Maybe It’s Just Not Funny (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.

The picture, the figure, the drama, and then

makes no difference what you brought in.

Let's get it going time to start the morning show here at 97-5 FM 13-20 AM.

Locally grown radio got your host James here joined by your CEO of United

Way of Southwood and his county's Terry Johns.

Good morning.

Got the band together Terry.

We do.

And it's Friday for me.

Oh nice, nice.

Kind of is for me too.

More of that in a moment we'll get to.

We got a lot of great show for you today.

We get into the LCAP birthday anniversary club looking forward to diving into that.

That is always fun.

We of course got some other great topics for you.

Being the funny one at work, it can come with a couple of risks.

Then we'll get into that.

If you're dressing up for Halloween, how many of you are dressing up for Halloween?

We've got some stats on that one for you as well.

At the top of the 10 o'clock, it's a Thursday.

You know what that means.

It's our pet of the week with the South of the County of Maine Society.

Denise going to join us.

Looking forward to hanging out with her and finding out who our new pet of the week is and all that.

A little bit of entertainment news.

Get into some things going on in our area and before you wrap up, how many of us are doing their own laundry?

We got to talk about that.

So I saw some weird stats on this one.

I want to get into that one.

All that coming up.

Get into our schedule and plenty of other things.

Terry, one of my favorite things is when you are businesses and are nonprofits,

join forces, come together.

We've got a great one going on tomorrow with you all and our friends at Paper City Savings.

Yes, so Paper City Savings as part of their campaign annually, like forever.

I think the whole time I've been in this role has been doing a broad fry during

during campaign.

And so all of the proceeds get donated to United Way.

And that is happening at their A Street location starting at 10 a.m. tomorrow.

And let me tell you, they have brought hot dogs, hamburgers, cheeseburgers, big pickles.

You know, that's always a choice.

Chips, soda water, and the really awesome thing is they have desserts.

And they are typically assorted.

You know, like people, maybe they're, I think their staff makes them, but you know,

there might be a pumpkin bar or a brownie or big cookies.

But it's always like, and you just, you know, choose which dessert you want.

I'm always in for that, right?

Yes.

Puppy Chow.

I mean, just all of those things, honestly, all of those things that I love that I don't make at home

because then I eat them.

Right.

Right.

This you can, you can force yourself to be a reserve about them.

And of course, this is open to the public.

And so we really encourage you take a break from buying lunch to my oil.

I guess you're still buying lunch, but you're donating to something, right?

Right.

So take a break from packing your lunch tomorrow and join us at Paper City Savings.

Paper City Savings Bank, A Street South.

And that is again, starting at 10 a.m.

10 a.m. to 230.

Head on over there.

Be sure to make plans for that.

You got your lunch plans covered tomorrow because as good as that food is,

it's never going to taste better than when you know you're also putting into your investing in your community.

At the same time, you're getting fed.

You're getting good food and that.

And you get to see the good people of Paper City Savings.

Great people over there.

We say, good morning to all of our friends over there.

Well, and you know, I'm going to be out.

I'm going to be gone tomorrow because of something else that was on my calendar.

But I did, you know, this is just what we have to do.

So I'm encouraging other business leadership.

So I told my staff, pick what you want for lunch on me.

So I'm not even going to be there.

I'm still buying lunch.

So, you know, that would be a, that would be a cool, fun thing for you to do.

You know, you could pick up whatever.

Even if you don't take orders from people, pick up a dozen cheeseburgers and go back and serve them up.

It's a great way to do it.

That's a great idea.

I love that.

And 12 desserts.

Yes, make sure you get enough.

The breads and the desserts.

You need both.

Almost all of my staff said they wanted a big pickle.

Oh, I want to try one of those.

There's just something fun about those.

I haven't had one of those since I was a kid.

Yeah, I would definitely have one of those.

We always have a jar of them in our fridge.

So many good things over there.

God, I love these broad fries and things like this.

And we don't get as many of them this time of year.

So it's a nice time to do it.

You know, and there's something about the kind of the cool crispy weather and then the smell of that grill.

It's just like, as soon as you pull in, you're like, oh, this is good.

I blame my dad for that one.

Yes.

There's something about grilling this type of year.

And really any time, especially in the winter or fall and stuff, it feels good.

Another thing that feels really good, everybody, is being a part of day of caring.

We've got that one right around the corner, Terry.

Yeah.

So day of caring is this Saturday, like in two days, this Saturday.

And so this is an opportunity to volunteer.

Come and join us.

We are still taking volunteers.

You can even spontaneously volunteer the day of.

But we are still taking volunteers to help break yards for elderly and disabled in our community.

So what will happen on Saturday is we have 96 yards that are going to get right done Saturday.

Yeah.

And we have about 430, 35 volunteers signed up.

You can still sign up.

There are still t-shirts available.

There's a couple of sizes that I think are sold out.

