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, 804 in the clock. Got your host, James
J behind the mic. I am joined by CEO of Yuri Nightaway of South Winnie the M's Counties,
Terry Jones. Good morning. We got the band back together, Terry. We do. It's been a while.
Good to have you with us. It has. So happens when I skip a week. Yeah, that does happen.
We've got some good stuff to come up for you today. We're in kick things off with a good
friend, Brittany Marlowe, and talking a little mother nature. Good morning, Brett. Good
morning. I hate me too much today and tomorrow, okay? Brittany, while some people out there
might be a little disturbed by your forecast, my partner over here, Terry, she's going to love
your forecast. I must know love her. So bring it. Yeah, she's going to love it. Yeah,
you got good company right now. Good. Me and Terry will be out there enjoying this
snow storm. I wouldn't even take this storm. It's really not that big for our area. It's
going to see, we're going to see basically three to five inches wide spread. The heaviest
hitting of it is going to be from about three o'clock in the morning till eight in the
morning. We could see it coming down at an inch per hour. It has a potential to really
pack a punch. So long mornings commute is going to be rough. Today we're good. Nothing's
going to move in today. We're going to see actually a mix of sun and clouds and temperatures
hovering in those low to mid-30s, but later tonight, so it's in the clouds of a
push-in. We'll start to see a few flurries flying around potentially after a ton of
clock. But again, the heaviest accumulations will be from three a.m. to eight a.m. tomorrow.
Okay. All right. So with now, what is snow again, Brittany? I'm just trying to, I apologize.
I'm trying to hit him, but I can't. I'm nothing to throw. When you say a snowstorm, though,
this this year, that could be like a half an inch like that. We just haven't gotten
much. Is it enough to make a snowman? Is it like that? Maybe that's the way we should
do this. It only counts if it's that. If it is enough to have a snow fight or something
along those lines, I don't know. I agree with you. I'll tell you what, keep a
hands up for Sunday. I wouldn't want to be driving around on Sunday because we are in
the potential to get some act with even heavier smells in this round. So Saturday, you're
good to go for the weekend. Tomorrow morning is going to be rough and Sunday is going to
be the worst. Is this the kind of for snow that we're going to get possibly over the next
week? The kind that's going to stick around, going to stay on the ground a little bit with
the temps and everything. Sure. Yes. This first one tonight and tomorrow morning should
stick around for just a little bit. But I think by Monday, we are going to see rain pushing
in. And we're turning into the forties. It's going to be a splashy, sloppy, milky next
out there. Oh, yeah. Just a slop fest. Yep. Yep. Yeah. Oh, thank you, Brady. We appreciate
you. Thanks so much for the forecast. If we got to get a forecast like that, at least
we get it from you. You know, that makes it a lot easier. That makes a lot better. Appreciate
you. Have a good morning. You too. Thank you. She's the best. We appreciate her for
a pretty Marlowe joining us every morning. Get us updated on Mother Nature. So are you
in a better mood now? Do you do feel better with the forecast? I'm feeling good about
it. That's right. Terry, I appreciate you being with us. We'll get an update on the
United Way in a moment. We got a bunch of fun things to get to this morning. We will
get into, of course, the LKFA birthday and anniversary club looking forward to that.
That's going to be a lot of fun. And as we continue our candidate series at 835, we'll
have Tom Rayome with this Wisconsin rapids, Alder district fork incumbent looking forward
to talking with Tom today. And in 9 o'clock hour at 935, Daniel Carlson, Nukus Amerin
company, it's going to join us looking forward to that 9 o'clock hour. We'll also have
our pet of the week. We're just going to be reading that to you today because we won't
have Tim and Tim is unable to be with us. So Terry and I will cover the pet of the week
this week. We, we choose all the pets. Everyone of them, we can't choose just one. I mean,
I would have brought, I could have brought our dog along. He's not up, I mean, he's
not up for adoption. But I mean, we could have had a mascot today. I love that. I love
that. I want to dog in the studio every day. I'd be perfectly fine with that. Yeah,
that's that'd be great. That's all coming up for you. Everybody. We're also going to
get into, let's come on computer. All right. The worst things to wear in a first date.
I, I, I, I cannot wait to dive in this one. And I am going to take a lot of notes.
I'm getting really good visuals right now. Yeah. I'm going to get into that one a little
bit later. Looking forward to it. Also got, would you rather get a, one of those, would
you rather question? It goes fun. Yeah. I think we'll have some fun with that one. All
kinds of other things coming up. And it's, of course, Terry and I in studio together
who knows what can happen. Before we get an update on the United Way, Terry, I did want
to, um, thank you, though, professionally, uh, publicly. Oh, you, uh, you made a, something
I've wanted for like 20 years. I'm one of the waffle maker. And you got me one. And
I finally got the chance to use it over the weekend. And I did not realize how much I
was missing out of waffles. They're taste so much better. There's, and the flip thing
is fun. I mean, it's fun. You know, uh, they're quick. They're easy. I was not, I did
not burn down the house. Nice. And the flavor in that, like, uh, something about that hot
cast iron. Uh, I, so I used a butter, uh, just to, to the, you know, uh, so you want
stick? Yeah. And, and I don't know if that made the difference or not, but wow, they
were amazing. Uh, best waffles I've ever had. Like, I think really by far it away. So
I wanted to thank you. How fun was it? Playing in that center? Well, not bad. No, it's
not bad. It's, um, it did take me a little bit to get you to figure out how much to put
on there. The first, the first couple of them, like, all right, I, that's a little extra.
