Hour 2: I’m sorry I can’t hear you, this city is too noisy!

Get work in computer. Come on. I'm trying to get come on here. 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 with Beth Habhacker today.

Good morning. It's good to have you here. Beth, it's been a while. It's good to be here. It's been fun, been fun morning already. We've got fun stuff lined up for you in this hour.

We're going to let you know what our schedules looking like this weekend. A lot of great sports, a lot of great original content for you.

Want to also get into a little entertainment news to kick off this hour. And after that, we got the 10 noisiest cities in America to cover.

Okay. We're going to get into that. And a couple of other, oh, an interesting one here about Amazon return items.

And I got a story to go along with it. Yeah, that should be an interesting one.

What we'll get into all of that and plenty more. And I want to wrap up the show talking a little bit about some local great things in our area.

Like the Wisconsin rapist farm, winter's farmers. Yeah, you're going to talk about that before we wrap up.

Just get all that coming up. Let's go ahead and get in some entertainment news right now.

And Dwayne the Rock Johnson, one of the bigger names in the world, one of the bigger action stars or just actors period.

The rock has taken a couple of hits that his career has not used to in recent years.

He's had some movies that weren't as big as he thought they would be.

Okay. The black Adam movie really hit him hard like emotionally, not financially.

Okay. Financially, the movie actually did all right compared to a lot of DC movies.

But he came out the gate being the rock and expecting this to be as big as Iron Man.

That's that's what the expectation was and where the bar was.

And it was never going to be that. And I feel like that was part of that was the big problem.

Going in with such gigantic expectations, especially when everything before that was just doing bad,

doing bad, and you know, was he unaware of the DC reputation?

Yeah, I wonder. You have to wonder. Yeah, because it was a little delusional, I think.

And it's not and he's not necessarily a guy known for that really.

Even though I mean, he plays characters and he certainly had a wrestling persona that was

bigger than life and all that. Him, the person, very business savvy, very smart with his career.

Really, I mean, you look at the first 10, 15 movies he did almost hit, hit, hit, hit,

like very smart with it and calculated with what he's done with his life.

Going back to him being a college football player, blowing out his knee and realizing,

well, where do I go next with my career? I'll go into wrestling, taking and spinning that into

this career and now spinning and acting in action career into possibly being a good producer,

being a he's in one of the faces and one of the owners of the XFL and AFL or whatever the new

football league, the spring football league. He's done a lot of smart things. This one, I'm not sure.

I've just be honest, I'm not sure if this is really smart or if it's like just silly.

The Wayne the Rock Johnson joined the board of TKO, the company that owns WWE and they gave him

the rights to his nickname, the Rock, but it turns out he got a lot more than that. They also

gave him the IP and trademark rights to a whole bunch of his classic nicknames, catchphrases and

putdowns. So the Rock now owns the copyright of Rudy Poo and if you smell what the Rock is cooking,

the brow of bull, the people's champion, the great one, know your role, shut your mouth,

the people's elbow, the rock bottom, I'm doing all the moves over here, the most electrifying man

in sports entertainment. And of course, Jabroni, which isn't fair. Jabroni's an Italian movie. He

shouldn't be able to own that. My father and I got some words for your rock, Dwayne, please don't

answer that call to a big fan, big fan. I will be impressed if he does. Yeah, that'd be

pretty actually kind of cool. Actually, it'd be worth it. So while this may seem kind of silly

in everything, the if you read between the lines, WWE is in like major, major, like trying to fix

things that are going on with Vince McMahon and all this other stuff. They are trying so hard to

get some good PR and you're going to lean on your old ex because the newer guys have not taken

the mantle in run with it. I'm sorry, but they haven't. The rocks don't cold. Triple H,

some of these guys that were around in the 90s and early arts, they shaped wrestling to where

it was going to go. And it just never got there. Those are life, those are once in a lifetime

talents. You just can't pull something like that off a tree. And the young wrestlers and the

wrestlers that are in the game right now are great. They're good. There's nothing wrong with them.

But there's a difference between a Roman Reigns and a Duane the Rock Johnson. And you see it when

those two stand next to each other and they interact. Like the three names I just mentioned,

those were the upper crust. But the WWE had guys way down the line who would be opening a

raw who were great on the microphone. Like you don't have the versatility that you did anymore

and the storytelling ain't what it used to be. And I think too, the thing that really doesn't

get talked about is the mystery. And the idea of like when we were kids, there was still a bit of

an illusion. Yes. You know? Yeah. Is it stage? Is it not stage? There was that confi...

You know, you couldn't quite tell and now you just know. You just know. You just know. And so the

mystery is gone. And when you pull the... Scooby-Doo episodes didn't get better when you pulled the

mask off. Right. Like it ended the episode. Exactly. It feels a little bit like wrestling is facing

that right now. And as I know, I've watched wrestling in over 10 years. But as I'll always love

it, I always have a... I have actually a respect for it because of the wrestlers. Right.

The wrestling might not... The storylines might not be real, but the wrestling is.

