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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 start here.

Wednesday out there.

Happy hump day, everybody.

Got your host, James J here.

I am joined by our head of news,

our co-host, Melissa K.

Good morning.

Star of community stories of Melissa K.

I should say.

We've also got a bunch of other fun things

like you guys joining us.

And our good friend, Brittany Marlowe.

Good morning, Brett.

How are you?

Good morning.

I am fantastic.

The sun is shining.

It's crisp out there.

It's hump day, too.

It's Wednesday.

And we are very excited about not only that,

but the weather today.

That is a really beautiful blue sky out there today.

Sure is.

Get out there and soak it up right now,

because it's not going to last all day.

You guys got this, right?

You guys could take the rest of the...

I really do want to get out there and enjoy that.

Brittany said, too.

So I'm going to go do that.

You know what?

Deal.

Go ahead.

All right.

Perfect.

Good.

See?

It's that easy.

We can't solve all the problems.

Yes.

Well, today's gorgeous.

High temperatures.

Probably hitting about 50 today.

We're still going to have a southeast breeze.

Well, breezy at times,

disgusting around 25 miles per hour.

But it's going to warm us up, right?

It's going to keep us mild overnight tonight, too.

But so is the system moving in.

We've got those clouds increasing throughout the afternoon,

becoming cloudy by tonight.

And of course, light drizzle,

two some spotty sprinkles pushing in overnight.

And it could linger through our early morning tomorrow.

But it's not a big system.

The heaviest hit of rain is definitely going to stay well,

southeast of us,

but just a little bit of an annoyance out there,

maybe tomorrow morning.

That'll be about it.

Okay.

That was fun.

That was a lot of fun.

I really, really enjoyed that.

Thanks, guys.

Thanks.

Thanks for letting me do that.

Did you guys have a fun?

Did you guys do it right there?

Yeah, you didn't have to do six laps around the building, James.

I was a little excessive.

I was.

It was.

You're right.

I pushed it.

I really pushed it.

Not in the shape I thought it was, everybody.

Thank you for any.

We appreciate you.

You're welcome.

Have a good day.

You too.

Best of the business right there.

Fred Brady Barlow joins us every morning, right in this time slot.

We appreciate her.

And I do want to make a side note here.

I do appreciate our audience, the best listeners in the radio.

And certainly for hanging out with us,

and handling some of the technical difficulties we've had over here.

And I want to five, five WIRI yesterday in this morning.

We got the best team in the world working on it right now.

Got our friends over at Salaris and everybody working really hard on this

and appreciate everybody.

So work on it.

We got fun things lined up for you today.

We are going to be getting into the Idle Cafe or the Anniversary Club

in just a little bit.

We've also got a couple of fun ones like the amount of Americans

that are looking for fun-shaped pasta.

I don't know.

There are so many kinds of shapes of pasta that they are fun.

We've also got some flying news for you.

We're going to talk about we have a flying hack.

And we've also got, does checking your bag at airport early entry.

Does that help or anything?

We'll get into those things.

Got a lot of people flying around getting close to Thanksgiving.

Of course, we'll talk about that.

But where are they flying?

We've got the best places for Thanksgiving.

We got the best places in the country, according to this list.

Okay.

And apparently it's not your mother-in-law's house.

No, no, apparently not.

Apparently not.

I was shocked by that, to be honest.

I really thought that was going to be it.

We've also, of course, got our friends at Quality Plus printing

joining us in a little bit with our Quality Plus printing.

We could also more to Wednesday.

We could also.

Oh, we can't wait.

That's going to be a good one.

We know it's going to be good today.

Also, we'll have nine o'clock hour.

Some entertainment news for you.

Want to get into this.

Amy Adams did something I thought interesting for her newest character.

I wanted to touch on that.

I don't know if we did yet or not.

I know we definitely didn't touch on this.

People magazine announced their sexiest man alive.

Oh, good.

I keep checking my email, Melissa.

I have not gotten anything.

No.

And some self-promotion.

We'll do some self-promotion a little bit later too.

We get two minutes of self-promotion a day.

So we are going to use some of that up.

We're going to use some of it.

We're going to do that a little bit later too.

Also, I got a fun one I think here, Melissa.

I think it'll be fun to kind of wrap up the show with.

What's popular right now that you have zero interested?

Oh, good.

I'm glad we're going to get into that.

I think that would be a fun one.

I think so.

But I was trying to think of like we do around here.

We try to find fun light ways for you to kind of get your day going and everything.

And scouring the content world, if you will, came across this one.

And thought this was a pretty fun place to start.

Especially our audience.

We love talking game shows.

Game shows are still just as popular in many ways.

At least around here certainly too.

Do you have like a have you ever dreamed or envisioned yourself on a game show?

I know that a lot of us were watching.

We're playing along.

But I jeopardy one of those ones where I would be horrible at I feel like.

But if I was good at it, God, I would love to be on jeopardy.

Like that's the one I feel like as somebody who fights to feel intelligent.

That show seems like to me like one of those ones.

Where if I just even if not even if I if I want just I want to finish above zero.

