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.
Gotteros, James J. I am joined by CEO of Your Night Away of Southwood and Ames County's
Terry Johns. Hey, good morning. Good morning, Terry. We got the band back together, and
we got the best listeners and listeners in radio with us to give everybody ready for
the weekend. And we're going to let you know what the forecast is looking like. Pretty
more load joins us. Britt, how are you this morning? I'm good. How are you? Happy Friday.
Happy Friday. Happy Friday. Hey, we're not taking rain. So it's going to make a real
short for a forecast for Brittany here. We're going to make it real easy for you today,
Brittany. Keep up. Just go ahead and sense a rain. Sorry, I just have a soccer game I need
to be at tonight. I'm getting sick of sitting in the in the wet. Yeah, yeah. I think we're
going to be sitting in a bit more of an R.W. Brittany. Yeah, we are. I mean, if I censored
the word, you know, that R word, we're only going to talk about this morning and then
maybe tomorrow morning. Otherwise, that R word is in there. Yeah, next couple of days.
Okay, fine. Okay. Okay. I've allowed you. Okay. I'll clear on here now. Yeah. So we've
got this. Who systems headed our way? It's really complex. A lot of things are going
to be happening over the next goodness, probably until Monday afternoon is when all of this
will push on out of here. So by about three o'clock or so, we could see some scattered sprinkles
start to push in. So obviously, the sun is going to become less and less as we push to
the afternoon. By about five o'clock, we are going to see some light to moderate rain.
Wide spread really ramping up throughout the evening. We're looking at anywhere from
a quarter of an inch to a half an inch from this first round. So we expect it to be
raining from after work in school through the overnight. Then tomorrow when you wake
up, I don't think there's going to be much rain out there. We could actually see some
pockets of sunshine and temperatures are going to be so nice. This is the good news
of the weekend. We're going to hit highs in the mid seventies tomorrow. And the further south
you are, they could tap the eighties down along the southern state line. It is going to
be feeling like summer. So summer is going to happen, right? In the afternoon and evening
hours, showers and thunderstorms are going to form and some of those could be strong
to severe. Mainly in the southern half of the state, but I can't say that we're not going
to see a possibility of that. I think our main risks for tomorrow night will definitely
be some large hail. And then if there is tornado warnings out there, just keep an eye on
those because they could track into our area as well. So that is Saturday night. We're
going to see some heavy, heavy downpours of one to two inches of additional rain Saturday
into Sunday. Sunday is going to be a widespread, heavy, drencher, soaker kind of vibe. Few embedded
severe storms are possible. More rain continues and some Monday, unfortunately. Like I mentioned
until Monday afternoon is when the system is finally going to leave us. I'll give you
some inflate your life raft. Yep. Yeah. You're going to want to build an arc. Yeah, you're
going to want to build an arc. Did anybody else catch what Brittany was talking about?
It will be summer like she was willing to weather. She's willing to. So like, what
do we have to get up tomorrow to experience this? Like is it super early from five to five
15 tomorrow morning? You've got some summer weather. You're looking for. You are very generous
this weekend. I appreciate that so much. I love the way you do the forecast, Brittany. Don't
change a thing. I appreciate you. Have yourself a great weekend, Brittany. Thanks so much for
joining us. We'll be people ready for next week on Monday. Yes, take care. Stay dry.
You too. She's the best. Brittany Marlow. Join us every morning right here in this time slot.
We appreciate her joining us. Appreciate you being here, Terry. Thanks so much for the time.
We're going to get everybody ready for the weekend talking the NFL draft and nothing else.
Oh, all right. There we go. Okay. That's all I want. My husband's phone was like blowing
up last night with his friends, all their thoughts about the Packers pick. So yeah, yeah.
I wish it was playmakers. I am not going to lie to the audience. I am here. I am with you.
All and I am in charge. You're charged up. But the other, but in the back of my brain, that's
all I'm thinking about is the NFL draft. We do have bigger things to talk about today. We're
going to get into a bunch of fun stuff. We get the LCAP paper at the anniversary club right
around the corner. It's pretzel days. We're going to touch on that in a moment. Also, America is
divided. And in this political year, we have to cover certain topics, Terry, having a mind like yours
and a perspective like yours, I appreciate. So we will tackle what America is most divided on.
And that is whether or not to wash new clothes before wearing them. We're going to tackle that subject.
We are not afraid to tackle the hot subject. I got some of the each in my house.
See? It's a controversial house. It is. I know. We are pushing the limits, man.
Well, we'll get it as Brittany was talking about reminding us that it is spring. And I dropped my
pen. Time to spring clean. We have four ways to clutter. Can clutter affect your health?
How clutter affects your health? We'll get into that a little bit and how you can clean up a little.
So we'll get into some of that stuff. All of that is fun. But I'd like to kick things off
with talking the United Way with you, Terry, and catching up on how things are going with you
and the team over there. Yeah. So we have had a super busy week. This week is when agencies in
the community presents program funding proposals. So we do face-to-face presentations with programs.
And so basically we're a zero-based funder. So each funding cycle programs have to reapply.
