Good morning, Wisconsin. Good morning, world. It's a new day. Thanks for kicking it off
with us right here at WFHR, locally grown radio. 804 on the clock. Got your host, James
Jay. I am joined by your head of news, Melissa K. Good morning. Our head of production, Seth
Habhacker. Good morning. And you guys that are in charge of everything else. By the way,
I'm still waiting on schedule. You guys are supposed to get the March schedule out. You
know what? Yeah. Stop trying to shove your responsibilities off on our listeners. It's a good
point. It's a valid one. We're looking hilarious. We're going to be great. You're just
saying we're working guys. I don't know. They haven't responded yet. I don't know. Dale's
supposed to send us. I think it was Dale's in charge. Maybe Kathy's in charge as we got
it. What do you know? Who knows? We are Bob. What's our schedule? We have got great stuff
lined up for you this morning. It's President's Day. We're going to talk a little bit about
that. We have the LKFA birthday and anniversary club around the corner looking forward to that
one as well. I also want to get into a couple of other fun topics here. There is one I wanted to
will Gen Z save landlines? Well, intriguing. Yeah. Landlines again. How many compromises does the
average person make a day? Too many. They're searing good. There's the answer right there.
Nicely done. That's so you're so right about that. We got to of course the 9 o'clock hour
kicking off the way we like to on Mondays with the kitchen's open. Special one lined up for you
today. Looking forward to diving into that. It's going to be a little heavy. It's meaty. It's meaty.
Well done, Seth. I really need the want one. I need that. I need that. I love that joke.
Even though I loved it. It will also have some entertainment news. Just a bit of that. Look at
what's not on the new on your small screen tip for today and to start off your work week.
But also talking a little bit about what might be new on your computer or new on your stage near you
here in the rapid area. New on your stage. I like that. New on your stage. I also want to talk about
some fun random facts about our presidents. There are so many interesting things about so many
of our all of our presidents. There's never been a president. It doesn't have something interesting
about them. I want to touch on some of that before we wrap up. I've got a wonderful good story
of the Dave from the Good News Network that I want to touch on about America and our education.
I said good story involving our education. I know. We got there. Yeah, it doesn't seem like people
like to cover that stuff very much, but we're going to hear. I want to get into all of that with
you guys. We're going to have some fun. I'll be honest. I was biting time because I thought
Brittany might be calling up. It was a chair. She was going to join us this morning or not.
I know she wasn't able to Friday, but we hope her it's having a good one out there doing well.
Looking at giving you guys my to show you the difference of what happens when we have somebody
like Brittany who has got such a magnificent brain and such a passion for weather. You can hear
it in her voice when she talks. That's what really sold me on Brittany. Not knowing her that well.
They're working with her before just the first conversation we had off air. I'm like, oh, okay.
I'm going to enjoy this. She's going to be a lot of fun to work with. And she's funny.
She's she's she's she's good and proud. Yeah. The difference of somebody like her and me
giving the forecast who loves weather. Right. I nerd about weather. But man, what are you
about weather? Oh, I would ramble. I would be giving you history notes and things and like
I'd be doing day and weather and Wisconsin Rapids back in 1845.
No, I feel comfortable with that, but that's a good state. For the most part. Yeah. Yeah.
You picked the one year there was no snow though. Wait, no, I'm sorry. Yeah.
It does look like we are going to be seeing a bit of an uptick in those temperatures from the weekend
coming up this week and everything. So I know that's good because this weekend was
there was shelly. Yeah. It was weird. It was like we had the temperatures of winter without
like the backdrop like we had the like to me the worst part of winter like the cold.
Well, that the slush is right there at number two. But I don't mind the snow. I have never
minded snow no matter how much we get that part doesn't bother me. It's the cold I can't handle.
Yeah. Like that's what gets me in the slush. I can't. This is locking it. Yeah. Yeah.
How was your guys this weekend? Melissa, how was your weekend? It was pretty good. We actually
we did a test overnight in the camper with Kevin to see if he could be in a RV cat. Yeah.
Good idea. How did I do it? How did it go? Well, well, except for poor planning on our part because
like middle of the day, Saturday, we're like, you know, if we're going to do this, we probably should
do this because this trip is coming up very soon. Right. Right. Right. So we're like, okay. Yeah,
let's do it. So we planned very well for Kevin. We brought him food. We brought him water.
And he did, he absolutely hates his harness now. I mean, he just he just we did not gotten him
around to loving it. So after coaxing him into it with with treats and subterfuge,
I love that word. So managed to get him into it. And then walking between the house and the car,
he freaked. Oh, no. So he hated that part. But once we got in the car and he was free, he was fine.
Okay. When we just drove out to the RV where it's parked in a shed that's heated. So we get and then
again, walking between the car and the shed into the RV, he was freaked because too much open air.
Like, ah, this is scary. He's a Gora Fultman. Who knew? But once we get into the RV in about 10
minutes of, you know, like hiding, then he was fine. That's really fine. Yeah, put his food out,
put water out for him, shook the food container and he trotted right over, had some food,
went, took a nap on the bed, got to start somewhere. We're planning part was with the fact that
we didn't bring food for us or any of anything for us. So after they got settled in, I went and
got lunch and came back. And after we had lunch and got settled in, Aaron went and picked up some
more stuff that he needs to load anyway and and got some dinner for us. Oh, good. That's a beautiful
story. Yeah. And we spent the night in the RV. Kevin only fell off the bed once. No, right?
