Good morning, Wisconsin. Good morning, world. It's a new day. Thanks for kicking it off
with us here at 975 FM 1320 AM WF HR, where we are locally grown radio. Got your host,
James J. I am joined by Seth Habhacker. Good morning. And we have joining us right now
in studio offering Tim from the South of County Humane Society. Tim, thanks for joining
us. Thank you. And thank you for the opportunity to speak here.
Yeah, we always appreciate catching up with our friends at the Humane Society. Tim,
I know that you had some notes and some things to get to. Let's go ahead and touch on anything
that you have and update people on how things are going over at the Humane Society.
Great. Last year we had some problems on the board and some people left and we had a
lot of vacancies. So we had a most unusual occurrence where three of us former members
on the board came back, which you see people never come back on the board after you do
your terms. So we came back. One of them was vice president. I was elected president right
away. Yeah. And because they were going to have no president or vice president on the
board, which would have made difficult. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I imagine. Yeah. So we're
up to 12 right now. And we have a very dedicated board, a lot of them volunteer all at the shelter
and do things. So we have a new fundraising committee and that's running well. We're
trying to build that back up again. It kind of fell by the wayside for a little bit. There's
just a lot of changes going on at the Humane Society. And I want to kind of update everybody
as to what's going on here. Appreciate that. Really do. Especially we know how much this
community loves animals, loves the Humane Society, supports the Humane Society. We appreciate
the transparency. I think that that can only benefit our Humane Society, which is what
we're all here for is helping these animals is making them making their lives better,
getting them a good homes. And that's the point. You hit it right on the nail in the head
with that. It's about the animals. It's not about me or the board or anyone else. It's
about the animals and the care they get. Yeah. So recently we had another big major change.
We have a lot of vacancies in our staff. So in addition to being president, I have now
the interim operations manager and running the entire shelter. Wow. Yeah, it's been
a challenge. Challenge, yes. We will be advertising soon for some job openings. And once
we figure out as the board, where we're going to want to go on this, because there's
some a lot of new things coming around. And we just have to see what we're going. Yeah.
Yeah. I encourage people to keep up to date on the Facebook page and maybe some of the
information might come across there. Yes. Correct. And a website. Yeah. Yeah. Great website
by the way. Great. Is that a brand new? Yeah. It's awesome. It's fantastic. It's such
a good website. It doesn't have our board bios on it. Yeah. Yeah. I'll have to get
them out there. I love to do it. Tim, as you guys are in this process and everything,
we as individuals, as community members, as teammates of the Humane Society, the people
that care about the Humane Society, we want to help. Or is there ways we can help or the
things we can do? Yes. Great question. Along with this, I wanted to give a, I guess a
shout out. I don't know how you call it now. To our staff. We have an amazing staff.
They, the stuff they have to do is unbelievable. The care, the dogs get fed, cleaned, the
kennels and that, walked, socialized, behaviors, worked on twice a day. And this is even when
the shelter is closed, this goes on. It's a never ending process. Yeah. Yeah. And the cats,
they're once a day, but they, they also need to get fed, meds, litter boxes, change, medications,
a lot of the animals are in medications, and then socialized. So what, what you said about
what can you do, the cat room right now is open and people can come in and help volunteers.
They want to socialize. We have a lot of people come and do that. Just play with a cat
here or there. Yeah. Two, three. And that really helps staff. Excellent. And then it gets
the animals out of their little cages, both dogs and cats. It's very difficult to live
a life like that. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And put yourself in a closet and a closet that you
can't open the door. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's a little, it's not even that, that's not
even a great comp, but it's as close as I can get to a comp of what an animal deals with
in these situations. You're exactly right. When you get, when we get volunteers over there,
we get not only do we free the staff up to focus on other things, but these animals get
a little love and you get to pet a furry friend. You, I mean, it's a win-win for everybody
else. It is definitely Tim. Oh, sorry. Go ahead. Oh, and then I just want to add the people
we have that do laundry and office and paperwork. All of our stuff is regulated a lot by state
federal statutes and things. And so it's not what people would think, yeah, you take them
in, do a couple little things and you're done. No, it's a lot. And then if you have bite
cases, surrenders, hoarding cases, the animals tend to pile up. Yeah. Yeah. Especially, I know
that you're in the middle of a construction project as well. And that is kind of, you know,
kind of mucked up things a little bit or great up things a little, I'm sure too. Ah, that's
been a super challenge. Yeah. We had to shut the dog kennels down completely in December.
And at this point, we hope to open this week. Oh, well, let's start off over again, just
where we were before. Yeah. This was a huge undertaking. We have it a whole new floor,
brand new kennels, new ceiling, new walls, everything in there. And we went from 28 to 36
kennels now. Wow. Wow. So we're going to be having people I want to in the future. Come
on. Take a look at what we've done. And I'll be pictures posted. And we have some new features
out there, the inside outside kennels. I'd love to come and take a tour and a letter
audience know about it and everything. So when they, when it's up and running, as you're
ready, when we get open, we'll talk. We'll talk. I'm looking forward to that. That'll be great.
Yeah. Tim, we talked about this a little bit, but I want to be direct with it now. How can we
help? Can are you taking volunteers right now? I noticed you mentioned the cat room is open.
If people want to help, if they want to add to things, bring cat food or any of this. How can
they reach out to the Humane Society? How can they help? Good point. Yes. I think last night we
just posted some needs for our dog room things we always have need for that. And if people look on
the website or Facebook or are listening here, even, yes, when we're open, come out. You want to
donate? We appreciate it. For volunteers right now, we do want to expand our volunteer program.
