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. 804 in the clock. Got
your host, James J. I am joined by our head of news, Melissa K. Good morning. We're here
to have a good day and hang out with all of you. Thanks so much for joining us on this
Tuesday. We got good things coming up for you. We are looking forward to getting into some
good. We're talking about voting and good kick things out there. We'll talk about that
special day here in Wisconsin Rapids. Getting into that. How much are daily shores? How
much do we value our daily chores at? You know, if we put them all in, how much it would
cost somebody if they tried to charge us for? Oh my. We'll get into that. The spot in
the movie theater that has the most bacteria. Yeah. Yeah. That's that a right story. We
got to get to I think that that was a little bit later. We'll get into that one. Get into
a couple of other ones too. The hardest work in city in the US. Okay. That might surprise
some people. We'll get into that one a little bit later. Some entertainment news for US
well. Touch on some of those things coming up. We'll also get into in the nine o'clock
hour four ways to find a great bottle of wine. Oh. Okay. And one state that says no way
to seating. Yeah. Yeah. It's twenty twenty four bullets. Yep. We're going to talk about
that. We're also looking forward to being joined by American shaman. They're a new
heart of Wisconsin chamber member. So we're going to we're going to be joined by them
about nine twenty today. Looking forward to that. That should be a fun conversation.
We're going to see this into our news. And of course we'll keep you up to date and all
other things as well. Anything breaking across the wire. We'll cover for you. Speaking of
covering. I was trying to burn a little time here because I thought Brittany might be
calling it. But she hasn't been able to get a hold of us. She hasn't been able to call
it. She said that she's had just got a message from her that she's having trouble with
it. So I'll have to let her know that everything's fine on our hand. It's her fault. No,
no, no, no, no, no. We'll figure it out. We've definitely had some issues with our
phones lately. We will get that figured out. Well, that power outage. I think knocked
a few things for a loop. Yeah, definitely did. Shout out to everybody working so hard on
that our engineering team. And of course, water and light here in rapids appreciate the
team over there. We'll get it fixed. Yeah. Yeah. Melissa, you might fill in the second
or two here. I just got to take a drink. Sure. So the weather is sunny today. There's
the sun is out. It's it's sun shiny. It's sunny down on us like the sun does. It warms
us during the day. And we're going to get warmer. So I hear from sources. I shall not
name because I don't remember what they are. That's your forecast, everybody. It's 28
route right now. I appreciate you filling some time there, Melissa. I needed to take
a drink. I forgot my coffee. I didn't get to have a chance to grab coffee this morning.
But thankfully, I had chocolate milk to drink this morning. Hey, thank you to you, Melissa
for that. There's a good reason for that. It's your birthday, James. It's your birthday.
Hey, you brought it up. I gave you a present. You brought it up on air. So I get to say it's
your birthday. Happy birthday, James. It was a funny way to start the show. And I can't
believe I forgot my coffee. Like I involved the things I got here and I brought it around
and I'm like, oh, but oh, wait, I'm saved. Melissa got me chocolate milk. I've been drinking
chocolate milk all morning. I'm good. You think I turn 13, not 47. You would think.
Now the question is though, did you add the chocolate syrup? I got you. No, I did not.
I did that time to do that. I was thinking about that. That was very responsible of you.
And it was very sweet of you. I appreciate you. Thank you so much. And I barely got out
of my day going and was bombarded by a bunch of wishes already. Thank you, everybody.
I appreciate you. And why do you remember this day? What is it? You guys got to have better
things to do. And we got other great birthdays to celebrate. We got like 80 birthdays at our
birthday list today. There's a lot more others. There's a lot bigger ones out there. We'll have fun
with that in just a little bit. And a big shout out to our friends at L Cafe for sponsoring the
birthday and anniversary club as I deflect. We want to talk voting. Melissa, that's much more important.
Let's talk a little voting. Well, voting is also important. Now if you've been listening to
the list's news breaks the last couple of days, you've certainly been up to date on this that we
have our spring primary election happening today. The polls are already opened about an hour ago
this morning. Now just locally here in Wisconsin Rapids, we're talking right now. And not a whole
lot on the docket. What's on the ballot for this particular election cycle. Now you can go right to
my vote my vote w i dot gov that's my vote dot w i dot gov right now to find out more information
or see the same information that I'm seeing. Like you want to search your ballot. You can just type
in your address or your zip code or your whole street address and all of that and see that kind
of information. You can also register to vote from there if you haven't done so already.
I encourage you to do so. I don't think you can do that today, but today you can register at the
polls. I'm sorry, but you can check to see if you're registered. This is why she's the best.
