Good morning, Wisconsin. Morning, world. It's a new day. Thanks for kicking it off with us at 97-5 FM WFHR.
Your host, James, joined by Melissa.
Hello. Seth. Good morning. And the best listeners in radio. Thanks for being here, everybody. We're
going to have fun this hour. We're going to Iceland. We're going to talk baby names and the 25 baby names
that have been banned in Iceland. And maybe a couple of outside the line. It's a couple of extra
lines. So curious about why. I'm just, it sounds interesting. It's quite interesting. We'll get into
that. I will try to say a, a Dutch word later. That's how we thought of that. Yeah, those
word words. See what happens there. But we begin with entertainment news. And of course,
the sub, you know, show inside this show is the Dolly Parton news that ticker. There we go.
The Dolly ticker. The Dolly ticker. So Dolly Parton just opened up a new business in Nashville.
Her wine brand Dolly wines moved into the assembly food hall. And now you celebrate, you
can celebrate Dolly while getting a little tipsy. The food hall has over 30 places to eat as well.
So it's great meeting spot if you're ever in the music city. Wow. Sounds, sounds like it's even
a great place to go for like meetings. Yeah, exactly. Just stuff. Yeah, absolutely.
And here's what the assembly food hall website said about Dolly opening up the shop.
Quote drawing from her rich musical heritage and her ethos of inclusive inclusivity. Dolly
wines are crafted to be easy drinking, lighthearted and vibrant. Enjoy a taste of Dolly's warmth
and spirit with every sip made just for you and the this moment. Wow. Wow, that really sold it.
That really wow. That was pretty good. Yeah, great marketing team. I got to give her that's like
incredible marketing team. Yeah, that's pretty cool. And pretty smart move. Anytime you're opening
something and you're doing something, if you can make it accessible to other things,
they learn this real quickly with sports stadiums. And the Olympics kind of taught us this.
For decades, countries would get the Olympics. They built these big old stadiums and then not
known to do with them afterwards. To this day, you've got stadiums sitting out there in like
Italy and places in Rome and places like that that are not being used. They're just overrun by
wildlife and everything. So they started to realize once we got the American sports is rising and
we're getting these big old stadiums, well, I could play music in that stadium. I could do this
in that stadium. I could do it. I mean, we're using these things for other purposes. We brought
that to another business level in many ways where we have a wine shop opening up or something that
also can work as a food eatery or office meetings or any of these things where you're cooking classes
or I mean, they're your hard press nowadays to find something that just stands on its own is this
one thing, right? I'm not even just talking about everything has to be multi use. Yeah, I'm not
even just talking about business, like just everything in life, right? Everything in life when you
think about it is all mashed up now. Well, and that makes sense to use it, you know, if you have the
space, I mean, what one thing we always are complaining about is there enough space, which is
ridiculous in this country, you know, to be to be sure, but I mean, it also builds community.
That's the thing about it is that anytime you have a space it can use for a lot of different things.
The library, you know, a mid-state, you know, they use that for a lot of different things.
Using the space also builds community, which is, you know, so so important.
Entertainment has been doing this for quite some time. The world emerging
radio and TV, or I should say newspaper and radio, radio and TV, TV and movies, and certainly now
with those things in the internet and in those combining those worlds. I've mentioned this many times,
radio is big in this where we use the DC example of the station out there that is politics in
the morning, justice and jazz. This is what they call it. And they do jazz at night. It's just very
different things, but it works so darn well. It does. Very popular. This is how these things, these
industries adapt to modern times. That's what people want more bang for their bucks. That's true.
That's where it goes. Stretch that dollar. One of the things that I have looked up to about Adam
Sandler throughout his career is, you know, being a self-made person, getting his own breaks in
this world. And once he got those breaks, not pulling up the ladder, but lowering it down for
other people, that there's very few times you've ever seen an Adam Sandler production that didn't
involve one of his friends, or somebody has a close tie to, or family members, or something like
that. And then he started it. He left SNL and he started to get bigger. Now, I've been watching
Adam Sandler since he was on a little TV show called Remote Control. Wow. Where it was a game show
on MTV. And he come on and do these little characters and stuff. This is way before a
Saturday Night Live. So I've loved this man since then. I've looked up to him since then.
And maybe the biggest thing I've looked up to about him is the way he dresses.
If you've ever seen me, I take Adam Sandler's style very seriously. I try to dread knob joking.
Let's get a seat. You're going to pick up that. No. It ain't much different. I don't
sure as much different than Adam Sandler. Let's be honest. This is one of the things that I think
has always been charming about him. He's never put on heirs. Adam Sandler's always
been Adam Sandler. To the point where he dresses, he'll show up onto the night show and sweatpants.
Right. It's hard for him to be comfortable doing these things. He is not a naturally comfortable
person on stage. When you see Adam, it's usually as a character. When you see Adam talking to
Dan Patrick, somebody he's known for decades and he gets along with really good and likes,
he's still shy and nervous. Dressing comfortably helps him do these things. That's part of where
this begins. When you think of Adam Sandler, you can't help but think of his impractical, impeccable
fashion. Right. Yeah. Baggy T-shirt and basketball shorts and all of that. But have you ever
wondered why? Sandler recently said that the whole baggy clothes thing started as a joke when he
was young and he says he used to be really into getting into shape. Oh, really. He really buff
in all this. He purposely hit it. So when he take, when he take a shirt off at the beach,
everyone would be surprised. It was a joke. It was a gag. As he got older, he realized that that
made him, like the baggy clothes made him feel more confident and comfortable or more comfortable.
