Good morning, Wisconsin. Good morning, world. It's a new day. Thanks for kicking it off
with us right here at 97-5 FM 13-20 AMWFHR, locally grown radio. Got your host, James J?
I am joined by Melissa K. Good morning. And we hope you're having a good day out there.
Thanks so much for joining us, everybody. Got some entertainment news coming up,
a little bit of that ain't right stories. Good stories of the day, all coming up,
but we are kicking off our hour with a very good story of the day, Melissa. I have with us,
in studio, a bunch of Rams kids. We have a six grade teacher, Paige Jacken with us,
and we're going to go ahead and get into these essays for the lights of love,
event that we just had. Very excited about this. Melissa, Paige has headphones on, so you can
interact with her if you'd like. Can you guys tell us a little bit about how the event went,
how lights of love was? Melissa, you enjoyed yourself, right? You had a good time there.
Yes, it was a great night. It was a little bit cold, but as long as you bundled up,
and we all had our hats and gloves and scarves and coats on, for sure, I even had snow pants on,
just to be warm. And I know Paige was also bundled up as were the kids. We suffered some minor,
well, kind of major, because our computer completely died. So our broadcast didn't go out,
which is why I was so excited that we were able to have, that we were able to have all of you on
the air. How are you doing, Paige? I'm doing great. We're really happy to be here. Awesome.
Appreciate the time. Yeah, appreciate the time for me, Paige. And I really appreciate you guys
coming out of school to be here. I know hard that's got to be to leave your scoop. This is
pretty cool, right? You guys want us to keep you here all day? Is that what they did? Just at least
until three or four, right? Just keep your eye. Get some blood, get some thubs up here. Let's go
ahead and let everybody introduce themselves, and then we'll get into the essay. And actually,
Paige, if you don't mind, would you mind introducing yourself as well? I'm sorry. I'm a horrible host.
Yeah, so my name is Paige Jacken. I am a sixth grade English language arts teacher at Rams,
and with me, I have four of our Rams students. I'm Michael Wetzstein.
Michael, thanks for being here. Good to see you. I'm Vivian Zacker. Vivian, thank you for being here.
I'm Ada Pluis. Nice to see you, Ada. I'm Mason Truneman. Hey, Nathan, nice to see you. Thank you all
for being here. Nice job, everybody. That's really the hard part introducing yourself, really.
That's a tough part. Now, as Melissa and I have mentioned during the light's love broadcast,
we had a little bit of technical difficulties, so the kids were not able to read these essays,
but you can catch this, the great event that we had at our website, civicmedia.us,
just so on to the hashtag, remotes, WFHRWIremotes. You can find the complete event there.
But let's go ahead and Melissa and I and Paige, we're going to move out of the way. Let you kids
have the WFHR stage, and we'll just go down the line here and let you go ahead and read your essays,
and we'll start right at the front here.
I'm like, I'm like a what sign. Giving to the community is important to me because it makes me
excited when I do something or someone else does something, even if it's small. For example,
you can donate canned foods and many other things and supplies to places that need them.
You can donate food and toys to the humane society. If you can't do that, you can do something
smaller like planting a tree or check out an elderly neighbor. On Halloween 2023, my family and I
went sugar trading in a neighborhood where two police officers were handing out candy and stickers
to children. Multiple kids kept running up to them, but when they saw my brother, who was dressed
up like an officer, they stopped and said, we have a new sheriff in town. My fore-year-old brother's
eyes lit up and he had the biggest smile. He gave them, they gave him a badge sticker and some candy.
They talked to him and took a picture of him. That small act of kindness made his whole
night. He was smiling from ear to ear the rest of the night. Although this story wasn't about me
and giving to the community, it just shows how great our community is and how I'm honored to be a part
of it. Earlier this fall, I was able to be a part of giving back to the community when I had the
opportunity to rake leaves for the elderly. I made great memories with friends while making a
difference in someone else's life who is not able to do their yard work. To see the joy in his
face was priceless. I can't wait to be able to do it again next year or be able to go and shovel
this winter. In conclusion, if you can't make donations, you can still be able to get to the
community by doing something big or small. With that being said, always be kind to one another
because you never know what they are going through. Nicely done. Nicely done. Oh, that's wonderful.
Beautiful. Very well done. Oh, I think we should have done this like in sets, like four days
in a row. If I'm going to listen to all these in a row, I'm going to be crying by the end of this
you guys. I'm just going to warn you right now. Very nicely done, Micah. Vivian, if you wouldn't mind.
