Good morning, Wisconsin. Morning, world. It's a new day. Thanks for kicking it off with us at WFHR. Take it, Marvin.
Got your host James behind the mic. I am joined by Melissa. Good morning. Seth. Good morning. And the
best listeners and radio. Thanks for joining us every body coming up in the show. We're going to get
in some fun topics in a little bit. We've got things that improve people's quality of life so much
that they wish they did it sooner. Got that one. Some good news news stories of the day for you
lined up. We'll get into some of that. And we've got of course our schedule to get into some great
good things going on in the area here. We want to talk about as well. All kinds of good stuff. But
we're going to kick things off with some entertainment news like we'd like to do in the 10 o'clock hour.
And for those that have not heard, they just released some stills and some images of the new
biopic coming out called Madden. There is a biopic coming out about John Madden. And it stars
Nicholas Cage as John Madden and Christian Bale as Al Davis. And when I first heard this, I'm like,
well, you know, Nick, both great actors. I don't know how well they're going to look the part. I
don't know how well this is going to be. And then I just saw these images today. And I'm blown
away. Like I am blown away by how much Nicholas Cage looks like a young John Madden. It's very
remarkable. It's pretty darn close. It's it's just remarkable what this guy does. Like the thing,
the lengths he goes to to become characters and everything. I know that he's a little crazy
sometimes. And his acting could be a little out there. But, you know, man, it just is impressive.
I have no doubt he's going to do it. I don't know if the movie's going to be good. But I have a
very hard time believing he's not going to play John Madden very well. Well, I mean, he go. Yeah,
he I like a lot of his movies. We'll just put it that way too. I think he does a really good job
with his characters. Yeah. Yeah. By the way, Christian Bale. Don't look like Christian Bale. No.
That's an amazing transformation. He really really looks like out there. I looked up who that was.
I didn't know that was Christian Bale. I didn't know he was playing out there. That's impressive.
I just knew he was in the movie. It looks really like the stills and everything look really good.
And just a shout out to Nicholas Cage and just leaning into who he is and what that has done
for him and betting on himself with a lot of the B movies and lower budget films that he was
doing where it got him nothing but critical appraise. He's almost it got him a lot of criticism
before they came out. But then he's like, no, I'm just sure you're on. Oh, yeah. Nicholas Cage
is doing a movie about a pig. Oh, this is going to and then it turns into like a just a favorite
like in all the not just with fans, but in the like circuit in the award circuit and everything.
Some of the many of the movies he's done in the last 10 years. I don't know where that came out
that he was dumb. You know, it's like, oh, he's not dumb. I mean, the only thing it's bad choices,
but other than that, the only thing that I think the thing that I think heard his career outside of
him in his spending, which was a big deal for a while there in the in the paparazzi and all that.
Oh, he bought this, you know, the elephant man bones or whatever. He bought him from Michael Jackson
or whatever and stuff like that. And then he of course got in trouble with the IRS and some of
those things. But the big problem for Nicholas Cage was not Nicholas Cage. It was the directors
who were directing him. Nicholas Cage will is an actor that if you let him, he'll go to a 20 out of 10.
You know, you need him at a 10 and he's at a 20. So a good director can reel that in. Every good
director in history has been like, start at a 10. I can bring you down. I can't build you up,
but I can bring you down. So go ahead and be as loud as big as you want and I'll take you down
a notch. That's what good directors do. Nicholas Cage had a stretch there with like kiss of death.
Some of these movies he did where nobody reeled him in. He just won an Oscar and, oh, that's a
copula. No, you go ahead and do your thing. Now, it doesn't matter if it's Tom Hanks. You've got a job
to do direct. Exactly. It's not his fault. I don't believe. I don't think in that route. And you've
seen a lot ever since then directors know how to direct Nicholas Cage. And he's done nothing
but great, almost nothing but great work. I'm excited about that. That should be interesting.
And then just got a couple of fun things here. I wanted to get to before we get into our newsletter
and some local theater stuff. So first, in both of these tie together, a list of the nicest celebrities.
It's always reassuring to hear your favorite celebrities. Actually a good person. I feel like,
yeah, that don't meet your heroes, kind of. Yeah, right. I feed. There's certain actors,
there's certain people that I feel like I wake up or I go to bed every night like, oh,
thankfully, this person wasn't canceled. Like, oh, this person didn't tweet something bad
or something like that. Like, oh, I really like this person. I hope they don't mess up.
Right. Especially with new celebrities. Like, when there's like Timothy Chalabay,
like, I'm a huge fan of that kid. And I'm like, every morning, I'm like, oh, God,
please don't do something stupid. Please don't get killed. Every morning? Wow.
Probably not that. He's committed. His man is committed. I may be overexaggerated.
Okay, I hope so. But here is a list. And this is all according to like the people they've worked
with and and people that have met them in real life. And it not met them in a real life.
