Local Theatre Spotlight (Hour 2)

Good morning, Wisconsin. Morning, world. It's a new day.

Minks for kicking it off with us at WFHR. Take it, Marvin.

Your host, James, joined by Melissa.

Hello.

Seth. Good morning.

And the best listeners and radio. Thanks for joining us, everybody.

Pull another hour to hang out and have some fun and get into some weird topics.

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And I also want to take some time to talk about August and the big August we have in front of us here as stations

with us and WIRI and everything.

We'll talk about some of those events.

But talk about a big event that happened over the weekend.

The Happy Gilmore 2 release.

On Netflix.

All right.

The Happy Gilmore 2 just set a new record for Netflix.

It had the biggest US opening weekend ever for a Netflix original movie.

It got 46.7 million views over three days.

Not bad.

Wow.

That's pretty impressive.

If you're wondering how it's being received by fans, it's currently as a 70% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and 61% with critics.

The success also boosted numbers for the original Happy Gilmore, which made to number three on Netflix's global top 10.

Of course it did.

Yeah.

Which is cool.

That is really cool.

So I finally saw it the other day.

And I'd been waiting to see it and finally got to see it.

And I wanted to talk to people that grew up with the movie.

I went to high school with and that also know it.

And I just reached out to a couple of friends of mine.

And I did talk to some others about it too.

And I want to credit my friend Marissa about something she said that I thought was really noteworthy about it.

I never thought about this with movies and sequel.

Obviously it's been like 20 years since the original and everything.

Well, you know how I feel about spoilers, everybody.

I'm not going to spoil anything.

But I do think one thing that should it would have, I understand why they didn't do this.

But one thing I think would have been helpful is reminding the audience it's been 20, 30 years.

Yeah.

And this to me is a little bit more of a serious, a little bit more of a darker almost, a dark comedy almost, a version of Happy Gilmore.

It's not, Adam can't be that guy anymore.

I don't know if he can.

I don't know if it would work in today's day and age.

I don't know that comedy would work in this day and age.

And she had the note of, well, maybe that's the way they should do sequels.

They should wait 10, 20 years or something like that in between them and everything.

And give these characters, give these actors, give these writers a chance to really hone in.

Because I loved it.

I loved it.

I thought it was excellent.

I thought it was perfect for the times.

I thought it actually showed a lot of the growth of a human being and how they can grow as a person and all that.

It was hilarious.

There was a ton of funniness to it.

There was also some really heartfelt moments to it and everything.

There were some moments that I thought, oh, I want to watch this with my kids.

There were some great moments there with that.

Cool.

And I thought there was a really good note.

I never thought of that before.

We're so, these producers, the money making machine that is the entertainment industry is so anxious to,

oh, God, we can't let audiences, we got to hit on this now.

Oh, you mustn't forget about it.

We got to make 20 avatars.

We can't make just one.

We got to make 18 smurf movies.

Avatar, whatever they want to call it, smurfs to me.

That's all avatars.

All avatar is, is grown up smurfs.

That's all it is.

That's all it is.

That's better, how much better would these movies be if they were,

if they were, if creatives were in control, if artists were in control.

And they were like, you know what?

Right.

We'll get our money.

We'll get our money.

It'll come.

Let's go ahead and give this some time to breathe.

Let's flesh out a good story.

Instead of just being so quick to throw it out there, just real quick.

Everybody knows how many sequels and there have been in history and all that.

There's been a billion of them.

Off the top of my head, I can think of three or four that were good.

Trilogies.

And even in those, one of them was...

Kind of a stinker.

Yeah.

Not just as great as the others.

I would say that the Dark Knight series is one of my all-time favorites.

That one even had one that was a little iffy.

The Matrix series.

I love the Matrix series.

A little iffy there are times.

But if they had taken time to really flesh those out and really given a couple of years in between,

even four or five years in between, maybe they come up with a better story.

Maybe they really hammered this out and like, you know what?

Now we're ready.

Tom Cruise bet on himself with the Top Gun movie.

And not only waiting to release and waiting to come up with a really good story,

but waiting until they could be released in theaters.

And look at how they were rewarded for that.

And I don't like to give that man too much credit here or anything,

but it is noteworthy.

It really is.

And I got a step saying it, noteworthy.

It really shows better work.

It's worthy of note.

Turn around a little bit.

There we go.

I think that it's something to think about.

It's interesting too to me.

One of my favorite series is back to the future.

And I always thought that the second one was kind of me.

But if you look at it now, like it actually has a lot more relevance in a way.

Right, right.

Now that one, that's a great one to bring up,

because that would be in my top ones of my favorites of all time.

And ones that I think were great.

I think all they did a good job with those.

Part of what I thought worked for them was that they filmed the second and third one back to back.

It did.

That they kept everybody under contract and they just basically,

we're going to bunker down and film these and get these done.

Well, because if you are going to do them,

you should do them quickly in a sequence.

But you'd need to have almost the whole storyline before you start.

