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'm joined
by Melissa K. Good morning. And the best listeners in radio. Thanks for joining us, everybody.
We're going to have some fun this morning. We're going to talk about our schedule a little
bit later, get some local good stories of the day. We'll touch on some of that. We've
got a Danny Wright story for you as well. All that coming up. Melissa and I are also
going to get into chores, dishes, and more boring things that we find attractive now. All
of that coming up right now. Let's start with some entertainment news. And a Baywatch reboot
series is in the works at Fox. Of course, this was a matter of time. There's no word on when
it will come out, but it's still pretty early on the cast hasn't even been announced yet.
They're still casting it actually. The official plot description is daring ocean rescuers,
pristine beaches, and iconic red bathing suits are back along with a whole new generation
of Baywatch lifeguards who navigate complicated messy personal lives.
Messy personal lives. Yeah. Yeah. In this action packed reboot that demonstrates
there's family you're born with and born into and family you find.
Ah, my tongue. I really, I truly need a pellet cleanser after that.
The original series with David Hasselhoff, Pamell Anderson ran from 1989 to 1999,
then the shift to do Baywatch away from 99 to 2021, which starred Jason Momoa.
I didn't know that. I didn't know that either.
There's also there was a spin-off series with Hasselhoff called Baywatch Knights,
which aired from 95 to 97. And there was a movie. Less pristine beach scenes on that one or what?
Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, right. I mean, Baywatch at night, it seems to defeat the purpose.
Yeah. And I completely forgot about this. There was a Baywatch movie with the rock and
Zach Efron in 2017. I forgot all about that. Wow. I'm sure the rock is very glad that we
forgot about that one, though. Jeez. As far as reboots go, this has got to be one of the easier
ones to call. I mean, there's not a ton that you got to do for this, but I am curious if they
are going to try to like, I think that one of the big problems with reboots, along with just
rebooting anything, period, is this trying to make it something that it wasn't. Like, if you remake
Baywatch and just do basically what you did last time, should work out fine. Like that probably,
the issue is what they're good, what it sounds like they're trying to do is turn it more into like
CSI Baywatch. That kind of thing, you know, and that's not why people watch the show. That's not what
be you're missing the point. If you're going to reboot it, do it similar to what it was before,
because that's why it was successful. Baything suits. Like, that's why it was successful.
I mean, you don't really have to reinvent the wheel here. If this is what you're going, I'm not
saying it's good television, but I mean, if that's what you're looking for, that's what you're going
for. I mean, you know, just lean into it. I don't understand. The idea of trying to make it serious,
they had this happen and it actually worked out fairly well for them. So it might not be the best
example, but it's a fair one, I think, the Fresh Prince of Bel Air. That show was popular because
of the charisma of Will Smith, of course, and some really good writing back in the day,
you know, good sitcom writing. But it walked a great balance of it's a comedy. It's a comedy.
It's comedy. Oh, we're going to hit you with a little seriousness. Here's some comedy comedy.
Hit you with a little seriousness. You know, that worked, the formula worked for the show.
The remake of it, the reboot of it, whatever you want to say, went very serious and very like
telling a street story. And it did okay, but it didn't hit the mark as well as the other show did,
of course. So are you doing a reimagining or are you doing a reboot? There is a gigantic
difference to me. And I think that that's important. If you're going to, because they're just going
to keep doing this, yeah, it might at least be, be, you know, specific about the definition of it.
And I would get away from the reimagining. I feel like that that's the, that seems to be,
they don't seem to hit on that as much as they do the reboot in general.
Mm hmm. But you should be, you know, get ready for those slow mo run down the beach scenes.
Yes, they better keep that. Yeah, yeah, that, I mean, in fact, that should, like, if it's a,
if it's an hour show, like 40 minutes of it should be that. Like, I mean, just again, lean into it.
Just lean into it. What are you worrying about plots for? Who cares about the plot? Nobody's
watching Baywatch for the plot. I mean, just, you know, just lean into it. I just want to watch
him run into the ocean to get, you know, slow motion by as well. As they're running to save
people in, you know, time sensitive situations being sucked out to see.
And as a side note, I actually do think that that would make a good, like, if you did actual
TV show about lifeguards or, or ocean life or anything, I actually think that would be a decent
TV show. It's a, it's a subject matter that's not really covered much except for Baywatch.
Spoiler alert didn't really cover that very well. You talk to any, any ocean lifeguard and
that show was fear, infuriating to them. Well, because it's just really about the drama between
the, the lifeguards, right? Yeah. I can't say that they ever actually watched it.
No, me neither. No, I never saw one second of it. Never. I would say the only time I ever saw
Baywatch were commercials, like whatever they had commercials for it or anything.
