We’ll All Be Penniless

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It's a tough lineup for you.

We're going to get into a couple of cool things this morning.

We're going to talk about the last pennies being minted earlier next year.

Talk about that a little bit.

And before we wrap the show, 10 made up societal rules that people think maybe we don't need or maybe we do.

We'll find out.

We'll get into our schedule.

We've got some good stories of the day and some really fun things going on in our area that we want to take some time on.

All that coming up.

But we begin the 10 o'clock hour with some entertainment news.

And for those that did not hear, Billy Joel had to cancel all of his scheduled concert dates.

Because he was recently diagnosed with a brain disorder.

It's called a normal pressure hydrolysis or NPH for short.

Basically, it's when there is an excess cerebral by fluid in the brains of vesicles.

Right.

Billy says, quote, I'm sincerely sorry to disappoint our audience.

And thank you for understanding.

His team put out a statement saying his condition has gotten worse because of the recent performances.

So he's been having issues with his hearing, vision and balance.

Oh, yeah.

Not good.

They said, quote, under his doctor's instructions, Billy is undergoing specific physical therapy and has been advised to refrain from performing during this recovery period.

Yeah, makes sense.

That's rough.

Billy is thankful for his excellent care he is receiving and is fully committed to prioritizing his health.

Billy's wife Alexis thanked fans for the love and support.

And even his ex wife Kristina Brinkley posted a video.

Billy and their daughter Alexa was supportive message.

Nice.

Which is pretty cool and pretty full circle for all of them.

Those three in that family and his daughter and Kristina Brinkley and all that.

That's really cool to see.

Quote, we all want you back in that white hot spotlight.

You're our piano man and we always you're always in the mood for your melodies.

And we are we all hope you're feeling all right.

We love you.

The kids love you and me and the arena or two.

So just a nice little heartfelt moment there and something that you know I think is noteworthy.

We should talk about but also it's certainly him and his families you know from here out.

I would say what they're going through what they're dealing with.

That's between them what they share is certainly up to them.

But I always feel a little cringy about this stuff.

You know when it comes to personal health issues and those things.

Had he made a statement and said I can't tour anymore because of health reasons.

I feel like that's enough.

I appreciate that he brings attention to something that not a lot of us know a lot about.

Right.

In the condition that he's dealing with any time that you can bring attention to anything that is you know.

Right.

Underreported is a great idea but I'm going to be honest with everybody.

I always feel weird about this stuff.

I don't feel comfortable talking about these things.

Right. And it's a case by case basis you know how much people are willing to share and that sort of thing.

And I wonder if part of it is just because you know I don't know if he feels like he owes it to his fans to explain why he had to cancel all of these concerts and that kind of thing.

That could be part of it too.

It could be because people on the internet can be kind of awful.

And speculate and just kind of throw wild stuff out.

So sometimes it's just better to get ahead of it.

That's where we are.

It's been there for, I think that's always been the case going back to the very first you know.

Scudsy, TMZ type reporting that went on back in the 40s or 50s or whatever.

But I think it was way back further than that.

For sure.

But it was all spread by word of mouth whereas now anybody can put it out there for anybody to see.

Yeah and exactly.

I don't think it's ever been more evident or true or taught or taught more than hey you're better off getting ahead of this.

I think nine times out of ten that's the case.

Most celebrities though most people, especially politicians, think they're bigger than something or they can get out of something.

And unfortunately they've been proven right a lot in modern times.

Yeah that's true.

That shame is out the window.

There's no more shame anymore.

I also as far as having no shame or being controversial,

Alan Town is a better song than piano man.

Oh I totally.

I'm just going to put it out there.

piano man's a great song.

It's a great song.

Beautiful story.

All that Alan Town is where he shows his true writing prowess and how amazing he was as a writer.

Is as a writer and everything.

Yes.

A couple of songs that he wrote.

A good, a nice hang on.

There's actually a gorgeous song too.

But by the way, also piano man, way overplayed.

Way overplayed.

He's got so many, so many better songs.

It's like scenes from an Italian restaurant is one of the greatest things I'll ever hear in my life.

That's amazing.

It's a great song.

Three songs actually.

There we go.

Absolutely.

We go from one amazing singer and songwriter to another.

Dolly Parton says she's excited for Jennifer Aniston's remake of 9-5.

It'll be directed by Diablo Cody.

So putting those two together is a nice fit.

Both have a great track record.

Could be good.

But that doesn't mean she wants to be in it.

Even though Jennifer has previously said that she wants Dolly, Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin

to be in the film in some capacity, here's what Dolly said.

We have no plans to be in that.

But I do wish her the best.

I think a lot of it is that we are older now and we're not going to look that good on the big screen.

All of us up there with all those beautiful young fresh people and faces.

I don't want to do that.

So I'm sorry.

She says so I don't know.

So she's leaving it open a little bit.

A little bit open.

She's going to be convinced.

It's hard to...

Now this is one thing.

This is not a critique.

