Telephone Tuesday is a Thing (Hour 2)

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Thanks for joining us.

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What do you think of it?

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It's something different.

Change it up.

Change it up a little bit.

We'll get used to it.

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We appreciate that.

We'll be joined by Tom Heiser or the Monthly Veterans Update

in a little bit looking forward to it.

As always, appreciate Tom joining us.

For now, we'll dive into entertainment news.

And MTV is going to be MTV again for a little bit.

Say what?

MTV is giving us a taste of the good old days

with 24-7 music videos.

Cool.

It started yesterday and we'll run

until the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday.

It's not the main MTV channel, though.

You'll be able to watch your constant stream of videos on MTV2,

MTV Live, and MTV Classic that are still around.

I did not know any of those channels existed.

Well, and what, yeah, where even are they?

Yeah, yeah, I don't know.

There's a lineup of over 700 videos in 12 different categories,

the best of the 80s, 90s, and videos that go bump in the night,

videos that make us howl, and best celebrity cameos.

Interesting list.

I like the list.

I like that they're going with some themes for it and everything.

That's fun.

MTV says the artists with the most videos being aired are

Britney Spears with 21.

Beyonce with 18.

Madonna was 17.

M&M with 15.

And Michael Jackson with 12.

Backstreet boys have 11.

Mariah Carey and Sink and Justin Timberlake each have nine videos each.

There will also be special appearances from artists

sharing their favorite music videos like Shaperone, John Bon Jovi,

Olivia Rodrigo, Adoja Cat and some others.

That's a interesting way to do it.

I like the idea of bringing in the celebrities and all of that.

The 2025 VMAs air this Sunday at seven o'clock on CBS,

MTV and Paramount Plus.

This is the first time that it's on CBS.

Wow.

Yeah, we're just trying to look and see.

It's like, Philo, I don't even know what that is.

Hulu Plus, Live TV, Bo, Sling TV and Directive.

What are even are these things?

Yeah, I don't know half of them.

And honestly, a lot of them ain't going to be around in the couple of years anyway.

So, you know, I don't know.

Don't waste your time.

There will be performances from Lady Gaga, Sabrina Carpenter,

Alex Warren and Ricky Martin.

Yeah, that they're still doing this, I think is still interesting.

And all that, I think that MTV would be better served going back

to just doing this, just the music video thing.

Well, yeah, because we're, I mean, people are still making music videos,

and they're awesome.

And where do you go to watch them?

YouTube, usually, for me anyway, if I'm going to.

So, here's the, there's so many things, even just off the top of my head,

that you could still lean into that nobody else could do.

For one, that's Entertainment 101.

How do you stay relevant in radio when there are a billion radio stations out there?

Well, we're the only ones that can give you true central Wisconsin reporting,

true reporting right here from Wisconsin Rapids.

We can cover this market, cover this area,

literally better than anybody living here, being here, all of those.

Because we're here.

That's our niche.

That's one of our things we can do that no other radio station in our market can do.

Nobody can do it like us.

MTV, hey, who else is doing music videos?

We're going to lean into that.

We're the music video station.

Lean into literally what you did to begin with.

How many companies would love to be able to do that?

How many companies would love to be able to, hey, what are we doing in the beginning?

Let's just go back to that.

MTV, you could do that and people would jump on board.

Yeah, because everybody else has taken over the reality TV that they kind of leaned into for a while.

You bring up a fantastic point about, you know, the idea,

well, if I want to watch a music video, I just throw it up on YouTube.

Sure, that's going to always exist.

That's not going anywhere.

But you could be the place for premiere episodes of premiere videos.

You could be like back to back videos where you don't have to click on another thing.

Getting back into the requests, people still love to request music.

I get requests all the time for unlabeled and everything.

People still like to do those kind of things.

And this is just off the top of my head.

I'm sure some smart marketing people could come up with more than I can.

I don't know James.

Yeah, I had to let that sit there for a second.

In all honesty, I really do think that you have no, especially now,

it's not as if MTV is its own channel.

And well, they got to finish in the black in order to stay alive.

They're owned by a conglomerate.

If you don't finish in the black, you'll be okay.

