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Take it, Marvin.

Your host, James, joined by Melissa.

Hello.

Seth.

Good morning.

And the best listeners and radio.

Thanks for being here, everybody.

We're here to have some fun over the next hour.

We've got a bunch of great topics for you.

We'll be diving into cement or team at news around the corner.

We also got trends that are declining or in the decline,

I should say.

I got that coming up.

I got a couple of other fun ones.

If we have time, I got an interesting one.

Certainly want to get into our newsletter.

And we want to talk a little bit of some local theater

with you and get in some entertainment.

Real quick programming note.

That wonderful intro music brought to us by the Marvin Gaye

is going to be changing.

Yes, it is.

Next week, we'll be bringing the change

to some of our programming theme songs and everything.

Change it up a little bit as we get ready for a new season

and have some fun with that.

Seth has been hard at work on making some new bumpers as well.

You better pick good bumpers, Seth.

I'm trying to do more theme stuff now.

So back to school, maybe school.

Bumpers, that'd be nice.

We always love your feedback on these things.

I'm thinking about what they might be.

Oh, come on.

Including Melissa's feet.

Don't know much about history.

Okay, that was good.

School's out.

That's what you was thinking of, I think.

It is what I was thinking of.

And that is not appropriate for the beginning

of the school.

Fair.

It is for the end of the school year.

We'll do that next spring.

We go from that to Dolly Parton.

Dolly is in the news.

And of course, we are the home of Dolly Parton news.

Dolly Parton is the author of several books,

Alina Bacon Kits and has a new hotel coming to Nashville soon.

But this achievement might stand above them all.

Dolly now has her own signature flavor Coca-Cola.

I heard about this.

What?

It's called 40th Pop Fizz.

And it's to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Dollywood,

which turns 40 next year.

Oh, wow.

Cool.

But you're going to have to travel to Pigeon Forge, Tennessee,

if you want to try it.

Pigeon Forge, I just want to go over there.

I don't know you have to.

They have to go there now.

You could not help but think of you right away.

No drip, Lee Lou.

Yep.

That'll be a bonding experience for you to go.

Perfect.

Because it's only available inside Dollywood.

OK, that makes sense, too, actually.

For listeners that don't know, I have a pigeon named Lee Lou.

Thank you.

Sorry.

The flavor is described as cherry creamy Coca-Cola taste.

Some say it's delicious, but not everyone agrees.

But why would they?

It's not pizza.

Well, and it's nice.

And it doesn't matter.

It's the product.

You're buying it.

Or you're having it so that you have a Dolly part in Coca-Cola.

You're not buying it for the flavor, right?

I'm sure that's an added bonus.

But if you don't like Coca-Cola, don't buy it.

Yeah, man.

They have, I don't know if they still do it.

Disney World, they had like a Coke tasting area.

We could taste different soft drinks that Coke made

all over the world kind of thing.

Oh, cool.

And I did that once.

I was like, well, this one from Brazil.

Cool.

And I grabbed it and I slugged it back.

It was the bitters thing.

I have ever tasted.

I just about died, right there.

I mean, I was like, oh, I want to pay to see that.

Oh, my God.

That's hilarious.

I am not a demonstrative person.

No, you're not.

Most people can say, but that one deserved it

because it was like, oh my God, my mouth is falling out.

Oh, she's, I boy, I'm going to sound so silly.

I want to see a reenactment of this.

Yeah, definitely.

Well, I want to go and check that out.

That sounds really cool to me.

That is actually pretty cool.

So that's genuinely like one of the first things

I've heard about at Disney Land or whatever.

I think it's an Epcot if I remember correctly.

Either or.

That maybe want to go there.

I want to go to the co-tasting.

Yeah, that's really interesting.

Knaps for the rides, not for the experience,

not for the characters, but for the co-tasting.

That's right.

And now I know that I already thought

about going to Dollywood before.

I've already thought about checking it out.

I want to go to Tennessee so bad.

It's a top three states I want to visit.

There's so much in Tennessee, great stuff.

So I want to go there anyway, but now I have to go there.

My mother's birthday is coming up next month.

And I know she's heard this story

and it's one of the bigger Coca-Cola fans.

There's a lot around there.

I'm going to have to go get this for her.

So I don't know how I'm going to pull that off.

Yeah, because you got to go and you got to get it in Tennessee.

You do need to take a holiday, James.

Perhaps a road trip, James.

Holiday road trip with your mother.

Who's coming?

Okay, that's who's coming.

Oh, yeah, bring her with you.

Come on.

Give us probably a cup of back and spoiler alert.

It's me.

James broadcasting live from Dollywood.

This is my new home.

So two funny quick stories about one of the bigger national stories.

And I couldn't help myself not starting our entertainment segment out with this particular

story.

One of the bigger stories in the world right now.

The engagement that happened.

