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Community Stories : Coming Soon to a Radio Near You (Hour 2)

Mornings with WFHR · Wed Oct 23, 2024

Good morning, Wisconsin.

Morning, world.

It's a new day.

Thanks for waking up with us here at WFHR.

Welcome back to the show where everybody got your host James behind the mic.

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

Good morning.

And the best listeners and radio.

We appreciate y'all joining us.

Thanks so much for waking up with us everybody.

We'll be hanging out with you for the next hour.

We got good things coming up for you.

A bunch of stories.

We're going to get into some Hollywood, Halloween safety tips.

Hollywood safety tips was for a second there what I was going to do, which is a whole

other subject.

Halloween safety tips.

Yes.

From Hollywood.

I like Halloween safety tips.

I like that too.

We've got that one coming up for you a little bit later.

We've got some other fun topics that we'll be diving into like what are some useless things

you've memorized?

I thought there's a fun topic.

It is a fun topic and for me it's a toss up between I have a lot of phone numbers in

my head.

Mmm.

A lot of phone numbers.

That's probably, that's got to be high up on the list.

We'll get into that one a little bit.

We start kicking, we kick off the 9 o'clock hour with a little bit of entertainment news.

And Liam Neeson did a big article interview with People Magazine recently and talked about

his illustrious career.

We see Liam Neeson in general and there's generations out there that know him as like

the taken man.

And, you know, I have a particular set of skills and some of these things and he's been an

action star in so much of his life.

But I think that there are people that might be surprised.

He was the hero of Stephen Spielberg's best picture, best work he ever did in Schindler's

list, earned an Oscar nomination for it, he's a Jedi, of course, in Star Wars and love

actually.

One of his more, I think, genuine performances, it's in love actually, where you will-

That's a good movie.

You see a true like a thespian, you know, Liam Neeson's got, he has got some range when

it comes to an actor.

But of course, he's made quite a career at, you know, doing the revenge drama and a lot

of that stuff and everything.

And it pays the bills, man.

It's been really good.

He plays a good bad guy.

But something about them that you certainly don't know when you read a script, you've got

to use a lot of your imagination to imagine, hey, not only can I do this, but it can be

good and good for my career when you're Liam Neeson.

When you're me, hey, is it a script?

Okay, I'll do it.

But when you're him, you know, you get to make these choices-

They come with a paycheck?

Awesome.

And total bonus.

And then it, so he gets to take in script and he's getting some of these action scripts

and he's, he's asking his agent and then he's talking to the directors and everything.

Like you guys know how old I am, right?

He really was a little surprised by that.

But of course, you know, fast forward and everything.

He's done three of those taken movies.

He's done about eight or nine other action movies since then.

Well, the beauty about film is that so much of it can be-

Yeah.

And it did.

Faked.

Yeah.

For lack of a better word that means faked.

Tom Cruise is like five-five.

Yeah.

And most of the audience out there would be shocked by that.

You know, camera angles and so many things they have done in his career to kind of benefit

him to be an action star.

Liam Neeson to a similar thing, not height-wise, but age-wise to your point.

They will, you know, they will choreographer the choreography for the action scenes will

fit his speed.

Right.

They would choreograph it in the way that it works best for him.

Jackie Chan, I think, made this personified this throughout his whole career.

You see early in his career some of the action he did and some of the stuff he did later.

Yeah.

All of us think of Jackie Chan.

It's just, you know, the same guy throughout his career, but he adapted to his age.

He adapted to his body.

Liam Neeson has done that as well, but one of the questions that comes up often for him

is, have you thought about retirement and when you're going to retire?

And quote, I'm 72.

It has to stop at some stage.

Neeson who performs in his own fight scenes but leaves the more intricate stunts to a long

time collaborator, Mark Zaslow, Manzlo, shout out to his stunt coordinator and his stunt

guy there.

You can't fool audiences.

I don't want Mark to be fighting my fight scenes for me.

Maybe the end of next year, I think that's it.

So he's eyeing the end of 2025 as the end of his kind of action career.

Now anybody who pays attention to the word retirement knows that that word can mean, you

know.

I've seen Phoenix famously retired from acting like 10 years ago, 15 years ago or whatever

and it's one of the Oscars since then.

Daniel Day Lewis retired and just came out of retirement.

So it does really.

But even not for Hollywood actors, everyone we know, they retire and they get busier.

Yeah, yeah.

But because the thing is, if you retire and you do nothing, what if you sit in a chair,

that's where they're going to find you.

Yeah.

My Nana was raised 70 days.

That's the same that I've heard.

I don't know.

I've heard it too.

In fact, I believe from my grandparents, I've heard that phrase, my Nana, famous in

our family, moved to Wisconsin, her and my papa to retire to take it easy.

They moved up here and she was here for a month and found a job at a hotel.

Like, yeah, that's certain, not just certain ages.

I think that this is more of the norm than I think we realize.

We focus on certain generations because they're older than us and they're doing it right

now.

