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. Melissa and James hanging out with you.
We got good stuff lined up for you today. In a little bit, we're going to get into the
13 rules, bachelor at contestants have to follow. Oh, I'm scared about this. God, yeah.
Six types of workout equipment that might fit under your desk. Some local good stories
and some other fun stuff we're going to get into. We kicked the hour off talking a little
entertainment and we'll wrap up this segment talking local entertainment. But first up,
a quite an interesting story, I think. The Beatles could be up for a Grammy or multiple
Grammys for the first time in more than a quarter of a century. Their final single, now
and then, could get one or more nominations when they're announced in November. The Beatles
picked up their last Grammy for their 97 single, free as a bird. One of my favorite
bell time Beatles songs. Really one of my favorite songs. Other Beatles related projects
have been nominated for an even one Grammy since then, but none of them were credited
to the full band. And this will be the, this is it. I mean, I know that every once in
a while we get some archived footage and everything, but as we're losing more and more of them
and as we're that that footage that that work is less and less, this could be it. This
could be the last one, which is noteworthy. Now, regardless if you care about the Beatles
or even care about music, I think this is noteworthy in culture. I think this is noteworthy in our
history, but there's never been a band like the Beatles period. And there never will be
another band because it's a little bit like the argument that I deal with all the time
with Michael Jordan and LeBron James and who was greater and who was the best in all these
things. It's unfair to compare anybody to Michael Jordan. What Michael Jordan did was put,
so basketball is not that big around the world. The dream team happens, 96. They go, they go
and they go over to play and all of a sudden, little kids are watching American athletes for
the first time in person and seeing the game of basketball. And a young kid like Adert Novinsky
in Germany sees this and decides to start, you know, ask his parents for a basketball hoop
and ends up getting drafted and coming to the NBA and getting in a NBA championship and being
a Hall of Famer and arguably the greatest foreign player of all time. Right now in the NBA,
the last couple of seasons, the top draft picks have all been foreign players. In fact, this year,
the first two players were friends. Actually, last year, the first pick was a French player.
And this year, the first two French players. That's the Michael Jordan. That's the dream team
impact. LeBron can't do that. It's already been done. The idea of comparing that now LeBron
may be playing with his son on an NBA court. That'll be the first time that's ever happened in
basketball. Yeah. Yeah, but that's a different achievement than what Michael Jordan did.
But this is just the kind of way of things are. So as far as anybody being like the Beatles,
the British invasion and all these things that happened through that, it already happened. You
can't do it again. Unless there is some other, you know, because the music was so different from
everything else that people were hearing at that time, I don't think that we have that option.
I mean, maybe, maybe. Well, it is something we haven't heard yet. Yeah, but so in comparison,
you take a Taylor Swift, you take a Beyonce or somebody like that. I don't think there's any
argument. Those are probably the two biggest artists in the world. Their popularity, that
thickness, it's nothing compared to what the Beatles were. Right. And in a sensational wave at
the time that you couldn't recreate now, they weren't just a music. They weren't just a band.
They were a pop culture phenomenon that we had never seen anything like before. And what they
did was completely different than what anybody else has ever done. And that changed music,
that changed the game. A lot of people weren't doing the reframe thing before the Beatles for one
thing. I mean, the actual architect, the actual designing of a song changed when the Beatles,
like, think about that. That's, there's so much to that. So whether they win the Grammy or not,
I don't, I don't think I care. And I don't think they care. Um, I honestly, but. Some of them definitely
don't. Yeah. Yeah. But, uh, yeah. But, um, when it comes to like us as we take this in as fans
or just again as people that are taking in history, it's pretty amazing. It is. And it's a really
good song now. And then that's a really good. I can't listen to it more than once though. I,
like, once a day or I don't know if I can't listen to it too much. Uh, John Colbert, uh, not maybe a
household name, but I think one of those actors that if you see him, you know him. He has had a very
successful career. He was on northern exposure. He was on sex in the city. Uh, and he also was, uh,
the, the, uh, I think the lead actor or the second lead, I should say in the big fat, my big fat
Greek wedding movies. Okay. So it's a little surprising to hear this. Uh, so it's surprising to hear
that he thinks, quote, uh, I picked the wrong thing to do with my life. Oh, in an interview on
David Spade and Dana Carvey's fly on the wall podcast, which is really good. Uh, John said he's
quote in the fourth quarter of his life and career. And he has a lot of regrets. Quote, I've made a
lot of money. I live in a beautiful home. People come to me at every restaurant I go in. I'm a friend
of the world. But as far as a fully, fully fulfilling creative work life, I didn't write one line.
I didn't write one joke that made people laugh. So it's been unfulfilling on that level.
I, um, I, I, I, I like John Colbert. I like his acting and I, I was a big fan of his on
Northern exposure. I love that show. Um, you said watch with my mom and dad old times. Great show.
Um, and he is obviously entitled to his feelings and, and all that. I, I would really,
I would really fight back against this. Okay. One of the things that I think any good writer and
actor will tell you is, okay, I write this line and I feel this and I want it this way. And then
the actor takes it and turns it into something and brings it to life. That ain't nothing.
