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 K. Good morning. We're here to have some fun with the best listeners in
radio. We got good things coming up for you in this hour. We're going to talk a little
bit later about the 10 best states for working from home. Got that one coming up for you.
I'm going to be a good one and we'll get into a couple of other fun things too. I got
some that a right stories we're going to touch on. We really got to get into this. But
I do want to get into some entertainment news like we like to do when we have time in
this time slot. And Robert Downey Jr. has said that he'd be happy to return as Ironman
if ever asked. He actually had a really good quote about this. It's too integral a part
of my DNA. The role chose me. And look, I always say never, ever bet against Kevin Feige.
It's a losing bet. He's the house. He always wins. For those who don't know, Kevin Feige
is the president over at Marvel. And really the mastermind behind so much of Marvel's success.
Okay. Of course, nothing is impossible when the multiverse is involved and they keep
being able to bring these characters back. I see a lot of people that get kind of bent
out of shape about this stuff. It's superheroes. Like look, this is my wheelhouse. This is
my field entertainment acting. I take it more serious than I ever should. And I'm telling
you, it's superhero movies. What do we do? It's not going to bent out of shape about
this or any like, I mean, you know, people like the character. People are going to bring
back characters. James Bond keeps coming back. That's the industry. That's the way this
works. I don't see the big deal in it. I mean, Dr. Who kept coming back? Yeah. Yeah. I mean,
that's if anything, personally, I like them doing these things because I like these characters.
Well, right. And you want to see the stories continue. Well, guess what? Everybody ages.
Yeah. Like, I don't know anybody that has been able to turn back the clock of time.
You know, I mean, even I even saw a Denzel getting gray. You know, I mean, even Denzel got
a hold on us. I mean, it's too. It's fun. Now, if they're going to be any good, if the
content's going to be good, if the new creations are bringing that back, that's a whole other
story. Right. That will remain to be seen. Yeah. Yeah. It's just interesting to me the way
and I get like some of this. But with some of these decisions that are being made with
some actors to not do a role or to do a role, the superhero thing has been very like dividing
for a lot of people. And some like I saw the the rock recently said that he regretted saying
what he did about Biden and all this stuff and everything. Even though nobody asked him
and nobody, I don't know anybody alive that has ever thought, what is the rock think of politics?
I don't know that that's ever come up. But somebody to like me. Yeah. His opinions valid.
You know, he's an American. His opinion valid. But I also don't know that many people that are
wondering that. I would like to have seen him say that he regretted doing black Adam.
That that that I think would have held more weight. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Because I don't care
about him as an act. I don't care about his politics. Right. Because that's his business. Not
because it doesn't matter just because it's his business. Like we talked about earlier.
But I do care about his acting choices. And I do I would like to know, you know, a little more
about that. I think that that's if he has a real regret, that's the regret he should have is
some of the movies he's chosen. I also don't care who celebrities are voting for or not voting for.
I do appreciate it when they use their platform to say, Hey, get out and use your voice to vote.
It's your civic duty. You have the privilege of being able to do that in this country. And there's
many countries in the world that don't. We got a lot of beautiful rights in this country as
Americans. One of them is not trying not telling. We don't get to tell other people what to do with
their vote. No. And we don't, um, I don't believe we're swayed. I don't, I don't generally believe
there's no matter who you're talking about, who you're thinking of, there's anybody out there
that gets swayed by a celebrity or a be list celebrity or a sea list celebrity and who they vote for.
That is, I got a heck of an imagination. And that is really hard for me to wrap my mind around
that a rational human being would let somebody they've never met have no idea who they are.
Sway their vote like completely change who they were going to vote for. That just seems very
well, especially when it comes to wrap my mind around actors because guess what? When we see
them on the screen, that's not them. Yeah. They're characters. Yeah. They're acting. It's their job.
Yeah. Just because they seem likable. Yeah. That doesn't, that doesn't have any bearing on how
they are in real life. You realize 99% of the people you've seen play Cowboys have never gotten
their hands dirty. Let's be real about this. It's not that different than country music, either,
though. There's a lot of country artists out there talking about tractor riding and things like
that that have never been on one. I mean, and look, hip hop's the same way. There's a lot of heck.
You could see 90% of hip hop is guys talking tough that have never had to actually be in a fight.
That's music. That's entertainment. I get all that. But to your point, Melissa, they tell us all
this up front. So why would we take their, their words on this particular part different than we do
in other parts that's picking and choosing a little bit there? I don't think you get to do that.
Now there is one music genre that I would say you can't sing unless you've had the life experience.
And that's jazz. Mm-hmm. I agree. I agree. 100%. Yes. CBS is saying goodbye to three shows next month.
