Good morning, Wisconsin. Good morning, world. It's a new day.
Time for the morning show Friday edition. Last one of the week. Last hour of the week.
We're sure we're going to have some fun. We're going to get all out of our
business. Yeah, that's right. We are going to have some fun. We're getting in our
entertainment news and just a little bit here and keep that theme going a little
bit where we got the most played songs on classic rock radio stations this
year. Rock and roll should be a good one. It should be interesting to see what
pops up on that list. Also got a list of the best high school movies of all
times out. It's a Friday show. We're going to have some fun with it. Getting
to some of these things and plenty more coming up for you where we dive into
also get into our local schedule and got a lot of great things going on in
our community. We want to put some focus on and put a touch on and we get into.
We'll do that a little bit later. But we begin with entertainment news and
interesting a couple of stories right here that I want to get into and just
kind of go into the Oscars real quick. There's a number of award
you know like Conn and a lot of these different film festivals going on right
right right and and with them you usually get buzz you get a little bit of
noise about certain things and oh well we may know this name is going to show
up for best for best Oscar or something like that or best film.
Dwayne Johnson takes a serious turn as UFC fighter Mark Kerr in the
smashing machine which had its world premiere Monday in the Venice film
festival. They have been working on this film for years.
Real years they've been working on this one. Dwayne was working on this before
even started doing the fast and furious movies just to kind of give you a
timeline. Wow. How long? This character that he's playing is somebody that
met a lot to him and he wanted to not only play but play right. So part of what
he had to work with was also the makeup. He looks absolutely nothing like
Dwayne Johnson. I've seen those pictures and that's amazing transformation.
Nicole Kidman a lot of people and this is not me saying this but Nicole Kidman
got nominated or won an Oscar for basically having a fake nose. Like you know
that there's a there's that side of it and then there is Bradley Cooper who
has nominated the other year but a lot of people said he didn't win because of
the prosthetics. Right. Adrian Brody winning when he had brought you know some
of these things. So this is something that is a little gray area for people but
on this side of it people are raving about his performance and they are
going out of their minds about what he has done with this role and everything.
Wow. Saying that not only is he going to win but he or be nominated about a
shoe into winning Oscar or certain other things. High praise. I do think the
rock is a way way way way way better than average actor. Okay. And I think he
has shown that in a number of different things. I've mentioned this before I
didn't mean to watch it to be honest. I just had it on but the movie he did the
Disney movie did about based on the ride. The uh journey. Oh, oh, oh, the uh
uh, the juggle cruise. Juggle cruise. Yes. I wasn't really intended to watch that. I
got pulled into it. I like Emily Blunt a lot and I was part of the reason but he
has a couple of scenes in there where one he shows that I think he can play
romantic lead but also do drama to a degree. So seeing the results of this is
not that surprising especially if you were like me and watch them as a wrestler
and all that. Sure. But I do think that part of this happens with actors a lot
where the bar is the the people with their nose up in the air have their know he's a
wrestler in this and then they see him actually can act and they're blown away. So when
the bar is so low and the and in the result is so high you get almost this
overwhelming kind of like. Yeah. See what you mean there? I don't want to say it's too much
but it almost feels like okay, you know, let's hold up here a little bit. You know, um I have
not seen the movie so I'm curious to see is it one or the other or is it some kind of
combination of that either way you're going to be hearing a lot about this movie coming up. Yeah.
Yeah and it's I mean you're so right about the the the looks man. It was like whoa wow that
that was remarkable. I didn't recognize him at first until I saw the caption and I was like wow
actor Johnson. You know, going back to Robert De Niro putting on 60 pounds to play a role in
everything. It's just interesting gray area that I this is what I find more interesting about
the subject are the him being nominated all this praise all of that more all power to him. So
I'm happy for him and I can't wait to see the movie. But this line that we're going to have to
get under figure out more and more about acting like what works and what doesn't. Right.
People really pushed back on some of the aging of the Irishman or the the movie that Adrian
Brody just did last year with the brutalist. Right. Yeah. And I mentioned Nicole Kidman with the
nose and or Bradley Cooper some of these things. Bradley for Brandon Frazier with the whale
and wearing the fat suit. Yeah. Some of those things he put on a lot of weight for that role.
There's a lot of these different that where the line is on this.
It's interesting to see where it is where I don't think the line should be set is by the people
making a voting on award shows. And yes, I will raise my hand as one of those people.
I don't think that they should. I think people should. I think the fans should figure these
things out and stuff. The opinions are really better kept to yourself. That's not real acting.
I know what's real acting. Whatever. Get out of here, man. First off, you've got to work with
the times. And if you know anything about this industry, you know that 99% of what you see is not
necessarily what the actor wanted but what the director or the producers or somebody else.
