That Can’t Be Right (Hour 2)

Good morning, Wisconsin.

Morning, world.

It's a new day.

Thanks for kicking it off with us at WFHR.

Take it, Marvin.

Your host, James behind the mic.

I am joined by Melissa.

Good morning.

Seth.

Good morning.

And the best listeners and radio.

Thanks for being here, everybody.

I have a lot of stuff lined up for you.

In a little bit, we're going to talk about some local theater.

We're also going to get into a little later.

How old do you have to be to be say you're middle-aged?

How did pop culture ruin your name?

We'll get into that as well.

But we kick off with some entertainment news and talking about,

I think, the finest actors I've ever seen.

One of the finest.

Denzel Washington.

I've never seen this man deliver a line badly.

I've seen him in some bad movies.

I have.

But I've never seen him do a bad job.

Total professional.

I was a kid watching WGN and I saw the movie The Mighty Quinn

with Denzel Washington and Robert Townsend.

And I just immediately fell in love with this guy.

I'm like, this guy, this is the kind of actor I want to be.

Of all movies.

Yeah, all movies.

I had no idea he would be what he is.

Exactly.

But I've just been a big fan of his for a very long time.

And Denzel Washington is dealing with a minor medical issue right now.

And maybe not some minor considering it's his job.

It involves a big part of his job.

He almost bit his own tongue off.

Oh, no.

Maddingly, maddingly, he didn't say how or why it happened,

which is what most people are curious about.

But he did say, quote, I bit my tongue almost half off a few months ago.

It's affected my speech.

It forces me to slow down and I have to use it.

Denzel is currently preparing to open a new Broadway production of Othello.

And some of his Shakespearean lines are giving his swollen tongue trouble.

Like, whether will you that?

I go to answer this, your charge.

That's a tough line to say without an issue with your tongue.

With or with you of that?

I go to answer you with this charge.

I'm trying to say it because I'm trying to think of the parts that are difficult for him.

And it's almost every syllable.

Wow.

Yeah.

That can't be easy.

No, not at all.

And you know, as curious as some people are about why this happened and everything?

Back off.

Yeah.

Doesn't have to tell you.

Why do we have this desire to know so much about these people?

Going through their garbages and things like that.

Boy.

And if you need a playbook about how to keep private as being a big star,

then Amy, he's one of them.

I mean, you don't see him in the gossip columns very much.

He's very private in his private life.

Four decades, this man has been one of the finest, the strongest actors in the game.

And you've never heard a bad thing about him.

You've never heard another actor complain about him.

You've never heard any paparazzi about him, anything like that.

He values his privacy.

Yeah.

And they deserve their privacy.

Yes.

They have public figures.

But that doesn't mean they don't deserve to have a problem.

Absolutely.

I agree.

And we got to get better about that.

For holding public figures accountable, but also giving them humanity.

You know, treating them like human beings.

Right.

Now, they're committing crimes in their private life.

That that doesn't.

That would not be good.

Right.

Private about that.

Mm-hmm.

And I don't know.

I'm curious to see how much this is going to affect him going forward.

Yeah.

I'll definitely be keeping an eye on that.

I will say if he never acted again, his legacy is set.

Oh, yeah.

Man is his legacy set.

Doesn't sound like he wants to give it up anytime soon, though.

Well, no, if he's trying to work through that,

because love pain is the worst.

That's rich.

And anything with your tongue.

I mean, have you had a swollen taste bud before?

Yep.

Those are so annoying.

And it's hard to talk with just that.

Yep.

But about a, ooh.

Yeah.

That's rough.

I will say one of the cool things about this, regardless of his age.

Again, young memory.

I was a kid watching Anthony Quinn in his late 80s, I believe.

Acting his tail off.

Acting just amazing and everything.

I remember thinking, oh, I can do this forever.

I can always act.

I can, again, that's one of the cool things I think about acting.

As you can leave, come back.

You can have injuries and add that to your character.

Add that to your career.

I think there's a lot of interesting things about that.

We move on to Seth Rogan, another famous Seth.

Seth Rogan, not only I think has one of the best laughs

in all of Hollywood and all of entertainment.

I love his laugh.

And Seth has been pretty outspoken about his decision

and not have kids with his wife, Lauren Miller.

But of course, he has gotten a lot of backlash for this.

Quote, people really had strong takes on it.

Being like, blank this guy and blah, blah, blah.

Geez.

And I mean, being very...

I don't know what.

I could not be PG-ing this more for you.

Right.

With the comments he and his wife have been getting and everything.

And he had a quote, you should only have kids if you really want kids.

And we just really didn't want kids.

Time kept going by and in the moment where we were like, let's do it.

Just kept not happening.

Seth says...

And that's their choice.

Exactly.

Says the most disturbing comment that he saw was,

who's going to take care of you when you're old?

Quote from Seth.

A quote from Seth.

Seth Rogan.

Quote, is that why you're having kids?

Because I have two things to say.