Yes.

And that's not something like,

I've fast and furious centers the conversation.

Right.

I mean, you know, like they've made,

and I can't really knock them because I haven't seen them all.

I've watched maybe the first two or three.

Right.

And how many are there now?

Nine.

They're going in.

Yeah, there's 11.

I think 10 or 11.

I come on.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And it's somebody who has watched every one of them.

Yeah, that story is that I don't even know if they fleshed out one to two.

Let alone, you know,

when Tyrese is going to the moon in a car.

In a car they made.

You know, they all happened.

The only thing that really, really worked well with it.

And while these were based on books,

weren't the James Bond movies all based on books?

Yeah.

The original series were.

They were.

So they did not hue very closely to the stories, though,

because the books, if you read them, are much darker than the movies were.

The movies were more kind of flashy things, you know, like in the stunts, you know,

in the action.

They got work for the time period, though.

Right.

About what movies were in that time period.

Yeah, exactly.

They actually probably were a little darker than most of the movies in that time period.

And I think of the ones that make sense to me about doing it all at once.

The Lord of the Rings made a lot of sense to do all the movies at the same time,

because you have the story, right?

You know how it ends, everything.

You know, just working on all the stuff in between kind of thing.

And so that one makes sense.

But I don't know.

Maybe there is something to that.

You know, it's funny.

It's interesting, James.

You mentioned about, you know, creatives being in control.

I just thought of something that just kind of really took me back a little bit.

It's like, wait a minute.

You know, we, so say a project goes bad.

You know, and then everyone starts pointing at everyone else.

Right.

It's like, oh, that's because the studio, you know, came in here and ruined everything.

And they're like, no, they didn't do what we told them.

We would have been better if they hadn't had done that.

If creatives are in control, they have to take complete responsibility for it.

Yeah.

So if it's a real dog, you know who to blame.

Yeah.

Right.

So you have to do it both ways.

The credit for when it's good.

And if it's not good, well, guess what?

It was you.

It was all your vision.

So like that makes more sense to me.

Well, and I think that the idea, because it's the gap between, we talk about this

with sports all the time.

It's a subject I will not let go of because I want us to have our eye on the ball when it comes to this.

The difference between ownership and players and fans and what owners want and what they want.

Owners want to finish in the black.

Are there owners out there that wanted to win a championship?

I'm sure there are.

Yep.

But the majority of them are more interested in finishing in the black.

They're more interested in their business, pride and profitable.

Players and fans are much more interested in winning championships.

Those two worlds do not mix.

They are not fitting.

You have in the entertainment industry since the dawn of film.

You have the producers who have the money.

They have the power to be able to put these things out there in the creative world.

The producers are worried about making money.

The creative world wants to create art.

These two worlds do not mix.

It's a subject that I think we need to keep much more of an eye on going forward.

Sometimes it works accidentally.

But like you said, that just happens occasionally.

It's a fluke.

It is.

If you see it, let me know what you think.

Everybody reach out to me.

I'm curious.

And I don't want to undersell the funny in the movie.

It's hilarious.

It is a very, very...

It's an end-of-sale movie.

It's hilarious.

There you go.

I really enjoyed it.

I liked it.

Let me know what anybody else thinks out there.

We're talking old-school video games now.

Given all the time Mario has risked saving his life to save Princess Peach,

you'd think that there might be more to their relationship.

But no, it turns out no.

According to a recent update on the Nintendo Today app,

a quote,

Princess Peach and Mario are good friends and help each other out whenever they can.

Not even...

That's just where it is right there.

There's no word why Nintendo is making this announcement now,

given that they presented Mario and Peach as a couple in the past.

Or have they?

Have they?

I played all those games multiple times.

Right.

We're talking Super Mario, Mario Brothers 2, Mario Brothers 3,

you know, all of the above and everything.

I played Donkey Kong back in the day.

I know Mario Wayback.

I see Mario at the Italian meetings.

I need to ask about this.

So there's another subject, a storyline, that I love.

And I've loved it for my whole life.

And I've seen so little of it and represented, especially in TV.

But every once in a while, you know, it's even rare in movies and everything.

For every billions of rom coms and a will they won't they storylines.

I love when you see every once in a while a man and a woman and they're just friends.

Yeah, that's it.

No will they won't they or any of that stuff.

Why does the princess have to be with the hero?

Right.

This is a subject I love so much that it is a part of the blueprint of the morning show.

It is something that I talked a lot about when Melissa about in our,

your interview, first interview.

It's something that is important to me.

I don't have anything against those morning shows out there for many, many years,

where it's a couple and they're doing their bits.

And oh, Harold forgot to take out the garbage and everybody laughs and all that stuff and everything.

But there's plenty of that.

We do not have hardly any representation in pop culture of man, woman, just friends.

No will they won't they or any of that stuff.

And the more we, the less we have of that, the more likely we are to have of it in society.

I have had plenty of women as friends and trust me, they had no interest in me.

