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We're going to have some fun this hour.
And a little bit.
We're talking kiss cams.
Who likes them?
Who doesn't?
We will discuss.
I can't imagine why that's coming up.
No idea.
Get into that.
We got our schedule coming up.
Some really good stories of the day, and plenty more we'll be getting into, but we kick
off with entertainment on a melancholy note, a sad note, really.
Malcolm Jamal Warner from The Cosby Show passed away Sunday in a tragic accident during
a family vacation in Costa Rica.
It was only 54.
Warner, who played Bill Cosby's son, Theo Huckstable, drowned after getting caught in
a strong current.
Warner also played A.G. Collins in the F.X. show American Crime Story.
His other credits include Malcolm and Eddie of Fun Show that was on for a while.
He was great on the TV show Community, since Van Arkey had a great spot on Dexter.
A lot of great guest spots over the years.
He also directed episodes of The Cosby Show, The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, and Sesame Street.
Some great work he did on Sesame Street, really good work.
He has survived by a wife and daughter, who he was very secretive about.
He didn't like his, you know, didn't put his self out there very much, and put himself
in the public eye very much.
He tried to keep his private life private.
Yeah, yeah.
So there's two notes that we have to, I think, I want to address real quick here.
And I will say that I hadn't thought about this until hearing this news Sunday.
By all rights, The Cosby Show should, you know, in a different world with a different
leading man, we're talking about one of the most popular, one of the most celebrated
TV shows of all time.
And because of Bill Cosby's actions off the field and his being a, just speaking for
myself here, nobody else is opinion, a monster, a genuine living, breathing monster.
And that's just my opinion, you don't have to agree with me or not.
But because of that, that show will never be syndicated, that show will never be out there.
And that's, that's what happens.
There's nobody crying a tear for that.
But I do feel that it is a shame that all the other people that work so hard on that
show, like Malcolm's Remor Warner, like Felicia Rashad, the producers, the writers, every
single jazz star that showed up on that show.
All had to lose thousands, probably millions in royalties for that show playing on every
single network at 5 o'clock or 530 or something like that, or the legacy that the other actors
deserve on that show for putting all the time and effort and everything into it.
This is the way the world works.
I don't think that there's a perfect way to do this.
I don't know if somebody wants to go back and re-edit the Cosby Show without Bill Cosby
in it.
You know, good luck.
There's no separate.
There's no separating.
And I really forced myself to try to see, can I talk about Malcolm's Remor Warner and
not mention the Cosby Show and I mentioned Bill Cosby any of that, because I don't want
him to be attached to this either.
But I also, we got to be honest with each other.
And we're in a, we're in a different time now.
And we're being asked as, as fans, as not just fans of entertainment, but as voters when
it comes to the politicians that we're voting for, to even the people that we work with
or work for, that we know more about each other than we've ever known.
And you've got to be able to gauge these things.
I use Michael Jackson as a bit of an example.
I, with my past in being, you know, coming from abuse, I can't listen to Michael Jackson
anymore.
I know that what the courts have said.
I know what his biggest fans will tell me.
And I'm just telling you where I'm coming from.
At the same time, Billy Jean comes on the radio and I'm probably going to bob my head
to it because I can't help myself.
That's the only one of his that I can, but I can't.
There are actors that I have studied and loved that I will never watch another scene of
theirs because of what they've done and who they are.
But this is just me.
What I don't, everybody's got their own line in the sand.
And you got it, you can only go by your own.
And I don't like the idea of people telling them where they should put their line.
And that's the, everybody's choice.
It's a shame though, right?
Yeah.
Like, it ain't right.
Like, it feels like we should be able to, like, do, it's weird to me that it's so often
musicians get the escape by.
I think Jerry Lee Lewis was one of the greatest entertainers ever, an incredible artist.
He was also a creep.
He's also a creep.
Like, you can go ahead and tell me it was a different time.
No, that's just an excuse you tell yourself.
That's just so that you can continue to do it.
But musicians constantly go and, and, and I don't want to say get away with things, but
for lack of a better way to put it, get by with stuff.
Whereas actors where these are literally people playing somebody else, like we can't
do it with.
And I'm, I'm like one of the biggest on the top of this list that I have a hard time
separating Kevin Spacey, the character from the person.
You should, you would think in your head you'd be able to do it.
Like, well, he's not even to himself.
He's playing a different, he's playing a completely, a character and all that.
But I can't, I can't separate it.
I see a creep, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't watch it, I can't, you know, watch
these movies or watch these actors or anything.
And I think actors that get caught up in the shuffle, like a Michael Jordan or somebody
like that, I think it's a shame.
Where it goes.
Again, I'm not expecting anybody to feel empathy or sympathy for any of these individuals,
but I do think it's worth talking about.
Well, yeah, and people should be held accountable for their actions.
Yep.
Yeah.
And that's, to me, that sums everything up, you know.
And when it comes to that, that's, all of this stuff is a, is a privilege.
It's not a birthright.
There's plenty of ways to make a living.
There's plenty of ways to entertain.
There's plenty of things to do.
And once you do something along those lines, you lose that right.
You don't get to do that anymore in my book.
