Go Check Out Woodpecker! (Hour 2)

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I am joined by Seth Habagger.

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

We'll get into some local good stories of the day, but we kick this hour off on Thursdays

the way we like to with our good story of the day, our feature good story of the day,

our pet of the week from the South of County Main Society.

We're joined by Tim from over there.

Really, Tim.

Good to see you.

Good morning, gentlemen.

I want to thank our friends at TJs Auto and Collision Center.

Find out more about them at TJsauto.net, TJsauto.net and visit them at 3277 State Highway

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We appreciate our friends over at TJs.

Tim, it's great to see you.

You got some news that we wanted to start off with, though.

Follow up, actually.

Yes.

Follow up from Latin.

First, we'll do the pet of the week.

Oh, okay.

Great.

We have a little different one.

This one, it's cat, but it's got a odd name, so I'll let you pull it up.

It's woodpecker.

So, name we have.

I love animals named after other animals.

That's great.

That's great.

No.

I think the staff basically picked out these names.

Okay.

Great.

They do a good job with it.

Oh, that is a cute cat.

Hundreds and hundreds of animals.

Yeah.

Oh, wow.

Yeah.

That's great too.

Very interesting code.

I should say, hand some code.

He's a male.

I should hand some code on him.

Yes, that they domestic short here, a mix, the male, five years old.

I believe he's a surrender, black and white.

Yeah.

So, that is the pet of the week, but I also want to mention that we have almost capacity.

We have a lot of cats.

Just look last night with the staff checked, and apparently every kennel in the shelter

is full.

Oh.

Yes.

Well, we had a run of kittens, so there was a lot of six, eight litters, and now they're

all coming in from foster, so then they'll be available for adoption.

So, the dogs also, we are right at capacity again, so if you need a pet, come on.

That was a good time to look.

Yeah.

Now it's a really good time.

And the dogs, or remember, you have to look online, have an application, and then do a meet

and greet.

We don't have people coming in when they want in all hours, looking at the dogs that

rouse them up.

Yeah.

It's not good for the animals, and it's tough enough for these animals being in a lot

of the situations they're in, and they're confused.

They're just trying to live, having multiple people coming in and out and everything.

It just be not only bad for the animals, but it's also not not great for people.

I've worked in shelters before that did that, and in the time that I was there, they stopped

doing it because it wasn't good for the people as much as the animals.

And oftentimes, we are, our shelter here is that capacity, and we need all hands on deck,

and we need to get these animals into good homes, but not just any home, the right home.

The right.

Exactly.

That's really important to this.

And it's important for the family as much as it is the animal.

It's best for both.

So doing something like that, I admire that.

I think that that's a really smart way to handle things to him.

And it's good to hear that our shelter does that.

And now you brought up a point, and I did before I get into the other stuff.

Having, if anyone wants to volunteer, we do have openings.

For in the cat room, come in and socialize, or you can help clean.

That's, we have hours for that, and the dog room, if you want to do some dog walking, socializing.

We do have training actually on Saturday, our volunteers are going to be trained by a professional

and out of walk, what to do, and having a staff leash up some of the dogs.

Some are a little bit more excitable, but as you pointed out, it was pointed out to me

a long time ago that the animals we have, it's like kind of like being in prison.

Yeah.

So they are in that cage so much we try to get them out as much as possible, just to get

them exercise and get them out of that kennel environment.

So if you want to come in help, we'd appreciate it.

Yeah, appreciate any volunteering, anybody can do out there.

And that also includes, if you are picking up dog food and can grab an extra bag or kitten

food, especially cat food, especially as it is always kitten season, there's always a lot

of cats.

You can always use things like that as well.

So keep that in mind.

There are a lot of ways to impact your main society and help them do the vital work that

they are doing.

Correct.

Woodpecker is an awesome cat.

That's great.

So five-year-old is neutered, de-clawed, is microchip to keeping that in mind as well.

You wanted to follow up on a story from last week, I think.

Well, yeah, we've been talking more and more about the stray animals, which are typically,

it's called at large in the statute, as I said.

And I wanted to just cover a little bit of the area again about the non-contracted municipality

because that was, I know, a shock to you because of that.

And so what we do and how we have to figure this out is when someone calls or we get a report

of these strays, this is where the animal is found.

So we have to check and say, where did you find the animal?

There is a website we go to, a county map, it has all the addresses.

And then we have to determine the proper township.

Because now this is actually covered by state statute on what we have to do.

Now if there's a non-contracted municipality, we have to inform the caller that this is

your municipality doesn't want to contract.

So we cannot be the authorized agent for them.

We receive no support from the animals within that jurisdiction.

We give them the name of the person in the local township who wants to be contacted for

this.

So there are different ones that could be the chairperson, the community, clerk, could

be whoever, they can call.

Now sometimes we get a call back and say, well, they're not going to do anything they

don't want to.

