rollers Christmas.
Yes. I really enjoy their their Christmas albums. I got it. Hopefully none of my family is listening.
I may have gotten the CD as one of the gifts for the the game that I'm bringing to Christmas this
weekend. Oh, it's going to go on a brown paper bag. People aren't going to get to know what they
grab. I like it. That's cool. I like that. It's good. It's really good. I also hold the phone.
I also found a VHS tape of white Christmas. Oh, yes. It's rapper. Nice. Really. Unopened.
Vintage. Wow. Now, I just have to find my VHS player. I have two of them. I don't know where
they went. That's so cool. I mean, I've moved like three times, but it's got to be somewhere.
I hope so. Here's hope. I was saving them. Some bring them. They make them anymore.
They don't know. It's tough. Yeah. Well, I've been looking too. Kevin wrote in Brenda Lee.
Got to mention Brenda Lee of course. Yeah. Yeah. Rock and roll Christmas tree. Yeah.
You got to hear that this time of year. Some of our younger listeners chimed in too and
mentioned, of course, Mariah Carey. Some mentioned Run DMC. They do have a couple of
a couple of more than one and more than one. And Michael Boobley. Yes. He is the ultimate Christmas
of the current day that has that old sound. Right. Right. He has kind of the Dean Martin,
the Judy Garland, the Frank Sinatra sound. I found this out. I'd forgotten this and found
this out when I was putting together my Christmas episodes of Unlabeled. I got two episodes coming
up one this weekend and one next weekend. Next weekends will feature some more of the classics
from the 90s. And man, the country music Christmas songs. I did not realize how many there were.
It was it was a matter of crazy the 90s. Yeah. I wanted to include some country. I didn't
realize it would be that hard to I found out. Yeah. I found Alan Jackson and Alison Kraus doing
a song together. I'm like, okay, well, that's going in there. And you know, there's some others
that night. I just scratched the surface. Wait until next year's Unlabeled Christmas episodes
where it's just almost all country. So there's a lot of there was that brought up. I thought
Ella Fitzgerald and some of the great jazz of Christmas songs were good ones too to know.
The strange reason that my favorite things is a Christmas song. I've always been very curious to
me. I'm like, why is that a Christmas song? Is they talk about packages? Yeah. Packages,
I guess maybe yeah, that must be part of it. I don't know. But her version of that it is
is classic. Ella Fitzgerald's version of my favorite. It does talk about all things kind of
overrated. Yeah. Is that the snowflakes that stay on my nose and I love it? Just gotta give her
a give her an inch. I'm sorry, I have to take a moment. I can't cover up. I love her voice.
These are a few of my favorite things. Again, Christmas song though. I don't know. Is it the
die heart of Christmas songs? I think it is. It may be. It may be. I'm not sure. Well,
I'm surprised. Here's a voice that I'm surprised. It's not bigger. Harry Connick Jr. Yeah,
because I know he's recorded Christmas songs, but he's not one you necessarily think of though.
What about Dally Parton? She put on an album in 2020 for Christmas Christmas where we are.
She wrote one of the all-time underrated Christmas songs, Hard Candy Christmas. That's been
recorded by many artists. Oh, I love that song. It is so good. I have to say, you know, the song Mary
did you know? One of the favorite versions I ran across recently was, and recently I mean in the
last few years, Pentonics. Pentatonics. They have a good version of that. Yes. Steve, you wonder,
Willie Nelson have had some good ones over the years. Perry Como. Perry Como. Kind of forgotten.
Very poor Perry. Yes, no. It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. It's usually the one you
hear on that one. It's his version of that. Amy Grant. Yeah, Amy Grant. Just speaking up, Mary,
do you know she wrote that one? Yeah. That's a good one. The Andrew Sisters. Oh, yeah, especially
with Bing Crosby, a couple of little classics to them. Yeah. So Melissa kind of gave, not kind of,
she gave us hers. Seth, do you have a quintessential voice that you can only, you got to hear one voice,
all Christmas or one voice for Christmas. What would it be? It's got to be Andy Williams because of
that we had like two or maybe three of his Christmas albums growing up. And we had it on a rotation.
Here's a name that I don't think a lot of people remember. He had a, he had a Christmas
album come out in the 70s that was all like originals and like non off the beaten path Christmas
songs. Roger Whitaker. Oh, and again, I don't know if a lot of people know who Roger Whitaker is. He
was, he had one of those really fabulous soft mellow baritones that could, you know, could sing any
kinds of any number of songs. His, his Christmas album from the 70s is one of my all time favorites.
