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. Bale off behind
the mic. I am joined by your head of production, Mr. Seth Habhacker. Good morning, all.
And the best listeners and radio. Thanks for joining us, everybody. Hope you're having
a good one out there. We are kicking our show off the way we like to with our good friend,
Brittany Marlowe, in the weather forecast. Brittany. Hey, what's going on?
And then how much? Brittany, how are you doing? Feeling rested and toned from the moving?
You got the muscles in action. I know I always feel a little more toned after moving
and stuff. I sure do. That's a good point. You got to take the positive that yes, I'm
honed now. Yes, yes. You're ready to take out the world. Brittany, I know I want to get
to our forecast because you're the best at it. And we of course want to update our audience.
Real quick, if you don't mind, I have to apologize to you. I found out like just yesterday
the tour at the show Saturday. And we had a chance we could have been introduced in person
and we didn't give a chance. I feel so bad. I feel so guilty for that. Did you have a
good time at the show? Oh my gosh. Yes, I did. That was amazing to see. Who knew we had
such skillet in Wisconsin. Yeah, we've got a lot of it. There's a lot of great. I don't
want to I don't want to brag, James, but I did get to meet Brittany in person after
the show. So that was both nice. That's good to see you. Very cool. I can't believe you
were there, James. We sat in the same room and I had no idea. I know. We're going to
have to have a cup of coffee sometime or something. Well, we definitely will. Brittany,
what does Mother Nature got in store for us this morning? We haven't a cup of coffee
with her. She's going to stick around for a bit. I'd grab the ice coffee today. Nice.
Nicely stunned. Yeah. I am bringing the heat back for you guys. We are going to store two
near record-breaking temperatures once again. So back into the mid 60s today, our record
is 64 degrees. Back in 2000. Oh, I think we're going to hit that exactly. It's not coming
here too above it. Wow. Definitely a beautiful day today. This is not a fire danger risk.
Of course, it's going to be breezy. We can get this warm without those stress. So they
will start to get fights this afternoon. The evening, the void burning, all of that jazz.
But otherwise, it's beautiful tomorrow, too, near 70 degrees. Wow. We heard that part. Brittany,
you're breaking up a little bit on us, but we did hear that almost 70 tomorrow. But that
came clear right through. Oh, good. That's the only thing that matters. It does sound
a little bit like we're like Brittany keeps swearing and we're we're we're we're bleeding
you're out. We're out. We appreciate your breath. Thanks so much for kicking off our
week. Right. You have a great day. And no, I should mention as well. We have Melissa off
for a couple of weeks here. Brittany is a pitch hitting for her and everything greatly
appreciate that. Brittany, let us know anyway. We can help. Okay. Thank you so much.
Appreciate you guys. Yeah. Have a good morning. Have a good morning. She's the best.
Brittany. Brittany joins us every morning right in this time slot looking forward to hanging
out with her tomorrow. And we'll be hearing her in our news breaks. She'll be covering
for Melissa there. You wish Melissa a good break. She has earned it. She deserves it. She
has earned it. Man, I'm so happy for her for her. I did warn her that she has to come
back. This is not permanent already, but you've got to come back. I suppose she could
do the show from Arizona, but yeah, we look forward to having Melissa back in a couple
of weeks here. And we're going to have some fun with some guests. We have of course Brittany
pitch hitting there. Beth is going to join us on the year here a little bit. We'll have
Katrina Hintner with us this week. We're looking forward to that. That's really fun round
rob and of guests and everything. I want to get into a couple of things with Seth this
morning. We've got to talk about California and a decaf. We've got to get to that. That's
definitely coming up. Okay. El Café, birthday and anniversary club around the corner for
you. Looking forward to that as well. A little bit later, a world record of a tug of
war. We want to touch on that one. That should be fun. We will have some good times during
the state of clock hour, nine o'clock hour. We'll kick things off with some entertainment
news. We're going to talk Oscars. I want to talk about the wonderful run of the glass
miniseries and rumors coming up at WRCT. Right on to the next show, everybody. Yeah, show
must go on. It must. We'll talk about that a little bit later as well. Then really something
to keep in mind this week, everybody. We are first off a big shout out to Pam Hilke and
to all the people running for office coming up in the primaries coming up here. The election
on the second. The election on the second. We appreciate everybody who got back to Pam
who was able to schedule time with him for over 80 years. WF HR has done this. We have
local candidates. We offer them equal time and an equal time slot. We ask them the same
questions. Each gets the same questions. It is not a debate. It is not a forum. It is
I ask question. They answer. We go to the next question. That's the way this has always
been done. That's the way Carl Hilke did this job. I am never going to try to act like
I could do the job better than Carl did. I'm going to do what he did. I'm going to keep
doing it. I do do very, very much. One thing that is different from Carl's day and age
than now. We have the accessibility and the great privilege of being able to interact
with you guys more, I think. While you used to be able to call up on a show or stop by
or something and really have emailed and have a lot of this stuff then. Now you can email
me anytime, everybody. James.mailoff at civicmedia.us. You can direct messages on our Facebook pages.
