With a Name Like Denholm (Hour 2)

Good morning, Wisconsin.

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Got your host, James here.

I am joined by CEO of your United Way of Southwood and M's County.

Terry John.

Good morning.

Hope you all are having a great start here.

Thanks for joining us, everybody.

We're going to get into some entertainment news a little later.

Are you allowed?

Sneezer.

We're going to talk about it.

And Country Life, one of the most unique baby names in the South.

We will get into all of that, but we kick things off in this hour with some entertainment

news.

And Will Smith shows up right away.

He is just three years into his 10-year ban from the Oscars for slapping Chris Rock.

And in the new interview with the Associated Press, he was asked how he feels about it and

whether or not he plans to appeal it.

And he says, quote, looking to be the best human I can possibly be.

And I'm not going to take what I get with, and I'm going to take what I get with that.

Will also discuss his new album based on a true story, which comes out this Friday.

He said, quote, I've taken the last couple of years to really do a deep dive on the

parts of me that may or may not have been in the level of certainty in asking those deep

scary internet questions, internal questions, sorry, internal questions, quote, it really

is the result of my internal self-examination.

Every song is about some part of myself that I discovered or wanted to explore, something

I wanted to share.

It's the most full musical offering that I've ever created.

Oh, sounds interesting.

Yeah, yeah.

And knowing him, there will probably be at least one or two hits on there and dance

songs or what have you, because that's part of what he does.

So I'm sure that that's part of it.

I appreciate, first off, this story has been covered way too much, way too much.

My God.

I'll be three years later.

Oh, my God.

Let's talk about it.

And I said this at the time, a 10-year ban is ridiculous.

It's about the Oscars trying to make themselves look big and important and everything.

You think Will Smith learned his lesson?

I think he learned his lesson.

The first two movie roles he got taken away from him for this and lost out on $40,

$50 million.

But pretty sure the guy has learned his lesson.

But real quickly, one thing I do want to say that we need more of in life and society

that I see him taking like heat for, he's having accountability.

He's trying to grow and learn.

Now you can judge that and, you know, be cynical of it if he is doing this if he isn't.

What he's doing is so important.

He is a public person who is well known for decades now.

And he is coming out and saying, I was wrong, I'm trying to be better and I'm learning.

How great is that?

How great is it for kids to grow up and actually see a grown man taking responsibility and owning

his mistakes and admitting it?

We need more of this in society.

We need more because guess what?

Ain't nobody perfect out there.

There's never been a human being ever.

Well, and no question.

So he's owning it.

But I think the other message that he's sending out and clear is, I'm not engaging with

you on this.

You want to fight?

You want me to, I mean, that's the impression I get that because it keeps getting

poked on it.

It's like, okay, it's been three years, it's done, but it comes up.

So then he's just like, nope, I feel the same.

I'm taking what I, you know, because to me, it almost like the underlying current is

almost that they're wanting him to say something back or jab back or, and he's just like, nope,

I'm good.

And sometimes when people figure that out, it drives the other party more crazy.

Yeah.

You know what I mean?

Like he figured it out.

Like he's like, hey, yeah, I'll, I did it, I'll take it.

This is the punishment.

Fine.

I'm not going to keep, you know what I mean, like I'm not just going to keep engaging

in this.

And there's a lot of people and, and we all know them.

There's a lot of people that can't do that, you know, that they just keep, keep poking.

I, I don't know, I appreciate those things that he's doing and look forward to seeing

what he does next.

We'll see how the album does.

I imagine it'll probably do pretty darn well.

Yeah, essentially.

Well, I mean, I would guess that there were probably some people disappointed in him when

this happened, but I also think that his follow, I don't know that a huge amount of

his fan base would leave him over something like that.

Yeah.

That's the thing about this to me.

It was messed up at the time.

He shouldn't have done it.

It was wrong.

We are, what is the American, America loves apple pie, baseball and a comeback story.

These are the things we love and we back.

And I have no doubt that his comeback story was, especially, it's not as if he did something

that is like unforgivable and, and oh, we have to shun him for the rest of society.