There's real injuries, real pain. These people are spending real time on the road.

The only... I've heard... I know a lot of stand-up comedians. And the only people that have a

similar schedule to stand-up comedians are wrestlers. Yeah. It's insane. The amount of cities and

the things that they do. I have such respect for that. Right. People that want to do that job.

But I do worry about the future of wrestling because of a lot of these things. And it doesn't help

anything. Well, one of the most evil human beings in history was one of the... was the owner of WWE.

And you've got to get over that and get past that and everything. We'll see. And this is...

All of this reading between the lines. So all of this debit... They need the rock. They need the rock.

Right. They need the rock more than he needs them. So how do we get him to be on this board?

How do we get him to attach his name to something that's got a bit of a nasty kind of look to it

right now and a nasty feel to it? We're going to give him all this. Here's your copyright. Here's

your trademark. Here's all that. And who knows how much money some of those things are worth.

Well, and maybe for him, it's not about the money. Because this is how he got his career launched.

He went into this. He became big. He was able to pivot that into something even more.

Maybe this is his way of giving back and saying, you know what, this is worth it for future stars.

What can I do to help rebuild this into something that can do for someone else what it did for me?

To that point, Beth, I think you really might be onto something there because it's not just him.

It's his whole family. His father was a wrestler and he's got a long history with the WWE.

So I can see that. You have some pride in your that. And I think you might be onto something with

that, especially because it doesn't seem like the guy needs money. No, it doesn't. I don't believe

the rock is out there with a handle and they're looking for coins or anything. And if he's looking

to get rid of it, I'm sure I have several ideas of places that he could put that money that would

go to good use. Give us a call. 715-424-2600. Go ahead and call up any time to win. Any time.

Or Mr Johnson, however, people prefer to come. The rock? Yeah, the rock. Mr. Rock. I don't know.

Beth, let's look at what's new on your small screen, new on your big screen and on your theater

stage this weekend, premiering right now on Netflix, Space Man starring Adam Sandler,

Place in Astronaut in solitary six-month research mission and kind of loses it a little bit.

Kerry Mulligan, Place's wife back on Earth, Paul Dano, does the voice of this alien that he runs

into. It's a weird movie but it's got a serious tone to it with some comedic moments. It is a really

interesting Adam Sandler vehicle. And I just love where Adam Sandler's career has gone.

Nobody had, I'm crazy man with pen on my head. Nobody had him being nominated for Oscars.

I love it. He's pulling a Tom Hanks. Yeah, yeah. And he's doing it real good.

Castaway, that was the movie. I was sitting here trying to figure out what was that movie where

Tom Hanks ended up buying a castaway. I think one of the, there's a couple of things that if you're

fortunate enough in your career, you get to do it and mark off your checklist as an actor.

Almost every actor they say needs to do drag. Every actor needs to do Shakespeare and I think that

every actor needs to do a project where it's kind of on their shoulders, whether the main actor

or the only actor. Like when you can pull that off and you can carry a movie like a Tom Hanks

and castaway or I think Sam Rockwell and Moon, movies like that, like that really shows you

something like, man, they're not just good. They can carry a whole movie themselves.

But they had to pay their dues to get to that point. It's not that you can just jump in and carry

a movie by yourself. You've got to build up the skills. Both those actors I mentioned had a big

body of work before. They did those projects. Same thing with Adam Sandler. So that's a really good

point, I think. On Apple TV, plus the streaming premiere of Napoleon, Joaquin Phoenix stars in this

movie where you place a Frenchman without a French accent. This movie got bombed. This movie.

Yeah. A lot of people shred that off. Yeah, I think he is actually. Yeah, look at that. Also on

TV, Apple TV, plus the series premiere of the completely made up adventures of Dick Turpin,

British comedy starring the great Noel Fledling set in the 18th century. Looks really good, actually.

On CMT tonight, the third season finale of CMT campfire sessions. Okay. That should be a good one.

On Peacock Kids, Mega Mind vs. Doom Syndicate. I think that's got Will Farrell back in it.

Probably. Yeah. American Idol editions continue on Sunday at 7. Sydney Sweeney is hosting

Saturday Live with Casey Musgraves as the musical guest on Saturday Live. That's going to be a good one.

On Max this weekend, the regime premieres. It's a limited series starring the amazing Kate Winslet

as a dictator of a fictional European country. Hugh Grant is into this as well. If you've seen

the trailers for it, it looks awesome. Yeah. She looks really good. She does. I always enjoyed her work

and she's done some amazing stuff in her career. I've never seen her like this. It's really,

it looks really good. I hope it is. And this is the role that she couldn't have taken like 10 years

ago. There's something about life experience and going pain your dues and getting to an age.

And I am thrilled that they are roles like this for women who are older. Absolutely. Absolutely.

She's not the same Kate Winslet that we saw in Titanic, that young sweet thing. She has

grown. She's matured. She's had a family. She's got so much more to offer. And I'm thrilled that

there are now roles to per her to be able to do that. It's about time and it's great to be in a time

where we get to experience that stuff and get to see the Helen Mirrens and the Meryl Streeps and

all these actors still working, still doing great work too. Because that's the other thing too

that gets lost in the shuffle about this when you give them the opportunities and you see them like,

oh my god. They're even better than when I remember them in the 80s or whatever and stuff.

