Show Us What Matters(Hour 2)

Good morning, Wisconsin.

Morning, world.

It's a new day.

Thanks for kicking it off with us at WFHR.

Got your host, James J. behind the mic.

I am joined by CEO of your United Way of South Wind and Amps County.

Terry Johns.

Good morning.

We're back together.

It's a good Friday.

Hope you're having a great one out there.

Everybody.

We got some fun stuff lined up for you in a little bit.

We got its quitter's day.

And we got three times.

It might actually make sense to ditch your resolution.

So that's an interesting one.

We got that.

And entering 2025 clutter free.

We're talking about that.

Got a couple of other fun topics for you to wrap up the show.

We will have our schedule.

And we'll have an update from the United Way and some of the interesting things

and cool things that are doing over there.

But we kicked things off talking a little bit about the California fires going on out west.

Certainly our thoughts are with a lot of our friends, our people,

just a fellow Americans over there.

I know I've got a lot of people that are displaced right now.

I have a great friend out there that I cannot get in touch with.

And it's been bugging me.

Yeah, that's hard.

I think I believe that will and his father are okay.

But I am worried right now because I have not been able to get that.

And that will doesn't it's not on social media, of course.

So I can't reach him that way either.

And I'm not alone.

There's so many people right now missing their loved ones, missing their pets.

Yeah, I just saw a picture last night on Facebook from someone who was a year.

Your older than me had posted one of their classmates from Lincoln here.

Her and her husband, their house burned yesterday.

So they were, you know, somebody had organized like a GoFundMe to help them with staff.

And so they're in a hotel, but still, but like just everything gone.

And so quickly, you know, I mean, like there was, yes, they've known about the fires.

I'm not saying that.

But but it's still there's just no reaction time.

Like if you want to, if you needed to, or wanted to get something out,

you needed to have done it, you know, keep sakes, that kind of thing.

So it's hard to, hard to say that.

Thankfully, a lot of people were, you know, evacuated before, before they got too bad.

But not enough people did.

And it's, and certainly there's so much you can only so much you can take with you.

Yeah, absolutely.

My family and I dealt with kind of a sort of a fire in the front, the top of the house,

and the upstairs.

And just losing what we did in that.

And just how that was for our family and how displaced we were from that, even.

It was, it rocked us to this day.

Yeah, it comes up every once in a while.

And that was 15, 10, 15 years ago or something, maybe even longer.

And that's an even a glimpse of what they're going throughout.

Yeah, it's hard to even put my heart to even think.

Yeah.

And do appreciate, I want to get into a great story about Jamie Lee Curtis.

But real quick, I have to do something.

I've been keeping up on the coverage a lot.

And I follow, you know, local news quite a bit.

And I certainly follow the national news a couple of key sources in between here and there.

We're friends with ABC News.

We play them at the top of the hour here and everything.

And I think they overall do incredible reporting and have since we were kids, since I've been alive.

I go to ABC quite a bit, actually, for most of my news.

But I was watching some of the coverage on this.

And I know this is reporting nowadays, 101.

But there was a couple that were trying to get a safe that had been in their back there.

And they're trying to get the safe out and everything because they wanted to get to it before looters might.

And a reporter who does good reporting from time to time goes up to them and started asking them questions.

And then continues to ask them questions and continue to film.

As this couple is trying to salvage the one thing this lady wanted to find this safe because she had felt a ring, special rings in it for her.

And wasn't even sure if they survived the fire.

Back off.

Just back off, man.

Yeah.

If you got to ask one question fine, you want to get a little bit of like five, 10 seconds of footage.

Or even this couple is desperately trying to find blah blah and then.

But there's I believe the husband was there digging.

Okay. And here's this reporter just standing there and not even anything good to say.

Like the lady's like talking about how devastating it is.

And he's like, yeah, it's awfully devastating.

Like if you're not going to pick up a shovel and help this couple, move on, man.

Because that's not reporting.

That's that's sensationalism.

That is sensationalism.

These are people that are going through something right now.

And if you as a reporter were going through that, how would you feel having a guy standing a complete stranger standing there with a camera on you?

Recording you.

What are we doing?

That's not reporting.

That's sensationalism.

And that is wrong to me.

We need to we need to stand up against these things.

Advertisers pay attention to this stuff.

And if you say something, if you like, hey, that ain't good, report it.

Hey, that's that's not right or turn the channel.

I want how important reporting is nowadays is incredibly important.

And we need good reporting.

We don't need sensationalism.

That's what got us in this trouble in the first place.

That's not good reporting.

Leave that couple alone.

Leave these people alone.

Report on the situation.

Get the data and the facts out there.

That's stuff.

That's TMZ stuff.

That's going through people's garbage is stuff to me.

That's low hanging fruit.

I sure hope they got to it.

They did.

This was one good thing about the reporting.

That would have been good if they just focused on this.

This couple was doing this and some police officers came by.

And was like, hey, what's going on here and everything?

And can we see your ID?

So we know this is actually your home.

And this is something that unfortunately happens a lot in destruction and everything.