Only once. Go ahead. And he landed on his feed-up shirt. Kat's always laying there for me.
Well, I'm sure he did after the claws scraped down the sheath. Aaron goes to me and he just fall off
the bed. Yep. Yep. That's a great story. And smart. Really? Actually, a smart idea too. I think
you might have given some people a good idea out there as far as that kind of thing goes. I have to
also thank you because you just gave me a reminder of a story I forgot about about my ex-wife and I
where we were when we had our first my son JC and we're young parents and we're going to travel
to Madison from here to Madison to see her family because that's where she's from. And we
were all right. We're JC's locked into his car seat. We've got this, this, and this. Oh,
toys. We need to bring more toys. Oh, wait a minute. Dipers. Dipers. Everything's in the car.
We're running late. So we're set ready to go. We get in the vehicle. We are about to
well, we're about at least an hour on the road. At least an hour halfway,
hour on the road or something like that when we realize we did not bring anything of ours.
And I mean anything. We I didn't remember my wallet. I didn't remember it like change
a clothes. And I'm like kicking myself thinking, okay, all right, because to be honest,
her and I are not getting along that great at this time. And I don't know how to tell her I've
done this. And she immediately all of a sudden makes this huge yelp noise. Oh, I forgot
underwear. She forgot all her stuff too. We had to go back. Oh boy. Yeah. Yeah.
With the following we were only five minutes from home. Oh, yeah, that's that's worse. Yeah.
We ended up laughing about it like a pretty hard guy the next day and stuff. But that was a rough day
that day. Oh, wow. Another interesting thing about animals. My my fur brother Sam loves when he's
knows he's going to go in the vehicle. He loves going into the vehicle. But as soon as we start
driving, can't handle it. She hates it. Yeah, it's funny. It's a weirdest thing with him. I like
being in here by the south. How was your wake up? It was a interestingly enough. It was full of
theater this weekend. So on Saturday, of course, we have what in the business in the theater business
is called a Q to Q. And this is something you do with the lighting person and the sound person.
You go through the entire script and you find out what lights you want, what sound where the sound
cues are and all those kinds of things. Kind of a rehearsal for your for the tech team. Yeah,
yeah, exactly. So and of course, it never goes the way you think it's going to go. We had some
technical issues with getting the sound set up. So if we had to start late and it went long because
these things take a while, right? So that was a long day. But we got everything set up and ready
to go so far. You know, hopefully the reason we're doing a couple extra extra week of tech is
because of this to make sure everything is working correctly with our videos and everything.
So we got all that done. But it's funny because yesterday, I know a lot of people we've
mentioned it before. The next show that WRCT is doing is rumors, Neil Simon's rumors. And Beth and I
for whatever reason were like last night, we're like, you know what? We have a video of
when we were in rumors 16 years ago, the show that we met at. Wow. And we're like, we should watch
that. We should watch that just to see what it was like. Oh my gosh. Wow. I was telling you,
it was so long ago, but it's still it was a great show. And it's so fun. But just to go back
to that time when we were, you know, just meeting each other and everything, it was pretty crazy.
I think that's awesome. But I think that's awesome. But I love that you guys have done
so many shows together. I think that's a foolish, foolish romantic. I love all of that. I think
it's wicked. It all goes back to theater. I want to talk a little bit more about this weekend
and how it went with you guys in our entertainment section. We'll get into that a little bit later.
Get your tickets for the last ministry and the silver foxes next production and everything
WRCT does at WRCT theater dot org WRCT theater dot org is a wrap up the for opening segment here
and getting ready for LKFA birthday and anniversary club. One of our mind everybody tomorrow.
We got the spring primary going on. No, that's right. Elections elections elections elections.
We'll go over these notes again tomorrow morning, but just a reminder to everybody here in
the Wisconsin rapids area. Of course, where we got a very important election going on with
our voting for mayor along with others. Other things on the on the docket. I believe it's just
mayor for the primary. I was thinking as I was saying it, I love it. I think that's an
unknown that does the sound right. I think you Melissa who actually knows what she's talking about.
That's right. There are the candidates running, but no contested races that need a primary.
Right. Okay, which is. Sorry, Melissa. Go on. That's okay. I said there's school board members
running and then also I want to say there's a couple older persons. I get so excited sometimes
when I have a random fact that I just learned and I want to tell people and that's what happened
right there and I apologize, Melissa. I didn't know who was it. I just read about. Okay, James
Monroe and 18 just a little taste of some of the random facts. We went into a little bit later.
