Connie Henke (Hour 2)

Good morning, Wisconsin.

Morning, world.

It's a new day.

Thanks for kicking it off with us right here at WFHR.

Sing it, Marvin.

Got your host, James behind the mic.

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

Good morning.

And the best listeners and radio.

Thanks for joining us, everybody.

Hope you all have a great Tuesday out there.

Mel and I are going to get in some entertainment in a little bit.

We're going to talk about our lights of love event coming up.

We got that on the way.

Preview our day ahead and our schedule.

Also get into a fun one.

What do the top five must have Thanksgiving foods?

We got that coming up as well for you.

But right now, we're joined by friend of the station,

friend of the community, Connie Hanky, Art Director

over at the Alexander House in Port Edwards.

And of course, a great watercolor artist herself.

Connie, thank you so much for joining us.

Yes, thank you, James.

Always appreciate it.

I'm a little more sophisticated, too.

Hi, Connie.

Sorry.

Oh, I'm glad you guys did that.

That's see, we know that that's working.

So that's great.

Mel has any questions for Connie, she could ask.

But Connie, thank you so much for joining us.

I want to dive right into this awesome exhibit

that's going to be premiering this weekend

over at the Alexander House.

Yes, we have an exhibit opening Friday night

from five to eight pm.

And we will be showing evolving dimensions

a multifaceted journey through art.

It is a solo exhibition featuring two

and three dimensional works by William Carberg

from Port Edwards, Wisconsin.

So we're really excited having a local artist

and he will be taking over the whole house with his work.

So we're really excited about that.

We will provide refreshments at night

and William will be there, will be present

and the display will remain at the house

until January 7th.

Oh, great.

First off, a big congratulations to William for this.

I can't imagine how great this must feel

humbling and must feel to be able to do something like this.

And it's one of the things that we certainly love

and appreciate about the Alexander House

being able to highlight and support local artists

and everything.

We're big creatives around here

and appreciate what you guys do there.

But I have to say too, I encourage you

to go to Alexanderhouseonline.org.

You can get a little bit of a look at some of his work.

Wow, Connie, like this is wow, he is good.

This is some really interesting work.

Yes, yeah, very, very nice work,

prolificed in the fact that he does, you know,

all different types of work in the media.

So the show will have paintings, jewelry and sculpture.

So it'll be a great show.

I look forward to seeing this sculpture work.

I haven't seen some of that,

some of his jewelry, some of his painting work here.

The jewelry is very unique.

And granted, this is not my wheelhouse,

I don't know that much about jewelry.

But it looks very unique to me

and very unlike pieces I've seen in the past,

but his painting is just beautiful.

And there's a similar thing with his jewelry

to his painting with the use of colors that I see,

that I really enjoy.

He's got quite a use of color, quite a creativity with that.

Right, right.

And the majority of his paintings will be in watercolor.

So, yeah, that'll, it'll be a great show

and, you know, between the paintings and the jewelry

and the sculpture, yeah, it'll, it'll be a great show.

It sounds like there's something for everyone.

And then plus, you also get to experience it

at the Alexander House,

which I got to come to your last opening.

And that was just lovely to see it in that setting

with everybody there and people to talk to and chat with.

It was really, really fun.

Oh, right, right.

It's a great place for artists to show their work

and for people to come in and to view work.

And it's a, yeah, it's a great facility

and our lighting on the pieces is fantastic.

Fantastic.

It's state of the art, a lot of artists comment on,

wow, my pieces are just glowing.

So, it's fun for the artists too.

And it's neat to see them in that like home setting,

like you could picture that painting in your own home.

Yeah.

Right, right.

Yeah.

Will this artist have things for sale at the exhibit?

Yes, he will.

He will have, yes.

I think the majority of the work will be on sale.

There's just a few pieces that will not be on sale.

Plus, he'll have, not only the work,

but he'll have a lot of cards to them for sale.

Oh, perfect.

With the holidays coming up, that's perfect.

Right, right.

You know, something that isn't a major investment that people

can, you know, purchase.

One thing I really appreciate about being able to have

Carl on William on hand at Carl Berger,

shortened his last name.

Oh, we're having William on hand here and everything

is not only getting a chance to meet him

and, you know, be able to talk about this work with him

in individual pieces and getting his mindset on it

or something like that.

I'd love talking to artists and creatives about

how the creation of the work, how the sausage was made,

if you will.

