Good morning, Wisconsin. Good morning, world. It's a new day. Thanks for kicking it off
with us right here at 97-5 FM 13-20 AM WFHR, locally grown radio. Got your host, James
James J. behind the mic. I am joined by CEO of your United Way of Southwood and Miss
Counties, Terry Johns. Happy Friday. Got the band back together on
a Friday. Good to have you with us, Terry. Good to have some fun this hour and all of
you with us. Thanks so much for joining us. The best listeners and radio. Got a little
entertainment to kick things off. We will also get into dictionary.com, adding all these
new terms. We're going to touch on that a little bit. You notice they're called terms,
not words. Yeah, that's weird. We got all that to come up. And of course, we were looking
forward to being joined by Mike Clements. It does not look like our phones are operating
that well. We apologize to Mike and our listeners. We are looking forward to talk with Mike
again real soon. Like to catch up with him. We got pictures and catchers reporting this
week. We got baseball to talk about bucks, basketball. Got a lot to talk with Mike
about. Looking forward to having him join us soon. Yeah, we just got to get this phone
thing figured out. Yeah. Yeah. Dang it. But let's say it is. Let's go ahead and go shift
gears. We'll pull an audible and we'll get into a little bit of entertainment news.
So the Sir Paul McCartney himself, he had a long lost Hoffner base guitar that has been
called quote the most important base in history. Oh, because it was used in the creation
and recordings of dozens of Beatles classics. It was stolen from the back of a van in Notting
Hill in the area of Notting Hill in London in 1972. But Paul finally got it back. Thanks
to a grassroots campaign called the Lost Base Project. He members were able to track
down the original thief who led them to the person he sold it to from there. They traced
the journey for over the past 50 plus years until it was finally located in the attic
of a home on the south coast of England. Isn't that crazy? That's awesome. That's awesome.
The homeowner didn't even know that the history of the base and within days, it was back
in Paul's possession and he's quote incredibly grateful to have it back. You know, so one
of the kind of lucky things lucky, I don't know, but you know, I mean, it's just like sitting
in an attic. Could you imagine if somebody had it, they knew what they had and it was like
on display and then it became a battle because they, you know, probably by the time it had
changed hands that many times, they had come a buy it legitimately. You know what I mean?
So at least it was just like that tucked away somewhere safe. That's always an interesting
thing to me when it comes to stolen goods or goods like that were, you know, decades
of centuries before something we got in a museum now and what to do with them. I don't
think they're such a gray area and I don't think there's any one trick answer for anything
like that. But this scenario like this completely different, except for what like you said
to the point of the people that bought it, quote unquote legitimately, they wouldn't
know any of that. But I can't imagine that person just had it sitting in their attic.
It's really funny to find out the story of what you had just sitting in your attic.
First of all, who uses an attic anymore? And second of all, like think about all the junk
you have. Right. Yeah. I mean, I'm not saying the guitar is junk, but I'm just saying,
like you think about the crap you have, like you've accumulated and then it's like, oh,
I wonder if there's anything probably not. But is there anything like that in your accumulated
things? I boy, yeah, that's a great question. I can't think of anything that I would have
like that. But then, you know, that that's such an interesting kind of I was kind of
want to like a like a documentary on how they did this. This lost base project. It's got a
cool. It's got a cool. That's pretty cool. And what did it take to get that original thief to
fess up? You know what I mean? Like that's a long time ago. Right. Yeah. Well, it's never
okay to steal. It's not that. But it's just like, but just the whole like, you know,
did he steal it and like pawn it the next day? Did he hang on to it? Did he know what he had?
I mean, I don't know. It's a lot of full of questions because I would think, okay, I'm a thief.
I see Paul McCartney's base. It's the Beatles. They're huge. Yeah. You might be tempted to take it.
But then who are you going to sell that to? Like it's it's in England. Can we get him on the phone?
The Beatles. Like you know, it's like the idea they talk about this, you know, in that world a lot.
Oh, you get the chance to steal the Mona Lisa. Great. What are you going to do with it?
You ain't going to do it. You're going to sell it on eBay. You're going to go. I mean,
you're going to charge admission to see it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And the first people that get
you're selling tickets to are the police. I like the idea of. No, it's not a thief with smart.
Very true. Very true. I like the idea of not like the idea. But I think the idea of him taking this
and then not realizing what he had and and pawning it off. And maybe not even knowing
until this lost base project, people came to me. Hey, you know that bass you stole. Yeah.
And he's like, dang, are you kidding?
Seems like something would happen to hold her. Looking at what's new in your movie theaters this
weekend, just two big releases. One of them Bob Marley, one love. It is rated PG-13, a movie
about the life and legend, a Reggae musician from Bob Marley. It includes us or quite a few
different things. British actor Kingsley Ben Adier plays Marley and Lasha Lynch plays his wife
Rita. Have you seen the trailer? It actually looks like a pretty good story. Oh, yeah, it does.
So he was a graphic in the Secret Invasion movies, this Kingsley actor. And he really impressed me in
that Secret Invasion and that little mini series that they had on Disney Plus. So I like his work.
