The Story of the Ghost (Hour 1)

Good morning, Wisconsin. Morning, world. It's a new day.

Sometimes I'm right and I can be wrong. My own beliefs are in my song.

Time to kick off the morning show for the week here on 97-5 FM 13-20 AM WFHR. I did not almost forget the call letters.

No, didn't happen to be here. That was fine.

Your host, James, by the way, joined by our head producer out here at WFHR Carcohost, Laura is with us.

Yeah, hi, that's me. Hope you're all having a good morning out there.

And hey, you had a good weekend. Thank you all for being with us.

We got nothing but fun for you lined up over the next two hours.

I'm going to get into the El Café birthday and anniversary club.

Yeah, looking forward to that. On the note, how many Americans have experienced at least one paranormal event?

Ooh, that's a good one.

Some interesting stats on that one. Yeah, we'll get into that.

To kick off the 10 o'clock hour with the kitchen's open, Beth will join us.

Thanks to our friends at the hotel bead looking forward to it.

Got a good one lined up for you today too. Beth sent over the notes. I really enjoy it.

Looking forward to that. Got some entertainment news for you.

They misspelled the Batman's name.

That is not hard to spell.

We got to get into that. I'm sorry. I'm going to judge you.

It's fair. It's fair.

And I want to make time, sometime in the next two hours, the scariest on-screen villains of all time.

Ooh, time.

Okay.

We have all that going on.

And we have a couple of other things that I want to get to because it's an exciting day around here at the studios.

We've got a Senator Teston here with us and a part of his on-the-job series.

It's true.

He's going to be ghosting us throughout the day and we're going to put him to work.

A lot of it.

I was kind of the grind of radio.

Yeah, some of the basics of editing.

We're going to record his Rapids Report interview that he normally does once a month.

And then I'll show him how to make it into a podcast himself.

It's going to be fun.

Yeah.

Looking forward to it. Do you really do appreciate him?

And I think he's going to be talking with the mayor later today too.

Yeah, I really really appreciate him being here.

Of course, it's Halloween week.

So we'll be talking Halloween not only topics but events and times.

We'll have that for you lined up.

All of those things.

I do want to start the show though and kick off the week on a good Carmen note.

And thank the greatest team in radio and everybody around here.

Giving me the opportunity to be able to head to my hometown.

And remember one of my favorite people in the universe over the weekend.

Really do appreciate that.

Seth, Laura, Melissa, all of you guys doing some extra work around here.

Of course, Pam and all the things that she does to help with all of that as well.

Appreciate you guys very, very much.

I got to see my sister.

I've never been to Argyle Madison.

Argyle right outside of Madison.

I've never been to Argyle before.

Like a suburbs.

Yeah.

Man, it is country over there.

My sister has cows.

That's really cool.

My little sister has cows and she was milking them.

And the cows followed her like her two boys do.

And is she like flourishing?

Yes.

I don't love that.

They're really loving it.

Heck yeah.

That's living out there, man.

How cool.

I forget what the sky looks like sometimes.

It just out there, especially.

I've been going to Madison my whole life.

And Madison, beautiful, but has a bit of light pollution to it.

Not in Argyle.

How cool.

I found the constellations and everything.

Awesome.

Great.

I do appreciate the thanking us, but like we were already here.

It's fine.

Yeah.

You guys, you guys, I don't even know if anybody noticed I was gone.

I don't know.

We definitely did.

And it was really cool to have Melissa on for the Rapids report.

That was really fun for everybody.

It was cool.

She did a great job.

She was amazing.

She did.

That's surprising to zero people.

Right.

That was awesome.

Right.

I appreciate everybody.

And I want to start off with some congratulations.

Oh.

A big thank you to Wisconsin Rapids Tribune's own Jamie Rokens, who put out the article,

letting us know that the Miss Wisconsin Rapids scholarship organization is two new reps that have

joined us on these airwaves.

Madison Graph was crowned Miss Wisconsin Rapids 2026.

All right.

And Gianna Peters was named Miss Wisconsin Rapids team of 2026.

Awesome.

Congratulations, you guys.

Both amazing kids, nothing but amazing kids that were out for this and everything.

Congratulations to everybody involved.

It was a lot of fun.

It was a lot of fun getting the time.

It's such a pleasure getting the talk to them every year.

This is a safe place.

I want everybody to know that whether whatever we're talking about, whatever we're doing.

I don't like this premise.

We're all friend tier.

We're all good to each other, positive vibes all around.

You shouldn't need to say these things.

I had a question pop up in my brain this weekend and being in the car for like 17 hours back

and forth between here in Chicago and all that.

Sure.

All right.

Lay it on me.

You got time to think.

You got time to, is it sad to carve a pumpkin by yourself?

No, because it's fun.

Well, my, my mother and my father thought this was hilarious.

And never even really gave me an answer because they were too busy laughing at me.

Okay.

But I, I threw it into this.

A little, all right.

A little behind the curtain.

