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betting sites are already giving odds for who will headline the 2026 Super Bowl halftime
show. Good grief. Now, I've already been on the record as saying, uh, Laney Wilson, Chris
Stapleton, like these are my bets. Right. These are who I'm going with. That's a pretty
good odds on that. I think I will say I've been saying that for a while. So I'm just going
to go ahead and die on that hill. But, uh, in recent weeks, I have heard, um, some rumblings
and I've even done a little digging on this one because I put myself out there and set
it. Um, that, uh, it, it does. There is a line like Beyonce, Lady Gaga, like they've done
the Super Bowl halftime show and they were pretty at a, at a pretty high level when they
did it. Um, so there's, there's a little bit of an argument there. But at the same time,
a lot of these artists don't necessarily need it. So there's a reason why I don't think
you'll ever see Taylor Swift host doing a halftime show. I, I agree. I don't, I don't
know. She kind of already does stadium concerts. Like what's so special? Whereas like a Kendrick
Lamar doesn't do that many of them. Right. And, and many of them, more recent artists,
you've seen, uh, I don't necessarily do that. Uh, but at the same time, we've seen Bruce
Springsteen and Prince and so many others do it. So I don't know that there's any really
like a, hedging your bed on this is one of the more insane bets I could think of. Right.
Because it's not as if they went into 2024 thinking, well, Kendrick Lamar is definitely
going to be our halftime. Right. We never would have guessed that's a year ago. Well,
and I don't even think the people making the decisions would have. I don't, I, I think
that was a late decision made, uh, as far as planning goes. Um, and especially with the
way that there was a bit of haste of this whole thing being put together. So I, I think
the NFL is going to wait as long as it has to to make this decision because they want
to choose the most popular name or person with the most popular song. Right. They're
going to see what happens like over the summer. Yeah. They wanted to be current enough.
And, uh, it's been this way since we were all kids, but it's only gotten worse. Everything
is parody nowadays. And, and so I, I feel extremely confident if you are going to make
a bet and you're able to make this bet, a country music star. There we go. Definitely
going to see that. No, I agree. I think we're going to get country this next year. Not
only with the rise of country music in the last two years, but with the NFL doing what
I think they should do. And, and this is me as a huge Kendrick Lamar saying, uh, fan
saying this, they went one direction this year. You got to go the next, the other direction
next year. That's exactly it. They've got a appeal to the entire fan base. And it's
kind of a, we handed an offering to this one this year. We're going to hand that offering
to the other next year because we want to make sure y'all stick around people, uh, complain
about everything. And, and especially in this day and age where everybody feels like
they have a megaphone. And by that, I mean a social media app. Right. Uh, and, and with
that, it does, there is literally no artist outside of one they could put out there that
is not going to take heat. And even she might. And by her, I think we all know who I'm
talking about. Dolly Parton. Right. Uh, Dolly Parton has no reason to do this. So she
is never going to do the half Super Bowl halftime show. Maybe if we're lucky, she'll do
the National Anthem or something like that. But I don't even know if that would happen.
That would be nice. I'd love to see it. Especially if there is a country music artist as
the halftime show. But I think that they'd go a different direction. And again, I think
they should. I think that it's only fair. You're not going to be able to find an artist that
is going to be able to cover all bases for all the heat and, uh, in the hoopla about Kendrick
Lamar's performance this year. I remember hearing quite a bit of noise and Bruce Springsteen
hosted. Yeah. And people, younger people complaining. I don't know who this is. Oh, dude. Yeah.
No. And I remember people complaining when it was Prince and it was Prince. They're going
to complain no matter what. Yeah. But if you are an obsessive gambler and you have to
gamble on this, uh, you get some help first. Yeah. Highly recommend the gambling hotline.
Yeah. I loved it. I loved it with the, uh, that we just kind of, we're like, we're like
all just like overnight, like gambling's okay now. And then, and then the, uh, the ads that
they have as far as like gambling can be bad for you. It's all like really quiet. And
at the end of the, uh, go ahead and seek help. Right. Like they speed it up to 2.5 times
speed right at the end. Yeah. But if you've got to Miley Cyrus and Shaperone are tied
for first with 16.7% of possibly one of those two being the headliner. Okay. I would love
to see those two tour together, though. I think that would be a really fun time. It would
be gay as heck, but it would be a good time followed by oasis. No. What? Absolutely not.
