Hour 1: “Local” is a pretty wicked awesome word too!

Good morning, Wisconsin. Morning, world. It's a new day. Thanks for kicking it off with

us right here at 97-5 FM 13-20 AM WFHR, locally grown radio. Got your host, James J. I am

joined by Melissa K. Good morning. Seth Habagger. Good morning. And all of you. Thanks so much

for joining us, everybody. We hope you're having a great start to your Wednesday. Happy

Humpty, everyone. Yes indeed. We are going to be joined by our friend Paul Tromblie from

Weather Eye Weather Center in any moment now. Looking forward to that. We're going to kick off our

show. Rewinding a little bit, talking a little lights of love. We'll get to that in a bit. We're

also going to talk about online shopping. We got an online shopping hack for you. Social norms,

we got to talk about. Kids ask how many questions a year that they're getting into as well. Whoa.

Oh, that's coming up for you. Of course, Misty's menu, a birthday and anniversary club, also going to

be happening this hour, 9 o'clock hour. I'm sorry. Before we wrap up this hour, we will also be

joined by our friends from Quality Plus printing with We Could Also Word of Wednesday. Yeah.

Very nice. Phil Hartley will be joining us. We get a lot to talk about with Phil for those

who didn't see the Quality Plus press release. Want to get to that with him as well. Talk about

their coloring books that they handed out and everything. So we'll get to all of that 9 o'clock

hour. Well, also entertainment news for you. And afterwards, we will get into how many of us

are drinking coffee we don't like. Yeah. Okay. That one's coming up for you in a little bit.

Plenty more for you in store as well. But we like to do around here. We like to kick off our show

with our friends at the Weather Eye Weather Center. Good morning, Paul. Yeah. It's good.

More to do. How are you doing today? Doing well. How are things on that end? Not bad. Not bad.

Clear blue skies over here and rapids at least for us.

Yeah. Warmer than yesterday. Definitely. Definitely. Warmer than yesterday. We'll take that. Yeah.

That's right. Tonight will be Warmer than last night. So continuing that. That's

excellent. That's what we were hoping to hear. What else is in store for us with Mother Nature, Paul?

Yeah. Yeah. Plenty of sunshine out there today. And starting to get those temps down the way

to the upper 30s this afternoon. So we do stay with West to Southwest winds 5 to 15 24

partly cloudy tonight. And then more upper 30s Thursday. Mix of clouds and sun. West winds 10 to

15 17 Thursday night. Still quiet and still fairly mild Friday through the weekend. Mid 30s.

Partly sunny for Friday. Upper 30s on Saturday and Sunday. Partial suns on cloud Saturday.

Few more clouds Sunday. Maybe a rain or snow shower, but all in all looking pretty quiet through

that early part of next week. Some mid upper 30s Monday and Tuesday as well to continue years.

The overnight low is still down through the 20s in the next week. Look in the head at that point

as well here. So yeah, definitely nice starting to December. Looking to be on the way. Yeah.

Can't complain. No, we'll take it all. We will take it. Thank you, Paul. We appreciate you. We'll

talk again tomorrow. Give people ready for Thursday. All right. Something to plan. You have a good one.

You too. Best in a business right there. A good friend Paul traveling. Whether I weather center

appreciate the gang over there. Could have used a little bit of warmer temperatures last night,

but wasn't nearly as bad as it could have been from what I could hear from you during the broadcast

Melissa. I want to talk about lights. I love with you too. This tag team right here did a fantastic

job last night doing that broadcast broadcasting that event. Seth of course here running the board.

Melissa out there at the on the grounds of Aspirus to see the tree. Linden. Great event. I got to

only listen to a couple of segments, but sound did great. Nice job by both of you. Big thank you

to this community showing up and supporting this. Of course, a gigantic thank you to Aspirus.

Melissa, how would the event go for you? I don't have you been able to go to the event before?

I had not attended the event before and this was my first time there and my first time I'm seeing

obviously since you guys had it the last couple years. I actually had a listener come up to me and

and say, yeah, I heard Seth and James talking about it and that that you had to be here tonight.

