Money Gobbling Turkey (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.

Time for the morning show here at 97.5 FM 13.20 AM WFHR locally grown radio.

Got your host James here joined by our head producer round these parts at WFHR.

I hope you all have a great start to the morning. They're joining us to the best listeners in radio.

We got some great stuff lined up for everybody. Is there a turkey shortage?

We will discuss. Got to get into that. We will get into that one.

We've also got the top 10 Halloween activities. We'll take part in this month.

Thank goodness. That should be a fun one. I will be able to figure out something to do with myself.

I'm just going to take all this list. We're going to plan.

Check them all out. We also got, of course, the Elcafe birthday anniversary club looking forward to doing some celebrating with you all.

After that, we will get into some entertainment news in the 10 o'clock hour.

We're going to talk a little stranger things, little scrawny weaver. Cool.

And I had the best which movies of all time. Yes.

That is lined up. That I came across this morning. That was not like planned.

Good fine. We'll get into some other fun stuff. I got a good study that I wanted to get into.

I actually did. I wanted to do last week, but I wanted to do some homework over the weekend.

Sure. A study that found eating vegetables could genuinely make you happier.

All right. I am doing this to earn points with my mother.

Winner, are you going to eat the vegetables? Moving on.

We've also got some other fun stories. Get into our schedule. Got some great events going on in our area.

We want to talk about as far as Halloween and some other great stuff as well.

But speaking of good friends of ours, Laura, I want to send a shout out to our good friend Pat.

Yeah. And the gang it up north news. Sure.

Do some great work. Encourage you to sign up for their newsletter up north news.

You can go there up north news.com to find out more up north north news.

WI dot com to sign up for the newsletter and more. That's the one.

We appreciate Pat was fun hanging out with him when they were here.

Yeah, it was really cool that he stopped by for that. It was really, really cool.

I love history. I like learning about things and I particularly love the closer to I'll admit.

The closer to me, the more I get interested. Like a lot of us.

I suppose. So when it comes to Wisconsin stories or history, I'm all in.

I'm locked in and everything. Yeah. You've got to find an avenue that relates you to it.

I get that. And this is a safe place. Right. We're all friends here.

We're all this is safe. You can admit things. Yeah.

Not going to make fun of me too much for it. I mean, please go ahead and make fun of me.

Yeah, we got a little let's content. You got to take advantage of it.

So I was this year's old today's years old when I found out that

Plymouth, Wisconsin is considered the cheese capital of the world.

Not just Wisconsin, but of the world. Now I didn't know it was even the capital of Wisconsin.

But it is considered the cheese capital of the world.

And I learned that from up in our news. I did not know that.

And now he knows it feels like something that a lot of Wisconsinites already knew.

I just I'm very late to this party.

Yeah.

I'm trying to be nice and I appreciate that. But please, it's understandable that I know.

No, it's not like Plymouth is a huge town.

And it's not like you like if you're not heading there, you didn't go there.

And plus there's a million thousand really great cheese shops across the state.

And maybe they're selling cheese from Plymouth, but like, okay.

I'm getting it from my local cheese shop. I get why you don't know.

According to cheese counter, Plymouth provides about 14% of the total cheese consumed in the United States.

Fantastic.

14%. That is pretty interesting.

That is a lot. Also home to New Year's Eve cheese drop.

They're annual event over there.

And a wonderful little small town.

I don't know that I've been through Plymouth.

That's what I mean.

I hadn't thought about that part of it until you said it.

But up north news has a great article.

11 things to do in Plymouth, the cheese capital of the world.

Bring it on the world.

Be sure to check that out, everybody.

Sign up for that newsletter.

Get on over there.

Absolutely.

I know I'm signed up.

You can get lunch at the cheese counter and dairy heritage center.

That sounds great.

That sounds really good.

I really feel foolish that I did not not only know that, but that I haven't been to Plymouth.

I got to get over there.

I got to check it out.

You need to take a cheese tour, James.

Now, thankfully, I don't have to fly to get to Plymouth.

No, you don't.

But if you've got to fly somewhere, especially between now and Thanksgiving,

pretty much today is the day to look for those tickets.

If a travel report from Google found that the best prices for Thanksgiving playing tickets

tend to be 35 days before you want to travel.

Okay.

So a little over a month.

Yeah.

So now, if you want to go for the Thanksgiving.

But yes, even in general, if you're just planning an odd day or whatever, 35...

About a month plus a week.

I've always heard a month.

Yeah.

I've always heard a month too, but they're saying, add a week to it?

Sure.

Sure.

Yeah, it can't hurt.

So Thanksgiving is 37 days off, and you're probably not looking to fly on the day itself,

but, you know, all over the wall.

Right.

Maybe.

Either way, now is a good time to start looking if you didn't do it already.

The good news is you can still get a decent price up to 24 days before you fly.

So if you need to wait another week or two, you should be okay.

If you're kind of waiting...

That could be tough.

Yeah.

If you're waiting on plans.

If you're waiting on the other party to get back to you or something like that.

The bad news is those might not be the only tickets you're buying in the next few weeks.

