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And we're going. It's just going to keep playing in the background. Got a little bit of technical difficulties going out here, everybody.

New one for me. I've never had this happen before. We're stuck in automatic.

So for our listeners, I mean, it's cool. Welcome back to the morning show everybody. Terry and James hanging out with you.

For our listeners, just to be able to look behind the curtain a little bit here, we can go from automatic to manual.

So I can hit automatic and it'll just play our commercial break and I can go get a glass of water or something like that or talk to our guests or something.

And then I hit automatic. All right, I put it in the manual when I want to get going. Terry and I can talk right now. We are stuck in automatic.

It's just going to keep playing, which is a problem. It's a bit of a problem, but we'll forget that. We'll get that figured out.

Looking forward to getting that set set for you all. So let's go ahead and just dive right into the show. Let's get things going.

We got some entertainment to talk, Terry, but a little bit later we're going to have some fun talking about couples revealing their weirdest wedding gifts.

We'll get into that one and five things you might not have known about Sanca tomorrow. All that coming up.

But first, entertainment wise, let's take a look at what's new on your small screen this weekend, what's new on your TV.

Big one coming out today. It's already released on Netflix. The Pop-Tark comedy, unfroasted, written and directed and starring Jerry Seinfeld

as an ambitious employee trying to help Kellogg's beat a rival serial company to win the race to create a breakfast pastry in the 1960s.

Jim Gaffigan, Amy Schumer, Melissa McCarthy are all in this. It's got a gigantic cast.

I've not even heard of it. So is it based on the real story of Pop-Tark?

I believe it's elucidally based on it, but do you like Pop-Tark? I love Pop-Tark.

I like Pop-Tark too, but do you toast them or do you just eat them out of the packet?

I eat them both. I have to toast them. I like them warm.

I do like them. I prefer them warm, but I-

With cold beer. I'm also impatient sometimes.

They do not wait. So I just start?

Yeah, I'm horrible. There's a lot of people talking about it, though. It's not only a fun kind of walk-down memory lane

and hearing the history of the Pop-Tark and all that, but the cast that he has, it's a perfect...

Yeah, it sounds really fun.

It's a gigantic cast. It looks like a fun movie. It looks really good.

And you said that's on what? I'm sorry.

On Netflix.

Netflix, okay.

And it's the release today.

On Hulu, today, prom dates are coming of age comedy.

About two friends trying to hunt down the last minute prom dates.

Don't know the actors in that one.

I mean, our prom is Saturday.

They're like in high school, so good timing.

There's some other good ones out there.

You got the 15th season finale of Shark Tank tonight at 7 on ABC.

The Kentucky Derby this weekend starts at 230 on NBC and on Peacock.

Saturday and Disney plus the premiere of animated series Star Wars Tales of the Empire.

Cat Williams has a new stand-up special Saturday that'll debut on Netflix.

Do a Lupa, Lupa, who are you saying?

Is hosting Saturday Live this weekend.

Sunday got American Idol.

It's a Del Night this Sunday on American Idol.

It is.

That'll be on at 7 on ABC.

And on Big One on Sunday, at least a big one that a lot of people are talking about,

on Sunday on Netflix, big weekend for Netflix.

The roast of Tom Brady.

And I'm very curious about this.

I'm not going to lie and say I'm going to watch it.

But I am a little curious to know

how they're going to do this, like the NFL would.

They come right up to the line, but they don't cross it or anything like that.

Or is it going to be a legit roast?

Or is it a real roast?

Yeah.

And I'm not even talking about the Comedy Central roast that we've seen in recent years.

Which are fun.

I like them.

I think Jeff Ross is awesome and everything.

I'm talking about the 70s roast.

I'm talking about Carol Burnett walking around with a drink in her head.

Like you've never seen Carol Burnett.

Like you should be a friend.

Yeah, yeah.

Like Lucille Ball, like taking no heat.

Like the dirtiest of all the men up on stage.

And Lucille Ball blowing them all away.

A Don Rickles up there, just shredding star after star.

Just those were real roasts.

They did not hold back.

I don't know if any of it is playable nowadays on TV.

But it is it is those those were true roasts.

Like those are yeah.

In part, not only because they really did lay into each other,

but they were all genuinely friends.

Like they really cared about each other.

They really generally the reason they could talk to each other that way

is because they generally liked each other and were confident in that.

