Funkytown (Hour 2)

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Funkytown (Hour 2)

Mornings with WFHR · Fri Nov 7, 2025

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 make a drama and then make no difference what you've been in.

Let's get it going. Final hour for the week for the morning show. We'll be back on Monday, of course.

You got your host James, joined by Alia. Hello.

Good morning, and the best listeners in radio. Thanks for being here, everybody.

We're going to have some fun this hour, getting some entertainment news in a moment.

After that, we're got the, I'm looking forward to this one.

The top five songs Gen X rocks out to in the car, but we'll never admit to.

Along with that, I want audience participation, and I want the songs that you like to rock out to,

but you don't want anybody to know that you like to rock out to.

You don't have to give your name. Call up and give the name of the song.

This is a safe place.

And we will even play along. We will even absolutely will play a lot in everything.

I can't wait to hear Alia's right now.

I'm so excited. We've all got one we have to share it.

We can't ask the audience to it.

I got embarrassed by anything that I listen to.

It's probably.

I own it.

We'll get into the.

Come on, there's got to be at least one thing.

Got good stories of the day. Our schedule.

Plenty more to get to and I got some great good things from the good news network.

I want to make sure to touch on.

We'll be of time.

We'll kick off things with entertainment news.

And yesterday, or I think it was Tuesday, we covered a story of earlier this week,

it was reported that Millie Bobby Brown allegedly accused David Harberl of bullying and harassment

on the set of stranger things.

Well, last night was the season five premiere.

And in what could have been a very awkward encounter, well, Millie and David arrived together

like Arminar and showed up there.

We're seeing taking photos together.

We're very like generally like organically just very good with each other.

And everything seemed very okay, very kosher.

The official stranger things account also shared a video of Millie and David sharing an embrace

while signing autographs for fans.

They seemed really friendly and close like they've always come across in public.

There is no word if the reports were true, but last night they put a united front on for fans.

It's starting to sound more and more like there was something there was maybe a thread here

that of course got turned like a bad game of telephone where it starts out with her saying

something along the lines of maybe they had a bad interaction when they first started working together

or something like that.

David Harberl is not a method actor, but he does go pretty deep into his characters.

His character tends to be a bit of a bully, especially to 11 early on in their relationship.

I'm grabbing at stuff.

I have nothing to go on here because this report bothered me at first.

I like David Harberl as an actor and what he has done with his career.

So I'm always locked in when actors are about to get canceled.

I think that the idea of first off, the idea of cancel culture doesn't exist for certain groups

where it seems like they can get away with anything and just keep working and everything.

But when it does exist, it's noteworthy.

I don't care.

I was a big Kevin Spacey fan.

I really enjoyed him as an actor.

He's good as an actor.

His stuff comes out.

I watched one bit of his work since and I see him for what he is now.

Being an actor, being in the public eye, any of these things.

It's a privilege.

It's not a birthright.

In the moment you mess up, there's a thousand people behind you that can do the job, man.

They deserve it better than more than you do.

People that will appreciate it.

So if that's what happened here, I want to know and I think that fans of the show want to know.

But what it's looking more and more like is somebody took a little bit of a threat of something

and turned it into something it isn't.

We're going to find out nothing stays hidden in this day and age.

So who knows.

But all of it is to say that it's bringing attention to the show and its final episodes

that I don't think that anybody could have wanted.

Even if, you know, because knowing her in the way she feels about the fan base,

I imagine that if she did want something out, she would probably do it after the show was done

because she wouldn't want to hurt the show.

She seems to really appreciate what the show did for her and the fan base.

I don't know.

It's one of those things that we had a tale.

To me, I can't stand with shows.

I don't care how much actual reporting you do or not.

You touch on the first part of the story but you don't do the wrap up.

Our whole lifetimes, there would be on page one, so and so did this.

And then when they finally get a retraction, it's on page 15 on the way in the back,

on the end, and nobody reads the retraction.

I think it's important that we cover both ends of things when we get full stories here.

We had this one on Tuesday, we touched on.

Here we are on Friday, have an update of the story.

We'll see where it goes.

I'm just as a side note, I'm looking forward to seeing how they wrap that whole thing up.

I'm really curious how they're going to do that.

You can officially stop believing because Journey just announced that they are retiring.

Cool way to do that.

Thank you, Rob.

Thank you.

Somebody got it.

Finally, this glorious day has come.

Yes, when Journey has stopped.

Thank you, Journey.

But finally, just notes their final frontier tour.

It kicks off February 28th in Hershey, Pennsylvania.

It wraps up on July 2nd in Laredo, Texas.

60 shows that have been booked, although more dates could be added, depending on ticket sales.

And I'm sure that.

Neil Shown calls it quote, our heartfelt thank you to the fans who have been with us every step of the way.

And Jonathan Kane says quote, one last chance to feel the magic together.

All you stubborn old school fans who are still hoping to see Steve Perry, it is not going to happen.

That's my question.

No.

No, no.

That ship is sailed.

That bridge has been burned.

That band, yeah.

When it comes to certain bands that I don't think that like on the surface, you would imagine like,

oh, there's probably not a lot of turmoil there or whatever.

Like Journey sticks.

Like there's certain bands where it's insane some of the bands.

Yeah, it's never.

Never.

They say hollinotes.

Yes, you do not hold up.

