Good morning, Wisconsin. Morning, world. It's a new day. Thanks for kicking it off with
us right here at WFHR.
We hope you're having a great Thursday morning out there. Happy Friday Eve. Everybody
got your host James behind the mic. I am joined by our head of production, our co-host
at Habhagger. Good morning. And the best listeners in radio. Thanks for joining us
everyone. Good to get into some entertainment news a little bit later. Got some other fun
topics we want to touch on. But of course, it is Thursday. That means we kick things off
with our great friends from the South of County Main Society and our pet of the week. We
say a big thank you to them. And of course, our friend Luan Goats. Luan is your local
Wisconsin Ravits Medicare specialist, more on Luan in a moment. But we appreciate her
and her staff supporting this segment and sponsoring it. And we appreciate the opportunity
to talk with you, Tim. Good to have you with us. Man, how you been? Good morning, gentlemen.
Thanks for being here. So what do you got for us today, Bo? Where do you want to start?
Okay. First we'll start with pet of the week, which, typically I always do a different
type of thing. So this week, not by one, but multiple again. All right. I love it.
Kittens. We have a lot of kittens to choose from. We had a lot of litters that went into
foster and we typically get about 40 and foster always. And then once they're ready to
be on, brought back to the shelter, then, you know, as they age, get ready to eat and
get litter boxes and that. So we just, we got hit with like 80 of them. Well, time ago.
Yes. So we had a lot of kittens. Yeah. We do have over 40 and foster right now again.
They will be coming into the shelter in December. So we want to make some room, want to
remind people that the sale goes on till the end of the month, at least. I might have
to extend. So all dogs and cats are $50. All right. Okay. Yeah. We reduced the price just
to, I hate to say, use your industry terms, but you have to move your inventory. That's
right. No, absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. So and we just need to make room because they keep
coming. Yeah. Yeah. And we have a, like for dogs, we have a surrender list that we cannot
take because we're full. So we want to try and get at that list. But it's difficult
right now because every time we adopt out a new stray, something else comes in. So that's
where we're at with that. So come and look at the kittens. We also have the buy one get
one. So yeah. Yeah. That's another thing to keep in mind. Tuesday, I had two, two people
came in and they each took two cats. So cool. That helps a lot. Every little bit helps.
Every little bit helps. So we'll try to get those, we'll try to help with that inventory
a little bit here. Just some good homes. Yeah. Okay. Then I wanted to let your listeners
know a few kind of boring, but facts about how the shelter runs, especially with financially.
Yeah. So all of our animals come from just immunospellates we contract with. And as I told
you before and you were shocked that there are, I think at least nine now, municipalities
that have no contract. So what they do with the animals they find I have no clue. We
don't know. I hate to think what happens. That's dangerous. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That might
be why our strays are up. So we bill the municipalities for services because that's
all our business is thinking care of animals from the community. So when I first started
looking at all this, they were asking, well, why are we charging this? Why are we trying?
And I could not figure it out to be honest for over the years. So the board, we looked
at a new way of doing it and we're implementing it for next year. So what we did is we decided
to take a three year average for one. So we take the three year average. Now this is going
to sound expensive, but it is. We take in almost 700 animals a year and it costs the average
cost per animal. No. It's about $600 for us to take care of because most of it is medical.
Yeah. Right. Yeah. You know, and the vet fees, everything you got to pay a new year, you
got to get your shots. You got to have a CVI, which is your certified vet inspection before
we can adopt. And these are all rules that are governed by statute and the Department of Agriculture
of Wisconsin actually runs us in a way because we have to follow their rules for adopting. Right.
That's a great, that's a great point right there too. Yes. A great fact to bring up. It's not just
okay, Nilly Willie. Yeah. Yeah. These aren't things that are arbitrarily decided by, you know,
you're set humane societies around the country. This is something that is done. This is kind of
what they said a law. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. It's, it's, well, I'd say law
and their rules. Yes. Yes. And we don't operate and they do like they just came a while ago and
did a surprise inspection. They'll just come in and they want to see are your kennels clean?
Are you doing what you say you're doing? Right. Which is, I think also reassuring and comfort
and a good thing for us to hear and know because I don't think a lot of us would know that otherwise.
And it's great to have, you always want, you know, somebody keeping an eye on somebody and these
things. Yeah. And looking out for the overall purpose of this, of all of this in these animals.
Right. And a better community. It's, it's a mutual thing. It's not just because you are helping
the animals. It doesn't mean you're not also helping your community and human beings.