It's a collaborative art. And if you want your own vision, write an novel, paint a picture
and a thing. Then it's all you, right? But if no, if you're going to be collaborating,
you got to collaborate. The smashing machine will be out soon from A24, one of the biggest
and rising companies. That's kind of really made an aim for themselves in a very short period of
time. Yeah. Yeah. They just seem to be making really good moments. Let's see here. And one of the
on the other side of things, Joaquin Phoenix. So Joaquin Phoenix wanted to ask you a little while
ago for the Joker. Yep. And at 50 years old, he stopped by the late show as Stephen Colbert
about a month or so ago. And in doing so, it was a little bit kind of coming back a little bit
because many people remember his last time on the late show with David Letterman, where he famously
had one of the worst interviews of all time and talked about quitting acting and becoming a rapper
in all of these things. It was just one of the weirdest wilder interviews. It really set his career
back a bit. Yeah. I think so. And really rubbed not only his fan base, but a lot of the acting
community and certainly a lot of casting directors the wrong way. Quick note. Every single movie you've
ever seen, the majority of actors, and especially the name actors, have insurance policies on them.
Yes. And the more risky, the actor saying Nicholas Cage in late late 90s, early to OTS or whatever.
Okay. We got to have a lot of insurance. It costs more to do that. So therefore the budget goes
up and all these strikes. So if you are even a little bit controversial, a lot of people think,
oh, they're doing this so that their name gets in the headlines or something. No, they are not.
That is going to cost you, man. Hollywood is like a logic to risk of any kind. And that would
include that's risky. That's a risky thing. Think about a football coach. Times a billion.
Like they don't want risk. They want distractions. None of that. So he does this and really sets his
career back. He gets a chance to do the Joker and of course brings it back up into a degree.
Yeah. Well, he stopped by the late show basically to apologize for his infamous 2009 interview with
David Letterman and which he remained in character for the entire painful awkward interview.
This character that he was playing. Yes. Quote. It was horrible. It was so uncomfortable. I regret it.
I'll never do it again. I am so sorry. In case Letterman himself was watching Phoenix reiterated,
I just need to say I'm sorry. He also joked about returning to the same theater where Letterman
interviewed him. Of course. Imagine they did a major exorcism after I left. But I'm bringing this up
not because I think it's that necessarily newsworthy him doing this other than the fact that he's
doing this. Like the accountability part of it. We ask for this all the time and I don't think
walking Phoenix has ever been more likeable than this. Yep. Now I will say when his brother passed
away River Phoenix, he instantly became one of the most go-to actors in my mind because I wanted to
see him and I miss his brother all the time. I miss River Phoenix. I'll admit that and that's
part of my pull to him. But I don't think we have enough of this in society where we're doing
these things. That was 2009. He's kind of made good since then. He could go the rest of his life,
never touch on that subject and probably perfectly fine. He willingly wanted to do this. We need
more accountability. The bravest, strongest people can own their mistakes because every single person
on the planet that has ever existed makes mistakes. Nobody is right all the time. People that cannot
own their mistakes. People that cannot have accountability do not deserve your praise,
do not deserve your admiration. Those are cowards. Those are cowards people. They are genuine cowards,
a human being that cannot face themselves. They cannot have accountability. That is the definition
of cowardness to me. And I cannot think of a bigger insult in the world than being a coward.
And that is a coward to me. We got a lot of them in charge of things right now and not a darn
one of them have any accountability. This guy, this actor has more accountability than half of
the people in high positions in our country right now. And man, to your point, this was, he did
this, I think, because he felt the need to do it. I don't think if he had never come out and said
anything about it, people would have just been like, well, that was that weird thing that he did,
you know, that kind of thing. It was kind of bizarre. But the fact that he wanted to come out and
own it and that sort of thing. Yeah, I guess that says, you know, his maturing and everything.
By the way, you know, you did mention his brother. And I wonder how, what that did to him.
First of all, you lose your brother. Okay, very young in a very bad situation.
In a very public way, in a very public way. And now everyone turns and looks at you like,
hey, what are you going to do? You know, you're, you're very talented, you know,
becoming a superstar brother is now gone. And now you're also in the same business. And you're
as brought that I can't imagine that did not have an effect on him. Yeah. Yeah.
It really on into his career. And maybe he led to some of his more strange looking choices
of for his life. I would not be surprised if I know that had an effect. Certainly, you know,
has been able to bounce back. So with that, you know, you don't necessarily think, okay, well, he's
he doesn't have to he doesn't have to do any of this. He's already come back. But at the same time,
I kind of think for him, it may have been necessary. Yeah, exactly. Because of some of the
stuff you mentioned, 100%. He might have been something he had to do. A new David Bowie archive exhibit
open to opens tomorrow in London with 90,000 items from his life and career. All right. I'll see you
later, everyone. I'm going to head over there now. Yeah. Yeah. You got it. It's going to take
you some time. You got to get through all that. There's a good thing. A thousand. Wow. One of the
items in the collection is a document title the memo for radio show list of favorite records.
