Less TV, More Reading! (Hour 2)

Drumming my bed with his finger

Singing my life with his words

Killing me softly with his song

Killing me softly with his song

Telling my whole life with his words

Killing me softly

With his song

Welcome back to the show everybody

Morning show here at WFHR

Hope y'all are having a great start to your day

James here join by Melissa

Good morning

Thank you so much for being with us everybody

Thought that'd be a fun way to kick off these second hours

We're about to dive into entertainment and talk about the great Roberta Flack

We'll be doing that in a moment

Melissa and I will also be diving into

How many photos of the average person have on their phone

And what are people doing instead of watching TV

We got all that coming up for you

We got our schedule and some local good stories of the day all coming up

But I did think it would be a good place to start as

We literally got off the air yesterday and the news broke about Roberta Flack passing

We'll talk about that in a moment first let's take a phone call good morning on the show

Can I give you an audible for just a second

Okay

It's entertainment

The last night when I was growing on peak dog

And I kind of saw some people talking about it

On social media over the weekend

Holy cow

The Americans

That are narrated by Tom Hank

Oh yeah

Oh my goodness gracious

Yeah

I haven't heard anything about it

It's very good

Do you want to talk a little bit about Kevin?

Well yeah

It basically talks about

The first episode was more or less the Carolinas

East Coast, one of as far as New York

And into Maine

And it's more of a nature show

Hope the Mayor and how they did it

And now Tom Hanks

Married and just fucks you again

Yeah

And it's really cool so there's two episodes already

That have been released

I'm a person that kind of likes stream service

You don't have to deal with the commercials

But

And then they talked about Mexico

And they just

They get into

You know, sometimes the mating season

Or they talk about

How they

They grow into an adulthood

In nature

Or how there's predators

Things like that

That's a great video of

Him describing about flamingos

And why they dance and stuff too

There was a good one from there

Yeah I haven't seen that episode yet

We only had two episodes

I think I've seen that last thing

So I'm sure they're doing the release

I mean, I don't know if it's every day

They release it or

How they're doing it

But it was

It was pretty good

And I guess I'm

I mean, I'm an outdoorsy guy

But how he did death

It was just

Yeah, the video

The pictures and how they got some of the stuff

It's impressive

It's just incredible what these camera men

And these drones and everything can do now

A days along with the

High death and the 15k

15k that we have on not only our TVs

But these cameras that can pick this stuff up

The

The ability to do that is never lost

I mean, I get sucked into

Ever one of these things, I'm a nature guy too

Man, I get pulled right into this world

I would watch this

It's funny, I have no interest in watching people

In watching

Reality, quote unquote, reality TV

But reality animal TV, I'm all four

I'm all it, I'm all it, I'm 100%

And I do want to say something

And I've learned a lot from Tom Hanks over the years

It's funny, Melissa and I

Yesterday with Seth were talking about

Joverse, the volcano

I've been studying him since I was a little kid

And buzzing buddies and everything

And I saw him in an interview once

Talk about why he's a good actor

What he does and how his approach to acting

But for me, what I heard when he talked about it was

The trick is you believe in what you do

You really do

You really are actually passionate about these things

You really do care about the script

You really do

It's not so much being this person that you're portraying

As much as making you

Finding a connection between you and this character

It's what really helped me get to where I wanted to be as an actor in many ways

It's who he is

So when he's doing narrations he's not acting

So if he's doing something

He wants to

It's a project he's not doing nothing for the money

He's not doing it for fame or anything like that

It's what I was talking about when Meryl Streep

Being on Saturday Live

There's a reason why she looks like she's having so much fun

Because she is

She's not acting

Tom loves this stuff

Whether he's doing a documentary about World War II

Or something along those lines

Or nature

You get the full ten of Tom Hanks

Every bit of talent that man has

Very good at this stuff and it's not fair

Either be good at narrating

Or be good at acting Tom

Pick one

There's other working actors out there man

It's not right

It's a great show you can find it on peacock

And appreciate the suggestion man

Yeah it was really cool

Like I said it was

I saw people talking about it over

Facebook over the weekend

I got to check it out

And when they got to episode two

And they kind of started showing what they're going to talk about

And you know on the future episodes

I'm like oh just keep going

I was hooked

And I was hooked

It's got great ratings too

It's got some really good ratings to it too

And it actually sounds like something I would want to watch

Or it would be what

I think you would really enjoy it

But it's just with Tom's tone

It's like he's almost in the room with you

Telling you know talking about it

And it was really good

Good stuff man

Safe travels out there

Thanks so much for the call

You too

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So mentioning again the legendary Roberta Flack

