Just Take it All in Stride (Hour 1)

Good morning, Wisconsin.

Good morning, world.

It's a new day.

Thanks for kicking it off with us here at WFHR.

Got your host, James behind the mic.

I am joined by our head of news, our co-host Melissa K.

Good morning.

And the best listeners in radio.

Thanks for joining us, everybody.

We got fun things on the way.

We're going to kick things off the way

that we like to around here with a good friend, Brittany Merlot,

talking a little mother nature.

Brittany, I am still hot.

I'm in the studio.

I have the fan on, and somehow I am still hot.

The air was hot yesterday.

It was a warm one.

Is it going to be that way today?

Oh, it's going to be close to it.

It's not going to be as hot and as weltering.

It's like a sauna, to be honest with you.

When I had a few times yesterday,

I thought it reminded me of.

It feels like we had a minute.

I'm not paying for the sauna experience today.

This is not a spa, mother nature.

I mean, I was looking at feel like temperatures from yesterday.

Steven's point hit 106 degree heat index yesterday.

So I believe it.

I believe it.

Did we are?

How are your storms?

Did you get any good storms overnight?

Yeah.

Actually got our storms knocked out some power around here,

including ever at my folks house,

where I was in the middle of doing laundry.

So I've got some wet clothes in the dryer that just barely.

There should be running right now, actually.

But I should go actually.

I should go check on them in a break.

I'll go do that.

We need to get power knocked out for about an hour or so

on the west side of Rapids here.

I'm not sure about the other areas.

We'll check in with our listeners about that.

Luckily, it wasn't too bad.

Good.

Yeah, I was looking at gusts.

It looks like a 48 mile per hour wind gusts

through Wisconsin Rapids up here towards me a little bit more

and to go 51 miles per hour.

But tons of trees are down across the northern part

of the state.

Like you said, a lot of power outages as well.

So if you think about it, these workers

have to be out there in the sweltering heat today

as we climb back to the upper 80s to low 90s.

But the humidity is still high.

It's going to be feeling like the low to mid 90s today.

So not triple digits, but still pretty darn close.

See, packets of sunshine, we still

have packets of showers and storms.

We've got this cold front that's pretty much draped right

between you and I, between Waza and Wisconsin Rapids.

And when this thing starts to slowly drop south,

we're going to see those storms take more of a southern trend.

Right now, they're up in northwest Wisconsin.

But throughout the afternoon and evening,

they will work our way towards us.

And then this will all kick on out of here

and will be on the refreshing cooler side of thing for tomorrow.

We're actually looking at highs of just the mid 70s.

That's going to feel cool.

Yeah, yeah, that's going to feel really good.

And a great note by you, Brittany,

about some of our construction workers

and our people out there working on the roads and everything.

Slow down when you're driving in those orange cone areas,

everybody look out for them and a big thank you

to all of them for what they're doing out there.

For sure.

Yeah, huge shout out, especially to those people,

like putting our power on today.

We need you.

We really need you to do it fast.

And they're working their butts off in the seat.

So drink lots of water.

Yeah, yeah.

And you stay cool over there, Brittany.

Thanks, you as well.

Thanks, thank you, Brittany.

Best of the business.

Have a great day, Brittany.

She's awesome.

We love talking with Brittany.

We love talking with all of you and entertaining you,

bringing you a serious comedy to start your day.

We're going to do that today in the next two hours.

A little bit later, we're going to get into a six flags ride

that broke down.

I think a lot of people might have seen some news about that one.

IKEA is launching a site to sell your pre-owned furniture.

I can hear you.

Yeah, yeah, we'll get into that one, Melissa.

Nine o'clock hour, got some entertainment news in there

for you.

We're going to talk about some local theater as well in that.

And a little bit later in the nine o'clock,

the 10 most acceptable reasons for a phone call in 2024.

We need an excuse, okay, got it.

I have not pre-read that.

I do not know what's coming up in that one, though.

I did want to start somewhere, though.

And interestingly, Melissa in her news break today

touched on this and appreciated Melissa.

You always do an amazing job with that amount of time

that you have there packing in great local information

for us and reminding us of things sometimes.

And I actually had a couple of places or a couple of things

I wanted to touch on when it comes to kids starting school

and bus driving.

Oh, good.

And here is just an important reminder to everybody out there.

I know it's been a long summer and maybe some people

might have forgotten.

Our school buses have these things that are like,

they're not like, they are stop signs that pop out on the side.

That means you're supposed to stop.

Officials in Tampa, Florida had to remind drivers to stop

if they see a school bus with its sign extended.