So I find this news out while on air and I get a ESPN updates and I get an ESPN update

from Adam Schefter for those that don't know one of the better inside guys when it comes

to the NFL and knows his stuff.

Lots of contacts.

Yeah.

If Schefter reported it, you can pretty much bang on it that that's something that's going

to happen.

And I get a report that Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey are engaged from a sports report.

Big news.

Big news.

I'm around getting ready to eat and my dad is trying to make conversation and everything.

And he's like, oh, Jimmy, do you hear about this and he's like bringing it up and everything.

Like, yeah, that's interesting.

He's like, yeah, you think they're going to make it and I'm like, well, I have no idea.

I have no idea.

He's like, well, they should be okay.

And then it dawns on him about how much, Travis Kelsey makes and how much Taylor Swift

makes and how gigantic of a difference that is in everything.

And for him, he just thought it was really interesting and really fascinating and all

that.

And that's where my conversation ended with this topic.

That's about it.

That's about as much as I've heard.

Two very rich people are mirroring each other.

All right.

Yeah.

It's an order of magnitude, though.

Taylor Swift is so much richer than Travis Kelsey has an island.

Yes.

Yes.

If Taylor is hard up for money, she can sell her island.

Travis Kelsey.

I don't know how many times he's been to an island.

I don't know.

I don't know.

I think that it is very easy and low-hanging fruit to be very cynical about this.

I want to be very clear about it while I don't find it interesting.

And I'm not really necessarily looking to talk about it.

That has nothing to do with anything other than we have a limited time to talk about entertainment

stuff.

And I think there are more interesting things.

Right.

The idea of, well, they're together for this or oh, they're only getting married for

this.

You know, it's none of our business.

It's none of our business.

It doesn't matter.

First of all, yeah.

I'm happy for them.

Good luck.

Yeah.

I hope they make it work.

Yeah.

Yeah.

The idea that you think you know these people or you think you know any of it, like you

could be the most die-hard Taylor Swift fan in the world.

No, every single lyric she has and you still don't know her.

No.

No, none of us do.

No.

No.

And look, all that matters do they know each other.

Right.

Right.

And that's any relationship, right?

Yeah.

I don't know.

When I found interesting was not the hype on the story.

We all expected that.

Of course.

Of course.

And you expect some cynicism.

The amount of cynicism I saw towards this was really kind of like it would be funny if

it wasn't true.

Yeah.

Is it sour grapes?

I don't know.

It's why.

I don't understand why.

And would it be so like it's, yeah, it's all like just ragging on this thing.

It's not art.

We have zero connection with that level of anything, of making money, of a relationship,

of status, of worldwide fame, of any of that.

And so I think that there's the tendency to be like, well, let's just be cynical about

it because it's nothing I would ever have.

Well, and there's this bitterness that creeps up in human beings that I think is one

of our more disgusting traits of whether we realize it or not jealousy and some of those

things.

It's very natural.

But it is.

Then there's the need to pull people down to where you are or something like that and

these people that have all this money and fame and everything and I'm going to normalize

them by degrading their relationship or degrading who they are or something like that.

Don't worry.

They tend to do that themselves.

Yeah.

Yeah.

To be fair.

But still, what's your point, James?

It's like, it's basically, it's like any other two people that get fall in love and

want to be together.

That's what it is.

It's just under the eye of society a whole lot more than most people are, right?

Yeah.

It is likely, it is just as likely that they are together for, you know, not love reasons

as they are for love reasons and it's just between them that this matters.

And that can be true for any relationship.

Exactly.

And I think if you think otherwise or if you think you know otherwise, I think it says

more about you than it does them, like it is one of those kind of things.

And this need to go, you know, with negative so quickly when it comes to not just relationships,

but stories and things in society, I don't even blame people just in general.

I think it's it's one of those things where there's it's on all of our hands.

But when I'm going to sit down and watch the evening news, I guarantee you it's going

to start with a negative story.

It's going to start with something heavy.

It's going to start with something dark.

And I'm not saying that that story should not be covered.

But does it need to always begin that way?

Does it need to always be focused on that?

Because every I watch a lot of local news and every news, every channel does the same

thing.

Heavy story, dark story, dark story, politics, oh, here's a little feel good stuff for

about a minute we spend on and then back to whether sports and negativity.

And that's all that's covered in so much of our news that to me, of course society is

going to think cynical, of course society is going to go that way.

This is not just the news.

It's so much of the way that we are interact with each other too, that we go to that route

so quickly.

We can change this.

We can shift this around the reason most news and I'm focusing on TV news, they do this

is for ratings.

Right.

They want eyeballs for their advertisers if we give them more eyeballs for good stories that

might seem more of that.

Granted, I understand that it's not an easy job.

I understand that it's not something that I can just sit here and write out a newscast

in two seconds.

But nothing's meant to be easy, especially when we're talking about rewiring society's

brain and not just to go negative and dark so quick.

