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People who watch, people who don't watch TV say they do these 15 things instead.
Get into that one a little bit later.
I'm curious.
We're kicking things off with entertainment news.
And I'm curious.
I used to think this was just in radio.
But have you, Melissa, or any of our listeners out there ever met somebody
who loves the sound of their own voice?
And I mean like they've said this.
It's something we say about them when their back is turned.
This person really loves the sound of their own voice.
That kind of thing.
I mean like they've actually said, you know what?
I like the sound of my voice because 22 years of doing radio,
especially doing voice work and a lot of that.
And I've never gotten used to my voice.
I don't know that I've ever liked it.
I don't know at this point if I'm going to.
But have you yourself ever heard anybody say this or you know anything like that?
I don't know if I've ever heard anybody say it except in a like a sarcastic comment.
And it's usually about people who talk a lot and like to always say voice their opinions
over the top of everybody else.
And not really listen.
Yeah.
That's usually when I've heard it used.
Now I also is as confident as I feel about that.
I feel very confident that everybody has a couple of voices that they really enjoy.
Or they're big fans of.
And whether that's singing or just their voice in general, there's something to that.
For those of us who listen to audiobooks, we have favorite narrators.
Yeah.
Yeah, exactly.
Or even like David Attenborough on the nature documentaries.
Yeah.
Great one.
Great, great, great name.
We've talked about for years about Morgan Freeman and James Earl Jones.
Right.
And so many of these great voices.
Comic voices.
But so with that being said, I think this is, you know, I think it's great to be able to find
opportunities to find relatability wherever you can.
And I don't think that a lot of us have a lot in common with Renee Zellweger.
You wouldn't think you do off the top of your head, but you kind of do as we're proven
here.
And so Renee Zellweger, one of the more popular actors in for quite some time, she took
a six year acting break between 2010 and 2016.
She took a pause after filming my own love song and returned for Bridget Jones' baby.
Now, a lot of talk was made over these years when she went away.
I remember this in part because so many people were saying that this was because of some bad
plastic surgery or she wasn't happy with the way she looked or some of these things.
And none of that.
This has to be a reason that fits the narrative.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So regardless of any of that, which I never bought any of that stuff as a side note.
I don't think a lot of people did.
I think that's more of the TMZ people that are into that.
Clickbait.
Yeah.
But her actual reason was she was sick of her own voice.
Quote from her.
When I was working, I was like, oh my gosh, listen to you.
Are you sad again, Renee?
Is that your mad voice?
It was a regulation of the same emotional experiences.
She just, anything her voice, anytime she heard her voice, she couldn't handle it.
She stayed pretty busy during the time away, though.
She says she wrote music, studied international law, built a house, and rescued a pair of
older dogs.
Wow.
Renee, at a quote, I created a partnership that led to a production company advocated
for the four and fundraised with a sick friend and spent a lot of time with family and
God children and driving across the country with the dogs.
I got healthy.
Good.
She got healthy, getting out of the entertainment industry.
In related news, she returned as Bridget Jones for the fourth movie.
Bridget Jones mad about the boy.
It streams on peacock on February 13th.
Good actor.
Yeah.
Good actor.
It's great of her to be like sharing all this, I think, and to be open about it.
It's not easy.
You know, when I understand, and I completely get where people are coming from sometimes
when a celebrity shares something like this, are they doing it to look at me Louie?
Are they doing it because they want some attention, or are they doing it because they want
to bring attention to what they're going through and let other people know that you are not
alone.
Other people are going through this too.
Only she knows.
But really, I don't, given the fact that only she can know, I don't see why there's any
harm in anybody taking some good from this and some relatability from it.
And I'd say you got to change your life, but I think that it's something to keep in
mind when we're so hard on ourselves.
And I genuinely believe there's some people who aren't as hard as others, but everybody's
got that voice in their head.
Yeah.
And I say this, not as like just off the cuff or anything.
This is science.
Our brains were, you know, back in the end of the fall days and the whole reason that
we are here today is fight or flight.
And with that not being as necessary in today's day and age with all the conveniences and
all these other things we have, that fight part is still there.
And it's trying to keep you on edge.
It's trying to keep you.
Oh, what the?
Is that a terrible act?
Oh, oh, you thought that was good.
Let me tell you all the ways that that wasn't good.
So instead of being a-
Right.
Yeah.
Your brain sabotages you often.
Instead of, you know, oh, God, terrible act, or oh, there's a T-Rex.
Now it's, hey, you know what?
Your voice is horrible.
Your voice is bad, you know?
Hey, you know what?
Let's over think that whole conversation you just had with the coworker and point out
all the ways that they might have taken what you said in the wrong way.
