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We hope you're having a great one out there. We're going to have some fun this hour getting some entertainment news in a moment. Speaking of entertainment, we're also going to get into some interesting wild connections between celebrities.
For no reason other than I've been trying to shoehorn it into the show for a while. And I'm down. Let's do it.
Got all that coming up. Who gets the last laugh? The top reasons we're using AI including some really funny things.
Sure. Nothing really destructive. We're going to get an entertainment news here in a second, Laura. But I want to do kind of complete a circle here.
Sure. Okay. Because I was doing a song earlier. I was singing a song earlier. I was trying to reference and I could not think of the name.
Like five seconds before Marvin Gaye started singing. The intro that almost was. Yes. Yes.
Because our forecast started off with Sonny. And so it got in my head. This is the one.
Yeah. I'm just skipping around. Yeah. It's right around here. Gonna find it. It's the reframe. Yeah. This isn't the version. This isn't the version I was thinking of. But it's the song.
I mean, you sounded just like it. How would I not recognize this? You weren't just not helping me. I know I know this song. I will find it.
Okay. More importantly, diving into more and important entertainment news. Sure.
The Minecraft movies, the makers of the Minecraft movie are trying to lean into the chicken jockey chaos with the new block party edition screenings of the movie where audiences are encouraged to talk and sing.
Those sure are words in a sentence. Seth and I were talking last week a little bit about this. The Minecraft movie has been very popular.
It's been doing really well. And I don't think that surprised anybody would didn't surprise everybody, especially movie goers and people that own movie theaters is this chicken jockey thing now explaining this to people.
There's apparently a scene in the movie where somebody else chicken jockey or something like that. When that happens in theaters, kids are losing their minds. They're throwing their popcorn all over the place.
There's oftentimes somebody dressed up as a chicken jockey and jumps around and runs around the theater and everything. Okay.
So it's like an inside joke that the theater owners didn't know was happening. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.
So this will kind of they're hoping that this will get rid of that because this is becoming quite a bit of a big problem. Okay.
Certainly to say you break you you take a young one to the movie theater and they don't know this is going to happen and it scares them. Yeah.
Obviously I would hope obviously at least the people that are running these theaters and the kids it's usually teenagers that are working and theater.
The messes that are left behind are insane. Yeah. They're insane anyway and then adding this to it. That's nuts.
It's a kid I remember reading an article that blew my mind. I doubt it's true anymore but one of the more higher paid jobs in New York City was being a janitor on Wall Street and cleaning up after like the stock exchange and everything.
Because those people are animals. Can we be real for a second? They are animals.
The first thing I thought of with this where you see the devastation after these because I this is a very mixed bag and talk about gray area and two things being true at the same time.
What have we been talking about for almost a decade now if not longer than a decade getting people to go to movies. Yeah.
It's being a car one of the I don't forget to look at Carl's face when I told about this theater in California that it literally had a jungle gym inside the theater.
It just like the dumb bottom look up parents. So we've tried to do this for quite some time to get people to go to movies to interact with movies have fun.
Yeah. And here we are. Oh, kids are doing it. Kids are great. And this is great and everything. And then at the same time.
It's a little much. Yeah, way too much.
And interacting with a movie in that way isn't necessarily new. I mean, I can't help but think of the showings of even the Rocky Horror picture show now, right?
Yeah. But theaters know that's coming and they plan around it. They expect there to be rice everywhere. You know, they expect all of that stuff because they know it's coming now.
Yeah. If I'm a movie theater, if I own a movie theater for one, I'm putting into my community. I'm not owning. I'm not going to have a monopoly like some do.
Ballot boy.
But more just as important, I think I am embracing this is difficult as it might be on my staff.
Kind of. Yeah. Like just plan for it. Yeah.
Because you want people coming in and sitting in those seats because an empty seat is losing you money.
I wish they would have thought of this a little sooner is all because this is really cool. It's a great idea to bring.
It's again, you know, the perfect example is what you brought up with the Rocky Horror picture show and the cult following that still has to this day coming up in October.
There's going to be a number of places in this state let alone around the world that are doing that.
So I like the idea. I love that kids are going to the movies. Their kids are loving and interacting with the movies.
I just think that the best way to do this would be to plan for it a little bit better.
Sure. Exactly.
And not for nothing. A lot of this stuff is a lot of like 18, 19 year old kids doing this.
There's an age limit. I'm sorry, bad. I don't mean to be the old guy yelled at cloud.
I mean, maybe in 10 years when it's nostalgic and they're doing it again as a, you know, the way that we do Rocky Horror picture show now, right?
Like let's say they have events for the Minecraft movie.
You know, as a, as a former knucklehead kid, I get the kids are going to act, act a fool sometimes.
It's going to kid some times. You turn 18. Sorry, man. Nope. Nope. Yeah.
You can't get away with it anymore. I'll reach a kid until you're 21.
Okay. All right. For me, can't do it.
We take a look now at a topic that is a very dear to our audience. Coco Mellon.
