Good morning, Wisconsin. Good morning, world. It's a new day. Thank you for kicking it off with us here at 97.5 FM 13.20 AM WF HR. We are locally grown radio. Got your host James J.
I am joined by our head of news, Melissa K. Good morning. And we got good things lined up for you this morning. Everybody we're going to be getting into but we kick off our nine o'clock hour with our new friend.
We have Shilor Calhoun with us today. Shilor. Good to see you. Good morning. Hello everybody. Thanks for being here. We appreciate you being here. Shilor joins us from relax, refresh and reconnect barber and spa. Our new business, new business not only here in town, but with our chamber of Wisconsin, chamber of Wisconsin covers. So we appreciate you being here, Shilor. How you been?
Good. I'm so excited to be here. Thank you guys for having me. Shilor, want to get to it. I want to find out a little bit about you. I always ask people their origin story. I always like finding out a little bit about somebody. Tell us a little about yourself.
So I have grown up here my whole life down in Rome. I went to school in Akusa, graduated from mid-state in 2015. And then kind of just kicked off from there. I started doing the barbering. And then 2021 is when I decided I'm like, hey, let's do something different.
I went to school for reflexology at Fox Valley School of Massage. And then I was like, you know what? I need to change. Let's do this. I opened up the spa side later 2021. And then now here I am. I'm like, I am ready to take the official stuff and incorporate everything. Do the barber, do the spa, have it all together.
It's impressive. It really is. My Aunt Ney cut hair for about 40 years. She was a stylist. And for her, she just started one of the chair. And then she got the chair. And she wanted to have couple chairs for her and her friends and everything.
But I remember her just being stressed out with that. I mean, the amount of things you have going on here, it's impressive. It also is quite a bit on your plate. It would seem like, how do you balance all that?
I think it's easy for me to balance just because I've been cutting hair for nine years. So it's easy. So I'm like, you know, I have that down. I understand how to do that.
And then I slowly just started to re-incorporating and adding stuff again. And so it doesn't seem like a lot because I've just been doing it all little by little. So it made it super easy. It was a nice transition.
Oh, building that. I love that you are from this area. And you've decided to open your business here. That's wonderful. We need more of that.
Yes. And that's kind of why I picked here because we really don't have like a legit barber shop in here. Like, you know, we do have a couple smaller ones. But I'm like, and then we really didn't have more of like a spa spa.
So I'm like, can I ask, tell me a little bit about what reflexology is because I don't know that everybody knows what that is.
Yeah. And that's a great question because everybody always asks me. So reflexology is the science of applying pressure to your reflexes, which is then going to correlate to the rest of your body and really stimulate everything.
So your hands and your feet are mapped to the whole rest of your body. So it's definitely it's a nice holistic. It focuses on like the traditional Chinese medicine.
And so I love reflexology because anybody can do it. It's for anybody. You don't have to be in good health to do it. You know, it's great for those with like depression, anxiety, allergies, digestive issues.
So I really like headaches isn't that give you pinch the web apps really thumb. You can help relieve a headache. So it focuses on that too because like acupressure.
It's going to be very similar to acupressure because you're pressing on those pressure points, which then stimulates the meridians. So I love it. It's all natural.
And you know, what's better than all natural? No drugs, no supplements, just straight up natural.
Shailer, I deal with migraines almost every day, have been since I was about 12 and I'm growing a beard. So I feel like I'm going to give you some work.
I'm definitely going to be a client. I'm definitely going to be a client.
I'm curious, what got you to want to do here? What got you to want to be into that starting right there?
I was going to graduate high school and I was like, what do I want to do with my life? Everybody's famous question.
And so I was touring mid-state because I was like, I don't want to go far away. I want to stay close to home, went to mid-state.
I walked past the Cosmetology Center and I was like, wow. And I came back to the tour and I was like, everyone has piercings.
They have colorful hair. They have tattoo as I'm like, this feels like home. I love this. This is great.
It's a beautiful facility. I walked past it too and just went, wow, I kind of want to hang out there.
So nice. And so I'm like, well, why not? I feel like it really offers great freedom.
And I like to talk to people. So it's awesome.
We're speaking with Shaila Calhoun from Relax, Refresh and Reconnect Barber and Spa, new business here in town.
And mentioned beards that you work on. And great idea to see that. That is something we need in this town that we don't have.
What are some of the other things that you offer over there?
So anything from haircuts, beards, straight razor shaves. So that's definitely something we need here in town.
And then I focus on skincare. So facials, like eyebrow waxing, and then a lot more of the holistic stuff.
So your dry brushing, your gouache shot, and like your hand and foot scrub. And then the refuxology.
And the skincare, I just feel like mentioning, is for everyone.
Yes, absolutely. Which is great because I'm going to be incorporating more stuff specifically for like beard treatments.
Because everybody likes a good beard.
And some of us have no idea what we're doing with them.
No, I need all the help I can get. I have no idea.
And to be honest, and this is something that happens to a lot of guys with these kind of things, we didn't get a manual.
And oftentimes we don't have somebody that tells us, well this is how to take care of that. This is how to do this.
It's nice to have something to kind of go off of somebody to go to or somebody to go and get that kind of idea.
