Elbow Grease? (Hour 2)

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I'm joined by Melissa.

Good morning.

Seth.

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Thanks for being with us, everybody.

Hope you're having a good one out there.

We appreciate you.

We got some entertainment news to get into.

Talk some local theater while we're at it.

We're also going to get into some other fun stuff.

What's a common thing people say that makes no darn sense?

Got that coming up.

Also, we're going to talk a little spring cleaning.

And we'll get into some local great things going on in our area.

And we're going to wrap up the show,

putting focus on our Easter egg hunts.

Yes, we got a lot of them.

Yeah, so many.

So many.

We'll be doing that throughout the end of the week.

Actually, it'll take us all week.

Yeah, so many.

Just to finish it.

We'll be talking about and doing that throughout the rest of the week here and everything,

getting people ready for Easter coming up this weekend.

And we're going to be talking more about Easter, also throughout the show here as well.

But one of the kickoff talking a little entertainment news.

And we're going to go right into a couple of other stories, some that I was telling you

guys a little bit about.

Want to make sure that we had some time for this because this is, I don't know how to

feel about this.

We've had some live action, but Scooby Doo movies.

And now a series, well Netflix, Netflix has been developing a live action Scooby Doo series.

Okay.

They've been doing this for about a year already.

And they're calling it a modern reimagining.

Oh, dear.

Yeah, that's never good.

Quote during their final summer at camp, old friends, Shaggy and Daphne get embroiled

in a haunting mystery surrounding a lonely lost great dainn puppy that may have been

a witness to a supernatural murder.

Together with the parabmic and scientific, towny Velma and the strange, but very, but ever

so handsome new kid, Freddie, they set out to solve the case that is pulling each of

each of them into a creepy nightmare that threatens to expose all of their secrets.

Geez.

Just admit you can't come up with anything.

Just admit it.

Just admit it.

Can we admit what this is based on?

Okay.

It was a cartoon show that was as formulaic as it got, you know, the supernatural quote unquote

supernatural phenomenon would be different every time.

But it's the basic premise was always the same.

Wait, there's no, there was a villain.

There was a villain and they took the mask off at the end of the show, right?

Right.

Where did they buy the masks?

You know how they made them and stuff?

That's interesting.

Every one of these villains, quote unquote villains, and they were never really that bad.

They were bad, but they were never, they were like, you know, they're not murdering people.

They're trying to steal something.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Basically that's what it is.

Yeah.

But where they got these masks, I mean, I would love to know.

I put a lot of thought and effort into their crimes, man.

I know for a fact that quality plus printing wasn't even invented yet, so I know they didn't

get them there.

That's right.

I don't know where they got those masks.

No spirit, Halloween, nothing like that, you know.

It's just, you know, it's such a lame idea and I will say this, like the first time they

wanted to do something like this, take some old TV show or cartoon and reimagine it fine.

After that, it's all just like lame to me.

Yeah.

And I cannot think of it like I, Rocco's modern life, they're going to reimagine that.

A wallaby lost in the, I mean, what do we do it?

Renan Stimpy, reimagine a cat and a dog that don't get along.

Oh, the alive action of Renan Stimpy would be horrifying.

What are we doing?

Oh my God.

We are begging and asking people to go to the movies to stream like 20 different streaming

services for 10 bucks at the very least.

Netflix is up to 20 now.

And yet the entertainment industry is not even, yeah, that's not, that's not, Netflix is

not 20 worth 20 bucks a month to me.

I'm sorry, but they are not and I shouldn't be saying that because I really need the work,

but I stand on that.

Yeah, you still work for them.

You're just not going to spend the money.

Yeah.

Just screams, we have nothing.

We have no ideas.

I would imagine either a couple of kids in high school coming up with this idea or, or,

or we all know the two AM idea.

We all know what I'm talking about.

Oh, yes.

The two AM idea.

Well, there's a great idea.

You look at it seven in the morning with clear eyes, like what was I thinking?

What was I thinking?

A live action reimagining of Scooby Doo.

Nobody needs that.

Nobody wants that.

Please correct me if I'm wrong.

If this sounds like a good idea to anybody out there, I want to hear from you.

There are fan productions that are sound somewhat like this that like take like the deadly

serious, you know, thing, you know, it's like murder and then all these things and, but

that's fan stuff.

Yeah.

You know, it's like you're going to spend money on this.

Yeah.

Okay.

Whatever.

I, one thing that I would like to see them do is grab the cast from the Scooby Doo movies

and put them in this.

That would be a little.

Because they're all a lot older.

Interesting.

Yeah, be a little interesting.

But no, no.

Yeah.

And there's no way Sarah Michelle Geller would side up for that.

Yeah.

She's too smart for that.

She's too smart for that.

Yeah.

I, I, I don't know.

I don't know.

We'll see.

I'll be following that story.

A story that has been being followed as long as we have been alive is the idea of what broke

up the Beatles and, and it was Yoko and all this and everything.

