Good morning, Wisconsin. Good morning, world. It's a new day. Thanks for kicking it
off with us right here at WFHR, locally grown radio. Got your host, James J. I am joined
by Seth Habhager. Good morning. And we kick off our 9 o'clock hour every Thursday with
our great friend Madison Raffer, executive director at Southwood County Humane Society
with our pet of the week. Madison, good morning. Good morning. How are you doing?
Okay. Good. You're busy. I've always been appreciative of Madison taking the time
to stop in studio here. Be with us. It hits home a little bit better. I think some of
the stuff that we go over when it's in person. I didn't realize it's your break. It's
your one chance to like get away from everything. It's still work where I'm here and I get
to talk about it because I'm excited about it, but it's my break. And you guys really
have been hard at work, less, less week or so and everything. I had a hoarding situation
happen. And if you don't mind, I want to talk about that subject with you a little bit.
Not so much just hoarding, but this time of year, the abandonment of animals and why people
abandon animals and what we can do to kind of prevent that as a community as individuals.
Yeah. So a lot of the things that we're starting to see with the shelter, it's been going
on for years, but we're starting to see a lot more of it now with inflation and people
just not being able to afford to take care of their animals and just different things
along those signs. And what we're seeing more is people are attending to dump their animals
or abandon their animals. There's a lot more neglect cases, things like that because
they don't necessarily want to reach out for help because it's a guilty feeling or they
don't want to face that situation and they're afraid to pay a surrender fee because they
can't afford it. Different things like that. And when situations like that pop up, we'd
rather people reach out to us to have those conversations. I can't tell you how many
sorinder fees I've waived. It's one of those things that if you come in and talk to me
and have a civil conversation like, Hey, I've got this going on. I really cannot afford
this and this is where this is getting. I have no problem talking and working out something.
We can waive sorinder fees. We can work with you. We want to be able to hear to support
you when animals are just getting thrown outside or dumped or things like that. It's
kind of out of everybody's control at that point. We see so many more hit by cars. We see
so many more that those animals just get lost and never get brought in or it's a game
of trying to catch them for a week and a half. Same situation last week. We had to go
get a life trap from Portage County to catch a dog that's been seen for four days that
was out in the negative degree temperatures. Oh boy. So it's one of those situations where
we understand that there's a lot of guilt around those situations and we don't want
to hold judgment towards people because trust me, I've had a surrender animals. It's
not an easy situation. I had a surrender, a guinea pig that I had for a year because
the Timothy Hay was making my throat swell up. So it's not an easy situation. You have
to go through those experiences and we understand that and we want to hold no judgment with
those. We want to have an open door policy to come talk to us about situations. If it's
a situation where you need food or you need something that we can help try to keep you
in your home with your pet. We have no problem providing resources for things like that.
But just dumping an animal sadly is one of those things where we prefer you to come
have a conversation with us because we don't want that animal to get hurt. And that's
the biggest part of it. And I understand it's not the easiest thing to have those conversations
but we want to be open and transparent with everybody.
When my parents some years back lost their black lab, Zeppelin, they were never going
to get another dog. And they got, they, they worked with the Humane Society a little bit
in Beth over there. And they, Beth had come across this dog that she thought would be perfect
for my mom and dad. And she reached out to me and I reached out to my dad and my dad
and mom were kind of like, no, they're not going to take a look at them. But my dad and
I, just because it was so nice of Beth, we're like, well, we'll go take a look at them.
Just, you know, it was nice of her to do that. We should at least go take a look at them.
We were not even into the building when we saw Sammy and we, we just fell over. We're
like, that's our dog. That's our guy. He's sitting there and he's, his hair is so out
of rain. It's so uncapped and all over. He had such a sad look on his face. And it was,
the stereotypical thing of Sam had been literally left on the side of the road a couple of blocks
away from the Humane Society. They found him right just because a car had just barely missed him.
Just barely missed him. He's a little guy. He's even a little or back then. He's been with us
for I think six or seven years. He's the greatest dog I've ever known. He's my favorite dog I've
ever been around. I love him. He's my brother. He's not my, he's not my, he, he's a family member of
ours. And now if somebody had dropped him off at the shelter and just taken that extra step,
gone in a couple of extra minutes, you know, it could have been such a different scenario.
It could have been better for him and everything. We're very fortunate that the situation went the
way that it went. It, it nine times out of 10 doesn't always go that way. But if you do that,
you, you're, you're looking out for another family. You're helping out not only this animal in
its future, but possibly another family that are going to be able to give that dog or that animal
a home. I also will throw out there, keeping an eye out for especially cats this time of year.
I just seem to see a lot of cats. I see dogs here and there, but I see a lot of cats without a home
out there, keeping an eye out for them as well. And it's not easy. There's plenty of things in life
that you got to swallow your pride or you got to take a little shame for. You don't have to feel
that. You're not feeling it alone. As Madison, I, we've been here before. Many of us have been in
this situation before. It's about the animal, not you. You put the animal first and the funny thing
about that, you're going to feel better from it from doing that. Yep. Because you're setting that
animal up for success. So when you're open and honest about behaviors that are being presented,
if it's a situation where you just cannot financially afford it or something along those lines,
you're helping set that animal back up for success so that that animal doesn't feel it gets
getting failed or it's not a situation where that animal is going to get put down because
a behavior wasn't disclosed or something along those lines. It's something that we're willing
to assist. We're here to help, but there has to be open transparency about that situation.