And at least you understand going forward a little bit better how to take care of that.
Well, and somebody that can tailor it to you. It's not like just going out and watching a YouTube video.
I mean, Shiloh is going to tailor your care directly for your beard. Everybody's hair is different.
And that's the main thing I really want to specialize in like customizing my services to you.
So like, you know, granted, I do have a service, but like, I'm going to customize it to whatever you need during that time.
So I really want to focus on the whole body.
That's cool.
So, you know, had to tow.
One last thing that I think is kind of interesting and it happens and it comes up in a number of different conversations.
But especially when we're talking to Listics and that is what we're able to do and what we're doing nowadays in real time.
With the modern science and a lot of the things that we have, they're great, they have their point and their places.
But we keep going back to those old, those, the West and a lot of the things that are thousands and thousands of year old and still using them
and finding ways to incorporate them into our day to day and into things like this.
It's fascinating to do.
Is it a fun part of the job for you to be able to do that?
It is.
It seems like it would be.
It is. And like, I spend a lot of time researching.
Like, I spend a lot of time researching products, doing additional education and training.
I want to make sure that the stuff I'm doing for you is going to be beneficial for you and that it's going to be good for you.
I like to make sure that my products are low on the toxicity scale, that they're good for you.
Maybe I did an awesome service, but I want to make sure that the product that I put on you is going to be just as awesome too.
That's great.
Well said.
Anything you wanted to touch on?
We didn't get a chance to do it, Tyler.
I don't think so.
I guess the last thing I have to say is if everyone would like to join me, I am having a ribbon cutting on April 23rd.
It's going to be at 1 p.m.
So I will have refreshments and goodies and little treats for everybody that shows up.
So I think that would be awesome.
I would love to see everybody come.
Yeah, that's a week from today, right?
Yeah.
The more the merrier.
It's what I wanted to end down because we love ribbon cuttings around here.
We're big fans of it, everything, and it's always a lot of fun.
And if you haven't been to a ribbon cutting, I'm not joking.
It's a lot of fun.
Well, you've seen the pictures that the chamber puts out.
Everybody looks happy.
And it looks happy.
Absolutely.
Well, where are you located?
So on A Street, I'm going to be in between out of the box and the barbecue shack.
So it's in the gray building.
And I am on the lower level.
So when you pull in, you got to go down.
You got to go down to that little dip.
And then I am located all the way in the back of the building in 102.
That's a good building.
That's a recognizable building, too.
That's a great location.
That's nice.
That's a good spot for you.
Again, visit Chyler and her team, 3930 A Street South, Sweet 102 in Wisconsin Rapids.
Encourage you to find out more of their website.
Relax, Refresh, or reconnect at glossgenius.com.
You can go ahead and find out more of their Facebook page as well,
type in their search bar.
Relax, Refresh, and reconnect.
It's a great website.
Great Facebook page.
Follow along.
Keep up-to-date.
Buy local support, local everybody.
Chyler, thank you again for the time.
Thank you for having me.
Well, you're going to have to come back, by the way.
Absolutely.
I meant to warn you about that beforehand.
If you did a good job, you're going to have to come back.
So we're going to have to end it back.
I just typed in Relax, Refresh, and I believe that popped you up.
Yep, my name is Chyler.
That pops up right away.
Be sure to like the page, everybody, and follow along with what she's doing again.
Buy local support, local.
Appreciate Chyler, thanks again for the time.
We'll come back and have some more fun here on the morning show at WFHR,
locally grown radio.
Welcome back to the show, everybody.
Melissa and James here.
Yeah.
Hope you're having a good one.
We need more songs like that.
We can just yell a little longer.
Yes.
All of our bumper music needs to be songs.
We're stopping and just yelling.
That's it.
We want to send a gigantic shout out to our new friend, Chyler.
Chyler, Calhoun, joining us from Relax, Refresh.
Reconnect, Barbara, and Spongebob.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Reconnect, Barbara, and Spongebob.
Mm-hmm.
Be sure to check them out.
They're at 39.30 A Street South, Sweet 102.
Right here in Wisconsin.
Rapids.
Yeah.
And mark your calendars for the 23rd for her ribbon cutting,
because that's going to be a fun event.
That is.
Yeah.
I really can't stress that enough.
Ribbon cuttings really are a lot of fun.
Then chamber does a great job with it.
Yeah.
And you could probably coincide it with your lunch break,
head on down there, check out the space.
And check out our chamber, everybody.
Doing good work over there.
I encourage you to reach out to the chamber and become a member.
Let's dive into a little bit of entertainment news.
And I don't know how much people have paid attention to this,
but I'm a big Harrison Ford fan.
I like Harrison Ford a lot.
And what I like about him, not just his acting,
but I like what you see is what you get.
He's always been that guy.
And that makes him a really good interview, I think.
Oh, yeah.
So I really like to watch his interviews over the years.
And I've always found him to be a really interesting guy.
And, you know, a very candid person.
And in handsome as all get out, too.
He's a handsome man, his age very well.
But he's got this earring.
And I don't know if you look up any picture of Harrison Ford
or almost any interview.
And he's got this earring.
And I'm not trying to be mean here already.
Because God knows I've hung on to styles.
I should have let go of a long time ago.