I'm just trying to make a joke.

But it's something that it was just not there.

It was and even when it did come up in some circumstances, we found out very quickly,

no, we're just friends.

It can happen.

It's a thing.

It's weird that we don't cover that subject at all.

And then we wonder why men and women have difficulties at times coordinating, communicating or any of that stuff.

Yeah.

And also have difficulties with, you know, jealousy of women.

I'm hesitant to be friends with men because of having been burned in the past by other jealous women.

Like, no, I have zero interest in him that way, but all right.

If you want to be mad, I mean, all right, I'll go.

I like that this is an example that this could be an example of that, especially to young kids that are playing these games.

And they're like, okay, they're just friends like that going forward.

And I will say from what I know a little bit of relationships from younger people when they talk about them in improv classes, this is all I know.

It's really, they have, they get this.

That's, that's a lot of how they're approaching these things.

Well, the other thing too is that the partnering in society is such a big pressure.

Even, you know, like, it happened to me as a kid, but it's also happened to my nieces this weekend at the family gamble.

My oldest niece, the first thing she's like, yep, first question.

Do you got a boyfriend?

Yeah.

It's like, why is that such a push on our young, young?

I mean, she's 13.

Yeah, seriously.

I ask you questions that every family get together.

Yeah.

Oh, you would.

Yeah.

Myself.

I'm having a good time.

Am I not sufficient?

When are you going to be like your brother?

That's, I get that.

I'll get that.

It's, it's something you're right about it.

You're right.

And society isn't built for single people.

Let's be real.

It is, it's more expensive to be single than it is to be in a partnership.

Right.

And that's with or without children.

It's also, I have to say, as much as I played these games,

I never thought about their dynamic.

No.

I don't think I ever really...

No.

I thought more about their costumes.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Like, which one do I want to be?

This time, I want to be the pretty pink dress.

We need to address the elephant in the room here.

And that is not Mario and Princess Peach's relationship.

But what is Bowser's deal with Peach?

They even, like, specifically, it's in the movie.

He's trying to marry her.

Oh, is that what's happening?

Yes.

Why?

I don't know.

That's weird.

I mean, you know...

He's a giant turtle dragon thing.

Yeah.

I don't want to understand what him and what he would have to do with it.

You would think he'd want another turtle dragon.

You know, I mean, that's what you would think.

It's very strange.

What do you...

It's a very weird thing.

Opposites attract.

That's true.

Although, I'm not...

Different species, though.

It's a little where I draw the line.

I mean, they're all animated characters, though.

Let's also keep that in mind.

But...

Might have put a little too much on.

On the other side, we got Jack Black's Peach song out of it.

Which is hilarious.

We got to go with that, so.

I have always been more concerned with the security in Princess Peach's palace.

I don't know what's going on there.

Yeah, those toads are just falling down on the job, man.

Maybe it's time to up the game a little bit.

It's been a little bit more in security.

Yeah, because he got a big turtle dragon that just walks in and takes you to time.

Just walks in and floats in and takes stuff.

That's cool.

I guess he's a watcher movie.

Yeah, it's an airship, he's in.

When you build your whole world with things that can be broken by the top of your head,

just smashing into them.

That's not good either.

Seriously.

But sometimes coins come out.

That's hard way to make money, man.

Yeah.

That's Mario about that one.

We will take a time out.

We're going to come back, talk about some local theater and some local events happening here at studios.

Peach, just Peach.

Peach, just Peach, just Peach.

Peach.

I'll come again on Morty Show at WFHR.

Welcome back, everyone.

Morning Show here at WFHR.

Melissa, Seth and James hanging out with you.

Thanks for hanging out with us.

We hope you're having a fantastic Wednesday out there.

Happy up there, everybody.

A step in some of the cast members about the brother's grim.

The next Hopo production kind of wrapping up the kids summer season.

That'll be premiering August 2nd at 7 o'clock over at the WRCT Auditorium.

Be sure to check that out.

They'll have a matinee on August 3rd at 2 o'clock.

Get to that if you can, everybody.

Yep.

It's going to be a really fun show.

Encourage you to check out the interview at WFHR.com.

You can go ahead and check that out along with all of our podcasts all over there.

It will really fun show.

They're just so excited about this one.

It's great as the kids were in the interview.

If you could have heard them afterwards and how just how much fun they're having together and everything.

It's so cool.

When we did West Side Story, there was a couple of kids there that had not been in theater before.

It was their first production.

One of them came here yesterday, TJ, because he was one of those kids that was never in it.

And now look at that.

He's right up next show.

He's right in there.

That's cool.

I love seeing that.

It's so cool.

It's so much fun.

You can't cut the bug.

You can't get more.

You can't get enough of it.

We encourage you to take in this show.

Support these kids.

Support the arts and have some fun while you're at it.

Get your tickets at wrctheeter.org.

And while you're over there, might have filled out an audition sheet for on Golden Pond.

It is the fall production from Wisconsin's Rebs Community Theatre.