And I think it was very informative for people to learn that.

They saw these officers come by.

Guess what?

When they checked the ID and all that, those officers started helping them.

Cool.

Because that's what good police officers do.

That's part of the job, even though it isn't part of the job.

But this reporter didn't do a darn thing or anything.

But it was good.

I think that part of it was good.

But you could have edited that scene.

You could have edited all that to where you just had that in there.

And you're leaving this couple alone.

Instead, they're just putting them out there like it was nasty.

It was nasty reporting to me.

I don't think that's reporting.

And not the journalism that I grew up with.

And I think that we need in this day and age.

Jamie Lee Curtis is donating $1 million to the California Wildlife Relief.

She says, quote, my husband and I and our children have pledged $1 million

from our family foundation who started a fund of support to our great city

and state and the great people who live and love here.

I'm in communication with Governor Newsom in Mayor Bass and Senator Schiff

as to where those funds need to be directed for the most impact.

I think one of the key parts of this is she's not just given the money.

Jamie Lee Curtis is a smart individual and knows,

okay, I want to give money.

I want to make darn sure I know where it is going and that every penny of it

is going to the right places, which is something you and I have talked about

a lot, Terry, and transparency with these things.

Sure.

In related news, Gene Smart is also going to be donating money to race funds

for wildlife victims and firefighters.

There is quite a few celebrities doing these things.

And I think that it's important to note that when we talk about celebrities

and not caring about their feelings or thoughts or anything,

we don't say that when this stuff comes up.

I think it's pretty noteworthy.

Gene didn't name any specific award shows but she did say that

with all due respect during Hollywood season of celebration,

I hope any of the networks televising the upcoming awards

will seriously consider not televising them and donating the revenue

they would have garnered to the victims of the fires and the firefighters.

Part of what made California, part of what helped make the West Coast

was the entertainment industry.

It certainly did.

And there's no getting around that.

And the entertainment industry was made off of the backs of West Coast people,

along with many individuals from around the states here.

But specifically the West Coast.

Here is a great opportunity for millionaires, for people making money,

for playing, make believe.

And this is my industry, okay?

For a great opportunity to show, guess what?

It's not just about us and guess what?

All you people that go to our movies, all you people that made us,

that made us, here's an opportunity to show,

it's not just about the glitz and glamour.

No awards this year.

No Oscars this year.

Instead, we're going to have a fundraiser.

We're going to have three hours of not people up there

petting themselves on the back, winning awards that maybe they shouldn't have even won.

And instead, we're going to take this time and donate it.

This isn't going to happen.

This is not going to happen ever.

New slash, this is hypothetical.

If this happens, I will eat my words and I will happily own it.

But even outside of just turning it into a fundraiser,

just not doing it and then taking the entire cost of what it would be,

just donating that.

The only thing that this was the mix of this that I'm trying to do here,

100% agree with you.

And I think that is exactly what Jean Smart is saying.

The only reason I said that the fundraiser is because I immediately thought of,

oh, those people have to figure, fill those three hours now.

Oh yeah, no, I get that.

But I just was like, you know, you just think about the cost of a production like that.

You know, you'd be better served to do that.

You're right.

Absolutely.

100% right?

It was the program director.

But that to me would be a great way to show.

Again, what have I been talking about for years on these airwaves here?

The greatest marketing you could do is attaching yourself to good causes and good PR

and non-profits and everything.

It is marketing 101.

Here you go, Hollywood.

Just set it up for you.

Here is the perfect way to you want to get more people than the movies.

You want to get people to be care about actors or any of this stuff.

Here's a great opportunity.

Years and years and years from now, when people think about what happened during this time,

what do you want them to think that they, oh, the Oscars still went on.

Or instead of having the Oscars that year, yeah, everybody got their awards blah, blah, blah, big deal.

What people really got was they took all the revenue from that and donated it to this, to this cause.

That's what I think would be legendary.

That's something that would be more memorable than Will Smith Pimp's Lapping Chris Rock.

I think that it would be a much more noteworthy thing.

Again, it ain't going to happen.

But I would love to see it happen.

I did like seeing this as well.

Viola Davis, I think, is one of the better actors of our generation.

I think she's proven that in her work while also being not necessarily a household name.

Like a lot of actors of her generation and stuff where we know them by heart.

I think Viola Davis is one of those actresses that you know,

but you don't always know until you see her on screen.

Yeah, I really like her too.

My first exposure to her, and now I can't even think I can't remember the name of the show.

I was talking too much.

No, but I just was like, wait a minute, what was the name of that show?

But I loved her and it was a murder show.

Not usually in my face.

How do you get away with murder?

Yeah.

There we go.

But that was my, you know, and I watched that.

And I never would have just based on the name.

But it was on after a different show that I watched.

You know, so I was just like, oh, maybe I'll just check that out.

But I loved her in that.

And now I've actually watched different things, different movies that she's in just because of her.

I just, I love her performances as somebody that can be so powerful and so vulnerable at the same time.

She's really good.

Her, she's so dynamic.

