Good morning, Wisconsin. Good morning, world. It's a new day. Thanks for kicking it off
with us right here at WFHR, locally grown radio. Got your host, James J. I am joined by our
head of production, Seth Habhacker. Good morning. And the best listeners in radio. Thanks
for joining us, everybody. We appreciate the time. Thanks so much for being with us.
We're going to kick things off the way we like to in the 9 o'clock hour,
where their friends from the South of County main society and their pet of the week.
Good morning. How you doing, man? Good. How are you guys doing? We're doing good. We appreciate
you being here, sir. Thank you so much. And always appreciate that being able to highlight
our Humane Society, talk about some of the great work that you and the team are doing over there.
And of course, these furry animals. I have no journalistic integrity with this segment.
I love the Humane Society and I love all these furry animals. But we did have some notes
before we get to our pet of the week that we wanted to touch on. What do you have for us?
Well, I wanted to just kind of update all the listeners about some of our progress out there.
The dog kennel area is basically done. There's a few little things to go.
I hope I can give a shout out to Altman Construction. Yes. Because they did a fantastic job.
Brand new floor, brand new ceiling, new walls, everything. So we're big fans of Altman around here.
They help build this building right here. They all this stuff in here and everything.
Our good friends at Altman. We love those guys over there. Great people.
And local. Yes. And local. Big shout outs at that. But appreciation to them.
Yeah. And they've doing some great work over there. Whenever I drive past, I've seen some great
progress being done. Yes, they are. So what we're trying to do now is put everything back in order
because we had to put some of the dogs in the cat room because we had to take all of our dogs
out. Yeah. And that was tough placing 20 plus dogs somewhere in the time being for months.
So we're getting it back in order now pretty much. The cat room was back to normal. Also,
we put that in. And we're just getting shelving we need to put all our dog food in storage because
we rearranged the building. Yeah. Yeah. It's a little bit tougher now because we lost some storage
space. But we're making do. And the staff is just really picked up. So all that's going good.
Good. Very good here. The pet thing when I'm going to get to, I don't want to forget about the cats.
Yeah. Right. You want to make both. We have been adopting out some of the hoarding case that
where we had the 32 cats come in at once. And we've been around 70 plus cats lately. But it's going
up and down. And the dogs, we couldn't even finish the project and they were coming in.
We have, well, we're running over just over 20 now. The dogs are ready. So yeah.
The pet of the week, I guess, I want to kind of do a little different. I hope I can do two.
You can definitely absolutely. Yeah. They're puppies. Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah. These puppies came from
Texas. They're miles and millie. Oh, great. No, that's awesome. They're a male female. Obviously,
they're about five to six months old. Okay. Don't worry. They're like a corgi mix.
Okay. The females kind of shy. Last night, I took the, all the dogs out for a walk to help our staff.
Which is the first time I've done that. Oh, okay. I had that go. I had that go.
Ah, it was cold. It was cold. It was rough. It was cold. Yeah. Yeah.
Taking each dog out. Five, ten minutes, but a run. Yeah. Nice. I froze.
The dogs had fun. Good. That's great. That's great. I'm looking at miles. A beautiful dog.
Beautiful dog. Yes. That's awesome. And do these dogs. They have all their shots, all their
other microchip spade neuter chip. Everything as usual. All the animals, they've
been medically cleared. They're ready to go. These two, by the way, were when they came up from
Texas, they were at one of our fundraisers that we just helped participate at Rome Snowblast. Yeah.
They had yoga with puppies. Which I thought, to be honest, that you, the dogs, they take their
legs and move, but no, it's. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I do love you. I do love you. I do love
that idea. That's great. I don't think. Yeah. But they came from there and then there was about 50
people did that. It's great. Oh, cool. Very cool. And a really cool idea too. Like a lot of people
I know have been really excited and enjoying that. Yeah. It was a different thing than we just
just got involved with them. That's cool. That's fun. Speaking of cool things that you guys have
coming up, I know we got some great events coming up. We want to talk about in highlight.
What do you want, where do you want to start with there? Because we got some good things going
out with our main society. Yes. Excuse me. This coming a few weeks from now Saturday, March 16th
will be our super spring spectacular. Yeah. As you know, we used to do the
snow sculpting. We used to be super snow. But we, that kind of ran its time out. Yeah. Yeah.
Well, and picked a good time not to do it this year. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So that'll be Saturday,
March 16th again, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. And it'll be at the Bullseye Golf Club this time. Yeah.
So that'll be the first time we'll be doing out at that venue. Food,
raffle baskets, kids game, music, door prizes, and a whole bunch more.
Some of the prizes are really nice. Yeah. One is a full night at the color harry down in the
delts. Wow. Nice. In the two bedroom, two bass suite. So it's for six people with
all water park passes, everything included. Wow. That is a nice gift. That is a sweet one.
A raffle prize or a guard prize, whatever the ladies are going to do. Yeah. That's pretty
pretty good for a dollar, two dollar, whatever a ticket. Yeah. Yeah. Are there still sponsorship
opportunities for that? Can businesses still be a part of this event or future events, maybe? No.