I don't think there's any one person or any one thing to blame.

This is something that has been building and created for a long time.

Yeah.

That's right.

Back to the days where there are Haka newspapers on the quarter, you got to get, got to hook

them in with something.

And that's where it started.

Yeah.

If it leads, it leads, right?

That's the thing.

That's how you get your audience.

There was a little bit of me that wanted to put a different spin on this story and we

did it.

And I just wanted to put a different spin on it.

But I admit to everything I said, but I'll let you guys a little mind my brain here.

I also was kind of like, you can touch on it without talking about it, right?

Yes.

Yes.

A long time fans of the TV show The Office have been gearing up for the spin off the paper

that is coming out on NBC.

I believe on peacock it is.

It's kind of a, not a sequel or anything like that, but it's kind of a similar, you know,

doc series kind of thing.

They're in a paper type industry and you have a Michael Scott type character and some of

those things.

It doesn't have a huge name list, a cast, very similar to the first run of the office,

the American version of the office or I guess the BBC version.

The two didn't have, Rick, your vase wasn't a big name.

That's what made his name on everything.

They have people on the show that are very talented and I think you might recognize.

One of them, Oscar, who was on the original show is back on this one, which has a very

funny moment of that where he's freaking out like, no, not again, not again.

Well, Steve Carell and John Krasinski, two of the bigger actors to come from the original

office, stop by the set of the office spin off to wish everyone good luck on their first

day of filming.

Oh, that's nice.

That's nice.

That's kind of cool.

And nobody would even know about this if it was a for a makeup artist and the cast member

Sabrina and Pectora.

She said, quote, no makeup yet, we were, we are very anxious, like, oh my gosh, Steve

Carell and John Krasinski are stopping by and they just found out like 20 minutes beforehand

on everything.

Wow.

Oh, I'm sorry.

So she's describing they're not in makeup or anything.

They're sitting down and they're getting ready to get in the makeup.

So usually you get to set, have your coffee, get in the makeup right away.

First thing you do, as you're in the makeup chair, they're

handing you changes to the script that you worked all night to memorize or maybe that's

just me.

Yeah, better it is.

No, no, that's that's pretty common, I think.

So you're sitting there just very, very off guard, you know, and you're trying, if anything,

trying to get into character.

And then there's a knock at the quote and then there is a, we hear a knock, knock, someone

enters a trailer and it's Steve Carell and John Krasinski, whoo, nice.

So they didn't even have any warning that they were stopping by.

Oh, that's great.

That's awesome.

John happened to be filming a commercial next door for an Italian coffee brand and they

just, they hurt, they didn't know that this was going on.

They were filming right next door.

They thought it was a wonderful coincidence.

It's funny.

I'm going to go over there.

Yeah.

How about that?

That's not bad.

That's not bad.

That's not bad.

We will take a quick time out.

We'll come back.

We'll talk some local theater.

We'll talk about our newsletter and see what other things we can get into.

Oh, that coming up for you on the morning show at WFHR.

Welcome back everyone.

Welcome back to the evening show at WFHR.

Hope you're having a great Wednesday out there.

Got your team together.

Melissa, Seth and James hanging out with you.

We hope you're having a fantastic day.

We're going to get into some fun stuff and one thing I wanted to do with the play that

I'm directing right now on Golden Pond, the fall production for Wisconsin's Rebels

Community Theater.

Give you guys a little look behind the curtain as we are going along through the process.

It's something that Melissa and Seth did with their shows and I thought it'd be fun

to do with ours.

I did not know that I would have to share as much as I am.

One of the things that I, and the points of this too, and the whole reason I wanted

to ask you guys about your shows and everything was certainly to encourage people to support

local theater.

That means also coming on down to local theater and maybe those that haven't done shows

before, maybe we take a little of the stigma or fear or anything like that out of it.

And share the fun.

Absolutely.

Yes, because it's such a blast.

The only warning I will give you when you come out for a show, you'll be back.

You'll be back.

That almost sounds like a threat, James.

It kind of does.

Can you make it sound a little more inviting?

It's very true though.

It's a weird show.

Well, but in a good way.

When you do a show at Wisconsin Threats Community Theater, you're not going to want to leave.

You know, you catch the bug and it's just insinjoyable.

It's a fun group of people.

They're so supportive.

They're so inclusive and they cater to every ability level.

You know, there's always something for anybody to get involved in, whether it's working

backstage, on stage, front of house, just coming to observe.

You know, all of those are options.

And then, of course, being an audience member, which is kind of the best part.

Yes.

You get to see the fruits of their labor.

Yes.

One of the things that can hold people back sometimes is scheduling and all I have plans

or I have this event, I have a vacation or something like that.

We want to tell you that that usually is something that can be worked around.

Especially if it's not that big of a thing, to that point, yesterday we were very limited

with our cast.

