Good morning, Wisconsin. Good morning, world. It's a new day. Thanks for kicking it off
with us right here at WFHR, locally grown radio. Got your host, James J here. We're going
to have Seth join us a little bit, but we are going to start up our candidate series
again for today. A little bit later, we're going to be talking with Eric Sailor, Port
Edwards Village Trusty, looking forward to that. Right now, joining us in studio is
Elizabeth St. Myers, Wisconsin Rabbit School Board candidate. Elizabeth, thanks for being
here. Thank you for having me. Appreciate the time. Reminding everybody out there in our
candidate series, I will ask our candidates some questions. I'll ask the question. You
answer. We'll move on to the next one. This isn't really a debate or a conversation,
necessarily. It's an opportunity. Give our candidates a chance to talk to your constituents
and speak to everybody out there. And Elizabeth, one of the things that I've been doing
with the first question, as we encourage more and more people to join boards and give
to civil service and be a part of their community and everything, I'm curious, how have you
enjoyed this experience? I've really enjoyed it so far. It's been great to engage with community
members, staff, caregivers of our students, both online at meet and greets, and just
really hearing from them what their concerns are as we had into an opportunity for them
to elect new school board candidates, kind of seeing what their thoughts are about what's
going well and what their concerns are for the future. Elizabeth, what do you see as
the board's roles and responsibilities? Sure. The board's role and responsibility is
really that oversight of the school district. One of the biggest responsibilities that
they have is upcoming and that is choosing the new superintendent. They've already started
the process. I think it's great that we, they've taken the opportunity to communicate
with the community and see what's important as they look for our new candidate. And I
think that that is probably one of their biggest responsibilities is making sure we choose
the right person to lead the school district. How do you plan to include parents, teachers,
the community in decision making? Sure. I think there's a lot of great opportunities
right now already for families and community members to be involved in our school district.
Each school has weekly newsletters or monthly newsletters kind of keeping families updated
on information that's relevant to them. The school does a great job with their website,
kind of posting meetings. Community members have an opportunity to come in and speak at
the school board meetings about items that are on the agenda. When you think about like
new curriculum or things, changes at the school districts looking at making, there's an
opportunity to come in and give feedback on curriculum. So I think there's a lot of
really great opportunities and just continuing those. We're speaking with Wisconsin Rapid
School Board candidate Elizabeth St. Myers and Elizabeth, what distinguishes you from
other candidates? Sure. So my oldest is a junior at Lincoln and when he was getting ready
to start kindergarten, I really started getting involved in WRPS, seeing ways that I could
involve and really make a difference in his schools. Our daughter is also a student now.
So starting in elementary school, I've been a parent at two different elementary schools,
Rams, Central Oaks, and now Lincoln. I also worked as a special education aide for a year
subbing before working full time. So I think that brings a little glimpse of a staff perspective
as well. And I'm a community volunteer here. I sit on the McMillan Library Board. I also
sit on the Boys and Girls Club Board. So I think if I combine all of those different
viewpoints, I really bring a well-rounded perspective to the board.
And final question for Elizabeth. When you get back to your very busy day, it sounds
like, why should voters cast their ballot for you? Any final thoughts?
Sure. I think voters should cast their ballot for me because I am a strong advocate for
public education. I really believe in offering the best schools for our students here. I am
more than willing to take the time and research. I'm committed to diving deep into concerns
that come before the board. And just really coming up with a well thought, our answer
or well researched.
Elizabeth, not only do we appreciate the time, but appreciate the taking out of your personal
life to not only run for this position, but the other work that you do for the community.
We appreciate you. Thanks so much for joining us today.
Thank you for having me.
You can find out more about Elizabeth and who else is going to be on your ballot at myvote.wi.gov.
You can go there to register or find out if you're registered, where to vote, all the
great information that you need is right there at myvote.wi.gov.
And keep in mind our good friends at the League of Women Voters have a candidate meet and
greet coming up at McMillan Library going on tomorrow. You can check that out at McMillan
Library. It will kick off at six o'clock. Be sure to meet everybody over there to meet
these candidates. We'll have more information on that a little bit later in our good stories
of the day. And we'll also be interviewing another candidate a little bit later. Eric
Sailor, Ported Words Village, trustee. We'll be joining us right here on the morning
show at WFHR locally grown radio. Welcome back everyone. Morning show here at WFHR locally
grown radio. Seth and James here with you ready to have some fun, dive in some entertainment
and whatever other stuff we can get ourselves into it is live radio after all.
After all.
We kick things off with entertainment news this hour. And I want to note something and
it kind of ties into our last conversation where we are interviewing one of our candidates
for local office. Channel 9, W-A-O-W in Warsaw. I've known some people over there over the
years and have worked with them and really enjoyed the work that they do. And we all
have our stations we watch. That's kind of when I do watch local news on TV, that tends
to be the station I go to. I do have to call them out though because they do not cover
the Wisconsin Rapids area very well and hardly at all. I don't know why we have to have
two radio TV stations in Warsaw but we do. With that, when they do cover this city and
cities next to us like Nikusa in that, I feel like the coverage is not very well done.
