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. We are locally grown radio. Have your
host James J. Mailoff here. We're kicking off the 9 o'clock hour with our great friends.
The League of Women Voters Wisconsin Rapids area. We want to welcome in the Mary's. We
have Mary Dom with us. Mary, good morning. Good morning and thank you for having us.
Thank you for being here. Appreciate it. I want the audience to be able to catch you guys
by not by name, but by voice. Since I got two Mary's here. So I'll introduce you
get Mary Dom with us. That's correct. Thank you, Mary. And Mary Arnold with us. Mary Arnold.
Yes. Thank you. Thank you both for being here. Do you guys have to go by Mary A and
Mary B a lot? Do you have to do? I don't want to do that too. As the fourth James in my
family, I relate to that quite a bit. So we'll put you through that. But we will inform
our audience as you guys do all the time. I do have to start off this segment with letting
you both know and all of your colleagues of the League of Women Voters know how much
we appreciate you. Appreciate what you do for our community and for democracy. Thanks
for much for what you guys do. Well, thank you so much. You guys have a meet and greet
coming up with our candidates. We want to tell everybody about. Yes. The meet and greet
is this Thursday, then March 22nd at the McMillan Library. And it's going to be in the
all-purpose room. And so you just go on the first floor and somebody will direct you
there starts at six o'clock. And at six o'clock, we have the candidates for mayor, the two
candidates for mayor. And we have the four candidates running for the older persons.
There's two district, district four, and district eight that are contested. So those people
will be there and you'll be able to just come and ask them questions. It's just for it's
not a forum. It's not a debate. And just for them, you really what it is, a meet and
greet. And then at eight o'clock, or excuse me, seven o'clock, from seven to eight, we'll
have the candidates from the town of Saratoga. There were three of them running. Right now
we're finding out they might not be that many there. And then, but the big thing is we will
have the school board. There are five candidates running for three positions for the Wisconsin
Rampage School Board. And they will be there. So they're all coming. So you'll be the chance
to talk to them and ask your questions. It's it's great that in 2024, we still have
these town hall type meetings and meet and greets. And this is still in this day and age
with all the technology we have and everything else that this is still the greatest way to
get to know these candidates, especially before the April 2nd election. It's a really
nice thing. And I appreciate these candidates and you and your team putting this together.
Of course, our friends at Millen Library for doing this too. Is this something that our
community needs to register for or just show up? Just show up. You don't have to register
for it. And I'm interested in the candidates really love to do this because they like
to meet their constituents. And so for them, it's great. So we really encourage people
to come and talk to the constituents. And it's a no pressure event. So it's easy for
the candidates and a good one on one opportunity for the voters. So yeah, I appreciate that
Mary. And thank you for mentioning that. I think that's a really good note to mention
here. And it's a great opportunity for us to remind the audience too. In this day and
age, and this is just me speaking here, but in this day and age, we have so much divisiveness.
And I'm really proud of our community that we don't have as much of that. I think our
community stands out for that and can be an example for that. And let's show the example
we are when we're meeting these candidates and we're talking to these candidates. Let's
have respect. Let's treat each other with respect. You know, dogs can't vote because
dogs just bark. And if you're just somebody that wants to come and bark, we don't really
have room for that. There's other opportunities for that. There's other avenues for that
in this day and age. We live in a wonderful time and age where there's a billion resources
for you to be able to go on your Facebook page and post what you want to post. In these
situations, we ask that you use respect. And you come within with a thought, you come,
if you have questions or thoughts, these candidates want to answer them. And here is
a wonderful opportunity to be able to talk to them eye to eye face to face and be able
to do that. Just show some respect, especially considering it's not everybody that can run
for an office. Not everybody chooses to do this with their time. The fact that every
person does this, whether whatever their beliefs are has my respect. And I hope the community
is respect because not everybody, we need more and more people to be able to do this nowadays.
Absolutely. There were so many uncontested elections this year. So we like people to
run for public office. We actually used to offer workshops on that and maybe well in the
future. I think that's a really good idea, Mary. I do want to say that this is for the
election that will occur on April 2nd and that you should get out to vote. If you have
any questions about whether you're registered to vote or what's on your ballot, you can
go on a state of Wisconsin website, myvote.wi.gov. And that really tells you everything you
need to know about voting. And if you don't have a computer, the library has a computer,
so you can go over there. Any chance to go to the library is always
a good one, especially for something like this. A big thank you to our friends over at
middle and library. You know, ladies, as long as I have you here, we'll let you go after
this. But I did want to kind of go over with the you and the audience. Some of the basics
that you should know before the April 2nd election, as far as, you know, checking the registration,
your registration status, something like that is important. Are there other things that
we can remind everybody to be informed about and know before they go in on April 2nd to
cast their vote? Like for me, being sure that they are registered, where they need to
register or where they need to vote, to cast their vote. Some of that might have changed
for some people in our listenership. That's something to keep in mind.
