Good morning, Wisconsin, good morning, world.
It's a new day.
Thanks for kicking it off with us right here at WFHR, locally grown radio.
Got Beth and James here with you.
We hope you're having a fantastic Tuesday out there.
Thanks for hanging out with us.
We've got some good stuff on the way for you, everybody.
We're going to get into the top mental loads, tasks, tasks, moms handled, dads ignore.
Also the most outdoor and least outdoor friendly cities in the US.
Those coming up, some good stories of the day.
We're going to wrap up talking about local events and local things going on as well.
But we kick off with some entertainment news and we're heading it.
We are the home of Dalley Parton News.
Oh, absolutely.
We have to cover anything involving Dalley, even Dalley would.
And on Sunday, Dalley would theme park experience crazy floods due to violent weather
in eastern Tennessee.
Guests were seen waiting through waste high water and mud to escape the park.
Luckily, only one minor injury was reported, but if you look at some of the pictures and
videos of the flood, it's amazing that everyone was okay.
One person tweeted, quote, I was at Dalleywood today and it was like Old Testament props
to the Dalleywood FD for leading us to our cars like Batman.
Wow.
They got a good staff over there.
Yes, they do.
They got a staff that was, I don't know if they could have been ready for this necessarily,
but they handled this really well.
And some person even was able to buy a ticket after the flooding had begun.
Believe it or not, they didn't, that didn't stop the park from opening yesterday after
sustaining five inches of flash flooding the day before Dalleywood can take a lick and
keep on going.
Not too surprising.
Yeah.
Given its namesake and everything.
Absolutely.
Now, I don't bring this up with you, Beth, because of the Old Testament reference.
I, although I couldn't help that.
Sure.
But more to, I think the point of the story, you've worked at a theme park.
I have.
Yes.
You, uh, you worked at Disney Land?
Was it a Disney World?
Disney World, yeah.
I apologize.
I know there's a difference.
I, I, I never remember the difference of those two or any land is in California.
Oh, okay.
And world is in Florida.
Oh, I can remember that.
Oh, okay.
Thank you for explaining it that way.
That's why I can remember that.
Um, but this, I, I, I, I, I don't have to put you on the spot or anything.
But is, is part of your training or anything like how to prepare if a, this after happens
or something like that, especially if you were in Florida, yes, where they got all kinds
of crazy weather.
Yes.
Do they do?
Yes.
So because, especially in Florida with her, her, her canes that come through, um, there
was heard came preparedness and, uh, watch, so they'll put people in certain places, um,
mostly indoors, mostly sheltered, very sturdy structures, if something strong is going
to be coming through.
So yeah, those cast members, that's what we call them at Disney, um, new their stuff.
They, they probably had had some training with that.
And if I know Dolly, she'll probably try to do something to make it up to those that
had to leave because of the weather.
There will be a follow up to this.
Oh, absolutely.
I guarantee that.
And, and you're absolutely right about that.
I think that's fascinating here because, um, like a lot of people that I, first, I've
never been to an amusement park and, and then secondly, James, we need to change that
first of all.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Um, but, uh, I, I think most of us, when we think of park workers, you know, uh, especially
those in costumes and everything, it's kind of, oh, well, that's their gig.
But there's, there's just like any other job.
There's layers to that.
Oh, absolutely.
Interesting.
Absolutely.
Those that help the characters, you go through a specific training to be able to do that
so that you know the right way to move, the right signature to have those kind of things.
And they're, with Disney in particular, you go through two days of just orientation of
what the company is, what it stands for, what the expectations are.
So it's not just that they hire you in the next day, you're, you're doing one of the
rides.
It's, you have to go through training to know what you're doing, to know the safety aspects
as well.
Hmm.
Anybody that works in attraction that one of those theme parks has been trained on how
to safely evacuate that ride if something were to happen.
Hmm.
It's really interesting.
And I think it gives us a little more depth to those jobs.
Now, hopefully a little more respect for the people doing those jobs, too.
Kind.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's really cool.
Thank you for that, Beth.
Appreciate it.
Travis Barker isn't just sharing the good vibes of overcoming his understandable fear of
flying, but he raised some money too while he was at it.
This is one of my favorite things when people can get over something or get through something
I should say while also helping out others do so.
Absolutely.
Travis sold a personal boarding pass for $8,000.
It was from a flight earlier this year when he went from Sydney to Perth, Australia, on
a commercial flight.
It also featured a handwritten message that said, I know I got angels watching over me.
It's unclear who the lucky buyer is.
A portion of the proceeds will be donated to Lossbina Forgotten, 18 adoption agency that
helps families in need.
And speaking of one of a kind sales, the infamous Gold Bikini worn by Princess Leia in Star Wars
movie, returned to the Jedi, sold for over $175,000 at auction.
The auction also included a Y-wing model used on screen during the final battle of a new
hope.
Oh, that's the one.
That's what I would have won the home.
The miniature sold for 1.6 million making it the third most expensive Star Wars prop ever
sold at auction.
Yeah.
If you think you're going to get into that thing, good luck.
Right.
You're right.