There was one song on there for kids. It's called Darcy the Dragon about Darcy who goes into the
village. He wants to buy presents for his friends. But every time he talks, he breathes fire.
So it's a problem because the villages are like, what are you doing? Where are you putting our
town down again? It's just trying to buy presents. Exactly. It's, it's a cute song. It's very fun.
And it was one that made my sister just absolutely adored when we were, it wasn't Christmas until we
heard Darcy the Dragon. That's the one that I really also like is I want to hit a pot of
mist for Christmas. Yeah. Yeah. No. My sister, every Christmas, we got to hear that one.
It makes me think of my best friend Dianne. I don't know why every time. It's just that.
There is no wrong answer to this one. But we do want your answer. So go ahead.
Test him in because that's the only way you can communicate with us right now.
Yeah. Yeah. Appreciate those of you that did do that too. Thank you so much for interacting
with us and working with us on that. Yeah. But if you don't get a chance or maybe you don't have
the technology to be able to do that, just get us a call on Monday. We should have everything
up and running good Monday. So have your answer set and ready to go. We'll bring it up again
on Monday. We'll just kick off the show that way. We'll start talking about that. Sounds good.
We got more fun things coming up for you right here on Mornings at WFHR.
Welcome back everybody. Morning show here at WFHR.
Locally grown radio Melissa and James hanging out with you a little bit of burlives to play a
single one more name we had to mention. Yeah. That's because I am disjointedly related to him.
So we got to get a plan. And we do want to brag actually about one thing real quick before
we get into our next story. We want to send a special happy birthday to a good friend of ours.
I miss the birthday and anniversary segment. So I had to come in in person to fix this. No.
Thank you Laura. But we yes. I want to lose some very very special happy birthday to Daenerys.
She turned 11. Wow. The big 11. Yeah. Yeah. It's crazy. Oh.
Wishing her a happy happy birthday. I got a special dinner last night just because it's her birthday.
Yeah. Wow. That's how cool for you. Yeah. Herch picked out a really good meal too. She's good.
She's good. Ash potatoes. Corn. It's got good taste. Nice. She's cake. Wow. She's amazing.
We wish her the most amazing of days. A memorable day. Have a great one Danny. Enjoy your birthday.
Happy birthday. Happy birthday. I've never died. Taking a look. That's a good story of the day right there.
I'm alone. Some other ones that we got for you more that coming up. But we've got to get into this one.
Our aliens invading. It's good question for any time. Really. Really. It is. You did just throw
that one out there for once in a while. For a month now, people in New Jersey have been reporting large
car-sized drones in the night sky. And there's all sorts of speculation about what they are.
My dad was even asking me about Jimmy. Who about this? Some think they're just larger than normal drones
being operated from the ground or by pilots. Others think it's a foreign government using it
to spy blah blah blah. And of course, a little green men have been brought up. Of course. A lot of
videos being posted are just planes or helicopters. Of course. Some of the footage is people obsessed.
OK. Folks are convinced something weird is going on. Even a senator has chimed in. Not that that means
anything anymore. National Security Advisor John Kirby downplayed at the White House briefing
yesterday saying that there's no quote no evidence that whatever people are seeing poses a threat
to the public or national security. But the FBI is still investigating. Real quickly right now.
Does anybody actually think that any president at any point in time, if there were UFOs,
wouldn't use that to be like, Hey, hey, here's something. Check this out, everybody. Look at this.
Yeah, right. Well, what's going on? They pay no attention to what's happening over here. Look at this,
every one. They just did it to us. It wasn't even that long ago that the government finally
owned up to, Hey, yes, there are unidentified flying objects, right? They didn't, you know,
say these a little green men or anything, but they have kind of now been very upfront about this.
Hey, for years and years, we've been keeping documentation of objects. We cannot identify.
We do not know what they are. You A P is as they call them. How big of a splash did that make?
Hardly any not a little bit. Something probably like this. Yeah. Yeah. But you're right. This has
gotten more attention. I feel like the net did, which is a wild, but also I want. I hope people
read between the lines on that stuff. Okay. That just because the masses or what we think are the
masses are doing something or even the media is telling us something necessarily do your homework
on these things because yesterday and that doesn't mean Facebook posts. Right. Real, real,
reputable sources. I brought this up earlier for a reason. My mom and dad panicked last night and
that panic panic. There's city people. It wasn't that crazy, but it was a little like what the heck
was that that boom that they that most people heard here. I heard people in Stevens Point
heard it too and everything and they just weren't on social media. So they didn't know that the
National Guard was doing that. Right. So for them, that was just a wild noise. I use it as an
example of what's happening in New Jersey or what's happening in some other places right now.
