A Goofy Morning (Hour 1)

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

Sometimes I'm right, and I can be wrong. My own beliefs are in my song.

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Ah, I'm everything people in.

Let's get it going. Time for the morning show here at 97.5 FM 13.20 AM.

Locally grown radio. Got your host James Biden. The mic joined by our producers around here.

We got Seth. Good morning. Laura. Hi.

And the best listeners and radio. That's you.

I hope you're all having a great start to your week out there. Thanks so much for joining us, everybody.

Nothing but fun over the next two hours. Nothing but fun.

Got good stories lined up for the Elcafe birthday and anniversary club is coming up.

We'll get into that.

Have we passed peak social media in America and is American outlier?

We'll get into that one. Got that lined up for us.

How many parents are going to be doing DIY Halloween costumes this year?

And be talking on that. Getting into that one.

We'll kick off the 10 o'clock hour with some fun.

We've got a kitchen's open lined up for you. Be looking forward to that.

Yeah. And we'll be getting after that a monthly veterans update from our good friend Tom Heiser.

Yeah. And we can try out the bumper.

Looking forward to that. Looking forward to that bumper that you produced and hearing that one.

A little bit of entertainment news for everybody. We'll touch on that.

And I want to make sure that we have time for a couple of other topics too that I had lined up here.

Yeah. There we go. Yeah. I want to get into both of those.

So all that lined up for you local schedule as well.

Whatever they are. Whatever that is.

Yeah. I don't want to tease it even. That's why I don't even tease it.

All that stuff is lined up for you all.

And we'll be getting into and just a little bit plus plenty of other things.

We got local good things going on in our area. We'll be talking about as well.

But first off, we want to begin with the newest health hack.

It's going around TikTok. It is the 50 jump trend.

Sure.

And people are wondering if anybody out there has tried this.

If any of our listeners have please call up 715-424-2600.

You can also use the Civic Media app if you like.

Is that a self-explanatory?

Pretty much.

Actually, I'm curious. I have not heard this at all actually.

So the idea is simple. The minute you get out of bed, you jump in place 50 times.

That's it.

It's supposed to be a quick way to increase your heart rate and get the blood flowing,

which gets oxygen to your brain.

First thing after waking up, if you're not in the habit of exercising,

it's something quick and easy to do.

And you're more likely to follow through with it.

And you get to tell people that you exercise.

I did.

I did my 50 jumps.

You know, I did my exercises this morning.

I happened to skim that email last night before I went to bed.

So I did do the 50 jumps.

Did you?

I did. And it was 50 jumps.

And here's the thing.

I'm wondering if I broke the rules because I technically did not stay in place.

I got bored staying in place.

Yeah.

So I started to spin.

Oh.

Wow.

Hey.

And that was way more.

Variety.

I will say I felt really goofy.

And that's always a great start to my day.

The goofiness factor, right?

I think that worked in my benefit.

Yeah, exactly.

I think that's an underscored part of this.

The goofy factor and feeling goofy in the morning can actually wake you up a little bit

and feel a good start to your day.

Oh, that's a nice point.

I think the improvisation of doing something different, you know,

like doing a circle or like around the house or something.

That's all part of this.

I think that's the good way to make it your own kind of thing.

You know how I felt though while I was doing it, like in my head,

I was Joan of Arc from Bill and Ted's excellent adventure,

doing jazzer size and the mall.

I like that.

I like that.

I also like the idea of like the old animation where the character is just kind of bounced.

The legs didn't move.

The idea of people just doing that, the board.

So I want to ask the audience if they would try this if you all would.

Laura already answered.

Thank you for that.

Laura for playing along.

I'm curious if you would try this set.

In the audience, let us know 715-424-2600.

I tried this on Saturday and Sunday morning.

In both mornings, I lost count.

I did.

I got bored.

I got bored.

I got distracted.

And then I just picked up some weights.

I started spinning around 24-25.

That was where I got bored.

50 is more than you think.

That's part of this, too.

You don't think about 50 until you actually have to count how many things you're doing to there.

I'd be willing to try it.

Give it a try.

If for no other reason than to feel just a little bit goofier.

Not to say that she is all the oxygen going to your brain, right?

Not to say that she isn't listening and if she is, we wish you a good morning, Beth.

But if she isn't, I'd please don't tell her this.

Just do it.

Just do it.

Why is that just jumping around?

In fact, that's to everybody out there.

Don't tell your partners you're doing this.

Just do it.

Just go ahead.

And just start, you know, jump around the song while you're doing it.

Change your alarm.

Change your alarm today to remind yourself tomorrow.

There you go.

