Protecting Halloween (Hour 2)

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Time for our two of the morning show here at 97.5 FM 13.20 AM. Got your host James, joined by Laura. Hello.

And the best listeners and radio. That's you. Thanks for being here, everybody.

Fun stuff lined up for you. Gonna dive into some entertainment news in a moment.

A little bit later, we got the percentage of adults that are gonna dress up

and they're gonna celebrate Halloween. Okay.

We got that coming up for you. We've got a, that ain't right story. We got to get into it.

I got it. I got to get you and the audiences take on. All right. We'll have that coming up for you.

You know I'm gonna have one. We'll get into Halloween times, some events going on in our area

and plenty more where that came from. But we begin with entertainment news and Taylor Swift's

ares to her backup dancer, Jan Raznick, is currently competing on dancing with stars

as one of the professionals. All right. He's partnered with Jan Affleck from the secret lives of Mormon wives.

I don't know what I just said. That sure is a person and a thing that they are doing.

But he's catching a ton of flack from from a resident pros and real life married couple

Meskipa Chimanski. Chimanski, Chimanski.

And uh, uh, Peter Margoblin.

I'm not even trying. I'm not even trying. I'm not trying to insult these people.

I just tried to make James has. Yeah. This is, those are difficult names.

You want to take a look at him? There's a lot of consonants in there. Yeah.

Cause they're interesting names. All right.

Okay. Okay. All right. Hang on. Okay.

Maxim. Oh, so Maxim. We know Maxim. Okay.

Oh, Maxim. Yeah. It's Maxim.

Maxim Schemerkowski and Peta Murgatroyd.

Nice. Nice. Murgatroyd is a great one. That's a great name.

That's a great name. I would like that name.

They both are not happy with this guy, this person being a part of this.

Sure. Uh, quote, Jen has absolutely no business being a pro and dancer with the start.

There's zero foundation, technique, quality, understanding of the partnership.

And no idea what a fox trot was essentially. Yikes.

Uh, quote, how are you going to expect him to teach it and deliver the message in a format

that is completely different? Yeah. Uh, Peter added.

I feel bad because Jen's not getting taught the basics that she needs to.

He's a Taylor Swift dancer. It's the obvious reason why he was hired.

Uh, hiring a non, uh, ballroom dancer to teach ballroom dancing

to a celebrity as a job is outrageous. They've really losing it on this one.

Well, no, because it's disrespectful.

You're not hearing it in the quotes here with my energy and everything,

but they're angry about it.

No, I have no dance. It's disrespectful.

It's, it's, it's, it's hiring, you know, some celebrity's kid

instead of the most qualified actor, right? It's the same thing.

I've spent a good portion of time with dancers.

I admire the art. I enjoy it.

I've probably talked to more ballerina dancers than any type,

but when it comes to that industry,

they're, it's, it's as cutthroat as it gets.

It's as competitive as it gets.

And there aren't a ton of friendships.

There aren't a ton of that.

But one thing that, uh, even two dancers that are fighting for the same spot

or something like that, there's a respect for the dance.

Those are respect for the industry.

Yes. That, uh, even enemies will have.

And, and in one, in part of that,

you won't see a lot of dancers talking trash about other dancers.

Right. For different fields of dance.

You don't see it. You don't see it very often.

Right. Because it may not be their field of dance,

but it's respect.

Maybe it's modern media. Maybe it's a little bit of that.

But I don't think you see this very often where you see,

like they, they really got to be upset if you're taking a shot of another dancer.

Well, and, and honestly, that's a really fair point though.

It, it is. It's disrespectful that they, they hired Taylor Swift's choreographer

despite him not really being qualified.

Yeah.

He, he, he, he's not qualified to teach ballroom dancing.

I, um, that's the job.

I, I, I'm curious if the audience is affected by this or cares.

Uh, you know what I mean?

Well, I, I think it's just they made a solid point.

It's unfair to the person that was paired with him.

Right.

I, I would say if I was the person paired with this person,

I would ask for somebody else.

I would too.

And not any offense to them or Taylor Swift or anything like that.

No, but Taylor Swift doesn't doing ballroom dancing.

Like, I, I don't pretend to know Andy Richter,

but spending a couple of minutes around the guy and everything every couple days.

Um, I imagine he's not doing this other than he wants to learn to dance a little bit.

Right.

Like, that's a big part of it for him, I'm sure.

So I'm sure for somebody like him, he would want to learn.

He would want to learn, he would want to have an actual teacher.

Right.

So I don't know.

I don't know.

I also don't know a darn thing about this Jan or Jan or any of these people.

I don't know.

So I, I don't know.

For all we know, it could be on.

Uh, it will, uh, we'll, we'll bring this up with Beth.

We'll bring this up with her.

That's a good point.

Yeah.

We need to go to a resident expert.

She's our dancing with the stars correspondent.

So I really should have brought her on this one.

I apologize, Beth.

Um, we, we talked about this is kind of funny.

This was not intended as much as I love segways and I love planning things out.