This is why she's head of news. But encourage you to do so everybody. Our mayoral candidates,
hopefully you got to know a little bit with our midday magazine, the three out of the four candidates
that did join us. And you've gotten a chance to watch the video on Wisconsin Rapids Community Media
from our League of Women Voters. A big shout out to both of those organizations. I really appreciate
them and the work that they've done. And there's also an article that I wrote up that got posted to
our social media last night that links to both of those the interviews and the mayoral candidate
video. civicmedia.us. Be sure to check it out and all all the other great reporting that is
going on over there from a list and all of our great reporters and our team. A lot of work being
done by our news team. Go ahead and check that out everybody. And it's great article you wrote
up there, Melissa. I got to see it. Nice work by you. Yep. So if I just wanted to make sure to wrap up
with a if you're in in the Wisconsin Rapids area, you're in wards one through 10. You're going to
vote at the Centralia Center at 2 23rd Avenue South. And wards 11 through 27 voted East Junior High
School Field House at 3 11 Lincoln Street. Be informed. Get out there. Vote and appreciate
everybody doing so. Yeah. And thank you to all of our election workers and pull workers out
there today. Appreciate everything that you're doing to help keep democracy functioning in this country.
Yeah, we do. We still on our sunrise show. We still do our National Day of Calendar, Melissa.
And this day, you know, election days with their kind of a pop-up day or their traditional day,
they should be noteworthy and they should be on our calendar, along with appreciating our election
workers day. We should have a special day for that. Maybe that should be the day after the election.
Yeah, they should get a day off. Yeah. It's never been an easy gig to do something like that.
Let alone in the last 10 years. Like the the cowards out there that take shots or or mess with our
workers. We got no time for that. And in history in society is moving in different direction.
We're not going that direction. We're going the direction of adults. We're going the direction of
people who can actually talk through their feelings, can actually express themselves and don't have to
emotional maturity. Aren't a bunch of dogs barking loud and saying nothing. A bunch of Chihuahua's,
you know, that's not where history is going. That's not where time is taking us. You want to be
on the right side of history. Be able to vote without harassment. Yeah. Of all the basics in life,
that's got to be pretty high up there. That's got to be one of the major basics in life.
Voting is not necessarily easy. Choosing a candidate, you know,
researching. Yeah. Yeah. And we all understand that, unfortunately, there are still areas in our
country that is difficult to vote. Like I don't think people realize that it's we've heard
plenty of stories of people in India or Africa traveling for, you know, 30, 40 miles on foot
just to be able to vote. You know, I don't know how many people paid attention to South Africa when
it changed over there or anything, but I remember reading and researching stories over there.
It's incredible what they what it takes. We have some places in the South that aren't that far
different, but people still get out there and vote and still go out there and do it. A lot of
polling places got shut down and there's reasons for that. You should look into it. Freedom isn't
free. It takes work. It takes it takes earning. It takes all of us working together. Yeah. Democracy
takes work and it doesn't mean, oh, you know, the people that agree with me and people think that I
like the same way that I think, you know, that that's that's it. End of discussion. Oh,
democracy is about understanding the other side, listening to the other side and what not
necessarily changing your opinion, but at least hearing the other side, hearing other. If you are
confident in your thoughts and feelings, it's not going to harm you to under hear other information.
No, no, and you should always be open to new information and and and having these
civil conversations and discussions, we shouldn't all agree on on everything because how can we? We
all have different life experiences and different life circumstances, but that doesn't mean that
you should put somebody else down or make them feel like they their vote and their voice is an
important. Right. Right. And honestly, I mean, I did my homework and and voting for Homer Simpson
for mayor of Wisconsin rapids, I feel that that you're right in vote. Yes. That you're right in
vote. No, no, no, because you do have that option, you can write it. Yeah, you can, you can,
you can. It's the reason why I didn't make the joke I was going to make like I've decided to run
for mayor. I love the candidates, but I thought, you know, why not? Last second, I'm going to jump
in there. No, no, I'm joking. I'm joking. We've got great candidates. Please hold for it.
They're just because it's his birthday. Horrible humor. Horrible humor. Really bad political humor,
but I'm trying. I'm trying to try to lighten a little bit because it gets it's going to be a
tense year. Let's be honest, but it doesn't mean that it has to be a divisive year. Yeah,
it's exactly. It doesn't have to be that way. We know it's going to be that way on a national level,
but hey, here in our own local community, let's keep it civil. Yeah, let's be nice to each other.
Let's show them what, what true civility is. That's the thing I think that is, is really fascinating
to me about living in Wisconsin at this, at this time in history. Wisconsin to the rest of the country
is not just a purple state. We're the outlier. We're the ones that can show, hey, Republicans and
Democrats can get along. They can actually do their job and do things for their constituents and
do things for their state. We need them to. We've got huge issues going on, and we are always going
to. That's been the sense of the moment America was founded to the end of time. We're always going
to have big things to tackle. We don't have time for silly, childish divisiveness. You don't like
somebody or somebody's political sign in their yard or something. Guess what? Don't look at it.