Yeah.

Don't worry if not having enough retirement savings to stay retired.

I have spent the last two months almost up every night with my mom and dad about this

subject and about my mom being scared that she has to go back to work or something.

And I'm only sharing this because I know so many other people out there are going through

this stuff and me and my father trying to convince her that ain't happening.

No way you are going back to work.

You earn retirement.

My parents never thought for a second they were going to be here, that they were going

to get a chance to retire.

Now that they have, I will give every single penny I have to make sure that doesn't happen.

And then there's my father who as a man and everything, whether this is machismo and silly

machismo or not, he comes from that generation of, well, my family needs something I'm supposed

to provide for it.

Like, dad, you're in your 70s, man.

I mean, it's not the cake.

No, I still got to go out there.

Still got to find it.

You know, he's looking for construction jobs or something.

You're so right about this, there is certainly the privilege of being able to choose if you

want to retire that part of it.

But there's so many of us.

I want to work.

I chose the field I did or it chose me if it is in part because I don't have to have a

really retire.

My job.

Look at Liam Neeson.

He's 72 and he's still doing action films.

I love that aspect of it.

But there's also, you know, in the back of my head, well, you may not have a choice.

You may not be able to retire.

There's that part of it as well.

There's that part of it.

And yeah, it's definitely a want.

It should be a want.

I mean, we work so hard in this society.

So many of us work so hard that when you get to, I don't know, the sundown years, the

twilight years, where your body is saying, hey, hey, hey, every time you remember me, I'm

your back.

You don't.

I'm going to make you hurt.

Okay.

Thanks.

There you are.

Okay.

I'm back.

I can't lift things like I used to.

You know, I mean, there should be a time in our lives that we get to when we want to

to slow down a little bit.

I mean, it would be nice.

I always joke too that I'll never be able to retire.

Like my dream retirement is three a weekends for the rest of my life.

It's funny.

It's sad.

It really hits.

It really does.

Yeah.

We were talking about Selena Gomez the other day and one of the, I talked to a couple listeners

about this and they recommended a couple of things that she has been talking about and

doing recently and and part of they did why they did that they were younger listeners

that we have out there and we say a shout out to them.

One of the things that they brought up was, well, I was talking about how younger people

seem to do some of the younger people in her generation seem to have a better handle

on social media and and popularity and fame and some of this other, some don't certainly

but way more than child actors when we were growing up, they seem to have just a better

handle on these things.

And one of the things that Selena Gomez has brought attention to is a lot of the support

system that a lot of child actors have nowadays that is very different than before.

There are plenty of parents trying to live bicariously through their kids that still exists,

of course.

But a lot of that has gone into the pageant world and some of that and I mean like children

pageants.

I'm not talking about like teenagers or anything.

No, like the TV shows.

Yeah.

And you mentioned TV shows, a lot of it, almost all of it is gone into reality TV.

Like that type of personality that's looking for that has found, they're looking for

found a niche.

Yeah.

And good.

Yeah.

And they're looking for it right away.

Like the Selena Gomez is in Daniel Radcliffe's in these things while their child actors,

that still took work.

That still took time and patience to be able to get that.

A lot of these people don't have that.

They want their 15 seconds of fame right now.

And these kids started at a young age.

I mean Selena was what?

10.

And she started and and to have that kind of pressure that young granted social media

was already around for them when when we were young James and there were child actors

their age starting then yeah, social media wasn't a thing.

So I'm glad that they have the support system that they have because oh my goodness.

Yeah.

I mean, can you I can't even imagine?

I one of the things that she has done on social media that a lot of people have appreciated

is trying to show especially young women out there that she is not perfect and nobody

is.

Recently, she's been doing a lot of things with her and she's been having problems with

her skin.

She's been having pimples and everything which side note, after the age of 18, none of us

should get pimples.

Agreed.

None of us.

Agreed.

I don't care if you dump your face in Greece every day.

You should it should not be a thing.

There's a lot of stuff that happens is you get a line that you cross.

This is the one thing we should our bodies should it be like you know what you've done.

All right.

We don't have to worry about that anymore.

That'd be nice.

But she's been really candid about this putting on social media even my skin is over

me right now.

Yeah.

Just it just being very candid about but in major ways to try to like not to give this

perfect image.

What's the whole?

Permote positivity about our bodies because of the perfection that media likes to to put

on humans.

We're not perfect.

We're messy.

We're animals.

I mean we're supposed to be nice polite you know cordial animals but we're still mammals.

We are and I think and maybe I'm alone on this one but I think the most beautiful parts,

the most sexy parts of people are oftentimes the parts that we think aren't that are that

would be airbrushed over in a magazine or something like that.

I love that part of it.

And I do.

I like seeing that subtle shift that has started.

We have started to see, you know, everybody represented let's say in our media that we're

taking in.

We've got all body sizes.

We've got all body types.

We've got all colors, all heights, all, you know, abilities.