What do we do?

We want to give it to you.

In cases like that, we have to check first for kennel capacity.

Right.

Obviously.

And it's a sad fact of life, but the contracted municipalities come first because they're

doing the right thing.

Right.

They need to put it in that term.

No, but it's too long, it's the way it is now.

Right.

And then if we do have room, we would have to charge the person, you know, the fee because

the municipality won't cover it.

Yeah.

Now that can be a sticky situation because it's not there.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So and we need to provide food, shelter, water, vaccines, initial vet, you know, certain

things.

Yeah.

Now it could be you find the owner immediately if they're microchipped.

If they're not, we don't know.

So there's a lot of variables.

And also then if someone calls about surrendering their own personal pet and they live in a non-contracted

area, then also makes things difficult.

Yeah.

I was wondering about this.

Yeah.

There's a lot of rules.

Yeah.

There's a lot of, there's a lot of overlapping and not enough overlapping in some ways where

when it comes to this.

And it's way too confusing.

Just bluntly, it is way too confusing and it doesn't need to be.

This doesn't have to be that complicated of a subject.

Well, and a lot of this too, if people want to look, the thing they can look at because

if they would have a pet, let's say they find on their property and they want to keep it.

Well, you, you know, you have to check with chapter 170 in the state statutes, which is

to raise and loss chattels, or C-A-D-A-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D.

So there are certain rules that have to be followed.

And a person cannot just say, well, that's mine.

And wait, wait a period of time and that's mine.

No.

That's where this comes in with the notifying the township because that's what state statutes

has to be done.

Right.

Okay.

Yeah.

Yes.

It's complicated.

It is way too complicated.

And I understand that it's not necessarily a black and white subject.

There's a lot of gray area.

But at the same time, I think that it doesn't necessarily need to be this, this complicated.

I do encourage people if you have questions, if you're not sure about some of these things,

reach out to our Humane Society or reach out to a Humane Society near you to find out more

when you have questions.

It's always a good resource.

The reader you can't.

The reader.

Packed your listeners can't tell.

Yeah.

And that is what our people have to carry with them or when we get these calls are on

call people have to know what to say.

Yep.

As much as I want people informed about knowing this because of animals and such, I also

want people to understand and have a little empathy for our Humane Society shelter workers

and the things that they have to know and do.

You are not just walking a dog.

That's not the job.

There are so much layers and so much to go into this job.

It's all the more reason why it's all hands on deck.

We want as much help as we can get whether it's volunteering or dropping off items or spreading

the word about these animals too.

Like the Humane Society's Facebook page, you can share these things on your page and

you just never know who might see them that wouldn't otherwise.

And find out, you know, other ways that you can help out the Humane Society.

Appreciate the job.

At the point with what you just said about the sharing, we have had some difficulties just

so people know, for some reason, whatever meta, whatever, whatever owns the Facebook,

have determined that we are some kind of non-entity here, they're deleting if you want to

repost.

I'm sure you've heard this.

Yeah.

I've had it happen to me.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So please make so sense.

As with anything, this is not something we want.

Right.

So you can keep trying or change a few words, sometimes that's what I did.

Yeah.

I changed the link up a little bit and just a couple things here and there, but I've made

multiple complaints to whoever, if anybody is listening over at Facebook, they're not

this and everything.

Yeah.

They're not.

Apparently.

But that's where, okay, well, then we take it on ourselves.

If they're not going to do it, we'll do it.

And we'll make it work and we'll make sure to get the word out about these animals and

make sure more and more people find out about woodpecker and some of these other great

animals over there, Tim.

And thank you both again for having this show and doing this.

It's a nice public service and it makes a big difference for us.

We're a team.

We're a team.

All of us in this community, we're a team.

We work together and we want to spread the word about these things.

We appreciate you coming down every Thursday and hanging out with us and talking about these

things and being and forming our audience because I think I know for a fact a lot of the

stuff you just shared in the last couple of times with us isn't common knowledge.

No, not at all.

We need it to be.

We want to meet.

Yeah.

Yeah.

We say a gigantic big shout out to our friends at TJ's Auto and Collision Center.

They've got trucks, large variety of trucks from a small SUV to a work truck.

We've got them all.

Stop out today and drive home with a brand new truck.

Again, support local, support those that support us.

Our friends at TJ's Auto are at 3277 State Highway 73 in Wisconsin Rapids.

Give them a call at 715-203-8346 and find out more at their website, tjsauto.net, tjsauto.net.

You can find out about Woodpecker and so many of these other great animals at our Humane

Society by giving them a call at 715-423-0505.

That's 423-0505.

Can you email the Humane Society at SWCHS at SWCHS.com and keep in mind they're located

at 3621-64 Street North in Wisconsin Rapids.

That is where you'd go to volunteer and to find out more about that and other things.

