Good morning, Wisconsin. Morning, world. It's a new day. Thanks for kicking it off with us at WFHR.
Got your host, James Wine the Mike. I am joined by Melissa. Good morning.
And the best listeners in radio. Thanks for joining us, everybody. Hope you're having a fantastic day
out there. We are here to have some fun over the next hour. Hang out with you. Talk some entertainment.
We'll get into a couple of other fun ones. What is the most trusted profession, according to
lobbyist ranks? We'll get into that. Got a couple of other fun ones, but we kick things off. Talk
and entertainment. And Netflix is added again. They have raised, they're going to be raising their
prices on your next billing. The price of Netflix is going up for the first time since October of
23. Even the ad-supported plan is being hiked from 699 to 799. The standard ad fee is jumping
by $2.50. And the premium plan is jumping from 2299 to 2499. The cost of adding an extra member
is also going to go up a dollar. Netflix says, quote, as we continue to invest in programming and
deliver more value to our members, we will occasionally ask our members to pay a little bit more
so that we can reinvest in our further improving Netflix. It's not clear when the prices will
go up, but it's worth noting that Netflix also announced its biggest ever-jumped subscribers
in a quarterly revenue that reached $10 billion for the first time in its history.
So they're making a ton more money and their response to that is, let's raise prices.
Yeah, yeah. And that is not business. That's not good business. That's not how business should work.
If they want us to pay this, I would like to know how they're making their product better.
Like, what added benefit is there? Yeah. We don't get enough feedback from companies.
We make companies. We are the ones that this is no different than politics, everybody.
Like, we need to be demanding more from these businesses when they do these things. Okay,
I'll go ahead and I'll pay the extra buck or two. Tell me what you're spending on.
Is it so your CEO can make more money and he could take a longer vacation?
Because Netflix ain't that good. I'm sorry. Go ahead and correct me if I'm wrong on this one.
But half the time, the programs that they come up with, they cancel if they're any good,
they cancel after two years. The movies that are on there, you can catch in other places.
And they're leaning really heavy into a lot of video games and stuff, which is great if that's
what you're into. But again, there are plenty of other resources for those. And even the big hits
that they had, like, stranger things, that's wrapping up. And I'm sorry, there's other ways
to take these things in. There's a billion subscription services. There's so many streaming
services now to choose from. Raising prices seems like kind of a bad idea.
And Netflix is burning bridges left and right. Part of the problem for the business model of,
you know what, we're going to green light everything. Melissa and I walk in the Netflix studios.
So we have this idea for a show about a couple of radio teachers. Oh, it sounds great.
Go ahead and make it. We didn't finish the pitch. No, no, no, that sounds good. Go ahead.
Oh, that's really good for Melissa and I, but it's not really good for, you know,
consumers of this product necessarily. And it's not great for our business because once we get
that show and it gets canceled, it's that much harder for us to find work. And there's a bridge burned
when Melissa and I have a hit show on ABC or NBC or something like that. We don't want anything to
do in Netflix because they burned our bridge and they've been doing this left and right since they
began this company. To me, that's it. I don't know. I mean, Netflix could be, you know, 20 years
from now could still be around and everything. But to me, that's a dead man walking. It's almost
like having people in charge who surround themselves with yes men and people who always say, yes,
that's a great idea. It doesn't pan out well in the end. One of the things that came up with my
agent recently was, hey, if a project comes up and it's from Netflix, I don't think you should take
it. And I've never heard that before from an agent. I've never, I've never heard that before,
but it's one of these situations where you can actually, so take a look at like the mission
and possible movies. Okay, those are big movies are huge. If you sign on to do that movie,
you're signing on for a year of your life. That's a year you're booked. Now, whether you have a
large character or you have a small character, you're stuck in that for a year. And that means.
That's a big commitment if it's not a very big paycheck. Yeah, that's a year where you can't do
other work. You're stuck. It's a similar thing with this stuff with Netflix where you sign on for
this thing. Great. But how many projects are you going to miss out on that actually could have some
longevity to them? Do you want 15 seconds of a career? Do you want 15 years? Yeah. It's a weird
time to be in. Never in my life. And never in the, really, in acting, has there been a time
where you ever say, no, you say, yes to everything. That's part of acting. That's part of the job.
You work where you can. It's weird, but this company is doing this. And my parents have a Netflix
subscription. And I'm going to talk to them about this later this week and everything. I personally,
just me speaking for myself and not at all trying to tell anybody what to do, I don't think it's worth
it. I think that there's 15 other subscription services I could offer to them that I think they
would enjoy more. Well, and for me, I mean, if anybody's listened to me talk for five minutes,
you know, I don't watch very much TV and I have zero subscription services. But if I were to look
into getting one, Netflix wouldn't be it because I did have it years ago. I should say my mom had
it. And when I was living with her at the end of her life, we watched quite a bit of Netflix.
