Good morning, Wisconsin. Good morning, world. It's a new day. Thanks for kicking it off
with us right here at 97 5 FM 13 20 AM WF HR locally grown radio. Got your host James
J here. I'll be joined by my partner Seth Habhager in a little bit. So I'll be joining
us right now. We're going to kick off the hour, talk with our friend Larry Knutson
from the historic point boss. We're going to talk about the sugar bush event coming up
March 16th right around the corner. Larry, how have you been? Very good. Very good.
Good. Get it. Like I say, getting through this harsh winter. Yes. Yeah. It's been interesting.
It's been a difficult one. All right. Larry, one of our one of the signature and favorite
events at the historic point boss is the sugar bush event. Let's tell people about
it. Okay. Yeah. The sugar bushes. We represent the era of the wakely era in the 1800s,
1840s, 1860 and then we, how they cooked maple syrup back then and, and we talk about
how do you make maple sugar and things like that. One of the big highlights, of course,
in the house. We have the ladies in the house that are making some dollar size, they call
dollar pancakes. It's good maple syrup over them or something nice to eat. Did you come
in to just make me hungry today, Larry? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Just doing your job. You're doing
it up. It sounds so good. There's one of the things we appreciate about the store coin
boss, keeping history alive and sharing some things and how we did stuff and how it applies
to modern times and so much of this with creating maple syrup. This is something that we really
kind of do the way we always have. And it's such a fun thing to be able to experience
over there. The process really hasn't changed for one. I mean, you know, you'd gather
this app and things like that. But the way they used to process it, you know, is a little
bit different because they didn't have all the propane and things like that to heat it
so you had to, you know, gather a lot of wood to cook it and, but it was quite a process.
But my father-in-law was a very big maple syrup cooker and what he always said, and I
agree totally, it's considered one of the first crops of the year. So it kind of a kick
off for the year on a maple syrup. And this year is quite a kick off because it, of course,
with the weather it started so early, but the sap has really been running this year.
So like a lot of people out there, I imagine, I am a humongous maple syrup fan. I like maple
flavored things. I like maple, you know, all that. And I've always thought, well, that seems
like something I would love to do. I'd love to be able to make my own maple syrup. But
like a lot of people, that's about the end of my knowledge. We've covered everything
I know about making maple syrup. That's why an event like this is fun to attend. You
learn those things. But it's also interesting with a year like this. I don't know if a
lot of us would know that, like how this kind of season that we've had, this winter we've
had, would affect our maple syrup.
Right. Well, basically, when the maple sap is running, it has to be above freezing during
the day and then it has to be below freezing at night. So in the morning, when the sun
comes up, and especially if the sun hits the tree or something, it draws that sap up
from the roots. And that's when you're, of course, that's when you're getting your syrup.
Cool.
If you just watch the weather, you can tell when it's going to run, it's above freezing
at day and at night.
So that is awesome. I didn't know that bad. That is very cool. Thank you for sharing
that. That is really interesting. And it makes sense to what we're experiencing now with
the maple crop that we've got with the early crop, it sounds like.
Right. And my understanding, others that have been cooking and it's, it's a good sweet
sap. There's a variation in sap every year too. And of course, I think I'm not sure
on this, but I believe that the drier the, you know, the more sap, the sweeter the sap
is, I guess, which requires less cooking.
Yeah. Larry, people are going to be able to experience and learn about the historic
making of maple syrup and experience from experienced cookers. You mentioned the pancakes
are going to be there. Other other things people are going to be able to enjoy about this
event.
Yeah. Well, I will be in the bunkhouse. And I don't really talk about maple syrup a lot,
but my persona out there is a hunter, a bird hunter. And if you want to know about hunting
passenger pigeons back in that Europe, because springtime of the year, of course, when the
passenger pigeons would be coming to roost in Wisconsin too. So I talk a lot about hunting
passenger pigeons. And I've delved into this year a lot more research on the lumber industry
and rafting lumber down the rapids from the lumber mills up north and stuff.
Those are always interesting stories.
Well, I, I realized something and it just almost shocked me, I guess, if you will. During
the height of the season, which is in the spring floods, when they're rafting down the lumber
and stuff, at point boss, you go down there now, it looks kind of like a sleepy little
community, you know, whatever that stuff. Actually, there was times when there was probably
over 1,000 people per day going through point boss, between the loggers that were returning
sure, yeah, from the logging camps and the rafters that were bringing lumber down, they
would tie up at point boss. So I talk a lot about that too for those that are interested.