I would say confident. But he never necessarily like had a bad body or anything. Right.
He just wanted to kind of, it was that it started with a joke. It kind of led to him as he got
more and more famous. It being something that he could kind of, in a way, get more comfortable
or hide behind. Right. But now at 58 years old, he has a different and relatable reason,
quote, now I go loose because it should be hidden. Well, when you do a certain age, you know,
it's like, yeah, you change your body changes as you get older. It's time to hide the body.
It's time. I love that story, though. Well, that's a great story. I mean, the man wrote a
song about a red hooded sweatshirt. I mean, that doesn't that explain his whole fashion thing.
It's comfortable, right? Yeah. And as a man, he could get away with that his whole career. That's
right. Yeah. Yeah. That's a good point, Melissa. Yeah. No, women cannot. And actually, there's a
comedian that I follow Sarah Milken, I think, is her, I don't know if I'm saying her last thing, right?
I think so. But yeah, she gets criticized for her clothing, for her weight, for all of that.
And she pushes back against it, which I appreciate her for. She's not wearing baggy sweatshirts.
No. And jogging pants. She's wearing nice clothing, but she still catches
black for it. Yeah. Yeah. It would say right. Hopefully, I do, I do hope more and more
comedians like her come out and start dressing that way and start pushing against that. I do think
that the biggest rebels in entertainment are in comedy. Period. Yes. I would agree with that.
There's no musician. There's no Sid Vicious or you take the most rock and roll musician,
you can think of Ozzy Osborne and put him next to George Carlin. And there's two different
worlds of rebels. There are two different worlds of people who push back. It is in the nature of
great comedians to push back. So on that regard, I think that we couldn't look for the look at the
horizon and think that that's going to happen eventually, that it just by commons. I was saying
Sonato Conner was one of those musicians that really did push back. She pushed back hard.
And she paid for it. She sure did. Unfortunately. Naminis for the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards
dropped yesterday. Anybody? Anybody? That's still a thing. Anybody got it? There's two
questions. One, did you know about this? And two, did you know it was still a thing? Right.
Lady Gaga is on top with 12. She's followed by Bruno Mars at 11 in Kendrick Lamar with 10.
I could have done this same headline like 5, 10 years ago. Yeah. Actually, you could have. You're
right. You're not wrong. Other top 10 vote getters get Sabrina Carter are in a grand day,
Billie Eilish, the weekend, and bad bunny and jelly roll Ed Sheeran, Miley Cyrus. Again,
I could have done this list quite a bit while ago. There's actually a country category this year
for the first time. All country fans will be happy to hear it. That's interesting. I didn't know
they didn't have one. But yeah, a little late. Yeah, a little late on that one MTV. You know,
but there was a whole country. There's like a whole channel that did that too. I mean,
country music television. Yeah. The VMAs air live on September 7th on CBS MTV and Paramount Plus.
And there is a big time rumor that Britney Spears is going to before. Oh, we'll see. Well,
that she kind of made her, those videos are what kind of made her career. So that makes sense.
Just looking at a couple of categories, I would go through video of the year, but none of them have
been seen. Song of the year, Alex Warren, ordinary, Billy Eilish, Birds of Feather, Doge,
Anxiety, Ed Sheeran, Safran, Gracie Abrams. I love you. I'm sorry. Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars
die with a smile. Lord with what was that Rose and Bruno Mars with ATP. Tate McCray with sports
car and the weekend and a playboy Carter with timeless. Did anybody know one of those socks? It's
the only reason I read them. No, anybody. I knew one. I knew one song. I knew one song on that list.
Yeah, one sounded familiar, but yeah, and all the names. Yeah, the names at least some of some I
didn't know. I have to admit that now. How about that? Best. We'll do artists of the year and
best new artists. Okay. All right. Artists of the year. Bad Bunny, Beyonce, Kendrick Lamar,
Lady Gaga, Morgan Wall and Taylor Swift, the weekend. We know all those. Yep. Yep. Yep.
That's pretty Morgan Wall and on that list is so pandering. It's so pandering. I do. Well,
it's MTV. I mean, they're kind of in the business. One of the most pandering artists I've ever
heard of my life. The only reason Morgan Wall and it's not more pandering is because Blake
Shelton exists. That's it. James with the hot music takes today. Best new artist, Alex Warren,
Ella Langley, Gigi Perez, Lola Young, Sombra and the Marissa's. I don't know what I just said.
Do Ella Langley? I do Ella Langley. That's from from WRI, but yeah. By the way, Ella Langley deserves a hug.
I should just always sound so sad to me. I love her voice. I like her voice, but she's a good singer.
And wrapping up, we're talking Wednesday and that is premiering today on Netflix. It's
our second season premiere of Wednesdays up there for you. If you want to check that out, Wendy's
transformed one of its locations in California into a Wendy Wednesdays. A Wednesdays. Oh,
to promote the season two of Netflix. I like that. That's a great idea. That is a good idea.