We have a small cast to begin with.

We have six cast members and we are short too.

And we are short too on Monday as well.

So as an actor for me, I always found that a little struggling, but you know, you roll

with it and all that.

As a director, I'm blown away by my cast and just how well they handle this and how much

they want to keep working and keep going through these scenes, the dedication in there.

I'm watching them yesterday and there's frustration because it's not just learning

they're blocking on their lines.

It's also not having the person to give them their cue or something.

And where it could be a very frustrating thing for people, they're rolling with it.

We're laughing.

We're having fun.

Beth is doing voices.

You know, it's really while also getting some good work done and I'm sitting back and

I'm not, I'm too, I want to get every angle on this play.

And there's so many different, with the set not changing much, we, at all, we, I want

to make sure that I'm using the front, the back and I, and everybody has a good seat in

the house.

So I'm popping up and moving around a lot.

And I was just getting up to go and watch this one particular scene, which is one of my

favorites in the play between Norman and Bill regarding sex.

You've got to watch this.

What, what, me and Andy are doing right now is so incredibly fun.

It's great.

When it comes to that, I'm watching them and I'm like, you know, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm

here, you know, because this is my job.

This is my, my, my passion.

I love this live, this entertainment.

This is what I do.

I'm watching these people do this and they're putting just as much heart, just as much energy

into it and they make it a penny and, and to do it for the love of the game, to truly

do it for those reasons.

I will, that will never get normal to me, that will never get old to me.

It's so cool to watch.

I am so humbled to have the best seat to watch all this and to see these performers do

this and to adapt the way they are.

And the, the chemistry that is being built really from auditions to, to where we are now

is just, it jumps every time we, we like to go through things twice, especially right

now since we're not going through whole, whole acts.

So we'll go through these things twice.

And even in the, the second time they say it, it you can see building.

You can see the, them building these characters, building these, this chemistry and everybody

having a good time while they're at it.

Nice.

Well, and that's a compliment to you, James and your team for picking a, and selecting

a cast that has that chemistry and works together that way.

I was very, very fortunate in the show that I did to have that as well.

It's just, it's a beautiful thing to see develop and these relationships and these

characters build together and, and create this opportunity for people to just step out

of, of the norm, step out of the lane and, and watch something.

And we've, we've seen someone that's in the cast, Andy, who started out very unsure.

He was, you know, I think his first show was, um, um, American 34th Street.

If I remember correctly, uh, he had come because his daughter wanted to, you know, audition

and he ended up being in there.

And it's, I like to think of it as you don't know what you're capable of until you do

it.

And he was very unsure.

But now he is, I mean, he's gained confidence.

He's done more roles, bigger roles, all that kind of stuff.

His role in Noises Off with the pants falling down, they're just, running across stage with

pants around his ankles, I mean, it's, it's fantastic.

He's good, he's a good dead body too, by the way, for, uh, Arseneck and Olace, he was

a good dead body.

That scene I'm referring to is going to go down.

I don't care if he works for a hundred years, it's going to go down as one of his best.

I'm being able to bring out some really great stuff and he's rolling with it and working

with it so well.

Oh, I can't wait to see it.

It's, it's going to be fun.

And, and you may have seen the movie a billion times, you may have seen the Broadway production.

You have not seen this version.

It is going to be a little bit different, a little bit more, uh, interesting, I think,

for many out there.

And, uh, especially because of this cast, a big shout out to them and the great work that

they're doing.

We'll be back at it tonight.

More next week about the show, but you can go ahead and get tickets right now, head

on over to wrctheater.org, get those tickets and, you know, as long as you're there, why

not get them for the whole season?

You can.

You can also, if you, if this is like tickled, uh, an interest in you that you may be

want to try something, we got something going on for the Golden Anniversary.

It's a variety show at WRC T and you can, you can do whatever you'd like.

You could sing a song, you could do a little monologue, you get a couple people together

and do a, a one act.

Short, you know, a little thing or James can sing.

No.

Uh, Brett, Gretchen asked if I'd be a part of this and the rule was, I can't sing.

Oh, let me give you, um, let me give everyone an idea here because otherwise, Beth and I probably

would have done this, but we can't make it.

We have a previous engagement, but, uh, someone's got to do who's on first.

Uh, someone's got to do who's on first.

And I will tell you, it kills every time.

It does.

It never gets old.

It's always super funny.

Yeah.

Um, so the, the show will actually be October 11th at 2 p.m. and there'll be a light

order's reception after, but you have until September 8th to submit your applications.

Oh my gosh.

So it's, that's coming up way.

There's not much time.

I know.

I got to get mine in.

All right.

So yeah, contact Gretchen at cdwrcd at Solaris.net or call the theater or just go to their

website.

wrctheatre.org.

Nice.

Get on over there, everybody.