But I think, you know, like, smalls are gone.

So then grab a medium, right?

Like, so we do still have t-shirts.

They're good looking shirts.

Yes.

Updated this year, a little bit new logo on the front.

And lots of, you know, really awesome sponsors that all show up on the back of that shirt.

And, you know, that's really, I mean, two things, right?

There's something about driving around Saturday morning and seeing all of these groups in these matching shirts.

But then there's also something that I love is later in this year, next year,

seeing people in the community wearing those shirts.

And, you know, really it's a tribute to all of the sponsors who help us be able to provide those shirts.

It also, you know, speaks of community service and community investment.

So you can still volunteer.

We do still have, in addition to those 90s, 60 yards, we do have yards on a wait list.

Yeah.

So our friends at the River Kings will help with those next week, because of course they're not available on a Saturday to Rick.

Sure.

But they do help us out next week.

But if you, you know, even if you're an individual, we'll put you with another group.

You know, we really are looking for a strong showing.

So here's how it works.

And 8 a.m., hot breakfast, Grand Rapids Lions Club.

Free, right?

Pancakes, fruit, like come on out and enjoy breakfast.

That's happening at 8 a.m., you'll get your t-shirts, your yard assignment.

Go in, have hot breakfast, about 9 o'clock.

You know, we get everybody out raking and literally by noon we're done, right?

We just follow the rules of the municipality.

So in Wisconsin Rapids, for instance, leaves have to be put in paper bags.

The homeowner provides the bags.

The volunteers don't have to worry about that.

But we can't use plastic, right?

That's been like that for several years.

So the homeowner needs to have paper bags available.

They know this.

We, you know, say it when they sign up.

We've reminded them with a postcard.

So, you know, they're aware of they know the drill.

In other municipalities like Port Edwards and Acusa, those are just being raked out to the curb.

Because then they send their truck around to get them.

Now, I'm just going to, I'm putting this out there.

I like to be in charge of a lot of things.

I can't control the weather.

Neither can my staff.

So, and what I'm saying about that, I mean, the weather looks like it's going to be nice, like the actual weather.

But we do understand that not all of the leaves have dropped.

Right.

There's nothing we can do about that other than, you know, get on your knees and pray for wind today and tomorrow.

Sure.

Like, I don't know.

But we will, we, meaning the volunteers, will clean up the leaves that have dropped.

That's what we can do.

You know, and so sometimes, you know, people get a little, maybe upset or, you know, they're concerned because maybe they're still a third of the leaves are up in the tree.

You know, we're a little bit bound to this date because of when we have availability of volunteers.

Next weekend, our community hosts the state cross country tournament and it's, it's huge, right?

And it takes like 700 volunteers.

Yeah.

So we just, we, we don't have the ability to compete.

So this is the weekend and we know the leaves were late this year to turn and some are late to fall.

But, you know, we're going to do the best we can with what we have on the 25th.

And we appreciate understanding in that.

Yeah. And I think that's a great thing to note.

But I also, I would hope that this community, especially among our communities in this area, gets that, understands that you guys have raked along before.

You understand how this goes.

So also considering, you know, this is a, this is one of those events where it really does, your intentions mean so much.

They go so far.

If somebody rakes a lawn and there's one leaf still on the lawn, I don't know how you're upset about that.

I think that we're all grateful not only for the services, but the people, the community coming together on this one.

And the way we're able to unify on this and show that camaraderie that not every community has that we're very fortunate to have.

You know, and also a huge shout out to Grand Rapids Lions Club.

I mean, not only do we convene there, but, you know, they are cooking the food, taking care of that aspect.

So that our team doesn't have to worry about that.

We can worry about getting people to where they need to go.

So, you know, huge shout out to them.

And then, you know, contributors to our breakfast.

And I'm just going to call them out because I think it makes a, makes a big difference.

And we have, we literally have 175 people signed up just for breakfast.

So, so we have, we have Walmart, Quick Trip, Ocean Spray and Pepsi all contributing just to the breakfast.

So, you know, just a shout out to them for, for stepping up to the plate and helping us provide that.

Thank you to everybody who has already signed up and who will sign up or show up for a day of caring going on this Saturday.

As Terry just noted, and I apologize to anybody that have rambled at this before, but to our new listeners out there to people new to day of caring.

I've, I've been fortunate to be a part of four of my belief.

And the first year that I did this, you guys sent me up with a random lawn.

It was one that, you know, did so it works.

Yeah, I think you were helping us outside of the day, right?

Because we had some carryovers and we were like, what are we going to do with all these? And you jump in right away.

So, I, I go there and it's actually not too far from our building here.

And I, I see the lawn, I'm like, okay, I've done this kind of thing my whole life.

Since I was a kid, that was one of the things we did as kids was go around the neighborhood offering the rake lawns to make a couple bucks or whatever and stuff.

And my parents lawn help my dad or whatever.

