Good morning, Wisconsin. Good morning, world. It's a new day. Thanks for kicking it off
with us right here at WFHR, locally grown radio. Got your host, James J. I am joined by Melissa
Kay. Good morning. And the best listeners in radio. Thanks so much for joining us, everybody.
We got good things lined up for you this hour. We're going to get into a couple of fun
topics. But right now we're going to kick things off with our good friend, Connie Hanky.
She is on the phone with us from the Alexander House and Port Edwards, Connie. Good morning.
Good morning. Connie, how have you been? Oh, I've been doing great, James. Thank you.
Good to hear. Very good to hear. It's been a little while since we've had a chance to talk.
So we always like to catch up and appreciate that you're taking the time to be able to join us.
And focus on the Alexander House a little bit. And I want to mention Connie, I got a great
letter in the mail over here the other day from you guys, this invitation. It's really nice.
You guys did a really nice job with this. Let's talk about this invitation and what is
happening this Friday. Well, we have a new show opening Friday. Our reception will be from
five to eight p.m. And the name of the show is called Body and Boldly Beyond featuring two local
artists, Bonnie Dine and Laura Newman. And they will be showing their paintings,
ceramics, sculptures, and mixed media works. Connie, would you mind telling us a little bit about
Bonnie and Laura? Bonnie is an oil painter from Rapids, like I said before. And what she
is seeing in her bio that I have been using for a press release is that she likes to create a
mode of compositions with vibrant color palettes. In her work, figurative and portraiture work,
her piece has revealed narratives through gestural nuances and spatial expressions.
Very good artist. Very good. And her work, Bonnie's work has such a motion to it.
You look at it. You feel something. You just automatically do.
Right. Right. Yes. So we're really excited to have Bonnie. And along with Bonnie is Laura Newman.
And Bonnie and Laura are very good friends. And chose one another to show together. So I'm
really excited to have the two of them together. And Laura is a multimedia artist also from the area.
And she uses various materials, clay, steel, bronze, glass, found objects. And she also will have
a few paintings in the show. And she likes to create expressive artworks that explore themes of
strength and fragility. I think that's how you say that work. Yes. Yeah. No, next
ly done. Nextly done. Laura's work is so creative and detailed. I really enjoy the combinations
and the detail that she puts into her work. Yes. It will be the two of them together. And they
have done some pieces together. They will be today actually delivering their work to the
house. And they have a at least one installation that they will be working on together when they
deliver the rest of their work. So that'll just be an on site piece that they put together,
which will be really fun to see. It's going to be a really, really couple of wonderful
pieces and artists to be able to appreciate it. The body and boldly beyond painting ceramic
sculptures and mixed media works happening this Friday from five to eight over at the Alexander
House. Connie, you guys are also going to have a poetry book launch. I understand coming up.
Yes. Actually, yes, we are. That will be on Sunday, April 14th at 2 p.m. and two
local writers from the Port Edwards area will be launching their books. And that is Jeffrey
Johanis and Joan Johanis. So we're really excited to have the opportunity to showcase their work
and have that book launch at the house. Not only did they teach me and many of the kids, the
listeners out there, but they joined us on directors cut a little while ago. Great local artists,
great writers, really good writers. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. So that's very exciting and for them and for
us to have them at the house. Connie, as long as we have you, I did want to remind everybody out there
that while these these acts, these pieces are great. These events are great. There's always good
things going on over at the Alexander House. The Alexander House for many years has done such a
great job of supporting local artists. Yes. Definitely. We want to encourage people to be able to
check out more great art and more great things going on over at the Alexander House. I encourage you
to do that by going to Alexanderhouseonline.org, Alexanderhouseonline.org. Connie, if people have other
questions or would like to know more about what's going on over there, how can they reach you?
Well, they can. Let's see. Do I have that information? I do have the phone number here. If you want. I do have
your email. Yeah. Yeah. That would be the best way. And you know, with one of our doses in
there, because we're open Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, from one to four, they they can always leave the
message. And we will get back to whatever calls. Yeah. That's great, Connie. Oh, did you have
something else? Yeah. I just wanted to let the listeners know that this exhibit will continue
through May 7th. And today is the last day of the youth art month show at the house. So that
closes at four today. So if you if people haven't had an opportunity to see that show that ends
today at four. You got to get get out there and vote. And right after you're done voting, head
on over to the Alexanderhouseon, taking that a great exhibit if you haven't had a chance to yet.
