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Good morning. Thanks for hanging out with us everybody.
Hope you're having a great start to your day. Got some entertainment news in a moment.
Get into some crazy excuse. The craziest excuses we've used to miss work.
That was a list of that. That's always fun.
And 15 ways we use to listen to music and why we miss them.
Okay. I'll get into that.
Cool.
And we'll get into some entertainment or some, our schedule and some good stories of the day as well for you everybody.
Sure.
Want to begin with entertainment. Al Pacino and Robert De Nero are celebrating 50 years of friendship.
They are doing an ad campaign together for a winter line from a luxury brand called Montclair.
The theme is warmer together.
De Nero says, quote, warmth was never about the outside.
It was always about what is happening on the inside.
Pacino says, quote, friendship is the greatest thing you can have.
Friends, people whom you share the same world with.
There is just an in it, in it, in it trust with it and an understanding of life.
It is fun to see these two like interviewed together.
There are very few things to me that I have seen that hit on the level of seeing Al Pacino and Robert De Nero share a screen together.
Right.
I've mentioned and I've rambled about the movie heat many, many, many times.
Sure.
And that movie is very well written.
A Michael Mann does an amazing directing it.
It's a 10 for 10 everywhere.
The editing, the sound, everything on it.
Or a fantastic movie.
But if De Nero and Pacino are not in it, it's just not as good or the same type of movie.
De Nero and Pacino without working together as much as Newman and Redford have the same type of chemistry.
Have the same type of mutual respect.
And they've done two or three movies together now.
Yeah.
And some of them that is good as heat.
Sure.
But just to see them working together, you see what I'm talking about.
Yeah.
There's chemistry that is built.
And there's chemistry that is organic.
Yeah.
De Nero and Pacino, Redford and Newman were very much, the organ.
Very much organic.
That's what happened for them.
Yeah.
And the same thing with these two.
Yeah.
I just, I only wish that they had gotten to work together a little bit more in their prime.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Casting directors were always incredibly afraid of putting them on screen together at the same time.
It took Michael Mann to really be a man about it and be like, okay, yeah, we're doing this.
Like this needs to happen.
Right.
And they came up together, you know, same age similar age, you know, they were both young actors together kind of thing.
Similar backgrounds, you know, of the Italian descent thing, you know, that sort of thing.
So they, so they were kind of beginning, they were typecast, you know, in certain roles that they could,
there was only certain things they could do.
But that finally, you know, over time, that broaden and they could do different kinds of things.
Which is, I mean, that's one of the better things that's happened in Hollywood ever the last 40, 50 years is that.
But it is, it is cool to see that they've had a friendship for that long.
But, you know, what Robert De Niro has done in his career is unmatched.
First off, one of the biggest game changing actors of all time.
Right.
He would, he took a lot of what Brando did and what a lot of Stanoloski and a lot of those acting meds and did his own thing with them.
Yeah, he did.
And in doing that, just by not trying to change the game, he changed the game.
Yeah.
To the point now where you've got Daniel De Lewis, you've got method acting on steroids.
Right.
You've got this insane little, little too much, yeah.
But Al Pacino is not only going to go down as having one of the greatest acting careers of all time.
The Al Pacino in the early 70s.
His stretch of films.
Godfather, dog day afternoon, Serpico.
Like you will never, I don't know if you'll ever see a better stretch than Al Pacino from like 71, 72 to 76, 77.
That stretch of movies he does.
I don't, I've studied this.
I don't know anybody that has a stretch of movies like that in acting history, the critical.
I mean, I don't know if all of them were hits, but critically, they were all just, I mean, they're all classic movies.
Yeah.
Well, yeah.
I'm certainly focusing on the acting.
Right.
And not only the vast difference of characters from Don Corleone to his character and dog day afternoon,
which people don't even, I mean, realize that that's such a different character.
Yeah.
You have not seen many more versatile actors than Al Pacino and you never will like that.
There's, I, the level Al Pacino is on is incredibly different than most actors will ever see.
I hope they do another movie together.
I think to see them do a comedy together.
You know, they both, that'd be fun.
Yeah.
They've done some comedic stuff here and there.
Right.
Al Pacino is apparently hilarious on set.
He's apparently one of these guys.
It's like to just joke around all the time.
It's love it.
You got the director has to remind him to be serious and stuff.
There's a good chance.
We have been saying Mariska Haggerty's name wrong.
Oh, no.
Mariska cleared up the confusion on the latest episode of Amy Puller's Good Hang podcast,
which is a really fun podcast.
Over the years, she's got everything from Mariska to Marissa to Marissa to Mariska to Mariska.
Oh, no.
The correct pronunciation is Mariska.
Mariska.
Mariska.
Mariska.
So there's a show in there.
Mariska.
Okay.
A little almost Yiddish, it sounds.
Mariska.
It is not Yiddish, but it almost has a Yiddish.