Seth, how quickly, because I know you said jumping around while you do your chores and stuff,

how quickly would that transform into a skip for you?

See now, that would be the thing, right?

Is it still jumping?

Is it still jumping?

Yeah.

A lot of times.

If I use the three, you know, that's what you want to find some variables.

I'm your girl.

Oh, god.

I'm your girl.

Varials.

I like variables.

I like variables, actually.

Laura's gone very real.

She's gone very real.

Wow.

Thanks, guys.

So I have both of you on the jump around thing, especially if you're extra points if you're a badger fan.

We get extra points for that.

You're just practicing.

You're just practicing.

Yeah, exactly.

You can tell your friends that, yeah.

Especially if you live in a shoddy apartment with paper thin walls or something like that.

I'm just warming up.

I'm just warming up.

I'm just warming up for the date.

One specialist weighed in to say that movement is movement and in general, movement is good for us.

In general.

It is, yeah.

To anybody out there, you know, you certainly want to be careful about these things.

I talked about doing this with my dad.

I thought, you know, hey, do you want to do this together and everything?

And we were a little worried about his hip.

Sure.

Same thing with my mom.

So keep that in mind, everybody.

Yeah.

But, you know, to this specialist point, movement is movement.

And I think whether it is, whether it is like Laura and adding a little spin to it and mixing it up a little bit or maybe twirling.

I don't know.

Skipping.

I'm not sure.

Full-fledged cartwheels, maybe.

I don't know if you really want to get into it.

That's an advanced level.

Yeah.

That's very advanced.

I've never been able to do one.

What is the likelihood of people doing this the over-under?

Because I think that on its core, it's very simple.

But I wonder if it's too simple because, you know, again, we got bored with it.

It granted, you know, we can be a little distracted sometimes.

I am hopeful that the married folks in the listening audience do this.

Just to make their partners laugh.

But I think it's more likely that a single person is going to do this than a person who is partnered.

Right. Right.

It's a trend.

So, I mean, it's people try to trans out and maybe they do it for a little while and then they move on to something else.

That happens a lot.

Yeah.

We'll see.

And we want to hear from you.

715-424-2600 call up.

Let us know what you think if you would give this one a shot.

Did have a couple of notes I wanted to get to before we wrap up the opening monologue here.

Just a quick shout out to my new son-in-law Caleb and my daughter, Isabel Olson.

Her new last name.

Congratulations.

Congratulations to them.

Beautiful ceremony in Appleton at the Nature Reserve there that we got to go to.

Shout out to them and the great job that they did with all of that was a beautiful ceremony.

Wonderful moment.

I am still emotional about it.

I'm just going to, I'm bringing this up just to warn everybody that about that.

But the one thing that I thought, now they have nice music.

But just a real quick note.

So they read their own vows and everything.

And Caleb, great young man, could not ask for a better son-in-law.

He's a great kid.

He's a firefighter all that stuff.

Handsome as all days.

All that.

It was a little hard to hear him.

A little bit hard.

He did a great job.

It was a little hard.

My little girl.

My Izzy goes up there.

And like this is outdoors.

And the end of granted the speakers were not built for this or anything.

Right.

You could have heard her from a city over man.

She was clear.

She was concise.

She was emotional.

It was perfect.

We go up there to do pictures.

And it's my first time talking to her since this and everything.

And she's looking at me.

And she's got those big eyes.

And she's just, you know, all this.

And I want to tell her how proud I am of her.

And how special the moment is.

And to take it in and all this stuff.

What do I do?

Honey, you killed that.

You nailed that performance.

That was, I'm still in director mode.

I'm like talking to her like your volume was great.

Your presentation.

It's just so excited.

She was.

No notes.

No notes.

She was going along with me on.

And it took about three minutes to be like, oh, yeah.

By the way, very proud of you.

Congratulations.

You did a nice job.

Congratulations to being married.

All the wedding stuff.

Yeah.

I'm pretty worried.

I am horrible.

But it was good.

But I appreciate you having us and everything.

It was wonderful.

Be able to look up for a lot of pictures.

Everybody.

One of the remind everyone as well.

That we are looking for all your Halloween events.

If you're not a profit group.

Is in your hosting a Halloween activity or an event this month.

Please be sure to let us know.

We'd like to share it with our listeners.

We also have, we're going to have trick-or-treat times

a little bit later in the month for local communities as well.

Like we've done for decades around here.

Yeah.

Send your info.

Email it to us.

Info at WFHR.com.

Or give us a call at 715-424-1300.

Call us during the weekday.

And get us those times.

We would love to celebrate with you.

Yes.

Exactly.

And, you know, as I said that the wedding was nice.

There was some nice music that was being played.

I thought in everything.

