James and the Grafted Peach (Hour 1)

Good morning, Wisconsin.

Morning, world.

It's a new day.

Thanks for kicking it off with us at WFHR.

Got your own James Wine, the mic I am joined by your head of news, our co-host Melissa

K.

Good morning.

Head up production, our co-host Seth Habhacker.

Good morning.

And the best listeners and radio.

Thanks for being here.

Everybody.

We got a lot of fun things to get into.

We're going to talk about some schedule re-alignment going on here in a couple minutes.

We'll get into the Elcafe birthday anniversary club.

Our nicknames going extinct.

We will discuss.

Oh, no.

Got the kitchens open coming up at the 9 o'clock hour, Beth Habhacker will be joining us

with that and plenty more entertainment news, all kinds of fun things.

This live radio, who knows what can happen.

We also, of course, kick things off the way we do every day with our good friend, Brittany

Remember low.

Good morning, Brett.

Good morning.

Happy dreary Monday.

How was your weekend?

Did Dreary.

Dreary out.

I don't remember.

Yeah, that was fun.

How was yours?

Oh, it was interesting trying to drive back from, you know, family down south yesterday.

And the wind was blowing me all over the highway and the heavy downpours and, you know, can't

I truck splash in it back up at you?

So it was an eventful trip back home and the winds are not stopping today either.

Yeah.

It's looking that way.

It's already.

We're already getting hit by quite a bit.

Yeah.

We're guessing up to about 40 miles per hour and they're going to be pulling out of the north

as we go through the day.

So it's going to keep our highs only to the upper 40s, maybe scraping the low 50s this afternoon.

It's got patchy fog out there.

There's mist.

I've got drizzle going on.

Even some flaries are flying further north.

Don't worry.

You won't get any of those.

But it's happening.

It is still happening across the state, very, very cold up north.

So the upper 40s take away the great assaults.

We're going to warm up tomorrow to the mid 60s.

We're going to hit 70 degrees on Wednesday.

We're going to hold that for Thursday and we've got a beautiful sunny weekend ahead.

So yes, we've got a bunch of rain chances this week.

I'll keep you updated.

But keep your eyes out for Wednesday in the weekend.

A ton of sunshine.

Yeah.

Hey.

All right.

We're going to head down, try to get to the work week anyway during the weekend might as well.

Exactly.

Get out of your system now, Mother Nature, and we'll be ready for you this weekend.

Appreciate it.

I agree with you.

You have a great day.

We'll talk to you tomorrow.

You too.

Thanks, Brittany.

And I did want to mention, I should have mentioned real quick with Brittany joining us.

We talked about it last week too.

She will be joining us to kick off our show at our new hours and everything.

So more on that in a moment.

Well, let's just get into it.

What am I doing?

Let's dive right in.

Yeah.

Go for it.

So what we got, you know, some realignment going on here at WFA chart.

I know most of you've heard about it.

And I know you have because you were emailing me all weekend.

Great.

Questions, questions.

We are not going anywhere.

Our morning show is still here.

We are just going to be 9 to 11.

I can understand the confusion.

Yeah.

A number of the promotions that civic media has put out.

There is not included WFA chart.

Right.

And what's happening here, so what are people to think?

And so we're here to clear the air.

Yeah.

We will be here 9 to 11.

And we're looking forward to it.

And it's going to be the same show that you always liked.

I will say that since we are starting a little later, I don't know how much you guys have

ever looked into this because you have lives and brains.

But the later, a network TV, the later you start, you know, more you can get away with FCC

rule wise and everything.

So I'm wondering if we're starting a little bit later if we can get away with more.

I'm going to look into it.

I'm going to look into it.

Be careful.

Let's see what we can do.

So that is what will be taking place with our morning show here.

We're also excited because we're going to be busy over on the Sunrise show coming up soon.

We're going to be extending our morning show over there, Seth.

Yes, we are.

Starting in a couple of weeks, we're going to be expanding it one hour from 7 to 9.

Now right now, James of course is handling 7 to 8.

Now it's going to 7 to 9.

So we're going to be adding a little more time there.

More time for your requests, everyone.

Get those ready.

We love to play.

Those James gets kicked out of it.

And so do we.

We all love love it.

We love requests because we get to hear from you.

That's why you're morning jukebox.

Yeah.

That's a good way of putting it.

I love being able to do that.

We want to do more of that and a couple of other things too that we'll add to.

But for the most part, it's going to be the show that we've been doing.

