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Let's get it going time for our two of the morning show,
Suthan James here with you. Thanks so much for being with us.
Everybody, happy Wednesday, happy hump day out there.
Yes. Got some fun stuff to get in to before the end of the hour.
We're going to talk about drive-throughs with AI.
Have they gotten faster or slower? I want to talk about that.
Some good stories of the day will get into our schedule and some great events going on in our area.
We want to touch on all that coming up.
But yes, we are continuing AI conversation as we dive into entertainment.
Because now, many of you have heard of Tilly Norwood.
She is an actress, but not really. She does not exist.
She is completely AI, and she's looking to get representation from actual Hollywood eight talent agencies.
Okay.
Several people have spoken out against Tilly, including Emily Blunt,
and now the actor's union SAG-AFTRA is getting in on the act, pun intended.
The union said, in quote,
believes creativity is and should remain human centered.
The union is opposed to the replacement of human performers by synthetics.
To be clear, Tilly Norwood is not an actor.
It's a character generated by a computer program that was trained on the works of countless professional performers,
while permission was not granted.
So all of this AI is taken from actual hardworking actors.
A many of them, no name actors, actors you've never heard of,
that are trying to get a break in the industry.
It creates the problems of using stolen performances to put actors out of work,
jeopardizing performing livelihoods and devouring human art history, creativity,
and all these other factors.
I want to show Seth a little bit of this work from this computer.
Okay.
And what you're going to see here, Seth, is, you know,
a strong performance from a computer.
You also will not see any wrinkling of the face when stunned or surprised,
there is no blinking going on with this actor.
None.
It could not be creepier to me.
Oh, uncanny valley, yikes.
There's a lot of this going around.
You know, there's, of AI footage of, you know,
there's a thing right now where you can watch a video,
you can find it on your Google or right now,
of George Washington, our first president,
hitting the home run in the World Series.
Yep.
And it looks incredibly real.
It's kind of funny if you could take a moment of just like laughing at this stuff.
Right, right, right.
AI has not gotten to the point where I don't think you,
if you're really paying attention, you do don't want to be deceived,
and you are a little skeptical, you can see.
You can see the difference of AI in reality a little bit surrounding it.
That's right.
But it's only getting stronger and it's only getting better.
And now is the time to jump on these things,
to be aware of these things.
Why are we against AI in every facet,
but with this nobody seems to care.
Like, you watch TV, you watch movies, you watch commercials.
If you out there do not watch any single TV show
or any movies or anything like that.
If you take in no forms of entertainment,
then you can take a break from this subject.
I guess this does not affect you at all.
But I am guessing that every single one of you out there has at least one show
or one movie or something like that that you enjoy.
This affects that.
This affects all of that.
You are not going to get the same type of feeling, a human raw motion.
It is literally impossible for AI to do that.
Yeah.
Literally.
It's not in the programming.
No.
No.
It's not.
And you touched on something, James,
that is, I think, the bigger issue here is where this program was trained on.
And this is something that's going on.
Okay.
Right now, we have a lot of things that our Congress,
our politicians, could be looking into and trying to do things,
trying to make things better.
This is a great example.
Okay.
Right now, the big AI companies open AI mostly, maybe anthropic a little bit.
They are just throwing stuff out there.
Right now, they have, they don't care where the training is coming from.
They don't care who they steal from.
Yes, stealing from because there's no laws.
There's nothing out there right now to take care of this.
This needs to be addressed.
And it needs to be addressed now.
Yeah.
We need to get ahead of this stuff.
Otherwise, we're going to keep seeing things like this.
Do I have a lot of confidence that's going to happen?
No.
Well, and unfortunately, I understand I'm yelling at a brick wall.
People don't care about actors and writers and these things.
Do you think it'll end there?
Do you think it'll stop?
No, not at all.
No.
We've got artists.
We've got directors who are jumping in on the AI thing.
They're an off ski.
Yep.
It's like, what are you?
Dude, seriously, what are you doing?
When it comes to that, the other part of this too is there's thousands and thousands
of writers and actors and people out there trying to get into the industry, trying to get a
break.
So an AI actor gets a break before them.
An AI gets a break before people that are dedicated and work so hard at this.
Again, I understand that not a lot of people care about this.
You will.
You will eventually, if you don't now.
It's time.
We got to cut this things off at the past.
They have been very clear about this.
They want to replace workers with every industry, every industry.
They don't care about you anymore than not at all.
Most of the people walking around with a Senator or Congress in front of their name.
As far as the shutdown goes, I have to get this out there real quick.
As far as the shutdown goes, if you are a politician with an R or a D in front of your name, I don't
care.
If when people, a reporter asks you about the shutdown, if the first words are your
month, mouth are, well, the other party this or the other party that I'm done, I don't
listen to you and I'm not alone.