Yeah.
She says, quote, in Hungarian, the car and the key at the end of the name is just like a little
endemant.
Oh, okay.
All right.
So the name is actually Maria, after my grandmother, both of them Hungarian and Italian.
Oh.
Oh, I didn't know that.
So Mariska.
That's such a nice flow to it.
It's a really cool.
I love that name.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's a name, and it's one of those names that just fits her so well, even though I've never
heard that name before in my life.
And it's better.
I mean, it is her last name.
A hard-get-y, though, is not a great sounding.
No.
It's such a harsh sounding name, but I mean, that was her dad's name.
So it makes sense.
You know, kind of thing.
Well, into that.
Yeah.
Pinky backing on that set.
By now, most people, if you know her, you know her famous family.
Yeah.
It ties.
And then her story.
She was another one of these actors that was told by agents early on, you got to chain
your name.
You got to be James.
No one could say Mariska, right?
Yeah.
You're never going to have a career with that name.
Nobody's ever going to know who you are.
Yeah.
And look at her.
Yeah.
And doing it basically with one role.
Yeah.
And I mean, and she is just, and it's, it's an amazing performer.
I mean, it's just so cool by, and it's like, yeah, what do you mean she's not going
to have it?
By the way, I'm Jay Manfield's daughter.
Get out of here.
What are you talking about?
What age, I hope those agents don't have a job.
I really do.
Seriously.
I don't usually wish that on people, but find another job because this is not the industry
for you.
No.
If you think that lady is going to have a hard time finding work.
No.
And then there's this one that I thought was kind of interesting, Seth.
And this brings out the 90s kids in us.
Okay.
Drummer Matt Cameron will be inducted in the Rocker Roll Hall of Fame for a second time on
November 8th with Soundgarden.
Okay.
He's previously part of Pearl Jam's induction back in 2017.
Wow.
It's kind of interesting.
And I really grunge, you know, like a famer right there.
No kidding.
Matt says this time feels a little more meaningful though.
Quote, I helped build Soundgarden from the ground up.
I helped create the sound.
I think a little bit more than I did with Pearl Jam.
Which is definitely more of an established thing when I came into it.
That's right.
That's right.
Matt is 63 now.
He joined Soundgarden at 86 and played on each of their six studio albums.
Matt joined Pearl Jam in 98 and first appeared on by by NREL in 2000.
So he was more of a touring drummer for quite some time until they finally brought him
into the studio.
Right.
He actually just left Pearl Jam in July.
He is having issues with their three hour shows and constant touring.
You just can't keep up with it.
Wow.
When you get to a certain age, I understand that.
Quote, that's definitely an art form onto itself to be able to do those types of shows.
I'm at a point now where I want to do a face melting 70 minutes set and that's kind
of all I want to focus on.
Oh, okay.
I see.
Just make it quick and easy.
Yeah.
Matt, the fact that he's still doing it.
Hey, man.
That's pretty impressive right there.
Yeah.
Matt also gave an update on Soundgarden 8-track final album using post-humanist vocals
from Chris Cornell.
Oh.
He says it's over halfway done and guitars Kim Thail is perfecting his parts on the recording.
Wow.
I didn't even know they were doing that.
That's interesting.
I'm going to listen.
Yeah.
I don't even know if I should be or not, but I'm excited about it.
But it feels a little weird.
It's, well, honestly, it feels like the Beatles thing, where they took John's vocals and
kind of added their own stuff to it and that's, honestly, as long as the rest of the band
is cool, if Chris Cornell's family is cool with it, then, hey, I'm like, go for it.
Maybe you could come up with something really interesting.
It's, again, one of these things where music is so very, very, very different than any
other art media, where I don't know, there's certain, like, the artists don't feel like
we lose them.
Like you can visually see an actor or somebody like that in a movie and stuff, and you're
almost hard-pressed not to think about them being involved.
Right.
Exactly.
Whereas with the music, it's not something you think about right away.
Maybe you do, maybe you don't, but if you're lucky enough, you forget about it while
you're listening to the song.
That's a great point.
Don't think of what my favorite band members look like when I'm listening, not videos
or anything other than just when I'm listening to the music.
I think about the music.
I think about the lyrics.
I think about everything about the music.
I don't have a visual necessarily of the band playing the music, right?
And that's a really good point because, and I think that's why I can get away with it
a little bit more that way.
Yeah.
It makes it interesting.
It does, absolutely.
As far as, like, when we lose artists in memory, I was listening to new Tupac
songs 10 years after his death.
Right.
And so I mean, there's still really some print stuff because he recorded so much music,
right?
Yeah.
It's certainly not new, but it's something that we're more okay with than boy, when an
actor has a movie come out post-humusly.
Yeah.
Like, that is usually a very uncomfortable thing that feels a little weirder now that it's
very, very double.
Yeah.
Yeah.