We don't do this very often, but ever once in a while, there's a story that transitions from
the Sunrise Show on WIRI. Join us from 7 to 8 over there. And to our morning show here at WFHR,
and this is one of them. And of course, it involves Dolly Parton. Yeah, of course.
And it involves audience participation, 715-424-2600-424-2600. Listening on the Civic Media app,
thank you. You're just a touch or two away. That's right. Who was your first country crush?
Who was your first crush of country stars? Or was it a country star? For Dolly Parton, it was.
And if you want to take a guess who Dolly Parton's first crush was, or first ever crush.
Yeah, it's tough. I wouldn't have gotten this. I wouldn't have gotten this because a time-wise,
I wouldn't have lined it up right. Johnny Cash. The man in black. Yep. Someone dug up an old
interview where she said he was the first person she ever had a lusty feelings for.
She was a teenager, so he would have been in his late 20s. I don't think of them.
Yeah, yeah. I just never thought about them as being that far apart in age. So I wouldn't have
thought of Johnny. I wouldn't have thought of that. Quote. He was lean and lanky. And that's when I
first realized what sex appeal was. Now, that's a fun note and that's interesting. But the best part
of this. And I know I do this from time to time. I really encourage you to look this one up,
everybody. You need a really good palette cleanser today or you just want to see this.
Johnny was asked about it in an interview in 97 and they played him the clip and he chuckled and
said, well, that was nice, over. And that's it. But like, we've got a lot of stills, got a lot of
shots of Johnny Cash. You've got some great ones of him smiling and laughing. One of my favorites is
him cameoing on the muppet show. He loved being on that show and loved the cast and Jim Henson
and everything. Actually, Jim Henson, Johnny Cash really stayed friends, I believe, over the years.
Which man I would love to have coffee with those two. Tell me that wouldn't be a great conversation
sitting there between Jim Henson and Johnny Cash. But you never have seen Johnny Cash red faced.
You've never seen Johnny Cash embarrassed before. I don't think at least. My whole life,
I've seen this man and I've never seen him red face before. It is hilarious. It is so great.
You got to check this out. It is wonderful. It is the, to me, the definition of outlaw country,
the man in black, all these things. And then you see him. A dolly's name comes up in this and he's
like, just, he's 13. He's just a 13 year old. That was, that was very nice to say that. I think
that was really sweet of her. That's great. It's great moment. We've got a lot of great moments
happening here in town on our local stages. One encourage everybody to get your tickets and for either,
either one of these shows or both shows. Do yourself a favor and check out both shows.
How sweet it is. The Steve Leslie experience. Steve Leslie sings James Taylor. Grammy award-winning
songwriter and a singer. Steve Leslie takes his talents right here to town this Thursday,
everybody. Yeah, the seventh. That's right. Get your tickets for that show. It's going to be a
good one. Let's give him a good crowd over at the Performing Arts Center right here in Wisconsin
Rapids. And as long as you're in the music mood, March 10th, always Olivia and Olivia Newton
John tribute. Yeah. Oh, that's on Sunday. Yeah. Yeah. And this is an amazing show. I will be
completely honest with the audience. Annie Ilow is one of my favorite interviews I will ever do.
I enjoyed talking with her so much on air off air. Incredible artist. Wonderful, wonderful,
wonderful artist. Incredible voice. The way she looks in sounds like Olivia Newton John is remarkable.
All that being said, all that stuff is only second to the kind of person she is.
Annie is an incredible human being. Back in Illinois, she does a lot of good for a lot of different
cancer research company organizations and everything. And 10% of this concert goes to the cancer
research for women, including a percentage of it goes to our own aspirus revenue foundation.
Wow. Yeah, percentage of each ticket sale. That's really incredible. So not only are you going to be
sitting there on Sunday at the Performing Arts Center enjoying this amazing artist hearing the
music of Olivia Newton John like you haven't heard it before. And being able to remember and honor
this great artist that we all were enjoyed like Olivia, but also honoring someone you loved because
make no mistake about it. Every one of us at this point in the game, we don't need six degrees
of separation with cancer. Most of us, you know, it ain't that far apart. It touched our lives.
What a wonderful combination of being able to take in a great show while also knowing you're
doing some dang good. You got to love that. Yeah. A shout out to our friends Sally Kissner and Eric
Brittnocker who do some great work and join us on Midday Magazine to highlight these shows.
If you'd like a preview, you can go ahead and catch a Midday Magazine interviews right there at
civicmedia.us and get your tickets for these at saverthearts.com, saverthearts.com. And, you know,
look, just between Melissa and us and everything, all right. We might have a chance to win some tickets
a little bit later in the show. All right. Keep it down. Keep it down. We don't want to tell everybody,
but we keep our listening. You know, you know, preservedly excited. Yeah. Yeah. You did a good
job. You did a good job with it because you are an amazing actor. I have mentioned this before. I
have tried to make you red faced many times because I look, I love acting. I think it's amazing. But
I do think that there are different, there are different levels of acting. There are different
things that you should do as an actor that I was taught from an early age. Everybody should do
Shakespeare. Everybody should do drag. And that men, that's men and women. You know, at both sides,
I think it's a throwback to old theater in some of that and also trains you and gets you
versatility on the stage. There's a lot of user body. Yeah. Yeah. I think every single actor should
work behind the scenes. At least a couple of times in their career. Yeah, to have that experience.