I would always, well, if you voted the last many elections, you're typically still registered.
But if you want a double check, you can go to myvote.wi.gov or you can call your municipal
clerk's office. You can go into your municipal clerk's office and ask if you're registered
to vote. If your name changed or if your address changed, you can check, you have to
re-register. So just heads up to people who may have changed their address or gotten
married and changed their name, that you do need to re-register. One of the nice things
about Wisconsin elections is that you can register or re-register to vote at the polls on
the day of the election. And you will need to bring in a driver's license that has your
current address on it or state issued ID and proof of residence. And you have to have
been at your residence for 28 days to be considered a voter in that jurisdiction. Otherwise,
you would have to have had an absentee ballot sent to your house from your previous address.
And it's really heartbreaking when you have to turn people away or tell them, no, you
can't vote. You have to go back to O'Connor, O'Hocker, to vote. So please check on myvote.wi.gov
to make sure your registration information is up to date. And I don't know if Mary wants
to talk about like what for voting.
No, yeah, I did want to just say that if you Mary said to go to your county clerk, if
you don't, not your county clerk, but your municipal clerk.
If you don't know who that is, we do have that on our website. You can actually go to
League of Women Voters, Wisconsin Rapids, and it's just the initials. It's L-W-V-W-R-A.org.
And if you go to that website, that's our website, our local and legal website. And there's
a citizen information thing you can tag on. And you just go down there and scroll down
and it's got all the clerks for all the areas. And it'll tell you their name and their
phone number. So you can call them on the phone to get that information. And yes, myvote.wi.gov
that Mary saw. That's the really the best one to go to to find them. I think you need
to know what's on your ballot before you go in. And that is on there too.
We as Americans have this one of the most beautiful gifts given to us in democracy and being
able to voice our feelings and our vote. And all you got to do to be able to do that is
a couple of simple things. Make sure you're registered. Make sure you're voting in the
right spot and get out there and do it. There's not a lot of the need of this. And thanks
to organizations like yourselves and a website like myvote.wi.gov living in a state like
Wisconsin where they make it really easy, really easy to be able to do these things.
Yeah, I do want to say one more thing that in that will tell you what's on your ballot.
But who should you vote for? That's up to you. And you need to know information. So like
coming to the meet and greet, talking to the candidates. Also one of the things that
we did is we ask all the candidates that are in contested elections to fill out a simple
three question questionnaire. And we took their answers down. And those will be at the
library printed out the library for you to pick up. Or you can again go on our website.
And again, this right that's on the front page. As soon as you get to the website, you
just scroll down and it'll tell you candidate answers. And there will be questions and the
answers that they gave each candidate gave. And it is categorized by school board and
district. It's a it's a it's a really good website. You guys haven't broken up broken down
really good. Again, that website is LWVWRA.org LWVWRA.org. And the website myvote.wi.gov is also
available for you. Myvote.wi.gov. Remind everybody that the you can join us for March 21st
and mail library for a meet your candidates. Meet and great. We encourage every citizen
to attend and meet us there for that. From six to seven, Wisconsin rabbits, Merrill candidates,
Wisconsin rabbit city council member candidates will be there from district four and eight. And
then from seven to eight, Wisconsin rabbits, public school board candidates along with the
town of Saratoga, supervisor candidates. Mary's, thank you very much for joining us. I
appreciate it. I cover you both that way. That's a little time. Thank you again very
much for everything you do for our community and for democracy. Appreciate you. Say hi to
your whole team for us. Okay. Thank you. We will take a quick time out. Check out with
our partners. We'll be back with more fun and more information for you right here at
WFHR where we are locally grown radio. Welcome back, everyone. Morning show here at WFHR,
locally grown radio. Seth and James hanging out with you. We hope you're having a good
one out there, everybody. Thanks so much for joining us. Get into some entertainment now
but before we do, we want to thank a big, big thank you to Mary Dom, Mary Arnold from
the League of Women Voters in Wisconsin rabbits area for joining us today and putting up with
me and my questions and taking good care of our community and keeping democracy alive.