I tend to talk too much sometimes. I don't know about that. I don't know if you can talk
enough for me. I'm a joy, I give a word. I appreciate it. And we, we love that you guys
keep history alive. We love that you share these stories. It not only brings pride in
our area, gives pride in what we do, but the future and really incorporating that and
keeping that history alive. Right. And, and we, we are what we call a living history
museum. So the items we have, we use the stoves, we use the logging equipment, we use
the, you know, everything down there. So it's a hands-on thing. If you come down, you
can do some woodworking. If you feel like it, you can not do whatever we have and actually
get hands on. Larry, is there anything else you wanted to touch on before we let you
go back to? One thing I definitely would like to talk about is we have a campfire cooking
class. And that's coming up in April 27th. It's a full day event. We request that people
sign up ahead of time. If you go to our site and you can click on, there's a big green
button, it's membership button, but actually that's where you would register to attend
our campfire cooking class too. It's one of my favorite events because you typically
get to eat almost all day. That is a really nice part of the event. Yeah. And Larry's
not kidding that that button is really simple. I just did it while he was talking. It's
very easy to go to go to historicpointboss.com, historicpointboss.com and you'll find
the site. Be sure to bookmark that webpage. It's a great way to keep up the date and everything
they're doing over there. And so many great events all year long over the historicpoint
boss. It's good to find out about them and know when they're coming. When I remind everybody
that the Sugar Bridge event is coming up this Saturday, March 16th at the historicpoint
boss, the cost is for adults, three dollars, students, one dollar preschoolers and members
are getting in for free. Those prices are so low because the historicpointboss believes
in keeping history alive and being good for the community. And we want to support that,
appreciate that. So be sure to show up and give them a great crowd for the Sugar
Bridge event coming up again. March 16th at the historicpointboss. Larry, it was good
to talk to you. Thank you very much. Thanks for the time and knowledge, man. I'm not
going to forget that. That was really interesting. Thank you. We'll come back with Morning Show
here at WFHR locally grown radio. Welcome back everybody. Morning Show at WFHR locally
grown radio. I could not tell you the last time I heard this song, but I remembered how
long I had to talk before he jumped in. Yeah, that's right. That's hilarious. So funny
how that happens. It's song stuck in my head for decades, deep blue something, the name
of the band. You're very good. This is why I run a 90's show. Exactly. It's all there.
You just didn't know it. I appreciate the book. And a big appreciation to Larry Knutson
for joining us from the historicpointboss. That was fantastic. We'll have talking to our
friends over there. A big shout out to Mike and the gang at the historicpointboss. We appreciate
them so dang much. Find out more by going to historicpointboss.com. And be sure to click
their membership button. Not only sign up for their newsletter and that kind of thing,
but learn about that campfire cooking class coming up on Saturday, April 27th. That is
a great fun time. That is really good. It sounds really cool. Yeah. It's a really fun
event. I helped them keep history alive over there at this storepointboss. Be sure to
take in the sugar bush event coming up this week in March 16th and all the other great
things that they're doing. They have such great programming through the entire year.
So much fun. We're going to wrap up the segment talking a little bit about local things.
But before we do that, we got to get to this. The sequel to this is Spinal Tap has officially
begun filming in New Orleans. Oh no. And a bunch of celebrity cameos have been announced.
That's why I didn't get a part. I'm just going to stand on that. That's what I'm going
to go with. I'm going to tell people. I just, you know, a moment to drop some names
and everything, but had a wonderful one of my favorite auditions I'll ever do for this
particular movie. You did. Wow. About two months ago. Okay. Got to be got to audition
for Mr. Reiner. He didn't make eye contact with me, but that was because there was, I don't
know if he understood the way that the zoom was set up. I'm not trying to be mean. He
is an older fella. He himself said he did not know if he understood how it was set up.
And there was three other actors in the audition. And I can't see them. They can't see me
or anything like that. So we're, we're, he's just talking to us individually. Right.
But he was, but when he would do that, he would talk to all of us. And so he was sharing
things with one actor while also sure it was fun. It was funny. Oh, that's funny.
But he could not have been a nicer guy. Could not have been nicer and, and, and, and friendlier.
And he was so excited about this project. He, he spent, if you go into a normal audition,
you go in, you talk to the casting people, you make nicest for about five, ten seconds,
and then you get to work because they got a thousand other people to talk to. Right.
This man spent a good five minutes just telling us about how excited he was about the script
and everything before we even got into the old. Wow. That's, for just for like regular
auditions. Just who? Oh, yeah. That's fascinating. We're talking about a part that had like
five to ten lines. Yeah. Right. Anything that big or anything like that. But, and, and
that's another note, too, that this is one of the most legendary directors in the game.
Mm-hmm. And he's been around a long time doing this and everything. And he's in the audition
processes for like small characters like that and everything. That's really interesting. Yeah.
That's, that's old school. And that shows how much he cares about the work. He didn't have to do
that. You just set a casting director to do it. But he was there. I understand there's going to be
a lot of talking, a lot of cameos about this. And I, and most people are probably going to throw
this and just chalk it up to a cash grab or whatever. As far as I could see from this guy,
this is a passion project. This is something that they wanted to do that they found the opportunity
for. And for every movie and remake or sequel that comes out like 50 years later that is a cash
grab, there is projects like this where, hey, we always wanted to do a sequel. Now we can. Oh,
wait, look, look, we can do that now. People are overdosing on the style job. Let's go ahead and
give some more. And it works for some stuff. Yeah. And you know, it's interesting. And to your point,
man, it's hard to get a movie made. It is extremely hard to get a movie made. And so this can't,
it cannot be one of those things. We're like, hey, we're all going to make a ton of money. Okay.