Uh, there is plenty of things you could do to kind of be a part of this as far as entertainment

wise.

And if you have, uh, thoughts that you, well, I'm not sure if this would work, pitch

to Gretchen.

So, you know, you'd be surprised.

Uh, I'm going to be doing, uh, some spoken word stuff, and I didn't know that that would

fit.

She thought it fits good.

So we'll do that.

Can you be at the back?

Yeah, you can.

Yeah.

You can also volunteer to help set up with decorations or table setup, food preparation,

um, any of the things front backhouse on stage, there's so many opportunities to get

involved.

And this is a very small time commitment and a good introduction to the theater.

It'll be fun.

It'll be so much fun.

Yeah.

I was talking earlier about news and, um, one of the things that I, I know about it is,

um, uh, the idea of what I was saying about some of the way the news is done and everything.

Part of where that comes from is because I know that it can be done right.

And we do it that way here.

Uh, W F H R civic media, I've been doing that for quite some time now.

It's where it's getting to be overhead, um, where we are informing people.

We are not shying away from stories.

We are getting some incredible reporting done, unimportant topics while also having some

fun and some other topics in there.

Um, they got a great one from Terry Barber about how the brewers film from 1982 is inspiring

players in 2025.

That's cool.

Melissa's great article on her 85th anniversary that I really enjoyed.

I've packed right low wrote one too, so check out up north news, um, for his article as

well.

Very cool.

Brittany's, uh, got everything covered weather wise and weather related things and doesn't

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She's a good writer.

I like her writing.

I like her style.

I can tell her voice, uh, in things, um, get to know these reporters, get to know this

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It's actually really neat.

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Summer time.

Morning show here at 975 FM, 1320 AM, WFHR, Melissa, Seth, James, hanging out with you.

Thanks so much for hanging out with us.

Got a little bit more fun to get to before we wrap up this show.

And right now we got some trends to look at.

Trends.

Trends.

Let's go ahead and try to be popular.

Um, remember when people...

No, it doesn't work when you try, James.

No, it doesn't.

No, it does not.

No.

Remember when people couldn't stop talking about Lululemon or certain thing or...

Lululemon.

Lululemon.

Or what were the mugs that everybody was having?

Oh, yeah.

I know what you're talking about.

Stanley mugs.

Stanley mugs.

Yeah.

Some of those.

We've had a couple of things like that that have gone on.

What about the Labouboo things that are going on right now?

They just mentioned that.

Yeah.

You haven't heard about that yet?

No.

That's the thing gone on.

I don't even know what that is.

No, I heard about this a while ago.

You have to lock them onto your, like, purse or whatever because people steal them there.

It's crazy.

Oh, there's these little furry guys.

Yeah.

These little furry things.

Okay.

That's the big one, right?

That's the first time hearing of it.

I did not read this before.

So Google says four big trends from 2025 are already on decline, including those.

Lululemon.

They don't stay running.

They don't last forever.

Yeah.

And who wants to spend that kind of money on something?

Stone.

What goes up must come down.

That's right.

Google searches peaked in June and had held it steady until July.

But now they are tanking.

And I mean, tanking.

They are going down.

So they call them trends for a reason because they don't stick around.

That's right.

That's the very good point, right?

So here are three more things that were huge this year.

But they're already trending down.

Like, everybody had lobster sweaters.

I mean, everybody had them.

What?

Lobster sweaters.

I've never heard of this.

Lobster sweaters.

I'm so uncooled.

I am so unfashionable.

I will love to stay unfashionable, but it involves lobster sweaters.

I'm good.

Quote Fisherman Corps was big this spring.

Everyone wanted to pretend they summer.

Oh, okay.

So everyone wanted to pretend.

I didn't know Fisherman Corps was a thing.

It is not, apparently.

Basically, the Cape Cod looked.

They looked like they were from Cape Cod.

Everybody needs deck shoes.

A cable knit sweater with a lobster on it.

But interest has been in declines since May on those.

It's the old sea captain from the Simpsons.

Basically.

Yes.

That's him.

Would you wear it when he's wearing your good?

No, it would have probably been more popular had they included the peg leg.

That's a little bit harder to do, though.

Yeah, but commit to the bit.

Do you want to be cool?

No, no.

Guys, there's screen printing now.

You can just screen print a peg onto the one leg of your pants.

And then you'll live.

And it looks true.

You have a peg leg.

At least from a distance.

Tennessee, come on.

I say, how badly do you want to look like a pirate?

How dedicated are you to fashion?

Fashion is pain.

They say fashion is pain.

I'm just saying we're less than a month away from talking like a pirate day, too.

So get your pirate accents ready, everybody.

All right.

Beauty is pain.

That's the greatest.

That's what it is.

Double skirts.

They keep coming back.

Fashion is painful.

Well done.

They keep coming back.

First in the 50s, then in the 80s, then early 2000s.

