Good morning, Wisconsin. Good morning, world. It's good to be back. Welcome back to the
morning show here at WFHR.
Got a good hour lined up for you, everybody. James here with you. Of course, our head of news
in our co-host Melissa K here as well. Good morning. We appreciate the company. Thanks for joining us all
you great listeners out there. Good things coming up for you. We'll get kick things off with some
entertainment. Then we're going to help you find a good vacation on a budget. Excellent. We're going
to help you in job interviews as well. These mistakes that we tend to make during them.
And before I wrap up today, we got to talk about this guy who was paying the wrong utility bill
for a long time. Oh no. Yeah, I didn't heard about this one. This is a weird one. Melissa,
I wasn't getting that. I saw the headline, but I didn't read it. All that coming up for you,
everybody. We're looking forward to diving into that. And of course, we've got a wonderful,
amazing contest going on around here that we want to get into and tell you more about
that's going to be a lot of fun as well. But I want to start off here. And I would say that one
of my favorite interviewers of all time is David Letterman. I always enjoyed his interviews.
I think he's one of the best divers saw it. And one of the things that I like about David Letterman
is if you watch his interview and you don't know anything about him, you don't know that he
prepared for this. Is he is he taking this seriously and all of that when I've talked to people
that have worked on his show with him that that ended up working on Conan show. And I've watched
a lot of documentaries and seen interviews with him over the years. And it's all about that's
all done to make the guest comfortable to to to you know, make people feel more relaxed and not
just make the guest comfortable with the listeners, the watchers comfortable. It's something that I
try to incorporate very much. And it's something the Carl and Pam did quite a bit on midday magazine.
So I've always enjoyed his work and and the kind of nuance of it without being nuanced. You know,
he's a Midwest guy. He's a Midwest guy. He's you know, doesn't put on airs or anything like that.
Just say here's David. Here's Paul Schaefer with the weird jacket, you know, and all that.
Well, now David Letterman would feel like one of those people, hey, if I could be interviewed by
anybody or I can hang out with somebody, he'll be David Letterman. That's unless you're in the
judicial system apparently. David Letterman showed up for jury duty in New York on New York City on
Monday. And it was a cryptocurrency case. He didn't get picked, but we did learn a little bit more
about him during questioning. So David was kind of on the other side of this thing. I for one
find it hilarious that he was not picked for jury duty. Well, how could he be? He couldn't be,
no way he could be, but there's no way. God, you know, if you got to be on jury duty, I mean,
to be an on jury duty with David Letterman doesn't seem so bad. It doesn't mean doing at least for
the jurors. So for instance, he still got jokes. The judge asked him where he lives and he said
Hartford in an unserious attempt to be let go asked what he does for a living and he said,
quote, currently working for a company called Netflix. Like nobody's ever heard of this place.
As for a spouse or significant other, he said, quote, I've had both. Currently, I have, I just
have the spouse asked what he likes to watch. He said sports, quote, I'm happy, I'm happy football is
here. I'm happy it's that this time in the baseball season, I like motor sports. I pretty much like
what most Americans watch on TV. Since he's from Indiana, the judge asked him if he's into the
Colts and he said, quote, big Colts fan, oh, and two, but still a fan. So basically the judge just
saw his opportunity to to hang out and talk to David Letterman. Like that's, that's all this is.
As for hobbies, he likes to fish, ski in the outdoors and asked if he had ever been called for
jury duty. He said, been called many times, just couldn't make it happen. Like it's a guest that
he's tried to get out or something like that. I don't know. I kind of like the idea. Now, listen,
we've talked about this before. You've been on jury duty before, haven't you? I've never been
asked. I've never even been on like a been in this position before. Yeah, I was, oh gosh, when was
it was in the early 2000s, I want to say, and I was, because when you're, when you're called,
you are on for a certain period of time. So you can be called to multiple trials during that. I
want to say it's a like a 30 day period or something like that. I don't remember. But I got picked,
I got picked for two trials and I was, um, had to sit on jury selection for three.
So it was a very interesting experience. Honestly, I would recommend everybody jokes about trying to
get out of jury duty. Everybody should do it. Everybody should experience it because it's, it's
eye opening into our judicial system and what, what happens inside of a courtroom? What people go
through, um, the, the, the people who have to, or who are on trial or defending or prosecuting,
I mean, it's fascinating. I, um, I, I do think that one of the things that, um, stands out about,
so I'll be honest with the audience. I've always wanted to do this. I might be the only American
that's ever felt this way or ever said this out loud. I've actually always wanted to do this. I,
I grew up in a law family and, um, and, and my grandfather was a intern for the Chicago 7. Um,
it was an attorney in Chicago for many, many years, decades. And my mom looked into doing this
and going to school for this and everything. And I, I just grew up really with, uh, on both sides of
this by the way, um, because my dad's side of the family, we had a little bit of a different egg
glot of law and judicial system and everything. But I've always, um, appreciated our system. I,
I, I also grew up in a family that, uh, was, was big supporters of amnesty and, and supporters of,
of the way that we are judicial systems around the world. And my grandfather never lost a chance
to tell me or show me how worse things could be. Yeah. Our system is not perfect. Our system
needs a lot of work being done to it. But man is our system a lot better than most of the world.
