Hour 2: And never, ever, lead a meeting in a bathing suit…

Good morning, Wisconsin. Good morning, world. It's a new day. We hope it's treating you good.

We're certainly going to. We're going to have some fun in this hour. Terry and James here with

you, CEO of your United Way of South Wooden Ems counties. And of course, we're going to have an

update from the United Way before we wrap up the hour, looking forward to that. We've got some

good things coming up. I'm going to get into a little bit of entertainment news to kick things off.

We also are going to touch about the, um, want to get into these, these office rules, these 10

unspoken office rules. And yeah, we want to get a focus on our local area and get into some good

stories of the day around here as well. I do want to start off the hour on two program notes. One,

a big thank you to Aaron Wells, our good friend over at the aging disability resource center of

central Wisconsin. She let us know that senior dining is closed for today and meals on wheels is

closed for today. So you in your neighborhood, your block, your neighbors, you happen to know

anybody that uses these meals, please check in on them. Take a, you're out there shoveling anyway,

maybe maybe a walk a couple of love, feed over a couple blocks or something and check in on them,

do a wellness check. And if they could maybe use a meal, maybe if you can that goes a long way,

we appreciate that. And if you normally visit the meal site, you know, stay home, stay safe,

right? Today, take a, they're not open today. So stay home.

Want to send a shout out to our friend Mike Clements as well, talk sports with us on Fridays,

usually not able to get Mike on the air with us today, but a big thank you to him. Does such a

great job. We love talking to Mike. Love having a joy. I want to get Mike on playmakers. That's

what we got. That's a good idea. We got to get him on there. We're looking forward to talking

on Mike again real soon and safe travels to you, sir. Be safe out there wherever you are up to.

We appreciate you. Let's dive into some entertainment, Terry. And the people's choice awards have

been announced. The nominees, yeah, the nominees, the nominees, the nominees came out yesterday.

And we might just have a red carpet debut of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey. A lot of people excited

about that. I mean, whatever. Yeah, yeah. Okay. How about some award nominees? Yeah, that's

a little more of my speed. Taylor tied with a couple of others with five nominations. The other

athlete nominees are tennis star Coco Gough, Yannis and Tadacupo, LeBron James, Lionel Messy,

and Simone Biles along with Steph Curry. So honestly, any of those? That's pretty awesome.

I good with all of those. That's really cool. Yeah, love all of those. The male artist nominees are

Bad Bunny, Drake, Jack Harlow, Luke Combs, Post Malone in the weekend. Interesting list.

The nominees for female artists. This is an incredible list. Beyoncé, Laney Wilson,

Miley Cyrus, Nicki Minaj, Olivia Rodrigo, and of course Taylor Swift. That's loaded. Yeah,

this is a heck of a time for female artists. It's a pretty nice list. I haven't really seen

it all laid out like that before. We didn't even name all of the people in that genre right there.

That's pretty cool. That's a pretty impressive list. The nominees for a movie of 2023, Barbie,

Fast X, Guardians of the Galaxy 3, Oppenheimer, Spider-Man across the Spider-Verse, The Little Mermaid,

Super Mario Brothers movie, and Taylor Swift, The Ares Tour. So I only think I saw one of those.

The Taylor Swift Ares Tour, the producer, I'm sorry, the guy who runs the whole entire

like universal studios and everything, like personally reached out to Taylor Swift and dank

her. Like, nothing, nothing special. Just hey, thank you. That's cool. You really helped the

movie industry this year. But good on him, right? Yeah. That's really cool. Oh yeah, really

cool. Really smart. Again, the power that this young lady has and what she's been able to do with it,

like this is really remarkable. One of the things I appreciate about her is that she cares about

these things. She's a fan of movies and she will like the idea of this. She's tried acting a

little bit here and there. She's probably going to try other projects going forward. This was a

kind of way of her for doing that and helping the movie industry. And giving a big boost. Yeah,

that is really cool. You know, of all those the only one I saw was Barbie. Did you like Barbie?

I would only to see it again, but I'm glad I saw it. I mean, because for me, there was just like

so many little like nostalgia things for playing with Barbies when I was a kid, like different things

like that, the story. But I would say the other people in my house would all say Guardians of the

Galaxy three. I mean, a number three movie is not going to win the award. I mean, I get that, but

but yeah, that's interesting. But that's always like that for me. You know, you'll hear all these

nominees. Yeah. Oh, yeah, I saw one of those. I because I vote on these things, not this

particular awards, but because all of these usually come up in the Oscars and Sag Awards,

we get clips. They've gone back to giving us clips of these. And so I've seen a lot of these

movies and bits and pieces. I thought Guardians was fantastic. I thought Spider-Man across the

Spider-Verse was arguably one of the best films I saw last year, but nothing compared to Oppenheimer.

Nothing. I see. And that's still on my like, I got to watch that. That's why it's a long movie. And

it's a hard watch, but it's an important watch. I think it's a very, very important watch.

So I have to tell you the two favorite movies I saw in the movie theater in 2023. Titanic.

How did I not see that coming? And elf. Those are my two favorite movies that I saw in the

movie theater. I'm not talking about watching at home. I'm saying that I went to the theater.

To the theater to see. I like that. The nominees for Best TV Show. I mean, I'll just say the

bear only murders in the building. The last of us Ted Lasso and Vendor Pupp rules all

nominated for Best TV Show. And nothing on those. Only murders in the building. I loved. Did you

hear Selena Gomez who's on there is going to be playing Linda Ronsten in a biopic? I did not.

