Referee Reverie (Hour 1)

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Referee Reverie (Hour 1)

Mornings with WFHR · Thu Jan 2, 2025

Good morning, Wisconsin.

Morning, world.

It's a new day.

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

Got your host, James J behind the mic.

I am joined by our head of production, our co-host, Seth Habhacker.

Good morning, everyone.

And the best listeners and radio.

Thanks for joining us, everybody.

Hope you had a great one.

And a happy, safe new year.

Yeah.

We're going to kick off the new year the way we like to with our friend, Brittany Merlot.

Talk a little mother nature.

Good morning, Brett.

Good morning.

Happy 2025.

I can't believe it's here.

Yeah.

It's amazing.

It's amazing.

Brittany, maybe the most important question we asked to start off the year.

Did you make it to midnight?

I did.

Yeah.

How about you guys?

Yes.

Yes, yes.

I think we all did.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Well, to be fair, I'm nocturnal.

That's true.

That's open.

I'm always awake at midnight.

I don't know if there's ever been a midnight.

I was not awake for it.

But regardless, we made it.

That is the win for all of us as adults.

Nicely done, everybody.

Brittany, what is a mother nature gotten store for us to kick off the year?

Oh, she's got a beautiful start.

Honestly, we might feel a little bit more clouds than I'm showing to start off our day, but

we will end it bright and beautiful and that holds the entire weekend long.

Nothing but sunshine for Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

But it's going to be a cold one.

Of course, we've got those temperatures today.

Right now, we're in those mid teams.

We'll climb to the low 20s for highs.

But it's breezy.

When there's still a gusting around 20 miles per hour out of the northwest.

So it's making it feel about 10 degrees cooler than that.

So we've got to battle some wind chills over the weekend.

It stays breezy through Friday and even into Saturday with our highs falling to the teens on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

So what it's really going to be feeling like is the single digits.

So it'll be beautiful, but it'll be cold.

All right.

Sounds good.

Okay, well, we can handle that.

We'll just stay inside.

Just stay inside, everybody.

Just watch it from the way up far.

That's what you got to do.

Brittany, we appreciate you.

Thanks so much for kicking off the year with us.

You have a great one.

We'll talk tomorrow.

You too.

Thank you.

Best in the business right there for Brittany or Loan joining us every morning in this time slot.

We got fun things coming up and other time slots in just a little bit.

The El Café birthday anniversary club.

We got to pull our winner for December.

We do.

We got the big, the big job today.

Yeah.

Get to give away some guest certificates.

Looking forward to that.

That is coming up in a little bit.

We're also going to have some fun today.

We are going to get into a couple of other fun topics.

Is banning is being air, ban, hugging at the airport is being banned.

What?

Yeah.

We're getting that.

We got a couple of other things to get into.

A study found taking lots of breaks during your workout can help earn calories.

Wow.

We got that coming up a little bit later.

What abbreviations do you think meant something else?

That should be interesting.

Oh, I have a few of those, I think.

Yeah.

And we've got a couple of interesting conversations lined up today as we have a shorter week with the holiday and everything.

We are adding segments to areas and that means that quality plus printing is joining us today with our wicked awesome word of Thursday.

Of Thursday.

Doesn't quite work as well.

Yeah.

It's still good.

Obviously the bumper is a wicked awesome word of Wednesday with this.

It's wicked awesome word of Thursday.

You just got to insert that real quick.

Phil will be joining us in a studio for this Thursday.

Phil's coming along.

Hi.

It's going to be fun.

We're looking forward to that.

Also going to be being joined by our friends from the South of County Main Society and our pet of the week that will kick off the 9 o'clock.

Excellent.

Excellent.

Have some entertainment news in there for you as well.

Adam Sandler's Hanukkah song turns 30.

Oh my gosh.

The drummer from you two in math.

And we've got to get into...

Also Sean O'Connell.

Sean O'Connell.

I'm Sean Lennon.

Sean O'Connell Lennon.

Sean O'Connell Lennon.

Yes.

Yeah.

Bring him up a little bit later.

And if we have time, I want to get this one in set the greatest dog characters of all time ranked.

Oh.

Yeah.

Oh, okay.

All right.

I have some thoughts on that.

We will get into all of these.

But want to start off, of course, with New Year's.

Yeah.

How was New Year's New Year's for you and Beth and the boys.

Oh, we had a at home New Year's this year.

Yeah.

Actually, we were planning on doing something else that kind of fell through.

So we had to kind of do a little pivot and do something at home.

So we got a couple of games.

Oh, by the way, my youngest did get to go to the Noon Day.

Noon Year's Day party at the library.

Yeah, a lot of fun there.

That was a lot of cool.

They did a balloon drop at Noon, which I thought was so cool.

So good.

That's a great idea.

Shut up to McMillan.

Oh, awesome.

Great stuff they're doing there.

So anyway, while they were there, they got a couple of more games.

Because I don't know if people know this.

You can take, you can borrow board games from the library.

They've got so many board games there.

So we got a couple, they got a couple we hadn't played before.

And so we had, you know, the kind of the snacky food all night.

We played a bunch of games.

Both boys stayed up till midnight to do ring in the New Year.

Nice.

First time, I think they've, our pressure second time.

Congratulations.

Yeah.

Congratulations.

So that was, that was so great.

It was a lot of fun.

It was a quieter one, but we really enjoyed it.

There's something about it.

It really feels like that going forward.

Because I actually want to hear from the audience.

Did anybody go out?

That's a good question.

I'm not saying like I know a ton of people,

but I know a bunch of people in different ages,

in different age groups and everything.

And even young people were like, no, we're staying in.

Yeah.

Okay.

They had, there was a lot of parties, like indoor parties and stuff.

And not a lot of time to going out.

I don't want to know if anybody went out and had a good time.