And, and to be a part of that, especially if you are on the side of what's asked of you, um,
because there is not a, uh, really when it comes right down to it, think of all the millions of
things that go on just in our community, let alone in our country. And then think of what's
asked of you, your taxes, voting, being on a jury duty, these, some of these things, not a lot,
not a lot is asked. Uh, not a, you get all this and all we're asking is these couple things.
Doesn't seem like a lot to me. I'm not, I'm not saying that's fact. I'm saying my thoughts on this.
I don't think there were, there was a lot asked of us. And I see a lot of people, you know, disparaging
of our judicial system and some for good reason, but a lot of people poke at it with, with very little
knowledge of what actually happens or what goes on. I'm, I'm often tempted and granted it's social
media. So I don't engage, but I'm often tempted to just ask, have you ever sat on a jury? Have
you ever been in a courtroom? Have you ever experienced what it's like to, to, to, to, to see the
judicial system in action? Yeah. Because I think that that opens your mind, your eyes. Same as
working at a fast food place does. Everything, everything I could, I, I'm so glad this came out.
Everything is about experience and about perspective and also understanding that you don't know
everything and having empathy. When it comes to, uh, when it comes to gun laws, I ask, I,
I'll ask people every time, how many times have you had a gun pointed at you? How many times have
you felt that experience that I sure have? How many, uh, as far as immigration, how many
immigrants have you talked to? How much of your own history in this country to you had no? How much,
you know, when did your, your people get here? Uh, these are questions. These are good questions.
These are good things to get to know each other more and understand more. Yes. Yes. There's no
conversation. Uh, to, to talk to each other. I think that's a big thing that we seem to be doing
less of when we, we should be doing more of. Mm-hmm. And I respect and think that the smartest
people, I know the smartest people I'll ever know don't think they know everything. Don't have all
the answers because they know that they don't. I get the less I realize I know. It's such a good
life. Donna Kelsey is busy. Mama Kelsey is busy. Uh, she's got a son that retired and uh,
it's kind of having fun doing, you know, ESPN stuff and everything got another son in the NFL,
you know, maybe in his last years, who knows? Got a, got a, got a interesting popular girlfriend.
A lot of going, a lot going on in the Kelsey family, but I don't know if anybody's busy or the
Mama Kelsey. Donna Kelsey is the latest family member to make her mark on the world of entertainment.
She is Camoing, uh, Camoing. Is that a Camoing? Camoing. Thank you. Camoing in two upcoming
hallmark movies, uh, that are naturally football themed. Of course. Um, and I, look, I'm not big on
all this stuff. And I don't really care about who's dating who and all those things. But if you're
telling me that their mom who raised, you know, I mean, just, uh, that she's enjoying this moment,
like good for her, good for her. I have no problem with any of that. I'm a little, I'm already a
little burnt out of the, the, the, the Kelsey's. I don't dislike them. I just, I, I think that there
is oversaturating the market. And even if it was Robin Williams, I would be saying, hey, hey,
easy, man. I, I don't need to see you in every commercial break. You know, uh, I think you,
that is, that is something that if you are, you have to look at yourself as a brand, whether
you like it or not. And if you have an agent that's smart, they're going to be like, I'm not
going to put you in all these ads. Uh, and we're going to oversaturate the market with you. If,
if every, every American, guess what? You're going to get this big lump of gold. Hey, yeah, we
got this big lump of gold. All the sudden, uh, gold sales go down. Like no, gold isn't worth
anything. Um, it's no different than that. If you oversaturate the market, it doesn't make a lot
of sense to me. But Donna Kelsey doesn't do that. Could we not do that with politics?
