Good morning, Wisconsin. Good morning, world. It's a new day. Thanks for kicking it off with us right here at WF HR locally grown radio.
Got your host, James. I'm joined by our man, Seth. Good morning. And we're going to have some fun today in this hour.
We got some that ain't right stories. Good stories of the day. All coming up for you. We'll get into our schedule in some local great events,
but it's a Thursday and the 9 o'clock hour. You know what that means everybody. It is time for our pet of the week from the South of County
Maine Society. We want to send a big shout out to them. And of course our good friends at TJ's Auto and Collision Center. We got trucks, large variety of trucks from a small SUV to a work truck.
We've got them all stop out today and drive home with a new truck today. Visitor friends over at TJ's 3277 Wisconsin 73 right in Wisconsin Rapids.
We say good morning to all of them and say good morning to our friends over at the South of County Maine Society.
Hey Tim, how you doing? Good morning guys. Good to have you with us, man. How you been? Oh busy. Yeah, we're going to do that.
Do you want to start there? Do you want to start with our pet of the week? What do you want to do? Well, we got a couple pets of the week.
All right. All right. I featured them before. One of them. Actually, Tick. Oh, yeah. Tick has been there 302 days now.
Yeah. So that's a long time. She needs, she's very sweet dog. Really. I don't know why she's not been adapted, but she loves to play very just a nice, nice dog.
Yeah. Yeah. So if somebody's looking for a nice dog, come and see Tick. All right. Tick is a beautiful, massive mix.
Three years young brindle, beautiful brindle coat. And one of the greater smiles you were going to see, you have a hard time not smiling.
If Tick is smiling, that's just like a very happy face, a beautiful dog, beautiful dog looking for forever home.
Yes. And then the second one is diesel. Yeah, diesel. Yeah. That's kind of a sad story. We need to special on this is a eight year old.
He's been back and forth with us a number of times. Yeah. Just can't find a home. He's special because he has great to match still cancer.
So his time here is not known. Yeah. To be short, could be a couple years. So we're looking to see if a special person or home. Yeah.
Can find it in themselves. Big take diesel home. He's a nice dog tool. Very, they're all pretty friendly, really.
When I worked at the shelter, I worked out in Santa Barbara. One of the things we would run into sometimes is a bit of an older population over there.
And a lot of the dogs that they would get were older and you have some young families come in sometimes. And there was this concern from the parents about taking in an older animal.
And the idea of well, it's it's an older animal that how long do we have with it and everything. And when I was just talking to the parents, not the kids, I tell them how long do any of us have?
I mean, none of us, none of this is guaranteed, everybody. I'm going to try to be dramatic here or anything. But as far as if you're looking at it that way, there's no guarantee with any animal or any human being for that matter.
So if you are bringing the animal in right now is what counts today is what counts. And if you can bring this animal in and it cheers your family up, your kids enjoy this animal.
And you don't have it for as long as you might like. It's the moment that counts. It's the memories that count. The kids aren't necessarily going to remember that you only had the dog for a week. They're going to remember that week.
They're going to remember the moments they had with it and the correct the opportunity as parents to be able to teach our kids. And I'm I'm I'm kind of specifically looking at that type of family here. I know, but it's we never cannot take an opportunity to teach our kids.
And one of them amazing lesson there is right here and bringing in an animal that maybe not everybody wants, but is going to be a great fit for your family, diesel is that kind of animal. They are so many of these kind of animals out there.
They deserve a home. They deserve it. You know, I love the CDs. I'll go to a good home. I wish it was mine. I'll be honest with you. I really do. I really want to take a minute. It's a good dog. And so it's tick ticks another good one.
Everybody loves puppies. It's the older dogs are the ones that have a problem or so that they need the most care. Yeah, they need exactly. They're the ones we'd like to see go out. They sit and look at you.
Yeah, it's kind of sad working out there. I only know a taste of it. I can only imagine. And it's part of what we why we shout you guys out all the time.
What we appreciate the work that you do all the time. Why we love to have a feature like this. Even if we didn't have a sponsor, we bring you guys on. We we promote our even when in years when we didn't have the pet of the week.
We still promoted the main society like crazy. In part because of not only we love animals around here, but we love you guys. We love the work that you do for our community and appreciate it. I can't.
I don't think a lot of us can really relate to what it is like to do that job out of 24, you know, 20 every day kind of basis. It is every day.
Yeah, yeah, it is. It's an everyday job. Yeah. Yeah. And there's no punching in or out either. That's one of those things.
Same with humans. You all have to see the base of sleep. You have home. Yeah, it's exactly true.
Did you have any other pets or did you have some of the notes for us? I know.
Well, I wanted to just let every year list. There's no. This was this is not a typical day, but Tuesday was.
Let's say strange. We had 10 dogs and cats come in that were either strays or surrenders. That's a lot. Yeah, plus today we're expecting six more cats.
They were going to come in Tuesday, but we really couldn't because it was a special case. It's two females and one of them had just given birth to four kittens.
So in the eyes are just open. So we have this is going to require a lot of special care. Yeah, right. Yeah. And especially with all of the other dogs and cats that came in. Right.