Who passed away yesterday

I forgot about ALS

She was 88 years old

I would like to hear a little more talk about ALS as well

Along with the honoring her and everything

But I digress that's a whole other thing

The Roberta was best known for

Two big hits the first time I ever saw your face

And of course what we started our hour here with

Killing me softly with his song

She actually became the first artist to win the Grammy for record of the year

In consecutive years for these songs in 73 and 74

She's the first one to ever do that

Wow

She had another big hit with feel like making love back in 74

And the first time I ever saw your face

Was famously used on the soundtrack

For Clint Eastwoods play me

Play Misty for me

Which also was in early

I don't want to say it was the one

It was one of the first big hits of a soundtrack

Okay

And of course for our generation

Killing me softly gained a whole new life

And Roberta gained a whole new life with the Fuji's

And them doing a

Not a cover of this but a sample of it if you'll say

Or reimagining however you want to word it

But just an iconic career

And I want to quote something here from an actual musician

Because I talk about art

I talk about acting or all these things

I don't know what I'm talking about

I don't know this stuff as complex as Melissa

Or some other people that really do understand

What you need to do to be a good singer

Or what is a good singer and what's not

But not a singer but my favorite guitar player

Vernon Reed tweeted about her passing

And Roberta Flack is the greatest

Because she brought the weight and power of quiet to the table

The value of silence

The first time I ever saw your face

Wasn't her song but she made it

Hours

I thought that was so well worded

And hearing him say that

It made me think about it

And listening to her songs

All of her songs there's a ease

There's a pace to them

And there is silence in between her words

There is silence in the songs

I've never thought about it before

Yeah I mean it's about giving emotion

To the melody

And you can do that with silence

They say that in acting too James

I'm sure you've heard that

Where you can act silently

Obviously

But those are

As important as the words you're speaking

And the same is true in music

Yeah

And there is no world anymore where politics

Or this or that doesn't bleed into something else

And I understand that

So I don't blame you if you guys don't believe me

Necessarily but I've never been a fan of Elon Musk

I feel like I was one of the early people

Calling this man out

Back in his early days

When he was first getting a public eye

And when he hosts the senate live

I boycott it

He's a terrible person

He's just a terrible person

He's a businessman

Or him as in politics

Or anything like that

Him as a human being

If you don't have to do a lot of digging

And see the people that he has stepped on

And how many people he has stolen ideas from

He is

I wouldn't call him Edison

Because Edison at least had some creativity

Edison at least did some things of his own

But Edison famously also stole a lot of patents from other people

And Elon Musk is a modern version of that in many ways

Whatever you're talking about

What do you want to say the Tesla, the vehicle

Look at the people, look at the copyrights on that

Look at the people that actually created that vehicle

That actually created hybrid vehicles

And him just putting his name on it basically

And that being said

We're not alone on that one

Cheryl Crow is also on this

Cheryl Crow has made it

Her feelings about Elon Musk crystal clear

She sold her Tesla

And she's donating the money to NPR

Oh wow

Every penny of it

She posted a video on Instagram

Where she's waving goodbye to her Tesla as it's hauled off

And her caption she said

Quote

My parents always said

You are who you hang out with

There comes a time when you have to decide

What you are willing to align with

So long Tesla

Money donated to NPR

Which is under threat by President Musk

In hopes that the truth will continue to find its way

To those willing to know the truth

Hmm

I can't say anybody

It's well worded

It's well worded

Those willing to know the truth

I don't

I don't think that people deserve something

Just because they gave money to somebody

Or their friends with somebody

Under any circumstance

Or any line of business

A lot of people get work

Because they have a connection

That's life

That's business

Start a job

Or getting a foot in the door

Not all the way to the top of the land

Where you're basically saying it

And it happens

There's no accountability

And there's no

Like logical reason for you to be in this position

You have not done anything in your life

You have not done anything in your business life

To prove

Hey, this guy knows what he's talking about

It's just who he knows

It's just because he's popular

Or on some level

He's not as popular

Just because he has so much money

Yeah, that's it

It just comes down to money

And if that's what it's going to be