We got people that we should be doing that too that we don't.

That's what I mean.

So it's just like, but he's just going to like, yeah, okay, it's hard to get bent out

of shape on this one.

I don't know.

I'm still moving on.

One more bent out of shape about this next story, Suzanne Summers, passed away from breast

cancer in October of 2023.

One of the more fun TV personas and everything.

She was great.

She was really good.

And a better actor than people ever gave her credit for or casting directors ever give

her a chance to be.

Don't you think though, because people just thought that she was like, like actually an

airhead?

Yeah.

You know what I mean?

Like because of the kind of like, ditsy parts that she played.

It was like, I think she didn't get enough credit because of, you know, it was implied

that that was her persona on and off, you know, well, this is the catch with being too good

of an actor as you get typecast and you get to the point where even as is a person, people

think of you as that person.

So one thing that should be noted about Suzanne Summers is how smart of a business woman

she was and how and how smart she was with her business opportunities and everything.

I heard with the passing of George Foreman, I've heard a lot of interesting stories about

him.

One of the that I heard that I was sharing with my dad the other day that I found wild.

So Hulk Hogan and George Foreman had the same agent and Hulk Hogan at the time was taking

a lot of heat from his kids because when they went to go pick him up, he was always last

in line and they had to wait for him.

He was behind all the soccer moms and things like that and stuff.

So one day he decides, I'm going to get McDonald's and I'm going to show up early.

I'm going to get there right away.

I'm going to be the first car in line.

I'm Hulk Hogan.

I'm going to do this and I'm going to be the big dad and he does.

He's there.

He's first in line.

His kids love it.

He's ecstatic.

He gets home and this is a while back.

So he has a voice message on his answering machine and it's his agent.

He calls him back and his agent says, oh, man, I was trying to get a hold of you first.

I call George.

So I have this grill and I've got this shake machine and I didn't know which one you

wanted.

But I talked to George first.

George got the grill and Hulk got the shake machine and at the time Hulk Hogan's like,

yeah, okay, whatever.

You know, that's fine.

He's got a million business opportunities and different things and flash forward to

now where you can't find that shake machine anywhere in Mexico, but they wouldn't even

sell it there and George forbid his George forbid it's kind of wild.

But did you see the meme just because you brought up the George forbid grill?

Did you see the meme like a week ago where it was actually like his coffin was shaped like

a George forbid grill?

Yeah, that's pretty good.

I mean, that's pretty funny.

No disrespect, but it just was hilarious because I was just like, oh my gosh, that's

so funny.

I have a hard time believing George Foreman wouldn't have laughed at that.

That man was very self-aware and very self-deprecating.

Susan Summers, like George Foreman, very smart of business, very smart of what you do

with that money because there is no 401k, there is no retirement plan for entertainers.

So how you do this, what you invest is incredibly important.

You never know what your next job is or if you got a job coming and if you're a boxer

like George Foreman was, you don't know if you're going to keep be able to keep fighting.

If people are going to pay to see a fight, if you're Susan Summers and you see your career

being like cut short because you're being tight cast, well, you're going to come up with

stuff.

And of course, we saw Susan Summers have a whole second act with the self, you know, self-care

stuff and self-workout.

Well, this, this is all of this I'm bringing up because of this next part of this and why

we're talking about Susan Summers because it sounds like she's sort of back because

she's back as an AI robot.

Susan's husband, Alan Hamill, worked with a company called Real Bot Erotics to create

a quote, digital twin of Susan.

It mimics both her voice and speech patterns using recordings and footage of her.

It even has many of her memories and can answer questions.

When it was asked this year, a specific memory of a time when with Hamill, it talked about

a cooking segment that they filmed where they had a funny mishap with a blender.

Hamill claims that this was Susan's idea and he says, quote, I think she would smile

a lot and be really happy about it.

Oh, and it gets stranger.

Hamill claims he was, he has a quote, long range plan to get permission to get a John

Ritter version made and do some, quote, additional episodes of Three's company.