It's the title implies it's a list of 15 favorite songs from David Bowie of 15 of his favorite
songs. Oh my gosh. And it's just it's not in any particular order, but I'm just going to read through
some of them. I am so excited right now. Four last songs, Richard Strauss. Wow. Right now right
now from Ellen Fried and his rock and roll band. True fine mama from Little Richard.
Whoo. One of the best Miles Davis songs of all time. Some day my prince will come Miles Davis.
Yes. The king of cool. Yeah. Excelsiast from Charles Mingus. Okay. One of my all-time favorite
songs, Bex Bolero from Jeff Beck. I cannot really cool that is to see that on that list. Wow.
That's generally one of my top 10 favorite songs of all time. That's awesome. Across the
universe from the Beatles. Mm-hmm. He recorded that one. That's one of his albums. That's right.
Yeah. Try some buy some from Ronnie Specter. Mother of Pearl from Roxy Music.
Tom violence from Sonic Youth. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. The electrician from The Walker Brothers.
Mm-hmm. No. Yeah. Yeah. The Walker Brothers. Very influenced by Bowie. Or the other way around.
Actually, I think they were before Bowie. I think they influenced him. But a while just list.
The Hollywood R-guiles. I mean, it's just a little star or no. Show no a lot but love. Show
no a lot about love. Okay. These are all obscure songs which is so Bowie. It's very Bowie. It's
very Bowie. And but the eclectic nature, man. I don't know. He was just, he inhaled everything.
Art was just his life. My God. Well, you know, I would say he hit more than he missed on these
when he would come out with an album and go a completely different direction or something like that.
But it's like looking at this speaks so much to that when you look at his music life. Oh my gosh.
It's just, yeah, you're right. Eclectic is the word. I know they, the word for him was chameleon,
you know, that he would change. So then I don't know. There was a basic, you know, thing there.
There was a bedrock that he had. And and boy, that doesn't, that totally makes sense though.
The different, we had classical music, all the jazz in there. We had old rock and roll. We had new
rock and roll. We had, I mean, that's really cool. Boy, you could get down with a guitar and all
that like nobody. He is one of the godfathers of so many different off branches of rock and roll
and everything. But that consistency you're talking about is growing up in a house that my mom
love, love, love Bowie, hearing so much Bowie in my life. I think I can, for me, as somebody who doesn't
have a musical ear, the most consistent thing about all of his music. Again, even in the rock and
roll stuff, R and B, he always had some rhythm to his music. There was always some rhythm to it.
There's always a beat to it. There is always something like that. Yes. Yeah. I think that's,
and then looking at this list in comparison, yeah, that I would say that that is the, oh,
I'm listening to Bowie today. Say that. I hear you. I hear you. What's new on your small screen,
new on your big screen and new on your local theater stage? Well, Disney today, the second,
the season premiere of Wizards Waverly Place. A lot of people excited about that.
On HBO Max, it's extremely premiere of Warfare. There's follows a Navy SEAL platoon fighting their
way to an extraction point after they've been overrun by insurgents during the Iraq war.
One of the up and coming actors out there, Joseph Quinn, stars in this one, along with a
couple of other great actors like Will Porter and some others. I am very excited about seeing that.
I want to see that one. It looks, and I don't, I have to be careful with the movies like that,
you know? I got to watch them and I got to have, like, be able to, like, reference things and stuff,
and I want to know if how accurate it is and stuff. That looks like an interesting one.
And Friday on Amazon, tonight on Amazon, the stand-up special layer of the cable guy, it's a gift.
The layer of the cable guy got a special guy. I was going to say he isn't done that much lately.
That's interesting. Sunday night football, seven o'clock on NBC. Your Minnesota Vikings hosted
the Atlanta Falcons. Yes. Should be a good game. Falcons are a lot better this. It looked like they're
going to be a lot better this year. Right. Yeah. I don't know. It's really, it's, I don't know where
either of those teams are right now. Who will see? We will see. Not too much being in wide-wide
release, but there is a couple. I don't know why this is in limited release, but spinal, spinal tap
to the end continues. The end continues. I love that. It's such a great title. You got the
original directors and cast. I'll come back for this one. Rob Reiner, Michael McKean, Christopher
Guest, the legend Harry Sheer. Along with Camille's, you thought you had a lot of Camille's in
Happy Yomor. Paul McCartney, Ella, Sir Elton John, Sir Paul McCartney and Elton John, Lars Orrich,
a billion other musicians. I'm sure there's going to be a Gillian musicians in this one. Yeah.
I will see it and I have no doubt that I'll enjoy it just for the style John Lone. Oh boy.