I want to do well.

Be in the competition.

You know, I feel like I can hang my head up and everything.

Is there is there anything to stand up to?

Well, when I was a little when I was the youngest, you know, like my first show I wanted to be on was

that Nickelodeon slime game show.

Yeah.

And then it would have been the price is right.

And then in later years, it would have been whose line is it anyway?

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

I honestly, I feel like I would need I would need a little bit of time with those guys to off stage.

Like just just to be just to get you know, comfortable around them so that I'm not so nervous.

Not fanboying.

Yeah, exactly.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I don't know.

There's not many people I would do that with, but I feel like those guys I definitely would do that with.

I definitely would.

Well, another one and I love the double dare and all the Nickelodeon shows.

They need to have an adult version of those for like a slime one.

Yeah.

I don't remember what it was called, but that one was my favorite to watch because it just looked like so much fun.

They got to like dive through what looked like whipped cream.

It was probably something gross like shaving cream or something.

It'd be like that, but it looked like it would have tasted good.

They had a show like that for adults for a little while.

It had like a spike and then it just faded.

Like they couldn't keep it running.

They couldn't keep coming up with ideas.

I believe the host was Ellen.

I don't want to.

Yeah.

Got to come up in there.

Yeah.

I'll look it back.

Oh, you know.

So on Monday's show, a Monday's episode of Wheel of Fortune, which is where we're focused in here.

We're talking game shows.

Monday's episode, one of the puzzle answers was, give yourself a round of applause.

And there were enough answers to make it pretty obvious, but a contestant named Will Jordan guessed something else.

We are going to play that for you right now.

I'd like to buy you.

Well, you're going to get three views.

I'd like to solve a puzzle.

Okay.

Will it's here?

Treat yourself a round of sausage.

Oh, I'm sorry.

That's not it.

Oh, you hear the.

Oh, you hear the.

Oh, and I don't know if that's Ryan Seacrest.

I hope it's not because that's not very professional.

That's not something.

Jack would do, Mr. Seacrest.

But I think it might have been him.

I want to play it just one more time because I'm trying to catch if it's him or Ryan Seacrest.

A round of sausage.

No.

I'm sorry.

That's not it.

Oh, it's so heartbreaking.

Oh, you feel it in your soul.

But I thought that Will handled this pretty darn well.

In an interview with the show's social correspondent Maggie Sayjack, I'm not sure what that is, but she will explain his error.

Quote, I tell you when the lights are on and you know the stars in Ryan Seacrest and Vanna, Vanna White, I just went blank.

As one does.

I, you know, I love the honesty.

I love the honesty.

I love the answer.

And honestly, you know, now this is, this is where I feel like this show you kind of rolled into and you're like, well, I got this.

I mean, I feel like I can figure this one out.

No, no.

So he went on to say, but if your dad in retirement is watching this show and maybe cracks a beer and gets a laugh, it was worth it.

There you go.

That is the way to handle it.

Silver lining.

That is the way to handle it.

But man, that is a rough one.

That is a rough one.

But it's not as if any of it.

We could all like kind of judge it, but we also all don't know how we would handle that situation.

Exactly.

I've been in a lot of intense, very, you know, dramatic situations.

I've been in a lot of situations on stage, like yourself, Melissa, where things don't go right and everything.

We know how we would handle ourselves fairly well in those situations.

But something like this.

I don't know.

It's a little different animal.

Yeah, very much.

And one more thing for you here.

And I thought this was a good story and one to get out there.

A Missouri thrift store is unraveling the mystery of a cache of World War II love letters found in a donation bin.

Oh, wow.

Tina Eifert, manager of the Salvation Army Family Store, in Hannibal, was assorting through donations where when she found a pile of letters sent by Chester McMeen.

That is MC, M-E-E-N, to his wife, Alma, while he was stationed in the Philippines during World War II.

She said there was no way to trace where the donation, who is the donation, donation the letters, which were dated back in September 11th, 1944, in November 27th, 1945, where they had come from.

Quote, there's a lot of history.

So I wanted to find out who they belong to.

Eifert teamed up with Megan Duncan, a local investigative journalist, to solve the mystery.

Duncan discovered McKean and Magdalene had reunited after the war to raise their three children and run a woodworking business in Carbondale, Illinois.

Oh, cool.

In the letters, Chester talked about how, when I get back together, we're going to open a business and we're going to do these things.

And then when you look at their lives and you look at the obituary, you look at the pictures, it all came true.

Wow.

Duncan.

That's awesome.

How cool is that?

Duncan said that she had been working hard to try to track down relatives of the couple and discovered an address that might belong to their son.

She said she sent a letter to the address and is hoping for a reply.

We'll be following up on this one if there is a follow-up to it.

How cool.

And the way that this kind of brought stories and families and people together.

You know, these people, this is a beautiful story that none of us would have ever heard of if it wasn't for this, you know, this thrift store owner kind of taken the next step and, you know, taking the going above and beyond.

Exactly.

That's a really cool story.

