Hour 2: Pet of the Week

Good morning Wisconsin, good morning world.

It's a new day.

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Have your host James J with you.

I am joined by CEO of your United Way of Southwood and Ames County's Terry John.

Good morning.

We appreciate you joining us.

We got some entertainment news coming up for you in a little bit.

Some good stories of the day that ain't right stories, but it's a Thursday.

We kick things off talking about our pet of the week with our friends over at the South

wood County Ames Society.

We have Tim with us.

Good to see you, Tim.

Good morning.

Always appreciate the time.

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Tim, always appreciate the time.

Thanks so much for being able to join us today.

Where do you want to start?

Well, we'll do it some couple of pets of the week.

All right.

There are repeats.

All right.

So you're going to have to flip through.

First one is in the cat area.

We have Banzai.

Banzai, yeah.

I remember Banzai.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Banzai is now 228 days.

Hmm.

Yeah.

This is a large gray male.

It's kind of got longer fur.

So why Banzai still here?

I don't know.

We just haven't found the fit yet.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Just looking for that good home.

Looking for somebody out there.

So I'm coming to take a look at Banzai.

That would be nice.

That's one of the cuter cats I've seen.

That is a cute cat.

Banzai is just a two-year-old large male.

And of course, all of all the fixings.

Yes.

Got its shot and its microchip and all that.

Everything.

Yeah.

That's something we have to do before.

We adopt old.

Yeah.

All right.

So.

And on the dog side, once again, we have tick.

Yeah.

Tick is up to 323 days now.

Hmm.

Yeah.

She's a female mastiff, brindle.

She's a beautiful dog.

She's beautiful.

I think people get scared looking at her.

And she's a little bit bigger for a mastiff kind of a dog.

She is friendly.

Yes.

And just wants a home.

I'm pretty sure I've met tick.

Last time we had a remote and we did one out there and everything.

And I think tick was there at the time.

She might have even just gotten there.

It had a been.

It's almost a year now.

Yeah.

And just a beautiful dog.

Just a beautiful dog.

I'm a sucker for a brindle coat.

That's one of the cooler coats, I think, on an animal.

And she...

Hers is beautiful.

Yes.

Great dog.

Very sweet.

A lot of bigger dogs that at least I've run into in my life, the bigger the sweeter.

It just seems to be that that tends to be a lot of the case.

Not always the case.

And certainly not something that you want to just go walking up to a big dog and assume

that.

Correct.

But it does seem to be the case oftentimes.

Just bigger dog, more to love and more to love to give.

These animals are all got a perfect home out there.

We just got to find the right match.

Yes.

That is the problem.

Because we actually have two brindles.

We have taas, who is another pretty similar to tick for me, but he's been there quite

a while, too.

So I think people get the stigma of if they're a bulldog or pit bull or a master for something

like that, that there's a...

They're going to be mean, no good around children, no good this, you know, but that's not true.

Yeah.

I've been around a lot of dogs.

I've worked at four different shelters around the country and I've never run into any

of those dogs that have been mean.

The meanest dogs I've run into, weenere dogs.

Like those always seem to be mean to me.

Like they just said they'd attitude some of them to, but it's not all of them obviously

because it rarely comes down to the actual dog.

It's oftentimes how they were raised or how they've been treated.

And sure enough, like you, Tim, possibly, and even you, Terry, I've seen so many dogs

rehabilitated.

I've seen so many dogs that are just looking for a little bit of love and all of a sudden

you see their true personality come out who they really are.

These dogs are all looking for that.

These cats are all looking for that and we encourage you to reach out to our remains

society and find a perfect match and a new favorite friend.

Right.

They're a lot different when they get home.

You got to remember they're in a kennel setting and especially for someone like Tick,

she's been there almost a year.

So she's used to that, not a home, which is totally different.

Yes.

We don't know how they're going to react people, well, well, what about it, but you can't

tell.

Always.

We all know what it's like to be in the car too long or you're in a, you're in a small

space.

It's a small space for too long.

Now try imagine living in that.

Yeah.

You'd be pretty grumpy too.

It's actually a wonder that these animals are so sweet and friendly coming from that

shelter.

It's a credit to a lot of the remains society and a lot of the good work that that staff

does.

Being friendly with these animals and keeping them, you know, just engaged a little bit.

They're great pets and they're just looking for a good friend.

What else you got Tim?

Okay.

Due to the large amount of animals we have, we have a current sale going on.

So we're going to offer any animal dog or cat for $100.

Nice.

Nice.

So the only other, I mean, if you have the senior cats, they're 55 already.

Okay.

And with the cats, we, if you buy one at the regular place, we got the B-O-G-O, you're

buying one, get one.

So you, you could take two.

Yeah.

Yeah.

There you go.

That's good.

That's a never a bad idea.

And it not only does it help other human society who is, is very, very, you guys are booked.

You guys got a lot of animals over there.