That that's the most I've seen or heard of in, you know, unless you get a hoarding case. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That 10 and all various reasons.
Well, some of them were one was the owner passed away. They didn't know what to do with the dawn. So that comes in. Yeah.
We see, we see that kind of frequently. People I can't, excuse me, just can't take care of their pet anymore. Yeah. Yeah.
It gets overwhelming in today's world. Yeah. Understandable as to go or cat.
It's understandable. It's what we ask people to do with these animals when they can't take care of them anymore. And at the same time it's asking a lot on our humane societies.
This is why we need our community so much that we have our humane societies back in these situations. And when it comes to things, we can do to help.
Yes. And that put us that capacity again for dogs, which is usually this is cat season. And we can fill up with the cats, which were.
I don't know if you want to use the words. We're doing okay. Yeah, man. But the dogs we.
Yeah. Right. Sometimes we have to.
Not take the surrenders. We have to tell people we can't. Yeah. Yeah. That's rough. Yes. Because we, when you fill up your kennels, you fill them up. Yeah.
Then you know that when they come in like that and people like I've explained the last couple shows, they don't just go out.
You don't bring them in. You know, they have to be checked medical. You know, see if they're not bear neutered. You have to do that.
Right. Some of them are then you get one like diesel. You know, they have cancer. So, you know, there's a lot of pieces of this puzzle.
And you're a James. The staff we have is just phenomenal. We're getting with all different kinds of animals.
Really? The versatility they have over there, let alone the empathy that they have is incredible. It's really incredible.
I had some strange stuff on the weekends, too, just to bring up one. One weekend when I had the alcohol phone, it was chickens. Oh, sure. Yeah.
That's right. Last weekend it was turkeys. So, okay. We know that we can do it. But right.
Our wonderful lady has the alcohol phone arranged to get the turkeys back somewhere to get taken care of because they're running around.
But you know, we're not a turkey. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Yeah. You can't take them. But that is really interesting to hear.
You can help with that. That's great. That's what we're good on you guys. We're not able to do what you asked for more of that work.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. She's also placed a stray cow. So, wow. That's interesting.
Yes. We get everything. Snakes. Oh, yeah. I believe it. Yeah. So, it was kind of a weird things going on.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Any of the news and notes now. A couple things left. We do have a new office manager.
Their name is Jess. So, if you want, when we're open, stop out and see Jess. She's fit right in with our staff.
And she's just doing a great job. Cool. Very good to hear. Yeah. It's a good morning to Jess about.
Yeah. They just joined in the team, Jess. That's awesome. Hopefully, in the next week or so, we may have our new director of operations.
All right. We've been working towards that. Yeah. Very good. To get up to staff again. Yeah. Yeah. That goes a long way. I can only imagine.
So, this old guy can take a break. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. We have really enjoyed getting to know you.
Yeah. Talk to it to those, sir. We really have. I appreciate you bringing these animals to us.
Stop them by hanging out with us for a little bit. Always do appreciate it. We encourage you to reach out to our South of County Main Society.
Learn more about tick and diesel and so many of the great animals that they have over there.
There's also ways that you can help out even non-adopting animals. Yes. Did you want to touch on that? That was the last thing I had.
If you go on our Facebook page, we're with all animals. We were starting to run short on some supplies. Yeah.
And check us out. It was basically some cat food dog food cat litter. That also you usually give our address and stuff.
Yeah. I'll give you the address in a second. Do encourage you to reach out to the Main Society and be able to drop these off.
If people have items, they want to drop them off. Call ahead. Should you call ahead first or anything to?
That's usually nice and have to ask if the certain things we need or don't need. Of course, we don't turn people away.
Sure. We appreciate the community. We appreciate you guys. Again, appreciate you being in here today.
Learn more about these animals and ways you can impact and help your human society. Give them an email them at SWCHS at SWCHS.com.
Give them a call. 715-423-0505-423-0505. Be sure to follow them on Facebook.
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Welcome back, everybody. Morning show here at WFHR. Locally grown radio. Set them James here with you.
And here's Sting talking about stalking somebody.
I don't know. I don't. That's actually true. It is kind of true. It is kind of true.
But it's not Sting doing it. No, it's the character. It's the character. It's the character to be fair. It's the character.
Pretty sure Sting never had to stalk anyone. Maybe people stalk him, but not the other way.
It is one of the funniest things to me, especially specifically with 80s romance songs.
Like if you just listen to men, it's a really sweet song. Some lovely song and everything.
And you start listening to the lyrics. Wait, wait a minute. What do you say? What's going on?
I think I think he was really taking it back when people started saying it was like, oh such a romantic song.
He's like, wait a minute. Have you not listened to the lyrics?
Yeah. Yeah. That's that's always interesting to me too. It's not the artist.
No. It misses the meaning or whatever or something like that. That's kind of interesting.
Yeah. And speaking of art, we're going to get right into it and get into our entertainment section here.
And we're going to start off with music, actually. Lincoln Park might be getting back together next year with a new singer.