So that's smaller.
I don't know if I'm one of that anymore.
These are always kind of interesting to me.
They see these props and different things that are sold.
But I do love when they're able to do something like, and for those that don't know, Travis
Barker survived a plane accident and barely.
And then obviously had a traumatic effect from it, really struggled with flying after that
and as a musician, that's pretty tough, you know, touring wise and everything.
So good on him.
And anybody that can break through a phobia.
Yes.
I think a lot of us know more of what that's like than than share.
I have, I don't know if I mentioned it much on the air, but I had a phobia of driving
for a good 30 years in my life.
I was in my early 30s when I finally got my driver's license, whereas from in the city,
you used public transportation.
Right.
So that's just kind of what I always grew up with, you know, at the L train and Amtrak and
some of that stuff.
And I had a, I was in a lot of car accidents as a little kid and I told you about my Amt
Pat earlier and some of those incidents.
My, my uncle who I never got to meet, he was killed by a drunk driver when he was three.
And I heard about this my whole life.
He, I have always been told he is my guardian angel, my uncle Anthony.
And boy is, I, I made him work.
So, so I broke through that phobia of driving and, and I drive now all the time, don't
have any issue with it or anything like that.
But I, I never take lightly that that could be taken away from me again.
Right.
And that independence and that freedom of that and everything.
Anybody that breaks through a phobia, like more power to you and, and just know that
if you are struggling with one, when you're ready, if you are ready, you can be, you can
do that too.
Absolutely.
Well, and a lot of our phobias come from our trauma.
And so being able to deal with the trauma and look at it head on in a safe way can
help you move miles beyond it.
And I give credit to anybody who's willing to claim, you know, this was a traumatic experience
that I need to work through.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Facing yourself can be one of the hardest things to do.
But it can be one of the most rewarding things as well.
There will, there will be a time when bands make a comeback on mainstream news music charts
and everything.
But it's not happening right now.
Someone put together a chart called the Slow Death of Bands.
To documents the number of bands mentioned on the year and billboard Hot 100 charts.
From the year 2000 up to last year.
And in 2000, 29 bands made the chart.
And in 2001, 32 did.
That was the peak.
From then until 2014, the fewest bands in a single year was 11 in 2008.
Since in the 10 year since, there would, that would be a good number.
In 2016 and 2017, both had 12 bands.
But that was the max over the span of 2022.
There were just three, in last year, there were just two bands that made the top 100.
Otherwise it was all solo artists.
Solo artists, yeah.
One of them was a country band, Old Dominion, very good band.
And other was WAM with the last Christmas.
I love it.
It's crazy.
I love it.
It's crazy.
Yeah, I love it.
It's crazy.
And while this isn't something that's necessarily groundbreaking news or shocking
or anything, I do think that it's a little surprising.
I hadn't thought about this one bit.
Well, think about our childhoods.
That's when bands were big.
You look to bands.
You didn't look to solo artists.
That was kind of the outlier.
And it's completely done at 180.
Yeah, I don't know.
There's a lot of rhyme and reason to this, I imagine.
But part of it is also so much of the way you get discovered as a musician now is changed.
Whether we're talking about music competitions on TV or TikTok and having a minute video
or a two minute video and that being your song, songs are even shorter now because of that.
I don't know.
All of this comes together and leads to this where you've got a lot more people just kind
of being their own act instead of being in with a band.
But everything music is no different than fashion.
Everything will come back around.
So we will see bands come back and make a comeback and everything.
I just, I'm curious of when that will happen and what will happen in between then.
And if they will be able to knock, wham out of the top.
When it becomes a novelty again, because we like novelty.
So when we're so used to only having solo artists that having a band is something new,
that's when it will start to become popular again.
Yeah, yeah.
Well said.
Looking at new on your small screen tonight, Olympic highlights with Kevin Hart and Keenan
Thompson started six on peacock.
I wish I had peacock.
That just sounds hilarious.
There's a part of me that is really thought about getting it just because of the Olympic
coverage.
I'll be honest.
A shout out to NBC to who always finishes fourth in the ratings and all of that.
The Olympic coverage that they have been doing has been fantastic.
But which is more fantastic is the viewership.
The incredible viewer like in droves, they're talking double, triple the numbers that they
have had in previous Olympics.
This is like, there's something about this Olympics and maybe it's because of the last
summer games being preempted with COVID and all of that.
I don't know.
But it's been really like nobody saw this coming that everybody was going to be biting
attention to the Olympics.
We talk about the Olympics, but not everybody watches them right this year.
People are watching them.
Most of these events are doing well.
Events that you wouldn't think anybody are watching are doing incredible numbers.
Yeah.
I wonder if part of it is the divisiveness that we feel in our country right now that this
is something that can bring us all together.
No matter what side of the coin we are politically, we all claim being an American and to be
able to celebrate what America can do and the pinnacle of athleticism that is involved
with the Olympics.
The numbers are showing more and more as we go on here, including the latest data from
the AP and even other numbers that you're seeing.
America is tired of the divisiveness.
We are tired of it.
