Hour 2: Paula Weber

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 Melissa Seth and James here with you.

We'll get in some entertainment news in a little bit. We've also got some other fun stories

we want to cover. But right now, joining us on the phone lines, Paula Webber from Jeremiah's

Crossing. Good morning, Paula. Good morning. How are you doing this morning? Good, how are you?

We're doing good. We're doing good. It is always good to catch up with you.

Hope things are going well with you and your team over at Jeremiah's Crossing.

So we are just kind of starting to gear up for the season. So we just had volunteer registration.

So volunteers, of course, are always welcome and can find information and contact us on Facebook.

We also have at the end of the month our first main fundraiser of the year coming up.

So that is our main quote show and that's coming up the last weekend of April.

Looking forward to talking with you about that, Paula. If you don't mind before we dive into it,

can we let everybody know that may not know what Jeremiah's Crossing is and the great work you guys

are doing? So Jeremiah's Crossing is a nonprofit organization that offers

equine or horse riding lessons to children and adults with disabilities at no cost to the

families. So we're just out there riding horses and good magic, I guess.

And doing darn good work, Paula. It's such a cool thing that you guys do. We love when you were

able to join us on the airwaves here. The only problem is we don't get to talk to you nearly

enough. We got to talk to you more. Before we go into the main quilt show, I just wanted to let

everybody know about your coffee cup club. I think it is a fun and a really fun thing. Can we

spread the word about that too? So our coffee cup club is kind of a way to start

kind of getting some reoccurring donations because obviously, you know, being a nonprofit and doing

the work we do and we try to keep things at no cost for our families, you know, any amount of

income helps. And so one of the ways that you can do that is join our coffee cup club. It's

as simple as hop into Facebook and finding that link. And it's a $5 reoccurring a month

donation. So literally, you know, set it as reoccurring and it's kind of a set it and forget it,

$5. What do we spend $5 bucks on, right? Yeah. You know, so it's pretty easy to just kind of put in

and go in. So as a thank you gift for joining the coffee cup club. This is the reason why we

call it that is we have this really super awesome mug. I like to call it a magical one.

It's a coffee cup and it's just as Jeremiah is crossing on it. But when you pour hot liquid into

it, a picture appears. I love those. I love that. One of our favorite pictures from the

ranch, but it's the coolest cup ever. And you can find out more and you can also join the

coffee cup club at Jeremiah's Crossing dot org. Keep that bookmark that webpage, correct,

Jeremiah's crossing dot org. You're going to want it, especially when you're looking for

information about the main quilt show. Let's dive into that a little bit, Paul.

So the main quilt show is our first kind of major fundraising event of the year. This is the

fifth year for the main quilt show. Third year live, two years, we kind of did a virtual thing.

So we're holding it in a kusa high school. This is our second year at that venue.

We have tons of room there. So we've got food. We've got vendors. We've got classes.

And just amazing, amazing quotes from all the local ladies that put in and register

to be judged or some are just, you know, for display only just to see. We do a community sewing

corner. So we kind of have everything ready and prepared. And anybody that

wants to pop over and learn to sew a block with us can sew a block. And then those blocks

can put together into one large quilt that we use as our reflux for this next following year.

So that's kind of a fun thing. We've watched that grow over the last few years

because we literally just think at whatever size we ended at. So you can kind of see

how many people quilted with us each year. Wow. That's really cool.

There are youth categories as well, which is a lot of fun. I'd like to mention that.

And there are classes. There are a lot of different things. And there's a judged quilt show

that happens with this. Yes, yep. So registrary registration they can choose to be judged or not

judged. And every year we have our judged little welcome. And, you know, and judges each class.

So we have five classes off the top of my head. I can't remember them all. I'm not going to lie.

No worries. I would like to I would like to get into and there are classes available.

Something that's something to keep in mind, everybody, especially if you've ever wanted to try

something like this. The story, I encourage people to check out the flyer for this.

Because there's a wonderful story that is there about the story of a brand new quilter.

And that's a beautiful one. Be sure to check that out.

Paulo, there's other fun things about this great event too. And one of the things is the people.

You got you have some great people that you work with over there.

Oh, yeah. We get a lot of volunteers kind of involved in this one. Like I said, it's kind of

nice because being at the venue, we're out. We're able to do concessions this year too. So then,

of course, there's great food involved as well. And all we are also adding a big sales this year.

Nice. Yeah. I wasn't I wanted to mention that, but yeah, I wasn't sure.

This is a wonderful event. And while the entries are done for this year, we're going to be doing

this again next year, Paulo. And when I remind people of that, so you can make entries,

you know, when you guys open things up to apply for next year and get your quilting.

Absolutely. And we usually do close entries on April 1st. But we had a few still trickling in.

