Good morning, Wisconsin. Morning, world. It's a new day. Thanks for kicking it off with us
right here at WFHR.
Hope you're having a good start to your Wednesday out there. Your host, James behind the mic.
I am joined by CEO of your United Way of Southwood and Ann's counties, Terry John.
Got the band together. We owe it's a good thing it's Wednesday. We're going to have some fun today.
We'll treat you like a Friday. That's what I mean. Yeah. I was debating this morning. Is this
going to be a third Monday or is this going to be two days to Friday? It's going to be two days
to Friday. It has to be, right? It has to be. We're going to make it that. We're going to have some
fun today. We've got the L. Cafe birthday anniversary club right around the corner,
looking forward to diving into that. Afterwards, Terry and I will get into a couple of fun ones.
I've got an interesting one here. Terry about the percentage of Americans that are now doing
more good deeds. We've got that coming up for you. That's awesome. Yeah. How many of us are going to
get into some holiday fights? We'll go from that to holiday fights. Perfect. Got that one lined up.
The percentage of Americans that think they're too old to learn. I want to touch on that one as
well. Before we wrap up the hour, we will get into things with our friends over at Quality Plus
Printing and our wicked awesome word of Wednesday. Looking forward to that. Nine o'clock hour. We're
going to have some entertainment news in there. I want to touch on Dolly Parton's got something new
that she is selling and doing. We may have new artists, new music from a local, I'm sorry, a
long time love legend in the country music game. I want to talk about that too. Some of the rules
on that married at first sight show. If I've got this right, neither of us are reality people.
No. I thought we could have some fun with that one. Just Terry, that just shreds.
I have to tell you, you take me right back. I was on like a girls, you know, a high school friends
trip weekend. And they were talking about all the reality shows that they watched. And that may
be one of them. So I'm curious because I'm like, wait a minute. What? Like you've never even seen
the person. It's weird because I usually I love diving into and learning the behind the scene stuff
on movies and TV shows that I really enjoy. I don't look into them that much on things I don't
care about. I'm very curious to see what this is. I'm very interested. We got a big time event going
on tonight. We're going to talk about what lights the love. We'll hit on that a little bit. And
I want to also talk about a couple of other fun things. Like there's an interesting thing going
on online about if you should have to retake your driver test at 50. I thought that's interesting.
No. Yeah. I got an answer. As somebody who's like a couple of years away from that. I mean,
I'm already grandfathered. So I'm fine. But you would have to take your. I don't know. Okay. I don't
know. 50. But we'll talk. There might be a number. We'll talk about that. But for right now, I
did want to kick things off with a couple of fun things. And one of them is the United Way. Now
yesterday, Terry and I were in a Mayday magazine talking about the United Way. Not only
campaign season, but sharing some of the Al's support again and getting into some of the the
weeds in that and interesting numbers from that. I appreciate the conversation as always, Terry.
I wanted to just take a second to touch on 211 a little bit and remind everybody about this
other great resource. I, well, most of the content that I come up with where to talk about here
usually comes from conversations with listeners. And it was, it was maybe not even a year ago
that I was talking to some people that moved into new into town. And they've been actually coming
to some of the theater shows and checking out things here at the in the cultural center and
stuff, really enjoying the area. But they were unsure of certain things. And I just, I just told
211, like, okay, but I didn't even, they didn't even finish the question. I was like, 211, just go
right ahead and call 211. That'll save you some time. Yeah. Because honestly, it's, it's something
my parents used when they first moved here. I know my grandparents enjoyed it as well. It's a service
that's been around for a very long time. And it's only getting stronger. 211 is grown in years that
we've been talking about it. For sure, we've definitely strengthened that program, especially
throughout the state of Wisconsin. Because, you know, we had some, we used to be called first
call for information way back in the day. But then we, you know, we unified as a state and said,
you know, how much more could we leverage if we were a statewide 211? So we have United Way
of Wisconsin actually leverages 211 as a program. We happen to be one of the local contact centers.
There are eight of them in the state. And we are 247. And, you know, the biggest question that I get
right off the bat is, well, what's the number? It's legit 211. You know, so I mean, I don't mean to be
cheeky about that. But like you call 911 for an emergency, you call 511 for road conditions,
you know, we've got that season coming up. You can dial 211 to be connected with community
resources and referral. So it could be that you have a need, you know, maybe, maybe even something like
gosh, I'm redoing my living room. But I have really good furniture that I'd like to donate to
someone, you know what I mean, not that I'm not going to sell. And so you could call 211 to find out
what partners or organizations might be willing to take that on for for one of their clients.
You can also call 211. Maybe you're caring for an aging parent. And you're not just really sure
what what resources are available in your community. And remember, we are statewide 247.
And there are about, I want to say, I can't, I don't know for certain, but I think there's 33 states
that are statewide with 211. So we, I mean, we we continue to push for nationwide coverage,
of course. Yeah. But, but it is, it is really important. But the other thing that is new-ish
in 211 the last probably two years is we have gotten into, you know, it is a confidential call
unless you're willing to tell us otherwise because we've gotten into some warm line work.
So we are willing as a 211 context center to call you back. You know, to say, hey, James,
is it good if I call you back in, you know, a couple days and see if these resources worked for
you? And you'd be surprised how many people say yes. Because, you know, they're maybe at a point
where they just don't know what to do when they need, they need some support. If they say no,
that's totally fine. But the offer is there. And the other thing that we do is a warm line transfer
to the, to 988, which is the suicide hotline. So if someone calls in and the trained resource
specialist identifies certain things in that conversation, they will offer a warm line transfer.