That is, that is not, that is not nothing as far as creativity goes. Not everybody can do that.
Not, uh, I want, I want anybody to go ahead. There's never acted before. Go ahead and, uh,
take a couple, like, write a couple of lines down. All right. Or, or, or grab actually better yet.
Grab a loose script or, or a book or something like that and look at it. And I want you to read
those lines in there. And I want you to make them your own. I want you to make them sound like
they came out of your own head. I want you to make them sound like they're right in the moment
right there, pop your top of your head and deliver them and make it real. That's creativity.
That not everybody can do that. Um, I, I, I, I, I, I, I don't want to, like, fight them on this
or anything like that. But I, I hope that he, uh, comes to a point where he realizes not only
was that creativity, but it's fulfilling. Uh, you, you entertained people. He talks about this
in there that people come up to him in restaurants and thank him or say they liked his work or something.
That's fulfillment. That's creativity. I don't blame him for what he's saying. I mean, he's,
again, he's entitled to how he feels. But I, I would push back on the idea that, um, if you,
if you quote, unquote, just act, uh, that you are not being a creative or anything.
The idea that, uh, a monkey can do it. Well, yeah, we, we saw that with Clint Eastwood in any way,
which way, but loose. Uh, you know, um, we've seen a returner and hooch with Tom Hanks working
with the dog. I mean, I'm not saying that acting is, is the upper echelon or anything like that.
But it is creativity. Mm hmm. I will hold hard. It's an opportunity and an option that not
everybody has. I will admit, um, I've spent a lot of my life fighting this where there are a lot of,
I have a lot of a lot of creative friends and a lot of them are in the music industry. And we
joke all the time about how the guy that walks around with the acoustic guitar could just pull
it out any time and play. Um, that's a lot more entertaining than all of a sudden. I decided to
start doing a Shakespeare monologue. Yeah, but it's not the same thing creatively. But it is, uh,
on the creative, it is a highly up on this creative spectrum, I think. Well, and
he, he got to choose this. Yeah. You know, I mean, for him, just expressing regret over his choices
in life, um, I don't feel sorry for him. Not even, not even a tiny little bit. No, no, not one bit.
No, uh, in fact, I think it's a little, uh, I don't know, gross. Thank you. Thank you. I didn't,
I never want to tell somebody you shouldn't feel that way or something like that, but I'm a thousand
percent with you on this. I feel like it's very self-entitled. Yeah, he had these opportunities
to do this and work with some pretty awesome people. And, and now he's saying, I chose the wrong
thing with my life. Well, sorry, dude, you're, you're in your 60s. Choose some else. You have life left.
You, you, well, and yeah, and you hit it right on the head. Uh, he chose this life. He didn't,
like, nobody made him act or anything like that. And you know what you were signing up for. Like,
if you wanted to do this creatively, maybe don't do my big frack regretting. Maybe write a script.
All of those people that worked with him feel about saying that, like, oh, okay, that's how you
feel. Well, I'll turn what you said right around back at you, dude. I'll tell you this, too. I don't
think that I can't speak for him, of course, but I think that you and I can both touch on this
that none of us, anything good we've done creatively, we did alone. Uh, we, we, we, there's been
somebody in our support group or there's been somebody that we worked with or something like that.
So that's a really incredible point, I think. And I did not think about right away, but it's really
insulting to the people he's worked with. One thing I was thinking of, and again, this is just
adding that I've been doing this for a long time, um, there are thousands of actors that would have
killed for this opportunity. Yeah. Uh, and not a dang one of them would be on a podcast complaining
about it. Yeah, it just sounds like a lot of whining. Yeah, it kind of does. Kind of does. And I,
I do want to, I haven't heard the interview. So I'd like to hear it. Maybe in his voice, there's
a little more context. I don't know, but as it is that and they like to, you know, chip pick and choose
clickbait headlines. So there's more context here. But as it is, uh, don't know, don't, don't like it.
I do like what Melissa sends me information. She's very good about finding, finding out things and
does such a good job working through our communities and, uh, looking for different information about
different subjects. And one of the things you sent me recently is about our friends over at Pact,
the Pitzville area community theater. Yeah, I was excited about this because I missed seeing this show
in Tomo when I, when it was there. And now I'd like to see it here in, in Pitzville coming to Pitzville
in July, the 10 woman by Sean Gretenan published by play scripts in this heartwarming dramatic comedy
inspired by a true story. A young woman's life is given an unexpected jump start through the gift
of a donated heart, her yearning to meet the still grieving family who made the donation results
in ending surprising for all. Uh, they've got some great actors, a wonderful director and some
really good people behind this one. They open on the 12th. Yeah. Uh, they're, they're opening and
just days. And so be sure to get your tickets. Find out more at Pitzville, uh, let me say Pitzville
act dot org Pitzville act dot org. And I think it goes for two weekends. So you'll have some time.
Yeah. Uh, be sure to check that out. And we send a big shout out to our friends in Pitzville.