Their website, SWCHS.com and be sure to follow them on social media and share their pages,

share their posts.

If they take them down, just change a word or two and it'll change up.

We appreciate you helping us spread the word about our Humane Society and doing the

good work they're doing.

Thanks again for the time, Tim.

New bit.

Seth and I will be back more on the show here at WFHR, locally grown radio.

Welcome back to the show, morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio.

Seth and James hanging out with you.

Hope you're having a great one out there.

Big shout out to our friends over at the South of County Main Society in T.J.'s Auto, giving

us a great start to the hour.

That was a lot of fun.

Seth and I are getting into some entertainment news now and we've got to talk Mel Brooks in

a moment here, Seth and Diane too, but I have to kind of pull a little bit of an audible.

I plan out a lot of our shows in the weekend and throughout the week when we have breaking

news and different things come up.

And I had this segment all lined up, but then last night, I don't know about other people,

but one of the things if I'm trying to wind down at the end of the night and I'm looking

for palette cleansers, things to calm me and stuff, I end up watching, like I've mentioned

before, these fun animal combination videos, you know, a duck and a dog hanging out or something

like that.

But I also tend to look at movie trailers, I really enjoy them and I don't know if I've

ever recommended a trailer before.

And I am hesitant to do it oftentimes because obviously a trailer can be really good, but

the movie cannot be.

And we see that all the time.

Or misleading.

Yeah, absolutely.

It's happened before too.

But I get really excited about movies and I get excited about performances in movies.

And in particular, when it comes to actors that are up and coming or are just in the

process of hitting their prime, much like an athlete that we see hitting their 25, 27

years age or something like that and you really get the chance to see these people being

comfortable while also having their skill set at the top of the game.

And I think the, if I can, the Patrick Mahomes of acting right now is Timothy Shalameh

by far and away.

I mean, it's not even close.

There's nobody even in his, even even clipping at his heels right now as far as young actors

go in my opinion.

This kid is only getting more and more talented working harder and harder at the craft and

staying more and more grounded, which is key to all of this.

He has a really good mom.

He has, he's very close with her.

He brings her to award shows.

He's so sweet.

He just seems to have his feet on the ground, which is also advancing his career and helping

it get better at things.

And I keep thinking every time I see him, well, okay, that's pretty darn good.

I don't know how he's going to top that.

And I clicked on a trailer last night, a complete unknown.

And the image is just a man playing a guitar with a spotlight.

So I didn't know what this movie was about or anything.

And immediately, I see Edward Norton as Pete Seeger, and Edward Norton looks like Pete Seeger.

And Edward Norton is an incredible actor.

And he's acting and he's being Pete Seeger and he's talking about this young guy that

he just saw, this young artist coming up, that looks really interesting.

He's a complete unknown.

And then I hear the voice of what I think is Bob Dylan, but it's Timothy Chalamet.

Oh my gosh.

Looking and sounding like Bob Dylan, like nobody, like I've heard, we've all heard our

live.

You mean, man, we've heard plenty of impressions of Bob Dylan our whole life.

Right.

I, the opening shot of him, it's from behind and the camera slowly comes around to where

you see his face and you just hear his voice and you can tell it's Timothy Chalamet singing,

but he's singing just like Bob Dylan.

And then you see him and you're like, how is one of the most handsome people in the

world going to look like Bob Dylan?

And he does.

And to me, to be fair, Bob Dylan, when he was younger, he looked a lot better than he

does.

Good point.

Very good point.

He was very handsome.

But this is about the beginnings of Bob Dylan's career at him being a complete unknown,

and coming literally out of nowhere and taking the music world by storm from grassroots,

not from a social media campaign, not from a bunch of people promoting his work or anything

like that, but literally from the grassroots, from the ground up.

And you've got, as I mentioned, and we're Norton is Pete Siger, Boyd Hallbrook, another

great young actor is Johnny Cash, Will Harrison is Bob Norton, Benedict Cumberbatch as an older

Pete Siger.

I got two Pete Siggers in it.

Eli Fanning is Sylvia Russo, and again, Timothy Chalamet is Bob Dylan.

Go ahead and check out the trailer, see what I'm talking about because it really gave me

goosebumps.

That's cool.

I'm not a big Bob Dylan guy.

That's it for people who know you would realize, yeah, you're not a huge Dylan fan.

I'm actually, I don't agree with everything Bob Dylan has ever said and done certainly,

but I probably like Bob Dylan more the person than I do his music.

I didn't really grow up at a lot of Dylan, but I respect the man and I respect his career

very much, and I have never really gotten into biopics that are about an artist I don't

really get into.

So this really blew me away, not only the performances that I saw in the little bit that I did, but

the fact that I want to see a Bob, a movie about Bob Dylan, I don't know if I've ever

felt that way before.

And it's all starts with his performance with Tim Lee Chalamet's performance that I saw.

It's an incredible clip.