Like, they like, they accidentally ran into them. Not that they seek them out sort of thing.
So it was kind of like on the like on the fly sort of, you know, that. And no, no surprise at
number one on the list, Mr. Rogers. Fred Rogers, yes. Quote, he made me feel like I was the only
person in the room. A guy we were just talking about the other day, celebrating a birthday, Tony Hawk.
Oh, he generously donated a bunch of money to build a six skate park in my small town and
bought a whole team of professional skaters to break it in. Wow. That's cool. Noteworthy. A lot
of these actions, a lot of the things you're going to hear about. We're not done for the in the
public. I never heard about it. There's a reason. Because they're not done for publicity.
Exactly. Weird Al Yankovic. Quote at the after show, Al made it to a point to greet everyone
in attendance. He thanked us for attending the show and chit-chat. Nice. See, now, and he's like
one of those guys that would, you know, he seems like he could do that. Like he's a smart guy,
you know, he could find lots of stuff to talk about with people, you know, that kind of thing.
Sorry. This is creative brain, I think. I was thinking of this bit that Paul F. Topkins does
about trying to play a joke on Weird Al. Oh, God, it's so funny. It's absolutely hilarious.
Ethan Hawk. Great. I'm great. I really liked him when I was in high school. Yeah, he's just so good.
He was, quote, he was asking me more questions about me than I could ask about him. He seemed
like an old friend. Smart. Very smart. Yeah. People like to talk about themselves. So that's
always a good way to know. Bring it back around about them. Yeah. He's such a great interview.
He's such a great interview. I love watching Ethan Hawk interviews. Not as much as his acting,
but I do love watching him. Two men named Hawk in this so far. Yeah. There's a train. Dan
Ackroyd. Quote, I was 15 years old. I was a 15 year old kid playing harmonica and busking,
busking outside a 30 rock. He gave me 20 bucks. He was a gem. Oh, wow. And apparently he was
very encouraging to this person and everything just out of nowhere. That's cool. Hey, 20 bucks. He's
basking. That's that's impressive. Yeah. No kidding. Sorry. Robin Williams. Yeah. Quote, a literal
delight and the personification of humanity and the appreciation and appreciation for his fans.
Oh, that's nice to hear. When I was a kid and he was on Carson, he comes on and of course he's
being loud. He's crazy. He's all over the place. And he's promoting Moscow and the Hudson or
something like that. I want to say some movie like that. But he's he's he's he's talking about
that. And Johnny out of nowhere says, Hey, and then you know, Robin, I heard that you really like to
stay after your standup shows. You like to stay and you like to talk to everybody and everything.
And Robin got quiet and going, well, I just and got serious and very well, I just really appreciate
people. And I believe that I'm I'm not here without them or something along those lines. I ramble
and I talk about Rob Williams for 20 some years on these airwaves. And I focus on his acting because
I do believe that he is the most well rounded performer, but actor I'll ever see. I don't believe
there's anybody who could do a 10 like you could in every single genre and every single role and
all that. But the reason he's my favorite and the reason I ramble about him so much is Robin Williams,
the person, not the actor, not the comedian, not the writer, not the creative. It's the person
that I loved that I miss every day. Right. It's it's him. That's you know, it's it's a certain
certain people. I mean, there's good actors out there, but they can't act all the time.
And there's certain things that you see it from people that that kind of indicate what kind of
you know, person they are because they can't like you know, it's too exhausting. You can't be on
all the time kind of thing. And so these people obviously are that way in real life because it's like,
no, this is just me. This is who I am. Taylor Swift. After quote after several minutes of talking,
she says to me, well, this will be our first picture and our next will be at an award show.
And then she hugged me and took our photo. Oh, that's nice. Oh, very nice. Post Malone.
Quote one of the nicest and most truly genuine people I've ever met. Dude brought his parents
on set and was just so excited to share what we were doing with them. And that's not the first time
I've heard that. Like, that's really cool. I I'm not a like a fan of his music or anything like
that. But everything I've heard and every time I see Post Malone, he's smiling. Like he seems
like one of those people that truly like appreciates is looking around where he is. I can't believe
I'm here. I can't believe I get to do this. Like this is awesome. And it doesn't matter what it is.
It commercials on set, seeing him do live stuff. Like again, not a fan or anything. But I like that
about him. I will say. I like that he kind of has that. Glad that he's a loving life. Exactly.
Cameron Diaz. Quote at the end of the day, she was dropping her ski gear back off. And I was
taking the trash out and my arms were full. So she even offered to help and help that with taking
out the trash and all this and like stuff. And that's like one thing because she helped take out the
trash. Yeah, I know. Okay, well that shows. But yeah, maybe these are just simple one example of how
they are. Yeah, still, you know, to go out of your way to do that. How many people would? And
that's true to be fair. You know, big star. He has even less reason to write. It's like you know,
I don't need to do that sort of thing. That's good. And Jamie Lee Curtis.