And that is wonderful to see because guess what we're all here.

We're all part of this.

We all live on this rock.

And, you know, to any kind of advertising businesses, anything, all the above, they have

dollars too.

You know, it only makes sense to reach out to them as well and to have things that represent

them.

Whether we're talking about TV movies or magazine covers or anything like that.

I remember when Vogue or representation in government.

Yes, yes, first and foremost.

When it comes to like Vogue years and decades ago or whatever and had a quote unquote

plus size model on their cover for the first time and a lot of people.

She was what?

A 10?

Yeah, yeah.

I remember them getting a lot of credit for quote unquote credit for this and everything.

Oh, please.

And all I could think of was, well, you know, there are women that size to buy those magazines

too.

It only makes sense.

Why would you not do that?

It seems like business 101 to reach a bigger audience.

But it was a joke.

Yeah.

I mean, calling a woman that is a, and you know, between an eight and a 14 plus size, sorry,

sorry.

That's a pretty normal size.

Mm hmm.

It's only better for a society, certainly for things that you mentioned and we're touching

on here.

But also if that doesn't reach you, if I can't reach your heart, let's reach your wallet.

It's just smart marketing.

It's just smart business to have more, whether we're talking about casting your TV show

with these types of actors or your model, you have a magazine article that you're advertising

or something like that.

JC Penny realized this way ages ago back in the day when they were handing out those magazines.

Are those big old catalogs that we had in the booster seats used to raise kids up

at the table?

Every JC Penny catalog had a cornucopia of human beings.

You know, at one point in time, you only needed three of them to get your three-year-old

tall enough at the table.

Now you need like 20.

You did so true.

The magazines have gotten smaller.

They really have.

But you know, it's almost like James, it's almost like it's a really sad and bad joke

that they're playing on us because they have put forward this.

Here is what you should look like and this is the perfect image.

But here's the food we're going to feed you.

That's absolute garbage that we've filled with all these things that are going to make

you fat and retain water and be hungry all the time and want to eat more of it and

addict you with our chemicals and our things that make your body crave it.

It's a bad joke.

Yeah.

And we are the punchline, which is unfortunate and it's all the more reason why to be informed

not only about what you are putting into your body, but who the people, who the lawmakers

are, that are making it so that, hey, these companies are not accountable or anything

yes.

We want business to do whatever it wants to do because that's how you make profit.

No, that's how you make people sick.

It is go time.

We are rounding third and heading home.

And November 5th is right around the corner, think of these things and also keep in mind

that we're almost to the end.

We're almost there.

And you don't have to wait.

You can in-person absentee ballot right now, most likely.

I mean, you got to check your municipalities hours and when they're open, but take your

ID with you, get in, get your vote cast.

If you go to civicmedia.us, you can actually find a link that will send you to a voting registration,

voting information.

You can check your registration, make sure you're all signed up and ready to go.

Be sure to do that, everybody.

And bookmark that page, civicmedia.us, not for any particular reason, just think it's

a really cool idea.

We're there.

That's right.

And if you're not registered to vote, you can register same day at the polls in Wisconsin,

which is a wonderful thing about this state.

We talk a lot about some of the negatives.

We do have a lot of positives.

We have a lot of good things that are happening here.

I love this state.

I love living here.

I love the people.

And I think we have so much going for us.

I talk a lot about the beauty of this state and a lot of the nature and the environment

of the state that I love and everything.

But the thing that keeps me in this state is the people.

That's 100% what keeps me in this state.

There's a lot of beautiful kind of states.

And there's a lot of things.

Well, I don't know if it's beautiful, it's beautiful.

I don't know if there's any as beautiful as Wisconsin.

But there's a lot of beauty in this country.

There's not a lot of Wisconsinites.

There's not, you only get that here.

And one of the things that we appreciate about this state and the people of this state

is having each other's back and that we are an example to the rest of the country of what

it is to be able to purple state, to be, hey, maybe I'm a Democrat and this is a Republican

or I'm a Republican and this is a Democrat and we live next to each other.

But guess what?

We also give each other, you know, sugar, our kids know each other, our kids go to school

together and play together, all these things.

This is the way America is meant to work.

This is the way America is meant to roll.

We are a machine and that's how it works best.

The outliers, there are a handful of politicians, there are a handful of people in this state that

are trying to divide us and you can tell the ones, they may not, they're not going to come

out and tell you they're trying to divide us.

They do it with their actions, they do it with their words.

They do it with their attack ads that are ridiculous and don't work.

Unless please call up 715-424-2600 and tell me that an attack has changed your mind.

That's your favorite line right now.

I love it.

So I can't, and it's so no worthy because you're not going to get anybody calling up.

No.

Nobody's going to, but I got to say that the community that we build by being neighborly,

by talking to our neighbors, by talking to the people in our community, and is this

a good time to segue into talking about our new show?

Yes.

Okay, good.

Because I'm really excited about it.

And since you agreed to my release date, that's the right word for it, start date, whatever.

