Technicolor Was Magic (Hour 2)

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Laura and James hanging out with you. It's true.

Thanks for hanging out with us, everybody. We got fun stuff lined up for you.

Veggies could make you happy. We'll get into a darn right they can.

We'll get into a study a little bit later. Got that one lined up for us.

Got some fun little just kind of bit stories here and there.

We'll see if we have time for those good stories of the day.

Certainly get into our schedule and some great events in our area that are going on.

It is a go time. It is a busy time of year now.

So we're going to be having a really, I would say at least until the beginning of the new year.

It's going to be pretty busy in our segments, local segments when we're talking about local events and everything.

All right, bring it on.

But we begin with entertainment and the final season of Stranger Things is coming up.

The final episodes of Stranger Things is coming up and finishing the last season.

Rapping it up to Netflix's dismay.

Oh, yeah.

They would like to hang on to this a lot longer.

Just wait. We're going to get two spin-offs that guarantee it.

Probably, probably.

Well, if it involves an owner rider, I'll be okay with it.

No, no, no. You're absolutely right. 100%.

Matt and Ross Duffer, the creators of Stranger Things, studied their favorite series finale's

when coming up with how to end their Netflix hit Stranger Things.

And I just want to say real quick.

You don't hear about this in entertainment.

You don't hear about the process.

Yes, we know this exists.

We know other creatives look at other creators work and all those things.

Yeah, they're inspired.

We're all inspired and influenced by each other, you know, all those things.

But I love a lot of the modern writers and modern creatives out there.

They are not just young either.

The Grey's Anatomy lady created that and a bunch of stuff.

She's noted this too, where, you know, looking at other shows and being influenced or just taking,

oh, hey, this worked or this didn't work or something like that.

I think that's really good for young creatives, for young writers, for young people out there

that are getting into the industry because they're doing that.

Right.

Because you still need to take whatever the idea is that you're inspired by and apply it to your story.

The ones they thought really worked were six feet under Friday night lights and the sopranos.

Okay.

Ross told variety, quote, the best ones were very true to themselves.

Just shows that are trying to be super clever.

I think that's where I can, they completely get lost.

Sure.

Bob knew heart waking up and it was all a dream.

Right.

They're trying to do too much.

Yeah.

I think maybe one of the most famous ones that I'm really dating myself here is St. Amos Fire.

Okay.

I believe, or, no, St. Amos, the Blues.

Hill Street Blues.

I believe Hill Street Blues, spoiler alert everybody.

They didn't know this.

But I believe Hill Street Blues is the one that ended where there was an autistic kid and everything

that he had to snow globe.

And basically everything that happened all those seasons was just this in this kid's head.

That's crazy.

Imagining it was, yeah.

Like, and this is early 80s.

They were doing this and stuff.

Why?

Why?

Yeah.

That's such an unnecessary step to take.

So it goes on to say, but the core idea of ending, we had for a really long time.

Anyway, we're really happy with the way it ended.

It's a nerve wracking to put it out.

I'm sure people have their opinions.

Yeah.

For every story that we don't know how it's going to end, like they can talk all they want on lost.

They knew how they were going to end it.

But nobody believes you.

Nobody believes you.

Nobody believes you.

Nobody believes it.

Here's the danger of some of those things that I think a lot of people learned from the lost finale,

more than the sopranos finale, where with the lost finale,

it was this letdown that they could not, there's nothing they could come up to what they did.

They could never live up to what they did.

Yeah.

And.

There's no way to end it in a way that would be happy for everybody.

They were the guinea pigs of the early days of internet.

Sure.

Before that, yeah, you're on the water cooler and you're talking with your friends about what you think the ending's going to be.

But it's pretty harmless and it's with you.

The internet comes around and literally.

Everybody's hearing it now.

Everybody under the sun has an opinion of how lost is going to end.

And they're putting it out there and they're making sure everybody else can see it.

So the creators of lost more than likely out of those thousands of ideas was somewhere around their idea

and well, do they go forward with it or do they not?

And they kept telling people it wasn't purgatory and that it turned out to be purgatory.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's a shame.

It really is.

And it's something that I don't, I'm not judging.

I don't know how I would end something.

I don't know how I would.

I don't get it.

Right.

I mean, that's fair.

But also there are better options than what they did.

We won't know what which aspects of those different finalies they'll use to end Stranger Things.

Stranger Things ends.

It's five season run on New Year's Eve.

And the final episode is called The Right Side Up, which is that the final episode.

Okay.

Well played.

So in case you need a refresher, Friday Night Lights, I never saw that show.

I didn't either, but I've read the book.

The montage of the character's futures at the end.

Okay.