And if I'm being honest, phoned in or at least half done. And it was proven to me in
the last episode that they had on late last night at 10 o'clock news where they were talking
about the candidate for Wisconsin's Rapids mayor. And they said they interviewed and talked
to both mayors. And then they played just an interview where they talked to Matt Zacker
and that's it. And that's not fair. That's not equal time. That's interesting.
This isn't me standing up. I would say the same thing if they just interviewed Tom and
not Matt. I would say the same exact thing. This is not me bias towards one candidate
or the other. It is that what we do here at WFHR, it is giving equal amount of time to
every candidate. If I'm a Rapids resident and I have not been paying attention to WFHR,
which what are you doing? Why wouldn't you? No, seriously, it caught the interviews. Have
you ever been able to hear from Matt and Tom and everything? All you heard in that segment
was Matt. That's it. That's not just a fool. That's not fair. That's not the way elections
are supposed to be wrong. Exactly. And in a day and age where you got a lot of people
out there looking the poke holes in everything that we do as media, everything. This job is
hard enough. It's hard enough to get people to trust facts nowadays. Real genuine facts.
Let alone when you report like that. It's lazy and it's not good reporting. And you need
to be called out for it. Do better. You can do better. I'm saying that as a fan of the
network of the station and all of that. I'm saying that would love. I'm saying that's
what love is. Love is not just blindly letting everything go or supporting somebody who
smacks you in the face all the time and everything. It's having accountability. Well, and because
so many people, that's the outlet that we have. It's not because it's like, oh no, I prefer
the wasabi because the rapids TV. There is no rapids TV. That's all we have. And I think
there's a lot of people here that do watch that. And they should take that into consideration
when they're covering this area, which they should because it's important. Yeah. You can
keep listening here for a great local coverage. We'll be certainly covering the central Wisconsin
area better than anybody. You're not going to find it anywhere else. I can guarantee that.
We're going to get into this one set. It's a little uncomfortable, but that's that's
part of life. That's what we do here, man. Yeah, really is. Dan Schneider watched the new
doc series, quiet on the set, the dark side of kids TV. And he's really sorry. In a video
interview released yesterday, he said it was very difficult to watch and quote, I definitely
owe some people a pretty strong apology. If you haven't heard about this story, encourage
people to read a little bit more about it. The Schneider agreed that he, so a lot of the
jokes, a lot of the things that he did on set were not kosher. We're not okay. He would
have assistance in different people like it's massaging him in between scenes and everything.
And the things the things he asked these young actors like Ariana Grande and all these people
to do, you wouldn't want your kid on that set around somebody like this. The more attention
we call to, you know, call out on these kind of situations and these kind of people, hopefully
the less we have of it in the industry. And that is, you know what, we're seeing more
and more of this come to light about the working conditions for just the regular staffers
on. I mean, so much has come out in the last couple of years about, you know, what about
talk shows, you know, like Kelly Clarkson, not Kelly Clarkson herself, but her staff. And
of course, the whole mess with Jimmy Fallon, Ellen DeGeneres. Look, okay, we can do this
without treating each other like garbage. What I don't understand is how they think you
can get away with it. Yeah. That part I don't get. Okay. Any other industry here and you
can't do that. No, you cannot do that. And granted, I don't have a great career or a lot
of experience. Right. But I've been on at least 16, 17 different movie sets and TV shows
and everything. And I've seen some really hectic times. I've worked on some really low
budget things and some things with a decent budget. And everything's been fine. Like,
on the Conan show, we had, we had days where the writers are getting us stuff at the last
second. We only have so much time on this studio to film. We got to go, we got to go, we
got to go. Everything's everything's right now. We got every it's so intense, so crazy.
All that's going on. And there's Conan poking me. And the other writers as we're walking
past literally just poking us like the silliness and everything like the entertainment. Think
about what we, the corner would sit there and do these speeches sometimes. And usually
at the beginning of the week or at the end of the week. And one of the things he would
do is appreciate what we get to do. This is our job. This is what we get to do. You know,
and it's something I have to remind myself of all the time, especially in this job. I
get busy. I get focused and I get very, very perfectionist about this job and wanted
to give everything I've got to this station to our listeners. And I have to remind myself
all the time, I'm very lucky. I'm very fortunate. I get to do a job that I love. And not everybody
gets to do that in life. So appreciate it. And you know, like don't take it so seriously
in life. Don't take so seriously. Well, and I think part of it is that this whole idea
that because you're an artist, you know, that you get, you can get away with anything.
And I think we've realized that no, that's not, that's not true. You're being a jerk
because you have power and you're abusing it. That's why it has nothing to do with the
creative process. You can be the nicest person on the planet and still be a great artist.
You can do that. It's, it's, it's, it's, it's perfectly capable. People are capable of
doing it. And I think it's, it should be noted as well that it can be taken from you.