And doing a one person show, if you're able to pull it off, I think that every actor should try
every actor should attempt. And man, it's a feat. If you can pull it off, it's one of the greatest
things you'll do creatively ever. And I can certainly say that about Melissa. I don't, I'm not trying
to speak for you. You can speak for yourself, obviously. But just for me, as somebody who has seen
you a couple of times and gotten to, you know, see your creativity every day on, on highlight,
it's one of the most remarkable performances I've seen. Mel, it's really, you did some amazing work
on that stage. And I love your work. And we get to see more of Melissa's work and the rest of
her great cast and fellow castmates with the glass of an ashery that they'll be back in action this
Friday. All right, I'm sorry, that's Thursday. Thursday. I almost stole the show from you.
This Thursday, they're back in action. Thursday, Friday, Saturday, there'll be shows at seven o'clock
over at the Wisconsin Travis Community Theater. On Saturday, there will be a two o'clock matinee as well.
That's right. We will be back on stage. We have our couple days off. I have to say I'm enjoying
them. But Wednesday will have our line run. And then we'll be back at it Thursday.
You mentioned that you're enjoying that. I find that this little break in the action also
gives me a chance to reminds me of how much I enjoyed doing this. And okay, I want to make
sure these last shows I leave it all on the stage. Is that how you're feeling a bit? Is it?
Yeah, I'm looking forward to the last weekend of shows. And I read all my lines yesterday
because every line every day, and I'll do it again today, probably while I'm washing walls,
but we'll get to that later. There's a lot of bitter sweet feelings about approaching the end
of the run because this has been seven weeks of rehearsals that we've put in the hard work
to develop these characters and learn how to interact with each other as actors.
And now that we're into the run of the show, we get to learn to interact with each other as people.
A little bit more time to actually get to know each other outside of our characters.
We had our cast party on Sunday and hung out a little bit and got to showcase some of our
other talents, which was fun. And then we'll head into this weekend of shows as a fully
functioning unit. I do want to make a note too that when you're enjoying these shows and you're
supporting the arts, which we desperately need to do in this day and age, especially in Wisconsin,
where Wisconsin ranks last in the arts state by state. And I'm going to keep bringing that up.
I'm going to keep bringing that. I'm not letting that go.
It's just crazy to me. When you're taking in these shows, I would appreciate and I hope that
people can also take in that these are not paid actors. These are people that are taking time
out of their personal lives, out of their daily lives to do shows like this, Melissa's cast,
features, all kinds of stories like that, including her own traveling from Abbotsford to come here
to do these rehearsals all the time. That's passion, man. That's love that you do that for.
I admire that so much, Melissa. Keep up the great work. Enjoy the run. Everybody, let's make sure
to give them nothing but full houses the rest of this run. Get your tickets at www.wrctheater.org.
Keep in mind, Wisconsin's Rabbits Community Theatre also is looking for directors for next year.
If you've ever wanted to throw your hat in the ring on that, we encourage you to do so.
And the auditions for rumors are coming up. That's right. Those are on the 11th and 12th next week.
Yeah. I'm supposed to get a schedule coming up here and I have to make the Tuesday audition.
I'm not going to be able to make the Monday one, but I will be at the Tuesday audition.
So I'll meet you there, everybody. Yeah. And just another shout out for other, you know, like
we have so much great theatre all across Wisconsin. I actually get to preview
tonight. I get to go and see a tech rehearsal for the showcase players. They're doing a Wisconsin
premiere of a love or best offer written by Phil Olson. It's a play about online dating.
Oh, that's awesome. Oh, that's great. They open this Friday March 8th.
Very cool. And our run for the next two weekends. The showcase players in Kobe.
Yeah. I mean, you know, you get bored. There's none of the reruns on TV and everything.
There's never a rerun on a theater stage. That's true. No, every show is a new show.
So you never know what line you're going to drop and have to make it.
Support the arts and enjoy the arts, everybody. Melissa's absolutely right.
We're going to be talking with their friends over in Warsaw. They're going to join us on
directors cutting the next month or two here to highlight some of their shows. We will have
C-Wack on with us as well. Looking forward to that. We're not carry draggers directing her for a show.
I'm so excited for carrying. I'm so excited for her. That's awesome. That's so cool.