James Monroe other than Washington Monroe was the only president to ever run essentially unopposed
coasting to reelection in the 1820 race, which of course we all remember. Oh, yeah. It's like
yesterday. Yeah, 200 years ago. Yeah, I remember that. Imagine that. Imagine running for president
of the United States on a post. That's amazing. That's pretty interesting. Yes, that's pretty
fascinating. I wasn't the first one. Nobody wanted the job. Yeah. I mean, I can't imagine
what scenarios could lead to something like that. I mean, other than, of course, one of our
presidents. That could be. Yeah. Or maybe one, you know, anything that could lead to something
like that, possibly happening, I couldn't imagine outside of the, you know, maybe one of our candidates
possibly being in jail. But what's the odds of that? What's the odds of that? That's crazy. I don't
never happen. I'm selling shoes to stay out of jail. The cards, the one that got me was the cards.
I gotta move on. Okay. So locally to all of you out there voting. And I hope it is every single one
of you rap as residents that is going to be voting in this spring, spring primary coming up tomorrow.
For wards one through 10, you'll be voting at the Centralia Center at 220 third avenue south.
And wards 11 through 27. You'll be voting at East junior high school fieldhouse at 311 Lincoln
Street. Right. Keep that in mind. The the next presidential preference primary and spring
election will be April 2nd. So keep that in mind as well. Very short gap between those two. Yeah.
Keep that in mind. Everybody marked those calendars getting formed and get out there and vote.
We will take a quick time out. We'll check in with our partners. We'll come back and
have fun with our Elcafe birthday anniversary club on the morning show here at WF HR.
Welcome to the birthday anniversary club. Elcafe birthday anniversary club. Yeah. Yeah.
It's time everybody for us to do some celebrating and talking about our great friends over at Elcafe.
Visit them in beautiful port edwards. They're at 221 market avenue. Go ahead and check out some of
the great specials. Had some really good specials over the weekend. Hope you guys got a chance to
check out some of those perfect way to kick off your week. Visiting our friends over at Elcafe.
Go wish them a good morning from us. And keep in mind everybody because we are getting closer and
closer to the end of the month in the beginning of next month. And we will pull ourselves a winner
for the Elcafe birthday anniversary club on the wall of fires. And that winner or winners will
receive $2.20 gift certificates from our friends at Elcafe. Cool. Yeah. And with their prices,
that's a great, I mean, that is a skill, right? Exactly. Very cheap meal for two. Very
reasonable. Go ahead and visit our friends over at Elcafe and visit us. Get us your birthdays
and anniversaries. Get them to us info at wfhr.com. I don't know what happened there. Info at
wfhr.com. I got like pause or something. I don't know. We also encourage you to call up,
enjoy the conversation. 715-424-2600. Call up and join us any time. Listening to us on the civic
media app, just to touch a tool away from getting a hold of us here. Let's dive right into our list
where we have two names that we can celebrate. And only one that can really truly win.
Oh, okay. All right. So that doesn't have to work this morning. No, no, no. So first up,
one of which, very happy birthday to my, I can consider my sister. Technically, she's my sister
in law, but my sister, Kim. Oh, happy birthday, Kim. My brother's wife, Kim Maloff, who grew up in
this area, went to assumption and everything. So certainly a local. Kim is the head of one of the
departments over at the hospital over there in the Appleton area. Oh, wow. She does a great job
over there. And Kim has something over every member of my family. She, more than my sister or I,
or my brother or anybody else, she is the most loved of all of the kids. Even more than my brother
and sister and I, which is saying something, right? Kim, you know, took care of my dad. My dad,
when he got COVID, our hospitals here in town were filled and he had nowhere to go. So like many
people in that situation, out across the country, my dad had to find a hospital to go to that could
take him. The only one that could take him just happened to be the one that Kim works at over in
Appleton. Wow. She took care of him hand on hand. And, and I, I genuinely believe that I don't have
my father without her. So that's pretty good brag. That's right. Excellent. It's going to be
pretty hard to beat that one. Ah, your sunk. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There's don't be that. Not
to mention wonderful human being. Appreciate her so much. Great mom, wife, all of the above. Have a
great day, Kim. We appreciate not only what you do for our family, of course, but what you do for
our state and, and the, in the medical field and everything and all of our nurses and doctors out
there. Yes, indeed. You healthcare workers. And a big happy birthday to Donna Mathis. Happy
birthday, Donna. Enjoy your day, Donna. It's a great one. You are our qualifier. Enjoy. Cool. And
thanks to everybody that got us those birthdays and anniversaries. Keep them coming, everybody.
Yes, indeed. One more and more. Let's dive into our celebrity list here.
Millie Bobby Brown is 20, of course, 11 on Stranger Things. She's, she is having quite the career
already. Wow. She's 20. She's not even 21. And she's got an IMDB page that all of us would
die to have. That's pretty amazing. That really is. And, and, and interesting too, that, um,
she's to interesting choices she has made. She's got a movie coming on a Netflix called Damsel.
That is supposed to be a game changer. Oh, it's, it's all set as a fairy tale,
but the damsel doesn't need saving, right? Kind of thing. And I think we've seen a little bit of
that here and there. Sprinkle this, this one apparently goes really into that direction. And she
stars in it. Cool. Uh, she was in like a Noah Holmes. Also, yes. Yes.