They go hand in hand. Right. Now, you know, and then there's other stuff. The federal government,
the EA has, you know, our medicines and because they're just like a pharmacy, you know, and you have
stuff. We have to lock up and have a safe. That's right. That's right. And then fortunately,
part of it is euthanasia drugs. But then there's all these license fees also. You know, I'm just
going through the process with the DEA now. And that's $888 for a license. Yeah. This is
we're a non-profit, okay? Yeah. That really means non-profit. Right. We're not making money off
this. We do not go out and look for animals. It is only what is brought to us by. And to be honest,
with today's times, the surrenders, when we do get to take them, there's a lot of surrenders.
Yeah. People just cannot afford their pets. Right. I think the average is 750 a year to take
care of an animal. Exactly. So when you want to adopt, you have to know these things. Yes.
Absolutely. It's not free. Yeah. Yeah. It comes with a responsibility in a cost. Yeah.
So we average, over the last three years, we average about 424,000 a year to run the shelter.
So and that's pretty much bare bones of going with donate, you know. Yeah. Right. Yeah.
It's important information to know. And while the number might be surprising to some, I'm not
surprised at one bit. That makes sense to me. Now, it also brings it home to a lot of us,
even to me, if it makes sense of like, wow, we really have to step up for our community
societies. We've really got to be able to help you guys doing this job. It's not all the things
you said while also making sure that we are paying the staff there a livable wage, a good wage,
you want people to be in this industry, you want people to care about this industry, you have to
be able to pay them well. And all of this comes back to taking care of the animals, taking care of
our communities. No industry is going to survive without this. We are in and this is just me talking
getting on a soapbox here and everything. But we talk a lot about minimum wage in this state and
in this country. And we talk a lot about a set pay and a good pay for any job. In order to get
good people, you need to have a good bank account. You have to pay them. Yeah, I got to pay them.
So we get science here. It's not basic. James, we don't. Yeah. No, and I will let the people know
when I first took over his president again, we were only paying our people $9 an hour. Now that's
not anything near. It's still better than the state average. Yeah, it's still better than the
average. I hear what you're saying. And I agree with you. But I do want to also credit that that
well well done. That's still better than what most kids are getting at at 7.50 an hour.
Right. It's still better than that. We still can't compete with McDonald's. No,
and that and this is picking up dog poop, can clean out litter boxes. Yeah, this is not a nice
pretty job. And it's physically demanding a lot of times because you're wiping, you know,
mobbing that is. Yeah, right. By the way, we did raise their wages. That's good here. We didn't get
to McDonald's 15, but we did. So with that, we figured out a percentage of what the municipalities
cost should be. Okay, because obviously we're not going to charge them 100%. Yeah, they're not going
to pay that. I'll tell you that. Yeah, right. So we came up with 25%. So the municipalities,
if you have a contract, you're only being charged 25% of the total cost. Now that, you know,
if you buy a truck for let's 20,000, which you're going to get, you know, would you give the dealer
5,000 and he'd be happy? No, not otherwise. Not otherwise. I tried. It doesn't work. You know,
and obviously some of them can go back there again, James. Can't go back there. Don't like paying
the 25%. Right. Yes. To be honest, but these are the animals and which we have explained some of the
boards and I go, you know, they're your community, you know, these are your animals, just like picking
up garbage, plowing anything that's that they're community and that's their responsibility
because state that you governs that they're supposed to be doing this. Yeah. And I think that
that's something that needs to be said more often. Anytime you see a stray animal in your community,
that's your animal. You're in charge of that. Yeah. Like whether you want to be or not is a whole
other conversation, but you are in charge of that. You are a taxpayer. This is part of what living in
a community is about. Yes. It is, it is the freedom isn't free. And when it comes to living in our
society, when it comes to living in our world, these are one of the things that is a part of this.
No different than paying taxes or other things. And caring about these things and paying attention
to them and and adding to the benefit of our huge society, community societies or anything
only benefits our society. It all ties together. If we can get the pet population down a bit,
if we can get these animals in good homes that freeze up this section and freeze up that section
would bring less money and back less tax dollars in this necessary. It all adds up. If you don't
care about animals, I bet you care about your tax dollars. Helping our humane society helps
your tax dollars go down. It all is connected and we're all connected. And not for nothing,
we're on top of the food chain for a reason because we have a responsibility. You don't get to be
at the top for nothing. It's not like you and anybody you get to the top, it's not that you just
get to sit there and be at the top. There's a responsibility that comes with that. Part of this in
our society is helping animals, helping our humane societies. And the other part is that
this helps the overall if you want to call it wellness of the community. Yep, quality of life.
On a pet or on an own. If you have a pet in your family, that promotes happiness. Wellness.
I mean, you see people with dogs and cats and whatever. They're happier people generally.
Yeah, exactly. Especially if they're elderly or you have children. So it's it is a benefit
to have these animals out in the community. We you ask any officer and any canine officer
who their best friend is, who they spend most time with, who they talk to all the time.
