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We have lined up for you in the 9 o'clock hour here.
We're going to get into what's the biggest flop that was hyped as the next big thing.
I can't wait.
Got that one coming up a little bit later.
A hotel canceling some reservations over the worst of reasons.
No, dear.
And we got to talk about some local stuff like the WFHR newsletter and some other great
events.
We'll get into our schedule here.
But let's kick off the hour, a little local with the Wisconsin Broadcaster Association
nominating and mentioning their finalists.
We got the announcement this month.
Finalists.
OK.
So here we go.
I got all the information right here as a whole civic media got 38 finalists, 38.
Now that's up from 20.
We had 20 last year.
So we almost doubled our finalists this year, which is just an amazing thing.
And we can have a little pride here in Central Wisconsin, in Wisconsin Rapids.
Because once again, we had the most finalists of all the stations in the network.
We had eight finalists.
Yeah, yeah.
So here we go.
Well, nine counting WIRR.
If you count to IRA, that's correct.
IRA also got a finalist for one of the things.
So let's go quickly through this.
What we have, we got the best humorous commercial or underwriting announcement for the L Cafe
spot.
If people remember the one about being stuck in traffic.
And when they were close, the road was closed during the road construction, yep.
That was a finalist for that one.
The best promotional announcement, the morning show, Best Not Miss, which is the one where
James and I did Yogi Bear Impressions.
Yeah.
And it's a classic man.
It was one of my favorites of all time.
That's why I wanted to submit it, which we did.
Best public service announcements for the Santa Caws.
Yeah.
Congratulations to you, Melissa, and that one.
Yeah.
She was the one that produced that one.
That one.
Yes.
And we, of course, we had Santa in to do that one.
Best radio show, Community Stories, Jr., again, congratulations, Melissa, on that one
for Best Radio Show.
We have two for Best Specialty Programming, the Halloween special that we did.
Awesome.
Congratulations, Seth.
Yes.
That was poems and stories that we did for Trick or Treating, which I still think that
was, I have to say I'm proud of that one because I think it turned out really great because
of all of you guys doing a wonderful job and Pam and everybody, yep, and the other specialty
programming that we have finalist in is the Elf Call Center, which again was a great
team effort by everyone.
Melissa hosted, we had Laura on board, James produced that one, and so it was just fabulous.
But there's two here.
I was in on that one.
Yes, we had Collars, the kids calling and everything.
But the two most important ones to me for finalists are Best Online Breaking News coverage
was with the election, which was just fabulous.
We, FHR has also been, is also a finalist for Best Election coverage last year.
For James Interviews with the candidates, McNamara, Teston, Krug, and his, my favorite
part was James Interview with Minor, Trent Minor, he's out his name, I forget his, the
clerk of town here, giving all that great election information, which is why we are here.
That's what WFHR is all about.
So I'm super proud for all of these, of course, but that one is the best one for me because
that's what we're, that's what we're here for.
We're ready to do local election coverage, and that's what we did.
Congratulations to Laura and James on that one, yeah.
Yes, they did both did a fabulous job, and we did the one nomination for, or the finalist
for IRI is, are from the ground up, got beans ahead, they shout out to Todd Michaels on
that one, he did all the voices on that one, so shout out to Todd on that one, so yeah.
So good.
So that's where we're at.
Proud of this team, proud of the civic media team, and everybody involved.
Two quick things about this, one is set touch on a little bit earlier, and I think we've
brought up before for those who don't know what we're talking about our finalists.
So we know at the very least, all of these things you just heard, we finished in third.
Yeah, for the entire state, for the entire state, also keeping that in mind to all advertisers
out there, whether you are future, past, or current advertisers, what we're doing here,
they're hearing, they're paying attention, they're listening.
More than ever, your local dollars matter to us.
Your investment matters to us.
You are investing in us, and we are investing in this community with that.
What we're doing here matters, radio matters, and you're seeing it all across the WBAs,
and you're seeing it really all across the country right now, with how much people are
going to radio.
If you are in a business out there, and you have been on the fence about joining us, get
on board, get on board, come on over, see what it's like to work with us, see what it's
like to work with here, and see what it's like to put back into your community.
Yep.
The feeling we're having right now, the victory lap we are taking as a team, is something
that you can be a part of as well.
Yes, you can.
You can be feeling that too.
And to all of our advertisers out there, I hope you are taking a nod, this one too.
Family, natural foods, quality plus printing, so many great businesses out there.
I can't mention them all, but I bring those two.
Thank you, Melissa Elcafe.
I'm bringing these up as examples of local industries, local businesses in this community
that have invested in us.
And they can take a victory lap as well from this.
Got beans.
Yeah, exactly.
It's such a good app.
Yeah, we're going to be taking over the WPA so everybody, that once again.