One of my, I did, I just found this out. It did not realize one of my dad's favorite actors.
I had no idea. But he was watching an interview with her the other day. I'm like, Hey, dad,
what you do? And he's like, Oh, watch it. And he's all locked in. He's just every word she's saying,
he's taking it and everything. Activity. You talk about comeback careers. You talk about
the comeback. Absolutely. What happened to Jamie Lee Curtis and her career and what was done to her
as far as getting in her head about her looks and everything and the tough plastic surgery and
then not being able to find work and being blackballed to somewhat and all this. And then she
true lies and some of these other things. She comes back in the activity of thing. And now she's
an Oscar winner. Not now she's won an Oscar. Yeah, that's just a bounce back, man. Yeah,
incredible. Quote, she came into the record store. I worked at in the 90s. I recommended the
now album. She bought it in a few days later, sent her driver into into buy up the rest of our
stock to give us and give us gifts to the to for like all this stuff. That's cool. I just
out of nowhere. Holy cow. You can find the complete list at Buzzfeed.com. So I mentioned all
these nice celebrities in part because of our next story. Airbnb isn't just isn't just for
renting houses anymore. Founder and CEO Brian Chesky announced that they're adding new services.
These include things like massages of personal training plus expertise experiences,
tailored to specific locations like a pastry making class in Paris or a gallery tour in New York City.
Oh, and you'll be able to rent celebrities. Wait, what what's going on? Wait a minute. Chesky says
he has dozens of famous people ready to participate. Initial offers will include a day of playing
football and eating barbecue and can't city chief scored a back patron of homes or an all day long
experience with Sabrina Carpenter or mega the stallion. Chesky is as Chesky is hoping Airbnb will
get people off their darn phones. Quote AI is magical, but you know what's more magical than AI,
the real world and people and relationships and memories. So yes, hanging out with celebrities is
the real world. What? And guess what? It'll make us money. Yeah. I'm running a business and it's
making us money. I didn't even. I mean, I guess I have to look into this. I just assumed that Airbnb
was doing fantastic. I just assumed that it was doing well. I do know that when I'm watching
commercials, when I taking them in, I see an Airbnb commercial that tells me how bad hotels are
and then immediately after that, I see a hotel's commercial telling me how bad it would be.
And then Verbo is up there. It's almost every commercial break that I went and not every commercial
break, but every time I see one, I see the other. And I guess so, I guess I don't know. I just
assumed I shouldn't have. Well, you don't travel. So how would you know, James?
Airbnb had its moment because for quite a while there, they were cheaper than hotels. And it
was nicer to be able to stay, you know, kind of sort of in your own place. But it's really turned into
I think a not great thing for our housing market because people are turning their, okay,
I have the second home or I'm going to turn part of my home into, you know, this rental,
but it's the second homes or the third homes that people have that now they're turning into
rental places and then buying them up to do that with. That's the problem because we don't
have enough housing for people to live in. We don't need more housing. And this is actually a
problem worldwide. Oh, yes. In Europe, especially in a lot of these other countries. But here,
we just don't have the housing for that. And they're not cheaper than hotels. No.
Now. No, because it's gone to the mean now. So yeah, yeah. And now they want to add, you can
rent an Airbnb and a celebrity. What? That's got a weird, by the way, renting a person. No.
There's a lot about that. I don't feel wrong about that. It does not feel good. No, no.
I also feel like this would be one of those things where like whatever it is, like just imagine
when you're hanging out with your friends and you're having a good time, but then there's those
low old times where everybody's on their phone. Nobody's really saying much or anything. I feel
like that would be a lot of this experience. Like, especially if I'm spending all day with a
celebrity. That's the thing. There's what you do for all day. Yeah, like the end of the
time where I'm just sitting on my phone, like, hey, Patrick, do you see this link? Yeah,
and what does the celebrity feel like they have to entertain you all day long? Like,
can you imagine? I wouldn't want to spend a whole day with with a celebrity because first,
because you don't know him that well. First of all, they're not a friend. You know, having like one
experience with them, that's cool. That'd be fine. Yeah, sure. But not the whole day. I couldn't
imagine, like, if you're a musician or a comedian or something, like, okay, be funny. Like,
man, I'm just here to hang out. I'll be funny, Mr. comedian. Like, you're not to tell me,
no, we're just hanging out, man. I'm not here to entertain you. I see this. I honestly, I hope
this crashes and burns because this sounds like a horrible idea. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know,
and I honestly. And it cheapens the celebrities that would want to do this. Yeah.
