There’s No Substitute for Kevin (Hour 2)

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Oh, yeah.

Good things coming up in this hour.

Melissa and I are going to get in some entertainment news in a moment here.

We've also got some fun, good stories of the day for you want to touch on and a couple

of good stories going on locally and some events going on locally.

And I want to get into this one if we have time, Melissa.

M&M's just brought back the best flavor yet, according to other fans.

M&M flavor.

Get into that.

Oh, treat.

Right now, we kick off with entertainment news.

And of course, here at WFHR, there's a handful of topics we cover better than anybody here

in Central Wisconsin.

And one of them is Dolly Parton.

Yes, yes, we do.

If you ever wanted to own a home with that Dolly Parton once lived in, you might have

a chance right now.

Back in 94, Dolly bought a remote mountainside cabin in Idle Wild, California for about 126

grand.

And then in 2023, she donated the cabin to the Ronald McDonald House charities of Southern

California.

Oh.

Everybody, remember that story?

Everybody, no.

That's because Dolly didn't need to do a bunch of social media promotions and everything

about it.

She just did it.

She just did it because she's Dolly.

Just pausing the story for a second.

Can we just note that?

That's pretty darn amazing, not only that she did it, but that it didn't, you know, she

didn't do it and like have her publicist make sure that every news outlet was out there

when she was signing the deed or something like that.

Look at me.

Look what I'm doing.

Just an incredible human being.

Well last July, the charity sold the property and now it's back on the market and available

for purchase.

All you need is a, you know, just $768,000.

That's it.

That's all.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I don't know.

Maybe we could all pitch in together.

Maybe we could all just.

Maybe.

Maybe.

The listing says Dolly and her beloved mother were the last to occupy this home, leave them

behind decor, collectibles and furnishings all included in the sale.

Legend.

What did the Ronald McDonald House do with it?

Yeah.

They never use it.

That seems weird.

Great question.

Legend has it that the space's loft was Dolly's favorite place to write and play her music

and, you know, arguably wrote some of her best songs there.

And it comes with Dolly's personal furnishings and that's worth $768,000 alone.

They say that the furnishing, just the stuff that is in the house.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And that might not even be the best part.

It all comes with an adorned, and it comes with adorned with a guitar-shaped toilet.

That's the best part.

They're really selling that part really strong here at Americans.

You can go to Americansongwriter.com to see pictures and see the complete article again,

Americansongwriter.com.

Actually, a really good website.

And it's an interesting article.

They show some stuff here.

But if I had to choose a guitar-shaped thing that's attributed to Dolly, I prefer the

best birthday gift that my friend Laura gave me, which is a guitar-shaped cast iron pan.

That's got Dolly's signature on it.

Oh, that's cool.

That's so much better than a toilet.

Thank you, Laura.

This is just looking at the realtor.com and looking at the website or looking at pictures

of this.

This is one of the most beautiful homes I've ever seen.

Easily one of the most beautiful cabin homes I've ever seen.

It's all just your tip.

It's like two floors.

So it's not just a shack in the woods?

No, it's like two floors.

Oh my God.

And I want to move here right now.

That is a beautiful view.

And it's all built in stone.

So there's like stone surrounding.

So it's like the opposite of a hobbit home, but with the same type of idea.

It's just they work, you could tell that they built the house around the mountain, around

the, oh my God, is that cool.

Yeah.

I never.

It is pretty.

It's very, very pretty.

I haven't seen anything really.

Like I am such a sucker for architecture and the way they build these things.

So I got to show this to my dad.

That is beautiful.

Yeah, it's got a beautiful deck around it and a beautiful stone chimney and the ice

frame.

Yeah, it's beautiful.

And it is pretty cool.

I'm going to check that out.

That is pretty cool.

You know, it's a little out of your and my price range, James.

Yeah, just a bit outside.

I mean, it's also in California, which is a long ways away.

Yeah, yeah.

Singing competition shows have become a huge genre, but there was a time, 24 years ago,

when they were a relatively new concept, outside of like star search or something like that.

Well, maybe that's not surprising then that Kelly Clarkson was just on a podcast where

she said she didn't realize American Idol was a TV show until her third audition.

Oh, wow.

Well, it was early on.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It may seem really silly, but remember Kelly was on the first season of the show and when

she was taping her early auditions, no one knew that this was a show because they were

literally creating the show.

Right.

They were in the creation process.

So it wasn't, yeah, already airing.

I bring this story up one because I appreciate her honesty and I like the way that she has

handled her career.

I don't know much about Kelly Clarkson, but what I do know, I respect.

And I think she has done an amazing job of pivoting going into talk show work and everything.

Her show is very successful.

She said, quote, we were like, oh, this might work.