The majority of people I'm hearing from and talking to that are on both sides of the
aisle of the way they vote themselves feel the exact same way.
You are a whining baby.
You all you wanted, but they, but they did this, but they did get out of here.
You don't belong in politics.
After a child, go find some other industry to work in and quit ruining our country.
Get out of here.
No government should ever shut down.
Do you understand what that means?
I know we've normalized a lot of this stuff, but these people that are in office right now,
almost none of them deserve to be.
Every single one of them have to have some accountability for this.
Every single one of them, they shut down.
We didn't.
Our country is still moving.
Meanwhile they're sitting there.
How much are they suffering?
Are there paychecks not going to come?
Are there benefits not going to come?
Darn it.
They don't got to worry about any of that.
I am so tired of politics and politicians making decisions for us that doesn't affect
them.
They are not suffering.
They are not hurting at all, let alone like we are.
And meanwhile, they just get to sit there and win it when they're pressed for ask in
there.
There's a good question being asked of them.
How do they answer?
Well, but the other side, the other side won't play.
They won't do this.
I'm so sick and tired of the easy go to low-hanging fruit of, well, I'm not going to actually answer
the question.
I'm just going to blame the other side.
Dude, is anybody else tired of this?
This has been going on forever.
Our whole lifetime.
Yeah.
And we've been seeing it.
Congress's approval polls are the lowest they've ever been.
The ever been and this is only going to make it worse and people are going to stop
caring at all.
So when the takeover comes, I guess we're just going to say, huh, whatever.
The current president has an approval rating that is the lowest of all time.
The only lower one is when he was looked first in office.
And it's not just him, Senate, Congress, all of the above, the lowest approval ratings
of all time ever since we've been doing this.
It tells you something and you should be paying attention to it and demanding more.
And please remember this when election season comes around.
Yes.
And every one of these people, they come out with their attack ads, point in their finger
at the other person, but not telling you a darn thing about themselves.
In the scenes in Titanic, there's a scene in Titanic.
Okay.
Lean out of the Capitol and Kate wins it.
We're not proud of, did not won in the movie.
There's this one scene in particular where Leo teaches Kate how to spit like a man.
So I don't even remember that.
I honestly, as I've mentioned many times, I've never seen Titanic.
I've never seen it.
I know how it ends.
I've never been of, you know, an interest to me.
James Cameron wrote that scene and he stood by it, even though Kate, Leo and the producers,
even the studio bosses wanted it cut.
But it's James Cameron and they always think he knows what's best.
Oh, yeah.
Are you kidding me?
With everyone against him, he's going to hold on to that dear life, you kidding me?
Of course it stayed in the movie and Cameron has always been happy to point out how right
he was about it, but, but a lot of people, according to who, oh wait, the only opinion
that matters.
He's the only person that feels this way about it, but he, hey, I guess, you know, I'm
doing your thing, man.
So that's an actual scene in the movie.
Like that's honestly, I don't remember.
I've seen it.
It's been a long, long time.
I don't remember that scene at all.
Maybe I've blocked it out.
It's like, what is this stupid scene?
What is this?
It just tells you a lot about not only James Cameron, the person, but working with James Cameron.
Oh, goodness gracious.
And not an easy bit.
No, I do not want to be in a movie with James Cameron.
I really wouldn't.
No, 50 worth.
Hey, you can have your big break, but it's in a movie with James Cameron directing.
I don't know, man.
Maybe if it's a smaller part that you don't have to be around him very much, that would
be something.
Yeah.
Clue, the wonderful famous board game and the on app, or the app game, Wordal, are now
the source of inspiration for two upcoming shows.
Huh?
Netflix is creating a competition series based on the board game, Clue.
Not much else is known except players will go through physical and mental challenges
to earn clues.
The classic characters from the game like Colonel Mustard, Professor Plum, and Miss Scarlett
will be represented, but it's not clear how there will be also be red herrings to confuse
players as well.
Okay.
One of my top three favorite board games of all time.
I love the game.
Clue is a lot of fun.
I'll play Clue at any moment anytime.
I get a chance.
I love that game.
There is currently, there is a remake being done, a movie of Clue being done that sounds
pretty good.
Jason Bateman's in it and stuff is the last I heard it was being filmed currently.
So I'm excited about that.
And Clue is about to celebrate its 40th anniversary.
I'm sorry, the movie adaptation, Clue, it's about to celebrate its 40th anniversary.
So that's part of the reason for this, that makes sense.
You know, when it comes to game shows, I have no, like, you know, floor ceiling or expectation.
Like go ahead and try it.
We've seen shows that I would never think work do incredibly well as game shows.