And that was an insight into James's brain, like, yes, yes, this is what our brains do.
And the more we're aware of this, the more we talk about it, the more we can change that,
the more we can evolve from that.
And I think what we could take from, you know, I would say the vast majority of us cannot
afford to take six years off of work, which would be very nice.
But we can afford to take 30 minutes, you know, you could take 30 minutes in a day and
just say, okay, I'm going to do this for myself and do this for self-care.
I'm going to take 30 minutes just to not look at my phone, you know, maybe shut off my
television and go for a walk or do some stretching or, you know, something that is refilling
your cup, which is what she was able to do during those six years.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'm a big fan of comeback stories, but not as big of a fan as America is.
It's one of our favorite things.
We love to see somebody rise up, have them torn down, and of course come back.
And this happens in acting more than I, and most, you know, music a little bit and some
other genres, but I think it happens with acting maybe more than anywhere else.
And there's a really interesting career happening right before us with Pamela Anderson.
Pamela Anderson made a name for herself, whether, you know, not saying she did this intentionally,
but made a name for herself essentially, you know, Baywatch and a lot of those things
from her looks.
She has, in recent years, had a press reduction and done some other things to kind of just
be more herself, feel more comfortable in her own skin.
And because of that, she didn't, couldn't find work for a long time.
Well, recently the Academy Award nominations were announced.
And when they were announced, me and a lot of people were curious, will she get a nomination?
I know that when we were first doing this six, seven months ago and everything, I wrote
her name in the 20 names of actresses that I thought should be nominated and should
at least get a look.
I thought her performance in the last show girl wasn't incredibly noteworthy.
And while her name wasn't among the names read, that didn't slow her down or hurt her feelings
or anything.
Quote, I couldn't even imagine that.
She told Martha Stewart in an interview published on L last week about the Oscar nod.
I did get a sag nomination, which is really exciting.
And all of this is just unexpected and exciting.
In addition to being recognized by the screenwriters Guild, Anderson was nominated for Golden
Globe for her work in the Gia Coppola film, who is one of the better directors out there
as well.
Gia Coppola.
In which she plays a Las Vegas show girl facing down the end of her long-running run and
contemplating what she's going to do next.
She was also honored by various critics and associates as well as her bare bones performance.
I always say the win is in the work.
God I love that quote.
Yeah, that is a good one.
I didn't see on my bingo board that one of my favorite quotes about acting I would read
in recent years would come from Pamela Anderson.
I love that and I would have never been able to put it in the words.
And if I did, we all know me.
It would be a monologue.
It'd be like 50 words where in just like four or five, she put it perfectly.
If the win is in the work, she says quote, I got to do something.
I really love and I needed to do that for my soul.
She added that this is the first time I've ever expected experience anything like that
because as far as people claiming liking her work and telling her, hey, you did a really
good job.
She's never had this before.
The last show girl, co-stars day, Batista, Brenda Song, Billy Lorde and Jamie Lee Curtis,
who Anderson called a champion for women.
Quote, she took me by the shoulders and said, I did this movie for you.
Anderson told Stuart during the interview, Jamie Lee Curtis has come out and said a recent
interview as well that she saw Pam Anderson attached to the script, wanted to see her performance
in this and wanted to kind of almost be a coach for her in this.
And that is more of what we need in not just entertainment, but in the world.
That is pretty cool to see.
That is it.
I think that's one of the things that encourages me to want to see the film is that was kind
of things.
As a side note, Jamie Lee Curtis is having one of the best second acts of anybody.
I mean, going back to those TV ads or whatever and everything and...
Active, yeah.
Yeah.
You're winning an Oscar and all this stuff like, man, she's having a great second act.
You talk about, and she can relate to Pam Anderson in many ways.
Jamie Lee Curtis was, nobody would look at her as a comedic actor.
She wanted to do comedy so bad.
She had to take her top off to get into training places.
You know, how ridiculous is that?
She's one of the more funny actresses we've ever seen, but she had to do that just to
basically get in that movie and to show everybody she could do comedy.
After she did the Halloween movie and all that, where she got her bones and horror, she
wanted to do comedy and wasn't able to so she had to do that.
It's ridiculous.
I don't believe that any guys had to do that.
I don't believe any guys had to go full frontal or anything like that to be able to just
be able to be, imagine that.
You have to do that to be respected in comedy, in comedy, like that's, so Jamie Lee knows
something about what Pam Anderson has been through, I think, to some degree, and it's
pretty cool to see those two, you know, come together on this and it's a great performance
by both of them.
I have not seen the whole movie.
I don't know if the movie's good or not.
I couldn't tell you that.
And even if I could, it's just my opinion, you know, you're going to have to see yourself.
But I will say their performances are great.
