Happy Trails Melissa!! (Hour 2)

Good morning, Wisconsin. Morning world, it's a new day.

Let's start the show. Happy Wednesday to you out there. Everybody got your host James behind the mic.

Join by Melissa. Good morning.

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And the best listeners in radio. Thanks for being here.

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

We've got fun topics for you in this hour.

We're going to get into a bunch of entertainment news we have for you a little bit later than that.

Evening exercise could help you sleep longer.

Okay. Got a good one there.

And we will wrap up with 10 great insults that don't sound offensive.

And let these two have it out.

Yeah, finally, very, very, very.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Can we make them sound offensive with our

or I'm sure you will.

Oh, yeah, definitely.

Definitely.

Definitely.

We begin though to say goodbye to a legend, something Melissa and I touched on yesterday with the news breaking.

The Robert Redford passed away early yesterday morning at his home in Utah.

He was 89.

As Rep said, quote, the place he loved surrounded by those he loved.

Nice.

Oh, sounds like it was written by him.

I don't read.

Redford broke out in the 60s and 70s and movies like Butch Cassie and his Sundance kid.

All the presidents, men, three days of the condor, the sting, which gave him his only Oscar nomination as an actor, which is just one of the bigger.

That's not on him.

That's a dropping of the ball by the Academy.

But as a director, he wanted to Oscar for his first film, Ordinary People in 1980.

If you talk to a lot of people of that era and you ask them, what's the greatest movie you ever saw?

What's your favorite movie?

Nine out of 10, maybe eight out of 10 will say Ordinary People.

That movie is still to this day holds up in one of those movies that people just look at as that's the movie.

Right.

He went on to direct a river runs through it, Quiz Show, The Horse Whisper, The Legend of Bagger Vance.

Obviously the natural out of Africa in decent proposal.

So many great movies, so many great performances.

In 1981, Redford maybe did the greatest thing he ever did in his, as far as entertainment goes.

And founding the Sundance Institute to champion independent film and new cinematic voices.

In 1984, he started the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.

Not only bringing people to Park City, Utah, which is incredibly noteworthy.

It's a beautiful area, an area that, you know, he brought in a ton of money and a ton of commerce.

That whole area has changed since then.

But obviously giving a voice to independent artists and giving an opportunity to them, more on that in a moment.

He was also an avid environmentalist.

He survived by his second wife, two daughters and seven grandchildren.

He had two sons, one who passed away as an infant in 1959, and one we lost back in 2020 to cancer.

Right.

Of course, with the career he had, you can imagine a lot of people have come out and mentioned how they felt about him and working with him.

Barbara Streisand, Babs, came out, and of course they were in the way we were together.

Quote, Bob was charismatic, intelligent, intense, always interesting, and one of the finest actors ever.

He was one of a kind, and I'm so grateful to have had the opportunity to work with him.

Wow.

Leaned out of the Caprio, who shares, you know, is basically our generation's Robert Redford in many ways.

With his similar career trajectory.

Right.

Between that and his dedication to environmentalism, I'd like to see it a little more dedicated, but his dedication to that.

He came out and said, quote, actor activist, passionate environmentalist, and champion of the arts, his unwavering commitment to protecting our planet and inspiring change, matched only by his immense talent.

His impact will endure for generations to come.

Right.

Marlene Marlin, Marlene Matlin, one of my favorite actors of all time.

Many of you know her as the, I would say maybe the most popular famous deaf actress or something to completely minimize her career, which I apologize for.

But I want everybody to know who that is, and I don't know if she's a common household name.

Oscar winner, yeah.

Star of the Oscar winning Coda.

Marlene Martin said her film, quote, came to the attention of everyone because of Sundance.

Right.

Sundance happened because of Robert Redford, a genius, and it passed away.

Stephen King had some nice notes.

Just incredible.

Well, it's amazing.

You think, you know, I don't know what people think first when you think of Robert Redford.

Maybe you know, his, you know, people refer to how good looking he was in that thing.

Oh, and by the way, he was a great actor.

Oh, and by the way, he was a great director.

Oh, and by the way, he founded Sundance Film Festival, you know, and all of these different things he did.

And somehow managed to keep a private life.

Yeah.

Well, you didn't hear about him in his family.

He kept that to himself.

He was able to do that.

I mean, all the stuff he did and he was still able to do that.

It's a remarkable story just all the way around.

Absolutely.

And, you know, I've mentioned, you know, I was rambling about it yesterday.

My favorite of his performances and movies and everything.

I've heard since then, people who are much smarter than me talk about this and talk about the impact of all the president's met.

And how important it was, I think it should be noted.

I heard Tony Corners are talking about this about Robert Redford, how Bob Woodward, a long time Washington Post writer and everything.

One of our more famous celebrated journalists.

That's right.

Who should be, at least.