That means no matter which way you're coming from.

Don't pass if you're behind the bus

and don't blow past it if you're coming

from the other direction either.

It's a safety thing to let you,

let kids in case they're crossing and stuff.

A lot of buses have cameras on board now

that scan license plates to catch people doing this.

So if you're making sure you don't,

you don't want to do anything obviously

for any reason, first of all, the children.

But if I need, if I can't catch you on that

then maybe I can catch your wallet or your purse

or whatever and keep you from doing it for those reasons.

The officials in Tampa announced that in the span

of just four days this month, 2,391 drivers

ignored those stop signs in past school buses anyway.

2,039, 391 drivers.

That's, I'm sure that number hits home.

They're doing a grace period until September 12th.

So those people will only get warnings for now.

But after that, it is an automatic $225 fine.

That fine is very similar here in Wisconsin.

Yeah, I just looked it up.

Failure to stop can result in a fine between $30 and $300.

According to a handful of sites that I've seen here,

including crash stats.net and the National Institute Institute

of Health, one in four children are hit by a vehicle

this time of year.

Oh my goodness.

The numbers are, if it was a half a point, it would be too high.

And this is something that is a self-inflicted wound

on our society.

This is something that we do to ourselves

because we can't slow down.

We can't look around.

We can't be bothered to take our head out of our phone.

You notice I'm saying we, everybody.

I am not putting myself above anybody here.

I'm talking with you.

I'm one of you.

I'm with you in this community.

And I, just like anybody else out there,

sometimes have to take a moment and get out of my own head

and pay attention to what I am doing,

driving these big, gigantic monsters down the road.

We all need to be better about this

and we all can be better about this.

And this is a subject that we can do something about ourselves.

We don't need the government.

We don't need other people telling us what to do.

Just use your darn common sense and slow down.

And you know what?

Start practicing now.

Start practicing.

Start getting used to this.

Start getting in the habit of it

because as our Wisconsin-Rapids public schools

in our area here, Monday, September 3rd,

is our start of the school year.

Rapids has a late start Monday schedule

that they're going to be doing

where classes will start 30 to 45 minutes later on Mondays.

Most kids, typically their day,

8, 8, 30 is when things start.

3, 3, 30 is when oftentimes most of them are being let out.

If you are on the roads at these times,

treat this like they are your children.

If that's what it takes, whatever it takes,

and that one child, not one, nothing,

none of this should, and that one child

should be affected by this.

Yeah, and we can do our part as drivers to pay attention,

put the phone down, watch for those school buses,

watch for kids, you know?

I mean, I don't want to say kids are unpredictable like deer,

but they kind of are.

They are, they are, yes, yes, they are.

So watch out, be watchful for them.

I will make the argument that children

are more unpredictable than deer.

A deer oftentimes will look into the road

and be like, oh, I ain't going past there.

A kid is a kid.

They've got energy, they've got excitement.

They are just getting.

They're easily distractable.

Absolutely.

We, as adults, are easily distractable.

That's part of why we're having this discussion.

So I'm not, again, not putting us above

or trying to call anybody out

or point fingers or anything like that.

That doesn't do us any good.

Let's do this together as a group, as a society.

We all could do our part.

Yeah, and be better.

Like this older gentleman here,

the world's oldest living man is celebrating

his 112th birthday today, actually,

at the Care Home Center where he lives in England.

I bet you he slowed down.

I bet, I bet.

John Alfred Tinswood was born August 26th, 1912.

So yesterday would have been his birthday, okay.

Just over four months after the sinking of the Titanic

in six months after Arizona became a US state.

Wow.

Tinswood was dubbed the world oldest living man

by Guinness World Records earlier this year

and is now celebrating his 112th.

So he's patent his record here.

Not what he's doing now.

Now he's going to be adding to it.

And they asked him about this and he says,

it didn't affect me in any way really,

to be honest with you,

Tinswood told the Guinness World Records

about attaining the title.

Personally, it doesn't mean to think.

He was very notchalant about turning 112.

Well, I mean, when you've been around that long,

I suppose it's just another day.

In all honesty, note, or he was,

he was similarly notchalant about turning 112.

He says, in all honesty, no different.

I feel, I don't feel that age.

I don't get excited over it.

That's probably why I've reached it.

I just take it and stride like anything else.

There's some magic in that, what do you say in there

about taking things and stride and everything.

Tinswood said he doesn't really know

the secret to longevity.

I can't think of any special secrets I have.

I was quite active as a youngster.

