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Got your host, James Byne, the mic. I am joined by Melissa, Seth. Good morning, and the
best listeners in radio. Thanks for joining us, everybody. Hope you're having a great
start to your morning out there. Thanks for being here. We're going to get into some
fun stuff and a little bit of entertainment news coming up. We've also got about, let's
see here, the dumbest things people take pride in. We've got that one coming up for you
as well. But it's a Monday in the 9 o'clock hour. Everybody knows what that means.
Good morning, and welcome to the kitchen's open on WFHR for this Monday, March 10th. Today
is National Pack Your Lunch Day. Cool. So I wondered what does that mean. The Cambridge
Dictionary defines a packed lunch as a light meal put in a bag or container that you take
with you to be eaten later, for example, at school or work. I remember having to pack
my lunch when I was in school and I don't necessarily do this nearly as much as I should
anymore. That's true. You don't have a cool lunch box. That's what you need. You need
a lunch box to do that, right? There was this topic got my brain going through nostalgia
like crazy with so many things that I was curious about it for still happening in schools.
The joy of getting to pick out a lunch box. That was so cool. The thermos that came with
the lunch box, so you know, that was a combination there. The idea of trading with people during
lunch. Would you have your lunch? Yeah. And you know, the metal ones were always a little
more expensive. And if you got the thermos, you know, you knew you were in. That's right.
It was a high high value in your lunch box, right? So I was going to say I had I made
it super easy on my parents for like six straight years. I didn't and I never ate the lunch
at school. And this was like elementary going into like junior high every day, every school
day. For six years, I had a cheese sandwich for lunch every day. Just cheese. Cheese. Just
American cheese. You're weird. And with my little, my little pound puppies. Oh, it was
plastic though. Wasn't metal. Wasn't as cool as that. But I made it super easy for my mom.
And I mean, I'm sure at some point she was like, are you sure you don't want something
different? Like, no, no, mom, I just want the cheese somehow. I still like American
cheese. I've explained it. Peanut butter jelly. Peanut butter jelly is that much that was
all I needed at that. Maybe a bag of chips. But unlike you, I got to the point, I ate too
much. And now I don't eat much peanut butter. Like you overdid it. Yeah. I was, I was the
mixed bag because we were on free and reduced lunch because pastors did not get paid a lot.
They still don't get paid a lot, but they did not get paid a lot back in the 1980s when
I was going to school. And so getting our lunch at school was a treat more than a, a
rate. And it, I loved peanut butter and jelly sandwich. And I'm one of those weird people.
I like that it got soggy. That the bread got a little, I just, the moistness. It just,
I, and that is nostalgic. And I remember, you know, I was the girl. So I had the strawberry
shortcake, not lunch box, but I really wanted the 18 one. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That was
cool. Well, that's right. You were the big, I remember that because I know some kids who
had the 18 lunch box. Yeah. So, you know, I'd love to hear from the audience. If you want
to call in 424, 2600, let us know what was your go to act lunch in school. And do you
actually pack your lunch now? You know, I find that I eat at my desk, but I don't, because
I work right next to where I live, don't necessarily have to pack it. Although I, I have borrowed
my son's lunch boxes to do that a couple of times just to keep things. And we have a
dollar. Hello, what's on your mind? Yeah, my special days, my mom would give me peanut
butter and jelly and orange marmalade and banana slices. Oh, that was the most awesome
family. Sounds like it's actually so late right now. Love the orange marmalade. I was
usually a gastroberry girl. That's cool. Thanks for the call, sir. Have a good morning.
Great. Well, packing a lunch always seemed time-consuming to me as an adult, right? Do I have the
time? So I always relied on my parents. And if they didn't have the time, I didn't get
a packed lunch. So, I really didn't like what was being offered at school. I still had
to do it. But there are definite advantages to packing a lunch instead of buying it. The Clemson
University Cooperative Extension Home and Garden Information Center saved that five times
on their website hgic.clemson.edu shared an article on their saying packing lunches for work
or school in it. They shared that people packed their lunch for three primary reasons, economic,
nutrition and weight management. From an economic standpoint, the article says taking a bag lunch
from home can save both money and time compared to eating out in a restaurant or cafeteria.
The article shares a bag lunch is usually cheaper than eating out. Let's say that you eat
out for lunch twice a week in the average cost of your meal and beverage is about $8. You can save
$16 per week or up to $800 a year minus the cost of your homemade lunch. The savings will be
greater if you eat more homes-prepared meals every week. That's right. So what do we put in those
meals? And that helps keep our costs down. You can eat planned overs from the last night's dinner,
like extra soup, chili, pizza, pasta, casserole, spaghetti, all of those leftovers, or use
leftover meat like meatloaf for sandwiches. Yes. Make enough lunches at one time for the whole week
because then you don't have to spend time. You can worry about it, right? Do one large time
cook large batches of soups and stews and freeze in portion sized containers.
Buy only the amount of food that can be used in a reasonable amount of time. Although buying large
quantities may cost less, it won't save you money if you have to keep throwing it away.