But a lot of time we spent most of the time flipping through the, let's decide what to watch.
Yeah. Yeah. And that's what we watched was the deciding what to watch. And I don't haven't had it
since then and I don't miss it. Why reward them for this when they are just punishing us for helping
them? We as consumers have made that company this big. They've made a profit bigger than they've
ever seen. And their their way of rewarding us for this is raising prices. Why should we reward
that? I think and how much have wages gone up in the same time period? Right. Right. Yeah.
What is the what is the federal minimum wage? I would like to see just a unified front on these
things of people being like, you know what? We're canceling our subscription. That's how we're
going to reward you for doing this and show because that's the only way these companies listen.
You can have I encourage people. I encourage people to do their
petitions. I encourage people to make their posts on social media. Do what you're going to do.
But understand that the only thing they're going to listen to is money. That's where it comes down
to. So if you take money out of their pocket, all of a sudden they're going to start listening.
And I realize pointing out wages is it it's a different issue. It's separate issue then and that
is something that Netflix has zero control over. But but it is something for consumers to take into
account when these subscription services keep increasing prices and your pocketbook
isn't increasing at all with wages. Those are things you have to look at. Yeah. Yeah.
I got a list here of America's favorite TV shows and movies of 2024. I thought this was a fun
one to take a look at. And according to this new poll, America's favorite movie was the Bob Dillon
Bio Pick a complete unknown. 99% of those pulled gave it a favorable rating and 75% thought it was great.
Well, that's going to just skyrocket Timothy Shalame. Yeah. That's what she has already been doing.
That's interesting to me. I've been being honest. I have seen about 45 to a little bit over an
hour of the movie. And his performance along with Edward Norton's and a couple of others are
just incredible. Just really good stuff. But I didn't I didn't come away from it. You know,
thinking it was anything too crazy to anything too special. I don't know. But a lot of people,
you know, the masses have spoken. And they like it. Deadpool and Wolverine came in second.
I have been on the air many times talking about how much I love that movie. The Wild Robot came in
third at 86%. That's kind of cool. I like that. I like seeing that one on high up there. Yeah.
Me too. The most watched movie was Beetlejuice. Beetlejuice, followed by Deadpool and Wolverine and
Bedboy's Ride or Die. On the TV side, the TV show Show Gun was the most popular TV show with a 94
percent favorite over rating. I'm dying to watch that. I just I need to be able to take the time
to watch that show. It looks beautiful. It looks amazing. I love so much of it. I like history,
but there's so little of Asian culture and Asian history that I know, like especially of the
show gun era, the samurai era and that. There's a lot I know and there's a lot I don't. So I
didn't. That show, part of what made it so popular is not only the beauty and the production of it
and everything, but the historical accuracy, I guess. And I'm glad that that has become
something that producers are focusing more on is being historically accurate because I think
that that has caused more damage in the past. Yes. Help. Not only is it important for those reasons,
but as a story telling wise, life is stranger than fiction, man. Tell them the real story is
usually going to be a lot more entertaining than something you make up. And the series from me,
the prime series Fallout was the most watched, followed by the Penguin and Dune prophecy.
Fallout was pretty good and the Penguin was fantastic. I thought it was really good.
I've seen none of these things. Sorry, I can't comment. The bear came in a close second as far as
on the TV side of things and Landman came in third. I will mention as long as we are talking
streaming services. Hulu has show gun and bear in a lot of these and that has been one of the more,
to me, for what I pay and what I get, I'm good with Hulu. I'm good with that one. There's a lot
of options on it. And I feel like it gets a good thing. More than you ever have time to watch.
Absolutely. 100%. My watch list looks like my mother and sister's book list. It is just like
30 deep. It is insane. I've stopped even trying to compile a watch list because I never get to it.
You and Seth are great partners and friends. You guys encouraged me to take a vacation all
the time and lately I've been thinking about, I wonder if I just need to take a break and just
catch up with my old friend TV. That is an okay thing to do, James. I'm half kidding.
I'm fully serious. It's something to think about. There's some stuff out there to watch if
you're looking for things these colder days throughout winter. I do think winter isn't a bad time.
We encourage you to get outside. Get outside. When you can, take leave, cover your skin,
all that. Fresh air is great. But it's also a good time to binge watch. Yeah, it's not wrong
with that. Sometimes it can be fun for it. Something that we strongly encourage around here,
of course, is supporting local theater. It means a lot to Melissa and I and our staff and really
our whole station, our community. We see that all the time with WRCT and the popularity of that.