It kind of happens every year. And we actually just had a discussion about this at our board meeting the

other night. And we decided that, you know, if there's anybody out there that still would like the

register, just contact us and we'll get you in. We still have some room yet. So we're wanting to go

ahead and fill it up and make sure that everybody can enjoy, you know, all the wonderful artwork that

the ladies have out there. So yeah, if there's anybody that's still interested in registering,

just feel free to message on Facebook or, you know, contact one of us. And we can make sure to

have that happen yet for this year too. And an event like this, Paulo, with all these fun things

going on in this time of year, where we really love looking forward to things like this. One of the

most beautiful parts of this event, I think, is the free will donation. Because I think it just

between you and I, Paul, I think you guys could charge at least, you know, a couple bucks, five bucks,

like that for something like this. And that you do the free will donation, I think, is a compliment to

not only your organization, but to the community. I think the biggest thing is, you know, that it's

important that anybody can come and enjoy those things we do. And I think too that, you know,

obviously we want people to see you just what we're about and what we do. And that's all

incorporated into our shows. And, you know, sometimes, sometimes five dollars to get in the gate

somewhere can be a lot to a parent who has a lot of kids or things like that. So I just think,

you know, we've always felt that it's just more important to just come and join us. We,

we come and be part of our family, come and see what we do, you know, and what you're

willing to give in support. That's totally up to you, you know. Just makes us want to give even more,

Paul. We're going to be able to do that. We're going to be able to help you guys continue the

great work that you're doing over there Saturday, April 27th from nine to three. And Sunday,

nine to three over at Nukusa High School for this amazing, wonderful, wonderful event. Be sure to

check out the main quilt show from Jeremiah's Crossing going on the last week in April,

April 27th and 28th. Again, you can find out more at their Facebook page. Just type into your

search bar Jeremiah's Crossing. You should be able to find it that way. And be sure to check out

their web page JeremiahCrossing.org. Join the Coffee Cup Club. Be a part of things over there.

And as we wrap up, Paula, you mentioned volunteers before. Are you guys still looking for volunteers

for this event and possibly future events? Absolutely. We always need all hands on deck. You know,

the more hands, the better, you know, there's always set up and just making sure things are running smoothly

throughout the time. You know, and if a volunteer is like, I'd love to do it, but I just don't know what I

just contacted to reach out. You know, we'll find something that you're comfortable helping with.

You know, if you're not comfortable talking to people, we'll put you in the background.

If you want to hang out with the people, we'll put you in the foreground, whatever works for you.

All hands help. You know, it's a big thing. My other biggest thing is, you know, obviously come

and check us out that weekend and add to our quilt. I'd love to see it get really, really big for

next year. Yes. Yes. Great point. You can find out more about about volunteering and other

information by emailing them, jcrossing2911 at gmail.com. That's jcrossing2011gmail.com. And again,

the website is jermicrossing.org. Paula, we appreciate you so much. Say hi to everybody,

a part of the team over there. And you guys and say hi to those horses for me, please.

Absolutely. I get plenty of love and I can share a little bit.

Thank you. Are you taking care of Paula? We appreciate you.

You two guys have a great day. You two. Yeah. You two. Again, jermicrossing.org. Be sure to

bookmark that page. If you can be a part of the coffee cup club, we encourage you to and definitely

check out the main quilt show. It's going to be a lot of fun. Again, going on Saturday, April 27th

and Sunday, April 28th over at Nacusa High School Fieldhouse. Yes. Take a time out. We'll come

back with some entertainment news and more fun on the morning show at WFHR. We are locally grown radio.

Welcome back, everyone. Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio. Melissa,

Seth and James here with you. We're going to dive into some entertainment news, but do

want to send a shout out to Paula from Jermicrossing. Again, thanks so much for joining us, Paula. That

was a lot of fun. It's such a cool event too. We heard it. Yeah, it really is a cool event.

It's an amazing event that they pull off and looking forward to this year's. It's going to be

even bigger. It's going to be a good one. We are diving in entertainment news, but we do have to

touch on sports just for a second here. It's entertainment entertainment. It is entertainment.

Nice. That was good. That was not bad. That was good. Actually, I have to give a shout out to our

listeners. Our good friend that joined us earlier, Kev. He got the update from ESPN and as I was

getting the update, I got the update from him. So we got to cover this one. Okay. Your Green Bay

Packers, Wisconsinites will open the 2024 season against the Philadelphia Eagles on Friday,

September 6th and South Paulo, Brazil. Oh, they're part of the Brazil game. Wow.

The Eagles had already been announced as the home team for that game, which will be the first

NFL game played in Brazil, but their opportunity wasn't known until Wednesday. This will be the

NFL's first Friday game on an opening weekend in more than 50 years and the game will be exclusively

streamed on Peacock. Of course it will. What part do you think your diehard fans are bothered by

more in NFL team losing out on a home game, especially a Philadelphia fan base, or having to find

your game on stream? I wonder which one bothers. If either of them bother people, they may not bother

them at all. That's a good point. Have they learned nothing? No. Do they see what's going on

with the streaming? Now they're all going that's stupid. Does it make any sense? The answer is

for sports answers. Make all your questions money. It is money. Yeah. And it's done money.

Yeah. From money and dumb ideas. You're supposed to. You want to make changes. You have to

do it. There's a basic way of doing this in business. You take care of your core audience

and you build from that. Right. Every successful organization, whether we're talking about a

corporation or we're talking about a sports franchise or sports in general, that's the way you do it.

If you're not doing it that way, you lose everything. You not only lose your core base, but you

also lose anything new that you would have brought in. Yeah, because those people aren't going to be

interested then. I mean, seriously. You know, the NBA did this. You know, the NBA got so big.

You know, the NBA got to a point where the top five players in the league are European or foreign

players. The Olympics. The Olympics is how they did this. They didn't work doing games in Brazil.