Check the unit price of lunch items to make sure that this store, quote-unquote special,
is really a bargain. By items in bulk, like fruits, vegetables, cheese, crackers,
trail mix, and baked chips, and package them yourself in snack-size self-sealing bags. Pack
enough for the entire week and store. Commercially packaged single servings of these items can be
expensive. Remember that you must make wise choices, otherwise you could spend just as much on
lunches made at home as you would if you ate out. And we look to lunchables, that's become the
main thing, and those are getting to be even more expensive than if you were to just buy the block
of cheese, cut it up, buy a few crackers. If you can buy that in bulk and then make that
lunchable yourself, it could save you some money. When it comes to time, the article shares, quote,
a bag lunch is a time saver. You don't have to stand in line at the cafeteria,
drive to the fast food place, or sandwich shop, or wait for your food to be served in a restaurant.
That gives you spare time to relax, run errands, take a walk, check email, or surf the web, or pet your
dog. I think that's something that gets missed a lot, is the time saver. You don't have to do all
that waiting around, right? In our family, in our family, many have an issue with time management
because of their neurodiversity issues. It is often easier to just buy lunch than it is to
actually make it. Yes, and so the article actually has some tips for that as well, some time saving
tips. Designate a spot in your refrigerator to store the lunch items. So if you make them in
advance, they know exactly what shelf to go to to pull out what they need to be able to make a lunch.
Stock your pantry with lunch-friendly ideas like unsweetened canned fruits, dried fruits, 100%
fruit juice boxes, canned meats, granola bars, and individual pudding cups. Set aside a drawer
or cabinet for storing lunch supplies, like plastic containers, airtight fitting lids,
sandwich bags, disposable forks and spoons, plastic wrap, and aluminum foil. Make
several individual grab-and-go containers or plastic bags of cut-up vegetables at the beginning
of the week. So if you buy like a large stock of celery, take the time, the day that you buy it,
start cutting it up into those smaller stocks like what you would find in a vegetable tray,
and store them in baggies so that all they have to do is go grab that one baggie.
Right. Make your sandwich the night before. It can be refrigerated or frozen to keep it from
getting soggy, packed lettuce, tomato, and other moist foods in a separate container.
Then add them to the sandwich just before you eat it. The big DLT, that's our
thing of all the stuff. When storing dinner leftovers, pack a serving in a separate container
for tomorrow's lunch, put a container in the quote-unquote lunch section of your refrigerator,
and if you have co-workers who share the same taste in foods, consider participating. This was
a cool idea and a lunch pool with four of them. You only have to make lunch for everyone one day
a week making five of the same lunches at once is quicker and easier than making five different
lunches each day. Well, that's an interesting idea. I've never heard of that before, yeah.
And I think there's something too that comes along with these things, and when you do them,
and you can get into a habit of doing them in a routine of doing them, how good it feels to have
on a Monday and thinking, I got the lunches all taken care of. Oh, man. I think it's got to be great,
yeah. Having this simplest, we don't make a lot of this, but having things off your checklist
in your head is a endorphin release that we don't touch on very often. That's true. That's true.
The whole list thing, yeah. It hits the dopamine. So if you make a kind of a game and a challenge at
the beginning of the week, and things like my kids love grapes, and if you pack like cheese or
something that needs to stay cold, the best way to do it, pop the grapes in the freezer. They become
the ice cubes to keep the rest of your lunch cold, and by the time they get to the lunch hour,
they have found thawed and still kept your cheese cold the way it needs to be.
You can eat the grapes, too. Beth, you said something there that I think is an interesting note, too.
I joke all the time that my diet is that of a teenager, doesn't evolve or anything.
If I'm being honest with everybody, some other things haven't necessarily either. When we're
teaching kids to clean, what are one of the ways we do this? We turn it into a game. Right.
Right. I'm still doing it. I'm still like, as an adult, I just did it yesterday doing my laundry.
I had a game going in my head of like what I could get in and what I couldn't like.
So the idea of these again, the checklist, the game, whatever it is to get you to get into this routine,
once you get comfortable with it, I think you're going to find not only the convenience part of it
enjoyable, but maybe even like changing up that routine a little bit. You know what, I don't
want to be a butter and jelly every day of the week. I Wednesdays, I'm going to have this on
Thursdays all of this or something. That's really, that's an interesting thing. You know, I'm
this made me think of in Japan where they have, you know, if you've been to a Japanese restaurant,
they may have something on the menu called the bento box, right? Well, that's specifically a
lunch box that they have in Japan. And it's one of those things where, I mean, these can get
extremely elaborate where they have little slots for all the different foods. And sometimes,
and I don't know if this is still as much of a thing as it used to be, it was kind of a judging
thing. You know, how good the bento box you brought from home was, meaning, wow, your mom or
whoever, you know, really cares about you because they've been an amazing bento box kind of kind of
thing. But it's really cool because you get a large variety of foods and you just get to bring it
with you that kind of, that kind of thing. So, and again, maybe it's universal swapping. Yes,
big in Japan too, swapping stuff from your bento boxes like all of that. In this day and age,
you have to be a little bit more careful with the trading of things because of allergies that are
out there, peanut allergies, peanut allergies, milk, gluten, all of that is a lot more prevalent
nowadays than it was in the past. So, I know some schools have special tables for those that have
tree nut or peanut allergies that they cannot have anything that was not related at those
tables just to make sure that it's safe for them. That's really smart, right? And one of the modern,
you know, you talked about the bento box. They actually sell an Americanized version of that,
which is just a bento container that has all of those separate iron number. You had to pack,
you know, a baggie of this, a baggie of that, a baggie of this. This puts it all in separate
spots in that box with one lid. It makes it a lot easier to take it from home to school or to work.