Love to get you guys on director's cut. Love to get you guys on a midday or something like that.
I'd like to work with them a little bit more. Uh, they do some really good stuff and some fun stuff
over there. And of course, our Wisconsin Rabbits Community Theater is gearing up to celebrate.
It's 50th season, 50th year next year. And boy, we've got some great stuff lined up to be able to
do that. Uh, first up coming up this week is Newsy's Jr. Thursday. Uh, uh, directed by the great
Gretchen Powers music direction by Sue Becker. Um, uh, fantastic time they've had put in this one
together. Talk to Gretchen a little bit about this one. Uh, she lights up as soon as she started,
as soon as we were, we were talking shop and everything. And then I asked her, how's Newsy's Jr.
going? She lights up. This is so excited. Uh, July 11th, 12th and 13th, you will have an
opportunity to catch these shows. Um, while I will, I will encourage you to see local theater anytime,
anywhere, whether it is grade school, junior high high school, whatever. Um, there is nothing like
seeing a W R C T kind of kids production. Yeah. Well, they put so much effort and work and
thought into these shows. It's, it's wonderful to see. And the kids, they give their all. Yeah. Uh,
and, and there is something to be said to about us having our own theater. Uh, wait, for sure.
They're so incredibly, uh, I've never worked anywhere like it. I would say stage coach in
Illinois, they were a little bit like this, but they also had, they inherited, uh, their theater.
This was something that the city and, and many grants and scouting, all these things came
together to give us this theater and it's beautiful. It's, it's one of the best stages. Uh, it is,
it is my stage. Um, it is, it is, uh, I love that stage. I really, really do. And I love the
acoustics in that room. And then you get to see kids up there. Oh, man, check it out, everybody.
It's going to be a good show. Newsies, junior premiering this July 11th, 12th and 13th, uh, you can
get your tickets at WRC theater dot org or right there at the front when you get in. Yeah. I don't
know if I'd wait till you get there. Yeah. I get them ahead of time. Yeah. These kids shows,
that's a great note. Melissa, these kids shows do sell pretty fast. Um, so make sure to get those
in everybody because it, you know, we got people like Melissa and I that want to see the show, but
there's a lot of family members and a lot of people out there that are going to be seeing these.
So those tickets are going to get, uh, taken up pretty quick. Yes. And keep in mind, we have auditions
for WRC T's Hopo production coming up. Mm-hmm. It's a madhouse directed by the great Stephanie
Horth. Uh, the auditions for this will be coming up July 15th from, uh, let's see here from, uh,
five to seven over at the WRC T auditorium. That's Monday. Yeah. Uh, get your kids over there to
audition, have some fun. Uh, you are not going to work with many better directors than Gretchen
or Stephanie when it comes to kids, especially. Um, so your, your kids are going to enjoy themselves
have fun and the, the idea of, um, like you go ahead and you take in this show and maybe you
don't see the, the upper echelon of acting or something like that or whatever or any of this.
None of that matters. Uh, you're going to see a great show. You're going to be entertained.
You're going to laugh. You're going to enjoy yourself. And among all those things in the back of
your mind and the front of your heart, you can know I am building these kids confidence. Yes.
I am, I am helping these kids gain some confidence that they can take into life whatever they do.
Mm hmm. And so a really cool kind of win-win situation here.
And it's so much fun seeing them. If you've been to hobo productions in the past,
you're going to see some repeat actors on that stage. And to see them grow every year is, is
really rewarding. I've always wanted to see a show on Broadway. Uh, it's one of my dreams,
not only to perform, but to see a show on Broadway. I would turn that down in a second to see
any one of these shows. Uh, and, and you can test me on that one too, everybody, please.
Uh, because I, I, I love kids shows. I love the shows that involve young people. Uh, the energy
and the excitement is palpable. Uh, it's infectious. It's a lot of fun. Check it out. That's great.
Find out more at wrct.org, wrct.org, wrct.org, wrct.org. When we come back, we're going to get
into these 13 rules, batch work contestants have to follow. I don't know about this. Uh, okay.
We'll see what this is like coming up on the morning show here at WF HR.
Welcome back, everybody. Morning show here at WF HR.
Melissa and James hanging out with you. Little beetles to play us in.
See, he said 21 of the bachelor kicked off last night. There's a, there's a, there's a lot more going on behind the scenes out of these shows than you realize.
And here are 13 rules contestants have to follow. Maybe give you a little more insight on how to do it.
I've mentioned many times on these airwaves that I'm not a fan of reality TV. Reality TV is, uh, is, um, if I could be blunt with the audience.
It's been something that has been a crux in our industry for quite some time. Uh, I don't expect a lot of people to care about this.
But for every reality TV show that is out there that is a set of actors, a set of writers, a set of editors, a set of photographers that are not working.
And production companies see this as a cheap way out to entertain you. Um, they, uh, with the writers and actors strikes and the new contracts that came in.
A lot of these producers have found a petty way to do it.
So the popularity of every reality show just incentivizes them to do more and more of this. You will look at the full schedule and you will see not a lot of scripted TV shows coming up.
