Good morning, Wisconsin. Good morning, world. It's a new day. Thanks for kicking it off of
us right here at 97 5 FM 13 20 AM W F HR locally grown radio. Got your host James J behind
the mic. I am joined by CEO of your United Way of Southwood and Adams County's Terry Johns.
Good morning. Morning, Terry. We got the band back together. We're going to have some fun
today. We got a lot of things lined up for you. We want to get to a lot of good local
stuff we want to touch on. We're going to hit on some of that this morning right in the
first segment. I mean, we'll also have the L. Cafe birthday night anniversary club looking
forward to that. We will get into as well spring break, the most searched destinations for
spring break. I wish I was going on spring break. Yeah, I've never done that. I would love
to. Can I still do that? Even if I'm not in school, but I, yeah, okay. Yeah, for sure.
How many of us have vanity license plates? We'll get into that a little bit. We've got
the new, where where is this? I wanted to, oh yeah, new food alert. We got to get to that
as well. Have a little bit of entertainment news for you coming up in the nine o'clock,
kick off the nine o'clock hour. We're going to talk about a young, the young Sheldon finale,
a couple of new TV shows in the works and what's new on your TV tonight. And then a little
later in the nine o'clock hour, the top who, what, when, where, and why questions we Googled
in February, PG version, I imagine. And spring clean. We've got the cleanest and dirtiest
states to touch on. We've got all that, or maybe not touch. We've got all those things
coming up for you. We want to get into a bunch of that. We'll tell you how our schedules
look at today. Plenty more to get to. I didn't want to start with a couple of fun notes
here. And one I wanted to get to right away, Terry was some Wisconsin pride. Yeah. Awesome.
I think I think that any chance we have to start our show that way is always a nice idea.
So James Frank, Coderia is a simple man. For many years, he worked five days a week
at the landfill transfer, a station in Highland, a small town of 861 residents north, north
of us in Wisconsin here. He spends most of the rest, he spent most of the rest of his
time at home, adding to his world record holding 24,100 pound ball of twine. According
to a biographer of, of Coderia, a divine intervention played a role in his unusual hobby. Once
a heavy drinker, he was searching for a reason to stay silver. Quote, that all changed when
he had a conversation with God who encouraged him to stop drinking and turn to twine. Did
he say, did he hear him wrong? Was it twine or wine? I'm joking. I'm joking. That was
pretty good. But you know, I mean, hey, I guess it doesn't matter what you turn to, right?
Right. Right. He's, so Coderia's former neighbor, Terry Nelson, first met him in 1980 when
he stopped to ask what he was doing. I just happened to be driving by and I saw him out
in his yard and I stopped by and asked this guy, this guy's crazy. But he's out there just twirling
twine. Other visitors would often come to see his creation, which he kept in a shelter
next to his home. The biography said Coderia, who was known as J, who was also known as JFK,
like to tell people every day, I am just having a ball. Look at the picture of this twine.
That is kind of crazy. That is huge. You know, it's funny. How do they know how much it
weighs? Yeah. Good question. You just haven't like sitting on a scale. Yeah. Rolls it up
to one every time he, you know, adds a piece. And where does he get it from? Yeah. Yeah.
So people would drop off twine to him for him to use. Oh, gifts. Okay. Yeah. And he was
a simple guy, kind, and everybody kind of took care of Jim Graves said about his brother.
The people of Highland became his family. And I'm grateful for that. Nelson said that she
and her husband often would stop by a career as home to show off others the twine bowl.
Every time he got twine to add to the ball, he would weigh it before wrapping it on. So
he'd know the exact weight. Wow. There we go. Cotera also made another ball of string
the weighed 47 pounds in honor of his birth year in 1947. He named that ball Jr. Although
other twine balls may hold different world records. Cotera holds the record for heaviest
ball of twine made by one man. It stands at 10 feet high and 22 feet wide. Cotera passed
away on January 14th of 2023 after spending 44 years working on that ball. He was a very
simple happy happy with his life man. Nelson said about Cotera. I think that's why what
I liked about him because he didn't have anything fancy, but he was proud of what he did
what he had. And he was proud of what he did. Yeah, that's awesome. And I love that the neighbors
kind of took that on, right? Like she was saying, Oh, we bring people over to see it. That's
really cool. After his passing in honor of his life, his former workplace was renamed
the JFK transfer station. But Nelson wanted to do something else to honor his memories. So
she decided to start an online fundraiser to help move the ball of twine to a new permanent
home. It was a labor of love. It started with just a GoFundMe page. Nelson encouraged to
see donations pouring for over $6,000. After months of planning, the ball was lifted with a tow
truck into a trailer and then drove into a new home in Highland Town Hall and the JFK transfer station.
So this ball of twine will remain here in Wisconsin and remain a world record.
Honor him at the same time. That's very sweet. That's pretty cool. Right? I like that. That's
awesome. And also it's one of those world records where I feel like that's a fun one to break.
