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We're going to get into how many of us are drinking water after three o'clock in the afternoon.
That one a little later.
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bit later.
Right now, though, we're talking about Sir Elton and Madonna.
Two artists that, of course, have been around for decades, and certainly you would think
that their stars had crossed a couple of times.
But they hadn't in many ways because they purposely dodged each other from a long time.
Really?
Madonna have had what seems like a one-sided feud for over 20 years, with Elton trashing
her publicly, seemingly for no reason.
But this past week, last weekend, when Elton, John, and Brandy Carlyle were on for the
Saturday Live, Madonna went down there to watch.
Madonna went to watch him on Saturday Live, and she confronted him after the show.
Quote, when I met him, the first thing out of his mouth was, forgive me, and the wall
between us fell down.
Quote forgiveness is a powerful tool within minutes.
We were hugging, then he told me, then he told me, had written a song for me, and he wanted
to collaborate.
And it was like everything became full circle.
Oh, wow.
And I'm sorry, this is Madonna talking if I'm not being clear about that.
No, well, I figured it would be.
Yeah, I should have.
She also shared that it's been hurtful to know that someone she admires and looks up
to so much is so outspoken about his dislike for her as an artist.
He previously called her a number of different things that I'm not going to say.
Elton called the whole thing a, quote, healing moment.
And one of the things that I, whether you like a single note that Elton John has ever
played, I can't help but like about him.
This, you talk about always being himself, like from day one.
Now part of that is though, Elton didn't know much about himself for a very long time.
He, his movie tells you a lot of this, his biography does.
And he's somebody who has been very honest about the addiction and a lot of the things
he was struggling with throughout a lot of his life.
And the anger he felt towards his family and, you know, not all of his family, but his
father and some other things that kind of like blood into public, his public persona in
some ways.
There's also one other part of this.
And this happens in rap all the time where artists will, will get into a rap beef with
another artist and guess what, both artists record sales go up.
There is a little bit of Elton referencing Madonna and interviews back in the late 80s
and stuff.
And even in the 90s, when his star was not as big, but hers was.
And there is a little of that that he owns that, that's not me, that's him owning that.
And I just appreciate that from him, because nowadays, we got way too many people doubling
down.
There's way too much of that in society that that nobody has ever looked cool or are actually
really even been on the right side of business or history doubling down.
Name me one thing that has been worked out better because you doubled down on something.
I admire this from him and we need more of that.
Did he ever say like why?
I don't think he had a real reason.
I don't think he had a real reason.
I think his, the reasons behind this were all based on him and demons and things he was
struggling with.
I don't know anything necessarily that she did or didn't do or she was just an easy target
maybe.
Yeah.
And to that point, the things that he would come out and say about her were all about
appearance.
We're all about it.
Nothing to do with her singing, her writing.
He would stay away from those things because you could tell he respected those things.
And if you can't pick on it, you're not going to bring it up.
You're just going to focus on Madonna, this and this with her body or whatever and everything.
Well, I'm really glad that they had that moment in that he could apologize and that she
could accept it.
That's something we all need to be able to do.
Like you said, doubling down the saying things just because you can say them and not having
any proof of that, it doesn't make it true.
It doesn't make you a better person for spreading falsehoods and yeah, just admit when you're
wrong.
It's not hard.
The only people I've ever known to double down or anything like that are all cowards.
And I don't see that as a good as living life.
That's not what it's about and who got, you know, what happens to you?
Elton doing this.
What did they do to him?
Did it ruin his record sales?
This is legacy-tronished?
I mean, nothing.
Nothing bad came of this.
In fact, they might even get it.
Yeah, and they might get a hit out of this because if those two are going to collaborate,
it's going to be a hit.
Yeah, I have a hard time believing it won't be.
There's no way that it can't.
See, nothing but positives from not doubling down and owning your life and, you know, having
accountability.
I'm admitting you made a mistake in trying to rectify it.
Jack Black made a surprise appearance at a screening of a Minecraft movie at a theater
in LA over the weekend.
Really?
Reminded the kids to behave during the chicken jockey scene.
I don't know what that is.
I don't know what I just said.
Do you know what I'm doing?
I'm not okay.
And then he said for, he like did a big bit in front of everybody and everything.
And Lapis Lazula was also there.
Lazuli was also there.
He's an actual, and they had some fun with the kids and everything.
That's cool.
But this was not planned.
The theater didn't know he was stopping by or anything like that.
He just kind of did this.
According to, from what he was saying, he was in the area.
He had the time and just saw that the movie was playing.
So, you know, it's a symmetry or, you know, center, um, uh, serendipity.
Serendipity.
Thank you.
Serendipity.
I knew it was one of those S words.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I would have gotten there in the next year.
You did.
We got there at the same time.
We evolved in the moment too.
We were there.
I really appreciate you meeting me.
I don't think without you, I would have gotten there.
I wanted to get into this story and shut up to Jack Black, by the way, that stuff.