I did a lot of walking, but to me,

I'm no different, no different at all.

I really do actually like this.

I will say, every time they ask a hundred-year-old person

or something like that,

they always like to ask them,

what is your secret to life and those questions?

And we always get fun answers.

I love, I've never heard a bad answer to that.

There's always a good one.

This is one of the more unique and honest ones I've ever heard.

Yeah, and a lot of times,

there's a lot, actually things going around right now

is a good take advice from older people.

Well, what's wrong with his answer?

There's nothing wrong with his answer,

but a lot of times it has to do more with genetics

and genes, not necessarily what they did

or didn't do in their lives.

And what's the harm in listening to advice?

Doesn't mean you have to take it.

That's great. I mean, you can listen.

Walk? Sure.

There's another wrong with that.

All right, ready? This one down.

Walk more, James.

Go for it, walks.

Walk more and you may live to a hundred, you know what I mean?

We will take a quick time out,

checking with our partners.

We'll come back, we'll do some celebrating

with the El Café, Birthday and Anniversary Club.

Smelliss and James, take any through your morning

here at WFHR.

Happy birthday to you.

Happy birthday to you.

Happy birthday.

It's time to do some celebrating with our friends at El Café

in the Birthday and Anniversary Club.

We encourage you to treat yourself,

get on over to El Café, 221 Market Avenue,

beautiful port, Edwards.

Beat the heat with them and keep in mind

and not only are they open today,

but this week they're offering free pie

or a beverage with a purchase of $10 minimum.

Whoa. That's awesome.

That's gonna keep you cool.

That is gonna help. That is gonna help a lot.

And plus their pie is delicious.

Such good pie.

It's even okayed by Seth,

the head of the pie council and everything.

Seth loves it.

So go ahead and add another to 221 Market Avenue,

beautiful port, Edwards.

Wish them a good morning from all of us at WFHR.

And keep getting us those birthdays and anniversaries

everybody.

You guys have been really good about this.

We've been having good lists lately.

Get them to us infoatwfhr.com.

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We love getting those on the air everybody.

Feel free to call up and join us any time during the show.

And we'll let's go ahead and dive right in molissa.

We need a one through three.

Let's go with one today.

Okay, gives us that qualifier.

We can get right into celebrating the first up

wishing a happy birthday to Liana Tabiata.

Happy birthday, Liana.

Liana, hope you have a great day, enjoy your day.

And we wish a happy birthday to Stella Forella.

Happy birthday, Stella.

What a beautiful name.

Yeah.

Both great names.

But I've always been a sucker for the name Stella.

That's a great name, great name.

Enjoy your day, Stella.

Hope it's a good one.

And our qualifier today, Tom Sanderson.

Happy birthday, Tom.

Congratulations.

Enjoy your day, sir.

Your our qualifier.

Thank you so much to you or whoever got us this birthday.

We appreciate it.

Pretty soon we're going to draw our winner for August.

We wind it down.

We are days away from that.

Just days away from that.

Looking forward to it.

And actually, I did think of something just now.

I had somebody, this was a couple of weeks back,

but I had somebody ask me, hey, is it okay

if I call in my own birthday?

Absolutely.

A thousand percent, it's okay.

Yeah.

A hundred percent.

Please feel free to do it.

I call in my own birthday.

Yes, please.

Feel free to.

That counts.

Not that I can qualify, but it was, it was a very interesting.

It was a, it was actually a very innocent question

from not somebody I would have expected it from.

A very big, burly man asking me about this.

And I didn't expect that.

But it was, it was a five question.

And a good question.

But yes, that is very okay with us.

Just as long as you, we don't mind how you do it.

Just get us those birthdays and anniversaries.

Everybody loves celebrating with you.

Taking a look at our celebrity list.

Aaron Paul is 45, famous for being Jesse on Breaking Bad.

He's Todd on Bojack Horseman.

He was on Westworld for a little bit too

and did a really nice job over the couple of seasons.

He was on that.

I like him.

He's a good actor, Aaron Paul.

Sarah Clark is 48.

She was Dr. Elliot Reed on Scrubs.

She was Becky on Roseanne.

Oh, the second Becky on Roseanne actually.

And she was, she's been in a couple of other things too.

She's another good actor, a good TV actor.

I think I recommend she was in Twilight.

Oh, was she okay?

Yeah.

And Bort and Bosch.

She was in Bosch.

Okay.

Jimmy Pop from Bloodhound Gang is 52.

Wow, that brings me back.

Bloodhound Gang.

Wow, that's a throwback right there.