Yeah. So I don't tap as a famous movie, but it's still like a cult classic. It's not like
made a bit, you know, millions of dollars. It was really didn't. You know, but it's, so yeah,
there's probably going to be more people that watch it now because of the, you know, they've seen it
since then. But still, this is not a blockbuster. No, it's a, it's more of a passion project.
This, uh, this has got a lot of cameos on it. Quest Love, Trishy Yearwood, Garth Brooks, Paul McCartney,
Sir Elton John, uh, all, all right. And that's just a couple of the bigger names. There's even more on
there. I love that the musicians angle. That's great. Yeah. All, uh, all the original cast members are
back. Uh, you've got all them coming back. And the movie sees the guys getting back together
reluctantly for one more, uh, contractually obligated concert after years of separation and bad blood.
I like that premise because we've, we've seen this happen. So it's a biopic. It is basically every
band ever. That's awesome. That's awesome. Um, and, and look, to me too, with this stuff,
this is one thing where they get me on. And I wholeheartedly admit hook line and sinker. I don't
care if it's good. I, I'm being completely honest. I love the idea of seeing a sequel to this.
I love that. I did. It's not my money. It's not my reputation. So I watch these things. And I
just love, uh, seeing these actors again, seeing Michael McKean again, or Harry Shure,
or anything like that. Like I, Christopher Guest. Yeah. Yeah. Christopher Guest acting. Like,
we haven't got it. It's been a long time. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like, just that loan signed me up.
I'm good with it. You know, it doesn't, not every, for every Oppenheimer, there can be a spinal
tap too. Yeah. Right. It's part of the point. I think a, a lot of, like, a lot of the people
during the speeches, during the Oscars, if you were reading between the lines, if you're paying
attention, hey, Hollywood. And it's not, we, we say Hollywood and we just chalked it up as a
method. In this day and age, Hollywood creates less movies than anybody. There's so many movie
companies nowadays. There's so many movies are made, they're not just made in California anymore.
They don't need all over the world. Yeah. It's a shorthand. Hollywood, a shorthand for the movie
business. Yeah. But to the movie business, you know, maybe less three hour opuses that cost 500
million dollars or whatever and maybe make, you know, 20 movies that cost five million dollars or
something like that. It's a lot cheaper and it's a lot returned on the investment. You'd think,
you'd think, but yeah. So I just, the one thing I do hope for this, though, is that like the
whole nostalgia thing. You got it. It's a fine line to walk, though, before you just, it's just
a repeat of the first movie. Oh, yeah. You know, and it sounds like hopefully they will not do this
with that. You know, all the funny bits just redo them. No, why? You don't, you don't need to do
that again. Okay. You've done it once. Do something different. Make it interesting and of course,
funny. But yeah, let's, let's, let's try something a little different here. We, I wanted to make
sure to touch on a couple of things because we'll, with our interview a little bit later with Kate,
Medina is going to join us. Wisconsin Rabbit School Board candidate. That'll take us probably
to the top of the hour, where we usually do our good stories of the day. I did want to take a moment
to talk about some local events in our area, entertainment-wise. And one of the biggest ones that we
want to highlight, we've been talking about a bit around here is women's united signature annual
fundraiser event power of the purse. Yeah. It's a fun way to get together, to gather community,
get together and everything. Have some fun, raise some attention and some awareness. The funds
raised for power of the purse support early rating literacy programs like Dolly Parts Imagination
Library Program. And, and so much great work. This has taken place tonight, five to seven thirty
at Bullseye Golf Club at 2800 Ridgewood Trail. Wisconsin Rapids. You can't have a glass of water
in that of a good time out there. Good stuff. Love our friends over at Bullseye. Love that they
host these kind of events. There's going to be a cash bar. And as Terry will tell you, that's really
a spaghetti bar. That's really a good idea. Or derives networking purse silent auction raffles
bingo. There's so much going on here. And while you're enjoying yourself and you're having fun,
and you're laughing with people you haven't seen in a while, and all these things are going on
in the back of your mind or in the front of your heart, you can know, hey, I'm also doing a lot
from my community. I'm also putting back into my community. There are a few organizations,
few nonprofits to do more than the United Way does. We do, they do so much for us. This is our
way of showing that we have their back too. And you might get a good purse. You might get a really
nice. You might. If you win the bidding, they're all great purse. Oh, yes. I will wholeheartedly
admit my knowledge of purses comes from Terry and my mom. But from what they tell me, these are
really, really, really, really good. I'm sure they are. Check out so many purses. So much.
Find out more at uwac.org. Be sure to follow the United Way and social media. And meet them
at Power of the Personite at Bullseye Golf Club 5 to 730. Enjoy and have a great time, everybody.