When we do these events, we have to have our sponsors ahead of time.
Because then we make up posters and flyers to promote it. And to get that printed and put out.
Makes sense. Yeah. You have to. It's a process. It does remind us though. If you're out there,
you're a business or something you haven't worked with the Humane Society before. Maybe it's been a
while. They have events going on all the time and encourage any business out there to attach
yourself to the Humane Society. It is one of the better like obviously you would like to do this
and you hope most businesses do this from their heart. And because we care about these animals,
we feel a responsibility to it and everything. But even if outside of that, the PR that when you
attach yourself to a Humane Society, wherever you are, our local one here, we love our Humane Society.
But wherever you're listening to us, that is one of the greater things you can PR-wise put
yourself with is the local Humane Society. Yeah, absolutely correct. It's the amount of people
that see this. You're hitting a whole new audience. There's a lot of great things that can come
along with obviously the fact of supporting a nonprofit that does great work in our communities.
Right, the event itself is good for everyone. But leading up to it, as you just said,
that all that involvement and businesses and they really have been, this community has just been
fantastic in supporting us, not just showing up at events, but with sponsorship, raffle prizes.
You know, you try to find 50, 60 raffle prizes. That's not easy. No, especially to, you know,
times today are a little tough. People are having a hard time, but this community is very generous.
They show up for animals, man. They really do. They really do. We appreciate that. That's why we're
also want to make sure to send a shout out that we're looking for good people over at the Humane Society
as well. And positions are open over there and that. Did you want to touch on that? I thought you
did. Yes. Okay, right. I'm saying, I'm like, wait a minute, am I mixing this up with somebody else?
I thought there was something there. No, I just were kind of watching the clocks.
Sure. I appreciate that. We're going to be posting some new job openings pretty soon.
We're redoing a little bit on the website, and that's where all the job applications go on.
So if someone that we're going to be looking for an office coordinator,
because our office coordinator found a different job, so we're going to be looking for that.
We're always looking for volunteers and help, but please call instead of just showing up or
because we have to do a lot of stuff by appointment because we're very short staffed right now.
And the applications go online. You fill them out. We review them. Then we have one of our board
members will be calling just to set things up, get an appointment. And there's all separate areas
here. Anything from a volunteer, which would walk dogs, socialize with cats, help clean,
I think as I mentioned last time I was here, the dogs have to be fed, water, let them go potty,
get them out exercise, socialize, twice a day, the cats once a day. Now when you're talking,
you know, you add up about 100 animals. That's a lot. That's a lot of work for our staff to do.
Because then you have to do all the dishes, the laundry, mop, clean, floor, disinfect.
There's a lot involved that people don't realize. I think, yeah, I just know the dog or cat out there.
It's a great place to work. So if you're looking for employment, that's a great opportunity coming
up there. But as well with the volunteering that you're mentioning, that is not only going to look
good on a college resume. If you're young up there and you're applying to colleges and everything,
it's one of your great things that you can put on there as doing that. But it's also one of the
greater uses of your time and you're taking a little bit off of the plate of the staff there.
So they are freeing them up to do other things. It may not seem like a whole lot and you may
seem like, well, I'm the one enjoying this. You know, I really love walking dogs and everything.
But you're doing a great service for our community and society workers over there too.
And really appreciate the time. When I remind people, if you want to apply, if you want to look
for things or you're looking at these great dogs that we have for our pet of the week and everything,
go to SWCHS.com SWCHS.com. You can also give them a call at 715 or 230505.
Email them at SWCHS at SWCHS.com and be sure to follow them on social media. It's a great follow.
Always appreciate the time, sir. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. We'll take a quick time out.
We'll come back and have some more fun on the morning show at WFHR.
Welcome back, everybody. Morning show here at WFHR locally grown radio.
Hope you're having a great day out there. It got mine just got a little bit better playing some
clash. That helps me a little bit. Seth and James here with you. Do want to send a shout out to our
South of County Main Society. Great segment right there. Love getting our pet of the weekend.
Find out more about our remains society at SWCHS.com. Be sure to follow them on social media.
We'll get an entertainment in a second here, but Seth, you got something over there.
Yeah, I mentioned a little earlier in the show that I had what I said was a great-grandmother.
Actually, it was my great-great-grandmother. I got a text from my mom about being born on February 29th.
Her name was Elizabeth Simmons Vanetteon. She was born on February 29th, 1864.
160 years ago. That is awesome. My mom actually did get to know her a little bit. She was
alive when my mom was young. My mom said in the text, hard for me to believe I knew a person
born then. That's a great statement. Thank you, Seth's mom for sharing that. We appreciate you.
I've heard nothing but amazing things about you. I appreciate that just adds to that story.
That's really cool. That's very interesting. My grandmother was a Jewish juggler. She used to worry
about six things at once. The great Richard Lewis. That is a quote from Richard Lewis who we
lost Tuesday night after suffering a heart attack. He was only 76. He had also been living with
Parkinson's disease and then keeping that kind of sharing it, but also kind of not sharing as much
as he might. In addition to his brilliant stand-up career, Lewis also co-starred on the sitcom Anything
But Love, which emulated Curtis in the 80s and 90s. His film is Robin Hoodman Entite. Leaving
Las Vegas has an amazing role in the Las Vegas. These days, most younger audiences would know him
from working with Larry David in Curbure Enthusiasm. David issued a statement saying,
quote, Richard and I were born three days apart in the same hospital for most of my life. He's been
like a brother to me. He had the rare combination of being the funniest person and also the sweetest.