Joyce DeWitt is still alive, she is 75.

This is disgusting to me.

This is disgusting to me.

Just, well, you know what, I went right away when before you said that it was her, like

her idea, but before that, I was like, oh, this dude's got some closure issues, right?

Like I mean, there's a natural morning that goes with like you, but yeah, I, well, I

really.

This is our, that ain't right story for today.

Absolutely.

Absolutely.

Um, it's weird.

It's weird.

It's, first off, the technology will never get to the point where you're going to feel

like it's Susan Summers.

All right.

So if that's the case, why even do it to me?

None of the, all of this is selfish.

All of this is selfish.

It's, it's about the people that are still around.

It's very weird.

It's, it's weird.

It's selfish.

And I don't think it's smart business.

I don't think it's a very good business model or business idea.

Um, and I, I, I'm going to go ahead and throw this right back in his face.

I don't believe Susan Summers wanted this.

I don't.

I have a hard time believing that.

I'd like proof on that.

I'd like actual evidence that she wanted this.

It's very odd.

But the chances of it actually getting anywhere, you know what I'm saying?

Like think about how many shows, I'm sure you could share it, but you know, I mean,

like how many shows make it to the drawing board, but never get anywhere.

The only way this would make it on a streaming service or TV is by just sheer, um, it

just, uh, attention.

It's not about the show.

It's just a curiosity.

It's a gimmick.

It's a gimmick thing.

It's a little, a money grab kind of thing.

It's really weird.

It all sounds like a money grab to me from this guy.

I mean, and it's, it's disgusting.

Look, the, the, the point of life, the thing about this whole thing is that it, it, it

comes and goes and, and I'll admit to the audience.

I, uh, I, me and my family are currently going through a heavy loss.

So I admit that I'm a little, you know, a little sensitive to this matter and everything,

but at the same time, I don't think that matters, uh, the loss is lost and it's not easy

and it's something that we got as stomach and we got to live with, but that's the point

of the living.

That's the point of all of this.

If it was forever, then what, what would any of this mean, uh, that's, it's no different

than when we talk about animals and we only get them for a short time.

Uh, we got Suzanne for a while and, and we'll, we, I love her to still be around.

I'd love John Ritter just to be able to be around.

I love Rob Williams to still be around.

That's just not how this game works.

We, we all have played by the same rules.

We all are, are, are, are on this same plane here.

Uh, you know, this would be a little less cringy if it was just maybe like her workout

videos.

You know what I mean?

Like using comment, you know what I mean?

I think if it was her voice, but using more updated, whatever equipment or techniques

or something, but it's just weird.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Just, I don't know.

I don't know.

I don't know.

And I, and I don't know where, how you're going to make money off of something like this

either, right?

It just seems like a very silly business model.

Maybe they'll, uh, do some improv sketches at, at Seawack with this one.

Our good friends at Central Wisconsin area community theater did this thing called final

Fridays.

It's a improv thing that they do.

It's so much fun.

It's so exciting and interesting and you have one of the best entertainers in this state

hosting at Steve Martin, uh, one of my favorite actors of all time, one of my favorite people

to work with.

Uh, Steve is incredible, um, just as good as his namesake, uh, I was, I was actually going

to go there and then I thought, no, just, you know, just give him his space.

Uh, this, uh, Friday, March 28th, uh, they'll have a seven o'clock social, seven thirty

games.

Uh, it's a free event, B-Y-O-B, uh, it is an adult thing, adult rated, you know, rated

show and everything.

So, you know, I mean, I want to bring the kids, uh, 29 52 Minnesota Avenue is where they'll

be in Steven's point at the shack.

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Terry and I will take a break.

When we come back, are you allowed, Sneezer?

We're going to talk about it.

Come on up.

It's a safe place.

It's okay.

We can talk about it.

It's coming up on the morning show.

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Locally grown radio.

Got a couple of eighties kids here.

So we're of course doing the eighties bumpers.

