Good morning, Wisconsin. Good morning, world. It's a new day. Thanks for kicking it off
with us right here at WF HR, locally grown radio. Got your host, James J. I am joined by
CEO of your United Way of Southwood and Amps County's Terry Johns. Good morning. Got
the band together. We're got a Friday. It's good show. Good show. Good things coming
up for you too. I mean, if we say so ourselves, this is good. It does feel like it. That's
should be a parameter right there. We're going to get into our schedule a little bit later.
Talk some rafter baseball. Tell you about some events going on in our community. We also
got that ain't right story. Some good stories of the day. And we're going to talk about a fun
one a little bit later, Terry, the hidden meaning of the stars on Barnes. We're going to get
into that. That's all fun. But we kick things off in this hour with some entertainment news.
And Melancholy note to start on as we lost a comedy legend last night. Bob Newhart passed
away at his Los Angeles home after a series of short illnesses. He was 94. Newhart was the
king of deadpan comedy, the king of deadpan comedy over a career that's been more than six
decades. Isn't that awesome? Just a good long life. You know, life well lived. Absolutely.
Yeah. I cannot stress enough how hard it is to stay in the entertainment business to
stay relevant. I like to credit. Even if I don't like the artist, I will credit artists
that are able to do this over the decades, staying relevant. There's plenty that we love
like a Carol Burnett, who is just nominated for an Emmy at 90. Some artists like that. Betty
White, we celebrated quite a bit. Dolly Parton, we celebrate all the time. Willie Nelson, some of
these artists. It's great. It doesn't happen nearly enough where we get to show some appreciation
before we lose them. And it's I believe that Mr. Newhart had that in many ways. But to stay
relevant in comedy for six decades, it's almost unparalleled. It's almost like hard to
come up with an example of somebody other than some of the things I just, artists that I mentioned
there that were able to do that. And not only that, but when we talk about the king of deadpan
comedy, keep in mind that every comedian, every actor you've seen, and I mean every single
one over these six decades that have done deadpan comedy, they learned it from him. They
studied from him. Bob Newhart was one of the more givers of comedy, more givers in the entertainment
world. If you were a young comedian starting out or a young actor and you had a question, Bob
was there and then I only answer it. But did you, did you get what you needed out of that?
That's cool. You know, just one of those guys that nobody, it doesn't, wasn't really talked
about a lot, but a real lover of comedy and art and celebrating that. Bob Newhart's comedic
timing is literally unparalleled. The, there's so much, it's such a thing with entertainment
of we can't have like on radio, we can't have dead air, we can't have silence on the stage,
we can't have moments of quiet. Otherwise, the audience will get distracted or some of
these things. So going back to Vaudeville, it was adamant that you could not waste time.
Bob Newhart took time. Bob Newhart would let a moment sit. He would be there in live TV
back in the day when every second counted and you had producers screaming at him, Bob,
what are you doing to all this and everything? And Bob's out there just giving you that look.
Let's just take a moment. I always feel like when he has that look, like he's controlling
his own outburst of laughter. You know what I mean? He's just like, okay. There's some great
outtakes. You mentioned Elf earlier. There's some great outtakes. Well, Will Farrow got
him laughing and they had to cut and stuff or, you know, he's on Will's stuff. It's fabulous.
Some great stuff out there. Despite everything he's done over the years, a lot of younger people
out there will remember him as Papa Elf, which is so cool that, you know, even if you never
saw the Bob Newhart show or Newhart or any of these things, you could know who he was. Will
Farrow, of course, in that movie, Will Farrow came out to say, quote, out ranks by far any
role I may have ever played because he got to work with Bob Newhart. Like that's pretty
cool. Bob also was the star of the Bob Newhart show course from 1972 to 1978 and Newhart,
which we played their theme song for earlier from 1982 to 1990. It's also appeared on
Desperate Housewives, the Big Bang Theory, ER, Hot and Cleveland. His ER performance, I think
he was nominated for an Emmy for that. It was incredible. It was really like, it was
one of the few times you get to see him kind of do a little serious, even though we always
saw Bob Sirius, which is hilarious. It was pretty funny to think of. Bob was best friends
with Don Rickles, whose comedy style couldn't have been more different from his, which is
just beautiful. I would give anything to have been in the room to see those two going back
and forth. Maybe it was a short guy, I think. Maybe, yeah, nice. If you get the chance, Judd
Appentow, an incredible comedic director, one of the best comedic directors we have,
40-year-old Virgin, so many of those, super bad. He's the writer and director of all of those.
He did a beautiful documentary about the friendship between Don Rickles and Bob Newhart. You get
a chance to watch it, everybody. It's a great way to honor the man and to have some laughs,
because again, just like I was saying before, these guys, this is what they wanted. They
would want you to laugh. They would want you to smile and enjoy life and be in the moment.
Enjoy your loved ones all of the above. We appreciate you, Ms. Newhart. Appreciate you.
Looking at what's new on your small screen tonight, you've got, let's see here, find me
following a new movie on Netflix starring Harry Connick Jr. I haven't seen his name in
a while. He looks good, though. You look good.