They're great. Help and freedom ring. You know, it's one of those groups that you tend
to take for granted. We should never do that. But you know, you think they've always been
there. It's like the League of Women Voters. They're always setting up meeting grids and
making sure everyone knows about where to pull, where to do your election. I mean, they're
an invaluable resource. You know, I might be a transplant, but in the time that I've
spent in this state, there's a handful of things I know about Wisconsinites and one of the
biggest things is Wisconsinites are proud of being from Wisconsin. It's true. If you're
proud of being from this state, one of the greatest ways to show your pride in this state
is to be informed. Get out there and vote. Democracy has a long history in this state.
Absolutely. Unions have a long history in this state. I would think that one of the greatest
ways to show your pride in your fellow, in your history, in your ancestors is, is well
one, you know, doing democracy and promoting that and supporting that in every way. One
of the things that I didn't get a chance to bring up with the League of Women Voters,
we'll get to entertainment in a moment here. It is pull workers. Oh, yeah. Yeah. We don't
talk a lot about that. We don't talk a lot about encouraging people to vote to be a
pull worker, or how we treat our pull workers. And in our whole lives, Seth, we've never
really talked about this. This isn't just recently. We've never really done a great job
as a society. I'm talking of giving respect to our pull workers. Now, like a good father,
I'm going to take every opportunity to brag about my kids and be that annoying dad because
that's good for you. That's who I am. And I'm very much myself on the airwaves here.
And I am proud of all of my kids. And every one of them has done this at some point.
My oldest daughter, Brea, has been doing this for a long time. She's been a pull worker
since she was 18. Wow. She's been doing this. And she is signed up when we met last week
to record for our podcast, what the muppet catch wherever you get your podcasts.
Sneaking in back. Nothing like it. We were talking about this. She just recently
resigned up to be a pull worker for the April 2nd elections. All right. Oh, I am proud
of her. And I appreciate her doing this. And in the, you know, couple of years that
I've been talking with her about her doing this, I've also realized I am, I am very afraid.
I worry about my daughter being out there. And, and while as any father, you know, of children
and everything, I would think that a lot of dads out there tend to be a little protective
of their kids. And, and, and maybe some of them, like similar to me, a little overprotective
sometimes. I'll admit that I can be, I can be. But the last thing in the world, the one
of the last scenarios I should ever have to worry about my daughter is at the polls.
Like why, what do we do it as a society where as a parent, you have to worry about your
child being a pull worker, right? Like what are we doing? If, if, if these kind of things
don't wake you up, I don't know what will. Yep. We need to treat each other better. We
need to do better. We can do better. Right. I am not one of those people that says, you
know, like, oh, back in the old days, things were so much better. You know, you can look
back in history and you can see similarities all over the place. You know, it's like the
more things change, the more things stay the same. That is one thing I can say unequivocally
has changed when we first started voting in the late 90s. This would not, who, who ever
thought about that? Yeah. Yeah. The safety of poll workers. Yeah. Yeah. What we took
it as a gift. It's like, what are you talking about? That's ridiculous. That has absolutely
changed and not for the better. No. That is not for the better ladies, gentlemen. It's
got a lot of, and this is just me speaking. This is only me speaking. We have a lot of
cowards out there. We have a lot of people that talk tough, act brave, walk around with
this or that on them and everything. And they think that makes them a man or makes them
tough or something like that. And then what do they do? They go pick on poll workers. Like
really? You're going to mess with poll workers. Mr. Tough Guy is going to mess with a
poll worker. That makes you tough. No. That makes you a coward. It makes you a punk because
you are messing with America. You're messing with America. That is us. That is our democracy
you're messing with right there. Again, going back to the prowess tonight, going back
to the proud American. If you truly are, you should be defending that poll worker. You
should be fighting for that poll worker. Stand there and making sure that poll worker
gets to do their job without any rough or any interference at all. An interference or anything
like that. Like that's absolutely. That's America to me. That's democracy to me. That's
the America. I love that's America. I hold close to my heart. That's the one we want.
It doesn't take a lot. Treat poll workers well. Have some respect for them out there. And
if you are able to God bless you from being a poll worker and appreciate those poll workers
out there. We appreciate all of them and everybody helping to keep democracy alive.