And yeah, it's great to see. When they can play in older years,

can play more than just grandmas. Yes. Yes. And new in their big screen this week and only one

big release because nobody wants to compete with Dune Part 2. Yeah. Tim of the Shalame returns,

Zendai Rebecca Ferguson, Josh Butler, Austin Butler, or Josh Brolin, Austin Butler,

Florence Poo, Dave Batista, Christopher Walken, Javier Bardem. It's got an amazing cast.

A ton of money put into this one too. I'm really enjoying. I mean, I'm going to watch it because

I watched the first one and I watched the Dune as a kid. And it's cool. If you call up right now

and ask me to tell you what's going on in these movies, I don't know how well I could tell you.

But I really do enjoy them and I'm personally watching in part because I like studying

careers and I like studying the choices that actors make. And I think right now, this movie

gives you an opportunity to watch two young actors really building their careers and building

their chops and getting better and better with every scene. Zendai and Timothy Shalame are two of

the most talented young actors I've ever seen. And I've been studying this game since I was seven

years old. They're very, very talented and they're just getting going. Yeah. And I would throw

them Florence Poo. Yeah. Absolutely. Absolutely. 100%. Yes. She, I mean, I like her. Oh, yeah. Oh,

my gosh. And the black widow movies. And in the series, yeah, she has acting chops.

It's what Timothy Shalame is doing is very similar to my sports people out there to what

Patrick Mahomes is doing. It's on the same level. It's really cool to see that stuff and build,

especially when going back to what we were saying before, so many actors kind of sit back on

their laurels or their looks to be blunt. This kid could do that easily. And look at just

within one year to go from playing Willie Wonka. Yeah. Down to Dune. And he just keeps working too.

That's another thing that stands out to me about young actors like him and Daniel Radcliffe and some

of them where they again could just sit back with that nice paycheck and their looks and all that

and they just keep working and keep trying to get better and better and better. I really admire

that. It's one of the things that I enjoy about working on stage, working with actors that try to

do that, not just from scene to scene, but from play to play. I think that a number of people that

I've worked with that are like that are in the most recent WRCT Winter Play, the Glass Managerie.

You guys had your preview night last night. We did. For the audience, it doesn't know,

preview night is similar to an opening night. Just a little more stripped down, not many people,

if anybody in the audience, but the cast, the crew, everybody treats it like it's opening night.

And we did have a couple of guests that came and saw the show and raved about it.

How did you feel it went last night? I thought it went really well. I mean, it was a rehearsal

and you could tell there were some moments that they kind of stumbled over a little bit that they

recovered. So it was exactly what you wanted. And to see the vision that Seth and I started with,

two months ago come to life on the stage. When I gave the pep talk last night before

the show started and I said, you're ready. This is ready. And it just had fun. And you could tell

that they were enjoying themselves on the stage. And for a serious play to still enjoy yourself,

it's great to see how the projections for the videos have come together, the voice over,

the set pieces that rotate in the midst of the scene. And the nuances every night, I'm seeing

more and more nuance in their performance. They have really started to embody these characters.

So we are thrilled and so excited for the public to finally come see all this hard work put out

on stage. It's a talent to be able to pull these characters off. It's just as much of a talent to

be able to take a serious play and have fun with your cast and crew behind scenes. The audience

picks up on that. The audience can tell when you enjoy working with your co-actors and everything.

With the multimedia aspect of this and a night like last night where you're trying to get things

timely, timed, timed right. But it's a little different than what you're probably used to with

working with other actors and a sound effect or something. This involves a lot more moving

pieces. How did that go? I have to give a shout out to John Young who is our stage manager. He's the

one backstage calling all of this. So he is kind of our traffic control for the show. So he's

the one letting our spotlight operators now go now. Sound cue, light cue, actor get out there.

I mean, and it's it's a lot to have to manage all at one time. And we've had a couple of glitches

with a light cue not working at the right time because the computer wasn't right or miscommunication

with a spot operator. But they've still been able to recover from it and keep things moving.

It has just been phenomenal. It's really good to hear. We're so proud of this cast of this crew.

There is so much great work that is put and put into this. And I would say you can make the

argument more work than has been put into a show before in this time frame because of the multimedia

aspect and so many of these things. It is really a powerful play. It is a fun play as well because of

I think emotional roller coaster you can go through in times. And I like a play that doesn't

try to spoon feed the audience. It doesn't dumb down its play to try to reach an audience. It's a smart,

fun, interesting play as well. And the fun part about last night was with the two new people that

came to see a last night. They were laughing at places I hadn't laughed at. So they were places the

actors weren't used to. And I had told them. I said just be prepared because when we get an

audience, they're going to laugh at things that haven't been laughed at yet. And they're not

might not laugh at something that you're used to hearing a laugh for. Or a response you may hear

a gasp, you may hear a cry, you could hear conversations going on in the audience. Be ready.