There's a billion actors, a billion singers right behind you that could do what you do.
But there's no artist in human history that deserves to get away with anything like
that, no matter who they are.
Mariah Carey's 16th album is officially on the way.
It's called Here For It All and it comes out September 26th.
She made the announcement yesterday with a clip of her singing the words I'm here for
it all, which is likely the title track.
From Mariah at least released the album's lead single last month called Type Dangerous.
She's been teasing another song Sugar Sweet for a while.
This is our first album since 2018 and the first with a new label, Gamma.
She says, quote, the next chapter is about owning my narrative and creating freely on
my own terms.
I will say, I'm not a Mariah Carey person or anything, but I, from what I know, here
from her and people that have been around her, most of her career really hasn't been
from her design.
It sounds like she's going to be able to do that going forward, do a lot more of her
own music and the music she wants to do.
Well, and at 56, she should be able to.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We've talked quite a lot about how record labels and the things that they do in that industry
and pigeonhole people into doing what the producers want versus what the artist wants to do.
So I'm happy for her.
I, I liked a lot of her music in the 90s, but she's a undeniable talent with her voice.
Yeah.
Yeah.
One of those voices that, even if you don't know the song, you know it's her when you
hear it.
I do not like the Christmas song because it's way overplayed.
Well, I think, yeah, I think that's the catch whip we're talking about her.
That's going to come up.
And see, that's the thing and you feel bad that that's, that that's what she is known
for versus all of the other beautiful songs that she has performed.
She, she's definitely made quite a bit of money on that song.
Yeah.
And I, I don't know, she seems to have really like kind of owned it in the sense of she's
tried to kind of like own Christmas as far as that goes.
Well, I mean, how could she not?
Yeah, yeah.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
The other choices to just be upset about it and that's dumb.
Right.
They're much, much, much, much smarter move to do it that way.
I, I just, I think you have a little tongue in cheek there.
Right, right.
Yeah.
That's an interesting one that she's, you know, coming out with a new album too at
this point.
I'm interested to hear it, honestly.
There's so many artists that you wonder like I, I, I, I, I don't, I'm not picking
out her.
I'm bringing her up because I think she's a great example.
Christina Aguilera, I don't know any of her songs, but I know that woman can sing.
Oh, my goodness.
She is very talented.
Oh, so very talented.
She doesn't seem to put out new music.
She hasn't like in a decade or so.
Uh, so when artists do that, that had like a Jessica Simpson, any of these artists of like
the late 90s early, or whatever, that I felt like, oh, they're going to be around for
20, 30 years.
And then it's not that they're not still relevant or still doing stuff.
They just kind of seem to stop doing music, just stepped out of the limelight.
I think it's impressive when you see somebody like Mariah Carey continuing to put out new
music.
That's, that's impressive.
And I'm going to guess that Christina Aguilera will again.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
She's just been doing other things.
Uh, and I do, I think what I really admire is not going for the cash grab.
And just, oh, I'm just going to put out an album just to make some money.
Like if you're not feeling the music, if you don't have new music, I admire that.
Not, not just doing that.
That's impressive.
And then of course, all this being said, there's Dolly Parton.
And Dolly's part, Dolly Parton's new musical just had its first preview in front of a live
audience.
And Dolly was there in person to celebrate.
It is called Dolly a true original musical.
And it's previewing at the Beacon Theatre in Nashville, perfect place for it.
The, I hear one of them, some of the best acoustics is at the, the Bell Court in Theater.
I've heard that before.
This is all in preparation for the show's Broadway debut next year.
Dolly and the director said some words before opening night.
And as always, Dolly charmed the crowd.
But she also laid down the law.
She said, quote, every time you hear a song you know, you're going to want to sing to
it.
Well, don't.
This ain't no hoot nanny.
This is a Broadway musical, y'all.
Oh, perfect.
I, I love this.
I love that she said this for, I actually, I think that
I don't know if it was her intention or not.
But I think that part of the point of that is these actors get, you know, just pay attention
to the show.
Just enjoy the show.
It's singing along.
You're going to miss.
Yeah.
And it, and it there, you're there to watch them perform, not to perform yourself.
I will only add on to that.
I don't know what their, their, their protocol with cameras or, you know, your phones and
everything.
Put the phone away.
Put the phone away and take in the show.
Well, you know with theater.
That's a no-no.
I would think so.
I would, I would lean that way.
I just didn't want to assume.
But you're right.
You're right.
Yeah.
I mean, that's all copyright protected stuff.
I'm sure there's going to be a, you know, thing in the, in the program and then also
somebody will say it before the show starts.
Yeah.
Yeah.
No pictures or videos throughout this performance.
Yeah.
There's a great video of this, this interaction on, you can catch on TikTok.
I am sure it's on other platforms too.
If you do, you will see Dolly Parton in an amazing outfit, she, what, as always, fantastic
outfit.
It looks, it just looks great.
And I think it's also noteworthy given, you know, she's still hurting, she's still going
through some stuff.
I can only imagine.
Yeah.
And still putting herself out there, still doing these things because they're commitments
that she made and she sees them through.
Yes.
That just, it just adds to the impressive things to me about that person.