There you go. Right. Right. Connie, you're going to have to join us again real soon. It's been
too long. Thanks so much for the time. Say hi to everybody over there for us and have a great time
this weekend with the event. All right. Thank you so much. Thank you. Connie, thank you,
joining us from the Alexanderhouse and Port Edwards there. A big thank you to her. Find out more
and get it. Be a part of this great event this weekend. Their body and boldly beyond painting
ceramic sculptures and mixed media arts with Bonnie, Dine and Laura Newman happening this Friday from
five to eight over at the exam Alexanderhouse. And as Bonnie said, the show will continue through
May 7th by local support, local support the arts, everybody. Yeah, that sounds like a great exhibit.
Yeah, really does. I gotta go check that out. And again, you find out more at Alexanderhouseonline.org
Alexanderhouseonline.org. We'll be back with more coming up on the morning show at WFHR.
Welcome back everyone. Morning show here at WFHR.
We got some fun stuff to get into Melissa and I. We've got the, and nine germias spots in your
office to touch on. But I gotta, I gotta touch them. No, don't touch them. We're gonna just don't
touch anything until we get through the subject, everybody. Okay, just stand there. Just wait, just wait.
And wait a little longer because I gotta pull an audible real quick here. I got a text this morning
at 819 from some of our candidates in this area. It was a text message. I do not, these people do
not know me. I do not know them. They don't have my phone number. They just were able to text me
about voting and about voting for them. Has anybody 715 424 2600? Has anybody ever been swayed
by a text message that you got from a candidate? I really, I really think this should stop or a pack.
Yes, or a pack. Yes, either or 715 424 2600. Have you ever had your opinion changed
or in heightened or any other way? Any way you want to word it, whatever verbs you'd like to use
to vote this way or not? Has it ever done any good? Has it done anything ever than annoy you?
I'm very curious. I'm genuinely asking this and I don't want to, I don't want to come across
angry here or anything like that. I want you guys to feel like you can call up and join us here.
And I'm not talking bad about candidates either. I understand. Candidates are trying to get their
message out there. I'm trying to help candidates save some money. Stop texting us.
Have the time. We don't want to get text from each other. Our friends let alone, somebody we don't
even know. You know what's even worse? Voice mails. Yes. What is the logic behind this?
Because these candidates are people too. They're human beings. They know exactly what I'm talking about.
Like getting junk mail. Yeah. I mean, texts now are the new junk mail. They, they, yes.
It's a digital form of junk mail. 100% right. That is such a good comp. That is such a good
comp. You're so right about that. You know, when I was gone on vacation, the post office did us
a huge favor. They only saved the stuff that was actually addressed to us. They didn't save any
of the third party mailings or the junk mail. Wow. And we had like five pieces of mail after having
our mail held for two weeks. Wow. Nice. Yeah. Shout out to the post office. Yeah. I know. I very
much appreciated that. There are a lot of great ways to get your message out. There are a lot of
great ways to get be heard. I don't believe that a quick text message that nobody asked for is
a one way is a way to do that. And I'm with you, Melissa. I did, again, not just candidates,
but packs as well. Now, if the, if the effort is, you know, just to get out and vote today,
not necessarily coming from a specific candidate or anything else because that's what we're doing
today. We're telling you to get out and vote. We're not telling you who to vote for. That's up to you.
The big difference. And, and we are trying to share with you who information on the candidates,
like there is the article that's on our websites and on our Facebook page, prof, you know, with,
with the interviews that James has done over the last month, with as many of our local
candidates as we could get on air. Now, obviously, we couldn't get everybody. Well, and not everybody
reached back out to us. That's true too. But in the races that we were able to, you know,
contested races that we spoke with, people that were running. We're, we're tried to get as much
information to you as we could in the time. A lot of it. You know, we're going to, you know,
the, the, you're going to want to use some pants and the tights are out there today. There's a lot
of people that are going to be using those voting booths. Be sure to, you know, do do so. When it
comes to that, you know, we can't, we don't have the, the polling booth, but we have the office
here of the nine Jermia spots in your office. Oh, that was my, it's close. That was the,
that was the, the kinder segway I thought of doing. So Melissa, I had, I had a couple other ones
there, but that, that seemed like the nicer one. Glad you restrained yourself. Well done.
Uh, so, uh, uh, right or at the Huffington Post is, uh, came up with this article. And
according to experts, here are the nine Jermia spots in your office. I think the number one is
pretty obvious door handles. They're usually the Jermia spot because everyone touches them. So
it's, it's a good idea to get in the habit of using hands sanitizer when you get to your desk
and to your car. Hmm. Okay. Your keyboard times you open and close doors.
Hmm. Yeah. Uh, your, your keyboard. There are over 3,000 microscopic organisms living in every
square inch of average keyboard. Oh, not all of them are bad. No, however, um, not all of them
are bad. Uh, but, uh, you know, they also, they, they get in the way. You know, they, they,
they, they, they, they, they, they just get in the way. They, they, they, but if you are going to
clean your keyboard, don't spray it with anything. Never spray electronics with liquid. Yeah. Yeah.