And you can just rewash it. You can save on waste as well. I know this is not what we're talking about,
and it's very interesting because I never heard of the bento boxes before, so that's really
interesting to me. And in the Lunchables comments, we're so interesting about this conversation too,
Beth, but one of the things that happened from this that I had to talk about with my parents yesterday,
like a lot of households, my mom made most of our lunches, that there were stretches where my
dad wasn't working morning, so he would do that or something like that. And while we may not be
awake when the lunches were made, we always knew who made our lunch. And the kind of joke is that
like dads would just throw like two things in there or something like that. My dad would put like
a lamb of leg, like a whole lamb in there. For each one of us, he would like,
like, here's a meatloaf sandwich to be, but it's like half the meatloaf is in there.
Like my bag, like, when I did have a brown bag, that thing was just huge. I don't know how we
crammed everything in there. I just want to shout him, I was joking with a buddy into
him. Remember this? And so he's, oh yeah, very nice. My father was impressed with how strong brown
bags were. Exactly. Let's see what we could do with this thing here. Yeah.
Well, no matter if you beg bento or buy, make sure you take time to eat your lunch so that you
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Yeah, all right. It's on a great episode. No, not a good one. Nice thinking of what I'm
going to have for lunch already. I'm just like, yeah, the segment makes me so hungry.
Make sure you pack it. It's not so packed for lunch today. Oh, that's right. I'm going to go look for
a GI Joe lunch box. I'll see if I can win this. That was what I had. I had a GI Joe lunch box.
Very cool. Very awesome. We will take a quick time out. But Beth, nice work again. Thank you.
We'll be back in more show.
Welcome back, everybody. Morning show here at WFHR. Locally grown radio. Melissa,
Seth and James hanging out with you. Thanks so much for joining us. Everybody, shout out to Beth
Habhacker in the kitchen's open. Nice work, Beth. Yeah, that was cool. Be listening every Monday for
another opportunity to hear Beth in the kitchen's open. Let's dive right into some entertainment news,
everybody. And this one's this one's going to be tough on Friday. Dolly Dolly Parton dedicated a
song to her late husband called if you hadn't been there. I just want to play a little bit of this
for the audience. So I'm going to go ahead and do that right now.
If you hadn't been there. Where would I be without your trust. Love and believe. The ups and downs.
We've always shared. And I wouldn't be here. If you hadn't been there.
Just one of our greatest songwriters. And I don't know when this song was written. I don't know
what she was thinking or feeling when she was writing it. From in the caption as she wrote,
I fell in love with Carl Dean when I was 18 years old. We have spent 60 precious and meaningful years
together. Like all great love stories. They never end. They live on in memory and song. We will
always be the he will always be the star of my life story. And I dedicated this song to him. Wow.
And as you could hear, I played that beginning in part because of the lyrics. And I think you're so
important. If you hadn't been there. Where would I be without your trust. Love and believe. The
ups and downs. We've always shared. And I wouldn't be here. If you hadn't been there.
If you can take a pause just for a moment and take the emotions out of this because this is a
heavy one. And it's heavy on the heart. Even though I don't believe any of us knew Mr. Dean.
It hits us because of how much we care about Dolly and everything. But if you could just take a
step back. Just respect and appreciate this woman's lyrical paralysis. Like just incredible lyricists.
Incredible. I feel like there's so many things to get talked about with Dolly Pardoning.
All of them rightfully so. But we just do not take enough time to focus on this woman as a writer.
Yes. As an incredible writer. That's some man. Those are some of the better lyrics you are ever
going to hear. Yep. Period. Like I've got goose bumps right now, man. Like it's just incredible
the way she does this. And to be it to be so in tune with yourself and your audience at her age
after six, seven, what seven decades she's been doing this. Something like that. And all of that
being said in this day and age where people can't go five seconds without taking a selfie and
putting it online or something like that. But they don't give you this. Like she ain't doing that.
But when she shows you a look inside her coat of many colors. This is what you get. Content.
Actual meaning and feeling and everything. Right. Like for her to share all that is just one of
the bravest more more powerful things I can think of as a human being or a creative can do.
Right. Right. And there's a reason. I'll go ahead Melissa. No, you go ahead. So you can say there's
a reason we don't know much about Carl Dean. He was the private side of her. And they did that.