Incredibly.
I love her saying this ain't no hootin' any.
Hootin' any, we, we need to hear hootin' any more often.
Yes.
We need to hear that word more often.
We've got to find it.
We've made it big a segment called it with this ain't no hootin' any.
Just so we could say hootin' any more often.
Our, our wonderful friends over at Central Wisconsin Area Community Theater, C. Wack, are
getting ready to kick off their next season and an important one, their 52nd season.
They even have an opening banquet to go along with the show.
Oh nice.
Romeo and Juliet will be part of the Schmeckley Shakes.
This will be premiering July 31st, then August 1st, August 2nd, and August 3rd.
All shows at 6, but that August 3rd show will be a 2 o'clock.
And that August 1st event will also feature before the 6 o'clock show at 5 o'clock, their
opening banquet.
That's going to be nice.
Get your tickets, take in the show, buy local support local that includes the arts.
You can get them at cwack.org.
And if you want to preview of this, we are going to be having a new edition of Directors
Playhouse.
We're going to have Susan Egren, and I think maybe some of the other cast members joining
us next Tuesday, and we'll be talking with them.
We'll get that interview out on the pod, out streaming right away.
Mm-hmm.
Of course.
I'm very excited about that.
And I love our friends over at cwack.
And go to cwack.org to find out more information about this show or final Fridays coming up
this Friday.
So many other great things.
I just see this picture and I see my buddy Steve, and that just makes me smile.
Check that out, everybody.
Get over to cwack.org, buy local, support local, support the arts.
We will take a quick time out.
We'll come back.
We're going to have some more fun.
Let's get into those kiss camps.
Let's talk about those.
Okay.
We'll come back on the morning show at WFHR.
Welcome back, everyone.
Morning show at WFHR.
Melissa and James hanging out with you.
Thanks so much for hanging out with us.
Hope you're having a great Tuesday out there.
Everybody.
Mm-hmm.
Probably having a better Tuesday than that CEO is.
And I think it's hilarious that I purposely just said that the briefest of, you know, things
about this person and everybody knows who I'm talking about.
Yeah.
Well, it kind of went viral.
Yes.
And we're speaking about, and we're going to get into kiss camps here, and because this
is all coming up, of course, because of that viral incident with the CEO, with his arms
around somebody that he probably shouldn't have had his arms around.
And it was caught on a, what people are calling a kiss camp, but that's not what it is.
Coldplay 1 is the camera that it's called, and it's really, it just a bit that Coldplay
does where they find a couple in the crowd, put the camera on them and Chris Martin sings
to them.
So it's not really a kiss camp, but is that a base, is that a sporting thing?
Yeah, yeah.
Okay.
Usually it's sporting events.
The cameraman will find a couple and put it on them and everybody cheers them on to
kiss and they do.
Yeah.
It's like that.
And there's plenty, it's been plenty of viral moments over the years when it comes to
those.
I, I can remember one where a guy went to kiss a girl and she like pushed him back, you
know, things like that.
But there's never been anything like this.
We've never seen one that was so obvious on the people's faces of, you didn't have to
be able to read lips.
No, that's us.
And then they duck.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I still maintain the best part of the video is the guy just like trying to do the, the
elevator thing where you're just like disappear behind the mirror.
How do I get out of here?
How do I get away from the camera?
Too late, buddy.
The fact that he thought that would work, like just, just tells you the privilege of
this person.
And when opposite direction comes?
When you're out of the vent and the kiss cam launches on the jumbo tron, are you filled
with unbridled joy?
Are you running for cover?
Well, let's find out from this survey, a new poll, in a new poll, 11% of people say that
they love kiss cams, 26% like them, 19% dislike them, and 9% hate them.
Another 35% of people have no opinion on kiss cams.
Okay.
Generally men and women have similar feelings about the kiss cam, but older folks are less
likely to say that they enjoy them than younger people.
And people were also asked if they've ever recognized someone who've been featured on a
kiss cam, and 12% of people have, including 3% who say they have personally appeared on
one.
That's really low, like just, we've had the kiss cam for a long time.
Yeah, but how many people were they interviewing for, you know, how many people were included
in this poll?
Yeah, we don't have the numbers of that, so that's, yeah, and for the thousands of people
in these stadiums.
Right, right.
83, yeah, well, how many of them are admitting it, too, I guess.
Right.
Because I will say this, this may be the most viral, and the first time we've really caught
a video of this, but this ain't the first time this has happened on a kiss cam.
I guarantee, I will put my name on it, that this has happened.
We just don't have a viral.
We don't have somebody record to get or something.
83% of people have not recognized anyone on a kiss cam, so no family, friends, or executives
of their company or something.
Yeah.
I just, I think it's kind of, I have thoughts.
Well, so I, you know, journalist of integrity here, I, like many out there have been cheated
on, and I got no empathy for cheaters, and it does sound like, now that we've heard
the day, you know, information we have from this story, if you will, I'm using quotation
marks.
I don't feel any, I am literally diagnosed with hyper empathy, and I have none for this
person.
I have none.
I, I don't like the idea of social media judging people.
I don't like the idea of laughing at people's unfortunateness.