David Teesda too, having a great second act.
Oh, yeah.
I'm just glad to see them casting women looking natural, you know, as opposed to this.
What Pamela Anderson had to go through in the first part of her career, I mean, did she
choose to do some of it, obviously, probably it's not that she was pressured into doing
all of this, but she is choosing to do things that are good for her health and her body.
And then being able to still do her career, I think it's encouraging.
I think we need to do more work, but it is encouraging.
Yeah.
Yeah.
There's a lot of work that needs to be done.
But I think that part of what's being done it, like a lot of things in life, you know,
women aren't sitting back and waiting for things to be handed to them.
You're seeing more and more women in the writers room, more and more women in casting
sessions, more women behind the director's chair, and they're making it happen.
That nobody is helping, I would say, I don't feel comfortable enough saying that.
I think women have just over the last three, four decades have seen these problems better
than anybody and are doing something about it.
Mm-hmm.
Well, we have to because nobody's going to do it for us.
And women like Jamie Lee Curtis at 66 years old, embracing her age and her looks and being
an example of, hey, we're beautiful, whatever age we are, we don't have to look 20.
If you're paying attention to media in general and in all mediums, whether it's internet,
radio, TV, movies, any of the above, people are telling you what they want and they want
more real.
It's part of what we've talked about many times, why we run the station the way we do here
and the way we talk the way we do here on the air.
It shows more and more in podcasts by podcasts are so popular.
You never hear a podcast and somebody getting on there and talking exactly like this.
They're talking real.
They're talking true with each other.
Theater got way ahead of this.
For over a decade or two, a Broadway from right to your local community theater, let's
make up on stage.
Let's make up.
They want less makeup up there.
They want you to look more real.
They want you to look more.
Let the lights do the work.
A lot more of that.
People want more reality.
They want more real.
And I don't mean by that reality TV.
So that's where executives and people that live in bubbles get it twisted.
Oh, people want real.
We'll get more reality TV.
There's real housewives of Albuquerque, like no, no, no, no, dang it.
It's not real.
No.
And it's scripted.
It's all scripted by the way.
Every one of your favorite reality TV shows are scripted.
I'm sorry, but it is.
Well, and we have, there's a fine line between we want real and we want, you know, because
we watch television and we watch movies to escape from real life in some ways, but we also
need representation in those mediums.
We need to see people who look like us in a fantasy life that we don't have, but they
should, they should look like us.
Yeah, yeah.
It's important on every level.
We will take a quick time out.
We'll come back and hey, you know that faded ban shirt, that, that, you know, electric light
orchestra shirt that you had or the earth-witted fire maybe or something like that.
We'll find out if those shirts are worth anything.
We're going to come back and we're talking about an interesting one here.
The ban shirts have the most value that are most valuable.
Coming to drawers.
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Morning show at WFHR.
Melissa and James hanging out with you.
We hope you're having a good day out there.
We're talking bands right now a little bit.
We're talking some musical bands right now as Curtis Mayfield plays us in.
Those faded ban teas sitting in your dresser drawer might actually have some cash value.
There's a new study that took a look at music teas sold on marketplace sites between December
23rd and September 24th.
And here are the top 10 artists that have the highest average resale value.
Resale value is a key word in that, I believe.
There's some popular ones like Grateful Dead has the highest valued shirt that sells
up to $2,750.
It's from 1994 and has a large black panther on the front of it.
So we're talking a lot of these shirts are certainly ones that you can buy at the ban
store and stuff.
But it sounds like some of these are as well like ones that you get at the concert.
Okay.
So Pearl Jam has one in there as well, $171.
Kanye West with $179.
Sir Paul McCartney, $180.
Wow.
Yeah.
These shirts are mad.
Yeah.
It's a lot for a t-shirt.
Well, and I've only been able to do this once where I've been to the so many, I don't
even know how many concerts I've been doing my life, but I pretty much only bought myself
a shirt at one.
And it's, it means a lot to me.
I like that shirt.
I don't even wear it that often because I want to keep it in good condition and everything.
So I could see a lot of, you know, that's always a tricky thing when you're selling something
in the actual value of it, but then you put the emotional tax on that.
That can add to it.
I don't know how much that plays into this.
I would love to know if that was thought into this or not because we're just getting
average prices, of course.
You go on eBay and you look for one of these and you're going to see multiple.
Several prices on there.
Yeah.
You got to look at the actual finished sale.
Green Day at 186 is on the list, followed by our head of that, Guns and Roses at 188, outcast
at 225, Earth Wind and Fire at 235, Red Hat Chili Peppers at 241, and the most expensive
resale valued t-shirt there is is Nirvana at 279.
Outside of the Grateful Dead one, we mentioned there too.