I might meet someone or whatever.

Nobody knew it was going to amount to anything.

We were literally kids, 19 years old, just trying to pay their electric bills.

Wow.

During the interview, Kelly also said that people were mean to her back in the day despite

her winning the show because she was on a talent show and they didn't take her seriously.

Yep.

Yep.

And she's had a lot of conversations with Jennifer Hudson and Carrie Underwood about this

apparently.

I'm a little surprised that the idol, like the idol alum, you don't see more like with

them doing things together, like the big names to come from that show.

It almost feels like they they avoid each other because of that in some ways.

Well, if they got a negative, you know, negative attention because of, oh, you're just here

because you want a talent show, you didn't get here on talent alone.

Well, that's not really true, especially for those early ones.

Yeah.

I mean, now it's, it's, and I hate to say that too because people who try out and sing on

those shows are talented.

I mean, they wouldn't be there if they weren't.

Yeah.

I admit that younger me when this stuff first started coming out, I found it distasteful.

I didn't like it.

I thought it was music industry is already, you know, pretty difficult, let alone doing

something like this.

What happens if, you know, record producers and everybody, they stop going to bars and

clubs looking for talent and they just watch TV.

I was worried about a lot of those things.

You know, here we are 20 some years later and artists are still getting discovered in bars.

People are being discovered even in other places like TikTok and all this.

And as somebody who has been, I've been wanting to act and wanted to be an entertainer since

I was seven.

Technically, I've only been a professional since 08 and in this, this small amount of time

relatively speaking, I have learned that there is a difference between being a struggling

artist and a surviving artist.

And it's something that I encourage strongly in my students, my, my kids, you know, have

a day job, all these things while chasing down your dream.

And there is no perfect way to be discovered.

No.

And a lot of it has to do with luck.

For those that don't know this and, you know, wanting to be an actor, well, they tell

you right away that you want to get into, you got to be in the screen actor's guild.

Otherwise, you cannot literally do TV, movie commercials or anything.

But in order to get into the guild, you got to have an agent.

In order to have an agent, you got to be in the guild.

This is literally in 2025 how you do this.

Like, so that's for acting, like the singing, the singing world and everything.

If there's an opportunity for you to get your name out there and, and you got to, you

know, eat a little crow or take some humble pie or sing some songs you don't like or whatever.

Welcome to the world.

Welcome to the entertainment world, man.

And that's, that's what it is.

There are no actors out there that you think of as a household name that their first role

was their dream role.

Four subsequent roles weren't ones that they had to do while, you know, plugging their

nose.

If this is what, yeah, if this is what you got to do to get your foot in the door, I,

I've told this to people in radio, you know, yeah, you got to start out.

You're working 10 hours a week or something like that.

You could, you never know, you could end up like me doing this job professionally and

everything.

And now that's not to say that you need to do unethical things, that's not what we're

saying at all.

No, no, no.

We're saying that there are things with any job that you have to do that are their work.

I think that, I think that there are, especially in the music industry, there are artists out

there that would think that is unethical to do singing competitions and everything.

I'm pushing against that and saying, look, you get your break, how you get your break,

you know, like what it takes is what it takes when it comes to that part of it, not certainly

anything else, everything else, nothing's worth that.

And those things, those people are getting more and more taken out of the industry.

Well, and I would also add, having participated in some talent shows, it's often times a popularity

contest.

Yeah.

Really, truly is.

And I think that's part of why it gets such a negative connotation, because you don't

get necessarily judged just on your talent, if it's an audience vote, it's still then

a popularity contest, because a lot of those people maybe you pack the audience.

Maybe you have a higher standing in the community that you're in, and then they're voting for

you because they like you, not because you're more talented than the other people that

are participating.

So it's, I don't know, having participated in some myself, it's kind of, I don't enjoy

it.

On the professional level, it's very cold-blooded, and it can be very mechanical.

I have had a rough run of auditions, and it have been dying to work.

I miss working, it's literally cutting off my air, doing this, and going years without

really performing and being on a stage.

I can't really put it into words.

Recently, I got cast in something, cut my hair for it, was all excited about it, found

out last week that the project folded because the director and the writer broke up.

Oh no.

Like, how can I, what can I do about that?

What I supposed to try to get them back together, what about, you know, I don't even know

these people.

I didn't even know there were a couple.

I didn't know any of this.

I'm just talent.

Like, this is the industry, this is the kind of stuff that can happen and everything.

It's just, you know, you just got to keep, for one, you don't get a chance to really

feel too bad because this is the world you chose, and we're all big, you know, big adults.

We know what we're walking into.

And also, if you really want this, that's the difference.

It's not talent.

It's not connections.

It's not what shows you're on or what you didn't do or anything like that.