Putting lots of music.

And we'll jump in here and do our blabbing.

And then you know, get on with the music.

Why?

I think with some of the important information.

Okay.

Yes.

There you go.

I think again with some of the announcements and some of the things that have been going on and everything.

There's also been some confusion about what's going to happen in Midday Magazine.

That's been a staple on this network for a very long time.

And it's something that we know how much the audience appreciates our guests do.

And the information that we're able to get out there with that show.

We've been looking at the numbers for a while now.

And the number of people that end up that listen to the show and the download the show is streaming and is online.

So we are going to be rebranding Midday Magazine to the Rapids Report.

And it'll be streaming.

It'll be exclusively online.

It'll be available every day at a certain time just like it always has been.

Exactly.

And we're still hopeful to be able to play it on the airwaves here even after that.

But we'll figure that part out as we go along here.

And we understand the importance of the show and the concern of the show.

And I want to thank people for that.

Absolutely.

I hope it didn't come across like I was angry or anything about those emails.

We want you to reach out to us with your questions.

Yes.

And we understand that it's confusing.

What I appreciate so much is everyone of our listeners also understand

while they've been through a lot of these changes, our staff is as well.

And our staff is going through quite a bit too.

And I'm not asking for anybody to be empathetic.

We all know that we're all adults and signed up for what we did.

But you guys get that this is also difficult for us.

And this isn't something we ask for to be honest.

Right.

We're roll with it right now.

But this is the thing.

And it's almost, it would be a detriment if we didn't care so much about the work that we put out there.

Everything that gets thrown our way, what do we do?

We knock it out the bark.

That's right.

We will continue to do that.

And we're looking forward to that.

One other thing, and I set myself up there on that one.

Knocking it out the park, playmakers.

That will be moving.

For those who did not hear, there was a gigantic trade that happened a couple of weeks ago.

I understand with the NFL draft in town, maybe not everybody heard about it.

But WRI has traded for WFHR's playmakers.

It involves a couple of draft picks, a player to be named later.

Me.

And we'll get into details later.

But what we're excited about is starting this Wednesday.

We will be premiering on WRI, 105, and we'll be from 4 to 5.

And all these shows the same, just in different places,

in different times, or different availability.

Yeah, exactly.

You're still going to get the best news in the area from Melissa.

You're still going to be hearing me with my bad jokes.

All these things.

I want to miss the bad jokes.

Yeah.

You work so hard on them.

But we appreciate you all adapting with us and rolling with us with these things.

A gigantic thank you to our sponsors out there and everybody hanging with us on this.

Yeah.

And just go forward with this one in the positive light.

Yes.

I agree.

We are here at local radio matters.

We are still making sure of that.

And we're going to continue to.

We've got a big birthday coming up in November.

We do.

We're going to be here to celebrate it.

Yes, we are.

And we're going to be at the WBAs to celebrate those two.

Those are coming up in a.

Do I bring up all these changes and bring up the WBAs immediately afterwards?

Yes.

Yes, I do.

Yes, I do.

Because we are representing there more than most other radio stations in the state.

Yeah.

And we did last year and we're doing it again this year.

Yes, definitely in civic media.

Once again, we had the most finalists of any other station in the civic media network.

So, you know, we're little.

Yeah, we take that.

Is that even bumped us up to a bigger market this year?

They did.

Yes.

Because last year we were in a small market this year, we're considered a medium market.

We are.

We are.

I'm really not sure how that works, but okay.

I don't know, sir.

Because I don't think our population increased a whole lot.

We're just so good.

They had to put us in a bigger cap.

They must count it the first time.

They must count it the first time.

Sorry.

We're very excited about that, too.

Yes.

We are very excited.

Very.

And with that, we're going to be able to have a lot of fun with it.

Yeah.

Looking forward to all of this.

So, I've got an interesting place to start, gang.

And I wanted to go a different direction.

And I wanted to go positive.

Okay.

So, I think I've got a fun one here for us.

And I just came across it through the good news network.

I actually sent you guys the link.

But it was late in the day.

So, I don't blame you if you missed it.

And I'm just going to kind of paraphrase a lot of this.

Because I want to encourage you out there to read about it.

Because I was 40 some years old when I learned about something that everybody seems to know about.

Go to good news network dot org.

You can find the article that I'm going to refer to.

And that is a man cultivates a giant mango tree with each branch growing a different variety of fruit.

And there are 300 different branches.

Wow.