A writer for TropicalFruit.com went to check it out since it was the one day only. It was
on one day only thing. We waited a bunch of hours to get in and Wendy's also gave everyone a
limited edition pin and a preview of the meal of misfortune which came out today at every location
nationwide. That's a good name for that. That's a good name. It includes a rest in 10-piece nuggets.
Cursed and crispy fries. Okay. A Ravens Blending Frosty. That's Vanilla with Dark
Cherry Swirl. Ooh, sounds good. Two mystery sp- uh, mystery and spicy dips of dread.
Mystery, even better. Ooh, okay. I'm not a chicken nugget guy, but the rest in 10-piece chicken
nugget is such a good line. I kind of want to do that. No, seriously, I want to try those
those sauces, the dipping sauce. I want to, I'm going to go to Wendy's. I think at some point here,
I want to try this. Every meal also includes a plastic purple spoon with a Raven and a design
on it. That's cool. There you go. I love when marketing teams really push themselves in the
really try. You can tell. And whether this was successful or not, I don't know, but I love the
attempt. And I think that just the attempt alone, we wouldn't have been talking about when,
when these this morning, more likely without this. Like that's a good story. I love that. That's
good stuff. It's pretty cool. I, I really am curious of where this goes, because the popcorn
bucket has come back. And, and more and more like, I guess the galacticus popcorn bucket is the
most popular of all of them now. That would make sense. Like, there's a bunch of different things
like there that can be done creatively. If they, if they just push themselves. If they don't
just give in to the easy ones, you know, the, the physical collecting of things is kind of coming
back because it went away for a while, you know, because we had badges, all right. Yeah,
who wants badges, you know, on their, their video games or whatever, you know, there's all these
things over. You can earn these badges. But I think people are going more back to the physical
things like this. Pins, they mentioned. Yes. That one you can have. Pins, people can collect
pins, people love to collect pins, right? So I'm good. These are all really good ideas.
I like it. I like it. I apologize, everybody. It was a little distracted. I pulled up the
WFHR.com. It was just taking a look at some of the articles that I got to catch up on and I was
bookmarking them. I encourage you to do this. Get, be caught up. Get over to WFHR.com right now and
sign up for our newsletter. We got a new edition premiering tomorrow at noon for you. It's been
hard at work. Melissa, how's that going? Oh, it's going great. You know, the more we have people
sign up and give us feedback and click on the links in our newsletter, the better it gets,
the more attention it gets. Yes, that's which is good thing. Some really good articles there
from a lot of our civic media staff. And of course, our in-house staff here appreciate the work
everybody is putting into that, especially what you're doing. Melissa, keep up the great work.
We encourage you to get over to WFHR.com. Sign up for that newsletter. You'll have a new
edition in your email box tomorrow at noon. I do want to point out something new or new we're
on both of our websites and WFHR and WRI is we now have a community calendar on there everybody.
And I'm not just bringing that up because I just yesterday learned how to put pictures on it and
make a lot of work to do that. So you should go and check it out. You should go and check out
the community calendar. Yes, you should. Keep in mind all of our shows are podcasted over there too.
If you go to WFHR.com, just WFHR.com, go down a little ways to the right. You'll see featured shows
and there you can find morning our morning show podcast and play makers, community stories,
rapids report. All of these are right there for you. Absolutely. And we got an open house coming
up everybody. We do. We are what two weeks away. We are two weeks away today. Yes, you are
correct. We are going to be opening our doors to everybody, the whole community and not just
rapids community, but anybody in the surrounding. You can hear us. We want you to come on down.
If you've never been to our studios, we got nice studios. We do. They're actually quite nice.
Yeah, come on. Yeah, Sholly was very impressed. Come on by and check them out everybody and meet our
staff. We're looking forward to meeting you, talking with you, hearing your feedback and getting
to show you the digs, getting to show you around. Along with that, we encourage you to bring the kids
because Melissa does an amazing job hanging out with the kids, giving them a chance to get an idea
of what it's like to be in the in this world in the radio world. Yes, yes, yes. I
anybody who's interested, honestly, even if it's if you're not a kid, kids of all ages.
If you wanted to try being a radio announcer, music DJ, a sports announcer, morning show host,
we got some scripts ready. You'll fill in some blanks. You'll record it. I'll show you how I
edit it and we'll throw it on a USB drive wristband for you. All right. You can take it home with
you. When, uh, Melissa, I didn't know you were training them on morning show hosting.
I know. I want to talk to you more. I'm a little nervous now. Very nervous. I listened to
Quinn's morning show. Oh, yeah. From last year, I really think we should play that at some point
getting up to just because it is so adorable. We have to. And she was five. She's fine. It gives
a perfect idea of what we're talking about. Yeah, exactly. It's in there. It's in there somewhere.
I'm going to find it. Oh, I got it. Oh, okay. I think it's still in the system, actually.
Along with that, we will have a lot of our favorite nonprofits down here with a booth to be
able to give out information and awareness on different topics. We're going to have a dessert
eating contest that we want you guys to vote on. Yes. We are having staff members make desserts.
It's a competition. Not like eat as many desserts as you can as fast. Yeah. I'm sorry. But
everyone gets to vote on who what staff member made the best dessert to get to the little
trial sweet stuff. We're going to have food trucks here as well. Man, it's going to be a lot of fun.
