Good morning, Wisconsin. Good morning, world. It's a new day. Next we kick it
off with us right here at WFHR, locally grown radio. Seth and James here with
you at 904 on the clock. We're going to wrap up the show today with Melissa
Kaye and talking a little bit about the WBA awards. We've got some entertainment
news for you in a little bit, but it's the Thursday and the 9 o'clock hour.
And you know what that means. Our pet of the week from the Southville County
of Maine Society. We have Tim in with us and we're going to talk about our pet of
the week and some other information with the Maine Society in a moment. First we
want to send a big shout out to TJ's Auto and Collision Center. We've got
trucks, large variety of trucks from a small SUV to a work truck. We've got them
all stop out today and drive home when a new truck today. A big shout out to our
friends at TJ's Auto and Collision Center always putting back into their
community. We appreciate them doing so and appreciate you being here Tim.
Thanks a lot for the time. How you been? Good. Good. Good. Speaking of TJ's, that's
where our Maine Society van came from. Oh, awesome.
Getting our animals to go to the vet and everything else. So that's really cool.
I agree with you 100% on that. Good people over there. It always put back into
the community. We appreciate our friends over at TJ's and appreciate you Tim.
Thanks for being here today. We want to get to our pet of the week. Of course you
got some other information. We want to go over as well. Yes. First off, I
wanted to thank everybody that came out for our event. A political. It was a huge
success over $11,000 for a first time. Nice. Yes. It really went good. And our
donations from the community has been just phenomenal. We're keeping track now
and we're going to be publishing everyone's name that came out and we started
with a sheet and we have sheet after sheet after sheet. That's so cool.
People. Yes. Very, very great community. It really is. I mean, with a lot of
different nonprofits, but with their Humane Society, it's just been this way as
long as I've been in this town 20 some years. I've been here that they've
supported this Humane Society and it's really, really cool to see 50 years for us.
Nice. Nice. Yeah. Yeah. It's been great. Okay. You want to hear about some pet
types. Yes. Yeah. I do. Yes. Well, I'm going to do it different again as usually.
I do. Yeah. That's fine. I like it. I'm going to highlight this time our
older animals that have been there. Not older in age, but older as in how long
they've been there. Sure. Okay. And I'll start with some cats and because I see
you pull them up and you're looking at that. Yeah. Okay. First off, we have our oldest
large, layered logus is Davy Jones. Davy Jones. And they're 279 days. Okay. Yes. Long.
Yeah. We also have master splinter. Yeah. We're names. Yes. 201 days.
Then we have Anzai. Then there are 170 days. And Russet who's been there 157 days.
So that's kind of a long time for there. Yeah. And as you know, we are a no-kill basically.
So we keep them until they're gone. Yeah. Other than that, we've been doing pretty good
with adoption. Good. I'll get to that in in a minute. These these animals that have had
been this had this long stay there. These are great animals. There's nothing wrong with them
or anything like that. It's just a map. It's just kind of circumstances that have led to them
being there for a while. When you take an animal home, there's never a bad one that you can.
I don't care if it's been there for a day. But there is something different when you're
able to take one of these animals that have been there for 100 or 200 some days. There's a
different energy to them. There's a different like happiness to them when they find that forever
partner when they find that forever home. They're they're just so appreciative and so
100% correct. Really good animals. Yes. So then we got dogs. Yeah. We have been
adopting out now some. So we're down to three that are the longest. The first one is
tick who has been there 265 days. Then we have Gator who's been there 256 days.
And little Daisy who's been there 207 days. Yeah. We've touched on a couple of these animals
before. And Daisy is a sweet animal. It's taking everything in me not to take Gator home.
I've been looking at Gator for over a year now. I feel like I love that dog. It's a sweet dog.
I've met that megator. It's a good dog. He really is. I walk all of the dogs.
And they're not the best least trained yet. But the most of the these dogs are loving.
Yeah. They really are. And you know to that point, Tim, these dogs, once they get to that
home and they get settled in a bit, that's when they will start being a lot more of those things.
They're they're they're in a restless spot. And as great as the remains of society, we've got one
of the best humane societies in the state that does great great work. I agree. There's only so much
that he can main society can do. These animals deserve to be loved and cared for out of 24,
seven bases on a home basis and all that. And there's there's a restlessness in them from that.
You can give them that calm. You can give them that peace. And we encourage you to do so,
especially with animals like our friend Gator here who's sponsored. Yes. And that's the thing.
All three of these are sponsored. All three of them are okay. Yeah. Cool. And last week, in fact,
we had a bunch of people come in and sponsor paid for us and we did actually 11 adoptions in two days.
Nice. Wow. Very cool. Yes. That's amazing. That was. It's it's a great it's you're sad to see
the animals going away because you get attached to them. Right. Yeah. You know where they're going.
And that was my hardest part about working at a shelter. That was animals. That was tough.
We even had one person come in and they found one. They found out that their dog was sponsored.
They said, can we pay it forward? And I said, well, sure, that's fine.
