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We got some fun stuff lined up for you in this hour.
We're going to get into a little bit later.
The some weird food news.
We're talking Doritos, pizza cheetos, plenty of other things, and a bunch of other fun
stuff that we got lined up in this hour.
But first we kick off with some entertainment news.
And a story that I encourage you to check out from our friends at Wisconsin Public Radio.
I can go to wpr.org to find Evan Casey's great article on Marissa Bodie.
Oh, yes, yes.
Marissa is a first, is the first actor to use a wheelchair in real life to play the
character Nessa Rousse in Wicked.
Mm-hmm.
Yes.
Now, when Marissa was 12 years old, her mom surprised her with tickets to see Wicked
in Madison, the beautiful overture center in Madison, one of the top five places I would
love to perform here in Wisconsin.
It was the first time she had ever seen a person in a wheelchair performing in a play
or a musical or anything like that.
And just a year before that, Marissa was in a car crash to left her paralyzed from the
waist down.
Around 10 years later, she auditioned for the part of Nessa Rousse in the film adaptation
of Wicked, and she got the part.
Yeah, that's so awesome.
And in doing so became the first actor to use a wheelchair to play the character.
Mm-hmm.
And part of the reason we like to bring this up and the reason the article was in WPR
is she is from Menosumi, Misamini.
It is.
Mezomini.
Mezomini, thank you.
You're welcome.
It is right in Dane County.
I know I've even been through it.
She's also been a fan of the Wizard of Oz, and she was like five, super watching it since
she was a kid.
So pretty understanding that she would get into Wicked, considering that and everything.
It is a great article.
I'm not going to read it all for you, but I encourage you to check it out.
Everybody can find it at wpr.org.
She has used her role to show that anything is possible in a video she posted on TikTok.
She called out people being rude and hateful to characters' disabilities.
And while she has not brought this up, her getting this role and the work that she has
done in this, because she is blowing people away, her acting is incredible.
She is doing and only going to get better at this too.
That's one thing I, when I see young actors like her, I can't help but think, well, they're
probably only going to get better at this, you know?
Well, because she hasn't been in this is, I mean, this is kind of, I don't want to say
her very first role, but almost her very first role.
And it's a big one.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, she's going to get a lot of attention because of this as she should.
She did a fantastic job.
Well, and, you know, I think about it and I'm aging out of roles that I wanted to play
and I'm too young for other roles I want to play.
And anytime I go into an audition, even ones that I do well in, I get kind of torn apart
by my appearance and so many of these things.
And that's me at my age as a man, you know?
I can't imagine this young lady going into auditions and the lack of roles that are available
for her and being in a wheelchair and stuff.
And that's not necessarily roles that, that doesn't mean necessarily that there aren't
enough, it does mean that there aren't enough roles for people in wheelchairs, but even
just roles that, well, we could see her in even though the character doesn't traditionally
have a wheelchair.
The representation has many layers to it.
This is one of them that we're, we got to get better about.
One thing that stands out to me and one thing that has come up in the active community
with her performance is, hey, why is she the first person in action that is in actually
a wheelchair doing this role?
Because the character is in a wheelchair.
No, no, I'm sorry.
Why is she the first person who is actually in real life in a wheelchair playing the role
in a wheelchair?
Right.
We're saying the same thing.
Yes.
That is a good question.
Yeah.
Why?
And I don't understand that.
And it should happen more often.
Now, this is one of the dicey things we get into in acting.
It comes up a lot when we're talking about, you know, any character really under the
rainbow umbrella, especially early in the early days of a lot of cinema, having people
that weren't homosexual, playing homosexual characters and stuff like that.
This is something that is new to some people, but has been a part of my life since I got
into acting.
It's pretty hard to find a Italian Jewish Egyptian character.
It doesn't happen very often.
So oftentimes in life, I've played, I've very rarely played a Jew.
I've very rarely played an Italian.
And I wouldn't want anybody to not be able to play some of those roles.
What I would like to just see is the opportunity given to these actors more often.
I am not at all, I don't think I'm alone in this and I've talked to enough people in
the guild to feel like it's pretty, you know, it's pretty much common feeling.
Let the best actor get the role.
Let the most talented actor get the role.
That's certainly something to most of us feel.
At the same time, there needs to be a gray area, a little bit of a gray area, a little
bit of a give to that.
Well, both these actors are really solid at this role, but this person actually is this.
So you know what?
Boom, they got the role.
Yeah.
I don't think it can, it can be, you can have a good middle ground to this.
Mm-hmm.
I agree with that as well, because you shouldn't just get the role because you are X or Y or Z.
But yeah, I think that those things should be taken into consideration.
And be on the, remember that name, Marissa Bodie, everybody, because you were going to be
here and a lot from that young lady.
