Now With Fewer Pennies (Hour 2)

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.

The truth, the figure, the drama, and then

makes no difference what you brought in.

Time for our two of the morning show here at 97.5 FM 13.20 AM locally grown radio.

James and Alia hanging out with you for the hour. We got good stuff lined up.

Gonna get into some entertainment news to kick things off in a little bit.

We got Uber testing out this new method of payment.

I don't know if I'm saying that right.

We've got that coming up for you. Also four phrases you can use to shut down unsolicited advice.

I think that is going to be an interesting one. I did not pre-read that one.

I'm curious to see what that one has. We'll dive into that.

But we get into entertainment news to kick off the hour.

I would say Wisconsin icon.

I don't know if icon is a fair word, but I would say pretty close.

Well, I'll say this. They don't build statues for people who aren't icons.

The fans here in Wisconsin and happy days and all that.

He's got a statue in Milwaukee that's a really cool one.

If you haven't seen it, I encourage you to check it out.

I really just saw it on Sunday.

I walked over to it. It's a picture.

For the audience to look behind a curtain just for a quick second.

I wanted to spend the entertainment section.

Just basically listen to Alia talking about you and your husband seeing Adam Sandler.

Being this close to somebody who has been that close to the Sandman.

We were probably a good 30 feet away from the stage.

I didn't have to look at the jumbo tronds.

I could just see the wrinkles in his face where I was sitting.

So yes, I don't sit in your jealousy.

I'm just doing so much over here.

I'm like in a cauldron.

It was a really good show.

It was so good. I get laughed, cried, felt like a kid at Teenager again.

I grew up with him.

I mean, he's a generation.

He's about 10, 10, a little over 10 years older than me.

But there's not a part of my, you know, 10 years to now where I just don't remember.

Not enjoying it. I had him sailor film.

I'm with you.

I saw him for the first time on the old TV show on MTV remote control.

Yeah. Oh my gosh.

And remember him being on there.

And just it feels like I've known him or he's been a part of our lives for so long.

And I was a teeny tiny kid when that was, I was like 10, 11 years old when remote control was on.

See huge fan of his.

And we actually do have a segue of Ty and because Adam Sandler, big fan of Henry Winkler's as well.

His cast Henry and many of his movies.

Many times, yeah.

Maybe the best is the water boy.

I really like Henry Winkler, the coach.

Like I really liked him as that.

For those that don't know, Henry Winkler has a side gig outside of acting.

And he has for many, many years.

He is an author and a very, very accomplished and very good author as well.

In fact, he's got his 40th book coming out.

Oh wow.

And he writes a lot of kids.

I knew that.

A new book, a new kid's books marks his 40th publication for young readers.

Oh.

Crazy.

40 books he's put out there.

That's awesome.

Detective Duck, the mystery of Emerald Pond, was released on September 30th.

And it follows a feisty resourceful duck who also cares about the environment.

The Happy Days Actor shares shared in this great article on People magazine.

You can find it at people.com.

He talked about his, he didn't fall in love with reading right away.

It was later on as an adult in his 30s.

Because in his 30s, he was diagnosed with dyslexia.

Okay.

And this hits home for me as I was in my late 30s.

But I was in my late 30s, maybe even my early 40s.

When I took a test that my therapist at the time wanted me to and turns out,

yeah, I've got minor dyslexia.

Okay.

And this is so common with people of this age range that I'm hearing more and more of that.

That just didn't test for this stuff, you know, when we were kids as much.

No.

Or didn't have the integral tests that they do nowadays and everything.

We're discovering more and more of us.

And it's not a coincidence to see so many people who either struggle with reading

or felt like they didn't like reading, but also were diagnosed with this.

Yeah.

So this is something that he touches on in his books.

It's an experience that myself, him, many, many people go through and he's kind of touching on this.

And also talking about resilience.

Yeah.

A lot of that with this character and these books and everything.

So those were two things that he dreamed up.

Also, coming up with the idea for this book and for books in general, a very interesting.

Here, him, quote, in the article here, and I won't read the whole thing.

I want you out there to read the whole article.

But, quote, his wife, Stacy, he's referring to here.

Well, Stacy is doing the puzzle and I walk in.

And I pick up a piece and I put it in and I walk out.

Winkler tells people.

And Lynn called out and said, hey, remember that Hank Zipser had to take a book out of the library

and it was called Detective Duck.

Wouldn't that be a great character?

And then as he looks at the puzzle and he's like, oh, I know where the pond is, too.

It'll be here in the puzzle.

So the puzzle was a picture of New Hampshire.

Okay.

And so he's, oh, putting the duck in New Hampshire.

He starts spinning from there.

And him and his wife have created this great little character.

And a lot of these books, they've worked together on.

That's awesome.

The great books encourage you whether for you or the kids in your life to check them out.

Look at them.

Support this great artist.