Like her ability to, I don't know, pivot, I don't know, but she just was, I like her.

It's amazing as she is, as talented as she is.

All of that pales in comparison to her real-life story.

Violet Davis shared her journey from poverty to becoming an egot winner for those that don't know that is something very few people are winning an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony.

And learning, leading into the magic that helped her earn the Cecil B. Demil Award for Lifetime Achievement.

Congratulations to her.

It is one of the better speeches I have seen.

Meryl Streep went out there to present it to her.

Meryl Streep, this is a role she wanted.

Meryl Streep was like, I love Violet.

I want to be the one to hand her the award.

That's cool.

Yeah, that's, and that to me is the best actor there is right now in the game.

And then she wanted to honor you.

Yeah.

It's a really good speech.

If you get a chance, I encourage you to look up Violet Davis, Cecil B. Demil speech.

I think you typed that in.

That's what I found it with.

Look at what's new on your small and big screens this weekend.

Tonight on Disney Plus and Hulu, the second sees a premiere of Goosebumps.

I know a number of people are excited about that one, I imagine.

On Stars, the Smith Annual Celebration of Black Cinema and Television.

On HBO, the Stand Up Special Bill Mar is anyone else seeing this.

And the, let's see here, on Max, the streaming premiere of Look Into My Eyes,

a documentary that emphasizes the human connection of how a group of physicists use their seasons,

sessions to lead people through unprecedented grief and help them heal.

It looks beautiful.

It looks like a really well done thing.

All that said, football.

Football.

Football.

Football.

Football.

There is a football on Saturday.

More football on Sunday.

Football.

Football.

Saturday, 430s kicks things off on CBS with the NFL Wild Car Weekend.

The Houston versus the Los Angeles Chargers.

That should be a good one.

Saturday at 7 on Amazon, the NFL Wild Car Weekend, the Baltimore Ravens versus Pittsburgh

Steelers.

Ice Slobberknocker.

On Sunday at 1 o'clock, Bill's taken on the Broncos.

I don't know how that one's going to go, but it could be sneaky good.

And then, of course, the big one around here on Sunday at 330 on Fox, the NFL Wild

Car, Philadelphia Eagles hosting the Green Bay Packers.

Things will wrap up on NBC with the Buccaneers taking on the Washington Commanders.

Eagles Packers.

Oh, it was a good one in week one and should be a good one in this week.

And who knows?

You know what, you're so right about that.

I mean, if the defense shows up, I mean.

But if it makes anybody feel any better, they're saying the same thing.

They're saying even worse in Philly.

Like in Philly, they're losing their minds over their team.

And who knows who's going to be starting quarterbacks for either teams this week?

Yeah.

Yeah, it should be a good game.

That's for sure.

Let's go ahead.

Oh, and new and theaters, new on your big screen this week.

And not a ton of movies being released in wide release.

You've still got a couple of big ones in there.

Better man as an expanded release.

This is the one about the life of Robin Williams, pop star, who depicts him as a chimpanzee.

He's a, yeah.

It's an interesting attempt at a bio and it's gotten a lot of good reviews.

It hasn't necessarily, you know, dawn or the claim that I think they were hoping for.

But it's done a lot better than I think a lot of people would have realized.

And had they just done a bio pick with Robin Williams, Robin Williams, it might have done

okay.

This has really helped this sell it in just doing the different approach.

Interesting.

And Den of Thieves 2, Pantera, starring Gerard Butler, O'Shea Jackson.

That's a crime.

It's a heist movie.

And so, you know, I'll probably see it.

I love heist movies.

I do.

There are certain movies where I like the realism.

I like the reality of them.

And then there's other movies where I'm like, I have no interest in real life about it.

But oh, in the cinema movies, oh, I'm all in.

I'm all in the heist movie.

No interest in real life.

But in real quickly.

Come here, keep saying that.

I just said, with my background, I gotta get it out there, Terri.

I did want to remind everybody as well that yesterday at noon, a bunch of you got our

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Terri and I will be back with more show.

We're coming up.

We're talking Quitter's Day.

That is what today is.

A lot of people end up quitting their resolutions on this day.

We're going to try to help you whether figure out if you should or you shouldn't.

Maybe there's some that maybe you should.

Oh, coming up on the morning show.

Welcome back, everybody.

Show at WFHR.

Little simple minds to play us in, Terri and James here with you.

Hope you're having a good one out there, everybody.

Let's dive into this one right now, Terri.

A lot of people, you know, I would say, good, yeah, well, we are about 10 days into the

new year.

A lot of people kicked off their new year's resolutions, and we've been talking a lot

about them.

One of the main things I think themes that we have had when it comes to new year's resolutions

is, you know, not giving up and keep fighting that, you know, you might have speed bumps.

Maybe you've got to start over.

Maybe you've got to reset a little bit.

It doesn't mean that you need to completely give up or stop or anything.

And then we say all this and then there are some things where maybe you should quit.

Maybe there is something to knowing, okay, hey, this isn't going to work or hey, this

isn't for me or something like that.

