Close Encounters? Or Just Cool Space Stuff? (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.

It's time to kick off the morning show here at 975 FM 1320 AM locally grown radio.

Got your host James here joined by your CEO of your net away of Southwood and Am's counties.

Terry Johns. Good morning. Got the band together.

On hump day. On a hump day. That's going to be fun. We're going to have some fun. We got good things on the way for you everybody.

The Elcafe birthday anniversary club right around the corner. We're also going to get into.

We have a new record for the world's heaviest pumpkin. Got to talk about that.

How many of us have lived in a haunted house? We've got some stats on that one. How many of us have lived in a haunted house?

There's also a good chance of aliens making contact today.

Get ready. Put on some decent shirt. You don't stress off.

Yeah. Just get ready. Just in case. Be on your best behavior and put on a nice shirt.

Clean underwear. Clean socks and underwear.

There you go. We'll kick off the 10 o'clock with a little bit of entertainment news. Got some fun things to dive into there.

Also in that 10 o'clock we got four big benefits of having a dog.

We got that one for you along with a bunch of good stories of the day.

Plenty of other stuff. You put Terry and I in a room together who knows what's going to happen.

I want to start off in two notes actually. One, I'm not sure what happened with Melissa's news there,

but we will figure that out and make sure to get you guys her latest news update.

I appreciate the work she puts into that. I want to make sure to get that out there for everybody.

I know how much the audience looks forward to it.

I want to say a gigantic shout out to Diane. She brought us chocolate chip cookies again.

They're all gone. I hope the staff wasn't hoping to eat any rude.

Oh, I devoured them. They're gone. There is police tape up around them.

And there is a detective from law and order back there right now. Like, oh my god.

No, there's a bunch of cookies left. There's a bunch left. But thank you, Diane.

That's awesome. I don't know if I mentioned this enough.

Diane's a really good baker too. It's not that she just makes these things for us. They're really good.

We appreciate it. So nice of her to think of this group.

We just have that kind of community, Terry. Not many of us know it better than you do as the CEO of one of our strongest nonprofits and the United Way.

And especially this time of year during campaign season, where it's all hands on deck.

And we're looking for everybody to help out in any way that they can.

We saw the community come together with Dave carrying the other day.

I wanted to just touch on that real quick before we went too forward. How did Dave carrying go?

Dave carrying went fabulous. And we were able to rake 103 yards.

So that's super awesome. And also, you know, that was about 450 volunteers that got that work done.

And everything went really well. I mean, I was, you know, I had new staff doing the event.

So sometimes you're like, oh boy, what we miss. You know, what, you know, you look back at other people's notes.

But there's always, you know, it can always happen.

And I thought, you know, everything went so smooth and, you know, great feedback from the homeowners, great feedback from the participants.

But all in all, you know, we think we're able to do a great service for 103 homes that are in our community.

Now, Mother Nature did not do a great service and drop all the leaves beforehand.

But, you know, we did what we could do at the time.

Lots of leaves were begged or rate to the curb.

And so, you know, we're just, we're very fortunate.

How many, you know, the old right, the old saying, many hands make light work.

And, you know, we saw a testament to that. And honestly, the last group had, we do ask the rakers to let us know when the yard is done.

So we can just, you know, officially check it off.

And the last ones were done by, you know, before one o'clock.

So, I mean, it was just a short morning, Grand Rapids Lions.

You know, certainly our hats off to them for they, you know, we just simply get the pancake mix.

They like turn it into a feed, you know, into a small feast.

So, lots of people, about 200 people for breakfast.

So that was phenomenal.

I just, I can't say enough good.

And so, you know, if you were part of this in any way, thank you, thank you, thank you.

It's a success.

You know, it's something that we can all take a little bit of pride.

And I think, and certainly it's a bell weather for this community.

You know, this is an event where it's not something that we, you do.

For any other reason, then you got good in your heart.

Like, I don't know how else to put that.

You're really giving of your time, your Saturday to go and do this.

I think that's really cool.

And it's such, so great.

Every year, it never gets old here in this turnout that we get.

And next year, we're going to look for even better turnout, even more.

So we're looking forward to that.

Right now with the United Way, Terry mentioned that it is campaign season.

We, we certainly, this is the time of year.

We're encouraging people to donate if they can.

Dollars in a sense go very far.

Your time, volunteering for things goes so deep.

But I don't know that we always get a chance because there's always events going on.

There's always so many things happening with the United Way that we really get a chance.

A couple times a year to focus on really what the United Way is doing.

And why we're asking for this assistance, why we want the community to invest in the United Way.

Because it is an investment.

We call it donations, but it's a true investment.

100% of what you donate, whether it's $5 or $500, goes right back into this community.

And stays, you know, stays here.

And I think, I think that's really important.

I had a really great conversation actually yesterday morning with, with the crew over at DoorWorks.

You know, went there to do a campaign presentation and was talking with them.

And I thought it was really cool because it's a small but mighty team.

But they had some really great questions, you know, like, well, who, who's being served?

