Good morning, Wisconsin. Good morning, world. It's a new day. Thanks for kicking it off
with us right here at 97-5 FM 13-28. I'm WFHR. We are locally grown radio. Got your
host, James J. I am joined by Melissa K. Good morning. A lot of fun things lined up this
hour. Not more fun than what we're about to do right here. We like to kick our Thursdays
off with our pet of the week from the South O'Connie Main Society. We have our executive director
of the main society with us. Madison Rafter. Good morning, Madison. Good morning. How are you doing?
Good. Madison, I should let the audience look behind the curtain a little bit here. We're talking
animal nail clipping animal nails and Madison just not only gave me a wonderful random fact, but a
rabbit hole that I am going down. Oh no pun intended. I'm going to be doing, I'm going to be researching
this all night now. Thank you for that. You're welcome. Looking forward to getting more weird fun
random facts with all of our great friends over at the main society. And I wanted to start
real quick, Madison. How are things going over there? We know there's some construction and some
work being done over there. Yeah, we have our construction going. So they have torn up or concrete.
They tore up some walls. We got the ceiling taken out. They currently just poured concrete yesterday.
We got brand new dreams in. So things are going smoothly. We're very excited to see how the rest
of these building renovations go. Hopefully by the end of January we're supposed to be done.
Currently we're not behind on anything. So I hope it just continues to keep going smoothly.
But we're still packed beyond doggopy. We still have nine dogs in the building with not having
kennels. So we are definitely full on that aspect. A couple of those animals will be getting fixed
later this week. So they should be on the website by the end of the week. And then our cats we are
still full. So that's good to keep in mind. Just as a note, Melissa, she does have the headphones on.
So if you want to interact with Madison, feel free. Good to know. When it comes to these dogs that
are in the shelter, Madison, are they still are these other than the one you mentioned there?
Are they others up for adoption? Yeah. So these guys will be available for adoption eventually.
But otherwise we do have a couple of them that are still in foster care. So we have six of them that
are over at a board and train in the area. Those guys are over there just because they don't
necessarily do well with dogs. So that's one that they do need to be single dog home only. We also have
one kid out of that isn't foster. That is currently on his second foster home due to no fault of his
own. He's just getting bopped around for schedules with the holiday and everything. That's fried noodle.
He is still available and he's an absolute doll. Loves dogs, loves people. He is just such a sweet, sweet dog.
The foster parents been like, Oh, do I adapt? Do I not adapt? But he is still available. So we're
hope funding to get some of these kids adapted before the holiday. That's God. That's a great name.
That's a wonderful day. But it sounds like a very sweet dog. It sounds like a really sweet. All
those dogs, all the animals over there are very sweet. How is it going with room over there in
all of this, maneuvering all of that and the logistics of all that? Yeah. So we're definitely trying
to shuffle everybody around. We're based off spacing and size of animals, things like that.
We do have our pre or our old cat quarantine set up as our dog street and take for the time being.
So we have five kennels back there. We've got two in medical. I've got a dog in my office.
I had a cat in my office last week. So we're going to just shuffle it around based off space.
What's going to be best for the animals and our care at this time? So luckily, we're doing good,
but it's just a little bit of a shuffle. Appreciate not only the insight, but the mood and the way
you guys approach all of this. It is noteworthy. And I think it's burational to the rest of us too.
But I also appreciate that insight so that when we're asking people to help our third
main society or are looking to adopting one of these furry, awesome animals, they understand
all the things that are on your guys' plate and everything that you're dealing with too. So
hopefully it brings out a little more empathy this time of year and we can get a little more help
for our main society doing some of the more vital work in our community. One exciting thing is
our cat that's been sitting with us for almost two years. Chica just got adopted the other cat.
Congratulations, Chica. Congratulations, Chica. That's a great name too.
I guess I could have the name pick a really good at it. I feel like I could sit there for hours
and I wouldn't come up with anything. Bob, that's it. We take turns. It kind of depends. Sometimes
it's like, oh, the people who bring in the animal, they're like, oh, I've got a name. Then
sometimes it's like, you know what, I'm not in the mood to name today. So who's taking this name?
Or we'll put it to a vote sometimes. All right, we got this animal. Who's naming it today? So
we try to make it fun, but our staff get a kick out of it. That's a good way to do it. I like that.
We have made the audience wait long enough. Madison, who is our new pet of the week?
Our pet of the week this week is going to be dumpling. Dumpling is a Manchester Terrier mix,
is my best guest. He's about eight years old. He came into us as a stray and I'm not going to lie,
he was a little bit of a difficult dog when he first came in. He was not trusting of people at all.