But one other thing I think that really happens,

not only when you bring somebody like William and Connie,

but any of our local artists, individuals,

other people in the community meet William,

they get to talk to him and they realize,

Williams, just like me.

Like, there's no reason that I couldn't be doing this too.

And we have so many amazing creatives in this area

that may not even realize their artists,

may not even realize they could be doing this too

and maybe encourages them to reach out to the Alexander House

or, you know, any of our great, you know, nonprofits around here

that support the arts and maybe promote their work

and put their work out there.

We cannot have enough great work.

We cannot have enough great creatives.

Oh, yes, definitely.

That's a fun part of this.

And William's gonna be down there.

Connie will be down there.

We encourage you to get down there this weekend.

The grand reception will be held on Friday, November 22nd,

from five to eight over at the Alexander House.

The artist will be present.

Gonna have some refreshments down there

and keep in mind the exhibit will be going

until January 7th.

And I didn't want to remind everybody as well

that the Alexander House is open,

one to four, Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday.

And you can always make a special appointment.

I'm looking at all you schools out there

and everybody else.

Right, right.

Yes.

Connie, anything else you wanted to touch on before we let you go?

Um, I don't think so, James.

I think we pretty much covered it all.

Oh, nice job, everybody.

We nailed that bit.

Okay.

Great work.

It's always good to talk with you, Connie.

Thank you so much.

I wish you guys a great exhibit.

We hope to see you down there, okay?

Yes, that sounds great.

Thanks so much.

Thank you, Connie.

Connie, thank you there.

A watercolor artist and of course art director

over at the Alexander House in Port Edwards.

Always appreciate the time from her.

Mm hmm.

And find out more at Alexanderhouseonline.org,

Alexanderhouseonline.org.

Be sure to follow them on social media as well.

It's a great follow.

Great way to keep it up to date

and everything they are doing over there.

And share things on your page

that others might not see otherwise.

Yeah.

And like you said, James,

it's a really good sneak peek of what you're going to see

at this art exhibit.

I can't wait to see his jewelry in person

because online it looks fantastic.

Does it, is it just me?

It looks really unique.

I don't think I've seen pieces like that.

That's pretty cool.

I haven't either.

I mean, it's a work, it's like metal and stone.

And the settings are very, they're very unique.

Yeah.

Check that out, everybody.

And again, Alexanderhouseonline.org.

And you can get some ideas for early Christmas presents.

It seems like a really good idea.

We will take a quick time out.

We'll come back and we'll talk some entertainment.

Coming up on the morning show here at WFHR.

Welcome back, everyone.

Morning show at WFHR.

Melissa and James hanging out with you this morning.

Thanks so much for joining us.

Big thank you to Connie Hanky over at the Alexanderhouse

for joining us.

That was a lot of fun.

Oh, it was.

And it's such a great time to visit over there too.

It's so welcoming.

I loved it.

We have moved on in the movie industry,

in the industry of parody, from the superhero movies,

from horror movies, which were kind of the niche

last handful of years.

To now, we're all into documentaries, into biopics.

We're doing biopics.

And we're doing biopics, not of people from the 1800s.

We're doing biopics of people from the 1900s or nowhere.

It's more so from the 90s, 80s, that kind of thing.

You're seeing a lot more of this.

We talked yesterday about the Bob Dylan biopic

that is going to be coming out, starring Timothy Shalame.

That has got a lot of rave reviews already behind it.

And a lot of other artists are noticing this,

and not so much actors to play these roles,

but artists who have biopics about them.

In recent months, there has been talk about a Mariah Carey

biopic.

I thought that was kind of...

It's interesting not so much about the artist,

but about it being somebody that we've kind of,

a lot of us have seen their whole careers.

And those people are still alive.

Right, and that just is odd to me.

I feel very strongly about documentaries,

when it comes to those.

A good documentary, I don't know if you can do one,

like six, seven months after the incident happened.

I really feel like you've got to have at least a year buffer

there of being able to get data and collect interviews,

and so many other things.

For some documentaries, there's the law involved

in these things, where you can't talk about certain stuff

until like a set amount of time.

So I really, there's Netflix is doing this a lot right now,

where they're just kicking out stuff,

and they're not really, it's not about quality,

it's just, you know, quantity.

They completely botched the,

how many people were going to be watching the fight this week,

and I say fight very loosely.

So that messed up for them,

and then they've been putting all this money

into documentaries and everything,

because that's where a lot of things are going nowadays,

but they're not putting the research into it.