Oh, okay.

The best time to book tickets for Christmas is 51 days out.

Oh, so that one's even, yeah, I suppose.

Oh, yeah.

Busy is traveling day.

Yeah.

Well, and that is what?

That's a month plus two weeks?

Yeah.

So 51 days.

Three weeks, two weeks.

I'd say that.

Yeah.

Hmm.

Yeah.

Have you ever had to travel on a busy holiday, like on a plane on a busy holiday?

Oh, I don't remember exactly what date.

I know when I flew back to Wisconsin from Maryland back when I made that move back.

That was right around Christmas.

And it was crazy busy.

And it was just me and the three girls.

That was an adventure.

And you and my sister traveled from Madison to Florida with her two boys.

Just her and her two boys when they were like four and three.

I don't recommend it.

You guys are warriors.

I do not recommend it.

I can't even take myself flying.

One of them was a newborn.

Danny was incredible.

It was not a great time.

I don't think that I've ever really traveled during a busy time.

But when I moved out to California, I did happen to just worked out this way that I ended up there when they had their avocado festival.

And that was pretty big.

It was pretty crazy.

It was pretty dizzy and everything.

And I had no idea.

I could check out an avocado festival.

Sure.

Will's telling me, like, you sure you don't want to leave a week later or a week before or whatever?

I didn't.

I already had my tickets.

I didn't really think about it or anything.

Yeah, I really was a rough day.

It wasn't that bad.

But if that was difficult for me, I can't imagine Christmas or some of the bigger holidays.

Because it was.

I want to say it was maybe the week before Christmas or something like that.

It was close.

According to the number of articles that I have looked at, the busiest travel days are typically around Thanksgiving and the Sunday after.

Though the all-time record for a single day was set on July 7th, 2024, after the 4th of July holiday.

All right.

And I think that's going to very going forward.

I don't know that it's like I just assumed Christmas.

But I forget Christmas.

A lot of people are staying home.

A lot of people are at least at the very least.

Or going back home, I guess, would be the traveling that's happening.

Like a lot of that during Christmas, but not so much.

Thanksgiving is the one that we will take a plane for.

We do that kind of traveling for.

Sure.

Just in general.

Not obviously.

It's a case by case thing, of course.

November 4th is 51 days from Christmas.

But again, you're probably not trying to fly on Christmas today.

So the time that I, the most people run November 1st is where they're saying if you've got to fly around Christmas.

Okay.

I love traveling.

I love seeing my family.

Sure.

I miss them quite a bit.

I don't get to see nearly enough of my family.

And I'm going to get to this Friday looking forward to it.

Of course, as a program reminder, Seth and Laura are going to be running the show on Friday for you.

Yeah, we are.

So much like the inmate.

I mean, yep.

Here's the thing.

You guys have nothing to rebel against.

The inmates are already running the asylum.

We get to do whatever we want.

I mean, yeah.

It's going to be awesome.

And by that, I mean, it's going to be a perfectly normal show just without James.

Yeah.

Which I think that everybody needs a break for me.

Everybody can use it.

I'm really looking forward to seeing my family and everything and traveling.

But I do notice that as I've gotten older, it's, I don't, I want to travel.

I want to see the world.

I want to get out and about.

But man, I don't want any more fuss than I need to.

Like I, maybe I've always been this way.

But I feel like as a kid or as a, even in a young 20 year old or something.

If somebody said, hey, do you want to go?

Yes.

Like it didn't matter where they were saying or anything like that.

Yeah, down the car ride.

It was a plane.

Let's go.

I'm doing it.

Now it's kind of like, well, right.

I have follow up questions.

Yeah.

I don't know if I like that.

I don't know that that's not one of the things that people warned me about about getting older.

Yeah, that's just maturity, my friend.

I, I guess.

If you are going to travel for a holiday too, here's another part of it that I've been,

and this is actually coming from a number of my younger listeners or younger students.

A couple of listeners probably here or there.

Might, I might agree.

The idea of holidays that you get to do something.

Like you and whether it's you, you're in your core tribe, your core family,

or it's just you.

You get to get away.

Yeah.

There's more people doing that.

Like they're going to spend for Thanksgiving, maybe the there Thanksgiving eve, if you will,

or the day after or whatever.

Sure.

But the day of they end up doing something with their friends or their friends giving like those

things.

That's maybe becoming a bigger thing.

Yeah.

Absolutely.

It's, I think it's interesting.

Just like we've talked about with Halloween, how that's changed so much from what our generation.

It is.

Yeah.

I think it's, to me, maybe I'm just settling here, I don't know.

Okay.

But I think that it's great that we're still doing these things that they've been able

to adapt.

Yeah.

That we're not just like, hey, remember when we used to celebrate that holiday?

Well, because that's the trick, right?

It's adapting with the times.

It's making it still remain relevant enough to be important.

If it matters to you, that's what you're going to want to do.

And so that's what's happening.

I don't know.

I'm sure that all holidays have evolved and changed in some way.

Oh, absolutely.

I don't know when I think about like Christmas as a kid and Christmas now.

I don't know that that one's changed that much.