And what makes their job almost tolerable sometimes. And livable sometimes with some of the things
they have to do and they have to see. It's that canine. In almost every department in our country,
we have that. How many of our retirement communities are bringing in animals and bringing in dogs.
Yeah. And all the sudden we're seeing a wave of retirement communities having just energy
and life in them. And it's all connected to these animals. Animals make our lives better.
Another great point. Society wouldn't be where it is without animals for God's sake.
Without horses, where will we be? You know, everything. We can keep going here. Animals and us
are connected. We are we need each other. And this is a part of that. So the last part of the
thing I know we're running short on time is, so out of that 25%. We attract each year. How many
excuse me? How many animals came from each community? We average it out. And we took that percentage.
So then that percentage goes to the municipality. Here's your contract. We're just charging them one
fee per year. Unlimited amount of animals instead of this back and forth. And we're we build
a municipality directly now. And then we send them their records because we act to keep records.
Of course. We say that every month. Yeah. Of every animal we take in and where that animal is and
where it's going. And then the municipality has the option to build their citizens. So we leave that
up to them. Instead of us trying to collect and getting bounce checks and things that don't,
they don't argue. Nobody wants to pay. Well, yeah. So it puts things where kind of where it belongs.
Now this is a brand new. And I'll just wrap up quick. We're going to do this every year. We'll take
the last three years. So now like for this year we use 2021, 22, 23. Okay. For the 25 bill.
The next year we're going to do 22, 23, 24 bill for 26. Yeah. There you go. It will always
balance out. And it's basically a fair system. What I feel is you're paying for what?
Yep. Yeah. No, I think that's a smart way to do it. Yeah. And it really appreciate you letting
us look behind the curtain and see. Here's some of this and everything. And it only brings us more
empathy and more understanding of what our human societies are doing and going through. And hopefully
you know, getting people to reach out and help out. We could always use cat food, cat litter,
these kind of things. If you're picking up some for yours, maybe you can pick up an extra bit.
Looking for volunteers and certainly other things. And most importantly, your new best friend is
just waiting for you with the main society. You've got your new best friend just waiting over
there for you. Go ahead and find out more about some of these great animals. I got to be honest.
I've been distracted by Bella this whole time. Yeah. Last week. Yeah. It's a beautiful. I remember
that. It's a beautiful dog. SWCHS.com SWCHS.com and be sure to follow them on social media as well,
everybody. And thank you so much for the time, man. We appreciate it. Thank you, John forever.
Why didn't we get in here and then talk to you? You're off. That's all right. Anytime. We look
forward to the next Thursday. And we say a big thank you to our friend, Luanne Goats. Luanne Goats
is your local Wisconsin Rabbids Medicare specialist. For over 27 years, she's been helping individuals
find the right Medicare coverage and is dedicated to ensuring you get the best plan for your needs.
If you're nearing Medicare age or considering a SWCH, let her guide you through the process
with her personalized service and commitment to your health. You are in safe hands. Your
Medicare piece of mind starts with Luanne Goats. Give her call 715-424-4393. That's 424-4393
or email her L-Goats at tickinsurance.com L-Goats at tickinsurance.com. Buy local support,
local support those that support us, everybody. Seth and I'll be back with some entertainment news
right here on the morning show. Welcome back, everybody. Morning show here at WFHR,
locally grown radio. We hope you're having a good day out there. Thanks for joining us on this
Thursday. We send a special shout out to Tim and our friends at the South of County main
society. Yeah. That was awesome. Great conversation. It was wonderful. Encourage you to find out more
and reach out to our main society with all your needs, SWCHS.com, SWCHS.com. We have a bit of an
abbreviated entertainment segment here. We'll just get to it. We got to talk to Allie. Allie
Parton sat down with Elle magazine for a long interview and talked about everything from her new
album Smoky Mountain DNA. Great title. That's awesome. She's got great titles for her albums.
It's coming out in November. She talked about her filo pantry. Philanthropy. Philanthropy.
Yes. Man, I hate that word. I don't blame you. I love what it means, but the word is just
nuts. It's a pain in the butt. Eventually they asked her, hey, what are your thoughts on the
current state of country music? We talked a little bit about this on the sunrise show.
Just continue the conversation. As always, Dallie had a perfect and wonderful response.
She said, quote, and look, I would play the audio clip if we had it. You know, I love the
hair voice, but, quote, country music used to be thought of as old, hokey kind of music.
I love the fact that now it's one of the most loved music in the whole wide world.
It's just I'm just proud to say that we've still got country music. We still love it. And
they're still calling it country music, even if it sounds like more like rock and pop.
She went on to say, quote, country music is going to always exist in one form or another.