You know, at the very least

Own it

At the very least

Be honest about it

I'm not saying that it would change anything

But I mean, if we're going to be in living in a society now

Where nobody has any shame anymore

And there's no filters and all this stuff

Well, at least rip the bandaid off

I mean, we got representatives

We got politicians in this state

That are nothing but talking pieces

Like I don't need to ask them

Or look into what they're doing

All I got to do is look at what the president's doing

And they're going to just follow suit

They're just a puppet

And not just this state all around the country

I haven't heard anything from those people

Yeah, yeah, no. The only time they talk

Is when he talks

And they just reverberate what he's saying

That, this guy

And man, watch how this one ends

Watch how this relationship ends

Between Elon and our current president

Watch how that ends, watch how that goes

If I'm wrong on this one, everybody

And a year from now, two years from now

You can go and throw this, rewind this, and play right in my face

But I have studied history

I have studied these certain types

And man, I will put my name on this

I do not see that relationship ending well

That is, that is going to be an ugly divorce

That is going to be ugly

Yes

Wu-Tang clan have announced their dates for their farewell tour

It's called Wu-Tang Forever, the final chamber

They're going to be doing this with Run the Jewels

And this is going to be big

All the surviving members are going to be there

They're also going to be joined by other members of the group

And they're putting this on as a thank you to the audience

None of them, this is another one of those situations

These guys don't need the money

They don't need the fame, they don't need any of that

What they do want to do is thank the audience

Think the people that made them what they are

And that's what this tour is all about

It's going to be unlike anything they have ever done too

So that's, it's going to be gigantic

And by that I mean, I'm not talking about like stage

You know, like pyrotechnics and all that

Just the amount of music you're going to get

It's essentially turning into the amount of people they're bringing on to it

And how big the band is already

It's going to be like a festival

Yeah, I was going to say like a giant festival

Let's go ahead and take a look at this one right here

Before we wrap up our entertainment section

A documentary called Matthew Perry

A Hollywood tragedy hit peacock today

If you check it out, don't expect to see any of the friends cast though

Director Robert Palumba says

Jennifer Aniston, Courtney Cox, Lisa Kudru, Matt LeBlock

And David Schwimmer, understandably chose not to appear

Quote, they were reluctant to go on a documentary about Matthew

At this point, maybe many years down the line

Which is why I have said over and over again

It's almost impossible to make a good documentary

This close to somebody we're losing somebody

Yeah

Or any subject matter for that case

Because the people, you know, so close to him

They really don't want to talk about those things now

And it could potentially damage their careers

Because they're still in the public limelight

And imagine, you know, you come out

And you say something and then two months or two years from now

And we find out in his, you know, but

And he had a journal and he wrote this

And it actually wasn't true or whatever

You can't win for losing in these situations

I don't know

Now if you're able to jump on there

And just talk about what he meant to you

Or something like that, that'd be different

But that doesn't seem like that's the direction

This documentary win

No, and I think it's the right move for them

To have collectively said

Yeah, nope, not now

Yeah

I wouldn't

There's other ways to honor him

There's other ways to do right by him

If that's the case

And the fact that they

You know, I don't know as much about some of these actors

But I, Jennifer Aniston, I know pretty well

And I've studied her career pretty good

And if she's making this call

I'm following her lead on this

I'm going to trust her on this one

She's made some pretty darn smart decisions

To things like this and her career

I'm going to trust her on this one

I wouldn't have done one in the either

Let's take a call before we go to break

Good morning, you're on the show

Hey, James, I just wanted to touch base

Before you get done with the entertainment hour

I think I would implore a lot of your listeners to watch the movie

Idiocracy

Yes

I know it's available on several streaming services

I don't know if you can get it from your local library

But I would implore a lot of people to watch the movie

Idiocracy

And when you were speaking about Moscow

I totally agree but what ever happened to Edward Snowden

Oh gosh, yeah

That whole case

Well, he's busy, I imagine

Helping the Russian propaganda machine right now

I imagine he's doing something like that

Everybody forgets the name Ed Snowden

