Good morning, Wisconsin. Good morning, world. It's a new day. Thanks for kicking it off
with us right here at WFH.
We hope you're having a great Wednesday out there. Thanks so much for joining us.
Terry and James hanging out with you. We got good things lined up for you in this hour.
We're going to be having some fun talking about the top person we refuse to tip.
That is going to be an interesting one. I want to get into that.
One in seven people sleep in whenever they whatever they wore the other day.
That is an interesting stat. I didn't know about that one. I don't know about that.
We have that one coming up for you. A couple other great ones coming up as well.
We'll be getting into. But I want to kick off our entertainment section here on a
melancholy note as we say goodbye to a great John Amos passed away August 21st.
Although his death was just announced yesterday. He was 84.
May not know the name, but you know his work. John Amos was known as James Evans on the
76 calm good times. He was the father on there. One of the first TV dads, I remember.
Also played Kuta Kintane roots. The older Kuta Kintane. There's many serious roots. He was
Cleo McDowell and coming to America. The dad of the woman. The sitcom you referred to. I don't
think I've ever heard of that. Oh good times. That's a great show. He was Gordy Howard on
Mary Tyler Morsha. He was also the voice of Oki Boogie in the Nightmare Before Christmas.
Just an incredible actor with an amazing career. You look up John Amos's IMDB page and look at
the credits and the work he did. He worked consistently for multiple decades. Just an incredible
performer, incredible actor. With the news of his passing, the thing that I think can be often
helpful to a lot of people is when you hear other people coming out and saying, hey, I really
miss this person. Oh, I'm still seeing great things about Chris Christofferson and the stuff that's
coming out about him and some of the cool stories that we didn't hear that we're hearing now and
everything. We all kind of mourn together in this regard. We're all on the same level on this
regard. It's been really cool to see like Danny Elfman and a bunch of people coming out and
just talking about their interactions with him over the years and just a wonderful human being
as well. People just loved working with him and really incredible, impactful performer will be
missed. Great actor. I wanted to get into this story too with you Terry because I don't, you know,
when it comes to promoting your music or your movie or anything, we pretty much have seen it all
or have we because I don't know how to do this one. James Blunt is making a promise to his fans
that if they can bring his 2024 album back to Bedlam back to the top of the UK charts,
then he'll be he's re-releasing it on the eleventh for its 20th anniversary and he says, quote,
I have signed up to to changing my name to whatever the public wants they can change my name.
I swear on my life and the life of my own my one my one fan, Brian from Glasgow, that I will
change my name. Should I this album hit number one? That is weird. Of course, the public are going
to be kind. They're not going to do anything that rhymes with Blunt. Are they? Did he just
had fun with this one like Bluntie McBlunt face or you know, like the public as name before and
everything. It's a long shot of this happening, which would be fair. So what he's risking is not
too big of a risk, but at the same time. But you know, famous last words, right? Like as soon as you
say that. No, he's got a fine first name. He's got. I'm kidding. But I
is James Blunt his real name. That's what I wanted to look up. Because if that's if that's his real
name, I mean, if it's not his real name, well, then you know, what's the harm here? He's already
changed to once. So I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I just think it sounds like a lot of
work. Oh, it is his name. James Hillier Blunt is his real official name. So any is an English singer.
I didn't know he was an English singer. Yeah, I gotta be honest. I don't know. I know very little of
his music. It's not really my thing that the kind of shoeless beach stuff. I don't know. I don't
know. I think that's really strange. But I mean, I guess if if you put it out there and people
are willing to make it happen, then you better put your money where your mouth is, I guess.
You're definitely going to have to do it. That's for sure. If it comes to that, take the money
and fade off into the sunset. You know, there's that too. There's that too. You know, and I mean,
I don't know. To me, it's low-risk, low-risk high reward. It could be. It could be. If it does
well, say it doesn't hit number one, but it gets way up on the charts. It sells a bunch of
records and, you know, and what happens if he gets like three and then he's starting to panic?
His mom's whacking him over the head. You know, like, I mean, oh my gosh. Yeah, that's the thing too.
I wouldn't want to upset my parents. That's that's a whole thing for me with this. Like for me,
if I were to change, if I were to do something like this, I couldn't do the first thing. I
couldn't change the first thing. It's an interesting tactic, but yeah. Am I jam?
And we go to Kate Winsett and Titanic. Now, Kate Winsett, I think, is one of the better
actors I've ever seen. I think she's an incredible, wonderful actor and has an incredible career,
including like Oscar winning and other notable, you know, things that she's done in her career. But
Ben, she just keeps coming back to this role and keeps getting asked about it. And I give her so
much credit. She just smiles and always enjoys it. She loves it. People love the movie and
love the performance and everything. She is, by the way, the, if you ever get a chance to see
Kenneth Bragnol's Hamlet, it is the version of Hamlet to watch. It is, if you're going to watch
Hamlet, that's the version. She is, she plays Ophelia in it, one of the more iconic Shakespearean
characters and nails it. I have never been able to see that character as anybody else other than her.