Friday and Apple TV, plus the Sears premiere of The Lady in the Lake, a noir thriller starring
The Great, The Legendary Nairdly Portman, as a journalist in the 1960s, who becomes obsessed
with an unsolved murder and tracks it down. Looks really good in Apple TV, plus shows. They
put a lot of money into those and it shows. They're not all good, but I will give them a chance.
It's a little scary. It does seem a little intense. Friday on Peacock, Abigail, the horror comedy,
Vampire Horror comedy. On Saturday on ABC, you've got the 2024 WNBA All-Star Game. It's the
last WNBA game or exhibition game before the Olympics, as the ladies go off to bring us home
the gold. I'm telling you, it is, get ready for the Olympics, everybody. We are running
game in Harris. Yeah, it's exciting. It's like, I think you just feel it.
Oh, I just feel it. The anticipation is great.
You've got episode six of House of Dragon for season premiere of Snowpiercer, also on your
small screen this weekend. Enjoy. Plenty of other Olympic coverage and different things going
on this weekend as well. Looking at your big screen, actually got some bigger movie coming out
this weekend. We haven't had that in a while, which is really weird. This summer has been weird
with blockbusters. Not a lot of them. The writers and actor strikes had a little bit to do with that,
but you're seeing a lot of people afraid to release a movie and a lot more people afraid to release
a movie up against this movie and everything. Even though we had success with this last year with
the Bob and Hymer, Oppenheimer thing and with Barbie and all that, um, for every. Are you just
in there? Bob and Hymer. Yeah, yeah, that's it. But Oppenheimer and Barbie together. I still want
somebody to make that movie. I still want to see that combination of movie. I want to see Barbie
as JD Oppenheimer. I want to see that. Uh, oddity is a new movie rated R that is coming out in
limited release, but the big one, uh, a lot of people are looking forward to Twisters rated PG-13,
Daisy Edgar Jones is in this one. Glenn Powell, who is, um, one of the more up-and-coming action
stars and actors. Uh, he is in this one. You know him from Top Gun Maverick. I still haven't seen that.
So is this, maybe you can just clarify for me, is this supposed to be a remake of twist of the
other Twister movie or is this like a next movie or is it not related? You know, that the Helen
Hunt. Uh, yeah, yeah, yeah. So that one was called Twister. This one is called Twisters and I believe
in part because it is just a separate thing of it. So it has nothing to do with the other. Uh, yeah.
No, I was thinking they were tied somehow. I think they, I think there is a loose tie in, though,
because Bill Pullman, who, uh, we lost, uh, in, in, since Twister was in the original. His son is in
this one. Okay. And, uh, I read, I watched an interview with his son talking about how surreal and
how cool it was that they, you know, he won. I really liked the first one. First one. But I like
Helen Hunt and I love Bill Pullman. So I just, you know what I mean? Like I, um, I really like that one.
What I'm hoping is, so that, that original one, I went into it like, oh, I'll watch this because
I like you. I like those actors. I'm big Helen Hunt fan and everything. I came out of it like,
whoa, I like it. It was pretty good. And I can still, that's one I'll still watch. You don't
if I see it. It was the, it was ahead of its time in some ways with some of the filming they were
able to do and making you feel like experiencing some of it. Um, I, I'm a little weary of movies about
natural disasters just because we have people in this country going through this stuff and every,
I, I, I hope that it brings awareness to this a little bit more. Um, nowadays, uh, the difference,
and it wasn't that long ago, that Twister movie came out. But a big difference of then to now is
a lot of audiences want real. And I, there's two angles on this. I hope they hit on. I hope that
they still covered the tragedy and the structure. The difficulty it can be going through something
like that as a family or as a community. Um, but also we're so like we are able to do so much with
our phones now. We can film movies, let alone some of this stuff. I hope they didn't. There's in,
there's an urge to kind of overdo it. And I thought the original one did such a great job of not
doing special effects over doing it on special effects and all these things. This one looks like
it's done a really good job of that. Well, also kind of giving you a inside look at the modern
storm chaser and some of those things. I hope it hits all the marks. I mean, I might be inclined to
actually go see it. I haven't been in a movie theater for a long time. I kind of miss it. I, I do too.
I just can't think of the last time I, I was, I was already looking at tickets for the new
Deadpool movie because I want to see that. This one looks like a movie. If you're going to see a movie
in the theaters this summer, this seems like one of those ones to see the last movie. I went to,
well, I went to Alph last year that when it was in the theater into some, no, just in December,
just this last December. I'm trying to think I can't remember the last movie I went and saw.
Can't remember. I do remember last, uh, after game I was to was not long ago. We encourage you to
head on over to Winterfield and enjoy some rafter baseball as the boys this summer are getting into
a really little heart of the schedule here and everything. We got the all-star game coming up next
week for, uh, Northwoods League. So as we lead into that, you got rafter baseball on the radio
dial tonight as the boys of summer are up in Wassar to take on our heated rivals, the Woodjocks.
We're going to lead you into that today from five to six. Join us for a, uh, playmakers, our first
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that one looking forward to it. Support your rafters as they, uh, they support us. We appreciate you
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You can find out more at NorthwoodsLeague.com. Uh, let's take a call here. Good morning around the show.
