Up, No Contest (Hour 2)

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Laura and I are going to have some fun on the show today.

We're going to get into some local events going on there area.

Talk about cranberry blossom fest.

We've got some other cool stuff lined up for you here.

And I want to get into this study that suggests that spontaneity can lead to increased happiness

and life satisfaction.

We'll talk about that a little bit later along with, of course, our schedule and talk

some rafters in a little bit as well.

But we kick off with entertainment news.

And one of the more harder working and sought after actors in the game right now is Pedro

Pascal.

Oh, sure.

Pedro's been working very hard for a while now and he's been, boy, they may end up teaching

a master class at what to do when you get your break in your 40s and how to stay, you

know, relevant, fresh and relevant and not get your, your star faded or over, saturate

the market.

I brought this up a number of times before, for years, they're going to continue to use

Jude Law as an example of this.

Over-saturation?

Yeah, absolutely.

He got his break.

I wouldn't say late, but a little bit later than maybe, you know, some would.

And when he did, he just, he had an agent that, you know, him and his, it wouldn't say

no to anything.

And so he did a lot of projects and there was a while there where it felt like he was

Samuel Jackson, like he had a movie coming out in a month.

And it kind of, it kind of saturated things to where casting directors felt like, okay,

well, they've already seen this face.

They saw him last year in this movie.

We're not going to use him.

And then casting agent after casting agent after casting agent does that.

And pretty soon a couple of years go by and you don't see Jude Law much.

Right.

And we had like a year of Jude Law.

And now he's kind of, and he's kind of had to fight back.

And it has gotten his career back on track and he's doing fine.

Nobody, you know, has any reason to feel bad for Jude Law.

He's doing a reasonable number of projects now.

Yeah.

But this is something that could happen to any actor.

Sure.

I guarantee you would happen to me, I guarantee I would make a mistake like this.

I would do something like this.

Well, yeah, because once your break happens, who's going to stop you?

I don't want to, I don't want to ever stop working, you know, I don't want to say no

to anything.

I totally get that.

I totally get that.

I don't want to say no to anything.

I totally get that.

And there's where Pedro Pascal comes in because he's been working extremely consistently

and hasn't said no to a ton of projects so much as he will like spoiler alert for those.

He just, he just got done, you know, he was doing the Mandalorian, right?

And that's wrapping them.

And so he picks up a show, the last of us.

Yeah.

And he's doing that for a while.

And then that character ends off.

And now he's going off and doing the fantastic four movies.

And branching off into, you know, much more movies and into that genre.

And so he's not oversaturating because he's kind of moving on from one, you know, group

or one set of movies or one style of movies to another set from TV to movies to all this

different stuff.

And I just, like, I don't think that he's sat down and was like, okay, this is how I'm

going to map out my career.

It just happened that way.

No, yeah.

But boy, they're going to teach this in master classes of like, this is how you work crazy

consistent.

And yet you don't get people sick of you.

Right.

And it helps that some of this is on streaming services, right?

Like some of the things he's done or on streaming services exclusively.

And so some people can't watch some of his things, but they can watch the rest of his

things.

I don't know that it makes it doesn't, I like Pedro Pascal.

So this is a really hard conversation.

Well, it doesn't, it doesn't hurt either that when it comes to Jude Law, one of the things

that helped him was everybody liked working with him.

He was a good guy.

Same with Pedro.

And that is the same thing with Pedro Pascal.

He's also very self deprecating.

Yes.

And that comes into play with this story here because there is so much Pedro that maybe

we need a a stand in, we need a, we need a backup.

And I think we found him 42 year old Georgia, Cortana is a lighting designer on Comedy

Central's The Daily Show and he was convinced by his wife to do try out for a Pedro Pascal

lookalike contest.

Oh my gosh.

Now, she's been telling him this for years that he looks just like him and he doesn't

see it necessarily.

And he thought, okay, well, I'll humor my wife and I'll do this.

And when I don't win or even finish in the top three, I can feel like, aha, look, I don't

look like him.

And of course, every husband would they try out, he beat out 26 other people.

That sounds right.

He won 50 bucks in a year's worth of burritos.

That's awesome.

Where are the burritos from?

I need to know the restaurant that was hosting this.

Now the restaurant did this in part because the owners of sundown north were looking for

a way to celebrate their first anniversary.

And we're inspired by the Timothy Chalamet lookalike contest that went viral last year.

And Goutis has a message for his more famous double quote, let's hang out and have a beer

and make a new friend.

The most Pedro, let's go.

Oh, beautiful.

It's a fed tent.

Like, that's awesome.

Can I see a picture of him?

Do you have a picture of him?

It just has a picture of him.

It doesn't have a picture of him.

Just a picture of him.

He'll look a little like him.

It's a bummer.

It's got a...

Oh, the wife.

She's got a hot husband then.

Wait a second.

It's got a beer.

Good for her.

Let's see.

And good for him with that face.

It's a good face to have.

There he is.

There he is.

This is him.

So he looks a little thinner, possibly.

He is a little...

He's a thinner, Pedro Pascal.

His face is a little longer too, but he's not a bad-looking fella.

To every website...

Nice get, lady.

And every website designer and every single person out there that is in charge or runs a website

or anything.

I understand how hard it is and you have to...