And then I was curious about the trailer because I'm a very, very big Bob Marley fan. And I've
wondered since I was a kid, how is there not a Bob Marley documentary? Like, you would think
there'd have been one by now. They wanted to get it right. And it's taken over a decade, I think,
to really make this movie, not so much in the filming process, but the casting, getting the script
right and everything. Well, he had to grow the dreadlocks. He had to grow the dreads. And yeah,
he looks in sounds so like Bob Marley. It looks like a real, I'm very hopeful on that. I
mean, I like the trailer and I'm not, I mean, I like movies, but I don't, you know, yeah, I don't
know. You know, I'm not drinking the Kool-Aid on a lot of things, you know, but I just, this,
I thought looked interesting. It looks, I really hope it's as good as the trailer looks because I'm
with you. The trailer looked really good. Yeah, because sometimes every good part of the movie
is in the trailer. Yeah, yeah. And speaking of that, Terry, Madam Webb is also opened, well,
opened on Wednesday, but it'll be on wide release today. It's rated PG 13. It's the next in the
Sony universe of movies, of superhero movies, because here's the tricky thing for people out there.
Real quick, DC owns all Superman, Batman, all that stuff. Marvel, it is the Avengers, it's all that.
Now there's the Spider-Man character, which is technically owned by Sony, but he is rented to
the Marvel universe. But Sony owns the, he has a copyright on anything involving Spider-Man,
oh, in his villains, it gets a little bit gray with certain characters, but just, you know,
trying to give you a cliff notes version of all this nerd stuff. And I, I, I eat it up. So I'm
not, I'm not rambling or saying anything bad nerd, nerd wise, but they own the half of these
characters, Spider-Man characters, like Morbius and that, they just cannot seem to get this right,
though, that Morbius movie bombs so bad. And then they brought it back to theaters and a bomb to
second time. If I'm Spider-Man, I'm kind of peeled that they're renting me out. Yes, yes, yes,
I would be too, especially with the fact that most of these movies are really bad. And it just hurts
the brand. Dakota Johnson stars as Cassie Webb, a paramedic who becomes a reluctant superhero,
Sydney Sweeney, Celestial O'Connor, and a bunch of other actors starring in this one. The,
the reviews have been really rough. And they, I think, almost too rough. Like it feels like
this is what I say about, especially in 2024 when it comes to reviews. Look at what people say,
more than what, you know, quote unquote reviewers say critics say 99% of the time a critic has
somebody in their pocket. Well, I was just going to say, are they even going in, are they even
watching it at all? I'm like, like, are they going into it knowing what they think about it?
I have no idea if it's a good movie. And to be honest, with Sony's, you know, history,
chances are it might not be that good. But give it a chance at least. So many of these critics,
they're bashing it before because they saw what another critic said or what they're being told to
say or something like that. Maybe they didn't even go. Yeah. Yeah. I generally think that there's
something to that. This is something I'm not just like speaking off the, cutting off the hip here.
I've done a lot of homework on this subject. And yeah, there's a reason I think that you, we take,
you know, hey, my, Terry suggested movie to me. Well, that sounds like pretty good. We have a
similar taste of movies on I check it out. But if you're a critic telling me this, that carries
weight to me. And I, I don't know, I, I, I hope that people take that stuff with a huge grain of
salt. Same thing with Rotten Tomatoes. It's a nice basis. I'm on the fence about seeing this movie.
I'll check out Rotten Tomatoes or something and see. Let it give you a little bit of guidance,
maybe, but don't let it be the, oh, I don't like the, the audience score, the Rotten Tomato score.
So I'm not going to see this movie. It seems like. Can you know what? If you don't want to go see it,
just make your own decision. Yes. Yes. Think for yourself. Yes. Thank you, Terry.
I'm mad at web and one love or both released today. And just wanted to wrap up entertainment talk,
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How sweet it is to be loved by you. Morning show here at WFHR. Locally grown radio.
From one James to another. I'd had to try. That was a reach.
James Taylor played us in. Terry and James here with you.
It's bad. It was bad. I apologize to the audience. I did play it for a reason, though,
is we get out of entertainment. I wanted to remind everybody that we've got the James Taylor
tribute show coming to our town here. We're looking forward to that.
Saving the Arts is bringing this one to us. We appreciate our friends over at Saving the Arts.
Big shout out to Sally Kissner and the gang over there. And seriously, you know more James Taylor
songs than you think you do. You know what I mean? That would be a great show because I think you
just know every. You know every song. Yeah. How sweet it is. The Steve Leslie sings James Taylor
coming up March 7th, 730 Showtime right here at the Performing Arts Center in Wisconsin.
Rob, it's get your tickets at SavingTheArts.com. SavingTheArts.com. Dictionary.com added 327 new
words and terms to their list. We're going to go through all of them. No, wait. No, wait.
No, wait. No, wait. Yes. Word number 300. You were seriously talking about someone reading
you the phone book a little while ago. We might as well go through the 300. Whatever words.
Now, now if Diane Carroll wanted to go through a ball. Yeah. So here are some of the highlights
from some of these highlights like bed rotting. The practice of spending many hours in bed during
the day, often snacking or a lot of electronic devices or something. So bed rot. Yeah, bed rot.
Okay. I mean, okay. All right. Yeah. Isn't that just being easy? At least we can put a term on.