Kind of a fun little series. I thought that was good. I, yeah, I enjoyed that Henry Cavill,
which just kind of proper kind of being kind of proper and not being an action star was kind of
cold. Yeah. He's very good. Very good. Uh, Jackson Pace is 25 gauge on walking dead Chris Brody
on Homeland. Okay. Uh, Victoria Justice is 31. She's Janet and Fox's Rocky Horror Remake. Uh,
she was Alindi Sampson and I candy. And she was in Victoria's, of course. Let's see here. Uh,
boy, this is not good. Oh, uh, Benicio del Toro is 57. Uh, he, uh, he is the, uh,
DJ code breaker and Star Wars less Jedi. He is the collector in the Guardians of the Galaxy and
Avengers Infinity War. Um, he is, of course, the mumbler in the unusual suspects. Yeah.
One of the greater performances I've seen in the last 30 years, honestly. Yeah. It's one thing,
like he's actually, if you have the, I've watched usual suspects. I'm quite a few times. Um,
if you watch it with the subtitles, he's saying everything. He's just, no,
I'm doing it like this and it was, it was an acting choice that he made. And in the read through,
everybody like stopped and we're like, that's perfect. Don't change a thing. Everybody loved it.
Like it really got him on the map to where, of course, he's done a billion movies since then.
They, these movies they mentioned are big name movies, but I think most people have seen Benicio
work and know that everywhere. Yeah. Yeah. I know at the end, when they were getting close to
release, he's starting to get cold feet, though, because he was really afraid. People like,
they're not going to understand me, but it worked. It totally worked. Uh, it is similar to,
you're getting your big break, your big role. Oh, by the way, though, you got to wear a mask.
Like, you know, oh, but, but, but nobody's going to know who it's me. Nobody, you know,
that kind of thing. It could have really derailed his career. They could have sent him in a
different direction, like a war type cast him or something. He's one of the most untighted actors
I've seen, though, he's done a wide range of whatever he wants. Yeah. I think he'd make his
sneaky good Gomez in the, I'd love to see him do a little later stuff. Yeah. The only thing I
really enjoyed about, I enjoy his work period, but I really, the thing I liked the most about him
doing the MCU stuff and everything is, oh, we can see a little lighter version of him. Exactly.
Maybe seem smile a little or get something like that. Justine Bateman is 58. Jason Bateman's big
sister should play Mallory Keaton on Family Ty's. Mallory. God that role. I had such a crush on
seal is 61. Seal is 61. Well, that took me back a second. Yeah. Yeah. Incredible artist.
Kind of crazy. Really? Melissa. Really? Hi. It's crazy. Yeah. For those that don't know,
seals biggest hit. What a crazy. Yeah. Big hit was crazy. It's for and I did not mean to do that.
So Melissa is your rubbing off on her man. Yeah. She's starting to pull that now. That was good.
That was good. All I think of when you say seal is kiss from the rose. Yeah, which is like
good song. It's classic. It's a classic. It is. How do you make a pop hit? Well, like like
it's such a ballad too. Yeah. Yeah. It's got that like that that that Renaissance era feel to it
though. Almost almost like a madrigal or something like that. Yeah. That's the word I'm
looking for. But with a poppy. But how do you do that? I don't know how you play. He's amazing.
Yes, you are. You're sealed. He's got a solo album called Just Seal that has a billion great
songs on. It's an amazing record. Yeah. If you get a Jeff Beck is the guitarist on the album.
Oh, I did. Yeah. Yeah. They're actually apparently like friends and stuff. And Jeff Beck
just hasn't lost a beat. It's the album came out like 94. It's an older album and everything.
But there's a song in there called Fast Changes. I encourage everybody to listen to it. I will
be listening to it later today. It's such a good song. But great. I know the actual lyrics from
that song. From Crazy. Kitt note. Kiss from Rose. Kiss from Rose. I'll be talking about the actual
lyrics. Everybody knows the song because of the way. Yeah, because of the way he sings it.
It's a little. You're not even sure what he said. He's speaking of mumbling. Oh, that's the part.
I don't know. You're right. It's okay. That first you said. But after that, I don't know anything.
Yeah. Would you have the lyrics? Just by a rose on the gray. On the gray. Oh, on the gray. What's
this is what easy lyrics says. Okay. I don't know if that's accurate. It may not be accurate.
You know, maybe seal doesn't even know. We'd have to ask you. I don't know. I mean, you can sing
like that. Who cares? Yeah. Right. Exactly. The great. The wonderful Jeff Daniels is 69 today. Mid-West
own Michigan's own Jeff Daniels. Del Harris and Amazon's American Rust. James Cormie.
Cormie in the mini series A Higher Loyalty. Of course, obviously famous from Dumber Dumber and
everything. This is very long and very career of Jeff Daniels. I know that Dumber Dumber is what
he's known for now. But I think up until that point, it was Network News. Network News.
Don't forget speed. Speed. He was great in that. He did a TV show too for a while that was fantastic.
Has one of the greater opening monologues of any TV show ever. Oh, was that the shoot? The
newsroom? Is that the one? I'm thinking of the newsroom. That's what I was thinking of. That's the
the TV show I was trying to think of. So the first that list is another one too, right? That's a
goal. Yeah. Yeah. Well, the only was one season. But the newsroom is the one. The first episode of
the newsroom, the first two minutes is some of the greatest television I've ever seen in my life.