And I do want to mention it real quick, those ads were both written by Ashley, so I want
to make sure she gets her props on that one too.
So this also means it's going to be a bigger carpool this year.
I don't know how Pacific Media is going to do that, because there's so many people that
are going to be able to go this year.
I'm not kidding, we are going to be taking over the WPA.
We're going to have to have at least three people.
Nothing but us.
Nothing but us.
It's fantastic.
A big thank you again to the Wisconsin Broadcaster Association for seeing the work that's
being done up and down the state by our company and our brothers and sister stations out
there.
We appreciate that.
And I thank you to Civic for encouraging us to make submissions and to do this, and
to build up our local coverage and our local stations and investing here in Wisconsin.
Thank you.
Yeah, we're literally not here without them on many fronts, and we're not at the WBAs
without them, because it is something that they have to initiate.
They have to be willing to do for the reason WFHR hasn't been at the WBAs forever is because
quite bluntly, our owners beforehand did not believe in that and did not believe in us
like that.
Civic believed in us.
Civic give us a chance to look what happens back to back years, back to back years.
We're going to be representing there.
And we all got to figure out what we're wearing for Masquerade because the thing is Masquerade.
That's right.
I forgot.
Oh boy.
I already have my mask.
Nice.
Nice.
I found one that I like.
I don't know.
My plastic Garfield mask is coming out.
I guess that's what's going to be.
Oh, that would love that.
So what do you guys think about that?
Speaking of award shows, and we'll be, of course, keeping you up to date on the WBAs
ever.
But speaking of award shows, my old boss, Conan O'Brien, has decided to sign on for the next
Oscars.
He has signed up for the 2026 Oscars.
He will be hosting again.
And the press release, O'Brien said, quote, the only reason I'm hosting the Oscars next
year is that I want to hear Adrian Brody's finishes speech.
Fantastic.
He's the best.
He's the best.
Oh, wow.
I hope this becomes a new gig for him, similar to what it did for Billy Crystal, and we'll
be lucky to have him.
Yeah.
We'll be lucky to have him.
He's one of the best at this and at doing this kind of work.
All it took for him, willing to do it, being willing to do it, and having the time to
do it quite honestly.
I'm excited about that.
I will say that he is already probably the fourth or third best host I've seen in Oscar
history, you know, with Bob Hope and Billy Crystal being the only ones that really top
that.
Really happy about that.
We'll see how it goes.
Looking at some other news here, National Geographic has released a list of change makers.
Three three people who quote, united in the belief that our world needs imaginative solutions
and urgent action.
Yeah.
So not just people necessarily, and I'm not picking on him here, but Lee and I, to the
Caprio, is a little famous for this, where one of his oldest causes is the planet and helping
the planet.
He also takes a private jet everywhere.
Yes.
Not a great look.
Not a great look, Leo.
No.
Whereas these people I'm mentioning here are all people who put their money where their
mouth is.
Excellent.
A Gomez for supporting mental health on a global scale.
She is known for going into third world countries and other places and doing a lot of good will
and a lot of conversations and a lot of these things, and you may not know she does this
because she doesn't bring a social media team or a publicist with her to do this stuff.
Right.
This is very personal for her.
Yes.
Yes.
And I bring her up in particular because she is a younger star, and I believe a Disney
star.
Yeah.
So a lot of people kind of associate all those things with social media, all this stuff.
She is not one of those people.
Somebody that we've talked about quite a bit doing these things, Jason Momoa, using his
superpowers to protect our oceans.
So long before he became aqua man, Jason Momoa, this has been his cause.
And his advertisements for these are stuff he writes and produces.
So really he comes up with the idea of stuff.
He had a really popular one about the little red cups.
And you know, hey, we all like that, the little red cup, yeah, the solar red cup and
stuff.
And some of that.
He's done some really smart work with this.
Cool.
Cool.
Don Childe.
Don Childe, who is going to be one of these actors, unfortunately, we don't respect and
appreciate enough until he's much older, you know, sadly, like unfortunately, he's getting
up there too.
So yeah.
It's one of the best actors have ever seen.
Just a period.
Just one of the greatest.
Doesn't matter what he's doing, too.
Don was nominated for Baddling Climate and Justice on our community at a one community
at a time.
This is something where he really is going community to community trying to impact this.
Wow.
See, I've never heard any of this.
This is the sad part of this.
But yeah, it's, I mean, it's great they're getting it now.
It's a little 50, 50 for me.
Okay.
I'm with you on that.
Part of me is sad about it.
And part of me is like, well, that's the point.
That's, you know, it's not about using your celebrity, your status and your celebrity
ism to promote and talk about something that you believe is bigger than you.
That's, that to me is the ultimate power of celebrity.
When you can do that and you do it so well that people aren't paying attention to, hey,
that's Robin Williams.