I think one thing that is really noteworthy about this entire list is only a couple of
these bands are still performing.
Chili Peppers, Pearl Jam, you know, are still doing their thing to a degree.
But Kanye West is canceled as canceled gets.
Sir Paul McCartney is way up there in age, so not doing very much.
I don't think Guns and Roses are doing anything.
Outcast isn't a band anymore.
Wind and Fire, you know, most of the members are gone, and we all know about Nirvana.
So I wonder how much that plays into it too.
Yeah, that could have an effect.
And they're not selling the shirts or, you know, they're not performing to sell the shirts
anymore at gigs.
When you go to a concert Melissa, are you a shirt or like an item kind of person, do you
want a certain thing from a, not every concert maybe, but like certain shows?
I usually buy the CD, if it's somebody that I really enjoy, at the Tommy Emanuel concert,
I bought a CD, I did not buy shirts, don't you, oh wait, no, I did buy a shirt, I do have
a Tommy Emanuel shirt.
There you go.
But I wear it, you know, it's not something that I'm keeping in mid-condition, because, I
don't know, that doesn't seem like something that would, what's the point of buying something
and not wearing it?
Yeah, yeah, I get it, I get it, yeah, I don't have that kind of money.
Right, yeah.
So this is followed by all this list, this followed by a long sleeve Nirvana shirt from
the Inuterotour that sells for $2,000.
Whoa.
And there's a Bjork T from her post tour that's $1,895.
Wow.
I just, I saw recently, there was a pair of famous sunglasses that were for sale for
like $4,000 or $5,000 or something like that, I'm like, you're going to buy those and
just lose them.
That's what we do with sunglasses, I know.
I will never spend like a large amount of money on sunglasses, never, never back, you're
going to lose them.
Broken to leave.
Yeah, yeah.
You're going to need the breaker, you lose them real quick, I don't know.
I could not, I understand that I don't have the kind of money to do this, so I really
don't really have a much sway in this.
But even with like Bill Gates money, I couldn't imagine, but you know what, I'm going to spend
two grand of that Nirvana shirt I think is really cool, like I can't, I don't know
how that's done.
I don't know.
Well, and are these shirts new?
Yeah, that's a good question.
Yeah.
Or are these, are they just that expensive because they're rare?
And there's only a few left that aren't worn through like my Tommy Manuel t-shirt.
From what I'm seeing here, there's a little both.
There are some that are used and some that are brand new.
And the price can vary, like some of these ones that are used are actually more.
Right.
I will say some of these are kind of cool, look at, there are some pretty dark cool ones.
But at the same time, like you can Google and find these shirts like, you know, it may
not be the exact one from the concert, but you know.
Right, it wasn't made in the year, 1994, but I mean, we won't tell anybody if you don't,
I mean, we won't tell anybody if you don't, I mean, we won't tell anybody if you don't.
I feel like quality plus help you out.
Exactly.
Yeah.
There you go.
There you go.
Go to the shout out to quality plus printing.
Who will be joining us tomorrow with our Wicked Awesome World of Wednesday.
We're looking forward to that.
We'll go ahead and take a time out now.
We'll check in with our news, sports and our partners.
We'll come back and we're talking about people who don't watch TV say they do these other
things instead.
We will do that, but we also want audience participation on that one.
Looking forward to it.
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Morning show at WFHR.
Melissa and James hanging out with you.
Hope you are having a good one out there.
Thanks for joining us.
Let's dive into a good one right here, Melissa.
I think this is going to be fun.
We want audience participation, of course.
Seven, five, four, two, four, twenty six hundred.
Call up and join the conversation.
Yes.
If you don't like TV, if you don't like sitting there, you get done with a long day of work
and you just want to veg or just not do much or think much or anything, and you throw
the TV on.
That's what a lot of people do, but more and more people are getting away from that.
This is something that's been happening for decades.
It's not something that just happened overnight or anything.
This has been going on for a long time, long before streaming or a lot of these things.
While it seems like everybody has their face in a tablet or their phone, more and more
over the last couple of decades, you're seeing not a gigantic group of people, but lots
and more people pulling away from these things.
Someone on social media asked, people who don't watch TV, how do you spend your time?
What do you do?
What do you do?
What do you do?
Here are the top responses that people had.
We're going to go through this list, we'll go through, you know, for the most part.
But also, I want to hear from the audience and I want to hear from all of you out there,
let us know.
Number one, on the list, reading.
Oh, I should say, these aren't in any particular order, but that's number one on my list.
Yeah, right.
And I think a lot of people say, no, my mom's, my sister's, a lot of the people I know.
This was probably the top response, which suggests that many people feel like they have to choose
between watching TV and reading.