They want it was a husband and wife wound up sponsoring three animals. Wow. That's really
amazing. Shout out to them. That is a couple. That is beyond amazing. That's really. I'm
a little speechless. Very magical. All these animals. We've mentioned Tim spade and neutered. Have
their shots and their chip microtrip. Thank you. Yes. We have good. Good. Yes. Yep.
Always good to keep that in mind. And Tim, we don't want to keep you too long and all busy you are.
We do have a couple of other notes one to get to before the wrap up. We do also until Saturday.
We got three today tomorrow and Saturday. We put a special out. All adults are $75 only. We reduce
the fee. There are no puppies or kittens. So people out there know them. They've all been adopted.
The two Texas puppies, Miles and Millie, phone homes. Oh, wonderful. Really good to hear. Oh,
that's good news. That is. Yeah. So the sponsorships and one of the cats or a couple cats,
I believe all sorts of sponsors. So you can go online as you always say. Yes. Take a look.
You have some openings there, Tim? I wanted to touch on this. Yes. Last thing I wanted to kind of
cover is we have a couple of open positions. Two big ones. We needed director of operations.
Now we went from the executive director term and job classification down to or not down to up to
sideways. Yeah. Yeah. Or director of operations. This is a new title and it's different
responsibilities. So it's basically you, that's the person we're looking for to run the shelter.
Okay. Okay. Which would be in charge of all the operations and yeah.
You know, taking money in, out, writing checks, doing this, doing that and staffing in.
So we're looking for that a special person for that. Okay. We also still need an office coordinator
which would run our front office, taking calls, creating a public, right, doing certain paperwork
which anything involved with we are kind of governed by state statute. Right. So you can realize
that's a lot of paperwork. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Absolutely. Absolutely. You need somebody that's
not only diligent at the job of passionate about it. You know, you're working at a humane
society. You're doing it because you certainly want to keep the lights on and those things. But
you're also doing that because you care about animals, you care about your community. And it's
not only a great way to put into your community and do good work, but also make a paycheck. You
know, it's a, it's a, it's a win, wins kind of situation for people out there that are
care about those things and are certainly animal lovers. Yes. And I got to say this, since I've
been out doing the actual running of it now, seeing our staff and the volunteers and the board,
it's just such a great team. Yeah. We really have a wonderful team and that is the key. Yeah.
As you know with, excuse me, any non-profit, you're, you have to be passionate about what you do
as you sit. Yeah. Yeah. And if you don't love the animals, well, that's not the place for you,
I'm sorry. Yeah. Yeah. We have found a lot of them and the volunteers. Yeah. So they get a big
shout out to big, big thank you to them in this community, supporting our remains society,
supporting our these animals and helping in many ways that they can. And certainly spreading
the word about the, with things that Tim and us talk about every week, different events that they
have going on on social media, subscribing and following to their pages on social media is always
good idea too. And Tim, if people are curious about those job openings, how can they apply, how can
they find out more? Okay. I know you're going to do the
you go on our website swchs.com. Yeah. And look at the tab way on the right and there'll be job
applications there. Okay. If you go on that fire tab, as I see you're doing, you go down there,
you go hit it. You apply online. Same. We have that for everything, volunteers, which I say,
fortunately now we're not looking for any more volunteers. Good. We have filled all the spots,
ever you want it as just that's really good news, Tim. Yeah. But these two positions we can use.
Yeah. And we're looking for good people for them. I hope that had those positions filled real soon
for you guys. Thank you. Thanks for having me again. Always good to have you, Tim. Thanks so much.
Say hi to the staff and everybody over there for us and now say hi to those animals, of course,
for me as well. Especially for him. We have Gator for you. Thanks for the time, Tim. I appreciate you.
And a big thank you to our friends at the Humane Society. You can find out more, apply for those
jobs, learn about those great animals and our pets of the week at swchs.com. Be sure to email them
at swchs.com at swchs.com. You can give them a call. 715-423-0505. And be sure to follow them on
social media. It is a great follow. Big shout out to TJ's Auto and Collision Center.
We've got trucks, large variety of trucks from a small SUV to a work truck. We've got them all
step out today and drive home with a brand new truck. Visit our friends at TJ's Auto at 3277.
Doo Wisconsin 73 right here in Wisconsin Rapids. Be back with more on the morning show here at WFHR.
Welcome back everyone. Morning show here at WFHR locally grown radio.
So funky. So funky. So funky. I love that. We hope you're having a good Thursday out there.
Everybody. Happy Friday. Eve everybody. We're so close to the weekend. We are so close.
Right there. Close to a Easter weekend. We wish everybody a happy Easter out there.
Monday. I should say happy Monday, Thursday, everybody.
Which is a weird word. You know, when I was a kid that confused me to know on Monday, Thursday,
what does that mean? Yeah. It's actually that it's the for those who don't know is the
commemoration of the last supper. So that's what it that's what it means. I still haven't
looked at what Monday meets. I've got to figure that one out. But I didn't know that. That's really
that. That's very interesting. We got a little bit of entertainment news. One of the touch on
and never underestimate an 81 year old, especially if they're running for office. No, I'm joking.