I'm guessing they did that very specifically is that he's that's where she went to when she
needed to be out of the spotlight. You know, he was there behind her the whole time supporting her
obviously. She talks about it in the song. He was always there to help her along. And she considered
him, you know, the rock that she stood upon. So I mean, that's that's that's it's really remarkable.
It's you can see and you can hear the emotion in her singing. Oh my god. And that you can tell
that it's yeah. And that's something that we can't get from from someone who has an experience
that. That's right. Nobody else could write what Dolly wrote for that song. Nobody. It was very
personal. Exactly. Yeah. It was personal and it's beautiful. And it gives us an insight into
their lives. Exactly. That she chose to share with us. That's the beautiful. That's the the beauty
of arts. Exactly. And what humanity and humans are able to bring to the world of art and share
with with everybody. Yep. I hope she's doing all right. Yeah. Um, wanted to touch on this one too.
Kiss is no longer around. Kiss is not touring or playing together anymore. I mean, we know
that because they did a final tour back in 96 and seven. I saw it. Um, but of course,
they're still performing going on for the boys individually. Right. Paul Stanley is still doing
quite a bit of work in that. Um, and, and so is Gene Simmons. Well, what's it like to be a rock
and roll roadie? Well, uh, how many of you got about, uh, what is it? Uh, to 12,500 dollars sitting
around? Anybody? Anybody? Because if you, uh, if you can part with that much money, almost 13,000
dollars, you can find out that is how much Gene Simmons will allow you to pay him to join the
road crew on his upcoming tour for one day. One day? Um, yeah. Uh, yes, you have to load
gear and help set up the show, but you also get some perks. You can, uh, you get to eat with Gene,
sit on the sound check and receive a signal set list and a bass guitar that's used during rehearsal
plus a crew shirt and hat. Gene will also bring you on stage and introduce you and get you, uh,
get to bring on one, you get to bring one guest with you. You can also bring up, uh, to four
items for Gene design, but here's the hitch as if the 13 grand wasn't the head. Right. Exactly.
That does not include your ticket to the show. You literally have to buy that separately.
Um, now I, I, I, I, I actually, I have a lot of respect for Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons, uh,
and I, uh, as creatives, what they set out to do, they never lied about what they were. They,
they were going to put their name on every single thing that they could and they were going to try
to be the biggest band in the world. Right. Um, and all of this and I, and they, they, they did a
pretty darn good job at what they set out to do and everything. But one thing I also mentioned
about Gene Simmons quite a bit is how out of touch he is and how he has been the majority of his
life and how he makes these opinions and these assumptions without actually even knowing or
talking to people. Right. Um, this is, maybe this is top five most out of touch things Gene Simmons
has ever done on the surface. How cool would it be if, hey, how many, who knows how many more tours
Gene Simmons is going to do? Right. You know, the idea of being able to be on set with a rock legend,
I take that. Oh, if this was a contest and, and he was doing something like, hey, go ahead and,
you know, enter this contest and you could be a roadie with Gene Simmons or something like that.
All of that sounds pretty cool. Uh, hey, I'm raising money for charity. Um, Gene Simmons is a
literal Israeli. He was born in Israel. He is a Jew. It'd be nice to see him kind of using some
of that to maybe promote or, or, you know, fight some of this anti-Semitism that's out there or
something. Instead, like, he's just looking to make a buck. One of the richest musicians of all time
is trying to make a buck off of us. Yeah. Like, and, and who can afford this? I've got at least
off the top of my head five to six die hard kiss fans. I'm talking about, and I miss people that
like dynasty or destroyer or something like that. Um, I'm talking about people with Kiss Army tattoos
and I don't know a single one of them that could afford, even if they all pulled their money together.
Yeah, afford one of these things. Now, is this four? I don't, I don't know. Who is this four, Gene? Gene,
and maybe I'm being a harsher than you, James. But I think he's a jerk. I mean, because of a lot of
the stuff he said, like you mentioned, I've heard interviews with him where he's just, for no reason,
he's just being a jerk. And I don't understand it. Why, Gene? I don't know. You know, and boy, contrasting
him to Paul Stanley, who's like, yeah, one of the, one of the, you know, just a professional,
just super, you know, one of the most, uh, Paul Stanley's one and more self-deprecating
of a funny and, and going out of his way for fans kind of guys. Um, I, I don't understand
necessarily where he's coming from on some of this stuff other than, other than, uh, just not
being rich enough. And, and, and honestly being out of touch, just, I think that's a lot has a lot
to do with it. But it is, you know, an interesting idea and concept. Yes. And I like how you,
you know, brought up the fact that it could be done for charity. I wish. Yeah. Any traveling touring
band to do this to like say, okay, you know, that we'll do this as a withdrawal winner. Yeah,
exactly. Yeah. $5 to this charity and you're entered into the drawing. Yeah. That makes sense.