This was not necessarily intended.

All right.

We just talked guns and roses yesterday about and was slash.

Uh-huh.

And then playing at the spear possibly and how much he, you know, really didn't think it

was a real rock and roll.

They signed on.

Well, um, we waited 954 years for Chinese democracy.

You even made the joke about this yesterday.

I did make the Chinese democracy joke.

Uh, we might not have the way it has long for the next guns and roses out.

Uh, um, slash, slash says, uh, they have a ton of material, but quote, it's a matter of

having the discipline to sit down and get it into it.

Uh, he adds quote, the thing with guns is, uh, in my experience, you can never plan ahead.

You can never sit down and go, we're going to take this time or going to do this every

time we've done that it falls apart.

Does he hear himself?

Right.

Uh, quote, I know it's coming because everybody is thinking about it.

It just hasn't happened yet.

It will happen when it happens.

Slash, I love you.

I do.

I love you.

But my guy.

Um, I, it's so weird to me to see such a one of the biggest bands of my generation.

Mm-hmm.

And popular, most people have at least one song they like by guns and roses.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Even I have a couple.

And the most talented member of that band has been held back by the band.

He kind of has, well, but willingly so to an extent.

Yeah.

But the style of music they play, you never hear the solos or the full strength of slash as a

guitarist.

You never really get the full extent of it because that music doesn't go that level.

Doesn't go that route.

Oh.

You hear him in other bands or on, you know, working with Michael Jackson.

When he's a feature artist.

Yeah.

Something like that.

You can, oh my god, this guy's amazing.

Yeah.

You then you hear it.

But you don't really hear it in the band.

Yeah.

Um, and all that said, you, you hit it on the head.

It's his own choice.

He's doing this.

Yeah.

And he's defending it.

Like he, he, like, I hear you, man.

And I get it.

So he just doesn't have any rush on it.

No big deal.

So you guys need to chill out and just let it happen when it happens.

That's what I'm hearing.

It says like, which would be fine if Axel Rose wasn't so Axel Rose about everything.

To that point, right?

Coming from the family I do and with my father and his struggles with addiction, I

wouldn't be the last person to ever make light of this.

But it tells you a lot that they had more consistency and more professionalism out of a heronatic

like Scott Wyland that they've ever gotten out of Axel Rose.

What does that tell you?

Yeah.

Like, yeah.

Right?

I mean, I don't, I don't, I'm not a gambler.

I don't bet on things.

I would love that.

I have no faith in Axel Rose, not in whatsoever.

I love you, Slash, but like, I will bet.

It's yourself a new man.

I will bet anybody, anybody in the world.

You deserve better, girl.

I will bet anybody five dollars that this album never comes out.

Right.

Easily.

I mean, post-umously released.

I cannot imagine that there's any chance in the world that album ever coming out.

But, you know, to eat their own, I don't know.

We'll see.

You could do so much better.

I do have a couple of local things I want to touch on here with our entertainment segment.

But before we do, Laura, you get to choose our next topic.

I've got two choices.

I've got.

Watermelons.

No.

No.

Okay, I guess we're talking what?

I've got to look up some of the watermelons.

Oh, shoot.

I did it wrong.

Crazy things about watermelons.

I have either the 20 of the spookiest music videos of all time or 10 gateway horror movies

you can stream on Disney Plus.

So basically kind of music videos, music, okay, all right, we're moving on, we're moving

on.

Okay, you made your choice.

Good choice.

All right.

So looking at music videos, Billboard put together a list of some of the spookiest music

videos of all time.

Some of them may surprise you and some may be not.

Right.

And as always, we want audience participation.

Please.

It's your favorite like spooky or Halloween or whatever.

If you don't already have your civic media app opened up, open up that bad boy and text

us your thoughts on this.

It's 20 of these.

So we'll burn through some of them and everything.

Yeah.

At number 20, Mary Jane's last answer, I'm petting the heartbreakers.

Sure.

It's got it's a little spooky.

It's eerie.

It's got it's eerieness to it.

It's not scary.

No.

But it's got definitely some eerieness to it and everything.

Tom's voice really adds to that, I think he's got a very ghostly voice to it.

That's one of my favorite songs of theirs.

I don't see him on this list, so I am going to say this with no spoiler intended.

I said for over two decades, if a ghost could sing it would sound like Roy Orbison.

You're correct.

I don't know what it is.

No, you're correct.

I love his voice.

I love Roy Orbison.

I like his singing songwriting.

But that's exactly what he sounds like.

But yes, he sounded haunted.

Yeah.

Yes.

There was something about it.

Why control from the A.A.

Yes.

Yeah.

Emper's new clothes from Panic at the disco.

Sure.

All nightmare long from Metallica.

Okay.

How low from ludicrous?

Listen, I've always got room for ludicrous.

You know what I mean?

But the through.

I'm never going to tell him no.

I've got a through me a little bit about that.

I've always got room for ludicrous.

I'm a playlist.