Yeah.
That's cool.
And what a great experience for all of those, you know, people who were there at that
theater.
I, uh, I, I, I want the audience to be able to look behind the curtain a little bit
on this one because, um, I, I usually, anything that we're doing with audio, I like
when Melissa's in the studio, um, because it's hard for her to be able to hear the audio
with the way this works where her coming in through clear feed and all that.
Uh, so I usually stay away from these stories, but Melissa, I cannot wait to talk about this
one with you.
Um, and I've been sitting on it since last month.
Ooh.
This, uh, comes to us from Wisconsin Life.org and encourage you to check out the website
and excellent website.
They do really nice reporting over there, shout out to Rob Menzer, uh, for this article
about the Central Wisconsin musician who is on a quest to recreate the sounds of Vikings.
Ooh.
Imagine it's spring, you're living in Norwegian, uh, Norwegian village during the Viking
edge and it's hard winter.
Now it's getting warmer.
You want to get out.
You want to have some fun and, you know, be a part of a festival.
Mm-hmm.
Well, quote, everybody's getting ready to dance and have a good time, says Eric Besttool,
a musician and music teacher who owns the lessons from the art academy in Ayola, Wisconsin.
Uh, he says, what would be the soundtrack?
Mm-hmm.
Besttool has spent the last three years studying Viking music.
He builds instruments similar to those in a historical record, um, as a Skolga
Troll.
He writes the record, he writes and records music in the style of what those villagers might
have heard at the spring festival.
Oh, cool.
Even though he admits the process involves some guesswork.
Quote, we don't know what Viking music actually sounded like he said.
There are no songs written down, there's no direct way to know.
This is how it sounded.
The Viking era was more than a thousand years ago and unlike some cultures of the time,
Vikings didn't keep record, uh, great records.
That means the efforts to reproduce the music of Northern Europeans, circa 900 AD, are always
imperfect.
Mm-hmm.
But that's also part of what makes the project so intriguing to him.
Yeah.
Um, I encourage you to check out his website and look at these instruments, everybody.
There is a name for the type of work Besttool does, it's called, and God, I love this.
Experimental Archaeology.
Ooh, yeah, that's cool.
Ooh, that felt good to say, Experimental Archaeology.
It is a way of studying the distant past by recreating its conditions and testing hypothesis.
Mm-hmm.
Almost every, quote, almost every instrument that we use, both in living tradition from
the, uh, era, uh, to the stuff that came before it, um, has Gregorian chance.
Drones are a steady thing all the way through.
And then when you play the instruments, it's like, yeah, man, that totally fits.
That you see, you feel like it fits the era.
And I'm going to play a little of this for everybody right now, um, because I think
this is pretty cool.
So we're just going to go and play this right now for you, everybody.
How cool is that?
That, I just thought that sounded really cool.
And, and I don't know, um, we get to do this very often, but I feel like any movie or
any TV show that has ever been in, in the Viking era or anything has that style of music.
Well done.
Well done, uh, Hollywood or movie makers and everything, um, cause that's, I was, that's
pretty dead on.
That's pretty close.
And this is, uh, extremely similar to me than a story that Carl and I did ages ago
about, um, then figuring out how dinosaurs sounded.
Ah, yeah.
So they, they, you know, take a, a brontosaurus.
They took a brontosaurus and, you know, the idea, the model of one and they, they have
the neck stretched out and the esophagus is so long.
So they put sound through it and it's, it's tried to, you know, in, in, in, get as close
as we can to what air through it to make a, yeah, and, and, you know, along with a bunch
of other things, I'm simplifying it, but, uh, they, that's essentially what they did.
This is similar to it to me and similar obviously to the story we did last week or, or two
weeks ago, uh, about the individual, uh, that's recreating instruments of India, mm-hmm.
And, uh, it, I just, I mean, preserving of history and, and, and they're, they're bringing
back the arts, um, again, there's no downside to any of this.
There, this is nothing but a positive for the future, for, for, for, for, for art, for
the arts, um, and just in, in general, the story of humanity, like, these are really cool
stories. I'm not saying that they're, they should be on the front page of a very, you
know, newspaper in the world or anything like that, but this, these are cool stories.
That is cool. And, and just knowing the importance of art throughout the development of, of
human, humanity and human history and the, the role that it played in getting us to
where we are now, and, and the importance of us not losing that.
All that, and this is a local story. This is a guy in Ayola doing this, you know, right
and that you're far from us. Rob is from Wasa.
That's awesome. That, I, I've run into him several times. So cool.
So cool.
Yeah. He's a cool guy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Really is. Uh, and, and, and, and, and thank you
to him for doing this, because I don't know, I, I, I could not get more of this story.