No, I don't know. I wonder how many people out there know what Coco Mellon is.
It's toddler programming and it's horrific. It's nightmare inducing. Don't recommend.
Coco Mellon will teach their own certainly, but Coco Mellon with its bright colors, loud music and fast-paced action is adored by a lot of kids.
But influencers are complaining, are comparing it to it being like a stimulation or a drug almost for kids.
They say it's overstimulating and leads to negative behaviors, especially when parents try to turn it off.
It did lead to negative behaviors in Quinn.
So Quinn, who we just got done wishing a happy sixth and everything.
Yeah, everything.
Peak Coco Mellon time was around that three to four age range?
So, okay. So you got an actual reference with this.
That's why I wanted to talk about it with you and everything.
So one of them says she doesn't allow her kids to watch Coco Mellon at all.
It's too fast-paced and too aggressive and I don't like how big their eyes are.
Dude, it's scary.
I said it's nightmare inducing.
I also feel like the overstimulation is playing into the short attention span I think kids already have.
When kids get used to constant entertainment they struggle with boredom and quiet play.
Sure.
The company that produces this show says, quote, we dedicate substantial care and resources to ensure that all of our content, including Coco Mellon,
is an enriching as it is entertaining.
Sure.
We work closely with experts in childhood development to inform our content development choices.
Okay.
So I mean, I hear them. I do.
But when I had a kid who was watching it, I looked at Coco Mellon as, you know how you have junk food programming that you watch, right?
Like it's usually the reality show nonsense, right?
Someone's got that guilty pleasure show that they watch that really does nothing for their brain whatsoever.
But it makes them happy, right?
That's how I looked at Coco Mellon for Quint.
It did nothing for her.
But it made her happy.
And so sometimes she watched Coco Mellon.
I, if my kids were young and were still around the age of watching shows like this, I don't think I would have had them watch it.
But to be honest with everybody, it's not for the right reasons.
The animation is horrible.
It's horrifying.
But they didn't put enough money or time or energy into the animation.
And that drives me crazy.
And that mom was right about their eyes.
She was right.
They don't blink.
They don't seem to blink.
And if they do, it's not enough.
And their eyelids are massive.
Because their eyes are huge.
And it's really unsettling.
Showing what a bad parrot I can be.
Yeah, I wouldn't have been for the right reason.
Because like my ex-Mandy and I, one of the things we agreed on right away was all right.
No, no Barney.
We ain't doing Barney.
But we both had very different reasons.
For her, it drove her crazy.
For me, I'm like, they don't put enough.
Look at the, look at the special effects they're using.
This is horrible.
My son is not going to worry.
You're hilarious.
You were critiquing Barney's production level.
We didn't watch, see, when I had, when my older kids were little, my ex-husband and I, it was Caillou.
Caillou was the absolutely not because he taught some pretty nasty behaviors.
I don't know that one.
I don't know that one.
Don't recommend.
He's a Caillou, he's a jerk.
Taking a look at just a couple of other entertainment stories here.
We want to get to.
So, Britain's Daily Mail tabloid recently posted a headline saying that the members of the
band Garbage look unrecognizable in new photos.
And Trilly Manson took that personally.
I will admit right away, big fan of Garbage.
I'm a big fan of Garbage.
And like age happens.
What do you mean?
The band Garbage even has Wisconsin ties to it and everything.
So, I think that all that is worth mentioning.
Journalistically integrity.
In Instagram posts, she said that since all the guys in the band look exactly the same as
they have for the past 30 years, she assumes the headlines were directed at her.
She said, quote, look, I'm nearly 60 years old.
Of course, I'm not going to look anything like I did in my late 20s.
This kind of language is weaponizing to put a woman like me in my place.
She had a quote no matter what I look like, no matter what they say about me, I will always
and forever rock harder than most.
Shirley is 58 years old.
And I love her.
I feel like, I don't know, she looks like she's 58.
Right.
Well, actually, she looks like she's a lot younger than that.
But I mean, she looks like she's surely Manson ranged.
They look like the coolest people in their age group.
You know what I mean?
Like, they still look like the coolest people in their age group.
The headline and the thing that deserves the attention is the weaponizing that goes on here with media
and this.
And certainly, I will say a side story of this is she's right.
All those guys look exactly the same.
How would that be?
How would that be?
But the same.
Yeah, they look the same but grayer.
They've aged very well.
And honestly, so is she.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, I have words that I can't say on the radio for those folks.
This happens to me all the time.
Right.
I never thought she looked bad.
But I think she looks better now.
Sometimes I think some people look better at with age.
I think George Clooney looks much better with age.
Oh, sure.
I wasn't a fan of his when he was younger.
He's much more handsome now.
Some people.
Sorry, George.
That's what my hope is.
You know, every time I turn a new age or hit a new milestone or something like that,
I'm like, okay, maybe this is the year that I start looking at that face
where I start looking better at my old age.
Right.