How it went.

Everything stayed up or out, I guess.

I'm always curious about that one.

I wasn't feeling too great.

And neither was my fur brother Sam,

a state indoors as well, so with that.

But did something.

I probably haven't done since I was a kid

and watched some network TV.

Some of the specials and everything.

Wow.

And everything.

And I got to say for one,

you know, I mentioned we talked about it last week,

a little bit.

Ryan Seacrest is amazing at what he does.

I'm not a big Ryan Seacrest fan or anything.

But I know what it is like to do live work

and having being surrounded by people and some of these things.

And he is unflappable.

That guy, he looks so comfortable doing this stuff.

And the best MCs need to be able to just roll with it, right?

Did a really good job.

And their coverage was good.

They did a nice job.

It felt very, the Dick Clark special is not what it was.

Not really at all.

It made me nostalgic a bit because for one,

I don't remember if it was always so music-centric.

Like it just, now it's just,

it's music, music, music, music.

It's all music now, which I'm not judging.

Just I was a little surprised by that.

I seem to remember comedy bits or interviews or something.

I don't know.

There seemed to be more than that.

Yeah, I think you're right.

But their production, it was very East Coast-centric.

It was like they didn't care anything about the Midwest,

which was not how it used to be from what I remember.

Yeah.

They would do it for like each time zone, basically.

Yeah.

They would kind of do a little special thing, right?

They did some stuff around the world,

but as far as here in the States,

it was kind of like East Coast had their New Year's,

and after that it was kind of like,

yeah, they went to the West Coast a little bit,

but they didn't really care much about anything in between.

No.

They had one of the most Rita or I can't think,

I think that's her name.

I don't know.

I want to get, I want to get her name right

because she was one of the most annoying human beings

I've ever seen in my life.

And I apologize to fans of hers,

and even to her, I'm just being honest.

Yeah.

And because of that, I had to flip,

and I went over to the Nashville one.

I checked that out a little bit,

also to do a little homework for the Sunrise Show,

and 105, WIRI,

be sure to check out Trail Tunes tonight at six per set.

Yeah.

That's right.

And I was blown away.

First off, Keith Urban is a vampire.

Keith Urban is a...

Is that something, man?

That, or it's just Australian blood.

I don't get it.

Yeah.

I don't know what it is either.

What it is?

I've never seen, I know who he is,

but I don't think I've seen or heard him a lot.

And I've seen him a little bit in interviews.

I've heard his music over 105.

Yeah.

That is a natural.

Just a natural.

As good as Ryan Seacrest was,

this guy was doing it,

and it looked like he was just,

oh, we're talking, okay, let's go.

And just completely comfortable and professional.

Very good job.

Segways beautifully.

And they were at about eight different locations.

They got Chris Stapleton over here,

Laney Wilson over here, I'm a Randall Aberde over there.

Just, you would be so blown away by the production

and the seamlessness of everything, Seth.

I was half enjoying the artist,

and half just being blown away by the TV production.

It's been a while since I saw

that good a production in TV,

where they had no hiccups, no flaws.

Boom, boom, boom.

Just went to every single thing.

It was really well done.

Yeah.

It was really impressed.

If I remember correctly,

I mean, we didn't have the TV on.

Basically, we did for the ball drop,

or whatever it was.

I think we had the Nashville one,

because it was like the music note,

or whatever it was that they drop in Nashville.

I think that's the one we did the countdown to.

And I just saw very, very little.

And by that time,

there were a whole bunch of people on stage

like, woo, you know, kind of thing.

But that's really cool to hear.

That's really neat.

Boy, did they have a lot of people for that too?

Oh my God, it was huge.

It did everybody.

Everybody.

And every artist I saw did a darn good job.

But I have to single out.

Laney Wilson is one of the biggest stars

you're going to hear and see.

But Chris Stapleton is the real deal, man.

If you don't know if you haven't listened to him

or anything like that,

and it's hard to imagine,

but at this point, anybody hasn't.

But if you haven't,

if there was an artist right now that I'm like,

give this guy a shot.

Give this person a shot.

That's it.

That's the guy right there.

He's a throwback.

He's one of those guys.

Yeah, he's kind of like,

he reminds me kind of,

and not just another way he looks or sings or anything,

but he's kind of got that Johnny Cash kind of vibe to him,

you know, that can do anything.

He's got all that outlaw country in him,

also sounding like the Allman Brothers

that was one person.

Like, it's just one guy.

He's remarkable.

He really is.

And I'm excited about a Super Bowl halftime show

probably since Prince,

like I am for Kendrick Lamar.

I'm extremely excited for that.

I'm more excited for that,

maybe even than the game in some ways,

just because I don't know who's playing yet.

Once they know who's playing,

then I'll probably get more.

But next year,

either Laney Wilson or Chris Stapleton,

that's nothing else.

I don't care who else you mentioned.

Get him both to do it.

But that needs to be the Super Bowl halftime show tomorrow.

Next year, one of those two.

One of those artists.

Yeah.

And it was a good news.

And in safe one,

it seemed like everybody in town,

seemed a good one all around.

Yeah.

Call up and let us know how you celebrated yours.

Love to hear from you.

And most importantly,

even if you just call up and say,

I did.

I want as many calls as we can today

about people that stayed up till midnight.

Oh, okay.

I want as many challenges out there.

You don't have to say much.

You could just say,

I did.

Or how long was it?

And hang up.

That's fine.

We'll keep it tally.

We'll keep it tally.

Yeah.

We kick off the new year with encouraging people

to have a positive outlook.

You know,

have a strong perspective on things.

You choose your mindset.

You know, it's important in life.

And like the old phrase tells us,

choosing your battles wisely.

Don't get bent out of shape over everything.

You don't have to cry over spilled milk.