Um, now where Jerry Seinfeld would tell you a lot of nonsense about why this is happening. The actual reason this is happening is, uh, a pettiness.
And, and they beat us in the, in the, you know, in this contract negotiation. So now we're going to get back at them. Uh, now with this writers, uh, contract, this new writers contract, I can tell my daughter, you can make a career at this.
You, you don't have to be a struggling artist. I can tell my, my students as actors, you can make a living at this, which is all anybody wants to do.
Not trying, nobody's trying to be a billionaire here or nothing that is trying to get paid to do their job. And we all want entertainment. Yeah. Um, now I would also with all of that being said, anybody that wants to call up for 242600.
And if you are a fan of this show, please go ahead and give us your insight and any, you know, details you'd like about the show or anything that kind of adds to what we're about to tell you here.
Uh, minimum age requirement. You must be at least 21. No word if that's an upper limit, though. So, uh, the, the age limit of 21. A lot of people are pointing out, um, that there are not a lot of contestants over the age of 21.
Now I didn't know that Leonardo the Capriot was on the bachelor. I didn't know that. So, isn't that his thing? You won't date anybody under 21 or something.
Contestants must be single. Uh, this one should go without, yeah, this one should go without saying, but there I've been plenty of contestants with shall we say murky relationship status is back home.
Oh, well, because some of them are just in it for the moment.
I can't, I can't think of what, hey, hey, baby, I'm going to go do this thing. I'll be back in a little while. Like it shows up on TV that you're trying to date somebody else.
And that you're engaged to be married to some, I don't know, TV person. I don't, that would be weird.
I don't understand why anybody tries to get away with anything anymore. Like I genuinely, I truly genuinely do not get it.
There are campers everywhere. There is somebody keeping a paper trail of everything. There is nothing that you can get away with anymore.
So anybody that you think you're quote unquote fooling, you're the fool. You're the fool if you think you can get away with something.
Contestants must agree to be filmed 24, seven and all the footage owned is owned by the show and they can use it however they want,
which also means editing things. Yes, yep, they can make you look however they want.
And a master editor can do it can make things look really, really good for you before the show, not for the contestants.
Right.
Because something else to keep in mind with this, this show is not about the contestants, not about the bachelor at herself or anything else.
It's about ratings and about making them making more people want to watch it.
What really is the bigger story? What is going to get more eyeballs man?
It's going to cause more drama.
Yeah, somebody meets the love of their life and they're going to go and live happily ever after or drama.
How many times does that worked out on these shows?
Yeah, yeah, contestants can't disclose. They've been cast.
You even have to sign a confidential agreement just to attend a casting session.
That makes sense.
Contestants may be asked to take physical and psychological tests.
Sure, the producers want drama but nothing too crazy.
You're right. That also makes sense.
Contestants bring their own clothes, although the bachelor at often gets to work with a wardrobe person.
But that's interesting, you didn't know that part.
Yeah, yeah.
And there is a dress code.
A lot of it has to do with avoiding patterns that clash on camera,
like stripes, small checkers, big patterns or solid whites, maybe wearing all green.
These kind of things.
Yeah, so you don't disappear.
No cell phones.
They're confiscated when filming begins.
Contestants also can't play much music because the show doesn't have the copyrights.
Yeah, so they couldn't have it going in the background.
Interesting.
Limbo entrances are strategically arranged.
Producers choose the other contestants come out to make things as dramatic as possible.
They don't want you showing up in your gelopy.
Yeah, yeah.
Contestants don't normally, oh, I imagine that might affect how the bachelor
feels about these people too.
If you come in with a Rolls Royce or you come in with a gelopy, yeah.
Contestants don't normally eat on dates.
Producers actually send food to their rooms before the date,
so they're not hungry and don't eat the food that's put in front of them.
Well, yeah, because it's kind of hard to have a conversation on camera when you have food in your mouth.
It's not super appealing.
Yeah, and nobody's wanted to ever see anybody eating.
I've mentioned this before to actually some friends of mine that work in the
marketing industry when it comes to food and a lot of food commercials.
You're seeing less and less food commercials with people eating.
So they did something a while back.
I think it was Carl's juniors or whatever.
They'd have a supermodel eating a real messy burger.
Usually like a scantily dressed on a car or something like that.
And nobody liked those ads.
Nobody wanted those ads.
And this was kind of like the final factor of like, wow,
even a pretty woman they don't want to see eating.
Okay, but maybe we disagree on this, James,
because my favorite part of watching some of these,
they're like reels on Facebook.
But also just videos of people making food.
I like to see them taking a bite of it.
I should be more specific about this.
I don't have a problem with seeing people eat on TV or anything like that.
It's the noises that I don't like.
That's more of a radio thing.
I don't think that anybody's ever wanted to hear somebody chew on the air.
Please call up 424-2600.
That is something you like.
But I feel pretty confident on that one.
What you're saying is 100% Melissa.
If I watch a cooking show or anything like that,
I like seeing the judges' faces.