It took me 40 minutes just to get a leash on him the first day. He wanted nothing to do with the
rest of my staff for a couple of days. And so he is definitely a scared dog. He doesn't know how to
trust people and is just very timid of people. Once he gets comfortable and he has time to acclimate,
he is a phenomenal dog, but he is an old man. So he is very set in his ways with a couple of
his behaviors. So he does have a little bit of food and resource guarding where he's just like,
nope, this is mine. You're not taking it. He also is very stubborn and is not the biggest fan of
a leash going on top of him. We're not sure if he used to previously have a back fenced in yard
or something like that. So just going slow with him and working through with him to build that
trust is something that he needs. He's a fantastic dog. Once he's comfortable, he loves other dogs.
He rams around in the yard and plays with them. He loves fudge, but he definitely has a little
bit of quirks. I've never said this in my life. I want dumpling. I'm a dumpling guy. I don't normally
eat dumplings. Don't think I've ever eaten a dumpling. But I want dumpling. I want this dumpling.
I'm looking at this picture, Madison, and I don't know how you cannot want this dog.
I cannot stress this enough how serious I am to the audience right now. I want this dog.
You got to click to a second picture, though. Yeah, yeah, I got to do that.
Oh, yeah. Yeah, this is my kind of guy. Yeah, this is my kind of guy. I think, actually,
dumpling and I have quite a bit of carbon. I do this jokingly a little bit, but also serious to
a point because if I had an apartment or a house of my own, it would be a perfect fit for me.
My mood, my mindset, that I think it matches his in some ways, and I think it'd be a good fit.
It seems like animals around this age range tend to do really good with households that have
a little more calm in the storm, if you will. I'm not to say that I don't want to begrudge anybody
that has children looking at adopting him, certainly. Talk to Madison, talk to the team. They're not
going to let you adopt a dog that doesn't fit your family. Yeah, with dumpling in particular,
we did put a PG-10 restriction on him just for the aspect because of the food and resource
guarding. We're not sure if that's due to the fact of the shelter is scary, and we're going to
start doing that because it's in the shelter environment. But for his safety, we are putting
a PG-10 as well as the children's safety that, you know what, it's just going to be recommended that
a quieter household is going to do better for him. That doesn't have a lot of young kids.
He's, again, he's a great dog, but he is a little old and stubborn in his ways. So he does have
a couple quirks that just need time, just need working through things like that. Yeah, just need
a little patience. I'm the same, I'm the exact same. Like, I am literally, if I had a dating profile,
this would be it. I would say it would be, it would be pretty much this, it would be all of this.
So my dog at home is just like him. So I'm very used to the behavior, very easy to explain it. So
it's one of those things that I understand how dumpling feels because he's exactly like my dog.
And, you know, something that this actually popped in my brain the last time we were talking to
the our friends at the ADRC, our aging and disability resource center. We have a very strong
senior population in this area. And so many of these dogs seem like they would be such a good fit
for a senior member out there or a retirement home or something like that. He seems like it would
be a really good fit in those scenarios. Encourage anybody, no matter what your age or situation,
reach out to medicine and the team find out if dumpling would be a perfect fit for your family
or any of these great furry awesome friends over there. Just waiting to have a good home.
Yep. He's a great dog. He has fixed microchipped and up to date on vaccines. He is eight years old.
My best guest on breed is some sort of Manchester terrier mix. He is about 38 pounds if I remember
off the top of my head correctly, but other than that, he is a really good dog. Just needs time,
needs slow interactions, things like that. And I think he would flourish in a home environment.
I don't remember the last time I said this, my face is starting to hurt from smiling,
looking at this dog. He's such a cool looking dog. He is pretty cute. Go ahead and check him out
at SWCHS.com, SWCHS.com, the wonderful website that our friends at the Humane Society have,
have all their animals up there that you can check out and just check out and look at.
Browse throws. I couldn't think of the word browse, dang it. You wanted to say peruse.
That's the word we're looking for, yes. This is it live. I can fix all this in editing.
That's an impression. Find out more, Madison, if people want to find out more, how can they
reach you and your team over there? Yeah, they can contact us over at the shelter at 715-423-0505.
They can shoot us an email at SWCHS at SWCHS.com or they can check out the website and click the
contact us button. Appreciate you taking the time, being able to join us, Madison. I love having
you in studio. Thank you so much for the time. Say hi to dumpling and all of our friends over there,
okay? Well, too. And we find out more again by reaching out to the Humane Society at their website
SWCHS.com, SWCHS.com. Be sure to follow them on social media as well. It's a great way to
keep up-to-date on all the good things going on with our local South of County Humane Society.
We'll have another pet of the week for you next Thursday. Be sure to join us for that.
We'll take a break. Come back with more fun on the morning show at WFHR.
You know you're the mastermind. Run, run, Rudolph. Run, I'll be too far behind.
Well, come back everybody. Morning show here at WFHR. Locally grown radio. Thank you, Mr. Barry.