That's a little bit, put that on the side. I don't need that. I appreciate it. When you
turn it, if it pours out, that's too much. Yeah. It's probably a good side. Probably a good
side. Um, I appreciate that. We, of course, appreciate you and everything you and your team
at the United Way do. I do want to remind everybody, um, we had, uh, Amy in the other
day, uh, talking about two on one on midday magazine. Encourage you to go ahead and check
that interview out. If you didn't get to hear it, go to civic media dot us and check out
the interview under the mid in midday magazine section. Uh, it's a great conversation.
We really got to dive into two on one talk about it, talk about the services that offers
and really understand some of the work that's on their shoulders with that job. So we
really appreciated that conversation with her and appreciate all these different events
you guys have going on. Um, big one coming up with community shred day. Wanted to make
sure to mention that. Yep. So on April 10th, um, which is a Wednesday. We have community
shred day, which is hosted and sponsored by, um, prevailed bank here in Wisconsin Rapids.
Uh, they will donate $1,000 to us for the first thousand pounds of shredded paper and then
bank account corporation will donate another thousand for the second thousand pounds. But
what the event is is you have, um, we all have sensitive documents at home that should
be shredded. And so this is an opportunity to come and get those shredded for free. You
can bring two boxes, um, to be shredded free. And then the cool thing is if you have a
third box, right? Each additional box is only a $5 donation. So it's pretty cool. It
starts at 9 a.m. on April 10th and, um, goes until 11 or until we have to always put this
disclaimer out there or until shredding capacity is reached because often the truck will be
full. So shred save comes in and he can just only, you know, take so many patterns back
with him. So, um, when it's full, it's full. But if anybody do encourage people to, to
mark that date, you don't even have to get out of your car. We'll have volunteers there
who can, you know, approach the vehicle, grab your box or bag or whatever it is that you brought
your papers in. And we will get those in the bins and they will go, they go right in the truck
and get shredded on site. So they get shredded, you know, right away that day. They're not being
taken somewhere or anything like that. But a cool event to, um, you know, protect your,
your, your identity and thinking about personal safety and personal finance and what that means.
So again, you know, our thanks to our friends at prevail bank and, um, of course bank account.
We also are taking teams for United We Can. So if people want to sign up for United We Can,
no time like the present, um, the game will be, um, June 17th. So that's when, when we are playing,
um, I don't know, I have no idea what team we're playing, but it doesn't matter. I'm just
there to cheer for the rafters. Yeah. Yeah. We were, uh, I had Tyler, uh, we've been talking
with Tyler Miller or assistant GM over there. Yeah. And, uh, we're, we're so excited to be, he's
going to be in on Monday with us for playmakers. We're so excited to talk rafters. They're like,
there's certain signs of spring rafter baseball around the corner United We Can. This is one
of those signature events of your guys. So I, for some reason, I feel like it's Kalamazoo,
but I really don't know. Um, but that is our food sculpture contest. Um, coming up
and so we are taking teams. It could be a business, a family, a civic group, a church. We've
had all different kinds of, you know, groups that, that represents, um, United We Can and really
about drawing attention to hunger in our community. The other thing that we're offering right now
is my free taxes and my free taxes is an opportunity for you to file your income taxes for free.
If you have not, um, done so, you can visit our website at UWswac.org. You can click on the banner
that says my free taxes and it will take you to, um, the website where you can, um, file your,
your taxes for free. Also, just a little bit noteworthy, I think, is that it's also mobile friendly.
