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I'm going to give you some entertainment news in a moment.
A little bit later, got this quick home test to check your brain.
I'm going to give you that.
It's some other fun stuff we got lined up for you here.
But one of the getting to entertainment news,
we kick off with the material girl herself, the queen of the 80s.
Madonna.
All right.
Just every once in a while, she will come up.
And she doesn't, you know, get brought up in conversation or in pop culture
as much as she used to or anything like that.
But every once in a while, it kind of hits me.
I almost have a flash of her whole career and thinking about it.
And just, again, one of these artists that I don't care if you like or dislike,
I don't know how you can't respect the length of her career.
And the, you know, staying relevant as long as she did and all those things.
I don't know, even I who study the industry and all that stuff can really understand
how difficult it is to stay relevant, to continue to have not only hit after hit,
but successful music in multiple generations and multiple decades and that.
It's just always impressive to me when a musician can do that,
no matter what the genre or if I like them or not or anything like that.
I was talking about this with like Alabama and the Oak Ridge boys
and some of these bands, you know, that four or five decades they entertain people and stuff.
It's impressive to me.
And it really shows that, you know, they love what they do.
And that's why they're keep doing it.
And I think that's why they're successful.
I agree. I will only add on, I think, staying grounded in some way.
Whatever that might mean for those individual.
There's something, especially with certain music, that you got to be able to relate to your audience
and your audience has got to be able to relate to you.
And for some artists, they lose that when they get that break or they get their first paycheck
or some of those things.
And then there's our...
It gets signed on by a record label and the record label destroys their individuality.
Yeah, yeah. And sometimes their drive.
Their drive isn't there so the motivation creatively isn't there or something like that.
Wait, because they're owned by somebody.
I couldn't fill an EP.
Like a six-song EP.
I couldn't imagine doing multiple albums over 30 years or something like that.
Like the way you're writing songs or any of that, it's impressive.
And this has got a lot of people excited.
Madonna has teamed up with Netflix and director Sean Levy for a limited series about her life.
Now, he is Sean Levy, one of the more sought-after directors out there.
He just got done doing Deadpool and Wolverine.
And is one of the executive producers of Stranger Things.
So he's got some hits under his belt himself and everything.
It would say so.
There's no word which part of Madonna's life it'll be about or even who will portray her.
Now, this should be noted as unrelated to the biopic that is being done starring Julia Garner.
That was scrapped.
Then brought back to life as of last July, Madonna has been working on the screenplay.
Now, Madonna, I think it's shown, as proven at least, that she's a good writer.
She's a very good writer.
Not even just looking at her song credits, but some of the other writing credits that she's had in her career.
So her writing a biopic is good.
The only caveat I have with these things is how honest can you be about your own life?
Yeah.
It seems to go one, like a couple of different directions, one where they romanticize it, even the negative stuff,
or kind of the Sir Elton John route where it almost feels like they were too hard on themselves.
It would be hard to strike that balance because we all have choices that we've made that weren't the greatest choices.
And then things that we've done that were really awesome, but nobody knows about it when you talk about them.
It feels like you're trying to just pat yourself on the back.
So it's hard to find that balance.
Over the last four, five years and over two agents, I've been trying to get into the writer's guilt.
And one of the ways you do that is certainly having a good short story or a popular book or any of those things.
And while I've had some good ideas, I think, and I've pitched some stuff to people.
One of the things that both of my agents have come back to me like, you should tell a story about your life.
You should write a story about your life.
And I can't think of anything less interesting to me.
I have no interest in whatsoever.
If you ever see me doing that everybody, you know I have run out of ideas.
That is it for me.
This is my greatest hits album because for me personally, it's boring.
It doesn't seem that interesting.
I don't really, and I don't think this is me being hard on myself or anything.
It's just, I don't know.
I feel like there's a lot of other great stories out there and a lot of other better stories in my head than that one.
But that's just me.
I don't have anything against anybody doing these things.
And I think especially, you get to a certain point in your life, your fans are wanting this.
I imagine Madonna fans out there will be very excited about this.
Whether they like it or not is a whole other thing.
But I imagine, especially having her hands on and her fingerprints on it.
Well, I do think that, you know, each one of us has a unique story of our lives, you know,
and what brought us to where we are now.
And the things that happen throughout our lives make us the people that we are now in some form or fashion.
And those stories are interesting.
And if you sat down with somebody you didn't know and listened to their life story, you would find it fascinating.
In some ways, I mean, just because you're interested, you personally, I mean, James, are interested in people and you care.
So I think you should give yourself that same grace and that same credit because there are people who would be interested.
So I don't think your agents are wrong, as you say.