Yeah, nobody takes a bite.
That would be weird.
This looks very appealing.
I have no idea what it tastes like.
But yeah, you get a B plus on presentation.
Yeah, no, I get that.
That I get completely.
For me, for the thing for me is the audio of it,
the radio part of it.
Right, and for a show like the Bachelor at,
they have to talk.
It would be a pretty boring show just watching them
shovel food in their mouths.
Contestants have to endure long row ceremonies.
They film a lot more than what you see on TV.
Yeah, because they got to get the lines right.
Because as much as this is unscripted, it's scripted.
No internet.
Pretty much the same as the no phone thing.
This is almost a form of somewhat torture
for these poor 21-year-olds.
Yeah, yeah.
And no spoilers after filming wraps.
Contestants sign all kinds of paperwork
to ensure confidentiality.
Yeah, you're in big, legal trouble for that.
When everybody started having a cell phone,
this was something that the movie industry really had to wrap down on.
Because you would have extras on sets,
and they'd pull their phone out and take pictures of a costume
or something like that.
Or even just mention something on their social media accounts.
Yeah, yeah.
And I know a lot of actors that are not working anymore
because of that.
I shouldn't say a lot.
I know three.
But that's interesting.
And you mentioned the scripted thing, Melissa.
That's an interesting part of this, too.
I wonder how many people watching Reality TV
understand that or care.
Yeah.
And maybe they don't.
It's entertainment for them.
Everything I said before I stand on,
I put my name on when I, before starting this conversation.
But I do want to wrap up with saying,
entertainment is not about me.
It's not about Melissa.
It's not about you, even.
It's about everybody.
And if everybody, if this is doing well ratings-wise,
one, what else is on?
But also, like what you like,
don't let me or anybody else tell you what you should
or you shouldn't like or anything.
I've only had one option.
It would be pretty boring.
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, like what you like, enjoy what you do.
And don't let anybody tell you any different.
I've obviously got a stake in this.
So I have-
And chances are people who enjoy Reality TV
also take in a lot of other entertainment as well.
Yeah, yeah.
I think that's very fair.
We will get to our news break.
We'll come back and have some more fun.
We're going to talk a little rafters.
We're also going to get into the six types of workout equipment
that fit under your desk.
Still looking for that unicycle exercise thing.
I'm going to try to-
I'm going to see if I can find that online.
I could handle that under your desk, James.
Maybe, maybe.
We'll be back more fun on the morning show here at WFHR.
Welcome back, everyone.
Morning show here at WFHR.
Locally grown radio.
Melissa and James here with you.
Thanks for joining us, everybody.
Hope you're having a good Tuesday out there.
We have here-
You want to make your workout day even more,
interesting, and try these.
We have some fitness gadgets that will fit under your desk.
Okay.
You could take a break from the daily grind
or just go ahead and kind of keep your endurance up a little bit.
The whole article here, I'm editing here a little bit
because the article is talking about torturing yourself
at all that, like if you want to.
But I don't think it's-
I don't look at it that way.
I think this is-
If you want to do something-
You have a positive outlook on working out,
James, some of us do not.
It's a trip.
Very true, very true.
A balance board.
Those things you stand on to work out with us
and you're stabilizing muscles.
Yep.
I didn't think of that.
You're the most front of your desk.
I had one for a while.
I gave it to Laura.
Yeah, those are good.
Those are nice.
A mini stair-stepper.
They went viral on TikTok this spring
and a lot of people are using those.
You're trying to see-
Yeah, I'm trying to see how to describe one of those things
a little bit for those.
Yeah, I think that there's a lot of them out there right now.
It's something that's just basically a stepper
and some of them involve, you know, police.
I have one of those.
It's called a loom.
And it has trebles.
God, the thing's so cool.
The thing's so cool.
A leg peddler.
They're like a mini exercise bike
but you sit in a normal chair
and you can use that one while you're work.
The biggest thing is you have to have clearance
for your knees with any of these things.
Yeah, I'm trying right now and I don't-
There's nothing worse than hitting your knee
on the underside of your desk.
Yeah, and that's all I would be doing.
It's just hitting my knee over and over.
I think I'm too tall for this.
Why do you need a taller desk?
Yeah, yeah.
A walking pad.
AKA a mini treadmill.
They make them thin enough to fit under your desk now
or you could just go for a walk.
Or you could do that.
But people who have standing desks,
those I've seen them, they're pretty cool.
I just don't accidentally step off of it
at the wrong moment.
Yeah, right.
In those standing desks,
those aren't becoming more and more popular people.
Yeah, I did have one when I worked at the high school
but I used it some
but I did so much walking
sometimes during the day that I didn't need it.
Sometimes I got back to my desk
and I just need to sit.
I have a handful of friends in the radio business
that love to stand while they're on the air
and then they'll sit down when they're off air.
Well, yeah, because I feel you can be more expressive
when you're standing.
Yeah, that's true when you're acting.
Yeah, I get that.
A walking pad or I'm sorry, a foot swing.