And also one of the cool, it's one of the coolest arcs to any actor's career I think will ever see.

There was a point in time that Henry Winkler was the coolest guy on TV.

Absolutely.

The coolest guy there was.

And then he goes and takes that and becomes later in life.

This lovable, silly, fun character.

Yes, the Adam Sandler movies.

But he is guest-spotted on so many great TV shows.

A wrestling development is the one that I think of the most.

Also Parks and Rec.

Yep.

He was great on Parks and Rec.

He plays a great, be shoveled attorney.

Yes.

And it's so weird to me to see the coolest guy on TV go to that.

And successfully, like very successfully.

Also pretty cool on the show Barry.

Oh, yes.

He was really good on that.

Really good on that.

He was really good on that.

It's cool to see.

And another one of those really interesting careers in Henry Winkler.

So Anna Kendrick of famous from the pitch perfect movies.

Yes.

And she's done a couple of others.

She had a hit song too.

In my household trolls, if you are the parent of Gen A children,

you will have been terrorized by trolls for several years now.

I forget that.

She's done a lot of voice acting too.

A lot of it.

She's got a great voice for voice acting.

Yeah.

And a very likable person.

She was on a Conan show when I was on there once.

I didn't get to meet her or anything.

But everybody talked about how kind she was.

And she was going out of her way to say hello to people and stuff.

And apparently she, the hair and makeup person that was doing it.

The main hair and makeup, well, I only had one person on the Conan show.

It was not a big budget.

But there was one hair and makeup person.

And she apparently was going through a bit of a rough time.

And Anna helped her out or something.

Oh.

And it just met her.

It's just a really sweet human being.

I love when you hear that these people are just humble and kind.

And it just makes you like them even more.

And she's also not opposed to supernatural.

Okay.

Anna Kendrick thinks she saw old Nessie, the lockness monster,

when she was in Scotland on the set of the trailers, traitors, earlier this year.

Okay.

Quote, the trip was incredible.

We went all around Scotland.

We went to lockness.

And I'm a card carrying skeptic.

And it's like UFO's big foot.

What are we talking about?

She doesn't really get into a lot of that stuff.

There, quote, there was a thing.

It came and it came out of the water and looked right at me.

It might have actually just been one suspicious ripple.

But I'm telling you, there was something there.

I felt it.

And she really felt like she might have seen.

She's not saying she did for sure.

Okay.

It feels like she might have saw the lockness monster.

Well, I mean, people have been saying this for, I don't know how long, but hundreds, I think, of years.

So who knows?

They've done, I watched a long time ago.

I watched a, like, a, not a documentary, but one of these ones where they're going to go

and they're going to see if Nessie really there.

And they bring all this modern equipment.

And they, they practically drained the pond or whatever it is and everything.

No, this is nothing.

Of course, they found nothing.

And I don't know.

Like, my brain needs to know answers.

I hunt down answers.

I love learning of every level of every type of thing.

Sure.

There's some stuff in life that I feel like, though, is meant to be a mystery.

Yeah.

You know, to me, I don't put any stock in Bigfoot or the lockness monster or any of that stuff.

I don't know if it exists or it doesn't, my brain needs facts.

So I just stay away from that stuff.

Or if you put me in one of those, you know, flying cans over the bermuda triangle,

I'm probably not going to be too pleased about it.

Right.

I hear you.

Yeah.

That's a whole different one.

That for me to triangle thing is there's way too much data on that one.

Right.

When it comes to this stuff, though, whether I believe it or not really doesn't matter.

Like, teach their own.

If you ain't hurting nobody, I see no problem in believing in these things.

Why not?

Or, but again, you know, there's a line in the sand.

You don't want to take it too far.

And we certainly shouldn't be making TV shows finding Bigfoot and then we're not finding them.

Yeah.

Five seasons.

You get five seasons to finding Bigfoot.

No, you get one season.

You don't find any evidence.

You're canceled.

You're canceled.

How does that show last five seasons?

And you never find Bigfoot.

The curse of Oak Island.

I don't even know how many seasons they're into it.

Like, just find the treasure already guys.

I almost commend them at being able to stretch it out like they do.

I know, right.

Oh my goodness.

I don't know what she saw, but she saw something, apparently.

One of the things, I don't find a lot of interest in fame.

I don't think of it as something very interesting.

If anything, it seems like it has more drawbacks than positives.

But every once in a while, there is something that pops in my mind that I'm like,

well, that would be kind of cool if I was famous.

So for a long time, Tom Hanks, Bill Murray, notoriously will crash weddings.

Sure.

Just, you know, they happen to be in Chicago filming a movie.

Why not?

And they hear this wedding happening at this, and they just go show up.

And of course they can do that because they're Bill Murray or Tom Hanks.

That seems like the most exciting thing to me about fame.

Yeah.

Like, literally, that's the top of the list.

Being able to support causes, you know, awareness to them and all that, certainly.