How bad you want this.

Yeah.

And how willing you are to keep working at it.

Yeah.

The biggest difference between anybody out there and the people that you see in these,

all these worlds.

It's them fighting for it.

Sure.

And people who win talent shows aren't going to be able to continue going if they don't

have talent.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Take a look at what's new on your small screen, big screen, and coming up to your theater

stage.

New on your small screen this weekend, tonight on NBC at 7 o'clock, the World Figure Skating

Championships.

Ooh.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I love watching Figure Skating when I was a kid.

It was my favorite thing.

I love it to watch it with my dad all the time.

It's so much fun going from Olympic hockey to Figure Skating with my father, because he

doesn't change.

Nice.

Two different worlds.

He doesn't change how he approaches either one of these.

He treats them both the same and talks about them the same.

It's so much fun.

I would love to experience that.

He really gets into it.

And as a side note, for anybody wanting to check this out tonight, this is a bit of a

preview to the Olympics.

It's kind of, you know, you see a lot, if not the best in the world, a lot of the best

in the world at that.

A little curious about this one tonight on Apple TV plus the premiere of number one in

the call sheet.

It's a two-part documentary celebrating the leading black actors in Hollywood.

Angela Bassett, Denzel Washington, Halle Berry, Will Smith, Jimmy Fox are all on it.

That sounds really good.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

It also is going to give you a little bit of an inside look on some of what I was just

talking about about casting and how that can go.

The premiere of Fight for Glory 2025 World Series is a three-part documentary on Apple

TV plus about the World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers and Yankees from last year.

Okay.

Mid-century modern is on Hulu.

It's a comedy starring Nathan Lane, Matt Bommer.

Looks really good.

You had a man named Nathan Lane.

Nathan Lane.

Yeah.

Anything with him I'll watch.

Yeah.

Mm-hmm.

And the world figure skating championships continue on Saturday.

They'll also have the Senate Live New this weekend with Mickey Madsen from Enora and

Morgan Walling going to be performing.

Oh, interesting.

And I do hope that with the figure skating come that they do pay some homage to those that

died in that plane crash in Washington, DC, because we lost a lot of figure skating world

champions during that or rising stars.

Thank you for mentioning that, Melissa.

Yeah.

I didn't feel like that story was covered enough and part of the reason I do want to watch

tonight is for that.

I would put my name out and I feel like they definitely will mention that.

Well, because that was such a, that rocked the figure skating world.

Yeah.

A couple of, not a lot of movies being in wide release, but when you get a chance, I'm

really looking forward to seeing the friend.

It's in limited release, but it stars Naomi Watts who inherits her best friend Bill Murray's

great-dane after he passes.

It's a story of friendship, grief, and healing.

Looks really good.

Oh, that sounds good.

There is also a working man, Jason Statham back out of the game.

He works in a construction after leaving his military pass behind, of course, and then his

daughter gets kidnapped and you know what happens next.

Jason Statham does his thing.

Does his thing.

The screenplay is actually, this is kind of cool.

It's co-written by Sylvester Stallone, so that's pretty cool.

That would be fun.

David Harbroll and the great Michael Pena are also in it, and I'm a sucker for Jason Statham

movies.

I'd just admit it.

Yeah, he's good.

I am very, very, there are a few movies I've been more curious about than this one, Death

of a Unicorn.

It's rated R. It stars the great Paul Rudd and Jenny Ortega.

They are a father, daughter, dual who accidentally hit a real unicorn.

And what happens next?

And whoo.

It looks wild.

It looks like a wild.

I have no idea if it's going to be good or not, but it looks very interesting.

Very comedy.

Yes.

Yes.

And that unicorn's got some big teeth.

Yeah.

Jenny Ortega having an amazing start to her career.

And who doesn't love Paul Rudd?

I mean, Paul Rudd, man.

He's great.

Paul Rudd actually getting a chance to do some more serious, darker stuff this year.

I was going to say that seems like a not normal role for him, which is great.

Yeah, really cool to see for him.

He's a complete actor, so it'll be good to see what he can do.

And James, I almost don't like to admit this, but this is maybe, you somebody's got to

watch this and tell me if I can handle it.

Yes.

No, I don't like horror.

Yes.

Absolutely avoided at all costs because I have nightmares.

I will.

I will.

I will absolutely let you know.

I will let you know for sure, because I'll definitely be watching it.

Good.

Wanted to mention in our last minutes of the segment here, Wisconsin's Rebs Community

Theater is celebrating 50 strong years.

We've been having fun doing that all year long, and they are wrapping up their main stage

productions with noises off directed by our own Melissa K.

Yes.

Oh my goodness.