We're very excited about this one.

Auditions are coming up next week.

Monday.

Tuesday.

Do it now.

You got this.

Fill out your application now.

August 4th and 5th will be the auditions.

Bring it back James.

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You'll be cool, calm and collected.

Yeah.

We're so excited for this one.

A big thank you to everybody who is already sent in their audition sheets.

Yeah.

This is not mandatory.

You don't have to do that.

But it is kind of fun to get it out of the way sometimes.

You can just come down.

Have some fun.

You'll have all the information there for you.

They won't have to worry about filling it out when you get there.

Come one.

No matter your age, creed, race whatever or anything.

I am it's me casting so you know it's going to be interesting.

And we're going to have some fun with an American classic,

on-golden pond, along with, of course, a Christmas story and four-old broads

and father of the bride.

I'm never going to be able to say that, especially Linda's directing that one.

I'm not going to be able to say it's serious.

A great main stage season at WRCT gets your tickets and find out more at

wrctheater.org.

And when we're talking local theater, we also want to talk about our friends

over essential Wisconsin area community theater.

Yeah.

We want to say a gigantic credit to the heads, if you will,

and the teams over at both of these groups.

Now, of course, we are a part of both of these theaters ourselves,

because we work with and talk to people of friends in these groups.

Yeah.

And that's been the case really since both of these companies have existed.

But people at the top haven't always communicated,

haven't always got along and worked together.

And we're seeing more and more of that with the current people in positions

that can do this now.

A credit to them.

A rising tide raises all boats.

We've seen this through our nonprofits where when we work together,

we are stronger as a community and put out stronger work.

This is how local theater survives.

It does it together.

And it does it with your support, everybody.

Yes.

Couragey to check out that interview that we had with Susan and Joe was really great.

Yeah, it was great to hear the process.

Of course, Shakespeare.

Love talking about Shakespeare.

One of my favorite things too.

So it was great to hear it.

Especially what I really appreciate about Joe was the setting,

you know, and how he came up with the idea that it's set in America in the 1880s.

Appalachia is where it takes place.

He said it was kind of, you know, feel McCoy kind of feel is what he was going for.

For Romeo and Juliet.

For Romeo and Juliet.

No, what they're talking about.

Which totally makes sense.

And the idea of doing, I love that's one of the great things about Shakespeare.

Is that you can transplant it to any time.

And it still works.

And it still is relevant.

So it's really cool.

Well, and Susan Egrin isn't directing at this time.

She's in it, which is also fun because she she directs a lot of Shakespeare theater in the past.

Yeah.

It is a part of the Schmickley.

Schmickley ob shakes their this big event.

Along with the premiere episode happening, they're going to be debuting on July 31st at six o'clock over at the Schmickley Amplt Theatre.

They will also on the next day August 1st, they're going to have an opening banquet before to celebrate their 52nd season.

Yes, which is very cool.

Well, give that by five and get yourself some nice dinner and go in and have a real experience.

You know, not just taking it a show or being in and out, but you're going to have a real experience with that.

And the other cool thing, they theme it to where it is.

So the food you're going to get is going to be kind of, you know, pork and beans kind of.

It's great.

It's great.

The thought that they put into this is so good.

And I do think you need to buy your ticket in advance for the dinner theater.

Yes, we do.

So they know how much to make.

Yeah, and they do have some available still.

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Oh, yeah.

Sorry.

I didn't have a Monday this week.

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We're going to do that.

I wanted to touch on just a little bit of some of the cool events that we are going to be

at over the next month.

August is going to be very busy for us.

We have a number of different things we've already done the past week or so.

And next month, we are going to be at the Rapids Rumble Car Show.

That's the Saturday.

Yes, it is.

Is Saturday?

Sorry.

I keep doing it.

It is August.

Yeah.

I love it.

I do that.

I don't know.

When I do that.

The Rapids Rumble Car Show coming up.

We're looking forward to that.

We'll get into more details about it very soon, but that is right around the corner.

Lauren and I are going to be at the National Night Out over at Winterfield.

That's going to be fun.

We'll have a little booth over there for that.

And by that, I mean, Laura will be there.

I will be there for like five minutes.

She's going to be really putting in the work over there.

But we appreciate being a part of that.

And any of the rest of our team that can stop down will try to be there as well.

I think Pam's going to come down after she closes the office.

So yeah, we'll see you there.

That's coming up August 6th.

August 16th.

I will be at the YMCA Bridge to Bridge Run Walk.

I think we have a couple people participating from here as well.

That will be in the walk as well.

It's going to be a lot of fun.

I can't wait.

I love being able to be a part of those kind of things.

And it's a real humbling thing to be able to be a part of.

And then August 20th, market on your calendar right now, everybody.

We are going to be having a station open house.

It's a parking lot.

We did it last year for the first time.

And it was such a great success.

We're like, we're going to do it again, but it's going to be bigger.

And better.

It is going to be big.

I made a spreadsheet.