Look, I, I, sometimes when I want to make sure that I, I, I have a question for the audience

or something like that, I will throw it into a, um, my computer and book market.

So I have the, the question there and I can pull it up out of my folders and everything.

Yeah.

I, so I accidentally kind of threw this as a question in the Googler.

Okay.

And what did the Googler tell you?

It says, no, it's not sad to carve a pumpkin by yourself.

It's not sad.

And your parents shouldn't laugh at you for it, maybe.

I am so glad the Google machine agreed with me.

Thank goodness.

Uh, and we'd love to hear from you out there, everybody.

But if you are carving a pumpkin this week, uh, we got a note for you on it that I,

I have not heard before.

Okay.

Um, but I think, actually, I think you might have brought this up.

And I, I think somebody else don't make me remember things.

Exactly.

I'm not trying to put you on the spot there with that, especially on a Monday morning.

Uh, but, um, here's a bit of a pumpkin PSA for you.

Stop cutting the stem off your pumpkin.

Oh, yeah.

Uh, yeah.

So this is, you knew this already.

Yeah.

I could have swore you brought this up.

Well, but I use it as a handle.

I love that.

That's, that's the way you do it.

Yeah.

Like you cut the top rough and use it like the handle.

But I've also cut the bottom off and set the candle just on my sidewalk or my stairs

with the pumpkin on it.

Or, you know, you know, not a candle, but, you know, those battery operated votive things.

And yeah, then I just literally have a handle.

So when that pumpkin is no more, I can just grab it by the handle and toss it under

my lilacs for the critter's feet.

There's got to be ways nowadays of like keeping your pumpkin last to last longer.

I don't know what it is or what you would do.

But I imagine that by now there's a million likes.

There are.

And the thing of it is most of them, um, make it so that you can't feed the critters.

The leftover pumpkin remains.

Yeah.

So I wouldn't use them because I'd rather feed pumpkin bits to critters.

I almost forgot.

I have to pause the story for a second.

Oh no.

Because I found a life hack this weekend.

Oh.

My parents were having trouble getting into the vehicle and they have a fob.

Okay.

And they were trying and trying into the battery died.

Oh.

So they needed to get a new battery all that.

But they couldn't get into the vehicle.

And they were freaking out.

And my dad was very upset about this because his whole life.

He can get into his vehicle even if the battery's dead.

I shouldn't need a battery.

Right.

Got it.

They found out that from the dealership that the fob, and I don't know if this is every fob.

But most fobs, you push a little button and the physical key comes out.

No way.

Yeah, yeah.

Oh, I'm going to go play around with my fob.

Yeah.

So you still have a physical key inside the fob.

Why they don't tell you that?

Well, I know why they don't tell you this because so they get charged.

But that really ought to be more publicized.

Yeah.

Anyway, back to the pumpkins.

Back to the pumpkins, but I had to get that one out there.

No, that's a good one.

That's a good one.

It's a PSA from James.

And now pumpkin PSA from pumpkins.

Thank you, pumpkins.

If you're going to carve some pumpkins this week, here's a tip.

Don't come to stem off.

It will last longer if you cut a hole in the bottom or back of it instead points to Laurel.

Let me make sure that I don't think I have the pointer.

Oh, do you have the dinger?

I don't think I have my dinger anymore.

No.

No, that's awesome.

I also hadn't thought of the back.

Yeah, of course.

It's got a bottom on it.

Oh, I think I might do that.

I think I might do that.

Well, the thing about the back, though, is the back only works if you're not cutting all the way through the front.

If you're just carving, right?

So that you can't see through the hole.

Sure.

Yeah.

For those that didn't know that the stem is actually what's attached to the vine that feeds the pumpkin.

I don't know if that's common knowledge.

It wasn't to the city boy over here.

That's how it grows.

Right, right.

I don't know if everybody knew that.

I found it out decades ago.

I've known that for a while.

Okay.

I was 30.

Okay.

The stem of the pumpkin.

Someone take the sky out to a farm.

Right.

Contains a lot of nutrients that required to keep your pumpkin healthy.

So keeping it connected to the pumpkin is, you know, really helps it as far as keeping it fresh for a longer.

When the stem is left on, it helps seal the pumpkin and slow down the running.

All right.

So in summary, do not decapitate the pumpkin.

Don't do it.

Don't do it.

Don't do it.

Cut off its butt.

It's much better from the pumpkin.

Do it upside down.

It's fine.

That's a good way to do that, actually.

What about when it comes to kart now?

So for me, I like, I love the stencils.

I like doing a lot of those things and everything.

Yeah.

But I think that when you've got young kids letting them just kind of like draw on the pumpkin.

Yeah.

It's a right a passage.

And I'd say you have to do this, but I think it's fun for the kid to do.

The way that we do it is we kind of let the kids design their own stencil.

So they draw it on a piece of paper.

And then we pin it to the pumpkin.

