Good morning, Wisconsin. Morning, world. It's a new day. Thanks for kicking it off with
us at WFHR.
Got your host, James with you. I am joined by Melissa. Good morning. Seth. Good morning.
And the best listeners and radio. Thanks for joining us, everybody. Hope you're having
a good one out there. We got some good stuff lined up for you. We got a new study that gets
into why are people less social when they're walking the streets? That one. Interesting.
Got a couple of other fun ones for you. What's some good stories of the day? And of course,
we will get into our schedule for today and everything coming up here at this station.
We're looking forward to diving in all that. We kick off the 9 o'clock hour with some entertainment
news. McCulley Culkins' brotherly pride overcame him when his brother Kieran won best supporting
actor Oscar on Sunday. He said, quote, that's the only thing I watched. True story. True story.
I cried. And I was like, I'm going to see you later. As if he expected Kieran to win.
McCulley said, quote, of course, let's be real. We're allowed to say that. Yeah, quote,
yeah, absolutely. He was front row aisle closest to the stairs. There was no way he wasn't
going to win. Oh, dirty little secret. For a long time, if somebody wasn't at the Oscars,
you assume they weren't going to win. And then Daniel Day Lewis won for I think it was my left foot
or something like that. Right. And he wasn't there. And then that just kind of threw everything off.
Now, it's happened more times than not. I think that may be one of two three times that I
not talking about Marlon Brando, not accepting his award. That's a whole different thing. The
Georgie Scott or something like that, like something along those lines. So there is a little bit
to that. But at the same time, sitting across from him was another best supporting actor I believe.
And they do this a lot. So you're all of these nominees are usually in the aisle seats.
Right. Makes sense. You very rarely see somebody in the middle that is even a presenter, let alone
a nominee. Right. And that's just smart award show. You don't have to crawl over people
yet. You won't get out there. It doesn't make good television. Yeah. But thank you for saying that,
Seth, because to the point of this and to how you can't really put a lot of stock in this,
one of the most famous Oscar moments of all time is Bellini winning, the Italian winning.
Yeah. Life is beautiful. Yeah. For life is beautiful. One of the greatest movies I've ever seen in
my life. And one of those like must recommend movies for me. Life is beautiful. You ever get a chance
to see it. Um, he walked through because he was in the middle. And he did. He walked over people
like he did basically crowdsurfed almost. Yeah. And quickly, as a side note, did anybody get a
chance to see Halle Berry get her revenge? So famously, when Adrian Brody won his Oscar,
Halle Berry was presenting it to him because she had won for Monsters Ball the year before.
Oh, yeah. Right. And Adrian Brody was so excited to win up there any kisster. Yeah.
And he has apologized profusely for this over the years. And Halle Berry is always, they're good
their friends. Right. Yeah. So they were already, they knew each other before this and everything.
Well, Adrian Brody had won. And he was at some kind of like, he was talking to some interview,
he was being interviewed or something like that. And Halle Berry snuck up behind him,
tapped on his shoulder and popped one on him right away. Yes.
In 2025, that that can still happen is kind of cool to me. Yeah. Not everybody get away with that
way. No, that's great. But that was between those two. That was kind of a cool moment. And
Adrian Brody needed it because his PR team is hard at work right now. I love this for both
of these brothers. I think this is pretty cool. And I think it is a, a, you know,
McCulley Colton's had some time to sit with this and everything. But this wasn't the way
their lives were supposed to go on paper. Right. It was McCulley that was supposed to be winning
the Oscar and having this great career and all these things. And Karen would have some kind of
a career. But I think that McCulley may even admit himself. Karen is just a far superior actor.
And that is nothing against McCulley Colton who is a very, very good actor. Watch him and saved.
Watch him as an adult. You know, he was good as a kid. Watch him as an adult. He can act.
Heck, watch the good son with him as a kid. Yeah. The movie with him and Elijah Wood.
That is an underrated movie and an underrated creepy movie. It is a very good job with it.
Oh, man. I get goosebumps thinking about his performance and that. Like that. And it's so hard
to break type. Let alone to do it as a kid. McCulley Colton did that. Like how many child actors
break type when their kids break type. And I'm guessing that after he did that film,
that's when the other offer started to try it up again because it's like, we don't want that
McCulley Colton. I wouldn't say it killed his career. But it didn't, it probably didn't help in
the end. When it should have opened up avenues for him as a child actor. Yeah. It did seem to do that.
Yeah. I thought that was a cool moment. I'm glad you shared that. Yeah. It was an interesting
thing there. Let's see here. Oh, I wanted to touch on this one. This is what I really wanted
to focus on. We haven't gotten to really talk too much about this. We've touched on it loosely.
But the James Bond property for those that don't know is changing hands. It is now basically
owned by Amazon. Okay. It was announced last Thursday that the Creative Control of James Bond's
film series based on the in Fleming books is being handed off from longtime producers Michael
G. Wilson and Barbara Brocoli to Amazon MGM studios. The questions yet again arise who is going to
play of course James Bond. Now, can I give a spoiler to the last James Bond? Can I do that? It's
as the last James Bond movie been out long enough. It was in 2021. Right. If you don't want to know
the ending of that movie, earmuffs, everybody. It's been long enough. I'm calling it right now.