She did.

I did.

Just this morning she created the job.

Well, I did yesterday.

But I sent it to everybody this morning after Laura looked it over and checked and made sure I had everything right.

And then I'm, yeah, I went out to all of you.

So you have your assignments, boys and girls.

Sounds good to me.

We are so excited about this.

I like assignments.

They're better.

Along with this great event, we're going to be not only broadcasting live on both of our stations back to back in remote.

Almost.

Almost.

Yeah.

And end for our event.

Yeah.

We're also going to be inviting the kids down so that they can do some recording and hear themselves kind of in recording through the headphones and some of that.

And we might even play as some of them during our live remote at the end.

We'll see what we can do.

Yeah.

But the staff cookoff is to me.

I'm sorry.

That's what I'm so excited about.

I'm very excited about this.

So, yeah, if you come up with your recipe at James?

Yeah.

Yeah.

You know, I just, I want it to be a surprise.

Yeah.

It's in the car.

It's in the car.

I don't want it right now.

No, I don't.

I don't want it to be like, yeah, I don't know.

There is a deadline for that on the spreadsheet.

I'll have you know.

Oh, nice.

Okay.

It's the desserts.

Yeah, it's going to be the dessert off.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Very exciting.

Yeah.

Staff cookoff.

And then the listeners also get to vote.

And we're hoping to have some guest judges.

But we want the listener award too, which we got to come up with.

What is the name for that crowd favorite?

Oh, listener favorite.

I think favorite.

I think favorite.

I think it's work crowd favorite.

I think that works too.

Okay.

Everyone has to come here and try.

Yes.

The different recipes that the staff is going to vote for your favorite with a bean.

Yes.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

Bean voting.

Yes.

That's the new way.

It's the wave of the future.

Bean voting.

Our station party is also going to be featuring some of our favorite nonprofits and good friends

of ours from here at the stations.

They'll have booths and stuff.

And party had a lot of confirmations too, which is really cool.

Yeah.

We're going to have food trucks down here as well.

We're going to feed you.

A lot of all kinds of great things and we'll talk more and more about this as we get closer

to it.

But make sure to bookmark August 20th, Wednesday, August 20th.

We will meet you here at the studios.

We'll look forward to this.

And since it's the day after my birthday, I'm not saying you need to bring presents for

me.

But it may be a pie to the face.

Why?

Oh.

Oh, is that a cut?

No, we should do that.

I was going to say I do like pie.

Do I like pie that much?

I don't know.

I'm going to have to think about that.

It's a pie throwing contest.

Oh, no.

First time in human history, pie hits the guy's face, slides down, nothing there.

He ate it all.

He ate it all.

You've been slid away.

We'll be back after our news in sports break on The Morning Show at WFHR.

Welcome back, everyone.

The Morning Show at WFHR, locally grown radio here over at 97.5 FM.

Hope you're having a great one out there.

Melissa, Seth and James hanging out with you.

Interesting story right here.

So if you're using the do not disturb mode on your phone all day, that is something that

Gen Zers have been doing more and more.

And this is becoming a bit of a trend, not just with them, but now older people are starting

to notice and everything.

More and more young people are using their phones do not disturb mode, not just at night,

but during the day also.

It's a way to set digital boundaries that goes beyond setting your phone to vibrate or

silent.

Videos on TikTok tagged D&D and D&D247 are going viral with Gen Z sharing how peaceful and

productive they've felt since changing their notification settings.

Okay.

Experts say it can help with sleep, improve work performance, reduce anxiety and make

you feel less overwhelmed.

And you don't have to cut them up with content.

It's pretty simple to do if you have an iPhone, go to settings, focus, do not disturb.

And for Android users, swipe down from the home screen to the notification center, then

swipe to expand the panel and tap do not disturb, right?

Or just wait for your phone to do it on accident.

Like mine does all the time, at least my old phone seems to do it all the time.

What do you mean?

I didn't get any text, I didn't get any message, oh, I did, I had, oh, sorry, oh geez.

I once went like a day with, I got, I came home from, it was when I came back from

California.

And I had the, you know, you're getting on a plane, you got to turn the, you know, airplane

mode.

I forgot to turn it back on.

I didn't even think about it into my defense.

I didn't have a whole lot of people texting or calling me back then.

So, yeah, I don't even know how much I missed, I was going to say, you know, it was all

right.

No major emergencies.

Do you notice that more and more when it comes to tech that we are, it isn't an app

that's saving us from these things or trying to figure these things out.

It is not necessarily a, you know, a self-help guru or something like that.

We're trying to figure this out and share what we know and share what we're doing that

that works for us with each other.

I get social experiment.

Yeah.

I kind of appreciate that.

But I also kind of think that's the only way this will work.

You know, it's, it's, it's a, it's a group of people.

It's not, when you think about the biggest changes, the big moments in our human history

and things that happened, it, for everyone that they, well, there was this bill that

was passed, there was this law that was passed.