You're never.

You're never.

You never say never, but at the same time, it ain't happening.

I do really love Steve Perry's voice though.

It's got a very unique voice.

Yeah.

One of the more unique voices you're ever going to hear.

I, I, I, I'm happy for the fan base.

And I'm sure.

And they have, they have some hardcore fans.

I'll tell you how to do them that.

I just worked in classic rock two log.

I, I, this is like, yeah, that's all too much.

A little bit, a little bit.

Yeah, I hear you.

Tim Allen revealed something kind of interesting about the next toy story.

I thought this was kind of interesting.

So on Jimmy Kimmel a little while ago, Tim Allen was on there promoting his new show and everything.

And he said, quote, the funniest thing to me is that there's a plane crash like that,

that Hank's movie, like that Hank's movie.

I don't know.

Tom, somebody on the island where a FedEx plane or something with a hundred buzz dolls or something like that.

They're the B story.

It's hysterical.

They're trying to find their way back and there are hundreds of them.

I hope they have it in there.

Tim, so Tim was just kind of talking to Jimmy Kimmel and just kind of like just laid this out there

without really thinking too much about it.

Tim had fun providing the voices of multiple buzzes.

He said, quote, I ad-libbed.

There's one in the back going, why is he giving all the orders?

He also said, Jesse is the focus of the movie.

Quote, she's in trouble and she needs help.

We're all over, we're all over there helping her out.

20 Story 5 hits theaters June 5th or in June.

Sorry, next June.

Next June, next June.

Teasing a little bit of it.

Interesting idea.

I don't know.

Are we better off with the way that it is nowadays?

Because it doesn't matter if it's a Marvel movie or if it's a rom-com.

They're so worried about anything seeping out.

Anything getting out.

They're so worried about this and they used to just be certain directors.

And then it used to just be certain genres.

Now, it's everything.

Every single movie.

If you're doing a hallmark movie, they're freaking out over, like taking your phones on the set and stuff.

A lot of my good friends in the industry are working actors.

They are actors that get a line or two.

Maybe they're a bit actor or something like that.

I think you'd be surprised how much consistent work you can get doing that

and how great of a living you can make doing it actually.

Especially if you don't live in California.

That makes it a little harder.

With the cost of living and everything.

But so many of them I talk to and everything.

And it's just wild to me.

It's probably been about a year since I've been on a movie set.

In that year, it's only escalated to the point where now you walk in

and you're not putting on your costume before your phone is taken.

You're not sitting in the makeup chair before your phone is taken.

They usually have a basket and everybody just randomly just throws it in there.

It's not just big stars or anything like that.

I need to play Angry Birds while they're doing my makeup.

Right?

Yeah.

People play Angry Birds anymore.

I just dated myself.

It's alright.

You're fine.

It's still around.

I really wonder if you're better off letting Tom Holland give up a little bit of the ending of Spider-Man.

Tim Allen seeping a little bit out to Jimmy Kimmel.

I don't know.

I don't know that there's a harm.

Does it matter?

This all boils down to one Wisconsinite though.

This is my theory.

It's Mark Ruffalo.

He's famous for giving away the plots of Marvel movies.

He is.

Yeah.

It's his own.

Wisconsin, you caused this problem.

Maybe.

Maybe.

I don't know.

I feel like that they take it way too heavy.

They go too far with this.

They're going a bit far on it yet.

And what more entertainment story that I thought was good before we get to it?

What's new in your small screen and big screen?

Can you name the first studio recording by Nirvana that was never played on the radio?

It is a tougher one, but I think I don't know that one.

Big fans of it.

Now, that tells you a lot, everybody.

If Seth doesn't know, I'm not exaggerating at all.

That is wild to me.

That's the question.

No, I don't know this one.

It was Love Buzz.

They're 1980 cover of the song by the Dutch band Shocking Blue.

It's actually a really cool cover.

It's really good.

A guy named Scott Vanderpool from Subpop Records got a test pressing

as soon as it arrived in the mail and then turned it around and played it on Seattle Radio Show.

That is the first Nirvana song that was ever played on the radio.

You can hate to cover a Love Buzz, man.

Wow.

The very same seven-inch vinyl test pressing is on the auction block as we speak.

Okay.

A Love Buzz was on Nirvana's legendary 89 album Bleach, which is an underrated album

if you're a Nirvana fan.

If you're a fan of that style of music.

Right.

Because it is really the beginning of Grunge.

It is really the beginning of turning distortion and rock and roll into this

hodgepodge that would be Grunge music.

I would say the mainstream mesazation, I don't know if that's a word.

Well, of punk.

Is this one of the things that has something to do with it?

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

You get the clash having a top song.

You get certain things like that.

And all of a sudden, that music becomes a little bit more accessible to radio.

Right.

What's new in your small screen, big screen, and your local theater stage?

Well, looking at your small screen first, seven o'clock tonight,

you got celebrity wheel of fortune.

Big Sean, Tory Kelly, and two chains.

What did you just say?

I didn't get any of that.

I don't know if anybody do any of those people.

You wanted them.

But I bet you'd be a great road trip.

Yeah.

The second season premiere of Happy's Place on NBC at seven in the Sears premiere

of Stumble, a new cheer.

It looks like a new, like, kind of the office and those kind of shows.

Oh, got you.