I'm going to see, I'm going to see to it as long as I live. So now I think we talk a lot about
the king of this or the queen of that or something like that. You know, you got to read the
Franklin, the queen of soul. You got a number of names that are references, the king of rock and
roll or something like that. There is one queen of music and it is Dallie part. I'm just going
to throw that out there. That is a little, I will die out. She is the queen of music, not just
genres or things like that. And it's I say that not just because she is one of the best artists
of all time. She has been doing this for five decades. She has had hits, has been relevant.
Try finding anything like that. The Beatles didn't even do that. What she's done is remarkable.
All of that being said, it's stuff like this that I feel like she is the mayor, the queen of music
because she is speaking about music, all music in general. Right. There's only seven notes.
There's only seven, they're making new notes. No, everybody's playing the same notes. Everybody's
doing something different with those notes. Right. Of course, it's going to be some things are
not going to fit into your little perfect genre or your perfect little label. Oh, man,
human, humans hate that by the way. They love to label things and then put them into boxes and
yeah, well, it is the human, it is the essence of being a human to take this and evolve it.
Hey, we've been, you know, what, I've been pulling this, this, this sled, you know, and this
is really difficult. I'm going to put it on a horse. I don't know. That seems like a lot smarter
idea. I'm going to put it on the horse and let the horse do it. You know, what that horse is
getting tired? Maybe I should have a machine that does this evolution. If we were still doing what
we're doing music like we were in the 1920s, we'd all be insane right now. And that's nothing
against the music of old. I know. I listened to some music from the 1920s. I'm a big jazz guy.
But I love modern jazz. I like the jazz evolved. I like that I hear the Marcelus brothers.
I like hearing that kind of stuff. I have no interest in just listening to music of one genre.
I can still listen to it. But I also like some of this newer stuff. Right. You can do both. And
country music has always been doing this. Country music's done this better than most genres of
music. When's the last time you saw a country artist in rhinestones? Yeah. I mean, when's the last time
you saw a country artist doing this or that? I mean, it all evolves. Same thing with hip hop or
rock and roll or heavy metal. And every generation does this. Every generation is complaining about
the next. Oh, of course. When we were kids, how many hair metal fans were screaming about grunge and
how was going to kill rock and roll? And rock and roll would never be the same with all this
distortion and everything. Yeah. One of my all-time favorite stories is my dad was talking about his
grandma. And about the time, you know, when late late 50s when rock and roll the starting to come
around. And he's playing the Everly Brothers. Mind you. The Everly Brothers. And she said,
turn that rack it off. The Everly Brothers series. No, but it's that's the point, man. Yeah,
it's like every generation hates the music that came before kind of thing. And in part of that,
I love the fact that she's building a bridge here, you know, that kind of thing. She's not saying
it's necessarily what she would do with the kind of music she would make, but she's not poo-pooing it.
Yeah. Like saying, yeah, that's not country music. That's whatever. You know, she's just saying,
hey, this is where it is right now. That's cool. I'm going to do my thing. But I'm not going to,
excuse me, I'm not going to say country music is dead. It's there. It's just evolving and changing,
like what you just said. Yeah. I would and I would think that if you love a certain type of music,
it's still around like she says. It's still we have it still. That's the thing I think to focus on.
Imagine if you're a disco lover. Like that's gone, man. Yeah, I make a new disco music.
They're certain. But you can hear in a lot of dance music. Oh, yeah. You can hear the disco
that was influenced. It's there, but it's in a different form. Exactly. I see her point now.
Yeah, I tip my cowboy hat to her. Yeah. This had to happen at some point. I just wasn't sure which
company and who was going to be behind it, but there is going to be a Jerry Springer documentary
coming out and it is being done by Netflix, which could be good or bad. Netflix made a two-part
documentary called Jerry Springer fights camera action and it drops to January 7th. It will
explore how Jerry's show became one of the biggest and most outrageous TV shows of the 90s
and really of all time. The official synopsis behind the entertaining facade laid out lay some
dark truths. As we hear from the producers and ex guests, a murkier picture emerges.
It's actually too bad Jerry couldn't be around here to defend himself or talk about the show
or maybe not defend himself, maybe just give facts about the show. And potentially answer
some of the things that they are saying in here. He passed away, of course, a pinker at a cancer
just last year. Netflix has some documentaries that they get some credit for, but I cannot
encourage people enough to pay attention to the company and the streaming service or what you're
watching. Netflix does entertainment. They don't do news. So when you're watching the last dance
with Michael Jordan, which I love, we all love to got us through part of the pandemic. That's
not a true documentary. That's a commercial. It's a Nike commercial. It's a Michael Jordan
commercial. I loved every second of it. I ate it up. I can't tell you how much I liked it,
but I also watched it. But you knew what it was. It's not like you were like, wow,
this is life, you know, kind of thing. No, I have not watched every documentary on Netflix.