And if you like news, if you like news coverage, if you care about that, it's an important monologue.
I think it still stands out. I know it still stands up to today. It actually has a little
more meaning for today. Born in Georgia, but grew up in Michigan. He even has an independent
theater up there that he helps run. I forget what the name of it is. The Purple Rose. Thank you.
Thank you. After he was in the movie, The Purple Rose of Cairo. So that was one of his signature
breakout roles. So yeah. Huge fan. A big fan of Mr. Daniels. Also one of the most untipable actors
there is to do anything. He can do it all. He can do it all. Tony Iomi is 76.
Incredible Black Sabbath guitarist. Iomi is the only member to appear in every Black Sabbath album.
Really? I actually think he's underrated. I actually think he was underrated as a guitar player.
One of those things where he had a physical ailment that caused his guitar playing to be different.
He had something like the his fingertip. He didn't have like something happened
into his fingertips. Yeah. But that led to him. It's a middle and ring finger. Yeah. The slackening
the strings on his guitar and got that sound. That Black Sabbath sound. Yeah. Guys,
guys, his guitar teacher was Jingle Ryan Hart. Whoa. Who only had three things. So yeah.
Wow. That'll be amazing. I didn't know that Melissa. Oh, I cannot wait to tell my dad that.
My dad is such a huge Iomi fan. I don't know if he knows that. That's really cool.
Now I'm great. Now Melissa is going to be ahead on me on the list. I think they already
was. Yeah, you definitely were on my Bob's list. Yeah. In the interest of being fair and being
good to everybody on their birthday, Paul Dean is 78 happy birthday to lover boy lead singer and
guitars. It took a lot for James to do that. I just want you to know. Just want you to know.
Can't handle that. No, no, no, you turn your mic on. The great, the wonderful, the amazing Smoky
Robinson 84 today for Smoky Robinson. Saved by Smoky. Love Smoky Robinson. One of my all-time
faves. Yeah. I don't know. We don't have enough time to just start randomly throwing out
their singles. But Smoky Robinson or Smoky Robinson, the miracles were a part of or anything.
Let me just sum it up this way. Bob Dylan once said that Smoky Robinson was the greatest living
American poet. Yeah. That's pretty high praise. Yeah, that's pretty darn true. Yeah. Smoky Joe
was his nickname. That's a good one. And wrapping up with Falco, who was no longer with us.
Falco born on this day, 1957. Rock me out of a day. Yes. Rock me out of a day. Yes. That's
pretty much it. Probably the biggest pop started to come out of Austria. Yeah. You know, I mean,
since Mozart, I guess. Yeah. Someone had it too. You know, it's a rough stretch right there going
for Mozart too. Falco, yeah. It's rough. Yeah. We will take a time out. We'll go ahead and catch
up with our partners here. We'll get to some state and local news. We encourage you to go visit
our friends over at El Café. They're at 221 Market Avenue and Beautiful Port Edwards. Wish them a
good morning from all of us here at WFHR. Welcome back, everyone. Morning show here at WFHR,
Locale Garon Radio. Got your host, James J. joined by Melissa K and Seth Habhagger. Good morning.
Oh, well, there she is. Okay. I'm here. Hey. Appreciate you being with us, Melissa. Got some
interesting stuff to get to this morning. In the 9 o'clock hour course, we'll have the
kitchens open, get into a little bit of entertainment. Now, we're going to talk presidents. We've got
some interesting survey stuff about being president state, American sharing their dream presidential
candidate. I want to get into that. How many is it the rock? Yeah, right. And of course, we'll get into
some random facts about our presidents. We'll come all that coming up for us. Love those. Right now,
did that sports illustrated football phone? Get it out of your attic or any of those. Remember,
how there was a stretch there where we had weird phones, landline phones. We had weird ones. Well,
your teenager might want it. Really? Old school landline phones with a cord are the new
trendy thing for Gen Zers to own. I always wanted the Garfield one. Oh, the Garfield phone. This
tail moved and something retro stuff from the 90s and early 2000s is big right now in general.
And I mean huge. Wow. That this is also a side note to anybody that has this stuff in your
attic or basement. Get it on eBay right now. You got your time. This is the time for now.
So this is really big right now that also includes flip phones and original iPods.
Most established adults ditched their landline years ago because you don't need one anymore.
So the New York Post asked young people to explain their fascination.
Corded phones are a lot less convenient, obviously. Right. One girl called them cute romantic.
She said she loves to talk and troll the little cord. And it says it makes her feel like she's on
like one of those TV shows that you watch where people are talking to landline.
Miss Stahlja, but I don't don't ever troll the cord. Do you know what happens when you
troll the cord? Yeah. Yeah. It gets a mess. Just go. Yeah. I'm telling you.
One girl said that she had an answer machine too, but couldn't remember the name. She called it
that the a voicemail machine. She said she also likes the thrill of not knowing who's calling
because it doesn't have color ID. The thrill. It's like Russian roulette. It's going to be
somebody I want or a telemarketer. Yeah. Yeah. This is got this is I have to admit. It takes a
lot to really like how to throw me. I had to double check this one. Usually I double check
articles that are involving facts and you know, very important information and you know,
all that. Okay, I want to triple double check my information. This I had to just out of like,
no, this can't go away. This is not where's the onion logo? Where's the onion? Yeah. Where is it?