Downtown Abbey, the grand finale rated PG. This is a big one for a lot of you. Downtown Abbey
fans. Oh yeah. Unfortunately, we're not featured. The Dame Maggie Smith, as she passed way back
in September. But if you're a Downtown Abbey fan, I'm sure you'll enjoy it. I'm sure you will
enjoy it. And as you might have heard a good friend, Pete Schwabba talking about, Steven King's first
story, the long walk has been turned into a movie. And it stars Philips Yomor Hoffman, some Cooper
Hoffman who looks like a chip off the old block. I got goose bumps talking about that. Philips Yomor
Hoffman, one of my all-time favorite actors. Wow. And the main protagonist, Mark Hamill,
as the major. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. Mark Hamill, not a bad thing. Not only is Steven King come out of
no, kind of the wood, just talked endlessly about how good this is. And he doesn't do that very
often. If King doesn't like what he does, he doesn't care if his name's on a hill, tell you.
Yeah. He is. He got nothing to prove to anybody. No, he does not.
That it sounds really good. But I'm rotten tomatoes. It's got like a hundred percent or something
like that. It's doing even good with fans and all that. It looks interesting. It looks good.
This one, he published as Richard Bachman because Steven King is such a creative that even his
imaginary friend is a best-selling author. You know, well, and it's funny. He tried to hide it
for a while and it didn't work. Sorry, yeah. Sorry, Steven didn't work. We want to encourage
everybody to check out the WFHR newsletter. A new one premiered yesterday. Yeah. Loved it.
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on the morning show. Welcome back everybody. Morning show at WF HR. Locally grown radio.
Seth and James hanging out with you. Thanks for hanging out with us. Hope you're having a good
one out there. Had to play a little classic rock to get us into our next subject. Good idea.
A company called MediaBase monitored classic rock stations to find out the most played songs
this year. Okay. Now this is an interesting topic but it shouldn't necessarily be one to make
it into our segments here and everything until I tell you the songs and you realize oh my god these
are classic considered classic rock songs. Yeah. This is one of those those segments we do that
we're not trying to make you feel old but you may well start feeling that way. And when you start
to feel old give up that feeling and take on nostalgia. That's what I say. I say get trained
your remember when nostalgia. There you go. Just enjoy the fact that these songs were played so much
and they're still around. And hey you know we hear these these titles you're going to be brought
right back man when you heard it the first time or when you listen to it you remember that one
thing that relationship maybe or whatever. Yeah. Like white wedding from Billy Itles and you're
coming up on the list here. Rock and you're like a hurricane from the Scorpius. Oh good lord.
Or rock and you with you shook me all night long from ACDC. Some of the ones at the
bottom of the top 20 here. Okay. I love rock and roll from Joan Jet at number 16. See now there
there's one we're starting now. Yeah. Okay. Another brick in the wall from Pink Floyd from
number 15. Really? Okay. And that number 13 pours some sugar on me from deaf leopard.
Those don't get a little bit more than 90s and 80s and 90s yeah we're getting there.
Carry on my wayward son from Kansas. Sweet emotion. Sweet home Alabama. More than a feeling.
70 songs. There's all 70 songs. Get in there. Now you've got we are the champ we will at seven and
eight. We will rock you and we are the champions from Queen. Yeah basically the same song.
I'm back to back anyway. Yes. In my classic rock days you couldn't separate those
they were together. That's right. Yeah. That's how I always I think every time I ever played it
it was always that way. Crazy train from Ozzy comes in at number six. Might have got to jump
or maybe not. It's just a popular song. It is a very popular song. Yeah. And then your top five
most classic rock songs played on radio stations. At number five you give love a bad name from
Bon Jovi. No. It's such a lame song title man. I'm sorry. I know it's not a I mean personally I
am not a fan of Terry's. Terry's just I could feel her at the back of my brain right now just
to pounce. Seethings. Yeah. At number four here I go again from White Snake. Wow. Yeah. Yeah.
That's classic. Whoa. That's considered classic. For the definition of classic music a song has
to have been really been in the public domain for 10 years. It's been out there for 10 years.
That's all it takes for us to be considered classic. Let's see. So songs from 2016 are now considered
classic music. Oh dear. Huh? Oh don't do it. Now you make me feel horrible James. Man. They don't
really do a bad job on this segment. At number three sweet child of mine from Guns and Roses.
At number two welcome to the jungle from Gones and Guns and Roses. Okay. Well so that's
it's strictly that's where we're hitting the 80s very hard right now. The 80s rock very hard.
Okay. And at number one living on a prayer from Bon Jovi. Of course. The number one classic
rock song played on radio stations. Oh my gosh. It's one of those things that you play it and
everyone starts screaming along to it. Oh man. No. See. So here's the thing. Do we have to wait
another decade before you know the the rock of the alternative stuff from the 90s to be considered
classic or that never be considered classic. Yeah. It's it's it's it's so weird for me to hear anything
with distortion and and think it's old. Yeah. That's seriously. Yeah. It's something about it.