Absolutely. You can be a Schneider. You can be a very popular producer at a network
and everything and have a, it looks like a long career ahead of you. And when you treat
people bad, that career drives up quick. Yeah. Fast. And that's the way it should be.
Yes. You needed people, the, the right way with, with generosity of spirit. Yeah.
Not a household name, but I, I am very excited about this. And as somebody who was in the
running for it, I, I am, I want to be respectful and do the classy thing and congratulate
Aaron Taylor Johnson, who is reportedly in talks to become the next James Bond. I, of
course, famously, through my hat and the ring for this, when Daniel Craig retired, I
already got the first name. I feel like, look, half the job's done. All right. I do a
pretty solidity of the Jackson. I mean, you know, pull it off. I don't look the greatest
coming out of the water. Like Daniel Craig did, though. I, I cannot, you know, let's
see all, all Bond guys need to look good coming out of the water. And I don't know how
they do that. That, you know, man. Aaron is not a household name necessarily, but I think
you'd recognize him. He was in, he was the lead actor and kickass. He was in bullet
train. He was in Avengers, edge of Ultron. And according to the UK newspaper, the sun,
Aaron is, quote, expected to accept the role later this week. When he was recently asked
about playing 0070 said, quote, I find it charming and wonderful that people see me in
that role. I take it as a great compliment. Of course, Daniel Craig, last appearance was
in 2021's No Time to Die. Right. And they've been waiting for a while. I think they waited
almost too long to recast this role because they were, it did look like Idris Elba was going
to be the next James Bond. But Idris had a scheduling thing and, and also took a lot
of backlash before he even was even offered the role. Because oh no, we can't have a black
James Bond. It's a fictional character. Get over it. Let it go. It's, it's like the people
making art over Santa being Mexican or something like that. Yeah, right. Talking about, first
off, Santa's been Latin my whole life. Like every, every came art I ever went to when
I was a kid. Santa was either a Latin guy or a Puerto Rican guy or something like that.
Like, so do with me with that. Santa's based on a guy who's from Turkey. Come on. What
are we doing? What are we freaking out over here? Like, look, there are plenty of things
in life that are going to come up that are worth getting bent out of shape about. Choose
your battles wisely. Yeah. Think about this. Does it really need my, you know, my anger
or frustration or anything? This kid is a great actor. He's very good. Yes. I really
like his work. I'm excited about him being the next James Bond. I hope, I hope this
actually happens and he takes the role. Do you have something to say? He's finally
aged up to it too. Yeah. His bond cannot be too young. You have to, he has to have that
certain amount of experience, you know, at least the look of experience to him. Otherwise,
it just doesn't work for him. Yeah. So I like the idea that that he's a little bit older
now can do that. I'm curious how this will go for him too because he is just, he was just
cast and the movie Craven is coming out that he's going to be starring. He is Craven.
And if that does well, and it's already by up from what I've read and everything, he's
already tied into other projects as that character. So he, they don't often do that. Usually
they, they, they, they've done this the last two now where with Daniel Craig, Daniel Craig
has got the Golden Compass and all these other movies at the time that are out and, and
you cast a big name and they didn't used to do that. It was usually the, the Roger Moore's
Sean Connery wasn't a household name when he got the James Bond role. No, he was not taking
these more bigger names. I find that interesting. And I wonder if that's hedging your bets
a little bit. Probably, you know, it's an older franchise. It's not as easy to get people
to watch these movies anymore. You have to do something different. Like while we talked
about it yesterday, sequels and prequels, people are getting sick of that. So how do you
make it fresh? How do you, how do you make it new? Lala Paloza's new, they announced their
lineup yesterday. Headliners include Blink 182, Sizzas Tyler, the creator, the killers,
Hozier, Future and Skrillex. So basically, it's Lala Paloza for 1999.
Well, it's close with a few exceptions in there. Yeah, I think so, but you're, I mean,
they got the DevTodes there too. I mean, they got, I don't like it. Are there no new
artists? For Lala Paloza, I guess not. Apparently not. Then you bring back the Horde tour. That's
a good one. Nice, nice reference. The four day festival returns to Chicago's Grant Park,
the one of the greatest parks of the world, from August 1st to August, through August 4th,
passes go on sale tomorrow. Have you ever been to a show like that? No, no, never. Like a festival,
no. I've been to a bunch of the Oz Fest. I've been to a lot of those like four or five of them.
And I went to Lala Paloza one year when Chance the Rapper was there. I wanted to see him. And I
got to see him in Chicago. And I was, that meant a lot. That was pretty cool. It's a, it's a wild ride.
It's a circus. It's a circus. But I, I do want to say I, I found it really safe and not like,
not too crazy with like people not on top of you kind of thing, like Oz Fest, where every,
you got, you're constantly bumping in the people and all that. I thought Lala Paloza was really
spread out very well. It was a really fun experience. That's cool. I'm, if you're looking for something
fun to do, I don't know. There you go. Yeah. When I recommend that. Let's see. We'll go ahead and get
to get to this other story here that I wanted to touch on. All right. Because there's a couple of
things locally that I want to get to. Okay. I mentioned this before with our last candidate.