And honestly, I know that there may not be too many parallels, Melissa, but I did feel a little bit of a connection from that one to your premiere episode of Community Stories.

One of the congratulate you with that.

And you said earlier that I'm the star.

Well, that's not true.

It's our community who are the stars because I'm a goodness.

I just, I smile listening to those stories all the time that I'm editing and getting them ready.

I can't, it's such a pleasure to be able to share their voices with our audience.

It's so neat.

Well, if you're not the star, why do we have this dressing room over here for you?

Seth and Chuck and I have been working at this dressing room for you.

It's really nice that you guys did that.

We need to give it to Agatha.

Oh, okay, all right.

All right, that's nice of you.

That's very nice of you.

That's very big of you.

Because I really don't need it.

It's right next to my office.

It's radio games.

There's no visual media.

Yeah, I mean, we're working on that.

It's probably a fair point by you.

It's a fair point, fair point.

We will regroup.

We will come back.

Somebody call Agatha.

We don't know why we have all these construction people are not for nothing.

We will come back and have some more fun with the LCAP birthday anniversary club.

It's Melissa and James taking you through your morning right here on WFHR.

Okay, so our computer is...

Oh, there we go.

No, it's not.

No, it's stopping.

There we go.

Welcome back, everybody.

Just give me a second here, because we are having some crazy fun with our computers today.

Hey, Selena, would you mind?

It is time for the LCAP birthday anniversary club.

Melissa is not on mic, too.

She is on this one.

Hey.

You're on.

Oh, fun.

We have got some...

We got the LCAP birthday anniversary club to do right now.

Everybody, let's go ahead and dive right into it.

For our favorite parts of the day, we get to celebrate our friends at LCAP and all of you.

Join our friends at LCAP and head on over to their Facebook page, everybody.

Not only is it a great way to keep up to date on your specials and different things going on over there,

but turns out that they got a morning breakfast club over there, and it looks happening.

Hey.

It looks pretty cool.

I want to get in on this.

They got a lot of people involved in it.

Go check that out and check out plenty of other things with our friends over at LCAP,

a 221 market avenue and beautiful port Edwards head on over there today, everybody.

You'll be sure to get some delicious food.

Yeah.

You ain't going to find a more creative menu.

A really, really amazing menu over there by then.

We appreciate it.

Friends at LCAP and again, thanks for sharing the picture.

That Tuesday morning.

That is a great big group.

Tuesday morning breakfast club.

It looks fun.

We want more birthdays and anniversaries.

More.

We want more of them.

Get them to us, everybody.

You can email us info at wfhark.com.

Feel free to do that.

You can of course direct messages and email any of our staff.

Go ahead and do that.

You can know like james.mailf at civicmedia.us.

Melissa.K.

It's civicmedia.us.

Seth is just Seth because he's Seth.

He's Seth.

I mean, it's Seth at civicmedia.us.

Don't just type Seth and your email bar and expect it to go anywhere because he doesn't have those kind of powers.

I do like the idea of just some random Seth out there.

Just keeps getting all these requests and these different comments.

Who is this person?

I mean, I'm glad to know it's your birthday.

Yeah.

And of course, call up and join the conversation, everybody.

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715-424-2600.

You can even wish your birthday or anniversary live on air.

And that's just one button dial in with civic media app.

Looking forward to that.

And thanks so much to everybody who has already downloaded that app.

Mel, I need a free.

It is free.

Go ahead and get it wherever you get your apps, everybody.

I need a one or a two.

One.

All right.

It gives us that qualifier.

And we can get right into it.

And first up, we want to wish happy birthday to Lee Dobs.

Happy birthday, Lee.

Enjoy your day, Lee.

Wishing you the best of them.

And we also wish happy birthday to our qualifier, Andrea Ross.

Happy birthday, Andrea.

Andrea.

Enjoy your day.

We wish you the best of days.

And joy.

I say celebrate and brag to all kinds of people about it.

Go ahead.

Absolutely.

We take a look at our celebrity list of birthdays.

And looks like, oh, Gerard Butler is 55.

Really?

The star of Olympic is fallen.

King Lee Initis in 300.

Essentially 1900 action movies in the last, like, you know, 10, 15 years or whatever.

The Olympus has fallen movies like that or the White House.

Those are really good, actually.

I really, I went into them just putting them on.

They're really good.

But I think that maybe his most noteworthy performance is the Phantom and the Phantom of

the Opera.

It was a, he was a very unknown actor at the time when he was cast in that role.

And people just were blown away like, who was this guy?

Not an overnight sensation by any means, but it was the beginning of where he would

get to right now, where he's, as long as he wants to, he'll be working.

Like, he's always going to find work.

And he ladies, he's never been married.

Really?

Huh?

Yeah.

He's good.

He is a strong actor.

And a very handsome man.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Just one of those guys that you know if you sign him up for something, he's going to give you

everything he's got and give you a, maybe Gerard Butler is not a Thespian and not one of the greatest actors in the world or anything.

But he'll give you everything he has.

And that's pretty good.

That's a way above average, I would say.