It goes, you know, Don Rickles.

The greatest insult comedian of all time.

Nobody will ever be Don Rickles.

Don Rickles ended every show.

He would shred people.

He'd shred a celebrity.

He'd shred Frank Sinatra.

He'd shred the guy in the front row or anything.

And he'd end every show.

I kid because I love.

I do this because I love all of you.

I appreciate you being here.

Like there was a there was a layer there that you could cross back in the day

and come back and yeah.

And it was and in a little bitty snippet of it

wasn't what ruined you because people go overboard.

I I disagree with a lot of what Jerry Seinfeld has said about nowadays

and comedians and everything.

I agree with one part of it.

You just have to be smarter.

I agree with that part.

I don't agree with the idea that PCism is killed comedy.

You can't kill comedy.

You can't kill comedy.

Come on.

People are always going to want to laugh.

People are always going to want to have fun.

Do are we navigating some stuff right now

and we're going through some growing pains?

Yeah.

Yeah.

But the the worst thing any of us can do is give up on any of this stuff

or give up on each other or just throw our hands up in the air.

No, they've killed comedy.

This younger generation blah blah blah and everything.

No, get smarter.

Get better and adjust and and and learn what we can get away with.

What lines can we cross?

And you know, as we figure out what lines we can.

So do we know who's roasting Tom Brady?

So far what we know,

Gronk is going to be there, of course.

But the big one,

I wanted to say Bill Parcells.

My God.

God, I don't know why he was going to say that.

He got it.

Well, I can't think of it.

So Bill Belichick.

Belichick is going to be there.

That's the big one everybody's curious about.

Okay.

Anybody that like if you listen to people talk like

Bill Belichick is apparently really funny,

really charismatic.

He was, he did a pretty good job on the NFL network.

So we'll see.

We'll see how he does it.

We'll see how it goes.

I do want to say like Nick Sabin really impressed me.

Nick Sabin was, I watched the whole

I like him.

He was very good on the draft.

I thought it was great.

It's kind of cool to see these guys retired now

and being able to do this.

You know, back in the day, you never,

you would have never saw Tom Landry doing these things

or something.

So it's kind of cool.

Looking at what's new on your big screen this weekend.

Just a couple of big releases for you.

The big one really out there.

The fall guy rated PG-13.

You know it's coming out because you've seen commercials for it.

Like they're promoting this everywhere.

It's been a while since we've seen something

promoted like this where you can't go five seconds

and not seeing a promotion for it.

Ryan Gosling is a Hollywood stuntman who flies to Australia

to work on a movie directed by his ex-girlfriend Emily Blunt.

Winston Duke, Aaron Taylor Johnson are also in it.

It's loosely based on the 1980s TV series

starring Lee Mayors.

That's what I was wondering.

Yeah, yeah.

I was curious about that too.

That's the first time I've actually heard of this.

Do you remember that show?

Oh, yeah, yeah.

I was a big Lee Mayors guy.

Yeah.

Six million dollar man, all that stuff.

He's got a cameo in the movie's post-credits scene.

So that's kind of cool.

Lee Mayors is that they did that.

That's very cool that they did that a nice tip of the hat to that.

Ryan Gosling's awesome.

Emily Blunt awesome.

So I don't know if I'm going to see this,

but it doesn't look like a bad movie.

It just doesn't look like my kind of movie.

Yeah, it seems fun.

Yeah.

New also tonight, premiering tonight,

is the premiere of the final show,

or Wisconsin's Rapids Community Theater's main stage rumors.

Be sure to check this out.

Everybody get to the Wisconsin's Rapids Community Theater tonight

as they hit off the hit the stage at seven o'clock.

They'll have a show tomorrow at seven as well.

Then they'll come back next week.

They have shows in the ninth, 10th, 11th,

all seven o'clock shows.

Next Saturday, there will be a two o'clock matinee to go

along with that seven o'clock show.

This is an opportunity not only to take in one of the greatest plays,

the funniest plays you'll ever see in Neil Simon's rumors,

which just classic, classic.

But you get to see a new interpretation of it with this cast.

And man, is this a great cast?

This is a stellar cast that you're going to go out there and see everybody.

A great direction.

A great director, Christine was in the other day with some of the cast members.

We had a good time talking with them.

If you'd like a preview of the show,

I encourage you to listen to Midday Magazine and our guests that joined us just this week.