However, when you do it to yourself, like it, if I'm walk, if I just put down a bunch
of rakes in front of me, and then I start recording, and I step on each one of those
rakes and it hits me in the face, like you are more than welcome to laugh at me.
I asked for that.
I did that to myself.
I, I don't know.
You did it to yourself, man.
I, I, I, I, there's, and then when you read the statement, he put out, yeah, could
not be moral.
Yeah.
Yeah.
He brings it all home.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I feel like there are plenty of things in life that call on us to have the empathetic
Yeah.
I save it.
Save it.
You know, there's, there's better places to use your empathy, I would think.
I will say the, in this, in the time that this broke, I have had two classes and I've
been around a lot of younger people.
And I've, I would say maybe 40 some people that I've talked to about this subject and
everything.
One person, what, what was a little defensive about the CEO and, and that person, this
person's doing it.
And as they're doing it, everybody in the, in the class is just looking at them and judging
them like they're that CEO, they might as well a bit like just really, you're, you're
really kind of telling on yourself what you're doing that I feel like I, I, I, I, I, I,
I don't know.
I don't know.
But it's a, I, it's a story that I think is probably going to die soon, you know, but
it's not going to be around forever.
I, I hope we can remember that, you know, what it's like when we get along and, and we
can laugh at things together and we can find things that maybe, maybe are just fun to laugh
at that don't involve, you know, basically families being destroyed.
Um, because I, there's, that, that part is, the, the fallout of this is not a happy thing
right?
Right.
Right.
Right.
But also, you know, you, you want to be able to have people in charge of companies that
have integrity.
Yeah.
And, you know, and that, that, that you can put trust into employees have to sign these
things all the time.
Employees have to sign ethics things or stuff like that all the time.
Um, if we're not going to hold the, the people at the top of the chain to these same standards,
what kind of company are you running?
Mm-hmm.
Well, what kind of, what kind of, uh, business, what kind of world are we?
If we let people that are at the top of the chain, at the top of the positions, um,
and have no accountability, that have no, that's not the, that's not the, that's not
the, the country we built here.
That's the exact opposite of the country we built here.
Um, this country was built to not only have accountability, but in, you know, in a, a
very well done way, I think, um, there can be no king.
There can be no hierarchy because this group, uh, whether it's Congress or Senate or whatever
it might, you might be in the given situation is supposed to be the, the, the last line of
defense, the, the keeping from having kings, um, these kind of things.
And it's, uh, this isn't just at a political level, I mean, this, I mean, this in a business
level and, uh, your, your, um, your PTAs, I mean, anything, we, we can't have this because
that all of those boards have, have ethics, agreements that you sign when you're, when
you're part of something like that.
And again, it's that accountability, you know, you're accountable for your actions.
Um, you, and, and his were just broadcast to everyone.
One of the things that I think, uh, is really impressive to me about the younger generation
and, and them doing their own thing.
And I mean by this, I'm talking even people in their early 30s.
I'm not talking necessarily the youngest of generations here or anything, but just younger
than mine.
Um, there is this, uh, the growing up and talking about more and more about mental health.
There's this idea that growing up, you had to be Michael Jordan.
You had to be obsessed with winning.
You had to, it had to be the only thing you thought about the only thing you cared about
to a point where everything in life you were competitive about.
And that is what made a champion.
Um, and whether we're talking about in business or sports or whatever, that was this relentless
attitude you had to have.
I grew up feeling the same way.
Um, we're seeing more and more with modern athletes, with modern people.
Scottie Sheffler is probably the best golfer in the world right now.
And he just came out and talked about how winning just, he doesn't get it.
He doesn't know he, he understands he's obsessed with it and, and, and, you know, go, he
just got done this weekend winning a championship, a major, um, but he doesn't know if it, it's
everything he feels like it should be.
It should mean more and all these things like he's being very honest about this and he's
not obsessed with winning.
He's not a, it's not, doesn't, he's, he just became a dad and that means more to him
and these things and he's still winning and he, and he's still out there.
So, you know, it's not just him.
It's plenty and plenty of other examples.
You've seen Bolt is maybe a great example of this too, the, maybe the greatest track
in field we've ever seen, greatest short run or we've ever seen for sure.
This is a guy notoriously, anybody, anybody with two, um, degree, uh, with two understand,
two bits of information about track and field will tell you, he's one of the worst starters
you've ever seen.
It's just horrible at starting a race, uh, but an amazing finisher and a guy that doesn't
take the sport or himself too seriously.
Like we're seeing more and more of that, uh, the idea that you can do both.
You can have a, you know, care about your family, care about, you know, being a, a good
parent and also being very good as a CEO or very good athlete or along those things.
Well, and especially if your goal is always to, you know, okay, I just want to go come out
with a better score than I started with, you know, I want to be, I want to be better
than my last score or my last, you know, whatever I achieved last, I just want to keep doing
that.
Then it's not about winning.
It's, it's here in a competition with yourself.
And I, I think that that same kind of mindset that came, that's a model, uh, doesn't, you
know, can work for beating the head of a fortune 500 company or, or something like that.