Come on, they got me again. You guys shout out to our great really local. When you think about
it, Wisconsin newspaper. That's right. Love our friends over at the onion. I don't know about
this one though. I really I feel like this is going to be a fad for as long as we talk about it
and then by the end of this segment, it'll be over. Yeah. I because as much as I I think that we
have an opportunity here to talk about the importance of broadband and how not everybody,
while a lot of us think even in the medium-sized town like Rapids here or some of our neighboring
cities, towns, I mean that, you know, well, we got pretty good access for the Vosepart,
but I think that even locals around here can know that we got these dead spots. Yes.
And we're not even that up north. We're not even that isolated. We're not even that rural.
We're not even that rural compared to other parts of the state. Yeah, you're very true. That's
very true. We're not at a point yet where I feel like we can afford to get rid of landlines
completely. And I'm talking about the, you know, phone companies and everything. Yes. I don't
think we're at that place yet. I honestly personally, I think that we should never get rid of those.
For like emergency purposes, I think that's infrastructure. I think we need to keep. Yeah, we may
not use it that much, but I think we need to have it there just in case. I will piggyback off of that
because what I was going to say is something you actually worded it a lot better, but what I think
also is they should every house should come with a landline, every house, and it should be free.
Yeah, it should be free. Absolutely. We've already proved we've evolved past that technology.
We don't need it as much anymore. So I don't care if you want to call Tim Buck too, go ahead.
You're doing it from a landline. We're not going to nickel and dime you on this.
I think that that stuff goes a lot farther or how about this? Even if you don't want to do that,
every house has a landline and calling 911 is free or whatever. I don't know.
I agree with you on the importance of this at the very least until we can all safely say,
hey, that person in that town that has like 20 people, they have all bars.
Yeah, I'm amazing. You get all bars. Success, right? Exactly. Exactly. So,
hey, remember too, phone still worked with the power was out back in the day because they
had their own power. So again, something to consider. Yeah, yeah. If your cell tower goes out,
you're sunk, you know, if something like that happens. Plus, every single teenager should know
the what it is like to be talking on the phone and deep in a conversation and also in the court
pulls you to what? You're in a swivel chair on the wheels. Whoa, great.
Get your I was talking to a girl. Hey, of course, it was a girl. I started a girl once on the phone
and I was I was tangling the cool. We had one of those incredibly super long ones. Of course,
yeah. And I'm tangling around my hand because I'm nervous and I realize I can't open my hand.
I'd wrap the phone around. I tied the phone to my hand basically and I'm trying to hang up
and it was awkward. Oh, man. Good thing there were no video phones at that time. Thank God.
There was no video phones. Yes. Yeah, I think too. The part of this is fun is the idea. Like,
our phones are kind of like what they do is fascinating, amazing, awesome. But our phones in
general are so boring. They're so, but why do you think we spend so much or we look so hard for
cases that are cool and interesting or whatever. Look at these things. They're so boring. They're
like a Garfield phone. That's interesting. That's exactly. Yeah. Like sports illustrated
did this forever. Where you know, they got a full phone. I want to bring that back. I want to
bring that back. We need more of those cool phones again. I missed it. But during the like
high to the matrix, they were selling a cell phone that was like the one in the in the in the movie
where it was like a true. It did the really cool thing. Yeah, it's awesome. Yeah, I want that
kind of thing back. Their phones should be cool. We will take we'll check it with our partners
right here. We'll come back and have some more fun in the morning show here at WFHR.
Welcome back everybody. Morning show here at WFHR. Locally grown radio.
We'll build a dream house, a loady. Could you listen to Diane Carroll all day? All day long.
All day long. All day. Keep it going. No, I'm just kidding. Oh, back up. I was thinking
for going. Is that Diane a crawl? Yes, yes. Melissa, Seth and James here with you. Thanks for
joining us everybody. Hope you're having a great start to your week out there. We're going to
have some fun taking you right up to the top of the hour when none but good stuff. Got a couple
of topics we want to get to. We are hopeful that we are going to be joined by Connie Hanky via phone
today from the Alexander house. We're hoping she can join us in the hour here. Let's take a
phone call. Good morning. Good morning. Hi, Connie. I thought it was Connie. That's great. That is
pretty. Connie, your timing is amazing. That is amazing timing, Connie. Thank you so much for
joining us. We appreciate the time. Connie is of course joining us as the art director from the
Alexander house in Port Edwards and you guys have a new exhibit you wanted to tell us about.
Yes, I wanted to invite everybody on this coming Sunday February 25th. We are going to have
an opening reception for our youth art month show which will feature student artwork from Port
Edwards Public School. So K through 12 age students will be represented. That's so exciting.
The opportunity to give these kids a chance to have their art seen by the whole city and to take
some, you know, for us to have a chance to build these kids confidence and take in some great art.
Sounds like it just a win-win kind of situation, Connie. Yes, yes, it'll be great.