So I had to stop down and see you. That's great. It was great to hear from listeners and get

to chat with a couple afterwards a little bit. Chris and Denise, I talked with both of them and

a huge shout out to all the people who made it happen because there were a lot of hands on deck to

make sure everything was functioning well. We had Frank and Wayne there from the police department

and then of course, Lisa Skibba was the organizer and then just everybody that showed up the

parking lot filled and then there was a such a crowd of people. I don't know Seth, there was

well, I think over 100 people there. I think so from what I saw after when I came there a little

bit later. This is kind of something we've seen. They were in a different spot this year

than they have been the last two years. They went with the artificial type tree. Now when I say that,

it's not like a fake fur tree. It's actually kind of like an abstract design. It's like a metal

sculpture. Yeah, which I thought was really cool and you can see it now right of course from the

freeway or excuse me. I was driving by the expressway. Yeah, it's right out there. So every time you

drive by you can think about what does lights of love mean and the ceremony and all that sort of

thing. And it all went well, the kids, you know, performed the only thing that I regret is that,

you know, it was too cold for our computer. Yeah, it caused the computer to crash. For the

rest, yeah, we lost about the last couple of minutes, 15 minutes or so. Five, 45 or so. Yeah,

something like that. Frozen up. Didn't want to address that for listeners that might have been

listening and curious what happened there. Well, it was like to let you know behind the scenes how

things are going for us and what's going on and everything. Keep you guys on the same page.

And I got to give a huge shout out to Lisa because I was like, oh, okay, we're all fair here.

You take the microphone and take over and I'm going to try to fix this problem, which we couldn't

quite fix, but we tried. Yeah, we certainly did. Yes. The greatest of efforts always made to get

us back on the air in my whole existence and radio. And I'm sure that you guys did the same,

but it sounded great. Did a great job. One encourage people to still be a part of this event. You can

still get a Spirits light of love. This is something my mother and father and I did for my papa.

It genuinely, we generally felt it like this. We did this days before the actual event,

but just hitting like enter like you felt something. You really did. I've never come just before

to be honest with everybody and it really did feel something from it. Encourage people to go to

aspires.org slash lights of love forum. Or if you just go to aspires.org or type into your search

bar, aspires.org slash lights of love. It will pop up right away. Mine did. It was about the

second thing on the list that shows up. You should be able to find it pretty well, pretty easily.

And again, a big shout out to our friends over at aspires. Nice work by them. This community,

the organizations in it, the nonprofits in it do such amazing work. This lights of love is

wonderful. And even if it was just a way to honor loved ones, it would be a beautiful event,

but the funds that they raised through these lights, they help out so many different causes

and so many different layers to our community. And if you want to check it out, the part of the

broadcast that we were able to capture, of course, go to civicmedia.us, click on shows and go

all the way down to the bottom. You'll see a WFHRWRI remote and it'll be in that section that's

been posted already. So you can hear Melissa's interviews with a lot of the people and you find out

exactly where the money goes and all the great stuff you can do. Yeah, Lisa gave a really good

rundown of just even a couple of the initiatives that they do within our schools that are wonderful.

All proceeds go to support initiatives like communities top health needs including substance abuse,

behavioral mental health, food systems and cancer, just incredible event. Be sure to get yourself

a light of love for your loved one. And in town here, I was coming over the bridge late last night

and seeing that we've got all the lights up here in rapids. Yes. Oh, it's so beautiful. Isn't it

awesome? Awesome. I love it. You can't drive over either of these bridges and not look over at

the other side of the lake and then the river and just see how beautiful that is and everything.

That's fun. It's a fun time here. It's awesome. It's fun. I don't put them up myself, but I like

seeing other people. Yeah, people's like that. Black Friday and Cyber Monday are in our

rearview mirror, but here's a trick that might snag you a deal between now and Christmas. And I

think this is one of those online hacks that we're going to get away with as long as we can. I know

I do. When you're shopping online, try adding something to your cart and just leaving it in there.

Don't buy it right away. The site you're on probably has your email and most of the big shopping

sites track abandoned orders now. The idea is that they'll see that you almost bought something.

And if you wait a few days, they may try to close the deal by sending you a discount code.

They all will send you one. Yes, they will all send you one. I can't they all will. I mean,

I almost put my name on that. I mean, they almost all will. They might offer something like

free shipping or 15% off. Maybe more than that. If it happens to be a product, they need to get rid

of. You know, a lot of these places have an over abundance of stock over stock stuff.

The only real risk is leaving it in your cart too long. Don't wait to order a gift for someone

if it might not ship in time for the holidays. Yeah. Now, I've noticed this mostly on Etsy,

which is, you know, certainly for those that don't know, run mostly just people. There isn't really

a right businesses on there or anything. And a business and a person's got to make a sale.

So that they see this happen. Most of the time, they'll give you a 10% off or something like that.

