Hour 2: Wait for the 1st

Good morning, Wisconsin. Good morning, world. It's a new day. Thanks for kicking it off with us right here at WFHR, locally grown radio.

Got Terry and James hanging out with you. We up here having a good one out there. Happy 9 o'clock hour. Happy Friday, everybody. We made it.

It's Friday. We did.

We got the band back together. We're having some fun. We'll get some good stuff in for you today. A little bit and just a little bit we're going to get into four Easter themed April Fools jokes to be on to look out for.

I feel I feel actually like we're spoiling something almost. I feel that's a good point. I don't probably talk about these on Tuesday. Yes. Yes. You're right. Yeah.

Well, they're just going to make you work a little harder in April Fools. We're going to have some fun with a couple of other things to hear Terry that I want to get to.

But first up, we're going to get into a little bit of entertainment news. They're going to dive right into that and get into some local programming as well. Well, when we do it.

Right now. I'm curious about this one, Terry. It's not just you pop music lyrics are getting a little bit dumber. If you. Yeah.

This is this is interesting. If you think song lyrics are getting sillier or dumber. They're using the word dumber. I don't know if I feel good about that.

But just to, you know, lack of a word to use. More dumber. Yeah. Dumber and dumber. They were when you were. Are they getting sillier or dumber than when we were young.

You're not just a crotchety old grump. You're actually very perceptive because they are. According to a study published in scientific reports lyrics have become simpler, more repetitive and easier to understand since the 1980s.

Interesting. We're talking about major genres here. Pop R&B rock country. All of the above. All of this has happened to all genres of music. I mean, we 80s kids are superior.

The number of different words used within a song has decreased, particularly in rap country and rock songs. But the number of words with three syllables or more has actually increased.

Researchers also found that lyrics have become more emotional and personal and anger related words have increased across all genres.

You know, this is interesting. But at the same time, it's never crossed my mind to like think about creating statistics about this. So it makes me curious.

I like I like data and I like facts and stats and all those things. So that usually pulls me in. But when it comes to music, I get a little bit more like protective.

Like protective, I feel like of it. And I don't know. I don't know lack of a better word. I don't know. So this is like a first day thing. Oh, what do you do?

Oh, I count syllables of song lyrics. Where are you going? Why?

I never got a second date. Yeah. Yeah. This seems like a good thing to lead with.

This is one of those things where I am always very adamant about. I don't like the people picking on younger generations.

And just seems like low-hing fruit. Everybody always does that. Oh, the younger generation this blah blah blah.

With this one, it actually seems like it's kind of like factual a little bit. Like, hey, your lyrics have gotten dumber.

Hey, we got the science to back it up here and everything.

Just when we thought you couldn't get dumber. Right. Right.

Here's the thing about this though. I don't know that we can necessarily blame the artist or that you can have anybody to blame in this one.

No. It's kind of funny. You and I were talking about this off air a little bit. We do this all the time in society.

Sometimes there is no villain. Sometimes there is no bad guy. It's just it's just life.

It's just different. It's just the evolution of music, right?

The idea that music has gotten more repetitive or simpler. I think that they have to fine tune for lack of a better way or a punter.

But they've really gotten in centered. They've gotten narrowed down. Hey, this is what makes a hit. Hey, this is what people like.

If we're frustrated by this, we have nobody to blame but ourselves because they're not doing it if it's not popular.

If it's not selling, nobody's going to do it. Nobody's coming out with this and oh, it didn't do well. It didn't sell well.

What we're going to do that again. We should do it again.

You didn't have wins the last time. Have you seen a second Chris Gaines album? No. No, you haven't. Because it didn't do well.

There's nobody really to blame on this. I don't think. I think it's just producers and artists realizing, hey, this is what works.

We're going to lean into it. And I do think it's noteworthy as well that they mentioned since the 80s.

Because the 80s, I think, is the top of the list when it comes to one hit wonders.

Oh, from, sure.

And in front of image and a lot of the things, music really changed a lot with the 80s.

Not just with image and with the one hit wonder thing, but with the rise of the synthesizer.

The 70s were kind of doing that a little bit. But as soon as the 80s hit, like 1980s hit January 1st.

And everybody had a key guitar.

All of a sudden, yeah, I agree.

So I think that changed music a lot too there. And I don't know how much all of that affected this.

But it's kind of interesting to look at.

And we're still like, it's not like music's less popular now than when we were kids.

Music's still just a spot, if not more popular now.

It's kind of interesting. You can find the full report at scientificreports.com.

You can go and check that out if you like.

I wanted to talk a little bit about the WBA awards.

Yesterday, we were able to talk a little bit about this with our, with our team here.

We had Seth and Melissa and Melissa stop by to spend some time on this one.

For those who don't know, the Wisconsin Bragg Broadcasters Association does this every year.

They have awards for excellence, recognizing outstanding radio and television broadcast achievements

by member stations and college and high school broadcasting students.

So an organization has been around a long time supporting radio stations here in Wisconsin.

The great organization that does great work.

And they're also an organization I have not thought about in probably 20 years.

I am being honest about this. I've thought I pay attention to the WBAs.