We all need advertising money.

But when the advertisement takes up half the screen, I don't care if they're advertising

a deedous.

I am not buying it.

And you said this guy works on the daily show?

Yeah, this guy is a lighting designer on the daily show.

It just...

Fantastic.

It just happens to look like Pedro Pascal.

Yeah, that's an interesting look.

That's such a weird tie and how cool.

So entertainment-wise, I wanted to get to a couple of things going on in our area.

But I thought I'd pull up some fun topics here.

And I got a pretty good one, I think.

What is the most popular Pixar movie in your state?

Ooh.

This is a pretty good one, I think.

I think this is a fun list.

Let's go ahead and dive into this one.

And let's see here.

So, it'll be almost impossible to name the best Pixar movie.

Oh no, it's not hard at all.

But what...

Do you have one?

Up.

Oh, yeah, it's a good choice.

It's up.

It's gotta be.

I'm sorry.

But what about the most popular one, and especially by state?

Local trends determine the most popular in each state according to search history.

Mm-hmm.

And it's worth noting that it's based on 21 years of data from January 1st of 2004 to January

21st of 2025.

Okay.

So movies that have been around longer that could have an advantage with that, that I think

are worth noting.

All right, sure, yeah.

So let's see.

Monsters Inc.

Is number one.

I knew that one was gonna be up there.

From 2001, 24 states, including Arizona, Tennessee, and New Jersey, consider that the

number one.

That's a fair pick.

That's a great one.

Mm-hmm.

It's a classic.

Not only a good one, but I mean, it's hard, you're hard pressed to find two better voice

actors than Billy Crystal and John Goodman.

Right.

And together, working together, and their chemistry, oh, so good.

So good.

Like that made the whole movie.

And yeah.

At number two, my youngest daughter's favorite, Finding Nemo, from 2003.

Oh, I love Finding Nemo though.

Ten states, including Hawaii, Florida, and Maine, just keeps swimming.

Yeah.

Those are water heavy states, too, so that makes sense.

I thought the same thing, and I thought, I was like, oh, I don't know if that, yeah,

yeah, yeah, yeah.

They are.

Those are coastal states, so it makes sense, yeah.

The Incredibles comes in at number three.

Oh, that's a good thing.

From 2004.

Nine states, including Alaska, Washington, and Georgia.

Another great cast.

Mm-hmm.

Where's my super suit?

Oh, man, if you see my super suit.

I love the Incredibles.

That was just a really cute movie.

Now, the one thing, that one was a little bit, a little after my kids were watching those

kind of movies too much, or as much, I should say, and I didn't see it as much.

I saw it more of my nephews, but I will say one of the things that I thought I was really

cute and cool about that movie was the whole cape thing.

Oh, I really addressed the whole Superheroes with capes and how bad of an idea that is.

Yeah.

I loved all the crazy little details about that movie.

Those were the best parts.

I still don't, I mean, I've watched a lot of superhero movies.

And TV shows, and I still don't think I've ever seen anybody really address that.

To capes.

Yeah.

It was worth addressing.

And it kind of changed costumes because a lot of the superhero movies you've been

seeing lately, they don't have capes except for Superman.

I, uh, uh, Craig T. Nelson, I love Craig T. Nelson, but Bonnie Hunt is really good.

She did so good.

Like, I love her voice.

Oh, and, uh, one of my favorite authors, Sarah Val, is one of the, it's one of the few

voice acting jobs she's done.

Oh.

She's one of the, she's the little girl in that.

Oh, good.

Violet.

I love Sarah Val.

I love Violet.

Yeah.

Get a chance to ever read a Sarah Val book, everybody go for it.

I have a kid who gives me Violet vibes.

I just, I love Violet.

The one that I thought for sure, if you, if I had pre, if I, if I, um, it was being,

uh, asked to answer this myself, I would have said for sure at number four, Toy Story.

Toy Story is the most popular Pixar movie I would have thought.

I would have thought it would dead wrong, but I would have thought it's only popular

in four states.

New York, Kansas, Kentucky, and Virginia, um, I would have thought for sure, though, that

would have been number one.

Yeah.

I was expecting more, more states in the South to like this one, but I'm, it's cool to hear

that it's not just them.

In part because it's the oldest of them.

There's that.

I don't know if it was the first Pixar movie, but it's the old, it's from 95, it's definitely

the oldest one that I can think of, um, yeah, I can't remember what the first Pixar movie

was.

That's a good question.

Uh, and I think a sneaky one at number five, Coco from 2017.

Oh, that's a cute movie.

Three states, California, New Mexico, and Texas, now two of our biggest states.

No, that's fair.

Well, and they have high Hispanic populations, so it would make sense.

That's great.

I love that.

Um, just interesting.

Uh, I would have, I wouldn't have expected it, and that's the late, most recent movie

in 2017.

Mm-hmm.

I didn't see that one.

I don't know that one that one.

Oh, well, we can fix that.

I, uh, I, I, I, they let us pull it up in here.

We'll just pull it up in here and watch it in the commercial.

I, uh, the most search Pixar movie, and, of course, the Midwest here, and, and looking

at almost every state here in the Midwest, uh, Laura, it is Monsters Inc.

Monsters Inc is the Midwest winner, huh?

Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, all picking Monsters Inc.