I think that Christmas is pretty standard.

Yeah, I really don't know how much it's changed for me either.

Yeah, when it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Kind of.

It's kind of, it's worked as itself for quite some time.

Yeah.

So it's doing pretty good.

Do you have to travel this at one of these holidays Thanksgiving, Christmas, anything like that?

Everybody let us know and share your, share with your misery with us if you will.

Or what you enjoy about it.

Maybe you haven't gotten to see family in a long time and you're finally going to get to it.

Well, you know, road trips aren't always bad.

No, no road trips are awesome.

Yeah.

Let us know.

Call up and join the conversation with anything we're talking about.

And certainly your birthdays and anniversaries.

Well, I'll come back with more of that and the LKFA Birthday Anniversary Club.

It's Lauren James on The Morning Show at WFHR.

Yeah, everybody.

Let's have some fun.

Y'all alone, but watch.

And when you're dead, you're done.

Soon after good time roll.

Welcome back, everybody.

The LKFA Birthday Anniversary Club time.

We hope you're having a good start of your day out there.

And we encourage you to celebrate and start your day with our friends at LKFA.

221 Market Avenue in beautiful port Edwards.

Head on over there, everybody.

Buy local support local.

They're open for the week.

They are.

And they got some great specials over there.

They do.

Let me suggest the Easter Omelet, a three egg ham and cheese omelet with potato or fruit

and toast or pancakes at avocado for $2.

Or might I interest you in the ham, steak, and eggs?

Generous slice of hand-cut ham with two eggs, potato or fruit and toast or pancakes.

A.

Hmm.

That sounds really good.

Those are just the two breakfast items on the special.

There are four items on the specials list.

And you can check it out if you had to LKFA today.

My mom, I became popular with my friends because my mom would make chocolate chip pancakes.

And apparently their moms didn't know whatever.

The blueberry pancakes.

Sounds like a real, I would want to try blueberry pancakes.

Sounds really good.

I don't know if I've thought of that before.

Oh, I love blueberry pancakes.

Blueberries, when you put them in a pancake, they kind of pop.

And then you end up with just this little bit of delicious, serpy, blueberry-ness.

Oh, I'm doing that.

I'm doing that.

I'm doing that.

Anyway, head to LKFA and have breakfast for us.

I'm going to toast some pancakes, too.

I'm going to do that, too.

Because I accidentally said toaster pancakes during the break.

Sounds really good.

So does their homemade chili?

They've got some of that over at LKFA.

Check that out as well.

And not only some of the best food you're going to have in the area, everybody,

but they do some of the really fun things.

And on Saturday, October 25th, they got story time with our good friend, Kathy McGrath.

I love Kathy McGrath.

Calling all ghosts, goblins, princesses and toads.

They're going to have some fun with that one.

Be sure to make clinics in over there for that.

Oh, awesome.

Plus, pie.

Yes, pie.

So much pie.

The best pie in the area.

We mentioned pie, Seth.

Pie.

We got points with Seth there.

Pie points.

Get us your birthdays and anniversaries as well.

Everybody, we love to celebrate with you.

Email us info at WFHR.com.

Direct messages on our Facebook pages and call on...

715-424-2600.

If you would like to speak to James and I,

but if you'd prefer to speak with Pam and we can't blame you,

that would be 715-424-1300.

Yeah, do it.

Get us those birthdays and anniversaries.

Taking a look at our list here.

Laura, I need a one or a two.

Two.

All right.

Give us that call.

Five, boom, boom, boom.

And first up, we want to wish you a very happy birthday to Civic Media's own Todd Alba.

Oh, happy birthday, Todd.

We love Todd.

Todd's awesome.

He's come to visit a couple of times for the last two open houses he came.

Plus, another time too, he came with Trig Vielsen from the Lincoln Project.

But yeah, no, we love Todd around here.

He's good people.

Early on with the company of Civic Media,

there were a handful of people and a handful of names that reached out.

And we talked to right away and immediately wanted to build a pipeline,

a connection and everything.

Todd was one of the earlier people to do that.

And he really loves this area, really cares about it.

He really does.

And man, whatever you think of Todd or like or dislike or anything like that,

man, he loves this state.

He has passionate about the people of this state.

And it's one of those things where you hear him on the air and he's exactly the same offer.

He really is the best person.

So be sure to text in during Todd Alba's show from two to four today on WFHR

and wish him a happy birthday.

Yes, please embarrass him, everybody.

Please, please.

You know, I don't know if I'll see or talk to Todd today.

So make sure to do a for us every one please.

And happy birthday, man.

Happy birthday, Todd.

Yeah.

We wish a happy birthday also to Tim Fitz.

Happy birthday, Tim.

Enjoy your day, Tim.

Hope it's a great one for you.

And to our qualifier today, a very happy birthday to Jim Nguyen.

Happy birthday, Jim.

Congratulations.

Enjoy the day, sir.

Got a fine name on you.

Yeah.

Enjoy that day.

It's a strong name.

Have a great day, Jim.

Enjoy it.

And we take a look at our local celebrity.