Absolutely. That freedom ring, baby. It's getting into a little bit of entertainment
news here. I thought this was pretty interesting. I've actually been hanging on to this one
to talk with you about in Hollywood, in entertainment, really. It's all about franchises these
days. If it's not a sequel, it's a prequel or remake or reboot or somehow connected to
the existing property. But some of it is, it's a little bit of new imagined or something
like that. They're just going to keep up coming up with new terms to reimagine or remake
or what. Yes. Oh, yes. But according to a new poll by
to be 74% of millennials and Gen Z want original content, not rehashed versions of existing
stuff. 74%. That's a big number. As we talk about elections and voting and all of that,
if they with the with the current April 2nd election or the November elections, how happy
would they be to get 74% of the population to vote? Like, oh my God. That would be an
amazing. Can you imagine shocking that would be these days? Wow. That'd be pretty cool.
That'd be pretty cool. But we just give you an example of how big of number this is 74%
of millennials and Gen Z years are done with all the remakes and all the sequels and all
the prequels and all that. Give us something original. Give us something actually work that
creative imagination of yours. And 71% of those people would like to see it produced by
quote independent and small time creators. So they can feel like they're directing supporting
they're directly supporting the artists when they watch it. This is becoming more and more
important. This is this is really interesting to me. So and I'll I'll I'll I didn't I don't
mean to do this, but I did do this and I'm already talking about it. So I have to go forward with
it. Keep going. I got cast yesterday. I got I got a part yesterday. I'm a working actor again.
Feels really good. Feels really, really good. Love it. But what I what I love even more about
is is the production that I'm a part of is a student film. It's a Columbia film. It's the third
film I've done with Columbia University and shout out to them and the great work that they're
doing and the great people that they're producing. Very cool. Very good film school there by the way.
Yeah. Yeah. And they're they're creating some pretty talented. Yes, they are. And more power
to them for it. And it's really a humbling and fun and paying gig. I'm not and I don't want to
such charity here. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And going back to Samuel Jackson. Samuel, what did you ever do
any movies for the money? Yeah. All of them. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's a talk answer.
Creative works. But it also it doesn't pay the greatest always. No. So it's important. But one
of the things that I found talking to this young director and in some of the things she's told me
and talking to the writers of this play and I'm sorry, the script. More and more, this is what they
want. They're not just hearing this from their colleagues and the people in classes with them,
but their friends, their relatives. I mean, everybody in that age range, they're done with the
sequels. They're done with the prequels, man. If they if you give them an original idea and they
go and they shell out their money for it. And it's a lot of money to go to the movies nowadays.
And you go and you see it and you don't like it. They're okay with that. They're okay with not
liking it. They're they're going to give it a rotten tomatoes. They're not going to give it a
nine, but they're not going to give it a four. Right. They're going to give it something decent. But
they if they go and shell out all that money for a remake or a sequel or a prequel or something
like that. Whatever. Yeah. And it's bad. That's where the bad review has come in. That's where all
the complaints and the barking and everything. All that comes out. So if you give them something
original and they don't like it, they're not going to like it. But at least they're not going to
tell every single one of their friends never see a movie from this production company again or
something like that. Right. And they want more independent stuff. The writer that just one best
original screenplay had it right. Listen to him. Yes. Instead of making one hundred million dollar
film, make twenty ten million dollar films make thirty one million dollar films through a pepper
the net pepper the net throw as many things as you can out there and see what sticks. See what works.
Well, and with all the distribution vehicles that are now available to people, not just the big
screen. We've got streaming a bajillion streaming services. Fine. And the thing is is Hollywood. And
again, I'm using Hollywood as a shorthand here. I'm not meaning Hollywood this place. I'm
meaning you know, the movie business is allergic to risk. Yes. And this has been the case forever.
Okay. I'm not saying this is new, but they they will only do tried and true stuff. Okay.
Because they don't want to risk. But here's the thing. If you're only investing ten million
dollars, which does is a lot of money. But for a movie, that's a small budget, really small.