Thank you to everybody that takes place in that too. I also wanted to make sure to mention that
Heroes Cafe is back tomorrow. Yay. And they're at Crossview Church now. They're back to their old
digs. Yeah. Go check it out. It's at 730. It's a second and fourth Wednesday every month. And again,
big shot at the Crossview Church for hosting this to all the volunteers and all the great people
that help make the Heroes Cafe successful and well-intended and everything. Enjoy that Heroes Cafe
goes on second and fourth Wednesday of the month 730 to 930. Again, over at Crossview Church,
all veterans, military, police, and firefighters are welcome for refreshments provided. They
know cost and a big thank you to everybody that helps make that happen. Indeed. I also wanted to
talk a little theater because I have to theater. Theater. Theater. Theater. Theater. Theater.
I didn't mean that. Theater. I got y'all down to theater. I got the auditions.
I tell you well, they are my final auditions. Oh, boy. Any chance to do a Southern, like a really
real hillbilly kind of thing? You know what? I did a bit the other day where I was challenging our
students with accents. And I was going, you know, one of the things that I've really prided
myself on is being able to jump from one accent to another. Right. I've had a lot of characters that
have to do that. Go from a, if you're both from a Coltony accent. Yeah. There goes a warm
down, down, casual access right there. You know, you're going around bound. You're going to
smoothly transition to that. Well, actually, we're similar than I thought. Wow. That's
a little more similar than Marilla. So you just get, you know, you drop yours a little bit
more than that. It's fun. It's fun to be able to do. And you could do things like that tonight
at auditions for rumors. Yes. It's the final night of auditions. We put this challenge out there
yesterday. I shouldn't say we. I did. I don't know if you would have been a part of this. Well,
I'm with you. I'm with you on there. Yeah. We are challenging on. You know, we certainly,
obviously, you want everybody all comers to come in audition tonight for rumors at 630 at the
Wisconsin Rabbits Auditorium. But we put a special challenge out to the men out there. Yeah.
Um, this is an opportunity for you to not only, uh, show the, the, the women in your life,
or women out there in general, uh, what you got. And, and there are no, there's a woman
alive that doesn't like seeing a man on stage. I'll tell you that right now. Trust me. Right.
The majority of my dating life. It's right. Yeah. But more importantly than any of that, uh,
if you are looking for some, uh, you know, you, you are looking to get that sport out of your,
out of your system, you mean, get the, you don't get to play sports as much as you use to or
anything like that. This is a sport. All the things you do in sports, you are, you apply to acting,
you can apply to this. Um, it's fun. It's exciting. It's something new. And especially if you've
never done it before, this is such a great play to be a part of. Hey, I want to let people know to,
staying with the sports, you know, theme here. It's a workout. Yeah. Yeah. It's,
you on stage, you're running around, man, you are, you are getting some good cardio in, man,
especially as show like this, where there's kind of a lot of running around. Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah.
Good way to get some exercise. Cess wins the last time you've done a show with somebody you saw
them gain weight. Yeah. That doesn't happen. That rarely happens. Very rarely happens. I do have to
say here at WRC T, we usually have a lot of food backstage, but you're still doing a lot of work
in there. So, and it's so much fun. And you, you could not ask for a better company and better
people to work with that are more supportive. Any fears or any hesitancy, hesitancy you have,
it will be taken care of. Yeah, they will. They will. They will take care of it. You got a great
director and Christine Sullivan. Uh, that's going to be a lot of fun. And it is a Neil Simon play.
You, you can't go wrong. Always fun. Yeah. Always fun to Neil Simon. You're going to have fun.
You're going to enjoy yourself. And there is not a lot to auditions. If you're a little curious
about that, you've never auditioned before. There's a great learn more about auditions button at the WRC T
website. Be sure to check that out and find out more at WRC theater dot org WRC theater dot org.
We'll see you down there tonight. I'll be down there. I got an hour. I couldn't get somebody to
cover my class. So I was talking to the other teacher and I'm like, look, um, we take our break about
7 30. Uh, let the smokers go out and have a there. So I was like, uh, can I, uh, I'll show
I'll be there by 7 30. All right. If that's okay. I'm like, fine, fine, fine. But you know,
she was, her and I don't work together very often. She's older and she was a little bit of a,
she herself will say is bit of a stick in the mud for, you know, these things. Right. Was giving
me a kind of a hard time. Then I told her it was for an audition, completely changed her map,
completely. You go right ahead. You show, you take your time. You show up late. If you're
that sounds really, oh, wow. That's an actor. She, I don't know her that well, but I guarantee
she knows she knows she gets it. She gets it. Uh, and you guys get it. You get the 90s and we
appreciate that. Uh, we wrap up the segment. Uh, I want to remind you about unlabeled your 90s
mixtape. Uh, it airs after Seth faces music from eight to nine on Sundays. Seth, uh, do you have
a theme this week for Seth faces music? I do. I got to think really quick here because I can't
remember when I was just working on it yesterday. Okay. I know just I got it. I got a, uh,
process process with all the production and everything that you work on. I would have been a
little surprised if you got it. Oh, the sky or skies. Nice. Oh, well. Songs about the sky or
sky. Yeah. Very cool. Very new one this week. I actually, um, put together a list of the beginning
of the year. I'm like, okay, I'm not going to do this week by week thing anymore. I'm going to
make a list of all the things because you know, I'm getting to the point now where I've done some
some shows. Maybe I'm up to 80 now where it's like, oh gosh, I gotta start figuring out what themes
I need. And I came up with like 30 and like like 20 minutes. Oh, wow. So it's like, it's like, no,
I got plenty. I got plenty of the themes I can still work with here. So we're very happy to hear
that. That's one of our more popular shows that we have. Uh, everybody, we've have so many people
that love that show, uh, looking forward to another Seth faces music this Sunday from six to eight.