I get their newsletter. I care about the organization.

But as far as like being nominated or winning awards,

I haven't thought about that my whole radio life.

Because the radio stations I worked at just honestly did not put the money into it

and didn't do those kind of things.

Civic Media is a young station.

And one of the things that our ownership wanted to do,

and one of the ways they noted to get noticed,

and this is just how the world works, you get awards, you get nominated for stuff,

you get your name out there that affects things.

That gets, you know, your name out there, period.

So our owner Sage asked all of our local radios to all of our radio stations

to have submissions.

And, you know, our team is small.

And to be honest with you, we got it in kind of at the last second a lot of these things and stuff.

And it wasn't something I quite honestly, I put a lot of thought into,

but not a lot of heart into.

Awards don't mean that much to me.

I don't put a lot of stock into these things.

But I'm very proud of this team.

And I've never been more proud to work with people as I am with this team currently

that we have here at WFHR.

So when it comes to recognizing these people that I work with, heck yeah, let's do it.

All right, I'm all game.

We want to send a shout out to the Maggie Dawn show,

the Mark, the Earl Ingram show that was nominated for a couple of things.

A lot of Civic Media stuff got nominated for things.

And then there's WFHR, which got nominated for more stuff than anybody.

Woohoo!

Best Morning Radio Show.

Mornings with WFHR, right here.

This show right here was nominated for Best Morning Radio Show.

Best Radio Show, the Kitchens Open, our segment inside this show.

And a shout out to Melissa for that.

The best continuing coverage, Peefus Wawson coverage,

the best use of audio and radio news, anti-mask resolution, best specialty programming,

Seth Faces the Music, and Directors Cut.

We're going up against each other in that category.

And Seth is going up against himself in that category.

Best Interview, Directors Cut.

Our interview with Mystery Science Theaters, Mary Jo Peel,

is nominated for Best Interview.

Best Promotional Announcement, Seth Faces the Music promo.

One of my favorite commercials of all time.

And Best Humorous Commercial, or Underwriting Announcement,

Door Works voicemail.

All of these nominated, and not, I'm sorry, not nominated, finalists.

Because what I found out that I did not know about the WBAs,

is that if we are getting this information,

that means we are at least in third place.

We're on the medal stand.

We at least want to bronze from this.

So we're coming home with awards, people.

Like, that's pretty cool.

That is awesome.

Well deserved.

And incredibly well deserved by this team.

These guys, I don't think if I spent the whole two hours of the morning show explaining to you

everything Pam does, I don't think it would cover enough.

Let alone if I did that from Melissa or Seth.

I'll never be able to express how hard every single person in this station works.

How hard our engineer and our GM Chuck does.

What he does, not just for our station, but civic medium.

Keep in mind that all these people that run WFHR are also running WIRI,

and two different radio stations.

You've got people here that are wearing five to six multiple hats,

just to get this to work, just to do this,

and just because we love you guys so much,

because all of that being said, and a big shout out to our advertisers,

we can't do this without them.

But none of this happens without you out there.

The listener.

So when I'm mentioning these awards,

and I'm mentioning these nominations and everything,

do yourself a favor right now everybody.

Take a moment and patch yourself on the back,

because you guys won these awards too.

Every single one of you out there, I don't give a dang if it sounds corny.

I mean, ever you've syllable of this.

We are not here without you.

So you take pride in this too.

This is your station.

This is your area, and we are so proud of that.

Thank you everybody.

Helping us being able to do this work,

big thank you to this team and a shout out to Seth and Melissa

and the amazing work that they're doing.

Very proud of this.

It's very exciting.

See you in Madison everybody.

This is going to be fun.

I'm looking forward to that.

Yeah, that'll be cool.

I've got a suit picked out.

You better dust off your suit.

Yeah, I've got to do that.

Looking at what's new on your small screen,

big screen this weekend, taking a quick dive into that

if my computer will work.

Taking a dive, literally.

Look, there's a lot of stuff on this weekend.

March madness.

March madness is going on.

Sweet 16 games continue today on CBS,

True TV and TNT.

And the Elite 8 will play Saturday and Sunday.

You've got the 35th annual Gladdle Media Awards on Hulu.

Friday on peacock, the streaming premiere of Lisa Frankenstein

a romantic horror comedy.

I want to see that just Rob Williams' daughter directed that.

Oh, really?

It's her first directed movie.

So I want to see Zelda Williams directed it.

I want to see it for that.

There's some new movies on Netflix,

The Beautiful Game, starring Bill Knightley,

and Disney Plus Renegade Nell.

Those are new.

Also, let's see here.

On ESPN, the 35th season premiere of Sunday Night Baseball.

Los Angeles Dodgers, Verta, St. Louis Cardinals.

Baseball's back.

And the brewers are of course kicking off baseball today.

They had to move their game over.

On Showtime, the series premiere of a gentleman in Moscow,

starring you and McGregor as a nobleman

who is spared immediately, immediate execution

during the Russian Revolution.

It looks so good.

It's a period movie or a TV show.

You know McGregor looks amazing in it.

So check that out.

