Good morning, Wisconsin. Good morning, world. It's a new day. Thanks for kicking it off
with us here at WFHR, locally grown radio. Got your host, James J. I am joined by Melissa
K. Melissa's with us and we are joined at the beginning of every Thursday by our great
friends from the Southville County Main Society. Tim joins us usually and Tim, good to see you.
Thank you. Welcome. Hi, Melissa. Hello, sorry. I thought I was unmuted, but I was muted.
That's all right. That's all right. I appreciate you here, Melissa. And our team here has other
headphones on, so they can hear you. And I've mentioned that because we have a new friend joining us
today. All right. Tim, you want to go and introduce our new friend? Yes. We have the pleasure of
introducing our new director of operations, Sarah Hansen. Yeah. Welcome, Sarah. Thank you. Good
morning. Thanks for being here, Sarah. Appreciate the time. Thank you very much. I want to make sure
to get to everything that you guys have for us today. But Sarah, thank you so much for joining us.
And sometimes you and I will have to catch up. We'll get a little bit more on you and your origin
story because that's what we like to do around here. I like to put people on the spot. I mean, ask
questions. Just ask questions. So I'm going to have some fun and everything. But I am curious,
how is it going in the new position? Good. Very good. We're adding on and things are growing.
Real good to hear. Real good to hear and really appreciate the work that you and the team
over there does. This is one of our favorite segments every week and some of our favorite people
of the South of County main society. I've had a relationship with the gang over there for many,
many decades. Really, I'll say. So we're really proud of that and we're really proud of the work
you guys do over there. Tim, how are things going over there? Well, we're doing okay. However,
as I mentioned last week with the hoarding case, we had one unfortunate part that one of the dogs
had to be euthanized. Unfortunately, it was just, I guess, two cigarettes there. I just couldn't.
The organs were feeling the animal along with whatever underlying malnutrition,
other types of things that that animal had going on. So sometimes it's not always the most
pleasant news, but you can't hide things like that. We like to let the public know what is going
on in the community and try to avoid situations like this. So as I said last week, if this one you
could actually smell the house as you walk by. So if anyone out there has something, we don't need
the actual work, but it's for the animals. Right. And it's these, and I'm not speaking on
certainly mental health issues or anything, but when it comes to people hoarding animals,
this is part of the reason why we just cannot do this. The Humane Society has what? 100
some animals over there, you know, just off the top of our heads. I think it's probably at least
150. Got a good, got a good team over there, got a good multiple people, probably over 10 to 15
somebody workers over there and everything. And you guys can't, there's too much on your plates.
One person, two people, having that many animals in one house, it, it, there's no science that
that can work. And certainly not to the benefit of the animals, which is what this is all about.
So when you see these things, when you hear about these things, I encourage you to reach out to
our police departments, our Humane Society's, and do something with them. It's because this is
about the animals and that's it, that's what we're doing here about this. And not only this segment,
but a big part of what we do here as a radio station. So I appreciate you sharing that team.
It's hard news, but the more we hear these things, hopefully the more we're preventing these
things from happening. That's our goal. And that is our mission. So yeah, we're going to have
Sarah's going to do something with the pet, but unfortunately, I guess our website is down, so
did want to note that to people and make sure that they are aware of that. That'll be up and
running as soon as it can be everybody. But you can reach out to the Humane Society and find out
more through their Facebook page. That's a great way to be able to do that. Absolutely, because we
have so many events coming up for the community to take a chance and get to know each and every one
of us out there. We have a ton of volunteers. I couldn't say thank you enough. We literally have
at least a hundred that take part in every portion of what we do. That's awesome. And we do have
a pet of the week this week or are we sure do we called you? We have Pandora. She's been there
for a while. She's beautiful cat. She's long haired. She loves a little brush that is her favorite
toy. And then we have bear who is a two year old. He's 95 pounds. And he's a cross between a
doodle and I would say a dain. Oh wow. That's going to be a beautiful dog. Oh, that's going to be
an interesting one. He is. He is. He's big. Not a small dog. He does not know his size. No.
Well, he likes to dance around when the leash comes on. That tells you a lot right there.
That tells you a lot. It kind of loves dogs like that. It's one of the funnest things about dogs to
be is the big dogs that think they're little and little dogs that think they're big. I don't know
why, but it gets me every time. Yes. So you can tell James has been a brown child. There's the
animals. Yeah. Yeah. Did we have two pets of the week today or did I do Pandora? She was the cat
long hair. And then bear is the dog. Yeah. Yeah. And bear, again, sounds like an awesome animal. Both
of them sound amazing. And we want to remind everybody not only of these animals but other animals
over there. And with that, it is always kitten season. There's always needs on there. Are there
things that you guys could use more than others as far as cat food or supplies or anything? We really
could continue to the for the dog food and the cat food along with litter. But it needs to be
scoopable litter. And the continued blankets as needed because they tend to wear out as time goes by.