Uh, we're, we're seeing more and more evidence that, that obsessiveness or that insanity kind
of, uh, for one thing, uh, doesn't usually end well and it doesn't, yeah, and for the
company, the co, the workers or the person themselves, um, you see a lot of unhappy people
in that regard and a lot of companies that are not surviving because of it.
I don't know, um, that, uh, I don't know that that's necessarily why, uh, my company didn't
work.
Uh, so I, I don't know if people remember this or not, but when I, when I first came
back to Wisconsin and everything, I did try to start my own company.
I don't know why you're laughing, Melissa.
It was, uh, it was, uh, it was before my time, James, I thought you were making a joke.
You remember?
Please explain.
Thank you.
You, you remember how they used to have singing telegrams?
Um, I wanted to do, uh, singing, uh, you know, just, uh, door to door Simpsons impressions.
I, uh, you could, you know, for $1.99, I would show up for a couple of minutes to your
doorstep and do Simpson impressions and it never got off the ground, never, never got
off the ground.
I couldn't get investors.
Could not get investors.
Um, well, you know, maybe if you didn't go to the investors wearing the wig, it's a bad
idea.
It's really hard to take somebody seriously.
I mean, you're already really tall and then, then when you have to stoop down to get through
the doors, it just kind of leaves a bad, you know, I don't know, James, no, we will
come.
But the question is, I do want to ask you though, before we go to break, what would
you do if you were, uh, uh, featured on a kiss cam?
Oh, if I was at CEO of that, or just in general, just in general, you as you, um, if I'm,
if I'm with somebody that I like on a date or whatever and everything, I'm kissing them,
I'm kissing them.
Like, as long, but you got it, you got to, you know, you, I think we all know this even
though I don't know that we know how to describe it.
You look in that person's eyes and you know whether you should go or stop, uh, if you look
at their eyes and there is the like the biggest saucers and they're terrified of the moment
and they're shaking their head, no, maybe you just laugh it off or something like that
or, or, or kiss your hand or something like that or whatever, um, wave, I don't know.
Yeah.
And if it's somebody you're not even with, then yeah, maybe don't kiss them.
Uh, well, and I, I, I feel like this, the only time this would ever happen to me is going
to a game with a buddy of mine and it just, and the most uncomfortable situation either
of us have ever been in, um, what would you do?
Yeah, you know, I, I'd probably, yeah, if I was with there with somebody I'd kiss, I'm
sure.
I think that's what it, if that's what it's about.
Yeah.
Uh, when at the end of the day, I'm, uh, I'm a full of shermanic and that usually wins
out.
So I, I love it when they, when they have them focused on kids and kids get so excited
about seeing themselves on the big screen.
I just think that's cute.
It's fun.
That's a fun one.
We're going to have some fun when we come back after our news, sports, entertainment,
and partner break here on the morning show in 97 5 FM W F H R.
Welcome back, everybody.
Morning show at W F H R.
We hope you're having a great Tuesday out there.
Well, listen, James, hanging out with you, we're over here and, uh, I think this is, uh,
this is a topic that, uh, is a little, it's a little close to home for me.
I wasn't even sure if I wanted to do this one, but we are smack dab in the middle of
beach season, but for almost a third of Americans, no season is beach season.
That'd be very careful with the way I'm saying that.
Uh, eight, a new poll found 30% of us haven't been to a beach in the last five years.
Wow.
That includes 18% who said it's been over a decade and 3% who have never been to a beach.
That's sad, but maybe they don't like sand.
Yeah, yeah.
44% of Americans have gone in the past year, around one in five have been to a beach in the past
month.
79% said that they alike or love the beach.
14% don't and 7% don't have strong feelings either way.
Men are more likely to say that they hate the beach.
Whether you enjoy yourself or not might depend on the type of beach you go to.
74% of us think a quiet, uncrowded beach is ideal.
Yes.
And just 12% prefer beaches with lots of people.
They're remaining 4% don't have a preference.
They love or hate all beaches equally.
So I think that, you know, immediately I think about swimming with this and everything,
but it does really have to do with swimming.
It's just more so about going to the beach.
There's plenty of people to go to the beach and have, you know, never even touch the water.
Art, do you like beaches?
Do you like going there?
I do.
I don't go as often as I used to.
Loved it when I was a kid.
It was my favorite place to be in the summertime.
Building sandcastles, playing in the water, swimming,
running up onto the sand, getting covered in sand, running back into the water to get
all the sand washed off.
Yeah.
Now I'm less liking being covered in sand.
Yeah.
Which is probably the reason why I'm not at the beach as much.
But, yeah, no, I still like a beach day.
I'm less like the sun on me.
I hear you.
So I try to, you know, either cover up or have an umbrella.
I can't get enough of either the beach, the sun, all of it.
I love it all.
I want more of it in my life.
I am a water person.
Any chance to be around water, be in it.
I'll take it.
Yeah, same.
But now I'm more leery of exposing my skin to the sun.
Yeah.
Yeah, no, that's smart.
That's very smart.
Yeah.
When it comes to, you know, people not doing it and everything outside of like personal
preferences, what you were saying about the sand, some of that.