They weren't doing games and they did this every once in a blue moon, but they didn't do this like

the NFL is. The NFL is, you know what the NFL is? They're that person that's trying too hard.

They're just good cop. I like that. Everybody knows that person that just tries way too hard

and things and that is the NFL right now. Yeah, you know, Piffini. Yes, we're

but they also have the money to throw at it, you guys. They sure do. Who has more money than them?

Yeah, I mean, that's an excellent point. So in my defense of just figuring this out now,

I have been all caught up in my team being bad. So, so distracted by that. Yeah, you know, it's not,

it's not a good defense, but I did be fair. We dive into other entertainment news now.

Kit Harrington's return as Jon Snow on Game of Thrones spin off is no longer happening,

at least for now. He says, quote, currently it's off the table because we all couldn't find

the right story to tell that we all were all excited about enough. So we decided to lay down

tools for it for some time. I maybe George R. Martin will help with. Oh, no, no, he can't.

Are you kidding me? Hilarious. Yeah, get the book done, man. Get the book done. He's not happening. No,

I don't. Why would he? I don't even care. It's my sister that I'm saying this for my sister loves

those books so much. And for what five, six years now, she's been begging for this last book to come

out. And I keep telling her, it ain't happening. No, he's not going to release it. He's at a certain

point. Art be ceases to be yours. You as soon as you start making money off of your art,

or you start sharing it with the public or any of that, I don't care if you got a copy right on it,

you may get money from it. Yeah, but it ceases to be yours. That is the art of an artist.

Yeah, that's what happens. If you're not okay with that, that's fine. Don't share your work.

You don't have to do that. You don't have to be an accountant. Yeah, go do something else.

If you don't like that, and if you don't like, then go ahead and give all the money back.

Give all the money back. You made George RRRR. Go ahead. Or keep your book series as a book series.

Yeah, either way. And don't let them turn it into a movie or a TV series until your book series

is done, Diana Gabeldon. Oh, nice. I have no idea who that is, but there's one who wrote

Outlander. Oh, yeah, maybe the same thing happened into her anyway. I don't know. I did just

finish reading the last book, and it ended on the cliffhanger. So there's got to be another one,

and I'm scared. I love the idea of a series ending on a cliffhanger and just stopping.

I'm mostly scared. I think that's hilarious. I'm mostly scared because sorry,

I did divert the conversation, but I have to delve into that. I'm mostly scared because

Davina Porter was begged to come out of retirement for to audio, you know, to narrate this last book.

Who's going to narrate the next one? If she's not able to come out of retirement to do it,

because she is the voice of Jamie and Claire. And there's no one else. I can't even watch the

TV show you guys. Melissa, I actually, I feel a little of this with you. I feel that way about

Kevin Conroy as Batman. And I don't want to hear anybody else's Batman. I have to say that was

that one of the greatest switches that we've ever done on air here going from sports, which

Melissa doesn't know or care about to the Outlander and have no idea what she's talking about.

I think that's great though. That's awesome. That was awesome. That was very cool.

And fair. Yeah, it's very fair. Very fair. You know, and the people who love the TV series,

good, good for you. And great. You know, enjoy it. Love it. That's wonderful.

I love the books and I love Davina Porter. And I think she is amazing.

I have heard her name before. She has a lot of respect in the industry.

And I didn't know she was retiring though. Good honor. She's had a great career.

I mean, we don't want to retire just yet. She's got one more book to read apparently.

But yeah, more or more. I don't know. Yeah, who knows, right?

Don't ruin it TV series. Don't do it.

They're still saying that there may be time in the future for this spin off, but who knows.

And the more every day that passes, you're getting farther and farther away from it.

So who knows. At the same time, nowadays, we're seeing sequels 20 years later of movies and stuff.

You know, so who knows anymore? I don't know how to call this anymore.

Is it, I mean, is this show even, I mean, all these spin-offs are even as popular as the original one?

I mean, are they killing the Golden Goose here or what?

Go ahead and ask the creators of all the spin-offs or the walking dead.

How the ratings are doing, Seth. And yeah, they'll tell you that's okay.

Not, not as successful. Not as successful.

And Hollywood, anything worth doing is worth overdoing.

Apparently that's worth ruining.

Yeah, speaking of, Renee Zellweger is officially returning

for a fourth Bridget Jones movie. Oh, for other.

It's called Bridget Jones, Mad About The Boy.

Hugh Grant, and Emma Thompson are also returning, along with Chiwai Eco4 from 12 Years of Slave.

And Leo Woodoff from the White Lotus series.

And in case you didn't know, Bridget Jones movies are based on the novels.

And the Mad About The Boy novel sees Bridget adding tweets and text to her diary

as she's trying to figure out what life is like as a 51-year-old single mom.

So yeah, okay, cool.

They'll see. They'll see.

It's expected to hit peacock next Valentine's Day.

So it's not going to be a cinematic release.

No, no, that's, that's interesting.

I haven't seen any but the first one to be honest.

I haven't seen any.

I haven't seen any, but I do remember hearing, like it was one of those ways,

Renee Zellweger, his like,

gone away, then come back, then gone away.

Very weird career, yeah.

Yeah, give her a break, America.

She's a good actor.

I like her.

She's a great actor.

