Mellifluous Melissa (Hour 1)

Good morning, Wisconsin. Morning, world. It's a new day. Thanks for kicking it off with us at WFHR.

Got your host, James behind the mic. I am joined by your head of news, our co-host, Melissa K.

Good morning.

Head of production and co-host, Seth Habhacker. Good morning, and the best listeners and radio.

Thanks for joining us, everybody. We're going to kick things off the way we like to with our good friend,

Brittany Merlot, back in the side. We got the team back together here. It's fun. Nice.

Brittany, what is, I mean, I don't know. I don't know what to say about the weather right now.

I know. It's got very springy, isn't it?

Does anybody else, like, have them, like, you're looking over your shoulder, just waiting to get like eight inches of snow?

Yes. Or always. Or cold. Like, I feel like I go outside and like, wait, this ain't right.

Am I in Wisconsin?

Get a tap you on the shoulder. Hey, right?

It's winter still here. Hey. What's in store, Brittany?

I know. We've got a beautiful day ahead. A little bit cooler than yesterday. I mean, geez.

We rose into those loading at 40s. It felt nice. Those winds were a little gusty, though.

They're still a little breezy this morning, but they will calm down this afternoon. It'll be bright and beautiful

with a ton of sunshine. And I'm probably reaching the mid-30s. So what you're feeling right now, just a few degrees warmer than that.

Because we had a cold front kind of drop through the state. And what it's doing is it's stoning in the southern part of the state

before it turns into a warm front tomorrow. And then just whoops, lips north.

And I'm telling you, we are going to be breaking records all across the state because our highs tomorrow are going to be about 50 degrees.

Oh, my goodness. Wow. Wow. That's.

I'm going to have mud. I just got before I had any mud.

You'd agree for highs. So to get this in Wisconsin is outstanding. Very unusual.

I really don't understand why we have snowbirds anymore. I don't know what I don't understand why people look like.

Just find a middle ground. Yeah. I don't know.

Well, I don't know. It's interesting. That's for sure. And we're going to take it up. We're going to enjoy what we can.

Absolutely. We're able to thanks to knowing more about it. Thanks to you, Brittany. We appreciate it. You have a good morning.

You too. Thank you. Thank you.

Doesn't get any better than Brittany right there. We appreciate the weather forecast that she brings to us every morning.

Be sure to check it out right here. We got good things coming up for you.

The El Calfaibert and anniversary club coming up. We'll be getting into that.

We, of course, are going to be joined this Wednesday by our friends over quality plus printing with our wicked awesome word of Wednesday.

It's wicked awesome. Looking forward to that. We will also get into a side hustle idea for you.

That you may not have thought of. Oh, dear.

Six things you shouldn't leave in your car when it's below freezing.

Ooh. I will be honest with the audience. I really the first time I looked at this.

I thought it was six things you should leave in your car.

And I started reading the list and I'm like, this doesn't make sense.

Wait a minute. Oh, wait. Oh, that's the other thing.

I'm going to be very sure you hear the shouldn't in there when we go forward here.

We got all that coming up for you in the nine o'clock hour. We'll get some entertainment news.

Not only are we going to be talking about science, determining the more what it was.

Who is more influential? Beatles or stones?

Oh, the eternal, the eternal debate right there.

We'll also have a list of surprising artists who have never won a Grammy.

I got that one coming up as well.

And we're going to get into what's a common tradition or holiday that may not exist in 25 years.

We've actually had this one for a while. We're finally going to get there.

Oh, speaking of getting to things, I saw this one. When did I see this earlier in the month?

And I'd just been dying to get into this one with you guys. We just haven't had time.

But this is, I think, interesting to put it lightly.

Imagine shelling out thousands of dollars for your kids' education.

And they go to study phones, like not phone repair.

Okay.

Not how to make phones, but how to use a phone.

Nottingham College in England is offering classes on how to make phone calls.

The main focuses are phone etiquette and phone confidence.

Homework includes calling restaurants to ask what time they close instead of googling it.