Especially when the 81 year old is judge Judy. Now there's there's a candidate we might be
able to get by. I don't know. She says she works out every day for a total of 10 hours a week.
Whoa. At 81. She's doing this. Quote, I have a responsibility to keep the vessel in shape and
looking good. If your mind is in shape and your body is not, the the weaker one will eventually
affect the other. Interesting. Working out is important for my physical health and my mental health.
Judy works out with her husband who's 90. Instead of having a trainer, they prefer to go
at their own pace and then their own home gym. Judy likes to use a treadmill and she does a
resistance strength training. There you go, which is good on her. That's not always the easiest
work. No, it's not. That's so awesome. He tells she's been doing that for a long time. Yeah,
I'm sure she's got a really good routine at there, everything. I get this. I don't have the energy
all the time, but working out for me, I feel better afterwards. The endorphins get going. Yeah,
I get rolling. But what I really love about this is what she's saying about this latter part.
One will eventually affect the other. If you're just taking care of one, the other is going to pull
the other one down with it. Most often, usually the case. You can have the greatest body in the
world, but if you ain't good upstairs, you're not using your brain. It's not going to be any good
vice versa. It's a great note and listen to Judge Judy. You don't want her yelling at you.
There's certain people that you cringe, even if you're not talking to you. She's one of those
people like, man, I would not want to get in trouble with that woman. And please, the other thing
though is I do want to say, you know, she does it 10 hours a week because she can. I mean, she's
extremely wealthy. Let's not go past that either. She has time to do that. We know a lot of people
other just don't have a lot of time to do that. But what you can do, I mean, then we do encourage,
of course, if you can do, if you can do what you can do, then do it. Yeah. You can find, you know,
different. Well, first off, you might be exercising more than you realize, especially if you have kids.
You know, that's a great man. You're working out. Housework. Yes. You're working out when you're
doing housework cleaning. That's something you can think about too. What is running on a treadmill?
It is getting lapsed. It's getting steps in. Are you doing it as a parent? I'm guessing you're
getting those steps in. I'm guessing, you know, yeah, especially if they're really young kids
and are learning to walk for the first time. Yeah. Then you're running around like crazy.
Did we learn nothing from Rocky people? I'm very serious. Did we learn nothing from Rocky?
You don't need a gym to train. You don't need to just need the steps and filly. That's all you need,
man. Steps filly. Yeah. Come on, rock. You need him. You need to purchase meridians. You need
meridians. Meridians are come on, rock. Yeah. You can take chicken, rock. You know, my own personal
Burgess meridians. You know, I've always wanted one of those. It seems like a bigger thing.
It's the new. Now, there's something we can do with AI. Everybody gets their own Burgess meridians.
Everybody gets what? All right. Can I get the one for rep-y old men? Yes. Yeah, please.
With the one-liner. Yes. What are the greatest, the greatest, like, sets of outtakes you'll ever see
is the outtakes from grumpy old men. There is funny as the movie. I swear to God. I agree with you.
I would say almost a little bit better. Almost a little bit. Burgess meridians go into town. I'd
just like just line after line. That and just the fun of Jack and Walter together. I mean,
what better? There's nothing better than that. It may be the best comedic to a chemistry we've
ever seen. It was so good together. It's up there with the best. If you haven't seen Doon Part 2 yet,
this might inspire you too, who knows? Steven Spielberg calls it one of the most brilliant science
fiction films ever. Not just that he's seen and not just in recent years, but ever. All time. He
recently sat down with director Dennis Veloueva and told him he's part of his short list of directors
who are builders of worlds, like George Lucas, Tim Burton, and James Cameron. There's a scene in
the movie where Timothy Shalame writes a sandworm for the first time. Steven says it's one of the
greatest things he's ever seen. This is a desert loving story, but for such a desert loving film,
there is such a yearning of for water in the movie. For all the sand you have in the film,
it's really about water. The sacred waters that are yearning for green meadows and blue water
of life, you film the desert to resemble an ocean, a sea. The sandstorms were like sea serpents.
You made the desert look like a liquid. And I get what he's talking about. Yeah, I know exactly
what he means there. By the way, which I haven't seen part 2 yet. I mean, I know what Doon, I know
the story, so I know what happens, but so it's not like that he spoilers here or anything. But
and I don't want to hear, I really don't want to hear any pushback about the ecological
aspect of this movie because that's why Frank Herbert wrote the book. Yeah. Yeah.
That he was an ecologist. Yes. And he was worried about what was happening. So they could,
it's not woke. It's actually honoring the author's vision. I think it'd be hilarious. Like,
what did people do with water world? Did people flip out over that and say, oh, this woke film
starring Kevin Koster. Like, come on. Oh, my God. No, they just saw that Kevin Koster wasn't like,
now pass. There are a million and one thing's to get bent out of shape about or to get on a hill
about it. Yeah, choose your battles wise. Please, please, please stop doing it at movies. You know,
that doesn't make any sense to me. Why movies? Yeah, I don't, you know, their entertainment. Yeah,
the, the artists, the directors might have something they want to say, which is good, actually,
if you ask me, that means they know what they're, what they want to say. Okay, they've got a vision
for it and good for them. Dude, it's a movie. Movies. Movies are powerful. They can do some really
cool things and they can open you up to worlds that you would never know otherwise and all of that.