And, you know, it's cool that we've been around long enough and that more importantly that

she has been around long enough to see the other side of this, where now I wouldn't

say that even half of the population thinks that Yoko Ono broke up the Beatles.

Which is the exact opposite of when we were kids.

Yeah.

And that's, that's obviously a good thing.

But for decades, people blamed Yoko Ono for breaking up the Beatles.

But that narrative has been exposed over the years as a myth.

And there's more to come up with, of course, too.

Well, it's an exaggeration at the very least.

Now what if, I told you there's a new school of thought that turns this whole thing on

its head.

What if Yoko actually kept the Beatles together?

Oh, longer than they might have.

Yes.

Yes.

That's what a writer, David Sheff claims in his new book, Yoko A Biography.

He says, quote, there's a version of the Beatles story in which they'd be, there'd be no

let it be or Abbey Road without Yoko.

Quote, during the writing and recording of those albums, John had a foot out the door.

If he hadn't had Yoko, the other foot might have followed sooner than it did.

He says, quote, she accompanied John literally holding his hand sometimes to the sessions that

resulted in the final Beatles albums.

Wow.

So when I'm a little kid and I'm growing up with the biggest Beatles fan in the universe

and to the point where he names his kid John, his middle name John, all I can hear is

these stories because I'm coming around, of course, as the Beatles are already gone.

And all I see is a woman, you know, hold it, madly in love with the man and the man,

madly in love with the woman.

And then wanted to spend time together.

But what I see in the pictures is a guy who is like, just like basically, you know, clinging

to this woman and clearly going through some stuff.

Yes.

And unfortunately, we don't, you know, we'll never know exactly what John Lennon was going

through completely and everything.

But I know from a lot of his biographies and a lot of what he has said in interviews,

a lot of the stuff that John was going through right before and as he was, you know, relationship

going a relationship with Yoko Ono was a lot of his trauma in his past.

And a lot of the things that he had done in his past, he was not proud of having accountability

about a lot of those things.

And that is part of the reason Yoko Ono even gave him a chance because the other part

of this is Yoko, he had to fight to get Yoko's attention.

He did.

Yoko wasn't that interested in him.

He was just a, you know, a rich English boy.

That was not her thing.

She was already an artist in her own right.

Yoko.

She had already had exhibits and stuff.

I mean, yeah.

Did Yoko Ono and being with John Lennon help bring her attention to her art?

Sure.

She did not need him though.

She already had a career going.

She did.

It's, there's not a really a lot of comps, but it's great to see some of this coming

to light.

I don't think that there's no necessarily proof of this, of course.

But I don't think that you have to, I don't know if you need it really.

I think that's one of those things.

And when you think about it, it makes kind of, it makes sense.

And to really throw this out there, David Sheff is a very good writer.

He's written for Rolling Stone for decades.

And he knows his pop music stuff.

He's a very good writer.

So I would say that I would take what he says with some weight, because I think he knows

what he's talking about.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's an interesting thing.

And I imagine that book is going to be interesting too.

Yeah.

And I wanted to talk some local theater.

And before we get moving to Rapids Theater here, the theater here in Rapids, I did want

to talk about our great friends over at Central Wisconsin area community theater in CWAC.

They've got Don Quiote de la Center coming up, May 8th through the 11th, over at the

studios there.

We're going to be joined by some of the cast tomorrow, Seth and I for Directors Playhouse.

Yeah.

We're looking forward to interviewing.

I know Susan's going to be a part of that, and we'll see who else we can drag into

the interview with us.

Invite.

Invite, invite.

Do I say drag?

I mean, invite.

Do you want to remind everybody that April, Final Fridays, they've got a fun thing that

they do over there for that over at the 1952 Minnesota Avenue in Steepen's Point, the

Shaq.

The Shaq.

Carrie Dagger, going to be hosting this one.

That's awesome.

Nice.

Carrie is so great.

She's so great.

And by local support local, that includes the arts, everybody, and taking great things that

they're doing over there at Central Wisconsin Area Community Theatre.

We'll be talking more about that on Director's Playhouse this week and be listening for

that.

And of course, we have been getting behind the scenes of and the making of when it comes

to our final main stage show over at Wisconsin's Rapids Community Theatre, and that is Noises

Off, directed by our own Melissa K.

Woo!

Now, how did rehearsals go last night?

Well...

Sensitive questions that we ask here on the morning show.

But we worked hard on act two last night, and act two is a bit of a beast.

It is.

It's really testing the limits and the abilities of my crew, my cast, and they are rising

to the challenge.

Alright.

After our first run through, I was like, okay guys, we're going to do that again because

reasons.

And I need you to do better.

You did good, but I need you to do better.

So we did it again, and they did better.

Nice.

It's the only way it gets done.

That's right.

You know?

Yes, the repetition, repetition.

Gotta keep doing it.

Yeah.

No, they are doing fantastic.

They're working really, really hard.

And I can promise you, audiences, you're going to laugh through this whole show.

This is a farce, and it is fantastic.

It is, it's well written.