You know, that's kind of cool.

That's kind of what movie stars are supposed to do, right?

Yep.

They're supposed to draw people in with their performance and with that.

So you're right.

I think he may be at the top of the list right now.

He's the, he's the one I have already as a voter on the Oscars written his name down.

That I've already written it.

I'm not saying I'm going to vote for him, but I've already written his name down.

It's going to be on there.

This is one there.

Well, this is something that we've seen for, I mean, going back to Ray with Jamie Foxx

or walked the line with Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon, the rise of these kind

of biopics has been going on for quite some time.

And we're seeing more and more one of the under one of the things that you'll hear in

the background as an actor, oh, you want to win an award?

Play somebody.

Yep.

The go-to's, if you've got somebody that's always wanted to win an award or something,

that's a go-to.

I'm not saying that's what they're doing in this movie, but that is just a sign of, yeah,

you're going to be seeing this.

Play a famous person, right?

Yeah.

It's one of the few things in his short career that he's been missing so far is kind of

the claim as far as from critics, as far as like a true performance.

Everybody talks highly about his acting, but he hasn't done something like this before.

This is going to be a feather in the cap, I think, for Timothy Shalume, which is really

impressive at a young career.

And here's hoping that, I mean, I hate to say this because it's not, it's like, you know,

poor Timothy Shalume, he's a gorgeous person, you know, like someone who's, you know,

very aesthetic, you know, traditionally attractive, like he is.

You don't get the same kind of, you know, a lot of it's for your acting because, you

know, oh, look how handsome he is, kind of thing.

You tend to, it tends to work against your talent sometimes, but he's already shown

that he can work way past that.

I mean, he's already been doing it.

Leonardo DiCaprio had to get a dad bod to get a Oscar nomination.

It's all serious, it could not be absolutely serious about this.

I've never, I've never been able to wrap my mind around this.

Putting Leonardo DiCaprio's personal life aside, he, I don't know anybody that could see

him and not say, well, that's one of the greatest actors in the world.

And I'm saying this from a young man in what's eating Gilbert Grape.

And I couldn't understand how his performance didn't get an award, like a bunch of awards.

He stole that movie.

He was incredible in it.

And a lot of great performances in that movie, a lot of great performances in that movie.

And he stole the show almost every scene he was in.

He has done nothing but great work in his career.

I don't know if ever seen a bad performance from Leonardo DiCaprio, but it took him being

in the revel, in the remnant and being all, you know, a brazilian, brazilian, everything

for him to actually get a nom to get it taken seriously.

And actually, before that, it took Martin Scorsese to help him become serious.

He would be taken seriously.

He was Howard Hughes, the famous person.

Yes.

Nicely done.

Nicely done.

I'm really excited about that.

That should be interesting.

But I have to admit, I'm much more excited about this.

I've been dying to talk with you about this set, a sequel to Spaceballs is in the works.

Oh, no.

Yes.

Your shorts, this is big as mine.

Mel Brooks will produce it.

He is not writing or directing it, but he is working on the script with the people.

He is very hands on with this.

He's been about 37 years since Mel Brooks' classic Spaceballs hits theaters.

So it's about to introduce the Star Wars parody to a new generation with a sequel.

Not much is known about this yet, though, except, again, it'll be produced by Brooks for Amazon,

and it'll start Josh Gad.

The voice of Olaf and Frozen and many other movies.

Yeah.

A very good Josh Gad.

I like him too.

I'm a fan.

The Spaceballs sequel will be the second time Brooks has revisited one of his films.

This series came out with History of the World Part 2, a series on Hulu that did very well.

I don't know if it'll be good or not, and honestly, I don't care.

I'm just happy.

I'm just happy that Mel Brooks is still working, that Mel Brooks is still involved in the

movies and everything.

It's remarkable.

Yeah.

That is, this longevity is just really remarkable to his age to be doing this.

And Mel Brooks is no stranger to late parodies or sequels.

Both Spaceballs, Men with Tights, came out almost a decade after the original original

movie came out.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So it's kind of not part of the course.

It really is.

It really is.

I find that really interesting.

I'm very excited about this.

And I am, I've already told my agent that I want an audition for this.

She's like, I don't know if we know anybody with that casting company.

Find them.

Find them.

I've never been more direct with her in my career.

You got an agent.

You're just thankful that you have an agent.

Yeah.

But I've been telling Aaron for at least three months now, not that long.

But like, hey, there's certain projects that I would love to be involved in.

And as soon as this popped up, I'm like, you've got to get me an audition for that.

You have to.

It's like, I've never heard you so direct, like, this is serious.

I want to be in Spaceballs too.

Come on, agent, go out and agent.

Do your job.

Do your job.

You're going to get paid from it.

If you wrap up with a kind of an interesting note, Inside Out 2 is up to 1.462 billion worldwide.

Billion or million?