Like that. That seems like a really good one to be able to do. Terry, I wanted to touch about
a couple of other local events going on. One of them, our friends over at Family Natural Foods
have a special guest tonight, a special guest presentation tonight at 515. They landed my
hitner. Somehow they were able to land this great. Obviously the parent, dad of Stephen and Katrina.
And we love all three of them and appreciate all of them. Everything they've done with our station
for many, many years and our community. And tonight, Mike's going to be there to give a presentation.
Be sure to check that out. Any chance you have to hear Mike hitner speak. I cannot be more serious
about this. Take it. Oh, absolutely. I love listening to him. What is here? I know I joke and I
tease Stephen and Katrina about wanting to be a brother. Have them adopt me and all the
Mike and his wife adopt me and all these things. I love that family. My mom is a big fan of Mike
and his wife and known them for many years. All that being said, I could not stress this enough.
That man is an incredible speaker. Has so much great knowledge and that brain of his. And when
he shares it, you're not only getting great information that you can't get out of a textbook,
but you're hearing history. You know, he keeps him and the gang over at historic point boss.
They keep history alive over there. And again, if you're a proud Wisconsinite, I would think you'd
be back in that. I would think you'd be just as proud and support those things as much as anybody.
And a great, a great conversation that you can have tonight and here tonight. Be sure to join
our friends and family and natural foods. Night 515 for a great presentation with Mike Hittner.
That'd be awesome. Power the purse next Tuesday, Terry. Next Tuesday, power the purse. This is a
women's event happening at Bullseye Golf Club hosted by United Way and Women United sponsored by
many, many, many local organizations. We are auctioning off 24 purses. It is a silent auction.
So there will be 24 purses. We have raffles. We have some really, really cool fun raffles. And then
we have some some great door prizes. Huge opportunity to get together with your friends. Bring
them on out. We will have great food. You know, it's just it's a really fun time. And all of the
dollars raised are supporting childhood learning and literacy. Primarily, the Dolly Parton
Imagination Library, which is a book gifting program for kids birth to age five. So we encourage all
ladies in the community to come on out. Join us at Bullseye. I'm, you know, beautiful venue.
You can't get a better view. So yeah, we're really looking forward to that. It is at five o'clock
on Tuesday, March 12th. Tickets are available at UWswac.org or stop and see us at 351 Oak Street in
Wisconsin Rapids. Is this the kind of event that you want to get ticket you need to get tickets
beforehand, Terry? So you do need to purchase the ticket for the event. Yes, we will have limited
number of tickets available at the door. But if you know you're coming, go ahead and, you know,
stop buying get those or you can purchase it online. You don't even have to get up off the
off the couch. You just gotta grab your laptop. And you can you can purchase that ticket. So
I don't, we're not in danger of selling out at this point, but because of some renovations
going on at Bullseye, we have a little bit less space than normal. So we do have to, you know,
we have a top number and we don't normally have that. So I know we were within about 30 of that.
So I mean, it is possible that that we could get to a point where we won't have tickets at the
door, but, but normally we do. Yeah. You can find out more and get those tickets at
uwswac.org, uwswac.org. Be sure to go there and find out more about what the United
Way is up to. Plenty of other things going on with our net weight and plenty of volunteer
opportunities. Be sure to call 211, find out more about those. It's great ways to put into your
community. And I know as the school years wrapping a little bit, we also want to encourage
people like young people to get out there and volunteering. It looks good on Kyle's resume,
helps you out a lot. And Terry, you guys get a new pamphlet out. Yes. So the new help guide has
been released. This is an annual publication. We partner with Encourage Community Foundation
on the help guide. This is resources found in 211, but we print 10,000 of these. Actually,
I think it's more. I think we print that we distribute that many and then we have another 3,
4,000 that we have on hand. But it's hitting on really kind of basic needs or areas that you
may need assistance with. These will be coming home with all school-aged children, but we have
been out distributing them to churches, you know, civic organizations, any place that has a,
you know, kind of a pamphlet rack. We've been putting them. But we do encourage you if you are
part of an organization that might be able to distribute these or wants to share these. I know that
the, for instance, the focus food pantry will include these in an upcoming distribution of food.
But it's covering all kinds of things such as food resources, housing and utility resources,
resources for addiction and mental health, education, vocational services, clothing, child care,
aging and disability services. So there's a wide variety here and we just really encourage you,
so for instance, just when I say there's a wide variety, it's typically a tri-fold pamphlet,
so two sided, and we actually went to four. So it's eight sided. So we've got, you know, we have
that many resources and these are just all local resources. So I encourage you, if you see one of
these, grab one and just, you know, tuck it away somewhere, even if you don't need it right now,
you never know when you might. And of course, if there's something here that you, you don't see that
you have a need for, you just give us a call at 211. Yeah. And again, find out more at not only 211,
but uwswac.org. Be sure to follow the United Way on social media as well. It's a great way of
keeping up to date on all the great things they are doing. Want to send one more? Thank you out
and not only to our United Way, but also to our great listeners out there. And our great guests
on Midday Magazine, we're going to get into our schedule a little bit later. We've got a great one
lined up for you today. First thing I saw this morning when I got into work on my desk, Pam left
for me a card sent to me from our friends at the Boys and Girls Club with Wisconsin Rapids.