So if you don't have a, you know, laptop or, or PC at home, you certainly can, um, you know,
do it from your, from your mobile phone as well. It's, uh, it's a, it's a really easy, uh,
app to be able to use. It's a very, I use it on my laptop, but I've used it on the app one year
and it worked really well. Um, it's such a simple service that even I can do it. I really do
encourage people to check it out. Uh, nowadays, you know, every penny counts and if you can save,
not having to do that through that, my free taxes, it works really well. I, um, for me, I still get
all my benefits. I still get everything that I can get out of my taxes. I'm able to get through
it. It really breaks it down very easy for you. I've been using it. I think this will be the fifth
year. Yeah. And it's, it is pretty user-friendly, like you said. So it, you know, just walk through
the steps and, and make your way, make your way through it. But that is available. Um, of course,
up until tax day. Yes. Yeah. Get those taxes. What are we about a month away? Little less than a
month away. So it's coming. As, uh, they say in my family, don't go out like Capone. You know,
Juby, they got Capone that way. You know, it's always, like, since I was like five years old,
I've been hearing that. Like, there's all these other things that five-year-olds learn,
except you, you're learning about taxes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, encourage people to check that out
and so much more and sign up for that team with United Weekend and we'll meet you at the Winter
Field on the 18th. Uh, it looks like they'll be playing the Battle Creek Battle Chips. Oh,
Battle Creek. All right. That'll be good. What? That'll be good. That's awesome. Uh, encourage you
to do that. Everybody and get ready for Raptors baseball. Go to NorthwoodsLeague.com. But get your
tickets and sign up for their newsletter and all the different things that they have going on
over there. And, uh, again, be listening to Playmakers this Monday, Tyler Miller. It's just GM over
there. It's going to join us. Tyler and I are going to talk a little bit about, uh, uh, just a little
kind of, uh, it's behind the curtain. Look for the audience out there. We just, uh, re-signed up with
our Raptors. So the Raptors, of course, are going to be home of the, this is going to be the home
for the Raptors for another season as there has been every season. Keep in mind every pitch,
every hit, every win of the Raptors and, uh, entire legacy has been right here at WFHR. And
far as we're concerned, to always will be. Uh, that's our hometown team. Uh, we, we really
appreciate that. Really enjoy that. And find out more about your riverkings as they are back in
action tomorrow. They are getting into the playoffs over in New York. We're, uh, cheering for them,
rooting for them. Keep up the date and everything. They're doing go to riverkingshockey.com. And, uh,
get ready for some more talk on that on Monday, too, because we'll have coached and we're looking
forward to it. Cool. The El Café. Oh, do you have some? Well, I just want one other thing,
because I haven't been here since Power of the Purse. Yeah. And so, um, Power of the Purse was
last week, Tuesday. And, um, we were just shy of raising $10,000 for early grade learning and
literacy from our Power of the Purse event. So, oh, I get bells, too. Well, that's awesome. Uh, so,
so that was just really awesome. So, you know, again, it's been a week already, but I just,
you know, shout out to everyone who attended and, of course, all of our sponsors and, you know,
WFHR is a media sponsor. I meant to bring that up. Yeah, no fair enough. Well, it's, I mean,
we move on, right? Like, we can't, we can't dwell in last week, but that was a really
well-turned-out event. I heard from somebody that went to it and she said that she really enjoyed
it. It was really great. And the purses went like crazy and everything. Yeah, everything was good.
Really good to hear. Really good to hear. Find out more about your United Way UW-S-W-A-C.org.
Be sure to follow them on social media. It's a great, follow great way to keep up the date and
everything in your community. The El Café birthday anniversary club right around the corner
with Terry and James on the morning show at WFHR. It's time for the birthday anniversary club
starring our great friends at El Café. We encourage you to treat yourself and get on over to El Café.
They're waiting for you at 221 Market Avenue and beautiful port Edwards. Head on over there,
wishing them a good morning from all of us here at WFHR. I was there right now. I'd get an omelet.
That sounds really good. They've got some good ones going on today. They're breakfast special
crepes combo. Oh, okay, I like it. Sounds really good. Get a nice lunch special for you, a chicken
wrap with french fries or fruit. It's all kinds of great stuff. You can't go wrong with all the great
things that they have on that menu. Go ahead and check it out for yourself at El Café and get us
those birthdays and anniversaries, everybody. We love celebrating with you. Get them to info at
WFHR.com, james.mailf at civicmedia.us. You can direct messages on our Facebook pages.
And of course, call up. Join the conversation 424-2600. Just to touch or two away on the civic media app,
which you should have downloaded so you can play the excellent contest we have going on.
Yeah, or just give us a call. Give us a call. We love hearing from you. 715-424-2600.
Go ahead and give us a call. Join the conversation. Terry, I have three possible qualifiers today.
I need one through three. Two. That gives us that qualifier. All right, we can get right into
this celebration. And first up, we want to wish happy birthday to an old friend of ours around here.
Mr. Chris Woolridge. Happy birthday, Chris. Enjoy your day, sir. I hope it's a good one.
Yeah, yeah. Chris, you deserve it. Yeah. Chris, I still talked to him every once in a while. Good
guy. He's a great guy. A lot of our listeners still remember Chris over the years and everything.
Made an impact around here, Chris. We also wish happy birthday to Christopher Gash.
Happy birthday, Christopher. Another friend of the community. This Chris, you've seen him on the
Wisconsin Rapids Community Theater stage many times. Chris does a lot in the community.
Absolutely. A lot of different things. I really appreciate what he does. And I love catching up
with him whenever we have a chance to. Sometimes he joins us with encourage and other organizations.
Good, good, good, got, good, got. Extremely talented. I almost forgot to mention how good he's
I can sing and dance. And they're like, oh my god. piano. Yeah. Yeah. There's like fabulous.
I feel like Chris is one of those people. I put a fiddle in front of him and he can play it.
I think that he plays the organ too, actually. That's right. He does. You're right. He does.
Pan, he's talented. Happy birthday, Christopher. Happy birthday. And our qualifier today,
Laurie, uh, Laurie Flueta. Happy birthday, Laurie. Laurie Flueta. Happy birthday to you. That is a
beautiful name. I want to say the whole day. It's one of those days you want to say the whole thing.
Laurie, enjoy your day. Hope it's a great one for you. You're our qualifier today.
And thanks to everybody that got us these birthdays and anniversaries. We appreciate you,
everybody. Enjoy your day. Wish you a good one. We're going to get to our celebrity birthdays here.
But I have to take a pause real quick because I had something happen the other day.
My, you know, like everybody out there, your parent has said your name. Usually when you're in
trouble, it's your full name. Yeah. For me, James John mail off, you know, that thing. Yeah.