I'd love to share with the audiences now that we are going to launch community stories

on November 12th.

Yeah.

Tuesday after election, it's going.

It's happening.

We've named it.

We've said it on the radio.

Yes.

November 12th, everybody.

Yeah.

So we got a real great opportunity a couple of months back, a big shout out to Sage and

our good, our family at civic media, giving us the afternoons to be live with you.

Yes.

To have local radio here in ours, in our community.

In the afternoons?

Yes.

The FHR has not done in decades, really, doing live content in the afternoons.

We have this great opportunity with playmakers, of course, to be able to talk local high school

sports and being able to cover those things for you in real time.

But as much as I love that show, and I love being able to do that show with the audience

and everything, the thing that we've been so excited about behind the scenes is this

Tuesday and Thursday show from five to six that you can look forward to in November.

And on Tuesday, it's going to be community stories.

The first series will, our stories that I have collected from veterans in our area.

And let me tell you, James, as much as the editing process for me has been a bit of an uphill

battle.

And I've learned a lot.

I've learned so much about, you know, better ways to do interviews and better ways to record

them.

And this is, you know, pushing my boundaries of my skill level, but I'm learning.

I'm learning.

Yeah.

But I smile so much when I'm doing the editing because these stories are fantastic.

I can't wait to share them with you.

And then on Thursdays from five to six, it's going to be community stories junior.

And these are stories from our young people.

So I've, I've got a bunch of interviews that I've done with our theater kids from this

summer that will be part of that.

And then also what is going to be the feature to start with are stories from the Nikusa

Middle School Tech Ed class.

So they have a one-to-one 3D printers there in Nikusa with these six, seventh and eighth

graders.

And these young people have been sharing their stories with me about learning the process

of 3D printing, which really is, it's a solution-based concept.

Yes.

Yeah.

Like, instead of, you know, while I have this, I have this problem, it's, I have something

I can figure out a solution for.

And I have the ability to do it because I can print anything I want.

And it's so fascinating to, to hear these kids in their voices talk about this process

and just, you know, life in general.

So I'm really excited to share this story.

It's also going to include tail time, which is adventures with animal friends with Kevin

the Cat, which you guys have gotten to hear the first episode of here in parts.

I've sent it out to a few people to get some feedback and to hear from kids to see if

they liked it.

So we're excited to launch that.

It's an original story about, you guys have heard me talk about Kevin.

He's a shelter cat that I rescued and he's just an awesome dude.

So I'm excited to share his stories.

Excited to launch this show because it's been so long in the making, but it's almost

here.

And I appreciate not only the time and effort you have put into this behind the scenes

and everything, but your commitment to giving the audience greatness.

It's something that I appreciate and that I also feel for you because it's a very similar

disease you and I have when it comes to that, but it's going to show and it's really,

really looking forward to that.

And there is nothing on the radio like this.

There's nothing out there.

There's a million sports talk radio shows.

What I do, there's plenty of that out there.

We try to do a different spin of it and we try to give you something different and local,

of course.

But let's be honest, there's plenty of sports talk radio out there.

There's nothing like this, what you're talking about and what you're creating here, Melissa,

and it cannot wait for it to premiere.

Thank you, but I'm excited to showcase all of you, our community and share your stories.

So if you're interested, I actually have an email address for this now.

Nice.

CommunityStories at civicmedia.com or dot us.

Sorry.

Then I said it wrong the first time.

Can we do it?

Can we?

And two.

CommunityStories at civicmedia.us is the email address.

Please email me there if you would like to be included because I'm looking for the next

series after the veteran series.

I would like to interview police officers and firefighters, emergency responders, EMTs,

nurses, doctors, anybody who works in that field because I feel like those stories,

especially now when they need attention, and they need to be shared.

People need to know what some of those people are going through, and then also the joys

and the beauty of those jobs because they are.

That's, I cannot wait.

So if you're in any of those fields, including veterans, do please reach out.

CommunityStories at civicmedia.us.

I would love to share your story with the community and to highlight the beauty of where

we live.

And becoming up real soon for you, everybody, we'll talk more about this as we get closer

to it, looking forward to it.

November 12th.

Yeah.

That's so exciting.

Good idea for doing that by the way, too.

Very impromptu.

I didn't want to say anything necessarily, but I want the audience to know so much that

that was not planned.

And that is awesome.

God, I love that.

That is what radio is all about.

We're encouraging you to check out the Mr. Wisconsin Rapids pageant.

It is coming up this weekend.

They have a Friday night open dress rehearsal that you can attend if you would like.

This is a great opportunity to not only check out the check this out, but maybe if you're

not able to make it Saturday, you'll be able to take in the event.

It's still and be able to support these kids.

And then, of course, the big show itself is this Saturday, six o'clock at the Performing

Arts Center right here in Wisconsin Rapids.

Support these kids.

Take in a great show.

Find out more and get your tickets at misswisconsinrapids.org, misswisconsinrapids.org.