But today, he made me stop and for that, I'll never forgive him. That's a perfect statement from
Larry David. One Jew to another. And I can't say that. Jamie Lee paid tribute to him on Instagram
where she called him, quote, the reason I am silver. If you know anything about Richard Lewis's
history, how very important that was to him. He talked about it very openly about his battles
with alcohol addiction and his recovery and which, he made a movie, I think, about called Drunks.
It was the star of it. And I think he wrote it too. To me, that's got to be part of his legacy.
His doing that and helping others, the big thing, helping others. Matthew Perry did, helping others
overcome that. For me, as a young kid growing up and wanting to be an entertainer, one of my
favorite shows of all time was A&E's and Night at the Improv. I'd watch it religiously. It's where I
saw Pat and Oswald. It's where I saw so many of the comedians that to this day, I take inspiration
from and love. I was young and I'm watching in this guy with this awesome jet black hair
and an all dressed in black comes out and he looks like one of the coolest standard comedians I've
ever seen and then proceeds to give one of the unmost uncool like stand up bits I've ever seen.
Richard Lewis, how he did not have an indentation in his forehead from always, you know,
he's always doing the neurotic thing and everything. I look at this and I said this to my students
the other day or last night talking to some of them that were upset about this and everything.
I was up until about one in the morning talking to some listener, some of my friends in California
about this and everything. To me and to many Jewish people, Richard Lewis was the beastie boys of
comedy. He made being Jewish cool. He represented it. I didn't grow up watching Jackie Mason. I didn't
grow up seeing a lot of Joan Rivers or a lot of the great Jewish comedians. And oh, here's James playing
the Jew card again. And I don't blame me if you get if you get if you get bothered by that or
something that's fine I understand. But I don't care because representation matters to people like me.
And we didn't have that. Not only did Richard Lewis cover Jewish topics and everything,
but he gave a face to it. He made it not uncomfortable. He made it more or a funny uncomfortable.
He made it relatable. That statement I had earlier about a Jewish juggler. I could easily insert
a Catholic juggler or, you know, exactly that kind of thing. He made it relatable. Oh wow,
Jews go through the same stuff we do. Guilt. You know, right. He made so much of that relatable to
everybody. And just as important as that was to people like me, I think maybe you touched
on what I wanted to too, man. The biggest thing I think that Richard Lewis's career will mean,
mental health. He was way, way ahead on the mental health. He was. And being vulnerable on
stage and sharing things, sharing neuroticism, sharing anxieties, sharing addiction problems and
everything. That has become quite niche now. You don't you see a lot of it. Not a lot of people
were doing it. Not in the day where Richard Lewis was, especially in the 80s where image was
everything. Yeah, you know, and again, going to the point of the man dressed in black and all that.
Well, and just to pose that, okay, what you're saying about, because not every comedian did that,
take a Jerry Seinfeld. You know, you wouldn't know. He, because I mean, I'm not, I'm not knocking him.
It was just his comedy was completely different. He didn't touch on being Jewish at all. He did
was more observational humor kind of thing. So it wasn't like every Jewish comic was doing that
at the time. But you're so right. He did it in a, in a different way. It was kind of like an old,
you know, an updated old school. Like you said, you know, you're Jackie Mason's, you know, maybe
you're Woody Allen a little bit, you know, early in his career. Yeah. That kind of stuff. It was,
it wasn't, it was different. It absolutely was. He was the B.C. Boise of comedy. Yeah.
And I miss him. I already miss him. He was so good. I don't like a world that Richard Lewis
is an in man. I don't, I, that, that this feels weird to me. It feels odd. His performance
admitted tights is one of my favorites. I love it. He's so funny. And he could act, man,
while he's pretty good actor, his performance, the leading Las Vegas stands out.
Quote, if you want to devote yourself to the arts, you'd better do it strictly from passion,
because there is zero guarantee that you'll get anywhere. The hardest thing is dealing with business
people who have nothing to do with your art. They could care less that you're up at 430 in the
morning, writing a joke. Don't expect any sympathy from anybody. The Richard Lewis, the way
he would help build up other comedians and help build up other artists. I think that is a
noteworthy part of his career too. Yeah. Yeah. Especially that, that, that crop of the 80s,
he was part of that group of the big comic boom in the 1980s. And they've been written books
about it now. And he was one of the leaders of that group, Barnum. And he was one of the,
the heads, you know, unofficially, of course. But he was the one that everyone looked up to. He was
one of the most popular. And, and because of that, he kind of had something to say.
I do want to take a moment to just talk about Wisconsin-Rabbit's Community Theater a little bit
and the Glassman-Nashery before I do. Remember that auditions for rumors are coming up March 11th and
12th at 630 at the Wisconsin-Rabbit's Community Theater. Go ahead and get ready for that. You can
learn more about auditions by going there as well. If, if you've never auditioned before,
I know that it could feel like one of the more intimidating things. I cannot stress enough.