What is this? 1996? If you want to, if you just want to go ahead and just like blow
your money, like I don't know if you can get it. Like tax help from that. But I mean, I
don't know what else you're doing there. Are they with the, are the brothers even in
that can be allowed in the same room? I mean, they still hate each other. And they still
hate each other, but they did just tour. I am more confident that I will be hosting these
Super Bowl halftime show. No, that's fair. Then a racist will be. No, you're right. We
should definitely get you on the list. You have better odds of me being out there with
a triangle and doing like just standing there. Yeah. Yeah. Then the oasis being the Super Bowl
halftime show. They're all in, man. They get all the Brit pop bands. Let's get blurred
together. No, no. This is it. This is my prediction, then. It's going to be Damon fighting
the dudes from oasis live at the Super Bowl halftime show. They don't even do any music.
They're just because apparently it's 1998 now. Yeah. And that's what we want. And I'll
take Damon over those two hundred percent. Anyone be good money on Damon because whatever
one of the brothers is not going to actually fight. They're what I don't know which one
to get the other one to get. No, they're going to wait for the other one to get so thoroughly
injured first before they sit there and watch as the other brother get hurt. Like beat
up. That's what they want. Right. Other names on the list a tie between Christina Aguilera
and Sabrina Carbender. No, what are they doing here? Like Christina Aguilera hasn't done
music in almost a very long time. Wow, that's a long shot. Yeah. No, Sabrina Carbender
I get, but I don't think she's big enough. No, I don't think she's super bowl. She's got
one hit. No, she's got a few, but I don't think she's there yet. Yeah. She's got one
hit that the common masses are going to get. Sure. Like even somebody might like me.
Right. You didn't even know espresso. Yeah. Yeah. It's worth mentioning that these odds
are from the online bedding guide. It's UK based. So that's probably why you waste
this. That's why. All right. Okay. And yeah, Abba reforms. No, I understand that this next
part might come across political. And if it does, that's teach their own. But I cannot
swear on enough tours and bibles that I am not a political person. I don't lean either way.
And when it comes to this person, I'm about to talk about I don't think of them politically
unless I have to. And this subject is not about that Elon Musk. Maybe the most overrated
brain in history. Easily. Because if it doesn't take a lot of digging to realize that anything
he claims his name to, it was somebody else that created it was somebody else that did
or something along those lines. And that's just facts. Those are just that's real true facts.
And his businesses are indeed failing if you look at the numbers objectively.
Well, into that point, one of the reporters present in a recent press conference that Elon Musk
was in at the Oval Office, one of those one of the reporters presented Elon with a fact he'd
gotten wrong and he admitted that he won't bat a thousand. Well, it turns out that on Twitter
or X or whatever you want to call it, he's not even batting 500. Someone took Elon's own AI bot
Grock and examined the last 1000 tweets. So this is his company on his company. Right. This is
all Elon stuff. And it turns out only about 48% of what he says is considered true going by his own
AI system. So what what I'm hearing is a generous 48%. Now, this is a man, again, who has said in
interviews, not in that this is and this is all public knowledge that he has even come forward with.
He bought Twitter wanted to become the most popular kid in school and be the funniest kid in
school. So he buys the most famous app he thinks and buys Twitter. And he goes on to fire
tons and tons of people and then have to rehire some of those people because they fired the wrong
people and fired people that needed to be there to do the jobs. And then and then on top of it
starts to get mad at people when his tweets aren't the most popular tweets and he's not the most
popular kid in school and the app hasn't made him popular. Like this is all public knowledge.
This is not an opinion. This is all facts. He even had a poll in on Twitter saying should I
step down or whatever and he overwhelmingly was told by the people on Twitter that he should.
And so he changed the algorithm. And now his own AI system is saying to you to telling
everybody that he can't be trusted. And here's the thing. He has far too much influence and power
to only have a generous 48% truthfulness rating. You want to you want a real hot take everybody.
I give this this love romance between him and our president a good couple months. I give it a
couple months. Maybe six months. Maybe maybe a year. Maybe. But want to be alpha males. Don't
usually do well together. They're going to clash at some. They're going to go. I think they're
already clashing. But it's irrelevant. 22% were deemed false of his tweets. And a 30% were
misleading or ill informed. That means 52% of what Elon is saying on his own social media platform
is BS. Yeah. Grok also said a grok is I'm not if I'm even saying you're right. But this is his AI
system because all these apps have a. Yeah. Yeah. And Elon quote had a habit of firing off hot
takes or amplifying you unverified stuff, especially on politics, which is where most of the trouble
lies. That is again his own AI system. Right. Right. Exactly. So his own computers and algorithms
don't trust him and don't believe in him. Well, and here's the other thing. That means when you
read a thing that Elon Musk retweets or says and you think, oh, that doesn't sound right.
Trust your instincts because even Grok, his AI is saying, yeah, you're probably right.