What if you get that one? You know, you're not investing a lot. And there's a chance that's got a
decent return on the investment. Now, it's not a billion dollars. But make twenty million,
thirty million on a ten million dollar. Hey, profit time, baby. You know, it's not a lot of money
for them. But it's a good thing. I mean, it's to me, it, you know, the whole put all your eggs in
one basket. It's not working. It is not working, everybody. We got to go back. And not only we
were seeing here now, the younger people, they want to see this is what they want to see. Man,
they want to see original stories. They want to see something interesting. They don't want to see
the same old thing over and over again. I've mentioned it when our station was first bought from
Sea Heipers, the heart of Wisconsin. And I mentioned it again when we were bought from my civic from
heart of Wisconsin and everything. Nothing great that ever happened happened, didn't happen without
change. Absolutely. It has ever happened involved change. Everything, every great thing. And this
is similar. This is another one of those things we need to change to the game. It is enough with
the sequels and the prequels and all of this. And, and, and is, is time to get back to making
real films, right? Making real movies. That doesn't mean you get rid of the superhero movies or
anything like that. You can have those. You can just also have some dang original content. We can
have both. We don't have to have one or the other. Yeah, it doesn't look. We just saw that in
last year, people were able to go to see Barbie and Oppenheimer. They were able to do both. The
both brain, both cells, listen to them Hollywood, listen to the audience, right? And also understand
the difference of streaming and movies, streaming nostalgia nostalgia. We want to reruns. We want
our TV shows that we wanted to watch over and over again and all that. That's what streaming's
for. That's the big part of streaming. Sure. Okay. You want to produce movies Netflix and,
in Apple and all that, more power to you go right ahead. Just understand your audience. And when
you're spending all that money, when you're spending a billion dollars on the Lord of the Rings TV
show, understand that they're watching it for nostalgia. Not that. Right. Yeah. And that's your
point. I mean, it's very well taken. That's where it is. But I love this is very hopeful that it's
like the young people and this is what they were raised on. You know, this is all they've been
seeing is prequel sequels. They're like, no, no, I want some different man. You know, I wouldn't
be surprised if you see a reassessment of movies like from the late 60s and the 70s. You know,
the first big rebel era of movie making, more independent stuff. I wouldn't be surprised if
those movies are suddenly reexamined again, you know, that sort of thing. So we'll see.
I did want to wrap up the conversation when I was mentioning there. 96% of streaming audiences
surveyed say that they want nostalgic content like rerun shows and everything to what I was saying
there towards a tail end. Right. So just understanding that audiences at home want nostalgia.
Audiences in the movie theaters want something original new. Yes. There you go. Just
broke it down for you. You're welcome. All right. Now go take the ball and run with it entertainers.
Go take the ball and run with it creative. Yeah. That's right. And then see James movies when
we've come. Yes. Yes. Please. It's an independent film. Yeah. We never see it. Please. Please.
And as we wrap up entertainment, I do want to think I got a lot of great feedback from some people
yesterday when I dropped the what them up at comment that I always do on Mondays and everything.
Yes. Appreciate the audience and civic media putting up with that by the way. Really do appreciate
that. It's true. But every week that I do this, I see our subscribers rise and I see the video
content raised on views and everything. And that is thanks to this amazing audience. Thank you
for supporting what Bree is doing and and all the good work that she is doing. And we appreciate
that. Cool. Find what them up at wherever you get your podcasts. And of course, check it out at
the web at YouTube. Just type in your search bar, what them up it. And if you are curious, you'd
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I cannot wait to get I ordered shirts for us. Oh, oh, oh, shirts for everybody. Well, not everybody.
No, no, no, we're in shirts for everybody. It's just going to take some time because I work at
radio. That's true. That's true. Well, we're definitely doing that. We're definitely doing that.
We will check in with our new our local and statewide news. Also got some sports in there from Mike.
And we'll come back and we'll have some more fun. And keep in mind at 950, we'll wrap up the show
with Josh McDonald, town of Saratoga board supervisor right here at WFHR, locally grown radio.
Welcome back everyone. Morning show here at WFHR, where we are locally grown radio. Got Seth
and James hanging out with you. Thanks so much for joining us on this Tuesday. We hope it is
treating you good. We are going to be hanging out with you for a little bit longer here. And we're
going to talk to one less candidate we have coming in for the day. Mm hmm. Looking forward to that.
For right now, though, Seth, today is the first day of spring officially. Right. Even though it may
not feel like it or maybe it does wherever you are in the country. Listen to who knows? Yeah.
Dairy Queen is celebrating the arrival of spring with free cone day, participating non-mall.
Not I'm sorry, participating non-mall locations are giving out free small vanilla cones to all guests
with the limit of one per person. What's wrong with the mall? Thank you. Thank you. All right. Why?
Before I continue with the article, we have to pause for a second. For one, I shout out to
whatever Dairy Queen's are still in malls. Yes. I'd also like to shout out any malls that are still
up there. Congratulations to you. And for still the plug it away, man. And at the same time, and I never
do this. This is one of those things that I couldn't stand when it was done to me in life.