Minnesota is the only one that picked the Incredibles.

Uh, they, uh, just be a little different.

Okay.

Um, but yeah, I would say Monsters Inc.

I can see that.

Well, okay, but they picked Minnesota picked the one with Crag-T Nelson in it.

Jesus.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Of course.

Of course.

Come on.

I was as conscious as it could possibly be.

Ask Seth.

I bet he's going to tell you the Incredibles.

Yeah.

To be fair, uh, the coach was an amazing show.

It was an amazing show.

Yeah, I used to watch it a lot with my dad.

Who was a high school football coach from very long time ago?

Uh, and, oh, my God, that was a good show.

Um, I, I, I'm curious to, uh, what everybody else, what everybody personal answer, what, in

your house, what is the top Pixar movie, uh, go, 715-424-2600, love to hear from all

of you?

What is your go-to Pixar movie, maybe even your, your kids favorite or your favorite?

Mine's up.

It's up.

All of the above.

Is that the kids favorite?

I don't think so.

Um, I don't know what their favorite would be, would be mine for sure is up.

I mean, there's a dodo, there's a talking dog, there's a house that flies.

It's great.

Yeah.

You had me a talking dog.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Squirt.

Right.

The dog collar that translates the golden retrievers thoughts.

I mean, come on.

So I, I was trying to look at the list of, uh, the Pixar movies and the order that they

came out and I, I'm not finding a very good list here, but I did, I did forget a sneaky

good one.

Ratatouille.

Ooh, Ratatouille is.

I forgot about that one.

That's got, you got, you got, uh, uh, Patton Oswald, do it a great voice overworked

on that.

So that, that's kind of fun.

But it does look like Toy Story was the first one, uh, 20, they put out 28 feature films

and Toy Story from 1985, uh, is the first insight, uh, oh, inside out might be the last,

the most recent one from 2024, inside out two from 2024.

Inside out two.

Yep.

I, those are ones that I want to see, I, I, that are the look fun.

My dad is so into these movies.

Oh, I forgot.

Brave was a Pixar movie.

Okay.

Brave is on our list too, though.

Okay.

Wally, um, uh, Ratatouille.

Oh my gosh.

I forgot about a bug's life.

I didn't mention Ratatouille already.

Uh, I just did.

I just did.

Um, so, yeah, there's a, wow, I mean, uh, solar, solar is another, oh cars, yeah,

cars.

I mean, cars is out.

It got to be.

Cars got to be on that one.

I almost forgot about Meet the Robin Sins, the, the, the Tyrannosaurus Rex.

From 1990, yeah, from 1995, 28 movies since then, I mean, pretty darn good list.

Yeah.

I love Pixar movies.

Yeah.

I love Pixar movies.

I don't know if there's any real flops.

There's ones that did better than others.

Yeah, even the ones that weren't like critically huge were, it's fine.

They did fine.

Quite a few of these were also nominated for Best Picture.

Right.

In fact, they may have been the ones before, no, Disney really got that start of, of

course.

When Disney was working with Pixar, yeah, that was interesting, interesting list, uh, did

have a couple of other things I wanted to mention.

Our great friends at Wisconsin Rapids Community Theatre are joining forces with the Heart

of Wisconsin Chamber of Commerce for Wisconsin Rapids Community Theatre's Youth Theatre,

Lunch By the River, Snow White and the Seven Endings.

Yeah.

They're performing this Thursday over at, uh, beautiful Vetsons Memorial Park.

They'll be a part of Lunch By the River, head on down there, get some great food from

some of our great, uh, you know, uh, trucks down there, food trucks down there, or pack

up your own lunch and head on down for some entertainment.

Enjoy some great live entertainment, everybody.

And some community engagement.

It's going to be a really fun stuff.

It's good stuff.

I encourage you to check that out.

Uh, uh, dare to dream a Disney or musical review is also coming up this week.

It'll be on Thursday, the 19th.

Yes, I have one of my kiddos in that one.

I am going to be there on Thursday to watch your opening night.

There'll be shows Friday and Saturday as well.

Be sure to take in these shows, support these kids.

There is no such thing as bad kid theater.

It's true.

Youth Theatre is always good every time.

Every show is amazing.

Every show is fun.

Can that encourage you enough to check them out?

Everybody.

Uh, they're going to be a blast and find out more, uh, at WRC theater dot org, uh, be

sure to follow along all summer long, got West Side Story coming up in July.

The brothers grim coming up in August.

Mm hmm.

Yep.

And I love that they're doing three different kids shows this summer.

How cool.

Yeah, we had a really good time talking about that.

Uh, Gretchen brought a couple of the kids in yesterday.

Uh, encourage you to catch that rapids report.

Uh, I had a real good time talking about that with her.

Find out more at WRC theater dot org.

Get on over there.

It looks like they've got their main stage list up and it looks like, oh,

wow, you can even fill out auditions for on golden pond.

No, who's directing that one?

Haven't checked it out.

Um, I encourage you to direct it by James Maloo.

It's Maloo.

Yeah.

Maloo.

I believe that's how you pronounce that Maloo.

Maloo ski.

I think it's one of these days.

I'm going to pronounce your name.

Jamez or something.

Maloo.

It'll just be ridiculous.

Maloo foe.