For those that haven't certainly up to date on your new metal or anything like that.
Chester Bennington passed away some years ago. Right.
Incredibly gifted singer. Like whether you like Lincoln Park or not or anything like that.
And I'm hit or miss with them. Right.
They're one of those examples I used to have. I'm not a complete homer.
They're from Lincoln Park, Illinois. And I love everything they did.
But I love Chester Bennington.
Was a big fan of his vocal talents, his lyrics a lot of that.
So I thought we lost a really good one there.
And it seemed like the band itself really tight band, very close people, very close friends.
Imagine after some time passes, you miss your friends.
You miss touring, you miss performing for people and everything.
The idea of bringing in a new singer is not, we've, this has been going on since the dawn of bands.
And we see it all the time. Van Halen has been doing this quite a bit over the years.
And brought in I think like five or six different singers over the years.
How long it was, yeah.
And now they don't, now they've, they've even got not any play league guitar. His son playing league guitar.
I know. That's just wild. That is wild.
We, we joked about this yesterday with, you know, other bands, a lot of classic rock bands.
Yeah, how many members of Deep Purple, how many original members are there still of Deep Purple?
Yeah, right.
You're right. He's still out there touring.
Yeah. I don't know how many original members there are.
Can they still be considered your, yeah, no one cares, but anything.
Right, right.
Well, the different, one little change with this, you know, lineup change and everything and bringing in a new singer.
They, it looks like it's going to be a female singer that will be replacing Chester Bennington.
Their booking agency is taking offers for tours and possible festive date, festival dates.
So they must have this all lined up already.
But it won't be this, won't be all the surviving members. Apparently it's just Mike Shinobi, Dave Farrell and Brad Delson.
There's no word yet who the singer might be or who might step in for their drummer or their DJ.
They had a DJ band as well as that.
But I thought that was Mike Shinobi. I thought, or no, he's the rap guy.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
So if you're a Lincoln Park fan and, you know, you wanted to see them kind of come back or anything like that might be exciting.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I do think that even if you don't care about this band or anything like that, I always find this stuff kind of interesting.
Oh, yeah.
But how they do this and the super group thing when that happens, a lot of that stuff.
It's interesting.
So I wanted to get into this when I wanted to set, but I want everybody to put on their mature hat.
Okay.
Everybody act, act your age, act, be adults when it comes to this.
All right.
We're going to talk about sex.
All right.
We're going to talk about that.
All the fun in life, James, you know.
Sex scenes in major movies have declined dramatically since 2000.
According to a recent study, movie sex is almost down 40%.
Wow.
On the other hand, the number of movies without any sex scenes has gone up from an average of 20% to over 50%.
Wow.
Since 2000.
Mm-hmm.
But so what has completely changed this, where has this gone?
Now, for one thing that should be mentioned, the graphicness of some sex scenes has completely changed as well.
Right.
That has become much more bold.
Yeah.
Much more out there.
To the point where most of the, a lot of movies have been, they've had to make cuts to not get an X rating or an NC 17 rating.
Right.
Some movies have put their name on that.
They want to be an NC 17 because that gets eyeballs and, ooh, you know what's going to happen to everything.
One of the most overrated movies I've ever seen is Saltburn.
Okay.
Like, all anybody want, all it is is a kind of a snuff film sort of thing.
It's just a bunch of like, ooh, look what daring thing we'd ever actors do.
That's good.
There's no story really to it or anything.
It's just, it is lame.
It's slow hanging fruit.
Yeah.
It really is.
To each their own, if you like it, that's the way entertainment works.
Yeah.
It's not about what me and Seth like, it's what you like, but I will say, it's not exactly...
It's obvious what they're doing.
I mean, it's not like, they're not saying like, we're making great, well, maybe they are.
We're making great arts like, nah.
Yeah.
It's very exploitation-y.
But this is fascinating to me about sex scenes because I, for my money, and please call
up 715-424-2600 if you disagree, I've talked to, I've lived in this industry for over half
my life.
I've spent so much time with actors, writers, producers, editors, you know, the soundboy,
all of these people.
I've talked to my friends and family about movies, TV shows, and everything my whole life.
I love talking this stuff.
Not one time in my life.
Not once.
Have I ever heard anybody say, I wish there was a sex scene in this movie, or I'm so glad
there was a sex scene in this movie.
We're all adults.
We know how sex works.
You don't got to show us.
Yeah, right.
It's, seriously, it's, okay, let's go back, okay, let's go back in the day when you couldn't
even hint.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The sensors were so strong that you couldn't even hint at it.
You, you had the kiss, that's as, you know, as far as you could go.
And everyone knew what happened after that kiss.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We're, like you said, we're adults.
We can say, oh, we know what they're doing next, don't need to show it.
We know what they're doing, you know?
Movies want, even a sci-fi movie wants to give you reality.
Yeah.
It wants to pull some reality, and because that's how you pull audiences in.
You give them something that is relatable, and all of a sudden, oh, I identify with the
lead man, or identify with the villain, or something like that.
That's the essence of entertainment.