Bob Hartz, Abalsa will end after five seasons on Monday, May 6th. It'll be followed that night
by the season finale of NCIS and NCIS Hawaii. Then on Thursday, May 16th, the Big Bang Theory's
prequel Young Sheldon will air its series finale. It'll include cameos from Jim Parsons in May
and Beallock as young Sheldon and Amy. The next night on Friday, the 17th,
SWAT will end after seven seasons. And it'll be followed by the season finale of Fire Country
and Blue Bloods. A lot of big time, long time shows on CBS are being set out to pasture.
Most networks like Take NBC, for example, they usually finish this third or fourth in the ratings
at the end of the year and stuff. NBC has to make these decisions on ratings and sponsorships.
Who is going to sponsor this next year? Well, we have the same sponsors, a lot of those things.
Every year, if me and Melissa are going to show it together, we have season two comes around.
Chances are we're getting a second season because the first season was good, so our paychecks
are going to go up a little bit. Budget costs, it's not just ours, the director, the writer,
the casting guy, you know, all these things all goes up. Yes, the way it should be.
So there's a lot of those things they have to worry about.
And once you get to seven seasons,
well, nowadays it usually takes about three to five seasons, but what you hit that sweet spot,
syndication, baby, that sweet syndication money, where you're getting paychecks with 25 cents.
But it's, you know, don't knock on a quarter, man.
Ask, ask any, any, the character actors on Seinfeld, how they feel about that?
More friends. Yes, yes, I imagine that feels pretty good after we'll get in a couple of those.
But if you're CBS, when it comes to this, well, you're the big dog. So you're making these
decisions because you know what? We're going in different direction. We're, we're going to start
getting younger. Our audience has always been older and, you know, being, not being mean about this
or anything, but that's not creating new people. Younger people are creating new people,
and they want to get younger and skew younger. And they are taking chances and they're going to
making, you know, doing some different things next season that they haven't done in the past,
I believe, especially with having a year kind of away from the strikes and everything.
So things can kind of get back on timing schedule-wise. Okay. So when you're CBS, you can do a lot of
these things because there's a lot of people like, you can't get rid of NCIS. You can't get, you know,
they see these shows and stuff around forever. How dare you touch blue bloods? Who do you think you are,
CBS? But they can afford to do these things in part because it's not to say that they don't
appreciate their listeners. They just want new ones. Yeah. You know what I mean? It isn't much
more complicated than that. And some of these shows too, we're ready to go. Blue bloods is a good
example. Tom Selleck was pretty much ready to retire. As far as he's told a lot of people,
I do think he's still going to work, but not as the, it's a growing schedule doing TV. It's a
growing. I only did it like, I only did it for a half a year and it was tough. You can't take
other work because you're booked, you're booked. I want to do this big Marvel movie, Too Bad.
You're under contract. I want to go on vacation with my family. Too bad. You know, we got to do,
we might have to do re-reschedule. We might have to do reshoots. You got to be around for that.
I want to cut my hair. Too bad. I want to gain weight. I want to lose weight. I want to do any of
these things. Too bad, too bad, too bad, too bad. And that could be a lot after 10 seasons or,
you know, so. And also, there's just, there's a point where things should end gracefully.
You know, if you try to do something to, you know, drag it on too much, too over the top,
take it on. I mean, how many shows have we seen that have just dragged on and on and on and on?
Through my brain, like seven or eight shows just ran through my head.
I would have ended seasons ago. Yeah, I mean, everything except the Simpsons, of course.
They don't never die. It is not allowed to. Well, they're also animated characters.
Fair point, fair point. Our friends over at Wisconsin's Rapids Community
Theater have somewhat fun things going on this month. One in highlight a couple of these
improv comedy night at the theater. The BRC T's proudly presents this. It's a fun night.
April 12th, this will be going on at seven o'clock in the studio theater.
We should check that out. So this Friday night subject to change comedy group.
Yeah, a comedy show made up in the moment based on your suggestions.
It is the art and the beauty of improv. There are a few things in this world more fun. They're
exciting to me than improv. And I do believe that most of the actors involved in that group come
from the Stevens Point area. Yeah. Of course, we are still looking for directors for next season.
If you are interested in directing Melissa and I, of course, many, many of our great, great,
you know, community members and everything. I encourage you to check that out.
And one of the things. So a little bit later today, our good friend executive director over at the
WRCT Gretchen Powers is going to be in about 11 or so today. She's going to record a director's cut
with Seth and I. Nice. One of the things we are going to focus on is Hopo Productions and all the
things that man, there was a lot of things going on this summer for kids. Got three separate youth
productions this year. That's awesome. That is really cool. We're going to talk about that with Gretchen
including one that she directed in the road of belief. Yeah, no, just, I'm sorry, she directed.
She didn't write this one. But she, her and Stephanie over the years have written many of these
plays. So it's understandable. I would think that we're looking forward to that. We'll be talking
with her a little bit later and we'll talk about these a lot more as we get closer to them.