They also have to call stores and ask if something's in stock.

And to be fair, college, quote unquote, college in England is different and some of the kids are only 16.

But it's still amazing how uncomfortable they are with it.

And the term for this is telephobia.

Telephobia.

It's real.

It's real.

And while I think that there's some other stats we'll get into in a minute here and everything,

I do think that it's worth saying right away.

We're going to have fun with this topic.

That's what we do on this show.

We have fun with things and everything.

But I do think it is, I think we can all agree, too, that we've either known somebody

or we've been in this situation ourselves where we're not comfortable making a phone call.

And none of us had any training for this.

Nobody told you how to...

You may have had some.

I was correcting him a little.

You may have had some.

I knew it was coming.

But I'm saying that there is no necessarily.

We didn't take a class for it.

No.

Our parents didn't sit us down for two hours every day and talk about what the phone etiquette is.

Right.

Most of the stuff we learn from others or trial by air or just reps just doing it over and over again.

That's right.

And the younger generations don't have that.

I think it's understandable that they would, you know, want a class for it or something.

Or be I'll be scared or be like nervous.

Yeah.

I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to, I got a hot take for everybody.

I think this is actually kind of cool.

I actually think it's kind of cool.

The younger people into using phones again, using phone, like, uncomfortable with it.

Maybe they'll actually use phones for phone calls.

Like actually talking to people, right?

And then the next generation after them, we don't have to have classes for phones.

Everyone will learn through osmosis.

Yeah.

I want to have fun with the topic.

This is silly.

We could all agree.

It's kind of silly.

And it's kind of silly what we've done here.

Through convenience, we've taken away something that we didn't need a class for before.

Right.

Maybe again, loosely, maybe we did quote unquote need a class.

Right.

I'm just saying in general, all of us, we seem to have done somewhat okay with this.

And I don't take any phobias like.

I find that very low hanging fruit to be picking on people in their phobias and everything.

Telephobia though.

Come on.

Not the phobia, the name.

I know.

They always come up with these crazy big names for these things.

And then just stuff.

They're like, there's a photo to get in here.

Well, phobia would sound better to me.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Guys.

They're phoning in.

Oh, they're phoning in.

Oh, no.

Oh, wow.

You guys run over my jokes every time.

And I work so hard overnight on it.

No.

It's up.

I do think I like.

What's the Latin for phone, James?

Yeah.

A BBC story about the class mentioned a poll from last year that found 70% of people under 35%

prefer texting.

23% said that they never answer their phone.

One student they talked to said, phone calls are hard because you have to talk off the cuff.

She said texting is easier because you can, quote, think about the right way to approach someone.

An older and wiser 28 year old Bret named Kyle Buttonworth had some advice.

He told them he used to have telephone, telephone phobia too, but learned you have to, quote,

know what you're going to say before you start the call.

There you go.

Now that he's used to it, he just said sort of flows naturally.

Yeah.

Which kind of what James was touching on, that's how we learned it when we were kids.

And all we had was regular talk phones, right?

Talk phones.

Talk phones.

Talk phones.

Talk phones.

That sounds funny.

I don't know.

They're just going to start selling phones.

And just either this is for talking.

This is for talking.

This is for talking.

Talk phones.

You know, some of us might appreciate that.

Just a talk phone?

Yes.

All right.

Yeah, that's good.

I tried texting with my rotary phone.

It just didn't work out.

I don't know what happened.

Have you ever tried texting a rotary phone?

Oh.

Ah, no.

I think that bit.

I don't think I have done that.

No, it just gets rejected.

No.

I would like to try.

Text a landline.

It just tells you.

I love the idea of like a ticker tape coming out of the side.

I'm pregnant.

That's great.

I like that.

And I actually kind of want to do that now.

No.

Even though Melissa told us what will happen, I still want to try it.

I want to try it.

What tries what happens?

That's an interesting story.

All right.

I'm trying to think too.

Are there going to be any, is there anything else that we're going to need a class for eventually

that we all kind of like just learned?