Redford played.

Yep.

They became instant friends and remain friends until Woodward passed.

Really?

Cornizer was talking about how just like out of nowhere, Redford would show up at the post.

And just to like talk to Woodward and everything.

Yeah.

Just incredible.

That's great.

We'll be missed.

We'll be missed.

I would recommend if you have not seen it or maybe if it's been a while, all the presidents' men.

So it came out in 76, 2025.

Boy, is that a relevant movie?

No goodness is it.

Oh my gosh.

Check out that movie if you haven't seen it.

Even if you haven't seen it in a while, everybody.

Or check out some of the Paul Newman films, the Sting or, you know, Butch Cassidy.

Those are all great movies.

They're just fun.

I should have been to bed by at least one last night.

I was not because guess what I was doing, everybody.

You're watching The Sting?

Is that what it was?

I could not help myself.

I was going to watch Butch Cassidy, but it was a little longer than I wanted.

So I went to The Sting.

And anybody with any intelligence will tell you Butch Cassidy and Sundance can as the far superior film.

But I loved The Sting.

That was my kind of movie.

And as a little kid, I couldn't wait to go to my pop and do the whole, you know, the nose.

The nose thing.

Yep.

The nose and all those things.

Just so many little moments in that movie.

We go from talking about one legend to another in Mel Brooks.

There are not many more people.

Many more accomplished directors or more comedically accomplished people on the planet than Mel Brooks.

He has written a lot over his career and done a lot.

And we're not even just talking about his movies.

Yeah.

Show of shows.

TV shows that he was a part of.

Did you know that he was the creator of Get Smart?

Yeah.

The sitcom.

That was Mel Brooks.

Yes.

So it would take forever to list all the great lines that he has written in his career or anything like that.

But have you ever wondered what's his favorite?

Hmm.

Okay.

Well, he does have a favorite.

And you'll get a hint.

He doesn't necessarily want to say what it is, but he'll give a hint.

And it's from Blazing Saddles.

Oh, dear.

Okay.

It's at the very end of the movie where Gene Wilder asked Clevon Little where he's going.

And Clevon says, nowhere special.

And Gene replies, nowhere special.

I always wanted to go there.

That's it.

That's his favorite line.

He's ever written.

And you know something, man, I've seen literally everything Mel Brooks has done.

Yeah.

All tough whole time.

Right.

And while there's a lot of funnier lines, whatever happens, no matter what you hear, do not open this door.

No matter what.

I mean, that, you know, that sequence alone.

All the greatest setups of all time.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I don't disagree with him.

That's a great line.

I'm not disagree with him.

I think one of the most underrated scenes in comedic history.

Right.

That people don't talk about.

Imagine you got to sit down and you got to write something that's both funny and sentimental and sweet and memorable.

Yeah.

Go.

Go ahead and do it.

Mel Brooks did that.

And by the way, Blazing Saddles, first take.

Yeah.

Like first take that move.

Oh, really?

Wow.

They tinkered with tiny little things here and there and everything.

But one of the few times, especially with a comedy, there wasn't rewritten 20,000 times.

Right.

Right.

Yeah.

And that's part of the reason, I think.

Love it.

So I thought that's pretty cool.

I thought that's a pretty cool story right there.

And a pretty cool thing for him to share, too.

Yeah.

Exactly.

How do you narrow it down when you've had his career?

It's so hard.

Yeah.

They get out their horses in the car.

I love Blazing Saddles so much.

Oh, my goodness.

Yeah, but I shoot with this hand.

But I shoot.

I just realized something.

Did you know that I just realized they came out very close to each other.

Blazing Saddles and Monty Python and the Holy Grail have very similar endings.

Oh, yes.

Because neither of them had, they both had trouble, I think, with endings.

Oh, yeah.

And Monty Python had a horrible time.

They couldn't write endings to save their souls.

From what I've heard from actual people that are working as writers.

A TV writer's main thing I'm talking about.

I've talked to a lot of film writers, but mostly TV writers.

The hardest thing to do is ending a comedy.

Like dramas, they write themselves.

Romantic comedies or whatever.

Yeah, they write themselves.

They end up together, right?

But how to end a comedy is one of the more difficult things a writer faces,

which I found interesting because when I talk to sketch writers,

one of the more difficult things is how to end a sketch.

I cannot even begin to tell you just in my experience in that world,

how many sketches are left on the cutting room floor because there is no ending.

Wow.

Off the top of my head, I can think of 20.

I could ramble off right here.

Wow.

They're like that.

They're just sitting there and they're all the notes are there,

but there's just no ending.

There's no ending.

Oh, it's interesting.

It's rough.

So ever since Nate Bagazze's Boys and Girls Club stunt at the Emmys,

the organization has received more than double the donations compared to this time last week.

Oh, wow.