Oh my God.
That's one of the funniest people I've ever seen, but you're not focusing on that.
You're focusing on homelessness.
You're, you're focusing on hunger.
You're focusing on these things that the beauty of what they were able to do with some
of the causes with some of these celebrities is that to me.
This is just my opinion.
I'm not at all saying I know what I'm talking about here.
I just, to me, that is, that is the greatest thing you can do with that pulpit is promoting
about and talking about things that are bigger than you.
Yes.
And more important.
Right.
Michelle Yao.
One of the best.
She's awesome.
I love her.
For focusing on burdens of women in disaster zones.
Oh, wow.
Boy, that's something you don't even think about.
Yeah.
That's great.
Well, a lot of these are on global things or things that are very large scale.
What I appreciate also is a lot of these individual acts like Michelle Yao is doing where
it's a much more gray area or a group that slips through the cracks often times.
Yes.
Yes.
Important as well.
Edward Norton, for imagining a new way to conserve African wildlife.
Wow.
Wow.
Wow.
And you may notice also with a lot of these actors, you don't see them that often.
You have, you know, where's Don Shielda been?
Where's Jason Mahmoud?
Where's Edward Norton been?
They're doing this.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, exactly.
That's why you haven't seen them as much.
There's a great list here.
I encourage you to check out the entire list.
There's a lot of other great ones.
Nationalgeographic.com, nation of geographic.com, still doing amazing reporting and photography
there, by the way.
Yeah.
So one of the most, yeah, one of the best amazing still out there.
I think the rest of my life, National Geographic Readers Digest, as long as they're creating
them, whether they're actual paper or they're a website, I'll be going back to them.
Great work being done still by those groups.
Yes.
Just a quick note, real quick, about Tracy Morgan.
We touched on this a little bit.
For those that may have seen Tracy Morgan, I had a e-threw up at the MSG at the Medicine
Square Garden the other day.
And really bad.
Like it was, it was right on the court and everything was very noticeable.
Yeah.
He had to be wheeled out on a wheelchair.
Tracy's had a number of like health issues and stuff lately.
Well, Tracy shared a picture of himself in the hospital and said, quote, appreciate my
MSG family for taking such good care of me and I need to shout out the crew that had
to clean that up.
Thank you.
Yeah.
More importantly, the nicks are now one of them when I throw up on the court, so maybe
I'll have to break it out for the playoff.
Oh, no.
Oh, Tracy, no, no, no, no, Tracy.
I'm very happy to see this as somebody who loves Tracy Morgan and loves, like how, like
you talk about just being you, Tracy Morgan has done that so much.
Yeah.
He's so honest.
And to be fair, I mean, that's, it's worrisome.
Anytime something like that with him happens, that's, that's, it's cause for concern knowing
what he's been through.
So yeah.
And he's still getting through the car accident that happened to him.
And that wasn't even a fall.
He got rear-ended.
Yeah.
Now, it also is noteworthy.
Tracy Morgan has spent the last eight years a clean and silver.
He is recovering alcoholic and he notes this whenever he can and his stand up and stuff
and bring attention to that.
He brought it.
There were some people saying, oh, is he falling off or something like that?
Yeah.
Tracy was very quick to say that he hadn't, that it wasn't that, that the food was just
that good.
But in case of food poisoning, basically, yeah.
He used it as an opportunity to bring this up, though, again, and people that are, you
know, his fellow, a member, his fellow people that are also going through that and shouting
them out.
And I thought that was noteworthy of his part, too, because the guy who doesn't put
on heirs, you know, it's one of the things we ask out of our celebrities and I appreciate
that out of them.
And he's very funny.
Brian Fellows.
This is a, this is a heck of a lineup.
Gladys, Gladys Knight, Shaka Khan, Patty Lebel, and Stephanie Mills are hitting the road
together on what they're calling the Queen's tour.
Oh, yes, kicks off May 9th in Las Vegas wraps up June 1st in Indianapolis.
A second leg will follow in September and October, Shaka Khan calls it, I just got to say it
that way.
You got to say it that way.
I'm beyond excited to hit the road with these three incredible women for a tour that will
be nothing short of legendary.
The Queen's are bringing the music and magic to sitting near you.
It's a celebration you won't want to miss.
Yeah, very cool.
I want to see that.
I want to see it even more if they end the whole show with like them singing a like
Lady Marmalade together or something like that.
That would be amazing.
Oh, that would be fantastic.
Gladys Knight, Shaka Khan, Patty, nothing against Stephanie Mills, but Gladys, Shaka Khan,
Patty, LaBelle, Altogether, Singing, Harmonizing, Oh, I was thinking about that.
Amazingness.
That would be amazing.
Some great ladies.
And they're not alone.
Lala Paloza was announced recently.