They hook to the bottom of your desk
and give you something to put your feet on
but you can also use them to stretch your calves
and other leg muscles.
Oh, I want one of those.
Yeah, I have not heard of these.
Well, I'm taking a look.
I could probably just make one of those myself.
Well, yeah, you could.
I'm looking at it right now, Melissa.
I think you can make up something really good with this.
Oh, that's pretty cool.
I would definitely use that.
I like that idea.
Yeah, that one's not bad.
I use a little, um, little stool
that my dad helped me make, actually,
out of two by fours.
We just, you know, screwed them together and made a look.
Cause in my chair, when I'm tall enough,
you know, like chair is high enough
that I can properly type on my keyboard,
my feet don't hit the ground.
So something like that would be really cool.
I like that.
Let's see here, an exercise ball.
Use it, uh, use it at your office chair
to engage your core and improve posture, your coach.
Replacing chairs with exercise balls
was a thing quite some time ago already.
Yeah, it was a while ago.
I'm not sure if that's coming back or not,
but I do remember people doing that.
It does look like they're coming back a little bit.
There's two.
There's certainly the note that we work too much
and we actually have to combine work and exercise.
Find any way to introduce some movement into our day.
But that being said, I think that that's, uh,
you know, we're not going to change that right now.
So it's a positive.
We'll take it as a positive.
I think that there's also exercises you can do at your desk.
That are not bad.
Like calf raises.
Yep.
Or stretches of any kind.
Squats.
Yeah.
Chair dips are one of those ones I like doing.
I like doing those.
Leg extensions, uh, chair squats,
tricep dips, uh, things like that.
Tricep dips, chair dips, not that different,
but works out a little bit of a different muscle.
Yeah.
And really, uh, I mean,
I think that it depends on too what you'd like to improve
or what you would like to have better.
If you, uh, there's lots of people that don't like the other,
the bottom of their arms, you know, there they are.
Uh, and, uh, there's, there's that muscle to work out.
Or maybe you don't like the way your calves look or something, you know?
I, I, I, you just need to get more emotion in your day.
Yeah.
Cause that's, that's a big one too.
Uh, more and more of us are realizing that, uh,
we gotta be moving.
We gotta keep, uh, popping around and everything.
The ocean is lotion.
Mm-hmm.
Uh,
uh,
yeah, uh, and if you have any ideas,
go ahead and call up 715-424-2600.
We'd love to hear from you.
Call up and,
this is one button down with the Civic Media app.
Love to hear your feedback on this one.
I did want to talk a little rafters before wrap up the segment.
Rafters got a big week ahead.
A very exciting big week ahead.
Uh, we're in Green Bay today at 620 that take on the rockers.
That'll be a good game.
And then on Wednesday,
got a double header.
Uh, uh, I'm sorry, not Wednesday.
Got a Wednesday, got a 620, uh, hosting Green Bay.
So Green Bay will be coming to Winterfield on Wednesday.
Okay.
And that one will be a special night at the Winterfield.
Point Brewery presents the Boogie Bros.
Ooh.
Back for another year,
Tiki Time is ready to provide the in-game entertainment
for the evening, promising that you,
promising to have you leave with a smile on your face.
Nice.
And if the rafters win on a Wednesday,
a home game fans that stick around until the final out
will receive a voucher for a free bleacher seat
to another game during the season.
Nice.
It's pretty cool.
Enjoy Tiki and have some fun with that one, everybody.
And then on Thursday, we have a, uh, a double header for you.
Oh, there's the double header.
Yeah, Thursday 1150 start time for game one against Walsaw.
Uh, and then a 620 start time in, you know,
depending on when game one ends, uh, for Walsaw on that one.
Ooh.
This one's going to be tough because Walsaw's like,
what number one or two this year.
Yeah, they're in the top of the division.
Yeah. Um, and Thursday is also, uh,
AM, uh, is a Selcom kids day.
So you can go ahead and enjoy that too.
Some extra things there for the kiddos.
Wisconsin's Rapids Convention and Visitors Bureau,
uh, presents, uh, sports commission night,
come out to Winterfield to see all the area sports
organizations, your youth to adult,
and they have some fun with that one.
And that will be again on Thursday's double header.
It's also midstate free tuition night.
Keep that in mind.
It's going to be a fun one.
Go win some free tuition.
That's really awesome.
And on Friday, uh, we've got, uh,
we're hosting Lakeshore at 620.
And that one, uh, as Mo Hill returning to Winterfield.
Yeah, that's right.
That's excited about this.
Join us as we welcome back Midwest League legend
and Wisconsin Rapids twin player Mo Hill,
whose number 24 is going to be retired at Winterfield that day.
That is pretty cool.
If you don't know the story of Mo Hill, uh,
be listening to Friday's, uh,
playmakers.
We're going to talk a little bit about the man
and the impact he had not only on the game,
but this area.
Um, very interesting guy.
I know when Tyler was joining us,
he was, uh, really, really excited about this.
It was something that, uh,
him and the rafters organization were really humbled by
and they're looking forward to having Mo come join him.
How cool?
It's going to be good.