You'll make up for it in other places.

That's how CBS got built.

CBS, CBS built a whole station on this already.

It's not just the MTV awards week that they should do this.

I think they should go back to this completely,

change their complete scheduling and do this.

Plus, here's another sneaky thing going on, everybody,

that I don't see a lot of headlines about right now.

There's a lot of people that cut the cord that are tying it back together,

that are getting the duct tape.

They're like, oh, wait, I shouldn't have cut that cable cord.

There's a lot of people going back to cable.

There's a lot of people going back to a lot of that flipping

and a lot of those things.

MTV was one of the homes of the flipper.

You were flipping through channels and you came across a video you liked

and you stayed on there.

Right.

Just like radio stations.

I don't think this is rocket science.

I think you could lean into this and it would be a smart thing for the channel.

Yeah, I agree.

I wanted to cover this story as well.

And I understand Graham Green, not a maybe household name actor,

but a legend in the craft as it is.

Canadian actor Graham Green passed away over the weekend.

The Oscar nominated star of dances with the wolves.

Green Mile and many others was 73.

He passed after a lengthy illness.

The Canadian First Nations actor.

A tireless advocate for Indigenous representation in Hollywood.

First appeared in the 1979 drama series The Great Detective,

along with the film Running Brave.

Green's leap into Hollywood came with dances with wolves,

playing the wise and compassionate Sue, medicine and kicking bird.

I've only watched that movie once because of my feelings about Kevin Costner and that.

But I came away from it.

All I could think about was his performance.

It was the main thing on my mind.

His performance.

Why have we been using him already?

Why is this his first time?

I'm seeing him as a kid.

All of that.

I would go on to any chance I saw him in a movie.

Just locking into his performance and trying to learn from every single thing he was doing.

Whether it was a TV show, a movie, whether he was at a big character role or not.

I really, really, truly studied his work.

He was one of those guys for me.

That performance earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor back in 1991.

Green followed up roles with major studio roles in The Green Mile, Maverick,

the Twilight Saga.

He was eventually in as well and got a lot of notoriety from that.

He was recently in the TV show Tulsa King and in 1883.

He was in those as well.

He had great performances in them.

I will mention Longmeyer.

He was on that.

He was on reservation dogs.

A really popular show on FX for a while there while it was on.

But he was in Northern Exposure.

One of those fun TV shows to me is a kid that I liked.

And that was another time that I really remember enjoying his performances.

He will be missed.

If you look through his film list, you have seen multiple films.

You have to have seen multiple films that he's been in.

It's just, it's, the film list is awesome.

But for me, it's Maverick.

Yeah, it's great performance.

I just watched that the other, I don't know when it was.

But recently, I love that movie from when I was a kid.

I'm younger anyway.

So many ethnicities when we talk about breaking stereotypes in film,

it's, you still had people playing these roles.

You know, I've talked to a lot of my friends who are African-American

who are Latin about this and the growth of that over the decades.

That you are, you wanted to be, you are a black man, you wanted to be an actor.

Nowadays, you don't have to just play a gangster.

Nowadays, you don't, you know, some of those things.

But there's a whole other level to it when I've talked to Native American actors.

When I've talked to Jewish actors of the idea of even having a Native American

or a Jewish person playing these roles.

Like for a long time, a long, long time in Hollywood,

oh, we need a Native American.

Let's grab a Dark Italian.

Some of those things.

So the representation wasn't even there on that level.

Let alone we're, we're just now into 2000s getting to the point where that's a thing.

Like, like audiences demanding that.

And how insane is that?

Right.

Nobody else seems to care about this from me.

But the idea of Gentiles playing Jews is ridiculous.

Is ridiculous.

You can, but they look alike.

No, they don't.

If they did, you think I'd take a half the heat I have in my life.

Like, they don't.

If you think they do, it just shows your blind spot.

Like, you're just telling on yourself right there.

It's to say, well, a Native American, what's the difference of them?

A dark Greek person or a dark Italian?

If I got to explain that to you, you're part of the issue, man.

You're part of the problem.

Like, there's a difference.

People like to throw out there.

Well, you're playing pretend.