Oh.

I'm using this as an exam.

I don't think tying shoes or a thing.

But like as an example, most of us, our parents or our guardian, taught us how to tie our shoes.

Right.

Right.

But the idea that like nobody's teaching that anymore or something.

That was wearing slip-ons, right?

Yeah.

So like there's 16 and 18 and 19 year olds in a cloud.

Like, okay.

I do.

I loop the bunny.

I loop around the tree.

I loop around the tree.

I don't know.

My brother does a complicated thing where he like wraps it around his fingers and then

he reaches through and he pulls and it's done.

And what?

Yeah.

I've seen a few people.

I think my brother-in-law does the same thing.

I'm guilty of this, I think.

I think I'm guilty of this.

My little sister, I was supposed to teach her how to tie her shoes.

And I got big hands and I always have.

And tying laces, I got to be quick.

I just have to do it a little bit differently, I think.

It's like snapping my fingers.

I use my top finger and my thumb.

Most people use their middle finger.

I just, my weird hands.

Jillian just almost cried.

Just try and be tried to teach her how to do this and everything.

I might be guilty of the same thing, Melissa.

I'm not sure.

Because honestly, I don't even, I can't even think about it.

Just you just do it.

I don't really think about it.

Yeah, right.

How I tie my shoes.

I just do it.

Exactly.

Yeah, you get to that point where you don't do it anymore.

How about video calling?

I think a lot of people, you know, even who do it a lot,

could probably use a little etiquette on Zoom or whatever you're using, right?

We're pants.

We're pants.

Yes, we learn through the pants.

Don't pick your nose.

Yeah.

Don't pick your nose, you know.

We're numbers that you're on video.

Yeah.

I think you could, you could live with picking your nose.

Other things, you're going to get fired.

You're going to get fired.

We're going to fight work again.

Like the pandemic did some stuff.

It did.

It messed the people up.

That's a great point, though, the video calling thing.

Yeah, it's going to be more prevalent, I think.

My previous agent, not the one I have right now,

but my previous one told me that one of the things that they're,

that they're, I don't know if there's actual classes for it or not,

but there are, you know, you can take courses on.

Basically, like setting up your Zoom background.

Yes, I think I've seen those offered.

Yes.

And I can make fun of it all day.

And nobody probably needs it more than me.

Nobody probably.

Yeah, make sure you have shelves of books.

I always need those books behind it.

Makes it look like you're well read.

Okay?

You know?

Yes.

So pick carefully which books you want people to see.

You know?

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

You list these up there.

You know, all the classics makes it look like they're really smart.

If you have any awards, they have to be prominently over your shoulder.

They have to.

And you have to talk about how you don't need them.

Oh, no, it's nothing.

That's just a grand.

At least one poster of a band that you like.

Yeah.

You need at least one of those so people know what musical tastes you have.

Yes.

Well-rounded.

Oh, I'm going to start this class.

I'm going to start writing these notes down.

I think I'm going to start offering this.

I like the idea of doing all these things,

but just stuff that nobody would imagine.

Like, why does James have a spin-doctor's poster in the back?

Like, he doesn't like this.

He doesn't like this.

He doesn't like this.

Is that a book?

How to be Jewish for dummies?

Wait a minute.

That doesn't make...

Wait.

Is James even...

Wait.

I don't understand.

Is this better?

What's good?

I actually like the idea of this.

It's better with messing with people now, yeah.

I think I might...

We do...

For the audience, look behind the curtain a little bit.

We hear it's civic media.

We do a team meeting every week,

where all of us and radio stations are on the...

You know, get together, talk and everything.

It's great.

It's fun meaning.

We catch up.

We are able to do that.

I have noticed more and more

that everybody has a better background than me.

Mine is just like a white void with a poster.

That nobody can really see.

So I'm going to start doing this.

I'm going to go that route.

I'm just going to start putting stuff back there

that nobody does to make any...

Why does he have one of the Grinch Stole Christmas poster

in the background?

This is very odd.