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The crazy excuses we've used to miss work coming up on the morning show.
Welcome back, everyone.
Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio, set in James hanging out with you.
Thanks for hanging out with us.
It is almost a weekend, but sometimes you need that extra day, you know, you just want
that day.
Just need a day.
You know, it's about time.
I need to take a day.
Yeah.
And while there are plenty of reasons like doctors appointments and things like that that
people ask off for work, there are days where you just want that day.
I know.
Mental health day.
Yeah.
That's, I was just going to say that's one of the bigger ones going around now.
That's becoming more normalized of needing that.
That's right.
Well, someone asked Reddit for the crazy excuses they've seen for missing work.
And real quick, before we get to these, I want you all to keep in mind that this is, this
will always be a thing, but it is not nearly the thing that it used to be.
Nowadays, if people don't want to show up, sometimes they don't even tell you, they
just don't show up.
They don't even bother coming up with the crazy excuse anymore.
I feel like there is almost a part of me that is going to be missing the idea of, you
know, somebody in these wild, Ferris Bueller like needing the day off and they come up with
these wacky excuses or whatever.
How many grammos does he have?
Yes, exactly.
Yeah.
So someone has done Reddit here, the highlights of, you know, crazy excuses to miss work.
A guy didn't show up on Valentine's Day because he thought it was a federal holiday.
Oh, that's great.
Hey, almost plausible, almost plausible.
James, I noticed you weren't here on Monday.
What was Arbor Day?
I thought Arbor Day was an actual holiday, right?
It was an actual holiday.
I was planting a tree.
I flushed my car keys down the toilet.
Now that, to be fair, has happened in the past, but we usually have like a backup set.
Oh, I mean, like, I don't know many people that have a single key.
Yeah.
All of us, all of us are walking around with 20 keys.
Yeah, exactly.
For if we don't know what happened more for, but, you know, is that getting flushed?
What kind of toilet do you have?
Like, how is that getting down there?
That's, I got a lot of fault with my keyring of 20 keys, and I went down the toilet.
If you call in to me, you're going to get a lot of follow-up questions out of these,
and that's because I don't believe you, but I'm just curious.
Just keep, just, your curiosity.
Old chipmunks filled my trunk's engine with walnuts.
Oh, we've all been there.
We've all been.
Again, plausible.
If you live in the country, animals, I've had, I've told the story before the rabbit
that ended up in our car, that we, we, we had a toad, you know, into, because we have,
we're having issues with it.
We have a toad at overnight, I guess, the rabbit crawled into the car, because when our
make the mechanic opened up the trunk, it's what popped out.
Boop!
It was a rabbit.
Scared this living day lights out of him, too.
I can't imagine.
It was not expecting that.
Someone's coworker called out because she ran out of toilet paper, and so she called
it.
Why?
No, no, no, no, no.
She, she did call from the toilet at least.
She did, yeah.
She really, she stuck to the bed.
Sorry, I have to stay here all day because I don't have any toilet paper.
A woman called off work because there was a big bug outside her door, but it turned
out, it was just a piece of string.
That's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that one, I think, that a lot of us
could relate to.
I think people have been freaked out by things before.
I mentioned what happened to me when I was a kid and I first moved out here with walking
sticks.
Yeah.
That didn't know, nobody told me that was a thing.
Nobody warned me.
Oh, son, I see this stick just moving up and down like, and, and your, your world was
in a ball of confusion after that.
I know.
I didn't know what to do.
I've never trusted a stick since.
That could be a walking stick.
I don't know.
Quote, I ate a whole log of cookie dough.
You know what?
Ooh.
I'm not going to fight you out of that one.
I like okay.
I wouldn't go to work either if I did that.
Yeah.
Oh.
That's rough.
I'm still going to ask you to come in, just come in late.
Yeah.
Um, when they're done.
Quote, I got bit on the finger by a squirrel while tossing a coffee cup into a parking garbage
transcan.
Yeah.
Wow.
That's what I'm talking about these, that's a good one where you got to go, you got to
make the leap.
The extra mile.
Yes.
Go with the extra mile of the excuse.
I'm with you on that one.
I don't believe you, but at least try.
Yeah.
Exactly.
Put some thought into it.
At least give me a reason to entertain me while you're trying to get off of work, right?
Quote, I can't work because Zane left one direction.
So I like this one.
I like the idea of something like the couple famous couple broke up so you can't go to
work.
Hey, you know what?
I'm not going to.
And now this is a little more serious, but I'll bet you that the day after John Lennon
was killed.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
I don't know.
I don't know anybody that has a better work ethic than my father, and my whole lifetime.
And I almost guarantee you he did that.
Yeah.
I almost guarantee you that.
Seriously, it affected people really seriously.
So I mean, it's not the saying I get it, you know, it's just someone leaving a mess, not
someone being killed, which is a big difference, right?
But still, I can see how people can get upset about that.