Another interesting fact about Madonna, did you know that she was in 21 movies?
No, wow, I didn't know she was in 21.
And actress?
I knew she was in a lot.
I would have never guessed 21 though, wow.
21.
Yep.
You talk about that too.
You know, certainly bouncing back and having hit songs and everything is impressive.
I think maybe the most impressive thing to her is the way she was kind of treated as an actor for so long.
And then she finally comes out and she does a Vita.
And everybody's like, oh, okay.
Oh, wait a minute.
Okay, she can act too.
Because there's nobody that watches that movie and is not blown away by her performance.
Or at least impressed by her performance, I think, in some ways.
Given the time, maybe I haven't seen her forever, maybe it hasn't aged that great.
But I do remember at the time, one other quick side note, Julia Garner, a fantastic actor.
Oh, yeah, I like her a lot.
Ozarks.
She was in Curly in the movie Wolfman.
She's going to be playing the Silver Surfer in the Fantastic Four.
She's good.
I've been waiting for her to get this kind of like run of just like good rolls.
And it just feels like Ozark really set that up.
And she's finally, now with that, that show is done.
Filming a TV show, whether it's streaming, network TV, it doesn't matter.
It locks you in as an actor.
You are tied to that production for six to nine months.
And you are not available for anything else.
So as good of a show as it was, I'm really happy for her that she's getting these opportunities.
She's very, very good.
Man, she's at 31.
She's still in her prime and everything.
Oh, yeah.
A lot ahead of her.
I'd like to see her as Madonna.
I think that that'd be pretty impressive.
I think that'd be pretty interesting.
So I thought this was a cool one, too.
And I've talked about this before.
I got laughed at the first time I brought this up when I first got into the screen actors guild.
Because I see the list.
And I never really paid, I've watched a ward show as my whole life.
But I never locked in and paid that much attention until you're voting on them and everything.
And putting in nominees and stuff.
And I go through and I go through and I'm looking and looking.
And I see nothing about stunt people.
Nothing about stunt people.
You will see one of the biggest sellers in the history of entertainment and of movies is action scenes.
And then being believable.
And it's where they put a lot of the money, too.
Yeah.
And it all starts and ends with stunt people.
And because there's very few that actors, you know, big famous actors that do their own stunts.
Yeah, Jackie Chan.
Yeah, for every Jackie Chan, there are 99% of other actors.
I'm not doing that because I will break.
And to be fair, that's not always.
In fact, the majority of the time, that's not up to the actor.
There's a lot of scenes.
I've heard Kurt Russell talk about this where he wanted to do more of his own action scenes.
But the studio wouldn't let him because of insurance and all that.
And if he gets hurt, that holds up the production.
Or if he doesn't do a good job.
Yes, yes, that too.
So we have none of this without stunt people.
And yet there's nobody knows a stunt person out there.
Nobody knows, you know, any like you do actors by name.
And I think they should be celebrating more.
I think they should be talked about more.
I will admit, I've met a handful of stunt people in my life.
And I've really enjoyed talking to them.
And they've gotten me more into this idea.
And I grew up watching a wonderful movie.
My little brother, where so many kids grew up loving cartoons.
My little brother loved Hooper.
This Burnt Reynolds movie from the 80s, where he plays a stunt man.
And he's going to die if he does the one more stunt.
And of course, he has this big stunt he's going to do at the end and everything.
But I don't know how much the movie holds up.
But I loved it as a kid.
And my little brother really loved it.
We'd watch it back and forth all the time.
And there's something about stunt people that we just don't I think pay enough respect to.
Well, I would agree with that.
And it's the same thing that could be said about the multitudes of people that work behind the scenes and movies and in theater.
And that they're just aren't seen.
But those movies, that entertainment wouldn't happen without them.
Yeah, so true.
And so all the more reason why when we have a chance to highlight a one, it's great.
Final Destination Bloodlines brought a stunt woman out of retirement to set a new world record
for the oldest person ever on fire on camera.
Oh, her name is Yvette Ferguson.
She's 71.
Yvette plays Miss Fuller.
And I don't know what else happens.
I haven't watched those movies.
I saw the first one.
Another actress on the set, Breck Bassenger says,
quote, I was within her vicinity.
God, it was beautiful.
Everyone started clapping.
She was so pumped.
She has been in the industry for decades.
And while retired a long time ago, they reached out to her to see if she would be interested in this.
And the idea of doing it was fantastic.
She didn't even know she was breaking a record.
She just missed doing it, missed being on the set and doing these things.
And there is an awesome behind the scenes thing of this, of this happening.