Let's see, Tony Canal from No Doubt is 54.

He is the bassist for the band.

Let's see here.

Shonda Wilson is 55.

Dr. Miranda Bailey on Grey's Anatomy.

Hmm.

I like her.

Good actor, good actor.

She's, I've seen her in a couple of other things.

I've never seen Grey's Anatomy,

but I've seen her in a couple of things.

Yeah.

Yeah, I don't know how.

I don't know.

I mean, it's been on for like 20 years.

Yeah, exactly.

I mean, that's quite, but almost.

Well, I'm pretty sure you're right.

I've pretty, I've 50.

Since 2005, it'll be 20 years next year.

That's great.

I thought you were right about that.

Yeah.

Nice.

Good call.

Oh, she is really great in that.

And, and a few other things too.

She was in Philadelphia in 93.

Oh, that's where I knew her from.

Yep.

Yeah.

Good flick.

Good movie.

Season Milan is 55, the dog whisperer.

Wow.

He does some little snappy thing or something with his mutton.

He makes some noise or something like that.

I haven't seen that show or seen him in probably 15 years

or whatever, but I was, I was enjoyed him.

I thought he was pretty good.

And he's got a great personality.

Yes.

Yeah.

I like, there's a guy that I never question.

He always put the animals first.

I always feel, felt like it.

Let's see here.

Oh, wow.

Alex Lifeson from Rush is 71, one of the integral parts

of the great band Rush.

One spirit of radio, flat by nine, closer to the heart,

red barcetta, lime lights, all songs that I played

endlessly on my old radio job.

Tom Sawyer, though.

Tom Sawyer, I'm not a gigantic rush fan.

I like Rush.

I respect Getty Lee quite a bit as probably

the world's greatest bass player.

But Tom Sawyer is the one that I always come back to.

That's probably the one that I like.

Hey, that's a good song.

That's a good one.

And is Neil Perth the drummer?

Yeah.

Yeah.

And arguably the best drummer.

One of the best, if not the one of the best,

one of the best drummers in the world, for sure.

And really talented band.

Sergeant Slaughter is 76, old school,

WWF star, GI Joe, action figure, but I might be letting people

behind the curtain a little too much here on this one.

Not an actual sergeant.

Not an act, and in fact, gotten trouble

for pretending to be a sergeant.

Yeah, impersonating that's not a good thing to do.

I don't know if you've heard of this or not before Melissa,

but there's this thing in wrestling called K-FAP,

where it was for decades and decades.

It's really only been in recent years that if you and I

were wrestlers and we were enemies and stuff,

but in real life, we were friends.

We never let anybody know that.

You never let the audience look behind the curtain.

You always stay in character.

You keep up the facade.

The sergeant Slaughter kind of felt like he was doing that

while telling people he was a sergeant and people would

thank him for his service, and he would say, thank you.

And yeah, yeah.

There's a line in the sand when it comes to K-FAP,

and he crossed it.

He crossed it.

You can't do that.

You can't do that, man.

Let's see here.

Tuesday, well, does 81.

Let's see here.

OK.

And oh, he we hermit, that's it.

That's why I wanted to mention.

As people no longer with us, like Paul Rubens, Pee Weherman,

would have been 72 today, born in 1952,

passed away just last year in 23.

Jeff Cook from Alabama, born in 1949,

passed away in 2022.

And Daryl Dragon, born in 1942, passed away in 2019,

the captain of captain and to Neil.

Why didn't they call it dragon and to Neil?

His last name is dragon.

You've got a cool last name like that.

I'd be using that every chance I get.

Dragon and to Neil, that would have been cool.

I feel like it works.

I feel like I could make that work, I feel like.

Some wonderful artists here, and wonderful names,

not only on our celebrity list, but of course,

on our local celebrity list.

Keep getting us those birthdays and anniversaries

everybody.

We love celebrating with you.

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We'll get it then.

We'll put it on the list.

Absolutely.

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We will get to our news and sports break right now.

We'll come back and do some celebrating and some fun

with a couple of things we got going on here,

the six flags ride that broke down.

We're going to talk about that.

And IKEA's selling pre-owned furniture.

I really want to get into that one with you, Melissa.

Yeah, I'm curious.

That's all coming up for you on the morning show here

at WFHR, where we are locally grown radio.

Melissa and James hanging out with you.

We hope you're having a good one over there.

Thanks so much for joining us.

Good things coming up for you throughout the hour.

We're going to get into a couple of fun ones,

including a tech startup is using mirrored satellites

to sell sunlight after dark.