Let's who do you say they share their birthdays and anniversaries with.

Doja Cat is 30.

That's true.

She is.

Kane Brown is 32.

Oh, okay.

We're talking a little bit about this on the sunrise show.

I thought he was younger for some reason.

I guess 32 is young, but I thought he was even younger than that.

Yeah.

Great singer, songwriter.

Yeah.

You know, one of those.

He's got a couple of records already in his early career.

It's true.

Yeah.

Glenn Powell is 37.

Oh, wow.

What a face on that one, huh?

Yeah.

It's like they molded him for movies.

Yeah, exactly.

Yes.

He's currently Chad Powers.

He's got the new running man remake that's coming out next month.

Yeah.

He was in Top Gun Maverick.

I think the one that I've only seen him in a couple of things.

Mm-hmm.

But I was a little hesitant because we've been so desperate for action stars and leading men.

Yeah.

To the point where we will not let Liam Neeson retire.

Yeah.

It's too bad.

I mean, we like him.

But it's true.

He's got a particular set of skills.

He does.

We just keep using him for them.

Where we're not creating new action stars.

The fact that Glenn Powell is 37, which is kind of old in the action game.

But by now standards, he's not.

He's the yet guy right now.

He's great stuff.

And he's good.

And pretty humble.

Pretty good.

Yeah.

Yeah.

He seems like a decent dude.

I still haven't seen Top Gun Maverick, which Terry is yelling at me for.

Okay.

And I know that he's got some other things, but I saw him in Twisters.

Mm-hmm.

He was good.

Yeah.

I've heard nothing but good things about Twisters.

I liked him.

I liked him in that.

I kind of want to see that running man remake.

I have to admit.

I can't blame you.

I really can't.

He's good.

Let's see.

Kim Kardashian is 45.

Okay.

Well, she's got a new show coming out and everything.

And I really don't like her as an actor.

I'm not a fan by any means.

I don't get the bit.

I really don't.

Same.

Same.

But I think that, especially at her birthday, I think it's fair to say, because we all

would want somebody to do this about us too.

Sure.

She is actually a good attorney.

She's a very good attorney.

She's been doing a very good job, getting people who were unjustly convicted out of prison.

It's incredible.

Yeah.

I mean, you got to give do where it is and really picking up the reins of her father and

a lot of that.

That's really, really neat.

Kim in that way.

I don't think any of us saw this coming.

Right.

And for everything else that it's worth, I mean, yeah, her kids are spoiled because she's rich.

But other than that, she seems to be a pretty decent mom.

Yeah.

I mean, that's worth noting.

Yes.

Yes.

It's a big part of who she is.

I think it's, again, it's the fairest way.

And it's something we don't want us to do, especially on her birthday.

I mean, listen, you can have whatever problems with me.

You'd like, but you can't say I'm a bad mom.

Yeah.

See?

True.

It's very true.

And I'm not going to do it to Kim Kardashian either.

Yeah.

Charlotte Kaffee is 72.

Go Go's.

Cool.

Guitarist.

Yes.

I love her.

And songwriter.

In fact, she is the one, I believe, the single song credit for We Got The Beat.

I think it was just all Charlotte.

I love the Go Go's.

So my mom grew up in SoCal.

And one of the bands that I was raised on and was told, no, no, this is really the cool thing.

This is the, I promise, this isn't pop.

This is the cool thing.

These are the punk kids.

I love the Go Go's.

And I, happy birthday.

They're one of the more groundbreaking bands of, of, of, of, of recent, not just recent, but of generation.

And you know, yeah.

Yeah.

Well, and it wasn't it.

I think it was during, it wasn't during Green Days set at Coachella.

Yes.

They brought them up.

It was such a cool thing.

If you can look it up on the YouTube and watch it, you should.

It's such a cool performance.

It was really good.

And there was a, there's been a rise of them streaming.

Like more and more people are finding their music.

In fact, they had to like put a bunch, like there was some use of their music that wasn't unspodified.

So they put it on there because people were demanding and stuff.

That's cool.

That's cool.

That's cool to see.

Yeah.

I do want to spend, we got to send a shout out to the queen of daytime TV.

Sure.

Oprah was that for quite some time.

Sure.

I don't know, even as popular and as big as Oprah Winfrey was.

Sure.

I don't know if she's as big as this lady is here.

Judge Judy.

Oh, you know what?

Judge Judy shared in his e3 today.

You know what?

I would hear that argument.

I think it's an interesting debate.

Like a who's, like, they're peaked.

Like because it's such a different thing.

But also like, yeah.

Well, for one, she's easily the most high spade person in daytime TV.

And she's spectacular.

And she's spectacular.

Yeah.

Like, I don't know that she has an agent.

Pretty cool lady.

Would you need an agent if you were Judge Judy?

No, she's Judge Judy.

Like, there is only a handful of people, literally a handful of people in this world

that can get me to, like, not make eye contact to look down.

Oh, I'm terrified of Judge Judy.

Like, Grace Jones, like, my mom.

Sure.

Like, there's a couple.

I think Judge Judy's on that list.

Absolutely.

Absolutely.