But it is one thing about Dolly Parton that when I'm reading and I'm not seeing.

Now she may be saying a little bit this tongue and cheek.

She can be quite the spitfire in that regard with her.

We don't give her enough credit about how funny she is.

How great her comedic timing is.

Great sense of humor.

And so some of the greatest comedy and examples of this are in interviews.

And where she's being self-deprecating or she's making a joke about herself.

And I don't think an interviewer always know how to handle it.

Especially with her latent life and the legacy that she is.

The legend that she is and everything.

I don't think people are always understanding of this is who she's always been.

She's always been self-deprecating.

She's always been this kind of darker humor, funnier person.

But because of her light person on all this, I don't think it's hard to gauge.

Unless you're hearing her.

I think if you're hearing her and seeing it in an interview, you get it.

You get it right away.

Dali said, quote, Jane, Lily and I have been trying for years to try to come up with a nine to five two.

But it never happened.

That's the biggest part of this story.

That's interesting.

Wow.

But Dali told Jennifer, quote,

you're more than welcome to use my song nine to five.

And if you need some additional songs or if you need the song rewritten or reworked.

I really would love to see the show.

And I'd love to be able to write some music to involve with it.

She wants to, she's being extremely supportive of this.

And I would imagine that part of her without saying it doesn't also want to take any of the shine away from this new cast and the new thing going on.

I would imagine that that's a big deal for a lot of actors.

And that's something I've heard people say before about remakes.

Oh, I don't want to be in this remake because I don't want to take away from the new cast or something.

I don't know how much she really enjoys acting either.

She's not done a ton of acting and that could be a choice.

She seems to be much more interested in still doing music.

That seems to be obviously her passion.

But it sounds like she's, that's more of what she's interested in doing that kind of thing.

But it's awesome that she's still supportive of it.

That is so cool.

It doesn't take her night.

Yeah.

She probably got her hands pretty full too with the musical going on.

The musicals are doing a better life.

Yeah.

She's always so busy.

I'm telling you.

Yeah.

I'm thinking of that along with like two or three other things.

And because I did hear that she's got new music she's working on.

Of course she is.

Of course she is.

She's incredible.

She is incredible.

And so apparently Deli Parton works everything 24-7.

Not just 9-5.

No, no, no.

24-7.

Oh, time.

And yet another tie-in as her godmother,

we talk about her goddaughter now, Miley Cyrus.

Oh, that's right.

Yes.

Have you ever wondered why Miley Cyrus's voice is that way?

Her voice, whether it's singing or speaking, it's pretty identical.

Like it's pretty much the same.

Yes.

Very similar.

Yeah, it's kind of raspy and ravily.

Well it turns out there is a medical reason behind that.

Oh.

She has what's called a rankum's edema.

And it became worse in her early 20s.

It's basically swelling of the vocal cords and can be caused by vocal abuse,

smoking and acid reflux.

And she also has a large polyp.

Oh.

You know that.

Miley says, quote, being 21 and staying up and drinking and smoking and parting all night and everything,

really destroyed her voice a lot.

Didn't help.

No.

And she's just owning all this and having complete accountability about it.

But also in my case, it does not cause it.

So my voice always sounded like this.

Oh.

Now it could be better.

I think part of what she gets into in this article is the like thing that you don't hear.

The stuff she feels and she goes through, but you don't hear it her voice.

A lot of that would be a lot better with it.

But she'd still be dealing with that voice and her voice might not be much different either way.

Either way.

Right.

Quote.

So I have this very large polyp on my vocal cord which has given me a lot of the tone and texture that has made me who I am.

But it's extremely difficult to perform with because it's like running a marathon with ankle weights on.

Oh.

That makes sense.

Yeah, I guess it was.

And here is the real, I mean, all of this is interesting and tricky, I imagine.

But this part, I have to imagine is the trickiest part.

She does not want to get it removed though because she might not sound like herself without it.

Miley's next album, something beautiful comes out next Friday the 30th.

When this isn't an integral part of her career and her voice, her very distinct voice.

Yeah.

She's not necessarily any health risk, extreme health risk, but this also is not necessarily good for her.

Well, I'm sure it's not comfortable either because your vocal cords actually swell.

That doesn't sound very pleasant.

Well, no, well, think about if you've gone to a baseball game guys and you're shouting a whole lot how your voice feels afterwards.

If you sound gravely, right?

Yeah, that very, very thing.

Yeah, gravely your vocal cords are a little bit worked out.

By Thursday, I'll sound like that.

I mean, between teaching and this and everything, yeah, and that's just this.

I can imagine doing that.

Yeah, if you think about how vocal cords work and how they flap,

and if you've got a polyp on there, which is a weight, you know, like, think about that, she's right.

It's like having an ankle weight on it.

It's a really good metaphor.

It's a really good analogy.

Oh, yes.

Everyone knows how the vocal cords flap around.

And that's why those things, did you mean vibrate?

Sure, flap, vibrate, whatever.