Uh, Jamez Maloo.

And, uh, I did want to mention this too.

Uh, we, our great friends at family and natural foods, uh, do these wellness seminars and,

uh, they're a joy to the community.

We love them.

We take them in and we're really, we have a great time, um, not only learning, but, uh,

getting to ask these questions or thoughts that you have where you can go one-on-one

in person, being able to ask them.

And they got a really important one coming up.

Natural medicines that outperform drugs.

This is, uh, one of the bigger topics I think that has gone on in the last 20 years, I'll

say.

Sure.

And it's only, it's only becoming more and more increasingly.

It's definitely a prevalent conversation.

Yeah.

And you're going to be able to talk to, uh, some of the best in the business when it comes

to this.

Uh-huh.

Uh-huh.

Uh, the gang at Terry talks new tricks, uh, Terry's, uh, naturally.

Uh, they're going to have a representation there down there to talk about this.

Uh, at first, Baptist Church at 910 McKinley Street and Wisconsin Rapids right behind

family natural foods.

So you can't miss it, uh, that big, beautiful church over there, they have a good turnout

for these.

So they got to kind of, they need a bigger room, and a shout out to, uh, the first Baptist

for offering their, uh, service, their room for their space.

Yeah.

RSVPing is encouraged, but not required.

So if you can RSVP ahead of time, stop by and buy the shop or give them a call at 715-423-3120.

That's 423-3120 and go ahead and visit them at 910 West Grand Avenue right here in Wisconsin

Rapids.

We'll reach out over to their Facebook page as well.

Sure.

That's a bad way to do it to find out more and make plans for this great event that is

coming up next Wednesday, June 25th at 515, over at the, uh, first Baptist Church as

a part of family and natural foods wellness seminar.

Mm-hmm.

Be a really good time over there.

Sure.

We will take a quick time out and then come back and have a really good time on the morning

show at WFHR.

Morning show here at WFHR, local liquor on radio, Lauren James hanging out with you.

Hope you guys are having a great morning out there.

Thanks so much for hanging out with us.

We appreciate the company.

Mm-hmm.

I thought this was an interesting one and it comes to us from a couple of different sources,

but I'll credit the Good News Network for this one in particular.

Encourage you to go to goodnewsnetwork.org, especially you need a palette cleanser.

You need some smiles or something, some incredibly detailed, great reporting going on over

there.

Check that out, everybody.

A study suggests that spontaneity can lead to increased happiness and life satisfaction,

specifically those who consider themselves spontaneous, spontaneous, and are more likely

to report, are more likely to report, feeling happy and content with their lives.

The study conducted by one poll found that spontaneous people were 40% more likely to consider

themselves happy and 38% more likely to feel satisfied with their lives.

The study also revealed that people engage in spontaneous acts, like trying a new restaurant

or taking a nap, about 18 times per day on average.

Yeah, that sounds right.

Like I used to be much more spontaneous than I am now, however, I've also found ways

to plan for spontaneity if that makes sense, so an example.

I bought a year membership to the International Crane Foundation in Baraboo, shout out to

the International Crane Foundation, you guys are awesome.

But I did that so that I could spontaneously, throughout the summer, go there if I felt

like it.

All I've got to do is pack a picnic for me and my kids, and then we can go and spend

hours at the International Crane Foundation, eat lunch, and then drive home.

I did the same thing with the waterpark pass.

I bought one for the whole season so that, spontaneously, we could head over to the water

park throughout the season.

It's sometimes it takes planning to be spontaneous, I guess is the message.

Yeah, I get that, yeah, well, especially as a parent, you kind of have to do your best

to plan these things out, but you also can't plan things, hey, what's my kid going to like

today?

Right, it's definitely easier to budget for it if I'm investing in my spontaneity the

way that I did, right?

So buying these season passes and the year membership and the yearly membership to the

International Crane Foundation also gives me free entrance to a lot of other places

in, well, in the whole country, but in the area specifically that I'm looking at in, you

know, Wisconsin.

And so I can kind of just spontaneously go to any of those places that I get free access

to with my membership and allow myself to be spontaneous without spending a ton of extra

money by doing so.

This survey, they had a 2000 Americans respond and they found that those surveyed 72% said

they feel happier after, after when they make a spur of the moment decision in some way.

Now that the interesting, I think that's interesting in general, but the interesting, more interesting

part of it to me is whether things went good or bad, they, they were still okay with just

doing something spontaneous because sometimes you're just living your life, doing your

thing and you're at home and you're like, I just need to get out of the house.

I'm not just an over thinker, I'm an over planner.

And I don't know how often I really do much of anything really on the fly.

So I try to, I try to incorporate these things as best as I can in my day to day life.

And it's usually something I'm doing in my little bit of free time or something like

that and I decide to do something.

But it's never anything too risky or too out.

Right.

I'm really bad at this.

Really bad at it.

Well, one of the things that I think is cool though about it is the encouraging part

of how the happiness part of it.

Absolutely.

The tying those two things together.

I don't know that I would have done that.

I don't know that I would have thought of those two things together.

I'm so curious what the audience is thinking of this one because this is one where I,

I don't really, I'm not a good subject matter for this.

I think there's plenty of other good examples of pretty good dad out there from people

that I'd like to talk to or hear from and say, Hey, how do you feel about this?