Whoa.
Okay.
Lala Paloza announced their 2025 lineup yesterday.
Headlining X includes Sabrina Carter, Tyler, Tyler the creator, Olivia Rodrigo, twice
Isopraki, Corn, Doce, KHD Elephant, T-Pain, Foster the people, Reba Rebecca Black, who
is a lot bigger of a star than I realized.
And I give her, I'm saying that to you know, yeah, everything.
And note worthy, we talked about this on the Sunrise show, 105, 55, WRI from 7 to 8.
For the first time in history, a country act is closing Lala Paloza, Luke Holmes.
Oh, wow.
How about that?
They got an interesting, that's a mix of all kinds of stuff.
You know, when you think of the Lala Paloza when we were, you know, teenagers and stuff,
it's like, wow, this is very different from what the acts they used to have.
This is what Ferrell and them really always intended for it.
It's kind of cool, you know, having, like, I think it was a couple of years ago, Metallica
closed out Lala Paloza, and now they got Luke Holmes closing it out.
That's cool.
Which as a side note to everybody, I've been telling you, this is the year, everybody,
because last year was really the year of country.
So this year, you're going to have everybody pandering and doing the thing that was last
year's thing.
They always do it.
So whether it's Lala Paloza or the Super Bowl halftime show, I'm telling you, it's
going to be a country act.
I think it's going to be Laney Whistle and Chris Stapleton, but it could be somebody else.
I will put my name on that.
It could be wrong, but, you know, and I'll eat my words if I am.
Hope it's that brown band.
I like them better.
That'd be great.
That'd be great.
That'd be good.
And a shout out to Luke Holmes for doing this.
Yeah.
That's pretty cool.
It's not always his genre.
His is market, but he's being smart about this and reaching a bigger audience.
And another side note, let's, well, first the show goes down July 31 through August
3rd at Chicago's beautiful legendary Grand Park.
Last couple of years, Hulu has had this on Hulu.
So I've been able to watch like some of it, the concerts and everything on the new channel
and stuff.
So you might be able to do that again this year.
We'll see.
Yeah.
I think that's one of the smarter things they're doing now a day.
Absolutely.
Do that every, like every big, these big festivals, yeah, absolutely.
It makes total sense.
Yeah.
It's not as if it's hurting people going to the or keeping people from going to the
show.
No, they're still going in droves.
Yeah.
The people who want to go are going to go that they're not going to not go this is on TV.
And I don't know.
I think that sounds like a fun one.
So road trip guys, road trip.
Oh.
We'll see if we can write it off at our taxes as a team building.
Sure.
Yeah, we'll try that.
We'll take a time out.
We're going to talk about a hotel cancellation that is then a right story.
We'll also get into the WFHR newsletter, all that coming up on the morning show.
Welcome back, everybody.
Morning show at WFHR.
Melissa, Seth and James hanging out with you.
Hope you having a good morning.
Top five favorite songs to come back with.
God, I love this song.
The dirty Hammond organ at the beginning there, I love it.
There's so many spots like that where you can talk and just laying it back up.
It's so perfect.
I want to thank Steve Winnwood for doing that just for us.
Yeah.
It's very nice.
The Spencer Davis group to do that.
It was all the 16 years old.
Yes.
How considerate.
A traveler online says that they booked a hotel for an international trip through Expedia
and got a great price.
But then the hotel called them directly and asked them to cancel because the rate was
quote to low.
The traveler went back to Expedia and was told the booking is confirmed and that the
hotel should honor it as long as the traveler doesn't cancel.
But the hotel ignored that and said that if the traveler didn't cancel, they'd refuse
to accommodate them when they showed up.
Oh my gosh.
Naturally, a lot of people told the traveler not to cancel, but since it's an international
trip to the Middle East, the person didn't feel comfortable having a booking with a
hostel hotel.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I can understand that.
So they decided to cancel.
Expedia reimbursed the traveler and gave them a bonus credit for the hassle.
We assumed the traveler found another hotel and that the Expedia may nix their relationship
with the original price or original place.
If you're not going to honor your, I'm getting.
Yeah.
Expedia said in a statement, if a partner consistently provides a poor traveler experience, we investigate
and address the issue directly.
Okay.
I will say I don't take them 100% on their word on this Expedia, but I do, I will, I am
going to give them the benefit of the doubt.
If for any, not because they're, you know, I've used them or they're a great business,
because of the business that they're in, they're a reputation business.
Expedia's been around for quite some time.
Yes it is.
If they're still around, chances are they're doing a pretty good job.
They're every, every, to be fair, every job, every business is in a reputation business.
Right.
Certain ones more than others.
I'm going to turn this a lot with JR and let's talk real estate and how the real estate
industry, the foundation of it is, you know, a reputation.
Reputation.