I've watched a lot of them though. And all of them are about entertainment. Now,
every once in a while, they have a show on there that tells you stuff that's in factual
information about the earth or soil or some of these things. There's some really cool stuff
out there. And I'm not saying none of this is not worth watching. Just have some context when
you go into it that, hey, this is they're saying documentary quotes. Yeah. Because documentary
sell documentaries are really big right now. They always have been, but they had a renaissance really
because again, going back to what we were talking about earlier, what's cheaper to make?
A big Hollywood movie or a doc? Oh, way cheaper. Yep. Way cheaper to make a doc. You know, man,
you get some awards from them and everything. Hey, I mean, like you said, they're real popular
right now. So I mean, yeah, it's a win for everybody, right? I would like to see somebody do a true
documentary and a true behind the scenes and a down the line documentary because the other thing
Netflix does is they are very one-sided with these. They did a documentary on the Tim Donoghies
situation, I believe, with the gambling and basketball. The referee, yeah. It was all from his
side. It was all from his angle. There was no other counterproduct, you know, sides or anything
like that or anything. That's like an essay, yeah. Use words the way they are meant to be used for
what they mean. But it should be, you know, a lot of people, you know, and I think there's a lot of
misunderstanding about Jerry himself. Yeah, not the show or anything like that. He was a really
interesting person. There is the mayor sits in Annie for a while. That's pretty impressive.
We have a couple things we want to touch on real quick before we get to our news break.
We have got some great productions kicking off today and tomorrow. When they're happening today,
our friends at the Silver Foxes let the spirit move you. Move you. It kicks off just hours from now.
We got a two o'clock mat and a going on today. Cool. If you can't make that, they got a
six o'clock show tomorrow and then on Saturday, another two o'clock matinee to wrap everything up.
Not only enjoy the Silver Foxes, but if you're a vage, maybe think about being out there with them.
Yeah. Yeah. Right. You're checking out. Or actually, you know what? I don't believe you have to be
over 50 or a certain age to be of the Silver Foxes. If you're a little, you know, a little fear
about going to the main stage shows. It's a great way to get started. I mean, if you want to just
try it out, just join them. They're a great group of people. They're super nice. Have a lot of fun
with them. They're so supportive and so much fun. There are a few people to come into our studio
that are laughing and enjoying each other more than the Silver Foxes. They have a great time.
Get your tickets and support the local everybody. Let the spirit move you kicking off today at two,
Friday at six and another two o'clock matinee on Saturday. Get your tickets at WRC theater.org.
Seth, we love supporting the kids around here. We do. And we are going to Oz coming up this week.
Are coming up starting tomorrow Friday at seven o'clock and Saturday at seven to two o'clock
matinee on Sunday over at the Wisconsin Rapids Area Middle School auditorium. They are doing
the Wizard of Oz. And I do want to let everyone know this is not like the junior version of the
Wizard of Oz. This is the actual musical of the Wizard of Oz. These kids have put in a lot of work
for that. So make sure you go and support them. Three opportunities to do this. Tickets can be
purchased at the heart of Wisconsin Chamber of Commerce. Also at the Wisconsin Rapids Public
School Central Office at 510 Peach Street as well as one hour before performance times at the
Rams auditorium, seating as general admission and tickets are non-refundable. If you have any
questions call Carol at 715-424-2760 or excuse me, let me try that again. Little dyslexia on myself.
715-424-6721, extension 1058. Give you more information on that. And I have to say,
you know, I do have a stake in this, I do have a child in the performance. So that's why
you need to go and see it. Any chance you get to take in kids theater, do it everybody.
The confidence you build in these kids no matter what they tell in life, they'll be able to take
it with them. It can be transformative, it really can. It's such a fun show. The kids theater is so
much fun. Take it in. Tomorrow we're going to talk a little bit more about a new show coming up
to the Lewis Canton Studio Theater at WRCT next month. I believe that you and I have a really close
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All right. Join Seth and I for some fun conversations. 715-424-2600. Just a touch or two away on
the Civic Media app and we appreciate you downloading the app. We're talking adulting here and
well this is a little interesting. People online are talking about things that basically every
single person on earth experiences when they become an adult but no one talks about because
maybe we all experience it. Maybe that's why. I don't know. Saying I've got to be up early for work
is the adult version of saying my mom said no. That's a good one. That's very good. Actually, I like that one.
That's very good. When you were a kid and you didn't want to do something, my mom wouldn't let me
or something like that. I can't. I got to get up early. I got to get up early. I'd love to go to
that concert but I got to get up early. You start having to have the we have food at home.
We don't need to stop for food. We have food at home. Oh yeah. Specifically for kids on that one,
I would say. Yeah. We're having to tell yourself if you're me. Yes. Yes. No, you don't need to bake
a double cheeseburger. You've got food at home. I don't care if you don't want to eat it. You
get exactly. The kitchen always needs to be cleaned. It doesn't matter if you get take out or if
you're you're gone all day, you will be cleaning the kitchen. It's true. That is so true. That's
a true sad but true. You get irrationally upset when they rearrange the grocery store.