We are, we have already blocked acts one and two, which let me tell you act two blocking.

Yeah.

I have never, I have never directed or acted in blocking sequence as difficult as act

two.

Can't even imagine.

Yeah.

And the fact that we managed to accomplish it in a week or a little, yeah, a week, it's

it's going to be so good.

I'm so proud of the cast that I have were two weeks in and already they are, they're

blowing me away with their ability to keep up with what, what I'm, what I'm asking

them to do.

So they're doing a great job.

We've got a long, you know, stretch ahead of us to be ready for opening because I'm,

oh my goodness, they're so, and you're just going to be in stitches watching this show.

There's so much to see you might even have to come more than once because there's so

many things happening on stage at once that you can't possibly take it all in with just

one viewing.

It's, it's going to be so good.

It's one of our favorite thing, favorite things about theater.

There are no reruns.

Every show is going to be a little bit different and a little more fun.

I cannot encourage you to check that out more enough and because of that, I think that's

a really good thing to be able to bring up whenever we get a chance.

Get your tickets now because I have a feeling that we're going to, we're going to sell a lot

of tickets for this show.

Oh yeah, we want you all to come and attend, taken this great performance.

It's going to be a lot of fun.

This cast is perfect and they're working so hard.

Got an amazing team behind this one.

Get your tickets at wrctheter.org.

First two weekends of May and the set, James, the set, I cannot talk about it enough.

They have, they've, they've pretty much finished it like we, the foundations are done.

We have a working set.

So exciting.

I cannot wait to see this.

For just two weeks, huge shout out to our construction crew, Jeff Friday, Pete, all of everybody

that's been working on it, so, so many people helping already.

It's fantastic.

Yeah, I, I, I, I, I can't shout out to everybody working on this so hard on this one.

Can I wait to see it?

Get your tickets and find out more at wrctheter.org, wrctheter.org.

We'll take a quick time out.

We'll come back and have some more fun on the show, morning show at WFHR.

Welcome back, everybody.

Coming show at wfhtr, locally, your own radio.

Melissa and James hanging out with you.

Let's go ahead and take a call.

Good morning.

You're on the air.

Well, how is my two best morning, both doing here?

Excellent.

Tell her you Kevin.

Oh, not too bad.

I just want to let you guys know and knock the press.

This is going to prime you the last full call for a while on a morning.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Where we're adventuring on to a new career.

Today's the last day of the one I'm on right now.

So that sure, the availability of me for a while, but yeah.

Yeah.

I'm gonna miss you.

All the mornings.

And giving it a hard time.

But don't be in playmakers though.

As much as much as Melissa and I are going to miss you, man,

I mean, poor Terry.

How Terry is going to get through this?

I don't know.

We have really enjoyed you call again.

You're interacting with us, your feedback and everything.

Do stay in touch as best you can.

And it certainly will miss you.

You know, certainly looking forward to hanging out with you

on playmakers and everything, man.

But from what I understand, this is the best thing for you

and yours, and that's what matters.

So we're happy for you.

Yes.

We are happy for you.

Congratulations.

And we still have our day.

Hopefully Melissa.

Yes, we do.

We still have our day.

Yep.

Awesome.

And then you know, I know this afternoon, you'll get a chance

to talk to some great people with scouting this afternoon

with my day magazine.

Yeah, we've got Sam and Amy coming in for Scouting America

part of Midday Magazine today.

We're looking at Angela and Angel.

I'm sorry, Angel coming as well.

So we're looking forward to talking with them.

Yeah.

Well, now Kevin, I have a job for you.

You need to nominate someone to take over

and be our new Kevin on the morning show.

Because Kevin, the cat obviously can't do it.

I mean, he's his vocabulary is not as large as yours.

So we need a new Kevin.

Well, like I said, I'm not going to be gone

hopefully not too long.

I mean, again, get my feet wet with the new stuff

and see where it goes and make sure that we have these guys

on the radio no matter what.

So thank you.

Well, and maybe it's not a smoke break.

You need a radio break.

Yeah, there you go.

Yeah, there you go.

There you go.

Yeah, it's nicely done.

And good talking with you, man.

Safe travels out there.

Oh, you're the best, Kevin.

Yeah.

All right, guys, you guys have a great day and great weekend.

You too.

Oh, hey, Kevin, before I let you go.

Do you have a flavor of M&M?

Do you have a favorite type of M&Ms?

Ooh.

It sure are there?

I mean, you love the planes, you love the peanut ones.

I mean, the hat, I mean, there's really no flavor to them.

But just chocolate and the more chocolate and peanuts.

I mean, the shells taste the same.

But yeah, I mean, I mean, I'm classic.

Yeah, very classic, you know.

You really can't go wrong with classic.