I feel like I'm investing in you at the right time.
Jack Black just broke a record on the Billboard Hot 100 for the quickest song
to land on the chart at just 34 seconds.
What?
It is the shortest song ever to be a hit.
It's called Steve's Lava Chicken from the Minecraft movie.
Oh, okay, good.
It's only 34 seconds.
But it's not the only hit song that came about,
with only that it was only under a minute or whatever.
Beautiful trip by Kid Cudi is 37 seconds.
Sure.
That King Cole's Deck the Halls is only a minute six.
Yeah, there's a lot of Christmas songs that are just under a minute or over a minute, yeah.
Forward from Beyoncé featuring James Blake is only a minute 19 seconds as well.
Yeah.
That's interesting.
That's interesting that there's Lava Chicken.
Steve, yeah, yeah.
So I didn't know that this could even be a thing.
I didn't know that they could do this.
I didn't know that they were able to, I guess it makes perfect sense.
But I can't imagine, when I think of hit songs,
I immediately think of radio.
Yeah, sure.
Because I'm old.
Naturally.
And so to me, there's no radio station in the world that's probably going to be able to play any of these songs.
Right.
You can't play a 30 second song.
All in a row.
But that's not where people are going to listen to their music.
They're going to streaming and all this.
And in streaming and all that, it doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter how long the song is or anything.
Nope.
So I'm actually very curious to know between that and TikTok.
And for those that aren't up on this stuff and everything, I'm not either.
That's part of it.
I had younger people tell me this, but TikTok, there are a thousand artists out there right now
that are going to get a record deals because they have their minute to minute samples.
Sure.
And they're turning that into singles.
Yeah, when I was on TikTok, I followed a lot of like small artists for that reason.
I got to hear a minute long clip in one of their videos and I liked them for it.
I have to wonder if this will have a reverse one day and go the complete other way of direction
and we go back to Don McClaim and the American Pie and some of that.
I can't wait for the return of 18-minute songs to bring it on.
Yeah.
We will take a time out.
We'll come back and have some more fun on the show.
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I never lied to you.
I told you I'd find it.
It sounds remarkably similar.
I'm sure we used this one already today.
He had sunny.
I don't know if Bobby had other hits but God do I love this song.
Fair enough.
Oh, it's such a good one.
I also don't know.
I wait to look into that.
I know.
You know who knows Seth.
Seth is probably screaming at us from the other studio right now.
He's busy voice tracking.
He had a top 20 now.
Speaking of interesting connections right now.
I've had this one from Buzzfeed for a while.
Actually, not that long.
About two months.
But I've been wanting to bring it up in the show.
We just get usually too much entertainment news.
And I thought this would be a fun one.
And certainly I'm talking to somebody who knows pop culture pretty well.
Sure.
Let's get into wild connections between celebrities that actually kind of blew people's minds.
Sure.
So I think a more popular one that I wouldn't call common knowledge because none of these
necessarily are.
But one that is a little bit well known because they've both shared it many times.
Elton John is Eminem's AA sponsor.
Yes.
Both of them have shared this quite a bit in different interviews and stuff.
So that one is a little more well known.
But it gives you an idea of what we're talking about.
Yep.
Like, did you know?
Let me see here.
I want to end with that one.
Okay.
Cameron Diaz went to high school with Snoop Dogg.
And I did know that.
Yeah.
Now, those two at the same time.
I've seen like.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I've seen like their yearbook photos shared before.
Yeah.
Alicia Keys and Timothy Chalamet grew up in the same building.
I did not know that.
Larry David also lived there at one point along with Terence Howard, Tennessee Williams,
Angela Landsbury, Mickey Rourke, and Patrick Densey.
Truly not surprising, but also awesome.
I am moving into that building.
You think it's just faded?
It's worth a shot.
It's worth a shot.
Get discovered there.
And if that doesn't blow your mind enough, guess who was the first security guard of that building?
Samuel L. Jackson.
No way.
Just wild.
Just wild.
That's cool.
Mick Foley and Kevin James went to high school together.
Yeah, that sounds right.
They were even on the same wrestling team.
That also sounds right.
Where they competed against each other.
I loved that so much.
According to Mick Foley, you said in the interview, they competed against each other day and day out.
He even got it on the Kevin James memes to joke about the old days.
And Kevin James, I believe, did a wrestling type movie?
Yeah.
Oh, he does a lot of physical comedy, so it's kind of hard to tell.
I wouldn't have known that he was a wrestler, but right away, like, oh yeah.
Of course he was.
Yeah, definitely.
Yeah.
With that build, of course he was.
Well, and it's not unsurprising how many people go from sports to entertainment or sports to comedy specifically.
Sure.
Yeah.
Tommy Lee Jones and Al Gore lived together at Harvard.
What was okay?
What's the strangest part of that sense?
What's...
Tommy Lee Jones at Harvard, I think, might be...
Oh, oh, okay.
I had no idea he was a Harvard guy.