It goes from 1 to 4 p.m. on Sunday. So I hope people can get out and come and see the beautiful
student artwork. Is there any cost to this, Connie? Actually, there is no cost. There is never a
cost to come to our opening reception. Always like to remind people of that. We appreciate that you
guys do that over at the Exander House. I think that's a really cool and smart thing to do.
The exact, how long will the exhibit be going for?
Ah, the exhibit will continue through April 2nd. So Tuesday, April 2nd will be the end of that show.
Okay. And we do have some local businesses that are sponsoring awards for the students.
Oh, well, I don't know. There's time to. Yes, oh, definitely time. Yeah, I was just actually going to
ask you about that. So yeah, tell us some of those great businesses, Connie.
Okay. So local businesses that are sponsoring awards this year
are Natasha Grace Photography. Rachel Sue Photography, the Arts Council of Southwood County,
Port, Puppet, and Stamp, Quality Plus printing, and it says, WAM Incorporated.
Yeah. Yeah. Incorporated. That's right. Yeah. Great places, great local businesses that put back
into our community. We appreciate them when we support them, just like we support the
Alexander House and the great things that you guys do for our community. We appreciate you all
out there, Connie. Really hope the event goes really, really well. Let's remind people again,
the details of this. When does this start? The opening reception is Sunday, this coming Sunday,
Wary 25th from 1 to 4 p.m. It's going to be really nice. Great opportunity to take in some great
art, support our local kids out there. And at me, it's been a while since you've been to the
Alexander House. It's a great opportunity to check out the Alexander House again, too. I
love that place. I love everything about it, Connie. Thank you so much for joining us.
Yes, and I just want to do remind people if they can't come out on Sunday,
we are open Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday from 1 to 4 p.m.
All right. Yeah. Thank you, Connie. Well, yes, thanks so much. You have a great day. Appreciate you.
You too. Bye-bye.
Connie Hanky joining us, art director over at the Alexander House. And as Connie mentioned there,
the Alexander House is open right now with these youth, this youth art month exhibit,
but anytime is a good time to go over and check it out when they're open. Sunday, Tuesday,
Thursday, 1 to 4. Go check out the Alexander House, especially if it's been a while. Yeah,
exactly. We're going to be talking more about this event as we get throughout the week here.
This will be in our good stories of the day. Yeah. And Connie already gave us a good story of the
day. Talking with her is great. It's been too long, Connie. I love to talk with you. Thank you so
much for joining us, Connie. Appreciate that. And thank you to Pam. Pam does such an amazing job. We
have so many people that want to join us on the air here. And we don't always have a midday
magazine open or something like that. Pam and I work together along with these great people to be
able to get them and fit them on the air somewhere. Yes, indeed. Appreciate everybody working together
on that one and the heart of this station. Yeah, Pam. Let's go ahead and dive into,
well, I mean, if you guys want to, we don't have to. If you want to get into this next topic,
we can. It's up to you guys. I'm willing to bend if you are. The average person makes three
compromises every day. Nice. If I got one of them out of the way, does that mean that I'll only
have two more? You only got two left, man. That's it. Does it feel like you spend the whole day
making compromises? If so, you have kids or a pet or a pet or a pet. Yeah, put that in there. Yeah.
So according to new data, the average person makes three compromises every day, which is about
92 per month or 1,095 per year. And this is a strange stat. 44% of cat owners say it's easier to
compromise with their cats than with the adults in their lives. Wait a minute.
Not cats don't have very tall demands. It's a good point. Not surprising. It sounds like
the cat usually gets the better end of the deal. Usually 67% of cat owners say that there's nothing
I won't sacrifice for my pet. That compromise is important. That compromise is important.
44% of people have even ended a romantic or platonic relationship over a lack of compromise.
That's interesting. It's at 44%. If somebody is not able to willing to bend at all, I see that as a red flag.
I don't care if it is Selma Hayek. Yep, not working. Not going to work. I can't do it.
That is coming from James. That's serious. That's a serious living.
I think that this is one of the most important aspects of relationships.
I mean relationships. I don't just mean romantic relationships. I mean all relationships.
Relationships that work. Friendships. Our relationship with our country.
Our relationship with politics. Everything comes down to compromise.
It really does. We've all heard I think that the great, I don't know what the exact
quote is, but every good meeting or both sides leave a little happy, a little unhappy.
That's a perfect deal. If you get a little what you want,
but you have to give up a little what you want, then yeah, that's the definition of a compromise.
You should be feeling that way. That's life in general. Please,
have 424, 2600. If you've gotten everything and never had to compromise, I mean,
I really want to be curious to talk to you. I'd really love to talk to you.
I'd be very curious to, but I'm guessing that most of everybody out there has had to compromise
a lot in life. We all have some more than others, and I don't make light of that or anything,
but I think that this is one of the more important aspects you can have when it comes to any type
of relationship. I think that it's hard to say because without details, but just gray-wise,
gray area-wise compromises are one of the best things that can happen to us.