There is no reason whatsoever for one to call and bother Pam. It's not her job. She's not
on the air. Oftentimes she can't hear what's on the air. What you're complaining to her
about, she may not even know. You're barking at the wrong person. I'm the person to come
to. If you are somebody who has been on the air with us or something, again, same thing.
Reach out to me. This state has spoken. It is done with the divisiveness. It is done
with the keyboard cowards. If you've got something to say, go to the person. If you don't,
then listen to what your mama always told you. You ain't got nothing nice to say. Shut
to dang mouth. It's not that hard. Really? It's not. We are welcoming and excited to
have the guests on that we are going to have all week long. I think this is going to be
a lot of fun. It's a chance for you guys to really get to know these candidates a little
bit more and hopefully help with your decision making. We will kick things off today in
this actual show. We're going to be having a, because to be honest, it was hard to be able
to get these guests on and the time slots. We don't want to mess with our midday magazine
guests. So Pam did a great job working with all of these candidates to be able to find
a right time to join this on the air. So today, at 9.35, Wisconsin Rapids, mayoral candidate,
Tom Terry Mews will join us. And at 9.50, we'll have Wisconsin Rapids school board candidate
Christopher Enda joining us. Very nice. Looking forward to both gentlemen coming in today.
I'm going to have a lot of fun. Hopefully you have some coffee ready for or something we'll
see. On Tuesday, we will be joined just as a side note at 9.05 tomorrow morning. Larry
Knutson will join us from the store point boss. Looking forward to talking with him.
Cool. Larry not running for any office. No, no, he's going to talk good fun. Yeah, yeah.
We will at 9.50 tomorrow have Kate Medina in for she is a running for the Wisconsin Rapids
school board candidate. Okay. On Wednesday at 9.50, Wisconsin Rapids mayoral candidate Matt
Zachary will join us. And on Thursday at 9.35, Nikusa, mayoral candidate Al Marco. And
at 9.50 on Thursday, Wisconsin Rapids school board candidate Maddie Palmquist. There
we go. That will wrap up our interviews for this week. We will find out if there is any
other interviews or anybody else that we missed. Well, we didn't miss. They didn't reach
out to us. If somebody, if there is a candidate that does not in the air with us, they either
didn't reach out or or or period or did respond. They didn't respond. Yeah. So Pam's
invitation. She invited everybody. Yeah. Pam, I cannot express how much Pam went through
to try to make sure that she knew every candidate she had every candidate and we reached out
to every candidate. If they don't join us, that's on them. That's their choice. That's their
choice, which is perfectly fine. There's no, you know, I'm sorry, we can't elect you because
you didn't talk to James. No, no, no, you can go ahead. You don't have to do that. But what James
was saying, you know, this is a perfect opportunity. If you are a candidate to speak directly to the
people who are going to be, you know, voting for you, let them know, excuse me, where you stand,
let them know what your view, what your vision is for whatever school board may or whatever it is.
Let them know so that they can have a good idea. Looking forward to having them join us a
little bit later today for now. Let's start right here, Seth. And it's important to remember that
people who like decaf coffee are not insane weirdos. They just want to enjoy coffee without the
side effects of caffeine. Right. I think there's plenty of people that don't, I'm kidding. I'm joking,
of course, obviously. There's plenty of people that don't like decaf. It's true. They like decaf.
Yeah, that's right. There's a report that lawmakers in California want to ban decaf. What?
The issue is, I know, this is just the problem. The issue is that many manufacturers use
methylene chloride to remove the caffeine from coffee beans. That's a chemical that's also used
in paint stripper, which was, has been labeled a probable carcinogen after being linked to
several cancers, including blood and breast cancer. Okay. Coffee manufacturers argue that the
chemical is completely washed out of the beans after treatment, plus any remnants would be burned
off when the beans are heated at over 400 degrees during roasting. Okay. Okay. But a 2020 study by
a consumer group 10 found 10 out of 25 decaf coffee brands. They tested, contained the chemical
with brands like Amazon fresh and Kroger's being the worst offenders. Even then, the levels were low
and didn't exceed the FDA's max level for safety. Right. The bill in California has several hurdles
to clear before becoming a law like every single thing in California. Oh, California politics.
Yeah. Yeah. If it does, the state will ban all decaf coffees using this chemical by 2027.
So they're not going to completely ban decaf, just decaf companies that use this chemical.
Right. Right. For what it's worth, the National Coffee Association says, the overwhelming weight
of independent science evidence shows that drinking this decaf is safe. There are other ways to
decaffeinate coffee, including processes using carbon dioxide and water. And there are more time
consuming and they're more time consuming and expensive. Like it or not, California has been
tough on potential carcinogens. Last year, California became the first state to ban four candy
chemicals linked to cancers and other health problems. Okay. So, I mean, I don't believe that we're
going to find anybody out there who wants us to not get rid of things that might cause cancer.
Right. And I do think that it's, you know, we're already behind the aball on this. So we got
things. We're not trying to get ahead of it. We're trying to catch up when it comes to this.