Audition dates, I will mention for the summer youth productions begins with the Disney's
Newsies junior that Gretchen will be directing. And that the audition dates will be April 29th
and the 35 to 8 over at the Wisconsin Revitze Community Theater studio. 20th and 3rd. What
one of the things? The 29th and 30th of people. 29th and 30th. Yeah, so mark that on your calendars.
If you've got kids and you're looking for to give them something fun to do, I can not think of
many better things than theater. It is. The confidence they gain, the friendships, the connections they
make and no matter what they do in their lives, having some public speaking experience is going
to help. Oh yes, absolutely. It goes so much farther than we realize. You know, maybe they don't
do a job that they that they're public speaking every day, but they're going to do a job where they
talk to people. They're going to have to talk to a stranger someday. They're going to have to do
all this is reps. Just make it more reps. That speech class is usually a required class to graduate
from high school. Yeah. Well, get them involved in theater when they're kiddos and speech class
will be breeze. There's no way I'm in this chair without speech class. I know way. That class,
that was a huge one for me. I really enjoyed that class. And we want to remind everybody that
WRCT's rumors is coming up May 3rd. They're wrapping up their main stage season with this great
finale. Neil Simon classic directed by Christine Sullivan. Some of your favorite local people are in
this show, including some that join us on the air here. Be sure to check out rumors and get your
tickets for it at WRC Theater or WRC Theater. That one's going to be a popular show. So get your
tickets early. Yes, yes. And again, they're looking for directors, looking for people backstage,
looking for you. Yeah, looking for you, everybody. You can always volunteer down at the community
theater. Come find your new family volunteer, join the team, join the gang at WRC Theater.org.
We'll take a quick time out, checking with our great partners. We'll come back and have some more
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Oh, nice. Right on, right? Yes, that's right. That's right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was a good look.
Let's dive into this one, Melissa. One of the perks of a job where you can work remotely is that
you can work from anywhere, even a utopia like New Jersey. What? Wait, what? A website ranked all
50 states in Washington, DC from the best places to work from home to the worst with the rankings being
focused based on factors like the percentage of people working from home, internet and utility
costs and housing costs. It feels like there should be some other factors, but that's a pretty
not bad. I mean, that kind of covers your office needs, so to speak. The 10 best places for remote
work are Abbotsford. No, I'm not bad. It's not bad. New Jersey, Utah, Delaware, Maryland,
Washington, DC, Connecticut, Washington state, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and North Carolina.
There were a lot of Eastern states on their areas. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know what to
make of that. Well, let's look at the 10 worst Alaska, Montana, Arkansas, Wyoming, South Dakota,
Oklahoma, Mississippi, West Virginia, Maine, and North Dakota. Okay. The only one that surprised me
is Maine. Yeah. That one's the outlier. Yeah. Cause I imagine that utility costs and internet
connection in those states are more expensive and harder to combine. Yeah. These things are tougher
in the South. Yeah. Just for sure. If you've been listening to us or in these remote places, I mean,
half of those that you sit in North and South Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, I mean,
we've been doing these for so long that now it's almost in my head that the South is going to
get the short stick. Of course, you know, that is the highest rates of poverty, which goes hand
in hand with the highest rates of gun violence and homicides and I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I,
I got, I get in trouble sometimes for this one. But I, I, I, talking to some listeners recently
because I've mentioned before how I feel about the Confederate flag. And then I think it is a
treason flag. It is, it goes against our country. We have a flag, only one flag. Only you're
country only gets one flag. That's ours. I was talking to somebody who's from the North here
asking them if they had any Southern ties. If that's why they were wearing that, they had that flag
and all that. And then I asked them if they've ever talked to somebody from the South and how they
feel about seeing Northerners having a Confederate flag. I also asked if their family's history
is from the North, which meant that their family fought for the North and hear their ancestors
are swinging Confederate flag around. These things do not add up. These things do not make a whole
lot of rational sense. But I, I don't, I don't want to sound like I'm also begrudging the South
and its history. You can love your history with some, you know, context, some understanding.
Nobody is trying to get anybody to, to not, not, you know, you don't get to love your history.
But there's something in this, there's a stretch I admit here. But there's something really
important that happened in Europe with Germany. And what Germany did and Germany is now a place
that people flock to and want to go to. It's a happy country. If people have a good time,
they enjoy themselves. It's very interesting to me, considering in the, in the annals of time,
in the way that time works, not that much time has passed from World War II and what happened
to now. Right. But Germany is an open country now. And people flock there and they love going there.
Whereas in this country, our battle with the South and the North, it's supposed to be better.