So what is a zero-based funder? Yeah. So instead of saying, you know, you're a great program. We
love you. You're doing great work. You have measurable outcomes. We're just going to fund you
indefinitely. We fund on a calendar year. So each year programs need to come back and say,
you know, hey, here's where we're at. And what's important about that is we use a panel of,
we use volunteers to help guide the funding decisions. And these are all, they are volunteers,
but they are also donors. So they have, you know, skin in the game. So to speak, if we,
what do you use, you know, phrases, but we have three different panels. So each day that,
well, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, this week, local programs came and, you know, said,
talked to us about why, you know, we should continue to fund them. We did have a couple of new
programs come to the table and, you know, talk about that. We've been very fortunate that our
campaign has at least maintained study, right? And we, and we're hearing from a lot of agencies
that are coming in front of us saying, you know, well, this funding source has cut back. This
funding source has dried up, you know, that kind of thing. So, so there's challenges out there.
So we're fortunate that we've been able to at least maintain, but then that also kind of means
that we still have about the same amount of money to invest, you know, in these programs. So,
so we don't necessarily have more on a good note. We don't have less, right? Like we can, we can say,
you know, we've, we've funded you at this level in 2024. Currently, you know, we, we can do that
again for 25. But so the way that the process works is back in February, they filled out applications.
Then we got those applications to our volunteer panels. They read through all of those, which is
really tough work. You know, I mean, it's, it's really, it's a lot to take in and it's a lot to
seek to understand. We went out and visited all the programs. Then we asked them questions, right?
So we sent them all of the panel submitted questions. We sent them to the agency. They send their
responses back. We get those to the panel members. So by the time they came in front of them face to
face this week, they've already had three interactions with them. So that's, that's really awesome.
And then those panels had to do really tough work after listening to the presentations is they,
they really just have a discussion, a deliberation we call it about, you know, if we could fund one
program, which one would we, which one would it be? If we could fund to, if we could, and this is,
you know, all recommendations. Then next week, the Community Impact Committee of our board will
consider all of those recommendations and actually, you know, kind of tie it up with a nice little
bow based on the amount of dollars that we have, right? Because, because the panel might have
really loved a program and recommended more than what we have to give or, you know, whatever. So
they'll look at it from the perspective of the whole funding pattern. And, and all three
different areas of funding. Then May 8th, it'll be presented to our board of directors. And then
pending that approval agencies will be notified. And this is something that I really love about our
process. You know, people might not always get what they ask for. They might not, you know, but
by the third week of May, we're able to go to programs and say, here's what you're going to get
from us in January. And it's so appreciated the ability to budget and plan. And if they have to
adjust, adjust, if you don't mean like it's just, it's quite remarkable that we're able to do that.
And then, of course, we're tasked with, then we need to raise the money.
Because starting in August, we need to raise that money that we just promised to everybody.
So, you know, it's a really exciting time of year for us to be, you know, entertaining all of
these programs and thinking about where the greatest need is in our community, where we can make
the greatest impact with the dollars that were collected. And, and of course, you know, there's
levels of expectation, right? Like the, the program asking for money has to provide, you know,
how are we going to measure success? What are the outcomes going to be? How are we going to measure
those? And then we do ask for anybody who's funded reports back on a quarterly basis.
You know, one of the, so this year I guarantee everybody you, especially, that during the United
Weekend event, we encourage you to go to uswac.org and sign up your team for United Weekend event
and meet us at the rafters this year. I will spend at least five or ten minutes between two
things trying to decide which one should get this vote or not to everything. Not that many people,
it's a fun thing and stuff, but there's not a lot of pressure or a lot of, you know, stakes on
that already thing. And I will still stand there for a good five minutes of my life and just try
to figure out which one I should vote for. I can't even begin to imagine what it's like to be on
one of those panels and making those decisions. I can only imagine that if you are on that panel,
if you are working with the United Way, you care about this community and you want to say yes
to everything. You want to be able to help everything. From one person to a thousand people,
having to make those decisions is, I mean, first off, appreciate the transparency. Always do.
Certainly appreciate the effort that you and that team makes and everybody puts into that.
I cannot imagine that that is an easy decision to make, that that is something that is just,
there's so many different factors that have to go in, I imagine. And for everything that you are
able to do, knowing you the way I do, I can only imagine there are things that you wish you could
do that you're not always able to. It's why we encourage every campaign season for people to give
it what they can, why we implore so many other people to be a part of things in the United Way,
whether it's volunteering or it is dollars and cents, you're making an investment in your community
like no other when you are working with the United Way. Yeah, it's a really, it's a very humbling
experience, but it's also, we jokingly say to those volunteers on each panel, you're tackling
the toughest volunteer opportunity that we offer. It just is, it takes so much thought and care
and unfortunately, we have to prioritize. That's just how it works. It's easy to weed out the
programs that, you know, don't give us measurable outcomes and don't, that don't meet the, the standard
of programming. It's easy. It would sell, it would sell. You guys just got to give me out on that.