I have the best cast in the world, and our crew is great, our crew, the whole crew will

be there tonight for our stage crew.

And we are going to be working the set changes, which are part of the show, and then we'll

be running Act 2 again.

And again.

And again.

And I'm again.

And I'm again.

I'm getting to Act 3 for the first time in a long time, so the challenge is on for this

crew and cast, and I have every confidence they're going to pull this off because they're

doing fantastic.

Oh, yes.

You're going to be able to see that fantastic performance starting May 1st, everybody

get your tickets at wrctheater.org, wrctheater.org.

Get on over there.

Pick out your seating, because you can do that over there.

That's pretty cool.

Right.

Get yourself a great seat.

We encourage you to do that.

And by local support, local support, the arts, everybody at wrctheater.org.

You can also go there and see the main stage shows for the 25-26 season.

Yeah, they posted their shows.

They did.

Yeah.

Great ones.

Great one.

I don't see anything where I'll be on stage next year, unfortunately, but I'm hoping to

be directing.

We'll see if they use me.

Yeah.

I don't know.

I don't know.

I'd love to direct anyone of those.

They all look good.

Great set of shows going up next season.

We're local, everybody.

Yeah.

We'll be taking a time out.

We're going to come back.

And we're talking some spring cleaning.

When we get back on the morning show here at WFHR.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show at WFHR.

Locally grown radio.

Melissa, Seth, and James, hanging out with you.

Hope you're having a great one out there.

Thanks so much for joining us.

We appreciate you.

Let's talk a little spring cleaning.

A new spring cleaning poll found that if you haven't converted your garage into an

Airbnb yet, there's a good chance it's full of junk.

31% of Americans, 31% say that their garage is at least half filled with clutter.

That includes 9% who said it's so full, they can't park in it.

That's funny.

Just 24% said that the garage is clutter free.

23% said that around a quarter full and the remaining 23% said that they don't have

a garage.

It's a moot point.

Maybe you can take all of your stuff and make a garage with it.

Maybe if you don't have it.

The poll finally completely made out of tarps.

This is my garage.

I'm really proud of these garage.

The tape and term.

The poll found we also use a significant portion of our home for storage, at least 100 square

feet for most of us.

Really?

One in five said more than 500 square feet, which is around the size of a two car garage.

If we are cleaning everything out, the top things we'd use are our extra space for our

hobbies, a guest bedroom, and a home gym.

Home gym?

No, maybe we'll have a bit to it.

Last at 71% of people have bought something they knew they already owned because they just

couldn't find the original.

71% of us have done that, and I say us because I know I've done that before.

And you know when you're going to find it, of course.

When you get home, you get another one.

There it is.

One note about this that I do think is not brought up in the stats of this survey.

I don't blame them necessarily for this, because this is a little gray area.

My parents are part of a generation that were kind of the last generation of, hey, here's

a home.

You need a car.

Your parents get you that.

Our parents, not just mine, I'm sorry, all of our parents essentially were a part of that

generation of, that's not going to happen anymore.

You know, that's not happening as much at least.

At least.

No, you're right.

And my mom and dad were much older when they got a chance to finally own a home.

And when they did, there was joy and happiness as you can imagine out there.

And then there was, oh my god, we got all this space.

And then they started filling that space.

And here we are 20 years later.

And man, they've got a lot of stuff in that house.

And half of the house, especially the basement, is filled with things that they don't know

what to do with, but they're not getting rid of because they waited their whole lives

to have space.

And even though it's been 20 years, they spent the first 40 or 30 or whatever, wanting

space.

And so they don't really know what to do with space because none of us get a playbook

for this stuff.

No.

Right.

We're all just told, hey, wing it.

You know, here's a home.

Wing it.

It's unfortunate enough to have a home, you know, and that kind of thing.

And this is, you know, I'm not saying that this isn't even a good problem to have.

It's just one that I think is rare and rare as we're going along here.

And it has to be noted that there are a lot of people out there that did not know what

it was like, or even were told if they'd ever even own a home.

Right.

Right.

Exactly.

And I don't know if there are more, if there are better examples of, you know, the something

that every single one of us Americans should be taking as something is a hit to our pride

in America, that how many of us can confidently say that the next generations, how many of

them are going to own a home?

Huh.

I don't know.

I can't say, you're right.

We can't say.

We can't say.

We have any kind of confidence.

And that falls on every one of us as Americans.

If you don't think it does, then you're not a part of the team because this is something

that we all got to start getting better about.

I ask every one of our politicians, when I'm interviewing them for a candidacy or when

they have been elected, are you going to represent everybody, not just the people that

voted for you?

We as Americans, I think, can get better about this as well.

Even people that don't agree with us politically, even people that is root for a different sports

team, or God forbid, are from a different zip code.

Guess what?

They're a part of this too, and we're all connected.

The way that things go for us is no different than how it goes down the Mississippi.

If we can get better about this and start including all of that in this, and maybe we

can be a little bit better and have a home.

Place for your stuff, right?

This stuff is not going to get corrected with us barking and whining and complaining.