Okay. But we have to have there's some rules with it because we can't have people just come
out there and then get bit. Yeah. Right. Right. And that had happened in the past. So it has to be
working with our staff and listening to staff. But we will post that for right now. Just donations are
good, which I wanted to just bring up a last point with the kennel remodel. That was 100% donated.
That was over $200,000. Wow. It's amazing. It's really amazing. Well, most of it came from
people that love the Humane Society and passed away and loved us in their will.
Memorials and fundraisers. So we're going to have some fundraising coming up now. Excellent.
Which next one's in March. And then we're going to have a gala. I believe in April, I hope.
But our fundraising committee is getting going and working and trying to those things that people
come to those. And this community has just been awesome. Yeah. And there's support for us.
Got a lot of animal lovers in this community. And I mean, it's incredible. I've never lived in
a community that has that much of it. And we're only seeing more and more of it in our societies
in our world nowadays. Tim, we greatly appreciate you, the staff over there. Thank you so much for the
time. I appreciate you. I just wanted to mention one thing. Yeah, we had, I don't know if it was
brought up before, but we had a hoarding case. And so that was 32 extra. Which we will not be able
to adopt them out yet. There have been medical care right now. Okay. But we have a lot of other
cats. So if anyone out there wants one, two cats, we would have pre-stop on out. We have a wide
selection. I think typically we run between 80 and 100 cats. How it at the shelter at
a time. And I know our dog kennels are going to fill up. Yeah. Yeah. You're looking for a new furry
friend. Let's make a good match and reach out to our humane society. If you'd like to do that,
you can get reach out to them at their website, SWCHS.com. Be sure to follow them on social media.
They've got a great Facebook page. Otherwise, give them a call 715-423-0505-423-0505. And you can
email them SWCHS at SWCHS.com. Tim, thanks again for the time. Thank you both for having me.
Yeah. We'll talk again soon. Okay. We'll be back more here at WFHR, locally grown radio.
Welcome back everyone. Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio. Seth and James hanging out
with you. We hope you're having a great day out there. Happy Friday, everybody. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Woo. That's it. It's hoping the music will kick it. Let's say it's waiting for the drop.
I was waiting for the drop. There's light trying to lead up right to it. I think it's written song.
There you go. Okay. There it is. There it is. Welcome back to the show, everybody.
We're going to get to cement our team at News in a moment. But we want to thank Tim for joining us
and our friends over at the South of County Main Society. We appreciate them very much.
I personally want to send a shout out to Madison. How much we appreciated her and what she's
done for our community and working with her was a joy. It was and we'll be paying attention and
talking with her again. You know, I appreciate you, no, Madison. Thank you so much for everything.
You did for our animals and for our community. Yes. Seth, let's dive into some entertainment news
and this is some news that a lot of people have been waiting on. Okay. They're making another fantastic
forum movie. They have not learned their lesson. Okay. Or have they finally learned their lesson.
I guess it's the other way you could ask that. Yeah. I believe this is the third or fourth
incarnation of a fantastic four franchise. Yes. This is a of the we're not talking about the
1994 one that was made for. I was including it a little bit. No, no, we're not going to do that.
That was that was never released. There's a reason for that. Anyway, we're talking about the big ones.
Okay. So there was the original 2004 five and then sequel to that one and then of course the
dumpster fire that was the one in 2015 or whatever that was, which was just horrible. Anyway.
So yeah, so this I guess is like the their third shot, your fourth movie of their finally doing it,
the question, are they going to get it right? Now, for a little history out there, the fantastic four
was what changed Marvel. Okay. In 1961, the fantastic four came out. Marvel at the time was way
behind DC. They said, let's do something different. Stanley said, okay, I'm going to make a team
and they're not going to be all happy go lucky like they are. They're going to have issues with
each other and they're going to have disagreements and they're going to have arguments and they're
going to lose every now and then and this was like in comic books, what? This was brand new
and it kicked off the whole Marvel what they called the Marvel age of comics after that. And
that's when you got Spider-Man, you know, the angsty teen superhero and then all these other things
and then you get the the X-Men and the mutants and the you know, having to deal with prejudice
and and and bigotry and all this. So it kind of they kind of helped comics grow up a little bit
back in the 60s and then into the 70s and and as we go up today. They so much of this stuff,
they got right early in the day and then it took us a little while to the move on the movie end
of things in TV show and of things to get things right to catch up. Yep. I loved loved loved loved
Christopher Reeves Superman. Loved him. Gene Hackman is Lex Luthor. Come on. It's brilliant.
It's great. It's great. You got Richard Price throwing in there a little bit like it was great.
It was campy and and it was a throwback to the old Batman TV show with Adam Weston a lot of that
and it worked at its time. It was great at its time. And then Michael Keaton and Tim Burton and
Batman come around with Jack Nicholson. That really changed things. And all of a sudden like well
it's not just that we made some money off of this blockbuster. It's all people liked a little
bit of a darker tone. People liked a little bit of a moodyness. In fact, they found themselves
actually being able to relate to Bruce Wayne a little bit more, which is what everything is about
an entertainment. Relatability. Yep. Can I see myself in this character? Can I see it? Can I attach
myself? Can I feel a connection to this character connecting to these characters? How do I do that
when I've got a guy who stretches? Or I got a guy who's a big giant thing. A boulder. Basically,
you know, a guy who can just flame on and all of a sudden becomes a human torch. How do I find
somebody a human being to relate to something like that? You give them real life troubles,
real life problems. You make them as real as possible. Yeah. You have your anti-heroes and all
the sudden. Then now we have no more. It's not about heroes anymore. It's all anti-heroes.