We'll be talking more about them in the next couple of weeks. But I didn't want to take a moment
to talk about our friends over at Central Wisconsin area community theater. Yeah, they have clue
coming up very soon. Yeah, our great friends over there have one of the most fun plays you will
ever see coming up. But before that, I didn't want to mention they got karaoke night coming up
this Friday. Oh, really? From seven to 10, join them at the shack at 2952 Minnesota Avenue in
Stevens Point for karaoke night. They're going to be doing showtunes. That should be a fun one.
It's a fun time over there. I've been once when they had Disney karaoke and there's,
well, there's a lot of talented people. There's also people that it's a fun environment. It's a
welcoming and forgiving environment. And I would say that it's far more welcoming than going to
do karaoke in a bar. Yeah, personal experience. Yeah, 100%. Is there all going to cheer you on? No
matter what your performance is like. Yeah. Just as they are talented, they are kind. And that
really goes a long way in this industry. And with people that are just trying things out,
enjoy. Because they know how much bravery it takes to get up in front of a microphone.
Yeah, that's going to be a really fun event. And of course, the big one is Melissa said,
a clue is coming up January 31st through the February 2nd. Then they'll come back on February 7th
and 8th. These shows will take place in the century theater at 18th century North Point drive
and beautiful Stevens Point. Now, you know the movie clue. You know the game. The play
incredibly similar, but better. Just somehow better. Because the movie, I can't, there are a few
movies I watch more in my life than the original clue. It was one of my favorites growing up. It was
one of my dream roles. And this play is just as good. It's just as good. And it got an amazing
cast apart of this one. Can I encourage you enough to check this one out by local support local
and enjoy yourself and taking a great show. There are no reruns in theater.
cwack.org is where you can get tickets and find out more cwack.org go there to find out about
karaoke night coming up this Friday and clue coming up on the 31st. We'll take a time out. We'll
come back. When we get back, we're going to talk about the most trusted profession in the world.
We're getting into that when we come back on the morning show here at WF HR.
Welcome back everybody. Morning show at WF HR. We are locally grown radio.
Hope you're having a great, great Wednesday out there. Thanks for joining us. Melissa and James
here with you. And we're talking about what is your most trusted profession? What are the most
trusted professions? An annual Gallup poll found lobbyists is the least trusted profession.
Well, that makes total sense. I mean, there are, I genuinely believe that no matter what the
industry, no matter what the job, there are good people doing it at some point or another.
Whether good or more or not in that industry. But so I got to believe that there are some good
lobbyists. But it is one of the, it's a little like, and I'm going to burns, I'm going to
burn some people with this and I'm sorry. But lobbyists, consultant, jobs that I feel like are
not going to be here in the next five to 10 years or shouldn't be maybe. I don't know that they have
that they're that they're doing what they could they could do 10 to 20 years ago. And I don't know
anybody can call up and tell me exactly what these professions do and exactly how they
and they impact our lives for the better. Right. Was the intention a positive perhaps?
Has it, oh, has it continued to be that? That's questionable. Yeah, exactly. As time evolves
and there are jobs, we don't have people walking around going door to door selling ice anymore.
You know, we, there are certain things that we just we evolve from in society. I'm not sure
that lobbyists is one of those things. Basically, if you're a politician and you can't make it in
politics, you go into the lobbyists or if you just get tired and you just want to take the money,
you go and be a lobbyist. Again, please correct me if I'm wrong, 424, 2,600. And I look forward
to talking to representative Krug and test ins about this and stuff. But the idea of the job,
it seems like they're taking our money and I don't see I don't know what they're doing. What
we're getting again? What are we getting for that? There's there's very few businesses in the
world where you okay, I'm going to go ahead and put my money into this and not know what I'm getting
for it. And are there certain things that lobbyists do that are good? Yes.
For people who don't have a voice, like I don't know specifically, but nonprofits or someone
that doesn't have a ton of money to throw into the time and energy it takes to tell politicians
what we need. Do big, does big farming need lobbyists? Probably not.
Yeah. Only 4% of Americans rate them as more honest and ethical than average. And then the next
least trusted profession is being a member of Congress. This is how this is what we think of
politics. This is what we think of our politicians. And this is the system we have. This is not
going anywhere. This is our system. This is what we work. This is democracy. If you don't like,
if this is true, which it is, this is what the world is saying, the America is saying and everything,
we can change that. We don't just have to sit there and take it. For one, we need more people
getting up and being involved and being a whether it is being a congressman, a senator,
or just working in your local community, working on a board. We're serving on a city board.