I, I am, I am so giving you guys the cliff notes of this. I went down a route all this
weekend, man. It's fun. I encourage you to check out his, uh, website and his, uh, school
lessons from the art. Uh, it's an academy in Ayola. Uh, they do some really cool stuff
over there. Mm-hmm. That was kind of awesome. And again, you can find the complete article
at Wisconsinlife.org, shout out to them. Uh, Sean, our two, our Wisconsin Rabbids community
theater, they just announced their 2025, 2026 season. Yeah. We'll have Gretchen in some
time. We'll, uh, go over that, but they got some great ones in there. Some hits. Uh,
well, they're all hits. Um, there, there's one that I haven't seen in a long time, but
there's three of them that, man, those are, are staples. You guys are going to love to
see, uh, including of another staple noises off, um, which is our spring season finale
of the main stage for the 50th season over at Wisconsin's Rabbids community theater. Melissa
Kay is a director of it. And you guys are getting closer and closer to the May 1st opening
night. We are, we are, uh, the crew had off on Friday because we had a couple, a couple
people out. So, um, it was back after a long weekend and the casted great. Um, but I'm
going to, I'm going to start pushing them real hard now soon because we're getting
down to the wire. Um, but we, yeah, we did our first run through again of act one and
start of act two and our first like big set change starting of that. Um, so that's
another step in the process and we're, we're moving forward and round and circles. Um,
but we're getting there. You know, uh, I'm really, uh, I'm thankful to hear that it's
going well. And while I know you are a fantastic actress, Melissa, I know that, um, I, one of
the things that I've been thankful for throughout this is hearing that it sounds like you're
enjoying yourself, sounds like you're enjoying the process. It's not to say that there aren't
stresses and tensions and everything. I can only imagine the juggling act you're doing
between here and there and all those things, but it does sound like you're having fun.
And you really deserve that. That's all. Oh, thank you. It is a lot of fun. And I have
a great casting crew and I'm very, I'm very grateful for that. They're okay because,
you know, that definitely makes the process very enjoyable when everybody's in it for
the same goal of, you know, making a good show. And that's, that's the point we want to
entertain audiences. And oh my gosh, are you going to be entertained in this show? I,
I have a hard time not laughing throughout. Like I'm, I'm busy trying to take notes so that
I can help the actors improve that we can make the show tight. And, you know, like good timing
and all of that. But man, just when I have the moment to just sit back and enjoy their performances,
you guys are going to be so entertained. I can't wait. It's a flawless cast. It's a really,
really strong cast. And you need it for a show like this. It's an incredible farce. It's
one of the best ones ever written. And you guys are going to be enjoying it coming up in May.
Get your tickets right now. First two weekends.
WRC theater dot org. WRC theater dot org. Keep on listening to the show here. We'll be giving you
a little behind the scenes. Look at it. Appreciate that a lot. Melissa. Yeah. And while you're there
at WRC theater dot org, you can see the new season. Yeah. Check it out. Everybody. Make plans.
And get your season tickets. Get them. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We'll be back with more show coming up
morning. The mornings with WFHR.
Yeah. Welcome back, everybody. Morning show at WFHR. Locally grown radio. Little sold play us in.
Melissa and James hanging out with you. And this one, you could be honest with us, everybody.
Just like you're going to be honest with us a little bit later. And what is the silliest way you
have injured yourself? We'll be getting into that after our news and sports break. But how much,
how often do you drink water after three o'clock? Drinking eight glasses of water every day is a
little, you know, it can be tough on some people. Most of us go through, quote, faces where we're
really good about it. And then we stop doing it for months at a time. In a recent survey, 87%
of Americans say that getting enough hydration is important, especially in the morning because it
quotes sets the tone for the day. And yet 34% of people say that they typically don't drink water
until after three. As I have found out the hard way coffee does not count. No. The survey asked
people how much water they think they should drink before 10 a.m. to power a productive work day.
And the top responses was three glasses or 24 ounces. One common water, quote, hack is to get
in the habit of downing a glass right when you wake up, since you're usually thirsty then anyway.
Jen Sears are the generation most likely to do it. First thing in the morning,
boomers are the most likely to skip straight to coffee. So I don't, I got it. I don't understand
why they throw that stuff in there. I don't, I need to be honest. I rod burgundy that. I just
read what was in front of me because I going forward. I don't think I'm going to really include that
stuff unless it's actually noteworthy. Like I don't know what that really had to do with this survey.
But regardless, let's be honest, it's a safe place. Melissa and I ain't going to tell anybody,
you know, how often do you do this? And going back to kind of what we were talking about before
about rewiring the brain and some of these things, this is your brain wants routine. It wants routine
constantly. That's how it works better. It makes it hum and makes it feel better. It also helps
when, you know, talking about staving off Alzheimer's or dementia, some of those things.
Now, the brain also though, it's, it's, you know, it's crazy because it also loves random
sabotage you. Yes, and it will be your biggest at worst enemy. Yes.