Period. Don't look at it. Put up your own. Yeah. If you really want to, I mean, you have that
freedom and enjoy that freedom. It's not something that's just, it's just given to you. It takes
work and it takes earning and it's something that are many, many soldiers who have fought for us
to have that freedom. My cousin was one of those soldiers and is currently helping our government
with trafficking in Texas and the work that he's doing there and everything. I've talked to him
about this about voting before and we come from a long line of military members and our families,
both my mom and dad's side. For him, he's on the line of just vote and I appreciate that,
but I just would add being informed and voting. That's all, but I appreciate you Michael and
the work that you're doing out there and I can't, I can't brag about the kid enough. He's like,
I got like 18 languages, he knows, he's incredible. We have got to do some celebrate. Let's get,
let's take a pause and check in with our partners. We'll come back and talk about one of those
partners, El Café with our birthday and anniversary club. Yeah, it's coming up on the morning
show at WFH. It's time to do some celebrating with our good friends over at El Café,
the birthday and anniversary club. We encourage you to visit our friends over at El Café at 221
Market Avenue and beautiful port Edwards, taking a look at their Facebook page,
which I encourage you to like and subscribe to. They hope everyone is having a great week so far
this week. They are revealing their new Mexican breakfast menu. They're going to be posting pictures
and descriptions in their posts, so be sure to follow them online. Stop on down and try one or two
or they're all of them for maybe not on the same day. Yeah, good point. For today Wednesday and
Thursday, they're going to be serving their meatloaf grilled cheese, roast beef wrap or turkey bacon
melt wraps. They're serving with fries or fruit. Friday, they're offering a bunch of great meals as
well. Be sure to check out all the good things going on over there. Stop by and say hi to all
of our friends at El Café, 221 Market Avenue, beautiful port Edwards. And a big thank you to them
for sponsoring the segment here. Big thank you. Big thank you to all of you out there,
getting us these birthdays and anniversaries. Keep them coming everybody. We want more and more and
more of them. Send them to info at wfhr.com, james.mailoff at civic media.us. You can of course
message us directly on our Facebook pages. And um, and well, well, they can try to call. Please
do. Please do. Let's see if our phone is working. Then it can be picked up because poor Brittany couldn't
get through. Yeah. It's just messaging with her. She's like, what's going on? Yeah, we're trying
to figure it out, girl. Just keep calling. Yeah. Yeah. Please. Please do. We let we love talking with
it. Let's go ahead and see her. Actually, let's see what we got call coming in. Good morning. What's
on your mind? Hi, this is David Blair. So I was just making a test call.
Well, thank you, David. You got to. You rock. Thank you so much, man. Yeah.
And appreciate the work you guys are doing over there. Yes. Well, thank you very much.
Hmm. So we'll just have to tell Brittany something's going on on her head. Check her number.
Yeah. Yeah. Well, how do we take say it's it's it's not you. It's not us. It's you. It's not you.
It's us. It's us. We'll figure that out. We'll figure it out. Thank you very much, David.
And I appreciate you and the work your team does over there. Man, have a great day.
You too. Thank you. All right. So right for about we have the best partners. It really do.
Really do. And right from the source right there. Okay. So phones are working.
Fodes are working. Okay. We'll figure that out. We'll figure that out. Oh, yeah.
We'll get her back tomorrow. Maybe we'll test off air. So feel free. Yes. Yes. Feel free to call
up and join the conversation. Everybody. Seven one five four two four twenty six hundred.
Love to hear from you. Yes. Indeed. We have before you go to your list,
we have to mention one who is not eligible to win today. We have a very, very special birthday.
This this young man was born of many years ago. I don't know how many because I don't count
how many years and I'm bad at keeping you. Oh, wait, I have it in my phone. Let's see. What year were
you born? 77. Is that right? Yeah. Yeah. That's right. So in in 1977, a young man was born
rather and opportunity on a white couch. And you know, things things kind of have gone
up since then. Happy birthday, James. Thank you, Melissa. I cut your mic about five minutes ago.
I cut you did not wire. So every all of our listeners, make sure you send James messages today
or stop in and drop off stuff or tell him happy birthday. Embrace the heck out of this guy
because he deserves to have a good birthday and for it to be celebrated. I am I am definitely
cutting your mic down. I'm also very good. So we're going to let the audience look behind the
curtain a little bit. We are working with our friends at Wisconsin Rappers Community Media to
start doing a beyond on YouTube live. Having our morning show live a couple of times a week
adding a visual component to the audio and all that. I'm really glad they're not in today. I
I am I am you wouldn't want your red face to be on on YouTube live. I am bright red. I
I have never I either few times I felt more foolish on the air. I really felt like we I could
coast through this segment and it nothing was going to come up. It was not going to go up. You
really thought I wasn't going to mention. I don't know what I was thinking. I apparently wasn't. I
well done and thank you very much. I appreciate you so much. We do have some big names here. We're
on two three four five six seven we got seven possible qualifiers today. Well you share this day
with a lot of awesome people there James. We really do really do it a big shout out to all them.
I appreciate everybody getting us these birthdays and anniversaries. Let's go ahead and get
into the celebrating buffers. Melissa I need a one through seven from you. Well I have to pick seven.
Yeah kind of. It's one of my favorite numbers. That's a great number. It's my dad's favorite number
too. Hey. Go dad. So let's go ahead and get right into the celebrating and first up we want to
wish a happy birthday to Sarah Kraus. Happy birthday Sarah. Sarah's worked over on the WRCT stage
a couple of times. We've met her through there. It's a wonderful person great person. I appreciate
you Sarah. I hope you're having a great day. Enjoy your birthday. Another great citizen of this
area Brian Hansen. We wish happy birthday to Brian. Happy birthday Brian. Brian's done a lot of
good in this community. We appreciate him for that and so much more. Keep up the great stuff Brian.