So the United Way's focus is on what we call the Alice population.

Alice stands for asset limited income constrained employed.

So these are folks in our community who are working, but maybe just aren't making enough to make ends meet.

Or they are making ends meet until something happens, right? Car breaks down.

So do you have a support system who can help you till the car is fixed?

Where does the money come from to fix the car?

You know, so there's some challenges that I think households in our community face

that aren't always right on the forefront, but easily, you know, can turn the tide

of how their financial situation is going.

So United Way dollars are focused on households that are below that Alice threshold.

And we focus on them through a, what we call our community impact agenda.

But we have four different areas of the community that we focus on.

So we focus on healthy communities.

So that's where we're thinking about, you know, access to programs for physical health,

but also food programs, right?

Like, what does that look like?

How do people get access to food?

And we know that food is a hot topic right now and access.

So we are currently, my team right now is literally working on a flier about food access

for the month of November.

Because of the, you know, the suspension of these snap benefits.

And even if, even if the, you know, a vote passes, it still won't be loaded on those cards by November first.

So there's a delay.

So, so we're working on, you know, trying to, trying to stay ahead as much as we can.

Of course, this is going to put a huge amount of stress on food pantries.

I mean, that's just, it's just the reality.

I'm not here to, you know, or with anybody to debate how we got to where we are,

but how do we do now, right?

Like, how do we help?

How do we help folks who have that need?

So healthy community, youth opportunity, right?

So what are we as a community offering to our youth, especially those who can't be part of every, you know, club program or that kind of thing?

So healthy community, youth opportunity, financial security.

So thinking about, like I mentioned, the Alice families and what does financial security look like for families in our community?

And last, but certainly not in the least, is community resiliency.

And in that area, we think about things like 211.

You know, 211 is a really important resource and an important resource.

Again, when we're talking about food security right now, if you want to know what's available in the community, you call 211.

Yeah.

They will tell you, it might not be what you want to hear, but they'll tell you what's there, you know, because it is the most comprehensive list of programs available.

And I also just want to notice 211 is statewide, 247 coverage.

So you might be fine yourself, but you're thinking about your, I don't know, your elderly aunt who lives in pick a place in Wisconsin, right?

And so in Shaboyan.

I mean, as well, humor this up a little bit.

So James is elderly and who lives in Shaboyan.

You know, you're worried about her for food security.

So you can call 211.

You can know what's in Shaboyan, right?

I think that that's the beauty of the system statewide, one database, like a, you know, a like phone says, so we're all, we're all working together.

Share your information.

And minimizing duplication, right?

Yes.

So, so that's a big thing too with your United Way investment, because I mean, that's what this all circles back to, right?

We're asking people to make donations and to give to United Way.

You know, be as generous as you, as you can.

There's no right size gift, all gifts count, and all gifts make an impact.

And that's the beauty of, right?

When we put all of these donations together, we are able to do all of this work.

There's 28 programs that we help to fund.

There's 10 initiatives that our staff provides, you know, as programming to the community.

There's a lot going on in each of those four areas.

So, this time of year, honestly for us, mid September till mid November is all about money.

I mean, that's just the reality, because we're raising the dollars to fund 2026.

As much as we raise, as much programming as we'll be able to offer.

So, no matter what we raise, it's a success and it's a victory because it is impacting community members.

But our goal is to always raise at least what we did the prior year, or a little bit more, so that we can make sure

the level of service that's been provided in the community is at a minimum maintained, right?

Like, we don't want to see declines in service.

We want to at least maintain, but, you know, maybe even raise it up a little bit.

So, you know, this time of year is about, it just is.

I mean, that's the deal, right? It's about money.

And so, people can donate to United Way by, you can mail a check to us or stop in at 351 Oak Street here in Wisconsin Rapids.

You can give on our website, www.swac.org, and you can give with a credit card.

We can set up automatic withdrawals if that's your preference.

You can do a qualified distribution from an IRA if you are, you know, of the age of being able to take distributions, which doesn't count against your annual income, by the way.

So, there are plenty of options.

We just really encourage you to, there's no better time to roll up your sleeves.

And, you know what, drop off a $5 bill or, you know, make a distribution.

Whatever it is that is meaningful to you will go so much farther than you could ever believe here in this community.

I'd like to ask everybody to do something for me real quick.

Whether you've ever donated or not to the United Way volunteered with the United Way, use the United Way services or not.

You're familiar with the United Way, no quite a bit about it already.

It's pretty hard not to in this community.

So, I'd like everybody to just think about over the course of the year, the different things that the United Way impacts in our area.

We just got done starting off the school year.

We were able to start off so many kids with backpacks, so many kids with school supplies.

During the summer, we have our United Weekend event with the rafters.

And we have such a fun creative time with that while also doing such good and collecting so many great food items for this community.

And that is so right now needed.

Also during the summer, you've got the book reading programs.

Great book giveaway, yes.

Things like that.

We've talked about Dali Parton's Imagination Library.

So many different programs.