So, this gentleman, this remarkable man, has produced a tree that has 300 different varieties of mango.

It is a world-renowned horticultural accomplishment that won its grower important civilization honors.

An international attention.

Camila Khan from India's town of Mahaladid has been cultivating mango varieties since 1950s.

Now age 84, his son manages most of the orchard.

And the old man mostly gets to enjoy the fruits of his labor family.

And of course, the credit of the creation.

I mean, yeah.

The creation is something that seems totally impossible a tree from which each branch grows a different variety of mango.

India has more mango varieties than any other nation thanks to centuries of doing things like this.

So, he was a school dropout and began experimenting with grafting in 1957.

Finding the healthiest and most deeply rooted tree in the family orchard, Khan then began grafting branches on other mango varieties.

Pause.

Grafting.

It's a cool thing.

Oh my god.

Yeah, again, 47 years old when I first learned of this.

I have never heard of this before.

Grafting is often used in fruit cultivation and involves attaching the branch ticket from one tree into the base of the trunk or rootstock or another.

Over time, the branch fuses with the rootstock and begins to grow as normal.

What?

They grow on his mind.

They grow on the apple trees.

Yeah, wow.

Yeah, I didn't know much about this either. That's really impressive.

That's just incredible.

And then to do this in 350 different mango varieties are produced from this one tree.

Man, that's amazing.

It's just really, really cool story.

It's just really cool.

And again, I mean, you know, I don't care if you...

Wow, James was 48.

You didn't know about grafting.

Yes.

That's okay.

We own this.

Nothing wrong with that.

It's cool.

There's so much about our world that we get to learn about every day.

I'm glad you got to learn about that.

That's very cool, yeah.

And 300 types of mangoes, holy cow.

That's amazing.

That's about a dedication.

It is.

Yeah, just...

I watched a little bit of the Americas again this weekend.

And some of the things that...

So there is a lemon shark that grows in the Caribbean.

That grows.

That is born in the Caribbean.

And once it's born, it just...

It goes off on its own.

It doesn't really have any interaction with its parents anymore.

And you see this and it's out on its own and all this.

And it has to learn to hunt on its own.

And it is struggling with this.

So what scientists have found is these lemon sharks actually make friends.

And older lemon sharks that are in these areas will teach them

and help them learn how to do this.

Really?

Yeah.

Wow.

Just some of the things that nature is capable of doing.

And doing it.

And lemon sharks, they don't need parents, but apparently they need friends.

They still need a community.

They still need a community.

They still need a community.

They still need a community to make it.

Yeah.

Don't want you, mom and dad.

I'm going to go find someone else to teach you.

Yeah.

I'm going to hang with some better people.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Wow.

Strange.

We still need a community too.

And that's why we need all of you.

Please do us a favor as well, everybody.

And promote these changes in these things that are happening here with our station.

Yeah.

We'll get through and do this together.

Like we have for 80 plus years.

We will be back with the El Caffe birthday anniversary club.

And some news about El Caffe going on tonight.

All that coming up on the mornings.

I just want to celebrate another day of living.

I just want to celebrate another day of living.

It's time to do some celebrating everybody with our great friends over at El Caffe.

We encourage you tomorrow to head on over there.

Be back.

Open tomorrow for you.

Everybody at 221 Market Avenue in beautiful Port Edward.

So they had a great Easter, great weekend.

Yeah.

Looks like they did.

Now, keep in mind while they are not open, you know, their normal hours today.

Oh.

Oh, they do have something going on though.

They do.

Be sure to join our great friends at El Caffe and the Heart of Wisconsin Chamber Congress tonight

from five to seven four.

They're networking at night with us.

Yes, exactly.

Yeah, networking with the Heart of Wisconsin.

They have a lot of fun with these events, a lot of fellowship and communication and, you know, connections made.

A little food too.

Yeah.

Especially if you haven't had a chance to get over to El Caffe, this is a perfect opportunity to get on over there.

Yeah.

Talk with the gang over there, see all the different cool things that they're doing along with all the impact they are making on their community.

Yes.

100%.

And also a full tour of the place.

You can see their large back room where they can accommodate bigger parties.

They're the community room.

Yes.

So cool.

Check it out today.

Five to seven over at El Caffe, 221 Market Avenue, beautiful part of Edwards.

Networking with the Heart of Wisconsin.

Enjoy everybody.

Enjoy.

And of course, get us those birthdays and anniversaries.

We love celebrating with you.

Info at WFHR.com.

You can email us.