And I have a feeling it's going to come back to harm

It could

Appreciate the call, man, thank you for that

Thank you for that

As we wrap up the entertainment section

One more reminder that arsenic and old laces premiering this Thursday

February 26th, all right, I'm sorry

Yeah, no, this Thursday

February just blew right by

It did

It is a short month, James

That's why you can't move your birthday to the 30th

No curses

It'll be going this Thursday and Friday

Seven o'clock shows

They will have a two o'clock matinee on Saturday

And then they will do it all again next week

Next Thursday and Friday

Seven o'clock shows

Two o'clock matinee will wrap everything up

Some of our favorite people going to be on the WRCT stage

Giving you this great show

One of my favorite scripts of all time

Go ahead and check this one out

We had the gang on with us yesterday

It's a great show

Yeah, I can't wait to listen to that

I'm excited

This is the play for me that got me into theater

Because my grandma was in it

And I really loved watching her on this stage

I can't wait to see this show

It's so cool to me

We've talked about this a little bit yesterday too

I've mentioned before that this is one of the first movies

I would sit back and watch with my Nana

And we would act out scenes

It's so many people have a tie to this play

And to this movie and stuff

I've never seen the movie

But I'm excited to see it on stage again

And I'm excited to see Seth on stage

It's fun

He's fun to watch on stage

They got a great cast

Go ahead and check it out

And get your tickets at www.orgwrcfeater.org

While you're doing that

Go ahead and maybe fill out the online audition form for noises off

That is coming on March 10th

Those auditions are going to be here before we know it

Before I know it

But I can't wait to see who comes out

And play a very fast-paced

I'm going to work people hard

I'll be honest with the audience

I'm going to need people to step up for this show

Because it's a lot of work

But it's going to be so much fun

We are talking with Gretchen a little bit about this

When they were in the other week

And this is one of the most ambitious

If not these most ambitious stage

We've built at the theater

Yes, because the stage

Not only is there a lot of action in the show

But the stage is active too

Yeah, yeah, cannot wait

I'm so excited for this show

And we encourage you to check this out

I'm going to be directed by the great Melissa K

You want to go ahead and get your audition sheet filled out

Get your tickets for arsenic and old lace

And bookmark your

Europe dates for auditions for noises off

That's March 10th and 11th

Over at the www.orgwrct Auditorium

We will take a time out

We'll come back and have some more fun on the morning show

Right here at WFHR

Welcome back everybody

Morning show here at WFHR

Melissa and James hanging out with you

Thank you so much for joining us

Take a look at your phone

How many photos do you think you have in there

Just off the top of your head

You know not to actually count them

That's a little crazy

But we want to give you some morning left

I know I have thousands

Same here

And I will admit that this is part of having

Not only kids but animals

It seems to happen

And I like having pictures to look back on

We get to carry our photo albums around with us now

With us

Which is so cool

I know for me that that is probably

Maybe the second third most used app on my phone

Is pulling up my photos

It's that whenever I need a break

Or I need a smile or something

I'll look at that

And it's just nice having

The problem is

Is that I'm running out of space

To pay for it

Yeah that's a tough one

So I don't know what to do

Okay what I do

And I don't know if this is a hack

Or if this is something that everybody does

But I will email a bunch of photos to myself

And just save it in a file

And that way I still have them

And I can take them off my phone

Yeah

And I know you can download them

And put them on a hard drive

And send them on my phone to look back on

That's the thing yeah

Right and if I have to take them off my phone

Then guess what they're now on my phone

There's a new report out that says

The typical person has 1598 photos on their phone's camera roll

And sounds about right

And if you break that down by age

Millennials have the most with over

2500

Photos of our family

Are the most common pictures we have on our phones

They're followed by the pics from holiday celebrations

And cool photo worthy views

Mm-hmm

Even though we have thousands of photos in our pockets

19% of people say that they rarely look back at them though

19% isn't that high

No, no

One solution is to print them out

Some people do that and surprisingly

It's more popular among younger adults

43% of Gen Zers say that they regularly print photos

From their phone compared to just 5% of boomers

No, that's surprising to me

Yeah

Because I mean you and I grew up in the age

Before cell phones

Where your only option was to

Get your photos developed

Mm-hmm

