Good morning, Wisconsin. Good morning, world. It's a new day. Thanks for kicking it off
with us right here at WFHR, locally grown radio. Got your host, James behind the mic. I am joined
by our head of news, Melissa K. Good morning. Head of production, Seth Habacker. Good morning.
And the best listeners in radio. Thanks for joining us, everybody. We've got fun stuff
to get into here in our entertainment section to kick things off. And a little bit later,
we're going to get into either something that seems easy to others, but it's difficult
to you. Or the 10 most underrated skills that everyone should learn. We'll make that
call a little bit later, looking forward to that. We'll also have some local news for you.
Let you know what's going on with your rafters. What's going on with Midday magazine. And
of course, other weekend lineup, getting all that in a little bit. But I want to actually
kick things off, doing this a little bit differently. We usually kind of wrap up with
local news. I want to start with local news. And our good friends over at Wisconsin Rebs
Community Theater, they have their karaoke night tonight. Yeah. Join them at the Lewis
Canton Studio Theater. Six to eight will be kid friendly. And eight to ten will be adult
content. They will have concessions available. This is a wonderful, wonderful opportunity
to get out. Have some fun. And maybe stretch your voice a little bit. Maybe enjoy. Maybe
get out there and try something different. No, no judgment, no judgment zone. No,
just go and have some fun. You've got Beth emceeing this for you. So you've got a great
emcee over there that's going to have a lot of fun and can sing herself. So that's going
to be a lot of fun. And it's a great chance to stop by the theater, maybe pick up a pamphlet
for the next upcoming season. Maybe even look at a script. Yes. W R C T celebrating their
50th year next year. That's very exciting. Very excited for them. And be sure to bookmark
their web page at wrctheter.org. Not only great place to get tickets for upcoming shows,
not only a great place to find out about all the kids shows coming up this summer. Oh
yeah. But of course, be able to reach out and find out ways that you can interact and
be a part of things over there. That's what we want. We want every community member to
have experience. What it's like that we experience over on that stage. Yes. We're really
fortunate. Helping with ushering or hospitality. There's something that you can get involved
with theater volunteers. I need to volunteers. Yeah. I didn't mean technically. I had to
be on the stage. We all experience on that stage. Right. There's some really fun things
coming up. They have Newsy's junior coming up in July. Gretchen is so excited about
this one and hearing her talk about these kids. There's a couple in particular that she's
just so ecstatic that for the audience to see just because of they're going to be they're
getting older and aging out and stuff. She loves all these kids. They're all talented.
But some of them, you know, just where they age out of this, you know, you miss, you're
going to miss and stuff. That's right. They want to be involved until they're 18. That's
right. But they're float for the cranberry blossom. They did a great job with it. They did
a great job. We're going to actually feature Newsy's juniors not only on a midday magazine
coming up, but we're also going to have them on a director's cut coming up. We'll have
a couple of the kids on. We'll do some scenes and we'll have some fun. It's going to be
great. Looking forward to that. Other great shows coming up this summer as well that you'll
have. It's a madhouse in July. The auditions will be in July. The show itself will be in
August. And midsummer is is coming up as well. They're performing at lunch by the river.
They are. And let's see, at least a couple of people here have some kids involved in
that show. So yeah, midsummer ish is a really fun thing to do. It's a great one. Funny.
Oh, the script is hilarious. WRC theater.org and be sure to follow them on social media
everybody. We'll add more on them. Of course, throughout the year, really throughout the
season, we'll be talking about them and all of our local community theaters. We are,
I don't want to say we're changing our focus. We're zeroing in a little bit more on local
when it comes to this entertainment section here. I think that's good idea. We are the
only ones that can cover this. We're the best ones to cover it. So we're going to make
darn sure that we do. Yep. And we got a cover for people like Woody Harrelson because
Woody doesn't have social media. He's not. He doesn't have a phone. And this is the
only way you listen to radio. It's the only way you can do it. I want to admit right
away, I made gigantic fan of Woody Harrelson. Big, big fan of his. Well, Woody Harrelson
is one of those people out there that doesn't have a cell phone. He says, quote, I just don't
like to like to have, you know, to be readily available to any human being at any time.
When he did have a phone, he found it necessary to limit himself to two hours a day. But even
that was too much. Quote, I like to be in touch with people in a way, but I don't like
the appendage on my appendage. Yeah. I just, I just finally, I wanted to be able to
be in like, if I, if I were out to dinner with you, right? And that it's just us having
a conversation. There's no other distractions. Oh, I'm on my phone. Yeah. You know, I look
back at my device every time you're, you're, I'm not talking. I, he noticed these things
about people. So he just kind of like cut it out of his life and doesn't happen. It's,
it's easier to do when you're Woody Harrelson and you have an established career and plenty
of money and you've got people working for you. That does help. Yeah. That's true.
He also spends the majority of his time at his house in Hawaii, where you just, it doesn't
need it as much because he's got everything he needs right around him as far as people
and stuff. So I, I mean, I think that there's factors to this. Not just everybody can.