I'm Vivian Zachary. I remember watching my great grandma bake bread. She used to bake bread to sell
at her restaurant. As she got older and the restaurant closed, she baked bread to donate to
different organizations in the community. She did this not only to help the community but to
make her days more meaningful. My great grandma is a role model to me because she was generous to
the community. I saw that her generosity made herself happy as well as those around her.
I would love to be that source of happiness for other people. Giving the community to me means
an opportunity to live up my great grandma's legacy. I mean seeking out ways to help other people
and making it a happier place for everyone to live. Beautiful. You kids are hitting my heart so
hard today. All right, all right. Gotta keep it together. Ada, you go right ahead. Hi, I'm Ada
Lewis and have you ever given something to someone? Even a small thing. If so, how did it make you
feel? Giving in our community is important because some people aren't as fortunate. Giving even small
things can help. Whether it's a pair of gloves to a homeless person or smiling and waving at someone.
Some people are less fortunate than others. This means they might not be able to provide
themselves with essential everyday needs. Giving things to help these people is important.
There are many places in Wisconsin Rapids that provide food and shelter to the less fortunate.
One example is Habitat for Humanity. This program helps to provide housing for people in need.
To help this organization, you can donate furniture, building supplies, food for the volunteers,
or money. There is also a Southwood County emergency food pantry. To help this program,
you can donate food or money. Donating to help these programs is an example of giving in the
Wisconsin Rapids community. Giving not only helps the person that you are giving to, but it can
also help you. Did you know that according to Russia University, after a person gives,
their brain lights up. Giving and helping others can also help you have a greater self-esteem
and satisfaction with life. Giving can even lower your risk of depression. We can benefit
while helping others. In conclusion, there are many ways to help out and give to our community.
Big or small. You can give a donation of your time, talents, or money.
Well done. Very nicely done. Very nicely done. And Mason, bring us home.
Hi, I'm Mason Shuniman. Giving is a gift. A gift is doing something for someone or giving
something to someone without expecting anything in return. Giving is a gift. Spending time with
my grandma and giving her hugs after she has chemo so that she can take her mind off feeling sick.
Giving is donating my old toys so other kids that can afford toys can have the opportunity to play
and have fun. Giving is donating my old clothes to a boy that had to leave his home so that he had
clothes to wear to school. Giving is helping my grandparents, neighbor, rake their lease when
they are not able so that they can feel proud of their yards. Giving is sharing my food or
giving money to others so that they can buy food to feed their families. Giving is a gift.
The gift of giving helps others so that they feel good and I feel good too.
Well done, Mason. Nice job. Nice job. It's not good to make the guy who's supposed to talk speechless.
You guys have maybe speechless. I have no idea what to say. Beautifully done all of you.
First off, those were incredibly well written page. Those were very well written and just as well
written spoken. You guys all did a magnificent job right there. Between us, let me tell you some,
I got adults in here every day that don't do nearly as good as you guys did. That was really good,
you guys. That was very well done. Nice work page. I don't want to keep you too long. I know that
you guys have a busy day ahead but I am curious with a project like this and having the kids do
something like this. What was the initial kind of plan, the initial kind of a lesson there?
Yeah, so we talked a lot about just giving in our school, giving to others and a lot about that
empathy part and then we decided to do this essay contest for the lights of love because it's a
great way for the kids to get their ideas out on paper and then we have them all share them in
front of their classes at school as well. So all of the sixth graders at Rams did this assignment
and it was super cool to see all of their thoughts and ideas to be shared.
Yeah, it's a wonderful thing creatively to be able to do something like this and get work
those creative muscles and everything. But more importantly, and that's hard for me to say,
as a creative, the empathy this creates with your community, with people. We can never have
enough of that in society, especially at these ages that they're at. So that alone goes so far
with something like this I imagine and it's not just these kids, but these four kids each touched
on a different subject I imagine that whole sixth grade did similar things and so that's just
it really hits me. That's really powerful. That's a beautiful thing.
Yeah, it's super cool because we allow them to have the creativity to write an essay, a story or
poem. So it's really awesome to see all of their thoughts. Yeah, yeah. You're doing an amazing
job with these kids. Keep up the great work. We appreciate you and all the other teachers over
there at Rams. Thank you to all of them for the good work they do. We're just a block away,
you guys can stop by any time. Door is always open. Okay. It is really niche and and you know,
a lot of people use it. It's low hanging fruit to pick on younger generations. The older generation
seem to always do it. I am not I am not worried at all about the younger generation. Every time I
have kids like you guys come in and everything I feel better and better about the future. Thank you
all for joining us today. Great work, you guys. And whether you like it or not, this might be a good
or a bad thing. That's a good thing. This is recorded. We are podcasted. So you guys can if anybody
missed it, you guys can play this for other relatives and friends and stuff a little bit later.