I can't wait. And of course, we're collecting recipes, everybody. We want your recipes as we
are going to celebrate WFHR's 85th birthday. One of the things we want to do is put together
another cookbook. Yes. We're last from the past working on that. We want your recipes for it.
How great would it be to get this cookbook together? And we have recipes from so many people
in the community. And years and years can look back on and your relatives, your kids' kids'
kids can look at and say, oh, they had a recipe in there. Something like that. I love looking
through my family cookbook. I love it. Yeah, that I've inherited throughout the years.
By dad used to read cookbooks. No one can read a cookbook like my father. I'm telling you, it's fun.
It's fun listening to him read a cookbook. Oh, man. That's what I need to fall asleep at night here.
There we go. Hey, dad, can you record that please? We want those recipes. Get them to us,
everybody. You can always email them to us info at WFHR.com. And of course, stop by here if you want.
We can make a copy of one or something like that. Absolutely. Yeah. Make sure you include your name
and the entire recipe, you know, like the ingredients and amounts and how long to cook it or
or the cooking instructions. Right. We should put out some parameters. Pam was talking about that
a little bit. We'll get to that. We'll get to that. Yeah. Yeah. And of course, if you can't be
here, we will be broadcasting live on both of our stations. Noone to two right here in 975FM
and five to six over on 10555WiR. Yes. I'm looking forward to meeting you here in a couple of
weeks. Everybody for our open house going on from Noone to question marks. No, no, no, Noone to six.
Noone to six. I just I was like saying the same question. Yeah, we'll be back aboard show code up,
boarding show on WFHR. Welcome back, everyone. Mornings at WFHR.
Thank you, Mr. Cook. Melissa, Seniors. Yeah. Yeah. You talk about that. Yes. Yeah. Yeah.
Nobody likes Sam. No. We hope you're having a great one out there. Everybody. Thank you so much
for joining us. A couple of things I wanted to touch on here, but I want to actually go back to
the story we were doing about the things that not American things that the world highly recommends
Americans do. Yes. And in part because I think that I came across something here that is
wild. Yeah. It's called the fless and shuffler purr. Fless and shuffler purr for
ski. No, no, no ski on the other side. No. This is a, it's the humble Dutch invention,
the fless and fuffer, that's a quote, they're meant for getting every last bit of sauce or whatever
condiment out of bottles, jars and stuff. And I'm showing a video of it to Seth. Yeah. And this,
I can't imagine, I don't know why this is the first time I'm seeing this. Yes, it's amazing.
It's, I mean, why, why do we not have these? It's nothing crazy. It's a stick with like a little
bit of a, like a, yeah, around something that you would think could, you know, plastic. Go on
the side of a bottle, right? Because it's rounded. Yeah. Mm-hmm. And you push it into the bottle,
say you got a ketchup bottle. Yeah. You push it into the ketchup bottle. And it, you can just pull
it along the side. It's scrape it out. And scrape out whatever's left. It's, it's really cool.
I want one of these. I really do. This is awesome. I just, I don't want to go to a department store
and have to ask for one, though. Because they would be like, what? I just sound, I just sound
it sold. There are people like department store. Well, what, what? You're going to pop on down to
the Ben Franklin and see if they have what I need. I'm going to go to flesh and feffers,
R Us. And pick up one of these, think about bobbers. You got one of them, think about bobbers.
That's, I want to, I want to, when I was a little kid, I used to think there's one of the greatest
ideas I would ever have. I wanted to invent something and name it the thing about bobbers.
And so people just come, hey, you got one of those thing about bobbers. I sure do.
And people, there's somebody else to it. Right here. This is a pretty cool invention. I encourage
people to check it out. It's quite interesting. It is pretty cool. That's, that's pretty interesting.
What else have the Dutch been hiding from us, huh? Yeah. Dutch people.
Couple of quick news and notes. Everybody wanted to remind everyone that we are friends from the
United Way. Terry John sent over some important information to us. And we encourage you to spread
the word about this. Due to the forecasted rain tomorrow, they have moved the school supply
collection, the stuff the bus to East junior high school. It'll go from 11 to one. So keep that in
mind. If you have school supplies that you were going to be dropping off for it, one, it's 11 to one.
And it's over at East junior high. Now Seth, you had a great point about this earlier.
I did. Oh, yeah, today you can drop them off right here, everyone. You can drop them off from,
it's about five o'clock this afternoon or this early evening. And we will take it there for you.
If you are not able to get there tomorrow, we can still take it. We'll take those items today.
And we will get them down there tomorrow. Yeah. We'll make sure. Yeah.
Make sure to drop them off, everybody. And thank you so much to everybody who already has dropped
off. Fantastic. You have impacted the future. Yes, you have. Yes.
And we are going to be out and about the, they have let the WFHR and WYRI zoos out. We
are going to be in the public. The cages are open. Yes. We're going to be at national night out
tonight. We had Melissa and I had Jake on yesterday from the rafters. It's this and GM over
there. Shout out to Jake and the whole staff. And we were talking about this. And it's such a great
event for our community. Such a well celebrated event. And Melissa, I know Laura's going to be
down there tonight for this. And Pam's going to try to stop by there when she can and everything.