And it's just they're all doing a great job. Melissa has her accent down. She's got the movements

down. She is phenomenal as our Amanda. Laura has the solody with her physicality that she puts in

there that people need to look for because it's just a hint that she does it beautifully. Wes

has really brought Tom to life. He has started to encompass who that is. And Daniel to see him take

on the role of the gentleman suitor. Just it's great. It's great. It's a perfect cast.

Wouldn't change one aspect of it. And some a great direction being done by Beth and Seth

half-hacker. You guys get to now sit back and watch this thing. Just go. That's hard.

Something I've ever talked about yesterday. It's so awkward because now we're done. Our work is

done. We don't have to do anything more. And it feels weird. You know? We'll keep you busy.

Join the cast and crew of the Glassman Ashery this weekend. The premier it premieres tonight at

the Wisconsin Service Community Theatre Auditorium. Get your tickets and find out more at wrctheter.org.

The Glassman Ashery has shows today tomorrow seven o'clock. Then they'll be back on the seventh,

eighth, and ninth with seven o'clock shows. On Saturday the ninth, they'll also have a two o'clock

matinee. Get your tickets and find out more at wrctheter.org. Support locals, support the arts,

and have a great time this weekend. Break a leg to the crew of the cast to everybody. Enjoy

yourselves out there. You're going to be phenomenal. It's going to be great. We will get to our

get to a quick time out. Check out with our checking with our partners. When we come back,

Bethany are going to get into how many young adults understand their taxes.

We're going to talk about that. We got back a little bit older adults like their taxes.

There's a whole great question coming up on the morning show.

Welcome back everyone. Morning show here at WFHR. Locally grown radio. Beth and James hanging out

with you. Getting physical around here. Everybody get your work. I get your, um,

leotards on, leotards, yeah, leg warmers. That's what I was trying to think of leg warmers.

That's the thing. I get the hair up in the ponytail. Gotta get the hair in that ponytail.

Get your VHCR all set up. Yep. You're mad out. And remember my mom doing this little, my mom

loved to live a new job. Big fair. Jazz or size. That was the thing.

It's so funny how different generations remember her in different ways. Oh, I know. You know,

I think ours is a little more grease-like and stuff and her the singer. Maybe the generation

after us. It's a little more of the physical audience. It's a fun, it's interesting.

And we are big fans of Olivia and of our friends over at Saver the Arts. Yes.

And of course we have some great shows coming up at Saver the Arts. We'll talk more about those

before we wrap up this part of the segment. I wanted to get to this with you first though, Beth.

As I find this interesting and especially we are in tax season and it's, if not in tax season,

it's right around the corner. Meaning that there is a lot to cover. In every year there are new

tax laws and different things to be aware of according to that. And according to a survey of 18 to 26

year olds, the average young American estimates that they only understand about 44% of their tax

filing process. Yeah. I don't know if that's higher law. I'm not sure. We can blame. We really

we as far as pointing blame. You can blame a bunch of different things for this, but that doesn't

solve anything. No. Now I'm curious though of how this like some of the other stats of this though.

So here are some of the other stats from the survey. 56% of young adults admit that they're

intimidated by this tax filing process. I think that's understandable, especially if this is the

first time you've done it before. Absolutely. And you've probably heard horror stories of, you know,

so-and-so didn't track this box on their taxes. And now they're, they locked them up and throw

away the key or something like that. Which isn't usually the reality of the situation, but the worries

that we have and the fears that you, the stories that you hear in that. I know in my family,

especially in a dag of an Italian family and everything, they always had the component thing

going, hang over. You know, that's how they got come on. Like, that was five years old. That's

something I've been being here. You know, that's how they got come on Jimmy. It's something that,

you know, they bring up from time to time. So there's stories, there's fears about these things.

And then all of a sudden, it's on you and you're in charge of your finances and your taxes.

And it can be intimidating, I think, for a young person that's never done it before. And especially

because everybody makes mistakes, including employers. So there might be an instance where you've

done everything right. And then you file your taxes and find out your employer forgot to do

something. And then you're now having to pay in. And that's always a fear. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

28% aren't looking forward to it at all. Yeah. We joined the club. 29% are only. Yeah. Yeah.

Only. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Really. Actually, I'm surprised that's not like 10%. How is that so high?

At 28%. Yeah. 29% aren't very much looking forward to filing their taxes. And 39% wish that they

could use the time they spend doing their taxes to be loved ones and watching TV.

Okay. I agree with them, but let's be honest. You wouldn't spend it doing that. You'd spend it

probably zoning out on your phone or something like that. But regardless, I agree with you.

I'd love to be able to do that too. You know what I'm saying? Would I love even more though roads?

Yes. Having, having, you know, a mail delivered by our wonderful post office and everything. Like,

I understand that it's not cool to say this, but I'm okay paying taxes. We need to. I'm all right.