Now, think about if we didn't have those programs.

Think about if we are even missing just one of those programs.

How different our community would be?

How much that would affect our community?

What we raise right now gives us the opportunity to do not only what we're already doing, but maybe even more.

And at a time when we could really use it.

It's all hands on deck and we appreciate everybody that's able to put into this.

As Terry mentioned, there's lots of ways to donate.

Find out more by going to uswac.org, head on over there.

And while you're at it, be sure to follow them on social media, share their posts on your pages.

Never know what you might find and what you might be able to share with people who might see things that wouldn't otherwise.

Get on over there and do that everybody.

Terry, I don't know if you guys have a program yet or not, but I am working on the idea of a Guinness record program with the United.

Now, that's not going to work.

But I do think this is a fun topic and I had no segue for it.

So did any parents throw out their back, their back this October trying to lump pumpkins around?

My dad almost did this.

My dad, he was going to get a pumpkin.

I don't know what happened.

I know him, my mother apparently were at the store.

He found a pumpkin he liked.

He picked it up.

It hurt his back.

He set it down.

They never got the pumpkin.

No pumpkin.

I guess I don't know what's going on with that.

I want to get one because I haven't covered a pumpkin in years.

I want to do that.

There's a new record for the world's heaviest pumpkin.

And I kind of wish I could park car for this one.

Two British twin brothers had been growing giant pumpkins for over 50 years.

And they finally scored a world record after they harvested one that weighed 2819 pounds and four ounces.

No way.

It's also the largest pumpkin, a pumpkin by Sir Comforts at 255.8 inches.

That's over 21 feet.

The guys' names are Ian and Stuart Payton.

And they started growing super, super sized gourds in their early teens.

They are now 64.

The nickname the pumpkin muggle inspired by the Harry Potter franchise.

There is some pretty good photos of this thing too.

It's it is a way to keep after it.

Yes.

They were their teens another 64 so at least 50 years.

It's just so cool is that.

I give them credit for their perseverance.

Yes, absolutely.

It shows that you really love what you're doing to keep doing it even if you haven't succeeded.

But that thing, that does not look like a part.

It looks like an alien to me.

I know we're supposed to possibly have alien content.

You're on another planet today.

Oh, just today.

Did you ever notice that thing is huge.

But did you ever notice like when you see pictures of big pumpkins, they're never like standing.

Yes.

I mean, I'm not criticizing like what are they going to do while they're trying to roll it.

But isn't that funny how they're always kind of just flat?

Yes.

What was the nursery rhyme with the pumpkin?

Yeah.

Maybe.

But you know, that pumpkin is hollowed out.

They're sitting in it the right way.

Yeah.

And I get it.

It's a nursery rhyme.

But it is funny how they're always kind of just flat.

It is.

It is funny that way.

Also, we did the story the other day about these this place.

I believe in England where they court.

They cut these out and they use them as rafts.

Oh, yeah.

I've seen that.

Like a pumpkin regatta.

Maybe that's part.

Yes, that's it.

Maybe that's part of why is because they're already flat.

I think it's huge.

Although we have a pumpkin patch at our house and they, I mean, they do grow like on their

side.

And I'm always telling my husband, I'm like, rotate those things so they look nice.

And he's just, you know, giving me the stay out of my garden, you know, I love the idea

of that.

We actually had a really great harvest this year and they look and they do look nice.

I know I have no idea if he rolled them or not, but they do look good.

Oh, very cool, very cool.

Very good to hear.

We will take a quick time out.

We will get to our break here when we come back.

We're going to have some fun with the El Caffe birthday anniversary club.

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Looking forward to it everybody.

Terry, I need a one or a two.

Two.

All right, because that's the qualify.

First up, we want to wish a very happy birthday to Civic Media Zone.

Jason Mansmith.

Happy birthday, Jason.

Jason, enjoy your day.

Jason's a good guy.

We hope you enjoy it.

Have a good one, Jason.

Enjoy the day.

We see who you share your birthday with.

We wish you a happy birthday to Kurt Williams.

Happy birthday, Kurt.

Kurt with a C.

Want to make darn sure that his, I believe, his wife wanted to make darn sure with a C.

This morning.

So I made sure C with us.

Kurt with a C.

Enjoy your day, Kurt.

Hope it's going well for you, man.

And our qualifier today, Sarah Bates.

Happy birthday, Sarah.

Enjoy the day, Sarah.

Hope it's a great one for you.

Enjoy. Have a great one.

And we encourage you to brag to all your friends, family, strangers, animals.

That you are our qualifier and our star of the day.

Enjoy.

Let's see who you share with.

Looking at our celebrity list.

Gabrielle Union is 53.

She is a bad boy.

She was an LA's finest.

She's married to Duane Wade.

So you might have seen her in some of those commercials with him and everything.

Very strong actor.

Very strong actor.

And a really interesting interview.

Some of that.

It's a good talented human being.

Oh.

Winona Ryder is 54.

I think Winona Ryder, I admit.