But could he use the little more Willie Nelson?

Could he use the little more Willie Nelson?

That's what I always say.

I've never been to a wedding.

I've never thought had enough Willie Nelson.

Well, we got more Willie coming to town everybody.

Oh, yeah.

This Thursday experience the magic of Willie Nelson

with Willie and family live.

It'll be this Thursday 730 at the Performing Arts Center

at the pack right here in town.

Willie and family live is more than just a tribute.

It's an immersive experience.

It delves into the life and stories behind the reddit.

It's stranger.

It's a whole set is really cool the way it's designed

with a memorabilia and stuff.

Grab those cowboy boots, dress up,

and have some fun with this event.

Be sure to get your tickets.

You can get them 24-7 at saverythearts.com.

Or give them a call at 715-424-2787.

Or you can call up.

Ooh.

Like right now.

Let's kick off the week giving away tickets.

Oh, let's do it.

Yeah.

Do it.

So this week we're going to contribute.

Call us up at 715-424-2600.

Oh, we need is your favorite Willie Nelson song.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That doesn't even have to be the one recorded like thousands of songs.

He has literally recorded thousands of songs.

Whatever you say is it will be fine.

Yes.

Call up, get us all the songs.

Maybe he's recorded all the songs.

That'd be close.

There's some of this song.

By the ones in English.

And we look forward to getting you these tickets, everybody.

Do you want to say a big shout out to Sally Kissner in the Arts Council?

Yeah.

Always doing an amazing job.

If you'd like a little preview of this, we had a Rapids report, Lauren.

Yeah, we did.

Michael and a Rapids report with us and everything.

Yeah.

Michael is playing the part of Willie in it, right?

Yeah.

That's right.

He is Willie Nelson.

Yes.

And to the point where his voice, just his normal speaking voice.

He sounds like he just does.

Yeah.

Let's go ahead and take a call or here.

Good morning.

Did you want those Willie Nelson tickets?

Absolutely.

Yeah.

Can you give us your favorite Willie Nelson song?

A blue light is crying in the rain.

Oh.

Well, he comes in.

Nice.

Well done.

Oh, you earned these.

Yeah, you earned these.

Can you get your first name?

Judy.

Judy, thank you so much for listening and playing along.

What town are you calling us for?

Wrap up.

All right.

Got ourselves a Rapids winner.

Very cool.

Judy, hang on the line and get a little information from me off here.

But you just got yourself two tickets to see Willie and family live this Thursday at the

Performing Arts Center.

Thank you so much for listening and playing along.

Thank you.

All right.

We're going to talk to Judy in a second.

We'll come back and do some celebrating with our good friends at El Café and the Birthday

and Anniversary Club.

I'm just going to play Autumn in New York.

It's not really a birthday song.

Somebody's got birthdays at Autumn.

Sure.

We hope you're all having a great morning out there.

Thanks so much for joining us.

It's time to do some celebrating with the El Café.

Birthday and Anniversary Club.

One of our favorite parts of the day.

We get to celebrate.

You talk about a great friends over at El Café.

Go visit them tomorrow when they open their doors at 221 Market Avenue and Beautiful Port Edwards.

They give you Monday to go ahead and get your menu set.

Figure out what you want to kick off things off on Tuesday.

And then go in there and when you see their specials completely change your mind.

Always.

There is nothing but good stuff over at El Café.

You let them convince you.

Yeah, that's right.

It's a good line.

That should be their tagline.

That's good.

You can have it.

It's free.

Get on over there today, everybody.

And celebrate with our great friends in El Café tomorrow.

I'm sorry.

Tomorrow.

Got exciting.

Got exciting.

Part of what I got excited about is this pumpkin spice pancakes.

I really want to try those.

That is really exciting.

Really good.

No, that's fair.

Get on over there, everybody.

And of course, get us those birthdays and anniversaries so we can keep celebrating with you.

Email us info at wfhr.com.

You could direct messages on our Facebook pages.

Or you can call on up.

That's right.

715-424-2600.

To let us know your birthday and or anniversary.

We look forward to celebrating with you, everybody.

Thanks so much for that live birthday.

Nothing better.

Nothing better than live birthdays and anniversaries.

So let me see here.

All right.

Tomorrow.

I got you.

All right.

So Laura, give me a one or two.

Two.

All right.

That gives us that quality.

All righty.

There we go.

So first up, we want to wish your happy birthday to Hannah Quick.

Happy birthday, Hannah.

A long time listeners out there may know that Hannah used to join us with the chamber and everything.

Oh, that's right.

But quite some time.

Hannah was a good friend of ours who were on the rapid support and everything.

And a lot of fun with her.