I know of this whole words.

Come on.

But those surgeries are very, they can be very dangerous.

I mean, she could end up without a voice.

Well, that would be scary, yeah.

Miley grew up, maybe she didn't grow up with this story.

We grew up with the story more than maybe her generation.

But maybe they did, or maybe she heard about it.

But I know that when I, when talk about actors and like one of the most famous stories

that is much more famous, I think, in the actor community than it is,

even though it's really big, is Jennifer Gray and her getting a nose job.

And it completely changed the altered her whole life.

It destroyed her career in many ways.

The idea of doing anything like this, part of the reason why,

I hope it shows some understanding of the performer, the celebrity mind,

that you are so built on your image.

And what people, it's not what you look like.

It's what they're used to you looking like.

Exactly.

It's what they're comfortable with, they're used to.

That's why you don't see a lot of big hair changes for a list celebrities

in some of these things.

Why, they don't take a lot of, quote, chances.

Because that's not where the money is.

The money is into consistency.

The money is in the audience.

Will Smith always looking like Will Smith.

I can count on that.

I can count on him looking the same in every movie.

I can count on him being this or that.

It's part of what they're, you're made on.

Now as a singer, I can't even begin to imagine.

How much that is attached to that.

Right.

Especially sounding the same, yeah.

So, you know, I've never understood why an actor would get worked on on their face.

It shows you how badly, desperately they are, what is in their ear,

the people that are around them and stuff.

But it also, to a singer, I couldn't even begin to imagine what that would be like,

being faced with that challenge.

But it also says something about our society and societal pressures.

Oh, yeah.

Because guess what?

We grow and we change.

As people, our minds grow and change.

We do.

Our voices grow and change.

We look different.

Yeah.

Sound different.

Yeah.

I just shared this video with my brother, my current favorite artist, Aurora.

She recorded songs through at each point in her career that she's never released.

And after she dies, she's going to, that album will be released.

So, she's giving like a little piece of herself to her fans throughout her career

that they'll get after she dies.

Wow.

And she said the reason she's doing it is because she can hear her voice changing as she grows.

And she wants to save each little piece of her at each one of those stages with her fans.

I was thinking that is so cool.

That is a very interesting thing.

Yeah.

This is one of the cooler things I think I'll ever hear.

That's really awesome.

That's pretty cool.

But I think the society needs to accept the fact that we're humans.

And we're not, we're not cookie cutter, whatever, you know, like all the same.

We all exactly look the same and act the same.

We're all different and unique.

And that's what makes us really interesting.

And as we develop and change throughout our lives, that's what makes us interesting.

So.

I'm a big fan of that.

I am also a shining example of it.

Quite the outlier.

Quite the outlier.

Real quick, I want to send a shout out to all the kids involved in all of the theater productions

throughout the summer, Wisconsin Revit's Community Theater and Hopo.

All of that.

We've got some great stuff coming up with them that we'll be talking more and more about.

I know some audition cast lists were set out this over the past week and stuff.

So congratulations to all of them.

I do want to take a moment to talk about CWAC, Central Wisconsin Area Community Theater.

They have auditions going on today.

Tonight is the second night of auditions for William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

This is part of Schmeckley.

Schmeckley shakes.

Schmeckley shakes.

Man, it's cool, but it's hard to say sometimes.

The auditions are happening at 29.52 minutes over the avenue.

It's a beautiful Steven's pointy shack.

You can find out more, not only what you're feeling under the audition for and more to expect,

but about the play and so much of CWAC, if you'd like at cwac.org, cwac.org, everybody.

Okay.

We'll take a time out.

We'll come back.

We'll talk a little about our newsletter and about Raptor Baseball.

We've got plenty of other things coming up to talk about here on the Morning Show at WFHR.

I wasn't sure which one this was, exactly.

Give it a second, yeah.

Welcome.

Oh, yeah.

Okay, yeah.

Now I got it.

Welcome back, everybody.

I'm not that familiar with Howard Jones.

I'm not that familiar.

Welcome back to the show, everybody.

Melissa Seth and James here with you.

Miss Jones playing us in.

One of the talk about this one real quick, everybody.

And this is going to get talked about quite a bit as we're getting closer and closer to it.

This is almost a follow up to the beginning of this conversation.

Some people didn't think that this would really happen when we heard about it a few months ago,

but it looks like it actually will.

The US Treasury has announced a big change to America's change.

They'll officially stop making new pennies soon.

Okay.

The President said in February that he'd ordered the US Mint to stop making them.

Every penny costs almost four cents to manufacture.

So it's supposed to save money and estimated 56 million a year.

The Treasury said it just placed its final order of blanks this month.

And once those are minted, they're not making any more.

The last pennies are set to roll off the production line earlier next year.

It's unwelcome news for penny enthusiasts, especially since today happens to be lucky penny day.

They'd been there'd been a push to ditch them for a long time.

But not everyone thinks it's a great idea.

Partly because nickels aren't cheap either.