It's a true, it's based on a true story

about a, loosely based on a true story,

who a guy who is an archie arc

and he has to stay in this hotel.

That's his prison sentence.

He cannot leave the hotel.

And it's, you know.

Interesting.

I'm sorry, what network did you say that's on?

It's on Showtime.

It's on Showtime, okay.

So I don't know if I'll be able to see it to be honest with you.

But I do want to, I want to see it.

It looks really good.

And let's see what's new on your big screen.

What's new in movie theaters this weekend.

In the Land of Saints in Sinner,

starring Liam Neeson,

who has a particular set of skills that you,

I don't know.

I like Liam Neeson a lot.

I think he's a Thesson.

I think he's a very good actor.

The last five, six years,

Liam's pretty much played the same character every movie.

And no problem with that.

You guys just come up with another plot

because I'm just going to be the same guy.

Yeah, I mean, you know,

it more power to a bed.

Get your buddy out of here.

No problem with that.

The big one in theaters this weekend,

Godzilla vs. Kong,

the new Empire,

the fifth movie,

and the Kong Godzilla Monster vs.

these movies are huge.

They do really well.

I did not think these movies were going to do well coming out the gate.

Now, they've done very well, though.

People like them.

That's what's new on your big screen.

And new on your stage.

The Warsaw Community Theatre has a show going on.

A big shot of tour of friends over there.

They have outside Mullinger.

They had a premiere.

They're the premiere last night.

They heard good things about it.

They got a show tonight.

And to show tomorrow at seven o'clock,

you can find out more at

wawsaucommunitytheater.org.

Wawsaucommunitytheater.org.

Encourage you to do that.

We will go over our schedule a little bit later for you, everybody.

We've got some good stuff lined up there.

A lot of good sports this weekend.

We want to touch it.

In fact, you know what?

I'm going to do it right now.

Let's just do it now.

I'm just going to do it right now.

Yeah, I was going to be waiting for.

Yeah, yeah.

Looking at what's new on your schedule for us here.

This weekend, well, today from three to four,

we've got a great midday magazine lined up for you.

That will lead right into Wisconsin hockey.

So at part one, we're going to talk to our friends

at the Wisconsin Prairie Chicken Festival.

I'm going to talk with them about the great festival

that they have going on over there.

And we have the best of episode afterwards.

Keep in mind that we will lead right into Wisconsin men's hockey

at four o'clock today.

And looking at our sports schedule,

that they've got that game going on today

for here at WFHR, looking forward to that.

And on Saturday, we got Bucks Basketball at Atlanta,

taking on the Hawks six o'clock.

We are going to follow with Wisconsin women's basketball team

as well as they advance.

And we don't have an update on some of those games yet.

We'll find out as that happens.

Great sports on your weekend.

All weekend here right at WFHR.

Good stuff. We'll be following along.

Yeah, great lineup.

And keep in mind we've got great original content for you as well.

It kicks off on Saturday with outdoors with Dan Small.

Great show hosted by local.

We got Dan's co-host is from the Rapids area.

The Sunshine Poke Show at 7 a.m.

Maybe the greatest show of all time.

Join us for that.

The Sunshine Poke Show.

Tim Hubble at the Poke Guy does an amazing job with that week

and a week out.

We appreciate the work that you do there.

Tim, be sure to check that.

And of course afterwards you will have Terry Talk's nutrition

thanks to our friends and family natural foods,

giving us that one.

Great show, great information.

Terry does an amazing job with that.

Join us from 11 to noon for over the back fence.

Seth does a great job taking your phone calls with the items

you're looking for.

I just want to sell.

Be sure to spread the word about that show too everybody.

We want to keep over the back fence alive

and on our radio station.

And the only way we can do that is if it is used.

If you guys call up and join us.

We need you given us a call.

Things you want to buy or sell.

Mm-hmm.

And then our weekend lineup is going to probably

look a little bit different with Wisconsin hockey going on.

But maybe not because I think that we'll have time.

We'll have Seth faces music this weekend from 6 to 8.

Join us for that Seth theme touch.

Gonna have a lot of songs balanced around that.

And then afterwards you'll have unlabeled.

Yes, unlabeled your 90s mix state.

Be sure to join us for that from 8 to 9.

Got a great one lined up.

Got your request coming up.

Oh nice.

I don't know if it's in this one or not.

I think it's in the third episode.

But that's coming up.

And I want your request everybody.

If you've got a hit from the 90s, you want to hear.

If it was released from 1990 to 1999, I will play it.

It doesn't matter to the genre.

I'll play it.

Get it to us everybody.

James.Mailoff at civicmini.us.

And a big thank you to everybody who's made that show.

And Seth faces the music and directors cuts so popular.

We appreciate that out of everyone out there.

We got a new directors cut episode coming up for you.

Just keep that in mind.

Looking forward to it.

We will come back and we're talking April Fools and Easter.

April Fools day and Easter.

We're good.

We're talking about those coming up on the morning show at WFHR.

Welcome back everyone.

Morning show at WFHR locally grown radio.

Terry and James hanging out with you.

Long distance information.