Very odd.

He still has that up this time of year.

Interesting.

We will come back with the L.K.A. birthday anniversary club.

It is Melissa Seth and James taking you through your morning

at WFHR.

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

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Head on over to 221 Market Avenue in beautiful part of Edwards.

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We appreciate our great friends over there

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Be sure to check those out.

Absolutely.

A trio breakfast sandwich.

Oh, I love the week.

Bacon sausage and cheese omelette on a grilled chabatta bread.

Oh my gosh, I'm leaving.

Bye.

I'm going.

Yeah.

We'll get that now.

Just a real quick note to L.K.A.

Have Melissa Sayer menu.

Wow.

That was good.

Man, that sounded good.

That sounded good.

They should put it on the speaker when they walk in.

Yeah, special is.

Yes, absolutely.

Because that's what Melissa needs more work.

That's exactly what we should be doing.

That's fun work, though.

I like doing something like that.

Maybe they pair with free food.

Hey, I take that.

I am all for that.

Wait a minute.

I take it all back.

Yes, get her to do this.

Get her.

I might have to go get a roast beef wrap today.

Ooh.

Sounds delicious.

Tinder roast beef.

Onions, mushrooms, Swiss cheese.

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Stop it.

Add a soup or avocado to any special for $2.

I'm so hungry now.

I'm so hungry.

Oh my God.

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Eventually, we're getting our text line working.

We're working on it.

We'll see how that goes.

But keep that.

Keep a lookout for that, everyone.

We're looking forward to that.

We have three possible qualifiers on our list today.

May Mel work yesterday, Seth.

One through three.

All right, one through three.

Let's do two right in the middle.

All right, gives us the qualifier.

Get right into it and first up,

want to wish happy birthday to Mark Grudman.

Happy birthday, Mark.

Happy birthday, Mark.

Mark, you used to have some long time watchers over at WRCT.

Remember, Mark?

Been in a lot of shows from Mark over the years.

Long time ago, but it feels like almost another life ago, really.

But always enjoyed working with him.

Great guy.

Enjoy your day, sir.

Very cool.

And we wish a very happy birthday to Jessica Cheeseboro.

Happy birthday, Jessica.

Happy birthday, Jessica.

A name that might sound familiar to our WFHR and WIRI listeners.

Her older brother, Don.

Of course, runs the boards for us and everything.

And a name that longtime resident, Rapids Residence,

might remember.

Their father was a music teacher here, right?

That's right, man.

Talked me out of play, trumpet and cornette.

Very cool.

That poor, poor man.

Patients of a saint.

And speaking of them.

Speaking of WRCT, worked with Jessica.

We did Bill Book and Candle together.

Oh, one of the stronger actors I've worked with.

And wishing her a good day.

Oh, and Jessica actually, oh, we did a Shakespeare thing together too.

I almost forgot about that.

That was fun.

Very cool.

And a happy birthday to our qualifier, Candy Ross Block.

Happy birthday.

Candy.

Candy.

Candy, enjoy your day.

We're wishing you a great one right here, Seth.

Well, how would you say that last name?

Ross Block?

Yeah.

Okay.

Basically how you said it.

Yeah, that's how I think I would say it.

Yeah.

Candy, we wish you a good one.

Yes, we do.

And you don't want to know.

Call and correct us.

Yes.

We're wrong.

Exactly what I was just going to say.

Wow.

Wow.

That's a synergy.

I feel like I hadn't thought of it before.

But I'm like, wait a minute.

Yeah.

If you're listening, just call up and correct us.

Yeah.

Well, no for next time, right?

Good plan.

Thank you, Melissa.

Yeah, absolutely.

Call up and join the conversation and correct me while you're at it.

Because nobody doesn't love being corrected in front of thousands of people.

Exactly.

Did you see it here?

I think a thousand of people.

Those are hate.

That's it.

Optimistic.

It's good to be that way.

No, please feel free to everybody.

I love that.

And really do want to get these names right.

And we do.

Really do want to get them right.

So please call up.