I know. Because we're about to oversaturate the market and not us, but them, you know,
you know, something Melissa, and this is just between you and I, um, I, I, I actually have been
talking to some people that are a lot smarter than me. Uh, I spent yesterday. I did rest a bit,
but I did also do a little homework. And I, I, you brought up something really interesting,
I thought then and something that's been going on in our country right now that I don't know
many of us have paid attention to or really thought, uh, we're so much going on. Because of the
change in, uh, and, uh, and who was running for the Democratic Party and how quickly that happened
and how quickly we kind of adjusted to that in society. A lot of people, especially political
pundits and people that are, you know, uh, in the know of these things are talking about, hey,
maybe we don't need two years of a political ramp up to the presidential election. Maybe we only
need about six months. Maybe tops. Yes. Like, like, there's a lot more conversation going on
about that. And would remove a lot of money from, from politics. We'll move a lot of money from
that. A lot of, a lot of, uh, the, the, the extension, the extension between us and separation
between us. It also, like, so many other things that money could be spent on. If you're a politician,
it's a lot less time for people to find those skeletons in your closet. It's a, it's a lot,
I mean, there is, uh, as far, no, that's not a good thing, of course, but that's good and bad
in that. But as far as like, how can we get politicians to care about this? Well, there you go. Now,
one of the issues is, of course, these packs and, and where that money comes from and stuff,
and we're a lot of, like, I don't think a lot of people realize who really runs, uh, certain things.
And there's no conspiracy theory here. Look at Wisconsin. Look at what the tavern leagues do here in
Wisconsin. The tavern leagues have more control than, than some politicians, than, than some boards
of government in this area. Don't, do you ever just sit there and wonder why are, are, why there's
so many DUIs? Why do you, why can you get away with, like, in this state, as opposed to others?
Why can you have, like, 20 DUIs and still have your license? Whereas in a state, you know,
just two states away, it's the exact opposite. Huh, I wonder, I wonder. Uh, it's, it doesn't take
a big digging. They're not hiding themselves here, or they're not doing a good job of hiding it at
least. Uh, it doesn't take a lot to look at where these things come from. And as far as, you know,
this political three years to build up to a presidential election or anything. And we're also sick of it.
Yes. One year in, we just want to, we want to disconnect, which is kind of what they want us to do.
Yes. In some ways. Um, but we need to, we need to get rid of citizens united. We need to get the
money out of politics. And we need to shorten the season. Come on. I, I'm, you know, I, I agree
with you about all the above. And I would love to see money out of politics. I don't know if that's
ever going to happen. So now I'm looking for them to have a salary cap. They want to treat politics
like sports, give them a salary cap, give them, like, they can only have this much. They can only
spend this much. Um, like, we should all want this. Every American should want this. Um, let's see
what you do with less money. Let's see what, let's see you actually do something with a blue color
paycheck. Let's see you do that. Let's see like our, our local representatives that are, are
un, literally on the ground and working though day job while also being a representative. I want
more of that. I want to see more of that and, and, and see more people like working class people
running for office. And not somebody that, you know, was born with a silver spoon in their mouth
and given millions of dollars when they turned 18 and all this. I'm so tired of these, um, people
that, and you know, what else to do to those politicians out there? Stop trying to act like you're
one of us. You know, but he's buying it. It's just so cringy and so lame. Quit trying to act like
you're one of us. Nobody is buying it. Um, not even your, your, your partners are, look at the,
like, the running mates and the partners with these people and everything. They're not even buying
them. Look at what's new on your, uh, small screen and your stage before wrap up the segment here.
The Golden Bachelorette is on ABC tonight at seven. I don't know what I just said. The 47th season of,
I thought it was, oh, yeah, there is a, there's a bachelor at the bachelor at the gold. Okay,
now, remember? Yeah. I forgot all about them doing this. I don't know. I don't watch these show.
So it's just the, the golden bachelor at, is that an older woman now? Yes. I believe so.
And it was an older man. I believe so. I don't, I don't, I don't know. I can't, uh,
I can't go too far that this one. It wrinkles my brain, but I, uh,
to each of their own, if you love it, enjoy everybody. Absolutely. The 47th season premiere of
Survivors on its seven on CBS. Wow. I can't believe that show is still going. I'm very surprised
by that. Yeah. And the series premiere of Agatha All Along on Disney Plus, the great Catherine
Han stars as Agatha, Audrey Plaza, Joe Locke. This is a Marvel series that is kicking off and a
lot of us are looking forward to. Like Agatha Christie? No, it's the character Agatha. She's a,
a witch and, uh, and it kind of ties into the scarlet witch stuff and everything. I would love if
it was, uh, Marvel doing Agatha Christie though. I would love that. I would watch that in a heartbeat.
I love that. You know, or my mind went, I like that. I like where your mind went. I like where
your mind went. And it's very similar to where the minds of our, our good friends over at SeaWatgo,
Central Wisconsin area community theater. Not only do they have, uh, Ronald Dolls and Matilda,
the musical coming up everybody, get your tickets for that. That is going to be an amazing show.