Yeah. And those blankets mean a lot. Like animals really have, especially, it's not that
different than when we're little. And you have that blanket you carry around everywhere. Linus.
You know, that kind of thing. Animals are very similar with those. I know my little fur brother,
Sam. He's got one that he just will, he has to know where that thing is. Even if he doesn't mess
with it, he just has to see where it is. If you move it and he's not in the room, he'll come into
the room. What are you doing over there? Why are you moving my face? Why don't touch my stuff? Exactly.
Don't touch my stuff. And you, I know that you guys have some events coming up as well.
Did you want to touch on those and maybe right now or the next time you join us?
Well, we have the 5k walk coming up at the end of September. Please, everybody get out there
and either donate or come and walk with us around the lake. We are looking forward to that. We have
so many amazing sponsors throughout the community that we greatly appreciate. Thank you.
Big shout out to everyone who has taken part in putting this together for us.
It's going to be fun. We're going to be hyping it up, talking about it, make sure you get a good
crowd. That is again, that 5k nine is coming up on September 28th. I do encourage you to check out
their Facebook page as well, everybody, because if you are not able to make it to that, you can
still make a donation. And by donation, I mean investment. I talk about this a lot with our
non-profits in this area. And this community is so awesome when it comes to these things.
This is an investment in our community. This is an investment in not only the animals,
but the people that work there, your neighbors, your friends. This is a way of helping them as well.
So encourage you to invest in our South O'County and Main Society by donating to this great
cause and other ones that you guys have coming up. Absolutely. And you can always meet me down at
the Grand Affair that's coming up. I will be there along with a few others, probably volunteers,
and we'll probably have a pet out there as well as usual to meet and greet along with us.
Very cool. Anything else you guys who wanted to touch on before we let you go?
I look forward to our continued conversations. Yeah, I cannot wait. That's going to be
less. I do want to thank you, Tim, for everything over the last couple of months. It's been really
fun working with you, man. You too. So yeah, server is going to take over. So you're good. I'll miss
it too, but yeah, well, you need to stop by sometimes. Yeah, I can always come in and everything.
Yeah, I just want to mention something. We started a new part of our fundraising platform for people
at our computer savvy. And so if you've heard of one cause, it's O-N-E-C-A-U-S-E.
That is how we are accepting donations for things. It's a national chain and it's very,
very helpful. And we just started that with the 5K9 run. And there's going to be multiple
opportunities on there. And I was actually shocked when I was on my home computer looking national chain
Chouy features us. So like when you pull up MSN, you're how cool. Home page there is Chouy
with promoting us with our needs. That's awesome. That's cool. I don't know how that happened,
but it did. They donate to us on a weekly basis. They send lots of either treats, food, etc.
for us. So it's amazing. It's a very cool thing. And a good organization. They've done things
like that a lot over the years. I've heard and seen shelters. I've worked at and some stuff.
So that that's really cool. That is very cool to hear. Onecaus.com is the site. It's
Tim is talking about there. Onecaus.com. And of course, the South of County Main Society,
you can go ahead and find out more going to their Facebook page. It's a great way to message them
as well, whether it's donating or investing and finding out more information about that. Or
some of these awesome animals that they have over there that are just looking for that perfect
home, waiting on that and reach out to them as soon as you can, everybody. Thank you so much for
the time you guys. And Sarah, great to meet you. Look forward to this. Tim, I want to thank you again.
Appreciate everything you do, sir. Thank you. Oh, I had a ball with you. You're
good. This show makes it. Well, I know James is the key, but Seth and Melissa are just,
oh, this theme here is great. Thank you. I may be the key. They are the engine and the vehicle.
They are they are everything else about that. Appreciate y'all. Okay. Thank you so much for joining us.
We'll talk again real soon, guys. We'll have more pets of the weeks coming up every Thursday
in this time slot for you, everybody. Looking forward to more and more of that. We'll come back and
we'll get into some entertainment news here on the morning show at WFHR.
Welcome back, everybody. Morning show here at WFHR locally grown radio. Melissa,
Seth and James hanging out with you. Shout out to our great friends over at the South
of County Main Society. A big thank you to them. Yeah. Appreciate them so much. That was a lot of
fun, actually. That was a really great. Welcome to Sarah. Glad to have her on board. Yeah. Yeah.
Big time. Did want to remind everybody their website is not up and running right now. So if you do
need to reach out to them, do it through their Facebook page. You can go to Facebook, type in your
search bar, South of County Main Society, like that page and keep up the date and everything they
are doing and share the work that they have over there because you just never know who might see
it that wouldn't otherwise. Exactly. I do want to say as far as we're as long as we're talking
Facebook and everything, appreciate all of our local, you know, nonprofits and businesses out there
keeping us up to date on things. And that includes also when Melissa does because I did not see this
until Melissa sent it over. But let's go ahead as we're getting into entertainment news and one of
our favorite entertainment things that we have around here is lunch by the river. Yes, that's
right. It's supposed to happen today, but they've canceled it because of the weather.