One, that's very selfish to create a human just so someone can take care of you.

And two, just because you have a kid, I hate to break it to you.

It doesn't mean that they're going to do that.

Yeah, exactly.

Dude, what?

I don't get it.

What?

That is so weird.

The amount of things that people get outraged by.

I almost envy because I would love to be living a life who's so blissful

and have such privilege that I can sit back and worry about what Seth Rogan and his wife are doing

and not having that procreate it.

Because let me check the human population again real quick, everybody.

Just to make...

Oh yeah, yeah.

It's still going.

We're fine.

And even if we weren't not our business, not our business.

Seriously.

I will never be able to wrap my mind around the idea of telling other people how to live their lives,

of telling other people, again, outside of obviously breaking crimes or doing...

Right, I'm hurting other people.

Right, yeah.

It's not like that.

Like, it ain't hurting you.

Like, are you going to raise these kids?

Yeah.

Are you going to pay for their college?

Are you going to help?

Are you going to have great change diapers?

Are your feet closed on their back?

We're going to wait till their kids are grown so you can call them a nipple baby then.

I mean, seriously.

Well, and one other thing here.

And we're going to be talking about this with our friends.

We encourage a little bit later today around 430 on Midday Magazine.

We've got Kelly from Child Carrying Inc.

And the big...

A lot of people are looking at the child care system and looking at the way things are.

And it's not getting any better and seeing every single politician wearing more about illegal immigrants

than our kids, safety, whether it's kids in school or it is child care.

And what is the incentive to a young couple?

Hey, by the way, I know that you're barely scraping by right now because

Wisconsin hasn't raised the minimum wage in 20 decades or anything like that.

But here's another thing.

Here, let's add this on top of it.

No matter how badly you want to have kids.

No matter how badly you love children, you have to take this into consideration.

And when a person is left with those choices there,

I don't believe anybody for whatever choice they make,

whichever direction they go, whether it's having kids or not having kids or what have you.

I will say, I am thinking of something...

One of the funniest things my father ever said to me,

because my brother and sister were all five years apart and I was a kid and I asked my dad,

why did you and mom plan to have us all five years apart and he fell down laughing?

Jimmy, you don't have, you don't play kids, they just happen.

I mean, there's certain ways to prevent, you know, having them,

but there's never, there's no one 100% there is.

There he is.

Wait a minute.

I got three and I didn't know.

I'm kidding, I'm kidding.

I'm trying to lighten the mood.

I'm going to bring the mood back down again though,

because from the women's perspective, we're concerned about safety at this point.

Having a child is very risky, period.

And now with the way that the laws are in Wisconsin, they're even riskier because doctors are afraid.

They're afraid to take the care that is needed because they could lose their license.

And sorry to bring this up again, but abortion is women's healthcare.

It's women's reproductive care.

There are so many things that the term abortion is a medical term.

And because women can, because doctors are afraid to do that procedure now to save women's lives,

because they'll lose their, their medical care women are afraid to get pregnant.

Period.

I have friends who have stopped trying to have children because they're afraid of what could happen.

Because they have had to have an abortion just to save their life.

It was never a viable pregnancy and it would have killed her.

That's where we're at right now.

She can't do that now.

She can't take the risk.

It's not her child, the living child.

One living child would be without a mother if that would have happened.

And it's going to get worse before it gets better.

I appreciate that, Melissa.

Yes, absolutely.

That is part of the reason why, being, I've always been honest about this with Melissa and with our audience and everything.

Radio has been a boys club for way too long.

This is part of the reason why Melissa and why I've worked so hard to have women on the show.

I would not have had that perspective.

I would not have thought of that.

And I appreciate that so very much.

Very much so.

Thank you, Melissa.

And nice, well said.

Let's see.

And Lisa's broken alone.

And Lisa's broken alone.

Live alone, and his wife.

Live alone.

Live alone.

Especially, you know, we're talking about here.

Whether it's Melissa or Seth Rogan or any of these people.

Anybody.

I got to think that these people I've just mentioned would have no problem.

No problem at all.

Actually singing live in front of people.

I've seen Melissa do it.

Yeah, that's right.

She's very good at it.

Yes.

And we've got some examples here of the list of the most unforgettable lip syncing incidents.

I love it.

I say that.

And I wonder how many people had any memory or any one memory pop up in their head of,

oh, that's the most famous lip syncing thing.

Because I'm looking at this list.

And I think these are all noteworthy.

But I think you're going to need me to remind you of them.

I don't know that there's one like, oh, yeah, I remember when that happened.

Like Ashley Simpson, I said I live in 2004.

Ashley got caught flat-footed when the wrong song played over the PA.

It was actually the song she had already performed earlier that episode.

So she tried her hardest to play it off.

She did this like little jig and everything.

And then walked off the stage.

And the show went to commercial.

It completely derailed her music career.

It did.

It has never recovered.

No.

I don't even know if she's come out with new music since then.

And that's interesting to me.