That's great. Yeah. Yeah. But I do think it's kind of unique and cool, especially when
there's so many celebrities going in the opposite direction, right? When they're online
all the time. Yeah. But for those of us like if you can take a day, even and just put
your phone away. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It'd be nice. It's a little mini vacation. Yeah.
Not much, a, a quiet place part two or three is out this weekend. That's the only new
real big, really nationwide release out. Looking what's new on your small screen though. I got
to check out some of the summer Olympic trials last night, the track and field ones. Oh
my God. Oh my God. You guys, we are running game over there. Like literally running game
over there in Paris. They don't know what's coming. They really don't like. If you haven't
been paying attention to our athletes, first off, we're going to talk more about this in
playmakers. But you got a local kid who was we were watching last night, Cordell Tinch
out of Green Bay in the hurdles. They finished second only the only to Galway who is, is
our Carl Lewis this year. Galway is going to again, run game over there. If you don't
know his name now, you will buy the end of August. It's going to be fun. I look forward
to this. You can today, Saturday and Sunday, the summer Olympic trials will be going on
on NBC and peacock. Tonight at seven on ESPN, the 2024 NHL draft, Black Hawks have the
number two pick. And on Disney at seven o'clock tonight, the series premiere of zombies,
the reanimated series. Oh, cute, cute. That's going to be on. That's a good way to
work. That's very creative. I just got that netflix. If you're looking for a movie to watch
a family affair, romantic comedy, starring Joey King, Nicole Kidman and Zach Efron. You've
got the BET awards on BET Sunday at seven also on Sunday, House of Dragon has a new episode
and rice is an interview with a vampire, the shy and a couple of others. Okay. So there's
a show with the interview with a vampire. Yes, yes, yes. Actually, I kind of wanted to check
it out. I read the books and I was a big fan of the movie and everything, but I have not
gotten to see the show. I've heard a lot of good things about it though. A lot of people
enjoy it and it seems to be very good. Very cool. Well casted too. It sounds like, which
with those I kind of characters, that's what it comes down to to me. Like even before
the script and everything, you got to nail those characters. And it sounds like they did.
I haven't seen it myself. How do you recast a young Kirsten Dunst? Yeah. Yeah. Of
course, she was, honestly, of all the man of the movie, she was like the only really
like characters that stood out for me. Except, you know, because I wasn't, I didn't think
Tom Cruise or Brad Pitt was really well cast in the original movie, which is why I think
that the show was doing so well because they're not like, oh, got to go up against Tom
Cruise. People were like, man, yeah, they're not like Tom Cruise has to be Lestat, you know,
kind of thing. I will say I agree with you. But more importantly, Anne Rice agreed with
you. But then when Anne Rice saw Tom Cruise do the role, that's true. Much like a lot of
us, I was, I was impressed. I still think somebody else might have done it better. I still
think that it should have probably gone to somebody else, but given what it was, seeing
him, I was impressed with what he did. Like I have been a lot of times with Tom Cruise.
Again, wouldn't want to have a beer with him. Have no interest in it. Even I don't even
know if I'd want to work with him to be honest with you. Not that I'm going to turn down
any acting role. But don't you be as far as you know, given the given to do and everything,
did a nice job. And I was, it's one of Brad Pitt's better performances, I think. It really
is. Legends of the fall is probably his greatest performance. Yeah.
It's like a kale makeup did a lot for him, I think. Yeah. And one of the touch on some
new music that is out. All right. Like you've got new music from Imagine Dragons. They
haven't, they're six out of Mount Loom. Camelo, Calbello has a new album out. Megan, the
stallion has a new album out. It's just called Megan. That's actually kind of cool. I like
that. That's simple. Megan trainer, do you want that? Like that, too? Or was it just
called? Oh, she might have. Oh, that might be confusing. Yeah. That might be tough.
How many Megan's? But part of the reason I'm doing this is because I wanted to mention
two artists in particular. First, early days from Neil Young and Crazy Horse. This is a
collection of rare and unrelieved recordings from 1969. Whoa. That's pretty cool. You're
a fan of Neil and Crazy Horse. You're going to excited about that. And I know I am very excited
about. And at some point this week, and I have to listen to Johnny Cash songwriter. This
is his 72nd album and his fifth post human, humanistly, posthumously released. It was recorded
as a series of songwriting demos in the early 1993. Oh, interesting. Wait, Johnny Cash.