You know that.
Heck, you can, you can look around Rapids here and see, you know there are real estate
industries, but you don't see their signs very much.
There's a reason.
There's a reason.
Yeah.
This is one of those industries.
So I, I, again, not saying Expedia is perfect or a great, great business, but they've got
to be doing a pretty good job if they're still around and being used as much.
Expedia.
They also have that.
They also have that.
No.
Well, and this one is definitely one they want to do because of the already, because if it's
gone viral like this, they need to do something.
Well, I'm sorry, Melissa, I didn't want to cut you off yet.
Nope.
It was just a, yeah.
So with this, though, I will say, like, this is a very right story.
This is wrong.
This, this hotel in the east is killing their reputation and their business and everything.
But if they're trying to find a way to spin this, hostile hotels, I mean, there's a thing
nobody's doing, nobody's doing that one.
There's a wide open market.
Some say with us, we'll verbally abuse you.
So wide open market.
Hey, hey, there are some places that, that, you know, the, I can think of some restaurants
that have made their, you know, their reputation on being rude and that's kind of what it
is, right?
The Wiener Circle in Chicago, I mean, you know, they, they, their whole thing is, I mean,
they got great food.
Yeah.
They don't talk about this nearly enough, but the food over there is worth it.
Yeah.
But you aren't going to get insulted.
Yeah.
I, I've gone there a bunch when, as I was, when I was younger and everything, but when
we go up there, my friends would always make fun of me because I'd usually wear a hat
because that's where they'd usually go.
Oh, look at SciShow Bob over here.
Or, you know, they'd usually make fun of my hair.
So I would wear a hat there.
It didn't help.
It didn't help.
No, I'm sure they would still get you a photo.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
But I'm guessing this hotel is not one of those places.
Yeah.
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Nice.
Good.
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Sorry, Melissa.
What the hell was that?
I don't know what that is.
Oh.
You said how do you do it?
You said how do you do it?
Cowboy thing.
Yeah, yeah.
Cowboy with it.
I apologize to everybody.
Well, this whiter birthday today.
So why not?
Right.
You got it.
You got it.
You got it.
You're missing the finger guns.
I'm doing over here.
Bang bang.
Bang bang.
We'll come back with more show.
Bang bang.
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Happy hump day, everybody.
Yeah.
People are listing things online that were once hyped as the next big thing, but flopped
and are now forgotten in the waistband.
So let's go ahead and take a look at this list of some of these things and have some fun
with it.
And it's not in any particular order or anything.
So I'm just going to start right at the top with Google Plus.
No, I remember Google Plus.
They looked at this as the Facebook killer.
It did not.
Google Plus did not last that fight.
Did not make it three right.
I was in graduate school when Google Plus was a thing and that's what my school used for
all of our stuff was Google Plus.
And I think it was phased out not long after I was done when I graduated.
3D TVs.
Also curved televisions.
I forgot all about this.
Oh yeah, curved televisions.
The curved television thing.
I forgot about that.
That was supposed to be it was like it was right after every right after everybody finally
started having like flat screen TVs and you started I knew we everybody had a flat screen
when he started seeing flat screen TVs on the side of the road.
What did you start seeing?
People were just throwing them out, right?
Yeah.
I thought, okay, well, it'd be a couple years and the curved TV thing might have and
then it just kind of went away.
This I remember when it when it occurred.
This happens every like 20, 30 years 3D becomes a thing again.
Yeah, okay.
And it always leaves the 50s was the first then the 80s and then the 20 teens I guess is
when it was right and the early oxen into the 20 teens.
It never lasts people.
Don't spend money on your 3D TV.
It's just don't do it.
I mean, they can't even get it to work in theaters anymore.
They can't really sell it in theaters.
No, I don't know.
I'm a personal, I'm a personal home entertainment level that I'm telling you.
I really feel like 3D was ahead of it's moment and it's gone.
Yeah.
And I don't know that it'll come back in 30 years.
Well, especially I mean 3D is not even like people now they want they want to be immersed.
3D is not enough.
Yeah, right now VR, right?
That's going to be probably the next 3D I suppose.
And even that isn't doing that good as we can tell you with the metaverse shows up on
this list.
I mean, neither are doing that great, but even that's doing a little bit better than 3D.
But it's funny to me people want they want to get as close as humanly possible.
But they don't want this.
They don't want, you know, it's interesting as somebody, you know, I imagine if you're
a creative, if you're an inventor, it's got to be almost a little bit frustrating.
You're like, hey, this is just the next step in this and everything.
But people are like, no, we're not ready for that yet.
So basically the lesson from all of those from the metaverse is whatever Mark Zuckerberg
says, do the opposite or run away.
One of those two things, yes, because it's it's not going to miss nothing.