And I'll admit, I am I am bothered by these things. I'm also a real true believer of
people being able to make their own decisions. And that regardless of where you lean politically,
you see something in it and into what Laura is saying right there, your guts telling you
something, you trust your gut. I think we're seeing that more and more in our society. And especially
in the last month where we're seeing more and more people, well, I'm not saying waking up,
I'm seeing just seeing truth. Again, I don't care who you vote for. I just care that you vote
and you're informed. And I bring this up to in part because of this next one because that
one, that last one doesn't really upset me that much. I wasn't shocked by that. It wasn't surprised
by that really. And I don't think most people are. I'm going to be honest with everybody. It's the
implication. This one got me a little bent out of shape this morning. I'm like, oh my god,
I'm gonna mash billionaires in the top one. It's not even the top one percent anymore because
even that's gotten narrowed. Oh, it's got very narrowed down here. Because they're crabs in a bear,
please understand everybody. The billionaires are crabs in a barrel. And they want, they want to
be the only billionaire, every single one of them. So they are going to devour each other as much
as they can. If you'd like proof, look at what Disney has done in the last 20 years. Disney
was, did anybody think Disney needed to get bigger? Did anybody, did anybody, no, but they're
ported directors, they're CEOs or all these people always want to get bigger. Nike, Amazon,
all these companies are going to try to get bigger and devour each other. And that's that's
the way they want it. And I bring this up because billionaires seem to be making all the
decisions right now, which is ridiculous and shouldn't be because they, you have more in common
with your local representative than you will ever have with one of our people in this high level,
the CEO or anything like that. Amazon just made a deal to take over creative control
of the James Bond franchise. Oh, great. So that means that James Jeff Bezos is probably going to
be picking the next James Bond. And the next James Bond is Jeff Bezos. Oh, that's good.
It might be worth it just to see him win a wig. It might be worth it. Have you know what?
Yeah. We've seen him in a cowboy hat. Why not wig? What is it with? And look, I am nobody
to be saying this, but I'm going to go ahead and say it. What is it with billionaires being weird
looking? Like what is with that? Whether it's Elon Musk or it's Jeff Bezos or Zuckerberg or Bill
Gates or the guy that owns the Raiders inherited the Raiders and his weird haircut. Apparently
the secrets of success is having a weird hair. Why am I not more successful? Okay. I'm glad you
said it. Also, it's called compensation. They are compensating for something. Maybe it's their
face. Yeah, that could be. Maybe there's something to that. You never know. I need I'm sticking with
my hair. I'm just I'm going to see it all the way through. So a lot of people saw this online
freaking out over the idea of Amazon choosing the next James Bond. Yeah. Technically, it can be
if he wants to make it, but if his company after it's his company, at this point, a new bond flick
is probably years away though, but there's been plenty of speculation since Daniel Craig retired
in 2021's No Time to Die. Aaron Taylor Johnson, who just saw in Craven, James Norton from Happy Valley,
Idris Elba are some of the bigger names. But by the time they actually get a script written,
that they can pitch this to Dura Actors, every one of those actors will be a couple of years older.
I don't think we know who the next James Bond is. I don't think it's you. Again, hot take.
The next James Bond will be somebody nobody has said. Yep. I agree. Nobody has mentioned yet. I
don't think that. And if I could throw a name out there because I think by the time that the next
James Bond movie comes around, he'll be done with the current role of Spider-Man. I love to see
Tom Holland. That made a little difference. A young James Bond. I mean, young James Bond.
Because that was my thought. My thought was, how old do you think the next bond is going to be?
Like, do you think he's going to be a young man in his 20s or 30s, or do you think he is going
to be an elder statesman? They reinvent this character every time that they have a new person
play it. And I like the idea of, because they tried to do this a little bit with Daniel Craig,
of really going back and giving you the beginning days of Bond. Everybody loves pre-cools now,
not everybody does. Hollywood loves pre-cools now. So I could see that happening. I'm not saying
this is what I want, but I could see them doing that. And if they're going to go that route,
I'd like to see a good name. Most of the time, Daniel Craig had a pretty good status going into
the role. Roger Moore had a bit of a one. But I'd like the idea of having an established actor take
over this role in today's day and age, just because the bond franchise is not what it used to be.
By the time the next one comes out, we're going to be six or seven years removed from it. So
they're going to be kids out there who have never even heard of James Bond maybe. And I want this
franchise to survive. I still think it's a very valuable franchise, especially with the way that
they have kind of Pierce Bronson did this right. He went in there and was like, I got to take a
punch. And as soon as they did that, it changed all heroes. Right. The whole map Batman was taking
a punch. Iron Man was it changed everything in this regard. And because in that is one of the
reasons that I think that this franchise still has a place in our pop culture, I think that it
still does something. And I think the spy game is something that also should be kind of covered
in action heroes and movies and everything. Some of the greatest movies I've ever seen are spy
movies. Tinker Tailor Soldier is one of the greatest written and greatest acting movies you will
ever see. Tinker Tailor Soldier. Get a chance to see that one. Right. Or the spy who came in from
the cold is one of the best too. Those are by the way, both written by John Laker. So yeah,
good ones. We'll see where that goes. Yeah. What's new on your small screen this weekend? You've got
the, I don't know, there's not much. Okay. I'm peacocked to stream me premiere of Noceratu.