You can also call on up.

Yes.

That's right.

715-424-2600.

Looking forward to hanging out with you, everybody.

Go ahead and give us a call.

Let's dive right into the birthdays.

We just got one name on the list today so we can put the spotlight on Bill Walters.

Happy birthday, Bill.

Happy birthday, Bill.

Enjoy the day, sir.

Hope it's a good one for you.

We appreciate you.

We appreciate you.

Whoever got us this birthday.

Yeah.

Qualified by default.

I love it.

The best way to call it.

Enjoy the day, Bill.

Hope it's a good one for you.

Yes.

So I really want to know who brought this in.

And I want to know if he goes at all by William Walters.

Oh.

That is a strong name.

That's a good name.

Bill Walters is strong.

Good.

William Walters.

Yeah.

I like that.

Just starting with Bill or William.

I just, it's just one of those names that just sounds, you know.

Yeah.

Great stuff for us.

Really good name.

Let's go ahead and take a look at our celebrity list.

Robbie Amiel is 37.

Nathan, the uploaded series.

He's Firestorm in the Flash.

His brother, Robbie is also the younger cousin of Steven Amiel.

Oh, okay.

It was Arrow and all that.

Right, right.

Tony Romo is 45 today.

Retired Dallas Cowboys quarterback and current Amos.

It's only 45.

Yeah.

Yeah.

He was older than that.

Wow.

He seems like he's been retired forever.

Yeah.

I would never have guessed he's 40.

Oh, no, no, no.

I would easily think he is much older than that.

I think one of the greatest actors in the world.

And I mentioned the other day.

A top five performance of all time he's given.

James McAvoy is 46 today.

Nice.

It's Lord Israel in the dark, his dark materials.

Of course, Professor X in the X-Men series.

Bill in it's chapter two.

But what I mentioned the other week was his performance in split.

That is right.

Just one of the greatest performance I've ever seen of any actor never will.

The incredible actor.

And I would think that if there was a Olympics for acting,

he would be England's representative.

I would think.

And that's some stiff top competition from England.

Yeah.

He'd be up there.

And at 46, only getting stronger in the better as an actor.

Robert Eagle is 55.

SNL and Daily Show alum also was in the hangover and in 21 Jump Street.

A number of different things.

But as good as Robert Eagle was on the Daily Show and does a great job

in seeing things and stuff, the greatest work that he has done,

I'm sure that he would tell you is serving our country.

Yeah.

We appreciate that.

He and that's right.

Yes, because he was.

Yeah.

Man, is he funny though?

Oh my gosh, is he funny?

He's got...

He can lift one eyebrow.

I'm jealous.

Yeah, he's good at that.

And it's a very good at that.

Yeah.

He's got the...

When he does the whole open mouth surprise smile at you.

It's the best.

It's one of the best.

He's great.

He's great.

I love Nicole Sullivan.

She is 55 today.

She was in...

King of Queens.

She was the dog walker or whatever.

Okay.

She got a break break on Mad TV.

Okay.

I've been in a bunch of other things too, but she's really good.

Nice.

She's good.

Let's see here.

Robert Smith is 66 from the cure.

I just wanted to celebrate Mr. Robert Smith because there's a lot of us out there

that were very moved by the cure and really appreciated the work that was done by the cure at the time.

There wasn't a lot of email.

It wasn't a lot of...

Hey.

Moody.

I'm going to my room.

I'm going to go listen to the cure.

Robert Smith's amazing.

They were basically the founders of emo actually.

If you need a starting point for that, it was the cure.

By the way, they released an album after like 17 years last year and it is amazing.

It's fantastic.

It is fantastic.

It might be their last one, but that's all right.

It was really good.

Great songwriter.

Great creator and all that.

But one of the things I love the most about Robert Smith is very self-deprecating.

They did the Robert Smith hotline for the state or whatever.

They call him and talk to Robert Smith.

He's good.

He's very good.

Still put on the makeup too.

He's still doing the whole thing.

The great, the wonderful Andy McDowell is 67.

Cool.

Oh man.

She's great.

May not know her name, but you know her.

Not only with that great acting and smile and hair.

Groundhog Day for weddings in a funeral.

Yep.

There was a while there where she was, I mean, if you needed that co-lead actress, she was the go-to.

Yep.

She was it for a while.

And for a good reason.

Very good actress.

Really a lot in the 90s.

Yeah.

For sure.

Yeah, she was all over the place.

Yeah.