I got to work. Sorry, your time's up. I got to understand. But it's just, you know, it's,
I don't know, there's just something about it that it's, it's, it's a huge responsibility,
but also a great opportunity. So, you know, and I think that all of those volunteers take it
very seriously. And while we're talking about volunteers, today from noon until about 130, but
it's kind of wild supplies last, Ben from our team is going to be leading a little volunteer
appreciation. So we're doing a little drive-through event. So if you've been a volunteer for United
Way or United Way program in the last year, we invite you to come over to, we're using St. John's
Church, which is right across the street from the United Way office as a drive-through kind of
event. And we just have a little token of appreciation. This is National Volunteer Week.
That's wrapping up right now. And so just a, just a drive-through and like I said, just a small token,
but it was just, you know, something that we could do to, to say, hey, another way to say thank you
and, and that we appreciate volunteers. That's really cool. Yeah, that's from noon until 130,
today. If you come, you should get on to Oak Street somehow. Okay, what direction you come from,
but we will be out there directing traffic, but basically you'll be driving through the St. John's
parking lot. And then Ben will be at the, Ben will be at the end of the rainbow. I know it's not
going to rain till after we're done, but, but you know, so it's just going to be a little drive-through
and like I said, we just have a little token of appreciation, but I will be out there, you know,
in a yellow vest, don't hit me. Yeah, please don't, please don't. Or Stephanie or any other member
of our staff. Yeah. But, you know, that's just the plan. And like I said, it's, it's just meant to be a
fun thing. We have, we've got, you know, a couple hundred items that we can hand out, but it will
be again, like I said, well, supplies last. So, just again, small token and, and really saying,
you know, how much we truly appreciate volunteers and anyone who has volunteered for us in the last
year and to all those volunteers are those that wanting to volunteer out there, keep in mind as
well. Two on one is a great resource to go to. If you're looking for opportunities to volunteer
or ways you can put back in your community, give our friends a two on one a call and find out more
about the things Terry and I have been talking about at UWSWAC.org. Be sure to bookmark that web page
and keep up to date and all the things your United Way is up to. UWSWAC.org. Be sure to follow them
on social media as well. We'll get to a quick break. Come back with the LKFA birthday and
a verse or club. It's Terry and James taking me through your morning here at WFHR.
Nothing weird happens here. No, never. Especially on a Friday when you and I get together.
It's time, everybody. Wait, no, this is the norm. This is normal. Hello.
Actually, you're right. This is normal. You're right. Welcome to the LKFA birthday and a
verse or club, everybody. One of our favorite parts of the day we can celebrate you and our great
friends over at LKFA. Encourage you to treat yourself. Get on over there right now. They're at
221 Market Avenue and beautiful poor Edwards wishing everybody a great weekend and a good Friday.
Head on over there to LKFA with some of the great food that they got, the great atmosphere that
they have and the people. You are the people are the best over there. Wish them a good morning from
all of us. Give us your birthdays and anniversaries. Everybody we love celebrating with you.
Send them to infoatwfhr.com. James.mailup at civicmedia.us. You can direct messages on our Facebook pages
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away on the civic media app. We appreciate you joining us. Go ahead and call us up. Love to hear
from you. Let's go ahead and dive right in because we don't just celebrate today. Oh, Saturday and
Sunday as well around here. So Terry, I need a one through three. Three. All right. Give us that one.
And then a one or a two or a one. Actually, that one. Okay. Have a one. I'm sorry.
Nicely done. Nice job. I met on Sunday. I need a one through three.
Two. Okay. Gives us that qualifier. So we can get right into the celebrating. And first up,
we want to wish a very happy birthday to Ken Porter. Happy birthday, Ken.
Happy birthday, Ken. Enjoy your day. Oh, it's a good one for you. We also want to wish a happy
55th anniversary to Ron and Marge Gauss. Happy anniversary. 55. That's beautiful, you guys.
That is beautiful. Celebrate all weekend long. Enjoy your 55th. Wishing you a great one. That
hits my romantic heart. That's beautiful. And we wish a very happy birthday to our qualifier today.
Father Joe Swing. Happy birthday. Father Swing. Yes. Happy birthday, Father Swing. We wish you a
great day. Hope it's a good one for you. We appreciate you. Hey, you're our qualifier first
today. We move on to Saturday, April 27th, where we want to wish a very happy birthday to our
qualifier, Kim Simmons. Happy birthday, Ken. We hope you have a great day, Ken. Enjoy your day.
And I also want to take a moment to wish a very happy birthday to James Kavan-Mailoff, my son.
Oh, happy birthday. How old? My son is going to be. No, no, he's going to be 24. It's actually
really easy. I'm sorry, hold. I was lucky. My son was born in 99 and my daughter was born in 2000.
Oh, cheater. No excuse. Cheater for their birthdays. Yeah, or how old they are.
Well, happy birthday to him. Yeah, he's the best. My son just graduated about a year or so ago
from the University of Minnesota in neurology. He is up there right now. Got his first apartment.
He's living his life, doing his thing, and working in a non-profit, doing a really good job
up there, doing some incredible work up there, I should say. I could not be prouder of that young man.