Please stop me from talking. Hello. Oh, we lost them. Uh, feel free to call back.
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Welcome back, everybody. Morning show here at WFHR locally grown radio Terry and James here with
you. We got a call coming in. Let's go ahead and take it. Good morning around the show.
Yeah, good morning. I was the first one to get tickets for it's a madhouse.
Hey, all right. That's cool. That's really cool. That's fantastic.
First of all, dead center, right?
Excellent, sir. That is really good to hear. That's a good story of the day. I'm glad you got
those tickets. Uh, and, and I cannot wait to hear your response. We'd love you to call up. Let
us know what you thought of the show when they, uh, perform, okay? I know I'm going to enjoy
it. I was watching a little bit of a yesterday. Uh, um, lunch by the river.
Excellent. The other performance they had. Yeah. That's awesome. That's very cool. We
appreciate you spreading the word about that. Now that joining us for that, that's awesome.
Good on you for supporting local and enjoying those kids, man. Thank you for the time, sir. You
have a great week. Uh, you too. Uh, always appreciate our callers. Call right up everybody.
424-2600. Join the conversation. We'd love to hear from you. And as long as he teed me up,
I will mention that it's a madhouse has production dates of August 3rd at seven in August 4th at
two. Get your tickets at wrc theater dot org by local support, local support, the arts,
like that man right there. And appreciate you all doing that. It's taking on the call. Good
morning. You're on the show. I'm quite nipple at tonight. I'm going to the movie theater. Oh,
whoa. Going to see twisters. Yeah. Yes. Hmm. Wow. Looks that good. Yeah. Looks that good. Yeah.
Yeah. Let me know how it is. Yeah. I will. I mean, we've been kind of, if I go from there to kind
of looking forward to this one and stuff. And I checked it out. Now it's kind of, I tell you
you those kind of surprise that they're having a year down right away. But yeah. So we're going to,
we're going to be here tonight and catch the late show and well, don't be cheap. Spring for popcorn.
I'm not necessarily shot. That's okay. Uh, but I'm not going to be cheap. I got like, I mean,
there's times I walk in for the movie theater and just by movie theater, I'm going to walk out.
Okay. Fair enough. Yeah. Good call. Um, it's, it's, it's, uh, you know, they don't let you refill
that bucket anymore. You only get one bucket full. I don't know. Uh, Kevin, you don't have to tell me
one of the ways that they're trying to get people to come to theaters now. Uh, they did this with
June earlier in the summer is having a special popcorn bucket. I, I would have thought for sure
this movie would have had one of those because it's like a tornado. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know if they
did or not. It didn't hear. Uh, if they happen to have one, let us know, Kevin. And I'd love to,
um, hear from you on what you think of the movie on Monday or something like that. Okay, man.
All right. So it's good. Yeah. I mean, I'll, I like to go about this popcorn. I'll get, uh,
yeah, I appreciate you. That's kind of, that's kind of funny because I, you know,
my girlfriend's daughter is a huge Taylor Swift reader. So she did do the here on
movie to experience what the movie is there and all that, that movie was a Taylor Swift,
but she actually drove down to the cell of, just to go get a cup. Wow. Well, I mean, they
both say you're at that because they ran out of the cups. I'm, I want to talk. So she drove
like, you know, as they got lined, it's the switch and get a cup. Hey, super fans are super fans.
Kevin, don't text me tonight after the movie because I'll be sleeping. Text me tomorrow to tell
me how the movie was. Oh, it's my first year. You're probably going to blow off tonight.
And now I kind of want to text her too. Go ahead. I used to not disturb. You guys can text me
all night. Nobody's going to hear it. Here's another thing. Uh, Friday movie. Are you a seven o'clock
or nine o'clock guy? I love the nine o'clock. They don't even have late movies here anymore. Do they?
Don't. Oh, yeah. They're actually doing the nine twenty five. Oh, they haven't been. They've
been just doing like the five and seven or whatever. Interesting. Cool.
Talk about it. According to the times I looked at today's set, it was like there's three
shill signs. Cool. Right. I mean, if you start getting pelted with popcorn during the movie,
I might be behind you. It might be. Yeah. Yeah. It's definitely Terry. You don't even have to look
and see. You know, it's Terry. You know, it is. It's very tempting. Could you go to the seven o'clock
one? Cause I can't stay up that late. Enjoy yourself, man. We'll talk soon. Have a great one.
All right. Yeah. I'm hoping to get out of the night. All right. See ya.
Right on. Hopefully talking with the on-playmakers a little bit later. I think I'm doing the show
solo. So I appreciate that. And I always appreciate your calls, everybody. Keep in comments.
715-424-2600. We love to hear from our listeners. That was a fun one. We are going to get into
after our news break, the hit and meaning of stars on Barnes. Looking forward to that.
Before right now, Terry, as long as we're coming out of an entertainment segment,
some people just don't know when to stop or they can't stop or they just keep getting started up
like the Rolling Stones. Here's a rundown of the oldest rockers you can catch on the road this summer.