Special shout out to all the girls, all the kids that joined us.

Appreciate them.

Appreciate all the workshops that they were able to do and all the people that worked on

this to volunteers.

And certainly a big thank you to them and their schedulers in Pam and scheduling all these

kids.

Absolutely.

And you can find an article about that with links to the midday magazine interviews at

wfhr.com or wiscountry.com.

Yeah.

Be sure to check that out, everybody.

We're on our newsletter before we wrap up today.

Just had one thing I wanted to mention, a programming note, due to technical issues on

Monday, we were not able to broadcast our interview with the ladies from misswisconsin

rapids pageant.

So we will broadcast the interview Friday, four o'clock right here, our first segment

of midday magazine.

Awesome.

Amelia, Ruby, and Addison joined us, incredible talkers, did a great job, encouraging to check

out that interview.

It's been a pleasure this fall to meet and visit with the contestants and hear a little

bit about them.

Good luck to all the wonderful young ladies in our area.

We wish them all the very best in this weekend with the pageant.

And just a real quick one to remind everybody that our friends at Central Wisconsin area

community theater have Matilda kicking off this week, this Friday, they will be going

from Friday to November 2nd, October 25th and November 2nd, get your tickets at cwack.org

cwack.

It's going to be such a fun show.

Yeah, good one.

And when we get a chance, I do want to talk a little, Wisconsin's rap community theater

with you.

We didn't get a chance to talk about the karaoke night, and I wanted to put a little focus

on that.

So why don't we go ahead and get into that when we get back on our, after our news break.

We got a good news break coming up for you.

We will cover some local, some states and local news, got our sports in their shout out

to our friend Mike Clemens.

Good to have Mike back.

Nice to hear Mike back on there and everything.

Yeah, for sure.

And before we do all that, we got to take a call.

Good morning.

You're on the air.

Good morning.

Thank you for tiping me off to the Wizard of Oz.

I wouldn't pick up my ticket yesterday.

Oh, good.

Excellent.

Take that to Rams.

Yeah.

Oh, Rams Auditorium.

It's Saturday and Sunday afternoons, so by Saturday evening it's Sunday afternoons.

Awesome.

There's very few things that are better than seeing a kid show.

There really is.

And the Wizard of Oz is a classic.

Yeah.

Would you do us a favor, sir?

If you get the time after you take in the show, give us a call back.

Let us know what you thought, how you felt, how it was and everything.

All right.

Thank you.

Awesome.

Maybe we'll make a new segment out of time.

Get some review.

Make it work.

Oh, that would be wonderful.

Appreciate it.

Have a great day, sir.

Thanks.

Awesome.

And yes, thanks for correcting us on where it is.

It's at Rams.

Mm-hmm.

Be sure to take in that show.

We'll have more on that in our good stories of the day, limp and lead, or everybody.

For now, we'll get to our news break.

Come back with more show.

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There's a couple of things.

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Absolutely.

Even just the band performing it.

I wanted to touch on a couple of in-house things, if you will.

One of them kind of involves in-house sort of our second home, if you will, Wisconsin's

Rebs Community Theater.

Yeah.

Recently, in recent months, really, they've been doing some fun different things over

there.

Well, kind of like evolving some of the stuff that they had been doing over there.

One of the things that I appreciate, and I've talked to Gretchen quite a bit about, is

making use of the second studio that they have.

The smaller theater, if you will, the Lewis Kent's studio theater.

Yes, yes, yes.

One of the things that they are doing is giving a lot of, they've had a lot of shows there.

A lot of, you know this better than most.

You did one woman show there that was fantastic.

Yeah.

Thank you.

And it was fun.

And set the bar.

For those of us, I don't blame you.

For future shows, you know, like that.

Like, hate mail.

Yes.

That's coming up.

I don't know the dates, though.

When's it happening?

Coming up in November.

Okay, good.

We'll talk more about it as we get a little closer to it.

But just as-

The director said, have Hager.

Yeah.

Set this directing Beth and I in hate mail.

It's going to be a really fun show.

We'll talk more about that soon, but things like that, and what they recently did last

Friday, the spooky karaoke that they had.

You got to attend some of that.

No, I didn't get to attend, but I saw pictures.

Yeah, I was out of town.

I would have been there, but it was a weekend to get away to see my nieces and my brothers.

And so I had to take advantage of it before the snow flies.

But I saw pictures.

I heard it was so much fun.

I'm hoping to include this in a little clip that's going to air on Wisco Weekends this weekend.

I've got a contact list.

I don't know.

I might do that.

And have a conversation with Laura today about her experience, because she went and

took her kiddos, and they were dressed to the nines, like these girls knocked it out

of the park.

Yeah.

I mean, a shout out to all of her kids.

Not only their creativity, but they're so great with these costumes.

Individuality and personality of these young ladies is just fantastic to see.

And everybody there that got up on stage and sang and had a good time.

I saw some pictures of it, Gretchen posted.