And if you ever see a picture of him, you will see what I wish I would have looked like my whole
life. Like the kids got, first he's got me beat on the, on the, like he was smarter than me when he
was young. So we already already laughed at me on that one. But the looks, the kid, it's not fair,
Terry. It's too handsome. It's not fair. It's got style for days. I love the kids. Okay, I've
wanted to add for tomorrow too. So I want to wish a happy birthday to Millie Huffman. So she would
be my great aunt, my dad's aunt, but she is turning 90 tomorrow. So happy birthday to her. We're all
celebrating a little bit later in May, but yeah, happy birthday. Millie, you are on the list. We're
throwing you in there and happy 90th to you. Happy 90th to you, Millie. And we also want to wish
on Sunday a very happy birthday to April Johnson. Happy birthday, April. Enjoy your day, April.
We should happy birthday to Amy Weber. Happy birthday, Amy. Amy, enjoy your day. Hope it's a great
one for you and our qualifier on Sunday celebrating their 40th anniversary. Rick and Diane Smith.
Happy anniversary. Happy 40th to you too. That's awesome. Happy, congratulations on that one.
That's a beautiful date. We wish you all happy birthdays and anniversaries out there. Enjoy
celebrate taking a look at our celebrity list real quick because we got a couple of days to get
through here. We have a first up. I wish happy birthday to Channing Tatum 44 for him. Magic Mike,
21 Jump Street, Tateful 8. Good actor. Good actor. And any. Easy on the eyes too. Yes. Yes.
Very, very fearless actor too. Like if it is, if it's asked of him in the scene, he's going to
do it. He's not one of these guys that has a ego or a diva or anything like that. Like he is
willing to go all out on these roles. And when you are kind of known for your jaw or, you know,
your looks, you don't see that all the time with a lot of actors or actresses. I appreciate that
he's one of those actors and hey, what is the call? All right. Tell you what to know. Do it, you know.
Let's see. Jordan Brewster is 44. Mia on the fest and the fest and a furious movies.
Let's see. Tom Welling is 47. He was Clark Kent on Smallville. He was Kane on Lucifer.
Good actor. He did a good job. Let's see. Kevin James is 59. One of Adam Sandler's guys.
Doug Hefferman on the King of Queens. Kevin and Kevin can wait. Paul Blart and Paul Blart,
the mall cop movies. I like Kevin James. He is hilarious. He's another one of those fearless
actors that just, you know, what if he's going to make you laugh, he'll do it. I like him. He's
I appreciate his work. Jet Lee is 61. Yin Yang in the expendables movies. He was also in
creative to grave. Unleashed Romeo must die. The Mummy, the Tomb Raider movies. Jet Lee,
one of the best action stars of all time. One of the things I like about Jet Lee and I've always
liked action stars and action movies because I think that what a lot of people don't realize is
how much work it actually takes to pull off those moves and those scenes when it's done right.
I'm not talking about Steven Segal standing still with 10 guys around him and he knocks him all
out with one hand because he can't move well anymore or anything. Let's talk about that.
Talk about guys like like Jet Lee or Jackie Chan or Bruce Willis or some of these guys that change
for the role. They don't just play the same guy every time. What Jet Lee does is take it to
an even other level where he will change his fighting style or his martial art style per character.
He's known as a knowing all the different martial arts but like in a movie like Unleashed,
he became more of a boxer and did more of that. So he adapts not just his character to the character
but he adapts his fighting style to the character. That's awesome. That's really unique. I don't
know many action stars that have ever done anything like that. He's also actually a real life
action star. He saved his nephew at one point. There was a horrible typhoon some years back.
The building was falling apart. A wall was coming down. He swung over there, kicked his leg out
to hold the wall while he got his nephew out of the way. Shattered his leg. Shattered his leg to
pieces. It held his career back for a while because of that moment because he couldn't work or
anything who wants an action star with a broken leg. But it's to his credit of him, not only
obviously what he did there, but to the kind of person he is. He's not just a great actor.
And he's 61 and he's still out there doing this stuff too. That's no worthy.
Oh, here's one of our Robert Taylor is 64, Durand Durand.
Robert Taylor, one of the more popular members of Durand Durand, of course, the reflex of you to kill
Rio, hungry like the wolf, the wild boys, new moon on Monday. Come on, Don, ordinary world.
So many hits from Durand Durand.
Giancarlo Esposito is 66, one of the more popular actors in the world right now. He's working
all the time. He's in everything. He's given Samuel Jackson a run for his money and more power to
a man. This is how it works sometimes. He's been in the acting game his whole life pretty much.
But it's just really been since he was in his, I'd say, late 40s, 50s and he's been working a lot.
A guarantee. If you see a picture of him, you know him. He was in breaking bad, better call
Saul bugging out. He was in do the right thing. He was bugging out and do the right thing.
The Mandalorian, the boys, he's been in the ton of stuff. He's good actor, really good actor.
It's just this is why I tell so many people in the acting game that it's all about if you want to
hang in there or not. That makes sense. He got this break now. He is more popular now and working
more now than in the first 40 years of his life. Now he can't, he's turning jobs down. He never
turned jobs down before I guarantee you, but he's doing it. He's really getting tired. Yeah, it's a
crux of it, but you get older and you get a certain look in everything and all the sudden,
oh, that's everybody wants to take it. Then that's also part of the reason why
encourage actors grow old. Grow old. Do not fight. It doesn't help first off. No, you're not
full on anybody with the plastic surgery or die job. Second of all, that's not the work. You're
going to get more work if you just let yourself age naturally. It's the actual fact. It's the weirdest
thing about this game where you're kind of like the theory is, oh, you stay young forever.