Oh, yeah.
Okay, so he lived with Al Gore.
Honestly, I'm going to sound foolish to everybody.
I knew that Tommy Lee Jones went to Harvard.
I didn't know that Al Gore did.
I figured that Al Gore went to the other way around.
Or Princeton or something.
I figured he went to one of the big Ivy schools.
I had no idea about Tommy Lee Jones.
I didn't...
I am sorry, Tommy.
I did not know.
That man...
He is maybe one of the...
Maybe the best or one of the best at playing down to everybody.
To everything that he is.
Tommy Lee Jones is probably the closest we've got to a John Wayne type that is...
He loves acting, loves doing what he does, hates everything else about it.
He hates the interviewers promoting it.
All that has no interest in it.
None, none whatsoever.
Yeah, that's an interesting one.
How about this one?
Didn't know this at all until they read this article.
Christian Bale's stepmother is glorious Steinem.
Wow!
Yeah.
Okay.
Like what?
Okay.
Where did that come from?
How did that happen?
That's just crazy to me.
It's not so much that it's odd to think that,
oh, this person and this person would be related.
No.
You know, it's a big world, but we all know that it's a small world.
Right.
At the same time, when you don't ever put these two people in your brain at the same time.
Right.
You wouldn't have naturally connected them.
That's cool.
Matthew Perry went to school at Justin Trudeau.
As a kid, they even claimed he beat him up in fifth grade.
I kind of love that.
Sorry.
Kind of love that.
It's kind of funny.
It makes me want to stand up and yell,
that's a good one.
That's a good one.
There's a couple other ones too that I wanted to get to here.
So a lot of these are involving people that I don't think anybody knows.
Sure.
Yeah.
So I'm just trying to get to.
Get to the ones that we know.
One that I've mentioned many times, but I want to just because I just loosely touch on it.
But Ed Sheeran slept on Jamie Foxx's couch for six weeks when he moved first to move to L.A.
He bought a one-way ticket where there for a single gig trying to keep for the momentum going and ended up on Jamie Foxx's radio show,
The Foxhole, which led to performing at Foxx's live music night, then eventually sleeping on his couch using his in-home recording studio for free.
That's awesome.
Jamie Foxx discovered Ed Sheeran.
That's one of the, you don't hear stories like that anymore because everybody's discovered on the internet.
That's so wholesome.
I've talked about this one as well.
Denzel Washington paid for Chadwick Boseman and a group of his classmates at Howard University to attend a summer theater program at the University of Oxford.
When they ran into each other years later, after Boseman had made it big, Denzel joked to Chadwick that he owed him money.
Beautiful.
One of my bigger wishes was to have seen those two work together.
Yeah, that would have been really, really cool.
I know what I bet he feels the same way.
I bet Denzel feels the same way.
Shell Silverstein and Dominic Cooper were friends.
Shell Silverstein and Denzel were friends.
And also Denzel and Shell Silverstein.
That's not that weird if you think about the time, like the time frames.
Interesting.
And so the ones that I really wanted to get to here that I thought were really wild.
And of course, as we are the home of this news.
Oh, can't wait. It's a Dolly Parton.
Dolly Parton met Keanu Reeves when he was a little kid because his mom made many of her costumes.
I did know this one.
Including her famous Playboy Bunny costume.
Yep.
In fact, Keanu went as Dolly into, in the Playboy Bunny costume, before Halloween when he was a little kid.
Yeah, I love that so much.
And speaking of Keanu, Alice Cooper babysat him when he was a kid.
Yeah, that sounds right.
Cooper didn't even realize the kid he'd babysat was Keanu until Reeves revealed Cooper had babysit him on the tonight show.
Would you be found?
Years and years later.
And then the Cooper was just like, yeah, that was you, cool.
So, I mean, Keanu Reeves is the note here, but we really got to give credit to his mom.
His mom is the one that...
Well, because if she did costume for Dolly, I bet she did costume for Cooper.
Yeah.
That dissimilar.
It's just a different color palette.
What an interesting job that must have been.
That must have been a fascinating job.
That's got to be a cool job.
It's those unseen folks, right?
The costumeers, the makeup artists, the hair folks.
That's cool.
That's probably my favorite one.
Well, this is an interesting one, too, though.
Before becoming famous, Harrison Ford worked on a camera crew for the doors, helping family road tour movie.
That sounds...that's so Harrison Ford of him.
I...like, that's probably the least surprising one.
No.
He has the attitude of a roadie.
He very much does.
I love this one.
Patriot Pascal and Sarah Paulson have been friends since the early 90s before they found fame.
One of the first times they had was actually a Woody...
They saw Woody Harrelson at a park and bonded over being fans of Woody Harrelson.
That's adorable.
It's a really cool cop of those two need to work together.
No.
And their...so their...
...browship is one of my favorites.
There's nothing quite like a gay woman and her hymnbo, you know?
Martin Luther King Jr. paid the hospital bill when Julia Roberts was born.