Grave from Kid Cuddy.

Okay.

Everybody screamed from Florence in the machine.

Sure.

Yeah.

So I don't know a lot of those, I'll be honest.

Okay.

I don't know a lot of those.

But the little bits I do in what I've seen, I can see where they're going with it.

Yeah.

Well, when it's about the music video, yeah.

Yeah.

It's a big umbrella on this one.

I like that.

At number 13, Dragula from Rob Zombie.

I love that music video.

It's a fun, creepy video.

It's got a lot of monsters kind of vibe to it and everything.

Well, it's a Rob Zombie production.

It is exactly what you came there for.

Rob, as wild as his movies are and know that, he very seldom can do serious horror.

No, it's all candy.

It's all candy.

It's like that.

That's so much.

I really like camp.

Yeah, he leads into that.

That's my favorite thing.

Disturbia from Rihanna.

Absolutely.

That one freaks me out.

Yeah.

That one freaks me out.

Yeah.

There's something about her.

She's got such a dramatic voice.

Yes.

When she really went like, if she's just having fun, it's a drama.

If she was aiming for drama, she gets it.

Yeah, she really, it's part of the reason.

I don't know.

I've only seen her act a little bit.

She did a good movie with Donald Glover that thought was good.

I thought she'd be a great actress.

I really expected her next act was going to be that, not being a mogul

and being a billionaire on that.

I think a lot of people thought she was going to do that, but she.

Hey, what she's doing is working out for it.

Listen, live her life for you.

We're not about to tell you you're doing it wrong.

No.

Dinner and diabetes from Hozier.

Okay.

Don't know that one.

Well, I don't know if I remember that video, but in general, the vibe of a Hozier music video fits.

Yeah.

Now, he is the, like, he's got a voice that sounds like olden times.

I feel like I'm about to read a JR token book.

And he's just, he's everything about him as a throwback.

And he's also genuinely a beautiful man who is, hang on, six foot six.

No, there's, like, you can, you got to pick.

You got it.

Beautiful hair.

You can be tall.

You can play the guitar.

You can sing.

You can play the guitar.

He's a good songwriter.

Pick one.

You don't get to be all of them.

Andy's six.

Not fair.

It's not right.

It's absolutely insane.

Demons from Doja Cat comes into number 10.

Sure.

Taste from Sabrina Carbiter.

Okay.

Now, here we go.

Here's my, now we're talking about it.

Here it is.

All right.

Number eight, bark at the moon from Ozzy Osborne.

That's a good answer.

Yes.

That's, that's definitely a creepy video.

That's a good answer.

I actually don't know that they can do creepy anymore.

For me, for me personally, the technology is too good now.

Part of what is creepy to me, part of what is suspenseful or horrific to me, is the almost

graininess of something, or the almost like 80s, 70s, 80s, you know, film, the way that

film was back then.

Yeah, the way that film looked.

Yeah, and everything.

So I, it's nothing against modern stuff.

And everybody, every generation can be different.

No, but there's something about the ambiance of that film.

I think that the, like for me, like the scariest thing about, like a movie like the Texas

Chainsaw Masker.

Sure.

Like that's just a gore fast and all that.

I don't care about all that.

Right.

What is the scariest thing about me to, to me about that is the very, and I'm not trying

to spoil anything, but the first beginning of it, they, they, they play it like it's a,

like it's a documentary, like based on real events and all this stuff and everything.

And, and that's plenty of movies have done that.

I believe they may have been the first, but plenty of done it, but they do it.

And it's, it's the, the film of it is very like, oh, we, like this is like old footage

or like found footage or something, like there's something art to that there, when it's

done right.

Absolutely.

That, that video kind of does that to me, that bark of the moon.

And number seven comes Daddy from Apex Twins.

And number six closer from nine inch nails.

Yeah.

Creepy on a different level.

It's, it's, again, it's eerie.

Yeah.

It's unsettling, I think is the word, but intentionally so Trent was going for unsettling

he wanted the juxtaposition of an unsettling video with those specific words put to that

specific music.

Mm hmm.

I am remaining FCC compliant today.

Nicely done.

There's a good five or 10 songs that would blow you, that blow me away into the, wow,

that was that number one hit.

Yeah.

Like I never would have guessed that that would be a number one hit.

Whenever I think about the fact that closer became the most pop hit from nine inch nails,

I sometimes lose my mind.

It's wild.

It's wild to me.

I'll never normalize that.

I don't know.

It can't become normal.

That what?

Yeah.

Yeah.

And cracking into the top five.

At number five, the dead dance from Lady Gaga.

Yes, absolutely.

Yeah.

Yeah.

She does horror right.

She does everything right.

She goes that route.

Lady Gaga can do no wrong.

Don't, don't tell me otherwise.

I won't believe you.

You're going to have to help me on this one, Laura, especially pulling out your burn

before listening, you know, that out.

And number four, everybody backstreet's back from backstreet.

Yeah.

That's the one.

That's the one where they're all dressed as different like classic horror characters.