I'm really like her too. She's so much such an actor. Even the circle backs on Titanic and of
course I'm biased because I love that movie. But, but I mean, but I just love another thing about
her is that she is proud of her work. She loves her work. She doesn't care that it was, you know,
30 years ago. She, you know what I'm saying? Like she's just, yeah, we'll talk about it. That's
what you want to talk about. That's what we'll talk about. I know exactly what you're, you're
hitting on there too, Terry, when it comes to actors, especially because they're always being told,
promote your new work, promote your new stuff, promote your new stuff. And I never see that from her,
where she's like, you know, do you know how you get like that vibe? Like get over it. Let's talk
about something else. And I never see that from her. Very, and a humble actor too. One of these
people too, where again, just like I was saying with John Amos, there's a reason why you see certain
actors work consistently. And yes, they can be talented, but talent only gets you so far.
Ask Russell Crowe about that. Find out, look into why Russell, why don't you have Kevin
Koster and more movies? Like there's a reason, everybody. And I bring this up not to get you to
dislike these actors or anything. Watch whoever you want. Don't listen to me. Entertainment is for
everybody. But I do, I do think that being a good person goes a lot farther than we realize in life.
And there is this idea of whether there's like this separation between us and celebrities or
something. There is no separation. There's a difference in bank accounts oftentimes and stuff.
But as far as human beings go, they're human beings. And they're just people that aren't
having an opportunity to make a living at what they love to do. Kate Winslet is one of those people.
She was going on. She was talking about the role of what happened on the Titanic and everything.
As far as her being on the. That is saying. So Kate Winslet is finally ready to burst your bubble
about the famous door scene in the end of Titanic, about 27 years later. She says the scene was
shot in a waste high infinity, infinity tank. And that lean out of the caprio was actually kneeling
down. The tank also recirculated water. So there was a constant sound of water rushing, which caused
minor audio issues. The cast had to re record their lines after filming was complete. This happens
a lot in movies. The. Kate says quote, the last 22 minutes of the movie are entirely looped
everything. I promise you, because you could hear this water noise the whole time. I shouldn't be
saying any of these things. James Cameron is going to be ringing me like, why are you telling them
that? But this is part of who she is. She's a very down to earth person and everything. And I imagine
after after 27 years, spoiler alert, you know, they weren't really at the sea.
Wow. Yeah. And like they were not filming this in the ocean. And that's actually encouraging
kind of to me to hear because one of the reasons that I have not been a big like James Cameron is a
good director, a very good director. And you know, he's got plenty of notoriety to go ahead and
prove that. But there's a reason why Kate wins that ain't working with him again. Why a lot of
people don't work with this guy again, because he pushes, he what he does to his actors is not
necessary. It goes, it goes above and beyond. And he doesn't, he doesn't go through any of these
things. He's not going through this stuff with his fellow with the actors or anything or the crew
or anything like that. It's just them that has to go through it. And that's not leadership. That's
not what a good coach does. And that's what a good, a good director is oftentimes they are a good
coach. There's a big similarity between the two. Martin Scorsese gets that. Good directors get
that. James Cameron has never gotten that. And to the note of this, what he put the cast through
that movie is insane to hear that it was this which is rough, but still not nearly as bad as being
in zero degree water for like five hours in a row so that we can get that perfectly white
hue and you Kate. And these things that they put like she's got frostbite from that movie.
Like that ain't right, man. Like there's acting and then there's like, wait a minute. Like, okay,
what a there's method acting and then just taking it way too far. James Cameron has done that way
too many times. I love that she still talks about this movie in light where she had some really
rough times from that movie. She had to take some time off of acting after that movie. She talks
about it. Just loves it. Just loves it. People love the movie. And kind of kind of a little behind
his curtain look at it there. That's kind of neat. I thought that was kind of cool. And the movie
still holds up. What was it? A year or two ago was re-released. Was that 25th? Yeah. So like three
years ago, I think and killed it in the box office did amazing in the box office. I went back.
Now, did you was was did it look different at all with some of the modern kind of like, well,
I think it hasn't changed that much in 27 years. You know, I think they just did a little bit of,
you know, whatever, what would that be? Something digitizing it or, you know, that kind of thing.
So yes, but I mean, here's what was different. Like I went up to Cedar Creek and was in the,
you know, the lounge chair, like the recliner chair. So I mean, so it was different, of course,
because the theater experience is different. But, you know, I don't know. I guess yes,
it's different than my VHS copy, but you get it. But no, you know, no change to the movie.
So you get a chance everybody to see any movie in a theater like that. Oh, take it.
Take a nap first. You don't fall asleep. Right? You know, like you can bring like a throw blanket in
with you. You know, you get all snuggled in. It's like, dang, you're, you know, what a fall asleep.
