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Got some fun stuff lined up for you.
Coming up, we're going to get into some entertainment news after that.
We've got the world's oldest chicken.
And the world's oldest person to talk about.
We got them.
Take it together?
No, well, maybe.
Maybe we can get them together.
Maybe we'll talk about that a little bit later.
And we have the four commandments of eating on an airplane.
We will discuss and we want audience participation on that one.
I want the worst of foods that you have had to either eat or put up with on a plane.
To smell.
Yes, yes.
I want to hear from the audience on that one.
715-424-2600.
We'll be getting into that a little bit later.
But we kick off.
I know what yours is.
I got a big one.
Yeah.
That is coming up in a little bit.
But we kick off with entertainment news.
And of course, we are starting with the world guitar classic championship.
The air guitar world championships.
They took place in Finland over the over the over the 20th through the 22nd.
We will, of course, wrap these up.
Now, passionate performers lined up in Finland to pluck musical honors out of thin air.
As I mentioned before, growing up in a sports family, my dad loved athletics.
But he just had just a strong of a passion for music.
And in particular, lead guitar players.
Okay.
And so growing up, my dad treated lead guitar players like they were quarterbacks.
Like we had cards of them and stuff.
He would talk about their style of play.
He would talk about the dance moves that we do from Chuck Berry to Angus Young.
To just different things like that.
And it just kind of got me growing up to play a lot of air guitar.
Okay.
You know, with my dad or anything like that, to the point now that I catch my hand doing it.
And I'm not even thinking about it.
Like I'm driving in my hand is like trying to do a finger tap or something.
Like I can't help it.
That man did a number on me.
But I don't want to brag.
I had all that for context because I feel like I could place.
I don't know if I could win this thing, but I feel like I could place.
I get on the medal stand of the air guitar world championships.
Okay.
This year's reached its climax with a final Friday evening on a square in Western Oluhu in Finland.
It is the 28th edition of this event that takes place over three days
and brings together contestants from 13 countries.
Wow.
Contestants are funny.
It is pretty cool.
I mean, kind of.
I don't know.
It's interesting.
If you just let yourself have a little fun with it, I think it can be.
Contestants are judged on the performance of two songs in two separate rounds,
each lasting 60 seconds.
Passion is a must, but much of the rest of it is up to the contenders,
props and costumes that are allowed.
But backup bands and real instruments are off limits.
Aha.
The two-hour final pits last year's winner, Candidus Azacari Ikebod fame,
knows.
Great name.
That's great.
And eight against eight national champions in seven contenders
who emerge from qualifying rounds.
The challengers include U.S. Champion, Saladin, Sixth String, Sal Thomas,
and German Champion, Patrick Van Eyrehoven-Kullik.
The winner is chosen by a five-member jury of performing art professionals,
so actual guitar players and everything.
And this championship has been going on since 1996.
That's cool.
The winner of this year's was Apple, the Angus Rotto of Finland.
So they had a fin, when first time in a while, a finished person has won in Finland.
Nice.
So that's pretty cool.
And I love the names.
I love the names of these.
These are great.
It's fun.
Stage names are fun.
Yeah, it's a pretty good one.
It's a pretty good one.
I think whether it's this or remember a couple of weeks ago we did the,
you know, all those people getting together for the Elaine dance and doing that.
Well, I think one of the things that stands out to me and the whole,
and a big part of why I'm covering this story, everybody, is this is bringing together.
You heard me say six people from 16 different countries coming together,
strangers coming together, including thousands of people in attendance
to watch this over the three days from all over the world coming together.
And it just, it just took place last weekend.
No noise.
Nothing about it.
Well, literally no noise because it's their guitar.
No, no, no harm.
No, no foul.
No, none of that.
You know, and people from all over the world coming together,
finding they have more in common than not.
And we need more of that kind of stuff,
even if it's silly air guitar stuff.
I'll tell you that.
It's a positive story in our world.
That's pretty cool.
Yes.
We need more positive.
Looking at a little bit of a kind of almost a playmakers here,
just a tease on this.
Carlos Alcarez is one of the world's greatest tennis players,
if not the greatest tennis player in the world.
He's incredible.
He is up and coming.
He's got a couple of majors already under his belt at a very young age.
And it doesn't look like he's slowing down anytime soon.
There isn't a ton of competition in men's tennis right now.
There's great players, but there's nobody who really stands out like this guy does.
He's incredible.
He also, he has pretty nice hair or he did.
So yesterday he showed up at the US Open with a shaved head.
And this threw a lot of people.
And he was kind of, English isn't his first language,
but he was kind of trying to say to people,
well, every major championship he kind of wants to start fresh.
Like, you know, the previous ones didn't matter.
So he thought, oh, I'll shave my head and that'll give me a fresh start.