They're not doing, for example,

they did a, there was years ago, Tim Donigay,

NBA referee, the God fired, and a huge scandal

because he was betting on games.

So they do a documentary on it,

and guess what, you just get his side of things.

It's only his perspective.

You know, it's shocking, he was wronged, you know.

It's not true documentary work, and I feel like,

much like we use the term reality TV,

what you think of as reality TV

is not what really reality TV is.

That's not the definition of it.

Reality TV is when you don't know a camera's on you.

If you know a camera is on you,

it's just honestly bad TV.

It's just TV that doesn't have real actors

or real writers or anything like that.

That loosely scripted.

Yeah, yeah, and it's still scripted.

Similar thing with documentaries.

I feel like you can't just call it a documentary,

and you know, under some big umbrella.

These aren't true docs.

These aren't, and the biopic thing is going to be

even more interesting to me.

Well, and I think like you said,

you need to have the perspective of time

to fully assess everything that happened

and to be able to do the research necessary,

get the story from both sides, all sides.

I mean, there's, people's lives are complicated.

Yeah.

You can't just sum them up in a short amount of time

with one perspective.

Well, and nobody wants to see the biopsy,

part of it, and this is gonna get a little macabre,

I apologize, but it is me.

When it comes to somebody who is still living,

are you gonna get a biopic that's gonna be honest?

Because the big problem,

the one thing that they don't seem to be getting

right with these things is the thing that people

want to see is the blood and guts.

They want to see the scars.

They want to see, they already know

that Elton John had to hit with Rocket Man.

They want to know what was going on

behind the scenes with it.

That's the kind of story that needs that they're looking for.

So.

And sometimes you need the lens of time

to be able to share those stories.

Yeah.

Enough time needs to have passed for it to be,

I don't know, kosher, is that?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, to describe it.

Absolutely.

Well done.

Yeah, that's very nicely done.

So, all that being said,

this is kind of an interesting one.

It seems like this,

this is a biopic that is just going to happen

at any point now.

Madonna has been working on for four years

a biopic about her life that may not see,

may see the light of day may not, who knows.

But one of the things that the reason this came up

and the reason we know about it is because she was

on Instagram the other day and she said, quote,

after struggling for days in LA,

listening to producers and agents,

tell me why I couldn't make my film.

I realized that everything in my life

is going to be challenged, challenged.

No easy rides for me, I guess it should be grateful.

It forces me to think outside the box

and then Madonna is asking her fans to weigh in

on whether she should turn her story into a series

rather than a movie.

And she had a quote, think before you answer.

And so, this is part of the,

without getting two into the weeds here,

this is part of the issue with her biopic.

Madonna wants to turn it into a TV series.

They want to turn it into a movie.

There's more money in the movie.

There's more opportunity for awards and all that.

All of these things.

I think that's a fun question.

And I love that she's asking,

well, she's doing two things here

because she's one of the smartest to ever do this.

The one, she just put everyone of those producers on notice

because now the conversations they've been having

behind the scenes, they're out in the open now.

So now if this doesn't get turned into a TV series,

they know exactly who to point to.

Right, and who to blame.

And the fact that that see her being in charge of this

or being involved in it is a totally different.

Yes.

And, you know, that changes the game completely

because she's involved.

Yeah.

I think these other ones that are being created

about other people and they have zero involvement,

those are the ones that make me go is.

And this could go one or two ways.

So Elton John, a lot of people were giving credit to Rocketman

because Elton had a little bit to do with that one.

And he was very adamant about that movie's not being made

unless you show the scars.

You got to show my failures, my humbling moments

and a lot of that.

But there were some people that actually pushed back on that

a little bit that there was almost too much of it

and that he was too hard on himself in some ways.

And then of course there's the other side of it

where they just romanticize everything

and they never did nothing wrong or whatever.

I don't know what side of this Madonna might be on

but there's certainly a bias no matter what.

You can't get past that.

It's your life you're telling.

Right.

But since she's still alive, I think she should be involved

in a bad shape.

Agreed.

I, man, do you ever do this with,

I don't know how many biographies you read,

but I don't really, I kind of,

I don't know if I really read biographies

where the actual person is not involved.

No, I prefer to read them if they've at least co-authored

or authored them themselves.

Yeah.

Look, it's gonna be cool.

I don't know if it's gonna be cool

but it's gonna be cool to see what happens with this.