But that's not really how you continue your career. You don't keep working that way. Actually,
when you, especially for actresses, which is the really heartbreaking to me, but look at so many
actors that got work done and you don't see them anymore. Renee Zellweger, one of the better
examples. And I'm not picking on her. I think she's a very good actress who should be continuing to work.
The only work she's gotten is playing roles of characters that have had work done. Like we saw
this from Michelle Fighter. We've seen it with other actors, too, where all of the sudden, hey,
this is an incredibly talented popular actor. Where'd they go? They got a little work done,
usually. And they'll be sudden every expression on their face is the same and nobody wants to hire
somebody like that because your job as an actor does is to express. So your face is supposed to move.
Yes. That's interesting. It's something I work very hard on as an actor, moving my face. I'm
very proud of it. I'm very proud to have grown up with a Nana and Papa that made darn sure that if I
wanted to be an actor, I was going to learn from the greats. And one of those was Carol Burnett.
Happy 91st birthday to the genius, the legend Carol Burnett. Everybody pull on their ear.
Everybody pull on their ear. No. Yeah. It's a Carol Burnett thing. Every show I got to watch with
my Nana and Papa. I laughed my tail off. Half the stuff I didn't know what I was laughing at because
it was too young. But I enjoyed it. And I thought it was awesome. And I pulled on my ear every episode.
Speaking of facial expressions, that's one of the things that I remember most about her.
You know what I mean? Like, and I say having to watch that as a kid because I probably wouldn't
have been my choice. But I mean, like, I, her facial expressions to me, that's, that's what sticks.
Yeah. And when I talk about, you hear me use the word fearless a lot with actors and stuff.
It starts with actors like Carol Burnett, like Lucille Ball, like that's where that comes from.
Actors that were able to do that to push that boundary and Carol Burnett. There has never been
and would never will be another Carol Burnett. Happy 91st birthday to the comedy legend. We
actually, she's going to be coming up a little bit later on entertainment news. Take a quick look at
Saturday and Sunday birthdays for you. Lizzo is 36 tomorrow. She's still singing. I'm not sure
to be honest with you. Patrick Stump is 40 Fall Out Boy lead singer and guitarist. So let's see,
here she and Easton is 65 on Saturday. Nice blast from the past. Yeah. I haven't thought of that
even a while. And then some people who would have been celebrating birthdays on Saturday. The great,
we can't be doing this job. And I mentioned Casey Kasim, one of the legends of this industry.
Well, and of our, I mean, especially the countdown. And yes, the countdown. That was huge.
Everybody was watching that. His so many other things he did. But also for our generation being
the voice of Shaggy on Scooby Doo. And that being that. That's true. That was huge. My biggest
thing with him was always like the year end countdown on the radio. And making sure I had enough
money saved up to buy enough cassettes to record him. And at that time, I didn't have, I had like a
little smaller like tabletop recorder that wasn't connected to a radio. Right? So you had to
position it next to the radio. Yeah. Yeah. Right there. So when, so when I finally had one that was
the radio and the cassette player together, then you'd have to make sure everybody was quiet. Exactly.
Yes. Oh, yeah. And it never was a more forceful in our house. That it was like, I was recording all
hundred of those songs. I'm trying to get Wayne Chum. I'm trying. I know kids are so spoiled these days.
Oh, yeah. They have no idea. No idea. Just download it. Just look it up and find everything.
The great Coretta Scott King would have been celebrating a birthday tomorrow, born in 1927,
passed away in 2006. Martin Luther King Jr.'s widow. And Samuel F. B. Morse would have been
celebrating birthday. Of course, the inventor of Morse code, born in 1791. And then wrapping up
with our Sunday birthdays, Jessica Alba is 43 on Sunday. Great actor. I know she doesn't really
work anymore or anything, but I was like shouting her out because I admire what she's done.
She wanted to be a mom. Yeah. I wanted to be mom. So she was worried about her career. She started
doing creating something else. I think a clothing line or something like that. And that's what she's
doing now. Yeah. Good for her. Yeah. Well, more power to her. John Daley is 58 on Sunday.
John Daley's only 58. That's a little crazy. I'm not a look at more power to him. Keep going,
John. There's never been a... You can make the argument. There certainly has never been a
golfer like John Daley. You can make the argument. There's never been an athlete like John Daley.
I mean, he's an original. He's an original. And with all of the different things you can
say about him, an accomplished golfer. Like, he's good at it too. Like, it's one thing to have all
these kind of side things about you knowing and all that stuff. It's another to be able to pull
it off and do it. He's in town to guy. Let's see here. Harper Lee would have been celebrating a
birthday on Sunday as well. Pulled the surprise winning author of to kill a mockingbird.
One of the greatest books I'll ever read. One of the greatest plays I'll ever be a part of.
Big, big thank you to Harper Lee. I don't do it for our birthdays and anniversaries.