And usually I have an adult, but now that my kids are getting older,

it's at a stage where the older ones might be able to carve it themselves.

But yeah, it's a we do it that way.

So it's kind of both of those things.

But it's because I have super creative kids.

I don't want to limit their ideas.

I can only be limited by I guess my abilities.

My family is a little similar.

We've got to really create a people.

But I noticed, especially this weekend, how different we are.

I am I write an actor, a lot of those things.

My brother is a little more musical.

My brother is a little more constructed with his creativity.

It's more of a business world that he finds a lot of it and everything with coming up.

Working with the Wisconsin herd and coming up promotion ideas and things like that.

Nick's great at that stuff.

My little sister, Jillian has always been creative,

but like more of a coloring and drawing.

We haven't seen a lot of stuff.

She's been doing making her own cakes.

Like doing a lot of those things where the crazy cake, the minion cakes and stuff.

And she made Charlie, her youngest is a Halloween costume.

It's true.

Like it looks really good.

It's a robot.

It looks really good and stuff.

You know, one of the ones she spent on the idea,

she made it because she didn't want to spend too much on the costume itself.

Right.

And now she spent a bunch just with all the putting together.

She ended up spending about the same because, yeah.

I think that that is maybe,

it may be my favorite thing about Halloween is the creativity part of it.

I think so too.

When I was young, I always thought it was just,

well, everybody gets to be an actor that day.

I love that.

That everybody gets to act.

Right.

Everybody gets to pretend they're somebody else or something like that.

That's just cosplay.

Yeah.

It's more so to, even when you're not,

even the people that aren't dressing up,

but maybe they designed their front yard,

or maybe they're not even doing that,

but they're doing something when they're handing out candy and they dress up.

It's an incredibly creative holiday.

It's got to be the most creative holiday we have.

Back when we were making our own Valentine's, that was a contenda.

Oh, yeah.

That's a good one.

That's a good one.

Or Easter baskets.

Easter baskets.

That's a contender.

Yeah.

And if you're like me and you have a really good time wrapping Christmas gifts,

huh?

See, there's something creative about every holiday.

There really is.

There's something too that may be Halloween a little more than others,

but you're right.

There's something creative to every holiday.

Yeah.

Making Easter eggs.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I don't even think about that.

Well, that's one of the best parts of holidays that I look at it now.

Cooking and baking would be considered creative to me too.

Absolutely.

And every holiday has that.

100%.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's a lot of creativity to that.

And a lot of creativity went into our WFHR Halloween show.

Yeah.

It's back for a second year.

It's maybe a third year, actually.

We've been doing this for a couple of years now.

I don't know.

It's all blurring together.

This is so much fun.

We, this is put together by our team where we, you know, we, we put this on on Halloween.

And we bring the whole team together and everybody gets to participate.

Yeah.

We had everyone read.

We've got some poems in there, some music in there, some short stories.

What else do we have?

I know a creepy poems.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Lots of good stuff.

Yes.

It's going to be a good time.

And it's going to be airing throughout the trick-or-treating time.

Right?

So you can just pop that on and do your trick-or-treating and listen to scary stories and poems while you get in and out of your vehicle.

We are your Halloween soundtrack.

Everybody, be sure to join us from 5 to 8 this Friday Halloween for WFHL's Halloween show.

We could not get Vincent Price's.

Do we just got me?

We just got James.

Yeah.

Vincent Price cost.

That's what I have.

That's what Vincent Price is.

Look, they got me in the bargain deal.

If you're a nonprofit group and you're hosting a Halloween activity for this week, we would love to hear about it, everybody.

Let us know so we can get it on the airwaves and let our listeners know.

Reach out to us, email us infoatwfhl.com or call the front desk to talk to Pam at 715-424-1300.

Take a quick time out.

We'll come back doing some celebrating with our friends at LCAFE in the Birthday and Anniversary Club.

It's Lauren James taking you through your morning on WFHL.

Happy birthday to you.

Happy birthday to you.

Happy birthday.

It's time to do some celebrating with our great friends at LCAFE in the Birthday and Anniversary Club.

We encourage you tomorrow to treat yourself at 221 Market Avenue in beautiful Port Edwards.

The gang over there off for today, but they'll be back at tomorrow.

Yeah.

Be sure to get ready to join them and kick off your week the right way with our friends at LCAFE tomorrow at 221 Market Avenue in beautiful Port Edwards.

Big shout out to Fidel and the gang over there.

We really appreciate them.

Absolutely.

Big fans.

And of course, we encourage you to get us your birthdays and anniversaries.

Everybody, you can email us infoatwfhl.com direct messages on our Facebook pages or you can call on up.

715-424-2600 if you would like to speak to James and I.

But if you don't and we can't blame you, you can call Pam at 715-424-1300.

Join the conversation.

We'd love to talk with you, everybody.

Taking a look at our local list here.

Laura, I need a one or a two.

Two.

Two.

Two.

All right.