It's been long enough James. Well, Melissa, do you care? I don't care. I haven't seen it.
James Bond dies. Like never has happened in the film series. In 20 some movies or anything like
that they've never done that before. And I thought it was really cool and really brave. And two
seconds later was like, okay, well, what are you going to do now? How are you going to reimagine that
character? Right. Now, I don't think it's that hard. They've redone this character several times.
Seven, seven, eight times already. And it's not hard to bring somebody back from the dead in the
movies. Yeah, it's actually. Well, it is. Yeah, it's marvel. Yeah. Yeah, wrong.
To any comic book company. One thing that I think stands out about this though in them doing that is
what a perfect time though to finally have a different looking Bond, whether that's a woman
in African-American, a young Bond, any of them. Jeff Bezos will cast himself as James Bond.
Now, I okay. All right. I think that's funny and everything. But I actually think, you know,
hey, wait a minute. Maybe not James Bond. But I think Jeff Bezos will make a great supervillain.
I know. I feel like we're skating past this and everything. You guys are just laughing
off and everything. But I mean, come on. He already looks like he already looks like a supervillain.
He likes Luther. He doesn't even have to, like, I don't believe he has to do any method acting for
this whether or either or any makeup. His natural evilness will just come out. So I do agree
though, James, like that aside, I would love to see a different character as James Bond. I mean,
they did it with Dr. Who. Yeah. Yeah. Very successful. I thought it was very successful. So like,
James Bond has been such a just an iconic, you know, 007. Like it's been part of, I don't know,
at least my history. I bring it up every time I can. Yeah. He was in the James Bond movie.
So like, I think it would be fantastic to see a woman, to see an African-American, to see an
Asian, to see any other, any other than a white man. Oh, we need a multi, and I'm sure people
are getting tired of this. We need a multi-dimensional James Bond where they all meet each other.
Oh, I like that. That would be like a little left turn there, you know. Yeah.
I want to piggyback. I want Melissa was saying there because what I think the smartest mind in
all of football, as far as commentators and talking heads and everything is mean of kinds.
She is the greatest I've ever seen at this. She's incredibly intelligent at it. I'm very funny.
I just like her. But she actually had a good note on this one I thought I just heard the other day.
She brought up Emily Blunt. Oh my God. Come on. She would be perfect. Holy cow. I can't get it out
of my head now. She said it. I know. I was thinking of an English actress, of course, because you got
to go English. You can't. You've got to go an English actor. But I was thinking of younger
actresses and I was trying to think, oh, this didn't work. This didn't work. She said Emily Blunt.
And now, like even Idris Elba, who I thought would have made the perfect James Bond five years ago,
I don't know about now. I don't even know if he wants it anymore now. I cannot get Emily Blunt out
of my head. I just think she'd be the perfect James Bond. I would say one thing. And this is just
because I think it would be cool. You do not change the first name. Even if it's a woman,
you keep it James Bond. I think you keep it every that part the same. But she can, but she could
do it, man. She does. She does. She's done action. She's done comedy. She can do anything, man. And
she would be perfect. And keeping in mind that this is a spy. So the name, the name is not their
actual God-given name already. You think, well, actually, I know I have recently someone who's
little girl they did. Her middle name is James. I mean, that's not that names aren't gender
specific anymore. No, no, no. There's a model James King that has that name. So yeah, I,
I, okay, real quick story. I met a bar. I met like the first bar I'm ever in in California.
And I'm with Will and it's like midnight. And I saw somebody that I thought looked amazing.
And I wanted to go talk to her. And and Will's like, no, you don't want to talk to her. I'm like,
I do, man. And I never do this. I never go up and start a conversation with somebody. But this
person seemed really interesting. And I wanted to go talk to her. I go up. I start talking to her.
And we were talking for maybe 20 minutes. It was going great. Uh, what's your name? James.
What's yours? James. Dead silence. Dead silence. Never saw it again. Never, never. She just
basically like took her drink and like walked away. Like it was it. No, no, goodbye. No, nothing. We
just kind of looked at each other. That's done. Let's take a phone call. Good morning. You're on
the show. Hi, this is Tom Deere from the S. Lodge. How are you guys doing this morning?
Good. Tom, how you been? Doing good. Good. Been good. Been good. I'm calling to let you guys know
that tonight with the still and the weather, we have decided to call Bingo off for the evening.
All right. That makes sense. That is it. And I appreciate you calling in with us. No, man. Thank
you so much for that. Absolutely. Yep. You guys stay safe over there. It's better to have people
stay home and be safe. Yes. Yes. Yes. And hey, that just means that the pots and all that will
just get bigger for next week, right? Yeah. Yeah. We got it. We got to have you back soon, man.
We got to talk real soon on the air or something like that. Appreciate that you calling in, buddy.
You've got a lot of fun stuff coming on and going on very quick at the lodge here. But, uh,
uh, I guess the big one that I got before you guys has never forgotten on your flight.