We're going to, we've got to do it.

Oh my gosh.

I don't know about you, but I have had at least twice now flashbacks.

Like, I, yeah, I'm having some moments here today.

I am, uh, yeah, I'm sucking the eighties.

I got apparently, um, this was sad.

Yes, yes.

We're thankful for it.

Are you allowed, Sneezer?

And are you embarrassed by it?

Well, the Washington Post did a big article on how it is possible to learn to sneeze more

quietly.

Uh, and ear knows and throat doctor said, if you need proof, just go to Japan.

You'll also never hear a loud sneeze there because it's considered rude.

I, I, I dated a girl whose family was from Japan.

And, um, this is where I learned of this.

Uh, and, um, I cannot, uh, like, I don't want to make it sound like they're like, you

know, they shun people for this, but it is one of those things.

I don't know what the American equivalent is of like, you do this in everybody.

There's just a consensus societal thing of like, hey, that's wrong.

You can't do that.

Like, how about farting?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Maybe you just get up and go in a different room.

Like, yeah, I mean, it's probably, no, it's not the same, but it's good, it's good,

yeah, I have a, I have a loud sneezeer.

And I'm like, you do not need to do that.

So loud, yeah, yes, I do.

I mean, like, this is a thing.

This is a thing.

So this is very interesting to me that it can be controlled because I'm told otherwise.

See, I've never, I guess this is one of the few things I really haven't run much into.

Uh, and I don't know that I, and I, I don't even know, I guess that if I'm a loud sneezeer,

or not, I don't think I am, but maybe.

Well, does your whole body like shudder?

No, no, no, I can't say that.

So yeah, okay, that's, that's a pretty good no right there.

Is it look like you're having some sort of medical emergency?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, a lot of loud sneezers don't want to change apparently.

One woman they talked to said, is she basically screams and she's fine with it because it's

so satisfying.

But if you do want to achieve a near silent sneeze, there are actually steps you can do.

Uh, and I, just that part alone is kind of interesting to me that you can actually help

this if you want.

And I don't think it needs to be silent.

Like I don't have an issue with like a sneezes, a sneeze is like a cough, right?

It's, it's just a, but when it's like, you know, very loud or you have to have some

sound effects like, you know, like, here's where I'm with you on this.

I, uh, because if you can't help it, that's one thing.

But if you're just sneezing and it's like another attention grab for you,

and you just shaking your whole body and the room moves like, okay, yeah, wait a minute.

Like a hold up there, like, take it easy, take it down a notch, man.

You're, you're overacting more than Nick Cage.

Like I mean, take it easy, take it easy.

Uh, so here are the things you can do to kind of help with this.

Number one, exhale right before it happens.

The more air that's in your lungs, the louder your sneeze will be.

So if you exhale, it's not as bad.

Um, so, you know, that's good.

I wouldn't have thought of that.

Relax your vocal cords.

Imagine you're letting out a deep sigh.

The high pitched, ooh, uh, at the end of a chew only happens if your vocal cords

vibrate and your mouth is open.

Huh.

Okay.

All right.

So just calm in the vocal cords a little bit.

Keep your mouth closed.

Push your tongue up the up to the roof of your mouth to direct air pressure through

your nose instead.

I feel like that.

It would end badly for me.

I feel like, yeah, I'm not, I'm not doing that.

I don't have to do the tongue thing, but you can close your mouth because I mean,

what happens when like, not flies out or something as a side, as a side note,

unless you're talking, always keep your mouth shut.

Nobody wants to see the inside of anybody else's mouth, whether, especially when you're

eating, especially when you're eating.

Uh, maybe if I'm alone on that one, please call up and let me know because I,

I, I got to think this is again, one of those more universal things.

Nobody really likes watching somebody else eat sneeze into your elbow.

Uh, or what my, uh, Godson calls the vampire.

You got to do the vampire.

You know, we learned that during the pandemic.

Uh, it obviously muffles the sound.

It's also more polite than just sneezing out into the open air.