Yes.
You're not wrong.
All bets are off when it comes to game shows.
Throw it at the wall, see if it sticks, you know?
I mean, you know, watch some Japanese game shows once a while.
This is how crazy they can get, yeah.
It's, and it does go back to your IP conversation, though, of owning IP of things and how
much, how valuable that is in today's entertainment, yeah.
And NBC has a game show based on the popular New York Times puzzle, Wordl in the works.
Jimmy Fallon is the executive producer and it looks like Savannah Guthrie from the today's
show is set to host.
So they've already got a host and producers and all that.
That one makes sense, though.
I mean, I can see how you can turn Wordl into a game show very easily.
Yeah.
I'm surprised it hasn't happened already.
That's more surprising to me than anything.
Right.
Exactly.
If you've never played Wordl before, you basically get six tries to guess a five-letter
word.
Okay.
There you go.
I actually have not played Wordl.
I don't think I have either.
I don't remember ever doing that.
It seems like a game I would play, though.
That's why I'm a little surprised.
It does seem like.
I did the, what was it, the one that was popular for a while?
You were playing with friends.
Words with friends?
Yeah, it was.
Words with friends?
Yeah.
I couldn't remember the name of it, but I said basically every word in it, leading up
to it.
Good marketing.
It's the game where you do words with friends.
I should not be allowed out there.
I just shouldn't.
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We'll come back and have some more fun on the morning show at WFHR.
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Morning show at WFHR, locally grown radio.
Seth and James hanging out with you, thanks so much for hanging out with us.
Got some great stuff on the way for you after our break here coming up.
We're going to get into drive-thrues and how much AI helped drive-thrues.
I'll get into that one a little bit.
I'm going to touch on that.
Are you someone who makes a decision and that's that or do you spend a lot of time agonizing
over what you're going to do and then you just kind of like finally end up doing something?
A new survey has found that one in eight Americans are overthinkers.
Okay.
And the average person, second guess is 41% of their daily decisions.
41%.
Wow.
Think about how much that might slow you down or add to your day.
Right.
How much added time you're putting on your brain or your day.
And get this.
The survey found that the average person makes about 50 decisions in a day, which is roughly
1.5 million choices made in a lifetime.
Wow.
That's a lot.
Still, 27% of people admit that they are regularly stressed over simple decisions that
stuff like anxiety at the supermarket over what to buy, what to wear sometimes, some
of those things.
The average person spends four minutes deliberating each item at the grocery store.
Really?
Wow.
Four minutes.
Wow.
And that can double if you're a couple.
Oh, yeah.
Because then you got to discuss each decision.
Now, there's always the chance you agree, right?
And then you just go ahead with any of you don't.
Oh, no.
Now, I think of my mom who is one of those people who is a notorious list person and this
is supposed to save time.
But I don't know how much time that saves.
I wonder because you have on your list peanut butter, but you get there and well, this peanut
butter is on sale, but the kids like this peanut butter in it.
So there you are.
We know.
You know what?
You spend time making decisions and stuff.
So this is something I don't know that it's one of those things that I don't know that
well, this is a horrible thing and we got to fix it.
I don't know if it's so much that.
And I will journalistically admit, I am one of the most notorious overthinkers in the
universe.
Right.
And bad at this and one of the things that I am bad at though is not what this, so where
this survey goes, the survey goes and they're focusing a lot on simple decisions and overthinking
those.
Right.
I don't tend to do it with simple decisions.
I tend to do it with, you know, key things in my life or certain things.
Right.
The overthinking is really just all in that.
The simple decisions, it's almost like my brain is already made up the choice and I'm doing
it.
Yeah.
And that's another part of overthinking where you're not necessarily maybe putting the
thoughts.
It's a thought process into simple tasks and you're just doing them.
You see this in sports all the time where you've seen a wide receiver catch a billion
passes, but he's looking ahead and he doesn't make the, you know, the last step to let
it hold that all in.
Right.
We have had this happen all the time in our lives where you've got to pair a keys in
your hand about to put into a car or something and you drop them.
Yeah.
Because your brain is not, your brain is an autopilot.
It's done this a billion times.
It knows how to do this.
Right.
But it doesn't.
And that's, you know, that's one of the fascinating things about, about the brain and
the development.
You know, we were talking about the intelligent stuff, you know, that study we were talking
about a little bit earlier and which is really cool.
But at the same time, I mean, the idea that, you know, you make so many, and I, boy, I don't
even know if you call them decisions, because you just do it, right?
Yeah.
And is there even a decision involved?
I guess technically there is.
But it's because of everything that's gone on before, everything, you know, you
just experienced your genetic, whatever, you know, all that stuff comes into play.
Every time you make one of these decisions, right?