I could be completely innocent.

And I would probably feel guilty in front of that woman.

Absolutely.

And you would probably be right.

There is the idea.

It's kind of hard to imagine right now, but outside of like the people's court

and a couple of those judge shows, those never, the people's court did well,

but they never really did that good.

Judge Judy's show was so good that they've got like 18 different judge shows now

that are on daytime TV or are playing and everything because of the popularity of her show.

And not for nothing, my dad watches it.

And I'll catch little bits and pieces when I show up or anything.

I don't ever usually get this.

But when she's like digging in on it, like somebody, I'm all in it.

It's a little joy in it.

I'm all in it.

There's a little bit of, yeah.

I don't necessarily like myself for it, but I can't help it.

I do admit that I kind of like what she's digging.

Is she an anti-hero?

Yeah.

Yeah, I think so.

Judge Judy and anti-hero, whatever she is, she's great.

And she's good at it.

And yeah, she is.

I think that you can make the argument.

She's certainly the current what she's doing.

She's certainly the current queen of daytime TV, but she may be the greatest.

Like, I don't know.

It's revolutionary because it wasn't always, these court shows weren't always popular or good.

Oprah, again, not that I'm saying this is top tier, you know, high quality entertainment.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But like, you know, it's daytime TV.

Man for man is 85 blinded by the light.

Do I, Ditty?

Plenty of all the manfred and his earth band, man for man and his earth band played.

And as far as people no longer with us, we put the spotlight on the great, the legend Carrie Fisher.

Born on his day in 1956.

I know Laura, if not your favorite, one of your favorite actors.

She's just one of my favorite people.

She was, so she was well beyond what is reasonably funny.

And I just, I loved her humor.

I loved the way that she looked at the world.

I hated what she had to get through to get to that point, but oh my God.

She was just, I loved Carrie Fisher.

There's a lot of great things that she talked about in her book.

Yeah, great writer, really funny, very loving, a good mom.

Obviously, Princess Leia is the role that most of us know her from.

But for me, whenever I think of Carrie Fisher, literally the first thought I have is the blues brothers.

And her cameo and that.

And I think of Jay and Silent Bob strike back.

It's another great cameo, another great one.

But interestingly, so she was in the movie screen three.

She had a cameo and that, she wrote the cameo.

Like what you see, that was Carrie Fisher's writing.

Her, her one daughter, Billy Lord, and her got to work together.

And it was like, it was a really important moment.

It was really cool that they got that, especially before Carrie passed.

But as much as it meant to them, Debbie Reynolds, Carrie's mom is the one that actually got a really big gigantic.

She loved it.

Oh, great stuff.

Carrie Fisher thought she was a terrible actress.

She would go out of her way.

There's one thing is self-deprecating.

There's another of where she just thought she was bad.

Like she did not understand why she got cast and stuff.

And she was constantly trying to prove to herself as much to anybody else that she, you know, she belonged there.

She deserved it.

But it speaks to a lot of the issues she had.

Because I don't know anybody that's ever said to Carrie Fisher was a bad actor.

No, I thought she was very good.

In Foster's Syndrome is a heck of a thing.

It's interesting, you know.

And just one other thing that I wanted to mention.

And because I'm a big fan too.

And I read her book and stuff.

I don't know that this is well known.

And I wanted to make sure I get this story right.

Carrie Fisher, her life was saved by Dan Ackroyd.

And she almost married him because of it.

So Fisher started the Blues Brothers with Dan Ackroyd and John Blue.

She set her up with Ackroyd, whom she calls Danny, by the way.

She's never called him Dan.

After a Brussels sprout-related mishap, the two ended up engaged.

Quote, I almost choked on some kind of vegetable that I shouldn't have been eating.

Brussels sprouts, Fisher explained.

So he had to give me the Heimlich maneuver.

He saved my life.

And then he asked me to marry him.

And I thought, wow, what if that happens again?

I should probably marry him.

And I love her so much.

Quote, when I was going to have the first kissing scene with John,

he went around and set singing my best friend's girl to it.

And they couldn't get through the scene because every time they get really close,

he would start my best friend's girl.

He'd start singing it.

And they'd have to cut.

So just some really fun stories about...

This is great.

I don't know, one of the more fun actors of...

Really, really.

Yeah, one.

And then the other cameo that she wrote was when she went on 30 Rock.

Yes.

Which is my...

It's such a...

Like, we can't not mention it.

Right.

It's my favorite of her work in part because I know how much it meant to Tina Fey.

That was Tina Fey.

That was Tina's big idol and stuff in many ways.

Hey, and like, same.

I get it.

And what's interesting, you don't always see the dynamic there,

where it meant as much to Carrie Fisher.

Yeah.

And how much it meant to her to do it and stuff.

And it's hilarious.

And it's hilarious.

It's so dark funny.

It's so funny.

If you never watch 30 Rock,

and that's all you watch is Carrie Fisher's cameo,

you're going to get a good taste of that show.

It was good.

We will take a quick time out.

We'll come back and we're talking about a turkey shortage.

We're talking turkey.

When we come back.