They cost 14 cents to make.

And we might need more if stores start roughly rounding up to five cents increments.

Which will probably happen, yeah.

And all likelihood will be the smartest that can act.

Because they're not going to round down.

No, they won't.

The smartest and who does that benefit when they round up?

Who does that benefit?

Keep that in mind everybody.

Little put a little page mark on that.

None of this means pennies are going away anytime soon either by the way.

Around 114 billion are in circulation.

Whoa.

And you'll still be able to use them.

The government makes each more each year or did because so many pennies dropped out of circulation.

Right.

People toss them in jars and that, you know, what have you.

But who is all you have to do with anything that is coming up?

And with any administration and any politics is follow the end game.

Where does it lead to?

Who benefits from this?

And who they tell you who benefits and who actually benefits?

That's what you have to pay attention to because the rounding up part is one of the overall headlines

it should be coming out of this article.

And the, okay, we don't need that.

Then it just rounds up.

Who does that benefit?

And who would, and this actually help?

Because, and I understand that there are a lot of people that are buried into certain things.

But more and more and more you are seeing people understanding that we right now have a,

well, in the sports world, Seth, what would we call a coach who the ownership is not bringing him back?

They're just letting him play out his contract.

We call that a lame duck coach.

Right.

And it's one of the more famous things in sports.

You know, a coach has nothing to lose.

They're just out there doing what they're doing.

I mean, you know, this is what we have right now.

Right.

Yeah.

So I don't know.

I thought I thought that.

Other than, honestly, I've been thinking about this the last couple of years, actually,

that we, well, I don't, Melissa, what do you think about it?

What do you think about getting rid of the penny?

Well, I do think, like James said, it's going to only benefit corporations.

It's not going to benefit people at all.

I think that there are potentially other solutions that would be a better response

to finding ways to save cost than let's make everything more expensive.

Right.

Well, in, you know, 56 million, that's nothing.

You know, the federal budget is whatever, you know, it is.

So that's 56 million dollars is like nothing, kind of thing.

Honestly, I, you know, this has been talked about before, you know,

even before Trump was in office.

Other presidents have talked about this.

It's been around for a long time about, you know, getting rid of it.

But we should, it should be more like planned out instead of just,

we're going to stop making pennies, you know, kind of thing.

Let's, let's have a plan in place.

You know, say, well, okay, over this course of how many years, you know,

we're going to finally get rid of that.

And then then other businesses and everything the government can figure out,

well, what does that mean for our currency?

Because it is going to have an effect.

Like you guys were talking about, like James, were you talking about, you know,

rounding up to that five cents.

So other nations have had to redesign their currency or change things.

Or, I mean, there are, there's precedent for this.

It's happened in other places.

Why don't we look and figure out what, like you said, have a plan in place.

Yeah.

Not just, we're going to stop making it.

Yeah.

No, does that mean that we should all get out our penny jars and

get all those pennies back in circulation?

I mean, what's sitting around, you know, just sitting around.

It would be, it would be an interesting experiment.

Yeah.

I've got to go to a lot of train tracks.

I've got, I've got a lot of train tracks.

Smash the pennies, baby.

We have a, it feels like we have a government being run by 12 and 13 year olds right now.

They don't think ahead.

They think they have great ideas that they know a lot.

And that they have great ideas.

And that they don't think anything through.

And they don't do enough time.

They don't take the time to do some research.

Right.

Because grant, this might not be a bad idea.

Right.

But it needs much, much, much, much, much more research.

Like we're talking years of data and research collection to figure out what is the, how does this play out?

Right.

Not what 80, 90 days the administration has been in office.

Right.

That doesn't, that doesn't work.

There's not enough time, man.

We can't, like we wouldn't do this with anything.

We don't, we don't rush anything to, to, you know, as far.

And, and, and by the way, like when did this start happening?

Like I thought, I thought that we, we had ideas and then we wait 20 years for politicians to get things done.

What they got this done?

This they got through.

This one thing.

You, you notice that, you notice that anything that helps them, that goes to real quick.

Like anything that helps the people in their pocket, that goes to real quick.

But as far as getting anything for the, the people that voted them into office.

Yeah.

You guys can wait.

Yeah.

Right.

Granted, please, please tell me how this is going to make everything better.

Because I've done the homework.

I've done the research.

I've, I don't, I don't read one side.

I don't read articles just written by one political party.

I, I purposefully go out of my way to read articles and things from people from others.

So I can try to get a full gamut of this because my brain can't help itself.

I don't do this for any moral reason.

I do it because I can't help it.

My brain just works that way.

And, and I'm, I'm reading the data.

And all I'm seeing is the rich getting richer from this.

That's where this leads to.

The end game of this is businesses and corporations being able to, it's to simplify, round up everything.

We're not just talking about commerce.

We are minds immediately go to buying things.

What about paying people?

Yeah, that's good.

What about those factors and everything?

Because that's where they're, that's the, that's the true headline here.