Yeah.
It's all based on something that came before.
So I mean, it's fascinating, I think.
And it's something that the majority, like again, the majority of people struggle with
and deal with.
Right.
It's something, and again, this isn't something that I think that is one of those ones
where, okay, again, we have to do something about this, all hands on deck.
Right.
I think it's more about understanding our brains a little bit better.
Yeah.
Exactly.
Earlier, when I went on my tangent about age and all that stuff, about the politics and
all those things, the overall point there is to understand ourselves a little bit more.
Right.
And not so much our limitations, but what we are scientifically, genetically, you know,
able to do and unable to do and working with that.
Right.
And the fact, I mean, and this is all understanding that everyone's different, of course.
And it happens at different times and some people's brains work differently, and maybe
they can, into their 90s, you know, are like really sharpened and can do all that kind
of stuff.
You know, of course, that's going to happen too.
But the idea of, you know, looking at, you know, being self-aware, that's a great point
because if you can diagnose yourself in some of these things, like, whoa, I just did
something that's like very out of character or something, you know, was like, whoa, why?
Why did, you know, something to think about, something to check, you know, maybe you're
thinking, you know, what's going on, kind of thing.
Maybe that's not a bad thing, you know?
If you're more self-aware, I think that's a good thing.
We, we talk about this with dementia, Alzheimer's from time to time.
It was something that came up in Ongold and Pond.
Norman has some moments there where he's saying some stuff that is a little anti-Semitic,
a little racist, but Norman is not necessarily that.
It's something that happened to his brain, something that happens to people and stuff.
It's right.
It's understanding these things so we can understand them about ourselves as well as much as
each other.
Yeah.
Exactly.
Again, something that we're also all doing together, we're all trying to fix the boat
while it's on the water here.
Yeah.
Right.
There's no real pausing.
Lay it down track in front of the train.
And I, I think that hopefully with that create some empathy and some understanding.
And that's, I mean, and honestly, that's, that's where we need to go with this.
We really do.
We have to understand that we don't understand.
We have to understand.
We don't know the whole story.
So having a little empathy for our, you know, our, our, each other as well as ourselves,
never heard anybody.
Nope.
There, there's no downside to that.
The golden rule, right?
Some lanes of a highway in Illinois, Franklin County were closed while crews worked to clean
up the mess left by a semi truck that overturned and spilled loads of applesauce.
Apple sauce.
Illinois State Police said the single vehicle crash happened at 448 AM Monday in the
northbound interstate 57.
Everybody is okay.
Nobody was hurt.
That's good.
No injuries reported, except for the applesauce.
Uh, uh, Mount Vernon based, uh, Rick's towing was summoned to the scene to assist with
the cleanup.
The business said that about 46,000 pounds of applesauce spilled over onto the roadway,
the equivalent of 184,000, four ounce applesauce containers.
Wow.
That's a lot of applesauce.
We've done a number of these stories and we've done more of them in recent years.
Just no worthy there with the driving conversation we had earlier, see that.
Um, of all the things we've ever said, I don't know of anything that I could think
of that feels like a bigger pain to clean up when I spilled applesauce on the kitchen
counter.
It could be a little bit like, oh, right, I can't imagine on a dirt floor, on a road.
I mean, wow, I just get the hose, man, just get the whole house slippery that is, man.
Apple sauce is super slippery.
It really is.
Yeah.
Oh, man.
That's what you got to clean up faster.
People are going to be like crashing.
You don't want that.
I want to send a shout out to Rick's towing.
Yeah.
Good job on you, Rick.
Rick's towing, man.
Rick and his team over there.
Nice work because you see the video of this stuff and he's like, my name's Bob Rick is
a guy who owned it before me.
I just didn't change the name.
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Yes.
Congrats to American fast food chains.
Those annoying AI bots you added to the drive-thru are really crushing it.
In-touch insight released its annual, I was being sarcastic.
Yes.
Insight, I didn't think I'd lay it on.
I'm thinking on it.
You need to have maybe a little bit more.
In-touch insight released its annual drive-thru study.
And despite AI's quote-unquote help, America's drive-thru got a little slower this year.
The average is now 5 minutes and 35 seconds.
That is up 10 seconds from the previous year.
Of the fast food places they looked at, Taco Bell was the fastest set 416, KFC next,
then Tim Hortons and Arby's.
Chick-fil-A had the slowest drive-thru time at 7 minutes and 6 seconds.
Not only because of longer lines, they actually ranked first if you look at total number of
cars in line.
They also ranked at first in friendliness and overall satisfaction.
Wow.
How about that?
That's cool.
I've never been to a Chick-fil-A.
You're right.
I've had opportunities.
I just never have gotten there.
Yeah.