Search interests peaked in April and May after a bunch of brands had them in their spring

collections like L and Vogue.

Those stores are declaring bubble skirts are poor back, but now we're seeing a decline in

the sales of them.

But here's the thing.

Also with trends.

Once you buy it, you own it.

You don't have to buy another one.

Yes.

So why would their sales go up?

We'll.

I mean, if you want more than one bubble skirt.

Yeah, right.

Or if you haven't had any in your closet.

This is why you should save your clothes, by the way.

Yeah.

Because the trends will always come.

It's cyclical in fashion.

So the thing that I thought would, I was boggled by the off the shoulder shirt from the

80s.

That came back in a big way.

I'm like, why?

That's such a weird thing.

I had to look up the bubble skirt.

It's basically a lot of these are short, but it's where you don't necessarily have a

hem.

The skirt loops.

Oh, right, right, right.

Wow.

It kind of gives an added bulkiness, I guess, to the bottom edge of it.

Right.

Well, that.

And again, this is just students and people telling me this, not me.

I was told that the baggy shorts and baggy pants are back, but the tight shirt on top.

So as I'm saying this, that trend is dying.

You can feel it.

Listen, everybody.

You can hear it happening as I'm just talking about it.

The air slowly starts to leak out of it.

Yeah.

I was almost a little angered by that because that's something that was, you know, again, we

were doing that in the 90s.

You just got to wait.

And you'll come back.

You'll be fine.

And third on this list, beaded bags.

Purses covered in colorful bead designs took off on TikTok.

Search interest peeked in June after in style, Ranny headline saying you'd find the trend in good, every cool girls closet.

But that has apparently been on the decline.

Well, that's happened before too, right?

I think like the 70s, there were beads were big on a lot of different things.

That one's going to keep coming back around.

Yeah, I agree.

I mean, like the Victorian era in, you know, like, let's go all the way back to the 1600s.

There you go.

Wow.

And on clothing and on purses, it's an embellishment that is amazing and awesome and really hard to keep up.

It's because as soon as one like, if they're not made well, if they're not constructed well, one little thread breaks and you lose a whole string of beads.

And the sound of that happening is, is heart wrenching when you've spent a lot of money on this thing and all of a sudden there's a tink in the

and they all fall off and they're all over the floor and you'll never get them back.

And then it's, and then it's ruined.

As you can tell, this has happened to me.

Yeah, from experience.

I can feel it.

Very, very detailed on that.

My mom went through a period of time where she was making really beautiful crocheted beaded bags.

And they're small.

I have one.

I mean, and it's like the size of, size of your hand.

But it probably took her a hundred out.

Yes, it does.

A hundred hours to make easily, easily.

Wow.

I mean, it's tiny crocheted.

They're tiny beads.

It's beautiful.

It's gorgeous.

I'm terrified to use it.

Oh, yeah, I bet.

Yes.

Yeah.

It's a display piece.

It is a display piece in my jewelry box.

You could just, you know, or take it out and just lay it somewhere and people can make a conversation.

We're around my neck.

There you go.

There you go.

It's a necklace.

There you go.

I could.

I used a little more bling, Melissa.

To the point.

I dressed up today.

You look great.

Thanks.

To the point.

I love trends always coming back.

I was curious to think of, well, what's the newest thing to come around that we have kept in our fashion, you know, and all that?

The stuck around and stuff.

Is it corduroy, is it bell bottoms, is it?

And I was thinking about Capri pants.

And to me, I thought, well, Capri pants are kind of an 80s, 90s thing or something like that.

Capri pants are 76 years old.

They've been around since 1948.

I didn't realize that.

Yeah.

You can watch, there's movies where you see women wearing capri pants because they realize that because they, they were pants, but they didn't look like pants.

They look more like a, like a, like a split skirt or something like that.

Yeah.

So look more like that.

And once it was okay to show ankles, then we could, we could have Capri pants.

Oh, yeah.

That ankle.

Yeah.

But I had to look up where this Laboo Boo thing, what, what it is.

So for those of us who don't know, it, it became famous primarily due to a viral marketing moment in 2024 when K-pop star Lisa was seen carrying one.

That'll do it.

So now this ugly, cute aesthetic is now, and the fact that they're blind box releases.

So you buy one, you don't know what's in the box.

Oh, okay.

So that's why people have to keep buying them so they get this reminds me.

What was it lately?

90s, what were those little, I forget what they're called, those little.

And the $20 to $30 a box.

That's nuts, pass.

Yeah.

Those, those little electronic pets.

Yeah.

What were those calls?

No, no, no, no.

No.

Good jimmo or something like that.

You had to keep alive.

And you got defeated with that.

I bet mine died well fast.

But guys, some of the rare figures are selling for over $100,000.

That's why people are stealing them.

Yeah, that would make sense.

Better sell it now.

That's all I'm saying.