Big thank you to them. That was very nice. Yeah, that is awesome. I'm getting all emotional about it.
No, I really do appreciate those things. I am of a family that thank you cards go a lot
farther than we realize. And I really appreciate that kind of stuff. I think that's really sweet.
Thank you for starting my day off so well. And thank you to the Boys and Girls Club with Wisconsin
Rapids area. It does such great work in this community. Greatly appreciate them. We will take a
break. Check out our partners. We'll be back with more LKF a birthday anniversary club coming up
on the morning show at WF HR.
It's time to do some celebrating with our great friends over at LKF a in the birthday and anniversary
club. Yeah, we want to celebrate with you. We want to celebrate with our friends at LKF a go
visit them right now. They're open at 221 Market Avenue in beautiful Port Edwards.
Looking at their Facebook page, which we encourage you to like and subscribe. You know,
keep up to date on. Good morning. Thursday specials are the Greek skillet or if you are hungry
for a salad, you can beat you. You can't beat the fattina delicious. They are open from seven until
two. Looking forward to seeing everybody down there. They got some great specials going on today.
I see that Greek skillet. Their lunch special looks really good. Chicken dumplings is there as well.
Long chicken dumplings and chili. That's today's soups. That looks really good too.
Sounds awesome. Go check it out. Sport local, buy local and wish them a good morning from all of us
here at WF HR. Our friends over at LKF a 221 Market Avenue in beautiful Port Edwards.
And get us those birthdays and anniversaries everybody. We love celebrating with you.
Info at wfhr.com James.mailup at civic media.us. You can direct messages on our Facebook pages
or call up and join the conversation 424 2600. If you're listening on the civic media app,
you're just a touch or two away. Call up and join the conversation. Terry, we got a nice list today.
I need a one through five. Holy cat. All right. Five. All right. That gives us our qualifier.
And we can go right into the celebrating. And first up, we want to wish a very happy birthday
to Samantha Stacker. Happy birthday, Samantha. We wish you a great day, Samantha. Hope it's a good
one for you. Enjoy your day. Also a happy birthday to an old colleague of ours, Mike Warren.
Oh, happy birthday, Mike. Mike's still doing news in the area. I believe doing good work. As always,
I'm sure. Appreciate Mike and hope he's having a great birthday. We also wish happy birthday to
Virgil Burnt. Happy birthday, Virgil. Enjoy your day, Virgil. Hope it's a great one for you.
Always like that name. It's a great name. Have a great day, sir. Elaine Herman, we wish
you a happy birthday, too. Happy birthday, Elaine. Enjoy your day, Elaine. Hope it's a great one
for you. And our qualifier today, Janet Jensen. Happy birthday, Janet. Enjoy your day, Janet. We
wish you the best of days. Enjoy and thank you so much to everybody that got us these birthdays
and anniversaries. We love having a big list like this. Keep it coming, everybody. Get us more
and more of those birthdays and anniversaries. Let's take a look at our celebrity list here real
quick. Let's see. Jennifer Fisher is 50. Wow. Pam from the office. Good actor. She was, she's
one of those people. She enjoyed the role. Had a great time doing the part. Doesn't have a huge
interest in doing a ton more acting. And you just don't see this very often. Well, I don't know.
Maybe she's just going out on a high note. Yeah, I admire it. I admire it a lot. I think that if
you, especially you make a good amount of money and you, you can afford to kind of be at home
with your kids more and everything like I admire that. That's great. She was really good on the
office too. Well, it's perfect, did a perfect job on that part with that character. Peter SARS
Guard is 53, Gotham DA and Batman. He, one of those actors, I think if you saw, you would know
right away. Great, from a great family of actors in the SARS Guards. And solid performance is good
character actor, I think in a lot of ways. The great Rachel Weiss is 54 today. She was Evie in the
mummy Natasha in Black Widow. She was the, she played twins in Constantine and that was the role
that really, she really stood out to me and she was very good in it. Great actress, great actress,
very good at what she does. Wanda Sykes is 60. She is, Wanda is mostly known as being a
standard comedian, but she's done some stuff like on the daily show and some other spots and
everything. Very good at what she does. EL James is 61, 50 shades of gray author. Guys, I got a
lot of money, I imagine. There you go. No, it's a, it's a female. It's, uh, EL James, oh, it's,
I'm sorry, I thought it said he and I thought that was weird. Okay, and I thought it was a female.