I had a chance.
I could have gone to one.
It was that or a Wattaburger.
And I never been to a Wattaburger.
I mean, I'm sorry.
I had the choice.
I had totally with you.
100 Wattaburger.
Yeah.
So glad I did.
Yeah.
Amazing burger.
Great name to Wattaburger, that's a great name.
So not counting coffee chains, Burger King and Wendy's ranked first in accuracy, getting
88% of orders right.
Wow.
Nice.
The overall average was 87%, so pretty impressive by all fast food chains.
Yeah, there you go.
87% clip that they're doing.
Very cool.
Very cool.
The most common complaints were, I said no ice.
That's the most common complaint fast food places.
Really?
Is I said no ice and still getting ice?
I guess maybe they're just so used to putting the ice in there, maybe I don't know.
And then you introduce AI, and that changes a lot of this.
Yes, it does.
The most common complaints to the drag on time and so many of these other things.
Drive-throughs with AI only got 83% of orders right.
People also had to repeat their orders for up to three times for the AI to get it right.
83% is terrible.
That's terrible.
Awful.
If you were a human being and you got your orders wrong, you're fired, man.
You're gone.
Whatever you're doing out there, if you're doing it at an 83% clip, you're not going to be
doing it for long.
No, you're not.
No, sorry.
You're not going to be at that for very long.
It's something that while we're talking about, you know, the fears of AI and blah, blah,
blah and all these things, it's important to know when we can, I believe, how much better
human beings are at something than AI is.
Then basically everything, I mean, you can pick and choose a couple of things out there
that AI is actually, there are some industries where it is kind of starting to take over
translation is one of the big ones.
So there's that.
And again, it's not doing a great job.
It's still making lots of mistakes, that kind of thing.
But looking at all this other things, it can't.
It literally cannot replace people.
It's not the way we have things structured.
You cannot do it.
And I am sorry.
We do not need to restructure our lives in order to make room for AI.
Yeah.
Sorry.
No, I'm not going to do it.
I don't know if, when this is going to slow down or stop or anything, the bubble will
be bursting at some point.
It's going to happen at some point.
It's going to happen at some point.
And it's going to happen very soon.
There's no way that they're getting the turnaround that they were hoping for.
And I mean, by they, every company that is using AI or pushing AI on us, there's no
way they're seeing the numbers that they wanted to from this or the reception that they
wanted to from this.
Yeah.
Exactly.
The amount of complaints that Google alone is getting for cramming their AI, Gemini.
I don't want your Gemini.
I have no interest in it.
It doesn't help me one bit.
Quit forcing on on us.
And quit making it so hard to turn these things off.
Yeah.
That's the other thing too.
Good luck figuring out that.
Yeah.
Obviously.
Got an hour to spend.
Yeah.
I know why they do it that way.
Of course.
Of course.
And everything gets difficult.
Yeah.
But it doesn't, it doesn't mean that it's in that much, it's only more annoying because of
that.
Yeah.
I'm curious to see where this ends, because yeah, it's going to be interesting.
I'll tell you that.
There are, there are positives to it.
And we are not able to put any time or focus on that because of all of the horribleness
of it.
All the bad parts of it.
And because, and all these, these, these ridiculous claims that they're making about these
things that are patent lies.
I mean, seriously, some of this stuff they're saying, it's just lies.
Yeah.
That's all it is.
Yeah.
Because it's kind of a sinking ship at this point.
I mean, that's, that's where the way it's starting to go.
Maybe AI could do busy work.
Maybe that's what we could, we just give it something to do.
The, the stuff that we don't want to do for it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's what it's supposed to be, right?
Yeah.
That's right.
Yeah.
It's not the other way around.
Another kind of piggybacking off of that last one into this next one, and you can find
it study, studyfinds.com, studyfinds.com.
According to your report, American office workers estimate it, estimate that 51% of their
day goes to busy work.
Like reading and writing emails, data entry, searching for files, and, you know, pulling
teeth to get materials needed for your tasks.
Right.
Right.
Right.
There's also calendars, meetings, reports, meetings, troubleshooting aging, aging
technology, meetings, and filling out forms like time sheets and expense reports.
Yep.
It isn't just boring and annoying, 85%, 85% of workers say repetitive tasks, trigger
stress about four times per week, and are a top driver of burnout.
Boy, boy, if that doesn't actually make a lot of sense, seriously, because all of this
stuff is pushing out the priorities you should be focusing on.
That's what your actual job is doing.
And if you have to spend so much time on this other stuff, yeah, it's going to create
a lot of anxiety because you got to get it done, but you also got to get this done.
Ah, right.
Kind of saying, right?
Unfortunately, meetings themselves probably won't be eliminated by AI, but there could
be solutions to some of the other things on our wish list.