It'd be great to be able to take some of these off of your hands and find them a forever

home, find them the great home, whatever age they are, whether it is either the animals

we have featured today or any of these other great animals we encourage you to reach out

and find that out.

We, yes, we were up the capacity with dogs and then we were getting bites again.

So we had one with three from the same house, didn't know which one bit.

So we had to take all three.

That was a little tough case too.

And so it's been up and down and the cats were getting big letters, a couple of eight,

six.

So it's that time of the year.

Yeah.

We're going to start seeing it and that requires a lot of fostering and a lot of work.

Yeah.

But it's not an easy task.

No, and that's where this community really steps up because we've got so many great people

out there that are looking for this right match.

And we know that you're out there, we know that these animals are all got good homes.

Just wait and find that right match.

That's all.

And to keep in mind too, when it comes to these animals, that the main society is not going

to be, oh, you want the dog here, like no, they're going to make sure that this is the

right fit.

They're going to ease you into this.

You're going to be able to check all the boxes you need to for you and your family to

know that this is a right fit.

And I have to say, and this is just me talking here, not anybody else, not Civic, not Tim,

not the main society or anything.

When you are getting these animals, please really think about every scenario.

When you're getting an animal, we are seeing way too many people, we saw this a couple

years ago with rabbits a lot.

People get an animal because they think it's a fun idea in the moment, or they think it's

a good idea for the kid in the moment.

And that is not what is, you really want to do something good for your kid, teach him

a life lesson.

Hey, we're going to go visit the Humane Society and we're going to go look at animals.

This is what it means to entail a hold in animal and stuff.

Maybe even pick up a little bit of what they did to us in school and to have them carry

around an egg or stuff to animal or stuff for a little while and have to take care of

that.

You don't know.

Oh, it's cool.

Yes.

Anything is better than bringing a living creature into your home and then kicking it out.

But that's not a good lesson to your kid.

That's not a good life lesson.

It's not really good karma.

It's not a good way to treat our Humane Society or our communities.

It's how we end up with so many animals running free or the Humane Society gets over booked

like they are.

So please think of those things when you're taking in these animals.

Almost everybody out there loves animals.

Not everybody can hold an animal, have an animal.

I can't.

I would take every single animal you bring to me, Tim.

I cannot tell you how serious I am right now.

I would absolutely do that.

I don't have the room and I know that.

So as much as I selfishly want a dog, real bad right now, maybe more than anything in

my life I want is my own dog.

I know I can't do it.

I don't have the space for it.

So I got to wait and that's the thing for the dog, not for me.

Something to keep in mind with this.

Well, we do try to vet as much as we can and some of the stories I'll just go quick.

We make sure if you rent your landlord okay with it.

We had one with a husband impersonated the landlord.

Yeah, like if you think you're going to hide it, you're not going to, right?

You can't hide a dog very long.

Exactly.

Well, he said he was a landlord and it was okay.

That's what I wasn't.

Yeah.

And you know, we do do background checks like I told you, prior show, if you have any kind

of violence in your record or domestic abuse or drugs, you're not a fit.

And we do have a certain vetting process we have.

You have to have a meet and greet.

If you have another pet, you have another meet and greet with your pet or your children

just to make sure everybody gets along.

But that is in our setting though.

So it's a little different than being in the house.

That's a smart way to do it.

Sometimes they get to the house and they start chewing things.

Yeah.

You just had a cat return because it was spring, everything.

So, you know, it does happen.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But you try as best as you can and do your best and that's all any of us can do.

Did you have any other notes for us?

One last thing.

We are looking for, I was just talking a dairy about this, looking for them, have employment

opportunities.

We're still, we're back in the process of the director of operations.

Okay.

We can always use ACTs, our animal care technicians and volunteers.

We have opened up the volunteer program to more volunteers than the dog room, cat room.

And now we're opening it up more if you would like to do some of the not so nice jobs.

Sure.

There's more to taking care of the animals than just holding them, brushing them and making

them look good.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

They need walking, they need socialization, they need behaviors.

And unfortunately they are, they go to the bathroom that needs to be cleaned, they need

to be fed.

This is a, this is a great idea for if you do have a teenager or a kid that wants an animal

or something, have them, you know, work at the volunteer at the main society a little

bit and give an experience of what it is like.

That there's a little caveat to that.

Oh, sure.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Finders, anyone under 18, but in the dog room, we don't.

Yeah, that's smart.

Just because of the potential for bites.

And if there's too much activity going around, there are some dogs, I will be honest,

that are a little more aggressive.

They systems other dogs they get aggressive.

But mostly they just, what happens is, when we're starting to walk them, if all the dogs

know, then, yeah, they're, they're going to get a turn.

Yeah, one is my turn, they don't understand the number.

They're the hierarchy here, yeah, the yard.

So, so if you want to go online, I know you always repeat it, and fill out an application.

We have it, everything is online now, applications for adoptions, all of our job postings, volunteers

even.

We do have a vetting process, so you're not just going to come in and, yeah, okay, go,

you're the least, you got them.