And thankfully,

nobody was crying.

There was no injuries

as a overturned tanker spilled milk

all over in Minnesota.

Oh, no.

Oh, no.

Authorities in Minnesota says Santa Claus

may have been deprived of some of his traditional snacks.

When a tanker truck spilled its load of milk

onto the road.

The Sterns County Sheriff's Office said

the trucker tipped over in Maple View Road

just north of County Road 40 intersection,

around nine o'clock in the morning on Christmas Day.

Oh, no.

The tanker which had been hauled

about 6400 gallons of milk spilled

some of the liquid onto the roadway.

The driver told deputies the trailer's tires got

too close to the shoulder of the road.

Oh, yeah.

Okay.

Absolutely.

Thankfully, the driver wasn't injured.

Nobody else was injured or anything.

And I believe that this was perfect for the reindeer.

Maybe Santa didn't get any of that milk,

but that's right there for the reindeer.

You know, they usually don't get any milk.

I just realized, you know,

maybe Santa was flying over at that, you know, going,

maybe it was Christmas Day.

So he's heading back, you know, to the North Pole.

And all of a sudden the reindeer are like,

and he's, what's going on?

Oh, what's, oh, milk was spilled all over the ground.

Okay, guys, you can have some.

There you are.

My sister was upset that we didn't have anything

for the reindeer.

And we went out and we grabbed sticks and pinecodes

and put them up there.

And I did this day.

I don't know what she was thinking,

but I helped.

I helped her.

I don't know what reindeer.

I don't think they eat sticks and pinecodes.

Pretty sure that's not their diet.

But, you know, Jill had a good attention.

She was trying.

Right.

We will take a time out.

We'll come back with El Café.

It's birthday and anniversary club.

It's Seth and James.

Take it through your morning.

Right here at WFHR.

Happy New Year, everybody.

Happy birthday to you.

Happy birthday.

It's time to do some celebrating with our great friends

over at El Café.

We encourage you to treat yourself.

And on over to El Café, they are open today, everybody.

Right.

They're just waiting for you over there.

They're waiting for you at 221 Market Avenue

in beautiful Port Edwards.

Bring your kids, grandkids, neighbors, have a good time and joy.

They got some great stuff going on over there.

We encourage you to follow them on social media as well.

It's a great way to keep up to date.

Not only on the cool things that they are doing over there

because they're always up to fun stuff.

They are.

All the time.

But, of course, to keep up to all the things that they are doing

with their menu and all of that as well.

A lot of great things going on at El Café.

We want to send a gigantic thank you to our friends over at El Café.

Because not only do they sponsor this segment,

and we're pretty much the only people doing live birthdays

on the air or anything anymore.

I think that is correct.

But, they also give us the opportunity every month

to grab two winners or winner from our quality winners

at the anniversary.

That's right.

For $20 gift certificates, two El Café.

All right.

We appreciate so much you guys getting us these entries

so we can play along.

Last month, we had 33 entries.

33.

We had some late ones coming in everything.

That's okay.

We love taking full advantage.

That was kind of fun.

Yes.

So, this was a blast.

We appreciate you guys getting us these.

And you get us these by sending them to us.

You can email us info at WFHR.com.

Go right ahead and do that.

You can direct messages on our Facebook pages.

Like our page.

Direct messages.

Get us those birthdays and anniversaries.

And you can call up live on the air.

705-424-2600 is the number to call.

And we've had a few more people do that recently.

And that's been a lot of fun.

So, keep it up everyone.

Yeah.

We really appreciate you guys doing that.

We appreciate you guys doing that.

Keep getting those birthdays and anniversaries to us.

Everybody.

We love celebrating with you.

Seth, out of these 33, we have made the audience wait long enough.

Okay.

Get us our qualifier.

Let's see, December 31 days, 33 people.

I'm going to choose 32.

Ah.

32.

And that gives us, ooh.

Tom and Emily Anders.

Oh, yay.

Congratulations.

I'm in Amolation.

There we go.

Now it's official.

Our winners.

Tom and Emily celebrated an anniversary on the 28th.

Oh, very nice.

And we hope you guys had a great one.

It's going to get even better.

It is.

Because now you've got two $20 gift certificates to take right in over to LKFA and celebrate

with them.

Free food, everybody.

By a pie.

Yeah.

Oh, yes.

Celebrate with a pie.

We appreciate everybody getting us these birthdays and anniversaries.

You will have a chance to win again.

Keep on getting us those birthdays and anniversaries.

And again, a big thank you to LKFA.

We appreciate the team.

They're great.

We love them.

We have got a possible two qualifiers here.

Okay.

Seth, I need a one or a two.

Let's do one today.

All right.

Let's get that one in there.

So we can go ahead and get into the qualifying.

And let's see here.

We got a phone call.

Okay.

Let's see what happens.

And maybe get a new one in here.

Yeah.

Good morning.

You're on the air.

Good morning.

I would like to turn to January.

Birthdays in.

Luke.

Okay.

The seventh of January.

All right.

And Lindsay.

Oh, I'm sorry.

I did not hear the name, miss.

Who did you want for the seventh?

Luke.

Fight.

F-E-I-T.

Okay.

And Lindsay.

Fight for the 29th.

Okay.

We will try to keep those in a list.

Yeah.

Those on there.

Thank you so much.

And you have a good morning.

Thank you.

Keep up work.

Oh, thank you.

Appreciate it.

Appreciate it.

Thank you.

Have a great New Year's.

So we got those.

We got some birthdays coming up.

Ready?

Yeah.

All right.

All right.

Nice work.

Happy birthday, Danielle.

Happy birthday, Danielle.

Enjoy your day, Danielle.

That's a good one for it.

Mm-hmm.

And our qualifier today, Penny Love.

Happy birthday, Penny.

And congratulations.