One of the things that I find a little sad with this is certainly my love of water
and, you know, putting that on others.
Not everybody, you know, looks at a big body of water and thinks it's awesome or cool or
beautiful or wants to jump in it or whatever.
So that keeps the wrong when it comes to that.
But the part that I can't help my brain connecting to is an article that you and
Seth and I talked about a little while ago about people going to the movies and how
less and less people are going to the movies.
And we're getting more and more of these opportunities for strangers being around
strangers and enjoying themselves to go going away.
Whether it's a bunch of strangers sitting in a movie theater and laughing at the same joke
or everybody at the same beach enjoying the same sunny day, we're getting less and
less of these opportunities for a stranger next to stranger and enjoying themselves
and having a good time.
Yeah.
And it does seem like there is less of that happening.
Do you have a solution?
Yeah, we create more events.
We create more things that people are, you know, maybe I don't want to say I hate that.
I don't like overusing the word modern.
But modernizing this a little bit to where, you know, people are comfortable.
People want to do these things and things that bring people out.
Okay.
Should we throw a party?
I think that that's a really good idea, Melissa.
And I love working with you.
And I love the fact that you saw exactly where I was going with this.
Yes, I think we should.
I think we should throw a party.
Let's do it.
Yeah, let's, you know what?
Let's do it.
Yeah, let's just decide right here.
When should we do it?
Well, I, uh, I'm going to be busy over the next couple of weekends.
I think, and you know, we, I don't mean, I mean, we as a company.
Yeah, we should do a weekday.
Okay.
Uh, what about?
That sounds good.
Let's give this some time.
Let's, how about you, let's look at August?
Okay.
So maybe like a month from now?
That sounds good.
Yeah, like that.
I like that.
I think a Wednesday is a good day.
Okay, you know, perfect.
Actually, perfect.
Yeah, it gives people something in the middle of the week to look forward to.
It'll be a, it's not too, but yeah, I like that.
Um, I'm looking at the, uh, what is that August 20th?
That sounds good to me.
I'm saying.
Okay.
All right.
Cool.
Me too.
I'm open.
Okay.
Um, you know, we should get some food for this.
If we're going to do this, we got to feed people.
Hey, hey, I know somebody.
Oh, good.
I, I, how about tacos?
Everybody loves tacos.
Everybody loves tacos.
Yeah.
I'm going to talk to my person,
and we'll see if we can get them there.
I like that.
I like a taco truck.
You know, I also like the idea of getting, uh, because, you know,
what is the main thing we do around here, by local support, local, uh,
having some of our local nonprofits or some people coming by and hanging out with us.
I think we should reach out to some people.
We'll see what we can do there.
We should.
Absolutely.
Um, you know, this is sounding a little familiar to the Melissa.
Uh, it is.
It kind of like what we did last year.
Like a parking lot party?
Yeah, yeah.
Like an open house.
Yeah.
Hey, I like this.
I like this.
Let's do it.
And you know, what I think we should also do, James.
Hmm, since this year is going to be what are 85th anniversary for WFHR.
Pam's got those really cool cookbooks that the radio station used to put out in a drawer.
Did you see those?
Yeah, uh, got a great picture of our good friend Milton there.
Yeah, yeah.
I think we should put together a new cookbook.
Oh, whoa.
Wow, that's, that's a big move.
I like this.
You sure about this?
I know.
Yeah, Bob, you know what?
We've got so many listeners and there's so much good food out there.
And we talk about food all the time.
Food is fantastic.
Food brings people together.
Let's have people submit their recipes to put in a new cookbook.
Brilliant.
Brilliant genius idea.
I love it.
Yes, yes, yes.
We have just a world of great chefs and cooks and wonderful recipes out there.
How would you like to immortalize those?
How'd you like to put them in the WFHR cookbook?
I love this idea.
I think that's such a great idea.
That's fun.
Can I take it one step further?
Okay.
I guess maybe.
So that's great for the audience.
And I love the audience participating with it.
You know, our great team because we got also a lot of great cooks around here.
I know this because half of my body weight is becoming from our wonderful
staff here that cooks and makes baked goods and all that.
What about a staff cookoff?
Oh, yeah, staff cookoff.
Okay.
What kind of things are we going to cook though?
Oh, I didn't get that far.
Oh, I didn't think about that.
How about desserts?
Oh, good idea.
Yeah, desserts.
I like that.
Everybody loves desserts.
And maybe even you could make something, James.
I can maybe could.
Yeah, I might throw my hand in the ring on this one, I might.
Now, I would love, especially, I might be good for me to do that
because while I would love to be the judge of this,
I would never be able to choose between any of these people.
We would be there all day.
This event would never end.
Yeah, I don't think you could be the judge.
No, we need someone outside of the team.
I think we'll look into that.
I think we'll maybe look into that.
What I think we're thinking of some people right now,
the two of us.
So we'll reach out to that.
But that's a fun part.
Maybe we could even get, you know,
listener can weigh in on the taste testing too.
Can we have taste testing during the party?
We got it.
We got it.
We can't just be doing this.
People can vote on what they like.
And then maybe we'll have a celebrity judge.
Oh, I love this.
Yes, yes.