But you got to do this last year, didn't you? Yeah, I was there. And I did a bunch of
interviews with our local because there was like the police departments, the fire departments
from all of our surrounding areas, Grand Rapids, Port Edwards, Wisconsin Rapids. And it's just
they enjoy these events because they get to interact with the community on just a friendly level.
Like it's a positive. Yeah. Yeah. It's not, you know, the worst day of your life having been
in an accident or or, you know, some other tragedy of fire. So I think they really just enjoy
getting out in the community and talking. And the kids love the vehicles. It's just it's so fun.
And they have so many other like stands and community organization groups. And there's just so
much to see and do and you get a free ticket for the game. Even better. Yeah. Yeah. Fantastic.
Along with all that, there's going to be ballpark food, fun activities for all ages. It'll be going
from three to six tonight over at legendary Winterfield. Meet us there. We'll say say hi.
Maybe we'll have some swag down there. I don't know how much left to be honest, but we've been
given a lot of that way. Yeah. But we'll try to have something down there for people. And certainly
want always a love and opportunity to talk face to face with our community and and be a part of
this. It's a humbling thing to be able to be a part of this night. We appreciate everybody
coming down to Winterfield and making our officers feel like just another person. Yep.
That's right. So remember the community. Yeah. National night out going on tonight over at
Winterfield from three to six. We'll meet you there. Everybody. And again, keep in mind you go.
You get a free ticket to the game. Yes. And fireworks after the game as well too.
Oh, yeah. It's their biggest fireworks show. It's the finale. Yes. This is the last home game of
the season. The last one of the season, everybody. So we'll have more on that a little bit later.
But we will have that game for you. Of course, right where it belongs at the home of
or after baseball WFHR 620 as they host Fondalak. Oh, those poor dog spiders don't know what's coming.
We do where we got news and sports break coming up for you. We're going to hear from Melissa and
Mike Clemens and our great partners. And we'll come back and we're talking Iceland and baby names
that are banned in Iceland. That's a weird one. Coming up on the morning show here at WFHR.
Welcome back everybody.
Yeah.
Iceland.
No, it didn't work. It didn't work. Not considered a beach paradise in Iceland.
Now, many volcanoes there. Yeah. The black beaches there are really cool though.
That's true. And honestly, I've always been tempted to travel there. Iceland. It's one of those
places I have thought of. Greenland Iceland. Yeah. Both of them. People have said that
they've been there. They said it's really remarkable. It's a really interesting place to go.
I could not help with a topic involving Iceland going from Kokomo to Iceland though. I
couldn't help myself. I apologize. Well, I hope it was worth our friendship. You're dead to me now.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I get it. I completely understand. Completely understand. That's
Terry stuff. Not ours. We have an interesting one that came to us from today.com. The morning show.
25 baby names that have been banned in Iceland. You can name your baby Elizabeth,
but not Eliza there just as an example. Okay. Now, the reasoning for this is just as interesting.
I think living in Iceland and hoping to give your baby a new name. Well, you got to get approved
from a small but mighty personal names committee first. Oh, wow. It was established in 1991
to preserve Icelandic naming tradition, but it has been criticized for borrowing fresh
modern names, trends, and other things. And if you want to name your newborn Johann or MR,
Anna, you'll sail right through the process. Right. Right. But considering Duncan, gray,
or Reese, your babies, well, might not necessarily get the name. There are three rules for naming
a child in Iceland. Okay. The name must have a specific Gramic role, Gramical ending.
Oh, okay. Grammatical ending. Grammatical ending. Okay. It has to conform to the structure of
Icelandic spelling and language. Okay. The alphabet does not have a C, Q, or W, for example.
Oh, didn't know that. No Walters, no Williams. And it must not cause the bear embarrassment.
Really? That's a law. Wow. Now, that's interesting because that's something that I feel like could
change over time. Maybe you're a kid. You don't know any better, but as an adult, you're like,
okay, this name is really, it's gotten me in a lot of trouble. It's really embarrassing and
everything. And I kind of, that part of this, there's the only part of this that I kind of like.
It is a little weird that we, the way that this works. None of us choose our names. Very few,
I should say. Choose our names. We're just kind of given these things, whereas you know,
you would think that we'd have a little say in this. You know, I mean, to a little say at least,
I mean, right. But yeah, as you can imagine, the last point is particularly subjective.
And only the three, the only three people who make up the personal names committee will judge
whether your child's name meets the criteria. Okay. Wow. Three people. How do you get on that
committee? Right. Yeah. The power that you wield over all the children in the land. No,
my goodness. I have had some time to read up and chew on this. And this topic and everything.
So I looked into it and none of our names are banned. However, Jamie is. Jamie, not James,
but Jamie is. No, no, no Scottish names here. Thank you very much. So that one's gone. But Melissa,
Seth, Pam, Chuck, Laura, Michael, those are all okay. Okay. We'll be fine. But here are some
other ones that are rejected, like Vincenzo. No, I had to throw that. Duncan, Scottish, what's
with the Scottish names, Toby, Jerry with a J, Jennifer, another J word. Okay. Laila. Oh, Amelia,
August. My nephew. Dominic, as mentioned before, Eliza, Elliot, a manual, Ethan,
Francisco, Gray, Ian, Jamie, Johnny, Kenneth, Lionel, Mario. No, Mario's. No, well,
Philip, Luigi's okay. Right. Ralph, Ralph, Ralph is another English name. That's a shame.