But it's about a cheer squad.

It's got an actor Jen Leon on it and starring in it, but it has Kristen Chenoweth in it.

Of course it does.

Oh, okay.

That's where I think that they really bring the star power in.

Apparently any show they have with cheerleaders, Kristen Chenoweth's got to be in it.

I guess.

I don't know.

She must have been a cheer person.

I did see a trailer for it last night.

It looks pretty funny.

It looks cute.

I will say that anything with Kristen Chenoweth in it has to be given a chance.

You've got to give her a push.

Daisy's pushing Daisy's one of the most underrated TV shows.

Deserved a third season.

She's good.

Kristen Chenoweth.

For those who don't know, the original Glinda, the good witch and wicked.

And Charlie Brown.

I think she won a broadway.

Tony for her.

She played Sally.

She played Sally.

Excuse me.

She played Sally.

She's got an amazing range.

She is a four foot one and nothing but, you know, dine up.

Just dine up.

Just such a talented human being.

Also on Saturday at 7 o'clock on Disney Plus, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony.

Yes.

Live streaming.

I think I might watch that.

I don't know.

A lot of good college football on this weekend, but I may flip between the two.

However, they're inducting Cindy Loper into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

That's a good one.

The reason why I dye my hair all different colors, which my mother would yell at me when I was a teenager.

But I'm like, you raised me during the era of Cindy Loper.

This is all on you.

Wow.

She does make a strong point.

She does make a strong point.

You realize she's in the room, right?

I realize she's on the room.

This has been publicly broadcast.

I am innocent.

It claims you're innocent.

New SNL for you this weekend.

The host for Saturday Night Live, Nikki Glazer, which is interesting because she just took a bunch of shots at the new cast.

I wonder how that went over.

Wow.

She's talented.

She's really fun.

She's very fun.

Yeah.

Sombra is the musical guest.

Send in a football.

Got the chargers for Steelers.

That could be a good one.

And the first season finale of Tony Shaloub Breaking Bread, the show on CNN.

I want to check that out.

I want to give it a chance.

Another Wisconsinite.

Yes.

Yeah.

I also got a great pride of a Schwabbanon.

I don't know how many times we've seen him with a mustache.

He's got a great mustache.

He's rocking these days.

Not a whole lot of movies coming to the big screen, but a couple of big ones in particular.

In Nuremberg, Michael Shannon plays the Ali's lead prosecutor in making the Nazis answer

for the horrors of the Holocaust.

So they rebate that, I can say.

I didn't realize that.

Wow.

Rami Malik is in this one and getting a lot of notoriety for it.

But the big news, the big one is Russell Crowe playing Herman Goring.

And a lot of talk about that in his performance in it.

That's actually good casting.

It is going to take about it.

Yes.

He put on a lot of weight for the role.

He really went into the role.

And for better or worse, I don't know about him and why he is able to play these characters so well.

But it is a good performance it looks like.

See how good his German accent is.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And hopefully better than his singing.

And Predator Badlands rated PG-13 L fanning stars in this one.

The Predator universe.

I don't know who was asking for these, but they just keep making these.

It's the ninth installment.

Wow.

It's crazy.

Someone's watching them.

To your points, Seth.

Yeah.

They're all great on Rotten Tomatoes.

They all rank really high.

That's really good too.

And I love L fanning.

I love her a lot.

I do like her a lot.

I do like her a lot.

I do like her a lot.

I just find it so interesting that the original Predator, which is actually a pretty darn good movie.

Yes.

But it's not that serious.

It's kind of a, you know, it's a fun action flick and all these kinds of things.

It has become what it's become.

It's really remarkable.

Yeah.

Like a lot of the Arnold movies where they had very different directors, each one of them.

But every Arnold director kind of got that they needed to do a little tongue and cheek with

the action.

Right.

Yeah.

You needed to do a little.

And you can get away with it so much in that time.

It was, it was an integral part of action movies back then.

Yeah.

You could have the greatest plot in the world.

If you don't got a good tagline for Arnold or Bruce or somebody to say, it ain't going to do well.

It ain't going to do well.

That's right.

To see that spawn these things.

Also, greatest arm, like, like, most hand-shaking, the Karl Weathers, Arnold Schwarzenegger,

hand-shaking, that is so funny.

You will never find a more manly hand-shaking human history than that one.

Good luck, anybody that tries.

I heard Karl Weathers talk about being on the set of that.

Yeah.

They had, Arnold had a weight room there where they were filming.

And Jesse Ventura and Arnold and all these guys, when they're not filming, they're trying

to pump iron because they're all trying to be bigger than each other.

Yes.

Exactly.

And so you can see if you watch that movie, like, certain scenes where, oh, they film this early in the process.

Oh, they film this one later on because guys' arms are just getting gigantic.

Like, through the movie.

Like, it's great.

It's great.

I've heard about that.

That whole shoot was just an ordeal to you for that, that first film.

But, wow.

It's remarkable.

It's great adrenaline.

Like, that's all that movie is.

Yeah.

It's adrenaline.

I feel like I want to go on, like, a binge.

And watch the entire predator universe.

You don't need to do that.

I've seen many of them surprisingly, even though I don't like, I wouldn't deem that a scary movie.

Yeah.

Just the first one's good enough for me.

The first one's, you know, as far as the classic, I think.