And there's not many times in life you're going to see a 71-year-old on fire
smiling.
I don't know if there's ever going to be any other time you'll see that.
It's kind of cool.
And it's somebody getting to do their passion one last time.
Yeah, that's fun.
And she survived it, which is even better.
Definitely the headlight.
Definitely the best part of it.
Yes.
Good honor.
Good honor for doing this.
It's such a cool thing.
Good honor for doing that.
And credit again to all these stunt workers out there.
I also, as long as I'm handing out some credit,
I haven't gotten a chance to do this yet.
I like many of you out there.
Last week got the chance to see the final main stage production for Wisconsin's Rebs Community
The Theater's 50th Season noises off.
Yay.
I wanted to congratulate its director, Melissa's Kay.
Melissa Kay.
Mel, I was blown away.
Good. That's awesome.
Thank you.
Well, maybe it's in part because I know you well.
I know you as well as I can.
Well, I don't want to pretend like I know you.
That's not fair.
But what I do know of you and everything,
I felt like I saw you in the production in many ways.
And I enjoyed that.
I feel like everything you were telling and selling about this,
not only there, but at a 10.
And just as a quick note, because I don't want to ramble too much here,
I really, really enjoyed your casting decisions
and your choice of how to handle set changes.
We had a lot of fun with it.
The in-between. I have not seen anything like that.
I genuinely haven't.
To me, a bit of a, I don't know, all plays have their length.
I wouldn't say it's that much longer than a normal player or anything like that,
but I do think it can be a little bit longer.
I didn't feel that.
I didn't feel that.
And I was sitting in a upfront surrounded by quite a few seniors.
And while in the beginning, there was a little bit of open candy and stuff like that.
The rest of the show, they were locked in.
And those set changes, especially, where people were dead silent.
And I feel for the actors because as an actor,
you could feel like, okay, what's going wrong?
What am I not doing right?
But it was a matter of everybody being so in tune and not wanting to miss anything.
So they were even holding their laughter down a little bit
because they didn't want to step on a joke.
I don't know how many times I've experienced that in the audience.
I have as an actor on stage.
I haven't behind this, you know, in the audience many times.
I just, I credit you and your crew
and, certainly, those actors on that stage.
And Michael Flynn, the writer of noises off and everything.
Just, I've seen that play. I've seen that movie.
I haven't seen it like that. Well done.
Thank you. It was a lot of fun.
And I'll take a little bit of pride in the set changes
because I had a vision and they brought it to life.
They pulled it off.
We furthered the story of Poppy and the love triangle
that was happening between Poppy and Brooke and the director
within those set changes.
It added another depth of layer to the story
to tell more of the story from the woman's perspective of noises off
than that it's just a farce.
It added some emotion, I thought.
Being able to add something to a script,
let alone a one that's so well known and everything,
without adding, not taking.
It's very difficult to do, but it was seamlessly done.
And just a great production.
It hats off to you.
Thank you. And a huge credit, obviously,
to my actors and my crew.
They really, I couldn't have done it without them.
They were absolutely fantastic.
I told them I got to hang up my director's hat now
because that was perfect.
Yes, yes, right? Yeah, you just want to walk off.
Go out on the wind.
They're not done at WRCT, though.
While the main stage season is done for this year,
not only do they have their next four shows from the main stage
all out there, so you can go check that out.
But they'll be at lunch by the river with snow white
and the seven endings that they've got auditions for that going on.
In the 19th, check that out.
Everybody performances will be in June.
They're also going to have karaoke in their studio
along with NAMI that they're doing this.
Yes, it's a fundraiser for NAMI on the 30th, I believe, right?
Yep, yep. What a great idea.
What a great combination of nonprofits.
That's going to be a really fun event.
Yeah, come out and sing some songs
and make some donations to help our community.
We'll be in May 30th. We'll talk more about as we could
close our tour, but you can make plans and find out more right now
by going to www.wrctheater.org.
www.wrctheater.org.
We'll take a time out. We'll come back
and let us more fun on the morning show at WFHR.
Welcome back, everybody.
Mornings at WFHR.
We'll listen James hanging out with you.
Thanks for being here with us.
Fun stuff coming up for you.
Getting to our new sports and part entertainment break
in a moment and all that.
Now, talking to English language.
An English language recently got a new word.
It's called Boomerasking.
Boomerasking.
But it's not about baby boomers.
It has nothing to do with that.
It's a term for something you've definitely experienced
but maybe you didn't have a name for it.
Boomerasking is when you ask someone a question
just so you can talk about yourself.
You want the question to come back to you like a boomerang.
A common example is when you did something amazing
over the weekend.
