Good morning Wisconsin, morning world, it's a new day, thanks for kicking it off with
us right here at WFHR.
Got your hosts James here?
I am joined by our head of news, our co-host in studio Melissa K.
Good morning.
Good to have you here Mel.
It's a little weird, I don't have a mute button.
Yeah, it is a little weird, it is a little weird for off-trend.
I need a mute button.
You just give me, hey, I don't hit you, I'll mute you.
We got good stuff lined up for you this morning and we kicked things off the best way we
came with a good friend Brittany Merlot talking a little mother nature.
Good morning, Britt.
Good morning.
How are you guys?
Great.
How are you?
Good, feeling like fall is a good morning, I didn't really want to get out of bed.
You know, the cloud cover and the windy conditions, I'm like, I'll just stay here.
So true.
But actually that cold out, I wore a light jacket and I was just fine.
Yes, which is how fall should feel.
Yes, yes, yes, yes, 100 percent, yes, could you work on that for us, would you?
I'm sure I am, I'm trying to, thank you for that.
Thank you for that.
I'm going to be today, right, really feeling right now, we're only going to get six degrees
warmer.
So we're just going to be pretty much hovering with what you're feeling at this moment
in those mid-50s, when we're going to still be 50, they're gusting up to 35 miles per
hour.
Really, this morning I was seeing that there's sustained a constant wind at about 20 through
Wisconsin.
So pretty breezy, that'll stay the case throughout the entire day, more and more sunshine by the
afternoon and into the evening, which also means that the clear skies we're going to see
some below freezing temperatures tonight.
So we will fall to about 30 degrees overnight, but we fight warmer for tomorrow, it's a roller
coaster.
It really is.
Yes, yeah, wait five minutes and bring a change of clothes, bring a couple, every season
worth of clothes.
But you know what I heard in that forecast was the sustained winds, Brittany, can you direct
them to blow all the leaves off my yard into the stream, because that's where they're
supposed to be?
I can do that.
Awesome.
You're the best.
You're the best.
You're the best.
You're the best.
You're the best.
We got the line to the weather goddess here.
No hesitation, just yes.
Yes, done.
We appreciate you, Brittany.
We'll whip up that leaf, NATO.
It'll be fine.
Leaf NATO.
Yes, leaf NATO.
I love it.
Which is also another thing.
One more thing to throw into our forecast, Alexi Kahnau is a leaf tornado.
There we go.
Appreciate you, Brent.
Have a good morning.
You too.
Good to have her back with us.
Appreciate it.
Thanks so much, Brittany, for joining us to join us every hour in, every morning in this
time slot right here.
We look, we get to start off our day talking to Brittany and we're able to do that with
their phones working.
Yeah.
A big shout out to Solaris and to our engineer team working real hard on that one, as somebody
who is going to be doing a sports show later this afternoon.
I'm very happy about this.
Yeah.
It's a college show.
It is a college show.
My voice is still beat from Monday.
We'll look important to that.
That's great.
A big shout out to all of them working hard on that.
And that is a reminder, our phone lines are wide open, 715-424-2600.
Anything Melissa and I are getting into today that you want to jump in on, we encourage you
to do so, everybody.
Absolutely.
One button dial in with the Civic Media app or you can call 715-424-2600.
We're looking forward to getting into some of the more popular Halloween candies to hand
out this year.
You want to be the top one on your block, we're going to the right candy for you.
You know what, James?
This is important information because it got me 10 cents off my coffee in Minnesota when
I was there over the weekend because I guessed their favorite candy for the state.
Very cool.
Very cool.
This is important information, people.
You never know where this information is going to help you out.
You might be on Jeopardy.
And a question pops up.
And boom, there you go.
We got you.
What's Wisconsin's favorite Halloween candy?
We got you.
We got you.
We'll get into a little bit of Halloween safety tips as well.
We've got the first climate smart food in the U.S. that is shipping and it's shipping
right here from Wisconsin.
Cool.
Get into that a little bit.
And we've got some other fun things we're getting into.
A Chinese exhibit has dogs disguised as pandas.
I don't know if there's really any educational value in that story, but I want to cover it.
I want dogs in cheaper than pandas.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It is a Wednesday that means we'll be joined by our friends from Quality Plus Prediction
and your words out right here in Wisconsin.
We get awesome.
I'm looking forward to that.
Nine o'clock hour is going to have some entertainment news in there for you.
I'm looking forward to talking about some local theater.
I got some great things going on in there.
And useless things, you have memorized that you still remember years later, but they don't
really help you at all.
We'll get into that topic.
Start thinking of what your answer might be, everybody out there because we want to hear
from you about that.
And if we got time today, I got another one of those great articles of 10 offbeat towns
in Wisconsin.
Okay.
We'll go ahead and discover those.
Travel the state a little bit here with some of that.
Which is just awesome.
We have a beautiful state.
Really do.
And any chance we get to kind of highlight that we like to do so.
I've got other information, of course.
We'll be getting into our schedule here today and a couple of other fun things looking
forward to getting into all of that.
But first we start off with, you know, especially this time of year, something we like to cover
quite a bit.