Oh, yeah.
She did a great job.
Can't wait to see what she does next.
And we want to get into this one, stars and their real names.
And this is making the rounds because, and it feels like this happens every once in a
while.
It seemed to happen when I was a kid.
But there's a lot of people freaking out, they will be Goldberg's name is not will be
Goldberg.
I found this interesting.
There are a lot of stars that do this.
But will be Goldberg shared her testimony to this quote, I was raised and you never asked
anybody how they were voting.
I would say, you know, and it's similar to for actors in the real name that you wouldn't
ask what an actor's real name is, right, because they would prefer some anonymity in real
life.
And I think that's understandable.
We're just talking about this a little bit with filters and everything.
And with that, I'm kind of like a dragon get out a little bit, but her real name is Karen
Elaine Johnson.
Karen.
C-A-R-Y-N, it's spelled Karen, I would never, never have guessed that and no, no.
And I think it's interesting.
Yeah.
I'm curious of where the name comes from, whoopee, whoopee comes from, her, whoopee Goldberg's
ancestors are from Florida and New York, her great, great grandparents were among the
few African Americans who received land in Florida after the Civil War.
She chose the stage name, whoopee, because her colleagues called her that as a nickname,
but also that the, this is something that she, her ancestor, she believed her ancestor
said when they got this land.
There's a couple of tie-ins for it for her.
Now I have not been able to find out why Goldberg, why, why that name.
I have heard it sounds good together.
It does.
She also took the last name Goldberg from each Jewish ancestor, it's said, but I haven't
actually heard her say that.
I've just seen that in an article, so I don't want to associate that to her without hearing
her say it.
That's fair.
But what, it's kind of got me going down a list of actors who don't use their real names,
like Reese Witherspoon's real name is Laura Jean Reese Witherspoon.
Okay.
So she just kind of took out part of it, whatever that was.
Which is I think far more common.
Yeah.
Sigourney Weaver is Suzanne Alexandra Weaver.
So it just kind of starts the same, Suzanne's Sigourney, but just a little bit different.
And let's see here, Diane Keaton's real name is Diane Hall.
Interesting.
Meg Ryan's name is Margaret Mary Emily and Hyra.
Wow.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Demetria Egin Gainus.
Wow.
Demetria.
That is a beautiful name.
That is a beautiful name.
And Natalie Portman.
Netta Lee Herschleig.
That is so Jewish.
That's so man is that a, I love that name, but Netta Dash Ali is very traditional.
That's a good one.
We're known a writer.
We're known a Laura Hurwitz.
Hurwitz.
And obviously some of these were chosen so that they would be easy to pronounce or say
or spell or recognizable.
Yeah.
And I'm choosing a lot of the actors I am for a reason, I'll get to it in a second.
Emma Stone, Emily Stone.
Okay.
Not a huge change up there.
No.
He's almost like a nickname.
And going a little farther back, but still noteworthy, Helen Mirren, Helen Lady Marovina.
And she spells Helen the same though, the first name.
And interesting to see people choose their first, the same first name.
I think that John Stewart did this as well.
There's a couple of them, but most of these actors you're seeing, oh, I want to get in
Vin Diesel.
Vin Diesel's real name, Marks and Claire.
Marks and Claire.
That's great.
Oh, I'd love to see that as a, him just with Marks and Claire at the top of the Fess of
the Furious movies and stuff.
But most, all of these actors, except for a couple of actors, a little bit older and everything,
this comes from an era of what Melissa was saying before of, well, we want names that are
recognizable, names that will stay in people's minds, and most importantly, names that are
easy to say.
And not ethnic, don't want ethnic names, they want to stay away from that.
Oh, you can't have a Jewish last name.
Oh, forbidding.
Don't have a vowel at the end of your name.
This has changed quite a bit.
And actually, in a really interesting amount of time, I think, because back in08, I first
joined the Screen Actors Guild and got my first agent.
And right away, out the gate, my first two, three agents, change your last name, change
your last name.
You know, it's two Middle Eastern or it's too hard to pronounce or et cetera, et cetera.
And eventually, I got an agent out in California who told me, no, keep the name.
That name, that name makes you stand out.
It's not, doesn't sound like everybody else.
Smith.
Right.
And that's kind of where things have kind of stayed.
Where now you're going to see going forward a lot more actors.
If they change their name, it's a little bit more of what have we talked about a couple
times already today, having a little bit of, you know, privacy, yeah, well, privacy
to yourself.
True.
When you are signing your real name to things, maybe it doesn't catch the, you know, media
or social media or something like that, some of that, it gives a little more privacy.
It's not a ton.
People still know what you look like for the most part, but it gives some bit of that
too.
Yeah, I'm a veneer.
Yeah.
It's just kind of interesting.