Now I'm not going to say it's not those things, but I also feel pretty confident that if it were
certain things, oftentimes in life, if you're trying to make a look for, you know, hey, what's going
on here? What shady things happening here? What do people have to gain? What do people have to gain
by hiding any of this? It's a good point. If you are a foreign nation and you are spying on us,
obviously, you wouldn't want to necessarily own that. But if you are one of the foreign nations
like Russia or North Korea or something like that, they tend to brag about those things.
Which is not very bright, but I'm not going to tell you. It's a PR. I feel like this is one of those
things where we got a lot of other things to put our dig our attention. We got a lot of more
important things. Have we solved childcare? No. Okay. I'm more focused on that than I am little green
men. And as far as being spied on by another country or anything like that, that's above my
pay right. We got government. We got military. We got things that are supposed to be covering that
stuff. Right. Right. Well, you know what? If it is little green men hovering around, I understand
why they didn't land because it was New Jersey. Oh, snap. I don't even know why I made fun of
New Jersey. It's just it's low. Yeah. You got to make fun of New Jersey. Right. Yeah.
It's probably one of one. Yeah. I will say that they probably aren't going to stop because,
oh, it's Christmas. I didn't get anybody anything. They're very embarrassed. Yeah. You got to stop by,
like you got to stop by after Christmas. It's like, I remember a friend I had. He met a girl he
liked. And this is like right out of high school. Meets a girl he likes. They're hitting it off
and everything. But he didn't think they could start dating like now because it was right before
Christmas. And the idea of like getting somebody a gift that you've been dating a week or whatever.
He was dead serious about this. Weird. As somebody who was at the time newly divorced, I looked
him in the eyes and told him, you hang on to this. You guys, they've been married. I think about
11 years. Oh, there you go. Maybe underballing that may be over. Yeah. Either way, they've
been married for over a decade for sure. I'll never forget how dead serious he was about this
and everything. Dude, one expert thinks that accident, the incident was just starlink satellites
reflecting light because good possibility. On the other side of the country, at least four pilots
have reported UFOs in the sky near Eugene, Oregon last Saturday night. There's audio of one of the
pilots saying that they were moving at extreme speeds and going up and down, corkscrew, things
that our ships can't do. Right. Right. So something light can do though. And so that's where the star
link thing comes in. Yeah. It's a good example of that because, and I believe they don't call
them UFOs anymore in the military. They call them UAPs. UAPs. Yeah. On an identified aerial phenomenon.
I believe it's what they call it now. Instead of object phenomenon. Yeah. Yeah.
We all did. It's that word. It's the word. That's great.
It's interesting and wild. But while I love a little mystery of life and everything, oftentimes it is
often just, you know, this hitting the scene that you think. Yeah. Yeah. More times than not.
Yeah. Which I think though means when there are these really wild interesting things that
happen that are they they are the more that that more more interesting. Yeah. Like a lot of things
in life, I don't feel like you have to scrape the barrel or or make something happen. Just wait.
Just wait. I mean, it's gonna happen. It's gonna. Truth is stranger than fiction. Oftentimes.
Oftentimes. Another good story for you, everybody. A guy, a guy from New York named Chad Caruso is
officially a Guinness World Record holder after skateboarding across the country this year.
Oh, wow. That's different. He did this to raise awareness for mental health. He started
at Menace Beach and ended at Virginia Beach. He must have amazing cast. Yeah.
It took him 57 days, six hours and 56 minutes. Oh my goodness. Wow. That's impressive.