Uh, we're having a spaghetti lunch and this Saturday. Yep. That will be at the lodge and it's
$12 ahead. Come on down and support the Vets. All right. Do you need tickets for that or just show
on up? Nope. Just show on up. Okay. All right. Excellent. Awesome. We'll be, we'll be reminded
everybody about it. But thanks so much for the call. You take care and you stay safe out there too.
Thank you. Appreciate you. Thank you. Yes. Big shout out to our friends at the Wisconsin
Rapids Elk's Lodge. Uh, big, big thank you to them. Great people over there. Thanks for keeping
us informed. Yes. Appreciate that. I should have asked them who he wanted to be a time who he wanted
to have gone. I don't know. I'm excited to see where this goes. Now, unpopular opinion because
everybody that touches this story just slams Amazon and thinks this is horrible for the franchise
and all these things. And I like Melissa. I love this franchise and love these movies. That's one
of my oldest memories of sitting back and watching these movies with my papa and us laughing at the
villains and some of the, the corniness of it and stuff. Well, also the evolution of this character
and how it literally changed cinema. James Bond took a punch and everything changed after that.
You go back and look at it, everybody. You can almost see a direct correlation of our heroes
becoming going from heroes to anti-heroes and how nowadays even Superman is an anti-hero.
Even him, they've kind of like shown not human, but we can't have perfect heroes anymore.
Right. Which is I think great. I think awesome. It makes it more interesting for sure.
Far more interesting. Far more relatable. You know, and I think that's very difficult to do with
the characters. We're talking about superheroes, James Bond, any of this yet modern audiences are
able to find a relation to these characters like they've never done before. Now is a great time
to not only keep the bond franchise going, but to revolutionize it, completely change it up
and do something wild here, do something different, especially if you're Amazon because one,
you're playing with house money. Right. Yeah. There is no losing money on this. No, no, not at all.
Two, everybody already is mad at you. They're already mad at you. Who cares? You could, you could
cast the ghost of Sean Connery and they're not going to be, they're not going to be happy about this.
Watch, watch them do that. But I shouldn't have said that. That'd be fascinating. Yeah. Yeah.
I have one other, but just one real real quick thing, Melissa. I watched, I watched a couple of
series on Amazon, the boys, the Mr. and Mrs. Smith series, although I watched the first season,
the Lord of the Rings, the money that they're putting into these shows are they're beautiful.
Like, I know it's an unpopular opinion and we could be using that money for a lot of other
things. Right. But if they're going to be doing this, they're going to put some money into it.
And it's going to, I mean, at the very least, if you are a fan of the franchise, I know that we
don't like saying this. It might, might be in good hands because at the very least they ain't
running out of money anytime soon. That's true. That's true. That's a good point. This means the
franchise continues. They're going to get their monies worth out of it. So as a fan of the series,
I'm just saying, I'm focusing on the MGM part of this, not the Amazon MGM. Got you. I'm sorry,
Melissa, though. What did you have? No, no, that's okay. That's a very valid point. And you are
correct. I just want to put forward one more female actor that I think would be absolutely fantastic
in the role. And that is Natalie Portman. Yes. Which is not British. But she's proven her acting
chops. And I don't think it hurts to do the accent. British actor. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I said that
mainly for our friends in the United Kingdom. I don't know that it has to be a British actor.
I wanted to be an American with an American accent just to take them off. I love it. That's what I
want to see. Mark Wahlberg. Oh, my God. There was full-southy accent with this full-southy
accent. I want to see the whole of the UK lose its mind. It's Irish. It's Irish. It's right.
That's it. That's so good. I was just going to say they did play the Irishman play a bit.
That's true. Let's take a call real quick. Good morning. You're on the show.
You know, I'm going to make a twist on this and it's going to make a funny and just
with the way the weather is today. Got to lighten it up. Melissa, my card being.
Yes. Oh, my God. Yes. Oh, that would be so fantastic, Kevin. You just made my day.
Not only one of my favorite actresses of all time. I love, love, love, Melissa McCarthy.
But she's even got experience of this. She's already played a spy. That's true. She has.
She was in a great movie with Jason Statham and Jude Law spy. I think it was just called spy.
Yes. It's a spy. Yeah. To Kevin's point, she's already got some reps in this, in this field.
It's great. You got to make, you know, what you said, you got to make a more human.
Why couldn't you make it Melissa McCarthy? Yeah, it's perfect. Oh, I love it. Not only, not only,
you wouldn't, you would save so much money on stunt people like she does all her own stunts.
I love this. I love this. I'm so behind this idea, but I have one caveat for it. She has to
play it straight. Yeah. Yeah. And she could. She could. And that's what I'm saying. I think she
could totally do it. Yeah. I can't be a comedy. I mean, she's got to play some comedy in there,
but not from her. But it would be like the normal bond comedy, you know, like the
the pithy comments, right? That he makes, right? Watch any of her, especially her sketches on SNL,
but even her movie roles, Melissa McCarthy is most dangerous when she's serious. Then that's when
she does her funny stuff. That's when she eviscerates you. Yes. Yes. I love this idea.