Oh, okay.

And they're in a mansion and they're doing the everybody dance that they do because they're

the backstreet boys.

That fits.

Okay.

Right.

Right.

So, you know, Nick was a mummy and AJ was the phantom of the opera kind of, you know, that's

it.

That's actually not going to pick on it.

That's not about it.

It was kind of cool.

I like the backstreet boys.

I'm not even going to apologize for it.

But like, even for a backstreet boys thing, it was kind of, you know, I get it.

Good choice.

Sure.

That's the one that most people like because it's kind of a cool music video out of those

bands.

The only, and I'd never seen the videos, but I've seen clips of enough.

Is that the one?

Are they the band and is that the one where they're the puppeting?

No, that's been synced.

Okay.

You're so close.

I'm sorry.

You offended so many people just there.

I probably really did.

I apologize.

They're a whole group of millennial women just scoffing at you right now.

Yeah.

They probably already were.

You're welcome, ladies.

At number three, look what you made me do from Taylor Swift.

Yes.

And number two, all good girls go to hell from Billie Eilish.

Okay.

Yeah.

So both of those, I have not looked at, but I'm now I'm really curious, especially

Billie Eilish as a-

I love Billie Eilish.

It's probably, like, just talent beyond her years.

I'm a huge fan.

As far as modern lyricists go, she probably

hits this genre the best.

Absolutely.

From what I can see.

She really does.

And I know a ton of her music, but the handful of songs I know, she's, wow, yeah.

And what really helps is her brother being a master producer, a very good producer, incredible

producer.

Yeah.

His layering of sound.

They're both equally talented and they work together.

It's-

He does this thing that LP from Run the Jewels does, too, that is really unique where, like

LP from Run the Jewels, hip-hop band, not something you would think, but almost every

one of their songs, he'll take like John Carpenter 80s beat from a horror movie and add it

to the song and it just adds to it so much that the Billie Eilish's brother does a very

similar thing.

Yeah.

It's really cool with the production.

And at number one-

Bring it.

Thriller.

It had to be.

Michael Jackson's Thriller.

It had to be Thriller.

It's-

I think we all kind of thought this saw this one coming.

But can I shout out an honorable mention, still Michael Jackson?

I think Smooth Criminal was creepier.

I think it was a better video.

That too.

I don't know if it was creepier or not, but I think that that's probably the best music video.

To me, Smooth Criminal was creepier.

Actually-

It was more realistic to me.

Thriller was so set apart because it wasn't realistic where Smooth Criminal to me was

and that one was the creepier out of the two in my opinion.

I think it's Smooth Criminal.

I just-

I wanted to be-

Him and that little-

Yeah, you and every other boy at the time.

You could have called a cool video or a movie or whatever it was at the time.

You wanted to figure out how to lean really far like that.

He got me on that one.

I'll admit.

But actually, I think his greatest music video was Billy Jean.

By far and away.

Actually now that I think about it, where he didn't have all the production, didn't have

all the money behind it, but-

I'm going to take it further.

It's rock with you.

Well, that's my favorite song it is.

That's my favorite video.

But that one very stripped down, or late 70s and all that.

Just him and some glitter, man.

Billy Jean though, the lighting of the steps-

That was so cool.

The scene changed.

Yeah, that was game changing.

That-

Nobody had done anything like that before.

I think it really showed people different things they could do with videos.

What he did with-

I mean, there's nobody who did what Michael Jackson did with music videos and put it on a whole

different level that we never came back to.

And it was during the birth of music videos, really rising and so-

Yeah.

And it really started with Thriller.

Yeah, sure.

To put the, like, almost movie money behind a music video-

Yeah, yeah.

Points to that for sure.

Getting Vincent Price and all those things.

That's a big part of it.

It's hard not to put Thriller at number one.

Yep.

It's got all the bona fites.

It really does.

We'll take a quick time out.

We'll come back-

We got some local stuff.

We want to get into it's more fun coming up on the morning show.

Welcome back, everyone.

Morning show at WFHR.

Locally grown radio.

I played this one specifically because I had forgotten.

There is a music video that goes with this song.

And it is pretty darn creepy.

But because they had a lot of production value or anything like that, it's just screaming.

It's just screaming Jay Hawkins and him-

He hates-

He hates self-performing.

Yeah.

Everything- and L's Cooper has talked about this.

Everything L's Cooper was trying to do, screaming Jay Hawkins just was.

Like it was a character for L's Cooper.

This is just who the guy was.

Yeah.

He was just that kind of-

He was-

Is that another level?

Another level that guy.

Is it a wild life if you look at doing everything?

I wanted to touch on a couple of local things real quick going on in their area.

And a big shout out to the cast of Legally Blonde The Musical.

Yeah.

Our friends at Central Wisconsin Area Community Theatre have another run of this one coming

up this Friday.

Yeah they do.

Be sure to join them Friday.

What a great way to fund-

Fun way to celebrate Halloween.

Yeah, Halloween show?