Well, the people were kind of like clamoring on this as they do nowadays.
Nobody can keep their opinion to themselves anymore.
So, you know, he had 50% of people liking it, 50% of people didn't.
So today he comes out and says Carlos Alcarez relies on his brother to cut his hair
instead of a barber for his, so his brother messed up when cutting his hair
and so he just had to shave it all off.
So I don't know, like I will say, if my little brother did this to me,
and he talked to me about it ahead of time, I'd probably be cool with it.
But I couldn't do this to my little brother even if he did do it.
I'd just be like, yeah, I just wanted to shave it.
Like I tell family and friends, but I wouldn't go to the media with it.
Right.
I couldn't throw my brother under the bus like that.
I couldn't do it.
I couldn't do it.
I would have no problem with Nick doing it to me.
But I couldn't do it to my, I couldn't do it.
Couldn't do it.
Well, maybe his brother told him to say that.
I'm hoping, I'm guessing so.
They're a pretty close family.
So I'm guessing they at least talked about it beforehand or so.
Or if, you know, like sometimes you just need to, like, why is it anybody's business?
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's not, I saw a really, really good little clip of a teacher.
I'm assuming in like a young classroom age, like maybe 4K or kindergarten or first grade,
second grade, something like that.
And I said, you shouldn't comment on to somebody about something that they can't change in 30 seconds.
Yeah.
So don't comment on somebody's hair.
Right.
They can't change it in 30 seconds.
You can comment on something that they, you know, said to you, that was mean because they can change that.
But you can't change your body or your hair in 30 seconds.
Don't say anything about it.
You know, long before social media, we kept these thoughts either in our head or told them to our significant other,
or a good friend or relative or something like that.
Sort of spreading it around everywhere.
Yeah.
I understand that some people feel like that's what they're doing.
And it's the opposite of what you're doing.
You're doing the exact opposite.
You're putting people on blast.
When you wouldn't want to be put on blast.
I always thought if I ever got really, really famous and I had paparazzi, like put a bad story out on me that wasn't true or something,
I would get a private eye on that paparazzi.
And I'd take an article out on the front page of any website or any newspaper or anything like that and I'd put them right on it.
And I don't know if I'd actually do that or not.
But my intention there is you wouldn't want it reversed.
You know?
Right.
Of all the jobs in the world, of all the things that I have respect for, there's very few things that I have less respect for than anybody that works in the TMZ or the paparazzi world.
Get a real job.
You're living off of other people.
You're living off of other people's fame and other people's notoriety.
And you're taking advantage of people who are looking for distractions, are looking for nonsense news.
You're making a living off of nothingness.
And what do I know?
Because these things sell.
People like the TMZ stuff.
Right.
People buy the inquire and all that and those things.
So what do I know?
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
It's always just good to do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
It feels like a solid way to live.
We've been talking about this last couple of weeks.
The Saturday Night Live cast for the next 51st season, a very important season in Saturday Night Live.
It's getting a little bit clearer, but just a tiny bit over the last couple of days.
In the next week or so, we'll know who the cast is.
But it's never, I don't know the last time it's ever happened this late.
It's usually midsummer that you, the news kind of breaks.
And because it's in the middle of summer, you don't really hear much about it.
I don't remember the last time it's been this late.
Well, Deadline is reporting that young actor Devon Walker has become the first Senate Live cast member to leave ahead of the 51st season.
Walker joined in 2022 as a featured player.
It was promoted last season ahead of the show's 50th anniversary.
He's expected to be joined by a number of others as a Lauren Michaels clears way for a refresh of the show.
That's what it's looking like.
I'm not sure if this is, I don't think this is a contract thing.
I think this is more about who he's going to bring up.
Keep on and who he's going to kind of let go.
I would expect that a lot of the longer season members are going to be gone.
I saying that though, like I would be surprised to see Bowen Yang leave.
Bowen Yang, he was just in the movie Wicked.
He's getting more and more opportunities.
This is around the time.
Senate Live is not supposed to be your job forever, unless you're me.
And that's all you have ever wanted to do.
Lauren Michaels would, firing me would not be enough.
He would have to have security make me leave.
Are you from the building?
Yes, that little picture on the front.
Don't let this guy in.
That's what he'd have to do to me.
You think Keny Thompson's...
It's like the band checks.
Yes, it's on except checks from the first time.
Don't accept checks and don't let him into the building.
But that's not what the job is.
It's supposed to be a launching pad.
Like it was for Dan Ackroyd and so many other great actors and everything.
I like this Devon Walker.
I wish him well.
I hope he does well.
Good going forward here.
Because for every person that you do hear from, there's a lot of members from Senate Live that just kind of go away.
And you don't really hear from much anymore.
I'm very curious to see what Lauren Michaels does with this cast and where it goes from here.