That's a whole other category.

But as far as the interest of fame to me, that seems like the most interesting part to be able to do that.

I think even if I was famous, I don't know if I would just, I don't know if I would have, you know, the gumption to do it.

I like weddings.

And I feel like if I, if you could read the room, I feel like, you know, yeah, yeah.

I do like cake.

That's a highly motivating factor.

Well, I haven't heard this before.

But apparently, Meryl Streep is also one of these people that does this.

I can see that now.

She's kind of short.

Now, she's not as brass about it.

It's like Bill Murray is or anything like that.

But she will do this from time to time.

And we had this article from CNN.com.

The Dev award, Dolce and Gabana on Saturday, when Meryl Streep, taking a front, took a front row seat at designed,

designed her duo's Milan theater and character as Miranda Priestly from the Devil wears Prada.

So she didn't just crash this, like, um, this, uh, you know, uh, she came in character.

She came in character as her character from the Devil wears Prada.

Apparently, they are filming in Italy right now a sequel to that.

Okay.

And she was on set.

She was in character already.

And she heard this was going on.

They have a downtime in this on the set.

So she just decides, I'm just going to walk over there and do this.

Did Stanley, too, she go with her because I feel like I saw photos of this.

Maybe, maybe.

I don't know if I didn't read the complete article here.

Um, yeah, I'm not seeing if she, if he did or not, but I wouldn't be surprised if they,

because these are one of these people that will do that.

Yeah.

Uh, the, so they had some fun with this one with her character and all that.

I have to be honest.

It's the one Meryl Streep movie I think I haven't seen.

Okay.

Um, but I, the character is incredibly famous.

Yeah.

Apparently they love this.

They say we're all over it.

It's kind of a fun story.

Yeah.

You can see that you can read the complete article at CNN.com, go into the entertainment section.

And you will find it right there.

Speaking of entertainment sections and entertainment going on.

There's a couple of things one of the bring note to, um, when it comes to that.

And one of them is our WFHR newsletter.

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A little bit later today during the rapid support, uh, birthday girl and executive director

over at WRCT.

Gretchen's going to be joining us.

We're going to talk about the variety show silver foxes and a bunch of other things they got going on.

That silver, uh, that variety show is coming up October 11th.

These silver foxes have their productions going on on October 23rd and 24th.

And there's plenty more to talk about.

We will with Gretchen a little bit later.

Encourage you to go to WRC theater dot org and find out more right now.

But, uh, Alia, you were last night at a rehearsal for, uh, Beetlejuice.

I was.

Yes.

And that's coming up in just a little bit.

It is.

Um, and I unfortunately don't have the exact dates, but, um, I had that somewhere.

Oh, you know what?

They are out.

Pam has the exact dates out at the front desk.

Oh, okay.

Um, yes.

We'll look at that in before we wrap up.

I was at the rehearsal last night because my youngest is, uh, in the ensemble.

And, uh, Maddie, who was just an on golden pond with us, was also in the ensemble.

And so many great kids that I've seen perform in our, uh, in our children's theater programs here in Rapids.

Um, but one thing that I wanted to bring up, um, we are having a single fundraiser on Saturday, October 20th.

At Rams, Wisconsin Rapids Area Middle School in their cafeteria, um, $20 for three cards.

And all of the funds raised will benefit the W RPS Children's Junior Theater program.

So it'll love to see you guys come out and support our incredibly talented kids.

The show is going to be insane.

Yeah.

To be so good.

They got some great, uh, great kids involved with this one.

It's a great show.

Yeah.

That's going to be a lot of fun.

And we'll get those dates too of the show itself coming up.

But that, uh, that fundraiser is a really good one.

Yes.

That's going to be great.

Um, so go ahead and look for that and sign up for it.

Everybody encourage you to do so.

Uh, also encourage you to, uh, follow them on social media as well.

Uh, all of our local's high schools.

It's a great way to keep up to date and all the things that they got going on in their schools.

Uh, we will take a quick time out.

We'll come back and wrap, uh, uh, uh, uh, we'll come up and wrap up the first half an hour here on the morning show.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show at WFHR locally grown radio.

Ali and James hanging out with you.

Thanks so much for hanging out with us, everybody.

So, um, I think a lot of people are, well, certainly many people remember how a lot of us, uh,

we, we cut the cord of cable to go to streaming to save money.

And now a lot of people are realizing that they're just going to save more money if they go back to cable.

Uh, it's kind of a thing that we do with society.

It's not the first time we've done something like this, but it's a modern example of it.

Now we seem to be doing this with cash in the way we pay.

Yeah.

Forever growing up, you had to have a purse, had to have a wallet, had to have something,

because you had to have something to carry your cash.

And then of course, as a society, we moved away from cash and I'd be coming a,

quote, cashless society and all this.

Uh, we're getting rid of all that stuff.