I also feel like you can't, you can't jump the gun on one study. And there isn't, there's been
multiple studies. Right. But there's a lot of, there's, I feel like there's work that needs to be
done on this. Unfortunately, while that's happening, there might be other people getting hurt from it.
Well, that's, and that's a, this is a very complicated thing. Because we hear this, you know,
every now and then, or actually we're hearing it more and more recently, you know, like, oh, this
thing has arsenic in it, or this thing has whatever, you know, bad chemical for human bodies.
Well, yeah, there's trace elements of those things and lots of things, you know, but that's just
it. It's trace elements. And we have a body of work out there that is, you know, studies this
stuff and says, okay, you know, and yeah, there's going to be tweaking as we go along. They're going
to find out, wait, oh, that's too high, you know, that maybe that's not, that it's fine if it's
that at that level or whatever that kind of thing. But I would, it's a delicate balance because,
like you said, you don't want to put stuff out there that's going to hurt people. But at the same
time, it seems like where we are now is okay. Now, if we want to say, hey, you know, why take the risk?
Why don't we find these other ways to do it? And let's, let's say you can only do it this way,
okay? Which is safe. That seems like a reasonable expectation. Sure, why not? So there's,
that's one way to do it. Now, going and banning stuff, you know, maybe it's just a, you know,
they're threatening to do it, like, you know, using the big stick, right? You know, say, we'll do this
if you don't change, which, you know, that maybe that'll work too. Who knows? Yeah, here's hoping they do.
Yeah. But there's, I mean, we, we spend our lives dealing with stuff in our air, in our skies.
I mean, I think one of the more fascinating things, and especially if you've ever paid attention
like forgery, the forgery world, or if you're into the art world or anything, there's, once we drop
to the bomb, like everything's been tainted since then. Like there, there's no paint. You look at
any painting that was done before the, we dropped the bomb and everything before World War II.
It's completely different than every paint ever since. And it's part of the reason why they're
able to tell forgeries. It's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's fascinating. Yeah, it really is.
But it's also just one more thing of like, yeah, we've been inhaling, we've been dealing with
a lot for a long time. It's true. It's very true. Some stuff we've, our bodies have evolved and
learned to handle and some stuff we are just not. And I, it's going to be interesting to see where
this goes. Where this ends up, yeah. What I would hope is, like you were saying, I think that you
had a strong point there. This, this scares you. This scares me. I'm a company. I'm, I over half my
income is from decaf coffee. They might ban this in California, one of the biggest coffee drinking
states in the union. Yeah. So I better get on this and figure out a better way to make decaf,
a more safer way to make decaf, which usually means a more expensive way. That's why they don't do it
right now is probably because it's a little more expensive. But I mean, what's the, what's better
banning your decaf coffee or just costing a little bit more to process it? I'm not trying to put
us even more in debt. But I mean, come on. Like why else do we have like what, what good is money
if we're losing people? Right. Money doesn't matter if there are nobody here to spend it.
Right. Amazon, I think, can afford it to spend a little bit more. The process of
spending money, spend the dang money. They can afford it. Figure it out. Yeah. And make it happen.
Otherwise, get out of the game. Yeah. Come on. You know, it goes find something else. What do you
do in a coffee anyway, Amazon? What's up with that, man? I know you're at Seattle, but come on.
Yeah. Yeah. There's enough. Like, oh, we need a new coffee. Change. There's not enough coffee
out there. There's no other options for coffee. Get out of here with that. I don't even get it
in a day. I get it faster. We just drink coffee at a coffee. Here's the decaf. Here's the new rule.
You can't have be a new coffee business. If you're not going to do something different with coffee,
I want something completely different. I want you to completely change the game. Change changes
somehow if you're going to. Let's take a call before I go to break. Good morning. What's on your mind?
Hey, is it too early or late for a birthday? You can get it right in. We're going to
birthday anniversaries in just a moment. So you got one for us? Yeah. Shamp powered from three
studios. Shamp. What if he's going to be in the celebrities? That was great. Yeah.
Have a great morning, bad best listeners. I actually got to the point where you
used to write it down. I was writing it down. I was right. Not many people leave Shamp anymore.
It's not many shops. We will come back. Let's see it. We'll see if there's another
shop on our list. Maybe they might be there. There won't be coming up on the morning show here at
WFHR. It's time to do some celebrating with the El Caffe birthday and anniversary club.
We hope you're having a great day out there. Thanks so much for joining us for the El Caffe
birthday and anniversary club. What we're going to do right now is celebrate all of you and
talk about our great friends over at El Caffe. They're open right now. Go check them out. They're at
221 Market Avenue in beautiful Port Edwards. They got a great post on their Facebook page today.
Encourage you to like their page. It's a great way to keep up the date and all the great
specials and themes that they do over there. A really special post here. I want to read.