And believe it or not, Keith Richards is not the oldest person touring this summer. Keith Richards
is not the oldest person touring this summer. Ringo Star, Bob Dylan and Mike Love of the Beach Boys
are all 83 and out there rocking out there doing their thing. Bruce Johnston of the Beach Boys is 81
out there doing his thing. And the aforementioned Mick Jagger, Keith Richards are both 80, although
Mick is several months older, but they're out there touring everything. Mickey Hart from Dead
and Company Steve Miller, the great Roger Dulltree from The Who, all 80 out there doing their thing.
Chicago's Robert Lamb is 79, so is Rod Stewart and former yes singer John Anderson in their late 70s.
There are a bunch of 78 year old still on the road as well, like Deep Purple singer Ion Gillum,
bassist Roger Glover from Deep Purple as well. John Fogarty, Neil Young and Pink Floyd's
David Gilmore all at 78 still touring. You know, I hope that they're all doing this because they
love it and they want to share with not because they've blown all their money. Right, right.
It is a worry. It is a concern. I mean, it's a fair point. It's a very fair point.
Potentially a reality. It's not, I mean, I'm not judging, but I'm just like, if you're still having
to do that when you're in your 80s, I hope it's because you love it. Yes. Yeah. Not because you're hungry.
Darryl Hall and Yes guitar Steve Howard, 77, Rod Wood is 77 as well. And it's a big year for 76
year old as Sammy Higgar, Carlos Santana, Bob Weir, ELO's Jeff Lin, Donald Fagan from Steeley Dan,
Alice Cooper, Steven Tyler, Steve Winwood, John Oats and Stevie Nicks just turned our all 76 out
there touring. And not to be outdone, Robert Plant is 75 still sounding like he didn't lean back
in the 70s. And so our Deep Purple drummer Ion Peace, Tom Johnston and Patrick Simone's of the
Dooby Brothers and Ricky Nielsen from Cheap Trick and Billy Joel, of course, out there still doing
their thing. I'm kind of laughing about this because I'm just thinking about the, you know, who is it?
Like an intern gathering all this data, like googling all these guys. All right. Who do we got out there?
That's over 75, you know, like, let's put this into a little story. Yeah, because I got this, I got
this article and I don't really have a credit that's sort of it's kind of cute. Like it's like,
all right. Who are all the old guys out there? It does speak to, you know, again, to stay relevant
in any genre is impressive, but especially comedy, music, these things. It's a little bit easier
to get into an old song you grew up loving than a joke maybe that doesn't add, it doesn't hit
time-sensitive-wise. But regardless of any of that, the majority, if not almost every one of
these artists have a good, have had a good career and so many of them have been really smart with
their money. In fact, a couple of these guys like Mick Jagger, Keith Richards are known for
the investments they've made and stuff. So I think it's even more interesting. Now, that doesn't
mean that they don't need money. Somebody like Mick Jagger's got a bunch of kids and those kind of
things. I joke about this all the time. Oh, kids cost money. Yeah, right. So Steve Harvey is a
great example of this. Steve Harvey is one of the hardest working men out there and a very funny
entertainer. He's a pretty funny guy. He's hilarious. Yeah. Steve Harvey's got a lot of kids and
got a couple of divorces and there's a reason Steve works so much. He loves to work, but he also
has got a couple of other reasons that he's still out there working. No suits ain't cheap. Motivation.
He's got motivation. There you go. That's the way to spend that nicely done by you. I'm sure that
there might be a little bit of this for some of these artists, just as much as there are like a
Rod Stewart who I've heard Rod Stewart talk about this. He lives to perform. Like if you take
if he's a strong fan base, take it. If you can still do it, you know, like there's you didn't
you notice Eric Clapton's not on this list. Eric Clapton really can't play electric guitar anymore.
Has him been able to for decade or so. If you're in that position or if you're on the other side
of that, like Carlos Santana, that you listen to him and he still sounds like oh yeah,
Komovar or some of these classics of his and everything. I'm with you. It's also noteworthy too,
I think because like as an actor, this is one of the few things where I think I do have a benefit.
I'm like I'm a male actor. I can work the rest of my life. As long as I'm willing to do this type
of role or this type of role, I can keep going. With as a musician, you're not always get
fill in the stadium. You're not always, you know, to fact that you're still doing this,
you're Billy Joel and you're still selling out Madison Square Garden once a month and
everything. It's beyond impressive to me. I think that's pretty cool. And if you could still do
it, more power to you. I will say too, even if some of this is for the money. I'm stretching
genres here and everything, but we talked about Nicholas Cage a little while ago on his birthday
and Nicholas Cage famously was very in debt to the IRS and needed money. I don't know if he
was calling you up. He was calling a lot of people up looking for a couple of bucks. I don't answer.
So what do you do? You're an actor. Of course, I'm going to do B movies. I'm going to do the quickest
movies I can and I'm going to get paid as quick as I can so I can take care of this debt. So he's
done a lot of B movies over the years, but in the process of that, because he's Nicholas Cage,
he don't phone it in. Like Nicholas Cage, say whatever you want about him, that man, whether it's a
B movie with no budget or it is a big time blockbuster, you're getting the same actor. And he does this
movie, this pig movie that is just a silly, you know, kind of not silly, but a silly script that
and I don't think a lot of actors would have put the effort into that he did, especially with a low
budget and everything. He does this in a completely revamped his career. Critics adore it. Critics
love him and everything. And now Nicholas Cage is doing big blockbusters again and re rehabilitated
his career, if you will, to where now he's kind of looked again at like the guy who won a
Oscar for leaving Las Vegas and stuff. So even when you do things for the money sometimes,
if you're putting your heart into it, good things can happen. He's a perfect example of this.