That doesn't.

It's a smart way to do it.

Work.

Always good to talk to you, too.

Thanks so much for joining us.

If you want to find out about bonsai, or you want to find out about tick, or any of

these other great animals over there, encourage you to do so, reach out to our friends at the

South of County Main Society.

You can email them, SWCHS, at SWCHS.com, give them a call at 423-0505, 423-0505.

Be sure to follow them on Facebook, it's a great follow, and find out more information

at their website, SWCHS, at SWCHS.com, at SWCHS.com, be sure to check that out, everybody.

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We'll be back with more fun on the morning show at WFHR.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show at WFHR.

I'm not interrupting the Queen.

I am not interrupting the Franklin.

You do your thing, Miss Franklin.

You do your thing.

Terry and James hanging out with you.

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Diving into a little bit of entertainment news.

Last week, open AI introduced a chat GPT voice called Sky that sounds incredibly similar

to Scarlett Johansson's voice in the movie Herr, which is a movie about her playing

doing the voice of an AI system, a future AI system and everything.

It didn't last too long because Scarlett called up her attorneys and they got it taken

down instantly.

I was just trying to follow all of that that you just said, the AI is a champion GPT who's

named it for this.

It's a lot.

It's a lot.

It's a lot.

I think most people have heard of chat GPT and those that haven't, it's a AI system.

I can give me a synopsis or this or write something like this and then it writes it for

you.

Actually, Bri and I just had a Patreon segment where we had a chat GPT try to write

a script for us and we read it and it was really bad.

It was really, really bad.

But it is crazy.

What it can do and then how fast it can crank it out too.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Scarlett says she has contacted, she has contacted, she was contacted last September by

CEO Sam Altman to provide her voice and she declined for personal reasons.

Quote, when I heard the release demo, I was shocked, angered and in disbelief, then

Mr. Altman had pursued a voice that sounded so similar to mine that my closest friends

in news outlets didn't know the difference.

And especially since he asked and she said no.

Yeah, that's really tacky man.

Yeah.

And it should be noted too, I think that this Altman is, this isn't the first or probably

the last time we've heard him doing these kind of like shady or things and such.

And he insisted that he wouldn't do this, he even tweeted a single word, her, like from

the movie, like before this and everything, like, you're saying the quiet part out loud,

man, you did this horribly wrong, this guy's, I don't know.

You hear these people, these CEOs in these positions and it boggles the mind how they got

to that spot.

Well, might be a four person company.

Yeah, it could be that.

It's also sometimes I think that businesses get really comfortable with a little bit of

success and continue to give people these jobs even though they haven't proven anything

in a long time.

Elon Musk, I'm sorry, sorry, that was a sneeze, I couldn't hold that in.

Yeah, this isn't going to end well, this isn't going to end anytime soon and this isn't

the last time we're going to see this.

This is going to happen more and more.

This is also one of the things that I push back on.

A lot of people have a fear of AI in these things.

I have zero fear of AI.

What I fear is people, I fear CEOs like this looking to save a buck or two and I'm not going

to hire the real Scarlett Johansson, I'll get the discount, the, you know, the B version

of this.

Well, and she already said no, I mean, yeah, you know, I don't believe that the AI system

is something to fear.

I think it's more of what people do with it that we have to worry about and have restrictions

when it comes to those things.

And I also believe in the, the, the people, I think people can tell the difference.

I think people want real and and we've, everything, every medium speaks to that nowadays, whether

you're pulling up a newspaper article or you're watching a TV show or you're nightly

news or you're listening to us here at WFHR, you're getting real because that's what

people want.

They don't want this anymore.

They're not looking for perfect.

They're not looking for unfalatable.

They're, they're looking for the real.

They're looking for something genuine.

If you want genuine, you're not going to get it from chat GPT.

You're not going to get it that way.

Um, and I, I feel like that, you no matter what your fears are, I trust the consumer.

As crazy as that might sound to some people out there, I trust them, the people, the society

to be able to be like, no, that's not what we're interested in.

We don't want that.

I, I, I think that there's a lot of things to keep an eye on in this world and I'm not

turning my back on AI, but I'm also not afraid of it.

I, I believe in the creative process.

I believe in people and I, I'm not going to, maybe it's my last genuine, you know, naive

bone.

I have my body, but I don't see a fear in this.

Michael J. Fox had an interesting interview recently where he was talking about a couple

of big topics.

So Michael J. Fox thinks it was more difficult to become famous back in the 80s than it is

today.

In his era, and in this era of social media, he may have somewhat of a point.

Quote, we were tougher.

We didn't have social media.

We didn't have any of that stuff.

We were just famous.

We left to our own resources and it was an amazing time.

You had to be talented that helped.

We used to bust our tails, our acting muscles and watch other actors and sit around and

talk about acting.

Now you've got people who are just like, what are you wearing?

And what's the newest dance step and some of these things?

I mean, I agree with him on that.