And Joy, her and hope she is having a great day out there.

Enjoy your day, Hannah.

Yeah.

And our qualifier, Naomi Sanders.

Happy birthday, honey.

Happy birthday.

Naomi told us that she is a new listener.

Appreciate it.

Her and her husband check us out every morning.

And they enjoy our silliness.

Oh, yeah.

We're going to bring the silliness.

Yeah.

Yeah, that's right.

We've got the market corner, not silly.

I started my day off goofy.

It's going to be fine.

So we appreciate those.

Let's see here.

Do we have a live one?

Good morning or on the air?

Good morning.

Could you please tell me whose name was picked for September?

Because I had an appointment and I couldn't listen.

Yes.

Let me double check here.

Oh, no.

I don't have it on there yet.

It looks like.

Oh, no, no.

Date.

It was Anderson.

I remember the last name.

It was Anderson.

It was Anderson.

Yeah.

I thought I had it here.

But I do not.

I will double check and I will get that out to you before the end of the hour.

Okay.

Well, if it's Anderson, it isn't the name.

That's what I thought.

That's what I thought.

You heard what you needed.

But thank you for listening.

Thank you.

Keep up the good work.

I appreciate you.

I appreciate you.

Have a good morning.

Best listeners in radio.

We appreciate you all.

So let's go ahead and see who share your birthdays with.

Everybody.

It's going to be honest.

A little bit of a thin list today.

A little bit of a thin one.

All right.

All the cool people are born next week anyway.

Yeah.

Trevor Lawrence celebrating a birthday today.

And playing on Monday night football against the Chiefs tonight.

Oh, Trevor Lawrence.

He's playing his birthday.

Interesting story of his.

We're still kind of waiting on him.

Not a bad quarterback.

He was kind of the next great quarterback and has not turned out that way.

Yeah.

Addison Ray is 25, a star of she's all that and he's all that.

She's in the most recent Edgene movie, I guess, as well.

She's a good actor.

The great Brett Gellman is 49.

A lot of people know him as Murray on Stranger Things.

He has been a great character actor in many, many things.

Big beard.

And it usually plays an awkward, weird character.

And does it great.

He's very, very good at what he does.

Jeremy Sisto is 51.

Agent Valentine on FBI.

He was also Billy on six feet under.

And he was on law and order for a while.

Oh, apparently.

Detective on law and order with Anthony Anderson.

I thought they were an incredible pairing.

They were really good together.

Also thought he was a big name to be a detective on law and order.

I was surprised to see him take that role, but a good role.

Man, I'd kill for that.

Play a detective on law and order.

I don't know what I thought about this for a long time.

I don't know what I would rather do.

Be a detective on law and order or be an attorney on the show.

And I could finally get my mother off of my bag.

I don't know.

I don't know.

I have a dream about that too.

I want to be a dead body.

Yeah.

I want to be a dead body on law and order.

That'd be fun.

Sweet spot.

Yeah, right there.

Being honest with the audience.

My acting friends, the people that I've talked to for many years.

And all of these are character actors.

And nobody, you know, nothing like that.

And we talk about stuff.

Oh, did you hear so and so got a gig and kind of rooting for each other and everything?

Almost every one of them.

Their dream acting job is that.

They want to be a dead body for a minute.

They want to be a dead body for a minute.

To be fair, it's some of them are CSI.

You know, it's not just long ago.

There's a lot of opportunities for dead bodies.

But yeah, everybody wants to play a dead body.

Like, I've never...

It's the dream gig.

Every day is easy.

It's great.

A friend of ours that has learned to hold their breath.

Just in case that part ever comes.

That's awesome.

That's a real dedication right there.

He's a great guy.

He's a bit older.

Yeah.

I wish he were just hoping one day to be watching a show.

There he is.

Oh, that would be awesome.

That would be awesome.

Amy Jo Johnson is 55.

Kimberly Lee Pink Power Ranger.

Oh, really?

Oh, cool.

She was on Felicity as well.

Yeah.

Oh, God.

You speak it of loving somebody.

Elizabeth Shoes 62.

Oh, sure.

Ali in the Karate Kid in movies.

Julie in CSI.

She was, of course, I think one of her greatest roles,

leaving Las Vegas.

Some of the best acting she ever did,

if not her best acting is in leaving Las Vegas.

Yeah.

She was recently in the first season of the boys

and did a great job on that.

But every one of us fell in love with her

during adventures in babysitting.

That's the one.

That is the one.

That's the one.

That one, that iconic film from that.

Oh, man.

There is iconic.

There's certain movies that whether they were good or bad

does not matter.

They just hold, they hold place in our memory banks.