Give me Memphis Tennessee.

We hope you're having a great Friday out there everyone.

Thanks for joining us for it.

Good stuff coming up today.

Let's get into this one Terry.

So Easter is on Sunday.

And April Fools day is on Monday.

So there is a chance for some crossover.

And here are a few Easter themed pranks to be on the lookout for

or to try yourself.

We might actually be giving people suggestions here.

And I just realized that.

If you live in my house, no pranks allowed till the first.

Till the first.

Till the first.

That's exactly my mother's rule too.

And she had to make that rule because of me.

Nobody in our house likes April Fools.

Nobody except my mother and I.

And we drove our family crazy with this over the years.

Till the point where they actually had to sit my mother

and I doubt like look you guys like just to go first.

Or just to each other.

Just to each.

Exactly.

Wow.

Like exactly.

Like we can only do it too.

The rest of us are out.

So hilarious.

I'll never forget that day.

So first off, I want to hear if you've got any favorite April Fools jokes you've played.

I want to hear those.

And if you don't have them today, bring them to us on Monday show.

Actually, let's save that for Monday show.

Yeah.

Let's hear your April Fools jokes on Monday.

I want to do that.

That'll be fun.

You can give them to us now if you want.

I'd like to do that on Monday for sure.

But for now, let's take a look at these treat these ideas that they have.

Died raw eggs.

Someone's bound to break one while tossing it into the basket.

So died raw eggs.

Or when you go to crack it to eat it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Okay.

That's fine.

I mean, that's fine with that one.

Plastic eggs filled with silly unexpected stuff.

Instead of candy, the eggs are filled with like baby carrots or frozen peas or shaving cream.

That'd be fun.

It'd be fun to fill one of those frozen peas.

Frozen peas?

That'd be totally fun.

I've got it with that one.

Yeah.

I like that.

Rapped grapes in foil.

You can unwrap those small chocolate eggs and use the wrapper to wrap grapes instead.

They'll look just like chocolate eggs to an unsuspecting mark.

Oh.

But grapes are good.

So that's not a, I don't know.

Yeah.

That's not too big of a punishment.

Not no, no, no.

These actually are much more tame than I thought they were.

Much more.

And gross tasting jelly beans.

According to a recent ranking, the three worst jelly bean flavors are buttered popcorn,

licorice, and chili mango.

Whoa, I've never had chili mango.

See, I think all of those would be better than, you know, like jelly bellies has one that's like vomit.

Yeah, they got those messed up ones.

Yeah, that's going too far.

Like in the bean boozled challenge, some of those are skunk.

Yeah, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I do, I have to admit, the mischievous part of me is really easy.

These are cute.

Yeah, yeah.

I really thought they were going a whole different direction with this.

That's fun.

Those are fun.

But I'm with you, Terry.

You got to do it on April 4th.

I have one little prankster in my house.

And she likes to, you know, like she's short-sheet in the beds.

She's putting like tin foil inside your pillowcase.

So like you lay down and it's all like crunchy.

She's, you know, she's rubber banding the sprayer at the sink.

Like it's just like every, oh, yeah.

I wonder where she could have gone.

Yeah, not for me.

Oh, no, no, no.

Of course not.

No, no, no.

Yeah, Terry.

I don't know.

I like those.

I want to, I want to, I'm going to be chewing on this one and thinking about it over the weekend and seeing what we come up with.

Bring your April Fool's jokes on Monday.

And certainly if they're Easter themed, we'd love to hear those.

Those are fun.

I like them.

I'm trying to think of any off the top of my head to like spin off of those, like what we could do.

What you could do.

I love the idea.

What about like you hide the Easter basket and they find the basket.

But you know how it's always got the fake grass in there?

Like just even more fake grass, like just a ton of fake grass.

And they go through it all and there's like one chocolate egg.

Like just at the bottom.

You got there, you got the rest of the candy on the side and everything.

But you'll give them a rest of the candy.

But like the first reaction would be golden, would be gray.

Uh-huh.

Uh, if you can get the Easter Bunny to work with you on these.

I mean, I mean, you know, Easter Bunny's got a good sense of humor.

So I can see, I can see that.

Um, this is an interesting one.

So the number might be even higher today since it's a cat Friday and a lot of people spend casual Friday.

But at least 25% of us are wearing jeans right now.

Uh, I know I am.

I am.

I usually have not, but I am.

That's according to a new poll that asked nearly 15,000 Americans of all ages how often they

wear jeans.

One in four said daily.

Daily.

Yeah.

To be fair, that would be, that would also include people who change into jeans when they

get home from work.

So it's possible fewer than that are wearing them at this exact moment.

Still, that's a lot of denim.

Uh, another 35% said a few times a week, 12% said once a week.

Those are 72% of Americans are wearing jeans on a weekly basis, 8% overall said that they

never wear jeans.

Seniors were most likely to say that 14% once it hit a certain age, you need, uh, like

a little more stretch.

Uh, the poll also found straight leg jeans are number one across all age groups.

Then it's boot cut, skinny jeans, slim fit jeans, wide leg jeans are fifth.

Um, and they're making it come back though.