Even for those who are very biblical in their government, Jesus even said,

hate a Caesar, what a Caesar's. Oh, yeah. Yeah. So give to the government what belongs to the

government. If you want to have a society that functions, you need to be able to fund said society.

Absolutely. Which is why it blows my mind that everybody is trying to avoid doing it. Yeah.

I want to avoid paying anything, but I also want to be able to complain about everything that's

going wrong. You can't have it both ways. Right. I will say, and I think you'd agree with this too,

that I'm okay with paying taxes, but I also, I need accountability. I also want to know where

my money's going. I want to know that it's going into the right things and the things that are best

for our community. And you can do that by voting people into office that are going to follow through

with what you want. This is not a difficult process. It can be a little muddy nowadays. I

understand with the amount of knowledge out there, information, different sources and everything,

but I don't think it's, I really don't think it's as difficult as it can, it can get tricky.

Don't get me wrong. I'm not making light of any of this, but if you're paying attention to the

details, you can see where people align, where people go, what they're, what their, what the

real intentions are, or are they really invested in this? Are they really trying to do this for the

betterment of their community and their country? Or are they doing this for their 15 seconds?

Exactly. You can tell the difference if you're paying attention. If you don't care, then I can't

reach you. There's nothing I'm going to say that's going to make any difference, but I do encourage

people to look more into these things, look more into what, not just what a politician is saying,

but look at their, look at their body language, look at other handling things. It's important

all that's up. And when you know that stuff and you feel more comforted about, know who is in

their pocket, and are they going to go, hey, I believe the childcare is vital. Childcare is the

most important issue, et cetera, et cetera. Okay, then vote people in that are going to care about

childcare. Exactly. This isn't difficult. No. And that way you know when you're paying your

taxes, that's that money's being used right. Right. And start to look at your taxes not as something

I have to do, but hey, I'm going to be able to contribute to my community. I'm going to be able

to help make sure that we have schools funded, that we have roads that we can drive on.

Know that that's what your money is going towards. We're important. Those of us alive right now.

It's important what we're doing, what we're experiencing, our feelings, our opinions matter.

But if we're doing this right, it's not about us. No, it's about helping the others.

Yeah. Well, and helping the future, making sure that there's a future, making sure that our

kids and their kids, kids, kids, and those kids, kids have a government, have a democracy, have a

free country that they can grow up and live in like we did. Right. That's what this is all about.

It's not about you. It's about the future. It's bigger than you. And individual is not a

community. Yeah. If you want to be a part of a community and you want communities to be

available to you, you need to help fund those. Got to pay your taxes, Jimmy. Don't end up like a

phone. The guy can pull that way, Jimmy. I'm eight dad. I'm eight. Why are you telling me this?

So was he worth it? You're doing something else that you have to be careful. Might have been

known by dad. It let's be honest, knowing me. Yeah, probably, probably. We will take a quick

time out here. We're going to go ahead and get to our news. We'll do that. We'll have some more

fun when we come back on the morning show at WFHR, locally grown radio.

Welcome back, everyone.

Morning show at WFHR.

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Got to get you in the same thing a little bit. I did do that to you. I'm sorry.

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Do not mess with that woman. Not on my watch. No. There are a lot of, I have a lot of patience

for a lot of things. Not that. Don't mess with my Pam. Either of my Pam. My mom or that one.

We want to have some fun and get into some really cool stuff here. And by that, I mean,

noisy stuff. Okay. Yeah. We're talking noisy cities now. Study ranked the noisy cities in the

US. I'll talk louder. The study ranked the one of the greatest bits in center of life history.

Garrett Morris doing the for the hearing impaired. Oh, yes. Just where he just yelled.

So according to the results, what are the noisiest cities? Well, they did this per capita. They

went by noises caused by airplanes, subways, and number of bars per capita. How many drunk people

will be out and about on streets? Some of those things. Some of those are the factors here.

And according to the results, our noisiest city in the US is of course New York. Of course, yes.

Never sleeps. Yeah. Mainly because of its mostly densely populated. It's densely populated.

Has almost three times more nightlife spots per square mile than any other major city.

Um, we, we, uh, those of us like myself that haven't been to New York, I don't think we can

completely wrap our mind around what New York is. You've not been to New York. Yeah. I'm been there.

I got, I got like, I've had friends from New York my whole life. And I, I currently have some

really good friends over in the Brooklyn area and everything. And they're constantly asking me.

You need to go there. Go there for this. Go there for that. As a, as a theater kid, it's,

it's like the mecca. I've got to go to there. I've got to go check it out. I just haven't been,

but I got it. I got it. Just be careful because you'll hear a lot of sirens, different kinds of

sirens, but a lot of sirens. Well, funny. I mentioned that Beth because my old stomping grounds

comes in at number two Chicago. It ranked first in average number of flights per day. Of course,

you've got a hair right in the city. So we're not doing the city. But midway, yes. So you've got

that deal that you're dealing with. Um, you're also got a, a, a, um, I believe the greatest, um,

example of America in Chicago. You have little Chinatown over here. You've got

great city over there. You've got all these different melting pots, all these different things

going on and all of them interacting and all them working and being together. Um, it is a

loud city to the point where, uh, to me, now, and I was just talking about earlier about struggling

with sleep and everything, seeing a connection here possibly. Um, uh, now as, as an old, like,

if I want to sleep, I need silence. I need it, which is impossible to find pretty much. But, uh,

that, that's one of those things that I like really can't get to sleep without that. It's a big

part of it. And I think it's in part because of growing up out there. Um, also one of the greatest

cities in the world. Yes. Uh, and New York as well. A lot of these cities that way. Jersey City,

New Jersey comes in at number three. Newark at number four. Boston at number five.