Oh, okay. Very cool. Very cool. If you're into that kind of thing, I thought it was okay.
And there's a new Anthony Mackie movie elevation. I love Anthony Mackie. I did actually see the new
Captain America last night because I did not sleep. Okay. Nice. Excellent. Harrison Ford and him
were really good. They're excellent. They just don't take scenes off. Those are Anthony Mackie's
a good actor. He's very good. He's just like him. Yeah. Cut the check. All right. New on your big
screen and limited release cleaner from Daisy Ridley. Hey, Daisy Ridley signing. Nice. Yeah, nice
to see. I like her. She plays a former soldier turned window cleaner who has to save hostages.
Oh, I just just ridiculous enough to work. That was a lot of twists. Oh, right. And the monkey
it's based on the famous short story by Stephen King. It stars Theo James and Tatiana Melissa
and Elijah Wood. Wow. They stretched that into entire movie. Yeah. It's a short story. How do
they do that? They turned it into what it looks like in the trailer to me and trailers are so
misleading these days. Yes, they are. It looks like they're trying to make it a bit of a dark
comedy. Okay. And part of what makes me feel that as well as Theo James, who is a great actor.
Now that could be your next James Bond. And I'm very okay with it. Yeah. You watch him in the
gentleman on Netflix and you'll see what I mean. Gotcha. Great accent. Great demeanor.
Can play tough. And also you do the Noley boy. Do the West End Boy and also doing the upper class
London boy and stuff. So he's really good at that stuff. Cool. And Elijah Wood doesn't do a lot
of these things either. And he's such a great like script chooser. Yes. As soon as I heard you say
Elijah Wood, I'm like, okay, what's the twist? I'll be honest. I'm probably not going to see it.
But I do think it looks a little different. Not bad. Not bad. And I want to remind everybody
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We'll be back with more show coming up. Welcome back, everybody. Morning show at WFHR.
Locally grown radio. Laura Seth James here with you. Thanks so much for joining us. Let's talk
language everybody. It is national language day, international language day. All right. I love
language. I love words. I like all of the above. And technically international mother language day
is what it's called. Oh, okay. Cool. There are over 7,000 languages are spoken around the world.
Over 7,000 to be technical 7,164. To be very specific. Almost half of the world's countries
have one or of just 10 as their official language. Okay. I think that we live in a country similar
to this. Most people you ask English is the most biggest in universal language. But if you do a
little digging, you see that Spanish is way more popular in North America. Like I'm talking
not just the US, but also Canada. Right. Where Spanish has become that much more popular even in
Canada, which is hilarious. And I've had this with a couple of students. A person from Quebec
doing Spanish. You've got to hear that. It's beautiful. It actually is beautiful. It's really
well spoken. Cool. And they're very good with languages over there. And then like in a lot of
other countries, they tend to be right. I think we're actually getting much better about that in this
country. So babble looked at how many native speakers there are for each one. So just people from
places where it's the official language. And can you guess what the number one language is?
If you can't, when I say it, it's going to be very clear to you. Okay.
Chinese. Oh, yeah. Don't make sense. There's two different Chinese languages. That's why I wasn't
going to guess Chinese as a language. 1.3 billion native speakers just saying, quote, Chinese lumps
a bunch of dialects together. But around 900 million speak Mandarin. Okay. That's the big one.
Right. There you go. Spanish. 486 million. It's the official language in Spain, Mexico,
and most of South America. Right. Okay. Cool. English at number three. 380 million people speak
English. Okay. Arabic at 362. Okay. Hindu at 345. And Bengali at 237. Wow. Bengali that
spoken in parts of India and Bangladesh. Very interesting to see with Hindu and Bengali there.
Right next to each other. That population. Yeah. In that area is very high. So that makes sense.
Yeah. Yeah. Portugues. 236 million. It's the national language of Brazil.
Brazil. That's why that's the only reason. Yeah. Portugal's really small. Yeah. Russian.
148 million. Okay. Yeah. That makes sense. Japanese. 123 million. Wow. Wow. Okay. And
Landa. 118 million. That is spoken in India and Pakistan. Okay. Oh, interesting. I did not
know. I've not heard of that one before. That's cool. India is is wild when you look at the class
system, the language, the religion, just the crossover, the tie-ins. I mean, how they make that,
wait a minute. How do they make that work? Well, we do that all the time here in America.