Short circuit, anybody.

Yeah.

Oh, my God.

Oh, my God.

Wow.

That one came up during the run of the place.

That's what popped up.

The first African American to ever win a Super Bowl title.

Tony Dungee is 70 today.

This is hilarious.

Seth and I were just talking about forgotten Super Bowls this morning.

It did not know it was Tony Dungee's birthday.

That's how wow.

How about that?

Classy former coach of the Indianapolis Colts.

He currently is on the pregame of Sunday Night Football.

Okay.

But great coach.

And a lot of people would argue he has actually two Super Bowl titles

because Tampa Bay won the year after he left.

Right.

And a lot of people felt that was his team.

That was his team.

It was his team, by the way.

Yeah.

That's very, man.

And let's see here.

That's about to go.

Ellen Travolta is 86.

John Cister.

Oh.

She played Charles mother and Lillian on Charles and charge

and was also on Joni Love's Chauchy.

I thought she was terrible.

So sure her entire career attached to Scott Bale.

I don't know if I want that.

Wow.

That is rough.

Ooh.

That is rough.

You know it's bad that when you're a little kid

and you're watching an actor like Scott Bale

and I'm like 10 and I'm judging him as an actor.

Like that's not good.

That's not good, man.

That's just not good.

Oh boy.

Before that smile, I don't know how to.

Seriously.

Leo, effort got cast.

Yeah.

Don't get it.

We do get our friends at LCAFA.

Thank you.

I encourage you to go to LCAFAWI.com.

Check out their menu.

Find out some cool things that they're doing over there.

Be sure to like their Facebook page as well.

It's a great way to not only check out their weekly specials

and some random stuff that they kind of come up with.

We may do a lot of nonprofit things and a lot of things

in the area.

But it is such a welcome thing to pop up in your feed.

It's always positive.

It's always fun.

Yeah.

I encourage you to subscribe to them on Facebook everybody.

Yeah.

And stop in and get food tomorrow.

Yes.

Delicious food.

And of course, keep getting us those birthdays and anniversaries

so we can keep celebrating with you.

Love celebrating with you.

Big shout out to Hannah and Naomi Sanders, wishing you all happy birthdays out there.

Happy birthday.

Take a quick time out.

Get to our news, sports, entertainment, and partner break.

When we come back, have we reached peak of social media awareness?

Have we hit our peak?

We hit our peak.

I'm curious.

I'm going to find out, but I think we know the answer.

Yeah.

It's coming up on the morning show.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio.

Of y'all having a great Monday out there.

Laura, Seth and James here with you.

Hope you're enjoying your week so far.

I want to get out there really quick.

Congratulations to our September winner,

the Elcafe birthday anniversary club, Betty Anderson.

They're one more time.

Betty, by now, may already have her gift certificate.

We can still celebrate that you won.

Yes.

Congratulations.

You're a winner all month until we pull a new one.

That's right.

There was a time when social media was fun.

It's true.

I remember it.

It actually feels like the social about social media

is that we're all kind of in this together in the suffering part of it,

or just the argument of it, or the running away from it.

There you go.

There you go.

A report in the Financial Times asks if we've passed,

quote, peak social media.

A digital audience insights company looked at data

from more than 250,000 adults over 50 countries

and found that time spent on social media peaked in 2022

and since then has been on a rapid decline.

Wow.

Yeah, that sounds right.

Yeah.

The world adult 16 and older are spending an average of two hours

and 20 minutes per day on social platforms.

That's down 10% since 2022.

The sharpest decline is among teens and 20-somethings,

although many millennials and some Gen Xers seem to be deleting their accounts too.

I did.

Wow.

I left Facebook in 2022, and I left TikTok in 2023.

I have to admit, I just came across this story this morning.

And when I saw the 2022 thing, I thought that was odd.

That's just creating the odds of that as well.

I'm right on there.

Jumped out of track.

Or did you start a trend now?

I am the trend.

There you go.

Tech experts say users have basically been pushed out

by reducing the actual socialness and connectiveness connectedness

and replaced it with ads suggesting, quote, suggested content,

more ads, negativity bots, stupidity, and more ads.

I listen, I watch basically two shows pretty,

pretty consecutively throughout Monday through Friday.

They're both sports shows.

One of them, I'm on the verge of leaving,

because there are so many ads that pop up.

Right.

And then if it's not ads that are popping up,

them as a show are doing ads, everything,

yeah, everything spots everything.

And I understand, especially in the medium that we're in in radio,

where we're thankful to be here, we're proud to be here, all of those things.

And we appreciate our sponsors.

A billion percent, but those sponsors, those businesses out there,

had to be just as key on this as we are,

because you run the risk of becoming an infomercial.

