Good morning, Wisconsin, morning world. It's a new day.
Sometimes I'm right, and I can be wrong. My own beliefs are in my song.
Time to start the morning show here at WFHR 975 FM 1320 AM. Have your host, James, joined by our WFHR head producer, Laura.
Hi, and the best listeners in the radio. Thanks for being here, everybody. Hope you have a great start to your Thursday out there. Happy Friday Eve.
We got great things on the way for you this hour. We're in the next hour, too. It's true. I like this hour. Next hour.
We are starting with the pet of the week, though. So we've at least got that going. We know that it's going to be good.
We know that will be in our two. We'll also get in some entertainment news. We've got some other fun topics we'll dive into.
Especially if you are planning to dress up for Halloween for work, we got some tips for you.
Well, let me tell you I finally figured out a costume. So I happen to be planning to dress up for work.
All right. All right. It's completely inappropriate. Thank goodness we don't have any guests for the Rappers report. I'm kidding.
Perfect. Perfect. Did a listener help you or did you forget? You did that on your own.
I basically did that on my own. I texted Melissa a little bit, but mostly I did it on my own.
Great minds work together. That's awesome. That's good to hear. Looking forward to that. That's going to be fun. Awesome. Awesome.
It is no surprise when I'm bored, but I am looking forward to doing that tomorrow.
And I'm very, very much looking forward to seeing if we can get set to dress up.
Oh, are you coming as a tired DJ?
Yes. No, no, I don't. I'm going to make my ex-girlfriend do so good at this.
We got this hour. Some fun things to get into. Of course, the LKF, a birthday and anniversary club.
I've been trying to get to this topic all week, Halloween costume prices.
I want to talk about that a little bit. Absolutely.
Also, our Halloween decorations getting too scary. We'll touch on that.
Oh.
And as we are getting ready for our pet of the week, as Laura touched on earlier,
how many people think that pets enjoy wearing Halloween costumes?
I think that is individual to the pet, but let's discuss.
We have a bit of a percentage of survey on that one we will get into,
but we begin with our National Day of Counter and it's today is National Candy Corn Day.
Okay.
Celebrated with this with Seth earlier.
I was going to say you should be celebrating this with Seth.
Listen, I will eat one handful of candy corn a year and be good.
I'm the same way with black olives, though.
I will literally eat like five black olives in a year and be good.
I think my dad's the only one I've seen do this.
Will you do this?
And I only ask because of the way you worded it.
He'll take a bunch like a handful and he'll just throw them in his mouth.
Yes.
Okay, because I feel like I've always seen people eat them individually.
And I don't know.
Sometimes I do that and sometimes I'll eat half of the handful individually and then give up
and just have a giant gov of candy corn in my mouth in a few seconds.
Yeah.
It's no wrong way.
It hurts, but it's worth it.
Yeah, yeah.
That's part of why it's the only handful.
So today is National Candy Corn Day.
And so you may be wondering what are we eating?
What is this stuff?
Doordash and Instacard have both released reports on our Halloween candy buying preferences.
And there are some similarities and differences.
All right.
Both lists have Reese's peanut butter cups as number one Halloween candy.
We discussed that earlier this week.
Sure.
Follow by M&Ms, Hershey Milk Chocolate and out of the top three.
Okay.
Those had made the top ten on both lists.
I'm sorry.
Those made both the top ten lists for Instacard and Doordash.
All right.
And so did Snickers, KitKat, Twix, and Sour Patch Kits.
Okay.
On Doordash, people are also ordering Skittles, Nerds, and Airheads.
Okay.
On Instacard, people are ordering Milky Way and Hasbro Golden Bears.
The gummy bears?
Oh, the gummy bears.
Yeah.
The Haribo.
Haribo.
Thank you.
Haribo.
I love that brand.
I should know that.
The gummy bears.
Yeah.
On the Doordash map, the number one Halloween candy in each state.
The West is more likely to pick Snickers and Red Vines.
I love Red Vines.
I love Red Vines.
Midwest, more likely to have Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, Twizzlers, and Lafay Taffy.
Okay.
The South likes Sweet Smiles, Brand Candy, Trollies, Skittles, that thing.
Okay, sure.
Sort of thing.
Yeah.
And the Northeast likes a little of everything, including Airheads and Sour Patch Kits.
Okay.
We will take a look at the...
So Wisconsin, if you're wondering, lands in the Twizzlers area, but Lafay Taffy is
right there with it.
That's fair.
That sounds right.
That sounds right.
That's in the...
The South likes Lice Savers, Power Patch Kids, and three Musketeers in the Northwest likes
Herchies, Milk Chocolate, M&M's, and Sour Patch Kids.
All right.
Doordash map, zero states are liking Candy Corn.
Oh, okay.
Zero states.
Bad Candy Corn on any other list.
It's not popular anymore.
I will say though, unsung hero of that list that wasn't listed enough times, three Musketeers
bar.
I know it's simple.
It's just a new get covered in chocolate, but like there's something about it that just
hits.
Anyway.
Every day it feels like there are new candies coming out.
Sure.
And I don't just mean like a new flavor of Twix.
I mean like a brand new candy, you know, that's coming out and everything.