You're playing a character.

So, you know, of course it's okay.

No.

That's the opposite of playing pretend.

That's the opposite of acting.

That's not what we're trying to do here.

That's not what this is about.

If that was the face, if that was the case, then, you know,

we'd still have people doing blackface.

You'd still have that going on.

That ridiculous, one of the biggest dark eyes on our entertainment history.

It matters.

It matters.

And I would like to see audiences get a little bit more up in arms about these things.

You know, with all this, we're trying to make representation matter and everything.

We'd like to see people actually, you know, put their money where their mouth is on this stuff.

And put to the great work that Mr. Green did.

Like, honor it.

Because he fought really hard for this.

There are many stories of him working with directors and they wanted to do one thing.

And he was like, no, that's not something that's not something a native would do.

That's not something.

That's not authentic.

Yeah.

And thus making the performance that much better and that much more realistic.

What are we about here?

I don't care if you're talking about a science fiction movie.

Reality.

Making you believe these characters, making you believe these performances, these stories.

Nobody can do it better than the actual people.

Like if you want to get real, let's get real and cast real people.

Makes sense to me.

This also does, especially with the news if you heard the entertainment or seen the box office numbers over the weekend.

And JAWS got to re-release as part of its 50th anniversary.

And it was number two in the box office this weekend.

On a holiday weekend nonetheless.

And with that.

That was nice outside.

Yeah.

I mean, probably not everywhere.

But on that note, you're going to be seeing more of these kind of things happening.

And we had this story pop up this morning from ABC News.

Toy Story coming back to theaters ahead of its 30th anniversary.

How 30th anniversary is crazy?

It made me feel very old.

Fans are getting a sneak peek at Toy Story 5, the latest installment in the beloved animated franchise coming up next year.

Disney shared an exclusive clip from the animated comedy and adventure.

And the new clip for Toy Story 5 shows a bunch of different things you can look it up yourselves.

But the big story that came out of this was that Conan O'Brien is going to be playing smarty pants.

No, no, he's not.

Well, he is.

He is going to be doing that.

But that's not the big headline from this.

It is that they're going to be re-releasing it September 2nd.

You know, and this is actually I think a good thing for theaters.

Yeah.

To put these back on the big screen and give theaters another opportunity to be open their doors for something.

That isn't just another big movie.

Well, and I mean, one of the major things that every studio wants is I want to know it's going to be a hit.

I want to know what's going to do well.

Well, what better example do you have than former hits?

Great.

Take one that was former.

Honestly, I would go to see Jaws in the big theater.

Yeah, I would.

I've never seen it.

I've never seen it.

Oh, wow.

If I was going to see it, I would go watch it in the theater.

But I'm probably not going to bother watching it on my little TV.

Yeah.

Yeah, but I am a little envious of the first time people get to see some of these things.

But I have not seen it in the theater.

So I'm with you on that.

That would be cool.

And team building events?

Yes.

Definitely.

Definitely.

Yes.

Oh, this would actually play right into the other movies we've watched together.

Yeah.

The Santa Jaws.

Yes.

Well, it wasn't built like that.

The special effects and everything.

It kind of fits with some of the movies we've watched.

When it comes to this, maybe I'm on an island on this one.

Would you rather have them re-releasing movies or them doing new remakes?

Because I'd rather them re-release the old ones.

I'd rather re-release the old ones.

Yeah, definitely.

Definitely.

For sure.

I think that would be a much smarter idea and probably a lot cheaper.

Well, and there are theaters that do the rivally in the cross.

And play older movies, but not all the time.

But sometimes they'll just have an older movie playing.

I love one.

One of the things I would really love to do is own a movie theater.

And that's something I would do instantly.

I don't care if it drove me out of business.

I would have a Sunday matinee every Sunday that had gone with the wind

or arsenic and old lace or some of these great classic movies

that you could see on the big screen and stuff.

But just think about the fun that you could have with it.

Because the rivally, the way it's set up, they have pizza

and I think they even sell beer.

And they got little tables instead of your typical seat theater.

That would be really good.

But you could do something like that.

And that would probably revive our theater industry in a way.

