Good morning, Wisconsin. Good morning, world. It's a new day. And thanks for kicking it off with us right here at WF HR locally grown radio got your host James J
I am joined by Melissa K and we're going to have we're going to have some fun this morning because we've got our good friend Don with us today Don
Desarcy Recreation Supervisor with the City of Wisconsin Rappix Parks and Rec Department Don if you don't mind if you could put the headphones on I apologize
Melissa's on the phone here and she's got questions or comments I want you to be able to hear Don how are you?
We're doing good. Good. We're doing good. We appreciate you being in and really appreciate you coming into studio. Don that was a little bump beyond
You didn't have to do that but it's okay. It makes good ice, right? Yes, very true very very true and that plays in perfectly
We actually have you in on the perfect day, don't we do we do I want to talk a little bit about some of the winter activities that are going on sure if you don't mind
I would like to kind of start in a with a particular class that's coming up the Pilates and and
Pilates in yoga. Yes, so this Saturday we've got workshops with our instructor
She's going to kind of do a little introduction to each of the classes that she's going to be offering
Coming up. So that yoga flow is at 10 o'clock on Saturday morning and then Yen yoga is at 11 30 on Saturday
Those both need to be pre-registered for but if you're interested
Absolutely get on our website and get signed up for those
They're fun classes
They are this time of year too. We have a tendency to not whether it's our fault or not
We don't get to move as much we our bodies
They get a little bit stiffer and then spring comes around we want to get outside
We want to go hike play sports these things and we wonder why our bodies are not ready to do that
Doing yoga in the winter doing some of these exercises Pilates some of these things
Can really really help not only you enjoy winter more, but you enjoy spring more even you're ready for it that way
Yes, these are great classes and our instructor is super excited to offer them for us and then we will have
Class sessions coming up also six week sessions coming up after these workshops with a class like this dawn
Do you have to go to every single class? Is it okay if you miss classes?
You can miss classes. It's up to you
You pay the rate for the six-week class and you know
You attend the ones that you're able to but they are on every Saturday coming up
Excellent and that website at wirapids.org
That's the website dawn reference there. We'll make sure to mention that again before we wrap up today
Sounds good and then our registration
website is wr.activity
r-e-g dot com. Excellent
Dawn, there's also some babysitting classes coming up that are one that touch on. Yes
We've got babysitting on March 1st, which is a day off of school for
Rapid School District and then April 19th. So we have both of those classes coming up
We do have a limited number of kids that we can take for those classes and
You'll learn about
babysitting if you have to stay home with your maybe your younger sibling or
If you want to just start babysitting and making some money
You know and what ages would you recommend to take that class? These are basically grades six through eight
That's what the requirement is from safe-sitter. Oh good question
Um, and that's a great point Dawn. I think a lot of us when we think of babysitting
We're thinking of friends or or other strangers kids or something like that
But your own siblings. It's not a bad idea to take that class. I know my brother and sister wish I did
That's that's there's there's no I like what I like so much about the classes that you guys offer too is
There's no downsides to any of these classes like they're all positives. They're all bonuses
You take your kid takes this class and whether they are
You know, they're more and better watching your your brothers and their brothers and sisters
Or if they don't want a babysitter or anything they find that out a little bit more right and chances are most the kids
To take these classes are going to be parents one day and they're probably are yeah, there's so much about baby
Yeah, there's so much that I know from watching my brother and sister that was vital to me being a dad
Very very important. Sometimes it was not doing what the meeting learning from mistakes
But you know, it didn't help it did help that this baby sitting class when does that start again?