It's kind of amazing to think of the candies that were big when we were born, like both
of us and both of our generations and everything, are still incredibly popular now.
Yeah, they are.
They're a classic for a reason kind of thing.
They haven't been toppled yet.
Well, and a lot of the new candies that we see coming out, a lot of them are like a
sugar free alternative to the same thing, right?
Like how many different like independent brands of sour gummy have you seen recently?
Like so many.
We really haven't come up with a new candy bar.
Like a good new candy bar that's like sleep in the nation or anything like that.
Well, because you don't need to.
The Watchama call it is doing fine.
It's kind of, that's kind of wild when you think about, we've done a lot of conversating
about this month about candy and how much we spend on candy a year, not just in Halloween,
but all that.
Yeah.
And all that said, and this list is no different than five years ago, ten years ago, really.
I mean, there's some interchanging here and there, but your big dogs are still at the
top of the list.
That's really wild to think about.
If you really just look at it separately as its own thing, we really like our candy like
they haven't, they haven't messed up the recipe, you know, like it, there's, it's been consistent
enough that it's staying at the top.
How many industries are like that, like how many, you know, that, that stayed that way.
That's really wild to me to think of it.
It's got to be maddening if you work in that industry too, a little bit because it's kind
of like, where do we grow from here?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, you do better.
Yeah.
That's wild.
But that's not, so zero states want candy corn, but that's not the case on the Instacart
report.
They have four states where candy corn is uniquely popular.
Tell me them.
They are Nebraska, Kansas, Mississippi, and Alabama.
Oh, that checks out.
So that's interesting because they're all kind of, I mean, not too far apart, but they're
all, you know, but they're, yeah, that, you know, middle of the states, middle of the
country.
I mean, sort of.
Interesting.
So there are the, I wonder if there's any correlation or just coincidence or whatever
it is.
Yeah.
I don't know.
So there are states to avoid if candy corn gives you nightmares or there are states
to add to your bucket list if you are a candy corn fiend.
All right.
Wherever the case may be.
Who's traveling to Nebraska to eat candy corn?
Well, I, I hope Beth is listening because I feel like her and the boys may be dragged by
Seth to somewhere of one of these, of these four states.
We just mentioned there.
If that happens, he's crazy for that.
He's, if we know this man, it would shock, it would shock you.
What about different flavors of candy corn?
I was looking this one.
Right.
So I like the other flavors.
If I had to pick, have you seen some of the wild flavors that there are out there?
I've seen some of them.
I know there's like a caramel apple.
I usually get that one.
Yeah.
That's a good one.
I thought that's what got me thinking about this.
I saw an apple pie one and I thought that was really, I didn't try it, but I want to
try it.
It sounded really good.
There's a smores one that sounds kind of good.
That seems interesting.
Carrot cake, for some reason, seems interesting to me.
Birthday cake.
That's popular right now.
The birthday cake flavor and everything.
Anything that is birthday cake flavor, my mother will eat.
She loves that flavor right now.
There's that blackberry cobbler.
Ooh.
This is a little tempting.
That one sounds real good.
I'll give that one a go.
Bacon.
No.
No.
I love bacon, but no.
No.
I'm going to guess they went like maple-y with it, but like.
Ooh, no.
Maple candy corn, I would try.
I bet it's like a smoky maple with salt.
Ooh, there is a maple syrup one.
There's a syrup one.
So there you go.
So there you go.
Maple's flavor with some that I've found on appealing.
Okay.
So those are.
It's too mapley.
It's too sweet.
It's just too, yeah.
So that's on a list of ones that have not sold very well like jalapeno, raspberry lemonade,
and cinnamon.
Oh, sure.
Yeah.
That was apparently a one.
That makes sense to me.
Like right above that that have sold fairly well, but not that well, bacon, as I mentioned,
mac and cheese.
No.
Oh, no.
Pickle?
Oh, no.
Sour cream and onion.
Good.
Why?
And the one that I don't know why, but just made me revolt the most hot dog.
What?
Oh.
Hot dog.
Oh, good boy.
Hot dog flavored candy corn is not something I wanted by a trick-to-treat basket.
All of that.
So much.
That's just, that of those really sounded very good to me.
You guys can't see my face, but it's, oh, she's, I don't know that she's gonna, it's
gonna be an hour at least before she comes down.
Oh.
That is so weird.
That's for my feelings.
There are nerds candy corn that seem kind of interesting.
I would eat that.
That seems kind of interesting.
That almost, I'm feeling better.
Let's keep going.
I'm gonna try to, yeah, try to swing it back around here.
Yeah, I said birthday.
The blackberry cobbler does sound interesting.
It does.
But honestly, I still think the caramel apple is the most interesting flavor, and that's
the one I get.
And on Reddit and Facebook, I just, I wasn't looking for these, but I just randomly
came across like big, huge, like, groups and pages dedicated to defending candy court.
Like there is a very big group before.
You gotta have something to be passionate about, I guess.
They are.
I just glanced at it.
Who would prove that?
The most of it was in explanation points.
Like spectacular.
Spectacular.
It takes every kind, doesn't it, guys?
What is your favorite flavor?
Is there a flavor out there that we didn't mention that you think should be mentioned?
Please let us know.