And unlike a lot of actresses, I don't know that we ever really got to see her full range.

You know what she could completely do.

She got tight cast a little bit.

Yeah.

There was, there's so many times, especially her comedically, where it would have been loved.

I would have loved to have seen her like get a chance to do a punchline or a joke or something like that.

Her, Groundhog Day's, Bill Murray is obviously fantastic in it.

It's not as good without her.

It would not be as good without her.

Yeah.

She's very likable and believable and just a good actress.

Bruce, the barber beef cake is 68.

WWF superstar of the 80s.

It was comically large shears.

Yes.

Melissa, Brutus, if you, if he beat you in a match, you would cut your hair.

Oh.

Yes, he would actually cut their hair off.

Wow.

This of course never really happened that much unless it was a, it didn't happen to hold it or somebody like that.

You know, well, they were partners kind of.

So he wouldn't have done a sandwich anyway.

It was never done to any like actual legitimate wrestlers.

It was always just a bit.

But man, every time he went down to the ring and he faced like, you know, somebody with big hair or something like, oh, what if he wins?

He didn't.

No.

Tony Danza's 74.

Tony on taxi, who's the boss?

The Tony Danza show.

Yeah.

Yeah.

74, really?

Wow.

Yeah.

Josh Groban's dad.

Tony Senior on the, on the show net on the Netflix show The Good Cop and stuff.

Yep.

That was on for a few seasons.

Yeah.

You did a good job in that.

A serious turn for Tony.

Tony didn't have a moment.

Tony had years.

Yeah.

He had a stress there, man.

Yeah.

Going back to taxi point.

He had a TV version of 12 angry men back from the 90s.

And they, it was updated, of course.

And, but the cast they had for it included Tony Danza.

He was, they were all really good, including him in that.

Yeah.

So good.

I'd check that one out.

Yeah.

That was a good one.

Iggy Pop is 78.

Oh my gosh.

Man.

Man.

Abs are 42.

Yeah.

Still in great shape, too.

Yeah.

No doubt.

Yeah.

And still performing without a shirt.

But still performing.

That's the thing.

And stuff he put his body through.

The passenger is one of my all-time favorite songs.

Good song.

And then some people no longer with us.

Queen Elizabeth II.

Born in the state in 1926.

And Charles Groben, born in the state in 1935.

Great.

Great actor.

Yes.

Like Charles Groben, he was good.

A lot of what I was saying about Andy McDowell,

similar to Charles Groben in some ways as far as like the male lead to the big lead actress.

Yes.

Or something.

Like that.

But he was so good at it.

Yeah.

Really was.

And one more time.

I want to wish everybody out there a happy birthday or anniversary.

Whenever you were celebrating, we wish you a great one.

Get us those birthdays and anniversaries.

We continue to celebrate with you.

Email us info at wfhr.com or of course direct messages on our Facebook pages.

Or call up or text us to the civic media app.

We greatly appreciate you doing that.

And be sure to make plans tonight.

To head on over to LKFA for networking with the heart of Wisconsin.

From five to seven tonight, we're going to have some appetizers, some raffles.

It's open to members and free to attend.

Head on over there tonight from five to seven for networking with the heart of Wisconsin.

221 Market Avenue and beautiful port Edwards.

Yes indeed.

Taking a time out.

We'll be back with more show coming up.

Morning show at wfhr.

Welcome back everyone.

Mornings with wfhr on your radio dial.

Thanks so much for joining us.

Melissa, Seth and James hanging out with you.

Getting to some fun and a little bit.

Talking about nicknames.

Getting to that in a moment.

Our nicknames gone.

We'll be talking about that.

No, don't go.

What we're really getting into.

But this one became a story of, you know, over the last couple of weeks.

And actually became more of a story after the event was over it feels like.

Which is weird to me.

Katie Perry, Gail King, Lauren Sanchez.

Would you space this past week?

And then got of course ridiculed for it.

By some.

I also saw some people like Neil deGrasse Tyson and other people coming out and talking about how you can go ahead and get.

Look at this, this and this.

But focus on this.

And you know, some of that.

So I think I think other people were doing similar things.

Most Americans in a new poll.

No, okay.

But the big question to came of this was, would you go if you had the money?

Because most Americans in a new poll said no.

They wouldn't go to space even if money was no object.

Only around a third of us would do it.

31% said yes.

55% said no way.

And 14% said maybe.

People who wouldn't go think it's either too risky or too bad for the environment.

Or they're just not interested.

Wow.