We've got one of them offered on March 1st and the other one on April 19th. Oh
Again, we're speaking with Dawn Disorsey
Recreation supervisor with the parks and Rex department here in Wisconsin rapids and Dawn
I I love talking to you. We appreciate the time
But the whole reason I brought you and was to talk about Robinson Park that is my that is my my second home
I love Robinson Park and we got some fun things going on over there. We do our our low-board hockey rink area
We'll be opening tonight the plan anyways. It's been cold enough finally to mix mice
Um, and then tomorrow evening we are planning to open the warming house at Witter Park
Nice really important things to note as we are finally getting some winter weather here
And we're going to be having people out there that warming house is and is not worthy that's certainly important for people to remember
And we know I know my father will be over there as soon as possible at Robinson Park to play a little hockey
We know there's a lot of people in our community that enjoy that they do they do for sure and
And any of those areas you can skate even if the warming house isn't open
So I get winter park if the warming house isn't open the ice is still there just use caution obviously and
When the lights are on you can use it
Yeah
There is also a winter pickleball league registration that's open on there is there is we we have already started that session
But people can still sign them if they would like to okay, I mean it's full
But every week we do have people that aren't able to make it so we can definitely take others if there are
I'm not interested very cool. I'm not surprised. It's full
I had a listener who heard that you were going to be on the air with us and they immediately asked about it
Everything and I was like oh jeez. I didn't even know you played pickleball, but she loves it and yes
It's one of those sports that has really grown over the last couple of years in this area really popular
It has it has and I think this group loves it because then they're already for spring to get outside
Right because if you'll notice in the spring and the summer those courts are jam-packed they really are oh yeah
They have to say I love the sound that the the bridge wall makes as it bounces around on the court
It's like I don't know. It's it's very zen. It's a sound of summer, right? Oh, yes. Well said don yes
I feel the same way about tennis. So yeah, I hear you, Melissa. That's good
Dawn uh, we don't want to keep you too long to hope as you are and everything um, but the charcoal expressions drawing class
Yes, that is an awesome idea and and something I remember in school really enjoying doing drawing with charcoal
I always thought that was a lot of fun. This looks like a really it's a cool class to bring around it
They are so much fun. I I took a cup. I've taken a couple of them so far
It is just so much fun the instructor really guides you through and when you see the picture that you're going to draw
What what you walk out with is actually that picture. It's crazy. It's crazy. How well you can draw. I mean I cannot draw
Oh me too be too. Yeah, but the ones I've done are beautiful and the instructor is that good
Yeah, that that well done well done
A lot of fun. We have another one of those coming up in March also very cool March 7
And Dawn, uh, is there anything else that you wanted to touch on? I know that the spring glasses are around the corner
Is spring activities are is this a good time to be signing up and thinking about those
It is it is the other thing I actually forgot to mention is on the 24th
Of January from five to six. We've got skating over at witter park with rowdy and the river king. Yeah, that's gonna be fun
Uh, that that is fantastic. We we love our river kings around here
Especially here at uh, we're on our sister station where we play river kings games and everything
We have coach peckman joining us uh, once a week at least
Love our river kings and rowdy's been had a lot of fun with the community
Absolutely, and we had to reschedule that one just be sure that you know
It was supposed to be yesterday, but we didn't have ice yet. So okay
It's going to the 24th. I want to put you on the spot with that but okay good to know and thank you very much for the information
Dawn if people have fault questions about something what we talked about today
How can they get in touch with you? I'll give us a call seven one five four two one eight two four zero
Otherwise our registration page is WR dot activity
our e g dot com
Appreciate the time Dawn. Thanks so much. Stay warm and safe out there. Okay. Thank you. You too
And we'll talk again real soon. Don't be a stranger. We'll have you back real
Melissa and I will take a quick commercial break come back and have some more fun on the morning show here at WF HR
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And the spring and if she comes back
Melissa and James here with you teasing you with some warm songs
That's what Seth does to us
We love him so much
Gigantic shout out to our friend Dawn from the parks and wrecks department. Dawn's awesome. We appreciate you Dawn
Thanks so much for the time
Find out more about those classes and more about winter and spring
2024 activities at wirapids dot org w i rapids dot org
Get out there and get involved
And set up for those yoga class yoga classes everybody the great classes
Sounds like that would be a great intro
Yes, yeah, it really does and a great instructor they have a very very good instructor over there for that
Let us dive into some entertainment news the cw has changed its name and logo
As a reminder to everybody out there the cw is still a network
The cw television network most commonly referred to as the cw decided spruce up
It's looked by unveiling the new evolution in its logo design and brand identity
The this includes dropping the definite article
In its name using the network's previous font and its logo design and color scheming it to a single solid color
The orange reddish hot sauce hue if you will
Um, I don't see a bite. I don't see a difference. I really don't see much
um
Well
It it it just looks like
C in the w
Yeah, I mean, I thought the old logo was black number one and um
I gotta look I want to see the difference between the two
Yeah, yeah, well, it wasn't all that much different. I guess the color is different the w doesn't extend up as high as the old one did
What I what I find interesting about this is the the amount of money they must have spent on the marketing and the design of this
I would love a whole new design
Oh, it's a different color you ever see those uh
There's some there's been a couple of great bits in sketch comedy history where people you know
We're gonna redo your kitchen
We're gonna make it look awesome and they and then people come in and like they're the only thing that's changed is like
There's and there's a painting up like or something like it looks the exact same. We spent thousands on this you know
We replaced everything with new stuff. It just looks the same
The the Emmys were last night
Anybody anybody catch them anybody watch them 715 424 2600 715 424 2600 did anybody watch the Emmys?