They're movies. Think of, remember this. Movies don't influence us. We influence movies.
Oh, it's a great point, man. It's not the other way around. There's no movie in human history
that has changed the world. It hasn't happened. And as much as I love movies and think they're
important and matter and everything, their entertainment, like the greatest documentary you've
ever seen with most factual information in the ever is still entertainment. It is. And it doesn't
need to be taken that much more seriously than that. It's, it's, or you can even comp it to a piece
of art. Is there been a painting that's changed the world? Not really. You know, music and stuff
like that. They're, they're great and they can mean a lot to a lot of different people. But
we're not talking about, yeah, world shaking stuff here, everybody. No movie, cured polio.
You know, you know, I mean, it's, it's, it's, look, I love it. This is my industry. I've
dedicated my life to it. And I'm telling you, it's not as big as important. It's really not worth
all the, the yelling. Oh, dear God, I've wasted my life. Just head of the piphany. You had a piphany
on the air. Oh my God. So you're going to have to take over my face. I need a second.
That'd be pretty funny, though. Right on the air. I have this huge epiphany.
Now go do your podcast. Yes, exactly. I did want to talk about a little bit of local entertainment.
And shout out to our own Melissa K, who got me into this one. I did not notice that the,
this beforehand, our friends over at the Wasa Community Theatre and a great performance coming up
today. Oh, cool. Outside a mullinger, mullinger. It's a wonderful play. Great, great performance
as great characters. It's a book, it's a based on the book by John Patrick Shantley.
Okay. They have performances going on today, tomorrow and the 30th, all seven o'clock shows.
All right. And these will be at the Whitewater Music Hall. One of those pphort places I've
always wanted to perform. Oh gosh. I don't even have ever been there. Yeah, it's awesome.
131st Street in Wasa. Find out more at Wasa Community Theatre.org. Wasa Community Theatre.org.
Keep up to date on all the good work that they're doing over there. They've got anything
goes coming up as well. Nice. Nice. Great performance. Music and lyrics from Cole Porter.
I mean, come on. You can't go wrong with that. No. In support local theater, everybody.
It's a great one. And speaking of supporting local theater, our own Wisconsin Ravits Community
Theatre have some great stuff going on that we're going to actually be talking about with our
Grand Frick Gretchen. That's right. A little bit later today after midday magazine,
Seth and I are going to get together with Gretchen and record a new director's cut with her.
Yep. They have so many great things going on and a lot of them kicking off next month.
A couple of kids shows, including a kid's musical. You want a kid's Shakespeare. Yeah.
Which I'm really looking forward to. They got a lot of those things going on. They have their
coming again soon. They'll have their karaoke night over there. That was a huge success.
Oh my gosh. It was it ever. That was a good one. Yeah. And of course, their main stage finale
for the season rumors kicks off in May. May 3rd. They got amazing cast, including some voices that you
hear on art radio stations. That's right. And some voices that you'll hear when we bring them
on the air with us and everything. That's right. Get your tickets for rumors and support local
theater. Go find out more at wrc theater dot org wrc theater dot org. A big shout out and thank
you to them and all the good work that they're doing over there. We'll get to our news break right
now. But oh wait, before we do, I'm sorry. Before we do, I do want to talk about the weekend lineup.
Oh yes. Because we have a really exciting fun weekend lineup for you. Now, of course,
we've been having sports, you know, a lot of sports going on. We've had a lot of high school
games. We were following your badgers throughout the season as well. As that happens in rafters come
up in no time, our Sunday lineup is going to shift every once in a while because of the games.
The games come first. But then on an unsports event weekend, we are looking to do something really
exciting here. Yeah. We want we're going to take up a four hour block of your Sunday. Yep.
What we're going to do is eventually not this week, but eventually we will have directors cut
leading into set faces, the music leading into unlabeled. That's right. We are in a new day
around here. We are our weekends used to be filled with nothing but paid programming. Nothing.
It was only five years ago, man. It wasn't even that long ago. No. Over the back fence,
Terry Talk's nutrition, you know, the poker show, these were all, these were our closest we had
to original shows. Now we have all these other content shows that we create for you. And we are
able to do that. Thanks to you guys out there and our sponsors. Yep. And we're also always looking
for sponsors for our shows. We are. You want a sponsor unlabeled set faces in music or directors
cut we'd love to have you. Yep. Reach out to our sales staff. Reach out to me and I'll hook you
up with the right people. Just reach out and get on the team. This week we will be having a set face
to music and unlabeled. Yes, that's right. What is your theme for this week, Seth? My theme is
touching. Don't get excited, everybody. Calm down. Calm down. It's about time. I was waiting for this
time. It's the same thing. Same thing happened when I did the skin show. I was like, woo, skin. No,
no, it's not that. No touching. I realized the other day I was like, wow, I didn't realize how
many songs had touched in them. And I was like, so I looked a little, whoa, there's a whole bunch.