Uh, you will still hear people barking about getting rid of the penny and all that kind of thing.

Well, Uber has started testing a new payment, uh, form cash.

Okay.

So we're going back to that apparently.

All right.

They've been introduced in select cities over the past few weeks,

and it just hit some bigger markets, including LA, San Diego, Dallas, and Orlando.

Uber says the idea is to expand transportation access to everyone,

and not everyone has a bank account or credit card or debit card.

Sure.

And some writers just prefer cash, even if they do have those things.

You, uh, quote, you still need a cell phone though or a way to book your through the app.

Yeah.

Um, basically you book a ride as usual and you select the cash option for payment.

Then you hand over bills and coins when you get to the destination.

Uh, it's also optional for drivers.

They have a setting on their, uh, and on their end that they can set to exit cash,

or if they want just cash or a card or just card or that kind of thing.

Although some drivers say the feature was abruptly added to their accounts without warning

and except cash was the default.

Huh.

So that's certainly a technical thing that they'll have to work out.

Yeah.

It's optional.

So it's not a huge deal, but some drivers are upset.

The main one is that the main reason they're upset, they're worried that it might create a safety concern

because now they could be targeted if thieves, um, think they're carrying cash on them.

Yeah.

That's true.

There are also issues with handling cash like customer, customer is expecting change

if they overpay, um, awkwardness with tips, getting Uber, uh, it's a cut because they're going to want that.

Yeah.

Um, and dealing with people who skip out on a fair, of course, and worrying about that part of it.

Um, there's also so much of our society that got away from touching each other.

Like, like, sure, you know, any of that and the cash thing of it.

To me, um, using a card, like, uh, a lot of the time you have to hit like three or four other buttons.

Yeah.

Every machine is different.

Mm-hmm.

Can we just get the same card machine at every retail store?

Literally.

It's the same set of instructions.

Just the same machine at every retail store, every, every grocery store, every gas station, same card reading machine.

Right.

They're all different and all of them are just trying to be different than the other one.

Like, they got these added questions that nobody ever answers and all that.

Um, you sound like an angry old man yelling at a cloud right now.

This is me.

Yeah.

While at the same time, I completely get it and I get the convenience of it.

But every once in a while, it actually, there are situations where it feels like it's easier.

Like, hey, just take the 20.

Yeah.

And that's it.

And we're good.

And then I just move on.

I don't have to hit any buttons.

I don't have to pull my card out and out or all that.

Um, all this stuff also, um, I wouldn't say it angers.

But there is a part of me that gets a little frustrated, even with my own self.

Yes.

Like, how much easier do you want this to be?

And I'm talking to myself as much as anybody else out there.

I'm not at all like point and fingers on this one.

Like, really, think about how things used to be.

Think about how, like, for a lot of us, especially if you grew up poorer like me,

uh, you had changed a lot of the time.

And it wasn't just like a, a dollar in change.

So I got four quarters.

No.

Yeah.

You need to get some pennies.

Yes.

And that and carrying that around with you as a kid or something like that.

I mean, it's a lot easier now.

It's a lot.

I still love getting the little coin tubes and counting out how many pennies I was good.

But to kids even do, they probably would look at me like, what are you talking about?

I have no idea.

Uh, I remember worrying, oh, God, did I count to 100 right?

I know.

You know, that kind of thing.

Well, dumping it out of the tube and starting over again.

Oh, here we go again.

Uber may even be expecting some of these issues because they're not allowing cash payments

after 11 o'clock at night.

Okay.

So that could help with the little bit of the safety concern maybe or some of that or,

or let's be honest, you know, drunk fares and some of that and that where that can lead

and everything.

But a lot of these problems I'm hearing were here already.

Like they're already issues for Uber drivers.

Yeah.

And unfortunately, some of these jobs, you're never going to make 100% safe.

You're never going to make 100% convenient.

That's again part of the job.

I mean, we're taking shoes off at work now.

Also, nowhere is safe.

Very true.

Very true.

Some of this stuff, I feel like we're getting in our own way for convenience sake.

You know, like the idea of like how much easier do you need something?

I've been thinking about this for a long time.

I'm sure not alone on this one.

Microwave meals were good, convenient, especially for families that had multiple working people

or a single parent or something like that.

I grew up around a lot of that.

And then they had the one minute microwave meal.

And I'm like, well, it was already three minutes.

Like, was that two minutes really destroying you?

Was it really that difficult to wait two or extra minutes to have you had to have a minute meal?

And I've never had a minute meal that was good.

I'm going to admit, I am the person that throws something into microwave

and a minute is my go-to heating time frame.

Oh, yeah.

Whether it needs 15 or one, I will put it in for one minute

and then I will probably eat it because I'm lazy.

Just as guilty.

But I'm that trend there that they had for a while when we were kids,

especially where everything was a minute meals.

Yeah.

And they were never any good.

No.

Like, it's different if I'm throwing something in there myself.