Why Roberts?
I think I did know that, too.
Roberts parents ran a theater school that let in the King's children at a time when few programs would admit black children.
When her parents couldn't pay the hospital bill, Martin and Coretta stepped in.
Yeah, that kicks ass.
Sorry.
That's incredible.
That wasn't fair.
That's incredible.
And finally, I have to add one that seems like you may have not known it, but as soon as you hear it,
it seems like one of the most obvious things in the universe.
Larry David and Bernie Sanders are distant cousins.
Yeah, you know, I see it.
I mean, as the station Jew, I can say, yes, yes, that's very obvious.
Yes, that's surprising.
When I see them at the meetings, I often think, boy, those two look alike.
You know, they're not helping each other by wearing almost the same glasses.
That's not helping them.
And they dress very similarly.
It's, you know, Bernie is...
I want...
Normal.
I want so badly.
And not so much a debate, just a conversation between Larry David and Bernie Sanders.
And I want it to be in radio.
So I want people to have to be able to tell the difference on the voices of the people.
It's going to be so hard.
They're very fun to be a lot of fun.
Yeah.
We'll take it a time out.
We'll come back after our new sports and partner break with a lot more fun on the morning show with WFHR.
Welcome back, everybody.
Morning show here at WFHR.
Locally grown radio.
Laura, James, here with you.
Thanks so much for joining us, everybody.
Interesting one here.
And we're going to be talking about this for the next 20 years, at least, artificial intelligence.
What makes people grown more?
The word COVID or artificial or AI?
Which one?
Which one?
You bring up the other one and people immediately disassociated.
That question makes me grown.
Artificial intelligence is starting to soak into our work in personal lives.
But many of us still are using it to create silly images or to get funny, say funny stuff or those kind of things.
A new poll asks people how they're using AI.
And the answers people got back are hilarious.
Good.
The majority of people that are actually using AI for nefarious reasons
are not going to answer a survey.
No, they're not.
So I think that's important to keep in mind, certainly.
But it's also important to keep in mind, just like what we were talking about on social media
or other things that two things can be true at the same time.
Or the phrase, I love to use a little column A, a little column B.
Right.
That's life.
That's how things can be.
So this is no different.
AI is no different.
To look up the answer to a question, 51% of us have used AI for that.
Sure.
Well, and some of that is probably accidental, right?
Because the Google machine is pushing AI on us instead of giving us the links that we actually want that provide answers.
I want to know why this guy is blue.
I don't want to know why AI thinks it's blue.
Exactly.
I want to know the actual reason why it's blue.
The thing about the AI on the Google machine, right, is that it's not searching for the answers that are available on the internet like that.
It doesn't have access to everything.
It only has access to what it's already been fed.
So it's telling you what it knows about why the sky is blue.
And that's the same as just asking your bro next door.
So that was the number one reason 51% again.
And it dips down to 33%.
But at number two, to amuse ourselves.
That sounds more accurate.
Number two reason what we're using AI for.
Otherwise, 33% on that one and 33% also to get clarification on complex topics.
And to get step by step instructions.
Okay.
Now the clarification on complex topics.
I could see that being a tad bit helpful while at the same time on a bit overdoing it.
It's just not trustworthy.
Yeah.
It's just not trustworthy.
It's if it were trustworthy, I would say that that is a wise use of it.
But it's not.
And maybe it will be in 20 years.
But right now, it's not.
And people are fair to be hesitant to use it like that.
I would like to think the step by step instructions would be one of the perfect uses for it.
But going back to what we were saying.
Right.
It's not that they are not a search engine.
AI is not a search engine.
They do not have access to all of the things.
Like we have access to all of the things through a Google machine.
They just have access to what they've been fed.
To translate text into language, 31% of people are using it for that.
That is a great use for AI, actually.
Yeah, that seems like a good one.
It's not going to be 100%.
But it's a good use.
And again, now to be fair to AI on this one, there are times where linguists have a difficult time.
Right.
Especially when it comes to slang or anything in a different language.
And not connect to that.
I saw an article this morning about dual-lingo switching.
It's people for AI in a handful of languages starting soon.
And I am concerned about that though.
That's a shame.
Yeah, it is a little bit.
To create or images, 22% of using it for that.
Yeah, I think I'm shocked that's not the most common.
Yeah.
Although I got to think that the amuse yourself one and that one are a little bit better.
Yeah, that's fair.
To provide summaries of text, 29% of people use it for that.
All right.
Cheaters.
Yeah, no.
No.
So our meetings, if I miss a meeting, the meetings do that.
Yeah.
And I appreciate it.
But I don't feel like I still was in the meeting.
No, I feel like I still miss something.
I know that's different.
What you're doing is you're inviting AI to the meeting so it can take notes for you.
That's different.
Yeah, I guess.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Again, that was the closest I had to a reference.
That's where my brain went.
But you're right.
Yeah.
To draft or proofread written content.
Absolutely not.
Come on, guys.
Okay.