Billion.

What?

Billion.

Yeah.

Wow.

Inside Out 2 is up to 1.462 billion worldwide, making it the highest grossing animated movie

of all time.

How about that?

The previous champ was frozen to at 1.45 billion.

Okay.

So it's kind of blown a little bit out of the water.

A little bit there.

Wow.

Out 2.

Frozen 2.

Super Mario Bros.

Movie and at number 3.

Oh, not bad.

Frozen, the original Frozen at number 4 and the Incredibles 2 at number 5, which is kind

of interesting to see.

That was a year's back.

That one came out.

Wow.

Minions at number 6, Toy Story 4 at number 7, Toy Story 3 at number 8, Despicable Me at

number 3, and Finding Dory at number 10.

Okay.

All right.

It's an interesting list, but congratulations.

More sequels on that list.

That's kind of surprising.

But then the original films were very popular, but the hype with the sequels was even bigger.

So I think that's why more people went to see it.

And while you may be hesitant as a parent to bring your kids to the first one, by the

second one, you know it's probably safe.

Probably seen it on video at home, streaming, building up an audience.

Thank you.

That's what I wanted to hang on to here.

One of the greatest things the movie industry has done is the quicker to release.

When we were kids, you had to wait a year, at least a year.

It seemed that way.

I don't even know what it actually was, but it was a long time.

Thank you for being detailed on that, because I shouldn't just throw that out there.

But it did feel at the least it felt like a year before you saw these things.

The quicker to video, the quicker to streaming, the quicker to download has only benefited

the movie industry, and they need to spark on this.

They need to see this.

Build an audience.

Yes.

Yes.

You build an audience with the original films.

So while I am not a fan of every sequel and every movie having a sequel, I don't think

we need a gone with the win, too, the revenge.

The destruction of Jared's egg.

Certain movies you don't need to do that with.

Other movies are almost built for having sequels, in part because a new audience or bringing

in a bigger audience, it's kind of cool to see, and boy, does the movie industry need this.

You're not going to see this slow down anytime soon, in part because of some of this.

I think that's kind of interesting to see, and what we're doing.

That's bringing people to movies.

Right.

Right.

Let's see.

Well, crafted stories with good performances.

Hmm.

Maybe they should look into that.

It's a blueprint that I think we'll send Hollywood.

Yeah, maybe give them a memo on that.

Seth and I are going to write up an email for Hollywood.

We'll be back after our news break, but more, we'll let you know how that went.

On the morning show at WFHR.

Welcome back, everybody.

And a little bit, we're going to get into the, uh, well, actually, let's do this right

now.

Okay.

Actually, I'm going to move this one around here because I think this is an interesting one.

I want some time with it.

You probably haven't made travel plans based on how friendly the locals are to outsiders

in certain states, but that can have an impact on how your trip goes.

Newsweek has a ranking of all 50 states based on how friendly they are to tour us.

All right.

And according to the survey of travelers on social media, and if the states in the northeast

have a reputation of her being rude, that won't help.

Or this one out.

New York was named the rudest state in America, followed by Arkansas, Delaware, Massachusetts,

New Jersey, Washington, New Hampshire, Nevada,

Florida, and Rhode Island.

All coastal states are close to it, except for Arkansas.

But wow, wow, interesting.

No single area of the country dominated the Friendliest States list.

So there wasn't that Southern hospitality, although a few Southern states made it.

But zero states in the Northeast made the cut.

According to the results, the friendliest state in America is Minnesota.

Yeah.

That's not a surprise.

It's surprising at all.

The rest of the top 10 are Tennessee, South Carolina, Texas, Wyoming, Indiana, Colorado,

Kansas, Oklahoma, and Hawaii.

Oh, wow.

That is an interesting list.

That is an interesting list.

That's kind of all over the place, I like that.

It does also speak to, it's not a coincidence that the majority of these states that are

at the top of the friendliest list are also way at the top of the list of when it comes

to economies, when it comes to having people visiting their state, quality of life, indexes

kind of stuff.

Yeah.

Because we've been, you know, it's kind of funny.

A lot of these surveys that we've been doing lately, Minnesota has come out in the top

or like Minneapolis, you know, it's like the best city to visit kind of thing and all

these kind of things.

I think that does have something to do with it.

Yeah.

Well, and having certain amenities and having, you know, that kind of stuff.

So you're hearing a lot of people talk right now about, well, how do we get people

into our state?

How do we get people to move to this state?

How do we get people?

And I hear things like no taxes and these, these, these ideas that where they're trying

too hard, they're trying too hard, this is not that difficult, childcare, minimum wage,

housing.

These are the important, being dog friendly is bigger than we realize, having, having,

you know, recreational things for people to do.

These are things that people will move to a state for.

One of the last things people are worrying about, and I'm not, this isn't my opinion, everybody,

this is stats, this is facts for you.