And in life, there is no, you know, oh, I'm not going to participate. Like this is a subject that
affects everybody. And it falls on all of us. These animals didn't ask to be domesticated.
We did that. And it kind of falls on us to take care of them as well and look out for.
Yep. And I mean, again, the surrendering is a number and easy situation. People like I've always
said, oh, I'm never going to surrender an animal. And I know lots of other people do, but situations
happen. Things change that I've had to do it before. And it was not an easy situation. I was not
happy to have to surrender my guinea pig. I had to rehome a cat at one point. It's not easy.
And we understand that. But being open and transparent and talking and having those conversations
helps set that animal up for success. I think one thing to keep in mind oftentimes, and maybe
this doesn't apply to everybody. But when you're feeling those feelings, put yourself in the
person's shoes that you're going to be talking to, put yourself in medicine shoes.
She's not doing this job to become a billionaire. She's doing it because she loves this.
She's got a passion for it and everything. You're talking to somebody like that.
Chances are they're going to have an open mind. They're going to have an open heart
and work with you. And maybe you're you end up working something out where you can actually
keep the animal. You know, you never know until you find out. Find out about that and many more
things with our friends at the Humane Society. Madison, who is our pet of the week?
Our pet of the week this week is going to be Fruit Snack.
I already love Fruit Snack. Well, I can tell you I named this one.
Okay, good name. I'm not going to lie. I was eating Fruit Snacks when the cat came out.
Perfect. You know, it was kind of just one of those days.
I love it. So good. So Fruit Snack came back to or came into us as a story a couple months back.
Fruit Snack is a 12 year old or older cat based off of our assumptions.
Fruit Snack has been with us for just a bit. She is kind of a little bit of a hot mess.
Nothing that's super out of the ordinary. She does have hypothyroidism. So she is on a
medication daily for that. She gets a pill twice a day for that to help with everything that she's
got going on with that. She's just a love. She kind of just wants to do her own thing. She sleeps
in her bed. She's got a perfectly little miniature bed that's her little bed. She sleeps on that
all day. She has been in a foster home with dogs and cats and really could give less of a crap
about them. She's just like, give me my perch. I'm good. I'm sleeping here. And other than that,
she's just a typical little old lady. I love her. She's definitely got a lot of personality
and spunk. She'll tell you when she doesn't want something going on and you'll know. You'll know.
Yeah. The picture of her on the website, which you can look at yourself, SWCHS.com.
She looks so sweet. She looks so happy. And just a snuggler. Just a snuggler. When it comes to
animals and this age range, taking them in is a blessing to the animal and yourself. I've
never met somebody who hasn't taken one of these animals in and not loved their time with them
and not appreciated their time. It hits differently. You know, you know, you know, you have so much time
with this animal. Maybe you got years. Maybe you got months who knows. Nobody does. Even when you
grab a younger animal, you just don't know. But with something like this, it hits home a little
bit more. And I think with human beings, we project oftentimes, you know, cats and dogs don't
think and feel like we do. But we project that stuff a lot of the time. And I think that these
kind of animals are perfect for young families. I think they're a really good lesson for kids
and a really, really good thing for them. I also think that they're perfect for people that are
retired and people that are older and stuff. They keep a very similar pace to you and can work
alongside you very well. They have a place in your home out there. Just got to find the right
home. Yeah, definitely. I mean, I've said it before. I'll say it again. Seniors will always have
a sad spot in my heart that they're my cup of tea. I have a senior at home. He's my
soldog and I love him. But he's my soldog. But it's one of those things again. Like, I adapted my
senior kid when I was a young adult. So that's one of those things that it's also great home for a
young adult. Just make sure that if it is something you're interested in, make sure you can
financially afford it. That's the only thing I would have to put as a little bit of a damper.
I'm no, I don't regret adapting my senior. He's cost me an arm and a leg at this point. But I love
him to death and I wouldn't change it. One of the things I've always appreciated and you've kept
this going at our remains society is it's not just get these animals out. No, it's get them to
the right home and being honest with people like things like that. I think that goes a lot farther
and it gets a lot more animals adopted. Yeah, appreciate that out of you. It's one of those things too
that again, a shelter environment compared to home environment. We cannot guarantee
ever behavior. We can't guarantee everything about those animals. But it's one of those things
that we tell you what we've seen in the shelter environment and how we can try to support
this animal to the vast ability of. It's interesting. I think my mom said the same thing about me
whenever I would go to people's houses. I'm pretty sure she said this. He's fine in our environment.
But I don't know how he's going to do how to elsewhere. If people want to learn more about
fruit stack and ways that we can help our humane society, we of course are always in need of,
it's always cat season. We have things in need over there. What are some of the items that we
could use over there? Yeah, highest means right now. We're a paper towel, 30 gallon garbage bags,
cat litter, and oh, goodness, I blanked laundry detergent there. That's definitely highest
means right now. I know we've got a lot of cat food that we're doing okay on. Obviously,
that's going to go quick with the amount of cats we have currently, but we'll get there.
Make sure to reach out to our friends at the South O'Connie Main Society with any
questions you have or to find out more about some of the furry friends that they have over there,
like fruit snack. Go ahead and check out fruit snack. Our pet is a week and plenty more at SWCHS.com,
SWCHS.com. Give more information and our good stories of the days we wrap up the hour.