Exactly.

I enjoyed her movies.

I wish her well.

I'm just happy to see her working.

Hugh Grant's having a moment.

Hugh Grant, like this is, this is like the dead.

This is why it's hard to imagine people canceled, canceled.

Right.

When he got in trouble, he did that interview on the

tonight show or whatever.

With Jay Leno, yeah.

In today's, like today's day and age, would he even,

like, would it even be a controversy?

But for those that don't know, he was caught with the prostitutes.

Right.

Like in this day and age, like that wouldn't even make headlines.

Right.

That they would, hey, Hugh Grant, do you hear about Hugh Grant?

Like, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Hey, do you hear about this?

Yeah, look at this.

Look at this.

He TikTok, I saw on stuff, you know what I mean?

I mean, it's funny what was a controversy

back in the day.

I thought about this with Gary Hart with the former running

for president Gary Hart.

1988.

Again, I'm dating myself on this, but for people that know,

Gary Hart had the, I mean, the candidacy in the bag.

He was all set to be the next candidate for his party.

Got caught with a prostitute.

He's out.

He's out.

I wonder nowadays if they'd be the same thing.

No, I really don't know.

I don't know.

Nowadays, it depends on what side of the party

would this have to go on.

I suppose you just double down.

Yeah, right, you know, I'd say you were trying to help

out that industry and give it some money.

That'd be hilarious defense, by the way, but I love that.

It's made because old professionals, the world's

old professionals trying to help out local businesses,

try to, I don't know.

I don't know.

The spin was there with getting them some protections.

Oh, yes.

Right on right on with that.

The spin that they are able to pull off nowadays is mind boggling.

So, you know, who knows?

Who knows what gets you canceled nowadays?

By the way, if I finally watched the Dungeons and Dragons movie

a couple of weeks ago, and I got to give,

you know, it does a really good job in that.

He's kind of, he's very funny.

I was, I was really, I really enjoyed that movie.

Yeah, I thought it was a good movie.

It was a lot of fun.

And they've been trying to do that series or something

with those really well.

I thought that's the best they've ever done with it.

Yeah, they did a good job.

They really enjoyed it.

Chris Pine.

Yeah, he did a great job.

Hunter among thieves.

Hunter among thieves.

Yeah, I was, I watched it just to have some on the background.

Really got into it.

And Chris Pine, I did not know he could lead a movie.

He did a great job, I thought.

He does, he's like, talk about charming actors, man.

Yeah, he's very charming.

Forbes released their list of the highest paid actors in 2023.

And it's a bit ironic that landing at number one

is someone who didn't have a single movie in theaters.

And it has never once dressed well.

Not once.

I'm talking about the Sandman.

Adam Sandler is at the top of Forbes list of biggest paid,

or biggest selling actors, 73 mil for the Sandman.

Wow.

Margaret Roby is number two with 59.

That's a gap.

Tom Cruise is third with 45.

And tight at four is Matt Damon Ryan Gosling with 43.

Jennifer Aniston coming in at number six.

Leigh Knight of the Capriote and Jason Statham at number seven.

Adam Sandler is ahead of all of them.

That's, that's remarkable.

Wow, that's pretty cool.

I love seeing that.

That's awesome.

And I don't expect other people to know this or anything.

But when you're, when you're behind the scenes and you're struggling and you're fighting

and you're trying to get a career going as an actor,

there are some really nice people out there.

There are some really good people.

There are also a lot of people that couldn't give a dang about you.

And the second they don't need you, they don't even look at you.

Literally will not even look at you.

It is not an easy industry to make a living at.

It's not an easy industry to get somewhere in.

And it is so image conscious.

So image conscious.

Behind the scenes and front of the scenes, everything.

The fact that a guy like Adam Sandler

is at the number one spot in this list,

where he has never gone to an interview with anything other than sweatpants,

where his movies had been for people more than anything else.

Certainly he's got some movies like Uncut Gems and some other ones and everything.

But he tries to make people laugh.

It's a big part of what he does.

I love this.

I love seeing this.

And two other actors out there.

I think this is a great sign.

These are the kind of people people want to watch.

They want to see when you're watching a movie.

Do you want to see somebody with perfect teeth?

Or do you want to see somebody you can relate with?

What are you looking for?

I think that the more and more audiences are looking for

relatability over perfection.

Oh, I think so.

And I think we're starting to see that a lot more in casting decisions.

You're noticing a lot less makeup being used on lead actors and movies.

That's another, it's a small thing.

But it's a little, it's those kind of things.

And same thing in theater.

I think that all of us have experienced that this big shift of

where when we first started in theater or at least for me,

they just caked you in makeup.

And now it's the exact natural.

It's a more natural look.

I have to say from a different perspective,

you guys know I don't watch that much TV or movies.

I don't, I just, I don't, I don't have time for it to be honest.

There's ones I want to watch.

But in my, the thing that has shifted for me.

And maybe it's just because I take in so much more news

that's actually happening, you know, here locally in Wisconsin.

On a daily basis, I see real people more often on television

or on my screen than I do see Hollywood actors and people in TV

when I do take in that kind of media.

It's a little jarring.

I can see that.

That's, yeah, that's not a real person.

That's not what people really look like.

It's almost a completely mind shift of how you view the world.

And it's been really eye-opening for me.