I saw this before.

I'm going to go back to the show.

I'm going to go back to the show.

I'm going to go back to the show.

I'm going to go back to the show.

Sunlight after dark.

I saw this headline. I did not look at it.

We're going to check that one out together a little bit.

But IKEA is launching a new website where

customers will be able to sell their used IKEA furniture.

It's called IKEA pre-owned, great name.

That's really worked hard on that one.

They're testing it in Spain and Norway

through the end of the year with plans

to roll it out to other countries after that.

We already have a small program where

they sometimes buy back used stuff and resell it.

But this is a peer-to-peer marketplace

where you'll be able to sell your used IKEA stuff

to other IKEA users.

It's got a few bells and whistles

to make things easier like an AI-powered database

that adds images and measurements for you

and you'll have the option of being paid in cash

or an IKEA credit with a 15% bonus.

Either way, it might get even easier

to lose that old knob-stop chair

or online or something like that

or maybe even if you just want to change up your furniture.

I actually really like this, James.

Yeah, I think this is a really cool idea.

I was on the fence on it until I read the article

and I read the part about a peer-to-peer.

IKEA's only real involvement in this

is offering you an IKEA credit

or the 50% bonus and some of that.

You can sell some things back to IKEA

and not just two peers as well.

Well, and the additional help

of where we already have all the measurements

for all of our stuff in our system,

we're going to help you be able to populate that quickly

with AI without you having to do it yourself.

I can't tell you how many times

I've been looking for something on Facebook marketplace

and people will post a picture

but they don't post any measurements.

Specifically, I was looking for a desk

and I needed it to be a particular size.

And asking over and over, what are the measurements?

How do you post something without measurements?

But it's furniture.

I've just boggled my mind

and I got me very frustrated.

So the fact that they're using AI

to just populate that automatically

because it's already in their system is super cool to me.

I think I agree.

I think that's a really cool feature about this

and it really works for them.

I also think that the idea of repurposing stuff

is always great,

not necessarily turning it into something different,

just reusing it and where it would end up

on the side of the road or something like that.

And there is a certain amount of people

who are able to, oh, you know what?

I want to just get all new living room furniture.

But instead of throwing theirs away,

if it's all still perfectly good furniture,

maybe slightly used,

but somebody else can make use of that

and using a platform like that

that makes it easy for sellers.

It's only good for the environment

and good for people.

My only catch with IKEA

has ever been their prices.

And something like this, I don't know,

it doesn't necessarily lower prices,

but it feels like you get more use

out of your items this way.

But it keeps things out of landfills.

Yeah, yeah.

I mean, that's something we really need to be more conscious of.

I, one other thing people should be conscious of.

And I understand that there's not a ton of IKEA's

necessarily around central Wisconsin or anything.

But if you were in a good relationship

and you want to test it, go to IKEA.

Go, go to IKEA.

It's not me saying this necessarily.

It is a lot of like

relationship experts and people

like that to talk about this.

I didn't know this, my,

an X in mine,

her and her mom really liked IKEA.

And they found out I'd never been there before.

And you know, they made,

we joked about it a little bit or whatever.

Well, they're like a month ago as buy

and just out of nowhere on a random Saturday.

They're like, we're going to IKEA.

And I'm like, oh, okay, you know,

and I'm, I'm tagging along and everything and I'm aware.

And it really felt like she was kind of,

and this was not her style,

but felt like she was trying to pick a fight with me.

And, and I, I was, you know,

I'm pretty mellow guy with those things.

Takes a little bit to get under my skin.

That might surprise some people out there.

But I, I was getting irritated.

I was kind of like, all right, all right.

And she's telling me to go find things.

I've never been, and she knows I've never been in the IKEA before.

And I'm looking at the, you know,

you are here signing all this.

And I'm getting frustrated and more frustrated.

And finally, I'm, we're, we're, I realize, wait a minute.

We're fighting.

And we never fight.

And we're fighting in the middle of this IKEA and everything.

And she ended up like kind of like just going off.

And I'm lost.

I don't know where I am in this IKEA.

I have no idea where I am.

And I'm bopping around.

I'm trying to find her and her mom and all this.

And I finally do over by the meatballs and stuff.

And I just, and I told her.

I was like, look, I don't know what happened there.

But I'm sorry.

And she's like, it's the, it's the store.

It's the store.

There are relationship experts that will tell people like, hey,

take your significant other to IKEA.

And if you get in a fight and you survive it, you'll be okay.

And so that's what she was trying to do.