We first up want to wish a very happy belated anniversary to our good friends Chuck and Chris Jenero.

Oh, awesome.

They celebrated their 39th anniversary on October 25th this Saturday.

Sorry, we missed it.

Yes, Chuck.

Congratulations to both of them.

Chris is amazing.

And you guys hear us talk about the soul of this station Chuck all the time.

Yeah, that's our, that's our station manager.

Best engineer in the business.

For sure.

Yep, absolutely.

Just one of my favorite people.

Just honestly, yeah.

Like I hope to never lose Chuck no matter where I am or what I'm doing.

I really, really like him.

He's a good people.

Good people.

Good people both.

And congratulations to him and Christine on their anniversary.

Yeah.

Prep it is.

You celebrate your 39th.

Are you already thinking about the 40th and what you're going to do?

Yes.

I have no idea.

I probably will have no idea.

So I'm guessing.

I've got that seems smart.

That seems like a good way to do it.

Happy anniversary Chuck and Chris and a very happy birthday today to civic media's Jamie Martz.

And happy birthday to Jamie.

Yeah.

That is the producer for the mega doncho.

Jamie's awesome.

Jamie's awesome.

I wish him a happy birthday.

Jamie does a really good job over there.

Yeah, she's great.

But she does a really good job.

Did I say I meant to say she?

You said they.

That's okay.

Did I say that?

Okay.

Yeah.

Enjoy your day Jamie.

Absolutely.

We wish a very happy birthday to Jeff Fuller.

Yeah.

Happy birthday.

Enjoy the day Jeff.

Hope it's a good one for you.

And our qualifiers celebrate in their 52nd anniversary.

Tim and Ann Stainbrook.

Oh, happy anniversary.

Congratulations guys.

Which new guys a great one?

Enjoy the anniversary.

Yeah.

Tim and Ann.

52.

52 years.

That's impressive.

Yeah.

That is impressive you too.

Enjoy.

And thank you everybody getting us these.

We love celebrating these.

We really do.

The only problems we know I'm enough of them.

We are.

Right.

Right.

So email us at info at WFHR your birthdays and anniversaries.

We take a look at our celebrity list.

Who do you share your birthdays and anniversaries with?

A first up.

Kelly Osborne is 41.

Happy birthday to her.

All right.

Happy birthday to her.

I've always liked her.

I can't be mad at Kelly Osborne.

Yeah.

I don't think any of us can have any idea what it is like to grow up in.

And not just in the public eye, but in that family.

Yeah.

And to have been a teen girl with spotlights on her.

I think about it with Chelsea Clinton all the time.

Yeah.

Well, and they were contemporaries in a lot of ways.

Like they weren't that far removed from one another.

This has nothing to do with politics or style of music you like or anything.

Just young people have in the group in the public eye.

It's tough.

That alone I couldn't imagine.

I couldn't do it on my own.

Think about it.

Think about it.

Being a teenager is rough.

And everybody's watching you do it.

I'm lucky I survived my teenage years just being me.

I couldn't imagine being on that level.

You didn't even like we didn't really have social media when we were kids.

We really lived.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

Patrick Fujit is 43.

He is a Kyle and outcast young Will and almost famous.

Oh, sure.

It's been a handful of movies.

Sure.

Oh, the great, the wonderful Simon LeBon is 67.

Oh, fantastic.

Lead singer, songwriter for Durand Durand.

Yeah.

I will always be a Durand Durand fan.

Yeah, you will.

Can help myself.

It's okay.

Robert Picardo is 72.

The doctor, one of the doctors on Star Trek Voyage.

Yes.

He was the doctor on Star Trek Voyager.

He was, was he an animatronic?

No, he was a computer projected doctor.

Oh, okay.

A hologram.

Yes, that's the word.

Thank you.

Robert O'Bellini is 73.

The half crazy, half Italian actor director.

No, that just doesn't make any sense.

No, come on.

You had to be, he's both of those things.

Yeah, you're both of them, really.

Yeah.

Life is beautiful.

Is the big film.

Yeah.

The American film that you would know him as he has a lot of great

of Italian films.

If you like Italian noir or any of those things.

There are a lot of fun.

But like, and life is beautiful.

It's one of the most inspiring and also difficult movies I've ever seen.

I'll only watch it once.

I can only handle it once.

But man, it was a good movie.

Yeah.

He won that Oscar and one of the, if not the most memorable, one of the most memorable

acceptance speeches of all time.

He didn't want to, like, he was having a hard time getting in and out of the seats.

Okay.

Just in general.

And then when he won, he panicked.

And so he just, like, walked on top of people basically, like, through.

It's one of the greatest, like, acceptance speeches you'll ever see.

It's awesome.

And only he could have gotten away with that.

Right.

Like, there's nobody else that would have ever get away with it.

A great moment.

A great moment.

And otherwise, you know, not always the greatest acceptance speeches.

Greatest memories from those things.

Yeah.

So that's a lot of pressure.