So I'm not trying to like brown nose, the work world, or anything here.
It's just a color of my nose.
But I don't have a crazy excuse.
Like I've had crazy things I haven't been able to go into work for.
Right.
Yeah.
But plenty of times when I was a bouncer over when I was living into Cal, and I was a bouncer
there at a bar, I had to call on the work one night because somebody broke into our apartment
and I got into a fight with them, and I was, you know, I was going to be like, that
would be a good reason.
I would say not to go.
But I'm telling my boss, and I can hear him on the other line, laughing and not believe
me.
And saying, so you got in a fight outside of work, you were trying to basically kick somebody
out of a place when you were spent your job, like this, but not here, where you're getting
pained to do it, right?
I literally, I got fired literally like three days later, like a three days later,
man.
Like I was like, that's the kind of stuff that happens to me, though, because I have a weird
life.
Like I am, I, man, I think one of the things that I'm looking for more and more of the
older I get, give me something normal, give me something just basic, and the, is there
any that you have?
Is there any that you think you've gotten or anything?
Because I know, no, I've gotten, you know, okay, well, okay, here's one.
And this guy was, he was, he was not very consistent anyway.
And it was just, so a, I use a bar, I was a bar manager at the, the arena and the convention
center down in, up in Duluth for a couple of years, the bar manager there.
And of course, one of the things you do as bar manager is when there's big events like
concerts and stuff, you know, you get the beer out, you know, get all the beer stations
ready to go.
And one of the things we had every year was monster trucks.
Oh, boy.
Okay.
So, monster trucks coming in and, you know, but all you're doing is you're not in the arena
with the monster truck.
You know, you're on the outside part and you're horn beer, you know, people come and line
up and that kind of thing.
I had a guy call in and tell me that I can't be there for the monster trucks because the
fumes.
Oh, wow.
Oh, that's good.
Oh, that's okay.
I'm like, okay, we got ear plugs.
So if anyone needed ear plug, you know, too loud, we got, you know, got covered kind
of thing.
But I'm like, yeah, seriously.
Oh, my God.
I mean, it doesn't smell good, but I mean, I seriously, but it's, it's, it's also such
a, like it's, that's a tough one.
It would be tougher in this day and age.
Yeah.
But if somebody calls up with that when you're almost damned either way, because yes, you
want to push them to work, like you got to work through that here, mask or whatever.
But also, I mean, the pushback is going to get you in trouble probably right at issues
with the guy before anyway.
I think that was the last run.
I think I fired him after that.
But yeah.
Um, I said a job once where the person literally couldn't find our building and that,
that was why it didn't work out because they couldn't find the building.
This is nowadays.
This is where you have, you still have a million apps on your phone to find a GPS and all
that similar, similar thing happens here.
Actually, not that long ago.
It's genuinely one of the crazier ones I've heard at a long time.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, even if the GPS is wrong, which it can be, we'll give you an address.
You can still do it the old fashioned way, right?
That's just wild.
Not only that, but that you would just like all off, like call off the job because you
can't find the building.
Because you can't find the building.
Yeah.
Something weird about that.
And quote, a guy I worked with in retail 15 years ago called in to say he had a nightmare
and didn't think he could get back to sleep and come in to work on five hours later.
So basically, he had a nightmare and that's why he was calling it.
And he called in right after the nightmare by the sound of it, like left a man saying,
so I'm not going to get enough sleep in the next five hours or so.
I'm not coming.
That is a wild one to me, that is a wild, but it's interesting.
That must have been one heck of a nightmare too.
We want to hear your best, the best work excuse is you have heard or even given, you
don't have to give your name, you just, you know, you can say anonymous, I would just
be curious if you used to, a little interesting excuse to get out of work.
That'd be fun.
I did.
I've only done this once in my life, but I was when I was working in a hotel industry.
My family was coming into town during Hanukkah, so I wanted to take one of the days off.
So I asked my manager at the time, hey, I'd like to stay off and it is kind of religious
reasons.
It's one of the days of Hanukkah and everything and they did not believe me.
They thought I would, I just wanted the day off.
What?
Like, nobody in human history is pretending to be Jewish.
Like, there's nobody doing that.
Nobody.
We are what we are.
That's weird.
That's wild.
It was, but then when he found out what it was, it was almost like annoying how over the
top it's trying to be nice to me and bring up Jewish stuff like every five seconds and
everything.
It's fine.
It's over, it's over.
It's over compensated, right?
Yeah.
That's all right, dude.
It's okay.
That's a good guy though.
We'll take a quick time out.
We'll come back and have some more fun.
We got the way we used to listen to music and why we miss it.
Nice.
On the morning show.
Welcome back, everybody, morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio had to get that
in.
Had to get to the restaurant.
Yes.
So good.
So good.
I've been waiting to get into this one, Seth.
All right.