Madison, you are one of our good stories of the day. We appreciate you. Thank you. We'll talk to you
next week. Sounds good. Thank you. Be listening for that and more coming up here on the morning
show at WFHR, locally grown radio.
Welcome back to the morning show, everybody. WFHR on your radio dial. Thanks for hanging out with us,
Seth and James here with you. Gigantic, huge, big, big, big, big shout out to our friend, Madison
Rafter, for joining us, executive director of South O'Connie Main Society. We'll get some more
information on the Main Society before we wrap up today, but we appreciate Madison so much. Thanks
a lot, Madison. She is great. She's a real deal, man. Yeah, it really is. We appreciate you,
Madison. Let's talk about another real deal. Mr. John Stewart is back, baby. Wow. I've been waiting
since late last night to talk about this. John Stewart is returning to the Daily Show to host
Monday night through this year's presidential election. He'll start February 12th.
As for the remainder of the week, it'll be hosted by a team of correspondence.
An executive says, quote, John Stewart is the voice of our generation, and we are honored to have
him return to help us all make sense of this insanity and division rolling through the country
as we enter the election season. In our age of staggering hypocrisy and performance,
performative politics, John is the perfect person to puncture the empty rhetoric
and provide much needed clarity with his brilliant wit. John was the host for 16 years from 99
to 2015 before Trevor Noah took over. There's a lot of noteworthy stuff about this.
Right. The thing is, I remember in its heyday, people would gripe about it. He's like,
John Stewart and blah, blah, blah, blah. They're not excused, but they're explanation,
well, we're a comedy show. We're a comedy show. It's not serious to anything. They've totally
taken that off now. They're just saying, no, we're actually commenting on the news,
and we're actually doing this. It's going to be funny, but they're not just saying,
it's just a comedy show. They're not doing that anymore. They're saying, no, it's more than that.
John's original, when he took over the daily show, John's original intent is what ended up
happening, and that doesn't happen very often, especially with something that you put on paper,
and it sounds good on paper, but it's pretty hard to pull off. He did this, and in 2010 and 2011
was named the most trusted news source in America. Remember that. Time magazine did a poll,
and he was announced this, and he's still one of our most trusted news sources.
That's yeah, wow. He was doing his news was too big for Apple. Apple cut his show for a
number of reasons, but they had some corporate ties, and he was doing some stories on China and
some other things, but they didn't like that, and his show didn't last. On Apple, on Apple,
he was too hot for Apple. John Stewart is one of the coms and the storms when it comes to this.
For those that don't watch this show, and I watched every episode of The Daily Show,
and I could tell you this, and fatically, John Stewart holds Democrats and Republicans
all equally accountable. I think his show gets looked at as, oh, he's against Republicans,
oh, he's against this. No, I've seen John, I've seen plenty of Republican candidates,
Bob Dole and plenty of other people go on his show, and he treats them with respect,
just like he does any Democrat, and he also holds them accountable, just like any Democrat.
We need this in this day and age. We need this in 2024. I just speaking for myself here,
thank you, Mr. Stewart. Thank you for coming back. Thank you for doing this, because this is a headache,
man. He doesn't want to do this. I mean, he loves the job. He loves what he does for a living,
but do you want to come like, okay, I haven't done this in forever. I'm going to jump in in 2024,
in this division. It's been almost 10 years, yeah, I mean. Look at what we've got. We've got two
plus 70-year-old possible candidates, and a third outlier here in Nikki Haley. We've got a
possible presidential candidate. First up, and I'm sorry if this sounds morbid, or dark,
or anything like that to anybody. Do we even know if these candidates will be alive when the
elect, when the voting process takes place? You can't guarantee me that. You can't. You can't.
Like, this is our, this is what we got. We got one guy who might even be in prison when the
actual election is taking place. Like, look at American politics right now. It's insane. This is a
calm in the storm. This is a man who does not put his feelings into this. He puts facts and debt
data. He does deep dives. He gives you the real. He's not, he didn't get anybody in his pocket.
Almost every news source nowadays has somebody in their pocket. It's part of the reason why I
champion civic media, because we don't have people in our pocket. We don't have people telling our
news people what to do or what to say or anything like that. We cover facts. We cover freedom. We
cover democracy. And that's what John Stewart is doing. And John Stewart changed the game. Not
only late night, he changed news. Everything changed after John Stewart. Fox changed what they did.
CNN changed what they did. CNBC changed what they did. It's a different world with him in it,
with him in the news game. Right. Right. So we'll see. I mean, it's sometimes, you know, when you
come back to the, and this is just pure, this is not about, you know, what he did or who he is.
It's just, you know, sometimes you come back. It's really hard to re, re, you know,
recapture whatever it was that he had before. Um, he's not been completely out of it, you know,
because like you said, he had the show on an apple. And so it's not like he's been completely
nowhere in the last couple of years. So, but it'll be interesting to see does, does, does,
does John Stewart still have whatever it was, you know, I hope he does because like you said,
I think it's important. But, uh, and, and, and I'm curious to see how long the one day a week
thing works. Yeah. Yeah. I kind of get a feeling he might be creeping in for a couple of more. We'll
see. Especially come October and over. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I got to think as we get closer
and closer to the election. And, uh, I also think it's noteworthy. There are a few people in this
country who have done more for our veterans, our soldiers who have done more for first responders
and John Stewart. Yeah, especially the 9-11 refers to everything, all that stuff. He has been
an absolute advocate for them. No, uh, and this has been said by soldiers, not, not me. I'm repeating
what other soldiers have said. Nobody has done more to bring attention to burn pits and the things
that have gone on with those than John Stewart. Like, uh, it has to be noted what he has done. This
is a man who puts his name on things, puts his money where his mouth is and stands on this stuff.