We need to give people a little more grace on acceptance speeches.

I'm sorry.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I think it's really easy to judge.

Right.

It's really, it's one of those things.

But put yourself in their shoes just for a minute, man.

That's a lot of pressure.

For ever, I used to get upset at Michael Bolton because he won a Grammy for when a man loves

a woman.

And he thanked everybody under the sun, except for Percy Sledge, the guy who originated

the song.

Well, hearing him talk about it years later and stuff, and nobody feels worse about it than

Michael Bolton.

Right.

We really got to give people more grace for that.

Yeah.

Yeah.

John Cleese is 86.

The legend.

The legend.

I love him and his teeth.

So Monty Python, you know, is an influence in big on a lot of people.

Yeah.

And he had his huge place in American culture, but that's one of the founding members.

Yeah.

Yes.

Not everybody from that show went on to have huge careers or big careers or anything.

They didn't all have faulty towers.

I don't think that anybody had the career that John Cleese did.

As much as I love Eric Eidl, as much as I love Terry Gilliam as a director and Terry Gilliams

got some amazing credits on his career.

I say Terry Gilliams, probably the one on par with John Cleese.

Out of all of them.

John Cleese with his, his rep, like the notoriety that he got and everything.

And to your point with faulty towers or some of these other shows that he does, a fish

called Wanda.

And a fish called Wanda.

Well, and that one had Michael Palin too.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And of course Kevin Klein, one of my all-time favorites.

Kevin Klein is great.

Yeah.

Kevin Klein is great.

John Cleese, man.

You have the 86.

Happy 86.

Ivan Reitman would have been celebrating a birthday on this day, one of a second city's

own.

Okay.

People's Ghostbusters, twins, junior kindergarten cop, Dave, Ivan Reitman, one of the greatest

comedic directors of all time.

There is a wonderful, in his passing, is he passed away very suddenly, very, you know,

out of the blue kind of.

So we could have had even more holy cats.

There is a wonderful scholarship available through Second City if you want to go on and

do our comedic directing.

And it's in the Ivan Reitman name.

It's really beautiful things.

Son is going on to do great things.

Great.

Yeah, legend.

Legend.

That's Laura.

I know that we've talked about on both of our shows, whether it's unlabeled or burned

before reading.

The great Scott Wyland born on this day in 1967.

Her before listening.

Did I?

Did I?

What are they?

Oh, I'm sorry.

Before listening, the fantastic show you can catch Sunday nights at night.

Scott Wyland.

Yeah.

Wyland.

Oh, I adore.

I had a very real genuine cry when he passed.

I had become a big fan and I was really pulling for him in his sobriety and was sincerely

bummed when it didn't work out.

I think he's a really underrated vocalist.

I think there is a level of vulnerability in his style of singing that is what really drew

me to him in the first place.

I like to develop a revolver more than Guns and Roses.

There I set it.

Same.

No, same.

You had basically Guns and Roses just with a different lead singer.

But was that why?

Yeah.

And it was better.

Oh, my God.

And I like Stone Temple Violets.

I'm sorry.

I don't care.

I love it.

Teller Rengaburthy on this day, 1858 former US President Teddy Roosevelt.

Wow.

Our 26th president from 1901 to 1909 he was the first president to ride in the airplane

driving a car, riding the submarine.

He inspired the teddy bear.

I saved American football.

That's true.

Oversol the creation of the NCAA.

Yes, he did.

There are national park systems.

They're very long.

Thereด so many things that the Roosevelt's did Teddy at the forefront of a lot of that.

I think like a lot of kids out there, one of my favorite assignments was doing, you know,

we always got to do assignments on presidents.

Right.

And you're going to pick the cowboy president, Teddy Roosevelt, that way.

Yeah, I did.

Yes, I did.

Nobody's shocked.

Well, I felt like it was too on the nose for me to do Lincoln.

I probably did Lincoln, like every other lame person.

That's the thing.

The other reason I did is because I thought it was too on the nose.

Otherwise, I'd have been like everybody else and done Lincoln.

Or I'd have done something dumb like John Quincy Adams.

The Roosevelt's.

You cannot tell this history of America without the Roosevelt's.

You can't.

Incredible, incredible impacts they had.

And you guys had a very good impact on the show.

Thank you so much for getting your birthdays and anniversaries to our list.

We appreciate you.

And congratulations to Tim and Anne.

Yeah.

We'll be right back with some more show.

We're going to come back and how many of us have experienced something paranormal?

We got the stats on that one coming up for you on the morning show at WFHR.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio, Laura and James hanging out with you.

Thanks for hanging out with us, everybody.

We got some fun stuff going on here at the studios today.

Send a shout out to Senator Teston joining us for his on the jobs here.

Yes, thank you.

It's cool.

You'll have more on that a little bit later.

Wrap up our show talk and went to Senator.

We'll have, I'm sure from him, you will be seeing some highlights from this and everything

too.

And we're going to record the Rapids report today as well for him for the month.