The morning show at WFHR.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio.

Lauren James hanging out with you.

Thanks for hanging out with us.

Believe it or not, we're only about a month away from Thanksgiving

as we were talking about and everything.

And there is a bit of bad news circulating.

Oh dear.

According to the American Farm Bureau Federation,

America's turkey flock has decreased to the smallest size in 40 years.

It's partially due to another resurgence in bird flu cases also reduced production.

Yeah, that's what I figured.

Turkey prices are about 40% higher than they were just last year.

And apparently there aren't any signs that it will ease up in the next five weeks.

No.

According to the USDA data,

wholesale turkeys prices are expected to increase to $1.32 per pound.

That's up 94 cents a pound wholesale from last year.

And there's expected to be 4.8 billion pounds of production,

which is down 5%.

So the good news is, if you're willing to pony up,

there will be turkey on the shelves.

Both Butterball and National Turkey Federation say that there will be enough

frozen turkeys for Thanksgiving.

There should be no shortage of turkey,

but supply could tighten for fresh or a specific size birds as we always hear.

That's not that new.

And I want to say to shout out to our friends and family natural foods

who always do a lot with this as far as turkeys for people and stuff.

So something to keep in mind on.

Well, I'm sure we'll be talking about that with them over the next month or so.

Yeah.

But this is something that I think is a little eye opening,

but it's another reminder of how where we are financially as a country.

And whether you have a two-income household or you have a one-income household

or you have a barely-any-income household, it's tough.

Yeah, food.

Well, it's true.

While food prices rise for whatever the reasons might be,

some completely out of our hands and some in our hands,

we are not seeing a rise in wages.

Right.

Well, and the other thing that kind of wasn't mentioned,

I'm willing to bet that the food for turkeys is just more expensive right now.

Just based on the fact that like everything,

is more expensive.

So it's not even just that there are fewer turkeys.

It's also more expensive to feed them.

It's going to be expensive for a while, guys.

I don't know what else to say to you.

Well, I don't know the way this normally changes.

And you can look at the history of this.

This isn't an opinion, everybody.

This is based on business economics.

You raise wages.

And when you raise wages, you end up seeing a bit of an evening out to these things.

Right.

When we have more money to spend on things, we can, you know,

cough up the extra money and get a real nice turkey.

I've done my homework on this for over 10 years.

I've been watching and paying attention to this topic

and everything, specifically here in Wisconsin,

where the minimum wage has not risen.

Anybody who's listened to us for five minutes,

you've heard me ramble about this.

Yeah.

Because it's important.

Yeah.

Because it matters.

It is.

Because you cannot rely on business to pay people what they're worth.

You have to have, this is where the government needs to do their job.

No.

And why politicians cannot afford to take one day off,

let alone have a government shutdown going on.

Right.

None of us get to shutdown.

No.

And they live.

And they're still getting paid.

Hey, electric.

They're still getting paid.

Hey, electric company.

The government's on shutdown.

So I can't pay you.

Right.

I'm not working right now.

Because I'm on shutdown too.

What if we all did that?

Right.

We're going to lose our, our, any of the state, anyone who's on any kind of

state or government aid, you're very likely to lose it by the end of this month.

And meanwhile, the people in Congress who are in charge of whether or not

the government is shut down, they're still getting paid.

What happens if we come into work today?

You, me, Seth, Pam, everybody's here right now.

Right.

We come in and we're not working.

We're on a shutdown.

Right.

We believe we should get paid more.

Right.

Or we believe we should have a bigger water cooler or whatever it is.

We have a shutdown.

What happens to us?

We get fired.

We get fired.

We're not here.

Like that's the thing.

We're gone.

Like, why do we put up with this?

Yeah.

Every single politician that...

Every fiscal year we have this.

Every single politician that is in office right now does not have my vote.

I don't care who you are.

If you are a part of this shutdown, you have lost me.

You got to get me back.

I'm not saying you can't, but you got to earn me back.

Because right now, y'all look lazy and cowardly.

Every single one of them do.

To me, just my opinion, if you are letting your constituents down, this badly, to where

it has gotten to a shutdown, that you are all little kids in a sandbox that cannot get

along.

None of you deserve the job.

Well, and what I...

None of you deserve the job and every single one of you should be replaced.

And please remember this when election season comes around, everybody, because we seem

to forget.

Right.

Because the place we need to build to from here is we need to see who is going to come

out and actually make the changes that will fix these things.

And that is who we support moving forward.

If we're going to endure this, then that's what we need to expect from our politicians.

And let me save some time here to anybody that was going to...

Any politicians that were going to reach out, and certainly any that we get to talk to,

I've already said this to Kruggen test an on-air and off-air.

Don't combat me with...

But that side...

But that side did it.

No, it wasn't me.

It was that side.

I am so sick and tired of the way we put up with this from politicians.

We asked them a question and their first answer is, but the other side, I don't care about

the other side.

We're looking for policy answers.

Make it happen.

Get it to work.

That's the job.

Tell us what you're going to do and how you're going to do it so that it will actually

help us.

We put up with way too much from these people and act like they're the only ones that

could do the job.