It looked like a blast.

Yeah.

Laura was raving about it, but you can barely hear her over the kids.

The kids were really excited, really enjoyed it.

It had a great time.

And that's the thing.

They made it open to all.

So everybody could come.

It was family friendly, just a good time.

And there's not a lot of that, especially karaoke, that you can bring your kiddos to.

Shout out to our friends at Wisconsin's Rebs Community Theater.

Get your tickets for the Silver Foxes, let the spirit move you coming up tomorrow.

Is there a premiere tomorrow?

Crazy.

To a clock, Matt and Nate tomorrow over at the Lewis Kettin studio, or at the, I think

it's on the main stage, actually.

This one.

You know, it might be because it's a bigger, yeah, a bigger cast.

But it is definitely at Wisconsin's Rebs Community Theater.

So go right over there and get your tickets for that again, Matt, to a clock, Matt and

Nate tomorrow, six o'clock show on Friday and Saturday, to a clock, Matt and Nate, wrap

everything up.

Get your tickets for that.

And of course, for white Christmas, all of that information for you at WRC theater.org.

Melissa, you mentioned stories you're working on and everything.

One of the things that you work so well behind the scenes is our newsletter.

And I want to remind everybody about our newsletter, get another episode coming up this

week.

Episode or, or, or, or, what edition edition is there we go.

I did the same thing.

I packed right.

Let me show this morning.

But yes, we have a wonderful team here at Wisconsin Rapids, lower rights articles, chuck

general rights articles.

I am really excited for the debut of Michael Comer.

Is that how you say it's last week?

This week is, or this week, I've got a sports write-up from him that will, will be leading

our article this week.

And it's a great read.

And you know me.

And you know my opinion on sports.

I enjoyed it.

Yeah.

I enjoyed reading his article.

So I can't wait to share this with you.

And it's going to continue to grow and evolve as we have more input from our listeners.

What you want to see in the newsletter, what you want to know about what's going on

in the community.

And you know, if you're wanting to contribute, absolutely reach out.

Melissa.K at civicmedia.us, we would love to know more about what you want to hear from

us.

Go to WFHR.com, sign up for the newsletter, everybody.

It's right on our homepage.

Yeah, it's right there.

You can't miss it.

And it's, it is, it is becoming and it is going to be your go-to news source for Central

Wisconsin News.

Thursday around noon, I think mine landed in my inbox at like 12-03.

Yeah.

Same.

Yeah.

So that's when it will come out every week and you will have features from on the week

before.

A happenings over the weekend that Laura provides for us of what's coming up, your weather forecast

from our very own Brittany Merlot.

Yeah.

And you know, featured articles of what's happening around the state and especially in our local

area.

There's a lot of great stuff that we're going to be putting in there and one of the things

that we're going to try to do and something we try to do actually, in a lot of ways on

a lot of layers, where we're more encouraging people to audition for shows or be a part of

things that you're local theaters or we're inviting you on director's cutter, something

like that.

We know how talented this community is.

We know how many great individuals there are out there in these untapped resources.

Michael is a perfect example of this.

He is and it is a lot when it comes to high school sports.

He knows so much stuff about this and is so intertwined in it and loves it and breathes

it in as a passion for it.

We should put that to work.

Yes.

And I can't wait for you to read the articles.

It's a good article.

He does great writing.

He's a good writer too and this guy has just been sitting there not being used nearly

enough.

And now we can.

We're going to put them to work.

We appreciate that.

Which he already does.

He has his own business.

I don't remember the name of the website right now, but it's like Wisconsin sports broadcast

or something like that.

It will be linked in the newsletter.

Yeah.

And we're looking forward to talk with Michael today on Playmakers.

We'll be highlighting a little bit of our high school sports action.

In fact, I think you can get a preview of that article on our Facebook page right now.

Go check that out.

Everybody.

That's pretty cool.

And again, wfhr.com, the website to check out.

We'll go ahead and take our quick break here, final break of the hour.

When we come back, what are some useless things you have memorized that you still remember

years later?

Wrap up with that one and some good stories of the day and our schedule here in the morning

show at WFHR.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show at WFHR.

Melissa and James here with you.

Thank you so much for joining us.

We're going to take you to the top of the hour.

Got some fun stuff to get into a talk about some local things going on in our community,

some good stories of the day.

But for right now, sort of that ain't right story.

What are some useless things you got stuck in your head that you can't get out?

You might not be able to remember, you know, math equations and your social security

number or something like that.

Oh, gosh.

I hope you can remember that one.

Can you remember one eight hundred and a card for kids or old school members out there

and everything?

Rose, those fashions at large.

Commercials.

Commercials get stuck in your head.

Commercials.

It's clearance.

Commercials.

They get stuck in your head.

The good ones.

The rocket.

Subday.

There you go.

There's a good one.

Oh, that's not how it goes.

But, yes.

No, it's a good one.

It's an idea of thinking about things that you, you know, you memorize that you, you can't

get out of.