Our first qualifier of 2025.

Bum, bum, bum.

Yeah.

That's awesome.

You don't get anything for that, but it's cool.

No.

No.

It's bragging, right?

We have bragging people.

I say bragging people.

I agree.

We take a look at our celebrity list of birthdays for this January 2nd.

An interesting list as always.

First off, wishing a happy birthday to...

Let's see.

Tia Carrera is 57.

Wow.

She had a moment there for Nate Lee.

She did?

Yeah.

She did.

She's early 2000s.

It wings world as she was in, I believe.

Yeah.

And some other things.

She had a little bit of a music career too.

Yeah.

She's kind of a belter.

She's got a really good rock and roll voice.

I have to remember that.

And then I think she was on a TV show.

And I can't remember what it was.

I don't remember what it was either.

But it did.

It was a school successful.

Yeah.

I do remember her with the music thing.

And I do remember her.

I should cover something.

And it did a nice job with it.

Yeah.

Tade Diggs is 53 today.

Fantastic actor.

Oh, yes.

He's fabulous.

He's done a lot of movies.

I think you'd know him if you saw him kind of thing.

Absolutely.

I have some TV here and there.

But his work and rent is probably still his best work.

Yes.

He was incredible in rent.

And that whole cast was amazing.

But he was, yeah.

He was very good in that.

One of the more flawless castes you might see.

Tell him the original cast of rent.

Yes.

Actor Jack Shepherd is 49 today.

I was nominated for a People's Choice Award and a favorite TV actor.

I've done a lot of good work there.

He's got a reality show where he was all about cars and everything for a while too.

That he was doing.

And famously married with Kristen Bell.

Here's to Bell, yes.

Probably one of the more famous celebrity couples out there.

Because they do a lot like together.

Which a lot of a lot of couples do.

It's kind of a throwback.

Yeah.

In some way.

That used to be a bigger, that used to have a lot more and everything.

Right.

And now, yeah, not as much.

And actress Kate Bosworth is 41 today.

Wow.

Petrae Lois Lane in the film Superman Returns.

It's done a handful of other pretty good work as well.

I do want to take a moment though to wish a very happy 77th birthday to Jack Hanna.

TV host Jack Hanna, of course, into the wild.

There aren't many people that could...

Did what he did for a long...

Yes.

Over 40 years.

Yes.

It's been doing this.

Man, he would...

Of course, I would appear.

How many times was he on the tonight show?

Yeah.

I mean, he would come up with Johnny and the animals he would bring on.

And, of course, hijinks would ensue.

I mean, there was a classic.

I think he did it on purpose.

Just like, how can I mess with Johnny?

Jody Foster...

Jody Foster once said that being a good actor is about being the most uncool person in the room.

Right.

Because it's all about just being human.

And it's not about trying to look cool or any of these things.

It's just being you.

And as a little kid watching Johnny Carson, part of the reason I say he's the greatest whoever do it and all those things is because he was so willing to be the...

Maybe made fun of, to look silly, to have the monkey on his shoulder and doing them what the monkey does and everything and all these things.

Like, up until then, if you were a TV host, even Steve Allen, who I loved and looked up to and everything,

had to perfect suit, had to let hair right and everything.

Right.

Always had to...

I was winking at the audience like, you know, he's above this a little bit.

You know, he kind of...

He was apart from what he was kind of doing.

Yeah.

Johnny leaned into the tonight of the tonight show.

Right.

And it was more laid back.

And it just...

The loosenness of it, while also being able to control everything and being the perfect conductor on that stage and everything.

People, if you haven't learned what he was behind the scenes and how much Johnny Carson changed late night TV that way and everything.

Just...

There's something to that and Jack...

His work with Jack Hanna was some of my favorites.

Because you never knew what was going to happen.

No.

Johnny didn't know what was going to happen, but he was a hundred percent in.

He was in?

A hundred percent in.

And I think part of it was Jack Hanna too.

And he was such a good...

Oh, absolutely.

Yes, so well.

Very good...

A very good communicator of animals as well.

I mean, he was good at teaching stuff to people.

People would learn something at the same time laughing at whatever was happening to Johnny at that time.

They're both very good at what they do.

Yes, yep.

Actress Wendy Phillips is 72 today as well.

I am Sam.

I would say it's probably her...

Some of her best work.

Oh, yeah.

That was a good one of hers.

Let's see here.

And I knew there was somebody else.

I wanted to mention it, but I can't find them, of course.

Of course.

But Anthony Carrington, Barry and Gotham, go TV actor right there.

Oh, okay.

So number of names out there.

We want more names.

Everybody get us.

Those birthdays and adversaries.

We love celebrating with you.

We do.

Keep getting them to us.

And yes, we will take early birthdays and anniversaries everybody.

We do.

And whenever you get them to us, we'll take them.

Yeah.

One more time.

Congratulations to our qualifier, Penny Love.

Happy birthday, Penny.

And congrats to her.

Yep.

And again, one more time.

Very big congratulations to our winners for the month of December.

Tom and Emily Anders.

Yes.

Congratulations, you two celebrate again in January.

Yeah.

Yeah.

They won $2.20 gift certificates to LKFA.

We encourage you to head on over to LKFA.

Treat yourself.

Get on over there.

$2.21 market avenue.

In beautiful poor dead words.

And be listening tomorrow for another opportunity to hear our qualifiers.

To win, to celebrate our LKFA birthday and anniversary club.

Got a news break coming up some sports.

Take care of our partners.

Seth and I will come back.

And we are talking this airport thing about the hugging.

No hugging in air.

Oh, I'll talk about that.

We'll also be joined by our friends from Collette Plus printing coming up.

And of course, not a clock hour would kick off with our South County Main Society right here.

A 97.5 FM 13.20 AM WFHR.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show at WFHR.