I will say in the history of scouting and I'm counting sports, entertainment, business, whatever you want to say.
There has never been a greater scout of talent than Lauren Michaels.
His body of work speaks for itself.
I'm not just talking about 51 seasons of Senate Live.
This guy's been doing it even longer than that.
I trust the process.
I trust what he's going to do and where to go.
And I'll be watching.
Well, and like you said, they usually announce it earlier in the summer and then it gets kind of lost.
Well, maybe by waiting, it will not get lost.
Yeah.
And I imagine two part of this is some cast members, maybe Lauren leaving it up to them.
Hey, do you want to come back or not?
And in that regard, I could see him kind of trying to give it a, you know, given them, they're given them their time to decide.
So it makes sense.
There is a number of, you know, films that really have been on, you know, just a run right now at the Toronto Film Festival
and some of these other film festivals that are going on.
And there is this French animated film that is getting an American version called Arco.
And the cast is part of why it's getting attention, along with the special screening it had at the Khan Film Festival.
And it's Khan not Khan, the Khan Film Festival recently.
Here's the cast, Will Farrell, American Farahra, Flea, Natalie Portman, Mark Ruffalo, and Andy Sandberg.
Wow.
And that's just the top-build actors.
It's, it's, every once in a while you see these animated movies that get like this gigantic push, you know, critically and everything.
And this is one of them.
It won the Crystal Award for Best Feature Film and Soundtrack at Annery Film Festival.
It's also one awards at Toronto in the Khan Film Festival as well.
Arco follows a ten-year-old boy from a peaceful, distant future who accidentally travels back to the year 2075 and discovers the world in peril.
As Arco develops a charming and touching friendship with a young girl named Iris, they band together, along with his trusted robot, and they go and try to help the world.
It sounds like a fun little film.
Yeah, it sounds cute and stellar cast.
Incredible cast.
It'll hit theaters November 14th here in the U.S.
And just something that we're going to do here in there a little bit is giving you guys a little bit of a look behind the curtain of the fall production for the newest Wisconsin-Rabbs community theater play on Golden Pond.
This is something we've been able to do thanks to Seth and him directing the Glassman Agri and last season with Melissa and Noises Off.
So it's only fair that I do it as well.
Absolutely.
So right now we are working today.
Yesterday we were without a cast member, so we were kind of working around that.
And that cast member is one of the main cast members.
So you know what this is like, Melissa, and anybody who's been in the show before you might, but for those that don't.
You know, think about anything you do with another person and that person's not there can be kind of difficult.
And especially for this cast, you know, any cast really when they haven't worked together a lot and they're getting to know each other, build on each other and all that.
And you've got a small cast too, so.
Yeah, yeah.
I just want to credit them with the work last night because it was really nice work.
It was really good work.
And I don't know that I've seen, I've worked with a cast like this before where you give notes or you talk over things and then you see they're going up there and they're doing it.
Yeah, they're doing it right away.
Mm-hmm.
Our wonderful new, one of our newest team members around here, Alia, who a lot of you might have run into at the open house or different things out there.
She is a part of this cast.
We're seen in noises off.
Yes, they're seen in noises off or a number of places.
We're in a show last year.
Right, yeah.
She's been on a run here.
Yeah.
She is our Chelsea.
And for me, I think Norman and Ethel are incredible characters, they're legendary characters.
There are nothing but great characters in this play.
I find Chelsea to be very, very interesting and have a lot of depth to her.
And so, Alia and I have been going back and forth on this a little bit.
And just blown away by her ability to take these notes and then make them happen.
I know that's the job, but I'm used to working with professionals.
I'm used to work, you know, these people that have gone to school for this, they do this.
You know, community theater brings you the same talent, brings you the same types of people.
It just doesn't maybe have all the pomp and circumstance to it sometimes or the budget.
Right.
But these actors we have with this one, our wonderful theater community has got a new member a part of it, Jamie, who is our Norman.
And audience, wait until you meet Jamie, wait until you meet our Norman, because he is incredible.
We've got, on the other side of that, you've got an actress like Susan Egren, who has done decades worth of shows in this community.
And I will say this, I don't think you'll ever, I'm already seeing in the first couple of weeks of rehearsals,
I'm seeing some of the best acting I've ever seen Susan do.
Wow. I'm saying a lot.
I've worked with her in probably ten shows, both acting and being directed by.
And I'm seeing a level that she's bringing into this character that I haven't seen before.
It's been a lot of fun.
It's also a dance, and it's a fun dance of kind of like stop and go, stop and go.
It's a little bit of that.
That can be difficult for actors as they're trying to do their lines, learn their blocking, and I'm jumping in with a note or something.
I think we kind of normalize it in theater, but it's not easy.
And I haven't been on this side of it before.
So one, I'm bad at interrupting people, but two, I appreciate that they have worked with me on that.