And I really like Selena Gomez, but honestly, I like her like from her Disney show days. Like,

you know, from her from her start and I like her music. But I don't watch creepy shows. Yeah,

oh, it's not. It's not creepy. Oh, I guess it has a time. It is. It does involve some murders.

Oh, yeah. But it's it's a little bit of a, I don't know, Steve Martin, Martin Short. It's light.

So it's more funny. Maybe. Yeah, it leans a little bit more in dark comedy and some of that.

It's got an incredible like cameos and all this. It's one of the best TV shows I've ever seen.

But I will be curious to see her in that. Yes, her. I guess this was a dream of hers.

And she landed the role. You know, she's she's got so many checks to be able to play Linda

Ronsten. I cannot wait to see what that's like because they've really gotten the biopics,

the music biopics. Even if they haven't gotten them right, they've done a good job of balancing

them with music and all that. That should be interesting. And let's see what's new on your small

screen this weekend. Lift is new is on Netflix right now. Kevin Hart is the leader of a crew of

thieves trying to steal 500 million dollars in gold from a plane 40,000 feet up in the air.

Well, I would imagine that would be quite the anchor to get them to the ground.

The great Vincent de Nafrio is in this as well. I love Vincent de Nafrio.

Killin at this kingpin right now and echo. Kevin Hart is making a move to more action movies. He's

been trying to do this for years. It's what you do as an actor. You're you only have so long of

his shelf life in certain genres. You see this with Robert De Niro and El Pacino and Christopher

Walken and many actors who made their career on serious work and then kind of win in the comedy.

Kevin obviously made his career start in comedy trying to branch out and doing more action movies.

He's done this for a while. He didn't move you with the rock and some other stuff. It looks all right.

It looks all right. I don't look too bad. On Amazon role play starring Kelly Cucco. That is a

relationship one. Self-reliance starring Jack Johnson as a guy who agrees to let people hunt him

for $1 million. That's on Hulu tonight. I don't know what they when they when they hunt when

they find him. What do they do? I don't know. I can look at him. I mean, it's like I can go see

or I like Jack Johnson a lot. I never really I didn't really get into the new girl. It wasn't one

of those shows. It was for me or anything. But he was on there and I really liked him on there.

I like him a lot. And on Apple TV plus the streaming debut of Killers of the Flower Moon,

the Native American tragedy starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro and many other great actors,

including a lot of great Native actors that I think many people are going to learn the names of

from this movie. Martin Scressese directed it. It's going to be nominated for a bunch of stuff.

I've seen it. It is incredible. It's a very good movie. I still think Oppenheimer is better

by far in a way. I think it's also important on the same level as this one is. Sure.

But I do think Oppenheimer is a better movie. And of course this weekend football

on NBC and peacock. I think you're supposed to be yelling. No, you got to get the gravelly voice

in there. The NFL well card game. The Houston Texans host the Cleveland Brown Saturday on peacock.

As long as you don't start talking like Trayetman one time. Kansas City Chiefs host the Miami

Dolphins on NFL well card game on Saturday. It's going to be good. Can't wait. Buffalo Bills against

Pittsburgh on Sunday at one. And of course the one that I don't have to tell you all about. You

know when it's on three thirty Sunday Fox NFL well card Dallas Cowboys Green Bay Packers.

Gonna be a big one. And the weekend wraps up a football with the, oh, I'm sorry. No,

we got the Lions and the Arams. That's another big one. Stafford. That is a big one.

And you have on Sunday. I cannot wait for this story. What's the matter? You got to clear your throat now?

A little bit. Smarty. I shouldn't have done that voice. I shouldn't have done it.

I'm very excited about this. The fourth season premiere of True Detective is on HBO on Sunday.

I know this isn't your thing because it's a bit of a drama and dark and all that. But Jody Foster

is back to acting. Oh, interesting. And as I wasn't aware. My favorite actor of all time.

A favorite actress of all time. I should say. Oh, by far and away. I've learned and loved

Jody Foster since I was a child. I think she's amazing. And what's your favorite of hers?

Wow. I know that makes it hard. But what just comes, what just like pops up?

Well, you know, a lot of her, a lot of her later works. She did a, a cameo sort of a bit spot

in this movie Inside Man that she's kind of a bad guyish and a little bit. And she don't get

to see her like that very often. And I love it. I think actually some of her best work in

the last couple of years has actually been behind the camera. She's been directing a lot.

There's so many good probably. Oh, that's such a tough question.

She, I will say this, she doesn't act unless she really loves the script. Like this is somebody

who doesn't need the money, doesn't need the fame, doesn't care about any of that stuff.

So when she chooses a project, I'm all in. And I was a big, big, big fan of the first season

of True Detective. And it looks like they got back to that original writing. I cannot wait for

that. Great choice awards. Our Sunday at seven. And there is, let me see here. I thought there,

oh, yeah, Monday night there, there's a game. That's what I was looking for. It's a game on Monday.

For a night game. Yeah. Yeah. They got Philly and Tampa Bay. That's the Monday night game.

So that is all your weekend lineup. New movies in the theaters this weekend. They've kind of gotten,

we got away from the Christmas time and now they're bringing movies back to the theaters.

The book of Clarence, I'm sure this isn't going to be in town here, but it's limited release.