Yeah, they are.

Yeah.

A little bottom kind of look.

Yeah, just wire.

Yeah.

But I think, um, dress codes have relaxed so much, you know, like workplace dress codes.

Um, so I don't know, I'm not surprised too many people are wearing jeans.

So I work a odd job.

So it's hard.

I have a, I come from a hard place on this where it's radio and not people are seeing

us or anything.

Although nowadays radio is all, is, is also become a bit of a visual medium for many

people.

But even with that, um, we, we don't have a, we've never had a dress code here in radio.

But at the same time, we have a lot of guests come in and I want to, I want to look good

for guests in morning magazine.

I want to look at least decent, least presentable.

But you also don't want to come in dressed to the nines because if I have a guest come in

and they're not dressed that way, they're going to feel uncomfortable.

So my job, my number one job when I bring a guest and even you Terry is to make you feel

comfortable.

What do you mean?

You didn't even unlock the door this morning.

Yeah, that was a little awkward on my part.

I'm sorry about that.

Uh, it's a little different for you since you're like a big sister to me.

So it's a little bit different.

You're probably not a great example, but I'm not going to make somebody feel comfortable

if I'm all dressed up any more than if I'm dressed slavish and they come in and, and

that.

So there's a line there.

Yeah, and it is nice of you to change out of your zubas in the morning and into

jeans.

Thank you for noting.

You know, um, I will say I am that please don't tell me you have those.

No, I don't, but I do have, uh, I do have a pair of adidas that I changed into as soon

as I can.

I don't like wearing jeans.

So as soon as I can't flip into those shorts, I love wearing one of the other.

The, the lacks on the dress code.

I don't think necessarily is a bad thing, but I am curious of how the rest of the world

looks at that.

How other people feel.

And we kind of still do, I mean, our, my role is still business casual.

Like, you don't have to be to that.

I mean, if we have certain events where it's appropriate, then yes.

But otherwise we're, we're still doing business casual like men don't have to wear a shirt

and tie.

A polo is fine or, you know, I or just a button down shirt.

But, um, but we do do, uh, relax dress code on Friday.

I do, um, I think business casual is the way forward for almost every industry.

There's obviously a few out there that, uh, you have to dress a little bit differently

or off, uh, you know, other, in the other end of the spectrum.

But I do think that that has been the way kind of going forward now where we're all kind

of taking on that.

You see that a lot more.

And I, I genuinely think that it leads to better business.

I think that it leads to a happier employees, um, and I'm saying business casual.

I also, but I feel like this is also bled into other things.

I'm not a person to the tense church, but I do know a lot of people that do.

And one of the bigger complaints I hear is, oh, this person coming to church and dressing

in sweatpants or this person with the holy clothes or anything.

And I always ask, like, do you know that person?

Because that person might not have clothes, you know, they might, I've heard this a lot

with a lot of my African American friends and a lot of the churches in the south.

And there are people who will not go to church because they don't have nice enough clothes.

And that is heartbreaking to me.

Yeah.

Again, this is not my wheelhouse.

No, I hear you.

But that does seem a little bit harsh to me.

Like I feel like of all the environments where you shouldn't be judging people, a church

would be the one.

I go with this.

And then you're talking about it after.

Yeah.

I mean, come on.

I do, it's, it's interesting.

It's a balance because I, I, I could see where some people are coming from, especially

in the business world.

I could also see where employees are coming from.

It's just one of those things.

I don't know if there's a right answer.

I think that's every company, every business has to approach it to their own eyesight, their

own perspective from their own eyes.

You know, it's, it's very interesting to me like back when I, my retail days, I mean,

which is a long time ago, but it's really not, I mean, you know, 18 years ago, right?

And I mean, we were requiring like women were required to wear diamonds or pantyhose,

you know, you could not have open to shoot, you know, like you had to wear, if you wore

slacks, if you were pants, you had to have two tops on as a female, like a jacket or

a sweater or something like it, I mean, it was pretty, pretty particular.

Now you see like even our, like your letter carriers don't, they wear jeans.

Yeah.

Yeah.

They don't wear uniforms anymore.

I know that some of this is, the pushback on some of this is, well, you know, we're

just trying to find employees nowadays and it's hard to find them in that.

I, I don't know, I don't, again, if it makes to a better business than I don't see an issue

with it necessarily, but I do think that it's one of those things, it just kind of have

to figure out each company has to figure out in each business themselves.

I'm curious how that goes going forward though, too, because we tend to not like pull back

on these things.

We tend to go more in on them and everything.

Right.

I think the hard part is, like with jeans, I mean, is kind of the whole, but it's with

everything, dress close to.

It's just, you know, do you come in looking like you just rolled out of bed or do you actually

put some care into your casual of it?

That's huge.

It's a huge thought.

Yeah.

I, I would say that even if, you know, we may not have the greatest of things or whatever,

but you, effort is, you can tell, they can be clean and they can be like, you know,

not off the floor.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You, you can see effort.

You can tell effort.

So I, I do think that that's a, there's no where they think that is.

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I don't know.

That song still holds up.

Doesn't it?

We know.