One of my earliest crushes I had was Winona Ryder.

I admit that.

Yeah.

But for one, there's about a billion other people out there that are agree with that nodding their head.

But that said, fantastic actor.

Fantastic actor.

A huge range of things that she can do.

Obviously, her early movies with, you know, Beetlejuice and some of those Edward Cesarhans.

Early.

How about Heather's?

That's where I was going.

That's where I was going.

Because Heather's leads into girl interrupted and leads into stranger things and leads into her doing a little bit more drama.

That I don't know that people really could see her capable of unless it wasn't for Heather's.

She was able to do that.

Silly, fun movie that would never happen now.

I'm not sure this is something to be proud of.

But like back in the day, I could recite almost that whole movie.

I love that about you.

I love that.

I love that.

Almost like I could right now.

But you'd be.

I feel like it works out every year that her birthday.

You're co-hosting.

Seriously.

Y'all gotta love that.

That's awesome.

She's great.

She's really stuck with the industry where a lot of actors, they get dismayed, they get away from it and everything.

And they find other things to do.

I admire that she is stuck with it and that she's found different things like stranger things or stuff to jump into in other projects.

I hope with stranger things wrapping up, she keeps acting.

I hope she finds other projects.

Because I love her work.

I love her as an actor.

I think she's fantastic.

Let's see.

Randy Jackson is 64.

Dazzling member of Tito and the Jackson's.

And that's Jackson 5.

Also not to be confused with American idols to Randy Jackson.

Not the same Randy Jackson.

There is no confusing the great, the legend, the wonderful Dan Castanella.

Dan Castanella is 68 today.

He is of course the voice of Homer Simpson.

But not just Homer.

He also does the voice of Grandpa Simpson, Barney Gubble, Krusty the clown, Groundskeeper Willie,

Major Mayor Quimby, Hans Mollman, along with at least 20 other characters I can think of off the top of my head on just that show.

That is amazing.

He is, and every one of these voices pretty much sound different.

There's a handful that are a little close.

But for the most part, he does something that Frank Oz and so many other great voice actors are able to do where you can't even tell that they're doing a different.

It's that actor doing that voice.

Dan is also one of the creative consultants on the show.

He is one of the integral members of that show, not just because of his voice but his writing talent.

He's a great actor.

He was started out on the Tracy Almond show as one of the actors on that show.

All the voices of the Simpsons were all actors on the Tracy Almond sketch show.

And that's part of how they became voice actors on that is because it was a segment for the show.

He's one of these people that people love to work with too.

He's a real giver. He's a real believer in building people up in the industry and a lot of those things.

I am a huge fan of his, not just because he is the voice of Homer, but because of who he is as a person.

I really enjoy him.

And yeah, obviously he's the voice of Homer.

He created dough.

Like in the original script, it just says annoyed grunt and he came up with dough.

He did that.

I feel like maybe, you know, he was working on it and his wife walked by and kicked him or something.

You know what I mean? Like it was an actual reaction to something.

Oh, this does work.

No, actually, you know what? That's the great.

Not that his wife would kick him, but I'm just saying.

I look like there's something.

I want that to be true.

Plugged him in the arm.

You know, I don't know.

Richard Dreyfus, 78.

Fantastic actor.

Matt Hopper in Jaws.

Oh, was it?

Jaws.

Oh, the third kind.

What is it? The sci-fi movie.

I can't think of.

He was in.

He was in that.

Mr. Holland's Opus.

Great movie.

Fantastic movie.

Maybe his best performance.

And of course, what about Bob?

You know, what about Bob?

Is a great one.

I couldn't try to block that movie up.

Yeah, I think a lot of people do.

But I don't know.

It's got some great baby steps.

Baby steps.

Yeah, baby steps.

He's got one of the more.

I would say.

Close encounters.

Close encounters.

A third kind.

That's what I was trying to think.

Oh, yeah, you're right, girl.

There's another one.

Richard Dreyfus has got one of the more.

I think, like, illustrious careers in many ways.

Just because when he came around and the notoriety that he had,

along with the opportunities he got, solid actor.

It's a pretty diverse list.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's a good point.

People are no longer with us.

Like Denny Lane, born in this day in 1944.

The original singer of the movie Moody Blues.

He sang on the first hit go now.

He was also a guitarist for wings.

And Daniel Decatur Emmett, born in this day in 1815,

he wrote Dixie.

Hmm.

Wow.

Let's see here.

And that is going to do it for our list.

But we encourage everybody to get us more birthdays and anniversaries.

We love celebrating with you.

Keep getting them to us.

Everybody.

And of course, there's not a better way to celebrate than with our friends over at

Elcafe.

Encourage you to treat yourself.

Get on over there today.

Everybody into Elcafe and enjoy yourself.

We will keep working on Melissa's news.

We'll try to get that for you.

But for now, we'll just go right to Mike's sports.

Yeah.

We're going to have some moments for you right here.

We'll be Terry and I'll be back in more show here.

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Halloween week.