Uh, the one thing you should never do is try to completely hold in a sneeze

in rare cases.

It corrupts your eardrums or Terry hole in your throne.

Yeah.

That's the argument that I get like you're not supposed to, you know, stop a sneeze.

That's fine.

I'm not suggesting that you stop it.

But, uh, I mean, and actually I would really appreciate you emailing me the link

to that because I'll probably be sharing it.

Absolutely.

Uh, if you are, if you are curious about the complete article, you can find it

at MSN.com.

Uh, they've got this, but oh, the Washington Post has the original article on it.

Um, and when it comes to something like this, uh, I think giving each other

grace, giving yourself some grace is important.

But I also think that if, if, if this is one of the things you could do for

people in your life or like there's one person in your life, what's the harm in

doing it?

You know, uh, when it was a little, a little give and take, I would never bring it

up to someone like just someone, but you know, sometimes, and maybe we shouldn't

do this, but sometimes the people we live with, you know, we, we maybe judge a

little more or we, or we like to influence a little more.

I can see that.

I think I get that.

We're going to talk a unique baby names, uh, from the South when we get back

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Yeah, I mean, I don't care if you just bought a brand new bed.

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He's 14, 14 teenage boy, even worse.

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Thanks so much for hanging out with us.

We hope you're having a good one out there.

We're going south for the next subject.

We know many people, you know, whether you've been in the South, lived in the South or anything like that.

You know that there are some interesting name cities in the South.

And let's be honest, there are some interesting name cities in every state.

Every state has some of this.

But one of the things that I think is so fun about America is how you go, you know,

a little bit, a couple of states this way, a couple of states that way in the language is different.

Or, you know, lingo can be different and certainly names can be different.

For sure.

So we already know the naming cities can be a little different.

But what about baby names?

Are they just as unusual?

Well, babies.

Here are the most unique babies names in the South.

These are the most popular but unique at the same time so that kind of middle ground there of those.

And I say we start at number 12.

We'll get 12 of them.

We'll start at 12.

And in Texas.

Oh, wait a minute.

No, they're just going by states.

I see.

Okay.

I did not pre-read this.

I wanted to be just surprised with you about it.

So we'll go right from the top on down.

It's an alphabetical order.

So, okay.

Alabama.

For boys, it's brailleen, B-R-A-Y-L-I-N.

And for girls, it's merit.

Yeah.

Interesting.

That's our interesting.

Okay.

All right.

Not too crazy so far.

Arkansas.

Boys.

Cache.

So C-A-C-H-E.

Seriously?

And for girls, it's savvy.

S-A-V-V-Y.

No.

No.

No, Arkansas.

No.

What are you doing?

Go.

I mean, I could see that being a, I'm leaving Cache alone.

But like, I, I could see savvy being a nickname for like Savannah or something.

Sure.

You know what I mean?

Like a, like a little nickname.

But yeah, I don't know.

That's not, it wouldn't be in my top list.

I, I don't know.

Florida.

Oh boy.

For boys.

Massimo.

M-A-S-S-I-M-O.

And for girls, I'm not even sure how to say this.

A-N-E-O-A.

A-I-N-H-O-A.

A-N-E-O-A.

It's, it looks like a loha.

But with A-N-E-N-E-O-A.

A-N-E-O-A.

A-N-E-O.

No.

I don't know.

I don't know.

Um.

Hmm.

Interesting.

Okay.

I, I don't know.

Uh, Massimo isn't bad, but I thought of that as an Alaston.

So you think of like Massimo though?

Yeah.

Like, was that clothing?

Yeah.

Back in the day.

Yes.

Might as well name your kid Fubu.

Like, what are you doing?

What are you doing?

Don't, don't, don't do that.

Don't do that.

Georgia.

For boys, it's Masi, M-A-Z-I.

And for girls, Kamora, K-A-M-O-R-A.

Hmm.

Yeah.

I don't know.

I haven't a Brian and Jenny.

Kentucky.

For boys, it's Branson.

Uh, B-R-A-N-S-O-N.