Hit us up.
We'd love to hear from you, everybody.
I love the carrot cake.
One does sound interesting.
Yes.
Yeah.
That one does.
I don't know what it is, but something about that does sound pretty good to me.
Because it'll be, you know, a little bit spicy.
It'll be sweet.
It'll be a good one.
A couple of notes that I wanted to get to in the opening monologue here, one of them.
For those that have not heard, the good friends over at the Safer the Arts.
Oh, at the South of County Arts Council.
Mm-hmm.
Had to let us know that the US Navy premiere jazz ensemble is not going to be performing
in here in Rapids.
Yeah.
That had to be canceled.
The show, I encourage people to look into why it was canceled.
I think that's important, but it unfortunately will not be performing, so I think that's
a shame.
Mm-hmm.
The people who bought tickets will be getting refunded, I presume?
Yes.
That is definitely, yeah.
Reach out to the folks via saverthearts.com for more information if you happen to be
someone who purchased a ticket.
Yeah.
I believe this was a free show.
No.
No, no, wasn't.
Okay.
I must be thinking of something else.
But yes, I encourage you to reach out to saverthearts.
You can do that saverthearts.com, head on over there right now to find out more information.
But hopefully they'll, they're able to reschedule or something and get them in town
because, man, those always go so well.
Oh, and if you've ever gotten to see any military band, any army band, the Air Force bands,
the Navy bands, they're all so good.
If you like precise, like, you know, music, oh, man, they're good, they're good.
And also wanted to mention, as far as we're talking about our friends over at the arts
council, that they've got an amazing show coming up next month.
They do a project.
We got to hang out and talk with them a little bit on their rap and support.
It was a great time.
The arts council, the south of counties presented an amazing show Thursday, November 6th, 730,
right at the pack.
You can be sure to get your tickets at saverthearts.com.
Check out this amazing group that do upify certain modern hits and everything and that you
will learn a lot about that, not only that, but that what we mean by that.
And again, get your tickets at saverthearts.com or call up.
Oh, 715, 424, 2600.
Let us know.
I don't know.
What are your favorite like old R&B songs or do-wops songs or bands or anything?
And these are not just random dudes singing this.
We're talking Broadway caliber talent and I'm not exaggerating.
They literally have been on Broadway singing do-op.
Yeah.
Yeah.
This is a really cool opportunity.
It's so awesome to have this right here in town.
You don't have to travel two hours to see this or anything.
You're just going right over downtown to the Performing Arts Center to check out.
Do-wop.
Do-wop.
Come into Little Old Rapids.
Give us a call and get these tickets at saver1-5, 424, 2600.
Big shout out to Sally Kissner and the gang for getting us these tickets.
We appreciate it.
Lauren and I will be back with the El Café birthday and anniversary club on the morning
show.
Let the good times flow, let the good times flow, let the good times flow.
I had to get that keyboard in there.
Yeah, you didn't.
Welcome back everybody to the morning show and it's time for the El Café birthday and anniversary
club.
One of our favorite parts of the day we get to talk about you.
Talk about our great friends over at El Café.
Treat yourself.
Get on over to 221 Market Avenue and beautiful port Edwards.
Wish them a great day from all of us.
Keep in mind not only do they got great lunch specials and all of these kind of things,
but the pie.
All the pie.
These aren't normal slices either, like I've asked.
Of course not.
That'd be ridiculous.
Yeah, they're the great.
Go for it everybody.
Get yourself.
You deserve a slice of pie.
You deserve it.
Whoever you are, whatever you are doing, you have earned it.
I don't need to know the details.
Nope.
You've earned that pie.
That's your business.
Have some and enjoy and wish them a good morning from all of us here at WFH.
Absolutely.
Get us those birthdays and anniversaries so we can celebrate with you info at WFHR.com.
Direct messages on our Facebook pages and call that up.
715-424-2600.
You can also text us using the Civic Media app.
Looking forward to talking with you everybody.
I look at my list here in Lora, I need you to do some work.
I need a one or a two.
One.
Okay, that worked out.
We got ourselves our qualifier.
All right.
First up, we want to wish a very happy birthday to Civic Media's own Calvin Budford, Budoff.
Butan Hoff.
Butan Hoff.
He was the producer for Matt & Aaron Ear for a while.
Yeah.
I think he may still be doing it.
Actually, I was going to say, I think he is still.
Yeah, Calvin's great.
I like Calvin a lot.
I've talked to him a little bit here and there and everything.
Yeah, I talk to him a bit too.
I believe that Calvin knows that I have dyslexia.
That's what happened there.
I apologize, Calvin.
But the letters got really mixed around up in there.
That's all right.
I don't think I've ever seen his last name, though.
I don't know that it's fair.
Oh, that's fair, yeah.
I don't know.
At least written out.
I've heard it, but I don't think I've seen it written out.
Anyway, Calvin, enjoy your birthday.
Enjoy your birthday, Calvin.
He's great.
He's one of our better, especially better young producers.
Absolutely, one of our round here.
And we have a good handful of young producers on the team.
It's really cool.
It's a pleasure to work with him.
You're wonderful.
What?
We also wish a very happy birthday.
I am young.
Well, to me.
To me.