But I noticed something. I don't think I ever picked up on this before. My mom calls me Jimmy,
you know, every once in a while. She usually calls me James. Whatever once in a while, it's Jimmy.
But I heard her the other day and I wasn't looking. She said Jimmy or something like that. And it
sounded like a swear word. Did you come out of your skin? Yeah. Yeah. When your, your parent says
your name in a certain tone where it can sound like a swear word. Like that's exactly what it felt
like. Good. Good on your parents. We all know those. We all know those moments. Taking a look at our
celebrity birthdays here. Let's see. Scott Eastwood is 38 Clint Sun. He's in the Fast and Furious
movies Pacific Rim. It's a good character actor. He's already building a nice career. Not bad,
not bad either. Let's see here. Rachel McFarland is 48. She is the voice, one of the voices,
is Seth McFarland's daughter. She's one of the voices on his show. Okay. Amanda Lewis is 51,
MTV VJ. And she was on the, Amanda Lewis show. All right. And let's see here. Okay. Here we go.
80s, 90s time Terry. Joan Jonas Beger from Ace of Base is 57 today. I don't know that name,
but when you said Ace of Base, there you go. Yeah. Matthew Broderick is 62 today. There we go.
Ferris Bueller. Yes. Yes. God would a good actor. Do you know him from anything else?
Project X and the producers. But you're right, though. Ferris Bueller is the first thing you think of.
The first thing you think of. Yeah. Rosie O'Donnell, 62 today. Oh, nice. I remember her being a really,
like when I first think of her, I don't think of her as a talk show host or an actor or anything.
I think of her as a stand-up comedian. I remember. And night at the improv on A&E. She used to be
on there a couple of times. And she was great. She was a really good stand-up comedian.
Nothing like as she would turn out to pop culture kind of, you know, much more edgy and everything.
But I remember as a kid liking her and thinking she was funny. Let's see here. Slim Jim Phantom
is 63 Stray Cats drummer. Oh, the Stray Cats. Oh, the Stray Cats makes our 80s hearts happy hearing
something like that. And I think one of the greatest actors of all time, one of my top five favorite
actors of all time, Mr. Gary Oldman is 66 today, won an Oscar in 2018 for playing Winston
Churchill in darkest hour, serious black in the Harry Potter movies, Jim Gordon in the Christopher
Nolan Batman movies. He is Dracula and Bram Stroker. I can keep going. Gary Oldman has never done a
bad scene. Never. This is one of the greatest, most perfect actors you will ever see on screen.
There are a few people that I've studied more than Gary Oldman. And so much so to the
just to the little little interest could see so that he can do the little details that he adds
that is so different than other actors I've ever seen, including some greats that I look up to.
There's few people that are paying attention to the details like Gary Oldman does.
There's one other thing that I think is really noteworthy about him. Gary Oldman's famous
for playing villains, Dracula, you know, all these dark characters and everything. Everybody that
has ever worked with him talks so highly of him. Daniel Radcliffe, Harry Potter himself,
credits Gary Oldman with he would not be as well adjusted. Not talking about his acting or
anything, talking about him as a person and how he's handled his celebrityism and everything.
When's the last time you heard a problem with any of these Harry Potter kids? You know,
all of them like that's not how child starts. That's not what that usually works. He believes
that Gary Oldman is a big part of why he and him his cast turned out the way they did. Gary would
sit there and talk with these kids and talk about the scenes and laugh and have fun with them and then
the camera, the camera says action and boom, he's Gary Oldman. He's just locked in and ready to go.
Like that's a true actor right there. It's not just being credited and being good on screen.
Lots of actors are talented. Lots of people can do stuff on screen. It takes the true essence of
an artist of a reactor is bringing people up with you. It's not, I'm this great. I want you to be
this great too. I want you to be up here with me. Who you are when the camera's off.
Yes. Yeah. So much. So much. That's a real. Yeah. He's talented in everything but the reason I
keep rambling about him is because of the person he is off stage that is so much. Let's see here.
Roger Hodgson is 74. Super tramp guitars. Super tramp. Good band. Timothy Dalton 78.
Yeah. Wow. He had a good career. He had a good career. Timothy Dalton. That's still working.
Still working. Still a very, very working quite a lot. Ross Stone is 79 from Slian to
Family Stones, the organist for Slian to Family Stones. And Johann Sebastian Bach, born
this day in 1685, passed away in 1750. Man, I remember some Bach concerts. Guy can rock.
No, no. Bach was responsible for some of the greatest music ever written in history and the
planet Earth. There's a ton of great music that Bach has read it. Think of that? Think what
how long ago that was. I mean, yeah. That's pretty remarkable. The thing about, like there are a
lot of great artists that we've gotten to experience that have been around in the last 50,
hundred years. And their music is timeless. The Beatles, the Stones, you know, so many of these
bands and everything. And then there's guys like Bach, where it's hundreds of years their music
and it's still relevant. It's still like it's still just stands up. Yeah, that's I can't think
of much like a there's legacy and under something like that. I can't even rent my mind around.
It's impressive. It's pretty awesome. One more time, wishing happy birthday to Chris Woolridge
and our good friend Christopher Gash. And of course, our qualifier today, Laurie Flouetta.