I don't know if they recommend this or if they're even okay with this, but I think going

to a show in costume be kind of fun.

Or at least wear pink.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Lean into it.

Have fun with it.

Wear pink, put on a blonde wig.

Bring a stuffed dog with you.

Sure.

A small one.

You don't want to invade the person next to you.

Yes, yes, yes.

Legally Blonde The Musical tickets are for sale at cwack.org, go to cwack.org and meet them

at Century Theatre at 1800 North Point Drive and be a full Stephens Point by local support,

local support, the arts, everybody.

They get worked really hard on this show.

Yeah.

Joe, I know was a big part of it and he's been talking to us about of this.

He's been coming in through the weeks.

I'll show it out Joe Bachman.

Yeah.

Big fan.

Yeah, big fan.

And Wisconsin Rapids Community Media.

If you haven't done so already, go to YouTube, type in your search bar.

I mean, literally do this right now.

Wisconsin Rapids Community Media.

And subscribe to that page, everybody.

They do awesome work over there.

Really cool work.

And we are putting together a, in essence, a love letter to our community.

We are putting together for our 85th anniversary next month, which I can't believe it's so

close.

It's going to just be the tastiest love letter ever.

It is our anniversary cookbook.

It's been 30 some years since we've done this.

It's true.

And we're only doing it.

No, I'm pretty sure it's 50.

Wow.

Has it been that long?

Okay.

But we're only doing this basically because Lauren Melissa came up with a great cover photo

for it.

No, I'm joking.

No, we did.

You did come up with a great cover photo.

Yes, that's true.

But the book was already happening before we came up with the idea.

And by we, I mean, Melissa came up with this idea.

And we want your, uh, a recipe, everybody.

We want you to be a part of this cookbook.

Uh, we will be immortalized in this cookbook.

We want to cook your casserole.

Mm-hmm.

Get them to us.

Go to wfhr.com, sign up for a newsletter.

What?

Go ahead and get us that recipe submission.

Yeah.

We're not able to put it in online or if there's a better way for you to get it to us,

we will help you with that.

We'll meet you more than halfway on it.

Yeah.

You can bring them, bring them in and Pam will take a copy of it or you can text in a picture

of it using the Civic Media app.

Um, you can also email it to us.

You can email a picture to us.

There are a lot of ways.

I think, uh, that if not this week, next week may be the cut off for this.

I think we may have to finally wrap this up.

And I'm saying this to Terry, uh, Terry, uh, get your recipe in, please.

Uh, I want to make your casserole.

Uh, Terry, uh, get it in there.

She's a great cook.

So I would like to, I would genuinely like to cook one of Terry's casserole recipes.

Uh, I, I highly recommend, uh, baked goods, um, because I love them.

Uh, but there's no wrong answer.

There's no wrong answer.

Get your recipe in.

You can, you can submit more than one, give us, give us one for different categories.

Why not?

And if your recipe is submitted, it makes the submission, you will get a free edition

of the cookbook.

Yes.

You will.

Uh, we're really having a lot of fun with this one.

It won't be the same without you.

No.

So I'm going to show you some of these everybody and again, sign up for our newsletter,

all at wfhr.com.

Yeah.

Uh, and we'll take a quick time out right now.

We'll come back.

Uh, before we wrap up the show, we got a couple of fun topics for you.

How many of us adults are dressing up for Halloween?

How many are celebrating Halloween?

I'm still not sure.

Gotta have that right story coming up for you.

And of course, uh, local Halloween times and so much more on the morning show here,

wfhr.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show here at wfhr, 975fm, 1320am, Lauren James hanging out with you.

Thanks for hanging out with us.

Uh, got an early, uh, an earlier Halloween poll found 79% of adults plan to celebrate

it this year.

Okay.

Almost 80% of adults plan on celebrating Halloween.

That is a big number.

But that doesn't mean they're dressing up.

No.

Uh, in fact, most won't.

Just then half of adults planning to celebrate Halloween will wear a costume 39% said that

they will.

Okay.

And, um, so does that count?

Yes.

Dead, you know, I'm not saying I have an answer.

I really generally mean that rhetorically.

I know, you know, I don't have an answer on that.

The way I figure there's a good chance that a lot of the people not dressing up are still

giving away candy on Halloween.

Um, they are still going to be participating in the overall vibe of Halloween, um, wherever

it is that they are vibing from.

But I think that all counts.

I don't know if my father has ever dressed up for Halloween, like literally I don't know

if he ever has, but I guarantee that every year of his life, he has celebrated Halloween

exactly.

Exactly.

Uh, and two things can predict how into Halloween you are age and kids.

Sure.

93% 93% of Gen Z adults will celebrate in one way or another compared to 66% of boomers.

Okay.

That includes dressing up, handing out candy or just putting a pumpkin on your doorstep.

Sure.

People with kids are at home are most likely to go, uh, go big on Halloween.

Fair.

Yeah.

I mean, yeah.

52% of parents will dress up compared to 29% of people without kids.