We have the, our friends at the League of Women Voters have a candidate meet and greet at
the mental library going on tomorrow. This will be in their all-purpose room. It'll begin at six.
And encourage you to go head on over there and check out all these great candidates.
Yeah. When they offer. Learn who will be on your ballot. Join the mental library for the
meet and greet with the candidates and local public office. From six to seven Wisconsin
rabbits, mayoral candidates, and Wisconsin rabbit city council members will be there. The candidates
from districts four and eight. That'll be from six to seven. Then seven eight Wisconsin
rabbits, public school board candidates, and the town of Saratoga supervisor candidates.
Okay. I encourage you to check this out. A big thank you to the mental library and our League of
Women Voters. More information is always better when it comes to elections. Keep in mind,
we have this from the League of Women Voters. If you need to do your checklist about voting,
check to register your registration status, get your information and how to register to vote,
find out where to vote, all that information. Go to myvote.wi.gov, myvote.wi.gov. Nice.
And I want to remind you that the first and third Thursday of every month, our good friend Pete
Revel and four on the floor performing at the Central Wisconsin Cultural Center. For the admission,
donations are accepted for the artist and a great opportunity to mentally take in some great jazz,
but some great history of music. You know, I was going to say, yeah, you can go for the music,
but what you really want to go for is Pete's stories. Yeah. He is a storyteller like, I mean,
I'm telling you, back when we got him on director's cut, man, he told some great stories.
That'll be one of my favorite things I ever do in radio interviewing Pete. It was so much fun.
It was so much fun. Support local artists, support local and support our friends over at the
Central Wisconsin Cultural Center, 26 51 A Street South in Wisconsin Rapids. It got some great
things going on over there like Pete Revel and four on the floor. The gift shop is open too.
It's a really cool stuff there. It's a great way to support local artists and everything
encourage you to do that, everybody. And in this Wednesday, we know what that means, Seth.
Bingo. Bingo. I says name. Bingo at the Wisconsin Rapids,
Elk Slodge number six, 93. Join them at 430 West Jackson Street when they open their doors at
five. Bingo kicks off at 630. That place is always pop. And when I drive past there on Wednesdays,
it really is. And a big shout out to the Elk Slodge. Not only do they host so many great local events
and do so many things like in our area, but every Elk Slodge, no matter where you're living,
if you've got an Elk Slodge, you got an organization that puts back into their community.
Absolutely. It's a part of their charter. It's a part of who they are. We appreciate that so
much. And big shout out to our Wisconsin Rapids Elk Slodge. Join them at 430 West Jackson Street
tonight at five when they open their doors. Bingo at 630. Nice.
Did want to remind everybody that the Easter egg hunt and 5K run is going on with our good
friends over in Nekusa. This is taking place at the Nekusa Community Center this Saturday.
And I'll begin at the 8 a.m. will be the 5K run walkstart and at 10 a.m. will be the Easter egg hunt.
Nekusa Community Center located at 416. Chrisview Lane. Go join our friends over there for a great
hop and time. Get it, get it, hop and time. I apologize for that joke. That wasn't yours though.
No, that wasn't me. And do you want to remind everybody that things like that, that Easter egg hunt,
we want them. Get us, we want your organizations Easter egg hunts in this area. Please let us know
about them. Give our great friend Pam a call at 424-1300 and tell us about your Easter events. We'll
get them in our community calendar and on the air here with us indeed. Looking forward to that.
We will take a quick time out. Get to our news break. We'll come back and have some more fun
in the morning show at WFHR. Welcome back everyone. Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio.
Seth and James behind the mics. Hope you're having a good one out there. Thanks so much for joining us.
A little bit later, about 9.50 today, we're going to have Eric Sailor join us,
Port Edwards Village trustee candidate, as we continue our candidate series. Looking forward to that.
Right now, guys, take a look at your hands. Smell your hands.
What? What? Do they smell weird? What? Might not smell like anything.
Yeah, I don't smell anything for a minute. So, I don't know.
This is kind of unexpectedly good news sort of in a way. Then, our self-conscious about how they smell.
And what relief that is. What the leaf that is. That is actually not a bad thing.
Yeah, it's a good thing. In a news in a survey of men, 72% said that they anxious about how
their body smells on a typical day. Oh, wow. 72%. That's pretty high. 52% worry that they have
BO and aren't aware of it. 59% say that they'd like someone to tell them if they smell. Only 59%.
Wow, I find that a little surprising. Wow. Okay.
I'll rip the bandit off right now, right here. Okay.
If I got something in between my teeth or if I smell, if you are my friend, you tell me.
I want to know. I don't care how embarrassing it is, what the situation is. I would rather know
than not know. Well, now that you've said that, James, I have to not scare around.