It's a plotline too.

It's a pretty original.

It's a little different.

Yeah.

We will take a quick time out.

We'll come back and have some more fun on the morning show.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio.

Alia, Seth and James here with you.

Thanks so much for hanging out with us.

You mentioned 80s earlier I had to.

Yeah.

Classic 80s.

You do.

This was one of my dad's all-time favorite songs.

I love it.

All Friday feels like a thing.

Even when Terry's got it, I kind of have to do that.

Yeah.

We just got a short segment here before as we get you ready for our new sports and partner break.

One of the things I wanted to touch on is a great article I came across from the good news network.org.

I always encourage people to check them out.

They got some great reporting they're doing over there.

And if you need a pellet cleanser, they've got it for you over there.

Interesting story.

I don't know how many if anybody had heard about.

I'm always fascinated when you hear of a species being brought back or being kept around.

We only had five of these.

Now we've got thousands or anything.

This stems, I will admit, journalistically, from my love of penguins.

And growing up, you would hear these stories from time to time about this certain breed of penguin that was going to be extinct.

And this group of people did this to keep them around.

Right.

Well, got another one here.

Trampling through coastal marshlands in eastern China, a strange-looking deer roams freely in the herds of hundreds,

a remarkable recovery from where they had been just decades ago.

Wow.

Described in ancient China as a beast with antlers of a deer, hooves of an ox, face of a horse in the tail of a donkey.

Pere David's deer, one was at one time the rarest of its kind on earth.

Wow.

I am showing Alia and Seth and Rose picture of these beautiful animals up there.

As you can see, they are incredible creatures.

Yeah, they're very interesting looking.

These awesome animals were hunted to extinction in the wild 125 years ago,

captive animals clung to life in a far-away land until 1985.

Their descendants could return to a wiser China, where a more eco-conscious population welcomed them home to the quiet marshlands.

Wow.

In the early 20th century, the British noblemen and politician Herbal Russell, the 11th Duke of Bedford, acquired a few Pere David's deers from the Berlin Zoo

and built up a large herd on his estate in a Walburn Abbey.

I don't know, I hope I'm saying that right.

In 1985, the Duke's great grandson, Robin Russell, the 14th Duke of Bedford, donated 39 of these beautiful deer to the Chinese government for a reintroduction pop program.

Nice.

They were placed in a park reserve that once belonged to exclusively for canned hunts conducted by the emperors in Beijing.

That they stopped doing that.

This turned out to be a perfect place for these deer.

And here we are now, where I believe that they're saying, yeah, 8,200 of them now.

Wow, that's really impressive.

That's really cool.

It's really remarkable.

It speaks to a couple of things, I think, about human beings.

What we can do when we put our minds to something.

Right.

I mean, this has happened so many times in human history.

We've kind of normalized it, but we got a species to be, you know, at the brink of extinction.

And we got them around.

Yep.

Like, that's incredible.

That's...

That's Jurassic Park in it.

Yes.

Yes.

And we didn't Jurassic Park it.

Oh my gosh.

It's remarkable to me whenever these things happen.

It's a lot easier to just like have them do it naturally.

Yeah.

Just reintroduce the population.

So much safer.

So much safer.

There's...

Without playing God.

And you don't got to put Jeff Goldblum in an awkward spot.

He's like getting up there.

He doesn't deserve that.

I think he's awkward enough as it is.

It's his wheelhouse.

He's very good at it.

I thought it was a great one.

You can go to goodnewnetwork.org to find that one.

Everybody.

I got another one for you a little bit later that we'll wrap up with.

It's just fantastic.

It is a must-see video.

I'll tell you that.

Oh, goodness.

Did want to take a focus, put a focus for a moment on some of our local plays going on in our area.

Our kids are hard at work.

Yes, they are.

One of those shows is the Wisconsin's Rapids Junior Theater presentation of Beetlejuice.

Yes.

It is going on.

Tonight is opening night, seven o'clock.

There you go.

This show will be taking place right around the corner from us over at the Rams Auditorium,

1921's, 27th Avenue South.

Be sure to get your tickets and take in this amazing show.

We got to talk to some of the cast and crew and Susan.

That's right.

I'm living with one of the cast members.

Let me tell you, those kids have put in so much hard work.

They do.

They do lots of work.

It's been long, long night at school all day, long nights.

They're bringing it and I cannot wait to see it.

This is a fun show.

You are going to have a fun time with it, everybody.

Be sure to check this one out by local support, local support the arts and support these kids.

Again, their opening night is tonight at seven.

You can't make that one.

They got a show Saturday at seven and everything will wrap up this Sunday with a two o'clock

matinee.

All shows taking place over at the Wisconsin Rapids Area Middle School Auditorium.

1921, 27th Avenue South.

You can get tickets right there at the front desk where you're walking in and stuff.

Otherwise, you can go to our show.com or, yeah, I believe I'm seeing that right now.

Yes.

They have a specific website for that.

In fact, the Middle School has its own page for all the tickets on the house.

If you find a QR code, scan it and you find it.

That's the easiest.

Yeah.

Similar story with the Assumption Production of Sister Act, the musical.

Their show is going to be coming up next week.

Thursday, November 13th.

That's their opening night, seven o'clock show.

They'll have one on Friday at seven.