How that can happen like that.

Because some of that does fall on her shoulders and how you bounce back from something like that.

And certainly when an artist chooses like she did to lip sync.

That was her choice on that show.

But I don't know that she deserves to have her career ended because of it or anything.

I'm not an Ashley Simpson.

I couldn't tell you one thing about it.

But I don't know that any young artist deserves that.

Right.

Well, I think part of the thing is, and maybe we'll get into it as we go down this list too,

but I think more people would be forgiven if you do it like a bad performance.

Then if they see that you're like quote unquote cheating by lip syncing.

Right.

That would, I think more people are forgiving of that.

Yeah.

And did you have a listen?

Well, I just, I have a hard time with the word cheating being equated with lip syncing.

Because there are instances where lip syncing is appropriate.

Well, and if you're up front about it and you're telling people that's what's going to happen,

then I guess that's fine.

But if you're trying to put it off as some other thing, that really, that bugs me a lot

because I feel like that is false pretenses.

So if I'm, I'm with you because if I'm paying to see an artist, I want to see the,

I want to hear the artist.

I want to, I want to hear them in the moment how they really are, whether they're sick,

whether they're not feeling good or what.

I know that's what I signed up for.

I paid a lot of money for this ticket to see the real you, whatever you are today.

But I could also see where artists are, hey, I got to be perfect every time out there.

I got to sound perfect every time.

I can see a lot of different angles on this.

And I don't know that there is any right answer.

It's a case by case thing for you, the consumer, you, the person that wants to take this in.

I bring it to actually Simpson one first because of the way it derailed her career,

especially consideration where you look at these two next names that I mentioned.

Mariah Carey on Dick Clark's New Year's rock and even 2016 due to an earpiece malfunction.

Mariah couldn't hear anything.

So she just kind of walked around on stage and talked while her song was playing.

And like, you know, I said hi to people in the audience and everything.

She didn't even like even try.

She just, it's interesting.

It failed immediately and she immediately like just was like, okay,

I'm just going to roll with this and say hi to fans and everything.

Okay.

She claims she planned to sing along a backtracking, not lip sync,

but the audio messed up that part even so she wasn't able to do that.

Right.

I mean, she doesn't have to prove anything to anybody.

I mean, we know all good of a singer she is.

Right.

And that's an audio malfunction that I beyond her controls.

So I think she did the right choice there of like, okay, that's obviously not me singing.

I'm just going to walk around and talk to you guys.

Oh, I mean, I think it's incredible in prof like her.

I don't know, incredible might be strong, but I think it's really good in prof like her.

Yeah.

It's a nice move.

Yeah.

And just how much of that affect her career?

Like none.

I didn't even know that happened.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It was 2016.

It wasn't even that long.

I know.

And I don't know.

I don't know.

How about Beyonce, Barack Obama's inauguration back in 2013,

while she never fully admitted to lip syncing the National Anthem,

Beyonce later noted that the bad weather and lack of rehearsal time on a proper sound check

said that she's a perfectionist and she was not able to get it right that day.

Okay.

So she has said that.

Again, didn't hurt her career once again, we know how good she is.

So I mean, yeah.

And maybe that's it.

Maybe Ashley Simpson didn't have the history in the field that had that.

Yep.

And not to be mean here, but I don't know that it's fair to put her in the same category

of Mariah Carey and Beyonce.

Ah, no.

I don't think you could do that.

No.

Well, and in some of these lip syncing incidents are there, they're done because

they can't perform on stage live the way they can in a studio.

Right.

And Melissa cannot see this list at home where she, you know, or anything like that.

And I think that's interesting, Mel, because that's where we go next.

The Red Hat Chili Peppers at Super Bowl 2014.

After their performance, people noticed that the guy's instruments weren't even plugged in.

They asked Flea about this and Flea, by the way, is one of the better,

not only one of the best bass players of all time, but he is also one of the better interviews

you're going to see.

This guy just talks.

On Flea said it was the NFL's call to have them fake the music while Anthony Kidd is saying

live.

So he was singing live, but the music itself wasn't.

That is not uncommon, yeah.

And they decided not to plug, even plug in their instruments or have any chords out there because

quote, we thought it better not to pretend.

Okay.

Well, that's legit, I guess.

I'm better to be straightforward about it.

Yeah, exactly.

And that was one where the choice was taken out of their hands.

They had the right choice in that one.

Which is odd considering they paid to be there.

Every Super Bowl halftime show since the dawn of this thing has paid to be there.

Yeah.

So if I'm paying to be there at a fell or not.

Hey, NFL, I'm going to do what I want to do here.

Yeah, yeah.

Or especially from the Red Hat Chili Peppers.

Okay, yeah, sure, we'll do what you say.

And then when I get out there, I'm doing my thing.

It's not like you're coming back.

It's not like you've got to worry about if they're going to invite you back or anything.

Exactly.