It's supposed to be come a long way in all these things. But there's still a lot of gap and a lot
of difference in separation there and everything. And I feel like we need to get better all of us,
North, South, everybody, with getting along and working together and trying to make the Southern
States more prosperous because it works out for the best of us. Well, yeah, it works out forever.
It's the right thing to do, but it's also, hey, if you don't care about that, do you care about
taxes? Do you care about economy? Do you care about these things? If they're doing well, we'll be
doing better. Vice versa, it would be no different. Now, there's a gigantic difference here
between Germany and the South and that and that Germany is own their history. And that is part
of the reason why they have, that's part of it. I don't want to say been forgiven, but been kind
of understood that, hey, this young generation isn't responsible for the things of the past.
We can do that in the South too. It's just a matter of being proud of where you're from while
also understanding it. You've heard me on this airwave for five seconds. You know, I'm from Chicago.
You know, I love being from there. That's my city. I love that place. I back that place
in the middle of Wisconsin for over 20 years. I've represented and stood on my, what I am and
where I'm from. And I'll be the first person to admit there are some messed up parts of that city.
There are some really bad parts. You could still go to Chicago. Do not listen to some of these
talking heads on this and some of the radio stations in the state and fear mongering and everything.
There are a billion safe places in Chicago to go. But there's a lot of wonderful people.
Yeah, there's also some knuckleheads and some idiots around there. It's kind of true all over
the place. Yeah, you can do both. You can love where you're from and also understand that,
hey, there's some things that ain't great. There's some things that aren't working. And in order for
our country to ever go to like truly completely evolved to the country we want we wish to be,
we've got to be more unified. We really, really need to how that happens. I'm sorry. I don't
have the answers. But I know we got to figure them out. I think one of the things that we could do
is stop taking money out of education. Yeah, yeah. You know, I mean, my go a long way towards people
understanding why the Confederate flag is a symbol of slavery and, you know, ab objecting humanity
to awful and horrendous conditions. Not okay. Yeah, yeah. You can, I got one of my best friends
growing up as family from Louisiana. And they would talk about this. Like when the dukes of
hazard was really big back then. And nobody cared about the Confederate flag or anything as far as
like we're using it as a political symbol or any of these things or anything back then. It was
just a flag and people, you know, use it in like almost as a prop. You know, the dukes of hazard
used it as a prop. And then you don't get a twist in here and everything. It was an entertainment
show. It meant to entertain kids and adults a little bit and everything. It wasn't meant to give,
you know, invoke pride in the South. It was a TV show. The general Lee was it was meant to make me
smile as a kid as it jumped over hills and stuff. I didn't think about slavery. I didn't think about
those things. Right. What I did think about is that didn't make sense to me. And when I talked to
my Southern friends, they talked about, yeah, I'm proud of being from the South. That's why I have
the Louisiana flag on my car or I have a shirt that hasn't honored or something. If you're that
proud of being from the South, you don't have to use the Confederate flag. Your state has a flag.
Use that if that's what you want to do. Or I don't know the American flag for the love of God.
What are we doing? How is this still a thing in 2024? And the thing that kind of really
irks me sometimes when I see flags flying is how tattered they are. You know, I mean,
that isn't honoring the flag either. One of the things that I want with this conversation
is to not not be judging. And I don't mean to do that. But I also am always honest with you guys.
And I'm always real with you guys. And when I see somebody with a Confederate flag, I'm thinking
that's a person that is going to hate me. That's a person that's going to hate me and going to
hate my kids and going to hate you know, that's that's what that flag creates. That's what that flag
shows. What I don't think is the of the South. I do not think of the South. I do not think of
Southern people when I see that flag because I don't think of Southern people as racist. I don't
think of Southern people. I don't see a Southern person. I think they're going to hate me. I think,
oh, what football team they root for? Like generally, that's like one of my first thoughts.
I don't think about that stuff. It's only when that flag is invoked. And it's about building this
like bridges more and more of a connection with us in our other states and our other people in
other states. And the differences that we have, the differences that we have are less than the
things we have in common. Come back to that. Yeah. That's very true. We got state and local
news to get to. We're going to take care of our partners. They're also during the break. And
when we come back, we got some fun stuff to get. I got a couple of Danny Wright stories. We got
to get to Melissa. I got one of them here. A woman got to speed me ticket somehow. I don't know
how she pulled this off. I've read the article and I still don't understand how this happened.
Okay. And some knucklehead trying to get out of paying child support. I want to shred this guy.
I want to shred him bad. That's all coming up for you on the morning show at WF HR.
Welcome back everyone. Morning show here at WF HR locally grown radio. Melissa and James hanging
out with you. Hope you're having a good one out there. Thanks for joining us on this Tuesday.