I thought, okay, so now I've got this Emily Blut and Melissa McCarthy things stuck in my,
I can't decide which one now. That's great. That's great, bud. Appreciate you, man. Hey,
you save travels out there to all of our delivery drivers and everybody on the same travels out there,
man. Yeah, it's pretty, pretty greasy all year. So all that and play it, please, please, please,
turn your lights on. Yes. Yeah. Turn your headlights on for safety. They won't automatically
do it in this daytime. That's too light. Yeah. Appreciate you, bud. You have a good morning.
You guys have a great day. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, real quick. I'm used to talking to him in
the afternoon. So I almost said you haven't got it. No, you have a pause. I heard it. Oh,
wait, real quick. Before we go to break, let's do this. Okay, Emily Blunt as James Bond and
Melissa McCarthy as Felix Lighter, the American counterpart. Yes. She would be perfect for that too,
though. Yeah. Or Q, maybe one of those two roles. I think there is Q. Yeah. That's another one
that you have to cast right. You've got to get him. He's got to get him. You've got to get
him right. Yeah. Yeah. You had Judy drenched playing him before. I know. Great. How do you? How can
you do that? Yeah. Get up here. Be careful. Good luck. We will see. We'll be following it.
We'll be back with more show coming up on the morning show.
Welcome back to the show. Everybody morning show here at WFHR.
Seth, Melissa and James hanging out with you. We hope you're having a good day out there and
you're safe. If you don't have to travel, I agree. Stay put. Yeah. Yeah. They keep a radio
close. Yeah. We'll help you out. We'll pass the time with you. We got great things lined up
throughout the whole day. Today, we'll be getting into our schedule a little bit later.
Did we want to take a moment for our break to touch on a couple of cool things? I imagine that
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and you can find all of our shows, all of our podcasts, previous interviews, things like that,
and some great reporting. There are so many great articles just sitting there for you right over
there. I personally, I became, I will admit to the audience, friends with Katrina Shankland,
and working with her over the years and us not necessarily being in her voting area,
kind of worked into that a little bit. I was very curious what she had been up to. And seeing
the article that Chuck wrote was very informative to me. I did not know what she had been up to.
Interesting. Yeah. There's so many other great articles on here. I appreciate the focus on
Wakeley's Winter Feast that you did, Melissa. Of course, I really appreciate the work that
Brittany is doing. And you touched on this on a patch show a little bit earlier, Melissa. But Laura
working overtime over there, putting in these great reporting on a gray area for us in sports.
We don't get to talk about certain sports very much. And powerlifting is one of those sports
that's up and down the state, very popular. Terry Stake taught me this a long time ago.
And Laura's been able to do some really nice reporting on that one. And especially explaining
the sport. Right. That I have learned so much from reading what she has read. I had no idea
about any of this. And it's like, wow, this is really interesting. There's so the great stuff
on there as well. It is your one-stop shop for all central Wisconsin news. A big shadow to Michael
Comer and the great work he is doing over there covering literally everything else. Like Laura's
working a powerlifting for us and everything. And somehow Michael is covering literally everything
else. We appreciate the work he's doing. He is reluctant to local sports. He is.
All these people come together to put this newsletter together for you. That is what we're doing.
We understand here at Civic Media better than most what has been going on with journalism,
what has been happening with local news. You don't have to look very far. Look at Channel 9.
One of the few stations that actually gave you rapid news on the TV. And now they're giving you
Madison news. Now the cuts that they've done over there and everything. They jump away in the
middle of their show to go to Madison. Sometimes on the weekend they just have Madison. And that's
not as shot at anybody else. Those are good reporters over there. And I don't even necessarily blame
the companies. If you're not getting the advertising dollars, there's only so much you can do. We know
that here at WFHR. It wasn't that long ago. We were in that position. And there was a time where I
might have been saying this about us and everything. So we're very fortunate for that. And Civic
Media, we talked about this in our team meeting yesterday. This is important to us. This is part
of our mission is supporting local news, supporting local journalism. It's an avenue that isn't
covered much nowadays. But that's all right. We're going to cover those bases. Do our best.
We're working hard at it. Yeah. And speaking of hard at work, the cast and crew of
Arsenic and Old Lace has been hard at work for months to give you this great show. And at
his time, the end of the run is here. Three more opportunities for you to take in one of the
funniest comedies of all time. Arsenic and Old Lace. I agree. I think it's hilarious.
Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops. I always get to laugh that line. I got to say
from my favorite lines in all of history, all of history. Arsenic and Old Lace is going to be
performing tomorrow. Check it out tomorrow, seven o'clock show, Friday, seven o'clock show,
two o'clock matinee. And that's it, everybody. Yeah, it's your last chance coming up this weekend.
And at the end of that, while you're getting your tickets at WRC Theater.org, so you can pick out
your seat and where you want to sit and everything. Exactly. You can do that at WRC Theater.
It's pretty cool. Not every theater gives you that opportunity. Do that. Get your tickets.
And while you're there, why not fill out an application for noises off? You can get your audition
form filled out right now. Right away. Have it all taken care of. You don't even have to worry
about it. Oh, it's so easy. It's so nice and easy to do it that way. Yeah, it's great.