It wasn't a, anything that I haven't, and it haven't seen before.

I, before I can get started though, I introduced myself to the homeowners.

And just a random couple and you guys don't know who they are necessarily or anything.

So, you just randomness of the setup.

Other than, of course, it was a lawn that I could handle on my own, you know, that kind of thing.

So, I, I'm talking to the individual and it was a, a man and his wife and he was in a wheelchair and we start talking.

And he opens up his garage and as he opens up his garage, I see right away on his table two Chicago White Sock hats.

Fast friends.

What is the odds of me running into another White Sock fan?

That doesn't even happen in my own house.

I mean, there's only two of you.

Yes, literally only two of us in this whole area.

I was a sharebacker shot at the shop.

But there's only two of us in this area and I happen to do the law and run into the one individual that is.

We hit it off right away.

I had a great conversation throughout the time I was there.

He was very nice, very, very kind to me and gave me one of his White Sock hats.

Then I still have hanging in my room.

And then above all this, I'm talking and I hear this familiar voice behind me.

And it's Gary, one of our long-time listeners that lives right next door to this individual.

Is it that awesome?

It's one of my favorite days in favorite mornings I've had in this industry and in this area really.

It'll stay with me the rest of my life.

And that's just one memory that I have, along the many that I have of day of caring.

Make your own memories, be a part of this, invest in your community by being a part of this great day.

Sign on up everybody at uwac.org.

Be sure to get on over there, bookmark that page and be a part of this great day.

And again, remember, the paper city savings bank has there.

Brought Friday going on tomorrow from 10 to 230 over there.

And I know there get a brought and put back into your community.

Wanted to also thank you, Terry.

Terry donated some of her bobble heads and stuff for our collection over here.

Thank you for doing that.

I have to give credit. It's actually my daughter.

Yeah, shout out to Allison.

Shout out to Allison.

I appreciate her doing that.

Interesting. I just wanted to get a program.

We know it in real quick here, Terry, about a couple of things.

One, I don't know if this has ever happened where you're going to be going.

On a day and I am too. I won't be here tomorrow.

What?

I know wild.

That doesn't happen usually.

It's, it's funny. Even I'm not used to it because I wasn't, I don't even know how to say this.

Wait, like the whole day?

The whole day.

The whole day I will not be here.

We will have them.

Is it expulsion for bad behavior?

Yeah, yeah.

No, I, I, I put it up there.

I was able to negotiate this for a while and everything.

And they're hearings that we've had and stuff.

You know, pushing the day off.

And finally, the day has come.

I actually, I'm going to have to serve my sons.

No, I'm going to my old stomping grounds in Chicago due to a memorial from my aunt dep.

Oh, nice.

We're going there for that.

So I'll be out of town for that for a couple of days.

You take in your parents?

Yes.

Yeah, that'll be nice.

Very cool.

We're going as a family.

My brother and sister will meet us there and everything to remember.

You know, one of our favorites, one of our people.

And so I'm looking forward to doing that.

And what I'm also looking forward to is you guys, because you all get a fun show tomorrow,

not just with the morning show where Seth and Laura are going to tag team that for you.

So you're going to have a good one for you.

They'll have the star of the day and El Caffe birthday and anniversary club.

All the fixings that you love.

But the Rapids report is going to be just as unique because Melissa is going to sit in on that.

And she'll be hosting that one for you.

So I'll be back on Monday.

I need this job.

So they are not allowed to do too good.

So hopefully they don't do too well.

Too good.

I asked them the whole pull back a little bit, especially Melissa because she's really good at interviewing.

No offense.

But yeah.

But I'm looking forward to hearing the show.

And I know you all will be too.

You guys are going to have a great time.

They're going to get you ready for your weekend tomorrow.

Again, the morning show Seth and Laura will tag team that.

Melissa will be sitting in on the Rapids report.

You know, perhaps this is a learning opportunity for you.

No.

That you can take.

No.

Obviously this is for a funeral.

So that's different.

That you could maybe take a vacation day once in a while.

Maybe.

It's a good time to refresh and reset.

You might have a point.

You might have a little bit of a point there.

We'll see.

We'll see if it hits her.

We'll see.

But, you know, I'm looking forward to hearing the show tomorrow.

They should be a lot of fun.

We'll take a quick time out.

We'll come back.

We'll do some celebrating with the El Caffe birthday anniversary club.

On the morning show at WFHR.

Happy birthday to you.

Happy birthday to you.

Happy birthday.

It's time to do some celebrating with our great friends at El Caffe in the birthday and anniversary club.

We encourage you to treat yourself.

Get on over to 221 Market Avenue and beautiful port Edwards.

You have some of the great food, great atmosphere, great people over there at El Caffe.

Enjoy yourself.

Wish them a good morning from all of us.

Everybody.

Buy a local support, local support our friends at El Caffe.