Darn weather. They are moving their sponsors over. Food vendors may still use the space if you
choose to do so. So there might be a couple of down there. If you get a chance and, you know,
you head on over there. There are. There aren't. You still get to go to Veterans Park.
Yeah, it's still one of the beautiful parks. They are attempting to move their performers as well
for today for the entertainment. But I do want to send a shout out to the heart of Wisconsin
Chamber of Commerce. We got a couple more left to lunch by the rivers, but it's already been a
successful season over there. And they do such great job. They'll update on their Facebook page
on the heart of Wisconsin Facebook page where they move the entertainment. So you'll be able to
find that on the heart of Wisconsin Facebook page. All right. Find out more there. We'll make
sure to mention that again before we wrap up diving into entertainment news. A man named Jeffrey
Jeffrey Piccolo is suing Disney after his wife died from a meal she ate at Disney World last year.
Oh dear. She had severe nut and dairy allergies and the staff and an Irish pub in Disney Springs
said her order was safe, but it was not. He recently filed a lawsuit, but now Disney is trying to
claim he can't sue them because he signed up for Disney Plus trial membership in 2019.
What? The fine print when you sign up says any disputes with Disney must be resolved in
arbitration not in court. So they're trying to say anyone with a Disney Plus profile
or a subscription description. Yeah. Can't sue them for anything. Oh no. You can be shot by Mickey
and you can't sue them. Wow. Jeffrey also brought tickets to Epcot through their website and they
claimed the terms of conditions there would nullify the lawsuit too. His lawyers are calling it absurd.
They say even those arguments were universally binding. They even if those arguments were
universally binding, they wouldn't extend to his wife since he's the one who paid. Right.
It's not clear how much he's suing for. We just know it's an excess of 50 plus thousand
and probably a lot more than that. Both sides will present their case at a hearing on October
2nd. Okay. And this this may seem like a lot of legal mumbo jumbo to some people out there.
Let me tell you coming from a law family. Keep your eye on this one. Keep your eye on this one
because how this goes when we were kids, how many people still talk about and remember the
person suing a McDonald's about the hot coffee falling on them. And now every hot coffee,
every coffee you buy, most of the one they use to it at least, have on there this coffee may be hot.
That kind of thing. They do. It says caution on all the list. They do still do that. Okay.
Yes. I haven't been able to buy myself a coffee in a long time. But they do have a little warning
on there. That's correct. That's so interesting. So these kind of things matter. These kind of
forever silly case that gets thrown out or set up an arbitration. There are cases like this
to go all the way to the top and change the game. And Disney is trying to change the game.
And this is a reminder to how many of us signed the small print without reading it. I did.
Yeah. Everything. Everything comes with you got to sign an agreement. Everything you sign up for,
online, everything you, practically everything you buy nowadays that is, you know, something
a subscription, a gym membership of, you know, whatever it is, you have to sign the small print.
But none of us read it because most of us don't understand it. I've been trying to think of
something a little bit behind the curtain here. I wanted to do something with my three kids.
And they're older now. They're, they're, they're my youngest is going to have, I,
old this is going to have a baby. There's going to be less and less opportunities probably for
the three of us as adults to do things together. And I was trying to think of something that would
really get them to want to do and we'd have fun together. And like, oh, we never got to go on a road
trip. Like let's do that. And I've never been to Disney World. So I've been thinking about that.
I've been looking into it. I've even gone as far as looking at prices and things.
I read this and immediately like, nope, nope. I don't want anything to do with that place.
Now, I, that I am speaking for myself alone here. Not anybody else. It's certainly not civic.
We'll take your advertising dollars, Disney. Um, no free commercial. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But, uh,
this kind of thing, I can't imagine if you are a Disney plus member, which I am, how you'd
feel about this because I know how I feel about it. And again, I am not the kind of person that gets
bent out of shape about things. You know, when you hear me jump on a soapbox, it's for a reason.
Uh, and I, I, this like startled me that like the idea that this could be a thing. Now,
we'll see how this plays out. This is probably going to be a long court case. Uh, and a number
and it may even go all the way to the Supreme Court. Yeah. A couple of things real quick. Melissa,
what you were talking about, those long legal documents that you have to, uh, agree to,
like to sign up for a service or something like that. Those are, I can't remember what the,
the word is for it. It, it, it, it, it is a, uh, thing, but that is done deliberately.