It'll be interesting to see what happens, yes.

Looking at what's new on your small screen tonight,

I'm dancing with the stars that my finals are on

at seven on ABC and Disney plus, the 14th,

the third season premiere of Nightcourt on NBC.

I'm just happy that's still on the air.

I honestly haven't seen it since the first season

but I do like that that show.

The one hour special defying gravity,

the curtain rises on Wicked will be at nine o'clock on NBC.

Ooh, that could be good.

That could be good.

That's, that soundtrack, I'm not a musical guy

but that soundtrack, man, that's got some like pop hits

on it, defying gravity alone.

You could turn into a pop song.

There's some great music in that one.

And Denite's sketch also murder in a small town,

accused FBI International and all of those.

And while those are all fine and everything,

I recommend making some plans over the next couple of days

for some other programming, like radio programming.

Yes, we do have some great radio coming up.

Yep, including tonight from five to six,

be sure to join us.

We've got community stories of Melissa's K,

our second episode of this one of the adult ones.

Yeah, this is just the second episode.

This will be the second one in our veteran series.

You will be introduced to Rod Watson.

He is the new LA, the Lincoln High School principal.

He's also a captain in the National Guard.

And then we'll get to hear the first part

of Tom Heiser's story.

And you recognize, nice Tom Heiser's voice

on our airwaves as he comes on every month

to give our monthly veterans update.

But there was just, there was too much to include

in all just one episode.

So you'll hear the first part of his story this week

and the rest of his story next week.

You know, it's one of those things that I was curious about

with doing this, Melissa, all the interviews I do

are pretty much time sensitive.

And, you know, you recorded and all that.

And we have kind of a standard blueprint with these.

With these interviews, I would imagine

that one of the tougher things has got to be editing.

Let me tell you.

Yes, the resounding answer is yes.

Yeah, just, and I say that glowingly,

like that's a good problem to have.

And for anybody out there that may not know much

about this, you know, the kind of work

that we're talking about here,

more material is always a good thing,

but it doesn't make it easy either.

No, it's hard to cut anything out of these stories

because they are, they're so,

I mean, these are their entire lives.

Basically, you're hearing, you know,

how they join the military and why.

And the adventures that they had,

while they were enlisted and what happened afterwards.

You know, so these are,

these are sometimes gritty tales.

And they are, I'm excited to share them with the audience.

And certainly keep that in mind when listening

to these, everybody.

And encourage you to spread the word about this show.

Put it on your social media feeds.

Just make sure other people are seeing it

because not only is it great work,

but these are stories of individuals

that deserve to be told and heard and remembered.

These are heroes of our country

who have helped keep us safe and free.

And don't you forget we got you on Thursdays too.

Be sure to stick around on Thursdays from 5 to 6

Community Stories Junior.

Yes, Community Stories Junior this week

will introduce you to two of our theater students

who absolutely owned the stage this summer

in Newsy's Junior.

You'll hear my interviews with Cammy and with Austin

who were the leads in Disney's Newsy's Junior

at the Hopal Production this summer at WRCT.

And it's fun to hear their experience in theater.

And then where they're going next

and what they're doing now.

Really great.

It was fun to get to talk to them

and get to know them a little bit.

And those are kids that are going to go on to do some

really great things and did some great things this summer.

Cam, wait to hear those too.

And also, of course, the second chapter of Kevin the Cat.

Yes.

Tell time.

Cannot wait for that.

I got me on the edge of my seat with Cam.

You got me a, it's a good one, it's a good story.

Do you want to remind everybody as well

that tomorrow we are going to be live and direct

in our afternoons.

Our Midday Magazine will be shortened a little bit

before a good cause and a good reason.

We're going to be live and direct

from Aspire's review for the Lights of Love Celebration.

Yes, the Lights of Love Celebration

will start at 4.30 I believe with interviews.

And then the programming starts at 5.30.

And there's the children's choir.

You're going to hear special guest speakers.

And then, of course, the dedication ceremony

for the Lights of Love and the lighting of the tree.

So really looking forward to that.

It should be a great time.

You can come and be there in person.

You can sit in the warmth of your car

and listen to us on the radio, stand outside,

or you can tune in from home

because we will be live on air on WFHR from 4.30

to put a little after six, probably.

Yeah, yeah.

I want to say first off, a real big thank you

to Lisa Skibba, who's actually going

to be kicking off the interview.