A Boys and Girls Club of America executive also added that the search interest for the organization

is at a record high.

At the 350,000 donation will be incredibly impactful to their program

and in the lives of the kids and teens who attend other clubs.

That's great.

That's pretty cool.

Yeah.

That is just a pretty cool story right there.

There's not much more to it than that.

While Nate Bagazze kind of fell into this,

I do give him and CBS credit for helping bring attention to the Boys and Girls Club.

Yeah.

That's a good came out of it.

That's right.

Yeah.

So all the contracts, some controversies.

I mean, I know he wasn't controversial at the Emmys, but coming into it and all that,

all the news that was cycling.

Let's get something good out of it.

There you go.

There we go.

Something good.

I wanted to mention that Melissa is in our team, our heart at work on our WFHR newsletter.

That'll be premiering tomorrow.

We'll be on the lookout for that in your email box.

I want to encourage you to get on over there, sign up for it at WFHR.com.

Also, while you're there, why not get your recipe submitted to us?

Yeah.

Do it everyone.

Get those in there.

We need the recipes from you to create our cookbook.

It's the 85th edition.

You guys, there's a photo shoot coming up.

Oh gosh.

That for the cover art.

It better be as good as you say it is, because you've been typing this stuff for a while now.

It will be, and there's going to be blooper pictures in the back.

That's going to happen.

So, there's not only the cover art, but there will also be the montage in the back of you.

Yeah, right.

And filled with great recipes, your recipes.

Oh, yeah.

That's not what we call the recipes.

We need your recipes to help fill in the middle.

That's right.

The important part.

We appreciate that.

We appreciate your helping fill out the cookbook.

So, you can take a picture and text it to us, even through the Civic Media app.

Yes.

The pictures are allowed.

We found that out on Monday.

We discovered that.

You can email them to us at info at WFHR.com.

You can drop them off at the station in person.

You can go on our website, WFHR.com, and click on the submit your recipe in the carousel app.

The banner, yeah.

Yeah, banner, carousel, whatever you want to call it.

There's no ponies involved, but it's fun.

And you can even bring your recipe card down.

Pam will make a copy of it for you and give it right back.

That's right.

Mm-hmm.

Encourage.

It's as easy and you as possible.

Absolutely.

Really, whatever it takes for you to be able to submit that recipe, we'll work with you on.

We want you to be included in this.

It won't be the same without you.

I encourage you to do that.

Everybody go over to WFHR.com and sign up for that newsletter.

And if that's not enough, you got to do this because guess what everyone's getting for me for Christmas this year.

So.

Ooh.

Yeah.

You got to go right into it.

It worked out.

I wanted to just touch on a couple of things regarding our Wisconsin's Rabbits Community Theatre.

One, we got through another great rehearsal last night for Angled and Pond.

We will be premiering, going next week.

We're at this next week, everybody.

It's crazy.

We're just just over a week before the premiere.

Awesome, awesome.

It could not be more excited for this community to take it to take in an American classic like you've never seen it before.

Performed and acted like you've never seen it before.

We got an incredible cast.

Performers giving the performance of their careers out there.

It is a no week link cast.

No wing links.

Everybody in this is good.

And we are so excited for this one to go.

You're going to have a lot of fun with this one.

I think there are some wonderful comedic moments that get lost in this play.

But it is very sarcastic, very funny, along with being very heartfelt.

Yes.

And I feel like one of those things where you come out of this one feeling good.

There's not a lot of things that I think that we can give that entertainment anymore.

This is one of those ones where you want to spend a couple of hours feeling good, laughing, enjoying yourself,

and then leaving the experience, feeling maybe even better.

Because you're not only going to take in an amazing show that you could see on major levels

in major cities, but you're also putting back into your community and helping a non-profit

and helping the Wisconsin Routes Community Theatre continue to do great work in this community,

like the economic impact it makes.

Along with the impact it makes on the arts and all of those things.

You got it, man.

Get your tickets now and you can get them while also checking out their variety show.

They got their variety show coming up next month on October.

October 11th, yeah.

We're still working on our group name for the performance that we're doing.

I can help.

I made a lot of suggestions and I don't know if any of them are going to pass.

Well, I'm not looking forward to whatever that is.

It's going to be exciting.

What do you want to hear some of this?

Oh, please.

Yes, I didn't want to put you on the spot.

Yes, yes.

Okay, well, because then maybe people can vote in here.

Let me see.

I got to go back in the text chain.

Hold on.

Here we go.

Side alley girls.

Okay, not bad.

Parkway ladies.

Ooh, I like that one.

Interstate mamas.

Oh, no.

There you go.

That's a good one right there.

Yeah.

Country lane lassies.

That's not bad.

It's not bad.

It's not bad.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I got one for you, Melissa.

Okay.

You can use this for your charge.

The Boulevard beauties.