Please support our friend Kathy McGrath today from 10 to 5 and tomorrow from 1 to 5. She is the
lady that does story time at the cafe the first Saturday of the month. She has many adorable and
thoughtful things for sale and you don't want to miss her open house. Show Kathy some support
today and stop by El Caffe. First, thanks Kathy for doing that. Yes. I appreciate her reading
the gifts of everything. Kathy is a wonderful writer, creator, encourage you to not only check out
her work, but also support the work that she does. Support the local arts. Does it get much more
local than that? Yeah. Appreciate that and appreciate her friends at El Caffe using their space
for something like that. That is pretty cool. Just shows more and more how they are a business that
puts back into their community, which we support highly. 100%. Get us those birthdays and adversaries
by sending to infoatwfhtr.com. James.mail.fetsificmedia.us. You can direct messages on our Facebook pages as
well. Just go ahead and DM us from there or call up. Call up. Call up. 715-424-2600. On the phone,
I just want to be specific. It's probably a good idea. Just call out. I feel like you really
definitely should have done that. I probably should have added that. There's people yelling at
the radio. Just going out there front door. Why didn't they include my birthday? How dare they?
Get us those birthdays and adversaries some feel free to call up and join the conversation,
everybody. Seth, I need a one through three. Let's do three today. All right, gives us that
qualifier. We can get right into this celebration. The first up, I want to wish happy birthday to a
shrimp. No, we first up wish happy birthday to Caitlin Wilson. Happy birthday, Caitlin. And joy
your day, Caitlin. Hope it's good one for you. And we wish happy birthday to Brittany Wandsnider.
Happy birthday, Brittany. Enjoy your day, Brittany. Hope it's a great day for you. We like people
named Brittany. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Big fans. Big fans. And we wish happy birthday to Marge Went.
She is our qualifier. Oh, happy birthday, Marge. And joy your day, Marge. Hope it's a great one
for you. Love that day. I wonder why. Yeah. That's a great day, Marge. That's a great day.
We wish you a wonderful day, Marge. Do all of our qualifiers. Happy birthday out there. Yes,
indeed. Let's take a look at our celebrity list. Jody Comer is 31. She is, I think most well-known
for playing a millennial and killing Eve did an amazing job on that show. She was at Millie in
the movie Free Guy, the Ryan Reynolds movie. Oh, right, right. Where he's a video game character.
She was fantastic at it. She was really, really good. I haven't seen her work too much,
but I'm excited to see what else she does because she seems like a really good young actor.
Let's see here. Thora Birch is 41. Kevin Spacey's daughter in American Beauty. She was
end-in-goose world. Danny and a Halloween movie. Hocus Pocus. Good actor. Yeah, no kidding. Let's see
here. Benji and Joel Madden are 45 twins who rock for Good Charlotte. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh.
Flashback. Oh my gosh. That was a good Charlotte for a long time. I didn't mess it with me here.
Yeah. I did not see that one coming. No. Let's see here. Johnny Knoxville is 53.
Well, he made a career. I don't know what kind of a career it was, but he made a career.
You're not going to hear this very often. Johnny Knoxville, good actor. He's a very good actor.
The few times where he's like seriously acted, not done the whole jackass thing. He's done quite well,
but I guess he made that's where he made his bones. I'll admit that's a funny way to put it
because I broke his bones. I'll admit I watched a bit of the jackass stuff for a little while
and everything. I find him very charismatic and he is the reason why I watched some of it and
everything. It got old to me real quick, but I really like him as an actor and I didn't see him get
work, but yeah. Lisa Loeb is 56. Still wondering if you will stay. Did she have the greatest glasses,
those those cat eye glasses that she wore? Those were the best. Greatest glasses and I think you
can make the argument. Greatest like I don't like to call her a one hit wonder, but greatest like
debut single. Oh my gosh. It's great too. It still holds up. It still holds. It's still really
popular and the way she did it. She did it on her own. She didn't you know no record company,
none of that or anything. Why? Why James? That would be a perfect song for your your show unlabeled.
Thank you, Seth. Be sure to catch unlabeled from eight to nine every Sunday,
right? It's a set face music. Here at WFHR. We definitely going to get that one in there.
It's a really good nobody. I did not have that one written down. I got to write that one down.
That's very good. Let's see here. Hey, don't worry. Be happy. Bobby McFarron is 74 today.
Oh, I love Bobby McFarron. He's such a fabulous musician. Okay. I got a quick Bobby McFarron story
here because he's so awesome. So he gets conducts orchestras. I don't know if people know that.
He does it barefoot, which is because he's trying to loosen the old stodgy setup. But no,
I mean, that's the kind of musician. He's a fabulous musician. So there's this recording and I don't
know if it's on YouTube or what I've heard it before. He's conducting like the Vienna,
one of the top orchestras in the world. He's out there conducting. They're doing the William
Tell overture. You know, the famous one of the hardest overseers to do. Right. And it's,
you know, the famous lone ranger one, you know, then we know from the lone ranger. And so, you
know, if everyone who's ever heard the overture, there's a big flourish before I get to the famous
part of, you know, so they do the big flourishing overture until they get to the part when every,
you know, the famous. They all put their instruments down and they all do it like this.