And honestly, other than DeKame Matumbo, I'm not cool with people wagging their finger. I never
cool with it, but I'm wagging my finger at Dairy Queen. I'm doing it because you should actually be
doing, if anything, the opposite of this. Right. The ones that are in malls, you should be giving away
all the free stuff you can. And thank the people. Thank the people for coming to the mall. Man,
I am telling you. I am telling you. I'm sorry, I apologize. To our younger listeners out there,
a mall used to be this place where you'd go to hang out. Maybe you were going to talk to the girl,
but we both knew you and your best friend knew you weren't really going to talk to her. You weren't
just going to, like, look at her. Get uncomfortable and then go back to the shoe store or to
always do you need to go to the pool court. Suncoats hang out the food cart. You're going to hang out
the food cart. You're going to go right over next to the sparrows. You're right over there. You're
going. You're going. Now, if you're wondering why today is the first day of spring, it has nothing
to do with the weather outside or what a groundhog said last month or anything like that.
In the Northern Hemisphere, spring officially begins with the Vernal Equinoxus set was
touching on earlier. It occurs between March 19th and March 21st, depending on the year.
This year falls right here and technically around 1006 tonight is the actual equinox, but you know,
it is. It is. It's a, it's a proxy. Time is a flat circle. And equinox happens twice a year
at the points when the earth's tilt towards the sun makes it so that day, so that day and night
lasts the same amount of time. In fact, the word equinox comes from two Latin words meaning equal
and night. Equal night. Now, there's an action. I did not know that equal. Yeah. Equal night.
Yeah. Denzel Washington in equal night. Can he stop the equinox from before the next
equinox? Can Denzel and daylight savings die? Oh boy. I watched it. Wow. Can we have Denzel
Washington? Wasn't it, man? I mean, Denzel, you get a couple people. I do like the idea, though,
but it's a B movie. So it's not Denzel Washington. It's Denzel Wash. It's like, it's like, it's like
some B actor. They're trying to sell off his Denzel watch. Denzel W.
You know him from such movies. Yeah, right. It's ground training day. Yeah.
The parodies of Denzel movies. I love that. Yeah.
I don't know. I could not dare equate for doing this except for the ballpark.
Yeah. That was like weird. Again. Very strange. Very little painting.
And speaking of strange Seth. Nicely done. They will set me up there.
An England couple in the midst of renovating their home made a surprise in discovery behind
the fireplace. A stash of letters dating back nearly a hundred years. Wow. Okay.
He used to dream about this kind of stuff happening with my dad and I will be working construction
and doing it like tearing down a wall or something like that. Yeah. You ever torn up carpet?
Yes, I have old carpet. Yeah. I mean, I smell my god. The skin around my nails is still not healed
from it. But you're doing that kind of work. What they used back then. Yeah.
Like some kind of like paste that never came adhesive X. Every carpet that's been put down
pre-1970 was put there to stay there. Yeah, one going anywhere. It was never going to be
moved. It was never the carpet was so big. You had to mow it. I believe they had a special
mower for the shag carpet, I think. That stuff wasn't supposed to be moved.
Well, Laura and Jason Lamble Parker had to do some moving. They said that they were renovating
their house in wilderness, chashire, since they've been doing this since purchasing the 100-year-old
home back in March of 2023. Okay. And they were surprised to find some old mail when they tore out
the living room fireplace. Okay. Quote, there were all these letters behind it and I just said,
look at these. I don't know if they were trying to be burnt and they fell down the back of it.
Laura told the Liverpool Echo. Great name for a newspaper by the way. The couple said they
well-preserved letters date back from 1934, 35 and 36 and 37 respectively and were addressed to
Miss Rota Taylor. Okay. The couple contacted the previous owners of the house but they did not
have any information about anyone with that name. The Lemmy Parkers said that they are hoping
to return the letters to a relative if they can find more information about Taylor's identity.
Wow. And look, do you see they haven't read them? No. They were respecting the privacy. That's
kind of cool. Actually, that's very cool. Now, if no one comes forward and claims them,
then I think you're okay. You know, you can check it out just to see what they were about.
Oh, okay. That would be tough. That would be hard. I respect people's privacy.
Yeah. I'm one of those people. I've got secrets of enemies of mine. I've kept. I'm a secret
keeper, man. Right. But something like that, that's like that I know in my head the people that
wrote it are more than likely past and all that. Exactly. It'd be tough not to. I'm just being
honest. I don't think I'd do it. I would like to think I wouldn't do it, but it would be tough.
It'd be a temptation would definitely be there. How long, you know, how this used to be when you
were a kid, if you found five bucks and your dad or your papa or somebody told you, okay,
you got to wait such a such amount of time before you can claim it. Right. How long you got to wait
until you could read these letters. Yeah. It's got to be a good amount of time. Yeah. I think if
they do do diligence, you know, and try to find out some family member, you know, because you
never know, maybe a family member that would be really interested in seeing what's in there.