Ooh.

There you go.

There you go.

I like that.

I like that.

All right.

You can use that.

Yeah.

That's not bad.

You can't go wrong with any of this.

No, actually, you'll be good.

Whichever.

Whichever.

Whichever you choose.

I see.

I think the challenge is trying to decide on one.

You got all good ones.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's tough.

Make plans to visit us over at Wisconsin Rapids Community

Theater for their Variety Show to help celebrate 50 plus years

of great theater, great entertainment, great impact in our community.

They're going to have a light hour derv, a reception after.

And a lot of locals going to be taking the stage and doing fun things.

Like Melissa's talking about there.

There'll be a great time.

But you'll be lots of fun.

I'm working with our prop sky Corey on something that he wanted to do

that he asked me to be a part of.

Very cool.

Very cool.

Oh, yeah.

Nice going on.

It's going to be a lot of fun.

All right.

Get your tickets for the main stage shows.

And of course, get your tickets and maybe even submit to volunteer,

if you like, for the Variety Show, all at wrctheater.org,

wrctheater.org.

Get on over there.

You can still get your season tickets.

Yeah.

That's right.

Get your best value right now.

And get all four shows.

Yeah.

Go get them.

Go get them everybody.

We'll come back and we're talking evening exercise and how that could help your sleep.

Hmm.

Coming up on the morning show here at WFHR.

Great.

Up in the morning and out to school.

Welcome back everybody.

Morning show here at WFHR.

Locally grown radio.

Melissa, Seth and James hanging out with you.

Thanks for hanging out with us everybody.

A study from the University of Otago at New Zealand found that

doing some light exercise before bed can help you sleep longer in the next day.

Oh.

Sleep in longer the next day.

Oh, there you go.

Okay.

All you have to do is pick some simple moves like chair squats, calf raises,

or standing knee lifts, and do them for 30 minutes for four hours before bed.

Four hours before bed.

Oh, okay.

All right.

So, and it doesn't have to be those specific exercises, push-ups or sit-ups,

maybe even going for a good hike or a good walk or something like that.

All you have to do is pick some simple moves and do.

On average, participants in the study who moved around in the evening slept 27 minutes more

than when they stayed glued to their couch.

Okay.

They went to bed at the same time, but woke up later.

Oh, okay.

And you might be thinking you want me to exercise eight times before bed.

But each mini set should only last about three minutes.

So about 24 minutes of your time.

Right.

What they're saying here is, and what they're trying to get across here is multiple things.

Right.

Just doing one exercise.

Right, right.

Doing a little grouping of that for...

A little workout.

We're back at that 20-minute mark again, though.

I noticed we've talked all the exercise things we talked about over the years.

That 20-minute thing is still the thing.

You have 20 minutes a day.

You know, whatever it is that you're doing.

You know, if you do for 20 minutes, that's a good thing.

But also the caveat of doing it four hours before bed time.

Right.

Right.

Yeah, because you don't want to do it like right before bed.

Yeah, if I do a workout that's within an hour of time to go to sleep, man, I'm not going to sleep.

Right.

Right.

Yeah.

I give yourself time to relax and wind down.

I'm sure that it does tire me out.

But when I try to get my workouts in in the morning, when I can't, I will fit it in at night.

I notice that my adrenaline goes through the roof.

And the last thing I want to do is sleep after I've worked out and everything.

Right.

So yeah, the four hours will give a little bit of a breather there.

That's a little different than the way I normally do it.

So that I'm going to keep in mind.

And what is one of the bigger reasons?

I'm not saying the only or maybe even the top excuse, but one of the top reasons we don't is time.

Oh, I wouldn't worked out.

Oh, I wouldn't went into the gym, but I don't have the time.

Right.

I think, you know, incorporating this may cover both things there.

Help you sleep in a little bit more while also fitting it in.

Yeah, exactly.

100%.

I do believe that the article notes this, but in case they don't, you should avoid heavy exercise before bed.

Right.

It can actually raise your body temperature and heart rate or keep you, you know, keep it going.

That's why I do in the heavy stuff, like either in the morning or in the afternoon is probably better.

Yeah, exactly.

When I'm benching my 500 pounds, I...

Jesus.

Okay.

Well, you didn't have to laugh that quickly, guys.

I mean, yeah.

You can give it to the beat.

10 out of here.

Yes.

That's a shame.

That was pretty far, that's pretty far, that's pretty far.

The best part is you don't even need the gym for this one.

Now, that isn't...

That is not anything against gyms.

No.

The more so, hey, you're already home.

You want to run the gym and go up and, yeah, and drive or walk or whatever.

They don't have to pay for a gym membership.

Exactly.

The exercises were designed so that you can do them in your living room without missing your favorite show.

That's...

They're literally built around kind of that or just listening to music or something like that.