That's fascinating. Last week, we had Willie Nelson have an album come out with new music
and everything. And I think about a week or two before that, Dolly Parton had an album
come out. Like these artists still create music. It is so cool and it is so amazing. And
it is incredibly necessary because they need the money most of these artists because they
don't make enough money off of these things. We, I'm sorry, everybody, but this is going
to segue and we write into what I wanted to get to. One of the stories that I had over
on the sunrise show today that encourage you, if you haven't not heard about or anything
to learn a little bit more about or read up on, in part because if Randy Travis can get
himself to do it, who are we not to care about this? Randy Travis and his wife Mary testified
before Congress this week in defense of the American Music Fairness Act. A bill that
aims to compensate artists when their songs are played on the radio. Mary herself said
this piece of legislation is essential to correct a hundred year old issue regarding artists
and non-payment for their work performed on the most prominent music platform in America,
which they help to build and sustain. In the interview, she says, after Randy Stroke,
we depend more on royalties because he can't tour. Exactly. Exactly. How many of you enjoyed
Randy Travis' music? How many of you have enjoyed his career? How many? How much have
you paid for that? Maybe 20, 40 bucks when you count the CDs you've bought or the songs
you've downloaded? Let's even see. A little more if you went to a concert.
Yeah, so we're getting into the hundred ranges here and everything. Okay, you got a pretty
good deal on Randy Travis. Absolutely. You got a pretty good deal. How about Randy gets
a good deal? How about Randy doesn't have to keep on creating music and Johnny Cash's
family doesn't have to keep releasing music or Willie Nelson doesn't have to keep releasing
music. They do this because they love this. They have a passion for it and they need it.
They also need to live. They got to live. That's their job. Whether it is radio or even
more important to me than the radio part, I'm not just saying that because I'm on radio,
that has been corrected in some ways, but there's still work to be done. Absolutely.
We can't take our eyes off the ball. If you like music, if you've ever enjoyed a song
in your life, pay attention to what Spotify, what Apple music, what all of these companies
are doing to these artists because they're sitting there making bank off of these artists
where the artists are literally getting pennies on the dollar for their songs. If you care
about arts, if you care about music, if you've ever enjoyed a song in your life, you should
be thinking about this and focusing on this because this is something that can be corrected.
As fans of these artists, we can correct this. Stop listening to Spotify. Just stop. Is there
no other way to get your music? Oh, you poor thing. Is there no other way to... I'm sorry,
there's about a billion other ways. I see now. Okay. If you really want to make some damage
in this, I don't listen to music on Spotify. I refuse to. I will not do it and they carry
our podcast. I'm not going to give them money. I'm not going to continue to do it. We
have to take a stand on these things. If you stand for nothing, you will fall for everything.
And if there's an artist out there that you particularly like, all artists have their own
websites, get their music, get it directly from the source. That is the best way to support them.
Get it from the source because they get all of that money and that's really important. So it takes
maybe three more days for you to if you bought the actual CD or record. Or record, final record,
that's what I do. I might take a couple more days to get to you, but it's worth it. It is,
100%. Yeah. Rapping up, talking a little rafters, rafters are back in action tonight,
taking on the Fondolek Doc Spiders. A 620R pre-gift will kick off. The boys of summer are in Fondolek
for the next couple of nights. Both 620 Start Times for Friday and Saturday again, both in Fondolek.
Be back home on Sunday at 1250 Start Time, hosting Fondolek. And keep in mind, this Sunday
30th is free family day featuring various children TV characters. Show up with at least one adult
in one child and you can receive free tickets. Ooh, nice. And family Fondolek pre-game kids play
catch with rafters on the field. That's going to be fun. And they have their concession special,
$3 ice cream and a mini helmet. I got to get one of those mini helmets. We have a couple of
them at home now. They're actually pretty cool. They're awesome. They're pretty cool. Yeah.
I'm so glad they brought that back. I know, it's awesome. And they give you ice cream in the helmet.
They do. Yes. It's very cool. They're cool. We're going to come out with child and can somebody
make my stomach like that? We're going to see if we can help you out with that, Melissa. We'll do
that during the commercial break. When we come back, we're going to get into props from classic
movies that we're throwing in the trash. Oh, no. I will. And we'll also get ready for your
news break and plenty more on the morning show here at WFHR 975 FM 1320 AM. We are locally grown radio.
Well, come back, everybody. Morning show here at WFHR locally grown radio.
Seth, Melissa and James here with you. Thanks for what you're doing us. I'm going to
lead you into our news break in just a moment. But first, movie props go for a lot of money,
especially when they're from classic movies and such. Or, you know, cult favorites or anything.
So it might break your heart to let know that some of these were just kind of thrown away.
Oh, that is kind of keep in mind. Most of us throw away a lot of toys that we would love to have
right now to be able to sell on eBay. Oh, my friend. We keep everything forever.
Looked back even a little bit farther and every one of us, well, not every one of us, but a lot of
us had a dad or a parent that had a great baseball card that they used to make their other
bicycle make noise. Yeah, make it sound like you're going faster. But on this Wagner card that you
used to make the as Billy says the sound going down the road is $5,200, $10, $200 down the drain.
That's so good. How about let's look at these props. Like the treasure map from the goonies.
Oh, I got thrown away. Oh, that hurts. Sean Aston's mom threw it away after he moved out of the house.
