Meet Magnifico! (Hour 2)

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Everybody, we hope you're having a good one out there.

We're going to have some fun and a little bit getting some entertainment news, got that

coming up for you.

We're going to talk about Gen Z's most trusted brands getting into that one as well.

But it is a Thursday in the 10 o'clock hour.

We all know what that means.

It is time for a pet of the week with our friends at the Southwood County main society.

We've got Denise joining us.

Denise, always good to have you with us.

Thanks for being here.

Good morning.

Doing good.

How are you?

I'm good.

Thanks.

How are things going over at the shop?

Really, really good.

We're inundated with dogs and cats, but things are going so well.

We have great staff, great volunteers.

That makes a difference, man.

It does.

Very good to hear.

Denise, have you ever heard of the Hambone Awards?

No.

Every year we do this segment, we at least I should say the last three or four years, they've

been doing this.

The nationwide pet insurance company has, it's their 17th annual, we've been covering

it for about four or five years, but they do this Hambone Awards, which highlights the

most odd things that people.

The head of insurance claims.

Yeah, insurance claims for people's pets.

Oh, boy.

I can only imagine.

There's so many good ones.

If you and your staff need a pallet cleanser, this is a great one to go to because more on

all the animals are okay, but there's just some great stories here of like just the cat

named Salem, who was suspected of swallowing an air pod.

They took it in for a vet visit, but they wasn't in there.

But she found it.

She found them thing.

It was, so there's some great ones there, encouraging to check out some public stuff.

Who do we have rolling along my feet over here?

This is Magnifico, he's an orange tabby, about three years old.

He's one of the older cats at our facility, granted the average age of most of what we

have right now is about eight months old because three is not an old cat.

No, no, he's pretty young, but he's usually very snuggly, and when you pick him up, he

like rubs his face on you, but he is very anxious this morning.

Yeah, that is okay.

It's his first time on air.

Yeah, he's on air and not loving it.

Boy, if you guys heard my first shift on air, it was much worse, much worse, yeah, very

sweet.

It is very sweet.

Also curious.

Once he calms down, he's very sweet.

As I was just saying to Ashley out there, I said that he's definitely got mead head potential.

I agree.

You know, you like that in a cat sometimes, you know?

Certainly the kind of orange traditional coat you're used to, but I feel like it's darker,

like a darker orange, and I really like that.

It's a real ginger.

I really like that.

Oh, yeah, ginger.

That's going to put it in.

Ginger, yes.

I'll mention, he is three, so he has all of the fixings, all the shots.

Looted, vaccinated, and microchips.

Yeah, it looks like he just got his microchip.

He's got a little scratch on his shoulder right now.

Yeah.

Not too long ago.

That was a reaction they sent to the microchip.

Yeah.

And not a lot of background on him.

No.

Kind of just in a, just a, just a, a false.

He made his ass tray and just, he's been a wonderful, he's so good at the shelter.

The volunteers love him, the staff love him.

Well, that's just it.

He's, I mean, for one, it's a handsome cat.

He's a mute.

He's a handsome cat.

He doesn't mean this in anything against other cats or anything like that, but a lot

of the time you can tell, oh, this is, oh, this cat has been wild, this cat looks like

it's been, had a good life, you know, and again, it's polite, it's, you know, it is curious

and running around, but it's not like scratching me or anything.

It's not, you know, just sniffing, just sniffing, not even licking me, just sniffing.

My, my friend brother does more to me when I bring him into the studio, but you might

be, you might be sniffing Sammy on you.

That's right.

That's right.

When it comes to a cat like this and the right family for it, are there any kind of,

like, outliers we're looking for or any family come on, come on, come on.

Yeah, come on, come on.

This cat seems to be cat-friendly.

So the families that have other cats and one of, add another one or dogs too.

He doesn't seem to anxious around dogs.

He doesn't get, you know, growling and angry around dogs.

So that's how he got the name, the name Magnifico.

Correct.

That is.

Top tier.

It's rare.

It seems rare that you find an animal, one another cat that's okay with cats that have

already had an established family in the home.

But then a dog too.

By Magnifico.

You really are Magnifico.

Right.

So families, families with pets, families that want one more pet or families who want an

only cat Magnifico's your guy.

He is.

And we would absolutely encourage meet and greets because he never know if Magnifico's

going to like your other pets or your kids.

So please, if you're interested, come and meet him.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I'm sorry.