The work that's being done on this show, I'm telling you people, maybe you've seen the movie a hundred times.
Maybe you were fortunate enough to see the James Earl Jones Broadway show.
You ain't seen it like this.
You ain't seen it like this. This is going to be a great show.
We are coming out the gate strong with the new season here at Wisconsin City Theater.
I can't wait to see it.
So make sure you go over and get your tickets at wrctheata.org.
Get them now, further gone.
Premier date is September 25th market on your calendars, everybody.
That's less than a month away, James.
Yeah, you're not, you're telling me.
I am very aware.
No doubt. We're looking forward to it.
We're looking forward to it. It's going to be a lot of fun.
We'll be back with more conversation coming up on the morning show at WFHR.
Welcome back, everyone. Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio.
Melissa and James hanging out with you. Thanks for hanging out with us.
Hope you're having a great Tuesday out there.
We're talking world's oldest for a moment here.
Okay.
And a Texas woman's pet chicken was officially named the oldest in the world by Guinness World Records
at the age of the young age of 14 years and 69 days old.
Whoa, a 14 year old chicken.
Tikes.
Little Elm, resident Sonya Hall said she hatched the chicken pearl in her personal incubator on March 13th, 2011.
Wow.
That's kind of cool in there in the little incubator there and everything.
Guinness World Records confirmed Pearl's age of May 22nd, officially earning her the title of world's oldest living chicken.
That's awesome.
She said Pearl's mobility is limited now, so she spends most of her time in the family's laundry room.
But she is in the home. She's not outside anymore.
She's a house chicken.
Yeah.
And quote, she is welcome to come out into the living room because she likes to watch TV when she hears it on.
Pearl is also fond of the family's elderly cat and new kitten.
She follows them around apparently and just watches them.
I've never heard of this.
I didn't know that I got to be honest with a city boy here.
I did not know that you could bring, you know, do this with chickens.
I did.
It makes sense.
And then you can if you're willing to clean up after them.
Yeah, that's what I'm guessing.
Yeah, there's the part that they don't talk about the article every day.
So she says quote, she doesn't seem to mind other animals and the kitten will sometimes sit with her.
So they kind of snuggle sometimes.
Yeah.
The previous oldest chicken living in Illinois pet named Peanut passed away on December 25th to 2023 at the age of 21 years.
Whoa, that's an old chicken.
Okay, so it's not the oldest chicken ever.
It's just the oldest living chicken.
Right now.
Yeah, misunderstood.
All right.
Well, then 21.
So how, what is the average life of a chicken?
Hmm.
I'll get that.
Okay, yeah, you check that out.
Thank you.
Thank you.
It's interesting to look at different life spans of animals.
I find it interesting.
I find it interesting, especially when this kind of stuff comes up because I don't really have a, you know,
see a floor to really base this off of what is young, what is old for a chicken or five to 10 years.
A domestic chicken can live up to 15 years if kept wild.
The oldest chicken in the world was 22 years old, according to some news reports.
Wow.
Wow.
That is news to me.
I did not know that well.
So five to 10 years.
So this one living to 14 domestic chickens living up to 15 if it's well kept.
Man.
That's crazy.
That really is.
I did not just didn't realize that, but I don't know.
Chickens actually make good, you know, good pets.
I've seen like if you can't afford therapy, get chickens.
And then just sit in your yard and watch your chickens.
Right.
This down here.
Because apparently that's better therapy than nothing.
I will, I will recommend if that doesn't work for you fish tanks.
Fish tanks can be very, very calming.
Fish tanks can be very helpful.
That's another thing.
Enjoyable to just sit and watch.
While we go from the world's oldest living chicken to the world's oldest living person.
Ethel Caterham, the world's oldest living person and the oldest British person ever on record,
celebrated their 116th birthday in Surrey, England the other day.
Wow.
Caterham was certified as the world's oldest living person by Guinness World Records and the loving quest on April 30th.
Following the passing of the Brazilian woman, Inana Lucas, who was also 116th.
Wow.
Caterham, a celebrated her 116th birthday last Thursday with her sister, or, and I'm sorry, not her sister with her, some family.
Caterham outlived both of her own daughters, unfortunately, as well, but she does have three granddaughters.
Oh, and five great grandchildren.
A spokesperson for the care home where Caterham lives said that she would not be giving any interviews for her birthday,
opting to instead spend the day celebrating with her family.
She just didn't want to take even a second away from her time with her family.
We've done a lot of these stories.
The world has done a lot of these stories.
I'm sure it's happened plenty of times, but I've never heard of that happening before.
Usually we get the interview.
Yeah.
Usually we get the TV interview and they, you know, hey, why did you, how did you live this long of a life?
And they usually say something kind of fun, you know, like being nice to people and in a shot of jam.