Then it out, then it out. He gets the whole orchestra to do it with their voices. That's got to
be fun for the audience. Oh my god. It was hilarious. I wonder who thought of it. I bet you
thought that's totally Bobby McFarron right there. That's pretty cool. I didn't know any of them.
And that is really fascinating. It was really cool. Yes. I will always be thankful to Bobby
McFarron because when Robyn Lee and past, I couldn't get myself to watch any of his stand-up,
his movies, anything that he did. One of the first things I was able to do was watch
some scenes from Morgan Mindy and watch the video for Don't Worry Be Happy, which Robyn Lee
and stars and would not be McFarron and then another great stand-up comedian. I can't think of
his name, but and I just love the performance. That's great. It's a fun video. I'm definitely
watching that later today. And a happy birthday. Happy 90th birthday to Sam Donaldson, ABC News
Legend. I didn't realize he was still alive. Happy birthday, Sam Donaldson.
I appreciate Sam's work. I always did appreciate when he was in the White House press
core. He was always one of those guys that asked tougher questions of the president of the press
secretaries and stuff. But also not your typical TV guy. No, no. He would have been great in
radio. He just did, he would look kind of odd. You know, I don't want to be mean. It's not like he
wasn't, you know, like attractive or anything. He just had a very interesting look that wasn't what
I associated with TV at the time. Every, everybody today at five o'clock can turn on their local
news or news station and you're going to see some pretty people. You're going to see some people
that part of the reason they got that job is because of their looks. Exactly. When somebody is
able to do something beats in spite of that, if you will, for lack of a better way to put it. It is
a gigantic credit to them. I think you're just trying to give credit to where it's due. And Mr.
Jonathan, one of one of our architects of news for our generation, especially one of those guys
that any time I saw his hand up, I knew he's going to be a good question. Yep. I know doubt
of him. Him and Helen Thomas. Yeah. Two greats. Very good. Those eyebrows are legendary.
Yeah. Just as legendary. You're absolutely right. Maybe not as much as his questions in that
great brain of his, but yeah, those. They look mean too. I don't know. That's what he did always
see like that. He looked a little angry, right? A little. Yeah. And that's going to do it for
birthdays and anniversaries for today, but a happy birthday and anniversary to everybody out there.
Yeah. Again, happy birthday to Caitlin Wilson and Brittany Lonsniter. Happy birthday to you too.
And a very happy birthday to our qualifier. Marge went. Happy birthday, Marge.
Congratulations. Congratulations. Enjoy your day. Visit our friends over at El Café. They're
open right now to 21 market avenue and beautiful port Edwards. And be sure to catch Cathy
McGrath today and tomorrow today from 10 to 5 and tomorrow 1 to 5 for story time. All right.
We will take a quick time out. Check out some news and come back with some more fun
on the morning show at WFHR.
Welcome back, everyone. Morning show at WFHR.
Definitely no rain today. No kiddin. Not looking that way. We probably use the rain.
We definitely could. Yes. Yes. Wouldn't mind that at all. Hopefully we might might get some.
We'll see. We'll see. We will talk. We'll find out from Brittany when she joins us every
morning looking forward to that. Seth and James here with you 835 on the clock. And we're talking
world records. One of those topics we cover pretty heavily around here. The summer Olympics are
going up in July, coming up in July. Did you know tug of war used to be an official sport?
I'm not sure if people knew that. I think I remember hearing that, but that's cool.
Interesting, right? It was an event from 1900 to 1920. Oh wow.
Good. You had a good run. Yeah. The US won a gold and silver in it over its run.
So should we bring it back and supersize it?
A hundred people in the UK just broke a world record by competing in a tug of war match
that stretched over a quarter mile. Oh my gosh. Each side had 50 people positioned about
15 feet apart. The exact length was 1,694 feet. So almost a third of a mile.
The two biggest challenges were finding a rope that log and a venue that would work.
Right. Yeah. They ended up doing it on a beach in South Wales.
Makes sense. Yeah. tug of war seems very much like an outside thing. That would be weird if you
like went to an arena or something. That'd be very weird. You could probably pull this off in a
stadium. Yeah. But you're right. It would be a close area. That just feels strange. Anyway.
Yeah. I would, to be honest, I could see those things being an issue. I would have thought
getting a hundred people as well might have been tough, but apparently it wasn't.
With that many people, both sides were pretty equal. They had to pull for one minute and 15 seconds
before someone finally won. You could check out the footage online. They've got it for you online
right there. But it's pretty interesting. And there is all kinds of man, women, big, small,
like there's all kinds of people. That's what you need, man. This is like the inclusive
like sport. I love that. I do think about tug of war. Wow. That's an impressive. Oh my gosh.
And whenever you're picturing in your head, you've got to see the video. If you really,
if you really do want to put some detail to it, everything, the, I'm guessing from a drone shot
that they did. Man, that was impressive. Just looking out how big that, how long that rope is.