Mm-hmm.

Half of parents will also go trick or treating and so will 70% of adults without kids.

All right.

They're going trick or treating.

Um, yeah.

Uh, yes.

Yeah.

So half of parents will go trick or treating and so will 17% of adults without kids.

Okay.

I just had an idea.

I don't know how the adults are going trick or treating, but I good for them.

But here's, here's the thought, a trunk or treat for grown-ups.

Oh, yeah.

Right.

Well, I like that because I also, I don't know that we include, it's not just candy, you

know, the vehicles.

Well, there's that.

Uh, I mean, I, I think you could have some cool trunk.

I'm just thinking of the other grown-up things that we could give out.

Mm-hmm.

Oh, yes, that too.

Yeah.

Yes.

Yes.

I was thinking immediately of like muscle cars and different vehicles.

No, I'm talking about beverages.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You're a better place to go with it.

Yeah.

But also we could have, you know, there could be a broad friday.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I like that.

Why not?

That's fantastic.

It sounds like it sounds like a pop-up bar.

Come on.

Attach.

Attach a non-profit to it and boom.

There you go.

Yeah.

There's your idea of someone.

Take it.

Raise some money and funds for a great cause.

Yeah.

Take it and run with them.

Just make sure it's a cause I like.

Yeah.

And bring us in on it.

Yeah.

I like most of them.

Here are a few more.

Here are a few more stats on how we're planning to celebrate Halloween.

Okay.

So adults who plan to celebrate will give out candy.

Mm-hmm.

47% will decorate.

40% will carve pumpkins.

And another 39% will wear a costume.

Very cool.

That's a good percentage of it.

Yeah.

It feels like even if you're not doing all of these, you're doing a couple or one of these, at least.

Yeah.

It feels really good.

Everyone's participating at a certain level.

It feels like.

Yeah.

It really feels like that.

A third of pet owners are looking at costumes for their pets.

Heck, yes.

I like that they say looking at.

Not saying that they're buying them, but that they're looking at.

They're seriously considering dressing their dog as a hot dog this year.

I love the idea.

Or a taco.

I've seen sushi cats.

The dog does something it shouldn't do.

And then the next thing you do is start looking at Halloween costumes.

While you're eyeing at your dog.

I think my favorite dog costume I've seen so far was the year that one of my kids

also dressed in the same costume.

They were both bananas.

That's good.

And so I have a picture of one of my kids dressed as a banana for Halloween.

Next to a dog also dressed as a banana for Halloween.

Perfect.

Great stuff.

The only time I've ever really participated in this.

The first dog that I really had and I had around a lot and everything.

My old friend, Gonzo.

Sure.

We found a sleepy hollow headless horseman one, where his body was the horseman and everything.

And then he had a headless horseman on top of him.

On top of that and his shoulders and whatever.

Right.

It was fantastic.

That's a great one.

It was five seconds.

Absolutely.

Maybe five, ten seconds.

No, that's like the year that I found reindeer antlers for locutus.

That was the name of my dog, Greston Peace.

And he kept him on for maybe five minutes.

Yeah.

If you're far long enough to get a picture and that picture is lived forever.

If you're fortunate to get a picture that isn't blurry.

Wait, well done.

No, he was a very good boy.

He sat very good for a picture, just one.

So among pet owners, whatever stats.

So what we're looking at pet costumes.

They'll spend an average of $22 on them.

Okay.

A full half of Gen Z pet owners plan to dress up their pet.

And spend a little bit more than that on it.

Which is fair, because that is their child.

Yeah, yeah.

It's a lot of what we're looking at.

Let's be real.

Gen Z will spend the most overall.

The average boomer household will spend $93 on candy decorations and costumes

compared to $600 for Gen Z.

All right.

Yeah, Nick John.

That is a huge difference.

But also you remember what it was like in your 20s.

You spent your money like it wasn't actually worth anything.

The oldest Gen Z's are pushing 30 now.

So some of them do have kids.

The average spend across all of age groups, about $400 on Halloween.

Yeah.

So it's not as if it's a big difference between all of them.

So it's the younger kids who haven't learned real responsibility yet that are spending their money on, you know, silly Halloween things.

But they're also being kids.

Let them do their thing.

Yeah.

It's part of the process, man.

You know, there's a difference of, you know, regressing and a difference of embracing.

Yes.

You know, and I think that one of the, it's actually kind of funny if you think about it.

It's embracing the unserious.

One of the things about embracing older age is taking life a little less seriously, I think.

Maybe it's just, I'm speaking, I should speak for myself here.

Right.

The world's most serious, man.

Right.

You know, that's one of the things I've done.

And I've found that not only is life much more enjoyable that way.

Boy, isn't it?

Right.

But, you know, when you're around kids, I feel like you get them better.

I feel like you relate more.

I feel like you're more understanding.

Right.

Because kids aren't taking it serious.

And I mean that from everything from six to 18, you know, like, because I'm old, so I look at kids.

It's a very...

Right.