You had to be much more resilient, I think.

Absolutely.

I think it's pretty hard to argue against that really when you consider nowadays, you can

be an influencer and get famous from that and maybe get turned that into an acting job

or a radio job or a lot of these things.

We've seen quite a few people do it.

And I don't push back on it being harder to get a break in the 80s or 90s than it is

today.

I think that part is very pretty easy to kind of see.

What I will push back on and I do believe that it is important to note that Michael has

not acted in a long time and hasn't been on a set in a while and really hasn't been

around a lot of actors in quite some time.

I work with a lot of young actors.

I see a lot of these young actors and I almost push back on that and say the exact opposite.

Nowadays, you better be talented.

I have been at this for over 20 years.

When's the last time you saw me in a big blockbuster, all right?

And I'm talented.

This is the only thing in my life that I will tell you that I am very confident in.

I will go up against any actor in the world in any scene and I will hold my own.

I guarantee you that with everything that I am made of, NHS talent.

You've got so many other things, so many other factors that play into this.

So the idea that they were more talented in the 80s and they are nowadays with the amount

of information that's out there with the amount of resources for actors to be able to

study.

You don't have to be a jewelry art graduate anymore to be a good actor.

We've got a lot of evidence out there of actors out there too right now.

I actually push back on that a little bit.

I don't know that that's 100% true.

I 100% agree with him that it was harder to make a career back then than it is now.

It was harder to stay in the public eye than it is now.

But as far as the talent level, I don't know about that.

I think that if it's not the same, it's actually gotten maybe a little bit better because

it's had to.

Well, see, I mean, I don't know.

It's one of those things that I think that you really can't, it's a little like the NFL

draft.

Everybody wants to give draft grades.

We're not going to know about these players for three, four years.

You're not going to know anything for a little while here.

I think with something like this, we're really not going to be able to tell until we're

being able to look back ten years from now and see, oh wow, acting was horrible back

then.

Actually, it was pretty good.

It was better than we expected.

Interesting.

It'll be interesting to see where this goes.

We'll tap up our entertainment talking about the king.

Thank you very much.

Graceland will not be sold off.

I don't know how much people heard about this one or not, but this was a pretty big story

that the idea of Graceland was going to be shut down and sold.

Interesting.

Yesterday, a Memphis judge blocked the foreclosure auction that was supposedly going to happen

today.

What caused all this was a company named Nossiny investments in private lending.

They said that the late Lisa Marie Pressley had put Graceland up as a collateral on her

$3.8 million loan, but when she died, she still owed them.

So they were going to sell Graceland to get their money back.

This Lisa Marie's daughter, Riley, filed an injunction to stop it.

She claimed it was all a scam and Nossy had forged her mother's signature.

At yesterday's hearing, the judge pretty much backed up that claim because the notary

swore he did not notice Lisa Marie's signature on the deed of trust with this company.

After their setback in court, Nossy withdrew all claims on Graceland with prejudice, which

means they can't refile.

So yeah, she called their bluff and man, they're looking to get away with this mud.

I don't think this is the last they're going to hear of this.

And now there's talk that the FBI is going to get involved.

You're done, right?

The FBI is already involved.

The enemy guy, trust me, the government is going to come after that.

They are definitely going to get their money.

Yeah, that was, that was pretty weird story, isn't it?

You know, I was just hearing actually a local story of where people are selling, they're

stealing your information about your home.

And then they're selling it to people from out of state or whatever.

And then it's almost like irrevers, you know, it's like you own that home and someone

shows up and they all of a sudden have the deed to the home, but it's, but it's been

happening a few times here locally, like in our area.

And I just, I just, what does that matter with people?

Yeah, especially, you know, the, the hustler out there, the scam, a wannabe out there

and everything, the amount of time that they put into these things, if they put it into

a job application or something like that, not only would you be able to make a decent

living possibly, but probably stay out of prison.

Yeah.

No, it's probably a good idea.

It seems like it.

That is crazy.

Yeah.

I'm surprised that Graceland thing got to the day before.

I can't believe it got that far.

I'm so with you.

I was actually going to mention this to you off air.

I was like, yeah, I cannot believe that it got that far along in the process, but it

shout out to Riley to that young lady who doing that because I mean, I don't know how

this ends without that injunction.

They might have gotten away with this.

It's hard to imagine they would, but look how far it got in the process here.

And I think this is also going to have some, somewhat of an, I don't want to say a reverse

effect, but if you're a big Elvis fan and you've never been to Graceland and you hear this,

I imagine that you're probably going to try to make plans to go to Graceland.

I imagine you're probably going to try to check it out and everything.

So maybe this rises the popularity of maybe because it's, it has been dormant for quite

some time from what I understand.

People just haven't been, you know, hitting up Graceland like they used to and everything,

which is why the part of the reason this got to the place it did and such.

But at the same time, a $3.8 million loan on a place doesn't happen for something business

that nobody's showing up to.