Like there's, and I also wanted to throw this out to everybody. If you want me to look it up,
I've got the whole list here. Yeah. You can go to NordicNames.de, NordicNames.de. This is the
actual Icelandic website where you can look into these things and find out more. Check and see if
the name you want is banned. They even have a random names thing that can generate names for you
if you're having trouble naming your child. I like the idea of not only that, but if you come to
the country and you have a ban name, you have to change it while you're there. It's why I love
the idea. I'm sure that they don't do that, but I'd be hilarious if they did. One of my favorite
things to do in sports, especially when records are broken is to think, well, could that record ever
be broken? And then to talk about the unbreakable records, it's one of our favorite past times in
sports and everything. When I think of laws that will never exist in the US, this is way up at
the top of the list. We are banning Apple Pie before we ban name. To the point of, we all know
of some names we've come across, and it's not in a scenario you would expect. It's always in a
scenario you never expect, but even in school and a new kid shows up and they have a name, they're like,
whoa, I didn't know we are still naming people that. There's so many Americans in naming. There's
no country that even comes close to us with the way we name our kids. It's the melting pot,
right? It's of all the people from different different from all over the world that live here.
I mean, that's that's part of the whole thing, the whole deal, right? With the United States.
Well, it's in, well, it's can say they have 10 different spellings of McKinsey.
Right. In the very true. How many limbs we have with the middle name? Well, you know, you want
to think about overall like culture in Iceland. Okay, Iceland is a very, very small place.
There's not a lot of space there. They have no immigration. It's rugged. Yeah, yeah, it's right
because there's not a lot of living space in period because it's volcanoes and all, you know,
all this stuff here. So the population by definition has to be small to live there because there's
not a lot of space and you know, with everything that comes with that. So there's no immigration,
you know, you can't go live in Iceland. They don't let people do that. And the fact that they're trying
to save the culture of their names and stuff like that, it just, to me, it just belies the fact
that it's so small. It's just a small community in general that they're concerned about losing
certain things. You know, is this too far? I don't know. I mean, maybe it is a little ridiculous
that you can only name your kids certain things. But we don't live there and we don't know what they've
had to, you know, deal with over the last, how many, many years, decades and centuries. But
for me, I found this to be one of the tougher ones, tougher topics because of everything you just
said there. I think that I think a country's culture and its history are some of the most beautiful
things about it. And to keep that going, what you need to do to do that, I want to listen to,
I want to hear out. Right. I would like this a lot more. I would be a completely in favor for it.
If they just had a little more wiggle room, maybe. It's very strict. Yeah. And I don't know
necessarily what that would even be. I don't want to pretend to know. I don't like it when we tell
other people what to do with their money anymore. What other countries to do with their country.
Right. You know, we don't know. Unless you live there for a good 10 years or something,
I don't know. Even then, it's hard to know that you can say. I've talked to people who spent
like, like right out of college, 20 years in Japan and they will be the first to tell you. I
spent 20 years there and I still couldn't tell you what this means or what that means. Like,
you know, you can spend a long time and be embraced in the culture and still not understand it if
you weren't born and raised to it. As an example, America, if you wouldn't grow, you weren't born
and raised here, it's pretty darn hard to understand America as a whole. Maybe you understand
parts of it, but you're not going to get everything. Big country. I mean, it's a big country. Yeah.
With this list, Abigail is on the list. And I don't know why, but of all the names,
that one threw me the most. And I don't know why. I don't know. I think one of the
Oh, I was saying things that they include in this. Oh, did I get lost? Is that it has to contain?
Okay, it has to contain letters that are in the Icelandic language in the alphabet, right?
Yeah, in the alphabet. So I think that that's probably why some of these are rejected.
To that point, I just let everybody a little behind the curtain. I was like two in the morning
and going over some of the notes for this and everything. And I was trying to think of fun
different names that I could look up to see if they were banned. And I'm like, where are the Zs?
Oh, yeah. Look at, we're not Zs, but looking for certain letters, you know, they don't have.
No Ws, yeah. And I'm going to be honest with everybody. I had never thought of that and thought
of that with some countries, let alone Iceland or anything. Boy, if there's an alphabet that
doesn't make any sense to outsiders, the Iceland, you know, you've all seen how the capital
of Iceland, you know, Reykjavik is spelled. Does it look like Reykjavik at all? No, no, no.
The way he's supposed to pronounce it. So it is, it's a tougher language to master as well.
It's a pretty interesting story. You can find out more if you want to go to today.com and
look up the particular article. And again, of course, if you want to look up names in general,
or just any of the above. Sure, I'm curious. NordicNames.de. NordicNames.de. You can go ahead.
It also includes the year that they were rejected. I think that that's cool.
Thank you. I forgot to mention that. I thought that was really rejected on June 7th, 2023,
or whatever. That's really interesting. And some of them have been rejected more than once or
approved. Like Christine was rejected in 2001. And then it was approved in 2002. So even that's
flexible. It's not a, it's not a, it's not a dead thing. Yeah. They revisit them. Yeah.