The sopranos, maybe one of the most famous series of all time ends with Tony and the diner

and stuff.

Right.

And it cuts to black.

Exactly.

This was done as a tribute to the film Italian noir films and how they would normally

end.

Right.

Something that was very important to David J. That's the way he wanted to end it.

I personally, I like the ending.

Yeah.

I think I may be one of the few people in the world it does.

Sure.

And coming up with my own ending, spoiler alert for me, Tony still alive.

Okay.

99% of people I've thought of.

See, because in my head immediately, it means he died.

Right.

Right.

And that's, and that's, there's no wrong answer.

That's the fun thing about this as opposed to when Bob Newhart's waking up to his, you

know, his wife from his previous TV show and, you know, all that.

Yep.

And I think, I don't know if it's my favorite, but I think the most well done series finale

I've ever seen is six feet under.

Okay.

And for those that don't know, it was an HBO show and six feet under was about more

Titian, a family and more Titian, and took place in that.

And so I think it's very fitting and really cool.

So you had about seven or eight major characters from the ending of that show, that moment, they

do a really quick show of the rest of their life.

Okay.

So some characters lived another 50, 60 years.

So that's similar to what was the other one that they, so those are similar.

Yes.

Okay.

That's the coolest way to end your show.

I don't care if you're even copying from other endings.

Right.

That's a really cool thing for the, because one thing that I think it's important about

a finale, yes, what they're saying about sticking within this context of the show.

Don't forget who got you there, right?

The fans.

Right.

Well, and with a show like Stranger Things, where, you know, the majority of the stars

are kids, yeah, we're going to want to see what they grew up to do and be.

That will take Netflix's opportunity to, and like, that would be really great for them

to, like, take the legs right out from a sequel or a spinoff, yes, yes, with the ending

of the show.

I mean, especially if you are good for them, a lot of creators don't want to do spinoffs

and things like that.

And I bet they don't.

That's why sometimes you do see characters killed off because they want to make darn sure,

hey, nobody's picking up this character again or something.

I don't know.

Do you have a favorite series finale out there, everybody?

I want to hear it.

I want to hear it.

Seven, one, five, four, two, four, twenty, six hundred, or call or text us through the

civic media app.

I want to know your favorite series, finale's, or, or like, Laura's got your ones you don't

like.

Yeah.

Game of Thrones.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I think a lot of people with you on that one.

Yep.

That's the easy answer, but it's also correct.

And like, and in spoilers abound, everybody, I don't want to, I don't want to spoil, but

I do.

Like for me, with that one, it was the second episode, the second to last episode that

I look at as the finale.

And it's all about Arya and her taking off the, the walkers.

Yep.

Because that last episode, I literally just watched that scene last night, like I cannot

get enough of that scene of her and the drop in the dagger.

Oh, it gets me so good.

I love it.

And honestly, I didn't really enjoy the series.

That scene saved it for me a little bit, not a whole lot, but a little bit.

And then they just slapped me in the face with the last episode.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I was like, oh, yeah.

Right.

Like it was just, it was rude.

I didn't hate it.

I will say that.

I didn't hate the series finale.

Sure.

But I certainly wasn't blown away by it or anything like that.

But I will say one thing I did come out of the series finale feeling like that it was

for the fans.

Yeah.

I think that's also where they went a little wrong because they went too far into this.

Yes.

That's got to be a tough balance.

It is.

It is.

Like, listen, that's not our job.

But like, you know, I, I loved Sons of Anarchy.

Sure.

I was really in that show.

Sure.

I hated how it ended.

Okay.

If Kurt, the creator of the show, if he was hitting his room right now, I'd be very

honest with him about that.

I'd also be very honest about, but you did it your way.

And that's all that matters.

Right.

And so like high five, bro.

We forget sometimes that the biggest fans of these shows are the creators of the show.

Yeah.

It's their baby.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's theirs.

I think one of my favorites, and I'm going to, I'm thinking of a cartoon.

I'm not even thinking of like, you know, I'm thinking of Avatar the Last Airbender, the

original series.

Because the thing about the Avatar the Last Airbender and even the, you know, the next,

the sequel series about the next Avatar, I guess spoilers.

But they tell a cohesive story in three seasons and they end it with, you know, it's

a happy ending, but it's also a cartoon intended for young audiences.

So like, I'm down for the happy ending.

Speaking of endings, Scorney Weaver's character, Ella Ripley, had a spoiler alert.

Had, I did in the, one of the main, one of the movies of aliens.

There's been like five or six aliens.

One of them apparently her character dies.

I didn't know this.

I didn't, I just finding it out with everybody else that haven't seen the movies.

Right.