Very seldom do we see an artist, although Kendrick Maher has actually done something that nobody's ever done,

where he's been a part of two halftime shows within a decade.

Oh, I didn't know that.

He was a guest spotted in the LA one, and then of course he had it this one.

Oh, cool.

And one of the more famous ones, but not a lot of people probably know about this one,

the mamas and the papas on the Ed Sullivan show.

Oh.

Back in 1967, Michelle Phillips protested having to lip sync by eating a banana during her performance of California dreaming.

Yes.

I do remember seeing this, obviously.

I didn't see it.

It is some great video in my goodness.

If you've never seen Ed Sullivan, like furious.

This is the one time you'll see him that way.

But he had nobody, a big fan of Ed Sullivan.

You can make an argument.

There's not a lot of us here without Ed Sullivan and the entertainment and the work he did.

Man, he has nobody to blame, but himself and that moment.

Right.

Especially because Ed made all the calls on that show.

Well, yeah, he did.

It was all his decisions.

They used to do that on, I don't know if the show was still on top of the pops in Britain.

Yeah.

But those were all, everyone knew, everyone lip synced when they came on that show.

Because they wanted to play the actual recording that was going out there.

So they would bring the bands on there and they'd sit there and a couple of times bands would like play around with it.

You know, like pretend like not really playing their instruments.

To anybody that ever has to hire and work with Mike Patton from Faith No More.

Good luck.

Good luck with that.

Because if you try, they had some fun with that one.

Boy, Faith No More had some fun with that one.

We will take a quick time out when we come back.

How old you got to be to say you're middle aged?

How old?

We want to know.

We want to know.

We'll be back in more show coming up.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio.

My lips are set in James here with you.

Little hook from Blues Traveler to play us in.

Good harmonic a player.

Yes, he is a very good one now.

And I play this song hook with the title, of course, hook.

And it makes me think of Captain Hook, of course, and Peter Pan and age and never growing up.

Oh, there we go.

And that's where we go next.

It was a reach.

It was a reach, but you made it.

You connected it, man.

You connected it, yeah.

Marion Webster defines middle aged as being between 40 and about 60.

About a pole found one in four Americans under 40 considered themselves middle aged.

And one in five over 60 say the same.

So what age range do you think is middle aged?

And it kind of depends on who you ask.

There's been a consensus on exactly what it is.

Some say anywhere between 35 to 65, but others think it's too broad.

And as we mentioned, Marion Webster defines it about 40 and about 60 between there.

But a recent pole found people, plenty of people outside those ages fit the bill.

One in four Americans under 40 considered themselves middle aged.

One in four.

And one in five people over 60 say the same.

So what do you think the cutoff is?

Wow.

What's the age range where you have to admit that you're not young anymore?

But you still get to claim you're not an old person yet.

I think this is a very interesting question.

It is a very interesting question.

It is an interesting question.

Do you split your lifespan up into three parts?

I mean, that's that's young middle and old.

Yeah.

The old classic three.

But we're going to die.

Yeah, exactly.

I mean, the middle age of what?

So I think the median age is like 70, the late 70s, I think, for people in the United States.

Which would mean that it's like, yeah, late 30s would be considered the start of middle age, right?

But that's just numbers.

People, I guess, you're only as old as you feel, I guess.

So if you're over 60, but you're still feeling younger than that, it's like, no, I'm not old.

I feel like I'm in my middle age.

I remember my son when he first started really learning to run and stuff.

And he's trying to put his own shoes on.

And he's doing it.

And he's frustrated.

And he just stops.

And he looks at me.

And he looks like a little old man.

And he's two, three years old.

And he just has this look of defeat on his face.

He's like, his face is saying to me, I'm getting too old for this.

It was too much.

I love that.

I think that it's such a personal thing too.

Oh, it is.

I don't know that this has any set age or that it ever will.

But I will say, I don't think anybody gets to tell you this.

I think you can only make this decision yourself.

Okay, you know what?

I think I'm in my middle ages here.

I think I hit there.

In that middle ground there.

I think this is a real personal call.

I agree.

Yeah, it's got to be.

With that, I don't know that Mary Webster or anybody else could really define it.

It's too hard because it's so vague.

It really is such a vague thing, right?

Unlike telling us what generation we are, they can do that, I guess.

Apparently.

They know.

Again, that I can keep saying, I don't even know which one I'm in.

Right.

But yeah, I think that deciding when you hit middle age, that's totally your choice.

Your call.

Let us know what you think, everybody.

How do you define middle age?

Go ahead and give us a call.

715-424-2600.

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

You can also text.

Yeah, exactly.

I've got a guideline for everybody.

It's when you start making weird sounds when you do things you used to do easily.

Yeah.

You're bending over, getting out of a chair.

If you start making noises when you do that, it's like, yep, you're there.

It's all good.

It's cool.

It's hard to disagree with that.

It's hard to disagree with that.

Or when you start saving twist ties.

Oh my god, I love that.

Oh, that's so good for this.

Oh.