One angle of it is a parent's angle where you're giving us.

And I think that's a really unique perspective and interesting.

I'd like to hear from others out there how they're worth this one.

Well, and there's definitely an element of cost, right?

Like sometimes being spontaneous and not planning things out means that you're going to be spending

a little bit more money because you're not really accounting for what the changes in

all of these pricings are, whether or not they're straffic, whether or not gas has changed.

You haven't, you can't plan if you're being spontaneous.

And it's hard to on the fly know whether or not you have enough money for it without

taking away from other things, especially nowadays.

Everybody's budgeting more tightly than we have in a while and it does cost money sometimes

to be spontaneous.

And like I said, to me, what I did then was invest in my ability to be spontaneous.

All I've got to worry about is gas and lunch.

It kind of makes you, and again, not my wheelhouse, but there is a bit of an element of this

that I wouldn't have thought of until the survey, I guess, that makes you feel alive when

you're doing these kind of things.

No, because it makes you feel like you're really experiencing life.

There's something beautiful about the act of being spontaneous.

Like I said, I used to be much more spontaneous and I was happier when I was more spontaneous.

However, life happens and spontaneity isn't something that I could have kept up throughout

the years.

But I'm hoping to get back into it because I do know that I feel happier when I am able,

when I have the freedom to do spontaneous things like that.

One last part of this, interestingly, most Americans do consider themselves to be quite

spontaneous.

That's awesome.

It has only about one in six did not think of themselves as such.

Okay.

So, most people think they are.

Some of the biggest decisions we include booking a last minute flight somewhere, suddenly

switching careers, adopting a dog, moving to a brand new country, moving on from previous

commitments or that kind of thing.

Over half of those surveyed 56% said that they've gone on a spot-nated trip in the past

five years.

And most of them, 88% say that they feel happier as a result of that.

I wish I could.

I can't spontaneously afford full trips, but I will say that the last time I went to

the International Crane Foundation, it was relatively spontaneous and we had a pretty

great time.

That's good to hear.

That's good.

We'll take a quick time out.

We'll come back.

We're going to talk to cranberry blossom fest.

I've got a couple of other good ones for us coming up for you and plenty more of local

stuff to get to on the morning show at WFHR.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show at WFHR, locally grown radio.

Lauren James hanging out with you.

Thanks so much for joining us.

I hope you're having a great day out there.

Got another one here for you in regarding travel, and bopping around.

And we are trying to make your travel a little less stressful today.

We were talking about things that we forget earlier, so hopefully that reminded some people

on that one.

Good.

And now we got something as far as traveling to feel less stressful.

Someone asked people on Reddit what the best tips for a stress-free vacation are.

How best to plan what everybody wants to plan about their vacation, a stress-free

one.

Okay.

I can't imagine many people out there like I want stress.

I want a-

Right.

Nobody wants.

No one's planning for stress.

No one's-

Although I would like to set that cut.

I would like to be in charge of making that vacation, like what people could lay if they-

You know, I don't have enough stress in life.

I want to experience stress.

I can bring that to you.

You know, go ahead and come to my amusement park.

I'm going to pencil my anxiety attack in around 942.

I can handle that one.

I can handle that.

Yeah.

So here are the according to Reddit, the best ways to best give you the best odds of giving

yourself a stress-free vacation.

All right.

Good luck, everyone.

I'm already going to fail this.

I haven't- I'm not pretty read this, but I see the number one and I'm already horrible

at this.

Yep.

Plan less.

Try to go with the flow more.

That kind of in line with what we are talking about.

Spontaneous.

Yep.

That's the spontaneity thing.

As long time listeners know, I love segues and I like kind of combining things.

So it kind of couldn't help myself there.

But it does- I would imagine I could see that.

Sure.

Like if you give yourself a rough outline.

Like if you- if you plan the- we're getting on the plane at this time, we're going

to get the there at this time and then we're going to check in at our hotel at this time.

And after that, let's see what they've got.

I agree.

100%.

I think that one of the things that you can do to avoid stresses or things going wrong,

well, if you don't plan that much, how much can really go wrong?

Right.

If you give yourself time to explore and make an adventure, then maybe that is what they're

talking about here.

Don't cram a bunch of destinations into one trip.

Just on one really good spot instead.

Sure.

Melissa's talked about this a little bit about where there's the tours and these things.

And then there's kind of doing your own thing.

Right.

I hear a lot of people- I think Seth is talking about this as well, going to England.

And I hear this with a lot with England.

There's a lot of different things to see.

It's there's tons of history and-

Just take one thing to-

Yeah.

But most people seem to enjoy like getting outside of the city and going to like those

neighboring cities and everything.

And then you really get a chance to see what London is really like or England is really

like.

Sure.

I have no idea what I'm talking about.

I'm just repeating what I've heard.

Well, I'll say this.

So when I go on trips, it's for a thing.

So most of the time for me because of who I am as a human, it's a concert, right?

So I have bought tickets to a concert.

I am going to this show.

And so I am going to spend however long I can afford in the town that that show was

going to be in.

And that show is the only thing on my itinerary, everything else is I'm going to wander around

and find something to do the rest of the days.

That's more or less how I do it.

Like the last time I went on a real vacation vacation, I went to DC and I was gone for like

a week.