Looks great. LaKief Stanfield, James McAvoy, a lot of great actors in it. It plays, it's about Clarence,

a common and twin brother of a doubting Thomas who gets caught trying to scam people by performing fake

miracles. It's a, it's a really interesting movie. It looks really good. Another one of those,

what I just said about Jody Foster, same thing about LaKief Stanfield and James McAvoy. They only

choose good scripts. I've watched everything. Those two actors have done and every script they choose,

it's not always a good movie, but the scripts that they choose are always solid and different

and interesting. The beekeeper with Jason Statham is coming out today, a former operative from a secret

organization of really, really bad guys, really tough guys called the beekeepers. After a friend

kills herself because of a fishing scam, he goes looking for revenge following the money he

uncovers. This is basically the Kingsman. This is like all those kind of movies, but it's,

it's Jason Statham. A lot of people like it. It's action. I will definitely be seeing it. I'm

probably going to see it in the movie theaters, but I'll definitely watch it. I'm not going to lie

to anybody. I'm definitely going to see it. I don't know if it's going to be any good, but I'll

definitely see it. And the big one. You know you can't get that time back, right? Yeah, right. Yeah,

tell me about it. Mean Girls rated PG-13. The remake stars Angelique Rice in Lindsay Lohan's

role as Caddy, the new girl being targeted by the most popular girls in school. You'll see Tina

Faye, John Hamm, Tim Meadows, all kind of reprising their roles from the original Mean Girls. So,

you know, I was kind of laughing when I saw the trailer for it because I was like, you can't remake

that movie. Yeah. But then at the same time when you see who's there, you know, like the T2Fay,

like all that, and I'm like, okay, maybe you can. You know what I mean? Like maybe, I don't know.

So I, it's a tie between Amy Polar and Tina Faye for me, the funniest people in the world.

And so sometimes you just regard this as what it is. It's just like, okay, yeah, I could

check out a little bit and enjoy them. My sister said she'd give it a chance. She said a lot of

similar things to what you did. And she said, oh, I'll give it a chance. I'll probably see it.

Enjoy your entertainment this weekend, everybody. We're going to take a quick time out. We come back.

Oh, we got a good one. We're going to get into Terry. I want to talk about this one with you. The

office rules, office rules that we all got to rely on. We all got to go go by here. We're talking

office rules. You shouldn't break when we come back on the morning show at WFHR.

It's going to get me every time now.

Can we save that? We have to. We have to. And she's masterful about that. She did

that really good. Welcome. A big shout out to Brittany Marlon. Thank you, Brett. We appreciate it.

It's a great forecast. This is so bad. We digress. Yes, we are bad. We should not just have

for, I mean, I appreciate that we have breaks. We probably shouldn't have breaks.

We probably shouldn't. We just go straight forward. And when we're off airs, when we get in trouble,

that's where we go. We got to get into this one, Terry. We got a good one right here for everybody.

We got to 10 off unspoken office rules. You should never break 10 unspoken office rules. You

should never break. Okay. So before you start, though, I work in an office setting. I haven't always,

this is somewhat of an office setting, right? You haven't always worked in this environment.

But now don't say it aloud. But when you're doing these, you think of the person in your office

who is that person. Yes. All of you do that. Don't say it aloud. You probably get in trouble.

It's an HR issue. But you know, there's somebody that's good. That's a great game to play. I love

that. Someone asked people to name unspoken office rules that should never be broken. Do you agree

with these or have you broken them yourselves? Let's dive right in. And there's no particular order

to any of these. So we're just going to go ahead and start right at number one. If you've been in

a meeting forever, forever. And I mean, it's just dragging and dragging and dragging. And your boss

says, okay, anything else, you keep your mouth shut. You keep your mouth shut. Okay. But you know

that person. Yeah. Yeah. I immediately thought of who it is, too. I guess immediately.

Or like, remember back when you were taking classes, you know, like in college or acting classes

or whatever, where there is that one person and often a non-traditional student. Yes.

But there is that one person who will not stop asking questions. Yeah. Yeah. It doesn't make

classical longer because class is just class. But but it's or you even as an instructor where you're

like, okay, can you stop? Yeah. And it's I've had students like that. And I don't I love that.

I've stayed. I've won awards because I've stayed late with my students before. However, there's a

line. There's a line in the sand. Yeah. Yeah. Especially when the questions don't lead to anything.

Like, I don't know what the essence of funny is. I'm sorry. I don't know. There is no

essence of funny. Funny is just funny. You're thinking too much about it. And that's coming for me.

Don't be too efficient. It makes other people look bad and your boss will just ask you to do more.

If you're not busy, don't tell anyone. That seems like horrible advice. It's well, yeah. It's

but that's what it's saying. You shouldn't do this, right? Like, I mean, that's yeah. Yeah. I don't

I don't appreciate that. Yeah. I can't say anything else because I again popped right in my head.

I've got a visual. So the third time you walk past someone in a day doesn't require a hello.

Say hi the first time, not the second, and you can ignore them the next time.

Interesting. Interesting. I wouldn't have thought of that. I mean, but to that point, do you have to

depending upon what your environment looks like? But let's just say, every time you walk by Pam and

the lobby, do you have to address her? Yeah. She's working. Right. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Of course,

you want to acknowledge and address the person. Certainly. But you don't. I agree. You shouldn't.

And honestly, I would get so annoyed if you did that every single time you walk by me. I'd be like,

okay, James, move along, pal. Now, there's one where if I'm your boss, I'm kind of like, well,

all right, how many laps you doing here, man? Like, well, you keep passing me three, four times here.

What are you up to? Yeah. Well, it's the one before that killing time. So I don't look too busy.

Pam and I always say good morning to each other. But by the time that I'm booking around,

I'm running all over and like you said, she's working, answering phone, something like that.

So we don't always get a chance to like communicate. But we always wrap before I leave. We always wrap

up too. I think that's where you, we know that like, I'm not going to, if I walk past Pam and

I don't say anything, she's not going to think, oh, is he mad at me? She's going, oh, he's busy.