They don't care about taxes.

They don't care.

Right.

You know, who cares?

Rich, rich, rich, rich people.

Those are the ones that move to Texas because there's no income tax, right?

That's the thing for them.

That's the important thing.

But the majority of us are not filthy rich.

No.

And we, there is almost no middle class anymore.

So there's that factor.

People are not necessarily moving because, oh, this state doesn't have taxes.

I'm going to move there.

Understand that getting rid of taxes does not mean that you're going to have a bigger

income.

You're just going to be paying more on this or more on this or more on that.

It is not as if the government in Texas and Texas in Florida is like, oh, we don't take

money for anything.

Yeah, right.

You're still paying, man.

I got friends in both of those states and both of them, both those families will tell

you they are paying.

Yeah.

Yeah, they're paying some way.

They still have to pay and their infrastructure is terrible.

Now if you happen to be listening to this in our professional athlete, I get why you

would want to live in Florida or Texas.

But guess what?

You're just, that's just for home games.

You're away games.

You are taxed on in that state.

By the way, I don't know if people realize this.

When you go to any sporting team, when you're playing in that state, you actually have to,

part of your income, you have to pay the taxes on that because that is a place you are

working.

Yeah.

So they're, I can't imagine, crazy, they're taxes.

There truly is no such thing as this, you're not paying taxes.

Like that doesn't really exist.

So the idea of that is one of the more far-fetched and sci-fi ideas I can think of them.

Hey, you know what'll help Wisconsin?

Let's have no taxes.

Yep.

That makes a lot of sense.

Let's make sure the rich get richer.

That's a great idea.

Wonderful.

Wonderful idea.

Let's see the science behind it.

Oh, you don't have the data on that one?

You don't have any data on that?

You're just throwing that out there because a bunch of other people are, I mean, let's actually

talk about what really could make things change, again, childcare, better minimum wage,

more housing.

Yeah.

It's not rocket science.

You know what we could do is use a state with, you know, I don't know, $4 billion sitting

in the rainy day fund and using it that improves the quality of life for everybody.

Yeah.

What a concept.

What a great idea.

And being a state that is welcoming to outsiders, that wants outsiders in its state.

It might sound all well and good to, oh, I just want Wisconsinites in this state.

I'm using Wisconsin as an example as we are in this state, but you could insert any

name exactly.

Yeah, exactly.

Well, you just want the locals in there.

Well, go ahead and try to see how a state does with no outside tax dollars with no outsiders

visiting their state without any tourism at all.

Yeah.

Forget it.

It doesn't, you're not going to make it.

No.

I don't care if you are the size of Idaho or, I mean, the size of Rhode Island, you're not

going to make it as a state.

It's vital for these things.

And all those states that we mentioned that are on the unfriendly list are all desperate

to get people to move to them, including New York City.

Part of the reason New York City is in the problem, it is in, is not just the, the, the,

that they have too many people in that city.

It's so many people that are leaving.

The people that are leaving have bank accounts and they're going to other states and they

can actually afford to live.

Yes.

Yes.

Anyone lives in New York City.

Yeah.

That's so expensive.

So expensive.

Oh.

So interesting, interesting list and interesting to see how this goes, especially in a political

year and a voting year and a half.

If you're wondering how other states ranked, let's see here, let's take a look.

You can find that at newsweek.com, newsweek.com.

Illinois came in 14th on the rankings and what about Wisconsin, Wisconsin, and might surprise

you, actually, it finished 26th in the middle, right in the middle, right in the middle.

And we can do better.

We can do better.

We can do better on that one.

Wisconsin's got a lot of great places to go.

It's got a lot of all this, this lovely, a natural resource, you know, this natural landscape

in Wisconsin.

It's gorgeous.

It's got all these cool things around here.

I think Wisconsin should be a little bit higher than that.

I might be a little biased because of how much I do truly love this state.

But I will say that I think that Wisconsin has a lot more to offer than the majority in

the union when it comes to, well, take your pick.

Do you want to go outdoors?

Do you want to go hunting?

Do you want to just go for a good hike or any of these things?

Let me introduce you to the whole northern part of Wisconsin.

Exactly.

Would you like some culture?

Do you want to go ahead and see a great, a great play or see a great symphony or something

like that?

Let me introduce you to Milwaukee in Madison.

There's et cetera, et cetera, et cetera food.

We got that covered up and down the state.

There's so much about this state to like, it's part of the reason why I, I'm not barking

to complain.

I'm barking because I want change.

That's why I bark.

I don't want a soapbox.

I would rather be on here and just talk and silly all the time and making a fool of myself.

But these are important things and these are important times.

And if you truly love a state, you understand that it's not perfect and it needs, it needs

us to make it better and we can make it better.

We can.

We just got to work together on this and certainly, I guess, be a lot more and be a lot nicer

to each other.

Let's be nicer.