I'm I'm generally asking I did not I was teaching I was working but um
They they when when we were young, I think it was the tail end of the Emmys meaning a lot
Um when we when we were
Before you and I were around the Emmys used to be one of the biggest thing games in town
It brought together uh tv movies and um and music
Um covered a wide variety of stuff
It was a little it was I don't know which one came first
I believe the Emmys came before the Golden Globes
But it was um a little bit like a of a more
Mm-hmm a more uh
Detailed in a more uh
Serious version in the Golden Globes the Golden Globes tend to be used to be at least where Holly would went to have a drink
Uh, yeah, yeah the Emmys a little more serious and means something to win an Emmy even to this day
It still means something to win an Emmy you know anybody that's won an Emmy because every zoom call they have
It's right there. It's it's right and back you can see it in the screen yeah
And and as if I ever won an Emmy you would know you would know I won one
Uh, I don't care about awards, but there's certain ones that still have some stature that still have some meaning to them
um
Now uh as far as the winners uh
Succession was the big winner from last night
The TV show here in Culkin Sarah Snook all came home with awards
As far as comedy the bear shout out to Jeremy L and white doing some great work
Quintina Brunson my old colleague uh do it leading a outstanding
Outstanding leading actress
Congratulations to her
Like Abid Elementary, yep
Yeah
Some some big wins there
But if you really want to know uh the winners and losers and all that stuff you can go ahead and look that up
What I want to focus on is uh
The the host Anthony Anderson
I have to admit uh, I have uh, I did a TV show back in uh in San Francisco
I'm sorry out in California if we filmed it the the particular day that Anthony Anderson worked with us
We were filming in San Francisco
I spent maybe four or five hours around this man
He could not be nicer could not be friendlier
Could not be more down to earth all those things so I am a fan of his I will admit
Anthony Anderson hosted the 75th annual Emmys last night and I feel like he just showed okay
Anthony Anderson should be hosting a lot more stuff
I thought he was fantastic and he is great and big extremely talented
However, I believe his mother was told to show
Yeah, I I believe personally that his mother uh was the best part of the Emmys
And that's saying uh something because there was a lot of great people a lot of great speeches
And again, Anthony Anderson did a banger job was amazing did fantastic
But they did something a little different with the Emmys
Uh, he recruited his mom Doris to cut people off when their acceptance speeches went too long
Well really yeah
Seriously, he did this Doris was sitting in the audience near the front and when people went too long
She stood up and told them to wrap it up
Jennifer Coolidge was the first winner to face her wrath
Uh as funny as the bit was John Oliver made it just a little bit better as he usually does
I'm going to play uh just a snippet of that for everybody right now
I'm not leaving without getting played off by Anthony Anderson's mom
So I'm going to start reading off the names of the Liverpool football team in goal
Alice and Becker
Then you got trends Alexander Arnold
Then you got Virgil van Dyke obviously
Oh, she's not here. I can get through the whole team then
Baby, I'd like to take Jesus and my family thing. Okay
She she starts to chime in there right at the end uh
It's fantastic uh, I
That the well played Mr. Oliver well played. I would I would have wanted it's it's like having Don Rickles
And you want to be insulted by Don Rickles
Yeah, I would have gone long in that speech
I've always felt if I ever were to win anything
I've actually got my speech in my head already and it's only about three or four sentences
In this case, I would drag I would stretch just to have that wonderful woman yellow got me. I would do it
I would do it
Well and John Oliver won in two he won the scripted variety series and outstanding writing for a variety series
How are those different? Yeah, I know I know this is one of the things that drives people crazy about award shows
Um
Also, there was cast reunions from cheers grace anatomy martin the sopranos all in the family elli McBeal
Elton John wasn't at the ceremony
But he got he completed this egot when his concert special Elton John live from
Farewell from Dodger Stadium won the award for outstanding variety show
So Elton the only thing he was missing was that Emmy and he got it
So sir Elton John is now an egot winner
Nice um, but if you go back and look up any clips from the Emmys
Go ahead and look up the Anthony Anderson's mom stuff Doris is amazing. We love you Doris
I'd love to have it pops up right away as soon as you type Anthony Anderson and do your search engine
If you would like a
Another pelicanzer another smile though today. I encourage you to just google christina applegate at the Emmys um award presentation
um
She had a standing ovation
Uh, and much deserved standing ovation then she jokingly scolded the crowd for shaming her and her MS by standing up