So we got the bumpers for one more week here with the Halloween themes.

Terry, we had a topic the other day about spookiest music videos and all that.

And Thriller was number one, of course.

Any pop to mind for you as far as the Halloween videos or anything like that.

No, not really.

Yeah, yeah.

It was never...

When we did the subject, I was like, I kind of thought about it.

I was like, that seems like an untapped topic.

Like more people should have done more of that.

When videos were your thing.

Now it's, I don't know, no matter.

But back in the day, I feel like they should have done more of that.

Especially with this being Halloween week, we're all a little bit more...

I don't know if on guard is the right word.

But we're more sensitive.

We're more in tune with things.

And I think of any kind of supernatural nature.

Now you could be the most unperson like that.

You don't pay attention to that stuff.

Don't care about it.

Don't care about Halloween.

Any of these things.

But you can't avoid it.

It's still there.

It's still coming.

It's still in pop culture.

It's still around.

You go to the grocery store.

You're going to see Halloween items.

You can't get around it.

So everybody's got to kind of in mind a little bit.

So I don't know if this is the perfect time for this to be happening.

Or maybe the worst time.

But a bunch of sites are claiming aliens could make their first contact today.

There's an outside chance of it.

If you're not on your UFO news.

Which I don't blame you.

Because I'm learning about this too.

An interstellar comet from outside our solar system has been zipping past us the last few months.

It's only the third one we've ever seen.

And it is gigantic.

The data that we're collecting from this is fascinating.

It's really interesting.

If you're curious about space or any of that stuff encourage you to look into it.

It's kind of interesting.

Experts think it's about the size of Manhattan.

Oh, interesting.

And it's different than normal comments.

So of course, this is not only got the scientific community very curious and very interested.

And fools like me that just think this stuff is interesting even though I don't understand.

I only understand every other word.

I don't know half of the stuff they're talking about.

And of course, yes, the alien crowd.

The crowd that's waiting for contact or something.

So it's assumed there's an alien on this canvas.

Yeah, I don't I have yet to see anything that's really where they're pulling this from necessarily.

It's millions of miles away right now on the other side of the sun.

So why is today the day?

Basically, it's when it reaches its closest point to the sun or an event called the parallelion.

The parallelion is when the a comment is as close as it's ever going to get to us or the sun.

Oh, that was one of the words we didn't know.

Yeah.

When we did the every other thing.

If if if if if if it's aliens today is the best day for them to change course by firing their boosters.

And you know, and using the sun's gravity was kind of like a slingshot.

I mean, we all know this that we all learn this in grade school.

We all know I don't know what they're talking about.

I have no idea.

They like all conspiracy theories.

You got to be you got to do a lot of reaching.

You got to use a lot of your imagination.

This one, they're really doing overtime on a guy at Harvard named Avi Loeb has been pushing the alien theory.

He joked last month that you're planning if you're planning a vacation.

Maybe go before the 29th.

Boy, he didn't really predict that they'd make first contact the internet exaggerated that shocking.

His point is that they could be back from behind the sun doing who knows what.

And we're we're now in the window of when they'd be able to maybe reach out.

The comments been behind the sun for a few weeks and we won't be able to see it again for a month or two.

Or more ever actually.

So even if it does change course, we probably wouldn't know for a long time.

Now fans of the theory think that there's a chance the ship already releases probes and they're on their way here.

But really, there's no reason to think any of this stuff necessarily.

However, I do want to I don't I brought up everything I did about Halloween in this week and everything.

And the older we get, the less we use our imagination, the less we give in to just fun.

Just the mystery of life.

I'm sure everybody's heard this dad how much our percentage of our oceans we haven't discovered yet and everything.

I I want us to discover those things.

I want us I want to know what's down there.

And at the same time, there's something magical and wonderful about that.

And the mystery.

And yes, the in a day and age where information is so at our fingertips.

And we can find out anything in our face.

Yes.

Yeah.

I kind of I feel like we don't do enough of this where we don't just breathe for a second.

Like, huh, we don't know that yet.

That'll be fun to find out.

That'll be interesting.

There are going to be explorers.

There are going to be people out there that are going to hunt these things down.

And I think that's pretty cool.

The idea of I don't begrudge anybody the feelings or belief in aliens or anything like that.

And as a realist with a overactive imagination, I can empathize with it.

I can understand it to a degree because realistically to me,

it doesn't make any sense to think that we're the only thing in the universe that is conscious,

that understands life, that is living and breathing and all that.

That doesn't realistically, that doesn't add up.

It doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

Well, at the same time, I don't know if anybody does this or not.

But when I hear people talk about aliens or any of these things,

one of the things it does for me is make me really, really, really appreciate life and human beings.

I don't think we talk about this enough.

And maybe there's a reason for that.

But the planet is in the exact place it needs to be in the galaxy for all of this to exist.

If it's 20 inches that way, if it's 20 inches this way, we're not here.

None of this happens.

So the fact that all of that happened and we are here.

When we talk about aliens, when we talk about other things from other planets and all that,

it's silly, it's fun.