Some of us are more willing to go than others though.

Especially men young men and young people.

39% of men would go up compared to 23% of women.

And half of people in their 20s said yes compared to just 19% of seniors.

Huh.

Whether you go or not, most agree a flight like the Blue Origin one this week.

This past week does not make you an astronaut.

Because they just go into low orbit, right?

Right.

Right.

The lowest you can go.

I think to be considered another space.

Only 10% of Americans think that that makes you an astronaut.

That's way too high.

That's way too high.

That's way too high.

Yeah.

This is apples and oranges basically what we're talking about here.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Not the same thing.

I mean, I don't know.

I feel like this is almost out of my wheelhouse because whether we're talking about how much money

it is or what it does to our environment.

Or what is the point?

That's a great question man.

What's the end game?

What's the point of this?

I get why we went to the moon.

I get that.

I understand that.

I even understand the idea of wanting to go to another planet or researching and looking

for other planets.

The idea, this is the equivalent of, I'm going to go for a Sunday drive.

Yes.

I'm going to go for a drive.

I'm just going to, you know, I got nowhere to be.

I got nothing going on.

I'm just going to go up and come back.

I'm going to go out and come right back.

If you take a picture.

Yeah.

I'm not going to accomplish one single thing.

Nothing has been accomplished with this.

Man, woman, child, dog.

All that is great in everything.

But it's monkey.

Monkey, thank you, Melissa.

I'm getting in trouble with the monkey.

I'm going to get canceled by the monkey crowd now.

I'm going to be coming after you, man.

I'm so close.

It's just what is the point?

What is the end game other than promoting a bunch of celebrities getting more attention

and Katy Perry being able to release her track list because her tours just dive bombing.

What is the point other than I didn't think this could happen, but I lost to any respect.

I mean, not any respect, but I lost a little respect for certain people through this now.

Not talking about this event.

I mean, just in general.

Yes.

You know, I thought that what William Schattener had to say after his...

I not only thought it was really profound and really interesting.

But I also thought, okay, well, hopefully this ends this.

Because Schattener went up there and everybody was throwing microphones in his face.

How was it?

How was it?

It was sad.

He felt very lonely.

He didn't really enjoy it.

He didn't really like it.

He said he had never felt more detached from human beings.

That should tell you something right there.

Yeah.

I'm not looking for...

I don't need more of that in my life.

We've got enough of that in society.

We've got enough of that.

I'm genuinely asking what we're doing here more so than just barking.

Because I would love to have some...

Well, actually, we're doing it for these reasons.

Because we're hoping to be able to make this a much deeper trip.

So we do these to experiment and see how much gas we need for this.

Any of that stuff, I would love to hear any of that.

Right.

Nothing.

I've heard none of that.

All I've heard is we're rich and we want to go up there.

Yep.

Because we can.

Basically.

What about what's going on down here?

What if you spent some of that money and especially to these business people?

I'm sorry, Melissa.

Just let me wrap this up real quick.

Because if I'm a Richard Branson, if I'm Elon, many of these people are whatever they're doing this stuff,

I got businesses.

And every one of those businesses hurts every time I do something like this.

That's not my opinion.

That's the stock market.

That's the stocks that will tell you that.

So imagine if you took that money and instead said,

you know what, I'm going to feed half the country, the world.

Instead, imagine how your business stock would look after that.

Like this is just ridiculous on a number of levels and it's not good business.

It's not very, it's not smart business.

More and more, the people who are at the top in the faces of these brands and these companies

look like they are just a mouthpiece and nobody can figure out how they got there.

It's not out of intelligence or charisma or any of these things.

Nope.

It's just wild to me.

So the only reason I would want to go and do that is if I could skydive all the way back down.

Oh my god.

Yes.

Whoa.

Talk about adrenaline rush.

It's about a percent pure adrenaline.

I don't really have any interest in bungee jumping or anything like that.

But this and what Melissa just said, I'll go right after you mouth.

Wow.

You need one heck of a suit.

So that's all I'm going to say in order to get through all that.

How much of a bungee cord do you got?

Oh gosh.

No, no, no.

No, no, no.

I've done that once and that was enough.

Thank you.

Wow.

It hurts.

I'm impressed you did it once.

Yeah, me too.

Yeah.

And there was so much spinning at the end.

Yeah.

I just spun and spun and spun.

It was really bad.

Other than a six-year-old who likes to be spun?

Yeah.

Really to joy.

At some point it gets old.

Yeah.