I'm excited about this. I'm excited about this and on a number of levels, not just politically,
John Stewart's one of the best interviewers I've ever seen. Um, and he has a lot of fun on those
shows. Yeah. I'm looking forward to enjoying late night TV again. And, uh, he's funny. Yeah. He's
a very funny guy. Yeah. Look forward to it. Uh, a lot of us are looking forward to the AFC
and NFC championship games this weekend. The Chiefs play the Ravens of the AFC championship,
the games in Baltimore. And it's pretty much, uh, a foregone conclusion that Taylor Swift is
going to be at the game with that, you know, shocker. Uh, with that in mind, residents of a bright
view white marsh assisted living facility made a TikTok to let Taylor know what she can do while
she's in their city. The suggestions include Inner Harbor, the local aquarium, and Jimmy's
famous seafood. That's kind of at the end of the video. The employee at the facility tells Taylor
that they that she must visit bright view white marsh. Oh, um, Taylor is a, I give her a
letter credit. She's very smart with this stuff. She pays a lot of attention to social media. Oh,
yes. And, uh, and it's done a lot of things with fans over the years where she brings on a cancer
patient on stage or she does something up privately. I don't think it'd be shocking if she showed up
at this nursing home or at least, at the very least, like sent them a shout out or something like
that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Cause boy, I'm trying to think logistically, you know, because like, like
her, you know, because of the security and stuff she needs is like the president going somewhere.
Yeah. You know, you have to like scout out the place. I was okay for Taylor to come in. You know,
that kind of thing just because how famous she is. Uh, but I hope, I hope she does. That'd be fun.
Kind of fun. And I love this. The people of Baltimore, at least this group of being like, come on,
Taylor, you know, they're a lot like, oh, you're a chief's fan. Right. They're like, no, you know,
we got some great stuff in Baltimore, you know, I, I liked that they're doing that. I also think
that a little bit has to do with the fact that they probably get the best team in football.
And they've, this is crazy, man, this never happens. Baltimore's probably had the best team in
football for the last two, three months. And nobody's talked about it. I know. They were trying to
crown Philly. They were even trying to crown Dallas at one point. Uh, but Baltimore's just quietly
kind of been this amazing force that's been going on. So yeah, I'm with you. It's gonna be
interesting. Yeah. Uh, I want audience participation on this next one. Seven one five four two four
twenty six hundred. Seth and I are going to go into a handful of TV shows that were supposed to be
rebooted, but got canceled or or the idea didn't end up. It's never worked out. Right. Yeah.
Plan TV show reboots that never worked out. We're going to go through this list. I want to hear
from you all which one you would have liked to have seen made. Oh, that's good. Like what's one that
you went, I want Seth's vote too. Uh, you've probably heard about the planned reboot of Lizzy McGuire
with Hillary Duff that got canned before it even got started. Uh, well, actually Disney filmed two
episodes of it and then decided, no, it's not going to happen. They saw the rushes and they're like,
no, we're not doing this. Yeah. Yeah. Which is kind of really hit the rough. It's got to be rough.
Buzzfeed put together a list of other planned TV show reboots that got canceled that you might not
remember. Okay. So we're going to start at number seven, uh, going way back to LA law, they were
going to do an LA law revival with the return of Blair Underwood. Really? Wow. Whoa. I think that
had been kind of cool actually. I remember as a little kid, um, my mom loved LA law. I don't remember
the show, but I remember watching it with her. You know, that's a show that could easily be rebooted.
Yeah. And updated because it had a revolving cast, you know, it did had people come and go and
then, you know, it had like the core, but that's easy. That beat, you know, and then do like
cameos, bring the old, you know, get your Corbin Burntson, you know, and you're all your guys in
there, you know, and doing cameos and stuff like that. When that, I mean, that would work. I think
it'd be good. I never watched LA law, but I know it was a pretty popular show. Good Corbin Burntson
reference. Oh, man. He was so good on site. Oh, he was so good on site. I think it's my favorite
character he played. Oh my God. That's he for a lot of ways he made that show. He got it.
It did. Yeah. It's good as the other season. Especially the first season. Yes. Yeah.
A Charlie's Angels reboot called Angels 88 starting T leone in Sandra Canning.
Boy, those two really only really only wow. Wow. I can see that. And I don't think it would have
worked in the 80s. It would have worked like it did in the 70s, man. No, no. And I don't know if
the reboot movies do as well without Drew Barrymore in that lead. I think so. I think that was
an integral part of a great cast. Bill Murray is the voice guy or whatever. It was a great cast.
Yeah. Bossly. Bossly. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But I really think she was one that really brought
that home Drew Barrymore. This is the one that I'm picking. A reboot of Coach where the return
of Craig T Nelson set 18 years after the original series. Wow. Now at that point, they would have
lost Jerry. Jerry Van. Jerry Van Dyke. I'm pretty sure he had passed away by that point. So
that would that that makes me like. Yeah. And that is excited. Not because he was an integral part
of that show for me. He was. He was so good. It was so good to see him finally get his due too.