It doesn't mean that we're all going to hold hands and sing kumbaya, but it does mean that
we're done with the whole disrespect.
We're done with the whole divisiveness.
It's enough as enough.
That is a pop song that was cool like a couple years ago, but now we're kind of like,
oh man, I've heard that enough.
That song's done.
I don't want to hear that song anymore.
We're done with the divisiveness.
We're looking for leadership out of our politicians.
In leadership is not dividing.
No good leader has ever divided people.
Good leadership brings people together.
That's what we're looking for going forward.
That's what our country needs.
Yeah, you can disagree without hating each other.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It is possible.
Prime time Olympic coverage kicks off at 7 on NBC.
Today's events include women's gymnastics, finals, men's water polo, men's soccer, celebrity
family, feud is on at 7 on ABC if you're looking for something different.
And those are kind of what's your new program, not a lot of new programming, not only because
of summer, but nobody wants to compete against the Olympics.
Right.
Well, and you get to watch Simone Biles.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It just makes me happy.
And Suni Lee, who is also now, and she, I think, was the last gold medalist for the
women's all around.
And now she actually gets to compete if Simone is healthy again.
She had an issue with her calf during the qualifiers.
By all accounts right now, it looks like she will be competing, but you're right.
It is something to keep an eye on.
And with a hammy, any football fan will tell you hamstring injuries.
You just don't know it could be a week, could be months, you know.
You just don't know how long that can mess with you.
The hamstring is such a tricky injury.
Your boys and some of the rafters are back in action tonight in Warsaw to take on the
wood chucks at 620.
All right.
It's going to be a good one.
In intercool games, as we are trying for a playoff push here to get into the playoffs,
they're the top team.
So that's what you want to do that you couldn't, you can create your own destiny here beating
these teams and getting yourself in.
We will be back at home tomorrow night at 620 and at Winterfield.
Not only will we have a plague makers for you tomorrow to lead you into a perfect tailgate
to into the game, but Wednesday is also Christmas in July at Winterfield.
I'm going to be there.
Yeah.
Right on.
Good.
This is going to be a fun one.
Join Beth in the game.
So Santa is going to be there.
They're going to have some celebrating Christmas down there.
It's also winning Wednesday.
If the rafters win on a Wednesday home game fans that stick around until the final out,
we'll receive a voucher for a free bleachers seat game.
That's pretty cool.
Yeah.
Pretty cool.
Check that out everybody.
It's just a fun atmosphere.
If you haven't gotten to a game, come to the game.
It's just a fun thing to do.
Our rafters have a big first couple weeks of August lined up too as the Wisconsin rapids
rafters organization is looking to honor several, have several promotions that will help
us celebrate some of the heroes in this special community.
We'll get into more of those as we get closer to August here right around the corner.
But some great events coming up, including the National Night Out going along with our
rafters on Tuesday, August 6th.
Find out more about that and get your tickets for rafter baseball at northwoodslead.com.
Of course, every hit, every pitch of rafter baseball right here where it belongs at WFHR
if you happen to miss anything.
Again, northwoodslead.com is the website.
Be sure to check it out there, everybody.
We'll take a time out.
We'll come back.
And we're going to get into these top mental loads, tasks and moms handle.
Dad's maybe not so much coming up on the morning show at WFHR.
Welcome back, everybody.
Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio, Beth and James hanging out with you.
We hope you're having a good one out there.
Thanks for joining us.
Got an interesting topic here to dive into, Beth.
Okay.
We've all heard the term mental load.
It's not just doing chores, but keeping track of it all.
And moms are shouldering way more of it than I think a lot of us even realize.
What?
I know.
This is going to be breaking news to you, Beth.
Lucky.
It's going to be very interesting.
A new study asked 322 moms, who's handling more of the mental load when it comes to 30
common household tasks.
Okay.
And they said they're handling the majority of it and for 29 of them.
Here are the top 10 tasks, moms say they're keeping track of way more than dads are.
All right.
Keep in mind, this is only 322 moms, so it's a very small sample size.
I think that's a good note, especially a lot of these that we do and thousands of people
in everything surveyed.
So it is a smaller list, but it can still maybe give us some insight into this.
Right.
Absolutely.
Some trends.
Medical stuff.
Like remembering your kid's doctor, dentist appointments.
Yep.
When mom was away one time, a dentist appointment got mixed in our house, so it hasn't happened
since.
You're right.
Right.
We can learn and grow.
Right.
Yes, exactly.
Exactly.
Paying attention to their mental health, and I think what they're saying here is not
just their own, but obviously they're their family and stuff.
That's something that we all got to take the task of, but that's a newer one, I think,
in some ways, in some ways, tidying up.
Hmm.
Yeah.
That's stereotypically, yeah.
It's usually mom doing that or creating the chore chart to make sure it gets done.
I will say I learned a lot from my dad in this one because my dad was a pickup.
He picked up stuff up a lot.
He was always doing that.
So I think that that kind of, I inherited a lot of that.
Well, and I think it depends on what the expectations are coming into a marriage, you know,
having that being part of my job.
I'll use Seth and I as an example.