Anybody can do that job.

Anybody can.

They used to say this all the time about writing.

Oh, you put 20 monkeys with typewriters in a room.

They're going to write Shakespeare.

Right.

But how's that working for chat, GPT?

Right, exactly.

Yeah.

Just saying.

You know, when I was first starting on this show, one of the things that Carl and I

loved were the stories of like that small town that gets a mayor as their dog.

I'm sorry.

A dog as their mayor.

I could have said that worse.

Right.

I used to find those silly charming, all that kind of funny and everything.

I'm starting to wonder if they're not on to something.

What would be the difference if we had a dog representing us right now?

What would be the difference?

A dog is going to work just as hard as we're working right now because they ain't working

right now.

Yeah.

They ain't getting nothing done.

A dog at least is entertaining.

Right.

A dog you can pet.

A dog.

You know what?

The pictures are better.

Yeah.

Yeah.

A dog is probably going to get more people to vote for.

What we're listening, what we, we, the people should be expecting from our politicians

in this moment are comments about policy, right?

We are not talking about partisan disagreements.

We are talking about policy.

I want to hear exactly what it is that caused you to think this was the move that you should

take.

Whatever that move that you took was, I want to hear your reasoning and I want it to

be policy, not partisanship.

And that's the standard we need to expect.

We set that standard.

We vote accordingly and things will change.

I want to get into this one a little closer to Thanksgiving, but I think coming up with

some alternatives.

Sure.

If you don't want to have Turkey or you can't afford Turkey or something like that, I think

we'll get into that next month sometime.

For now, we're going to take a quick time out.

We'll come back and we got the top 10 Halloween activities we're going to take part in this

month on the morning show.

Welcome back, everyone.

Morning show at WFHR, locally grown radio.

Does anybody else get Vince's price?

Like a voice, just it's burgling in my brain right now?

All month.

All month long it does.

Man, that guy did a nice, amazing, amazing voice, the voice of Halloween with the price.

Absolutely.

One of the things we're going to be doing this for this Halloween is certainly maybe

listening to Vince and Price or checking something.

Vince and Price did one of the last things he did was the beginning, uh, being the part

of the beginning of Edward Scissorhands.

Sure.

And I usually watch that.

I may not watch the whole movie, but I love that intro.

It's a great intro.

It's, it's a solid movie.

It's, uh, yeah.

Yeah, it's a good one.

Holds up.

I think it holds up.

Uh, a new poll looked at the top fall or fall Halloween activities we will take part

in this year.

All right.

Um, we got the list here and they are in chronological order.

Laura, would you like start from 10 and up or want to start at one?

Oh, 10 and up, obviously.

Right on.

Yeah.

Uh, at number 10, play a trick.

On someone 17% might do, we'll do that.

They might.

Then it includes jump scares, Halloween props, um, a good friend of mine, I, I, I stopped

by it.

Uh, he has a, um, a spider, when it was electronic spiders, we should knock it in the

front door and it comes down on you.

Right.

That got me.

Right.

I didn't do a jump jump, but it like, oh, yeah, I do that when there's a daddy long legs

on my wall.

It's got a fun.

Uh, number nine, take a child trick or treating 23% will do that.

Absolutely.

That's a good one.

That's that I don't, um, my dad and I have had this debate forever.

Um, I don't know what's better getting the handout candy on Halloween or getting the

walk with trick or treat.

It's hard to tell.

Uh, both great.

Both are great.

Uh, number eight, where a costume, only 25% definitely plan to dress up another 13%

might.

Okay.

Um, I gotta think that that's higher.

I bet you, um, now do this, uh, Halloween, Halloween Eve or Halloween day.

Sure.

I guarantee it's higher.

Yeah.

I think a lot of people will, once they get around it and they see other people doing

it and get some infectious a little bit, and that's a huge number of people.

I just think that it, it go up a little bit, uh, attend a Halloween party 26% will

do that.

Sure.

Uh, number six, I love this, visit a pumpkin patch, 27% will do that.

I, um, that's the stuff.

That is one of those things that I came into much later in life, but God, do I love a

pumpkin patch?

Could we alternatively say apple orchard because come on, guys.

Yeah.

Sure.

Right?

Yeah.

I don't know if I've been to an apple orchard, but I'd, you know what?

Double if it's both.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Right.

I want to go to there.

And our top five things that we are going to be doing this October at number five, carve

a pumpkin 30% will do that.

Sure.

Um, that's fun.

Yeah.

That's just fun.

This is a fun one to do.

You bought me pumpkins.

I've been so out of it this month.

I am not paying attention.

I, I seem to remember, I think my whole childhood, that's how it was in our house where it

got to be like this time of October and my mom and dad were like, oh shoot, we haven't

gotten the pumpkin.

That's exactly what's happening.

Like I'm looking at it like, oh crap, I get paid on Friday, I better do all of the Halloween

things now.

Well, and it's, you know, I mean, if you want the pumpkin to be fresh for Halloween,

now's a good time to be doing it anyway.

Yeah, that's true.