Look through them and see how many didn't turn out

Exactly

Yes, exactly

Whereas now we can take

10-20 shots of the same thing

And make sure that one of them is good

We've

You know, that's mind blowing

But I wonder if that's why

We don't print them out

Versus the younger generation

Is printing them out because they

Don't that wasn't regular for them

Yeah, it's new to them

And anytime something's new

It's going to feel a little more interesting

And pull you in a little bit more

So I think that's a good point

To look back through old photo albums

Mm-hmm

Isn't this something too

That is kind of unique and kind of cool

When we think about society, when we think about life

This is something, whether we're talking about the 19

You know, the first beginnings

Of photo photography and photos

Or we're talking about today

We're still doing the same thing

We still love to look at pictures

We like to look at memories

And it's something that every generation

Has in common

Every human being has in common

We don't have a lot of this in society

I like to take note of it whenever we can

And I wonder too though

If the younger generation

Is also cognizant

Of the fact that there's a limited amount

Of cloud storage available

And the club not to, you know,

Give any kudos to Seth or anything

Because you know how much I don't like doing that

But the fact that he pointed out

That saving these things on our phone

Isn't just the phone

You know, it isn't just the battery on my phone

That those photos are using

Yeah

You know, that's stored somewhere else

That is using electricity

That is using, you know, resources from our earth

And there's a limit

Our resources are not limitless

Yeah

And so the fact that the younger generation is

Printing these photos off and then deleting them from the cloud

And they're not, you know, hopefully

Not out there anymore

Taking up space and resources

And you're storing them in your home

I mean, they're taking up different space and resources

In a different way

But, you know, they're accessible to you

So it's just, it's an interesting conundrum

That we find ourselves in as human beings

And the different

Methods that technology

Leads us down to solve these issues

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And we're talking about what do you do when you're not watching TV

What are things people who don't watch TV

Say that just different

That's right we'll be back with more show coming up on the morning show

Welcome back everybody

Morning show at WFHR

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Melissa and James hanging out with you

And diving right into our next topic

So someone on social media asked

People who don't watch TV

How do you spend your time?

Top responses

Okay, and the top one on the list is one that Melissa mentioned earlier is reading

Always that's that's always usually what i'm doing if i'm not watching

Well when i'm not watching TV because i don't watch that much

This will be the top response for most people

And and and i do think that

I think that it's fair to say that out of the out of ten people saying that they read

Maybe seven eight of them do and the other ones wish they did

And would like you to think that they do but i'm kidding

No that's my response about exercise

Do you exercise regularly?

I regularly think about it

Exactly

Gaming comes in next

Among younger people it's mostly online games and among older adults

It's a lot of board games card games mobile games a lot of that

And see i wouldn't i don't think of like gaming on a screen as different than watching TV

I mean it is but you're still on a screen

I agree but i agree more with the next one scrolling through social media apps

And i don't have a reason why i just it feels like the same thing to me

Do it with it being a screen to me

Yeah yeah

Like they all kind of fall in the same

Because while i don't watch a lot of TV

Social media and apps

And there's um and everybody deserves a release everybody deserves to have a you know time in their day

Where they're just mind numbing you know and just just be relaxing

Watching cute animals interacting

And you know doing silly things

And there is good stuff up

And there's educational and interesting and informative stuff that can you know

Make your brain work out there like we were talking about with Kevin and the Americans and stuff

But i think a lot of people look at TV look at social media as it is a release

Like a mindless yeah

And that's okay that's nothing against that

But for me with video games i feel like you can't do really do that with video

You have to interact you have to do something you keep your mind going

It depends on the game too

Because there are different levels of games that you can interact with

And there's ones that are educational or you know that help you keep your brain active

Yeah i'm thinking of NCA football where i'm worrying about recruiting classes and things like that

I'm trying to recruit this kid from Florida to come up and play it and i you know that