And of course, get us those birthdays and anniversaries.

We want to celebrate with you.

Email us info at WFHR.com.

You can direct messages on our Facebook pages, of course.

And you can call on up 715-424-2600.

Just a touch or two away on the Civic Media app.

Go ahead and get a hold of us, everyone.

Terry, I need a one or a two.

One.

All right, gives us the call of fire.

Boom, boom, boom.

And first up, I want to wish Happy Birthday to Civic Media's own Noon Day niece.

Noon Day helps us make sure all of our buildings are in good condition.

He is just an incredible resource around here and a really good guy.

Happy Birthday.

Yeah, I appreciate him a lot.

It's one of these things that came over with Civic Media that we've been so forward

to have people like Noon Day that really go around.

A lot of the things that would probably, to be honest, were a small staff.

So things that we might not be able to get to for a year.

Or something like, hey, were we supposed to fix that or do that or whatever?

We get it done right away because of a guy like him.

And he's not just doing that for us.

He's doing that of all the Civic Media stations up and down the state.

Isn't that awesome to have a facility manager like that?

That just can really be focused on him.

And he knows his stuff.

Yeah.

And I will, I come from the duct tape family of, oh, we'll just put some duct tape out of

him.

Actually, there's a better way to do this.

Yeah.

That explains a little bit.

Oh, yeah, probably.

Happy Birthday, Noon Day.

Happy Birthday.

We also wish Happy Birthday to Avery Willis.

Happy Birthday, Avery.

Avery got a surfer.

They this morning.

Actually, her daughter got a surfer.

They so shout out to her and her daughter, Happy Birthday, Avery.

And our qualifiers celebrate in their 23rd anniversary, Steve and Jennifer's

Faith.

Happy anniversary.

Steve and Jennifer, 23.

That's a special one.

Enjoy it.

Enjoy it.

And we encourage you to brag to all your friends, family, strangers, animals that you're our

qualifiers today.

Make sure they know.

Let's see.

I haven't heard you add animals in.

I got a throw it in there for a little help.

Looking at who you share your birthdays and anniversaries with is on this our celebrity list.

Emily Clark is 39, Daenerious Targaryen of Game of Thrones.

It's easily her most famous role.

It's really what put her on the spotlight.

But she's good.

She's been in solo.

She was in the Terminator movie and she's got other stuff coming out and everything.

She's a good actor.

I'm curious to see where Emily Clark can go with her career.

Because she's got the name.

She's got the notoriety.

And what you look for as an actor is what can I jump off of?

Okay, this movie did well in the box office.

I can jump off that and springboard that into other roles.

She's coming off of Game of Thrones, which I know was a couple of years ago and everything.

But the momentum of that show is almost better now than it was when it ended.

I know this is a weird thing.

But when you get a year or two away from a show, nobody's focused on the series finale.

Nobody's focused on the negatives.

They're romanticizing the show.

They're thinking about the ratings.

They're thinking about the memories, the good moments of the show.

So for her, this is a sweet spot right now to really be hitting auditions.

And really getting out there.

Because as big of a name as she is and good as she is, she's still in one of those realms where you got to work for it.

You got to keep fighting to have your career.

So many actors around that age range.

And especially having the bounce off that she has, kind of like feel like they...

I shouldn't say a lot.

Some actors seem like they can just kind of, well, I'm going to get work.

It'll be fine.

When there's 25 other Emily Clarks right behind her waiting to take those jobs.

And fighting for them really.

Auditioning.

Yeah, you got to go out there.

You got to put yourself out there.

Let's see.

Megan McCain is 41.

Former co-host of The View.

The great, the funny Ryan Reynolds is 49.

He is Deadpool.

He is Van Wilder.

I was in the Blade movies.

A lot of great stuff.

I think you could make an argument.

Ryan Reynolds is maybe the best at breaking the fourth wall.

He's so good at it.

It's part of what made him good at Deadpool.

But he was great at this long before him.

Yeah.

I even think of him in some of the few of the romcoms he was in.

Yes.

Yes.

That's how...

That's where I love him.

Him and Sandra Bullock, just speaking of that, built up a friendship that is really, really strong.

It goes on really good to this day to the point where they do a lot of nonprofit work together and everything.

Ryan Reynolds is hilarious.

He's got some of the best community timing you'll find.

He's a complete actor.

He can do dark, serious romcoms, all those things.

And bet on himself with the Deadpool movies.

Just very similar to Robert Downey Jr. and Sherlock and some of that stuff.

But what I think it's lost in the shuffle with him a lot of the time is

he comes from a really rough background.

And he hasn't forgot it.

And he really does try to do good in this world.

He really does try to put a lot of good out there.

One of the things that the last story I just saw about him not even like a week or two ago.

And this is about a year removed from the last Deadpool movie coming out and everything.

He still goes to Cancer Awards, like Kids Cancer Awards dressed up as Deadpool.