Honestly, one of my favorite parts of exercising and gets me to exercise is it's one of the few times I have to listen to music.

It's doing that.

Hey, that's a good thing to look forward to, though.

That's a great way to motivate yourself.

Hey, I get to listen to something or whatever.

Especially when...

I don't know.

I feel like this happens.

Let's say I get like 10 new songs every six months or whatever.

Almost every one of those I listen to on repeat like crazy.

I was never like that as when I was younger, but as I'm getting less and less new music.

Yeah, there you go.

I just hang on to this song.

Oh, this is amazing.

I also have found myself with at least two or three different artists being like, whoa, this is an amazing artist.

And I will talk about it to one of my young students or something and they're like, yeah.

They've been great for three years.

Yeah, like we know.

Yeah, come on.

Catch up.

Yeah.

There are a few things that make me feel older than that.

I think the last time I was in an elevator, I heard a Pearl Jam song in music.

That made me feel anxious.

That made me feel anxious.

That's got to be a weird feeling.

Yeah, it's like the same kind of like level there.

Right.

So if you're looking to snooze a little longer, if you squat before bed, might be doing the trick.

All right.

Yeah, but four hours before bed.

Yes.

You can't stress that enough.

Well, because it just says before bed, well, that to me, that's okay.

Go to bed.

Technically, it is before bed, but colloquially, that's not how people refer to that.

And not for nothing, I feel like a pull to bring up that I mean, you know, some other activities could be considered exercise as well.

That just throw it out there and everything.

Yeah.

I mean, you know, it's just, you know, it might help you sleep in a little longer, too.

I don't know.

Essentially, you do have to, you know, get, you know, your pajamas on.

Yes.

So, you know, that part might be, you know, maybe it's just convenient.

And it varies, varies by people.

So, for some, it might be exercise, for some, it might be annoying.

I don't know.

I don't know.

But you throw it out there.

Throw it out there.

We will go to break mercifully.

And Melissa's never been happier to leave.

Yeah.

To leave this shows.

Like, okay, this is, this is not, not, probably broke it.

She's like, oh, thank God I'm leaving.

Finally.

And then put up with this.

Well, try to make it easier for you to listen.

You get my celebratory letter in the mail.

Yeah, yes.

We're also looking forward to everything as it quotes.

I'm so sorry that I have to leave the show, but...

Looking forward to Melissa's news.

Mike sports and taking care of our partners.

We'll be back with more fun as we get into 10 great insults that don't sound offensive.

When we come back on the morning show.

Welcome back, everybody.

Mornings here at WFHR.

Locally grown radio.

Hope you all are having a great one out there.

Thanks for joining us here.

Melissa, Seth and James hanging out with you.

We got a great one, the line.

I kind of get into it as our last subject here.

So sometimes it's necessary to take someone, you know, take a shot.

Take, take, you know, maybe they insult to you and you insult to back or something along those lines.

Yeah.

But you don't want to sound overly offensive.

Or maybe you're in a, you know, an environment that you can only be so expressive or something.

Right.

There's a thread online where people are talking about their favorite insults that don't sound offensive.

And here are 10 of them.

Okay.

We're going to go through these and I would love any audience participation or studio participation between you two.

Any way you want to throw anything like that or play off of the ones that work.

There you go.

Feel free to do that.

So the first one, what an odd thing to say out loud.

I actually really like that one.

I really like that one.

That is a very good one.

Yes.

There's got a lot of layer to it.

Because I think it's, that's one that, that, because it's right after someone says something ridiculous or whatever, it stings.

It really stings without being overly mean, right?

Yeah.

And it's pointing out that what they said was not actually okay.

Right.

Exactly.

And similar, I think this conversation is similar to a lot of what I've talked about when it comes to comedy nowadays.

And where so many people with a lot of the, a wokeism and a lot of these things, they kind of, well, we got to go the other way.

And we're going to punch down and we're going to insult these.

And that's not funny.

That's, that's low hanging fruit.

It's jokes that have been made forever.

You know, you're not telling anything new.

You're not reinventing the wheel here and not doing anything different with these jokes.

What I find, no worthy is, look at somebody like, oh, the, the pale guy.

Shoot.

I just had his name.

It just lost it.

Yeah.

The, beyond the pale.

That's the name of one of his specials.

Oh, Jim Gaffigan.

Jim Gaffigan.

Jim Gaffigan.

No, he makes fun of himself for being pale.

That's why James said that.

Yeah.

So, and I think he had a TV, a comedy special called Beyond the Pale or something like that.

That's horrible.

I feel so bad.

I'm sorry, Mr. Gaffigan.

You're hilarious.

He's very funny.

He is able to do comedy on a level where everybody likes it.

Almost everybody seems to like him, but he doesn't have to go blue.

He doesn't have to punch down.