Got some good stuff to get. We're going to get into a couple of more articles. We're going to touch
on some Danny Wright stories. Good stories of the day. Local stuff we want to get to. But Melissa,
you had something for us coming out of the last segment conversation. Well, I did just want to
look up a little bit about the US flag code for the American flag. And well, it's not illegal
to fly a tattered American flag. And there's no penalty for it. Many veterans do take the US flag
code very seriously. And flying those tattered flags are sometimes taken as a disrespect
to our brave veterans and active duty servicemen and women who have dedicated their lives to keeping
our country safe. But there are places. Not that I could find there aren't any places that will
replace your flag, but there are places you can take your flag for proper disposal. And it is
okay to fix it yourself if you can, but if you can't or it's faded or tattered, you can take
it to the local VFW potentially your village hall or fire department in the area or potentially
A's hardware. Good to know. And then they will take that and dispose of it with the proper respect
due to the symbol of our country. Thank you to those businesses to do that. And then the people
that are helping out with that. And of course, our veterans. Certainly. And especially in a day
like today, I know we don't do our national day of calendar anymore over here, but this is an
important one. Today is national former prisoner of war recognition day. It is honors courageous
men and women who have endured brutal treatment at the hands of their captors. As a result,
they've also suffered separation from family and displayed incredible endurance and faith during
their captivity. On this day in 1942, the largest number of U.S. forces were captured by
Japanese troops and the batten pens of peninsula in the Philippines. After battling through extreme
conditions and prolonged battles, the captured troops were forced to march 65 miles to prison camp.
Without medical attention, food or water, thousands died. The mistreatment continued for those who
survived the brutal journey and the compounds deep in the unfamiliar jungle and hardships, brutality
and suffering lasted more than two years for those who could survive. You and I have no idea
what that's. None. None. No clue about it. All I know is I appreciate, though, every single one of
those individuals and every single individual that has been in these situations, since the
Revolutionary War, we have had these situations and things like this happen to our true heroes,
true people that are... Are fighting for our democracy? Yeah. Keeping it alive. I want to read this.
This was a proclamation from the White House. It's a wonderfully written thing. Encourage you to
check out at Whitehouse.gov, Whitehouse.gov. I'm just going to read the first paragraph.
A national form of prisoner of war recognition day. We honor the more than half a million
service members who have sacrificed their freedom as prisoners of war in order to defend the freedom
of their fellow Americans. These brave patriots remind us of the grave costs of war and the sacrifice
we ask of those who fight for us. We owe them and their families, caregivers and survivors.
A debt of gratitude we can never fully repay. And thank you to all of them. We appreciate you.
Do you want to remind everybody that right now in Auburndale is the Auburndale coffee with vets
that is going on. I hope everybody's having a good time there. Enjoying themselves. And tomorrow,
right here in Wisconsin Rapids at Crossview Church at 730 Heroes Cafe. Hey. Be sure to check that
out everybody. Love Heroes Cafe. Love all of our friends over there at Heroes Cafe. For those that
don't know, American Heroes Cafe of Central Wisconsin is for all veterans, military, police,
and firefighters. All are welcome. Refreshments are provided that no costs. And of gigantic
thank you to the volunteers and local businesses and the Crossview Church for hosting this and for
all the people that make this happen. I hear such good things about the conversations and the
happenings of the American Heroes Cafe. Love that we have something like this in our neck of the
woods. It's pretty cool. Absolutely. If you know of that, if you know of anybody who is a former
prisoner of war, if you know families that have dealt with this, I know I do. And I know I'll be
talking to them today. Take a quick time out. We'll come back more fun on the morning show.
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Everybody sing along.
I can sing along to this one. I feel like this is the kind of song I could do at karaoke.
You know, it's just stomping and you can do that. I can do that. I can do that. I can pull that.
And then the singing starts. Yes. Then I bow out. I let Melissa take the lead.
Melissa and James here with you, hoping you're having a good one out there. Everybody,
thanks so much joining us on this Tuesday. I did want to wrap up one of the things we mentioned
earlier. We were talking about the best dates to work from home from. For those wondering about
Wisconsin ranks 31st. 31st out of 51. Because they included Washington DC, of course. Right.
In another debate or interesting thing here, do you agree or disagree with this statement?
The roads would be a much safer place if you were driving all of the vehicles.
Well, in a new survey, 80% of drivers rate their own driving as very good or excellent.
But only 14% of people would give the same grade to other passenger cars.
And only 25% would say the same about commercial vehicles. One of the biggest problems
seems to be distracted drivers. A whopping 90% of people say that it's dangerous to hold a
phone in your hand while driving, whether you're using it to talk, text, or navigate.
89% of people say that they support laws to prohibit drivers from holding their phones while
driving. And that brings us all together. There's one of those things that we're not so divisive
after all out. You know, 26 states and Washington DC have hands-free laws in place, including the
one you're in right now. Well, if you're listening to us in Wisconsin, eight more have limited rules,
and 16 states have no laws prohibiting handheld cell phone use.