The same three people every time. Of course not. Yeah. That's right. Well, they're going to get
different opinions. Yeah. And it's not as if the culture hasn't been big here in this country
for a long time. Yeah. So, you know, I think that this is understandable on a number of levels.
I think it's far, I bring that up in part of like them wanting to keep their culture alive,
seeing other countries embrace the culture, whether it's a, it's a number of different things.
Yeah. Right. I think that you see the importance of your own in many regards. You see,
you see yourself in other people's eyes off more times than not. Exactly. It's not a bad way
to look at yourself sometimes too. That's very interesting. We will take a quick time out. Come back
and wrap up the show. The Morning Show on WFHR.
Welcome back everybody. Morning show here at WFHR. Locally grown radio. Melissa
Seth and James ticketed atop of the hour, wrapping up the show for a Wednesday. Thanks so much
for joining us everybody. Okay, we can be friends again. That's good beach boys. Yeah.
Gotta win over the crowd. That's not the first rule of entertainment. Yeah.
We appreciate you joining us everybody. We got a fun lineup for you throughout the rest of the
day. A bunch of great civic media programming lined up for you. Stick around for that.
And join us at WFHR.com where we've got a new episode of the Rapid Support that will be streaming
for you a little later this afternoon. Joining us today, Sheriff Sean Becker,
Wig Toney, Sheriff's Department. Nice. Sean takes it so seriously. He was early. He was
a, he was early. I was just teasing him. We got, of course, our friends from Wisconsin's
Rapps Community Media also in with us today. We're looking forward to hanging out with them.
I got plenty to talk about with Sean and he always brings plenty to talk about
looking forward to that interview. And I'm sure we'll talk about National Night Out a little bit
as well. A quick reminder that we will be at National Night Out. WRI's lore will be over there.
Brock, not Brock, I'm sorry, keep doing that tour. She's going to be down there with a booth.
Yep. Come down, say hi. Pam's going to try to stop by a little bit too. And it's going to be fun.
We're looking forward to it. Join us for National Night Out tonight over at Winterfield for fun
evening with community partners. It's going from three to six. They're going to have police squads,
ballpark food, fun activities. And if you attend the game, you're going to take it to see the
rafters win their final home game of the season against the dive spiders. Yeah. Those darn duck
spiders with their docking and their spider. And let's get them. Step on them. Step on them. Get
them. Don't want to be away. We are looking forward to being a part of that night tonight.
Yes. We're looking forward to that. And we're looking forward to broadcasting the final home game of
the season for Wisconsin Rappets rafters. Now the rafters do have a handful of games left in the
season. They do. And they will be broadcast right here. But our final home announcement will be
tonight. And you can catch it after playmakers. You're perfect tailgate into rafter baseball.
We'll be here four to five. I want to five five WRI sports director here in the studios. Michael
Comer going to be joining me today. As I mentioned earlier, we're going to lead off. I'll tell you
right now we're leading off with the NFL and ESPN merger. Or they deal that went on there.
Yeah. And getting into the game as well be a merger. Yeah. Getting into the details of that one.
We're going to talk about that. And of course talk rafter baseball and have some more fun.
Let join us today from four to five and every Monday Wednesday and Friday for playmakers where we
speak sport probably brought you by quality plus printing and family natural foods. And rafter
baseball six twenty tonight opening pitch. And Seth it is Wednesday. We know what that means.
Why is it time for bingo? Bingo over at the Wisconsin Rappets elx lodge number six ninety three
at four thirty west Jackson street doors open at five o'clock. Bingo starts at six thirty
over there. Have some fun. Support our friends over at the elx lodge and all the great things that
they do there. We got something else here because the okay baseball after tonight maybe over at
Winterfield. But that doesn't mean it's not going to be rocking. Yes. We've got what is it?
The glam band. Yeah. The picture of these guys. I love it man. These guys are so good man. Gates
open at six o'clock at seven o'clock Monroe. The opening act will be there. And then at eight thirty
it is the glam band. Get your tickets at rafters baseball.com. This is a rock out for a good cause
with the glam band. That's coming up on Saturday everyone. And that's going to be a fantastic show.
I think that's what we need. We need more we need more concerts at Winterfield. That's what I
think. Yeah. It's going to be exciting. We're good. We we had fun talking with Jake about that.
We'll be hyping that up as we get closer and closer to it. I will let everybody know I'm working
the next episode of Unlabeled is all hair metal and glam rock. I haven't done in thirty one of
these and I haven't done one featuring that. That's all right. I got to do it. Got to do it.
Got to do it. So be on the lookout for that. Everybody will let you know when that one is going to
premiere. Also wanted to give everybody a heads up about a blood drive that is happening in town
here on Friday. That Friday is the eighth right. The eighth you got it. It's going over. It's
happening at the Wisconsin Roads fire department at 1511 12 street south right here in Rapids.
1023. Be sure to mark that on your calendar if you get a chance and donate if you can. We greatly
appreciate all of you out there that do. Thank you so much. And I wanted to make sure to mention
our great friends over at the historic point boss have their murder mystery who done it coming up.