I'm trying to think, I know I've done something like that a long time ago. I just don't remember
exactly how or what I did. Spray it on a cloth, then wipe the keyboard lightly. Uh, your desk,
it's covered with your own germs, uh, plus any you pick up with your hands and arms.
Don't assume a janitor or cleaning crew is taking care of it. Wipe it down with a disinfected
spray every now and then. That's a smart idea. Mm hmm. Um, the, uh, the, the shared microwave
in fridge. Uh, yes. Again, everyone touches the handles. Uh, you're probably about to eat,
so you might want to, you know, wash your hands first. Good idea. Um, the water cooler, uh,
the spot you touch has germs on it, but grossness could be lurking in the water itself too.
A few studies have found that those water tanks aren't always cleaned regularly. Hmm.
Good point. And, uh, I think another good point, Melissa, is to say we're not trying to scare
anybody. Uh, this is stuff to keep in mind. Yeah. Be aware of. And maybe we can keep these things
a little cleaner or you can yourself be a little cleaner. Um, I think. Okay. But question for you,
James, how do you clean a water cooler? When you, uh, so I, I, I, I, I, I don't know. I was just
thinking about it as a, cause I'm usually the one that puts the water back on the water cooler here.
And I'm thinking about that device and the way it is. And I, I think that you can flush that out
before you put the, the, the keg back on or whatever. Um, and I, I, I'm going to look into that,
though. I'm going to look into ways to clean that. We've talked to, uh, who, I think lacrosse
of our water, right? Shout out to them. Yeah. Speak to them about, hey, how do we clean this thing?
I really love our water. I really like the water we have. That's really good. Um, and, and, and I
think the two, uh, because by the time we're, we're halfway through this article and in already
people are wondering, well, what can I touch? Like, what, what's safe out there? This is life. Uh,
we, you know, this is how we build up. We're surrounded by germs. Yeah. We build up, like you said,
we build up tolerance. It helps our immune system. Um, this is mostly to really, uh, help not
too many germs, not too many things happening. I don't think that it's necessarily possible or
necessarily, necessarily necessary to avoid everything. Uh, depending on your immune system,
of course, the bathroom, again, they're not cleaned as much as, uh, or as, uh, as we'd, as we'd
like them to be in. If it's no, it's one reason you really shouldn't be using your phone in there.
I don't bring my phone to the, I mean, once, no, I shouldn't say that once in a blue moon,
I do bring my phone to the bathroom. I do, uh, but, but I really, really, really try not to. Yeah,
it's a good, a good idea to avoid elevator buttons. More touch points, uh, that get, uh, a lot of
traffic. Think about using your knuckles instead of the tip of your finger. My papa taught me that,
that was ages ago though. That was like 30 years ago. He taught me that because my papa used to
be an elevator worker and, uh, he's like, oh, we run into too much in Wisconsin rapids, but
there's probably a few of them. Yeah. Yeah. Something to keep in mind. And, uh, man, maybe, uh,
that that's the case, uh, more with vending machines, uh, even worse than elevator buttons because
they have more nooks and crannies that are hard to clean. I don't remember the last time I used
the vending machine. Man, it's been a long time. It's been a hot minute for me as well. I like
vending machines. I used to use one a lot when I was working at the Wisconsin Military Academy
on Fort McCoy. I wonder, uh, you know, um, in, uh, especially, I don't know if they do this in
other Asian countries, but I know in Japan, they have like, uh, vending machines for everything.
They do. Uh, you can buy clothes out of vending machines. Yeah. Yeah. I, uh, which is just crazy.
I, I, I almost like, I wonder, I was going to say I, I would like to see that in this country.
I think that'd be kind of cool. But I, I would imagine they would already be doing it if there was
a profit to be made from it. Yeah. If there was a call for it. Yeah. We have a bit more space for
stores. Hmm. How about we don't do that? How about we just do the, the, um, um, uh,
bidets, uh, those things. Yeah. Well, let's, let's just, if we're not going to use their vending
machines, let's use those. Um, that seems like I've, scientifically, it's healthier. It's just
healthier people. It's healthier and it uses less trees. Yes. Uh, and finally, your phone,
all the germs and bacteria you pick up from those, uh, other eight spots eventually end up on
your phone too. Yeah. Because you touch your phone a lot. So, um, uh, the other note about this,
invest in hand sanitizer. And I don't mean just buying some, I mean in the companies. Uh, go
ahead and buy stock. Go ahead. This, this makes it like you read something like this. And,
and because I get teased about this a lot, uh, I wash my hands a lot. Um, and I get teased for
that every once in a while. Um, this, reading this article, you can see why you want to wash your
hands. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But and that's also a good note too. Maybe not just hand sanitizer,
but actually just maybe soap, um, wash your hands, washing your hands is better than sanitizing,
but sanitizing is a good alternative if you don't have a sink available to you. Yeah. Yeah. Uh,
let's, uh, touch on one more, uh, here, and I, I'm pun intended. Um, when it comes to that,
because, uh, not only are we talking touch, we're talking about our hands and all that, um,
and, uh, I want to get into, uh, this one right here, uh, hands, germs and all these things.