You might show up on Monday and ask a coworker
hey, do anything fun on Saturday
and before they even answer.
Well, I...
You just jump right in.
Don't even wait for them to finish or something.
Or you're setting somebody up essentially.
I think that there's a lot of examples of this one out there.
A blogger coined the term a few years ago
but it's been trending after a study found
that there are three common versions of it.
Okay.
So those versions ask bragging.
Like, how was your vacation?
Mine was great.
Okay.
Ask complaining.
How's work?
Yeah, well, I've had the worst week ever.
And ask sharing.
It's like ask bragging but without the bragging.
You might ask about something random like
what do you...
What do you think about your drug?
I mean, I think it's a little bit of a
little bit of a drug that you can use for drugs
just so you could talk about how dumb you think they are.
The study found we do it because we think it's a polite way
to bring something up but it doesn't always land that way. esperar when we realize someone is boomer asking
we tend to think that they're just self-absorbed.
Yeah, you could dig it that way.
Right.
Now, I feel like...
I don't think that, you know,
you broke your topic that they need to talk
with you about that they
don't have the courage to just outright say,
hey, I need to talk to you about this.
I don't...
But if it's a habit, you know, if they do it all the time,
then they're self-absorbed.
Perhaps.
Yeah, really well done.
Because I don't think I've done this in the bragging sense
but what you were just talking about.
Oh, how do I bring this up to this person?
That I absolutely have done that.
I don't know recently but I know that when I was younger,
I definitely did.
Because I just would have a very difficult time
with certain topics talking about them.
So it just seemed easier.
Or if you're having a really rough time,
you know, you maybe reach out to a friend
or a family member or somebody
and ask them how they are.
So that then they will ask you how you are.
Yeah.
So that you can say, you know,
things haven't been really great lately.
And, you know, it's a way of gently broaching the topic
but also showing that you care about their life as well.
I think you really hit it on the head.
For me, if you're doing this all the time
or anything like that,
it's going to get old real quick.
And I'm going to notice it right away.
But at the same time, I encourage people to,
I mean, talk about these things
and talk about what's in their head.
And it'd be, I feel a little hypocritical,
you know, feeling that way.
And then when somebody does it,
because another thing, you know,
we talk about mental health all the time now
and we're doing a really good job of that.
But this is when the real work comes in
and now we've got to all be like,
okay, we're all right.
We're talking about mental health.
Now how do we do that?
Right. There's no blueprint.
There's no, there's no, you know,
a perfect way of doing this.
You could read all the self-help books
or all the different, you know,
take all the classes you want on
and stuff up.
And not the majority of people
have no idea how to bring things up.
So if this is the way that they're figuring out
how to do it or anything, I don't know.
I encourage people to be able to
get their things out of their off their chest.
And the other side of that too
is a lot of people don't know
how to respond when somebody does.
Yes.
Things are, you know, like,
it's really bad right now.
Like, how do you respond to that?
It's from both sides.
It's a difficult situation.
But the more we talk about it, the more open we are.
I think that we can only get better at it.
Practice makes perfect, right?
Yeah.
That we can be perfect at this.
But we can get better.
We're fixing the boat on the water
and giving each other grace about that
is the way that we get through it,
the way that we figure it out.
The best way is to do this
and that maybe generations, you know, ahead
repressing and just pretending it's not an issue
didn't work.
Nope. Nope. We got that on that one.
We got plenty of proof on that one.
That did not solve a darn thing.
I don't even know if that really saved time.
I don't know what that did.
No, it's called generational trauma.
Yes. Right.
A team of Domino toppling experts
joined forces with a
a window and door company to topple
51,725 playing cards
like Domino's to break a Guinness World record.
With a door and window company?
Yeah. Foshin, Sean Hayes,
Smart Home Technology Company
assembled the ultimate space facility
using windproof windows designed to prevent
even the slightest breeze
from bringing the attempt to premature end.
I see. Now it makes sense.
That's all coming together. I didn't get it either.
I didn't get it either.
Proving that their product
is as sound as it says it is.
Boy, I love good synergy.
I gotta admit, I love good synergy.
When these two businesses are two things
that you wouldn't think work find a parallel
or something, I love what that happens.
Weng Lee's Domino World,
a team that already held a 7 Guinness World record titles.
Then set that about the task
of setting up this playing card
balanced on the exhibit and everything.
The team faced setbacks,
including a premature collapse on April 9th
and a second incident while attempting to
reset the cards on April 10th.
The cards arranged in a shape of their logo
and mascot and other moffits
held the positions inside the ultimate space
on the day of the attempt on April 11th.