Love that song. I don't know why. Couldn't exactly tell you why. I just love the guitar and everything
about it. It's a fun song. To me, that's one of the better, like, not traditional Christmas songs,
but one of those ones and it comes down. Oh, yeah, I love this one. It's not one you traditionally
think of. I think it's one of the things that I have come to as I'm trying to come, you know,
be less of an Ebenezer and all that and enjoy Christmas more. I don't mind Christmas music. I
think it's the repetiveness of certain songs that we hear too much. One of my favorite things about
this time of year, though, is hearing songs that we only hear this time of year that you're like,
oh, yeah, I do like a run run Rudolph over here. Yes, yes, that's a key part of this.
You're right. As we dive into entertainment stuff, we do want to hear from you. I think this
is a good roving question. What's your favorite Christmas song that you don't hear that isn't
overplayed, maybe, that you don't hear that much? That's a strong, strong nomination for me is
run run Rudolph. I think that's a really good one. There's a lot of good ones out there. Let's
hear from you guys and hear what you think. 715-424-2600. Call up and join the conversation.
We'll have some fun with that. Diving into a little bit of entertainment news,
comedian Jerry Seinfeld was in Tel Aviv on Monday, where he met with freed hostages who have
been released by Hamas amid the ongoing Warren Gaza between Hamas and Israel. Oh, my.
Flu there. It was important for him to do it. He says an emotional meeting with representatives
of the families of the hostages, as well as hostages who returned from the Hamas captivity.
They thank Mr. Seinfeld for his time and how the importance that he approached this situation.
I don't think as popular and as famous as Jerry Seinfeld is. I think that he's also done a
really good job of keeping a lot of his personal life and a lot of his feelings politically or any
other really to himself. I've always kind of admired that about him. Not that I don't
admire it about people that do own those things to or do share those things. I think it's just
what I admire is that it's not him, so he doesn't try to be something he's not.
And that's important. Yeah. And obviously his strong Jewish ties and the importance of that.
But the other part of this too that I think is important is something that,
in a funny enough way, one of the most sillier movies you will ever see, Adam Sandler's Beware of
the Zohan or something like that of this. It's a silly movie that Adam Sandler did some years back
where he plays an action star. Adam Sandler, the action star, yes. Yes, you heard me right.
And it's a silly movie and I'm not saying it's one of the best movies you'll ever see.
Or even one of the best Adam Sandler movies and I'm the biggest fan of the Sandman there is.
I will say he pulls off the action role. He does make it believable in everything.
But the importance of the movie is showing Jews and Palestinians together and working together
and being friends together. One of my favorite stories in human history is about a temple
that was burned down during the Crusades. This temple was protected by Jews and Muslims.
It's actually the first record of time in history that Jews and Muslims, if you will, teamed up.
But it's not the last time in human history. There is many, many, many recordings of not only
Jews and Muslims working together, but Muslims and Palestinians, Jews and Palestinians,
Catholics and Christians and Jews and Muslims in all of this. We've got many, many,
many more stories of this than not. And it's important to remember that at these times.
It's important to remember that we don't know everything we think we know.
If you are not living there, if you are not a part of this, it's hard to say that you can
give a complete 100% answer on how you feel on a gray area subject.
Right. And it's a very complicated and complex history that goes back generations upon generations
upon generations. Since this war has started, I have had a friend who is of Palestinian descent,
stop talking to me. I've also had a couple of Jewish friends stop talking to me because of some
of the statements and some of the feelings I have on this. And I don't think I've said anything
controversial. I don't think I've said there or anything, but I'm not going to ignore it.
I'm not going to shy away from it. It's a war going on in our world.
We will are dying and suffering.
And it's very easy to say, I take this side or I take that side. Quit worrying about whose side
you're on and just look for information and have some empathy for some people. And I didn't
notice I didn't say what people. I just said people. Right. Regardless of how you feel about this
situation, it's not easy. It's not easy. There's no perfect answer. But the last thing I think we
can afford to do is have two things happen. One, people not talking about it. And two, the only time
they want to talk about it is to give you their opinion on it. Your opinion, it only matters to you.
Like, when is the last time you, you yourself? And I'm asking the audience at home to play this game
too. You know what? I really want to know what this so and so has the feet has to say about this.
You know, that one talking head or that one person or that one journalist or something like that.
I got to hear what they have to say about this. I don't know if that exists anymore. I'm sure
that there's some cases out there where, oh, I got to hear what this, you know, particular journalist
or this particular politician or talking head has to say. But there, it doesn't exist anymore,
really. Your feelings, your opinions matter. But it's also something, you know, that you don't have
to share. Not everything has to be tweeted or put out there and everything. And at the same time,
you can, in your personal life, I don't think you can ignore these things.
Well, and the other thing to remember too is the humanity of, of what's going on. And, and instead
of putting a label on somebody, maybe actually get to know them as a person, not by their label.
Because you'll find out, like as James often points out, we have more in common than we do not.
The only people that want to divide us are the people that have the benefit from that.