And what that means is they don't just hit transfer, put in the number or hit transfer again
and they're gone. They set the stage and do the intro. So that that person doesn't have to
necessarily repeat everything. I mean, they're on the line. They can hear it. But, but it, but it's
just a, you know, it's a, it's a segue. It's the, it's a good way to make you, you know,
acquaint you with who is now going to, going to best serve you. Because obviously,
those at crisis or at the, the suicide prevention hotline have a higher and different
level of training than what maybe a resource specialist with 211 would have. So we've been doing
a lot more warm, what we call warm line. I like that transfer. And it makes a, it makes a big
difference. That's an extra, that's going above and beyond. That's taken the extra step. That's
one, I think something that we ask for out of a lot of services nowadays when we're calling,
we get a robotic number or, or to be blunt, we get a voice that we're not familiar with or,
or we don't understand or can't understand that well and everything. We, we're looking for
that personal touch. That is that be into the moon like that. That is really cool.
And 24 seven, you will get a human that is physically in the state of Wisconsin.
You, there is a, I will throw out though. There is an, it's an automated section at the
beginning. So when you dial 211, it might say, you know, if you're calling for, because some areas
of the state might have something big going on or, you know, so let's say we were experiencing
flooding, there might be a preempt that say, if you're calling to report flooding, press one,
otherwise, press two. So there's a little bit of prompting, but you will never, you will always
speak to, yes. And so if we can triage, you know, folks to the right place. And then we also have
an overlay for mental health. So, and what I mean by that is, is there is a, what's that number?
There is it, right? There is a, but there's a priority. If you say that that's why you're
calling, if you hit that prompt, it goes into a different queue of calls. So to speak. So you
might be calling from Wisconsin Rapids, but two of our people are already on the phone.
You're going to get the next available person. Maybe even if they're in green Bay, but you're
going to get the next person that's available so that there's not a long wait and calls really
aren't that long. I mean, but, but 10 minutes can really feel long when you're in some sort of
crisis. Yeah. 211 is one of those reasons why we encourage you to give to the United Way during
campaign season really any time of the year. But certainly this time of year, it's go time,
it's time to all hands on deck and where we really get to show the United Way that we have
their back like they have ours in our communities. You heard Terry and I talk about this yesterday
and many other times, the different ways that you can impact your community. And there's not
many things that you can say, I'm going to put, you know, a dollar a day, I'm going to put five
dollars of paycheck or whatever it is into the United Way and know that every penny of that
for one goes right where you're asking it to, whether it's in Adams or South or our wood county
here. And know that every penny of that has such a big impact. Everything goes in. One of our
earliest conversations was transparency and how important that was for so many different, to be honest,
big name organizations that hadn't been doing that where the United Way was a very upfront and
has been always about that. It's one of the reasons my mom since I was a little kid has supported
the United Way because of things like that. It's one of those other reasons and among many
why we encourage you to be a part of campaign season and sweepstakes. Absolutely. There's always
that. There's a lot of people love it. So, you know, two and one program I just want to jump back
for one second. You know, our two and one program is fully funded by our United Way and Marshfield
or United Way. So I think that's important too is that there are partnerships that, you know, come
to be and just to give a perspective of costs to offer that program for us locally and for the
air service area that we serve. It costs about $80,000 a year, 85, you know, to offer that program.
But we're a pretty small context that are, you know, of course the big ones, the big ones cost more.
And if you would like to support 211 or any of the other programs that we help to fund, you can
make a donation to our United Way. And if you do that by four o'clock this Friday, November 22nd,
you will qualify for our sweepstakes. Sweepstakes is sponsored by five local businesses,
a Spirors Health, Gunterson, Mountain View, Memorial Hospital, and Clinics,
Prevail Bank, Next Home Partners, and Williams Heating and Plumbing. They each of those five
businesses give us a thousand dollars to use for our drawings. So super fun, completely sponsored,
no cost to United Way. I mean, except for the helium balloons, but I usually just pay for those
myself. But it is super fun when we, you know, when we do that drawing and then we go into whatever
local businesses or meet someone out on there on their front doorstep, you know, that probably
like that second week of December is usually when it shakes out to be whenever we can get it coordinated.
But it's definitely before Christmas. So there's five individuals or households that get to be
lucky winners of a thousand dollars. So just a fun ad, but four o'clock Friday is the deadline. So
you would need to give by stopping in our, at our office, 351 Oak Street, Wisconsin Rapids, give it
your workplace. You can give online and you can do that in a variety of ways. Credit card, paypal,
I think we even have Venmo. I mean, I honestly will make it work however you need it to work. But
four o'clock Friday is the deadline to qualify for sweepstakes. Have you ever wanted one of those
big old checks? Well, I have some. Yeah, I suppose. I suppose a little different for you.
I've been being a little kid and see an epic man and people doing stuff. It's awesome,
but I always wonder what you do with that. So okay, so I have to tell you you got to put
somewhere. We though the first couple of years and we've been doing this now for like 10,
you know, a long time. Yeah. But the first year we use maybe two, a wipe off dry erase check,
you know, so I'd come in and I'd be like, whoo, Jason. And then, you know, hand, give the
do the photos with the big check, give them the little check. And people are like, well, I
want to keep the big check. Yeah, yeah. Like, hey, that thing cost me $40. Like, I don't,
it's the only one I have, you know, like, I'm going into cardiac arrest over the big check.
So, um, so we have some really great partners in the Adams County Part of our service area.
I'm smurf at Westrock and they do, um, corrugated cardboard products. So when you are in Walmart and
you see like a display in the aisle, you know, like of razors, let's say it's like they make those.