It is done. So your eyes would glaze over before you could read the entire thing. That is done
very specifically. So you don't read it. And almost every single one of those has what they're
talking about here. An arbitration thing. You wave all of your rights to a trial in order to go
between an, uh, before an arbitrator, because in most cases, arbitrators usually side with the,
the, uh, the defendant on those, which are corporations usually that do that. Now,
um, the, uh, legality of those is in question right now. Whether or not you can actually give
away your right to do that, you may not even be able to do that. So that's coming up to,
there has been cases two of people bombing corporations with arbitrate like, like lawyers
gathering like thousands of people who have an issue and like bombing arbitrations on a corporation,
meaning that every single one of these now, the company has to vet, which means it's costing
them lots of money to do these sorts of things. So there are ways around this kind of thing. But
this is a legal thing like James was talking about. This is something that we're going to be hearing
a lot more about coming up, I think, because it's, it's, it's foolish. It's foolish. Do you think
you just say, Oh, just by signing up for my cables, you know, for this, this online streaming
subscription, I'm going to give away all my legal rights just so I can watch, you know, the show,
right? I'm going to get over my back waiting for goofy to show up or something like that. Man,
I'm like, yeah, they, they, I don't know what they got. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Um, I, I,
I think that they, another part of this too, that is so self-inflicted, they could have taken
care of this and it had been a sub story. They could have taken care of this in arbitration,
like they like, or off, uh, or offer to settlement. Right. And they could have done that.
It even happens. Instead, they're nickel and dining. One of the richest companies in the world is
nickel and dining. A man who is a, is a widow, a man who would, yeah, and we're, yeah, uh,
like you're a family, you're supposed to be a family company. You're supposed to be better
than other companies when it comes to, it's not a good look. It really isn't a company that is so
smart with their PR is so good at what they do. And they, and it's not easy for me to say that
because of Walt Disney and my, my feelings about him. But I will, it wholeheartedly emit not many
people are better than marketing, better at PR, better at working with communities, especially
if you hear a lot of people in the Florida area talk about some of the things that they do there.
They do some good stuff. This almost erases a lot of a majority of that to me where you're doing
this because this is the one we heard about. You tell me this is the only time something like this
has ever happened in the history of Disney. So this is the one we hear and I don't know how
you can get around this outside of, hey, our bad, we messed up. Let's go ahead and figure this
out, sir. Yeah. Yeah. That would make more sense. Keep your eye on that one. Keep your eye on
that one, everybody. I think this also kind of, um, is a good segue into mentioning the fact that
on Monday, the White House is working to protect consumers from what are known as junk fees or
not being able to cancel a membership or a subscription. These companies that purposely
in their small print make it, they're designed to make it difficult to get out of a membership
or to get a refund or a rebate. They do it on purpose. Yep. And the Biden administration is working
to end that. They actually have, I couldn't find it in this 30 seconds I was looking. But there is
a public portal. I'm guessing it's probably on the White House website to to make suggestions.
Public comment. Yeah. Okay. Make, make public comment on how to make it easier to navigate
ending subscriptions or activating insurance coverage. It's some good work being done. Yeah.
Yeah. It is. Yeah. And it's nice to see some people thinking of consumers when the businesses
should be. Yeah. Because they don't have a business without us. Exactly. Right. And I've seen some
and that's should be the job of our government, which the Biden administration is doing. That's
right. I will say I've read a bit about that. What you're talking about there, Melissa. And one of
the only pushbacks I've heard is that, well, we've got us as a business, we've got to survive.
If you can't survive as a business, this is, man, this is capitalism. We're adults. Like if you
can't survive as a business, you need to move on and find something else to do. Like I'm so tired
of this idea that we have to hold people's hands as adults. Like you got a job to do. You do
that job. If you can't move on and find something you can do. If you can't pay your employees a good
wage, I can't, I'm at this business and I can't pay my employees better than minimum wage.
Then find a new job. Find a new business. That's the world. A new business will take over there.
Now, if we don't want to agree on capitalism, if we don't want to do that, okay, let's talk. We'll
figure something else out. Sure. But this is the society we have. You've got a job to do the job.
That's it. If you can't find something else to do. If your business is just making fees for
people, that's not a business at all. I don't even know what that is. Maybe getting the real estate.
Sounds like something like a mobster or a gangster. I know a lot about this world and I'm telling you
that's where this is coming from. It's like all the energy on this. Yeah, I guess they've learned
everything they did from mob movies and the sopranos. I guess. I get plenty of people growing up
that didn't want to work for a living and made money. Okay. They were all from that side of the
tracks. And maybe real estate is more your thing. The house from 1982 Horaclastic Polster Geist is
for sale for the first time in 45 years. Wow. And owners want to assure potential buyers there are
no evil spirits. Craig T Nelson got rid of them all. He's the man. Didn't you see through the TV
out of the it's one of my favorite scenes ever. I love that seat for some reason. I don't really
like that movie. I actually didn't freak me out as a kid. It just seemed kind of corny. Yeah.
But God, I love that last seat. I do love that last seat. They're all the DB. The Zillow listing says
quote, yes, this is the house where much of the first movie of the series was filmed. But the house
is clear or clean. Seriously, it is. That's what they actually I'm reading the actual Zillow reading.