But Scorney Weaver told fans at New York Comic Con on Friday that alien franchise

producer Walter Hill plans to bring her back.

Oh, quote, Walter wrote 50 pages where Ripley would be now and they are quite extraordinary.

I don't know if it's going to happen, but I have had a meeting with Fox, Disney or whoever

it is now.

Yeah.

That's good.

Okay.

Two things.

I love Scorney Weaver and I love Eleanor Ripley.

I said I have never felt that the need to do the character again, but she read these

pages and she's like, well, I mean, quote.

I was always like a letter rest, let her recover.

But what Walter has written seems so true to me as, as very much about the society that

would incarnate someone who has tried to help mankind.

Sure.

So she likes where this is going, especially according to Modern Time.

Very cool.

Quote, she's a problem to them.

So she's sort of tucked away.

Anyway, I think it's a very strong first 50 pages and I'm thinking about working with

Walter to see what the rest of the story could be.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I'm just a fan of Scorney Weaver.

Right.

And if it means she's going to act, I don't care.

She's reading the phone book.

Cool.

Yep.

Like, all right.

Let's do it.

Keep working.

I want to see her keep working.

That's it.

That's all I want.

I want her to be happy and to keep working.

She's one of the actors that I don't think that we, I don't know that is ever going to

get the credit she deserves.

She's like a cult film, like, oh, yeah, there's, she's got a big, she's got a lot of people

like and love her.

But I don't know that enough people that really talk acting on a high level, really speak

to how good Scorney Weaver is and how hell back she's been in her career.

She had to pick up a machine gun to get taken seriously.

And then guerrillas in the mist, like, nobody talks about that movie and it's one of the

greater performances you will ever see by an actor.

Period.

Sure.

I don't know.

I don't feel like she's ever gotten her due and so maybe if she keeps working, maybe

she will finally get that due.

Yeah.

I think she deserves it.

I, we will, we will be getting into the best, the hollow, which movies in a little bit.

Absolutely.

We're going to do that after our break because I want to take some time with that one.

But I did want to remind everybody that we have the WFHR Newsletter coming out this week,

be in the lookout for it at the end of the week, will be a good one.

Our team is working very hard on it right now, courage to go to WFHR.com and sign up

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And while you're there, why not give us your recipe, huh?

That's right.

We are collecting recipes for our 85th anniversary cookbook.

Mm-hmm.

That's true.

We are.

And that cookbook won't be complete without your recipes.

So you can text them in using the Civic Media app.

You can just text us a picture or type it out, whatever you want to do, or you can head

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We've got a little form for you to fill out.

You can do it that way.

And if those don't work out for you or you're just not very tech savvy, feel free to come

on in while we're available, reminder, we're going to be having limited hours today.

So maybe tomorrow, you can stop on by.

And Pam can just make a copy right on our little copy or there of your grandma's recipe

card.

I encourage you to do that, everybody.

We really want to, this is a love letter to our community.

It is.

Keep it.

It's for you guys.

Keep in mind, if your recipe gets selected, you will get a free cookbook.

You'll get a free one.

And this is something that, you know, I think if you look around and you see cookbooks

in your home or something like that and you think about it, like how cool would it

be 20, 30 years from now, this is in your home or this is in one of your loved ones

homes or something.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's an heirloom in many ways that we're currently here.

It's cool.

It's going to be fun.

We have a FHR.com sign up for that newsletter and get us your recipe.

We probably will be wrapping up the recipe collection in a little bit here because we need

to get to printing those cookbooks.

Yeah.

So get those recipes in.

And our great friends at Central Wisconsin area community theater have some great stuff

coming up for you.

They have their theater Thursdays, a reader's theater that they do.

They're meeting on October 23rd for that at seven o'clock at the shack.

You can meet them there for that one.

And of course, the Central Wisconsin area community theater presents legally blonde

the musical coming up October 24th.

They'll have a show then October 25th, the 26th will be a matinee and then they'll be

back on Halloween.

Oh.

Yeah.

What are they doing?

They're, I don't know what they're doing.

I think that, to me, when you get to do a show on Halloween, it's so much fun.

That is.

Boy is it awesome.

That's awesome.

I'm very excited for that one.

Yeah.

And November 1st, a seven o'clock show.

Great cast, great musical.

This is a lot of fun.

It looks like they even got a real dog.

Oh, fantastic.

That Laila looks like a great actor.

That looks like a good actor there.

Points to Laila.

Get your tickets and find out more at cwack.org, cwack.org, buy local, support local, support

the arts, everybody a little bit later.

We're going to tell you about some things going on with our WRCT or a town theater here

and everything.

But we got more of that coming up for you.