Great cast.

But also a great opportunity to put back into your community.

Every time you purchase a ticket, every time you take a part of something that

Wisconsin Rabbits Community Theater, you're putting back into your community.

You are helping keep art alive.

And you are helping keep art alive here in Wisconsin.

And I am going to keep hitting on this point, everybody.

Wisconsin finished last in the union when it came to funding the arts,

when it came to putting into the arts.

Dead last by a mile.

Wisconsinites, I call upon you.

Are you proud of that?

I'm guessing not.

I know you love the arts.

I know how much you appreciate the arts.

Think of all the amazing artists that have come out of this state.

Spencer Tracy to the most modern artist.

I mean, so many great artists from other.

Now, think of now none of those artists having any input,

having any support, having anything.

When it comes to the arts,

we're not talking about these, the kids that you see in these local high school plays

or the community theater plays that you take in throughout the whole up and down the state.

Most of these people may not go on to be the next George Clooney or Tom Hanks.

That doesn't matter.

What matters is they confidence that they gain.

That they can take into every facet of their life.

The public speaking experience they have.

That they can take into everything.

And then there's the entertainment value of it.

Being able to take a moment away from your day and just relax and just enjoy a show.

Or take in a nice event or karaoke or something like that.

There is the economic impact it has.

Local community theaters, like towns that don't have that, they feel it.

They know it, especially towns that had it and lost it.

Because a lot of local community theaters were losing.

And we have one in particular that I'm hoping on our watch doesn't happen.

What's our community theater joined us yesterday?

I want to send a shout out to Noel and Hillary who joined us.

Seth and I for Directors Cut.

More on that in a moment.

We'll have that episode for you this Sunday.

If you haven't heard,

Wassup Community Theater is in a financial struggle right now to stay afloat.

There is a chance that these are some of the last shows they may put on.

They've got a great one coming up right at the end of the month here.

That we'll talk more about as we get closer to it.

But Cole Porter's anything goes is coming up at the end of the month.

This is a classic and they do a lot of great shows.

They've got so much great entertainers over there in the Wassau area.

It's hard for me to imagine them not having that theater.

That theater has been around for a very long time.

There's one way that we can keep these things around.

All you got to do, taking a show.

That's it.

Promote these shows when you're talking to your friends,

when you're having coffee or something.

Say, there's a great play coming up.

Be a part of these shows.

If you've ever even thought for a second about being a part of community theater,

do it.

Get work backstage.

Get on the stage.

Maybe you want to direct something.

That's what the community theater is all about.

We encourage you to do that.

Encourage you to support these.

Our local theaters, whether it is WRCT,

which you can get tickets for rumors tonight at WRCT.org.

WRCT theater.org.

That's WRCT theater.org.

Encourage you to also support the Wassau community theater at

wasaucommunitytheater.org.

Wasaucommunitytheater.org.

You have CWAC out there doing some great work.

Support your local theaters, everybody.

It is a part of your community.

It is the part of the DNA of all local communities.

Encourage you to do so.

And I want to remind everybody as well that this weekend,

we are going to be at the WBAs.

I'm hoping to be at least.

I have some family commitments that are holding me up,

but I'm hoping to be there.

I know that we're going to have as much of our team there as we can.

Let me see something real quick here.

Oh, did it stop finally?

Did it stop?

I can't play anything, but it did stop.

At least that's good.

I don't know how.

Terry, we may be in a situation where we have to keep talking.

I do want to talk a minute about the WBAs.

For those that have not heard, Civic Media is a new company,

young company.

And one of the ways that you kind of get your name out there in this industry

is by, you know, nominating your team for awards and some of that.

And the Wisconsin Broadcast Association has been around for a very long time.

One of the most respected business things that there is in broadcasting.

I've been around doing this for a very long time.

We've had a couple of of our partners, our family members here at Civic Media,

being nominated for things.

Shout out to Maggie Dawn, the Earl Ingram show, all being nominated.

I may know in the mayor.

We've got a couple of nominations in there with that Chad Holmes.

I want to send a shout out to him as well.

But your own local radio station here, WFHR, leads the pack, leads the fabulous.

Awesome.

We are so darn proud of this.

Keep in mind, everybody, that you can watch the WBA Awards live.

They'll be streaming live.

You can find out more at www.dashbroadcasters.org,

www.dashbroadcasters.org.