Hope y'all are having a great start to your day.

Your new year and everything above.

James here with you.

Got my co-host Seth.

Good morning.

And we're going to kick off this segment with our good friends from Collette Plus printing.

And I wicket awesome.

We're in a thruster.

Phil Hartley joining us in studio.

Phil's here.

New year.

You know, we got to change things up a little.

Yeah.

That's right.

Absolutely.

Yes.

Ever once in a while, throw a little curveball in there.

It's fun.

We want to shout out you and our friends at Collette Plus printing.

Not only the sponsorships and everything you do for us and everything you do in this community, Phil,

but heard such good things about that coloring book that was out there.

That did so well.

That was so much successful and everything.

It was a lot of fun.

Just wanted to start off wrapping up last year with you guys a successful year.

I would say for quality plus.

Oh, thank you.

Yeah.

We continue to grow.

You know, when I bought the place of three years now, it's kind of crazy.

Yeah.

So like many of people, I lost my position at the mail when the mail closed and ended up here at Collette Plus printing.

And it's been, yeah, three years.

So it's growing now.

We've gone from having three employees.

Now we're up to nine.

Wow.

So small but growing company and almost tripled the business in a couple of years.

Oh.

So we're getting there and we're trying to come up with new and inventive.

And what can we do next?

I can't sit still very well as you both.

Yeah, the same.

Yeah.

And so when I get going, I, you know, what are we going to do to keep change?

What are we going to do to keep improving?

And so anybody has ideas.

Bring them on.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Because I'm very open to that.

And by we continue to grow.

And I, you know, bless this community that has supported us.

And that we serve.

We're pretty lucky that way.

What are you guys up to coming up in this new year over at Collette Plus stuff?

So it slows down at the end of December and then ramps back up right now.

So when I get back over there, I'm sure we'll get some emails coming.

But so we do a lot of work with the school departments.

We start, they're all back in starting today.

So we'll start getting a bunch of orders that way.

And we do a lot of working hours.

Who was I going to shout out?

Oh, Edge.

You remember Edge VR?

Oh, yes.

We do some good work for them.

And so we went out there with our Christmas party.

A couple weeks ago.

Oh, excellent.

Last.

That is so much fun.

So again, local companies do when you have the people that support us this way,

they order shirts from where, you know, am.

And they've done their business cars and stuff with us.

So always look to reciprocate, you know.

And then you find some neat local companies that way.

And they're one of them.

Yeah.

So if you haven't gone out there and seen them and the greatest of people as well.

Yeah.

If you haven't gone out there and supported them yet, go out there and have some fun with your family.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Especially, it's getting colder and colder out.

You're looking for things to do in the course.

Oh, yeah.

That's a great one.

They've got so much great stuff.

And you're indoors, but you can go anywhere.

Yeah.

That's right.

VR and everything.

Oh, yeah.

We're in space, I believe.

Yeah.

Yes, we were.

It was pretty cool.

We keep us busy, you know, this whole year.

So we're doing their programs.

We're just putting in their big program book that they hand out.

And they're having a really great season.

Oh, yes.

I have an old Facebook on first place in their division.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So yeah, get out and they play home this weekend because we get a new program's warm today.

So yeah, so it's so important.

So again, this is so fun having this job.

Not only is it working well, but you get to see all the things in the community that's going on.

So it's kind of a blessing that way too.

And Phil, I, to the audience, I want to apologize.

We don't get you in studio very often.

I don't mean to be distracted, but as you guys know, being radio heads and everything yourselves,

part of the reason you stay in this industry is the clothes you get.

Yeah.

It's so much about, I'm wearing you.

I'm wearing you in a way shirt, the Terry Gaping.

Yeah, that's exactly how you look.

Hey, there's a reason I started wearing.

It wasn't for other people.

It was so I could print my own shirts.

Phil, you brought over something.

I just wanted to thank you.

Appreciate this.

First off, I love the color.

The color is fantastic.

Yeah.

But Phil brought over a shirt for us here.

And it is on the front.

It says, this is my swear shirt.

Yep.

It's already on the top.

And then what the what on the back?

Yes.

Is my, is my favorite go to swear words?

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I think I'm up with our own line, you know.

It's the one day that I don't know why that came into my head.

But what do you say instead of swearing when you're around your kids or around in a social group

that you have to hold back a little bit on?

Yeah.

And so I asked my staff that.

So I made them those shirts, you know.

And then I said, okay, we're going to start reaching out.

And so I sent some of my family back in Maine, you know.

Oh.

And so we're going to start getting them out, you know.

And I thought, that'd be cool to bring you one, Jane.

So I asked Jane's one day.

Thank you.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But, I mean, just to, a place near you or whatever, you want to be the envy of your neighborhood,

your friends?

Absolutely.

Have your very own.

This is my swear shirt.

And whatever you say, like Zoynks, or whatever.

Yeah.

Excel syrup.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Something that you say when you don't want to swear, we put that on the back and you can wear it

probably around there.

Very nice.

I'll be wearing that very proudly.

Yes.

It's about your favorite shirt, man.

I'm happy to hear that.

Yeah.

It's fantastic.

That kind of thing that you guys can order from Quality Plus.

Yeah.

Well, you know, where so many places you're going online, you're trying to talk to somebody

on there.

Or maybe if you're fortunate, you get a real human being on a phone or something like

that here, sitting on over to A Street, just walk on in, give a call, direct message

over online, if you want, whatever you're comfortable with, if you have an idea, they want

to hear it.

Yeah.

We can do it.

You know, that's what this mind philosophy is.

You know, bring it on.

Let's try it out.

We've tried printing on wood.

We've tried printing on metal.

We've tried.

We can do it.

Yeah.

You know, we'll find a way.

We're local here.

Let's try and try to keep it here.