Yes. Or village or town. If you are unhappy with things, you can change things.
If you are just going to sit there and take it, I don't think you got a lot to bark about.
I'm just being blunt about this. You've got to get involved. That's how life works.
Things don't just fall in your lap. You've got to make things happen.
And it needs to be more involvement than just posting on Facebook.
I'm not saying you have to be involved, but if you want to be a dog in bark, you've got to get involved.
The rest of the bottom five are advertising practices and car salespeople.
That is where we put Congress. That is where we put Congress and lobbyists.
But here to take you know me, I like to end on a positive. I like to roll to the positive.
And the most trusted profession is for the 24th year in a row, nurses.
Nice. That's pretty cool. 76% of Americans rate them as the more honest and ethical on average.
Then next second place, grade school teachers.
Nice. Followed by military officers, pharmacists, and doctors.
I think there's a lot of encouragement in all that.
Yeah.
For one, I think that if we want people to do these things, whether it's being a congressman or
it's being a grade school teacher, the kids are watching. The kids are soaking all this stuff up.
So when you're sitting there and you're watching the evening news, or you're listening to it on
the radio or something like that, and you're barking and barking and barking at the radio and
everything, kids are picking that up and they're registering that.
And they're seeing your actions and what's the old saying, monkey, see, monkey, do?
What do you think the likelihood of them wanting to do those jobs when they get older is?
If all they ever see growing up is with boom, boom, boom, we hate this person, we hate this person
blah, blah, blah, nothing, we say nothing positive about them. We say nothing positive and we
do nothing to change it. Yes. Because they will also have a tendency to replicate actions.
I'm, you hear how I am about things. I'm not, this isn't necessarily organic. It's something
that was built in me by my mother and something that I took a lot of pride and I saw right away
from a young age. Hey, wait a minute. We really need food. We really need help. Why are we serving
food? Shouldn't we be worse accepting the food? I don't understand. Hearing my mother going out
of her way to show up at, you know, civil rights meetings and everything and women's
rights, suffricate meetings and at a young age, when I knew she was in bad health, when I knew
that she wasn't mentally there, she was still doing these things. It impacted my brother and sister
and I, it impacted us to a point where we, the communities we live in, we want to impact, we want
to do good. These things happen and if we want kids to grow up to be military officers, pharmacists,
grade school teachers, any of the above or politicians. And you can do this while still barking.
I'm not saying you can't bark. We all have a right to vent. There's a difference of venting
and whining and you know it when you hear it. And we all have a right to our opinion. That
doesn't mean we have a right to impress that on everyone else and children are impressionable.
That doesn't mean that there will be carbon copies of their parents and, and those that are
around them and that influence them, but it has an influence. I encourage people to speak their
mind, of course, but just understand, you know, I think tact is important. I think tone is important
and there are other people there listening. And, and if you want them to do these things, it's
very important to how we treat our politicians going forward. Accountability is first and foremost.
That's got to come first, but you can help hold people accountable without, you know, just whining
and barking at them and everything and not really accomplishing anything. And it's important to get
involved. You know what happens at our local level, our local state government here in our local
county and, and, and city governments affect our lives more, far more than the things that happen,
especially in other states, but also at the national level. So get involved. Make a difference.
I think one of the coolest things about this, Melissa, is all the talk we're doing at this and
we're not talking about something impossible here. Or, or, oh boy, this is that boy, maybe one day
down the line, 10 years down the line, this, no, we could do something right now about this. We,
we got an election coming up in April. We, we could do things about this currently. We do this
all the time. Yes, it happened last night with the ordinance talk in conversation. These are good
things. The, the, we talk these things out. We figure this stuff out. That's what a good society
does. That is the system we have. And in my opinion, our system here in America is the best in
the world. I believe that in my heart. I believe that we have, we have what is best for human beings.
We have the closest thing that you can get to a perfect judicial, perfect political system.
The way that this was built. America's forefathers got some things right, man. And, and, and the idea
of not giving complete power to one individual is exactly what this country, a part of what this
country was built on. We are also a country that opens its arms to the world. We're the only ones
that truly do this to the extent we do. And we're darn good at it. We've got great immigrant
officials. We've got people that do their job and make sure that people get in here in the right
way. And they become taxpayers and add to the benefit of our world. America is nowhere without
immigrants. We wouldn't even have a mayor. We'd have been taken over by now without immigrants.
They're being blunt here. Well, America was taken over by immigrants.