And so you'll get to hear that later today and tomorrow as well.

For now, when is the last time or if you have seen a ghost?

Okay.

And we're not talking about the, you know, like 10 year old with one of the bed sheets

thrown on that she wasn't supposed to cut holes in two, but she did and stuff.

Right, right.

We're talking about the genuinely believing that you had a paranormal experience.

Yeah.

In a new poll, 60% of Americans say that they have had at least one of 13 paranormal experiences.

But honestly, that sounds right to me.

It doesn't seem far fetched.

No.

It seems about right.

It's also still kind of surprising.

It's odd.

It can be all of those things, but it's still for me at least, I agree with you.

And at the same time, that's a high number.

Anytime I see a high number on these things, I'm a little surprised.

So that's, that's a little interesting.

Yeah.

Going down the list here, 35% of those people say that they have felt a presence or unknown

energy.

Sure.

32% have smelled an unexplained odor.

Okay.

I apologized.

31% have heard an unexplained sound or music.

Okay.

26% have heard the voice of someone who wasn't there.

Okay.

That one, that one, that one I have experienced.

That one.

I've experienced all of those.

And I want to know from the audience too.

I'm not just Laura, but certainly I want Laura's feedback on this, of course, but I want

to hear from the audience on this one.

If you've experienced any of these or if you, if you, how are you think of them?

Yeah.

I think it's funny, because I, you know, like I said, I have experienced all of those

at one time or another.

And the funniest part of it to me is that I did spend a lot of time in a place that was

supposedly haunted and have no experiences in that specific place, despite clearly being

able to experience these things.

Sure.

So I'm just, you know, throwing that out too.

I feel like that's what would happen to me if I stayed at the fister in Milwaukee.

Like I said, nothing happened.

They're just not interested in me, like look at this guy.

Like then you start, you know, you start getting self-conscious about it.

Like it might not be possible.

He's haunting himself.

What are we for?

Like, yeah, yeah.

The ghost don't want to be around me.

What was wrong with me?

What do you think you're saying?

Why let him haunt us?

What do you think you're so interesting ghosts?

26% have felt an unexplained change in temperature.

Okay.

Yeah, yeah.

23% have seen lights or other devices turned on or off without explanation.

See, that's, that's in the act of investigation too.

18% have seen unexplained orbs of light.

Yep.

Usually in pictures, you see that, but sometimes by the naked eye, it's possible.

I know we were talking about this one over the weekend with, you know, lost loved, loved ones in everything.

And certainly older family members like grandparents and stuff and how.

Jill is certain that her kids, her boys, have seen my Nana, you know, things like that.

That they're the little kid that's staring off in the nothing and laughing, you know, or something.

What are they laughing at?

All that.

It's interesting.

There's, there's sometimes more two things.

17% have seen an object move without explanation.

Okay.

16% have seen a spirit or a ghost.

Okay.

16% have also seen a door open or closed without explanation.

Okay.

10% have seen an angel.

Okay.

9% have seen unexplained smoke.

Sure.

And 7% claim they've actually seen a demon.

All right, then.

Men 38% are more likely than women, 28% to say it's likely the paranormal events they've experienced have scientific explanations.

Naturally.

Yes, come on to percent.

I feel like that specific stat is exactly why they set up the show X files the way that they did.

It's what made it more interesting that the the female lead was the skeptic.

Yeah, yeah.

And also I think I think they did that on purpose.

They wanted the men to like the female lead who was relating to them.

And they wanted the women to like the very attractive male lead who was relating to them.

Probably it's a pretty smart work on them on their part.

And it was honestly good show.

I'd watch it again.

10 out of 10 around 40% of Americans believe in

ghosts and psychics and demons and these things.

But just 6% believe in vampires, werewolves and that kind of thing.

See, that's the thing.

That's the thing.

It's a big drop right there.

There's a big difference.

There's a big difference between a vaguely visual or audible or even sent based experience

and a physical thing that you can describe and see in in terms of people believing or not believing.

It's it's about broadness, right?

I don't believe in bigfoot necessarily, but I believe in ghosts.

You know, when it when it comes to ghosts or or spirits, anything, whatever terms you want to use,

those are things the thing.

The wording is just so yeah, it's a lot of gray area.

But when it comes to those things, those are not man made necessarily.

Those were things that were kind of whether whatever your religious backgrounds or whatever

you're believing the afterlife or whatever.

I believe that it's a it's a natural occurrence of some sort.

Since the first person we lost, we've been wondering what's next, what's after and those.

That's where, you know, people are tying in those vague broad.

Whereas like vampires and werewolves, those are like, those are actually in the scheme of history,

recent inventions, recent creations.

I mean, to an extent, you know, if you look at time, like on a clock, it wasn't that long ago,

you know, there weren't vampires and werewolves in the BC, you know, that kind of thing.

Now, I would say bigfoot's an exception to that one though.

He's maybe he's been part of the story as long as there's been people on the Americas,

which has been quite a long time.