Yeah, I mean, they're both time consuming things to take in, to experience a story.
You have to give it its time.
Well, in the majority of us only have so many hours of downtime, you know, what do you
do with it?
And you want to be, God, that's it.
You know, there's certain that you want to catch up on, whether it's the next chapter
in your book or the next episode in a series or whatever it might be.
Well, in reading, it encompasses a lot of things.
You could be reading novels, you could be reading, you know, current happenings or news
or there's a lot more than just, you know, fiction books.
Gaming is also on the list gaming younger among younger people.
It's mostly online games and among older people, it's a lot of board games and card games
and that.
Which you, I mean, both of those things you can do with other people.
Yeah.
Whereas reading is kind of a solo event.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely.
Yeah.
And I mean, you can't like sit on a couch and read together separately together at the
same time.
Yeah.
Yeah.
There's book clubs.
There's things like that.
That's not the same thing.
You usually come together and talk about a book, but no, it's cool though.
Scrolling social media and apps, now wait a minute, it feels like it's, it can be even
junkier than a lot of TV.
Several people also mentioned doom scrolling, you know, so that's, I, I mean, it's addictive.
It is addictive.
Absolutely.
And it's only with, it's only been gotten harder and harder for people to pull away from
that.
Where, whether we're talking about the last couple of political cycles or the 24, 7 news cycle
or any of these things, it's, it's, it's very understandable, I would think, for 200 people
get really sucked into this stuff and because it was designed to do that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And before you know it, you know more about some of these things and the people that
you're actually reading about, like, and three hours have gone by.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's, it's, it's very understandable, but it's also something that I, the more aware of
it you are and we are as a society, the more we can pull back from it.
Home improvement projects and working on their property.
Nice.
Or in other words, what my father does, my dad, I, I, I, I, I, I'm so happy some days
to see him playing with his baseball and football cards and everything because it means
he's not out there, like, almost breaking his neck, doing something.
But he loves doing that stuff and he's not alone.
A lot of people doing that.
And it's, you know, if you're going to do something in your off time and you want to be
productive, but also something that you're just taking your, your own pay set, home improvement
stuff.
I think a lot of fun.
I like working with my hands.
I like building.
So I think that stuff can be a lot of fun and just as much as a relaxed, relaxing time
is sitting back and watching a TV show.
Yeah.
And it makes your, your home environment more, how you like it or more comfortable.
Yeah.
Hobbies.
This includes a lot of time in intensive home studio stuff like woodworking, metalwork, fixing
things, crafting, painting, other artwork, a lot of that.
Yeah.
Any, any kind of fiber art or, you know, there's, there's so many things that could be included
in hobbies like your dad's cards.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And I think it's a separate thing they have on here, but I would say akin to that is things
like to relax, like, de-stress, like knitting, crocheting, jigsaw puzzles.
Oh, yeah.
I included that in home base, but okay, they can be separate.
I don't know why they're separate to be honest.
I don't know why they separated them other than they just wanted to get 50, a list of
15.
Like, we all see this from tight, like list of top 10 this and like two of them are like,
I don't know if those are really the, those are the same thing.
You knew they just wanted to get to 10.
They just, they just, you can't do a list of eight or something.
I don't know why.
Fiber, fiber artists and people who have that as their hobby are, are kind of a group
onto their own.
And we're a lovely bunch.
Come join us.
I will, I will say my mom, what, if it isn't reading, because she gets really intense
with her reading.
Jigsaw puzzles have been a bit of a real break for her.
She loves putting puzzles together.
Puzzles are fun.
I enjoy them as well.
What's funny is her and my dad will do this to quote relax.
But then like every once in a while, I hear them yelling, Jim, did you finish that without
me?
Did you finish that without me?
It's a competition.
Babe, I couldn't help it.
I got going out of there.
Walking, exercising and working out at the gym.
All things I need to do more of.
Yeah, I hear you, yeah.
Although with the warmer weather, we're supposed to have on some days this week, I could maybe
manage to get outside.
I've got a jacked up elbow.
I don't know what I did to it, but it has been bugging me.
So I haven't been able to work out like I like to.
And it's been really messing with me.
That's a big one, I think.
It's a huge release for a lot of people.
Well, especially if it's part of your routine and you already have it as a habit to not
be able to do it is, yeah, that would be frustrating.
That's more power to everybody working on those and all of these really.
Playing sports with friends or organized groups, that can be a great one.
We've seen the rise of pickleball.
Pickleball, yeah.
I've also seen some reports and I don't know if this is around the whole country or not,
but bowling has gotten a lot bigger.
And I like seeing that.
That's cool.
Yeah, it's a fun sport.
I love bowling.
Bowling's awesome.