Giant pumpkins.
Yes.
And we go to Fondelac for this one.
Just in time for Halloween Wisconsin's heaviest ever giant pumpkin was recently crowned
at a fall festival.
The 2500 and 51 pound Atlantic giant took first prize at the 2024 River Prairie ginormous
pumpkin festival way off in L tuna.
But the prize-winning plant was grown by veteran giant pumpkin grower Jim Ford who grew
it in his garden in El Dorado, a town in Fondelac.
Nice.
Nicely done, sir.
Showing Melissa a little bit of the pictures from this gigantic beautiful, beautiful
room.
Whoa.
That is a big pumpkin.
There it is.
Yeah.
That thing is missing around.
I like that they put a hat on it.
Yes.
Giant hat.
I don't know where they found that hat.
That is a giant.
Somebody made that crafted with love for a ginormous pumpkin.
Every year it feels like this record is getting broken with the giant pumpkins and I always
get a kick out of these.
I love them.
Shout out to of course Nicosah and the great pumpkin fest as they go over there.
Yes.
Getting the sea of the giant pumpkin drop from them.
That is a really cool experience.
It's awesome.
If you haven't done it, you have to do it, everybody.
Yes.
And next year is going to be real special.
Yeah.
That's what I'm hearing.
It's going to be a fun one.
So with these things, Melissa, my question for you for the audience is, one, what
would you do with this if this was yours?
And as a side note, we can all say, okay, we put some of it to our food shelters out
there.
I always appreciate when people ever break these records for biggest, you know, biggest
sub sandwich and they cut it up and some people eat some but they usually give it to food
shelters and things.
Let's put that to decide that we would definitely do that.
What else do you would do with the pumpkin?
I'm very curious.
And I'm curious of what would you like grow a giant of if you could, a giant tomato,
giant salaristick?
Well, first off, I would live in it.
Oh, yes.
And second, if I could grow a giant anything, this is from my childhood fantasies.
It would be a giant maraschino cherry, which I would also live in.
It might be my summer home.
And the pumpkin is my winter home.
Yes.
That makes sense.
It's totally logical.
It's the best of all worlds.
I'm so glad I asked this question.
I'm actually really happy right now that all my prepped, everything I had planned for
today without the window because this was a much better topic than what I had planned.
It's a fantastic answer.
Of course you would live it.
Of course.
I do not seem James in the giant piece.
Yeah.
Well, actually, that story was, my sister, I think it was her favorite story growing up.
And I swear she only liked it because it would annoy me.
It would bug me.
Where's the main character James?
Yes.
Her, my brother, I don't know why they thought this was funny, but they'd walk around
and like, randomly, where's your peach, James?
Where's your peach?
That is such a sibling thing to do.
They thought it was the most funny thing in the world.
And the funny part was that it annoyed you.
Yes, yeah.
But they was, I have to time, they wouldn't be able to say the sentence before they'd
keep laughing.
And they just knew what they were going to say.
I think it'd be really cool to grow a giant apple.
I think that would be cool.
I like to do something like that.
Now, the pumpkin, I'm turning that into pumpkin pie.
I'm turning all of it into pumpkin pie.
And I'm actually, I'm going from this, the most giant pumpkin, to the biggest pumpkin pie.
I want to make that with it.
It just seems to make sense.
It goes hand in hand.
We won't talk about the fact when vegetables or fruits get that big.
They have a tendency to not taste good or be good for food.
But we can let that aside since we're a total fantasy world here.
I'm living in it.
You're turning it into a giant pie.
I love this.
I love it.
But is that true?
I believe so.
I believe so.
I've heard that before.
Well, that's everything.
Well, it's because they're grown to just be so big that they're grown to taste good.
It's one of those things when you hear it, it's like, oh, that makes sense.
But I never even thought of that before.
But I don't know if that's true about pumpkins and I could be misinformed.
So, you know, I'm not an expert in giant pumpkins.
We should call Heather.
We should call Heather Sayers.
She is the president of the, the, the, who's the giant pumpkin festival.
She would know.
I would love to get, like, I love talking to specialists in any field.
I don't care what their specialty is.
I love diving, going on the deep dive with people on things like that.
And I would love to talk to a grower.
I'd love to talk to one of our people in our agonistry that does this, that actually
makes a, I don't know.
It's a hobby.
I don't think anybody makes it as a profession.
Well, they're not going to grow a whole field.
They'll be awesome, though.
They'll be awesome.
They'll be awesome.
I also, I can't imagine what you would turn this into as a jack-a-lantern.
I'm trying, like, something like a, you, you, you're almost like a picture.
You know, it was one of, like, the Mona Lisa or something like that.
Well, they actually had a couple of those at the, the, the Nekusa giant pumpkin festival
where they carved a, they were pretty big.
I mean, they were like, um, they were like Santa's belly size big.
Yeah.
And they, they carved a scene into the front of the pumpkin.
Like not all the way through where you could put a, a lantern in there, but into the, the
flash of the pumpkin.
It was really cool.
It was like a relief.
There we are.