It'll be at civicmedia.us and just about an hour or two. So you'll be able to check this out
again and everything. But thank you so much for joining us. We appreciate the time and really
appreciate what you've just did for our community. Thank each one of you for this and page. Thank you
so much. Appreciate you. Yes. Thank you so much for this opportunity. We really appreciate it.
You can still donate to Aspirus's Lights of Love. Go to Aspirus.org. That's Aspirus.org. You
find that and you'll be able to find that in their menu. Otherwise go to Aspirus.org slash Donate
Now Riverview. That's Donate Now Riverview. Go there right now and go ahead and get yourself a
light of love. I encourage you to do so. My family and I did and every time we pass the tree,
it makes a smile. We will take a quick commercial break. We'll come back and have some more fun
on the morning show with WFHR locally grown radio.
Welcome back to the show everybody.
Melissa and James here with you. Mornings at WFHR. Little beautiful. You can't you got to hear that one.
You can't interrupt that one. Yeah. Yeah. You just got to let that play out. Just got to let
the play out. We're going to dive into entertainment news in a second here. But before we do,
how great was that last segment, Melissa? Oh, it was wonderful. And I only got to hear two of those
poem or essays when we were at the live remote because that's when I got notification that
things kind of went haywire. So then I was trying to fix stuff. But oh, what a great job they did.
I'm so proud of them. I'm glad that they could make it to the studio and give these essays over
the air. We got the best listeners in radio. You guys are great about not only listening and
tuning in and joining us on the air, but spreading the word about our shows. I greatly encourage
all of you. If you could do us one favor today, please spread the word about this nine o'clock hour
and the way it began and encourage people to check out civicmedia.us. Go ahead and find the pod
and listen to that great intro that we had to our hour here because that if that doesn't make you
feel good, if that doesn't make you feel good about the future, I don't know if anything will.
I generally don't. And honestly, put you in the holiday spirit. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. That spirit of
giving. I generally, well, I'm still kind of speechless about the whole thing. It just was
beautiful. It was a really impactful and to have them write in like right here, you know,
everything. That's that's something they worked hard to prepare those essays to to deliver in
and what a delivery. Great job guys. It's so easy for people to pick on the younger generations
to it's not like it was when my day and these different things. First of all, you're romanticizing
the past. A little bit. Second of all, you are not paying attention. You do not have the correct
data. We are in very good hands. The younger, this younger generation, they get it. They get it,
man. They are in tune with the universe. They are something. And a shout out to our teachers who
are working hard to help prepare them for this. What a great job by Paige and her fellow English
teachers there at Rams to encourage the students to look into these things. I mean, they give great
examples of things we can do right here in our community. And within their, their, you know,
with the police department story and the examples of giving that Mason gave in his poem.
That's just so wonderful. It hit me so hard. That was so good. It was so beautiful.
And I'm glad that's where I wanted to wrap to Melissa. A big shout out to these teachers.
I've gotten, thanks to some kids that mean quite a bit to you and I and Seth,
the assess boys over there. We've got some other kids that we know over at Rams and
gotten to know some of the teachers over there a bit and they're in their principal. Craig
Bronin is brought in and just amazing, amazing people over there doing some helping our future.
You know, and doing some of the most vital work in, you know, as far as America's future goes,
we appreciate them. Keep up the great work. We dive into entertainment news and you just heard
a holiday classic right there. And another one is break in records. Oh, brandily released,
rock around the Christmas tree 65 years ago. And now for the, now for the first time ever,
it's the number one song in the country. Really? It's even broken a few records didn't
it's way to the top. At 78, Brenda is the oldest artist to top the hot, the hot 100 replacing
Louis Armstrong, who was 62 when Hello Dally hit number one in 64.
Rocking around the Christmas tree is only the third holiday number one ever.
The first was the chipmunk song from 1958. And of course, Mariah Carey's all I want for Christmas
is you, which made it 12 times since 2019. It also has the record for the longest time between a
song's release and its rise to number one. Mariah's Christmas classic had the previous record,
it was a release in 94, took 25 years to reach to the top. Brenda, Brenda was 13 when she recorded
it rocking. Oh my goodness. I didn't know that. Wow. I didn't either. It came out in 58. It
peaked at number 14 in 1960, then went to spent nine weeks at number two between December 2019
in 2020. Oh, she got so close. For more holiday classics, I occupied the top 10. Bobby Helms,
Jingle Bell Rock, number four, Wams Last Christmas is at number five, Burl Ives,
a Holly Jolly Christmas is at number six. And Andy Williams is the most wonderful time of the
years at number 10. Wow. How awesome for Brenda to finally make it to that number one spot.