And I think I kind of a cool comeback story in some ways too. A lot of these artists,
some of that, a little bit of that and some of these and not others. I will also say, I wanted to
meet my friends early 20s, went to the first like three or four Oz Fest. And it was cool because
you see all these bands and Alpine's a great place to see a concert. I love Alpine Valley.
Big shout out to him. Oh, yeah, for sure. Uh, almost Jimmy Buffett there. Oh, really? That's
good. That would have been a good one. It was fabulous. I really, I certainly others can
mention it, but I never had a, I went to saw a lot of concerts at Alpine. I never had a bad seat
wherever I was. I always felt like I was in a good place. Something about it. It's so
about it. Yes, it's so cool that you kind of get down. It's almost like it's a separate thing
and everything. It's very cool. But um, went and saw Oz Fest there and saw Ozzy and the
original black Sabbath or what was left of the original black Sabbath. And I, I saw Ozzy four
different times and every time that man blew me away. Did you ever see him play the bat? Not at all.
But he would, he was, um, I understand a lot of the hype and a lot of the things put on him.
He was an amazing MC. Like I would have thought he was in his 30s the way he was out there. He was
energetic. He was interacting with the crowd. He was very likable and friendly. Like it was very
not what you would think of Vadasi Osborne Black Sabbath. Not what you'd think, but I credibly
a good performer. So to me, it don't matter the age. If they're out there, well, and they're all
clearly they have a fan base or they wouldn't be out there. I mean, I think that's awesome.
It's pretty cool. We're going to take a time, time out, check in with our news break here. We'll
come back and we're talking the stars on Barnes and the history of that on the morning show at WFHR.
Welcome back, everybody. I mean, why wouldn't you? Yeah, morning show at WFHR.
I hope this sticks and everyone's had all day, especially yours.
Yes, absolutely. We hope you're having a good one out there. Thanks for joining us,
everybody. Terry and James here with you. A star on the side of a barn is so
Americana. But did you know that there are hidden meanings to the stars? I didn't. And I just
learned it this week. I love barn stars. Me too. I like barns. And I want one. But I haven't found,
I saw one once at Warns, like at the Grand Fest that I absolutely loved. And it's a couple that
they go around and purchase wood from old barns that have been taken down. And then they create
the artists. And it was of course, as you would expect, super, super expensive. But fine, you know,
but I just couldn't find the, I'm waiting for the right color combination to just grab me. Yeah.
And that hasn't happened. And it's funny because a friend of mine said, oh, I want to get you
on as a gift. I'm like, please don't and I don't mean that rude. But I'm like, no, because I just,
I don't know, like I just, yeah, there's something. I will have one. There's a particular one out
there. You just haven't found it yet. I will have one. But I like that. I like that. I don't know
there's something about barns to me that are just very, very classic and cool. And I'm an architect.
I think the construction of things and coming from a construction family, I, something about that
part of it too. The building of a barn hasn't changed that much over the decades and centuries
and everything. And there's some history about that that I think is really cool and really,
really cool American history. So according to the website Taste of Home, there's a lot more to
those barn stars than just decoration. They are, they are actually called Pennsylvania stars or
primitive stars. And they are originally used by German and Dutch settlers to ward off evil.
Really? And the stars colors hold some meaning too. So a brown star is known to symbolize friendship
and strength. A white star stands for purity and energy. A violet star is considered holy. A green
star symbolizes hope for growth and fertility on the farm. A blue star or a black star symbolizes
protection for the farm. And a yellow star means love for your fellow man and the sun.
Very cool. Very cool. Very unique. I don't know how many different colored stars I've seen over
the years. I know I've seen some yellow ones before. See, I've mostly seen multicolor. You know,
I mean, they kind of look like a quilt, so to speak, or an idea of a quilt. But why couldn't you
use any combination of those? Right? Like, if you had two or three of those, but I love the symbolism
behind that. I don't say this lightly. I think the world of our ag industry of our farmers,
they are the backbone of this country. And we are nowhere without them. So I don't say this lightly.
But I wonder if modern farmers or even farmers in the last couple of decades taking over a farmer
anything, if the history of this is known, you know, I wonder how much they've handed that part
down. It is interesting, though, because in recent years, you know, maybe the last 10 years,
like I see them around kind of more as decor, right? Like people just have them hanging because
they love them or because of interest. But yeah, I wonder or I'm suspecting that those,
you know, that history or that meaning just really isn't known for you. You're looking more
for what matches. You're the house or anything, but, you know, just a certain, I don't know,
just whatever strikes, strikes my fancy. Yeah. Yeah. I was just curious because of the,
you know, I mean, like my sighting is gray. The shed is gray. You know, so I could, I could
pick any color, but I just, you know, sometimes I see them and I'm like, oh, I like that design,
but those colors just aren't right. I don't know. When I see it, it'll be, I'll know.