Be sure to catch it everybody and spread the word about that show. Um, also, uh, from while we
are giving directors cut a bit of a breather, uh, we build a guest list and some of those things.
We wanted to still give you guys some original content. Uh, I've had a show we've been, uh, I've
been working on for a while and Seth gave me the right push and here we are with his help from
production with unlabeled. We had our first episode drop this weekend. Um, we were doing this
as a pilot episode kind of try it out. Yeah, right. So if you guys like it and everything, yeah,
turns out you do. Um, as I was bombarded by requests before the show even aired.
That's good. Yeah. We got out. Uh, we also were, uh, with the hockey this weekend and everything,
weren't sure if the show people were able to catch it or not. So what we're going to do is play,
replay that episode this Sunday, um, just to give you guys another opportunity to be able to catch it.
Yep. And then the following week, we'll have a brand new episode and then that episode,
I'm already got five requests. That's uh, uh, I did like 12 songs I get to play. There's
already got that. Oh, that is so cool. And I want more. I want more and more and more. Uh,
what we're going to do with this show is not only have a great time going down, uh, taking a trip
down memory lane, uh, listen down memory lane, if you will. But I want your requests. Uh, if it was
released from 1990, the 1999, I will play it. Um, go ahead and get your request to me. James.
mailoff at civicmedia.us. Uh, we will have a contest coming up eventually where we are going to
welcome in a guest. Oh, you can win guest spotting on the show with me and picking the playlist.
Oh, man, things like that. It's exciting. Uh, darn it. I can't, uh, yeah, I can't, I can't apply for
that. That's okay. I want to speak my request. I will make you, uh, do the show with me at some
point. Just like I want to do a set face. We'll get you. Um, we'll get you. But we also want to have
other civic media guests on, uh, from our, we got a great library, uh, at a great stable of talent.
Yes. Oh, yes. Company. Want to bring them on. Want to do, uh, uh, certain likes, uh, like
special shows like class of 93 where we just played music from 1993. That kind of stuff.
That's awesome. It's so many ideas and so many different fun things we can do with this show.
And we want to hear your ideas and your feedback. Let us know what you're thinking. Let us know
how you feel about it. You can direct message us on our Facebook pages or just hit me straight
up james.mailoff at civic media dot us. You know, I, I, I, it reminded me when I, I made a request
to James as well because I just realized how many there was those, those weird, only 90 songs.
And it reminded me of one that I was like, Oh my gosh, I don't think I've heard this since 1999.
I have to request James to do this one. So yeah. Uh, I can't wait to play to it. That's a good one.
We will get to our state and local news. We'll come back and we'll have a little bit of fun.
Got some good stuff to get into about teens on their phones. And how many people feel like they,
oh, wait, no, that's not the one. Well, that's it. Good stories of the day. And I don't want to get
to that as well. Okay. And of course, keep in mind Kate Medina, Wisconsin Revit School Board
candidate is going to be joining us at 9.50 this morning, right here at WFHR. I've only one burden
desire. Let me stand next to you. I wanted that bumper so bad right there. And I took a chance.
Oh, you know, I had, I really, really was. I had, I'd like to apologize to the estate of Jimmy Hendrix.
That's a fellow Jimmy. I apologize. I had to. I mean, I know it's true.
Weather forecast. You say the fire thing. And it's my show last week was the fire show that I
done, you know, too. So it's like, Oh, man, I couldn't throw him one of them on there.
It do appreciate the update and the forecast and then be smart out there, everybody.
No fires today. No. Everyone knows that kids today's, at least everybody says that kids today
spend too much time in their phones and their tablets and everything. Well, that includes kids.
Kids are saying that too. According to a new report by the Pew Research Center, 38% of teenagers
acknowledge that they spend too, quote, too much time on their phones and 27% admit that they
spend too much time on social media. Teen girls are more likely to admit they're spending too
much time on those things than teen boys. Okay. 39% of teens say that they've cut back on social
media, although they didn't ask how many of those cuts have, have stuck that said more than half
say they spend about the right amount of time on phones and social media. And more than 60%
haven't cut back on them. Okay. A whopping 95% of American teens say that they have access to a
smartphone and in a separate study about 33% of teens say that they at least, that at least
one of five major social media platforms, they're on YouTube TikTok Snapchat Instagram one of those.
Almost consistently YouTube TikTok Snapchat Instagram to Facebook were the top apps for teenagers.