Even when the outside
of the transparent structure
was subject to typhoon conditions.
Whoa.
And this was stimulated as typhoon's conditions.
But that's the way they tested it and everything.
I see. I see. Okay.
And even through that,
the playing card stood up.
The card's toppled as planned
earning the Guinness World Records
title for the most playing cards
toppled in a domino fashion.
How cool.
What a great marketing idea.
It wasn't their idea.
But wait a piggyback on it.
Yeah. No, that's very interesting.
It reminds me of the old ads,
the glue ads where the guys hanging
like this glue is indestructible.
And he's got the hard hat
and he's hanging from a thing
or the boat guy.
The guy that I'm on a boat
and it's leaking and I put this on there.
This patch on it and I'm floating now.
And it's good marketing.
It's good center.
And we all like, you know,
dominoes toppling is very satisfying to watch.
Especially the ones that do it like a pattern
or in this case a logo
for something when they land.
There is something about it.
Yes, it definitely is.
We will get to our big time out here.
We'll take care of our news, sports,
break, have our partners join us
and we'll be back to talk about this brain test
that you can take at home.
We're gonna get into it.
Coming up on Mornings at WFHR.
Welcome back everybody.
Morning show at WFHR.
Melissa and James hanging out with you.
Hope you're having a great day out there.
Thanks for hanging out with us.
This is a,
I think this is a fascinating one, honestly.
Scientists have discovered
that having decent reaction times
is a key indicator that our brain is still working.
Okay.
Especially as we get older.
And you can even test your brain health
and reaction times
from the comfort of your own home.
Okay.
It's called the ruler drop test.
You sit in a chair with your arm on a table
so that your wrist is hanging over the edge.
You turn your wrist
and your thumb and pointer finger are facing up.
Okay.
Then have your helper pinch the,
to a very top of the ruler
where the numbers finish.
The zero should be dangling
directly above your thumb.
Without warning,
tell your friend to drop the ruler.
With just your thumb and pointer finger
try to catch the ruler
as fast as possible.
Then write down the measurement
on your ruler where the fingers landed.
How many centimeters was it?
Can you do it a few times
and figure out your average reaction time?
Okay.
If you catch the ruler
at a distance less than 7.5 centimeters,
it's excellent.
If you catch it a little after that,
it's above average and so on and so on.
Between 20 inches
and 28 is below average
and anything over 28 is poor.
Okay.
28 centimeters.
Do I say inches?
You do.
Not only will the results of this test show you
how your brain is functioning
but it can also be a window
into your overall risk of death
and other brain-related things.
Wow.
No pressure.
Yeah, none at all.
One study found there's a strong relationship
between reaction times
and risk of death from coronary heart disease,
stroke and respiratory disease.
Just in general, like when you go to the doctor
and they tap you on the knee.
And you know, and that kind of thing.
There are some videos that go along with this,
if you don't quite get the instructions and everything.
But the key is
you need another person to do this with you.
You can't do it by yourself
because you know when you drop the ruler.
Yeah.
You need somebody to do it
when you're not suspecting it.
Yep.
But I do encourage people to give it a shot.
I really do think it's something worth giving a try to.
And I don't know.
I mean, now granted I wouldn't take this
instead of going to a neurologist.
I would still recommend going to you
and talking to your doctor.
But it may be one of those things
and I do love the tie-ins
what we were talking about earlier
in those six word phrase
that scares a lot of ER doctors.
What do we come back to?
That we are so hesitant to go to the doctor
where so hesitant to seek help.
This kind of like could give you more reasoning to
hey, wait a minute, maybe I should.
Well, and there are a lot of things
that we can watch out for with our health.
You know, we should always be checking in with ourselves.
And with our bodies.
Because we ask a lot of our bodies.
And this maybe just another one of those things of
if you can't catch that ruler at all
you should go see your doctor.
Yeah, yeah.
It doesn't seem like a bad idea.
It also doesn't seem like
something that I feel like
you get a bad score on this or something like that
that you need to pan.
No, no, no.
The hope is that this kind of thing can
you know, get people to
pay attention to that stuff
and get ahead of things.
Get ahead of it before it becomes an issue.
Right.
I say give it a try everybody.
And again, if you would like the full article
and some videos to go along with at
BBC.com has that for you.
All right.
And this is just a good story.
We're going to get into some more good stories
and a little bit and everything.
But I've been waiting for a chance to bring this one up.
Again, comes to us from thegoodnewsnetwork.org.
A boy who offers tombstone cleaning services,
wins the national attention
and donates profits to a funeral charity.
Hello.