Make sure to take a nap before you get to go, you go see Wisconsin Rapids Community
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Terry now will be back with some fun on the morning show at WFHR.
Oh, the Brian sisters playing us in here on 975 FM 1320 AM WFHR's morning show. Terry and James
hanging out with you about the harmonies of those older bands. I can't get enough of love at
nice jobs. That's a nice job putting that in there. Terry and I get into an interesting one here.
According to the Associated Press, Hurricane Helena, Helena, and it's accompanying storms dumped
a whopping 40 trillion gallons of rain on the US over the past week. Isn't that? It's kind of
incomprehensible. That is enough to completely fill Lake Tahoe. That's like basically had Lake Tahoe
dropped on us over the last week. That's insane. Fill more than 60 million Olympic-sized swimming pools
just to kind of try to size this up in our heads. It's also the equivalent of roughly 619 days of
constant water flow over Niagara Falls. That's that's just amazing. Think about that. Yeah,
almost two years worth of water. Wow. Meteorologist Ryan Mews, a former NOAA chief scientist,
was one of the who calculated the amount of rain. The 40 trillion gallons total was the
for the Eastern United States. The 20 trillion of that hitting just five states Georgia,
Tennessee, and the Carolinas, and Florida. A man named Ed Clark is the head of the National
Water Center in Alabama. And he thinks that the 40 trillion number might even be conservative,
might even be more than that. Also, the calculation was only for rain that fell through Sunday.
And 1.2 trillion more gallons of rain may have fallen since then, particularly in Virginia.
I was seeing some news reports like last night of, you know, homes being swept away and just a lot of
tragedy, of course, you know, and hardship that have accompanied all of that rain.
It's, I think these things are important to talk about in major part to not only create some
empathy and to hopefully remind people that you can help. There are ways that you can help
these people in the individuals. I know I've heard over the last week of a number of individuals
here in Central Wisconsin traveling over to the Carolinas or to Georgia to help out any way they
can. It's a reminder that one, you know, these, that these people need help and that when these
things happen, nobody help strangers helping strangers. Yeah. I believe very strongly in silver
linings in life. And while we can't change the past, but what could we do about today? What could we
do going forward? And finding the silver linings in life is key to life having perspective.
And the, when we see these things happen, our hearts go out to these people and the very next thing
we see is strangers coming out of nowhere and hey, how can I help? What can I do? We're used to
that in this community, but not every community is like that in our area and stuff. So I think that
this is noteworthy. It's pretty cool to see so many individuals coming out, look into the ways
you can help. And it's a reminder again, too, of the man. Nobody's beaten on the nature.
It's just a wild thing. You see some of the videos of this too. Yeah. It's heartbreaking to see
what's going on. And it's, and it's somewhat like it's just unbelievable. You know what I mean,
like you watch it and you're, and you just, it's incomprehensible. And we're just watching it.
You know, like we're not living it. So yeah, it's tough.
So tipping is one of the bigger top game points going on right now. You know, wind a tip,
who to tip, how much to tip, all these things. It's never been talked about more. I don't think
in our lifetimes and the way we talk about tipping. But you know, they're not even talking about,
I mean, what's been surfacing lately? Isn't even talking about tipping. It's talking about if
there's sales tax on tipping, which is just stupid. That that part is, yes. That part is, yeah,
ridiculous. But a new poll looked at the top people we refuse to tip, even if a credit card
machine asks us to. And the number one person on that list is our mechanic. Most Americans wouldn't
tip a mechanic because they've seen, they're seen as professionals who already make a good wage
and charge, you know, with, with the cost and cost of services and the cost equaling out to most
people. And the other industries that we don't tend to tip, concession stand workers at sporting
events, fast food workers, and any restaurant worker when they're, when you're picking the food
up yourself, 51% of people say on that one. On the flip side, the top people, we always tip our
food delivery drivers, Uber drivers, instant car choppers, and bartenders. So we are those
consistent people we are still tipping. And there are some industries where we have never really
tipped that I think people are kind of sticking to the standard of. Then there are some industries
that used to see tipping that are not seeing as much of it and seeing that go down a little bit.
Well, but okay, so remember when, and I'm not saying this doesn't still have, excuse me,
happened, but remember when like there was a wage adjustment for those who would be tipped. So
like a waitress or a waiter would have a lower wage because their tips were part of, you know,
what I'm saying? So, so I don't know that you can say that every single person in a service-related
industry. So like when you brought up the mechanic, that would just honestly not even be on my radar.
Yeah. Yeah. Like because you're paying, you know, you're paying them to do, they're being paid by
the garage or whoever is employing them, you know, to do for that job. I don't think, I mean,
maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think if I'm trained, I'm a trained diesel mechanic and I get hired
somewhere that I think I'm going to be working for tips. Yeah. Yeah. I just don't, you don't like to
be that, so I agree with that that that that's not, I mean, it wouldn't be on my radar. Same here.