She was trying to manufacture a fight and see how we would be.

And then make up afterwards so that we'd be okay in all this.

It's the weirdest situation.

But that is something that others do.

That is something that people do from time to time.

So that is another reason maybe to find an IKEA.

I don't know.

The average suburban IKEA is 25,000 square feet.

Yeah.

I don't want to hear anybody making fun of me about getting lost.

They got, they use different words over there in the day of IKEA.

They use a lot of Swedish words and I don't understand.

A lot of stuff.

A lot of stuff in those buildings.

And good stores, by the way.

Nothing against IKEA.

It's got just the prices.

But this pre-owned thing makes me think a little bit differently about it.

Actually, that is pretty cool.

It is cool.

Many might have seen this already, but for those who haven't.

A footage from Six Flags Mexico is going viral.

After a bunch of people got stuck on a ride, almost 250 feet up

in the middle of a huge storm.

Oh no.

The ride is called Supergirl Skyflight or Sky Screamer at some of the parks.

You're in a swing that spins you in circles.

It's a swing that spins you in circles.

A lot of fairs had them too, but they don't go as very high as this one does.

The Six Flag version hits a max height of 242 feet.

Gikes.

They work there.

Yeah, they were at the top when the ride froze up, of course.

And so they were just dangling there for 10 minutes.

And there happened to be a torrential downpour at the same time.

The video shows the wind whipping while everyone white knuckles it.

You can hear several people screaming and crying.

The storm got worse as they were being evacuated, but no one was hurt.

Six Flags put out a statement saying it caused some uncomfortable moments for a few visitors.

But the ride was back up and running a short time later.

In the middle of a storm?

I'm going to need a little bit more than that from Six Flags.

I'm going to need them to do a little bit more than, hey, our bad, sorry.

But the ride's okay.

Don't pay no attention to the people.

Pay no attention to the people.

You may have a little mental trauma, but you know what?

It's all good.

Quick side note.

Do we have any psychiatrist in Six Flags in the park here?

I'm just a random question.

Not asking for any particular reason.

Yeah, that ain't right, man.

I just watched a video of it.

It must have been a very short storm because you could see Blue Sky in the video.

And yeah, the people are, it's raining.

And they're not even swinging back and forth though.

They are just pretty much sitting still.

What's the video, oddly enough, last night during the storm?

And yeah, I got a scene feeling from it, Melissa.

They are going back and forth the tiny bit.

And nothing like what the ride was doing.

Like, this is obviously not what they signed up for.

And I understand that.

At the same time, if there were 10 people up there, I have a feeling at least one or two were either

thinking this was part of the ride or really enjoying it.

Because I mean, come on.

You are on a...

Watch a storm from 200 plus feet.

That would probably be pretty cool.

Well, and usually timid people don't get on a ride like this.

You know what I mean?

They kind of thrill seekers anyway.

Yeah, you might have gotten more bang for your buck this way.

It actually may be a disappointment the next time you take the ride.

Like, oh, we didn't get stopped in a rainstorm already.

I don't know.

And they have an amazing story to tell for the rest of their lives.

Very true, very true.

Thankfully, everybody was okay, so that was part of this.

But it would be terrifying.

I admit wholeheartedly, I'm not a...

I was in adrenaline junky as a kid.

I got it all out of my system.

I really, really did.

And I've never really been much of a ride guy.

I don't mind rides.

I'll do it if other people doing it and they want me to or something.

But again, I got my fill of this as a kid with a gravitron and things like that.

Yeah, I don't like getting dizzy anymore.

I can't imagine a scenario where I'm willing to pay people

to let me on a ride called Sky Screamer.

There's no scenario outside of like being paid to do it.

I'm not giving them money.

They can give me money to do it.

But I don't see like a...

You're willingly paying for this.

I don't get it.

Now, if it doesn't go in circles,

I would probably be game.

Like roller coasters.

Yeah, I'd probably still do one.

Any kind of like swing where you go.

Have you seen those ones where they go out over the edge of a cliff?

I would love to do that.

That does seem kind of cool.

That does seem kind of cool.

I'm with you on that.

Fair rides now.

We were just at the Marshfield Fair

and I had some kiddos with me

and they went on some rides

and I couldn't even watch

because I was getting dizzy.

They spin.

The ride's spinning.

No, thank you.

No, no, no.

Those rides that are just what you're talking about.

Just spinning in the air.

Yeah, like that's not really a ride to me

that just feels kind of like, all right.

We couldn't come up with anything else.

Let's just go ahead and put them in dishes

and spin them around for a while.