Come on.

To each other.

Do the opposite.

It's the packer thing, man.

It just makes them act weird, you know, small, riled up.

I don't blame them, I don't blame them.

If I was a packer fan, I'd be the same way, I'd be 100% I'd be the same way.

We will get to our last time out of the hour, we'll come back and take you to the top of

the hour on the morning show here at WFHR where we are a locally grown radio.

So come back, everybody.

It's little velvet fog to play Seth and I in as we take you to the top of the hour,

getting to our schedule on a little bit, got some local good stories of the day we want

to touch on as well.

A lot of great things going on on Thursdays here in Wisconsin Rapids, everybody.

But we start with ice baths.

They are apparently all the rage right now or what they are being referred to as cold

water immersion is supposed to help with inflammation, focus and exercise recovery.

So a lot of stars and certainly a lot of athletes have done this over the years.

I even did this back at a my old days at East and football, we did this.

So I mean, even on a junior high level, they were doing this for a very long time.

Not a new thing.

No, no.

Going on for a long time.

But it's much more becoming a newer thing for people just every day.

People that you will do this.

Most people don't have the space or the money for one.

So here's a question, could a really cold shower do the same thing?

Someone talked to doctors and other experts about it and the answer is maybe some of the

same benefits.

Oh, okay.

Maybe some.

There haven't been a ton of studies on it yet, but one in 2022 found people reported lower

stress levels when they took minute long cold showers every day.

At least one expert thinks cold showers could also improve blood flow.

And there's some evidence that they could, it could boost your immune system as well.

That said, ice, ice baths have also, you know, hurt and killed people before.

It spikes your blood pressure and your heart rate when you first get in.

And that can happen with cold showers too.

So people with heart issues and other conditions should talk to a doctor first.

As always, I mean, we heard this our whole lives, talk to a doctor first no matter what

we're talking about.

Exactly.

I mean, even if we're just talking about something, it doesn't even have to do with your health

and body and everything.

I'm not a bad idea to check it with a doctor first.

A doctor?

Can I do this time, Chair?

Hey, Doc, I was looking at this place in Florida.

I'm thinking, you know, I've been giving three months a year.

I can't help you with that.

I'm already talking.

A doctor, if you do try it, experts say it starts slow.

Ease into it by using lukewarm water first and making it colder and don't stay in too

long.

Ease into 30 second bursts are good way to start.

Then up it to 15 seconds every few weeks, so you want to take your time with this.

You don't want to just jump right in.

And your body parts, well, thank you for this.

Be careful out there.

I was going to say, no, I'm not going to do it.

I'm not going to get into it.

I know.

No.

I think for some obvious reasons, there's a handful of us that really don't like the idea

of this.

I will say too though, not only are you talking to a doctor looking into this one, but finding

out, okay, if that doesn't work, what can I do?

I'm encouraged by the medical field being much more about options and not just you have

to do this, but hey, there are these alternatives hearing more and more of that.

And I've been to the doctor a couple of times in the last couple of months, and I've been

very encouraged by that and seeing that.

So if you are going, when you are going to your doctor to ask about this, keep in mind

that if they don't, they don't give suggestions, be sure to ask, hey, well, what could I do?

What would be beneficial to me and my body?

Because I do think that there are some benefits to this.

And I lastly want to encourage people, if you were looking for a pali-clenser, you were

looking for something funny to watch today.

I was always a big fan of Stone Cold Steve Austin.

When I, the last days of me watching wrestling, we're at his prime and everything, so a big

fan of Stone Cold.

And I think that Steve Austin has proven, he's not just a tough guy on the ring, he's

an actual tough guy.

He's actually very strong and he's been to the ringer.

A lot of neck injuries, a lot of different things that he has bounced back from and played

hurt during.

This is a tough human being.

He does a podcast and he's taken a video of him getting into an ice bath and he hadn't

done this before.

And he's getting his feet in and immediately, the reason I'm not playing the audio for

you, everybody is because I can't.

There are some swear words in there and he sounds and he's admitted this and owned

all this and everything.

It's part of what I like about him.

He's very self-deprecating.

Yeah.

Like I shouldn't have recorded that.

I should not have put that on social media.

He's getting it.

I'm going to try and he goes in and he's like at first, he's like, I'm going to try

it for a minute and he gets his feet in and like, well, we're going to try this 30

seconds.

Oh, it gets down to 15.

It's hilarious.

It's funny.

That also shows you of what almost, I don't want to say what not to do, but a little bit

of, well, okay, well, don't do it necessarily this way.

You know, you know, you got to, you got to play this, actually in some ways, he did do

it right.

He didn't plan on doing it right, but he was in there for like 15, 20 and got out.

Yeah.

And that is kind of the way they tell you to start out.

Yeah.

If you haven't done it before.

And it's a hilarious video.

Yeah.

There you go.

Check that out, everybody.