If you just type into your search by our WBA awards or live streaming the awards,

you can find it.

I was able to find it just from one Google search.

But I do want to let you know what categories to be looking out for, everybody.

Because we are nominated.

We want you to be watching and representing.

And keep in mind, something we learned kind of late into this.

We already won.

We've already won something.

If they tell us we're in the top three.

So it's just a matter of, did we finish like,

to make this an Olympic thing?

Did we get gold or did we get bronze?

Either way, we already won.

Yeah, that's fabulous.

So you're award-winning shows.

We get to say now, which we will push into the ground.

We will say that over and over again.

Best radio show, the Kitchens Open.

Our nice segment that Melissa writes, produces,

and such an amazing job on every Monday.

That's been nominated for Best Radio Show,

Best Continuing Coverage.

Melissa's work on PFAS that she did in Warsaw area,

as well as the best use of audio in a radio news,

the anti-mask resolution, the work that she did on that,

as Best Specialty Programming.

Seth faces the music.

Seth showed nominated right there.

And rightfully so, one of our more popular shows,

Director's Cut also got nominated,

which is hilarious to me.

I want to see Seth's acceptance speeches for both.

Because Seth is my partner on Director's Cut, of course.

So he's got nominated twice there.

We also got nominated for Director's Cut for Best Interview,

the interview that Seth and I had with

Mystery Science Theaters, Mary Jo Peele,

which is kind of funny.

Our good friend Chad Holmes is nominated in the category, as well.

And Chad doesn't know if he wants to win,

because he's such a Mystery Science Theater fan.

Sorry, not sure. I love that.

It's like, I better concede.

And of course, Best Morning Radio Show,

this show right here, everybody.

Mornings with WFHR nominated.

Very cool.

Just...

See, it does make us cool.

I don't know what to say, to be honest,

which is very difficult when you're paid to talk for a living,

but I have not know what to say about any of this.

I put a lot of the heart and the focus of this on our team.

I'll tell you this, about four years ago now,

three, four years ago,

when you and I were doing this ourselves,

and that studio back in the industrial park,

and it's just basically...

At least, because it was before COVID.

Yeah, so five, six years ago, probably.

You know, you Pam and I, in that studio,

just basically running two stations and doing all of this.

I don't know that any of this would have happened.

You know, I know for one, to be honest with everybody,

I believe that it takes money to be able to do those things,

and we weren't getting that from our previous ownership

or anything like that.

And here we are.

Where...

Because, yeah, awards are cool and all.

I don't really...

That's all here or there.

It's the recognition.

This station has been around for over 80 plus years.

This station represents Wisconsin Rapids.

This station represents Central Wisconsin.

And for 80 some years, we've been doing that here.

So these awards, these nominations,

I cannot stress this enough.

The people that are accepting them, that's not where it ends.

It continues with our advertisers.

It continues with our local nonprofits.

It continues with you out there.

We're not here without any of you.

So I encourage you to watch these awards this weekend.

And when you see us winning these awards,

I don't allow it.

But we do.

I want you cheering and I want you petting yourself

on the back as well.

I want you to take some ownership in this.

I want you to take some pride in this.

This is your station, everybody.

Okay, so you told us where to find it.

But when is it?

It is this Saturday and it kicks off tomorrow.

And I believe it starts at seven.

I want to double check on that, though.

Thank you, Terry.

It's kind of important information.

I probably should have mentioned that.

I'm sure there'll be a recording.

But it'd be fun if people can to watch this.

Yeah, yeah.

But yeah, I believe you can find the live stream.

I would pull it up around five or six

and just to double check.

But I do believe it starts at seven.

And again, you can find that

wi broadcasters.org.

wi- broadcasters.org.

We'll take a quick commercial break.

We'll come back have some more fun in the morning show.

Here at WF, are we going to be able to?

Maybe we will.

Yeah, maybe not.

Are we just going to have to improvise a break?

I don't know.

Are you going to sing?

You don't know, nobody wants to sing.

I'll lose our nomination.

Nobody, yeah.

That's a quick, that's the quickest way for us

to lose our nomination, darn right.

Yeah, I mean, nothing works.

I can't do anything.

I can't do anything here.

So I guess we're saying we do have to keep going.

We're saying I really would love to be

able to hear from our engineering team right now.

That'd be really helpful.

My voice is going.

Yeah, you think you need something to drink?