Interesting.
That's nice.
Nice.
Yes.
Relief.
Uh, one of the things that was interesting in this article that I came across, uh, about
this great thing that, that Mr. Ford did, you could find it at the Milwaukee Journey
Sentinel, um, walkiejournal Sentinel.com, go ahead and check that out if you can get past
payroll.
So paywalls on some of those.
Ford has been growing giant pumpkins for nearly 25 years.
And he said, the knowledge he's acquired over the decades is the most important part
of raising a record, see it, setting pumpkin.
Quote, we learn every year, just like life, I already know what I'm going to do different
next year.
Even though he broke the record with this one, he can see some things that he did wrong.
Yeah.
And it's really important to him to respect the land and to respect these plants, these,
and these things that he grows and everything, uh, and, uh, making sure that they, yeah,
they, they, they live well, that they're growing well and everything, which is, is, is kind
of cool.
I don't hear that very often with some of these, um, it's far as, you know, respect, this
the dedication to the land and everything.
Yeah.
No, that's awesome.
Uh, Ford has, uh, grown quite a few of these before, but of course, none this big, uh,
shout out to him and a congratulations.
Take it a quick look at our fall, uh, report, our autumn report, if you will, uh, the autumn
digest, the autumn digest that I like to go.
There you go.
Uh, all of Wisconsin is changing, everybody.
It, it is there, uh, there's pretty much no spot that isn't at least, uh, 35 to 40%
by now.
And it really kind of happened overnight, uh, over the weekend, I mean, I should say, uh,
Juno County is at peak, uh, uh, so is portage, uh, I would say that, uh, Marathon is also
in peak coverage, green county is in peak coverage.
So everybody at 75 to 80% and of course, locally here in wood county, we are at a strong,
and I mean, strong, uh, 70%, no, no, that's not right.
Where is that?
Uh, we're at 70% less than I want.
Marshall did 95, uh, Stevens points at peak color at 90 and Clover is at 80.
And with the sustained strong winds we're going to get, that's going to blow a lot of
leaves off the trees.
Tomas at 90.
That's what I was looking for.
Tomas at 90.
Adams County at 90.
Dells at 90.
So yeah, this is the time, everybody.
Yep.
Is that time?
Get on out there.
See you now for the gun.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And I was driving back from Duluth this weekend.
Um, there were a lot of leaves gone up there, but there were still a lot of pretty colors.
It already, uh, seems like, uh, it's, it's quickly as it came.
It's just gone already.
Yeah.
That's how it goes.
It's too fast.
Enjoy the seasons.
They are fleeting.
It's too fast.
I want it slower.
Um, we will take a quick commercial break.
We will come back and do some celebrating with our great friends over at El Café in
the birthday and anniversary club.
It's Melissa and James taking you through your morning, right here at WFHR.
Happy birthday.
Happy birthday.
Happy birthday.
I haven't heard this one in a while.
I hear it every time.
Do you?
It's only in my head.
It just sticks with you.
We, we're, we're going to be updating these, I think, we're, it's just a hard to find
birthday songs.
It is.
There's not a lot of them.
There's not a ton of them.
It's time to do some celebrating with our good friends over at El Café in the birthday
and anniversary club.
Time to get stuffed.
We appreciate our friends over at El Café.
Go visit them today, everybody, at 221 Market Avenue in beautiful port Edwards.
Get stuffed with our friends at El Café.
El Café.
They got some great specials going on over there and, uh, they, they just, and that's
what we're referring to, just to be clear, because it is all stuffed all week.
Go check it out, everybody.
Different specials every day, great specials every day for you.
And some of the most unique items you're going to find, uh, along with your traditional
favorites and everything, they know, they know their audience, they listen to their
community.
They are taking good care of that community and putting into that community, support
those, to support us by local, support local, support our friends at El Café today.
221 Market Avenue in beautiful port Edwards.
Let us those birthdays and anniversaries love celebrating with you, everybody.
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You know you want to.
Go ahead and download it and thank you to everybody who already has.
And keep that topic in mind, Melissa, a little bit later where we get into useless things.
You memorize that you still, you remember years later.
We will get into that later.
But for now, we got some great birthdays to celebrate.
Melissa, I need a one through three.
Let's go with two.
And that gives us the qualifiers.
We can get right into the celebrating.
First up, we want to wish a happy birthday to Tracy Steinberg.
Happy birthday, Tracy.
Enjoy your day, Tracy.
Hope it's a good one for you.
Have a great day.
Thank you so much for getting us this birthday.
Yes.
And thank you for also getting us the anniversary of the 22nd anniversary of Steve and Jennifer
Space.
Well, Steve and Jennifer, 22nd.
That's cool.
That's cool.
That's cool.
Happy anniversary.
Enjoy that day, everybody.
I hope it's a good one for you, Steve and Jennifer.
Enjoy that day.
And our qualifier, celebrating our birthday, Oli Olsen.
Oli, happy birthday.
That's a beautiful name.
It is.
O-L-E.
Oli Olsen.
Oli.
That's great.
God, that's a good name.
I love that name so much.