Yeah, thank you. Thank you for the question. I was just, well, no, I was just thinking that's
the first name I've known on your whole list. Yeah, it's been a tough list so far. Like, you're
going to know this one. Tell it to my heart. Tell, Taylor Dane is 62. Oh, there you go. Yeah,
no, that one. Love will lead you back. Tell it to my heart. Uh, she had a moment there. She had
some moments in the 80s. Brian Cranston is 68. Walter White too many from Breaking Bad,
to everybody else. He is the dad from Malcolm in the middle. Like, he's got a billion roles he's
done, but that's kind of the roles that those are those are his highlights. He's so good. He is
so good. And the thing I, I really appreciate about Brian Cranston, he gets this big break in
Malcolm in the middle. Um, many people might remember him. He was on Seinfeld, one of the more
popular like he was in a, uh, known actor at the time. Um, but one of the more popular characters,
he played a, he played a dentist who Jerry believed he, he converted to Judaism just so he could
tell Jew jokes. It's one of the greatest, like, it's so good. It's so funny. And him and Brian
Cranston are so good at those scenes. It's hilarious. And, and as a side note, it's something that like,
uh, a lot of Jews like have fears over like, not like, like, it's a heavy thing to keep you up at night.
But it's one of those things where it's not, it was something where, uh, that they,
him and Larry David did so well on Seinfeld, taking these everyday conversations and making
them very entertaining and finding ways to make it spin them and make them even funnier.
Brian Cranston, great actor. Big Broadway star now.
Done a lot of Broadway. Yeah. Uh, one of my favorite receivers of all time, Lin Swan is 72,
Hall of Famer, one, four Super Bowls with the Pittsburgh Steelers. Um, and was Super Bowl MVP,
uh, of Super Bowl 10 in 1976. I, I did not obviously see him play, but I love watching highlights
of Lin Swan. Peter Wolfe is 78 lead singer of the J Giles band. Makes you wonder why it wasn't called
the P Wolf band, but anyway, uh, I mean, yeah. J Giles. Yeah. Why wouldn't it be? Yeah.
Angel is a centerfold. Big hits, uh, love stinks also. And, uh, and, uh, a couple of other hits they
had too, I believe. Some people no longer with us like, uh, the, uh, the, the, the catcher of the
Immaculate Reception, uh, the proud Italian Franco Harris board of this day, 1950, passed away,
just a couple of years ago in 2022. NFL Hall of Famer, he made the Immaculate Reception, one, four
Super Bowls with the Pittsburgh Steelers. Oh, his teammates with Lin Swan. It's kind of cool.
They shared a birthday. Yeah, that is interesting. Uh, Franco Harris, great interview too.
The, uh, the thing about the Immaculate Reception is back then with the camera angles they had
and everything. You can't see the, the field. So all you get is his fingertips on the ball. And
it's, uh, you, you don't know only people who were, the players on the field and everything
really know if he caught the ball, if it touched the ground, any of that. And I always loved
in interviews how he'd play that. You know, of course I caught it. Like, of course I, like, no,
like no doubt and everything. You know, like, this is a great interview, great interview, great,
and a great football player too. And the great Willard Scott, born on this day in 1934,
Pestoway in 2021, legendary weatherman at the today show. And he was the original Ronald McDonald.
Really? Yeah. Yeah. Cool. Uh, but I remember growing up and seeing him on there all the time. Great.
I like before some of the more, um, more famous weathermen we've had on, on our morning shows and
everything. Uh, I think Willard Scott was the first, uh, famous weatherman that I remember. Tom
skilling in Illinois, uh, at WGN, I remember. I believe he just retired in the big congratulations
to him on an amazing career. He was really good at what he did. I, I think we underestimate
that job. Like the, the people that are good at it, I really admire the, the Jim Cantories,
the people that can carry a weather conversation. You know, like, like, it's one thing being
in an elevator with somebody and hey, yeah, it's nice. Yeah, it's nice. These people are incredible
at what they do. And, uh, I really admire, uh, the, the greats, the ones that are really good at it.
And then of course, there is just, you know, the whole idea, right, that you can just be wrong. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Yeah. All right. It's, it's heck of a gig.
I mean, you can't control Mother Nature. So, so right.
Conversation, the Terry and I started over in the Sunrise show at WIRI. We encourage and
join us seven to eight Monday through Friday. Uh, we were talking today's, uh, National
Serial Day. So we are keeping the phone lines open, not just for birthdays and anniversaries,
but what's your favorite serial? Let us know seven one five four two four twenty six hundred.
Just a touch or two away in the civic media app. Go ahead and share that with us. We'll have some fun
with that conversation through the day. And the only response we've gotten outside of you and I
is grape nuts. So yeah, that's a, yeah, that was great. I did not see that one coming. That was
interesting. Um, but yes, I, uh, I chose, uh, Coco Pebbles, uh, you know, frosted flakes. I think
those are some mine. Um, we had a couple. I'm right in the, yeah, all marshmallow and sugar.