That was a little close to home, boy.

Really, dude.

It's in right there.

Right there.

Wow, man.

Bullseye.

Oh, that was good.

Oh, man.

We're going to break, actually.

You know what?

We're going to break.

That's a drop to bike.

That's good.

We will go to Melissa and her news.

We'll come back now.

So we got some Mike Clemen sports in there for you.

And plenty more of our partners.

We're going to come back.

And we're going to be talking about some fun stuff.

And we get back on the morning show.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show at WFHR.

Melissa, Seth and James hanging out with you.

Thanks so much for joining us, everybody.

We got good things coming up.

We're going to get into a fun topic in a moment here.

But I didn't want to remind everybody if you have not already looked.

That moon is still out there a little bit.

There are full moon, snow moon out there.

Snow moon.

Yeah, my brother sent me a gorgeous picture

from Duluth this morning.

The Old Farmers Almanac tells us that the name snow moon

comes from the Kamachi people known to as the new

it as the sleep moon.

Oh, cool.

The Lakota tribes name for the full moon translates to

win tree cracks because of cold.

Oh, wow.

Which, if you've lived in Northern Minnesota and it gets cold enough,

you can go outside and hear trees popping.

Yes.

Yeah.

It's weird.

And the wish ram people designate the

destination means shoulder to shoulder around the fire moon.

Ooh, oh.

That's very poetic.

I like that.

It's beautiful.

Nice.

Beautiful.

And it's like, yeah, everyone's huddling together.

Yes, it's a cold out.

Yeah.

It's pretty cool.

We got an interesting one here.

And before we get into it, let me introduce myself.

My name is Mayloff.

James.

Mayloff.

And you all knew exactly what I was referencing.

Everybody, whether you've seen a James Bond movie in your life

or not, you knew exactly what I was referencing.

Or maybe I'm a butler to you.

Maybe I'm James the butler.

And I'm very popular.

Come here, James.

Yes.

Home James.

Yes.

Exactly.

Exactly.

So how did pop culture ruin your name?

Or enhance it.

Make it fun.

Maybe a difference.

Make it interesting or not.

Teets there.

You know, however you look at this.

I honestly have never been bothered by that.

It's never bothered me at all.

I don't know.

Because I also will say admit that I knew really early on.

I have a very common name.

Because I have pretty prevalent.

I have three other family members with that name.

Just in the family alone.

Yeah.

Right.

So I don't know about you guys.

Before we dive too much into this list for Melissa for Seth.

I have you guys felt that it had.

I don't want to see ruined.

I think that's a heavy word.

Right.

But it definitely impacted your name.

Mmm.

Go ahead, Melissa.

I really feel like it has Melissa.

Okay.

There's not really any like big hit songs, you know, like Jolene or Roxanne.

Mmm.

Those kind of almond brothers.

Yep.

Well, yeah, they have one.

But it's not like.

Right.

Oh, no, no, no.

And them make right.

Yeah.

I agree with you.

I just, for me, I will say that the first, I would say month that I was working with you.

That song would pop up my hat every other day.

I remember my name.

Yeah.

It did help.

It was a great song too by the way.

It's a great song.

It's a very famous Melissa's that really dragged it through the mud.

Yeah.

I don't know.

I don't know who the most famous Melissa would be.

I don't know, you know, where you go.

I mean, I think of Melissa Sue Anderson and Melissa Gilbert from Melissa.

Right.

I was going to save the two Melissa's.

Those were the first ones that I kind of knew about growing up.

Well, I'm in the same boat with Melissa because Seth is not a common name.

Well, generally, the ones that are known, most of them are Jewish like Seth Rogan, Seth Meyers,

you know, that kind of stuff.

It's more of a Hebrew, well, it is Hebrew name.

Yeah.

But if it appears in like a movie as a character name, that is something that automatically makes me go,

huh?

You know what?

Because it's so uncommon that you rarely hear it.

So it's like, oh, wow.

Wait.

I usually turn to someone.

Did he just say that was Seth?

Yeah.

Yeah.

I could see that.

You just don't hear it.

And I think that not only those are interesting, you guys.

I want to hear from the audience and how it has impacted you if it has at all.

And I'm curious, too, because parents, you sit there and you think and you wonder,

and you worry, okay, I got this.

Is this going to work out?

Can this word name?

How can they make fun of this name?

You do all this and everything.

And then some celebrity.

Like, you know, comes famous or something like that.

Or you have this beautiful family name that you've handed down and everything.

And then it turns into a pop culture name or something along.

Right, exactly.

It's interesting.

And here, so people online were posting about this.

A guy named Jesse McLaren posted a question on Twitter last week asking people,

how pop culture might have ruined your name.

And he's gotten a ton of responses from people, including Alexa.

Thanks to Amazon, of course.

Of course.

Oh, no.

And real quick, before we go too much farther, because this one is the perfect example of this,

I wonder how much, when I say, when I'm thinking the word ruined,

I'm not thinking so much for people as much as the name itself.