When we decided to get married and we went through our premarital counseling and we're
looking at our marriage, we looked at it as a partnership.
It wasn't that, well, the wife always does this thing and the husband always said, we're
going to work together to make sure everything gets done.
Now that may mean that sometimes I do more.
It means sometimes he does more.
We both change diapers.
We both do meals.
We both clean up.
So it's, we both do laundry.
Yes, I married a man that does laundry.
I love that.
So it depends on how you view the roles of each.
But yeah, typically if you look at traditionally what has been, these are things that women
just are more, and I think it's because of it's a societal expectation.
Oh, yeah.
This is what the women's supposed to do.
I think we're, well, we've gotten better about that.
There's still work to be done in that front.
There is no side effect to this.
There's no downside to this.
If your kids, like growing up seeing my father doing dishes or picking up around the house,
I didn't think any differently of him.
I didn't think, if anything, oh, maybe that's not true.
I actually thought he was more of a man.
There you go.
I actually thought that was more manly of him because I also grew up watching him beating
another man's face in the boxing ring or shredding around the ice and slamming people
up against the boards and stuff.
That was just as manly to me as him seeing him helping our family when my mom was at work
or something like that.
And the empathy it creates, this is for kids as well as for significant others.
If you've never done the dishes, if you've never done laundry, give it a chance to see
what it's like and you have not only a little more empathy, but a little more understanding
of what your partner is doing.
So bringing stuff with you when you go out, like remembering the diaper bag, that is, I've
been guilty of that one back when I was married, that was one that I did, what did, there
was something, there was something to bring.
Now hang on a second, JC, hang on a play with you for a second, just there was something,
oh, diaper back.
Yeah, yeah.
I found that one.
The best was when the boys got to be taller age and they now make these like mini backpacks,
we would just have them carry their own diapers.
Oh, yeah.
Backpacks with weights.
Nice.
Oh, that's the way to do it.
That's good.
They got backs.
They did it carry.
They're younger.
They got the fresh bodies.
They carry.
They might feel like they're older.
You know, they see everybody else having a backpack and now they have their own and now
it's useful.
There is, there is something about a little kid feeling a grown-up that is just adorable.
There's always, it never fails.
Extra curriculars like, but not including sports, things like piano lessons and some of
those things.
Mm-hmm.
Family calendar.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, that's usually the mom's job is to be the hub and say, okay, who's doing what, when,
what do we need to do, who do I need to make sure it gets where?
There's social life, including play dates and things, again, the calendar, keeping track
of your shared calendar.
Yeah.
Like a lot of calendar.
You weren't kidding.
A lot of calendar stuff.
Packing lunches.
Mm-hmm.
Helping with homework.
Mm-hmm.
I would say the helping with homework thing, I grew up where both parents were both
really helpful on that one.
Well, and it's figuring out what they're good at.
That's it.
Yes.
Like, you don't go to my dad for history.
You know, Jimmy, some stuff happened, I'm telling you, it was crazy over there.
Whereas with math, you can go to him with any math problem.
He's a human calculator.
Well, and then as I get older, it's what kind of math.
Like in our house, I'm the algebra, Seth is a geometry.
We've figured this out.
We don't understand.
So now the boys know who to go to for which.
Good to know before they really get into those classes at high school and everything.
And extra curricularists that are related to sports.
And here's a couple of other ones where bath time, potty training, babysitting, meals,
laundry, groceries, so many of these things, getting your kids ready for school, helping
in the middle of the night.
The only task dads carry most of the mental load is taking out the trash.
Yeah.
She's.
Most moms agree dads also handle a good amount of the mental load when it comes to fixing
things around the house, paying bills, doing dishes, helping at bedtime, and taking care
of the pets.
But moms estimate that overall they're handling 73% of the mental load where dads are handling
27%.
Now, I think it takes both parties to really truly raise a household and both have their
equal parts and their equal place.
But I think when it comes to those last numbers we're seeing their bath, I go to a little
bit of what you were just talking about with you and Seth.
And my own parents were very much the same way.
My, both sets of my grandparents were the same way where there was no, that's her job
or that's his job.
There were things that you were good at.
And so it was your task, you know, my, my grandmother was good with bills.
So she was in charge of those a little more or something like that.
And it has nothing to do necessarily with the sexes or societal things.
More so you're just really good at this.
I'm going to let you do that.
And while I'm doing this, you can take care of this and being a true team.
Right.
Well, and if you think about even sports team, you play to your strengths, right?
You put the right person on the right position because that's what they're good at.
Look at the Olympics with Steve, the Pobblehars.
That was, he's a specialist and he, that's the only thing he focuses on.
But you, it's really a matter of we're all a part of the family.
So we all need to make sure and we're starting to teach that to our boys.
And, and when you have kids as they grow older saying, because my boys, well, I didn't
do that. And I have to look at them and say, well, I often don't do a lot of things
that I have to claim up for, but it's a part of being a, the family.
We all need to take care of each other.
Every little kid thinks I didn't make the mess is the end of the argument and
to look on their face when they say they feel like they came up with the perfect answer.