That is the real money of this, the real meat of this, I mean.

It's not, we're all focused on what we're buying and what we're spending on.

That's not where my brain is going.

It's going to pay checks.

It's going to how quickly they can round down.

Well, it just makes more sense for us to round down.

You understand.

You can hear it already.

You can hear the conversations happening already.

I think that this is something that we will be following along with.

Of course, here is a show.

It would be interesting to see what happens if nothing else.

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We're going to talk about the 10 made-up social societal rules.

And should we keep them or not?

We figured out.

Okay.

The three of us will decide.

We will decide for everybody.

Yep.

You have to do it.

All your problems.

You have to do it.

Coming up.

This morning show at WFHR.

Welcome back everybody.

Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio.

Seth, Melissa and James here with you.

We hope you're having a good one out there.

Thanks you so much for joining us everybody.

Let's dive into this one.

Made-up societal rules.

Have you ever thrown away food?

Every rule.

Every rule.

Throw them all out.

Have you ever thrown away food from a party or gathering that nobody would eat?

Just because it was the last piece.

And everyone was too polite to just eat it or spill it.

Split it up or something.

Yeah.

I've seen that.

I've seen that.

I can't get what they're talking about.

BuzzFeed has a new list of made-up societal rules that their readers think we should all just stop following.

Which ones do you agree with and which ones don't?

Of course we wanted a specific media app.

We encourage you to go ahead and let us know what you're thinking through that calling or texting us.

That's right.

Yes.

Oh, it's easy.

Speaking of texting, the no double texting rule.

Some people think it's too much to send someone multiple texts in a row.

Even if they think of something else after they already sent one.

The 20-year-olds disagree.

Yeah, I've never...

That's how they...

It's like a consciousness stream.

They don't just send one big long typed out text.

Yeah.

When I'm talking with my youngest sibling, we...

One line went after another, back and forth.

It's like a conversation.

This has never bothered me, but I got to say to Melissa saying,

I thought this is how out of touch I, as far as what cool is, to me.

Because I thought that was just the thing they did.

I was uncool because I wasn't doing that.

I'm not even kidding, I'm not even exaggerating.

I really thought that was just something that they all did.

That was just something like, okay, well that's just the style of texting.

My sister does that as well, but she's older than me, so that's just the way she talks.

Yeah, and it just...

I think it depends on who you're communicating with.

And if you're comparing it to an email, if I sent you a well-thought-out email

that I...

Would I then send you...

Oh, I forgot this one thing.

And send you another one?

Probably not.

It depends on how well I know you.

Right, right.

I just got the idea of you doing that with the email instead of a text.

Just like a whole bunch of emails.

Stop doing that.

Why do I have 50 emails from Mal today?

What is...

There's just one sentence in each one.

What is going on here?

Number two on this list, respecting your elders.

One person says, some of the nasties people have ever met over 70.

So I think that like a lot of things, and a lot of things that might even show up on this list,

I don't know that everything is meant word for word or verbatim.

I think overall it's a good idea to respect your elders or some of those things.

Respect everybody.

Yes, on a case-by-case basis.

Of course.

That is something that can be lost.

And there's nothing wrong with that.

Age doesn't give you a right to be certain to be a jerk.

To be a jerk, yeah, right.

Right.

But I think that it's also saying something to paying dues.

This is something we're going to have to get better and better about as a society.

Guess what?

Nobody's perfect.

And putting your moral compass on somebody else makes you not perfect.

I'm saying this is somebody who does it too.

I'm not at all saying that I'm better than anybody.

I'm just as guilty as anybody else of this stuff.

Right.

But I think it's on us as a society to try to get better at it so that the younger generations are better at it.

Right.

Or to help them at least.

Well, like you said, it's not just because your age is not an excuse to be not nice or a jerk or just expect respect when you don't give it.

I treat others how you want to be treated.

If you want respect, give respect.

The golden rule, right?

I don't think that I think of all the things in life that are like this.

One of the number one things of you can respect is something you can have in droves

and lose within a second from somebody.

And that's completely on you.

That's completely on the person that is, you know, the respecter.

Respected?

Yeah, respect.

Respectee.

Respectee.

I like that.

I like that better.

Expecting people working in food service to always be happy.

You obviously haven't worked in food service.

Yeah, exactly.

Maybe you could try it.

They just don't have a day just like anybody else.

Exactly.

Yeah, yeah.

I feel like that one has gotten a little bit more accepted in society.

And actually, I can't, in some regards and way it's done some ways.

Some people like the Weiner Circle in Chicago have really leaned into the opposite of that.

Where they're just insulting people and people go there to for that.

Yeah.

The food is also really good too.

Nobody says that the food is also really good.

The food is as good as the insults.

And I actually have students go there that are struggling with improv.

Go there and watch those that then work.

Right.

They're masters of improv over there.

Yeah.

That I think is considered more and more norm.

This next one is as dicey as it gets.

But I bring it up because we need to call out these things more.