Brenda did a brand new music video to celebrate the song's 65th anniversary. I encourage people to
check it out. It's a wonderful. I don't want this to sound morbid, but my first thought was,
oh man, I'm so glad she's alive to experience this. You know what? I just had that thought
too and went, oh, I don't want to say that out loud. Yeah, I feel cringey. But if we're not any,
if we're anything, we're honest on this show. You know, we're real with you guys. And you know,
we don't have a big filter on this show. There's no, what is that pause button called? Yeah,
a cough button or they used to call it and stuff. Yeah. So I don't know. I'm not going to lie about it.
I think that that's an incredibly cool part of this. It wouldn't be as cool to me if she had
passed already. I wouldn't think it's as awesome. I think it's so cool that she's experienced this
twice as a bit. I'm sorry, not just twice. A couple of times throughout her life back in 2019 when
this first started to come back. The one interesting, not the one. One of the many interesting things
about this to me is nobody really knows why. Like it's been like plenty of people have said,
well, it showed up in this TV show or it showed up in this movie. Yeah, it has been since the
dawn of the song. Like it's been showing up in Christmas movies and TV shows. It's always been
popular. It's always been around. Oh, yeah, we all know it. We can sing along. You know, sometimes
these songs have a have a second life because they are featured in the commercial or a movie.
We had this a little while ago with the viral video that went famous in the Fleetwood Max
Dreams became even more popular or everywhere or whatever became more popular because of the
viral video that the guy drinking the orange juice on the skateboard. Things like that sometimes
bring these older songs back into our universe and they become or they rise up on the charts again
because of the new way we collect data on how much we're streaming and listening to music.
But this there's no really right other than of course it being the holiday season. But that's
again, we've been having since 1968. We've had quite a few Christmases and this song has been popular
since then. It's just there's no necessarily rhyme or reason. I do have to mention one quick
thing. I personally, and this is not a shot at the song all I want for Christmas is you.
It's a fun song. Mariah Carey isn't one of the most amazing singers there is.
But I do like the idea of putting her in check a little bit. She just like she spent millions
on a video to release that her song is popular this time of year. She didn't release any new song
or new music or she didn't re or new music video for it. Yeah, or re-record the song or anything
like that. She just wants more downloads and more people to stream her song so she makes more
money. She's not doing anything new and it just seems kind of like now it's starting to seem kind
of like cringy and lame to me. Yeah, like you know, it's just somebody trying to like make like
it's one thing to try to make as much like get as much blood out of that stone as you can.
But I mean, I feel like she did that already. Now it's just kind of like overkill.
So promoted again. I love the fact that Brenda re-recorded a music video for this and it's her
family. It's her. I don't know if it's actually her family, but it looks like it does her family
and her in her kitchen and cooking and it's just it's wonderful. Very happy about it. And I got
to say one of my favorite Christmas songs. I love that song. It's a fun song. Speaking of Christmas,
is this too early? Millie Bobby Brown, famous from the TV show Stranger Things. And she's been in
a couple of other things. This young lady is a very good actor and is getting better and better
as it seems as she goes along here. She is so into the holidays, she puts her Christmas decorations
up before Halloween. Because it's where I thrive. Okay. She says her fiance, Jake Bon Jovi, you know,
John Bon Jovi's son, who those who don't know, I did not know they were a couple. I did not
just finding that out literally right this second. I did not know that. Oh, you didn't hear the big
controversy about that? No, I didn't. When they got engaged. Oh yeah. No, I guess I'm
this is coming from me who knows nothing about the lives of celebrities. I think this is twice
now you've gotten me today. That's good. That's nicely done. So him, those two say, quote, very much
against that, but who cares? As far as the idea, her fiance doesn't like it, but he's, you know,
he rolls with it and everything is okay. Millie also says she lived her all-American dream at
Thanksgiving this year with the Bon Jovi's. Since she's British, the holiday traditions are new
for her. She says, quote, I really want, I really went into thinking Turkey, Turkey, Turkey,
how good can it be? But Jake's mom made the best roast turkey ever. There you go. That's fun.
Blown. I love the idea of this. Not necessarily, I love Halloween. So I don't like the idea of
necessarily, you know, skipping Halloween or anything like that. But I like the idea of an
English person coming to this country and not only embracing the traditions, but getting so
excited about them, they can't wait for other holidays to get over with. They want to get right
to Christmas. All right. I get that. There's a little kid in there about that. I get that. That's fun.