And that show is coming up October 25th. So got some time yet to get your tickets for that. What
I wanted to focus on real quick were two other things that they are doing. One, Disney karaoke,
yes. Saturday, September 21st, 7 to 10. This Saturday joined them for Disney karaoke over at the
shack at 2952 Minnesota Ave and Stevens Point. It's a lot of fun. I got to go last, I think it was
last month. I went with a friend and we had a blast. It was fun. And, uh, I encourage you to check
that out. That's a really fun idea to, uh, featuring, you know, Disney karaoke. I kind of like that
idea. And, and September final Friday, uh, the one with Steve Martin. Yeah, Steve Martin's hosting
this one. It'll be a blast. September 27th, 7 to 10 at, uh, 7 to 10 at the shack at 2952 Minnesota
Avenue in Stevens Point. I have been fortunate to work with some really good pros in my career,
some legendary actors. Steve Martin is one of them. Uh, Steve is one of the best performers in
this state, one of the best, uh, I've ever seen and have forgotten to work with. If he's doing
something, I don't care if he's sitting up there, just drinking wine and reading a phone book.
It's going to be entertaining, everybody. It's going to be entertaining. Uh, check this out and
check out more support those that support our communities like the Central Wisconsin Community
Theater. Uh, join them for all these different activities at cwack.org and find out more and
get your tickets at cwack.org. Take a time out, come back and have some more fun in the morning
show at WF HR. Welcome back, everybody. Morning show here at WF HR, locally grown radio.
Melissa and James hanging out with you. We hope you're having a fantastic Wednesday
out there. Thanks for hanging out with us. Uh, well, after our news break, we're going to get
into the best countries to visit if you're on a budget. Oh, good. But for right now,
how's those job interviews going, everybody? Well, let's see if we can help you a little bit
with that one. Uh, of all the career tips we've seen, this might have been the most, uh, bone
headed. Someone talked to the CEO of, uh, of a hiring platform whose interviewed thousands of
people in her career. And she's seen, seen a new trend recently. Her top advice for people
who want to land a job is Google what the company does before you show up. Yes, nowhere you're
applying to for the love of all that is plan. Now, I, I, I, we give a little grace to this that
there are so many companies out there and a lot of these companies, you know, they're, they're like
car ads. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, there, there used to be this thing in the late 80s, early 90s,
where there was these, a revolution almost of all these ads and you had no idea what they were
marketing. You know, it would be usually in black and white and there'd be some weird stuff
going on over here and over here. And then all of a sudden you find out, oh, it's a perfume. Oh,
it's a Elizabeth Taylor's diamonds. Okay. Oh, it's a car commercial. I had no idea what they,
they were selling like. So in the, in the defense, there is that, but there is also this wonderful
thing called a search engine where all you got to do is just hit a couple of keys to find out,
oh, this is what they do. Well, and there's also the fact that some people are putting out massive
amounts of, of resumes to two companies just trying to land a job. Yes. Yeah. I used to do that.
And that was over 10 years ago and I used to do that. I remember that researching what a company
does used to be advice. She only gave young people. But she says even a lot of folks interviewing
for senior level positions need to hear it now. Doing more research than that is even better.
But at least know the basics like what the company sells or the services they offer.
Seems pretty basic. I mean, of all the things that I just can't even imagine this. Imagine
somebody doing a job interview. Like, so I'm here to apply for this job. What do you do again?
Yeah. I imagine me and you are sitting down talking to somebody and we're talking to them and
asking me, well, would you have any radio experience? Rate what? Like, oh, is that what you guys do?
97.5. Well, now that makes sense. Okay. That makes sense now. Okay. I was curious. I thought
you were a meat packing factory. Oh, it turns out. And here's a less boneheaded tip that could be
useful too. She says if there's a specific company you want to work for, try reaching out to the
top boss directly on social media. She's hired lots of people who have done it because it shows
you're engaged and really want to work there, not just anywhere. I don't know about that one.
I know that this woman knows a million things more than I do. I don't know if I could do it. I
don't know if I just don't like, I don't know. I don't that doesn't feel like if you were, we've
been very, you know, open and he's been very open about who the owner of our company is Sage Wow.
You know, we'd have Sage on with us. We talked to him all the time. I kind of know for a fact this
doesn't necessarily work in some ways. I mean, I know this. I guess it depends on the person.
But I don't just what also what position you're trying to apply for. Yeah. Yeah.
We have talked a lot about the fact that many, especially big companies are screening
applications and applicants using AI. Yeah. And we've talked about how you need to
write your resume to get it past the AI screener to actually get it seen by a real person.
So, I mean, this would be another avenue. Yeah. Yeah. To talk to a real person.
Well, and I don't know if it would necessarily work out well, but I mean, you know, hey,
shoot your shot. You know, I guess, I mean, if that's they can say it do is ignore you. Yeah.
I, I, I, man, I guess to me, this would be the, I've okay, say I've applied, I've applied.
I'm still not hearing back. I'm still not hearing back. Okay, then I'm going to go ahead.