And we're going to get into this vegetables making us happy thing coming up.

You bet.

I'm skeptical.

I'm going to see.

I want to see about this.

Coming up on the morning show.

Welcome back, everyone.

Morning show at WFH all.

I can't help myself.

No, you apologize, everybody.

We're going to have some fun with you this morning.

And I wanted to touch on another thing here that I came across and I really wanted to

do some homework on this one before I dove too deep in.

In part because, look, I don't want my, my mom is right about enough, okay?

I need to give her more ammunition.

Sure.

But yes, it turns out she was right.

The vegetables are not only good for you physically, but mentally.

We go to the USDA.gov and their article here that when healthy adults consume the daily

amount of vegetable servings recommended by the dietary guidelines at DGA, it has a positive

effect on how happy the person feels according to this study.

Many studies show that eating the DGA recommended the daily amounts of fruits and vegetables

is good for your general health.

We've heard this our whole lives.

But only a few studies have determined, demonstrated the role of the vegetable consumption, separate

from fruits, has on one's mental health.

We are discovering more and more everyday about mental health and ways to improve it, ways

to be aware of it, all these things.

Well, because the brain has been a puzzle since we discovered it.

Which is amazing, just amazing.

We have mapped out more of the ocean than we have our brains.

Right.

And we wonder that we're still learning that there are certain vitamins and nutrients

and minerals that appeal and help with our brain.

A group of scientists at the Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center in Grand Forks

in North Dakota conducted an eight-week study to evaluate the impact of increase in daily

vegetable servings to match the DGA recommendations, so people who were not hitting that recommendation

than they did.

And they saw a huge increase in their mental health.

The study divided healthy men and women between 18 to 65 years old into two groups.

The first group of participants, the vegetable and intervention group.

Oh, okay.

I like that a vegetable intervention.

So how many vegetables did they eat?

Like what was the...

They received daily servings of the DGA recommended number of variety of vegetables, including

dark green, red and orange and starchy vegetables based on their energy needs during the course

of the study.

Okay.

I think the recommendation is that roughly half of what you eat should be vegetables.

The vegetable servings were minimally processed, so they were all organic.

It seems like at least for the most part.

Well, or just simply made, right?

So like, you know, maybe a little olive oil and salt, nothing crazy.

Quote results suggest that increasing the amount of vegetables you eat every day may benefit

your mental health.

Right.

Just end of sentence.

That's good enough for me.

Yeah.

No, that's awesome.

So the daily recommended amount of, I'm guessing, a half of what you eat should be

in vegetable.

And so the variety that is recommended is where they emphasized that on this.

Okay.

So you've got a wide variety of all of the different kinds of vegetables and all of the nutrients

and minerals and vitamins that they provide.

Like that's...

Yeah.

That would make sense.

The exact reason for this is not necessarily known per se.

Right.

So one theory is that healthy foods like fruits and vegetables contain beneficial pigments,

such as cardinanin...

Carajunins?

Carajunins.

Carajunins.

Thank you.

Yes.

And in law, we can't even see it.

Yeah.

And gut health.

Oh, shit.

I touched it.

Yeah.

I didn't know it was a touch screen, either.

Oh, man.

And gut health.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It goes on gut health, which is linked to brain health and mood.

Okay.

Sure.

We've talked about this with family natural foods a number of times about how important gut

health is to your whole...

Well, not obviously your whole body, but even your mental health.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And you can be impacted by that.

So just an increase in happiness here.

You know, that's...

There's the way.

That's awesome.

That's...

Honestly, there's no downside here.

Eat some vegetables.

I'm talking to you, James.

Yeah.

Understood.

The gut brain connection, the gut microbiome can commute with the brain influencing mood

through neural inflammatory and hormonal signals.

Very cool.

That's...

Yeah, it's pretty wild.

Yeah.

Pretty interesting.

That's awesome.

But just don't tell this to my mom.

Just...

Just keep this between us and everybody.

I'm following her now.

Please just keep it between us.

Ah, of course it is.

Um...

Hi, Pam.

I had...

I know.

That was a funny one.

An interesting one.

I just want to get to a funny one here because this is just good.

I don't know.

I like this story.

So a wild bear, a wild bear, wandered...

A wild bear wandered into a California zoo and, quote, interacted with the facility's

resident Bruins before leaving peacefully through a service gate.

Just kind of saying, hey guys.

The Sequoia Park Zoo in Eureka said on social media that employees were conducting a daily

inspection when they spotted the wild bear on the Redwood Skywalk.

Okay.

Quote, the wild bear did not appear aggressive and was observing, interacting with Tuley,

one of the other bears.