And I throw, you know, that, yeah, I'm expecting my own, you know,

I'm just cooking for myself.

I feel like some of this stuff, like, how much more convenient do we have to make things?

Can't we work?

Can we focus on other stuff?

We've got other things in life that we're still fixing tires the same way.

We have never evolved the fixing of a tire.

I think humans are just so programmed these days to, like, have, you know,

Amazon now, basically, like, you know, I want everything right now.

And that patience, you don't have that anymore.

And life is so busy that, you know, one minute meals.

I'm okay with that.

And I accept and get that and understand that there's no necessarily changing it.

I would like it better if, as a society, we could also agree that if that's how we're going to be,

then we can't get too bent out of shape when we, the younger generations expect everything now.

Oh, absolutely.

Like, it feels like people talk at both sides of their mouths sometimes with this one.

Oh, for sure.

Like, this younger generation, they don't understand what it is to work.

They don't understand what it is to wait for things.

Blah, blah, blah.

Well, what did you expect to have happen?

Exactly.

They didn't make this stuff.

We invented this stuff.

We did this.

I think that's why I'm vastly, grossly generalizing here.

I see a lot of, again, as a parent of a lot of younger kids, both my own and my blended family,

seeing them go back.

I see them doing a lot more crafting than I ever did.

And it's like my eldest has been working on crocheting a blanket for like the last six years,

to which they say, I'm never going to stop.

That it's going to be the biggest blanket.

You know, I could wrap the house in it and I love this.

That's awesome.

That takes patience and time and, you know, I can't do it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I think that there's the other side of this, like you're saying, where I noticed this with

a lot of the rise of going to thrift shops and, you know, good wills and getting their clothes

that way instead of just having to get the newest, you know, most stylish thing.

Yeah.

You're seeing a lot more of a pushback.

Well, because then you can, you know, just dig them up in your own ways.

It's just so cool.

Yeah.

You know, I don't know that our generation was doing a lot of that.

I think that's really cool.

We're out buying, you know, the swankiest stuff.

Whereas you see kids these days going out to the thrift stores and then, you know, doing

whatever to them.

If you're like some of us, you're spent most of your youth trying to figure out how to do that

folding thing at the bottom of the jeans.

I could not.

I was so uncool.

I couldn't do it.

I was bad.

It always looked bad.

It always looked bad.

Oh yeah.

And we will take a quick time out.

While we're in commercial break, we will, you know, console each other over our fashion choices from the 90s.

When we come back, we have four phrases you can use to shut down unsolicited advice.

It's coming up on the morning show.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show at WFHR.

Greatest baseline of all time.

Yes.

God.

I love Steve.

I hope you all are having a great morning out there.

Thanks so much for joining Alia and I.

We got some fun stuff to get into before the end of the show.

Talk about our schedule.

Get into some great local events going on in our area.

I want to touch on all of that.

But here's a good one.

I think it becomes to us from CNBC.com.

We have all been there.

You're wrestling with a tough decision.

When someone swoops in with, quote, helpful advice.

Never asked before.

Here are four ways to respond.

The next time you get unsolicited advice.

I would say right up the gate, though, I want to start with actually the other side of this.

And the person giving the advice.

And so I am a hyper empath.

And it is in my nature to want to help no matter what the situation, no matter what the person.

It took me way too long to realize some people just want you to listen.

Not everybody wants you to solve their problems.

Yes.

And thankfully I learned this at some point in my life.

But probably not early enough.

But it was one of those things that actually, like not only I think, made me better with my empathy

and more in tune with it and where to use it when not to all of that.

But also just how to be a human being.

Much better at it and everything.

Absolutely.

I think that good intentions often times are just that.

Good intentions.

But they also cannot necessarily lead to where you want them to.

The majority of people that I know in my life and everything, when they need to vent, they just need to vent.

They're not looking for you to solve their problems.

If they want advice, they will literally ask you for what do you think?

Yeah.

What should I do?

And if you don't hear that question, you've got your answer.

Hey, they're not looking for your advice.

Yeah.

I will say that I know there's a couple of people myself included as much as I hate this about myself

that probably could use advice but don't always ask for it.

And in that gray area, I say, good luck with me.

Probably better off, you know, just waiting for the ask.

But I could see.

I don't.

I also, because I'm like that, I've never been too bent out of shape about people and, you know, giving advice.

Sure.

I think there's a difference of that and I'm not trying to pick on or hear anything.

But a difference of that and kind of like my mom, where my mom tends to take things up, you're doing this wrong.

Or, or, you know, kind of treating me like I haven't grown up or something like that.

There's something.

A little bit.

There's not a whole lot of stuff like this, but there's stuff like that from time to time.

And I should've been this way my whole life.

I think there's a big difference there.

And I think that part of the answer to this, how to answer unsolicited advice is, for one, not being somebody that gives unsolicited advice.