Saturday will have a one o'clock matinee and everything will wrap up Saturday night at seven

next weekend.

Be sure to make plans for that one.

Take that in.

We're going to be talking to some of the cast and crew a little bit later in the rapids report.

Nice.

You can get your tickets for that one by going to Assumption, going to onstage.tickets or going

to Assumption's website or you can get them the day of right there at the front.

Right.

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We'll take a quick time out.

Get to our news.

Sports and partner break.

When we come back, we got those five songs.

Five songs.

Gen X rocks out to in the car.

But we'll never admit to.

And of course, we want your song that you'll rock out to that you won't admit to.

Coming up on the morning show.

Welcome back, everyone.

The morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio.

Seth, Alia, James here with you.

Thanks so much for joining us, everybody.

And we are calling all listeners now.

We want all audience participation.

It's a Friday show.

We're letting it all out today.

We're in a safe place.

We want the songs that you rock out to that you don't want nobody to know you rock it out to.

A study of generational listening habits in our cars found that Gen X is the only way

that Gen X is the only one who loves to crank music while driving.

All the other generations are not really don't really do this as much.

And when we say crank, we mean like putting the volume at an extreme level.

Right, right.

You never know it when they roll down their window because, well, shame.

See what we mean with today's list of the top five songs Gen X rocks out to in the cars,

but we'll never admit to.

This is taking these songs or taking from a long, a big list of names that people put on Reddit

or the website itself of just songs that we get into, but we don't want anybody to know we do.

Right.

I think for every song that now for everybody that says this song,

there's going to be somebody that's going to say,

well, I love that song or whatever.

I think that you're going to find maybe a song that you might not think would do it to you, does it to others.

So just looking at this list and then I want your guys' songs, I want audience songs,

nudge nudge, call up, text us, however you go, whatever you got to do, get it to us everybody.

So the first one on the list, we built this city by Starship or Jefferson Starship or Jefferson Airplane or something.

Again, I don't know how you would be embarrassed about listening to that song.

That's one of those ones where you got to do at part.

So you get to do both parts.

No, there's nothing wrong with that song. I know it's cringed for a while, but there's nothing wrong. I love it.

It's good to go.

A song that was, I believe, was only written so that you could sing it in the car.

Get out of my dreams, get into my car.

All right.

That's that.

Billy Ocean.

I thought it was Billy Ocean, yeah.

Yes.

Yes, Billy Ocean.

And again, there's nothing wrong with Billy Ocean songs, though.

They're saying that's fine.

There was a stretch there that they were that many people thought Billy Ocean was the next Michael Jackson.

There was a stretch there.

Really?

Yeah, yeah.

He had a couple of number one hits.

He would be fair.

Yeah.

Yeah.

We are the world.

Imagine the Avengers of singers.

Yes.

Yes.

And,

oh,

oh,

oh,

oh,

oh,

oh,

oh,

oh,

oh,

oh,

oh,

oh,

oh,

oh,

oh,

oh,

oh,

oh,

oh,

oh,

oh,

oh,

oh,

oh,

oh,

oh,

oh,

oh,

oh,

oh,

oh I

was million dollars.

And so.

I was emotionally

esos

uh,

we were talking about this

at our pre-game Alia,

uh,

the girl is mine,

Paul McCartney

and Michael Jackson.

Still don't know it.

Um,

um,

you really?

Okay.

I listened to a snippet

and I'm like,

this has escaped me.

Really?

How about Ebony and I for you?

Oh, I love that song.

I love that,

I love that,

I love that,

I love that,

I love that,

I love that,

I love that,

I love that,

I love that,

I love that,

I love that,

I love that,

I love that,

I love that,

I love that,

I love that,

I love that,

I love that,

I love that,

I love that,

but it has to be the German.

It has to be

the original German

with the,

the American,

you know,

the,

what,

you know,

with the latest single

Oh,

anything by fellow.

There was like,

there was like

five versions of that song,

I think.

Yeah.

And,

there's the specific one

where yeah, he's still

I think it's spliced a lot

into songs now.

She was well.

Yeah.

And I'm not mad at that.

Keep doing it.

That guy was an odd duck,

man.

Oh, yeah.

He was very strange,

and he quit the music business

because they weren't ready

for his next album,

or something like that.

The world's not ready.

He was the next felco.

He was too ahead.

Yeah, too far ahead though.

At least he thought so.

Yeah.

We were not ready for felco.

We still aren't

apparently.

No, you need to stay,

you need to stay,

just stay in your lane.

No, go ahead.

Keep airing it.

We're just not ready yet.

But to be fair,

one of the few Austrian

and pop singers who really

made it big.

Everybody have fun tonight.

Everybody wearing

junk tonight.

Yeah.

Definitely.

Now, to me,

that's, you know,

I could see how people

would be there,

but for me,

one of my songs that I

would recommend,

or I was going to put in there

that I am ashamed of,

but I will sing

Dance All Days.

Dance All Days.

Which is one of those.

It's a superior song in every way

to have fun tonight.

And if Wayne,

if Wayne Chung had done more like

that, then I mean,

I know it was a big hit

in everything,

but that was,

that's a very cool song.

Dance All Days,

a fantastic song.

Definitely one of my,

yeah, that happens

to come on the radio

and I am having a full

concert.

Yes, absolutely.

And finally,

the safety dance.