The body parts men are conscious about include their armpits, their neck, their head and hair,
and this is in order. Their arms and 25% of men said that they're worried about the smell of
their hands. 20. That's a quarter. Wow. That's interesting. Well, I suppose. I mean,
think of all the stuff that you know, you can take. You know, I guess it depends on
two like what you do for a living. If you work with your hands and like it's dry, you know this,
you know, if you're handling certain chemicals or things like that, yeah, your hands are going
to make weird smells after a while, but I can't think of what the name of it was, but I know that
I was always happy whenever I was on a site or work in construction and somebody had on this one
soap. It was like this special industrial soap that could even get some of that grime off
and everything. Is it lava? Yeah, it was good stuff, man. I think that stuff worked good.
That's it's supposed to work really well. We assume that they're worried about their
hands smelling like sweat dirt and those kind of things. Not, you know, not overly perfume or
something. Okay. Anyway, the average man uses three hygiene products like deodorant to control
their body order, other tactics menus for a limited BO, taking additional showers, changing
clothes and limiting physical activity. Yeah, that's why they're doing it. Yeah.
Yeah, through that one in there. I'm not working out today. I got to worry about the smells.
I'm doing this for you, everybody. You're welcome. You can send your thank your cards to
exactly. Someone's paid a trick on someone here. I do think though this is a good, this is good
for society that don't worry about these things. They smell better. Yes. Yes, you're this is not
a bad thing. You're correct. No, I, I, I, I've never like, I certainly like most people out there. I've
worried about something like this, but I don't think about any specific body part just in general.
I'm worried about it. And for me, I think part of the reason is I've never been able to smell really
well. My whole life, my adenoids have been all messed up, my all that stuff and everything.
So I've never been great at smelling. And then when you, when it comes to that and doing the,
the, the body check that we always, every guy does, you know, you put your nose under your shirt.
Sure. Yeah. Yeah. I can't smell anything. So I, it doesn't help me any.
Well, as far as I can tell, James, there's nothing there to smell. So you're good. You're good.
As far as I can tell, no, a lot of people don't know. The reason I work in radio is because they,
they don't want me around people. I worry about my smell. No, I, I, I think that that's one of
those things too, where this is, this is, I, when it comes to dealing with strangers in society,
or, or your coworkers in society, we're, we're learning more and more and we're becoming more and
more free when it comes to that. Some of that has a positive, some of it negative. I think that one
of the positives are we're becoming more and more aware of, I may not go, I may not go home at
night with that person. I may just work with that person, but there are feelings and opinion matters.
And even if only around a made hours a day, I should at the very least have some decent
clothes on or smell decent. Right. Well, it's been in a lot of, and think about this. I mean,
in a lot of ways where you work, you spend more time necessarily with those people that you do
with your family sometimes. Oh, yeah. You know, considering, look over the course of,
you know, a year or something like that if you, if you average it out. But yeah, I mean,
you should be treating him. And I'm not saying that you have to be like, you know, like we're,
we're a family here. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Can, can glomco or whatever it is. Yes. But, but,
what you should make, you respect, you know, with the, the, the chance to rent an F.D. I'm sorry,
I didn't mean to stop. That's right. But it's, yeah, you should have respect for your fellow
workers. I mean, you gotta, you gotta work together. Come on. Make it better for everybody.
Isn't this literally like the least we can do? Like, just giving this.
I'm really least at the very least you can give respect to your, to each other.
Yeah. And part of the, part of showing respect is not just how you treat people,
but how you handle yourself. Yeah. How you treat, you know, how you treat your body,
how you treat yourself. And just having a decent, you know, um, it's one of those things,
like with this job, I, I learned real quick. Not only do I want to make sure, like the biggest
job I have in interviewing people is, yes, getting information out to you and giving them an
opportunity to get that information out there properly. Also, um, you know, uh, training,
looking decent and smelling decent and all these things when, when we have people in,
but you also, I don't want to be dressed in a, uh, you know, in a suit every day when they come
in. Many of our guests, if not 90 some percent of our guests come in from work or are dressed in
you know, just, you know, average, just comfortable or something. Right. And that could, if you were,
like, very formal about it, that could make them extremely uncomfortable. Yes. I mean, think about
this too. If it happens a lot, if you're not, think about if you've been to like a party or
something and everyone's dressed better than you, then you feel very awkward and out of place.
Same thing. I mean, you want them to feel comfortable. You do not want them to feel awkward.
I, uh, I, I, I went to a, um, um, I thought it was a toga party.
Because they say it was, it was a great fraternity and I didn't know anybody. So I got, like,
I got the information, like, half handed and everything. And my buddy's will, he's, he's going
and he's like, oh, man, I'll meet you there and everything. I don't know where it is. He tells me,
I show up. Nobody. I'm the only person. And I, uh, I didn't, I, it was, this is me out in California.