When you're older it's like, no, no.

Yeah.

The room spins enough for me.

Thank you so much.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And we want to hear from you out there.

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Would you do this?

Would you?

They're offering you a free ticket.

Guy died from space.

Yes, that's it.

That'll be the follow-up.

Question one.

Question two.

There we go.

We would love to hear from you guys and hear what you think about that one.

Because I...

Low Earth orbit.

Sorry.

Not space.

Right.

There you go.

So if you get too far out, you're not coming back.

Yeah, exactly.

By falling.

You skydive, you'll just go float off into space.

Yeah.

Yeah, they...

We saw that movie.

I was...

Yep.

Exactly.

What I'm curious about is what everyday people are thinking.

But I feel like all I hear about this subject is celebrities or, you know, talking heads that

want to get two seconds of, you know, which is...

There's a lot of...

I will say Chuck and I have been talking, of course, a lot recently and certainly with a lot of the things going on in the movement

happening here at our stations.

And I...

I'm not going to say his name for one in part to give him any more attention.

But also because I don't know exactly who he is.

So I might get his name wrong.

Oh.

But there is somebody locally in the...

It was Central Air...

It was Constant Area here.

Okay.

Who apparently came out with an article and was taking a quote unquote victory lap with some of these changes that are going on here with civic medium.

Huh?

And this person basically is just looking for clicks.

They're not a real journalist, they're coward.

They didn't...

I did my homework on this, everybody.

I'm not just throwing these verbs out there or anything.

This person didn't try to reach out to any of our staff or anybody here or anything like that.

They didn't do any actually digging.

They just wanted to go ahead and hear, you know, me, me, me, just a little bit of attention.

Just a little bit of attention.

One, that isn't real journalism.

We got enough of that in our politics.

Let alone in journalism these days.

But also, I mean, who takes...

You're in the same medium.

That's like taking a victory lap, like, uh, somebody in your team getting hurt.

Like, we're all anybody doing radio.

You don't hear me talking trash about other radio stations?

No.

We're just looking to take down another radio station.

We're...

Well, compete with them.

I want to beat them in the ratings.

I want to beat the daylights out of them in the ratings.

But I don't want any other radio stations gone.

This is our medium.

This is our home.

This is what we do.

Like, who's rooting against that?

You understand that rising tide raises all boats.

Like, it just shows what it's about you and not the listeners, not the audience.

Which is...

If you're doing...

If you're not doing this job for that, get out.

If you're not in this for the audience, get out.

We're gonna have people...

The healthy competition is good.

That's it is.

The competition is a good thing.

Yeah.

And the person in the audience is completely wrong.

Like, we are still here.

We are still doing radio with everything.

Actually, we've expanded.

Yes.

Exactly.

So whether it is, you know, going to space or some of these other things,

I feel like we really have to all do a better...

Not do a better job.

We all have to be aware of the idea of, okay,

is this actual information or is this person looking for clicks?

And do I want to give them those?

Yeah, that's a good one.

Do I want to encourage that behavior?

Right.

And we know how tempting it is.

You know, that's what they do it.

You know, like, oh, look at this.

And then you read the story.

It's like, eh, big nothing burger, basically.

I admit, way back in the early internet days,

man, I would go down some rabbit holes.

I would go down some rabbit holes.

It's not hard.

Then you learned critical thinking.

Oh, yeah.

And they're like, oh, wait a minute.

I don't have to do that.

Yeah.

Hey, wait a minute.

Tim Joe.

That's not a real name.

Who wrote this article?

What kind of fake name is that?

That's not a name.

Tim Joe.

That's not a real name.

We will take a time out.

We'll come back.

We'll do some celebrating with nicknames.

I want to celebrate nicknames when we come back.

All right.

Because apparently they're going away.

Oh, no.

Yeah, it's going to call in.

I know.

Yeah.

I have not even talked to him about this yet.

I'm afraid to.

Got more coming up of the morning show here at WFHR.

Welcome back, everybody.

Mornings on WFHR.

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Melissa Seth and James hanging out with you.

Thanks for joining us, everybody.

I'm going to get into nicknames here in a second.

But I just real quickly wrapping up what I was getting into earlier.

And I apologize, everybody.

Sometimes I improv here.

And it spit things out.

I don't want anybody to think I am afraid of mentioning who I was talking about.

I was talking about Chris Conley.

He's a coward.

Conley the coward is what I call him.

So I'm not afraid of anything or anything.

Oh, no.