So there's, there's, you know, opportunity there.

We'll see.

We will get to a quick news break.

We've got that coming up for you afterwards.

Terry and I will get into some fun stuff.

I've got, what are the best songs from Memorial Day?

We've got that one coming up and we'll get into, if you share a ride, you know,

what are some of the full pause with that and everything?

We've got all that coming up for you on the morning show at WFHR.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show here at WFHR.

It's a sweet track right there and it's a nice summer song, it's a very summerish song.

It's a nice summery day.

Want to remind everybody that we've got a beautiful summery, summery day, hopefully

coming up this coming Monday for Memorial Day and we will not be with you, everybody.

We will have some great programming for you though and we'll have more on that in a

moment a little bit later in the show and we'll certainly be covering it tomorrow for

you.

We won't have any of our live content for you Monday, but that's something that the

staff and I decided to do in honor and into, you know, to note Memorial Day.

This is a solemn time.

This is a solemn day while I know a lot of people are going to be taking advantage of

having the day off of work and those things.

Do not ever forget what the day's meaning is.

Please.

I'm actually pleading with you to honor Memorial Day the right way.

Have fun.

Enjoy your day.

That's part of why we have these freedoms and part of why we lost so many for these

freedoms.

But do keep that in mind and certainly during Memorial Day, you're not only going to be honoring

our heroes, but yeah, maybe going to be listening to some music and stuff and looking for ways

to enjoy, enjoy music and enjoy the time.

So in honor of them and those that we've lost, the folks over at Holler put together a list

of the best songs for Memorial Day and I got a pretty fun list here, actually, I think.

It's certainly going to feature a lot of country songs like Jody Messina's Heaven was needing

a hero.

It's a good song.

Good song.

Empty chair from Trace Atkins.

Even if you don't like the song, read the lyrics.

Yeah, it's a tear joker.

One of the things that when a country music writer gets it right, the story that they can

tell.

I think that I don't know if there's a genre, maybe folk music, there's a genre that

can tell a story like that.

Blues.

Blues certainly can, but it's more of a cliff notes kind of version of that story.

Country music, you're getting details.

You're going to know what kind of hat they were wearing and stuff and I really enjoy that

as a storyteller.

I think that that's a beautiful thing that they can do.

Memorial Day song from Coffee Anderson.

Certainly American soldier from Toby Keith.

Soldiers last letter from Merle Haggard.

Oh, now that, I just got goose bumps thinking about that one.

Yeah, that one definitely will get you.

Where were you when the world stopped turning from Alan Jackson, letter from home from John

Michael Montgomery?

And I think if you're going to have one song that you listen to, I think that the one

that I would choose, if you're reading this from Tim McGraw, I think that's a good one.

That's good.

One of the better artists in the music game, not just country music, in music as Tim McGraw.

And if you're reading this as one of his better songs, I think it's certainly one of those

ones that honors the day and hopefully reminds people that there's a big difference between

Labor Day, between some of these summer holidays and Memorial Day.

I do not think our soldiers ask very little of us and our vets ask almost even less from

us.

If anything, as a society, we should be going out of our way, bending over backwards

to make sure that they know how appreciated they are and one of the ways we can do that

is celebrating these days the right way, the way that they are intended to be.

You know, I even had a veteran say to me once, a living veteran, right, was, you know,

and I probably just in passing system that, you know, happy Memorial Day or something.

Like, no, no, no, no, no, this day is not about us.

You know what?

You know what I mean?

Like this is about those who have passed on, like this is about ultimate sacrifice.

This is about, you know, those who have served come back, lived their life in a past.

But it just was very interesting coming from someone who is a veteran.

So yeah, I mean, I agree, yeah, let's be thoughtful.

Yeah.

And it doesn't take much and you're going to have a lot of thoughts on Monday.

You're going to have a lot of time going, maybe on your hands, maybe you're not working,

I encourage you to take a moment, think about these things, look at different ways.

Maybe you can impact your local VFW ways you can help out.

We're going to get into some news notes and a little bit of some things going on with

our VFW.

And do want you to, I do want to remind everybody, we will not have any live shows for you

on Monday.

But we're going to be here with you on the morning show here at WFHR on Monday from

eight to nine.

We're going to have a special set face of the music for you.

One of his best episodes, he'll be playing for you.

And then from nine to 10, a kind of best of the kitchens open segment where we're just

for the whole hour.

We're going to have segments of the kitchens open with from Melissa and the rest of us.

It's going to be a lot of fun.

We have Raptor baseball on Monday looking forward to that.

We can definitely celebrate that one and enjoy some baseball.

Head on over to Fondalack.

If you'd like to check out the Fondalack dock spiders in your Wisconsin Rapids rafters.

Otherwise that Tuesday will be the first home game at Winterfield for the rafters that

season.

The game being on and as we all know of baseball, we're not sure when the game might end.

If the game ends before three or around three, we will have a special midday magazine for

you.