I could really use that.

I could really use that.

It would just out of the room like five minutes ago.

It's true.

It's true.

So let's just keep a moment.

Let's just keep a moment.

Thank you so much for playing a lottery.

I appreciate you.

You have all the days for you to be a two.

It's all good.

Let's talk a little synch of tomorrow.

Synch of tomorrow is this Sunday.

Most people just get, you know,

have a couple of drinks.

Maybe some, you know, they have a

a corona once a year,

put us some braero and enjoy,

but there's a lot of.

Could you imagine a corona that wasn't cold?

Oh, oh, that's rough.

That would be terrible.

I like corona.

Not me too, but when we were talking cold beer before.

Oh, is that the worst warm beer?

Might be.

That might be.

Yeah, I'd never thought of that, but yeah, that might be.

That's a debate we don't necessarily what I have.

But synch of tomorrow is, I don't know,

growing up where I didn't Chicago.

This was not only a fun holiday,

but it was one we all celebrated,

like whether you're a Mexican or not,

everybody got into this one.

So, but what is synch of tomorrow?

I think a lot of people are curious about.

Are a lot of people might not know.

Because synch of tomorrow is such a holiday

we, we tied to Mexico,

I think a lot of people, even understandably,

might think that it's about Mexico's

independence day and all that.

But that is not what it is about.

It is, and according to a poll,

60% of Americans don't know why we celebrate synch of tomorrow.

And most think it's a Mexican independence day,

but it's not that celebrated on September 16th.

Synch of tomorrow celebrates a victory over the French.

It celebrates the Mexican victory over the French

in the Battle of Pablo in 1862.

Now, this is not worthy, I think,

because this is, I don't want to say an inspiration

one way or the other,

but you look at what happened in our country

with us pulling away from Britain.

And nobody at that time thought that was going to happen.

Benjamin Franklin went over to Paris

to try to get us some help.

We were so in such dire straits here in this country.

And nobody over in England thought,

not only thought this was going to happen,

but we're already making plans of what to do with this land

when this blew up in our faces.

The French were doing the same thing to the Mexican people.

And on paper, there's no reason the Mexican army

should have beaten the French none whatsoever.

Yet they did.

This is a true David and Goliath story.

It's very similar to our story here in this country.

And as we are neighbors,

I think it's kind of cool to we celebrate this one.

Certainly, there's a lot of Mexicans in this country

that, and that's part of the reason why it is very well celebrated.

But I think it's kind of cool to be able to celebrate

in neighbors, you know, not independence,

but their victory in this.

And it's a victory that I think that is inspirational

around the world.

It's not just something for them.

So I think that's part of the reason why it's celebrated.

And why we celebrate it so much is Americans.

It's not a huge deal in Mexico either, by the way.

It's not really that big of a deal.

May 5th is it widely celebrated in Mexico?

Mexican Independence Day in September

and day of the dead around Halloween are way bigger holidays.

Now, this is a little similar to Jewish holidays.

Most anybody who doesn't know anything about Judaism knows Hanukkah.

Yeah, but Hanukkah is not even in the top three

as far as the the meanings of those days and the meaning of the days.

It's just a more popular one.

It's a little similarity there.

It's popular in the US, thanks to in part a beer marketing.

In the 1980s, Anheuser Bush, Miller and Coors made a big push

to spin Cinco de Mayo as a Mexican St. Patrick's Day

in order to sell more beer.

And it worked.

It worked.

It worked.

Nicely done.

The top ways Americans celebrate Cinco de Mayo

are eating Mexican food, drinking margaritas and beer,

and celebrating Mexican culture.

Oh, man, pretty much.

Yeah.

So, I mean, sounds pretty on cue, right?

Pretty, pretty on cue.

Yeah, yeah.

I don't know.

I think it's a fun one to celebrate.

I think it's kind of fun to do.

But I also don't necessarily put too much into it either.

I don't know that I'm going to go out of my way to celebrate it.

But I do, you know.

And especially if it does fall on a weekend this year,

so that probably encourages a little bit more.

It does help a little bit.

It makes a little bit easier.

424 or 2600 is a phone number.

If you want to call up and join the conversation

and give Terry and I a break.

You are assuming our phone works.

Yeah, that's a great point.

I mean, really a great point.

Do you want me to call you?

I want you to call Chuck.

I want you to call Chuck.