Right. That's that's key that have the power. It's key in this situation. Anything in life that
is going on when that happens, I don't care if it's just you and a buddy or you and a sibling or
it's on a level like this. Just ask yourself, who has the benefit from this? Why would, why would they
want us to divide it and look into it? It doesn't take a lot of digging. In a very Romy and Michelle
movie, Bradley Cooper made it his business to show up to his high school reunion. In fact, Cooper
told Jimmy Fallon during Tuesday's episode of the Tonight Show that he and not only attended his
30 year high school reunion last month, but that he also previously attended his 20 and 25th year
reunions. He said it was great. He said the experience at his 30th reunion was a fantastic time,
which took place in Philadelphia at the Chestnut Hill Brewing Company, according to their Facebook
page. If you go there, you can actually see Cooper seen in photos posting with his former classmates.
You look good for him. Didn't tell anybody he was coming, but apparently, everybody knew he would
be because he had been to the previous ones. And it wasn't a big deal. He wasn't like swarmed
to buy people every second, asking to sign autographs and all that. Yeah, it's different when you
knew somebody before they became famous. They're just a person to you.
Quote, when I was in high school, I used to go by Brad and now I go by Bradley. And I felt like
like a weird imposter, he said, of writing Bradley on his name tag. But it is my real name, Bradley.
But apparently he was being called out for this and being made follow up. And he was having some
fun with it and everything. If you were of this status, Melissa, you're the Bradley Cooper status of
fame. Would you go to your high school reunion? In this scenario, because yeah, I don't go now.
So I don't I wouldn't go then either. To be honest, I haven't been to any of mine.
I've kind of wanted to just for the heck of it. There's, you know, people that I would love to
know how they are and what happened with them. But I think like a lot of us, now a day is when we,
social media has kind of killed the high school reunion. A little bit. I mean, we see we have
high school reunions every time we open up Facebook. We look kind of thing. Yeah, if you're friends
with people from high school, sure. Right. Right. And more just to that same point, if you wanted to
see these people, you already are in touch with them, you know, chances are what I will say,
and there's a part of me that doesn't really like this, but also can't deny it. And this is going
to lie to the audience. If you had it rough in high school, I mean, if you're Bradley Cooper,
it's got to feel pretty darn good to go show up there. This is walking in there, you know,
with your Oscar and your Oscar nominations. And, you know, you're working with Lady Gaga at all
these different things. And yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, it's the epitome of the movie that's made
about high school reunions where, you know, you got to have the fancy car and the awesome
significant other. And, you know, go out and show off because you weren't popular in high school.
But now you're amazing. I don't know. I mean, I don't, I don't, I don't begrudge people that
really. I do, I think it has a line in the sand, like too much of that or living your life that way.
It, you know, it should be about you. It should be about your accomplishment. But there's nothing
wrong with taking a little bit of pride in your accomplishments or how far you've come. I just,
I do think that there's a balance there, though, too, with that. Well, it should be truthful.
Most of the movies, it's, you know, I'm going to rent this person for the night. And then I'm
going to borrow this, you know, suit right here. And we're going to pretend this car is mine that I
just, you know, paid a whole lot of money to rent for 24 hours. I wanted to wrap up our entertainment
section before we get to our local and state news, talking about a wonderful local author,
Bria Hoyet, or I should say BA McRae. You have heard me ramble about my oldest daughters work
and writing. And I, I want to make sure that people understand I am incredibly biased about this,
but I'm not wrong. I'm not wrong, though. That doesn't mean I'm wrong about this. I own that I am
extremely biased, but don't mean I'm wrong. Bria wrote last year a wonderful Christmas story,
The World Ends Christmas Day. It's a mixture of apocalyptic folly and fluffy wholesomeness,
blended and poured into a holiday cup with a dollop of a train, a tragic comedy on top of it.
It's got a lot of beautiful tugs at your heart. And it's a really, really fun story.
It sounds intriguing. You can find it at Amazon.com. Just type into your search bar BA McRae,
or The World Ends Christmas Day. And you can actually either buy it on your Kindle for
four bucks, or you can read it for free. Thanks. It's beginning to look a lot like Doomsday,
of The World Ends Christmas Day. Yeah, that's my kid. That's why. Be sure to check that out.
I'm lifting holiday story. And I want to do more of this. I am bringing this up as, you know,
obviously biased, but also we want more local artists. We know how many great local artists we
have in this area. We want them on directors cut. We want to feature them on our shows.
We support the arts around here. We want you to help us do that. There's, you know,
only a handful of people working here. We can only cover so much. We know that there are
plenty of people out there that we don't get to hear from. Reach out to our staff and let us know.
We'd love to say feature you and have you on the show. Absolutely.
By local support, local, that includes the arts every one.
Oh, Melissa, I'm sorry. Normally it's nine. It's nine thirty. I would go right to
news and hit that up and everything. But I've got like this. It's bugging me this, this
elf. I want to help people catch this elf. Merlin, Merlin, Merlin, Merchant, elf.