Yeah. Because they all got to be relatable. Even Superman has become a relatable character for
the way they write him. Yes. So this that all starts with the Fantastic Four. Yes. And now we're
here with the Marvels officially announcing the cast of the Fantastic Four reboot yesterday
with a retro Valentine's Day illustration. There have been rumors about rumors about rumors.
Now it's finally coming from Marvel themselves. Finally got the cast. All right.
They've been rumoring for months that Pedro Pascal was going to be Mr. Fantastic read
Richard. Yeah. That is in fact the case. That is the case. Vanessa Kirby is going to be the
invisible woman. Sue Storm. You've seen her a little bit here in there in movies. She's done a
good job when I've seen her. She seems awfully cold for that character. So I'm very curious to see
how they do with that role. She's a good actor. Yep. I just haven't got to see her play a little.
Like Jessica Elba did with the character. Right. I think it's going to be a very different
Sue Storm. Oh, I think you're right. Yes. Joseph Quinn is the human torch Johnny Storm.
He is from he plays Eddie and Stranger Things and Evan and as Richie from the Bear.
And Evan is Richie from the Bears and Evan Moss Bacchrich is going to be the thing.
Oh, wow. Okay. And Grim. He's a great actor. He's a great actor. I'm so happy for him to get a
little get like this. That's Disney money, man. That's a big contract that guy just got.
You know, as the fantastic for movies, you know, the one thing they got right on the original
movies was Michael Chickalus as the thing. That was the one perfect casting that they did on that.
Yeah. Chris Evans. You did you do good as Johnny Torch as a Johnny Torch. Oh my gosh. Johnny Storm.
To provoke my comic book thing. But so that's that's the one for me. If they get Ben Grim right,
then I'm going to be very happy because Ben, especially in the comic universe, he's a very
particular the way he talks. His whole attitude has to be, you know, pitch perfect on that for
in order for it to work. Go basing off of some of his other work. It feels like they got it.
They're going to get it now. That's awesome. It feels like they're really whole. I really hope so.
One other interesting note about this. It does look like a court just from the illustration.
It looks like this is going to take place in the 60s. They've got the thing reading a life magazine
with I believe President Kennedy on the cover. They've got a space astronaut photo in the background.
It looks a little bit like a when we just came off of the space race. Yeah, right, right.
So it looks like they're going to this is going to be a throwback.
Going to be like an origin story. Where have the fantastic for Ben or they've been in a different
universe altogether? Because it's a whole multiverse thing now. That's the thing too that I'm very,
very curious about. Are you are they going to incorporate them into the whole lexicon,
the whole Marvel thing? Because I got to say this is the other part of this and we haven't
talked about this much. But Jonathan Majors has been taken out as Kang. Yes. And they had years
written in with Kang. And now you could recast him. And I think pretty easily. In fact,
the storyline writes itself. You could. I'm with you. Or you could do the thing that almost every
Marvel fan has been begging them to do. The big villain should always have been Dr. Doom.
Yep. One of the greatest villains ever. Yes, ever. And he's never been done right completely.
That, you know, what I just said about Ben Grimm double that with with Victor Von Doom because
he is like you said, he's the big bad guy in Marvel comics. And he is it's such a hard character
to do because yes, he is a villain. There's no question about that. He's the dictator of his own
country. But there's something about him. He's got an honor that to him. And he's got the it's
it's a hard to pull off. It's a Thanos level kind of it is. Yeah. There's this moral compass that
none of us have his own code. Yes. Yes. That's the way to put it. That he will not he will keep his
word. He doesn't lie. He doesn't do this. But he still wants power. And he's still yeah, he's evil.
I mean, there's no question about he'll do whatever he can to get what he wants. I'm a big
Pedro Pascal fan like most of America in most of the world right now. And I think that that's
a great casting. And I'm excited about it. That's the one I've been waiting on. I want to see who
they're going to cast as Dr. Doom. And I'd love to see them kind of almost shift gears from
Kang to doom as the main villain in the MCU. 100%. Think that'd be awesome. And this this leads up
to that. If this does well, I don't know. If it if it's a bomb, then they're stuck in the same
position again. Right. Do you think just as a side note before we move on to a better
con idol conversation? Do you think they would be better off not planning so far in the future?
Even though that's kind of what like seem to work out for them in the beginning,
planning all of this out and having a game plan. It almost feels like that's hurting them now.
Yes. Yes. I think that's you are absolutely right. I think in the end because of the the two
things, the big things that happened in Hollywood the last two year or last four years, the pandemic
and then the double strike with the writers and the actors that pushed everything off kilter.
And that's the issue with doing what they did as going that far out. I think now, I think what
they're doing now is smart resetting just one movie this year, Deadpool. Yeah. And that's it.
And that's going to incorporate all the Fox X-Men stuff. They're going to clean all the house with
all of that. And then they're going to kind of start over soft. I call I would almost call it a
soft reboot. Absolutely. The MCU. So I think that's smart. Take a little slower and yeah. Good
to be interesting. It will be Katie Perry says the upcoming season of American Idol will probably be
her last because she needs to quote feel that pulse of my own beat. Katie Perry probably leaving
American Idol after the upcoming season. She's been a judge there since 2018. So this will be
your seventh season on Jimmy Kim alive. She said, quote, I love idol so much. It's connected me with
the heart of America. But I need to feel that pulse of my own own beat. Katie also reminded Jimmy
that she'll be performing in Brazil at the Rock and Rio festival in September. And hinted that she
might have new music coming soon. So feel the OP, you know, her own beat. I'm guessing that that
might be a song. She's got coming out. She used a phrase that is not very that's a weird
freight turner phrase. It is. It feels like it's a little bit of a I didn't even know she was
I didn't either. I had no idea. I could not tell you who the judges for American Idol are like
if the fate of the world depended on. I'm like, I'm sorry if everybody we had a good run. Yeah.