One of the better men and late night tonight for, well, he's still there at least.

Jimmy Kimmel was 57.

All right.

So he, Jimmy Kimmel got into this and I don't think a lot of people, well, not I don't think.

There was just a lot of people who didn't expect him to necessarily do as good as he did.

And he kind of took over late night.

I would say that he's probably the biggest name in late night television now.

And Jimmy Fallon ruined it tonight, so that isn't nearly what it used to be.

And when that happened, that opened a door and Jimmy Kimmel kind of stepped through it.

Okay.

And that's why I'm confused because I know you don't like Jimmy Fallon.

Yeah.

And I get, I get them confused.

I mean, they have the same first name.

That's fair, right?

It's fair.

That's fair.

And I don't watch much late night.

Yeah, yeah.

And so what Kimmel does, he's on for us around here, you know, Channel 9 ABC.

And Jimmy and Jimmy Fallon is on NBC, you know.

Okay.

Yeah.

And Kimmel does a nice job on there.

Yeah.

Steve Zahn is 57.

Great character actor.

Sheriff Ellis in the crossing.

He was in tremmy.

He was also in reality bites.

That thing you do, saving Silverman.

Good actor.

That's a good job.

How is he connected with Diary of a Winpy Kid?

Is he in that too?

Yes, I believe.

I think he was the dad in that.

I want to say he was the dad in that.

He got winner and one of the greats, Whoopi Goldberg is 69.

The view, of course, is where you find her most nowadays.

It does still act a little bit here and there.

Sister Mary and Sister Act movies.

Oda and Ghost.

Gunna in the Star Trek.

The next generation.

I know I got to make sure I mentioned that.

What I get in trouble with some people if I don't.

Good.

And of course, as I mentioned, I got wetter.

She is one of the few people out there who is one in Emmy, a Grammy, a Tony, an Oscar.

She's one of them all.

Yeah.

Awesome.

And Winpy Goldberg.

Well deserved too.

And I guarantee you, Winpy Goldberg first signed an agent.

Nobody saw that coming.

That's not on Winpy Goldberg.

That's on the entertainment industry.

Actress like her.

Watch the color purple.

Watch the color purple.

Especially if you've never seen it before, get out there and watch that movie.

It's not an easy watch, but it's a must watch.

And her performance in it.

I would have given her, like, she won all those awards for separate things.

I'd have given them to her right there.

Like, just go ahead and take these.

You deserve them, Ms. Goldberg.

And thank you for acting.

Thank you for deciding to act because she's a hilarious stand-up comedian.

And didn't really even need to get into acting.

She never even really needed to do this.

And without that, we don't have the group.

Because there's nobody.

One thing I think the great signs of an actor is, can you picture anybody else in this role?

Whether any of those roles I just mentioned, I don't think you can picture anybody else in any of those roles.

It's her and nobody else.

No, no, she's pretty iconic.

Chris Noth is 70.

Wow, 70.

Peter and the good wife.

And Mr. Big in Sex and the City.

Good character actor.

Speaking of good character actors and just great actors, Joe Montaigne is 77.

Agent David Rossi on Criminal Minds.

Joey Zaz and the Godfather.

And of course, Fat Tony on The Simpsons.

I almost said The Simpsons.

My two favorite chose The Simpsons of The Simpsons.

I don't know if I ever thought of that, but they're both like they have a very similar day.

I've never thought of that.

Joe Montaigne is a great actor.

Fantastic.

And people no longer with us.

The Great The Legend Gary Marshall born in 1934, passed away in 2016.

Penny Marshall's brother, he created just, you know,

he didn't do too much.

But he created happy days and, and lemon and Shirley and, and, and the odd couple.

And, oh, and he wrote on the Dick Van Dyke show and in the Lucy show.

And he directed Pretty Woman and the Princess Diaries.

Oh, and this TV show, Morgan Mindy, that he did where he discovered this guy, Rob Williams.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You know, Gary Marshall.

Okay, career.

Okay.

No, one of the legends.

One of the legends of entertainment, Gary Marshall.

Also one of the funnest interviews.

You get a chance to watch an interview with Gary Marshall.

You talk about a guy who was not going to put on airs.

Yeah.

Like what you see is what you get with Gary Marshall.

And I love that about him.

Fantastic.

Creative.

Wonderful creative.

One more time.

We wish Happy Birthday to Lee Dobs.

Happy Birthday Lee.

And a Happy Birthday to Andrea Ross.

Happy Birthday, Andrea.

Congratulations.

You're our qualifier.

Go ahead and celebrate to everybody.

Go celebrate with everybody.

Go ahead and let everybody know.

Share the, share the love, share the work.

And get over to Elle Cafe for some pie.

They have just amazing pie and a huge variety of choices.

They have your favorite.

I guarantee it.

If you, if you are looking for, especially looking to try something different and unique,

head on over to 221 Market Avenue and Port Edwards.

Let our friends over at Elle Cafe know that you're heading out and over there.

You heard us talking about him.

And we wish him a great day.

And thank you so much to everybody that got to see his birthdays and anniversaries.