Because they're just looking to make money. And that's not, you know, I mean, we all have to make
money, obviously, to pay our bills. But this is like selling themselves. Yeah. My, my, my issue with
some of this stuff too, along with everything else you guys have said is the idea of, well, there's
actual things that you could probably be doing and putting time and effort into to actually make
the company better. And instead, you're just kind of going with low hanging fruit and like,
ah, celebrity. So there's always throw that at it and stuff. When there might be things that you
could be doing for the, and I'm not even saying that that's, that that's with the case with every
industry. But I see that more than not where they're, hey, look at this cool little fun thing that
we have. Everybody look at the bouncing ball when you could actually be putting time and effort
into the industry and actually making it better. And which would make you more profitable,
which actually would make you more money and everything. But instead, oh, what can we do? What
is our marketing team come up with? Oh, four for five, you know, whatever. And these weird things
that they're doing and stuff and stuff like this. Like, we can't think of anything creative. So
we'll just grab a celebrity. Yeah. Um, Sabrina Carburner seems to be everywhere. So describe
her. Just so you know, they'll just do that. Yeah. Um, that's, that's what I'll spend my time with.
Doesn't seem like. Oh, God. Okay. I will spend the day with you, Sabrina. Under one condition,
you cannot sing. Yep. Yeah. No singing. Yeah. And then we'll be fine. And I want to know what black
maybe we have a Lauren Michaels. I want to know. She seems fine. She's fine. She doesn't blink,
but she's buying. She could take it. She, um, she, she, she said this is Brian Chesky. Is the,
they are VMBC. Yeah. He is worth $9.1 billion. Yeah. Why does he need to make more money? It doesn't
be awesome. She, why need? What are you talking about? Need here? I don't know what
you're doing. Billy in with a B. Yeah. Yeah. That's incredible. His company is not worth that much.
I mean, it's valued at that, but it's not worth that much. Taking a quick time out will come back
and we're going to talk about our newsletter, some local theater stuff going on and plenty more
on the morning show at WFHR. Welcome back, everybody. Morning here at WFHR, locally grown radio.
Melissa, Seth and James hanging out with you. We hope you're having a fantastic Wednesday out
there. Thank you so much for hanging out with us. Got a couple things we want to get to here in
the break before we get to our new sports and partner break coming up. And this is just stuff
that I wanted to look at as far as Wisconsin rabbits community theater. Okay. I wanted to let
everybody know that they're, uh, they got auditions coming up for snow white in the seven endings.
This is a performance that'll have it launched by the river. Yes. The second time they've done that,
the first time they did that was last year. It was really, it was a lot of fun. Yeah.
Uh, was, uh, we, we had promised in the other day from the chamber. And now they're just so excited
about this over there. And I know we know how much, not only we're excited about lunch by the river
coming back next month, it'll be kicking off again. So yay. So much of the entertainment and great
food that comes down there and everything cannot wait for lunch by the river to kick back off. And
part of that will be snow white and the seven endings auditions for that are May 19, 430 to 8
over at the Wisconsin rabbits community theater, uh, studio theater over there. Very nice.
Uh, and their performances will be in June. So keep that in mind and get the kids on down there
in audition, everybody. All right. And, uh, make plans, uh, coming up in the end of the month,
Friday, May 30th from 6 to 10 to join us over at Wisconsin rabbits community theater, along with
our friends at NAMI for raise your voice for mental health. Nice. So, uh, a really cool idea. Uh,
I know, um, and talking to Gretchen, uh, especially when she first took on the position and everything,
this is the kind of stuff that you wanted to do. This is the kind of things immunity stuff.
You want to be having over there. This event is free. Um, it's, uh, a great opportunity to get
together, sing some of your favorite songs and, uh, bring some attention to the national
alliance on mental illness. Yes. Yeah. And if you can, make a donation while you're there.
Yes. Absolutely. Encourage you to find out more of a going to wrc theater dot org,
wrc theater dot org bookmark that page and keep up the thing all the cool things they got going
on all spring and summer with their kids productions and everything. And if you're curious,
they got their, uh, four main stage shows. I'll set up and, uh, wait in there for you.
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Why? Why would you want to do a blindfolded? Yeah. Anything. Doesn't make any sense.
How many times in my life? It's hard to play blind man's bluff and if you're not blindfolded,
Seth, can I even begin to watch the one time, the one time you need it? How many times in my life I've
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back from Sparta when I was off on Monday and I saw the smoke from it and I was like, oh,
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quality of life so much that they wish they did it sooner. Coming up on Mornings at WFHR.
Welcome back, everybody. Melissa, Seth and James, we're here with you for Mornings on WFHR.
Hope you have a great start here Wednesday out there. Thanks for hanging out with us, everybody.
Got a good one here. Things that have improved people's quality of life so much that they wish
they did it sooner. No one loves changing their diet or finally getting serious about exercising
but some things can make a noticeable difference in how you feel. Of course, smaller changes can
do that as well. But someone asked the internet, what improved your quality of life so much that you
wish you had been out and on it sooner? Wish somebody had told you sooner or something like that.