I just saw my mechanic yesterday and shout out to Charlie, great guy. I would never come up
and never, he's an older gentleman and I imagined if I tried to sleep him a $10 bill or something
like that, he might have actually felt insulted, maybe. I may be like, what are you doing? You don't
tip me. You don't feel bad. One thing that I have noticed though, probably in the last maybe
year or two years is I do get a little annoyed is because every place that you use your card,
because I just use my debit card, I'm just not a great cash carrier. But every single place,
I feel like that I use that card, it asks for a tip. Yeah. Yeah. And I think it's because it's more
to me, it's more about technology capability and capacity, right? So when you're setting up that
credit card machine, you can just set up, oh, tip option, right? But so if I walk in and I take
the back, not every single place, not the grocery store, a lot of places, but any. Yeah. But I
also feel like, okay, so I walk into a local place and I'm literally just asked, I want to buy a gift
card. What do you want? I buy a $50 gift card and then they want you to give them a tip. I'm like,
you'll, you'll get the tip when the card gets you. You know, like I just, I don't know, to me, it just
doesn't, maybe I'm just a little bit more traditional in my thoughts around that. I think that this
all comes down to minimum weight. And I'm paying people a livable wage. I'm a great tipper. And I
think that tipping is important. But I just, but I also feel like every place, you know, it's kind of
like where you pick up your own food. People are like, I don't, why do I need a tip? I'm walking up
to the counter to get the food. I don't know that it's, that it's changed that much as far as the
people that you've always tipped since we were kids. You're still tipping. I think it's technology.
Yeah. Let's take a phone call. Good morning around the show. What's on your mind?
Uh, tipping. Yeah. So me as a single female, I took my furnace man because I want to make sure
that things work in right there in the winter. That's smart. Yeah. Yeah. That's very smart. I do tip my
mechanic. And he tips doesn't always have to be monetary. I take the guys down bakery. I, you know,
buy a lunch. Yeah. Yeah. That's awesome. A lot of these guys have never had that. Never.
I don't know how many times I, I flipped a 10 to the guy and say, buy lunch. Yeah. And they'll say,
I've never had that in my 20 years. That's really cool. I think that's incredibly sweet.
I think that's incredibly kind. And it goes a lot farther than I, I can imagine we even understand,
you know, like the only they know how much that really means. And now imagine it means a lot.
I think that's really cool of you. And it's just going on the extra way of saying thank you.
Yeah. Yeah. Especially when it comes to those industries because when it comes like what I do
like about this as far as bringing attention to it is when it comes to like a mechanic that this
is there is a set as standard kind of pay for something and then there isn't as far as the amount
of hours that are work and stuff. And most good mechanics, if you've got a good mechanic, you
hang on to them like a hairstylist like you like, yeah, you were not letting go of that person.
And it's a great idea to appreciate that. But with your man.
Right. Yeah. It's tough. But when I got a problem and I can go down to my corner shop and
get a look that way, at least tell me whether I can still drive it or not.
I think what I think that means a lot. I think what you're talking, in fact, I feel what you're
talking about because I know that it's something my parents instilled in me and my brother and sister
as well. It doesn't always involve dollars and cents to let people know you appreciate them.
You can get there are things you can do even that don't necessarily a corner quote tip,
but it is like a tip. It is it is sort of like that.
Yes. It's like I said, you know, take them down rolls when you take a car down.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's awesome. You know, drop them off the cookies or fake goods. Yeah.
That's awesome. It's really good points. Appreciate you. Thank you so much for calling in
and listening. Hey, take care. Have a good day. You too. You too. Great. Best listeners
radio. Appreciate that. I think that's a really good point to bring up on this one.
And it goes so much farther. I've never gotten a tip in radio or anything,
but man, if I've been spoiled in this job, a big shout out to Diane. I was going to say,
I think there's cookies in the breaker right now. Exactly. Exactly. We get tipped all the time
around here. We get tons of like, wait, if I never received another thing in radio, I'd be good
because I've got I've been spoiled and humbled by every one of you out there in many different ways.
So really do appreciate that. I think it goes a lot farther than we realize. Like I've said,
let's take one more call. Good morning. You're on the air. All right. I got it. I got it.
I got a chime in here. Oh, do you get tipped? Well, actually, you know, Christmas time, we do.
I mean, you get the little gifts, you know, people are always, you know, I remember one of my
one of my first old stops that if I did it just right, I would get some fresh,
big cookies. He would always have, you know, holiday time. She's always cook cooking book cookies and
or sometimes I got there and they were like fresh out of the oven or nights and warm,
chocolate, chocolate, we go eat. Oh, it's like, you know, yeah, yeah. Kevin, you better bake some
cookies if you get on the day. I'm getting the hungry. Yeah. But, you know, you know, you're
saying about like, say, if I order a to go order from a local establishment, some of those
establishments now. Basically, if if they if they do tip their clock, the clocks.