So, uh, when it comes to that, your, your hands, if you're a med, if your med bottle opener, uh,
wasn't a choice here, what would you do if you could do anything with your hand? So here's the
question. If you're non dominant hand got replaced by a robot hand, what gadget would you include?
Okay. This is a Reddit question, uh, that, uh, that, uh, one of our listeners sent to us and
thought that it'd be fun for us to debate and go over Melissa. So, uh, yes, someone asked Reddit,
uh, in over a thousand people voted, if you're non dominant hand got replaced by a robot,
a hand, what gadget would you replace it with? Blah, blah, blah. Um, so I, I, these aren't my kind
of questions, but our listeners spoke and we wanted to go ahead and get it out there and everything.
Um, so I, I don't know, um, hmm, uh, well, traditionally, it's a hook. Yes. Yeah. Uh,
hook seems pretty good. Um, I, I want, I mean, first off, it's got to be interchangeable.
Like I, uh, cause I want a, cause I want the hook, you know, the traditional hook or something,
or actually something that's not going to be able to catch on things. Um, and I'm not going to
have a chance of poking my eye out with it. Well, and if it's robotic, it's got to be, you,
you should be able to move it. Right. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I would just want it
replaced with a prosthetic hand that had super strength. Yes. Yes. Yes. A thousand. And then,
and then the fingers could, could be different implements like a Swiss army knife. Uh, I love that.
Very, very, uh, go go gadget. Very, very, yes. I love this. I love where you go within.
I'm 100% with you. And the first thing I thought of too was go go gadget. Uh, and Wolverine. Uh,
I, I, I, I don't know if it be as cool. If you don't have it on both hands, if you just got the
claws on the one hand, it might not be as intimidating, but it still seems like it could be kind of cool.
Okay. Sure. But functionality wise, how are you going to use that day to day life, James?
Logic. Now you throw logic in there all the sudden. It's a very good point. What about,
okay, as far as like useful things, a flashlight, uh, uh, a screwdriver, you know, that's, uh,
that's a super strong grip that kind of goes along with what you were saying a little bit in the
list. An integrated smartphone with touch screen. Geez. No, that's, it's bad enough that we can't
put our phones down. You literally could not put your phone down. But it's easy to wash.
Yeah, that's true. That's true. It has to be waterproof, obviously.
Yeah. Yeah. So, uh, those are some interesting options. What would you choose everybody?
Seven one five four two four twenty six hundred four two four twenty six hundred.
A coffee cup. No, I like that. I like the coffee cup. Except then you wouldn't be able to put it down.
What about just a bigger hand? Like it's just, it's for two hands. Oh, there you go. Yeah.
Hey, two heads. I want one arm. Yeah. There we go. That's awesome. That's awesome.
Okay. When you need that third hand. Yes. Um, I, I don't, you know, these questions at me always
seem silly because, you know, well, what's the chances of it happening or any of those things?
But I forget sometimes that it's just fun to let your imagination run sometimes. You know,
they just, just let it go ahead and run while. And what about an interchangeable hand? Like when
you're in the kitchen, it becomes kitchen implements. When you're in the garage, it becomes tools.
See, no, that's what they got to do. Yeah. Heck, some people might give up a real hand just
for that. Uh, that, yeah, that's, I mean, that's not bad. It'd be handy. Oh, hands down a good
joke right there. But let's look. We will take a time out because we're, we, we really should.
We'll take it to our news break. We'll come back and we're going to talk about, uh, planters.
Would you plan a tears is what I mean to say. I'm not planters, plan a tears as in captain
planet and the planet tears. Oh, okay. So we're going to get into that. What would you rather control
earth, fire, air or water? That's coming up on the morning show at WF HR locally grown radio.
Welcome back everyone. Morning show here at WF HR locally grown radio.
I'm assuming it means I know what I know if you know what I mean.
Melissa and James here with you. We hope you're having a great Tuesday out there. Thanks
so much for joining us kicking off your morning with us. Let's get into this one. Boomers and
Gen Z get a lot of attention and surveys these days. But here's one that will hit home for
90s kids, uh, and just fans of the, you know, these kind of what if questions, uh, anybody who is a
fan of captain planet and the planet tears, uh, you'll, you'll get where we're going with this.