Wow. So when you're playing tug of war with one person or, you know, or a dog or something like
that, right? Like you know the give and pull and everything. And you know, okay, I don't have
to pull that hard or whatever, something like that where you can't even really see. Like, I
would think that that'd be a little more difficult. I don't know. That's an interesting one. That
would be fascinating. Just pull. Yeah. You mule. Let's take a call. Good morning. What's on your mind?
Hey, good morning fellows. You're talking world records. I got a one that's kind of local.
Okay. Don Gorsky, 34,128 Big Macs. I love today. Oh, yeah. Yes, Mr. Gorsky. Yes.
Still doing his thing. I was going to say he's, he's adding to his record now every day, right?
Yeah. I think he eats like two a day or something. Yes. Yeah. I think I know at least one. I know
he eats the least one a day. But it probably is up to at least two. I imagine there's something.
Wow. I've been I've been missing you guys on a Monday sports talk. So I've got a whole bunch
of staff. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, excellent. Oh, man, you get a chance. Be sure to join us tonight.
Today, three to four. All right. Good. Looking forward to it, brother. Well, I got you on the horn.
Did you watch the Oscars? And what did you think of that? Well, we're going to talk about it a
little bit later. So thank you for the tee up. Appreciate it. We in the nine o'clock hour, we're
going to kick off the nine o'clock hour talking about it a little bit. All right. I taught last night.
So I didn't get to watch the Oscars. I did get to flip on the we took we take a break. We do
three hours. We take a break. During that break, I flipped a mod just to see because I only wanted to
see one category in one person right yesterday. And I got to see it. Oh, that worked out nice.
It couldn't have worked. I don't know how it worked out that way. But it just happened to work out
that way. And man, I'm just I'm still feeling lucky from it. I'm still feeling like excited from
it. It's like I won. Yeah, we'll talk about that. The nine o'clock kick off nine o'clock hour.
That's an interesting world record. Yeah, both the one that we just talked about. No one to call
or brought up. Yep. By the way, I know who will not be trying to do that jazz chism. Yeah.
I don't know if you heard about his new diet. He is now giving apparently he ate McDonald's
every day. Yeah. Which was like, what? Jazz? What he did? Here's here's one of the most
frustrating things if you're if you're not only jazz chism, but if you're somebody out there who's
trying to do that, you know, I think famously or in this state, especially Prince Fielder did
a similar thing. Right. Where he went green, if you will. Yeah, I think maybe we would full
the universe correctly. Yeah. Yeah. And you know, there was there was a lot of talk at that time
when that happened and everything. There is that. And then there is the the the person that does
this stuff like it because they have to, you know, that that sort of thing. Yeah. I don't
mean that there's that. I don't I don't the because because it goes so the it can go the other way,
you know, it can go the other way out of it stuff. Yeah. I don't know. We will we'll take a time out.
We'll come back and have some more fun in the morning show here at WFHR locally grown radio.
Welcome back, everyone. Morning show at WFHR.
Song I'm discovering I cannot play in my 90s show came out in 89. Oh, yeah, that's right.
I thought so. I thought so. Yeah. Can't do it. That's the catch. Oh, the video. I just watched
the video for that again. It's weird. It's a weird video. It's weird. I love the way it ends
though. Yeah, I really love the ending of that last team kind of. It's so good. So good. One of my
all-time favorite songs. Love it. Seth and James here with you. We hope you're having a good one
out there. We are talking about world records and the world record of, you know, tug of war and if
tug war should be back as an Olympic sport, you had a really good thought about this. Well,
instead of like putting it into the Olympics, I think we need like an Olympic style picnic games
because you think of all of those things you did as a kid, all right? You know, you had the
the egg toss or the egg balance on the spoon race. You had the sack race, the three-legged race,
tug of war. I mean, imagine like actual athletes doing that. That would actually be kind of
interesting to me. I really think it would be fascinating. I let you see a bunch of linebackers
out there playing tug of war. I mean, the actual like big dudes. Yeah, that would be impressive.
That would be a fun thing. I think it's a fun idea. I think they could run with that. I'm
bad at all. I want to sign up to be an official, you know, like like a judge, you know, to make sure
no one, you know, violates the rules like a referee kind of thing. That'd be cool. That'd be a good
role. That'd be a good gig. Yeah. I like that. I'm not sure how I feel about this one though. You'd
probably rather not think about how many people touched your food in the process of preparing it
at restaurants with or without gloves. No. So according to the CDC, food workers wash their
hands only 33% of the time, meaning germs can spread from workers' hands to food, which can
trigger an outbreak of food-borne illness to in restaurants, including neurovirus, salmonella,
ecoli, etc. So could this help? There's a new product called the Hand Scanner, which is being
described as a hand-washing lie detector. No. It looks like a mounted hand dryer, a worker
places their hands under it, and after washing their hands, palms up, then palms down. And within
two seconds, it can identify any residual contaminant using light flora, flora, florent's
spectology, which is basically safe, non-UV-led and really delights. It's not brand new technology,
a similar system is already used in the healthcare industry, and the Hand Scanner itself is already
being introduced in over 10,000 restaurants worldwide, including some Taco Bell and Arby's locations.