Oh, no. What's he do? How could you say? How could another actor know? Like just like think so
flippantly of somebody maybe maybe it's cuz it was patty dude. And she to her movie props weren't
that big a big deal. Right. Exactly a painting of the emerald city from the Wizard of Oz. It was
tossed by a salvage company when cleaning out the MGM back lots. Oh, no. Can you imagine?
Can you imagine that? Oh, I mean, it's a gorgeous piece of art by itself. Oh, man. All right,
I got to be honest with y'all. I didn't expect this to hurt. I just I just thought this'd be fun.
I didn't expect it to actually hurt. This is actually I feel like everybody's sad right now feeling
into my soul. I apologize. The scrum didily umptious chocolate bars from Willy Wonka and the
chocolate factory. And just as a side note, it's before 10 a.m. and I pulled that word off. Okay.
That was pretty good, dude. I will also mess up somebody's last name today. I will
thousands were thrown away from the production lot to make room for the filming of Cabaret
only one survived. Really? Oh, wow. The actual chocolate bars. Wow. That's true. I mean,
keep that in mind. And think about that that lot went from filming Willy Wonka to Cabaret.
Man, the magic of Hollywood. Yeah. Yeah. The Death Star from the original Star Wars
Fox threw it out because they didn't want to pay rent on a storage unit. No, no.
Right? No. Oh my gosh. Yeah. I just just too much of a bother. You know, I wonder. I don't
know how much like nowadays. Oh, we just throw it on eBay or throw it online or something.
Exactly. I don't know if back then it was it was as easy. I don't know. I'm not trying to make
excuses for them because there is no excuse to throw away the Death Star. That's seriously. Although,
I thought that thing blew up. I mean, they had a couple of Death Star. They had a couple.
But still wait, there's another Death Star. Oh, no. It's different sizes too. Look.
You can find that one probably why they couldn't dox it at all. No, it blew up, man. Yeah.
How did the creator of the Death Star ever get another job? Like, I mean,
you got this one, one little tiny spot in the Death Star that you just got to protect. Just
protect that one little spot. Couldn't do it. Couldn't do it. Scarlet O'Hara's dress from
gone with the wind. Wow. Really? It was found in a throwaway pile on the floor at a costume
company. Oh, wow. Wow. That's just an iconic outfit too. Oh, I mean that. I don't know if there's
another prop from that movie that would be more iconic. No, not that I've ever thought about this
before, but just off the top of my head, thinking of that movie. Which I've watched that movie
at least a couple times. And I think it's, I don't know if it holds up necessarily, but I think
it's an important movie to watch for American history in any way. Not just film history,
but American history. Absolutely. And some of the greater acting you'll ever see too.
There is no bad performance in Gone with the Wind. Not one.
I'll make Daniel. Let's go get a say. I'll make Daniel. Oh, yeah. And finally,
in this one, if those others didn't hurt you, everybody, this one is not going to feel good.
The leg lamp from a Christmas story. All of the lamps were thrown away by the 90s.
Oh, wow. How about that? Although they were all recreated. Yeah.
I own rep them now. You can get it as a keychain. You can get it as a tie. I have it.
I was trying to find a way to spin this in a happy note to wrap up and everything and Melissa saw
before I did. Yeah. That's that. You know, the leg lives on. The leg lives on. And and
and no, no, that's James. Now, you can correct me if I'm wrong on this. Now, when you're on a set,
okay, your movie TV show, aren't they pretty particular about props? Yes. Look like no one,
you do not take that with you. You live that here. You cannot. You can get in trouble if you take
it with you or something like that. I come from theater. And and and for me, I like to get
familiar with my prop. I want to hand a little bit. I put it right back where the prop people put
them, but I will check my props beforehand as you two probably did and before every show and
everything. Right. Check your props. It's an actor thing that we mostly do. Kind of a requirement.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Sure. It's the right way. This is not any different in TV and film. You're
still supposed to be in charge of checking your props. It's it's part of the reason Alex Baldwin
was in all the trouble he was with the rust shooting. He was the guy that was going to be handling
that gun. So while yes, the prop people have their jobs and that comes first as an actor that you're
handling this, you are an adult. You have to go over this prop, whether it is a knife or a candlestick
or anything else from the clue set. I don't know why I went that route. It's going to say it,
right? That was nice. Yes. So it's very weird to think that these props, once they're done,
they're just done and they just throw them away or whatever. There are more like like eight,
eight, two, four, like some smaller studios that hang onto a lot of their props for reuse.
Yep. But your MGMs, a lot of them back in the day.
So much money. They just, yeah, they just kind of tossed it out. Yeah. Yeah. They are very
particular while you're filming after you're done filming. There's a lot of actors that are
able to take props home, take costumes home. I think that almost all the guys from the
Firefly TV show kept their original costumes. Wow. And I only know this because Nathan and Alan
have been talking a lot on social media about the Disney buying Firefly and then bringing it back.