Now I did not really watch that cartoon growing up. My sister and brother loved it. Watched it like
crazy. Um, I think I've seen it. No, it's essentially, you know, there's a guy made of elements
that he went around trying to protect the earth. Uh, it was kind of, you know, uh, one of those
shows that was, I, I really trying to speak to kids and get kids to care about the planet.
I began in 1990. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Now if you could control one of the elements,
earth, fire, wind or water, which would you choose? Seven one five four two four twenty six hundred
call up, join the conversation. Uh, recent poll asked this question for some reason and there's no
consensus answer. Uh, 25% of people said water, 21% said earth 17% said air and 14% said fire.
Hmm. Um, so a lot of them first off, uh, watched a lot of the last airbender. Uh, there's,
there's been a lot of that going on. Um, unfortunately, uh, heart was not an option, but 22% of people did
answer not sure. No. Men were more, men were more likely to say that they wish that they can
control the wind while women were more likely to say that they're not sure how to answer. Oh,
I would choose water. Yeah. No question. Yeah. That's a good one. Yeah. I'm pretty sure I think I,
I think I, I think water, but earth is close for me. Earth is a close one. Um, now the air,
I, I, it does, it seems cool, but I don't feel like I could do as much with that and fire,
I would get in trouble. I would get in trouble. I don't know how I don't know what I would do,
but I know, no, I, but if you could control it, um, make it stop. Yeah. Yeah. They tell me I can
control my hands and legs, too, but I still trip and I fall over myself all the time. Good point,
good point. I feel like knowing me. I just, no, it's not worth chance. It's just not worth it.
There's too many good people out there. We know what I think bad to happen. Um, I like the earth
one. If that means what I think it does where you can control earth, you can move ground and soil
and sand shape it or my god, that'd be cool. Oh, that seems like it'd be awesome. Also seems like
I get in trouble like destructive. Yeah. I don't see like I'm going to scratch my, you know,
my nose or something and they're like a whole like street block just gets moved. And no, no.
The, um, this is the thing that I think sometimes we don't watch in these superhero movies, too.
Like they, they, they, they, they, they're so well written and so many of them are really good,
I think, but there's, there's so many also like really like dead spots. We're like, well,
wait a minute. And it doesn't come down to like the, the, you know, the likelihood of this
happening or those things, it comes down to me for people like like how human beings would
actually handle some of this stuff if they had this kind of power control. I think a lot more
people would be really quiet about it. I think a lot more people would be really shy about it.
I also think that there's a whole like I start walking around and I control air.
Okay, that's really cool. And I, I show up and I'm on the, you know, the evening news and everything.
And then about an hour later, nobody ever hears from me again.
And I'm not saying the government picked me up and took me in to go to do experiments on me,
but I'm also not saying that didn't happen. You know, I wouldn't have seen the movies.
Come on, come on.
You know, I, I know that I've seen this, the show a couple times, but listen to the people that
voices on the show will be Goldberg, Lavar Burton, Tim Curry, Meg Ryan.
Yeah, yeah, incredible cast. It's cool. Yeah, I would probably go back and watch it just to
pick out those voices. I love all those actors that you mentioned there. I think that one of
the other things that the show, because I think they tried to bring it back. I'm not sure if they
did or not, but I don't think it's a coincidence that the show came out in 1990 and you have so many
kids growing up in that generation that care about the planet. I don't think that's a coincidence.
And I don't, I don't see the, what is the side effect of caring about the planet?
You know, sure, there is, there is, there is the ultra anything can be, can be bad if you do too much
of it. Anything too far. Yes, yeah. That being said, I don't see the downside to people caring
about the planet or worrying about it or anything. I think we've long passed the tree,
quote unquote, tree hugger thing. We're all, we're all caring about, we're all hugging trees now.
We're all caring about the planet. If you don't. The rock we live on, there's not other options.
If you don't, that's fine. You're just selfish. Like just own it. Just own that you're a selfish
person that only cares about themselves and doesn't care about the future or children or anything
like that. Because that's honestly what you're telling the rest of us. That's not me trying to be
mean. You go ahead and live your life. You do you. But I'm just telling you that is the way you come
across. Yep. I still, I'm leaning still towards earth. I'm trying to think of things that you could
do with the air that would be cool. Like, but I don't know. I mean, air can be very destructive.
Yeah. I like, I think you'd be able to fly. I like what you, yeah. Now see, okay, wait a minute
now there. There that seems a little interesting all of a sudden. Yeah. I didn't really give a lot
of thought to the water, but you mentioned water. Why would you choose water, Melissa? I have just
I am drawn to water. I love rainy days. I could sit and watch water like a river or a creek
or a stream. I get distracted by puddles. I mean, I have this in me too. I'm so much the same
way. And I can actually sit there for a good half an hour or so and just watch a river.