Or did you just pick something stupid for a reaction?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Could be that too.

The second Friday in January is when people are most likely to throw in the towel on their

new year's resolutions.

We actually talked about this a little bit on the Sunrise Show, 1055, with our National

Day of Counter.

This is actually called Quitter's Day.

But here are three times when it might actually make sense to give up on your goal or at least

to reassess.

I think that's a good way to put it.

I think reassessing is a good one.

Number one, when you're motivated by the wrong reasons, I think this hits on a little

bit of what you're just saying.

Sometimes we pursue a goal just to prove other people wrong or soothe our own fear of failure.

But when a goal doesn't align with your core values and needs, it's hard to stay motivated.

Yeah.

There are a lot of people in life that will double down.

They do something and they say something and it's wrong or what have you.

They're not going back.

And instead of just owning it or owning the mistake like every human being does in life,

we all make mistakes.

Nope.

No, I'm doubling down.

This guy is not green.

Yes, it is.

It was yesterday.

I mean, just the silliness of this happens all the time.

Or you're in an environment where whatever, maybe you're at a party or something and everyone

is rattling off with their New Year's resolution is, so then you'd like, quick come up with something

instead of just being like, yeah, I don't do that.

This is maybe a harsh example, but it's one that I think he would want me to share

everything.

My father struggled with addiction his whole life and he, I don't know, another human being,

how the way he loves my mom and everything, the way he loves my brother and sister and

I and stuff, I've never seen somebody love something the way he does and still had to fight

and fight and fight and no matter how hard he tried, whether it was for us or not, it

never happened.

Eventually, he realized he had to do it for himself first and then it kicked in.

And then it works.

Any resolution is like this, any type of thing you're trying to do, you can have all the

good intentions in the world for doing it for your loved ones, but you've got to start

with yourself.

It's got to be in part for you to be able to make it really happen.

So to the point of, you know, doing this to prove people wrong or to soothe your own fears,

I don't know that necessarily that's the greatest start.

Well, and I think, you know, it's been, there's been plenty of opposite side, you know, of

this, a proven that New Year's resolutions are not a good idea.

Yeah.

You know, like, just set your mind to something, you don't have to first don't wait till

January, right?

If you decided it may, don't be like, oh, January, I'm going to do this.

You know, and, and it's just maybe not an appropriate time because of whatever the visibility,

the pressure, the, whatever.

So today you can quit.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's all right.

I will say not another thing really quick about this.

I think the word quit, even if you're okay with quitting, quote unquote, quitting, that word

has such a negative, I use the word stop.

Now I am, I am splitting hairs here, there, there's virtually no difference.

I understand how silly it might sound to some people, but I was trying to, I, I really

didn't have a lot of problems with addictions or anything considering my father and stuff.

And what I was born with in my veins, but I did have trouble with nicotine for a while.

And the thing that got me to stop some of the cigarettes was I didn't try to quit them.

I stopped them.

And, and getting the word quit out of my brain and just stop is what is a big part of what

did it for me.

I understand how crazy it's silly that sounds, but again, it's me.

But whatever.

Well, I mean, no, but I mean, but whatever works right for individuals, see, and I think,

I think quit is fine.

I do agree it has maybe a negative connotation because we think instantly of like whatever,

quitting a job or quitting a, but, but I think is, if you put the context there, right?

Like I quit smoking, I quit drinking, I quit so, you know, so, you know, so, uh, number

two on this list, when your goal no longer resonates with you, maybe climbing the corporate

ladder was important to you, uh, in your 20s and 30s, but then in your 40s, you found

that spending time with your family was more important to you or something.

But, you know, what?

Okay.

In this case, today's the 10th.

So in 10 days, how does your goal not resonate with you anymore?

Yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, if it was your goal 10 days ago, I, I don't know what revelation you might have

had in 10 days.

So part of what they're trying to get to it, it looks like in here is the quote, scoring

a promotion at work or some of those things that make seem like a good idea at the time

when you're making this resolution, but as you get into it and you're involved in it,

uh, may not seem that as important or it's just not something that you put a time window.

You know what I mean?

Like, you have a, you might have a goal, right?

I'd like to be promoted within two years or something, but 10 days is a little bit.

I mean, that's a, that's a lofty goal.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Really reach for the stars, man.

If reaching for your goals, uh, for your goal has exhausted your resources, uh, our

capacity for sustaining effort isn't infinite and pursuing our goals can lead to burnout.

By learning, uh, to let go of resolutions that feel exhausting or impossible, you free

up space to set up more realistic and achievable goals.

Makes sense.

And I think the other thing that was the part of that, the, the first part of that statement

was exhausting resources.

So there's that part too, right?

Like, what if you took on a resolution that was, is like literally draining your savings

account?

Well, maybe it's not a great idea.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I, um, I, I think a lot of people, now this isn't just a goal of mine.

It's a lifestyle of mine.

But I do this, uh, I've been doing this my whole life.

I, I, my goal is to be on set and at life.

My goal is to be in feature films working with big time actors and getting better as an

actor.