So it's a great lineup this week. Lots of diverse like, well, any normal episode, I guess,
of set face to the music. You're going to hear lots of different kinds of things. So tune in,
everyone. It's always fun. You do a great job of not only doing that, but having different
audio sometimes there from the year and that. Also want to remind people to check out TrailTunes
today at 7 on W.L.A. That's right. It's a great show. That's got some great music lined up for
you. Absolutely. And after set faces music, we will have unlabeled your 90s mixtape. I'm taking
your request. Got a couple of them that I've gotten this episode. Now, this is our second episode.
We're going to be replaying because we didn't really get to play it last week. We are preempted by
the box last week. So yeah, we're going to do that again. We already have episode three in the
books. We've got that recorded and done already. So excited about that. And we'll be premiering
that for you in the next week. Yeah, looking forward to it. But be sure to join us this weekend for
a great lineup. And as I said, coming up, we're going to be taking up a block. A good four-hour
block. A block to Sunday nights. That'd be fun. Yeah. Exciting.
We're going to own your Sundays. That's right. We own your Sundays.
When football does it. Yeah, or baseball or whatever. Yeah.
We'll come it up. We got great stuff lined up for you on the morning show here at WFHR.
Welcome back, everyone. Morning show here at WFHR, where we are locally grown radio.
Hope you're having a good one out there. Seth and James here with you. Keep in mind,
we're going to wrap up the show with, we got the James game together. We got Melissa K back in
the studio with us to talk about the WBA awards and celebrate that a little bit. We'll be doing that
in a little while. For right now, let's talk about a couple of other things here, Seth.
I think there's some interesting stuff in this article here. Here's why other people at work
got you sick multiple times this winter. A new poll found the average American spends 84 hours
a year working sick. 84 hours a year working sick. Let that register for a second. Wow.
That's 10 and a half work days or just over two weeks worth. And the top reason we do it is money.
We'd rather quote, we'd rather power through and not have people think we're being dramatic.
So that's a big one. The number one factor is worrying about what other people think of us.
47% said that they'd rather work through an illness than take a sick day and 34% worry people
might think that they're being lazy or not tough enough. Really? We're still worrying about this.
And James and I think we can both, I can say this for both of us, we are both those people that
don't want to take it. We feel too much maybe responsibility for our jobs, that kind of thing.
So we are included in this group of people. I've been guilty of this myself, but I don't want
to be that way. I don't want it because you have to think of the other people you work with.
Do you want to get them? No, you do not want to get them sick because then they have to
leave or whatever or they don't feel good and productivity goes down. It's just a bad thing all
the way around working while you're sick. I, you're 100% right about that and I got to get
better just like you and others out there about that. The idea of worrying about if somebody thinks
you're tough enough or anything like that has always been kind of weird to me. I feel fortunate in
this. I'm not worried about that. I know how tough I am. I know how strong I am. You know how tough
you are. You know how strong I am. That's all that matters. It really is.
Other people will find out if they, if they have to, if they, the mess around to find
that kind of thing. When it comes to that, I feel like that's a side category. That's something
that we've been doing for decades and decades and decades and we all need to work out a bit.
Quit worrying about what other people think of you. Yep. Quit worrying about if you're tough enough
or anything like that or what a man is. Or if you're lazy or whatever you say. It's ridiculous.
But because to me, if you really, we really want to show how tough you are, it is
thinking of others. That is one of the toughest things you can do because it's, and I'm not
just saying that like to make it sound, to make people do this or anything like that or trying to
find a metaphorical way of getting around to things. It's tough. Well, Seth and I are talking about
many, if not 99% of you out there can relate to that. And it's tough to tell yourself,
no, it's tough to make yourself stay home. It's tough to do those things. So when you do that,
I think you are tough. I think that is strong. That is brave. That is a good thing to do. You're
thinking of others. You're putting others ahead of yourself. The worry comes from the same
place worrying about not being there for others. It's interesting. The thing that we're worried
about and it's causing this is the same thing that can kind of cure it, if you will, for lack of
a better word. So to speak, right? Yeah. It's actually thinking of others. Right. And this is the
pertinone that what we're talking about is the personal side of it. Okay. Now there are structural
issues that also come into play. Like you said, you read right there money. Yeah. Yeah. We need
to have every place. And because we cannot, we've got a hodgepodge. Okay. Every business does
their own thing. Yeah. We need to have it. So everyone who feel who has who is sick can feel
comfortable not going to work, not having to worry about not getting paid. We need some kind of
like universal sick leave, something like that. Yes. So because it will help you business owner
in the long run. They're not coming to work sick and getting your other employees sick.
You're worried about productivity. That's going to kill it. Yeah. If you everyone gets sick in
your job, I mean, how is that helpful? Yeah. It doesn't make sense. It's counterproductive. Yes.
