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, but James
behind the mic. I am joined by our head of news, Melissa K. Good morning. Our head of
production, Seth Habhager. Good morning, all. And of course, the best listeners and radio
all of you. Thanks for joining us, everybody. We're going to kick things off of the good
friend, Brittany, talking to a little mother nature. Good morning, Britt. Good morning,
the sunshine is back. Isn't it wonderful? It is. Yeah, it's been there for a while this
morning, too. I've been here since five and it's been there for a while. It came out
early this morning. Just shiner right in your eyes. Yeah. We'll take it. We'll take it.
It's better than the alternative for what we had. Whatever yesterday was. I left the,
I come into work and I can barely, I'm taking it easy going like five miles an hour because
of the roads. I leave and it's like 50. And I go out to take my fur brother, Sam out
for a walk and it's pouring out and snowing and rain. I actually heard mother nature just
throw her hands up in the air like, ah, I left the room. Yeah, just done. What else is
she got in store for us, Brittany? That's hysterical. That was the best description
of yesterday. It was a weird one. And today's going to be a little bit more normal. We do
have a chance for a few flurries that could fly around this afternoon between like two
and five. Maybe a little snow showers are possible. But no accumulations really expected
from that and a lot more sunshine here this morning. Obviously we're going to be cloudy
by later on this evening with those snow shots. But high temperatures in the low 30s hovering
right around that freezing mark. And of course the wind's still whipping. So it's going
to be feeling more like the 20s out there today. Those winds don't ease up until Friday.
But they are going to start to warm us up tomorrow. We will hit 40 degrees and be bright
and beautiful and just fantastic. Yeah, sounds really nice. We'll take that. I'll take
it. Yeah. And we're looking forward to this weekend. We got a lot of Easter egg hunts
going on. Hopefully we'll have some good conditions for that. Yes, it looks like we should
maybe a few sprinkles there on Saturday, but nothing too major expected. Excellent.
All right. Feel better already. Thanks so much, Brittany. We appreciate you. Have a great
morning. You two things. Best in the business right there for Brittany Merlot. Join us
every morning right in this time slot. Got some fun things to get to this morning. We'll
get we're going to use my microphone acting weird. I feel like I'm hearing a static.
All right. No, I don't know. I don't know anything. You're good. On with the show. On with the
show. Did you hear that? We are going to be taking up a very
important job. We're going to be looking for a wiener connoisseur. We're going to
help out the MLB with that coming up. I'm sure. I'm glad you tied that into sports.
I'm sure hats everybody. My goodness. Oh, no, we've got that. We ever mature. No, it's
not our thing. It's not our thing. Got that coming up. I got a great what if question.
I know we're coming up for you a little bit later as well. And in this eight o'clock
hour, we're also going to hear from our friends at quality plus printing with our wicked
also word of Wednesday. All right. Looking forward to that nine o'clock hour going to
have some entertainment news for you. We got another movie reboot we got to talk about.
Oh boy. Star Wars is bringing something back that I did not see coming. That one's
going to be interesting. Also in the nine o'clock hour, the top things house guests immediately
notice when they arrive. Oh, yeah. And I also want to get into the nine o'clock hour.
Today is quirky country music song title day. We celebrated that a little bit of this
on the sunrise show. I saved the rest for over here. We're going to have your favorite
country music like weird country music song titles. Awesome. And we want to hear from
the audience on this one. I want audience participation on this one. 7154242600. Keep that
in mind. But we start our show with what we do around here covering news and we cover
local. We cover worldwide news. And you've by now seen the footage and heard about the
Baltimore Bridge collapse. By now, which is just insane. I watched that video once.
I couldn't watch it more than that. I really don't know how I feel about some of the news
outlets replaying it over and over and over and over again while we were still looking
for survivors. I really feel like we've got to get better about this as a nation as a
country. What we expect from our news. It's no different than what we experience in
watching sports in a horrible injury happens and they show it over and over and over and
over. I feel like there's a journalistic importance to sharing. But there is also a limit
to how much. Having it on replay over and over and over again seems gratuitous. Especially
when we are still when we were still at the time looking for survivors, possible survivors
seems very tacky to me. But this is the 24 hour news cycle that we live in. So we just
want to go over a couple of notes to get everybody recapped and up to date on what is happening
over there. Massive 984 foot long cargo ship lost power and all controls. Then rammed
into a support pillar just before 1.30 a.m. Eastern time yesterday. Huge span of the bridge
collapsed into the river six seconds later. The Francis Scott Curry Bridge opened in 1977
and the whole thing was over 1.6 miles long. Not all of it fell, but a huge section of the
water of what did over 3,330 feet or two thirds of a mile. Eight construction workers were on
the bridge when it fell. Last that was mentioned, they were still looking for six of them who were
their repairing potholes. Sadly, the company they worked for said that they were all presumed
gone. Two other construction workers got pulled from the water alive. It doesn't look like any
other vehicles were on top on the bridge. And I don't believe they're not mentioning this.