So I, you know, they, you know, if I say if you sit down at that restaurant, portions of the
the waitresses or the waiter's tips, they had the the business owners encourage them to
give some to the cook too, because if it wasn't for the cooks making the good food,
chances are you're not going to get a good tip, right? Yeah. So if I do that to go order,
I always throw five bucks into that, because I know both sides going to try to end up going
at a clock, because obviously the first time I took that to go order, yeah, they're not going to
cut it. It's going to go at a clock. And I think it was going to go to the person that was there
when you picked it up. It's a question. No, I mean, I do that. Like, there's a, you know,
place close to home for us and we'll order food and not yes. And I will tip when I pick up.
I think maybe the article was thinking more like when you are someone you have to walk up to
the counter. You know what I mean? Like order at the counter like that way. But I, I agree with
you. I mean, I think, I think tipping is very important. And isn't this one of those things too,
where you, you know, when you feel it, like, you know, you know, your gut is telling you,
I should tip here or, oh, I don't need to tip here or something. I think some of us, at least,
that, that feels pretty evident in these situations too. And it, some of it is also looking
out for each other or supporting a local business maybe. You know, you, you like this business,
this business treats you good. So you want to make sure that they stay in business and, you know,
tipping or whatever and making sure they have good people. I think that we don't,
this is one thing that I think that the really muck this all up and the machines that you were
talking about before Terry, because I think 90 some percent, and I'm, I'm going way high here,
but I think the 90 percent of individuals know when to tip and do tend to tip when they should.
The fact of being told to immediately changes it for some people and immediately, like, where they
were going to tip and all of a sudden, it's like, well, when man, I don't tell me what to do or,
you know, it's, it's one of these things that we do in society all the time. And the way we are
with our money, which we have a right to be, I'm not saying anything wrong about that. But I think
the big issue became, you know, forcing this on people or gilting people may be more importantly,
trying to guilt anybody into something. Trust me. I try to tell, I've been trying to tell my
mother this my whole life. It doesn't work. Okay, listen, mothers and children are different. You
cannot put that in the same case. I apologize, mom. I apologize. I appreciate you, man. You
have a great morning. Be safe out there. All right. You guys have a great day too. You too. We'll take
a time out, get into some news. We'll come back and have some more fun on the morning show at WFHR.
Well, come back everybody. Morning show here at WFHR. Locally grown radio. Terry and James hanging
out with you. We got some good stories of the day to wrap up the show a little bit later. We'll
be getting into. We're also going to be getting into our schedule, looking forward to that. We've got
that coming up for you and a couple of other big things. We want to get into all that on the way.
But we're just talking tipping Terry. So I thought that this one would tie in well to that
the average person and how much they tip. A new survey asked Americans how many times they tip
for services when they didn't think it was necessary and the average person responded 40 times.
60% of the people say that they're fed up with being asked to tip different services at various
businesses and around the same percentage, 61, feel pressured to tip. So this is kind of getting
into what I was getting in there. I did not read this article beforehand. So it just kind of
is going in hand in hand. The quote unquote what we're experiencing is called tipping fatigue.
It's dragging down the average tip even to 38% of people that say that they usually tip restaurant
servers in 20% or more. But that's down from 43% of two years ago. So this is having a negative
effect and where it's having a negative effect and the most is on the people that needed the
most on waiters and waitresses and a lot of people in those industries that our whole lives have
always been tipped. Similarly, 19% of people say that they usually tip restaurant delivery drivers
more than what they usually do. But that is down also from over the years. So while there are
some people that are kind of going above and beyond and some of what we talked about before,
the majority of people are actually they're still tipping, but just not as much.
And in these key areas is where we're focusing on. Overall, 61% of people are willing to pay more
for restaurant meals to help facilitate higher wages for staff and eliminate tipping altogether.
Oh, interesting. So that is where a lot of our society is going where we're kind of like,
look, why don't you just pay them a living wage and not put it on us? I already paid for my meal.
I'll pay an extra two dollars and extra dollar for the hamburger or whatever. Just pay your people
well. And this is something that I have talked about with our representatives, both representative
test and representative crew, send their test and representative crew about minimum wage in this
state. I'm just focusing on Wisconsin because that's where we are. But I've talked to many
listeners and other states that are in similar situations and some people that are in states where
the minimum wage is much better and fits the cost of living much better. The argument usually tends
to be, well, if we have the minimum wage set at a certain place, then the businesses will take
care of it because all businesses are looking for good workers and we're starving for good workers
et cetera, et cetera. So it'll fix itself kind of issue. And well, we don't need government to
do these certain things. And I agree with less government 90% of the time, but we have a government
for a reason. And it's reasons like this to set the standard and to not leave it up to businesses
to do the right thing because I'm not talking about my my my my my my places. I'm talking about
businesses that we all know what I'm talking about here. And I don't trust them to do the right
thing. I would feel much more comfortable of making them do the right thing. Now they're going
to put up, well, we got to cost this. This is going to affect this. This is going to affect that.