But I didn't going to happen today.

That's probably not going to happen in the next hour.

It's probably not even going to happen in the next 10 days.

So what can I do in the meantime?

Have other goals like I want to learn this monologue by the end of the week.

I want to learn this accent by the end of the week so that I am prepared when that moment

happens to jump in the game, take the ball and run with it.

There are ways you can do these things.

There are ways it, and, and I think that there are also ways that you can, by achieving

those, uh, you know, many goals, if you will or whatever, again, you pile up those wins

in life and we just don't do that enough.

Take the wins, take those little victories and let them mean something, let them hit your

soul and feel good and build from that.

Um, when you do those things, I think you'd be surprised what you can accomplish in life.

I think you'd be stunned by what resolutions you can make happen and what ones don't

maybe mean as much.

Lord, if it was just silly.

You know what I mean?

Like, these are, this, this sounds pretty weighty and lofty, but what if it was like to

eat a whole, I don't know, container of chips of hoi every day?

This is where I would be barfing.

But, but you know what I mean?

Like, at some point, okay, enough, a jar of glitter prickles.

Yeah, right, right.

Cause I do think that that, that's another what I'm glad you said that.

You know, like the silly ones.

Yes, yes.

There are ones that are silly or they were just in the moment, you're, you know, let's

be honest.

A lot of these resolutions happen on New Year's Eve and you've been having a couple

and you're with friends and maybe, you know, some seemed good at, like, that we've all

had the two in the morning, good idea, quote, unquote, good idea.

And then at six in the morning or seven in the morning, you're like, what was I thinking?

What are, uh, mittens for cats?

What is this?

What is this?

Wearing the same socks for a month.

Kitten mittens.

What was I doing?

Yeah.

Uh, I think those are all important.

Also important is, uh, buying local, supporting local, supporting those that support our community

and certainly support us here at the radio station.

Want to remind everybody our great friends over at the Wisconsin Rapids Area Visitors Bureau

have their guides out.

Uh, they just got them out.

We got a copy right here, Terry and I have been looking out of the whole morning.

It's awesome.

It's really nice.

Did a great job.

Yeah, they did a really good job on those.

Be sure to stop over by the Wisconsin Rapids Area Visitors Bureau and pick one up, encourage

you to do so.

You could do that during regular business hours from nine to four, stop on over there

and check that out and find out more at visitwiswrapids.com, visitwiswrapids.com.

And we'll be talking about this a lot, uh, leading up until February.

But I wanted to throw it out there and let people know because you only have until the

end of the month to be a part of this, Valentine's for Wisconsin veterans.

The Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs is asking for folks to help us show our veterans

how much we appreciate their service and sacrifice by sending Valentine's Day cards to veterans

living in WDVA facilities.

The Valentine's are hand-delivered by staff, including Secretary Bond, to the veterans

loved ones, the Gold Star families residing in our veteran facilities.

You can, uh, please be sure to mail your cards no later than January 31st, so you got to

the end of the month.

And you can mail them to Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs, a veteran, a veteran

valentines.

So, uh, attention veteran valentines, P.O. Box 7843, P.O. Box 7843, Madison, Wisconsin,

zip code 537-07, that's 537-07.

If you need this information, please email me or call our station and we'll get this info

to you.

And yeah, and I don't know if it hit your, I didn't get a chance to look through the

newsletter yesterday, but even if, you know, Melissa or whoever could get it next week's

newsletter too.

You know what I mean?

Because then people can just reference that address.

Sometimes it's hard to, hard to process that when you're just listening, but that is

a super cool program.

It's so cool.

It's such a great program.

I love it.

Yeah.

And they've been doing this for a couple of years.

We love talking about it.

Tom will be with us next month and I'm sure we'll remind, I'll remind people, by

time he's with us again, the deadline will wrap up.

So we'll be mentioning it almost every day.

If you're part of a civic group or, you know, you lead some kids, maybe you're a teacher

or, you know, Sunday something, it could be a group project too.

Yeah.

So that's really cool.

4-H scouts, any of those organizations being a part of this.

Or even book clubs.

I mean, it could be adults, right?

Like, I think that's really awesome.

Yeah.

You know, I know it's been a little bit, but we're on the same page, Terry, because I

feel free.

Does everybody know how scary that is for me?

It's really scary for you.

It's very, but I'm glad you mentioned the adults doing this too.

Yeah.

I focus a lot on the kids, but that is important too, adults getting in on this and

showing their support and their appreciation.

Very cool.

We'll take a time out, check it with our news and sports and our partners.

We'll come back and we're talking deep cluttering.

Less clutter.

All that coming up on the morning show.

Keep in that 80s theme going.

Kind of have a smile or itchy.

We, Terry and James here with you threw me off too.

They threw me off too.

Wait a minute.

What?

Dave Savu.

Somebody that's slow-song to introduce, it just throws you a little bit, throws.

Terry and I are, we've been talking a lot about New Year's and New Year's resolutions.