And that kind of thing, family history kind of stuff. So yeah, yeah, I'm with them on that. But I
appreciate that they didn't just go ahead and open it right away and say, oh, wow, but that's
still cool. Finding something like that in house. I'm still trying to figure out why people do that.
If it was a mistake or if it was just, you know, someone trying to hide something or maybe I don't
know. I thought the note that they had about, you know, where they trying to get rid of them,
where they trying to burn them and they flipped, they split down there. Yeah, right. That was
interesting. That could be, although that'd be a weird way to try to learn something. But anyway,
I'm sorry. That's trying to just besmirch the name of the people who had the letters.
But I do think though, it's interesting part of the story to think of why they would know how
they got back to why they got why they were put back there and all that. Yeah, exactly.
That seems interesting to me. And I would, you know, I think it's understandable to have questions
about something like that. And when you're doing this with a house of strangers, you may feel a
little bit, you know, uncomfortable asking some of those questions. That's why you look out for
the previous owner or something along those lines. But what about when you find, come across
something weird and it's a relative? Before we go to break, we got to get one more of these in
set. Army personnel were called to Quebec home to a Quebec home when the deceased owner's daughter
made a surprising discovery in a toolbox, a live grenade. Oh boy. Kendra Sims Bachman said that
she and some family members were cleaning out the Nolton home formally occupied by her father,
Frank Sims, who died back in October. Okay. Quote, we went to his tool room, which was always like
nobody ever went into his tool room. That was a sacred place. Right. And I was looking for something.
And then I opened up a toolbox and there was a grenade. Sims Bachman said she remembered the
grenade from decades earlier, but had thought it was long gone. I remembered this grenade from like
30 years ago when dad brought it back from my grandfather's house, she wrote on social media.
We all asked him to get rid of it and thought he had. Well, he didn't. Oh dear. And it was loose and
had moved, uh, moved houses multiple times. Oh my, oh, that is terrifying. Oh my gosh. Sims Bachman
contacted police and an officer who arrived to take photos of the objects said Canadian armed forces
would need to be summoned to the house. Smart. Smart. That's very, very wise. I love the idea of
them cleaning this house. And, and the neighbors are out there watching and they're seeing this and
everything. And I imagine that there's probably more than likely some friends of this man who passed
away in the, in the neighborhood and it's a solemn moment to see his home, you know, being looked
over by loved ones and everything. And then all of a sudden the police and the army, the army,
and I got to think there were some smiles there a little bit. Once everything calmed down. Once
everything calmed down and everybody, everybody was safe at all that. It's kind of like, man,
you got to be wondering though, your neighbors are like, what, what is going on here? Why is the,
why is the army pulling out, man? What's going on? Uh, Mr., uh, Mr. Sims, uh, Frank, who, who we
lost and everything, I got to think he's smiling a little bit from this. Oh, they found the thing
I left for him, huh? Well, I don't know. Frank didn't know Frank and don't know much about Frank.
I feel like just the fact that this was left where it was gives you a little idea of Frank,
little idea of Frank and his sense of humor, possibly, possibly. We're not sure, but that is
pretty good. That is pretty good. It's also a good reminder, uh, you know, clean up, you know,
clean up after yourself as much as you can. Nobody knows. Nobody leaving around your
blive grenades, please, around live grenades. I feel like that's a pretty, you know, that's a
pretty universal feeling, uh, for your loved ones. Um, you know, sentimental value he kept it,
maybe, I don't know. It's very weird. Anyway, have a, have a will and testament. Yep. Uh,
make sure to always tell your loved ones you love them. Yep. And, and no live grenades.
No live grenades. It's a pretty simple list. General explosives, you know,
explosives in the house. Yeah. Yeah. See away from those. Not a good hand be done. Not a good
hand be done. And I see that your father left you in the will alive grenade here.
Take it a break. Check it out. Check it out with our partners. We'll be back more
foot of the boarding show here at WFHR. Welcome back, everybody. Morning show here at WFHR.
Locally grown radio. It's the kind of song to play us out. Oh, it is. Yeah. This is a good song,
last song of the day. It's a good one. Seth and James here with you. We're wrapping things up.
Do you want to send a big shout out and thank you to all of our guests today and a lot of great
guests, a lot of great people joining us and a big thank you to all of them. Uh, other great
stuff coming up throughout the day today. Be sure to join us today from three to four. We got a
great midday magazine for you in part one. We're going to welcome in our friend Kayla Rumbalski,
community development educator with UW Madison and looking forward to talking to Kayla.