Oh, a couple of the other bears there behind the habitat.

Sure.

The other bears were black bears and Tuley and Nubu, the other bear that came in, the

stranger, was a black bear as well.

Okay.

They seem to really enjoy themselves.

They were just hanging out.

Yeah.

Eureka Police Department personnel and a warden from the California Department of Fish

and Wildlife responded to the zoo to assist with the situation, though nothing really happened.

There's nothing really to be dealt with.

Yeah.

Just make sure this bear doesn't get out of control.

To humanize, nothing happened.

I cannot prove this, but I guarantee with everything I am that this bear was taunting those

bears in the zoo.

You think?

I'm positive at this.

Or do you think the bears in the zoo were taunting the other bear?

Oh, yeah.

I bet they're fed better.

Hey, we got three meals a day.

I got a shins.

Listen, guy, I might be behind these bars, but you got as much food as I got.

Now I want this so badly as a sketch, and I want the wild bear, like trying to sneak

in.

Like, wait a minute.

I like the idea of he goes there.

Hey, guys, watch.

I'm going to mess with those bears in the zoo.

He starts living there.

And he all of a sudden he realizes, like, wait a minute, you guys don't have to hunt for

your food.

No, man.

Just don't look at it.

Okay.

Wait.

I'm sneaking it.

I'm going to sneak in here.

He's trying to get over there.

You can find that story at UPI.com, everybody.

I've been to that zoo.

It's a beautiful zoo.

Yeah.

It's like a lot of California zoos, and there are aquatic zoos are like this too.

They really do incorporate with the land.

Good.

There is one of the most beautiful zoos I'll ever be to, the aquatic zoo in San Francisco.

It's literally attached to the ocean.

Very cool.

Even spot up there, we go there, and you can see the ocean coming in, and there's just

a bunch of sea life there.

Not fish, but snails and things like that.

For me, it was awesome.

They had a full-scale whale in there, in the aquarium.

You think you understand how big a whale is, and then you see a life-size one.

I have no idea.

There's skyscraper.

Like an actual whale.

Like a skyscraper.

That's all I can compare a whale to.

It's very large.

Very cool.

Check that out, everybody.

We're going to take a quick time out.

Check out our news, sports, entertainment, and our partners.

When we come back, we are talking about the greatest witch movies of all time.

Yeah, we are.

When we get back on the morning show.

Welcome back, everyone.

Morning show here at WFHR.

Lauren James hanging out with you.

It's true.

Thanks for hanging out with us.

Yes, thank you.

The season of the witch to play us into the conversation as we get into the best witch

movies of all time.

Of course.

Of course.

We have this list here of the 27 best witch movies of all time runs the gamut from playful

to little more serious.

What was that number?

27.

Perfect.

I don't know if we have, yeah, we're 15 here.

Okay.

I was going to say we can even just do 10.

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

We don't have to go through all of them.

No.

We'll skate through a couple of them.

Yeah, yeah.

Do you want audience participation?

Please.

715-424-2600 or call or text us through the civic media.

Yeah.

Let us know what your favorite witch movie of all time.

We want to hear it.

Lauren, I will give ours at the end here or something like that.

Or throughout depends.

Sure.

Maybe it'll come up.

Yes.

I think mine will come up.

Yeah.

I hope mine will.

I really do.

At number 15, the caudering from 2013 and number 14, heredity from 2018.

Heredity.

I've got people that I really respect their movie takes.

Oh, yeah.

That's the greatest scary movie, a horror movie of all time.

OK.

They will die on that hill.

OK.

I've never seen it.

So, I don't know.

At number 13, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs from 1937.

I'm sorry.

That's OK.

Sure.

OK.

Yeah.

There's a witch in it.

OK.

So, I guess that there is a little bar.

If it has a witch in it, we're talking a little bit like it's died out at a Christmas movie

thing.

Tangled is better.

There you go.

There you go.

At number 12, Rosemary's Baby from 1968.

Ah.

Solid pick.

11 Sleeping Beauty from 1959.

OK.

Yeah.

See?

OK.

I never realized that.

Yeah.

Maleficent.

No, no, but just a Disney really leaned into the witch thing for in a couple of years.

Oh, yeah.

I hadn't really thought about that before.

Well, if you happen to be pagan, it feels a little bit like propaganda.

Oh, yeah.

Just saying.

At number 10, the original Blair Witch Project from 1999.

Yeah.

You've got to mention that one.

Good movie.

Good movie.

It's a good movie.

The first one.

It's just like, it's like the way like that.

This shoestring budget that I believe they made it happen, man.

Still believe I believe it's the biggest like lowest, lowest budget for biggest box office

of all time still.