I don't know because they still play the on the stations that played the 90s play all
those you know quote unquote grunge you know the alternative stuff but yeah but they do not play
that on classic rock stations. Not very much apparently. Well you can maybe sing any of those
songs if you'd like at Wisconsin Rapids Community Theatre's golden anniversary variety show.
Except living on a prayer. If you do that we're going to we're going to come take you off stage.
We may revolt. We may. They are taking applications if you would like to be a part of things you
want to volunteer. Maybe you want to be a part of the variety show itself. They are looking for
acts to participate in their anniversary celebration. You can contact them through their website
wrctheter.org and keep in mind we are of course looking for volunteers. Be able to take you
to the show. Always volunteer show. Got a lot of our local favorites. Uh going to be a part of
this one. It's going to be a lot of fun looking forward to it. It'll be October 11th at two o'clock.
There'll be light or derves and reception after. Nice. Be a part of this one and get on over to
wrctheter.org. Okay. Uh and just a little bit of uh looking behind the curtain as we've been
doing with the production of on golden pond uh that I am directing for Wisconsin Rapids Community
Theatre. We get to be the lead off hitter. The first of the main stage shows this year. Absolutely.
We're we're talking about one of the more iconic I think uh American plays in on golden pond.
Especially recent plays in the lat well 40 years I guess but yeah and while some stuff has not
aged and been you know has ceased to be kind of relevant anymore and everything here is a play
that is so of today's times and actors and I mean characters that are so of today's times.
Right. Um Norman is very much Archie bunker in many ways. Uh there there are so many Ethel is so much
of a almost any universal grandma or mom or something along those lines. Got it. Uh the relationships
are so ideal. Um this has been a production a movie all those things. Uh Broadway play very
successful very successful. You have never seen this version everybody. That's right. I will put my
name on this until the end of time uh this cast and this crew what they have put together despite
having a novice director is so darn impressive to me and what I saw last night where my actors don't
have all their lines down yet. They don't have all their blocking down and I still would go to show
right now. Very cool. They're doing excellent. The things that they're bringing to these characters
are so amazing. Um and next week uh it is really go time for us because we got our opening night
uh coming up at the end of the month everybody. Yes. Oh my gosh. We got uh let's see just two
weeks here. Yeah. Just about yeah. Uh huh. Yep. Yep. It's coming up. It's there. September 25th
is opening night for Angle and Pond. Be sure to get your tickets and we'll meet you there
wrctheater.org. And a big thank you to everybody who is uh supporting WRCT and the great stuff
that they're doing. Absolutely. We'll take a quick time out get to our new sports break. We'll come
back and have some more fun on the morning show at WFHR. Welcome back everybody. Morning show at
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family and good luck to you all. Mm hmm. Seth uh I'm pulling an audible. We're gonna do a different
story that we're gonna do. All right sounds good. I had almost forgotten about this one. Uh if you
feel like being like binge watching X files right now it's probably because you've seen this footage.
Congress shared a crazy video yesterday of a UFO supposedly taking a direct hit from a missile
and surviving it. It happened off the coast of Yemen on October 30th last year no one had seen
it publicly until it was played at a whistleblower hearing yesterday morning. It shows some sort of
object moving over the ocean and it looks like it's going fast but it's hard to tell with these videos
because you know if something uh with the motion part um parallax uh that they call it right.
Uh basically the drone that shot the footage was going fast and that can make far away objects
look like they're going fast too. Mm hmm. Uh but the part everyone's freaking out about
is that it got hit with a US uh Hellfire missile and didn't explode. A lot of people include
some members of Congress they get us proof of aliens uh but could there be a simpler explanation?
Of course. A guy named Mark West is kind of uh the skeptic being turned uh turned to for
these videos and he's not convinced it's anything special. He pointed out that whatever it was
it didn't really survive unscathed. Um I guess that's his big talking point from it. You
could see some debris from the impact. Mm hmm. Uh his take is that it was moving pretty slow
from the start and even though it looked like it was near the water it was actually over 10,000
feet up. Mm hmm. So when it seems like to keep flying after the hit it's really just falling
out of the sky. Right. Uh his best guess is that it was a large balloon maybe a spy balloon
but a ton of people are still not convinced and think it might have been little green men.
Um which by the way if you're an alien and if you are a little green person like that's got to feel
really like dang it. Yeah. And it's like come on. We're not all green kind of thing. I wonder.
I have watched this footage a little bit Seth and I don't really um I don't know I don't really
know what I'm looking at to be honest with you even though that's part of the reason I went through
the description forever. Yeah it's what the it's very hard to okay and see the thing. Yeah
and uh and you see some debris uh kind of come from it and then it's kind of spinning out of
control. Mm hmm. Could be falling. Oh so I'm kind of going back just one more time to see and
you kind of see this missile come out and know where and it knocks it out of the sky and you see
some debris. It's twisting and turning like it's falling. That's what it looks like to me.