But, you know, don't really want to give him any more clicks or anything like that.

Yeah.

It's a dance.

You got to walk nowadays.

You do.

I don't want to want to give him too much space.

But he can look me up anytime.

And I'd love to have a conversation with him.

Oh, that'd be interesting.

Especially on air.

I mean, actually see if he can know what he'd do on air.

Oh, that'd be interesting.

Have you noticed nicknames aren't as common anymore?

A writer for Wall Street Journal claims they're going extinct.

Okay.

So he has five kids aged six to 18.

And none of them have been given nicknames by their friends.

He says none of their friends seem to have one either.

He claims all types of nicknames are in decline.

Everything from junior to calling yourself a buddy from Dallas,

your buddy from Dallas Tex.

And he thinks it's sad because nicknames are almost always a positive thing

or a sign of affection.

Right, right, true.

Mostly.

Maybe.

Maybe.

Well, you know, Conley the coward.

I don't think that's really affectionate.

So sometimes they are.

Yes.

Yes.

But also I see what he's saying there to a degree.

Right.

He says even initials like AJ or JD seems less common,

partially because parents take their kids names more seriously

than they used to.

Okay.

His youngest kid has a few friends named William

and none of them go by Bill or Billy.

Obviously, nicknames will never fully go extinct.

We have athletes and radio hosts still have nicknames.

That's going to keep nicknames alive.

Yeah.

That's going to do it.

Yep.

But he thinks silly ones among friends are less common

because we're more worried about offending people.

What?

Years ago, you might have called your heavy set Friend Tiny

as a joke, but you might be more worried about calling the attention

to their weight now.

Some go, some goes, you know,

as far as a red haired people and not being called red anymore.

I've heard that one as well.

Right.

So I could see where they're going with

with these articles to a degree.

However, however, however,

I've got an opinion here.

Okay.

So he takes a notice.

Well, my five children don't have nicknames.

Well, that must mean there's a broader cultural phenomenon

happening.

And you know what?

It's because people are woke.

Basically, so it sounds like you say here.

So everything, he got a lot of assumptions there.

Everything about anything to do with quote,

whoa.

It is about balance.

It's about representation.

Right.

It's about evening the playing field.

Yeah.

Sorry, Melissa.

Empathy.

Empathy?

Yes.

It's another part of it.

Like giving an advantage to or taking a grand advantage of

or any of these kind of things.

And so when I see something like this and I see people looking

like looking to make connections that aren't there,

again, we come back to wanting clicks and wanting attention

in some of that.

Now, I can guarantee that nicknames will never go away in one

because of my father.

He alone will keep them alive.

My father alone could keep that industry.

If it was a stock, my father, I would guarantee buy it.

Buy it because my dad can keep it alive.

But one thing I do want to push back on.

And I think of a lot of certain stand-up comedians nowadays

that can't tell a joke without offending somebody

or making fun of something or something like that.

Now, there's a skill to that.

There's an ability to do that where you show a related ability.

That is, hey, we're not that different.

We may have this different, but we're actually not that different.

They can really be strong comedy.

But then there's the comedians that are saying,

oh, I'm pushing against the wokeism.

And I'm telling jokes that are racy and dangerous or whatever.

And you're not a comedian.

You're an arsonist.

You're just trying to start fires.

Right, right.

Like, can you tell a joke without doing that?

Right.

Because every great comedian in history

isn't just a one-trick pony.

No.

Like, and this is nothing against him in his legacy.

But you're essentially Gallagher.

You're a prop comic.

Your prop is hate.

Your prop is division.

You know?

It's lazy.

It's credibility.

It's lazy.

So I'm thinking the same thing with articles like this

and journalism like this.

Oh, yeah.

And man, if I had never said journalism more loosely.

But this idea, and again, this is the Wall Street Journal.

The Saint of New York Post.

Right.

This is what's going on with journalism.

And our major markets and our major newspapers

and all of that and everything.

For one, that this means news.

Like, this isn't even news.

What's the Wall Street Journal reporting on here?

Seriously.

Yeah.

You know, there's quite a few things going on in the Wall Street Journal

that would actually be some really good reporting.

In the building.

Just turn around and talk to somebody and interview them.

Maybe that actually would be much more interesting than this.

But it's also just not really true.

I work with young people all the time.

I have been for over 11 years.

And every single one of them has a nickname or a name for each other.

They're not your typical nicknames.

There's some of them I can't say on the air.

But right.

They've got this down.