Like the so defiant, like, I didn't make the mess.
So I don't have to clean.
They start walking away like, oh, actually, that's part of being in a society
that alone this house.
I, I'm a believer of every, like, we live in, I believe the greatest democracy in the
world. And I'm a lover of democracy and I believe in democracy.
I believe the forefathers had it right when they came here to start something that
wasn't about making kings and queens or dictators.
Be aware of anybody who wants to be a dictator in America.
That seems like a pretty bad thing.
Seems to go against, it seems like the most un-American thing that we can think of.
Now, in a household, that's a little bit different.
I think I'm okay with dictatorships and households.
Like, I'm okay with you listen to your constituents, you listen to your family and
everything, but I'm okay with mom or dad kind of like laying down the law.
That's a huge difference because in the household parents have to make sure that the
child stays alive in a way that with, with voting, that's not the case.
It's, it's more about how we govern and live with each other.
But I have to say that the one that kind of caught me with moms is in the middle of
the night thing.
I think it depends on what parent the child feels more comfortable with.
Because our youngest in the middle of the night goes to dad, not mom.
All my kids inherited my insomnia, inherited my nocturnalness.
And this was where I took over more.
Like, I was working during the day, a lot of the time with my two youngest.
And at night, man, he would, that was when she caught up on sleep.
Right.
So I was up with them at night quite often.
I was just to go to with that.
We didn't even, at a certain point, and we weren't together that long, but even at a certain
point, it was kind of like, oh, baby monitor's going, I just get up and go.
If I wasn't already up, right.
So this was, and to your point, I think that that's, and I'm sure there's a lot of
houses like that.
I imagine my own parents had the tag team in and out every once in a while, because man,
I was not an easy kid.
I was not an easy kid.
That's an interesting list.
Hopefully gets people to think a little bit more about these things.
And, and maybe even start doing some other stuff around the house or, or at the very
least, seeing, hey, you need a hand with that.
Just kind of reevaluate.
What are we each doing?
What, what do we need to share?
We're going to get to some local and state news.
Take care of some partners.
When we come back, we're talking about the most and least outdoorsy cities in America,
getting to that when we come back with Beth and James on the morning show at WFHR.
Welcome back, everybody.
Morning, show here at WFHR, Beth and James hanging out with you.
Thanks for joining us.
Get your boogie on.
Oh, yeah, disco for you.
Some hot stuff.
We appreciate the company, everybody.
Thanks for joining us, especially if you're an outdoors type and you brought your radio
with us, we appreciate it.
That's awesome.
A lot of people think that you need to venture out into the middle of nowhere to enjoy
the, quote, outdoor lifestyle, because let's face it.
You aren't experiencing any outdoors by vacationing in Times Square.
But that's, that's, I think that there, there's, there's layers to this.
You can certainly get out an outdoor experience like, I think we got a,
a good example here in Wisconsin.
You can go to Lake Waziccio or one of our great campsites here in Central Wisconsin,
have a great time, be outdoors, and then there's a difference of doing that and going
way up north and camping and doing some things.
I say this as somebody who has never, never camped, but I'm talking about,
of the kids I grew up around and everything and them talking about this and stuff.
So it's not me necessarily saying this, but what I've heard, please feel free to
correct me or add to the conversation at 715-424-2600.
Call up and join the conversation.
The company RV share just released a report on the most and least outdoor friendly
American cities.
And they only included the metropolitan areas with at least one million people.
So that included 52 areas.
So keep that in mind.
Okay.
And the rankings were determined based on 13 factors, including public parks and land,
types of outdoor activities, nights, people spend RVing, camping and
glamping, natural-based spaces, membership and outdoor groups, outdoor friendly
views, and the access to trails and wilderness.
Okay.
And in the end, Seattle was named the most outdoor friendly city.
That's wonderful.
It's kind of interesting and pretty cool.
Yeah.
Denver was a close second followed by Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Miami, Portland, Oregon, Nashville, San Francisco, Richmond, Virginia, Los
Angeles and Charlotte, North Carolina of the 52 cities they considered Houston
came in dead last.
Huh.
The 10, well, let's focus on the, the, the, the friendly ones first.
Right.
And I'll pull up this entire list to see if any Wisconsin cities are on.
I don't think we have any Wisconsin cities that are over a million people.
No, I don't think so.
So, um, yeah, I think that that's.
So Wisconsin was out of the running.
Oh, wait, wait, though.
Yeah, I do see Wisconsin city on the list.
So we'll get to that in a second.
But again, as far as the top 10 friendliest, quote unquote, friendliest ones,
according to the RV share website and this list they put together, you got Seattle,
Denver, Grand Rapids, Miami, like that, that threw me a little bit.
I got to be honest.
Yeah, I've got some friends in the Miami area and I've never spent any time in Florida.
But I've talked to people almost my whole life that are from that area or living
there currently.
And the biggest thing that I hear about Miami is the metropolitan part of things in the
city part of it, but they are right in the Everglades.
Yeah, yeah, and into that, uh, I also don't know if I've heard any of those people
I've talked to, uh, not mention the Everglades or, um, being out on a boat in the
water or the swamps or, or as a kid going and exploring the Everglades.