And there was a pushback because you're right.
It started that way, and then all of a sudden, we started to be able to get away with
more in movies.
So all of a sudden, we got to show this.
We got to show this.
Oh, yeah, because the new freed, you know, it's like, oh, great, great, you know, like
the gloves are off.
Now we can push those stuff.
Yeah.
We're the clothes are off.
I guess I should say.
Nice, nicely done.
So that happens.
And then, and then, of course, like everything else, there's this tight and flow of things.
We get to the 80s and 90s where a lot of audiences are kind of done with it, and it's
kind of been done.
Because it's like everywhere.
Yeah.
You're pushing the envelope and trying to make sure it's stone uncomfortable and things
like this and everything.
And that's what it's all about, making you uncomfortable.
That's what it is trying to create an emotion out of you and everything.
But then there is the idea of telling a story.
And in order to tell the story, do you have to show a sex scene?
Can you just, you know, prelude to it?
Can you just tease it or something?
Right.
And it's, it comes down to what do audiences want?
And overwhelmingly, men, women, a young, old, everybody saying the same thing, we're,
we're kind of done with this, we're, we're kind of bored with it.
You know, most people fast forward or they tune out, some people, the big danger here
for, for the movie industry, some people just turn it off and they don't come back.
And especially in the streaming age, where they're paying attention to that stuff, everybody,
when you fast forward through a movie or something like that, it shows on their, their
numbers at the end of the day.
If you don't go back to something, it shows.
So they're, they're finally listening and it does look like this is getting taken out
of the industry a lot more.
And I also hope, because I, I hope also it's because of the new, the new awareness of
what this does to actors, okay?
You see us, you know, they're incredibly, I just asked any actor who's been in a, in
a, in a bedroom scene, a sex scene, everything like that.
All awkward it is.
How uncomfortable it is, how embarrassing it is, it's, it's just, you know, I think part
of it is, is just, I think a lot of actors are like, no, like, I don't want to do that
anymore.
And, and I don't think they should have to.
I mean, I've, they've got like, now there's intimacy coordinators, which I think it
should have been a long time ago.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Just the whole idea, oh, you're an actor, you can do this, no, there's still human beings.
Yeah.
I really don't like the idea of having to be put in a, a very intimate situation, you
know, for that thing, and then you've got cameras on you and lights and all this stuff.
It just, it makes me feel kind of, if any kind of the sexiness of a sex scene, that takes
me out of it, because I'm thinking of, oh man, these poor actors had to go through this
thing.
Yeah.
They're trying so hard to pull you into the movie, to make you forget that you're watching
a movie.
Right.
Every sex scene I've ever seen pulls me out of the movie, immediately takes me out of
the movie.
Um, I, I've never seen an actor or an actress that I want to see in those situations.
I, I don't understand it.
I also understand, too, that it's not about what I want, it's about what the masses and
there are some people out there that might like those things.
Um, but we're, we're, whether, wherever you fall on this, the movie industry, they're
usually a day or two behind on this stuff, and, and they're just now kind of starting
to get to the point where, oh, you don't want this.
Yeah.
Okay.
And, and I think we're, we'd be remiss if we didn't mention one of the more important
parts of this.
You mentioned some of the core, just me coordinators.
I think the me two movement goes a long way with some of these things as well.
And then, of course, there is the getting a, making it so that, you know, teenagers are
not embarrassed around their parents when they're watching a movie and a sex scene comes
up.
More importantly.
No, I mean, that may be the most important part of all of this.
How awkward is that situation ever happening again?
Can we all unify as a country, as a world and make it so that there is never another
teenager that has to sit during an awkward moment with their parents at a sex scene
happens on TV?
Good.
All those, those, those comedy movies that I load will stop coming out, yeah, right?
I, I do want to say one thing, just so people don't think we're like being overly prudish
about this.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
There are movies that will, that, that the storyline is talking about sex.
And I think it is important in those that, that kind of movie that, you know, if, if that's
what you're trying to tell about, you know, just being intimate or that kind of thing.
Yeah.
There's, I think there's a place for it.
But that's what it's about.
It's not just thrown in there, you know, like weirdly, you know, all of a sudden there's
the, the music and the gauzy thing.
And it's like, this feels so weird and thrown in there, you know?
The worst is an action movie.
There has never, ever been a reason to see Sylvester Stallone in a romantic scene.
There, or any other action star for that pattern.
No.
None.
No.
In an action movie, the last thing I need to see is that.
That's it.
I, I want to see explosions.
I want to see this.
And that I don't need to see my romantic, my action lead star Arnold Schwarzenegger, any
of these guys at a romantic scene.
I blame the 90s.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
That's where it's starting.
It absolutely did.
It is.
It is absolutely the 90s fault.
It is our generation.
Anyway, sorry.
Hopefully.
Let's get to some local theater.
First off, I want to congratulate the new cast of Newsies, the Hopo, or I should say
the Wisconsin Rapids Community Theater production.
Disney's Newsies juniors has been cast.
It is going to be directed by Gretchen Powers and have Sue Becker as their musical director.
Awesome.