He's James. He's crazy. What a jerk. If you don't want people using your coffee mug,

don't leave it in the kitchen. If you leave it there, it's a community. It's a communal mug.

I mean, yeah, it doesn't, okay, but it depends how many people, like where we're like six,

eight people. I mean, you kind of know that's my mug. Yeah. Yeah. If somebody wanted to do that here,

it'd be very easy to know. Okay, that's Melissa's mug. That's Seth's mug. That's something like that.

Yeah. I like that one though, because I don't think that one comes up very often. Don't be the

smelly person. You don't want to be the smelly kid. My mom, you know, growing up, we didn't,

we didn't have much, but it was a very big deal to my mom. Yes, we had soap that we didn't,

we weren't that we didn't just because we were poor, didn't mean we had to act poor,

didn't mean we had to live that way necessarily. And it was important to her that we look good when

we went to school that we were, you know, our clothes were clean. You might not have a bunch of

new clothes, but you had clean clothes. Might have rips in them, but they were clean. You know,

that kind of thing. And the way she would always get us to really come home on this, if we were

pushing back and we didn't want to take us bath or shower or some, you don't want to be a smelly

kid, Jimmy. You don't want to be that smelly kid. There's always one smelly kid in class. You

don't want to be him. That's what she'd always tell me. But like that's a whole different story.

A most kids that are in that situation can't help that. And as an adult, you can help. Absolutely.

I will tell a story. I was working at cops back when there was a cops and it wasn't a

pick and save. And I worked night shift, stocking shelves and all that. You had a lot of turnover

in those jobs. Oh, sure. A lot of turnover. One of the guys we had, so the night starts, we pull

out the pallets from the truck and we take every item off and separate it. And then we get

in the aisles. As we're doing that and taking everything off the pallets, we're bumping into

each other because we're all working in a hurry and everything. And there was this guy who just,

I've never been around a human being that smelled worse in my life. Yeah. And so that's not his

sweat from unloading that pallet. That is his stink for me. It's just his stink. He didn't

seem to do much about it or take care of it or think of others. And my buddy, Chris, who I worked

with at the time, my best friend in the world, works together. Chris one day just walked up to him

and handed him a bar or so. Like, no, no conversation didn't say anything. Just handed him a bar or

soap and walked away. And the guy just, like, it was going to be funny. It was going to be funny.

And the look on his face, I will never forget. He was just so hurt. And as bad as this guy was,

I immediately felt like a jerk. I didn't even do it. And I felt like a jerk. Chris,

but you knew it was coming. Yeah, I didn't know it was coming. And I'm sorry, but you got to,

you got to, you know, think of others. Unless you have a private office, never use your speaker phone.

People should be more mindful of how loud they are in general. This goes for buses. This goes

for public transportation. If you're walking through Walmart, I don't need to hear your conversation.

Stop. Whatever you're doing, stop it. Like, unless it's an emergency, stop it. Nobody wants to hear

your conversation. We had a team member that didn't do and is no longer at our office. But

didn't do the speaker phone like in a live conversation, but would check their voicemail always

on speaker phone. Oh my God. And always loud. And I'm like, okay, I know you're not hearing

impaired because you talk physically. I'm like, pick it up and we don't all. And it wasn't

necessarily what the content was. It was just so disruptive to everyone else. New rule, new rule.

You do this. You get three strikes. You do this three times in public. We take your phone.

We take your phone and you don't get your phone back for at least a week, at least a week.

That's I mean, if you're going to act like a child, I say we start doing it this way. I expect

little kids or to yell into phones and things like that. Not not growing adults. Not not growing

adults with the speaker phone. And honestly, let's be real. The novelty of the speaker phone

proper. When was that like the early 90s? Yeah. I mean, like get over it. It's not cool.

We got a couple more of these and we want audience participation. Call up 715-424-2600. Let us know

what office etiquette you have in your building or maybe that you're lacking. Yeah, or that you're

lacking. Yeah, I wanted to. I'm sure that I'm guilty. I know that I've been guilty of some of

this stuff in the past. So we have some more coming, right? Yeah. Is there anything about the

bathroom? I'm not seeing anything else. I'm just curious. Well, sort of, I guess, don't mess

with other people's stuff. Like if someone is someone's out sick and you know that they have extra

ketchup packets or something at their desk, don't take them. Little things like that. Don't complain

about everything. Constant negativity isn't fun. Even if you agree with the person's take,

that's a big one. I like that one a lot. And it sucks the life out of the office. Yep.

Let's take a call before we get to our last one. Good morning. What's on your mind?

This doesn't pertain just enough. Okay. All right. Oh boy. What's coming? Yeah.

Well, I had to pillage your working with Terry. You know, in the past, you know, there's certain

annoying things. It just, you know, you won't, I'm going to go back to when you said about, you know,

the working harder to make you look self-look better. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. It doesn't make you look

better. It makes everybody, it makes everybody look bad because the fact is that especially my job,

if someone tries to do that, it just, it just, it screws a lot, screws a lot of things up. Yeah.

You know, and it just, it doesn't make anybody look better. It just, it just makes you look

to me like a horse. Well, and people see through it. You think you might be, you think you're all like,

you know, pulling one over and people see right through it. Yeah. Yeah. That's the thing about

it too. Even if it did have any like a positive outcome, your boss is your fellow co-workers.

They see right through that stuff. They know. They see it. You make enemies that way very quick.

Boy, and there's, if there's a life lesson right there, make a void situations that are going

to create enemies. It always seems like a good place to start. And you know, for all this time

that we did work together, thanks for using soap. I appreciate it. Oh, it's appreciate the calls,

man. Have a great, safe week. Be safe out there. Okay. But yes, you guys be safe to,

and thank you. You guys are lights are on. Yes. Yes. Make sure. Please have your lights on.