Happy birthday. Enjoy your day, everybody. Have a great day. Everyone out there will
wishing you the best of days. Enjoy it. Crapes at El Café right now. Yeah, you want to head
on over to El Café, everybody. That does sound really, really good. Head on over to El Café.
Wish them a great day from all of us. There are 221 Market Avenue, beautiful boarded words.
Treat yourself. Get on over to El Café. Wish them a good day from all of us at WFHR.
Welcome back everybody to the morning show here at WFHR. Locally grown radio. Have your host,
James J. I'm joined by Terry Johns and we're going to continue our candidate series right now.
Here at WFHR for over 80 years, we have welcomed on all of our local candidates giving them equal
time and equal time of the day to be able to talk about their issues and reach out to their
constituents. We're very thankful to all these candidates that have been joining us. We're going to
handle the today's interviews the same as we've been doing all of them. I'll ask some questions.
They'll answer them. We'll move on. We'll keep going. I want to remind you that you can find out
who is on your ballot. If you are registered, where to vote. All the key information you need to know
and myvote.wi.gov. Myvote.wi.gov. We have been with us right now. Tom Rayome, Wisconsin Rapids,
Alder Person District 4 incumbent. Tom, thanks for being here. Thank you for inviting me and
having me on. Good night to be here. Tom, we are really one of our bigger causes around here.
One of the things that matters so much to us and to me personally is encouraging more and more
people to be into a civic service, to run for boards, to run for positions like yourself.
So my first question, the essence of it is that. How have you enjoyed this experience?
I've enjoyed it. I've been on this for a long time. I was involved before. I became an Alderman. I
mean, went to meetings and whatnot to see how government operated. You know, I went to Madison,
I guess, to see how they ran and make sure I knew what was going on. I tried to make sure I didn't
know what was going on. And that's, I've been first got elected as Alderman. My name was
actually in 1992. There was a stretch, I think, about four years where it wasn't. And then I ran
again and got back in. And so I've enjoyed the time. I've joined the growth of the city, but also
I think at times when people would say we're going downhill. And you know, we've lost jobs and
whatnot. But I think at times we've been too negative about what's going on. And we have to,
even though things might look dark at times that we have to present a progressive attitude that
we're trying to come back, not just to be in this old room of that we're not doing anything.
Tom, what do you see as the responsibilities of an older person?
Let's look at, I think, you know, it's city-wise, but I think the district that you're in to see
how it's growing, not growing. If it's, you know, where I'm at, I have a terrific grade school,
a Washington school over there. I think it's there are areas that maybe we need to look at
that are become maybe more blighted, might be the word or whatever that take away through
the looks of that. And then people will say, well, I have it right to make my place look like it
and that's true. But to most people, I think, to make it look a little nicer in that. But the district
gets, what do we want to have the roads nice, presentable neighborhood, business to come in,
we have grocery stores in that. But it's to try and spread that around the whole city too. It's not
just district by district, we look out for ourselves, I think, to do that. But it's, when it comes
down to it's, you support what the district wants, but it also has to be what is the best for
the entire city that we have to do that. So we're speaking with Tom Riehl, Wisconsin
RAB is all their district for incumbent. Tom, how do you look to include the community in your decision-making?
Well, like I said, and one thing that we've had over the years is actually a decline of people
who attend the meetings. I mean, you go back years ago, there were people that were there. I can
remember a gentleman that was still attending meetings and he was 99 years old. And, you know,
passed away, but I mean, he was still involved in what the city was doing. He had been a business owner
prior to that, you know, and his working life and that. So I think it's people to be involved,
it's a, to just get in and to run is one thing, but I think to research what you're really
getting into of what it is, and to know the ins and outs. And in your own mind, you have to have
beliefs too of what you believe in, you know, of what you see what the city can become. You know,
it's always, it should always be that we're looking out to make the city better than what it is
to keep improving because, you know, I'm getting up in the age, but I would hope that my kids,
grandkids, and that are going to have a better opportunities than what I had when I grew up. And
I know that's an old cliche thing that people say, but it's a, I think, and I hope most people
would want that to happen. Tom, our last question for you, we can get you out of here. Why?
To be gone, be home before the snow. Before the snow. All right, we won't keep you that long.
Why should voters cast their ballot for you? Any final thoughts?
Well, I think, you know, with all getting into it, or it's a,
it's a win-lose sometimes of what the position is because you have at times you have to take
a position that may not be popular, but you have to explain why. You know, it's people want to say,
cut taxes, cut taxes, but which would be nice. Everybody would agree with it. But at the same
point in time, and I think it involves all the politics is that if you want to do something,
what do you want to cut? If that's what the deal is, tell me.
City government, a big part of what our budget is, is wages, benefits, the workers that we have.
Do people want to cut that? And what do you get by cutting that? Do they want to cut
snowplow drivers as we have snow coming? Do we want to cut police that we need?
Fire departments. We have to make tough, tough decisions. One was the other night and I,
I know not everybody is probably real happy with it. There are reasons that people supported it,
opposed it, but we have a fire truck that actually when I was first on the council, we bought.
And we're still using it. And we're past time when we should have bought a new truck.
So now we're at the point of where it's a million and a half or so dollars being talked about,
but if we had done that five years ago or so or whatever, it would have been cheaper.