You know, lucky charms. I liked and when I was a kid, I like, I don't charge it up, but now probably
honey bunches of votes. I think that's a good one. That's a good one. Uh, it is 10 days till St. Patrick's
Day and 24 days till Easter. Keep that in mind. And again, a happy birthday to everybody celebrating
one out there and a big happy birthday to Janet Jensen, our qualifier today. Congrats, Janet. Uh,
we will go ahead and, uh, take a phone call real quick here. Good morning. What's on your mind?
Yeah, I like honey, not to you. Oh, awesome. Honey, not Cheerios. I like those too. That's a good one. That's a good one. Yeah.
I appreciate the call, sir. Thank you so much. You're welcome. Yeah, have a great day. Yeah, keep
those coming, everybody. That's a great choice. I always like Cheerios. And I never tried honey
that Cheerios. And I don't know why if I thought they'd be too nutty or something. And then I tried
them. And I'm like, oh, they're good because they're so sweet. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I like granola a lot too.
And they, they remind me of granola. Oh, you and me both. I got a, I got a, I have nothing but sweet teeth.
I like, I don't have a sweet tooth. My whole, my whole jaw is a sweet tooth. Yeah, that's awesome.
Thanks for the call. Yeah. And get, uh, you know, find some great food over at our friends at
El Café. They're open right now. Go visit them at 221 Market Avenue. A beautiful port. Edwards,
wish them a great day from all of us here at WFHR.
Welcome back, everyone. Morning, show.
Little Steve Winnwood to play us in. Terry and James hanging out with you.
Uh, Steve Winnwood owned the early 80s. It seems like, like, I, I forget how many dang hits he had.
I completely forgot about this song. And yeah, there's huge. Yeah. But as soon as you hear it,
it's like, oh, oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You know the chorus. Everything. Yeah. Yeah.
Welcome back, everybody. Hope you're having a good one out there. Terry and I are going to get into
some fun stuff this hour. We're going to talk a little spring break, got a new food item from
cheese it. We want to get into. But let's, uh, let's get into that spring break talk real quick.
It's almost spring break season. And that means people in coastal areas are bracing for drunken
debauchery and a bunch of other things like that. Google trends just released a map of the
most searched spring break destinations by state. And Miami is number one for most of the country,
as usual. I heard Miami was cleaning stuff up. Like they're not tolerating the spring break.
Yeah, there's a big, uh, push, a big PR campaign by, uh, certain spots. It's especially, uh,
well, Miami Beach. And in particular, I believe, yes, I think actually is just Miami beach that's
doing this where I've got some friends that I talked to down that area. Um, there's a radio show
down there that I work with us and people and I talked to them over there. And one of the big
things that's that being talked about right now, uh, big headlines is Miami Beach being like
spring breakers. We don't want you where like all the local businesses that make so much money
off of an area like what are you doing? Well, that's our huge income right there. Imagine if, uh,
this, we have the winter we're having here in Wisconsin, specifically northern Wisconsin. But
it was like, Hey, snow, we don't need you. Like that's what it was in all the businesses are like,
yeah, we need snow. What are you doing? Right. That's the equivalent of this and everything. Uh, it's,
it's understandable. They had two back-to-back homicides on that beach last year. Uh, it's, it's
tense that I understand the concern at the same time you have to balance. Well, you've got local
businesses that have been hurting for less since last summer, uh, when they had to shut down
early. So what do you do there? And I'm not saying I have the answer. I'm not saying that I, uh,
I'm judging what my, the city of Miami is doing with that beach or anything. But you've got to work
with your local businesses. I think you have to figure something out there. Yeah, one of our favorite
beach places is golf shores in Alabama. And they, but they actually, um, they have an ordinance for
the month of, I believe it's March and into the first two weeks of April where they during that
time, they don't allow alcohol on the beach because they're just like we, I mean, they, they want
families. They, they're not interested in college spring breakers. Yeah. But that's been that
way for, for quite some time is my understanding. Uh, 34 states have Miami as the top search.
Seven more have Fort Lauderdale is number one. Four states are looking into South Padre Island
in Texas and two states are prioritizing Mertle Beach. Three states had unique picks.
Idaho is searching Mexico's, uh, Porto Varo. Utah is searching for Mexico's play Adele Carmen
and Connecticut is searching for Punta Canta, uh, Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic.
A separate, uh, what? I know. That's interesting. Yeah. I haven't, um, some of those places I haven't,
uh, I haven't seen on the, on a list like this before. A separate report analyzed the worst
airports for spring break travel, particularly for delaying and canceling flights during this time
or maybe just, uh, coincidentally, they include some of the most popular domestic destinations.
Fort Lauderdale was number one, which is interesting. Uh, followed by Vegas, uh, Orlando,
Baltimore, Chicago, Miami, Newark, Dallas, Denver, and New York City. I am shocked.
LAX is not on there. I am shocked. Uh, the one I have never been to spring break, but the one
interaction I really had was spring break. I think it's a, yeah, the first time I went out to
California and I was going to UCLA. When I went out there, my, uh, I had a layover in Vegas and
that was insane because of all the spring breakers at LAX. And when I got, I finally got to LAX.