It's not going to get better doubling down.

It's not going to get better ignoring the problem.

This idea that, well, you got to toughen it up, or sometimes you got to take your medicine.

How much medicine you take, man?

What do you sacrifice, and when have you ever sacrificed one thing in your life, one

to give me one thing that you or any politician out there have sacrificed or have given up for

us?

How many of them have lived in a rental property where their landowner was absent, was

not even in the same state, like a lone zip code?

This idea of spring cleaning and doing some of this stuff, I'm thankful that this is still

a topic even, honestly, because I'm not talking about dusting and that.

I mean, when I think of spring cleaning, I also think of, okay, hey, we're getting rid

of stuff, or we're moving the snowblower over here, some of those things.

The fact that if we can do that, that you have that kind of space, or you have a snowblower.

Yeah, many of this stuff.

That's a win right there, that we're having.

This is a problem and everything.

I do think, though, that it's noteworthy and interesting when you think about the amount

of people that never maybe even thought they would have a home and now they do, and like,

oh my god, what do I do with all this space?

What do I do with this home?

Right.

I don't know.

Nobody, you know, there's only so many things that you can learn from mom and dad and all

that stuff.

Right.

Yeah, some of it is just experience.

Did we talk about this?

I don't think we did.

So this one I wanted to get to too, as we're getting ready to get into our news break

and stuff.

And I just, I will admit to the audience journalistically growing up, we played Monopoly a lot in

my house.

Oh, okay.

And I kind of like the game because it's nostalgic to me.

Sure.

I don't think it's actually the game.

The game Monopoly, I could take her leave if I ever play another game, but there's something

that I cannot even think about the game Monopoly and not getting nostalgic and thinking of my

family.

We can look at it.

Sure.

Yeah.

So I will admit that as we go into this topic here, a total of 918 people sat down at 150

tables to play simultaneously games of Monopoly and break a Guinness World Record in Australia.

Oh, cool.

Oh, that's kind of fun.

I have never necessarily been mad at the country of Australia, but this one angered

me.

I have been playing Monopoly literally my whole life and they did not reach out.

I thought this was kind of an option.

Wait, you just said you didn't love Monopoly, huh?

That's probably why.

Yeah.

And I made a little deal with it.

The third attempt in Sydney was organized by the Little Legs Foundation, a charity that

raises funds and awareness for children with brain cancer and Sue Ellen and Mary Mariano

Veselano, whose daughter's Allegra, died of brain cancer at the age of six in 2017.

Wow.

That's really cool.

What a beautiful way to break a record.

Yeah.

And what a beautiful reason.

For a really good reason.

Yeah.

Quote, we really wanted to create a space that allowed for both young and old to come together

celebrate her and accomplish something that everyone would be proud of.

Sue Ellen mentioned to the Guinness World Records people.

All while it's raising awareness for the disease that took our daughter brain cancer.

Wow.

The attempt was the second organized by the Little Legs Foundation after a previous attempt

for the most people playing Monopoly felt 30 people short of the previous record of 733.

Oh, wow.

So this is the second time they've done this and that somehow is even more interesting

to me.

Yeah.

No kidding.

That's pretty cool.

That's a pretty cool story right there.

Awesome.

We are going to get to our news, partner and sponsor break when we come back.

We're talking about what's a common thing people say that makes no darn sense.

Coming up on the morning show with Melissa Seth and James here at 975 FM WF HR.

Welcome back everybody.

Coming show at WF HR, locally grown radio, Melissa Seth James here with you.

Thanks for joining us everybody.

Someone on social media asked what's a common thing people say that makes zero sense.

Nobody understands.

Melissa gave us the perfect example a little bit earlier with elbow grease.

Right.

So you know what I'm going to do right now.

Long time listeners know how I am with idioms and looking into the, they're going down

the rabbit hole of these.

I've never looked up elbow grease.

There you go.

Elbow grease refers to hard physical work or effort, of course.

And they said that it originated in the 17th century.

The first recorded use is attributed to English poet Andrew Marevelli in 1672 in his work

rehearsal, Departante, Trampart Sarto.

The term likely arose from the physical extraction, extraction and movements of the elbow

and when doing manual labor.

Okay.

The term, the term likely originated from the elbow's role in manual labor is where

they're standing from.

And so it's the grease that the elbow is creating.

It's not necessarily putting grease on your elbow.

Right.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

My grandma would always say put some elbow grease into it.

Right.

It's a great one.

Yeah.

I'm pretty sure mine not have said that one.

Oh, yeah.

That's a good one.

So here are some other examples of things that people say that make no darn sense.

And yes, we want audience participation.

You can call up 715-424-2600 or Texas or call in through the civic media app.

That's right.

You want to hear from you.

I'm sweating like a pig.

Pigs don't sweat.

They really don't.

They don't.

They don't.

They don't really have a similar to dogs, I believe.

Dogs don't have sweat glands.

Dogs sweat through their tongues.

Through their paws.

I heard.

Oh, yeah.

Not that long ago through the pads of their paws.