I want you to get Chuck on.

Poor Chuck.

Yeah, poor Chuck.

No, I cannot stress that enough, poor Chuck.

Yeah, that man has so much on his plate.

So much on his plate.

Yeah.

So, we will keep things moving here

because we can't go to our news break like I'm trying to.

So, let's just go ahead and keep on moving here

and dive into, you know, let's open the phone lines for this, Terry.

Let's go ahead and do this.

I'm sorry, everybody.

I am improving like a crazy man right now.

Let's dive into a couple of other topics.

Because I want to save the wedding one.

I want to save that one.

I want to get into that.

We must have some wedding rights stories

other than what we're living.

Absolutely.

And one of them might be the check engine light.

Many people have a tiny budget these days.

So, it's really challenging

when an unexpected expense comes up.

You've brought this to light a lot with the United Way

and the Allens Report, Terry.

Yeah, absolutely.

We've talked about that quite a bit there.

The worst in is car repairs.

The average American admits they ignore their check engine light

for four months before addressing it.

Whoa.

I mean, I guess it depends how many miles you travel

if it's two months.

Yeah.

And, you know, if you live in a rural area

and you're not driving that much,

or like if you're just staying close to home.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And so, I guess I can kind of see that.

And 20% will pull it off, put it off

even between six to 18 months.

Not, you're just asking for it.

So, what do you just like put tape over it?

I mean, what do you do?

Yeah, you can't see it.

You just hold your thumb up over it the whole time.

Of course, delaying it can make it even worse.

35% of people have regretted putting cars,

car repairs off.

And the reasons why include

the problem expanded and became even more expensive,

the emotional stress they endured,

and even experiencing a roadside emergency.

Yeah.

I'm spoiled because my dad is a car guy.

So, you know, a lot of our car repair,

he's able to do for us,

but it is interesting because it is a large expense.

And so, a lot of people probably do experience some hardship

of, you know, either you don't have the money set aside

for that kind of thing,

or you just don't want to spend it on that, right?

But the reality is it probably usually does get worse.

So, you know, jumping in,

maybe at the end of month two,

instead of end of month three.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I think all of this is understandable as far as that goes.

And, you know, any time you have anything

that's gonna cost five bucks out of your budget,

can mess with your routine a little bit.

But, you know.

Well, I wonder about too,

like if people don't have access to another vehicle.

You know what I mean?

So, if you have to have repairs and then,

how does, just, I think people probably think about that.

Like how will it upset our schedule, you know,

getting to work, whatever it is in your daily routine.

And I know some places,

some car repair places have like courtesy cars

that you can drive while they're doing the work.

But I don't, I think that's not as common as it used to be.

So, that might be another reason

that people put off car repairs,

because it is, yeah.

I mean, it takes time, it's expensive.

But, you also, I mean,

my car gets a dang good workout on a regular basis.

You know what I mean?

Well, you'll think about number of miles of that kind of stuff.

So, it is important, I think, you know, just regular,

even, and maybe your engine light wouldn't go on

if you pay a little more attention to routine maintenance.

Yeah, I don't know, I don't know how much.

I know a lot of people put that off.

Oh, yeah.

I don't know how many people do this or not.

But one of the things that I do, especially,

you know, having to live on a budget and everything,

like everybody out there pretty much,

if I have to spend more on something,

I think about, well, what am I,

what is the emotional end of this,

or what is the payoff that I'm getting

that isn't in dollars and cents, you know?

Something like this.

You're trying to put off that check engine light,

you're trying to put it off,

but what's happening in the meantime?

It's stressing you out.

Every time you get in your vehicle,

it's stressing you out.

Every time you think about it, it's stressing you out.

The emotional toll that that tanks,

along with all the other factors you mentioned,

that were really good insight on that Terry.

So when it comes to all of those factors,

I think you can make the argument,

it almost might be cheaper for you to just get it done

and just get it checked out.

Your mental health will be a lot better.

But there is something about that, like,

you know, writing that check or paying that bill, yeah.

Well, and something like this, too, where it's unknown.

You don't know if you're going in there

and it's going to cost 50 bucks or 500 bucks

or whatever, and that can be...

But then it's also another facet of the service industry

that we probably underappreciate, right?

You know what I mean?

They're keeping us on the road, keeping us moving,

keeping us getting everywhere that we want to be.

I really wanted to send a shout out

to the great mechanics out there.