No, no.

Thanks for that, brother.

No, and you know, the peanut butter ones okay,

but yeah, the classic ones is pretty much my favorite.

You're right, huh?

Good choice.

We appreciate you, man.

Have a great day.

Safe travels out there, Kevin.

Appreciate you.

That was a good call.

That was a good call.

I'm glad he was able to do that.

And we'll talk with him again real soon.

Yes, thank you, Kevin.

I did want to mention that M&Ms is apparently bringing back

one of their fan favorites here.

Okay.

What is it?

They just brought back, according to fans,

their best flavor yet.

And it is a Easter Sunday, white and dark chocolate M&Ms.

White and dark chocolate M&Ms.

It's got the dark chocolate.

That's what they're in favorite.

I've never even heard of it.

You've never seen it.

Never heard of it.

I have no idea.

Yeah, I've never, I've literally never seen them in stores.

I've never even seen them in stores.

And I look at M&Ms.

I love M&Ms.

So, the dark chocolate parts sounded really good to me,

but I don't know.

I can't do white chocolate.

I can't do it.

Well, see, this will be perfect for you and your dad.

Yes, there we go.

Because you have the white chocolate ones

and you can have the dark chocolate ones.

That's pretty good.

Now, flavors is one thing,

but I was trying to think of like they've got M&M,

the double chunk chocolate cookies,

loaded with chocolatey.

Okay, that sounds really good right now.

I just got completely sidetracked.

It does, but in an M&M,

like that there's not a whole lot of,

I mean, M&Ms are small.

Yeah, yeah.

I mean, yes, these flavor ones are bigger.

Yeah, the pretzel ones, when those came out,

and those came out gosh, back in the 90s.

Yeah, in the early 2000s,

those were kind of mind blowing at the time.

It was a pretty cool thing when they did do that.

Yeah, they got cream ones and brownie ones

and all kinds of different M&Ms.

So, they don't really do too much with the flavor

as much as they do with the texture

and that kind of the way they look.

Well, adding in other things,

like my favorite recent ones that I've actually bought

to, is it the share size?

Yeah, yeah, the bigger bag that zippers closed,

so you don't have to eat them all at once.

Melissa, you don't have to eat them all at once.

They don't go bad.

They don't go, the big spoiler from Go Meat-A-Hole.

It's the caramel cold brew flavor

because they've got a coffee-esque flavor

and the middle is filled with caramel

and those are like,

evenly good, evil, how good they are.

I don't know how, so maybe it's,

because I don't normally do caramel,

but I will try that for the cold coffee taste.

I love coffee-flavored things.

So, I definitely try in this.

Because you've mentioned texture too,

the texture of them with the caramel in there,

it does change the mouthfeel.

Oh, wow, I gotta try that.

I love the M&M, so.

That's a great way to put that above feel.

That's great.

That's a pretty cool check them out.

And be listening next week while it might be M&M's,

we may have a taste test that we're doing next week

that could be a lot of fun.

Yeah, so if I don't eat them before then.

And as long as we're talking candy

and a little bit of Easter,

while we are seeking information on Easter egg hunts,

if any organization is hosting an Easter egg hunt this spring,

please let us know, get us the info.

We'd love to be able to promote it on WFHR and WIRI.

We want to share your Easter egg hunts.

Give our front desk a call, 715-424-1300,

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Yes, indeed.

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to our new sports and partner break.

Melissa and I will be back with some

then a right stories, good stories of the day

and plenty more for you on the morning show.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show at WFHR.

Gets me every time.

Oh yeah.

Melissa and James hanging out with you.

Hope you're having a great Friday.

Got some fun stuff to get into right now, Melissa.

And we've got a lot of fun.

Got some fun stuff to get into right now, Melissa.

And we want audience participation.

What are you better than 80% of people at?

Oh, okay.

Sometimes there's too much emphasis on being the best

or at least not the worst.

But you really just need to be in the 80th percentile.

Yeah.

I mean, that's better.

People are talking about the things

that they're better at than 80% of people

and the best responses are pretty good.

And I want to hear from you out there, everybody.

715-424-2600.

There is no way that I am not in the 80th,

if not 90th percentile, when it comes to Simpson's information.

I don't like braggers.

I don't like braggers.

And I don't mean to do that.

But we're talking about this topic.

And I'm sorry, everybody, but there are a few people out there

that got more Simpson's info than I do in my brain.

Just, you know, ain't bragging if you can back it up.

Well, and I think that...

That's such a weird braggers.

It is, but it's accurate, too, though.

I do believe that, James.

If I need to know something about the Simpson's,

you're my first phone call.

Thank you, Melissa.

You're welcome.