They get us out of our comfort zone, they get us out of our heads sometimes,
they get us to do things and maybe we normally wouldn't do or see something that we wouldn't see
or empathize with something we normally wouldn't. I personally love compromise. Even when I have to
compromise and I don't want to, I end up coming around to being like, well, I'm glad I experienced
this or something. Right. We should be looking at it as a positive thing. For so long, it's been,
it's like a dirty word, compromise. You're not standing by your principles blah, blah, blah. No,
no, no, no, no. This is a good thing. Compromise is good. It helps us figure out how to live together
because guess what, everyone? We need everybody. We need each other. We cannot live alone. I'm sorry. We
need everyone contributing in order for us to function. You got it. So it's a good thing. I
like what you're saying, James. Yes, compromise. Good word. Not bad.
Something to keep in mind this year, but every year, really. Especially you're like this,
where we've got more and more people trying to divide us when we should be coming together more.
We need to be coming together more. Our country needs us. Our country needs every one of us.
You are so right. There's a way this country is bigger than you. This country and what we're
trying to accomplish here, this experiment of democracy is bigger than all of us. It is.
And it takes all of us to make it happen. It's going to be compromising. You're going to do things
that maybe you don't want to do sometimes. That's the point. That's what it is. If you don't like it,
I don't know what to tell you because I don't know where you're going to go in the world. I love
the person. I laugh my tail off. I'll have my whole life at the person that complains, complains,
complains about this country. And like, yeah, have you ever lived in another country? Have you ever,
ever experienced what, what living in a non-democracy country is? You got some people barking right now
about dictatorship and that that seems interesting or that they like that. Have you, did you live in Cuba?
Have you dealt with Fidel Castro? Have you dealt with Kim Jong? Have you dealt with Putin?
Have you dealt with any of these people? If you have not lived in that society,
you miss me. Get out of here with that. You have no idea. You have no comprehension of what it is
like to live in a country like that. To have no, no control of your life. That's not compromise.
What America is compromised. What democracy is is compromise. And I'd like to think that every
single person out there listening believes in democracy, believes in that. And so you believe in
compromise. Coming up on Kitchens Open, Melissa sent a great article about that very thing,
about bipartisan agreement and compromise. And I think it's, it's a good reminder that it's not
dead, everybody. It's still out there. I love a good tie-in. Yeah, that's
rapid up the hour with this one right here. In January of last year, a guy in DC named John
Cheeks. Well, that just about that sit there. John Cheeks bought a powerful ticket. Then he
checked the winning numbers online a day after the drawing and they matched. The jackpot was
340 mil. Woo. He did all the things you're supposed to do. He took a photo of the ticket and
only told one other person about it. And then he went into cash it. And they, and he was told
he hadn't actually won. Oh no, what happened? Washington DC's official lottery site had posted the
wrong numbers. Oh no. So instead of matching all five with the power ball, he'd match none of them.
He didn't even get close. He's in the news because he's now suing power ball and DC lottery.
He says they listed the wrong numbers for three days and he wants them to pay up.
His lawyer noted a similar thing happened last year when the Iowa lottery reported bad numbers.
People who cashed in before there that air got fixed were paid out. But none hit the jackpot.
And all the payouts were between like $4 and $200. Oh, I see. It doesn't sound like John's
expecting the full 340 million, but something he wants something for his for this. That was their
mistake. Yeah. So I think this is an interesting one. Does he have a case? Or should he just shrug
it off and move on and take the 15 seconds of fame that this is giving him? Or did he already
spend the 350 million? Well, not. That's hilarious. I love that. Oh, good. I honestly, I didn't even
think about that. I mean, he's already. Guys, I'm already on the hook. No, I need this
money. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Accidents happen. I understand completely. Look, I really need that money.
Okay. There's this guy, Vito. I really, really want to keep my stuff over to my house.
I love that. I love that. That's a great angle. I didn't even think of that.
You had a lottery. You'd be really good with a loan shark. I love that.
That's so awesome. So does he have a link to stand on with this or not? I'm curious to know
what you two think, what you think out there. 715-424-2600. We're wrapping up the hour, but feel free to
call up next hour if you want to talk about it at all. Yeah. We'd love to hear about it. I mean,
I think that what the part of this one I'm okay with is that he's not expecting the 340, 340
mill. Right. He just wants something. Well, I wouldn't get that much anyway. Right. Of course. Yeah.
I think it's okay to want some accountability here. I also think it's okay to be human.
Now, it was up for three days. That's the part that catches me. Yeah. They should have known it
immediately and figured out that that was the issue. Yes. If I was in that jury, I would vote for him.
I would do it, but it depends on how much. Yeah. I wouldn't vote, you know, 340. I wouldn't
vote that. I'm like, yeah. Even $1 million. Which one of what any of us turn our noses up at that?
Not at all. Not at all. No. Why? Do you know somebody? We got to buy a lottery ticket first.
Yeah, I hear you. I don't even know. No, I've never have. I never have a bottle. I don't think I
have either. Well, that's funny. Namalissa, have you ever bought a lottery ticket? I don't think so. Wow.
Oh, for three. That's amazing. That's crazy. Every once in a while, as a kid, I used to get them
for like a gift. Maybe like my teen years, I don't know. That doesn't count as buying them, though.
That's a gift, so yeah. Let's go with them. We will be back with more fun coming up on
the morning show at WFHR.