Yeah. The on the shelves at Quality Foods, IGA promotion has been a lot of fun. We've
been enjoying this and we've got one more hint for you, everybody. We're wrapping it up.
We're going to catch this mischievous Merchant Merlin elf. If it will no matter what it takes.
One way or another. Yeah. Yeah. We're going to give you this hint. Then we encourage you to head
on and over to the West Grand IGA here in Wisconsin Rabbits. When you find that elf, take a picture
of them. That's it. Capture them with your camera and put the picture on our Facebook pages with
the hashtag WR Quality Foods, WR Quality Foods. And it can just be the elf. It doesn't have to
include any other people. Yeah. Yeah. I encourage you to do that and go ahead and put it on our
Facebook pages. We'll collect those submissions and tomorrow during the show, during the morning
show here. We will announce the winner and that winner will be able to go collect that holiday
ham celebration basket over at the West Grand IGA. And make your holidays marry with some ham.
Enjoy everybody. And you're ready for the hint? You ready? I'm ready. Here we go, everybody.
With nimble grace, the elf orchestrates a symphony of colors and scents, turning the mundane
aisles into a magical garden. This is a little harder. I think this is the toughest one that they've
had. Yes. And I love it. Again, that hint one more time. With a nimble grace, the elf orchestrates
a symphony of colors and scents, turning the mundane aisles into a magical garden.
Nice. Now, if that hint wasn't good enough for you, you think, well, geez, I don't know where
to go. Well, oh, no, you got to go to Quality Foods IGA and go up and down the aisles. And you know,
you're going to, you know, there's stuff. Oh, I, you know what, I needed butter anyway. I'm going
to go grab butter or you get something like that that you got to do. I find at least three or
four other things you needed and forgot about. You know, it's true. You know, this is true.
It's the holidays. There's something you forgot. You're going to be able to pick nothing else.
Stop and get a donut or pick a lunch while you're at the deli. God, they got a good deli. Check
out their deli, everybody. We might meet you there. Head on over to West Grand Quality Foods IGA.
Help us with this elf on the shelves, fun contests we've been having. Get a picture of that elf
and get it on our Facebook pages. Meet them over at 1021 West Grand Avenue in Wisconsin,
Rapids. Open right now. Head on over there at 1021 West Grand Avenue, Wisconsin Rapids.
Big shout out to our friends over at West Grand IGA. Yeah, we like them.
We will take a break. Get to our local in state news. We come back the five
oddest museums in the world. Nice. Coming up on the morning show here at WFHR locally grown radio.
Welcome back, everyone. Morning show at WFHR.
Getting funky. Yeah. Let them know, Rap.
God, I love this song. They only get to hear what type of year, like for a month. I can listen to this.
Oh, Rod DMC. Welcome back to the show, everybody. Melissa and James hanging out with you.
Thanks so much for joining us. You guys are awesome. We appreciate you. We got fun things lined
up throughout the rest of the show. A little preview for tomorrow. We're going to kick off the
our show here at WFHR talking about a 30 hours of Christmas. We'll break that down for you.
And we'll probably kick off the night. Yeah, we'll kick off the 9 o'clock hour with our three
ghosts. We'll be joining you with that. Yes, we will. It's going to be fun. For now, I want to get
into this one with you, Melissa. And if there is one thing we understand, especially in this country,
but it's true around the world. There's one rule when it comes to museums. If it exists,
there is almost certainly a museum dedicated to it. Somebody collected it. There are some pretty
interesting hobbies and collections out there. I mentioned before one of my best friends, Steve.
He collects pest dispensers. And I cannot tell you how many he has. Yeah, there's got to be a
bazillion. So many. My mom used to be a luck. I collect a couple of things. She's like matchbooks
covers, like a lot of people do and collecting dollars. Not as easy to find now. Yeah, yeah. Coca-Cola
things, that kind of stuff. I think it's one of the fun things we do as human beings. And it just
becomes on a bigger level when you have a museum dedicated to it. Right. And we got for you right here,
a collection of the most weirdest and interesting, oddest museums in the world.
And we go to the first, the first on our list, the Bunny Museum and Altadena, California.
Bunny Museum. Candace for Z and Steve Lombansky started the tradition of giving each other a rabbit
related gifts on their very first Valentine's Day as a couple in 1993. And their collection of
bunny items now numbers a Guinness World Record setting 40,550 pieces. Oh my goodness. That's a lot
of bun buns. The couple started showing off their bunny memorabilia in 1998 when they opened
their Pasadena House to the public as the bunny museum. That's hilarious. So that they give each other's
gifts so often that all right, well, let's just open a museum. Yeah, right. Now let's make some
money off of this. We've already spent a lot of money on the figurines. We got to make some of that
money back. Oh my. The bunny museum and the collection has grown so large by 2017 that they
had to move the museum into its own building in Altadena. The bunny museum has opened seven days
a week from noon to six. Wow. This is actually, this is actually one a little closer to home that I've
actually, I would, I would check this one out. Yeah. The Sock Monkey Museum and Long Grove, Illinois.