That women should be polite and to be considered ladylike.

Quote.

Men are never held to these same standards.

Right.

Double standard.

Yeah.

Absolutely.

It's obviously, obviously.

It needs to be obvious that this is, you know, archaic thinking.

It never made sense.

But it's something that is going the way of the dinosaur.

Yeah.

100%.

There's no reason.

I also, I'd like to take that a step further and say that there are a lot of societal things

that women shouldn't have to continue to do just because society says so.

I should be able to swear if I want to without being looked down on.

Just don't do it on the air.

Just give me a heads up.

Right.

Yeah.

Yeah.

We're our own producers right here.

Right.

I'm going to hit them.

I'm in public.

Oh, okay.

Sometimes you get it.

Yeah.

Sometimes you get a look from someone of, oh my gosh.

Did you just say that?

Yeah.

Like, well, yeah.

You just said it five minutes ago when I can't.

Something wrong with that.

Also, like hair.

Ah.

Yeah.

Women should have to shave their entire bodies just to fit in with society.

Right.

Right.

Yeah.

You know.

Yeah.

It's all up to you.

If guys want to shave their legs, sure.

That's fine.

Yeah.

That's your choice.

Oh.

Yeah.

That number.

All right.

All right.

All right.

I had two ones.

Yeah.

There you go.

I'll shave my legs once.

That's all right.

So I'll do anything for a role.

I will do anything to play any character.

It's part of the job I signed up for.

Dear God, I hope I never have to do that again.

It's such a pain.

Of every single thing that I've done as an actor.

There's nothing that is even close to having to do that.

It's not the hardest thing I've had to do an actor or anything like that.

Yeah.

It's the most uncomfortable.

Maybe I've had to think I've had to do as an actor.

Well, see.

Everyone needs to have a role like that to find out what it's like.

Now I've got like the Amazon forest for legs.

I've got it.

It's doing it once.

I can imagine.

Oh, come on.

It doesn't make your hair grow like that.

I know.

I know.

I'm still alive.

So quote.

Number five, it should be acceptable to respectfully decline gifts.

Quote, why do I have to pretend to like something?

Take it home and say to regift it later or whatever.

This is, I think, one of the better examples of what they're talking about on this list.

I think this other stuff is getting a little, not gray area.

It should be sad and noted and everything.

But this is a little bit more of what I was thinking the list was going towards.

These kind of things that aren't necessarily, you know, they're not going to change your,

the course of your life or society or something.

Man, we can all, we've all been in that spot.

We're like, oh, nice.

Cool.

Whoa.

I can't wait to get this home.

We've all been there.

I like to think of myself as one of the more, I've never gotten a gift that I didn't accept gladly.

But even I, who have not gotten a lot of things or anything like that, I've had moments like that.

Cheap pets.

Cheap pets are cool.

That's awesome.

I have nowhere to put it.

I don't know what I'm going to do with this.

What am I going to do with this thing?

It's an interesting one.

I don't know.

How do you do that politely, though?

Somebody gives you a gift and then you just don't open it.

That's the thing you need.

This is a philosophical question for me.

It is.

We have to figure out what the, what is the role of gift giving in our society?

And what is the motivation behind it?

What is, what is, what is it mean?

What does gift giving mean?

And now there's, I mean, a lot of cultures throughout the centuries and the millennia have different reasons.

Gifts are, you know, that's all for a reason.

There's, we do this for specific things.

Maybe that's what we should be looking at.

Right.

Some of these are, I think we can bypass, especially because we need to, for a time.

Everyone thinking that it's rude to read a book at a function or event.

Most people are ignoring everyone on their phones anyway, so it's different.

Just bring a book instead.

Or just read a book on your phone.

Yeah.

You could be, do both, right?

Yeah.

There you go.

I, I can't think of anything that outside of like literally I'm in a theater and it catches fire.

I'm going to break character for.

But if I'm doing a play and somebody's upfront reading a book.

I am, I am not breaking character.

I am walking off that stage and I am either knocking or taking that out of their hand.

A wall continuing to play in, in character.

Yeah, that's a little bit different.

Now if you're going to a social event.

Yeah.

And yeah, I don't know.

I think it looked at weird for doing any of those things.

I brought my knitting to a social event.

I've gotten weird looks.

Yeah.

I don't see why I like to keep my hands busy.

Yeah, I don't see why it should be a big deal.

You know, I make, I'm using, obviously, a weird and extreme example.

Yeah, sure.

Trying to be funny.

Yeah, sitting to me.

Yeah.

But I don't see any issue with this.

I never see.

I'm one of the things that I kind of like seeing.

Usually we used to go to medicine for their fourth of July special every year.

And I always enjoyed seeing people up dancing, moving around.

Also, the person sitting there reading their book while the music's going.

Yeah, because they're still enjoying the atmosphere.

Yeah, I thought that's, I always thought that was kind of cool.

I always liked seeing that from people and everything.