They've got an amazing cast.
A huge cast.
Look at that cast.
Oh, my gosh.
That is a cast.
That is insane.
That's awesome.
Just they credit to the directors and to the parents and everybody getting involved
in this.
Awesomeness.
Great on them.
Good on them.
Every one of these kids is going to be benefited from this.
Every one of these kids is going to come off of that stage.
More complete, having more confidence, and so many other things.
They're going to have a good time with this one.
Enjoy taking this show if you get a chance.
The performances are July 11th through the 13th.
We'll tell you more about it as we get closer to it.
Yes.
But congratulations to the whole cast.
Wreck of Leg, you guys.
Enjoy.
And we want to say a big, we're excited.
We're so happy for WRCT's main stage finale of rumors.
We've seen them for Neil Simon's rumors.
This Friday, tomorrow, 7 o'clock at the, over at the Wisconsin Rebels Community Theater.
They got performances this Friday and Saturday at 7th.
Then they're coming back next week, the 9th, 10th and 11th.
7 o'clock shows.
Next Saturday, they will have a 2 o'clock matinee.
All right.
Support local theater everybody.
We have talked about this a lot a little bit later today.
Seth and I are actually going to be recording a director's cut with some members from
the WASA community theater and talk about, not only their upcoming season, but them keeping
their theater.
Right.
What's going on financially with them, yeah?
Yeah.
Want to get into that.
That could be us.
And it could be any community theater out there.
So we want to support these theaters.
There is so many things that our benefited society is benefited from local theaters.
We're going to get into that a little bit during the director's cut today too.
I want to get into that one as well.
Help support local theater and oh yeah, by the way, enjoy yourself.
Have a damn good time.
It's fun.
It's a great show.
This is such a fun show.
It is.
It's such a great show.
I get so Jimmy serious on this stuff.
I'm so sorry.
Enjoy a show.
It's a hilarious show.
It is.
It's Neil Simon.
If you've seen rumors 20 times, you haven't seen it like this.
Nope.
You haven't seen it like this.
The magic of live theater.
Got some of your favorite WRCT members on that stage.
Let's help them wrap up a great season.
It's been a really good season.
It's been a good season.
You know something about that.
You added to this.
Speaking, you know, I've thought to be, you know, to my own own.
Oh, but you got a great, you had a groundbreaking show happen this year.
That was pretty cool.
That was an integral part of the season.
We've had some other great shows as well.
Let's help them wrap up the season with rumors and support our local theater.
You could do that by going to wrctheater.org, wrctheater.org or you can get tickets right
there at the front desk when you show up at the Wisconsin Rapids Community Theater.
Yeah.
We will get to our news break.
We'll come back and have some, and our news break, James.
Here's our news.
There it is.
There it is.
I had it on somewhere.
I kind of had it set up.
I got it.
Got our news break.
We'll come back and have some more fun on the morning show here at WFHR.
Welcome back, everybody.
Morning show here at WFHR.
Seth and James hanging out with you.
We hope you're having a good one out there.
Let's go ahead and dive into a new term, Seth.
All right.
Home-steading.
That's not a new term.
Yeah, no, not exactly.
Not exactly.
But it is becoming a little bit more in the Lexicon.
It's looking out there a little bit more.
Home-steading is the act of living self-sufficiently.
This usually means that you grow your own food, raise livestock on land, and possibly produce
your own textiles and clothing.
Some home-steaders even use solar power to sustain themselves.
People commitment to all this is impressive and if not overwhelming.
Most of us don't want to live fully off the grid though, but it would be cool to be a
little bit more self-sufficient.
A lot of people out there, especially with the economy being the way it is, a lot of people
doing that, and a lot of the younger generation, this is their thing.
We've talked about this before.
If my kids were young and I'm getting them ready to go back to school shopping, most of
them want to go to a thrift store now.
They want to do that kind of thing.
They want to get their own clothes and make it their own.
They want to be, they care about the environment, they care about the plants.
Exactly.
There's a lot more of that.
I don't know, there's a lot of people in my life that I know that have a little garden
and they grow their own peas or something like that, so we're seeing more of those things
too.
We're dabbing into this world.
I don't know how many people are necessarily diving full head in.
Right.
It's very hard.
To do it like fully food sovereign, I think it's what they call it, you do all your
own stuff.
That's really, really hard.
Even back in the day, when most people were farming, they still traded with other farms
in order to get the goods they didn't necessarily have, so that's not something new, but having
at least a part of something like that, I think it's cool, I think that's really neat.
I like the fact that people are getting more interested in it as we go along here.
It doesn't seem like it's certainly not a fad.
It doesn't seem like something to do with things where it's just, it's a random thing
and it's going to go away.
Some of this stuff, I think, can come across that way sometimes, not this.
Here is a list of ways you can experience homesteading no matter where you live.
When I was a little kid, they first started doing the high rise I lived in in Chicago.
They started putting a garden on top of the high rise, and I think it's still there
to this day.
Obviously, I've added to it over the years and stuff, but I remember when the urban
settings just started to become a real big thing, and it's interesting when this happens
where that kind of bled into rural communities, and you started seeing more of it from there.