So pay them if they need to stay home. Pay them so that they don't get everyone else sick.
And guess what? That helps your business. This is a good thing, everybody. This is very good.
It goes a lot farther, a lot longer than I think we'd realize. And again, it's the best thing
overall for your business. Exactly. It just leads to good productivity, good workers and better
products. It's an investment. It really is. It's an investment. We'll take a quick time out. We'll
come back and we're going to Melissa K join us. And we're going to talk about the Wisconsin
Broadcasters Association Awards and their finalists that just came out. Spoiler alert,
your local radio station may be involved. It's coming up on the morning show here at WFHR.
Welcome back, everybody. Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio.
Got Melissa, Seth and James. We're here with you.
We're going to have some fun here to wrap up the show. We'll get to our local Easter egg hunts,
and we'll touch on that a little bit for you, everybody. But we wanted to take a moment to shout
out and talk about the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association and their awards ceremony. The Wisconsin
Broadcasters Association, for those that don't know, awards for give awards for excellence and
recognizes outstanding radio and television broadcast achievements by member stations and
college and high school broadcasting students. One of the older, greater organizations we have here
in the state. Yeah, important. And we have some fun news for everybody. We want to send first off
a big shout out to our civic media family and team and so many great shows from walk AMM,
the Maggie Dawn show. I got nominated for a couple of things. I see Earl Ingram show nominated
for a couple of things with them with WGBW, Maynoan Mayor. I know in the mayor. Yeah, they're
morning show. Yep. They have that nominated as well. I see the John and Gordy show on here,
seeing that Chad Holmes on here as well. So I saw, yeah, had another of our stations nominated.
And as far as WFHR goes, well, I, not a brag, right? Yeah, I don't know how to say this without
sounded a little brag. It's a brag adotious or anything everybody, but we got, we were representing.
For in the category of best morning radio show, mornings with WFHR, morning. Yeah. That's us.
Now, I do want to make clear about what this means to everyone. These are not just nominations.
These are, we are finalists. Final. That means we are the top three. Yeah. One, two, or three. Yep.
Which will be announced in May in May, May 4th. Yeah. At the May the 4th be with us.
At the awards ceremony. Yeah. Thank you both. Yeah. You can tell that I've never been nominated for
these things that I've never been in this before, because I did, I did not even, first, I win the
news broke. I didn't know that. And second of all, I forgot to mention it just now. Yeah.
And then thank you. Well, Catherine took pains to make that clear to us multiple times.
Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah, with that being said, we've already won. We're already on the
right. We at least got third place. So, yes, for best morning radio show, mornings with WFHR,
this show right here, nominated, best radio show, The Kitchen's Open. Yeah. That's awesome.
Picture within a feature. Yes. Best continuing coverage. Our coverage for PFAS in Warsaw,
which has been doing some great work there, Melissa. Really, really good work. That's all yours.
Oh, thanks. Best use of audio and radio news, anti-mask resolution. Again, great, great work
being done right there on that topic. When it comes to best specialty programming, both
Seth faces the music and directors cut nominated. Hey. Yeah. We're going against our
self on that one. Yeah. We're going to. I'm out. I'm a winner no matter what. Yeah.
Because my dad's like, Jimmy, you would sit, got a face off of this one. I'm like, no,
Seth facing off with himself. He's part of both shows. Very, very deserving on that front.
And best interview. Directors cut our interview with Mary Jo Peel. Hey. Which makes me happy
on so many levels. I just love. Still the fact that we got to do that interview is still one of
the highlights, but the fact that now it's being recognized. Oh, man, that's awesome. Best
humorous commercial or underwriting announcement. Doorworks voicemail. That's all Melissa too.
That's all her on that one. Well, but I also have to shout out to the amazing voices on there.
We have our own Pat Pam Hillkees on there and James and then Tim Youngs and some random woman
I found in a bar. She did a great job. She's not that random. She's a friend of my boy friends.
I was like, you have an amazing voice. Come to my house and record this line. So that was for the
category best humorous commercial or underwriting announcement. Best promotional announcement,
Seth faces the music promo. Hey, hey. Okay. I got to give James credit on this one because I was
not convinced to even submit it. I was like, really? That one. Is that the one you want? And he convinced
me to submit it. And he was right. He was absolutely right on that one. So the closest I've ever come
to telling Seth to do something. Was that right there? That's the closest I can see was not
going to nominate. I told you. Yeah, commercial. That's great. Part of what I love about that
commercial too, I feel like it encompasses us as a team. So well, it's true. Melissa just kind
of trying to like just like look everybody. Just don't pay attention to that right now. Let me just
go ahead and get you the real information. It's a fun commercial. It is fun. And all these shows
are amazing. We have an amazing team, but none of it happens without all of you. So first,
you write out the gate. Get that in there. We cannot. We're not doing this job. We're not here.
We don't even know each other possibly without all of you out there. We really, really appreciate
that. Thanks, listeners. No, I mean that in all sincerity. These guys are great as much as I
riff on them. Melissa, the kitchen's open segment being nominated. How do I feel?