We wish a happy birthday to an old friend of ours around here Cameron Eller's Quattarski.
Quattarski. Happy birthday Cameron. Cameron used to join us for visit Rome when she worked over there
and and one of the ward over there for how the work that she was doing a great great human being
great person. I love one of those early people I got to meet during midday magazine to just still
still keep in touch with and great human beings. We've got a great family over there. Moved a
little bit out of town doing really well. We wish a happy birthday to Larry Barthels.
Happy birthday Larry. Enjoy your day sir. Hope it's a great one for you. We wish a happy birthday to
Bo Supplina. Happy birthday Bo. Have a great day Bo and enjoy your day and a happy birthday to
George Fletti. Happy birthday George. And wish you a good day George. Enjoy your day and our
qualifiers celebrating their 53rd anniversary. Oh wow. Ross and Linda Lou Miller. Ross and Linda
Lou. Oh my goodness. Happy anniversary you two. A big happy 53rd to you. A shout out to our friend
Raquel who got us that that's her parents. They're celebrating their 53rd and thank you Raquel.
She also snuck in there. Happy birthday to me and I appreciate that. That was very sweet.
And a happy 53rd to Ross and Linda Lou. That is a beautiful number right there. 53.
We really are anniversary and congratulations on being our qualifiers. I want to say it's been about
four or five years that in a row that we've gotten to celebrate Ross and Linda and I cannot tell
you how much I get a kick and I love just get a big energy burst in my heart every time we're doing
these. So we see these consistent names. It really does mean a lot to us and our listeners
everybody. We've joked before about the listeners we have out in Finland and Sweden that enjoy
this segment. But I talk to locals all the time at least more than a handful times a year. I hear
from people that they love that we still do this segment. There's very few people that do
anymore. They'll do celebrity birthdays but they don't do local birthdays or anything. Well,
but we're local radio and that's and we have the best listeners. And so that's why we enjoy
celebrating all of you. And I don't know about you James, but I like being reminded when it's
somebody's birthday that I know. Even if it's not somebody that I'm super close to, even just,
you know, a friend that I see a couple times a year or somebody that I've done a theater show with.
I love knowing it's their birthday because it's nice to be able to reach out and say, hey,
have you enjoy your special day? I get such a kick out of it too, Melissa. I'm 100% with you.
I could be somebody that I haven't talked to in 10 years and they're on Facebook notification.
It's your birthday or something like, oh, I'll reach out to them. I haven't talked to them in a
while or something. Even if you don't do that, it's just a nice like, oh, I hope they're having a
good day. Like we don't we don't take enough small wins in life. And I think birthdays, well,
there's nothing necessarily small about it. It's not, you know, maybe winning the Super Bowl or
something. Maybe especially you get to a certain age. You've had a lot of them. Heck, it's a lot
better than the alternative. Celebrate your day. Celebrate. Enjoy your day. Appreciate life. Have fun.
I hope I hope you're directing that at yourself. It was it was starting to sink in towards the end
of the sentence. It was like you were saying. Yeah. Yeah. We start to be like, oh, jeez. All right. Okay.
Yeah. Got to start taking my little my old medicine, maybe. Let's look at your day.
Let's look at celebrities. That seems better like a better idea. No, it's not. What fine?
Rihanna's 36 today. Rihanna. Oh, that's right. You share a birthday.
We have for me. I got I got an icebreaker. I got to that.
That's what you're going to start with. It's one of that I'm going to start with.
It's all I got. Are you going to bring your birth certificate so you can prove it?
Are you driver's license? I got my driver's license ready to go. I bump into Riri.
I bump into her at like the Grammys or something like that. For some reason, I'm there for whatever
reason. And I don't call her that by the way. I don't call her that. And I awkwardly say,
she's like, wow, we share a birthday and she's she politely smiles. This is always in that
nice and that moves out because I got nothing else. Nothing else. You're a really good artist.
Trevor Noah is 40 today. Former daily show host. Great stand-up comedian. Fantastic.
Smart funny. I love the guys that can do that. Balance that balance that do that.
It's appreciated. One of my favorite pictures of the last 15 years or so.
Justin Verlander is 41 today. Currently, I pictured for the Houston Astros. He's married to Kate
Upton. And he married Kate Upton two days after one of the World Series for the Astros. That's a
great move. What a good year. What a week. Yeah, that was a heck of a week.
And one of them, I think one of the cooler athletes that I've seen in part because of the way he
has bounced back from surgeries and injuries and still continued to at this age of 41, you still
don't want to face him. And usually, guys, he doesn't have the same stuff he had when he was 20,
but he's learned to work with what he's got and making it's kept him in the league. I admire
guys that can do that. They don't just kind of sit back. They keep working at it. Sydney Crawford is
58. Wow. Sydney Crawford is 58. Wow. 58. I don't know if that's younger old for us because,
you know, she's been a part of our, been around in, you know, so for so long and everything.