Uh, at number four, hand, ooh, I was going to, I just thought of something else too.

Okay.

Okay.

If you did part a caravan already, and it's already dying, you can park, you did Carval

a new one.

It's true.

It's yourself a second pumpkin.

You've earned it.

Yeah.

Oh, that sounds fun, actually.

Uh, number four, hand out candy on Halloween, 39% definitely will, another 11%, maybe.

Um, my father and I are going back and forth on who is going to do it this year.

Uh, we'll see.

We'll see.

We'll see.

I, I, I, I, I, you take turns.

Yeah.

We can do that.

We could do that.

I don't know if we, we're capable of that, but we could technically do that.

I don't know if we will, um, but it's, it's, it's funny, uh, like this started out as

a joking thing that my mom, like, set up between the two of us, uh, when I moved back and

everything and I started caregiving with them and all that, uh, and it, it was kind of

funny the first year.

And then the second year got a little more serious.

Yeah.

The third year got a little more serious.

Now we, like, she literally has to kind of like plan it like, okay, Jimmy, you did it

last year.

It's your father's turn.

We, we just so much help my family needs, so much help.

At number three, display Halloween decorations, 43% of us will do that.

All right.

43% of us.

Right on.

I don't care if you just put a little pumpkin out, like that's cool.

Do it.

Yeah.

Um, I, I think that's one of the fun things about your, your, your, you know, wherever

you live, apartment house, whatever it is you have is kind of doing this.

Deciding.

Again, you don't have to go as crazy as my mother, but I, I think if you want to go

for it.

But do a little something, make it a little special.

That's a fun one.

Uh, and number two, consume pumpkin flavored foods or drinks, 46% of us will do that.

I'm going to believe that they mean what they said and they meant pumpkin flavored,

not pumpkin spice flavored and leave it at that.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I think you're right.

I think so.

Uh, at number one, watch a scary movie.

48% of us will do that.

That is the number one thing we will do this month.

Sure.

I normally wouldn't say that that would be me, but I don't know if it counts.

I watch sleepy hollow usually every October.

I was going to ask, what are you going to watch?

Um, uh, sleepy hollow is the one that I like to go to.

But obviously night before Christmas, I watched that one like crazy.

Uh, I, there is, um, a new horror movie out him, uh, from Jordan Teal,

yeah, that I've been really, really curious about.

Sure.

Uh, I maybe I'd watch that.

Yeah.

I don't know.

It's, they're lost on me though.

Horror, the horror genre might as well be Taylor Swift music because it's just

lost on me.

It's not, it's not for me.

Yeah, I really can't get into horror that isn't campy.

I just can't.

It's got to be over the top and intentionally, you know, give me Lama

getting to.

I want it corny.

I want my horror so corny that that's what I want.

Shark NATO, you know, like, yes, yes, I,

Santa jaws for Christmas.

I mean, just, you know, there's some really fun ones there.

There's some really fun events going on in their area too.

Um, that we were, I just thought we'd just, uh,

improvving here a little bit, but I thought we could touch on some of these Halloween

events going on in our area.

Um, and one of them, one of them mentioned, and I've been, when meaning to

mention, I've only been able to once or twice.

Uh, the Wisconsin Rapids area has their best Christmas ever 5K fun run walk

coming up October 25th, uh, 930 day of registration.

10 a.m.

The event will begin.

This is a vent.

Uh, it's going to be started over with our friends at up north brewing company.

Um, this is a fun event.

And it's for a great cause.

Best Christmas ever serves families who have fallen upon hard times.

Though no fault of their own by partnering with local leaders and businesses, uh,

to help they do a great job with this one.

So you get a run in at a great time of year to be running.

And you get to help out of local, uh, establishment, find out more.

Everybody about that event and register.

You can, um, uh, uh, uh, try to see they got a QR code to register.

And I was just debating how their website, yeah, I'm not seeing one.

Uh, uh, up north brewing, I believe you go to Edward Jones.

You can go to their websites to find out more.

Be sure to go to their Facebook pages as well.

Mm-hmm.

There is going to be a community blood center blood drive.

It is going on in just a few minutes at 311 Lincoln Street in Wisconsin.

Rapids at the former East junior high school from 10 a.m.

to 3 p.m.

They will be having this blood drive.

So you can head on over to communityblood.org for more information on that.

Or just head on over there.

Yeah.

And, uh, just the, uh, uh, Halloween event, Laura.

Yeah, that's sure.

Um, there is going to be a trunk or treat event on October 26th.

From 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.

in front of the municipal building in the village of Port Edwards.

Again, that is on Sunday, October 26th from 325 p.m.

in Port Edwards.

I love chunk of treats.

I love those ones.

I love them.

Our great friends at the rafters were with us on last Friday's

climb.

The playmakers got to talk to some of the new front office and everything and

talk about their fall festival celebration coming up

October 25th from 11 to 3.

Join them to celebrate the feelings of fall.

You're going to have a petting zoo, brides and beverages, vendors,

pumpkin painting, truck viewing, candy and treats all

at a legendary winter field.

Um, 521 Lincoln Street right here in Rapids, uh,