And so I went to them and I'm like, so in the event I wanted, because we do five prizes,
I'm like, five big checks, like as big as you'll make them. They're not quite as big as our,
but they're big. Yeah. And so, um, I'm like, would you make those and how much would they be?
And they're like, we will make them and they will be free. So it's super cool. Um, but it's fun
and it is funny because sometimes, you know, whatever, I'm sure they set it out somewhere or take it
home or show it off or, or not. And then, um, you know, maybe I don't know, it just gets recycled,
but it's, it's fun in the moment. People like to keep it, especially when we go into a workplace.
Yeah. You know, last year we had a winner over at Associated Bank and it was just, they're like,
we're gonna put that check right up on the, you know, so, so there's a level of excitement
that way as well, but they are cool and it's fun. And I'm always like, if you guys want to print
an extra one, then I have one to play with, you know, yeah, exactly. Yeah. See, that's, that's what
you should get for winning monopoly. You should get that's it. You should get your name on
there. You should and it should say a good gillion dollars. Yes. Yes. And you should be able to cash it
because the million isn't enough anymore. I mean, it loves to be real. That's been real. That doesn't
go where it used to be. There's a stretch as far as I used to. I find out more at UWSWAC.org,
UWSWAC.org, uh, uh, be able to put into your community like, no, we'll like nobody else with
nobody else like the United Way, uh, help out and be a part of things today. UWSWAC.org,
we'll take a quick time out. We'll get to the LKFA birthday and anniversary club right here
on the morning show at WFHR.
You heard the Fav 4. It's time to do some celebrating with our LKFA birthday and anniversary club.
We hope, uh, we do you guys are ready for this because, uh, not only are we going to celebrate
our birthday and anniversary club today, but Terry got some information from a great listener
of ours and a big shout out to our cub reporters out there doing some great work. That, uh,
our friends over at, uh, W A O W channel nine, uh, and I got to, I literally have some friends
over there. So say shout out to them. Good morning to them and everything. Uh, they are no longer doing
birthdays. Oh, uh, they're interesting. They're no longer running over there already.
Do you think it just people weren't submitting? Uh, I think it's a little of that and I think
it's a little bit of a time crunch. You know, you, uh, you're constantly, especially in TV. Now,
radio, we definitely have to think about this, but it is not as dire, especially when you,
you have a company like civic media that is not about all about money. We got to keep the lights on,
but we're in the black. We're good. You know, it's not our owners already rich. If I could just
put it bluntly, our owner already has money. We're good. Uh, we're, we're, so we're all right. Um,
so it, we're pretty fortunate that we're guarded. Everything TV is not always and TV has to look at
every single second of how can we make money from advertisers. New should be about journalism.
I'm not saying it isn't, but, uh, and local journalism should be even more about local. Um,
but I understand too that you want to keep the lights on and stuff. So I think that the,
it's more of a time crunch. They only have so much time and that can, can we make an argument to
our advertisers that we should be still focusing on this. Um, when, well, a lot of being honest, a lot
of people are finding out about their birthdays on Facebook and things nowadays. Yeah, much more.
Yeah. Yeah. But, uh, and, and honestly, if this segment ever isn't, you know, the listeners
don't like it, they'll let us know. But right now, they seem to love this segment still. Uh,
we're one of the only people in the state still doing this. Uh, like it, especially in the area
doing this. I'm just impressed that the last two times that I've been here, I'm like, oh,
I have a name to add. Yeah. Yeah. That's always great. That always helps. Uh, and we encourage you to
add more names and everything everybody. I will tell you how to do that in a second. But we do
want to shout out our friends at L Cafe that sponsor this segment. We greatly appreciate them.
They have a great stuff going on today over at their, over at the shop with scots and nachos or
their chicken chili. Uh, they got a bunch of great specials going on with scots and nachos. I
want to try that. That sounds good. I like nachos too. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. I think I could
pretty much just eat nachos. Except I will say I've been in some restaurants lately where they
pile them super high. Yeah. Like really high. And I'm like, oh, spread them out and get more stuff
on all the chips. Yes. Because those bottom chips, those bottom chips, devastate. It can be the same
amount. Just present it differently, right? Yes. Absolutely. Uh, join our friends at L Cafe today,
221 Market Avenue and beautiful port Edwards. Wish them a good morning from all of us.
And celebrate with us. Everybody get us your birthdays and anniversaries. We love celebrating
with you info at wfhr.com direct messages on our Facebook pages or call up 715-424-2600.
Just a touch or two away on the civic media app. We appreciate you downloading the app everybody.
Go ahead and give us a call. Join us. We love live birthdays and anniversaries. Terry, I need a one
through three. Uh, let's go to. All right. Give us that qualifier when you get right into it.
And first up, we want to wish a very happy birthday to Luke. Happy birthday, Luke. Enjoy your day,
sir. Uh, enjoy your day. Luke, hope it's a good one for you. Thank you. Thank you. Yes.
We also want to wish a very, oh, it's 21. I didn't think about that till right now. Oh,
wait a second. It's 21. Yeah. We got to like do that map a little bit. I'm like, wait a minute.
Takes you off guard sometimes. Yeah. Well, I just think he's, I mean, I just always think he's older.
Like, I don't. Yeah. As my kids, especially as my kids get older, like, that's their older cousin,
right? Absolutely. Happy birthday, Luke. Enjoy your day, Luke. That's great name, by the way. Luke's
a great man. You need a ride. Call your uncle. Yes. Yes. Absolutely. Yes. Good man. That's a good
that's it. I wouldn't say call me. That was a very nice. All right. Call me. Uh, and we
should have happy birthday to Kathy Banks. Happy birthday, Kathy. Enjoy your day. Hope it's a good
one for you, Kathy. And our qualifier today, Sue Gamroth. Happy birthday, Sue. Enjoy the day, Sue.