Yep.

Learn from the beanie babies.

Learn from the beanie babies.

Yep.

And so one of the cover this story real quick, because I have a mixed bag feeling about it.

By now many of you might have heard.

Cracker Barrel has broken down.

Cracker Barrel has given in to public outcry and they are going back to their old logo.

Oh no.

And for those that have not heard, Cracker Barrel changed their logo.

And right back again.

Yeah, yeah.

Now, it wasn't a big change.

No, no.

It was just the same.

It was just changed from having a picture on it to just the worst Cracker Barrel.

And with that slight change, Cracker Barrel shed almost $100 million in market value Thursday

after its stock plummet plunged following the release of the new logo.

Why, though?

The new design eliminates a longstanding drawing of what Melissa was describing there.

And with the barrel.

Shares of Cracker Barrel fell $4.22 or 7.2% to 5480 in other states trades, which is just,

you just don't see this very often.

It's one thing to see a dip because of a logo change or a new mascot or something like that.

To see this is, it's different.

There's something more happening there.

In part, I think that there's been a pushback on Cracker Barrels for a long time.

People have kind of been enjoying their charm.

It turns out human beings don't want to act like farm animals.

I was telling Melissa and Seth the one time that I went into a Cracker Barrel,

I'm not trying to be funny.

I thought that there would be a trough in there.

For just human beings to just walk on up to with their family.

Where you see a downside, I see an opportunity.

Oh, yes.

Do tell.

The feeding trough.

That's my new restaurant.

There we go.

There we go.

For some reason, I think it should have a Charlotte's web motif.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Maybe get a little babe reference in there too.

Maybe you know people love babes.

So yeah, there you go.

We can make it a whole.

It's not babe.

Oh, you're talking about the movie.

Yeah, the other big.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So Cracker Barrel announced that they were caving and they would scrap plans to replace their classic logo.

They said, quote, we thank our guests for sharing our void.

They're your voices and love for Cracker Barrel.

We said we would listen and we have our new logo is going away.

And the old timer will remain at Cracker Barrel.

It's always been and always will be about serving up delicious food.

Warm welcomes any kind of listening to their listen to the people.

So on one hand, I like that when people can make things happen.

True.

I love when there's this grassroots kind of thing where people,

whether they're coming together or they're just doing this, you know,

not even realizing they're coming together to make change.

We need more of this.

I've talked about this a lot when it comes to a lot of different topics.

Because we the people have the power.

We really do.

We're showing it right here and there are examples almost every day of it.

And at the same time, come on, man.

Like, I mean, is it really like you got to choose your battles in life?

I feel like if, if I'm so upset that I'm even leaving a comment,

let alone what some of these people are doing to Cracker Barrel

because of this logo.

I wish that was the biggest problem in my life.

I wish I had that kind of time.

I honestly, I give them five years because it's not just that they,

yeah, they heard the people, the outcry from people like that.

But I got to think that some of those people are like, wow, they caved easily.

It's, you know, like, wow, gee, what's this?

Can we also complain about their, just the whole setup?

The whole setup.

That fact that you have to walk through a store to get to the restaurant,

that there's really not a waiting area to get a table,

a side of looping through the retail store, the training of servers,

quality of food.

The quality of the food.

The quality of the food.

The quality of the whole reason I go to the restaurant is petty.

Enough pegs for the little peg game.

I mean, come on, people.

All they serve is little tiny single serve bottles of wine.

And Bud Light.

Okay, come on.

Yeah.

Yeah.

No, there's, it's suitor home.

Can we get something a little better?

Wow.

Well done.

Wow.

I didn't realize this was one of her buttons, man.

Wow.

Cracker barrel.

What a takedown.

I don't like the setup at all.

I'm so with you on this.

I really didn't like that part that I felt like I had to buy a shirt in order to get my food.

Like I didn't like that.

And then what a defense.

Actually, some of the stuff in that store is cute.

But the food.

Like if you're going to serve a thousand products,

at least make a couple of them better than average.

I didn't taste anything.

And I sampled a lot of different stuff.

I didn't taste anything that felt like it was really well made.

Like it all felt like it was under a heat lamp.

One shining example of a crackle bearer.

Cracker barrel experience that has stayed with me forever.

I got to go on a trip when I was a young preteen, probably age,

going to the governor's mansion to view the Christmas trees at Christmas time.

And this was a lady that my mom and I worked for.

And we stopped at the cracker barrel on the way down to Madison.

And I had a crispy chicken salad with ranch dressing.

It was the most amazing thing I had ever eaten in my 10 years of life.

And I therefore adored cracker barrel through years after that,

even though I never ate it one again until recently.

And then the disappointment.

It was just losing.

Now I understand.

Now I get what it was.

The Christmas trees at the governor's mansion in Madison

was really, really cool to see.

And they had little different little cookies in every little world.

Sounds good.