And I think it's interesting where it's going with this, where more and more people are
being encouraged to keep their real names.
And if they're changing it, it's more so just because they want to.
Well, I don't know if it's his real name, but I hope it is.
Look at Benedict Cumberbatch.
Right.
Yeah.
Perfect.
The greatest example we'll ever have.
Very Stuart Masterson or some other of these names too, but Benedict Cumberbatch is so
good.
He can go by the name Benedict Cumberbatch.
Yeah.
That's the one.
Rapping up didn't want to touch on a local event coming up.
You probably heard about it in Melissa's news break.
Seven rides for seven brothers.
This teen plate is coming up over at McMillan Friday from two to four.
Awesome.
I really, I'm going to try to make it because I really want to see him do this.
You may, you may see my mom and I there.
Oh, good.
My mom loves this movie, The Play, when I told her about it, she got so excited.
Then when I told her that it was being done by a bunch of teens, she just said we have
to go.
That was her first words we have to go.
There are going to be performances at two and seven this Friday.
Awesome.
And you can catch them in their all purpose room over at the Fine Arts Center at McMillan
Library.
You can find out more by going to McMillanLibrary.org.
I'm sorry, McMillanLibrary.
Oh no, it is dot org.
A McMillanLibrary.org.
Be sure to head on over there.
Check out all the cool things that they are doing over at our local library, everybody.
There's been a lot put into our library and we want to make sure that we are taking advantage
of it.
Get on over there.
Check out some of the cool things that got like the cool coloring adult club Thursdays
from 10 to 11 and they're meeting room and plenty of other great things.
You got a lot of good bands going on, they're concert series and so many are great.
There's always something going on there.
Monday movies, you know, on top of all of the books and resources that you can check
out.
Our library is fantastic.
McMillanLibrary.org.
And looking at what's new on your small screen tonight, St. Dennis Medical returns at
7 on NBC after that you'll have night court and deal or no deal.
The Star Wars skeleton crew first season finale wraps up tonight on Disney Plus.
You've also got Ari Schaefer having a new stand of special on Netflix and new episodes
of Will Trent, High Potential, The Rookie and that new TV show Doc.
A lot of people are talking about that one, a lot of people excited about that one.
Okay.
All that is out there for you.
And one more time.
One encourage everybody to check out the WFHR newsletter.
We've got a new addition coming up for you this Thursday.
Yep.
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Appreciate all of you already signing up for it and a big appreciation to our staff around here,
especially our head editor Melissa and the great work you guys are doing on it.
Thank you for that.
Well, and a great job on everybody for filling in for me last week.
Appreciate it.
Huge shout out to Chuck Genaro for taking that on and then everybody that contributes to the articles.
Thank you all so much.
We'll take a time out.
We'll come back and have some more fun on the morning show at WFHR.
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Melissa and James hanging out with you.
Thanks for hanging out with us.
Got an interesting one here and I think we could have some fun and some just a safe place for everybody.
It's a safe place this one, this next segment.
It seems like plant-based diets get more popular every year but being a vegetarian or vegan
isn't always exclusive status in a new poll of vegetarians and vegans.
The 38% admit that they have, quote, cheated meals with meat vegetarians who still eat dairy
in eggs and are more likely to admit to that vegans who avoid all animal products.
So there is a little bit of cheating going on and I used to were cheating in parentheses.
It isn't just a one-time thing, 47% of people on plant-based diets say that they rarely
eat meat maybe once or twice a year, 38% eat meat occasionally so every few months and
10% say that they eat meat often about once a month and 5% say that they eat meat very often like once a week.
And 33% of those people admit that they keep their meat indulgences a secret.
And there are a few caveats, we'll get to those in a moment.
But first, one thing I was trying to look up and I could not find enough, any data really on is
how much this changes if you grew up in a household that is a vegan or vegetarian as opposed to
choosing to do so later in life.
Because I think that that needs to be, there needs to be some grace with this when it comes to,
and I'm saying that for you yourself, those that are doing this, what other people think is what other people think.
You know, I wouldn't waste my time with that if I were you.
Do your own thing.
But if you do this, especially if you didn't weren't raised with it and everything,
I think it's understandable that your body was raised on meat and you still do crave it from time to time.
Well, and also I think it's worth looking into why you are choosing to be vegan or vegetarian.
Is it because you were raised in a religion that controlled what you could eat?
Or was it because your family was concerned about the environment and chose a plant based diet for that reason?
There's a big difference in choosing, you know, what you eat based on those things.
Gwyneth Paltrow.
I chose because of celebrities.
I thought it was a good idea at the time.
No, you know, whatever your reasons are and everything.
Melissa's got a really good point there.
Yeah, because some of those you would, that's why I would hazard to guess
for people who were raised in a religion that controlled what you could and could not eat,
why you would do it in secret.