There were no other beat. Excuse me, everybody. There were no other vehicles on the bridge
because there was a bunch of brave police officers that saw what was happening and cleared the
bridge, cleared it from cars. There was the construction worker, the workers on the pothole,
they were not able to get to in time. That needs to be noted. There was a hero move right there.
And it's an opportunity to mention that and they didn't, I don't know. So things could have been
a lot worse if it hadn't happened if it hadn't happened during rush hour. The bridge handles over
30,000 cars a day. Wow. Traffic in Baltimore will be a mess for a while and as they are dealing
with a lot of things over there. So I think one of the things that I love about our country,
we've seen this a handful of times. I think most notably after 9-11, the way Americans look out for
Americans, the way we root for each other, the way we have each other's back. Let's show the
rest of the world that points and laughs at us in years like this when it's when we're fighting for
a president and we're fighting over this and that and everything, especially as divisive as
things have gotten. Let us show the rest of the world what it means to be united, what it means to
be a true country where we have each other's back. We don't vote for the same person. We don't
like the same ice cream, the same baseball team maybe. Sure, but at moments like this, we have each
other's back. However, you can help whether it is thoughts. If you are a praying person praying,
if you are sending funds or anything like that, there are a lot of different ways you can help.
One of the most important ways is with your vote. Be informed. How does voting have to do with this?
Infrastructure people. Infrastructure. And voting for people that care about that. Infrastructure
is sexy. It doesn't get people's attention like it should. This will and hopefully gets people's
attention to these situations and also understanding that some of the fake things that are coming out
over this story. How quickly, how tacky, how just unhuman it is to immediately look at your
political angle on a story like this. That shows you where they're at. That shows you who they
care about. They care about themselves. They care about the people in their pocket. That's what
they care about. A real American doesn't give a damn about any of that stuff and is wondering what
they could do to help. That's what a true American does. The rest of them are just caring about
themselves. Pay attention to that stuff right now. Look at what they're talking about. Pay attention.
And then I also want to throw out there too. Be cautious as you try to help with your dollars.
Go to reputable sites to donate to help. Don't accept calls or please for help. Seek it out
yourself. Right. 100%. There's a lot of scammers that will take advantage of something like this.
Yes. Well said. There is no segue because there shouldn't be a segue from a story like that.
So we're just going to dive right into something to try to make you smile and laugh. And this year's
Cadbury Bunny is a raccoon named Louis. What? What is she? Masked bandit. That's a little weird.
Yeah. The first of his species to earn the title, the candy company said, the company announced
Louis the raccoon a two year old pet from Miami, Florida was the winner of the sixth annual Cadbury
Bunny Trials and will have a role in the 2025 Cadbury Bunny Trials commercial. As needs
and Eastern tradition for the brand. I hope they never stop doing this. Same. Same. But also
worth mentioning pet raccoons. Yes. Yeah. That part. Yeah. In Florida, of course. Yeah. Shout out
to our Florida listeners. The raccoon won the hearts of voters on Instagram with his friendly face
and his special skill, creating paintings to be sold to benefit wildlife rescue in rehabilitation
centers. It's a great artist too. By the way, it's great art. It's way better than I am.
It's a way better artist than I am. Louis follows in the footsteps of previous Cadbury Bunnies,
including Crash the Rescue Cat, Annie Rose, the therapy dog, Betty the Frog, Lieutenant Dan,
the tree walker, Walker Coon Hound, and Henry the English Bulldog. One of my favorites. I like
Cadbury. I like Cadbury. These are fun. These are fun. And they all, they all box like chickens.
Yeah. Yeah. It's weird how they teach them to do that. I know. Isn't it fun? I mean, I really
love to know what the animal trainer is that is able to teach this raccoon to box like a chicken.
It's pretty good. We will get to check in with our partners real quick. We'll come back with
the Elcafe birthday anniversary club right here on the morning show at WFHR.
Welcome back everyone to the Elcafe birthday anniversary club. Let's go ahead and
have some fun celebrating all of your birthdays and celebrating our great friends over at Elcafe.
Go visit them right now at 221 Market Avenue in Port Edward's.
We encourage you to visit our friends over at Elcafe at 221 Market Avenue in
beautiful Port Edward's. Go say hi to the gang over there. Wish them a great day.
Check out their Facebook page. Be sure to like their page. Great posts they had the other day
about thanking the community and everything. Be sure to check that out and visit them for all
the great specials. Thank you. They can take good care of you for breakfast, lunch, dinner,
brunch, whatever. It doesn't matter what time of day it is. Just head on over there and enjoy
yourself. Just get there before two. Yeah. Yeah. It's a good idea because otherwise they no one will
be there. And we encourage you to get us to your birthdays and anniversaries so we can celebrate
with you. Send them to info at WFHR.com, james.mailup at symphichmedia.us. You can email any of
our staff with that kind of way that you do that there. Also email us or direct messages on
our Facebook pages. Yeah. Hit us up on there. We'd love to hear from you. And of course there is
Alexander Rambell. That's something to do with telephone. Tell us it. You can use the telephone.
You call up 715-424-2600 and join the conversation. We'd love to hear from you everybody.