Side story.
Side quest.
I'm asking Lauren.
I'm asking the audience.
715-424-2600.
Do you consider it reading if you listen to an audio book?
Yes.
Okay.
Okay.
I have no, I'm Switzerland on this one.
I have no rhyme or read.
You know, I don't really just bother me the way.
It's about experiencing the book.
And however you experienced the book, it counts.
As long as you took in the information or whatever was in that book, it counts.
Yeah.
I mean, I don't know.
I really don't have a...
No.
But what I will say...
Relating more to this is...
Because there's a lot of companies now who are starting up and are saying,
well, we're going to release 5,000 books in the next year, thanks to AI.
Those books are going to be awful, guys.
Oh, yeah.
They're going to be so bad.
Yeah.
They're not going to say anything.
The funny thing, too, is they'll send those out without proofreading them.
100%.
There's going to be some really...
No, they're going to proofread them by sifting them through another system of AI's.
Yeah, right.
Yeah.
To help with work-related tasks, 27% of people use it for that.
I have follow-up questions.
Absolutely.
I think we can both agree that there are going to be situations where it could be very...
It could save time, and it could be useful in the workplace.
It very much depends on the details of that, though.
I feel like...
I feel like the job...
Yeah.
I feel like a lot of these answers that people say they're using AI for could just be done with a search engine.
We don't need AI for that.
We could just use a search engine.
Well, and here's another one.
There's nobody who's going to get on the hill of shortcuts are bad.
We all agree that shortcuts are important in life, and shortcuts go a long way.
But when do we get to the point of the difference of a shortcut and being lazy?
Yes.
And then are you cheating versus using a shortcut?
Because AI, more times than not what we're talking about with this, or we're talking about...
For me, and this has nothing to do with politics.
Although I imagine that people are going to weaponize it as it is.
But I cannot stress this enough that I wouldn't care if it was a blue or red president doing this.
AI does not belong in the government.
Nope.
You got hired to do a job.
You are the president of the United States, or any congressman, or senator, or anything like that.
These are not easy jobs.
They are not also difficult jobs.
They are not jobs that you are grinding as a construction worker is, or a mechanic is,
or somebody working the front desk at any job in retail, or at a hospital, or something like that.
That's work.
The things we're talking about with AI helping them with their job, then let somebody else do the job.
Right.
So I'll say this.
If you need AI to help you with your job in politics, you are not...
You don't belong in politics.
Yeah.
I will say as someone who was a recent college student and has seen the professor
and the university standards regarding AI use.
So you can use it to help sort your thoughts, but you cannot use it as a source for information.
To generate creative ideas, 26% said that one.
Yeah.
See, that would be allowed as long as you still do your research, and you write and proofread it your heck and self.
If you once you take a thing that you asked AI to write, or you asked it to proofread, it is now not yours.
Now you're cheating.
To provide recipes or cooking advice, 23% used that one.
Again, a search engine would do that.
To provide entertainment recommendations, 21% said that one.
Another search engine one.
Like, a lot of this could just be used with a search engine, and we wouldn't be burning the planet up with AI.
I'm sorry.
To get health advice, 25%.
Oh, geez.
Ask the doctor.
Go to the doctor.
27% of people say that they never use AI, which actually seems low.
Another 27% use AI regularly within a week, and 17% use it several times a month.
19% say that they used it here and there, but less than monthly.
Fewer people use it in their jobs for now.
So that percentage of people or people that were using it in their day-to-day lives,
the numbers for people that use it during work are half of that.
So very few people are using AI on the job and their particular jobs.
Yeah.
I'm trying to think so I can answer this honestly if I use AI, because I don't believe I do,
but at the same time, I am one of the world's worst spellers.
So I do use auto correct, and that is the form of AI.
Right, but that's different, right?
Oh, yeah.
It's just trying to be fair.
Things.
Yeah.
I cover my basis.
The only time I accidentally use AI all the time, because so many websites are replacing their search engines with AI.
And it's a wasteful use to replace things with.
AI is meant, or at least the selling point of it is the time saver.
But with every single thing we talked about in order to really properly use it,
you're going to have to double check its work.
So you're not really saving time.
You're going to have to go to that search engine anyway.
Just go to it the first time and ignore the AI overview at the top.
Scroll on past it.
There are good uses for this.
There are good uses for artificial intelligence.
Yes.
There are things that AI can be used for that would help promote humanity rather than take away from it.
Stull it.
You know?
Stull it, exactly.
Yeah.
Because even if it's not just humanity as a whole, creatively, certainly stalling it.
But even beyond that, because my history mind, I can't help but think that AI is only as good as the person who designed it.
It's never going to be as accurate as a search engine.
A search engine is going to be neutral.
It is going to provide you facts.
And AI can be molded and provide a shaped worldview.
And that's horrifying and scary and not a good place to go.
When we were little, my papa was the first person I knew that had a PC.
Sure.
And my little sister and I would play on it.
He let us mess with it.