10% of people believe what the oldest cryptoid is on the old stories.

Those are always interesting to look into.

It's going to be the lizard creatures like the giant dinosaur stuff.

It's going to be those some stuff cracking.

Maybe you know, it's going to be those kinds of things.

10% of people believe that they can physically see events in the future.

9% say that they can physically see events in the past.

And 7% can physically see current events that they're not physically present for.

Another 7% claim that they can communicate with the dead.

Among 16% of Americans who claim that they've seen ghosts,

more people say that they are good ghosts than not.

Okay.

31% say ghosts they've seen are good.

6% say evil.

24% said neutral.

And 21% said a mix.

Okay.

Well, and that's the so.

Among people who investigate the paranormal,

the general general idea of it is if we're going to believe in ghosts,

we're going to believe that they used to be people.

And so naturally, there are going to be a wide range of the way that they intend to do what

they want to do.

There's going to be a lot of different reasons and perspectives and ideas.

And of course, you're going to see a lot of different

things happen because they're as unique as people because they used to be people.

Yeah, yeah.

When it comes to the, so there was one other part of this and I wanted to get to it too.

There's much better than what I was going to bring up.

And maybe this goes without saying, but people who lived in a house they thought was haunted

are more likely to say that they've experienced many paranormal events.

Well, naturally, except for you, where I didn't live in that house.

Oh, right.

It was so it was the lighthouse that my family used to vacation in Indoor County.

So we used to be able to stay at Sherwood Point Lighthouse because my dad was military,

is retired military now.

And you can rent it through the Coast Guard if you have a military ID.

And so we would stay there.

That lighthouse is supposedly haunted by a former lightkeeper's wife.

And I'd never experienced anything from Millie God rest turtle.

Very interesting.

So I feel like we have your answer, but please give it to us if you want.

But I'm curious if anybody out there, would you, would you or have you lived in a haunted house,

a haunted apartment and anything like that before?

I kind of thought you would really shine away from that.

To be honest, I do think there's a single apparition in my house still that is hanging around.

I would.

I think I have before.

I think I am now.

It's not that big a deal.

Most places.

I just wish you paid rent.

I don't, yes, yeah, right?

Yes.

I don't know the legality of these things necessarily.

Can I loop them into the, the, the lease?

Well, it might be a fun thing to bring up with David with our, our,

you know, reality report.

Do you have to disclose this stuff when you're selling a home?

I thought it was haunted or is that something you intentionally hide from them?

I'm saying it a little bit, you know, for content here,

but I'm also kind of curious, but it's also like, okay, but like, really?

I would think if you, like, especially good realtors, like they know their,

their audience, they know the people.

Well, and I think that might be it.

I think I think you'd, you say what, what'd you say to, to make the sale to an extent?

I wouldn't shy away from it, but I got to admit, if I live in that house,

they tell me it's haunted.

I live in that house for 10 years and I never experience anything.

Again, I'm thinking like, what's wrong with me?

What, what is it about me that ghost don't even want to haunt me?

What is, they're taking that personal, I'm going to be honest.

They're going to be, I'm going to be a little like, what is it about?

Hey, we want to hear from you on this one, for buddy.

Let us know 715-2424-2600 or call or join us through the Civic Media app.

Looking forward to talking and hanging out with each and every one of you.

Yeah.

But now, Lauren, I'll take quick time out.

We'll come back.

Have some more fun on the show.

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Lauren James hanging out with you.

Hi.

Thanks for hanging out with us.

We'll take you to the top of the hour.

I'm going to kick off the 10 o'clock.

Whoa, we got a fun 10 o'clock hour lined up.

We do.

I'm going to kick things off with the kitchen's open.

Yes, we join us.

She's got a great one for us today.

Shout out to the hotel meds.

That's our way and yes.

We'll also get into a little bit of entertainment news.

They misspelled Batman's name.

Which is very easy to spell.

It's wrong.

We shouldn't do that.

The scariest on-screen villains of all time.

And we will wrap up the show with a

Senator Teston joining us as part of his on the job series.

Yeah.

We're looking forward to all of that.

That's going to be a lot of fun.

It's going to be good stuff.

Right now, I want to dive into this one with you, Laura.

The number one fear that people have this spooky season.

All right.

We've got a list here of, let me see here of 10.

The 10 things that we are scary stuff.

Scary, most scared of.

Okay.

So this is the things we are scared of this spooky season.

What terrifies you?

What scares you?

I don't know.

I need more parameters.

Chapman University conducted an annual poll

of real life fears every dairy Americans have.

Okay.

And topping the list was corrupt government officials.

Sixty-nine percent of us are afraid of that one.

Afraid or very afraid of that one.

And now is this Halloween specific or is just overall

because they're not really good.

Chapman University, where you can go to their website,

ChapmanUniversity.gov, I believe her.

Yeah, Jack, you can go to and find a complete article.