You wish read that article or something like that. The most popular responses include, quote,
and these aren't any particular order, giving your eyes breaks. If you spend a lot of time looking
at screens, rest your eyes every 30 minutes and focus on something 20 feet away. It helps with
eye strain which can cause headaches, tiredness, and even depression. All right. Sounds good to me.
It's part of... It's remembering to do it. And at the same time as you're resting your eyes,
stand up because sitting constantly also makes your back hurt. So this isn't a perfect system I admit
but the closest I could do for this with my work obsessive brain and all that is I tie it to Sam.
Parents' dog. And Sam's got to go out every hour pretty much at every other hour or whatever.
And when I'm taking Sam out, I will look outside, I will focus on a tree or a squirrel or a bird
or something like that. And I need to do this more. I'm not great at this but it's one of those things
that I try to do. Replacing a cheap office chair was something that actually offers lumber support.
You newly just recently did this didn't you James? Can we can we write that one down? I would just
like to get one that doesn't make so much noise every time I move. Yeah, not really good for an
audio medium. It's not but the chair was $10. Right. And you know what I got a limited budget so. Yeah that's
true. No, no. I thought you were talking about the chairs here. No, you might share at home. I you
don't have any idea how many times I hit me just so I can move. Yeah, one of our newer guests that
we had in for rapid support was laughing because they noticed that I was turning my mic on and off
every time I move my chair in my chair, which I move a lot. I'm very like. Understanding that
working with someone smarter than you is a privilege and an opportunity to learn and hone your own
skills, not a threat. Yeah, Melissa. What? I don't know why you're picking on me big brain.
One of you guys had to do that drill. One of you guys had to do that drill. That's that's hilarious.
I appreciate your knowledge and wisdom. Oh, Seth. She's not smiling when she's saying that. I just
want to. Why would I? I wasn't a smile on my voice. For the audience, I don't expect to know this
unless, of course, you worked in the industry, but this industry more than many have for many,
many decades been an industry of don't you can't I'm not sharing information. I'm not letting you
learn from me. I'm not doing this and not doing that or oh, God helps somebody wants to take
one thing off of my plate or something like that. I need all this because it gives me job
security and a lot of that. I'm proud of the team we have here. I'm proud of the way radio is
going, not just within general, but it's civic media and from what I talk to from other people
around the country and everything about radio. It's becoming much more of a job.
Community. Yes. And and a rising tie raises all boats. And I if anybody has noticed, I've done
the exact opposite of crusty to clown. I have I have hired nothing but people that are smarter
more talented than me, which maybe in hindsight wasn't the bad. It's a very smart. It's what everybody
should be doing. That's the that's the job of management of leadership or anything like that.
And I'm not either of those things anymore. But when I was in those spots to me, that's what it
means. Bringing in people. It's like with your kids. You want your kids to have a better life
than you to be smarter, faster, handsome, or cuter, whatever than you are and all that.
Have more money. Better jobs. Yeah. I think this is a better home with your co-workers. I would
think. Well, when you surround yourself with smart people, then you have a lot of people to go
to for advice and ask questions of and, you know, make your job easier and better.
Here is my maybe I wouldn't I don't know if it's my number one, but boy, this is in my top five.
Buying blackout curtains. Yes. Yeah. Oh God. I love my blackout. Those work for, I mean,
I talked to my brother and I was a police officer for many, many years. He worked third shift.
And boy, those were godsend for him because he really struggled sleeping in the day. It was just
something he wasn't. Well, when it's night out, it's really hard to sleep. But the other thing
that I would mention with blackout curtains right now is they're also very handy for helping keep
your house cool. That's very, very sunny day. Use less energy. Yes. Because right before I left
my house this morning, I put a blackout curtain and a blanket over the windows that where the sun
is streaming in so that my house stays cool because I have no air conditioning. Yep. You need
how you come up with tricks, right? I need the house to be cool. Yes.
Quitting a toxic job. All right. Sorry, guys. Bye. Yeah.
Yeah. You're not toxic. That's just a Britney Spears song I like. This, this list is I,
you know, interesting and I certainly see where they're coming from and a lot of these things.
But this is more about I don't know if that one throws me off a little bit because these are
things that they wish they had done sooner, right? And I get that and prove quality of life.
Not everybody can do that. No. Most people in toxic jobs are not in those jobs because they
want to be in that job. They need that job. Yeah. But I mean, and sometimes it's hard to move to
a different job, depending on your life circumstances and what's going on. And it doesn't matter.
Even if you're going to a job that pays more, there's going to be a time, a period of transition
time there for most people where you got to have the finances to be able to do that. Just like
moving. Like if you live somewhere, that's not good for you. That takes money and time and effort.