Hopefully bringing it back. It does look like that's happening. That is certainly like that is
going to happen with those two leading the charge. You are not going to have Josh Weed in this
part of this. He is not going to be a part of this. Thank God. You will have that creative,
a different creative power behind it. But yeah, you're going to be having future Firefly
episodes. Yeah. I was curious. And I think these days now people know about the collector's market.
Back then they really didn't, they might have been one but it was smaller. But nowadays it's
big business. You know, all these collectors want to get all these pieces of cinema history as it
were. There was, if you want to go to mentalfloss.com you can find the complete list mentalfloss.com.
I did have one other one I wanted to mention here and this is kind of interesting. It's a little bit
of in the gray area. The theater chairs for Cisco and Ebert. Oh, interesting. They thought they
were never, they were never featured in a movie. The balcony seats occupied doing the dueling
critics of Cisco and Ebert might be some of the film industry's most important pieces of furniture.
When Cisco died in 99, Ebert continued to co-host with guests. But just before Disney cancelled
the show in 2010 amid some, you know, not some great dealings. They destroyed the original set and
the chairs were sledge hammered. Ebert felt they belonged to the Smithsonian and he was right.
Yes. Like he was about a lot of the films he does. Yes, that's true.
Uh, shame on Disney. Shame on Disney for that. That's not right. No, not. Yeah. Oh, yeah.
That's a long list. I can, we want to talk about shame on Disney. I can spend two hours on that alone.
Um, we'll get a, we'll come back after our news break and we'll decide are we going to get into
something that seems easy to others, but it's difficult to you or the 10 most underrated skills
that everyone should learn. Find out when we come back on the morning show here at WFHR locally grown
radio. Welcome back everybody. Morning show here at WFHR locally grown radio.
We hope you're having a fantastic Friday out there getting ready for your weekend over here.
And we're going to make a call right now. We're going to, we're going to have some fun.
Okay. We're going to try to do some different things here on the morning show coming up.
One of the things I want to do I'm kind of testing out with our guinea pig and my team here
with Seth and Melissa. Um, I'm going to have you guys pick which story we do. Okay.
If we have a tie, we'll let the audience decide. Oh, okay.
And going forward, we're going to start letting the audience decide our topics.
Oh, that's nice. Every once in a while with a segment, we're going to have a special segment,
pretty much every show. We'll have two different topics and you guys call up and let us know
which one you want us to talk about and also give us your feedback on it. Absolutely.
I can be a fun way to interact with the audience a little bit more for you guys to be directing
the show a little bit more if you will. Some of that. So here are two, something that seems
easy to others, but it's difficult to you. Okay. And the 10 most underrated skills that
everyone should learn. Okay. Keep in mind, we will do this topic. The other topic we don't do
will do it's another time, another day. So it's not as if we'll never do it. I just
should have mentioned that right away. So I'm going to shock everyone and agree with Melissa.
I this is the one I want to. So yes. It's a red letter day, everybody. Somebody get out the ice cream.
Mark that down. Would you? We have cream on mine. We're just going to go all in. I'm proud of you.
So the next time the three of us get together, I believe Monday, we will get into the something
that seems easy to others, but it's difficult to us. Yeah. That's cool too. For right now, we
have the 10 most underrated skills that everyone should learn. Let's learn. audience participation
is encouraged. Please feel free to call up and join the conversation. 715-424-2600.
There are important things that everyone should learn, how to read, financial literacy,
how to switch your phone to silent. This is a lot of those things. But other people online are
talking about the most underrated skills that everyone should learn. And there are some pretty good
ones here. I've got a couple of honorable mentions that I don't see on this list. I do think reading
a map is one of those things. Oh, yes. Oh, 100%. I'm not always going to have a cell signal.
No, that's right. 100%. And I think that even if we can count on our cell phones and everything,
just having that security in the back of your head, that you don't necessarily need the phone,
that it's, of course, easier, more convenient than everything. But oh, if I didn't have my phone,
at least I know how to read a map. Right. Well, the other necessary component to that is having
a map. I was going to say, you read my mind, Melissa. I was like, you know, you'd have the map first.
Make sure you have that. And then you can, yeah, good call, good call. A road atlas is very helpful.
So look at at this list. And it's not in any particular order. Number one, first aid,
including life-saving basics like CPR and Heimlich maneuver. Yeah. For years on the show,
I rallied at this that we should be teaching both of these maneuvers by the time you graduate
high school. Think about we raised generation after generation and everyone of those generations
know has to do the Heimlich maneuver and CPR. How much safer and better would our world be?
And maybe we don't learn square dancing. But what we learned to do CPR. Right. And oftentimes,
those are things that are offered in high school, but it's not a requirement. I think they do
go for them in health class, but it's not the same as being certified. I think it was you that
corrected me on this Melissa because as I said for years, I used to talk about this, but then when
Mel and I started doing the show together and everything, you mentioned something about that
and listen. So I am pulling back on that a little bit. It does sound like they're doing a pretty
good job of that. A big thank you to our teachers out there. And having to add this onto their list
or bringing somebody that knows how to do it and some of that. And refresh, refresh yourself.