But it looks a little like 70s, 80s-ish.
It looks like one of those, or even early 90s.
You know.
But he's always had this earring.
And it's just kind of, it's not distracting or anything.
But you can't help but notice it.
I think if you've seen him multiple times.
Well, if you ever wondered this story
behind Harrison Ford's earring,
during last week's Jimmy Buffett Tribute Concert,
he shared that it was because of Jimmy's infectious coolness.
Quote, I remember one day that a long,
that long some, some might say a boozy lunch with Jimmy and Ed Bradley.
Oh my gosh.
Jimmy Buffett, Ed Bradley in Harrison Ford.
Like that is an amazing combination.
And it was Bradley's birthday.
I saw both of them had earrings.
So right after lunch, I got my ear pierced.
His coolness is infectious enough for a 40-year-old man
to spontaneously get his blanking ear pierced.
And infectious enough to create an entire culture around his music.
There will never be another Jimmy.
Really cool, really cool tribute, really cool quote.
And this is what I'm talking about, man.
That's Harrison Ford.
I mean, he's just honest with you.
He was one of my first film loves.
I bet.
Yeah, I can see that.
I've always had a thing for Harrison Ford.
I love Han Solo.
That's, you know, like a lot of kids growing up.
I thought Han was cool.
But Indiana Jones.
Indiana Jones.
That's what I wanted to be.
I wanted to be Indiana Jones.
Oh, man, that was the gig.
More than James Bond.
I wanted to be Indiana Jones.
I thought Indiana was cooler than James Bond,
if I'm being honest.
Oh, yeah.
But I thought for sure he was cooler.
No, adventure over a spy.
Yeah.
Yeah, you get to discover stuff.
Right.
Yeah, here it is.
The hat.
The hat.
Temples.
Yeah.
You're constantly running from things.
You got your dad yelling at you.
We named the dog Indie.
We did.
Well, and that was the combination of my two favorite actors
as a kid.
Well, that movie was really.
Yep.
Nope.
They're definitely in the favorite.
Yeah.
I can believe that.
This is more of a little more of a serious one.
And one that I was looking forward to actually getting into with you, Melissa.
Maybe sometimes the government is the good guy.
Sources say that the Justice Department is going to file an antitrust lawsuit against
live nation as soon as next month.
Live nation is, of course, the parent company of every, uh,
concert concert goers, least favorite entity, ticket master.
Hmm.
And the fed say that they have used their industry dominance to undermine
competition competition competition for ticketing at live events.
Hmm.
The result is that we pay more.
And there's nothing we can do about it because live nation and ticket master
are pretty much the only game in town they have a monopoly.
Monopoly.
Last year, a Senate panel sub, sub peanut documents from live nation
pertaining to ticket pricing fees and secondary sales.
Hmm.
So there's a complicated thing that is involved when it comes to having a society
like ours and a consumer society.
Um, if you're a business, the main goal, be the biggest you can be.
Yep.
Make money.
Make money.
If you're a Nike, you can always be bigger.
If you're McDonald's, you could always be bigger.
Mm hmm.
And that's the goal.
But there is a catch to that.
And you can't be the only game in town.
Now for our lifetime, pretty much, that was okay.
McDonald's, a bird king could coexist and everything was fine.
And parties.
Yep.
We had options.
All these things were going on.
But nowadays, it's, well, I like that business.
I'm going to buy it.
So now we have like four or five companies that own like 90% of these companies.
So with that, you have to be more fearsome of monopolies and catch those.
We have, like, we have local monopolies all over rural towns.
All over.
Well, and that's the thing they have different names.
They're not all named what the parent company is.
So it appears to us, you know, the normal people that frequent these places that,
oh, well, that's a different business than this business.
Well, no, actually, it's not.
Yeah.
They're owned by the same parent company.
Yeah.
It's as simple as spreading this out more and having more room for other businesses
to have ticket sales and everything.
I haven't been to a concert in years in part because of ticket master.
Not only the prices and everything, I get that it's going to cost me money.
I understood that part.
It's so much of the nickel and diamond.
And you're going to do what we exactly what we tell you to.
And even if we do art, if you do what we tell you to, it still may not happen
because we've got people that we already sold these tickets to and we didn't even tell you.
I've been trying, I haven't, my favorite band of all time, living color.
We do a lot of Paloosa in Milwaukee in July.
I have been trying for weeks to find tickets or to get tickets or something.
I want to see them.
I want to actually do something Melissa.
I'm trying to make a human plan.
Wow.
Can't do it.
Cannot find the tickets.
Can't seem to get through ticket master.
Can't do any of this.
It's frustrating.
Yeah.
And it's not even, and it's frustrating even before you get to your laptop or computer to look into the ticket thing
because you sit there and realize, oh, I'm giving money to ticket master.
Right.
Which any of us 90s kids pretty much, that's a sin almost.
Let alone, nobody wants to help out a corporate conglomerate.
It doesn't treat anybody well.
Say what you will about Amazon in the way they treat their employees.
You don't hear a lot of customer problem.
Complaints.
Amazon does, whether we like it or not, and it's not, you know, niche to say something nice about them,
but they do take care of their customers quite well.