We've got a lot of good ones in this area.

The, a lot of these mechanics work with people, too.

I know they have with me and my family,

you know, payment plans, things like that.

They've been a godsend.

I don't know where I'd be without some

of those great mechanics out there

and some of the good people that have worked

in this community.

And appreciate them and send a shout out to them.

The, when asked, which car repair stresses people

out the most, problems with their engine were number one,

issues with the brakes were next,

followed by problems with the fuel system,

exhaust system, the tires, and the AC, or...

So all of it.

I mean, yeah, yeah.

The average...

Hold on, car.

The average person spends $438 on car maintenance every year

and estimates that they've spent around 6,300

in total servicing their current car.

But what was the 400 and something you said

for the year?

$4.30?

I mean, that's really not bad.

No.

I mean, if you really think about it,

divide it up over 12 months.

I mean, I know that that's not how it's incurred,

but if you just break it down and think about it that way,

it's really not bad.

So again, the lesson maybe is do regular routine maintenance

so you're not stuck with a huge repair later.

Yeah.

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Everybody call up and join the conversation.

Pam, if you can hear me,

could you get a hold of the chuck or a set?

You could do that for me.

I'd really appreciate it.

They're not answering their texts.

We're kind of stuck here right now

because our systems frozen, our system is frozen.

We can't play anything.

If I go off the air, it's just dead air

and I can't allow dead air.

So we're going to keep going.

I think it's just an example of,

we were talking earlier about if we're cool or not.

I mean, hey, there you go.

We answered that question.

We are cool and we're cool under pressure.

So there you go.

Oh yeah.

What is going to be fascinating to me

is at 10 o'clock if we have to keep going.

Like how long?

Oh, I mean, I'm on.

Oh yeah, you've done a test.

You've done a test.

I should say if I have to.

Oh, you will have to maybe do your,

instead of recording mid-day magazine, just do a live.

I'll just do a live.

Just like the old days.

I'm doing a live, everybody.

You know, I'll jump in here for a minute.

We have an event coming up that we are United Way

is doing from Mother's Day, which by the way,

all of you children out there.

Mother's Day is May 12th, so you've

got a little over a week to get on that.

So be thinking about a nice something for your mother.

But from Mother's Day until Father's Day,

we are doing something new and something special

for the community.

And this is a diaper drive.

So we are collecting diapers, creams and pace, and wipes.

And these should all be new and unopened.

And we will be then distributing those

to the little people in the community

that need them the most.

So there's some partner programs out there

that can help address this need.

And it's something that we've just been hearing a lot about

as prices continue to rise on consumable goods,

that these are things that are really putting a lot of pressure

on some type budgets.

So we thought this was a great time to do this.

A lot of our neighboring United

Ways have a diaper drive.

And you know, what better from Mother's Day to Father's Day

to put this out there?

So we will be collecting, starting,

we're not open on Sundays.

So that's a little bit of a teaser.

But starting on Monday, May 13th,

we will be collecting diapers, wipes,

and creams and pace for little bottoms in our community

at the United Way.

And we are located at 351 Oak Street here

in Wisconsin Rapids.

That is near the post office, if you're unfamiliar.

But we would be happy to take your donations

from 830 to four Monday through Friday.

Encouraging to do so, everybody.

Reach out and find out more about our friends

over at the United Way and the great things

that they are doing over here.

They're uswac.org, uswac.org.

Terry, I had a question earlier

when we were talking about the United Way

and the school supplies.

The collection of school supplies,

if I'm a community member and I want to buy some supplies

that are drop off to add to this,

where can I do that?

Can I do that right away?

Do I have to wait?

Yeah, so school supplies are kind of just peeking out now,

right, like they're starting to show up in the stores.

And we will be collecting all of those on August 1st

at lunch by the river.

So we do encourage you to, you know,

maybe when you're doing your shopping,

pick up a few of those things and bring those to us.

We are the sponsor of Lunch by the River on Thursday,

August 1st, and we call it Stuff the Bus Day.

We will have school buses present at Lunch by the River,

and we literally put all the supplies on the school bus.

So that's, it's a fun visual and a great way

for people to associate that.

We will have some local businesses

that are drop points for school supplies, if you don't,

if you can't make it to Lunch by the River,

or you don't want to hang on to them until then.

But we are just in the process now

of starting to establish that list.