25% of us want better data management, and 19% want help dealing with emails.
Another 18% say automated form filling would help, and 17% want better ways to organize
files, and it's possible AI could help with that.
That's right.
Absolutely could help with that.
Those are the simple kind of tasks that AI is actually pretty decent at, so.
You know, you're not going to, a tractor is not going to work as a zamboni.
You're going to break the ice.
You're not going to be able to play River King's hockey.
That's a horrible idea.
We use tools and we use things in the right places and the right way.
Yeah, it's exactly.
You put a zamboni on there.
It's milk to do that.
It does.
It does job, right?
You put AI where it's meant to, and we're not having any of these conversations.
We're not worrying about it.
We're not bothering with it or anything.
It is so much the human element of this, and this idea of the powers that be in people
in powerful positions wanting to save a buck or two.
Everything comes back to money.
It all does.
An AI is no different.
AI is them.
You may see AI.
You may hear AI, but what you should really be hearing is the kaching sound, because that's
what's going on here is just another way for them to kind of cut corners and everything,
and it's lazy.
It's not being a good manager.
It's not being a good CEO.
That's not a true way of cutting costs.
Not only because we've seen from the data that it doesn't actually work, and not only
because it's putting other good people out of work, which isn't your job as a CEO.
No.
But your business is falling apart because of it.
We're not seeing any businesses flourishing because of AI.
You're not seeing those articles.
You're not hearing about that.
Someone's got to correct all the mistakes, and it's not AI correcting AI mistakes.
The human's doing all of that, which is just more work and more time that you're wasting.
Again, one of those things that if we bring attention to it, maybe we can cut it off
at the past, there's the hope of that, but we need to remember who's really at fault
here.
It is human beings.
We're still the only ones we could blame for our stuff.
We're still the ones.
I'm sure that it seems very tempting to have people want somebody to blame.
Something goes wrong.
It's a natural feeling that you have, right?
It is human instinct.
I completely blame game, but sometimes there are no villains.
Sometimes there are no heroes.
It's just people being people, and that's what you're got going on here.
You've got a lot of that, and you've got a lot of people that are trying to save a book
or two.
And then you've got animals, just crashing parties.
Hey, whether it's deer jumping into department stores or buildings or anything or how many
bear stories we've had lately about, I know, bears breaking and animals.
Animals don't worry about AI.
I'm telling you right now.
You're not worried about it.
The animal kingdom's got AI down, and then they're not even worrying about it.
Police in Florida relocated an alligator that was, quote, apparently looking to crash happy
hour at a teaky bar in Stewart.
The Stewart Police Department said on social media that officers responded to call on Monday
of a local, at a local teaky bar with an unexpected guest.
And no, it wasn't a rowdy tourist trying to dodge a tab.
It was an alligator.
Oh, man.
The whole alligator, the alligator was safely apprehended with no injuries to humans or reptile.
Quote, the party-seeking reptile has since been relocated to a more suitable venue where
the only cocktails are in the swamp and the sun never sets unhappy hour.
Said about in the police, the Stewart Police Department's social media account.
Very good.
Very good.
Well done.
I like these stories just because they're funny and fun, and they show a little bit of
the animal kingdom breaking into ours.
Yes, that's right.
But it is still-
Still share the planet.
It's all about these police departments, and they're mastering of the social media stuff.
It's so good.
It's fantastic.
Well done.
Well done by them.
Have we heard of anything where AI involved in law enforcement?
Have you heard anything about that?
It's a bit rhetorical, but-
Right.
As long as we're talking about it and everything, I think that's another one where keep your
eye.
No, no, no.
Very much keep your eye open for that one.
Yes.
We'll take a quick time out.
We'll come back and wrap up the morning show for this Wednesday.
I don't want to-
I'm darn it.
I knew I was going to do that.
I nightnope.
No, it's not that one.
Which one is-
Oh, yeah.
90s.
On WFHR.
Welcome back, everyone.
Morning show here at 97-5 FM 13-20 AM WFHR, locally grown radio.
Well, Seth and James hanging out with you, thanks so much for hanging out with us.
Got some good stories of the day.
We're going to get to in a moment.
Some great things going on in their community we want to touch on, but first I want to let
you know what our schedule is looking like and it is looking good, everybody.
We got a great rapid support lined up for you today.
Be sure to join us for that.
You can catch the rapid support at WFHR.com.
It's streaming right over there for you wherever you get your podcasts.
Today we're talking to our friends, family, really family, natural food.
Stephen and Katrina Hentner will be in with us.
Looking forward to that.
That's going to be fun.
Right.
And our other conversation will be with our good friend Dawn, the Recreation Supervisor
over at the Wisconsin Rapids Parks and Recs Department.