Because there's a lot of shame and guilt built into that coercion to know you're going to control what you eat.
And so why they would choose to be secret about indulging.
Yeah, I think that I think it's something I don't know enough about honestly.
It's a good, it's a good honest answer, James, and I appreciate you saying that.
You know, if we can have a little bit more of that life, by the way, this is a side note.
It's okay to not know everything everybody.
It's okay to not always have an opinion.
You don't have to have an opinion about everything.
But I'll give mine because of my man.
No, I'm kidding, I'm joking.
A few other caveats.
Number one, if you're eating meat very often, you probably can't identify as a vegetarian or vegan.
You're just health conscious or a picky eater.
All right.
Number two, this survey was conducted by a beef company called Lin's Heritage Angus
as part of their totally unbiased vegan and vegetarian meat craving report.
You can't write.
You really can't write this kind of comedy.
You really can't.
Let's do a survey to make all of those vegetarians and vegans look bad.
Yeah.
It doesn't really.
They're all secretly craving our beef.
Do they think that we can't look at the website address or we're not going to just take one, two steps and look at where this is coming from?
James.
I mean, consider.
Consider where people are choosing to get their news from.
Yeah.
An entertainment source.
Yeah.
Not a lot.
For some people.
If they're doing this for fun, like actually could be not a bad marketing idea.
I could see if you were doing this tongue in cheek.
But they really are doing this.
And I don't know.
Maybe in a, just in maybe a more of a way of kind of like, hey, everybody does those.
I don't know.
I think it's far more worthwhile to just have an open conversation about what we're eating and what we're choosing to eat and how it affects our bodies and how it affects our planet.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And it's a far more constructive conversation to have.
And if you choose to have meatless meals.
Great.
Why do we have to pigeonhole ourselves into meat?
Well, I'm vegetarian.
I'm vegan.
I'm the paleo diet.
I'm on the keto diet.
I think it's all overblown.
Absolutely.
And I never a fan of labeling.
I really don't enjoy a lot of that.
I think some of this comes from wanting to be seen.
Or to be part of a group or to be looked at for something.
I guess that's all fair.
But I personally feel that all those energies should be directed at the companies who produce our food.
And that they stop putting poison in them.
Mm-hmm.
I would only add on to that treating our farmers better.
Yeah.
You know, and the people that are actually growing the food.
That are actually growing and making the food.
Yeah.
I agree with that.
And we have to wrap up because along with world records, Dolly Parton and, of course, fast food.
We cover all of these.
And we are going to talk a little bit about Taco Bell Melissa.
Just trigger warning.
Just trigger warning.
Thank you.
Taco Bell announced they're adding chicken nuggets to their menu.
Really?
Well, they're available nationwide for a limited time.
They're called crispy chicken nuggets coated with a combination of breadcrumbs and tortilla chips.
I guess that's what makes them, you know, laden.
I don't know.
Taco Bell special?
Like what?
I don't know.
They tested them in Minneapolis last year than in Houston.
They say they tried out more than 100 different dipping sauces and settled on three.
Bell sauce made with tomatoes, chilies and garlic.
A lapenio honey mustard and hidden belly fire ranch.
The press release says the new nuggets are available while supplies last.
So if you're curious, you can check these out.
I have thoughts.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Go ahead.
Because it's Taco Bell.
But actually, I don't think this is a terrible idea.
Had they put it in a taco.
Oh, there you go.
I mean, who doesn't, breaded chicken is fantastic.
I mean, yeah, they added tortilla chips to it, kind of weird, but okay, whatever.
Had they just done a like breaded chicken strips taco?
I mean, you can't call it that, but something along those lines.
I think that would have been more Taco Bell-esque.
I mean, maybe they're just trying to appeal to kids eating chicken nuggets.
Again, I go back to, can we just fix our food system in this country?
Because it is broken.
Yeah.
Well, and I think fast food is broken.
Like, it used to be, okay, this is a burger place.
Okay, this is a taco place.
Okay, this is like, you know, and now everybody's doing everything.
Well, because they want to have everybody come to them, which is not going to happen.
You're going to have some people that like Taco Bell.
You're going to people that hate Taco Bell.
They're going to have people that boycott Taco Bell because they stop making the seven layer burrito.
It's just, you know, you're going to, you can't appeal to everybody.
That's true.
And if you take the good things off your menu, well, then you're, then you're banned or blacklisted
or whatever you want to call it to hate you Taco Bell.
I've done the same thing to Subway.
You got rid of mozzarella.
You got rid of mozzarella Subway.
You lost me.
You lost me.
And I'm sure that they don't notice at all.
I'm sure.
No, and I'm sure they don't care.
Obviously, because they have not brought back the seven layer burrito.