Remember when Facebook did the pivot to video, fail, massive failure to add to Seth's
point, Google glasses.
This concept still feels like it's it has potential.
But Google couldn't get them to take off 10 years ago.
Yeah, I remember that too.
And the zoom Microsoft tried to challenge Apple's iPod with the zoom and lost badly.
Oh, did they lose badly?
I never even heard of that.
Yeah.
No, there's a reason for that too.
There was almost there was there was very little marketing put behind it.
And the marketing was very bad and soon, like just people.
It was a bad name.
It was a bad name.
It's not a good name.
People don't like it.
Plus the from what I understand, like the mechanics of it, they tried so hard to be different
than an iPod that it was like confusing for people.
Yeah.
And that should never.
That's the worst.
Yeah.
Now, this they have this on here, but I will fight this one a little bit this the segue.
It's been 20 years since we were told that this was going to be the way everybody was going
to be popping around.
Right.
Remember that?
Now, those of my fellow rest of development fans will know that Joe Bluth on the rest
of development used one of these quite a bit.
So I mean, you know, yeah, that's that well known huge TV hit.
It's a development.
You know, game changer there.
Here's one.
Here's one that I don't know.
Hold on, though.
What is the segue?
It's it was a it's on two wheels.
It's a stay.
Yeah.
You stand on it and it motors you around basically.
Yeah.
You've seen it before.
Yeah.
I've seen them.
I just didn't know what they were called.
I remember the blitz.
It's like a scooter without a handle.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Without like a back wheel.
Yeah.
Kind of thing.
So yeah.
So this one.
QCAT.
These came out in the early years of the internet and could scan special barcodes from magazines
to load web pages on a computer.
So unlike QR codes, these devices needed to be plugged into your PC.
Yeah.
You're tied to your PC.
Yeah.
Okay.
Here we go.
Do you guys remember?
NBC Snap.
Oh, wow.
They're search engine that they tried to make a thing.
Yeah.
I remember some of the advertising for this lady talking to an audience.
Click any word, click it and find information on it.
And that was like in the late 90s.
Yeah.
Didn't work.
No.
I think Google came along and yeah, basically destroyed everything.
Yeah.
Quibi.
A short form streaming platform designed for mobile devices.
It shut down in 2020 after a brief six month run despite raising 1.75 billion and featuring
a high profile tent, do new factors, including COVID-19 pandemic killed this in a lot of
ways, which is odd because that's kind of where it was designed for.
Yeah.
Right.
Right.
But here's the, here's, and I, someone I can't remember who it was had a great breakdown
of why Quibi failed.
It's like, okay, so they had these like what, 10 minute bits, you know, that's supposed
to be for, so, so basically when do you have like five, 10 minutes that you're not doing
anything, maybe sitting down, kind of thing, what do people do usually when they're doing
that?
Yeah.
Yeah.
They may be a little social media kind of thing.
They're not watching a 10 minute TV.
No.
That time has been, is gone.
You're not, don't try to fill that time with anything because it's already been filled,
okay?
Or reading a book or something, you know.
Right.
It's got to be under a minute.
Yeah.
Exactly.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, like, the other social media platforms are getting it right.
Mm-hmm.
I, I see where they, where the thought could be had, where, hey, the idea, it's absolutely
it's huge.
Yeah.
Let's do something similar to that.
Yeah.
But more of a long form.
Yeah.
You know, it's 10 minutes.
Yeah.
It's 10 minutes, it's 10 minutes and stuff and like on paper.
But at the same time, a lot of things seem good on paper.
I don't know how.
It's fun for creatives, you know, for the people creating it, but it's just nice.
There's no real market foröl.
People aren't going to watch it.
Yeah.
A $2 billion dumpster.
That's what they got with this.
It's $2 billion overall was spent on.
Jeffrey Katzenberg, you've done a lot of things in your career.
Some good, some bad.
That was a fail.
That was a big fail for you.
A Sega Dreamcast.
Sadly.
Sadly.
Sega Dreamcast.
That's commercial.
That was the add.
That was the add.
I love the fact that we remember the ads for these.
That's it.
Which was too bad.
The Dreamcast was great.
Yeah.
It was a cool.
It was really cool.
It had a great operating system.
I mean, it was really a good console, but yeah.
No one bought it.
Okay.
So this was a game console.
Yeah.
It was supposed to be, if I remember correctly, this was the, it was supposed to one
up to 64, the N64, something like that in late 90s.
And it failed.
That's a great game, though.
Yeah.
Threads.
One of the more, the most recent one, I think, on this list.
This was an app that was supposed to replace Twitter, and now it's just basically a bunch
of like, fishing and, you know, it's basically, it's, it is, spots, that's why I couldn't
get one.
Because it's connected to Facebook and Facebook is nothing but AI Slop right now and
so is Threads.