I will reach out to Dolly right away.
I will.
But we will, I like this though.
We'll get to know.
Dolly does have a line of cake mixes.
No, it's a dessert now that you can get.
And something to think about.
I think that, you know, we,
we, similar to last year, I think it's a good idea
if we can make this for everybody, the whole family.
It's middle of the day.
So maybe, you know, there's parents out there
and they got the kids home during the summer.
How about we do some stuff for the kids too?
Yeah, let's do that.
You know, the kids that came last year
and got to try being a radio broadcaster
or a sports broadcaster or a morning show host,
they really enjoyed that.
What if we did that again James?
Yes, yes, yes, as long as you're game
because you did an amazing job with those kids.
I think that's fun.
It was so much fun.
They were awesome.
And then, um, and we still have some of those,
the bracelets with the, you know,
we do, so the kids can take their work home with them.
Yeah, so parents make plans to bring the kids on by
and let them get a taste of radio life
and hearing themselves, you know, all that
and they'll be able to take it home with them.
I like this, yes.
Yeah, um, we, I think we should bring back
the Hulu Hulu contest.
Okay, I was going to bring it up.
I, okay, yeah, yeah, we got, um,
we had a sleeper and come in and steal the show last year.
Absolutely did.
I've had a year to practice.
So even though I don't, I literally don't have hips.
Uh, I, I will, I will attempt this again this year.
Um, it's all about the weighted hoop games.
Yeah, I'm learning, I'm learning.
I, I, I think that it'd be, this is fun,
but we also have a lot of listeners outside of the market
that might want to be a part of this and everything.
So maybe we do a live remote.
Maybe we bring this on air too.
Yeah, all that'd be great.
Yeah, I like that.
I like this.
Okay, all right.
Should we do it?
We could, could we do it on both stations?
We have, yes.
Yes, yes, yes.
Brilliant idea.
Yeah, yeah.
We definitely will.
So let's give me so much fun.
I can't wait.
I think we got some building.
Our, our staff might be mad at us that we just kind of like, you know,
oh, they're furious.
I'm not, I'm not looking out there.
I'm not leaving the studio for at least an hour or two.
Good thing, Beth and Alia are stuck out on a golf course right now.
Yeah, yeah.
Laura's probably working hard in the other studio.
Not paying attention.
I, I, I do think that the workload is distracting them
enough to where we can buy us some time.
Maybe enough time for me to get out of the building.
Maybe not.
We'll just flip this in and get everybody on board.
I mean, Beth likes to make stuff.
She's going to make something for the, the dessert cook off.
They'll be game.
They'll be game.
They'll be.
We have the best team in radio.
Our station open house, August 20th.
Melissa and I are making it official.
We're, we're, we're, we're, we're making this.
What do you say?
Noon to six?
Perfect.
I love it.
Yes.
Yes.
Perfect.
And then we should obviously, you know, do the live or vote.
You know, you're on this station from what Noon to two.
Probably Noon to two.
To come down.
Yeah, I think that'll be good.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That'll free me up afterward.
Say I go a hula hoop too.
Uh-huh.
Uh-huh.
Uh-huh.
Yeah.
And then we'll do, uh, what, what on WRI?
I think five to six works.
Uh, just something.
I think five to six.
I like that.
Okay.
And then maybe we can get some of our, our, our kid announcers
with their pieces that they make during the day.
We could play them during that five to six hour.
Oh, I love it.
I love this.
This is fantastic.
I love getting kids on the radio.
I think it's so fun.
Any chance to do it.
You know, uh, that's the future of radio.
So, uh, uh, a hundred percent agree.
Hey, and you know what?
Ashley said she knows somebody that has a, a dessert truck.
I know we, okay, we'll make some desserts,
but we gotta have like, you know, actual.
Oh, yeah.
Just there too.
Oh, yeah.
How do we get that?
We'll have some games.
We'll invite some people to put up booths
from our community.
I think this sounds like it's going to be so much fun.
This is really coming together.
And, uh, the only thing that's going to make it better
is having you there.
Everybody, make plans.
August 20th.
We'll have our station, uh, uh, open house,
volume party, parking lot party.
Yeah.
Oh, hey, isn't that the day after says birthday?
Oh, perfect, perfect.
We should have pie.
We should have pie.
We should, we should, we should celebrate.
We should have pie.
We should just have a huge party.
This sounds like it's going to be perfect.
This is going to be great.
We need the, the, the recipes.
I think people could start sending those in now.
Yes, yes.
Uh, yeah, please do everybody.
Send them to our email addresses or message
us on Facebook, whatever's convenient for you.
Just like you get us your birthdays and
anniversaries or any other ways you interact with us,
I think if you want to go ahead and email us info at wfhr.com,
probably do it off of our Facebook pages as well.
Or reach out to our front, uh, you know,
front desk.
You talk to Pam and she can help you get that recipe to us.
But do start sending us your recipes, everybody.
And we will, um, get them a part of this cookbook
that we will be releasing as part of our
80th 5th anniversary here at WFHR.
Which is all the way in November.
So we have plenty of time to compile all these recipes.
Mm-hmm.
For now, make plans.