We wish you a good one. We encourage you to brag to all your friends and family about you
qualifying and keep on listening because we're getting closer and closer to the beginning
in next month. We will draw our winner for the LKFA birthday anniversary club. That'll be coming
up. Everybody be listening for that. Yeah. And those gifts certificates are fabulous. It's very
generous. Very cool. Uh, we take a look at our celebrity birthday list in a couple of birthdays.
We got to celebrate on the sunrise show. Be sure to join us seven to eight Monday through Friday.
On one of five five for that. Uh, play some Josh Turner today. Forty seven for why don't we just
dance? Uh, good. Uh, good. I like it. I love his voice though. It's kind of how deep. I mean,
I think probably a lot of musicians can go that deep, but he just like regularly does it. You know,
like, I don't know. There's just something about it. If it wasn't for your guy, Randy Travis, he
would have one of those like, I mean, even more distinct, but I think because it ran, he's
so distinct. It's, it's kind of like, well, Josh is like a B version of that. Oh, but I don't mean
that. He was just in town, uh, Josh Turner. He was just around there recently. Uh, yeah,
I love that song. Why don't we know the chance? That's a good one. Derks Bentley 49 today for what
was I think in drunk on a plane? Uh, played a little at him for a request today, too. He's one of my
faves. Joe McCale is 53. One of my faves. Uh, Jeff Winger on community. He hosted the soup on
E network for a long time. One of those guys, I think if you saw, you would know, um, animal controls
a TV show he's on right now on Fox. Uh, he's, uh, he's great. He's a really, really funny standout
comedian. He was actually one of the producers on the TV show I worked on. And he was there day one.
That was pretty much the only time we saw him because producers don't come by very much, but he,
he wanted to wish us all well. And he was taught, he told us about how when they did the pilot for
a community and some other things, how well, you know, they told us this wouldn't work or this
wouldn't work. And then they are having like five seasons. And you just never know. And while there's
a lot of people that get into acting for fame or money or what have you, 90% of actors get into it
to, to make a living at something they love to do to have a consistent paycheck. Um, most of our jobs
are pretty, well, you go in it to the United Way or you know, that's your job. You're not going
anywhere. These jobs are very temporary. And you don't know when your next one's coming. And
you really took the time to talk to us about that. And, and, and just very light and funny.
Couldn't have been nicer. He didn't have to do that or anything. He showed up, made sure the
lights were on left. That's all he has to do is a producer. He took the time to talk to us
and everything. Really good guy. Really. And hilarious. Very good at dark comedy. Very good.
Mike D is 59 of the Beastie boys. Uh, uh, uh, past monkey sabotage. You got to fight for your right.
Beastie boys are in the hall of fame of rock and roll for a reason. I mean, they're kind of,
well, and there are generations. So like you just, I don't think you could have grown up in the 80s.
And not, yeah, had some fondness for that. 100% 100%. Uh, speaking of the 80s, Sean Young is 65.
The Android and blade runner. Uh, she was in, uh, of course, uh, and, and the cop, the police officer
and Ace Ventura pet detective, uh, a couple of other things too. I was just, just, that's some work.
Oh, that's a good reason to watch that boy. And, and again, speaking of the, that don't long time.
Yeah. Yeah. The long time. Uh, uh, Bo Derek is 68. Oh, yeah. Is that older young? Cause that
seems young actually. I think it seems young, but I don't know how old she was when, you know,
what, and was that, and was that like sports illustrated when, or was it something else?
No, she was, she was famous for the, the scene in 10 where she's running on the beach. Yeah,
right on the beach thing, but I was, she got the braids. But I was thinking then that just,
you know, spiraled into, into, yeah, but probably, but probably one of, well, that I remember,
maybe it's just my age, but like one of the earliest kind of sex symbols that was put out in front
of, you know what I mean? Like, like really out in front of people. Mm-hmm. Joe Walsh is 77.
The Eagles, uh, the Eagles and the James gang and so many hits, line eyes, which you will
meticulous sunrise, one of these nights, hotel California. And of course, in the city from the 1979
classic, the warriors, uh, Joe Walsh, great guitar player, great lead singer, uh, President Joe Biden
has 82 today. Okay, birthday to him. And he shares a birthday with Mr. Norman Greenbaum,
who's 82 as well, uh, spirit in the sky, big classic right there. Uh, and Dick Smothers is 86.
Uh, the Smothers Brothers straight man between the Smothers Brothers, but, um, in the history of
comedy, you'll have to talk about the Smothers Brothers. Uh, they've got to be mentioned. Uh,
Dick was amazing. I, I always liked the, the, the guy that did the straight stuff was always my guy,
because I, that's what I normally do a company. So I always really paid attention to what they
would do and tried to learn from them. And Dick Smothers is probably one of the first ones that I
learned from along with like, uh, you know, uh, ebb and a Costello and things, guys like that. Um,
it, it, it's not easy to be the straight man. It's not easy to be the guy that just sets up the
punchlines and everything. But if you do it right, you, you can really enjoy it and really have the
best seat in the house. You've got, you know, the jokes that's coming. You know what's happening.
So you just get to sit back and eat your popcorn and just set up your co-star. And, and Dick Smothers
is one of the best at it. Really, really timeless. Uh, let's see here. Bob Einstein,
born in this day, otherwise known as Super Dave Osborne, a lot of people knew him from, uh,
rest of development and curb your enthusiasm, uh, Mr. Deadpan, Mr. Very monotone.