There are so many other ones that, well, we just kind of started doing that.

It wasn't, well, this person, so and so on this day, we announced that this person created

this or whatever.

No, we just kind of started doing it.

We kind of learned to do this and everything.

No one person really knows who, well, this was the father of recycling right here.

This was the mother of recycling.

This was the person that got us going on this great path that we're on now where we

all recycle.

Nobody knows that.

Nobody has that.

There's a lot of those examples.

And I, for one, I want us to take a step back and appreciate that with our fellow human

beings and that we're doing this together, that plenty of people are working together

on these things that have no political ties, that all of that, and we're able to make

this work.

We are not as divided as they make it seem.

We are not as separate as we seem and we are certainly more alike than we realize.

And we're all addicted to our phones.

Yep.

Yep.

That's bad things.

What's, oh, yeah.

It's, it's there.

And we've acknowledged it every now and then.

It's also a part of me, though, and this is, I will admit, the parent in me that is,

you know, one of the keep my kids kids for as long as I could and that kind of thing,

that is a little sad to me about this, that they even have had to figure this out, that

they've even had to go to this extreme to do these things.

I don't know, that part of that, it's a little bit of mixed bag for me about that.

Yeah.

Which makes sense, yeah.

But this is an easy solution for people who have notification turned on for things.

Like, I actually, when I set up my phone, I turn off the notifications off, like the

only things I get notifications for are my text messages.

And I mean, there's a couple other things.

But then when I put it on silent, that's basically, I mean, that is a do not disturb of

sort.

Yeah.

Yeah.

If you're not looking at it.

Right.

Exactly.

But yeah, do not disturb, also doesn't allow notifications to come through.

Right.

I don't believe so.

Right.

If you turn it back on to, you know, to check stuff, then it's like, well, much stuff comes

up kind of things.

Maybe if you're popular, or you have lots of notifications, or it makes you really sad.

Oh, no one loves me.

A lot of junk mail.

That's what I get.

I guess I'll go eat worms.

My brother would have, I love that, that's my dad so like, when my brother worked at

for a cell company, he gave me this little hack about, if you ever have trouble with your

phone, oftentimes it's a good idea to, especially if you live or work in, you live in one town,

working in another or whatever, just starting and restarting your phone, it'll find that

most recent, the closest tower that way, that that'll help a little bit with that.

And because you told me that, I've done this a lot where I've turned my phone off, turned

it back on.

It's always good to reboot some every now and then.

And sometimes with doing that, older phones, I don't know about any of the newer ones,

but it would start off on D&D.

That would start all day.

Interesting.

Yeah.

I don't know.

I'm interested to see where this goes and what other techniques, what other things we

do to try to help ourselves from.

Protect ourselves from technology.

Because anything is better than what I saw the other day about an app that helps you

not be on apps.

Yeah.

I remember that one.

The one that makes you go out and touch grass before you can play your game.

It just off.

Yeah.

We'll see.

We'll see where that goes.

We'll be following along to see.

Of course.

And we're all one of the topics that we touch on quite a bit as AI, artificial intelligence.

I think that we have done quite a good job as a team covering that subject and covering

all the bases of it, the good, the bad, the gray, all that.

With that being said, all of that we've done without losing our minds and panicking,

oh my god, AI is falling from the sky and it's going to take over.

It's sky net and somebody get Arnold on the phone, wish him a happy birthday and you

know, they get him some sunglasses.

Yeah, right.

A group of tech nerds and Amsterdam came up with a new gadget called a dream recorder

that turns your dreams into videos.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

Oh.

Doesn't actually scan your brain waves.

You have to remember your dream, describe what it was and then it turns your description

into a video.

It's a dream journal.

Okay.

Shall we try this?

Yeah.

Yeah, definitely.

So I had a dream last night that I was in a theater production and it involved dance

of some sort.

There were stairs, there were slopes, but all of the actors were in wheelbarrows.

And there were, yep, so I was in a wheelbarrow and we were in rehearsal and the person pushing

my wheelbarrow, like we were right on the edge, like I was pretty sure we were going over.

But it was right on the edge and then, you know, we got our choreography done and then

when we were finished and we were up backstage, I was like, okay, I promise I'm going to,

I'm going to lose some weight before we get to production and the guy that was pushing

my wheelchair hit, slapped his very flat belly and said, well, we could all do that.

Okay.

I take it and go.

This sounds like a piece of performance art to me.

It does.

It does sound a little bit like that.

We should write it down and actually try to, try to put it on stage.

Sounds interesting.

The wheels.

I love them in wheelbarrow.

I love that as a new form of theater.

And that the theater, there was the stage.

There was a definite edge and there were no railings here at the World Wheelchair Theatre.

We have tried some more avant-garde ways of doing everything from Hamlet to Oklahoma,

all the wheelchairs.

I love it.

Love it.

I, that one dream, Melissa, is more interesting and creative than anything I've dreamed

in the last 20 years.

The last dream I had, I'm not joking.