Since in a theme here. Yes. Yes. Yes. A lot of these, like outside of Chicago, all East Coast

areas and a lot of heavy plain population, JFK out there and everything. Do you think it's part of

the culture? Yeah. That I don't think it's just the planes and all of that. Well, uh, it, it,

it, look, uh, that to get I'm not saying I'm seeing this with love. Uh, but I, I think that most

New Yorkers I know know how loud they are. Oh, yeah. Like, there's no hushed voice in New York.

There's not just New York. No, no. Uh, Boston comes in at number five. They're just as guilty of

this. And Jeff just as much noise. Having lived on the East Coast. I mean, I was only an hour and a

half from New York City, an hour from Newark. The people out there, they will get their point

across and they will increase their volume to do so. Yeah. Yeah. That, that's my family. That's,

that's a lot of my family. I will say too. Um, the, the, the other part of this that I think is

interesting too. If you care about American history and get into it like I do and everything.

One of the parts that I think is interesting is that's, that's where we first started this

country. Yeah. Our first roads were built and a lot of that. Not that you could say any city was

really built to handle what New York is, but New York wasn't building this man. Like it, it's,

it's crazy to think of what they're doing over there. What, what has happened to New York and how

the five boroughs and all that. Uh, even extending to Newark, New Jersey, even going out to the

Boston area, main even that whole area just wasn't built for the population it has. And it,

they're making it work. Like it's, you know, it still somehow, uh, it gets a little more out west

when we get to number six at San Francisco. Then we're going down south of Miami. Philly brings us

back to the East Coast Long Beach, California at number nine and Los Angeles at number 10.

I can't believe LA is that far down. Yeah. I was a little surprised by that, but I will say LA is

a little more spread out. Mm-hmm. And I don't, like I said, I haven't been in New York so I don't know,

but from what people tell me, it's a little more spread out than some of your burrows and some of

all the way New York is. Uh, the, the same people put out a study, a separate study ranking the most

relaxing cities in America based on things like parks and spas and yoga studios and Glendale,

Glendale, uh, and Garzana. Glendale, uh, California, Glendale and Garden Grove in California,

Clinch the top spots. Bell View, Washington, rounded up the top three. Researcher say the cities

sanctuaries and some of those are some of the reasons for that. Alexandria, Virginia, Fort

Lauderdale, Florida, um, let's see here and the rest are all in California. Yeah. But that's

mainly because of the, um, uh, the criteria they're using, I think. Right. Um, I think that it's,

like, noisiness is one thing. I think most people agree on what is noisy, but what is relaxing to

some is going to be completely different to others. Right. So. Well, and if you think about it,

as the country was being founded, people were coming from Europe and you're going to hit the east

coast before you're going to hit the west coast. Yeah. So I wonder if a lot of it was, okay, well,

we can get to the state or to the colonies or whatever they were at that point in time. Um,

and then they could continue to move, but we didn't really move for hundreds of years. So people

ended up establishing themselves out there. Yeah. Uh, it's, it's fascinating to see the, um, like

families that, uh, their, their family lineage starts at Ellis Island or out east and then all

the sub, but their whole families now in the west and they have been for like three, four decades

or three, four generations. It was a pass through for that. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, the old organ trail,

the old, uh, yeah. What's that? Darn you, Dissenteri. Oh, Dissenteri. Why? Take a quick time out.

Come back. Have some more fun here on the morning show WF HR where we are locally grown radio.

Welcome back everyone. Morning show here at WF HR locally grown radio. Wait, I was waiting for it to

happen. I knew that eventually we'd break Beth. We broke Beth. I can't hear the song and not think

of this show Chuck. Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's a funny. That was a big show. I loved that show. It's a good

show. Yeah. We're back and we're here to have some fun and we're, we're talking a little bit

about Amazon returns right now. Amazon makes it easy to return stuff for the most part,

but not everything on there on there is returnable. Here are a few things. Amazon won't always take

back. Okay. We'll get into those real quick in a second, but just to, uh, to, uh, add a real

story, some context to this, um, about a month ago, uh, a little longer than that actually, um,

we had a recall on Quaker Oats granola bars. Um, they, they, I believe it was like a chunky

version of it or something like that. That happens to be my father's pretty much favorite snack.