Oh, right away.

I started like, my foot starts to happen instantly.

But about it still does it.

Some of the things that are old are still fresh and new to us are still work or something.

Not everything do we have to re-examine and change.

And sometimes there are things that we do adapt to.

We do grow and change with.

And we're talking parenting now.

A completely undecisive subject that would never get anybody bad done to shake.

Here's an okay kind of situation that we might want to ease into here a little bit.

Or just a reminder that being a parent is a thankless job and very difficult.

And nobody has it down completely.

Almost three and four millennial parents think that they're currently doing a better job

than with their kids than their own parents did with them.

73% think that's true.

And 88% say that their parenting style is different than their own parents did.

Okay.

Saying it's different is one thing.

Yeah.

Saying that you're doing it better, you should probably just zip your lip.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I don't know about that.

Now your parents might say, oh gosh, you know, you're doing a great job, you're doing

better than that.

That's very different.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

I can't imagine like there are the list of things that you will never catch me saying

to my mother and father.

This is like in the top three.

At least it may be top two.

Maybe top two.

I don't know.

So what are parents today doing differently?

According to the poll, here are the top four parenting strategies we're using that most

parents didn't.

And I think that one other thing to mention here, Terry, that you kind of touched on there

a little bit, one of the things that I have noticed, if there is a theme with every good

parent, it's one and your kids have a better life than you did.

Oh, absolutely.

And all that.

So that I think isn't a key part of this.

Maybe there's a little of that going on with that.

I'm giving a little bit of wiggle room here.

Doing it different is fine.

But the other just sounds so arrogant.

It does.

It does.

And I don't think anybody appreciates it.

I don't know anybody who appreciates arrogance ever.

Under any situation, I don't care if we're talking sports, politics, or anything else,

nobody really likes arrogance.

So that doesn't usually go over very well.

Here are the ways that they feel that they are different strategies they are using, like

gentle parenting, a style that quote, guides children through the decision making process

without the parents setting demands and rules.

Good luck with that.

No, no, no, no.

You took the words right out of my mouth.

I mean, it sounds good in theory, until you have a three-year-old in front of you that

is not listening to anything you're saying, nothing's working, nothing happens.

Oh, and by the way, it's two in the morning and you've got to work at five.

Or you're, they're laying on the floor in the middle of a store?

Like, yeah, I mean, I'm not waiting that one out.

Yeah.

Where we get advice.

24% have gotten parenting advice from social media.

But then other than that, it hasn't really changed much.

It's only the fifth most trusted source, oh, for advice behind family, other parents,

friends, and parenting books.

So we're not really getting advice in a different way.

It's just we have a more, I think we have a bigger pool to pool from now was that.

With that being said, we talk a lot about parents and children, but parents and parents.

One of the greatest things you can do as a parent for another parent is listen.

That's it.

That's all.

If they ask you for advice, sure, go right ahead.

You go ahead and unload on them.

But if they're not asking for advice, don't give it.

And there is not a single parent out there who has done everything perfectly, right?

Like you have to forgive yourself for, you know, like forgetting something or doing something

wrong or, you know, whatever, like you got to move on.

And parents supporting other parents, I'm not saying that there is an accountability or

that you don't, you know, if you think somebody's doing some got off a horrible job that

you just sit there and take it, but at the same time, but like be a sounding board for

each other.

I mean, parents supporting parents going forward would be a really cool thing to see.

And I think that's much more valuable, honestly, than what you're maybe finding on social

media or unless, you know, you have your key, like close friends that that's how you communicate

with them.

But thinking about, you know, asking your parents, asking your siblings who are parents,

asking friends who are parents, you know, and just helping each other.

Being open about mental health, your own parents might have just bucked up, you know, buckle

up, rub some dirt out of theirs, you know.

But 80% of millennial parents think that discussions about mental health and emotional well-being

are important.

98% are willing to talk about it with their kids now, 98%.

And that is different.

I agree.

It's different because we didn't know any better.

Right.

Well, that's what I'm saying.

Like, back when we were kids, I mean, it really was.

But they don't, they don't mention that in the article here, like they should put that

in there.

Like, I think that, especially, like, just, for example, my parents, my, my, my dad's

parents, my mother's parents, wonderful human beings, but they came from a generation

that were really touchy-feely, didn't do a lot of hugging, but they wanted to change

that.

But they didn't have a book about it.

Nobody knew.

So literally, when I had watched my pop and my dad hug, it was, it was, they did, it looked

like they needed the instruction manual, like they did not do it.

But they, they loved to do it, and they would do it all the time.

Um, I had a very affectionate family, but it, it didn't start that way.

They were trying to learn to be that way.

Yep.

Absolutely.

Um, mental health was a very big topic in our household.

And we talked about it a lot growing up, but also didn't know how to talk about it because

there was no playbook for these things.

Uh, it seems awfully judgmental and harsh to kind of like say, well, they didn't talk

about mental health.

Nobody was talking about mental health.

No, and there also wasn't, um, I don't think care readily available either.

No, no.

You know, I, I was going to say access to care, but I think there are still challenges

with access to care because there's not enough providers.