So I had a bed sheet that I grabbed off of Will's bed. Uh, that he had just, he just cleaned, it was
clean sheet. Thank God. Thank God. But I grabbed that. I'm doing all of this last second. I rush over
there. And as I'm knocking on the door, I'm like, okay, yeah, I remembered boxers. Thank God. And
they opened the door. And then they're, I'm there. And everybody's just laughing at me. I had fun
with it though. I had fun with it. Oh, wait, if anyone could turn that situation, uh, and around,
I think it would be you, you can, you can really roll with it. You really have to. You know what?
You know, you're, you're humiliated in any way. Just go with it. Exactly. You know, you're not
going to be more humiliated. I mean, this is UCLA. What am I going to do? Cry and run out? No. No.
I just, you just embraced it. You just don't know if it, man. Southern California. Um, it's,
and I wasn't even the weirdest person looking at the world. No, no, I'm sure you weren't. It's like,
it's like, who invited this homeless guy? I mean, uh, one more I want to get to before we go to
break our, our, our, our women, let me see here. I wanted to get to one of these here. Oh,
this is the one. This is the one. So this is a, that ain't right story. We got to get to Seth.
And it's an interesting one. If you're a real estate agent, there are a few tips and tricks to
success in a few things that I think that are, you know, necessary for the job. And really,
there's, there's one major thing you don't want to do. Don't burn down the building.
You're trying to sell this. That's not an excelling point. Well, James, that, that would seem like
a, a no brainer. Like, you need the product in order to sell it, right?
It was that way. A real estate agent in Australia got in some hot water a while back when she
accidentally burned a multi million dollar property to the ground while preparing for an open
house. The house had renters at the time and the agent was running around tidying things up.
She noticed some bedding that was hanging out back to dry and thought it looked bad.
So she balled it up and took it downstairs and threw it on a shelf under a lamp. Then,
then she turned, turned that light on. I don't know why she did. Why did she do that? That's
weird. Okay. About 20 minutes later, a major fire broke out and a majority of the house was
burned down to the studs. Oh, dear. They later determined that it started because of the bedding
and the basement light. Apparently, the light heated the blankets up, which were right up against it.
Caught fire. Oh, okay. Tor through the house. Is this an, is this like an actual oily
rag that we hear about? You know, take care of your oily rags. What, what, how does have oily
rags laying off? I never understood that. Anyway, it's great question. This happened a few years
back and the case was just decided in court. The owner told a judge that the real estate agent
admitted it was her fault telling him, Oh, my God, I think I have burned down the house.
She even suggested that it was the bedding that probably did it. But in court, she argued that
the owner and the renters were also to blame because she wasn't aware of the lamp would cause
anything on the shelf to heat up like that. Yeah. Whoa, wait a minute. That's a big
surprise. Back up. Back up. In the end, the court ruled that the real estate agent's negligence
was at fault saying she actively created the risk of fire and the consequences,
consequential harm. The company she worked for was ordered to pay the damages to both the
homeowner and the renters who lost all their belongings in the fire. Yes. Yes. Oh,
that ain't right. That is, that is a tough story. That ain't right, story. Man, you know,
I do, as some, my, my family went through a bad fire. So I don't make light of these
situations. And I'll be being honest, even give a little PTSD for me talking about them.
But I, I do, I do think that it's important to find the silver linings and important to find
the funny in life. And, and the owners of this establishment were able to do that. Um,
and, and apparently on social media have had, uh, had some fun with this one and everything.
Now that the court has been decided, now the case has been decided to actually talk about
everything. I, I also, I, I, I, this lady messed up. She made a mistake and she has to have
accountability for it. I also can't help but feel for the real estate game is tough. It is. And
oftentimes you get into that industry and you're in it for a long time. It's hard to find work
in other fields. I can't imagine what it's got to be like for her trying to find work. That is
now that now that she's, you know, got the judgment against her. And they're all, man,
that is pretty tough. Do you just lean into it and like see if you can work for any company,
kind of company that burns things like every day, just to lean in. That might be a little
bridge too far. Yeah, it might be. Might be, but, you know, but you got to do something, I guess.
So that's, that's rough. Well, take a short break, come back and have some more fun on the
morning show at W. F H R. One, two, three o'clock, four o'clock, rock, five, six, seven o'clock,
eight o'clock, rock, nine, ten, eleven o'clock, twelve o'clock, rock, we're going to rock,
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All right.
Seth and James here with you going into our next segment here. We'll keep in mind
everybody a little bit. We're going to wrap up the show today, speaking with Eric
Salier Port Edwards Village trustee candidate looking forward to that. Then it'll be about 950
Eric will join us. All right. For right now, another that a right story, Seth in this
adusia, a bartender in Florida is making a very good living slapping spring breakers in the face.
I don't know what we're doing anymore. Wow. Okay. If you've never heard of a hurricane shot,
that's what it is. Most of it, her customers are men, but she'll slap women too. For $30,
you could take a shot, have a picture of water thrown in your face and get slapped in the face
hard. She's been selling up to 6,000 worth of shots a night. What? In related news, I don't
understand business. I don't understand consumerism. I don't either. I don't know what we're
doing anymore. It's the same thing. This is similar to me to I think it was Chipotle or somebody
like that had a drink that people were like having heart attacks from and people were warned to
drink and all this. And then a media of a ton of people in the internet, oh, we got to try this.