Right. Like the masses, like statistics show us, like teenagers are telling us, I worry about
any, you know, kids being in their tablets too much or their phones too much or anything.
One of my bigger concerns is imagination and not, you know, not relying and needing that as much.
And not, you know, your imagination is no different than a muscle in your body. You got to work it out
and the more you work it out, the better it's going to be the older you get. And there's virtually
nothing you do in life that you're not going to need your imagination for. We undercut that all the
time and I don't like that. I think that we need to embrace our imaginations more. And that's
important. All that being said, I am not worried about teenagers. Not really. I'm not. They're growing
up with this stuff and they're understanding how to balance it much better. It's our generation I
worry about. I don't, when I'm driving around and I see teenagers and cars, I've never seen a
teenager looking in their phone. I in the last week have seen at least five or six people in our
age group looking at their phone when they're driving around. It's, I'm calling out Gen X. I'm
calling out us in our generation with this stuff. I don't think we know how to balance these
things and we're putting that on teenagers. We're putting it on younger people. Isn't that the way
though? Usually it's some of the stuff that we dislike about our own generate that we like.
Oh, those kids today and their stuff because they grew up with it. Yeah, that doesn't make any sense.
Something that we need to have said more often just because you're thinking something doesn't
make it real and doesn't mean everybody else thinks that way. Oh, 100% man. It's 100%.
This projecting that goes on with a lot of things in society and a lot of things in life.
Yeah, it gets a little old to me and it misses the point. Like if we really care about this stuff,
there's ways to attack it. There's ways to make it better. It's not going to happen by whining and
complaining and pointing the finger or any of that. What in human history has ever gotten done with
that? We just sit there and whining and picking on things. Like what gets done there?
Nothing's corrected. Nothing's fixed. You may feel a little bit better for a half a second or
two because you got to vent and complain. Right. But that's about it. Like I think that if you
really want this to change, like everything in life, if your kids are acting up, how are you acting?
Great point. If you don't like business, if you don't like a business in the way it's going,
who's the CEO? If you don't like the way the country is running, look at who your senators
and congressmen are and those things. Like everything starts at the top. And it's no different
than parenting. It's no different than social cues and all that. Two things. One, you can, if you
are concerned about it and you have a teenager or whatever, you are, it's within your power to
limit as much as you can. That's up to you, okay, and your family. Second, how are you like you
are saying? How are you modeling the way you use social media or you use devices or that sort
of thing? That probably has a bigger impact than anything you might say. Just keep that in mind,
everybody. Kids aren't dumb. Yeah. They see this stuff and then they emulate it. So often,
who's the sports team your kid enjoys? The one you do. Because they grew up seeing you root for
that. Right. They grew up knowing that you love that team. I have failed awfully in that. You know,
that I hear none of my kids like any of my teammates, but anyway, so much on this. Yeah, I hear you.
But when it comes to that, usually, usually the kid ends up liking the team that you liked in
everything because they learn from you. This is no different than that. Yeah, exactly.
It's important to understand that stuff. I did it for watching you being in the 90s.
Right. Yeah. Nicely done. Nicely. That's another thing. Oh, so glad you said that I forgot. I
thought that one of the fun things might be able to do coming in and out of breaks. We're playing
like 90s commercials. I am on board now. I think that'd be fun. Totally. I know how much we
get away with copyright wise, but I think that'd be kind of fun. Yeah, we could do it. Where's the
80s. That was the 80s. Yeah, that was it. We could we could find sure. There you go. There we go.
Yeah, everything was explanation points in the 90s. Nothing was said, like,
with a period, right? Yeah, every time. So we got to get to that any right story. And
when you're considering ordering soup at a restaurant, you probably aren't worried about the price
because, well, it's soup. But this is that isn't always the case. Now, a lot of our that any
right stories take place in Florida or in other parts of the country, it is only fair of me to
include one in my old stomping grounds in Chicago. Okay. And that's where we go for this one.
A restaurant in Chicago is selling a soup for $1,893. And nobody in the city can eat it.
It's being served for a limited time at the colonial room within a hotel called the Drake. It's
near Oakbrook. It's kind of near the theater district. Okay. Actually, second city's not too far
from there. Right. It's the downtown area. Yeah. God, if I had to pick my favorite part of the
city, it's on the top three right there. Oh, I love that area. Well, I'm to talk about.
They have a signature dish called a book binder soup, which is $10. And this is a luxurious
upgrade, which is made with super rare Louis VIII cognac instead of regular dry sherry.
You also get a little sniffer of the spirit. It also features a Zeta caviar and a red snapper
from the Gulf of Mexico, which is flown in fresh every order. You need to order it in two week.
You need to order two weeks in advance to be able to eat this to make sure it's fresh. Right.
The snapper man. I don't know what I want for lunch later. Like I let alone in two weeks. I know
I'm going to want to want this soup. Yes. It's also garnished with gold flakes. That is the
sorry. I'm sorry for interrupting you, but I hate that putting that in food. That is so stupid.