That is impressive. Yeah. That's quick. That is an impressive story right there. Thank you for
doing that. Thank you for raising awareness on mental health. We will take a time out. We'll come
back and wrap up the show morning show here at WFHR. Welcome back, everybody. Morning show here at WFHR,
locally grown radio. Here to wrap up the show, take it right through the top of the hour,
wrapping up for the week. Yeah. Yeah. That's good. We got some good stories of the day,
some local things we're gonna touch on in just a moment. But before all that, I'd actually want to
preview a little bit of next Monday's show with the game. Okay. You guys out there. We appreciate
our long-time listeners. Next Monday, we're going to get into the top winter songs that don't
have to do with the holidays. Oh, I like those. That's good. Yeah. And kind of we're touching
out of the little bit with the Christmas stuff where you were mentioning songs, the Christmas
songs that aren't really about Christmas. Which are Wonderland, not a Christmas song. Is it cool to
take your shoes off at work? We will discuss on Monday. Well, let me try it right now. Let's see what
now. Some of us have done this a handful of times around here. I always do. Yeah. Yeah. I do it to
the top. I will get into that one. And which Christmas song aligns with their Zodiac sign?
Got that one coming up for you too. Oh, okay. Those are always interesting. Yeah. That would be fun.
But we wrap up the week with a couple of good stories. And this one right here, it doesn't
maybe start out as one, but hear me out. Firefighters in Cleveland came to the rescue
have a couple after an engagement photo disaster ended with a diamond ring in a sewer drain. Oh,
no. Nick Mac and Cory Bardinsky were having their engagement photos taken at Emily Ruth cultural
gardens at the University Circle when the mishap occurred. Rush pointed out that they had something
on the back of his, he had something on the back in the pants. She had the bright beam. She said
that to him. He looked to do it to look at it and the ring went flying. Oh, no. He went to wipe it
off. And as he did. Yep. The ring goes. Yeah. This the they could actually like it was like a
pin drop. They heard the ring hit the ground every day. It's like in a movie. It's like slow motion.
Personnel from Cleveland Spire Station, a 30 were summoned to the scene to rescue the photo shoot.
Ruth kept snapping pictures as the firefighters opened up the sewer to retrieve the
precious. I know perfect. Perfect. Yes. Good instincts on the photographer. She did just a
phenomenal job in staying calm, making sure she could get good photos of the firefighters.
And then a great photo of us too, Max said. Great. Wow. What a memory. Oh my gosh.
The couple said they are planning to thank the firefighters with a gift and maybe even invite
them to the wedding. Hey, why not, man? More than a million. That's awesome. safest wedding ever.
And I hope they go. Yeah, they go too. You know, I hope that's really good. I'm big thank you to our
firefighters out there everywhere. We appreciate you doing great work like that that doesn't get
talked about very often, but it's a both a fun story and a chance for us to tip our fireman's
caps to our firefighters. They rescue kittens out of trees and rings out of sewers. I mean,
there you go. There you go. It's some good work. We got to get into some local stuff and I want
to touch on a handful of local things going on. And of course, our schedule here at the station.
The big thing going on, the rest of the today and all next week is our statewide civic media
grown-up gift list text to win contest. Yes. You can text in when the letters are the word.
It's a word when the word letters make up words. The letters they do and you should spell it right.
I mean, how many different ways can you spell jingle? We found out yesterday.
But there'll be new words on the hours the four times a day and you get to text those in on our
our civic media app and you can be entered to win these fabulous prizes. Yeah, you could be one of
the winners of a robot vacuum, a midifier, express a machine, snow blower, luggage set, all kinds of
cool stuff. Eight lucky winners. Yeah, because every hour we're giving away every top of seven,
11 a.m. hours and one and four o'clock hours. We're giving away cash or an overnight
getaway stay at Chula Vista Resorts in the beautiful delves. And then there'll be eight grand prize
winners. Eight count them. It's pretty cool. We have you've got three more chances to play and win
today. And of course next week we're going to do it all next week. Be listening for this.
Listen and download that civic media app. It's free. We're waiting. Go ahead and download the app.
Download the app everybody. It's the only way you can qualify. It is. It is. It is. It is.
It is. It is. It is. Thank you to everybody who's already downloaded the app. Yes.
We have an abbreviated midday magazine for you today. We just have one episode for you,
but it's a good one. Thanks to the visit Wisconsin Rapids Bureau, setting this up. We're going to
talk with Christy and Rich about Rudolph's Country Christmas. Yes. Oh, it's such a fun time.