And for girls, it's Blake Lynn.

B-L-A-K-E-L-Y-N.

Blake Lynn.

I-I haven't heard of a lot of these.

A Branson, I've heard of this city.

Like, Missouri?

Yeah, I was going to say.

If that was Missouri's number one day, I might be like,

Yeah, that'd be a little, I don't know.

Uh, Louisiana.

For boys.

Denim.

Denim.

D-E-N-I-M.

I got nothing.

I don't even know what to do with that.

I, you know, I have, um, oftentimes, I've been,

there's different points in my life.

I've struggled with it if I like my name, James.

You know, it's not very original.

It's pretty used.

There's a lot of people have it, including my own family,

where there's three others named after it and everything.

And, uh, you know what?

Not so bad now.

I look at Denim.

I'm good.

I'm good with James.

You know, there was a, there was a girl named Denim

when I was in school.

I, you know, the, I guess the other thing though is,

I think about some of these.

And I think about how mean kids can be.

Yes.

Yes.

And you have to remember that there is no kid.

So if you're like an eight-year-old

and you're picking on another eight-year-old,

there's no kid on the planet that came up with their own name.

Yeah.

Right?

Like, I mean, if you want to pick on somebody,

pick on their parents.

Exactly.

You know, like, no kid picks their name.

But I always think it's weird when people,

this is just my opinion, when people,

it seems like they just try to find a name.

That's like so different or so out there

or because of uniqueness or whatever.

And sometimes I'm like,

you know what you're doing to that kid?

You know, like, I just, I don't know.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I'm with you 100% on this.

And I will say too,

it's somebody who, I remember with,

with my ex and I and we are thinking of our kids' names

wanting them to be unique.

I mentioned the James thing.

We knew my son was going to name,

we were going to name him James

because of the tradition and everything.

But we wanted them to have a unique middle name

and all of this and we got talking about it.

And we did a lot of things,

we did the thing a lot of parents do of,

you know, being able to,

hey, how can you make fun of this name and that?

And if we should use it or not.

But one of the things that came up during it

that we both kind of had the epiphany at the same time,

oh yeah, this ain't about us.

It's about the kid.

Like, we want to give the kid a name

that they're proud of, that they want to shine,

that they want, you know,

parents getting so caught up and all I got

to be more unique than my friends

and their kid's name or whatever.

Do your thing and for once or take this

as a great opportunity to, you know,

begin along the rest of your life journey

of being a parent and think of the kid first.

Because I guarantee you,

nobody naming their kid Denham thought of the kid first.

I'm sorry if that's controversial

and I apologize to anybody named Denham out there

but I stand on that hill.

I will stand on that hill.

Denham, what are you doing?

You're about as mad about this as I am about the sneeze.

Well, I wouldn't have gotten mad until you said something

that I find, I love when this happens.

It's not only hilarious to me,

but also plays on a dicey area.

But there's nothing funny about bullying.

Bullying is a coward's man's game.

There's nothing good about it.

But I love the idea of instead of bullying the kid,

go to the parents house.

I love the idea of like eight and nine year olds

going to a parents house just to laugh at them

about the name they chose for their kid.

That's hilarious to me.

I want to make that sketch.

I want that to become a thing.

No more kids picking out kids.

Go over to parents.

That would be kind of funny, wouldn't it?

You nailed something right there.

That is so good.

You're so right about this.

That's hilarious.

Mississippi.

For boys, it's cashed in.

Cashed in?

Cashed in.

Thank you.

K-A-S-H-T-Y-N.

And for girls, it's swaysy.

I feel like that.

As in Patrick.

Yeah, I feel like that should be the other way around

something.

I don't know.

I really do.

I like cashed in.

Sounds like a girl's name.

I'm for a long time.

And I've been seeing it differently now.

But for like a long time, that T-Y-N at the end was more female

added on to female names.

Like if it was a boy like cashed in, it would be like T-O-N instead of the T-Y-N.

But now you just see it all over the place.

Remember when the name book was a thing?