Nothing gigantic, a couple of bucks, but it's a couple of bucks. You know, it goes that goes

a long way when you add that up. I can recommend this to people more, but just with the caveat that,

you know, you may not get the item. Yes, it depends. For me, what what this is really great about,

I am horrible at buying myself things. Horrible at it. I have to you wouldn't believe the hoops that

I have to jump through my own brain to convince myself to buy a shirt. But, well, you know,

but I have to look a presentable at work. So I should probably get at least a decent, if I'm not

going to wear a business shirt, at least a decent, you know, t-shirt, et cetera, et cetera, the things

that I have to do. Like, but I put it in my cart and it's something that I may want to buy eventually,

but I'm not sure if I'm going to get a yet or not. That discount comes in. Oh, there's no

time. I'm getting at that. Well, I have to buy it. It's three dollars off. It's never going to be

cheaper. It's nice. And I'm not alone. I'm sure there are others out there that do similar

things. This is what now you know how to get James to buy something. Yeah. The thing about this

that bothers me is that with part of the reason I shop on Etsy is because I like supporting local

people. I like supporting individuals and independence and stuff. So I don't, at the same time,

don't want to nix that by trying to nickel and dime those people that are just a single person

out there trying to run a, you know, craft store or something like that. Where we, I would like

to do this more is to the Walmart's, the Amazon's. Yeah, right. This is like that big big stuff.

In places that they have multiple, multiple, multiple of whatever you're putting in your cart.

Yeah. Yeah. Unfortunately, those businesses don't really care. You know, whether you're going to buy

it or not, they're going to keep doing their thing. They will still maybe offer you a discount.

They could. Yeah. It's worth a try. Like if it's items, if it's something that you don't

necessarily need today, and why not? You know, give it a shot and see. I do, I do wonder though,

like similar to like Netflix and some of these other things. How long they'll, they'll, you know,

really do that kind of thing. Eventually, people are going to catch on and you know, that's when

that kind of goes out the window. Yeah. This will have an end date for you. Yeah. I'm sure.

We are going to come back doing some celebrating with our friends at Misty's Menu,

birthday and anniversary clubs coming up for you right here on WFHR, locally grown radio.

Happy birthday!

Happy birthday to you!

Happy birthday!

You know what I'm saying?

Happy birthday!

What's the sound?

Celebrate your birthday!

It happens every year.

We eat a lot of broccoli and drink a lot of beer.

You heard the man. It's time to celebrate.

Aggressively.

Yes!

It's your birthday celebration.

It's time to do some celebrating with our good friends over at Misty's Menu.

We encourage you to treat yourself.

Get on over to Misty's normally. They're open seven days a week. Not open today though,

everybody.

So save that order for tomorrow when Misty's will be back open Thursday through Tuesday.

Join them over there. We hope Brian is recovering well because those don't know that is why Misty's

is not open on Wednesdays. We send a good morning to all of our friends over there and hope

they're sleeping in.

Yes, please.

Take a break.

One of the institutions in this town, Misty's Menu.

We appreciate the gang over there.

We've been sponsoring with WFHR almost as long as WFHR has been on the air.

That's pretty amazing.

Yeah, we appreciate our friends over there.

And we want to show our appreciation by having more and more birthdays in anniversaries.

Show your love for Misty's by getting us your birthdays in anniversaries.

Send them to info at WFHR.com, james.mail.fetsivignity.us.

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Man, see, I get in a rambling of this.

And I've routine that I've always done.

And I can't remember what the other way is.

Is it Katrina's a telepathy the other day?

Which was good. I like that one.

I like it. I like it.

One way I do not want people to do it is put it on a piece of paper,

wrap it in a rock and throw through our window.

Don't do that.

Yeah.

Okay, we don't want that.

Paper airplanes don't work.

Paper airplanes, not a good idea either.

They don't know that they get to us or anything.

Yeah.

Oh, oh, okay.

Morse code.

Morse code to be good to.

I tried the telepathy thing.

My brain hurts.

They really hurt.

Oh, that hurt.

I didn't know that that could be dangerous.

Wrinkle my brain.

Wrinkle my brain.

You could just call the station.

Oh, there we go.

Yes, it.

Yes, 715-424-2600.

You could just call up and enjoy the covers.

This is why Melissa's here.

Yes.

Oh, that's on track.

Absolutely.

I'm just going to let you guys ramble.

We encourage you to go up with those birthdays and end of

the first race.