I'm not exaggerating.

But I remember of the dream, I was making myself a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

And it was taking forever because the peanut butter was just a little bit left in the jar

and I'm trying to get it out of there and I can't get it out.

That's it.

That's it.

That's all I dream.

Sleep of the innocent, I guess.

I don't know.

And guess what?

Just for an added treat, black and white.

It's in white and white, which I'm told you're not even supposed to be able to do.

Oh no, there's a large percentage of people who dream in white and white.

And then there is a large, you know, there's a definite split there of people that do and

people that don't.

My life has been weird and odd and I really think that by the time I get to dreaming, my

dreams are just like, we're done, man.

We are done creatively.

You use our imagination so much, you're on your own, man.

You're on your own.

Let's just do something simple here, yeah.

Like my writers.

Silent movie, black and white.

My writers could not be phoning in my dreams more.

They have no interest to give me anything interesting.

That's a bummer because I dream in color, but I wish I like black and white.

I like white and white.

I want it to be, but it's not.

They're not.

They're in color.

Come on, brain, come on.

There we have a black and white dream side.

Come on, come on.

Give me one.

This device is slightly bigger than a alarm clock with a screen on the front that shows colorful

death clips of your dream.

All the examples that they shared look more like an acid trip, honestly, but it is a little

low-deaf clips.

It stores a week's worth of dreams.

They say it's meant to quote, meant for, quote, reflecting on the meaning of your dreams

as they echo in the waking life.

The good news is it's somewhat affordable.

The bad news is you can't buy one.

You have to build it.

They.

Oh, early.

They claim it's not, it's not that hard in post city shopping list with instructions.

There you go.

Whoa.

It's built on top of an AI video app called Luna and they say that that total will cost

you about 300 bucks, but it's pretty expensive.

Yes.

Once you get done with that, it'll be about 15 cents a dream to make these things, create

these things.

So once you get done with the overall big spending, you know, then how much do you have

to spend?

Right.

Right.

How much are your dreams worth?

And it's not as if you're really, I mean, for every person that's going to use this and

everything, there's other people who are going to use it and to just what they've always

want to do.

Imagine it's, isn't this pretty much like video games in a lot of ways where you create

a character and you go into an open world and do whatever, like an AI picture generator

thing or film generators or a lot of them.

You.

I also could just buy a notebook to write my dreams down there, you know, two bucks on

top of all of this.

You have in this science, this isn't my opinion, everybody.

You have a night in a, in a typical night of REM sleep, you're going to have anywhere

from 100 to 1000 dreams and you are going to remember bits and pieces of each and some

of them and the others you're not going to.

The ones that you have right closer to in REM sleep are the ones you remember, the ones

you don't are outside of that.

But none of these, none of what you remember, the moment you wake up, five seconds later,

is accurate.

It's not, you may be remembering dreams from years ago because we don't know because

there is no science to this yet.

We are still trying to figure this stuff is all connected to memory and memory works

the same way.

I would love if this was cool and true and all that.

I think it could be a pretty cool day and age and everything, but it's, I mean, not

happening.

It's a better brain than our wired, which let's pray that never happens.

And I'm not just saying this because I have boring dreams, I think, or it could be

some up a little bit because James has boring dreams.

Yeah.

I do like the idea of the matrix through my brain, though, it is just so wow.

This is really bland.

This is very, I, I didn't even know you could make that shape white.

I do, wow, it's blanket here.

We will take a commercial break, come back and have some more fun on the morning show.

Welcome back, everyone.

This is the morning show here at WFHR, 975 FM, locally go on radio.

We got some local things going on in town.

We want to get to going on today and throughout the rest of the week and into the weekend.

But before we get right into it, I do want to remind everybody that free meals will be

available to all children 18 years of age and under at a couple of key locations over at

Lincoln High School at 1801 16th Street South.

You can head on over there until August 15th, breakfast to serve 738 30, lunch 11 to 1230.

It mean near the splash pad over on 14th, they're doing this until August 15th from 11 to

1230.

Breakfast for the next day will also be provided cool.

And at Winter Park over at Chestnut, you can do this until August 15th, 11 to 1230.

Breakfast for the next day will also be provided with that meals are provided to all children.

And if you have any questions, please give them a call or reach out to them through email

schoolnutrition at WRPS.net, schoolnutrition at WRPS.net.

Big thank you to everybody that's a part of this that makes this happen.

And to all of you for spreading the word about this one, I had somebody tell me that they

had a listener tell them about this.

Good.

Thank you.

Yes, absolutely.

Thank you.

We want to make sure our kids are fed.

Absolutely.

The final really last 48 hours I would say, maybe even 24, pro two sign up for stuff

to bus.

Yes.

Make sure your kiddo is registered.

And they got those, they're going to be ready to get those, receive those school supplies,

sign up, get yourself a good time and keep it up, keep getting spread in the word about

this one too.

And make sure that we have everybody registered.

Yes.

And that way Terry won't be mad at me.