And of course if you're listening on the Civic Media app, thank you. Go ahead and just to touch
or to away from calling up and joining the conversation. More on the Civic Media app and just a little
bit actually. Oh yeah. We have got a possible three qualifiers here. So Seth, I need a one through
three. Let's go in the middle two. All right. Give us that qualifier. We can get right into
this celebration. First up, we want to wish happy birthday to Michael Anderson. Happy birthday,
Michael. Happy birthday, Michael. Enjoy your day, sir. Hope it's a good one for you. And we wish a
happy birthday to Kevin Burgender. Happy birthday, Kevin. Happy birthday, Kevin. Kevin used to work
with Wisconsin Community Media. Came in all the time, recording with us and working with us
out there doing some great work still. We appreciate you, Kevin, and wishing you a great birthday, sir.
And our qualifier tonight today, Courtney Jade. Oh, Courtney. Hey, congratulations.
Happy birthday. Wish you a great day, Courtney. Hope you have a good one. Enjoy. And thanks so
much to everybody that got us these birthdays and adversaries. Keep them coming everybody. We
love celebrating with you, especially in a day like today where we do not have a huge celebrity list.
Oh dear. It's one of those days. It's one of those days. Let's see here. Oh, this is a good one.
Nathan Fillion is 53. Oh yes. Right now, a lot of you know him as John Nolan on the rookie.
You may have known him as Richard Castle on the TV show Castle, but I think most people
fell in love with him as Captain Malcolm on Firefly. Yeah. Yeah. He's, he's, if you've ever
read an interview with him, he's such a well-spoken guy. You know, he was one of those, it took him a
while to get just to where he is now. Yeah. You know, and you can really tell he really appreciates
being able to do this. Plus he's his, apparently his, his mom was a librarian. So he's a huge reading
advocate too. I didn't know that. Which is really cool. Yeah. And he's Canadian, which is, you know,
that's cool too. I'm a big fan of his, in part because of his tenacity,
his relentlessness for his career. It shows and I really admire that. I enjoy actors like that.
Started out on soaps and move from there. Yeah. And for those of you that are, oh, he's also really,
he's got like a ton of cameos and like anything James Gunn does. Yeah, he's got a lot of friends
in Hollywood too. But these cameos are not like great cameos. No, he's usually like blowing up
or something like I love, I love that he does that, you know, that he really do those things.
Um, those of you that are fans of Firefly, if you have not heard Disney has bought the rights to
Firefly, um, and they don't do that for fun. No, they are going to turn that into something.
And they have already signed on Nathan Phillian and, uh, Alan Turdieh. Alan Tudic, Tudic, uh,
so those two have already signed on. That's awesome. Um, that is good news because otherwise I was
worried. Yeah, those two, those two actually are the reason Disney did it, uh, was so because they
they had been talking on social media for a long time about revamping the show without Josh Weedon.
Uh, he's not going to be a part of this. Yes. Josh Weedon's probably not going to be a part of
anything. I don't know if that guy's going to be doing like high school or no, he definitely isn't.
Yeah, he's going to be around part of this. No, if you're a fan of the show, you might, uh,
that's my interest here. Mm hmm. Uh, one of the more recognizable voices you will ever hear.
Mariah Carey is either 54 or 55 today. Yeah, we're not sure. There's some question about that.
Okay, depending on which part of the internet you visit, um, apparently. Yeah. Okay. Uh, her first
number one hit was in 1990. Vision of love. I still think that's her best. Mm hmm. I still think
that's her best song. I do personally. Um, uh, the last time one of her hits was hit number one
and was oh eight, uh, touch my body. But of course she has a hit every year around Christmas with her
Christmas song. Yep. Oh, sorry. That was not loud. I have to say when when she first hit 1990,
we had not heard anything like that before. No. Hearing that voice, it was really remarkable.
Yeah. So I got to give her a lot of credit. Mm hmm. D dream was my favorite, uh, album.
Mm hmm. That's not bad. Yeah. In 93. Five. What I liked about vision of love is the hunger.
You can hear in her voice that the she is still fighting for this career. The diva isn't there yet.
The, the iconic breaking glass voice and everything isn't. You don't know it by heart yet
and everything. There's this real hunger and vision of love that you can hear. Where we all start
from, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um, let's see here. Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
Abby for 15 seasons on NCIS. Um, to a good job on there too. She was good. Um, one of the more, uh,
legendary directors of our generation, Quentin Tarantino is 61 today. Wow. Wow. Wow 61.
He, um, he, he produces and directs and writes, uh, some of the more interesting and, and, uh, genre
pushing movies of our era and, and they will go down in history as that. Um, he's also going to go
down to me as one of those guys who, who came out the gate real strong and just kind of faded sort
of as he went and his, his, his idea, he's only going to do 10 films. So he's only got one more
film. He's going to direct. This is according to him. Right. He might still direct TV shows and
things like that. Um, but we'll see. Um, that in, in, in one of the things that I, uh, I enjoyed
about his work was his pushing of things and his taking chances and all that. The story of what
him and Roger Avery did with their first big break and pulp fiction, taking the script and realizing
we got to do something different than nobody's ever done, taking the beginning and ending and
throwing the rest up in the middle. And however it landed, that's how they filmed it. I, I just
find that to be one of the most bravest, if not dumb, uh, but it can be both, it can be both.