Enjoy and support the arts, everyone. And speaking of supporting local arts,
encourage you to support what the Muppet, the wonderful podcast brought to us from Bria and Yams.
I'm sorry, James. Yeah. That's you, dude. Yeah. Yeah. We do a great job with this one.
I should say, Bria does a really good job with this one. And every Monday that I talk,
Monday or Tuesday, I talk about this. I look at our YouTube page and they see our subscribers go
up. And I got to think that's a lot of you out there. And we appreciate that, man. That is so
cool. Just a little behind the curtain here. My daughter, Bria and I didn't get the chance to have
a lot of memories together for her growing up. One of the things that we wanted, I should say,
Bria wanted to do was make more memories together. And I'm so thankful to her for that.
So she thought, well, we love creating together. We started writing a play together. And we're
still doing that. But we wanted to do something more immediate. And Bria has a podcast of her own,
a high hope, a stash show, which I encourage you to check out. Just an amazing job on that show.
And she thought, well, let's do this. And we found a mutual love early on of the Muppets.
And we both liked the Muppets and thought, well, we'll do this. We'll just have this fun little
podcast and we'll see what comes of it. We didn't think that we'd have anybody really
subscribing to it or really, we just wanted to work together. We just wanted them create memories
together. And with that, we've also been able to be welcomed into this amazing universe of Muppet
heads out there. And this great community of people in our neck of the woods here in Wood County
and throughout the country that just end up loving this show and supporting what we're doing.
Thank you. Thank you so much for that, everybody. Really, there are a few things that there's
a lot of things that humble me, but there are a few things that humble my heart more than this.
I appreciate you. And if you're looking for the light and the little palette cleanser,
something fun, easy to listen to, what the Muppet, check it out wherever you get your podcasts,
and be sure to check out the YouTube page, what the Muppet, and subscribe, and like the page.
I appreciate you. Thank you so much for doing so. We will go ahead and take a quick time out,
check out our partners. When we come back, we're going to ask some more fun coming up on the
morning show at WFHR. Welcome back, everyone. Morning show here at WFHR,
locally grown radio, 80s bumper day. Rocking the Casbah with the clash a little bit.
Melissa and James here with you.
We got some good stuff to get to before we wrap up the show for the day. A little bit,
Melissa and I are going to get into the chores that we find attractive now. We will get into that
just a little bit. We're also going to get into a National Snack Day. We'll make some time for
that one. I did have a note from one of our listeners. We're curious about that. They like the way
that Sabrina names our podcasts. She could take all the credit for that. Like everyone's
and while she'll ask me, hey, what about this or this? But she always comes up with them.
For episode 31, and I can't believe we've done 31 of these the day after Woodstock.
That's a great title. Let's dive into this one as we get ready for our news break, Melissa.
I kind of like this idea. Some people do. Some people don't. It's like, yeah, yeah, I work out.
And I like the option to take a nap in between reps.
Why do I need to take a nap? Okay. A new poll found 11% of Americans exercise in bed.
Exercise in bed. Yeah. Now, before you go down the dirty here or anything. We're talking like
leg crunches and leg rises and things like that. Okay. That where my mind went right away.
But yeah. Well, I mean, it's a form of exercise, right? Yeah. It was a part of a bigger poll on
America's quote, dirtiest sleeping habits or reasons you might want to wash your sheets more often.
Over 50% of us don't always shower at night. Two thirds let their pets sleep in bed with them
and around half of us snack in bed. I do not do that. Yeah. Yeah. 21% of us also smoke in bed.
And a third of us don't wash our hands if we don't have to get up in the middle of the night
to use the bathroom. Nice. It also found one in three Americans don't always brush their teeth
before bed that doesn't have much to do with how gross your sheets might be. But it's just a
bonus reminder that you might want to do that. Now, this comes to us from mattress next day.
You can find the complete article and stats there. mattressnextday.com. I have a solution to this
that I've been doing my whole life. I just don't sleep. So I don't have to worry about these things.
I don't I rarely have to make my bed. You know, it's not the greatest option, but I'm just saying
thrown out. They're throwing it out there. No, don't do that. People do not do that. No,
do not sleep. Just wash your sheets. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It seems like a much better option. It's
sleep and wash your sheets. Feels like a pretty like there. We go. You're done. We just
figure that out for you. You're both good for you. I wonder when it comes to this list too,
how honest people are with this. And I don't mean like they're lying, but I mean, like more of like
do they even realize you're doing some of this stuff. Especially like the getting up in the middle
of the night thing, you're barely awake. And all you want to do, it doesn't matter if the bathroom's
even in your room. It's too far away. So you just want to get there and make it back.