I'm going off the hook somewhere and I'm just trying to figure out where that might be.

Over here on the side, Laura, if you want my look, thank you.

Denise, when it comes to this kind of, this kind of cat in particular, I also wanted to

say that I think that somebody, like somebody retired or somebody that, you know, maybe

just retired.

Yeah.

And if you're looking not only for hobbies or things to do, but something, something that

will come home to, things like that.

Perfect for that.

He really is.

It's just the first meeting.

I'm seems like a great cat for.

So I don't know that there's anybody out there listening that he would not fit with.

It would not be a good fit.

But it kind of seems like it.

And like I said, he's been there for like a month or so and he's been overlooked because

people want the kittens, but this cat is already tried and true and doesn't require any additional

kitten work.

Yeah.

Magnifico found our secret.

He found our secret other phone.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I'm sorry.

That's okay.

He's a cat.

He's doing this.

So the segment magnet, he gets the segment.

He gets it.

He wasn't going to meow into a microphone and be rude about it.

He just knocked on the mic.

Now, if I plan to knock the phone over, it's not funny.

It's like, James, you're just the klutz, but if Magnifico does it, it's hilarious.

This is live radio.

This is great.

That's what that sound was, everyone.

And he doesn't realize it, but he's selling himself right now.

He's selling himself.

Because his curiosity and his interest at that, I think, is one of the selling points

to me, especially with cats.

I think sometimes people make it, they want to, it's just easier for a brain to lump

things into things and cats are this way, dogs are this way.

I have met so many dogs that are cat dogs and I've met so many cats that are my old cat

that I talk about all the time, Hemingway.

That was a dog.

It was a dog cat.

There was, I have no doubt that Hemingway was part dog.

There's something about these animals that I think you have to really be around them

to truly get an idea of what they're like.

Yeah, they all are very unique and they all have their own separate personalities.

Yeah, animals are cool.

They are.

When it comes to stuff going on over at the shop, it got events coming up and things like

that.

We do, yeah, big 5K, nine walk run is coming up September 20th.

Registration is live.

We encourage you to go to our website and it'll take you, there's a link to take you

to the one cause page and you can register online there.

You can stop in, you can register day of if you'd like to.

That's swchs.com.

Correct.

All right.

That'll be taking place 8 a.m. Lake Wazeach, a beautiful Lake Wazeach, I should say.

Mark your calendar September 20th and I know, well, that's over a month away, no, it's

right around the court.

It really is.

I promise.

It's so quick.

It happened so fast.

Once you register, once you get set up, you're ready to go and all that, so make sure

to do that.

Absolutely.

I'll kind of run stuff.

Absolutely.

I want to do it just for the shirt.

I want to do it just for the shirt.

Yeah, the shirt sounds like a deal.

It's a great opportunity to get some exercise, especially as we're getting closer

to colder weather and a great way to put back into our community, by local support,

local supporting these events with our community societies and on nonprofits is how we keep

them running and how we keep them healthy and going.

We appreciate you so much. sachy.

Thank you very much for not only coming in Denise, but bring it in a, a magnificent.

That's awesome.

We appreciate that.

Great to meet you.

You and the staff, you guys have a great week.

Say hi to everybody for us and we'll hang it again next week.

Thank you so much for having us.

We'll talk to you soon, Magnifico.

Awesome.

Find out more about your Humane Society head on over there.

You can stop by at 36 21 64 Street North right here in Wisconsin, Rapids.

Bring all your pet needs or things that you can, wet cat food, things like that they

could always use.

Of course, you can email them office at swshs.com.

You can get them a call 715 423 0505 or make sure to stop by their Facebook page and

like it and share their posts on your page.

You just never know who might see it otherwise.

And of course, that website swshs.com, swshs.com.

Be listening next Thursday for another opportunity to hear our pet of the week with Denise and

the Southville County Main Society.

We'll be back with more show.

Drownless, please.

Welcome back everybody.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

One right even say.

Mm-hmm.

Morning show here at WFHR locally growing radio.

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

Thanks so much for joining us over here.

I want to say a big thank you to Denise and Magnifico for joining us.

Yes.

Find out more about your local Humane Society support local everybody.

Get on over to swshs.com and follow along with what they're doing.

Magnifico is curious but polite.

I got to talk about this because we are a talk show and we of course are pot, we work

in the podcast world as well.

We do.

We will be more on that later with Rapids importance and the other work we do around

it.