Keep in mind, Rocky, uh,
concession special six dollar rocker,
or Coco Pizza also on Friday.
Nice.
Find out more.
Get your tickets and support your rafters at northwoodsleague.com
northwoodsleague.com.
Keep in mind if you can't make it to the game every hit,
every pitch, every win of rafter baseball.
Right where it belongs here at WFHR.
We'll come back and wrap up the show.
It's a morning show at WFHR.
Welcome back everybody.
Morning show here at WFHR locally grown radio.
Melissa and James hanging out with you.
We hope you're having a good one out there.
Thanks for joining us.
We're going to take it right to the top of the hour.
Stick around for Matt and air on the air.
That's right.
She's up next.
Jane and Greg are going to do a great job for you and hopefully not
wear themselves out because after that, uh,
Seth and I will be interviewing them for director's cut.
Oh nice.
That's today.
Yeah, looking forward to it.
Um, we're excited to talk with them.
Get to know them a little bit more.
And it's a part of this thing that I want to do on director's cut
our civics series where we interview a lot of guests
and a lot of the voices that we have at civic media,
including our own team here.
Mm-hmm.
That'd be great.
And let listeners have an inside look.
Yeah, it's going to be fun.
We're looking forward to that.
Just the first of many looking forward to.
But we got to get to a then a right story, Melissa.
I've been hanging on to this one because this is a doozy.
Um, you want to talk about being lucky in life.
Uh, I think this lady might have something on the rest of us.
Oh.
Workers in northern China were demolishing an old house
and had to call in the bomb squad when they found a live grenade.
Oh, that's no good.
So how did they get there?
Well, the 90, the 90-year-old woman who lived in the house
found it in a field a while back
and had been using it as a hammer for 20 years.
Oh.
Oh, Jesus.
I don't know where.
I had nothing.
I got nothing on this.
I don't know where.
It's an old World War II era grenade with a wooden handle.
She didn't know what it was and thought it was a tool.
And I am looking at a photo of this right now.
And I am not a please understand.
I am not judging this lady one bit.
I do not understand how she thought this.
It doesn't look like a typical grenade.
It's so if you, if you, you know,
grew up in a war family or you, you understand it.
You've seen a lot of it.
Maybe you'd understand that this is a grenade.
But you're, what you're picturing in your head of the green grenade
with the, you know, a round.
It's round and all.
This is not that.
It genuinely, if you didn't know better,
it doesn't look like a hammer,
but something you could use as a hammer.
I'm really trying to help out here.
It looks like a pestle.
Like if you know what a mortar and pestle looks like,
it looks kind of like the pestle part.
Yeah, there you go.
So it doesn't look like a grenade.
No, she told police she'd been using it to hammer nails
and also a nutcracker.
So not only is she like using it hammer like, well,
I don't know, she was pounding on the end or just on the,
the side, but wow.
She told police she'd been using it for, for many years.
And she'd used it so much over two decades,
the wooden handle was smooth and glossy from all the wear.
And the metal hand, the metal head at the end was full of dents.
Oh my goodness.
Police safely detonated the device and no one was hurt.
And so it's still detonated.
It's still detonated.
Wow.
Oh my goodness.
This is a luckiest woman.
Yeah, I don't know if she feels lucky,
but I hope she does.
Like you said, that's something.
I don't know if that's really a that ain't right story.
I kind of feel like that's a...
I kind of feel like she won the lottery there.
Yeah.
We want to get to a palette cleanser and some good stories of the day.
And I have to call them an audible before we dive into our schedule
because I want to shout out our own Melissa K,
one of the best people I've ever worked with.
Let the audience look behind the curtain like we always like to do.
I am dealing with some severe tooth pain
and it's very hard to talk right now.
Breathing is not easy.
I can't swallow, I can't spit or anything without
of the hurting.
And when this happens, you know,
you lean on your coat, your partners,
your your your co-mates and stuff,
your co-mates, I don't know, your teammates.
There we go.
That's it.
Melissa has been incredible and I appreciate all the work
that not only you've done yesterday and today,
but really all around Melissa.
We really I'd really do appreciate you.
No, well you're welcome.
And to be, you know,
I'm perfectly blunt.
Nobody could tell James.
Yeah, yeah.
Without you without you telling us,
we're not have been able to tell by your performance.
It's a, it's a, I'm not the only one
that appreciates you, Melissa.
Our other good story of the day,
we got a text from Pam about this.
We got a letter from our friend Tyler.
Yes, oh, this was so great.
I'm just going to read this right from here.
Hello, Morning Show friends.
Regarding July 1st, the kitchen's open with Melissa K.
Two thumbs up, full steam ahead.
We will have them on the run,
give them another one across the bow,
sink their boat, no quarter,
enjoying the show's takeer easy Tyler.
Oh, I appreciate that Tyler.
I love it.
It was in reference to our kitchen's open segment
that started off with magic mushrooms
and ended up talking about this chevron deference.
Yes, Supreme Court throughout,
which allows them to micromanage
all of our federal organizations.
Uh-huh.