It absolutely is. And those auditions are on March 10th and 11th. I'm excited. I can't wait to see
who comes out. Yeah. We're looking forward to that, everybody. Yeah. Again, March 10th and 11th,
630 to 830 over at WRC Theater.org. Make your plans to head on over there and audition for
noises off and keep in mind. If you don't feel comfortable being on stage, Melissa could use
your backstage. Absolutely. We're going to need a big crew for this one.
Big crew for backstage on this one. Yep. And we're going to be doing our best over here at the station
to help Melissa with the show as well in any way we can. Because we want you to have a fun time
with this Melissa. We know how serious you are going to take this because you're pro and you're
good at these things. But we also want you to enjoy yourself and everything. So we're going to be
helping as much as we can with that. Yeah. I mean, you know, I'm saying that on the air. I don't
really mean it. I don't know. I hope to God. We will take a quick time out. We'll come back
and have some more fun here on the morning show at WF HR. Welcome back, everybody. Morning show
at WF HR, locally grown radio. Melissa, Seth and James hanging out with you. Thanks so much for
joining us, everybody. Let's get into a couple of fun ones here. Interesting ones, if not.
So when you're walking down the street and do you openly engage with people or not and I'm
talking, you know, not obviously people you know, but strangers. Right. And by openly engage,
I don't mean like, hello, hi, how are you? What time is it? I just, you know, even making eye
contact is all I mean, a simple look at eye contact, maybe even a smirk or maybe a wave or
something wave or a little head nod, maybe. Do you do any of these things? How about when you're
driving or when somebody is driving past you? Do you wave to them or any of these things? A new
study looked into why urban pedestrians seem to be walking faster and doing less socializing.
That's not antidodical either or a word I can't say. They compared recent video to similar footage
from more than 40 years ago. And people in Boston, New York City, Philly are walking 15 times at
15% faster with about half the informal encounters. Okay. All right.
Naturally, the biggest change is technology. Now everyone is walking with a smartphone. So some
people are being social while walking just remotely and, you know, not with the people around them.
Right. Right. And if they're not talking on their phone, they have their heads buried in it.
Also, the study found that the average incomes of people who lived and worked downtown had
soared. So people may have higher value of time and won't scroll a stroll around and linger
in casual conversations because time is money. Right. There's also been a decrease in our social
interactions of all kinds, which is popped up in our data about rising rates of loneliness. Right.
And finally, there's the surge in climate control to pay to enter third spaces like coffee shops
and casual eateries. Oh, yeah. Of course. You don't really have that as much anymore. You can't really
hang out at your local bodega or your local coffee shop is like you used to. Now in some areas you
can, but we're talking again in the bigger cities where this data was taken. So why does this
matter? A researcher said, quote, cities have a special ability to bring people together. That is
the core of city making of what it means to be urban. The process requires random encounters with
people talking to each other and mingling and bumping into each other. One solution could be to
build more communal areas along streets like ample green spaces shade and seating. You can find
the complete article of this at bloomberg.com. Okay. So let's discuss. All right. Because I find this
fascinating. And I think that a lot of this ties into another thing, another popular topic of
ours and how we are more and more we are like isolating ourselves and putting ourselves in these
bubbles, whether it is on social media or it is just in our personal lives. And I think especially
coming out of the Oscars, this makes me think of something that we touch on as well about the
importance of theater and movies and how we have so little experiences nowadays to laugh with
strangers. Right. Right. Have that communal experience, right? Yeah. Even of watching something
else. Yeah. And the core part of this of what makes a city and what makes a community, the people
and the connections they have. I don't think for many out here that have never lived in a big city,
I understand that from afar you may look at like, well, I'll take what I know Chicago. I talk about
that city. I'm from there and I love that city and I'm proud of it. And I've taken a lot of
heat for that in 20 some years of living in the middle of the state for that. But one of the things
that I, I haven't had to fight people on a lot is most people understand Chicago is a big city.
It's one of the biggest cities of not the biggest city in the Midwest. It's still a Midwest city.
People may not be the kindest to you, but they'll still hold the door open. There is still some
Midwest mentality there, even with a busy city. The last time I was in the cities, the first time in
my life that I ran into the ugliness of city life. Some of that. I know the news wants to tell you
that it's Beirut and these things. It's not. No, it's not. And I wouldn't, I wouldn't mislead you on
that. I have no, no, but I'm not getting paid by the city or the state or anything like that to say
that. But I did see, oh, wow, people are in a rush now. Oh, man, they, they have so much so short
time of a break and they got to get here and here and they don't got time to talk. They don't
got time to mingle or anything like that because time is money. We have money has never become
harder to get or more of a life difference maker than it is in 2025. It's ridiculous to think
that stopping for 10 minutes to talk to somebody on the street could mean you couldn't pay your rent.
Yes, I mean, that's that's just insane. It is, but that's the reality that we're living in right now.
So, I mean, it's definitely worth discussing. I do think it's interesting thinking about
walking down the streets of Wisconsin Rapids because I mean, let's be real. Not a lot of people
walk down the street in Wisconsin Rapids to get to work. They walk from their car. Right, exactly.