They can do that because they have more money than Solomon, but that is a side subject.
If ticket master treated people, like Amazon, Amazon, a ticket master,
and basically a similar kind of model as far as what they have a conglomerate over,
Amazon is constantly buying up companies.
And now you want diapers?
You got to come to us.
You want baby wipes?
You got to come to us.
You want groceries?
You got to come to us.
They keep doing that.
Like if ticket master were to do something similar to that,
look, I'm not saying that Amazon's the good guy here or a good person or anything.
I'm treating it like it's a person because that's what we're supposed to do nowadays as treat businesses like people.
When it comes to that, they're a lot better than your average conglomerate.
They're way better than ticket master is with this stuff.
We don't do this nearly enough and we don't say this nearly enough.
Hey, thanks government.
Thanks for doing your job.
Thanks for getting on that because that's actually really important that they work on this.
It's not the number one issue we have.
I don't know.
Child care, a couple of other things I could think of that are pretty big.
Well, there's a lot of pretty big things.
But, you know, we're all concerned about prices and prices going up.
Well, this is one of the things that our government needs to do to help control those prices
because those prices are going up.
We're paying more.
Guess who's actually making more money?
CEOs of these giant companies.
Yeah.
And they are.
I mean, I pulled up just how many companies own everything.
And Forbes.com, which, you know, may or may not.
You can take it as a grain of salt.
Well, Forbes is pretty legit.
They are.
But sometimes they skew and wear the other.
Oh, yes.
But the four companies that control the 147 companies that own everything.
The first article that pops up.
Four companies.
That's just sickening.
How is that not a monopoly?
And it goes against what we're at least the way our consumer society is supposed to be built.
And we're supposed to have things in place to keep that from happening.
Right.
And we have not.
Which is what our government is supposed to do.
Right.
So as much as I want to give, on one side of my mouth are giving them compliment on the other side.
Well, because they're the only thing stopping these companies from becoming a complete monopoly.
Well, and say whatever you want about Ticketmaster, it seems like they're doing their job at least.
I can't say that for every politician.
I can't say like.
I mean, they are selling tickets.
They're doing their job.
I mean, they're doing it the way we want them to maybe.
I mean, probably not the way the artists want them to.
That's not how it works for politicians.
You do what we tell you to.
You do what we want you to.
And how about passes some dang bills?
How about actually doing your job?
How about actually getting in there and getting to work?
I don't know.
How many times, how many times a year do you hear?
We're on vacation.
We're on break.
Well, we can't get anything done right now.
It's three weeks before Christmas.
My God, who would do anything before then?
Where everybody else is working their tails off.
Like, get to work, man.
I'm so dang tired of this game of politics.
Oh, we're going to take this side of things during a political year, even though we don't believe it.
And even though our constituents and everybody knows why we're doing this,
we're just going to go ahead and keep doing it.
Like, this game that politicians play on American people
and they think they're fooling us.
And I don't know if that's worse or the fact that it actually works sometimes.
Well, that's depressing in itself.
And then the inability for them to work together.
I don't care if you disagree.
In fact, I think it's healthy to have different opinions.
But you need to find some common ground and figure out ways to work together.
I agree that it's healthy to disagree.
I don't know what I did there.
I don't know if that works.
Couldn't agree more.
Couldn't agree more, Melissa.
I didn't want to wrap up on this one because, man, there were a lot of people bent out of shape about this.
We were talking about it in their meeting.
Our team meeting yesterday and stuff.
Sunday night CBS aired Billy Joel, the 100th live at Madison Square Garden event.
But there was one problem.
The broadcast was cut two minutes short in the Eastern and Central time zones due to local news.
Fans were pretty upset because Billy was in the middle of his last song, piano man.
And it happened because the special started 30 minutes late due to the 2024 master's tournament.
CBS issued an apology and called it a network programming air.
So to make it right, CBS will re-air the entire concert this Friday at 8 o'clock Eastern time.
It's also available to stream on Paramount Plus.
There you go.
My catch is, okay, so they had two minutes less of the broadcast.
And he's doing piano, man.
You're going to need more than two minutes.
You're going to need a lot more than that.
Well, he was in the middle of it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And then, you know, what's getting bumped down Friday?
Now who else is getting mad?
Yeah, yeah.
That's a good point.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I do think that it's cool that they listened.
Yes.
You know, this is something that we know quite a bit about here at WFHR and WIRI.
Listening to your listeners.
Yes.
You know, it's important.
It's the key part of this job.
The biggest, the biggest, like, I don't know, advice.
I hate to say advice.
Advice comes with so heaviness, but advice I can give to somebody.
Yeah.
In radio, listening, listening is the greatest skill you can have in this job.
And it's listening to your listeners.
Right.
And if you do that right.
That's why we're here.
Yeah.
That's the only reason we're here.
And I believe that our company, Civic, gets that and realizes that.
I also think that we have a company that realizes when they don't get it right.
And has no problem admitting that and doing what we can do to make it right.
That's the important part there.
I mentioned something when talking about politicians.
I believe that the overwhelming majority of people, I'm talking close to 89-90% of people.
They're done with the divisiveness.
They're done with the bickering and the acting like children.
Either get along and get something done, Republicans and Democrats, or we will replace you.