It's a really deep and interesting history, though. It's so beautiful. Yeah. It's so fascinating.
And the top 10 for native speakers, but look, if you look at a total worldwide, the results are
different. English is number one. Oh, okay. It's spoken over 1.5 billion people, then is Mandarin,
Hindu, Spanish, Arabic, and French. Okay. There you go. You can go to Babel.com to see this
complete list. It is. It's really, really how language travels. One of the, I had this argument
with my son about, you know, what's the greatest invention? And I was like, language. Yeah.
I mean, otherwise you need that as a base. Otherwise, nothing else can happen without being able to
communicate with each other. It's language. And for me, especially right now, there's a resurgence
in revisiting previously thought to be extinct or nearly extinct languages. There is a
burgeoning redevelopment in native languages in both America and in places like Ireland that
also experienced colonization. And it's, it's really, really, really cool. If any of you are
interested in looking up that kind of stuff, I highly encourage you to because it's so cool.
This is something that you have kind of discovered a little bit more in some of the schooling
you've done, especially. And I saw, I can't help it, everybody. I always have a meaning behind
some of these things here in Wisconsin. We have taken this on full force with trying to either
resurrect or keep alive a lot of native American languages. Yeah. Indigenous languages. Thank you,
Lord. Yeah. Yeah. No, I took four years of Anishinaabamo and that's the Ojibwe language
at University of Milwaukee. I do believe they still offer those courses. I'm not sure, though,
because obviously I haven't had to take them in a couple of years because I took them all already.
It's funny how that works. Yeah. I have to take classes a lot of times over and over and over.
But it is. I think it's one of the cooler things. And part of why I think this is so cool is,
has anybody like with everything I brought up earlier, everything is divisive nowadays. It feels
like for you could come out with white bread and somebody's going to have a problem with it.
But I haven't heard a lot of pushback on this one. I haven't heard a lot of complaints from people
on this one as far as some of our highway signs having native indigenous language with it and
some of these things. Keeping this, this is American history. It is. It's certainly understandable
that it's more important to certain others than others, but it's all of our history. This is our
land here and also I think that it's a responsibility of keeping these camps. Well, and credit to
Wisconsin in the last 50 years or so. They've been ahead of most other states in making sure that
we show how much we appreciate and value the diversity provided by our native cultures and tribal
lands and their reservations. And if you don't care about culture, fine. I bet you care about
taxes. And guess one of the things that brings people to states like ours, Native American culture.
They don't have that in Vermont. It's a part of it. It's a part of what brings people here. It's a
part of our culture, part of what makes people think that there's something cool and unique about
Wisconsin when I never knew anything other than cheese about Wisconsin. It brings people here.
We're not just cheese. We're also powwows and cranberries. Yeah, it's not just I think the right
thing to do. I think that it's also there's a lot of economic impact from this too with that
and part of it, along with other factors. And it's just I think very unique and cool. I found
this when I was young and I thought that's about Latin. I learned a couple Latin phrases just
because I thought it was such a cool language. And we'll go to break here and get take care of
our partners and everything. But I do want to keep an open dialogue about. Wow. Yes. I'm a terrible
person. I love it. I want to keep talking about this because I want to know everybody out there.
A couple of quick questions. One, your favorite dialect, your favorite language. And what's a
language you would love to learn? What's a language you would love to be? If you had the time,
you could sit back and you could learn a language. What's one that you would love to learn?
We'll get answers when we come back after our partner and sports and news break here on the
morning show. Welcome back everybody. Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio. Laura,
Seth James here with you. Thank you so much for joining us everybody. Hope you have it a great
Friday out there. Let's talk a little social media apps. Social media can be addictive for young
people or for anybody. I don't like that they say young people. They can be addictive for anybody.
Yeah. Get out of there. There's nobody that can't be sucked into that as we've seen.
A poll found almost, but as far as younger people go, a poll found almost half a Gen Z wishes Tiktok
had never been invented. So they never could have gotten hooked on it. Oh, okay. Sure.
And here are various, and here are various apps and other tech things and how many Gen Zers wish
they'd never been exposed to them. Oh, wow. Which is a really interesting article, but I do have to
say real quickly that I understand why social media apps take so much heat and why there is so much
put on them. But we do this with things all the time, inanimate things. We do this with weapons a
lot. We tend to blame the inanimate thing that doesn't have a brain that can't think for
itself or do anything by itself. Right. Just so I don't know if we do this because it's easier.
I don't know if we do this because we just don't want to blame fellow human beings or what it might
be. But they we're never going to be able to make things better if we don't actually attack the
true issues. If we don't really go to the real problem. And like most things, it comes back to us
as people. If you are upset about something, the idea of it never existing is not going to cure
said thing. Right. This there is no like, Hey, we took down an evil CEO. Great job. Guess who took
his place? Another one. Yeah. You were not fixing the issue. We're not truly fixing the problem.