What are you doing in your bed all day? Yes. Yes. They couldn't put all of that into the
dictionary. So they had to summarize. And it gets exhausting. Yes. Yes. You know, that's
great. The I.C.K. The I.C.K. Okay. A sudden feeling of disgust or dislike often in response
to actions of another person. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Fine. Mid. Something is, oh, I hear that a lot.
Mid. You hear something is mid or mediocre. Unimpressive or disappointing. If you're any of those
things, you're mid. I feel like it has a noise with it like. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Bussin. Bussin. Great, wonderful or amazing. Like the opposite of mid. Bussin. I heard that one.
B-U-S-S-I-N. Yep. Yep. Yep. But with the apostrophe N at the art. Yeah. Bussin. I haven't heard
that one. Wow. I'm just old. Let's see here. Barbie core. Barbie core. Pink outfits, accessories,
and decor that celebrates Barbie. Oh. I guess. All right. I mean, okay. That seems more like a name
to me than what you know what I mean. Like you typically, maybe we do now, you didn't use to see
proper names in the dictionary. Yeah. That's true. Yeah. So, all right. Fine. This one I've been seeing
a lot on social media and even heard a couple of teachers talking about doing this last or the
weekend before. Girl dinner. And often attractively activity presented collection of snacks that
involve little preparation and just ladies wanting to hang out with ladies. You know,
does it need a name? Right. Yeah. That's the thing. Like, I'm hanging out with my friends. We're
having dinner. We're having snacks. We're having shakutari. Like, why? Why does it have to be girl
dinner? It's kind of like the whole gallon times thing. I feel like I feel like like where we've
done some really good work with understanding, hey, this is important to understand the difference
of this and this. And we have to give it a name. So I get a lot of that. I mean, do you have
a dude dinner? But do we have to? Yeah. It gets to a point where where is too much, too much. And
are we just, um, are we over explaining ourselves? Are we over explaining things? Or do we need
the over definition? Define, define things? That at that point, though, way back when I left
yonkers. So that was like, I don't know, 16 years ago, we had a thing. There were some friends
from there that I continued to get together with monthly. You know, we go up for dinner and we
always just called it girls dinner. So I guess, but it doesn't need to be in the dictionary. Like,
okay, that's the, that's, I think that's the thing that's the catch. Like, it just in terminology
and society, that's one thing. But as soon as it becomes official, like, quote unquote,
official, then it becomes like, not as cool or just doesn't seem as like a fun. It is
scrabble legit, then, though, right? Oh, yes, it is. There you go. There's a win. Yeah.
That would help me out a lot as a kid. I mean, I try so hard at scrabble. I'm not a good
spell. But I can remember playing that and we would actually have the dictionary sitting
on the table in case we had to look up because somebody would play something. You're like,
that is not a real word. Like, people come up with weird keywords. Yeah. Oh, yes.
You know, and now you have to call it a cure and X. Yeah. Is there even a printed dictionary anymore?
I don't know, but we still have the one that my Nana used to use back in the day when we played
scrabble. I still have one because I have flower, I have flowers in it that I wanted to press.
And it was the heaviest book that I had. The thickest, heaviest. That's crazy.
To think about, because it used to be back in the other day, like, oh, fine, a heavy book.
Oh, that's no problem. There's always a heavy book somewhere around here. But now, yeah,
I can imagine. Cheat code, like a hack, a ploy, or a technique that bypasses traditional methods
or rules. I, in a lot of people that, you know, grew up in video games and everything used this
terminology for life hacks and some of the things like we were talking about earlier with flowers
and stuff. So just that cheat code. I also think it's a fun way, like, instead of saying shortcut,
oh, I'm taking a cheat code, you know, instead of, it's just a shortcut, basically.
It's just another version of the terminology of shortcut or life hack or any of that.
Range anxiety. The fear that electric, electric vehicles' battery will run out of power before
you get to where you're going. Are you kidding? Wow. Actually, you know what? In a weird way,
I kind of think that's somewhat of a positive, just because that means that electric vehicles
have become that common that now we've actually got terminology to involve a range anxiety.
Now, I actually hear somebody use this terminology and I am laughing at them in their face.
Um, yeah. Like, do you think Buffalo got that? Yeah, right. Yeah. Like, when, you know, people are
encroaching on their territory, they have range anxiety. I actually think it applies more to Buffalo
than human beings. Like, actually, you've got me on this. I actually think Buffalo should use that.
It's totally dumb. Can't you just see them speaking English to each other? I have range anxiety.
I want to, and I want to be, for me, I want to be really clear. And I think you're doing this too,
Terry. We're not making light of the fear. We're making light of the terminology. Why does it have to
be in the dictionary? Yeah. I think that's a legitimate concern. But range and anxiety are
each words. Do we have to now have phrases or come by? I mean, I assume is it hyphenated?
Yeah. I mean, it's not. So, but you don't mean like, why does it have to, I don't know, get it?