Like he was always in the shadow of his brother. He never really got a chance to really shine.
Yeah. He didn't that show. He got that was. Yeah. Him. Like Dobber was great on that show.
But without Jerry like that. It's and I love Craig T Nelson huge fan of him. Excellent
actor. Not the same show. No. I don't think that show does nearly as well. No. No. His wife
on that show was really good too. Great cast. Yeah. That was a great show. Very good cast. Great
show. Great show. The Shelley Fabrey was on it. You know, she was good as Coach's girlfriend
and everything. Yeah. I mean, the Minnesota. We actually back in this is I should not admit
this, but back in when you had the the NCAA football and you could create college football teams,
I made the Minnesota like the Minnesota state as they could by which by the way, it's hilarious
that that because of that show, what was and still is basically Mankato state and Minnesota
changed their name to Minnesota state because of coach. Really? Yes. They did. Whoa.
Now it's called Minnesota state. Mankato now. But still they were the first ones that did
because there was no Minnesota state. That's why they created the team because there wasn't a
Minnesota state. Yeah. That's pretty cool. Yeah. I did not know that man. That's pretty cool.
A present day reboot of Clueless with Diana Davenport as the main character instead of share.
Yeah. That that one they they really tried for years to man they did. They were trying.
They were trying a lot of time. That was such a of its time. Yeah. The movie was so of its time.
It's kind of like a time capsule. You really it's it'd be hard to reboot that one. Yeah. Yeah.
The one my sister was very excited about. I remember Gillian texting Gillian at the mom of two
young boys, two little monsters. So I love that they are monsters. They're the boys. Yeah.
And they she has very little time and we don't text nearly as much as we used to. But every once
in a blue moon I get a message from my sister about a movie or TV show that's being created or
about to come up or a trailer or something. Oh, we have to see this. We have to like years ago she
sends me a daily of a live action power puff girls thing that they're they're they're scripting
and they're looking to do and they put a lot of time and money into this. They even got casting
down. They even started to cast this a little bit. Just never happened. Wow. The pandemic happened
and it just never came to be live action to that show. I don't know. But I want so part to me. I want
John Hamm as the doctor. I want John Hamm as the dad. I think it'd be perfect. Even at the job
professor. Yeah. He has the job. Yeah. The professor. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. By the way, my my kids are watching
that right now. Awesome. They're watching. One of the best of the 90s. Absolutely. I am
Mojo. You really Mojo. I am Mojo. It was one of the most clever. Yeah. Yeah. Of anime because
yeah, kids could watch it and have fun. This got funny kid stuff in it. But it was you could maybe
they were doing some pointed stuff in there, which is really interesting. So that one and foster's
home for imaginary children, children, animals. That is in top five favorite kids shows of all
time. And it wasn't even a kid show for me. It was like a kid show on my kids and stuff. But I love
that show. Dexter's laboratory. Another good one. Another good one. Nice. A reboot of
murder she wrote starring Octavia Spencer. That could totally work. That premise could be done
by anybody. Yeah. Totally would work. And you put Octavia Spencer in anything. Awesome. She is
fabulous. She's fabulous. She's got such an expressive beautiful face. I love her eyes. I love
the way I could see her being very good at that. Absolutely. I'm a little like that's the one
that shocks me the most that didn't happen. Right. Because it seems like that would be like a
no brainer. You know, she's a she's a well-known actor. She's very good award-winning. You know,
she's very famous as well. And that seemed like a like a home run. But something must have happened.
Yeah. Sometimes it's scheduling. Sometimes it's not especially. So from what I was able to find,
and there's not much information on this one, this came about at the time, right around the time
that the unsung hero's movie, the movie with Octavia Spencer in it. It figures? Yes,
thing in him figures. Yes. That this was being talked about then. And she thinks, you know, she'll
do this. She doesn't sign on to do it, but agrees that she might do it. And then her star
rises. She blows up because of that movie. Yeah. That her schedule probably just went crazy.
Yeah. So I don't know that that's what happened, but reading between the lines, it seems like
that's what happened with that one. Which one of these would you like to see? Or what is one that
you think would be good? What's a good idea? Go ahead and give it to us. Hollywood could use it.
They do not need anymore encouragement to do reboots. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. We are so right.
We can't. We can't. We cannot. We cannot encourage Hollywood. But we do encourage you to call
up and let us know which one of these would have been good. Or if you have an idea out there,
we'd love to hear from it. Call up 715-424-2600. CPO Sharky. Honorable. Nice. Honorable mention
before future Rama and family guy, Fox was in talks with the Simpsons creator Matt Graning to
create a prequel to the Simpsons of Homer and March. No, really. And they were all set to do this.
They could not work out the details and never ended up happening. And Fox ended up actually
turning that budget money into family guy. Really? So a lot of people can thank Matt Graning for
family guy in that respect too. Now, what they did was, though, they love the idea so much that,
oh, well, we'll just do a flashback and we'll do a flashback. And after 34 seasons, almost every
season they have a flashback episode of Homer and March when they were teenagers or kids or something
like that. God, the continuity must be a mess right now in the Simpsons. It makes no sense.