This is actually a topic that has come up with a Seth and I off air

a little bit.

And it's something that I, here's hoping, you know,

because I'd like to see some more movement on that subject.

We'll see.

Melissa and I are going to take a quick time out.

We'll come back with our monthly veterans update

from our good friend Tom Heiser.

And a little bit later we're talking telephone Tuesday.

The top day for phone calls all year.

We'll talk about that.

Yeah.

We'll get into it when we come back on the morning show right here

at 975 FM WF HR.

Welcome back everyone.

Morning show here at WF HR 975 FM 1320 AM locally grown radio.

Melissa and James with you right now.

And welcoming in our good friend Mr. Tom Heiser

with our monthly veterans update.

Melissa, we got to get some theme music for Tom.

We do.

We got to get some music for Tom here.

It might not be bad.

We'll think of it.

We'll figure out something.

But we're going to get some good music here for this.

Because Tom has been joining us every month for a while now

and we appreciate the time as always.

Melissa, Tom can hear you.

He has the headphones on just so you know.

Good, good.

Tom, where do you want to begin?

Well, let's begin with today.

It's interesting.

80 years ago.

Yeah.

Today was victory over Japan to end a World War II.

Now think about it.

Somebody joined early in their 20 when the war ended.

Did we a hundred?

Wow.

Wow.

Wow.

That is really interesting to think of.

And as you know, you and I have talked about quite a bit, Tom.

You know, we were losing more and more of our World War II vets.

And it's important for us to note these individuals, these heroes,

these people who were here today because of.

And any chance you get, especially if you know a World War II vet,

reaching out to them.

I know every year on this day I would reach out to my grandfather and my pop.

I'm talking to them about it.

As they got older, they shared so much more.

As a kid, their service was very limited to me.

I got notes here and there.

Usually when I messed up, they would tell me, hey, this is what we were doing.

And these kind of things.

As they got older, they shared so much more of these stories.

And while I value them every day of my life, the rest of my life,

I can't imagine what it did for them to be able to share this stuff.

Talk about these things.

I could see it in their eyes.

It's another reason to talk to vets, to talk to our individuals,

give them these opportunities.

Will they share?

I don't know.

Maybe they will, maybe they won't.

But they're not going to have the opportunity if you don't ask the questions.

If you don't ask follow-ups, how are you doing?

What was it like?

Do you want to talk about this?

These kind of things.

What was interesting.

I just finished a book called Tail Spin.

From World War II, Guy from Wisconsin,

was in a back with a weird door gunner.

His plane got shut down.

He fell four miles and survived.

It's incredible.

And he finally started talking about it.

And the guy wrote the book and he says,

his family knows because they never knew.

So exactly what you're saying.

Yeah.

His family never even knew about it.

That's right.

Yeah.

That's wild to think of.

But it is.

That's the life of a soldier.

That's how things usually go.

So I appreciate that note, Tom.

Thank you for that.

We've got on Tuesday, September 2nd,

that breakfast coming up at Grace's.

Yeah, this morning.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Today.

I meant to say today, sorry.

How did that go?

I had commitments.

Okay.

But hopefully it went well.

We say a good morning to all of our friends over there at Grace's

and I hope it went well.

Right.

And tonight we have the Allied Vets meeting at 6.

That's where members from each veterans organization

get together and discuss where they're going for the next month.

What their plans are, what things are going on.

And then Wednesday, the American Revolution ended in 1783.

Yeah.

Yeah, we all remember that day.

Yeah.

No.

But another great note.

Yeah.

Not that old.

But another great note.

Another great note on that one time.

That's from your past life, right?

Yes, that's it.

That's what it was.

Yes.

Okay.

We know that summer's winding, Tom,

because one of the last broad fries is September 6th.

I know.

But not the last one.

Okay.

I wasn't sure if this was the last one or just one of.

Okay.

Good.

That's good.

We can still get breads a little bit longer into there.

That's great.

We'll work that down.

Everybody, West Grand IGA, September 6th,

get on over there and get yourself a broad.

Right.

And then we have the grand affair coming up on the 7th.

Downtown will reap the VFW presents the colors.

And the way we go.