Oh, interesting. Okay. Of course, the customers don't see the Hand Scanner reports. It's mostly
meant to alert workers when they need to re-wash their hands. If contaminants are still in hard
to clean areas like beneath fingernails and around jewelry and your knuckles, you don't want to
know about it. Yeah, right. The worker is then instructed to re-wash and retest. The system can
also rat you out to your boss if you ignore the results. Big brothers watching, man. Also,
it can be used with gloves, although gloves can be nastier than bare hands because they're
harder to clean. Yeah. They can lead to less hand washing and then often give a false sense of
security. I've always wondered that about gloves and food. It's like after the first time you use
them, isn't that it? Like, you'd have to constantly change your gloves in order to do that. So,
I think just washing your hands is probably better in the long run. Just wash your hands, you know?
The CEO at the company that made the Hand Scanner says, when someone says to me that their hands
are clean because they have gloves on, I say, all right, lick them. And they say, no, my gloves are
discussed. Okay, that was good. I gotta give it credit for that one. That's pretty good. Yeah,
that's a pretty good one. How great would it be if we didn't need this? Yeah. How great
we'd be like, what a silly invention. Of course, we wash our hands. Who wouldn't do this?
Like, you know, it'd be great in a poor world. And again, it's one of those things as soon as you
do something, though. I mean, you're going to get something on your hands, you know, as much as
you clean them, you could wash your hands all day. And as soon as you start working with them,
I mean, I mean, I agree. You need to be careful. You need to be safe when you're handling food.
You know, just so people will get sick. That's not a good thing. No one likes to get sick from that.
So, yeah, I agree. But let's not, you know, going overboard. That's kind of been in a theme this
morning. Yeah. Yeah. So it does make me a little concerned about timing, restaurant business,
everything's about time. And you know, that's going to slow things down for customers for workers
there. Right. But I also think they were all okay with that. Yes. I have never heard anybody
complain about the line at Culver's. No, I've never heard that. Like, I'm sure there are. I'm not
saying nobody ever does or anything, but nobody I've ever been in the car with or anybody that I
know when my sister worked there or anything like that. I've never heard because we understand,
all right, waiting a little longer. Yeah, I want my food. Yeah, I hate waiting in line,
but you wait because you know, it's going to be good. Right. You're waiting for quality.
Well, they tell you that too. I mean, they say, you know, we wait till you get your order and then
we start making your burger or whatever it is. I mean, if they're warning you that that's what's
going to happen, you know, and I appreciate places like that when you have a child, like I do,
because they're peanut allergy and you have to tell them, you know, he's got a peanut allergy,
so they have to change, you know, the thing and do it, but they do it and we really appreciate it
when they do. And yes, it does take a little longer, but thanks, you know, we do. It makes us want
to go there. See, that's the thing. They do things right. You want to go back, even if there is a
weight, huh? Yep. Is that so strange, everybody? Think about that. I would rather have it safe
than fast. Yeah. Absolutely. I'll wait. I'd rather wait a little bit than that. And it's not like
it's that much longer. Right. I'd like the idea of companies that do have these things installed,
like letting customers know. I think I think that they should. I think today, well, we got here and
stuff. I mean, not only would that kind of give a little bit of a nod to the customer that, hey,
where we take your safety and your health serious, but also let them know maybe why it is taking
a little longer. Why does take a little bit more stuff? Oh, well, I don't know. I want my food.
Oh, what? They're washing their okay. Yeah. That's cool. Yeah. Take your time. Take your time.
Make sure to get under the fingernails. Take your time. I think that would be understandable.
I'm, hey, if you, it takes a little bit slower to get your food, that just means you're not going
to be going quicker to the bathroom. Let's just put it that way, you know. It is. We will take a quick
time out. Come back with more fun. Yes, on the Boarding Show. WFHR.
Welcome back, everyone. Morning show here at WFHR.
Seth and James hanging out with you. We'll take it to the top of the hour.
Nine o'clock hour, we'll kick off with entertainment news and then keep in mind, we kick off our
series of candidates where we're going to be interviewing candidates. It'll sit down with me.
We'll begin that at 9.35 today with Wisconsin Rapids, Merrill, candidate Tom Terry News.
Very good. Tom will join us at 9.35. We'll have the other candidate, Matt Zacher joining us
on Wednesday at 9.50. At 9.50 today, Wisconsin Rapids School Board, candidate Christopher
Indow will join us. Looking forward to that. Kate Medina tomorrow will be here at 9.50 from the
as a candidate of the Wisconsin Rapids School Board. And our last candidate for the Wisconsin
Rapids School Board will be at 9.50 on Thursday. All right. Looking forward to all of our guests joining us.
Come by studio hanging out with us a little bit and you guys getting to know them some.