But also, I think that it is not a bad thing

to look at it this way,

because yes, we can't always all be the best,

but we can be pretty darn good.

And being in the top 80% is pretty darn good.

It's such a good point.

And I think it's something, too.

Well, this is a fun list.

There's some fun stuff on here,

and some stuff that might...

You might find serious.

It really is a great note to take from this.

We make way too much about winning and losing,

and so much is about the journey,

and about the...

Especially for certain things in life,

are you trying?

Did you give it a shot?

Because that's a win right there more times than not.

Great.

And while it is looked at as a sin to be prideful,

it's very different to take pride in your talents

and your abilities.

Yes.

And to use them.

We have talents and abilities for a reason.

We should be using them.

We don't take the wins enough in life.

Yeah.

Yeah, we beat ourselves down more often than not,

so let's build ourselves up.

And let's see how many of these you can fall into

the 80th percentile with again.

These are things that...

What are you better at than 80% of people?

And the comments on these are fantastic.

Picking the slowest line at the store.

Nobody does it better.

Nobody.

It's a real judgment call when you're coming up to the line too.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Chess, this person said.

Oh, okay.

This person said, I'm not that good,

but 80%.

That's a low bar.

I can hit that.

Okay.

Right.

Looking you directly in the face when you're talking

and not hearing a single thing you said.

Oh, that's not a good thing.

That's not good.

That's not good.

That's not a good thing.

You need to work on your focus there, buddy.

You might want to work on that one a little bit.

Having a very good internal clock,

they don't even need an alarm clock to wake up.

I think a lot of us can relate to that one.

Yeah.

Or knowing what time it is in the middle of the day

or at some point in the day without having a clock to look at.

That is...

It is an interesting talent.

And it's something that I just kind of assumed,

well, a lot of people in the radio get this.

I've actually run into a lot of people in radio

that have no idea what time it is even when they're looking at a clock.

It's just kind of funny because we get so busy in this industry.

And for being a time sensitive industry,

sometimes we did get caught up.

And I think that's something about our topic we were discussing earlier

about being overworked and overwhelmed.

There are days where I'm like,

it feels like six o'clock in the afternoon.

Oh my gosh, it's 10 in the morning.

I don't...

Yeah.

I don't think that even if we wanted to,

if we had every member of our team come on the year

and explain what they do on a daily day basis,

a day in the life of radio,

I still think we'd miss things.

I still don't think we'd really be able to cover what we do here.

And I'm saying that not because the world's smallest violin

for you to have empathy for it,

I'm saying it because I know for a positive

that 90% of businesses out there

and people out there listening can relate to that.

Oh yeah, because everybody does more than you see on the surface.

Yeah.

You walk a day in someone else's shoes.

It's a very good adage.

Number five on the list, hand writing.

Yeah, I would actually say that that's...

I could do that.

I could be in the top 80%.

I admire people with good handwriting so much.

I actually really do. I always have.

I don't think that it's necessarily something

that you have to be good at.

But when you are in its natural like you are

and people in certain people in this building are

and everything almost everybody other than Seth and I maybe.

And there's varying degrees of it.

Obviously, if I put the time and attention into it,

I would be in the top 80%.

On an average day when I'm just jotting stuff down, no.

I can read it.

Finding misplaced commas in a sentence.

Me, that's me.

I can do that.

Yes, yes.

That's a good one.

That's a good one.

Parallel parking.

Me, I'm good at that.

I was going to ask.

Actually, I think this is one of the few topics

that may have not come up very much with us.

Well, I think we've talked about it before because I take pride

in the fact that I am a good parallel parker

and I would say 80% of the time.

Sometimes I miss it completely.

But I also am good at instructing someone else to do it

when I'm not in the driver's seat.

That's a good one.

That's a good one.

So if you need help with your parallel parking,

give me a call.

That's a good one right there.

Untangling things.

Me too.

I'm good at that.

Yeah, me too.

Yeah, that's where my patience really comes in.

And a little my OCD element.

But hey, sometimes you can find ways

to make that work for you not against you.

And I want to give a shout out to the lady

at Pick and Save earlier this week

who helped me untangle my scarf from my purse.

Thank you.

It was really, really grateful that you helped me with that

because I was stuck.

Really appreciate that lady doing that.

My only catch is you could have filmed it.

I really could have used that footage.

It'd be great content.

No, because my phone was in my purse

and I couldn't get into my purse

because I was stuck to it with my scarf.

That's rough.

That's rough.

Oh, that's a laugh.

Sorry.

That's a funny image.

Throwing a frisbee.

Throwing a frisbee on you.

Yeah, I could see that.

Could we also add boomerang to that?

Yes, definitely.

That is a true skill to be able to do that.

And then somebody mentioned,

I have an odd talent of judging volume.