It's the organ trail of just trying to get to the bathroom and back and everything in the
middle of the night when you're barely awake. And trying not to wake up too much. You don't want
to open your eyes too wide or turn lights on. Yes. Navigating in the dark. Hopefully you put everything
away or the cat didn't put things in your way. Yes, shut up to Kevin. The only thing harder for
me than falling asleep, Melissa is falling back asleep. As you were saying that, I felt every
little bit of that. It's so I try so hard to just stay in there. You know, zombie drug kind of
thing. But you know, like anybody over the age of 30, you got to get up in the middle of the night.
And it's just hard to fall back asleep. But the forgetting to wash your hands or something like
that, like I, I'd love to be able to lie and say I remember every time I don't know. I don't
remember. I'm not sure. I do. I hope I do. You know, it's one of those things I hadn't really
thought much about. That's an interesting one I thought. And nice reminder again, hey,
hey, wash them sheets and maybe clean up a little after yourself. Yeah, filthy animals.
Snack and bed. Don't snack in bed. Yes, that's a good one. That is not one that I've ever
really done. Like I don't know. I'm not judging it or anything to eat's their own.
Now a hotel bed. Different story. Oh, that I've done. Oh, yeah, I've done.
Well, it's not like you got a table in your hotel room. Yeah. And but I will also
send a shout out to all the hotel workers out there. You know, that treat it, treat it.
You know, yeah, okay, it's going to be messy. We both done that work. Yes, exactly. Yeah,
we're both right away like, you know, like, but take care of it. Or at least tip them very well.
Yes. Nicely done. Yes. We will check out what's going on state and locally,
getting to our news right here. When we come back, we're talking chores and sexy
what we fight for. Coming up on the morning show at WF HR.
Welcome back, everyone. Morning show WF HR.
Melissa and James here taking you through the segment. Thanks so much for joining us,
everybody. Hope you're having a good Tuesday out there. Mm-hmm.
Are you gearing up for a big spring clean? I mean, do you really have to wait for it? I mean,
it feels like with the weather is kind of like the way it's been going. It's spring multiple times
here in the last couple of weeks. Are you into cleaning? You might want to be if you're in the
dating. A new survey, a new survey of spring cleaning season looked at various chores and
run-of-the-mill things we apparently find attractive now. Single people between 18 and 45 were
pulled and here are the five unexpected activities you might want to add to your profile picks.
Little action. I love the idea of instead of like guys doing the workout shots or anything like
that just them throwing picture of them with their truck. Yeah, a picture of them throwing
laundry and doing dishes. Like the more I'm saying this, actually, you know why not? I mean, I
should I should journalist a little over the top. Journalistically, I should mention I'm
horrible at dating. I know what I'm talking about. So don't listen to me, but listen to this list.
This list at Whirlpool, they have got a pretty good list here. So this is again from 18 to 45
people that were pulled and the things that we are unexpected activities who might, you know,
find attractive. Number one on the list, staying on top of the chores. 91% of people find that
attractive. Yeah, because you don't really want to date somebody that expects you to clean up
after them. Yeah, I mean, look, no woman in history is ever wanted to be your mom, okay? Let's
get that out of the way. And on the other side of things, I don't know many guys that's, you know,
I think that a lot of a lot of men like taking care of their partner. But I also believe that there
is a line in the sand of wanting, you know, somebody who's strong willed or those things. I don't
think that they you could ever give like everybody's different, everybody's looking for different
things. But I think that overall universally, I think that a lot of us are looking for a lot of
that. Right. Not, yeah, I want to live with a slob. Right. Yeah. Knowing how to do laundry and doing
it regularly 82% of people agree with that one. Find that attractive. Yeah. I joke about this
all the time. You don't want to be the smelly kid. Do your laundry. That's important.
Doing the dishes 81% of people felt that one. I still, you know, these numbers are high James,
but I don't think they're high enough. I couldn't agree with you more. I couldn't agree with
you more. Like only 81% of people think doing dishes is important. Like there are gray areas to
this, of course. And I think that's important note. But I also think that you hit on something
really strong about this for men, women, no matter who you're attracted to or where you are in the
dating, you know, field or anything like that. These things can oftentimes be a signal or a subconscious
a reminder, you know, thought of, okay, well, they take care of themselves. Like, you know,
they they they they care about their things. Yeah. Keep their house clean. They keep their kitchen
clean. That's that's an attractive quality. You know, very few people, you know, want to be with
somebody who isn't doing, you know, at least a trying to do these things or attempting or anything.
Or bare minimum. Yeah. Being well-rounded in general, 91% of people want to see photos that show
you are. Okay. 91. That's higher. So that's kind of that seems very broad, well-rounded.
I'm not even sure what they mean by that necessarily. But I would say that as far as like pictures go,
you don't want to just see a bunch of posed headshots. Let me get my... You want to maybe see pictures
of you out enjoying nature or, you know, engaged in something doing. So wait a minute, having five
pictures of just my abs, that's not what people learn about it. No, no, no, no, no. And this may
explain why you have done so horribly annoying dating. It's actually just a profile for my abs.