So it's refreshing to know that they're making that kind of shift.

Poor.

Hey, let's actually make movies look like real life.

Right.

Yeah.

Let actors age, let them play their own age,

not trying to play younger.

Age gracefully.

Exactly.

You don't need to cling to this.

Why not enjoy our entire lives?

Yeah.

Not just our eight, you know, for women,

but 16 to 23.

Yep.

I personally, I think that the strikes that recently happened

and the things that have gone on for the writing and acting community

are obviously positives if you care about workers,

if you care about workforce and all that,

but also I think if you're into entertainment,

this is going to make, of course,

producers and studios clinch their pearls a little bit.

Oh, yeah.

And tighten things up, which means that maybe they're not making

these $300 million five-hour movies and everything.

And because of that, they have to make shorter movies,

better movies, more realistic movies,

more honest movies, more, you know, it's because they have to.

They're going to, we're forcing their hand in some ways.

But the other way we force their hand is by what we did last year.

We're able to see Barbie and Oppenheimer.

We made Oppenheimer a box, a blockbuster movie.

Right.

Show them that you want movies.

Show them you want these things.

Yeah, right, exactly.

They listen, they listen because they have to.

You've never seen Hollywood trying to necessarily shove things down your throat.

It's not that.

They're late to the game with stuff, sure.

Mostly, yep.

But not necessarily trying to push trends.

They're trying to keep trends going.

Right.

So we'll see.

Whatever's profitable.

Yeah, exactly.

That's what they want.

But it's interesting.

I think the dollar remakes and the continuations and Bridget Jones again again.

It's fascinating, though.

We're in music.

It's almost the opposite where they're, they're, you know,

hey, I'm going to come out with a, I'm Beyonce.

I've done R&B in this my whole career.

I'm going to come up with a country album, whether you like it or not.

I'm Beatles.

And I know you guys liked.

I want to hold your hand in all these things.

But we're coming out with Sargent Pepper.

Whether you like it or not, it's kind of interesting to look at the

different industries in the way that they handle these things.

Well, and with that in mind, it seems musicians

have been more empowered than actors.

But now maybe that's shifting too.

I think it, I think there's a little bit of that.

And I think we saw that with what James mentioned about the strike

and everything.

So yeah.

And we see it more with actors taking the director's chair

and the producer chair and going, no, I want to do this the way I want to do it.

Makes more sense.

I mean, totally makes sense, right?

Actors directing it.

Yeah, absolutely.

It's the same thing as hearing former players doing announcing or coaching.

Yep.

It's very, it's the same thing.

They know the craft.

Exactly.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And our people know news.

We're going to get to it right now.

We'll come back and have some more fun on the morning show here at WFHR.

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Welcome back, everyone.

Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio.

Melissa, Seth and James here with you.

We hope you're having a good one out there.

Everybody, thanks so much for joining us.

Want to get into this one right here.

And this is a topic that you and the three of us have covered a number of times.

We're going to keep covering.

What does your day job have in common with that old VCR taking up space in your attic?

They're both outdated.

Oh, that's a good one.

I like that.

A poll of 2,000 working Americans found 57% feel that a normal nine to five job

no longer quote works for them.

I like the wording of that.

Works for them.

51% think jobs without a flexible schedule are outdated idea and it's time to rethink it.

Plenty of Americans have already abandoned nine to five jobs for the gig economy

and a full is in that is in full swing completely.

This great evolution we talked about is done evolving.

It's just pretty much there now.

But do you think that's better than the classic five day a week?

Nine to five job is getting rid of normal jobs even realistic.

The survey also found a lot of people want to be paid differently and more often.

Ideally, paychecks every week or every day.

The average person who gets paid twice a month said that they tend to blow through it

and run out of money just 12 days after their payday.

Oops.

That's a budgeting problem.

Well, yes, but it's understandable.

Yeah.

But it's also a, yeah, yeah.

Go ahead.

Oh, it's good.

No, it's, this is like old school.

That's what they used to do.

Yeah.

Used to get paid either by the week or some, some jobs you did get paid daily.

At the end of the day, you'd get your money and there you go.

Especially cash jobs.

Yeah, exactly.

So that makes sense to me.

I'm, I'm all for that.

I think that's a great idea.

How do you, if you run a business, how do you approach something like this?

You know, because I, I, I, everybody's looking for good employees.

Everybody wants good employees.

And I think the majority I, I do think I know we talk a lot about,

I'm not talking about corporations.

I'm talking about businesses.

I'm talking about, you know, your standard stuff.

A lot of that.

I have a hard time believing the majority of them don't want to pay their employees well.

Don't want to take care of their employees.

Don't want to give them benefits in that.

But being able to swing that while also keep the lights on is very difficult.

It's, I think one of the ways to do that is by adjusting your, your, your kind of brain

and hey, it doesn't have to be nine to five.

It doesn't have to be the traditional way of doing things.

Maybe this employee works two days a week because that's all they can work.

In the other week, the other day, because they're working on their Etsy shop or something.

Right.

And this other person can work a couple of more hours a week.

So they are a little more consistent or traditional, if you will.

Right.

Employs, bosses have to adapt to this.

Owners have to adapt to this more than employees because I've been saying this for three years.

Now, everybody, employees are getting more and more power and you are not putting the genie back

in the bottle. You're not doing it.