This is one of the more calm things and fun things you can do in life, I think. I audition for
things even if I don't want to roll. I love auditioning. I also am driven crazy by auditioning.
I still, to this day, remember my audition for basketball. And it's one of the top five worst
auditions I've ever given in my life. I wanted that part. I wanted Sherlock Soding Man and I got
my head and they overthought it. And this is only a couple of years ago. I've done literally
thousands of auditions. And this is, you know, what this was number 11,000 for me and I was still
getting nervous. And I got the role still. And you just never know. There are plenty of actors I
know that have got a lot much bigger career than I have for anything. A long, bigger IMDB page
and I got it for sure. And they freak out over auditions. They don't care when the cameras are
rolling and they're on stage. It's the audition that freaks them out. It happens. You're not alone in
this. But once you, I promise you this and I only say that I can back it up. Once you do it,
once you get on that stage and you get going, you completely forget about them. You do. You're just
out there having fun. I have to give a specific shout out to Wes who's playing Tom. This is the
first time he just he did it kind of on a on a whim. He's he wanted to audition because he won.
He told me he said, you know, I just was looking for something to do. You know, he's just he's back in
the area for the first time in a while. You know, he used to live here and now he's back and he's
looking for stuff to do. He doesn't want to hang out, you know, in bars and stuff like that. He's
not interested. So this is why he did it. And Beth and I have and the cast everybody have witnessed
like the blossoming of this man who is just from where he started to where he is now is absolutely
astonishing. That's awesome. Absolutely astonishing. And that I this is I'm going to use this as
an example because if even if you're you're on the fence about auditioning for a show, you don't
know what can you don't know what you're capable of. If you have the desire and you're willing to
do the work, man, you have no clue where this could lead. I think of Al Ross a number of times
who I work with and I enjoyed working with very much. And Al had never acted and he now, you know,
one of the last times we saw him was doing Mark Twain's one-man show. I think the dream for me more
yeah, I hear you more recently. I think Heather Saras is a great example. Heather worked with us
quite a bit. Many you can't be in the coosa not know our good friend Heather Saras and Heather
talked to me a lot about. I don't know if I should audition. I don't know if I'd be any good and
all that. She's great. She's great. She can't now she you can't see she can't leave the place. She's
working backstage for us for this show. I mean, that's the other thing. It's a group. It's a family.
It's so much fun. You get to see people and say, hey, how's it going? Kind of thing. It's wonderful.
I encourage you to get your tickets and find out more about auditions and the Glass-Managerie at
wrctheter.org, wrctheter.org. Tomorrow on the show and the entertainment section,
Seth and I are going to spend a little more time on the Glass-Managerie. But get your tickets.
It premieres tomorrow, March 1st and they'll have shows on the 2nd, 7th, 8th, and 9th. All 7 o'clock
shows taking place at the wrcth auditorium. Keep in mind in the ninth. I got a 2 o'clock
matinee. Get your tickets and find out more at wrctheter.org. Before we go to our news,
let's go ahead and check in with our callers. Good morning. What's on your mind?
Well, good morning, gentlemen. Seth, I want to take break the lake. It's been in a couple of
weeks. You're actually going to have a normal sleep control. I appreciate what you're saying,
Kevin. Thank you very much. But I'm done. Yeah. I have done all that I can do. Now it's the
actors. We got to give them a big break a leg because they have done such a fabulous job.
I guarantee you come out. You guys will be amazed at what you see.
I'm hoping to get out there. I mean, it's a very good busy couple of weeks for me in some
years. Well, I'm hoping I'd be able to get a chance to get out there and see it. But if not,
like I said, I hope everything goes well for you guys. Yeah. I've been, I mean, I have a
better director and I've been on the stage in the community plays from when I was going
to down in the Twin Cities with San Coney players. Nice. Nice. I know that some of those. What?
So what? Oh, yeah. We got just it was a great shout out to that theater company, great company.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And so I mean, there's been times that you wake up in the middle of the night
and all of a sudden it's like your brain won't shut down. I mean, I change. You know that about
probably about better than anybody. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. But yeah, but I mean, I hope
everything goes well for you guys in the next couple of weeks. And like I said, hopefully you
get it back to a normal sleep schedule. Oh, we'll be fine. That's all good, though. Thank you,
though. Appreciate it. What was on your mind for today? Well, that was pretty much it. I just
went on to see that the staff and because I might not give a chance tomorrow. It's a pretty busy day
for me tomorrow too. Okay. I'll try to get out there and hopefully everything goes well for you guys.
Appreciate your man. And if we don't get a chance to catch up tomorrow, have a great weekend.
And I hope it's not too busy on you tomorrow. You take it easy, all right?
Yeah, it's going to be a great weekend. We're going to be down cheering on Badger Hacks.