Yeah, you're alienating your audience by becoming an infomercial.

As most people about YouTube ads, people that advertise on YouTube,

as how many people have ever bought anything off of there.

What are the, what are the stats on that stuff?

Obviously, the two worlds need each other,

business world and certainly any media,

mediums, needs that from TV to movies to on down.

Everybody needs advertisers and advertisers need us.

It's a mutual beneficial relationship.

So both parties need to realize,

if you oversaturate the market,

nobody's going to listen or watch.

Like there is a balance there that has to be figured out.

And this is for the best of the audience,

or not just the audience, but the businesses.

We're not, you know, this is a business thing too.

Well, and it's, so it's similar to AI on several levels,

because really the AI that is being pushed on us

is basically just an intelligent algorithm.

And that's what all of social media is now.

It's just another extension of thrusting AI upon the public

despite us not asking for this.

There is one place in the world where social media

isn't in freefall, North America.

Where the report says, quote,

consumption of social media's diet of extreme rhetoric,

engagement bait, and slop continues to climb.

So around the rest of the world,

they have gotten pretty better at seeing these bots,

the suggested content, the negativity bots and all that.

Here in North America, and to be fair,

this is including Mexico and Canada, not just us.

But here in North America,

we have not been able to figure this out

to where we still have Uncle Joe out there

who sees this thing from a negativity bot or something

and then just takes it and has to put it all over his social media.

Make sure everybody knows that, you know, actually, guess what?

The earth isn't round or flat, it's rectangle.

Because this negativity bot told me and everything.

So now the world's actually a rectangle, everybody.

And there he's running with it and stuff.

As a side note, I actually fell asleep

a little bit Saturday night.

I actually got about an hour and a half asleep.

What I dreamt of was that the world actually was flat

and I had to own it and I had to go on the air Monday

and own all of it and how I was like.

Oh my God.

How sorry I am.

You've had some wild dreams, but that one might be my favorite.

That one is crazy.

I woke up practically sweating.

It was a true nightmare.

That's wild.

Oh man.

It's round.

It's round.

It's adventurous.

So even still, even with that engagement and all that,

even still, America may be at the peak right now

because social media may finally be jumping the shark.

And guess what we can finally say something good about?

AI.

Oh man, and I was just trash talking on that.

But you had a point.

You were teasing it.

Yes, I did.

Meta and OpenAI have announced new social platforms

that will be, quote, filled with AI-generated

short-form videos.

And if anything can kill social media, it's non-stop AI.

Oh wow.

That'll kill it dead.

So I don't think that...

It reminds me of the dead internet theory.

Yeah, which is out there.

I don't know if I'm quite there yet.

No, but that is definitely a fast track to it.

For those that don't know, could you throw that out there with that?

So the dead internet theory is the theory that at a certain point

we're going to approach where the internet and social media

specifically is almost entirely bots.

And there are no living people on it anymore.

It's just...

Bots talking to bots.

Botting at each other.

Yeah, right.

It's basically kind of thing.

Yeah.

Well, it'll be nice for the bots to have somewhere to go.

Right.

You know what I mean?

Nicely.

You know?

Let them run for you.

Run for you.

Yeah.

You know?

That sure was viral.

Ryan from Newark.

I love the idea of Facebook and all these sites

just becoming bots on bots.

Bots on bots.

There's nothing but nothing but.

I do think too that you're like everything in life.

What goes up must come down.

So this was a matter of time before this happened.

And like Laura was mentioning how she dropped out of social media.

Seth has never even jumped in.

Not really.

No.

And I'm meeting more and more people in my life that are like that.

That are more like you two than somebody out there like one of my students

who can't seem to get off of social media.

Right.

And yes, I'm calling him out.

But I've known him for three years and he's never gotten any better about this.

Right.

When it comes to that, I think that there needs to be a little grace

that we give each other with this where this is a brand new thing

and we're still trying to figure out all the kinks and stuff of it.

Right.

The human brain is dealing with this for the first time ever.

We're still dealing with the internet for the first time ever.

It's only been around for like 30 years.

It's not even been that long.

We need to take it easy on ourselves.

These are growing pains.

We're still getting an accident all the time with cars.

And we've had cars forever.

Well over 100 years.

Yes.

Right.

We're still figuring that out.

Like we're smart.

But we're only so smart.

Right.

Well, and I think that with that, that's encouraging.

I also, I genuinely find this last part about the AI thing,

actually a little bit of a, like I know we're joking around about it,

but there's a little bit of that.

It makes you feel optimistic, doesn't it?

Kind of does.

Like people are going to go out and meet people again.

Yep.