I wish that would hit. Oh, that would hit. I can't find the bread. Where is the bread? I
can't try so darn hard to get in and out of Walmart and then they go and change everything up.
And now it's difficult for me. It's like you can't. You just gotta. It's like a maze without no
cheese at the end. It's not cool. Not fun. Who put this kale at the end of this maze? I'm not
amused. Why are the clothes next to the kale? You spend too much time debating yourself on keeping
a cardboard box because quote, it's it's really a good box. That's a real good. I almost
has. I think everyone have done at least it has to be like a halfway decent, you know, like
reinforced box that's like, man, man, I really don't want to throw this away. I mean, I can
use this for something. My mother, God bless her. She, my father and I are so guilty of this.
And she'll find uses for the boxes way before we ever. That's funny. Just to make use of them
because they won't throw them in recycling or anything. The morning routine now includes 10
minutes of sitting on your bed and thinking about how tired you are. I like did that. I did too.
Oh, that hit close to home. Oh, wow. That was a day. Yeah. I don't call that. I call that
meditation. Yes. It's my morning meditation. More meditate. I'm composing myself. I'm getting
ready for the day. I'm putting a game face on it. Get ready. You have a favorite go to stovetop
burner. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. It's it's the one on the right. Oh, faithful.
We have to them there. Yeah. It's the only one that really works that well too. I was going to say
usually infected. It's the only one that works adulthood is mostly you going, well, I hope this
is how it works. And I'll just keep doing it till someone yells at me. Yeah. A lot of that is the way.
I mean, you worry you get. So first of all, you have to work yourself up until like worried,
you know, anxiety, distress and then and the end you do the same thing. All right. I'm just
going to do it this way. And then yeah, if I mess up someone could tell me this next one,
you have to insert your own word. Okay. When we're little kids and we first learn a swear word
and we get to say it, we say to our friends or whatever and everything. And then as adults,
we have a go-to swear word. Right. I don't care if you're Mr. Rogers. You've got one. Dang it,
darn it. Any of these. Whatever it is, you've got one. So keep that in mind with you whisper
what the blank to yourself 96 times a day. Yes. For me, it's what the what? Right. Yeah.
I have what the what goes through my head at least 90 times a day. Yep. And that's that's a lot
to do with the election season. I will I will I will I would guarantee almost that people say that
that as much as you may be a person who you know, maybe you curse a lot or whatever kind of thing,
you always do it more when you're alone. I know I'm sure I do. Yeah. And I know a lot of the people
that do too. It's funny how I don't swear nearly as much as I used to because of being in radio.
And it's such a obvious thing that you don't do in radio. Yeah. Don't want to mess up, right?
And because before I started in radio, I did swear a lot. I've actually found myself where now
this version of me just doesn't do it very often. Right. Right. It's just weird how it worked out.
What is it? It's only been like twice, right? Yeah. Right. Right. Right. I was there for one of
which was hilarious. Anyway, chores are not done entirely in one session. So washing 30 minutes,
drying 60 minutes, putting away seven to 10 days. Yeah. So true. Did they look into my life? I mean,
it's yeah. Yeah. This is a lot of things. I really under the other the best of you're constantly
toggling between wondering if it's too late to drink coffee and if it's too early to drink alcohol.
I don't really run into that one, but no, no. I can see I can see how people come out. I don't drink
alcohol anymore. So for me, the coffee one is true though. Yeah. I will ask myself, should I do it
now? Or shouldn't yeah? Oh, yeah. Yeah. When you're a little kid, all adults seem like they're
the same age. And when you're an adult, all little kids seem like they're the same age.
That's the one. That's one. That's universal. That's universal. When you're a kid, everyone is old.
Yeah. All adults are old. It doesn't matter. They're actual age. They're all old.
And then we get so new when you get it be an adult. It's so nuanced. You know, it's like, no,
I'm 27. I'm not 31. We tell him 27. You know, certain ages your age means the world. You know,
you're exactly like how many hours you were alive. You've been alive. Right. Exactly. Yeah.
And when you're 20, 15 people could turn up to your house at any moment, no big deal. When you're 30,
it literally takes two months of planning to see one friend for a half an hour.
I forget inviting inviting him over. That takes like a year to make sure I got to plan this party
in like a year. And something's going to come up in between that time. You know, oh, I got this
a doctor appointment. I got to go to something. Come up. Oh, I'm sorry. I got to work in the morning.
Can't yeah, I just really can't do it. And all of this is hilarious and funny and hopefully
made you laugh and everything and hopefully also reminded you that we've got people listening to our
show around the state, around the country. And every one of us were laughing at that. Every one of
us found things that we know. Oh, yeah. I have common ground, right? Common ground. Everybody.