Bob, uh, really funny guy, uh, Richard Dawson, born in this day in 1932, passed away in 2012,
family feud host hosting the match game was on Hogan's Heroes and, uh, running man from, uh,
back in the day with Arnold Schwarzenegger that movie. Oh, he was in that. Yeah. He was the
host at a, yeah. Okay. Yeah. I guess I don't. Uh, Robert F. Kennedy, born in this day in 1925,
passed away in 1968. Um, that certainly passed away way too young, but you think about the things
that he would have accomplished and could have done. And Duane Alman, born in this day in 1946,
passed away in 1971. Of course, the Alman brothers, you don't have the Alman brothers without Duane.
Ramblin man, midnight rider, crazy love, in a crazy life for Duane Alman. Like, not, not nearly
long enough. I, you know, not nearly long enough, but, um, with the life he lived the time he
was around, man, he had some living. He got it all in. Uh, and we hope you guys have a great one.
We're wishing happy birthdays and anniversaries to everybody up there celebrating. Can't think of
a better way to celebrate than with our friends at El Café. Head on over there today at 221
Market Avenue in beautiful Port Edwards. When Terry and I get back, we got some fun, uh,
for you and we'll talk with our friends over at Quality Plus Printing. We'll have our Wicked
Awesome Order Wednesday coming up right here on the morning show at WFHR.
We're talking 80s. I had to do it. I had to. Still missing some of mine up there. Oh, yeah,
we got to get some up there. We got to get some up there. I think we're, I think we're going 80s
with the bumpers today. We've got it. Yeah, we should. Got a couple of. Oh, yeah. We're doing,
pretty soon. We better get on the Christmas though. Oh, yeah. It's right around the corner.
But we, we tried to wait until at least Thanksgiving, like after Thanksgiving and giving
starts my heart a little bit. Thanksgiving needs a better PR person. I mean, thanksgiving should
just move actually. It's close to Christmas. It's Thanksgiving's fault. I mean, it just moved.
Well, you know, I mean, well, that's that's what they get for, you know, starting this whole thing.
Week after in the colder months. If it was just a week after Halloween. Yeah. And then we could
have a little more Christmas season. Just just that, that's all that's all you're asking. Just
I'm I think Thanksgiving. If there's a new movie out red one, it's all about the kidnapping Santa
Claus. It's like, you know, they got the rock and Chris Evans and all these people in it. I don't
know. I haven't seen it yet. But I got to imagine that it's a turkey that kidnapped Santa. I mean,
you would think it's got to be right. It's got to be. I don't mean to spoil. I don't actually
don't know anything about it. But I do believe that if I was going, if I was, you know, a detective,
I'm on law and order and Santa has been kidnapped. That's the first place I'm going is checking out
Trump Turkey. Oh, hey, hey, you got to have a you got to have an edge with Thanksgiving. Don't you?
You have motive. You had motive. Yeah. I mean, and if darn things give it, if it could just move back
just a couple weeks, I mean, seriously, earlier when I say back, I mean, right, let's take a call.
Good morning. You're on the air. Really, Terry? Yes. Come on now. Yes. It's bad. I don't need to have
an extra week or two of Christmas. Wow. Everybody hear this? Really? How much cold do you deliver?
Oh, you'll see later. I was just wondering if people do that through, you know, your delivery
company or how that works. Kevin, do you get burnt out of the Christmas music? Is it the music?
They get you because I really come on. I feel like I can handle most anything about Christmas,
but it's not just you. My mother is a saver. How do you personally attack my Jewish mother,
who I can't get enough of the boys to mend Christmas. See? I got to listen to like 18 times between
now and the first of the year. Good. Last week, I was kind of by myself, you know, nobody at home and
there's nothing really on TV. Last week, I watched the home alone.
Laurel? All of them? Yeah, well, the two. Yeah, there's two. I could remember. Oh, I was thinking
there was like 18 of those. Oh, no, no. And then you got to watch the Santa Claus movies.
You had to watch diaries because you don't die hard as a Christmas movie. So, did you get off the
couch at all? A little bit. I should, I'm sorry, I shouldn't say last week, the week before.
Right, right. That sounds like a good man. It sounds like a great day actually.
It sounds great, but, you know, but you're getting a little bit of early Christmas into there.
And then you know, the sad thing about it though, too, is that the really, I mean,
then you kind of do the hallmark thing, you know, the hallmark movies, the Christmas movies,
there's so many. Your man card is like floating right away. I think, no, I think actually,
I think you just, you just solidified your man card by showing how madly you are that you can
watch those movies. As a guy, I'll say that, that's brave. It's brave to watch those, whether
you tell anybody or not, because I don't know, I, I can't get into it. Like a bad acting gets me.
Like that'll throw me off of anything so quick. And there is, there's just some of that in those
movies sometimes. I can have it on like decorating. I'll watch one once in a while. That's what those
movies are for. You know, you know, you know, Elf is classic. Yeah. Do you have a go-to movie
this time of year? You sound like you had a couple of them that you got in already, because I would
say Elf is a good one. That's a good one. Well, yeah, Elf is a good one. You know, obviously the
home alone, the, the, the, the, the, the Camille and fans of the movies. I do watch Fuller Express.
You know, I watch the exact same movie every year, Rapping Gifts, and I've done it for
ever. And it's a, well, I'm a Sandra Bullock fan. So the movie is while you were sleeping.
And it's not that popular, but it takes place over the Christmas holiday. And I literally,
for 20 years, I have put that on while I'm Rapping Gifts. I'll get everything that I need and get
it all situated. And then I turn that on. Oh, I think that's great. That's awesome. That's,
that's cool. You know, get everything you need. You know, get all the gifts because I,
out of the last 20 years, I still haven't received one. We, we will give her a chance to work on that.