And who I see doing this more though are like kids between like 11 and 16.

And they have to go to the social event.

Oh, yeah.

You want to bring a book and sit there and read it.

Yeah, exactly.

Yeah, yeah.

Oh, you know, even I would, no, you know, again, people smarter than me can figure this out.

But I wonder if it wouldn't be a good, okay, you're not going to put the phone down here.

Here's a book.

Give me the phone.

You can look at a book.

Yeah, here you go.

Do this instead.

And finally, placing a napkin on your lap.

Quote, forget it.

It lands on the floor 99 times out of 100.

That's just because you have slippery napkins.

We just need to go full, you know, stuff it in your shirt.

Yeah.

You know, do the old spaghetti thing.

You know, they all cliche.

Just going to just push it down in there.

I've never done that.

I've never done that.

I've never done that before.

The whole napkin under the shirt.

Yeah, yeah, just put it on that.

Like a bib, but basically we just need, we need adult bibs.

That's what we need.

Get rid of the stigma of bibs.

Crab shops.

Yeah.

See, now that's, it's socially acceptable there, but nowhere else.

They even put like a silly picture of a lobster on the bib.

Just like you were a little kid.

You know, you got the monkey face on there.

So why is it acceptable there?

Yeah.

I don't understand.

Society rules are weird, man.

They are.

Everybody.

Everybody in society could stop doing this, and I still am.

But there's no way you'll ever get me.

I just know myself.

I'm not doing this for any reason.

Other than it's just me and my darn brain.

I know me and I know I will continue to do this.

I would not, I may not eat if there isn't a napkin for me to use.

I know me.

But see, I think the reason you put it on your lap when you're out in like a restaurant

or something versus on the table, because then the dirty napkin isn't visible on the table.

It's on your lap.

Okay.

So it's a courtesy thing.

Yeah.

We should make napkins.

No, it doesn't take up as much room.

That's true.

That's true.

We should make him edible, though.

Then when you're done, you just eat the napkin.

You're done.

There we go.

You see?

That means you're done with your meal.

Make it as something that's good.

I'm not saying make you that.

Well, yeah, but then you've got all the other things that juice is on it from everything you ate.

That's flavor, man.

It's all up to the same place, baby.

What's going on?

Gotcha.

Everything in a blender.

All meals are smoothies from now on.

Leave out the banana.

Wow.

She's just extreme.

We pushed her to the edge there.

We pushed her to the edge there.

You and I do this to her way too much.

I love you, Paul.

It deserves hazard pay.

I feel like someone's making a motion in my direction right now.

I don't know what that is.

What is that I'm feeling?

I don't know.

We're between a lot.

We'll be right back with more show.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show at WFHR.

I'm coming home, baby.

I'm coming home now right away.

Melissa, Seth and James are wrapping up the show for this Tuesday.

Thanks so much for joining us, everybody.

We'll be back at a tomorrow from 9-11.

CEO of your United Way of South Wind and Ames counties.

Terry Johnson with us tomorrow.

We want to win.

We're hanging out with Terry.

You're looking forward to that.

It's a weird week.

It really is.

It always is.

Every year, it feels like it's a weird one to me.

We will have the Rapids Report available for you today.

We will have the Rapids Report available for you today, streaming exclusively at WFHR.com.

You can check that out.

The podcast at 2 o'clock Monday through Friday.

Today, we are going to be talking with our friends at the Heart of Wisconsin Chamber Commerce.

Promise going to join us.

Look forward to that.

Very nice.

And we'll be talking to the ODC here on Wisconsin Rapids.

A bunch of great conversations that we had right there.

Yes, indeed.

And of course, we've got baseball on the radio dial for baseball and softball on our radio dials tonight.

It kicks off at 450 over on the sister station, 10555WRI.

I asked the new program director over there, Seth Habhacker.

Well, I have that information for you, program director James here at WFHR.

All right.

Just throwing your titles around.

Come on, guys.

Thank you for that comment, news director.

Melissa Kay.

You went right where I was going to go.

Thank you for that.

Anyway, we've got, yes, we've got playoff action.

Regionals tonight on WRI.

All right.

We've got River Falls coming to town to take on the Lady Red Raiders.

450 pregame, five o'clock.

First pitch for that one.

Mike Comer on the call.

And hopefully bring you a couple more games as we go.

Because it looks like they had a very good year this year.

Hopefully they can make a nice run into playoffs.

The Red Raiders this year.

So hopefully they'll bring you a few more games down the road as well.

And Raptor baseball continues as we're looking to get in the night wind column for the first time this season.

Raptors are playing tonight.

620 over in Green Bay to take on these should be called Boo-Yah.

Team formerly known as Boo-Yah.

Yes, yes.

We're hoping to get a win off of this one too.

Yes.

20 our pregame will kick off.

Big shout out to Austin Thomas doing an amazing job.

I caught some of the game yesterday.

Austin's doing great.

Man, just first game out of the gate.

Sounded so polished.

He's good.