Get them to us, everybody.

We know sometimes life is busy.

You forget things.

Get it to us.

Now, if you like, this is your,

you know, he's kind of the backup.

If you forget it and you hear us talking

birthdays and end of the first race,

he's like, wait a minute.

Did I forget?

Oh, my God.

My say, never get up at the front.

We're going to open it.

Yes.

We'll save it.

We're here to help you out.

Yes, we are.

We'll save you.

Let's go ahead and take a look at our list for today.

And I have two names.

Seth, give me a one or a two.

One.

All right.

Gives us that qualifier.

So we wish a happy birthday.

They're both birthdays today.

I wish a happy birthday to our great friend around here.

Joe Bachman.

Happy birthday, Joe.

Happy birthday, Joe.

Joe, one of the heads of Wisconsin's

rabbits community media.

They've got a great team over there.

And he's done some really good work over there

for a long time.

Yeah.

Got to know Joe through that through theater.

Most anybody who's worked with CWAC

probably has worked with Joe at some point.

Yeah.

Wonderful human being.

Got a lot of fun to talk to.

Always enjoy talking with Joe.

Have a great birthday, man.

Yeah.

And we wish happy birthday to our qualifier, Karen Peters.

Happy birthday, Karen.

And Joey, your day, Karen.

We hope it's a fantastic one for you.

And you're our qualifier.

And Karen and all of our other qualifiers keep in mind.

We are just a day or two away from announcing our

November winner.

That's right.

Oh, my goodness.

That is right.

This Friday Friday, Friday, Friday.

First, it's coming up already.

Oh my god.

Just insane.

I just looked at the calendar, guys.

And I already switched it to December.

I did.

I did the other day around here.

And forgot that I did.

Looking at him like, wait, what?

I really try not to be mean here or insensitive.

Okay.

And especially in this day and age,

where no matter what you say,

there are going to be some people

who are going to fight you about it.

But is there any days less meaningful

than the last week and November?

Why do we even do this?

Why do we just skip over?

After Thanksgiving,

why don't we just go right to December 1st?

This week is just such a gray, weird area.

Like everybody's already talking Christmas.

It's already in people's minds and heads.

Even if you're not celebrating or listening

to Christmas music, you're thinking about it.

Yeah.

You're certainly thinking of Christmas gifts

and these kinds of things.

This week has no purpose.

I disagree.

Other than these wonderful, just real quick,

other than these wonderful birthdays and anniversaries

that people celebrate throughout this, that's it.

Yeah, make sure we put that in there.

Yeah, yeah, something.

Okay, all right.

I'll let you finish your sentence.

But I disagree because we need a week to gripe about

how long or how fast November has flown by.

How quickly December is coming.

And oh my goodness,

did anybody start their shopping yet?

Because I avoided all of the

what are major shopping days.

Right.

After Thanksgiving, yeah.

Right.

Yeah, I skipped them all.

I know this is not,

this goes against everything about talk radio.

I agree with you, Melissa.

You have changed my mind.

Whoa.

You know, I know.

I know.

That's not something that as a man,

I'm supposed to do or as a talk radio host.

Yeah, the one time,

we didn't say the same thing together.

We actually had differing opinions,

and you agree with me.

Yeah, yeah.

You're sort of right about that too.

Poor, poor radio.

We really do need at least a day or two to gripe.

We do, you know,

it's a good point.

It's a fair point.

Yeah.

We go into some celebrity birthdays right now,

and Russell Wilson is 35.

Current Denver Broncos quarterback,

former of course Wisconsin Badgers quarterback for a season,

but what a magical season that was.

Yep.

Yeah, and one of those parallel universes,

he's a star in baseball.

Yeah, yeah.

He was also drafted as a baseball player too.

So, him and his wife Sierra have some beautiful children.

They put them, they just seen pictures on like,

whenever they're rustles in a game,

and they show pictures of his family or whatever,

and like, that those are the beautiful kids.

Great family, great, a heck of an athlete too.

The way he has bounced back this year,

and it's funny because they were talking about him

not being a Hall of Famer after the last two seasons.

That conversation's changed with him playing a lot better.

Let's see.

Anna Ferris is 47.

Oh, yes.

Really?

Christy on mom, Cindy and the scary movie flicks,

the new girl or something that she was,

and I forget what movie she did.

I was like a playboy bunny movie or something like that.

Oh, oh.

House bunny.

House bunny.

The house bunny.

I think she is one of the top 10

best comedic actresses in the game.