We got to do this. Anytime you hear something that's like dangerously spicy or dangerously
hot, there's a section of the world that's like, I need to do this. The one chip challenge,
kind of thing. Yeah. Something like that. It feels like that. It also feels like the power of alcohol.
You ain't wrong, man. There are a few things that can make a sort of like a half a good idea,
turn into an idea you're going to do. Yes. Then alcohol. Boy, I don't understand,
spring break. I don't as a cultural phenomenon. I just don't get it. Well, it seems like you're
not alone there. The younger generations are feeling the same way. That's good. What they're
spring break is so different than what we grew up with. What they're doing now and so much of it
has to do. I mean, I talked to one of my students because we have a kind of a short break for our
students coming up. And with that, asking, you know, hey, what are you guys up to? Where are you
going and all that? I'd say a year's past, traveling here, traveling there, whatever.
I've got two different students that are putting their time into shelters, working at a shelter
in Chicago. Becoming more popular, yeah. Doing that with their time. A lot more people are doing
that. The way they explained it to me, I'm like, well, it's, you know, that's cool. I appreciate
you doing that. But don't you want to have some fun at spring break and all that. To them,
they got plenty of time to celebrate. They got plenty of time to party. They want to get to work.
They want to, and if they're not working, they want to do things that are putting back into the
world. That's really cool. It's not uncommon. It's more common than not with this younger generation.
Like they're more and more doing these kind of things. We see it on a national news level often,
but not as often as I think it's actually happening. Right. Exactly. The younger generation is not
waiting to take over. They're not waiting for to make moves. They're doing stuff, man. That's because
they took a look around and it's like, oh, no one else seems to be doing anything. So let's
let's go ahead. This is our world, you know, too. And we need to do something. I, I'm not one of
those people that is going to a younger generation. I'm a generation of that and all that.
Except when it comes to this story, what are you doing? What are you doing? Hey, we've all got
our things that we got to work through. You know, this is the first story I think that's ever
made me feel really old. Like I old man yelling at cloud or something. What are you doing?
You're spring breakers. Why would you want to be slapped into face? And as a side note,
you ain't got to travel the floor. I'm pretty sure there's some Wisconsin bartenders.
Oh, we're ready and willing and we'll do it for free. They're not going to charge any
for us as much. And man, this, this can only go wrong. But there's no, like, wait, there's no
spinning this to where it could go at a positive way or something like that. I don't know about
that. It's bizarre. It's strange. It's a bizarre one. All right. We're all in a strange place,
my friend. They've been a weird world and we have a weird show that we do around here. We have
a fit right in. Yeah. Yeah. Seth, great show today. Thanks so much. It was so much fun.
We're going to take a time out, check in with our partners. When we come back, we'll wrap up the
show with our candidate series, Eric Saylor, Port Edwards Village trustee joining us in just a
few right on here on Morning Show at WFHR. Welcome back everyone to the Morning Show here at WFHR,
locally grown radio. Have your host James J. Mailoff here and we're going to continue our candidate
series right now. We have with us Port Edwards Village trustee candidate Eric Saylor. Eric,
good morning. Good morning, James. How are you doing? Doing good. How are you doing, man? Good.
Thanks for being here. Eric, we're going to continue this series and no one to start off with our
first question. We're encouraging more and more people to be a part of civil duty, to be on
boards and that. So that's the essence of my first question of how have you enjoyed this experience?
The election experience or being on the board? Well, we can give us both. While I've been on the
board since 2015, I was elected back then and I've been on the board ever since. It's a great time
to be involved, to have the to work with the public, work with the departments and try to make
the village of Port Edwards a better place when you leave than how you found it. It's a great
experience so far. How do you, excuse me, what do you see as the board's roles and responsibilities?
Well, with the board right now, the main responsibility is not too much overreach.
We have great employees that work for the village of Port Edwards. It's our job to oversee that,
but allow the the department heads to make choices and communicate effectively with them.
That's kind of the best case scenario and how I would like to see things run and we've had
sometimes been successful at that. How do you plan to include the community and decision
makings of the board? If anybody knows me, I'm pretty black and white. If we have an issue, I'm going
to say what the issue is. If we don't, then we move forward. I like to include the public as much
as we can. The more informed that they are, the less the the finger pointing or the the thought
of thinking that the board or anybody in a leadership position is trying to do something sneaky.
The more transparent you are, the better relationship we have with people that the easier it is to
do not have that happen. We're speaking with Eric Saylor, board Edwards Village trustee.
Eric, what distinguishes you from other candidates? I think my honesty really, I am not hiding
anything. I don't have any public agendas. I've seen it countless times and in multiple boards and
local government where somebody gets on a board, gets in a position of leadership and has a
personal agenda. They want to build a shed or something. They want to change an ordinance.