But either way, I mean, you know, credit to her. She made quite a lot of money. She's had a very,
very illustrious career. The round mound of rebound, Charles Barkley is 61. Charles Barkley has had
such an interesting career, great college career, a fantastic pro career, Hall of Famer. While a lot
of people will bring up right away, the Charles Barkley never won an NBA championship. I will bring
up that he was on the dream team, the greatest team ever assembled. And he's won Olympic gold. And
if you, if I had to choose between Olympic gold and an NBA finals or any championship, I wouldn't,
I wouldn't even blink gold. Give me the gold. Give me, I can represent my whole country. Yeah,
give me that. Charles Barkley's gone from that and gone into the microphone and gone on to
arguably the, the greatest NBA show there is, NBA today. And he's done that for many, many years.
And there's generations that don't really know him, the player. And it's kind of interesting
to me because he was such a good player and so well known for that. Well, I've even heard the name
and you know me. I don't really pay any attention to sports. A heck of an athlete. Sandy Duncan is 78.
Sandy Duncan. Another famous actors right there. And then some people no longer with us. I say
this every year. There are two actors. If I have to, you know, I, I know a ramble about Rob Williams
and Jody Foster and Denzel Washington. But if you ask me the two greatest actors I have ever seen,
the most talented actors of all time. It is Gary, it is Carrie Grant and Sydney Poitier who is
celebrating a birthday today. Sydney Poitier would have been born in this day in 1927. You can't watch
a scene of Sydney Poitiers and not be blown away. But I don't believe that there's a term in
theater and in acting throwaway lines. You know, how are you doing today? Fine. You know,
something like that. Sydney Poitier, fine. Like you, when you would feel it, you would feel that
like, wow, or the way you said, fine there. I just incredible. I've never seen another actor like
him or as good as him the best. Kirk Cobain also born in this day in 1967, passed away in 94.
His, the thing, we could talk, you know, I think that Kurtz music and write songwriting and stuff.
You like it or you don't hear there. I love mentioning his daughter, Francis Bean, and how well she
is doing and credits her and the people in her life that have helped her have a good life and
seems to be at least in doing so well. And we miss you, Kurt. We miss you. I do at least.
Gone too soon. Walter Becker born in this day in 1950, passed away in 2017, co-founder,
co-songwriter, guitarist, bassist for Steely Dan.
Good, incredible artist. Donald Fagan is the heart of Steely Dan, of course, in the production
and so much of it. Walter Becker is a soul. Walter Becker, it's not the same without him.
John Jerome Giles or J. Giles, leader of the J. Giles band, born in this day in 1946.
Angel of the centerfold and a couple of hits. Yeah, just a couple.
We appreciate everybody sending this. These birthdays and anniversaries,
everybody keeping coming, everybody. We appreciate you and enjoy your day, everyone out there.
One more time. Happy anniversary to our qualifiers. Happy 53rd anniversary to Ross and Linda
Lou Miller. Congratulations, Ross and Linda Lou. Enjoy and have some fun over at El Café.
There are 221 Market Avenue and Port Edwards. Wish them a great day from all of us at WFHR.
Welcome back to the show, everybody. Melissa and James hanging out with you.
Hope you're having a good day out there. Thanks for joining us on this Tuesday.
I want to remind you that you can hear that live. Our good friends over at Save of the Arts
are got some great upcoming shows on the way for you. One of those coming up March 7th.
How sweet it is. Steve Leslie sings, James Taylor. Get your tickets at Saveofthearts.com.
Saveofthearts.com. Be listening today from the three o'clock spot. We'll have our friends from
Save of the Arts in. Talk with the executive director of the Arts Council Sally Kissner,
Eric Brittnock, or we'll be with us. And we are going to talk with Annie Aiello, who is,
of course, the Always Olivia. Oh, awesome. Yeah, Annie's going to join us looking forward to
talking with her. Annie's got quite the career and an amazing band behind her. I cannot wait
to get to know her a little bit more. She's going to call us up today and we'll be talking with
her a little bit later. Looking forward to it. It's going to be a lot of fun. Yeah, that'll be an
interesting conversation. Be sure to join us today from 324 for Midday Magazine. Right now,
I know a lot of you got chores to do today. Got a lot of things to do around the house,
getting stuff done in the middle of the week and all that. You ever running around doing stuff
and like, if they charged me for this, what could I make? I've never thought that once in my life,
but apparently some people have a new survey asked people to put a price on all their chores they do,
both around the house and out and running errands. And the average person says they value it at
$134 a day. That would be almost 2,000 per two week pay period because chores do not stop on
the weekends. It would be almost 50k per year. Yeah, that's 1675 an hour counted at an eight
hour day. And Melissa, I don't believe we have to really research that that's higher than minimum
wage in Wisconsin, isn't it? Oh, yeah. By far. I was just going to say in fact, isn't that twice as
much interesting? So does that seem higher low to you? Not minimum wage. Obviously,
that seems low to anybody who's got intelligence. Yeah, the pays bills more to the point. Yes,
I shouldn't say the intelligence thing. It's more important. If you pay it bills, you understand
that the wage doesn't do it. But does it seem higher low for these chores? If you do a lot of work,
you might feel like it's undervaluing your time, but you also may have to think about it from
the other side. How much would you pay someone else to do all the chores? Or if you normally
ride your house, cooking, cleaning, driving the kids back and forth, making sure they get the
practice, shopping for groceries, so on and so on, the endless chore list. Yeah. And for those of us
who have actually worked in that industry, because I did that kind of job when I was a teenager,
my mother and I cleaned houses for people and we, you know, are in clean businesses. And while
it wasn't necessarily, while some of it was also chores, depending on who we were doing the work for,
most of it was cleaning, but that's a lot of what our chores involve around the house.