Yeah.

And yet, the second one was horrible.

Absolutely.

Oh God, I was so bad.

Don't watch it.

Don't watch the second one.

Don't do it.

Don't do it.

The first one, great, jump.

Great movie.

Great movie.

Yep.

Oh, the ending.

The ending.

It'll get you every time.

Oh, yeah, just oo.

Yeah.

Actually, it actually is pretty far up on my list now that I think I'm on it.

It's good movie.

It really is.

It's about that.

At number nine, the witch from 2015.

Sure.

I don't know that one.

From number eight, into the woods from 2014.

Oh, I love into the woods.

You know what?

I'll allow it.

We almost did it in high school and I was almost the witch.

At number seven, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone from 2001.

Naturally, I guess.

Oh, they're wizards.

They're wizards.

It's okay.

I guess.

I mean, come on, guys.

I guess.

All right.

Fine.

At number six, but number one to a lot of people, I know, Hocus Pocus from 1993.

Yeah.

That one has to be on there.

It's got to be in there.

What number is that?

Number six, I thought it'd be a top.

I'm shocked that it's that low.

I was expecting like three.

But okay.

All right.

We'll put it in the top three.

I'm with you.

Yeah.

Let's see what they've got in the top three that's better than Hocus Pocus.

Once we get through these, that one may go down as the biggest cult favorite.

Sure.

Maybe.

Especially with younger generations.

Maybe.

Sure.

Yeah.

It was right around the time of VHS.

Okay.

It was right around the time where we started to be able to watch stuff on our own whenever

we wanted to.

At number five, and I think maybe my pick, Bell Book and Candle from 1958.

Yeah.

That's a sure.

Yeah.

A journalistic integrity here.

I was in the play, Bell Book and Candle.

Yes, you were.

That is a little bit of...

But Jack Lemon.

But also Jack Lemon.

Jack Lemon, man.

Yeah.

I love Jack Lemon.

Any excuse to talk about that.

At number four, weapons from 2025, a little bit of a spoiler there, I guess, for those of

us to have no idea.

I've seen it already.

There's a witch in weapons.

It's the new one out where the kids are running crazy or whatever.

I know nothing.

I don't either and I don't want to.

Fair enough.

It looks like such a...

If you watched weapons, give us a call.

Yeah.

If it's your thing, fine.

I don't like...

To me, the biggest problem with the horror industry right now is that they can do whatever

they want.

Yep.

There's no push to be creative.

It's just, hey, what would scare people that we haven't done already?

Right.

Well, we've done this, this, this, this.

We haven't made kids scary in a while.

Make kids scary.

Like it's not...

There's no real creativity.

And it almost feels like N Night Shyamalan is making all of these movies because they have

to have a twist.

They have to have this.

You know what I mean?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Go where the story takes you.

Not where you want it to go.

Sure.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I don't know.

It doesn't work for me.

At number three, practical magic from 1998.

Yeah.

That's a really good answer.

My mom and my sister love that movie.

I love that movie.

Yeah.

I wasn't going to pick Belle, Belle book and candle.

I think I might pick this one.

At number two, The Witches of Eastwick from 1987.

Yeah.

That's another really good one.

An acting tour de force.

Sure.

You have nothing but strong actors in the main roles and all of that.

Well, same with practical magic, honestly.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And then there is Jack Nicholson's performance.

And then.

And oh my God, do I love his performance with everything I am.

It is such a great performance.

It is the full encompass of Jack, where yes, you see him cocky, you see him with the charm

and all those things.

Sure.

And then you also see him in dismay.

And that scene where The Witches are doing the voodoo stuff and everything is one of my

all time favorites.

Yeah.

Yeah.

He does.

It's really pay attention to Jack's acting in that.

Yeah.

It's incredible.

Yeah.

Incredible.

Yeah.

Got to love Jack Nicholson.

Okay.

And number one, The Wizard of Oz from 1939.

Oh, you know, yeah.

I spoke with that.

I'm good with that.

I'm okay with that.

But for a reason, it's really good.

It's such a pretty movie.

Yeah.

Think about, like, because I don't know that we get enough credit for this.

At least it's not wicked.

I will admit, I was a little surprised wicked wasn't on the list or the top 15, I mean,

we don't, yes, I will admit, I'm one of the biggest homers you'll over here, but I don't

think we do this nearly enough of the where America stands in film and how important

our place in film is and how it's ours.

Like, it's everybody's film is for everybody, obviously, but this is something we should

take pride in.

Yeah.

We as Americans, we should take pride in film and that and when you look, like you asked

people from around the world, one of the first movies they saw, or, hey, name me a popular

movie.