How do you get rid of one of the greatest cheeses ever?
How do you get rid of one of the only...
Like healthy things on your menu?
These are the cheap.
These are the questions that need to be asked.
We are not afraid to ask them.
We will also acknowledge that we will never get answers.
Absolutely.
100%.
We may be alone in the nightland of this one.
But we're still going to do it.
We will die on these hills.
And we'll be back with more.
We've got our news and sports break.
We're going to check in with our partners and come back.
And we've got weird food news.
We've got weird food news.
Weird food.
We're talking that when we come back.
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I don't know if this is a good bumper song.
Why, just because you don't know where to come in?
I don't know where to come in.
I don't know where to jump in.
It's nothing to do with the song or the choice or anything like that.
It is strictly about the user, the worker, the board here, the producer, if you will.
But you know what, that's fair.
That's fair.
We got some weird fun news for you with weird food news.
Weird food.
Weird food.
This is going to be a new ongoing segment if it hasn't already been.
I feel like this is a segment we've been doing just didn't label it as one.
But here we go.
We got three weird food stories to making the rounds.
Doritos has been around since the 1960s and they've always been triangular.
But some people noticed that the Doritos UK Instagram account had an image of a square chip
and said the shape of things to come.
Whoa.
Some people started freaking out thinking that Doritos may never be the same again,
but not everyone has an, you know, getting ulcers from it or anything.
Quote, the official Wheat Thins account responded, square looks good on you.
It isn't always done well, but I would say almost 85 to 90%.
When companies that aren't owned by the same company, like interact on social media,
it always seems to do well.
Yeah.
It always seems to be just a fun way of just kind of like, hey, little, you know,
a little look behind the curtain here.
We're just human beaks.
We're just running businesses.
A little tongue in cheek having fun.
It's usually a good back and forth.
And credit to all these social media accounts that are doing this right
because it feels like we don't credit them enough.
The only time we talk about them ill is when they, you know, do something wrong.
Like get rid of the seven layer burrito time.
Oh, man, that kind of thing.
Cheetos is releasing a new Cheetos puff cheese pizza flavor.
It says it tastes just like a slice from your favorite pizza shop.
The new flavor will begin rolling out this week or should be everywhere within a month.
I don't know about this.
Yeah.
I don't know about this.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I think the only pizza chip I want is a Pringle.
Those are good.
Those are good.
I will say combos.
The pizza combo is I used to love.
Oh, yeah.
Those are like the pretzels of cheese in them.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Those are pretty good too.
Man, I have not had a combo in forever.
I used to eat, I used to practically live on those things.
And thought about that.
I got to get some of those.
That's what I want.
The most place I see those most often is like the gas station convenience stores.
They're just not as popular anymore.
I feel like I don't see them.
Oh no, they're there.
I see them.
Yeah, they go.
I see them over there right next to the guardados and the cheques mix.
I feel like it should be like when, let's say that that like as an example,
they're not going anywhere.
They're doing just fine.
I'm sure I don't have to look up their profit numbers.
I'm sure that they're fine.
But let's say that that is an example combos.
You know, we're making the last batch of combos.
They got to tell us.
They got like a, right.
Sometimes for the most part, I think those stories do pop up.
But at the same time, I saw an article the other day that I put away for another day.
A burger of joints that aren't around anymore.
And I didn't even read the whole article.
I just read a couple of them.
I'm like, oh, I remember that.
Or I remember that.
I feel like I didn't know when they went out of business though.
They just kind of went away.
Or the fact that when they closed the McDonald's in Iceland, the only McDonald's,
they kept the last quarter pounder with cheese and fries and they put it in the museum.
That's interesting.
They look the same.
Wow.
Wow.
That's interesting.
The Valentine's Day for Valentine's Day, this Valentine's Day, branches.
How do you, I never know.
Brox, thank you.
Brox.
We'll launch a new global version of its conversation hearts.
Oh, really?
They'll feature sentimental sayings from around the world, including more than 30 expressions
in 13 different languages.
Oh, cool.
I love this.
That is a magnificent idea.
That is awesome.
But a cool idea.
Language is fun.
Language is so, like, I was going to say, language is so universal.
Wow.
I mean, you're not wrong.
I'm done.
I'm done for the day, everybody.
Maybe for good.
We're almost there, James.
It's okay.
You'll make it.
No, I, so I brought this up before and I bring it up from time to time because I'm
really proud of him.
But one of my cousins, Michael, is a linguist and he is, now he's still working for our
military just more on the side and I can't get too into that.
But my, my Aunt Sherry, who I love, like crazy, news out there listening and I appreciate
Aunt Sher.
Her and I have been talking recently and she shared some information with me about my
cousin, Michael, where he has met a former vice president, Mike Pence recently and some
other things.