Well, and you're, you're really going to love this one. Oh boy. Well, we wrap up on a
jacket. I got to be careful. Oh, I know. I know. I know. I just didn't hear this one before. It's
a mashup of a shirt and a jacket. Yeah. Or basically what you wear. So it's kind of, it's kind of
just the material. You know what I mean? Like, so there's a lot of, they call them, I see them on
like the online boutiques and stuff. They're called jackets. So it looks maybe more like a jacket,
might have buttons or zipper or something, but it's not outer, outer wear material. You know what I'm
saying? Like, it's more, I don't know. So I do hear that, but to me, it's still slang. Like, it's,
it's not a, yeah. I see now, there's something it's, when does a word, you know, become so popular
that it belongs in the dictionary slang wise? I think that's very, like, it's a good thing that I'm
not, like, I don't know, a librarian or having an English degree, because I think I would be coming
out of my skin. Yeah. That's some of this weird stuff. I wonder how much of this too. And I don't,
I don't know that this is the case. I'm just throwing this out there. But I wonder how much of this
is to try to make like dictionary still, you know, current, like, to make it relevant. Yeah. I think
so too, because I mean, kids just don't even, I don't even know a thing. I mean, I mean, now if you
want to, if you want to use a dictionary, you just pull up your phone. Like, if you're, let's say
you're like a senior in high school right now, have you ever used a dictionary in all of your
like a paper, I'm talking about a paper reference book. Like, have they ever probably not?
And I, I don't know what good, bad of that or anything. I don't know how you judge any of that
stuff. But I personally, I kind of wish that there was still that, that you, at least couldn't
we have both where you have got all the worlds techno or all the worlds information right in the
tips of your fingers with your phone. So that's great, especially for people that can't go to a
library or something. But what about the person that, you know, I want you to really do your
homework on it, like really have to hunt this down. Remember how good it felt to find the answers
to, to hunt something down. You're doing a history report and you're learning about somebody
or something and dissecting, oh, I got to find this book and I got to find that book. I loved
that stuff. It was some of my favorite time in school. And I found out so much other information
while I was reading about, if I'm reading up on Abraham Lincoln and I, all the sudden, I found
well, Mary Todd Lincoln. Oh, she was quite an interesting human being. I'm glad I read this about
whereas in, like, online, I just see Lincoln. Yeah, like research is so different than it was
when we, when we had to do it. And I mean, clearly our way is right. Yes, yes,
clearly. Absolutely. 100%. Oh, wait, that's not till tomorrow. That's right. That's right.
Okay. Well, we get a little ahead of it. It was just celebrating early. That's all.
We've got a couple of that ain't right stories to get to this morning. We usually save
him towards the end of the last segment. We got to get to this one right here. And it's just
funny. Seeing a sign that advertises ice cold beer doesn't seem wrong unless you're at a middle
school board concert. But Tennessee wants to make a taboo. Two Republican lawmakers have
introduced a bill that would ban the sale of quote refrigerated or cold beer in Tennessee.
The whole state in Tennessee at all. Yeah. It's already cleared two hurdles in the state and
now is headed to the committee where it will be debated. If it passes this stage, it will
head to final vote. If you're thinking this seems strange, it is trying to tackle an important
issue. The goal is to curb drunk driving. It reduced deadly crashes involving alcohol,
drinking and driving is already illegal in Tennessee. But open container laws do allow those
traveling in vehicles to to abide. Oh, so don't you think that drunk driving is illegal in every
state? But I'm a little confused. So you just can't advertise that you have cold beer.
I mean, what about if you're a bar? And your confusion is understandable. The bill seems very vague
at this point. At least the version that's been released publicly. But it specifically mentions
beer sold at retail. So assuming bars, restaurants and venues who could still serve cold beer.
Can you serve warm beer? Yeah. Which is some might argue is a bigger contributed to driving
under the influence than beer sold at a gas station or grocery store or breweries that you tend to
just bring home. So I feel like they're like, what are you doing here? Like it feels like you're
just trying to do something just to do something. Yeah, it kind of feels like, I don't know,
maybe just splitting hairs a little bit. Yeah, be wary of that in this any year really. But
especially in any election year, you see bills passed. You see things done. I'm not saying all
of them. But oftentimes done, ask yourself why and who has to gain from this and what the point
it politically is of this. None of us want drunk driving to happen. Of course. But there's also a
reasonable to us, right? If you're at a restaurant, if you want to have a beer with your fish fry,
the point is that you don't over indulge, right? Yeah. Or that you don't or that you have a driver
or you have, I mean, I don't know. To me, that just seems weird. And is the real, is the loophole
here that you just can't advertise it? Yeah, that's interesting. There's such a big topic.
I don't feel, I feel like you, if you are standing on something that you believe in,
you've got all the answers and all the details. If you don't, then I wonder how much you care.
I wonder how much you're truly invested in this conversation because I make no bones about this.
I'm very biased in the subject. I got no time for drunk driving. I agree. None. None. I've lost
family members. I've been in accidents. I was in over seven, eight different accidents as a kid
and a couple of those were because of drunk drivers. I almost lost my impact because of it. I've
had a lot of history with this subject. I also, I've done it. I'll wholeheartedly admit being too
young and being too stupid and all that in everything. I wasn't, I wasn't hammered hammered or
anything, but even a little bit is too much. I went two blocks and this was, I'm 21, 22 at the time
that was, I'm years ago. It was over 20 years ago. It was over 20 years ago and I still feel guilty
from it. I still feel bad from it. It was one time and it was over 20 some years ago and I still
feel bad from it. That's one of those lines. You can't cross to me. There's no excuse. Nothing you
can tell me. Ever gives a reason to do this. But I understand where these lawmakers are coming from
that you are hearing from your constituents. Hey, we got too much drunk driving going on. We need
to do something about this. Make something happen. But is the cold beer sign really? What's causing it?