That's business. If you can't adjust to that, you don't belong in the game. We got other people
that could do the job. There are a billion businesses out there. There are billion billion business
people out there. If you can't make it work, I'm sorry. I don't want to see any industry go under.
But that's life. That is business 101. Like we need to pay people better. Point blank. Like it
just is. It costs a living. Doesn't add up. We are going to be joined tomorrow. And I'm not trying
to pull you guys into this. This is me on my soapbox. But we are, I do see the, I do see a chance
to bring up tomorrow. We are going to be talking with them in the United Way and talking about
the Alistair port. And this touches on that. Oh, absolutely. It's about under employment.
For sure. Yeah. So it all comes together. And it all means that, well, I think, I know, I feel
in my heart that we look out for each other very well as human beings and as a society.
We do need government to step up and do their job from time to time. And this is one of those
times where I think that minimum wage has not been changed since the early arts in the state.
It's seven something. I mean, how many? I don't know many high schoolers that can live on that.
Let alone, you know, grown adults that can. This isn't something. This shouldn't be one of those
dividing things. I don't feel this affects everybody. Because even if you are making good living,
I'm making a good living. I don't get to say that very often in my life, but I'm making a good living
right now. I can easily skate past this subject. It doesn't affect me, but it does because it affects
my taxes. Yeah. It affects the economy as a whole. Yeah. Yeah. So this all adds up. And I don't
think that this is something that, well, well, he's really going out on a limb saying this,
no, I feel like this is pretty standard. I feel like we should all be out to save page on this one.
And it evens out to where, okay, we don't have to worry about tipping because that's all covered
now. And how great would that be that you're not being annoyed by that tipping machine anymore?
And that little button popping up and everything. That would be the same. I think it's just everywhere
now that we don't expect it. That's the thing. You know what I mean? Like it's just all over.
I'm not sure, Tara. I think we got a, then a right story here. It might be someone pulled people
on Reddit and asked what they usually wear to bed. And one in seven people said it's what they're
wearing right now. Wow. That is a high number. I would not have guessed that. That's a lot higher
number. So did they, did they ask a bunch of like seven year olds because that, that's like a
teeny. I'd say no. These are grown adults. Yeah. Yeah. You're probably right. 14% said that
they usually sleep in what they wear. And worse is they roll right back out of bed.
We're guessing most of these people are work from home types, not coal miners necessarily.
But a lot of people in the comments found it gross and said that their beds must be filled with
lots of germs. Yes. That's what people are. Here are the top five choices and how many people
choose each one. So pajamas, 31% of people, number one, and list. Pretty understandable.
Just sleep in the underwear. Okay. 30% of people do that. So almost the same a lot of people.
But you've taken off the clothes that have your day on them. Does that make sense? You don't
mean like like, well, and even if you don't do a quote unquote dirty job or got dirty that day,
you have skin cells. You have dust. You have all these. Yeah. Yeah. Dirty. Yeah. You're still dirty.
He did those clothes. Yeah. Yeah. Little whatever you wore that day, 14% do that one. That was number
three on the list. Number four, 14% sleep naked. And number five shirtless. So the opposite of
the Winnie Pooh, they got the bottom and not the top one. Or every cartoon character from
Disney. But I mean, at least you take off right. So like the underwear thing. I mean, I hope
you put on clean underwear. But but the whole like I've had this on all day and then I'm going to
crawl inside my bed with that on. Yeah. Yeah. I like to sleep in a beekeepers outfit. It just is
it's it's comfortable to me. It's comfortable as well. I mean, I don't know. I don't know about
this one. You know, this is out of this isn't my wheelhouse. Sleeping is not my wheelhouse.
My help you're dating if you know, but I, you know, I just I don't know, but I'm also a
clean bed person, right? Like clean beds get cleaned at my house on a regular schedule. You know,
like I just I don't know. I will be I will say that I fall into the category of falling asleep
and what I'm wearing when I tend to not you know, I just pass out because my body's like we're done
for the day. Okay. That's not. Yeah. You're an you're an abnormal. Exactly. But I'm just saying, but
like I'm not saying I've never fallen asleep on the couch or maybe while I'm reading or something,
but I'm not like inside my bed. Right. You know, like I'm not crawled in the sheets to
I don't know that there's many scenarios where you know, uh, this is, you know, yeah, go with it.
Okay. Maybe I mean something I can think of that probably maybe where we've done it. Like
maybe if you're camping and you have like extra layers on, you know what I mean? Like like it's
cool or like I can think there's some scenarios, but like to just regularly do that. No.
Again, these are 14% are crawling in bed in those clothes and probably 13.5% of those are rolling
out of bed in those same clothes the next day to do something. Yeah, that ain't right. That's
that ain't right. So I change your clothes. Change your clothes. Yeah. Uh, we got another good one
to get to. We got some other good stories to get to and we are going to talk a little united
away before we wrap up. We'll be back with all of that and more right here on The Morning Show
at WFHR. Welcome back everybody. Morning show here at WFHR locally grown radio.