I understand 18-year-olds are adults.

But you know what I mean.

No, I get it.

I feel like there's more than one under 25 as a kid.

Right.

Yeah, basically.

And let's see.

Oh, yeah.

And buying candy in bulk is our top money-saving strategy.

Sure.

57% of us will do that among the 97% celebrating Halloween.

Right.

57% of that.

You're going to buy the bigger bag because it's, however, much cheaper by volume.

Go big or go home.

24% will switch to less expensive candy this year.

Well, yeah.

28% to reuse or borrow an old costume.

Oh, yeah.

38% will DIY their costumes or decorations.

Okay.

So the weights that we're trying to save money this year, because obviously in the last couple

of years, that is a big topic is how much we're money.

How much everything has gone up in price.

Yeah.

There is almost nothing that hasn't gone up in price when it comes to it.

I was talking about this with Matt yesterday from our Wisconsin Rapps Police Department.

Sure.

As we were talking about the haunted walkthrough that they're going to be doing and everything.

And we'll talk more about that in our Halloween events and everything before wrap up.

There's something that's happened here that I don't know that we've taken...

We've really complemented each other on in society.

There's a very easy scenario where we're not even talking about Halloween anymore.

We're not celebrating it.

There was a stretch there where it got scary for parents.

It got scary to let your kids out and do this and everything.

Yeah.

The almost overnight flip of my generation and hey, you know, just be backed by dark or wherever.

Our parents had no idea what we were up to, what we were doing already.

They changed almost overnight.

It feels like a lot with modern tech, a lot of those things.

There's a world where we're not even doing this.

The fact that as a society, it didn't take a government bill.

It didn't take a celebrity coming out and telling us what to do.

Or even a wristband or something.

They were all wearing this wristband.

No, we just all kind of agreed.

Communities around the country left to right, west coast, Midwest to south.

This is what we're going to do.

We're not going to let kids lose this.

We're not going to lose Halloween.

We're protecting Halloween now.

I'm going to come up with trunk or treat.

We're going to come up with more nonprofit events that, you know, instead of kids maybe going to strangers houses,

going to an event, going to a place that is safer, that is a lot of these things.

Like, we should be taking a round of applause on that.

When I'm not saying the victory lap on this one, we're protecting Halloween.

That's pretty darn cool.

We collectively as a society chose to do that.

That wasn't told, we weren't told to do that.

We just kind of did.

We lose a lot and we spend half of our day talking about things.

Oh, back in my day or oh, this was, you know, what it used to be and stuff.

Here is something that is adapted and I might say it may even be better this way.

It may have certainly been safer.

Yeah, there's nothing wrong with it getting better.

I don't know, I think that's pretty darn cool.

You know, as we're in Halloween, we're here and everything.

Absolutely.

It is so easy to take shots at society, to take, oh, look at how we let this go.

Look at what we did here.

We mucked this up or whatever.

Right.

We don't do enough of this where we sit back and we're like, wow, we figured that out.

We kind of did.

We did it ourselves.

Yeah.

We as a country, as a nation.

We just figured that out.

We did this.

That's pretty darn cool.

No matter if you're celebrating Halloween or not, I think you can take a victory lap on that one and feel pretty good about it.

And, you know, especially it's important to find the positives when you have such a negative staring in front of you.

And we don't get to do as many of that eight right stories anymore.

I don't lean into them as much as we used to in the early days of this show, but ever once in a while.

All right, let's get to it.

There's one man that ain't right.

What's the biggest fail you've suffered at work?

You're all thinking of it probably right now.

Yeah.

Maybe, you know, it'll make you feel better hearing this one.

A Delta flight attendant made a pretty big mistake during a flight last Saturday.

Okay.

When he accidentally deployed the emergency slide.

No.

The plane was still at the gate at the time, thankfully.

Oh.

But you can't just deflate it, replace a repacket and go on your merry way.

It's a very complicated process.

Yeah.

And reports say it'll probably cost the airline between $50 to $70,000.

Oh.

Not to mention obviously the flight delay that this caused.

The flight was supposed to go from Pittsburgh to Salt Lake City, but it was canceled and passengers

had to put on later flights in the next day.

Yikes.

One passenger said the flight attendant did apologize to the travelers.

He told them he had 26 years of experience and this had never happened before.

It sounds like he just did something wrong when securing the door or did things in the wrong order that triggered the slide.

Yeah.

And it's, you know, when there's a thousand steps, it's easy to miss one.

This is like all the factors I just said obviously make this one of your worst days.

It's not your worst day at work.

Oh.

The money this caused the airline.

Yeah.

The the the the the delay of the flight.

Yeah.

But I almost I feel like maybe even as heavy as those things are.

Yeah.

Maybe the worst part of this is you're in that window seat.

And you're just getting ready for your flight and every flight in the history.

And then all of a sudden out of your corner your eye.

You see the.

Yeah.

And they're like, oh, I hope that wasn't going.

Oh.

Oh, quickly.

Are you like getting out of your seat?