Oh, my goodness. Something's bad to miss it. It's my family Christmas tomorrow. Otherwise,
I'd be going because they have so many great vendors. There's food. They do. They have a fire in
the middle of the of the area where the vendors set up so you can warm up. There's hot chocolate
with some. You tell she did remote last year. Adult shots added. If you pay more. I mean,
it's good time. It's good time. It is very fun. And it's the and the you can mail your letters from
there. That they have the special stamp for Christmas. Be sure to get that letter in and have
some fun with it. And our great friends at Rudolph, a big shout out to all of our surrounding
areas. And of course, our always Council Rapids roots here and everything. Nobody does Christmas
like Rudolph. Nobody does. It makes sense, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
And over there, support local everybody and enjoy Rudolph Country Christmas and be listening
today at four o'clock for that great interview with Christy and Rich. More great stuff on your
dial for tonight. It is a puck night. Everybody right here at WFHR this at a puck afternoon.
For 30, our pregame kicks off as the badgers take on the Wolverines, Wisconsin versus Michigan
and Big 10 action hockey action right here at 430. And then over on our sister station 105-WRI today
and tomorrow at seven o'clock, the puck will drop for River King's hockey. We do, of course,
encourage you to get a ticket. Go over there and watch in person because there's nothing like
live hockey. But you can't make it tune in. Mike Comer has the call and enjoy some great hockey
action. Yeah. It does a great job. Follow your boys and winters. They build hockey up and down the river.
River King's hockey.com and of course every home game over at 105-WRI 7 o'clock tonight
and tomorrow River King's hockey. This weekend got some great stuff lined up for you this
sunshine poker show of course going on. We got, of course, Terry talks nutrition at eight o'clock,
brought to us by great friends and family natural foods. Hopefully over the back fence tomorrow.
Yeah, over the back fence tomorrow. Hopefully I'll be able to take phone calls and be able to hear
you. So we'll work on that today. But anyway, from 11 to 12 tomorrow, yes, we will have
over the back fence leading up into the badger game at 12.30 working on a Christmas
director's cut episode. But for now, maybe we've probably from last years. We have got a new
set face in the music. We're hoping. Yes, yes. We do have a new one. It is all it's it's smooth.
Nice. Nice. Sorry about smooth. Yeah. Check out set face in the music from six to eight and
from eight to nine unlabeled Christmas edition. Yes. First side of the day. Yeah. Just the first
Friday. Get to Friday. I check that out. Everybody. And thank you so much for supporting me.
The set next week. That's right. That's right. And be sure to join us next week as we have our
call in talk show with the Santa's Santa's Alps Tuesday and Thursday community stories. It's
going to be live on Tuesday and Thursdays. It will be the first time that I am hosting my own
live show. That's not a live remote. That's right. It should be lots of fun. We want kiddos to call
in. Shush Seth. We want the kiddos to call in to have your Christmas wish list ready to share
with Santa via his elf. Sam is busy. You know, he's the elf is going to come in special on the I
think maybe they'll be a reindeer and sleigh. I'm not sure. I made sure that the roof was all ready
to go for the landing strips. You put the lights out and everything. Okay. Good. Good. Good.
Seth's going to be up there directing traffic. Shout out to Chuck for the really long extension
court. And those extra Christmas lights. Yeah. Yeah. Right. We're so excited about this.
Join us next Tuesday and Thursday for community stories going live. Melissa Kay and one to send
his elves five to six. Gonna be a blast. We're looking forward to it. And we're looking forward
to this one going on today. There's a flag folding and honors rendering training happening at our
Donald J. Canuth Memorial Hall at VFW post 2534 27 11 run road from 11 to one. This will be
happening today. Training session is free to participate. Good training to have for all honor
guard teams. And I think for everybody. Everybody. Every American. It's a cool thing to learn.
It's a good thing to know. And an opportunity for you to head on over to the VFW. Maybe you don't
get a chance to go there very often. It's a chance to check that out because they have a lot of
a future events and blood drives and different things they do over there. Be familiar with it.
Yeah. Our VFW does so much for our community. Yeah. We greatly appreciate them all over there.
And be sure to get over there for this training going on 11 to one. Flag folding and honors
rendering training going on today. Absolutely. And get your tickets for Irving Berlin's White
Christmas. There's still some left for tonight and tomorrow. Still few. Still few.
Two o'clock show tomorrow. Seven o'clock show tonight. Get those tickets. Everybody. And enjoy. We
appreciate you. Be good to each other out there. Everyone and a great week today. And I am
I'm so proud of this team today could have thrown a lot of people off. Not us. We roll with it.
Melissa drives into work. Thank you. Appreciate you and appreciate the best listeners in radio.
You guys have yourselves a very fun, safe, wonderful week. Yeah. Meet you back here in Monday.