She's funny.

I genuinely feel that way.

Her facial expressions are maybe the top,

maybe the best female comedic expression.

Herimalism McCarthy.

I will put those.

Amy Polar and Tina Fey are whole other category to me.

Like, they're just two funniest people in the world.

I don't care about sexes or actor actress,

whatever you want to say.

But Anna Ferris, to me, is just like, underused.

It does seem that way, doesn't it?

She has a very expressive face.

Yeah.

You know exactly what's going through

with her character's thinking all over her face.

In any scene I've ever seen her do.

I love her work.

I really enjoy watching her work.

Yeah, I think she's amazing.

I find it funny to me.

She needs to do more, you know.

Come on.

Yeah, we know it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Come on, work for us.

I'm just sitting over here at the court.

I'm her agent.

All the sudden, get to work.

Why aren't you working more?

Thank you for the, I love that I'm doing a radio.

And I still have to do it.

Like you're holding a cigar.

We're doing the agent.

Yeah, all right.

Because the audience, of course,

can see me pantomime holding a cigar.

And no agent's been like that.

It's like 1940.

Yes, you know, I don't know.

Even back, I don't know.

They may not have been that way back then.

It is a fun impression though.

It is.

Jonathan Knight is 55.

80s kids will remember that name.

He was one of the new kids on the block.

That's right.

I don't remember which one he was.

Like, you don't have to find your fine.

You don't have to remember any of that.

He was one of them.

He was one of them.

It's all matters.

The great Don Cheetle is 59 today.

Wow.

Rodi in the, you know, of course, in the MCU.

Marty in House of Lies.

Hotel Rwanda, Crash, Boogie Knights,

Ocean's 11 movies.

My God.

Don Cheetle's got a heck of a career.

He's one of the better actors of his generation.

Yes, yes, yes.

Very well said.

Andrew McCarthy, 61 for a former, well,

the year always a member of the Pratt Pack, I guess.

St. Emma's fire, pretty in pink, less than zero.

Week in a Bernies mannequin.

If it was in 80s hit, Andrew McCarthy was in it.

Oh, but none of those movies really aged that well.

That's the problem.

No, it's like in Andrew McCarthy anymore.

That's the problem with 80s movies.

More than, I think, almost any other generation.

They greenlit everything and 90% of it.

We can't watch anymore.

Yeah, I generally think that that's a real

problem with the nostalgia of 80s movies.

Not only for those of us that grew up in them,

but the idea of getting people younger,

or the generations that didn't grow up with it,

to get them, oh, you got to see adventures in babysitting.

Or you got to see ET.

Or you got to see this.

And then you watch it and you're like,

oh, you're just cringing.

During Indiana Jones, when there's like, oh, no.

There's things that I've loved my whole life.

And you go back and watch them now.

And you're like, oh, boy, you're right.

Let's see here.

It's a good conversation starter, though,

for how we've progressed.

That's true.

I don't think that movies and TV shows outside of certain

expectations, like Song of the South,

or whatever that Disney movie was,

or whatever that kind of stuff,

like those kind of things.

I think outside of that,

I don't necessarily think these scenes should be cancelled.

Or getting rid of.

I think for one, almost any movie like Breakfast Activities,

a fantastic example, I think.

Yes.

Some of the greatest acting you'll see.

Some of the greatest actors you'll see.

And then Mickey Rooney.

Yeah.

You know?

That's rough, yeah.

It's rough.

But you watch the movie and you obviously,

you notice that and you take that,

you note that in your brain.

Okay.

At a certain point in human history,

we thought this was okay.

And we have to lose fun learning from that and everything.

As a side note,

Mickey Rooney did not want to do that.

Fought that by all get out.

But at that point in his career,

he had lost a lot of his work.

He needed work.

He needed work.

Such a shame.

Such a shame that there's so many people

that that's what the first thing they think of with him.

And that is not deserving of his control.

Howie Mandel is 68 today.

They say here, America's got talent,

germaphob.

That's what they referenced.

That's what they put for howie Mandel.

Howie Mandel, again, going back to the 80s here,

was a great stand of comedian.

He was.

Had a handful of good movies that he did.

And he was the voice of Gizmo.

He was the voice of Gizmo.

He was a great voice.

He got in the voice acting game for a lot of others did.

And Bobby's world.

Bobby's world.

Yes, yes, yes.

Great show.

It was a good show.