That's great.
Happy birthday, Oli.
Happy birthday.
Enjoy your birthday.
Hope it's a great one for you.
And thanks again to everybody that got us these birthdays and anniversaries.
We're celebrating what you guys always want more.
Taking a look at our celebrity list.
One of the better directors in the game, Ang Lee is 70 today.
Director of so many great action movies, and along with, like, Brokeback Mountain, and
a couple of other ones like that, where when he goes away from action, he goes really like
heavy into drama on some of that, but very talented, very good director.
All right.
Very talented, very good musician, singer, songwriter, wonderful steel guitar player Dwight
Yokem is 68 today.
Oh, 68.
Wow.
I didn't mention also great actor, director.
Dwight Yokem way better than average director.
Actor, I should say.
I'm going to lose some people on this one, I think, but the movie sling blade that is
probably one of the most, maybe his most famous role, I feel like he outacts Billy Bob
Thornton in it.
Really?
Yeah.
Wow.
I didn't even know who, I didn't know much about Dwight Yokem other than he was a great
steel guitar player.
I didn't listen to a lot of country growing up or anything, especially when he was at
his peak, but I knew good guitar playing when I heard him, like, okay, well, in a name
like Dwight Yokem, you're going to recognize, you're going to remember a name like that.
I didn't know that he was getting an acting when I watched sling blade.
I had no idea what he looked like, anything like that.
No, who he was, yeah.
No, me away.
He was so good in that movie.
Good actor.
And again, if anything else, that steel guitar playing of Dwight Yokem's is worth the
listen alone.
Let's see here, let's, oh, weird, oh, you can make it 65 today.
Yes, weird, oh.
That's awesome.
Awesome.
You know, imagine, okay, you're going to, you're going to have one of the better selling
music careers.
You're going to have a career that's going to stretch three to four decades and towards
the end of your career at 68 or in your late 60s, 65, you are going to still be relevant.
You are still relevant, you are still known and you're going to do all this being a parody
artist.
Yeah.
And I guess not even necessarily just a parody artist, like the greatest ever to do it,
like nobody will ever.
Well, that's, that's how you keep this going by being the greatest, which is what he
did.
And among all those things, I think maybe the thing that might stand out more than anything
else about Weirdo Yankeby's career, other than the great movie UHF, it's a rough movie.
The respect he has in the music industry, like there, if I got this right, I'm almost
100% on this.
There's no parody he's made where he didn't reach out to the artist and the artist didn't
okay it.
And, and oftentimes he over, over a course of his career would have artists reach out to
him and say, please do this on.
Yeah.
Okay.
Like, just so you wouldn't expect that, and especially how serious music, musicians can
tend to take themselves and everything.
It's pretty impressive, pretty cool.
No, that is awesome.
It speaks highly to his character too, he's, he's always been very, you know, approachable
but well, easy to work with a lot of that.
I would guess self-deprecating.
Yes, yes, very much, very much so.
The great director, Sam Rainey, is 65 today, a fantastic director.
It ends with us and so many other movies that he has done, a really good actor, a really
good director, really good actor.
I'm saying that because I'm looking at Ryan Reynolds, Ryan Reynolds is 48 today.
Obviously, just a huge hit with Deadpool and Wolverine still making money in the box
office.
It's the biggest, our rated movie of all time, biggest superhero movie of all time and
it's still collecting money.
Among all those things though, Ryan Reynolds did something that you don't see very often
in the game and it worked nonetheless.
He bet on himself.
He put so much money and so much time into this Deadpool movie and his reputation and a
lot of his future jobs that he was offered that he wasn't able to do because of what he
was putting into this movie and everything.
And three movies later, again, biggest movie in the world right now and one of the biggest
of all time.
Not to mention a guy who goes out of his way, he's got like 18 different businesses out there
but almost every one of them have a cause that they are for and that the majority of those
proceeds are going into.
That's awesome.
Including the mint mobile thing that he just sold and wanted to have people have cheap
phones.
One of the people that have cheaper phone lines and thought that it cost too much and
just kind of took the ball and ran with it.
This is a guy that if he thinks that if he wants to do something, he finds a way to make
it happen.
Yeah.
This does it.
Yeah, man.
Really good.
And now the world is his oyster.
That man could do whatever he wants.
Pretty much.
Yeah.
I mean, not only is he proven that he is a sure thing, he is pretty much gorgeous.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
This is another tough one to say, but I believe the Ryan Reynolds may be, if not now, he
will go down as the greatest ever to break the fourth wall.
I don't think anybody's ever been better at breaking the fourth wall and just like tongue
and cheek, winking to the audience or anything.
In a movie.
Yes.
In a movie.
Yes.
It happens more often in theater, but that's such a limited audience.
Yeah.
Whereas a movie like this that is worldwide.
It's one of my favorite things when it's done right and he is so good at it.
He has been through his whole career, even going back to like Van Wilder and some of those
movies and everything that he did.
He's good.
Emily Clark is 38.
Most people know her, of course, from Game of Thrones, but she's been making the round.
She's been in a lot of things lately.