Okay, incredibly well played this incredibly well played. Uh, I love christina applegate
One of the things I like about her is certainly her comedic timing and uh
Her ability on screen. She's been making us laugh since uh the marriage with children back in the day
She has been so
Vulnerable and honest with her uh, not only with uh beating cancer
But with dealing with MS now and and so many of the struggles that she's had where so many people used to hide when these things happened
I think a big part of this comes from um michael j fox yeah and him being so brave
And uh, I don't I don't throw around the word brave
I think I think that we there's some words nowadays that we tend to do that with
I when I use it I do mean it and I think that there are different levels of being brave
I wouldn't compare what a citizen does to what a soldier does
I think those are two different types of brave
But I also am not going to make light of a woman
Sharing these things that uh or any human being that shares these things out in the open like she has done
It makes you vulnerable
Well, and it makes you real
People people that's what people want people want you to be you people
Our mothers were right the whole time just be you uh
That's what people want nowadays they
But I have found that one of the most difficult things is being yourself and and being vulnerable
Billion percent. Oh, yeah, 100 percent. I'm still working at it
I talk about it all the time and I'm part of the reason I'm talking about it's because I need to learn it too
And I need to be able to do it too um, I have my moments where I think oh yeah
Way to go James nice you were vulnerable today. Well done
And then I think about the 15,000 other times that I could have been vulnerable and I wasn't
um
Because of silly machismo or or whatever else it is um, you know sometimes it's easier to just shut down
Yeah, and pull back. I think that's the biggest one. I think that's the
I don't I want to say the biggest culprit
But one of the biggest culprits of that is oh, I don't want to bother people with my stuff or it's easier to just
You know, I could I could tell you about my day, but my god. It's exhausting
I'd rather just you know, what can we just go ahead and just cut that middleman
Yeah, how are you? How is it going with you and and all that yeah, we all do it deflect deflect
Yep, I am I am one of the masters of it. I am very very good at deflecting
And I wish I wasn't
And that I don't say that if it came across like I was saying that would pride. I'm not
I'm not at all
So let's look at what's new on your small screen tonight celebrity jeopardy semi-finals
Or at seven on ABC
Rachel Dratch Mooraka and Heather McMahon are on there
Any bit to get any chance to hear Rachel Dratch. I'll take it. Love Rachel Dratch
NCIS Sydney is on at seven on CBS named that tune is on at seven on Fox
The fifth season finale of Fargo is on Fox FX. I mean on at nine o'clock tonight and
These seasons wow
Yeah, I didn't realize it's been on that long either
And the series premiere of death and other details on Hulu the great the legend Mandy Patikin plays a brilliant detective trying to solve a locked room murder mystery about aboard a cruise ship
With the help of Victoria Bean who may be the prime suspect
Mandy Patikin doesn't do work unless it's a good piece unless it's a good script unless it's a good idea
There are a handful of actors that I just I note their careers and I watch very patiently to see them work
And when they do like I was talking about with Jody Foster in the true detective series
Uh, it doesn't mean oh, this is definitely going to be a hit or this is definitely going to be good
But it gives me a lot more confidence going into watching something
Because of the the choices that these people make they don't need the money. They don't care about fame
It's about the work and when Mandy Patikin does something
My that that calls my attention
Mm-hmm should be good. Yeah, mine too mostly because of the princess bride
My name is indegamantoya. Good on my father. Prepare to die
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Need the winter blues that's what we need to do unlike the wintertime blues
Melissa and James here with you and we're going to dive into a fun one right now
But only a piece of it because I want you guys to do some homework on this one
Okay, this comes to us from wpr.org our friends over at Wisconsin Public Radio
Encourage you to support local radio support your your great stations out there
Uh, and this is a really cool article. You can find the article. It's it's right up there
The headline preserving collections and saving cats inside Redner's rescued cat figurine mu zam
Ha ha
Mu
Cats are special companions to many people including Sean and Hillary Redner
The couple love cats so much they created Redner's rescued cat figurine mu zam where they display thousands of cats
Related figurines from around the world
And they also are a great home for promoting the adoption in a lot of cats support and everything
It's a really yeah, it's a really cool article encourage people to check it out
You can again find it at wpr.com and uh dot dot org. I'm sorry wpr.org
And Trina La Sousa a great work on that great work