Uh, there are a lot of similarities there with some stuff that you can count to out
here in the Midwest.
I think you would have to do the more RVing thing than the 10 camping things
because the alligators, yeah, yeah, that's a good point.
You kind of want to survive your trip.
It feels like a good idea.
Yeah, feels like, you know, put that on the to-do list, survive, survive, live through
this experience.
Yes.
That's your, your, your to-do list, uh, and Los Angeles stood out a little bit.
Yeah, that was a little interesting one.
Um, and now I will say I know a lot of people from the LA area that spend a
lot of time in Northern California, which is very different than Southern California,
of course, uh, very similar to the state, you know, um, that, that was interesting to me.
Now, let's take a look at the least friendly, um, the top 10 least friendly outdoor friendly
cities are Rochester, New York, Hartford, Connecticut, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Milwaukee, Oklahoma
city, Detroit, Buffalo, Raleigh, North Carolina, and Fresno, California.
There is interesting to me to see Milwaukee on that list.
Yeah.
Wait, didn't they see one of the qualifiers was at least a million people?
Yeah.
Yeah.
And I, I guess there might be a million in Milwaukee.
I, I, I didn't quite, didn't quite see that, to be honest, I didn't see that one.
Uh, but yeah, uh, uh, Milwaukee finished away towards the bottom of this one.
And uh, Minneapolis, Minnesota was 17, as far as like the cities in our area here, Columbus,
Ohio, 26, Cincinnati, Ohio, 27.
Chicago at 29, um, so middle of the back.
Yeah, yeah.
And, and towards in the top, bottom 10, you've got a Milwaukee in there.
So that's interesting to me.
Yeah.
Um, I wonder how much that has to do with RV sales and that, because as far as I know,
plenty of Milwaukee people like to get out and do country stuff and everything, but as
far as like having an RV in the city, you don't have a lot of that.
Right.
And I don't know that there's any space in the Milwaukee area that has RV camping kind
of thing.
I think you have to go pretty far out.
Yeah, looking at this list, that was one of the deterrence to it.
Um, and again, this is coming from an RV company.
So of course, that's going to play into the factors of this and everything.
Um, the report says that 57% of Americans still crave more time outside and do not feel
like they get enough time in nature.
Uh, so maybe that's something to maybe you can, the next time they do this, we can change
those numbers.
Right.
Um, I don't know anybody who lives in the country who doesn't like to get to the city
every once in a while, and I don't know anybody who lives in the city who does not want
to get out and camp and get out and outdoors a little bit hiking is a big one in the city
where I'm going to go, uh, I'm going to go a little south to Illinois and go to this
camp area and go hiking or something like that.
I grew up, uh, hearing a lot of those stories, um, and here in the state of Wisconsin, we
have a lot of this where people in Madison, I'm a walkie or apple tin or some of those
more metropolitan lacrosse as another example, traveling up north, you know, how many of us
grew up around here or lived around here for a good amount of time and know somebody
was a cabin up north or something like that.
Well, and even if you don't have your own cabin, it's like Kaways, most K away campgrounds
have cabins there too.
So if that's the type of camping you want to do, you can always get a cabinet a K away.
Or if you want to do the tent camping thing and really rough it, you can bring your tent
and sleep on the ground.
I know, um, I know what a K away is, but just for the audience's sake, Beth, you know,
just for them because they probably don't, I don't know what that is.
A K away is a, it's a national chain of campgrounds.
Oh, okay.
So you, it's like renting a campground here in the area, but it's a national chain and
a lot of states have them and it, when you go camping, it costs less.
So it's like getting, especially if you get one of the cabins and there's one out in Oak
Dale that we were looking at, some of the cabins even have a half bath or a full bath.
So it really is like getting your own cabin in the woods.
And it's about the same if not a little bit less than getting a hotel room for overnight.
So it's a less expensive way of finding the place to stay, especially if you're traveling
or if you want to, you know, do a road trip somewhere.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I like that.
That sounds really interesting.
Uh, we are going to get to a time out when our last time out of the show, we'll come
back.
We'll get anywhere scheduled.
Got some local events that we want to touch on and some good stories to the day to
get to all of that coming up on the morning show at WFHR where we are locally grown radio.
Welcome back everyone.
We hope you're having a great Tuesday out there, thanks for hanging out with us.
We're going to take you right to the top of the hour, get into our schedule in a moment,
let you know what's coming up on our programming today and raft or baseball.
But we haven't gotten to do a Danny Wright story in a while, Beth.
This one I thought was kind of unique.
Now, you and my daughter actually share something in common where you both like to, or you both
are able to reside over weddings, and it's something Brea really loves to be able to do
as part of being a part of somebody special day.
And you and I have talked about it before and it means a lot to you as well.
Absolutely.
I think that's always unique.
But something you touched on earlier as far as you and Seth in a marriage class before
you got married.
That kind of thing.
Maybe this couple could have used that.
If you're planning on getting married, but you're interested in having a prenup, it's
probably a good idea to hash that out early rather than springing it on the other person
at the last minute.