Everybody. Please. Yes. If you don't, because you know, like my car, though, is automatic.

The lights. And when it is this light out, they don't come out. You have to manually turn them on.

So if your headlights, and your headlights aren't on, let's get them on. Yeah. I, I, she brought

that up a Monday. And I, I've been remembering it ever since I forget about that stuff. I'm really

glad YouTube wrote that up. We wrap up with don't schedule meetings first thing Monday or last

thing Friday. It's a great way to make people dislike you. I will, I will add to that enough

with the over meetings enough. Well, yeah, don't meet to meet enough with the constant meeting,

meeting, meeting, meeting, having 20 meetings a week to me says a lot more about management

than it does about your employees and about your workers. It's, it's vital to have meetings.

It's vital to communicate that I have no problem with. And I love the companies I've worked for

that are smart about this. I do think that a lot of modern companies and a lot of places,

and I'm talking not just young companies. I mean, Amazon, Nike, we hear from this from their

employees all the time. There are meetings on meetings on meetings. And if you are a person that is

part of two different departments, you're a part of like this meeting and this weekly meeting.

And there are people where you can find this online. They've, they've got it documented,

where if you work 40 hours a week, they're spending like six to seven hours a week in meetings,

which you could be working, you could be producing, which would be better for your company,

which would be better for your product. And it probably depends upon the nature of your business.

But, but I mean, I think that the important thing is are we having smart meetings, right? So,

if we're meeting just to meet, we can probably eliminate some, or could they be,

could they be shorter? Could they be, you know, could we, could they be more productive? So,

yeah, think about that. We should chat any time. If I'm at work, it's go time. I got things I

want to get done. You know, it's interesting. So we do a weekly staff meeting. And that's the only

like regular on the calendar, you know, kind of meeting. And we used to do it on Tuesdays.

And we actually had some discussion about it and moved it to Mondays, not right away when people

get there, but like an hour after everyone arrives. And it really just kind, I mean, more to set

the stage and be a plan of work for the week. And so, because the feedback was by doing it on

Tuesday, we've already got a day in. And, you know, James, you might need me for something,

or I might need this person to work on this or that. And if we've already had a day go by,

it was actually preferred to do it early, you know, a Monday morning, not the second I walk in

the door. But, you know, give me a little time to get my stuff situated. So, I can come to the

meeting. We can all be productive and then go on our way. So that's actually worked well for us.

Employees have a lot more power in their nut. It is not going back. You are not putting the

genie back in the bottle. And they have overwhelmingly spoken. I want information. I want it to

communicate with my employers. I don't want to waste time. I don't need to be stuck in meetings

that are not going to produce and not go anywhere. Here at Civic, since we've been a part of Civic

media, we have a weekly meeting. And it's been great. It's a real fun way. We have a big

audience. We're all up and down the state. And we have new, you know, family members all the time.

This is an opportunity not only for us to share information, but to meet these people. And they

talk and interact a little bit. And which has been really nice. I've never had that with a company

before where there was such an effort put to, hey, this is so-and-so that works in Madison or

something. And the connections we have made have been really beneficial, not just for our

listeners and WFHR, but around the gamut. It's been nice. But I don't think that we'd overdo it.

I think that's a key part of this conversation. Meetings are important. Communication is everything.

But overdoing it, it's no different than the head coach in the locker room that voice gets

old after a while. Like, you can be the greatest coach of all time, but as we just saw in the

last 48 hours, that has a shelf life too. Like, you can overdo it. And when you lose people,

it's so hard to get them back. When you lose your employees, and they're just listening,

and they just go somewhere else. As soon as you start talking. Just tuned out. It's so hard to

get that back. So can we go back to stolen catch-up packets? You shouldn't steal other people's

condiments. You can ask them, do you have a, I mean, I think it's a little bit kind of funny.

So here's a story in our, again, very small office. So we just have a refrigerator, like one,

like a house size refrigerator. And so people keep their stuff in there. But one time, this was

a long time ago, probably like 15 years ago, somebody came to me and, you know, I went to eat my lunch,

and someone ate my, there was none of my salad dress. I loved it in the fridge. And I'm just

saying they're like, are you kidding me right now? I mean, I get it. You're trying to eat your lunch.

But then it got me thinking. I'm like, what was your, was your name on it?

You don't even like, like what's community supplies? What's not? But when you have a small group,

is it an unwritten rule that the Caesar dressing in the fridge is mine? You didn't bring it to

there. So should you eat it? But then at the same time, I'm like, oh, you know, help yourself out

a little bit. Yeah. Put your name on it. Put your name on it. I don't complain. I'm sorry. If

your name's not on it, I have never gone into, I worked at a lot of places. I've never walked

into a community refrigerator and thought, what am I going to have today? Never. But if you don't

put your name on it, I'm not going to begrudge other people from doing that because they don't

know any better. Now to that point, though, I mean, I, I agree with, right? If there's just a sandwich

sitting there, you know you didn't bring that in. Right. Yes. But I'm just thinking about it from like

the condiment kind of approach. Yeah. That's different. Yeah. Yeah. Like if there's ketchup packets

sitting in the little crisper or something like, are those free game or not? They got to be free

game. And unless, unless you, you know, specifics, they got to be free. I mean, the condiments. Come on.

I don't know. What are we doing here? I mean, there, there, there becomes an irrational point

where it's just kind of like, come on. I mean, they're ketchup packets, but each throw. What do I know?