She's jumped into the Marvel Universe and done some things there.
Very good actor.
Very good actor.
And let's see here, director Phil Kaufman, the right stuff director, 88 today for him.
Diana Reeves, great jazz singer.
She is 68 today.
And of course, we want to wish happy birthdays and anniversaries to everybody else out there
celebrating.
Maybe I didn't get them and get to us with their birthday or anniversary.
For sure.
It's still not too late.
You can call up 715-424-2600.
Sneak it in at the last minute.
You got the whole show.
You got the whole show.
You can call it any time enjoying it.
Oh, man.
You're giving them the whole show, James?
Really?
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Why are you making this so easy?
Melissa, I don't have anything to talk about today.
We need them to film.
No, we got plenty to talk about.
Okay.
I never believe you said that.
Never believe you.
We've got some good stuff on the way for you, everybody.
We're going to talk about what is the best Halloween candy to hand out this year, wherever
you're listening.
Please tell me because I need to go buy some.
We got that coming up.
We got some Halloween safety tips we will get into.
And a little bit later, we're going to have our quality post printing.
We can also order Wednesdays.
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Coming up right here on the morning show at WFHR, locally grown radio.
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Show at WFHR.
Melissa and James hanging out with you.
We hope you're having a fantastic Wednesday out there, everybody.
Thanks for joining us.
Hmm.
Can't get enough of that song.
Good things coming up for you.
We'll be joined by Phil Harley and our quality post printing wicked awesome word of Wednesday.
Looking forward to that coming up in a little bit.
But I've been waiting to get into this one with you, Melissa.
The first climate smart food in the U.S. is now shipping and it is coming right from
your homeland of Wisconsin, everybody.
This long grain white rice and brown rice from a great river milling in Fountain City
are the first consumer products created under the U.S. Department of Agriculture's partnership
for climate smart commodities program.
Nice.
I don't know what the acronym for that is.
The 3 billion grant program was launched back in 2022 to support farmers and ag business
fine and in finding ways to invest in more sustainable agricultural practices.
Nice.
The important.
Yeah.
I don't know.
Do you want to eat?
Feels like a good call.
Yeah.
Even though it's something I forget to do almost every day, it does feel like a good idea
to remember to eat and to have good food and just have food in general, pretty much.
Just to be able to have food, yes.
The $3 billion grant is being put to good use.
The program has supported 27 potential projects in Wisconsin, evolving 43 different commodities
in the state.
I think that right out the gate, you can say, okay, we got something supporting our ag industry.
We're giving our ag industry, our farmers, and investing in our future.
Another resource, another thing to grow, another ability to make money to be watched.
Another way to keep the land healthy also, that's because that's part of this.
Yeah.
And in that part of it, there's layers and layers to this that just feel like they're
so impactful and such an important story and I encourage you to check it out.
It's at Wisconsin Public Radio.
You can look at there.
There's plenty of other articles too.
This is from March, this story.
How many people heard about this out there?
Yeah.
Well, unless you are a public radio reader or listener, certain good on you.
Certainly, yes.
There's also a number of people out there, James, who may not realize that farmland gets
depleted from multiple crops growing in it.
This is something that is climate smart and sustainable.
To the people out there and specifically to the people out there voting for any politicians
out there that don't seem to think that this is an issue, you know, who do our farmers,
our ag industry, who need us, who need us to have their back like they have ours.
They are literally the backbone of this country.
They are why we have food.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It really boils down to that.
It's a good thing.
I don't know.
Are they important, James?
Seems like it.
Are they?
Seems like I'm going to look at my list here again of important.
Yes.
Yes, they are on there.
They are actually in the top three molasses.
That's good.
That's good.
They should be.
They really should.
And all that needs to be said in this important note, but it's also to take all that
in the context.
Think of all of those things while also realizing this is pretty cool.
This is pretty cool that we're figuring these things out that we're able to do these
things.
Yes, it's vitally important with our climate being what it is and not being able to,
one thing we certainly don't know, we can't guarantee any of this.
We can't guarantee what's going to be going on in 20 years.
Can't guarantee we're going to get snow this year.
Yeah.
I mean, we will get it, but how much?
These races are just the beginning of what they're learning to create and what they're being
able to do.
I think it's a fascinating story and courage people to look into that one quite a bit.
And to piggyback off of that one, researchers have identified a heat tolerant wheat that
could improve yields in the warning world.
In the warning world.
In a world that's getting harder and harder, and it's getting harder and harder for us
to be able to grow things like this.
The trails in Mexico Sonora Desert found that the wheat offered up to 50% higher yields
in hot weather compared to variants that are already formed.
Quote, this is science we can now use to make it impact almost immediately.
They were one of the researchers in England who was quoted as saying, this is hopefully
going to be the first of many steps to contribute to global food security in the coming years.
Yeah.
Which is vital.
I mean, we got to have food.
Yeah.
That's pretty cool.
And we got to move with the times or the weather as it were.
Yes.
Well said.
Well said and well worded.
And speaking of good words, man, I'm proud of that one.
That felt good.