I, I don't necessarily want us to go back to this or anything. We romanticize a lot of things
about the past, but I do, I do kind of love hearing these stories and the idea of warding off evil
and that this star could do it with this particular color. And I know there's something
unique to me about that, especially about our history. You know, you look at, um,
folk tales or old-wise tales or different things that we do to ward off bad luck and how much of
that history is so unique to Europe and the settlers that came over here and brought those
traditions with them. They didn't just bring their, their, you know, ways of, of growing in this
and this soil here in this country. And some of those things, they brought a lot of those traditions
with them. And I'm curious of where, because this, while it was German and Dutch settlers to
brought this over, this was more of an American history and was something. Yeah, and it gets really
cool. A folk tale that we kind of created, which is so intertwined in our country and so beautiful.
It's kind of a cool thing. And, and then of these colors, you can't go wrong with too.
I, for some reason, I kind of like that too. Any of these would be great to have as a color of
your star and your body. And, and that symbol, any of those would be awesome to embody as well.
Yeah. Maybe that's part of the reason why we see more of the, more of a, a collective,
a collection of colors covering your basis here today, making sure, but if you've got multiple
colors too, no evil coming to that barn. Good point. Good point. I like that. I, I want to learn
more and more about this. I, I didn't realize that it actually had a, the particular star had a name
too, a Pennsylvania star or primitive star. That's unique too. I didn't realize that.
A shout out to all of our ag industry, all of our farmers out there and keep in mind, we celebrate
that right here in Wisconsin rabbits with the Wisconsin rabbits downtown farmers market.
Yes, I learned I found a way to segue that into this topic. Join them every, every farmers market.
They're kicking things off tomorrow from eight to two at two twenty first avenue south. If you
can't make it then every Thursday and Saturday, all summer long right up until October 12th,
you will have an opportunity to buy local support, local support our ag industry and our farmers
going to the Wisconsin rabbits downtown farmers market and keep in mind, they get all kinds of
stuff down there. The farmers markets have changed since we were kids. Oh, yeah. There's, I mean,
there's consumables, obviously, your vegetables and things that you think are going to be there,
but then also, I mean, honey and, and craft items, household items and egg rolls. Oh, yeah, that's
right. Yeah, yeah. Gotta try those. There's plenty of things down there to go check out.
And I want to encourage you, if you, if you happen to live and have one of these barns and one of
those stars on your barn, please call up and let us know what color it is. I want to know more about
it. Call up and join the conversation. Seven one five four two four twenty six hundred.
Maybe you know of a barn in the area that you drive past and you want to comment on and
everything. Please go ahead and let us know. We'll take a quick time out checking with our partners.
We'll come back with more fun on the morning show at WFHR.
We hope you're having a great one out there. Everybody, thanks for joining us and hanging out
with us throughout the show all week long. We appreciate you. We're hoping you have a great weekend
out there. We're going to get you ready for talk about some local events and our schedule.
But first, we got to that ain't right story, Terry. I got to, I got to get into with you here.
Authorities in Florida are trying to solve the mystery of a plane found abandoned at the side
of a Bay County road. The Springfield Police Department said on social media that a portion of a
plane, the cockpit, nose and front propeller, was found abandoned at the side of a transmitter of
transmitter road. The plane bears markings from zoo world in Panama City Beach, including a giraffe
logo, but they said that this was abandoned. They got rid of the plane about weeks and weeks ago.
So weird. That quote that used to be a part of an exhibit, but it was removed to bring in something
that would hold up the assistant director of the zoo said. Police said that they learned the
person who took possession of the plane, took it to a scrapyard, quote, there's some sort of
material inside the instruments that causes them to glow at night. And as a result, the scrapyard
can't take them. So they, that they took a portion of the plane, but they did not take the portion
behind me. Any points to the, what's up? They took that. What I would think is the less useful part
of the plane, I would almost think. I don't know. Police are now trying to determine how the
remaining portion of the plane ended up at the side of the road. Voils, the owner said a decision
on whether to take civil or criminal action against the responsible party will maybe made
once the probe is completed. But yeah, just. Now that's like when you see people dump TVs
on the side of the road, pay the 20 bucks to get it recycled. Yeah, you're seriously. You're not
only giving making more work for our city workers and our police departments, but you're killing
our planet. You're hurting our planet and ain't right. But it is weird. It is weird. This is so
flawed. Oh, we don't think, unfortunately, we've seen so much of that littering kind of thing
that we, it doesn't, you know, necessarily get stopped you in your tracks. You see a TV on the
side of the road. You see this half of this plane. I'm showing Terry here. Well, and I suppose,
you know, they took the whole back half, which is scrap metal so they can get money for that.
You know, they can scrap that out, but the electronic part of it to recycle. Yeah, I mean,
it costs money. That's just the reality of life. But pay the hundred bucks or whatever. How much,
you know, I mean, seriously, yeah, yeah. It's a true, that a right story. I mean,
they just thought somebody was going to what turned that into a planter on a raised bed guarded.