So it's not the same kind of interaction, but I love that you mentioned waving when you're
driving down the road because there are certain roads that I drive down that I will wave at everybody.
And, and they're the roads that I grew up driving as a kid. Like if I'm driving out to my mom's house,
I'm waving at everybody I go past. Yeah, nice. And smiling at them because that's just that's
the way I was. And as a teenager, I would just be kind of like a little, you know, sad when people
didn't notice that I was waving at them. Like, what's wrong with you guys? My, my, my little sister
used to get upset about that. She would, she would like to the point where she's waving out the
side window. And then if they don't wave, she's going to the back window and like waving,
I mean, he will see me. Yeah. Well, you know, it's that we talk a lot about how much
just smiling at somebody can brighten their day. Yeah. And I really took that to heart as a
a young driver. Like, you know, this is some way that I can brighten people's days and be
neighborly and be friendly. And, and so I, I really put a lot of effort into it. That's great.
I don't know. Kind of seems a little silly now, but no, I love that. It's a good stuff. It's a good
stuff. Yeah. It speaks to who you are. But it, it isn't true that we are doing less and less of
that because we are so zeroed in and focused on on what we have to do to be able to survive in
the society that we are in now. Right. Well, and I like a lot of things like not, not, not,
not like a lot of things like everything, every single thing, think of any problem, anyone.
It, there's no one trick solution. There's no one pro, one cause of it. And there's no one trick
solution to fix it. Right. Um, the people that are trying to sell you that are trying to sell
you something, um, that there, there's no way around that. When it comes to something like this,
I gave you four to five different things that are making this happen. Right. So there's not
going to be one thing that can solve all this. And I'm not trying to say that. But I will say,
I do find a positive in this and that we, the people can make change to this. We, the people can
do something about this. Um, you have to maybe get out of your comfort zone sometimes. And I,
I'm uncomfortable even saying the frame comfort zone. I hate that. Um, but for lack of a better
way to put it, you got to put yourself out there a little bit. You've got to maybe put down the
phone a little bit. Maybe you get off social media a little, any of these things, um, whatever it
takes to get us back to more of that, more of, hey, my neighbors passing by and I waive to them.
Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. I think I see this most often here at like, um, convenience stores,
you know, when I'm walking in and out of the gas station or the grocery store, people are friendly.
You share a smile. You, you know, like make a little comment on the weather. I love it. It's awesome.
Yeah. It brightens my day every time. And these are, no, you know, not people I know. I just think
it's, it connects us as a community, even these short little interactions. Let's take a call.
Good morning, you're on the air. Good morning. So I am, I live in Warton, Wisconsin,
Rapids and I'm a professional dog walker. And so I actually get to get out. And one of the things
that I really enjoy is, um, is when I think of those chances to, you know, to say hi to somebody,
you know, there'll be a kid coming home from school and, and they'll be like, can I put your
dog or, you know, I tell you, you know, dogs are such icebreakers. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
And, uh, and, you know, it's, it is seems like there is more, you know, people are busy,
but there, there are times, um, you know, I think I see people out walking, um, I can, you know,
they, people don't stop and chat, um, and that. And, you know, it's just, I think people are
losing a little bit of the skill in small chat. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. It's a great point. I was at the
out of college. Yeah, I was at the out of college, the department, um, in Marshall the other day.
And, um, and I had to stop and, and joke with someone in that department, um, so many people
just never say anything. It's like silence. Mm-hmm. Um, and so I, I was there getting my checkup
and I, I, um, told them, you know, the guy in the wheelchair and he was obviously there for
a thing. And I said, you know, I thought I was the only good looking person. Yeah. It was just,
it was just an icebreaker. Yeah. Yeah. And then we started talking about the weather and just,
you know, kind of to distract us from where we were and what was, you know, happening and stuff.
And, you know, we learned things from each other. And, um, and it's just great. And I love that.
I love being in the small time. I'm, I'm originally from Illinois, too, James. Um, but I, um,
I do enjoy, I enjoy hearing some of those moments with people. One of my favorite
little sections in the New York Times is the Metropolitan Diary. Yeah. And it's where people share
these little, um, you know, interactions, you know, kind of fun things that have happened in the,
in this big city or whatnot. I think we should do that. Excellent. That's a great idea.
Excellent. Really good stuff. I really enjoyed talking with you. Thank you so much for taking
the time and calling in. You have a great day. You too. Bye-bye. Yeah. That was great. Wow.
Lovely. She brought up a great thing that I, uh, my, my fur brother's going to be mad at me.
Uh, you know, one of the positives that we can look at is the, you know, certainly the love of
animals and the rise of dog culture. That is going to get us out of the house, like literally
gets us out of the house. Yeah. Literally walk out of the house. Yeah. Um, that's something that
gets people interacting. She's so right about this. Yeah. I never see somebody walking with a dog
and don't at least interact with the dog. I don't know if I've ever, I don't even know if it's
humanly possible for me to do that. Right. The walk past the dog and not acknowledge the dog,
let alone the person with the dog. I'm not sure I'm, I'm humanly capable. Right. It's the most
difficult when they're wearing a vest that says service dog do not pack. That, right. So it's
really hard. It really is. Oh, they're so cute. Well, that was a great call. That was good.