It is. It is. The specific $1,893 price comes from the date, the original recipe for the soup,
which was created by Samuel Bookbinder in 1893 in Philadelphia.
Cool name, by the way. It is cool name. Bookbinder is having a really cool name. But I have,
you know, I get, you know, having something like, you know, the really fresh snapper. Oh, yeah,
that's good. You know, caviar and all this, you know, this great food in there. But just to put,
to jack up the price, we put gold flakes. What the what man? Yeah. I do, I do kind of wonder a
little bit about what it might be like to be the, like being able to fly seems like one of the
cooler, like skills to have. And you take the time. It's not an easy thing. You take the time.
You learn to fly. Like, yeah, I learned to fly. I'm going to take this skill to the moon. I'm
going to be able to do so many things. And what's your job? Just flying fish back and forth from
Chicago to like, like the Gulf Coast is Chicago. That's all you're doing. That's all you're doing.
What are you doing? You and a bunch of fish flying every day. That's it. That's not as glamorous as
I thought it was going to be. I can't imagine how great it smells in there. Nothing but fish, man.
Yikes. She's like, man, I really, I really saw this going into for direction. I really, really
fell like this. I don't even get to taste the soup. No, no, can't afford it. Who can afford this?
That's the other thing about this too. You know, something like this, even if you, like, I don't
know how you got too grand to just throw around. Right. But even if you do have too grand to throw
around, what, what's the win in this? Like how, to me, and I, I wholeheartedly admit, I, I,
I really, I'm not bad about this, but I think most people want to get their money's worth.
Right. How can you possibly get your money's worth out of that? For a one bowl of soup. Yeah.
Oh, I got a, I got a big question though. And I'm actually a borderline serious on this.
Okay. All right. So you and Beth, I pay for it. You guys go into the colonial room. You're
getting these soups. You guys are going to sit there and drink, eat them together and everything.
It's going to be a really nice dinner. You get to the end and the bottom of the bowl. There's
not much soup left. We all our whole lives pick the bowl up and drink it. Can you do that with
that soup within that area? Oh, I would. I would love to, I want to slurp it in everything. Oh, yeah,
make it really loud. I want everyone, if I was going to do that, I want everyone to know I'm
eating this ridiculously expensive soup really loudly. I mean, the whole thing like, yeah, yeah,
you better believe it, man. That's so good, brother. But I have, I've always thought that it's
hilarious to see people take pictures of their food and share it. I'm like, what are they doing?
Big deals cheesecake. I've seen cheesecake before. With this, everybody in the world would know
I'm eating this. Exactly. Exactly. I'm taking pictures with me and the soup, me and the chef.
Get the chef come out. Yeah, exactly. Everybody's nowhere to pay for this. Yes, you're so right about
that. We have great show today, brother. Great show. We're going to take a quick time out. We will
come back. And part of our candidate series, Kate Medina is going to join us with Consta
Rabbit School Board candidate. We're going to talk to Kate about 10 minutes, get to know her a
little bit and ask her the same questions. We ask all of our school board candidates. We're looking
forward to that. That's coming up in just a few. That could take us to the top of the hour,
which may end the show just to let you know. If not, we got a minute or two to spare. I'll come in
and we'll do some good stories of the day. Sounds good. Coming up on the morning show at WFHR.
Welcome back, everyone. Two mornings here at WFHR, locally grown radio. Have your host James
Jamail off. And right now we're going to continue our candidate series where we're going to speak
with local candidates running for office. We are enjoying the time with our candidates and really
appreciate everybody that got back to us and was able to be on the air with us. I do want to
remind everybody that you can find out if you are registered to vote and more information,
everything you need to know at myvote.wi.gov, myvote.wi.gov. As we continue our series, we're welcoming
in right now to the studio, Kate Medina. She is a candidate for the Wisconsin Rabbit School Board.
Katie, thanks for being here. Thank you for inviting me. Katie, just a couple of quick questions for
you. And the first one I have is one I'm asking of all of our candidates. And as we continue on
here, we continue to, one of the things we believe here at WFHR and I think our community does is
public service and encouraging more and more of our community to be a part of things, school boards
and business boards and running for office and things like that. So I ask, I bring that up because
when we're wondering how has this experience been for you? You mean the campaign itself here right
now while so the campaign has been, I'm going to say a little bit uneventful for me so far,
I've been a member of the school board for 16 years. So I do have a lot of passion for education,
I have a lot of passion for our students and I believe things are going very well right now.
When I ran, you know, 16 years ago, that was a different story. So that's why I ran. I felt
that things were not going in a good direction and I was very concerned about the way things were
heading in our schools. And so I did have a burning passion, something that I felt was very
important but today I feel things are going well and the reason I'm running is just to continue
that service to the community of people, re-elect me, I'm willing to continue that service.
What do you see as the board's roles and responsibilities? Well, the responsibility and our role is
to just oversee what's going on in our district and to make sure that things are running smoothly.