It's just it's just that it's the profile. Yeah, yeah, I might need to rework that. I need to work
on that one. There's a reason that I would never even in that. Like even if it was something I
was thinking about, I would even try. Like teach their own, that's not my world. It's just not my
world. As I'm proving more and more, this conversation goes on. Cooking is another one. 64% would rather see a
profile pick of you in the kitchen than one of you in the gym. Mm-hmm. Case in point. Yeah, yeah.
I really like these actually. I think these are actually a really cool look. It's, you know,
especially with the age range, 18 to 45. Like I find some encouragement in that. When I talk to
younger people, there's a couple of things that I find interesting about the dating world nowadays
that's so different than when I was growing up in you and Melissa, I think when you were and stuff
as well. They seem to have a better handle on this in some ways, dating in the way to treat each
other after, you know, the relationship is ended. I find a lot of encouragement in that. And if
this is where a lot of young people are going with what they want in a partner, well done because
it usually takes you to your 30s and 40s to realize that. Well, if we look back, you know, a couple
of generations, relationships have changed a little bit. It's not about, okay, you've hit your,
you know, you've graduated from high school. Well, it's time to get married and make a family.
That's not the case anymore. It's, you know, well, let's figure out life a little bit, figure out
what you want to do in life and then find a partner whose ideals align with yours. And the
partnership aspect of relationships, I think, is far more important. It's not, well, I need to find
me a good little wife that can take care of the house and my kids and because I'm making enough money
to pay for a household. That's not the case anymore. You need two incomes to be able to have a
home and raise a family. You can't do it on one. So I thought I was reading into this a little too
much and being Jimmy serious, but you hit on that, Melissa. And I felt the same thing. I read this
this morning and redo in going over it again with you. It hits me, you know, again, younger generations
are realizing these things earlier than we did, maybe, because they have to. It just speaks to nobody
can be a house spouse anymore. You can't afford it. So I go, I go through the waves of this where
I'm encouraged and uplifted by this. And then I think about it a little bit. I'm like, oh,
geez. Yeah, that old sound. Yeah, yeah, it's a little melancholy kind of thing, but
but I don't know if I've ever heard that during before. And I just got to say it again, house
spouse. I kind of like it. I kind of like that too. I was going to send you a text like,
oh, that was a good one about that. That's a spouse. That's a good one. That is good.
Yeah. And again, whirlpool.com, you can find the complete article at see what you think and go
ahead and let us know seven one five four two four twenty six hundred. Realize that being having
the ability to share chores and a relationship is vital. It's very important. Yeah. Yeah.
Goes a long way on many levels, many ways. And I can't think that there is a partner out there
again of any, you know, man, woman, alien, doesn't matter. That it doesn't find these things interesting.
I find these things attractive. So yeah, I think that's a good note too. We will go ahead and check
out our partners. We'll be back and have some fun. We got good stuff coming up for you. It's
Melissa and James. Take it through your morning right here at WFHR.
Welcome back everybody. Morning show here at WFHR locally grown radio.
Melissa and James, take it right to the top of the hour. Get me ready for some news break and
Matt and Aaron on the air. Be sure to stick around for James show. We love Jane and we appreciate
the good work she does for civic and our listeners out there. Well, and just to throw out a little bit
of breaking news, if you're having trouble logging into Facebook or Instagram, you're not alone.
They're down right now. Yeah. We do appreciate all of you guys supporting and following those pages.
Yeah, keep on looking. We'll have those up and running again for you real soon. Yeah. Well, it's not us.
Yeah, it's not us. Yeah. Yeah. Trying to be, you know, the encompassing a we the collective we
there. I don't know. Let's go ahead and get to some fun stories here and impossible that a
right story so you know, you could choose yourself. This one is an interesting one. If Vermont Man
said a library book he found that's more than 60 years overdue, can't be returned because the
college to which it belongs about is about to close. Gary DeFore said the poetry book Love
Songs by Sarah Teesdale was found among the possessions of his great Aunt Madeline at the former
family home in Lake George, New York. Side note, we need to make more Madeline's. That's a great name.
It does a good name. Love that name. DeFore said he discovered the book had been checked out from
the college of St. Rose Library in Albany, New York in 62. He said he does not know how his great
aunt came to possess the book as she had attended the school in the 20s and the card in the books bore
the name of another borrower. Interesting. DeFore said he considered returning the book to the library
but learned the college of St. Rose is closing permanently in June. He said he would like to find
a new home for the book as well as Madeline's textbooks from her time at St. Rose.