Excellent. Great stuff. And again, I know that some of this might seem, uh, you know, like,
oh, what is happening to our society stuff and everything. I'm, I'm talking about this stuff
and bringing attention to it. One, not, I'm not the only one doing that, but doing that in part
because we can do things about it. Right. There, there's plenty of people that want to bring up
problems. There's plenty of people that want to whine out there. We're talking about doing stuff
here. Um, actually accomplishing things. And, and, you know, I feel better about a lot of this
stuff too. And bringing up the fact that it does still happen. It might be a little different
than it used to be. But as the caller pointed out, it does still happen and we can get better at
small talk. We just have to do it. Yep. I thought that was another really good point. Very good
point. Yeah. We get good at small talk because we've had so many rep reps at it. We've had,
yeah. Uh, and when we take that away, especially the younger generations, that's something, uh,
you know, that's interesting. Right. I love that we, you know, we talked about, like, you can take
a class on how to make phone calls. Mm hmm. Yes. Yes. It'll be classes on how to do small talk.
There you go. I don't want to talk about the weather. But what do I talk about that? What if
they don't like sports? Oh, no. Oh, no. I'm panicking. Uh, I like, I like a little roll of
decks where you're okay. I can't talk about this. I can't talk about that. Uh,
do's and don'ts. Who do you think should be in the next James Bond? Who should? We'll take
a quick time out. We'll come back and have some more fun. Wrap up the morning show right here at WFHR.
Welcome back, everybody. Morning show here at WFHR. Locally grown radio. Um, I once again,
I almost started singing along with the song. I, I don't know why. I just was about to let
start building up these man. You want to sing along with it? Yeah. Uh, we are going to wrap up the
show, take it to the top of the our Get Newer schedule. Some good stories of the day. All of these
things coming up for you. Um, but first off, uh, a subject that we got to come back to and this
is bringing us back. Uh, this is a full circle moment for us as a team. Uh, when we, the three of us
got together and first started doing this show years ago, and that's weird to say, but years ago,
now, um, one of the earlier things we did together was make paper airplanes. Oh, yeah. That's
we sure did. Through them in the room in the studio and everything. See how, how, who won? I think
Melissa won on that one. She did. Yes, I did. I'm glad you remembered that set. Uh, I, I have kept
those paper airplanes. I still have them at my desk and the bronze them. Uh, yes, yes,
I went there. Well, bronze them like little kid shoes. Yeah, we'll figure that. Uh, a cereal, uh,
a cereal Guinness World Record holder bested a one of his own titles by folding and throwing a
paper plane in just 5.12 seconds. Woo. David Rush who holds the most concurrent Guinness World Record
titles attempted to beat his own record for the fastest time to fold and throw a paper airplane
during a visit Guinness World Records headquarters in London. So we date, he's going there now. Wow.
Not waiting for the judicators already. You're going to watch me. His previous record was 6.15
seconds. He managed to break it with a record of 15.12. Uh, so beat it by a full second pretty much.
Wow. Well, quote, while the paper airplane may not win any awards for aesthetics, it's undoubtedly
the most beautiful one I've ever made. This is now housed in the Guinness World Records cabinet
in London. Nice. Wow. Wow. Um, it's, it's kind of a fun story, but um, because that count him
to Guinness World Records though, if he breaks his own record. Yeah, it's a good question.
Or does it still count as one? I mean, I guess it would actually count as two because it is
better than the previous one. That's a good question, but yeah, yeah. I'm not sure, though.
I'm not. I want to take a moment to thank all of the listeners calling in today. A shout out to
all of you guys. Uh, thank you very much. Uh, you more and more. Give me the proof when I say
best listeners and radio. Uh, we appreciate it. Always good calls today. Just safe out there
driving and turn your headlights on. Turn them on. Do it, do it, do it. Do it for Kevin. Big thank
you to Phil Hartley and the gang out there. We appreciate our quality post printing friends with
a wicked awesome word of Wednesday. That was a lot of fun. Uh, keep in mind everybody. Every Wednesday
you can catch that wicked awesome word of Wednesday. Indeed. I encourage you to to be on the
lookout for that everybody. Um, and we got some other great things going on. First off,
I want to remind you to sign up for the WFHR newsletter. Go to WFHR.com. Takes two,
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Yes. And we'll come out at noon. It will. A couple of reminders of some closings in our community.