UltimateClassicRock.com put together a list of 15 of the ways we used to listen to music
and why we may or may not miss it.
Okay.
Very cool.
I'd also like to along these lines, maybe, you know, share some of the positives of modern
day music.
Yeah.
And the way we get it and stuff too.
The number one in the list, and this isn't in any particular order, I don't think.
But pocket transistor radio.
Oh, wow.
Quote.
The thrill of tuning into unknown radio stations from the backseat of the family car while
listening, while while visiting the beach was pure magic.
Yes.
One person quote those old transistor radios, man, the portable ones, oh, man, that literally
fit in like the top.
Yeah, they were small.
They were not small.
That was the big thing with transistors when they became, they replaced vacuum tubes because
they were so much smaller.
And transistors were later than replaced by microchips.
That's the thing just they got smaller and could do more data on one thing.
But that was the miracle of transistors.
Yeah.
One of my favorite things I ever had, my whole life, my whole life.
And I felt like the world's like most awesome kid because I had one and I had so few things
when I was growing up, clothes, toys, anything, and I didn't have a lot of stuff.
My Nana, my Nana, my mom went to a garage sale and they got me one of those little record
players.
They played 45s on it.
Yes.
And that thing meant the world to me.
I can still picture every little detail about it.
Oh, yeah.
I was white and it was, it was so perfect.
It was awesome.
And the Fisher Price turn table shows up on his list.
Ah, yes.
The thrill of sneaking mom and dad's double-neil diamond album and playing it all over
again.
Oh, that is a lot.
But I mean, those are made basically for kid records.
Yeah.
And I mean, because I had a whole bunch, someone, we got them from somewhere, got a whole bunch
of those old school kid records.
And we did.
We had an old portable record player that we played.
It probably wasn't this Fisher Price one, but a similar.
The portable turn table is also on here, kind of piggybacking.
Very close.
Yeah.
Flipping through album covers, reading line or notes.
Oh.
How about the album that folded open?
Like the, the gatefold, the gatefold album.
Yes.
I think that part of the reason of the return of vinyl is not just the sound.
No, it's not.
But the actual album itself.
It's the material.
It's the stuff you could do.
I was telling James, so I got a bunch of records from my dad.
And one of them is Led Zeppelin III.
And it has, it has the die cut cover with the wheel that would change, you know, they have
the little openings and you could change the pictures and some of the band pictures
were in there and stuff.
I mean, that's some of the cool stuff you could do with record covers with album
covers.
You're speaking to like, oh, how I spent some of my days in the winter was going through
that exact album you're talking about, or Earth Wind and Fire, oh, so many other albums
my dad has.
Yes.
So cool.
Anything.
Everything Beatles.
Yeah.
Every single Beatles did a lot with that with ours too.
Eight track player.
Quote that satisfying kachunk that signaled a song was about to start was just, it wasn't
just a sound.
It was something you felt in your gut.
Oh, that is, you know, I've never really listened to an eight track player.
I've heard it, you know, I've seen that and I know what they're talking about.
Yeah.
That does sound satisfying.
It's, it's like the sound when you put the needle on the record, that little, that little
sound that you hear in the pop starts.
It's like, oh, yeah.
There's something to that.
Ah, love it.
And to, to not understand the difference of vinyl and an MP3, I don't, I feel like you
don't understand music.
I feel like you don't understand how, how that only, not so much music, but how music
and technology work.
Right.
In order to fit these gigantic songs into a form like that, you have to crush everything.
You have to layer everything.
Yes.
You have to compress it.
Yeah.
You're not hearing the sounds like you would on vinyl or something.
It's literally different.
Oh my gosh.
It is.
It's just different.
It doesn't mean one is better than the other to each their own, but to think, to think
that there is no difference, you are not, you know, not giving respect to technology
and music.
And if you have, I would love to, to someone who's never listened to vinyl before, you
know, and just, it's just used to, you know, streaming services and all this kind of stuff.
And you have a really good sound system.
I mean, just plunk them down and just put it on there.
And I mean, it's like a world opens up and how different it sounds.
It's really amazing.
I, there are very few things that I, I think I'm like this on, but music is one of those
things where I, I cannot settle.
I have to be able to hear the layers.
I have to be able to hear the notes.
I have to get here at all.
A lot of MP3s don't work for me because I know how the original song sounds.
That don't, that doesn't have that fullness to that sound to it.
Yeah.
Leather wrapped transistor radio from the garage.
Oh, good Lord.
That comforting certainty that the hits would be back right after a quick message from
a local car dealership.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh, yes.
That's the classic music radio.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Dad's a stereo with the glass doors.
Oh, my God.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
We had that.
Yeah.
We did.
Like the spring loaded.
So you had that little flat metal piece that had a magnet on and then you pushing it
would pop open.
Yep.
Kind of thing.
I'm both.
And it opened up to you.
Oh, man.
Little push.