Well, well, well, loved by its original owners. This charming forebedroom two and a half bathroom
home is ready to welcome a new family without the ghostly antics. We promise. It's listed from 1.17
mill and it's located in Simi Valley, California. That's why. Yep. Yeah. It's built in 79. The listing
adds that fans will love to see that the infamous kitchen is in its original form. Oh, that's
cool. It's it's pretty dated looking with data appliances. Quote, it's a once in a lifetime
opportunity to live in a home where with a story minus the spooks. We want to very clear on this.
It goes. It does sound like the pool has been cleared. It does sound like the pool is clear.
Yeah. Yeah. So I don't know. To me, I'm going to be honest with you, man. I wouldn't pay
obviously 1.70 for my head that kind of money. That kind of money. I'm buying a brand new home
or something like that. But if they're giving it away, I don't care. Like honestly, the biggest thing
to me was the two and a half bathroom. Like that, that's what stood out to me. Poltergeist,
does it have two bathrooms? Okay. Yeah. This is the funny thing is is that this is not like the
Amityville house where where we're supposedly all these things happen. This was just the set
for a movie about go. There was nothing there in the history. It was a brand new house. They said
it was built in 1979. They filmed that one in 82. Yeah. It was a brand new house when they did it.
So yeah. And that there's also noteworthy the whole. I don't want to. I'm trying not to spoil it
for anybody out there. A movie from 1980. But dude, that's like 40 years old. I know. I just hate
spoiling things. It's 40 years old. Okay, okay. Earmuffs, if you don't want to be spoiled on this.
But it stems around basically what the house was built on. Right. That was a that was a fictional
story. That's not a thing. It's not a real thing. So even that part of it is not a part of this
or anything. That's just a trope now, by the way. I think you can give that away. Yeah. That is
the Indian burial thing. Yeah. So that was a part of it. That obviously was not true. In real life,
it didn't happen. So I mean, I don't know, guys, looking at the picture, sure, it's a nice house.
It's got a pool. It's got a cement backyard. There's no grass. It's got a car and a
you know, a two car garage. I don't know. I can't see spending that kind of money on that house.
Yeah. It's the location that you're paying. Exactly. Oh, a hundred percent. Yeah. James,
is there any grass in the LA area in the general in the San Fernando Valley? There is a patch near
Dodger Stadium. There is a patch. And it's on the field actually. It's the field. You can rent it.
You can rent it. I'm sorry. That's turf. Oh, yeah. That's right. Actually, no. No Dodger Stadium has
real grass. Okay. Before we go to our our second break of the hour, I do want to send a shout out
in a break a leg to our great friends at Seaweck. Yeah. They open tonight. They do. That's great.
Shakespeare. It's opening. It's a Windsor. Go check this out. Everybody. It's going to be a
fantastic show outdoors, even. That's cool. There's nothing like theater outdoors. It's a whole
different animal. So they need an opening for the rain to stop at this time. It's going to.
Is Noah Brittany said? I think she said it's going to break up this evening. So let's hope.
Let's hope. Get your tickets crossed by local support local and support the arts.
The Mary Wives of Windsor kicks off tonight at six o'clock. Be sure to join them for that. Otherwise,
if you can't make it tonight tomorrow, they got a six o'clock show dinner at five. Then on of
Saturday, they have a six o'clock show and on Sunday, eight o'clock matinee. Cool.
Lou out dinner and show Lou out dinners with that show with the dinner tomorrow.
They actually have a pig. No, they probably know. That'd be cool. You did have to buy tickets for
the dinner at like on like the sixth. Oh, yes, I'm sorry. I apologize. I think you still go to
the show. You can still get tickets for the show. Yeah. An amazing cast, a flawless cast, a
wonderful people. And an awesome way for you to support the arts and for you to keep
Seaweck around. This is how we keep local theaters around everybody by taking in shows. That's it.
That's what you got to do. Spread the word about this show. Get yourself tickets and meet our
friends over at Seaweck tonight for this great show. Break a leg. You guys have a great one.
Seaweck.org. Seaweck.org. We'll take. I was going to say or should we say break the leg?
We'll be back with more show out in the morning show at WFHR show.
Welcome back everybody. Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio. Melissa,
Seth and James here with you. We hope you're having a good one out there. We got a couple of
topics to get to before we wrap up today. We have to cover them before we wrap up. All right. Taco
Bell is testing this nostalgic menu with one item from each decade. Let's get into this one
everybody. Now, journalistically, I think that we should mention that Melissa does have a bit of,
you know, a long battle, long ongoing battle with Taco Bell. Yes, journalistically, we just
have a one way battle. It's a one way battle. I've never actually spoken to Taco Bell.
Right. Yeah. Yes. Exactly. It is about my disgust with them removing the seven layer
burrito from their menu, which is really the only thing worth ordering if you go to Taco Bell.
My opinion, except maybe a chalupa, at two in the morning. Maybe you'll find something here.
Okay. Taco Bell announced they're bringing back one popular menu item from each decade.