Aaron Wells, our fantastic friend over at the aging and disability Resource Center of Central
Wisconsin. Let us know that meals on wheels are going to be closed for today. Yep. Uh, so keep
that in mind, everybody. Uh, if you know somebody who uses those services, check in on them,
please. Yep. And we heard from our friends from the Elk's Lodge. Yes. No bingo tonight,
everybody. Uh, they have canceled bingo for this evening because of the inclement weather. And,
uh, don't want everyone getting stuck on their way to bingo. Right. Yeah. They'll be back next
week with, with more bingo action. So looking forward to that. Yes. Uh, we are hopefully, uh,
going to have a good midday magazine for you today. Uh, with the weather, I don't want to put
it on anybody. We usually have Wisconsin's rabbits community media come in. And of course,
our wood County Sheriff's Department chair of Sean Becker joins us. Right. I don't know on a day
like this how busy they all are. Right. So we'll see what happens. Uh, be listening from four to
five today for that. And then, of course, from five to six playmakers, I don't get a choice. I
got to be here. Uh, I will be here, uh, live and direct to take your sports thoughts,
calls and feelings. Uh, be sure to join us for that. A big shout out to family, natural foods
and quality of house printing, sponsoring that hour. Uh, looking forward to the show today.
We're going to have some fun. But the topics we weren't able to talk about on Monday will get
into. Okay. Very cool. Looking forward to all of that. Keep in mind as well. Uh, afterwards
will be your tailgate, your pregame first at 630 Wisconsin men's basketball at Minnesota.
Big one right there. Big rival game there. Yeah. Looking forward to that.
Actual. And, uh, want to remind everybody a couple of events going on tomorrow. Tomorrow,
we have Pete Revelle and four on the floor performing. They do the first and third Thursday of
every month, head on over to the central Wisconsin Cultural Center over at a 2651 A Street South
from two to four and taken one of our greatest, greatest local, anything musician, person,
creatives, anything. Everyone to call them love our friends over. Just don't, don't call Pete
late for dinner. Just don't do that. Keep all of that in mind. And set the course. Uh, we also
want to remind everybody about a great show coming up tomorrow tomorrow. It's the last run of
our steak and old lays tomorrow at seven Friday at seven and then Saturday at 2 p.m. to wrap it up.
I just want to say real quick. Big thank you to everyone in the show on the show and had
anything to do with it. The set builders did an amazing job as usual. Um, we had, of course, a
tremendous cast. The backstage people are great. Um, and I just want to say thank you to them
for making it a very, uh, enjoyable experience. So awesome. Congratulations. Yeah.
It's a WRC theater dot org to get your tickets and find out more. Encouraging to do that.
And of course, if you can take in the Nicosah High School Musical, Emma, a pop musical.
Join them for a fun-filled musical featuring Katy Perry, Whitney Houston, Sydney Lopper.
Uh, we had the kids on yesterday. They killed it. Um, uh, they came in planning to do one
little bit of monologue and one song. We had a little bit of time and I just kind of brought up
Hey, I paused things. I'm like, Hey, if you guys want to do another one, you can. They jump right
into it. They were awesome. They were so good. Um, get your tickets for this at showtix4u.com,
showtix4u.com or you can get them the day of the show right there at the front desk or in Nicosah.
And, uh, check this out and support these kids by local support local. That includes the arts
everybody. Yes. Take a look at some big, uh, good stories of the day around our world.
An 18-year-old kid from Utah named Luke Herbert had to quit baseball when he got diagnosed with
uh, auto, auto main, auto main disease. But how's, uh, this for switching gears? He just became the
first kid from Utah to get a scholarship for Cornhole. Winter. He knows that don't know that's
a beanbag toss. That's right. Thank you. Bags or whatever you want to call it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
He's playing for Winthorpe University in South Carolina. They're widely seen as having the
best Cornhole program in the country. Oh, we got out ahead of it. It didn't know what a program.
I didn't even know you had, yeah, I didn't know you can get scholarships for that. That's pretty cool.
Just do this when you're camping. That's pretty good. That's pretty cool. Got a good tip of the
hat to him. Firefighters and animal rescuers saved a blind deaf and, uh, uh, blind and deaf
dog that wandered into a storm drain in North Carolina last week. His name is Duffy and he's 16
years old and now he is back home safe and sound. Thank goodness. Good to hear. Good to hear.
And a group of Burger King employees in Minnesota paid tribute to a long time customer for having
by having his name engraved in his favorite chair. Oh, Jerry Park and recently passed away at the
age of 91 and they showed up, they showed up to his funeral with it. Oh, wow. He used to meet up with
friends for coffee every morning and had his 90th birthday there. He even asked for chicken nuggets
into shake for his last meal. All the employees loved him and they got corporate to approve the engraving.
They kept it in the dining room to as it tribute to him. Wow. Oh, that's sweet. What a staff.
That's pretty. There are great people there. Yeah. It's pretty darn cool. Yeah.
That's a good story right there. Absolutely. And we know there are other great little good local
stories out there. Everybody reach out to us. We got a newsletter. We got morning shows. We got
places to, you know, go ahead and promote these things. Yep. Uh, we want to be able to do that with
you. We love it. Uh, so go ahead and get us those stories. You can, uh, direct messages on Facebook
or email any of our staff. You can reach out to our front desk if you need to as well. Yep. Uh,
four, two, four, 1300. Pam will put you in touch with whoever needs anyone to talk to or anything
like that. And we can get those great good stories out there. Yes. Um, great show today. Everybody.
Now, especially to you too, but uh, the audience as well. You guys. Yes. Thanks for coming in.
Everybody. Love it. Yeah. Do some more. Be safe out there and be good to each other. We'll talk to you
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