Certainly Cindy Bates, the choir director,

and those third through fifth grade kids

they're going to be coming down and singing and everything.

It is a beautiful event.

There are so many individuals to come on by.

The interviews are really wonderful, everybody.

They give you a chance and an insight into things

not only going on with our community and different topics,

but individuals that we don't get a chance

to talk to nearly enough.

And I also believe you'll hear poetry

from our middle school students there.

Ms. Jackins class will have the winners of their poetry contest.

Yeah, which is really cool for them.

It's something that we're humbled to be a part of.

We really are, and we know how much the community loves

this event, especially if you're new to the community.

Check this one out, and you'll see exactly

what Melissa and I are talking about.

It is amazing how many people come down,

no matter what the weather.

I did about three of these, and everyone,

being honest, the weather can be pretty rough sometimes.

But people, whether it's coming down

and being there in person or in their car

or honking their horns when the lights get lit up,

it's become such a wonderful tradition in this community.

We're proud to be a part of.

And this year should be much better than last year,

because last year it was so cold, our equipment froze.

This year it's going to be a lot warmer.

I got that going for it.

And I want to send a very special shout out to Melissa K.

You guys have no idea how hard she works behind the scenes,

and then adding this onto her plate.

Well, well, thanks.

It's fun to be a part of the community

and part of these special events where we get to go out

and actually be in the community.

I love it.

Yeah, we're looking forward to doing more and more

of these kind of things.

We got to do that LCaffA remote one of these days.

We got to get that out.

We got to eat pie on air.

Yes, it's going to happen.

It's going to be fun too.

It's going to be great.

For now, we will go ahead and take quick time out.

But again, remember to make some plans tomorrow

for lights of love, kicks off at 4.30,

whether you are down there by our spires here

in Wisconsin Rapids, or you're listening to us

here at 975 FM 1328 WF HR.

Get ready to make some plans

and have some fun with that event.

We'll be back after our news break here

on the morning show at WF HR.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show here at WF HR, locally grown radio.

I'm Melissa and James here with you.

Thanks so much for joining us, everybody.

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Because we were talking food, we're talking turkey,

we're talking Thanksgiving.

Mm, food is good.

Kroger supermarkets asked people

to name the top five must have Thanksgiving foods.

So if you can only have five things

on the table for a turkey day, what are they going to be?

Here are the five Thanksgiving staples

that got the most votes, and then we will dissect those,

of course, and figure out what they got right,

but they got wrong.

Number five on the list, pumpkin pie at 30%.

Okay, all right, that one's kind of a given.

Interesting that it's number five.

Yeah, tied with number five with 30%, gravy.

Gravy, yeah, you got to have gravy.

Can't have it without the gravy.

Number three, mashed potatoes came in at 49%.

Mm-hmm, yeah, okay.

And number two, stuffing with 55%.

Okay.

And a number one, turkey with 83% put on the list.

That's actually kind of low I would think

for Thanksgiving of 83%, but I guess not, yeah.

No, actually, I think it's kind of high.

There's a lot of people that don't actually like turkey.

And if turkey isn't made good,

like if it's not done well,

turkey can be very dry and unappetizing.

Yeah, I'm sorry.

I'm not a big turkey guy.

In fact, there's two things on that list you wouldn't even touch.

Yeah, yeah.

But I also know this is in my list.

This is for all of us.

Now, mashed potatoes are technically vegetable,

but nothing green made the list.

So that's added note from Kroger on this.

So what is your list look like?

How does it compare Melissa?

Well, for me, it would be number one, stuffing.

Okay, yeah.

It's a toss up.

Number two would probably be turkey.

Okay.

Okay.

Cranberry sauce.

Yeah, it was a little surprising.

Let's see cranberries make the list.

Yeah, same, same.

And then I would probably say mashed potatoes and gravy.

There you go.

It counts as one.

It counts as one.

Yes.

Yep, yep.

Oh, rats.

What did I forget?

Green meat casserole.

Oh, nice.

Oh.

There's the greens.

Yeah, there you go.

That's a full Thanksgiving meal right there.

You don't need anything else.

No, you're pretty good.

That's pretty good.

That's sensitive.

Because I could live without the pumpkin pie.

I can.

Yeah.

Yeah, I could see that.

As long as there's stuffing.

I think the others are a little more necessary than that one.

I could see that.

But that's just what I think.

What about what you think?

Let's go ahead and take a call.

Good morning.