The safety dance.

Yeah.

You can't not rock out

in the safety dance.

It's the beat.

It's the beat.

It's the beat.

It's you and everything.

Just the first,

you know,

you do, you do, you do.

You're like,

boom, boom, boom.

No, James Wright too.

It's got a very distinct beat too.

Yeah.

If you just hear that,

boom, you know,

it just as it's a way

it starts now.

Now, it's also,

I think a perfect definition

of, you're in the car,

you hear it,

and all the things you guys were

saying until you realize

somebody else is in the car

with you.

And then you're kind of like

looking and seeing how they,

how their gate,

your gate,

okay, my family knows,

my family knows that car time

is,

yeah, I'm going to be singing

a concert for them all.

And if they don't join in,

I get mad at them.

What is my harmony?

I rock the cashba.

It is one of those ones for me.

Yeah.

The rest of my life that comes

on the radio with electric avenue.

Oh, good.

Electric avenue.

All they great immigrants.

Yeah.

It's just, just dead part of

Lloyd's.

Just, just shout out,

oh, I'm suddenly in the mind

of German groups and,

um, trio with,

da, da, da,

Wow, wow,

da, da, da,

That's a good idea.

Da, da, da.

Uh, that's like,

that's it.

Boy, catchy is heck too, man.

Wow.

I think a lot of, uh,

speaking of, uh,

talking about Journey earlier,

let a Journey Boston foreigner,

a lot of those bands,

have a lot of those songs.

They're all interchangeable.

They're all there.

Basically they are.

I don't know why.

Probably my,

I'm not embarrassed by it,

but I might be,

if my kids call me Amanda.

Isn't that my Boston?

Yes, yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Um, I think in a weird way,

although you,

you wouldn't think it,

uh, sweet child of mine

from Guns and Roses,

is one of those ones.

I think that's one of those ones.

Several Guns and Roses songs.

Oh, I've got a good one.

This, this one,

people really would be embarrassed.

Cut and I, Joe.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's, that's,

oh, you're,

you're driving by,

and you see somebody dancing to that

or macaroni in their car.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Like, you're gonna have a moment

where you judge them,

and then you're gonna have a moment

where you're like,

it's not one or only,

it's the black girls.

I will live and die on that one

because, yeah.

I don't care what anyone says.

Yeah.

That it still love the

black girls I do.

Um, There is,

there is said,

I cannot think of which one,

but there is definitely,

um, Modena's song.

Um,

I kinda can't think of which

one it is.

It's not one of her big,

bigger hits.

Okay,

but it wasn't one of her bigger ones,

but in the video,

her and the little kid are dancing

together.

Oh, wait, wait,

wait, wait.

Um, no,

darn it.

Now,

cherish.

Nope, nope.

I'll think of it.

How does she sing?

Does she sing in Spanish?

No, not that one.

Another one I think about.

Yeah, not my favorite Modena song.

Good song.

Yeah.

Open your heart to me.

Oh, that's a good one.

Okay.

I like that one.

I like that one.

That's a really good one.

I like that one.

Um, I,

so growing up with my,

um, my mom,

my mom's,

there's a lot of female singers in it.

Uh, so for me,

I'm always pulled to female singers,

especially ones that write their own music.

Um, but trying to sing as a man in the car,

you make me feel like a natural woman.

Doesn't go over well.

Doesn't, doesn't,

doesn't feel wrong with that, man.

Does it feel good?

Doesn't, you know,

but it's a,

but you can't help me hear that song.

And I don't care.

You got to sing with that woman,

alien.

Okay.

What do I do?

I do actually need video content

of this happening.

Can't help.

I need proof for it to happen.

Um, there's,

there's some good ones out there.

I think there's some good ones.

How do you not sing along with a wreath,

though?

It doesn't matter what she's singing.

I mean, you got to do it.

Okay.

Okay.

I don't know that you have a choice.

No.

Like, there's the, here's another thing about this

that where I think a lot of this,

or what gets lost in some of this,

so much of it is just you just do it.

You're not even thinking so.

Yeah.

You just start really,

oh, this happened to be on the radio.

It's one thing if you pull up the song in your playlist

and play it.

That's a little bit different.

It is.

Then you're doing a little more of the looking around

thing and everything.

All right.

I got a 20-minute drive ahead of me.

I'm all right.

I'm all good.

Um, but if it just pops up on the radio

and you don't have a chance to even think about

where you are or who's around you or anything.

You just do it.

Yeah.

That's the type of music I'm thinking of.

That's the type of song I'm thinking of.

That really pulls that out of you.

There's nothing that really does that.

It's not as if a TV show or,

or a certain commercial does that for you.

Music's one of the few things that does that

where it just hits on a certain core of you.

And, um, I remember one of the earliest stories

we did on the morning show here.

Carl and I back in the day about the music

that will always be nostalgic to you.

We all grow up with our guardians,

our parents, or whoever's music.

Right.

But we get to a certain age where we get to pick the music.

We're going out.

We're buying our first music, right?

Your first album, your first CD, tape, whatever it was.

Well, you could go 30 years without hearing that music.

But it pops up on the radio and you are immediately brought back

to that time when you had that.

It signs like the science of it.

It's really interesting.

Yeah.

Music's the only thing that does it.

There's not a piece of art.