What do you know? Not much. Not much. We're going to find out. I do know one thing that's coming up,

Terry, that is a really good one too. I've got coming up for everybody two simple things that will

make you instantly sound smarter. Oh, fabulous. Did you use them already? I have. No, no, I have the

audience knows I have it. Coming up after some state and local news right here at WFHR.

Welcome back, everyone. Morning, show here at WFHR. Locally grown radio. Got Terry and James

here with you. We hope you're having a fantastic day out there and you are staying warm and safe. Look

out for each other. Be safe out there, everyone. We got some good story to get into. I want to touch

on here, Terry, and we'll get it update from the United Way before you wrap up today. But did

want to let you guys know a programming note. Tonight's game with the River Kings is postponed

until Sunday. We will be playing Saturday and Sunday now. River Kings against the Chicago Crush.

We will let you know as soon as we can if we will be able to air that game at WRI will air the

game on Saturday for sure. And hopefully the Sunday game will let you know as soon as we do about

that. Be listening may even have an update during midday magazine today for that. And one more

on the midday magazine and our line up in a little bit. We say a big thank you to the River

Kings and letting us know about that though. Support your Kings as they build hockey up and

down the river. Go to River Kings hockey.com and find out more about the fundraiser that is going

on with the River Kings. The South of County Rec Center is a awesome building. And since we were

teenagers, Terry, we've enjoyed that building. And I remember when it opened. I remember how exciting

it was and everything. This is long before some of the other construction that was done over there.

I'm just trying to say, well, they call it Southwood County 2000. The field, the football field

isn't that was built. And I think the hockey rank must have been sometime in the mid 90s, huh?

Yeah. Yeah. Something like that. Yeah. It's an awesome building. I've spent a lot of time in that

building. I like it a lot. That building was not built for a hockey team. It wasn't built to host

a hockey team. Let alone have one there as its main home ice. And there is also a lot of

figure skating that goes on there. And we've got some awkwardness happening with some of the young

women there. And there is no locker room. There are certain things that if we want to keep,

I'm just going to be blunt with the audience. The coach isn't going to do this. And they shouldn't

have to. But I'll be completely real with you guys. The USPHL is a minor league hockey league.

And every penny counts. And I mean, if we want to keep the River Kings in town here, we need to

do certain things to be able to keep them in town. This team puts a ton in our economics.

They bring so much to this community. Anytime there is something goes wrong in this community,

you're going to see River Kings players, coach, staff out there helping out. We know that about

them economically. I don't think it takes a Warren Buffett brain to be able to figure out the

economic impact that team has in this community. I think that the least we can do is show the

Kings our support, help out with this fundraiser anyway you can. We understand that not everybody

has dollars and cents, but you can raise awareness about this and spread the word about. Reach out

to the River Kings and find out how you can help. And the reality is, facilities need updating.

Yeah. It's just like your home, right? I mean, like all facilities need updating.

Some years back here in town, when Zach was the mayor, I remember there was a lot of fighting

an argument about him redoing the mayor's office. And, well, his argument, when we had him on

the air and we were talking about this, while I'm bringing a lot of people from out of state,

out of the city to the mayor's office, it should be respectable. It should, we should have people

coming to the mayor's office of Wisconsin rapids and having a respectful office. And I don't think

there's anything wrong with that. I think there was some gray area there about how much of

we cost it and all that. That's a whole other conversation. That I think is something that we can

all kind of agree on. Yeah, our mayor should have a nice office. I'm not saying a billion dollar

chandelier in the middle or something like that. If you go and check it out though, there's nothing

extravagant about it. Right. I mean, it's it's it's updated. It needed a facelift. Yeah.

This is a very similar story. This is you if you want things, you have to put into them.

You have to invest in them. You you want nice roads going to pay taxes. Yeah. This is the world

we live in. If you can help and the things that the facility are looking for, we're not talking

about like extravagant stuff. We're talking about a changing room. Wow, it should be so. I mean,

it shouldn't be surprising to anyone. Right. I mean, like it just yeah, we need some updates.

Help out if you can, everybody and find out more at riverkingshockey.com. I got two simple things

that will make you instantly sound smarter. If you're looking to improve your communication skills

this year, listen up. We've got two tips that will help you appear more intelligent and confident

when talking to people. Steer clear with from big words. Using large, complex words might make

you feel smarter, but it's not how you come across to other people. Especially if they don't come

out, right? Yeah. Tell me about it. A study found that writers who used unnecessarily big words

were seen as less intelligent than ones who use simpler words. Interesting. It's not even really

giving the benefit that you were hoping for. But you would think that, right? Like if I use big

words, I'm going to sound smarter. So that's interesting. That is very interesting. In general,

it's better to keep things simple and conversational unless you're in a place where a

formality matters like a courtroom or something like that. Sure. Yeah. Yeah. And then slow down your

speech. Everyone has a natural speaking canvas and it's hard to change, especially when you're

passionate about the subject, but talking too quickly can make you come across as nervous or

uncut or off-kilter or anything. You're not going to definitely be coming across with the desire,

you're not going to get across with the desire of what you want to get across.

You know, that is true though. You think about that, especially the people that you're close to,

they're not probably the ones that are going to ramble and talk really fast except for when

they're really excited. But you do kind of get used to the cadence of someone's voice. And so then

if all of a sudden they're going 100 miles an hour, I'm probably guilty of that. Definitely a

fast talker just in general. Me too. But then, but I've also tried to be really mindful of,

you know, so for instance, we had an event on Wednesday of telling myself, you know, okay,

just, you know, we want to get through it, but let's not rush. You know, let's let's be

reasonable about how fast we talk. You're a pace. Yeah. At the same time, don't go overboard

since dialing your pace back too much can also come off as patronizing. Or that's the worst.