I mean, that's part of this conversation.

It's not just how you receive it and how well you respond to it.

Let me tell you how you should handle this right now.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Because I'm struggling here.

I'm rambling.

I don't know.

So how do you handle that as well, Doug?

Well, Doug.

How do you handle this?

Quote, thanks for sharing.

I'll consider it.

That's a polite way of doing this.

Is it though?

I guess it depends on the delivery.

So, thank you.

You hit on the other part of this that I think is vitally important.

Tone.

Yeah.

Tone.

And, you know, that.

Tacked.

Tacked in tone.

Go a long way in life.

Yes.

Certainly do.

And the better you learn those and the better you hear your own voice and the way you say things, the better off you are.

Yes.

Quote, that's useful.

That's a useful view.

I prefer to handle it that this way.

Hi.

Yeah.

Quote, this shows you're listening to their perspective while keeping the choice of how to act in your own hands.

I mean, that's keeping control of your autonomy.

But even the phrasing of that, I don't know.

I don't know.

Maybe I'm extra sensitive today.

I'm bristling it a lot of these.

They are just the two in already feel a little passive aggressive.

They do.

That number three.

Quote, I appreciate your input.

I already have a plan for how I'm, I'll move forward.

This respectfully signals that you've got things under control.

Okay.

I'm still, I'm still not convinced.

Me neither.

And the final one here.

We'll see if we get any good with this one.

Oh goodness.

Drum roll, please.

Quote, I hear you.

If I need more guidance, I'll reach out.

It validates their effort, but also prevents further unsolicited input, unless you seek it out.

Okay.

That one.

I'm on the fence.

I could go either way.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So I get a little tired sometimes of people wanting a pad on the back for doing what they're supposed to do.

You know, like I, I, I feel like there's, yeah, there's nothing wrong with complementing people.

And we don't, oh, could all use a little more encouragement in life.

And sometimes you just appreciate somebody doing something, even if they were supposed to do it or whatever.

So you say that.

Yeah.

But there's some, we all know there's people out there that are kind of like doing things just to get that like complement or just.

Yeah.

You know, and I find it like, I'm not going to give you a gold star for just being doing what you're supposed to do as a human being.

Oh, come on.

But there's also like, I, I don't know.

I feel like, hey, thanks.

Like that, that, that, that, that answers just everything down, you know.

Somebody gives you the unsolicited advice and just look at them.

Cool.

Yeah.

Then you move on.

I mean, I don't know that you necessarily need to overthink this one.

Probably feel more comfortable with that response than some of those responses.

Or, you know, as, as you were kind of opening the conversation, you know, what I, what came to mind to me was, you know,

do you want me to help or do you want me to listen?

Yeah.

Boy, wow.

Ding, ding, ding.

I mean, my husband do that all the time.

I'm like, all right, is this a, is this a, are you just venting?

Do you want me to like give my input?

And sometimes it'll, and I do the same to him.

I'm like, listen, I just want to rant.

I don't want you to fix it.

I just want to rant.

And then you can give me a hug afterwards and I'll feel good.

And, you know, that solves a lot of problems.

I think that is one of the healthier things I have heard.

That's, that's an awesome way to handle that.

I think being upfront about that is, it goes so much farther.

There's so much that gets lost in communication.

Yeah.

Even with somebody that you've known forever or some like that, it can get a little bit lost in the shuffle.

Being that direct, I think is healthy.

I think that's really possible.

I mean, yeah.

Then they know, then the expectation is there upfront.

And, you know, or, you know, if I come, hey, what should I do?

Give me the advice.

I, I know.

I'm a bit of a train wreck.

I don't need you to tell me that.

I'll ask you if I need help.

I understand that I walk around and people just automatically want to help and give me advice.

That man looks lost.

I get it.

A couple of trust me.

I see this face every day.

I get it.

But that doesn't mean necessarily looking for it.

I'll ask for it if I need it.

I think that's a lot of people.

I think that at least an overwhelming majority of people I've known in my life, very rarely do they want your advice.

And if they do, they will specifically ask.

Yeah.

I feel like this answer is itself.

I don't know that necessarily.

Maybe they just needed to pay somebody or this person to see it.

I don't know about this.

I don't know.

Because all of this, all of these, this wordiness.

And again, I understand the pot calling the kettle black here.

Somebody who rambles all the time and uses a million words when I need three.

But that said,

I don't know that they needed all this words.

I don't know that it seems like they're interesting.

So we, one of the things we like to do around here, Lea, in the morning show is cover world records.

I am bound determined to break a world record on this morning show and get ourselves into the Guinness World Records.

Just haven't figured out what one we're going to do yet.

All right.

I know one that we might not be able to do because this lady, I think, owns this.

A California woman used her love of dance based video games to break several world records, including the overall longest video game marathon ever.

And she's prepared to attempt it again.

Okay.

She's already done this once.

She's looking to break her own record.