Yeah.

But yesterday 1.3 million fans tuned into the Kelsey Brothers podcast new heights to watch

live Taylor Swift and it broke the internet.

Yeah, she has another album coming out, guys.

As a side note, we got to come up with a better phrase than broke the internet.

The internet didn't break this time, guys.

It never breaks.

No.

It's always working.

It didn't break.

The internet was fine.

We need to come up with a better phrase.

Oh my god.

10 takeaways.

I don't want to go through it.

I can't do it.

I can't do it.

I'm not trying to be a jerk.

She's engaged to the guy.

The couple is adorable and she has a new album coming out and they just launched this

podcast.

So she announced it on the podcast.

Come on.

One thing she didn't talk about that I would like to see her address, actually two things

I would.

But one of them more in particular.

One I read today about an article, a lawsuit that she had back in 2017 about a guy who

was groping her, a producer and her coming out and bringing it to court.

And she won and the court sentiment was for a dollar because she didn't want the money.

She just wanted to bring attention.

All that.

I don't know why people don't note that about her career more often.

I just learned that today in 2025, but I'd never heard that about her.

And I'm like, oh my god, especially as much as I care about.

No, it was the principle.

The thing.

It wasn't a violence.

How anti that I am being on the family center board.

I was a little surprised that I had not heard that before.

I wanted to credit her that.

That's really kind of cool.

But also she has been in the works behind the scenes for a long time to get to own her music,

to buy her music catalog.

Yeah.

She's been doing a lot of work to get that.

During that time she's been doing something called what the Taylor tapes or whatever the

Taylor Taylor's version, Taylor's version where she's re-recording her music and putting

out albums that she already had.

Yep.

So that she's getting the money for those right.

So she's making money off of albums she already sold, but she's getting the money.

But then in the whole time she's been doing this behind the scenes, she's been working to

own her own music.

So that she'll get the money for either version that plays now.

So I mean, like this is, that's awfully shady.

I'm sorry.

Yeah.

That's shady because you got, you just took what you just did to your fan basis.

They just went out and bought their music, that your music again so that you could get all

the money.

And now you got, you know, as the whole time you knew that you were going to be able to

buy your whole catalog.

Well, there's an element of that to it.

I hear you.

But her fans wanted her to be able to buy the previous versions and get paid for her

work back then too.

It's about supporting the artist regardless of because this particular artist is very

bad to artists.

And even this one, she made a lot of money despite it and she owned an island long before

this.

Right.

I'm not saying she needs money.

No, I'm saying that she should be getting all of the credit for her music, not the production

company.

And if credit means money, then that's what it means.

She shared the 12 song track list, which includes a feature with Sabrina Carpenter, as well

as the release date.

It comes out October 3rd.

There won't be any bonus songs, quote, there's no other songs coming.

There's not a, there's not a 13th.

She chose the color orange because it feels like the kind of energetic our life is right

now.

Taylor's goal for the album is to create quote, melodies that are so infectious that you're

angry at it in lyrics that are just as vivid.

Okay.

Yeah.

Travis says all 12 songs are bangers, quote, it's a lot more upbeat and it's a lot more

like fun pop.

It's excitement.

Sure.

And then he was comparing it to a tortured poets album saying that that it's a much different

vibe.

It sounds like.

Taylor says there are do's and don'ts of leaving Easter eggs for fans that'll always point

to her music and never her personal life.

Okay.

So she's saying kind of outright that I'm not sharing my personal life with you guys.

Right.

Right.

They don't read too much into these songs.

That sounds like at least, which seems a little bit different than way she's written

in the past.

Right.

Which is honestly good because of the content, the subject matter that she usually deals

with.

It makes sense that she make it clear to her fans, hey guys, these songs are not about

anybody you know.

They're just about.

She's currently obsessed with making sourdough bread and says she talks about bread 60%

of the time.

So is that what her songs are?

I love the idea.

Yeah.

I want her to write a sourdough bread.

Like just a whole album of just about bread.

Taylor and begging you, I would actually buy that album.

I've never bought a Taylor Swift album in my life.

But if she wrote one about sourdough bread, I would.

Also, I think noteworthy about a lot of this too is her, like being able to continue

a career, this run.

We don't see it often within pop music where an artist can be relevant multiple decades.

She's going on her second here.

She's going, she's been around a long time now and still breaking the internet, if you

will, still being able to do these things.