I have to say that I've got probably about two or three different phone numbers in my

head, I would say, that I've not been in operation for over a decade or three, at least.

Two or three.

That's it.

Yeah.

Oh, come on.

I remember my home phone number when I was a kid.

Oh.

I remember both of my grandparents phone numbers.

I remember my mom's phone number.

I remember my brother's cell phone number.

I remember my three best friends home phone numbers because they're all the same.

Oh, okay.

Not, not it's the same numbers.

They, they're the same area code and the last four numbers are the same.

They're just all mixed up.

Whoa.

Yeah.

Oh, that's wild.

Yeah.

That's interesting.

6185, 6158, 5861.

You, you, you in the, in their, in our break here, you brought up a good one.

You got me thinking, we're going to be doing a Halloween special for the audience.

And one of the things that Seth asked me to do was do the Raven every, every year I read

the Raven and I used to do it on the air here in a, a condensed version.

But I didn't realize how much of it I memorized still and, and how little I have used for it

in society.

Like there's very few times where it, you know, it would be really good right now.

Quote the Raven.

You know, that really set the mood, that really, no, no, not a lot, not a lot of times

that there are so many lines I have remembered from plays from, I wish, like in, in 10th grade.

I wish that I would remember more lines from shows.

Like the one woman show that I did for a month after that, every once in a while, I would

just start in and see how far I could get.

And for that first month, I could still get through the whole thing.

And it's an hour, as an hour of constant, constant talking.

Yeah.

I was a very impressed with myself.

But after that month, it's gone.

It's gone.

I mean, maybe if I read through it a few times, but, you know, there are definitely some

Bible verses from childhood that have stuck around the 10 commandments, the three angels

message.

Quite a few proverbs and Psalms because those were common ones that we memorized every

year.

I can see that.

Yeah.

And definitely the three angels message and revelation was one we did every year as growing

up 7th Adventist.

I think that that's certainly one that I imagine a lot of the audience can relate to with

a verses, Bible verses, some of that.

I think that's the same thing by any means, but similar when it comes to music and things

that get stuck in our head tend to be music-y or have a little bit of a music, but-

Your arms?

Yeah.

TV theme songs.

Yeah.

Oh, God.

Yeah.

Good stuff.

And I promise not to sing anymore.

The theme songs get stuck in our heads too.

We remember these things.

And I haven't heard the reading rainbow theme songs since I was 10.

Yeah.

But all I had to do was sing it.

Yeah.

I had to do the same and I'm still right there.

Go right there.

There are a lot of jingles in those kind of things.

It just seems to be a lot of what I'm seeing from people online.

A lot of it is the music.

It's stuck in our head.

Oh, because music is such a good way.

I don't have any poetry memorized, which I feel a little sad about, but the only one that

I do remember is the highway man.

Oh, yeah.

And it's because Lorraine and McKenna said it to music.

Yeah.

It's a beautiful piece and it's a beautiful poem, which I love it because it was in an

green gables.

Oh, nice.

It's what the piece that she did at White Sands Hotel in her very fancy dress.

I would love to hear from you.

We'll keep this topic going, everybody.

Let us know what it's stuck in your head or earworms that you have 715, 424, 2600.

And I don't mean just today.

We'll keep this going through the rest of the week.

Let us know some of those to get stuck in your head and if they're fun or not or some

of them can be frustrating, I'm sure.

Moon was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees.

Moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon the cloudy seas.

Any subject that we do, I'm just going to start doing things that make you want to sing

or have to sing.

I'm just going to start doing that more and more.

I love that poem.

I've got to listen to the song now.

It's a good one.

It's a beautiful song.

We've got some great stuff lined up for you today and some great things going on in

our community over the next couple of days.

What do you want to get into some of that?

Today from 4 to 5, be sure to join us from Midday magazine.

In part 1, we're going to sit back with Wood County Board Chairman Lance Plymal.

Get a Wood County update from him.

We'll have our good friends from Wisconsin's Rapids Community Media and to record.

Always looking forward to seeing them.

In part 2, we're going to talk with our great friends from the ODC.

We're going to get into things with Lisa.

Talk about some of the stuff that they have coming up and some of the great things

that they are doing throughout the holiday season.

And then the follow-up from their haunted house.

Yeah.

Since that happened last weekend.

Yeah, yeah.

We'll talk about that.

Of course today, playmakers from 5 to 6, be sure to join us for that.

Our phones are wide open and working.

Woo-hoo.

Please call James.

Yes, please do, everybody.

I don't want it.

Nobody wants to hear my voice anymore.

Please call up and take over the conversation.

We're looking forward to talking to you a little bit later today.

5 to 6 for playmakers.

After that, about 7 to 5, the Luke Fickle show Wisconsin Badger head coach joins us on

these airwaves every Wednesday at 7.05, looking forward to that as well.

And some great community events going on.

Melissa, it's a Wednesday.

It's a Wednesday.