Not all of us are able to do that. The one toxic job workplace that I worked at, they took
care of it for me because they fired me. Whoa. So I, that's fine. And I look at hindsight. I'm like,
oh, actually, that was probably probably probably good that that happens for the best.
I've mostly just worked in toxic work environments. I like think I hadn't thought about it until
right now, but when I'm going over my resume and my head and everything, the majority of managers
I've had in businesses, I've worked at. Yeah. I wouldn't say I've had toxic jobs. I've had a lot
of toxic relationships. Maybe that's the next one up there. You want to talk to your relationships?
A podcast on that one. Learning that it's okay to say I don't know instead of pretending you know
what someone is talking about. People are excited to share. I don't know. Share what they know.
So it's a simple thing that can lead to a lot of professional and social growth. And this isn't,
there is not a single person out there that couldn't be better at this. And I'm specifically talking
to people in leadership positions and people in political positions. Wow. I never thought I would
get to a point where I miss people in these positions saying I don't know or you know what,
I got to look into that or I've got people on that and we're hoping to figure it out. Instead,
it's all just I know everything. I'm the greatest. I'm smart. Blah blah blah. Me, me, me,
all of this. Every politician is turned into every kidney 80s. Like it's every almost every
single one. I shouldn't say everyone almost every single one of them. They're all fairsbular. Oh my
God. It's turned into it. The me, me, me and I know everything and God help it if I don't know
something. Oh no. It might cost me. It might cost me my my privileged life that I have that I
live a good. It's it's disgusting to me. The idea of human beings not being able to say the words
I don't know. That's disgusting. Like that. That's not life. That's not what this is all about.
Guess what? You don't know everything. Einstein didn't know everything. Stephen Hawking didn't know
everything. And part of what made them so darn smart is that they admitted and knew that they
didn't know everything. The smartest people have ever known can admit that they're dumb sometimes.
Yes. Yeah. But you know, there's one instance that I can think of that's very pertinent right now
is that when you swear an oath on something to follow something, your response to are you going
to follow the Constitution? Shouldn't be. I don't know. Because guess what? You sworn oath.
You better know. That's the foundation of our country. Right. The correct answer is not. I don't know.
Right. Right. I mean, especially when they think they seem to feel like they have to know
every, you know, they're always saying they know everything. Right. Yeah. You can go back and you
can you can scour the billions and billions of things that this man has said. And you'll never
once hear him say that he is not the greatest at this or the greatest at that or whatever.
The only time we've ever heard him say he didn't know something was about being preceded.
That's it. That's the only time you've ever heard him say, admit anything even close. And it
was because he stumbled into it because he got caught into something. He doesn't own anything.
He never did anything wrong. Trying to avoid responsibility for his actions.
It's the only time he's ever even come close to saying something, having any type of
anything even close to ownership of his own brain and his own things that are coming out of his mouth.
Right. Deleting social media or at least moving it off of your phone to a secondary device so
it's something you can escape. That's a good idea. Yeah. I can do it. I live my life that way.
Shut up, Seth. It's bliss. Pure bliss. Walking every day. Better sleep, better mood, better energy.
Yeah. Walking is good. Can somebody put more hours in my day, please?
Yeah. Yeah. Someone says at an hour for him. I said 25 hours in a day. There you go.
When my kid comes from home from school, I put my phone in the drawer and don't touch it again
until he is asleep. Nice. Wow. That's not a bad idea. Yeah.
It's pickable. Well, because the habits that you show your kids are what they will imitate.
They do. Giving up unfolding your underwear. Never, never, never. Because I had to do that for a
period of my life and I hated it. I like folding my underwear. Wait, you're not going to give it up
because you used to hate it, but now you don't. No, I, it has to do with toxic relationships.
Oh, oh, okay. So we're back there again. I was told that I couldn't do it anymore. It took
too much time and it wasn't something that was worthwhile and so I wasn't allowed to fold my
underwear and now I can again and I prefer it. Oh, got you. Okay. It's not that I don't have a
similar thing or a similar story, but I can, I get it into a degree. Yeah. I feel the same way
about folding sheets when you're putting them away. Because they're just going to end up on your
bed anyway. Yeah, but when they're not folded, then when they end up on your bed, they're already
wrinkled. So then they look dirty. Oh, who cares? They're on your bed. I care.
I feel bad sheets, but I also don't have a problem about sheets, man. Sheets, you sleep in them.
You don't even have black sheets and things. Most, most of the time when you
are in bed sleeping, you're not even aware what you're sleeping on or in. Well, that depends
on your level of sleep. I mean, come give me dad. Yeah, I don't take it to the level of
sleep over. I'm going to write that column. No, I'm going to do it. Hey, I don't take it to the
level of ironing my sheets. So come on. Some people do that. I think my father and my dad
see, but I do like to fold my sheets because I can successfully fold a fitted sheet with no problems.