So you tell yourself that you need water, but there's another part of you that's telling you,
yeah, but you're busy or, or yeah, but coffee sounds better. Yeah, yeah, but coffee tastes like
chocolate or something along those lines. I may be giving you my own inner, Donald, you know,
monologue there, you know, dialogue. But this is something that you can get better about. I,
I, I think that if you just work at it and you really want to do this, and it's not to say that
it's a matter of, oh, you got to want it enough or something. I mean, just wanting to do it in general
is a great first step. We don't give ourselves enough credit for that first step. That's a good first
step. It is a good first step. And wanting to, you know, give your body what it needs to function
properly. I mean, we, we, we expect a lot of our bodies. We really do. It's a great sense. It's
so true. Well, I hadn't thought of it like that really very often, but just, wow, I'm sorry,
didn't mean to cut you off. No, that's okay. It's, it's a matter of like, don't fail me now,
body. Body's responding. Okay, but you didn't give me water. Right, right. How am I, I'm, I'm going to fail.
Come on, car. At some point. Why won't you drive car? I guess. Gas please. A little help. Exactly
that. A little help here. We talked about different strategies on how to, you know, increase your
water intake, trying to just do it right away in the morning is really good. Best had a great one.
Drink, get out your coffee cup. Well, your coffee is brewing. Fill your coffee cup up with water.
And as soon as your water is gone, you can have coffee. You know, I mean, if that's a trick that
works for you, great. I have a water bottle that I keep full. Well, I don't keep it full. I fill
it up. And then I try to drink the whole thing, you know, in, in the day. And sometimes I'm even
refilling it to have more water. And I keep it on my, you know, nightstand at night. And I'll drink
in the middle of the night if I'm thirsty, which happens often. But also, so when you started this
conversation, James, and you said how many people drink water after 3 p.m. I was like, um, people
who have to get up in the night and pee. So I thought that's what it was going to be related to.
Sleeping and interrupted sleep. Uh, but, you know, I mean, so I know people who don't purposely
don't drink water late in the day so that that, you know, doesn't happen to them. But it happens
to me regardless. It doesn't matter. Was anybody else taking a drink of water right there?
Because this is, it's in my head now. Second time today. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um, you, I actually,
so I do a similar thing. I've got a water bottle wherever I am a lot of the time. Like,
um, at my parents, uh, where I, I do a lot of my work or here at the studios. I've got one that
I take with me. Um, that, that has really helped me a lot. Having the water bottle there really
helps me. But I, I have to, I have to say, I got to give you some credit on this one,
too, Melissa, because years ago when we first started, one of the earlier things that you brought
up in conversation was, uh, a sentence you said about if you're feeling thirsty.
Hmm. Yeah. Yeah. If you're feeling thirsty already dehydrated.
It stayed with me. It is stayed with me. Uh, I think it's a good line. That's a good line.
Well, I got it from, um, from my former chiropractor, uh, Bridget Owens in Toma, uh,
active health chiropractic. And she, she's water, water, water.
She does a bit where she goes around and, and she dresses up and she goes around to classrooms
and gives talks about the importance of water to our bodies and the functions and, and, you know,
and healthy bodies and healthy care and so that's where that came from.
I want her on the air with us. I want, I want to do an interview with her. Uh,
she's a hoot and she's, you know, heavily involved at the, the community theater there in Toma
and, and a great addition to the community there. She sounds awesome. That's great. It's so true.
Uh, so I mean, you know, keep up on this as you can, everybody. And I think another thing,
like a lot of this stuff, give yourself some grace. You know, it's seven o'clock at night or it's
10 o'clock at night and you realize you haven't drank any water after three or something.
Get some water, you know, don't beat yourself up, you know, just keep moving.
And then be ready to get up in the middle of the night and pee. Yeah, yeah, definitely. Yeah.
We'll take a time out. We'll come back after our news partner and, uh, sports break and we'll
have some more fun with how is, how is the silliest way you have injured yourself? What is the
silliest way? A way one audience participation coming up on the morning show right here at WFHR
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Welcome back, everybody. Mornings with WFHR locally grown radio. Hope you're having a great one out
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what is the silliest way you have injured yourself? Again, remember, this is a safe place. We'll
keep it between us. Yes. You don't need to include your name. And if you'd like to disguise your
voice, that is also welcome. Oh, please, please. I like we want that. Yes. Greg Bach, please call
and do your robot voice. Yes. Yes. Um, so I've got two to get things started. And I will, of course,
include my own, um, because it's not fair. I don't include some of myself. I brought this
topic up and everything. You did. You chose this. Um, quote, my brother was at an archery tournament
a few nights ago, somehow lost control of his bowstring and punched himself in the face. He has a
concussion from it. Oh, my goodness. Wow. He, he really went for it. Um, I'm pretty sure it was
arm wrestling. I'm not a hundred percent of that's what it was, but I had something similar
happen when I was younger and I was, uh, first learning to arm wrestle and my arms are double-jointed.
And, uh, my arm went like, you know, uh, the, the, the kid, yeah, yeah, and the kid freaked out
and pulled away right away. And as he pulled away, my hand went flying right into my nose,
right into my nose. Oh, because you were still engaged. Yeah. Yeah. There's snapped just right back.