I teach their own. You know, I would never tell somebody when is tour. The only time I would say
it's too early is if people are still in, you know, like shorts, like maybe then. But as I was saying
that, like, well, in the Midwest here, especially Wisconsin, it's October. I'm still wearing shorts.
They're wearing shorts. That doesn't count. Heck, I saw somebody walking down the street
in shorts last night. Right. So yeah, after dark, we got our first snowfall. It was like a day
later. I saw somebody getting their mail and shorts. Yeah. That's the way we do things around here.
So maybe, maybe, maybe the way to look at this is, you know, don't judge others. It's their house.
It's their front yard. I know you got to look at it if you live in that neighborhood, but it is
their property as long as they can hurt anybody. What's the harm? Yeah. And I got to say, I'm not a
seasonal decorator. This has been well documented. I put up my Christmas decorations yesterday when
I turned on my little tree that Pam gave me. Nice. But I do love driving around and seeing other
people's yard decorations, especially at Christmas time. But Halloween is fun too, especially with
the rise of those inflatable yard ornaments. But I definitely very much enjoy seeing the Christmas
decorations and they're wonderful in and around rapids. It's such a fun time of year. I don't mind
it starting a little bit early if that's the case. We'll take a break. We're going to come back with
nothing but fun for you. We got good things on the way. I want to get into how many of us
won't see a doctor unless something's extremely wrong. That doesn't seem good. We'll get into that.
We've got that coming up along with some other great stuff for you right here on the morning show.
It's Melissa and James taking you through WFHR locally grown radio.
Welcome back everyone. Melissa and James here with you. Hope you are having a great start to your
Tuesday. A little Paul McCartney to play us in getting us into the spirit season.
Sure. Our song makes me laugh. The beginning of that, the synthesizer sounds. This is so
you are immediately transported to like 78, 79. Like you were definitely, definitely.
Before I was born. Welcome back everybody. We hope you're having a great start to your Tuesday
out there. Thanks for joining Melissa and I and to those of you that aren't feeling that well,
go home. If you're not feeling well, you should probably shouldn't be at work.
So here's an interesting poll. A new poll of 2000 Americans found two-thirds of us won't go to
the doctor until something feels extremely wrong. Yeah. Yeah. Until then we'll wait it out. That
includes 59% of women and 72% of men. 72% of you guys. One reason we don't go is it seems like
you never know how much you'll end up paying even with insurance. But money isn't the only reason we
avoid doctors. The top things we hate about doctor visits include sitting in the waiting room,
the time it takes in general, being touched or examined, shots for other procedures that might be
painful or just general fear and anxiety. Because of all of that, only 34% only 34% of us have seen a
doctor or had a checkup in the past year. 39% 39% have seen a dentist. Less way way way way
less than half of us have had a doctor appointment or a dentist appointment in the past year. That
means that currently if you are in a office setting or a work or any of these things, you've got more
than a couple people around you. Chances are at least two or three of those people have not been to
a doctor or a dentist in the past year. You know, this speaks very loudly about our health care
system here in the United States. There's no reason we shouldn't be doing preventative health care
because if you go to the doctor, you can catch things early and prevent not, you know, act after
the fact. I don't think there's a person alive that has ever gone, like has ever really been
able to make great use of the waiting room or the waiting. We all understand that if your appointments
at two, you're probably going to get seen about 210 to 15, that kind of thing because doctors are
overworked and nurses are overworked and they've got a lot on their plate. And in part because we
wait until the last second to go see them. If we did preventative stuff like Melissa was touching on
there a little bit, it might not be as bad. That part out of the way. I think we can all relate to
the idea of general fear and anxiety on one level or another while I am the type of person that
wants to know the information. If I got 10 minutes to live, I want to know now. I want to spend
that 10 minutes. I want to understand that stuff. But I also understand that not everybody know
is like me. There's plenty of people they would rather not know and stuff. But knowing is better
than not knowing and know for your loved ones if for any other reason. Yeah. And what is the saying
announce of prevention is worth a pound of cure? It's such a good quote. But Melissa I think knows
exactly where I want to go. And I think where you may want to go with this Melissa. And that is
the first part of this. The money that we are in a point we are at we are not only we are at a
point we've been at a point in society even before you and I were born Melissa where people have to
debate. Well, do I do I take care of my body or do I save that money so I can take care of that
bill or so I can feed my family? Put food on the table. And I have gas in my tank to get to work.