It was my first time at the Los Angeles airport. I was, it was, it was insane. Like I, I spent my
life going in and out of O'Hare airport in Chicago. I know that airport, like the back of my hand.
And I, I will be the first to admit that that could be one of the more insane airports in the country.
I've always heard JFK is the worst, uh, as far as craziness and everything in New York,
but that at the LAX, they got great people there. And it's a nice, it's a nice airport,
but man, that's those spring breakers. The wait, when they hit that, the next, when I was flying
out of LAX was calm, cool, collect, like it was fine. There's some about the spring breakers over
there and everything that really threw into the rucks. The best airport for spring break travel,
Pittsburgh. Oh, so hey, look at on you. Yeah. So maybe hit the steel city for your spring break,
I guess. I don't know. I don't know. Terry, have you ever done a spring break thing, whether you
were in high school or college or college? Not in high school. In college one year we went,
but we did not fly. We took a bus. Oh, that'd be cool. Yeah. Well, seems like, you know, I guess when
you're, when you're like 19 or 20, it was cool. And it was out of like, it was organized from,
I believe like, we went with some friends that went to UW lacrosse. So I think it was organized,
you know, from that area, but we took a bus to South Padre Island. And we, and there were two
drivers. So like we were driving straight through, we would stop, you know, once in a while,
stretch your legs kind of thing, but otherwise it was, you know, basically two days on the bus.
And then we were there for, I don't know, five nights and then two days back. It was super fun,
but seriously, like you hit Texas and you think, oh, we're in Texas. It takes us long to drive
through Texas as it did to leave from lacrosse. Yeah. So it took forever, but we did. So yes,
we've done, we did that. And that was your absolute traditional college spring break out of control.
I mean, like it was, you know, and kids everywhere, like it was just college kids everywhere.
And then we've done, you know, we've done some spring break, like, well, I mentioned golf
shores before. We've gone down there over spring break with, you know, with our kids and with
another family. And then done some, some shorter trips. I honestly prefer to not travel
that week. I mean, you know, in, in, like for us, it depends, right? If you can pull your kids out
of school at a different time or not, or if you should, right? But, but I know that sometimes people
that were traveling with just don't have the flexibility with their schedule, you know, like,
like for me, it doesn't matter what week of occasion I take as long as, you know, as long as you
know, a business still gets done. But some people, you know, we have some friends that are working
in the school. So spring break is when the kids are off. So, you know, so it just kind of
depends. But it's fun. I know it's good. I just, I'd prefer to go when there's a few less people
running around. I was curious about this because it seems like, you know, spring break isn't what
it was when we were kids when we were young, I should say, in school or whether it was high school
or college or whatever. And talking to some of my students and just kind of looking into some
of the stats and everything, spring break isn't what it used to be as far as like the traveling
parkos. People still go, you know, book wild and have a good time on spring break and that. But
they're doing it a lot more local. They're doing it a lot more closer to where they are. And we're
seeing a bit of a rise in some place to some areas when it comes to that of the local economies from
it, which is a positive right there. But it doesn't have the weight that it used to. It seems like
with the younger generation doesn't seem to mean what it used to to spring break with this, you
know, spring break was the equivalent of Vegas, you know, at one point. I mean, I don't know,
but to me, it seems like people would just travel more often now. You know what I mean? Like, you
might, I mean, back when we took that spring break trip in college, I mean, I think we signed up
for it. Probably the May or April beforehand. And then, you know, like, you saved the whole way.
And like, it was, it was a thing. Like, this was something we were looking forward to. And now,
I don't know. Now, I just feel like people, you know, just travel maybe more often.
It's a good point. I think that's a big part of it. We're so much more connected now to
that the idea of, oh, I'm going to see my friends down here or I'm going to go visit this area.
You're not only are we able to see that stuff now, but you're so right about this.
We have so many more, travel is so much more accessible. Yeah.
There's so many more opportunities. Yeah. Yeah. It's interesting. Just some of these things,
the way they evolve is just kind of interesting. I think I don't think that everything
involves a huge note on society already. I think it's just, hey, that's just the way things
went. You know, kind of interesting. We will go ahead and check in with our partners.
When we come back, we're going to talk a little bit about vanity license plates. I also want to
get into this the next hot new dating trend, which I don't know. Yeah. I don't know how much that's
really going to help for you. You got all that coming up for you right here on the morning show
at WF HR, where we are locally grown radio. Welcome back, everyone.
Morning show here at WF HR, locally grown radio. I got a big shout out, a big thank you to our
head producer around here, Seth Habhagger. Seth does an amazing job. We appreciate so much of the
work that he does. What was he thinking with this one? I loved this song. Sometimes I look at
the variety right here. Maybe it is just the variety, right? It's just getting a little bit of
everything up there. I think he thought it was your favorite. That's it. That's what it was.
Yes. He knew I was a huge cardigan's fan. Maybe it's because I wear a cardigan sometimes.