You're on the show.

Yeah, I'm sure in your privilege.

Thank you.

Okay.

It's your security number one.

I thought I was suff eating in number two.

Oh.

Batch clear with the gravy.

Number three.

Tea you got to combine them.

You got to combine.

Yeah.

Number four.

Green meat casserole.

Yeah, acabans momean.

I'm really disappointed in you less.

I'm sure that this product is probably getting in.

There's no pumpkin pie.

So I think that's fair.

Yeah, that is fair.

I feel it.

Well, you've got to have good beans.

I do love my mom's cranberry sauce.

But I mean, I guess I can take care of these with the cranberry sauce, the cranberry, fresh

cranberries and stuff.

But you've got to have pumpkin pie.

But see, for me, if you're having turkey, you've got to have cranberry.

Because I find those two complement each other so well.

I'm with you on that.

I don't do a lot of food combining.

But I do have a little cranberry with my turkey.

I do, if I'm eating it.

Yeah.

I do have to double check this too.

I haven't had a chance to research this yet.

According to the Wisconsin Constitution, I'm pretty sure it's not officially Thanksgiving

unless there are cranberries involved.

I feel very confident about that.

I'll look into it.

I'll, you know, research it more.

But I'm pretty sure you've got to have cranberries involved in some way.

But pumpkin pie is very important.

Yeah.

If you also do want to stay with the cranberry, you can probably come up with some type of cranberry

dessert.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

Oh, my mom made an excellent cranberry crisp or cranberry crumble.

Yeah.

Those are really good.

That does sound good.

And then you get any health, you know, you kind of got to throw it in there a little bit too,

maybe some sweet potatoes.

I'm not a big chap.

I mean, you're good.

You think you can keep the sweet potatoes.

Oh, my grandma made a sweet potato casserole with a pecan crumble on top.

It could almost be a replacement for the pumpkin pie.

It was sweet.

It was savory.

It was delicious.

Like the savory from like the salt in the pecans is so good.

Yeah.

Oh, I mean, but I guess that's, I mean, it's sweet.

It's all in the man.

Everybody probably has their own, you know, less, but.

Yeah.

You have to set it.

It's going to have to be a given.

You have to have pumpkin pie in there somewhere.

I would eat your list, Kevin.

Yeah.

I would.

Right.

I do think, I think one of the things that like I like, there's a lot of parallels with

these with your lists and in both of yours and other lists in this particular one.

But I think one of the things that they should have done is had like a six list of six.

And sure, your top five.

And one is just that family thing that every family has some kind of Thanksgiving thing

that they do that might be a little different than others or completely different than others.

Yeah.

And the Midwest here is probably the green bean casserole.

Yes.

Yeah.

Things like that.

So there should be just a side note of thing for something like that at least.

Add on.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

I mean, you always have to have your add on, so I mean.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Just go.

Yeah.

Always a good talking to you, man.

Anything else you had?

No.

That's, I mean, that's about it.

I mean, it's.

Yeah.

How am I, Liz?

Pumpkin highest.

Pumpkin high is important.

That's a good list.

Yeah, I like it.

Safe travels out there, brother.

You take care.

All right.

You guys are paying on to your hat today.

Yeah.

You too, right?

Definitely.

Always good to hear from you, Kevin.

Thank you.

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What are some sides that you have to have part of your Thanksgiving?

Let us know.

We'd love to hear from you about that.

Think it'd be fun.

Go ahead and let us know, everybody.

Absolutely.

You know what?

More food talk, always.

Yeah.

Every time.

Wanna hear it?

Someone on TikTok is on a mission to get coars to start using Gatorade style twist tops.

Okay.

I don't know.

I saw this the other day and I honestly forgot about it.

They put away and we had other things we were working on so we kind of got sidetracked.

But the big orange wide mouth caps that make more chuggable like Gatorade and all that

and the twist part, that's what they're looking for.

On a coars thing.

But don't they have like that coars aluminum bottle now that basically has that size?

I think they do.

I think they do.

I mean it's not plastic.

It's aluminum.

But.

You know, I know there are a lot of people chug beer and everything and there's that.

But I think it's a little different with coars as considering it is mostly water.

It is.

So I mean you are cutting on joke.

I'm joking.

If you look coars.

No, you're not.

I'm not joking at all.

I stand by that.

But you know, if you like it, you like it.

Exactly.

So this guy.

This guy posted a video suggesting that they use it for coars light bottles.