I had a friend from Baltimore drive down and take me to a whole other concert festival

that I didn't plan on going to.

And then I still went to the concert I wanted to a couple of days later and I spent the

rest of my time wandering around the national mall and going to Smithsonian's at my leisure.

It was great.

They say travel to smaller, less crowded places, big cities are tourist traps.

It depends on where you're going.

So like I'm going to point to DC again.

Yes, it's a tourist trap, but like everything's free.

You can go to all those museums on the national mall for free.

You just go.

Well, and sometimes when you want to see the Washington Monument, I mean, you're going

to be around the people.

That is also free.

But I think some of the more attractive things just sometimes are in the city, but like

I was saying before, some stuff that maybe it depends on what you're going for.

Are you going to see the big stuff?

Are you going to, if you're going to take a picture with Big Ben, then that's different.

Then, hey, I want to go and I want to experience another country.

I want to know what it's like to be immersed in another culture.

That's to me what travel is, but for some people, maybe it's taking a selfie next to us,

you know, big symbol or something.

Well, and maybe the best way to plan that is, you know, I'm, here's the thing you're

doing that you need to like buy tickets for, right?

But on your penciled in itinerary, somewhere in here, I'm going to make it to Big Ben so

I can take a selfie.

Yeah.

Uh, pay extra for direct flights, layovers are bogus.

You can't avoid those.

I'm sorry.

Like, yeah, must be nice must be nice, I've never flown anywhere directly.

Must be nice.

No, my, my tip is take the train.

Don't fly.

I, I flew, my first flight ever, I flew from walkie to Cleveland.

I think there was two stops.

Right.

That's what I mean.

Like, uh, whatever, I do like to incorporate the word bogus.

Yeah.

We don't, we don't use that enough.

We need to bring that back.

No, that's fair.

Let's bring bogus back.

If you do have a long layover, pay to excess an airport lounge, that's fair.

I get that.

Again, must be nice.

Must be nice, but also I get it, especially if your layover is a couple of hours, however,

if your layovers in a decent town, you, you don't need to lounge, you can just walk

your butt outside and find a nearby restaurant with somewhere that you can hang out.

I haven't flown much in, in recent years.

So forgive me if I got FM way off on this one and they've incorporated this.

Do they have, uh, napping areas in, in airports?

Every area is a napping area if you think about it.

Yeah, you're 100%.

Yeah, yeah.

But, but I, I mean, like, you know, like, no, there are no designated nap time locations.

Okay.

I got, I got the idea.

I got the idea.

Don't even mind if somebody else steals this.

I'm not even going to copyright it.

Uh, you know, just like in grade school, when you got nap time, just nap time for adults,

uh, you just have that.

You have a section area there, just, you know, we played some, yeah, uh, you get the,

the, um, sleeping bags out, if I might, uh, Dan Schaefer, if you're listening, this

would work really well in a recombobulation area at the airport to your welcome.

I think, I think it'd be really good.

Just by like 20 cats and drop them off.

You might even get people more flying more, might even, might even, just to do that, just

uh, capitalize on credit card points and my, uh, rent a cot, rent a cot, rent a cot,

rent a cot.

Thank you, Pam.

Got a name.

Perfect, Pam.

Nice.

Perfect.

Now I do want to turn it into a business.

Now we've got a good name, um, yeah, capitalizing on credit card points and miles and all

that stuff.

Again, I have no idea any of that stuff.

But I do know that a lot of people use it and my buddy will, uh, it's, as a stand-up

comedian for him.

That's a big part of his livelihood.

It saves him a lot of money, not having to spend money on it because here's the thing.

I've mentioned this before.

The wills had this standing gig in Vegas for years, but they, he has to pay for his flights.

Yeah.

So this really saves him on that, uh, quite a bit, I imagine.

I've never asked him specifics, but I imagine a splurge on special experiences.

Not everything is worth extra money, but once in a lifetime experiences are, so speed,

I did not plan on this, but speaking of will, um, he is, um, he is not, uh, he is the

most unfrugal person I've ever met.

And that's showing myself, uh, he is one of these people, he's only spends what he needs

to.

Oh, that is fruitly.

Yeah.

Image is important to him.

I'm not going to say it is.

And he's a typical California and he'll own that 100%.

Um, but he doesn't spend on a lot of things.

So he goes to, he has, um, his show canceled in Vegas and he has nothing to do.

And he just by a matter of circumstances, there's some show and I didn't even find out what

it was, but there's some show on the, at the spear, um, then Vegas.

Oh, sure.

Uh, was it the fish one?

It might have been.

I think he would never go to, it was something he would never go to any other grateful

dead one.

He did it just for fun.

And it's still not stopped raving about it.

Yeah.

Experience and everything.

And he would never do that on his own.

He goes to Vegas works, goes home.

That's what he does.

Um, I, I, I, if you're going to go all out on one, we're in.

I think that's worth it.

And then maybe, maybe the, the combination of what you were talking about before, but not

going there with a set agenda, just, okay, I'm going to go and see this landmark.

And then everything else is just kind of whatever happens.

Yeah.

So maybe you're going to the big concert, but then like you, you know, for your experience,

I am that.

Uh, yeah.

That seems like a good way to do it.