Informations always good. Yeah. Let's take a look at some fun stories, some good stories, wrap up the
hour. A Florida animal shelter said a microchip that led a microchip led to a 14-year-old dog
being reunited with their family after being missing for 10 years. 10 years. Wow. The Humane Society
of Tampa Bay Senate Social Media that the cockapoo was brought to the shelter as a stray and was
scanned for a microchip. Is that the funniest dog name? Dog breed cockapoo? That's a tough one.
It's a serious. I can't. Yeah. I can't do it without giggling. Yeah. You can't help it. You can't help it.
You become five years old immediately. Her microchip led the team to Louisa who was in disbelief when we
called because Cleo, as we learned was her name, had run away 10 years ago. Oh my gosh.
The Cleo family said they never lost hope and continued to update their microchip in the small
hope that they would be reunited even after they moved to Miami. Wow. This quote shows the power
and importance of the microchip and never losing hope. How about that? That's pretty darn cool.
That's a great story. Really great story. That's really amazing right there. It really does speak to
how important it is to not only microchip your animals, but keep up to date on those things. Exactly.
Yes. Never know. You never know. And I think, you know, if I could be, and I don't care if I'm
corny for a second here, I don't do this very often. I also feel like it's a great example of hope.
It is. Like as somebody who was born with an overly logical brain and I don't do well with
faith and hope and a lot of these things. And I wish I did. I don't say that like I'm judging
those things. I actually think you're a stronger and more impressive person to me when you do have
those things. I wish my brain worked that way. My brain looks for data. My brain looks for
examples and evidence. And to me, this is like evidence of hope. This is evidence of faith.
This is evidence of those things. Right. I want to make a distinction here because a lot of people,
you know, maybe mistake hope for optimism. Okay. Optimism is more of a no things will turn out
all right. Yeah. Hope is not that. Hope is the hope for something good to happen. And the reason
I say it's actually makes sense to have hope. We don't know what's going to happen. People.
It's the old, you know, well, if you can't tell the future, then you can have hope because you
don't know what's going to happen. Like I'm just, I'm just as corny as you are now because
it's true. Yeah. We don't know what's going to happen. That's why having hope actually makes sense.
Yeah. It's not being dumb. It's not being overly, you know,
silly, optimistic. It's not that at all. It's the hope for better things. And I think that even,
you know, just having that means that yes, maybe things will be better. We have to, we have to be
open to that possibility. It's also a big one of the big reasons why no shardamas was a jerk.
He was always in a bad mood because he knew what was coming. He sure did. Boy,
he has just been right 100% on that nocturus. It's got to be great to like predict stuff like
that's going to happen when long after you're gone. You're dead. Yeah. You're going. I want that
gig. That seems like a great gig. The great prophet, nocturus, predicting things hundreds of
years from now. Did anybody call him on that? I just, I just hope that like in human history,
one person was like leading over like, man, this is a great hustle. You got going here, man.
This is really, I don't know if he even made it. That's the funny thing. Did he like profit off
it at all? I have no idea if he did. And I want to wrap up the hour just thinking
the best listeners in radio. So last couple of weeks, Seth and I have been talking about putting
on a show that I've been talking about for a long time doing. And just we haven't had the time.
Directors Cut is a personal show to me. And I know it's become one for you, Seth. It's
something that means a lot to us. And we love that show. That show thanks to our audience
and the great guests we've had. We'll never go away. It's just in hiatus right now as we're building
a good guest for you guys. Right. So you don't have to hear Seth and I just rambling every week
or something like that. You hear it enough during the morning show. Right. But what do we do in the
meantime? We don't want to just keep playing reruns and we want to put original content on the
radio. That is very important. Not just to us here at WFHR, but the civic media, especially to our
owner sage. It really is. He really wants original content on the radio. That's stuff we own the
copyright up and stuff we create. So there, this, you know, creates unlabeled. Something that
actually we were talking about doing with Marcus and in the heart of Wisconsin media. It has been
around for a while. Yeah. Yeah. So we finally get it in. Seth gave me the push I needed. And we
able, we're able to write the show, create the show, produce the show within a couple of days
last week. That was a rush job to be honest with everybody and it's a pilot episode. It was a
preview. You want to see how it did. We didn't get a chance to really promote it much leading into
it. And that was a little intentional because we want to see how it does. I have already got seven
requests from our listeners. I got multiple emails and texts that I'll be sure to show you a
little bit later, complimenting you and me. Oh nice. And a big thank you to everybody out there
making it successful. We really appreciate that. I'm literally blown away by that. I don't know
what to say. Well, you know, when when the lead in is a wonderful show like Seth Faces music,
I mean, how can you miss? Right. Right. Right. You know, hey, there's a reason why after the
Super Bowl, they got a great TV. They got to do show out afterwards. It's all about that lead
in show. It's all about that. We appreciate the listeners supporting Seth Faces music,
supporting these original shows we do. And please spread the word about them, everybody.
Please do. Our our new show going to be back. We'll play the re we're going to recast the
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we'll have a new one for you. We will. So I would say in two weeks, we'll have a new episode.
And we're doing that in part because we want your request. James. mail of at civic media.us.
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