It's cleaning. Yeah. And I'm pretty sure I got paid $10 an hour, maybe.
I didn't want to ask, but I would have asked off air probably because I know a lot of the,
I have not worked in that part of the industry, but working in hotels and knowing a lot of the people
and helping a lot of times cleaning a room when we were overbooked or something or had to, you know,
clean a, get a room clean quick and I'd help out or something. That, like cleaning for me,
I don't mind it that much. Nobody wants to do it work though, but I don't mind it. But that,
like I thought I was a neat freak with my own stuff, but when you're cleaning for somebody else,
oh man, do you make sure, like at least the way I was doing it and the way that people,
I was just keeping up with the people I was cleaning with. They were great. They were really good at,
it's, you know, just everything spotless. That, that is work. And I don't know that we really,
there's, there's things in society that we, I don't think we apply, we may call it work,
but in our brain, we don't give it the do that it deserves. I do, I think we do this with single
parents every day. Every day we do this with single parents and parenting in general, but a
specifically single parents where we just never really appreciate what that job is, what that is
to do that. How much it is for one person to be able to do all of the things that should be done
by two. I think retail is a lot like that. A lot of retail, I should say, and maybe not all jobs,
but a lot of retail is, oh, a monkey could do that or something. No, they couldn't. No, a monkey
couldn't put up with you. A monkey would rip your face off. A monkey, come on, let's be real here.
Everybody has these moments where we've treated the clerk bad or something like that. And,
and usually they roll with it. I mean, there's a lot. This is what other choice do they have.
Exactly. They don't, they're going to get fired from the job that they have that is currently
at least somewhat paying their bills. Because unfortunate realities is that a lot of these jobs
are underappreciated like you're saying. So therefore, they're underpaid.
Yeah. And it's something to keep in mind when you are going through your day to day running
these errands today and everything. And how much is your time worth?
Yeah. And now I do, I do like the idea of, like if you have a significant other,
and saying, you know, hey, I worked this much today. I made this much. How about you?
See how that goes over? See, good luck with that. And I hope you clean the couch because
you're going to be sleeping on it. You're going to be, you know, you actually bring up a good idea
that I think would be a fun thing to do if you're able to. I mean, for, for people that could,
you know, say, all right, I spent three hours doing housework today. Let's bank that money towards
a vacation. Yeah. Yeah. There you go. I like that. Who would that be? If you can do it.
Because how many of us have money at the end of our month, you know, or at the end of our
paycheck to put into savings? Unfortunately, a very low percent. Well, yeah. Yeah. Kind of
piggybacking off of that a little bit. When I was younger, there was a stretch where my mom and
dad were trying not to swear around Jill and I too much. And they had a swear jar. And that
lasted a couple days. And the jar like we're like, yeah, jar was really full. Like we were
pushing. Are they ran out of change? Yeah, pretty much. Yeah. We're like, we were too poor for
this. What are we doing? But their goal was to do something like that. And maybe it's 20 some years
later. But my parents are actually now starting to plan what they, that trip that they talked about
back then, they're actually starting now to plan it. They are going to, my dad, the other day,
I saw him planning out this trip for to Alaska that they're, they're talking about. Yeah, it's
wild. I never would have thought they'd do something. But they're really, he's really gun hole
about this. They're going to do it. I'm pretty certain they're going to. Let's touch on this one
right here because this is kind of interesting. And I don't think a lot of people would know this one.
The Navy has lifted its band on sailors putting their hands in their pockets,
which is a major win for sailors who never know what to do with their hands.
I didn't know that was a rule. Yeah, I don't think a lot of people would know this one. I
only know it because I know a lot of stuff about the military that maybe, you know, isn't useful,
unless you're in the military. But maybe it is, maybe it isn't. This is almost worse than
than not having pockets. Yeah, which you know, because you have pockets, but you can't use them.
It's just not fair. The biggest injustice in the clothing industry, it arguably is no pockets for
women. It doesn't make any sense. Like it doesn't, it doesn't make it dark, but it doesn't.
Or fake pockets. Yeah. Pockets that are so shut. Then we get them open. They're like an inch deep.
I'd rather have no pockets and fake pockets. Fake pockets. Like I would never, I've never dealt with
anything like, oh, wait a minute. No, no. I had a play that I was in where my costume had fake
pockets in the jacket. And I would try to put things in it all the time and did nothing,
nothing. I can't imagine how frustrated that would be. That was just in a play. I just had
to wear that thing for like an hour or so. I can't imagine that. That ain't right, man. That ain't
right. And you can make the argument, women need pockets more than men. The only half the time
men only need pockets is because women don't have pockets. Can you hold this? Can you hold this?