She's got some material. You've got the cereal to work with. Yeah.
Things that he likes. And we, and we know if anything else, he delivers coal. So we,
we've got that. You know, we go to that. Kevin, we appreciate you, man. Thanks for the call.
All right, guys. Have a great day. Yeah, we talked to our listeners all day.
Appreciate you, brother. Safe travels out there. Our phone lines got to keep open because we
got to have Phil be able to call us for a week and also more to win. They look forward to that.
Until then, I wanted to touch on this one. And Idaho couple put their laundry skills to the test
and broke a Guinness World Record by hanging, hanging up to 10 items of clothing in 51.8 seconds.
David and Jennifer Rush took on the Guinness World Record title for the fastest time to hang up 10
items of clothing and the record beat that they beat was by 57 seconds. So the previous record of 57
seconds. Why, why would, why would someone do that? How would you even know that it's in there?
Terry, how long have you been married? I mean, come on. Like, you, you need to do things sometimes to
just have some fun. Just have some more love. So you're like more powerful. You're like googling.
You pull out your laptop. Let's say what's in the Guinness Book of World Records.
Different people, different things. Maybe this was exciting for them.
I wonder if it had to be certain items of clothing because, okay, if you're hanging your crap
outside, you know, obviously it's harder to hang like jeans because they're heavier. Like, what if
it was just socks because those only require one clothespin? I mean, I just, I'm just going to be
thinking the heck out of this. I'm going to be diving into this. And I'm still going to be like,
this is dumb. Well, it is. But I've also tried, I've also tried to give them a little bit of credit.
I mean, it's kind of cool. It's kind of made up. They've got to get us record. I know that their
kids are going to find them lame still though. The kids are still. Well, that ain't cool. Your kids don't
want their stuff hung outside when it's 50 degrees. We, uh, we are looking forward to talking with
our good friends over quality post printing. They join us every Wednesday, writing this time slot
with our wicked awesome order Wednesday. Good morning, Phil. Hey, good morning, James Terry. How
are you guys doing? Good. How are you? Yeah. Sunshine and bike. Yeah. Yeah. Nice. Nice one out there
today. It's a beautiful one out today. If you got to go put laundry out today, it might not. No,
it's good. It's not hanging your underwear outside when it's 40 degrees. I don't do this very often.
You don't know much about it. I know a lot more about printing. Thanks to Phil though. Uh, Phil,
what are some of the things you guys are working on over there today? I hear you're busy. Yeah.
You have a doorbell ringing. I sit down and plugged before I got in here. Um, working on a assumption
as a big tournament coming up a cranberry classic next weekend. Yeah. Yeah. He calls always over there.
So like, you see him quite a bit. But, uh, yeah, we're printing the books of that today. And that's
a huge job for us. And, uh, and so we thank our friends at attention for giving us that one.
A lot of work for our local company. Dom tower going on today. Hey. Hey, they have a new logo. So
they're doing updates with their stuff. Yeah. Yeah, it's pretty cool. Be in there now. Yeah,
it's really cool. Really cool. So yeah, we're doing some materials for them changing over new
business cards, which should we do a lot of and how much is awesome. Um, but yeah, when everybody
changes the logo over here, we cheer. Yeah. Yeah. I'm going to, you know, actually, I'm going to come
see you today. I need some, I need some copies of some of a big. Well, it's actually a shooting
target for sliding in there. So my, my family's trying to slide in their guns for hunting.
Uh, come in your way. Yeah. Hey, that's good to hear. Yeah. And we're also, uh, I just completed
getting all the sponsors for, uh, season of giving out of the book. And so we're going to be
printing those early next week. Awesome. Can not wait. We're very excited about that one. And
it's excited as we are and we're, uh, we are for the community. Nobody's more excited than the kids.
Kids are very excited about this one. Great. She designed it every year and finds different
things to put in. And so, uh, she does a great job. And again, Terry, we've raised over,
over $4,000. Get very cool. Awesome. Thank you very much. That's really, really makes a big
difference in the community for us. Yeah. Yeah. How did that impacts, uh, that impacts the community
in ways that we, uh, we, we try to put towards all the time, Terry and I, but we just couldn't,
uh, we, it couldn't even begin to tell you how much that helps our community.
You know, I'm proud of that little, little small family owned business. So, I guess, you know,
I'm proud of that, that, that never that other local businesses, uh, team up with us and,
and make that happen. So thanks to all of them. And, you know, next time, maybe next
week, I'll have a big long list here that we can meet a lot of teams. Oh, that'd be a great idea.
I was just thinking the best gift I could give my friend, Kevin, who called in before would be if
we set, if we sent those individually through speedy delivery to people.
Just kidding, Phil. I'm just kidding. Postage is expensive. I was just, I'm, my wheels are turning
on ways to, um, give Kevin a gift. I love the way your mind works. And I also'm going to stand
your good side. I'm going to stay on your, Phil. Uh, with these coloring books, uh, well, we,
we appreciate, oh, the focus on the United Way. I do want to also put the focus on you and your
team and the great work you guys do put into this. A big shout out to all of you, uh, and although
hard work, you're getting to the point where you get to get that, the real fun part, get to see
these out in the community and people enjoying them. Yeah, we, everybody here takes ownership
of this book and I think everybody catches up the whole staff here. And so, in some way,
and yeah, I have no, we are too. I'm excited that we're going to get those out there. I'm going to
get them ready for the parade next week and hand them out to kids. Super fun. Crions and, uh, and,
you know, it's kind of a different thing than candy, I guess, but a little bit, maybe a little,
a little bit more rewarding. Yeah, Phil, you're talking about the parade next week. Do you know that
there is a ribbon cutting for the bridge lighting, finally? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I heard that was coming
off. Yeah, remember that came out of a leadership class. I mean, it wasn't mine, but, you know,
it was talked about at that time. So that's really awesome. I've been seeing a bunch of econ
trucks around getting that set up. So I'm very curious about how that's going to look.