Terry and James hanging out with you. Hope you're having a great one out there. Thanks so much
for joining us. We're going to take it right to the top of the hour.
I don't know why, but the the food industry and all that we were talking about just maybe
immediately together. It's one of the most interesting opening lines to a song. It's such a
weird song, but a great song. Ward's evil great songwriter. Uh, we got to get into this one. Terry,
you got some good stories of the day for you in an Ontario, uh, library is where we go first.
We're a patron who recently returned a trio of Ronald doll books that were nearly 40 years
overdue. Uh, would have faced over $1,000 in late fees if the facility hadn't gone fine free.
The Perry Sound Public Library said a patron recently returned all three of the dolly books,
Charlie and the chocolate factory, Charlie and the great glass elevator and the BFG.
Return them all after 40 years. I mean, up most library, I should say most, many
libraries are going fine free. So I mean, maybe they just held onto them until they changed
their policy. It might have been, you got to wonder. You know, like, do they just find them and
be like, oh my gosh, I have to return. These are where they like, I could just hold these for
another year. They just had to change their policy. If, uh, so did you know, we don't charge
overdue fines anymore. The library said on their social media post, quote, if we did this poor
patron would have owed over a $114,000. You know, okay, but even if you did still take fines,
once you just be like, yeah, reasonable. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Maybe just pay for the
clock because they probably, in that time frame, replace the books, right? So maybe they just
cover the cost of the new books or something. Yeah. Yeah. No, I agree. I agree. I think that's
what they would have done. And a lot of libraries are doing these kind of things. Uh, it's important
to keep that in mind. And that includes our local library right here in Rapids, um, McMillan Memorial
Library is fine free. Yes. Yes. And they are doing that. And not not only do they offer that,
but they offer so many other great things. We just had Catherine on yesterday on midday magazine.
Wonderful conversation. Always fun hanging out with her. There's a lot of cool things going on
that are local library. Uh, they've got a bunch of stuff coming up for Halloween. But one of the
cool things they are doing, and I honestly think this is one of the coolest things I've heard of
McMillan doing or anybody doing there. Uh, have this costume swap going on. Uh, it is going to be
on October 8th from five to seven thirty over a middle library. They're, they're working to
repurpose and reuse gently used Halloween costumes this year. Stop by the library to browse in the
costumes, which have been donated for the costume swap. Oh, that's cool. Such a cool idea. I hadn't
heard about that. Uh, I will continue to bring this up. Uh, not only, uh, because I think it's
important and other people could use this, but it's such a cool idea. Uh, you know, even if, um,
your, your kids grow out of a costume and you got no more little kids around or anything,
keeping to use those costumes is great. Oh, yeah. Um, because what do you do with them? Right.
I mean, I kept aren't my kids is until, like, I didn't get rid of them right after they
outgroom. I kind of kept them until they weren't little kids anymore, you know, because sometimes
friends want them or remember when you wore blah, blah, blah. But then, um, yeah, then it got to
a point where it's like, okay, now all these can go. When I, uh, when I was a kid, we moved around a
lot. One of the places we ended up living was right outside right before we moved to the city. Um,
uh, we happened to be there for Halloween. And as I've mentioned, didn't grow up with a lot.
So a lot of my stuff was hand me down close, including my Halloween costumes. And one of them,
this year, the only one they could find was a pink Panther costume, a gigantic pink Panther
costume. So I was walking around south side with a pink Panther costume on and man, did I get that,
might ask, I bring it up with my dad yesterday. He starts laughing. He almost falls down laughing.
He looks so silly. The pink head. And like, I got into four fights that day.
It could have been like a pink dress could have all been avoided. Could have all been avoided
that they had something like this. Terry could have been a pink dress. That would have been worse.
That would have been a lot. I mean, when you first went to pink, I'm like, oh, lord, where's
this going? But this is so cool for kids. And, and keep in mind, you do not need to bring a costume
to take a costume. That is a really cool thing. They are collecting costumes right now. So if
you're able to please everybody, uh, donate those costumes. You are not using any more stuff.
So you can still bring costumes in. Yes. Yes. You still can. They're still collecting them
for right now. Uh, they'll be collecting them for at least a couple more days. And then again,
on October 8th from five to seven thirty over a mill library, they'll have this costume swap.
Big shout out to them. Find out more at the mill library dot org at millen library dot org.
Very cool. Also wanted to mention a couple of other things going on here like our schedule. We
got a great one lined up for you today. Be sure to join us a little bit later today from four
to five from midday magazine. We're going to step back and for the entire hour, hang out with
our friends from the Wood County Sheriff's Department. Sheriff Sean Becker will be with us.