So.
Yeah.
So Sky didn't really kind of come out and advertise this necessarily, but they have become
the anti or the other ex, the other Twitter.
Yeah.
And that's been doing very well on a, on a real grass roots kind of way.
It's actually kind of cool.
I don't know if you could say this about any app really or social media, Adam, the popular
thing.
Because I've never seen any like advertising for it.
Yeah.
No, it's been very organic.
Yeah.
Followed all the people that I follow on social media, I followed them over to there.
And the only reason I still use Twitter is because of the breaking news and so much of
that.
That has started to happen more and more and more on Blue Sky and less on Twitter as Twitter
loses constantly loses more and more money.
We just told you earlier, not only about the Tesla and the, not only those not working
very well, but I mean, you don't have to do a big search dive to see the, how much money
they are losing left and right and the, and the time I've said this sentence, they have
lost a ton of money, thousands, millions, they've lost, yeah.
And what's happening to those markets across the, you know, like over in Europe, especially
I believe Germany is really dumped.
Yeah.
Wow.
Wow.
Amazing.
VR?
They keep trying to make it a thing as Seth was talking about earlier, but yeah, that's the
big question.
Will it ever be more than a niche?
You know, I, I don't know.
That's a hard one.
I know there's a lot of people who really don't like using VR because it like gives them
eye strain or gives them a headache or it makes them feel sick or something like that,
right?
Yeah.
And I think that they will keep trying to advance the technology to address some of
those issues because it definitely has a very like, I don't know, it's awesome.
VR is awesome.
It's very cool.
Yeah.
I'm with you on that.
Yeah.
I, I think that it, so unlike all these other things, I don't think VR is ever going
anywhere.
Yeah.
I think just to Melissa's strong point there, it's just getting fine tuned more and more and
it has its niches.
I mean, look at how far it's come since, I mean, since it started.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
Amazing.
The, the virtual boy from Nintendo, that yes, maybe the only way we want to actually travel
somewhere that we have to fly in an airplane plane for a while.
So yeah, that's, I mean, there's some uses that you can think about, yeah.
Then we wrap up, of course, with maybe the number one on this list for now and maybe
all-time Crystal Pepsi.
Oh, come on.
I like Crystal Pepsi.
It's part of the reason I love Berlin.
It wasn't the fact that it was Crystal Pepsi itself.
It's that they tried so hard to like make it like the thing.
Instead of just saying, hey, this is another thing we have, you know, like check out our
Crystal Pepsi.
No, no, no, no.
They, they tried, they, they saw a new cocomer like hold my beer, okay, or hold my Pepsi,
I guess is what it would be, right?
Oh, my Pepsi.
Hold my Pepsi.
Oh, my gosh, everybody use that now.
I'll take a time out, we'll be back with more show coming up on the morning show.
Welcome back, everybody.
Morning show here at WFHR.
Melissa, Seth and James here with you, thanks so much for joining us.
We're going to get into our schedule and some good stories of the day in a moment, but a
real big good story I wanted to make sure people heard about.
This comes to us from thegoodnewsnetwork.org, want to send a shout out to them, and the great
reporting being done, Andy Corbally, who we've mentioned many times, did this one.
We go to India, where Seth gets very excited about this one.
Knock my cup over here, yeah.
From India comes the incredible story of a young man who reconstructed an extinct musical
instrument using clues in ancient literature.
Oh, this is so cool.
It's called a yaza.
This gorgeous harp carved in the form of a peacock and aided by a resonator, was played
by the tamala kings 2,000 years ago, but has been manufactured for years, perhaps even
centuries.
Oh, that is such a cool thing, man.
It's passion for this instrument, actually, it's got him to start a company called Earn.
You are, are you, are Error?
Oh, Urru, I think.
Thank you, Seth.
Error, which is now selling these harps all over the world.
Oh, cool.
That is just neat.
Quote, after finishing college, I was considering instrument making full time, said
Sekar, which, while Western instruments are popular, I was driven by the question of
why our instruments weren't reaching global audience.
He never intended to start making the yaza, a cigar never used the definitive article.
It came up, came upon it when a friend asked him if he knew how to make one, looking
into it, Sekar realized that there was virtually no information on how to make one of these
things.
Wow.
So the mystery left him entranced in soon with the help of some friends he was consulting
the canon of ancient Tamil literature, wow.
Read through it all and was able to create this amazing invention.
This may agree, create this, I'm going to play a little bit of this for you of what
this instrument sounds like, everybody.
Beautiful.
It is.
If you look up like a picture, it's a gorgeous looking instrument too, and the interesting
thing is that when I just listening there, you can hear the resonator sustain.
The plucking of the strings, which is a lot of string instruments don't have that, but
because of the little drum head that they have at the bottom of it, you can hear it
does sustain a little bit more, that makes it even cooler, in my opinion.