Like, oh, well, we ain't going to be seeing any more Alexa's.

Right.

It'll not be very common at all because of that, right?

At least for a couple of generations.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I've heard a lot of people say, well, we're not making this name anymore.

We're not making aims anymore.

Yeah.

You'll do it.

Whatever.

Yeah, kind of thing.

I wonder if some of these names are going to go by the wayside because of the these.

A guy named Jake, who everyone called Jake from State Farm.

Oh, no.

As a whole name, Jake.

Come on.

Maybe you'll build more clever than that.

A guy named Zach, married to a guy named Cody.

That's got to be tough.

Zach and Cody.

How's your sweet life, guys?

You know.

I like every, every woman named Felicia.

Every woman named Felicia.

Oh, yeah.

Or Karen.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, that's rough.

Yeah.

And both great names, by the way.

Like, I think they're both great names.

But the pop culture is really tinged on a number on them.

A guy named Luke, who always hears, am I your father?

Yes.

I can't imagine.

I have to ask my cousin if he gets that.

Did he hear that?

Yeah.

Right.

Right.

There's some great ones out there.

I'm a little actually surprised to not hear from the audience.

I really thought that we'd hear from the audience on this one.

Yeah.

Because out of our many, many listeners out there, I feel pretty confident that some of you

out there have pop culture names.

Or names that have gotten into the pop culture.

Maybe they don't want to help themselves.

Maybe they don't.

I could get to that.

When I worked at a bank, or a credit union, I should say, we had a couple of people that

had the same names as celebrities.

One of them, his name was Luke Perry.

And he would come in, you know, and, you know, like the first time you'd get him, you'd

look at the name and you're like, you know, do I say something, you know, I don't want

it.

I'm sure he's heard it before.

Yeah.

Well, someone asked him about that.

He's like, well, you know, Luke Perry, you know, and he's like, yeah, well, I had that

name before he did.

Yes.

Yeah.

Because I don't think Luke Perry was his actual name.

They act or I think he changed it.

But yeah.

Oh.

I love an office space, Michael Bolton, and how he was just so distraught by that.

And if I could name him Michael Bolton, yeah, the same name is Michael.

I find it interesting, too, that this almost doesn't seem to ever happen where it's somebody

really cool that you're associated with.

Right.

That doesn't seem to get to have like, how come everybody named Michael doesn't get associated

with Michael Jordan or something like that?

All the alpichinos, you know, or something like that, right?

Those are good.

Those are interesting.

Well, and locally, our Steve Martin.

Yeah.

That's true.

That's a good one.

I was going to thank you.

I was going to bring up Steve and not only Steve Martin, but when my first job here worked

at a video store, Deja Vu, and you know, working at a video store, you of course have to take

people's information to give them a card for the store.

We had a gentleman come in once who lived here in Rapids for a very long time from what

I know.

Mame still be around here.

His name was James Bond.

Yes.

That was his name.

We're common name that you'd think.

There's actually quite a few James Bond's out there, yeah.

Which I don't know if it was the intent or not, but I got to think you're a spy character

you're creating.

You would create a generic name.

That is exactly what Ian Fleming said.

He named him James Bond because it was such a bland name.

That's why he did it.

Again, we'd love to hear from you guys out there.

I will say that one of the other people that commented on this post was Monica Lewinsky

and she said, wait, can I even play?

That woman has done such a masterful job of being herself and just, you know, oh wow.

Wow.

I really, I love comeback stories like anybody else out there.

I appreciate even more is just stories.

Where somebody gets some form of justice in their life like she has.

Yeah.

I think that's pretty cool.

Yeah.

That's an interesting story.

We got a that ain't right story here for everybody.

We don't get to these very often.

I try to be very picky, I'm very picky with these.

I will get them for so long.

They got to be pretty good for us to do this.

Right, right.

I feel like we may have one here.

Papa Johns thinks you may want to smell like garlic sauce.

So they've created a limited edition bath bomb to make it easier for you.

Unfortunately, they aren't selling it.

They're holding a contest where they're awarding it, awarding it to somebody.

A select super fan, share their love of dipping sauce on social media.

They want you to go online and let them know how badly you need that bath.

It's a marketing stunt, but it could save you a lot of money without those these special

garlic sauce bombs.

It would be apparently cost you $475 to buy enough the sauce to bathe in.

Gross.

Okay, this is the opposite of the sweethearts thing that we started off the show today with.

This is how to repel lovers.

Oh my God.

Okay, first of all, first of all, good smells.

I do not associate with garlic.

Okay, tastes great.

Love the taste of garlic.

Not the smell.

Smell not so good.

Okay.

It smells good when it's cooking, but it loses so quickly and you know, it's why vampires

don't like it.

It's the smell, man.

Maybe this is for someone who has a fear of vampires.

That's what a bathing girl like sauce.

I feel so bad.