And Michael does a lot of great work when it comes to human trafficking and stopping
putting an end to that.
He's doing some great work on the front lines on that.
But before that, he was doing plenty of other things with our military going all over
the world as a linguist.
And from what I remember, a lot of this started for him just with a love of wanting to
learn language.
You just never know where it can take you.
So say, you know, there's some kids that for Valentine's Day, they're handing out, you
know, these carts and they see a different language, they look it up and they like it.
Maybe that's, you know, starts a spark in their head or something like that.
I'm using a bit of an extreme example, but I don't, I'm just using it as an example
for all the different things that can happen just from seeing a different language.
And then also just the inter-connectivity that it brings to us of this is, I don't know,
something sweet you would say in India, that we now we're learning that and that is so
cool.
I think language is just fun too.
I mean, it's just whether it's, you know, learning a different word or even, you know,
understanding a little bit more of English, I think it's got a fun.
We're going to be understanding a little bit more English tomorrow, would Phil Hartley
joins us with our Wicked Awesome Word of Wednesday.
Wicked Awesome.
But this is one of the things that comes up with that, wherever once in a while Phil will
use a word that I just haven't thought of in a long time or I haven't heard in a long
time and it gives me to want to not just look up what that word means, but where did it
come from?
Yeah, exactly.
We've kind of grown out of it a bit, but a popular segment we used to do together all
the time, whether it was Carl and I or Melissa and I was kind of tracking down idioms and
where did they come from and everything.
I think it's one of my favorites things to do is, you know, where did this come from
and looking up where it came from and almost every time it involves language and how,
you know, over in Europe, we said something this way and over here it became this and it
got adopted, but it just turned into something different.
Or it means something different, it's like the meaning changed, which is also cool.
Which is a lot of fun.
I also think that it's something that we need to do, we could use to do a little bit better.
And by that I only mean words meaning what we all agreed they're going to mean, like
facts, you know, it's a simple little things like that, I don't know.
Sure.
I mean, that should mean what it means.
I also think that the conversation hearts, like it's also noteworthy, these are still
so popular.
Yeah.
I love them.
I think that's cool.
I think that's cool.
And I like them for more than, obviously, the way the candy tastes, because I can't say
that I get them because of that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Much, much like the gum that you get in baseball card packs, you're not eating it for the
flavor.
It's, it's more because it's there.
How's the side effect of, you know, unlike, unlike the jokes on the Lafay Taffy containers,
because those are excellent.
Yes.
Those are great.
Those are great.
I wonder, here's another interesting list for us, Melissa, things that you eat, not because
they taste good, but just because they're in front of you, you know, it's an interesting
list.
I imagine that that's got some amazing things on it.
Oh, yeah.
We could have fun with that one.
We'll have to do that another time.
But this is a fun one.
And we want to hear about other weird fun foods out there.
Go ahead and let us know everybody.
Another thing I'm curious about, I feel pretty confident about this one, but I don't
have kids in grade school or anything, so I don't want to just throw it out there, but
I also think it's noteworthy that kids are still sharing Valentine cards and things.
Mm-hmm.
And I think that's cool.
Yeah.
We've, we've kind of changed so many things in society, and I'm not saying that's a bad
thing, just so much as evolved.
We, we talked about this a lot in October, which are retreating, and how much that has
changed.
I think it's kind of cool that this is still pretty much very similar to how it was when
we were kids.
Mm-hmm.
The kids exchange Valentine's in person at school.
That's fun.
It's fun.
So go ahead and take a quick time out when we come back.
We've got this list.
Are you sick of it?
97% of Americans are sick of something.
We'll get into that in a moment when we come back on the morning show.
Welcome back everybody.
Morning show at WFHR, locally grown radio, Melissa and James hanging out with you, taking
you right to the top of the hour.
Thank you so much for joining us everyone.
It's been a fun show.
We got an interesting list here.
Are you sick and tired of filling the blank?
A poll of 2,000 Americans found 97% of us, 97% of us are sick and tired of one thing or
another.
And another 3% apparently feel about the state of the world.
14% think it's not a lost cause, but close to it, and 86% think that there's too much
to fix.
How do we do it?
Where do we begin?
Where are the top 5 things we're tired of in 2025?
Number 1, misinformation.
Oh, yes, yes.
86% of people are tired of that.
They're tired of it.
They're tired of the bias, this, and news.
They are tired of being able to believe everything, the things that you hear.
And the rest of them aren't on social media.
Yes, nicely done.
Politics and government come up at 84%.
Yeah, that's by design, though.
They want us to be sick of it because then we start paying attention.
Yep.
Oh, I, we, you know, a politician campaigns on this one cause, they campaign, campaign,
campaign.
It's the biggest thing in the world.
As soon as they get into office, you never hear from it again.