And along with resolutions, one of the things that I think you noted, I kind of skated

the password I wanted to get back to was the idea that you don't have to set a resolution,

but you still have goals.

And the idea of when you do this, my brain, the way it works, I like to do things at the

start of the month or at the start of the week.

So for me, stopping something at the beginning of the year, I do it, but it has nothing to

do with resolutions.

It's just the way my brain works and I like to start things at the beginning of the month

or that kind of thing.

And to start off on the beginning of the month and the beginning of a brand new year just

seems to make a lot of sense in my brain logically.

I'm not saying it makes sense to anybody else, but to me, it does.

And one of the things that I know that has been a big deal in my parents' house for

really, since I, as long as I can remember, is decluttering on the beginning of the year

and getting rid of some stuff and keeping some things.

My mom's always done this.

And it's, you know, winter.

I can't do it.

I can't do it that.

Because my Christmas stuff is still up.

Oh, yeah.

You know what I mean?

Like, once I pull down Christmas and my winter decorations, then I will do like a deeper

spring clean, which sometimes involves decluttering.

Sometimes it doesn't.

If you're aiming for a less cluttered home this year, you're not alone.

Two thirds of us think starting the year out clutter free is a key and a third of us

are making it a top priority right now.

Realistically, though, you might have the same goal in 2026.

People were asked how long they think they'll stick with it and the average answer was 38

days.

That's about it.

So here's my question on this.

Are people decluttering by moving crap from their house to their storage unit?

Or are they actually like getting rid of it?

You look at the number of storage containers.

I'm always like, what is in all of these?

It's insane.

But, you know, take your stuff somewhere where someone could use it.

Yeah.

Make it a good will.

Take it to the dime store.

Take it.

Like, I just, that's kind of my thing.

Now, I could, I could do plenty of decluttering.

And I do have things like some home decor things or maybe some really small furniture, you

know, like a little side table or something that I might not have in my living room right

now, but I still keep it.

You know, I mean, like, I'll put it downstairs because someday I might bring it back up.

But just in general, like, I think if you're truly decluttering, you actually have to get

rid of it.

Yeah.

Not move it.

100% agree with you.

Yeah.

That means my February 8th, most of us will be back into socks on the floor and dishes

in the sink or maybe some of those buying knickknacks or extra things that you might

not need or what have you 59% said that they probably won't even last that long.

42% said a messy home makes them feel overwhelmed.

37% said that it makes them irritable.

34% said unfocused.

And the average person said it would take 20 hours to really get their place in good shape

right now.

That's what I was going to say.

I agree.

Like, I can handle messy to some degree.

I can't handle dirty, you know, to me, there's a difference, right?

Like, some stuff sitting around is different than not being clean.

But at the same time, like, sometimes the idea of the 20 hours or 25 hours that it would

take to get it decluttered is more overwhelming than just looking at the mess.

Yeah.

It's completely understandable.

I don't share this because I like to, to be honest, I share it because it does add

to the story and I do think it can be helpful.

I've been one of those people in my whole life.

I've been pretty hypocritical about therapy.

I'm very encouraging for people that want to do it, but for myself, oh, no, I ain't doing

that.

Like, I'm not trusting somebody with my secrets.

I'm not trusting somebody with my inner thoughts or anything.

But after decades of my mother beating me over the head with this, I finally gave it

a shot.

And I'm really glad I did.

For a number of reasons, one, there, it's really unique to be able to talk to somebody

who is not trying to tell you what to do or give you advice or just a third party, just

take an info.

You're just venting.

You're just talking to them.

I haven't had a lot of that in my life and I thought that that was very useful, but the

other part was, for me, it's almost like taking my brain, putting it on the table and we're

both dissecting.

We're both just taking a look at this.

And I'm learning and finding out more things about not just myself, but the human brain.

And one of the things that the human brain has looked for since the caveman days is basically

unclutter to have things in order.

Our brains work better that way.

So regardless if you think you enjoy a messy room or not, your brain is going to be irritable

with clutter.

Your brain is going to be a little more irritable with some of these things.

So I don't know, a whole deep clean and declutter or whatever, yeah, that's going to take

a while and stuff.

I do think though, what room do you spend a lot of time in or what room would it really

benefit you?

Even if that's just the only room in the house or the apartment, that room's clean.

Yeah.

What room do you bring friends to?

I love the room that you bring people.

Because I'll go through the house and be like, put that away, pick that up, take care

of that, you know, like people's stuff.

And they're like, well, what about, you know, I'll have something in there.

I'm like, it's my house.

Like, my stuff can be there.

You get your stuff put away completely different.

Yes.

Yes.

Or I know where mine is.

You don't get to leave.

You know, 14 pairs of shoes sitting right here.

But oh, my gosh.

But the human brain, no matter who is out there listening, your brain works better

and prefers and it's more focused when you do have less clutter.

When you do have a more of a clean or a nicer place or a nicer, but cleaner place.

I struggle with, I put, and I try, I mean, I shouldn't put as much value on things, but

I'm a sentimental person, right?