Let's go ahead and dive into our celebrity list.

First up, Mackenzie Porter is 35.

Marcy and Travelers, Naomi and Helen Wheels.

And has a country music career about you.

She's got a couple of others.

Interesting.

Cool.

I didn't know she was an actor.

I didn't know that.

I thought she was a musician.

I know I've seen her name in music a number of times.

So that's, I just assumed that's what she did.

That's cool.

Let's see here.

Adam Lambert is 43.

American Idol runner up.

And right now touring with Queen.

Really?

Cool.

Yeah.

Well, that's an interesting mix.

He was hand picked by the guy from Queen to take over and do that and everything.

Oh, that's right.

And part of it is to, according to them and him and everything,

there is a bit of the flamboyance that he brings to the role.

Like Freddie.

Like Freddie.

Yeah.

But also a way of doing.

I like the idea of having a guy who can sing.

He can do it all.

Like Freddie Mercury could, but he's not trying to be Freddie Mercury.

Exactly.

And nobody expects him to be Freddie Mercury.

Right.

That would be unfair.

I don't know how you pull that off.

That's really cool.

We lost our lead singer.

We want to continue.

You know, do you do what ACDC does and find a literally almost carbon copy?

Or do you kind of go a little bit of a different route, you know, a number of bands?

I don't know that there's a right or wrong way to do it.

Or do you stop performing it all together?

Right.

I don't know what the right answer is.

And I don't think it's fair to tell any band what to do.

No.

No.

But I think that's a pretty cool idea.

I like that idea, though.

If you can, he obviously has the chops, you know, to sing.

Those Freddie songs that, you know, were so famous.

But I like the idea of saying yes.

We have someone who, but he's not going to be Freddie, you know, he's going to be himself.

But he's just going to be, you know, I like that idea.

I think that's good.

And then the band continues.

Exactly.

A great performer got to see this one live.

I'm just a great singer.

A great singer.

Good songwriter.

Incredible guitar player.

Johnny Lang is 44 today.

Oh, kid Johnny Lang.

Pure blues.

Oh my gosh.

Pure blues.

Kid walks out there barefoot.

You know, just where did it go on before?

So long before Aerosmith and, you know, start that and everything.

And just wailed on that guitar.

Just wailed on it, man.

Missing your love.

Missing your love is a, just a modern blues classic to me.

Not all blues have to have to do with, you know, just a gut-wrenching voice.

Like I think a lot of people might think.

His isn't, you can hear it in his voice, even without that.

But Missing Your Love is a daring good song.

Lying to me is his famous, his most famous hit.

We have to hit, but man, no.

Did you release his first platinum record at 15 years old?

He did.

That's what he was known as Kid Johnny Lang.

Yeah.

When he first came up, I remember that because, of course, he's from the Midwest.

You know, I think he's either from North Dakota or Minnesota.

I can't remember one of the two.

Yeah.

And when he came up, it was big, big stuff.

He is from Fargo.

Oh, he is from Fargo, okay.

Right.

Nice.

John Gordon Langseth Jr.

Whoa.

Well, that day will give you the blues.

Yeah.

Heather Graham is 55.

Felicity and he often powers movies, Roller Girl and Boogie Nights.

She was in the hangover.

It's been in a number of different things over the years.

I maintain, I think she is just incredible.

I think she is an awesome actress.

I don't know why.

I really thought after, especially after Boogie Nights, her star was just going to rise

and go really far and everything.

And she's still working.

She's still got a good career.

But I thought it would be a lot bigger.

And I think it deserves to be in some ways.

Yeah.

She's a really good actress, I think.

Edward Burns is 57.

The brother is McMullan, sidewalks in New York, 15 minutes, saving private Ryan.

And I actually used to date Heather Graham, but it interesting note there.

Another guy, another one, where Edward Burns' star was just rising and rising and rising.

One of these new writer, director, actor.

And just kind of faded.

Yeah.

Good performer, though.

And was very good in saving private Ryan.