This wouldn't be my first action. Yeah. I wouldn't, it wouldn't be the first move to go ahead and go
right to the top of the company. Even if you do get the job, how are the people? Go ahead.
How are the people in between going to feel necessarily? You know, you're kind of taking the ball
out of their hand a little bit here. It, it sounds like the premise for a Hallmark movie.
It does. It does. It does. It does. Sorry to bring it back to. Oh, yeah, perfectly done. Yes.
Kind of does. I can't think of many industries where this would be great. Now, I'm also thinking of,
hey, I want to job in McDonald's. I'm going to go to talk to Ronald.
No, this is more of a local basis. You want to work in McDonald's, your local McDonald's,
maybe talking to the local manager, you know, something like that. That, that's a little bit different.
I think that that's for a bigger, bigger company. I mean, you're going to go through the
hiring, working, you know, the hiring manager. I mean, it's not just because we've always done it
this way. I mean, it's a pretty good system. It works fairly well, except for when, you know,
some of this, what you were just mentioning there with the AI and everything, I think that they're,
there is something to be said for, you know, that hand to hand on coordinate, you know, just
doing it yourself and looking at these job applications, no matter how many they are,
that's part of your job. Look through them. Yeah, it can be overwhelming. So I've experienced that.
One of the bigger tips, uh, anybody out there that is getting ready for a job interview,
that we can give you is, uh, know the job you're auditioning for. Oh, no, the job you're
interviewing for. You're applying for, yes. Know the company. Uh, I, I really feel like, I,
like, like, I would rather, I wish we had some better advice, but apparently this is really good
advice. I, it seems very common sense to me, but apparently a lot of people aren't doing this.
Okay. I kind of, I, I kind of want to see what these interviews now. I just, I just, I just,
it boggles my mind that you could, uh, you would interview for a job and not know what you're
interviewing for or what the company does. I, I can't even wrap my brain around that in some ways.
And I think part of that is because of where we live, James, you know, I mean, if we were in a,
a much bigger city, I think that that would be a little more obvious than because there's just,
there's so much more options for, for where to work. We, uh, we, uh, love taking care of our listeners
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Be you could you could text it in on each station too. Yeah, I bet you can. I can think that
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there. Thanks so much for hanging out with us. Want to get into this place as you can, the best
countries to visit if you're on a budget. But real quick, a big shout out to the soul of this station,
Pam Hilke. Pam was getting in on our Tupperware conversation earlier and shared some of hers with us.
These are awesome. I love it. It's a picture of all of her canisters holding her baking goods. So
flower, I'm sure, salt, sugar, et cetera, et cetera. They're in good condition. That's a good,
those are good. They're the bright orange. And I swear my mom has those exact ones.
Somewhere she has those same ones she's still using to. Those are great. Thank you, Pam.
Appreciate that. Feel free to join the conversation like Pam did at 715-424-2600.
Call up and join the conversation. Just a touch or two away on the civic media app.
That's great. So if you want to get literal with this, your best option to, you know, as far as
affordable places to go, affordable places to travel, studyfines.com, rank the best countries to visit
if you want to travel overseas on a budget. So if you want to get real literal with this, you could
actually be driving to Mexico or Canada as far as driving to places from this country. You know,
there's not a whole lot of that you can do. There's only two. Yeah, pretty much. But studyfines.com
looked at the best countries to visit if you want to travel internationally and not spend a lot.
And then here are their top six picks. Okay. Number one, and this isn't necessarily in a
particular order, Vietnam. Everything is cheap and the exchange rate is good. You can live large
on a little as $30 a day or very large on $60 a day. Wow. That's pretty affordable. It's a country
that's worked very hard and done quite a bit to try to get more economy and quite frankly and
yeah, more visitors than everything. And interesting and beautiful country too. You know, I've talked
to South Africa. The flight isn't cheap, but once you're there, everything else is. Yeah.
God, it's one of my life goals to visit Africa. To see where, I mean, where a lot of people
believe all of this started, you know, there's something about that. Just buying very unique and
beautiful. It's a beautiful country. It's a huge country. Portugal. It's your best bet if you want
to visit Western Europe on a budget. Okay. Hmm. I was curious. I was a little surprised to see
anything European on here to be honest with you because I've always heard that that is going to
be going to cost you. Yeah. Yeah. The exchange rate and some of those things are just. And the flights
are going to cost you. Yeah. And things are more expensive there. Now, if you, you know, go to
Portugal, our dollars. Right. Right. Now, what I, I'm only speaking on people that I've known
have had friends from over in that area or talked to people that have traveled in that area.
I do hear that it's very, hey, I get the Portugal. It's not that hard to get to other countries.
You know, from, it's just get to Europe. And from there, you can kind of branch out a little bit.