I don't know. I find it interesting. I always I've always liked the idea of you're sitting,
say you're sitting here in rapids in one of our great trail areas near the river and you're watching
the river go by that same water. Somebody a couple miles up or a couple miles down, seeing the same
thing. It's it's a similarity of like the moon, you know, the, you know, you're under the moon
and you're missing or thinking to somebody and they're under that same moon somewhere around
there thinking the same but view. Yeah. And there's, you know, water, like you said, it travels
places. It sees things. And so you can sit there and wonder about what what what has or what has
seen this water previous to it being here. I feel the same way about old buildings. I walk into an
old building and I'm like, this building has seen some stuff and some people and the things that
have passed through these doorways. I don't know. Water is similar to me. I get that like that with
buildings too. I love I love architecture and I love learning about it. They're studying it
and especially unique buildings, even a uniquely built house. I look at that and I'm like, man,
what are the stories there? What did I got to say? Right. They say you are what you eat and maybe
you could also make a case for you are where you eat. Where you eat? Are you eat?
Wallet Hub just released its annual report where they ranked 182 of the biggest cities in the US
from the healthiest to the least healthiest. And that's what we're getting into right now. The
healthiest and least healthiest cities in America. Okay. The rankings are based on 41 factors including
overall physical health, mental health, health care costs and quality nutrition, including fruit
and vegetable consumption, fitness levels, parks, trails and bike paths. And they say the 10
healthiest cities in the US are San Francisco, Honolulu, Seattle, San Diego, Washington, DC,
Portland, Oregon, Denver, Salt Lake City, Scottsdale, Arizona and Irvine, California.
Wow. And of course on the other end of the spectrum, the least healthiest, Brownsville,
Texas, Gulfport, Mississippi, Laredo, Texas, Columbus, Georgia, Shreveport, Louisiana.
And the least healthy, a major, at least healthy, major cities are Detroit and Memphis.
Wow. That is a very, those cover very different demographic areas. All the unhealthy ones are in
the south or the Midwest. And the healthy ones are all on the coasts pretty much. Yeah.
Aside of what Colorado? Yeah. Yeah. It speaks again, I think, to what it is like in the south right
now, where we have the highest rates of poverty, the lowest investment in education.
It really also, you know, this, this also point because we're talking about health. And look,
I know a lot of people who would like to eat healthier, but they don't have the budget.
And that is, that is a catch that really should not exist with food or society.
I understand. I'm an adult. I understand why it does. No, it shouldn't. It's, it's note that is,
this, in the same argument to me as I have a broken leg, but I can't go to the doctor. That shouldn't
be, that, that shouldn't be, that there should not be a scenario like that in our, in our, in, in
this country, in our country, I don't believe so. Just speaking as an American forum, about America,
not four Americans, but about America. I'm now never trying to speak four Americans.
As an American, I would, you know, speaking for himself. Exactly.
Don't worry. He's not speaking for all. Exactly. Yes.
Sorry. No, it's true. And it's very funny, very funny. I love true and funny. It's always good
to me. But this does speak to why, like, we want people to eat healthier. We need to make the
food options healthier, healthier, healthier, cheaper, more cost effective. It shouldn't be
cheaper to buy over processed, chemicalized food that's making us sick than fresh fruits and
veggies. Yeah. That just should not be the way that it is. Because how much time and effort is
spent into processing and shipping and, and packaging all of those processed foods, it doesn't make
any sense to me. It's not, I'm not, there is no one person to blame for this, but we did this wrong.
What we should have been doing this whole time is made good food that's good for you,
cheaper, and the sugary stuff more expensive. Like, that's the way we should have been doing
this this whole time. That's the real way to really not only create change and create a healthier
society and a healthier country, but just economically think of the impact it would make. Because even
when you're poor sometimes, you're, you know, you're, you're still, you're still getting these
sugary products and everything. So I don't know, I feel like that. There's a way to work this.
There's a way to make this right. I don't know all the, I don't know, I don't have the answers,
but I know that it's possible. I don't, I don't believe, we've been to the moon people. Don't tell me
we can't fix this. I'm tired of people like throwing their hands up in the air or saying,
being negative. Yes, yes, or, oh, that's too complicated. We could never figure that out.
Give me a break. They figured out we've been to the moon. And that was in the 60s. Like,
we didn't have the tech. We, if I told you, hey, we're going to the moon now. Okay, yeah,
we got the tech for it. Of course, we are. We should. Why haven't we done it already? No, they did
that in the 60s. Like, don't tell me we can't pull things off. They were telling us when we were
kids, Melissa, oh, don't never get everybody to recycle. That'll never happen. Where are we at?