Well, and, and to me that also says, you know, if you're going for like one event, the

way that I do with a concert, maybe it is worth it to splurge on the backstage passes,

you know, like, you know, maybe, maybe get the whole deluxe package for your tickets.

If you're traveling across the country for it, anyway, why not live a little?

If you're over 30, if you're over 30, never stay in a hostel.

It seems like a fine idea until you have to share a bathroom with 20 people.

I've never done that.

I've never done a stay in the hostel before anything.

That's a bigger thing in Europe for when I stand.

Yeah.

I know someone who has and he had a good time.

Um, if you're a solo adult traveler, it makes perfect sense.

If you are not a solo adult traveler, don't stay in a hostel.

Don't plan for that.

Don't do that to the other people at the hostel.

Seems you got to be a little bit of a extrovert too.

Mm hmm.

Got a little bit.

I mean, maybe, um, although here's something I'm, I think I'm discovering more and more

and more.

I don't know anybody that is just an extrovert or an introvert.

Almost everybody.

Yeah.

Everybody's got a little bit of both.

Yeah.

Everybody's got a little bit of both.

I don't know if I've ever met somebody that is all one or the other.

So I think everyone's got, everyone's an omniver.

They're just differently placed on the spectrum, you know?

Try a travel journal.

It helps.

You remember things better and it's something else to look back on besides pictures.

And some of them really are all right.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's not a bad idea.

That's not.

And finally, and again, you can find this complete list at Buzzfeed.com.

Take an extra day off when you get home.

No one wants to go back to work right away.

Give yourself a day of rest.

100%.

Yeah.

And even if it's just to take the time to unpack your stuff and not have to do it the

minute you walk in the door, I've done that unintentionally usually because like a flight

getting back so late or so early or something.

But I could not, that may be one of the number one things I would recommend not on this

list.

Plan for a day after your trip.

It's a great one.

That's a great idea.

Especially if you traveled to a different time zone.

And regardless of where you travel or what you do on your travels, we would like you

to always consider rent a cot.

Rent a cot.

Get your cot at the recombobulation area.

Yeah.

Rent a cot.

Rent a cot.

Take an app.

It's your layover.

Be on the lookout and airports near you.

We will take a quick, diverse break.

We'll come back and wrap up the show, Morning Show at WFHR.

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Everybody.

Wrap it up the show.

Going to take you to the top of the hour.

We'll be back at this tomorrow.

I'm going to have some fun throughout the week.

Looking forward to it.

But I didn't want to just touch on a couple of quick things

for the audience.

And one of them, of course, are Wisconsin rapids rafters.

This is WFHR.

It's the home of Wisconsin rapids rafter baseball.

Those diehard listeners out there know

that the game got cut short yesterday.

Well, sort of a wind and an extra innings.

But the game versus the Traverse City pit spiders.

Spitters.

We'll resume today at 505.

And the second game will begin hopefully at 635.

Sure.

So we'll see how long that takes.

Yeah.

See how that plays out.

Rafters will be back in action tonight.

And of course tonight, not only all of that going on,

but it's a special night at the ballpark

with the United Weekend night.

I love United Weekend.

Put some change in your pocket.

Bring a non-perishable food item.

Come down to the park.

See the rafters.

Not only I think going to pull off a win tonight.

I think they'll win.

But also check out some of these cool sculptures

and different things being put on in our community.

Two wins if they do it right.

Yeah.

Be sure to.

You're nice.

Yeah.

Be sure to check that out.

We're going to have Terry Johns on the Rapids Report today

talking about that.

Mm-hmm.

Be sure to join us for the Rapids Report today.

It'll be streaming exclusively at WFHR,

starting at 2 o'clock.

It's true.

CEO, Terry Johns, being with us from the United Way

of South Williams County.

Terry now will be talking about this, the United Weekend event.

I want to get a wrap up of the great book giveaway.

Great book giveaway.

Yep.

That is going on in just a little bit here.

We got plenty to talk about.

We'll be getting into it.

Absolutely.

The United Way is very busy in the summer.

As long as I'm talking about them, that great book giveaway,

they have one more event happening at 1230 today

over at the beautiful Lester Public Library of Esper.

Awesome.

Be sure to check that out.

A big thank you to all the volunteers out there,

everybody that donated books, and of course,

the staff at the United Way,

pulling off another great summer,

avoiding another summer slide with the great book giveaway.

Nice job by them with that.

And yes, United Weekend's strikeout hunger

is happening tonight at the ballpark.

Bring it on to bearable food items or some change

in your pocket and be a part of the miracle minute.

And we'll meet you down there.

It's going to be a really good time.

It sure is.

Also wanted to touch on the Raptor game.

Again, that'll be on tonight.

Be sure to check that out for us.

And we're looking forward to it.

But there, here was the other thing I wanted to get to.

Right around the corner.

Yeah.

The blood drive happening today kicked off at 10 o'clock today.

It's going until 3 o'clock over at the Wisconsin Rabbids

former Eastern High School music room.

3-Eleman Lincoln Street in Wisconsin Rabbids.

You can be a part of this one.

We encourage you to everybody.

Donate if you can.

Yep, and you can register ahead at communityblood.org.

Correct?

Yeah.

Yeah, so head to communityblood.org for more information on that

or to register ahead of time for an appointment.