Like an actual printed book of baby names?

That's not a thing anymore.

But I can remember having one.

And there were like hundreds, probably thousands of girl names and boy names.

And you would just like read it and like what resonate.

What clicks to me, you know, kind of thing.

But yeah, I don't know how they'd keep up now.

No, no.

So for North Carolina, for boys, chosen with a Z,

CH-O-Z-E-N.

And for girls, Miller.

As in light?

Yeah, maybe.

I guess, yeah.

It's spelled the same.

Time.

Miller time.

Look, you name your kid Chosen.

Like good luck.

Good luck.

Okay.

Here's the thing.

If you're thinking about having a child or you're expecting a child and you actually Google

like unique baby names, that should be your first red flag.

Right?

Yes.

Yes.

100%.

Yes.

What are you doing?

What are you doing in the Carolina's there?

That's a little crazy.

In Oklahoma, for boys.

And again, these are popular names.

That meaning that these are being used.

Like not one kid has this name.

Yeah.

Like multiple families doing this.

In Oklahoma, their name and boys.

Thang.

TH-A-N-G-E.

No, no, no, no.

No.

No.

No.

And then for girls, Ryan Lee.

R-Y-N-L-E-E.

Ryan Lee.

Ryan Lee.

Oh.

I don't know.

Um.

Really TH-A-N-G?

Really?

Yeah.

I don't know what's going on there.

That kid makes me sad.

That kid is getting picked up.

I mean, yeah.

Yeah.

There's no getting around that.

That's not being mean.

That's being honest.

That's being honest.

There's no getting around that one.

Um.

Look.

Teach the road.

But again, if you just think about the kid.

Just think about the kid.

Not yourself.

Yeah.

And it's not going to be unique and different and everything.

Um.

There's plenty of unique and different names that you can go with that are not named.

Like, these are just, here's the other thing that's bugging me about this.

These are lazy.

I find these very lazy.

They're not unique.

They're not different.

They're just different.

They're not unique.

They're different.

Like, they ain't no thing.

Yeah.

Right.

Right.

Like, they're not coming up with like, either they're, they're like trying to be Dr.

Sioux's and come up with these new names.

Or they're just choosing things that we've already labeled.

Like, you know, something is chosen for something or the chosen one or some of those phrases

we use.

And they're just using that or, um, Miller or, or how about South Carolina where for boys knowledge?

What are we doing?

What do we, that's already used?

There's already a definition for that.

Come up with a name of Carl.

Like, oh, come on.

Like, it's something better.

There's better names.

Knowledge.

Knowledge.

Knowledge.

Like, boy, I hope that boy.

All right, feel for these kids.

Um, for girls, it's Sullivan.

It actually sounds normal compared to some of these.

Like, it actually doesn't sound so bad.

Um, in Tennessee, for boys, it's Nailand, N-E-Y-L-A-N-D.

And for girls, it's Bryley, B-R-I-L-E-Y.

I'm, I'm more calling it.

Like, I just, I just, I just, it's all said with that.

Uh, one more for you, Texas, uh, for boys, Eziel, A-Z-A-E-L.

And for girls, Romina, Romina, R-O-M-I-N-A.

I, I don't know.

I don't know.

You can go to the boot.com.

I know to see the complete list, if you'd like.

Um, and if you know of, or if you are somebody with one of these names,

please call up.

I'm sure with us how you feel.

Yes, I want to know if you like your name.

You don't like your name.

I want to know what you think.

Well, you don't really have a choice till you're, I guess,

adult, but by then you're also already know.

You know what I mean?

Like, there's something weird about changing a first name.

Yeah, yeah.

You're, you're so already.

Because like, how do you do that?

I mean, here's the thing.

If you have like what, three quarters of these names,

just, just pray for, uh, you know, someone, a grandparent,

an aunt, an uncle of sibling that gives you a good nickname.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Somebody is short.

Yeah.

Maybe that's the other part of this.

It's bugging me.

What do you call short-hand knowledge?

Hey, Nali.