And again, it's all about reciprocating, so if we can find a way to help you, and we'll

definitely look away that, you know, we can reciprocate and give you some business as

well.

Yeah.

This is what we're all about as a community helping each other, raising each other up

and everything.

And I actually think of it a really interesting conversation, some time to get into with

you Phil.

Right now, just to touch on a little bit, you mentioned, you know, losing the position

at the mill and kind of doing this in that, going with this with your energy and everything.

We've seen this community has been hard by that, but I am so proud of this area where

we're not the only community that lost a mill, but we're one of the only communities

that is, I would say thriving in comparison to so much else and everything, and so much

of it is the people.

The people of this area and the fight in them, the ingenuity of them, the creativity,

and pivoting.

And we talk about this a lot in tech business and everything where you pivot your industry,

and you start out doing this and you go this direction.

This area has been so strong in that regard.

We talk about this with the mayor all the time about bringing new businesses in, and

so a lot of that is giving locals jobs and giving locals opportunities and everything.

Right now.

We're fortunate.

We're blessed to have a bunch of hardworking people in this town, and not only mid-state

being here has been a huge win because a lot of people have been able to take some classes

there and come up with something new, like we've done here, but in many different fields.

So we're blessed that way, of course, UWSP is down the road.

So we're blessed with that being around us, but you're right, a bunch of hardworking people

that didn't give up, didn't fold up shop and run, they said what can we do out?

What else can we do to make this community better and make a living, obviously?

So it's been, I'd been amazed, I'll be honest, because we can say 900 jobs almost that

day, the mill closed and you go, okay, boy, that's going to be, it hasn't, was to see

a new retail pop up, or seeing new businesses pop up, and it is.

It's ingenuity in a lot of whoops, you know, it's a little nicely set in our spirit that

is not giving up yet.

We have to get more Yiddish words in the day, sorry, I didn't do that one in, I didn't know

where I came from, I grew up in a small town, the mill closed, in northern Maine, nothing

like this.

I had a class of 130 in my high school, and now I think the incoming one that she was

a little over 20.

Wow.

So it shows you in there, but it was a one-horse town, this rapid was not a one-horse town.

Yeah, exactly.

And we're blessed with the cranberry industry, but again, so many other new things.

Yeah, exactly.

You're right, coming like edge VR, you know what I mean, who knew, bring it on.

Absolutely.

And as well as, you know, it's a great interesting thing you mentioned there with edge VR.

Newer business, it's been thriving, doing very well over there, and then right behind

it is Skate City.

That's been there forever.

And still still doing very well.

Yeah.

I went by there in New Year's even, you see the cars loading up over there, you know,

they're going to have a party that night.

Yeah.

I give a shout out too, we got, I have neighbors reading my little, whatever you want to

call a little condo that I'm in, they were the three businesses, but we have new owners

in the market, we should talk to them about getting on WFHR here.

But in the mailbox store, right next door to me, that does a lot of sending, and they

were really busy over the last few days.

Of course.

New owners over there.

Just starting today.

Very cool.

Wow.

Congrats on that.

Yeah.

So we'll have to give talk to them about coming over here on WFHR.

Absolutely.

Absolutely.

But they're a primer family.

Oh right.

And interestingly, the gentleman who's the father, the main owner, I worked with at

the mail.

So again, another spin off, or he's spun off, and now he just, he and his son are operating

that business right now, and his wife.

So pretty cool.

Give them some business over there.

Our next door neighbor.

Yeah.

Perfect.

Phil, what is our wicked awesome word of Thursday?

Yeah.

Here we go.

So, it's not revelry, which would be a good word for today too, you guys, right after

doing that.

Right after doing that.

Right after doing that.

Right after doing that.

Right after doing that.

Right after doing that.

Right after doing that.

Right after doing that.

Right after doing that.

Well, this is just, this is not even what they're doing.

Which is daydreaming, so daydreaming and thinking of a, you know, a good output on a beach

somewhere, I think, I guess.

So yeah, revelry is the daydream.

It's a good New Year's day.

Yeah.

We're thinking about what's going to happen next year, hopefully much positive things, right?

Yeah, exactly.

Absolutely.

Let's go with that.

Yeah.

So, revelry is the daydreamer they say on here.

If you're relaxing on a beach dreaming of how you never get up and go back to work, you're

engaged in revelry or a pleasant beach dream.

Yeah.

There you go.

I imagine there's some people out there that got one foot in a revelry, one foot more

right?

Yeah.

It's one of those weird leaks.

Try to get back in this one.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's why I thought it would be a good word.

We're still all coming out of the coma.

So yeah.

By local, support local and support those over in our area here in those that support

this community.

Like quality plus printing, everybody.

Join them at 3515 A Street South right here in Wisconsin Rapids.

Be sure to follow them on social media, great Facebook page.

Be sure to keep up to date on things right through there as well.

Phil, I can't thank you enough, man.

Thank you for the shirt.

Thank you for everything you put in the discommunity you and your team over there wishing you guys

a very, very happy new year.

Yeah.

You guys as well.

Thanks so much for having me in and always a pleasure.

Yeah.

Appreciate your time.

Thanks, Phil.

We'll see you again real soon.

And we'll be back real soon, everybody, right here at 975 FM 1320 AM WFHR.

We are locally grown radio.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show at WFHR.

Big shout out to Phil Hartley and our friends over at Quality Plus printing.

That was fun.

That was very fun.

Really start off the year with that, yeah, great segment, great life segment 3515 A Street

South right here in Wisconsin Rapids.

Put it on over to A Street South for all your printing needs and say hi to the gang over

Quality Plus printing.

Wish them a good morning and a happy new year.

Now, you got to be careful, higher wishing happy new years in New Zealand.

Oh, oh, okay.