Well said. Well said. Very well said. This is something that all these layers, all these different
things coming up, and especially in recent weeks, in the beginning of a new year and in the beginning
of a new presidential term and everything. All this stuff is a part of what we go through in
growing pains and how we get to a better day. And all of this is complex. It's complex and
it's complicated. And it is definitely worth diving in further than a headline or a single, you
know, two two paragraph post on Facebook. It dive in. Look at the issues. Watch the meetings.
Pay attention. Talk to your older persons, you know, because like even the ATV-UTV situation,
it's complicated. And part of what's complicated is the Griffith Avenue conversation where
there is a street that goes through the city that county has opened. So that's part of what has
delayed the conversation with the ATV-UTV situation from the common council meeting last night.
It's complex. It's not simple. And that's life, you know, that's how things are. You want
officials, you want people to be doing their homework to be going through all they need to to
make these things right. And I generally think that there's a positive to all of this, that
this is the world. We get, I mean, I think including myself, I'm not just saying this to anybody.
I'm talking with you, not at you, everyone. We have a tendency in this country. I think to
forget how fortunate we are to live in this country. That we have a voice. That we have a voice.
Yes, that we can be on the airwaves here talking about all this stuff. And I don't have to worry
about getting arrested or something like that. These are important things and things that we
should value and keep in place and never lose, never let go of. I take a lot of encouragement
that we live in a country like that, that we live in a world that we can do that kind of thing.
Absolutely. We are going to get to our news break, play some sports, check in with our partners.
When we get back, we're going to talk about the most unusual 911 calls of 2024.
Yeah, it should be interesting. Coming up on the morning show here at WFHR.
Welcome back, everybody. Morning show at WFHR.
Melissa and James hanging out with you. We hope you're having a fantastic Wednesday out there.
Thanks for hanging out with us. This is an interesting list. The top 10 reasons not to call 911
was a list that the authorities in Saskatchewan, Canada came up with just recently.
And in part, they did this because they have a list of the most unusual 911 calls of 2024.
This is always an interesting list. We get these usually at the beginning of every year.
There's some interesting ones on here. I do want to take this as an opportunity to think
all of our dispatchers out there and appreciate all of them. That is a very difficult job that they
do. It's high stress and very necessary. We appreciate them. 911 dispatchers receive
a call from an individual reporting that their tambourine was taken from a party they were at.
I don't know what that would call, you know, and police officers have code for different
type of a break in or so. I don't know what the code is for tambourine being done.
Still in tambourine? Somebody call the Beatles. That's a 455. What does a 455? I've never heard of that.
A person called 911 asking for help on a math equation because they didn't want to fail their
test in the morning. This is similar to one that happened here in Wisconsin recently.
Where a young boy called 911 and the officer showed up and helped him with it and told him,
you know, you don't call 911 for things like that. We should throw out this disclaimer.
Well, these are things that 911 have sent in as these are the oddest calls. These aren't
reasons to call 911. I think another good example of, okay, should I call 911? Think about
this list. If it's similar to or would it belong on this list? Yeah, no, no, don't bother them.
They are very, very busy at what they're doing. Dispatchers got a call from someone having trouble
with their washing machine. That's a Maytag repair guy. Come on. That poor guy never works.
Remember, he's always said they never work. Get him some work. A caller complained that their cat
was being mean to them and they were apparently hoping an officer would come and, you know, be the
referee between this and a cat. Okay. I will double check. I don't want to assume. I will double
tech with Sheriff Becker, but I don't believe that that is one of the things they are trained for.
And, you know, we're feline and owner relationships. I don't know. That would be animal control.
It feels like a good call. Yeah, yeah. Call your local humane society or work it out.
I mean, just give the cat some tuna. I mean, come on. That's what it wants anyway.
Got some catnip around. Come on. Yeah. It's a rocket science. A person called to report that
somebody had thrown their ice cream on the ground. Now, while that feels like ice cream abuse man,
that feels like it. Like, okay, like that's pretty wrong. But there is no law. There is no law.
It gets that necessarily, but it does feel wrong. Does it include someone calling 911 to ask
to help unlock their cell phone. Okay. Now, how did they call? How did they? Because 911, what is
the only number you can call? There you go. Yeah. Don't do that. Please don't do that, everybody.
911 dispatchers got a call from someone saying that they had a problem, problems with bees in
their home. Yeah. I've experienced that. And while I wanted to call 911. Yeah, right.
That is not not what you should do. I also feel like this is one of those ones where you might
actually be prolonging the problem while you're making a phone call. Like whoever you're calling,
like it seems like it's going to be dragging the problem out a little bit. Get out the house.