That's good.

We got to get to our palik lens or our personal palik lens, which is of course our schedule

and our good stories of the day coming up after us.

You got Matt Nair on the air and Matt Nair on air.

I'm sorry.

Sorry, Greg.

I'll get on you for that.

Yeah.

Join Jane and Greg for that.

It's a great time.

Great.

A great show.

Great, great, great show.

They do such an amazing job.

Not only keeping you informed, but having a lot of fun during entertaining, yes.

Yeah.

One of the most entertaining things on our network.

And keep in mind as well, directors cut this week.

We'll feature Jane and Greg.

Yes, it will.

That's pretty cool.

That's probably get to play that.

Yeah.

Yeah.

We'll run that tomorrow as we get into our weekend lineup.

And then Maggie Dawn show from two to four.

Be sure to join us for that.

One of the voices of Civic and one of the more important voices we have in our network

and that saying something because we got nothing but great people at this company.

Yeah.

And then from four to five, join us from Midday magazine.

Oh, not today.

Not today.

Oh, you did cut it.

Yeah.

Normally.

Because today, let's play two at Ernie Banks special.

The rafters will be at action.

Our pregame will start at 350.

The boys are summer up at Lakeshore for both games.

After that first game ends, about 620 is where we're hoping to start game two.

So rafter baseball on your radio dial all afternoon, all night tonight.

That just feels good to say.

Why night double header?

I love it.

Keep in mind tomorrow, another double header, which also means no Midday magazine for Thursday

and Friday.

Yep.

Well, the boys of summer, same time frame, late 350 star time for the game one, 620, hopefully

game two.

That also means no playmakers on Friday ever.

Yes.

And they're going to need ice baths.

After that.

Let's do double headers and back to back days.

Whoo.

Those guys are going to be sore.

One more time.

I did want to say a shout out to TJ's Auto and Collision Center.

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They got them all stop out there today and drive home in a new truck, visit our friends

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Did want to shout out Woodpecker and our pet of the week from the South of County of

Maine Society.

I got all of these great pets at SWCHS.com and follow them on social media and spread the

word about the great things they're doing.

Going on right now, great event, Seth.

It's the downtown farmers market.

It happens every Thursday and Saturday from 8 to 2.

Like James says, it's going on right now down at 2.20.

First Avenue South.

They have it all closed off there and make sure you get down there.

I have been seeing it happen.

The last couple, I mean, it's a staple of summer here in Wisconsin Rap.

Make sure you head on down there, everybody.

Check it out.

All kinds of goodies down there, including lots of good food, egg rolls, everyone.

Oh, yeah, that's right.

The egg rolls down there.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Everyone's favorite egg rolls.

And of course, lunch by the river going on at 11.30 to 1.

Join us at Veterans Memorial Park for a wonderful time.

Got about a month left of these.

We're going to take them in and enjoy yourself.

They're going to have some great stuff going on over there today.

Keep in mind that going on is entertainment from Jackson Taylor.

That's going to be fun.

Oh, cool.

Food trucks down there like rock or a cocoa, chatterbox, Jamaican kitchens, all kinds of

cool stuff.

Be sure to check that out.

Everybody buy local support local and have a good time at lunch by the river.

Find out more at Wisconsin Rapids Chamber dot com.

Wisconsin Rapids Chamber dot com.

Seth, we've got a couple of other events going on today.

Pete Brevelle and four on the floor are going to be performing as they do every first

and third Thursday of the month.

They'll be going on two to four over at the Central Wisconsin Cultural Center at 2651

A Street South and the boys are going to have to save some energy because they're also

going to be performing tonight at McMillen Library from 638 in their fine arts center.

Nice.

They're monthly at the library.

Yes.

Support those that support us and buy local and support local and support the local

arts.

Everybody check out four on the floor.

One of the best bands you're going to see.

Yes.

We got some great stuff coming up this weekend, Seth.

One of our friends over at Historic Point, Bosch at a great event.

They do.

They've got their yearly who done it coming up everyone on Saturday from two to five.

Third truths, a murder mystery who done it over the years, Point Bosch has gained a reputation

as a fine place to get work.

This was probably the reason Walter Franklin and Ellis Crystal each found their way to town.

Little did they know their presence would be met with mystery.

Sam, the village blacksmith, a man loved almost as much as his no-nonsense attitude as

out of necessity has been found, murdered.

Sheriff Wolk is naturally convinced Walter Sam's new apprentice is to blame.

Will you confirm the sheriff's suspicion or end up uncovering a deeper plot to clear

this newcomer's name, admission is five dollars for adults, two dollars for students.

It's up to you to figure out who done it.

Yeah.

It's going to be a fun event.

Always fun for that.

Shout out to all the volunteers, all the actors, and all the people that are in that

one.

And the family center's fourth annual touch-a-truck event going on on July 27th this Saturday.