And there's, I understand the pushback of this.

I have it myself to a degree, even though I like Travis Kelsey and I like the Kelsey brothers

and all that.

And I don't have anything against Taylor Swift.

I just don't have a feeling about her.

No.

And when it comes to her, I don't, I don't have a, I don't have a care for her music.

Certainly.

I'm not her wheelhouse.

I'm not her market.

No.

But I do admire and appreciate some of the things she has done with her career.

So her as a person, I got, you know, I'm Switzerland on and her music.

It's not for me.

It's not meant for me.

At the end of the day, she's still a billionaire and you don't get to be a billionaire without

doing some shady stuff.

That's true.

That's just what it is.

I'm sorry.

I don't care what the billionaire is that you're looking up to.

That's the fact of the matter.

Yeah.

Kevin Hart is teaming up with Netflix for a new competition series to find the next big

stand up comedian.

He'll be joined by a group of comics who will be announced later at a later date.

Netflix says the contestants will quote, face rigorous tests that mirror the real life

journey of a comedian from brutal open mics to bombing sets and rewrites to the pressure

of big stage performances.

The competition will give viewers an unvarnished look at comedy's darkest corners and brightest

spotlights, which challenges inspired by some of the comics actual career trajectories.

How is this any different than last comic standing?

It's the last comic standing.

It's less comic standing.

That's what it is.

It's the last comic standing, but Kevin Hart.

Yeah.

I mean, if I'm the owners of last comic standing, I'm like, hey, wait a minute.

Hey, that's familiar.

That's a copywritten.

The show doesn't have a title yet, obviously.

I have an idea.

And there will be eight episodes.

It's set to come out sometime next year.

I will say two things real quickly about this.

One, any opportunity for comedians to get a break.

I'm all for.

I don't care.

I hate reality TV, but if it's given creatives and opportunity, more power to you.

Make that opportunity.

I heard about this story first before Kevin Hart's name attacked to it because of a good

friend of mine, Will, who has been a stand of comedian for 20 some years, and Will has

made a career in the industry with having consistent work and not being too big for him.

He doesn't care about that stuff, but he also doesn't want to be too big because he gets

pulled from gigs and all the sun he has to be away from home and he doesn't like that.

He heard about this opportunity and was the first time he has ever thought about leaving

the state of California really trying and leaving and doing something like that.

For him to do that his age, because he's around my age, he's just really a couple years

younger than me.

Yeah, but you're not decrepit, you've got time.

I'm just saying that the age range they're looking for for these comedians is a wide gamut

it sounds like, which I think is a really smart idea.

Yeah, I agree.

Especially for comics.

One of my favorite stories in SNL history will always be, oh, darn it.

I just had it.

I just had her name.

Leslie.

Oh, the one that's on SNL Jones.

Leslie Jones, you know, in her 40s, making a big break and everything getting the mic

train job.

And now she's doing the Olympics.

I think it's a cool gig or a cool opportunity for not only these comedians, but even for

Netflix, who is really struggling right now to really get people to want to, why are

you watching Netflix?

Yeah, they're calling up Kevin Hart.

Yeah, they're bringing in a big gun.

And then that's, thank you, you teed me up because Kevin Hart's name touched this.

I understand that Kevin Hart's had some movies that are bombs.

I know that not everything he's done is great.

The majority of stuff, he is incredibly smart with stuff.

People still like him.

Well, and he's been smart as much as you see him as much as he's doing commercials.

He has also been smart about the choices he makes.

I like Shack.

I think Shaquille O'Neal's great, but Shaquille won't say no to nothing.

Right.

Believe it or not, Kevin Hart is saying no to things.

Right.

So the things he's saying yes to, his gut is telling him his people are telling him, hey,

this is a smart opportunity.

Maybe this turns into something.

I hope it does not for Netflix, but for the hope of these comedians.

Yeah.

I like the opportunity for that.

We'll see what happens.

But if you want to apply, you can.

They are taking applications.

Now, this was just opened up.

This was opened to like more of your coast comedians, east, west coast comedians at first.

Now they're kind of getting it open for everybody.

And I'm looking at it and it's not a lot of, it's not a heavy registration or anything.

Go to uscastingreach.com website.

I have booked.

But also if you just throw this into your search engine, you should be able to find it.

If you're having a really hard time, reach out to us.

That's true.

James has a link.

Yeah.

Maybe I'll put it in the show notes.