Yeah. Yeah. That's what you should do. The bees are coming from inside the house. A caller
complained that a fox was roaming around their neighborhood and scared a local cat. Again, animal
control. Yeah. A lot of these, you could have been solved with animal control. A frustrated
person called to complain that their parents were forcing them to clean their room. Very similar
to the math problem. While there might be some empathy from the officers about that one,
they can't really help you and you really shouldn't be wasting their time. And you should just
clean your room. It's your room. This is a real story of two Americas because where I grew up,
I mean, it had to be extreme for you to call 911. It was an extreme, like,
brake glass in case needed kind of thing. And as it should be, always, yes. Yeah. It feels like
in other parts of the country or whatever. And not picking on it, but it seems like in some,
you know, obscure places, they're just calling. Like they got on speed dial or something like that.
I don't know. Please don't do that. Someone called because they were worried that they didn't
recognize someone on their social media friend list. Don't do that. But that is, I mean,
I'm sorry. That is kind of funny. That's, that's, that's, and maybe just another sign that we should
not be so, I don't know, maybe cancel your social media. Yeah. Yeah. I don't accept friend requests
from people you don't know. I'll admit. So in this job, this happens from time to time because
over the years, we've got a great awesome list group of listeners out there and they let for some
reason want to like my page or something like that. So I've got a handful of things on quite a
bit more than that over the years of people on my friend's list that I don't recognize always
because they're listeners. And we don't know each other by face. We know each other by voice or
something like that. But that, I've seen that show up on my, on my friend's list before,
but I've never thought of it calling anybody let alone 911 about it. Here's, here's another one
of those like, I don't know how the right way to word this. But we've really like, there's no shame
anymore. But it feels like we need to bring shame back in some ways. Like the shame isn't a good
thing. Shame is not a good thing by any means, but it can be used for good. There are certain things
that humans do that, that they should be ashamed of. Say a person does a Nazi salute and there's no
log against that maybe. But we as a society, as a country, we are against Nazis. I'm going to go
out on a limb here and say we're against that. So we shame that person for doing it. And hopefully,
if they are an intelligent human being and care about other people, that they will, you know,
make some adjustments to their life and maybe have some accountability for said action.
Or their actions. Shame can be done for good. But at the same time, if there is shameless people,
which there seems to be more and more of out there and people have less and less worry about
that, then you have people doing this stuff. And anyway, calling 911 for the silliest of reasons
because they have no shame. But I would also put out there just with social media in general.
Like I've gotten friend requests here recently from people within our company. I don't know them
personally. But there's also the question of, is this real? Yeah. Yeah. Or is this a hack?
Because there's always that worry too. So I'm reluctant nowadays to accept any friend request
from anybody. Yeah. Unless I've like specifically communicated with them, I'm sending you a friend
request or you will receive a friend request from me, then I feel safe accepting it. I'm going
through this right now. There's this guy, this Nigerian prince that I've been working with
the last couple of weeks. And we're trying to get some things figured out. But then he asked you
for money. Yeah. Yeah. It was weird. I mean, he's a prince. Why would he ask me for money? I don't
get it. But it's also, you know, that two dozen roses he sent you, James. That should kind of
should have tipped y'all should have really should have. I appreciate that. Yes. Yes. It's a good note.
Love bombing and then the money request. No, it's it's a scam. James.
One of the make sure we get this story in there are so many bad drivers out there. But I wonder what
people would think of this here in America because a Vietnam is paying people to report bad drivers
up to $200 a pop. If you see someone texting and driving or running a red light, you can report
them and get 10% of whatever the fine is. The maximum payout is just under 200 bucks or technically
5 million dong, which is their currency. And that's a so this is very interesting. I another thing
that I was I was raised on no title tailing. No title tailing. You never title tail. No
matter what the circumstances never title tail. However, we are getting better and better about
this where I think we're picking and choosing where we do. And there are certain things you drop
a dime on. There are certain things that you should call out. But how do you prove this? That's
my that's my catch in this because say I don't like my neighbor. And I'm saying my neighbors
doing this stuff that they're not actually doing. There's got to be some evidence I would imagine.
Right. As I don't know what their CCTV is like over there. Yeah. Or if they have that, you know,
I will say that I wouldn't be surprised if they did this in Russia for a lot of reasons. But in
part because in Russia, they're they're they have like cameras on everything on all their via
almost all their vehicles they do. You find this out if you ever Google Russian dash cam videos.
And there are some of the funniest weirdest things you'll ever see in your life. There's just
been saying. I would imagine seeing this there, you know, where we have more of those cameras
and everything. But even more curious. And we'll keep this conversation going throughout the
week here. What do you think of this if they tried to incorporate this here in the states?
I wonder what people would think. You know, I mean, we talk a lot about our freedoms and
the things that we should be able to do as Americans. Where's the line? Yeah. Yeah.