Yeah.

And then on Tuesday, September 9th,

Culver's VFW's Cher-Night.

Culver's has been fantastic with this.

They really helped the community.

Not just us but other organizations in the community

are helped by Culver's.

And we really appreciate that.

Yeah.

And then on September 9th,

there's a morning going to over at Point.

And then on a 10th is Heroes Cafe at Crossview.

We're back.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Right on.

Great to have that back.

It's always a shout out to our friends at Crossview Church.

Right.

Hosting that and all the great volunteers that get that going.

Be sure to be listening right here.

And we'll keep you up to date on American Heroes Cafe

as it goes on throughout the month.

730 to 930 over at Crossview Church.

Right.

And the pastor there is an Air Force fat.

Oh.

So that's why we got that going.

Right on.

And then on a 10th is the American Legion post.

9th monthly meeting.

And then we got September 11th.

Where were you and what were you doing on September 11th?

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's our, you know, point we had.

Mm-hmm.

We had World War II starting.

We had Kennedy assassination.

And all these things.

Where were you on September 11th?

Yeah.

Yeah.

We all remember.

I can't, I don't know if I've ever talked to somebody

about September 11th and it doesn't usually start with.

I was doing this when it happened.

Right.

Yeah.

It's a good one.

And always a good thing to note.

And also the American Rudolph American Legion

monthly meeting at 7.

And the Veteran's America chapter one

of one is meeting that night at 5.

And then honor of that in respect of it.

The VFW was having a blood drive on September 12th.

And I'll be getting you more information on that.

Yeah.

We kind of do it around veteran related holidays

or important holidays in, you know, United States history.

Which we really appreciate, Tom.

Not only you getting us that information, of course,

but everybody at the VFW thinking of these things.

Nobody expects this stuff.

It's above and beyond kind of work that we really appreciate

for our community.

Right.

It's helping the community because the organization we work with

keeps the blood here.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And then on September 14th of VFW, ladies and gentlemen,

we started in 1914.

Wow.

That's incredible.

A great day to learn more about that history,

that fantastic history, if you don't know much about it,

everybody.

And September 15th, we have P-W-M-I-A recognition day.

If I can just, real quick, get on a soapbox here for a second, Tom.

Of all days that we celebrate and we talk about with you,

this is the one to me that I feel like should be nationally known.

We don't need you to tell us what day in September is this day.

We all just know.

It's that common.

The idea that we don't, not only not know.

And I'm no different than anybody else.

I'm not pointing fingers here and everything.

I did not know it either right off the dem.

I know a little bit because I get to do the monthly veterans update

with people like Tom for many years now.

But honestly, without that, I don't know if I know.

But I've known P-W-M-I-A-W's.

I've known.

We almost all have.

We almost all have known somebody who is a prisoner of war or was held in this

or somebody that knows somebody.

And every single person I would like to think is on the same page on this one

of these are individuals that we need back, that we need to look out for,

that we need to be there for.

I think former Senator John McCain is one of the more famous examples of these individuals.

And where else you got?

Like, what other examples do you got when there are plenty of them out there

and there are plenty of examples we don't know about?

This is a day that should be commonly known.

And in it, known what these individuals went through,

while also the ones that are still out there.

Well, another thing we have to recognize is back in World War II,

I think there was a P-W camp in Rapids.

Yeah, that's right.

Yes, yeah, wow, forgot about that.

See?

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, well, I got both my grandfather's hit me in the back of the head now.

That's a great note, thank you for that time.

Well, you know, it's something like, like you say,

some of our people in this community are downline from some P-Ws

that were possibly here.

Yeah, yeah.

And then it should be noted more.

We have other days coming up here, it looks like.

Okay, we got U.S. Constitution was approved in 1787 on September 17th

and the 18th is the VFW post-2534s, meaning at 6.

And then we have the U.S. Air Force birthday, 1947 on September 18th.

Yeah, that is fascinating.

Also, along with that, the air guard birthday.

That's really cool, too.

Of course they go together, but still always interesting to note any of our arm,

the branches of our military, their birthday.

That Air Force, that's a good one.

Right, because it's Army Air Corps before that.