If we have a problem with social media apps, that's fine. And there's something to look at there.
But that's not the real issue. You got to dig a little deeper. Yep. The issue is capitalism,
guys. It's that's the issue. They they turned social interaction into capitalism.
So these various apps, which one's Gen Z years would like to get rid of. And you can go ahead and
you can call up yourselves, everybody if you'd like. As I mentioned, TikTok was the number one 47%
of Gen Z years wish it never existed, followed by Snapchat, not far behind at 43%. Wow.
Instagram at 34% more on that in a moment. Facebook at 39%
X or Twitter or whatever they're calling it now, 50% wish it never existed. And then it gets
even a little more interesting. Okay. And number six, smartphones. 21% wish that smartphones
didn't exist. That's interesting. Wow. Messaging apps like Watts app. I'm not sure what that is.
19% with that one. A Netflix. And I only said that just because I don't know if I'm saying
you're right. Yes, you were right. What's app is an app that's needed for international
communications when you can't use like regular text in a phone. Cool. Netflix. Netflix.
Wait, what? That's social media. Wait a minute. Or are they thinking of the streaming service
in general? Like back when it was discs and we got them in the mail. Right. Still upset.
I had, I had this hope and maybe it'll still happen. You never know. I kind of had this
hoped and Netflix was going to get really big and then have to go all the way back to where they
started. And that'd be cool. That's all they are. They don't even have a streaming platform anymore.
They're just like sending out DVDs. So YouTube at 15%. Social media in general at 40%. Wow.
The internet at 17%. 17% of Gen Z wish it had never existed. No, but it's only 17. All of them
just yelling at Al Gore just yelling. Yes, on Al Gore's internet. Glass stat. 45% of Gen Zers claimed
that they won't let their own kids have a smartphone until they're at least in high school.
This is hilarious to me in some ways because that's the generation that probably was closest to
getting a cell phone or had the first set of parents and had to decide, what's the right age?
I have to get my parents to worry about that. And so they're learning from personal experience
of having been exposed to it too soon. I didn't want to give my kids phones until high school either,
but unfortunately, I'm divorced. So I wanted them to have something while they're at their
dads to be able to talk to me without having to go through him. And I'm sure he wanted that
too vice versa. And so we have that. That said, we still didn't get it until like this past year.
So our kids were over the age of 10. I want to just real quickly, though, admit one thing here,
because I could live without every single one of these, including social media. The internet
and smartphones, that's going to be tough on me. That's that would be tough on me to let go of.
I wanted to admit this. I'm fine with losing all these apps. I'm okay with that. But my God,
you take away my ability to look up who won the World Series in 1988 when I can't remember it.
That's going to drive me insane. I think the issue is where's where's their line?
Because yeah, the internet is of incredibly useful resource and we shouldn't get rid of it.
Social media has become another tool for capitalism that makes it suck for people who use it.
But I think there's a value in being able to communicate with people the way that we've been
able to through social media. And even TikTok, being able to see videos on TikTok of people in
real time experiencing hardship from across the globe is important information. It's important
primary source information. I like this topic in part with this pairing that we have here today,
in part because we have three kind of different degrees of this. I have all the apps and I use
them all for marketing and publishing and a lot of these things. I actually have in my contract,
and this isn't just me. You ask any, starting out actor or any actor out there trying to make
an aim for themselves. And it is in your contracts nowadays of, hey, you need to be on this app.
Hey, you need to post this many times a month. It's literal. Casting directors nowadays will
look at your resume just as much as they will look at your social media followers and that.
I can't stress this enough how much this is taken over the industry. They complain a lot about
this in sports, Seth, about the numbers and the nerds taking over. It happened in the entertainment
industry and nobody talks about it. Yeah, interestingly enough. It happened overnight, but it
happened and it's been going on for like a good 10 years now. Right. And nobody has said one
thing about it. Nobody has an issue with that. That is interesting. But I use those for those things.
Right. Laura, you have got, you were on stuff and then you kind of went away from some things.
Yeah. No. And Seth has no interest in any of it whatsoever. Not at all. So I'm curious about
each of your takes on this. And Laura, you've given a little bit, but what more do you have on this?
Well, I did. I was on Facebook for a really long time. I helped run a fairly successful Facebook
group for a while. I was on TikTok for, I don't know, the first couple of years that it was out.
But I'm not on it anymore. And it's just because I noticed it creating
addictive type habits in me. And so I chose to stop using social media. I am currently on Blue Sky.
That is it. And I am only on Blue Sky for news. I think that if social media became news apps
like that, the way that Twitter was originally intended, I think that's safe outside of that.