Oh, did it bleed? Um, no, no. Uh, thankfully it still hurts. It hits, it hurts to get hit in the nose.
Uh, it's a quickest way to get your eyes watering. Yeah. Yeah. Um, uh, so we're getting this list
from Buzzfeed.com. If you like to find a complete list, you can go to Buzzfeed.com to find that.
Uh, and then there was this one. I was running away from a bat in our house, tripped and went face
down, broke my back. Oh, oh, wow. That's rough. That is rough. Now, um, when I first moved to
rapids here and I was going to Washington school, um, I, I had had a, a run, uh, no pun intended, uh,
uh, always being the fastest kid in class. But I, uh, Washington, there was this kid Craig
that was faster than me and Craig ended up being one of my best friends. Craig and I would race all
the time in, uh, one winter we were racing from his, uh, apartment to my, uh, house and, uh,
where it's like six grade and we're racing and I get a good jump on him and I've got him and
I'm beating him and I'm not just beating him. I got like a, a good, you know, 10 yards between us
or something like that. And he's, I could see the look on his face. He was a redhead and he's just,
you know, turned his whole face is turning red. He's trying to catch up to me. So bad. And I start, um,
like feeling it. So I start turn, I turn around and start running backwards. What? And, uh,
and I'm just smiling at him the whole time and everything and I'm winning and the, the rule was,
uh, you had to be the first one to, to slap the door, the front door. Mm-hmm. So I'm running
and then I'm running and I'm about, you know, 10 feet away, not even. And, uh, I turn around,
because I'm running backwards. I turn around so I can hit the door and as I turn around,
I stepped on some kind of black ice or something like that. Mm-hmm. And I slipped and this,
the, I'm in the air for, I still feel like I'm in the air. I like, it felt like it was forever.
And I landed right on my face. How easy. It made this the whack noise that I could still hear.
I don't like these stories. They made me feel, with the last bit of, but this is a good,
it ends all right, because with the last bit of energy I had, I slammed that door with my hand.
Oh, he said he's the one. And, and Craig's mom gave me a nice back. So,
oh, we're, I love it. I think, um, he probably laughed at you. Oh, yeah. Oh, oh, I could hear,
I could hear him laughing. He, as soon as I hit the ground, the next sound I hear is him falling
over laughing. Yes. And here's the part of all of this. We, we survived. Well, all these people
survived. We survived. We, um, we were able to laugh at ourselves at one day, maybe years later.
But this isn't, this is another life lesson, everybody. This is another part of accountability.
Yeah, we all fall down. It's about getting back up. A woman was singing, oh, I'm sorry,
Melissa, go ahead. That's okay. Go ahead. A woman was singing part of the part of your world
from the little mermaid at karaoke, got way to wind it and, uh, tore her ACL.
Whoa. How do you do that singing? How do you? Wow. Like, you really got to begin to do it, I guess.
Yeah. No kidding. Cause that's like that, that tendon in your knee. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
I've torn that. I have literally, my ACL and, uh, PCL, I tore, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No. Wow.
In another silly, uh, way of injuring myself, by the way, that's for another day. I've already
shared too many. I'm not going to share anymore. Okay. I have one. I have one. Good. Good. Um, I,
I managed to put my jaw out of place. Um, and, and how I did this was, uh, I was Hulu Hooping.
And I have these weighted Hulu Hoops, which you've experienced nowadays. They're, you know,
they're a little, they're a little heavy and, um, a couple pounds, but because they have water
or sand in them to give them extra weight while I was trying to do this trick where you can like,
as you're hooping, you can reach behind your back and you can guide the hoop up over your head
with your arm and then be spinning the hoop around your head. Well, I, I did that, but I managed
to smack myself in the face with the hoop on the way up, but I knocked my jaw out of place.
It was so painful. It's like, I'm so sorry. It hurt. And I had to, like, you know,
I had to go to the chiropractor and they had to put my jaw back into place. Like, I mean,
this wasn't like a, um, you know, in boxing, like when you get punched in the jaw, that's like a
knockout punch, right? Right. Right. Well, it, it did knock me out because it wasn't like,
it wasn't like I ripped my jaw off or anything. Sure, sure. But, and it wasn't as bad as a punch to
the face would have been, but it was enough to, to knock it out of place enough to be like, man,
that really hurts. And I had the worst headache ever. It, it, it, it sounds like, yeah, it sounds like,
like, um, it, it, it, it sounds like it's just, it's bad enough. Yeah. And then it was,
and then it was really easy to, uh, get it out of place again because it happened a couple
times after that without even trying very hard. A guy, uh, thank you for sharing that, Melissa.