I wish everybody a great birthday and anniversary out there. One more time. JC, happy birthday,
Tia Sun. I'll be talking to you a little bit later. We will catch up soon. You guys have
to catch up with some news and we'll be back with more fun on the morning show at WFHR.
Welcome back everybody. Morning show here at WFHR locally grown radio. Terri and James hanging
out with you. Terri and James hanging out with you. Thanks for joining us everybody. Happy
Friday to everyone out there. Get into a couple of fun topics here, Terri. But first off,
it is national pretzel day. Happy pretzel day everybody. I wanted to touch on real quick the
history of the pretzel. I thought it was kind of interesting. An Italian monk teaching children
in northern Italy is said to have invented soft little pretzels and called them pettitolia
or little rewards. Oh, funny. Yeah. To reward children for learning their prayers. He is said to
have made the treats with little arms forming the nut to resemble little arms crossed of children
in prayer. Isn't that cute? That's awesome. That's so cool. I love that. That is fantastic.
And you're welcome everybody. My people brought an off joke. I'm just kidding. Pretzels are awesome.
I love pretzels. I thought they were French. I would have thought they were something more like that.
German like the dream of varying pretzels. German Dutch something like that is what easily
what I would have done. I did not know that. It is national pretzel day. It's been a thing since
Pennsylvania declared the holiday back in 2003. But pretzels themselves date back to the seventh
century as we informed you. Lots of pretzel places have deals as always, including two big ones.
Here's how to score free pretzel. Anti-ans is giving out free pretzels, but you have to be a
rewards member. And pretzels has free pretzels starting at three o'clock today. Just walk in and
get one. No questions asked. They're celebrating their 30th anniversary this year and preferred
the call it national wensel day. But they're 30th anniversary. I'm guessing that's why they're
starting at a three o'clock for the 30 in there. Otherwise, I don't know why you would start a
it seems like a really weird place to honestly don't have I mean just capacity cost-wise like you
want to miss the lunch crowd. Yeah, very smart. Or get people in for like a happy hour kind of
thing. Spoke is somebody who has had to do these kind of things. Yeah, you know what you're talking
about. But that's pretty cool. And that is the history of the pretzel. Enjoy it. You listeners
out there. Seven one five four two four twenty six hundred. You pretzel people. Do you have a
favorite way you like pretzels? I was joking on the sunrise show. One of the things when I first
moved out of my own that I lived on were those little pretzel kits you could get. It's just like
one or two big pretzels. You could heat them up. Oh, the soft ones. Yeah, I love those with the cheese
dipped in the cheese. Oh, so good. Those are so good. But when you're thinking about like pretzels like
in the bag, you know that you buy by the chips and stuff, would you get the little sticks or the
knots? Oh, good question. I like the knots. But the sticks are all right. The sticks are all right.
I'll take them. I like them both. But you know, Schneider brand I think it is makes it's a square.
It looks like a little racket kind of. Those are good. That's true. Those I don't think I've had those.
Yeah, I like those in it. Schneider brand. Good brand. And people argue that dots are I think like
people in my family like the dots. One of the you know, if you're getting flavored ones. Yeah,
yeah, those are their favorite. But there's also something about the big long pretzel stick.
Yeah, it's so good. So pretzels. Thank you, pretzels. We love you pretzels. Pretzels are great.
Gotta get into this one. And again, 715-424-2600. While Terry and I certainly have a lot of
opinions and feelings and we're very passionate about this subject, we encourage you. We will make
the time for our audience as always. We want to hear from you as well. 715-424-2600.
Where do we stand on this one, everybody? America is divided. We're going to try to help figure
this out. Whether or not to wash clothes before you wear that when you buy these. Now it's
actually impressive that Americans are divided about everything. It's kind of it's hard to do.
Do you think about it? We got to try to find something that people aren't divided on.
Right, right. I think that would be more impressive. That it was always really cool to see.
It's no longer that you know, even that interesting I think. Oh, America, half America likes this,
half America doesn't. I mean, yeah, that's our country. That's that's who we are. It's part of
I mean, what makes us a great country? The old taste test, right? The colder Pepsi. Yes, yes.
So in a new poll, people were asked if they washed newly bought clothes before wearing them.
And 51% of people said nope, and 49% said yes, so pretty neck and neck. That is like really close.
Yeah, I don't know many of these that we've done where it has been that close. And I find that
just hilarious. I find it hilarious. And of all the things we can be so neck and neck on.
Do you know what's interesting? There's no don't know on there. Yeah, yeah.
Usually there's always a percentage that don't know always that we are we are. I'm just impressed
with that alone. That is a good point. That is a very good note on this. Some people also explain
their answers. Yes, you don't know how many people have handled it. No, I should I should,
but it's all downhill after that first wash. They're never the same. Yes, if they're bought in store,
no, they're bought online and come and seal product packaging. Somebody and I'm putting the
package. If that's what their argument is. Yes, but only for undergarments and bathing suits.
Yes, if it's in direct contact with my skin, otherwise no. Yes, I always find new shirts to be
itchy and I haven't washed them. So you got to quite a few different reasons behind this.
They think most people would know or understand if you've ever bought one piece of clothing.