That said, 49 states plus DC banned text messaging for all drivers. The only state that's still
cool driving texting is Montana, which is kind of interesting. Well, it's pretty open in Montana.
Yeah, phones aren't the only distractions. 43% of drivers admit that they've eaten while driving
34% say that they have taken work calls, 15% admit to reading emails while driving,
and another 15% say that they have done their makeup while behind the wheel.
Now, there is no such thing as a perfect driver, as much as we wish there was, there's no such thing
as that. I think we're all trying to be better at this, no matter if you've been driving, you're
16 or if you're 66. And I think all of us have experienced that moment of panic when maybe,
you know, intentionally or unintentionally, you were distracted for a minute moment and something
happened. You know, like maybe it was a turkey sticking its nose out over the edge of the road.
Like this morning when I was on my way here, I saw a flock of turkeys, which I saw them before
I got close enough that I needed to slow down. And then I don't know, five miles down the road,
there was one more. I had the same just stuck his nose out and I'm like, no, you don't.
This weekend I had to come back from point C and B. I'm, you know, in a line of cars,
we're going 65 or whatever, and all of a sudden 20. Everybody's slowing way down. Whoa,
what's in the turkeys? The turkeys just take their time. You do not want to hit a turkey. I imagine,
I imagine they can do some damage. Yeah, they're just bowling balls those things, man. Yeah,
I imagine they could. And I think another thing that they don't mention in this article that
is important to keep in mind is we already know who the worst drivers are. They're the drivers
from whatever state that's next to you. That's how that works. It is. My whole life, I've always
been confused by this. In Illinois, everybody bickers about the other states and then you go to the
other states and everybody bickers about Illinois. No matter what state you're in, the worst drivers
are the people in the next state. That's how it always works. That's very true. And on the
subject of turkeys, though, don't swerve. It's much better to hit them.
Safe for you. Safe for for anybody else driving around you. As my dad said, never swerve for
anything smaller than a cow. Yeah, yeah, that's that's always what he told me. That's a good line,
actually, yeah. That makes sense. When it comes to the distractions, like that one is a little
confusing to me because I hear so many people complain about young people. But in God's honesty here,
I've never seen a young person behind the wheel with a phone in their hand distracted. Sure,
I've seen plenty. All ages distracted. But I've never seen that. What I see mostly is our generation
doing that. I think the younger generation, they grew up with a lot of this stuff.
They grew up understanding. Yeah. How dangerous it is because they're taught that and drivers
said we weren't because we didn't have them. We're still learning. Yeah. And I think for us,
we're like, when people say get your head out of the device, I think of our generation.
I don't think of the younger generations. I'm thinking like, hey, pay attention to the person next
to you. You know, Chris, my best friend, like, you know, I'm not saying it's a young people.
I'm not saying it to my students as much. We're kind of the ones that got to figure this out. A
little bit better get it down. And there's just no reason. Whatever it is going on in that phone,
it can wait. It can wait. It's driving is not a birthright. Nope. It's a privilege. Yeah. Yeah.
We got to remember that and treat it as such. And it's also dangerous. Look out for each other.
Yeah. The best driver is an aware driver. Yeah. That's the best driver. You want to be a good driver?
Just aware, awaken eyes on the road. It's not in that rocket science. Pay attention.
Look around you. Pay attention to the world around you a little bit and everything.
Wait, whatever that update is or anything like that. Just so you know, I texted you from
stop signs today. I figured I figured I do appreciate that. That's good though. So yeah,
we'll see. We'll see where that one goes. As far as I'm also curious about like, I agree with
you about Montana. It's pretty open. I would think that if they haven't made the law yet,
there's a reason why they have it. Yeah. But maybe it's not as big of a problem there. What have you?
But also turkeys. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm curious. You never know when they're going to run out in the road.
You just never know. I'm curious to see how this evolves with our judicial system with the
rise of tech and some of these things. Does anybody think that it's going to end with cell phones?
You know, I mean, eventually they're going to come up with another device that we're wearing.
We're walking around with or something. You know, I have to say that because I have a more modern
car now and it has a screen, you know, that you can control a lot of things on. That's distracting.
Yeah. Yeah. It's still pretty distracting. My parents about two years ago got a new vehicle and
they've never done this before. They're both retired now and they're like, this is it. This might
be our less vehicle. Let's go all out. They got a nice vehicle. You know, not a brand brand new one.
But it was a year, a year or two, you know, off and it's got a screen. Yeah. And I,
with their first driving it and everything, I go with my dad to go run some errands or something
and he wanted to drive. So I sit down with him. We're sitting there in the garage. We're sitting
there in the garage. We're just sitting there. I'm like, finally, I'm like, Dad, what's going on?