There's not a famous Christmas movie you have

that does the same thing the music does.

Oh, my God, there is a series of 90 songs that if I hear

I'll, I am transported back to working at the local Perkins

when I was 16 years old.

Because that's the music we were listening to in the back,

you know, doing washing the dishes or bus and tables,

whatever, I did all that stuff.

But that's exactly what it is.

It's a specific song.

So I hear it.

It's like, bam, I'm back there again.

So.

Proof further proof that you and I share a braid.

You sent me up perfectly because I think a great example

of this for me is any 90s R&B.

Any 90s R&B, it comes up on the radio.

And I am jodicy.

I am, I am, I am boys to bad.

I am, I am in there.

And, you know, you're L.B. Sure.

Yep.

I'm L.B. Sure.

That's right.

I am definitely, you can't help myself.

The first cassette tape that I ever got was Millie Vanilley.

Oh.

And, yes, I know, bad example.

Love it.

Also German.

And, yeah, that's right.

Yeah.

I've apparently, I've always been attracted to the Germans.

Mary to one.

So.

That's funny.

But, recently, I watched the second series of that monster show

about the Lyle and Eric Menendez.

Yeah.

And they played a bunch of Millie Vanilley songs throughout that.

So talk about traumatizing, like nostalgia for my childhood.

But then, like murder.

Now murder.

It's also involved.

Yeah.

That makes it better.

Just throwing that into the mix.

I know.

It's a little.

Even to your weekends with that folks.

Of all the bands to sing a long tour to kind of take over the vocals of,

is it the most okay with Millie Vanilley?

Yes.

Like, it's the safest way.

I mean, they kind of, they were like,

I mean, no, it's true.

It's kind of, it's kind of one of the famous forms.

The unfortunate thing is the songs are pretty bad.

I mean.

They're so catchy.

They are catchy.

But they are some of the worst lyrics you'll ever hear.

They're terrible.

It's one of the, I think, funnest stories is hearing songs that were written by people in other countries

and trying to Americanize them.

I think Britney Spears hit is a big example of that hit me, baby, one more time.

Oh, yeah.

And it's supposed to be a Swedish group.

Yeah, right.

It's supposed to be like hit me up or hit me on the phone or something.

But the things got lost in translation.

And it just becomes a cross as a little uncomfortable song to me.

But yeah, it's one of the more interesting things.

Just like your favorite radio song, everybody, your favorite song you want to hear on the radio,

when you're singing, long, too, and everything.

We'll keep this going.

I want to hear from people.

I'm a little disappointed in the audience out there.

We won't call it up with 99 Loft Belones.

Come on, man.

Another German song.

I know, I did that.

What about Gloria?

Gloria.

Gloria.

It's a great one.

That's...

Come on, Eileen.

Yeah.

I actually wrote, come on, Eileen, on my piece of paper here.

Yeah.

Come on, Eileen is another one.

That's a good one.

I had that and I lost it.

Thank you.

And I also wrote Caribbean Queen.

Isn't that also Billy Ocean?

That's Billy Ocean.

Yeah, that's Billy Ocean.

Oh, Sade, smooth operator.

Oh, yeah.

Smooth operator.

Yeah, of course.

Just that part, even.

Just that part.

We'll take a quick time out.

We'll come back and wrap up the show.

A morning show on WFHR.

Welcome back, everyone.

Morning show here at 975 FM 1328.

I'm WFHR.

Wrap enough to show for the week.

Going to take you to the top of the hour.

Nothing but great civic media program coming up for you throughout the day.

And the rest of the weekend.

We'll get to our schedule and some good things going on in our area in a moment.

But as we get into good stories of the day, as we wrap up our show,

I got a great one to get to in a moment.

Our good story of the day started right away.

Elias mom has been sitting in with us all morning.

Yeah.

It's been really fun.

And one of the summaries he stayed for the whole time.

I think I'll figure that one out.

It's a glutton for punishment.

I guess.

I really appreciate it.

Thank you for being with us.

Thank you very much.

A big time good story of the day right there.

And got some other good ones going on for you throughout the day today.

Be sure to join us for a new edition of The Rapid Support.

Got two new episodes for you that'll be at WFHR.com.

In part one, we're going to speak with the representative Scott Krug.

Always a good conversation with Scott.

He and I will probably our horns will lock.

We will go at it.

And we will end the show laughing and talking about the brewers.

It'll be a good conversation always is.

Appreciate the time from Scott and the transparency as always,

especially in this day and age.

Got some good questions for him.

Got a good stuff coming up a little bit later.

And in part two, we're going to speak with our friends

from the sister act play that's going to be coming up with a solution.

Yeah.

Very nice.

Got a Riley Gianna and Gabe joining us, the students.

Well, some of the cast along with director Ryan Houston.

It's going to be with us.

Good guy.

I got a call out Ryan just real quick because we said, well, you were there.

We saw his costume for Halloween was awesome.

He was Mrs. Doubtfire and he pulled it off perfectly.

Good job, Ryan.

And then he sang like an angel.

Yes, he's very good singer.

Absolutely.

Looking forward to having them with us a little bit later today.

And looking forward to a playmakers for you.

Four to five on 105, five W.I.

Join us as we speak sport.

Join us with your sports takes and feelings.

You do not want to keep them inside.

Get it out of your system.

Call us for playmakers a little bit later.