Politics is not entertainment.
Yeah.
It shouldn't be entertainment.
It's not these sports teams.
It should be the most boring thing in our lives.
Absolutely.
Yes.
And entertainers in politics, please.
I'm tired of like, oh, we got to sexy this up so that people care about it.
We're going to make it a good headline.
We got to put it in the old print.
No, you don't.
No.
It should not be taking up that much of our bandwidth.
Nope.
You know why we have politicians and you all you guys to do these things.
So we don't have to do them.
Right.
So we don't have to get about it.
I got 24-7.
I got things going on.
The last thing I need to do is your job.
Do your job.
Get it done.
It's ridiculous.
What we have put up with with our politicians.
And it only gets worse with the Supreme Court.
Because the Supreme Court missed me with them.
Well, don't get me started.
That's a joke.
That is a joke.
The Supreme Court is a joke.
And I'll put my name on that.
Go ahead and fight me on it.
715-424-2600, please.
Please do.
Anything you say, let me introduce you to Clarence Thomas.
Let me introduce you to Clarence Thomas.
Do you have a cause?
Do you have something you care about?
Would you like to have a Supreme Court justice in your pocket?
Well, hey, here's Clarence Thomas.
You can buy him.
And it's all out there in the open now.
Now it's all out there in the open.
And he's still sitting on the bench.
Still sitting on that bench.
Still sitting on that bench.
How ridiculous is that?
All viable is all get out.
Now, all of this said, I have nothing but respect for our local politicians
who are running for our local offices
and are filling these seats on our boards, on our school boards,
on our county boards, our judges seats, you know,
our mayor positions across our area.
I appreciate and have nothing but respect for them
because it's a lot of work what they're doing.
I mean, they're okay.
Of course, they are.
They're great.
They're awesome.
They're awesome.
They're great people.
And you're absolutely right.
And we need more of that because our local level politics affect our daily lives far more.
Yeah.
Then what we've all just been railing on about it,
what James is on a soapbox about for the last.
I mean, yes, it does affect our lives.
No, but you're right though.
But local politics affect us even more.
And the more involved that we can get at the local level,
the better our communities are going to be.
We're going to get to our news break.
We will come back with some more fun.
We're going to get into these attractions.
Are they overrated?
Are they underrated?
We're going to get into the list of the most overrated.
What were the tourist traps in our state?
Yeah, oh, that's another good topic too.
We'll get into that.
And we want your feedback, everybody.
We want you to call up and join the conversation when we're talking these attractions
or anything you want to talk about.
715-424-2600.
Be back more fun on the morning show here at WFHR.
Listen to that song over and over.
His voice is like a soft cuddly blanket.
I bet you nobody's ever described it that way.
I think you like that.
I think you like that.
Kettie Wayne, we like that a bit.
It's a great guitar player.
Great guitar player.
Listen, James here with you.
And we want you to join a 715-424-2600.
Is a phone number?
Or one button dialing with the Civic Media app.
Reach out and let us know.
What do you think of this conversation?
What do you think of these most overrated tourist attractions in America?
Someone ranked the most overrated tourist attractions in America
based on what a bunch of big travel sites have to say.
And their top nod is one of the most American spots you can visit.
And just a quick, I didn't look at this list beforehand.
I'm looking at it right now.
I want to go to all these places.
I have no integrity in this.
I'm not going to agree with this list.
I'll tell you right now.
Number one on the list, Mount Rushmore.
You have to travel a long way to see it.
And most people's first impression is it's a lot smaller than they thought.
Yeah.
I've seen it.
And I would have to agree with that.
I mean, I was 16 at the time.
That's cool that you've seen it, though.
Yeah.
So to me, though, in 16, I wouldn't expect this or anything.
I barely would in my age and my forwardies and everything.
But I'm not going there just to see the actual thing.
I've seen pictures of it my whole life.
I want to feel it.
I feel like there's certain things you can't.
You only can experience if you're actually breathing in the air around it.
You're feeling it.
You're seeing it.
You're seeing all your senses are taking it in.
I'm such a history guy.
And there's a lot of history over there at Mount Rushmore that is not very kosher, not very good and stuff.
And that complicates it to me.
Right.
But it also is part of the reason why I want to do it.
It is because of that native history and so many of the things of that area.
So it's not just the foreheads I'm going to see.
I guess the place and the feeling that I'm looking for.
Well, because there's something that the land just, you know, that the land is our history.
Yes.
We're walking on it.
And that particular place, I mean, has seen a lot of people.
And yes, a lot of history and very complicated history.
But the engineering feat of what they did with carving into the stone is impressive.
Yeah.
I mean, if somebody did that today, it'd be impressive.
A little back then.
You know, nowadays you get a 3D printer.
I don't know.
But doing that back then, all the other things, again, you could do have two thoughts on your head at once, I think.
You can have all the things that we were just saying there about the land and the context of the history of it.
Well, also marveling at, oh my god, that's pretty cool.
They pulled that off.
Right.
And that they actually look like faces.
Yeah.
Yes, they actually do.
They're recognizable.
If the fate of the world depended on me being able to draw a face, I'm sorry, everybody.
We had a good run.
But it's done.
Same here.