Like, I don't know what you do there.

I don't know what you do there.

I don't have no idea.

I have no idea what that one.

Okay.

There you go.

We will take a quick time out.

We'll come back.

We'll wrap up the show.

We got some great good stories of the day for you.

We're going to touch up a catch up with our United Way as well.

Coming up on the morning show at WFHR.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show here at WFHR.

Locally grown radio.

Terry and James here are going to wrap up the show for the day.

Thanks so much for joining us, everybody.

We got a couple of things to get to before we wrap up for the day, Terry.

One of the wrap talking a little United Way with you.

And reminding everybody about some of the great things that you guys are doing over there.

I did want to send a real quick shout out to my free taxes.

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So you can, you can access my free taxes by visiting our website, www.ac.org.

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It is even mobile-friendly.

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But if what you have is a smartphone and that's your option, it can be done there and it is formatted for mobile.

So I think that that's, you know, also a noteworthy piece of information.

You just gather up your documents and you literally just enter everything in that you have.

And it will give you a show you a draft.

And you say yes or no, you know, submit or hold on, wait, I'm missing something.

And then you can get those done and filed for free.

I want to remind everybody community Shred Day is less than a month away.

Get those important documents ready to go.

Yes. So community Shred Day is Thursday, April 17th.

From 9 a.m. till noon, hosted by Proveil Bank here in Wisconsin Rapids.

And this is an opportunity, exactly what James said.

Get those sensitive documents out of your house, you know, that you don't need to be retaining anymore.

Bring them on over. You can get two boxes shredded for free.

Each additional box after that, you make a $5 donation to United Way.

So I mean, it's pretty right like making a donation to get that great of a service is pretty awesome.

I will say that the last several years, we have been at the capacity before the end time.

And when the Shred truck is full, I mean, it's a mobile service.

So like when he's shredded the max capacity, that's all we have.

So I would encourage you if you have stuff, you know, get there in that first hour.

Yeah. Because I would be shocked if we made it three hours just just being really honest.

You know, we don't necessarily set the parameters around that.

It's an event that we are the benefactor of, but is hosted by someone else.

So I just really encourage you to, you know, be thinking about that.

And, you know, what, like I said, when it's full and full, we just can, we really don't have any control over that.

I shout out to prevail baked to because a dollar will be donated to the United Way of Southwood and the M's Counties for each pound of paper shredded.

That is pretty cool. And that's a great added benefit of this.

And well, you know, in this day and age, and more than ever, people are worried about getting their documents completely shredded.

This is an opportunity for you to like literally be there seeing it done.

So you know, have that peace of mind.

And among all that, also knowing you're putting into your community.

You're adding to the better for the other unit community by getting, by getting, it's a perfect two for one.

Absolutely.

And we also have bank account corporation sponsors the second thousand pounds.

So, so United Way's benefit. I mean, we get a two thousand dollar donation for that day, which is awesome.

And prevail bank is paying the shredder.

So I mean, they're, they're incurring kind of double duty, right?

Yeah.

And then also, you know, we, we get the donations from the additional boxes.

One other thing that's a little bit noteworthy because you did bring that up.

You can see your personal stuff get shredded, but you may, you have to be prepared to hang around a little bit.

If, if that's what you want to have happen because they go into some secure bins.

And then Jerry brings it on to the truck. He does shred it right there on site.

But I mean, sometimes it's like it, he's not so caught up.

You know, that your box is going in in that second that you're driving through.

But, but some people, you know, that's really important that they want to see that.

And you are welcome to stay, but you probably need to like park your car, not drive through.

If you're, if you're interested in seeing the stuff get shredded.

You know, it's a, it's a great event.

You know, we're super thankful to prevail for hosting and then also prevail and bank account for sponsoring.

Find out more about this and all the great things they're doing over at the United Way,

you WSWAC.org.

Do we cover everything for today?

I mean, yeah, I think so.

We're looking for children's books.

You can register for United Weekend, but everything all of this can be found on our website and on our social media.