Everybody recycles now. Everybody. Well, everybody tries to recycle. That's a different topic.
But, you know, we have the ability to make this change. And the way that we make that change is
with our vote. Get down, get out there, get in voting, get to vote for people that want to make
these positive changes, not people who are bought by corporations and that only want to make money
for themselves. That make life better for you. Yeah, you can go online and you can find out
every politician that is on your belly today, who is in their pocket. You can find that out. It's
not hard. Well, technically today, it's supposed to be a nonpartisan vote. Right. Right.
For for our local offices, they shouldn't be either party. These these local races are people
who are running. So, so you should be able to investigate into what their platform is and what
they're advocating for. True. Yeah. Looking at just wrapping up the topic here, we went. This
article comes to us from wallatub.com. What about our local cities? Let's look at
Aurora and Illinois is ranked 112th. Let's see here. Milwaukee is ranked 81st.
And Madison is ranked 17th. Hey. Top 20. Nice job, Madison. Yeah. Yeah. It is a beautiful city
to walk and bike in. And I've said this multiple times. If I had to live in a bigger city in Wisconsin,
I would consider Madison. Madison is one of my top five favorite cities in the world.
But also to be fair, I have not spent a whole lot of time in a lot of our other bigger cities.
I've not spent a lot of time in Milwaukee or Appleton or Green Bay. I spent a lot of time in
Madison. It's a great city. I love it. We will check in with our partners. Take a time out. We'll
come back and wrap up the show, have some fun with them. Local good stories of the day. And I
got a then a right one that we got to get to too. That's all coming up for you. Of course you do.
On the morning show at WFHR where we are locally grown radio.
Welcome back everyone. Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio. Melissa and James here.
We've got some good stuff to line up for. You're going to get into some local things for you.
Touch on our schedule here for the day. All that coming up. But we've first got to that
ain't right story here. It's a that ain't right story to me. I will say maybe not to you out there.
Maybe you're a big lemon juice fan. And Idaho man drank a liter of lemon juice through a straw
in 13.64 seconds, earning a potential Guinness World record title and kind of a bad stomachache.
David Rush who has broken more than 250 Guinness World records and currently holds 164 titles.
Previously held the title for the fastest time to drink one liter 4.2 cups of lemon juice
through a straw in 16 seconds. He beat his record by three seconds.
Why does it have to be lemon juice? Yeah, yeah, I don't know.
So the experience was far from plus and he says this time I even had a reversal of fortune
for about a quarter of it. Yet in a way I'm grateful it probably sped my recovery.
Huh. That means he sped it out. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, but I'm trying to see if the other guy
had the same problems or not. No, nothing. Yeah, Rush's latest attempt which must still be reviewed
and approved by Guinness World Records would bring him to 165 concurrent world records.
He is aiming to hold the most records of anyone in the world. A goal requiring him to hold at
least 183. Wow.
My, that any right story part of this is not him. It is the idea that the Guinness record holder or
the Guinness people that have to go around and you know the observers of this and find out if
it's an actual record if they did, you know, they follow the rules and all that.
These people, we don't think about this, but they don't just show up to everyone that breaks a record.
Like you're showing up to one of these and this guy that tells you I can drink lemon juice
in less than 14 seconds or whatever and then he tries and you have to watch and see fails and
fails and fails and I can't imagine that's a lot of fun. No, that does, it seems like a rough gig.
It seems like a rough gig. You know, I think you're right. That does not, would not be on the top
of my list of things to do. I thought it would be one of the cooler jobs to have, honestly. Like
you're running around the whole world and you're getting to see Guinness, you know, all that stuff.
I'm sure some of it is cool. Some of it, some of it's got to be right, right?
In theory, we need a palette cleanser and we had one today. I want to thank our guests,
today, Bria Hoyt, election poll worker who joined us earlier and Connie Henke from the Alexander
House. Great guests today. That was a lot of fun with me. We got great guests coming into the
studio and just a little bit. We're looking forward to talking with during Midday magazine. Today
joined us from three to four right here at WFHR. Terry Hamas, a situa Wisconsin gift of life is
going to be joining us. We, she joins us every year to talk about their scavenger hunt. Oh nice.
Looking forward to that. And in part two, we'll catch up with our friends from the south of
Connie, YMCA, Baxter and Stephanie are going to join us. Big thank you to Tri-City Services.
Thank you, setting up that interview. Oh, wonderful. We're probably going to talk about
upcoming programming for the summer. Yeah, looking forward to that. Looking forward to what we
got for you a little bit later today at five thirty. It's a ball night. It's a ball and voting
night. Milwaukee Bucks at the Washington Wizards. I like that. The Bucks are in our nation's capital
on a voting day. That's pretty good. We will, of course, have election coverage for you afterwards.