I was a little surprised. Yeah, although the one that I submitted, I am very proud of,
because I think you guys did an awesome job. I love radio dramas. And tying a radio drama in
with the kitchen's open was just so much fun. Right. And you guys nailed it. Right. I've done this
before, but I always take the opportunity to give you some credit to when you're adapting,
because when you came first came to the station where with us, your main job was being a co-hosts
with me and news was kind of a side gig with civic media taking over. It's shifted a little bit
for you. Been 50, 50, if you will. I still like to claim you as our co- my co-hosts, but we also know
that civic needs you in the news level. And on that regard, your coverage of the PFAS, the anti-mask
work, these things being nominated, that's got to feel a different level, I would think. Yeah,
I was also very pleased with that. So I mean, it's exciting. It shows also the work that how much
you put into news and how much you put into being good at news. And in this day and age,
it means so much more than it ever has in human history, as far as actually beginning,
able to say trusted new source. That has such a different tone to it now. We can say that
about you and the work you do. So it's great to see you nominated for that and appreciate the work
that you put into this. Well, thank you. And I'm very appreciative to the community members who
reach out to me with things that are concerning them, that they want coverage on. So always feel
free to reach out to me, Melissa.k, K-A-I-E, at civicmedia.us. If there's something going on that you want
brought light to, you know, I love having these conversations, these interviews, and digging into
things that matter in our community. You know, we get wrapped up sometimes in things that are going
on nationally. And yeah, it's important to pay attention to those things. But what matters,
what happens here, affects our day to day every day, you know, every day to day life. They take
that I can't talk about. Life every day, nope, I can't explain. Never mind. We'll get on the second
take. Yeah, that's right. I want to really say real quick, because I was the one who actually
heard about this first in our producers meeting on Tuesday, our program director for civic media,
Katherine Lake, was in on it. And she was very excited. And I was like, okay, cool. And so she
gets ready. She gets pulls out the list. She's like, this is some really great news everybody.
And then she starts and she mentions, you know, Green Bay and Wakashan. I'm like, I was thinking,
I was like, boy, you know, that'd be great. If we could, if we could have a couple to, you know,
get on there. And then she says, and WFHR and the list is too long, so I'm not going to read them.
No, no, I'm kidding. I'm kidding. And then she starts to read them. And she keeps going and going.
And I think I love, I was like, oh my god. That's like everything we submit. Oh my god.
Honestly, I didn't hear what she said after that because I was just, I was so floored by, I was just,
I over the moon. I was like, oh my gosh, we, I can't believe it. To that point, Seth, I don't know if
you'll remember this or not, but I remember being backstage at Baskerville and where we met and
we got talking and everything. And when we, we were rambling about some actor or something like
that or probably Star Wars or something along those lines. And you start telling me about, hey,
I know you're in radio. Boy, I had this radio idea when I was like college or something like that
about a show. And you start telling me about this idea for this show. And I think it's a really
good idea. At the time, there's no way that we're ever going to be able to do anything like that
with the ownership we had. Right. Exactly. And you fast forward to what four or five years from now,
from then where we are now. And that you don't only have set face to the music on the air,
not only have a good body of work with those, but now it is nominated. That's, you know,
not nominated. I'm sorry. One. Yes. Yes. Yes. Finalist. Right. Right. Yeah. Finalist. Yes.
And part of it is just to me that never crossed my mind. You know, I didn't think it was anything
about awards. I was just something I really would do wanted to do. And I thought people would
enjoy it. And that was the main reason I wanted to do it. So getting able to do the show itself,
that was the, that was it. That was what I want. That was the reward doing it. And this is just
icing. Yeah. And to be fair, I think it needs to be pointed out that we didn't like choose to do
the, I'm going to chose to do this. But we were pushed also by our, our owner sage pushed our
radio stations say, no, you need to submit some stuff. You need to submit it. He obviously left
it up to us of what to submit. But I mean, we didn't do this last year. Yep. No, we did not.
Neither year before. No. It's been quite a few years, I think, since WFHR submitted anything.
Talking with Chuck about it and everything, we just haven't had the resources of the funding
to be able to do it. Going back to two different ownerships, we haven't been able to. So I,
I've always loved and respected the WBAs. I grew up in this radio station seeing the WBA awards
and stuff and some of the legendary names here at WFHR and the acclaim that they've won.
Yeah, there are awards hanging up here in our office from, you know, decades ago.
But I never, not one second of my radio life, did I ever think that we'd even been anywhere near
the WBAs, let alone nominated or anything like that, let alone making plans to go head to Madison
and make. I never made any thoughts of any of that. And that leads me perfectly because this is,
this is a perfect way of why we work so well together and what I love so much about you guys,
setting me up perfectly to wrap up with thanking our family civic media. Yes.