Yeah, me too. And they're going to be able to switch colors depending on what season it is and all
of the kind of stuff. It's going to be a really neat highlight, I think, to downtown. Yeah, it's
really cool. I need to get the United Way colors over to them. If you guys, uh, it's nice.
Nice. If you guys are curious, uh, Mayor Blazer will be on with us today during Midday magazine.
Be sure to let me listen. Mayor Zacker. Mayor's, uh, Mayor, did I say Blazer? Yeah, I did.
I was trying to, I was trying to write something. He wouldn't be offended, but well, I was thinking
about it because I know that Shane was really excited about the bridge lighting. And so that's
a good old thing. Let's just be real. Oh, yeah. Yeah, getting way up there, getting way up there.
Uh, which is why I never remember any of Phil's words. Every, every, every week he could give me
the same word. I don't remember. I'm getting sold. I don't know. I just start coming with the same
word every time. See how many weeks it takes him. What is our wicked awesome word of what's
they've built? This one takes a lot of practice as I kept following the channel. So I'm going to try
to say a quick F from Earl, F from Earl. Oh, EP, EP H, E, I'm shooting EP H, E, M, E, R,
A out F from Earl. I want to say, I want to say different like the F from Earl. Oh, I'm going
to make sure F from Earl. That's our moral. But one, I think I think you can get it right.
That's our moral. See, I said it wrong. Anyway, should probably get Google Translate or something.
I wouldn't have blamed you. I wouldn't have blamed you. Just put the Google Translate
into the phone. Just let it do it. Yeah. A firm role it is. A firm role. A firm role. What does that
one mean? A firm role. This means lacking a short time. Kind of like the Christmas season with
Thanksgiving so close. But you are the tear today. You are. He's one thing and not letting go.
Is that what's going on? No, no, no, no. Oh, that's a good one, Phil. That's a fun one.
I appreciate you taking taking on the word. He could have changed it. He could have used the word
that I love that you took a word that you were. It was a challenge, Phil. One of the reasons I
constantly mess up words on the air is because I want people to be encouraged to say, you know,
speak and take on language and try different words and everything. Hoping up your lexicon.
I want to get some call later today telling me how to pronounce this. Oh, yeah, definitely.
Welcome to my world. Yes, yes, yes, yes. Phil, we appreciate you so much, man. I hope you
in the gang have fun over there. Can hear how busy you guys are getting. Let's keep them even
busy or everybody by local support, local support those that support this community and support
this station. Seeing a little bit. It's like, you know, I'm looking for today right from
where I was like, this is your moment in time, man. Yes, yes, exactly, exactly. I was thinking
of waiting to use this thing in one moment in time and I looked up this word. I don't know why,
oh, no, it works. It works. That's a good one. It's a good one. That one's a good one, Phil.
I appreciate it. We're looking forward to next Wednesday and having another wicked awesome
word. Have a great day, Phil. Yeah, you got to take care. Yeah. Join our friends at quality
plus printing today. They're over there in A Street South at 3515 right here in Wisconsin
Rapids 3515 A Street South right here in Wisconsin Rapids. Give them a call at 715 423 740 423 740
and be sure to follow them on social media. Great follow. Great way to keep up the day and all
the good things that they are doing over there. When Terry and I get back, we're going to talk,
we got this poll here about the amount of Americans that are into doing good deeds, doing more
good deeds. We're talking about that. We come back on the morning show at WFHR.
Welcome back, everybody. Morning show here at WFHR in 85 for this Wednesday. Terry and James
hanging out with you. Thanks for joining us. Everybody in a big thank you to our friends over
a quality plus printing, getting your words out here in Wisconsin Rapids. It was fun hanging
out with Phil for a little bit there. I want to thank our listeners as well. Keb calling in,
that was good. Thanks to, okay, I'll do it. Thanks to all of our delivery people out there,
right? I mean, this is a crazy time of year. So whether it's a delivery company or the post
officer, whoever, I get that. I will say this. Terry didn't say anything she doesn't mean,
but she's also being very smart right there and encouraging her bets. You got to do that this
time of year. You don't want to get on Santa's bad side. You're so close to the finish line.
You don't want to mess up now and start getting coal. You were so close to getting, you know,
you're, I mean, I still might. Yeah, well trust me. I know exactly what that's like. I just
planned. I tried, I tried reverse psychology and just asking for coal and I just get more coal.
You get more. Yeah, perfect. A lot of good grilling at your house. I did not work out. Yeah,
that's the one thing. I do get to grill a lot. I do a lot of grilling. We have entered the season
of giving, which is perfect opportunity to be generous and compensate, compensate for those
three seasons of selfishness. So I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I'm joking about the hedging your
bets stuff and everything. But not really. Not a little bit. Well, for me, I'm not kidding.
For me, I'm not. In a new poll, 43% of Americans say that they've, they're actively doing more good
deeds before the end of 2024 to make up for the rest of the year. Repenting. Yes. That includes
stuff like volunteering or donating. This sentiment is more common among the younger generations.