Yeah. Love them. Uh, he saw this report and kind of panicked. He's like, oh, no, how am I going to

get my granola bars at all? That should be how I'm going to get a, it's like, well, let me look

around online dead and see if there's any still available. We found some online on Amazon, uh,

for double the price. Of course. There's like dad and then you know, I don't know about this. He's

like, no, dude, I gotta, I gotta have him. I gotta have him and all that. So he's like, okay,

my dad's retired. He hasn't spent money on himself or anything. Go ahead and get your dang granola

bars. That's cool. Well, he does this. And you know, Amazon is pretty cool. The most

things that you order nowadays, you get the tracking. And I will admit, wholeheartedly, I'm a

nerd about that. I love watching the tracking. Yep. I like seeing where it's going and everything.

How close it is and stuff. I follow it like a hawk. And I'm gonna get it early. Yeah. Yeah.

You don't know. I love it. I love it. I love it. Um, so we're watching the tracking on this

and it's not moving and it's not moving and it's not moving. And like three weeks go by. And,

and Amazon says, you know, hey, if it is not here by this date, you will get a refund.

And so that happens. And my dad has this happen. And we just figure the granola bars were recalled

before they were able to be shipped out or something. My dad got his money back. No harm. No foul.

Yesterday, there's a package outside. He still got the granola bars. He still got them. He

still got them. First off, my dad and I are looking at this pocket package is addressed to James

Mailoff, which is both of our names. So neither of us know who it's for. Yeah. And I know everything.

It is exactly Spider-Man meme for a good two minutes. We're just sitting there like you open it.

No, you open it. So like being the people that we are where we get nervous about the littlest

things. We're like, I don't know what this is. It's not ticking. So it's going to be okay. We

open it up. And shockingly, there's the granola bars. So this and we double checked in everything

and he still got his refund. And he got the granola bars. Not that doesn't happen very often.

But Amazon does that. Amazon sometimes, if an item is a certain price, I believe, and you want

to return it, they'll oftentimes tell you it's cheaper for them for you to just keep it. Right.

And they'll reimburse you the money, et cetera. Amazon's printing money. They can afford to do

these things. And if it takes a little bit off of our postal system, fantastic. Excellent.

But there are some things that they cannot return. Okay. So like live insects. People buy things

like crickets to feed their pet lizards and stuff like that online. But that is not something that

you can turn return. Amazon doesn't want them back. Pet food in general isn't returnable either.

Okay. Hacardous materials. That includes things like flammable liquids or gases, including

lighters and some nail polishes. I wouldn't have thought of that. Acetone. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Fresh flowers. Well, I don't even know you could do that on Amazon. You might be able to get a

refund if they showed up wilted, but you can't return them because they'll definitely be done by

that, of course. Exactly, in a sense. Prescription meds, another thing that I don't think most of us

knew you could get from Amazon. Yeah. Don't stock up on six months supply unless you know you'll be

on the same meds that long. Mm-hmm. Once you buy them, they're yours. Understandable. Very

understandable. Absolutely. Not one of those items that you want. You're not buying the bargain bin.

Prescription meds are anything like that. I feel like that's understandable. And finally,

digital downloads. They give you a week to return things like downloading, downloading,

downloading by mistake. But if you start reading a Kindle book and just decide you don't like it,

they won't take it back. Right. Which I think is understandable. Also a reason to go to your

libraries. Yeah, absolutely. Use your local libraries, everybody. Yeah, none of these I think are

that what's surprising to me is that they do some of these services. Right. You know, I didn't

even know about the flowers of the medication. I'm wondering if that if they work with like teleflora

or some of those other flower delivery places. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I got to wonder.

But that's getting you up to date on that and all those things that you can and cannot return

at Amazon. We have to take one final quick break. We'll come back with some local good stuff and

other good stories of the day. It's Beth and James taking you through your morning right here at WFHR.

Welcome back, everybody. Morning show here at WFHR. Locally grown radio.

Getting you ready for the weekend. Beth and James here with you. Thanks so much for hanging out

with us this morning. I hope you're having a good one out there. We're going to get in some local

good stories of the day in a second here. But Beth, know that ain't right stories today. We're

moving out of that. We're getting real good vibes going into the weekend. Yeah. We got good things

we want to talk about. I got a handful of great good stories of the day. I've been collecting

through the week. I want to touch on some of these. Just kind of rapid fire with some of these

good stories. Okay. Police officer in Florida rescued a missing five-year-old girl with autism

this week. She'd wandered away from her home and they spotted her from the air from the air

walking around in air walking around in a swamp. Yeah. Their body cam footage of this is amazing

to see. They were excited to see her and she was very happy to see them. The video's beautiful.

Shout out to those officers and all those volunteers and people that took time out of their day.