But then you're saying your constituents, you're the ones drunk driving. So you're in the circle
kind of thing where we just keep on making the same mistakes and keep on like biting off or
nose to spite our face and all this and it's a frustrating situation. Yeah, kind of goofy.
It is and I like that this feels like it feels like it hurts the cause. You said a great point
here, Terry. Who out there is is is four drunk driving? Who's, you know, nobody, right? We,
you know, like to think the 99.9% of people like society is against drunk driving. But that being
said, it's part of society that's doing this. So I could see the frustration. But when you do
stuff like this, I feel like it hurts the cause. I feel like it hurts those trying to stop drunk driving
because you're not really doing anything to fight this. It's a shame. I am curious to see how this
goes though. I'm very curious to see how far this gets in Tennessee, especially with it being
not very clear. I can't. Yeah, they've got to do some work on that. Yeah, yeah. We'll see how that
goes. We are going to have some fun coming up for you, everybody. Yeah, it's some really good
daddy right stories. You're going to want to hear. You're going to want to hear these people.
It's coming up for you on the morning show at WFHR.
Welcome back, everyone. Morning show at WFHR.
We hope you're having a great start to your weekend out there. Thanks so much for kicking
it off with us, everybody. Terry and James here with you and we continue with these kind of crazy
stories that we are coming across. There are bad days and there are really bad days. And then there
is what this woman went through one day, a 60 year old woman and keep that part in mind. Everybody,
a 60 year old woman in New Hampshire is lucky to be alive after she was thrown into a garbage truck
on Monday and compacted at least four times. What the what? The woman had apparently fallen
into a dumpster outside her apartment while trying to throw it a bag of trash. If you're following
the dumpster, I don't know. She's 60. Stop that old. I'm 50, but I'm right fake. You're going to
get my other shoe officials haven't said how long she was stuck in the dumpster, but she was
still in there when the garbage truck came through. The truck emptied the dumpster with her in it
and then began compacting. Okay, so this is very disturbing. I should not be laughing. I love
that you are though. The driver sent a crutch to her up four times. That's terrible. She's okay.
How crutched is she though? Yeah, she definitely had to go to the chiropractor like four times.
The truck. This truck had some horrible. I'm horrible. You would be the truck. The truck had a
monitor. You are encouraging me. You're not helping. The truck had a monitor that allows drivers
to see it to the back of the truck. So they got a monitor and sometimes they see animals like
raccoons in there and stuff. So they stopped the machine. You see an animal in there. Never a
live human being who was horrified. I get a match to horrify the situation is for her. He wasn't
the only one who noticed. Neighbors could hear the woman screaming from inside the truck. One witness
told the local news that it sounded like she was angry. Yeah, she was angry. You thought it
was shown to be excitement? Yeah. She's happy. The firefighters showed up and talked to the woman
through a side panel in the truck. They and they could tell that she was alive, but she was
totally she wasn't totally coherent. They used the basket of the fire truck to lift her out of
the top of the trash truck. It took about 30 minutes to free her. She was taken to the hospital
and then she's and she's expected to be okay. There are conflicting reports about the severity,
but some say she escaped with minor injuries. Some say a little more serious, but she is all right.
She's okay. Actually, this story is from about two weeks ago and she's already out of the hospital.
Just double checking on the story of this morning. By the way, fire officials also made sure
the driver was okay and he was supposedly this isn't the first time this has happened to him.
Come on. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Come on now. This can't be like we've heard. I'd like to think
we'd have heard about this story if this has happened to another human being. Let alone the same
driver twice. Come on. Is it the same route that has happened? I still have to know how she got
in there because if you look around here in our community, dumpsters at businesses are supposed
to be secure. You're supposed to have them locked up. But people that don't, it's an elevated
above, you know what I'm saying? They're above ground. So you would have to catapult yourself
in there. But I'm thinking about in sometimes in apartment buildings and stuff, it's level
with the ground because there's like a loading dock or something and then you throw it in. So like
was her garbage make so heavy that she like swung it over her head and it just took her flying
into the I like to think that's how it happened. I like so I just look at the video for this and
everything that they're pulling the woman out. It looks like it's one of those ones like you see
a businesses like we have over here. Okay. How did she get in there though? It's still a good
question. It's still a good question. So she went in there on purpose for something. She did not
throw. She did not accidentally fall in there to give the visual to people. It's like those green
big those really big green dumpster, you know, garbage is that are outside most businesses. We have
four feet tall. You don't fall in there. Is she eight feet? I was just going to say if she's
seven foot one, then I could see her flipping in maybe. But she's got to be five foot something.
I like how did this even happen? It's such a good question. And the follow up question of how
does this happen more than once to this garbage truck driver? And you know, so of course you
don't want to ever hear of someone being crushed, right? So I mean, I get back. But like
then are you screaming? Are you screaming because of the smell and the stuff that's getting on you?