Our friends at Quality Plus printing joining us now, we're like, we can also wear the wednesday
fill.
How you doing?
Yeah.
Doing well.
How about you guys this morning?
Good segue James.
Thank you, man.
We're doing good.
Good.
I'm glad you did that, Phil, because he was breaking his arm, patting himself on the back.
It's the one thing I take pride in is segways and transitions.
Phil, we appreciate you joining us as always.
We love our friends over at Quality Plus printing.
Not only joining us on Wednesdays here with our wicked awesome word, but of course, our
main spots are of playmakers.
Our show you can catch Monday, Wednesday, Friday from 5 to 6.
Looking to get Phil on there, talk a little tennis one of these days.
As I didn't want to say, as a side note, Phil, congratulations to you and the team.
Some really great performances this year.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, we had a good season.
In the end, our doubles team of Adi Valet and Sarah Shah went to state for the second
year in a row, and won their opening match and narrowly lost to a final 14 to get in
there.
So, well, I guess, one way, they're in the top 16 teams in the state division two, and
they almost got into the top eight.
So they did a very good job, and it was excellent, and then the whole team had a good year,
and then getting the state to use their first team, ever to make it to stay from assumption
and they've done it too far out, so that's been really fun watching those to play in the
whole team.
It's just been a group of great young ladies, so thank you.
That's awesome.
Yeah, and thank you, and to that team, for entertaining us, and giving us some real
fun tennis action.
I love tennis.
I love being able to talk a little tennis, so feeling we get to talk about it nearly
enough.
I wanted to remind everybody out there, we are calling all home town heroes, looking
for all you heroes out there.
Yeah, keep them coming in, again, and get a few more, so now that tennis is done, I can
concentrate a little bit, and get some of those out, but yeah, thanks, James, if anybody
knows something, it just does some good deeds around the community, or someone you want
to see honored for doing the right thing, I mean, I see it just as an example, there's
a bunch of people with a truck down what used to be, and well, I'm trying to pick and
save now.
I'm building up goods to go down south to help people in the hurricanes, I mean, people
like that that are going above and beyond and donating their time to make good things
happen like that.
They deserve to be recognized, and those are the kind of people we want to put forth.
Absolutely.
So true.
We appreciate everybody working really hard on that one, and taking in those items.
Phil, we have made the audience wait long enough, they have been so patient.
What is our wicked awesome word of Wednesday?
So I got one little flare today, so here we go, Glenday, Glenday, Glenday, N-D-E, D-U-E-M-D-E,
so Latin, Spanish, in origin, and it just means to have a quality of having passion
or inspiration, personal magnetism, you know, a little bit, I think a zero, or we call
swabbe.
Yes, yes.
Charismatic people, yes, yeah, I like that.
Glenday.
It also feels like it should have been the name of a pop song.
Like I feel like at some point in our lives there should have been a song named Glenday,
I don't know, that's a great word.
It rhymes really good with other words too, so I think it's a good word Phil, nicely done.
My staff here said that they all have it except for me here.
That's why you hire good people Phil, I learned that right away.
Yes.
The only problem is, they tell you like it is.
Yeah, the mistake I made is not listening to Chrissy, the clown, and hiring people better
than me.
We're talented.
I should have learned, I should have learned.
Phil, I'm always curious of the projects you got going on over there, how are things
going at the shop?
Yeah, no, we're seeing busy, we got a really cool one for obviously that you've been working
on hard to things.
We're printing the Ms. Wisconsin Rapids programs today.
Nice.
That'll be handed out, and of course I have a great affiliation with Maria, being Ms.
Wisconsin Rapids a year ago.
That program does a great job with young ladies in our community, and the numbers are
growing again.
I think they have 15 teams and seven up to the Ms. so those numbers are growing.
Sure, they do such a good job teaching them a lot of life skills and award them with
many scholarships.
We are quality plus training, I'm happy to sponsor the scholarship competition and print these
books.
They're amazing.
The Saturday, right?
Saturday night, 60pm.
Yep.
You see, so come support a lot of local young ladies who are going to give their all and learn
a lot in the process.
Yeah, they've got, keep in mind everybody.
They Friday, they have a, you can check out the dress rehearsal if you'd like.
I know a lot of people like being able to check that out, especially if you're not able
to make the show Saturday.
Yeah, the actual event, that's cool.
But the event will be Saturday, but you should find out more Ms. Wisconsin Rapids.org,
Ms.
Wisconsin Rapids.org.
And great work on those, Phil.
Here all the time from people in the community, how much they appreciate the work you guys
are doing and how good the strong quality of the work that you're doing over there.
Thanks, Tom.
You know, like you talked about before, blessed to have a really great staff with Tracy and
McKenna and Deb and Kathy, and I don't know, just have a good bunch of people here that
are not only hardworking, but have a lot of fun doing it so that it makes for a really
good time.
There's two comes and helps with the fans, as you know, Heather.
And so a whole bunch of really good people that I'm blessed to have in my life, that they
are here looking to, you know, make people out of people shy and have a good time doing
it.
So bring it on.
We'll take more work.
Can I ask a question just between the three of us?