That's where they sweat through.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's because of horse.

Our horse is healthy.

Yeah.

If you have a horse.

I mean, sometimes.

You know, this does a job.

Horse is also traditionally.

I mean, they are not the healthiest animals.

They can be, you know, sort of taking care of them, sorry, but it all depends on breeding,

I suppose.

How about, and horse pills?

Okay.

So remember, you know, really big pills are called horse pills.

Yeah.

Because horses take large pills.

I mean, I don't know.

I don't know.

I do.

Oh, okay.

And they have like a whole tool that's got a thing where you put the big giant pill inside

of it.

Just shove it down their throat.

Just shove it down their throat.

This one always angered my mother, especially having me as a child.

I slept like a baby.

Her baby literally didn't sleep.

That's a great, that's, you know, that's when I always thought too, when, when, you know,

well, Beth and I got lucky with, with Ron.

He was a very good sleeper.

And then we got Anders.

Oh, so the reason we had a second kid, you know, yeah, yeah, yeah, um, unthought or

de-thought.

Oh, it's not really because it's kind of an oxymoron.

It is.

You're right.

You're a double negative.

There we go.

Because you, it's just a thaw.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

You thaw something.

We do that with a lot of unfrozen, I guess is the actual word you should use, right?

Unfrozen.

No one says it though.

Six a.m.

Yeah.

That's it.

Yeah.

Redundant.

Very redundant.

Yes.

Yeah.

Yeah.

If you're saying a.m., you know, it's, it's, it's, uh, the simple.

It's, uh, my first and really only lessons in, uh, radio, don't say the point part.

Everybody knows it's point five and, um, and you don't have to say degrees when you're

given the temps.

Yeah.

That's true.

People know that you're not talking Celsius.

Yes.

It's 36 little circle in the quarter.

Saying someone did a 360 when they change, it would be a 180, of course.

Right.

That's turning around.

Yeah.

Otherwise, it's a circle.

I would think that's probably the most common one on this list that people understand.

Mm-hmm.

Uh, and I said, it's been, it's been corrected a lot in society.

I hear as much more people saying 180.

180, yeah.

Yeah.

And think that might be the only one we've corrected out of any of this list.

Um, people referring to a lion being the king of a, of the jungle, uh, without realizing

lions don't live in jungles.

They live in the serengeti.

Yes.

They're on the, uh, they're on the plane, the African planes, yeah.

Although, um, I was watching the Americas, uh, a little bit last night, and I did not

know that in Florida, like in the, in the, in the key, not in the keys, but in the, like,

uh, Everglades and all that.

They got bears.

They got black bears.

Yeah.

I didn't even know that.

Well, that was cool.

Yeah.

Um, I get that some, it might not be common knowledge, but, I mean, you know, one, one

quick Googler search of, uh, lions, and you're going to see, you know, yeah, I don't

know.

I don't see lions hanging from the jungle trees, nothing to do with the jungle tigers

do.

I blame, I blame the jungle book.

I, you know what?

You may be right, man.

Yeah.

I think you're right.

I did not put any thought into that.

I just threw it out there.

I did.

Uh, irregardless.

This one, um, I've had a long debate about, with someone really, oh yeah, long ongoing

debate.

So they, they, the, what, which side were you on?

You don't need the ear.

You don't need the ear.

Just it's regardless.

Right?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Mm-hmm.

Again, the double negative.

Yep.

Double negative.

Oh, this one.

There.

For all intensive purposes.

I don't feel like anything good has probably ever come after that said those words.

I'm not sure.

At least I'm not sure.

I'm sure there probably has a history of, you know, English language, but it's hard

many times.

Many times I've used that phrase.

Yes.

Yeah.

That's why I get by happiness.

Yeah.

Bami love.

It's good song lyric.

Yeah.

Happy as a clam.

Yeah.

Our clams happy.

Yeah.

How, where did that come from?

Probably not the ones I've eaten, but, uh, so they're not happy at all.

That's an interesting one.

Um, does it, does it look like they're smiling?

I don't even think it looks like they're smiling.

Wow.

They don't have eyes.

Unless you put googly eyes on them.

Right.

Oh, no.

I don't look happy.

Wow.

Yeah.

So they just did a, uh, they're, they're trying to get a petition in New York to put googly

eyes on the subway train.

Um, and it got me thinking, I'm like, I don't know about that, but I think we need more

googly eyes on things.

Oh, yes.

Maybe, maybe.

Maybe.

Yeah.

Um, I, that's actually not, uh, something with naming inanimate objects for me.

Hey.

Stop doing that.

I do that all the time.

I know you do.

You weirdo.

Okay.

Okay.

I'll be weird.

I like that.

Um, the phrase happy as a clam is high water.

The phrase is rooted in the fact that clams are most safe and protected from the human

harvesters during high tides.

So we just don't have the second part that we're supposed to say, you know, that makes

a lot more sense.

Yeah.

Happy as a clam during high tides.

Yeah.

Exactly.