That makes sense. Money they would raise. Oh my gosh. In a day and age where we're trying to get,
uh, like, the artists and people to see more human all the time, this could not seem more
inhuman. This could not seem more out of touch and greedy and, and all the other stuff you could
put on with it. Yeah. Good to take a quick look at what's new on your small screen tonight in
part because I just wanted to mention Ringo and friends at the Ryman, uh, the design at seven o'clock
on CBS and Paramount Plus tonight. You could watch it along with my parents. Um, it's a two-hour
concert special with country performers from Ringo Star alongside, uh, Mickey Gaighton and Cheryl Crow.
Um, cool. Uh, and just seeing the Ryman is going to be impressed. Oh, yes. Let it
alone. Ringo and all that and everything. Um, I actually played a little of Ringo last Friday
on the sunrise show. Sounds great. He sounds good. Uh, it's just great to hear. He was always the,
the country one of the group, right? You know, he always did that kind of country flavored to him.
So I love it. I think it's great. Yeah. This is not new for Ringo. He's always been this guy.
He's always been, and, and, and to be fair, also jazz, also other arts, uh, Ringo is, uh,
all around just like music, just a music guy. And I want to take a note to, uh, congratulate and
to thank, uh, many of our community. We had a very, very busy weekend this. Oh, my goodness.
Did we, um, the, our, uh, Wisconsin Rapids River Kings were, uh, defending the rain and, uh,
had, had it up and down weekend, but they ended up being victorious, beating the Northwest Express,
uh, uh, two one series victory for them moving on in the playoffs. Cool.
Follow your boys and winters. They build hockey up down the river. River Kings hockey.com.
I shout out to GM and coach Paul and all the, all the boys for a great week. Yeah.
Uh, great job by them. I want to shout out all of our local high schools that were, uh, in playoff
action, uh, and, and, and certainly our wrestlers and our gymnasts and, and all of their, our power
lifters out there, uh, they were working hard this weekend, um, big shout out to all of them.
And a special shout out to the, uh, Wisconsin, this, uh, lady, uh, lady royals.
Yes, that's right. Yeah. That the assumption girls, the assumption girls, they, uh, they did, uh,
move on to the state's tournament now. They've got semi finals coming up this coming weekend.
We don't have the exact time yet, uh, but it will be in the morning on Friday for the semi
finals. And if they make it on Saturday morning for the finals. So, uh, the semester pool.
Now I, I've got it now because I heard Randy say it a hundred times on the broadcast on Saturday.
So I got it. They, I have to say those, uh, they put up a big fight. If they were, the royals
were only up by two points at half time. Uh, but then they kind of, you know, did their thing.
Yeah. And, and they kind of took over the game in the second half. So I shout out to the lady royals.
Actually caught a little bit of playbinkers when you were talking with Randy about that,
uh, James and, uh, I wasn't, I'm sorry. Maybe not Randy. Whoever you were talking about.
It was Randy. Randy. Yeah. Okay. And, um, I was thinking to myself, hmm, is that going to replace
James's favorite? You should avoid getting the semester pool. They're both kind of fun to say.
They are. They're both very fun to say. Uh, but, uh, the residents of Shaboygan fear not.
We will always be more number one day. Uh, and, and thank you, Melissa, uh, because you just
teed me up perfectly because I wanted to wrap up the segment talking a little bit about Wisconsin's
rabbits community theater. A congratulations to the winter production of arsenic and old lace wrapped
up this weekend. Uh, Seth, to you and the whole team, uh, congratulations. Muzzle Tom. All
you guys. Yes. It was so good. So, so good. I got to see it on Saturday. Congratulations.
And I have to say, um, yeah. Well, thank you. Thank you, Melissa. I have to say,
this was one of the best attended winter shows we've had in a very long time. So, I want to say,
thank you to everyone who came. It was fabulous to see all those people there. Thank you so much.
And of course, the show must go on. And we have one more main stage show this year. And,
oh, did we save a great one for last? Noise is off. Uh, one of the, uh, more fun. And I think a
legendary, if I can say, uh, shows when it comes to theater. And it is being directed by your own
Melissa K. Yeah. Yes. I'm excited to have my directorial debut on the WRCT stage. Oh, you
picked a doozy, by the way. Yeah. Well, yeah. It's going to be a fun one, though. It's this is
a huge, huge play. And by huge, I mean, it's going to be a lot of work. Not that it's a huge cast
because there's only nine people. But it is going to be one of the most ambitious stages we've
ever put together on there. Absolutely. And you can be a part of it. Everybody, right, Melissa?
Yes, auditions are tonight at six o'clock. And tomorrow at six o'clock, just come down to WRCT.
If you want to, um, be on the stage or you want to work backstage, feel free to come, um,
it's open auditions so you can just come and watch, um, but you're welcome to participate. We are
going to have five days a week rehearsals because this is a big show. Like it's three acts. It's
long. It's going to be a lot of work. And, um, I'm, I'm hoping to get a, a team together that is
willing to put in that time and work and it will pay off because this is a fantastic show.