Just keep it between us, okay?
Is there two Heather's?
Is there two?
She figured out how to doppelgag herself.
She is everywhere.
She is always doing stuff, guys.
Shout out to you, Heather.
Shout out to you.
Keep up the good work.
And you guys keep up the great work too, Phil.
We appreciate you.
Thank you.
Anytime I'm busy, I just look at Heather and go, I guess I'm not busy.
Yeah, that's you.
Not that busy.
You have so much for so many people.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
Oh, yeah.
Thanks, Jason.
And yeah, no, have a great day, you guys, and I appreciate you, and keep up the good work
on your local radio station, right?
Thanks, Phil.
You as well, Phil.
We'll talk again next Wednesday.
That sounds good.
And kind of have a great day.
You too.
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We'll be back more fun in the morning show at WFHR.
There's a spookin' tin pannelly walkin' on the piano keys, he's a jibin' ghost, he's
a makin' horse, the hummus rhythmic tendency.
Welcome back, everybody.
Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio, Melissa and James hanging out with you, hope
you're havin' a good one.
Big shout out to the Brian sisters for singin' us in here.
So fun.
I love the harmonies, the style of music from back that they, what they didn't have in
production and musical instruments or whatever of some of these things, they found ways to
work around and still give you tons of sound and layers to that sound, which is really
interesting.
It's one thing to hear, what Pink Floyd or some of these bands that have been really
working with technology, like Radiohead or something, and trying to find different layers
of stuff.
That stuff gets lost into shuffle, but they were doin' a lot of that back then too.
They were doin' it.
They had to be so creative.
Yeah, manually.
That's pretty cool.
They didn't have machines doin' it for them.
How creative are you gettin' this Halloween, everybody?
I don't know about anybody else, but doin' the rounds when it comes to here in Wisconsin's
Rapids, or when I go to Stephen's Point, I'm there at least once a week, going in between
our towns here and everything, just seeing a lot, it feels like a lot more Halloween decorations.
I don't know the house, but there is a house in Stephen's Point that has a literal giant
pirate ship.
Empire pirate ship.
Yeah.
That is so cool.
It is so cool.
I took a picture of it when I drove by.
I did too.
I did too.
Cause it's a whole ship.
Where do they put that?
It's bigger than their garage.
I didn't even think of that.
That is such a good question.
Such a good question.
Where do you...
It's not there all year.
No, no.
I would want it to be there all year, but it's not.
It just feels like there's been a lot more people getting into it this year, which has
been a lot of fun and been cool to see I think.
It is cool.
I like seeing decorations.
I don't do it myself personally.
I've been thinkin' about it though.
Good.
Good.
Because I want to hand out candy, so I feel like my, you know, front door should look
festive and welcoming.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Definitely.
Just gotta figure out how to do that.
It's your budget.
Maybe we'll be able to help you with that.
Maybe we'll get into that one before.
Cause we got a bunch of Halloween topics that lead into next week.
And doing our mind everybody next Thursday, almost a week from now, we're going to be kind
of having some fun here for Halloween.
Here on the morning show.
Melissa and Seth and I will be enjoying it.
I'm looking forward to that.
I can't wait.
I want to wear mine now.
I've been itching for this.
What's stopping you, James?
I really should actually.
Maybe just wear it straight.
You know, it does seem a little unfair that you only get to wear once.
I've heard from a number of women when it comes to like their wedding dress and only getting
to wear something like that once.
And so many of them have like used it like, I'm going grocery shopping in this.
Like, I'm doing something else.
Or they turn it into a, you know, very short in the skirt and they turn it into a cocktail
dress or something like that.
I mean, there are ways.
Are you, what are you dressing up as this year, whatever you are doing, whatever you're
dressing up as if you're going out or anything like that.
The majority of us, almost all of us are going to be handing out candy or giving out candy
of some kind.
Or taking candy.
Yes.
Yes.
I'm more of the latter.
Yes.
I'm not taking receiving just about a way to put it.
Trades.
I do trades.
A lot of IOUs.
A lot of IOUs.
No.
But what candy?
You want to give out good candy, right?
You want to give out the right candy.
And by that, I mean, just candy because there is no wrong candy necessarily.
Yeah.
I heard it as I said it.
I heard it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Definitely.
Come on.
As a kid, you knew what was the good candy and what wasn't and going through, like, you
go through your halt, not that I've ever experienced this, but I've seen it on the movies.
You go through your halt when you get home from trick-or-treating and you section it out.
Yep.
Like, these are mine.
Yes.
These are the ones I may be willing to let my siblings poke through and trade with.
Yes.
And these are the ones I'd like to give away.
I had my pile.
I had my, my pile for trades with my brother and sister.
And then I had a secret pile that was for my dad so that he wouldn't poach my real candy.
I wish I was kidding.
Dad's secret stash.
I would have like, hey, dad, here's my, it would be good to be there.
Here's my hall.
And it was just like candy.
I didn't really like that much.
And I knew he liked.
Ah.
And it would, it would keep him busy so that I could, I could get into my snickers like
you like candies.
And I liked it, everything.