It is not going to change.

There's no shifting that people are showing you.

They just won't work.

They'll just find other ways to hustle.

They'll find other ways to make a buck.

They, so if I'm a business and I see that, I, I don't know.

The idea of pushing against it or wishwashing about a, for a forgotten past that you've romanticized.

Right.

Not going to get you anywhere.

Not going to keep the lights on.

No, no, I would have to say that one of the biggest things that need to shift in this country for

that to be a sustainable for all of us is our healthcare being tied to our jobs.

Yep.

We need to not have that be the situation that we're living in because it's ridiculous.

You have to try to get a job so you can get healthcare.

Healthcare should be a right for everyone.

Yep.

We all still have to pay for it.

Obviously, you know, I mean, make it part of our taxes.

Right.

It's, it's, we, we will pay for it in some way, right?

Yep.

Exactly.

What, but you don't have to worry.

Like if you, if you break your leg,

you don't have to like go, well, maybe I don't actually need to go to the doctor

because I can't afford it because I don't have healthcare.

But you have a broken leg.

Yeah.

Well, you know, it's just a, it's just duct tape.

It's just a flesh wound.

How many, how many of us are walking around with stuff that we should have been to a doctor

about like weeks ago?

Uh-huh.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, that's, that, that speaks to a lot of people.

Yeah.

Right.

Because, you know, something catastrophic happened.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I think it's a wonderful thought, Melissa.

I really, really like that.

I hadn't thought of it before.

But you, you, uh, just as you were saying that I was putting myself in that position

and thinking about it and like, yeah, I'm showing up for that job.

Like, I got something like that and everything.

I, like, I've shown up for jobs.

I didn't even have that.

I can't imagine, you know, something like that would,

it seems like it would be very, in, in incentive, uh, to, to continue to.

Also, something that would make you want to stay with that particular company too.

So create some loyalty there.

One of the reasons why people change jobs.

You know, if you can, if you get the choice of,

well, I can keep doing this job that I love

and, and get paid, you know, a decent amount.

Or I can take this job for lesser pay and have healthcare.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Why do we have to be making that decision that's Americans?

Uh, this may be a good or a bad thing,

depending on how you feel about me and everything.

But you guys can think Marcus and Arda was caught some media.

I feel like me being here.

Because that's true.

If I'm being blunt with everybody, I was, uh,

I was at the tail end, uh, of being able to do this job.

You couldn't survive.

I literally could not survive with what they were paying me.

Yeah, uh, and, and I got, I, I tried.

I wanted to stay at this.

I stayed a little years longer than most people would in this industry.

And in this particular station,

with the particular owners we used to have,

who were literally paying us nickels and dimes.

I was making minimum wage.

I got a, uh, a 10 cent raise over three years from the seahafers.

Um, they, they, they didn't care.

They didn't care about us.

They just being blunt about it and everything.

Let's, I don't give a dang what they think of me anymore.

Uh, like, um, they, they did not care about us.

And they were very evident, evident about that,

with the way they treated us.

Do I think they, now this does not mean they were bad people.

I'm not talking about them as people.

Every person I ever met from that fan, that family treated me good in person.

Right.

Yeah.

On paper was a little bit different.

Now they would tell you, well, we, we, we didn't have the money.

We couldn't pay you.

Bye.

Goodbye.

Yeah.

You don't belong in the industry.

I don't care what job you are.

I don't care what you do.

If you can't make it in business, we have to move on.

I want every mom and pop business in America to survive.

I want every small business to make it.

Not all of them are gonna.

Nope.

Like if we don't want a, this type of society,

then we need to figure, we need to change that type of society.

Right.

Uh, but this is, as far as I can tell, let me double check.

Yep.

This is the society we are in.

We are in a consumerism industry.

That's the way of the world, people.

Like, which we have allowed to happen.

Exactly.

The new way going forward, you are going to have to find a way to pay employees well,

and better than minimum wage, because the government's not going to do it.

An employee is not going to accept less.

And eventually, you're going to have to figure out how to get them insurance.

You're going to have to figure it out, because as Melissa said,

and you see the numbers of this,

more and more people are looking for those bet.

Those things with the employment that they're going to do.

Yeah.

You need a benefits package, or you can't survive,

or we need to change the system.

Yeah, right.

And, you know, there's a whole, there's a whole lot of different directions we can go on this.

Uh, but in the, uh, in the, in the interest of brevity,

the one thing I do want to say is that we treat so much of, of our life,

especially our economy, like it's inevitable.

Yeah.

Like things are this way, because they had to be this way.

That's not true.

Right.

These things are made because of decisions, but people made.

And that people fought back against other decisions.

That's why we have the whole nine to five thing.

There's a reason that this happened, okay?

It wasn't an organic, it's not a living thing, okay?

These are political and economic choices that everyone was making.

That's why we are here.

And guess what?

We can change them.

We can make different decisions.

That is doable.

You have to look at the things that happen with labor unions.

When they first started child protection,

uh, a labor child protective, you know what I'm talking about, help me with words.

Uh, child labor laws, yeah.

Yes, that they're trying to now roll back.

Yes.

Which is, uh, asinine.

Yeah, yeah, it is.

It is.

Uh, the, the idea of, um,

the only people, like, here's the other part of that too.