Get on down there, everybody. And, uh, keep in mind that you can save a little time if you'd like.
You can fill out your audition sheet and right now at WRC theater dot org. Encourage you to do that.
Be a part of things as well. Now, yeah, keep in mind if you don't feel comfortable being on stage,
we got room for you behind scenes. In fact, Melissa's going to need a lot of people.
Yeah. This is a fun opportunity and it's a great one to be a part of. And, uh, it is, uh, while
as she mentions, this is her directorial debut. Melissa's directed Seth and I and, uh,
productions around here. Yeah. I've done some other things that we can speak to this. She is
amazing. She's a lot of fun to work with. Uh, there's a few, there's a few people that can balance.
You're going to work hard and you're going to feel better from it. Yeah. Like you're going to
earn it and you're going to enjoy that. Well, we were talking about earlier. Did sometimes,
it feels good to do things. It feels good. That's how this show is going to be.
Yep. You're going to have a lot of fun during this too. I would like to, uh, thank Melissa,
for the audience. And I don't know if I need to share this, but I actually already got my audition
in. Um, I got to finally do my Simpson's one man play. Melissa sat there through the whole thing.
And I really appreciate that, Melissa. Thank you. Um, I still haven't heard back from her.
I still haven't heard back yet. Well, you know, my initial thoughts are, that was a lot of voices,
James. That was a lot of different voices. And, and I would like to, um, say, well done.
We, uh, we encourage you to get your tickets, uh, for noises off and get fill out that audition
sheet and meet us down there tonight. Uh, today and tomorrow, auditions will be 630 to 830 over at the
W six o'clock. Six o'clock. I'm sorry. I said, it said 630 on the website. That's why. Oh,
okay. I thought it was six, but I will be there. She'll be there. She'll be there. She'll be there.
She'll be there. Whenever you show up, she'll be there. Get on down there, everybody. Uh,
and have some fun with it. Yeah. We'll take a quick time out. We'll be back a more show coming up
on the morning show. Welcome back, everybody. Morning show here at WF HR locally grown radio.
Melissa, Seth and James here with you. Uh, got a fun one of one of the touch on here with you guys.
Someone asked the internet, what is the dumbest thing people take pride in?
Um, like for like if you're somebody that mentions every chance you get that you are maybe the,
uh, foremost, uh, resource in Simpsons information. Somebody bragging about that. Can you imagine?
You imagine that guy being proud of that? I'm telling you that audition was impressive, James.
Let's go through this list here. Uh, when people are proud to say they don't read or haven't read
a book since high school. Geez. I've never necessarily come across that. But I do know that I
wonder if people realize how they sound sometimes when they say that because I have said things,
not that, but similar things like it's been a while since I've been able to read a full book
or something. But I feel like I'm trying, I'm saying with shame, I don't know so much pride.
I don't think I've ever heard somebody say it with pride. Yeah. I've heard it said there's just like,
there's sheepish, right? I don't have time. Yeah. Right. Or something. Oh, man.
There are people who genuinely don't enjoy reading. Right. Right. But still, even people like that,
they, they try, you know, that I've met anyway. If someone, if someone said that to me,
they're like, yeah, I haven't read a book since high school. Well, that means you're what?
Dumb is a post. I mean, that's what I think. And maybe that's not fair, but that's what I'm thinking.
You know, but there's a lot more in books that you're going to get an information you're going to
glean in a different way than if you only consume, you know, a TV or social media or whatever,
right? Yeah. Right. Also on the list, not knowing how to use computers or any tech or caring to
learn the basics. I do like the idea of this, this being the same person, the person who hasn't
read the book and also doesn't know anything about tech. What have they been doing for the last 40
years? I do have a little bit of respect for someone who has refused to own a smartphone.
Okay. Yeah. Okay. I mean, they have, they have a cell phone, but it is a simple flip phone,
and they use it for that purpose. They still do social media and computer stuff on a computer,
but they don't carry a smartphone. They don't do with the phone. Okay. A little bit of respect for
that. Working themselves to death and not taking time for themselves. That's become less of a thing.
I remember there was a time when that was like a badge of honor, right? You know, it's like,
you know, I work 60 hours a week and my teeth are falling out and, you know, all the, it's still a
thing though. Oh, yeah. I think it's less so now though. I mean, I think we're becoming more of a,
hey, you know, we might as well like live and enjoy the life we're living. We only got one.
Because we're killing ourselves. Literally, we're working 60 hours a week, right? Yeah.
Not sleeping enough. Oh, have we covered this one enough? I
didn't buy that. Being unhealthy.
What if being unhealthy? That would, that'd be weird. That's kind of where I ate nothing, but,
you know, hamburger, it steaks and, I don't know. And Jack, Jack Daniels being so busy and being so lazy.
Uh, what? Are those like two different things or put it together? Oh, that's, that's weird.
So this list, uh, we'll continue on with, but this list comes to us from Reddit or ask Reddit
more specifically. Okay. But I feel like this is a list from the 1950s. That they really kind of
sounds like that. It feels like things that people used to say, but I don't know that they said it
with like that they were trying to take pride in them. Right. It was more of a description.