A boy in England who came up with a simple business
washing tombstones has been flooded
with offers and donations from all
over the country,
a charity that pays for memorials
on behalf of families who have lost children.
It started as a class project,
a pocket money idea.
Debra Shire was washing his grandmother's headstone
and decided to offer the service to his neighbors.
After his mother posted a job offer on social media
which Ben decided to call guardians of the headstones.
Oh, that's a great name.
Well done.
Kid, well done.
I went viral triggering thousands of responses.
Quote, I found my mom
at half five or six in the morning
counting all the responses we had
Ben told BBC.
There were almost too many to count.
Hundreds may be thousands.
People were offering free haircuts, free sweets,
from a shop, free photography,
lots of amazing things.
Oh, that's cool.
Walking into school the following day,
everyone had seen what had happened
and thanks to the school principal,
Ben said that he was a roundly congratulated
for his enterprise
and felt that people he had known for years
were kinder towards him.
Quote, it's just how some people
are just so kind and support
even with some of the weirdest ideas,
he said.
And there's always a bit of good in the world
and that's lovely.
So can we, like, I don't know,
as somebody who is weird,
I don't usually tend to notice what I'm doing weird things
at that age to realize
all this stuff is a little off,
like a good on him.
That's great.
Well, and it's not your usual pastime.
Yeah, yeah.
There are people out there that do it.
I have seen that before,
but definitely not from a young kid.
Yeah.
After Ben followed up on the offers by saying
he would donate part of his proceeds
to the Stevie Stones,
it too received a glutton of attention,
including one man among dozens
who offered to donate $75 every month.
Wow.
Just a beautiful story.
Just an incredible story.
And how many of these have we done over the years, Melissa,
where it begins with a kid?
It begins with an eight to 12-year-old kid
who opened up a lemon.
Has an idea.
Yeah.
It opens up a lemonade stand
and donates all the proceeds
to their local Humane Society or something.
There's good stories.
Get on these young people for having big hearts.
It's, I don't know,
it goes so much farther than I think we realize too
because even talking about it and all this,
it's always to me
the stories that aren't covered.
Like, say there was a family that,
you know, go and go to this certain
headstone all the time.
And, you know, now this time that they go
and it's clean, it's nicer.
And they can read it that much easier and everything.
Yeah.
It's pretty cool.
And it's a way to remember people
I like walking through grave yards
just to look at the headstones
and remember the people
that, you know,
that maybe don't have anybody to remember them.
I will be honest.
I have not done it in a very long time
but when I first moved to a community
and we moved so much,
that was one of the things that I would do.
And my mom and her sisters would do that
and I learned it from them.
There's something, I don't know if this is
a callous or bad to say.
There's something beautiful to me
about cemeteries in many ways.
And the places of remembering.
Yeah, yeah.
And speaking of all of this,
I do have a tie-in and it's a local one.
Volunteers are needed to help place flags
in our local cemeteries on September,
a morning, a May 17th.
You can meet at the Forest Hill Mosley
and right here in Rapids about 10 a.m. sharp.
This is being brought to us for our great friend Tom Heizer
who joins us every month with our monthly veterans update.
I know that you and Laura
and I think the girls went along on this one last year.
I believe it was just Quinn.
Oh, it was just Quinn, okay.
Oh, Quinn and Alina.
Okay, but I know that you guys have done
something similar to that or done this before
and I know that when I was a kid
we weren't a part of a big group
or anything like that, but my papa
and my Michael Ad9 and stuff would do things like this.
Yeah.
There was a great group of volunteers that came out last year
to help put them out.
It was wonderful.
And all hands on deck for another one, everybody.
We just needed again to help place flags
on our local cemeteries this Saturday
morning, May 17th.
You'll meet at the Forest Hill Mosley
right here in Rapids about 10 a.m. sharp.
And again, thank you Tom
for getting that to us.
We'll keep mentioning this all week long
and make sure that we get a good group of volunteers.
And being thank you to everybody
who is already making plans
and their head to make the time for that.
We appreciate you.
We'll take a time out.
Good morning.
Here at WFHR.
Welcome back, everybody.
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We hope you're having a fantastic Tuesday out there.
Everybody, thanks so much for joining us over here.
Been a fun show.
Been a fun show.
And it's real good to have you back in this week.
It's good to be with you.
I don't know.
We haven't done an
right story in a while.
And I'm trying to find the one that I had.
My computer has just been one of the things
exciting things that you have missed Melissa
as my computer has just been
like it doesn't like me.
When is this new?
It's a fair point.
You're right.
As long as I've known you James,
you've had computer problems.
I think you're like my brother and cars.
You just get the lemons.
Can I be honest?