It was all right. We're doomed. We're doomed. American Idol season 22 premier Sunday at eight
seven on ABC. This was interesting. If anybody hadn't saw this interview, Robert Plant performed
stairway to heaven last October at a cancer charity event organized by former Durand Durand
guitarist Andy Taylor. It was the first time he performed it in 16 years. We played a little
of it. I remember I remember that. Yes. Robert says the experience was cathartic and a trial by
fire. And he felt better at the end than from the beginning. And while he knows it's a very
important song for him and many of the fans out there. He's not sure he'll ever perform it again.
He had a quote, something could change somewhere. Spirit and heart could come back in the soul.
It's a long song. Who can remember all those words?
To be fair, when you haven't done it in 16 years, it's not like he's listening to it every day.
I mean, let's be fair to Robert Plant here, you know. I can't imagine if you're a musician how
little you listen to your own music. Like I can't even begin it, especially if you've had the
songs that were around 30, 40 years. You play, especially if you're a tutoring musician,
you play them all the time. Why would you listen to it? Yeah, it's one of those things where it's like
maybe if it's something like you haven't done it a long time, you know, that I would maybe say,
oh, you don't get to remember how you did it before that kind of thing, maybe, but I don't know.
I have heard Paul McCartney, and this was a long time ago, say that when when he misses John,
he'll listen to a Beatles, an old Beatles song. So maybe there's that, you know, probably one
that John wrote and sang lead on. And that's so I'm guessing he was, it's more of John's song,
not him. So yeah, I imagine for them, with John Bollum and that, that there's a little of that too,
there's got to be some of that. It's probably never felt right, even when they did the no quarter
tour with him and plant and page and everything. And they probably, it just, it doesn't seem like
them, and even for what we've heard from Jimmy Page and everything, it's never felt right without him.
Something to consider, you know, if, if you like, maybe you're, you're thinking,
well, gosh, you know, John Bollum died in 1980, you know, but remember this, okay?
You're in a band and we have talked to people on directors, Jordan Bain said this very thing.
It's like you're married to them. Yeah. That's how intense the relationship is with your bandmates
because you tour together. You're in the studio writing together, all your together hours and
days and weeks and months. When something happens, like what happened with John Bollum, that is a
traumatic thing when John Leonard died. That was a traumatic thing. You could still hear it in
Paul McCartney's voice when he talks about John. He, it's, it's, it's one of those things,
think about it if you lost a close friend when you're young, how that you still intensely feel
the pain. I feel it. Almost every day. I hear you. Exactly. So that's why singing,
your way to heaven is still hard for Robert Plant to do. And that's why it's, it took him a
long time to do it. And now he's like, I don't know if I, you know, he joked a little bit, you know,
all those words. But I think part of it is like it's intense. And there's a lot of feelings that
come with it. And that's Bain life. Robert Plant wasn't that far removed from losing a child.
It went before John. And then a couple years later, John Bollum passes away at everything.
So I can't imagine. I mean, you never heal completely from something like that. Oh, no, not at all.
Then you lose one of your brothers, one of your closest friends and everything. It's a lot.
It's a lot. I imagine a lot of the music from that time probably is a reminder of some of that
too. And it makes you think about that. Yep. It's honestly kind of a marvel to even still see
Robert Plant out there performing, not just at his age and the talent and his voice sounding
as good as this is. But with everything that he has been through, Robert Plant has plenty of
money. He's done everything musically. He didn't have to do, you know, the kind of B-bop kind
of album he did. You know, the solo album he did with some of the old Motown kind of stuff.
Yeah. And B kind of five. They didn't have to do that. I didn't have to do a lot of the things
he has done. He's done it because he loves Diane Carroll, his whole second and third act
with her and everything. Yeah. Just incredible. All the stuff he's done with her too. I mean,
it's yeah, but it's it's it's you notice that a lot of it is not let Zeppelin stuff. Yeah. He
had, you know, the tours with Jimmy Page and stuff and that they did some Zeppelin stuff there.
But most of what he's done has been far away from that. He's done all kinds of different things.
It's it's a remarkable, remarkable life and career. Oh, absolutely. I think we've kind of almost
like just kind of like just taken as is because he, you know, to be blunt didn't die young or didn't
have something like that happen. Exactly. He's just kind of been living his life for the last 20-some
years and not gotten a paparazzi. You know, he didn't have some cancelable offense or any of these
kind of things. He's been doing his thing. We forgave him a long time ago for all the stuff he pulled
the 70s. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They got grandfathered out and stuff. Yeah. How many TVs
did he destroy? Just a remarkable career in life. It is something. And we wrap up with Kate Hudson.