And I used it for my writing because I was like, you know, like 12, 13.
And Jillian, like playing games on it, and Jillian would get frustrated all the time because the game wouldn't load.
And she would smash the, you know, smash around and everything.
And my papa would come over there.
Jill, it's really expensive.
You know, to do that stuff.
She'd say, Papa, this computer is stupid.
It's like, well, Jill, it's only as smart as the person working at it.
Yeah.
He loved to tease us.
Right.
But it was something that, you know, it's a line that stays with me to this day with technology.
No matter how smart the AI or the computer, how much money you put into these things, it's only as smart as a person operating.
Well, I was talking about the person setting it up because they can mold the AI to have a world view.
And that's scary.
Yeah.
I was trying to find a way to comedically end the segment.
Sorry.
But yeah, that certainly is a valid point, a strong point there.
We do have a then a write story to get to.
And this will end on a light note.
A man named Lucas Brown was caught escaping from a jail in Colorado last Thursday night.
And he was only on the loose for 35 minutes, which is pretty embarrassing.
I would think if you're going to break out of jail and you don't even make it over, you know, an hour.
But it gets even worse because he was supposed to be released two days later.
So how he didn't have to do this.
My guy.
Yeah.
Yeah.
He tried to get away before because this is the first time this knucklehead has been locked up or anything.
But yeah, he ain't getting out anytime soon now.
Right.
What dude?
What the what, ma'am?
Dude.
Two days.
Two days.
That's all you had to wait was two days.
Just wait.
You already did the rest of it.
Just be cool for two days.
That ain't right, man.
That ain't right.
Good luck.
Good yikes.
Getting picked in prison basketball on that one.
Getting picked in prison basketball.
It's going to be tough.
It's going to be tough.
Take it the time out.
We'll come back and have some more fun on the morning show.
Welcome back, everybody.
Morning show here at WFHR.
Locally grown radio.
Too much for the maid.
Too much for the maid.
We hope you're having a great Tuesday out there.
Thanks so much for joining us, everybody.
Taking a look at our schedule.
We're going to remind you that Rapids Report is streaming for you every afternoon.
You can catch it at about four o'clock.
Oh, I get him dropping it too.
She's got it done at two.
And that segues perfectly into our new producer of the Rapids Report.
Oh, was that?
Oh, it's me.
She gets those podcasts ready for you and ready to stream every day too.
It's true.
We got a great set of guests coming in today, Laura.
Yeah.
We have friends of wildlife or no, friends of Sandhill wildlife coming in today at the 11 o'clock
and then shoot.
I don't remember who's coming in after that.
I wasn't trying to, I'm sorry.
I didn't mean to put you on the spot.
Oh, the beef council.
No, that's next to smart.
That's you.
I don't know.
We've got Jake Adams, assistant GM with the Wisconsin Rapids.
That's the one.
It's the Raptors.
Yeah, because you're wearing a Raptors shirt, silly Laura.
I really wasn't trying to set you.
I was going to say it, but then nicely done.
I appreciate you taking the lead there.
I just didn't mean to put you on the spot.
Yeah, no.
You all got to hear me struggle through it.
I got there.
We're looking forward to talking with them today.
Be sure to catch that at two o'clock.
It'll be streaming, download available, streaming all that.
Spread the word about it to everybody.
We're still bringing you all that great reporting just in a Rapids Report.
Indeed.
We're also looking forward to bringing you some great, great stuff on the radio dial tonight.
Over on our sister station, 10555WiRi, 450 Girls Soccer DC.
That's right.
Everest at Assumption Girls.
Mike and Seth are going to be tag team in this one.
Woo!
It's going to be a good game.
It's going to be a good one.
Soccer on the radio, high school sports on the radio.
That's cool stuff.
10555WiRi.
Go check that out, everybody.
We'll be talking about it on playmakers on 10555 at four o'clock on Wednesday.
Looking forward to it.
I also got some great things going on in our area and here at the station, Laura.
One of the things happening in our area we wanted to touch on.
Which one?
On that top one right there.
Sure, yeah.
Okay.
There will be a protest on the Expressway Bridge by the hospital on the first.
It is part of a nationwide protest and they will be starting at 5 p.m.
Again, that is on May 1st.
And this is part of an organization or a group rather that meets every Saturday
from noon to two at that same place.
So on the Expressway Bridge, right across from a Spiris Riverview.
And we've got something we've actually had some people stop by today
to drop off some items for this great little pet drive we're doing.
Yes, yes.
So for the next couple of days until the first, we would like to draw some attention
to Little Charlotte's animal rescue.
They are in need of some items and you can drop them off right here at our studios
and we'll make sure those items get to them.
Those items are blankets, towels, dogs and cat food, treats, toys, kennels,
garden hoses and cleaning supplies.
Again, you can drop those off at our studios until the first.
And we will get them to the puppies that need them.
Yeah.
We want to remind everybody that there's a couple of other great things going on in their area.