So I think that that's the same.

But, but it just, it's, it's just different.

It doesn't mean it was wrong.

Right.

It's different.

I feel like getting mad at your parents for not recycling in the forties.

Look, who was recycling in the forties?

Nobody was doing that.

Like, come on.

Yeah.

And, uh, being present with your kids, 80% of millennial parents claim that they always

try to prioritize their kids over work.

And 77% think that they're more present with their children than their parents were.

But you know what?

To me, that is a demonstration of change in the workplace.

Yeah.

I mean, absolutely.

Parents, I don't know.

I feel like parents back will use the forties.

I don't think that we don't have to go back that far.

You know, 60, 70s, 80s, you, there was not flexibility in the workplace.

No.

Not like there is now.

I'm not saying there was none, but, but not like there is now.

So I don't, I mean, they can try to like own that as they came up with it.

But I just think there's much more flexibility afforded to parents than there used to be.

As hard as it is, uh, for some to do, uh, it's important to do whenever we have an opportunity

to, uh, we, we talk such trash about businesses and all business this, business that and

everything.

Good thing businesses have realized and done and got to give credit to that because you're

absolutely right.

That's where that starts.

Um, and last couple, last couple of stats, a third of millennial parents say that they

have to deal with, uh, their own parents questioning their new age methods a lot.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But we should expect that.

Yeah.

Uh, but regard.

And that, by the way, if we surveyed every generation of parents, everyone of them could

say the same thing.

Yes.

But regardless of where you stand on it, most agree having kids these days isn't easy.

43% of parents say that they're currently burnt out.

Um, that's a really high number.

And I do think that as, as parents of kids of other generations like myself or older

people out there, it's important to note we have no idea what it's like to be a parent

of a kid nowadays.

It's a completely different ballgame.

Again, I think you could say that for every generation, but specifically in this generation,

these are the first generations.

The internet generations are the, for, in the internet parents of those kids are the

first generations of having to deal with 24, seven bullying or, or some of these topics

that I as a parent never had to deal with.

And my kids are only in their 20s, you know, in their early 20s for that matter, I,

I think it's important to note that and say, I don't understand what it's like to be

a parent of a teenager nowadays or a kid in grade school or something.

And that's a whole different ballgame.

And again, the greatest thing I can do is a fellow parent that right there, just listening.

That's it.

That's the best advice.

That's a whole different ballgame.

But I don't think I'm going to be asked for a lot of advice.

I don't think that's going to happen.

We'll, we'll, we'll, we'll take the time out.

We'll come back after checking in with our partners and wrap up the show.

We got a, that ain't right story for the ages for you.

You've got to hear this one.

It's coming up.

Did we just do it?

I had more to show at WFHR.

Welcome back everyone.

Something show here at WFHR locally grown radio.

Terry and James here with you.

Thanks so much for joining us.

We'll take you to the top of the hour.

Got some good stuff lined up for you.

Stick around.

Matt and air on the air coming up.

Great show.

We encourage you to stick around for that.

And a little bit later today, from three to four, we'll at Midday Magazine for you.

We'll lead you into Wisconsin Badger.

Men's hockey.

Woo-hoo.

We're at Wisconsin.

On Wisconsin.

But for right now, Terry, we got to get into this, that ain't right story and I've been

hanging on to this one.

I'm waiting to get into this one.

You always make me nervous.

I love these.

I love these.

If you're an unusually hairy premium being, maybe steer clear of Northeast Washington

next month or at least keep your shirt on.

A sheriff's office in Colville, Washington posted a funny update on Facebook after a guy

called in to ask if he's allowed to hunt Sasquatch.

I'm just going to say, is it like a Sasquatch festival or something?

He said he'll be coming in from out of town in April, wanted to know if Bigfoot hunting

is legal there.

Good for him to check ahead.

I mean, I would say yes, but we require a license.

They can collect some cash from this dude.

His question was, yeah, do we need a special license?

They told him it was really more of a question for the Fish and Wildlife Office.

But he said he already called them and that's who referred him to the...

Kick the can down the road.

Whoever took the call passed it up, the chain of command, they said he told them he'd

wait to hear back and wanted to clarify, he was only interested in bagging male Sasquatch.

He of course wouldn't hunt or shoot a female Sasquatch.

Good of him to do that, of course.

You know, you want the Sasquatch to be able to keep on growing and everything.

I mean, he clearly wasn't raised by millennials because they haven't talked to him about

his mental health.

The chief of police wanted to pass the log to pieces of information in case anyone else

wanted to travel in the area to hunt bigfoot.

One, the guy was asking about an area called Meadow Lake, which is usually an actually

in a different county, so the sheriff there might have more info.

And two, he's pretty sure there aren't any around because one of his deputies would have

hit one with their patrol car by now, as crazy as it is over there and everything.

If you are hairy, extra hairy, keep a shirt on.

Maybe a flannel, maybe you know, maybe you have reflective vests, maybe just a sign.

I am not bigfoot.

You think that would make a difference?

He'd be like, oh, a bigfoot had a sign on the set.

I'm not bigfoot.