Last week, we had on Senator Teston and our friend Ben from the United Way on.

We'll be playing those at that episode.

If the rafters baseball game wraps up a little sooner, baseball is wrapping up sooner

nowadays.

I mean, I don't know.

On Northwood's league is picked up on what MLB did and they've been doing a little bit

of that.

It's going to be fun to see other leagues kind of like a pick that up from the MLB and

kind of okay, well, we're going to do some of that too.

We're going to have a pitch clock.

We're going to do some of these things.

It means people are in and out of the ballpark at a better time and able to kind of enjoy

some of their night and some of their day.

It's been really cool.

Find out more at northwoodsleague.com, Northwoodsleague.com, get your single game and package tickets

and we will meet you at Winterfield.

Of course, if you can't make it to any game, all season long, never forget every hit, every

pitch, every win of Refter's baseball right here at WFHR.

Those are some good songs.

If you have a song that you think would fit, please feel free.

Was that the whole list?

That was a whole list.

Well, yeah.

Yeah, that was a whole list.

There wasn't a whole lot, which I think speaks to.

We need more of these songs.

We need more of these.

We need more, and we need artists, other than country artists doing this too.

You know, the two that popped in my head weren't on the list.

Oh, what was that?

I mean, I thought like proud to be an American, you know, would be one and then travel in

soldier, which is the Dixie Chicks.

Yeah, traveling soldier, I was a little surprised that wasn't on the list.

But when you first, you know, threw it out there, I was like, oh, I bet those still be

on there.

Great, great choices.

Great choice.

I'm proud to be an American is a good one.

That's a good one too.

Great stuff.

And we'd love to hear from you.

Any suggestions you have for 24, 2600, feel free to call if you join the conversation.

We'll take one more break, hang out with our partners and come back and wrap up the show.

The morning show at WFHR, locally grown radio.

Welcome back to the show morning show here at WFHR.

Terry and James hanging out with you.

We're going to take you right to the top of the hour with nothing but fun.

We're getting into some good stuff here.

And of course, we're going to wrap up talking a little United Way, have some good stories

of the day and some great local events for you.

But let's go ahead and go right here, Terry.

Our feature kind of then ate right story today.

Do you share a car with someone?

If so, make sure that you leave the radio turn to their station.

That seems to be a big one.

That seems to be a big pet peeve.

Yeah, it's kind of a thing.

Someone pulled 2,000 married couples who share a car and asked for the most annoying things

about getting into the car after someone else used it.

The seat.

Yeah, good one.

424, 2600, feel free to call up and join us for this one, everybody.

So finding the radio station set to station you hate made the top 10.

And here are some others.

And the most annoying things about getting into the car, someone else drove is having to

move the seat forward or back as is the top complaint by far, Terry.

Nicely done by you.

Well, it's kind of funny because Randy can't even get in.

You know, like, so if we go somewhere together, we usually take my car.

And so when he gets into drive, like, he has to stand outside the car and put the seat

back because he can't fit too bad.

Having to readjust the mirrors, it's hard to get everything the way you like it when

it comes to that.

So that's one.

Because we don't think about until we're on the road usually and you don't want to be

distracted or trying to mess with your mirrors while you're driving.

Getting the seat back just right, meaning we're inclined how you want it.

I think that's similar to part one though.

They left you with an empty gas tank.

Man, yeah, that one.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You know what's my dad has done that to me more than I've done that to him.

That's.

It's payback for something.

It's got to be.

It's got to be.

The radio is blaring.

So the radio is like, you turn it on inside of a 10 or something like that.

Yeah.

Or turn.

Okay.

I turn everything off.

Not the radio.

But like, if I'm raining, if it's raining, not if I'm raining, if it's raining and I

get home, I still turn the windshield wipers off.

It drives me crazy when people leave those on and then you get in and now it's sunny like

this and they're, oh, that's my, that might be my biggest one.

I, there's not a lot of sounds that dry me crazy.

The nails on a chalkboard.

It's really bothering me.

Dry.

Dry?

Yeah.

The dry windshield wipers.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Turning the radio on and it's a station you don't like.

Again, seems very similar to the part one, but okay.

I think they just wanted a 10.

I think they just wanted to have 10.

For me too, if someone else drives my car, like the girls will blew tooth their phone

to the car.

Oh, yeah.

But then they don't like disconnect it.

So then mine doesn't connect when I get in.

That's annoying.

Let's find out from you.

Good morning.

What's on your mind?

Oh, I wish I could drive your car here because I would just drive to your car.

Oh.

Oh.

I would.

I would.

I would.

I would get beat far as far as back as I can.

That would jump from here.

I'll stay down.

Music.

Really loud.

What did I go on?

You know, elevator type music.

I like elevator music.

You know, it's really funny.

I've been listening to books in the car.

And so if I don't switch it back to radio before I get out, then if my phone is in the

car, the next time it starts up, then the book keeps going.

And I just get like these eye rolls.

Remember?