So just working on it, we're just soliciting businesses

to say, hey, will you be a drop off point?

So just be on the lookout for that

and we'll certainly update you as we go,

but it is really appreciated and encouraged

that you think about picking up some school supplies.

We will have a list on our website

of the most needed items, you know,

for people to consider picking up.

And the other thing that we do take

is monetary donations and all of those stay

with the stuff the bus program.

So things that we often have to purchase are backpacks.

You know, think about, I mean, I'm sure you're,

you're probably a prime example.

Think about how hard you were on your backpack

in elementary school.

Oh, dear God.

Oh, man.

So we do replace the backpacks for these kiddos each year.

So when they come to the event,

they're actually getting a backpack full of supplies.

And backpacks are not cheap.

And believe me, we are thrifty.

We are not buying the $50 backpack by any means.

A, we can't afford it.

I mean, we're serving almost 1,000 kids.

But we try to get good quality, good value

for what we have the ability to spend.

So that is a little bit of a spendier part of stuff

the bus.

And so we do take monetary donations as well.

So and some people honestly are just like,

you know, I don't really want to go get folders

in notebooks, but I'd be happy to give you 20 bucks.

And so you can do that.

That donation link is up on our web page now.

And you can donate directly to stuff the bus.

And then those dollars are designated there.

But otherwise, you know, if you like,

I always did this with my kids when they were little.

And I really enjoyed it.

When we would go shopping for their school supplies,

we would also like kind of do a third,

like like we were buying for a third kid, right?

So and then we would bring those,

well, I would have, you know,

bring them to lunch by the river and be part of that,

part of that donation.

And it makes a big impact.

And you'd be surprised if you spent, you know,

$10, $15, $20 on some school supplies

and brought those to us.

And if you think about it, you've got two months

to do that, you know, look at it like that.

You know, each time you maybe hit the grocery store

or what you're doing, you know, your bigger shopping.

Oh, this time I'm going to pick up a box of crayons.

Next time I'm going to pick up this

so that it's not a burden on your budget.

But it's a little bit of something extra.

And it makes a huge, I mean, it makes a huge impact.

You have, you just have no idea.

When, how often in life do you have an opportunity

to impact the future like this, you know,

by spending $20, and you're impacting the future.

You're helping our kids, you're giving these kids

something that they might not have otherwise.

And I think that you've shared this before,

this whole like showing up at a different school

or even just at the school that you've been at,

but you don't have the same stuff as the kid

at the next desk, right?

And it's a big deal and it's hard on kids.

And so if we can eliminate that disparity

so that if they're all supposed to have

a red, green, yellow, and blue folder,

then they all have a red, green, yellow, and blue folder.

Yeah, when Terry said that,

I hadn't thought about that since probably

the last time we talked about this.

And you said that, I immediately lowered my head

because that's what I did in class when that would happen.

I would move to, we'd move to a new town.

And this happened to be 10 different times.

We'd move to a new town.

I'm starting in a new school.

I don't have all the supplies I need

or it's not even the first of the school year.

So I'm coming in mid school year

and I'm coming in and I got a couple pencils.

And if I'm lucky in notebook.

And I had amazing parents and amazing family

that did everything they could.

But this was just the way it was.

And I go in and I've got kids looking at me

and already, I'm already a weird kid.

Let alone you add on these factors and stuff.

And that's, I'm sitting there in class

and where I could be paying attention to the teacher,

I'm distracted and I'm feeling shameful in all this.

And I'm not able to learn.

I'm not able to do all those things.

And it really held me back, like quite literally.

I do not admit this very often on the air

but I will tell people, I got held back in second grade.

They lost my paperwork and we go to the next class,

next school year and everything

and they don't have my paperwork and stuff

and I got held back a lot of that stuff when it happened.

If I was able to focus on class,

if I was able to be engaged in all this,

it may seem like, well, it's school supplies.

How far does it go?

How much does it really matter?

It means the world to these kids.

It means so much.

It alleviates a budget need, right?

Like it helps the family as a whole

but it also really does, you know,

the, probably the best value of this is eliminated the disparity

for that child amongst other students, you know.

We are gonna take a long overdue commercial break.

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

Thanks so much for joining Terry and I.

I'm gonna have some fun with you to wrap up this show

and take your time while there's some fun doing that, Terry.

Cause I wanna get into this one.

I'm waiting on this.

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