It can be. Um, ideas have ever heard. Um, but in recent years, he has lost me so much. Yeah,
me too. Um, when I go back and watch his movies and I see some of the things that he got away with
because he did get away with, uh, some of the sexism racism, some of those things. When I see how
tacky he is to certain other directors and entertainers in the industry, he, he still treats,
he still acts like he's a 16 year old in the movie in a movie store and I'm a clerk in a movie
store. Uh, and he hasn't grown up. He hasn't changed. The, the lack of evolution in his films is
shown by that, uh, by him as a person. The last several have been the same themes every single movie.
So now I, I find myself looking at Robert Rodriguez, one of his contemporaries, one of his
friends, really, as, as the true groundbreaking in that genre, in that work. Uh, nobody did things
that Robert Rodriguez did. Quentin Tarantino had a lot more blood in his movies. Uh, but
Quentin just gratuitous violence. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. For, for violence sake. And I don't find that
attractive. Right. Robert Rodriguez had storyline. Oh, it had some much more interesting things going
on. And he's actually broadened. He's done all kinds of movies. He's a kid movie is my kids.
Those are all his. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He's, he's incredibly much more well-rounded director. I
agree. Um, that being said, Quentin, if you want to cast me, I will cast the part. All that being
said, my integrity goes out the way we were to start the 70s. Yeah. I don't look, I don't have
enough of a 70s look. Yeah. Andrew Ferris is 65 in excess keyboardist, uh, also a part songwriter
for them. Mm hmm. Big, integral part of that band. If you're a fan of in excess, you're a fan
of Andrew. They had their own sound for sure. And Tony Banks is 74. Genesis keyboardist. Mm hmm.
I got a couple of keyboardists. So right there. That's gonna go. Funny how that works. And we wrap
up with the great, the legend, Michael York is 82 today. Oh, basil. And of course, the Austin
Powers movies. I think a lot of younger people would know him as that. I think for many people,
you might know him as Logan and Logan's run. But for everybody else and for most of us, it is
Brian and Cabaret. Yeah. Yeah. Michael York is one of the reasons I tried out for Cabaret and I
wanted that part so bad. He is a, um, consummate, consummate actor. I mean, he's had a great career.
Not a superstar career, but you know who he is. Everyone recognizes him. They know what
Michael York looks like. So yeah, the three musketeers, the four musketeers, the return of the
musketeers. Yeah. Yeah. And the island of Dr. Marrow. Oh, that's right. That's right. Yeah. Yeah.
I always liked his voice. He had a very cool voice. Great voice. Yeah. Great voice. And his, uh,
presence and his, his attempt, not only his attention to detail, but his, uh, his delivery
is so good with his work. And it's, it's so for an actor to be versatile is really important.
Obviously, it's a part of what we do. Uh, with him, I feel like he's, he's, he hasn't done a
whole lot of differences with his characters until you pay it. If you're not paying attention,
you know, uh, you, you, you can see it there. He's such a good consistency to his work. That's
so good. Great actor. Mm hmm. That is going to do it for our LKV birthday and anniversary club.
But one more time, I want to wish happy birthday to Michael and Kevin. Happy birthday,
Mike and Kev. Mike and Kev, I call him. Yeah, there you go. And a happy birthday to our
Qualifier Courtney Jade. Happy birthday, Courtney. Enjoy your day and we encourage you to visit
our friends over at LKV. There are 221 Market Avenue and beautiful ported words. Wish them a good
morning from all of us right here at WFHR. Welcome back, everyone. Morning show here at WFHR,
locally grown radio. Oh, I thought that's what this was. Oh, wow. Oh, man. Flashbacks. Yeah.
Oh, I just, I mean, like 10 years old. Yeah, I'm like dad, plastic, Mrs. Melissa, Seth,
and James here with you. We hope you're having a good day out there. Thanks so much for joining us
on this Wednesday. Happy hump day, everybody. Yeah. We're, it's a Wednesday. That means we're
going to be joined by Phil Hartley and quality plus printing with our wicked awesome word of
Wednesday. Looking forward to that. That's going to be coming up in a little bit for you.
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bet USA is looking to hire a wiener connoisseur. Okay. And wiener connoisseur. Yes. You'll be in charge
of visiting all 30 major league baseball ballpox checking out the wieners at each one. Yes.
You'll get to taste test dozens of hot dogs, but they don't really care how good they are.