Like, we don't want to listen to your book.

I'm like, well, I don't know.

But you know what?

Okay.

So that reminded me your immaturity reminded me of.

Oh.

Oh.

No, but listen, I have an uncle that when I was little, he used to go in, well, he probably

still does it.

But I can remember, like, at parties and stuff, he'd go in everyone's car.

You know, and he'd, he'd crank up, like, he'd, when it wasn't all digital.

You know what I mean?

So he'd like turn up everyone's radio and he'd turn on their, their wipers and like,

all that so you'd get in, put the key in and start the car.

And all this chaos was going on.

Oh, that's good.

Oh, that's good.

He always used to do that.

I, we, we see where maybe some of the influence you've gotten from.

So that's part of where it comes from.

I see now.

We're seeing the connecting medots all this on there.

What is one of your bigger annoyances, Kev, if you get in the car, even if it's something

you've done, because I've, I've actually annoyed my own self with some of these things.

But when I forget the windshield wipers or something like that, is there anything that

for, that's annoying for you?

I guess the biggest thing is when I, the boy had my truck, because they look messed with

the mirrors.

Yeah.

That's the one in my, but yes, I guess that's one of my biggest things to use them.

But like you don't want them to, but you don't want them to drive it without adjusting the mirrors

because then they hit something, but yeah, it is, that is annoying.

I wonder if there's an area in our lives that we have more pet peeves about than with our

vehicles.

You know, I think even our own homes, we don't have as many as we do with our vehicles.

I don't know about that.

Maybe not.

Maybe it's a little neck and neck maybe.

But you know, I also drives me crazy is when you, someone shuts off the, like let's say

you pull into a parking space and you shut off the car without straightening your wheel.

Oh, yeah.

Like why do you leave it turned?

Because when you come back and get in it, you're going to have the, yeah.

Like, uh, that's a, that's a good, that's a good one.

Always good.

I mean, I'm part of the, that's part of the reason why, you know, it's part of the stuff that I've learned now

over the years of, with my job of, you know, making sure your wheel is turned the right way.

You know, the mirrors are adjusted and the worst thing about it is as well.

Sometimes when I get in the morning from my, my work truck is that the first and that fuel is my truck

is shorter than me and they always adjust the seat.

Like all you're doing is driving it to the pump and back to my spot.

Yeah.

But that's all my seat.

Yeah.

You know how to mess with the seat, man.

Yeah.

That's too much.

Now around here, I get it because we have a lot of different people sitting in chairs,

but I can always tell if Seth or somebody else sat in the chair before me, because if they,

if it's somebody else, it's down.

If it's Seth, it's right where it's supposed to be.

Right where I like it.

Everything.

Well, that's one of those ones we run into around here.

I could see that with the vehicle.

You know, so like tomorrow, then you're going to go into work and your truck's going to be crashed

because the person that needed to fuel it up decided not to move the seat and then they couldn't reach the brake.

I want the person that fuels my truck and no one can reach it.

I want a new segment that worked to mess with me.

A new segment we're going to do where it's just you two going back and forth.

I don't even care what the topic is.

I'm just going to throw a topic out there and let you guys discuss.

We'll do coffee talk.

We'll do the old coffee talks.

There we go.

Perfect.

Random topics.

Okay.

We get one pass now.

Yeah.

One pass.

One pass.

One pass.

Always good to hear from you, man.

Thanks for the call.

Leave my car alone.

All right, guys.

You're a beautiful day.

You too.

Have a great one.

Best listeners and radio.

If you're going to call up and join the conversation 424-2600.

The last ones on this list as far as kind of our biggest annoyances with our vehicles, feeling

too cramped, kind of the same as the seat position, they left the car a mess.

I was going to say do not leave garbage in my car.

I have a spot where I put garbage, so if you put it there, fine.

But don't leave.

Okay.

Straw wrappers.

I seriously, like, I'm like, you guys are never getting food from a drive-thru again, ever, ever.

If I find another straw wrapper in my car.

I almost don't mind the wrappers as much as the single fry.

The single fry that nobody goes and picks up and it hangs out for months in your vehicle.

You don't know about it and all that or anything.

Yeah.

That's the one that bugs me.

Yeah.

Finally on the list, having to adjust the heat or the AC mean to the temperature, of course, they left it on or something like that.

But oh, I think all things that can be fixed.

All things that you can, if you really talk to the person, hey, please don't do this anymore.

Well, some people will exaggerate it and do it more.

Some people will, yes, exactly.

It depends on what your karma with that person might be.

Or if you're married or not.

But the thing that I wanted to come back to is they really focused just on married couples with this.

And I think that made it a lot more fun and interesting in the article and such.

And probably, honestly, something else is irritating you and then you get in the car and you're like,

ah!

Yeah.

Yeah.

Let's get a palette cleanser in and look at some local events going on, including some local things happening here.

At this radio station, I encourage you to just stick around for Matt and Air on the air.