The character Deadpool was suffering from cancer.

And it's part of the reason why he did some of the things he did and everything.

So there's a little bit of a tie in there.

He's got the suit and everything just so he can do that.

Just so he can show up at similar to Johnny Depp with the Captain Sparrow outfit.

And he just go like for no reason whatsoever.

He'll just show up.

Kids hospital in Pittsburgh.

And what's not to love about that?

Yeah, it's hard not to root for guys like that.

Yeah.

One of the better, really the beginning of the short quarterback Doug Flutey is 63 today.

Doug Flutey's got two, if not three, a couple more, but at least one or two of the most important moments in college football history or football history.

I know I always liked his career.

And it's kind of interesting to think of him now where we see so many shorter quarterbacks.

And now it's not a, it's not as far fetched to see a 5, 11, 5, 10 quarterback anymore.

And I think a lot of that begins or it does begin with Doug Flutey.

He's pretty much the first and certainly the first to prove that you could do it.

Sure.

Weird Al is 66.

Weird Al Yankovic 66 years old.

I don't recite any lyrics because then I can't get out of my head the whole day.

Just eat it.

Just eat it.

No, I'm just paradise.

I was paradise the one.

Yes, I was paradise the going all day.

So many of you look at, like I talk about this, especially with singers, you know,

that you can remain relevant for multiple decades.

Madonna and certain people like that, Barbara Streisand share all these,

these entertainers that are able to be relevant for so many years,

having hits in multiple decades, some of those things.

You got to give Weird Al credit.

He's done the same thing.

And I think one of the things that is really noteworthy about his career

is how many of the people that he has parodied that love him.

Yeah, like they don't care.

Are they you know what I mean?

Like they don't seem to get hot under the collar.

Yeah, yeah.

And people that you wouldn't think would, like people that take themselves really seriously,

but he did this and they're like, oh, we love it.

You almost wonder.

You find the funny in it.

Is it like a badge of honor of sorts?

Like, oh, is he going to grab my song?

You know, I would think so.

And not for nothing, when he does come out with Beaded,

you look at the album sales for him and they're good.

Well, guess what?

Michael's Beaded album also rises up and everything.

So if I was one of those people being parodied,

I look at it as a positive too.

You know, back in the day, remember when you could buy cassette singles?

Oh, yeah.

Because, you know, those were $2 and you didn't want to spend $10 on the whole thing.

Yeah, yes, yes.

But they could have put the real song on one side and Weird Al on the other side.

Oh, really?

Oh, wow, that had been smart.

Oh, that had been really smart.

Oh, especially if it's on the same record company and everything.

Oh, that had been really smart to do.

One of the smarter, better individuals in music.

Dwight Yokem is 69.

I love, I just saw Dwight Yokem last year.

How was that?

Fabulous.

It seems like a really good one.

It seems like a really good one.

Theater in Milwaukee.

So that's kind of like the grandflator in Warsaw.

So, you know, smaller, compact acoustics are really good.

He was fabulous.

I've seen him a few times.

But we just happen to be in Milwaukee and I was like,

anything going on and then I saw that.

I'm like, oh, well, that's what's going on.

I'd love to see him live.

He is probably my favorite guitar player in country music.

I really love the way he swings.

He swings.

He swings that guitar.

And he's got the best swing.

He's got to go in.

He's also got his own sound.

You know, the Rockabilly Bakers field kind of country sound

that he does.

Not to say the Chet Baker and others obviously didn't do it.

But his own version of it and you don't hear really hear any of it.

Even when he first started out to now,

you still don't hear a lot of people doing that style of music.

He's very unique and truly done it his way throughout his whole career.

Also, fantastic actor, fantastic actor.

He's good.

I didn't know who he was.

I knew him as an actor before I knew him as a singer, really.

And him in Slingblade, he's so good in that panic ruby,

so darn good at it.

He hangs with all these other actors.

Forest Whitaker talks very highly of him as an actor and on set.

And especially one thing that I think is noteworthy about him

that you don't see with rock stars.

You don't see with country stars or musicians, really.

They'll act, but they want to play a character that's cool.

They want to play a character that looks good or is a hero or something.

But that maybe fits their image.

Yeah.

Kind of, yeah.

Dwight Yokem is known as being one of the good guys in country music,

one of the good guys in the industry.

People love him like working with him all that.

As an actor, he plays these characters that are creepy and ugly and all this.

And he really pushes himself as an actor.

I really admire that.

It kind of speaks to his like the low hat,

either like that mysterious kind of aura.

You know, and talk about short guys.

He is short.

Is it?

Oh, yeah.

I wouldn't have guessed that.

Ang Lee is 71, great director,

crouching tiger, hidden dragon, life of pie.

So many great movies he's directed.

That book is so creepy.

I mean, it's good.

Yeah, but I just knew.

And boy, nothing but legends to celebrate today and the people no longer with us.