Keep coming everybody.

Yeah.

More and more and more.

Well, I've celebrated with you guys.

More.

We will take you time out.

We'll come back and listen.

I get back.

We're going to look into how many of us Americans are looking for these fun shape pastas.

And we've also got a little bit of airline tags, hacks for you in tips.

All right.

We will get into some of that.

And of course, we got the, we could also wear the Wednesdays still coming up.

Thank you to awesome.

All of that and then some coming up here on the morning show at WFHR.

Well, come back everybody.

Morning show on WFHR.

Melissa and James here with you.

We hope you're having a great one out there.

Thanks so much for joining us.

Let's dive right into a good one right here.

Here's a fascinating stat that you may not know.

46% of Americans are on the lookout for fun shapes of pasta to try.

Okay.

And 54% say that interest in new pasta shapes increases depending on the season.

And for those people, that's great.

For those people, there's this great news.

The pasta company, Barilla.

Barilla was announced, has announced that they have an exciting new product coming this holiday season.

Pasta shaped snowflakes.

That's new.

I guess.

I've never seen it before.

I've never heard of it before.

I mean, maybe there's another company that I cannot scour the internet or the planet looking at pasta shapes.

But they're telling me it is and I'm guessing that it is.

So I'm going to trust about this one.

Okay.

There will be three shapes in each box.

So unlike actual snowflakes, each piece will not be unique.

Which seems like a missed opportunity.

They could have really just kind of likely had value.

Oh, but that would have taken a lot of...

Probably.

A lot of manufacturing.

Probably.

Right.

It would just be like random chip, like little pieces of pasta.

Like, you have to get the snowflake effect.

You have to look at them under a microscope.

Yes.

Oh, yes.

If you've never done that, everybody, do that this winter.

That is a fun thing to do.

So the boxes of snowflake pasta will only be available for a limited time beginning next month, exclusively at Walmart.

Berilla says, quote, we hope that it inspires moments of togetherness, helping to create new memories with loved ones.

Which is, you know, possible, I guess.

I don't know.

I mean, I hope people have fun with them.

I don't know.

I don't know what else to do with the pasta shapes.

I mean, the pasta shapes are fun.

And looking it up, I didn't find the picture of it.

But I don't know if we need snowflakes to make pasta more fun.

There's already so many fun shapes.

I was going to say, I mean, I feel like we've kind of like, I don't know that there's a new shape you're going to come up with here.

But I don't feel like, I don't know.

I don't know.

Snowflake is it.

I don't know what you're going to do.

I do see one that's got like snowmen and a snowflake, but it's not Berilla.

Okay.

But yeah, I mean, I don't know.

Pasta is fun.

I love pasta.

I will eat pasta in any shape.

You give it to me.

Okay.

I agree.

What is everybody's favorite noodle out there?

What is your favorite pasta noodle?

I think I've mentioned many times.

Rigatone is easily by far and away my favorite.

It depends on what you're using it in though.

I mean, if you're going to have a pasta with, or say for instance, chicken masala, I want that over angel hair pasta.

Sure.

Yeah.

If you're not having it over mashed potatoes, which is also a good alternative, but angel hair pasta is the best for that.

Or any kind of like a shrimp dish with maybe like a garlic olive oil sauce on it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But if you're going to like add pasta to soup, I really like the rings for that.

Okay.

Or the, I don't know what they're called, but the rings that are longer.

So they're like a, I don't know.

Like a...

I can't think of what you're talking about, but I cannot think of the actual name of them.

But I do, I do.

I think I'm almost positive.

There's at least three or four people out there yelling at the radio.

It's what you usually find in a minestrone soup.

Yeah.

There you go.

That minestrone.

That's what I was thinking.

It does have a name though.

The noodle.

I just can't think of it.

It does.

But Zedi is great.

Oh.

For Fala, which is like the little bow ties.

Those are also awesome.

Yeah.

Awesome.

Many wheels.

Don't forget about them.

Many wheels, James.

And don't forget to let us know what you guys are saying.

What is your favorite noodle out there?

Let us know everybody.

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There we go.

And one of the touch on this one too.

An Emperor Penguin is being cared for by wildlife experts after becoming the first member of its species

to make the 2,200 mile trek from Antarctica to Australia.

Oh, wow.

The Australian Department of Bio-Diversity Conservation and Attractions said that the male penguin, Nicknamed Gus, was...

He was malnourished, malnourished, malnourished when he was first spotted near Denmark about 250 miles south of Perth in Western Australia.

Surfer Aaron Fowler was among the first to spot Gus emerging from the waves on November 1st.

There was this big bird in the water and we thought it was another sea bird, but then it kept coming closer to the shore and it was way too big.

And it just stood up and waddled right over to us.

Fowler theorized the bird which showed an unusual comfort around the humans might have thought we were penguins because of our wet suits.

Oh.

And this wouldn't be the first time because keeping mind everybody, penguins can't necessarily really look up.

Like they don't do that very often.

I mean they can physically, but they don't do that kind of thing very often.