Not only one of the better voices you'll hear in radio and Jane Matt and Air.

But fun, interesting conversations, as always, with some great guests.

I encourage you to also join us a little bit later in the afternoon for the Maggie Dawn show.

I really have enjoyed getting to know Maggie and meeting her wonderful human being.

And appreciate the work that she does here.

Right after Maggie's show, we will have Midday Magazine for you.

Join us in part one at three o'clock today.

Our great friends, Steven and Katrina Hentner from Family and Outro Foods will be here.

We'll catch up with them and see what's going on over at the shop.

And in part two, Janelle Weir, Horticultural Educator with UW-Madison Extension.

Looking forward to it.

Great show today.

Tell us what Janelle, really good show back-to-back guests.

Nothing but great conversations there.

Always learned from Janelle whenever she joins us.

Looking forward to that.

It is the third Thursday of the month.

And that means that live music over at the center, a Central Wisconsin Cultural Center,

join us and have a great time.

Two to four this afternoon.

Pete Revelle for on the floor.

One of the better entertainers this area has.

And it is going to be a gorgeous day outside on the patio.

Yeah, perfect day to enjoy some sweet jazz, enjoy the music, and some great MC work.

I am telling you, Pete is one of the best I have ever seen at this.

Not only giving you some great music, but some great stories, great conversation,

love hearing from Pete and for on the floor.

Go ahead and check them out every first and third Thursday of the month.

Live music at the Central, a center Wisconsin Cultural Center at 2651 A Street South in Wisconsin Rapids.

When you are over there, keep in mind that donations are accepted for the musicians.

They was appreciated.

It is free admission.

But they always appreciated donation.

And they are right next to culverts.

You could go for lunch and then go next door when you are done and enjoy the music.

Can't go wrong there.

Do want to remind everybody as we are getting everyone ready for Memorial Day.

This Friday, there will be a legacy stone dedication at 10 a.m. at Wood County Courthouse.

Encouraged you to go check that out.

Stop by and pay your respects.

I know anytime I'm even walking past the courthouse, I take a moment to look at those.

And that's a cool ceremony when they do that.

Yeah, it's a really good ceremony.

If you haven't got to see it before, this Friday is a great opportunity for that.

And remember, Saturday, May 25th, the all-female quilts of valor presentation

will be at 1.30 at East Junior High in Wisconsin Rapids.

This is a meaningful moment.

I want as many people as we can to take in this moment.

The quilts of valor presentations are always meaningful and hit the heart.

This is a special one.

This is an all-female quilts of valor.

And this is the first time this has been done.

So not only can we take some pride in our area and our VFW and the people behind this.

Of course, the wonderful human beings that make these quilts and everything.

But I think you can also be a part of history and take in this moment.

Any of these are great ways to celebrate our vets, to celebrate our soldiers,

to remember those that we have lost in truly honor Memorial Day.

Keep in mind on Monty Memorial Day, there will be ceremonies at 9 a.m. at Riverside Cemetery in Nicosia,

10 a.m. at Village Report Edward Cemetery, 11 a.m. at Forest Hill, M.A.

Wisconsin Rapids, and also at 11 a.m. at the Spring Branch Cemetery in the town of Rome,

off of County Highway D.

Keep in mind everybody, and we'll talk about this more tomorrow as we get closer to the day.

And Terry, one of the wrap-up talking a little United Way with you.

I want to remind everybody that we've got some great things going on with our United Way.

I'm all summer long.

There's a lot going on right now.

We are doing our diaper drive, so this is happening from Mother's Day to Father's Day.

So we are just, you know, a little over a week into this.

We are accepting any size diapers, new, unopened packages, please, along with wipes and diaper rash creams.

So these will be distributed through various programs in the community that have expressed a need

or have had families, you know, experiencing some hardship in this area.

And so this is a way that we can step up and help with that.

So donations of diapers, wipes or diaper rash creams can be dropped off at United Way,

which is 351 Oak Street here in Wisconsin Rapids.

We are right near the post office.

And we are open 830-4 Monday through Friday.

We are closed this next Monday, though, for Memorial Day.

So we encourage you to meet and maybe when you're out shopping, pick up a donation to help with our diaper drive.

So that's going on now.

You also can register for Stuff the Desk, which is our school supply distribution.

If you qualify for free and reduce lunch, you qualify for free school supplies.

You do have to pre-register, and you can do that by visiting our website or calling 211.

Each child in the home that is, that you need them, that you need to receive supplies needs to be registered.

So, I mean, it does, you know, it might take you a couple of minutes, but it's not, it's not a cumbersome process,

but we do require registration.

So I encourage you to do that sooner than later because time slots for the distribution do fill up.

We have you now that we can.

Our food sculpture contest happening June 18th at the Raptors game.

So looking forward to that.

We have eight teams that will be building food sculptures.

And our friends from a Mill and Memorial Library will also be there.

I'm doing an impromptu schedule and impromptu sculpture during the pre-game.

So that's a great time.