This screen is awesome. Like he's just, we have, we can't be left. He's just amazed by the screen
and then he can see everything back there. And he's just watching it. He's, yeah. Even when you're not
driving sometimes. Well, backup cameras are nice. But, but it's also like, okay, wait, I can't,
I have to shut this thing off and I can't do it with a knob or a dial. I have to touch a certain
spot on this touch screen that I can't just feel without, you know, taking my eyes off the road.
It's, um, there's, they're not getting, you know, less distracting. They're getting bigger. The
screens are bigger and bigger and bigger. That's newer. You get vehicle wise. That part is tough.
So to be interesting to see how that, you know, develops and changes as we go forward.
Well, you know, I don't want to say this like I, um, like they're not. But it would be interesting
to see the, the car industry care about safety a little bit more and doing more of those things.
Again, I'm not saying that they're not, but it would, for every innovative thing I see from,
from the brand new vehicles, the 2025, whatever that's coming out, I don't see a ton of built for,
you know, helping distracted drivers or built for this or something like that. It's,
it's, you know, there, there's a lot of trends nowadays with, you know, green cars or,
you know, that some of these trends, but I don't see a lot of trends as far as that kind of safety
goes. I will see. We'll see. Maybe it will. Um, it's, our society is going that way. Even if people
are out of one side of their mouth saying that's wrong and the other side of their mouth looking
at their phone while they're driving. Uh, our society is telling you, the numbers are telling you,
we, we've had enough of this. It'll be interesting to see car companies if they do something about it.
If they take the initiative or if it's going to take government having laws and then having to
follow. Well, James, how often do we see companies and corporations take that on themselves?
As I was saying, it does happen. It does happen. There are companies out there who say,
you know what, this is the better thing for humanity and for our planet. And they do it. And then,
I would say a very, very large percentage of them go, yeah, well, I don't care. It's money in my
pocket right now. Definitely not going to hold my breath on that one. But here's hoping.
Here's our feature, or one of our feature, that ain't right stories for today. Have you ever tried
to fight a speeding ticket? This lady, ma'am, it may, may have a case or may not. A grandmother in
East Cleveland, Ohio named Joanna recently got two tickets in the mail for doing 27 in a 20
mile per hour zone. The fine was $105, but the weird part is she wasn't driving and there's proof.
An automated traffic camera handed out the ticket and the footage clearly shows her car hooked up
to a tow truck when it happened. Oh my. The truck driver was the one speeding, but the camera
scanned Joanne's plate and issued her the ticket instead. She has definitely got a leg to stand on.
It happened in December after her van broke down. She says she went to a nearby police department
to show them the mistake, but they told her to contact a third party vendor that operates the
camera. Her local news just did a story and the president of her city council is trying to help
her get the ticket. Explunged, even if the fine is waived, it could affect her insurance rates,
though. Yeah. The news report is mostly about how the camera should have been there and the
shouldn't have been there in the first place. The council recently voted to have it removed.
But the tow truck part seems to like more obvious reason to get the ticket and none of that's
happening. Nope. The tow truck driver just skated by on this one. Skated by. So got it down
the way with the other way. Well, hopefully he's still sweating. And we do a lot of that he
writes stories, but not very often where it's kind of like, come on, who disagrees with it like
that. Right. That's more grandma. You know, her truck broke down. It got towed away.
I don't know if anybody has ever had to get their vehicle out of impound, but it's not cheap.
And then to have a speeding ticket that you didn't even there's no way you're responsible for
have that tacked on top. Not fair. Not fair. That ain't right. Our main that it writes story is a
doozy. A 39 year old man in Kentucky named Jesse has just admitted to attempting to fake his own
death. And he gave a lot of effort. He'd access the Hawaii death registry system using the details
of Dr. Living in another state and created a case for his own death. He assigned himself a medical
certified death certificate even. Amazingly, that did work at first. He was listed as deceased in
many government databases. The police say he was primarily faking his death to get out of paying
child support. Sorry, there's no words. Nope, nope. There when we have our, they name right
stories. I like to have fun with this one. I like to laugh at each other in society and the
silliness of it and everything. There's nothing left out here. No. And I will journalistically admit
that I've been paying child support since I was 18. And I, I, you know, I do it proudly. I do
it gladly because I'm very proud of my kids. I'm very glad to have my kids. And out of the
responsibilities in my life, number one, on the list, is being there for my kids and taking care
of my kids. Part of what is included in that is paying my child support. This is one of those
gray, or not gray. This is one of those topics where usually people talk like this about it and
everything. Part of the reason that we're in these situations like this is because we do hushed
voices with, with a lot of these topics. The stigma of somebody dealing with child support needs to
go away. That is a person who is just trying to do right by their family, by their kids.
A lot of jobs out there that I've gone for have not hired me because I have to pay child support.