Here is ways that you can add this to your life.
Reduce your waste and footprint.
You can compost your kitchen scraps, grass clippings, and old leaves, and reuse it in
your garden or donate it.
Also, using eco-friendly reusable bags and switching to homemade cleaning products in
no number of people who have done that.
Grow vegetables or herbs and containers on a windowsill.
Specifically sprouts make great additions to salads and meals.
There's something really unique about the flavor and the taste of these items, too, that
they can really add to a meal for you.
They can give you, you know, we're talking about your own personal smell to your home.
You can really add a personal touch to your meals.
Practicing canning.
But some vegetables, you know, buy some vegetables and go to work.
There's a ton of guides out there about how to do this.
And it's a really, like a lot of this stuff is becoming hobbies for people as well.
So you're not only giving yourself something fun to do, but you're also helping the environment.
Learn how to sew or make your own clothes.
I think that sounds fun.
Yeah, I don't know, but I also, I don't worry about my, my, my periods as much.
I don't worry about that.
No, my, my mom was a homeic teacher for, for many years.
And so she would, she would make a lot of clothes at home because we had, she had a sewing
machine and stuff like that.
And there's something really cool about, you know, making your own clothes that I think
is really neat.
Now, I also think that you need a certain amount of talent to make it look good.
You don't want me, you don't want me doing this.
You're like, well, why do I have an extra pant leg?
Yeah, well, three legs.
Three legs.
I don't know why I got going and I just thought there should be another one.
There's no extra fabric.
Yeah.
I would do like how, for poor women out there, they have like 90% of their clothes don't
have pockets.
I go too far with it.
Like nothing but pockets all the way down, it's all over pockets through many pockets.
Learn how to bake from scratch.
That's another one.
Yeah.
That one.
And fun too.
Yeah.
Yeah, it feels like it would be take a moment in your day to disconnect from the modern
world, turn off your devices and go take a walk in nature.
That's always good.
Certainly one.
Although that gets a little tricky, if you're one of those people, like I just started
doing the whole steps thing, like if I'm going to go for a walk, I want to take my
phone with me.
Yeah, right.
You just keep it in your pocket.
Yeah, just keep it in your pocket.
I don't know if I'd walk outside today.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Today.
Weather permitting.
Right.
And one other thing that I want to touch on, make sure is supporting your local farmers
and businesses that grow their food organically.
This is one of the biggest ways that most communities, big and small, are helping and
adding, not only helping the planet, but helping our ag industry, helping our farmers,
helping so many that work in the vendor industry.
Mm-hmm.
White James.
Yes, sir.
You set me up perfectly.
Oh, what's that?
It's like you plan out your shows in some way, shape, or form.
I don't want people to think you just throw this together.
It's really true.
He doesn't.
We have a farmer's market.
Yes, we do.
We do.
It's year-round now, because right now we've got the market, the gravy, the winter farmer's
market.
I know it doesn't feel like winter out there right now, but for the next couple of weeks,
through May 18th, they're going to still be at the church in the basement down there.
Go check it out every Saturday from 9 to 1.
The gravy church, 310, 1st Avenue South.
Check out their Facebook page.
You can find out all the vendors that are there, food trucks have been there the last couple
of weeks.
In fact, for a while now, we've had some food trucks, which is awesome.
Love food trucks.
Yeah.
And this is going to just get you ready for the downtown farmer's market when that starts
right after they're done with this one.
So year-round farmer's market here in Wisconsin, it wraps everybody.
Big thank you to everybody involved over at the Moravian Church, and it helps make that
happen every Saturday and hosting it.
It's a perfect place for it, and especially when you consider it as soon as summer comes
around, it's going to be right there in downtown.
And right down, right on the street, on 1st Avenue, yep.
Support your local ag industry, everybody, and support your farmers.
If you are a vendor yourself, we encourage you to reach out to the gang over at the Moravian
Church, and they got room for you, WR Moravian.org, you can go to and be a part of this.
And even if you're not looking necessarily to buy items or get something from the food
truck, come down and check out and see some of the great things that are down there.
James, if he would permit me, there's one thing I do want to say here about something
that the Moravian Church, being in the Moravian Church as the Western District, which is
I was just at the Senate for that, that's what I did this last weekend.
So we have what's called an emerging ministry in downtown Milwaukee.
It's called the Tricklebee Cafe.
Now it has now been open for about eight years, I think.
And it's a pay what you can cafe.
So if you have no money, but you need a meal, you can go there and not pay anything.
If you do have money and you want to check out the great food they have there, you can
pay whatever, you know, to help them out as they go along here.
It has been a amazing, it's been amazing what's happened there.
Right now, they all their food is all vegetarian.
In fact, they have what they call a carrot dog, which apparently tastes exactly like a hot
dog, which I'm dying to try, but it's also a space for community.
They have the garden in the back.
They take food from food banks that they can't use and they don't want it to go bad.
They take it from farmers markets, the fresh produce that they don't sell, they will take
all that and they will make it.