We didn't share emotions as much back in the day. We didn't tell people how we felt as much.
Right. So instead of saying, my God, I am so busy or my God, I've got too much on my plate.
We would just say, man, I am a, I'm a work. Oh, I'm busy, busy or, you know, any. I'm
pushed. I put in, you know, yeah, whatever. I don't know that it would be bragging the way
that we look at bragging now. Right. I think of a lot of this was almost, um, venting in its own
way without knowing how to vent. Right. Um, drinking or smoking a lot, drinking and driving.
I've never known anybody that has necessarily taken pride in any of these things. Right. Um,
so you're a country singer. I will say, yeah, we do have a lot of culture that puts a lot of
emphasis on these things, especially in Wisconsin. Yes. Um, and as I maintain and I want to, uh,
stress, I, I'm nothing, you know, with a smart, responsible drinking. Right. Um, it's a big part
of our economy here. But also you are more than that. Hey, Wisconsin, you're more than that.
More, you're, you're, you're, you're more than a drunkard. You are more than some caricature
that the rest of the country tries to label you as, uh, and don't give into that. You're better
than that. Right. And like, there's one thing to call your major league baseball team, the brewers.
That's cool. And it's one of the better logos you ever see. Uh, it's another to be like,
this is all we're known for. Cheese and drinking. Like, come on. There's a heck of a lot more about
this day to love and appreciate and take pride in. Mm hmm. That's where you can film your horror
movies. Uh huh. Hey, come on. Come on. Uh huh. We want to do that. Um, um, so I'm just going to burn
through some of these like, uh, here's one, the number of followers they have on social media.
Oh, whoop, do you do? Yeah. Yeah. That's what I don't feel like hits home as, as well as some people
might think, especially nowadays with bots everywhere. Yeah. Yeah. There's that. But also, like,
we've talked before, James, with like actors needing to have that number of followers just to get
roles. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Well, and there's this thing too. And I, I don't know if I've mentioned
this before or not, but I, I, my current agent, but my last two agents, uh, looked at my social media
count right away and immediately like Aaron, my, my previous agent, uh, she's a little younger.
And she just sent me this link of how you can sign up and get all these bots so that it looks like
you've got a billion followers and everything. So I start looking like a good idea. You all
would be surprised how many famous people actually do this and how many of those people like
sense, I got to be honest with the audience. I have never been more cynical about maybe any, well,
that's not true. I, I, when it comes to social media and social media apps, I don't know if there's
anything I'm more cynical of than the number of followers anybody, anybody else care for talking
about Lady Gaga or me, like I don't believe any of it anymore. After I got these links, there's
like a million, this was, uh, seven, eight years ago, there was like a million links that, hey,
sign up and you get 12,000 followers signed up for this and you get 15,000 followers or something
like that. Like, like, and there's a lot of people that are just trying to make, uh, make a career
and doing this. And I can't imagine how much of their information has been taken from that.
Right. Yeah. Not that that matters anymore with Doge in, in the office and taking all of our
information. Yeah. Because that's all that's what he's doing. You guys realize why he's mining
information from us, right? So we can use it to get more money. Um, being right, especially when
you're wrong. Yeah. Yeah. Doubling down on being wrong. Yeah. That's so annoying. Uh, the
performance of their sports teams. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. This, this is a hilarious one that I am
very guilty of and I will let wholeheartedly admit, but I have never played it down for any sports
team or or or anything or anything like that. Can I, can I, and I might, I might lose some people
here, but I, I gotta say it, is anyone else, because and, and, and maybe you can't see because you're
from the state of Wisconsin, but as an outsider, Johnson, for a few, for a few years, you know,
off and on, the packer thing is weird. The packer thing is weird. I mean, seriously, it's like,
um, it's almost like a cult. It's, it's, it's, ah, people who don't like follow any other sports
and then they worship the packers, it's just, eh, it's weird. Well, but they're not the only ones
that are weird about the ball team. Look at what happens at Philadelphia. Yeah. But it's the whole
state. That's the thing. Well, I will say that part. I hear you on this that, that it's a little
different when it comes to like, I don't know if you, like, there's anybody who has lived in this
state long and like, you go to the left, go to the right. There's packer fans. I've never
lived in a state where a sports team is that dominant. Yes. Um, I, I, I will, I will say, though,
one thing I appreciate about it, like usually with that kind of thing, it's pushed on you,
even if you're not a fan or something. Yeah. I don't get that. I watched every packer game there
was until I was in my late 20s. Wow. Wow. And I, so I wonder if you hate it. Yes. Now you
understand. Yeah. Yeah. With the only football games I watched, but I watched every single one.