In a glass of wine.
Yeah.
Yeah, or something like that.
Usually there's something involved with it or something.
I love that.
I love that she's like literally every second she is taking, she's appreciating.
That's kind of cool.
Yeah.
The representative said Caterham would make an exception if King Charles called.
So apparently there's one person who could interrupt the day.
Just the King.
I get it.
Yeah.
That's fair.
That's fair.
A very, very happy birthday to her, wishing her the best.
And I love that story.
That's a great one.
And good honor grandchildren, great grandchildren for visiting and spending time with her.
You know, as much as the world changes and trends come and go and everything, I think that there's something really cool that we still do this.
That we still make a big deal out of the oldest living person in some of that.
I don't know why.
I can't put my finger on why.
I think it's cool that we still do, but I kind of like that we still do that.
If any other reason, then noting our seniors out there and the people that paved the way for us to even be here.
Yeah.
Well, because we haven't figured out yet how to bring the frozen people back to life, James.
Yeah.
Gotta figure that one out.
I would use an ice chipper.
Iogenics.
Oh, yeah, that might work out.
Just like an Encino man.
Yeah.
You're going to get yourself a really nice ice chipper, a good hammer.
You want it?
You want it?
I prefer a wooden handle, but some others, you know, people ain't there.
Well, you know, I should do a podcast on that.
We'll do that later.
He probably should.
Come back after.
Here's some actual news, everybody, from Melissa.
We also got sports from Mike.
And shut up to Jimmy covering entertainment.
He's been doing a nice job with that.
Yeah, good.
All that coming up for you right here on the morning show at WFHR.
Welcome back, everybody.
Morning show at WFHR.
We hope you're having a great Tuesday out there.
Thanks so much for joining us.
James and Melissa hanging out.
Let's get into an interesting topic here.
Food on planes.
Food on planes.
Have you ever been on a plane and someone opens up something like stinky?
Something like an idiot.
Two to fish sandwich or something like that.
And it starts going to town on that thing.
Yeah, it's there.
Is that the one for you, Melissa?
It just smells bad.
It tastes great.
I love egg salad.
I don't like how it smells.
Yeah, this is an interesting topic here.
What we're getting into now is the four commandments of
for eating out an airplane.
And I want your stories, everybody, because I feel like everybody
who has flown has gone through this where there's a smell
from a food or something like that.
It takes over the plane.
It becomes another sense.
It's a seventh sense or something like that.
It's that thick in the air.
The longest flight I've ever been on.
I had just coming back from California.
But there was a layover in there.
And I'm sitting in back and I'm just by myself.
The plane does not have many people on it.
It's like at 11 o'clock at night flight.
So I'm feeling pretty good.
I'm like, oh, OK, this is nice.
I'm going to be able to sit back, be by myself.
Well, this older lady comes on with what I would find out.
I believe it's her daughter.
It was her daughter, I think.
But she came on and she hadn't flown before.
And her daughter asked, hey, could you keep an eye?
Help a little bit and all that.
So I was, you sure?
It didn't look like a lot of heavy lifting on my part or anything.
It wasn't a big deal.
And I didn't mind.
Over the next three hours, this lady asked me what time it is.
At least once every half an hour.
And she just, and she didn't really speak English.
So she just kind of kept pointing to her wrist.
And when she would do this, I don't know.
She didn't think I could see her or what.
But she would like almost get out of her seat to lean over.
And like just point to her wrist.
And as she would do that, the smell of curry would just hit me.
Yes, just hit me.
Like attack my senses.
To this day, I just, I get around the smell of curry.
Now, I'm trying, the other side of this is I actually didn't mind curry when I was a kid.
And I thought it was pretty good and everything.
And it's one of the few kind of things like that I ate.
And I kind of want to try it again.
I kind of want to get back into it again.
So I want to push past this.
I want to get through it.
But for me, that is probably the one that stands out the most.
And as a side note, that lady was wonderful.
She was an incredibly sweet human being.
I think about her often.
Just one of these people, these strangers that you meet and you never know their name.
But they kind of stay with you kind of thing.
Well, yeah.
She was, remember them forever.
Oh, we did walk off the plane together.
We did.
It was, it was nice.
She put her arm around my, I walked her off the plane.
That was fun.
I had never done that before.
But that's the kind of thing we're talking about everybody.
So 715-424-2600.
Call up.
Join the conversation.
You can also text or call in through the civic media app.
What is your experience with this?
And maybe we can keep help you from doing it to others.
According to an expert, here are the, I don't know, how did I say expert there?
I don't know what that was.
I bit my tongue this morning.
It has been bugging me ever since.
According to the expert, here are the four commandments for eating on a plane.
Thal shall not eat smelly foods.
Thal shall not.
No tuna.
No garlic or onion.