So most penguins are kind of like just at their eye level.

So they're just seeing kneecaps and wet kneecaps or wet suit kneecaps, I don't know if I can see it.

Like a penguin.

And come on, give him a break, you've been traveling a long way.

He's probably tired.

It's exhausted.

Carol Bibb of registered wildlife rescuer from the Don't With the Department captured the penguin and brought it back to her facility for care.

Quote, never in my wildest thoughts would I have thought I'd ever have an emperor penguin to care for.

It's just amazing.

It's such a privilege to be a part of this bird's journey.

That's really cool.

Gus initially weighed in at 51 pounds far less than the hundred pound weight that is common for an adult male emperor penguin.

Oh wow.

The department officials said that they are still looking to whether it or would be feasible to bring Gus back to his home continent.

Don't do that.

I don't know if that's a good idea.

I mean he traveled all that way for a reason.

Quite possibly.

Look, I don't want to get into Gus's affairs here, but he may owe some people some money or something like that.

The reason he left might be a reason Gus left.

I mean, you're going to travel that far.

There's a reason, right?

You would hope so.

Maybe Gus is in, you know, he's been hiding.

I don't know why.

I don't know if it's a great in all seriousness.

It does seem like well, he traveled that distance for a reason.

It makes sense to kind of like I don't know.

It's like turning a turtle around and putting it on the other side of the road.

They're just going to go again.

It feels like that's what's going to happen here.

It feels like, yeah, like you, oh my God, I've got to make that trip.

And the trip, like this trip almost killed him.

If he tries to do it again.

That's the serious business.

I don't know.

I also don't want to put this on the biodiversity, you know, conservation people or anything either,

because I don't know if in Australia they have what it takes to take care of a penguin.

Yeah, there's that.

That's a tough one.

And, you know, all this because of a gambling debt Gus.

I mean, really, really, was it worth it?

Was it worth it?

Gus, really?

I love the idea that that's what this is.

Gus just shows the wrong people, the wrong about money.

That's what it is.

And you know, he's probably, we should probably stop referring to him as Gus.

He really needs to be anonymous here.

So can we just call him Sam?

Oh, yes.

See, I thought we, I thought Gus was the anonymous name.

I don't know.

I didn't know if it was his real name.

You're right, though.

I just give a name.

I'm not sure.

I found the name of that poster, though.

It's Ditalini.

Dital, okay.

Now, see, I can tell you right now why that went in popular.

I'm glad you found the name, though, was bugging me.

I couldn't think of what the name was for that one.

It's classic soup pasta.

Yeah.

Yeah, it's a good one.

Well, let's go ahead and take a time out.

We'll come back and we've got a couple of fun ones for you.

Like, our good friends of quality posts.

We're going to be joining us any moment now with our wicked awesome word of Wednesday.

We're looking forward to that and plenty more on the morning show here at WFHR.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio, Melissa and James hanging out with you.

We hope you're having a good one out there.

And we are ready to go with our quality plus printing wicked awesome word of Wednesday.

We got Phil Hartley on the phone right now.

Good morning, Phil.

Hey, good morning, James.

How's it going over there?

We're doing good over here.

How are things going over at the shop?

Yeah, the windows are all got the screens off and the sun shining in and we're ready to roll.

Right on.

Very good to hear.

Very good.

Phil always curious about what kind of projects you guys got going on over there.

I know that you are hard at work with those great coloring books that are going to be

coming out real soon.

Yeah, those are, we should be printing those later this week early next week and we're

getting them ready, of course, for the Christmas celebration coming out here and Wisconsin

Rapids and in the Kusa and we'll hand them all during those parades.

But yeah, looking at just finalizing the final sponsors, waiting for a few people to get

back to us and we can trace as early as it all designed and laid out.

So we're ready to rumble just a couple of few things and then we're going to get them

out there.

So yeah, I'm excited for this.

It looks really neat.

So I'm excited to get those to the children of our area.

Is there an age limit on those Phil or just meant that does it have to be children on

one?

Perfect.

Perfect.

Good to hear.

Very good to hear.

And we're going to bring you guys and we'll have some here too if you want to pick them

up.

You don't break after Thanksgiving.

They can come get a free copy of them as well.

Good to note.

Good to know.

And we will definitely be mentioning that and encouraging people to pick one of those up.

And a big thank you to you and all the sponsors, that team of yours over there.

Everybody getting behind this.

It's such a fun thing and I know how much the community is looking forward to it, especially

the kids.

Yeah.

Thanks.

You know, and the great part of it too is we raised usually somewhere between $4,000

and $5,000.

So you're not away off of the efforts of our sponsors and the people that kick in to

help me get the book printed and the local companies, again, that our distributors and our

people that we work with that are donating paper and donating some of the printing

costs.

Again, make this book great to produce and so we can make it free to everybody.

So it's a great effort and I love seeing people come together and something like this.

You guys had some guests, some royalty at the shop yesterday.

How did that go?

Well, I'm really well.

Thanks for mentioning that.

We helped proudly sponsor Mr. Wisconsin Rapids and Miss Teen and we've done that for

several years.