I don't know if it's safe as it is now.
Seth, for you, there just never seemed to be a lot of interest in it. No, no, there was no
interest in it. I had a Facebook account many, many years ago. And I never went on it when I did.
I found it was really interesting. I found myself the longer I was on it, the more anxious I got.
And I don't know if it was necessarily what I was seeing or anything like that. Just being on
the site or now the app or whatever, it made me nervous. It made my anxiety go up. And I wasn't
sure what I was like, yeah, forget this. I'm not doing it. And I'm sure the same thing would happen
on any of the other social media websites. So I'm like, I'm not going to risk it. It doesn't make
me feel good. And I mean, I understand the arguments for communication. Yeah, there's some value
there. Absolutely. But for me personally, nah. Yeah. No, thanks. No, thanks. Was it an anxiety of missing
a post that could have been important or was it an anxiety about just being there?
Just being there. It wasn't about missing. It wasn't FOMO. No, there wasn't. It was something else.
And I can't really put my finger on it. But yeah, it was it was something I just really didn't like.
The feeling was not nice. Almost the same answer from my buddy Will, who actually could use social
media for what he does. You really could take advantage of it and everything. But he has never had
an interest in doing it. And when he first started out with my space, he felt a lot of what you're
feeling. Interesting. And immediately was like the ends don't justify the means. Right. I get like
five, 20 people maybe that see my post and and want to come see my shows as opposed to how much
anxiety he felt for things he for him. It was a lot of foam. It was a lot of missing out on stuff.
Yeah. And and and also not on what the big thing for him and when he still talks about this
sometimes is he didn't like who he was becoming. Yes. Like oh, I've got a friend of mine that I know
for 20 years, but they don't like my posts. So I'm not going to like thirst. Exactly. And it's so
heady. It breeds pettiness in such a weird way. And I really admire what he has done because for him,
like a part of the reason I know this happens to other actors with the social media thing is
certainly talking to other actors. But it's actually a lot of people that got into the game late
and are finding this out. And like I'm not that they got completely turned off of acting like any good
comedian will has looked at for opportunities to act. That's that's that's commit comedy 101.
Right. Some comedians get into stand up to do TV. Right. But for him, he learned early on.
He's like, I'm not an actor because I can't do this. It's not the idea of being on stage or being
in a scene or learning lines for him. It's the game. He had no interest in that, which I don't blame
him because I already play in the game of comedy, which is already difficult. Again, a whole thing.
Right. Yeah, exactly. But it's just wild to me when so much of this, I think if you ask 90%
of the audience out there, if you're going to see a TV show or a movie, what do you want to see?
The most popular people are the most talented people. Most of us are going to say, I want to be
talented. I want talent. Of course, I want talent. Right. But that's not what we're getting. Right.
They're assuming that people are popular because of their talent. And that's just kind of not what
social media does. It's just not. I am very talented, but I'm not very popular. I'm not. I have
some followers than you. Yeah, you do. Yeah, you do. We'll take a quick time. We'll go back
to the rap of the show over the week. The morning show at WFHR.
Welcome back, everybody. Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio. Laura,
Seth and James here to wrap up the week of the morning show.
We're going to wrap up the week with some good stories of the day and some local events going
on in our area. Got a handful of things to touch on. We want to kick things off, of course,
with our schedule. But before I do, want to remind our audience of a couple of quick notes here
that we have for you. First, we have the new visit room, Wisconsin visitor guides here. Yeah.
Yeah. Very nice. Very thankful to have those. We're very excited about not only having those here
in studio, but we're also looking forward to you coming down and picking one up. Yeah.
Yeah, they are free. Come by and get them during our regular office hours of nine to four Monday
through Friday. Get on down here and pick one up, everybody. All you got to do is say hi to Pam.
That's right. That's the only cost. That's a rule. You have to have to do it. And while you're
here, if you haven't already done so, grab your Wisconsin Rapids visitor guides because we've got
those bad boys too. Yeah, we do. Where did the note go that Pam just came in here with?
It's not that one. No, no, that's the other one. We're literally where did she go? It was just
in here. It was the Pam. What happened? Well, anyway, you got anything else? I do got some other
things. I'm trying to hear. Okay, sorry about that, everybody. Be sure to join us.
Stick around and everything because we know how that happened. We got it. We got it.
You rock, Pam. Pam is the best. Go, Pam. More on how good Pam is in a moment.
Right. I did want to let everybody know that you're invited to an open house today at
a manual Lutheran church. We're here in Wisconsin Rapids from 48 to see the new church facilities.