I am bookmarking it right now for you, because I'd love the opportunity of anybody local,

you know, getting it.

Hey, give us a call if you get in there, huh?

Now that I'm thinking about it, I'd like to see our, our good friend in there.

I don't want to say his name because I don't want to put him on the spot, but for somebody

we work very closely with and James works very closely with and has an amazing beard.

Also runs a comedic comic store Madison, but, but I'm not going to say his name just because

I don't want to put him on the spot.

I might as well.

I don't know what I'm doing.

One of the things I did want to encourage everybody to do is get to wfhr.com and sign up

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Our staff, pretty much everybody, but a couple of us around here are down there at lunch

by the river.

Yep.

We're the only ones left.

Hang on down.

Hang on down there.

Everybody get some food.

Bring your appetite.

We're looking forward to seeing everybody at lunch by the river today, 1131 over at beautiful

Veterans Memorial Park.

Yeah.

We'll take a time out.

When we come back, we have celebrities and their weird collections, 10 celebrities with

strange, wildly expensive collections.

Oh, yeah.

I forgot the expensive part.

I got to throw that in there.

Sure.

We'll be back after our news, sports and entertainment break on the morning show at

wfhr.

Quintessential 80s beat for the summer.

Yeah.

Has to be played every summer.

Laura and James here with you.

Thanks so much for joining us, everybody.

We hope you're having a fantastic, went first day out there.

It is Thursday.

All day.

I got thrown off.

Quint threw me off a little bit.

That's all right.

That's all right.

We are getting into a fun one right here, kind of extending our entertainment topic a little

bit, but the different one is kind of a different angle.

Sure.

Yeah.

Yeah.

If you were rich and famous, what would you collect?

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What would you collect?

Now, Laura, I'm throwing this one at you.

Off the top of your head, is there anything that comes to mind, anything you can think

of?

Plants.

Like, yeah.

Plants.

I would have a greenhouse that is also my kitchen.

I would collect plants.

So it probably would spend a good amount of time, that change on the greenhouse itself,

I bet.

Yeah.

And then I would also spend a lot of money on fancy rocks.

Because I guess I hadn't thought of this before, but yeah, there's expensive plants.

Yeah, there are.

Oh, yeah.

There are rare, difficult to find, hard to cultivate plants, and if I had enough money

to have the time to cultivate, difficult to cultivate plants, oh, man.

I can't, I've never really, I've never really been in a point in life where I had a ton

of money that I could throw around or anything like that.

And I'm not very good at window shopping kind of thing.

I don't like looking at stuff I'm never going to own.

I know interest in that.

I could never understand MTV Cribs or lifestyles of the rich and famous or any of these shows.

They seem like taunting to me.

They said like,

But do you ever scroll realtor.com?

You know, that is different.

Yeah.

No, no, it's not that different.

No, it's not.

You're right.

That's it.

And so I've done that a little bit before and I looked at houses and stuff.

But it's such a, it's so rare to me to come across the question that I haven't really

like dove into or overthought or something.

And I haven't really thought about this before what I would collect.

You would have every animal that is homeless in the tri-county area.

Wherever I live, that's that humane society.

They're bored.

They have nothing to do because I've taken all of their animals.

Yes, you're 100% right John Stewart.

All right, John Stewart.

I definitely would.

I'd probably do.

Maybe, you know, there's a lot of stories of celebrities with their famous collections

and things.

We have a list here of celebrities with strange, wildly expensive collections.

Sure.

I think the easiest one.

Like Jay Leno's cars.

That's one.

That's probably the, the, and that's not on here.

So I'm glad you said that one.

But that is one of the more known ones.

Right.

And right next to that already after it is Nicholas Cage.

Nicholas Cage got in trouble famously with the IRS because he was buying all these weird

items.

Yeah.

He's got some weird collections.

Yeah.

He was a macabre collector.

Just collect shrunken, pygmy heads and haunted, haunted properties.

Yeah.

So not items.

He's buying houses.

Like the locations.

Like, yeah.

Yeah.

That's very, this is a very Nicholas Cage thing to do.

That's also like, I'm not into like, oh, that's, that's a really, you know, a big move,

a boss move or whatever.

But like, I'd be bad.

When you, like, when you collect houses or, no, I'm sorry, a properties, like when that's

your haunted properties.

That's, I mean, that's a pretty baller.

It's a collection right there.

I wonder.

Okay.