Can you carry this? Yeah. Yeah. So they go on to say in the service memo, quote,
sailors are unauthorized to have hands in their pockets when doing so does not compromise safety,
safely, nor prohibit the proper rendering of honors and curtices. They also announced a few
uniform changes, including the return of the female combination cover also known as the bucket
cover. They were retired in 18 to make the uniforms more unisex. But since then female sailors
had been asking for them to be brought back. It sounds like an optional thing. So that's kind of
cool. Also women can now wear fake eyelashes or eyelash extensions that project a natural appearance
and no longer than 14 millimeters. Some of that stuff certainly makes sense. They've got a job
that they're doing. And that's important. One of the most important jobs in the free world.
So we appreciate that work. And I don't see the harm. Part of the uniform, the way it was always
expressed to me from my grandfather, Marine, the former Marine, I should say. He's not
longer with us. My grandfather would always tell me, you know, I like teams. I like watching my
teams play and everything. That is our military in essence. And that is why everybody's wearing the
same uniform. They are cohesive unit. They're all all for one-on-one for all. And if one one falls,
you go, you pick him up. No man will let behind all of these things. I think you can have that
while also having a bit of, you know, I want to say individuality for lack of a better word,
though, that whether it's fake eyelashes or just giving the option of having pockets.
And the bucket cover is the type of hat. I had to look it up because I didn't know what it was.
One thing that worries me about this is the need to do this so that you can get more recruits.
And the, you know, the same what we, you and I, like to champion as far as minimum wage,
I feel the same way about getting more and more good people into our armed services.
We need that. We need it in on the police level, on the firefighter level, on the EMT level,
and we certainly need it on the military level. We appreciate everybody that is currently enlisted,
appreciate their families and all of our past soldiers, of course. All of our friends at VFW
and that would appreciate all the work that they're doing. And, and glad that a lot of our,
that our sailors can now put their gum in their pockets. Yeah, they can put them in a bayonet.
You know, where are you going to put it otherwise? It's hard. Listen, I'm going to take a quick
time out, check in with some partners. When we come back, we're talking about the hardest working
cities in America. It's coming up on the morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio.
I go out walking, after midnight, out in the moonlight. Just like we used to do, I'm always walking,
after midnight searching for you. Thank you, Paz. Melissa and James back here with you. We appreciate
you joining us. Everybody, hope you're having a good one out there. If I have any free time
tonight, I'm going to be spending it, watching scenes from Sydney Portier movies, listening to a
little Nirvana and Patsy Climb. It's what I'm going to be doing. It's in my head now, it's in my head.
So this seems like a bit of a prank at joke, but apparently it isn't. An annual study says the
hardest working city in America is drumroll, please. Nicely done, Melissa. I'm actually bad at it,
but go ahead. It's pretty good. It's better than what we got. Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C. Yeah, not that you'd be able to tell by any laws being passed or bills being passed,
but you know, well, there's a lot of other workers in that city besides lawmakers.
Well, I did, I will admit, I did see this as an opportunity to mention oftentimes in our political
history, you don't have to do a lot of deep digging to find this. The biggest things that we're
done and the hardest working people in Washington, D.C. are not household names.
Often times a senator or a congressman from a smaller state or a state that you maybe have never
visited, but they're working their tails off for the American people. Unfortunately, they don't
usually get talked about as much because they're not in the news as much because they're doing their
job. Right. And they don't care about 15 seconds of fame or always having to be right or I don't
know, looking younger, right? They think they look younger or something. I don't know.
So many of it's, I don't think it's that hard to tell the politician that is in this for the
court and court right reasons and the politician that's trying to get their 15 seconds of fame.
I think they tell us right away one in the fact that they, whether they get anything done.
Right. And when they speak, how often do they say, I, this isn't that much different than
when you're in the dating circuit or you're meeting people, if friends or anything like that,
you know, pay attention to that stuff. How many times they say, I or how many times they have to
make sure that they bring themselves up in a conversation or in a retort or something like
that. Right. They, human, human beings have a lot of tells and they're, you don't, you don't have
to be a human lie detector to figure them out. And I have heard often, you know, listen to what
they say. And then also, what are they trying to make you feel? Are they trying to make you feel
outraged and angry? Why? Yeah. Yeah. Are they trying to separate you? Are they speaking about what
they, what they're trying to get done, if they were to be in office, or are they talking about
the other person and trying to get you to, trying to divide people? Because we don't need help.
We already do that in our own as a society. We separate ourselves and everything. And that's
just part of life, I think. Now, the idea of that other stuff is a lot more, it's a lot more
divisive, obviously. And it's childish to me, I feel like. As an adult, there are certain things
you agree to. You have to, you, to come with being an adult, being an adult is not a privilege.
It is not a birthright. It's a privilege. It is a privilege. It's not a birthright. It's
something that you earn and you get to do. And as you are an adult in part of society, you've got
to act like one. Well, and you know that working in any kind of, in any relationship, whether it's
at work or in your personal life or, you know, doing things at your job, you have, you can't just say,
well, if it's not my way, I'm just taking my toys and I'm going home. Yeah, man. You guys I'm going home.
For the study, wallet hub compared the 116 biggest cities in the US using 11 key metrics,
like employment rates, average work week hours, volunteer hours, percentage of unused
vacation time and average commute. Based on that, the 10 hardest working cities are DC, which is a
smaller city sort of. So I mean, maybe that comes into play a little bit on that, but I don't want to
take commute times would probably. Yeah, good point. Yeah, yeah, good point. Yeah, yeah.