And I think there are still people out there that just that have an image of their head of
that type of person. That type of person is me. That type of person is your neighbor. That type of
person is other people out there. I have decent insurance now now and even with that I can't
afford to necessarily go to the doctor just because I have a bad back or or something like that.
It's got to be pretty rough for me to go in. Well, and with our health care being tied to our
jobs here in the United States, you you have to have a job that you can get health care with.
Yeah. And that's not always doable. Yeah, that took me like 20 almost 20 years in radio to get
that. Yeah. And that's only because civic media is is is promoting that for our their company
and their employees. Not a whole lot of as you said other radio station owners have done that.
Yeah. I will I will talk about this to the end of time. I don't care if you guys have heard me
mention it before or not the day civic the first day civic media took over this station and my
crew came into the building to introduce himself to all of us. The first thing he did along with
saying high was handing all of us insurance papers. They everybody. Yeah. And that's because of
sage while and and I am a very very appreciative to him for that big time big time. We say good
morning to sage and all of our friends at civic and a big thing to them. But we can we we talk about
all this and even with all that being said Melissa and I and anybody and and and even sage maybe
and other people are in similar similar situations where our our we have we have turned we we
have a universal religion in this country everybody and it's money. It's the almighty dollar
everything bows to it everything bends the knee to it. How do we get our society to come back
around on that and and get to a point where money is important. It's it's very cliche. It's
very easy to say money is evil. Money is not evil. People can be evil. It's what we do with it.
Money has no feeling. It doesn't care about religion. It doesn't care about any of these things.
No. No. It's a man made money. Yeah. Money is important. Money is necessary in life for commerce
and all these things. But we know what else is necessary for life. Healthcare. People. Yeah. People.
We're going to be people. We're going to need them. It should be a universal you know same as same
as access to to food access to housing access to schools. Those should all be things that we as
Americans have access to and that is not the case and I encourage everybody to look into the
policies that your politicians want to put in place when it comes to healthcare. These things
can seem so daunting. It can seem like what can I do? How can we fix something like this? Melissa
just told you the very first step the the first step to making this world better to making this
industry better to making the healthcare industry bow to us come to wants to take away services
and who wants to to make them better. Yeah. Whether they try to or not every single
politician tells you exactly who they are with their words. Maybe it's not exactly what they say.
Maybe it's with what they don't say. Maybe it's what they don't talk about sometimes. Or what
they do or what they don't do. And understand who you're voting for. Understand where these
policies are coming from. You are not just voting for the name on that ticket. You are voting for
the people in the pocket of that person that is on the ticket. Find out who is in their pocket.
I I I I adamantly believe and I was funding their campaigns. I have said this to every senator
every congressman everybody who has joined us on the air every representative. I've asked them.
I've talked to them about this. I want a bill that makes it so that when you're on the the
congress floor and you know talking to senator or anything like that even talking to the American
people. I want on your jacket or your blazer your dress who you are representing. Who is in your
pocket. You got nothing to hide. I mean why not have it up there. I want now I want our politicians
looking like NASCAR's. I want every one of them with all of the do-pons a sponsor. Okay. I want
that a splashed on their jacket there. It's funny that you bring that up James when they just had
this thing about dress code come up here in this last year about talking about the way that you
should dress in Congress. I agree with you. I think that it should be an open book to the American
public who is funding their campaigns because it makes a difference in the choices that and and
their vote. It's not always about what their constituents want. It's sometimes and more often
about what their fun you know where their funding is coming from and what they want. We got a
caller wants to jump in what's on your mind. I think you were totally right about our national
religion being the almighty dollar right. I think that we're at a point now as a country where we can
look at this and say okay capitalism makes terrible medical systems because that's what it's been
medicine should not be operated as if it is a business period. And it's your voting for people
who think that medical necessities. Oh no. Oh there you are. Oh if you're voting
for politicians who believe that medicine is for money stop doing that if you are looking out
for yourself. Well said and always good to hear that voice. That voice might sound familiar to
many of you out there. That's Laura. She does some of our commercial work. You heard her doing
over the back fence. And appreciate that insight. Yes. Yeah. Thank you Laura. Appreciate you have a
good morning. You do. We're going to get because there is not money in the cure. You know
in being cured. And so money doesn't does not really it shouldn't be for profit. Healthcare for
profit as Laura said should not be a thing. Take a break. We'll come back. We're going to have
some then a right story some good stories of the day. We're going to talk local. We're going to
have some fun. Join Melissa and I as we wrap up the show coming up here on mornings at WFHR.