Some people take it maybe too serious.

I don't know.

That's each your own.

But to me, what I take from this is, man, we are so lucky to be here.

And that is so cool that we're here.

And we've gotten to a stage in existence and human beings that we're actually able to think about other planets and other beings and other planets.

Like that's where we've gotten.

We're not just trying to survive anymore.

We're not just trying to, you know, make the next day happen or anything.

We're looking up.

We're trying to know what's up there.

We're looking down in our oceans and trying to figure out what's in there.

We're digging into our ground and finding dinosaur bones and all these things.

And it's, I don't know.

I don't know that we appreciate life enough.

I don't know that we take a breath and like, wow.

20 inches that way, 20 inches this way.

None of this is here.

I think if anything, these things can give us that.

Can give us those moments and take a breath and be, oh, that's pretty cool.

And I thought we already had alien contact.

They didn't have some viewpoint.

I thought it was a couple of years back and everything.

They released all that information and all those documents and stuff about saying

that we have had technically, we have had contact from unidentified flying objects.

I think on your way out today, you're going to get memed up.

Well, here's the thing.

I feel like if they did beam me up, I feel very confident that I'm up there for a couple of minutes

and they sent me right back out.

Would you resist or would you go?

Um, I think I think my aunt, so this past weekend, they did a jump scare to Michael Strayham.

An NFL, an NFL show or whatever.

Yeah.

And he immediately turns around and said, what's wrong with you, man?

Like, and he's ready to punch the guy and stuff.

That's me.

That's my reaction.

I feel like I'd be one of the worst people to like, if they do it, they got to give me some,

you know, lead into it and everything.

Don't just like all the sudden show up out of nowhere because you're going to get punched in the face.

Like I'm not trying to be a jerk here or anything, but you can't do that to certain people.

I'm one of those people.

Our first contact with aliens could be very bad.

Could be very, very bad.

If, now, if I see them coming, that's totally different.

Now, I just see like a, you know, hovering over you and, you know, like the, the light thing that they always show with that, right?

And you're getting sucked up, but you're like air punching.

Oh, yeah.

You know, like there's no one around you, but you're just swinging like that.

I'm chicken and screaming and everything.

I kind of thought maybe you'd just go.

You would take that.

You would, you would, you would a lot of other people would think that.

Yeah.

I don't know.

I don't know about it.

I don't know.

I would say, I would say this.

They would never have, they would save a lot of money on electricity or whatever they use for power because beaming me up would take nothing.

Like it, beaming me up.

Like I weigh 20 pounds.

Like that would take nothing for that beam to pull me up.

We'll see where this goes.

Let's see where it goes.

I have a feeling that tomorrow our lead story will not be, wow, they were right.

Holy.

Well, hopefully if that is a lead story to actually play.

Yeah, yeah.

Yes, yes, yes.

And here's the open fingers crossed.

That's that, that is kind of the funniest scenario of all of this, isn't it?

If it actually did happen.

Yeah.

If they were right.

If they, whoa.

Oh, okay.

Which also would maybe be one of the most insane moments in human history because all of a sudden every other conspiracy theory is called like all of a sudden.

Like all of a sudden, like, wait a minute.

What are we?

Everything's blowing up.

What about mine?

I love doing these odd stories.

And we pull these oftentimes from UPI.com.

I encourage you to head on over there and check out some of their not only good stories of the day, but just some of these fun ones.

Like a main gun store that counts a cow among its employees.

Oh.

This gun store in Maine is drawing in customers with more than just its selection of firearms.

It counts a pet cow among its employees.

Well, I mean.

It's ain't just a mascot.

This cow's working.

Adam Henderson, owned ANG shooting in Fairfield, said that the miniature Zebu calf named Cade, took an unusual route to become in the store's Goodwill Ambassador.

Quote, mom had rejected him so he was shivering and cold and laying in some mud in the woods.

And we found him and me and my wife brought him into the house and warmed him up and kept him alive.

Henderson said Cade displayed so much personality while being nursed back to health that they decided to bring the bull vine to the store.

I love it.

Quote didn't plan on having a cow, but now we have a cow, so what do we do with a cow?

You treat it like a dog and you bring it to work.

Yeah, it looks like one of those little mini-highland cows.

It's super cute.

Cade had become something of a local celebrity drawing customers to the store.

He brings in a lot of smiley faces and a lot of kids to the store.

You know, if you've got something, I don't care what you're doing in retail.

If you've got something that actually draws people in, capitalize on it.

Do it, do it.

Yes, go all in.

They should be making t-shirts with this cow.

Exactly, yes.

Like this is not just a mascot.

This is something you could really lean into here.

He says, quote, for the next few months, I would say he's going to be a staple here,

as long as I can fit him in the car, he'll go wherever we go.

I love it.

And then he'll be steak.

Yes, that's how this story ends.

Good steak.

Good steak.

We can be morbid this week.

Oh, yeah, absolutely.

This is the week for it.

So this is a cool story to me and everything.