Well, their public transportation system is far, far, far more extensive than ours, which makes
sense they're much smaller than we are. But they've definitely invested in public transportation.
I love getting to, you know, almost once a week, if not every other week, I'm going, I'm traveling
to point and, you know, seeing my daughter or something like that. And I love doing that kind of,
the way that I hear a lot of Europeans talk about is like, yeah, I went to French, French yesterday.
You know, they're like, oh, we just went there. Yeah. Yeah. I just got in the train and went. Man,
it's not. It seems pretty cool to me. It seems pretty cool to be able to do that.
Yeah. Yeah. And, you know, we weren't trying. We're talking about it. We're working on it.
Having rail systems that can take us from Minneapolis to, to Milwaukee or to Green Bay or, you know,
like across the state and into the other big cities around us. It's, it's pretty cool.
Well, this is, this is where, this is where it's been so great to see the rise of interest,
no pun intended of infrastructure in our communities. Not just around America, but in our communities,
because if we have to get that right before we can really get transportation down. And, and once we
have to invest in infrastructure. Yeah. Yeah. I understand that it's not the sexiest thing in the
world, but man, does it feel good to drive on new roads? Does it feel good? Oh, hate road
construction. But when the roads are done, man, it is nice. It's pretty nice to be able to go over
a bridge and not worry and not hold your breath. You know, these things are kind of cool. I don't know,
maybe I'm on an island here, but I think these things are pretty cool to have. And I encourage more,
like not only of this, but of supporting of infrastructure, because the better our infrastructure,
the better we can focus on, hey, you know what, we need more better transportation.
Maybe Amtrak should be coming through here. Maybe we need a bus line. Maybe we need more cabs.
Whatever the case may be, doing the homework to find that out. And we can't do it if we don't
go on good roads. Yeah. Let's see, Argentina comes up next on the list. Their inflation is out of
control, which sucks if you live there, but it's good for people who want to visit.
Which I mean, to be fair, visiting there and spending your money will help them eventually.
But yeah, rough to be going through that right now for them.
And, and you know, this is something I'm actually kind of glad this came up a little bit.
I don't know if people realize, but there's a lot of right now, the low hanging fruit of inflation.
Oh, inflation. And who's the blame for this and everything? You realize, even if they wanted to
take credit for it, the Democratic or Republican party cannot take credit for inflation. No,
like the world credit or blame, absolutely pun intended. This is something the world does.
This is something all of our global economies do. Like, just take a, just take a couple of steps into
an, you know, into learning about what economy is before you start running your mouth about
inflation, this inflation that, oh, my bread's higher than it's ever been. Why is it? It's not a
political party's fault. Even if they wanted to take the credit for it, they can't. There's a lot
of factors. It's a lot of factors. Even if one person wanted to come out and say that, you know,
what? You can blame me. Like, no, no, that's not how this works. You don't get to do that. Like,
it's ridiculous. Argentina, it was raising their hand right now. You guys think you have inflation.
Look at what we got, like, you know, Indonesia. It's got over 17,000 islands to choose from,
and you can have a great time on around 60 bucks a day. Wow. That is a place I would love to visit.
It does seem beautiful. Yeah, it does seem really cool. And Costa Rica wraps up this list.
It's the most expensive one on the list at 116 a day, but it's a good choice if you want to
explore Central America on a budget. Similar to that not the same as Europe, but a little bit similar
in South America and parts of Central America, you can travel to other countries pretty easily
someone. Not the same as Europe, but it's a little bit like that. And your price per day will
maybe go up. But, yeah. I, you know, I, we've talked a lot about travel, you know, especially
you and I, Melissa, I've talked a lot about this. But this is, this is one of those different,
like, this changes a little bit where it's on a budget. But it's all, it doesn't really change
it that much because that's most of us. We, most of us have already been looking at it this way.
Mm-hmm. Like, okay, I would love to, I would love to travel to Ireland.
But the price is, is out of my reach. It's just not possible.
Well, and for a lot of people that I know when it comes to them traveling to another place,
that one of the first things they mentioned, I'm going to stay with a friend or I'm going,
I've got an uncle over there or I've got a relative there. So you, at least one part of the trip,
you don't have to worry about whether it's room and board or it's how you're going to get around
or something like that. That's the only reason I was able to go to Hawaii, because I have a
short-tailed cousin that lives there. And, and I cat-set for her while she was, while she was traveling.
So that's the only way I was able to go. If I take a vacation now, it's, I'm going to go to
Minnesota to visit my brother because I have a place to stay. Right. I'm, I'm a hundred percent
with you on this. That's a lot of how I've traveled in my life. And, and a lot of the only way I've
been able to travel in my life. And, I, I imagine we're not alone on that one. So that kind of
changes things. It even narrows things down even more for you. But, at least you know what to pack.