And you give yourself a cheer every time you do it. That's a task. They could turn that into a
game show. It's really not that hard. And I can't do it as well as some people can. I mean,
I've seen some people do it to like, it's perfect. And our old coworker, Steph, she used to work
in the hotel business. And she was a master at it. Yes. Yeah. And finally on the list,
starting a band at the least, it's hanging out with friends regularly. Hey, is that a bad idea?
Is it about, you know, and that everybody gets a record deal. Sometimes it's just about having fun.
Who cares? Yeah, just have fun. Play some music. Okay, we're going to start a band. None of us
can play an instrument. I don't care. Let's do it anyway. Neither could the sex pistol. Let's go.
What's our band name? Sleep is overrated. Got it. That is a good band name, I think. Actually,
yeah. You can have that if you want. I am an amazing air guitarist. I am very, very good at
air guitar. Play a mean tambourine. Is it green? It's bad. Have they gotten to the place in
technology where you don't have to have plug your amp in anymore? It can be done by Bluetooth
or that kind of thing. Yep. I was watching the latest SNL and arcade fire was up there and I
couldn't see chords. No, but I knew they were playing live. Yep. So they have been able to do that.
Oh, yes. Yes. They've got the technology's gotten to the point where, yeah, you can wander the
stage with it, except for a drum kit. I mean, is that's the one thing they haven't figured out yet?
But otherwise, yeah, you can just wander anywhere. Everything is wireless. Everything is, yeah.
I'm sure that happened 20 years ago, but I didn't really ever thought about it. Well, you didn't
hear about it 20 years ago because they still had the problem with people's Bluetooth on their
cell phones interfering and suddenly your guitar solo was taken over by a newscast. I'm going to
play an Apple from which a talk I'm calling in. Harold, I'm going to need you to pick up some eggs
and some milk and we live at five. We'll be back with we'll be back with the wrap up the show
mornings here at WFHR. Welcome back, everybody. Mornings at WFHR.
Melissa, Seth and James here with you. Thank you so much for joining us. Hang in
out with us all day long. Oh, morning long. It's been a lot of fun. We appreciate that.
Getting into our schedule throughout the rest of the day. Not only got a bunch of great civic
media programming lined up for you, but available for you streaming exclusively at WFHR.com.
The Rapid Support. Join us at two o'clock for that. It'll be available to listen to, download,
share all that. Today, we're going to talk to Steven and Katrina from Family Natural Foods.
Nice. Always love tying it out with them. Yeah. And our great friends, Kim Shields and the
gang from Encourage are going to join us. We're going to be talking to Linda and Hannah about the
River Riders bike share program. Oh, it's back once again. Yeah. It's going to be a great one.
Be sure to spread the word about Rapid Support being available exclusively at WFHR.com.
Remember that you can download and share those all over the place. And join us a little later today
for Playmakers. We'll be in our new digs and our new Jersey over at 1055WRI from four to five.
That's a chicken suit, right? Yes, that's a chicken suit. The mascot for sure is chicken everything.
Awesome. Good thing we have air conditioning. Dressed in those feathers will be new sports director
around here, Michael Comer and I. Okay, I'm going to pay money to see that. We're going to be
dissecting the new NFL schedule release and talking about some of this MLB band going on with
Pete Rose and Julie's Joe Jackson and some of that. We'll be getting into a bunch of stuff along
with local coverage, of course. Join us every Monday, Wednesday and Friday for Playmakers and
four to five on 1055WRI. We speak sport, big thinking equality plus printing and family natural
foods. Want to remind everybody about a couple of other things going on in our area, but we
start off because it is Wednesday, Melissa. And we all know where we got to start on a Wednesday.
B. G. Oh, dang it. You failed. Bingo. Every Wednesday. Bingo at the Wisconsin Rapids Elk's Lodge.
It starts at 630. The doors open at five so you can get there early and secure your place and set
up your trolls because you know you got them. The trolls. Yes, trolls. It's a bingo thing.
Okay. I don't think a little about Bingo on camera. I haven't heard that in so long.
I said it last week. Wisconsin Rapids Elk's Lodge number 693. It's on 430 West Jackson street.
Great organization. Great people. You'll have a great time. So head on down and play Bingo. 630.
Volunteers are needed to help place flags in our local cemeteries this Saturday, May 17th.
Please meet at the Forest Hill, Mausoleum in Wisconsin Rapids by 10 am sharp. Thank you to
everybody that is able to do that. My mom and dad are hoping to. They had a really great group
out there last week or last year to put out the flags. So you participated, didn't you?