Right. Yeah. You got to let us know on Monday how that way. You got to get us a call on
playmakers on Monday. Oh, yeah. I'll have all that stuff posted, especially if they win
on Facebook too. So looking forward to it. Cool. Looking forward to it. You have a good
safe travels and have a good time this weekend. All right. You guys have a great weekend too.
Man, thank you. Best listeners in radio. Appreciate you all. We'll take a quick look at our news. We'll
come back and have some more fun coming up here. Seth and I are going to get into the four
indignities. Leap day babies must endure. That's weird. That is weird. But I mean, do you expect
any less from us? I mean, you put me in your room together. It's going to go weird. Now we
WFHR. WFHR locally grown radio. Welcome back, everyone. Morning, show here at WFHR.
Locally grown radio. Seth and James here with you. Thanks so much to everybody that's called up
today. All the feedback we've gotten. Got a lot of bunch of, got a couple of text messages and
emails today too from you guys. Thanks so much for that. We appreciate it. One of the messages I
got mentioned something that I put a post on my personal page about. So I'm just going to address
real quick. Because we've got some people out there that with the social media and the amount of
different social media apps that there are around there, you got people that bark. If I can
be blunt, they like to bark and like to comment on things without actually interacting with the
other person. Right. So they're mentioning me. They're mentioning Mayor Blazer in some of these
comments and everything, but not going directly talking to me. Right. I think that tells you a lot
right there. But moving on with the conversation, I will say that anything that you have heard or
anything that you have said from anybody out there, now or coming up in the future, I could not
be more of an open door. And anybody, including the candidates that we have had on here, anytime
that I in the years I've been in this chair, anybody who has come into this room or anybody who has
run for office or anything, they have my email, they have an open door, WFHR for 80 plus years has
offered equal amount of time to anybody running for office or anything like that. Correct. And we have
never shyed away from hard topics or anything like that. We ask real questions of our politicians,
of our representatives, we've got Scott Kruegen tomorrow. Ask Scott about that. Scott's been dealing
with me for five or six years now and bumping heads with me and all that. Senator Teston asked
him about that. Congressman Kine, Katrina Shanklin. My resume, I stand by what we do here.
And I'm extremely humbled and thankful to this community and to our our family here at Civic
in a special shout out of Chuck Genaro, who at the blink of an eye, I got bombarded by emails
and direct messages from people and everything in support. And I greatly appreciate that.
That's not why I put the post out. No, I put it out there because I, I'm not going to play that
game. You want a bark little doggy? You go right ahead. I got bigger things to do. Now, you want
to have a conversation. James dot mail of at civic media. US, it cannot be easier. I work in,
I work in communication, man, I work in audio. Like don't tell me it's hard to find me or get
hold of me. I couldn't be more out there. If you choose not to, then what you are showing people
is one, I don't believe you care as much as you say you do about your cause. And it's more about
you than it is what you're speaking about. And two, you don't really want to get things done. Because
true change happens with communication. Happens with, with, you know, negotiating and conversating
and talking these things out. Exactly. Having patience with each other, giving each other grace.
No, no great work has ever been accomplished by just insulting people. Right. Nobody, nobody
intelligent can, can truly do that. Right. Can truly get things done while also simultaneously
insulting those same people that they're trying to work with. Let's use, let's do it a quick
example here. Okay. Take a piece of work of art. Like, or take a movie or something, something
like that, you know, and it's considered a great work of art. The Mona Lisa, maybe a painting
or like a great movie, Citizen Kane or something like that. Do we remember the people who are
critical of those works of art? Yeah. We do not. We remember the works of art. That's what we
remember. The people who actually created something. And that's the important thing. And what you're
saying, you know, is like, if it's your public figure, you're running for the, it's about what can
you do? Not what you're saying. It's not about that. It's like, what can you bring to this community?
Tell us we want to know. That's what, that's what it's all about. Politicians will tell you
everything in, in their comments and their statements, whether they are in office or running for
office, they will tell you everything. All you got to do is read between the lines. You hear them
use the word I a lot, or they are a one trick pony and they've got one thing that they're focusing
on. And that's it. Things like this. You can tell who the people who are doing this job from
their heart and because they care about human beings, they care about their community. And they're
doing it for the right reasons and the people that are doing it to get their 15 seconds of fame.
Right. And even if like you disagree with what they're doing, it's coming from a place of
obvious care. It's something they feel is important. And yes, you may say the opposite is important.
No, we should look at this. And that's fine. That's what it's all about, like what you were talking
about. Where can we find the common ground in between those? Scott and I have talked on air,
off air, and we have, we have butted heads off air on air plenty of times. But you go ahead and
ask him how he feels about coming on the air with us. It's one of his favorite things that he has
to do. Most anybody that comes on the air with us, they look forward to it. We have good relationships
in everything because there's a respect given. We don't have to agree on everything. But we do
have to treat each other with respect. And that's where this comes down to. I think that when you
treat people with respect, that shows that shines a light on your character that few things can.
And again, James. mail of at civicmedia.us. You know, call up and join the conversation as well,
if you'd like. And this is kind of what the whole civic media thing is about. This is what kind of
what we're here for. That's the way that's why it's really neat that we get to be part of that,
that we all agree. This is what we're looking for. We want that conversation. We want to find
that common ground. There are voices for democracy out there. And I believe civic is one of them.