August 20th, we will meet you right here at the studios
for our, our party.
We're going to have some fun with this one.
Our parking lot party.
Oh, it's going to be so much fun.
It's going to be a blast.
We'll be back with more show.
Welcome back, everybody.
Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio.
Melissa and James wrapping things up,
taking it to the top of the hour,
getting you ready for more great civic media programming
throughout the day.
Mm-hmm.
We're going to touch on our schedule to get into that,
get that, get you covered with that,
and get into some good stories of the day while we can.
Uh, doing our mind, everybody.
Raffer baseball back on your radio dial tonight.
At 620, the boys of summer are up in Fondelac.
Take on Doc Spiders.
Doc Spiders.
Should be a good one, hoping to get in that W column again
with our rafters.
Enjoy every game this season.
The season's wrapping up, everybody.
It's getting closer and closer.
Enjoy the remainder of this wonderful season.
And shout out to all of our rafters
and all these players coming to town and everything.
We appreciate them.
Get your tickets at NorthwoodsLeague.com.
We'll have more rafter baseball on the radio dial tomorrow
along with some playmakers for you, more on that tomorrow.
Our Wisconsin Rabbit City Band has been at this for over 160 years
and they enjoy performing just as much as you enjoy taking it in.
They've been having a wonderful summer
with their summer concert season.
And today, they're going to be over at the Robinson Park Band
show with their dance concert, with special guests,
the swing doctors.
Awesome.
Ah, it's going to be so much fun.
Check your dance and shoes on.
Yeah, get on down there and move and get some exercise
and have some fun, dance like nobody's watching.
Enjoy yourself over beautiful Robinson Park tonight.
They will kick things off at 730, but the swing doctors
are Wisconsin Rabbit City Band.
Awesome.
Have a great show, you guys.
Have a great show, everybody.
That's going to be fun.
I wanted to mention as well, our wonderful Wisconsin Rabbit
Municipal Zoo, which is at 1911 Gaynor Avenue,
just a stone's throw away from us over here.
Tomorrow, they're going to be bringing ZooSort back.
11 a.m. they'll have a show and then again at 1 o'clock.
Noel Tarant has been a licensed annual educator for over 20 years.
She'll capture kids' attention with interactive questions
and demonstrations and animals.
Noel has been on the air with us a couple of times.
We've talked with ZooSort a lot over the years and fantastic people.
Great information.
Yeah, that's going to be a really fun show.
Check that out.
11 30 and 1 o'clock shows tomorrow over at Helen Zoo House
at the Wisconsin Rapids Municipal Zoo.
Enjoy that one, everybody.
Take that in.
We also want to remind everybody that going on tomorrow
will be American Heroes Cafe over across your church.
730 to 930.
Make sure all of our area veterans,
military, police and firefighters know they are welcome.
This is a great morning for them.
A great way to start the day for them.
And it's just a great atmosphere, good conversation.
Take that event in, everybody.
And also remember that going on tomorrow
from 9 to noon is the Wood County Veterans Expo
over across your church right after.
So a lot of really great information there.
Good time to ask questions.
Find out about benefits and coverage.
You may not even know exists.
Join the Toma VA Medical Center in the Wood County Veterans Service Office over there
and our great friends at those different groups
for all that information
and be able to ask those questions that you know,
especially you're just talking to a person straight up 101.
Yes.
Take advantage of that.
Also a little bit later today we'll have the Rapid Support
looking forward to that and have another great episode for you.
We will be talking with the Wisconsin Rapids Family Center.
Looking forward to that.
One of the things we'll be talking about and touching on
is their touch of truck in the truck.
Yeah.
Join us for the fifth annual touch of truck event
going on July 26th, 11 to 3.
This is a free event for the whole family
over at the Grand Rapids Lines Club.
Our Wisconsin Rapids Family Center doesn't have a lot of opportunities like this.
We encourage you to be a part of it.
We're going to have all the big,
big timers there.
We'll have our police department,
a fire department,
our sheriff's department going to be down there with their vehicles.
Great opportunity for the kids to check these out.
See them and have some fun.
They'll have kids games, food,
raffle, all kinds of fun.
And a chance for kids to sit in a lot of these vehicles is just so cool.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And make sure that you get there at a good time before me.
And I'm not trying to cut in line and get a head of them and everything.
Sure, James.
I will.
I will do that.
Find out more information about this and all the other great resources
that the Family Center has for you at familyctr.org.
Be sure to bookmark that page and support our great friends over at the Wisconsin Rapids Family Center.
And speaking of supporting our friends,
our good friends at the United Way of Southwood and Ames counties
have their stuff-the-bus event going on right now.
And we are a drop-off location.
We are.
There's a box right there in the lobby.
You can bring in some school supplies,
backpacks, notebooks, folders, markers.
Anything you can think of kids' need in school.
Yeah.
Going right by.
There's a great list of items that they need at UWSWAC.org
Get on over there and help us impact the future, everybody.
It's a great opportunity to be able to do that.
Don't get every day.
Encourage you to check that out.
These kids have a good start.
Great show, Melissa.
You do, James.
Have a great day, everybody.
Be good to each other.