Maybe that's one of this. Thank you. Thank you, everybody. Worked all night on that show.
Is that really the cardigan's? I don't know. I don't know. I like having to get some glasses on
because I cannot read this. Terry and James here with you. We'll take it to the top of the hour with
some great conversation. Serious comedy to start your day. Thanks so much for joining us, everybody.
Are you one of those people? I know that this was a game my papa and I used to play when we would
travel around the country together or. Wait, it was the cardigans. It was the cardigans.
It was. Wow. Hey. Oh, so it is a favorite of yours. I do know that. Oh, isn't that interesting?
The stuff that the knowledge that you have in your head that you don't, like I don't know geometry,
but I knew that. That's great. Thanks, Brain. Thank you for that. Wonderful help.
All right. Sorry. So Vanity license plates. They could be fun to see and they could be fun to
figure out, I think. And irritating when you can't figure them out. Yes. Yes. Have you ever done
this? I was with I was traveling. We're out again. A lot of California talk today. We're out in
California. We're on the highway and they got the five lane highways out there and everything.
And I'm driving with my buddy Will and we get behind this car and it's got a vanity license plate
and I can't even remember what it was, but we couldn't figure it out. And we're we're following
this same same vehicle for like 15, 20 minutes almost and everything in California is far away.
You know, and so I'm I'm used to being on the road, but I'm like, we're going to this has been
going up for a while. I will. Are you following this guy? I just got figured this out. They
said, Oh, okay. We're following the guy. We were yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I wasn't a part of that. I
was like doing everything I could to be I don't want any part of this. Just because you want to
try to figure out this vanity license plate. So weird to start drive. But this is a big thing in
vanity license plates are very popular. Have you ever passed the time during your normal commute
trying to figure out one of those plates? Well, there's a new poll out on vanity license plates
and almost 20,000 Americans weighed in. That's a pretty nice number. People were first asked if
they're ever if they're ever had if they ever had a personalized plate. 14% of people say that
they're sporting one right now. Another 12% said that they have had one of the past in 26% of people
haven't but would consider it and 32% of people haven't and are not even interested in what so
ever. 11% of people have never owned a car and 5% of people aren't sure if they ever had a vanity
plate. My love for love of all that is what I was waiting the whole time for that number. How
how many don't you not know if you know what I you know what at least they didn't say 5%
don't know if they've ever owned a car. Yeah. Yeah. That's true. That's true. I should be
thankful for that I suppose. How do you not know how many vehicles and plates have you
owed that you don't remember? I don't know. I'm moving on. I mean a separate question as people
how they feel about vanity plates and half of Americans don't have a strong feeling either. 33%
of people like them 8% don't and you know the rest know. You know I can think of about 10,000
other things I would rather spend that extra money on. Yeah. Like that is just not I don't care
if you have them you can have them if you want them but I you're not going to find me with one
because I just I don't know I can just think of so many other things I would spend that money on.
Yeah. Yeah. Rather than I mean is it because why the other thing is why is it truly the vanity
is the vanity part of it the like you can't find your car in the Walmart parking lot like why. Yeah.
I don't know it's just not a not a thing for me. I've never even thought about it. I've never
even thought about having them or anything like that. I don't I don't have any issue with them.
I know I've you know I don't mind them at all or anything but I've never thought about oh I
want to get this or I would do this. I will say I like the creativity. You know I think that's
fun and I I don't blame people for wanting to individualize their vehicles it's something we
all do especially if you have a used vehicle and you know you're trying to make it your own or
something like that but I'm I'm with you on that that part of it Terry there's so much
my vehicle you know like any other vehicle out there is a used vehicle and it's gotten maintenance
it needs. I've got to put my money into other things than vanity plates. I don't know when I see
them isn't it funny how sometimes it'll just click like you just glance at it and it's like oh that's
clever you know whatever and then like your crazy stalker friend you might follow somebody forever
and you cannot figure that darn thing out. I was like it's so funny. There's there's some good
ones I just was looking at some of the vanity plates some of the more popular ones out there.
I see one from and this is perfect that's from Illinois. PLN CRZY playing crazy playing crazy.