But again, I got to pull into my sister and her husband and the farm that they have that they're on now with these cows.

And I cannot get over this.

Every time I think about it, my sister milking cows.

And these cows just following her around.

Like they're her boys.

It's stuck in my brain right now on repeat.

They're amazing animals.

I have not spent a whole lot of time around cows.

This is probably the most I've ever done and everything.

They are such like sweet, wonderful animals.

And so we were getting ready to leave to head Chicago and everything.

And we're leaving at like 5.36 in the morning and stuff,

chills out there, making sure the electric fence is going all these things.

So I go out there with her just out of curiosity and help out if I can.

And the cows are talking to us.

Like mooing at it.

Like looking at you and mooing right at you.

Did she bring you out there to confirm the fence was on?

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's real funny, Joe.

Jill, real funny.

Little sisters, I tell you.

Nice to meet you there.

Feel the cows tongue.

It's really rough.

I've heard that.

Yeah, I got to do that.

I got to do that.

We'll take a quick time out.

We'll come back and we're talking.

The percentage of us that have lived in a haunted house.

We've got some stats on that one coming up on the morning show.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show here at WFHR.

Locally grown radio.

Terry and James hanging out with you.

Thanks for hanging out with us.

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

10 o'clock hour.

We're going to kick off some entertainment news.

We've got a couple of other fun topics in there for you.

We're going to get into a good one about how many of us actually use

our vacation days.

And we got another one with four big benefits of having a dog.

All that coming up for you and plenty more.

We get some good stories of the day next hour.

Our schedule and a lot more lined up for you.

But for now, I want to dive into this one right here about haunted houses.

One in eight Americans claimed they've lived in a home that has haunted

at some point in their life.

One in eight.

That's a pretty good number.

It's a pretty good step.

That's a lot.

It seems like a lot more than I would have guessed.

I would never have guessed that many.

I would say one in twenty, one in thirty, one in forty,

somewhere around those lines.

I would never go one in eight.

That's a lot.

And to be fair, there's no like set stat on this or anything like that.

They're self-defining.

Exactly.

Yes, yes.

Great way to put it.

So this one in eight are come up in this story here in this article in the survey.

A Halloween poll by realtor.com found that the vast majority of us think

hauntings are at least possible.

86% say yes that it's possible.

Only 14% said get real.

How many didn't know?

Yes, we didn't get that on this one.

12% or one in eight claim they've lived somewhere that was haunted before.

And if you believe in this at this point in the game,

there's nowhere that isn't haunted.

So what makes that what for you makes a house haunted?

Oh, good question.

Did someone have to die there?

Yeah, yeah.

But you know, you know, I mean like what?

Like if you think about a house that's haunted for you, what is that?

Boy, I don't know.

Yeah, I this is such a out of my wheelhouse kind of thing.

I don't know where even to begin when you ask, that's a great question.

I feel like something in my head like something bad happened there.

Yeah, it's not.

Yeah.

Like when I think haunted, I think I don't think good.

You know what I mean?

I don't think positive things.

Something tragic.

Yeah, I don't think of like, oh, you know, your great grandmother comes back to me.

That's sort of that's not haunted.

Yes, right?

Maybe it's something negative.

I would think of like when I think of haunted, I think of okay, unfinished business.

I think of somebody that didn't go in a peaceful way or or didn't, you know, whatever.

Something we saw in a movie at some point.

Absolutely, absolutely.

Yeah, I feel like something, yeah.

Like somebody died there in my head.

And if that's if that's the criteria, a criteria for it or anything, then in that case,

I don't know that there's anywhere on the planet that isn't.

We've had a lot of people and a lot of people go.

I don't know that there's anywhere where there hasn't been.

And certainly it's hard to imagine it outside of a if a home is over 80 years old.

I mean, what are the odds that it hasn't had somebody pass in it or pass by it or something

like that.

And the ground, the land that we're on, all of this land has been used.

All of this land has probably had something.

So I mean, I feel like you're more hard pressed to find somewhere on the planet, literally on the planet

that hasn't had.

Like, I think my brother's house is haunted.

Hmm.

Hmm.

I mean, I sleep right when we joke about it, but it is kind of funny because sometimes weird things just happen there.

Well, it doesn't help anything that the older a house gets, the more the wood gets warped or doors creak or different things have.

The more a character, right?

Yes, that it has.

So that only if your mind is already in this place, it's only that's why when you watch a scary movie at night,

that's why the sounds are so much louder.

And you do hear things that you might not hear otherwise because your brain is that fight or flight part of your brain is kicking in.

So yeah, 12% one in eight claim that they have lived somewhere where they was haunted.

Here are the top haunted experiences they have had, hearing weird noises.

Two-thirds of people who have lived in a haunted home reported things like footsteps, banging sounds, or mysterious music.

51% specifically said a disembodied voice.

I know that I've heard weird noises before.

I don't think I've ever heard a voice.

I don't think I've ever heard anything like that.