How do we pay for it? We should decide that at the time we're doing it,
but sometimes it's only possible to get there by people agreeing to buy it and we'll take care
of it later. But it has to be done. We can wait another five years. It's probably going to be
two million dollars or more by that point in time. So we're just putting off things like that that
those are built, you know, like I'm going to have to my younger people in that are going to have to
pay for, but it's over a period of time. But if we wait longer, it's going to cost more to get
that. So we just have to get our acts together, I think, and to be positive about it. And I think,
you know, we just come in, we, like I said earlier, we have, as we get into this and I think,
and this is my belief anyway, that we, there's a reason why we run. And I think people should see
that. What is the real reason they're running? Mine is that I want to make the community better.
I've been around here. I grew up here. I've lived here my entire life. I grew up in Port Edwards.
I went to grade school there. I went to assumption high school in the rapids. I lived in rapids for a
long time. I worked for, uh, which dumped our papers now. Many different names. Why work? But I
worked there for 45 years, which you don't hear much of people saying anywhere working that long.
I've enjoyed the area. We've had our ups and downs. It's the, to me, it's the tide to keep going.
And, uh, you know, resurrect us. And I, we have to get away from negativity because I think,
but, you know, to debate something and sound like it gets something is not really always the case.
It's what is the best way to go, but to go. It's not just to say, no, how do we get to the,
the best resolution of what we want to do? And I think I've, I think I've done that. I can,
I've worked with a lot of different older people all these years. And, uh, you know, some have been
very conservative. Some have been more liberal, maybe, but what I do tell people is that
actually was more, and I hate to use the word, maybe not hate, but the word fun because we
did have our disagreements and we argued, but we were friends. We were able to talk. And that's
how we resolved issues. We didn't always agree on maybe our resolution because we had the debate,
but we had the debate. And that, that's what is missing. People want it's my way or no way. And I,
you know, there's, to argue you point, you believe your points that, that I think is most important.
Really testing my journalistic integrity here, sir. I'm not supposed to comment on anything,
but I could not agree with you more. I could not agree with you more. And I really do appreciate
the touching on the divisiveness and everything. I think that's an important topic. I've been on
the radio many times over the years. It's been a long time. Well, just do me a favor. You're
keep doing this because I need this job and you're very good on the radio. So please don't take my
job. I need this job, but I thank you very much for not only the time today, Tom, but what you've
given to our community, the time that you have put into it over the years. Thank you very much for
your service. Appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you, everybody. One, I remind everybody that our
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Terry and James here with you, a couple of 90s kids, so we've got to play some 90s stuff,
yeah, it was one of those songs. There's something about the music you grew up on, even with a
one-hit wonder. I don't even have to think about it, deep blue something. Like I haven't thought
about this band in ages, but I know the name of the band like on the top of my head. I could not
tell you what I had for breakfast this morning. Nothing. I'm not even sure what I, yeah,
that's actually right, yeah. But I know that. I do that. I guess it's just funny. You can hear
more great 90s hits every Sunday from 8 to 9 with unlabeled our 90s mixtape. Join me for this
fun show that we have right after this episode of Music from 6 to 8. It's a great time. Get
us your requests. Email me. Get us any of your 90s songs you want to hear. If it was released
from 1990 to 1999, we will play it. Let us know. Terry got me your request this morning, a really
good one. Looking forward to playing it for you. Coming up. That's going to be fun. I want to
get into this one, Terry. And speaking of the 90s and dating and wearing the wrong thing to a date,
which is good. I'm pretty sure every date I've ever been on, at least allow say this. My first
date, every first date I've ever been on, I've worn the wrong thing. I'm almost positive.
Do you wear the same thing for all of us? No, it might as well. Pretty much. It's me. You can
imagine what I would wear to a first date. It's probably dark clothing. It's more than likely.
It's something that doesn't make me look. Like a rugby looking shirt. Yeah, probably, probably.
So someone pulled 3,000 Americans from all walks of life and asked if a poor fashion choice or two
would make them say no to a second date. Only 13% said it would matter at all. 56% said that
that factors in. 31% said that it's a total deal breaker. And they wouldn't go out on a second date
even if the person seemed like a good match, just because of their clothes. Well, I mean,
I don't know. Yeah, but okay, what have you shown up in like Zubos? Yeah, okay. No, no, yes, yes, yes.
I'm not getting a 100% agree with you. I will say, though, two out of these 3,000 people that
they surveyed, I got to gather with looking at these numbers. All of them are like under 25
because if you were over the age of 25, the older you get the less, it's not that you settle,
but I think you start understanding a little bit more of like, well, okay, maybe I was a little
too picky or maybe, you know, I need to, you know, understand that there is no such thing as a
perfect person out there for a reason. Does it depend where the first date is? Oh, good question.
Yes, very good question, I think. Yeah, you know, yeah, that's a very good thing. Like, if you're
going to a movie, maybe come, come for your clothes is, you know, probably fine, but like, you know,
if you're going out to dinner and person shows up and like sweatpants. Yeah, no, no, that isn't,
that is a red one. I'll even admit that one. Yeah, even I haven't done that. Yeah. So here are
eight fashion choices that at least one in five Americans would see as a big red flag on a first
date. I think we, we don't have to, I had to listen or ask me this before, what a red flag was.
And in our defense, she's been married for like 40 years. So I think it's understandable.