So my set, my dad set up had, of course, you know, the turntable was on top and it was
like a shelf system kind of thing.
So yeah, we had the turntable, the receiver.
I mean, the receiver so you could put everything out to the speakers that you had everything
on there.
And then on the bottom was a big space for his real to real four track player.
Oh, nice.
Oh, that's good.
We didn't do that very much, but when we did, oh, that was cool.
It's my parents talk about it as some of the earliest memories they have of me, of my dad
and his system, just similar to your dad's, with two huge speakers on the side.
And me just messing with the dials and jamming to the music and everything and not knowing
what I was doing.
Learning, learning what, what treble, when you move the treble, oh, it sounds different
than the bass.
Whoa, look at that.
You know.
Those things were so cool.
They were fun.
And we used to listen to music.
It was an experience.
We used to listen to music and it wasn't about convenience or, or, it wasn't background
music.
You were actually paying attention to what was going on.
Yeah.
The boom box with the handle.
Yeah.
Uh, just, I mean, first off, just the look, just to be able to walk around with the
box.
Iconic.
Yeah.
Um, but I think about this all the time.
How many batteries did those things need, like eight D batteries or something like that?
At least.
And for like an hour and a half, that's all I would last.
I, you know, things you can't prove that you know are true.
I can't prove this, but I believe without a shadow of a doubt, there was never a boom
box built that didn't at least need eight of those big old batteries.
Those D batteries.
Yeah.
I can remember ones that needed like 10, 12, like, yes, yeah, there were some, especially
because, um, for me, I, I loved the boom box, but the ones with the double deck.
Yeah.
It had a double deck.
All of a sudden needed like two more batteries.
Yeah.
I'm sure you did.
Yeah.
Of course, that changed the game, man.
Everything changed with that.
That is the thing that made cassettes is was the Walkman because the cassettes had been
around for a little while.
But before the Walkman, I mean, you didn't need it.
You had like in your car, you had like an eight track.
And then of course at home, you had the phone a graph that you could put records on.
You didn't need a tape player, but then or cassettes, but then the Walkman came out and
that a whole new market exploded.
Like, um, changed with this in many, many, many, many, many ways.
It may be the biggest game changer, two music outside of recording and some of that.
For when, when we did that, all of a sudden, we started changing.
It wasn't about, hey, what's the best way for people to hear my music?
I work so hard on this.
What's the best way they can actually get what I'm trying to get across to here and hear
my vision?
Vinyl was that and everything.
As soon as cars come around, eight track gets invented for transporting.
It's getting more portable than having.
They didn't have car photographs, but they weren't, they didn't work that well and they
were, you know, they were kind of a luxury item, but with anyone could put an eight track
player in their car.
Yeah.
As soon as the Walkman comes out, all of a sudden the music industry starts going, how can
we get the music to go with you?
Where, how, what do we got to do?
We'll turn it into this.
We'll turn it into that.
We'll make, we'll make cassettes, we'll make MP3s.
We'll do whatever we can to make it transportable for you because now the music has to go with
you.
We've changed everything from that.
We don't get MP3s in these things, probably because...
100%.
And the Walkman, we're still using.
It's not what we used to be.
It's not a CD.
You've got a walk still, you can't, you know, bump it because it'll skip on you or because
that's my getting eaten or something like that.
It's not in those lines, but we, you know, Apple has had how many different, like, little
devices and you...
Yeah, the iPod and then the, I mean, that's just a walk, and it's just a glorified
thing.
It is.
You're so right.
It was always the better portable because you could get a portable CD player, but it didn't
work as well.
Yeah.
As a cassette.
And I would say it not only does it make, it made you listen differently, okay?
When you have a vinyl record and you, you can play it all the way through.
If there's a song you don't like, you can skip it.
It's not, it's a little, you know, it's hard to find the right spot.
You know, you get the end of it or something like that, which is kind of fun too.
Yeah.
But with, with tapes, you're, you're, you're at the Walkman, you're, you're moving.
You got to listen to everything, man.
You do?
It was an experience of listening to that entire album until the, and then you could just
quickly flip it over, you know, didn't have to stop much.
You could probably keep walking as you flipped it over with one hand kind of thing.
To our point about this, the next things that they mentioned are all basically evolutions
of it.
The Sony Walkman Sport, the Sony Discman, the mini disc player, all evolving from that.
Right.
The mini disc never really caught on.
I thought that was one that would, but it never does.
It's a bunch of mini disc players and zoons just sitting in a landfill somewhere, yeah.
Should the car multi CD changer?
Oh, yes.
That was a big one.
That in the boom box that had this up, my favorite boom box I ever had, it had a five
disc changer and that was one of the biggest game changers there's ever been.
You mean, I just get thrown my music in there and I don't have to worry about it.
I can just play it.
I could just hit playing.
It keeps going.
Yeah.
Oh, that was awesome.