He doesn't have to do these things because he's got a comedic brain that's smart.

Yes, exactly.

So many of these comics out there nowadays, if they're not, like, go ahead and tell a joke

where you're not insulting somebody.

Good luck.

Like they, they, they sit there for days and not come up with something.

I don't remember about that.

To me, it's the same thing.

Anybody can say blank blank to somebody.

We've all done that.

That's called being 13.

To say something like this, like, huh.

What a odd thing to say out loud.

Yeah.

Like that's true.

Like who that cuts to.

It can be quite devastating.

Yeah.

That's much more talented to me.

Yeah.

I think it takes a lot more credit.

You know, that sounds like something you'd say.

I heard that one a couple of times in my life.

Yeah.

Ouch.

Ouch.

The pain.

You know, I admire how you don't let your limitations affect your confidence.

That one's almost a compliment.

The compliment that's not, yeah.

Big of an ass.

I think it's a, you think it's a compliment until you actually think about it.

Think about it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Exactly.

Give it a second.

Yeah.

You know, we're talking about the way you hit the top of tone earlier.

And I think that that is so key to this conversation.

Right.

You say that in a snarky way, that sounds like something you'd say.

And it loses all the work.

It doesn't work.

Yeah.

It doesn't work.

Or that sounds like something you'd say.

Yeah.

It doesn't work.

It doesn't work.

It doesn't work.

Yeah.

It does work.

Or that sounds like something you'd say?

Yeah.

It does.

It does.

It does.

It does.

You know, like, your own limitations.

Wow.

That is harsh.

Wow.

I felt that.

And I was just saying it helped me.

Yeah, right.

I wasn't even saying it.

Wow.

And again, if you're not, if they're not quick on their feet, they may take that as a compliment.

If they have to ask, remember, if you have to ask it was, if it was an insult, it's not.

So, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

You know, wisdom has been chasing you, but you have always been faster.

It's a little more wordy, but I like it.

I like it.

I like it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You know, again, the longer ones are harder to, for the family, John, I think.

But sometimes they're more rewarding too.

If you get them all out, and it sounds good, and your timing is perfect, right?

Yeah.

Well, I think it's about timing.

I don't know about YouTube, but now I'm immediately starting to rethink a lot of the nice

things that have been said to me.

People have said it.

And I'm certain to wonder, wait a minute.

It's not just waiting.

Wait a minute.

There's words and there's lingo in our language that we just, we hear, but it's in

one ear out the other.

Right.

And we tend to, a lot of people, that get compliments tend to do that with compliments.

Where, oh, I don't want to acknowledge this because you would have reasons.

Right.

And you just one ear out the other kind of thing.

It's not to be mean about taking, you know, we're appreciative of the compliment, usually.

Oh, yeah.

Just don't know how to handle it.

I could see thinking that somebody's going to give you a compliment.

Right.

And the tone that they have, but you don't actually listen to the words that care.

Exactly.

The signifiers on this sound like a compliment, right?

But there's that one key word or phrase that is not, then that throws everything off.

You're such an oxygen bandit.

That's a good one.

Oh, that is good.

I like that.

Oxygen bandit.

It's very good.

I like that.

I like that.

Oxygen bandit.

It's very good.

I like that.

And we call the bandit on anything as hilarious.

I do like word bandit.

We do like good bandit.

Good work.

Good funding work.

Yeah.

You know, I just sigh and say, oh, sweetie, bless your heart.

See, now that one is all about tone and context because, oh, bless their heart.

It can be a nice thing.

It can be sincere.

It can be.

You're correct.

But it can also be very sarcastic.

So I think you do you because God knows nobody else will.

Nice.

Another nice one.

Wait a minute.

How does she know so many insults?

What's going on here?

I feel like someone's coming.

When I like about that one too, is it like two, your guys' point.

It changes with the break.

Oh, sweetie.

Bless your heart.

Altogether, you know, taking one way.

Oh, sweetie.

Bless your heart.

Yeah.

I'm just saying that even the sigh in there.

Yeah.

That would do our test so much.

Yeah.

You're all mouth, but no trousers.

That's not right.

No.

Um.

This.

This one has.

Oh, these last two, I think are really good ones.

Oh, oh, no, no.

I see my name.

Oh, okay, yeah, okay.

Oh, now I see what everyone's talking about.

Like that one.

Okay.

Very ambiguous.

Oh, those are some of the best ones too, right?

Yeah.

These last two.

Your teacher always handed your test back face down.

Didn't she?

Oh.

Oh, that's up where they're with.

I have neither the time nor the crayons necessary to explain this to you.

Yes.

Oh, I like that one.

Oh, I do like that one.

I've heard that one.

I like that one.

You push a lot of doors that say pull, don't you?

Yeah.

I like that one.

I like that one.