Uh, people alternately, uh, alternately advise, don't sweat the small stuff and it's the

little things that count.

Such a, which is it?

Yeah.

Yeah.

That is a mixed bag.

Levels in the details.

How about that?

Yeah.

But another one, right?

Yeah.

Um, that boy, that, that just confused my brain.

That wrinkle my brain.

You got to use whichever one applies in the moment.

I guess.

Yes.

Even though they contradict each other.

And there is another flip-flop of, uh, convenience.

The early bird catches the worm, but also there's the second mouse gets the cheese.

The second mouse gets the cheese.

I don't think I've ever heard that one.

Yes.

Because the first mouth got mouse got caught.

I told them the trap.

It's like a mouse.

It's like a mouse.

Yeah.

Now it's my cheese.

Anybody ever realized how dark some idioms are?

They are.

Oh, absolutely.

They're like, uh, the early fairy, uh, fairy tales, or did you have any more, James, or

because I just thought of one.

Oh, yeah.

Go ahead.

Go ahead.

I couldn't care less, too.

I could care less.

Yeah.

That's why.

Because if you could care less, that means you could.

I, you couldn't care less means you really don't care.

Yeah.

Um, everything happens for a reason.

Yeah.

I don't like that one over to you.

I don't like that one.

I admit I use that one probably more than more than any of these other ones and everything.

And I hold hardly also admit it is a placebo.

Yep.

It is a placebo for you.

It can very well be used as one.

Yeah.

I have to believe that.

Yeah.

I generally, I don't, if you believe in free will, I mean, then there can't, that cannot

be the case.

Right?

That everything doesn't have to happen for a reason.

Right.

Right.

Right.

But if you believe in destiny.

You're right.

Yeah.

I, um, I like to believe in both and, and I don't have any, um, you know, logical reason

for that or anything other than that's the way my life has gone.

Um, you know, so I just kind of go with that.

Yeah.

It's trying to extract meaning.

It's a time because we humans crave that, you know, understanding the crave meaning

in what they're doing.

So it's not like otherwise, it's very scary to be, it's like, ah, chaos everywhere.

So it's, it's something that we cling to because it helps get through life, basically.

Yeah.

It's a placebo.

I admit it.

Nothing wrong with placebo's.

Final one here.

I can't say, um, skibbid, skibbid, skibbid, skibbid, skibbid, is it the skibbid, toilet

thingy?

Is that what it is?

Well, they say, um, teenagers use this one.

Yes.

So skibbid.

Yeah.

My kids have used it in the past.

I've never heard it.

Yeah.

I haven't heard that one.

Did they say what it means?

I can't remember.

No, they didn't say what it means.

Of course.

Of course.

It has a meaning, but I can't remember what it is.

It sounds like, um, one of those words where, you know, how dogs can, uh, can only hear,

like a certain animals can hear stuff at a high pitch.

Very high pitch.

Yeah.

I feel like it's all, it's that guy.

It's the, the meme thing, the skibbid, toilet thing.

Yeah.

Okay.

All right.

Man, that got a lot bigger than I would have ever imagined.

It's very weird.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Um, so, uh, getting to one other topic here in the, the, uh, monologue, uh, or in, in

this segment, May is national burger month and red robin is celebrating with a bottomless

burger pass red robin, um, the passes will get you a burger and a free advertising.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Sorry, robin.

You always 20 bucks red robin the passes will get you a burger and a bottomless side every

day of the month of May for only 20 bucks.

Really?

Really?

The bottomless burger passes will be available at red robin.com, starting tomorrow morning

at 11 a.m.

Eastern.

And if you want one, you should get sent in alarm because there's only a limited number

of them available.

Those are going to go fast.

That's okay.

I was waiting for that.

I said it was for the month of May.

Right.

I don't understand what they're doing there.

It's unclear how limited they'll be, but apparently they don't want to repeat red robster,

red lobsters unlimited endless shrimp fiasco, which really contributed very, but

they're a lot of business.

Yeah.

Or what we were talking about with the craft store that they had this business model that

just did not work with.

I think good intended.

They really wanted to give customers a lot of free stuff and a lot of cool deals, but

it ended up costing them in the end.

The bottomless burger pass will be good for up to $22 worth of food and beverages every

day for a max value of $682.

So there's a limit.

There is a limit, of course, as always.

There's no free one.

There's no free one.

It's interesting that they call it bottomless burger, but it's the burger.

You only get one, and then it's the side that's in there.

Yeah.

So maybe it's a little bit misleading.

A little bit.

They're calling, yeah.

Of course.

Yeah.

I mean, if we come to the point where this is like, yeah, all right, yeah, they're doing this

special promotion.

You know, what's the catch?

Yeah.

You know, what do we have to do?

You always got to look good.

Jump through hoops or do something to get this, right?

And limits.

So there's not really, I mean, I'm sure there might be one here in Wisconsin, but for

the most part, I know red robins are a lot in Illinois.

I know that's where I went to one.

Wasa has one.

I know.

So there's a few around the state.

Yeah.