As somebody who has watched every single episode multiple times, I can promise you, yeah,
nothing adds up. It's a cartoon show. Let's relax, everything. It's just a cartoon.
Absolutely. You're set this mainly speaking to me on that one. I need to let go. Just relax.
Just relax. Just repeat yourself. It's just a show. You really should just relax.
It's just a show. You should just relax. You know, it seems, that seems really fitting.
That should be in a theme song. That should be in a theme song somewhere. We'll be back with more
of the more to show a WFHR. Welcome back everyone. Morning show here at WFHR.
Locally grown radio. Seth and James here with you. We hope you're having a fantastic day out there.
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right after our birthday and anniversary club. Right now, we're going to go from Malaysia to Wyoming.
And they connect. Somehow, they connect. Somehow, in my weird brain, they connected. I came across
this story this week and then I thought it was kind of interesting, custodians of an ancient
Hindu religious site in Malaysia are planning to install an escalator as an alternative for those
visitors either unable or unwilling to climb 202 steps leading to its temple in Cape Shrine.
A lot of steps. Wow. The Batu caves are one of Malaysia's most popular tourist attractions.
They serve as a religious site for Hindu worshipers and are a focal point of annual festivals every year.
Lots of people visit millions come over 400 million people. I'm sorry, over a couple
hundred million people go there every year. Wow. That's a lot. The actual place itself, the site
is thought to be around 400 million years old. And it is easily recognizable by its towering
flight of rainbow stairs which have made it popular with Instagrammers. Of course.
Right. It's colorful. It makes a great picture and it does make a great picture. I mean,
it was a fabulous view. It's just beautiful. I mean, even just looking at the pictures of it,
alone I can't imagine actually walking. That's amazing. Now, this is huge for them because they
make a lot of money off of these tourist dollars for donations and stuff. Yeah. Yeah. And so,
well, you know, many of us will probably take shots at the Instagrammers for, you know, that kind of
stuff and everything. I also, you also have to give a little bit of credit because they're spending
money and that's helping the people over there. Exactly. So, you know, to make this more accessible,
to make it more maybe even more people use it, they've thought about installing this escalator.
Construction of the escalator as well as a new multi-purpose hall would begin after this year's
Thas Postmium Festival, which falls on January 25th. Okay. The hall estimated to cost around
$35 million or $7.5 million in American dollars. Okay. This is set. Now, also along with this,
however, the region of the rejuvenation has also countered controversy with the Malaysian heritage
board would say the steps were painted before the makeover was approved. So, it'd be interesting
to see what happens there and there's a lot to be said there. We'll follow up on this story
as things develop. Right. But I come across this and I think it's really cool and interesting. Yeah.
It's something that I think even the question to we can face ourselves here in America.
Well, we have these great sites. What if we want to incorporate this into a modern tech into it
and how do we feel about that? How do we? People have talked for many years. The Liberty Bell
should it be fixed? Well, no, of course not. That's history right there. Right. Right. There are
actually groups of organizations out in Philadelphia that think that it should be actually fixed.
Oh, yeah. Right. And stuff like that. So, it's something that we face here in this country
a little bit, not as much maybe. Well, and you know, it's different depending on what it is. My
folks down in South Carolina are involved in a project to rebuild a house, a very historic house
of a prominent black family and it is so island. And because it was a shambles, it was a complete,
you know, a ruin. And so, they've had to put a lot of, you know, and have to be very careful
about how you do it without, you know, collapsing the structure and that kind of stuff. But in that
sense, you know, that's a good thing because now it's living history. You know, people can find out
about this family and all this really a fascinating story about, you know, race in South Carolina
and all these kind of things. But, but, you know, it depends. Like, do you fix the Liberty Bell? Well,
I mean, it's iconic. You know, it's got the crack in it and people are used to that. And that's
fine. They can keep it that way if they, you know, if that's what's decided. But there are other
times when, you know, putting something, you know, putting work into something and making it better,
not leaving it the way it is is actually the right way to go. Yeah. So I go down the rabbit hole
with this and I'm curious to know, you know, I'm never, I love, I come from a construction family.
I like construction. I'm like, well, what is the work that it takes to put an escalator in? And as
I'm typing into my search bar escalators, immediately popping up, only two escalators and Wyoming.
Oh, what's this? Oh, I have to go down this way. Oh, yes. I have to check this out.
Up this rabbit hole. Yeah, nicely done. And I'm like, wait a minute, there can't, this can't be true.
It is. There are only two escalators in the whole state of Wyoming. And they are very proud of
this. They are extremely proud of this. When it comes to interesting facts about the 50 states,
one of Wyoming's default trivia tidbits is that throughout the cowboy state, there are only two
sets of escalators. The cowboy state has as many U.S. senators in national parks as it has
escalators. There is one more Democrat in the Wyoming house and 255 times as many registered
electoral, electric vehicles in Wyoming as there are escalators. There used to be three,
three sets of escalators in the Cheyenne, JC Penny building, but it was lost when JC Penny moved
into frontier mall and escalators were removed when older buildings renovated. So why does Wyoming
only have two escalators? Well, basically, I can save you a lot of time going through the whole
article and finding multiple articles because this is how they want it. Wow, they're proud of this.