And you don't have to have any equipment.
Yeah.
You can rent it all at a bowling alley, as long as you're okay with wearing shoes other
people have worn.
Yes.
But that is one of the things about our society.
I'm still happy.
We still do.
And I don't know why.
I got no rhyme or reason for this and I already think there's very few things that
it feels like that, you know, they were doing in the 40s and 50s that we're still doing.
You know, I got it.
Yeah.
Renting roller skates and renting and bowling shoes.
I don't have a problem with that.
I mean, they spray them.
You know, they're there.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Did they take care of them?
They got that spray.
They got that spray.
Yeah, that's great.
That's great.
There's something about spray.
Like if you ever watch a soccer match, you'll see a guy go down and it looks like he's
got like a broken leg, then they put that spray on him and he's bouncing right back
up.
It's magic.
So spending time with significant others and kids, someone else said, being present with
my animals, my pets.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Those are great.
No, they can tell when you're, you know, and I'd say this is true about both kids and pets,
they can tell when you're only kind of paying attention.
Yes.
You've got a phone in your hand and you're also trying to, you know, you're trying to
split your attention both ways they can tell.
You spend time around a young kid, a five year old or something like that and they make
you, for better or worse, make you stop and be in the moment.
And I find that with animals as well as well, especially dogs, my fur brother Sam, he's
had a bad leg for about two months now and it's just starting to get better.
But he said the word, the cone of shame and some of these things.
And one of the things that the vet was very adamant about was, like, you know, this will
heal, but his mood, that's something that you got to keep going, you got to keep
because you got to find other ways to interact with him because he can't do the things he
normally does.
Yeah.
So while we can't play like we usually do and stuff like that, I've been sitting down
on the floor and I'll, I'll, you know, read or I'll catch up on something and I'll be
petting him while I'm doing it.
And it's actually really been good for me too.
I mean, it started doing it for him, but I found it's like, I don't stop.
I'm always going.
I'm always doing something.
This makes me stop and be in the moment.
There you go.
Podcasts listening to the radio and music, both listening to music and playing an instrument
also showed up on the list.
All good things.
Yeah.
It's pretty cool to see.
You know, it's funny.
I would say about seven or eight years ago, there was somebody who does media around here,
used to work with us and left in a huff and everything and talked about radio dying and
radio not being irrelevant anymore.
And here we are all these years later and radio has never been in many ways more popular.
It's, it's pretty cool to see.
And that's all important.
Yeah.
And that's certainly thanks to advertisers and people working hard behind the scenes, but
more, no, no more is it more thankful to than listeners.
Right.
The people who are tuning in because we wouldn't be here without you.
I could greatly appreciate that.
Sleeping shows up on the list.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I can see that.
I can see that.
Yeah.
A lot of people mentioned also virtual travel through the power of Google Maps, Google Earth
and YouTube.
Yeah.
And especially like if you have a VR headset, some of that travel, you can, you feel like
you're really there, which is just cool.
My dad does that and he really enjoys it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I got to say, you know, one of the things that I think is really cool with drones footage
and stuff is I catch myself looking at our national parks and like there's a Yosemite
one where it's just drone footage of Yosemite and it you feel like an eagle, like you feel
like you're just flying and watching it all and everything.
It's so beautiful.
And then you add on top of that, like the 4K in this, the definition that's in these
shots nowadays, where it feels like you're seeing the break up of the mountain.
It's incredible.
And I have to say, since you mentioned eagles, keep an eye out.
Because when I was traveling this weekend, I saw three for sure, maybe four eagles in
two days.
That's so cool.
That's so cool.
Yesterday, one of our eagle friend across the street there was flying by feeding their
young and everything.
And the last thing on this list of people who don't watch TV and the things that they
do instead is sex.
Okay.
Yeah.
Wait.
Now, I'm guessing that if they wrote that, they're just putting that on there.
Like I'm not, I don't actually believe.
I don't believe that they're actually, I think they just put that up.
We had to get to 15.
Had to get to 15.
Had to get to 15.
They're just like, it'll look good.
It'll look good if I put this on there.
It'll look good.
We will take a time out.
We'll come back and we will do some, not only a great conversation over some local stuff,
but we're going to catch you up on our schedule.
All kinds of great things coming up with Melissa and James on the morning show at WFHR.
Welcome back, everybody.
Watching show at WFHR, locally grown radio.
Melissa, James here with you thinks much are joining us.
We're going to take you to the top of the hour.
We'll have some fun doing it.
Of course, at the top of the hour, you've got Matt and Aaron here coming up, Janine
Greg hanging out with you until noon.
I'm going to do a good job of it, too, and a great stuff on the way for you as well.
We've got a really wonderful mid-day magazine lined up for you today.