The pre-trip ritual of loading up your CDs and having, making sure you had the ones
you wanted.
Yes.
Oh my God.
I forgot about that.
If we were less distracted back then or we were more, we were more than or not.
I don't know.
It's an interesting one.
But the last three items on the list, a win app, the other way you listening to music on
the family computer, Zoom and Zen, where deep cuts, there's a number of different ways.
I think that we may not be remembering, but they're all exist, but it's awesome to think
of like the industry and the creativity and the technology that has gone to just so you
can listen to your favorite songs wherever you are.
Right.
That's it.
Not because of some earth-shattering, we need to do this, otherwise society will die.
We need to do this.
Otherwise, you know, our education system's going to fall apart.
Any of these kind of things like this, we've gone so far into this just so we could take
our music with us.
Exactly.
And it's amazing.
And I don't want to downgrade what's going on now.
It's easier than ever now to get new music stuff you've never heard before.
And there was no other way you really could do it except for the radio.
That was the way that we used to be able to get new music.
Now you can get new music from so many different groups from all over the world.
I mean, it's so much easier to find something you like now than it whatever was before.
It's really easy to say, oh, this is better now than it was before.
This is worse than it was or something like that.
I get a little tired of that argument because it doesn't change anything.
It's different, but it doesn't mean it's better or worse.
Right.
It just is what it is.
I think that when you look at the positives of it, a lot of what I think of isn't so much
about me as a music fan, but musicians.
And the idea that a musician can get discovered easier now than ever in human history.
They can make a living without being super famous, right?
And more and more, we're seeing more and more artists being able to do their own thing,
own their own music.
Yeah.
A lot of that.
And get themselves out there.
And so much of that has to do with streaming and MP3 isn't all this.
And because it's easier to transport now, yeah.
I think that the positives are there with this.
Absolutely.
And another fun part of this, too, if you like those old ways of listening to music,
you still can.
You can still do it.
That's pretty cool.
If you have an old Vic Trolla that plays nothing but 78 RPM records, you do it.
Just go for it.
And music is not only universal, music is one of those things that brings us together.
It does.
And it doesn't worry.
Music doesn't care who you vote for.
Music doesn't care if you're rich or poor.
Music just listen.
It's there.
It makes your life better.
We'll take a quick time out.
We'll come back and wrap up the morning show for this to Wednesday.
Welcome back, everybody.
Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio, Seth and James hanging out with you.
Thanks for hanging out with us.
We're going to take you to the top of the hour.
Got nothing but great civic media programming coming up throughout the rest of the day.
Everybody want to get into our schedule and some good stories of the day and some great
events going on in our area.
We just want to remind everybody that we're still collecting.
If you're a non-profit, you've got a Halloween activity going on, a Halloween event.
Let us know about it so we can let the audience know.
Yes.
If you still have some out there coming up next week, we would still collect them and
get them out there.
Email us infoatwfhera.com or call us up at 715-424-1300.
Looking forward to hearing from all of you.
Yeah.
Great wrap and support lined up for you today.
We're going to be talking with a good friend Lance Plymouth, Wood County Board Chairman.
All right.
We've got Wisconsin Rapids Community Media in.
That combination, you know it's going to be good.
Yes.
It's going to be a great conversation there.
And we're going to hang out with the ODC and it's going to join us.
We're going to talk about their haunted house.
Oh, I see how that did.
Yeah.
How that did and everything.
And a couple of other great topics we've got with them looking forward to all of that.
Nice.
A little bit later today.
Our sister station 1055WRI.
We got playmakers from 4 to 5.
Join us for a live sports call and show brought to you by Quality Plus Printing.
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Get your sports takes and feelings to us from 4 to 5 on 1055WRI today.
Very cool.
Over here on WFHART 705, the Luke Fickle Show, while it lasts.
It's not looking good right now.
It is not looking good.
I don't know how much longer it's going to be called the Luke Fickle Show.
There we go.
I don't know much longer it's going to be that.
We'll see.
We'll find out more over that one.
And we've got other great sports on the radio dials, dials on both stations.
Yeah.
A little bit more coming up.
Seth, it's Wednesday.
We know what that means.
It means Bingo.
Bingo.
Over at the Oxlodge, number 693 at 430 West Jackson Street in Wisconsin Rapids.
The doors open at 5 o'clock.
630 is when the Bingo starts.
They do this every Wednesday, ladies and gentlemen.
And of course, it's to support the Elks and all the great things that they do.
They've had a couple other fun events happening recently.
And it's all to help raise funds to help stuff in the community.
There's a lot of things that they do with veterans and students and all that kind of stuff.
So help support the Elks and have fun at the same time by doing some Bingo tonight.
And we are getting closer.
Just a couple of days away, every one day of caring is just around the corner.
They are getting ready, still accepting volunteers and groups to get ready to rake some yards
in town here.