You know, I'm used to set the night sharing a brain, but today Melissa, you and I have just

been on the same page because I did not to the shock of everybody.

I did not sleep last night since I couldn't sleep.

I watched, I had a copy of No Sforatu than the new one, the new one and everything.

And I've been wanting to watch it.

So I watched it last night and I would love this sauce right now.

So James has already entered in to win this contest.

So Bill Skarsgardt will never be the same again.

Oh no.

That was one of the more suspenseful, horrific, gothic tellings I've ever seen of a vampire

story.

Nice.

It was incredibly well done, incredibly well acted, a little long, a little long, but it

was in part because they were trying to pay tribute to the old tell it, the very first

No Sforatu.

The silent film.

And get away from kind of like the handsome vampire and a lot of that stuff.

Yeah, let's go back to scary vampire.

Yeah, they did.

Yeah, Bill Skarsgardt, man, that scary vampire.

I'm kidding.

I know.

It was definitely take this best.

I honestly, the whole thing, you know, Papa John's, you know, Leslie, it's so transparent

you know, tell us how much you love Papa John's.

Yeah, no, get out of here.

And it does feel like these are getting old now.

These I did a lot of these kind of contests where they're giving it a quote unquote, giving

it away, you know, that's a ridiculous thing.

It does feel like it's a little bit played out, does, but I also got to say, you know,

nobody does this, but what about the vampires?

Like it's tough being a vampire.

You got, you don't have the hours everybody else.

It's not like you got 24 hours a day.

No.

And you know, watch out.

And they're not that comfortable.

No, no.

Garlic, they got garlic in everything nowadays.

And now I got to worry about bath bombs.

Like, I mean, I mean, what do you do with the blood that you, I mean, you can't just go

around biting people, you know, that, that's very unsanitary.

First of all, there's a lot of people, you got to make sure all the blood is ready to

go.

It's nice and pure, you know, one of the funniest things to me and funny because to keep

from crying almost is this cancel culture and how both sides claimed that the other one

wants to cancel everybody and everything, but how come nobody's doing this for vampires?

Nobody's stepping up for vampires.

Where's the cancel culture there?

Huh?

I'm telling you.

I think you're like, there's basically what we do with the shadows group, maybe they

can give us some answers.

I don't know.

And somebody who checks off quite a few of those categories, let me say, I think that

we need to be thinking about our supernatural fronts out there.

If anything to prove they exist or not, can we get over, can we get, then we can maybe

move on from that topic to next week, ghosts and werewolves, yeah, we'll get them all

in there.

Go down the line here.

I don't know.

I, I, I would, I just would love to know the person that is going to actually use this.

Oh, like, would you though, oh, no, I don't know why, I know, I would say that a good portion

of my DNA is garlic.

Not only being italian and everything, but just how much I've ingested it by life.

I love garlic.

I absolutely do.

Uh, no way.

No, I wouldn't even, I don't even know if I want this in the house on the fear of it

accidentally breaking it.

Yeah.

He's going everywhere.

Yeah.

Well, it'd be very similar to like, just imagine, okay, you're, your partner won this

bath bomb, right?

You didn't know about it.

Of course you won't.

You walk home.

You walk into your house and it smells like delicious garlic.

Oh, it's like, oh, what are we having for dinner?

Must be like spaghetti and garlic bread and, you know, it smells so good in here.

There's roses leading, you know, there's, you know, there's, you know, it's a bad, yeah,

yeah.

And it's so bad.

And it's so bad.

That would be very disappointing.

What are we having for supper, you know, hot dogs, we'll, we'll be back to wrap up the

show, we'll be showing WFHR.

Welcome back, everybody.

Rappin' up the show, Melissa Seth and James here with you, we're going to take you right

to the top of the hour.

We got to talk about our schedule and some local things going on in our area, but doing

remind everybody that they love on the air text to win contest has got a couple of more

opportunities for you.

Yes, indeed.

You can, of course, be listening at the top of the 10 a.m. hour, Jane and Greg are going

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Then at noon and then at two o'clock today, be listening and one more time tomorrow we'll

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Be sure to get ready with the Civic Media app, have it all set and ready to go and text

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Join us today from four to five for an excellent midday magazine.

In part one, our friends, family, really family, natural food, Steven and Katrina Hintner

in with us, looking forward to hanging out with them and finding out what's going on

over at the shop.

Yep.

They got some great presentations coming up and everything we'll be talking about as well.

And in part two, our great friend Kim Shields from Encourage is going to be with us and

we'll have Kelly Young with us.

She is the executive director of Child Carrying Inc.

Kelly has joined us many times over the years and we've talked a lot about child carrying.

She knows her stuff and it's in a topic that we always look forward to being able to put

the spotlight on.

Appreciate Kim and the gang and Encourage giving us the opportunity to do that.

Yep.

Be sure to join us later today from five to six for playmakers.

Nobody made a highlight on from the sidelines.

Our friends at Kuala Gopro's printing and family, natural foods give us three hours

a week to be able to hang out with you and talk sports.