Or are you screaming because this metal thing is moving toward you? I like that the company,
the garbage disposal company is called zero waste. I don't know why but that makes it even fun
to hear to me and I'm not sure why. While this is definitely a that eight right story and crazy
story. It's totally that eight right. I do want to use the opportunity to shout out the
firefighters that work so hard on that and all of our firefighters out there would greatly
appreciate the work that you do. So this draws the question though. I mean, obviously he didn't know
she was in there right away. But like the logistics of those compactors. Like how, you know,
from the time you hit the button to make it stop, how long till it stops? Yeah, yeah. That's a good
point. I didn't. You wouldn't think that there was a lot of time in between there. So that
is kind of interesting to think of. But there's mechanical. I mean, it can't just move really fast.
Yeah. I mean, you wouldn't think it'd be like, oh my god, you wouldn't think. How did she get in
the dumpster? I really have a, we really, you know what, Pam, can we get her on Midday magazine?
Can we, we got to interview this later? You better find somebody else. I can lie by loud.
Really kind of want to know the follow up to this story though. I do, I really do.
We've got a couple more and some good stories that the day coming up for you. I think Pam
ads are on the line already. Yeah, if, if, if, if, coming through, coming through, we'll take
the phone. And the phones aren't working. That we could have gotten there. Yeah. We'll take them,
we'll try to get that working. We'll check in with our partners. We'll be back with more fun
on the morning show at WFHR. Oh, I didn't want to do that one. No, no, no, that's not the one I want to
know. Oh, we can just change when we want to. Yeah, now we can. Yeah, now I can see them. Yeah,
so it's a new day, new day with our test, with our bumpers here and everything.
Terry and James here with you. One more segment to take you through. We'll take you right to
the top of the hour. Good stuff. Thank goodness, because we're off the rails. We really probably
should have been off the year hours ago. We really should have left it. We appreciate the best
listeners in the radio joining us and getting your weekend started. Good stuff coming up for you.
Get some local good stories of the day. We'll be touching on a lot of good things coming up to
wrap up our show. But got one more kind of then a right story to get to. Multiple people in
Mesa, Arizona called 911 the other day to report alligators were swimming around a lake in a city
park. That's a pretty hectic situation. I'd imagine. It's the type of thing that sounds like a
prank. But if anything, the city was pranking them. Turns out city officials recently added some
realistic foam alligators to the lake for birds and turtles to sit on. Oh, to sit on. Yeah,
I thought you meant to keep on moving on. Oh, you know what I mean? Sometimes you're trying to
deter birds because of waste and stuff. A few of the 911 callers were fully convinced they were real,
though. One woman even claimed a alligator latched and onto her boyfriend's fishing line.
He's fishing line. You're going to say onto his leg or something. That would be fabulous. Wouldn't
it? Ma'am, it's fake. It's calm down. Damn, Styrofoam. Now actually his fishing line caught the
alligator. Yeah. Despite the confusion, it doesn't sound like the city plans to remove them
anytime soon. They actually just doubled down and added two fake hippos. But now they probably
need to put up a sign so that they can not have people clogging up the 911s. That is hilarious.
That is hilarious. I'm showing Terry a picture of the hippo and the hippos. It's just the head
that's out of the water. And like obviously from the picture, we can tell it's fake.
But from a distance, it might be a little bit harder. Yeah. Or I mean, if you've never
been to a zoo, do you know? I mean, yeah. How many people in Arizona have hippos walking around
or anything like that? I was thinking about the alligators. I'm like, wait a minute. Are they really
there? This is one of those things too that in Mace is no small town. Is it Mace and the desert
though? Yeah. I mean, okay. They're styrofoam hippo heads that float around so it looks like
they're lurking under the water about to attack. And it just gives the animals something to sit on
and also as you said to kind of help them move on. That is hilarious. That's awesome though. I
think that's a hilarious story. I would not make I don't think that I would make a very good
mayor or anything like I'm okay on a board or something. But I don't think I'd be a good mayor
because stuff like this would be too tempting. I wouldn't hurt my city. I would care about my city.
I would care about the people in it. But pranking people. Oh, would you be a little tough not to do
for time? But would you make a good 911 operator when you get this call? That's a good question.
I don't know. I don't know. Shout out to all of our dispatchers. Do you know, do you just,
when you know, for certain, it is the styrofoam alligator? How much do you play with that?
I really, I would be tempting not to. Oh, I'd be so tempting not to. It really would. Yeah, yeah,
I don't, we're probably better. Yeah, you know what? We should just keep these day jobs.
Yeah, we're probably better. Just stick it at what we're doing and looking at the candidates
that we have for mayor here in Wisconsin rapids. You can find out more about them through the
League of Women voters. And of course, our own interviews that we had here at WFHR.
And they also have social media so you can check it out there. Yeah, be sure to follow along.
Be informed and be ready because coming up that spring primaries right around the corner.
I mean, but you did hear it here first. You can ask one of them if they plan to put alligators
anywhere. Yes, ask the tough questions, everybody. Yes, yes. Are you going to put fake alligators
in the Wisconsin River? Yes or no, sir? Answer the question. Yes, the hard-hitting stuff around here.
I'd rather see the hippos, actually. How about hippo heads? Are we going to have hippo heads in the
another river? In the pool? In the pool? Oh, even better question, Terry. Yes. Yes. We've got a whole,
we've got a whole water park here about the water park. I mean, are there going to be hippos going
on the slide or not? We need to know the answers. Come on. Quit laughing, sir. Answer the question.