Then he decided coars banquet would be even better and then then said them a tweet.

So he was actually reaching out to them and like seriously trying to get this happened.

This isn't just like I have.

This is my idea.

You should do it because it's smart.

He shared it right.

Yes.

He shared a screenshot after they supposedly responded calling it a neat idea and said that they do it.

If he got 15 million likes in the next month.

Oh.

His mock up art has it as a plastic bottle so you'd be able to squeeze it and drink it faster.

But plastic isn't really used for beer because it goes flat faster.

So that part is not going to work in this.

No.

And while I don't mind the idea.

I think that one of the things advertising things actually does work for beer companies a lot is changing their label or beer bottle.

It just happens to work there.

There's not a lot of science behind it but it seems to work for a lot of these companies.

But now that I this I'm not sure.

And I don't think people really need help drinking faster.

I don't think that we need to reinvent the wheel here with that.

I feel like that that's kind of covered.

I'm not sure about that one.

I don't know.

That's the possibility of being a that a right story.

Doesn't it has the feel of it?

It does.

It isn't one right now but it feels like you know month from now we're like talking about this like okay.

And in our that ain't right section.

Y'all remember when we talked about this.

It feels like one of those stories that could rear its ugly head back.

Yes.

We will take a quick time out our final one of the show.

But what's all right because we got plenty of material to take us to the top of the hour.

We got a lot to talk about yet on the show.

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

Welcome back everyone.

Morning show here at WFHR.

We are locally grown radio.

Melissa and James here with you.

Thanks for joining us everybody.

We're going to wrap up our hour or two hours with you here with some local stuff going on.

Tell you a little bit about our schedule and get into some good stories of the day.

All right.

And one of those good stories of the day.

I found at thegoodnewsnetwork.org and check that out at goodnewsnetwork.org encourage you to do so.

Just some really nice reporting over there.

There's some really interesting stories.

One about a guy who turned an old mobile home into a log cabin.

Amazing DIY project.

A father and son who are trying to find a Roman road but found a shovel of 16th century silver coins instead.

It's kind of interesting.

That's cool.

But as somebody who not only interviews politicians a couple times a month,

but I certainly am known to take my shots.

I own that.

I've done that before.

And I'm also the person that says that we need to be better about when we talk about our officials and everything.

Accountability is very important.

But if we want kids and future generations to do these jobs,

we have to be careful about how we speak about them.

Talk about them.

And let them speak for themselves more times than not because that is really not only how we find out who they really are

but what the job that they're going to do.

And I think that they kind of you know,

give people the answers right there for themselves.

We don't really have to say certain things.

Like I don't have to say that Eric Hubdys a child.

And for not owning the results of the election sooner,

like every single other politician in this country did.

You guys can figure that out for yourselves.

Did I just do it?

I just kind of did it.

Didn't I?

I did kind of just do that.

Well, he's different.

That's different though.

That one's different.

He's in California right now.

He's not.

He can't hear us.

He's not listening.

And that's not an exaggerated joke, by the way.

That's serious.

I'm being literal about that.

This is one that I do want to know.

Congressman Andy Kim won his campaign for the US Senate

seat in New Jersey last week.

A result that left many fans cheering because he kind of came

known to people.

He's a 42 year old.

It became a fan favorite for his selfless and humble act

caught on film four years ago.

It was about one in the morning following the gruesome attack

on the US Capitol on January 6th.

When Representative Kim got down in his knees and began picking

up traffic, trash left throughout the whole building.

Yeah.

And he had been finally heading home after a late night vote

that certified Joe Biden as winning the presidency.

When this, of course, broke out.

And he just he was there.

Saw it was dirty.

So started cleaning.

Yeah, stuck around and started cleaning.

And while there are a lot of people out there who are in Congress

and in the Senate and who've become household names for the wrong

reasons, I don't believe that this gentleman has and it should

be for the right reasons.

Correct.

Because there's an example of a true public servant,

someone who is there to do a job and then stuck around to do

what wasn't necessarily his job, but he saw something

needed to be done so he did it.

Yeah.

And that's America.

That's America 101 right there.

Yeah.

That's a pretty cool story too.

And got some other cool ones like this one about a World War

2 vet in Rhode Island who just got his high school diploma.

98-year-old Anthony Simone was born on the 4th of July in 1926.

He dropped out of school at the age of 16 to support his family during

the Great Depression, then enlisted in the Army and fought in the

Battle of the Bulge.