The sixties through the early odds. But they don't don't get too excited because it's not
happening everywhere yet. They're testing it at three locations in Southern California for now
and quote unquote, looking into doing it nationwide later this year. Everything on the list will
cost $3 or less and most of these haven't been on there in a long time. But here are the five
retro items they are bringing back from the sixties, the tostata. Oh, crispy tortilla,
top of beans, red sauce, lettuce, and cheese. Yes. I said that'd be good.
Okay. Yeah, there you go. It was on the original menu in 1962 and stayed there for half a century.
Wow. Taco Bells. I didn't realize they'd been around that long anyway. Sorry. Sixty two. Wow.
Actually, a little closer to traditional, you know, like Mexican food. Right. So maybe a little
too close. Yeah, too authentic for you, Taco Bells. Yeah. From the seventies, the green burrito.
Oh, the green burrito. What's that? Green burrito. Refried beans, onions, cheese, and a green
tortilla sauce. It's the only one on the list that's been gone for a while. It looked like it was
discontinued back in the nineties. Oh, wow. From the thirty years. Yeah. From the eighties,
the maxi melt fans have been howling since they pulled it in 2019. It's a soft taco with beef
picadilla gallo and a picadilla gallo and a mix of three cheeses. It might have been because of
the name. Yeah. That doesn't stop a great name. Honestly, I thought I was going to get canceled
just for saying that. I really did. I did not feel good about that. Hey, no kink shaming.
From the nineties, the beef gordita supreme. Oh, beef cheese, lettuce, tomato, sour cream,
on a flat bread. There you go. That was discontinued back in 2019. That was the one that we're
eating that one in the nineties. I always got the seven-layer burrito. That one was the one
that Chihuahua was always talking about. No, that jalupa. Yeah, I remember that ad campaign.
And from the early 2000s, the Carmel apple empanada empanada empanada empanada empanada another
one pulled in 2019. It's the only dessert item on the list. So sort of from every decade. It's
stuff they just discontinued five years ago. Really, I mean, some of them, some of them are from
way back. No, no, that's old school. That one is pretty cool. Yeah, you know, I will say one
thing that I've only worked in one fast food establishment once, but my sister worked in a bunch
of them. And one of the things that I never, I didn't think much about is all the items you have
to have back there to be able to make these things. So if some of these items that they're choosing
the ones to bring back because they already have the items in the store, I could see that that makes
sense. But it also feels like one of these things where every one of these, not just Taco Bell,
but businesses like this, to do things like this. I hear these stories. I read these and then I look
into a little bit behind the curtain and everything. And they just make these decisions. They don't
ask anybody what they want. Like, if you really, like, isn't that the job? Like, isn't that, like,
it doesn't that seem like advertising 101? Like, what do the people want? Not what I, it seems
that would make sense, right? Feels like it. Yeah. I'm genuinely asking. I'm not done like,
this is a rhetorical. I have, I have the secret everyone of getting the best food you want.
That's reaction. The best food you want at Taco Bell. Okay, you're ready for this. Okay,
you get in your car and you go to Taco John's. Because they're way better. Yeah. Yeah. Taco
John's is way better. I got to say, I will send a big shout out. No free ads. Yes. But El Taco,
social food truck as well. Oh, man, if you get, yeah, make them your first choice. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Great, great one. You know, not that I want to speak in defense of Taco Bell. You're
a better enemy. Yes. But I think a lot of these decisions are made by, okay, what is being tossed
out? What is not selling? What is making us the most money? They're looking at numbers.
Oh, gold. Yeah. I think you're right. The all mighty dollar. It doesn't have what the
customers want. It matters where they can cut costs to make more money. You got it. That's,
that's what it boils down to. They don't care that they have ruined Taco Bell for me by removing
the seven layer burrito. They don't care. They don't care. They just don't care. They could,
they could, they could care less. We're here. I am crushed in central Wisconsin. Not able to get a
seven layer burrito anywhere anywhere. I can't even go, I can't even go to a Taco Bell and order
something on the menu and say, okay, now please remove this, this, and this and add guacamole
and rice and beans. Like that's not even possible, guys. I tried. I tried. Oh, okay. You've
tried it. That's interesting. So I, my family and I have done a similar thing with subway.
They got rid of mozzarella and that's our favorite cheese and we can't believe it. So we're weird.
We're just not going there anymore. Yeah. We love subs and we don't really have a lot of sub places
here in Rapids. So we got the idea. We're going to make our own. We're going to buy local. We're
going to get some deli meat and we're going to make our own. We got some nice bread and all this.
Yeah, it didn't work out very well. It didn't go very well. It's not that hard to make.
Oh, I actually should say it worked out well for my parents. It did not work out well for me.
I should be more accurate about that. But we're still not going back.
It was never a sandwich artist. No, people. He was never a sandwich artist. How do you,
how do you mess this up? I don't know. I did though. I don't know how I did that. It takes
real talent, man. Real talent. You probably find their training online, James. Do a self-study.
Teach yourself how to make subway sandwiches. And then throw it away.