I agree. And and democracy is not a Republican or Democrat thing or an independent thing.
It's an American thing. It's our thing. And to make it work, we got to work together. We do.
Diving into leap day babies. No segue. No. No trans. For for indignities that leap day babies
endure. Okay, this is I'm curious. No. No any leap day babies with a birthday today. If so for
be four times nicer to them than you'd be normally be in here for indignities of all
late debates. I see them going with the four. It's very good. Very good. So I think the most
obvious one same joke every four years. If you are born February 29th 1984, you will hear,
hey, happy 10th birthday. Exactly. And the first one never think of that, huh?
For multiple people today. Not all leap day babies love those kid theme birthday parties either.
Oh, yeah, check first, please. No, no, don't do that. I'm trying to think how I would handle that
the way I am with my birthday. So a little quick quick story. All right. My daughter and my mom wanted
to take me out for my birthday for dinner. So we went out and we went to a local establishment
and a chain, a chain we went to. And this particular chain they they are known to do happy
birthday songs and things like that. And my mom turns to ask me jokingly, hey, should I tell
them it's your birthday? She doesn't even finish the sentence because whatever look was on my face,
my mother doesn't stop. Like I don't, I don't fees her or anything like that. And whatever look
was on my face, she just stops like, okay, we'll move on. Yeah, if James, apparently you have a
death look, apparently, I am barely, I didn't even know I do. No, I use it more. Your face is
actually melting. Oh, wow, I mean, wow, how can you do that? Computer systems and online forums,
some of them still don't recognize February 29th is a real day. What? So if you enter as your
enter it as your birthday, it pops up as invalid. Even the DMV still has issues with this sometimes.
Oh, they don't exist. You don't exist. Did you know that guy? That's rough.
That is kind of mean because you don't want to put in like the 28th because it's not your birthday.
There's so much tied to our IDs, you know, our identifications and everything. Like even, I mean,
just being able to vote let alone a million other things that we do on society. That is an
issue because you tip you can't you can't see you were born in the 28th because you that's not
legally correct. Right, right. You have to put the 29th on there. Wow, I wouldn't have even thought
of that one. So that I didn't know that and that that could be a problem. Wow, problems getting
carted. A ton of leap day babies have been bouncers had bouncers accused them of using a fake
ID because quote, there is no February 29th. Hey, it also caused plenty of confusion about when you
get to get into the bar and your 21st birthday. Come on. Oh, that's what we get. That's a little
silly. Yeah, I mean, come on. It's getting a little ridiculous. That's a little bit. Yeah.
And here's another interesting one I came across today. Facebook has ignored them before.
Some leap day babies celebrate on the 28th and some prefer March 1st. Facebook says it does
send out alerts now, but some leopards claim they've been ignored in years past leopards. I like
the I like that leopards. I like that. I like that a lot. I don't know. I just think that it's kind
of a unique day. And there's 365 of these. It's it's a grind. You know, and especially in the winter
months and everything, anything that kind of like shakes things up a little bit makes things a
little unnormal. It's fun. It's just it can be fun. Yeah. I'm also not I don't have a birthday
on February 29th. Yeah. It does seem like there are some, you know, I would rock serious. You
know, if and I know, obviously we don't have a lot of people out that are listening that have
that day. But I would be curious to talk to someone say, you know, what what has this caused any
problems? Like this kind of stuff that we're talking about. If you actually experience these things
because you were born on the 29th. I want to send a shout out to Wisconsin Public Radio.
Big fan, you know, we support them. We work with them from time to time here at Civic and
everything. They have a great article out. A real life is for March. Time capsules and 30 rock
parties mark leap day in Wisconsin. It's great article encouraging to check it out. But one of my
favorite top five favorite shows of all time 30 rock. They did a big thing about leap year. And
like they treated it like there's a leap day character. But kind of like we have the Easter
Bunny and stuff. Going back to the holiday thing. Is it a holiday? Yeah.
Jack McBrire played him. And I can't think of his name, but one of the great older character actors.
He was on, I'll look it up. Okay. He was in the two. Great, great, great, great episode. You get
a chance. You're looking for some way to, like a unique way to celebrate. Celebrate the day. Yeah.
30 rock episode of a leap days is a pretty good one. Be sure to check that out and stick around
everybody because we got good things coming up for you to wrap up the show at Seth and James
taking you through your morning here at WFHR. Welcome back everyone. Morning show here at WFHR
locally grown radio. I didn't see this bumper. I didn't know we had this.
Is this the original or is this? No, this is the remake. This is a remake, but it's this
is a song. It's been around forever. This is the disco version. Yeah. Okay. The original version
of midnight at the oasis is to be the most like lounge singer song of all time. And I hear it.
And I immediately think and he never did this in the sketch, but does it and date myself here.
But Bill Murray used to do a lounge singer. Everybody. How are you doing? Yeah. It's
a few minutes. It was one of my favorite bits of all time. And I think I can immediately picture
Bill Murray with this horrible co-over and the junkies and the mustache. Yeah. Midnight at the
oasis. It's immediately passed by. I love that. The one he did where he star wore. Yes.