I think that in the wild, because these companies have proven,

they're going to shove this down our throats.

Yeah.

Every single one of these companies,

and it doesn't matter who they are, I'm calling them all out,

every one of them that have this AI built into their emails

or everything that nobody asked for.

Nobody asked for your AI.

No, no.

And we, the consumer, are being given the option of either going along

with it or opting out.

We're seeing, so a while ago, we kind of saw,

oh, the customer isn't always right.

Oh, okay.

All right.

Well, so that's the thing.

That's fine.

All right.

But we're seeing more and more of his businesses and companies

being like, we don't longer care what our consumers want.

Right.

We have an abundance of this stuff, and you're going to take it.

Like we ordered way too much pumpkin spice AI.

Way too much.

So now you guys got to take our pumpkin spice AI,

because we got to get it out of this building.

Like it used to be...

It was just crazy Larry electronic store.

I'm crazy Larry, and everything has got to go.

So I'm putting the way, watch your and dry it for 10 cents.

It used to be that.

Now, every one of these companies has turned into crazy Larry.

It's where you got to take our AI.

Take our AI.

I think Laura, it's actually even worse than that.

It's not disrespectful.

It's contemptuous.

Yes.

They're showing that they need us.

They're showing that they need us.

No.

No, they don't care.

They don't think that we think.

They don't think that we care.

And they think that we're just going to go along with it

because they want us to.

And they're monopolies.

And one other thing I'll tag on to this as far as what they think of us.

Apparently, they don't think we're creative.

At all.

But the AI is everywhere.

They do not think anything of us.

I can answer an email.

I don't need you for this.

Right.

Also, you don't need to give me a rundown of this email.

I can read it myself.

It's three sentences long.

If anyone needs that seriously.

You do not need to do that.

Summarize my three sentence email.

Just don't summarize my email.

If you are a fan of AI, if you like some of this stuff,

please, we will keep this conversation going for the remainder of this show.

And I don't mean today.

I mean, forever.

If you are interested, if you care about it, please let us know.

We'd love to hear a counter story.

I'd love to hear another side of this.

And I wouldn't be as upset if it was something that we were given the option of opting in for.

But we're not.

We're being given only the option to opt out.

They did not learn from what was it, Apple?

It just gave everybody that you two album like a while ago.

It was like years ago.

Oh, we didn't like that.

Nobody wanted that.

And like you two has not been the same since then.

No, they have not.

They have not recovered.

They have not recovered.

They have not recovered.

We don't want your AI.

Maybe I'll just don't want.

Or your album.

Yes.

Take a time out.

We'll be back more show.

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Welcome back everybody.

Morning show here at WFHR.

Locally grown radio.

Laura Seth James here with you.

Thanks so much for being here with us.

We appreciate you.

Got a great hour lined up for you in the 10 o'clock hour.

It's going to kick off with the kitchen's open.

Beth's going to join us for that.

Shout out to the hotel mead for sponsoring that segment.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Afterwards we'll get an augment monthly veterans update from our good friend Tom Heiser.

Yes.

Joining us from our local VFW.

Yeah.

Looking forward to talking with Tom.

That's going to be a good one.

And a little entertainment news for you as well.

See what a time we have for other stories.

I will see who we can get in there.

But I wanted to touch on this one.

I wanted some time with it.

It's October, which means the clock is officially ticking on Halloween costumes.

It's true.

Especially if you're a parent who's hoping to make your kids costume this year.

In a survey, 52% of parents say that they're planning to DIY their kids costumes.

And the percentages were the highest in Colorado, Iowa, California, Maryland, and Arkansas.

Obviously saving money is the number one reason since everything has become a bit expensive.

Right.

But there are other reasons.

Some parents are making costumes and making costumes is more creative and unique.

Others say the costumes they want weren't available.

The quality isn't worth the price or, quote, just a family tradition of making them.

Okay.

The average at which, by the way, that part has risen quite a bit as far as the family tradition of just making your costumes.

Yeah.

The average DIY costume costs under $40 while the average ready-made costume costs well over 70.

Wow.

And that adds up if you have, uh, did dress multiple trick-or-treaters, or if you want to have add-ons to those costumes, of course.

81% of parents feel pressured to create Instagram-worthy costumes, 81%.

Wow.

Speaking of social media.

Yeah.

Wow.

With Idaho parents being the most stressed out about it, followed by Missouri and Connecticut.

Idaho.

I'm sorry, y'all.

That's rough.

Apparently they don't have anything else to worry about.

Nothing else in Idaho.

There aren't a lot of details on what all these parents are making yet.

But Pokemon is still very popular, along with Taylor Swift costumes.