Did you know Kate Hudson is in Home Alone 2 lost in New York? Huh? Yeah. A lot of people are
finding that out right now. I never saw that. So I don't know. No, me either. Yeah. She was one of
the kids singing in the choir at the beginning. She would have been around 13 years old on her
sibling revelry podcast. Great name. She said, quote, I still get residuals. I get 10 cents every once
in a while. Her guest, Joey Lawrence also, whoa, also shared, he gets small residuals from all the
commercials he did as a kid, quote, sometimes I'll get like two cents. And I'm like, wait,
doesn't that envelope in the paper cost more than the two cents they sent me? Yes, it does. But
Kate points out at least the powers that be are being fair and honest, a standard stamp cost
68 cents. Yeah. So there's that. Well, let me, let me throw this out of your cake. You're being
nice. Yeah, they're being honest because they are forced to be honest. Yes. Yes. And this is,
this is part of the reason why you have the strikes that just happened. And while all of that was
just taking place. You got to keep them in line. I mean, you got to do it. If you were born with
a skill set, you should be able to make a living off of that skill set. Yeah. I mean, I don't know
how you can fight that. That's in demand. Yeah. The people want to see. Exactly.
In demand. That's a key part of this. Good point to bring up. I don't see the, the pushback on
actors, writers, all these people making a living, acting, writing it. If you've never been entertained
by a TV show, a movie or anything, if you've never listened to music and been entertained by it,
okay, I will listen to you. I will hear you out on the fact that entertainment doesn't bring
anything. Wisconsin just, we just saw the data. Wisconsin is last in the country in the arts.
We are in funding the arts. And it's not even close. We're like, we're like not even a percent
we're putting into the arts in this state. You keep here on politicians. We need to keep people
in the state. We need to bring new people in the state. And what we're going to do, they're
magical way of fixing this. No taxes. Let's be Florida and Texas. Because that's working out
great for them. You want to turn Wisconsin into that? Wisconsin's better than that. Wisconsin,
we're better than this. We are better than this. Quit forgetting who has the power. We do. You
love the arts. You've proven that Wisconsinites. You've know that you do. Whether it's a town
like ours with savor the arts and how well and popular that is or Wisconsin Reps Community Theater
that sells out crowds all the time, our bands every bar in this time this weekend is going to almost
every bar or every other bar is going to have some music. You're going to have a band there.
I can keep going everybody. There is entertainment. You know what else is included in the entertainment.
Sports. Yes. Sports is part of the arts. You have no problem putting or part of the entertainment.
Entertainment. Yeah. You have no money. No problem putting money into sports. Arts is no different.
No. And if you not only want to bring people to this state, how many people are going to a state
where they don't care about the arts? They don't care about that. Because if you don't care about
the arts, you don't care about your people. People need to have art. People need culture like this.
Do you know why so many people moved to New York? It's not because of the cost of living. It's
horrible to live in New York. It costs way too much. Is it because there's lots of jobs?
Not really. It's because of the culture. Culture. The culture in New York. You can go to any,
you know, any little hole in the wall place and find a live musician. You can go to how many
theaters do they have? And they're selling out every night. I mean, come on. You're absolutely
right. It's a living thing. It's a, it's a, how good is your area for the things in life that we
enjoy? And that's, and then you're absolutely right. That's why people move to places. Yeah.
Yeah. They, they, they move into a state that they, it doesn't have anything to do.
And, and, and we're doing, and keep in mind, this is happening at a time where all of our,
like, especially our, our brothers and sisters up north that are, don't have hardly any snow,
are not able to do, to make the money that they do off. They normally do, yeah.
Off of having visitors come here and everything. So there's that on top of the fact that we have
nothing put into the arts. So we're giving people no reason to come here other than our sports teams.
Yeah. Like, which, which only has, only is regional, you know, nobody in Florida is looking to
come here to go check a Wisconsin Badger game necessarily. There's a, there's a, there's a small
percentage that might, but they, and unless they have no, if they have no ties to the state,
what are they doing that for? Now, they might come here to go see the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra.
They might come here to see a play or something like that or, or any of these kind of things.
They have a live music scene. How about that? All this stuff matters. I shouldn't have to explain
this. I feel like this should be pretty self-explanatory. We'll talk about this with Senator
Teston tomorrow. Oh, okay. There we go. There we go. Save some of that. We will, we'll be back
with more coming up. We're going to check in with our partners. We'll be back more fun.
On the morning show at WFHR.
Welcome back to the show, everybody.
Seth and James hanging out with you right now. Morning show at WFHR. Happy Thursday.
Hope you're having a good one out there. Thanks for joining us.
It's a song cruel to play right now. I put that on there and I'm like, oh,
wow. Summer in the city, huh? Okay. I mean, we, we, it's, if you're just looking up at the sky,
it looks great. It looks so bad. Yeah. I got nice blue skies and really pretty clouds. Yeah.
It's a nice looking sky out there. We, one of the also that are in the audience though, we've,
we've, if you've been listening to us all morning, we've been having some technical difficulties.
Working a lot of those things out. Our phones were not working. I just heard from our good friend,
Kevin about that. We'll look into that and try to get that going up and running. Yeah, we had
a power outage. I think a lot of people in this area have figured that out too because that wasn't
just us. So when, when that happens at a radio station, there's a lot of things you have to turn
back on. Yeah. Yeah. So that's why it's, there's a few things we're, we're still working on. So
big shout out to our GM engineer, Chuck Jenaro for all the work he was doing and our friends over
at water and like getting on that as quick as they did. They did great work by them. We appreciate
everybody involved. Let's get into this one, Seth. As we get out of our entertainment, a little less
entertainment news, Buzzfeed put together a list of some bizarre and random celebrity facts that you
may have not heard before. Maybe you heard and you forgot about. Okay. Let's go ahead and dive into
some of these highlights. Like Jack Black's mom helped create the system that saved the Apollo 13 crew.