We have some great administrators and we trust them. We've hired good people to do the things
that we expect them to do. The board is not there to micromanage anything. We're there to oversee
and to approve and to ask questions. But on a day-to-day basis, we've got a great number of administrators
who are doing their jobs and makes our job a lot easier. What are your goals if you continue on the
school board? Well, first and foremost, we're going to have to hire a new superintendent or
superintendent who's leaving and I find that to be a very sad thing. I think he's done wonderful
things for us. Well, we have other positions that need to be felt. That's a challenge for us.
Not just administrative positions but the teaching positions. That's become more and more
difficult over the past few years. Fewer people are going into teaching. People are leaving
teaching. I think that for some sad reason teachers have become less respected over the years
and I can't put my finger on why that is. I think a lot of that have to do with Act 10,
but I have the utmost respect for our teachers and staff in our buildings who are working with
our students day in and day out. When we see fewer applicants for each position, I think that's
sad. It used to be lots of little kids would grow up thinking I want to be a teacher when I grow
up and we just don't see that anymore. I think that's sad. How do you plan to include parents,
teachers, the community in decision making when that comes with the board decision making?
Well, as far as our superintendent's search, we are going to have community forums where we ask
people to come in and give us their opinion on what they think is important and what we're looking for.
We as board members are meetings, sometimes we do have closed sessions but our general meetings are
open session. Anybody is able to come in and talk during our meetings. We have a public
session where the people can get up and speak about any of the issues that we have on our agenda.
And so I encourage people to do that if they have a concern, if they have something that they'd
like us to consider. If you can't be at a meeting, you can still watch our meetings. We have the
meetings online. You can email, you can call, you can get in contact with us if there's a concern.
We like to hear from the community. What distinguishes you from other candidates?
I think my experience. So 16 years on the board, I'm currently the chairperson of the Educational
Services Committee and I'm on the Business Services Committee. I'm a member of the Council
for Instructional Improvement. I am one of the people who is on the selection committee for the
Alumni Wall of Fame at Lincoln High School. I have a lot of experience. I've been doing it for a long
time and I just know how things work and I think that's an advantage. Katie, why should voters cast
their ballot for you and final thoughts? I believe that I do have the experience. I have passion.
I have passion for education. I work with young children all the time. I see what we can do with
them and I see the potential and I'm just very passionate about our teachers, passionate about
our schools and I think that as a lifelong resident of Wisconsin Rapids, I have a lot to offer.
Katie, as I started this interview, we really appreciate those of you that are out there
in public service and doing so much for our community. Thank you for that and thank you so much
for the time today. Thank you. We will take a time out. A real quick one. We'll come back and wrap
up the show. This is Mornings on WFHR. Welcome back, everyone. Morning show here at WFHR,
locally grown radio. Got your host, James J here. Thanks so much for joining us, everybody. We're
just going to take you to the top of the hour a couple of minutes left. I want to wrap up,
letting you know our schedule, some good stories of the day. We got a Monday Morning Show lined up
for you tomorrow. Be sure to join us. It's going to be a fun one. Beth will be sitting in with us
for the next couple of days and we'll wrap up the week with Katrina Henner hanging out with us
on Friday during the morning show. It's going to be a lot of fun. I want to thank our guests today.
A big thank you to Larry Knutson from the historic point boss joining us. Find out more at
historicpointboss.com and Katie Medina being in with us just now with Wisconsin Rapid School Board
candidate. Really appreciate her joining us in all of our candidates that are going to be joining us.
We've got more coming up tomorrow at 905 Craig Mancah, Wisconsin Rapid School Board will be in with us
in a 950 Wisconsin Rapid's Merrill candidate Matt Zacker on Thursday 935 Nicosom Merrill candidate
El Marco and a 950 on Thursday Wisconsin Rapid's older person district eight candidate Maddie
Palmquist will be with us. Looking forward to that. Midday magazine going to be a really good one
later today. Lucy Ailing from the heart of Wisconsin Chamber of Commerce is going to join us. We'll
talk about some of the great events coming up in our area and a part two David Farmboro be with us
from Colwell Baker. See your realtors sort of a continuation of our Let's Talk real estate series.
We'll we'll be talking with David and looking forward to that. Looking forward to some great
events in our area today and tomorrow. Tonight be sure to check out power the purse five to seven
thirty at Bullseye Golf Club right here in Wisconsin Rapid's. It's a great signature event
from women's United. It's a wonderful opportunity has some fun getting some raffles some networking
cash bar and you are raising funds for funds raised by power the purse will support early reading
literacy programs in the Dollyparton Imagination Library such a great program be sure to check that
out and find out more at uswac.org. Remember auditions for rumors are going on tonight at the Wisconsin
Rapid's Community Theater they kick off at six thirty. Meet you down there have a good time
everybody and enjoy yourself and of course tomorrow Heroes Cafe will be open be sure to check out
Heroes Cafe. It goes on the second and fourth Wednesday of the month seven thirty than nine thirty
this will be taking place over a cross view church and I'm over there and have a good time and
wish everybody a good morning for us. We'll talk to you soon in the later right here at 975 FM 1320
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