Every now and then, it's always good to keep up on because techniques change and that sort of
thing. So yeah, make sure you're up on the learn more and these things evolve with time.
And it's important to know first aid also. So you don't end up like my father who when my sister
broke her arm, one of my lasting images is my father picking her up and carrying her. And
Jillian not screaming because my dad was talking to her and everything. It was so amazing to see him
do this and her and put her on the couch. And my mother and I come rushing to Jill to see how she's
doing and everything. And my dad takes off and we don't okay. We're telling Jill, we're getting
you ready. We're going to go to the hospital all this. My mother looks at me. Jimmy, where's your
father? Is he getting duct tape? Jimmy would better not be grabbing duct tape. And sure enough,
I'm a little better than Windex, but my father was going off to grab specifically the black electrical
duct tape. Hello. How does swim comes up next on the list? Not just for exercise or
recreation, but also as a life skill. It is a life skill. 100%. You never know. You never know
when it might happen. You need to know. But also as duly noted by our our fire departments in
the area right now with the waterways being so high, even if you are a good swimmer, we're a
flotation device. Yes, please. Seth mentioned the the how high the river was to me the other day.
And I had not really paid attention when I looked at out. You weren't kidding, man. It's fast
in its high. I know I've probably seen it that high before, but I don't remember the last time
I saw that high. Cooking not only is it healthier, but you save a lot of money as well. Yes, you do.
And I will add on to this. There is a few things that feel greater than cooking something for
someone than eating it and enjoying it. You are so right, man. Basic home and car maintenance.
I 100% agree with this one. I do not want to put any mechanics out of business, but
I do. Well, that's not going to happen. You can't do it home, especially with the computers in
cars. Oh, yeah. But I do think that at least understanding how your engine works and some of
these things, whether you can fix it yourself or not is one thing. But understanding how your
vehicle works is only going to help you for one, understand why your vehicle might be taken so
long to get back to you or something like that. Right. But also I think it's just interesting.
I'm with you, man. And I fail. I fail so much at this, especially with cars. How
stuff I'm a little bit better with, but with cars, I'm hopeless. Well, I'm with house stuff.
It's important to know where your shut-off valves are for your water coming into your house,
your main water coming into from outside source, where your electrical panel is and now to
reset it if you're your breakers trip. Yep. I don't know if that's a thing. Your gas line?
Yeah. Oh, yeah. Breakers trip. Oh, yeah. We will get back to the list in a moment.
First, a caller. Good morning. What's on your mind? Yeah. I saw the river on this side of the
doorway going into the 50 dollar across the street here. It builds all the way into that park
a lot there. Yeah. Yeah. It's a couple years ago. Okay. Yeah. 2010. My house was flooded with that.
Yep. Yeah. That was a bad one. Yeah. Pam was showing us pictures above 2010 about what happened
all the flooding that was around here. It was really interesting. Yeah. Appreciate the
calls. Always, sir. Yeah. Have a dry, safe weekend. All right. All right. Thanks. Thank you. Take care.
Take care. Next up on the list, how do I clog a toilet and how to not clog a toilet is in first
place? That's one of those ones. This one and the next one is sowing. The list is things that we
should know. And I actually, I do agree that those are both things that you should know. You can
live without knowing them. But I do think that they're good things to have on the list here.
Absolutely. You can live better knowing that I'm on a lot of toilet. Yeah. Much better now.
In sowing. And knowing where the watershed office is. Exactly. It's overflowing.
Sowing is one of those things that I keep telling myself I'm going to pick up just so I could
sew a button. I just want to be able to know how to sew. Is that needle in thread? Yeah.
That's a handy skill. It is. Yeah. Spelling. It's more underrated now because of our devices
automatically cleaning things up. But, you know, again, similar to the maps, if you don't have that
cell phone and you're trying to figure out, although, how do I spell although? How do I,
and I'm sorry. Spell check fail. Yeah. It's fails. Mm-hmm. Again, I never want to spell
tinnitus. Yeah. Why would I ever put that in a text? Because you're suffering from tinnitus.
No, no, that's not a thing I suffer from. Nor anybody I know except my uncle Donnie. See,
otherwise, I think that I'm going to text him, hey, Uncle Donnie, how's your tinnitus today?
Because today is the word I want to spell. So, maybe I would actually, you know, send that text. Yeah.
How to, these next three are interesting. How to read a nutrition label.
That's good. I think a lot of people reading in general. Absolutely. I do think the majority of
people nowadays, it's become so common to pick an item up and look at the ingredients on the back.
But what those ingredients mean is something that not all of us understand. And I will
wholeheartedly admit to that. That's a good point. I can see that, oh, this is great, sodium.
Hey, man, is sodium good for me or not? What is it? Right. The loose example, but there are
stuff on there. I think that's a great one. Oh, and I think picking up a, you know, like you said,
picking it up and looking at the label and going, okay, well over three quarters of these words
in this ingredients list, I don't know what those mean. Maybe you don't want to eat that.