Even before Maria got involved a couple years ago, my daughter was Mr. Wisconsin Rapids

for a year.

We've been helping out.

You say I'm seeing it a long time ago, which is a lot of fun.

So yeah, we get the new winners, the Commover, Olivia and Bianca and get their picture taken

under our sign and you can give them a little tour about what we do here and then to

envision for a great year with two very nice, very classy and very smart young ladies

that we get that they get out in the communities and I don't know, it's just a great program.

We're looking forward to having them join us on the year here soon and great kids, great

kids, all of them.

A big shout out to all the contestants and of course, to Olivia and Bianca for winning.

Phil, we have made the audience wait long enough.

They're dying to know what is our wicked awesome word of Wednesday.

So usually I try to pick a positive word but this one has maybe some negative connotations

but we're going to turn it into positive because it's one of the most my most favorite words

to say.

Fort.

Fort.

Fort.

They are deep.

Fort.

They are deep.

Fort.

Fort.

Yeah, that's a good one.

Fort.

Yeah, I love it.

But using these to put it in a stop to something or try to stop somebody from doing something.

But a lot of times you hear it in a negative way, they towarded my, I don't know, the pack

was got towarded by a pass rush or something.

Yeah, yeah.

I'd like to thank you.

Let us help you sort your printing woes and come here.

Yes, yes, yes.

We thought away the negativity around here.

I can't say thought without doing it like royal, like royal, like I feel like it's

one of those royal kind of way way with it, too, it feels like you have to really present

it to really.

It feels like they must have said it money Python a few times.

Absolutely, absolutely.

Our plans have been thwarted.

Yes.

It is but a flesh wound.

Let us do a lot of printing about Christmas cards, Christmas letters, things like that.

So don't be tormented by trying to do it on your home, your home little printer or your

business printer.

Tracy can design them here and we can print them here and you will not be thwarted.

No, no.

There you go.

That's perfect.

I've been often thwarted by my home printer.

It's interesting.

I've tried to think of all these classic money Python lines I want to insert thwarted

to.

Nobody ever expects the Spanish toquisitions thwarting.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

This pair of ceases to thwart.

This pair of ceases to thwart.

Nothing works.

Phil, we appreciate you so much.

Ken, I know they bring your creative ideas, bring those fun things to our friends over

quality of post printing.

Keep in mind, this holiday season, they can help you with all those holiday needs that

you...

That's a great idea going over there with the gift cards and thank you cards.

Bring them to the quality plus and buy local support local everybody.

Yeah, I find a lot of businesses that do end of the year, thank you, type of cards,

you know, and we've been doing a bunch of those for some local businesses as well.

So, ideas like that, we've been very proud to help you with.

Head on over there today.

Thanks a lot Phil.

We appreciate you.

We'll talk again next Wednesday.

Take care, you guys.

Take care now.

Talk to you next Wednesday.

Looking forward to it.

You too, Phil.

Say hi to the gang over there for us.

And you go over there to A Street and say hi to everybody at 3515 A Street South right

here in Wisconsin Rapids.

You can give me a call, 715-423-744-0.

That's 423-744-40.

Go ahead and join our friends at Quality Plus Printing by local support local and support

those that support this community everybody.

They will help thwart your holiday Christmas card blues.

Nicely done.

Nicely done.

I love talking about that.

That was a great conversation.

That was fun.

That was fun.

Let's go ahead and we're just going to take it to the top of the hour everybody.

We have used up all of our timeouts, so we're just going to go ahead and go right to

the top of the hour.

Keep going.

Got a good one here.

I'd love to hear from everybody out there about this.

So most people spend Thanksgiving at the homes of family or friends, but if you're looking

to travel for a destination Thanksgiving, which apparently is a thing, the best places to

go are right here.

We've got right here for you, California and Kentucky.

Really?

Yeah.

So without its annual list of the best cities for Thanksgiving, considering stuff like food

costs, local traditions, pumpkin patches, charitable giving, volunteer opportunities,

and weather.

They considered 100 cities and in the end, San Diego was named the top place to celebrate

Thanksgiving and two cities in Kentucky were close behind.

Interesting.

The top 10 San Diego, Atlanta, San Francisco, San Jose, Dallas, Lexington, San Antonio,

Las Vegas.

Louisville, Kentucky, and Orlando, the bottom 10, Stockton, California, Halea, Florida,

San Bernardino, California, New Orleans, Anchorage, Long Beach, Laredo, Newark, Newark,

New Jersey, Riverside, California, and Tula Vista, California.

So apparently, like, best and worst places to go are in California.

Yeah.

I was going to say, you go to California, just make sure you get to the right spot.

Right.

You go to the wrong spot.

You're a trouble.

Don't go to Alaska for Thanksgiving.

Yeah.

That's noted.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Actually, I spend Thanksgiving out in California once.

And it's that it was when I, the only time I've ever done the whole frame, friend's giving

thing.

Okay.

It was great.

It was fun.

We, we actually went to an aquatic zoo.

But then it was fantastic.