Excellent.
Talked to Dawn in a while.
That's going to be great.
That's a great update for that one, yeah.
Getting you up to date on our parks and rec department and of course all the great things
going on over there.
We're camping and different stuff throughout the winter fall winter months.
Winter sports stuff, yeah.
And of course we've got playmakers on 105-5WRI brought to you by Quality Plus Printing.
We're going to miss from 4-5 every Monday, Wednesday, Friday.
We're going to speak sport.
Michael Cormor going to be with us today.
Michael and I are going to not only talk a little River Kings, but talk the NFL schedule
getting into that baseball playoffs going on.
Yeah.
I've got a lot to talk about.
Looking forward to that.
Join us every Monday, Wednesday, Friday from 4-5 on playmakers and call in with your sports
takes and feelings we want to hear from you, everybody.
Yes, indeed.
7-0-5 right here at WFHR, we'll have Luke Fickle show.
He's got some explain in the do.
Yeah, he's got some explain in the do.
I want to hear from him.
I want to know what he's got to say and how things, I will say this, things have been better.
They're just not where they need to be right now in Wisconsin football.
Yeah, exactly.
And it's got some other great things going on in the area here we want to touch about.
Like today is a Wednesday, we know what that means.
Bingo.
Bingo.
Yes, bingo.
Bingo at the Wisconsin Rapids, Elks Lodge, number 693.
Join them with Zerdor's Open F-5, bingo kicks off at 630 at 430 WX Jackson Street right
here in Wisconsin Rapids.
By local support, local support, our Elks Lodge has some fun with bingo tonight kicking
off at 5 o'clock over at the Wisconsin Rapids Elks Lodge.
And we've got Susical, the musical happening with the playhouse theater group.
Yeah.
This is Susical, Jr. based on the works of Dr. Sus.
It's going to be a really fun show.
It's going on tomorrow.
It kicks off and then they'll have a show on the 10th at 7 o'clock, October 11th, 1 and
7 o'clock shows.
This is going to take place at the Spash Theater in Stevens Point.
You can get your tickets and find out more at playhousepresents.com, playhousepresents.com.
Break a leg.
Have a great run, you guys.
Yeah, great show.
Sounds like a lot of fun.
It really does.
That is going to be a good one.
Also one of the mention this, the Wisconsin Rapids Family Center is inviting you to their
annual Domestic Violence Awareness Visual.
These join us to honor those who tragically lost their life due to domestic violence
related homicides in Wisconsin.
We will be celebrating those that support survivors and work to make change in our community.
The theme for 2025, everyone knows someone, reminds us to work together to learn about
the causes and impacts of domestic violence in our community.
So we can recognize warning signs and empower those affected by domestic violence.
This will take place October 23rd, Thursday, October 23rd, over at McMillan's Auditorium
at 6 o'clock.
If you are able to be a part of it or not, you can be a part of things by celebrating
and wearing purple or having purple around.
Maybe I see a lot of people with their changing their lights.
Purple lights?
Yeah, having purple lights.
It's a great way to do that.
A big shout out to our Mayor Matt Zacker with the proclamation in the city bridge glowing
purple.
That's cool.
Are you homes and businesses out there being on the right side of history?
We appreciate you.
And again, the candle light vigil will take place Thursday, October 23rd, 6 o'clock at
McMillan.
Together we can shine a light for survivors and stay united against abuse.
Of course, keep in mind our friends at the Family Center have your back.
Familyctr.org is where you can go if you want to find out more information.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
Hey, guess what?
It's here, everyone.
Tomorrow morning, 8.30, right and early, the community book sale.
Yeah.
Starting over at the Moravian Church 310, 1st Avenue South, goes from 8.30 to 6 on Thursday
and on Friday.
And then the $2 bag sale is on Saturday from 8.30 to 1 p.m.
Those can be free baked goods and coffee while you browse.
Of course, most books are only $1.
And of course, all profits go to mid-state technical college scholarships.
I know a lot of people look forward to this every year as we do as well.
It's a lot of fun.
And I hope to see you there, everyone, starting tomorrow morning at 8.30.
Big thank you to everybody who donated books throughout the year and a special thank you
to the volunteers and everybody over there working so hard to set things up.
Get everything organized.
It is going.
Really nice one.
My mom will meet you there.
Yeah, that's awesome.
Glad to hear that, everything, everyone.
Coming up on Saturday, excuse me, the Wisconsin Rapids community theaters having their
golden anniversary variety show.
This is a bunch of people from the community getting together, doing all kinds of different
acts.
We've got monologues, we've got drama, we got music, we got all kinds of good stuff.
Some improv.
Some improv.
Ooh, even better.
Fun stuff.