In part one, we're going to talk with our friend Promise from the Heart of Wisconsin Chamber
or Commerce.
Excellent.
Always great things going on in our community that Chamber are going to highlight some
of those.
In part two, we're going to talk to our friends at the Wisconsin Rapids Family Center.
Nice.
Quite a few different things to talk about with them, certainly, volunteering, their annual
appeal progress, and chefs for changes coming up.
Oh, that's right.
Which everybody, to get your tickets for chefs for change, be a part of the cause and
have a great time while you're at it.
One of, I think, our community's more fun events is back with a new branding, a new name,
but all the same fun as always.
Get your tickets and find out more, whether it's going to the Family Center's Facebook
page.
Just type in your search bar, Family Center, Wisconsin Rapids Family Center, or you can
go to their website, FamilyCTR.org, FamilyCTR.org.
I'm sure you should do that, everybody.
You can look at our sports schedule, or tonight, 7.05, Wisconsin Hockey Hour, be sure to
check that out.
The badgers, ice badgers are doing great.
It's been a lot of fun.
Keep that and check that out tonight, everybody.
And some great local things going on, of course.
We've got a blood drive happening tomorrow from 10 to 3 at the South of County YMCA.
Great.
Check that out.
If you can, be a hero.
We encourage you to do so.
Yeah, they really need donations this time of year.
There is plenty of opportunities to be a hero in life.
And I think that as much as I love the Marvel movies and all that and everything, it's a
little loss in the shuffle that you don't need a cape.
You don't need a superpower or a tragic backstory or a tagline or you've got to, I'm
a possum man.
You know, all the good ones are taken.
Let's be honest.
I guess there's no room for any more superheroes or anything.
So let's just go ahead and be our own superhero and donate when you can.
Yes.
Welcome to 3 at the South of County YMCA tomorrow at 601 West Grand Avenue.
A big thank you to everybody who is planning to donate.
Yes.
Some great local things going on too.
We brought this up earlier, Jeff Allen.
Are we there yet?
That show is coming up this Friday, 730 at the Performing Arts Center.
Encourage and get tickets at saverthearts.com.
Be listening tomorrow.
We may have another pair to give away.
Awesome.
Keep that in mind.
It could be a lot of fun.
And you've heard us talking about this for a while, but we're getting close to the deadline
everybody.
Valentine's for Wisconsin veterans.
Yes.
The Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs is asking for folks to help us show our veterans
how much we appreciate their service and sacrifice by sending Valentine day cards to veterans
living in our WBVA facilities.
These Valentine's are going to be hand delivered by staff, including a secretary bond to the veterans
of loved ones, the Gold Star families, and residing in our veteran facilities.
You could be a part of this.
Now all you've got to do is just mail one of these Valentine's to Wisconsin Department
of Veterans Affairs, attention veteran valentines, PO Box 7843, Madison, Wisconsin, zip code 537-07.
And I understand a lot of people might be driving around right now.
You're in the office working and stuff.
So if you need this, encourage you to Google it.
It pops right up.
I tested it this morning or reach out to us and we'll get you this address.
Whether you direct messages on Facebook or you want to email us info at WFHR.com, we
will go ahead and get you that address.
And thank you so much to everybody who's already done this.
I don't know about you, Melissa, but I've heard from some listeners that they just thought
this was the coolest thing and they had their kids write up cards.
I think that's awesome.
Mm-hmm.
It is awesome.
And it just would brighten their day.
You have until January 31st to get these in, everybody.
So you got a couple more days to do this, encourage you to do so.
And that address again, Wisconsin Department of Veteran Affairs, Attenture and Veteran
Valentines, PO Box 7843, Madison, Wisconsin, zip code 537-07.
Also one of them mentioned a couple of good stories around the world, like an interesting
women's sports is surging.
Michael and I, Michael Komer and I have been talking about this a lot in the last couple
of playmakers when him and I have gotten together and how much him and I enjoy women's
basketball and that.
But, you know, wondering, hey, is people still paying attention?
Because last year we saw a real rise in the attention to women's sports.
Well, 52% of adults under 25 now say they are interested in watching or attending a women's
sporting event and that is way higher than it has been in recent years.
Awesome.
Basketball is the most popular sport right now, followed by golf and UFC.
34% of men say that they follow the WMBA at least somewhat closely, but that is up 12%
from 5 years ago.
Wow.
And that is rising more and more and more.
People love their sports and so many people where I have been watching women's sports
since I was a little kid with my aunt Karen watching women's basketball or something.
There is a lot of people that are like, well, wait a minute, I can enjoy, I can get even
double sports.
I'm not just going to watch my Milwaukee Bucks, I'm going to watch my WMBA team or some
of that.