Yeah. Yeah. So silly way to, yeah, injure yourself, hulu hooping. That's a great one. I
haven't heard that one before. Anything evolving a hulu. A guy waxed his floor, tried to do the Tom
crew slide from risky business, but didn't stop and busted his lip on a doorframe. Oh,
just keep sliding the schedule. We used to do that when, um, uh, we would clean the house
on Fridays because we didn't have school on Fridays growing up, but we had to clean the whole house.
And so, uh, if mom didn't happen to be paying attention or, or wasn't home or something,
we would after mopping the floor, we would pledge it, you know, put pledge on the floor and then
run and slide in our socks. Yeah, we get in trouble then. You have to clean the floor.
Quote, I stood on a beach ball and fell into a coffee table.
Okay. Well, why would you stand on a beach ball? Yeah. I just, I just, man, wanted to be a
join the circus. Like, oh my gosh, a woman was washing her face in the shower accidentally shoved
her pinky finger into her nose and got a horrible nosebleed. Oh, no. Oh, oh, someone tried to
walk down a set of stairs with roller skates on and needed 10 stitches in their knee. Yeah. That's
why would you do that? I'm sorry. I'm stuck on the aggressive face washing. What was going on?
Yeah. Yeah. I hope that's some really vigorous face washing. What kind of exfoliating are you
doing? What is going on? Maybe get a washcloth. Yeah. Someone was riding their bike, got distracted
when they saw a cute puppy in crash into a mailbox. Oh, that's rough. That is a tough one.
Let's see, a few months, a quote, a few months back, I was wearing a sleep mask when I heard one of
my cats getting ready to throw up. I sprung out of bed, out of bed mask still on and went face
first into the side of my, my wife's full height cabinet on the side of my bed. Oh, Ouch. Whoops.
Oh, this one. Nothing will get you out of bed faster though than an animal or child puking.
Yes. Yes. Very true. Very true. Let's take a call. Good morning. You're on the show.
Yeah. Melissa said it's a lot of sliding on the floor with a pledge on it.
All we did when I went, where, where our kids is the hallway there. We just put baby powder on it.
We run it as wide. Oh, my goodness. Just on that. We have probably low, low, low on the
on floor. Yeah. Oh, I wish I had a father. Baby powder. That's a great idea. Did you get in trouble
for that though? All right. Did you get in trouble for it, sir? I don't remember that one.
Baby powder makes a mess. I don't even remember that one. Oh, my God.
That's a great story. Thank you for that. Have a great morning, sir. Have a great morning.
That was awesome. Quote throughout my back while vacuuming at work, managed to get in the car
and drive home but couldn't get out. And my husband was in home. So I had to call the
neighbors to carry me into the house. I have had my back go out and that is, it is so debilitating.
Like there are, you just can't, you can't do anything. If you ever wondered what it's like to
be a turtle on their back, yeah. That's that's kind of what it is. It feels like to me at least.
Yeah. Quote, not me, but my mom, she waxed the kitchen floor. Once the floor was finished,
she went upstairs to finish some other tests. Our only phone, this was back in the early
90s, 80s, was hung up in the kitchen wall besides the kitchen table. And she went flying,
which she went to go answer, run an answer the phone. No, no, wax floor. Um, I mean, the, yeah.
So I can be on, is anybody else hearing these stories and just thinking about my God,
the fact that any of us survive a day is just remarkable sometimes. The things that,
because it's, it's one thing that stuff that you can't be, it can help. Injuries that happen,
you know, things like that that just is out of your hands. But, I mean, I haven't even scratched
the surface. They got like a, of this article. And it's just an article about modern times.
I mean, I can't imagine back in the day, the amount of ways people got hurt or injured
in the silliest of ways. And before I give the last ones here, um, this also reminds me of the whole
slip, you know, when you slide, slip on the ice. And I don't know if anybody else does this,
but the very first thing I do is not check if I have a broken bone or anything like that,
but I got to look around. Anybody see that? Did anybody see that? Does it, because I feel like
that's the, that also happens with every single one of these. Right after your hurt, the,
the first thing you do is not to check and see if you're hurt. It's to see if anybody else saw that.
Look around. Yeah. Yeah. Um, this person said, uh, someone was riding their bike. I just, oh,
yeah. Uh, uh, uh, I injured my knee playing foosball, um, playing foosball. Like, how do you,
how do you do that? Like foosball? It's like injuring yourself while walking, which is another
silly thing that I've done. It's not as great of a story. But you're just like, how did it? Well,
I seriously, I was just walking. Uh, why do I have a, why is my ankle hurting now?
I should not kind of wood. This hasn't happened in a long time. But for the life of me,
it used to happen where I would just be, I'm walking the dog or something like that and a twist
ankle. Like just walking. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like, like, if it happens in a basketball game,
I'm fine with it. But just, just walking. Come on. Come on legs. Come on. Yeah. Or, or you,
you miss a step. Like, you think you're at the bottom and there's one more step. That's the worst.