The Sock Monkeys are cool. Arlene and Michael Okuna bought their first Sock Monkey from a Cracker
Braille restaurant in 2006 and they subsequently, subsequently started scoring, scoring
estate sales, garage sales, and antique stores for the handmade stuffed animals.
Well, let's hope their museum outlasts the Cracker Braille restaurant. These are nice. The Sock
Monkey Museum now has two thousand and ninety eight Sock Monkeys on display. Oh wow.
Earning another Guinness World Record for the title. That's cool. The museum even includes an
Interactive Exhibit where visitors can make their own Sock Monkeys. Oh, that's cool. That's what
sold me on this. Like that. That is a really cool idea. That I got to think that when they thought
of that like just epiphany, like, oh yeah. That's pretty cool. It is open from noon to four Thursday
through Sunday. I smell a team building exercise museum. I think we've got a list growing.
Yeah. One of these days maybe we'll do something on that list. One day. A little bit more.
We've still got to get up there to have coffee together. That's right. That's the coffee
Oh, it's that where we're going. I want to go there. Okay. Yeah. That sounds good. Museum of hangovers
in Zagorabag, Croatia. Okay. That is weird. Yeah. Yeah. Like what kind of things do you have on
display? I have not pre-read this. So I'm a little nervous. I'm a little
Reno Dubcofick said he was inspired to open a museum dedicated to next day drinking regrets
while sharing stories of drunk and misadventures with some friends. The museum of hangovers features
exhibits, including a collection of unusual items people found after a night of heavy drinking.
A beer goggles reflect a testing room in an interactive area where visitors can share their
own hangover experiences. Okay. That's funny. I got admit that at first it didn't seem entertaining
at all. The idea of making these more interactive, you know, I think is where we're going with
museums. And I think it's important to note that because you and I love museums. I think many,
many people out there do. We want to keep these things around. Yeah. Well, and I think the fun
thing about that one is there's, you know, a part, a large part of the population of the world.
Let's not just focus on Wisconsin for a moment because I mean that museum's a long ways away.
But there are a lot of people who don't drink. So to be able to go to a museum and experience
beer goggles and, you know, those kind of put yourself in that situation. It's a way to experience
it without damaging your body or having a night of regrets. The museum is open 10 to 10 every day of
the week. That's a good one. How about we go real? Well, wait a minute. Let me see here. There's
the disgusting food museum in Malamo, Sweden. Interesting. Yeah. That museum has the strange and
smelly foods from around the world featured in the museum. Strange and smelly foods. There is some,
there is some pretty, pretty rough ones to there too. There's some pretty, yeah, I'm not sure about
that one. And some museum. Usually you have items that you can, you know, have in a case that
stay behind glass. How could you do that with food? That's a great question. I, and I'm not even
smello, smello museum. Yeah, I don't know. I'm not sure I want to even know the answers. I'm not
sure how they do that. Pull that off. Well, that would be a job, you know, okay, you're going to be,
you know, curator at our museum. You're required to make this, this, this, every three days,
because we got to replace our displays. It's a great point being the curator at that. Oh god,
that's a good point. Man, I don't know. I think that person is getting paid, I hope. I hope
that person is getting a good check. That'd better be. And we wrap up local, of course. That's what we
do around here. Redner's rescued cat figurine muse, Mew Zam. Mew Zam in Monomony was constant.
We're going to be rescued cat figurines. We're going to beautiful Monomony. Shout out to our listeners
and our friends over there. Sean Redner and Hillary Siegel Redner said that they bought their first
dozen secondhand or quote, rescued cat figurines on a whim one day. Oh no. Their collection now has
over 13,000 figurines from thrift stores and teak malls and more recently donations from families.
Oh my. Redner said he was looking at his figurine collection one day when he came up with the idea
of giving tours of the couple's home and donating the proceeds to local cat rescues.
Oh, that's awesome. The Redner's rescued cat figurine, Mew Zam was born after this.
Currently decked out as a festive feline wonderland, they will be open for walk-ins from 11 a.m.
until 5 on December 26 and tours are available by appointment Monday through Friday from 5 to 8
and on the weekends at 11 a.m. with at least 24 hours advance notice.
That's got to be hard if it's your home. Yeah, yeah. I admire that a lot actually.
Yeah. I don't like strangers in my, you know, house. I'm not great about that. I can't imagine
doing something like this. I think that's pretty cool. Yeah. And then just constantly being 24.
At least they have, you know, a request for notice. Yeah. Yeah. You want to find out more.
Redner's is on Cleveland Avenue and beautiful Monomony Falls. You can give them a call at 414-215.