To me.
And we wish a very happy birthday on our local list to Cody Olsen.
Oh, happy birthday, Cody.
Joy the day, Cody.
Hope it's a good one for you.
And our qualifier who can actually...
Yeah, our qualifier today, who can qualify now because he doesn't technically work here anymore.
Although, after working here for as long as he did, you kind of always family, Dave Mueller.
Oh, happy birthday, Dave.
Congratulations.
From a sports broadcaster and on-air personality, Dave did a number of different things over the years here at WFHR
for a good stretch of time.
And especially when I came back to a good 10 years ago, Dave and Randy were the only people...
Well, Bob did games too.
But it was mainly those two covering so much of our high school sports.
To the point where those guys were working back to back to back days oftentimes, sometimes back to back games.
Dave was nice enough to invite me into the booth with him for a game.
So I've gotten a call to football games and thanks to him and Randy.
And it was fantastic.
And also, I did it in part to help out but also to learn the job a little bit because I was running the board back then.
And I bet it was fun.
Oh my God, it was an amazing time.
It was also insane.
It's insane what those guys do.
Yeah.
You know, a lot of people are used to the broadcasters on TV who got like a producer in their ear.
And they got a tech guy and they got a guy looking up stats for them and all this.
These guys, Randy, Dave, Michael right now, Bob down there in Madison.
They just have to have it.
They do it themselves, man.
And Dave was a master at this.
Great tone too.
Great tone.
Great presentation.
I enjoy Dave.
I miss Dave around here a little bit.
And I hope he's enjoying himself in your qualified day.
Happy birthday Dave.
Congratulations.
Who do you share your birthdays with?
Yes.
We take a look at the list.
Ashley Graham is 38 today.
Oh, okay.
A wonderful model for sports illustrators.
Sure.
He's years back.
She was one of those ones that was kind of trying to change the game of modeling a little bit more.
I don't like the tones.
I don't like the color of your model.
Thank you.
Yes.
And it kind of branched that off to do a lot of good projects for people in communities and stuff.
I'm pretty sure she has a clothing line now too.
That's right.
Yeah.
Wonderful actor.
Not a household name or anything, but she was on our show and West Coast Justice.
They never saw the light of day, but she was also on a couple of other great shows.
Dirk Bentley, Gently Chucky.
She was on the Chucky TV series.
Fiona Dorf is 44.
Great, great actor.
Great actor.
Yeah.
And a really good friend.
Somebody's still able to talk to in the industry.
She's great.
Neil Long is great.
She's 55.
Will's girlfriend, Lisa on the Fresh Prince Bel Air.
I think that's where a lot of people got to know her.
She was Shay and NCIS.
She's been in a couple of things.
Yeah.
Gavin Rosdale is 60.
Ooh.
Wow.
The frontman of Bush.
Yeah.
But 60 for now.
I was that's older than I was expecting.
Me too.
Good for him.
Didn't see that face as held up longer than we realized.
Yeah.
Holy cats.
Him and so I.
I am for a long time.
He was with Gwen Stefani.
Yeah.
I've never been a bush fan.
I've never heard anything about that.
I never liked their music or anything like that.
And I never thought too much of him.
He, one of my like cult favorite movies is Constantine.
Okay, sure.
I don't know what it is.
I just love that darn movie.
It's visually stunning.
It really is.
It's really just a play.
If you like action movies and everything.
And the beginning of Keanu's appearance with Tilda Swinton's cut.
You know, you know, it's visually stunning.
You got nothing but a fantastic actor.
You need your stormyer.
Comes in at the end and just kills it.
It's all stunning.
Gavin Rosdale, I thought was really good in it.
I thought he did a good job.
Feltailed his own.
And there is recently Billy Corgan from The Smashing Pumpkin says a wonderful podcast.
He brought him on and they had a really like not knockout dragout kind of like argument.
But just a real talking out about.
Intense discussion.
Yeah, I didn't like you.
Well, I didn't like you.
And I thought it was really cool to see like it was very like to see two grown dudes just
talk it out.
Yeah.
And kind of at the end of it kind of be like, you're all right.
You know, I don't mind this.
It was pretty cool.
Yeah.
Well, that's awesome.
That's really, really cool.
I now I want to watch that.
One of the better character actors of both of our generations.
Kevin Pollock is 68.
You may not know his name, but you know him.
I guarantee it.
Maybe you know him as one of the attorneys and a few good men.
One of the key members of a usual suspects, the whole nine yards, the wedding planner.
But I think a lot of people remember him from Grumpy Old Men as the kind of love interest of the.
Oh, Kim, not Kim Basinger.
The daughter in it.
I'm not going to be helpful.
I'm sorry.
She's he kept looking at me for help.
And I don't have it.
Yeah, that's a Kevin Pollock.
Great, great, great, great actor.
And let's see here.
Harry Hamlin 74 L.A.
Law Clash of the Titans is what I know.
Flash of the Titans is what I think of too.
And he rocked that movie.
He was great.
It's such a weird little movie, but I love it.
It is.
Oh, I love it.
It is it is a quintessential must if you are 80s and 90s kid.
Yeah.
And it's just again, it's I love camp.
The legend, the legend Henry Winkler is 80 today.