It does bring to light how important it is to keep our libraries alive and to you know, appreciate,
use our libraries and when we're using the items at the library, use them like your bowel
from your grandma or grandpa. Take good care of them. Show them care. Other people who want to use
them and when you do misuse those items, you're paying for them because it comes out of taxpayer
dollars. So you know, you're just shooting yourself on the foot with that bicycling. Very often,
that's about the only fine you're going to get from a library that most libraries aren't
finding for late returns unless you're there like DVDs or something but books, a lot of libraries
don't charge late fees for books anymore but if you damage something, they're going to charge
you for it. Man, in this day and age, we get nickel and dined by everything and everything it costs
more and they're making smaller portions now and all this. Meanwhile, our local libraries are going
out of their way to get rid of fines, to do anything they can to get you into the building, support
our libraries and take advantage of that everybody because it's important. I appreciate that every time
I check out a book from Abbotsford, it shows on the bottom of the receipt that you get that,
you know, tells you when your books are due, it tells you how much it would have cost you to
purchase all of those items that you just checked out. Wow. And I think that's a great reminder of
what an amazing service libraries give to communities. Yeah, that is a really cool idea. I didn't know
that. Support your local library, whether you live at Abbotsford, Nakusa, Rome, here in Wisconsin
Rapids, wherever you are, you probably got a great library support. McMillan is a beautiful
facility. God, are we spoiled here in town? I love that library. It was my first favorite place
here in town, you know, other than like a walking path or something like that. The library, even
before I lived in Rapids when I was living in Rome, I just love that library, still do.
We want to get to a good story here and got a couple of them for you, including the world's oldest
person. The oldest living person, Maria Breyes Morella is celebrating her 117th birthday. She's
celebrated yesterday in Spain. I was going to say she's the Spanish Italian. Maria was born
March 4th, 1907 in San Francisco, has lived in Catalonia, Spain since she was eight years old
and has been residing at the same nursing home for the last 23 years. Oh my.
Morella was named the oldest living person by Guinness World Records in January of 23,
following the passing of French woman Lucille Randon at the age of 118.
Quote, she is very grateful for all the congratulations received and the interest that so many people
have shown in her state of health. Eva Carrera Boix, the director of Morella's nursing home,
told Guinness World Records. She is happy to be able to celebrate this special day
intimately with her family and colleagues and wishes everyone a happy Monday.
And did you notice? I said colleagues there because she's still putting in work.
Really? Yeah, she does stuff around the nursing home to help out and everything and
has little jobs around there. It's pretty cool.
Morella marines active at the nursing home and maintains a social media presence on Twitter
with her help with help from her young 80 year old daughter.
Wow, young daughter. Quote, good morning world. Today I turn 117 years old. I've come this far.
She wrote a Monday. Great story. I love that we're still doing this. Like our whole lives, Melissa,
we've, you know, from having the smuckers and in that, you know, celebrating people going out
getting over 100. I like that we still do this. I agree. That's pretty cool.
And 118 years old. Wow. That's remarkable. Just beautiful. What a life. I can only imagine stories
and the different things she's got that she's learned and felt over the years, over in her lifetime
experience. Yeah. We've got a lot of local good things going on. I want to touch on some of those.
We'll get to that in a second. First, let's get to our, our palette cleanser and looking at our
schedule for today. And man, we got a good one lined up for you. We kick off morning midday magazine
for the week with a jam packed hour in part one. We're going to talk to our friends and then
you're going to coos a high school and give a preview of their musical that's coming up.
Looking forward to telling you more about honk and ugly duckling of a musical. Oh, good.
We're going to have a handful of the kids in with us along with assistant director Jenny. It's
going to be great. Looking forward to having them in studio. I get to talk acting, Melissa, with a bunch
of kids. Yeah. One of my favorite. I get paid to do this. I don't I love it. It's so much fun.
Can't wait. And in part two, we get to talk to our great friends at the south of county YMCA.
Oh, excellent. Yeah, back there about their programs coming up.
Backstoring Carly, you're going to join us. We're going to talk a little bit about camp.
Talk a little bit about some of the other programs that they have going on. It's going to be a lot
of fun. Looking forward to that. Good, good. A little bit later today at 7.05. We've got the
Wisconsin hockey hour here at WFHR. Join us as kind of a recap of the Badger's men's season.
And you hear about that and it should be a good one on Wednesday. We'll have the great guard show at
6.05. And then it's a ball night 8.30 Milwaukee bucks versus the Golden State Warriors 8.30
of tip off for that one. That's going to be a good game. Okay. Also speaking of sports, your
Wisconsin rapids River Kings are moving on in the playoffs. River Kings have very successful
first round of the playoffs over the weekend. This weekend, they are back in action. And we got
these games right here in town. Nice home hockey playoff. You can see them in person. Yeah.
Get your tickets at RiverKingsHockey.com. Head on over to the South of County Rec Center. Let's show
him what home ice advantages is the Kings build hockey up and down the river and try to get us our
first championship. Nice. This is a good team. It's a fun team. There's nothing like seeing hockey
in person. Be sure to get your tickets and support the Kings as they build hockey up and down the river.