It all starts at 2 o'clock on Saturday on this coming 11th.
And afterwards, there's going to be a light order of reception as well to celebrate
the 50th anniversary of Wisconsin Rapids community theater.
So go and have some fun, everyone.
It's going to be, it's going to be very enjoyable.
We know this community.
Oh, yeah.
You know all the hams that are here.
Yeah, we're ready.
That's going to be a lot of fun.
Go to wrctheter.org to get your tickets and find out more.
Absolutely.
We got some more things coming up here too.
And we're going to start talking about some of those events that we want you to tell
us about, non-proven Halloween events coming up.
So there is a trick or treating event happening in downtown Stevens Point.
That's going to be Saturday the 25th from 3 to 5 p.m.
It's free.
Bring your friends and family to explore downtown.
This is in the downtown area.
And then there's going to be a trunker treat and plover on Halloween on the 31st at 5 o'clock
hosted by the Boys and Girls Club of Portage County.
And that's going to be at 2401 Cedar Drive in a plover.
And like James has mentioned a couple times, get us those events, everyone.
We want to talk.
We want to broadcast them out to as many people as we can.
We want to celebrate your great day with your great recipe with all of our communities.
Yeah, that's going to get those to us and great stuff going on in the area.
We're talking more about these things and plenty more for you on tomorrow's show.
We'll get into a bunch.
And want to remind everybody that elderly and disabled residents who wish to have their
yards raked by day of caring volunteers must register with United Way by October 10th.
So you have 4 o'clock, October 10th, the last opportunity you will have to register
your lawn.
And then of course we need volunteers.
We need people to help rake.
Yes.
We've seen volunteer numbers go down with our nonprofits.
Let's raise those up.
There's something AI can't do.
That's right.
There's something we need volunteers in all hands on deck.
Whenever you're hearing about volunteer opportunities in your community, taking a moment, taking
an hour out of your day to be a part of it, you're adding into the betterment of your
community.
And man, there is nothing that feels as good as that.
There's no words for how good it feels.
That's right.
I'm part of a team and we are excited.
We're ready to go.
So one of my favorite things to do every year is getting so much fun.
Love driving around town, seeing all those same colored shirts this year, Terry broke the
news to us.
They're green.
Green shirts this year.
You can get those, get that shirt and register.
You can register a yard or be a volunteer by calling the United Way at 715-421-0390-42030390,
call between 830 and 4 Monday through Friday.
Or of course go to their website, www.wac.org.
Be sure to get on over there.
The day of caring is in the Wisconsin Rapids area is October 25th.
Make plans for it, everybody.
It's going to be a big day, big fun day, look forward to it.
A woman in Missouri was sick in bed for a week, but she's feeling much better now.
She finally decided to go out of the house, stopped at a gas station for a soda and a lottery
ticket and won a hundred grand.
That'll back you feel better.
I got to think, so I remember being as sick when I was a kid and I was staying home and
I was doing laundry and I'm sick as a dog.
And I think I like found out, I don't remember if it was a $5 or $10 bill in my pants right
before I threw it in the wash.
And I could still remember how great I felt.
Free money.
Free money.
I can't imagine how she felt.
Time's a billion.
That's got to feel.
Pulling in your pocket and pulling out $100,000.
Woo!
Can't even.
There's certain numbers of money that I hear and I'm like, I wouldn't even know where
to begin.
Seriously.
I wouldn't know where to begin.
Yeah, honestly.
A guy in Australia posted some cute photos after his golden retriever made an unlikely
friend.
He heard his dog barking so he went outside to see what was going on and found a baby
koala climbing to his golden retriever's back.
Oh my gosh!
On his back.
The dog didn't seem to mind but he carefully plucked the koala off and put it back in a tree
with its mom.
Oh.
How cute.
As somebody who my biggest palette cleanser is seeing animal weird animal combinations
that came across this story, and I was just so happy.
That's so cool.
You got to see the photos, everybody.
It's cool.
That's great.
As I enjoy this, and as much as I think it's a fun, great story that I encourage you
to look up, this dog does not necessarily look like the dog just kind of like, is there
something I'm like, you know what it's like?
Do I get something on me?
Do I get something on my back?
Yeah, too.
You tell me, right?
If I had something back there, right?
Sure.
Because I feel like there's something back there.
I feel like.
It's a very small koala, by the way.
It's a very small.
I can understand.
The koala looks like it's having a great time.
Yes, right?
The koala is having the time of its young life.
It's a thrill-seeker.
It's a thrill-seeking koala.
That koala is going to be in the news.
I just know it.
It's going to be in the news doing some kind of crazy parkour or some way you know it, you
know it.
Koala parkour.
Great show today, so be good to each other out there.
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