They just want you to measure each wiener, each one to see which major league club was as
in the bigger hot dogs. Oh my goodness. Oh, wow. Yeah. What's for your transportation to all of these
spaces? I hope so. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's it's not a full time gig, but they all, but they also
don't expect you to handle all all of this for free. They buy the game tickets. Travel is covered
and you get two thousand five hundred bucks. Oh, okay. They also tossed into five hundred dollar
gift card from MLB shop.com and a subscription to MLB TV. Oh, that's not bad. Those latter two
things kind of really. Yeah. That's really $500. MLB shop that'll get you like one jersey. Yeah,
but maybe a snow globe. Yeah, that's all. You can apply out their website between now and April
18th. Just enter your name and email then write a short pitch for why you're the most qualified
person to be measuring hot dogs. Oh, wow. Okay. I have a nephew whose dream is to go to all 30 ball
parks. I should I should let him know. Yeah. Henry. Henry. You need this is what you need to do man.
He's going to be graduating this spring. So he got to have something to do. Old is Henry. What's that?
Yeah. He's 18. Yeah. He's 18 years old. He's probably old enough to do it. Yeah. Bet you. Yeah.
Yeah. I because it would, you know, I'm thinking you would probably take somebody either in that range
in the early 18, 19 year old time thing or somebody retired. Yeah. Yeah. That was my initial thought.
I mean, I don't know who has the type of baseball fan that's tired. Yes. Who has, you know,
a background measuring things. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The former construction workers. I love the idea
of so they don't care anything about baseball. They just love hot dogs. Yeah. Yeah.
Yes. Yeah. With baseball. What? What? Oh, what hot dogs? Yeah. That's right. The hot dog measured in at 7.8
inch. Gosh, I can't focus with this baseball going on. I'm trying. Could you guys keep it down
bottom of the night? My tail. I'm trying to measure hot dog here. I've got a job to do.
And like they're coming in with a pocket protector and a glass. Let me really
They have an official hot dog measuring implement to compare. Yes. Yes. Yes.
Want a protractor. Yeah. Oh, he's got a t-square. You know. What were you going to say?
Actually, Melissa kind of said it. I was like, do they have like an official device to measure these things?
I like that. I love that. I like that. Oh, man. So if you're interested in this content,
if you're interested in being a part of this, everything, bet us dot com. That's B-E-T-U-S dot com.
Get in on this one and let us know what you wrote. If you if you do apply to this,
I want to know what you wrote a sample to see if you're going to be involved. You never know.
I never know. But that's what yeah, that's excellent. So a lot of us care about our
animals, our pets. We consider them to be a part of the family a lot of the time. But what about
an inanimate object? 51% of Americans say that they think of their car as part of their family.
51? That was the first thing that popped into my head when you said it. That's funny. That's
hard. Excellent. Well, you know, I name all my people. Yeah, she does. Yeah, that's true.
The poll also found 53% of us would hang onto our current car forever if that was an option. Wow.
I miss Francis. Yeah, I miss mine too. But the number one reason it isn't emotional, it's
financial. Yeah. That's the reason. Yeah. Because I still see your driving around the streets.
Oh, yeah. Yeah. The actual car or just cars like her. No. No, the actual car. Wow.
Yeah, somebody in my town bought it and they fixed it up and they're driving it around.
That's like watching a giving up a pet for adoption in your neighborhood, right? Yeah.
Yeah, I don't know. Is that tough or not, Melissa? That seems like it would be a little tough.
I'm happy for. I'm happy for. Okay. Okay. Good. And by her, I mean the car. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
The end. She got a facelift. You know, I mean, they fixed the hood. They put new headlines in
and she's looking good. Good. Good. Stop it. 80% of us are trying to keep our current car
going as long as possible because we don't want to spend money on a new one.
And here are five more reasons we don't want to replace it. It's fairly reliable.
58% of us believe in that. Okay. It gets pretty good gas mileage. 45% on that one.
Pretty good. Fairly reliable. Pretty good. Did they just do people from Minnesota or what?
Yeah. Basically. Oh, it's pretty good. Yeah. It's a pretty good gas mileage. I mean, it means
well. It's trying its hardest. You know, and so it is. You know, it takes a little while to get
going in the cold mornings, you know, but you know, you give her a shot. Yeah. She's going to do
right by you. It's going to be right back on track. There's just number three on here. There's
just no way I could afford a new car right now. 28% of people said that one. Find memories
like a road trip or family vacations. 24% of people said that is what's keeping them from
replacing it. And finally, you just have an emotional attachment to your car. 22% said that. Wow.
That said, most of us wouldn't go with the same car if we had to buy right now.
Only a third of us said that they'd buy the same makin' model as they did of only a newer year.
Variety. I like the variety of cars. You having something different.
Yeah. I did this. I'm with you, Melissa. I did this. I basically just got a
another Jeep Liberty that's just a couple of years younger is what I did. And I have been regretting
it to be honest with you all. I like blue. He's a good Jeep and everything. But I noticed that
the things that I didn't like about the previous model, they didn't really improve on for me personally.
And my interests have changed. What I'm looking for, what I want is change and everything.
I still demand for real drive. I am not buying a vehicle that does not have for real drive.
Makes sense in this state. Yeah. Well, I mean, I don't know about this year, but yeah,
in general, it's good to have. Fair points. But I mean, other than that, I know better now
of what I'm looking for in a vehicle because of doing this. So I do think that it was worth doing,
but you are still relatively young in the vehicle ownership rankings there, James.