419-35. That's a 414-215-4935. They've also got a great Facebook page,
encourage you to check out. That's a fun. Meet some more cat figurines in your life.
And while they may not have cat figurines or smelly food or anything, if you have been there in a
while or if you've never been there, cannot encourage you enough to reach out to our friends at the
Southwood County Historical Museum. Yes. Their December office hours are by appointment only,
so you're going to have to give them a call. 715-423-1580. That's 423-1580. But be sure to do that.
Check out their webpage swch-museum.com. And if you can't get there now,
when they open their doors in spring, we'll let you know and we'll encourage you to head on over there
and check it out. Indeed. It's important to keep history alive. This is your history. Help them do
so at the Southwood County Historical Museum. And we say good morning and a happy holidays to all of
our friends over there. Happy holidays. We gotta get them on here. It's been too long. We gotta
get them on here. We will take a short break, come back and have nothing but fun on the morning
show here at WFHR. Welcome back everyone.
Welcome back to the show here. It's a fun version. It's a fun version. It's a different one.
They're like it. Welcome back to the show. Everybody, Melissa and James here with
we are having a great one out there. Thanks for joining us. Got a then a right story to get to
and it's up to you to decide where the then a right part is. You're probably familiar with the
nerd emoji, with the dark glasses and the buck teeth. Oh yeah. Okay. At least I think that's how
it looks on a lot of. I know Apple has it that way. I'm not sure how the other version of it,
but there is another version of it on other phones. Okay. Well, a 10 year old boy in the UK named
Teddy is uncomfortable with it and thinks it's insulting to people like him who wear glasses.
So he's launching an online petition to have it tweaked. He wants the teeth replaced with a
smile and for it to be named genius emoji. And last we checked and I looked at it this morning,
the petition that had 209 signatures. Let me just double check since it's been a couple hours.
And let's see here. Yeah. Yeah. It's it's right risen a little bit. Oh, good. Very cool.
Yeah. So Teddy even drew a photo of what he'd like to see the genius quote genius emoji look like.
Apple has not responded, which I feel like is a huge, huge failure on their part.
Yeah. They could use all the good PR they could get right now. You ain't kidding Melissa. They
should be thanking this kid. Hey, thanks. Thanks for getting us up here and giving us an
opportunity to look cute. A chance for positive press. Yeah. A chance to look human for a second.
Just, you know, the longer they drive the longer they don't answer this kid, the only the more it
goes up, the worse they look. Yeah. Yeah. It's a shame. It really is. Now, I'm not saying that they
have to do this. That's that's, you know, their choice as a business and everything like that. They
could add another emoji. Yeah. I don't see why not. But I think, you know, it's so important in
this day and age that you balance these things. There were, there's a young man, Tommy DeVito,
a quarterback for the New York Giants. He's kind of been rushed into the spotlight. One, because
apparently it's okay to still make fun of Italians and do that and all this stuff and everything.
In this day and age where people get canceled left and right, I can't, as an Italian American,
I can't understand how this is still okay, but whatever, right, I guess. Okay. He had an
opportunity. He was supposed to do a show up at this pizza place and his, this was already set in
stone long before his name became household. His agent started asking for a little bit more money.
Then the pizza place said, no, we already got a contract in place. Now, Tommy didn't know about this
and he found out late, but the damage was already done and his PR took a hit. And so even if they
had paid him more, whatever money he got, he lost in PR. Yeah. Like the smart businesses and the
smart people that are handling their careers right understand this. It doesn't matter if you can
put a price on PR. It's so vital. It's so important going forward. The way that you come across
in these things. I don't know. I think that they could, to me, Apple is that that ain't right of
this story. I agree with that. That's because this, this boy is saying, you know, I, this emoji looks
like me and it's called nerd and I don't like that. Although in my opinion, I think nerd is a
compliment. Yeah, I think it's come a long way. But yeah, I hear what you and the boy are saying on
this one. Well, and it's the combination of the glasses and the buck teeth, I think. Yeah,
the problem there. Yeah, I think the buck teeth are what do it. Yeah, that pushes it over the limit
a little bit. Let's take a quick call. Here, we only got a couple minutes, but let's take a
quick call. Good morning. What's on your mind? Hey, James, you know, if you're in a walkershow
and you go north, there's a, there's a city up there on the bay. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Shaboykin.
Yes. Shaboykin. Yeah. You got me. You got me. That was good. That was good. Well played.
Well played. Nicely done. You have a Merry Christmas, brother. You have a great one.
Best listeners at radio. I didn't know where he was going with that for a second. I
took a second there. I, uh, is that a new, um, uh, drinking coffee game? Uh, you know, uh,
make James say Shaboykin. Yeah. Yeah. If you make me, or if I say Shaboykin, take a drink.
Like you need an excuse that your favorite word to say. It is, it is in the top, uh,
upper echelon. Top five favorite words to say. You are darn right, Melissa. I love saying Shaboykin.