Here's what I want to see.

Are you ready?

You're not ready.

I want to see a comparison.

Nicholas Cage's collection and Zach Baggins's collection.

Oh, wow.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's going to be interesting.

Right.

Johnny Depp, he has an enormous Barbie collection, including limited edition, like Beyonce

and Elvis ones and all that.

He says he used them to improvise scenes with his kids.

Sure.

He actually famously brings his work on his roles, certain roles, of course, not all

of them, but certain roles.

He's really picked his brain's kids about before and it was working with them.

Kids brains.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And stuff.

I think I like that opportunity.

I think that's a cool, like, I kind of think to do.

Yeah.

Rod Stewart, he spent almost 30 years building a massive model train city at his home.

That's kind of awesome.

It's kind of like model train people, not going to lie.

He's inspired by mid-century Manhattan and Chicago and there's a great YouTube video

of it.

If you want to go online and see it, just as a side note, Rod Stewart, great narrator,

great narrator.

Oh, cool.

I wouldn't have thought of that.

I kind of think of him as a little bit of a mumbler.

He sure.

He does a great, when he's talking trains, he is all in.

He can just go.

Yeah.

He's got, and this look at it, if you've ever seen a model train like thing in somebody's

basement before, times that by a billion.

And imagine you had all the money and time in the world to do something like this and build

it.

It takes up his basement.

It's gigantic.

The skyscrapers are huge in it, and everything.

Look at this man's face when he's talking about it.

Oh my God.

I love watching people talk about the things they're passionate about and this is an awesome

example of it.

I'm not even a huge Rod Stewart fan and I'm loving that video.

I think by this point, almost everybody in our listenership has seen Rod Stewart

and Rod Stewart doing something live, maybe not in person, I mean, or just a video or something

like that.

And he's happy.

He's famous for bringing a soccer ball out on the stage and kicking it out to the audience

and stuff.

Sure.

We've seen him happy.

Yeah.

You're 100% right.

I've never seen Rod.

I guess I haven't.

He's just going.

He's having a great time.

I thought I'd seen Rod Stewart happy.

Talking about his trains.

Yeah.

He loves it.

Oh, fantastic.

One of the among sports fans, the version of this, Nicola Jokek, the Joker, and basketball.

He's the greatest basketball player in the world.

He has been for like four or five years.

Him and the honest are neck and neck, but Joker has been MVP.

He's incredible at basketball.

Also doesn't look like he cares.

Right.

Is he the one that's a goat farmer?

Yeah.

Horses.

He has horses.

He has a horse in his native, a servio in his country.

He raises and raises horses.

And that's where you see him passionate.

His horse is a couple of weeks ago one.

He just happens to be good at basketball, and it pays the bills.

A couple of years ago, his team won the National One Day NBA Finals.

And everybody's smelling champagne and all this.

He's excited, but he's kind of like, okay, now I get to go home.

Yeah.

His horse just won a championship.

And he's jumping up into seven foot two men, jumping up and down and hugging his horse

in the rider and all that.

And they're way more excited.

Yeah.

It looked like he had won the NBA championship like that.

This is an example of these things.

Tom Hanks, he owns more than 300 vintage typewriters from all over the world.

Okay, now that I would do, that I would like to own.

Yeah, that's really on brand also.

He says he still types letters off of them and uses them as gifts.

Of course he does.

Mike, could you imagine, I mean, getting a gift from Tom Hanks is one thing,

but you get a typewriter.

A typewriter.

A typewritten letter from him?

That's something.

That's cool.

Or one of the typewriters, he gives the typewriters away as gifts sometimes too.

Reese Witherspoon.

And one of the best.

She has a vast collection of antique embroidered dresses, jackets and accessories.

She says it's a part of her Southern heritage.

Yeah.

I could see that.

Yep.

Keith Hersevalen owns 100 rare guitars.

Oh, that's kind of cool.

He plays them regularly.

And it's just a rock-haul style exhibit kind of thing.

Sure.

So he has that on his home.

And he picks them up and plays them.

That's cool.

I love this one.

And an underrated actress, Penelope Cruz, doesn't get to talk about nearly enough.

I don't believe that anybody will ever be able to play certain roles after she's done

them.

Like, she's that kind of good.

It's not unfortunate because I love Selma Haierke.

But it's almost as if we can only have one Latin actress.

It's so not cool.

Sophia Loren went through this as an Italian actress, but Penelope Cruz is great.