Same here.
Let alone doing it in rock.
It's incredible.
That's pretty impressive to me.
So I don't know if I'm ever going to feel comfortable saying it's overrated necessarily.
But I do get the idea of you build.
I think we can all relate to you build this up in your head.
You get there and it's hard to meet that expectation.
That's probably kind of true about everything though.
Yeah.
I mean, like probably the one thing that maybe wouldn't be that is the Grand Canyon.
Because it's so, it's giant.
Yeah.
Like you can't.
That's another one on my list.
Mine too.
And we actually, we did not get there on our trip back.
It was kind of in the plan.
But then yeah, it just didn't work out.
And the weather wasn't cooperating.
So I love different trip.
I love flying over because you kind of do get to see it a little bit.
Because it's so big, but it's still nothing compared.
That might be the only time that it's underwhelming.
Yes, yes, yes.
Oh, there's a crack in the ground.
Oh, wait, I'm 30,000 feet in the air.
Next up on the list, Las Vegas.
Everything is overpriced and you have to deal with a lot of drunk people.
If you love it, keep going.
But if you're gambling and if, but if gambling and nightlife aren't your thing,
you're not missing a lot.
Yeah.
It was neat to see.
I've been there twice once, not, but necessarily by my choice.
I mean, I wasn't kidnapped or anything, but it wasn't a trip that I was like planning and looking forward to.
I found Vegas dirty and a little scary if you got off the strip.
Because the moment you leave that highly lit tourist area,
I felt a little unsafe.
Yeah, yeah.
No, I get that.
I've heard that from a lot of friends.
A good friend of mine does a stay.
He does a set in Vegas every other month.
And Will's been going there for, I'd say almost 10 years.
He tells me about that.
And Will's a pretty good guy.
I like built guy and everything.
And even their spots there, he won't go.
Yeah.
I will say Vegas is one of those things I had a two hour lay over there.
It's the only time I've been to Vegas and I'm good.
And it's not a shot at Vegas.
It's more that this, I'm not a gambler.
Right.
I'm not into that.
The shows were really neat to see.
Get out of the cool.
Like Cirque du Soleil, which I didn't get to see, but they were there when we were there.
There's some free shows that they hold in some of the older casinos.
Oh, that's cool.
That you can just see for free, which is neat.
That would be cool.
I will say flying into Vegas is a feeling.
That is kind of cool.
The pyramid with the light going up in the sky and everything.
Like there's some kind of cool aspects of that.
But it's like a lot of things that we're talking about here.
You get a little bit closer.
It's kind of like, no, this isn't really.
And their airport is a joke.
Like that airport bed for as much traffic as they get.
They need, they should have a much better airport.
That is an insane airport.
And I've been to every big airport, except for out east.
I've been to every big airport in this country.
That's probably the worst I've been on.
Yeah.
I can't speak to that.
I was not in the airport.
Number three on the list, Plymouth Rock.
The whole area around Plymouth Harbor is nice.
But the rock itself is just a rock.
It's behind bars so you can't even touch it.
What are they expecting?
What do they think this is?
This is American history here.
It's a rock.
This is the person who wants to go up to Liberty Bell and sign it.
Like this is somebody that, you know, what are we doing?
It's our history.
Look, it ain't my ancestors.
But it's still American history.
And as an American, I want to go check that out.
I want to see part of the thought.
I think it would be really neat to tour the east coast in its entirety.
Like all of that up there, main, the original 13 colonies
would be very, very interesting to experience.
I want to check out the first roads.
I want to see those.
I think that's interesting.
I think it's just a rock.
Yeah, it's just a rock.
What did you expect?
Right.
What are you expecting from it?
It's not ginormous or anything.
It's a rock.
I'm beginning to think that it's not the attractions that are the problem.
It's the expectations some of these visitors have.
If you want thrills, go to a roller coaster park.
Or Vegas that I just gave you.
Yeah, that's your right.
Time Square comes up next.
It's fun the first time, but New Yorkers do their best to avoid it
because it is just so overcrowded.
Yeah, I've never really thought too much about Times Square.
I've thought about going to New York a lot.
As an actor, I think that Broadway isn't a mecca.
And one of the ways to show that you've made it, one of the ways to show that you are good at this gig
is to be able to perform theater in New York.
Not just on Broadway.
I mean, anywhere in New York, be able to do theater.
Yeah.
That's the mecca of theater here in America.
So to me, that's just something I've always thought about with New York.
I don't think much about tourist stuff with New York.
I would, so I don't like crowds.
Yeah.
So the idea of the massive amount of people that are crammed onto that strip of land that is New York,
terrifies me.
Honestly, absolutely terrifies me.
And when I was a kid, we went to the Dels.
And I don't remember the name of the little thing.
It was supposed to be like a 3D or 4D movie.
Okay.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And one of the videos was driving in New York traffic.
Whoa.
And my brother, my older brother was sitting on the bars because there weren't seats.
But there were like, I don't know, bars you could hang on to.
And it was low enough that he could sit on it.
And he was sitting on it.
And in the video, the driver, the taxi we were in slammed on his brakes and Chris fell.
Oh.
The bar.
Just because, you know, you think you're there.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And since then, I'm like, New York, I've experienced the traffic.