I did. I won't be able to this year, but I really enjoyed doing it last year. And there's a great
group that comes out. So I hope that you can. Very nice. And there's Rams. A spring concert
happening tonight at the Rams Auditorium. Be sure to head on over there as the 6th, 7th,
and 8th grade choir concert will be taking place at 530. Nice. Check that out. Everybody
support these kids and enjoy a great concert. There's a great thing that's going on with our
United Way Melissa that we're really thankful to them for a great idea. From mother's day to
father's day, you can help with the diaper drive. Drop them off at the United Way office. They
want new and unopened diapers of all sizes. Wipes. They prefer the unscented because those
everybody can use and diaper, rash, paste, or creams. And you can help get these items into
parents who need them. They're also accepting monetary donations. You can drop those off at
its 351 Oak Street in Wisconsin Rapids here Monday through Friday, 830 a.m. to 4 p.m. That's the
diaper drive going on through June 15th, which is father's day. It's very close to
gallons. We went through gallons of diaper rations. So when I went up my kids were babies. Yes.
Oh my gosh. Find out more at uswac.org and keep in mind we're calling on all heroes. We've got
a blood drive that has been going on for the past hour. It'll be going on till 3 today over
in McMillan Library at 490 East Grand Avenue. Go ahead and donate if you can. It's never been
more vital to really appreciate everybody that's able to donate. Again, you can donate blood today
at McMillan Library 490 East Grand Avenue until 3 o'clock. And if you're not able to today,
keep in mind next Monday, May 19th from 2 to 7. There will be a blood drive available
over at 3 o'clock. Lincoln Street in Wisconsin Rapids, the former East junior high.
Seth, what's something that we're doing here at both of our stations at the studios here really?
Yeah, along with a whole bunch of other folks. Yes. We are helping out little charlots animal rescue.
We're collecting items for them including blankets, towels, dog and cat food, treats, toys,
kennels and crates, garden hoses, other cleaning supplies. We're going to be collecting these
through May 31st. We have extended it. We also have added several places you can go to drop this off,
including quality food. It's both locations, West Grand Avenue and Baker Drive. People
stay bank and Steven's point family natural foods on West Grand Avenue. Aligned health,
chiropractic and plover also in plover, Mission Coffee House and right here at WIRI and WFHR,
junkyard bar and grill and Bawal Miao in Wisconsin Rapids and of course from the ground up coffee
house as well. Also on Grand Avenue. Wow, it's like you got a radio voice over there or something.
I think that guy that used to do the micro machines commercials, remember that guy was
sockily fast. Oh, he was awesome. He was cool. Micro machines. I like those.
He was so cute. I think he did the Dunkin' Ads tour. Several eye campaigns he did. Yeah, I think
you're right. A woman in Houston through a key scenario for her cat and ended up saving her local
animal shelter. Miranda Gonzalez spent a year planning her cat's cat holly's 15th birthday
complete with a quincenera dress and a mariachi band. A video of it has been all over TikTok
and she asked people to donate to her shelter to a shelter called Almost Home Cat Heaven.
Haven. It turned out that they were looking at closing down but thanks to all the donations,
they're suddenly in great shape financially. Oh, how cool is that? Oh, that's awesome. Brilliant idea.
Well done. And the video is worth seeing. The video, like this lady really did go all in for
this quincenera. It's, oh no, there it is. Oh, it's a multi-layered, tiered cake.
Oh, a big hello kitty doll that's so cute. It's like a sign in table and everything. Oh my goodness,
and that cat. The cat is with the crown and it's, that's like a full-on gown. Oh, wow.
And a remote car. It's all in it on. Oh my god. And she's driving it around and the cat does not
look like it. It's, it's, oh, what's the cat having any fun? That's what I want to know. Yeah.
I actually think the cat actually seems like it's a joy itself. Okay, I hope so.
And people are dancing around with it and everybody that came dressed up really fancy.
It seemed like it just needed a little time. Now, I don't know if I'd be necessarily doing this
story if she didn't help save this animal shelter, right? Yeah. It's, it's, it's cool. It's,
it's, it's fun. And it's an excuse to throw a party. Come on. Yeah. Now, there you go.
Speaking of TikTok, it just saved an Ohio woman's life. What?
Lauren Kulsik was scrolling through TikTok in February and saw a video that said a brown
mark under your fingernail could be a sign of skin cancer. It turned out it was melanoma,
but it had, it hadn't spread her doctor at Cleveland Clinic said her outcome should be very good.
Nice. Okay, I get brown marks under my fingernails. I'm sorry. The, the, the moment James said that,
Melissa, immediately looked at her fingernails. Because I get them occasionally. They're like little,
like little, like, look like splinters. I have one right there. Look at, on cue. There you go. It's perfect.
If I wasn't reading, I did the same thing. I'm like, eyes were trying, one was trying to read,
looking out at your fingernails. Let's be a spot, not a line, because mine are always lines.
Great show today. You two have a great day. You two have a good day out there, everybody.