We certainly locally here in this state are thinking of the families and people out there looking

for that young boy. Yes. And we're thinking of you. We're sending strong vibes, strong positive

thoughts and vibes your way. If you were able to help, we encourage you to do so. A World War

II vet in Pennsylvania named Ralph Perkner turned 103 this week and he credits his longevity

to having daughters. Yeah. He's got three of them and told her a porter they've always made him

stronger. Yep. Yeah. That's good to be a girl dad. Yep. Yep. I got two of them myself and I

completely agree with you, sir. Something my husband will never experience. Yeah. He can,

he can you know, tag team anytime he wants to be wants to know what it's like or something like

minor older. So you know, it's a little easy. Maybe a little easier. This is exactly what what

would happen if I tried this. A woman in North Carolina volunteered to be a foster for her local

humane society and take pets in temporarily. But as soon as she stepped foot in the place she fell in

love. She walked out with a dog named Rookie who now has his forever home. Oh, Rookie's a great name

for dogs. I never thought of that. Oh, that's awesome. That's great. That's great. And let's touch

on these two. Did you there was a video of a horse galloping down I 95 in Philly last week.

The good news is he's okay and he escaped and his escape earned him a new name. Okay. He belongs to

a charity called Fletcher Street Urban Writing Club that offers inner city kids a chance to go

out ride. Hey, they got to choose a new name for him and they went with freeway. Oh, that's

good. Oh, that's good. Perfect. Well done. Well done. The Houston Zoo just did something big

for something very small. A Pervian stick bug ended up with a flopping neck after she

melted and she her echo skeleton and she'd and she'd never echo skeleton. So they used her part

of a q-tip and engineered a tiny neck brace to save her and saved her life. Wow. Cool idea. What a

well done by them. Yeah. And the new way to find and the new way to find a missing pet is to hire a

drone operator to look for them. This is going on all around the country. This is being more and more

used. These drones for this. Right. Or Porto recently talked to a guy in New York who volunteers

for a pet rescue group. His $8,000 drone has a thermal cam that picks up body heat. He found

around 40 missing dogs in the past year. Wow. And of course, these services being used to find

other missing people. And from young to old, we're greatly appreciative of the volunteers,

the people that use their drone. So do these things and start out there walking the

the many the woods and all these different things. We really appreciate them, especially

again, those in Wisconsin here looking for that young boy. Yeah, that's and that's the way to use

technology right there. We also want to say good luck to the Lincoln High School wrestling team

Madison for the state champ tournament today. They wrestle at 530 and if they win, they will

wrestle at 730. If they win both matches on Friday, they will be in the championship match for

division one at three tomorrow afternoon. All these taking place in mad town. Go ahead and check it

out. We'll have the results for you Monday in playmakers. Shout out to all them. Have a great time.

If you heard assumption lady royals won yesterday over Lordus. So that means they'll be back in

action this Saturday looking at tonight. Great guard show at 605 right here at WFHR and then a

big ball night tonight. Bucks vs. Bulls 830 tip off for that. Wow. On Saturday was Badger men's

basketball as they host Illinois. So you got both Wisconsin and Illinois teams facing off in the

throw in the minor leagues. I love it. How often does that happen? Yeah, 11 a.m. start time on

Saturday for that Badger game. That means no over the back fence tomorrow. Right. We'll be back

next Saturday. Hopefully are we will also on WIRI at 650 have that assumption game as they are

taking on Mochello that game will our pregame will start for that at 650 and Wisconsin men's hockey

here at WFHR at 730. It can be a great weekend of good action and we're looking forward to it.

Beth we we have a great midday magazine for you today. Wisconsin Rapids Wisconsin states

representatives Scott Krueger be with us in part one and in part two we're going to talk about

the hotel pickle. Grace Luthan Church has new production going on. Oh yay. One are a mind you to

get your tickets for the glass of an ashery that premieres tonight. Get your tickets and find

out more at wrctheater.org. Yes. And the winter farmers market going on. It is tomorrow morning

from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Come check it out. We have added now food trucks. Yeah. So you'll find a

food truck or two out there. We're selling fish. We're selling cookie. We're not selling them.

We're hosting people who sell these things. Yeah. And it's always a good time. You'll find you can

get your your dessert and lunch and all sorts of knickknacks and salsa and all sorts of things

there. So go check it out. It's a great way to not only get out of the house have some fun

but maybe come across some items that you haven't before. Maybe some food things that you haven't

eaten the food trucks. Yep. And you're helping our ag industry. You're having a good time. Yeah.

Join our friends over at the Wisconsin Rapids and Moravian Church for the winter farmers market

9 to 1 going on now till May 18th over at 310 First Avenue South. And of course keep in mind and

subscribe to the YouTube page Wisconsin Rapids and Moravian Church. You can catch Beth's services.

And while she is amazing at this that's her that is who she is stellar at that.

She's incredible at all the things you do Beth. We really appreciate you hanging on with us.

I've had a ball. Thank you for having me. We're looking forward to having you back in a couple

weeks or we'll have you around and now looking forward to that as well. Everybody have a great weekend.

Mm-hmm. Be good to each other. Don't take life so serious. Enjoy yourselves. Have fun this weekend.

Take advantage of this weather. Be good to each other. Give each other grace. And we will meet you

back here on Monday for more great radio, great local radio. Yes. Right here at WFHR where we are.

This is locally grown radio WFHR 1320 AM W24 A.D.E. Wisconsin Rapids.

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