The great, the legend, Greg Luganis is 65 today.

USA.

USA.

Olympic diver.

Also, you know, on the forefront of talking about not only openness with his life,

but his life in so many other topics.

And again, just incredible, like, diver.

If you ever want to see, if you ever curious, what are they talking about?

Diving as an art or great diving?

Greg Luganis.

Yeah.

I'm sure you can find clips of him and some of this dies.

He was amazing.

Yeah.

It's incredible to watch these people do this and watch the water like barely move.

It's insane.

How does the body do that?

That's incredible.

It slips right in there.

John, Judy Norton Taylor is 67, Mary Ellen Walton on the Waltons.

Oh.

The Waltons.

The Waltons.

The Waltons, yes.

Mary Ellen.

Our lean mandrel is 69.

Barbara, Barbara mandrel sister.

Yes.

Part of the mandrel sisters, I believe, the singing group.

Oprah Winfrey is 71.

Whoa.

Wow.

Yeah.

Don't need to say much about her.

She's pretty famous.

And Oprah is doing something that, we see a number of people that are getting up there

do.

I don't think she's putting on airs anymore.

I don't think Oprah, she's established.

The legacy is set.

I think going forward, you're going to see a lot more of the real Oprah.

And I'm not saying you haven't before.

But we all know that we put on airs at different times and different things,

and I don't think she'd be any different.

But if you've seen any clips or anything of her most recent interviews,

she's getting a little closer to the Quincy Jones thing where it's just like,

I don't care anymore.

I don't care.

I don't care.

Hey, more power to her.

Hey, yeah.

She's earned it.

Think of what that woman built.

Whether you like Oprah or not.

Whether you're a fan or not.

Just take a step back and take a look at what she did, where she started and what she did.

Remarkable.

Daytime TV has never and will never be the same.

Nope.

She built a gigantic industry business company, whatever you want to say,

off of a TV, off of a talk show that most people in that time slot,

just kind of glance pass.

Right.

And if I remember correctly, it was just a local show at first.

Just a toggle, right?

Yeah.

Yep.

And now she's worth $3 billion.

Yep.

Wow.

Just self-made.

It's amazing.

Incredible.

What Harpo production says now and everything.

Not many billionaires can say that.

No, they can.

Self-made.

Yeah.

This is the thing about, thank you so much, Melissa.

This is the thing.

We credit way too often these people that are just handed money that have never had dirt under their nails.

Never had to actually work and grind to get where they did.

And then somebody like this, we tear apart.

Like, what are we doing?

Why do we give these so many of these people that are just handed money?

And they're a smart business person?

Like, that don't make you smart.

Does anybody genuinely think Jerry Jones is smart of business?

Jerry Jones got handed some money, found an oil well, and boom, there we go.

Take a look at the Dallas Cowboys over the last couple of decades and tell me he's good at business.

The Oprah is.

This woman isn't crazy.

She had to be.

She had to be good at these things.

I don't know.

I think it's impressive.

Again, and I'm not an Oprah fan or anything.

I'm not a big, you know, I ain't got an Oprah T-shirt or posters or something like that.

But I do think it's impressive when a person can accomplish us what she has a comp.

Absolutely.

Charlie Wilson from the Gap Band is 72.

One of the funkiest bands over there.

Oh, yeah.

The great Tom Seleck is 80, his mustache 74.

Yes.

It's aged so well that mustache.

It really, actually, his mustache 22.

His mustache is aged very well.

Seeing him in roles where he doesn't have a mustache is kind of weird.

Yeah.

He's done it a few times and it's just weird, man.

Younger audiences might know him from friends or blue bloods, but us 80s kids know him as Magnum.

Yeah.

Yeah.

One of the better.

He's got great dimples.

I didn't remember thought of that.

He's one of those, he's one of those, like, ruggedly handsome guys.

He's always been, you know, like, yeah.

And I don't know if it was because of the mustache.

You get a mustache automatically or ruggedly.

Yes, rugged.

From quickly down under and three men in a baby.