I hadn't even put that together
until you just said that.
You're 100% right.
You are.
It did not occur to me.
Yeah, so let me see here.
Let me try this.
Listen, it is a doozy.
A woman in England just won a big settlement
after one of her co-workers
compared her to Darth Vader.
Ooh.
Lorna Rook was working as a supervisor
at a blood donation center in 2021
when a handful of people on her team
took an online personal test for fun.
It was Myers-Briggs test
with a Star Wars theme,
the type of joky thing you might see on Buzzfeed.
It was supposed to tell you which
Star Wars character you are.
She was on the phone.
It wasn't around to take the test herself.
So one of her co-workers
answered the questions for her.
And then announced to everyone
that Lorna had a Vader-like personality.
The test actually spun it
in a good way.
It said being Darth Vader meant
you were a very focused individual
who could bring teams together.
But Lorna said it made her feel
unpopular at work.
She quit the next month
or excessive.
A judge just heard the case
and basically ruled that it created
a hostile work environment.
They said Darth Vader is a legendary villain
of the Star Wars series
and being aligned with his personality
is insulting.
They awarded Lorna just under 40 Gs.
Whoa.
Ah.
Ah.
Ah.
That ain't right.
Man, that ain't right.
Maybe they took it a little far.
I don't know.
I feel like we're missing something here.
I agree.
We must be missing something
or there's more to the story
or I mean, I don't know.
I'm a big Star Wars fan.
I like Star Wars and everything.
I can't imagine even,
no matter because it doesn't even sound like
she's like a big Star Wars person.
So maybe that was the problem.
I don't know.
I'm trying really hard here.
I can tell, you're trying hard
and I don't know if it's worth it.
Especially because I don't know
because here's the Danny Wright part.
I don't know what the Danny Wright part is.
I don't know if it's her or the judge
because I have a hard time
like she took this too far.
I think personally, my opinion
and bringing, you know,
blogging down our court systems
with cases like this or something
that I love about.
At the same time,
I can't get mad at her for trying this.
It's more so the judge
that I have more of an issue.
Like this wasn't thrown out right away.
Let alone siding with her.
I got to hear the whole case though
because that's not fair for me to say.
I mean, was it like a month after that
that she quit her job?
Yeah.
I mean, so what happened after that?
Was she getting like,
all things?
The co-workers could have taken it too far as well.
Yeah.
The fact that they even, you know,
did this at work is probably
not advisable.
That's where I wrapped up on this
and part of the reason why I wanted to talk about it.
I feel like this is a good
telltale of like, hey,
you know what?
No.
Don't worth it, everybody.
No, not worth it.
It's a big, whatever.
Yeah, yeah, the breaks test.
Yeah, it tells you what your personality type is
and sometimes that can be helpful
to help you understand how to relate to somebody else
who is like, you know,
a different personality type than yours.
Yeah.
But equating it to, you know,
fictional characters is probably not as helpful.
Probably not.
And in this case,
I don't know, it obviously didn't go well.
This case doesn't do it.
Nothing will scare people away from that stuff.
Because I would think this is going to be like, you know what?
I am messing with that.
I'm not going to take any chances on this one.
Not worth getting sued.
Can't imagine it would be at least.
Do you want to get to some good stories
of the day in our schedule?
And our schedule is jam packed, everybody.
We got some great media programming for you throughout the day today
and encourage you around two o'clock today
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streaming exclusively over there for you.
All right.
We got a new episode lined up where we're going to be...
Excuse me.
We're going to be talking with Katie Johnson,
an ace leadership group,
Wisconsin Rapids Boys and Girls Club.
She's going to be joining our friends from the promise
from the heart of Wisconsin Chamber of Commerce.
Excellent.
Looking forward to that.
And then we'll be talking with David Farmboro
and Realty Raleigh Radio.
Nice.
Such a fascinating topic to me.
I love talking about that with David.
It's going to be a good conversation.
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The home of high school sports.
We've got Merrill at Lincoln.
Mike and Seth are going to cover that one for you.
Great baseball action tonight.
Oh, yeah.
They're having a lot of fun over there, those two.
It's going to be a great one.
Check that out, everybody.
We got some spring concerts in the Wisconsin Public Schools area.
We want to tell you about that are going on.
One of them is happening tonight.
Yeah, we're getting toward the end of the school year here.
Yeah.
Tonight at six o'clock, grades six, seven, and eight.
A great great concrete orchestra concert will be taking place at Rams.
So grades six, seven, and eight have their orchestra concert tonight.
And then tomorrow, it'll be grades six, seven, and eight.
A grand choir concert over at Rams.
Be sure to check that out, everybody.