They didn't give a whole lot of the parameters of this poll.

Yeah, I'm now.

I'm very curious about this survey.

As a note here, it doesn't matter who's in power.

It was also number one last year.

And 10 consecutive years overall now.

Honestly, yeah, fair, same.

I think it's fair to say that this is a fear.

Even outside of politics, people in power,

who are corrupt.

Yeah, yeah, that's honestly the majority of people

are not the people in power.

So that's going to be a fear.

Yeah, yeah.

So I think that's a very understandable, very relatable one.

And I think that one thing that is a positive in that.

And I'm looking at here is that the people that are in these jobs

also have those fears.

Yeah, and so there's hopefully some comfort in that.

But that is both hilarious and accurate.

Yep.

Not fighting with it.

Second on the list, people you love,

become you seriously ill, 59% of us are afraid of that.

Economic financial collapse, 58% on that one.

This jumped from 15 last year.

So that skyrocketed up from 15 to 13 for number,

10 number three things.

Yeah, cyber terrorism comes in at number 56% at number four.

Sure.

Rapping up the top five people you love dying at 55%.

Now, this seems cruel.

It feels like they said like at number two

was people you love becoming ill.

And at number five, people you love dying.

I feel like they're really be the same thing.

What are we doing?

Yeah, that's yeah, too.

At number six, the US becoming involved in another world war.

55% of people are stressed out for that.

Sure.

At number seven, pollution of drinking water.

55% of people are just huge in this area.

Yeah.

That's at number seven.

It was at number 11 last year.

Number eight, Russia using nuclear weapons.

54% on that one now again.

I feel like they're pretty sure that they just announced

that they made a new one.

So like, you know, number nine,

pollution of oceans, rivers and lakes.

54% of people are worried about that.

That is up from number 13 to number nine.

That's that's a valid jump, honestly.

And number 10, government tracking of personal data.

53% of people are nervous about that.

How high that one jump?

That was at 20 last year.

Number 10 now.

Yeah, that sounds right.

I hate, I don't like this phrase, legitimate fear.

I don't, I don't necessarily like that,

but they are, you know, valid.

They are for lack of a better way to put it.

Yeah, those are all fair.

I like, yeah, those are my fears too.

I just don't think of them specifically for Halloween.

But like, yeah, they're relevant.

Yeah, I think they're, this is kind of tying

in the scary spooky things.

Yes, yes.

Also, on the list, notable things on there.

Number 17, a fearing AI replacing people

in your workforce and your particular feed.

Number 25, we don't have the social safety net for that yet.

And number 25 is fearing a new pandemic or a major epidemic.

43 fear sharks.

Okay, fear sharks and number 44 fear of heights.

All valid.

This was the stuff I was expecting.

Right.

And 64% fear of flying.

Okay, yeah.

And how did that one jump?

That didn't say on this boy.

I wish they had.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

And so, and so this list is interesting.

On a number of different things.

And I think you could take a number of things from it.

Yeah, but I think one of the more, one of the things

that I appreciate about this list.

And I think that we need to do.

And I think you do yourself a lot better than,

it's not to say that you shouldn't have fears or fears.

Fears can be positive things in some ways.

They keep you alert.

They keep you aware.

It's how the human race has survived flight or flight.

Fetter flight, yeah, you know, that stuff.

But yeah, fear is a natural, healthy human experience.

I think there's also something that we forget about with fear.

It's relatable.

It brings us actually has an opportunity to bring us closer together.

It's human.

This, this list was filled out by people from all walks

of the earth, Republicans, Democrats, rich, poor,

man, woman, all of the above.

To fear this human.

Yeah.

And I think that if we, if we understand that a little bit more,

if you understand what fear, fear is man made,

fear is something we labeled, you know, it has.

It's always been there.

Yeah.

And I think understanding it is, it's no different than,

hey, everybody has maybe, maybe you don't like horror movies.

But everybody's got at least some version of that, you don't mind.

Sure.

Maybe you like silly horror movies.

Maybe you like suspense, you know, whatever it is.

We all have something like that.

We all use fear in some ways.

It's also one of the greatest motivators in human history is fear.

Again, part of how we got here.

I think it's important to just not look at these things as,

oh, fear's bad.

Well, yeah, fear can be bad,

but it doesn't, it isn't all bad on this list,

all not only relatable, but kind of taking it a different direction.

And I thought that was interesting,

but I love that they also included some things like fear of sharks or some of that.

Yeah.

It felt like a well-rounded list in that way, I suppose,

because it did get to the basics, you know, sharks, heights.

It's, and again, you can, I want to, let me double check here,

what the actual website is.

Yeah, a Chapman.edu.

Of course, it's a, why don't you get that?

Of course, it's a university.

University.

They're all EDU.

Come on, man.

Ah, yeah, that's, that's, that's going to bug me now.

That's going to, that's going to, that's going to bug me this morning.

Had another one I wanted to touch on here, Laura Halloween-wise.

All right.

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