Like, we need a bit of what? I wish you would have been armed with this before your interview.
Yes. I would have been like, I could ask really important questions. I mean, you could have, you know,
used a little more time. Looking at some good stories of the day. One of the big ones we've
got today is wrapping up Midday Magazine for the week. Join us from three to four this afternoon.
Great hour of conversation and kicks off with Wisconsin State Senator Patrick Teston joining us.
Senator Teston and I always have a great conversation. Yeah, we butt heads sometimes,
and by the end of it, we're laughing. I always appreciate Teston's certain, Patrick's time,
along with his transparency. We appreciate that and looking forward to talking with him.
He's got a bunch of bills that have been passed this week. I want to dissect those with him.
Along with talking about the most recent article that came out this week about arts in this state,
and how he feels about that. I'm going to talk with him about it. It's going to be fun.
Big good conversation a little bit later today at three. At three thirty, we wrap up the week of
Midday Magazine with Kelly Rochart from Child Caring Inc. It's got a lot to talk about with her,
looking forward to discussing that. Anytime we can talk about child care in this state,
I am going to take that opportunity. Kelly is fabulous. Yeah. They are a long time partner of
United Way, and I can't, I mean, I can't speak highly enough of her as a director of programming
that is serving multiple counties. She wears a ton of hats and just does a great job. So if you
have a chance to catch that, I would really encourage people to do that. And we also,
one of them mentioned some local good things going on. Now, one of the things I want to mention,
of course, is the Wisconsin Rapids Winters Farmer Market going on. It takes place over at the
Moravian Church at three ten first Avenue South. It's going on from nine to one every Saturday,
and it is getting bigger and bigger. I pass that, I go have to go pass there every Saturday. I drive
past it. And I notice the root to just drive fast. Well, if I wasn't in their hurry, I would stop
by. I got to stop by. You're right. You get good call. You get so good. It's always busy,
and they got food trucks out there now. It's such a great thing. Even if you're not necessarily
going there to buy anything, I think it's a great place just to go and hubbub and have a good time
communicate, maybe connect, and all that. Check out. You know, I push on you, but I've not been there
either. Check it out. We'll both check it out. We'll go out there together. The Wisconsin Rapids
Winters Farmer's Market going on to the Moravian Church at three ten first Avenue South from nine
to one this Saturday and every Saturday right up until the end of May. Middle of May, that is.
And I wanted to mention our good friends at this store point boss have the Robert and Mary
Wacley Wacley's Winter Feast going on tomorrow over the Nikusa Community Center at four sixteen
Crustview Lane in Nikusa. The meal consists of donated well-game and domestic meats. Music
can be provided by Don and Apolic. It's a great time. Dinner starts, the gathering starts at four,
dinner at four fifty, and at six thirty there will be entertainment from Don and Dan from Don and Dan.
Awesome. You can get your tickets to Family Natural Foods, Daily Drug and Beavers,
and keep in mind not only is this a great event, you know, one of a kind event. You're not going
to find many things like this, but this is the big fundraiser for the historic point boss. This
is a way for us to keep history alive here in this state. Yeah, great opportunity to support that
and if you've never been out there, I mean, it's really cool. Yeah, it is really. Yeah, so by
supporting it through attending this dinner, that's another, another good way to look at it.
Be sure to check that out, everybody. You can find out more at historicpointboss.com.
And we have the 10th anniversary of Southwood County's empty bowls tomorrow going on,
because someone's bowl is always empty. This takes place from 11 to 2 over at the focus at 2321
West Grand Avenue in Wisconsin Rapids. So what I think is kind of cool here, Terry,
is what you could do is go to empty bowls and you're going to be hungry because that's the point,
because somebody's bowl is always empty. So they're not going to give you, this isn't, you go to
empty bowls and you're going to leave full. The point is to leave a little hungry because we want
people to understand what it's like to be hungry. Along with that, though, you get this amazing bowl
that you're going to carry with you the rest of your life probably and be able to use. And every time
you grab that bowl to put cereal in and there's something, you're going to have that memory of empty
bowls and carry that on with it. It's a great event. It's such a unique event. I say go to empty
bowls and that wraps up around two. You've got a couple hours to kill and then show up to the
winter feast. There you go. And then you'll get your fill. And then you can fill up because you
are not going to leave that event hungry. And no cooking the whole day. And I know that this is
something that you don't do in radio, but I do it and I don't care. You can get rid of me if you want.
I believe in there's plenty of ammunition all morning. Yeah, really, really.
As you can never pick any segment pretty much. But I even though these businesses do not
advertise with us, we want to support them like they support our community and support hunger in
this community. Shout out to Aaron's wines and Steins anchored by a bay bar and grill chatterbox
catering Danny K's pub and grill. Great. Grace's family restaurant. Great expectations. Jennings
and company junkyard bar and grill. Misty's menu. Olympic two family restaurant sportsman's pub
and grill. Thank you to every one of you. So they're all providing soup at empty bowls. And so that's
you know, that's just really important. You know, we used to host this event actually at our
church. And I still have when you were saying that about the bowls. I still have, I use them more
probably like for candy dishes or for display things. But I have several of the bowls from attending,
you know, over the years. And it is, it is really cool. And it is like you said, an important
shout out to those businesses because they're donating the soup so that people get this experience.