So like, if you gave me this, it might be the weirdest thing in the world, but because

whoever gave it, like it has something in my heartstrings, right?

I'm with you.

So I'm bad about stuff like that.

And it's funny because it might evolve, like it might be, not on display, like with

a spotlight.

But you know what I mean?

Like it might be somewhere.

It might be on a shelf, might be on a cabinet or something.

And then slowly it makes its way into a, another area of the house, but I still don't get

rid of it.

You know what I mean?

Like, I struggle sometimes with, with getting rid of stuff like that, not always, but there

are a fair number of things where I'm like, well, I can't get rid of that.

I got that from blah, blah.

You know?

I've, I know what that's like a hundred percent.

And on top of it, you know, moving around so much, we, we lost stuff every move.

So it never really had a whole lot to begin with and then you lost so much.

So as an adult, I find myself hanging on to things that I know I'm probably never going

to use or anything.

But somebody gave it to me 10 years ago.

And so I'm hanging on to this little ody doll that somebody gave me as a friend a long

time.

You know, yeah, there's all kinds of stuff.

Sometimes I sit there.

But if I can't call, and I know Kevin, my memory is not good.

But, you know, if I can't, if I can't call up where it's from anymore or who it's

from, then, then sometimes I'm like, I might put it over here and be like, it's a good

parameter.

You know what I mean?

Like, if I can't figure, if I can't remember what the sentimentality is, but there's

still, there's plenty of things.

I mean, I can, I have a lot of things where I'm like, oh, that was from so and so, and

this is why.

And that was, you know, I just, I don't know, I'm a, yes, sentimental person around

stuff sometimes, maybe more than I should be.

Here are the top three strategies we'll try to adopt this year when it comes to this.

Organizing on a regular basis, 43% of us are going to try to do that more.

Only buying things you really need, 38% are going to try to do that.

And a better storage system, 38% will do that.

Or just be more organic, yeah, more organized storage.

You know, it's really funny.

I find a really cool thing online one time and I, of course, saved it to my phone, right?

And I have no idea where it is or what you, or what year it was.

But it was cool.

It was about the being more organized more often.

So I mean, it was like, it was divided by month and it was five, like, really kind of small.

Like if you actually stayed on top of it, you know, I think, like, so let's say January

said, clean out your silverware drawer, you know, clean out your bathroom pants or your

bathroom linen closet.

It was just like five little things that if you actually did it, you know what I mean,

if you just checked them off, worked them into your regular cleaning schedule, I'm like,

oh, that would be really smart.

So I saved it to my phone and guess where it is?

Save to my phone.

There you go.

Never to be touched again.

Yeah, probably.

But you never know.

But yeah, and well, then you've got a new back pocket.

And I think that again, these are things that it takes time and it takes perseverance and

you just keep pushing and keeping on.

And energy.

And sometimes you just want to read your book.

Yes.

And that's okay.

You choose your best.

No.

I've learned I'm better to reward myself on stuff like this.

You know what I mean?

Like, okay, if I do my regular cleaning, but this time I add this extra task on, then

right after that, I'm parking it with my book.

You know, like I, it's so dumb, but it's just a mental thing where I do this.

I do 100% of it.

I do yourself.

Oh, yeah.

And I encourage everybody to have things like this.

It doesn't have to, it doesn't mean it's a big deal, but you do something and then you

reward yourself.

Absolutely.

Yeah.

Just because we're adults doesn't mean we, we, we, we may deserve it more than any but

not.

We deserve that.

No, we do.

We do.

And we do need to take a break.

We'll come back afterwards.

We'll wrap up the show for the week.

It's Terry and James Stingett through your morning here at WFHR.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show at WFHR.

Terry and James here to wrap up this show.

Thank you so much for joining us throughout the whole week.

We appreciate, appreciate all of our guests, all of our co-hosts.

Thank you so much, everybody.

Terry, got a story to wrap up with, it's kind of a day.

I think are you implying I can go home now?

Yes, yes, absolutely.

Yeah, it's closing time.

You were done for the day.

I would say.

I would say.

Okay, fair.

This Switzerland said winter storms allowed two red pandas to escape their enclosure.

And one of the animals wandered all the way into nearby woodlands and tried almost made

a great escape.

Okay, that's, I mean, it's kind of cool.

It is kind of cool.

The Walter Zoo got in Agasno, said heavy snowfall caused branches to break in the red

panda enclosure, giving a path for female red pandas, Lee and Yen, to climb to freedom.

Can you imagine they've been praying for snow for how long?

Oh, they've been waiting for this.

They've been planning this for a long time.

If you check in the forecast, they've been waiting and waiting for this.

They said they have fun.

I was going to say perfect storm, but that would be, well, I like it.

But that, I mean, it's not cool because of the resources and, and me know, maybe even

they're safety, right?

If they've been in captivity for so long, but it is kind of cool.

And, you know, obviously, what would make them think of that?

That's the part that I would, I would love to know.

Now they did.

There is some great video on Instagram of the zookeepers find, they tracked the pandas and

they had them chipped.

So they were able to find them and everything.