The the calling it an unidentified flying object like the technical term of it is sure that
sure that's fair you know or a UAE uh aerial phenomena or UAP I think yeah unidentified aerial
phenomena. And by now we you know just you know just this is an example to anybody who is just
waking up in this time and everything to show you how crazy the times are our government years
ago admitted to UFOs and nobody made a big deal of it. Yeah. Nobody did. Nobody did. Well some
people did but then they're like but wait it's not yeah I wouldn't even need to get into it here
really. The skepticism is just as high as the believers. Yeah. Now there I would say it's a 50-50
thing on most of these things. Right. What is also kind of wild to me that is in this day and age
where we have such great footage and all this stuff and everything. We're still being kind of
it's it's it's messy. It's the Loch Ness Monster footage again. It's nothing clear about it.
Yeah it's the Bigfoot video right. There's no I can't remember what comedians said it but
what if it turns out the Bigfoot is just blurry like that he really is blurry in real life. That's why
he's all blurry. He's back there sitting looking and he's like oh that's a good photo. I like
that one. You know yeah. I think that more times than that life is stranger than fiction. Yeah
and often times you know there is a realistic answer to some of these things and stuff but I also
there's a part of me that doesn't mind a little imagination with these things sure as long as
you ain't hurting anybody or anything. Right. Yeah. I think that there can be something kind of
wonderful about not knowing and that you know just what could be in everything. You think about
all the different tales almost every region of this. No yeah every region of this country has
like a history of a cryptoid. Something that's right. There's something you know that animal that
ever you only see once in a blue moon or something like that. I just song about it and I miss T3K
as a matter of fact they go through all the nation's kaiju's as they say in the in the song. So yeah
all the big monsters that you're in every country. As we find out more and more of how the sausage
is made or how more and more is on camera and all these things I'm not you know a waxing poetic
about or anything it is what it is this is how life works but there is a part of me that's going
to miss this kind of stuff for future generations that may not have it as much. Right. You know
well what about the this crazy animal that comes out of Mexico. No we've seen it by now. It doesn't
exist. Yeah I can't imagine some younger of the younger generations how they're going to handle
like big foot or something like that like no that doesn't exist that's silly. We would have
footage by now. We've got cameras everywhere. We have drones in the literally in the atmosphere
of the sky. Right. They can tell you what a baseball player what pitches about to throw it over
you know a county stadium or something. Well in a county stadium. Wait but whoa that's a blast
for the past. It's indicative like you're saying of kind of the times we live in now because the
the whole big foot thing like you're referring to it's become almost a religion to be fair. Yeah
you could tell everything you just said James you know we've got no evidence all these kinds of
it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. That's where we're at right now. People cannot admit
that they're cherished beliefs could possibly be wrong. Yeah. So what they do is they keep moving
the fence. They keep moving the fence. They keep moving the fence. Okay until that means that
nothing can penetrate them you know no kind of skepticism is there you know for and it's not just
big foot I don't want to pick on the people that you know that believe in that. It's any number of
things. It's all the kinds of things. Humans desperately need something to believe in man. Yeah
and this is where we're at right now is they'll pick just about darn near anything to believe in
very strongly. I've got my certainly got my beliefs and things that I hold close but to me honest
I kind of enjoy being wrong. You know not always obviously I mean we'll always be right and
ever do but do. There's something about learning and it is so enticing and so much fun to me
exhilarating. It's worth it. So I'm with you. You know if I if I'm the world's biggest bigfoot
believer and it turns out I'm wrong I feel like I'm okay with that because I found out my answers.
I got what I wanted. That's right. I wanted to know the answer. Is it about the answer? Is it about
you know you or is it about the journey for some people? I don't know if some people actually
do want to find the Loch Ness Monster or they just want to chase the Loch Ness Monster. That's a
great point too and and the the other thing that I say the dark side of this is that all of the
believers out there there's a grifter that is going to take your money because of what you
believe in. So that's the that's the downside of all this. Does Bigfoot have the greatest PR
team in history? Possibly. Like I mean they've been TV shows. Yeah. Radio shows. Movies,
clips. I mean think about all the documentaries. Oh my gosh. If you are looking to watch the
TV show finding Bigfoot I can save you you know five seasons worth of everything everybody they
didn't find them. They didn't find them or any evidence that no ever exist none. What's a
whatever five darn seasons to find Bigfoot you come up with nothing nothing for shame for
nothing else. It should have been just looking for Bigfoot. Yeah there's a billion titles because it
changed the title. Yeah you find nothing. I made up five seasons. We will take a quick time out.