59% of Gen Zers and millennials are during our planning on doing more good as we approach 2025
compared to 37% of Gen Xers and boomers. But the younger generations are also,
also report to have done more charity earlier in the year. 19% of them say that they've give,
they give themselves an A for good deeds. They've done so far this year compared to just 10%
of older folks. The average person plans to spend eight hours a week on pursuits of good
through now to the end of the year. I think the older generations in general are maybe a little
harder on themselves, right? Because you're self-declaring that you're out doing good things.
So I see that difference there. And you know, whoever is gilting them, good on you. Like, we'll take it,
right? I mean, nonprofits that are benefiting from volunteerism. You will take it. Yes.
Yes. Whatever the reason you're doing it, we're certainly happy you are.
Yeah. And you're 100% right about that, Terry, as far as the older generation. Then add on
the defective, like if they did the survey in the Midwest. Because I know this living in different
parts of the country. I will admit, I don't know as much about the East Coast, but living down south,
living out West, it's different here. We really, it is really tough to get a Midwesterner to,
to, you know, say that they are doing something that they, you know, above and beyond or anything.
Well, no, I'm just doing what I do. Yeah. Absolutely. And so if you ask them, hey, how much are you
giving? How much are you doing? How many of them are answering that, you know, like you said,
with a little bit of bias to it? I think this is encouraging. I think this is a really cool thing.
One of the things that this is stemming from is a lot of people, like they did this survey
before and after the election. And a lot of people are kind of looking at it as, you know,
I'm a little tired of just always looking at this. I want to, I want to do something myself.
I want to impact my world. I want to know what I can do to make things better. I don't want to
sit back and wait for things to get better. I want to do something about it. Many,
millennials, many, Jen, zeers are taking this initiative of, hey, I want to make this world better.
And our generation is just kind of like, well, join the party. Yeah, we've been doing it.
We've been doing this. Yeah. Because this isn't me. This isn't opinion. This is stats. I've got
plenty of numbers that I don't want to bore the audience with. But this is something that we've
been seeing. And it's been happening for a while. You see a lot of people from our generation
in positions like yourself and everything that have been doing this for a while and have built
up a career in whether it's a nonprofit or it's a, some type of company that gives and does good
deeds. But you know, on the other side of that, though, I don't ever consider what I do for work
as my volunteer time. Like I've always been a volunteer at my kids' schools and, you know,
sporting things and that kind of stuff. So I mean, because it would be an easy way out, right?
Like this is what I do for a living. I did like the general, I did like the general statement
in there, though, that it's like, it's a little bit of a gut, like a gut check of, oh, I didn't
really do anything in the first three quarters. I should probably crank it up. And you know what,
that's fine. But I just think that that's a kind of a funny, a funny little observation.
I love the idea of, you know, it's the week of Christmas. And it's not just the gifts that you've
got to go run around and grab it the last second, but you're also trying to do good deeds at the
last second. And you know what? That's okay. Because there are certainly people that need to
receive those good deeds. Absolutely. I like the idea of there's just somebody standing by walkways
just waiting for older people to come by so they can help them walk across or you're just standing
at the end of grocery. Okay, I did five. I got five. I got five. I got you got a punch card.
You know, how many good deeds I got to get 10 good deeds. You're posting it on your social media.
Yeah, I got that. Yeah, yeah, tacky. Very tacky. Very tacky. There is also the guy, like that,
the George Costanza. They can't just put the money in the tip jar, has to make sure that the
person sees them putting the money in the tip jar. And then watch as you fold it to that, you know,
you know, because make sure everybody in the room hears you. If you go to the bell ringers,
right? And you know, because that's out and around now. If you go to that, you have to fold,
if you're giving paper money, change will go through, but if you're giving paper money,
you have to fold it to make it go into the bucket. But it is funny because it's like you want to,
like sometimes people do watch, just make sure that person sees it. I don't know if it was the
last time I did that, but it would maybe it was a time before that, but I was in a hurry and I saw
them and I always usually have a dollar or whatever, you know, put aside so I can just do it.
Yeah, quick. I mean, I think one of the bigger things I will always recommend when it comes to
these or you see our vets out or anybody else, whether you have money to give or not for the orange
poppies or anything like that, make eye contact, say hi, that means almost as much. Well, and
thanks them for doing it. Yes. Yes. For sure. So I try to do those things, but I being honest,
I was in a hurry, I'm trying to do it and I tried to get it in there and I hadn't folded it. And so
I'm sitting there for like a minute, they're just laughing at me. Does he want help?
Should we take the cover off for you, sir?
I read that, but I got this. It's fine. But get those good deeds in everybody. Get those good
deeds in. And really, one of the best, you could not ask for more resources to do good deeds in
this community. We've got a lot of great nonprofits in our area. And we certainly got a great one
right here with our United Way there in Go season. It is campaign season for the United Way.
This is where they are able to collect the funds to be able to do the good deeds that they do and
be able to, you know, impact our community the way they do and all the different ways that they
do and all the different levels that they do. And this is a chance for us to have their back as they
have ours all year long. Add to the United Way's campaign, go to uswac.org. Sign up today.
And if you sign up between now and Friday, you still can do that. Friday, yeah. Four o'clock
Friday is the cutoff for our sweepstakes. You could win a thousand dollars. It's pretty cool.
That's pretty good. I mean, and I know how many people out there like lottery tickets. I mean,
that's kind of a lottery ticket. Yeah, you're buying right there. And you know, you're going to feel
better from it too. You're going to be putting back into your community. Terry, now I'll be putting
into the nine o'clock hour. We'll be back with more show coming up right here at this is locally
grown radio W F H R 13 20 and W 24 AD E Wisconsin rapids and oh.