That needs to go away as well. Yeah. But the number one thing that needs to get the heck away
and these cowards, and they are cowards, that will not pay, that are, think it's a good thing to
get out of. Avoid. Avoid. Paying. Look at the, the, the, the hoops, this guy did just to try to
avoid this. Like, and, and, and one of the worst parts of this too is the friends of his that support
this. We that went along with it. Yeah. Yeah. The, the, the, the guys, because that's another thing that
we got to shift. We got to change is guys supporting guys in these kind of messed up situations. Even
though in your head, you know, it ain't right. But because you're around your buddies and everything,
you know, I don't want to, I don't want to look back. You got to pay in child support. Ha, ha, ha.
You so, you know, men get so caught up in what it is to be a man and all these things. You know
it's truly manly, doing right by your kids. That seems like a pretty damn manly thing to me. Like,
that ain't right, man. But you don't get to get out of that. You know, and, and boy,
you prison does not look kindly on people like that. That is not going to go over well with your
cellmate. Good luck, buddy. Well, and hopefully he serves prison time for it. That seems like a pretty,
you know, long list of things he did wrong there. Yeah, that ain't the only thing he's in trouble for.
I don't think you get to impersonate a doctor. No, no. I need a palate cleanser. Let's get one in.
From three to four today, we got a wicked, awesome midday magazine lined up for you. Be sure to check
it out. Everybody in part one. We're going to talk with the heart of Wisconsin Chamber of Commerce.
Lucy Ailing will be with us. Looking forward to that. And in part two, let's talk real estate with David
Farnborough. Hey, fun. David comes to us from Colwell Banker. See your realtors. Nice.
Looking forward to talking to a little real estate with David a little later. We've got great,
great basketball on the radio dial tonight. It is a ball night, six o'clock tip off,
Milwaukee Bucks, hosting Boston Celtics. Even if you're not paying attention, you've heard the noise,
the Bucks are in trouble. Bucks are hurting all this stuff. Tomorrow morning, that goes away if
they win this game. Really, sort of, but it doesn't do a degree and everything. It'll go a long ways
to giving a lot of confidence to that team in the fan base. Let's get a win and Milwaukee tonight.
Label. And be a wait, that's baseball. Sorry. Wrong ball. I don't care. I love it. I love it.
Don't ever stop doing that. Be sure to join us tonight, six o'clock Bucks basketball, Bucks
Verceltics, six o'clock. And tomorrow morning, we're going to have a fun show lined up for you. We'll
have the Seth calls at the James gang. Mel and Seth will be with us and we'll also be joined by
a couple of friends. We'll have our wicked, awesome word of Wednesday from our friends at quality
post printing. Hey, hey. And in the night, o'clock, our Paula Weber going to join us from Jeremiah's
crossing. We're going to talk about the main quilt show coming up. Good. Good. Looking forward to that.
All that coming up. And Melissa, you've got something for. Yeah. Tomorrow is the shred day event,
the community shred event that is put on by the United Way of Southwood and Adams counties.
This is an opportunity for you to protect yourself from, but from identity theft by bringing in your
sensitive documents, old tax returns, keep seven years worth, bank statements, canceled jets,
et cetera, bring them to the prevail bank parking lot at 1601 Lincoln Street in Wisconsin Rapids
from nine to 11 or until maximum capacity is reached. So come early, you get two boxes for free.
And then if you have more than two 18 by 10 boxes, please bring a donation of $5 for each box
afterwards. Documents brought in to be shredded. Do not need to have staples removed, but you should
take out paper clips. Yeah. And find out more at uswac.org. Big shout out to prevail bank in our
United Way. There's a great opportunity to be a hero today from 10 to three. You could be a hero
over at the Southwood County YMCA at six of one West Grand Avenue by donating blood.
Aha. Yes. Doesn't take a lot of time. Don't need a tragic backstory or a cape or tights to be a hero.
You could just go ahead and donate blood to all those able body people that are able to. We
greatly appreciate you doing so. Thank you so much. Again, blood donation opportunity from 10
to three today over at the Southwood County YMCA at six of one West Grand Avenue. We see a good
morning to our friends at the Y. Keep in mind in Steven's point also going on today from 12 to
seven at Steven's Point Blood donation center. You have an opportunity to donate there as well.
Also in our mind, everybody going on right now, these Wisconsin Prairie chicken festival.
Hey, it's a great event. Check it out full schedule and everything is available at
Wisconsin Prairie Chicken Fest dot com. That's Wisconsin Prairie Chicken Fest dot com. Go ahead and
check that great local event out and support that great. Those great people. Goes on all week to the
14th. Great show today, Mel. Yeah, you two James. Guys, be good to each other. We'll talk to you
soon in the later right here on. This is locally grown radio WFHR 1320 AM W24 ADE Wisconsin rapids
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