Whether it's the Atlanta hurricane season

or it is even going back to last summer when we were,

you know, hit really hard and we were in need of donations.

Now is one of the more important times you can.

And it is World Blood Donor date well was on June 14th.

And going on until the night to 19th,

coming up in a couple of days, is World Sickle Day.

Sickle Cell Day.

Yeah.

So never a better time.

You can find out more going to redcrossblood.org.

For that one, yeah.

Also keep in mind our friends of Millen on the 20th.

We'll have a blood drive from 10 to 3.

And that one is with the American Red Cross.

So that one is redcrossblood.org for more information

or to set up an appointment.

And the Steven's Point Blood Donation Center

has almost every day has opened.

Yeah, they're always open and you can schedule there anytime.

Yeah.

Be a superhero without the cape get on over there

and donate today.

We appreciate you doing that.

Will Laura Whale?

Whale.

Whale.

Helen Zoo House.

Our wonderful Wisconsin Raptors Municipal Zoo

over in 1911, Giner Avenue, just a stone's throw away from here

is going to be helping us kick off the cranberry blossom fest

with forest whales.

Join us for an unforgettable open house style

ocean exploration experience.

Step inside an incredible 65 foot life size inflatable whale

and journey into the world of these gentle giants

like never before.

It's so cool.

I can't wait to see if we can see it from here

because I really think we might.

So excited.

It's going to be such a cool one.

This is a big part of course cranberry blossom fest.

There is so much going on with the fest.

It is kicking off on this Thursday.

This is one of these signature or one of the events

that will help kick it off.

Along with the course lunch by the river that will be going on

from 1031 over at beautiful Vetsons Memorial Park.

Be sure to check that out.

And chalk it up.

We'll be going from one to four.

Participants of all ages are invited to create their own sidewalk

chalk designs.

Where does there any time during the event from one to four?

They'll be doing this over at the Boys and Girls Club at Wisconsin's

Rapids area.

Oh, that's really cool.

You got the carnival coming to town as well.

That'll be going from six to ten kicking off this Thursday.

That takes place over at the Grand Rapids Lions Club.

Big shout out to the Lions Club hosting this,

doing such good things in our community like they always do.

They love our Lions.

That's going to be fun.

Cinema under stars.

Cinema under the stars is back for us 20th anniversary.

That is so cool.

That really is.

And they're going to have the Wizard of Oz as their movie this year.

Oh, how cool.

The Aqua skiers will have their water ski show tournament.

Watch this free water ski show theme of Talladegan Heights.

That's a great idea.

That'll be going on at Red Sands Beach at six o'clock.

At six o'clock at this Thursday.

That'll be fun.

And our great friends in McMillan Memorial Library

have their concert series going on.

Daddy O Jazz Band.

Oh, well, they've got me.

That's one of the better names you're going to hear.

That's great.

That'll be taking place in McMillan at seven o'clock on Thursday.

And that's just Thursday.

Whoa.

Friday, Saturday.

Plenty of other great things going on.

Like the cranberry bust and festival being celebrated

at our Southwuk County Historical Museum.

They got exhibits open on Friday.

And then Saturday.

They're ice cream social going from one to three.

Ugh.

And more, the exhibits will be open on Sunday as well.

That's a cool part of this.

All those exhibits are great.

I love the Southwuk County Historical Museum.

And we'll be there.

We're going to be a part of this.

We'll be at the Arts and Crafts Vendor Fair,

a part of things Saturday from 10 to two.

From 10 to new.

Noon will be broadcasting here from 97-5 FM.

I believe Melissa and Pam will be handling that.

Yep, that's the plan.

And then from Noon to two over on 105-5WRI.

Do you happen to know who might be there along here?

From what I understand, it's me.

Yeah.

And Dottie B.

We will be broadcasting live on 105-5 FM WRI.

That's going to be fun.

Yeah.

That is going to be a blast.

We're so excited to be a part of this one.

A big thank you to the Chamber inviting us

and having us along for the ride on this.

And a big thank you to everybody who stopped by last week

over at...

Bluegrass at the lake.

Oh, what a good time that was.

And we...

Thank you, Carolyn.

Carolyn rocks.

We'll be there next year for Bluegrass at the lake again.

We appreciate you, Carolyn.

Your family.

Your team over there.

Absolutely.

Bluegrass at the lake and doing such good stuff in this community.

And we're looking forward to being a part of Cranberry Blossom Fest this weekend.

Everybody join us.

This Saturday we'll be down there at the craft in Arts and Vendor Fair.

We'll be there from 10 to Noon.

Here at WFHR and Noon to two on 105-5WRI.

Yep.

Which means we the whole staff will be there all that time.

It's going to be fun.

Yeah.

That's going to be a blast.

Looking at some world good stories of the day.

Zoo Miami gave a Father's Day shout out to one of its residents this weekend.

Goliath is a 500-pound Galacobos tortoise.

He became a first-time dad this month at the age of 135.

Oh, what a young man.

Congratulations.

Congratulations.

Congratulations.

If you're a man.

If you're a tortoise.

Yeah.

A spokesperson for the well-or-robert general.

Or no, it's an Al Pacito that's like 70 and just had a kid.

No, it's Tenero.

It's Tenero.

Yeah.