Yeah.

Hearts.

Yeah, sports.

Go ahead and practice those sports takes right now.

Your heart takes.

Go ahead and practice them and then get them out.

You don't want to keep that in your system.

You don't want to keep that all bottled up right now.

You got to do the takes, man.

You got to get those takes out there.

We are trying to get to a better day and age here with men where we share our feelings.

The most manly thing you could do is share your feelings in everything.

I don't want them to fester.

No.

Those hot takes have an expiration date.

You want to get them out.

Start to smell.

Yes.

It's from Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and again, a big thank you to Kuala Gopro's printing

and family, natural foods from that.

We appreciate all of those things going on and as well as some great local theater going

on.

A little bit later today, I'll give you guys a little look behind the curtain here.

Seth and I are going to be recording a new director's playhouse and we're going to have

in with us Kathy Miles.

I don't think, I think sometimes we use words too much with some people and some people,

it defines them perfectly.

Legend.

This is a legend in this area.

She is one of the founders of Wisconsin Rappers Community Theater.

She is one of those people that has gone and out to do great things, you know, that local

star that does good stuff and everything and we cannot wait to talk with her a little

bit later.

She is one of my favorite people of all time.

I cannot wait.

It's going to be a lot of fun.

We're looking forward to it.

She's going to help us celebrate 50 years of WRCT.

Awesome.

We've been having a lot of fun with directors playhouse and doing the Civic series last week.

We had Pam Hilke on with us, Jane and Greg.

We've had a lot of great guests of the Civic Media family on to kind of give you guys a

little bit of a little note and get to know our team here.

It's another background and stuff a little bit more, yeah.

I talked with Gretchen executive director of WRCT over the weekend about this idea last

weekend about this idea that I'd like to do something very similar with our local theaters

and specifically Wisconsin Rappers Community Theater.

And we're going to start with Kathy.

It's a perfect place to start.

Yeah.

We're looking forward to that.

And we're looking forward to their main stage season continuing on.

Arsenic and old lace premieres at the end of the month.

Get your tickets February 27th is their opening night.

It's going up fast.

Some of our favorite people are part of this one.

Be sure to support this one, everybody.

Yes.

And of course.

It's not our favorite people.

Well, then you'll be happy.

You'll be happy Melissa.

I am the total villain in this so you can you can come and hate me.

There you go.

Come and hate me.

I invite your hate.

Right.

Be there.

Get your tickets for that one and get your tickets for the Silver Fox is a radio show.

That's coming up February 20th a week from now, I believe, so go ahead and get your tickets

for that.

And while you're there, you can of course fill out your audition sheet for on noises

off.

That's right.

That's right.

These are coming up on March 10th and 11th and I want to see you there.

Right around the corner.

Let's give Melissa a difficult casting decisions.

Absolutely.

Yeah.

I imagine.

I imagine Melissa.

Go into wrctheater.org to be able to do that, everybody and keep in mind our local theaters,

whether we're talking about CWAC or WASA community theater or our high schools and our grade

schools are having a lot of productions on as well.

Always have stuff going on.

I have my oldest is going to be in the musical at the high school.

It's the first year they've allowed eighth graders to be in the high school musical.

They're doing Percy Jackson musical, the lightning thief.

So they've just started and it's going to be that's going to be fun.

That's going to be really cool.

So check that out, everybody.

And of course, it's Wednesday.

We know what that means.

Bingo.

Bingo.

B-I-N-G-O.

Door is open at five.

Bingo starts at 6.30 over at the Wisconsin Rapids Elk Slodge.

Number 6.93 at 4.30.

West Jackson Street.

Get there early.

Everyone.

Find a parking spot.

Find your seat.

It's always busy.

And it's always fun.

Also a quick note about the winter market at the Moravian Church.

That is not going to be happening this Saturday.

There is a church function going on.

So no market this Saturday, but they'll be back strong on the 22nd.

So get ready for that.

Go to their Facebook page.

All the updates are there, including who the vendors are going to be when they come back

on the 22nd.

So get ready for that.

And experience Broadway without the airfare.

Bachelor's a Broadway.

Gentlemen of the theater is coming to town, everybody.

Some of your favorite songs from Wicked, the Phantom of the Opera, Jersey Boys, all going

to be a part of this.

Performing at the Performing Arts Center, I'm sorry, at the Arts Council of South

Wood County.

They're going to be over at the pack Thursday, February 20th at 730.

Get your tickets at saverthearts.com, saverthearts.com.

And taking not only this show in a great show, but support the arts while you're doing it.

And keep in mind, they got a nice dinner to go along with this one, two over at the

ridges.

Yes.

It's going to be a really nice time.

That's going to be fun.

Be sure to find out more about that.

You can give them a call at 715-424-2787-424-2787 or go to saverthearts.com and pick up your

tickets that way.

Or, how about, how would you like it?

How would you like a pair of tickets, everybody?