Yeah.
A 26 year old woman in Florida named Molly was arrested Sunday night after attacking
her fiance during a heated argument over a prenup.
The groomed to be told the police that Molly grabbed him around the head and struck him
a couple of times and Molly bit him and stuff.
This all started because he brought up a prenup like the day of the wedding.
What?
Like hours before the wedding and everything he's bringing this up.
And apparently was something that he's wanted to talk about for a while and just kept
on pushing off and pushing off.
And in his logical brain, he thought, well, she's going to agree because she's not going
to call off the wedding or something like that.
This man not only does not know women, does not know people.
The wedding was supposed to be this Saturday July 27th.
It's unclear if they had to call it off or because this was the pre-wedding or what you
call it.
Wedding rehearsal?
Yes, yes.
This is the wedding rehearsal he did this.
And there are no word if they called it off or not.
The wedding registry is still online, but that doesn't mean anything.
There is one small problem, though, to an active restraining order.
Molly was arrested for battery and booked and released and a judge ordered their herd
to have no contact with her prospective future husband or brother-in-law.
So that could be an odd wedding.
Yeah, I'm guessing that's Zoom.
He's on Zoom, doing the wedding, doing the nuptials and everything like that ain't right,
man.
No.
That ain't right.
And that's all on him.
Like, I know she was the guilty party here and she should not have handled it with violence
or anything.
Exactly.
I'm not okaying that.
Yeah.
But not that happens if he's not a knucklehead.
You would think that if you were getting married, you would know how to have conversations.
Even if they're difficult conversations, you should be able to talk to each other.
I would never be presumed, especially as somebody with my background and past to tell other
people about love or anything, but maybe this is a silver lining.
That could have been a red flag right there.
This might be easier than a divorce.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Let's get a palette cleanser in and get to our schedule and some good stories that the
day.
And we got a great one lined up for you throughout the whole day today here at Civic Media.
Coming up in just minutes is our great friends Jane and Greg with Matt Nair on air.
Be sure to join him for that.
They take a lot of, they don't shy away from anything.
And they also don't shy away from the funny.
Those two are going to have fun, are going to have a good time and you do too as well enjoying
their show.
Yes.
Join us for a little bit later this afternoon for the Maggie Dawn show from two to four.
Maggie is one of the integral voices in radio, period.
Not just here at Civic, but in radio.
Not only is she one of the better brains you're going to hear on the air, but incredibly charming,
funny.
And I think an important word to my mother that she brought up with Maggie that I had not
noted before.
Maggie has tacked.
Yes.
And we're sorely missing that a lot in society nowadays.
And it may not seem like that big of a thing.
But you all know what I'm talking about when I talk about tact.
We all know people and have people in our lives that just like drop stuff or just say
stuff.
She has a way with words and a way of talking about these things where she's not talking
down to anybody.
She's informing people.
Yes.
Great show.
Be sure to check that two to four.
And why not stick around because from four to five Monday through Friday, midday magazine.
Awesome.
We have a lot of fun on the show and we got some great guests today.
Steven, a Katrina hitner from family natural family.
Always listen.
Always listen.
Love talking to our friends over family natural foods.
And in part two, we're going to talk to St. Phillips about their Rudolf 103rd church
picnic.
Wonderful.
This is taking place over at the grotto.
Anything about St. Phillips church and Rudolf, we're going to talk about.
We're going to cover today with Rich and Craig looking forward to diving into that with
them.
And especially a picnic, that old 103 years old, that's really impressive.
We talked about this a little bit earlier.
We got raft or baseball back on the radio dial for you tonight, six, 20 of the rafters
are in Warsaw, taking on the wood chucks, an important game, every one of these matter,
every game is a playoff game for the rafters going into the end of the season here.
Tomorrow going to be hosting the wood chucks at six, 20.
Don't forget that it is Christmas in July at Winterfield.
Enjoy that everybody.
Tell, tell Santa what you want for Christmas this year is a win.
Mm-hmm.
Yes, yes, absolutely.
Yeah, get, get on that and everybody be good so we can get it.
And keep in mind as well, National Night Out at Winterfield will be Tuesday, August
6th.
We'll talk more about that as we get closer to it, but it's shut up to the rafters.
And to our, not only Wisconsin's Rabbits PD, but Stevens Point PD and other local emergency
services, being a part of this great, important event.
Mm-hmm.
Wanted to mention as well that we have the summer, 2024 free meals for kids still going
on.
Free meals will be available to all children 18 years of age and under.
And right now they just have lunches available and up until August 16th, you can go over to
the Mead Park near the Splash Pad on 14th Avenue South from 1130 to 1230.
And then at Winter Park near the shelter outside the Aquatic Center from until August 16th
from 1130 to 1230.
If you or somebody out there, you know a kid under 18 that is hungry or could use these
meals, please spread the word about this.
And let's make sure that we don't have one kid hungry in this city in this area.
Not one.
If it's like in years past because we haven't done it this year, but when we've done it
in the past, they put so much food in there that you get to take stuff home with you so
that you'll have snacks and things for the future.