She went to monomony falls to go check that out
If you're curious about the Redner's they have a fantastic Facebook page
You can check out just type in your Facebook search bar Redner's rescued cat figurine mu zam
And yes, I just wanted to say it one more time. Yeah, that is part of it. That is that is a little bit of a part of it
That's fun. No, it's a cool one and it's supporting a local a great group of local people
Courage you to check that one out everybody. Uh, let's go ahead and dive right into this. Uh, it's so cold that
That's the next article we're getting into right here
So cold that temperatures have freeze
Uh, my thoughts have frozen. That's how cold it is. That's uh, I went outside of the media
Do you it all seriousness that does that I mean that's got to happen to other people
I can't just be me you get you get outside and you're you're so cold that you what was I doing again? I oh god
It's the spinning circle of the gray or blue spinning circle just kind of goes
Like you see on your computer. Yeah, uh, we're loading loading
It's so cold that just thinking of ice cream will give you a brain freeze like that's how
I
I didn't think I'd be thinking about ice cream outside now probably not probably not let's actually dive into this temperatures have been frigid across the US over the past few days
So how cold is it? Well, you can call out calling with your jokes if you want seven one five four two four twenty six hundred
But as far as the details it's so cold around 150 million Americans or 45% of the population have been under wind chill warnings and advisories
Almost half the country
Hmm well, it's so cold acu weather posted a video of some frozen noodles suspending a suspending a fork in mid air in Denver
It's a crazy image
It's so cold the national weather service shared footage of someone in Flagstaff Arizona tossing boiling water in the air and watching it
Freeze a lot of people burn themselves doing that though. So please be very very careful when you do that be careful
That went
You may think you know what direction the winds going it
That phrase exists for a reason if it lands on you that's gonna be a bad time
Yeah, be very very careful of that one everybody. It looks cool. I'm not gonna lie
It looks kind of cool when people do it. Yeah, but it's far more fun to watch other people's videos. Yes. Yeah
It is so cold a meteorologist in Lansing, Michigan was driving to work yesterday when her windshield cracked for no apparent reason
Yikes. Yeah, that is what that's cold. That's that is that is a fear too. That is a worry
So I think a lot of people worry about that one that's tough
It's so cold people in Chicago. I've been posting videos of a steam rising off Lake Michigan in the Chicago River
Had one of my my friends who's a teacher send me video of the steam coming off the bean
And it just looks like a cooked bean. It looks like a big silver cooked bean like it would let it's happening
No, that is not hot
It's so cold Portland, Oregon's largest sewage station has been running at her at half capacity after one of their pipes froze
A backup generator also froze and sent sewage into around a dozen homes
Oh, no, that's a bad time. That is messed up. That's really really really not good. No, no
There are there are certain things we understand what the cold that we'll put up with not that no no
That is not good
Stop it. Stop it mother nature. It's enough. That's enough. Leave the people of Portland alone. That's not fair. That's not right
And it's so cold. I know a lot of people might have seen this over the weekend
Kent City chief's head coach Andy Reed his mustache froze during the game against the dolphins in Kansas City
Oh
Andy Reed who has made fun of himself for looking a little walrus like and being a bit bigger and everything
He really actually like that's the most to me. He's ever actually looked like a walrus like with the frozen mustache
Yeah, he really did he really did
And and very self deprecating. I like it. He's hilarious
Oh, he does these commercials with Patrick Mahomes that are just hilarious
I I really do believe either Andy Reed is a far superior actor than we realized or he does not know the cameras are odd
They're that funny. They're that good naturally funny. Yeah, yeah
And bottles of water at the concession stands were immediately freezing when they took them out of the fridge
Oh, yeah, that's cold. It was colder outside in the stadium than it was in a refrigerator
Yeah
Yeah, and then they played a game on it in it in that weather. Yeah
Thankfully temperatures are expected to ease up after today for most of the US especially as we get closer to the weekend
But as our good friend Brittany informed us that also can come with some troubles some issues too. Yeah
Here's hoping it doesn't get too warm and we get some you know rain
That's just gonna freeing
Yeah, and could be could be also bad
Uh-huh
Dive into this one a little bit Melissa because I find this this one a bit interesting
Some people were worried that uh, that um, you know
Uh, some people I should say worry
I mean, is there a when I moved to this town? Is there a wide variety of foods for me to try for me to have