Even aside from that, though, it also just doesn't it just, it comes across like monotone,

kind of robotic, you know, I don't know, I think it's, yeah, that is funny. Emotions are important.

You need some, you need to find that balance. And I think this comes back to the beginning,

cadence. You, everybody has their own cadence. And once you kind of like understand that,

understand your own voice, understand the way that you speak, I think you can have a better

control over it. One benefit of being an ag growing up, I had a speech impediment and with

my SS and Cs. And I went and had to take a big shout out to Humky Elementary because they

noticed this and helped me out so much with that. I don't think I'm in this chair without the

the teachers and the people that helped me with that, but with that I and being an actor and

working so hard on accents. I understand my volume very well. I'm also from an Italian family.

And I joke about this, I cannot stress how serious I have about this. My family will yell,

I love you at you. They think about what they do when they're angry. It's one of those things.

Growing up in a family like that, if you wanted to be heard, what did you do? You raised your

voice. You talked louder than the other people. That's not really healthy. And it definitely

doesn't work in a radio setting or in most business settings and everything. Your boss is not

going to appreciate the fact that you've talked an octave higher than them. It doesn't go over

well. It doesn't go over. No, you'll listen to me. Yeah, exactly. But I will say my family

very supportive, very supportive. But you know, both of those things make a lot of sense. Yeah,

yeah. We're going to come back and we're talking about Quitter's Day. We're going to talk about

that and we come back in our day. There's a day. Yeah. And we of course got a bunch of good

stories of the day, including an update with our United Way and our schedule coming up

right here on the morning show at WFHR. Welcome back everybody. Hope you're having a good morning

out there. Happy Friday. Don't let the snow slow you down. Well, slow you down. Yes, but don't let

the snow keep you from loving Friday and enjoying your weekend. Just enjoy it indoors and enjoy it

safe. Have some fun out there. Look out for each other. Slow down. Shuffle in shifts.

Um, say that past three times. Yeah, no, no, notice I said it very calm as I said, what's my

life? Very slow. Very calculated. I mean, I could. They can't fire me. No, no, but, uh,

Brittany did a great job with that. Did a good job. So the second Friday in January is called

Quitter's Day. Now, after a study in 2019 found it's today, you're statistically most likely to

pack in and give up on your resolution. 80% of resolutions have supposedly been abandoned

by now or on this day. I can see that. Yeah. Yeah. Um, and this is our feature that a right story

for the hour, everybody. A new poll on health-related resolutions, more or less backs this up.

The average person said that they gave up their favorite food for New Year's. They'd have a

hard time resisting it by day 14. So that would be this Sunday. The poll found the most common

health-related goals we made were to exercise more or eat better, but big sweeping goals are the

hardest to stick to. So one way to make it through Quitter's Day is by just dialing it back and

adjusting. You know, it's funny. When you think about it, though, you could say 14 days, but I even

think the second Friday thing kind of even makes more sense because if you're going to abandon it,

like you've already gone through one weekend without, you know what I mean? Like you might be

able to be a little more focused during the week. And now here you are approaching the second

weekend of no, whatever, sweets or whatever. And yeah, I think a lot of people are busing it.

I will say that one thing that they don't seem to bring up in this article, I think is really

important. If you can make it through this these days, whoo, you got you, I'm not saying it's

clear sailing, but you made it through one of the most difficult parts of this. Yeah. And probably

one more week, you know, they say 21 days to make a habit when you're really giving something up

or changing something. It probably takes longer. But I mean, if you could get through like three

solid weeks, hopefully, then each week it just gets a little bit easier. And take the little

wins. Take the little wins. Maybe maybe you did have a setback. That doesn't mean you have to stop.

That doesn't mean you have to completely give up. Keep fighting. Be more realistic and slow down.

Here are a few tips for the power through Quitters day. Be more realistic, slow down. Don't try

to make it happen all at once. Instead of abandon your resolution, adjust. I like that. Yeah.

Remember progress isn't always linear. Setbacks are inevitable. They don't have to mean you failed.

Instead of Quitters day, think of it as corrections day or however you need the word. I've talked

about this before. The way I stopped smoking, I was trying to do it for my kids. I was trying to do

it for my loved ones, et cetera, et cetera. And those things helped. But what really got me through

was I, it's so, I feel so silly saying it out loud. But quitting, I was raised. We don't quit

anything in my family. But stopping, oh, we stop all the things all the time. We were sure. Yeah.

So just calling it, just stopping instead of quitting smoking was a, was a shift in my brain,

a click in my brain. And I just haven't gone back since. Well, you kind of have to do it. You have

to figure out how to do it for yourself too. Yes. I mean, even, even in us selfless way. I mean,

you're never going to say, I know you will enough. You're never going to say I did it for me.

Right. But you have to get to a point where consciously or subconsciously, where you're actually

like, okay, I wanted to do it for this person, this person, this person. But the reality is,

I have to do it for me. Celebrate what you had. And it's such a good one. That's a great one,

tor. Celebrate what you have accomplished. Maybe you said you'd work out five days a week,

but you only got two days in. Well, good for you. Now, keep it up and try to build on that.

That's going back to taking the wins. There are no small wins in life. Every one of them is big

in its own way. And don't use quitter's days and excuse to give up. I need to think of that. Yeah.