Like maybe the greatest name in golf history.

Chi Chi Rodriguez.

Born to this day in 1935.

Chi Chi would do this swing in this like a fencing thing when he wouldn't.

I hit a hole in and stuff that I was thought was cool.

The greatest porter you can golfer of all time too.

And paylay, born on this day in 1940.

The greatest soccer player of all time.

Messy and all these other guys are great.

They're legends.

They may have more goals than him.

All this other stuff.

Nobody literally built the sport of soccer around the world like paylay did.

Great.

One of the greatest charismatic athletes of all time too.

And the greatest talk show host of all time.

Johnny Carson born on the state in 1925.

There are a lot of great talk show hosts.

A lot of good ones.

A lot of ones still working.

Nobody.

Nobody like Carson.

And there is no way late night TV is where it is without Johnny Carson.

It was the only game in town.

There was only one tonight show.

It was so good that other networks started coming up with tonight.

I know.

Why are we doing this?

Because of how good Johnny was.

He is the benchmark for everything that going forward.

And there's always going to be late night TV.

I feel like it's starting to dip down a little bit.

But I think there's always going to be late night shows.

And every one of them from now until the end of time is going to be built on the blueprint that Johnny Carson created.

And I say that because Johnny was not just a host.

Johnny Carson behind the scenes had his hands in everything.

He was the executive producer of that show as well as one of the bookers.

And that there's some stuff about Johnny Carson that I don't necessarily respect.

But there's so much about him that I admire and respect and have learned from.

And many ways anybody doing this job that I am right now or a lot of the night shows that you see out there

were all poorer impressions of Johnny Carson.

We really are because he was the greatest.

And John Heisman boarded this day in 1869.

Legendary college football coach who invented the handoff, the flea flicker, and the center snap.

And that is part of the reason why his name is on the Heisman trophy.

Yeah, can you believe that?

It's insane.

I mean,

Oh, before him, the center would roll the ball to the quarterback.

Really?

Yeah.

Isn't that cool?

What are the coolest things?

Oh, I guess I didn't realize that.

Imagine in today's day and age, Joe Montana sitting back, game winning drive in the Super Bowl.

All this drama, all this intention, and then just a little roll, a little roll.

Like it feels like it would take a lot of the seriousness out of the game.

I feel like.

Yeah.

You know, you know, I mean, like, and I know those, those fields were immaculately groomed, but.

But what you're rolling the ball, there's a little bit.

A little divot.

A little divot.

You know what I mean?

It hits a divot and it goes crazy.

So, yeah, like this ball, like you, they go to roll it back and all of a sudden it's like,

or doesn't even go through their feet.

I mean, I kind of need to find some old video of this now.

I think it's kind of funny.

I would love to see something like that.

That's a great point.

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Welcome back, everyone.

Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio.

Terry and James hanging out with you.

Thanks for hanging out with us.

We're reference Michael early.

I had to get that in there.

I don't think you could understand my love for this album.

Oh, the whole album.

I even had a glove.

Nice.

Oh, I had one too.

I had one too.

I had to have one.

That was a big thing back then.

That's such a great one.

It could be a little scary sometimes being the funniest one in the room,

or funniest one in your workplace, or anything like that.

So I saw this headline and thought they were talking directly at me,

or one of my friends that I had growing up, or something,

because this website, the conversation, has an article called,

why you seriously need to stop trying to be funny at work.

They say it can backfire and comes with two big risks.

So folks who use humor effectively at work can end up being seen

as more confident, more competent, so it can be tempting to try

and certainly can have its positives.

But folks who use humor effectively are, but then when jokes fall flat,

the negative effects can be even more drastic.

The two big risks are you can end up looking less credible

and lose people's respect.

They claim there are two main things that make a good work joke.

It would be unexpected, or it should be unexpected,

or seem like it, quote, breaks the rules in some way.

But it also has to come across as harmless.

If what you say isn't edgy at all, you seem boring.

But if you seem too edgy, you might offend people.

Welcome to being a comedian.

Welcome to what I do.

Yeah, that's the world we live in.

Even jokes that do work can sometimes backfire.

One study found bosses who joke around too much,

even if they're funny, can end up pushing employees

to pretend they're constantly amused.

That can be cause burnout.

So there's, you know, downsides to all this.

If you feel like you're the funny one at work,

and people really seem to dig your material,

feel free to keep doing what you're doing.

Just don't force it.

In general, the risks of being funny at work

tend to cut out way all the benefits.

A good joke might get a laugh,

but a bad one might get you, you know, worse than that.

This is why I don't try to be funny,

because I know this.

I know that it wouldn't, no, I know.

I don't try.

I just, not funny.

I was not born with a funny bone.

If it happens organically fine,

but yeah, don't force it, right?

This is no different than your day-to-day life

with your friends, or your significant other, or anybody else.

I think that this is comedy 101.