Joe Cohen is 69 today with his brother,

Ethan wrote Fargo raising Arizona,

Big Lebowski,

and a song you heard us wrap up with over

on our sister station, Sunrise Show,

was country 105, Gifuaya, right?

Oh, brother, we're out there.

Yeah.

Two of the greatest directors that we have had in our generation.

Yes.

And it's something I'm an acquired taste.

I know that because

not everyone can

or understand or get what they're doing.

Because most of their movies are comedies.

I remember taking a friend too.

I think it was Hale Caesar.

And he came out like, what was that?

He was very confused.

That's a tough example.

That is a bit of a tougher example.

That one didn't necessarily um.

I liked it too.

But I'm a big Cohen fan.

So yeah, I liked all their movies.

I think that some of the time

they get too creative for their own selves.

To their own good.

A little bit, I think so.

So, and they take comedy in a very different direction.

For sure.

Fargo, for instance.

Oh, yeah.

Man, you are so right about that.

Right now, we're going to play a little something for you here

from a young man, a young man turning 83 today.

So let this play in the background

as we wish Chuck Mangione a happy 83rd birthday.

All right.

I don't know if there will ever be another hit song

with the flugal chord.

No.

I'm pretty sure I feel pretty safe to say

that there will never be another flugal or who are correct.

But I got to say, I'm enjoying the

what you're watching.

Yeah, in the background.

It's so great.

This is the best part.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Oh, Melissa, you're missing the dancing in the studio.

You're missing the dancing.

Yeah.

So disappointed.

Uh, some people no longer with us.

Uh, I mean, you got to get a composer, musician, master,

the flugal horn, uh, fabulous instrument classic.

Of course, I want to not a ton of instrumental hits anymore.

So no, two was pretty no.

Even in the 70s, yeah.

And, uh, uh, very proud Canadians.

Canadians love Chuck Mangione.

Mangione.

That's awesome.

Uh, it's the other reason I know these from Canada.

So like all the Canadians that grew up around.

Oh, those Canadians.

Some people no longer with us, like the greatest baseball

announcer of all time, Vince Scully.

One of us day in 1927, Pestoe in 2022.

Vince Scully, uh, well, masqueraded as a sports announcer.

He was a storyteller.

Yes, yes, he got paid to tell, you know,

outs and outs to you and balls and strikes and everything.

It's worth, but no, he was a storyteller.

Uh, and, and maybe one of the greatest will ever know.

He could, he could turn any, and a lot of times he worked alone.

He didn't have a color commentator.

And he would just slide into a story about one of his

work for 67 years.

He had tons of stories.

I mean, come on.

The man, he was an institution, but he would do it so smoothly.

And then come right out and go and start, you know,

the gate, go back to the game and he was amazing.

Uh, I used to say this when I was living out there.

I'm living in the middle of California.

You had every day, you had the ocean on one side,

the mountains on another and Vince Scully on your radio.

That's right.

You just couldn't go wrong, baby.

Uh, it just, Vince Scully, you could, you could pull up any old game of his

and listen to it and he's telling you what the action of the game

keeping you up to date on everything goes into a story

continues to keep you up to date on balls and strikes,

goes back to the story, comes back to the game,

back and forth, smooth as anybody has ever done it in human history.

Yeah, nobody has been a better announcer of any sport

than Vince Scully in my opponent.

That's right.

Other than maybe Randy Paul of high school sports.

We got to put our guy in there.

Yeah, uh, also would have been celebrating a birthday on this day.

The great Chadwick Boseman born in 1976,

passed away way too damn young in 2020.

Uh, of course he was Tachala, the black panther,

but um, you got to see him as James Brown and get on up

or Jackie Robinson in 42.

Mm-hmm.

Um, I, we know now that Chadwick understood

that he had a short period of time.

He did.

And, uh, what a career.

You, you, you have to put him up there with James Dean

and some of those actors that weren't,

didn't have a long stretch.

But my God, the work that he did with,

they did a lot of Larry.

Yeah, like I touched on three movies.

And if he just did those three movies,

it would be amazing.

Let alone all the other stuff he did.

Uh, Gary Shanling born in the state in 1949,

passed away in 2016.

Narotic genius of the Larry Sanders show

and so much more.

Fantastic stand-up comedians,

comedic writer.

Love the Gary Shanling show.

Blunted.

Uh, what, uh, Tom, uh, no, um, um,

who was the, uh, his co-host on there?

Um, oh, uh,

a couple of great actors.

His producer, uh, legendary great at Ripptorn.