There's one that just says weirdo that nice hot rod is another one oh you wish from oh Hawaii
that's cute. Yeah I like that one snappy just snappy. Or the PLB nice so please be nice. That's
kind of cute. I like that one yeah. I still wouldn't spend the money on it though. No no hunters
hunter with a five so hunters but with a five on there I don't know that might have a more
personal reason to it be thankful is a great one. I like that one. Yeah that's cute. There's a lot
of great ones out there big nap or oh my dog. That's just about what's to I do like though when
they're a little tricky. You don't I mean when it's not just the word and then you have to you have
to hunt it up a little. I think that there's you know it does put money into the state too. Yeah
which is part of this. If people have got it go for it. I'm just a little for one I do think it's
an interesting stat 11% of people have never owned a car. I think that says a lot and I think there's
a lot more to kind of unpack on that. And this and but this is a nationwide survey right. So you
could live in a urban area where you just have never had a need for a car. Yeah I know so many
people from big cities that don't get their license until they're like 1820 because they have no
reason or there's no place to park or there's no yeah. So that's a good point. That's a really good
point. It's one of those things that I because you know even though spending my half my life in one
city and half my life in another pretty much area I should say we moved around a lot. So I didn't
live in just one city but well as far as like being in a big metropolitan city like Chicago and
then being up here I think one of the biggest differences is the the driving and and how like
out here it's nothing to see a young kid you know very young 13 even younger on a tractor or
or you know learning how to drive in the backyard of our machinery. Yeah yeah something like that
I think that's I believe I actually I'll be honest with everybody growing up I really envy that
I thought that was pretty cool. I wanted to be one of those kids and I thought that was awesome
in the city like you said big opposite you've got the L I'm just going on Chicago you got the
L train you've got cabs you've got so many different ways to get around bikes are really popular
so yeah you just don't have a need to drive as fast and I don't know I mean I've never lived in
a big city but I I can imagine it'd probably be easier to use that transportation than to try to
find a place to park and walk to where you're going and you know all of that kind of thing. I was
just thinking that you probably never had vanity plates because you didn't want anybody to know
it was your car. You know like you don't want something like James mail off because I don't need
the attention. I really don't the hair is enough the hair does it enough. That's a great point.
Like that so we'll let's see it that we'll wrap up with this story right here Terry it's
hard to believe that there could be a new dating trend that can happen at home after a year
of pandemic quarantine creativity but this this guy here has maybe a brilliant idea at least a
lot of people online think it is. His name is Colin and in a post on Twitter he said that he had
he and his girlfriend invented it during a blizzard in Buffalo last year it's called bottle night
and it's pretty simple he said quote we lock our phones away turn turn the TV off and we each grab
a bottle of wine and talk that's it we simply talk and enjoy each other's presence we live together
but it's easy to miss out on quote quality time. Interesting talking to each other. This is fascinating
I got to look more into this whole talk to each other. So they put the phones down and get hammer
get hammered together basically the post went viral and some people are poking fun at it saying
things like this guy discovered hanging out just now. Well I mean he kind of did. Yeah right.
It's it's unclear how serious he was but he was probably being tongue in cheek about it which
I think is understandable. Well yeah absolutely but but it is a lost art I think people rely on
their phones or dating apps or whatever so even for him to just put it back out in the light and
say hey get rid of that stuff right. Yeah yeah you you find out so much more about somebody when
you just take the time to pay attention. I actually like his point about what we live together
but we don't get a chance to quality time. If you live with somebody chances are you both have jobs
and very unlikely that you both have the same schedule. Well and if there's kiddos in the mix
and that part of it. Yeah there is every day life that just comes up and goes on and before
you know it you're like oh I didn't even tell you what happened last weekend with somebody you
live with it happens all the time. Yes I haven't been a part of that many long term relationships
but the ones I had been and you know it happened and happened time the time I could see that
happening. I love the idea of I think that it yes it is tongue in cheek but there is a little
bit of an intent to it I'm like hey we're gonna do this. I love it. I think it's awesome. I like
that. I love the idea of unplugging anytime you can do it and I really like the idea of why do it
alone you know do it with your you know ideally if you're living with somebody and it's a relationship
like that even if you're just living with somebody and your friends chances are they're one of your
best friends or a best or they are your best friends. So when it's put away the phone and grab a
bottle it's not for spin the bottle. Yes yeah that although you're after I mean that's good point
after it's empty. Go for it. Go for it. Never played spin the bottle. Never got never played
that one. Believe are you never on junior high kid? No I was. I went to plenty of parties. They
didn't nobody ever played it. I don't know. Maybe they didn't play it because I was there.
There's no mention of having to finish the bottle so they were joking about that part of it too
that you don't necessarily have. Or you can share. And it doesn't necessarily have to be a bottle
it can be a box of wine. That's true. Or it can be a bottle of water or a bottle of beer right?
Yeah. I think what you're drinking is the last thing that's important about it. I think it's more
just the time. I love how they're just calling it out. Yes. You know what I mean just say I mean
and people say it all the time you know be intentional talk to each other but this is just kind of a
fun way to yeah. I like it. It's it's pretty cool. And what are your ideas about that? What do you
think about that? Do you do that kind of thing? Let us know. 715-424-2600. Call up and join the
conversation. We're also talking taking your favorite cereals. We still want to do that. We're
looking for more and more of your favorite cereals out there. Share those with us everybody.
Looking forward to it. Unless it's reason, Brian. Yeah. Yeah. I'm with you on that one.
We are looking forward to kicking off the 9 o'clock hour with our friends at the South O'Connie
main society. We'll be talking with them and get an update from them in just a little bit. I
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that they do bringing these acts and really appreciate Mr. Leslie and acts like him. Before the show
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I love that. I can't imagine Terry when we were kids at Lincoln or any of that, imagine what it would
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