Right, right, right, yeah.

And then we begin the birthday.

On September 22nd, the number 53 honor flight returns in Warsaw.

That is fantastic.

I know there are some vets that, well, I didn't serve overseas.

You'll war the uniform.

Period, end of story.

Get on.

Yeah.

Well said.

Sign up online.

Okay.

September 22nd, Rosh Hashanah for...

Yes, I appreciate that.

You put that out there.

Thank you for that top.

And yes, one of our bigger ones, Rosh Hashanah coming up in September.

It's a big month for my family in general.

I'll say that because that is falling right,

or Rosh Hashanah is falling right around my parents' anniversary.

So I'm curious if my dad has to do more,

or can I guilt him into doing more or something?

Thank you for noting, Rosh Hashanah, a cup of cup of time.

I appreciate that.

No problem.

The 24th is a squirrel's cafe again across future.

It starts at 7.30.

And veterans know sometimes they're at 7.

Sometimes they're at 7.

Yeah, yeah.

We're at a good note.

And the 28th, Gold Star Mother's Day,

respecting the mothers of veterans that have been lost.

Another great one.

I guarantee you, and none of those vets would tell you,

they wouldn't be there without them.

Right.

And then we have the VF-12D.

Well, quite literally.

I mean, yeah.

The water is wet.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Keep going, Tom.

Don't bite me.

Okay.

September 29th, the VF-W was established in 1899.

Wow.

So it's been around a while.

Wow.

Wow.

Great note.

A great date of mark.

We're going to mark that one for sure here.

Okay.

And October 6th, going to the next month,

we're going to get the best breakfast.

And the 7th, we have the yellow light veterans meeting

at the VF-W post at 6 o'clock.

Excellent.

Appreciate the update.

As always, Tom,

and looking forward to next month when you can join us again

and give us an other monthly veterans update.

If people have other questions or want to know more

about some of what's going on, Tom,

how can they reach it?

715-600-040101.

Please use that number.

And also, if you're interested,

VF-W post is available for renting.

Get in line.

Christmas is coming.

Yeah.

Thanks, Thanksgiving.

If you've got a large family,

we've got a bigger space than your living room.

The space is nice.

Yeah, it is really nice.

And the reservations go up quick,

so make sure to get on over there and check that out

and reach out to Tom if need be.

Tom, thank you again.

We appreciate the time, sir.

No problem.

I'm glad to be here.

Thank you for what you guys do.

Back at you.

Thanks, Tom.

We'll be back after our new sports

and entertainment break here on the morning show

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Mornings at WFHR.

Summer time.

And the living is you.

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Hello.

And the best listeners in radio.

Thanks for being here, everybody.

Hope you're having a good one out there.

Big shout out to Tom Heizer for joining us

with our monthly Veterans Update.

Really appreciate that from Tom.

Yeah, good to hear from Tom.

Always good talking with him.

And let's get into this one, Melissa,

because it is Telephone Tuesday.

Happy Telephone Tuesday, everybody.

Is this like a specific telephone Tuesday

or just...

We'll get into that in a second.

For our younger listeners out there,

we should probably explain what a telephone is.

We should...

No, I'm joking.

But we...

It's a cell phone with a cord.

Oh, no.

There you go.

Just a home base.

You know, a place to set it.

Does anybody...

We also probably have to explain what hold music is.

What that is, but...

Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da.

Music.

Your favorite songs but but...

Lamer.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I think elevator music but...

It's slightly different.

Yeah.

The Tuesday after Labor Day is supposedly the day businesses

get the most phone calls all year.

And that's why it's called Telephone Tuesday.

Heard.

Think about it.

Everyone's back from the long week.

Kids are in school again.

And adults are finally free to tackle their mountain to-do

of to-do lists.

So the world wakes up and says,

yeah, I should probably call about that thing.

I've been putting off since June.

That was a good time.

Telephone Tuesday is just a loose observation,

kind of like a distant cousin of Black Friday.

But it might be fading into the past now

that more businesses use automated menus

to direct people online and do chatbots.

Yeah, they get more hang-ups.

And this is actually, you know, in some way...