She's obsessed with co-tangers.

Oh, I'm sorry, Penelope.

And collects different shapes, sizes and designs.

She finds beauty and the craftsmanship.

I get, now that part, I get 100%, there's, there's something to that.

See, and I'm the person at, you've seen the hangars in my house.

They all look exactly the same by design.

Angelina Jolie, she collects antique and custom knives.

Yeah, that's not surprising.

Very on brand as well.

Very, very, very.

Yeah.

Almost seems like if you were going to fill out a mad lives about Angelina.

If I was going to guess, yeah, yeah, I'd say knives or swords, yeah.

And Sir Elton John.

He owns 15,000 pairs of sunglasses.

That's also incredibly on brand.

That was not me throwing a funny number out there.

That is literally how many pairs of sunglasses that man owns.

Many of which are custom made.

So it's big that he has an entire room dedicated to them, a whole room dedicated to sunglasses.

He also collects photographs and has more than 7,000 works of photographs.

It certainly makes sense because of, you know, we've seen him a million times in a million

different shows with only a different pair of glasses, yeah.

But it looks like one came, the love of the sunglasses and the collecting of them came

before.

Yeah, that's interesting.

Yeah, I wonder how young he was when he learned he needed glasses because I know that's

probably part of it.

He had to learn to love him before he got famous.

Yeah, you know, oddly enough, not a very confident guy early on in life.

He was hiding behind him.

Most of them, yeah.

And then the great Steve Martin, which is what we're doing today on Steve Martin's birthday.

He is known for having a serious fine art collection.

But he's equally obsessed with rare banjos.

There it is.

You know, as obviously he's been a banjo player for a long time now and everything.

And his, I mean, beautiful works.

Yeah.

I wonder if he looks at it this way too because I saw a PBS thing on him where he was

showing some of his art, but then showing some of his banjos.

And then in the, in the PBS thing, you could look it up online, I'm sure it's there.

And he goes, like right away, the next segment is right away with his banjos from the fine

art.

And I see a connection there because some of those banjos are beautiful, like those craftsmanship

the way that they're made and everything are really interesting.

Some other celebrity collections include Quentin Tarantino as vintage board games.

Okay.

That's the first cool thing I've ever heard about Quentin Tarantino.

Right.

That's the first cool, interesting thing I've ever heard about it.

Amanda Seafried collects taxidermy animals.

Okay.

I've actually heard that one a lot.

I have heard that one a lot too.

Kind of a macabre collection.

Yeah.

Martha Stewart has collected baskets for as long as she can remember.

Of course she was like a little kid.

She's collected baskets.

It's not so much weird things.

It's just odd things to me that and there is a difference between odd and weird things.

Well, baskets are an equalizing kind of item, right?

Like it doesn't matter if you're poor or you're rich, you've come across baskets.

When I was a kid, I just, I don't know why or don't know.

I didn't know a lot.

I don't remember hearing a lot of people collecting things.

My mom was the one example of this and I've mentioned many times her Coca-Cola collection

to items and stuff.

But before that, she stopped doing this a while back but she used to collect matchbooks.

Okay.

And I thought that was so she had a, like them lined up and everything and like a poster

kind of thing.

Oh, sure.

And they were from all over the country and every time she, she was a military branch.

And a hotel she would take a matchbook.

So as a kid, she started collecting that as a kid and just, you know, kind of kept doing

it.

And I always thought that was a really cool thing to do and really, but it's not as rare

as I thought it was.

I had a kid.

No, a lot of people did that because they made, they made novelty matchbooks and they made

it so that it was a collectible thing and it's a cheap thing to make and produce and

give away.

So, I like the idea of that.

I also, I, I did not realize this but I kind of collect movie posters.

New kind of.

You have a collection of them.

I've got a ton of them.

Yeah.

When I worked at, for a long time, Rapids residents out there.

I worked at Deja Vu video.

My first real job, KFC was one of my real first real jobs.

I, I look at this very differently as far as making a paycheck and getting cash.

I'm on the side or whatever.

But when it comes to that, Deja Vu video, I worked that for a long time and when we were

done with posters, they just didn't want them.

So they let me keep them.

Ever once in a while there was one somebody wanted, but for the most part, I just collected

them and I've been kind of collecting them ever since.

Right.

But nowadays, I would go online.

I wouldn't know where else to go to get posters and I, we've lost a lot of the art of

movie posters.