The Wizard of Oz is one of the first things in the conversation, like, just on a cultural

level alone, it probably belongs at the top, let alone, obviously, everybody's things.

Even people that may not like the movie have a favorite character or favorite a moment

or at the very least, we'll get the references.

Yeah.

I don't know, even if Harry Potter, we can say that about like it with the popularity of

all these other movies and how great all of them are, I don't know if anything, not

just which movies, I don't know many movies that are on the plane of the Wizard of Oz.

Okay.

All right.

You know what?

I would hear that.

It is one of the biggest game changers in movie history for one, there were women leading

roles.

Yep.

It's just one, but multiple women in the leading roles, no men in the leading roles,

like they get lost in the shuffle with the story completely.

It proved to Hollywood, women can carry a movie, women can be a box office success, and

it did something that while modern standards may have changed quite a bit in everything.

Think about, it's 1939, you're in a movie theater, you're watching a movie, it's black

and white, you've seen this your whole life, and then at one point, it shifts to color.

Yep.

It shifts to color.

It's so good.

It's so good.

To this day, it is done, you can't do it better, you're intimidating the Wizard of Oz,

that's all you're doing.

You cannot do it better than what they did.

It's one of the biggest game-changing movies in history.

Sure.

Yeah.

It really doesn't get the credit it deserves, I think, in some ways.

All right.

Do you have an honorable mention or two?

Ooh.

Ooh.

The craft.

That was mine too.

Oh.

That was mine too.

I'm sorry to be to take it.

Where is a bulk rocks?

She just does.

And I know it's nostalgic, and I know that's a big part of why I like that movie, but that's

on my list.

Another one, and the witch is only in it briefly, but listen, if we're including Snow White,

I'm going to include the last unicorn.

Oh.

You just made my sister so happy.

I love the last unicorn, guys.

I really liked Rob and Toney, so that was part of the reason.

The festival looked great, incredible actor, but Rob and Toney, for example, thank you.

Rob and I love Rob and Toney.

In the craft.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So that was part of the reason I liked it, but that's a great one.

There is, I'm trying to think there, but then there's, you know, like the other, you

know, Disney-ish ones that they missed, right?

Like they missed Halloween town.

What was, yes, The Witches.

Was it called just The Witches?

The Witches, yeah, yeah.

The one, what's the name of the author that did that one?

He's the one that did the, he did Charlie and the Chocolate Factory too.

Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes.

Right.

Same author.

Whoever it was, my apologies.

My apologies.

Not think of it right now.

But yeah, that movie, the one that had Morticia in it.

Yes.

You mean Catherine C.

Did you?

No, no, no, no, no.

The 90s Morticia.

Oh, yes.

I can't think of her name.

Pritzies honor.

No.

I know, but I was just thinking about movies.

Oh, you're thinking of Pritzies honor.

I was just thinking about movies season, because now I can think of it.

But that's a good one.

I think that's a good one too.

Yeah, the 1987 version of Witches.

Yeah.

That's the one I'm thinking of.

Because there was another one in 2020 that came out too.

Right.

And that one has Anne Hathaway, which, you know, nothing wrong with that.

I don't know.

It's the 90s.

It came out.

And it had what the heck's her name.

It's going to drive me crazy.

Angelica Houston.

Thank you.

My God.

You're welcome.

Angelica Houston.

I apologize, Miss Houston.

What an actor.

The greatest of apologies.

What is your favorite Witch movie or favorite movie with Witches?

Is there anything like that?

Let us know.

Let us know.

We'll keep this going till Halloween, of course.

Yeah.

And we love it.

I think it's another great topic here for our listeners out there.

And again, call up or text or any way you got to get a hold of us.

Just click the little text icon and let us know.

What's your, do you have a favorite go to Halloween movie or, you know, horror movie?

Yeah.

Or what spooky movie are you planning to watch this Halloween?

Like, what's, what's up?

The top of your list.

It's funny.

Growing up, it wasn't so much horror movies is suspense.

Like this was usually the month we'd watch at the Christie movies or Alfred Hitchcock

or something like that when I was a kid.

Sure.

What do you, what do you watch?

Let us know, everybody.

Yeah.

And of course, keep in mind we are still looking for nonprofit groups that are hosting

a Halloween activity or event this month.

Yes, please.

We'll let us know about them so we can let our audience know.

Yeah.

Email us infoatwfhgr.com with the information or call us up 424-130715424-1300.

Get us that information about your Halloween events.

Everybody, let's take a call before we go to the break.

Good morning.

What's on your mind?

Yeah.

I still think my favorite movie is The Rainbow Tribe.

Ooh.

It has that boy from, I don't know if I wouldn't be getting on there with Russell.