Cool. They're nice. They're located at 15, 17, 24 Street North, 24 Street South here in
Wisconsin Rapids right near Home Depot. Also on February 22nd, tomorrow at 330 is the
dedication service the public is invited. Cool. Regular worship services Sunday at 8 a.m.
and at 10.30 and on Monday at 6 o'clock. Go check that out, everybody.
Be sure to check out the Maggie Don show from 2 to 4 today. A future birthday girl. She's got a
birthday on Sunday. Yeah, that's right. And then after that, that will lead you into Midday magazine,
where we got a jam pack one for you to wrap up the week. In part one, the Wisconsin State Senator
Patrick Teston joins us. Got a lot to talk about with Senator Teston. And in part two, Mitch Wayne
from Tri-City Curling is going to be joining us. Very cool. You can talk with him again.
And it's fitting because today is curling is cool day. Curling is cool. Yeah. So how great is that?
Nice job, Pam. Nice job. Love it. And it's not curling, but we are. It is a puck night.
Both here at WFHR and at WRI. Join us for playmakers tonight from 5 to 6. We'll be taking your calls.
We'll be hanging out with you. We got plenty to talk about. And we'll be leading you into Wisconsin
Men's Hockey hosting Notre Dame 7 o'clock puck drop for that one. Both Friday and Saturday 7 o'clock
Wisconsin Badgers vs Notre Dame. And on our sister station 105-5 WRI, 7 o'clock, river
kings hosting the Del's Ducks today and tomorrow. Final regular season home games for your kings.
It is. Absolutely. We'll also have Wisconsin Men's basketball on the radio waves tomorrow
here at 10 a.m. them hosting Oregon. That does mean we will not have a best of show. That's right.
And of course we got local great stuff going on here throughout the weekend. Join us for the
Sunshine Pocus show at 7 a.m. Terry Talks Nutrition at 8 a.m. Those will of course lead you into
Badger Basketball. Sunday night directors playhouse at 5 o'clock. I think a replaying of the
Kathy Miles interview would be a good idea, Seth. Great interview. Man, we had a lot of fun with
that one. We did. And a great way to kind of get people ready for this silver foxes this weekend.
Yeah, this theater stuff coming up. Or just like an old lace nap. Yeah. Six to eight,
Seth Face and Music every Sunday for you. Yeah. Yeah. I've got to know. I can't believe I didn't
do this one yet. Light. Light. I can't believe it. That's awesome. I'm so disappointed myself. Be
sure to check that out and check that out from 8 to 9 unlabeled. Got a new episode of that for you
everybody. Best of 99. Yes. Side one. Side A of the class of 99 the best of 99 and then side B
will be the following week. I'm already done for you everybody. Yep. And we had some other great
things we want to talk about locally here. Seth wanted to make sure to mark a note on. Yes.
Indeed. Saturday and 9 to 1. The winner market. The Meridian Church is back everybody. The back
open this week at 310 First Avenue South. Check out their Facebook page for all the vendors that
will be there this weekend. And then on Sunday at two doors down Brewing Company at 140 East
Grand Avenue. We've got a walkoff school debt trivia night everybody. This is hosted by the
Grace Group in town here. It's going to be a fun afternoon of trivia. If it's free to play,
there's also going to be silent auction items. We got some really cool stuff by the way that we're
going to be for the options and giving away. So make sure you come in. We will be accepting free will
offering and that is going to go towards any school lunch debt for seniors in the different school
districts around here to help them pay that off so they can walk during graduation. That's the
main thing that they're doing with those funds. So that's coming up two to four on Sunday.
And then we have on Monday the next community blood center blood drive at the former East
Junior High School Room 111 on Lincoln or right off Lincoln Street there from two o'clock until
seven o'clock. Good stuff. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. We'll remind everybody on Monday about
that. A couple of real quick good stories of the day. The company that makes the Elder Scrolls
video game series partnered with Make a Wish to help them raise money. They're doing an auction
where the highest bidder will get to create their own character in Elder Scrolls 6.
Oh that's so cool. Wow. The auction runs through tomorrow. Last we checked it was up to over
$40,000. Wow that's cool. Nice. And man I mean that's a smart charity idea right? Smart item.
Brilliant. I don't know Elder Scrolls but I know if you get to create your own character in a
video game that seems pretty cool. Have you heard of Skyrim? Yeah yeah yeah. That's an Elder Scrolls.
Okay. Yeah yeah yeah that's right. And the CBS Evening News did a story this week about a great
non-profit called Project Camp that's been helping kids affected by early wildfires.
Within disaster hits they set up day camps within 48 hours to give kids something fun to do
and help process through everything. Oh excellent. Great week you guys good show. YouTube man be
good to each other out there. This is locally grown radio WFHR 1320 AM W24 ADE Wisconsin Rapids
and always streaming of the Civic Media app.