Well come back to the morning show everybody. WFHR. I apologize. I didn't know that my mic. I
hit my mic on. I don't know how that song could not put a smile on your face. Yeah. Yeah. It's
just so cheery in his voice. His voice really does it for me. I've heard other versions of it. It's
that version that gets me every time. Yeah. I have with you. We are wrapping up the show going to
take you to the top of the hour. Great show. This has been a fantastic show everybody. It's been a
lot of fun. Big thank you to everybody that joined us today. All the Rams kids and Paige,
Jack and teacher over there at Rams, Ada, Mason, Vivian, Mike. Thank you so much to all of you.
Thank you all for coming on. It's a lot of fun. I appreciate all the calls today and everything.
It's been a lot of fun. We appreciate it. We got to get to a bit of a that ain't right one here.
You can give yourself the Heimlich on the back of a chair. We only mentioned it and I've done this.
I've actually done this before. Back in my department in the Cal by was living in. I was choking.
The girl was living with the time she went to France. She went to study abroad.
So it was just me and our dog, Gonzo. And I was choking, choking, choking. I look at Gonzo. He's
no help. He doesn't have any thumbs. He and he started just licking himself. Like that's all he,
like I'm sitting there literally red faced. I'm choking. I like I've never choked before in my
life and haven't since. And I'd look over at him for help. And all he's doing is licking himself.
Like that's it's like I don't want this to be the last thing I see. I'm hitting myself over a
wooden chair trying to get it. Now I have an extra bone in my chest. Okay. And I was so afraid of
hitting that that I was I was like more have it has it to it took a while. It took a while. It was
not fun. But you're still here. Obviously this is a you know good story of the day extreme survived.
Melissa, you're ruined. Yeah. You're ruined. Yeah. You're ruined the ending.
Sorry. Sorry. But yeah, you can do this. A 21 year old woman in Spain was choking on a
piece of turkey less Wednesday and decided the best option was to shove a toothbrush down her throat.
Oh man. She jammed the dull end of it down the herastophagus to clear the in the obstruction.
The good news is it actually worked. She dislashed the turkey so she could breathe again.
The bad news was she swallowed a toothbrush. She tried to hang on onto the bristles but once the
turkey went down the brush followed. Oh no. She explained the situation when she showed up at the
ER but they weren't sure they believed to her until they saw it on the x-rays. Oh my goodness.
They sedated her and it took 40 minutes to fish out the toothbrush. Oh my goodness. They pulled it
up through her mouth so she didn't need it. She didn't need surgery. She was passed out. She was
perfectly fine and she's doing very well now. Her throat is fine. She was a little sore for a day
a couple days but she's okay. But just what the what man. This is like a circus act James. Yeah.
I mean we got the the magical toothbrushes while the word.
So the sword swallowing a little dangerous toothbrush is not as bad. Not as bad.
Well you know I mean we like to keep things PC. It's just yeah. Every day household objects.
I um I know. You may be wondering well what is the dynamic right part of this story. It's the
toothbrush. Like it's the tube. She was just trying to do her job. She did a good job here.
The toothbrush. How dare you toothbrush. You had you had you know one job. You have a couple
jobs. We're dead one job. Miss the teeth there buddy. Miss the teeth. Uh that ain't awful. I'm glad
she survived. I'm glad nothing no damage but oh my goodness. Like as somebody I've only had like
one or two experiences in my life where I'm choking choking and I expressed one of them and
and I think it's one of the more universal things. Everybody experiences at least once in a
life at the very least you drink it. It's gone down the wrong pipe. Like you know you drink
something. It's on the rock. Offing up water. Yeah. Yeah. That horrible feeling. So you you
survive that and you have that that brief moment of bliss and then oh wait what what the no no way
no I didn't just no way that I could have no I'm oh man. Now it's not just that you've got to
you then the panic kicks in again about oh god am I going to spend the rest of my life with my
toothbrush and my throat my stomach but it's it's how do I explain this to the ER workers
how do I like the more at least she went in okay yeah what was that statistic about men
and not seeking healthcare 70 whatever percent of men would have not gone in. Oh you're so right
about this. I immediately put myself. Sorry guys. Sorry I'm not not you know this is not
directed at any men in general but you can't argue with statistics. I nope nope I'm not
I'm not going to fight you on this one. I can't. I I put myself under shoes. It was immediately like
what could a pair of tongs work and could I get it? Yeah. You know when your parents tell you
don't swallow swallow watermelon seeds because you know they grow watermelon in your stomach
we all know that that's not true. Right. However if you swallow a toothbrush
that was one of my favorite like urban legend things to tell your kid to tell to be told as a kid
like when my father was trying to tell us that as me and my sister that as a kid we're just looking
at him like you know we're we're we're children and we don't believe. We're not that dumb dad.