What? What? Yeah. What? Whoa. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. His, his mom was a NASA worked for NASA for
some time. I did not know. No, that's, that's awesome. I think she was an electronic engineer or
something that sounds about right. Yeah. I've got one I just thought of that I'm going to throw
into the list. Okay. Little John just got done in, you know, performing at the Super Bowl. Yep.
With a little John famous since we were kids in high school basically. Yeah. Yeah. Pretty much for
that. Yeah. For one thing, I think a lot of people wouldn't realize it. I've seen him in
rap battles and that man can freestyle like crazy to the point where people like underestimate him
when they go into the battle and don't realize, oh, this guy can actually rap. The other thing,
little John's parents are literal geniuses. Like his whole family are geniuses. His older brother
like work is like the CEO of some huge company and stuff like that. Yeah. Like this, like it's
all across the aisle like his whole family. It's, it's fun. Little John chose up the Thanksgiving
dinner and he's kind of the unsuccessful one. Yeah. Like huge rap career. But no, no. Yeah.
What are you doing? He's not an astrophysicist. Yeah. So he's not in his family. He says, oh,
he's just a musician like a black sheep. I think that's kind of interesting. Yeah.
Benedict Cumberbatch was once kidnapped in South Africa. I believe he was young. He was a child
that happened. Oh my gosh. Robert. They were just just that name. They were just like, no,
this isn't right. We got to get this kid to find out that's his actual name. I mean,
he's safe. He's okay. I'm not making a light of kidnapped. Right. I would think that that
goes without saying. If you got to write out a kidnapping note, Benedict Cumberbatch,
I forget it. Yeah. Just did not return the kid. Just return it. I don't know how to spell that
that Cumberbatch. I don't know. Is that a really word? Robert. Robert Patton was kicked out of an elite
British private school for stealing and reselling magazines on campus. What? Yeah. Wow.
There's a large demand for magazines on campus. Hey, he's not that old either. No, we were kids,
maybe I could see that. I don't know how to do that. That's, that's odd. That's strange.
Christian Bale studied Tom Cruise in order to play Patrick Bateman in American Psycho.
I'm like, wow. Wow. And that actually adds up. I'm like, I'm thinking, now, I haven't seen
the whole movie, but I've seen several clips of him acting in that. Oh my gosh. I think I see
what he did there. Oh my goodness. I actually, like, actually, that actually adds up. Like, I've
seen that movie a couple of times and everything I can think of from that movie, like, it's very,
like Tom Cruise's smile. Tom Cruise, like, stare, like him in interviews, not Tom Cruise the actor.
Right. Like the actual Tom Cruise, right? Oh, that's a little creepy, right? Yeah, that is. Oh,
boy. So let's see. Oh, Oprah, Oprah Winfrey's name is actually Oprah based on a biblical figure
mentioned in the book of Ruth. Oh, that's cool. Not a, not a name. Even as popular and as well
known as Oprah is still not a lot of Oprah's out there. Yeah. Which is always been interesting
to me. Yeah. That didn't gain in popularity. Yeah. There's not more of that. Nicholas Cage was
convinced he was an alien as a child. And he also believes he has memory. His, he has memories
of being in the womb. It's Nick Cage. Um, yeah, that's, that's actually pretty mild. It really
cage. Have you seen some of the stuff he's bought over the years? Anybody, you know, I'm just,
just saying, I will say this. What are the things I've always appreciated about Nicholas Cage?
From a young age, he in interviews, he's straight up him. There's no putting on airs. There's no
trying to, you know, play the industry or any of this stuff. It's straight up Nick Cage. He had a
recent interview. He was in the flash most recent flash movie for decades. Not nerds out there.
I don't blame you for not knowing this. But as people like Seth and I have heard this for decades,
there was a Tim Burton Superman movie in the works for development hell. Yeah. Yeah. And it was
going to be, it was going to start Nicholas Cage as Superman. This is before even the, like,
the 90s man. Yeah. Yeah. It was a long time ago. Well, with the recent flash movie, they got a
multiverse thing. So they have a scene where you see Nicholas Cage as Superman. He's got the
actual, they made a suit for him and everything. And he talks about this in this interview. He was
on set and they were, he was told in the script, you're just going to be staring. You're just staring.
And it's so great to hear Nicholas Cage describe this. So in the script, they're telling me,
I'm looking into all of these worlds dying. So on my face, I'm trying to describe what that would
look like at all this stuff and everything. And then he goes and sees the movie and he's fighting a
giant spider. And he's like, I didn't do that. It's straight up telling everybody's like, I
didn't do anything to do with that. I don't know how they even did that. The disconnect between
what you do on the acting and then what appears on the screen. I mean, that's, that's a, that can
end up being very different, very different as an actor. You can lose your work like future jobs
for telling behind the scene stuff like that. But when you're Nicholas Cage, you know, you know,
and famously, you know, a comic book nerd himself playing Superman was a big thing for him.
You know, he took his stage name from Luke Cage, the Marvel comic character or so.
A dream role of playing Ghost Rider and everything and being able to do that. I still think they
should bring him back in Marvel Universe as Ghost Rider. You know, you never know. It's something.
We need some kind of Nick Cage for something in the MCU, just because of how big of a nerdy is.
No, Cole Kidman is American. She was born in Hawaii to Australia, to Australian parents,
who were there on a student visa. Okay. So they were born on American soil, which means she's
technically an American. That's right. That's interesting, especially with that accent.
Yeah, obviously she was raised in Australia. But you're right. It really throws you.
Nicholas Nicole Kidman could be president. Okay. There you go. Interesting.