Take a look at the people that are proposing those things

and trying to get those things done.

Um, how many of them have their children doing that?

Yeah.

I don't think so.

How many politicians send their children to war?

Good point.

It's something, there's a comp there.

Yeah, there's a comp with that and think about it.

Think about who they are sending to the grid,

to the grid, who are they to where that is going.

Well, and again, it's a political year.

You think about who you're voting for.

Yep.

Yep.

Um, we are going to come back with a, uh,

I don't know if it's a that in right story.

You guys can go ahead and decide if it is or not.

Uh, we're going to talk about pet smart one to cover up your worst tattoos

with your pet, uh, uh, and some other good stuff we'll get into.

You pet store employees giving the tattoos.

Right.

Oh, fantastic question.

We will figure it out together coming up on the marty show.

Welcome back, everyone, morning show here at WF HR locally grown radio.

Seth, Melissa and James here to take you to the top of the hour and wrap up the show.

I'm going to try this one as a little bit of, uh, uh, you know,

mix it up a little bit with our, our ending song.

Our final one.

We're going to have to get closing time in there by the way.

Oh, we're going to have to get there.

We got to have a couple of uh, ending songs here, uh,

especially to lead us into these fun, that ain't right stories.

And this is an interesting one.

If you have tattoos that are over a decade old,

you might have a tattoo that you regret.

A survey says 49% of people have a tattoo that they don't like or know someone who does.

Pet smart announced a new contest where five lucky winners will win a free tattoo.

The idea is that you are covering up an old tattoo that you now regret with a new tattoo

of your beloved pet.

It's called tattoo redo and they'll fly you to LA for two nights and

cover your session with a tattoo artist.

You won't be able to get a full back tattoo or anything,

but it's going to be a small one that can be done in one sitting and costing

2500 or less to apply.

You go to petsmarttatturedo.com.

That's petsmarttatturedo.com and send in a photo of your old

tattoo and the pet that you will and be inspiring the new ink.

If you already have a tattoo of your pet, you can share a photo of it

and then they'll give you a top tier status in their loyalty rewards program,

which is actually pretty good.

Oh, actually, it's pretty good.

I wouldn't know.

That's pretty cool.

That's actually, I like this idea.

This is fun.

Not a bad idea.

You know, all five of them.

You know, of the 49% of people who regret a tattoo,

you know, there's five, you know, but hey.

But flying them out to LA and how much or $2,500 tattoo?

Yeah, that's because it's in LA.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

And it costs more out there.

I do, like, I actually like all my tats,

but it does make me kind of wish I did have what I did not like,

just to be able to throw it in there.

Did you do the contest, yeah?

I don't know what I'd probably get Sam tattooed out.

I mean, my fur, why not?

I did, you know, well, don't give me too much credit for that.

It's just because I see him every day.

Yeah, right.

The man that the looks I would get,

if I got any other animal tattooed out of me,

that dog, it just never let it go.

But in this, this means to something else, I think, though,

the prevalence of tattoos now, they've become so accepted.

Even like when we were kids, that was not the case.

No, no.

If you were like a sailor maybe, you know, or a biker,

those were the people that had tattoos, right?

Of soldiers, everyone said the soldier with that.

Yeah, that was about the end of the list.

Otherwise, it was, yeah, look at this freak with the sleeve,

you know, of whatever.

And it's like, yeah, no, no.

You guys, what do you want to hear something really, really funny?

And it's got to stay between the three of us, though.

Okay, don't tell anybody this.

My rebellious heart with the way tattoos have gone.

Now I almost wish I didn't have any.

Like, I don't actually regret any of my acting.

Oh, I'm sure you don't.

But there is a small part of my heart, my rebellious brain.

And that is okay.

They kind of wish us, oh, well, now I kind of feel like I should've gone the other way, is it?

Well, there are people out there like Seth,

or like my boyfriend, who are, you know, they just don't want them.

I am completely satisfied with the markings I have in my body already.

Yeah, so I'm good with that.

You would think with all the accidents and the fights I was in and all the scars

that everything I have, I'm already good.

I like, I should've been good.

I already got them out.

Yeah, who cares about tattoos?

Look at this, man.

Do you worry I got this?

Yeah, yeah.

Those are stories.

But I like all of my tattoos and they all have stories behind them as well.

Oh, I'm sure.

And they're for, you know, people that I love.

Yeah, absolutely.

I do want to mention one other thing.

And we covered this on the Sunrise show this week.

Jelly Roll had a really great interview with GQ.

Courage everybody to check out, whether you like him or not.

I think it was just a really good interview.

And he's a really interesting person.

Yeah.

And he was talking about his tattoos.

And he was saying how he regrets 90% of them.

Because when he got them, he was a different person.

And he went to, he had an idea and just wanted to get it done.

He didn't go to an artist that he respected, an artist he knew,

an artist he liked or something like that.

He didn't think it did well.

Right, so his point was not about, you know,

do or don't get ink.

That's your choice.

But save up.

It's not about just having a good idea.

It's having an artist that you trust.

It's having an artist that you know is good at the job.

And it's going to do good work.

So if you got to save up to find to get a good artist,

save up, save your money, it's going to be worth it.

I thought it was a really good bit of advice.

Most people don't get tattoos or get tattoos.