Wow.

He eventually got his GED, but never got an actual diploma.

So his family made it happen last week.

They got his high school to hold a graduation ceremony for him on

Veterans Day.

Oh, that's awesome.

Man, try not smiling hearing that story.

I'm having a hard time reading it because I'm smiling so much.

I'm talking about it.

That's a really cool story.

I got some other good stories that the day we're going to get to in a

moment here, but first dive into our schedule for today.

And great stuff coming up for you minutes from now.

Matt and Aaron here.

Oh, yeah.

Janine Gregor is so much fun.

Got a lot of great stuff lined up for you in the show today.

Be sure to join Janine Greg Monday through Friday for Matt and Aaron here.

And of course the Maggie Dawn Show a little bit later today from 2 to 4.

Maggie is on fire.

Mm-hmm.

When is she not?

Yeah, it's a good point.

She is this bit.

I've gotten to hear a last couple of shows of hers and man.

She is just on point and has been entertaining along with educational.

She does that better than most.

And then one of our favorite voices here at Civic.

Join Maggie Dawn from 2 to 4 Monday through Friday for the Maggie Dawn Show.

And hey, that leads perfectly into Midday magazine.

It does indeed.

Got a great one lined up for you today.

Our good friend Tom Derry going to be joining us.

Exalted ruler with the Wisconsin Elk Sludge number 693.

Great.

We're going to talk about the community Thanksgiving dinner coming up along with breakfast with Santa.

Yeah.

All these locals are landing Santa for interviews.

We got to get him on Midday.

We got to get him on Midday magazine.

Yeah, you need to get on that, James.

I'm really going to work on that one.

And in part 2, you're not a way of Southwood at the Ends County's.

Terry John is going to join us.

Hey, does anybody know Terry?

Have you ever met her in person?

I'm looking forward to it.

I've heard good things.

I've heard good things.

Terry will be one.

Terry will be one.

Terry is great.

We love having her on our airways.

We're looking forward to focusing on our United Way.

It is campaign season.

It is go time.

There's plenty to talk about with our United Way.

And also, of course, after Midday magazine, be sure to stick around for community stories of Melissa Kay.

That's right.

We have a new episode today in our veteran series.

And you will hear from the Lincoln High School principal, Rod Watson,

and his service as a captain in the National Guard.

And then also the first part of Tom Heiser's story.

Really, really looking forward to those.

That should be great.

And Tom's a great talker.

Great interview.

That should be really wonderful.

Yes, indeed.

Good stuff right there.

Be sure to check out Community Stories of Melissa Kay every Tuesday and Thursday from 526 right here at WFHR.

And when you're done with that, you know,

Hey, stick around here.

We got Pete Schwabben, some great stuff coming up afterwards.

Mel is going to be on Pete's show.

I believe coming up.

That's cool.

I invited me to come on tonight to talk about the new show Community Stories.

Stick around and check that out.

And then during the commercial.

About 730ish or so.

Right on.

Enjoy.

Have fun.

Tell Pete Hi for us.

Hello.

And while you know during the commercial breaks maybe or something,

or actually you can check it beforehand.

Go ahead and listen to our sister station 10555WRI.

Count down to the hunt.

Yeah, Seth was nailing it last night.

Boy was he.

It was doing a great show, Seth.

A big shout out to you.

Nicely done yesterday.

And appreciate your guests.

Appreciate all the guests that we will have throughout the week.

Today from 6 to 7.

We're going to be focusing and talking with our wood county DNR.

Another group that we just don't get to talk to nearly enough.

That is going to be great.

A good information there.

Great job to Ashley as well.

And putting this together on her end.

Yeah.

This was her brainchild.

I was going to say this is a passion project for her.

And it's come together really well.

Nice work, Ash.

Nice work.

Wednesday raised in Wiscoe with Sean Becker.

We think our audience is familiar with Mr. Becker.

Thursday, central Wisconsin 4-H shooting sports.

It's going to be great.

All right.

And I'm really looking forward to Friday.

Wibbid's bow hunting from UWSP.

I have always wanted to get into the bow hunting archery.

Just anything to do with an arrow.

I love that stuff.

And hearing from a woman's perspective, we don't get a lot of that.

It's a really cool idea for a show.

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Good stuff a little bit later today.

Tonight we have some great basketball on the radio dial for you as well.

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Keep in keeping things going here.

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