Yeah. Yeah. Big thank you to them. Find out more by going to focus focus of SWC.org. That's all
one word focus of SWC.org. And you can follow along on their Facebook page. Let's also get to
this. This is a good story. And for those that didn't hear a big thank you to Pam for this.
Chief musicians Jennifer Stokes from Webster Webster Groves, Missouri. And Renee DeBauer from Wisconsin
Rapids, Wisconsin are going to be performing for students at Centrelia High School in Burles in
Texas as part of the United States Navy Band 2024 National Tour. Oh, cool. The Navy Band will
travel 25,000 ground miles over 18 days to seven states giving 12 public concerts as well as
five concerts for students in schools. This is a great event. A shout out to our Navy and a big,
big special shout out to Renee DeBauer of Wisconsin Rapids. Very cool. That's a very cool story.
Got a good on that like a young lady. And congratulations to their family, friends, everybody a part of
that. This is one of those awful heartwarming ones. A police officer in South Bend, Indiana found
a dog with its mouth a zip tied shut, but he's okay and is in much better a situation now after
the police officer adopted him. Oh, that's sweet. She named him Zeus. I don't know why, but I think
that's fitting. That's pretty cool. We don't cover nearly enough in the society. These stories of
officers doing things like this. Do we cover the story of maybe her, this police officer
getting a zip tie off maybe, but the follow up to it, of them. How many times this kind of stuff
happens? It's really cool. So cool. More good news sort. Well, back in November,
a lady in Florida got gorge by a bowl. That's obviously not good. But it ended up being a good thing
because scans at the ER spotted lung cancer. So she, the gorge actually ended up saving her
known other ways. Yeah. Oh, I thought you were going to say the bullet through in the dumpster.
That's how she got in the dumpster. It was a ball. Oh, it all adds up now. Oh, that's good.
Oh, that's not good. That's not all that happened. Yeah. So a guy in Illinois wasn't looking
forward to Valentine's Day after his girlfriend broke up with him. But three days after he got dumped,
he bought a lottery ticket and hit a million dollars. No way. Oh, that's awesome. She's calling.
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. And I hope for his sake, he's not answering.
In elementary school in South Carolina, it did a weird Valentine's Day fundraiser to support
its 4-H club. They put out four buckets with a different school officials name on each one
and people could drop money in. Whoever's bucket raised the most money had a kid had to kiss a cow
on Valentine's Day. Oh, cute. That person ended up being the school's principal, of course,
who embraced the challenge. He put some lipstick on and planted a kiss on the cow's nose. See,
isn't that sweet? And I love it when people play along. Usually it's a pig. Kiss a pig. Yeah.
But it's a great way to fundraise and kids eat that up. Oh, you know what I mean? Like, can't you
just see all those little kids coming home, like asking for change so that they can take it into
school? How good does that feel for the everybody involved? And how great of a lesson of this is
to kids. Whenever we do these fundraisers and schools and stuff, these kids are taking this in.
They're seeing adults caring about a cause, caring about something, and it has an impact.
Well, and it doesn't get much more grassroots than that, right? Like how fun. And good on that
principle for playing along. And Terry, I wanted to wrap up talking a little United Way with you.
Our United Way of Southwood and Ames counties does so much for our communities. We like to take some
time during our shows to talk about the United Way and promote and talk about what you guys have
going on. Yeah. So we actually hosted a really great event yesterday. Yeah. It's called
Finance and Investment Challenge Ball. So it's like the old quiz ball style of a day for high school
students to really, you know, show off what they know about personal finance. And it was awesome.
We had 20 teams from seven local school districts that participated and it came down to
interestingly enough in the final round. It was two separate teams from Amherst High School.
So they had to battle each other, you know, from the same school, which is interesting. So of course,
they won and we'll be moving on to the state competition in May. So that's just one, you know,
example of things that we're doing around youth and around financial stability and and, you know,
really learning about how important income and finances. So that was awesome. And also shout out
to our friends at Midstate Technical College for hosting the event. And it's great. We look forward
to it every year. So plenty of local financial institution volunteers and sponsors. And there's
just so many people that come to come together to make it happen. So that was awesome. It's also
we have the opportunity to have your taxes done for free. But you can visit our website and click on
there's a banner that kind of scrolls across when you first go on the website. And you can visit
my free taxes through our website. It is an opportunity if your household income is below 70,
3000, I believe, for the year to a file for free. I've used it. This will be the fifth year I've
used it. It's worked great for me and so far I'm free. So apparently it's working. And it's pretty
user friendly to that point. And so, you know, we just encourage people if you can, if it gives you
the opportunity to save on costs to use towards something else in your budget, this is a great
opportunity. So if nothing else, just check it out. Find out more at uswac.org. Be sure to file
the United Way and social media. Great show today, Terry. We appreciate you. Thanks.
Have a good one out there. Everybody be good to each other. We'll talk to you with more
of Morning Show on Monday. I'll actually I'll talk to you on over the back fence. I'll be
doing over the back fence tomorrow. When you drive right by the farmers man. WFHR locally grown radio.