Don't force it.

Jokes, it's a little bit like a life is stranger than fiction.

You don't really have to make things up.

Just tell your own life story,

and there's some wild, crazy stuff in there.

All of our lives have it.

I don't feel like you really have to exaggerate.

You just tell your story.

That's the way I've always approached it, at least.

And not everyone is funny.

Yes, and that's okay.

That's all right.

If this means something to you,

I say, wait, your moment will come.

You'll have your moment to be funny or whatever.

But I don't know that the ends justify the means.

At the same time,

I don't like the idea of people being afraid

to try to make others laugh.

There's a balance here, I think.

Yeah, and the article referenced,

if you're in a leadership role,

in one of the points there,

and it's like, you can still be funny,

and you can still have that relationship with people,

but you have to use it at appropriate times.

Right.

Like, it's not when somebody is nervously coming

into your office for a conversation.

It could be a good conversation,

but you have to, I think,

the bigger part here is you have to be able to read people.

Exactly.

And that's the thing that,

not only this article's missing, I think.

And I did read the article at the conversation

and encourage it and check it out if you'd like.

I feel like the art, not only this misses,

but comedy misses,

and comedians miss often time.

There's this pushback for comedy happening

in comedy for the last 5, 8, 10 years, whatever it's been.

About, oh, we can't tell certain jokes anymore

because of cancel culture and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Oh, no, you have to work to be funny.

Oh, no, you have to work at your craft.

You can't just go out there and tell some lame dumb joke

that people and comedians have been telling for 67 years.

All of a sudden, you gotta actually work at comedy.

I don't feel bad for you.

That's the way comedy is devolved from the beginning.

There was a person that told,

why did the chicken cross the road?

The next guy that wanted to tell that joke wasn't funny.

So he had to come up with a new joke.

This is comedy. Welcome to the world.

I don't feel bad for anybody about that.

And I think that if you're complaining about it,

you're missing the point.

It's not just about offending people.

It's not funny.

That's the point we're here to laugh.

You're not making us laugh.

This is context.

One of the most important parts of comedy is context.

It's reading the room.

Knowing the people you're around,

the conversation doesn't really approach that.

So to your point, Terry, you know your employees.

You know the people you're around.

So you're not going to walk in there telling a knock-knock joke

if you know your employees hate knock-knock jokes.

Or they don't have doors.

Or these poor people have never had a door.

So they have no idea what you're referencing.

I mean, that'd be my luck.

I try to tell a knock-knock joke to somebody who's never had a door.

Like, what do you mean?

Knock-knock.

What?

Yeah, it's all about timing.

Right?

Like, I had a really, a years ago,

I would employ that was hilarious.

I mean, like, really?

And had kind of a comeback for almost everything.

Yeah.

And I think the learning curve there was,

coaching on what is an appropriate time to use that humor.

You know what I mean?

Yes.

Because they were funny.

Like, funny, funny.

But it's like, whoa, not the right time.

And I think that people who genuinely are funny or use, you know,

some kind of comedy often that surfaces when they're nervous.

Absolutely.

And a lot of times it's not the right audience.

Right?

Like, you're using it to cool yourself down or to prepare for something.

It's like, whoa, maybe go do that in the bathroom in the mirror.

Don't do it to the 20 people in front of you.

It's one of the biggest things I try to get across to people in this job

and many jobs.

Read the room.

Know your audience.

And it goes a long way.

And I wouldn't force it.

But you know, there's nothing wrong with being funny.

And having a light-hearted atmosphere at work.

I genuinely think we need more of that than less.

And that's part of where I wanted to wrap up on is, you know,

hopefully people aren't hesitant to try or anything.

I think it's more times than that.

It's probably worth it because I think you know your people.

If you're brand new to the office, maybe wait a little bit.

But if you've known these people or something, you know the room.

You know the audience going.

And like you said, timing is so important to this.

That's comedy in general.

The room number one rule and comedy timing.

You got to get it down.

They say.

See, not my time.

It was completely.

You are there.

It's an age old question.

It is a good question.

Come back.

Coming up, we got another good question for you.

Are you addressing up for Halloween?

We got some stats on that one.

But we want to hear from the audience.

Let us know.

And we would really love to know what you're dressing up as.

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Welcome back everyone.

Morning Joe at WFH.

Oh, we hope you're having a good day out there.

I'm sorry.

I'm in a mood.

I'm in a mood.

We hope you're having a good one out there.

Thanks Friday.

Yep.

Terry and James are Friday here this Thursday.

We hope you're having a great day out there.

We have got some good stuff lined up.

We're in the 10 o'clock hour.

Denise from the Southwark County main society going to join us

with our pet of the week.

Looking forward to that and talking about things over at the main society.

How that's going.

Terry and I have a couple of other great stories for you next hour.

Including how many of us are doing our own laundry.

We're getting into that.

Got to get into that.