Like, I wish I knew what they, what they, what they exact thought process was behind that one.
People are dumb. Yeah, they think they can have that tendency. Yeah, why would someone do that?
Let's take a call. Good morning. You're on the show. What's on your mind?
Well, happy fun fact. Friday James. Hey, happy fun. Fracks, man. What's on your mind? What do you
got? You are 15 times more likely to die by coconut than by shark. That's an interesting
step. Like coconut rum or an actual coconut. Nicely done. Well, I would over hit you in the
head. Sometimes that coconut rum hits you harder than the coconut that I want to follow.
I'm going to follow this one up. There is no in human history. There's no recorded penguin on
human death. Yes, none. Yes. No, because they're just stinky. They don't come that close.
Okay. Well, we killed a human in recorded history. Not once. Not once. Okay. Do you think
a penguin could kill a human? If they can, it'll happen to me. It'll probably happen to me.
Well, that would be the best thing you got. You got to know a hockey fan. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Exactly. But that would be the best way for you to go, James. I mean, let's be real.
It would. It would. Actually, you know, boy, it was crazy. All those penguins attacking James,
but he died with a smile on his face. Yeah, it's definitely me. We appreciate you, Matt. Thanks
for the call. Have a great weekend, man. Later. You do. Oh, great call. Great call.
Four, two, four, two, three. Or like you die of suffocation from one little penguin,
like laying on your face. Yes. Yes. Exactly. My luck would be I get hit on the head. I finally
get to like a why you're some beautiful place like that. I have a coconut hit me on the head
and I'm staggering and fall into the ocean and get eaten by a shark. I mean, or a penguin.
Uh, well, or both. Yes. Yes. One of the other. There's going to be leftovers. There's no one
like this. One little penguin, like trying to pull your, I guess over for them to all you know,
I, you would have to be a really hungry shark to take a bite at me, man. I'm a toothpick. Like,
I heard they like bones. Oh, maybe. But because of my brain being the way it is,
that story actually got me down a rabbit hole, Terry, of because we went to Springfield, Florida.
And I'm like, I didn't even know there was a Springfield in Florida, but it should seem
obvious that there's a Springfield almost in every state got me thinking about what are the
most popular city names? Uh, and I thought for sure, number one with the bullet's got to be
Springfield. Like, that's got to be the most popular name. It's actually second on the list that
I found. There are a couple of different lists out there you can check out, but I went to worldateless.com.
So Washington is actually the most popular city name in America, uh, with 88 different cities and
towns throughout the country named Washington. I mean, totally makes sense. It does. It does. I just
didn't, it didn't seem like that. That's really cool. It didn't seem obvious, but yeah, that's
kind of neat. Springfield is second with 41 different cities in town sharing its name. And I,
I really would have thought that there'd be even more. Uh, the oldest one, the first place with the
name was founded in the 1636 Springfield, the Massachusetts. Cool. It was named after Springfield
in Essex, England. George Washington founded the National Army here and later it became a world
leader, uh, world leader during the Industrial Revolution, of course. Uh, Franklin is third.
Wouldn't have expected that. But if I'm thinking about it now, I mean, yeah, they're definitely,
I've heard that as a city several times naming a city after a president or a former president
or something like that makes a lot of sense. I mean, you kind of blew my, I mean, Springfield
isn't named after Rick Springfield. Yeah, I know it's shocking, shocking. And I thought it was named
after the town and the Simpsons. So, uh, Greenville is next on a list with 30 city and town names,
one of the oldest cities with this name is Greenville, South Carolina. Of course. That is one of the
most beautiful towns I have ever been. Love it. I love that. It was absolutely beautiful.
1786 was when that was founded, wrapping up the rest of the top names Bristol is way up there.
Interesting. Clinton, uh, Fairview, Salem is still a very popular one.
Sorry. And we wrap up with, uh, Madison. Madison has 24 different cities carrying that name.
The name is popular due to the fourth president of the nation, James Madison. His greatest
legacy is having participated in drafting the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights. It also
worked closely with Mr. Washington to organize a new federal government. One of the most famous
places is, of course, mad town, our own Madison. Uh, and that's from this article here. That's
not just me saying that. That's pretty cool. That, uh, Madison, Wisconsin is, if not the most
popular Madison in our country, one of the most popular ones. Oh, badgers. I think that that has
a little bit to do with it there, but certainly, uh, got a lot of things to offer. And one of my top
five favorite cities in the world, Madison. I love being a capital to you know, I mean, like, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, yeah. Uh, that's a, I thought that was a fun article. I thought that was kind of fun. A
little, uh, uh, road down that road. I couldn't. It was a road down something I couldn't even speak
of. I couldn't even put it in the words. That's how emotional it was. You were having a day. Oh,
I am, I'm having a week. You're just a puddle. What is going on? I don't have complete control
of my mouth. I've still got this tooth pain going on. And I cannot, like, I've got a part of my
mouth that is numb. So my, my upper lip and over here, I don't have control of my, my instrument.