Wyoming's extent ex-ex-ex-ex-ex-escalators in Casper as the main branch of Hilltop National Bank
in downtown branch of first instrumentate. They work in both directions, offering traditional
accent. A full tour of Wyoming's escalators include rides up and down. Seriously. Okay, now that's
taking it too far. But anyway, yeah. They say that this is the way it is because they like it this
way because in part because of Wyoming is an open state. It's not really populated. It's very open
and they like it that way. If you moved to Wyoming, you're not moving there because you love the
hustle and bustle of city life. You like all of these things. And Wyoming wants to keep their
state that way. So they're not going to have a lot of escalators. They actually, if you read this
and it deters you from moving to Wyoming, that's okay with them. They want that. That's kind of
weird. Although, I guess we could put a damper on a little bit because I know that they have to have
elevators because of the ADA. You're required to have ways for disabled people to get up and down.
So maybe that's so they only got two escalators, but I'm sure they've got plenty of elevators.
Right. That's keeping a perspective. Ronald Yount got some very close to Robin Yount.
It's very close. Yeah. Very specifically. He's a project manager of plan one architects in
Cody in Wyoming. He pointed to a simple reason why escalators are so rare Wyoming. It boils down
to one of the state's proudest points. It's low population and conversely, not a need to cram
a lot of stuff into public places. Just like a weird way to show that. You know, it's just kind of
odd to me. Like this is good. We only have two escalators. Ha. Okay. Yeah. You did. Next work. Well,
I don't think I guess. I guess. I think maybe it's more how many guns each Wyoming person owns.
Maybe that's something to do with it. I love the idea of like if I'd like to know if this really
works too. That's yeah. They did a study on this. Like has it hasn't actually helped keep the
population down. What? They've only got two escalators. Well, I'm not moving there. Yeah. Yeah.
Man, more escalators than two. You know, three would be five, but two? No. I'd love to look a little
bit more into this. I'd like to find out a little bit more about it. We will take a quick
time out. But if anybody out there has ever visited Wyoming or been on one of those escalators,
you have to call us up. You have to call us up. You do. And the fact that they treat it like a
tourist thing though. Yeah. That kind of defeats it too. I know it's a little bit. What are you doing
in Wyoming? Man. Wyoming people will uncover more as we follow along this topic. We'll be back
more on the Morty Show at WFHR. Welcome back everyone. Morning show here at WFHR locally grown radio.
Seth and James here with you. Take you to the top of the hour.
We got then a right story we're going to get to before we touch on some local good stuff and
get into our schedule here. And this then a right story as I've said before. I'm going to try and
to do some things a little bit different with this story. Ideally, you should be able to count on
one hand the types of things you flushed on a toilet. Oh dear. But some people sometimes use it
as a garbage can or accidentally drop something in there. A drainage pipe company surveyed plumbers
and asked them to reveal the strangest things they have caught being flushed down the toilet.
We are going to go ahead and go through this list. It does not in any particular order. No.
Legos or a list. No shocker there. Yeah. Rubber ducks. Huh? Like rubber ducky. Yeah. One bad time.
So much fun. Apparently, I'm wondering where they're taking their baths. That's just kind of weird.
The rubber duck you should not be leaving the bathtub. No, it should not be. Socks. What?
That I know. Socks. Yeah, that that seems far fetched. That seems weird and at the same time.
I'm sure it's happening. I'm sure it's happening. That actually feels like the most real. What
is a little realistic one? This is like, you know, when your two-year-old discovers you can flush
things down the toilet, it scrubs whatever they can find. Maybe that I'm guessing that's a lot of this.
Yeah. My son. He just learns. He just learns to start going on his own and everything, man.
And I know he goes, I see him go up there and you know, you keep an eye out. Yeah.
Oh yes. And I'm listening and I'm listening. I'm like, okay, JC hasn't showed up. It's been about five
minutes. It's not wrong here. I go up there to check in. He's got the toilet paper roll and
he's just standing there just rolling it, just hitting it, just rolling it, just watching it,
just completely unrolling. The roll, yeah. Just like, oh man, what are you doing?
Turkey bones and Brussels sprouts. Yeah. Oh, I know what it is. I know why the Brussels sprouts are
there. We have a kid. It's like, oh, I got to go to the bathroom. You know the bathroom?
In their napkin, the Brussels sprouts are right there. Got to get rid of them somehow.
Get rid of the evidence, you know. Just randomly asking not for any personal reasons whatsoever.
If an adult does that, is that even worse? Just curious. 100%. 100%. Just say you don't like
Brussels sprouts. You don't need to try to hide it. No, I got to go to the bathroom. Excuse me.
Let me take this napkin with me. That's not at all weird. I could say, like, I wouldn't have done
this as a kid, but as an adult, I could see doing it just for the acting, like, just so that I
could see if I could do it as an actor and not eat the Brussels sprouts. I can see them.
I am going to the bathroom now. What are you ever doing? It gets away. Overdoing it.
Bananas. Whoa. Whoa. What is going on here? No. Are they peeled?
Were they? Oh, I don't need to know any of the details. No, that's just weird.
Moving on. Let's see here. A two-man tent and sleeping bag. What?
It's probably safe to assume that this didn't make it too far, but the plumber had to come out
and clear it. One plumber said, I've seen, okay, we got to stop on that one. How? How? How?
What is that? What? Wow. What scenario happens where you're even, like, what?