Caution, it means caution. It means caution. It means like, okay, this is definitely not
somebody I want to second it. Put your radar up, right? Like, I'm not even giving this person my
last name. Like, I'm not even going to let them know my full name. But that's the kind of red flag
we're talking about. I grabbed their phone when they go to the bathroom and delete my number.
My name James Johnson. Yes, Johnson's my last name.
Wearing a full track suit. 28% red flag.
A green. Yeah. Although it does make me think of Will Ferrell. And I've probably done that.
I'm going to be honest. I've probably done that. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Really? I was really young.
I was really young. I'll say that. I was like, what, like 43? Yeah, I was like, I was 35, Terry.
A full designer outfit head to toe. Agreed. Yeah. That what I could see that. You know,
over the top, right? Yeah. I mean, I'll be the first person to admit because I am probably the
greatest example of not knowing how to dress yourself at my age. But the idea of finding the
balance of, okay, you don't want to put on airs probably. If everything works out the way you
want it to, you're going to have a second, third, fourth date. That's a lot to keep up with.
You know, you're dressing to the nine. It's every single time and everything. But you also don't
want to look like a slot. So you got to find that balance. I could see that being a little difficult
at the same time. A full designer outfit does kind of that does seem to be like, but number three
on the list, Crocs. That one's that. So this is this seems, here's another thing about this, Terry.
And I know we we don't have Crocs. Do you? No, I don't. I've never had a pair never. We've talked
about this. I've never even tried a pair on. And that's another one I had to listen or say to
me because I was joke. I think the last time we talked about Crocs, I was making fun of them
or something. And she's like, well, have you ever tried them? I was, no, I've never put up
a pair on. So that's to be fair. I've never tried them on. I think they have a place. I mean,
like I have a pair. And honestly, I probably use them more for like just doing like outside work
or when I'm doing pool work, you know, like that kind of thing. I don't I don't think anyone's
ever seen me with them on outside of my yard. But um, plenty of people wear them. That's fine,
but I do see sometimes people wearing them. And I'm like, what in heaven's name is happening with
this outfit? I have something else here that I'm noticing with this list. And I know we don't do this
very often in society anymore. Equality is very important. And you hear me ramble about that all
the time. But I do think that there are differences clearly between men and women. I don't think it's
harm to notice that it's part of what makes both sex is amazing. You know, whether there's
plenty of things to highlight about women, plenty of things to highlight about men. And I think
the things that we are interested in are different, obviously. And I'm looking at this list and where
you're coming from I get, but as a man, I will tell you, if I meet an eight out of 10 woman or
something like that and she has crocs on, not going to phase me one bit. So you, so you have to
pick her up for a date and she comes walking out with like teal crocs on. You're not even like,
not even a little bit. If no, double take. Yeah. If everything else is great. Like I'm, that's
the last thing I'm worried about is her shoes. Like, do we, do we like to say music? Are we laughing
at the same things? I can put up with a lot of fashion choices. I dated a girl for like three years,
and she every time she wore, she wore different socks. She like mismatched. Yeah. Yeah. It was,
it was a thing for her. Yeah. I mean, I don't have a high bar when it comes to these things. I
think a lot of guys are like that too. Oversized sunglasses, especially if it's at night. That's
another one on the list. That's just weird. Yeah. I don't know what the, yeah. I don't know why
like I did like a gag kind of thing. Like who does that? It's kind of like somebody coming in with
a huge sombrero on or something like that. Remember those, like, like you could get them at the
dollar store, but I'm sure you could have other, but those sunglasses that were like, like,
really ginormous, you know, for fun, like they were a costume thing. Like that would be maybe
funny, but I could see like certain pairs of sunglasses kind of being a little bit, not maybe not a
red flag, but like, but yeah, like you come out, like it said at night, you come out with these
gripping sunglasses. That's not good. What are you drunk? Like what you want for me to see your eyes?
Are you, you have to tell me if you're a vampire? You have to tell me. That's got to come
out. Because you would really like that. Yeah. Well, maybe, maybe we'd have the same hours. We
at least, you know, I don't think we have the same diet, but at least we have the same hours.
So it's nice. Anything with anything with a huge logos on it. So you're wearing a shirt and it's
got a big logo on it. I'm not sure about that one. I'm not there. I don't know. Try to find a shirt
that doesn't have a logo on it now. I think, yeah, I guess it depends on the person. I mean, for me,
like if it was a sports logo, you know, I mean, like you come out with like an adidas t-shirt on
or something. That's fine. But like if it's some big, like it's fenty or like a, you know, going
back to the designer thing, like if you really got a show that you have some clout, then eh.
Should I have been taking notes? I think yes, or you probably just start sending me a picture
before you leave the house. That's exactly what I'm doing. Give yourself enough time to change
though. When you have just done to yourself, you poor, poor person. I'm so sorry for you.
Again, give yourself time to change. Yeah, yeah. A shirt that's way too tight. Okay, I could see that
being one too. I could see that. Well, let's go ahead and open this up to the phone lines.
A good morning. What's on your mind? You probably figured I was going to call on this one. I had to.
I was waiting. I was waiting. Do you have crocs on right now? I can't work. Crocs. That works.
Okay. If you weren't at work, would you have crocs on?