It certainly helps to where in the men's game in college basketball, it's almost one
and done.
They're there for a year and they leave and you don't really get a chance to get to
know these kids.
In women's basketball, they're there three, four years.
So you get to know these athletes a little bit longer and they fine tune their skills.
They are that much more prepared for the actual pro game.
So you're seeing a better form of basketball, women's basketball, you're seeing actually
better basketball in many ways than in the NBA on average, not completely, but on average
you are.
And that's only rising up, that's not going anywhere.
There's, if you need any other answer, you know, why is he saying that or where's that
coming from?
What's statistic?
What do you see on ESPN?
No, money.
Advertisers see this and advertisers are adding to this.
So that's going to tell you right there that they see where the ratings are.
They see where the money is and it's in women's athletics.
A 20 year old pizza guy in Indiana went viral on TikTok after he walked half a mile in
a snow storm to bring someone their pizza.
Wow.
And they tipped him two bucks.
But it ended up earning him a biggest tip ever.
A cop named Richard Craig saw him walking and posted the video.
He was so impressed with his work.
I think he started a GoFundMe to get him a real tip.
Last we checked, it was over $40,000.
Wow.
Wow.
Oh, man, man, that's incredible.
I think, I don't have any words for that, man.
That's pretty impressive.
You know what astonishes me with these types of stories, James, is the power of the people.
Yeah.
You know, the fact that putting out a GoFundMe for this guy got $40,000, that was not, you
know, like one or two donors.
That was a whole, you know, probably hundreds of thousands of donors giving money toward
that one person.
Well, the good that we can do when we come together, yeah.
It's pretty cool, pretty cool.
There's some pretty cool events going on in our area.
We touched on a handful of those, but I did want to mention one other one yesterday.
We had our friend Stephanie on from the Central Wisconsin Cultural Center.
Oh, man, the Cultural Center, our culture center.
And one of the things that I enjoy about talking with Stephanie is certainly some of the
great things that go on over there.
It was certainly promoting artists, artists supporting artists.
It's one of our more important things here between all of us.
I think as a staff, let alone as a station, it really has a community.
And whether it's their gift shop and some of the cool items they have over there, where
you're going there and you're buying items and you're not only getting a very unique
and cool thing, but you're also helping a local artist so you're putting money into
your community.
Yeah.
Right here.
Also, it's the celebration of art and the supporting of artists, whether it is Pete Revelle
and For on the floor, one of our favorite acts.
And they're going to be performing on February 6th and 20th next month, so make plans for
that.
Right.
That down.
But one of the best shows you'll ever see is Pete Revelle and For on the floor.
I stand by that.
I will die on that hill.
There are no repeats.
Every show is unique.
And there aren't many better MCs in the state than Pete Revelle.
Things like this that they do, like artists coffee that is happening tomorrow, or I'm sorry,
on Thursday, they do this, they join with a passion of arts to discuss art related topics
of all kinds, technique, creativity, classes and all of that.
It's free admission, artists supporting artists, they get together at the last Thursday
of every month.
And by the way, Donuts provided monthly by Duncan and Wisconsin Rapids, so I mean, there
you go.
There you go.
That's pretty cool.
Yeah.
And there's a writer's share program.
It's all a crime to cool things going on over there.
We don't get to highlight that nearly enough, culturalcenterarts.com, be sure to check that
out, everybody, culturalcenterarts.com.
Excellent.
A couple in, Alta, Alte, Alte!
At Helena, California, named Brian McShea and Stephanie Raynor lost their house in
in the East and Fire this month.
But they're in the news thanks to one thing that survived it.
They were staffling through the rubble when Brian found the engagement ring he recently
bought.
Stephanie didn't know about it.
He proposed to her right there on the spot.
Wow.
I mean, I, I, I, kid you, I, sometimes I wonder like, do I still have a romantic heart?
Is it still in there?
Is it still beating?
And then you run across the story like this.
And I become mush.
Yeah.
That's just beautiful.
That's a great story right there.
That is so sweet.
That's a cool one.
And what other choice did he have?
But no, I found it.
No, I have to.
Right now.
That's, that's, that's, that's, that's the trick of the, because to me, I'm all caught
up at the moment like, oh, yeah, that's what, that's how you do it.
You're absolutely right.
Melissa.
We're covered in ash.
Yeah, yeah.
This is going to be the best story ever.
Yeah, I had to.
I had to.
Uh, that's fantastic.
It's been a fantastic couple of hours with you.
Thanks so much for hanging out with us.
Great job.
Have a good day.
Yeah, you two James.
You all have a good day.
Be good to each other out there.
We'll talk to you sooner than later right here at WFHR 1320 AM W24 ADE was
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