So certainly, you know, it was a good morning to them and a shout out to them and everything.

But I'm a little biased on this one.

When I was living in my second run living in Illinois, the people that I was around

and the person I was living with would not stop talking about red robin and how great

it was.

And it was like a year until we finally went to one and we go to one and I tried the

burger and I'm like, yeah, it's fine.

It was, yeah, I mean, their fries are good too, but they're not super special.

Yeah.

And honestly, reading something like this does the opposite and makes me not want to go

there.

In part because I don't like to, I don't like to add to these kind of things that are,

I think, pointless.

Yeah.

This doesn't mix.

Yeah.

It's very gimmicky.

It's very, and you shouldn't anything that is being given away or contest or anything

like that.

It shouldn't take that much to be able to figure it out.

It shouldn't be this much different, like, oh, you got to do this, this, this, and this.

And it doesn't apply to this, this, this, this, but we're calling it bottomless burger

pass.

Right.

I don't want to endorse that.

I don't want to be a part of that.

And I don't have a whole lot of dollars and cents, but where I choose to use them are

places that aren't going to do that.

Right.

Right, exactly.

And ain't right.

I don't think that's a, I think that's a, that ain't right story.

Right.

And, and, and two, two marketers and executives are, are two marketers and sales get better

at this.

Yeah.

This is, this is over complicating something that doesn't need to be over complicated.

Right.

And just because both words begin with a B, it doesn't mean you call a bottomless burger.

A little ration only goes so far.

I say that, all the apps, there you go.

There you go.

Yeah.

I say that as somebody who has renamed, I've been in charge of the two renaming's of,

uh, uh, morning magazine, to midday magazine, to the rapids report.

But now we've landed on the perfect name.

Yeah.

Yeah, it is it is, it is pretty good.

It's very good.

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, man.

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, yeah.

Just taking a run.

Yeah.

Good.

Yeah.

We will take a time out.

We'll come back and I'll wrap up the show and we're talking Easter egg hun.

We'll get back to everybody.

A lot of them coming up for you on the morning show at WFHR.

Welcome back everybody.

Morning show at WFHR.

Melissa, Seth and James hanging out with you, taking you to the top of the hour.

Thank you so much for joining us everybody.

Mm-hmm.

Well, and before we get into closing of the show and our schedule and some good stories

of the day and our Easter egg hunts that we're going to touch on and everything, just

a quick reminder again about what we talked about in the beginning of the show and some

of the changes that are going to be going on here at our stations.

Those will begin next Wednesday.

Mm-hmm.

You have the 23rd, yep.

We will get back into this on Monday's show, talk a little bit more about it then, remind

everybody and gear you up and get you ready for it going forward.

And thank you again to everybody.

I can't thank you guys enough.

Not a lot, but I've gotten a couple of emails and texts from people being very encouraging

about stuff.

Thank you for that.

Thank you.

Appreciate it.

Really appreciate that everybody.

We're in the same boat you are in out there.

So we appreciate it.

Do it our past.

Yeah.

Do it our past.

Looking at our schedule for today, boy, we've got a great midday magazine lined up for

you.

In part one, we're going to be speaking with Mayor Matt Zacker from Wisconsin Rapids, Mayor.

Mm-hmm.

And our friends from Wisconsin Rapids community meet.

You're going to be in the record.

That's gonna be a lot of fun.

Mm-hmm.

And in part two, our good friend Jacob Wagner, public health strategist with Wood County

Health Department is going to be in with us.

He's good.

Yeah.

Jacob's great.

A great talker.

And we're going to have some fun talk with him today.

Drug take back day is coming up on the 26th.

We'll be talking about that.

Important.

Very important.

It's a good day.

We got playmakers for you today from five to six.

Be sure to join us for that.

Want a big thank you to family, natural foods, and quality plus printing, sponsoring that.

Give us an opportunity to hang out with all of you and talk some sports.

Sports.

I believe Michael is going to be in with us today.

And man, we got plenty to talk about.

Yes, you do.

It's a quick reminder that it's Wednesday and we all know what that means.

Bingo.

Bingo.

Bingo.

Oh, we almost had it.

That's pretty good, actually.

Bingo with the Wisconsin Rapids, Elk Slot, number 693 at 430 West Jackson Street.

When we say bi-local support local, we're talking about people like our friends over

there with the Wisconsin Rapids, Elk Slot, put so much into this community.

Their doors open at five.

Bingo begins at 630.

Head on over there.

Have a good time.

Everybody.

Yeah.

And Seth and I are going to go through some Easter egg hunts now with you.

Let's do it, everyone.

And I believe these are all happening this coming Saturday, the 19th.

We're going to start off by going to the Pines Driving Range, join them for the Easter

Bunny for an Easter egg hunt.

This event is open to both members and the public of the golf course, the Driving Range.

Children up to 12 years old.

It starts at 10 a.m. sharp.

The event is there.

The event is a snow or rain.

This event will be, if it, if it, it snows or rains, I love the fact that they put snow

in there.

We'll be moved indoors.