That's fair for you. Very true. I, however, am very happy with purchasing the same vehicle again.
Yeah. Really? Really? We're model. Yes.
I also, hey, I can be boring. That's fine. I also would never buy a brand new vehicle.
No. Yeah. Yeah. Probably not. No. Maybe, maybe least soon as you drive off the lot.
And I, there's so many components now in newer vehicles. And I know a lot of people who like
a friend of mine, a friend of my boyfriends who bought a new truck, the engine just went complete.
Brand new truck. He had not owned it for two months. Wow. Yeah. That's that. Now one of those
things too, where it was something like that, Melissa, where I don't know if it's that vehicle
enough, but if it's a new vehicle nowadays, you can't just go to any old mechanic sometimes for
some of this stuff, too. Yeah. Yeah, because of the computer components that are in every vehicle now.
Yes. Sadly, we are going to every Wednesday. We are joined by our good friends from Quality
Plus for team with our wicked, awesome word of Wednesday. We got Phil heartily joining us right
now. Good morning, Phil. Hey, good morning, James. Doing good over there, Phil. How are things going?
Yeah, really well. Yeah, we're here today. Oh, man, we should be having breakfast somewhere.
Yeah. Yeah. I'll cafe. I'll meet you there. All right. We really want to do a remote from
there. We really, you know, we want to do a remote from every way. We want to do one over at
Quality Plus. Yeah. We'll be having a lot of fun. Phil, before we get to our wicked, awesome
word, I do want to remind everybody about the WAM. Who's your hero promotion you guys have going on?
Yeah, at least we've gotten a bunch of them, but we'll take more. We're asking people to
you know, send in a hero in their life. So somebody that does something special for you,
or somebody that stands out or, well, whatever, does change your life in a good way. If you can get
their name into us, call me, text me, stop me on the street, you know, whatever. And let's talk
about it and get them entered into this contest, which is really a recognition thing. We want to
make sure people know about the good people in this world and that they did the good thing. So
we're going to get them a free t-shirt. We're going to get them some tickets to the Rackers and
River Kings. And some recognition, of course, on WFHRE. Any social media place we can push it
out. We just want to tell some good stories and recognize some people that need to be recognized.
Well, you know, if we're not going to, I thought this when Carl and I started doing the
morning show together, hey, our news coverage isn't, we don't hear enough good stories every day.
So we're going to start and do in that. We're going to wrap up our show every day with good stories.
We've been doing it ever since. This is a little kind of that to me, Phil, of promoting
people that we may not know or may not hear about or get to highlight otherwise. It's a great idea
and a great opportunity. Oh, thank you. I think it'll be a neat thing. And you know, in the back
of my head, I'm hearing Paul Harvey and I'll tell you. Yes, yes. Now the rest of the story.
God, I love Paul Harvey. Phil and people need to learn more about, you know, some great local people
and it doesn't even have to be local really. We'll send pictures anywhere, but that being said,
if it's local, it's kind of neat to see some stories of some people just, you know, raising the bar,
right? If people have recommendations for your hometown here, go ahead and send them to Phil.
You can direct message him on our Facebook pages, just like quality plus printing,
like their page and like WAM and send it that way. Yeah, yeah. Any which way you can,
yeah, it goes all over here, 4237, 440 and ask for me. But yeah, any which way we'll take them
and again, it doesn't matter which way to come in. Yeah. And you can get them to us too. You
send them to us. We'll make sure to forward them to Phil and the game. We appreciate everybody
doing that. Now you can keep it up, everybody. Yeah, because we're going to keep hold on to them.
When we pick a winner, we're going to keep them in, you know, and it's going to be random from the,
you know, the eligible ones we can then and and we'll keep them coming because they'll be
eligible for the next month too. So hopefully we'll get to everybody eventually, right? Yeah. Yeah.
Phil joins us every Wednesday with our wicked awesome word of Wednesday. Phil, what do you got
for us today? So this one, the kind of mirrors what we've just been talking about anyway,
so we'll go with it. Can Glossian. Do Gloss. Let's go. P-A-N-G-L-O-S-S-I-A-N,
and Glossian. And it just means somebody that's really blue sky marked by the view that all is best
and in the best of possibilities. That's definitely optimistic. I like that. I like that. I don't
think I've ever heard that before. Yeah, I've definitely never heard of it. Okay, I can't help it.
I got to do it. So the word comes from the character Dr. Peng Gloss from Voltaire Story Candid.
Dr. Peng Gloss throughout the book is always saying that this is the best of all possible worlds,
even though there's horrible things happening to Candid. So it's very satirical. It's usually
used in context, ironically, like yes, it's very, you have a very Peng Glossian view, meaning
you're very naive and you don't understand how the world really works. It's a fun word.
Yeah, it is. You're right. It's just the blue sky theory of there's never a bad sky.
The fun word, Phil. Yeah. How'd you come across that one?
This one comes from my word of the day calendar. All right.
The word of the day for Sunday, March 24th, two days ago, but I saw that one. So that one's
too good not to share. That word of the day calendar is paying for it. So it is. That's a great
investment. That's a great one. It's saving a lot of brain power.