Halloween was a big deal at our house.
And it was a fun thing for us to be able to, to be honest, as a poorer family, get to the
point where we were able to hand out candy.
I could mental out to my mom and dad to be able to do that.
And I remember how important it was to my dad that we had full-size candy bars.
He was going to do it that way.
That was the way to do it and everything.
That was the last year they did that.
That was the last year they did that, they went away from it afterwards.
But I think that when we're talking about what the best candy to hand out is, that's
one of the first answers you're going to see, whatever search engine you throw into
or anything like that.
Oh, chocolate.
And handing out the full-size bars if you're able to.
Yeah.
Now, keeping in mind that every one of us have a budget to, you know, worry about and
everything.
So keep that in context with this.
I think I have the best idea.
Can I get into it before you?
Yeah.
So, I want to give out a candy that will leave a lasting impression.
You know, one that will last.
So I'm thinking everlasting gobstoppers or atomic fireballs.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, those are good ones.
You know?
I mean, come on.
Like, that's not going to leave an impression.
I love this.
I love this idea.
Somebody call up and tell me this is a bad idea.
Yeah, right.
Please, please stop her.
Tell me what kind of candy to buy.
I love the idea of giving out a candy that they're going to recognize.
Like, it's not just one.
Like, oh, another snickers.
Oh, another milk-oo way.
It's something that, especially candies that we don't really see much of anymore maybe
or something like that.
I like that one.
That's a good one.
Well, according to a couple of lists that I saw, there's some certainly going to be some
different answers.
But going to eater.com, I've never heard of this website, eater.com, pretty straightforward.
I shut it up to them.
The best candy to hand out two trick-of-treaters.
They had a couple of answers here.
One of them, full-size Halloween candy bar variety pack.
Okay.
So, you got your milk away, three musketeer, twix, snickers, all of those.
Orange Bob Squarepants Giant Crabby Patty Gummy Candy.
Say that one ten times.
No, thank you.
Yeah, yeah.
I don't know what that is, but it's one of the more popular candies, apparently.
Gummy candy.
It is.
The Reese's King-sized peanut butter cups are a big one, a big one.
But the thing is, you're going to fill up the kid's container, like right off the bat.
I love the idea of just these little, a little dressed-up winch.
It's just dragging her pumpkin with all these full-size candy bars and, like, mom, I can't.
You got to bring a pillowcase with you.
Apparently.
You've got to bring a pillowcase with you.
I've got to put a lot more in there.
Sugar babies.
Sugar babies.
Oh, we forgot all about sugar babies.
She knows it a long time.
Yeah, I don't know if they're making a comeback or what it was.
I was really surprised.
Those are very similar to milk duds, right?
Yeah.
Okay.
From what I remember.
Sugar babies is just a brand name.
Yeah.
I mean, I think you can almost say that they're pretty much the same thing.
Yeah.
They're caramel where milk duds are more hard.
Okay.
From what if I'm getting this right?
I apologize to any candyologist out there that, because I think that's the proper term
candyologist.
Well, doesn't sugar babies also come as a sucker?
Ooh.
I don't know, but I bet it does.
I bet you they got the version right.
So I think you got it backwards.
I think sugar babies are a little harder, and milk duds are softer.
Mm-hmm.
You can tell that it's not my...
Boy, if there's a candy, I don't know.
You might have hit that one or, like, no.
That would be the one maybe I'll add to my everlasting gobstoppers and my atomic fireballs
and the sugar baby suckers.
Otherwise, those are all a great list.
Hot tamales are another one.
I'm a listen.
That shows up at number six.
We're talking about red hots this weekend.
Oh, no.
I remember those.
Yeah.
Those were great.
My sister loved those.
Starbursts were number five, Skittles at number four, Sour Patch Kids at number three,
Reese's Cups at two, and M&M's at number one.
Hey.
Melts in your mouth, not in your hand.
And you get...
I think that one of the things, especially for kids, I know from me, I always thought I
was pulling a fast one when I could pick a candy bar and I got a Twix or, you know,
because you got four, I felt like, you got multiples.
Right.
And with one.
Skittles or M&M's, similar thing.
So I think that that's a win right there, for kids.
Number one in Minnesota, Reese's Pieces, which is how I got 10 cents off.
Nice.
Nice.
But anybody traveling to Minnesota, if you should have kept that knowledge.
Yeah.
Caribou coffee.
Get 10 cents off your coffee.
That's pretty odd.
I love caribou coffee.
So good.
We will get into our schedule a little bit later looking forward to diving into that, everybody.
But one of those will also remind everybody about Halloween, Halloween times.
We want your Halloween events, Halloween times, get them to us, everybody.
You've heard during our commercial breaks that the Halloween dates we have.
Yes.
We want more of those happenings.
We want to share our communities going zons.
Great stuff going on in the community.
That's our job.
We want to highlight those.
There's a haunted house at El Caffe on Sunday from four to six during their trunk or
treat in the parking lot.
So catch that.
Because they're awesome.
Make plans to check that out, everybody.
And stick around.
We've got more show coming up for you right here.