You know, I'm not gonna want burgers every night. I want different things and with that
We're not the only ones that thought that lots of businesses a lot of local independent owners thought of that and
We had a rise there for a while of mexican or Latin style restaurants if you will
Okay
Well, uh that that now we've got the data to kind of back up how much this happened
According to new data from the Pew Research Center a whopping 99% of Americans have a local mexican restaurant
Within their capacity and local is within the same county
Mm-hmm
So it does it is a little wider than I think what some might think of as local, but still that's 99%
Hmm. Well, who doesn't like tacos James. Yeah. Yeah
Overall 85% of US counties have a mexican restaurant, but the the 15% that don't are so sparsely populated that together
They only have four million people, which is about one percent of the population
One percent of the population doesn't have a mexican restaurant nearby. Yeah, that's for them
As of last year
There were more than 7,788,000 restaurants in America and more than 80,000 of them served mexican food
That's about 11%
And more than half of them are in California, Texas, Illinois, New York and Florida
Okay, there are a lot of benefits to mexican food
You know addition to being it really delicious
being generally quick easy and affordable
Yeah, as for price only 251 mexican restaurants nationwide are rated on Yelp with three or four dollar signs
That would be less than one percent of them 61% were listed just with one dollar sign. I don't know what any of that means
Uh, the more dollar signs the more expensive they are
Yeah, okay. Okay, that's cool. That's good to know. All right usually
Typical restaurants. I would say I don't usually go to ones that have anywhere than two dollar signs
Because then you're looking at prices for your entree of
You know upper 20s in price. Yeah
Naturally a decent chunk of these pricey mexican restaurants are inexpensive urban areas L.A. County cook county
Wow where Chicago is located and New York County
Hmm
Interesting you can find the full article at pewresearch.com pewresearch.com. I just thought that was kind of interesting
I would I don't think uh
Had you pressed me or had you asked me beforehand? I would say maybe
50 to 40 to 60 percent of americans have a mexican restaurant near them 99 percent
Never would have gotten to that number never would have thought of that well. It is a hugely popular
You know cuisine that we all have definitely embraced and we've gone beyond
Taco Bell. Yeah, you know
We actually are eating authentic mexican food to some degree and it is pretty Americanized
But you can get authentic like at Latakaria
They have authentic mexican food that you're not going to find it a lot of other places
But of course there's el miscal and alcafe
um and then here in Abbotsford
I actually have two mexican restaurants in this tiny little town of two thousand people and
Um, I haven't been to one of them because we just love it so much
It I mean every that's a great example. Uh, I mean here in rap is uh four three four
I can think of right at the top of my head
Oh, yeah, there's the avocado one too. I've been there
Uh, even in you extend that to
Nikusa port edwards and other areas near us and everything and that expands even more uh, you know, so yeah, yeah
It's it's and that's a pricing
Except when you get that 99 percent to me that part really took me that I think it's cool
I don't think there's anything wrong with it. I just I was a little taken back
I didn't expect that and you can't discount food trucks either
Oh, yeah, very often food trucks are mexican cuisine mm-hmm find a taco trucks somewhere alongside
There's one in sparta. I drive by every time I'm in that area and I always think oh, I should stop there
But as somehow it just never works out. I don't know the timer. I don't know. It's not lunchtime
Or they're not open. I don't know all those poor tacos. Just waiting for you Melissa. Oh
Sad tacos wait for us on the other end of this time out everybody
We're going to come back with uh news released from the wood county parks and forestry department
About art or outdoor recreations. We've got an update on that and uh, we got an interesting that ain't right story for you about
Curing your fears
Well, we get into that a little bit. We come back on the morning show here at WF HR. We are locally grown radio
Welcome back everyone morning show here at WF HR locally grown radio
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We're going to take it to the top of the hour. We got some good stories of the day. We're going to touch on
Some other fun stuff. We'll get to as well
But this uh, we usually feature that ain't right story here and uh, we're going to do it a little differently today
Because we're going to talk about fears and uh and phobias a little bit and and to me
I think fears and phobias are that ain't right story they know that you know that we don't we we've got enough issues enough problems in life
These things um, you know, they they're they're not kosher. They're not cool to me
I am somebody who dealt with a phobia for a good, you know, over 20 years