I cannot speak to how important that is and how much of an investment that is in our
future and how much I appreciate the people that work on that and do that.
A big thank you to them, big shout out to all of them.
Yes.
Beth, we touched on this earlier.
I want to remind everybody about the, you guys taking books.
We're taking books through September 15th at the Moravian Church for the Community
Book Sale that will be happening in October.
So we encourage you to bring those over if they can be gently used.
We don't take magazines or anything like that, but any books that you have and all the
proceeds go towards scholarships.
We're also going to be having a rummage sale and a brap fry on August 17th.
So when you come out to the farmers market that Saturday, come check us out too.
And one more event to get on your calendars September 7th, the Grace Group, the Greater
Rapids area, churches for ecumenism, we'll be having our walk-off debt walk.
This year we're going to be starting from the first congregational UCC church downtown
on first street south.
So we encourage you to keep your eyes and ears open for that.
More information will be coming out.
Looking forward to it.
Again, you can find out more at www.maravian.org and be sure to go to YouTube, type in your
search bar.
Wisconsin Rapids, some Arabian church and subscribe to that page.
Thank you for that.
Thank you.
Our Wisconsin Rapids City Band got two more shows for the summer everybody.
Just two more.
Take them both in a beautiful Robinson Park and joy today.
We want to send a big thank you to the sponsors Village of Bearing and Dom Tarr.
Performance will be at 7.30.
If there is bad weather, they will take this over to the pack at Lincoln High School so
you can still take in the Wisconsin Rapids City Band.
If you'd like to join the band, like to sponsor a concert or just be a part of things or
find out more, go to www.warsityband.org and a big thank you to them, given us a great
summer and some great music.
Our friends over at Mill and Memorial Library have a couple of great events coming up.
Today Laura Dority is going to be there at 1 o'clock.
Laura is a nationally touring children's performer and she's an award-winning art recording
artist.
Laura is very talented, very funny.
Your kids are going to really enjoy this.
Be sure to check it out at 1 o'clock today at the Mill and Memorial Library Theater and
keep in mind that today and to every Tuesday is baby story time at 10.30 in the children's
area.
This is my mom's favorite thing to do.
She loved doing that.
Enjoy that.
And also, McMillan has family story times Wednesdays at 9.30.
That is going on until this is the last month for it.
So tomorrow is the last one for the time being.
It's a summer activity that they do.
And there's so much going on at our local library, our local hub.
Find out more at mmillanlibrary.org, mmillanlibrary.org.
Keep in mind as well everybody that we're still looking for school supplies for the United
Way stuff, the desk bus collaborative.
This is coming up where the cutoff of registration is August 1st.
So if you know of any families that could use these, please reach out to them.
Make sure they know about this.
Go to uwswac.org to sign them up or to get signed up.
Yeah.
So that's this Thursday.
So you've got to Thursday to sign up.
And we have lunch by the river going on this Thursday as well.
And it's all hands on deck as we are going to have all these supplies when we're literally
stuffing the bus.
We could use volunteers to help separate these supplies.
And we certainly could still use supplies.
So if you are picking up, maybe you can grab an extra backpack or notebook or something
like that.
It is an investment in our future.
It is investment in these kids and an opportunity to put back into your community.
If you're wondering where to bring those items, you could drop them off at the United Way.
Or you can drop them off here and I'll bring them over there.
I don't mind.
Just get them us, get us those supplies and we'll make sure they get in their hands.
We also have a bin at the Meridian Church so you can drop it there too.
Yeah.
And when the United Way is that lunch by the river this Thursday, you could drop items
off there as well.
Find out more at uwswac.org and be sure to follow the United Way.
On social media.
Wanted to look at a couple of world stories here and there's a couple of really good
ones to wrap up the show on.
Washington officials will vote to remove the gray wolf from the endangered species list.
The Washington Gray Wolf population was virtually eliminated in the 1930s but there's been
a significant rebound beginning in 2008.
Something that I think we can take some insight from here in Wisconsin.
That's kind of cool to see and very interesting and unique.
A bus driver in New York named Peter Warner is being praised after saving a toddler he
was he saw walking down the middle of the street last month.
The kid managed to sneak away while his dad was sleeping and his mom was at work.
He was wearing a diaper and carrying an iPad.
Peter scooped him up.
Oh.
Oh.
Oh, that gets me.
Oh, I'm glad that kid's okay and shout out to that hero right there in Peter.
And an 18 year old girl in Canada saved 16 hikers and campers from a wildfire last week.
Her name is Colleen Connell.
She was working at her summer job at a resort and but she also volunteered, she's also
volunteer firefighter and knew the area well and guided them all out on a four hour hike
in the middle of the night.
She was able to do that.
Wow.
That's a hero right there.
That's an impressive young lady.
You are an impressive young lady.
We appreciate you.
Thank you very much for joining us today.
Thank you.
It's been a lot of fun.
We'll talk again real soon.
Sounds good.
And you guys have yourselves a good day.
See you later right here at this is locally grown radio W F HR 13 20 and W24 ADE Wisconsin
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