My favorite ride when I was a kid

was the one where

I don't remember what it's called.

But you're in a little car

and you can spin the table

that's inside the car

to make your individual car spin faster.

As the ride goes around,

I loved that one.

That one was my favorite.

But I also used to like to get dizzy.

I'd sit on a swing

and have my brother spin

the swing around and around

until the rope got tightened up

and then let you go

and then you'd spin like crazy.

My sister loved that too

and I swear I got more dizzy than she did

doing it. I'm pretty sure I did.

And then you get off

and that's fun.

When you're seven.

Yes, when you're seven.

Yes, I teach their own.

But man, I have no interest in that stuff nowadays.

No, just I got my fit.

I did not like being dizzy.

We're going to come back

and we're going to talk about a sunshine application.

We've got some of that coming up for you in a little bit.

Here on the morning show

at 97.5 FM,

13.20 AM WFHR.

Welcome back everybody.

This morning show at WFHR.

We hope you're having a great Tuesday

out there everybody.

Little Jim Crochet playing us in.

You know mess around with Jim.

God, my father loves this song.

Love this song.

And you can see the twinkling as I

every time he says Jim.

You can see it just every single time.

When I was a kid, he would tell me you know Jimmy

they don't say James.

This is Jim.

Yeah, that's great dad. That's great.

Jim Crochet, great amazing singer.

Songwriter.

This is one of those stories that reminds you

of the future right now.

A tech startup in California called

Reflect Orbital is planning to use

mirrored satellites to sell

people sunlight when it's

dark out.

He's self.

I really hope that

settled into people right there.

That phrase that sentence didn't wrinkle your brain.

You were able to comprehend

because it took me a couple of times

reading it to really get that down.

One of the co-founders is a former

student.

They're trying to put a constellation of

satellites into orbit that can reflect

sunlight and direct it anywhere on

earth.

Russia actually did a proof of concept

decades ago and it worked.

It's mainly designed to help big solar farms

keep generating power at night.

But anyone can go to their website and fill out a

quote sunshine application.

The deadline to apply is October 23rd.

You'll need a pretty big plot of land to get

up.

Each patch of sunlight will be three

miles across.

So your neighbors might not be wild about this one.

Yeah.

It's not clear how much they're planning to

charge but it's not going to be cheap.

I'll tell you that right now.

And don't expect it to have sunlight 24 hours

a day at least not yet.

For now you'll only get about four minutes

worth of sun.

They're hoping to start their initial test

run late in 2025.

Four minutes of sun.

Four minutes of sun baby.

Only cost you about 250 bucks.

Four extra minutes.

It makes me very wary that they want people to start

signing up for this when they are not even telling you

how much it's going to cost yet.

I will also say the website

don't look very good Melissa.

Look a little sketchy.

If I'm counting on these people to be able to

direct sunlight to me with the satellites and everything,

I kind of expect a decent website.

I'm sorry.

I kind of think the tech guys could do better with the

website.

I feel like that.

I don't think that's asking a lot.

I don't know.

I really love the idea of being able to help our solar

farms and helping solar power.

The idea of that is really unique and pretty cool.

Being able to harness the sun is something we have literally

been trying to do since we were able to walk upright.

It's a cool kind of thing.

I think.

That being said, there's other sides to this.

Yeah.

What's going to happen to the plant life around

those areas when they have sunlight 24 hours a day

when they're not used to it?

I mean, when that happens in Alaska,

everything's covered in snow.

Yeah.

Maybe not everything.

No, no.

I think that's a big, big difference.

And we need to understand that there is a big, big difference

between working with nature and trying to manipulate nature.

Yeah. Let's talk about the earthquakes that are happening

because of fracking.

And fracking is something that we are doing to the environment.

Yeah.

That is not natural.

Directing sunlight where it's supposed to be dark.

I don't know.

That seems like it might be problematic.

James.

Yeah.

The only people that are backing fracking

are the people that have money in their pocket.

Let's be blunt.

And they have other reasons for doing it.

The idea of fracking is not needed.

We've got some of our past scientists that have told us that.

There are certain things like that that we're doing to the planet.

We are just so self-inflicted.

This isn't about, you know, trying to squash something

before it's even coming to be and everything.

But with this kind of technology, with this kind of science,

with these kind of brains working on this,

this is an interesting idea, but I'd really love you

to see you guys working on something a little bit stronger,

a little bit better that helps more people,

not just trying to make a buck.

Maybe making better solar panels

that can collect more energy,

or that last longer,

or that less energy is lost during the transfer process.