We have more in common than not. And the only people trying to separate us are the people that
have something an ulterior motive for them in theirs. It has nothing to do with you to keep us
all apart. Yeah. And keep that in mind as we go through this time. I'm hearing a lot of talking
heads out there, like talking panic and doom about the coming election and everything. Let's
prove them wrong. Yeah. Let's prove every one of them wrong. You can only take care of your own
self. Right. So to each of you, treat each other with grace during a selection season, keep in
mind that it is your vote and your voice, not my vote and my neighbors and in this person. And
that's person. Take care of your own backyard. Focus on you and your vote. Don't worry about what
other people are doing. They're going to do their thing. You do yours and keep in mind that we
all got to get along. We all got to live on this rock together. We only got the one and treat our
poll workers well. Please treat each other well. It's a tough job already. We want it to go as
smoothly as possible for them. And maybe take a look at that often. Maybe you deserve another
burner on that often. It's finally time to get a new wife. Maybe. We will take a quick time out.
We'll go Bernie. I don't want to get away. Bernie. My name. My name is Todd. My name is
Todd. We'll be back tomorrow. The morning show here at WFHR should be George after George
Birds. Welcome back everybody. Morning show here at WFHR locally grown radio.
We hope you're having a fantastic day out there. Thanks so much for joining us.
Seth and James here to wrap up the show. Take you to the top of the hour. Get you ready for
met and air on air. Yes. Join Jane and Greg every Monday through Friday. Tendon knew some of the
most informed and fun you're going to have in radio. I'm telling you. Love those guys. Yep.
I have a great show you guys. Have enjoy your show. Well more on our shows in a little bit. I
will get into our schedule. But one of the touch on this one. A Shakespeare book has been returned
to a New Jersey library a hundred years overdue. Whoa. Oh, okay. Wow. That's got it. Is that a record?
That's a hundred years. Wow. Not a hundred and one up there. In fact, in the life of King Henry
the Fifth was returned to New Jersey library one hundred and one years after it was checked out.
Peterson Public Library official said a woman named Cynthia found the book while sorting through
the possessions that were had belonged to her deceased grandmother Arlene and discovered they
had been checked out of the library in 1923. Oh my god. I quote from the library. It's never too late
to return overdue library materials. This is the first time I have encountered something like this
that is over 20 years of work in its field. Wow. Over 20 years, he's been in the industry. He's never
seen anything like this. That's amazing. Librarians said that the 1910 printing had a limited run and
is highly valuable to collectors. Oh, wow. The book wasn't quite as overdue as one that was
returned to Pandora libraries in Colorado earlier this year. Officials revealed a copy of Ivan
Ho by Sir Walter Scott was returned 105 years after its due date from 1919. Oh, wow. That's
even cooler. It's pretty cool that you can still return those things and what that could do for that
library. You know, that that's pretty cool. Our library is the coolest things. It really true. Are
they the coolest things around? We love libraries. They're the best. They're our community hub.
Protect them, everybody. Yeah, libraries. We send a special shout out to the South
will County Main Society joining us today. Big make you to Tim in the gang over there. Find out
more about the good work they are doing and impacting you with yourself at SWCHS.com SWCHS.com
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And if you noticed, when you advertise with us, everybody, you get more bang for your buck. I bring
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Give our sales staff a call 424-1300 and join the team, everybody. Yes, please. Join the team with
our newsletter, wfhtr.com. Sign up for that newsletter. It's going to be premiering in a couple
hours. The second episode will drop. The second edition will drop. Go ahead and check that out,
everybody. And also check out our lineup tonight. We got a great one for you from four to five
midday magazine. In part one, our friends, our family, family, natural foods,
teammates, train a hit and they're going to be in with us. Always great. Looking forward to that.
And in part two, Jackie Caratini, associate professor over at UW Extension, going to be with us.
I turned Jackie's mic on and get out of her way. She's always got such great information, man.
That's so good. We're talking about end of life planning. She's so important to many stuff like
that. It's going to be a really, really impactful conversation. And keep in mind, everybody, a
programming note, due to the unexpected technical issues on Monday, we were not able to broadcast our
interview with the ladies from Miss Wisconsin Rapids pageant. So we will broadcast that interview
tomorrow at four o'clock, our first segment in midday magazine. Very cool. We had Amelia, Ruby,
and Addison in. I had a great conversation with them. Man, it was a lot of fun. It'll be playing
tomorrow at four. It was our pleasure this fall to meet and visit with the contestants and hear
a little bit more about them. Good luck to all the wonderful young ladies in our area. We wish
them all the very best in the pageant going on this weekend. Get your tickets for that at Miss
Wisconsin Rapids pageant.org. What a busy weekend. Holy mackerel. Yeah.