They have in the back, people can learn how to be in the food service industry.
They can get training to do that.
It's incredible.
It's a community space where people can have events.
It's an amazing thing.
I told her about the, it's kind of spearheaded by the Reverend Christy Melby Gibbons, who
is a colleague of my, of Beth's, of Beth's.
And I'm trying to figure out a way to get her on a, a mat and air on air because it's
an amazing, she could speak to it way better than I could.
And it's just an absolutely just a remarkable thing of what can be done in situations where
there's not the kind of healthy foods, food deserts we hear about this a lot in downtown
Milwaukee.
So it's amazing.
That's a really cool program.
I've heard about that around the country.
I didn't know about this one in particular.
That is very cool.
And that is one of those things I'd love to see locally, like to see things like that
in a more communities.
We need more of those things.
Look at the layers of impact that, that one, that one place can make on a world of
amazing.
How many lives that can impact?
How many futures that can change?
That's incredible.
Yeah, we met one of those, one of those young men at that, the Senate.
He was a 19 years old musician, budding musician.
He talked about being a tricklebee, what it's done for his life.
It was, it was, it was just heartwarming.
We, we, we got our, one of our good stories of the day already.
I think so.
We'll, we'll come back with a Danny Wright story and some more good stories of the day
and doc local.
We'll also talk about our schedule coming up and plenty more.
Thanks for that, Seth.
It's really good.
Back more on the morning show here at WFHR.
Welcome back, everybody.
Morning show here at WFHR, Seth and James hanging out with you at locally grown radio.
We hope the day is treating you good, happy Friday, Eve, everybody.
Thanks so much for hanging out with us today.
We're going to get to our schedule, some good stories of the day in a moment.
But we have to do with Danny Wright's story, Seth.
Of course we do.
This is an interesting one.
A 37 year old dad in Ohio named Adam is facing charges after he kept calling his son
school to complain that they were giving the kid too much homework.
He called the elementary school over and over in February and in March to say his son had
too much homework, they didn't have time to hang out.
Kind of sweet, except he was verbally abusive and used vulgar language and acted like a child.
He acted younger than his child.
That doesn't bowl well for their hanging out.
Yeah, yeah.
The school eventually stopped picking up so Adam called his local police department and
not just once, but 18 times because they're not busy, that can just sit back and take
the call.
He kept asking to talk to the chief of police and said things like, I pay your salary.
That goes over real well.
Yeah.
Really hearing that.
Yeah.
Try that next time.
Yeah.
Yeah.
They told him he could come down to the station and talk in person, but he demanded the chief
of police come to his home instead.
That didn't happen because they got more important things to do.
They really do.
One of the things that I think that we need more of in society is parents supporting parents.
One of the things I can't stand the most is one parent judging another parent.
That being said, as a parent, let me say to this parent, grow up.
Grow up.
Be a parent.
Yeah.
Do your job.
And quit bugging people that it isn't their job to do this job.
Our police departments are way overbooked to have way more on their plate than they signed
up for.
This is the last thing they need.
This guy is that that ain't right stories.
Your kids getting too much homework.
Did you ask why he's getting so much homework?
What is he doing at school?
Is he doing any of it in school, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
There's a building question.
You should be asking your child instead of going strictly right to the teachers.
The teachers have so much on their plate.
They are not paid enough.
They are not paid well.
Think of the amount of things that try to put yourself in those shoes for a half a darn
second.
And I hope our school board members are doing this as well.
Yeah.
Unless you are actually a teacher or have come from that industry, you do not know what
it's like.
And quit acting like you do.
You want the best for your kids?
Talk to your kids.
Start with your kids.
Start with looking in the mirror.
Be a parent.
The irony is just this flying, fast and heavy right here, because first of all, so he's
complaining about not being able to hang out with his kid.
First of all, second of all, when he's busy calling the school in the police department,
that's valuable time he could be spending with his kids.
Yes.
When you're calling 18 times, that's a what?
What part of your brain thinks that the police department should be involved in this?
Like that is the maybe the truest that ain't right.
I don't know.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Quit.
Can we?
Can we?
Like children?
Yes.
Can we start something here?
Can we start not calling the police for everything?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Can we, you know, like work it out for ourselves and our community first instead of going
running to them?
Because you're right.
It's like running to the, you know, you got a thing there, teacher, teacher, they did
something.
Blah, blah, blah, blah.
Didn't we used to always like shame tattling?
Yeah.
We did.
I don't know.
All right.
We got a bunch of adults out there.
I'm not saying much of tail tails.
If they're committing crimes, you should repel it.
But something like this.
I mean, come on.
Yeah, get over yourself.
Yeah.
Right.
I know.
Right.
We need a pala cleanser.
All right.
And we got a great one lined up for you today.
We got back to back great interviews on Midday Magazine, join us today at three o'clock.
When our friend did need a Carlson join us director of operations with the Alexe Dove Foundation,
we're going to talk about Dove's Nest and their great event coming up this month.
Yeah.
And it is a good one.
I got a great event coming up here about that at three o'clock today.
Then at three thirty.