First, just a couple of days left for the lower-ingle wilder exhibit
over at the South O'Connie Historical Museum at 543rd Street South.
Go ahead and check that out.
Get all the information you've been dying to know and wanting to know about
Little House on the Prairie.
Get on over there and check that out.
And keep in mind coming up in May, they've got the becoming
the United States Colonial America to Reconstruction.
I'm so excited about this.
And very cool exhibit.
The Reconstruction of the United States after Civil Wars, what the focus is on this one.
I can't wait to get over there and hang out with Phil in the gang.
It's great.
Really cool stuff going on over there with that.
Also wanted to remind everybody that there's aversity blood drive at VFW Post 2534
from 9 to 1 coming up this Friday.
Anybody don't any blood can get a free pint of custard from Culver's in Wisconsin Rapid.
Yep.
And then Saturday, May 3rd will be a VFW Brought Fry to West Grand IGA, 10 to 2.
And on over there, get yourself a Brought, say hi to our vets.
And on Monday, May 5th, Veterans Cinco de Mayo lunch in 1032 at the VFW Post 2534
put on by two hearts catering, some of our favorites towards catering
our VFW local VFW 2534.
It's a great combination.
And a quick reminder that our great friends at Family Natural Foods, May 6th
have their one of their wellness presentations, Spring Cleaning and Low Waste.
Very cool.
That's got to be a really important one.
We'll talk more about it as we get closer to a marker calendar, May 6th, 515
over at Family Natural Foods, Spring Cleaning and Low Waste presentation.
We had something else we wanted to touch on.
I also want to make sure you all know about the Lightning Thief.
It will be at the Performing Arts Center of Wisconsin Rapids
and it is being performed by Lincoln High School students.
They will be performing on May 1st, 2nd and 3rd at 7pm.
And then on Sunday, the 4th at 2pm is their last show.
You can get tickets at the door an hour before the show or on their website.
You know, it's cool that we talk about it, but maybe we should give away tickets for it.
Oh, that's an idea.
I mean, if we want people to go, I feel like it's just fair.
No, you're right.
Yeah, so we should give some of those away, right?
715-424-2600.
Call up.
Let us know one of your favorite plays.
One of your favorite plays.
Call up.
Let us know one of those and you can get tickets for tickets to go see the Lightning Thief.
Lincoln High School's music and a drama department presentation coming up this weekend.
Shoot. Just call up and say a play.
Any play.
We won't know if you saw it or not.
Yeah.
Just get your tickets.
Yeah, but just want to know a play.
Yeah, just go ahead and get into us.
And we want you to get these tickets and be able to have some fun
and support local theater, support the arts, everybody.
I got a couple of world good stories to get to.
Sure.
A woman named Daniela.
Any woman named Daniela's bittersweet TikTok is going viral because it shows her painting
her cousin Amanda Nails the day before she was taking off life support.
There's a painting she made.
Daniela said it was just her way to bring comfort and normalcy to her cousin in her final moments.
Sure.
She's gone viral with the painting and the support of it and everything.
And when people are grieving, you just never know where support can come from and where
it might help.
That's a beautiful story.
That's a beautiful story.
I love the idea of strangers helping strangers in any way in any form.
Three teens in India invented a salt-powered refrigerator that doesn't need electricity.
Oh, that's so cool.
It can be used to help transport vaccines and medical supplies to rural areas.
They won the 2025 Earth Prize of over $12,000 and they planned to test 200 units in 120 hospitals.
Well earned.
Very cool.
I got to follow up on that story and find out more.
Yeah, please.
That is fascinating.
That is really cool.
That is an interesting one.
A mailman in Michigan is going viral for returning $10 that he found in a homeowner's driveway.
Oh.
Rather than just pocketing it, he rang the doorbell but no one answered.
So he left it along with a note in their box.
The homeowner caught the good deed on their doorbell camera and posted it online.
People recognized the mailman as Joshua O'Hara and he says,
quote, being kind to others doesn't cost a thing.
You never know who needs it and one good deed can have a ripple effect.
This is really the essence of paying it forward.
Yep.
Maybe it's not to say because it wasn't necessarily his $10.
But in the way, you know, it is still a pay for his $10.
Yeah.
And he chose not to take it.
There's all different versions of this in life and whether it is as simple as staying
an extra second and holding a door open for somebody or it is something like this,
we all have the opportunity every day to be a good story.
That's true.
Now, and there's nothing corny or lame or about this.
This is something that I don't feel like we get we have enough of.
So it can't be corny or lame.
That's right.
It's something that, you know, when you're doing good things and the feeling,
the reaction, you talk about a ripple effect.
I think that the majority of us, we do these things for others.
And you have a surprise that how that wave comes back and hits you.
And you feel good from it and you get a good story of that.
You are a...
Be the good story, guys.
Yeah.
Great show, Lauren.
Nice work today.
Thank you, you too.
You guys, be good to each other out there.
We'll talk to you soon in the later right here at...