An airport in New Zealand is in the news for their new hugging policy that they just adopted.

If you're dropping someone off at the airport, farewell hugs are now limited to three minutes

max.

Good luck trying this in the Midwest.

Oh my gosh.

Oh, no, no, that would never work.

They put up a sign that says max hug, max hug time, three minutes for Fondre Farewell's

please use the car park.

This is in Dundalin on New Zealand's South Island.

Okay.

All right.

They're doing it to help with traffic around the airport and limit how long people hang

out and drop off lanes, but the internet is divided on whether it's a good policy or not.

One person called it inhumane and I feel like that's a little bit too far.

Okay.

Three minutes is a decent chunk of time.

It's pretty good.

If you're actually hugging someone for three minutes, that's awkward.

I mean, at one point, that's got to feel awkward.

It's like, a hug is like more than 10 seconds for me.

It's like, what's going on here in the scene?

Honestly, depending on the person, if it's less than more than three minutes, I'm checking

my wallet.

I'm feeling like wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.

Well, that seems a little too long.

I needed money for the trip, but the hug part, I'm not so focused.

I think that what they're getting the rule a little wrong here, they're focusing on

the physical hug part.

It's the talking.

Yeah, that's what actually does it, right?

That makes it last longer.

You're so right.

Three minute conversations.

Three minutes, you have three minutes or something like that.

You can put it word at that way, then I think they would be a little better off.

The hugging thing I'm with, I think a lot of people would be with you on that.

I mean, even think of the longest hug you've ever had.

If it's over a minute, that's a really long hug, man.

If you're ever curious of how long a minute really is, try doing live radio.

Sometimes it can be an eternity.

Yeah.

The best comment came from an American who said, you get three minutes to hug in America,

they don't even want you to stop.

Just come to a slow, slow roll, push your passenger out and just keep going, then you're

off.

Yeah, exactly.

The bigger the airport, the crazier that can be.

I have literally seen people going like two, three miles an hour and somebody getting

out of a vehicle at O'Hare and just with their things, even.

That's amazing.

That is Chicago, though.

I gotta mention, I gotta say that.

LA was actually more laid back like the LAX airport.

I thought that would be crazier.

It was much more laid back than the one here in New York.

If you go to any of the New York airports, forget it.

No one's moving.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I'll let you out here.

It's a mile to the airport, but we're not going anywhere, so yeah.

As we get closer to spring break and everything, we're going to be diving into a bunch of airport

conversations.

Stories have got put aside and everything from that, but the airport etiquette is the closest

I believe we have to Mad Max.

I believe it is as close as we get to that futuristic world where everybody's got Mohawks

and dies their hair and stuff like the earrings.

Oh, man.

Yeah.

I don't know why.

I don't know how they can shave.

There's still two in the dystopia.

When they shoot, when they still do the dystopian future and everything, it's still basically

the cast from Mad Max.

It is.

They can't get past that for some reason, I don't know, because all of a sudden like everyone

gets piercings after the dystopias face, it's like, what?

There's no water.

There's no gasoline, but we've got enough hairspray and we have like plenty of like hair

stylists.

Yes, yeah.

But plenty of people still cut your hair.

I'm telling you, man, it clears boutique that they're going to do bockers, you know,

business in the, in the, in the, in the, in the after the apocalypse, right?

Yeah.

Three minute hugs.

I don't know about that one.

I don't know.

I hope, you know, I hope people in New Zealand are, you know, taking a long time to say goodbye.

That's nice for that people in New Zealand.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, to stop them from doing it.

We have, we have, we're doing a lot more, conversating with breaking up our words and

using a shorthand with a lot of our conversations.

Not just that we speak to, well, not just that we're speaking to each other, but also

that we're writing.

Yes.

And this comes from texting a lot.

We are texting and emailing more than we've ever done, of course, in time.

Yeah.

And that's usually with, sometimes with a shorthand, like you're talking about, yeah.

I learned most of the shorthand, my mom was actually going to school to be a stenographer.

Her, her, her family wanted there to be an attorney.

She wanted to be a stenographer.

It's still in the court.

And with that, you have to learn a lot of shorthand in those things.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So I learned a little bit from her over the years.

And then when I first started in radio, I worked part-time in one of the ways to make

a couple extra hours was helping Pam in the office and working with her.

And doing over-the-back fence was one of my original things.

And with over-the-back fences, you know, knowing shorthand is vital, it really does help

a lot.

Yeah, I don't think I've ever learned that.

But it's, in the busy days of over-the-back fence, it was a lifesaver to be able to

use shorthand.

And so I see a lot of these worlds meshing now as we're getting more and more into abbreviating

things.

And with that, of course, comes a lot more confusion.

You know, my, my friends and I do this thing every once in a while, just out of the blue

text each other a bunch of random emojis.

And it takes you a minute to realize it, the way, but what did he, what was he trying

to say with this?

He's telling me, what is this arcane writing that you sent me?

Be Keeper with a candlelight.

I don't understand, but it's just the mess with the other thing.

Yeah, exactly, of course.

But then there's the ones you see and you're like, okay, they're just messing with me.

And no, that actually meant something.

Uh-oh.

And so someone asked the internet, what abbreviation did you think meant something else?

So you see it and you think it means one thing, but they thought it meant something else.

So a lot of people thought SMH meant so much hate.

Oh, okay.

Like they really just, that's a lot of hate or they really didn't like something.

But some people said I thought it was smack my head, like a face ball.

Oh, geez, smack my head, okay, yep.

Okay.

So, which is it?

Yeah.

They don't tell us.

They don't tell us.

They don't tell us.

Oh, no, come on.

I think in part because nobody, who's the originator of these things, you know?

That's the thing.

I mean, who knows?

Yeah.

Well, there's coming out a note, which is still kind of cool, too.