Which is my, uh, now what is my excuse for every other week that I mess up words that I have
a hard week? I don't know. I don't have it for that. But this week, I got an excuse. I got to,
I got to excuse this week. I wanted to take some time to talk about our schedule and talk about
some good stories of the day in our area. In part, uh, well, first up, want to mention our schedule,
of course, coming up in a little bit, Matt and Aaron air. Join us for that one. Jane,
Greg, do a great job taking you through your end of your morning and leading you up to the new
hour. Join us for that Monday through Friday, Monday through Friday here. Also two to four,
Maggie Doncho, one of our favorite voices in Civic. Uh, we love listening to Maggie, not only
funding and entertaining, but incredibly informed and does her homework. Join us right for that two
to four and four to five midday magazine, where today we got a really special one lined up for you
to wrap up the week. We are going to be talking with Wisconsin State Senator Patrick Teston in part
one, uh, looking forward to that. A lot of stuff going on, uh, not only with the Republican Party,
but within politics in the last week, two weeks, there's going to be plenty for, uh, uh, uh,
Mr. Teston and I to talk about. And in part two, we wrap up the week with Lacey Ailing,
embeds an engagement director with our heart of Wisconsin Chamber of Commerce. As always, I'd like
to send a big shout out to our scheduler, uh, the heart of the station Pam Hilke and the great
work she does on that week and week out. We appreciate you, Pam. After baseball on your radio
dial tonight at 620, join us as we have your perfect tailgate show, playmakers to lead in the
Raptor baseball. Five to six. Join us for playmakers and then at 620, the, uh,
rafters will be in wall so to take on the wood chucks on Saturday, 620, start time at home,
taking on lacrosse and on Sunday, a 450, uh, start time against at lacrosse. That does mean that it
might interfere with our Sunday lineup. So we'll be playing reruns for you if we do have any
on the airwaves. Be sure to check that out. Um, also Terry wanted to check in with the United
Way a little bit and, uh, remind everybody about stuff, the bus and so many other things you're
doing over there. Yeah, absolutely. So we are collecting school supplies, um, at various locations
in the community, including the United Way Office 351 Oak Street until August 1st. At that time,
um, United Way will be the sponsor for lunch by the river that day. Um, so bring your school supplies
down to us from 1131 at Veterans Memorial Park. Um, and then those school supplies will be
distributed to students in the Southwood County area who, who have a need. Um, and that
distribution happens on August 16th and 17th registration is required. Um, but I really encourage
you if you're listening, pick up a few school supplies for us. Um, help us out. If you're not
interested in shopping, um, you can make a monetary donation to, to support this cause,
but we've got about 900 kids that, you know, our goal is to make sure that they have as many school
supplies on their list as, as possible. And that's done through the, through the generosity and the,
the support of the community. So we really, really encourage you to get on board and, and help us
out with that. Yeah. You can find out more about going to UWSWAC.org, encourage you to go there
right now. Be sure to follow the United Way on social media. It's not just a great way to keep
up the data on things that they are doing over there, but you can share those on your pages,
and you just never know who might see them that wouldn't have otherwise. Absolutely. Uh, we also
want to encourage you to check out, uh, the fur, uh, the McCain's Community Swim this Sunday,
July 21st from 6 to 8. Go check that out. And then Sunday, July 28th and Erko's Community Swim,
also from 6 to 8. Concessions available for, uh, purchase. Uh, this is a part of the Wisconsin
Rappis Aquiskeyer Center, uh, taking place at the Wisconsin Rappis Aquiskey Center. Aquatic Center.
Aquatic Center. Thank you. I think that's cool because it's totally free for the community. Yeah.
You know, they're, they're paying to have it be open. So that's really cool. Shout out to those
businesses doing that. We appreciate that. That's pretty cool. Uh, fourth annual Vesper Day is going on,
uh, to today and tomorrow, uh, Friday, family night, uh, games from five to nine, movie,
in Cameron Park at dusk Saturday, nine to 11 with the parade at noon, vendors, food trucks,
penny scramble for the kids and adults, uh, Ember going to be down there performing from seven to
11, uh, to 2023 Wisconsin State Band champion. Uh, they got some guts over there. G, uh, G B dance
band from one to five. Also going to be a lot of fun. It's a great event. Yeah. It's a great
to come on out. Great event and a great way to support our, uh, our Vesper area. We encourage you to
do so also real quick. 21st annual Garden Walk taking place tomorrow from nine to four. Enjoy
this and be, uh, kind to all those out there, uh, celebrating, uh, promoting that, uh, great event
everybody. And two hearts LLC's music benefit proceeds going to the never forgotten honor flight.
That is taking place July 20th Saturday from 10 to six over at 27 11 red and road. Got, uh,
great, uh, bands country legends chase quintess, uh, uh, Jerry Schmidt band all going to be there
in a silent auction going on as well. And don't forget about the state water ski tournament going on
out like with each. Uh, if, if anyone says there's nothing to do this weekend. Yeah. Yeah. Really?
Give me a look. Really? Give me that look. Give me that look. Is there a lot of money to do?
Yeah. That look. That look. That look. I have one. Do you have one? Yeah. I know you've got one. I know.
Great show, Terry. Thanks for hanging out with us. You bet. Uh, thank you to the best listeners
in radio. You guys be good to each other. Have a great weekend and we'll talk to you soon
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