If we had, can you imagine having a president with that accent, though,
the end of the American president? That's going to throw that. Would that be just a little weird, man?
It's kind of weird. It kind of funny. It kind of kind of funny. It'd be kind of funny.
There's an intro. This is how to speak United States in.
I don't know. That's not a nice. Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey might be half-brothers
sharing the same father, famous Charles Harrelson, who was Woody's dad. This was talked about
quite a bit during the two detective run. Right. And there's been rumors about it
other way after ever since. Yeah. Who knows if there's any truth or not, right?
So I wanted to get a follow-up to that Jack Black thing. Jack Black's mother is an engineer,
Judith Love Cohen, who helped create the system that rescued the Apollo 13 crew. In fact,
according to a tribute, one of her other sons wrote after her passing, she actually went to her
office on the day that Jack was born. When it was time to go to the hospital, she took with her
a computer printout of the problem she was working on. Later that day, she called her boss and
told him she had solved the problem. And oh, yes, the baby was born too. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh.
That's, oh, that are women amazing. Are women amazing? I mean, just having to give birth.
It's just, I can't rent my head around that, you know? There's some great, great, great pictures
of, because Jack Black's one of those guys that brought his mom to like all, all the, you know,
movie premieres and everything. It's so cool. It's a great pictures of those two together.
They look a bit alike. Sean Aston has literally lived the plot of Mamma Mia with his family.
Oh, yeah. He's had a wild family ride. I mean, his adopted father is John Aston, the great actor,
who he calls his dad, you know, that was his father. But his biological father, his mom
is Patty Duke. And so it was from another man, you know, it was very convoluted. But I love the
way that he has approached the whole thing, you know, he's like, no, no, John Aston is my,
my father. He's the one that raised me and he's the one that I call my dad, which is really cool.
Can imagine what that stuff is like. Oh my gosh. Yeah. And then having to live all that in the
public eye. Yeah. Like that's a whole other ball game. Or like Jack Nicholson, you know, his life
is an amazing story. Yeah. I will never forgive Gray, Jim Gray. Like Jim Gray to me is the worst
announcer, worst sportscaster worst. And one of the worst interviewers I've ever seen in my life.
I'm watching the Lakers game. And it's just a regular regular season game. And that news had broken
out like maybe a month or two before. No, we don't actually maybe your two before that about
Jack Nicholson in his family. Yeah. For those that don't know, Jack Nicholson was raised by what he
thought was his mom that actually turned out to be his older sister. Yeah. His, his, his, uh,
yeah. No, his grandma, his, his mom, he was raised as his older sister. Thank you. And then
they found out that, yeah, that was actually his mother. Yeah. So this is a Laker game going on
and everything Jim Gray is doing the announcing. And he's tired. There's Billy Crystal. There's
those so and so. And there's Jack Nicholson who just found out a little while ago that his mother
met and all this stuff and everything. Like, what are you doing? What does that have to do with sports?
It's like talking about the Patrick Mahomes thing with his dad during Super Bowl coverage. Yeah.
Like, Patrick Mahomes father has a, has a, a drinking a, a DIY. It's a family issue. Yeah.
It has nothing to do with football. It has nothing to do with football. I don't care if at
the distraction, this, that talk or whatever. It's the Super Bowl. You got almost so only so much
time to talk about the biggest game in the world. And you're going to spend time talking about something
has nothing to do with it. Yeah. Just for clicks. Just for, be what you're bad at your job,
because you got, you can't fill the time with some actual sports talk. Like what are we doing,
man? What do you care about? It's, I really wonder about people that care about that kind of stuff.
Like, are you related to the Mahomes? Is, do you have any attached to them? Otherwise,
what do you have to do with it? Do you want your dirty laundry air to the billions of people?
Yeah. Ask yourself that. Last note here, Britney Spears and Marilyn Monroe may be distant cousins.
Oh, interesting. That's cool. Interesting. I don't know if I've mentioned this before,
but I'm just really related to burlives. You know, I don't know if I've mentioned that. I will never,
ever get tired of that, ever. It is maybe my favorite callback joke that we do. Half the people
are like, who's burlives? Yes, yes, I love that part of it too. I'm taking a time out of checking
in with our partners. We'll be back with more fun in the morning show at WFHR. Sunny.
I had to. That's perfect. Welcome back everybody.
Sunny.
You smile at me and really ease.
Seth and James here with you hope you're having a good day out there. Enjoying that sunshine
a little bit as much as we can. Yeah, exactly. Got good stuff to wrap up. We got to then
write story. We got to touch on here. Okay, let's do it. We got to get on this one. It's hard to
imagine a criminal thinking this would be a good idea, but then again, there is no brains in
criminal. You know, in the criminology, if you will. A 26 year old man in Michigan broke into a
county jail with a knife with a knife, by the way, but okay, strange, but okay, and then began
to break into an ATM in the bond lobby area. What? He broke into an ATM into in a jail in a jail.
Corrections deputies saw him and called the police when they noticed he had a knife. It's
unclear if the knife was meant to intimidate people or to use to get into the machine. Yeah,
to break open the machine, right? In any event, this men's a member, they trapped him inside
of a lock by locking in the exterior door electronically, which was possibly because it is a jail.
Now you could do that at a jail, you know, the cops came and arrested him and he was escorted
into the jail, which was down the hallway. At least they didn't have to go very far, you know,
this is nice to them to save a step, you know. This is what I wanted to do. This is obviously a
that ain't right story with a little bit of good story of the day in there. These officers didn't
you have to start the car? Hey, we're right here already. They ain't got a lot of these, you know,
they don't have to. No high-speed chases here, you know, just, that's an easy gig right there.