The Wisconsin Rapids Kiwanis is having their 97th annual Easter egg hunt.

That's awesome.

At the Lincoln High School staff parking lot, that's on the north side parallel to the

expressway at 16th Street South.

Activities will start at 9 a.m. with pictures of, with the Easter Bunny and some carnival

style games from 9 to 10.

The egg hunt will start promptly at 10 a.m. at the sound of the air horn.

So you'll know, everyone, when they get going at 10 a.m.

The Grand Rapids Volunteer Fire Department will have their Easter egg hunt at Midstate

Technical College, 532nd Street North in Rapids.

Starts at 10 a.m. get there early.

The Easter egg hunt is sponsored by Area Merchants.

Emergency vehicles will also be on display from the Grand Rapids Fire Department, United

Emergency Medical Response, Grand Rapids Police Department, and the Wood County Sheriff's

Department.

For ages 10 and under, this is weather permitting, so keep that in mind, everyone.

Nakuza, their Easter egg hunt is going to be happening at 416 at Crest View Lane.

All egg hunts are free.

Meet Easter Bunny as well.

Also have face painting lunch for only 3 bucks and one big prize per age group.

That's ages 0 to 3 at 1115, ages 7 to 9 at 1205, ages 4 to 6 from 1140, and then at 1230,

ages 10 to 12 for more information.

Go to the website for nakuza.org, that's f-o-r-nakuza.org.

Then at 10 a.m. in Port Edwards, the Port Edwards Line Club will be having their Easter egg

hunt at Alexander Park.

On the Port Edwards United Methodist Church lawn, this is at 411 Wisconsin River Drive,

special egg hunts for toddlers, candy filled eggs and golden egg prizes, rain date the

following Saturday at the same time.

Other Easter egg hunt Saturday April 9th 9 a.m. at Vesper Recreational Park.

There will be prizes, hot chocolate and coffee, raffle baskets, and the Wood County Sheriff's

Department and Vesper Volunteer Fire Department will also be in attendance.

They will have a cash raffle tickets available for purchase, please no dogs, and it is sponsored

by the Vesper Recreation Committee.

And finally, again Saturday April 9th in Rudolph, the village Easter egg hunt will be held

in Rudolph Village Park at 10 a.m. the event is sponsored by the Lions Club.

All right.

Now, according to Brittany, looks like we're going to be having some pretty nice weather

on Saturday, so hopefully everything will go off without a hitch this year.

Looking forward to it.

I have one more to add.

The Southwick County YMCA is having an Easter egg splash.

Oh, that's right.

On Saturday April 19th, it's a free event if you bring a non-perishable food item and

all donations will be delivered to focus.

I'm right.

You need to register, and you can find that on their Facebook page and probably also on

their website or give them a call at 715-818-9622.

All right.

Thank you, Melissa.

Thank you, Mel.

Absolutely.

And if you want a list of all of these Easter egg hunts, be sure to sign up for our newsletter

at www.cfhr.com because I have all of these listed in our newsletter this week with links

to the locations.

You can easily click and see where the closest one is to you.

Man, where else are you going to get that?

No, where else?

Our team is hard at work, putting the newest edition of the newsletter together.

Be sure to get on over to www.cfhr.com.

Sign up for that newsletter.

You'll have a new edition in your email box tomorrow at noon.

Our friends over at 7th Advent Church have meals with love, free community meal going

on today at 415.

That's when the doors open at 415.

The meals will be served at 430 and 530 at 611 24 Street North right here in Rapids.

Thank you to all of them that are part of that one and making that happen.

Yes, indeed.

And we talked about this yesterday with our friends over at the South of County Historical

Museum.

The Laura Ingalls Wilder exhibit is going on until the end of the month.

Go check that out, everybody.

Take in some local pride and fellow Wisconsinite.

And keep in mind to make plans for the 27th, Lynn Urban is going to be there from 2 to 4.

She's going to have a presentation where she's going to be talking about this.

She's spent a lot of time studying and researching and knows quite a bit about Laura Ingalls.

And she's going to have a really nice presentation about that.

She's free and is open to all ages.

Nice.

Nice.

And keep in mind, next month, becoming the United States colonial America to re-construction

is an exhibit that they will be having over there that I cannot wait to check out.

That sounds fun.

Yeah, it sounds great.

Support our great friends over at the South of County Historical Museum at 543rd Street

South right here in Rapids.

Get on over there everybody.

All right.

And I want to remind everyone as well that Tom Heiser, a good friend Tom with their monthly

veterans updates, told us about this happening over at the VA clinic, women's health education

on wheels.

This will be taking place from noon to 1 on April 23rd at the Wisconsin Rabbits VA clinic.

I find there's a health department right over there.

Yes.

Thanks for that, Tom.

Yes.

Thank you, Tom.

Tom's the best.

A group of pickleballers in Texas broke a world record by playing pickleball for 33

hours.

Woo.

The old record was 34.

Wow.

The event in Texas raised over $18,000 for a charity called Taylor's Gift that it