It was awesome.

St. Paul, Minnesota, comes in at number 12 on the list in San Diego, Ohio at 13.

Well, there's some close ones you could actually maybe get to if you didn't want to fly.

Yeah.

Minneapolis at 27.

Okay.

Okay.

And let's see here.

Wow.

Hmm.

Getting pretty low here.

I'm not finding us.

Um, let's.

No Wisconsin cities.

Chicago's at 65.

Milwaukee is at 73 and that's in as at 78.

Okay.

73 and 78.

You know, not bad considering there's a lot of cities in this country.

It's big.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I don't know if you've noticed.

I feel like when it comes to these things, uh, so often the weather plays into it.

Um, and I don't know if it should anymore.

I don't.

I mean, well, I think it's going to play in differently.

Oh, yeah.

Definitely.

Definitely.

Absolutely.

Uh, but as far as like this time of year, people not wanting to come for Thanksgiving

because of the, you know, winter or cold or something like that, I mean, I don't know.

I was only a couple of weeks ago.

We had 80 degree weather.

Exactly.

Yeah.

That's what I mean.

Be a warmer holiday going forward.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I don't know.

It seems like, uh, no matter what we can't get a nice Halloween, though, like the weather

is just always bad on Halloween, it feels like it was chilly.

That's for sure.

But, uh, yeah, you're right.

Thanksgiving.

I mean, it's looking by all rights and there's plenty of years where we've gotten snow on

Thanksgiving or had snow or anything, but it was kind of a few years here and there where

it was warm.

I remember some Thanksgiving playing football outside with family, you know, oh, yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, and by warm, I mean, warm for Wisconsin, the Midwest, you know, it was like upper

forties.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Midwest warm, I think is a good way of putting it.

Yeah.

Midwest winter warm.

Yes.

It's above freezing.

We're happy.

Exactly.

Exactly.

A little bit later, we're going to get into this fun topic in the 9 o'clock hour.

What's popular right now that you have zero interested, though?

We'll get into that one a little bit later.

But I thought that as long as we're telling people about great destinations, Melissa, let's

go ahead and tell them a little bit about some of these flying hacks that we're coming

across.

I thought these were kind of interesting.

So one of the things that I think a lot of people do, the checking of the back, a bag

it, you know, someone asked if there's any truth to the idea that how early you check

in your at the airport determines when you're checked, checked bag will come down the conveyor

belt at your destination.

Yes.

Yes.

When it was loaded into the plane.

Yeah.

Some people think if your bag is one of the first ones on the plane, it'll be one of the

first ones off when you land.

The baggage handler said there's some truth to it, but the carts are of luggage don't always

get loaded in order.

So there's no guarantees.

Right.

And if you have a connection.

Russian relied at that point.

Exactly.

And if you have a connecting flight, that changes things too.

Right.

You just hope your bag makes it with you.

At that point, you're not, yeah, you're just hoping it comes off the conveyor belt.

Whether it's first or not is all secondary.

He also shared some tips on the best and worst types of luggage.

Thought this was interesting.

He said the worst are bags with no wheels or bags with four wheels where one wheel is

broken.

Since it won't roll correctly and the best are the bags that are a harder outer shell

and a soft lining inside.

So I mean, that keeps your stuff safe.

Yeah.

Before the airline workers to pack it into the belly of the plane.

Another baggage handler was in the news earlier this week warning people not to tie a colorful

ribbons on their bags to help identify them.

He said those ribbons can interfere with the scanning process and can delay your bag.

In some cases, it may miss your flight entirely.

According to him, having a suitcase without identifiers with like ribbons and old travel

stickers gives it the best chance of arriving without any issues.

That just seems weird.

Does that seem weird?

Yes.

Like, why wouldn't it matter if you have a sticker on your suitcase?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Like, I don't know.

Like that little flimsy piece of paper is going to interfere with the scanner?

Yeah.

I feel like that's on the scanners.

Like, I feel like the scanners should be better.

I haven't had this.

I don't even know what happened to this bag I have, but I did have a great traveling case.

And on that, I had like all of my trips.

My trips to Texas, my trips to California, my trips to Cleveland, like all of it I had

on there.

And I had more of that like a badge.

Like I was proud of that thing.

I don't know.

I don't know why it would interfere with that much of it, but I also don't know much about

that job.

You know, I'm not all going to pretend that well, I get a little upset when and I'm doing

this right now.

Right.

Right.

We're both doing it.

We're both doing it.

Why would that happen?

I wholeheartedly owed it.

As the industry is telling us, don't do that.

Yeah.

Because it messes things up.

Wait a minute.

Why?

Wait a minute.

Let me tell you.

Now, that's the difference though.

I don't think it's a problem to ask why.

Yeah.

That's just to assume or just to kind of, you know, bark at them or whatever is one thing.

But I do think asking the question is fair because it's a very good question.

Yeah.

And I can see it from the, you know, consumers perspective too of, well, how am I going

to make sure nobody takes my bag at the carousel because they all look the same.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I just have a black hardshelled suitcase.