And a Mitchell UW Madison Extension Wood County's regional natural resource educator is in with us.
Yep.
Anna is amazing.
You want to know more about our pollinators?
Join us at three thirty today.
We go through the gamut.
You want to, especially if you're curious about why no more may is such a big thing around the world and everything.
It is around the world, everybody.
Yes.
We get into that.
There's so much great information there and just twenty some minutes with Anna.
It's a great conversation.
Good stuff.
You should have joined us for that.
We've got, of course, a Bucks basketball and a radio dial tonight.
We got at least one more game, everybody.
Game six.
Yep.
I believe in this team.
I'm all in.
Go Bucks.
They really showed something in the last game, I guess.
Yeah.
Without their two top scorers, they did something.
Yeah, they did.
Bucks back in action tonight.
Our pregame starts up at five o'clock.
As long as the Bucks are in the playoffs, we'll be covering them right here at WFHR.
Got a couple of local events going on, including our good friend Pete Rebel and four on the floor.
Every first and third Thursday of the month, Pete Rebel and the gang are over there performing.
I encourage you to check them out.
This is not only some of the best jazz you'll hear in the area, but some great stories.
Pete's a great MC.
Oh, he's hilarious.
It's free admission.
Donations accepted for the musicians, of course.
And while you're there, check out the Central Wisconsin Cultural Center.
Look at their...
Great gift shop there.
Great gift shop.
Some of the most original items you'll see from some of the most original artists.
Join us from two to four today at the Central Wisconsin Cultural Center at 2651 A Streets
South and Wisconsin Rabbits for Pete Revel and four on the floor.
Break a leg.
Have a good show, you guys.
Yes.
Our friends at Family and Natural Foods have a great presentation coming up.
Next Tuesday, May 7th at 515 True Grace Presentation.
Learn about a new Wisconsin brand focused on innovation, whole foods, mushrooms and quality supplements.
Find out more at FamilyNaturalFood.com.
Sorry.
I was like...
No.
Sorry.
Do you think you'd have actually like an adult, sorry?
I thought that was great.
That was great.
We encourage you to take in that.
And of course, our friends at the South County YMCA have their senior social 55 and above coming up tomorrow.
That'll be going from 6 to 830 over at their Camp Alexander location at 1053 Camp Road in Wisconsin Rabbits.
Looks like fun.
It does.
Games, raffle, food, bonfire, dancing music.
They're gonna have a photo booth.
It's gonna be a really good time.
Yeah.
If you want to know more, you can find out more by contacting Stephanie at 818-6012-818-6012.
Or go ahead and check out their website SWCYMCA.org.
SWCYMCA.org.
Excellent.
I encourage you to do that, everybody.
As we've been mentioning, and we'll talk more about tomorrow, the United Weekend events coming up.
Yep.
Want you to get your teams together, find out more about the event, and certainly start collecting food that you can bring to the event and donate to the event.
Build your sculpture.
Yeah, find out more at www.ac.org.
Terry John, CEO of your United Way will be with us tomorrow.
We'll talk more about this then.
Of course.
Want to get to some world good stories.
All right.
There's some big ones out there.
Some good ones.
Chipotle is giving out free burritos to 100,000 health care workers for National Nurses Week.
That's not bad.
That's pretty cool.
That's pretty cool.
A North Carolina man, sister told him she had a dream.
She had found a bunch of gold, so he bought a lottery ticket and won over $837,000.
Oh.
It is for those that don't know.
It's brothers and sisters today today.
Oh, I didn't know that.
I mean, that adds out an extra meaning for those siblings.
I would think.
I would think it adds out a little bit more.
I should contact my sister.
Definitely.
I'm not going to get all of my shout out to my brother and sister out there.
A nine-year-old kid in Oklahoma named Branson Baker saved his parents over the weekend after a tornado tossed their truck into some trees.
Oh, dear.
He was okay, but they were both seriously hurt.
They suffered breaks to their back neck, ribs, and various other bones.
But they're alive and recovering after he sprinted a full mile in the dark to get help.
Wow.
They were close to home, so he said, don't die.
I will be back to your God that's heartbreaking and beautiful and strong.
That's the same time.
Yeah.
Then he ran to a neighbor's house.
They got them to the hospital.
Their family expects to make a full recovery.
Wow.
People are donating at a GoFundMe page for them.
You can just type in Branson's little league team or something like that.
Solid.
They did on your search engine.
But good on everybody for doing that.
Yes.
And a big shout out to you, Branson.
Nice job, kid.
Yes, good job.
Nice kid.
Fabulous.
You're going to have a nice Christmas coming up, Branson.
Yeah, I hope so.
I hope you're going to have a good Christmas.
You got some gifts coming, buddy.
Yeah.
You're sure.
You're sure.
That is a true hero right there.
Nice work, Branson.
And that is a child acting more like an adult than some of the people we've talked about today.
Nice job, kid.
Nice work.
Good old webs we weave.
Great show, Seth.
You two, man.
Have a great day, everybody.
Be good to each other.
We'll talk to you soon and later right here at...