That's a pretty, you know, pretty universal because I think we've all done that at one point,

right?

Yeah.

And I think so.

You're very comfortable with yourself, aren't you?

Wow.

These are aimed at a lot of a specific kind of person too, I'm noticing, right?

Yes.

Someone who thinks they know a lot more than they actually do know.

And don't mind sharing that, right?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Like Seth, what doesn't kill you?

Disappoints the rest of us.

Yeah, that's right.

Now, I know you're on a website or something.

These are coming too fast right now.

Oh, yeah.

Well, being bitter, bitter doesn't make you prettier than me.

Oh, nice.

Nice.

I like that one.

That's pretty good.

And this one, I admire your enthusiasm.

I feel like I've heard that one quite a few times in my life.

And I didn't know.

I don't think I ever took it the wrong way.

Simply realizing all these casting directors say I admire enthusiasm.

Wait a minute.

The epiphany I have been going through with this saying, oh my god.

These are all pretty good.

And I appreciate you both playing along with them.

Yeah.

And to...

Oh, goodness.

And playing into the bit.

I admire that.

And I appreciate it for both of you.

And I envy anyone who hasn't met you both.

Going off on a high note today.

Going off on a high note.

I mean, that might be her final bumper for us.

For the promo for the show.

That'll be it.

Good.

Just your saying that over and over again.

We will get to a commercial break here in a moment.

But I did want to take the chance to remind everybody again.

Not only about our newsletter, but about all the things that you can do with that newsletter,

like in working with us on it.

We encourage you to get a stories or story ideas, if you'd like.

There are things going on in our town that we don't always hear about or know.

That's right.

Just had a listener the other day mentioned this.

And I forgot to bring it up during talking about our newsletter before.

So I just wanted to get it in there real quick that we are always appreciative of that.

And we want to we want to cover the things that are important to you.

Right.

So just like with our music stations, and we want to play the music you want to hear,

get us your requests, whether it's our music shows or our actual station in 105,

W.I.

Exactly.

It's the same thing with our news.

We want to cover stories that are important to you.

Let us know what that is.

Feel free to give us comments on that as well as compliments.

But we will know now if it's a true compliment.

That's this.

So if you use any of these phrases, we're on to you now.

We're on to you.

Yeah.

And to my mom and dad, I'm on to you.

I'm on to you guys.

I get it now.

They've been made.

Now you see what they've been doing all these years.

They fool me from your proof that accidents happen.

Thank you, Melissa.

Wait a minute.

Wait a minute.

Wait a minute.

Wait a second.

I'm going to chew on that one and figure out if that was a compliment or not during the commercial break.

We'll come back.

We'll wrap up the show.

The morning show here at 97.5 FM 13.20 AM.

WFHR.

Welcome back, everyone.

Morning show here at WFHR.

Locally grown radio.

Melissa, Seth and James here with you.

Thanks so much for joining us.

We're going to take you to the top of the hour.

Got great civic media programming on your dial.

Coming up.

We'll be getting into that.

Looking forward to it, everybody.

A couple of just programming notes.

We got a great wrap and support lined up for you today.

Be sure to go to WFHR.com and catch those shows as they're streaming over there this afternoon.

When part one, we're going to talk with our Wisconsin Rapids Mayor, Matt Zacher.

Very good.

Very nice.

Also have a Wisconsin Rapids Community Media into record that.

Be sure to check out the video at their YouTube page at WRACM.

Be sure to type that into your search bar.

Wisconsin Rapids Community Media and subscribe to their page.

Yes.

And in part two, the Aging and Disability Resource Center.

Amy Vetter is going to be with us.

Okay, very good.

Looking forward to talking with all of them.

I'm going to be great conversations and also want to send a shout out to our Wisconsin Rapids River Kings.

Having their media day today over there.

Oh, that's right.

That's the Southville County Rec Center.

Hope that's going well and they're enjoying themselves and having fun.

I'll be down there as soon as I wrap up these interviews.

You have to go down there.

You have to go down there.

He's got a busy day.

Interview 20 some of the river.

Oh, every one of the river king players.

Every single one of them.

And learn some new lingo.

That's a new name.

Yes.

It's a new last name too.

Oh, man.

It's going to be fun with that.

That's going to be blast.

I love it.

Looking forward to that.

I do want to shout out GM head coach, coach Paul inviting me, inviting us over there.

Right.

Working with us like they have for many years now.

Right.

Whether it's here at WFHR or of course on our sister station 1055WRI.

That's right.

Where you can catch river king home games this year.

That's right.

Be sure to check that out.

It's going to be a lot of fun.

Yeah.

I also have a little bit later for you at 705 right here at 975.

Luke Fickle show.

Oh, that's right.

Be sure to check that out everybody.

Looking forward to the game on Saturday.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Very curious to hear what coach has to say.

Yeah.