I can look at a pot of leftover soup

and know exactly which container to grab

to put it in the fridge with minimal headspace.

I went with volume as in loudness.

That's what I thought.

Yeah.

Volume as in.

So how to fill something.

That reminds me a little bit of our conversation

just a little while ago about being able to fit things

into a moving van or a car.

And doing it like where you get everything.

Somehow you manage to get everything in there.

Yeah.

I'm actually pretty good at that too

of judging like which leftover container

to grab to put soup or whatever in.

Yeah.

I would say I'm pretty good at that.

I am very good at, you know how you almost drop something

but you catch it?

Mm-hmm.

I am masterful at that.

I have had so many highlights of my life

of where the pen is flipping.

I hit it one hand and another and then I catch it.

And nobody ever seen that.

That means you're moment.

Yes.

Nobody.

Nobody.

Maybe two people have seen it in my whole life.

So sure James.

Sure you're good at that.

Exactly.

You're good at that.

Mm-hmm.

There is so, this is such a wide category

because I like to joke all the time

about useless information.

And I think it's kind of fun to have useless information.

For everything we've got to learn,

there's a lot of fun stuff that we just know.

Just to know.

It's just fun.

And then useless skills like I can untangle a slinky.

Yes.

Yes.

These are fun skills, fun talents.

And I don't think we highlight them enough.

We'll keep this category.

We'll keep this topic going.

I mean, you know, whether it's today or this weekend

or anything like that and you want to hit us up with these,

we'd love to hear them and share them.

I am a master at stacking dishes

in a rack or on a countertop to be able to fit them all.

That's a really good one.

That's a really good one.

My Aunt Marion was so, like she was a waitress for like 30 years

and I know that 90% of waitresses can do this.

I just paid more attention to her.

But she was able to have like three plates on each arm

taken order and then getting to the back

without touching anybody or knocking anything over

while also like yelling at people that were trying to grab her

or something like that.

The amount of things that she could do at once

and none of these one skills

are like something she could take to the Olympics

or something like that.

But she should have.

Just incredible at what she was able to do.

Servers are incredible at what they do.

And I back that up because I have worked at that job

and people who are really good at it

are really good at it.

And we don't admire them.

We're not good at it.

We're not bad at it.

Yes, yes.

And since I was a little kid,

I am my whole family.

People, family members, I don't,

I haven't talked to in years.

We'll call me up and be like,

hey, who is in that movie

that won that award last year?

Tom Hanks.

Tom Hanks.

It was Tom Hanks.

It was like, yeah, for some reason,

my brain has always been able to keep this stuff.

I can't remember simple geometry,

but if you need it,

you're on jeopardy.

And you need to help her.

It's like, I can help you out in that to category.

Not anything else.

I can have Korean Simpsons.

Yes, yes.

And we all have our unique talents

and the things that we bring to our lives

and those that love us.

So congratulations to you, James, on that.

My father is a master at nicknames

and shortening names.

I literally saw him do this

with a friend of mine growing up named Bo

that he would call B.

He's just a system.

We want to hear yours.

Go ahead and let us know.

We'd love to hear from you, everybody.

We'll take a quick time out.

We'll wrap up the show for the week.

The Marting Show at WFHR.

Get into our schedule here

and talk a little bit about that.

And we can't talk about our schedule

without mentioning, of course,

civic media is breaking a spring

text to win statewide contest.

Oh, yeah.

We want you to win.

Yep, we're rooting for you, everybody.

Be listening for this at the top of the 11,

1 and 4 o'clock hours.

We'll give you a keyword to text to us

through the civic media app.

Go right ahead and do that

and get in on the winning and the fun.

Three more chances to win today.

We'll take a break this week

and come back and do it all again next week.

Yeah.

Looking forward to it.

It's going to be a lot of fun.

And every time you text in,

you're entered to win that grand prize.

Yeah.

So be sure to do that.

Everybody get in on the winning.

We appreciate you doing that.

That's going to be a lot of fun.

It doesn't want a new mattress.

Yes, yes.

We will have a great midday magazine

lined up for you a little bit later today.

Be sure to join us for that at 4 o'clock.

We're going to welcome

Enlisa Saltler, a resource specialist

with the Aging and Disability Resource Center

of Central Wisconsin.

Oh, good information there.

I can't wait to talk with Lisa.

She'll be joining us in just a little bit.

Looking forward to that.

And as you heard Kevin mentioning earlier today,

we're going to wrap up the week

of midday magazine at 430.

Talking with Scouting America.

We're going to have Sam, Amy, and Angel

in with us.

We're going to be talking with them.

Looking forward to it.

Got a lot of great things

in the Scouting Universe to be talking about.