And you still have a chance to go to their website, get more information about that UWSWAC.org
and call 715-421-0390 during their normal business hours and get some more information
on that.
That's coming up on Saturday plus they'll give you the start times and all that stuff.
And breakfast as well because you do get a breakfast with it.
Got Terry and Tamara will be talking a little more about that.
Find out more at UWSWAC.org.
The great people over at this torque point boss have been asking you to come down in the
joint evening of haunted history, storytelling and guided lantern lit tours.
Their spirit walk is going on one more weekend, coming up this weekend over at this torque
point boss going on from 6 to 8 at 364 Wiggly Road just off highway Z.
Be sure to find out more about this and attend.
Be a part of this one.
Put back in your community while also enjoying your community and having some fun.
Find out more at historicpointboss.com, historicpointboss.com.
Be a part of the spirit walk.
Very cool.
I encourage you to do that.
Also encourage you to make plans tomorrow to take in, eat, drink and be murdered and
Irish family feud brought to you by our silver foxes from Wisconsin's Travis Community
Theatre.
Yes.
They got a two o'clock matinee tomorrow and then on a Thursday.
No Friday.
Friday.
They got a seven o'clock show on Friday, both at the WRCT Auditorium.
Find out more at wrctheater.org.
And Seth, I am in purple today.
You are in purple.
It's true.
I am not trying to be a Viking fan with you or anything.
I would expect you to be.
I am trying to, my team already is bad enough.
I am trying to support our month of, month of, month of October here that is domestic violence
awareness month.
Correct.
You're going to see a lot of people in purple, you're going to be seeing a lot of purple
in the community.
Lights in and so forth.
Yep.
Our bridge has been lit up.
Shout out to the mayor and everybody working on that one.
A lot of people have changed their, you know, outdoor lights to purple lights and everything.
And we're all doing this to show we all are on the right side of history with this one.
Okay.
The theme for this year's domestic violence vigil is everyone knows someone.
Please join us to honor those who tragically lost their life due to domestic violence related
homicides in Wisconsin in 2024.
This is an event where we all are going to come together.
What are these individuals while also reminding everybody out there where we stand as a community
on domestic violence and where people out there that are struggling with it that they
know that they have a community that supports them.
We know how Midwesterners are.
We do most things in silence.
We suffer in silence.
We don't share our pain.
This topic is no different.
So be an ally even when you think nobody is listening or paying attention because people
are people are listening and paying attention.
Thursday, October 23rd going on tomorrow over the McMillan Library's beautiful auditorium.
It's 6 o'clock.
We encourage you to be there.
Everybody.
And thank you to everybody planning out attending and a big thank you to our Wisconsin
rabbits family center.
Yes.
The mom of a boy with type one diabetes is trending on TikTok after their dog alerted
her that the kid's blood sugar was low.
Oh.
She said it somehow seemed sense did across the house and I'll throw a sliding door.
Whoa.
Wow.
We've heard this with animals.
If we have about being able to do this.
Yes.
I don't know.
I've heard a one where the dog was like a like a couple of.
It's usually like they're in the room.
Yeah.
Kind of thing.
It was a block away.
Oh, wow.
I think it was able to do this.
Like that's a heck of a sniffery guy.
I'm going to say it's, you know, it's got to be some kind of physical reaction that they
sense or smell.
Or, you know, where one of their senses picks up probably their sense of smell because
it's so keen.
But yeah.
I'm sure there's some great science behind it.
I'm sure there is.
Yeah.
And look into that one.
Be interesting to see.
What's going on?
Doctors in London did brain surgery on a 65 year old woman with Parkinson's while she
played the clarinet.
What?
It was to see how she responded when they messed with different parts of her brain when
that she had an instant results.
Wow.
She immediately had more dexterity in her hands and played a lot better.
That's why hand is the brain is so just fascinating.
My goodness.
That's one of the most wild stories you're ever going to hear.
Man.
Incredible.
How do you volunteer?
Yeah.
Hey, we're going to cut your head open and you can play the clarinet while we poke in
your brain.
You know, like every once in a while, you got to get dental work and they can't knock
out.
Like it.
I love that idea.
That's so great.
That just feels a little bit like that.
Yeah.
A paper in Atlanta did a story this month on a little boy who's oddly obsessed with the
former president Jimmy Carter.
And he was three when he saw a picture of Carter and found it extremely gripping.
He wanted his fifth birthday party to be Jimmy Carter themed.
So his mom started planning and posting videos this summer about it and then habitat for
humanity heard about it and sent him a bunch of swag last week.
Oh, fantastic.
Now he says he wants to build horses when he grows up.
Oh, well, how about that?
You go.
You do it, man.
That's pretty cool.
See, Jimmy Carter, even in death, is inspiring people.
What a good president can do.
Yeah, that's right.
We will, great show today, son.
You too, man.
Be good to each other out there.