Attempting to do this? Okay, I know a two-man tent isn't very big. It's like a pup tent kind of
thing, but still, even if you roll it up, you know, and as tight as you can, dude, that's not going to,
how does that fit into a toilet? I had a friend in college. She really liked this guy and she found
out that he delivered pizzas and we weren't hungry and she was a vegetarian. She didn't even eat,
she, oh, yeah, she was a vegan. She didn't eat cheese, but we ordered a pizza just so this guy
would come over and everything. He didn't. It wasn't him. It was a different person. Of course.
Of course. But that's the only thing I can think of here is that you're, like, in love with some
plumber and you got no reason to get the plumber over to your house. I don't care. It's good
if it reason is any. That's exactly what I was going to say. It's good if it reason is any man,
or any explanation for that matter. Yeah, yeah, there you go. I've seen all, quote, from this one
plumber, I've seen all sorts of weird and wonderful things blocking pipes and everything from
chopsticks to lettuce. A head of lettuce. A head of lettuce. Okay, that's just like a large brussel
of lettuce. That's all I don't like. Quote, it's really important to think twice before flushing
something because it can cause long-term damage to plumbing systems. Yes, yes. Although,
secretly, they're like, oh, yeah, I'm getting a payday now. I like that. Weird and wonderful.
I like the fact that he put wonderful in there. There is a plumber who enjoys his work. Yeah,
he enjoys his work. That's the plumber I want, man. Absolutely. Well, this is a
right story. A good story of the day is all of our plumbers. Thank you plumbers. Plumbers are
awesome. We love you all. We appreciate all plumbers out there. Thank you so much for the work
that you're doing. Yes, indeed. Getting a true pellet cleanser. We kick off our great midday
magazine today at three o'clock with our wonderful friends, Steven and Katrina Hittner from Family
Natural Foods, two of our favorite people to talk to. Awesome. We'll catch you up with how things
are over at the shop and plenty more with our friends from Family Natural Foods. And in part two,
Matt Lippert, Wood County Agricultural Agent, Matt going to talk with us. We've got a lot of
things to talk about with Matt and looking forward to it. I wonder, you know, I wonder if he knows
anything about like, whether like this does to the spring, you know, when, when, everything melts
and then we, you know, the nutrients go into the ground for the farmers. I wonder if there's
anything about that, you know, I think that might come up with that. That's cool. I also want to
talk to him about the no joke dairy and strafford. They're going to be hosting the farm days.
Oh, cool. They're going to host this in 2026. I want to talk to him about that.
I'm going to say the the no joke dairy. They're going to be hosting a comedy contest.
Yeah, you're right. Yeah, that'd be great. That'd be, that'd be awesome. I like that. That'd be fun.
And we got good stuff on our radio dial tonight at 605, the great guard show. Join us for that.
And at 705, the Wisconsin hockey hour back to back Wisconsin Badger head coaches.
Find out a little bit more about your teams that way. Yes, indeed.
Another side. No, keep in mind that tomorrow on WFHR, well, that was Consumene's basketball,
the Badger's hosting Michigan state. And on our sister station, WRI at 659 river Kings hockey
hosting Minnesota mullets, Mark and Seth going to cover that one for us. I think Mark, I believe
I'm not sure who I have on Friday, but I do know on Saturday at the river Kings, our own Mike
Comer will be calling the game. That's really cool. Yeah, Mike. We appreciate that. That's awesome.
Follow your river Kings. Support them as they build hockey up and down the river. It's go time
for our river Kings. Let's fill up the center and show the one home ice advantages. Yeah.
Seth, we got the winter farmers market back. It's back everybody. It's every Saturday from 9 to 1
over at the Moravian Church at 310, first Avenue South. Just go down into the basement. There's
an elevator there. So it's all accessible for everyone. There's going to be lots of cool.
There's lots of food now being going to be in there. There's going to, there's lots of great
things. You'll check out their Facebook page to see who will be there this week. The last
couple of weeks have been great. We've had a lot of good people, a lot of people coming in to see
what's going on. It's going until May 18th, everyone except for March 30th. But every Saturday,
9 to 1, the market at the Moravian, go check it out. Also going on tonight at McMillan Memorial
Library, reconnecting with our foods and seeding the future with Jessica Green dear. It'll take
place from 630 to 730 in their Fine Arts Center. Jessica will talk about how she came to seed
keeping organic farming and earth regeneration along with what exactly seed keeping and seed remyration
is. That's cool. She will also discuss how seeds carry history and culture. That's a fascinating
subject. Wow. Check that out and plenty more over at our local hub, our McMillan Memorial Library.
Find out more at McMillanLibrary.org. Library's awesome. Yeah, we appreciate it. We got one
of the best. Yes, we do. And check out Fruit Snack, our pet of the week from our friends at the
South of County Humane Society. Reach out to them and find out anything. Anyways, you can help out
them doing the integral work that they do over there. Find out about Fruit Snack and plenty of
other great furry friends over there at SWCHS.com, SWCHS.com. I love the fact that you just can name
it whatever you're doing at the moment. Yes, that's good. Madison, thank you for telling us that.
Now I'm going to name I'm not going to get a pet, but if I did, that's exactly what I'm going to do.
And uh, that's great. You have my dog cleaning my glasses. Have you met cleaning my glasses?
Have you met radio shows? Great show today, brother. It was fun. We'll be back with
more fun tomorrow right here on Oh, hell perfect. It's this birthday girl. You take it.
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