No hard boiled eggs or strong cheeses.
And for love all that is, you can save the fish and seafood for on land.
It tells you, fish and seafood don't belong in the skies.
Does it?
It's trying to tell us.
Thal shall not eat messy foods.
This includes things like ribs, powdered doughnuts, spaghetti, chili dogs, nachos, and sloppy
joes.
Who is eating sloppy joes?
I don't want to see somebody do this, but I do want to write that sketch.
I do want to write the comedy sketch of somebody just sitting down.
And they just pull out this.
I mean, what would you have in like a Tupperware thing or something?
I guess I don't know.
It would be cold.
I mean, people do bring their own food onto a plane.
You ever had a cold sloppy joe?
No.
No.
Actually, I've had my grandma's like barbecue, which is similar to a sloppy joe.
Cold, it's good.
Is it okay?
It doesn't seem like it would be all right.
I'll take your word for it.
Thal shall not eat foods with allergies.
Yeah, no peanuts.
A bag of peanuts or a packet of peanut butter would be safer for everyone if it was consumed
in an area with open air.
You know, for those that are not sensitive to these things and all that.
You just sometimes don't think about it.
Yeah.
There's something you've got to think about.
It's also had to have really put the airline industry on its head with the handing out bags
of peanuts.
It's always been a big thing with airlines.
I imagine they've gotten rid of that.
Yeah.
They hand out crackers now.
What was that with?
I was just going to ask.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
I almost forgot.
You've flown in the last couple of years.
Yeah.
Huh.
You know, I could see that.
I could see crackers being...
Actually, you could see crackers probably being better for you in the air.
You know, just for what it can help for air sickness and some of those.
Yeah.
Just like settle your stomach or something like that.
Yeah, yeah.
They probably should have been doing that the whole time.
I don't know.
I don't know if there was any advantage to peanuts, but I do like peanuts.
I do like peanuts.
Well, it's a protein.
You know, it's more filling than crackers would be.
Yeah.
Do you like peanuts?
I do.
I don't eat them often, but I like them.
Me neither.
But every once in a while, when I get some honey roasted peanuts, I'll destroy that whole
container.
And finally, thou shalt not overindulge.
Yes.
Here's what the expert said.
Quote, overindulging an alcohol can be a nuisance in itself.
Plus alcohol can dehydrate you and amplify the effects of the altitude.
Staying hydrated will make your flight much more enjoyable.
When is the last time you heard of somebody drinking too much overindulging on a plane
and it went well?
I don't believe that there's any stories of that one.
Please hit me up if you have one.
I do actually have one.
But she overindulged before she got on the plane.
Oh, OK.
And I had gotten, this was that last trip to Hawaii, I'd gotten upgraded to first class because
of the kerfuffle and having to take a bus instead of a flight to Chicago.
And they upgraded me leaving out of California.
And so the lady next to me had came onto the plane overindulged.
And she slept.
She gave me her headphones so I could listen to the movie.
And she went to sleep.
So it was great.
That's not a bad scenario.
I had it worked out for you.
You got the headphones.
It did.
Yeah, because I didn't have any.
And she's like, well, here, you can use mine's fine.
I'm just going to sleep.
I had way too much whiskey with my friends.
Now that I could see, I've heard of that.
And I've seen that one.
A good, my buddy Will, who lives out west and flies once a month.
Will's not really a drinker.
But one time he was at one of those airport restaurants and they made him a drink.
He was drinking with another comedian.
And he was just going to have a drink just to socially have one.
They figure I'm going on a plane.
I'm not doing anything for the next hour.
So what's the harm?
Well, the bartender makes drinks heavy for people at planes.
I don't know if this is a thing in all the airports.
But at LAX, apparently they were doing this at the time.
And making the drinks a little stronger because you're just getting on a plane and all that.
Or the bartender was from Wisconsin.
Yeah, one of the other.
Yeah, definitely one of the other.
A or B.
But Will, like he hit his seat and that's all he remembered.
Like he couldn't remember anything else.
And apparently he was snoring pretty loud.
Which, which, yeah, I could see.
It's also a no-no on a plane.
Yeah, there we go.
There's another one to add onto this list.
Here are some of the best foods to eat on an airplane.
Dried or fresh fruit.
Crackers, chips, pretzels, meat and cheese snack pack.
Yeah, there can be some smelly meats, though.
Hummus.
Go bring prosciutto onto the plane.
Yeah.
Or salami.
Hummus and vegetables.
Yeah, that'd be okay.
A muffin.
Chocolate or a chocolate bar or something like that.
And a granola or protein bar.
I'm surprised that it didn't have like trail mix.
But I suppose if it's got peanuts, you don't want that.
Oh, yep, there you go.
Otherwise, yeah, I was all ready to say, oh yeah, a great one.
But yeah, that's right.