Oh, we love our listeners. Best in radio. Appreciate your brother. Thanks so much. Happy
holidays to you and yours. We got to get to some good stuff. Let's kick it off with Midday
magazine. Great one lined up for our listeners today. Join us at three o'clock this afternoon.
Jillian and Lisa are going to join us from visit Rome. Oh, good. Get to focus on the Rome area.
A lot of great things going on this time of year. One of my favorite places to be in December is
Rome, Wisconsin. Uh, it is beautiful. Mm-hmm. I think they're doing it like eating your way
through Rome right now on their Facebook page. There's lots of fun. That's going to be a good one.
And in part two at three thirty, Jasmine Carbohal associate for each educator with Wood and
Marathon County is going to be joining us. Let's talk a little for each. Perfect. That's going to
be fun. Looking forward to that. Excellent organization. Yeah. I love our friends at 4H. Later today
on our sister station, uh, W I R I was country one oh five five. Encourage you to join us at six fifty
five when our pregame kicks off for girls basketball. Assumption lady royals taking out strafford.
Ooh. Randy Paul on the call y'all. Seth's going to run the board. You know it's going to sound good
with those two. Be a great game. Be sure to check it out everyone. It's going to be a good good show.
Uh, want to get to local stories here. And it is a third, the third Thursday of the month. And
that means that Pete Revell and four on the floor are going to be performing at the central Wisconsin
cultural center. Oh, and it's a great excuse to get over there. I think this is the last day of
their holiday sale as well. So make sure you hear some good music and maybe get some last minute
Christmas gifts. Say hi to Pete and the gang for us and enjoy and, uh, you know, by local support,
local support the arts and say hi to our friends at the central Wisconsin cultural center.
Absolutely. Pete Revell, four on the floor performing two to four today at the central Wisconsin
cultural center. They do this every first and third Thursday of the month. Mm hmm. You heard
this in Melissa's great news segment. Witter Park Aquatic Center. I'm going to have some special
guests tomorrow. Santa and Mrs. Claus. Yeah. They're going to be different. They're going to be
there for pictures. And you can give Santa or tell him your Christmas wish list. Get that in
before Christmas. Bring a non-perishable food item if you can. Mm hmm. And, uh, take a picture with
the big guy. Uh, it should be fun. Appreciate them doing that and it should be a lot of fun.
Be sure to check that out, everybody. And, uh, if you want, if you feel like it, share your pictures
on our Facebook pages. We'd love to see those. I love to see those. Mm hmm. That'd be wonderful.
Our good friends at the VFW have meetings going on. VFW 2534 has their monthly meeting today at
six at the VFW post and run and road right here in Wisconsin Rapids. Mm hmm. Keep that in mind,
everybody. And they wish everybody happy holidays. Yeah. Find out what's going on at the VFW.
Mm hmm. And, uh, well, just a touch on a world big story right here. A 76 year old teacher
in Illinois named Paul Doritz was just awarded the Guinness World Record for the longest career as
a social studies teacher. Oh, congratulations to him. He's been teaching at the same middle school
for 53 years. Wow. 53 years. And a impressive. I, uh, I think that's just a beautiful story.
That's pretty cool. We thank him for his service. Everything he's given to his community.
Absolutely. Every year, uh, for almost two decades, the Christmas spirit foundation has been
doing something called trees for troops. They partner with tree farms and FedEx to bring thousands
of Christmas trees to US military bases all over the world. Oh, oh, wow. I, I, I, they've been doing
this for so long. And I, we, I was just a couple of years ago that I first heard about this.
Shout out to the good news network dot org. Do great reporting over there. Uh, this is a great
story. Encourage people to read more about this. And you can even help out the Christmas spirit
foundation. Uh, you can even donate to what the work they do and help them out. That's
wonderful. Um, we appreciate the best listeners and radio. All of you waking up and joining us
today. Want to send a shout out to, uh, Madison Rafter from the South O'Connie, Maine Society
and dumpling our pet of the week. Cute little tearier dog. He is adorable. Find out more at
SWCHS dot com SWCHS dot com, uh, support our local Humane Society. They certainly do a great
job for us. Mm-hmm. Great show today, Melissa. A lot of fun. Um, we'll do this all. Thanks for all
our call callers calling in today. Yeah. Yeah. I appreciate you guys doing that. Now don't, uh,
don't be a stranger. Keep on calling up and joining the conversation. We want to hear from you more
and more on the show here. We'll have got opportunities tomorrow for that. Looking forward to hanging
out and getting you already for Christmas tomorrow. It's going to be a good show. Seth Melissa and
I can be hanging out. We'll do that. Have a great day, Melissa. Yep. You two James. Thank you.
And, uh, Seth, oh, Seth showed up just to do the idea. Cool. Thank you, brother. Go ahead, Ed.
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