Mm-hmm.

And he invited me to their day in April, I believe,

where I'm going to get to go out and meet the Scouts

and see what they're doing.

And that'll be a fun news article coming up.

That'll be a really good look

for it to read in that one.

Mm-hmm.

We're looking forward to wrapping up playmakers

for the week.

We've got one lined up for you a little bit later today

from 5 to 6.

Be sure to join us.

Thanks to Quality Plus Printing

and Family Natural Food Sponsoring that hour.

Got plenty to talk about.

Got the NCAA March Madness going on.

Got some Brewers baseball to talk about.

Plenty to get into tonight on playmakers.

Join us from 5 to 6 for that.

And if I want to talk to Kevin on air,

I guess I got a call into playmakers.

Yeah, yeah.

Maybe just co-host with me sometime.

That would be fun.

That would be fun.

We should do that.

Great weekend lineup for you.

It kicks off at 7 a.m.

with the Sunshine Poker Show tomorrow.

The greatest show of all time.

Poker Tim.

Tim does an amazing job.

You should check that out every Saturday at 7.

Our good friends and family natural foods bring us

Terry talks nutrition at 8 a.m.

The Godfather, the really supplement industry

and so much of what we use in our day-to-day lives

Terry is at the forefront of.

An incredible mind and just a good talker.

It's a lot of fun.

Check that one out.

It's very knowledgeable.

11 a.m.

We have a fun hour we've been doing where we put together

a best of show for our best of our morning show.

We take different segments through the week and put

that together.

Be sure to check that out, everybody.

Awesome.

And our Sunday night lineup is only gotten stronger.

Join us from 5 to 6 for Director's Playhouse.

We have a great time talking to local creatives on that show.

And we want more artists on that show.

If you're a band and you want to be on the show,

it's free advertising, man.

Come and join us.

We'd love to have you on.

Reach out to our front desk.

424-1300 or email me.

Or us here at info.

At wfhatura.com.

Go ahead and hit us up.

Afterwards, you'll have Seth face the music.

From 2 hours, 6 to 8, Seth takes a different topic

and gives you a lot of fun with that one.

He's got so much knowledge when it comes to music

and artists and bands.

And so it's just a fascinating hour.

One of the more unique hours of radio you're going to hear.

Be sure to check that out every week.

And from 8 to 9, it's your 90s mixtape.

Check out Unlabeled.

James will bring you a great lineup of 90s music.

And I take requests, everybody.

If you've got a song that you want to hear from the 90s,

go ahead and let me know just like I told you with the artist

and you can direct messages on our Facebook pages.

Okay, so when I send you my full list.

Yes.

Yes.

How many songs can I submit, Jane?

As many as you want.

You go right ahead.

How many fit in the hour?

Well, I fit about 10 songs an hour.

10 songs.

Okay.

Oh, that's easy.

I can do that.

Yeah.

I'm looking forward to that list.

And we're really looking forward to the premiere of a new show

that we have coming up this Sunday at 9 o'clock.

And it'll be the last Sunday of every month.

You can check out Masters of Mystery.

Their host and producer Rob Young reached out to me recently

and brought up this show and just seemed really interesting.

The team seemed to like it, so we're going to give it a shot.

It features the best mystery thriller writers

in conversation with the most interesting people.

This is a Midwest show comes to us from Minnesota.

We like being able to support our Midwest.

Check it out.

And our local authors.

Yes.

And this year about their process of how they write mystery novels.

I'm guessing.

That sounds fantastic.

Yeah.

Find out this Sunday at 9 o'clock with our premiere episode.

We're looking forward to that.

A shout out to Rob too.

Great guy.

Great guy.

Great stuff going on.

And our weekend here.

Be sure to check out our friends over at Seawack,

Central Wisconsin Area Community Theater.

They got their final Fridays spring into improv.

Yeah, that's tonight.

It is tonight.

It'll be taking place at the shack over 29.52 Minnesota Avenue.

The social will begin in seven games at 7.30.

It's a free event.

It is a BYOB.

And it is a R rated, so keep that in mind.

Yeah.

But you also have, as your host, one of the greatest entertainers

we have in this state in Steve Martin.

And you're going to have a fun time.

It's you can just come and laugh and enjoy and watch

or you can participate.

Encourage you to check that out and find out more at Seawack.org.

Everybody's Seawack.org.

Follow them on Facebook because you'll get all the updates.

Yeah.

And J&R Aquatic Animal Rescue will host an exotic pet surrender event

today in Steven's point.

The event is scheduled from noon to three at the Holiday Inn Convention Center

and offers pet owners a safe and responsible alternative

to releasing unwanted animals into the wild.

Oh, yes.

Please don't do that.