Future career option. We just don't have the time to get into these 20 names that may never
be popular again. We are going to save this one for the next time three of us get to hang out
together. We will do that one coming up. This is a future show everybody. For now, we'll come back
to wrap up the show on Mornings at WFHR. Welcome back, everybody. Mornings show here at WFHR.
Locally grown radio. Melissa, Seth, and James here with you. Take it to the top of the hour.
Wrap up the show. We hope you're having a good one out there. Thanks so much for joining us,
everybody. One last topic to get into. But I do want to send a side note out to our,
especially considering who we have in the studio with us today. It is an international
day of calendar. We went over on the sunrise show. Join us seven to eight on one, five, five.
It's national lemon meringue pie day set. Oh, yeah. That's a good pie.
I should definitely let you know the delicious lemon meringue. Always good. Always tasting.
You probably get that over at L Cafe. They have a great array of
nice. They do. They seem to have been getting getting more pies too. I don't know. It's really
cool though. Check it out, everybody. Visitor, friends at L Cafe in a big shout out to them,
sponsoring the birthday and anniversary club. Our friends from the South O'Connie main
society joining us. That was a lot of fun. Those are some great good stories that the day
force will have some more coming up. But Melissa, the bear. I wanted to talk about. Remember the bear?
A teacher at a California school was preparing for the upcoming start of the school year when her
classroom was visited by intellectually curious black bear. Elaine Salman, a teacher at peak to
peak mountain charter school in Pine Mountain Club, said she left her classroom to make some
copies in the office and returned to find a black bear occupying the room. Oh my.
Sam and close the bear inside the room, trapping her cell phone in the classroom with it.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. What was your name?
Salman. Oh, no. Seriously? Yeah. Salman?
Oh, yeah. That is so, that's crazy. That's funny. What's the thing there? Sorry,
I didn't mean it a rough, but that's a stroke. It needed to be done. I messed up the name.
Yeah, Salman. Elaine Salman is the teacher we're talking about. If you're wondering,
if you're wondering how the bear got lured into the classroom, it was just her name.
Oh, Salman's in here. Nice. Salman's husband arrived and held the door open, allowing the bear to
escape. The teacher said the only damage was to an earthquake kit. But it was okay. Weird.
Was a non-secondary bear? What are you doing? School officials said that they are now
planning to replace the door handles with more bear-resistant, operating, opening mechanisms
because the bear got in through the door. Open the door knobs. You got to have the right door knobs
to keep those bears out. Oh, my goodness. Nature. Not only do we have to do all of these
renovations to our schools, now we have to make them bear proof. Bear proof. Yeah. Man, we do.
And I mean, nature is adapting everybody. Sure are. My question for the audience in all of you,
what type of class would a bear teach? Now, I think the bear would, of course, teach the bear
necessities. Wow. How about foraging? Oh, yeah. That's a good one. Probably not personal hygiene.
Oh, yeah. Yeah. I'm guessing no on that one. I'm guessing when the poo is not going to teach a class
on how to dress. Only dresses have for themselves. Oh, yeah. Yogi bear would steal everyone's lunch
money. Hey, boo boo. That looks pretty good over there. Don't let the bear be the lunchroom
monitor. Oh, no. Lunches are safe. Yeah. Of course, Fuzzy Bear could teach you how not to do comedy.
That's right. As I learned the hard way. Yeah, you thought you thought he was your role model.
Yeah, really? It was my comedical idol. And yeah, I messed that up. And of course,
Smokey Bear is going to continue to teach us as he taught us his kids and continues to. Yes.
He was probably the best, the smartest bear out there. Yeah. Yeah, definitely.
But I do, I want to keep this as a running conversation. As you think of these things,
please let us know the average bear. Yes. Let us know what kind of class a bear would teach.
There you go. For me, everybody. As we wrap up the first, the final hour here and everyone,
I do one more time. I want to thank this community. All the people that came on down,
businesses, nonprofits, of course, our listeners. And something I did not do in the beginning,
but I want saving it for now. I want to thank the WFHR and WIRI staff.
I have the best team in radio people. And they showed it yesterday. They show it every day
on these stations. We are here for you. We are here to promote you and your business and your
nonprofit. We are here to keep democracy alive. We are here to get you factual information and
take good care of you. So you are up to date and know everything you need to know coming up in
November and going forward. I couldn't be proud of this team. Nice work, everybody. Yeah.
And I have to give a special special shout out to Pam and Laura because they, they really stuck
it out in the warm weather out there. They sure did. And covered our table. So huge, huge,
thank you to Pam. Yeah. Huge thank you to Laura. You guys, you're amazing ladies. Thank you.
We're meeting later today and we'll already be starting. We aren't going to be getting too in
depth. But we're all going to start planning next year. We're all going to start on now.
We're going to get an early start. And I suppose I should thank you guys too. Thank you,
Seth. Thank you, James. Thank you, man. I really do appreciate everything you guys did.