It's Antonio.

If you guys don't do it, you're going to get mad at me.

Please.

www.wac.org is where you can go to sign up for it.

And of course, we encourage you to, if you can pick up some supplies to get to these kids.

We're looking for backpacks, notebooks, folders, both of those plain colored markers, glue

sticks, scissors, colored pencils, monetary donations as well are also greatly appreciated.

And we are a drop off point for that.

We have a box here in the office and you can just bring them right on down.

We're here at the roundabout.

Come by, say hi to Pam, drop something off in the box.

We appreciate you.

There are a few opportunities to impact the future like this does.

And so as simply as this is, pick up some supplies and drop them off.

Everybody and again, you can go to uswac.org to find out more information.

Yes, indeed.

It's, I almost forgot.

It's Wednesday, isn't it, everybody?

Yeah.

Wednesday means.

Bingo.

Bingo.

Bingo.

Ognib.

Ognib.

Ognib, that's Bingo backwards.

It is, but that's not how you win the game.

Wow, James.

That was in process.

I was trying really hard.

He passes out.

I broke my voice.

The Wisconsin Rapids Elks Lodge has Bingo at 430 West Jackson Street tonight.

It starts at 630, but the doors do open at 5.

So make sure you stop on down, get their early, grab your table, get ready, Bingo fun, Wisconsin

Rapids Elks Lodge.

All right.

And I know over there for that, everybody check it out and got another great event going

on that we wanted to touch up.

Buckley Baldwin VFW Post has a pancake breakfast this Saturday, August 2nd, from 7 to 10.

It is open to the public.

It's at Emmanuel Lutheran Church Fellowship Hall, not at the VFW.

So it's a manual Lutheran Church Fellowship Hall, 15, 17, 24 streets south.

It's open to the public, $10 for adults, $7 for ages 13 and under you get buttermilk pancakes,

sausage links, juke, juice, juke, juke, juke, juke, juke, which is juice and milk together.

Yes, it is.

That's exactly what it is.

And it's from 7 to 10 this Saturday.

All right.

We're going to try it though.

We're going to market it.

She came up with two out of a name.

We've got to make that.

They make dirty sodas, which is just milk.

I love it.

We got some there.

It's different.

You got me right there.

Have you ever had a cream sickle?

Yes, and I hate them.

Anyway, that's why I'm like, yeah, yeah, anyway, we're making that the list.

That's what we'll serve at the party.

Oh boy.

Have fun with that.

And thank you again to our friend Tom, getting us a heads up on that one, we appreciate

it.

Seth had something else I wanted to make sure we touched on it.

Of course, the rapids rumble car crews.

It's happening on Saturday, everyone.

But it's not just going to be the car crews, which starts at five o'clock.

Of course, there'll be stuff going on all day long, starting at 8 a.m., that's where

the crew staging area is up at MSTC, admit state, everyone.

And if you want, if you're going to, you can just participate, just drive in.

But there's also going to be a judged show as well.

You can participate in that.

Trophies will be awarded for the best car, best truck and best overall.

There's going to be food available for purchase from four local nonprofits.

We'll be serving burgers, brats, beef sandwiches, ice cream, soda, water, whatever you want.

It's going to be there.

The Grand Rapids Fire Department will be parking vehicles and selling tickets for a 50-50

raffle.

And then the crews will leave MSTC at 5 p.m. and end at the Grand Rapids Lions Park.

They will have a local DJ there, more food and drink as well.

And no parking fee down at the Lions Club as well.

It's going to be a wonderful day of all kinds of great stuff.

And we will be there.

We'll be playing some tunes for you and we'll be having a live broadcast on WIRI from

1 to 3.

So tune in for that.

It's going to be a lot of fun.

We're looking forward to it.

We'll meet you there, everybody.

And Seth, one of their mind everybody about what you got going on in your neck of the woods

with the Caribbean, Wisconsin Arabian Church, a rummage sale and brought for a perfect

Wisconsin day.

And also on Saturday from 9 to 2, we'll be serving brats and burgers in the parking lot.

And then I think it's going to be outside in the forced weather permitting.

Outside in the front of the church will be a rummage sale.

It goes from 9 to 1 o'clock.

So head on down, of course, the farmer's market will be going on as well on Saturday morning.

So head on over there.

You can say at the rummage sale, then you can get a broader burger in your way home.

What a morning or what a day for that, right?

You started at the Emmanuel Church with pancakes.

I mean, your day will be full soon.

And then you got to go to the Rett Rumbles.

Yeah.

Our show for dinner.

You're all set.

You got it all set.

And we got you set today.

Be sure to join us for two new episodes of the Rapid Supported WFHR.com.

We'll talk with Promise in the heart of Wisconsin Chamber of Commerce and some of the events

they have coming up.

And we're going to be talking about Wisconsin's Rapid PDs, a national night out that we're

going to have.

We'll be a part of.

Yeah.

And then playmakers a little bit later today from 4 to 5.