Yeah, head on down and support our kiddos.
There are other great ones coming up.
We'll tell you about them as we get a little closer to them.
There is a great opportunity to be a superhero out there.
You can donate this Thursday.
Yes, no Wednesday.
I'm sorry, this Wednesday.
Over at Macmillan Library.
Ten to three Macmillan Library at 490 East Grand Avenue.
Blood donation opportunity.
Appreciate everybody out there giving and doing such great work with that.
Yeah, this is, I believe it's trauma awareness month for trauma.
Traumatic emergencies that need a lot of blood donations.
And it's harder to collect them in the summertime.
We're pretty much all the time.
We need, we need blood donations all the time.
Really, since last summer, we have been behind on this.
And we, you know, all hands on deck.
We need as many people to be able to donate that are comfortable and can.
And we appreciate you doing that.
Tomorrow morning, our friends over at American Heroes Cafe in Central Wisconsin
will be opening their doors.
All right.
They do this the second and fourth Wednesday of every month,
7.30 to 9.30, over at Crossview Church in Wisconsin Rapids.
All area veterans, military police and firefighters are welcome.
Yeah.
And make sure to spread the word about this and make sure that every one of those individuals
know that they are welcome and that this great event is happening twice a month.
Because they're back at it twice a month again with the summer weather and everything.
Excellent.
Could you time to get together and to just, you know, have a nice sit down, visit a chat and a good breakfast?
Big shot at all the volunteers and the people that make that happen.
We appreciate you.
Thank you so much for all the work you do on that.
And of course, appreciate our friends over at the United Way of Southwood and the Amps counties.
Have their Mother's Day, Father's Day drop off a diaper drive going on?
Dipper drive.
Yeah.
That's a good one.
Yeah, they're looking for new, unopened packages of diapers, wipes, preferably unscented,
and diaper rashes or creams.
And any of those things can be donated at the United Way office during their business hours.
Yeah, you can drop those off over at 351 Oak Street right here in Rapids.
They're open Monday through Friday, 830 to 4.
Find out more or reach out to them through 2-1-1.
Or, of course, their website, www.ac.org.
Check that out.
Everybody encourage you to do so.
Let's take a look at some world good stories, Melissa.
There's some great stuff going on in the world that we don't get to talk about nearly enough in news.
I want to get to them and thank you for the good positive news.
Yeah, that's how we like to wrap things up around here.
Animal control officers in San Francisco rescued three baby raccoons that got stuck in a wall outside a chase center.
That's where the Golden State Warriors play.
Okay.
If you've never seen a baby raccoon, just be prepared to goo in awe and all of that.
Well, pretty much, most baby anything are pretty darn cute, but raccoons, yeah.
I don't think I've ever seen a baby raccoon and this just really took me back.
I get there just adorable.
They are adorable.
They're like little mini-meas.
It's the mask.
It's the little bit because it's still growing in, you know.
Great.
This is adorable.
They're cool.
Five fishermen arrived in the Galakapos Islands on Saturday after 55 days lost at sea.
Oh, I saw this headline.
I didn't read the story.
Their engine died and they'd been missing since mid March.
All five of them are in good health.
That is crazy.
They survived 55 days.
We've had a couple of stories like this lately.
You know, where just people lost at sea and they're found and they're hydrated or whatever.
Not a little.
They're hydrated, but they're okay.
They're surviving.
Right.
Yeah.
They didn't eat each other.
Right.
Yeah.
Just remarkable.
That's remarkable.
And a 31-year-old former royal marine from the UK just completed the longest triathlon ever.
More than 8,000 miles over the course of eight months.
Mitch Hutcraft started his, started last September by swimming in the English Channel.
Then he rode a bike 7,500 miles from Europe to India, walked or ran over 500 miles to Nepal,
and finished up on Sunday by climbing Mount Everest.
Oh my goodness.
Jesus Christ.
Just finished up by climbing Everest.
Jesus Christ.
You know, he'll jaunt up a nearby hill.
Just a hike.
He did it to raise money for a group called Saviism.
It's a charity in the UK that protects wildlife and also works with veterans.
Oh nice.
I mean, first off.
That's incredible.
That's an incredible organization that encouraged people to look into a little bit more.
And just, I mean, of all the incredible things I've heard human beings do in my life,
this has got to be in the top of the way up at the top of the list.
It's got to be breaking some kind of records.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know what a curtain call is for that.
I don't know.
It's a good one.
He breaks his own record.
Yeah.
That's often what happens with these ridiculous ones.
There you go.
Great show.
Have a good day, Melissa.
You're two days.
Be good to each other out there.
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