Be listening for that and appreciate you Melissa for the great work that you're doing there.
And keep in mind, everybody on our sister station, WIRI, we got Port Edward Softball. Yeah.
Hey, there we go. I believe it's our first game of the season we're broadcasting.
Port Edward's verse Pitsville, Mike and Seth are going to be covering that one for you.
A big shout out to both of them and the great work they're doing.
Okay, I hope the incoming weather does not have reckony havoc on that game.
Definitely want to keep that in mind. We will be letting you know if that game is canceled
and if we are not playing it. We will be sure to keep you up to date on that.
Stick, you know, tomorrow we're going to have a great show. Melissa and I hanging out again
and we will be joined by Phil Hartley from Quality Pulse Printing with our We could also
wear a Wednesday. Keep that in mind. I get it. Awesome.
And got some local things going on in the area here. We just had our monthly veterans update
yesterday. A big shout out to our friends over there. Today's allied veterans council meeting will
be taking place at the VFW post 2534. That'll be at 1800 tonight, six o'clock. Those that don't know
military time as well. And keep in mind the American Heroes Cafe will be up and running tomorrow.
Go ahead and join them for the American Heroes Cafe. I'm sorry, it'll be on the 10th.
The 10th is the next American Heroes Cafe. Because tomorrow is probably not going to be
great driving weather. So by the 10th you should be able to get there no problem. Yeah,
keep that in mind. What is going on tomorrow is bingo. Bingo. I got bingo at the Wisconsin
Rapidselk's lodge. And the plenty of time to get the roads cleared because I think our weather
advisory lifts at one. Yeah, yeah. So get down for a fun night of bingo at the VFW. They do a great
great job and they have I believe a cash bar and their food available too, right? Yeah, yeah.
Check that out. We'll talk more about it tomorrow. Join our friends at the Elk's Lodge at 430 West
Jackson Street and Wisconsin Rapids. And our friends at the United Way of South Winnihams counties
has their community Shred Day coming up. Get ready for that everybody. That'll be April 10 next
Wednesday, April 10th and 9 to 11 over at Pervail Bank Lot at 1601 Lincoln Street in Wisconsin
Rapids. Get there early because once they're full, they're full. Yeah, yeah. Protect yourself and
your identity from theft by bringing in your sensitive documents, old tax returns and other
other other items like that. Each individual can shred up to two 18 by 10 boxes for free and then
they kindly ask for a $5 donation after that. Yeah. You can find out more by going to
www.wac.org, www.wac.org. Be sure to follow the United Way and Social Media as well.
And again, be sure to do, you know, double check those boxes. Go to myvote.wi.gov. Make sure
you are up to date on everything that is going to be waiting for you in the polls. Today,
make sure you're registered. Find out where you need to go to vote and find out more about what's
on that ballot. Yeah, tells you exactly what you're going to be voting for once you get in the voting
booth. Just a couple of world stories I want to touch on. And a 105-year-old eclipse chaser is
gearing up to see his 13th next week. Oh, wow. 105. Yeah. His name is Laverne Beiser. His first
eclipse was in Maine in 1963. Wow. He has traveled the world to see them, but won't have to go anywhere
this time. He lives in Fort Worth, Texas. So the quote, path of totality is going right over his
house. Over him. Oh, cool. Is that now how that worked out? Yeah. Just happened to work out that
way. That is really cool. Yeah. I believe I saw a map. The next one in Wisconsin is in 2099.
Oh, wow. Wow. Man, that is amazing. We just have to be patient. Yeah. It'll get here eventually.
Just got to wait it out. We got to wait it out. They are really cool to see. It is a really,
really miraculous. Even if you're just seeing it online. Yeah, but just make sure you protect your
eyes. Please. We're looking at it for real. Yes. Please protect your eyes, everybody. Yes.
Yes. Keep that in mind. And we are, I think that's going to do it for the show. I just looked at
the clock. Yeah. That's going to do it for the show. I want to thank, again, Bria for joining us
and letting us know a little bit about our election poll workers. Thank you for all of our poll
workers today. I hope everything goes wonderfully and smooth and no issues. Be good to each other
out there, everybody. Treat each other with kindness and respect and courtesy. Yeah. And keep in
mind, you may not vote for the same person, but you live in the same country and you have the same
laws and same rules and same benefits that are all given to us because we're, we get to,
you know, do what we're doing today. Keep democracy alive. Help freedom ring. Indeed.
Good luck tonight, Melissa. Hope it goes well and thank you again for what you're doing.
Absolutely. And we will talk to you tomorrow right here at
WFHR 1320 AM W24 ADE Wisconsin Rapids and always streaming on the Civic Media app.