See, and honestly for me, I don't really care. Like I can just take the tags off and put it on,
but where I get hung up is if it wasn't a bag, like they said, that's when I almost often wash it
before I wear it because it has like weird creases in it or that kind of thing. Yes,
but as far as just the I have one in my house that it's the feel of the fabric,
like it has to be washed before it gets worn. But otherwise, it doesn't matter to me.
I like this the last one. Yes, I saw it on an episode of House except socks. Nothing stretches
over my foot as nicely as a new never before wear pair of socks. The episode of House, they're
talking about us from 05 and a patient almost died because their new quote unquote new bootleg pants
are contaminated with a toxin. Yeah, they're they're not real pants. They got them for like some
guy on the side of the street and stuff. They're they're knock off designer jeans.
Literally, like if you are buying anything knock off, yeah, I mean, not only not wash it,
but I'm not even sure how much you wanted that touching your skin. I don't know about that.
It's a whole other subject. I'm very back and forth on this one with with boxers or something
like that. Yeah, I'm washing them. But shirts and all those things other than the crease,
I'm with you. I don't really yeah, it doesn't really bother me that much. I if anything,
I'm a little bit more with the person with the person was saying earlier that it's a little
bit like a new car like it's after that first wash that it doesn't feel like the clothes are
ever the same that they are, but they're not. They doesn't feel like they are in some way. So
I don't know. I don't know what what I also didn't get from this list is the actual scientific
answer. Like, is there an actual I don't think there is what I couldn't find when I looked
this morning and there is no set yes or no answer. One other thing that I, you know, for me,
it's like goofy creases, but then also sometimes if it has been packaged or however it was shipped,
sometimes it has like a smell to it, you know, like from the dyes or from the containers or something.
Then obviously, I mean, if I pull it up to my nose and I notice it's different, but otherwise,
I mean, hey, I'm good with go buy a new outfit and put that sucker right on. Yeah, yeah,
especially I don't get that much new clothes. I mean, if I if I do, I chances are I want to wear it.
I want I got it. I want to wear it and a lot of stuff that we order nowadays is online. So we're
waiting a little bit for it by the time we get it. We're excited to wear it. That being said,
the online clothes buying thing has given us a whole new world of fears and concerns.
You really have to be careful where things are coming from because of the size of things.
This is years ago, but I ordered a shirt that I was so excited about and it's from Amazon. So
it sure, of course, it should be here any day now, but it was taking weeks and weeks and it was
coming from China and the shirt size that I chose was very different than the shirt size that I got.
The conversion shirt. Yeah, yeah. My fur brother loved the shirt though. My Sammy was the only one
that could fit in that shirt. He loved it. It's a whole different set of things that you have to
have. And you're definitely not sending it back when it has to go. It ought to be like it's not worth it.
No, no. We will take a quick time out. We'll come back and have some more fun.
And the morning show here at WFHR.
Welcome back everybody. You got to sing a lot. Morning show here at WFHR,
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We hope you're having a good day out there. Thanks for joining us. Happy Friday, everybody.
Let's get into this one, Terry. This should be interesting. We're talking about spring cleaning.
You probably didn't know this, but today is Get Organized Day. And if you need more motivation,
then that here are four ways to clutter that four ways clutter can affect your health.
You know, I'm kind of busy today. But this stuff might be worth making the time for.
You know, Monday is our spring cleaning day at work. It's very interesting of the timing.
It is. It is. Now, I've talked about this a couple of times on the air with the articles we've
gotten. And it's something that I've even talked about in my personal life because I never
thought about this before. I'm a bit of a neat freak. I like things being clean, but I'm not
crazy about it. And as a dad, I understand that, you know, when you have kids, all that goes out
the window. You do your best. You do your best. You try. It's clean, but it's still messy, right?
Like kids have stuff all over, but it's a clean. Yeah. Do the kids have clean clothes? Yes. Okay.
That's a big check mark. All right. I got that though. Clean faces. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. That kind of
thing. But what I didn't realize is in my own personal life and at work here at these things,
how much organization really helps our brains. Our brains don't deal well with clutter.
No matter who you are out there, whether you're a very organized person or you're just a, you know,
the opposite of a neat freak or what have your pig pen, any of that stuff, your brain just likes
less clutter. It operates better. It's something that is our brains have always been and always
done, but we haven't always acknowledged because it's not always possible. CC the kid thing.
You know, so we do our best. But it is interesting, hopefully more motivational to hear of these
things that can be improved just by picking up, just by having a little bit less clutter. It affects
your sleep. Studies have found that that found that the quality of your sleep is worsened when your
bedroom is a mess, your house is a mess. You may not think, well, I don't worry about that. I'm
not laying a bed worrying about it. Your subconscious is, your subconscious is doing it.
And to me, that kind of picks up on like, if I'm at home and trying to just relax,
but I'm always thinking like, oh, but I should get that little one reading or, oh, I should do this,
or I should do this, or I should do that. You know what I mean? Like, I can't, I can't handle that.
Me neither. It makes your allergies worse. If your place is organized and cluttered,
then you're not probably not dusting regularly. And a lot of people who think they're allergic to
pollen actually just need to clean and dust more. I mean, who likes to dust? Yeah, right, right.