That's good stories today.

We're going to have to do it.

Yeah, that's a great follow-up question.

All that coming up for you.

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If you're an adult and you're dressing up this Halloween,

let us know if you're dressing up and what you're dressing up as.

A new poll found over a third of people who plan to dress up for Halloween

still haven't picked out a costume yet.

Wow.

It's a week.

How many of that third is men?

You got a week.

Absolutely.

I guarantee it is.

Unless they're in a couple or family costume that's been laid out for them.

So a good portion is men.

And I would say another good portion of people that probably have a couple of ideas.

And they can't decide on the one like that.

And this poll is interesting, too, because they found that this many people are dressing up this year.

Around one in four adults said they're dressing up.

And 37% of them still don't know what their costumes will be.

And this status stayed pretty consistent over the decade, you know, of how many adults are dressing up and everything.

And to your point, Terry, men are a little more likely to wait until the last minute.

40% of guys have picked out a costume or compared to 33% of women.

I haven't picked out a costume, sorry, compared to 33% of women.

But ladies are not alone in this one.

So predictable.

This can be, when you have multiple ideas, it can be difficult.

I don't know necessarily what this is.

I feel like every year I have an idea of what I want to do and I just kind of do it.

This year, like last year, I've got a costume that I'll be honest.

I paid a good penny on, so I'm using it for the next couple of years.

I'm dressing up the same thing I did last year.

I also don't go out and about and everything.

I'm probably going to be handing out candy this year.

Won't be being a part of any trick of treating our parties or anything like that.

Well, mine is a little more limited.

The candy handler outer is an important part of trick of treating.

Yes, it is.

Yes, it is.

My father and I fight over it in our house.

He got to do it last year.

I get to do it this year.

Are you dressing up for a week?

You know, so I do, but you know, it's cheating.

Like it's a really easy dress up, right?

So there's one of two things, but I always, the last few years, I've been doing the same.

So I have a, it actually used to be my grandma's.

So it's, it's a, like a, a shot, like a cape that you put on.

And it's a skeleton.

So it looks like you're, you know, bone.

So you just wear like all black underneath and then put that on and then you look like a skeleton.

And I've been wearing that for years and I like wearing it because it's just fun.

But my mom and I also have twin witches costumes.

So, you know, sometimes the twin witches come out, but I've been doing the skeleton.

And that was kind of my plan because it's just, I just lazy.

No, that's awesome.

I think it's fun.

I got to see that.

And then we have kind of a fun, we have a fun neighborhood kind of garage party where everybody, you know, when they're done trick-or-treating with their kids,

obviously, we don't have kids at home that are trick-or-treating.

So then we, we all just do that.

Everybody brings a snack to share and, you know, just visit and, and go around.

So our candy, just FYI, is unattended.

The light is on, the candy is sitting out, so you just help yourself.

I, um, I always appreciated when people did that.

I was never a part of a group of friends that took more than the amount.

I always thought that was cool.

You know, that was something that I was, I was, we didn't talk about, we just grabbed one and kept moving.

Like, I always thought that was cool.

And I like people doing that better than not having anything out there.

Yeah, me too, Scrooge.

I, I really enjoy, part of what I enjoy, I should say at this time of year, is

we don't really talk about so many of those kind of things.

That we're really common when we were kids.

But it's really like, wow, that still is a thing.

People still do this.

And it's still okay.

It still is done well and stuff.

Um, there, there's so much about this holiday that I think we could really take some, you know, pride in as Americans.

Not only that we're still doing this, and our kids are still able to have fun and do these things and have a safe Halloween.

But how much of this is relied on strangers, relying on strangers, and being cool with each other.

Or, you know, people that have never been introduced all of a sudden walking up to your door, asking for something.

And we're cool with it.

I think that that's a positive in our, our society that we're still doing that.

You know, two things that I just thought of while we were while you were talking, one, I should put a little note at the bottom of the bowl, right?

Like, if this bowl is empty, some other kid has a stomachache, you know, like they took, they took the whole bowl.

That's correct.

But, um, but the other thing, um, Wisconsin Rapids folks, just keep in mind too, because this has been going on for a long time.

And I think it's really, really important.

The high school, Lincoln High School Deca Club does trick or can during trick or treating.

So if you see high schoolers coming to your door, they're looking for a non-perishable food item.

Um, so, you know, entertain that, right?

Because they're doing a huge food drive for, for a focused food pantry.

And so I really encourage you, you know, it gets them, they're, they've kind of a jotted trick or treating, or is there an age?

But, you know what I mean?

But they dress up and they come out. So, you know, don't turn the, don't turn those high schoolers away.

They're doing, they're doing something good.

Better yet, find something in your pantry that's not expired that you can donate and have it ready.

Yeah. It goes a lot farther than we can put into words, everybody.

Those kind of things are so meaningful.

I encourage you to do that.

Be a part of that.