Yeah.

Oh.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You know, that's a good movie.

So my sister recommended that one to me and I haven't gotten to see it yet, but I've heard

good things about it.

Check that out.

That's a good choice.

Thank you.

It has Ed Quinn in it.

Yes.

Yeah, I saw that.

Good choice there, sir.

Thank you for that.

I love Ed Quinn.

Appreciate the call, as always.

You have a good morning.

And you all stick around because we got one more segment left of the morning show.

Welcome back, everyone.

Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio.

More and I catching that last train out of the show.

Yeah, sure.

Yeah, sure.

Because we got a lot of work to do today.

That's what I'm doing.

Yeah, we got a lot to go to.

So we got to get to it.

We'll get to it at the top of the hour.

And of course, at the top of the hour, you will have nothing but great civic media program

and coming up for you throughout the day.

Everybody stick around for that.

Coming back.

I was trying to get the woo.

And there they go.

I got it.

So we got some good stories today.

We'll get to it a moment.

But I wanted to touch on some events going on in our area.

Absolutely.

We're scheduled.

Be sure to join us on our sister station 1055WRI today at 650 boys soccer, splash at

rapids, taking on the Lincoln Red Raiders, boys soccer, siege, original semi-final, Mike

and Laura are going to have that one for you.

It's true.

I will be here doing that.

Join us at 1055WRI at 650 for that one, support local sports.

Yeah.

At 705 right here on WFHR, the Wisconsin hockey hour.

That's right.

Love catching that when I can.

Be sure to do so, everybody.

That's going to be good.

And also wanted to touch on this and remind everybody that tomorrow morning will be American

heroes cafe.

Yeah.

This goes on the second and fourth Wednesday of the month from 730 to 930 over a cross-view

church.

This is for all area veterans, military, police, and firefighters.

You were all welcome.

If you are one of those individuals, please spread the word about this event so we can make

sure that all veterans, military, police, and firefighters know that this is going on.

Mm-hmm.

A big shout out to all the people that work on this one and volunteer and help out.

Absolutely.

Appreciate them doing this.

Enjoy American Heroes Cafe, Central Wisconsin, 730 to 930 at Crossview Church tomorrow, everybody.

And one of them mentioned that the Arunite Way has their day of caring coming up.

Yeah, they do.

They were collecting volunteers.

We're looking all hands on deck for this one.

More hands make light work.

We have got, I believe Terry said, 99 yards or something like that.

Like, woo.

We got a lot of yards.

So they're going to need volunteers, babies.

Yes.

As somebody who has done this, and Seth has noted in anybody that you talk to that has

been a part of day of caring, we'll tell you, it is one of the more humbling, wonderful

events.

It's a very rewarding thing to take part in.

I've done three or four of them, and I remember everyone.

I remember the lawns that I raked.

Sure.

And I remember playing with, uh, Seth's boys, uh, in every thing, or the, the great meat

and char, uh, you know, Gary and, and, and stuff, some of our listeners and everything,

just organically.

It's such a wonderful event.

Mm-hmm.

If you're a young person, you're, you got college resumes, you're putting out there and

everything.

It'll look good on there.

Whoo.

Yeah.

Will.

He's ready to go.

We want you to be a part of this, uh, go to uswac.org, and you can register, just

to find out and register your team, or just yourself, and they'll put you with a

team.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

All hands on deck.

And you get, I almost forgot.

You get a t-shirt.

Yes.

Yeah.

And it's green this year.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Uh, be sure to sign up for that.

And of course, remember that the Argy United Way is in campaigns, campaign season.

Yes, they are.

Get on over there and donate if you can.

Every penny counts and every penny stays in this community.

And boy, does it get used?

You can't go anywhere without hearing something awesome.

The United Way of United, or Southwood and Adams County is doing for our area, man.

I, I don't think it's a, it's a heavy lifting to make the argument that now more than ever,

your donations, and your investment, and what the United Way is doing is more important

that it's ever been.

You're about to enter a time where things are really hard.

You're going to want those local nonprofits stocked and ready to be able to handle the

needs that we're going to have.

U-W-S-W-A-C dot org.

Be sure to head on over there.

The Wisconsin Rapids Family Center invites you to their annual domestic violence awareness

vigil.

Everyone knows someone.

Please join us to honor those who tragically lost their life to domestic violence related

homicides in Wisconsin in 2024.

We'll be celebrating those that support survivors and work to make change in our community, and

they're on the right side of history.

The theme for 2025, everyone knows someone reminds us to work together to learn about

the causes and impacts the DeMex violence in our community so that we might recognize

warning signs and empower those affected by domestic violence.