And all those things you can live on for the couple of hours
or whatever it is you're on a flight.
As he's, do you have some?
Well, I just, yeah, longer flights.
They're going to feed you anyway, so.
Yeah, yeah.
Have you ever, I don't know, just thinking about this
at the top of my head here.
I've thought a lot of times, especially in the last year or so,
I've thought a lot about traveling around the world.
And when you look, I don't know about anybody else,
but when I think, oh, I wonder what New Zealand's like.
Well, how long is the flight to New Zealand?
Oh, my gosh.
Yeah, it's like 17 or 20 hours.
Yeah.
It's a long time.
If I'm taking a flight like that, first,
my question was for you, Melissa, in the audience,
would you do something like that?
Would you take a flight like that?
Would you?
Okay, cool.
Oh, yeah.
I just bring a good book.
Honestly, that might be how I take a vacation.
Just taking the flight, let alone wherever I land.
That 12 hours away from everything.
I've got to turn my phone off for 12 hours or something.
Oh, my God.
I wouldn't know what to do with myself.
Wow.
I love the idea.
Challenge for you, James.
I kind of like the idea.
There's something about so many places in the world
that seem interesting.
All right.
There we go.
I'm curious to see what the audience thinks.
Let us know if you would take a longer flight, everybody.
And what's the worst thing somebody has eaten on a plane
that you've had to smell?
Hit us up.
Want to hear from you.
Otherwise, we will take a quick time out.
Take care of our partners.
Come back and wrap up the show for this Tuesday morning show
at WFHR.
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Welcome back, everybody.
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Trying to horn in.
Stop it.
Come on.
It's my thing.
It's my thing.
I got it.
We hope you're all having a great day out there.
Thanks so much for joining us.
We're here to wrap up the show.
We'll take you to the top of the hour.
Nothing but great civic media programming coming up
for you, everybody.
Not only here, live on the air, but of course,
on our streaming at WFHR.com,
where you can catch the rapids report.
We got it.
We got it today.
We got a great one lined up for you today.
We're going to be talking with Lacey
and the Heart of Wisconsin Chamber of Commerce.
Looking forward to that.
Always good to catch up with them.
And some of the great fall events that they have coming up.
And in part two, we'll be talking with Elizabeth
when there's Wisconsin Rapids Family Center.
Oh, nice.
Always look forward to talking with our Wisconsin Rapids Family Center.
A big thank you to them and our domestic violence shelter here in town.
Yeah.
And thank you to them for being at our parking lot party.
That was great.
Being a board member for the family center for a couple of years now.
And I just want to send a real big shout out.
Not just to the board and to the higher ups over there and everything.
But to all the volunteers and different people that are at these events
and helping us, you know, show that this community is on the right side of history
when it comes to domestic violence and these things.
Appreciate them.
Be listening for that interview a little bit later, everybody.
You can catch it at WFHR.com streaming there at WFHR.com.
A couple of other things on one of the note.
Tomorrow morning from 730 to 930,
American Heroes Cafe is going on.
Be sure to check that out from 730 to 930
over at Crossview Church in Wisconsin.
Rapids, all veterans, military, police and firefighters are welcome.
Make sure to spread the word and make sure every one of those individuals
and those great fields know about this.
It's a great time.
It's a good time to hang out and chat and a good breakfast.
A real camaraderie with that one.
And people like-minded people.
People that are going to know a little bit of what it's like to walk in your shoes.
Yes.
Again, American Heroes Cafe of Central Wisconsin.
Every second and fourth Wednesday of the month,
this one taken place tomorrow, 730 to 930,
over at Crossview Church.
And just as a side note, next month,
we will be getting our monthly veterans update from Tom Heiser.
He'll be joining us early in the month.
So we'll be talking to Tom coming up in September.
It's always good to chat with Tom.
Speaking of the chamber, they have their coffee with the chamber going on.
Actually, that wrapped up this morning,
but I just wanted to shout them out.
I hope that went well.
And encourage people to check out future coffees with the chamber.
Those are great events.
Now, one, they're great synergy, great networking opportunities.
They're also just great chance to run into people
and talk to people and stuff and share.
We also wanted to mention the blessings of the backpacks and outdoor movie night.
This is taking place tonight at 730,
over at Port Edwards United Methodist Church parking lot.
At 411, Wisconsin River Drive.
The church is on the highway corner.
Students of any grade in any rapids area school
who come with a backpack, a device, a four-a-blessing,
will be entered into a drawing for one month's worth of free school lunches.
Wow.
Stay for an outdoor movie.
They're going to have the neighbor Tautaro as their movie.
It's a beloved animated movie that won a bunch of awards
similar to what we were talking about earlier.
Yeah, that's a good one.
Bring a blanket or a lawn chair.
If there is rain the next evening,
they will do this at the same time.