No, I think though, and I guess I don't know when this last time this would happen,

but I'm thinking back to being like, you know, teenager, young adult, right?

And you maybe hear a weird noise, but then I think your own brain just imagines that.

You know what I mean?

Like it kicks in things that it's like, wait a minute, no, I didn't really hear that.

I will tell you that I'm not a fan of, I used to, but I'm not a fan of like horror movies and stuff.

Just creepy stuff.

Like to me, it's like why?

Yeah, yeah.

But I will tell you that a couple of weeks ago, I actually watched the first episode of Edgene on Netflix.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

That was gross.

But in there, I'm not spoiling it.

And don't worry, I didn't watch past episode one, and I don't intend to.

But, but there were, you know, like he starts hearing thing.

That's the perception of whoever put out this.

I don't know if you can really call it a documentary, whoever put out this series.

But in there, all of a sudden it's just like all this twisty head stuff, you know, starts.

But it's that same kind of thing.

Like once you hear one little piece, do you stop it and block it out?

Or does your imagination go with it?

Especially the way the brain works.

Yeah, it's so wild.

Yeah.

How was his act?

I'm a big fan of Charlie Honeyman, the actor playing Edgene.

I haven't gotten to see you.

I mean, he did pretty good.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, right.

Like, yuck.

So hearing noises, weird sounds.

That's one of them.

Also on the list, shadowy figures or ghosts.

61% saw something they couldn't explain.

This I've felt before.

But similar to what you're saying there, Terry, I kind of, you know, wasn't sure.

Is it, did I see something out of the corner?

Or did my imagination see something?

Or is it one in the morning?

And I need to sleep.

Right.

Yeah, I don't, to be honest, I don't know.

But we probably default to, we saw something.

Yeah.

You know what I mean?

Like our reason kicks out for some.

You can look at the sports world for this one.

We see this all the time when it comes to the talking heads and sports and everything.

You can tell when somebody doesn't like somebody.

Like, no matter what they do, they're going to, they're going to take a shot at them.

If you believe in ghosts, if you believe in these things and your brain is going to more likely,

believe that you heard something.

If you don't believe in anything, then you're more likely to believe, oh, was just the chair moving or something like that.

I mean, that's just science.

That's not my opinion or anything.

That's just the way the science works of it.

It's the same thing with sports.

I mean, if you are not a fan of so and so, no matter what that athlete ever does,

you're never necessarily going to, you know, be okay with them.

You're always going to have shots at them.

Objects moving on their own.

58% claim that they have seen that, that they might mean something moving across the table

or something showing up in a weird spot on its own.

I will say, and it would have to be something big, like the microphone right there moving

to the other part of the room or something like that.

Do you have to see it move or if you leave the room and come back and it's not in the same spot?

That doesn't mess with me.

Because I've never experienced anything even close to that.

Like, if it starts levitating and just goes across.

That's going to get me on guard.

Now, but here's the thing.

I'm a fool.

I'm the fool that runs towards these things.

I don't run away from it.

So if that happens, I'm immediately looking for the wires.

It's magnetic to you.

I'm talking to the ghost in the room.

I'm like, all right, man, sit down.

You're going to mess with me.

You're going to be interviewed.

All right, you showed up.

You came to a radio show.

You're going to be interviewed.

Sit down.

You know, talk loudly.

I make sure that you're close to the microphone.

Put the headphones on.

Objects moving on their own feels like one of the more freakier ones to me.

I feel like that would freak me out more than seeing a ghost or anything.

I don't know why, but I feel like it would.

Feelings of being touched, 51% have felt that.

Like you felt someone tap your shoulder,

but no one was there.

Yeah, yeah.

That one seems like it would be a freak out a little bit too.

And flickering lights.

48% soft flickering lights or appliances turning on and off.

That one, you know, certainly is a go-to in horror movies.

I know and certainly can be, but that's got to be one of the more easily explained ones too.

Yeah, you think.

Yeah.

The poll also found most of us would buy a haunted house if the price was right.

Just 15% said no deal.

Would you, like you find your magical perfect home and everything.

However, it's haunted, quote unquote haunted.

Would it sway you at all?

Yeah, I think so.

Yeah.

I don't know that it would be me.

I mean, I guess it would depend how they're, you know,

what does haunted mean.

Yeah.

But a whole bunch of unexplained events it may make me pause probably.

Now, if it were, but if it was known for a famous murder or something like that,

that's a different story.

79% said that they would not live there if it was more, you know,

had a famous horrible action happen there.

I do tell you.

Yeah, yeah.

I don't know.

You know, I know that one of the biggest things,

biggest issues, not just with rural areas like ours,

but just in a real estate and all these other industries is inventory.

We don't have enough houses.

With that said, certain houses like the Manson House, things like that,

tear it down.

Like what are we doing?

What tear it down?

We'll put up a new one.

I mean, I don't know why we wouldn't do that.

And I don't think I would care if like, you know,

if I was looking at a house and maybe an elderly person died there,

that's one thing.

But like if someone was murdered there.