It's a little bit like, well, who made this word hip already thing, and nobody knows.

I thought, IYKYK was people just asking, making that sound out loud.

I could see that.

That's that one is, yeah, it's like, it looks like an exclamation.

Yes.

It means, now it means, if you know you know, but if you know what it means, then you know.

Yeah.

It's kind of funny that the abbreviation is also very similar to what it's, it's very

meta.

It's very meta, yeah.

That's too much.

Also, that's too much.

That's too much.

That is too much.

That's too much.

IYKYK.

If it's more than three, four, if it's four letters, that's too much.

I think, yeah, if you have to see with the three, three, four, that's the max.

Otherwise, what are we doing?

You're not saving any time.

And as a side note, if you have to explain the abbreviation to somebody more than two

or three times, you're not saving any time.

Right.

Right.

It does not make sense.

You're just, you're just looking for attention.

I don't feel like it works at all.

You know, I'm kind of a real quick side note here.

So there's a famous abbreviation, Tonstoffel, which means there's no such thing as a free

lunch.

Yes.

Why has that not become a thing?

Come on people.

Come on.

Internet.

I want to see people writing out Tonstoffel.

I really want to see that one.

I want to see the abbreviation of that.

For your ID, I thought that I stood for I and D stood for identification.

Dentification.

Identification.

I love it.

Identity document is what it means just for anybody who was still uncertain.

Yeah, that's awesome.

I hadn't heard that before.

That's good.

I like that.

Identification.

Not a word.

I was just going to say, that's a word.

It is in wictionary.

It is in the wictionary, not in the dictionary, but it is in the wictionary.

So it's become a word.

Yeah.

It's originally a word.

It just, yeah.

Common usage.

Not really a word.

No.

Not really.

Identity document.

Original.

I work in mortgages and I've labeled original loan term documents as OG terms and give them

to my director for review.

Not realizing I labeled them original gangster terms.

That's good.

That's hilarious.

In a professional setting.

I love it.

Here you are, sir.

Here's my OG documents.

Did you just say OG?

What?

What are you talking about?

Who are you?

I'm a gangster.

That's pretty good.

That's pretty good.

Yeah.

Let's see here.

When...

By the way, that's a weird phrase.

Yes.

That's a very strange phrase to become so ingrained in our culture.

That's just odd.

Anyway.

Okay.

So AI.

When I was growing up, it meant artificial insemination, but that is of course gone in

the other direction.

Yes.

Artificial intelligence.

Yes, it has.

Oh, I hadn't thought about that, but that's right, yeah.

That made me think of the Kyle Place that you passed every time you go into Madison.

Oh, ABS.

Oh, ABS.

ABS.

And they're great signs.

Yes.

There are certain things that you...

Again, if you know, you know, like if you've lived in this part of the area or part of

the Midwest or you travel a lot between Madison and here, like that's all you got to say,

immediately people know what you're talking about.

When I lived in Minnesota and my family would come visit my sister, that was a landmark.

ABS was always a landmark that we said, oh, it's on the side today.

You know, always, I was so clever.

And yes, whoever has been working on those sides for, they've, they've amazing the years

and years.

Yeah.

Every time I pass it, I will break my neck to see that side.

I will look at it.

I thought ETS after a time was short for estimated for longer than I'd care to admit.

That's pretty good.

That's the estimated time.

Right?

Yes.

Yes.

That's tea.

That's a good one.

Yeah.

Actually, I see that one quite a bit.

And probably one of the more popular ones you see, especially in social media and in chat

settings, is BRB.

Now, this person thought BRB meant bathroom break.

It just kind of fits.

That's a bad.

I would take that one.

Yeah.

B right back is what it usually is what it terms which technically could be a bathroom

break.

Exactly.

They're just not being specific about it.

So yeah, it could be one of both.

I'd say use it for either.

Yeah.

Or fetch it.

Oh, it's not.

Are there any out there?

715-424-2600.

Let us know what you think.

What are some abbreviations that you either did what you're sure of or you got wrong?

This is a place.

I remember the first time I saw LOL.

And I seriously thought it was lots of love because that's what I always had seen it

as as a kid and growing up and then someone informed, no, no, no, that's laugh out loud.

Oh.

Okay.

I think that it's funny when you come across ones that mean that actually are used for

two different things.

Yes.

And it's a good point.

And they have two very different meetings.

Those are good, those are good, but there's, I mean, I don't know, they're almost endless

amount of these for me.

As far as in social media nowadays, I think most of the abbreviations or acronyms, I kind

of remember learning just in the fly.

But I would say in the social media age and in texting.

Especially.

Oh, yeah.

I don't do it as much now, but I worked for so long with so many younger people that

for a long time that I just, I had no, I just asked.

I was just asked.

Is that fine?

I don't.

Yeah, you look cool, but you're in cool anyway.

So exactly.

Just go ahead and know which is kind of cool, actually.

Good morning around the show.

Hey, good morning.

I am one that hates abbreviation.

Oh.

When I text somebody, I spell out the whole word.

I don't care if it takes the whole page.

Oh, that's great.

That's great.

You have abbreviation.

Love it.

Good on you.

Yeah.

Yes.

Good on you.

I tend to do the same thing too.

Every now and then I will.

But in general, I try to type everything out.

I think that.

That's great though.

Yeah.

100%.

Let people learn some things here, baby.

Yeah, baby.

Yeah.

Especially if you're texting younger people, maybe they learn a little something.

Yeah.

I don't think there's anything wrong with that.

Appreciate you, sir.

Have a good morning and a good new year.

Thanks for that.

Yeah.

We have got our friends from the Southville County as Humane Society joining us with our

pet of the week coming up.

And that is going to be so much fun.

We'll have some entertainment news.

Putty more coming up in the 9 o'clock hour right here at...

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