You know, well, at least we got that down. It's not a hard, but not too tough. And, and hopefully,
you won't forget too much, because you will forget something. Everybody does. And it's traveling.
And it's just sitting there on your counter, just waiting for you when you get back. Your cell phone
charger. Yes, it's always the charger. It's always what you will forget. You'll, you'll
either forget it at home or you'll forget it wherever it was you stayed. Curse you cell phone
charger. Yes. We will take a time out. We'll come back and have some more fun. It's morning
show. Melissa and James right here in 97 5 FM 13 20 AM W F H R. Welcome back everybody. Morning
show here at W F H R. Locally grown radio. Melissa and James going to take it to the top of the hour.
We hope you're having a great Wednesday out there. Thanks for joining us. Everybody. Man,
it feels good to be back in the chair. It's been good to have you back with all of you hanging
out with you. Mel and everything. It's been fun. That's good to have you back James.
Thank you. And we got a good any right story to get to right now. It's a little bit more.
This one is not as obvious as who is the at that at wrong in this one though. Imagine how frustrated
you be if the power company sent you someone else's bill one month. Now imagine if they sent you
someone else's bill for 18 years. Whoa. Yeah. Yeah. A man in California named Ken Wilson lives
into the apartment complex and he recently discovered that he's been charged for a neighbor's usage
and it's incredible that he's he even figured it out. He's kept a careful eye on his electric
use and had even brought a device to tell him how many watts his appliances give off so he can track
the daily energy consumption down to the exact number. Ken was trying to keep his costs down but
cutting back didn't seem to be changing his bill. He would go out look at his meter and nothing
seemed to be matching up. He called the utility company PG and E and they sent out a worker who
confirmed there was a problem. His apartment was linked to the wrong meter. So he was paying
someone else's bill and they were apparently paying his. Oh wow. Ken lives alone so he believes his
bill should be lower than any other unit. The company apologized for the air and said that they
regret any inconvenience. They said his correct usage will be reflected on his next bill.
He. It's unclear how or if they plan on compensating him for all those years of paying the wrong bill.
Well yeah and if he's got to take it to court then then he'll be paying costs for a lawyer and
court fees and will he come out on top in the end? That's debatable. I don't like to make assumptions
in life. We all know what that makes us but I'm assuming this company is going to do they're not
going to do the right thing here and they are not going to they're not going to be necessarily
forthcoming or help them out with this. They might give him a sticker. You know, hey,
he's a sticker. I mean you you want to definitely like you said hope for the best
because that's a pretty that's a pretty big mistake. I have heard of it happening you know
when I've experienced it happening in small or like when a when a landlord turns a full house
into two apartments. Yeah, be careful about how you split the electric and and have two meters
and all of that. Make sure everything's hooked upright. So that can be an issue but usually it's
figured out before 18 years go by. Right and and you know where's the accountability? Like where
where whether it's this company? Yeah, whether it's this company or it's any other electric
or water company or anything like that in any community. Who do they answer to? Who watches the
watchman? Who who keeps an eye on them and when they do mess up? Like who holds them accountable?
What? Because because this this is something that could have happened to any one of us. Like this
could easily happen to anybody. Anybody out there listening. You could be in this situation and
that that makes you know I I never am comfortable when there is something that's just kind of there
and okay, well who's who's keeping an eye on that? Oh, we we don't have anybody doing that drop
like that don't feel right to me. That that seems like a that any right story in itself. I don't
think Ken or even this company necessarily is too to blame when it comes to well who are they
answering to? Everybody needs everybody should be have some accountability and this company doesn't
have any. Well, and you would hope that that you know they apologized and they said it'll be
reflected on his next bill. If he went back to them and said okay, but what about the last 18
years? Can we talk about that? Because yeah, we all know that one person living alone in a home
is going to use less electricity than even if there's two. And now if there's three four or five,
the electricity usage goes up. So if he lived alone in that apartment, I mean I would hope that
the company would do the right thing. Yeah, yeah. Because companies are made up of people
and and people can choose to do the right thing. Please choose to do the right thing. Once again,
if you're not going to do it for the right reasons, do it for the PR, you're going to get some great PR
about that. You know, I mean, when we can't reach what electric company couldn't use some good
PR right? Yeah, yeah. If there's one thing I've learned quite a bit the older I get, if you can't
reach somebody's heart, you can reach their wallet. And the PR you the money that you will get off
of this as far as the PR investment alone is worth doing it, I would think. Yeah, don't spend the
money on marketing, spend it on anything like this. Yeah, yeah. And well, I'm going to follow that
story though. I do want to see the follow-up to that story. We say a big shout out to our great
friends at QualityPost Printing Phil Hartley and the gang joining us like they do every Wednesday
where the wicked awesome word of Wednesday. That's right. It was a good word today. Do you remember it?