It's always a fun time. This Saturday one of the cooler funner events to happen in all of
Central Wisconsin is happening. It's the who done it. We had on Mike and Luke Luke the other day
to talk about this on the rapid support. Go over to wfhr.com and check out that interview if you
didn't get a chance to man they do a great job. They're so awesome. I just turn Mike's mic on and
just get out of his way. It's so great. And it's a fun time. You get to be whoever your favorite
detective is. That's right. Sure lock to Colombo to anybody. You get to the old dog drumming.
Yes. There's an old one. Full dog drumming. Yeah. I got the Christie. I had to lose.
Angel Lanzberry. Yeah. Well though. It was just true. It's an old. It's true. Good for the hardy boys.
Jessica. What was it? Jessica Walter? I forget her last name. It was Jessica something though. Yeah.
Something. Oh yeah. All these characters you get to be as you go around the wonderful crew
and team there. Nice. Okay. Good cop. And get to ask Spencer. Spencer for higher. There's another one.
You get to ask these questions and really try to figure out who done it. Right. Because somebody
turned up dead in the bunk house. Yeah. And this is a locked room mystery. Those are some of my
favorites. This also pulls from Wisconsin actual history and teaches that in the same time. And
these prices are from the 1800s because they do not change their prices over there that is very
important to them to make this affordable for the community. Yes. They do that to have our back
and to keep this history alive is having our back. Let's have theirs. Yeah. And show up at these
events. Make plans to be at the historic point bosses. Murder mystery who done it this Saturday
from 2 to 5 at 364 Wakely Road in Nicosom. Mm hmm. That's definitely an awesome event. That's going
to be a lot of fun. Good job. And if you're a member of historic point boss, it's free. It's free.
Yeah. Keep that in mind. I always consider that. Yeah. Coming up. When you sign up for that,
that's one of the things that you get. I encourage you to do any of their events you get
in for free. And Seth, you mentioned this earlier today is the final day to drop off school supplies
right here at the studios. If you have them, you also have a number of other locations in town to
do. So you can find those at UWAC.org. Go to the United Way's book website and check that out.
Along with that, keep in mind that the United Way has also had to change their location.
Tomorrow. Yes. Yeah. They're going to be at a different location tomorrow. So just keeping in
mind. And I just wanted to make sure to get this right and pull this up myself. So due to the
forth. It's going to be raining. Yeah. Due to the forecast that drained, they have moved the
school supply collection stuff, the bus to East junior high school for tomorrow. It'll go from 11 to
one. Spread the word about this. Everybody makes sure that our whole community knows that there's
a new location. Absolutely. And keep in mind that we, of course, got that open house and our
newsletter and all this stuff coming up everywhere. Lots of stuff happening, man. So many things.
The joints jumping. Yeah. So I'm saying get on over it all in before the end of the summer.
Right. Yeah. The school starts. And as we wrap up a good stories of the day, I just one more time
wanted to thank everybody that came down to audition for Angle and Pond. Major job hard.
I thank you for doing that. We will be announcing the cast sometime this afternoon. Be on the
lookout for that. You should be getting an Illinois phone call from me. Otherwise, we will have
it on the website and have it on social media sites. And no matter if you get a role or not,
we'd love to have you backstage. And we really want you to come back down. Never stop auditioning.
Never stop auditioning. And get your tickets. We got an incredible main stage season ahead for you.
We do at WRCT. And it kicks off with Angle and Pond. Get your tickets for it and find out more at
wrctheater.org. WRC theater.org. And thank you again, everybody.
Wildlife officials in northern Wisconsin helped a bear that got a jar stuck on its head.
I don't know. People are saying it was a real life winning the pool. I was going to say,
that's what that's immediately what I thought of. If you are hit that bear's friend,
are you going to give him a hard time? Like, I mean, man, we're trying to break stereotypes.
And you're just out there just to break head in a cutting jar. What are you doing?
I want you to just walk around with a shirt and no pants. Just go ahead. Just completely
all. Oh, you're going to steal a picket back. Yeah, I was going to say where a weird floppy
had an Ebola tie or whatever was Yogi Ward. We are trying to break the bare stereotypes around here.
Guys, it smells like cheese, cheesy poos. Oh, they do smell good.
And staying in state, a Wisconsin restaurant owner named Chad trainer is in the news
after a bunch of teenagers stepped up to keep him in business. Oh, he owns a place called
Urban Olive and Vine. The only and that only hires teenagers. He has about 30 of them on staff
and he says he likes them because they soak up information and want to do well and work hard.
They do. And last September, his wife Carol had a grand mal seizure and was in the hospital for
eight months. Sadly, she didn't make it and she passed away in May. While all this was going on,
Chad thought he might have to close down the business, but without even being asked,
his employees banded together and ran it for him. Wow. These teenagers again, they trained
each other, bought supplies and came up with new specials. Some of them showed up at 530 in the
morning to open and do prep their work for work each day before school. This needs to be made
into a movie. The only time they allowed it to close was so that they could go to Carol's funeral.
Oh, wow. That's an amazing story. I want to cry now. Oh, yeah. It's getting me. It's getting me
out of the honest. Fantastic. Chad told a reporter. He watched them turn from teenagers into adults.
Yes. Wow. Love is them for it. Wow. What a story.
There are good things out there. They are. And they're even closer than you think sometimes.
Great show, YouTube. YouTube. You too do. Be good to each other out there.