That's easy, you know, the criminals just start coming to the office right down to the shop.
That's that's it. Is this an example of like wanting to get arrested? It almost seems
that way to me. I mean, there's how many ATMs are there out there that you could choose from,
but you choose that one? Wow. It really brings to mind some of the conversations I've had with
Sheriff Becker and the mental health part of this. I think that is. But that's a knucklehead move,
right? But still, yeah, that's that. I mean, do not pass, go, do not collect $200, you're going
right to jail, right to jail. Need a pala cleanser, yeah. Let's go ahead and get into some of our local
good stuff of the day. First up, our midday magazine for you. Three to fourth, today be sure to join
us this afternoon in part one at three o'clock. Jillian, uh, Lucknow is going to join us marketing
events coordinator with visit Rome. We're going to catch up on the Rome area. Very nice. Looking forward
to that. Uh, we're able to do that. Uh, thanks to, uh, our great friends over there visit Rome,
looking forward to catching up with them. Mm hmm. In part two, we're talking four H with Jasmine
Carbohol. Ooh, yeah, bilingual four H associate educated with marathon of wood counties,
lot going on with our four H. We're going to catch up with her on all of that. Nice.
A little bit later tonight, seven o'clock. It's a, it's a ball night. You got the bucks taken on
Memphis. Uh, that's going to be a good one. My, uh, bucks versus Memphis. That'll be a great game.
Uh, looking to get back in the wind column, get things right. Um, I'm not worried if I'm a
bucks fan. I'm not worried. Uh, this is going to, you got to let these things work itself out.
We have seen how many different NBA teams look like this at this point in the season and end up
making a playoff run. It's, it's, it's a long season. Yeah. It's a long season. There's lots of
plenty of games to play. It's hope for, uh, health. I mean, that's the big thing. Make sure everyone stays
healthy. Uh, but I think that, yeah, I think they're doing going to be fine. So many, uh, uh, uh,
teams right now are just trying to make it to the all-star break. Just just get me to the all-star
break. That's all they're trying to do right now. A lot of them. Uh, want to also remind,
remind everybody that if you're not interested at seven o'clock tonight catching that ball,
you can head over to WRI and catch out trail tunes. Trail tunes tonight, everybody.
Seven o'clock. Got a nice one lined up. Yes, indeed. Got to check out those, uh,
songs by Burlives. I'm kidding. No, it's just, uh, some more. If you're looking for some,
I haven't been able to play a lot of it lately because of high school basketball, of course.
So when we get a chance, love to throw some old cowboy tunes your way. So tune in from seven,
eight tonight. Uh, whenever we don't have high school sports, you can catch trail tunes every
Thursday at seven on WRI with Country 105 and, uh, Seth, we are very excited about a couple of
other events coming up in our area. Yes. On Saturday, of course, it's the next winter market at
the Moravian from nine to one that's located at the Moravian Church, three, ten, first avenue south.
And that, uh, go check out their website or the website, their Facebook page because they'll
have a list of all the vendors who will be there. It's been very cool the last couple of weeks. We've
had a couple of, uh, food trucks out there. That's been so busy over there. Yes. We got some great
food over there now too and some, uh, other great things come in. Check it out. It's different every
week, just like the farmer's market downtown. So, uh, come do that this week at the Moravian, uh,
and Saturday from nine to one. And then also on Saturday, uh, if you're interested in meat.
Yes. Like just any kind of meat of donated wild game and a couple of domestic meats as well.
It's time for Wacley's winter feast. Yeah. Over at the Nacusa Community Center for 16 Crest View
Lane joined Robert and Mary Wacley in this big fundraiser for the historic point boss.
If you get your tickets right now at Family Natural Foods and Daily Drug in Wisconsin Rapids or
in Nacusa, you can go to bevers. Everything starts at four o'clock. Tickets, advance tickets are
$20 at the door. 25 more information at historicpointboss.com. And, uh, be sure to check out the empty
bowls event also going on Saturday 11 to two. You can go to that. Get that meal in. Have a,
and you're going to be hungry because that's the point of empty bowls because somebody is always
out there. Somebody's bowl is always empty and take that hunger over to the historic point boss.
Yes. We got food all day long Saturday. You join our friends for the 10th anniversary of South
Wood County empty bowls. This is taking place over at focus this Saturday from 11 to two.
Focus is located at 2321 West Grand Avenue in Wisconsin Rapids. Take a chance at some great
rat art and, uh, basket raffles. Got great businesses that are a part of this real quick rundown
errands, wines and signs anchor Bay, Barn Grill, chatterbox catering, Danny K's Pub and Grill,
Grace's family restaurant, great expectations, Jennings and company, junkyard, Barn Grill,
Misty's menu, Olympic two family restaurant and sportsman's Pub and Grill. Whether they sponsor
with us or not or advertise with us or not, we wanted to mention them because we appreciate this
them being a part of this event. So amazing event. Yep. Be sure to find out more at their Facebook
page. Just type in your search bar. Focus and you should be able to find it or go to the website
focusofswc.org. All right. Great show today. Everybody. Thanks so much to the best listeners and
radio hanging in there with our technical difficulties and all that stuff. One more time. A big thank you
to Seth the Chuck and of course our friends at water and light appreciate all the work. All of
them did. We'll be in tomorrow with Terry Johns and get you ready for the weekend. Everybody
have a great day. Be good to each other and we'll talk to you soon and later right here at your
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