Yeah, it was a really important one.
It was a good one.
I believe that one will be nominated for it.
Well, we're going to put that one at the WBAs.
We're definitely putting that one up there.
Thank you, Tyler.
Really appreciate the postcard and the shout out.
And I too like IPAs.
We appreciate the best listeners and radio.
Looking at our schedule for today,
join us after, not only after, uh,
Jane McNair, a McNair on the air,
but a little later today from two to four,
the Maggie Dawn Show and its entitled, uh,
full show after that midday magazine from four to five.
In part one, Lacey Ailing events an engagement director
with the Heart of Wisconsin Chamber of Commerce.
Great.
And in part two,
we're going to talk with David Farmboro
as we let's talk real estate with our friends
at Cole Banker.
See your realtors.
That'll be a good conversation.
I do want to send a big thank you to our guests
that we're going to be on with us yesterday.
Really, uh, really appreciated the people
that work with us on this.
We're going to have WRCT and Gretchen on.
We're hoping to have have her on on Friday's show
or Thursday's show.
And we're also, uh,
thankful to our friends at, um,
the, um, uh, uh,
uh, um,
Vespa days, Vespa days.
Uh, we were going to have them on too.
We'll have to parade.
Yeah.
We'll have them on on Friday.
Um, Margie will join us on Friday to talk Vespa days.
Appreciate them coming up on the 20th.
Yeah.
So we got some time yet.
Mm-hmm.
Got a Raptor baseball again going on tonight.
620 start time at Green Bay.
Be sure to catch every hit, every pitch,
every win of Raptor baseball right here.
Chairman, they need it.
Also wanted to mention that our city band has got a performance tomorrow.
Tonight, uh, city band is performing a Robinson Park tonight.
Oh, nice.
Go check out, uh, some of our favorite locals
and some great, uh,
musicians over at seven, at seven 30 over at Robinson Park.
It's a beautiful park.
Yeah, uh, enjoy, uh, the best park.
I love Robinson Park.
Uh, go ahead and enjoy a great band.
And I got to say if you haven't seen a show there,
you're not going to find a bad seat
in the acoustics are fantastic.
They are.
They're really great.
Be sure to check that out and buy local support local everybody.
And, uh, we have some Medicare basic classes
that are going on right now.
Uh, we want to let you know about.
Uh, they have an upcoming class going on today
at the Wisconsin Rapids,
at the ADRC Wisconsin Rapids location.
Um, then the class is from one to three 30 today.
You can learn more about Medicare and how, uh,
and the benefits you have or don't, or don't have.
Um, that's a great informational thing to attend.
It's a free class.
It's open to all individuals with their families
in, uh, in our, their service area, Lincoln, Langdale,
Wood and Marathon counties.
Mm-hmm.
And if you are new to Medicare,
this could be a very vital thing for you to take apart.
Very helpful.
So, because there's a lot of scammers out there
that want to take advantage.
Register and find out more by giving them a call at
1-888-486-9545-188-486-9545.
Or you can go to ADRC-CW.org to find out more.
And wrapping up with a little United Way Talk stuff,
the desk, uh, stuff the school bus and desk is, uh,
is going on right now.
Yeah.
You can make it-
Drop off your donations at the United Way
and many participating businesses
across Wisconsin Rapids.
And you can make an impact on the future
just by buying some notebooks.
I mean, you know, there, there are all kinds of supplies
kids need.
And as you get those supplies,
and you donate them to the United Way,
they get them to these kids.
And they are that much better in school,
that much more focused in school.
And, and enjoying school.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Having the supplies they need to be successful in school
is a big deal.
Find out more at uh,
uh, UWSWAC.org or by calling 2-1-1.
And keep in mind,
school supplies will be distributed during
stuff the desk on August 16th and 17th.
Make sure to get registered before August 1st.
Yes.
And you can come down to lunch by the river on August 1st
with your donations as well,
because they'll be there.
Yeah.
Walkins will only be accepted on Saturday,
August 17th from, uh, between 930 and 10.
Supplies are not guaranteed.
Keep that in mind.
And register if you can.
Yeah.
And donate all you can.
We appreciate everybody doing that.
Goes so much farther than we could ever put into words.
Oh, yeah.
I, uh, I think we should give something away, Melissa.
Let's do it.
All right.
I've got four tickets here,
four of them for Buffett and,
and the son of a sailor band.
This great Jimmy Buffett,
uh, tribute concert that's coming to our town,
July 14th, uh, four o'clock,
uh, over at the Pax.
This Sunday, right?
Yes.
This Sunday.
You can go for free.
Just call up and give me your favorite Jimmy Buffett song.
Give me your favorite Jimmy Buffett song.
And you'll get all four of these tickets.
We send a big shout out to Sally Kissner
and our friends at Saver the Arts for getting these to us.
Find out more.
And that's going to be a fun show.
Yeah, find out more at SaverTheArts.com
and get your tickets.
Have a great day, Melissa.
Yeah, you two James.
Be good to each other.
We'll talk to you soon in the later right here at.
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