I'm good.
You're good.
I was in Wisconsin Dels at the time, but I'm still still.
I'm walking here.
Your brother telling that story has got to be so complicated.
I felt like a car did this to me, but not really.
That's a tough one to split.
Finally, on the list, Lombard Street in San Francisco.
It's that steep one that winds back and forth.
There's always a long line of cars waiting to go down.
But once you're on it, you realize you just waited in traffic to wait and more traffic.
Two more spots that just missed the top five are the Hollywood Walk of Fame in LA
and Bourbon Street in New Orleans.
So again, all these things are...
All very iconic places.
Yeah.
It's about being able to say you experienced it.
Did you've been there?
That you've done it.
I think one of the coolest things I will ever see in my life is the cutoff of California,
the cliffs, that spot that broke off from Europe, that when PanGia was there.
Now, I did something you're not supposed to do.
I started walking on it.
There's lines.
And we're surprised that James is still here.
But I wasn't paying enough attention.
That was not the rebel of me.
That was me being dumb.
But I got in trouble.
I got yelled at.
I'm getting goosebumps just thinking about that Melissa.
No, it's impressive to see.
And it's dirt.
It's soil.
It's red.
And what?
Yeah, it's nothing.
I didn't go there.
Well, this is disappointing.
Where's the arcade?
No, I went there because I wanted to feel history.
I wanted to feel our history.
Our world history.
What are you going for when it comes to these attractions?
Are you going to be entertained?
Are you going to have your mind blown?
Or are you going for the history of it?
Or the experience, the senses of it?
Well, and we have the ability now to set our expectations at a realistic level.
Because how many people out there on YouTube have posted their travel laws.
And this was my experience in New York.
It's not like we have to take it from a Hollywood movie.
Like this is not, you can see what it's like in real life.
And if it's something you really want to experience in person, you absolutely can.
There is so much like a drone footage of this or that nowadays that there is a lot of different things that you can experience and not even leave your home.
But if you really want to experience them, this is the way to do it.
And I think also like, you know, having some context, having some understanding of, hey, Plymouth Rock, it's a rock.
It's not going to sing to you.
If you go to Cave of the Mounds here in Wisconsin, you're in a cave.
But if you want to experience thrills, you know, Noah Zark in Wisconsin Dells, it's worth going to.
I think so many childhood memories from being there.
I love the Dells.
The Dells are fun.
I am good with the Dells.
I got no issues with the Dells.
If you're a sports fanatic, you got experience Lambo Field.
You know, I mean, if you're a Harley Davidson fan, I guess the museum, sure.
I love the museum.
Oh, the Davidson Museums also.
You know, I mean, we have art museums here at the House on the Rock.
House on the Rock.
Yes.
Oh, I got to get to House on the Rock.
I'm a jerk because I have not been there yet.
And it's not right.
I need to go there.
We do have beautiful, you know, Peninsula State Park.
Cave Point County Park.
We have so many natural things that are beautiful.
Devils Lake, which is not that far from here.
We're going to be wrapping up the show so we may run out of time here.
But let's do this.
You got a little homework, listeners.
A little bit of homework.
Not too heavy, but a little homework.
Tomorrow on the show, Melissa and Seth and I will be hanging out with you.
I want to hear about your favorite attractions in Wisconsin.
I want to hear your recommendations.
You're giving gems.
We're right on the cusp of summer, you know, as we're making plans for all these things.
Let's give everybody some suggestions.
Let's give some people some ideas about attraction.
Bring them to our state.
Melissa and I can look at a 30 different websites and give you 20 different things in here in state.
Let's hear from you.
Because 10 of those websites have nothing.
Yeah, yeah.
So let's hear from you.
Let's put you to what?
Let's make you do the segment for us.
Did you realize that's what I was doing there?
Well, we want to hear from you.
So do that homework and get ready to call us up tomorrow with your favorite attractions.
Or maybe unique attractions.
Not everybody links about the Android, Android Webber.
No, the Frank Lloyd Wright House.
Frank Lloyd Wright House.
I want to see that.
I was just talking theater.
So I got that in my head.
But that's another one I want to see.
Things like that.
You know, go ahead and share them with us everybody.
Tomorrow on the show.
We'll be back to wrap up the show coming up on the morning show at WFHR.
Welcome back everyone.
Morning show here at WFHR.
Locally grown radio.
Really.
Too much for me.
Melissa and James here with you.
We hope you're having a good one out there.
We're getting to our schedule for the day in a moment.
We've got a sort of Vanny Wright story here for you.
Fools Gold is the yellow metal pride of pride right.
That's what Fools Gold actually is.
We've kind of seen it and understand it a little bit and everything.
But here's an interesting.
Fools Gold has always kind of been considered worthless.
Well, researchers say that it might actually become valuable
because it can contain lithium.
An important element in the quest for greener energy.
The researchers examined 15 rock samples
and they discovered that lithium in pyrite minerals in the shell.
If Fools Gold is worth something in the future,
that's exciting news for Appalachian Basin
where pyrite can be commonly found.
That said, it's unclear how valuable it would be.
There are still issues with how to figure out, figure it out.
Like does all pyrite have an association with lithium and et cetera, et cetera.