Well, that's a good thing, Phil. You are so darn busy over there with both companies and you guys
have so much going on in the community. Appreciate all of the things that you guys are doing over
there, Phil. We want to encourage people to head on over there with their printing needs.
If you got an idea, Phil and the gang want to hear it.
Bring it on. We're growing and I have a, I'm blessed. I have a wonderful staff here,
so they'll work with me and put up with me. I don't know which one of this one.
In any way, the Ken Do add to it here is awesome and a work ethic and do it with a smile on
our face. Maybe a little too plain glossiness. I'm falling.
I'm not bad. Yeah. So because you know, don't matter what kind of day we're having,
we can make the customers day. You know, a little bit better. So yeah, bring it on.
Come on over. Phil, we appreciate the time as always. And next time you join us,
we'll talk a little rumors. We'll talk a little about the, uh, the newest, uh,
WRCT production that Phil is a part of. I won't have spread the word about that a little bit
more, too. One insane play. Yeah. Yeah. We love it. Get your tickets for that at WRC
theater.org. Everybody keep listening. We're going to be talking more about that show.
And we're going to be talking to Phil next Wednesday. Thanks for joining us, brother. Have a good one.
Yeah, you too. Looking forward to it. Have a great day. You too. You say hi now. Say hi to everybody
over there for us, Phil. You can say hi to him. They're at 3515 A Street South in Wisconsin
Rapids. You can give me a call as well. 715 423 7 440 423 7 440. Be sure to bookmark their
Facebook page like that page. It's a great way to not only send them your hometown heroes,
but reach out to them any ideas you might have. And be sure to be listening next Wednesday
for our wicked awesome word of Wednesday from our good friends over a quality plus printing.
We'll be back more coming up right at this.
Welcome back everyone. Morning show at WF HR locally grown radio.
Melissa, Seth and James here with you. Take it at the top of the hour. We're going to have
some fun doing so too. Got a good one to get into in the 9 o'clock hour. We'll get in some
entertainment with you. We're also going to touch on a little bit later. The top the top things
house guests immediately notice when they arrive. And we want your favorite country song titles.
We want your country song titles today is quirky country music song title days. We want your
quirky as fun as ones. We'll get into that a little bit later as well. Even if you rode a
country song that's got a quirky title. Tell us that. I think that would be fun too.
Yeah. I don't know when we'll be able to do this, but I do want to give the audience a tease
and a heads up that we we've got to talk WBAs pretty soon here. We're going to talk about the WBA
awards at some point around because our 80 year old radio station representing everybody.
That's true. Man, that's true. It's been a long time. It's been a long time. Let's dive into
this one though for right now. You missed the mega millions jackpot again, but at least you
didn't blow $600 on tickets like one guy in Southern California, who also also the power ball
is tonight. So keep on dreaming everybody. Wow. There is that to keep in mind. Now here is any
fun hypothetical for everybody. Okay. Would you rather have a 100% chance of winning one million
or a 75% chance at winning $100 billion. The first option is guaranteed money that could change
your life. The second would make you one of the richest people in the world, but there's a one
and four chance you get nothing. Someone pulled over 1,500 people on Reddit and it is close,
but most said that they'd roll the dice. 48% said that they would go for the guaranteed money. 52%
would risk it to go for go for it all. Let it ride. They're billion dollars. Let it ride. The only
reason I would ever gamble is just so I could say let it ride. That's it. That's it. That's the only
reason that you don't care if you win or not. No, I got to say my thing. I got that that
delivered my line and then I just leave because I know I'm going to lose. I know that's a reason.
I don't gamble. We want to keep open this to the phone. Open this to the audience. So you guys,
715 424 2600 go ahead and call up and join the conversation. What would you do?
Let's go ahead and run the table here. Okay. Seth, what would you do in this situation?
You know, I can see both ways. All right. So first of all, you don't have a million dollars.
You don't have a hundred billion dollars. So what the heck? You're not losing anything. Either
you're richer, you're richer. So, you know, in this hypothetical question. Okay. Now personally,
though, I would always go with the guaranteed money because I don't care what anyone says.
A million dollars is still a million dollars. Everybody. Yeah. It is a million dollars.
So I would say, yeah, take, give me the million. I'll take it. I don't need a hundred
billion dollars. Just give me a million. I'm good. Yeah. Yeah. Melissa.
Well, I hate to agree with Seth. I am of the same opinion because whenever I am never going to
probably ever see a million dollars in my life today. So why wouldn't I go for the guaranteed
money? Sure. Yeah. I actually am very kind of blown away a little bit by the amount of people
that this was even close in my logical brain. It doesn't make any sense to take a risk when you've
got a million dollars. Sure thing. Yeah. Sure thing. Especially when if you really want to be a
billionaire, take that million and invest it. You know, maybe you could be a billionaire later.
That's, you know, I hadn't thought about that. But you're right. That's a great point.
Well, I think part of it is, James, that we have no concept of what a million dollars is like.