Oh, how cool.
Fonzie.
Happy birthday to the Fons.
Now, one of the reasons I call him a legend is certainly here in Wisconsin.
He is Happy Days alone would put him on this mark.
But Henry Winkler loves to act, loves to perform.
And after playing Fonzie, and he jumps the shark literally,
and all that and creates that whole phrase in all these things,
he dealt with some of the heaviest typecasting any actors ever had to fight through.
And worked and worked and worked and tried and tried and tried and tried.
It could not get any breaks.
And then eventually a little bit later on, this guy Adam Sandler comes around
and is like, hey, I want you in my movies.
I want you in my things.
And Henry Winkler is like, really?
I get to work again.
So then all of a sudden, he not only starts to get to work,
but he starts doing comedy.
And it branches off from doing that to arrest the development of all these other projects
where Henry Winkler goes from at one point in his career,
being the coolest person on TV, at least,
to being one of the funniest people on TV.
Well, the Fons was the definition of cool.
He wasn't just the coolest person in anything.
He just was cool.
What cool meant?
And then he just became hilarious.
That arc is one of the most unique arcs you'll ever see in acting.
You'll ever see.
And it's all about perseverance because Henry Winkler,
if he doesn't keep fighting to work because he loves it so much,
he doesn't work for Adam Sandler.
He doesn't do all these things.
We don't get him on the rest of the development process.
No, we don't.
God, I would have missed that so much.
Worst attorney ever.
Worst attorney ever.
I love Henry Winkler so much.
If you are on, even if you're not on social media,
he's worth creating an account just to follow Hitler Winkler is worth it.
I'm not even exaggerating it really is.
It is just a pellet cleanser every day.
He's outfishing.
He's showing you just, you know, just random things in his life.
Who's the other one that's that for me?
I can't think of his name.
He's the one who played in Igo Montoya.
Oh, yeah.
Manipity.
Manipity.
Yeah, same thing.
His social media is also that for me.
Only difference is Manny.
His wife is worth it.
He does a little more political stuff.
Yeah.
But his wife, Manny's wife,
has always seemed like it's always in it.
It's like your grandma and grandpa having social media.
It's so cute.
I love it.
Like did on social media.
I'd be good.
Yeah.
That's all we were doing.
Yeah.
Otis Williams is 84 today.
The last surviving member of the temptations.
No.
Happy birthday.
Just my imagination.
Poppa's rolling stone.
Yeah.
I love Seth's line about between the four tops and the temptations.
His favorite is whichever one he heard last.
You can't choose.
No, fair enough.
They're both amazing.
And the legend herself.
Grace Slick is 86 today.
Yeah.
I love her.
Jeff Sinner playing.
Starship.
Just especially, again, between our generations.
That woman.
Rocked it.
Just a powerhouse.
Side note.
Midwest zone.
Chicago zone.
Naturally.
And in a very...
She oozes Chicago.
Are you kidding me?
It's so obvious.
Yeah.
And a pretty good artist.
Yeah.
Like she does some great paintings and some things like that.
She's gotten into some other stuff.
No.
Huge fan.
Somehow yet underrated.
Yes.
Yeah.
Oh, yes she is.
And that is going to do it for our birthday and anniversary list.
We appreciate everybody getting us these names.
Keep them coming, everybody.
And looking forward to tomorrow's.
We encourage you to head on over to Elle Cafe and celebrate with them.
We'll be back after this.
Welcome back, everybody.
Morning show here at WFHR.
Locally grown radio.
Laura and James hanging out with you.
Thanks for hanging out with us.
Got some good stuff to get into before the top of the hour.
One of them I've been dying to get into in the dying.
But I've been trying to get to for a little bit here.
There was a time when DIY Halloween costumes really only something you'd see once in a while.
Trick or treaters or something like that.
But that has changed like flipped.
Where now most costumes are DIY.
My sister as an example has two kids.
One of them she got a costume for, the other one she made.
Right.
There's a lot of families like that.
The Halloween and costume association and that is a real thing.
Thank goodness.
Someone ought to be doing that work.
Says tariffs on Chinese imports have sent the industry into a full freak out mode.
Yeah.
Most costumes in the US come from China and stores are scrambling to fill shelves without terrifying shoppers at the register.
Right.
And this isn't, we're not talking like a buck or two here.
No.
We're $20 and now pushing 40 and even basic masks that were $5 and now $10.
No word on if you can breathe through them or not.
But at this point it's irrelevant.
Yeah, right.
A man named Robert Berman is the president of a leading US costume manufacturer and he's concerned.
He says, quote, Halloween isn't like other holidays.
If products don't land on time or become too expensive for families, Halloween simply doesn't happen.
There is no backup plan.
And there is a huge concern because while maybe not everybody is into Halloween or what have you or anything.
You can say a very similar thing for our big December holidays.
Sure.
But that is where a lot of the concern is coming, whether we're talking about Hanukkah or Christmas or just New Year's.
I don't think I've heard enough people concerned about Thanksgiving.
I mean, we talked a little bit about it, a tiny little bit.
We have not even begun to talk about that yet.
That is coming.
That day is coming.
A man named Robert, so this man named Robert Berman is talking about this along with other things.