Everybody's doing star wore. That was that was one of my favorites. That's hilarious. Let's dive
into some Danny Wright stories here. And this is a big one. And I think some people may have
heard about this story for all the concerns about AI. One thing that we all have to remember is
it doesn't take a lot of effort to make it seem like there's a lot of effort. There are there
was something called Willie's Willie's chocolate experience that was supposed to happen in
Scotland last weekend. It cost $45 per person. And it was advertised and is an immersive walkthrough
experience that made you feel like you were in Willy Wonka's factory. Ooh. The images they used
to promote it looked lush and lighting with lighting and design looked like something you'd see
a Disneyland. Okay. But those were apparently just AI. Oh boy. When parents and children active
actually arrived, it was a mostly empty warehouse with a few props sitting around that looked like
stuff from a parade floats. The quote experience was less than 10 minutes long. It didn't feature any
candy. That may be the biggest crux of this man. That may be the biggest one. Like, come on. What
that ain't right. Yeah. Let alone any decor or immersive interaction. One person gave this review
underwhelming and underest, underestatement. Embarrassing doesn't even cut it. I paid for
Willy Wonka and got Billy bonkers. Some people didn't even get that. Apparently there was so much
backlash that the organization pulled the plug and the whole thing and put up a cardboard
sign saying event canceled. Some parents were even concerned enough to call the police. Not just
because they felt defrauded, but because they were worried about being safe. Oh dear. Organizers
apologized and blamed the disaster on a holographic technology not arriving on time. The promise
to give out refunds. As for the police, it's unclear if they played a role in getting the event shut
down or if it had already been closed. It's probably a good thing that the organizers offered
refunds because they are going to be in a huge mess here. Yes. You can't get away with this kind
of stuff anymore. Fraud is something that used to be, well, how are you going to prove it?
Oh, modern technology, baby. Yeah. There are some positives that we don't talk about very often.
Now, good luck. There is a paper trail on everything. I mean, watch one episode of CSI just to tell
you, you know, you put your finger print on a pop can that you threw out the car door or something
like that. There's a billion thing ways that you can't get away with nothing anymore. I don't
even know why crime exists. Like, you can't get away with nothing anymore. You can't jaywalk.
You can't do anything. Yeah. Well, we are basically a good thing by the way. I'm not complaining.
That's a good. Well, I mean, and there's good bad things about it because you're right. I mean,
we're basically in a surveillance society now, which is why, like you said, you can't get away with
stuff like this, you know, at the same time. Of course, you know, the whole discussion about privacy
and everything. We're not going to get into that today. But still, what were they thinking, man?
Yeah. I don't get it. I really, really, why not just cancel it? Yeah. And say, sorry,
it didn't work because otherwise, it sounds like they were doing it. It was a scam. Yeah.
And so it sounds like, and we say this all the time with these kind of hustles. Think of if you
put that energy into actually putting on a real event or something like that, dude, I mean, seriously,
you probably actually could have made some money. Yeah, you probably actually could have made a
profit. And maybe, you know, you could show and more people hear about it. And the next time you
do more, I mean, it's it's hard to put this stuff together, but it's not that hard to come up with,
you know, like let's actually do it instead of I'm gonna tell you all the dirty secret right here
about the other side of the tracks and about the hustle life and all of that. It's actually harder
to do that and takes more energy and creativity and all that than it actually wouldn't just
get a dang job. Get a job. Yeah, they're looking for shortcuts and everything. It look, Homer
Simpson has given us this example. He has given us this gift. And yet, people's continuing knuckleheads
continue to ignore it. Homer has had every job under the sun. He has tried every scheme there is.
He's failed every single one of them every single time. He ends up back at the plants. And it takes
an imaginary cartoon wife to be able to stand by him. Like, I mean, yeah, seriously, that's the only way.
Marge Simpson is underrated. Marge Simpson, I believe that the Simpson's a fantasy. Man, I completely,
I don't care. Go ahead and make fun of me if you want. I think that the Simpsons and Marge and
Homer are the most romantic couple in TV history. Look at the things that woman is stood by. Look at how
she is stood by that man. That's that's love right there. All 37, you see how many who knows? Yeah,
it's a lot of these things. And it lets you think that it's just a, you know, an imaginary group out
there or something doing these kind of hustles. Wendy's has been getting in a lot of trouble recently.
Now we didn't cover this story that well, but Wendy's was wondering where's the beef. The internet
loudly reminded them that they have a problem with surge pricing. This week word got out that's
the CEO of Wendy's said that they'd be boosting profits by introducing digital menu boards that
can display dynamic pricing for those that don't know. That means it afflux weights. Hey, we're really
busy at five o'clock. So our burgers go up in price. Dynamic pricing. I have another name for it.
It's called price gouging. Yeah. They're now trying to take this back, of course, because it
didn't release this as a statement. It just came out in their CEO board meetings and everything.