Somebody's got him all scoped up and everything.

Oh, wait, no, he's got a sign.

I'm not bigfoot.

Oh, I'm so sorry.

We're a lot of orange.

So all of the Sasquatch out there, make yourself a sign that say, I am not bigfoot.

I love this.

I like these stories.

And I'm so with you, Terry.

This is where our brains get a little too alike, because they've immediately thought, oh,

they should sell license for this.

Make a couple bucks off of this.

If you're foolish enough to buy a Sasquatch license, I have no energy for you.

If like fish and wildlife would have said something like, oh, you know, it's a limited

competitive process and the license is like 1200 bucks.

Would you have been curious to see if he would have been like, where do I write the check?

You know, he clearly is not all there.

I mean, no, no, what I also would think that would be cool is a great promotional thing.

Like a great way to like to like put it because obviously you're probably not going to find

a Sasquatch.

Or draw people to your community, yeah, tourism, tourism, add in your community, be a fun

way to do that, I think.

But then the other thing though, if you live in that community, do you want the Sasquatch

hunters all coming?

I mean, one randomly, but do you want them all?

That's a very good point.

Yeah, yeah, I don't know about that one.

Just small towns, maybe I don't know otherwise though.

Yeah, that's a good one.

Let's get a palo cleanser in and Terry.

I want to catch people up about the United Way and you've got some great things coming

up most specifically.

Our most around the corner is Community Shred Day.

Yes.

April 10th is Community Shred Day taking place at Proveil Bank here in Wisconsin Rapids

on Lincoln Street.

The event will be from nine until 11 or sooner if we meet our maximum capacity.

So if you're participating, I encourage you to come early.

You can bring two boxes of sensitive documents that need to be shredded for free.

And then it's just a $5 donation to United Way for each box thereafter.

I want to say thanks to our sponsors, Proveil Bank and bank account, each donating a dollar

for each shredded pound up to $2,000.

So that's super exciting that we are able to leverage donations for this and really encourage

you to get that stuff out of your house, right?

So you have the next week and a half, you know, put it in some paper bags or put it in

a box and had on over to Proveil Bank with that.

You don't even have to get out of your car.

We will scoop it up out of your back seat or trunk or wherever it is and put it in the

shredder for you.

Great, great service being offered by Proveil and a huge opportunity to help your community

through United Way.

And keep in mind team registration is open now for United Weekend Hunger event.

Join us as the rafters take on the Battle Creek Battle, Battle Jax, starting at 6.35

on that day.

We're going to have it would be taken place at Winterfield.

We're looking for your teams.

If you want to register for today, you can go to uswac.org or contact Ben at 715-421-0390-421-0390.

You can also email them at uswac.org.

Yeah, looking for about a dozen teams, building a food sculpture.

So we've got plenty of time to plan and encourage you to jump on board.

And be sure to follow along with our United Way UWSWAC.org.

Follow them on social media.

It's a great way to follow and great way to put back into your community.

You can always call 211 for volunteer opportunities.

It's a lot of great things available for you from our United Way.

We also got a great midday magazine lined up for you today.

In part one, we're going to talk to Wisconsin Prairie Chicken Festival members of that

and talk a little bit about that great event that they have going on.

That'd be fun.

Looking forward to it in part two.

We'll have a best of episode for you.

Is it me?

Yes.

It's you.

Hey, spray shocker's a liar.

No, it's not.

Roode.

Roode.

Roode.

Keep in mind.

With the holiday weekend and everything.

Wood County Courthouse, River Block, and Marshfield Annex offices will be closed today

for a good Friday.

Sheriff's Department deputies and other emergency responders remain on duty, but their offices

will be closed to the public.

And the heart of Wisconsin Chamber of Commerce and Wisconsin Rapids Area Convention and Visitors

Bureau will be closed today as well.

The Wisconsin Rapids City Hall will have their regular business hours 8 a.m. till noon.

Also due to the Easter holiday weekend, there will be no winter farmers marketed at the

Wisconsin Rapids Moravian Church.

The market will resume Saturday, April 6th, from 9 to 1.

We've got some great Easter hunt events going on in their area.

The Wisconsin Rapids-Kawanas Club have their 94th annual Easter Egg Hunt shut up to them.

Isn't that awesome?

Yeah.

It's taking place tomorrow at Lincoln High School, 1801, 16th Street, South, and Wisconsin

Rapids, our old stomping grounds.

It'll be set up in the staff parking lot, Northside parallel to the expressway.

Activities will begin at 9 a.m.

The egg hunt will start properly at 10 when the air horn goes off.

Oh.

That's official.

That's official.

If there's inclement weather, they will move activities indoors and keep in mind the

left crafts, pictures with the Easter Bunny, games, and a lot more.

At the 94th annual, Kawanas Easter Egg Hunt happening tomorrow at Lincoln High School from

kicking off at 9.

And it's pretty fun.

The Lincoln High School Key Club helps with that too.

So you've got, you know, young and...

Yeah.

Yeah, that's cool.

I was going to say old, I didn't mean this.

But, you know...

Old and young and younger.

Kawanas and Key Club together.