La-la-boo-boo.

La-lo-boo-boo.

You're right.

Classic spooky costumes, like witches, where wolves go, vampires and skeletons, superheroes, and other unique creatures.

These are the more popular ones right now, of course, we'll get in the most popular Halloween costumes in another segment, of course.

I happen to be incredibly fortunate to have such massively creative kids that are just naturally drawn to cosplay stuff.

For the last, I'd say, three years, a good portion of their costumes were self-made.

Last year, my oldest costume was fully self-made.

Yeah, and I had no part in this.

I just bought them the pieces that they needed to make this.

Very cool.

I think it's really, really cool, and it's a really fun outlet.

It's a good, constructive way for them to waste time.

Sure.

It's good stuff.

Highly recommend.

Absolutely.

I know growing up, this was something my mom tried to do with us a bit, and my dad tried to do with us a bit, and it didn't go very well.

But the attempt was there, and it was something that was kind of fun.

I actually think, and I understand the industry that's out there and everything, but I kind of wish that this was more the norm of making your costume.

Everything would be more unique.

It'd be really interesting to see our costumes, because we wouldn't have 17 Wednesday Adamses every year.

Right, exactly.

I think the idea of...

No discredited to Wednesday Adams.

It's a great costume.

It's classic for a reason.

Talk about this a bit with building things, and the idea of driving around and seeing the things that you've built and stuff.

A lot of construction workers, a lot of adults, that take pride in those things.

I think a similar thing happens with kids.

We can remember this.

Do you remember making your first diorama, or bringing it home, or showing your parents something like this,

or any time you built something or made something as a kid, you wanted to tell the world.

Now imagine your costume if you built that, and you made that and everything you had a hand in making that.

I imagine that that would be a pretty...

You know, something that kids would take pride in.

Give them a little bit of working those creative muscles a little bit more and everything.

I actually think that, regardless of how much money you have, or how many kids you have,

I think that that might be the better approach of just being much more encouraging of that.

Hey, I'll get you started. Here's the outline of what you need, or the thing that we can't...

Get to the base.

Yeah, and then building from that.

I've been fortunate to see some of the girls' costumes lower over the years, and I think they're better.

They're so cool.

I agree.

It's so cool.

Well, and it's not only the fun of doing, you know, creating it together, getting all the pieces kind of thing.

I mean, what are...

If you're like into a certain thing that not many people are in, there's not going to be costumes out there for you.

You got to make it yourself, kind of thing, right?

My kids are into animatronics.

Yeah, right.

They're very expensive costumes.

Yes.

And so, yeah, they're going to make their own.

They figured out that it's themselves, right?

Yeah.

Let's take a call.

Good morning, you're on the show.

Yeah.

Yeah, it's growing up in the 50s and something.

That was our only option to make our own costumes.

We didn't have much store bought costumes, especially with 12 kids around.

Sure, yeah.

That'll do it.

Yeah.

Did you have a...

We were all...

You know, we were all as whole...

As guys were all as hobo.

No, that's not even proper terminology anymore.

But you're right.

I was wondering if that was the go-to costume.

It was a classic for a long time.

I had a cousin who did like a hobo for like three years in a row.

I don't know.

I just was lazy or something, but no.

He loved it, I guess.

We appreciate that, sir.

Thank you.

You have a good morning.

It's a good note on this.

You know, there's generations out there that that's all the way they did things and stuff.

And I would say that even my parents were a little like that when it came up to those kind of things that they wanted to do.

You know, now that I'm thinking about it, my mom's costume that she's had for decades is one that she made herself.

She's dressed as raggedy and for the last like 20 years.

Really?

Oh, that's cool.

She made it when I was young.

I still vividly remember which house we lived in when she was dying that mop for her wig.

But yeah, she basically just found a platish, blue and white kind of dress,

put extra frills on it and dyed a mop red and that's what she wears.

I have to give credits to one of my cousins, another one of my cousins.

He invented one of my favorite costumes ever.

He did the invisible man.

That's fantastic.

Where he did, he literally had every part of his body covered with, no, no, he had like the movie.

So his head was wrapped in an ace bandage and the only thing was like the bottom of his nose so he could breathe.

That was open.

Otherwise, he was completely covered head to foot.

So he looked like just like the invisible man from the movies, which was, I mean, that was really inventive.

That was really clever.

Oh, I like that.

Yeah, that is really cool.

That is a really cool idea.

Now I'm kind of thinking, oh, I wish I would have thought of that.

So while I'm still threatening to do the, where I, where you get like candy bar wrappers and then you put them all over your, you know, you tape them on there.

And then you shoot like some silly string and go as the floor of a movie theater.