Sure.

They've gotten really boring or really CGI or, you know, I'm a fan of the, the created

poster, the, the setting it up, setting the movie up, using it as another opportunity

to set up the movie.

I think a great example is the Star Wars new hope where you've got the young Anakin and

in the shadow, it's Darth Vader.

Sure.

His shadow is Darth Vader.

That is just a loose example of setting you up for what this movie and this next three

movies is going to do.

I think there's an art to movie posters and especially the good ones.

Yeah.

Look at almost any Humphrey Bogart movie.

Yeah.

Almost any of the Humphrey Bogart movies, every single one of them.

Oh, man.

And I'll admit, my, my, my niece, she had these up in her apartment and everything and

I'd come in and the first thing you see is young Frankenstein or the Maltees Falcon

or something like that.

And you, I don't know, I think they're art.

When they're done right.

Yeah.

Nowadays, they've gotten really lazy.

A lot of times they're not nowadays.

They're just made to fill that frame.

You'd be cool to see us get back to that.

I understand that a lot of, when you're looking at your budget and you're looking at, you're

looking at where to save money movie posters, movie posters are probably where they're cutting.

We'll take a quick time out.

We'll come back and may have a special guest joining us.

We'll see coming up on the morning show here at WFHR.

Welcome back, everyone.

Welcome back, everyone.

We appreciate you hanging out with us on this Thursday.

Thanks so much for joining us.

We're wrapping up the show here.

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It's been a fun show.

I can only think of one way to make it fun or a special guest, a special guest joining

us right now.

We have exclusively.

We were able to hammer this one down.

We have Seth.

It's tough call.

Seth from Lunch by the River Jordan.

Seth, how you doing?

Oh, I'm doing great.

I mean, we just got set up down here, everyone.

We're set up on the path, the walking path here, looking right at the stage.

Like on Tuesday is setting up right now.

You maybe can hear the sound check going on right next to the heart of Wisconsin Chamber

of Commerce here.

We got our food trucks getting set up, getting ready to go here.

Very exciting.

The weather couldn't be nicer, everyone.

It is fantastic out here right now.

Yeah.

Get on down there, everybody.

Check it out.

Got some great food down there.

We want you to stop by the booth and say, hi, of course, and check out some of that great

music.

Seth, when you get a chance, man, try to scoot over there, try to get some information

from them.

Try to get them on the air.

Yeah.

When they're trying to break down and get out of here as quick as they can, they'll say,

excuse me.

Yes.

That's a perfect time.

Yes.

The weather's perfect down there, too.

It looks like.

It is.

Absolutely.

There's a very little wind.

It's not too hot.

Not too humid.

I mean, perfect day to spend for lunch outside and don't forget everyone will be broadcasting

live from 1130 to 1230 on WIRI as well.

So if you can't make it, of course, we invite everyone down here if they can make it.

But if not, come on down, come and listen on 1055 and we'll keep you covered and what's

happening.

Lauren Seth will have that for you in just a little bit.

Let me on the lookout for that.

Be listening for it.

And Seth, thanks so much for joining us, man.

Hey, no problem.

Come on down, everyone.

We'll do it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Get on down there.

Join Seth in the gang and lunch by the river.

They're down there right now.

1130 to one.

You will get on over to Veterans Memorial Park, that is where you are going to be now.

I say, why not stop it over by the Wisconsin's Rapids Farmers Market?

Sure.

Stop it from Farmers Market first.

It's open now and lunch by the river doesn't start to 1130.

So, you know, browse, take a minute, enjoy it.

Buy some jam.

Oh, could I give them?

Yeah.

Great.

Get some fancy jam.

Great poll.

Why not?

Go ahead.

Buy local support, local support our vendors are adding to the street.

Support your local jam maker.

And then get on down there and bring your appetite to lunch by the river.

Yeah.

And you're literally going to be surrounded by food trucks.

So bring your appetite.

Get on down there and check out some of our great local food.

Also, say hi to the chamber.

You get a chance, everybody.

Please thumbs up to Lacey.

Yeah, our friends over there working really hard.

And of course, want to say a big thank you to our co-sponsor partners over there.

A big city savings.

A big city savings.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Laura, I also wanted to make sure that we made time to touch on an event coming up in

Steven's point that I thought it was a kind of fun one.

And it's a little bit of you in your wheelhouse here.

A little bit.

A little bit.