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Visit our friends at QualityPost Printing 3515 A Street South in Wisconsin Rapids and follow
them on Facebook. Yeah. And of course our lineup today is pretty darn good as well. We got a great
one lined up for you for Midday Magazine. Join us from 4 to 5 today for brand new shows. We will
have in part one Wisconsin Rapids Mayor Matt Zach are joining us. Nice. Along with Wisconsin
Rapids Community Media. Always a good conversation with Matt looking forward to that one a little bit
later. And in part two we're going to talk to Christy from the Hannah Center. We're going to talk a
little bit about their motorcycle rally coming up in Community Fundraiser for the Hannah Center. Look
forward to that. We appreciate our friends over at the Hannah Center. And of course a little bit
later today we got playmakers for you. Hey. We can join us for playmakers from 5 to 6.
Brought to you by QualityPost Printing and your words out here in Wisconsin Rapids.
Not only will we have a fourth period for you where we're going to have GM and head coach
Paul Peck and joining us. Joining us a little bit later. I'll learn to talk before then.
But we're also going to be talking about some breaking news that just broke a couple of minutes
ago. ESPN NBA insider Adrian Wojnyowski is retired from the network and agreed to become the GM
of St. Bonasville men's basketball team. While this is just gibberish to you Melissa. I imagine
this is a big news for those in the basketball world. This is the guy that everybody that knows
everything. Like if he's break, he's the guy that breaks all the news and now he's gone. So it's
going to be interesting. We'll be talking about that. We're going to replace him with. Yeah. I'm
looking at that job. I might maybe me. Maybe I'll take it. No. Well do your research first day.
Exactly. Exactly. Yes. And just call the head guy. Just call him out. Just going to reach out
to you. Yeah. Yeah. I'm going to go reach out to David Sturk. That's what I'll do. Meals with love
is going on today at the seven day Advent Church at 6 11 24 Street North in Wisconsin.
Rabbits hot meals to be served at 4 30 and 5 30 doors will open at 4 15. This is a free community meal.
Meals with love is served with the side of love. Go ahead and head on over there and please
spread the word about this if you know somebody that could use one of these meals. Our community
is is is reaching out. Meet them halfway. Meals with love seven day Advent Church at 6 11 24
Street North in Wisconsin. Rabbits again hot meals we served at 4 30 and 5 30 doors will open at 4 15
and I send a gigantic thank you to all the people working on that one. Good work everybody.
I appreciate churches that put out community meals. I think they should all do it. It's pretty cool.
And it's so thank you seven. They haven't just church. Yeah. And speaking of people that put
back into the community, we say a big big big thank you to our friends at Wisconsin Rapids Elks Lodge
because it is a Wednesday. We know what that means. Bingo. Bingo. Bingo at the Wisconsin Bingo.
Bingo at the Wisconsin Rapids Elks Lodge at number 693. Join them as they open their doors at 5
getting Bingo kicks off at 6 30 4 30 West Jackson Street right here in Wisconsin Rapids.
Join them for Bingo support those that support us. Our good friends at the Elks Lodge. Yeah.
We're going to be talking with the gang at the Hanna Center a little bit. They've got a great
thing going on to next Thursday at the 26th. They got this motorcycle rally and community fundraiser.
Oh cool. That is going to be a lot of fun. That'll be taking place with the motorcycle rally and
community fundraiser will be taking place at our house assisted living at 2941 16th Street South
in Wisconsin Rapids. Next Thursday from 11 to 2 we're going to talk with them about that.
That's going to be a lot of fun. I'm looking forward to that and just want to look at some
world good stories real quick like a ninth grader in Rhode Island named Emilio Santana.
Just got his first haircut in six years. Wow. He saw a little girl at the beach who was bald
and an inspired him to donate his hair. He'd been growing it out since he third grade.
It went to a charity called Hair We Share that makes wigs for sick children at no charge.
Oh wow. And that website again is Hair We Share. I've done something similar to this years and
years ago and it was one of the best feelings I've ever had getting a haircut. Probably the best
feeling I've ever had getting a haircut. I know there I have some friends whose hair grows
ridiculously fast and they will they donate they grow it out they get it chopped off and donated
and they do that repeatedly and it's just it's so awesome for people that can do that.
Yeah. Encourage you to learn more about that if you can and find out and be a part of that
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Not that I could win. I can't win. No but I do it is noted that that's how we get you to a game.
That is how we get you to do a game. A great show to not only today but a yesterday as well
Melissa again a big thank you to you. We're glad to have you back James. We'll talk to later.
You have yourself a great day. You too. Have a good day out there everybody be good to each other.
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