Yeah, uh, great actor Ripptorn.

I love Ripptorn.

I love Ripptorn.

Yeah.

And, uh, another, uh, uh, uh,

uh, great, a lot of great actors on the show.

Yes.

Yeah.

Uh, and C.S.

Lewis born in the state in 1898,

passed away in 1963.

Mm-hmm.

Chronicles of Narnia and many other classics.

Yep.

Dessondes.

And one more for us.

Another amazing author.

Louisa May Alcott.

Oh, 1832, passed away in 1888.

Yeah, little women.

Yeah, little women.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It could look amazing birthdays.

Yeah, no kidding.

It's a good day to be born for you, Joe Bachman.

Happy birthday to you.

Another amazing person.

Joe Bachman, yeah.

Yeah, another one.

Karen Peters.

Happy birthday to both of you.

Enjoy your day.

Uh, when Misty's are back open tomorrow,

get on over there to Misty's menu.

They're open at 90, uh,

91st today.

We're 13th South of Wisconsin Rapids.

Get there.

Wish him a great day from all of us.

Here at WFHR,

we get to some state and local news.

But we'll let a little, uh,

little, little Chuck Mangy

and he'll play us out here.

Welcome back, everyone.

Morning show here at WFHR,

locally grown radio.

Should have jumped in there.

It's Wednesday night.

Instead of Friday.

Yeah, yeah.

We hope you're having a great Wednesday out there.

Everybody, Melissa, Seth and James here with you.

We're going to be joined by our friends

from Quality Plus Pritching any moment now

with our wicked awesome word of Wednesday.

Looking forward to that.

Yeah.

Right now, let's talk nutcrackers.

Oh, okay.

Uh, most nutcrackers are not just decorative now.

They're now, they're not built, uh,

well enough to crack nuts anymore.

My mother will be the first one to tell you this.

She, uh, she loosely collects them.

She's got like about eight or nine of them or whatever.

Uh, she sees one she really, really likes.

She'll take it.

But she really is furious with the nutcracker makers

that they don't crack nuts anymore.

Uh, you wouldn't, you do not want to get her started on this.

No.

Uh, Miller Lite is selling a new beer cracker

for the holidays that opens bottles and cans.

No brother.

The mouth is a bottle opener.

And if you take it off that off the hat,

you can slide the brim under the tab on a can of beer.

They're also selling, we all need help opening our beer.

Yeah.

They're also selling beer niments again.

Christmas tree ornaments that double as beer coasies.

Uh, but they didn't bring back the tree keg stands.

They sold last year.

That's a Christmas tree stand that fits under a keg underneath.

It fits a keg underneath, right?

The near beer cracker hits Miller Lite merch.

Wednesday, uh, I'm sorry to websites today for $30.

It's only available through December 1st,

but could sell out earlier than that.

You'll have to be 21 or over to buy it.

Of course.

Um, it does look like a traditional nut cracker though.

That's cool.

Yeah, yeah.

Cool.

And honestly, not a bad idea.

I mean, not a horrible idea really.

I, I, I, I, you know, if there's nothing you,

that ain't right about this to me.

I think it's kind of a fun idea.

It functions how it's, you know, made to

for when it's made open, as opposed to your mom's frustration

with actual nut crackers.

Right.

If it didn't work, I'd be, I'd be trashing this.

Like a left and right right now.

Uh, but the fact that it works, actually,

it's not a bad.

It's not bad.

It's not bad.

Uh, working hard over

of their equality plus printing our friends

and they're joining us as they do every Wednesday.

Phil, good morning.

Good morning.

You're making me Google beer cracker right now.

Yeah.

Yeah, you gotta see check it out.

Yeah, you gotta see this thing, right?

Phil, uh, we appreciate you and the team

over their equality plus, uh,

not only working with us here at WFH,

our sponsoring playmakers,

joining us on Wednesdays with our Wicked Awesome Word.

But Phil, I, uh, I saved talking about this on the air

until you joined us.

For those that did not see a equality plus printing,

I had a press release the other day.

Phil, tell us about that.

Oh, sure, yeah, there.

We put it out.

This would be our second version of this,

but of, um, of a coloring book that we put out

to raise money for the United Way and, uh,

and, uh, we're very proud to do it.

It's, uh, and Tracy,

are designing to put you together.

And then I,

so this is a lot of our local, uh,

business people that we do businesses with

to help sponsor it and, uh,

and raise money for, including,

you know, your radio stations have came through

with a sponsorship this year as well.