Now, a little bit different with those other holidays that there tends to be a backup plan in mind in some ways.
But we don't see it as sane with Halloween.
And in the statement, Spirit Halloween said, quote, more than 90% of seasonal merchandise for Halloween and Christmas is imported from China as a result, the impact of tariffs on these products will be significant.
Like many realtors, we are working hard to manage these challenges.
Yeah.
And you can't even just say DIY unless you're literally sewing it yourself.
Because they're talking about even the cost of the base item.
Let's say I wanted to just buy a simple dress that I was building an entire clown costume on.
That dress is still going to cost almost twice as much.
And that is immediate cost difference.
Even if I had every other ingredient for the costume already in my house, that's almost $20 more than I was planning on spending.
It's like real money.
When these topics come up, you've got a good portion of people who are going to listen and you're going to hear things out.
And you've also got a good portion of people that as soon as this topic, the word tariff comes up, they've already got their mind made up.
They don't care what stats you throw at them.
They don't care what you tell them.
They don't care my facts.
I'm being unreasonable wanting to buy a costume.
I'm saying I'm both ends of this.
This topic can be there and stuff.
I think that's noteworthy.
But I also think it's noteworthy that numbers don't lie.
Numbers don't have a political party.
Numbers don't care about your feelings.
They just are.
And we talk about this in sports a lot.
Stats, numbers don't lie.
The stats are there.
Things are more expensive.
These tariffs are not helping.
And this is a game of chicken that people with money are playing.
That the people that are the chickens, the vehicles are us.
No, we're going to be the collateral damage.
Yeah, they're not hurting.
No, maybe the wealthy are going to be fine.
The top 1% are going to be fine.
It's everyone else that is going to just be collateral damage.
They do not see value in us.
I am not going to stop bringing this up.
How can politicians relate to us?
How are they suffering?
What are they struggling with?
Because I'm not seeing or hearing anything.
No.
I see no relatability with any single one of these individuals right now.
Right.
To the point where some of the people that they're listening to,
that their idea people have said some awful things about the general public
as if they're just video game characters that don't actually have families or lives or are real.
They're in these bubbles and they're living in these worlds that we don't know anything like we can't relate to.
And they can't relate to us.
We're nothing more than a tick in some data.
Yeah.
It's only getting more and more of a distance between us and that.
And it's gross.
It's gross.
Not going well.
I will be following this scene where this goes.
I will say a big tip of the witch hat to all the families out there that found a way to make Halloween happen this year.
That's awesome.
And in my experience, that's most of them.
Because I don't know very many families who said they couldn't make Halloween happen this year.
There are plenty of adults that are suffering, plenty of families that are feeling this.
Kids are caught up in all of this.
And we are failing as adults when kids hurt, when kids, something happens to kids.
You can go ahead and bark all you want.
But I did this, but I did that.
Nope.
You're a part of society.
You're an adult.
It's on you too.
It is.
It shouldn't have to be the collateral damage either.
Nope.
And they have absolutely no power to say or do anything to stand up for themselves.
And so it's on the adults to figure it out.
I'd like to know, you know, a kid's perspective of that as much as I would this next topic, Laura.
Have Halloween decorations become too scary?
Oh, right.
When it comes to Halloween, there are two kinds, you know, a couple of different types of people.
Sure, yeah, yeah.
Those who believe that things are getting more intense in recent years.
And those who are kind of babysitting kids and maybe saying, you know, maybe it's not as intense it could be or something.
There's a lot of different people in different areas.
Sure, sure.
There's the Grim Reaper, Halloween people and Casper, the friendly ghost, Halloween people.
There's a new article in the New York Times that asks, have Halloween decorations become too scary?
Right.
And mentions things like Skelly and the huge Halloween skeletons that have been popping up everywhere.
Yeah, I love them.
I think they're spectacular.
Along with very life like witches and demons and blood and gore and all this.
They talk to some parents who have young kids who like the classic Halloween imagery, pumpkins,
witches, ghosts, spiders, you know, those things.
And they feel like today's dismembered bodies and moving speaking props and different things that may be gone too far.
There are also neighbors who complain about the decorations and their neighborhood being too violent and unsettling.
Some adults even admit that they have been rattled by some of the modern decorations.
Okay.
Although others say it's possible that they were always there, they just didn't notice them as much when they were kids.
And that's possible too, because when I was a kid, if I didn't like it, it just didn't look.
When I was a kid, the scary stuff was like the toys that you would play on a McDonald's or Burger King or something like that.
Like the, just a hamburger.
Just a very good.
The, okay, the, like grimaces thing.
Grimmaces.
It was just, I like, it's not about grimace.
It's about the toy.
Oh, sure.
The grimaces thing was just this big cage that you got in.
And it was nothing but steel.
And, you know what?
No, that's horrifying.
You're right.
All the, all the playground equipment that we grew up on.
In the play place.
Yes.
The, the, the merry go rug.
Go look at some of the old merry go rouse.
Those metal ones.
Yeah.
Yeah.
With those things going on for 25 miles per hour.
Yeah.
Like, that's where all the scary stuff was.
Halloween.
I don't really remember there being anything too scary other than like houses that would have their own haunted house inside or something like that.