That means there's bingo.

Bingo.

At the Wisconsin Rapids Oaks Lodge, it starts at 6.30 and you can make it down, doors open

at 5.

Bingo starts at 6.30.

There will be food available and you can have some fun with bingo.

Yeah.

Be sure to check that out, everybody.

To support our Wisconsin Rapids Oaks Lodge, they certainly support this community.

And you have so much theater to go to this weekend.

You're only going to be able to get it in if you go on Thursday, Friday, Saturday or Sunday.

I mean, but there's so many options.

You can check the Wizard of Oz out at the WRPS Junior Theater.

That's going to be at the Rams Auditorium on Friday at 7, Saturday at 7, Sunday at 2.

It's $10 for adults, 5 for children, 18 and under.

And this is to support our middle school students in their performance.

You've got Matilda at Seawack.

You've got the lit the spirit movie at Wisconsin Rapids Community Theater.

And I think even, wasn't it Marshfield Theater?

How's the show this weekend?

Yeah.

There's nothing but great theater and great opportunities to support the arts in your

communities wherever you're listening to us, everybody.

Keep in mind Wisconsin finished dead last in supporting the arts in the union.

Let's change that.

Let's make a shift in that and make sure that our leaders, our community leaders understand

how important the arts are to our communities.

Absolutely.

These are all great events.

Attend every one of them that you can.

Looking forward to hearing more from our caller earlier about how that show wasn't

stuff.

Yes.

Oh, the Wizard of Oz is such a classic.

Great stuff going on in McMillan Library, everybody.

Be sure to check out for on the floor tomorrow from 630-8 in the Fine Arts Center, some of

our favorite people.

For on the floor, return to McMillan to the stage monthly to give you some of the best

classic jazz you're going to hear.

Join for on the floor tomorrow from 638 at McMillan Library's Fine Arts Center is going

to be a really good show, really good show.

Absolutely.

And want to remind everybody as well that Halloween at the Y is coming up this Friday.

Oh, fine.

538 join them for a family fun night, kid friendly haunted house, game surprises, costume contest,

face painting, arts and crafts, and a photo booth.

This is free with a donation of a non-perishable food item.

Thanks.

This isn't just great and easy and great for parents.

Hey, I know where my kids are.

It's a safe environment.

The Y is a lot of fun.

But and it gives something for the kids to look forward to and do.

And another excuse to put your costume on.

Yes.

But you are also helping those in need in our community with these non-perishable food

items.

And your child is seeing you helping those in need.

Which is vitally important going forward.

The kids seeing adults, acting like adults.

Model the behavior you want to see in your children.

Check out more over at their website, of course, at SWCYMCA.org, SWCYMCA.org and be sure

to make plans to attend Halloween at the Y.

And if you want some more holiday fun, don't forget about the store point bus.

Yes.

They've also got their spirit walk on Saturday.

I really hope to make it to that because I haven't been yet and I want to so bad.

One of the biggest things that I recommend to people when it comes to events is the

spear one.

Like one of all the events we have in our area, that is one of the top ones I recommend

to people.

It's such a great event.

It is.

It's such a great fun time.

And that's Saturday night.

I believe it starts at six.

Yes.

But you have something that starts Saturday morning.

Yeah.

The winter farmer's market is back.

Everybody even kicks off this Saturday from nine to one over at the Wisconsin Ravits

and Maravian Church, 310 First Avenue South.

They got so much nice room over there.

They're going to make use of it with these great vendors.

If you would like to be a part of this, if you're a vendor out there, you can find out more

at www.maravian.org and of course attend this event, support local everybody.

This is the definition of supporting local and supporting our ag industry.

And get in your Christmas shopping early.

Yeah.

Be sure to do that.

And when you're done with those fun things on Saturday, head over to Port Edwards to

go to their trunk or treat and they're parking lot there by the municipal building from

four to six.

And they have a haunted house at El Café.

How cool is that?

It's such a good idea.

That's such a fun idea.

And you know, something I don't think about, I hadn't really thought much about Melissa,

but to the audience, you're welcome.

But we just, you don't even have to think, worry about making plans.

We just gave you a whole outline of things to do and multiple choices of things to do.

You're all set.

You don't even got to worry about this.

Wisconsin Rapids, Ms. Wisconsin Teen pageant is going on on Saturday.

It's the day of caring on Saturday with the United Way.

So you know, if you, if you still want to get in on that, I know you can probably still

email Ben Eberline and get in on the volunteering.

Yeah.

We encourage you to do so, everybody.

And a big thank you to everybody who has already recommended or signed up to volunteer

for this event.

And a shout out to our United Way.

It's going to be a fun Saturday.

A lot of good things going on with this weekend.

Find out more at uswac.org and be sure to sign up if you can.

It's a lot of fun today.

It's a good show.

Yeah.

Good show, James.

We'll be back at it tomorrow, everybody.

Be sure to join us then for more great show and you have a great day.

Good to each other out there.

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