I mean, we're not sending you a homework card today. It is. What is day? I mean, it would be,

it wouldn't be very, I would be really sad. Why would I keep doing it? I like to celebrate

holidays. The original study by a site called Strava, actually claimed the 19th was quitter's day,

they adjusted it to the 15th, the next year based on new data. But something to keep in mind as

you're moving target. Yeah, it is. That's a great way to put it. I want to touch on some good

stuff here. We got our schedule lined up and we are wrapping up midday magazine for the week

with a banger. It's a good one. Part one, we're going to talk with our friends at Mcmillan Memorial

Library, our good friend Catherine Eckhart, a director over there. Going to be with us?

Love Catherine. That would be awesome. Her ears are burning yesterday. My mom and I were talking

about her. My mom's a big fan. She's a little Spitfire. I love her. She's awesome. She's been great.

She's been great for our community too. We'll talk more with her and about a bunch of the great

things going on over at Mcmillan. And in part two, we're going to speak with our friends at the

Special Olympics. We have Ashley Hansen from Special Olympics joining us. We'll talk about the

organization of coming. The polar one is coming. Ashley's great in any chance to talk or work

with Special Olympics. I cannot encourage people enough to do so. Easily one of the greatest

organizations I've ever worked with. I love the people at Special Olympics. Amazing people.

Yeah, we've had quite a bit of exposure. That's kind of the charity of choice for police. So when

Randy was still working, that was, you know, pretty near and dear to our hearts. Still is a reminder

that meals on wheels and senior dining at the aging and disability resource center are closed

for today. We implore you to reach out to your friends, your neighbors, see how they're doing.

Maybe if you can help them out, that is greatly appreciated. Also, tonight's game with the River

Kings and Chicago Crush has been postponed. It has been moved to Sunday. Our Saturday game is still

on track for playing. You can catch great River Kings hockey tomorrow at 6.59 and hopefully Sunday

at 6.59, a pregame will start up. As far as we know, still going to have Wisconsin men's hockey

hosting Lindwood, that'll be on these airwaves tonight at 6.30 right here at WFHR.

Fun. And on Saturday, Wisconsin men's basketball,

hosting Northwestern 10 a.m. start time for that means no over the back fence tomorrow.

And on Saturday, Wisconsin men's basketball, hosting Northwestern, Milwaukee Bucks, hosting

Golden State at 6.30 here at WFHR. And again, that River Kings game at 6.59, hosting the Chicago Crush.

On Sunday at 5.30, Milwaukee Bucks, hosting Sacramento. I love having Bucks.

Get a full full weekend. Oh, it's so great. It feels good. That also, though, means that we won't

have new episodes of Seth Faces music or directors cut this week. But on the lookout, we got new

episodes and great new guests coming up in 2024 here. Terry, I wanted to wrap up with our

United Way. I know we have had a lot of great things going on with the United Way. In January,

let's get going. Let's get started in this new year. Yeah. What's the matter with me?

No reprieve. What is it? No rust for the wicked? No rust for the wicked.

So, you know, I do just want to really give a shout out kind of in our wrap up here to the week

to anyone and everyone who had anything to do with our campaign. If you're listening,

wider than that, you know, if you had anything to do with your local United Way,

I'm in the past year because we can't do what we do without the people in our communities and

the beauty of United Way is it's our community caring for our community. You know, we're not like

reaching out farther. We're not, we're not branching out to other areas. It's about community

taking care of community. We did have a thank you celebration on Wednesday where we, you know,

talked a lot about this and celebrated a lot of things. But just, you know, a blanket thank you

message to everyone, especially those people that are part of our partner programs that are

providing programming, Ben from our team, especially, you know, all of the programs that he

coordinates and puts on and the coalitions and and a lot of the educational pieces of United Way

that happen. And so, you know, just hats off to all of you and really encouraging people to

stay involved in the upcoming year, get involved if you haven't been because we have an opportunity

to, you know, make this, this awesome community even better for, you know, for the, for the folks

that need it. And, and you know what's funny is that it's not funny. But what's ironic is there,

you know, there seems to kind of be this stereotype or this thought that it's always the same people

that have need. And that's just not, it's just not true. You know what I mean? Like we all have

different times of need in our life. And, and United Way is there to help give people a hand up,

to uplift. And, you know, I just, I'm just so thankful for all of the volunteers, our team at United

Way. And, you know, and everybody out there. So, thank you, thank you, thank you, and look for more

from us. We've got stuff going on. We've got a lot planned. And you can find out about all of that

by staying on top of our social media. And then also visiting our website at UWAC.org.

And remember if you ever have any questions or anything else about our community or about the

United Way, you can always call 211 as well. It's a great resource. And speaking of the United

Way, the homeless point in time count is coming up. We are still looking for volunteers for that.

If you are able to volunteer, able to help out, please reach out to our good friend Ben. You

can get in touch with Ben at 715-420-390-420-390 or email him Ben at uswac.org. And keep in mind,

the winter farmers markets back back in action. Nine to one on Saturdays over at the Moravian

Church at 310 First Avenue South in Wisconsin Rapids. Go check that out and you can find out more

by going to www.muravian.org. One of the wrap up with a really fun story here. A 31-year-old guy

in Michigan named Cody Innis is in the news after he didn't get a haircut for years. Also,

he could make a wig for his girlfriend Hannah, who is Appalichia. Awesome. He showed that if he

grew his hair out for her, there's no way she could break up with him. It's a smart man.

I mean, so, you know, all terrier motive, but a good one. A good one and a very smart one.

I mean, a ring might help too. You might want to bury a ring in that wig.

I'm writing that down. Okay, that's a good note. That's a good note. Terry,

always fun working with you. Thank you so much. Have a great weekend.

Yeah, you too. Be safe. Be good to each other out there and we'll talk to you soon in the

later right here at WFHR Wisconsin Rapids 1320 AM and W248DE broadcasting at 97.5 FM.