But I think he believed it. I think he believed it. Well the one the one when I was a kid was if
you swallow gum it's in your stomach for what seven years. Yeah yeah yeah which is also not true.
However the toothbrush we need a true like boy I usually say this but we really do need a
palliacleds or this time like a true palliacleds or we. There's a little too soon too soon.
Too soon. Looking at Midday magazine for the first time this week three to four join us we have
Caitlin Riley Kelser joining us in part one. That's a new name for us because she has come
to us from the Wisconsin beef council. Oh cool. Yeah we haven't gotten to talk to her before.
We're going to talk a little bit about beef holiday roast swaps and plenty more with her. It's
going to be a lot of fun. Looking forward to that. Excellent. And in part two friend of the station
Reverend Beth Habhag or Reverend Beth Rothbeck. How did you met that up? Just one of that morning's
gets. We're both getting tongue tied. Get sleep everybody. That's important. Get sleep. Especially
before you do your morning show. That'd be sure to get sleep. Yep. Beth's going to come in and we're
going to talk about the Wisconsin Rapids and Moravian Church Blue Christmas services.
We really appreciate that. It's a wonderful service. We not only that but all the other great
services and things that they have over at the Moravian Church this time of year looking forward
to diving into that with Beth. We'll do that at 330 today. A little bit later after that around
five o'clock it's a fall night Melissa Wisconsin men's basketball at Michigan State. It's a big
10 matchup. We're looking forward to that. It's going to be a good one. I'm just all excited James.
Yeah. I know. I know you can't wait. Come on. That was genuine enthusiasm. It was good. That was
very good. You did a nice job. I pulled on my acting chops there. Yep. One of the better actors
is I know you approved it right there. And our sister station WRI at 640 our pregame will kick off
for great high school basketball. Port Edward's boys taking on the while. Taking on wild rose
Michael and Seth going to take care of that for you. No, it's going to sound good. Be sure to
join us there at 640 on with with country one of five five WRI locally. Got some great events going
on to Seventh annual Christmas tree walk is happening with our Southwood County Historical Museum
that is going on on December 8th that that comes back on December 8th from five to eight and then
December 9th in 10th from 12 to four. This event is free and welcome to all ages. Yes.
Help see their beautiful displays. Yeah. Help keep history alive. Say hi to our great friends
over at the Southwood County Historical Museum. And listen. I brought this up a little bit
earlier. Our friends at the United Way of Southwood and Am's counties have their reef auction
going on. It's one more day silent reef auction. It's going on all day today until seven
tonight. I believe it's when the when the bidding closes at seven. Yeah. Be sure to go to
UWswac.org. Go to the United Way. It was website. You will see a banner right there for the 2023
reef silent auction. You'll have a link that'll take your right to it. Yes. This is not only
a great way to get some wonderful reef for your holiday season. I think I get one from my mom
every year. It's a great way to doing that kind of thing. Which one are you bidding on James?
I you can't say that over the air. Yeah. Yeah. I really want to though because I really like
this reef. But I don't want to say it. But as then your mom will know.
Yeah. Yeah. But it's the holiday road. It's it's it's so cool. Look at it. It's really
cool looking. I like all of these are amazing. They're beautiful. I there there's several that I'm
I'm got to get over and bid on today just because you know it's you can even put in a proxy bid
where so if the bidding is at say 30 dollars right now it'll up you I believe in increments of
five dollars until it hits your bid if somebody outbids you where you're at. So if you can't you
know pull out your phone during a meeting and check on your bidding you can put in that proxy
bid to to make sure you get the reef you want. It's not only a way to get a great present for
somebody this holiday season. You can mark that and check that off your list. But the United
Way of South Winanams County's put so much into this community so many different programs so
many different events every penny you spend with them stays right in this community and goes
right back into the people that need it. Yes. And just like our sixth graders pointed out at
the beginning of the hour it's the gift of giving as well because you're then giving back to
the community. Get to uswac.org get in on this bidding for these reefs and being sure to do it
before seven tonight. And another big shout out to the Rams kids and to page their teacher over
there for joining us. That was a lot of fun. Thank you for setting that up Melissa. Absolutely. I'm
so glad they were able to come and join us on air. Great show. Big thank you to the best listeners
and radio for joining us and to you Melissa have a great day. Yeah. You too. Have a great day. Be
good to each other. We'll talk to you soon and later right here at Oh, I like the way Pam does this.