And maybe some schools when they had a Halloween thing and you put your hand in the grapes or whatever and stuff.
Yeah.
I don't know.
I, I, I, there is something and I don't need to be Jimmy serious on this.
But there is.
All right, Jimmy serious.
This is, I mean, what do you, what did you think was going to happen?
Like, look at our news.
Look at, look at the way we cover things.
Look at our whole lives growing up at five o'clock.
There's blood and gore on the TV.
Things are darker nowadays.
With the news.
Well, and the news cycle, that's all it does now.
Like, it leads with the negative stories.
It's an outrage between.
It's an outrage between.
Yeah.
And so that's what, that's all kids are seeing on the news.
That's all they're seeing in newspapers and all these things.
Yeah.
And then you're going to worry about what the Halloween costume is or Halloween decorations.
Right.
You're going to worry about Skelly in the neighbor's yard.
I mean, I think you might want to worry.
I don't even care if they painted some of Skelly red to look like he's bloody.
It's still, you know, it's Halloween, guys.
Like, I mean, I feel like in life one of the biggest things you've got to do is choose your battles wisely.
Yeah.
And if you want to, you want to get bent out of shape about something.
For one, neighborhoods should know neighbors.
And if you know your neighbors, you know the audience.
Okay, I can get away with this.
Okay, I can't get away with that.
Maybe talk to your neighbors and figure it out.
Talk to your neighbors if they're doing something that bothers you a little bit.
And if they're not receptive, that's on them.
That's not on you.
If you're really worried about the kids, I mean, I think there's some other things
you ought to be focusing on before worrying about Halloween decorations.
Right.
You're a fish to fry than just, you know, a big 20-foot skeleton sitting out front.
And honestly, that skeleton is an investment.
You want one of those, don't you?
So bad.
So bad.
I don't even know what I would do with it.
You know what I would do with it?
I would put it where there once was a very tall pine tree that nearly fell on my house the first year I moved in.
That's where I would put Skelly and he would live their year round.
We will take a quick time out.
We'll come back wrap up the first hour of the morning show.
Welcome back, everyone.
Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio.
Lauren James hanging out with you.
Yeah.
Thanks for hanging out with us.
This is a, we're going to take it right to the top of the hour.
10 o'clock hour we're going to kick off with our pet of the week.
Yeah.
And they just got here and they're so cute.
Denise has already got a furry friend in the building with us looking forward to discovering what that is.
We're excited about the 10 o'clock hour kicking off with that only our pet of the week.
But some entertainment news, some other fun stuff we got lined in there.
Like if you're planning the dress up for work for Halloween, we got a guide for you.
Got some tips.
All right.
Helpful things for you on that one.
All that coming up right now.
How many of us think pets enjoy wearing Halloween costumes?
I do think this is individual to the pet.
I think so too.
I think so too.
But we go into the survey and I thought this was just a perfect one to lead into our pet of them.
Oh, absolutely.
A new poll found one in six Americans are believe that their pet likes wearing the costume for Halloween.
Okay.
One in six.
16% or around one in six think pets really do enjoy dressing up for Halloween.
A full 40% think that they either like it or least don't mind.
There.
That's where I land, I think.
The poll didn't distinguish between cats and dogs, but dogs are a little bit more receptive.
It looks like, but they just also they have no poker face.
Dogs just wear everything other sleep.
Right.
16% think pets alike or love dressing up.
24% think that they're 45% said that they definitely don't like it and 12% are not sure or 15% are not sure.
Okay.
I wonder if that 15% maybe just has never done it before.
I can say as someone who, when I got my last dog thought that dog clothes were the most ridiculous thing
and it was owners forcing their dog to do things.
And then by the time he died became fully a dog sweater supporter because he loved them so much.
I can tell you that some dogs really don't mind.
And if the costume is not cumbersome, the dog probably doesn't mind it.
I've known a couple of dogs and including a wonderful, wonderful shelter dog that couldn't have been sweeter.
But would put on a costume and literally shake it off or try to bite it off or something like that.
But you put a sweater on them and that they enjoyed.
That's what I'm saying.
If it's not cumbersome, if you're able to find a dog costume that your dog doesn't mind wearing, you can do it.
I mean, you'll know if they don't, they'll take it off.
I think you get a real good idea too of how you are as a pet owner or parent or whatever words you want to use.
Are you doing the costume because it's funny to you and you want to make people laugh or you enjoy it?
Or this is the costume that my pet liked the most or fit as.
It's a compromise and that's okay.
Around a third of Americans have dressed up a pet before or planned to do it this year.
And social media shoulders a lot of the blame for this.
I never dressed up, Bob, but I did get him seasonal sweaters.
Yeah, I think that's great.
I think that's good.
Even with more Halloween under their belt, just 18% of seniors have dressed up a pet compared to 35% of Gen Z-ers.
Okay.
There is a, the top training dog costumes right now.
This are Laboo Boo.
And, of course, derpy the tiger from K-pop demon hunters.
What a fantastic character.
I have no idea the words I just said.
It's the big blue tiger that like delivered demon mail.
I don't know how else to describe him.
Google.
I preferred the Raven friend.
Google's a fright guist has the complete list for you.