Like, I'll go right.

I'm like.

Oh, God.

I mean, like that.

There is panic.

And then like you could be the coolest, most com collected flyer in human history.

Yeah.

And you see that fly kick that slide kick out.

And you're like, oh.

Am I?

Are we good?

I'm grabbing that.

I'm grabbing my seat.

I'm grabbing it.

Like whoever.

Like you can press in your window out immediately.

Like like, let's, all right.

I'm not even waiting for the slide.

Oh, you guys, I'm getting out of here.

About.

About.

This is not how I'm going.

If I go out on a plane that's what it's in the air that's one thing I'm not dying on a plane.

That's still on the ground on the tarmac.

Still on the ground, I refuse to let that out of the.

Get your butt out of there, man.

I am not going to have my friends at my funeral being like, this year on James went out.

I mean, it was on the tarmac even though it was.

And then you break your leg jumping out of the window.

There are certain things.

I know we can't predict this stuff, but I guarantee you I am not going out.

Like I'm not going out on the toilet.

That didn't happen.

And I'm not going out on a plane and tarmac.

Certain things.

Can you just wouldn't be able to respect yourself?

No.

You couldn't look at yourself after that.

I will find a way.

I will find a way.

That ain't right.

That ain't right.

We will take a quick time out.

We'll come back and wrap up the show.

Boarding show at WFHR.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show here at WFHR.

Lauren James hanging out with you.

Thanks for hanging out with us.

Hope you're having a good one out there.

Yeah.

Wrapping up the show, take it to the top of the hour.

Another of the great civic media programming coming up for you throughout the day.

Stick around for it, everybody.

And of course, join us at WFHR.com where you win over there already and signed up for

the newsletter and you've submitted your recipe.

It's true.

And you can go there to check out new episodes of The Rapid Support.

Lauren does an amazing job producing this one, putting it together for us.

I do, okay, trying to talk.

Oh, you do a great job.

But our guests are really what you come for.

That's what it's for.

Got great guests lined up.

It's about our local nonprofits.

Every day we get a great guest lined up for you today.

No different.

We're being joined by our friends on the Heart of Wisconsin Chamber of Commerce.

Danny's going to join us.

Awesome.

Danny's been doing great.

She has.

She's been a lot of fun working with us.

She's doing her job.

And I believe yet, executive director over at the Family Center tree is going to be joining us.

Oh, very cool.

From the Family Center in our second episode.

Awesome.

Those are some of our favorite nonprofits.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Looking forward to catching up with both of those great organizations.

We'll be doing that.

A little bit later.

Be sure to join us a little bit later this afternoon for The Rapid Support Podcast.

You can catch at WFHR.com.

Yeah.

Want to get in the Trick of Treat times and events and then we'll touch on some other fun stuff.

Or should we wrap with that?

Should we get to these things first, do you think?

Oh, what do you want to do?

Let's start with those.

Okay.

Let's start with the blood drives going on in their area.

Thank you, Laura.

No problem.

Well, these blood drives have already happened.

But if you want to find other blood drives, you can visit communityblood.org.

Oh.

Oh, that must have slipped in there.

I'm sorry.

Yeah, no.

It happened yesterday.

My plan to sabotage your segment.

But I also have some American Red Cross blood donation that's happening.

On the 30th from 10 to 3 at McMillan Memorial Library for 90 East Grand Avenue.

And on the 4th from 1230 PM to 530 PM at Grace Lutheran Church at 1531 Whitrock Avenue.

And then on the 6th from 10am to 3pm at the ODC at 1191 Huntington Avenue for more information

about those events and all of the other American Red Cross blood donation events in your area.

You can visit redcrossblood.org.

Got another great event around the corner.

It's true.

That's right.

The YMCA on the Boys and Girls Club is hosting a Monster Mash on October 30th from 530 to 8pm.

This free family community event includes a haunted house, costume contests, a DJ, games, crafts, and prizes.

You've just got to bring a free non-perishable food donation to support the food pantry in our community.

So head on over to 501 West Grand Avenue in Wisconsin Rapids on the 30th, 530 to 8 for the Monster Mash.

That's going to be a lot of fun.

That's going to be a great event.

It is.

I've got some other great events going on in our area getting into Wisconsin Rapids area Halloween times in our area.

Wisconsin Rapids Grand Rapids beer and nicoose supported where it's going on from 5 to 7.

Investor and Rudolph for 30 to 630.

Pittsville Stevens Point and Clover 5 to 8.

And Adams and Friendship going from 4 to 7.

Awesome.

Be sure to get out there and enjoy and have some fun.

Be safe out there.

Certainly to everybody else out there driving around, bopping around, slow down, look out for everybody.

Lots for kids.

Monsters running around.

Yeah.

I've got some other great events in our area.

Lauren and I are going to tag team these.

The Vesper volunteer fire department is hosting a brought fry from 4 to 7.30.

And the Vesper recreation committee will have games and treats from 4.30 to 6.30 at their beautiful community center.