Oh, that is right. It not only hurts your ankle, but it jars your back and, you know, it's
rocks. Yeah. Well, at least it's probably better than this person who I sliced my finger open,
to open, uh, open on a disco ball. The disco ball. How did you? Why were you touching a disco ball?
What? And like, they're round. They're, they're smooth. Like, if they're covered in glass,
they're reflective, but, but it's usually on a ceiling. And it feels like they're going out of
their way to say that it wasn't broken. So it wasn't like a bus. I don't, I'm actually kind of curious
don't touch the disco ball. Apparently, apparently, apparently, don't, uh, disco is only for, uh,
doing that, uh, what, what, what to do? The, the, the hand, you know, you point it down and up.
You got a point. Yep. Yep. Yep. I don't know what that dance was called.
John Colta move. Yes. There you go. That's what I call it. That's what it should be called.
And that's what it forever will be known as. We will take a quick time out. We'll come back
in a wrap of the show mornings with WFHR here at 975 FM.
Welcome back, everybody. Morning show here at WFHR locally grown radio. Melissa and James hanging
out with you. We hope you're having a fantastic Tuesday out there. Thanks for hanging out with us
last couple of hours, everybody. Let's get into our, we're going to get into, I mean,
a, our schedule and some good stories of the day that are going on, but I got to, then,
a right story. I got to get to first, Melissa. Our last whole segment. Wasn't that a right?
Well said, yeah. A 21 year old man in northern Thailand fell 40 feet down and abandoned well
last month and he survived and couldn't get out. And he could add to that Buzzfeed article.
Yeah, okay. So he couldn't get out. So he started screaming for help, but no one came.
The well isn't a remote forest, but there's a small village nearby where people should have
been able to hear him. So why didn't they come? Well, it turned out several people in the village
did hear him, but didn't investigate because they assumed he was a ghost.
They thought the forest was haunted. The bad spirits are trying to lure them into the forest.
He was stuck in the well for three days before the police drive cops driving by, heard his screams.
Oh, man. He told them he'd only been yelling once an hour to conserve energy. So it's lucky that
they were driving by just then. No kidding. It took three. Imagine how bad those villagers felt.
Oh, my gosh. Yeah. Oh, I couldn't imagine. It took 30 minutes for rescuers to get him out.
He was covered in bruises, had a closed, had a closed head injury and a broken wrist.
They're sealing up the well to make sure no one else falls in it. He is doing well now.
Oh, good. And what did I just say there?
Probably never wants to hear that word again. No, no.
We both fail.
That's great. By the way, a poll this year found 61% of Americans believe in ghosts, so I don't think
that it couldn't happen here. That just feels like something that would happen to me.
Maybe. I don't know. Jimmy's in the well again. Yeah, yeah. I don't know, man. That
ain't right. That ain't right. I don't know. Every time I hear a well story like that, I think back
to the episode of Little House in the Prairie when Carrie fell down the well. That was such a heart
wrenching episode. That sounds like it. Yeah. I don't know. They had to put pipes down there and they
dug all night. It was, oh, it was one of the most dramatic episodes on Little House on the Prairie.
I think of the young girl that was stuck in a well. I wish I could remember her name. I'm sure
somebody in our audience probably does, but it was a really famous story at the time back when
I was a kid. And it's, you know, they brought up all the articles and stories about, you know,
kids getting stuck in abandoned refrigerators and some of those things. I think Punky Brewster did
a special honor. There's something like that. Yeah. Yeah. It was a big deal for a while there.
Let's go ahead and get into our schedule. It's some good stories of the day. In part one,
in part one, today, a midday magazine. Join us at four o'clock. We're hanging out with Alson
Bruner from the, she is a museum curator over at the Southwark County Historical Museum.
Oh, nice. You're going to get to hear about the lorry. It goes wild. Here makes it, Ben.
Mm hmm. It all, it's symmetry. It all falls into place. Speaking of that, that exhibit is going
to be going until April 30th. And keep in mind, they got a great, a special, a speaker
presentation from Lynn Urban coming up on the 27th from two to four. It's free for all ages.
Keep that in mind, everybody. Mm hmm. Nice. Be sure to attend that. We'll talk more about it
a little bit later today during the day magazine. In part two, we're hanging out with our friends
at the United Way of Southwood and Ames counties. CEO of the United Way. Tari Rons is going to be
joining. No, no, no, no. Let me get that. It's a smack you wish for our James. You sure as
yeah. Terry John. Terry Johnson will be with us a little bit later. We're talking the United
Way. Looking forward to it. Keep in mind on our sister station, 105, WIRI, 435 will be our pre,
our pregame will kick off for high school softball, Auburndale versus assumption. Awesome. Mike
and Seth are going to be covering that one for you. You know, it's going to sound good with those two
behind it. It's going to be great. We'll be talking about it on playmakers tomorrow at five o'clock.
Be sure to join us for that. Looking forward to it. One of the things we'll talk about with the
United Way is the shredding of your sensitive documents. Shred day is coming up this Thursday. Yeah.