I'm curious to know. And who's responsible for enforcing those lines? I admit part of this,
part of what I think of right away is would this take any little bit of food off of the plate of
our police officers and our sheriffs and deputies and everything? Because it just feels like every
day there's things put on their plate that they they didn't sign up for that they didn't train for.
And I like the idea of being able to help with that in any way we can. But this almost feels like
it would create more problems than not. Well, correct me if I'm wrong, James, but didn't they try to
install like traffic cameras in places in America? And people are really pushing back against that?
Yeah. Yeah. This seems far more of a citizen's tanneling on citizens would be far more
of an overreach than cameras. Yeah. I really wish. Maybe I don't know. I don't know. I wish I knew
somebody in that area of the world could talk to them about this and get their take on this.
Because I'm not seeing any reporting on any positive or negative of this from the people of Vietnam.
I would like to know how they feel about it because just not a curiosity. I'm not saying I have no
feeling one way or the I'm Switzerland on this one. I don't really have any feeling one way or
the other about it. But if you're telling me we can make a road safer and take a little bit off
of our officer's plates, I'm listening. I would listen to that. I would hear that out. But I
I lean if I'm leaning any direction, it's more towards kind of what you're saying there, Melissa.
And I don't know if this is necessarily going to help. Well, we do have this to some extent already
in this country where truckers have stickers on some, you know, trucking companies have stickers
on the back of their trucks that say, if you see bad driving call this number. Yeah. And you report
them directly to their company. That's true. Yeah. So it's not it's not out of the box completely.
Be interesting to see how that develops over there. And if it develops here,
we'll take one here about it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We'll take one more time out. And when we get back,
we'll wrap up the show. We got some good stories that today and we'll talk about our schedule
coming up on the morning show.
Welcome back, everybody.
Melissa and James here to take you to the top of the hour wrap up the show. Thank you so much
for joining us, everybody. It's been a fun show. We've had a lot of good times with you.
Thanks so much for being here. Good things coming up, everybody. We'll get into our schedule here
in a moment. We got some good stories of the day. We want to touch on as well. Well, let's go
ahead and get in our schedule in. We got a great one lined up for you today with Midday magazine.
I encourage you to join us from four to five for that. We are going to have our good friend Lance
Plymalon, Wood County Board Chairman. Excellent. And we'll be talking with him along with our great
friends at Wisconsin Rapids Community Media. We'll be here to record the interview. Wonderful.
That'll always it's always a fun time talking with them. So we are going to look forward to that.
That'll be going on in just a little bit later. And then afterwards, we're going to talk
to Ann Lee Peck over at the ODC. Oh, good. Love talking to our friends at the ODC at the OV.
The great people over there. We're looking forward to hanging out with them a little bit later.
Also on your radio dial tonight, we'll have playmakers for you right after five to six. Be
sure to join us for that. Nobody made a highlight from the sidelines. I believe Michael Comer will be
in with us today. We'll be talking local sports, river kings, rafters, and certainly talking about
some of the bigger moves going on in sports. We'll look forward to it. We'll talk with you all of you.
And we will be covering the state of the state address that is going to be going on at seven
tonight. You can hear that here at WFHR. Okay. I wasn't sure if it was playing on our
airway specifically if we had a game. So there isn't a game. No, no. The Wisconsin Hockey Hour has been
moved thanks to Pam and our engineering team and our schedulers have done a great job where we
are going to move that to another day. That should be playing on Thursday, I believe. More on
that tomorrow. We'll have for you, but we will be getting that back out there and we will be
having the state of the state address. Okay. That's seven. Perfect. Also, one of the mentioned
I don't normally do this in radio, in everything in entertainment. You don't really market things
until you've actually done them. But I have to share this with the audience in part because I'm
excited, but also in part because we're going to be playing it tomorrow for you. And I want to
promote this as much as I can right now. I've been working behind the scenes with the publicist
and the great people over there over working with HIPROF. HIPROF is a great act that is going to be
coming to our area coming up this Saturday over in Warsaw. They're going to have a great show.
Colin Mockery, well known from whose line is it anyway and stuff. And world renowned
hypnotist and comedian Assad Makhaki is going to be joining me on the air. They're going to be
joining me on we're going to record the episode today. Oh, cool. I was hoping something would happen
with that. That's awesome. I'm very excited. I admire Colin very much and he's another
second city alum. And I'm very looking forward to meeting Assad. Great guys, really great guys.
And they got a great show coming up this Saturday at the Warsaw Theater. Be sure to check that out,
get your tickets and more. It's the only stop in Wisconsin too on their entire tour.