The commute times in DC is pretty hectic from what I hear. Number two, Irving, Texas.
Wow. Cheyenne Wyoming. Oh, that's surprising. Yeah. Virginia beach. Okay. Anchorage, Alaska.
Yeah. Norfolk, Virginia. Dallas, San Francisco, Denver, and Austin, Texas.
There were nine Texas cities in the top 20. Wow. So as far as commute times and everything,
you know, a little. Well, Texas is a really big place. Yeah, it's funny. You know,
the, when I, there were times when as a kid in Chicago, I've only got to go like, really walking
distance. It's only like a couple blocks away, but it took me 20 minutes to get there half an hour
in a cab or taking the L or something like that. I hear DC is very similar, New York, very similar.
Texas pack a lunch. Wyoming probably too. Yeah, yeah. It's so rural. I understood that. I was going
the first time I went to Texas. It was, yeah, the first couple of times I went to Texas. It was
with Texans. It was with people from there and they tried to warn me of this. Hey, we're leaving
Houston. We're going. Bring water. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We're going to Galveston. You know,
okay, fine, whatever. You know, it's got I travel all the time. You know, especially here in the
Midwest, it's nothing to go to another state or another city. Whoo. That was something. Bring a book.
Bring a lunch. Because it's so drink. There's so much flat. There's so much flat land. There's
so much like they, they, they don't have much nature out there. You're just, it's just dead zone for
a while. And then all of a sudden, there's the big Sam Houston statue. Like I don't know where.
Yeah, like it's it's something. I really like Texas. Actually, I'm not talking about it. It's
just. No, there's it's a lot of pretty country looking at, of course, some local state cities here
in the Midwest. How did they rank? Let's go ahead and check this out. Like Chicago ranking at 87.
St. Louis, Missouri at 76. Okay. I see. Let's see here. If I can get this computer to work. Fargo
in North Dakota at 47. Now, how about locally? Well, back to back medicines at 101 and Milwaukee at 102.
Hey, that's not bad. Not bad at all. Not bad at all. And I think if you've spent any time
in either one of those cities, all the precursors we gave you add up. Yeah. You know, I, I like
Milwaukee. I've spent a lot of time in Milwaukee. I haven't I wouldn't say that I've spent, you know,
a ton of more time, maybe a weekend at the most. But I've always enjoyed my time there. I love
Madison. Madison is one of my top five favorite cities in this country. I love Madison. It's a
bigger city that doesn't feel like a big city. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Which is something I've always said,
you know, if I had to live in a city, I would pick Madison. Something about college towns. I just
really love. I don't know. There's something about living in them. I like point. I spent a lot of
time in DeCalba, where Northern Illinois University is. Something about it. And Madison, to me,
has such a great combination of what you just said along with being a college town, while also
having a lot of, you know, old infrastructure or old buildings. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Some, you know,
architecture. Some culture to it. You know, and there's such great history. God, some of the walks
you can take along the river. Just beautiful. Beautiful. And then there are the two lakes which
confuse the heck out of me every time. I get so lost in that city. But, you know, we have GPS.
It's fine. I, I used to. I, I was with you. I, I used to get so lost that city. Oh, no. I still do.
I might, my, yeah, I spent a couple summers out there and then my ex-wife is from that area.
And now my sister lives over there. So I've gotten a chance to get to know it a little bit better.
Oh, my best friend. One of my best friends lives there. And we, we go every day. I use GPS to find
her house every single time. Right on, right on. To be fair, she's lived in like six places.
Yeah, that is fair. That's no worthy. Yeah. Yeah. And every time I look up her address in my phone,
I'm like, is this the right one? I probably have like three of them in there.
As, as Melissa gets to know Madison a little bit better, we're going to get to know
American Shaman a little bit better. Oh, yeah. They're going to join us at 920 as a new
Heart of Wisconsin Chamber member. A big, a big note about that. If you are on the fence and
thinking about joining our local chamber, encourage you to do so. One of the benefits that you get
is being able to join us on the air here for 10 minutes. Talk about your business. It's free
advertising that comes with being a chamber member. And certainly the, there's so many things
that come with being a chamber member. You really can't put a price tag on. Appreciate
our friends over at the Wisconsin Heart of Wisconsin Chamber of Commerce. And setting up that
interview so we can talk with American Shaman a little bit later, looking forward to that.
If you've been listening to Melissa's news like what you should be, you probably already heard
about this, but just in case we wanted to let people know that the Kuanah's youth day has been
canceled. Yes. For this weekend, they had to cancel it. They're very disappointed. And we're
just as sad for them and the kids and everybody that would have been able to participate in this.
But they safety first. Exactly. And they've big shout out to Kuanah's and all of the people
who are going to say, all the people behind that, they're going to try again in 2025. They'll
be holding their summer event on June 1st. Keep that in mind. Yeah. Like your calendars.
And support the work that they're doing over there. Big shout out to them. We'll take a time out.
Check it with our partners. We'll be back more fun on the morning show here at WFHR.