We'll be talking about it on playmakers from four to five over on 105 five of this Wednesday.

Everybody.

Reminder that our zoo is open.

Yeah.

So it's here.

Yeah, he's open.

Now go check it out.

Everybody 1911 Giner Avenue.

Just a couple of feet away from us over here.

Just want to remind everybody that the zoo is open.

We'll be talking more about that throughout the season and everything.

Quick reminder as well that tomorrow night.

I'm going to have only got a couple of more local concerts going on with our high schools everybody.

Yeah, school seasons winding down.

Yeah, it is.

Yeah, I'm sorry.

Only Lincoln actually has a performance left.

It looks like Lincoln will be performing tomorrow 630 or the orchestral pop concert over at the performing art center.

And then this Thursday everything will wrap up for the season 630 acquire concert.

Very nice.

Both of those again at the pack right here in Wisconsin Rapids.

Yes, indeed.

Seth, we have something meaningful going on tonight as well.

Well, yeah.

Yes, of course, it was Memorial Day.

So another great way to celebrate the day after by eating steak.

Yeah.

That's right.

Get head on over to the FW post 2534 tonight from 432 7.

They are having their annual steak fee.

This is open to the public at the Donald J. Canuth Memorial Hall 2711 red and road.

Here's the menu everyone a 12 ounce New York strip steak with sauteed mushrooms and onions.

You can choose between a baked potato or rice pilaf.

You can get corn or beans and of course all kinds of desserts and beverages some for purchase.

And the important thing of course is that all the proceeds support VFW post 2534.

And it's ongoing mission to support veterans and their families right here in Central Wisconsin.

So support them and have a delicious time doing it.

Yums.

Daked dinner.

And everyone, the book bin is out.

It is out at the Moravian Church.

310 First Avenue South.

That's in the parking lot off of Goggins just by the glass doors there.

Books, this is for the book sale this fall everyone.

So go ahead, check out your bookshelf, anything here.

I'm done with that.

I've read that one.

We want those books.

We will be accepting them through from Memorial Day, which was yesterday of course, through September 15th.

And the book sale itself will be taking place from October 9th through the 11th.

So make your plans now.

There are those books you don't need so you can get more books you do.

That's right.

The space will be open for that.

At the risk of bragging, I've got a connection over there at the Moravian Church.

I happen to know the Reverend over there.

And she joined us last week and encouraged you to check out that interview on the Rapids Report everybody.

And be sure to be listening next Monday for Kitchens Open segment from Beth.

Yes, indeed.

One of the touch on a couple of good stories of the day going on.

And this one, I want to shout out Wisconsin Public Radio.

I know that that used to be a full paw with radio or TV or anything touching on other networks or anything like that.

I believe a rising tide raises all boats and they're doing very similar things that we're doing over here.

And we need to support our public broadcasting.

And a chance we get.

100%.

I mean, what else are we doing here if we're not supporting public broadcast, right?

Of all things there is.

And there's a great article over there encouraging to check out at wpr.org.

Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources names Milkweed.

It's plant species of the year.

Really?

Milkweed is the only plant monarch butterflies can lay eggs on.

Did not know that.

I did neither.

No, I didn't.

No, I didn't.

Amazing.

Very cool.

Very cool.

Very cool.

There's a lot of interesting stuff there and some great reporting being done again.

Go to wpr.org to check that out.

Shout out to Evan Casey who does some really good stuff over there.

I'm going to dive into that one a little bit more.

Maybe we'll touch on that later in the week some more.

But that's a great.

Very cool.

Very interesting article.

A five year old in Denver named Astoria Massa went viral this month after Kudoba forgot her side of guacamole and she was devastated.

Her parents posted a video of her tears and that she was heartbroken.

But the company posted an update after they came through for her in a big way.

They brought her back in and a chef teacher how to make it.

Oh.

Gave her a bunch of free swag and named her their chief guacamole officer.

That's cute.

That is how PR is done.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And I love the extra step of teaching her how to make her own.

Exactly.

So you'll never be without guacamole.

You're really really cool.

Well as long as you have avocados.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But I think that's a cool thing.

She can have mine.

I'm fine with that.

A 13 year old girl in California beat up a grown man who tried to attack her.

Oh, she's.

It happened earlier this month in Carmel about two hours right outside of South San Francisco.

So actually it's a really nice area too.

Which is it just I think noteworthy.

She says she was walking home from school when the guy popped out of nowhere between two cars.

Tried to punch her.

But she knows how to handle herself because she's taken jujitsu classes for three years.

Oh boy, that was dumb.

Carma.

Carma.

Carma and Carmel.

Yeah.

He missed a headline there.

They did.

What is with the headline writers?

Come on.

Her jujitsu teacher said she punched him and got him in a headlock.

Need him a couple of times and spun him around.

She ran home.

It wasn't hurt.

The guy was gone by the time cops got there.

They were able to track him down later.

Oh, they did.

Okay.

That's amazing, man.