We'll come back. We're going to spend some time on some good stories of the day. We're going to wrap
up the week on a good note. Morning show at WFHR.
Welcome back to the show everybody. One more segment for the week and we'll be taking a break
on the week. We'll be back on Monday. Got a great week lined up for you next week. Got some
important fun content and shows and show news. We got some very important show news for you
next week. We're going to be listening Monday everybody. Yes indeed. We'll be getting into that then
for now we get into our schedule and some good stories of the day and good news stories around
the world. Great events in our area. I want to kick off the segment reminding everybody a friend
of our stations called to report her cat missing this week. She is great. He the cat is gray with
white markings. It's a male named Onyx. Last seen in the Wazeach Avenue area in Grand Rapids.
If you haven't seen it, have any information. Give them a call 715-697-1781-697-1781.
Of course one reminded everybody that we got a great rapids report lined up for you today. Be
sure to join us at WFHR.com for that. You can stream all of our episodes over there and one of
them will be talking to our friends from assumption Catholic schools. Matt Zakowski's with us.
Oh, very nice. A lot of things going on over there will be getting into there. And then after that
our great friends at the Visit Wisconsin Rapids Bureau are giving us an opportunity to talk to
friends of Rapids music. Oh yes. The festival's coming up September 20th at the festival week away.
Yeah. Beautiful, wonderful, incredible Robinson Park right here in Rapids from 12th to 9. We'll
be talking about the lineup and all the great things going on with that event. I was looking at the
lineup and as far as I know Ben Shiddick is in at least two bands. Better play. That's going to
be a busy day. It's going to be such a fun fest. We'll be talking about that with our friends from
FRM during the rapids report today. A little bit later in the day over in our sister station 105-55-WRI
four o'clock to five playmakers. Playmakers. Thank you to quality plus printing and giving us an
opportunity to talk sports with all of you. It's our live call in sports show. Call and join the
conversation. We got plenty to talk about the game from last night of course. Right. The brewers and
this series that's coming up. Yeah. The one that they got against the Dodgers. You know where you
can win tickets by texting family to us through the Civic Media app. You can also listen to us
through that app. You can flip stations real easy everybody. That's right. You can go listen to
some sports talk and then you can listen to some other talk and then you're going to want to stay
tuned of course on 105-55 because we got football winner tonight everybody. High school football we're
going to get in a coups on the air for the first time this season. They're taking on Wautoma at
home 650 pregame seven o'clock kickoff for that one. Randy and Michael on the call. It's going to
be a good one. We'll look forward to that. And on playmakers today I got a couple stats for
Seth about 30 for 30 guys and how many have done it and some of those things and some other great
stories there. On Saturday right here at WFHR our pregame kicks off at 9 a.m. for Wisconsin
Badger football at Alabama. Oh I hope it's a competitive game. You know right now I cannot tell you
where on television you can find that game but I can tell you on radio where you can find that
game every game for the Badger football team and that would be right here everyone so take out the
guesswork just throw it on the radio. Yeah we got you covered Matt Lapey of course the grand
the grand voice of Badger Sports. Yeah you ain't going to find much better than Mr. Lapey. No be
sure to check that out everybody and again a big thank you to Matt for the bumpers and all that
appreciate that. Do appreciate it. Appreciate our friends at the local VFW post we really do appreciate
them. They have a Wisconsin's Rapids VFW Community Blood Drive happening today at 2711 Red and Road
right here in Rapids. It kicked off at 9 this morning go until 1 head on over there and donate
if you can. If you are able please do make an appointment you can do that by giving them a call
877-232-4376. You can also contact them through the website versity.org and big thank you to
our VFW for hosting this and having this we appreciate them. Absolutely. That will drive again
going to 1 o'clock over at 2711 Red and Road right here in Rapids and want to remind everybody a
lot of big things going on in the community tomorrow. Yeah big Saturday around here one of them
the Wisconsin Rapids Downtown Farmers Market goes from 8 to 1 at 221st Avenue south of Wisconsin
Rapids right over along that beautiful Wisconsin River go check that out support local check out
some of these great things that our vendors have the Wisconsin Rapids Downtown Farmers Market 8 to 1
Friday Thursdays and Saturdays everybody. Mm-hmm. Calsill coming up tomorrow starting at 8 o'clock
and going till noon at the Saratoga Town Hall 1120 State Highway 73 in Wisconsin Rapids. It is
the Wood County Agricultural and Household Hazardous Waste Disposal Clean Sweep. This is
something they do a couple times a year everyone. So if you have automotive automotive fluids,
batteries, cooking oil, degreasers, drain cleaner, paint, paint thinners, pesticides and fertilizers
that you no longer have a use for you can bring it there and they will safely dispose of them
and it is of course free of charge. So bring all the chemicals you have there. Please do not bring
electronics, pressurized cylinders, explosives, ammunition or medical waste. Those cannot be
taken care of for this clean sweep coming up on Saturday from 8 to noon at the Saratoga Town Hall
and then later on in the day our good friends over at Jeremiah's Crossing are having their annual
ride-a-thon. Yeah. Families, friends and the public are invited to join them to cheer on the students
there. Fun is to have a lot of the sons fun to be had. There's fun to be had because they're
also going to be raffles and food and kids games available as you watch for the students have learned
this year at Jeremiah's Crossings. They're located at 2440 County Highway X near Babcock and
it's going from 11 to 3. This is such a great program that they have at Jeremiah's Crossing.