Oh, wow. And just one more real quick. So we really got to get to break here. But being brutally
honest, like the people that take pride in that, you're, you know, there, there's this, uh,
the type of person out there. Well, yeah, I'm different. I tell it like it is. No, no, you're,
you're just like tax. You just don't have tax. Yeah. Exactly. You just don't have it a bit like,
you just, yeah, that's, there's a big difference of that. A lot of people do that. They just do it
a little bit more tactfully. Yeah. If anyone says, I don't want you starts their sentence with,
you know, I'm not trying to be a jerk. Oh, yes, you are. Yeah. Get out of here with that.
You're trying to be a jerk. Do it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Nothing good has ever come. No, no amount of
respect has ever come after with all, in all due respect. Yeah. Nope. Nothing respectful is
ever been sent after that phrase. We'll take a time out. We'll come back and wrap up the show.
Welcome back, everybody. Morning show here at WFHR locally grown radio. Melissa,
Seth and James here with you're going to take it at the top of the hour. Thanks so much for
joining us and kicking off your week with us, everybody. Let's get to our schedule and some good
stories of the day, everybody and stick around. Not only do you have Matt and Aaron air coming up
from 10 to noon, join Jane and Greg for that and Maggie Don show from two to four this afternoon.
Maggie will lead you right into midday magazine. We got a great one to kick things off for the week.
Join us from four to five Monday through Friday today. Haley Heitzel is going to join us.
Our 77th Alice in Dairyland. Yeah. We're talking to the finalists. We're announced. Yeah,
we're going to talk about that and our cheese and a bunch of other stuff with Haley.
Good Wisconsin stuff. And at part two, the historic point boss, we're talking sugar bush event.
We've got Tom and Larry with us to talk about that. Nice. Nice. Looking forward to it.
I was a good conversation. A couple of quick notes when I remind everybody that American hero's
cafe of Central Wisconsin is going to be going on this Wednesday from 730 to 930 over across
view church. All ever area veterans, military police and firefighters are welcome.
Make plans to attend American heroes cafe this Wednesday 730 to 930 over across view church.
Big thank you to everybody who puts all their time and effort into that. Yes indeed.
And our friends over at Family Natural Foods this Thursday have their foundational nutrition
presentation going on. Join them at 515 over at 910 West Grand Avenue right here in Wisconsin
Rapids for this amazing presentation. Brian's awesome. Our friends over at True Grace are great
Wisconsin company. Encouraging to check that out. Everybody make plans to join them for that.
It's going to be at 515 this Thursday. Wellness presentation foundational nutrition.
Seth, we got another great event coming up this week. That's right. Tomorrow. It's almost
here. Everyone been here in talking Terry and James talking about it. You know, women united.
Power of the purse is coming up tomorrow from 5 to 730 at Bullseye Golf Club. There's going
to be a pasta buffet, a cash bar. Of course networking, a purse silent auction, which is always
very cool and raffles as well. It's $40 per person in advance. 45 at the door. But go have some
fun. It's a great event. And it's for a very good cause of course for literacy. So it's a it's
a really fun event and you can help support the United Way. Yeah. Find out more at uswac.org.
And we also wanted to touch on this capture. We have here. Yes. Coming up on the 20th of this month.
It's a Thursday. We've got the music of Billy Joel and Elton John. Michael Cavanaugh is the man
who will bring it to you. One of the top 50 touring acts in the entire country. Of course, you
know the music of those two. You can get your tickets right now online. Save for the arts.com
and go pick them up now. You can pick your seats as well. Great interview with Michael the other day
on a midday magazine. Encouraging to check that out. Everybody. He is incredible. Incredible.
Amazing. That's very talented. I want to remind everybody as well that auditions are happening
tonight for noises off. Get your get your voice all set and ready to go. And then I'm down to
the Wisconsin's rapids community theater for noises off auditions going on from 6 to 8 30
today and tomorrow at the WRCT auditorium. Yeah. Bring your accents. Yeah. Yeah. Cool.
And your smiles. Yes. It was your team. A community in East Texas pitched in to help a 13 year old
Cason Snyder hang out with his friends more. A car crash in 2017 left him paralyzed from the
waist down at 5 years old. So he's in a wheelchair. People donated enough money to buy him an
all-terrain wheelchair so we can go hiking, fishing and hunting with his friends. Wow. They
surprised him with it on Sunday. Cost over 18 grand. Wow. Holy cow. That's pretty cool.
Two high school golfers were playing each other in a tournament near Dallas two weeks ago and
one of them ended up saving the others life. High school senior Angel. Angel heard his opponent
yelling for help and found him in a water hazard. It turned out the kid fell in trying to grab a
ball and couldn't swim. Angel pulled him out and he's okay. Wow. Even though they were a soaking
wet they decided to finish out their match which Angel won. Oh nice. And cops gave him the hero
of the month award. Very cool. That's so great. Very nice. In a guy in England tried to
rob a convenience store last week but a 42 year old woman was buying candy and happened to be a fifth
degree black belt. Oh geez. And she's also trained in the Brazilian art of jujitsu and boxing. Oh my
god. I didn't pick the wrong store. She landed one kick and the guy was down. That's great.
That's great. Great show today you're two. You two man. Have a good day everybody.
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