Sounds interesting.

Next time go to Bob Evans.

Go to cracker.

Go to Bob this way better.

Go to Bob Evans.

Cracker barrel is also, you know, to your point about them

and the longevity of greener barrel and everything.

They did this in part to get younger.

And younger people were liking the logo, the new logo.

And now that they switched back, those younger people are kind of like,

okay, you don't care about us.

And now they're liking it even.

Now they're liking cracker barrel even less,

which is also hurting their numbers.

And one other thing that's not going to help them is when Seth and I and Melissa

open up our restaurant, just troughs.

Yep, just troughs.

You were going full hog.

Yes, and that's what we're going to say.

Go hog.

We will even offer a fast food option where you put those things on horses.

Feedback.

Feedback.

Feedback.

Feedback to go.

Feed trough in the horse bag.

Be on the lookout for that, everybody.

Come into a town near you.

We'll be back in more show.

You say yes.

Take two.

Say stop.

I say go, go, go.

Welcome back, everyone.

Morning show at WFHR.

You say goodbye.

And I say hello.

Here to wrap up the show, take you to the top of the hour.

Thank you so much for joining us.

Everybody, been a lot of fun.

We'll be back at this tomorrow from 9 to 11.

Bringing you serious comedy to start your day.

Got good stuff on the way.

Be sure to join us for the rapid support today.

We got a good one lined up for you.

And part one, we're going to talk with our friend Lance Plenal,

Wood County Board Chairman.

Get an update on Wood County.

We'll also have Wisconsin's rapid community media with us to talk about this one.

Thanks.

And then, of course, we will also be talking with Anne Lepeck from the ODC.

Anne will join us.

Oh, very nice.

Looking forward to that.

Also got a new addition of playmakers for you lined up from four to five today.

Be sure to join us for that one.

We will speak sport on 1055WiR.

Looking forward to that.

Thank you to Quality Plus Printing for sponsoring that show.

And, of course, more good things on the way.

Melissa.

Yes, we have Bingo.

Bingo.

Oh, it's Wednesday.

That's right.

It is at the Wisconsin Rapids Elk Sludge.

430 West Jackson Street.

The doors open at five.

Bingo starts at 630.

Make sure that you get on out for Bingo.

Guys, we got to do this one of these days.

Absolutely.

Can we do Bingo?

Can we make it happen?

No, I wouldn't.

We can all talk about so many things that we never do.

I'm pretty winy.

I'm pretty good at Bingo.

I'm pretty good at Bingo.

Oh, oh, oh, oh.

So I know.

My name's up.

What?

I throw something at you.

There's a supporter elk Essa ludge's support to this community, everybody.

Get on over there for some great Pingu.

And Bingo's fun.

Speaking of supporting people.

Our friends over at Mel and Library worked really hard to give their this kind

of summer concert series that they've been doing on Thursdays.

Oh my gosh.

We've set they brought in a big name.

And if you are not familiar with the name John Gorka, I would encourage you to check out

YouTube or on your favorite streaming service, whatever it is.

Listen, just listen to the man's voice.

It is one of the smoothest baritones you've ever heard.

I mean, it's an amazing singing voice.

He's a fantastic songwriter.

I've known about John Gorka for a very long time.

And I've been a fan of his for a very long time.

So this Thursday, everyone, starting at seven o'clock at the Fine Arts Center at the

McMillan Library.

John Gorka will be live and in concert.

Wow.

I encourage you to go and check it out because he is amazing.

And apparently he has a super fan here in Wisconsin Rapids.

Yes.

I hadn't thought of him in a very long time.

But as soon as I saw this, I was like, oh man, he's amazing.

A quick note from our Wood County Parks and Forestry Department.

Wood County beaches will remain open through Labor Day weekend.

And we'll close for this season on Tuesday, September 2nd.

Big thank you to everybody.

The work so hard on those.

Keep in mind, all the other parks, including campground shelters, boat landings,

disc golf courses, and walk trail will remain open through October 31st of 2025.

Head on over to the Parks and Forestry Department to find out more and maybe even find out some

camping options for yourself.

Also, our Southwood County Historical Museum is in their final week of their exhibit.

It wraps up this Sunday, August 31st.

They've got a really cool exhibit going on over there.

And a lot of other great things.

Explore local history before closes for the year.

They're open Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday.

One to four do not miss out.

Buying local supporting local also includes not only our nonprofits,

but our local businesses and establishments like our museum and our local institutions.

Our zoo is going to be shutting down here pretty soon, everybody.

Get on over there and check that out.

And maybe you'll see a koala bear.

I don't think they have koalas over there.

But you see some pretty cool animals.

But a koala does show up in our good stories of the day from around the world and we're going to Australia.

And an 82 year old guy in Australia is going viral after he stopped to save a koala on the road.

Then gave it a real stern talking to after it scratched him.