Seth and I will be together talking about the NFL scheduled this weekend.

The River Kings and plenty more.

Yep.

And a little bit later today at seven o'clock on WFHR.

Wisconsin men's basketball hosting my Northern Illinois Huskies.

That should be a W for UW.

It's still nice.

I always look forward to those games.

That's always a fun one.

And this weekend, seven o'clock tonight and tomorrow night,

over on 105, five W.I.

River Kings hockey.

Yeah.

The Kings of the North follow the boys of Winters.

They build hockey up and down the river.

Go to riverkingshockey.com.

Bookmark that page and get your tickets.

And if you can, get to the rec center.

Otherwise, we got you covered over on 105.

They're looking like in midseason form.

Like right now, which is really remarkable.

What a start they've had.

Whoo.

Playing some great basketball.

Yes.

Great stuff going on this weekend, Seth and Aliyah.

Seth, I'll start with you.

We got some good things happening here.

We want to talk about it.

Don't forget everyone.

It has started once again.

The indoor winter farmers market over at the Moravian Church.

That's 310, first avenue south.

Every Saturday from 9 to 1.

And of course, they're going through mid-May this year.

So a long stretch there.

We want to see you down there because they've got good stuff.

The first one was last week.

And I already have some good reports about how good the food was.

Oh, nice.

There was some really good lunch and stuff down there.

So head around about lunchtime.

And you'll find some local food.

You'll find community and other crafts at the winter farmers market.

And Wisconsin Rapps at the Moravian Church.

My turn.

Yeah, go ahead.

Yeah, go ahead.

So I'll jump right in there.

Is that how this radio thing works?

Is it now, my turn?

That was going to give me a cue.

And go.

That was great.

Oh.

Also at the Moravian Church.

Tomorrow, November 8th from 4 to 7 p.m.

is the 2025 chili dinner.

Get yourselves over there.

Get yourself some chili.

If you're 13 years or older, it's $8.

If you're 6 to 12 years old, it's $4.

And the under five is free.

Carryouts are $8 a quart.

So that's it.

310.

First Avenue South, Wisconsin Rappets, Wisconsin.

I will be trampling three-year yard to get some stuff.

Yes, you want to.

Tomorrow afternoon, the early afternoon,

I'm going to be browning hamburgers.

Like, you wouldn't believe.

You're going to get that ready.

Oh, I'm sorry.

Oh, so you're actually, are you the chili cooker?

No, no, actually, I'm just doing that part.

I think we have other people coming up to the other side.

That's always my part.

Yeah, you're actually going to be browning meat.

I like it.

I just enjoy it.

I love it.

I love doing it.

That sounds really good.

Be sure to be there, everybody.

By local support local.

And we have some Veterans Day events coming up next week.

One of the touch-on.

Monday, November 10th, the VFW has this spaghetti dinner.

All you can eat.

Veterans eat free.

This will take place with our friends at the VFW post 2534.

27-11 Red and Road right here in Rapids, Monday 4-32-7.

And then, of course, next Tuesday is Veterans Day.

A lot of great ceremonies, a lot of great things going on in our area with that.

11 a.m. Veterans Day ceremony at Veterans Park, downtown Wisconsin Rapids.

At 1 o'clock, the Legacy Stone dedication over at Assumption High School on Chestnut Street right here in Rapids.

And things wrap up at 3 o'clock, which Veterans Day observance with re-dedication

of the Veterans Memorial at Midstate Technical College on 32nd Street right here in Rapids.

Very nice.

Every day, we can celebrate our vets.

We look out for our vets.

Appreciate our vets.

And it's certainly when it comes to different things that affect our vets when it comes to our political system.

And who you vote for and all of that.

Keep that in mind, everybody, please.

Looking forward to our friend Tom joining us next month with another Veterans Update.

Rappin' up the show.

And certainly as we're getting into November here, we say goodbye to October.

And so many things we love about October, like pumpkins.

I saw this story and I had to wrap up a week with it.

Oh goodness.

A, again, going to the Good News Network.org.

Everybody head on over there.

You will find this story about a polar bear.

Gleefully eating a 1,400 pound pumpkin donated for his dinner.

It is a sight to behold.

That is fantastic.

It is your palate cleanser for the day, for the week.

Everybody.

It is wonderful.

I encourage you to check it out.

That pumpkin is almost as big as that bear.

As the polar bear.

And he just munching on it.

Oh, that is so cool.

Think about if you had your favorite dessert, but gigantic.

And you could spend all day just picking at it.

Okay, the ratio of bear to pumpkin is like the ratio.

I want a pumpkin pie, ratio to my body.

You get some good shots of it, but no better shot than this last one.

I'm just saying, oh, pumpkin one.

He thought, it's like after Thanksgiving.

You know, he was like, oh, this is a preview of all of us after this.

Where's the football game?

I'm looking for the football.

Pumpkin one, polar bear zero.

There is a great shot of the pumpkin.

Somewhat destroyed.

Yeah.

And the bear laying on his back just with it, just like done.

He looks like I made so many bad life choices.

If you look closely enough, you could see a little shame on the bear's face.

Yeah.

A little bit.

I'm investing in the Caribbean queen and eating a 1,400 pound pumpkin.

Great show, YouTube.

Great show.

You too.

Be good to each other out there.

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