But if that is the case for one,
this takes away that whole concern in many ways
because we've had a concern for years about lithium.
Well, yeah, lithium mining in other countries is a humanitarian crisis.
And devastating to the land there.
So this is quite interesting.
But the pyrite part is that old-timey prospector
who had all that Fools Gold had just thrown away.
Well, no, no, what?
You're telling me it was worth something?
And that don't seem right, man. That seems unfair.
All those poor prospectors.
Other than a write story for you today,
H&R blocks software crashed yesterday.
Yes, that's right. On the last day, you could catch that.
On tax day, oh, man.
According to the IRS, tens of millions of people
always wait until the last few days to file an H&R block
had a glitch that only affected customers
who used the downloaded version of their software.
People who used their website went to H&R.
Website were able to help out,
but still thousands of people were unable to file their taxes.
That's really weird that the downloaded was what didn't work.
I mean, look, we understand tech issues better than most,
okay? We work in that in this industry,
and we haven't happened all the time.
That being said, you kind of got one job.
You kind of got like one day of the year.
You really got to make sure.
You really need your stuff to work.
I mean, you know, certainly the day's leading up to it.
But boy, that, that, that 50,
it really should be working on that day.
I feel like I don't think that's asking too much.
Oh, that ain't right. That ain't right.
We got to get up, Halik Lancer,
and get some good stories of the day.
And we are going to have a great one for you today
in Midday Magazine.
We kick it off for the week with a great opening start.
In our first segment, we are going to be speaking
with Wisconsin Fire Chief Todd X.
How good.
We have Sarah Lucini with us also
from the Wood County Health Department
and Patrick Delaney and older person with Wisconsin Rapids.
We're going to get into a really cool topic,
a program that's going to be around to assist those
who are reliant on electrical medical machines
during a power and electrical outage.
This is a fascinating topic.
It really is.
And it's very important.
Who cannot wait looking forward to that.
And in part two, we get the band together.
CEO of your United Way of Southwood and Anna's County.
Terry John's going to join us.
Terry, when she joins us on the morning show,
we touch on the United Way.
This one, we get to get our feet in the dirt.
We get there, you know, really kind of.
They got a lot of events coming up.
A lot of stuff.
It's going to be a busy couple of months for them.
We're going to touch on that coming up, looking forward to it.
There is no baseball tonight.
A reminder to everybody that WIRI baseball game
we're going to have that has been canceled as far as I
last I checked, last I heard.
And the weather's not going to be great.
Yeah.
I don't know.
Baseballs and 30 mile on our wins.
Not a good idea.
Not a good idea.
I tried a couple of times with my friends.
And it did not end well.
So we've got all that lined up for you.
And of course, a great show is coming up tomorrow.
Melissa and Seth and I will be hanging out.
Looking forward to that.
That's going to be a fun show.
Well, our friends at Quality Plus printing
joining us as well.
And we want to send this one out there too,
because the local events I wanted to make sure to get this in.
Wisconsin Rapids Blood Drive happening today.
In fact, it kicks off in minutes from now.
10 to 3 today over the former Eastern High School Room at 111.
And that room 111.
It's at 311 Lincoln Street in Wisconsin Rapids.
Head on over there.
If you were able to donate, we appreciate you.
The need is always there.
You don't have to be have a cape or a tragic back story
or tights to be a superhero.
If you want to wear tights, you can.
You can.
They're not going to judge you.
Nope.
They take the blood from your arm.
I've done it.
I encourage you to head on over there and donate if you can.
Again, Blood Drive happening today.
Every two seconds, someone in the US needs blood.
Be that hero.
Help out if you were able-bodied.
And you can.
Blood Drive happening today from 10 to 3 at the former Eastern
High School Room.
311 Lincoln Street right here in Wisconsin Rapids.
And if you can't make it today,
the next one is Monday the 22nd, I believe, from 2 to 7.
Also, Central Wisconsin Cultural Center
has a new art exhibit, Celebrate Red,
opening Thursday at 5.30 to 7.30.
We're the reception to meet the artist.
It's a free event.
Open to the public.
Refreshments will be provided.
We're going to talk more about this coming up
of Mark your calendars for Celebrate Red.
Just don't bring your bull.
Yes.
Yes.
Keep that in mind.
A girl scout troop in Nashville raised a bunch of money selling cookies
this year and used it to help people find their lost pets.
They installed microchips scanners at their local library
in a nearby animal shelter.
So now anyone who finds a lost dog or cat can bring them
to have them scanned.
Oh, wow.
That's awesome.
That's just, I mean, that just got me.
I got nothing.
I'm speechless.
That's such a good story.
That is so dark cool.
Good on those kids.
Way to be.
I got to throw out there quick.
I tried to find where that place in the Delz was,
that where we saw that movie.
I want to say now that the building that it was in
has the crazy mirror maze.
And also the museum of historic torture devices.
Oh, Jesus.
Which was the wax museum.
And then the one I was a kid.
And then the wrap of the show everybody.
That was good.
Thank you for looking that up.
And thank you for joining us, Melissa.
Yeah, absolutely.
Thanks, James.
Have a great day.
Be good to each other.
We'll talk to you soon and later right here at...