Yeah. And it is a wild show. I haven't gotten to see it, but I've been watching a bunch of
stuff online of it. And man, it doesn't look good. You can go to hipprove.com,
h-y-p-r-o-v.com, hipprove.com, and find out more about their tickets. And we'll be listening
for that interview because we're going to play it in place of where community stories would be tomorrow
from five to six. We really want to get this out there and promote it for them. And if we waited
until Sunday on director's playhouse, it'd be the day after the show. So I appreciate
being able to have that slot and being able to use it and promote this great show and these
great guys. And we're looking forward to that. And a big shout out to their marketing team and
everything working with me and back and forth and getting this hammered out. It's going to be
good. I'm so excited to talk with them. Oh, I can't wait to hear it. I got such a long day ahead
and I don't care. I'm just excited. It's good. Also excited, of course. It's a Wednesday. We know
what that means. Bingo. Bingo. Bingo at the Wisconsin Rapids Elk Slod, number 693, 430 West Jackson
Street. Go join them when they're open their doors at five. Bingo kicks off at 630. By local
support, local support those that support this community like our Elk Slodge. And have fun getting
out when it's not so super cold. Yeah, yeah, very much. Yeah. I want to remind everybody that on the
first and third Thursday of the month, Pete Ravel and four on the floor play at the Central
Wisconsin Cultural Center over at 2651 A Street South. Be sure to make plans to get on over there
and check that out. That's always a good time. Love Pete. Love Pete. Love that old man. Great,
guys. Speaking of great guys, we had our friends Mike Hittner and the gang in from a historic point
boss the other day to talk about their ice harvest. Yeah, that's so cool. That is coming up on the
25th this weekend. It'll be at Netko Lake from 10 to 1. And that's going to be a great time.
Join them and harvest the ice the old fashioned way. During the Port Edwards Line fishery,
this is an offshoot of that. Enjoy the Port Edwards fishery and enjoy the ice harvest over
with the historic point boss. And then you can head over to point boss and help them
load it into the ice house. Yeah, yeah. It's such a cool thing and I cannot encourage you enough
to bring the kids for this one. Yes. Everything we were talking about earlier about them being sponges
and taking all this stuff in. It's the same thing. This is them seeing history happen right in front
of them. Yeah. And this is your history, everybody. Yeah. You know, support it, promote it, enjoy it.
Also wanted to mention just minutes from now, preschool story time over at the Nukusa Library.
Oh, wonderful. This is starting at 10. Join them at the Charles and Joanne Lister Library in Nukusa
for a great time with the little ones. Find out more at NukusaLibrary.com, NukusaLibrary.com.
They'll be doing this other days too if you're not able to make it today.
Wonderful little library. Yeah, I love that library. Love that library. They are in with us this
week. We had a great time talking with them. That was fun. In case you missed it, a guy near Boston
was walking his dog last week when it ran out and on a frozen lake and fell through the ice. So
he tried to save it and he fell through. There's drone footage of firefighters rescuing both of them
and thankfully they're both okay. Oh, how wonderful. Thank you to our first responders. Yeah,
really compelling video. Yeah, and a big thank you to them. And if you need to pick me up,
check out this post on Reddit. Someone asked people to name a random act of kindness. They'll never
regret. And BuzzFeed did a roundup of the best ones. Oh, that's great. We're going to be covering
that on an upcoming show. But if you'd like to get to it sooner and find your own highlights from
it, I encourage you to check that out and find it at BuzzFeed.com. Nice. It's a fun list too.
Oh, I bet. And uplifting. Yeah, yeah. And in the aquarium in Japan closed for renovations
last month and employees noticed a massive sunfish wasn't doing so hot. It stopped eating and
seemed sick. But it turned out it was just lonely. Someone suggested it might just miss seeing
people come visit. So employees put a bunch of cardboard cutouts next to its tank. And this thing
is flying around the tank now. Oh, my goodness. That is so sweet. I could have told you this a while
ago. I've had so many fish tanks and everything. But for those that don't know and stuff fish do,
while they can't necessarily see reflection, they feel the vibrations. They know something is there.
Which is part of the reason why we encourage you not to tap on glass and things like that.
I can really disturb them. Imagine if somebody tapped on the planet. We would feel that.
Or we're standing outside the windows of your house and tapping. Yeah, it's weird.
But the movement and everything they encourage that because that is something that they really
pick up on. I think that's got a cool. That's a cool story. Cardboard cutouts. It's been a cool show
with you. Thanks so much for hanging out with us all week long Melissa. Yeah, thank you James.
And great work again last night and have a great day. You too. Be good to each other out there.
We'll talk to you soon and then later right here at this is locally grown radio WFHR 1320
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