They'll, according to Britney,
there should not be any dangers of any rain.
I'm sorry, Melissa, if I'm a little distracted.
If I'm a little distracted, but that eagle is back.
And it is just soaring right now.
Knowing over a tap.
No.
Oh, it looks so beautiful.
Well, that eagle is just amazing.
It's awesome.
All right, sorry.
Got a job to do.
It's cool.
Look at James.
Oh, my goodness.
Eagle.
See, this is why we need a streaming thing.
So you could turn the camera around and show people the eagle.
Yeah, we got to get to that.
We really, really do.
Because you got to see this eagle, everybody.
I mean, it just can't get over how big its wings are.
It's incredible.
Yeah, there are few.
I think it's beautiful.
We wanted to tell you about a blood drive happening this Friday
over at McMillan Library, the 490 East Grand Avenue.
It's going from 10 to 3.
If you were able to donate, we greatly appreciate you doing so.
I know that a lot of people are into the superhero thing
and the superhero movies and stuff.
But you do not need a cape or tights or a tragic backstory
to be a superhero.
You can donate and be a part of this and be a game changer yourself.
But if you show up in a cape, they won't turn you away.
They will not, as I found out.
Is that fun?
I'm blood-giving, man.
All right.
Yeah, James, come on in.
Okay, which arm do you want it in?
You really don't need the theme music, man.
It's taking it a little too far.
Your cape is getting in the way.
Blood don't amount away.
You need to work on that one.
You got to work on it.
It's a working type.
Type O, man.
No, that doesn't work.
Is that your blood type?
Yeah, yeah.
It's cool.
Mine too.
Awesome.
That's cool.
That is interesting.
We have a bunch of other great things going on in our community.
We'll be touching on them throughout the week.
Wanted to look at some other great good stories from around the world.
A great grandmother near Toronto named Carol Shaminsky went skydiving for her 85th birthday.
Oh, cool.
It was on her bucket list and she loved every second of it.
She says she didn't tell her family because she didn't want them to worry about her.
Those are probably smart because they would have told her, don't do it, grandma.
Yeah, I could see.
Boy, yeah, yeah.
But when she told them later, they weren't surprised.
Her advice for people is a straight out of Nike's playbook.
If there's something you want to do, just do it.
Just do it.
That's a great one.
Yep.
A nature center in Missouri just threw a 41st birthday party for a turtle.
Whoa.
His name is peanut.
Oh.
I'm sorry.
Her name is peanut.
Peanut in her name is peanut because she's shaped like one.
She got caught in a plastic six pack ring in the 80s.
So the middle of her shell couldn't grow.
But luckily, she's lived a long life anyway because of an anti-littering icon.
And she's become an anti-littering icon.
Oh, good for her.
And boy, her shape is really just a de-worn people.
If you do take a look at her, it is odd.
You've never seen a turtle with a shell like this before.
But she has lived a very long and happy life as I just got done noting.
So she is doing very well.
The EPA now requires all six pack rings to be degradable.
But they take months to break down in sunlight.
So if you take the time to cut those loops, it does make a difference.
It does.
It does.
I will for the rest of my life.
If it's the, you know, my last breaths, I will be cutting those loops.
It's something my mom got in us when we were little.
And just been doing ever since.
And it's not hard.
It takes like 10 seconds.
I do hope though that we continue to make progress on replacing plastic
with things that are more environmentally friendly.
Well, a story that, you know, you touch on from time to time, Melissa,
is our relationship with plastics.
And, you know, where we go from here, from 2025 and forward,
when it comes to what we're going to be doing with our plastics,
how much we're using them, how degradable they are.
How much of them are in our bodies.
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, this isn't one of those things that we can just sit on the sidelines with.
You know, well, we need to, we need more and more attention to this
and be able to talk about more and more freely.
Not everything has to be divisive.
Not everything has to be, you know, hey, if you don't agree, okay,
you don't agree.
That's cool.
We can keep moving.
Is there anybody out there though that's going to say, yeah,
I want plastics to be going into my body, into water, into my food,
into, I find that hard to believe.
Yeah.
Yeah, me too.
Me too.
I don't, I don't feel like this is one that we really need to get on a,
you know, soapbox about or anything.
But apparently, you know, some, some people,
I wonder to what it will take to get people to care about this.
Because I know for me, I, you know, grew up in a family that cared about these things.
But I hear the stat that we have this percentage of plastic in our bodies.
I'm like, okay, that's enough.
That's a deal breaker right there.
It seems like it at least.
We will be back with more show tomorrow.
Seth and Melissa and I will be hanging out.
We got a couple of fun, real great topics for your lined up.
And plenty more of that came from, have a great day, Melissa.
You do, James.
Be good to each other out there.
We'll talk to you soon and then later, right here at...