But I'm just like, what, you know, did they live their whole life to that point in captivity?

Yes, yes, it sounds like it.

So then what would make them think I want to get out?

You know, it's such a good question.

Is it natural human, animal instinct?

It was just curiosity.

But that is so funny.

Yeah, yeah.

Shout out to these zookeepers and everything.

It's not an easy job and it is dead of winter out there.

And it's a fabulous story for everyone, right?

Like, I mean, it'll be one of the highlights of their zoo keeping career.

And I don't know, that's pretty awesome.

The red pandas were checked over.

They were perfectly fine.

Maybe a little bit adrenaline.

Maybe a little bit of that, but it should ran faster.

You know that they're, they're taking a lot of heat from the other red pandas for sure.

For sure.

For sure.

So they were the scouts and look at it.

They failed.

Well, look who's back.

Hopefully it's back.

Didn't make it so far.

Did you?

No, I didn't.

That is a great story.

That's a fun one.

We've got some good stories that the day we're going to get to as well.

But first, I want to talk about our schedule, get an update about our United Way.

And look at that.

Our schedule.

We got a great one lined up for you.

Be sure to stick around for Matt and Aaron.

That is coming up at the top of the hour.

They'll lead you into the new now or Janine Greg and a little bit later today, this afternoon,

from four to five.

We got our last midday magazine of the week.

And it's a good one.

We'll be talking with Nathan Black, PhD district administrator with the school district

of Nikusa in part one of four o'clock.

And then at 4.30, we're going to speak with our friends from the Wisconsin Rapid Swing

Club.

We're going to be talking with them.

Thanks to our friends who visit Wisconsin Rapid's Bureau.

Cool.

Sounds like a good show.

Rapid up the week with that.

That's going to be a lot of fun.

Great stuff on our sports dial sports wise.

Friday, right here, at tonight, at five o'clock, Wisconsin men's basketball hosting Minnesota.

That means no playmakers, but that's okay.

We give you big 10 basketball Wisconsin First Minnesota.

On our sister's station, 105, 5WRI, join us at seven o'clock tonight.

And tomorrow night, as your Wisconsin Rapid's River Kings, your first place kings, take

on the second place Minnesota squash.

This is the last series against the squash for the season.

We had coach Peckman in this week talking about this.

And while there's some good teams in the division, this is it.

This is a playoff series right here.

This is an opportunity to not only put your foot down and step on the throat, but to solidify

first place.

That was violent.

And it's hockey.

Yeah, they have a skate, just skating as much as you probably know, don't do that.

But to solidify first place, which means a home, home ice advantage throughout the whole

play.

That is amazing.

This is, I mean, we don't just have a good team.

We've got a championship team here.

I mean, you're the kings, right?

You're going to come for the king.

You best not miss.

We are going to have these games for you at seven o'clock tonight.

And tomorrow night, my concept is going to be covering for you so you know it's going

to sound good.

And also going on at WIRI tomorrow at 1220 Lincoln High School boys hockey taking on the

Northwest Iceman, Seth Lore and Mike going to have that one for you.

A lot of great hockey going on.

It's a puck weekend.

I love it.

Puck weekend for you, everybody.

We'll talk about this on a Monday edition of Playmakers.

Be sure to join us for that Sunday night line.

I've got a great one lined up for you.

Be sure to join us for that on Sunday from five to six.

We'll have directors cut.

Got a great repeat episode for you there.

Seth has a brand new Seth faces music from six to eight joining for that.

And I got a brand new unlabeled episode lined up for you from eight to nine.

Be sure to join us for that one.

Your 90s mix tape and get me your requests, everybody.

I know there's some 90s music fans out there.

I want your requests.

Get them to me.

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Get us your request just like you do.

Get us your, of course, your birthdays and anniversaries.

I mean, Sunday you can just park it at the radio, man.

Yeah.

Yeah.

We got a great Sunday night lineup for you.

A very proud of that.

Appreciate everybody listening and joining us for it.

Terry, I signed up a while ago for the newsletter with the United Way.

I'm very glad I did and I encourage other people to do so.

It's very simple and easy, just like our newsletter,

just takes the second or two to sign up for.

And it's a great way to get central Wisconsin information, volunteer opportunities.

And some of the hard, great work that you guys are doing over there.

And a recent newsletter that I got looks like we're looking for volunteers

for a homeless point in time count.

Yeah, so each year, the fourth Wednesday of January and the fourth Wednesday of July,

the entire state of Wisconsin does a point in time count of homeless individuals

and, I guess, and families, but, you know, accounted as such.

And this happens throughout the state at the same time on purpose

because of, you know, of transiency and people moving back and forth.

So this is a prescribed time.

It happens on January 22nd.

If you're interested in volunteering, we do need to get some information from you

so you would connect with Ben at the United Way office.

You can give him a call at 715-421-0390.

But basically, you would be part of a small team.

And we send out several teams.

And this is, it's actually a North Central Community Action Program,

which is a partner of the United Way that is charged, you know,

statewide to make this happen.