Nice. I'm going to talk with Sean about this bike ride coming up. I want to get into the
ATV conversation with him and a plenty of other things to talk about with Sean. He always comes in
coffee. Remember coffee. Got coffee with a cop today. Keep that in mind, everybody. Uh, maybe
you see any of our officers out there bringing them a cup or something, you know, uh, and uh,
and uh, and wish them a good day and I appreciate their service out there. We'll be hanging out with
one of those today. Sheriff Sean Becker going to join us four to five. And of course, we got a
great one lined up for you with after that. We will have a playmakers on today from five to six.
Join us. Nobody made a highlight from the sidelines. Bring your sports takes your sports thoughts
and feelings. We want to hear from you. Join us for playmakers Monday, Wednesday and Friday,
five to six, proudly brought to you by quality plus printing. We'll lead you into the loop fickle show
today at seven oh five coach fickle got some questions to answer that the chickens are coming home
the roost right now. And people are getting upset in Wisconsin and Madison. I was just thinking
when you said bring your sports feelings, I'm like, unless you're going to cry. Like keep those.
There's no cry. There's no crying. There's no crying in baseball. Um, our good friends over at the
Wisconsin Rapids Parkinson's support group meet every first Wednesday of the month at the legend's
room at Ridge's golf course in Wisconsin Rapids. They'll be meeting today from one 30 to two 30.
There is no charge. The group caters those as with a Parkinson's diagnosis as well as those
caregiving. You can follow them on Facebook. If you'd like to find out more information or go to
wiparkinson.org, wiparkinson.org. Big shout out to all those individuals involved in that and
everybody. And we have to mention this. Terri, it is a Wednesday bingo bingo with the Wisconsin
Rapids else lodge number six 93. Their doors open at five bingo kicks off at six 30. You drive past
there and it is booked. Oh, yeah, it is packed every Wednesday. Get out over there and joy and
support those that support our community like the Wisconsin Rapids else lodge does meet them at
4 30 West Jackson Street right here in Wisconsin Rapids. Terri wanted to make sure we took a moment to
remind everybody about some of the things going on with the United Way. Yes, so we are still taking
yards for our annual day of caring. This event happens on October 26th. So if you are elderly
disabled, unable to financially or physically get your yard ready for winter, we encourage you to
get signed up. We are also taking volunteers for that event. Last year, we had about 450 community
members come through to help get this work done. Our goal is 85 to 90 yards. So if you are
interested in either of those in having your yard raked or signing yourself or a group up for
raking, you can visit our website at uwac.org. You can also always call us at the United Way
Office at 715-421-0390. Encourage you to do that, everybody. Be a part of the great things that
are going on with the United Way. Find out more by calling 2-1-1 and looking for different
volunteer opportunities and ways you can impact things in your community. And of course, uwac.org,
not only the website, but a great way to follow them on social media as well. Type that into your
search bar. A goat named Joshua. That's what I want to talk about, Terri. A goat named Joshua. I
like goats. I'll admit that I like goats. A goat named Joshua joined a half marathon in Newfoundland,
Newfoundland, Canada on Sunday. It was in a pumpkin patch when he saw people running. His owner caught
up to him a quarter mile left to go and walked him the rest of the way so organizers gave him a metal
when he finished. So 13 miles he went? Yeah, right. A marathon's 26 miles. Yeah, yeah. This goat,
this goat pretty much, I think he heard that. That is awesome. That's a good looking goat too.
I mean, of course, goats chew on everything. So we probably ate that metal right away. You know,
you see those where people like biting the metal, you know, are there pictures? Can you just
see that goat? Like they're trying to keep it from going down his throat. I didn't even think of
that. That's awesome. Our United Way little while ago did a great thing where the diaper collection
that you guys were doing. Well, the Nebraska diaper bank is in the news after handing out
its 8th millionth diaper up for the other day. 8 millionth diaper they handed out. Wow,
they've been helping new parents for a decade. The charity launched in 2014, but they have really
ramped things up recently. Most of those those 8 million diapers have been handed out in the past
three years. I believe that's I mean, we we certainly have, I mean, if you think about that,
we organized it for 2024, but 2022 23 is when, you know, we were talking about it and in
recognizing need. So yeah, I can see that in and as prices go up in general for folks, you know,
they have to make adjustments somewhere and you know, unfortunately, or maybe they just think
they can, but you know, like stretching out those diapers longer, that kind of thing. So
we had a, I mean, we had an overwhelmingly positive response from the community, but also in
the level of appreciation from those programs that now have those diapers to get out to
members of the community. Did a lot of good with that. It'll be back first. That's really
cool to hear that. That is another story of the day right there. That's great. And a reminder
to everybody out there that tomorrow in midday magazine, Ben is going to be joining us from the
United Way. We're going to be diving into the Alps report some new interesting stats from that,
as always, but some other angles on the two that sounds like that to be really worth your listen.
Terry, thank you so much for hanging out with us and all you do in the community. We appreciate
you. Thanks. We'll be back more fun tomorrow right here at 97 5 FM 13 20 AM WF HR.