Are you talking about grocery prices?
You know what?
This most recent example, or we can go back to 1964, or 1977, or, or any year, it
is not, I'm not going to pick on current politicians for doing something that always
has been always done.
What I am going to say is that's on us.
That's a pile.
I'm not going to get mad at the dog for being a dog.
And I'm not going to get mad at the politician for being what they can get, they do what
they can get away with.
Right.
They're going to, they're going to get elected however they can.
The people that vote them in need to hold them accountable.
And that's the other part of this that needs to come up.
Just because you voted for a person and they're not doing what you said, that doesn't mean
you're wrong.
It's okay.
Yeah.
If you want the rebate, you have to send in the receipt.
I mean, it's just, it's the follow through that we are not doing that we need to do.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And I think if you do that, we might not be as sick of politics and government.
Quite possibly.
Violence and crime came into 84% as well.
Just a right tie with politics and government.
And I'm just going to throw out there, really look into statistics though, because in a lot
of areas and places and historically, those things are down.
They are.
Yeah.
I think it would surprise a lot of people to know that your major city is here in the Midwest
near us and everything, Milwaukee, Madison, Chicago, all seeing dips in crime.
What they are singularizing is anti-Semitic behavior.
They are singularizing is in other categories, but you're just seeing the, the, what, what
is going to catch people's eyes with your, the news breaks and everything, crime, this,
crime, that like that.
And well, well, we want to know about those things that shouldn't be the only thing we want
to know about.
Yep.
You can do a solid reporting, including more than just that.
Yes.
I, I, I feel like it's, it's just going to sound, it's going to fall on deaf ears, but
I mean it with every word I am.
I think that Melissa's news breaks our perfect example of this, where she gives you a,
maybe a harsher story that happens in this area while also tacking that on with other
stories that are going on in this area.
It isn't just labeled as, oh, this is this or this is that she covers it all and brings
it all to you.
That's, that's, that's real reporting.
That's, that's what, that's what the news was our whole lives when we were, I mean, when
we were kids growing up, that's, they, they were able to do that.
It wasn't until the invention of the 24 hour news cycle that it felt like everything's
got to be breaking news, everything's got to be sensationalized.
Well, and with that being said, though, we also need to put effort in my time and money
into reporters and into being able to report on those things because it takes time.
Yeah.
Takes time to, to follow those stories, to hunt them down, to be able to report on things
that aren't just the crime blotter.
And pay attention to where the, you know, where these, if you're reading from the Washington
Post, who owns the Washington Post, you know, these kind of things.
Social issues also came up on the list of being tired from that.
And I'm, all of these things, wait, wait, wait, wait, we're tired of hearing about social
issues.
Yeah.
Who's tired about it?
The people who'd have none?
Well, 81% and, and I almost guarantee that that 81% is filled with a lot of people that
it doesn't affect.
So they, they don't care.
And, and that's, that's an overall theme here, I think, of wanting to detach, of wanting
to disengage.
And that is the, you have that option.
Yeah.
And, and I think you, you do this, and where you need to, you need breaks from the news,
you need breaks from, you know, your life or something like that.
That's where, you know, bringing in the release earlier and talking about that and everybody
deserves that.
But at the same time, the most, the most dangerous thing that can happen is for us to
not care.
And that's what, what's happening more and more.
If you're, if you're a fan of a team, the worst thing that can happen if you own that
team is the person not jumping online and complaining about the team, just not doing
anything.
Like, that's when the real danger comes in.
And it's no different with politics or our environment or misinformation or violence
and crime or social issues or any of these things.
And to, what Melissa said earlier, that's kind of what a lot of the powers that we want
to have happen.
They don't want you to care.
They don't want you to pay attention.
No, they want you to be sick of it because then you detach.
And if you know, if you're not paying attention, then you can't hold anybody accountable.
And that's the last thing they want us to be held accountable when it's the first thing
that they should have because they work for us.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And that can't be lost.
And I think that we can, we can help this on a, on a personal level.
You know, we can each individually kind of work on these things and, and make it better.
I, if you're, notice the things that we're tired of are also things that aren't, you
know, we still, that are almost always going to need to be worked on.
Well, right.
And they're all interconnected.
You're sick of, of hearing about crime.
Well, let's look at social issues.
Why are people turning to crime?
Is it because they don't have enough money to buy food and pay their rent?
Because wages haven't kept up with inflation and increases in what everything costs nowadays?
You know, I mean, all of that is interconnected.
Yeah.
So you can't really get rid of, you can't get rid of it unless you actually address the
problems versus, let's just build more prisons and throw people in jail.
If, if you're tired of your room being a mess, it's not going to change anything if you
just shut the door.
Like, you got to clean it.
Or shove it under the bed.
Yeah.