Mary Swedecki, a fourth grade teacher, said her love of dance games started when she first attempted to play dance dance revolution in the arcade back in the 2000.

All right.

She mastered dance dance revolution and that led her to the game Just Dance, which became her favorite video game of all time.

She said the games help her drop dozens of pounds and get her into shape, leading her to introduce the games into her after school fitness programs with kids.

Swindisky ended up setting greatest world records for the longest video game marathon playing Just Dance game, longest video game marathon playing a rhythm game and et cetera, et cetera, a couple of very similar records.

But it also sounds like she did this just because she loves the game.

I don't know that she set out necessarily to break the record.

She just kind of did this as a byproduct of it.

Yeah.

She also used Just Dance 2015 to set the record for the longest video game marathon ever a hundred and thirty hours and thirty four seconds.

I can't even do the math.

How many straight days is that several like a week?

Cool.

That's almost doesn't seem humanly possible.

No.

Like to be able to do that for that long.

Did she take breaks?

Right.

Yeah.

I don't know what the rules on this one.

Yeah.

Again, what are the parameters?

She broke that record in 2015 and she's now trending training to break it again in June of 2021.

She was in a quote.

I was in a car accident that put me in physical therapy for two and a half years and caused me to gain over 70 pounds.

And that then I'm training again.

I have lost 45 pounds gone down four sizes and she wants to challenge herself.

Yeah.

Good on her for that.

What a great way to rehab.

I know sometimes people will have injuries or rehabilitative surgeries to their knees and things like that.

And finding a really a way that you enjoy doing rehab like kudos to her.

When I fractured my ankle, I broke my, tore my ACL and MCL and all that.

They told me, you know, well tennis is a great way to rehab it.

And I had never thought about tennis one second.

I grew up in a hockey boxing football family and all that.

That's not going to help heal your knee.

No.

No.

I once I gave it a shot.

I loved tennis.

Like I started following the pro game and all that and I still did this day like tennis.

Nice.

It's interesting how these injuries or these things can lead you to that stuff.

Finding dance that you love or something.

I want to break the record for longest break dancing session.

Okay.

I want to do that.

In which case it will probably be the last thing I do.

I was going to say.

But I, you know, I'm going to talk.

We're people of a certain age James.

We can injure ourselves much easier.

My brain can still do the moves.

My brain knows what to do with my body to make me spin on my hip or something like that.

My body is like, oh, oh, oh, you think this is all top body.

You think this is 1988.

Oh, well, we have to remind him, but hey, hey, hip.

Remind him what you are.

Remind him how old you are.

Hey, back.

Bristle bones.

And, and I'm in the hospital.

She's quote, quote, she wrap up.

She says, I'm training 45 hours a week and have competed a completed two practice,

120 hour marathon.

The only thing that keeps me going during those two and a half,

the only thing that kept me going during those two and a half years was my dream to break my

iconic 138 hour record.

Okay.

Good honor.

Good honor.

Whatever gets you through, man.

Whatever gets you through.

And, you know, she seems very determined to do this.

That's awesome though.

We keeping an eye on that story and see if she does actually get a chance to break that record.

And I just like this one.

So I wanted to get it in as we are getting ready for more,

we have more records to break and we're going to get ready for some good stories.

In 2025, UK dog surfing championship in Dorset, England may say in the right Dorset.

Yeah.

That's correct.

So three different Guinness world records being broken by paddle boarding pooches.

Okay.

Mark Reeves, the organizer of the annual event at, um,

a prank in some dine shine decided this year's dog surfing championship

would include world record attempts for the most dog human pairs paddle boarding simultaneously.

The fastest 50 meter paddle boarding by a human or dog pair.

And the most dogs on a single paddle board.

Okay.

I'm glad that there was an animal related article because during one of the breaks,

I was googling escaped animal stories because that's been your trend with me so far.

Right.

But, you know, I can, I'll go for the paddle boarding pooches.

Had to not only get one in, but one that took place in the UK.

I see.

So you see, I've already, I've already labelled you.

Painting me with a brush.

Yes, yes.

I've just labelled it.

The first record was broken by 10 human canine pairings competing in a 50 meter 164 foot paddle board race.

Okay.

The race ended in a tie.

Uh, the third record proved to be the most complicated,

but organizers were able to wrangle 12 dogs on a single paddle board.

And they remained in place long enough to succeed the title of world record.

Okay, then.

Uh, there is some great video to accompany this.

I encourage you out there.

If you need a palate cleanser, especially to go find this.

I'm, I'm thinking about, you know, are there weight requirements?

Are there size requirements for the dogs?

Do you purposely just get a bunch of small dogs?

You can't put 12 great Danes on a paddle board.

It's just not going to work.

Yeah.

I also, like, I'm thinking of, like, I know my, uh,

uh, terriers tend to be a little fidgety.

So, you know, I don't know about a bunch of terriers on there.