They want to tell you one way or the other.

He's kind of like, eh, do what you're going to do.

But just be smart, you know, save up for it.

And you've spoken about this before, about your own experience.

So about the people you trust and the ones,

the artists that you like.

So yeah, that was a good comment.

As we have had a great show today with a lot of great guests.

Want to thank our listeners for calling in hearing from them

and everything.

A gigantic thank you to Paula Weber from Jeremiah's Crossing

for joining us.

Remember that their event is coming up at the end of the month.

Everybody Saturday, April 27th, and Sunday,

April 28th, 9 to 3 of the Nicosah High School fieldhouse.

You could check out the main quilt show.

There's going to be a lot of fun.

Great event for a great cause.

And that's an A and E as in horse main.

Yes, thank you.

Yes, yes, nice.

I, the event's been around for a little while,

but you're right, Melissa.

I should have made that more of a note on that.

Cause that's such it in first off,

that's really well.

Good work.

Good pun.

Yeah.

And it should be noted.

Yeah.

And again, you can find out where Jeremiah's Crossing.org.

Jeremiah's Crossing.org.

And we want to send a shout out to our good friend Phil Hartley

in the gang over a quality plus printing.

You would shout out.

Phil, this is right from Phil.

Had a machine fail this morning.

Oh, no.

Oh, no.

It's been a rough day over there.

So we everybody, everybody wish

Phil and the team over a quality plus a good day.

Good day.

Yeah.

He got it out of the way you guys.

Got the rough stuff out of the way.

Phil will join us next Wednesday

and have a more,

have a real great word for us.

We're looking forward to it.

No worries.

That, that job comes first, Phil.

And yeah, she'll point it.

I got the first to point it in there.

So I feel like we did all right there with that.

It's a more fun city names.

Personally, I have to give a huge shout out to Phil.

I can't reveal why yet, but thank you Phil.

Yeah.

In all seriousness,

we really appreciate our friends over a quality plus

putting back into their community.

Sponsoring shows here

doing some of the great work that they're doing

and having great contests

like their side corporation,

WAM has who's your hero going on right now.

Exactly.

We're calling.

We're calling your heroes.

Yeah, we're calling all heroes.

Have a hero in mind.

We all know somebody,

somebody in our neighborhood,

somebody in our life that does good

but doesn't seem to get the credit forward

or doesn't look for credit or anything like that.

Reach out to Phil and the gang.

You can direct message them on their Facebook pages.

You can direct message us

and we'll get the information to them.

Or you can email them

in that WAM Inc.

Corporated at gmail.com

and the Corporated is spelled with a K

so that K and Inc goes right into it.

WAM Inc. Corporated.

You can also give them a call 715-423-9465.

That's 423-9465.

All your printing needs,

you can get and take care of over a quality plus printing

at 3515-8 streets out in Wisconsin Rapids.

And I hope the rest of the day treats you good, you guys.

Yes.

I hope you have a good one up.

Looking at our wonderful schedule for today,

speaking of great businesses

to put back into their community

and sponsor shows at WFHR Family Natural Foods,

coming up in part one.

That's just worked out, but if you're on Segway Fire,

I think, man, if that's a thing, you're on fire.

We're looking forward to talking with them a little bit later.

And our good friend in part two at 330 Kim Shields

with encouraged is going to be with us.

And guys, we get to talk to Gary and Don

about the Dick Trickle Memorial Project.

Cool.

Long time listeners out there will remember these guys.

They joined us for a year's Carl and I and that talking about this

getting this great project off the ground.

This is something that a lot of people can take pride in this project.

Yes.

Looking forward to talking with them about that.

That's going to be a lot of fun.

Bucks Basketball is getting a little bit more exciting,

I think, for people out there.

Yes, indeed.

And nights to see the Bucks pull off a nice win yesterday.

Really weird with the free throw situation.

That was very weird.

That's day one.

Yeah, at least they won.

630 tonight.

More Bucks Basketball taking on the Orlando Magic

Orlando is right on their heels in the stand.

Another important game.

It's knocked them down and show that you know,

you can win without Yanis because that's a tough situation right now.

Be sure to stick around.

All Bucks Basketball games right here at WFHR.

Got some world good stories I wanted to touch on.

Like my full instrumented card has to touch on this one.

A bunch of people at the Arkansas Park got married during the eclipse on Monday.

Whoa.

They thought it would be a unique way to tie the knot.

Although not that unique.

Around 400 couples from 25 states were there.

It was pretty romantic though and free.

It was completely.

That's cool.

They just had to get their marriage license.

Right.

400.

That's a lot.

That's 800 people.

I like the idea of timing out perfectly where you do your first kiss

as a married couple as the eclipse is happening.

I know what would happen to me in that situation though.

I'm kissing her eye.

I'm going to hit her eye.

I'm going to hit her eye.

Her nose or forehead.

Shoulder.

Something I will miss.

I will miss completely probably.

But I do think that that was a really robotic moment and very cool.

Very cool.

At least 19 feral cats roam the grounds of Mexico's national palace

where the president lives.

And Mexico just denounced it'll stay that way.

The cats will get to live out the rest of their lives.

They're full access in all areas.

They sometimes interrupt meetings and things.

So this has been an issue.

But they're they're going to.

That's fascinating.

Yeah.