Overall costumes this year for kids, Rumi, Zoe, Miro, the K-pop hunters are all at the top there.
And then you've got some of the characters like Elphaba from Liquid, the Lorax.
Of course.
Oh, the Lorax is a good one.
I like seeing the Lorax still show up in there.
Oh, Nightwing, cool.
I want to see like a really fuzzy terrier dressed up as the Lorax.
I think that would be spectacular.
If you've got a ginger headed terrier.
Glinda, the good witch, Gabby from Gabby's dial house.
Super girl.
And then just in there, Ladybug.
Just a ladybug costume.
Just throw it in there in the mix.
I love that.
That's awesome.
Yeah, I got to see a pity as a banana.
One thing that is kind of interesting is so many of these are also the most popular costumes for our pets.
Now, I would think if you're doing a whole Wizard of Oz thing.
Yeah.
I mean, you got this all laid out for you, right?
You do because you have all the characters.
Well, same with the K-pop demon hunters, right?
Like you have a pet that you dress up as derpy and you've got everybody.
Mm-hmm.
Now, I would...
It's an ensemble costume.
It would be ten.
It would be...
Yes, I love the ensemble thing.
I've never gotten to do that.
I think that's fun.
One of the things that I think would be fun about the Wizard of Oz thing, but it also might be tough.
Do you dress up the dog as...
Toto?
Toto or the cowardly lion?
Because I like the idea of the dog being the cowardly lion.
I don't know why I like that.
Depends on the dog.
Because if you have a whimer owner, you're going to want to dress it up as the tin man.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
I like the idea of changing it up a little bit there.
That's fun.
What are you guys dressing up as?
What are you going to be?
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If you're dressing up for work, not only let us know what you are doing or anything, but also be listening next hour,
we got some tips and some advice about that one.
Yeah, we do.
That's all coming up for you.
And as we continue to wrap up celebrating Halloween this week and everything,
we want to remind everybody that nobody does Halloween like we do at WFHR.
We got our WFHR Halloween show.
I think our second year of doing this, at least our second year.
At least our second, possibly our third.
This Friday, tune into WFHR 975 FM or 1320 AM to hear our special shows,
filled with spooky stories, scary songs, and creepy poems.
Yeah, all of them are read by staff here at WFHR and WRI.
So you're going to get to hear us.
Yeah, yeah.
We had a lot of fun with this one.
The whole team got involved in it.
We've got some new ones from last year that are in this year.
And then Seth threw it all together yesterday.
Yeah.
Shout out to him and the great work that he does on that.
And I really appreciate what you brought up early on in this.
Because I didn't think about it right away because I'm handing out candy.
I'm not running around like I used to.
Yeah.
This is the time for trick-or-treating.
It's perfect.
It's going to be playing all throughout the trick-or-treating hours for the areas.
So you can turn it on, get to your trick-or-treating,
and listen to spooky stories and scary songs as you go on your trick-or-treating way.
It's your perfect soundtrack for your trick-or-treating.
It's perfect.
And be sure to check that out.
Everybody that will be a lot of fun.
And, Laura, I did want to...
Okay.
I got to throw this one in there.
Okay.
Let's do it.
Just real quick.
And I do this with our coldness from time to time.
Yep.
Where I see a story and I have not read it.
And you just need to do it.
Yes.
All right, let's do it.
The headline, emo chick deer with hammock wrapped in antler spotted in Texas.
You did the right thing.
This deer has been being called an emo deer.
And it's got a bunch of stuff stuck in its hammers.
It's got a mop stuck in its antlers.
And it's looking like emo hair covering his eye a little bit.
It's very fantastic.
The Texas Police Department shared video of the deer spotted with a hammock wrapped around its antlers.
Officials said that the emo chick accessory to fall it off on its own.
Emo chic.
Emo chic.
Yes.
Thank you.
Yes.
The Lago Vista Police Department said on social media that multiple locals have contacted authorities to report the deer and worried about it.
But wildlife officials have said the safest best way to handle this for this particular deer.
Just let them do his thing.
It's going to fall off.
It's going to rot off at minimum.
It looks like it's natural fibers.
Yeah.
And so they're not too worried about it.
No.
It's not holding the deer up.
No, the deer will be fine.
It's just kind of an accessory.
It looks kind of like the deer doesn't even notice really.
He's so over it at this point.
I feel like I don't know nearly enough about deer and their antlers in the connection.
Like how much they feel or think or feel or feel from those or whatever.
Well, it may have been a matter of, you know, he got it up there.
It's not in his way.
He's done thinking about it.
Cool.
Not just that.
So the department where the hammocks resemblance to a certain early 2000s hairstyle and everything.
Quote, he's been spotted probably wearing this hammock tangled in his antlers.
He did seem proud.
And while his forest core fashion has raised some eyebrows, rest assured he's totally fine.
He's okay.
Yeah.
Male deer naturally shed their antlers before the end of winter, which means his emo chic,
cheek accessory will fall off.
Right.
It's all going to fall off.
It'll be fine.
That's interesting.
And like I said, it looks like it's natural fibers.
So it's not even really, you know, going to harm the environment.
It should be all right.
We're going to talk more animals with our pet of the week coming up.