You got to clean it.
As my mother taught me many times.
Yeah.
She keeps telling you James.
I encourage you to care.
That's, that's, that's, and that.
I did, and speaking of caring, chefs for change is coming up in our, our good stories
of the day.
Want to mention that.
Our Wisconsin Rapids Family Center have their chefs for change happening next month on
February 27th at the Nacuse of Community Center, started talking about this yesterday.
Over the weekend, it was announced that we were able to kind of hike this up and start
talking about it.
They got a great Facebook page, encourage you to type in your search bar, chefs for
change, or Wisconsin Rapids Family Center.
Like those pages, subscribe to them, keep up the date on them.
And we will meet you at this great event, chefs for change, happening at the Nacuse of
Community Center.
On Thursday, February 27th at 5 o'clock, as part of our Wisconsin Rapids Family Center.
Awesome.
Do you want to remind everybody as well, our Family Center here in Wisconsin Rapids is hard
at work doing some of the most vital work in our community, and they have your back.
If need be, we have our crisis line is available 24-7, 715-421-1511, that's 421-1511.
You can find out more information by going to familyctr.org, familyctr.org.
Also want to do a touch on just a couple of other events in our area.
Our friends over at Trinaurus Ski Park have their Nordic Day coming up this Saturday
from 10 to 3.
Oh, yeah, it's the Saturday.
Yeah, it's going to be a fun time over at 1,001 County Road, oh, right in Nacusa.
Just off highway 13, just a little ways from us here.
Come out to the park to explore the trails for free.
The inside trails will be marked for snow, showing, or hiking.
And if we have enough snow on the outer trails, it's going to be groomed for cross-country
skiing.
And the kids can try the Triad Ski Jumping Session where they get to learn to ski jump,
which is just so cool.
That is really cool.
And I love the name of it.
They try it.
That's a great name.
Try it at Trinaurus Park.
Follow along on their Facebook page for updates.
And you can also email them if you have any questions at trynauruswinterpark.gmail.com.
Trynauruswinterpark at gmail.com.
And they do strongly encourage pre-registration if you have kids that want to try the jumping
sessions.
Just so that they have enough of everything.
Yeah.
Getting into our schedule today.
Be sure to join us.
We got a great one lined up for you.
We will have, of course, I believe a best of community stories, Melissa, we'll be playing
today.
I have no knowledge of that.
Okay, maybe.
Think that's something we need to talk about off air.
Okay.
All right.
I'm just trying to promote the show.
That's all.
But we will have something good lined up for you in that hour.
And from five to six today, be sure to afford a five today.
Be sure to join us from midday magazine.
And part one, we're going to speak with our good friend, Promise Bachin.
And she'll be joining us from the heart of Wisconsin Chamber of Commerce.
Oh, good.
Find out what's happening with our chamber.
And in part two, Realty Radio with David Farmbrill will be joined by him and talking
to Realty in this area.
David's got a couple of great topics for us lined up.
A little bit later today at seven o'clock, Wisconsin men's basketball hosting Ohio State
Big 10 matchup and a chance for Greg Gard to get into an exclusive club when it comes
to Wisconsin Badger head coaches.
Be listening for that later today at seven o'clock right here on WFHR looking forward
to it.
And as long as we're talking sports, we're talking WFHR.
That means Wisconsin rapids rafters where we have been the home of your Wisconsin rapids
rafters since their inception.
And get ready for another amazing summer at historic winter field by attending their hot
stove event.
That's coming up soon.
The annual hot stove event is this Saturday at the hotel made from six to nine.
And they got a fun night lined up.
Join them to hear about from front office and the new front office members going to exclusive
sneak peek at the 25 promotional schedule, special presentation from our new field manager,
Tom Zagelowski.
He is going to be joining us along with hitting coach from the 2016 championship team.
Current coach in the Met's organization, Devon D. Young is going to be there.
Oh, wow.
There's five bucks.
If you RSVP in advance or $10 at the door, season ticket holders, ticket package holders,
and host families will receive free admission.
Excellent.
Tickets are limited.
So RSVP today at northwoodsleag.com, northwoodsleag.com, go ahead and get over there.
Get your tickets for that great event and we want to remind you as well that our valentines
for Wisconsin veterans is going on right now.
You have until the end of the month to get this in January 31st is the cut off and
encourage you to write these letters and send them to Wisconsin Department of Veterans
Affairs, attention, veterans valentines, PO box 7843, Madison, Wisconsin, 537-07.
We can get that address to you if need be just email us.
You know, you can direct messages on our Facebook pages or email us info at wfhr.com.
It'll brighten their day.
You have a great day, Melissa.
You do, Jane.
We each other out there.
We'll talk to you soon in the later right here at this is locally grown radio WFHR 1320
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