We will not be talking about it on playmakers.

No playmakers today.

Yep.

But we're back on Friday.

Four to five.

Excellent.

Thank you to quality plus printing.

Right.

And all you listeners out there to make that show so much fun and popular.

So yeah.

I know you, you know, Melissa insulted you a lot in that last one, James.

But there you go.

We don't have to have silence her.

I can't believe I did that.

Wow.

Wow.

You know, all that amazing commentary I just added and you guys didn't even hear it.

I am.

I am.

That's all right.

So sorry.

I can't believe it.

I don't think I've ever done that.

Wow.

That was crazy.

You just get used to not being there anymore.

I wasn't saying anything.

Well, that's fine.

I appreciate you being here.

I'm sorry about that.

We have a couple of events going on in our area.

We also wanted to touch on one of them is happening right now.

The 53rd annual United Way Day at McDonald's at 2128 A Street South right here in Rapids.

Fantastic.

This is for our local Wisconsin Rapids McDonald's and only that one.

The United Way of South Wind and Ames counties over there come say hi.

Find out more about the cool things that they are doing.

McDonald's has never tasted better when you're getting that great food and knowing you're

putting back into your community.

Seven to seven today.

Get on over to our local McDonald's here in Rapids and impact the United Way at the same time.

Yeah.

If you're going to go there to say hi, you might as well get some fries.

Yeah, absolutely.

Yeah, absolutely.

Find out more about our United Way at uswac.org.

Hey, guess what else is tonight everybody?

It's a Wednesday.

Guess what?

Hey.

Bingo.

Bingo.

Bingo.

Bingo.

Bingo.

We're not the Beatles.

But we tried anyway.

We tried.

Coming up tonight at doors open at five.

Bingo starts at 630 at the Wisconsin Rapids outslodge number 693.

430 West Jackson Street.

Head on down there.

Have a lot of fun tonight everyone and support the Elks and all the great stuff that they

do for our community.

It's a great way to have fun and support them at the same time.

And we got a great, it's back everyone.

It's back again after a year off.

The FRM Music Fest coming to Robinson Park on Saturday everyone from 1 to 9.

It is going to be, it's free.

I got to put that out there.

It doesn't cost anything to go there.

There's going to be a kid zone there.

There's going to be food and beer as well.

And here are the bands that are going to be participating.

Beer and pretzel polka band can't get any better than that.

Telling you.

You've got a joyful little band.

You've got Monday Night Takeout.

You've got Double Duo.

You've Folk and Blues Brothers.

You've got Howard Guitar-Lutki and Blue Mix.

And finally Adam Grohl and the Space Barritos are going to be there.

Big shout out to our friends at FRM.

Joining us on a couple of our shows and talking about this.

Spread the word about this amazing event to everybody.

And be sure to meet us at Robinson Park for it.

It's going to be a great one.

It's always fun.

Always fun.

Our good friends over at the South Ohio County Humane Society have their 5K-9 walk run happening September 20th.

Make plans head on over to Rentsen's pavilion at Lake Wazeecha.

A website registration will begin at 8am.

Walk will start at 9.

They're going to have raffles, merchandise, bake sale, brought fry.

Of course they got top pledge earners.

They got gifts for that.

Oh you know.

That's cool.

Yeah.

Well-behaved dogs current on rabies vaccinations are welcome to the event.

Cool.

And participants can stop by over at SWCHS.com to register and find out more.

All right.

And of course be listening this Thursday at the top of the 10 o'clock hour with our pet of the week with Denise and her South Ohio County Humane Society.

We'll be talking about this a little bit more then.

Yeah as always a treat.

Got some world good stories that I wanted to take a moment with.

And of course as we're wrapping things up one of our main topics we have covered over the years here as world records being broken.

Well it can get its Connecticut city dished out more than 9000 slices of savory pie to break the Guinness world record for the largest pizza party.

Wow the largest pizza party.

Okay.

The taste of pie, actual pie.

Yeah I got it.

I got it.

That's savory pie.

Whatever.

I've never really liked pizza being called pie.

You know I never really liked that.

Even though it's a pizza pie but it is fair.

It is fair.

I'm with you though.

I think it's just pizza.

Yeah.

The taste of new Haven which organizes multiple local events and tours held the record attempt Friday at the new Haven Green.

They each participant was served two slices of pizza and was required by Guinness World Records rules to finish them in a set amount of time.

Really?

Wow.

I just want to take them home for lunch.

No, no no.

No, no.

No no no no.

Just go eat it right there.

And it's two pieces too.

That's a good full meal.

Wow.

The party ended up with an official total of 4,525 participants breaking the record of 3,357.

That was set in Tulsa, Oklahoma back in 2023.

Oh okay.

It's more recent.

Okay.

A lot of people go.

People love pizza though.

That's the thing.