And so we're very, very happy to put,

put the season of, uh,

season of giving coloring book out again and,

and, uh, having a lot of fun getting it out to the public.

It's great work, Phil, um,

and you guys were able to raise some great money

for our United Way of Southwood and the Amps counties.

Yeah, well, looking like it's gonna be a total of

a rate around $5,000.

Nice sponsorship set to come through,

because we're able to help those local paper companies

get a lot of paper donated.

We don't need, of course,

the printing interest is time,

but EO Johnson, who, uh,

we print through,

don't need to, uh,

to it as well.

And so it's a bunch of,

a bunch of great local,

local businesses,

uh, and giving back to the community

and helping the sponsors coloring,

and booking them.

Busy right now,

and over the next week,

we'll be getting it out,

uh, to a lot of local people that,

that help the children,

and, like the boys and girls,

like, uh,

therapies plus,

uh,

some different other local businesses

that deal with,

you know, helping children,

especially during the holidays,

and giving them,

being able to give the kids a little bit of a,

kind of a Christmas gift, I guess,

and it's really anything to get back.

It's a great idea.

Phil, where did that come from?

You know, last year,

about this time I was sitting here,

very about this time,

just thought, you know,

as a business owner,

you want to be able to give thanks

to people in the community,

and,

and what can we do to,

to get back?

And, uh, so I brought it up

in a little,

small staff meeting here,

and, uh, Tracy had this idea,

and the back of her head,

to do a coloring book someday,

uh, that we could put out,

and so all this is,

this is the time, you know.

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

So we put the ideas together

between her and I,

and then, of course,

McKenna,

and, and the gang here,

and, uh, just,

and then,

really quickly,

put it here,

last year,

we came together,

in a matter of about,

like, two weeks of this,

there,

we put a little bit more thought into it,

but,

like, any great,

anything,

it's always fly by the sea of my pants,

and so,

you know,

we do things best together,

it's, uh,

it's still, you know,

but we're making it happen.

Yeah.

And this year, we're getting, uh,

2000 instead of 1000,

because we get some,

such a call form last year,

but also we,

we had a float in the parade the other night,

and gave out almost a thousand of those guys.

Wow.

Wow.

We took all the kids on the parade route.

Do, uh,

do you guys have any left?

Yeah, we,

we still have that,

another 1,000 left,

the hand out again,

some of those are earmarked,

but definitely,

if people can come in and get left out,

you know, they want to,

and, uh, for their kids,

or, you know,

if you want them in James,

I'll bring them over.

Oh, yeah.

Well, what I want to do,

if you don't mind,

and they don't mean to put you on the spot,

fill and share,

you know, private conversations,

but Phil and I,

I've been trying to get Phil to work with me on a,

uh, wicked awesome word,

a Wednesday coloring book for adults.

Uh, we're going to hopefully next year,

hopefully next year.

Well, we'll have that for you.

Uh,

there you go.

Yeah, I love that you guys do this.

Phil, we appreciate you so dang much.

Uh, it's great work.

And anybody who knows the Hartley's

knows that this, uh,

family has been putting into this community

as long as it's been here.

So I appreciate you and your family over there, man.

Uh, that's kind of you.

Thank you.

You know, just,

to me, it's,

it's a no brainer.

It's part of being part of,

you know,

being thankful for what you are,

and we live in a great community.

And, uh,

happy to get back some.

Phil, we have made them wait long enough.

What is our wicked awesome word, a Wednesday?

Now you got my ideas.

Phil, we're gonna do like a calendar.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Absolutely.

Absolutely.

Yes, yes.

Oh, yeah.

For these things,

yeah, we'll talk.

We'll talk.

So the, yeah,

there's a whole marketing plan.

We got stuff.

We got stuff to talk about.

Yeah.

Uh, so the words,

the word this week is

ineffable.

Ineffable.

Ineffable.

The F F A B L E.

And we as kind of an oxymoron.

And the number means too great

or extreme to be expressed

or described in words.

I see what you mean.

Yeah.

That's sweet.

So, yeah,

one of those things like,

you know, I don't need onions

and my mom used to say.

Put onions and things.

So why do you put them in?

Well, you can't taste them, Phil.

They're right, right.

It's so good.

It's so good.

It's so good.

It's so good.

Don't want to hear that lost in the argument.

Yeah, but, but anyway,

yeah, ineffable is kind of one of those words

that describes itself.

It's good.

It does, yeah.

That's good.