And some really smart financial reporting got done on there. And now in the statement, they're saying
they're, we wouldn't raise prices when our customers are visiting us most. That could allow us to
change the menu to different things. They're saying that it's going to lower prices now. We will
wait and see because they're not planning on doing this until 2025. I'm sure that they're hoping a
lot of this will die down by them. But I like if this, if they were lowering prices, they'd be going
out of their way to let everybody under the sun know that they were lowering their prices. See,
this is the thing when you hear companies and they've done this, you know, over the last
couple of years, the whole inflation thing, listen to what they're saying to their shareholders.
At shareholder calls, shareholder meetings. It's coded language, but it means, yes, we are on a
pricing scheme that looks to blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, which means we're raising
prices because we can, right, to boost profits. And they are saying this. This is not like, you
know, conspiracy stuff. They're actually saying this in meetings because they wanted to look good.
CEO say to their shareholders, like, hey, look what we're doing. How we're making money for you guys.
And honestly, they're, this is how they're doing it. So that kind of looks at what's going on
with Wendy's right now. Let's get a palette cleanse. Yeah. Let's look at some good stories of
the day. And one of them is our midday magazine. Be sure to join us from three to four today for a
great one. In part one, we're going to talk with Jennifer Allen, chief executive offer at the Boys
and Girls Club of Wisconsin Rapids. Looking forward to that Katie Johnson can also be in cheesy
special events and marketing director over there. We're going to highlight some of the cool
events that they got going on. Love talk with our boys and girls club. Haven't got to do that in a
while. Looking forward to that. Yeah. And in part two, UW-Madison extensions Jackie Carrantini
human development and relationship educator. I get to rest my voice because she does. She does,
she does, she does such a great job on that show. I just try to get out of her way. I have to do a
quick shout out to Jackie because of she always has such great topics. Yeah. And stuff that we normally
don't want to talk about end of life stuff. I mean, she makes it so accessible. She says such a great
job. Tonight, it's a ball night on both stations here at WFHR 530 Milwaukee Bucks at Charlotte
Hornets. It's only a matter of how much they win by. They destroy the Hornets whenever they play
them. That is not a great team. They're looking a lot better in the last few days too. It's a good
get get right kind of game. Figure out your defense a little bit more. And boy, have they figured
something out. Oh, yeah. Since the all start break. Yeah. Tell I've been saying it since they
high before they hired Doc even if you want to sell your Milwaukee Bucks stock out by it. You know,
but go ahead and sell. I'll buy it on our sister station WRI at 650 assumption girls versus
Lordes Academy at Oshkosh West. Succinals. Yes. We're getting closer and closer. I want to do a
shout out to Mr. Jump Don Chesbrope who was taking over the board because I got this thing. This thing
tonight. I got over the thing. So it's a really good. I love it. It was Woody or Richard Lewis
you were doing there. That's great brother. It was proud. It's an impression of an impression
actually. So it's probably Woody Allen. It was very good. We are loving the assumption girls every
time that they get into playoff action. We're going to be following them all of postseason.
Great game tonight. 650. Our pregame won't start off a shout out to Randy Michael and Don as you
mentioned there. It's going to be a good one. And of course, one of them mentioned this as far
as music goes. We got some great music coming to town here. Get your tickets for House suite. It
is Steve Leslie sings James Taylor that is coming up March 7th next Thursday week from now 730 at
the Foreign Arts Center. And always Olivia that'll be March 10th a Sunday at two o'clock.
We're going to be giving away tickets for these. Be on the lookout for those everybody weird
comes. We also wanted to mention the power of the purse is coming up. Find out more about this
amazing event brought to us from the United Way and Women's United. It's their signature
annual fundraising event. If you purchase things or a part of power of the purse, you are putting
into our future. You were helping early great literacy. You're helping the Dolly Parton's
imagination library. You're helping the future. That's that's what being a part of a power of
the purses. Absolutely. Find out more at uswac.org. And just want to talk about a couple of big stories
around the world here. Happy 25th birthday to Mary foresight of Oklahoma who turns 100 today.
All right. She is one of the oldest leap day babies in the world. She was born on February 29th
in 1924. I feel a little bit like real Willard Scott there right now. A little bit of the
little shmuckers can come out of the bottle. Yeah. Show that Willard Scott. Show that Willard Scott.
Meanwhile, dozens of leapers are celebrating together on a cruise in the Bahamas right now.
They also did it back in 2020. Around 70 people signed up for it this time. Some had never met
another leap day baby before. That's they're so rare. And I love the fact when they do stuff like
that. It's so cool. And Ohio woman's dog went missing five years ago, but she got him back at an
adoption event this month. Oh, how cool. She never stopped looking and spotted him after he ended
up at a shelter. They posted photos on Facebook two weeks ago. And she knew it was her dog.
All right. That's pretty cool. Yeah. That is a pretty cool story. And speaking of animals
to shout out to our South O'Connie and Maine Society, appreciate them joining us. Shout out to Miles
and Millie, those pets in the weeks of ours. Find out about them and much more at SWCHS.com SWCHS.com.
And get your tickets for the Glassman Ashering WRC Theater dot org WRC Theater dot org. I can
great show stuff. Thanks for hanging out. All right. I'm leaping out of here.
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