So yeah does he i hear it just like

But there's also you know the simple games of like

One more time i thinking of casino type games

We're just pushing a button and it's ding ding ding

Oh i didn't get it

A lot of them again ding ding ding

A lot of the mobile games are like that yeah

That's right where they're pretty mindless

Next on the list home improvement projects

And working on their property

Yeah yeah i love doing this stuff actually

I find it one of the best

That and i i would say that

And cleaning are two of my

Two of my you know responses to this

As far as like when i

What you're doing when you're not watching tv

Because i work a lot and when if i'm not working

Like i'm trying to get some things done around you know on everything

And i just like working with my hands i like doing stuff like that

There's something good that

To me i can't

And here's another part too i don't know

Please reach out if you're like this too

I would love to know that there's some other people out there

I can't sit back and scroll through social media

Or enjoy some mindless tv

Or check out you know a raccoon

And a dog that are friends

You know any of the things that i like doing for a release

If i know there are dirty dishes

Or if i know that like there's

They're right above the tv

There's just an inch of dust right there

And i can't i got to clean it i got to do it

I got to then i can relax then i can ease up

And maybe i'm alone on that one but

There's something about it to me that if i'm

Truly going to relax and ease

It's got to be a cleaner house it's got to be a

Clean room something along those lines

My brain just does not deal well with chaos like that

Or muck like that

Well and i think that the interesting thing about this list

Is it's talking about people who don't watch tv

So it's not like what are they doing when they're not

It's just that they don't so instead

They're doing things like

Yeah gaming, reading, home improvement projects

It's an interesting way to

Look at that but both are valid

Have a teacher who she has a

She just had a little girl

And congratulations to her

And her husband

And they decided to get rid of their tv

In their house and they don't want to

Going up with one

And they're going crazy

They're going insane

But they're sticky to it at least right now

I want to say at least a year or two into this

Got their little ones probably almost two of them

I know and as far as i know

I just talked to her this weekend and stuff

About a class and she was saying

Just came up and

We were oh that's what it was

We were talking like we were complaining

That there's nothing on tv to watch

And she was saying how she missed that

So yeah

I think there is a push back

Anything in life

Especially the more popular things get

The more it rises, the more you're

Going to get a build up of people pushing

Against it

And there's a lot of people that got

Tired of streaming real quick

And did not want to go back to cable

And just decided you know what there are other things out there

And you know more power to you

Right

And do stress like knitting, crocheting

Jigsaw puzzles that sort of thing

And see i like doing those things

While i'm watching television

Yeah my mom's like that

I have a hard time sitting still

And with just the tv on

Unless i am so stressed

To the point of my brain shuts down

Um then i then i can't manage to multi-task

That but usually i need that

I can't just sit and watch tv and do nothing

I need to be i need to have my hands moving

I would say in about a half an hour

45 minutes or somewhere around there

My mom will be putting together a puzzle

While watching her ghost shows

Or something like that on the tv

She's like my sister's like that

Walking and exercising

And working out at the gym

Are also on here playing sports with friends

Or organized groups

These are all great things

And all things that people are doing instead of watching tv

And spending time with significant others

And kids

Yeah, because cats care

Yeah

I mean they care

Well they care

They're feeding them

And keeping their house clean

Because they rule the roost you know

They care if you care

If you're doing something important on your laptop

That's when they care

That's when they decide to step on your laptop

And be like hey look at me

Pay attention

How dare you not pay attention to me

Podcasting, listening to the radio

And music

And playing an instrument also

Made the list

Yeah

Those are all great ones

It's hard to do all of these things

When if the only thing you do is watch tv

There's not enough time in the day

If it's not

I was talking about some playmakers yesterday

And the amount of sports out there

And how we only have someone much bandwidth

And we don't want to take anything away

And look

I'm just trying to help people here

Radio

Listening to radio is good

That's the best thing you can be doing

That's good to take

You don't need tv and all this other stuff

Yeah, just listen to radio

In fact, even if you're just sleeping

Go ahead and just sleep your radio on

And into our channel

Speak to our podcast

Speaking of sleeping

I thought it was kind of funny to see that

But the more I think about it

I should be doing that

That's actually a really good one

Yeah, turn the TV off James Lee

I can't argue with that one

Someone said I just watched the wall

I think they're just trying to be funny

Or maybe they got some nice paintings

Maybe, you know

I have some nice art on my walls

I like looking at

There's stuff where people are just mentioning random videos

That they're watching on YouTube and that

But there's one

Virtual travel through the power of Google Maps

Google Earth and YouTube

I use YouTube mostly

And the drone footage

They have of our national parks

And some of that

I don't know if it sounds lame or not

I watch that stuff a lot

I love that stuff

And if you have

So we got my dad a virtual

A VR headset

A couple of years back

You can like travel places

And be there virtually

Which is really really cool

Yeah, yeah

It is pretty darn neat

I don't know

I want to go to all of our national parks

I don't know if I'm going to be able to

But through this

You feel like you get at least a feeling of it

And for those of us that can't afford to travel

That might people

Why receive these places

And what do you do everybody?