It's what was the word equine therapeutic horseback riding. It's really fun. Which is fun to
say but it's also a fantastic job that they do there. Find a way to help if you this is a great
way to support them as well. So head on down to Jeremiah's Crossing and check it out.
Big thank you to our friends over there to do great work. Appreciate them and Seth
won our mind everybody. Your day is getting numbered for this weekend. This is the weekend everyone.
Monday is the final day to get books to the Wisconsin Rapids Moravian Church for the Fall
Book Sale. 310 First Avenue South. It's just on in the parking lot off of Goggins by the Glass
Stores. Monday is the deadline everyone. So get your books together if you have not done so.
Do it this weekend. Fill up that book bin so we can empty it. Get ready for October 9th through
the 11th. That is the community book sale. So that's coming up sooner than you think. So get
ready to get new books into your bookshelf by cleaning out the old ones and it's also a great
cause. It's for scholarships for mint state. So that's where all the money goes. Be sure to drop
those books off everybody. Big thank you to everybody who already has. Yes. Greatly appreciate
you all doing that. Thank you. Thank you. A lot of really good stories out there for everybody.
One of them could be you winning some tickets for the Brewers. That's all that'd be great.
We got this package of four tickets. So we want to get in your hands. All you got to do is
text us through the Civic Media app family. Text us the keyword family and get in on the
possibility of winning everybody. Yeah. We'll text that keyword to us. Yes. Looking at some good
stories from around the globe. We spin the globe and we end up in Iowa where three construction
workers used a trampoline to save a kid from a house fire. Oh wow. He was trapped on the
top floor and needed something to land on. They also saved two other people. All three workers
offered injuries. One was second-degree burns on his upper body and spent the night in hospital.
Would be okay. The most important thing is everyone survived and they are all right.
The story certainly seemed noteworthy to me over the overnight hours. Yes. We had a lot of
stuff going on in our community. We let everybody know out there that we're thinking of them and
sending good vibes and energy their way. Right. Hope everything is all right. Yes. But I mean,
these firefighters man and these good then and then there's these construction workers that
just like show up. I mean over there and they help us. That's great. Everyone pitching in.
A guy in Canada named Daniel Drew in lost his home in a fire last this summer and he just
won a new home in a raft entered in June. I told a reporter he is a luckiest person alive.
That is so great. Oh my gosh. What a wonderful story on that one. It's a good one. Yeah.
And I really this one is going to hit home for both of these are for a 67-year-old guy near
Toronto. Just got his wallet back 51 years after losing it in high school. It's amazing. He said
that he thought he lost it but wasn't sure. And so he was. He found out. Yeah. It was kind of
fun for him to just even find out. Oh, I really did lose it. Oh my gosh. Yeah. I wonder if like
over the years. I'm not saying like every day but like every couple of years or something like
it just popped up in his head. I bet you did. I wonder what happened to that one. What happened to
the wall? We all do that, right? Yeah. I wonder what happened to that. What a great way at 67.
Like those things that you don't really think of like oh, I'm going to check that off.
There you go. And this one I think a lot of us can relate to in some ways of you know as a kid
you work hard to save up money. And a 13-year-old kid in Kansas mowed lawns all summer to save
up to buy a dirt bike. Nice. Turned out though the dirt bike he bought was stolen so we had to give it
back and was out of money because of it. Yeah. There is a happy ending. The guy the bike belonged to
started the go fund me to get him an even better dirt bike. And of course people online have
donated almost $5,000 to help him out. Whoa. So this can be a really nice dirt bike. Yeah.
You might even get some money for college. Yeah. But I use this story as a trampoline of itself
to go into the weekend and take good energy into the weekend to remind everybody that all these
stories you probably wouldn't have even known if they weren't a reporter. There wasn't somebody
out there talking about them. Ask for good stories. Hunt down good stories. Be the good stories.
There's so much better than good in the world. There's so much better good stories out there.
And we always encourage you to get us our local ones if you can. We love local good stories around
here. Seth great show today. Yeah. Great week. Yeah. Have a great one everybody. Be good to
each other out there. Have a great week. This is locally grown radio. WFHR 1320 AM. W24 A.D.E.
Wisconsin Rapids. And always streaming on the Civic Media app.