Yes. Yeah. Forget a hundred billion. Yeah. Right.
And this question, like, I mean, to the majority of people, I got to think that they asked the
question to, and the majority of our listeners out there, we're checked to check a lot of us.
And if not one, one disaster away from, you know, being in the financial issue, yeah, even being in
a worse position, there is no middle class anymore. We got it, we got to quit talking about like the
middle class this minute, there is no middle class anymore. There is the top 1% and then there is
the rest of us. Yeah. The problem is we've normalized these very, very small amount of people
having massive amounts of money. And it's become, it's, it's normalized to us now.
Of course, of course, we have people that are multi billionaires.
Well, then, then we have politicians and people out there who want to give them a free ride,
who, who, who want to give them no taxes and things like that.
A corporate tax rate for a moment. Right. Yeah. Yeah.
And I mean, that didn't get to be a law. Just, it wasn't like something that was in the
Constitution of Bill of Rights, everybody. That was something that our politicians pushed forward.
It was a political decision. How many, how many people wanted that? How many American citizens
wanted that? Huh? How many? Please, call up and let me know. If you, if you want corporations
to not be taxed, please let me know. I would be considered people. Yes. Yes. That too. Or any,
no. Yeah. Yeah. 100%. How many American people wanted that? The job of the Supreme Court,
the job of every single politician from a mayor of a small town to the president of the United
States is to do what we want. Is that difficult to figure out? Yeah. Yeah. Because we all want
different things. It's tough. It's not easy. It's messy. Yeah. That's why you vote. That's why
not everybody can do the job. It's also part of the reason why we shouldn't have 80 plus year old
people doing the job. Right. I'm pretty sure we can all agree though that it's, they should all
pay their fair share, right? I think so. I mean, I pay, I pay my taxes. Don't you pay your taxes?
Why should corporations not have to pay taxes? Right. Why are they any different than us? Yeah.
What about them makes them any different than the rest of us? And if anything, they should be
wanting to do this. They should be trying to know company, no business got where they did
without us. We got them there. Yeah. We're the ones that got them all of these things. So they should
be, they should be John Waters. They should be, oh, you want to come and talk to me when I'm
having dinner with my friends and family? That's fine. You paid for this meal. I wouldn't be here
without you. Right. Every one of them should be that way. But instead, it's greed and it's
pushing their own agendas. Uh-huh. Yep. So to me, it's not even a really fun, it would have
questioned. So if I did win the hundred billion dollars, I also have an agenda to push.
Oh, yes. But it's all nice stuff. You know, it's like, you know, give it, except Melissa.
She's the only one who doesn't get anything. But fine. What do I got to do, sir?
You're nice. I am. You're pretty. Now, now I kind of like the idea. Your children like you.
Well, that's true. Yeah. I'm getting the billion. Well, that's the next way of doing things,
Melissa. You tell somebody three things. You give somebody three compliments and you've got to
figure out which of the three is true or which of the three you mean. That's actually kind of a
fun game. We got another fun game you can get it on. It's the Civic Media right in the spring.
Text-to-win contest. This is a statewide contest we are doing. We're having a lot of fun with
everybody. We encourage you to download the Civic Media app. Be listening at the top of the
7, 10, 1, and 3 o'clock hours. We're going to tell you a word to text to us. And that's all you
got to do is text that word to us. The app is the important thing here. Yes. Yes. Yes. Download
the app. Take it with you. You take us with you wherever you go. You'll always be able to get us in.
You'll be able to check her out with other radio stations. Flirt around.
What's your old Wisconsin stations? Yeah. That's true. That's part. Yeah. And flirt around. I like that,
by the way. Yeah. With the other stations. Right? Isn't that dating apps? You're swiping.
You're swiping. There you go. I like that. Check out. Check out what walks up to. Check out. That's
funny. But of course, make sure you'll always come back to us. That's right.
We love something. Yes. But you can enter to win up to four times a day for these fabulous
prizes that we have coming up. And isn't this, doesn't this end at the end of the week, James?
Yeah. It does. It wraps up on Friday and for fun.
So, uh, and keep in mind, uh, downloading this if you mean the app, you're going to want to keep
it on there not only to take us with you wherever you go, and especially in an informative year like
this. Oh, yeah. We are your information hub. We are your voting hub, your democracy hub.
But also, uh, we're going to have other things like this, everybody. This is not the last contest.
We're doing like this. It is. It is. It's taking a test ride. So we're doing with this one.
Test ride into spring. I just realized that. Oh, well done. Well done. Ride in the spring.
Text to win statewide contest. Get the civic media app and get in on this. Everybody, be listening
that 10 o'clock hour coming up. We're going to be giving that word to you. Uh, do you want to also
let everybody know that our front, uh, due to the Easter holiday weekend, there will be no winter
farmers market at the Wisconsin Rapps and Moravian Church Saturday, March 30th. The market will
resume the following Saturday, April 6th from nine to one. Keep that in mind, everybody. Yep.
More notes like that coming up at the end of the, uh, nine o'clock hour. We got plenty more to do.
There we go. A lot more coming up for you right here at