Really good conversation there. And in part two, Amy Fluno 211 director with the United
Way of Southwood and Adams counties and talk to Amy in a while. Talk a little 211 and get
you guys informed on some of the great opportunities involved with that. Indeed. And of course sports,
sports, sports, sports on this radio dial. Uh, we, we have a great, uh, possible, uh, well,
we're going to have, um, continue coverage of all of our local teams, of course, and our badgers
as they continue on the tournament or start the tournament, continue on to the tournament,
because I think they're going to have a good run here. So we're looking forward to that. And of
course, we are the home of Bucks basketball. When I remind you tomorrow night is a ball night,
Milwaukee box at the Boston Celtics. Go preview. Maybe possibly of the playoffs. Maybe could be,
could be a preview of the Big East championship. Uh, you know, uh, eastern conference title,
I mean, uh, it very well could be. Uh, I actually, that's what I've gotten in my bracket as far
as that goes. There's only a couple of weeks left in the regular season for the NBA. So this is
really, uh, find out where everyone's going to end up in there in the, uh, in the standings and
stuff. So this is interesting stuff. And one of the, you know, long, oldest phrases in sports,
they're getting hot at the right time. Uh, the Bucks are figuring out their defense at the right time.
Yes. I don't know if you could say that they're hot. Uh, they're, they're hitting miss right now.
But one thing that's been pretty consistent, they have been, uh, showing up on defense.
Everybody's learning their assignments on defense. Everybody's getting that down. The more they,
the more comfortable they're getting with that and those assignments and trusting each other.
Oh, he's got that guy back there. I don't have to keep looking over my shoulder. Well, my guy runs
the other way. Right. Um, they're trusting Doc system. They're all in. And I mean, that's just
exciting to see this going on. It's amazing to see the difference from the beginning of the year to
now. Well, how, how, I mean, it's like a 180 with what the Bucks have done, especially defensively.
It's been, it'll be, it's going to be an interesting playoff this year, especially in the East.
Follow your Bucks, uh, all season long right here at WF feature, home of the Milwaukee Bucks.
Yes. Yes. Uh, gotta get a then a right story in seven. Uh, please, a Michigan responded to a
burglary alarm late Sunday night after there was a break in at the former standfish, uh,
correctional facility, which closed in 2009. When they, yes, yes, you got that right.
A correctional facility was broken into when they got there, they found a smashed glass door and
later saw a 42 year old man named Cody walking out. He had driven a 2015 Lexus to the prison. And
when the cops looked inside it, they found stolen jewelry cash, burglary tools and unregistered
firearm, uh, the whole, uh, bingo, the whole criminal card. Yeah, the whole knucklehead bingo.
They got Cody was arrested and hit with four charges, including breaking and entering and
possession of burglary tools. It's unclear what he was doing. He told the police that he was just
walking around and taking a look. I was just curious. Uh, check what? And, and, well, in his
defense, you're not going to go to a former prison facility and not bring stolen items.
It's just rude. Yeah. Why wouldn't you do that? It's, it's, it's telling you to not have any
class. Come on. Oh, man. That's just so weird. Right, man. How are you going to, like, I'm
sorry, but how are you going to talk? How are you going to defend yourself in prison? Like,
when you, when you're going to, what are you in for? What are you in for that he's got a
visiting in a defunct prison? What? With stolen goods. I am not at all trying to tell criminals what
to do with their lives, but get a life. Come on. Get a life. Try harder. Try a little bit harder.
That ain't right. We need a palette. Yeah, we do. Let's look at some good stories that the
day from around the world, a dad and new hamster accidentally threw out his daughter's favorite
stuffed animal, but officials, but officials sifted through a ton of garbage at the dump and
got it back to her. Oh, wow. It went through a trash compactor and everything, but survived.
They threw it through the wash, and it's good, isn't it? Oh, wow. Way to go to those sanitation
workers out there. Big shout out to them. Good on you guys. A local news station in Salem, Oregon
profiled a World War II vet whose 98 and still volunteers for meals on wheels. What's your excuse?
Yes, seriously. Yeah. Yeah. Someone told him he's a hero for doing it. His response was,
if that's what it takes to be a hero, we need more. That's a great response. I love that response.
That's good as that. That is how we are wrapping up our show. Nice. Thank you again to everybody
that joined us. Thank you. The best listeners in radio. We appreciate each one of you joining us
with us. We do. We appreciate so much. We got the civic media ride and the spring text to win
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