I mean, there are so many other ways

I think that you could make energy more efficient.

Then let's put giant satellites in the sky and redirect the sun.

Yeah.

It sounds like a science fiction movie.

Yeah. Yeah.

And it sounds like something that even then,

like futuristic movies are talking about

and telling us how, this is a bad idea.

How we destroyed the Earth?

I've mentioned this before on the air.

One of my favorite side hobbies is just reading about space

and learning about space.

I find it interesting. It doesn't really benefit me in my job,

but I think it's cool and interesting.

And one of the things that I have come across in recent years

that I've heard a lot of again, very, very smart people talk about is,

hey, we're putting a lot of satellites in the sky.

We're putting a lot of satellites into space.

And space is endless and it's big and it's gigantic.

Okay, but there's a lot of junk up there that's just floating right around the Earth.

Yeah, and we've already had this happen plenty of times

and our lifetimes let alone in the human existence,

some of that stuff falls down.

Some of that stuff comes back.

It's the atmosphere and then it's going to fall once it hits gravity.

I just feel like it would be such a human thing

to be putting these things up in space.

And then one day down the road,

oh, by the way, all those satellites you put up there,

yeah, they got to go somewhere.

They got to come down.

And we don't get to choose when they do.

Talk for a minute about all the junk that SpaceX is putting up there.

Oh, my God, yeah, that whole, that hustle.

All that is a hustle.

I know a hustle. I come from that world.

That is a hustle.

That is all that is.

There's no going to Mars.

This is a way for him to get investors for him to get money

and be able to put it into things that will never happen.

He's never going to Mars.

Elon Musk is never going to Mars.

Please write that down. That is my hot take of the day.

You can go ahead and throw it in my face.

Elon Musk himself can throw it in my face if it ever actually happens.

I feel pretty confident that ain't happening.

Again, it's a hustle, the whole thing.

You're not even actually going into space.

You're just going into the orbit.

Okay, there are balloons that do that.

We're talking about.

It shouldn't be able to call it SpaceX.

It should be orbit X or something or something.

You're not even going into space.

I don't know about the Sunlight Shine application.

I do hope that it turns into something that can be beneficial.

And certainly all right for the environment in all ways.

Interesting to see how it develops.

Yeah. Yeah.

I wanted to touch on this one as well, Melissa.

Car trouble leads to some good things.

A North Carolina man found his car trouble to be unexpectedly lucky

when a trip to the repair shop earned him $3,795,000.

Whoa.

Matthew. Matthew.

There's said Matthew's here.

Oh, Matthew's resident.

Clay collection told North Carolina education lottery officials

that he had an appointment to have his car service at the dealership

but ended up with some spare time in the morning.

Okay.

I woke up a little too early.

I would have never played if I didn't get up so early.

Clayborn killed time by playing the lottery's online

Bison Bonanza game.

Bison Bonanza.

And ended up scoring the $3,795,000 jackpot.

Whoa.

He quote, I just play for fun.

I didn't think it was real because I was still half asleep.

He said his prize money will allow him to solve his car problems

by buying a new electric vehicle.

He said he is also planning a trip to Hawaii.

Oh, good for him.

That is a pretty good one.

How does it make you want to play the lottery occasionally?

You know, like just random.

You know, we do a lot of these.

I'm about to do another one actually.

And I've never gotten that feeling.

No.

I don't...

Well, I think about it, but I don't actually do it.

Sure.

I'm just saying that I guess that even no matter how many of these stories I read

for the years and years I've been doing this show,

I still don't ever feel like it could be me.

Yeah.

I'm having a meeting.

A Michigan man asked a store clerk to pick out a scratch-off lottery ticket for him.

And the selection led to a $500 prize.

Nice.

55-year-old Kent County man told Michigan lottery officials

he was played by indecision during his visit to the Kent Minimart

on South Main Street in Kent City.

The man said that he initially thought he might have won a thousand

from the ticket, but ended up winning even more.

So he was asking the clerk, I buy instant tickets one or two times a month

but I don't usually play cash-word games.

The player said I was at the store and I had $10 in my pocket.

So I asked the clerk to give me a $10 ticket

and he handed me this lucky cash-word ticket.

And the guy said he thought he'd won a couple of bucks,

maybe a thousand bucks off it, but he didn't know he won that much.

Wow.

The winner said his prize money will go towards buying a new house,

a new truck, and going to local charities.

Awesome.

That's a pretty cool story.

There's a number of those out there that are pretty unique and interesting