Get those tickets at RiverKingsHockey.com. RiverKingsHockey.com. Also one of the touch on this.
Enjoy working with your young children. Want to start your own business and work from home.
Attend a free virtual information startup meeting with our friends at child carrying ink.
This is going on today from 1230 to 230. You can check this out. You can go ahead and find out more
online by going to childcaring.org. That's childcaring.org. Startup grants, types of care resources,
support through startup processes, all this available. I personally believe that there is the
biggest thing that we are facing as the society is handling child care. Yes. We have so many
child care deserts in Wisconsin. Definitely an industry that we need more people in.
If this is something you've ever thought about doing, you've ever been on the fence about,
or maybe you're looking for a new career, not a job. You want to get into something that's
and you're also looking for an industry that's reliable. You're never going to run out of work.
Let me just double check this. We're always going to be making kids, everybody.
There's a lot of layers to this. Certainly, not telling you to just go ahead and jump right into it.
Take advantage of this. Our friends at childcaring.org, they do some really, really good work.
They care so much about this. They are one of the things that I support and I like about them too.
It's always about the kids. It's always the kids always come first. That has to be the way we approach
child care. Absolutely. I encourage you to find out more at childcaring.org, again, childcaring.org
that is going on today, 1230 to 230. I want to remind you that our friends at the United
Way of Southwood and the Amps counties have their women's united signature event coming up.
Power of the purse. Power of the purse. That's happening on March 12th. Yeah, five to seven
thirty are bullseye golf club. Be sure to get your tickets and find out more. I believe you can
even preview some of those purses right now. Yeah, they're putting sneak peeks out on their
Facebook page, which is down right now because Facebook's down. Be sure to check that out.
Check out those. Yeah, you can go to uswac.org to get your tickets and find out more about that
and encourage you to do so, everybody. The work that the women's united do, whether it is
raising money for, for, you know, local things or Dolly Parton's Imagination Library program.
Childhood literacy is the focus of this fundraiser. Yeah, it's some incredible work that they do
encourage you to check that out, everybody. And a funny evening. Yeah, yeah, it's a great time.
She's like, we have our doors. Well, it's a pasta bar. It's kind of like a meal. Yeah, yeah,
be sure to check that out, everybody. That's a good one. Also wanted to mention this too,
get this out there again. The Cadbury Bunny Trials are happening again and your pet can enter. Yeah,
you can, I can enter Sammy. You can enter Kevin. Just follow Cadbury, just follow Cadbury on
Instagram post a photo and explain why they're the best. Then tag Cadbury in it and use the hashtag
Cadbury Bunny Contest. It doesn't have to be a bunny. Yeah, it can be any animal.
Past winners include a few dogs, a frog, and a one-eyed cat named Crash last year.
What do you think, Kevin? Do you want to, do you want to be a Cadbury Bunny?
He's not here right now. I'm asking the ether. I think Kevin would have a chance to win this.
Just be careful. Kevin wins. My go-to is had. My go-to is had. I don't know if
what to do that, but I don't know. Well, we'll discuss it. Yeah, it's a good idea. It's a good idea.
Talk it out first. And again, one more time. One or a mind you. This Thursday, Steve Leslie,
Grammy award-winning songwriter for Kenny Rogers, George Straight, Darius Rucker, and many others.
And recording artist is going to be performing the work of James Taylor. How sweet it is right here
in Wisconsin Rapids at the Performing Arts Center. Awesome. That's on Thursday. Yeah.
Steve gives you an authentic and spellbinding concert, Leslie's warm, baritone,
exceptional guitar technique, and uncanny resemblance. Make this a one-of-a-kind tribute to this
American music icon. Yeah, you don't want to miss it. Almost everybody's got a favorite James Taylor
song or at least knows some of the library of the great James Taylor and some of his work.
This is an opportunity to see it live. It's awesome. And a shout out to Mr. Leslie as well.
He's conducting a songwriting workshop and mini concert to area students at 10
Thursday morning. Oh, perfect. I love that these guys, that these artists take the time to do this.
Imagine being one of those kids. That's remarkable, man. That's pretty darn cool. Good on them for
doing that. And good on our friend Sally and Eric and the great work that they do bring these
acts here to town. If you want more information or get tickets at saverthearts.com, saverthearts.com.
And encourage you to not only get tickets for that, but other great shows coming up with our
friends at saverthearts over at the Performing Arts Center. Yeah, because they got that always
Olivia on the 10th as well. So yeah, we'll get tickets for both while you're there.
Great show, Melissa. Thanks so much for hanging out. Yeah, you two James. Have a great day.
Have a great day and be good to each other out there. We'll talk to you soon and later right here at