I've always been the duster, no matter where I am, no matter who I'm with or whatever. So I just
got to do it. Do you put that on your dating profile? It's on my dating profile and my resume.
Duster. You know, anytime I see dust here now, I'm going to write my name in it.
It makes it hard to focus. Yes, this should be number one A or one B.
When there's too much stuff lying around, your brain can't decide what to focus on because
there's too much visual stimuli. It makes it harder for you to focus on anything. Well, and that's
sometimes when there is too much, that is true. I agree with that. Then I'm just like, well,
I forget it. And so I'm not going to do any of it. Right, right. So much of this stuff can,
it is a subconscious thing. It is not something that you're necessarily registering in your brain.
It is something that's going on in there that you may not even realize. And finally,
it can mess with your mental health. According to the anxiety and depression association of America,
hoarding and holding on to possessions will be well beyond their intended use can have severe
emotional physical, social, and financial effects. It literally affects everything, even finances
get in there. I will say though, clutter is different than hoarding. It's different.
Now, we have come a long way on this subject. Years ago, there were shows about clutter,
about clutter and hoarders. And I don't know if those shows are still odd or not.
I have no idea. But I never watched them. I had a girlfriend that did. And it always made me
uncomfortable because it seemed like her and people that watched them were just watching to kind
of like point and maybe whether they're laughing or not, but pointing and looking like,
oh, look at this person. Oh, look at with it. That's mental health, man. I feel like it doesn't
take a big leap brain-wise to realize there's a mental health issue there. Being messy or cluttered
is way different than hoarding. There's nothing that should be taken for entertainment use out of
something like that. I find that really, really tacked. But you walk around with a dust cloth, I mean.
That's funny. That's just funny. Especially the tops of my ceiling fans need to be done.
I'm a little short. I cannot tell you how many ceiling fans I have dusted off in my life. Tell
you. No one at my house is jumping to do it since you like to dust. I wonder if I don't even
have dust in my DNA by the time I've been doing it since I was a kid. I've always been tall and
so I've always been able to reach those things whether it was my mom, my mom, my grandmother,
a girlfriend. I've always been the duster. I'm not even that good at it. I'm not even that great
at it either. They clearly didn't ever come behind you. No, they didn't check. They didn't check
my work. White glove in your work. You should have checked my work. It's not very good. No,
because that was probably intentional. So you'd get kicked off the job. Half way dusting. People saw
right through that one. Yeah, people. People definitely. And because of the people, all the people I
just mentioned, much smarter than me. I would say that. Do it like I would do it. Not how you do it.
Do it. How I would do it. Man, whenever my mother, I can hear my mother saying that.
So I had a couple of other stories. One of the touch on just a fun one here like this Maryland
woman. This is an interesting one. Maryland woman wins a $50,000 after boyfriend or just heard a
buy lottery ticket. Oh, wow. Quote. He always says just play. It's only a couple of books. The
winner told Maryland lottery. The woman dubbed only winner because of the area in Maryland that she
won this in said that she just never really does this kind of thing. But her boyfriend is always
encouraged or too. So finally, she gave it a try. She goes, quote, I thought this has to be a glitch
when she won. She's, oh, this is the be a glitch. No way. Her mom confirmed the win with another
scan of the ticket. She said she plans to use her winnings for a vacation with her daughter and
continue buying tickets on occasion. Forget the boyfriend. Nothing about the boyfriend. Nothing
mentioned. I mean, she doesn't know what to do. It was it was a suggestion. It's a boyfriend, not
a husband. So there's that. But he might be going on the trip to it's hilarious to be the article.
This isn't bad reporting or anything. You can check out the article at UPI.com. They mentioned
the boyfriend and the headline and that's it. That's the only kind of suggestion. That's kind of
funny. I can't imagine if I'm in that situation being any other way than a good for you kind of
thing. But I can also imagine that this could lead to some interesting conversations between the
two of them. I can only imagine. You know, I'm not a lottery ticket buyer. But my husband buys
a power ball almost every week. And you can bet I'd get my half. It's a whole different story.
A whole different story. But I just I don't know. Maybe it's just because he does, but that's just
not my thing. But you know, the whole idea where this boyfriend was like, oh, it's just a couple
of bucks. But everybody's thoughts around a couple of bucks are different. I bet she plays more
often now. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I bet. Now that she's got a little taste of it. Terry, one
or a mind. Everybody that you guys have a wonderful thing you're doing over at St. John's today
with the United Way. So we'll just be right across the street from the United Way office on Oak
Street from noon until about one will be doing a little volunteer recognition drive-through event. So
if you volunteered for United Way in the last year, we encourage you to come on over. You don't
even get out of your car. It's just a drive-through and Ben will be there with just a small token of
appreciation as we wrap up National Volunteer Week. Yeah. Appreciate you guys doing that. I think
that's really cool. Find out about great ways you can put back into your community by calling 211
and looking for volunteer opportunities or by following along on the United Way's website,
uwac.org. We should bookmark that page and keep up the date on the United Way. I know all your
social media accounts. I'll be back with more fun on the morning show here at WFHR.