I'm not sure that would work very well.

I'm not sure.

But, uh, it's, it's fun.

It's a fun idea.

12 corgis on a paddle board sounds cute.

That sounds awesome.

I like corgis.

I like corgis.

Uh, that sounds, anything, the more corgis, the better.

Whatever they're doing, it sounds like a lot of fun.

We will come back with a lot of fun wrapping up the morning show here at WFHR.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show here at 97-5 FM 13-20 AM.

WFHR.

James, Italy, hang it out with you.

Thanks so much for hanging out with us.

Been a fun couple of hours.

Mm-hmm.

Good morning, you started off right on serious comedy to start your day.

Uh, I've got a couple of things I want to get to including our schedule.

Before we do, though, request for Halloween events.

It's that time of year again, everybody.

If you are not a proper group and you're hosting a Halloween activity or an event this month,

we want to hear about it.

We want to know so we can let our audience know.

Uh, we'd like to share it with our listeners.

We'd also have, we're also going to have trick-or-treat times for our local communities

later this month as we get closer to Halloween.

We'll do that.

Samuel, tradition around here.

We've been doing this for God a decades.

Uh, we've been doing this.

And of course, we want you to help doing it.

Send your info to info at WFHR.com or give our front desk a call.

424-1300.

That's 715-424-1300.

Thank you and appreciation to everybody getting us all these great events.

Um, our rapid support today.

Gonna be a great one.

Be sure to join us for that in the first episode.

We'll have Gretchen Powers, executive director over at Wisconsin Rapps Community Theatre

and current birthday girl.

Uh, we'll get her on the air with us.

Look forward to that.

And then a little bit later,

we're going to talk to our friends over in McMillan Memorial Library.

Heather and Eric are going to join us.

Looking forward to that.

And on our sister station, 10555WRI.

Join us at 650 for a high school sports action.

Wasaw East at Lincoln High School.

Boys soccer.

Mike and Seth are going to cover that one for you.

It's going to be a great match.

We're hoping it does not end in a tie.

All the games that we've done so far have ended in a tie world.

Okay.

Hoping just for a winner on that one.

And Alia, earlier we were talking about a great event, the Beetlejuice Beetlejuice event.

You had the dates for the show that we wanted to let everybody know.

So the dates for Beetlejuice Junior at Rams are going to be November 7th, 8th and 9th.

That's a Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

Sorry.

Is that right?

No, it might not be.

Hold on.

Hold the phone.

Oh, no.

No, it is.

It's a Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

Friday and Saturday.

The shows will be at 7 and the Sunday is a matinee.

And I do believe last night at the parents meeting, I heard that tickets are available to purchase.

So you can do that already.

Very cool.

Be sure to find those everybody and be on support that show.

It's going to be a really good one.

And of course they have that fundraiser that they're going to be doing as well.

Yes, fundraiser again on Saturday, October 25th from 1 to 4 at Rams.

So go support the fundraiser.

Quick reminder everybody that tomorrow, American Heroes Cafe of Central Wisconsin will be open.

It's open the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month from 730 to 930.

Over at Crossview Church.

Be sure to head on over there.

And remember that this is for all veterans, military, police and firefighters.

You're all welcome.

Make sure to spread the word about this event.

Make sure all those individuals know that this is going on.

Every 2nd and 4th Wednesday over at Crossview Church, American Heroes Cafe.

Big shout out to our friend Tom Heiser, letting us know about that.

And one of the bring attention to this.

Wisconsin Rapids Family Center is inviting you to the annual Domestic Violence Awareness Visual.

The theme for this year is everyone knows someone.

Please join us to honor those who tragically lost their life due to domestic violence related homicides in Wisconsin in 2024.

Be celebrating those that support survivors and work to make change in our community.

The theme, everyone knows someone, reminds us to work together to learn about the causes and impacts of domestic violence in our community.

So that we might recognize warning signs and empower those affected by domestic violence.

This will take place October 23rd at McMillan Libraries Auditorium, 6 o'clock in the evening.

Encourage you to meet us there everybody.

And important to support that.

Keep in mind other Wisconsin Rapids Family Center has your back.

We are there for you.

You can find out more by going to FamilyCTR.org, FamilyCTR.org.

And you're going to see a lot of purple this month.

I actually went and got a purple shirt just because I had no purple in my wardrobe and I didn't realize it.

But purple is bringing awareness to this cause and the attention of it.

One of the ways you can show support is having a purple light bulb and your outside light.

That is one way of doing it.

There's other fun ways of incorporating purple out there and everything and doing that.

Also a part of this mayor's hacker will be there with a proclamation and the city bridge is going to be glowing purple.

They are already.

Yeah, that's right.

I can see them from my house.

Home, that's right.

And home and businesses shining will have shining purple lights.

And of course the candlelight vigil Thursday October 23rd at 6 o'clock at McMillan.