They get on. They fight for that and then they get off. I do not have any personal agendas.
I'm there for the people to be elected to speak for those people and to allow those residents to
come to me and work on any issues. I allow all of them to have an open discussion.
Eric, a final question and then we'll let you get back to your day. Why should voters cast their
ballot for you? Any final thoughts? I think if anybody could look back at my records since 2015,
all the majority of the meetings are recorded, the minutes are public. You can see how I voted.
I have voted no one's and stood on an island countless times when it comes to
fire department issues, public works issues, anything. I'm also very fiscally responsible.
If you look at the budget, the budget right now, Port Edwards is taking loans out to subsidize
their budget. That is not how a budget should work. That's not how my household income works.
We have to work together, save our money and if we can't afford certain services or products
or equipment, then we can't buy it. That's what it comes down to. We only got so many $20 bills
in our pocket. Eric, appreciate the time, appreciate the public service that you've put in.
Thanks so much for joining us today. You can find out more information about Eric and the other
candidates at myvote.wi.gov. Myvote.wi.gov and keep in mind that the legal women voters have their
candidates, they're going to be doing, interviewing, having a meet and greet with candidates tomorrow,
back my millen, more on that in a moment when we come back here on the morning show at WFHR.
Welcome back everybody. Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio. Just a couple of minutes left
of show. We're going to take a ride to the top of the hour, stick around everybody,
Matt and Eric coming up. Looking forward to hearing that wonderful voice of James. I think
Jane and Chuck have maybe my two favorite voices in radio and we get to hear them all the time
right here at WFHR, we're pretty spoiled. We have been very thankful, very spoiled by these
candidates that have been joining us. A big big thank you to all the candidates that have
joined us, including the two that did today. A big thank you to Elizabeth St. Myers,
Wisconsin Rabbit School Board candidate and to Eric Sayler, Port Edwards Village trustee
candidate. Thanks to them for joining us. Keep in mind that we are going to continue this
candidate series, everybody. We have got more candidates coming in tomorrow. We will have with
us at 835 Tom Ramon, candidate for Wisconsin Rabbit's older person district four and after that at
935 Daniel Carlson, candidate for Nukusa Mayor. On Friday at 845, John Benbow will join us,
candidate for Wisconsin Rabbit School Board and then on Monday at 935 Jamie Sparks, Wisconsin
Rabbit's older person district eight. I do believe that that will probably our last candidate
interview and that will wrap up our series. Big thank you to all these candidates for joining us,
be informed, get out there and vote everybody and find out more information about voting tomorrow
when our friends over at the League of Women Voters have their meet and greet going on. That is
going from six to eight over at Mimilin Library tomorrow from six to seven Wisconsin Rabbit's
mayoral candidates and to Wisconsin Rabbit City Council member candidates and then from seven to eight
Wisconsin Rabbit's public school board candidates and the town of Saratoga Supervisor candidates.
You can find out more by going to their website LWVWRA.org or of course go into myvote.wi.gov
you can find out more information there. Keep in mind we got a great midday magazine lined up for you
today. This is a jam packed hour we've got lined up from three to four today. In part one,
Wisconsin Rabbit's mayoral Shane Blazer going to be joining us along with Wisconsin Rabbit's
community media. I'm not sure if this is our last interview with Shane or not. We'll find out
and we'll talk with him a little bit later. Looking forward to that. And then from at 3.30
Wisconsin, the Senator Patrick Teston will be joining us. Looking forward to Senator Teston
joining us whenever he can. Always interesting and transparent conversation with the Senator.
So that's our hour for today from three to four. Be sure to join us for that. It's going to be a
lot of fun. I also want to remind everybody great local events going on in our area. Be sure to
check out the Elk's Lodge tonight from six thirty when they got their bingo going on. Their
doors open a five bingo at six thirty. Join our friends at the Elk's Lodge at 4.30 West
Jackson Street in Wisconsin. Rabbids and keep in mind that we are looking for all your egg hunts.
Yes. Okay, let us know about them. If you're an organization in the area that are hosting an
Easter egg hunt, we want to know about it. We want to celebrate it and talk about it on the
airwaves here. Go ahead and hit us up at 424 1300. That's our front desk line 424 1300.
Otherwise, you can go ahead and email us info at wfhr.com and just touching on one world good story.
Coca-Cola just did something big for the environment. All versions of Coke sold in 20
ounce bottles will now come in bottles made of 100% recycled, recycled plastic. The new bottles
hit store this week as a organization that has put a lot into our oceans pollution wise. I think
it is a very least they can do to do something like that. They still deserve credit to
for doing it and two high school sweethearts from Michigan reconnected after 73 years and started
dating again. Bill Hasenberg is 90 and Jonah Blacken is 92. They met on a school bus and went to
prom together but broke up after she left for college. Joanne's daughter looked bill up two years
ago and realized he only lived 80 miles away. So Joanne rode him and they've been talking ever since
congratulations to them. Have a great day everybody. Be good to each other. We'll talk to you soon
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