You mentioned Catherine, a big shout out to her. We've talked about sage a number of times,
but there's so many other great engineers and great work, you know, people like Jorge who is
working on a marketing and everything. We got a great, great family here, man. We've got a really
good team. And not only do we appreciate the, quite bluntly, the money that gets put into this
by sage and by our team, but the, the, the support, the support means more than the money. We've got,
we've got support. We have people that actually believe in local radio running things here.
We've got an owner who it's not surprising to see it in midnight working on some tech issue
that our company's dealing with or something. We got people that are putting their heart,
soul, blood, sweat, and tears into this industry. And it's all starts at the top.
Without that, none of this happens. Big, big, big thank you to sage, big, thank you to civic,
to everybody that has gotten this ball rolling. Yeah. One last thing I do want to say a specific
thank you to Chuck Genaro. Yes. Because he is the one that spearheaded the effort to make sure
he was the one that said, Hey, guys, I think we've got some really interesting, really good stuff
that we could submit to the WBAs after it was, it was network wide that they wanted to do this.
And Chuck was like, Hey, let's get some stuff together. And, and I got to give him a lot of credit
for spearheading the effort. Oh, yes. And, and the, the last minute work of getting it in. Yes.
Well, you and Chuck both did that, but yes. It's out of the wire. Like, okay, we need this. And now we
need all of this. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Let's do it. Appreciate all the work you guys did to do that
and everything. And it's these are, these are really good notes, especially because I wasn't
really thinking about this. And I didn't, I didn't know that I didn't know what it took to do all
this. So it was none of us. Yeah. It was new for everybody. Really integral in the process.
Yeah. A big, big thank you to everybody involved. Yeah. Well, we'll sell, you know, May 4th comes
around. I, I'm planning and hopefully being there. Hopefully we'll have most of our team there.
If we can, if people are able to be loud. And we'll be celebrating and talking about this. Oh,
we're going to be loud. We're, we're, it's been year, it's been decades since WFHR is there.
We're going to make sure they remember us. Yes. We're going to make Dodger. Oh, let's just
get an idea. I love what she does. But the, the theme this year, you guys, for the WBA's
is vintage. It is vintage. That's right. Yeah. I know what I'm wearing. Oh, cool. Oh,
do you want to say your dog? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Save it. Save it. Save it. Wait for the
picture. Great. Wait for that. The acceptance speech. There you go. Thank you for stopping
in Melissa. Oh, yeah. No, but I made it. It was getting down to the wire. But no, she made it. I,
I did not speed. I set my crew. Nice. Nice. The WBA awards will be May 4th in Madison. We'll be
talking about that. And we'll be as bread and the word about that as we lead up to it. Be sure to
join us later today for a great midday magazine from three to four. We got family natural foods in part
one in part two. Anna James Mitchell going to be with us from UW Extension. Look at that.
All right. Okay. Good stuff. I'm the radio right there. And a little bit later today at 640
right here at WFHR. We're going to follow Wisconsin's basketball team as they take on Illinois
state as part of the WNIT tournament. Part of the super 16. That's going to be exciting. That's
nice. A fun, good one right there. And a lot of local Easter egg hunts in our area going on.
Wood County Court. But before that, we have some closings. Wood County Courthouse River Block
and Marshfield Annex office will be closed on Friday, March 29th for good Friday. Okay.
Sheriff's Department deputies and other emergency responders will remain on duty, but their offices
will be closed to the public. The heart of Wisconsin Chamber of Commerce, Wisconsin Ravitarian
Convention and Visitor's Bureau also will be closed tomorrow. And the Wisconsin Ravitar City Hall
will have regular business hours eight until noon. And the Adams County offices will also be closed
on Friday. Thank you, Mel. And on Saturday, there's no farmers market. Just want to flip that in
there. So, yes, at the Moravian Church. Keep that in mind as well. Enjoy your holiday weekend.
Yes. Enjoy your holiday weekend. And enjoy the Easter egg hunts. There's going to be a lot of them.
Keep that in mind, everybody. The Kiwana's have their 94th Kiwana's Easter egg hunt going on
over like a 94. That's going on Saturday. They'll sit up in the north side parking lot.
Activities will start at 9 a.m. They'll have an egg hunt. They'll stop properly at 10 with an
air horn. You know, crafts pictures with Easter Bunny and games in much, much more.
Seth and I both held back in doing our air horns. It's hard to do a good air horn. I know,
but I was tempted to try. I did do what to hear that. I don't know what to do.
That we have an Easter egg hunt and Rudolph at the Village Park at Saturday at 10 a.m. Check
that out. The Village Easter egg hunt at Village Park and Rudolph. And finally, annual Grand Rapids
area merchants Easter egg hunt being put on by the Grand Rapids Volunteers Fire Department.
That is going on Saturday as well. 10 a.m. it kicks off over at Midstate Technical College.
Go ahead and check out the Easter Bunny and all kinds of other great stuff there.
We still got another day here. If you have an Easter egg hunt, do you want to let the world know
about? Go ahead and give it to us. Yep. We'll get it out there for you. 715-424-1300.
I'm going to be sure to do that. Everybody, keep on listening. In just moments,
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