You've got a TV watcher

Or when you're not watching TV

How do you spend your time

We'd love to hear from you all week long

I'm on this one

Laundry and dishes

How did those not make the list

Chores

Did we not do

Are we just not giving ourselves enough credit

Because we're not even thinking about it

Because it popped right up in my head

Well I think it's what do you do for entertainment

Instead of television

Yeah

We'd love to entertain you

And so would our friends over at the Grace players

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Just a touch or two way in the civic media

Back with the Vade right story

So good stories of the day

Our schedule and plenty more on the morning show

Welcome back everybody

Morning show here at WFHR

Locally grown radio

Melissa and James hanging out with you

Going to get into our schedule

Some good stories of the day in a moment

But first at that a right story

We don't get many of these

And this is juicy

Earlier this month

We've used this credit card to buy cigarettes

And lottery scratch off tickets

And that's when things got real interesting

The thieves won a huge jackpot

On one of the scratchers

Which was worth over $500,000

The cashier says they boasted about the win

And were so excited

They left without their smokes

No one I guess they didn't want to lose

No one has come forward

With the winning ticket yet which makes sense

Because it was bought with a stolen card

And the thieves who would essentially be turning themselves in

They tried to claim the prize

So the owner of the backpack wants to press

And is offering them a deal

He's offering to split the winnings with them

If they give him back all of his stuff

He says he declined to press charges

And they'd get the other half of the jackpot

The guy is a simple explanation

Without me they would not have won

But without them I would not have bought the tickets

I want to offer them a share of the winnings

But they're on the clock

People only have 30 days

From the date of purchase to claim their winnings

He's working with an attorney

Who tells the thieves they quote

Risk nothing by coming forward

But technically it's unclear

If they'd be able to take their share

Or just right off in the sunset

There is a lot of grey area with this one

That you know

That has to come forward

But what a fascinating what if

Right

That's hilarious

The stuff back

That's not a big ask

And if he's not going to press charges

I mean they'd be dumb not to do this

Yeah

And not for nothing or anything

They do come forward

And if there is charges pressed

They're going away for life

Maybe you do do some time

Maybe you don't either way

You got this nest egg sitting there man

Maybe I just

The other side of the tracks coming out in me or something

But I'm with you Melissa

The cost benefit to this one is

It's just it's right there

I want to come forward already

And if they're already in communication

They know who the thieves are

It's not like they're not known

Yeah here's the part

The quiet part that it didn't say out loud

They're already caught

You might as well

You might as well come forward

And at least try to salvage something

Like you like to say a knucklehead move

Yeah

But they could do something good with it

If they wanted to

Yeah especially saying hey

Why would you buy lottery tickets

With a stolen credit card

There is no

We will drive ourselves crazy try to have any rationalness

To this in theocracy

But it is a great question

Why?

What are you doing?

Like that ain't right

That ain't right

I do think it's a fascinating question to ask yourself

Like all of us sitting at home right now

And be like oh what would I do

And that's a dream

Well first of all I wouldn't have stolen something

Right right

There we go

And then yeah

So kind of ends there

Kind of ends the whole thing there

We got a great lineup for you today

We encourage you to stick around

Today magazine lined up for you in part one

We're going to talk with our friends at the heart of Wisconsin Chamber of Commerce

We got promise joining us

We'll also be joined by Kelly from the Aspirus Hospital of Clinics

She is part of the ACE leadership program

We'll be talking with her as well

As I mentioned earlier in part two

We'll be speaking with the Wisconsin Rapids Family Center

Ashley is going to be joining us

We're going to talk about violence prevention

Teen violence of prevention month

Talk about that

We'll talk about chess for change

How many of other great things going out with our Wisconsin Rapids Family Center?

Wonderful

Great basketball on the radio dial

Tonight Wisconsin men's basketball hosting

Washington big 10 match up 7 o'clock

Tip off

Wisconsin looking to get back in the wind column here

And looking to get things right before big 10 tournament play

Catch it tonight right here at 7 o'clock

And of course

We got other great things in our area going

I want to touch

Where is that here

Yes, one of them mentioned this

Our good friends over at the United Way have their women united power of the purse event coming up March 11th

Yeah, that's going to be here before we know it

Five to seven thirty at Bullseye Golf Club

It's going to be a great event

And a great silent auction