I was in my 30 late 20s when I finally started the drive. I had a phobia of driving for a very long time
Was in a bunch of car accidents as a kid um had had a had a relative die from a car accident
had another who was almost taken from us from a drunk driver really didn't number on me
Um, I killed that phobia. I destroyed it and um and it took a lot to be able to do it
But once I got to the other side there was no going back
and my um, the the the mental health that it gave me the freedom it gave me the confidence it gave me killing something like that
destroying something like that uh, I believe everybody deserves that feeling
and
This is kind of an interesting study I came across when it comes to this uh a new study in Germany found that curing a fear of spiders
Can simultaneously cure a fear of heights or at least help with that
really
And they're very encouraged by this research because it could lead to
um, if you have a fear of drowning
It could also be tied to a fear of this and it could help multiple people because we've been focusing on oh you fear of drowning
Well, we're going to focus on the drowning part
But it actually you know somebody who's afraid of bears it may actually you know
Be helpful to use some of the tips for that with the drowning thing
They may not seem like what what what would those two things have in common? Well, it's the human brain
Good luck figuring it out. We're still trying to map it
It's 2024 and we're still trying to map the human brain
So they've that doesn't tell you right there
You know how how all the data we can get from this is is is important and interesting
Yeah, researchers worked with 50 people who had phobias of both
But they didn't address heights. They just tried to help with their fear of spiders
They used exposure therapy aka. Oh, you're afraid of spiders. Here's one
Hey, we're gonna hang a bunch of spiders out for a while and
spider and it did help
Um, by the end they were less afraid of spiders than they were before
But the weird part was they were also less afraid of heights in average of 15% less afraid
Wow, and if you are incredible
Yeah, if you are somebody who's afraid of heights that 15% is not a low number
No, no, that's a big deal
Being afraid of heights that can cause you to just completely free up
Well fear of anything when you have a serious phobia like that you have a tendency to just
Be paralyzed and fear
multiple phobia
Multiple phobias is common and until now experts thought each one required a separate treatment
But the study found just conquering one had a ripple effect
That's incredible
That's really really something
It's a really beautiful thing. I think and that's yeah
And it's probably really encouraging for people who have multiple fears because maybe overcoming
um, you know, like the fear of water might be a little bit easier to like you like things there on a spectrum
Okay, my worst fear is fear of water
um
Next one is is fear of spiders
The one before that is fear of bats
So if you can work on the one that is the least
you know
Overwhelming
And then also have it help with everything else
Awesome. Yeah, that's a pretty cool thing
Looking forward to seeing more and more research coming from that and we'll be following that story
We have a news release from our parks and forest department
About outdoor
Outdoor recreation update a snowmobile trails maintained by the Rudolph river rovers and sunset drifters will be opening today at
They're already open they open about two hours ago at 8 a.m. Yeah a portion of trails maintained by the vesper snow drifters
We'll open at this time as well trails running from vesper south to wood county ATV intensive use area of highway 54
And from vesper south east to Wisconsin rapids area are open
Powers bluff tube and ski hills are open. We'll be open this Saturday and Sunday
Keep that open up this weekend. We finally have enough snow. Yes
The net go lake county park multi-use trail has been groomed effort cross-country skiing
During the winter months this trail is only open for cross-country skiing all other users must use single trek with trails
And you can find out more by going to the parks and forest department's facebook and instagram pages or travel
Wisconsin for updating oh opening and closing information
So they post all the snowmobile trails on that travel Wisconsin website too, so you can check them all there
Yeah, big shout out to our friends at travel Wisconsin to Dan over at wood county parks and forestry
You can find out more at ceo.wood.wi us us slash department slash parks
And looking at our schedule for today join us from three to four wonderful
midday magazine to kick off the week and in part one our good friend Ashley Haginau
76th annual Alice in Darryland
Alice in Darryland
We're talking ginseng today one of my favorite topics. Hi my favorite Wisconsin top
It's one of my favorite Wisconsin topics talking about ginseng promoting that. It's a lot of fun
It's interesting and and I don't think that most of us myself included know all that much about it
And most of it I've learned from our Alice in Darryland
Yeah, and if you're a proud Wisconsinite who likes to take pride in things
Wisconsin ginseng's one of those things you can add that to