I listened to it a little bit earlier, I didn't read the article, but I was looking at
it.
I'm like, it sounds like the combination of a guitar, a harp, and then with the drum
head on there.
It's like three instruments in one, and you could probably also, I don't know if you guys
have seen some of the fabulous guitar players, like Tommy Emanuel, who is my favorite, but
there's others as well, who they use the guitar as a drum, as like the use of it.
You could probably do that with this instrument.
You probably could.
They say it sounds like somewhere between a sitar, a western lear, and a banjo.
It has a very particular sound to it, and it's just so cool looking though.
They just love the way it looks, the lines, and everything on it, and even if I'd ever
play it, but I want to own one just because it looks so cool.
It does, it'd be a great conversation piece, a very big shout out to this young man, Taroon
Sakhar, and the work he's doing with this.
The fact that he had a re-tellite.
He had to recreate it through written words.
That's amazing.
That is amazing.
That is so cool.
You can go to uru.com and find out more if you'd like, and maybe even purchase one of
these instruments.
We're going to have to play it.
Come on our show.
We'd love to hear from you.
That's a really, really cool story.
Challenge issues.
Taking a look at our schedule for today, be sure to join us today from Midday Magazine
from four to five.
In part one, our good friend, Rock Larson, Wood County Veteran Service Officer, is going
to be joining us.
Get an update from him.
In part two, Kazooa Tao is going to be joining us by Lingle Community Health Worker with
our UW Extension.
Nice.
Fabulous.
Somebody tell her I got her name right?
Somebody tell us.
I am so impressed.
I won't in the interview.
I'm sure I won't in the interview.
She's looking at you.
You'll be just kidding.
I also won't mention that you spent 10 minutes practicing it for the show today.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I apologize.
I forgot to turn to my mic off, Melissa.
I'm sorry.
I didn't hear that.
I'm sorry.
We also want to remind you that Playmakers is live and direct tonight from five to six
big naked equality post printing and family and natural food sponsoring that hour.
We've got to we're going to be talking a lot about NCA march madness today, looking
forward to it.
We get ready for it.
Yeah.
We'll say with the weather coming up and everything, I don't know scheduling or how
that's going to go, but I plan on being here, everybody.
Okay.
We'll plan on doing a show, looking forward to that.
And of course, it is Wednesday, Seth.
We know what that means.
As of right now, there is as of right now.
As of right now, there's Bingo tonight, everybody over at the Wisconsin Rapids outslodge.
Number 693 at 430 West Jackson Street.
There's open at five o'clock.
Bingo starts at 630 p.m.
We don't, of course, we don't know what's going to happen with the weather.
We don't know if school is going to be out early or if anything in the afternoon is
going to be canceled.
We don't know any of that.
But as of right now, we have not heard either way.
There will be Bingo tonight at the Elk's Lodge, everybody.
There's also a community meal today over at the 7th day Adventist Church, 6'11, 24th
street north.
There, meals with love for a community meal starts at 430, goes till about 530, doors open
at 415.
And again, weather contingent, I guess we could say for that as well.
So just make sure you check on all that stuff before you go out tonight and see what the
weather's like.
A three-year-old boy in Colorado saved his great grandma after she fell last month and
hit her head.
It happened next to some steps outside her home and her phone was in the car.
So she told him to be brave and go to get for her.
He was scared because it was dark out, but he came through.
There's security camp footage.
You can hear him tell himself, don't be afraid, don't be afraid.
Good morning America.
Talk to him the other day.
She ended up with concussion and 22 staples in her head, but she'll be okay.
Good, good.
Wow, amazing though.
That's a feat right there.
And a woman who drives a doggy deer care bus in Wisconsin posted a St. Patrick's Day
video that's blowing up.
She put green hats and bows on all the dogs around 20 of them.
A dog named Aspen was also turning two.
So everyone got a huge hunk of cheese.
The woman's business is called canine convoy.
She says it's the best job she's ever had.
Yes, that's great.
If you get the chance to see this video, everybody, I cannot encourage you enough to.
It is making the rounds.
I am bookmarking it so that I can share it with you all.
It is too good not to share.
They are literal.
It's like a bunch of kids in a school bus, but they're all dogs.
They're all dogs.
And they're all in these funny hats.
And the best thing about a dog in a hat, their face does not change.
No, they are just confused.
They don't understand what you're going on here.
Where's the treat?
Yeah.
Yeah, it's so good.
It's so good.
It's a great story.
And an astranded space station astronaut's got home.
Yes, they did.
Everybody see this?
That's the best.
It's awesome.
Got to watch that happen.
We're very happy to home and safe.
Great show today, you two.
You two, man.
You two, James.
Be good to each other out there.
We'll talk to you soon.
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