Now, in some ways, I actually think a good use of AI.

Now, the problem is that most of our issues are gray area.

And you need an actual human being to be able to talk to.

Well, yes.

Sometimes it is convenient to like refilling

your prescription at the pharmacy.

Yeah.

So a computer can answer that.

You can punch your numbers in, verify your birthday.

Boom.

Bad, bad, boom.

You got your prescription felt perfect.

I pay my phone bill on the, you know, doing it that way.

You know, I can very much just do it through an AI system.

Of course, I'm really frustrated Melissa.

I stuck with US Cellular because they were a Wisconsin company

for all these years.

Now, they just got sold at another team mobile company.

Now, they're just, everybody else.

And, ah, phones, phones.

It's a whole other subject.

It's harder and harder to talk to a human,

even as many small businesses.

And that's an unwelcome change.

In a recent poll, 62% of customers prefer human interactions

over automated ones.

And 77% of people believe a phone call

is the best, most efficient way to get an answer.

So, I mean, you know, we, we, this isn't news to anybody.

We all have been demanding this and wanting this.

Um, I don't know the businesses are paying customer service people well enough

that they want to do the job.

And there's just a lot of people not wanting to do those jobs.

I, um, you're not seeing AI taking over doctors.

You know, you're not, you know, they're, they're, they're certain.

Let's hope that never happens.

Yeah, certainly.

But there, there's certain fields that there is a plethora of people.

There's people that, you know, doing the jobs and everything.

You're not seeing.

You're, you're part of the, part of the reason you see there's rise of AI

is all seeing, not, not seeing a rise in paychecks.

Mm-hmm.

Um, and that, this is a really, you want people to do these jobs.

You got to pay them right.

This isn't rocket science.

This is not difficult, everybody.

No.

And it caught me living has risen.

Missed me with the, well, what about back in my day?

I took this job for $7 an hour and it made me work harder because I wanted to get to eight.

Wow.

That ain't the world we live in, man.

No.

That's, that's a fairytale that barely existed when you were, the days you're talking about.

Let alone now.

No.

No, now it's really, really hard to live in a single family household

that you can survive on one paycheck.

You know, like one income.

These, uh, you miss me.

You miss my vote any time you're not willing to adjust the minimum wage.

Like you, you, you show me a little you know about what it's like to walk in my shoes

or walk in my listener's shoes or anything like that, uh, by, by those statements.

And when I see stuff like this, it just kind of adds to that because these are jobs

to people, real human beings could be doing.

If they were paid for it.

And are necessary to be doing in some cases because I can't tell you how many times

there, uh, and this has happened to all of us because it still should bring all of us

together where you are stuck in the loop of go back to, go back to the main menu

because you know, you didn't choose an appropriate response back to the main menu.

And then you're, they're shouting real person, real person.

Yes.

And then you're asking the zero button or the pound button.

Yeah.

There are.

And rage quitting.

There are, there are, we're all feeling it right now as you're describing this.

We're all feeling that there are a few words I've said more in the last 10 years than representative

representative, representative, representative, representative.

No, no, no, no, no, don't want to go back to the main menu.

Oh, real person.

Give me a human.

It's, it's a, it's a word maze.

It's, it's insane.

Yeah.

And hopefully it gets better as we go forward here.

Maybe with the forward work week, maybe a, well, maybe a, well, maybe.

Um, and, and now we come to this subject and I really wanted to make time for this one, Melissa.

Um, so have you heard of pancake soup?

Has anybody heard of pancake soup?

No.

Okay.

No.

A recipe from 1975 is going viral right now and it's for pancake soup.

When you hear that, you might think of the, you know, like TikTok style hacks where

a traditional dish is deconstructed like maybe pancakes is up in a broth or of syrup,

uh, you know, and something like that, but this was 50 years ago.

So it's not a stunt.

It's not something like that.

This is an old recipe.

Okay.

For the recipe, you basically make pancakes on a griddle in bacon grease and then cut them in

quarter inch strips.

Then you put the strips into an actual broth made from the bouillon cubes in water, heat and serve.

So it's a savory pancake then.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Okay.