Yeah, I think it's comfortable.
Are they the ones with the, are they the lined ones or the regular ones?
Oh, they're camouflage. And do you wear your adventure straps? Or no?
You've got to know. I didn't know there was so many crocs questions going on. You really do.
But you're like me with our politicians. You go candidates and everything. Answer the question.
All right. So what are your thoughts? Yeah.
Oh, okay. James, I'm kind of on your end where, you know, probably I think you said
between a difference between a male and female and their thoughts of what the people wear is,
you know, to me, if the person's comfortable, I just don't want to see them come out looking,
you know, like with, you know, pajama pants and crocs and, you know, you know,
like nowadays, you know, at our age, if they would interview some, probably, you know,
do this survey with our age, they probably become completely different from, you know,
the 19 to 30. Yes, it might be completely different. Couldn't agree more. You know, I mean,
on that list is that sandals with socks on there. Oh, I'm so Betsy and I'm sure they're white
tube socks too. Ankle, ankle socks with sneakers is on here, but that is not on here. That's a good one
though. That's a good one. What's wrong with ankle socks? I don't know. I don't know. You're supposed
to get the low ones, like the low, no rise ones, although the ankle, like the ankle socks are making
it come back with the kids. So those are probably okay. Yeah. But socks with sandals come on. Yeah,
nobody, nobody should be your socks with sandals. It's kind of like the fedora. Like it takes a
special person to be able to pull off a fedora and they existed in the 1920s. Like outside of that,
there's not many people that can pull off a fedora, especially on a first date. How many scenarios
are there where you should be wearing a fedora? I love fedoras. I think they're really cool hats,
but like on stage, like in real life, I don't know, walking around with a fedora. I mean, so like
you two, seriously, you invite a girl out, you're going to go, we're going to go grab some dinner
and have a drink. So in my mind, that's like a kind of a bot like I does or something like that,
right? Okay, so something casual. And you go and pick her up and she walks out in like baggy
sweatpants and crocs and then like a logo t-shirt, you're good. Is she cute? I don't know because
she has big sunglasses on. Oh, darn it. Okay. Well, the sunglasses that doesn't throw it off a
little bit, that does. But no, no, we're not as picky. I don't know if we're not, I shouldn't say
that I'm not as picky. Here's the question though. Leggings, honestly, are probably worse than
sweatpants after a certain age. Yeah, I think our calves put it perfectly, I think. I feel the same
as you do in this. When it comes to like to me, the sexiest thing in the world is somebody who's
comfortable with me is somebody who feels relaxed, feels comfortable. And oftentimes that means sweatpants,
that means you know, being more comfortable. Not not on the first date, maybe, but eventually,
that is where it's that stuff. The first date thing though, I see where you're going with it.
I think you got to stick with what the question is. I mean, it's not about being superficial,
but it's like, this is our first date. Yeah, yeah. And there are things that you, well, okay,
this, because this is how this person's presenting themselves the first time that then I see where you're
going. It's only down hill after that. Yeah, I could see possibly where you're going with it, but
then a good Terry. I'm 47. Wait. Hey, beggars and choosers. Right.
The deal breaker might be on my end, you know, if they come out with, you know, if they're
wearing cracks or some type of, you know, sand or something, nice jeans. But if it's a tailor swift
t-shirt, I'm a turtle. I'm not getting out of the car. I'm putting the car in part.
It's like liana patch a rubber on the red one. See, we all have our things.
You saved some time that way. I always appreciate the time, man. Thanks for calling it up.
And if you're wearing socks with sandals, you should probably stop. That's a public service
announcement to all. I'm sorry. Have a good one, man.
You two, you two. Look at the rest of this list. That was so good. Look at the rest of this list.
15, 14% would be turned away by a man purse. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I can see you can see that
with a little bit. The fanny pack I will add to that. Yeah. You can't show up with a fanny pack on
your purse. You're going hiking. True. Okay. That's different. Yeah. I'm just saying a backpack
or actually hiking on a first. That's a good first date. I never thought I liked that. Well,
yeah. It's very good. Yeah. Yeah. Actually, I really do got to talk to you before these things.
I really do. The also I'd hear fedores. 14% with fedores. I told you. Yeah. Yeah. It's so
weird. It's a cool hat. I'll admit. But I don't know about like wearing it just every day. That
kind of thing. But if you're going to see one on someone, aren't you seeing it on like
someone over a certain age? Yes. You're not seeing it on a young person. Yeah. You're
I don't think I agree. I mean, my visual of it is not that. A vest with overly large armholes.
I don't even know what that is. I don't have to do it. Yeah. Yeah. And band t-shirts, they're
band t-shirts could be one of them. No, it depends, I guess. Yeah. Maybe that wouldn't be a
deal breaker for me. Well, especially if you oh, you like that too. That could be a nice
breaker. Unless they wear it for the second, third, fourth date. I'm saying sure. That's a problem.
Or to what Kevin was saying, there's point and everything. If it's an artist you don't like
and you see it like that, that could be a bit better. Yeah, it could be. I don't know if that
one's not so bad, especially because some of the other things on this list and everything.
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We're going to kick off the 9 o'clock hour with our pet of the week from South
Rock County, Maine Society. Also looking forward to talking with Nicosomero candidate Daniel
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