cranberries and cheese and
And defeating my bears
um
And three thirty today we will have an update from our united way looking forward to that
I believe tarry johns will be joining us looking forward to always catching up with our united way
Finding out more about some of the great things going on out there and volunteer opportunities for you
Mm-hmm
And speaking of volunteer opportunities a big thank you to our friend dawn from the
Parks and Recreation department here in Wisconsin rapids
They are always looking for volunteers and they're always looking for an extra set of hands
If you want to help out with that or find out more about winter classes
Go to wirapids.org
wirapids.org
That's excellent
Looking at our sports schedule for tonight seven o'clock right here on wfh r was constant men's basketball at Penn State
Big 10 matchup gonna be a good one. Be sure to check that out
Um and tomorrow we got bucks basketball. Oh just good six o'clock
Pre-game will start off Milwaukee bucks at Cleveland should be a good game Cleveland's got a nice young team not as good as Milwaukee's though
Let's see how that goes
Talk about sports like I talk about food James
Gotta do don't I
It's all my dad's fault. It's all it's all his fault. I blame him for that way to go dad
Uh a family near albany new york repurposed their giant skeleton decoration from Halloween and used it to warn truckers about a low bridge up ahead
Oh
Wow
I and encourage more of this. I loved it that it only works if you have something in your area that can you can kind of warn people about or or
Something like that
But I think even having one of those giant Halloween skeletons with like a sign that says like be kind or or something like that
Like or we were talking about those live love laugh signs or whatever like even holding up one of those like
They love duck
You put that in your house when you got a low doorway. Yeah live laugh watch out
That's good. That's good. We crack ourselves up
Hopefully some of the audience too
In 80 year old man in india passed away or that's whatever went thought
On the way to his funeral the car hit a pothole and he suddenly came to
Oh my he'd been on a ventilator, but last we had heard he was still breathing on his own again. He's now breathing on his own
Wow got a lot of follow up questions to that one
Yeah, that is an interesting story
Yeah, he must have been in a coma that was deep enough to not you know have his breath wasn't detectable or you know
I've heard of things like that happening, but yeah in this day and age. That's kind of hard to believe
And some local good stories the community blood center as a blood drive going on today
It kicks off in just a couple of minutes goes till three
This is taking place at the former East junior high school music room and 111 and 311 Lincoln street in Wisconsin
Rapids if you can make it appointment that'd be great. You can give them a call at 800-280-4102
That's 800-280-4102 or you can stop on in walkins are welcome
Yes, again the Wisconsin Rapids blood drive happening today from 10 to 3 over at 311 Lincoln street in Wisconsin rapids
The former East junior high school music room and if you can't make the one today plan for next monday the 22nd
Because our blood supplies are very low at like like emergency levels of meeting donors with the cold snaps
So many had to be canceled
Yeah, we really really encourage people to be able to do that and those that do we thank you very very much
We appreciate you very much
The Rams 6th grade orchestra concerts going on tonight from 6 to 7
All right over at that Wisconsin Rapids area middle school 1921 27th Avenue south in Wisconsin rapids
Just a couple blocks from us right here
Come on down and support our youth. Yeah, yeah, take that one in everybody. It's going to be a really fun one
Enjoy and support those kids
And
Valentine's for Wisconsin veterans homes the Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs is asking once again for caring individuals to send Valentine's day cards to our veterans
Living at the Wisconsin Veterans homes in Chippewa Falls King and Union Grove
Please be sure to mail your Valentine's Day card to your veterans
No later than January 31st so that they may arrive in time to be distributed to all the homes by February 14th
They ask that you do not include candy food or snacks with these due to allergies or dietary restrictions
You can mail them Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs attention veterans valentines
PO box 7843 Madison, Wisconsin 537-07 again, that's the Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs veterans
Attention veterans valentines
PO box 7843
Madison, Wisconsin if you need that address again, please feel it to reach out to us. We will get that to you
Let me make sure that everybody gets that address
This is a great way to brighten their day and and say thank you
That they've done for our country you brighten our day Melissa. Thank you so much for a great show
We appreciate you. Yeah, it was a lot of fun James
You guys be good to each other have yourselves a great day
And we'll talk to you soon and later right here at oh Katrina you go ahead and take a cat
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