Nine to noon. Who's it? Yeah. Yeah. It's over. I don't have any more details.
I did want to cut you off. It's over. I prevail. Bank everybody a shout out to them and bank account
corp for sponsoring this, hosting it and keep in mind. A dollar will be donated to the United
Way of Southwood and the Ames counties for each pound of paper shredded. Awesome. Get their early.
They fill up fast. Yeah. Yeah. And we got this one from our good friend Tom who brings a joins us
every month with a monthly veterans update. Women's health education on wheels is happening in
Wisconsin rabbits from noon to one. This will be taking place on the 23rd. So it'll be coming up next
Wednesday at Wisconsin rabbits VA clinic. Financial health. So that's where it'll be taking place.
Again, women's health education on wheels be going from noon to one next Wednesday over at the
Wisconsin rabbits VA clinic. Yeah. So that's unlike the backside of the YMCA also where the
theaters located in the Lowell Senior Center. Keep that in mind, everybody. And spread the word
about this and other events that we talk about here. Appreciate you guys doing that.
Wanted to make sure to mention that tomorrow meals with love will be taking place at the seven
day Advent Church. So at 611 24 Street North in Wisconsin rabbit's hot meal served between 430
and 530 doors open at 415. It's a free community meal. Another one of those things that we encourage
you to spread the word about everybody. Looking at some world good stories now, Melissa, a pet
tortoise that went missing in a tornado is now back home safe and sound. Oh wow. And yes, his name
is Myrtle. Myrtle the turtle. He disappeared during a storm in Mississippi on March 15th and his
owners didn't know where he was. A neighbor finally found him more than two weeks later. He was
injured, but he's okay. Oh, that's so sweet. I want the stories. I want to know the stories
that Myrtle has. Yeah, I got a share. I had a canoe once named Myrtle. Oh,
may he never be turtle? Yes, yes. Oh, that's great. Oh, I love that. That's awesome.
This happened in December, but the chest came footage just hit. A cop in Philadelphia named Eric
Robbins climbed out onto a roof to save a five-year-old boy who was standing on the edge of it.
Oh, no. It's not clear how the kid got up there, but they were 20 to 30 feet up. Eric says it was
tough because he's afraid of heights, but he knew he had to act fast, so he just did what he had to do.
Wow. Yeah. That's scary. That's an amazing story, by the way, everybody. You get a chance to
watch that footage. Your heart is in your throat the whole time. I don't think I could watch it.
But it's honestly, I don't know if I've said this before, just being completely honest,
I could watch it because I knew how it ended. Right. Right. Otherwise, I don't know if how gay,
you know, game I'd be watching these things either, Melissa. And part of it, if I'm going to
report on it, I feel like I have to touch on it. Read it, watch it, I mean, but at the same time,
I don't know if I would be just randomly coming across. We thought the headline of everything was fine.
Right. Yeah. Yeah. And a 80 year old woman with Alzheimer's is walking across the U.S.
to raise awareness for how much of a difference lifestyle changes can make. Oh, wow. This hero,
Judy Benjamin, has got lots of people helping her, and she's confident she can make the complete
trip. Wow. She was diagnosed 13 years ago, but she says she's doing better at 80 than she was
at 67. Really? She credits diet and exercise for the transformation. You can track her progress
at JudyWalks.com, encourage you to do that, JudyWalks.com. I have the link bookmark myself, and it's
it's inspirational. Yeah. It is another one of those ones where it just inspires you. I don't know,
I don't know if there's enough stuff like that in life that does. We need more of it for sure.
Well, and to the point of, I don't want to, you know, I want to single her out here and everything,
but I also wanted the whole point of her doing this is to let people know that these things,
it doesn't have to be a death sentence. That Alzheimer's dementia doesn't mean that if you are
diagnosed with these things, it doesn't have to be a death sentence. She didn't just go down hills.
She rose above it. We're seeing more and more that people are able to improve these things
through diet exercise. Certainly, it's a case by case basis. You want to have people a lot smarter
than me involved with it, like doctors and people like it from family and natural foods and stuff
like that talking to you about it, but there is hope there. There is work being done on that front.
Well, it's a 1A1B situation where she is the good story of the day and B is her results,
67 to 80, and she's seen a large improvement. That's incredible. That sentence alone is incredible.
Yeah, and what she's doing to raise awareness is also amazing. Good honor.
Yeah, yeah, that's a heck of a, heck of a trip. Again, JudyWox.com is the website you can check out,
encourage you to check that out, everybody. And while you're checking out websites, go to WFHR.com,
sign up for our newsletter, got a new edition coming up this Thursday, got some great reporting
already in the last one. Go check that out, everybody. It's going to be some really good stuff
coming up in this week's including some Easter egg hunts. Yes, indeed, a full list with links.
That's awesome. Thank you for including that, Melissa. Thank you for a great show. You have a good day.
You too, James. Be good to each other out there. We'll talk to you sooner than later right here at