So this reminds me of like bread and milk, which was a really common thing that they would

give to people recovering from an illness because you can't, you know, like you don't have the

energy to choose something, but you need something more than just broth.

So then they put chunks of bread, soften it in milk and then you eat that.

This reminds me of that, but with a savory, yeah, pancake and meat broth.

Would you try this?

Yes.

I could.

I could.

If they were homemade pancakes, would you, okay, would you try it if you made it or like,

you know, somebody you know made it or something?

I think we could embellish it and make it better.

Okay.

That's where I was.

So we could put some, you know, fry up some bacon and chunk that up and then put make

that in the broth or bake either bacon or sausage.

Either way, you had me at bacon, but yes, yes.

I do like the idea of taking these old recipes and whether it's the deconstructing of them

or it's just kind of like bringing them back, like the idea of that.

We do it with fashion all the time.

Why not with some recipes here and there?

Well, you know what we'd like to do is bring those recipes back in our anniversary cookbook.

Yes.

Oh, you knew right where I wanted to go.

So we do.

We have it up.

I don't know.

I haven't checked again.

I think it's in the carousel last time I looked.

But if you go to our website, WFHR.com, if I spell it right in my computer,

I've got to pull it up right here.

Yeah.

But yeah, it pops up right on the, we're making a cookbook.

Submit your recipes here.

To click submit recipes, it's still in the carousel.

We're still working on that.

So if you don't see it when it pops, when you go to the website, just click through until it pops up.

But you can easily submit a recipe there.

You can bring your recipe cards into the studio and Pam will just make a copy for you.

You can also write them down on paper and submit them that way.

So email them to us.

Take a picture of your recipe card and email it to us.

Anyway, you can get them to us.

We just want your recipes.

Yeah.

Please get them to us, everybody.

And let's help us immortalize them in this cookbook.

It's something that you and your family can look at from years and decades from now.

It's WFHR tradition that you want to keep going.

And we want all kinds of recipes.

So, you know, don't hold back from that.

And just get them to us.

And you will be named if you want to be in the cookbook.

It's a really fun thing.

We've been able to do to celebrate our 85th anniversary.

And I hope that from our staff suite off, we'll have the recipes from that.

I'm going to include my rhubarb juice and my grandmother's.

Yeah, we got to get staff recipes.

I know my mom is still literally like she was out of town over the weekend.

And she was asked if she called up at one point and asked me,

Jimmy, could you look at my cookbook?

So she was even working on it off of the house.

She's taken it seriously.

She's taken it seriously.

You have fun with it.

Everybody get those recipes to us again.

You can find them.

And so much more at WFHR.com.

And of course, I mean.

And you don't have to limit it to one.

And while you're there, why don't you sign up for the newsletter?

It's free.

Well, yes.

And that's a great note about not having to just submit one recipe.

I appreciate that.

Thank you for, I keep forgetting to bring that up Melissa.

Thank you.

And yes, sign up for the newsletter.

This week again, it's going to come out on a Friday because we do have a short work week this week.

And that, but you know, three weeks in a row.

Our readers did not let us down this last week.

Even though the newsletter came out really late on a Friday.

We still got lots of eyeballs on it.

So thank you to our listeners and our readers.

Yeah, I really appreciate the positive feedback about the articles of this week.

It's been great to see.

Thank you.

And a shout out to our staff working so hard on that newsletter.

We will take a quick time out.

Come back and wrap up the show for this Tuesday on WFHR.

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Welcome back everyone.

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Melissa and James hanging out with you.

And thanks so much for hanging out with us.

I hope you're having a great Tuesday out there.

Getting back into the swing of things.

All of that.

That's a phrase.

I still love that phrase back into swing of things.

I don't know if that's really meant it.

Like it's still, you know, hits it up.

It's a baseball reference too.

Is it totally your jam?

Yeah, yeah.

I also think of swing music with that.

And I don't know why.

I don't know where that comes from.

But yeah, whatever.

It's very strange that you would go swing music and I would go baseball.

That's weird.

That's weird.

That just happens.

That just proves that we got to get back into the swing of things.

We got to get back into the swing of things.

We're off.

We're off a little.