Something to do. And Melissa, you know this for someone with allergy food allergies?
You get really good at reading labels really fast. Well, for certain things, but yeah.
Right. When you know exactly what you're looking for. Exactly. And finally, how to tell an interesting
story. Oh, hmm. So telling is a skill. It is. Yeah. Yeah. It is. Other people, honorable mentions,
learning how to say no, learning how to be patient, and the ability to spot and avoid toxic people.
Yes. I would love to have learned that skill. I would have helped a lot.
I think those are all interesting, especially the storytelling one. I think that that's a very
unique one. And also, how to say no. No is a complete sentence. That's all you need to say.
That's right. No, Melissa. No. Certainly depends. Some of us are better at others at that,
depending on the category. Like Melissa and Seth have no trouble saying no to each other.
Not at all. But there are. Follow through. Maybe not so much. But either one of you go ahead and say no
to Pam. That's a little harder. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It gets a little harder. It's a little hard.
Pam doesn't ask for ridiculous things like Seth does. That's a fair point. Just because she's not
as creative as I am. I do agree with that. Of course you do. While these two are bickering back and forth,
we're going to go to commercial break everybody. We'll come back and have some more fun on the
morning show here at WFHR locally grown radio. Welcome back everybody. Morning show here at WFHR locally
grown radio. You don't have to go home. You can't stay here because it's a radio station. And we
close our doors at five o'clock. But keep that in mind. No, we're not getting cops. No, you know
what's going to happen if we do? No, we're moving in. I'm moving it. There's a closet that doesn't
get used that often. I could easily live in there. I've thought about it. I want to wrap up with
some good stories and some local news. So that's how we're going to wrap up the show today. We'll
take it to the top of the hour doing that. And I found a really interesting one here at Good News
Network dot org. Encouraged to check out good news network dot org. Great reporting. Great
accuracy and a lot of fun. Good feel makes a soul feel good. Yeah. Anything could have happened to
this vase as it sat on a shelf in Annie Lee and Lee's dozers, Washington DC home. A cat, a dog,
or any of her three boys could have elbowed it and knocked it on the floor. Instead of it ending
up at a Mexico Mexico's National Museum of Anthropology and History. Oh, the thrift store vase
which was actually made by Mayan potters over 1,200 years ago could have been lost forever
and not multiple times. Oh my gosh. Backing up a little bit, the story began in 2019 when
Dozer who worked in Latin America for a human rights advocacy group saw a decorative old vase on
a on the clearance shelf at a two a thrift store in Clinton, Maryland. Wow. Considering it would be
considered a nice little thing to remind her of Mexico. And with the price tag, it's just
$4. There was no reason to pass it up. Dozer thought the vase might have been decades old.
But after a visit to Mexico City five years later, she noticed that the vase at the National
Museum were strikingly similar to the one she had on her mental at home. So much so that she
asked the museum official. The official recommended that she could contact the embassy in Washington
on her return, which she did after examining the picture. The embassy wrote back. I got an email
saying congratulations. It's the real thing and we would like it back. Oh wow.
In which she did, she gave it back. I quote, I am thrilled to have played a part in its
reputation as reparation story. I would like to go back to its right. I would like it to go
back to its rightful place and where it belongs. She said did the ABC CBS affiliate. But I also
I also wanted out of my home because I have three little boys and I would have been petrified
after 2000, 2000 years and it gets broken. Oh man. Mexico's ambassador to the US estimates that
the case dates between the second and eighth centuries, CE, dating to the classical Mayan period
when the civilization was at its zenith. Wow. It's so cool. That is remarkable. That is so cool.
Good on her. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, I think that's the best good part of the story is that she decided
without even blinking an eye. Like yes, take it back. Yep. Yep. I think that's pretty cool.
That was the right thing to do. Yeah. I know that's what I would have been doing if I was that
pair. Yeah. As soon as you learn about it, you start freaking out. Oh, you might put this
that it won't get touched immediately. I'm worrying about it and everything seems dangerous in my
home. Yeah, everything seems like it'll break it up. I'm freaking out. I'm just going to get on
a plane and get it right to Mexico. Can you please take this? We have some local good stories
of the day going on. One of them I want to make sure to touch on right away, Seth. And this is
an important one. Three meals for all kids here in Wisconsin Rapids. All children 18 years of
agent under can get free breakfast and free lunch provided by our very good friends at the Wisconsin
throughout a public schools food service department. You can get breakfast at Lincoln High School,
1801 16th Street South through July or excuse me July. No, July 11th. That was right July 11th
from 730 to 830. And then at Woodside Elementary School, that is going to wrap that wrapped up
today, everyone. So if you're still wanting to get breakfast, go to Lincoln High School
through July 11th. And then lunches are also going to be provided one at the Mead Park near the
splash pad at 14th Avenue South. That goes till August 16th. That's from 1130 to 1230. And then
at the Witter Park Shelter outside of the aquatic center, 681 Chestnut Street. That also goes
till August 16th, 1130 to 1230 PM. Once again, this is for all children 18 years of agent under
free lunches and breakfast for a little bit longer throughout the summer. And we give a big shout out
to our food service providers at Wisconsin Rapids Public Schools for all that they do. They do
a fabulous job. I appreciate them. Taking a quick look at our schedule in a moment, everybody. But
first one to let you know, we had the friends from the ODC and yesterday, and we are talking about
the ODC hosting a sensory-friendly skating event at Skate City tonight. Or I'm sorry,
this afternoon, yeah, from 1030 to 130. All right. So it's coming up in about a half an hour.