If there was time, if there was time to, yeah, right. Well, I didn't want to, you know,
I just, whatever. I am grateful. That's perfect. A little flustered. That's good. I like that.
Let's keep her flustered here. Looking at some good stories of the, nicely done,
the good stories of the day. One of them is, of course, midday magazine. It's back, back today,
everybody from four to five. Join us as in part one at four o'clock today. We'll welcome you in
our good friend, Jillian from Visit Rome. Looking forward to hanging out with them and talking
about the Rome area. And in part two, we'll talk to Kazal from the bilingual community health
worker with our UW Extension. Oh, that sounds really cool. Yeah. Looking forward to that. Just a
couple of days left. Actually, one more two more days left for the free meals for kids, lunches
that are available. There's meals available today and tomorrow at Mead Park near the Splash Pad,
1130 to 1230 and Winter Park near their aquatic center, 1130 to 1230. Again, a big thank you to
everybody that does this. We appreciate you. Great. All summer long. It is a third, the third,
in the first and third Thursday of every month, our great friends Pete Revelle and four on the floor
performing at the Central Wisconsin Cultural Center at 2651 A Street South and Wisconsin Rapids.
Join them from two to four. Great time. And they got a great exhibit going on over their two
days of American arts. Yeah, it's very cool. Yeah, it's a really cool one. I need to get over
there to see it. As far as I know, I was trying to double check while we're off air here and everything.
The farmer's market is still going today. Check that out. Everybody, our farmer's market going on.
Every Thursday and Saturday, eight to two at 221st Avenue South. And we did get notes earlier that
the lunch by the river has been canceled for today. Yeah, darn weather. Keep that in mind, everybody.
Also keep in mind. My vendors might still be there. Yeah. Yeah. Food vendors might still be
down there. Keep that in mind, everybody. And also our good friends at the Central Wisconsin Area
Community Theater had the Mary Wives of Windsor going on today. Get your tickets and check out
these shows, support local. Do that at cwack.org, cwack.org. Seth, you guys got something fun going
on this week. Yes, because I can't do enough of stuff outside right now. Nothing but outside parties.
You know, at the Arabian Church on Saturday from 9 to 2, we're having a brought fry and rummage
sale. The rummage sale will be taking place down on 1st Avenue. That's the front where the big
cross tower thing is. So that's where the rummage sale is going to be. And then in the parking lot
and back, we're going to be having the brought fry, which includes brats, hot dogs, hamburgers,
nachos, baked goods, of course, and other things to drink. So it's more than just a brought
fry. It's an everything fry, really. But we'll be holding it from 9 to 2 again on this Saturday.
So come on out. It sounds like the weather is going to be pretty good on Saturday. So 9 to 2.
Can I get a brought for breakfast? You can. Breakfast brought. Breakfast brought sounds
are pretty darn good. Yes, that's it. I kind of like that. Right before I head over to the
Kellner corn fest to get corn for lunch. There you go. Yeah. Perfect weekend. It's great.
A woman in Florida was helping clean up after Hurricane Debbie and found a message in a bottle
from 1945. It's a note written to a friend and it's on an official US Navy letterhead. Historians
are trying to track more info. Wow. Speaking of the armed forces, a retired marine in Pennsylvania
named Joseph de Marco just turned 100 years old and people in his town threw him a big surprise
party with a police escort. Nice. The mayor of Bethlehem Pennsylvania showed up for it and
so did US Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick. Joseph enlisted in the Marines after the attack on Pearl
Harbor and forged his parents signature because he was only 17. Yeah. Something my Papa did and
you hear a lot of stories about that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And a 12 year old in Massachusetts named Danny
Dority set up a homemade ice cream stand outside his house to raise money for his brother's special
needs hockey team. But it got shut down after someone in his neighborhood complained to the health
department. You're not allowed to sell homemade ice cream in Massachusetts and they snitched on
him. He ended up getting around the red tape by offering ice cream for free and asking people to
donate. Perfect. Which netted him and netted him about 60 bucks. But he stands to make a lot more
than that now because the owners of a restaurant called Longboards heard about this and they're
noting 25% of their proceeds from the signature desserts to help his cause. Hey. Good job stepping up.
They also put out a donation jar. Nice. But this is a cool story for a lot of the way the public
got backed him on this and supported him on this. But again, this is a 12 year old doing this. Yeah.
That is incredible work, young man. Nicely done. We love our local businesses for stepping up and
helping in whatever community they're in. Yep. Whether it's that kid or the kids that you heard
on the radio here earlier this morning, I think we can all feel pretty darn good about the future
going forward when it comes to these kids and these generations. Feeling good about tomorrow,
we'll wrap up the week. Great job this week. Everybody. Appreciate you. Have yourself a good day.
Good work you two. You two, man. Yeah, you two, Dan. Be good to each other out there. We'll talk to you
soon and then later right here at this is locally grown radio WFHR 1320 AM W24 ADE Wisconsin Rapids
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