And going on tonight, the domestic violence awareness month vigil is happening from six to seven
at Wisconsin Rapids Community Theater at two 23rd Avenue South. Please join us to honor those who
tragically lost their lives due to domestic violence related homicides in Wisconsin Rapids in 2023.
The theme for this year is heal, hold, and center. It reminds us to work together to help heal
victims, hold space for survivors, and center those most vulnerable. This is a solid but also
you know, good time for us and good moment for us. We honor these people and we do it together
and we show where we stand on in history on this. Join us tonight at the Wisconsin Rapids Family
Center at the Wisconsin Rapids Community Theater with the Wisconsin Rapids Family Center from
six to seven for this vigil. We encourage you to do that and we appreciate you being a part of
it. Everybody, special shout out to Wisconsin Rapids Community Theater for hosting this event.
Yes, very nice. Seth, you got something we want to touch on too.
Hey, man, the winter market starts this weekend, everybody, from nine to one over at the Wisconsin
Rapids Moravian Church 310, first Avenue South. It's going to be in the basement like it's been the
last couple of years. Yeah. Come on down just because winter is coming does not mean that the
farmer's market is gone. It's going to be happening from October through all the way through April
when they get ready for the outdoors one. So nine to one every Saturday at the Wisconsin Rapids
Moravian Church starting this Saturday. Come and enjoy everybody. That's going to be a good time.
Our friends at Focus have their neighborhood meals available tonight from 2321 West Grand Avenue.
Doors open at about 415. So seating in that will be arranged then. If you have questions or want
to find out more reach out to them at 715-422-1980. Again, Focus's neighborhood meals going on
tonight at 415 at 2321 West Grand Avenue right here in Wisconsin Rapids. No, but all right.
And sign up for Day of Carrying. Our friends at the United Way of South Wooden M's Counties have
been getting a busy Saturdays. Yeah. Coming up the Saturday too. Day of Carrying is going on
this this weekend, everybody. And you still got time to sign up and be a part of a team or just be
a solo person raking out there. And strangers helping strangers. One of the more beautiful days in
our community is Day of Carrying. Love it. You're going to see a bunch of red shirts out there this
weekend. We encourage you to find out more by going to UWSWAC.org and follow our United Way
on social media as well and be a part of Day of Carrying, everybody. Yes. It's one of the best
things you can do for your soul be a part of things with the United Way. Our great friends at
the historic point bus have their spirit walk wrapping up this weekend. One more opportunity to
take in the spirit walk from 6 to 8 o'clock. Take a guided lantern lit walk tour over historic
point bus. Learn from the individual citizens of Point Bus. It's a wonderful fun event and a great
way to keep history alive. Find out more at historicpointboss.com. And just one more time,
want to remind you that our good friends at the Silver Foxes over at WRCT have their lit the spirit
movie production kicking off today. Two o'clock. Two o'clock go ahead and join them for this
matinee. If you can't make it six o'clock show tomorrow and another two o'clock matinee on Saturday.
Support local support the theater community and have a good time with our Silver Foxes and
Wisconsin Rapids Community Theater tonight today. This afternoon. Yes, indeed. Over at the WRCT
auditorium. Find out more at wrc theater dot org wrc theater dot org. Got a couple of national
good stories. Don't want to talk about it. All right. Hitting a happy hour tonight. The BBC just
did a big write up on a group of guys in England who have met up for drinks almost every Thursday
since 1968. Whoa. They're all in their 80s now. And they say they've only missed about 25 Thursday
Thursdays and 56 years. Wow. That's pretty cool. That's impressive. Speaking of England, a woman
named Kathleen Hennings just turned 105 and offered some advice to people who want to live a long
and happy life. Here we go. Drink Guinness and don't get married. That's that's a case by case
based. It is. I love that because there's always you see I'll call it always out. But I love the
don't get married. That's a little different. That's a little different. A little different.
And the Chicago Marathon was last week in a video of a late finisher is going viral. God,
you got to check this video out. Jeanette, Jeanette Young took just over 10 hours to do it.
But she never quit. And by the time she got to the finish line, everything had been removed.
And no one was there except her friends and family who made their own finish line for her.
Awesome. Her mom put a belt on the ground to mark the end. So she'd know where they were.
And they were there to cheer her on to finish it up. Doesn't matter.
Pub and Beyond. That was awesome. She did it to raise money for the American Heart Association
and to honor an organ donor named Stephen who gave her dad a new heart and back in 2019.
Wow. Great story. It's a pretty cool story. Absolutely. Great show today, Seth.
Yes, it was fun. You guys have a good one out there. Be good to each other. We'll talk to you
soon in the later right here at. This is locally grown radio WFHR 1320 AM W24 ADE Wisconsin Rapids
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