It'll be open to the public and all ages are welcome. It'll be an 80's themed and cost you
less than seven bucks, 699. Oh, a person that includes skate rental and all you can eat pizza and
soda. Cool. This sensory-friendly event will feature soft music, dim lighting, no flashing lights,
and most arcade games will be turned off. Okay. A shout out to the ODC and Skate City for hosting
this event, having an event like this. We need more of these kind of things. And you will be seeing
more of these in the future. I believe you are correct. And keep in mind, the ODC does not have a
ton of fundraising opportunities. So if you are looking to put back in your community, make an
investment in your community, we'll also have an adorn good time. And supporting a local business
quite frankly in Skate City. It's a win-win kind of conversation. It to learn more about the ODC,
we encourage you to call 715-424-2712-424-2712 or email them info at odcinc.com.
Also wanted to mention, our friends over in the Rome area have an event, a cool event going
on this weekend. It goes from today until Sunday, their third annual little bit of Nash.
Tonight, they'll have from 7 to 11 on their main street event venue over there in Brooklyn,
Wisconsin. They're going to have some of this. The Luar Bar and Grill Saturday from 1 to 5 will
feature some great artists. Sunday from 7 to 11 over at Hoosle's at the Lake. And then Sunday from
1 to 5 at Camelot on the Lake, you will be able to hear great artists like, um, um, let's see,
Joey Lamping, Katie Jacobs, Caitlin Cole and Chris Perini, uh, all going to be there for it. It's
going to be fun. It's going to be a fun one. Be sure to check that out. Be sure to check out the
Wisconsin Rapids Farmer's Market tomorrow from 8 to 2 at 221st Avenue South. Keep in mind Farmer's
Market is every Thursday and Saturday. Buy local, support local. Yeah. Indeed. And it's beautiful
tomorrow too. So you're going to want to be outside anyway. I want to want to remind our audience
that stuff the desk, uh, stuff the bus desk is a collaborative initiative that is going on right
now with our United Way. I encourage you to get some school supplies and help these kids out.
It is a great investment in your future. I encourage you to find out more at uswac.org,
uswac.org. Keep in mind you can always call 211 and you can sign up right now to be a part of
stuff the desk, whether it's a volunteer or if your child needs supplies. Indeed. You have
until August 1st, walkins will only be accepted on Saturday, August 17th between 930 and 10
and while supplies last. So you want to make sure to get your kids signed up for this right away.
Can't believe that's the deadline. It's only a month away. It's crazy. It's crazy.
Also wanted to remind everybody of our schedule. We got one more midday magazine for you for the
week coming up. Be sure to join us for that. In part one, we're going to talk to our good friend
Kim, Kim Inda resource specialist with the ADRCCW. And in part two, we're going to say goodbye to
a great friend of ours in this community was got to rabbits public school of superintendent Craig
Braun is going to join us one last time. He'll be bringing Steve HEP principle and other staff
from River City's high school. I'm looking forward to having them end very nice. Just as a
programming note, the new superintendent Ron Rasmussen is looking forward to continuing this
tradition with us monthly updates on midday magazine. Excellent. Look forward to that. Look
forward to rafter baseball tonight. 620 are boys. The summer will be an action in Fonda
lack 620 is well tomorrow start time. And one more good story for you. And this is a local one.
The founder of a rescue place of Wisconsin called Albert's dog lounge. Albert's dog lounge.
Recently took in a dog with a serious infection and no fur. His name is Clyde. His owners loved
him but just couldn't afford the medication. Thankfully he's doing great now and inspired a new
service called Clyde's closet. The rescue place put a shed outside and keeps it stocked with pet
products. Anyone can take for free. No questions asked. Excellent. That's a great idea. We send a
shout out to that founder of Albert's dog lounge. I assume maybe his name is Albert I'm not sure.
We send a shout out to him and certainly Clyde. And maybe he'll start a trend. Yeah,
start a trend. We'll see. Yeah. Amazing week and fantastic show by the best team in radio.
Nice job, you two. Oh, it's quite a week, everyone. Be good to each other. We'll talk to you soon
in the later right here at this is locally grown radio WFHR 1320 and W24 ADE Wisconsin rapids
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