Three men in a baby doesn't get mentioned, but quickly down under, oh my god.

I thought about that.

That had a sequel, didn't it?

It was good enough.

Popular ones.

Yeah.

Have a sequel made.

Yeah.

I remember correctly.

That mustache alone got that grip on it.

I'm telling you.

Like the sequel just so you're keeping the mustache?

Okay.

Okay.

WC Fields boarded this day in 1880.

Oh, one of the originators.

One of the beginning.

One of the beginners.

Love WC Fields.

Some of my all-time favorite lines from that man.

Not a fit night out for man.

Nor Beast.

I love it.

It's so many great lines.

And a face.

A face that you just, you knew is, I mean, that's, I think even if you don't know who WC Fields

is, you're going to see his face.

Oh, yeah.

You would recognize his face.

Yeah.

Absolutely.

And Moses Cleveland boarded this day in 1754, founder of Cleveland, Ohio.

Oh.

How about that?

His first day was Moses.

They should have gone with Moses.

It's got to be cool.

Kind of funny.

Moses Ohio.

Yeah.

Moses Cleveland.

Founder Ken.

Ohio.

We will take a time out.

But one more time.

A bit happy birthday and anniversary to everybody out there.

Celebrating.

And certainly a big thank you to our friends at El Café.

Treat yourself.

Get on over there today.

Enjoy some of the great food and great people over at 221 Market Avenue.

A beautiful port.

Edwards.

Yeah.

We'll come back.

And we're going to have some fun talking about side hustles.

Yeah.

Side hustles.

We'll come out on the morning show.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show at WFHR.

I am getting ready for school.

It is 11th grade.

And I am angsty.

You're angsty.

I am angsty.

Listen into local age.

You're getting angsty.

Yeah.

They're performing it somewhere nearby.

Oh really?

It sounds cool.

Yeah.

I'd love to see that.

I'd love to see that show.

That would be pretty cool.

Every Wednesday we are joined by our great friends over a quality plus printing with our wicked

awesome word of Wednesday.

Phil, heartily joining us on the phone right now.

Good morning, Phil.

Hey, good morning, Seth.

How you guys doing?

Doing well.

Doing well.

Good over here.

How are things going at the shop?

Good, good.

Yeah.

Fun's out much good.

Right?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's what I'm putting it.

Yeah.

This weather is throwing a good monkey wrench.

Yeah.

I don't know how often that happens, but a good monkey wrench into things.

Love it.

It's been fun.

Well, I waswatering my car.

It's been a little bit late to get a bus.

I waswatering my car.

I waswatering my car.

We were there, Phil.

What are some of the fun projects you've got going on right now?

Yeah.

You know, we work with a lot of local companies and it's really anything, but it's even even,

even a little bit more fun when you get people that are starting a business as they come in.

And again, we've had a few of those that speak, is a gentleman that's doing beard oil.

That's what I'm saying.

Wave wave.

Man, I thought you said beard oil.

Oh, and I'm like, I got to ask some fellow beard oil.

That's beard oil.

I'm not a good interviewer.

If I don't ask a follow-up question to beard oil, I know.

No, no, no, no.

That makes perfect sense.

There you go.

There's stuff too.

There's a lot of good products out there like that.

Yeah.

And this guy's starting up his own company.

He's already got a doll, but we're doing labels for him.

And some different flyers and things like that.

So, you know, it's just cool to see people come in and have new ideas and trying to make something out of it, you know?

Well, you know, one of the things that I think is so unique about, not just a quality plus, but certainly quality plus printing, is, you know, seeing a business like this thrive and do better and getting strong.

And how they're, them as a business are working to help others do the same, rising tide, raising all boats.

It's something that we appreciate so much.

It's one thing to, you know, we'd be commending you, whether you work with us or not Phil, you know, we'll be honest.

We'd be talking about you.

We'd be pumping you up and everything.

But the fact that you guys do what you're doing and then take that and try to raise up other businesses and support other businesses like ours and work with us and everything.

I think that's one of the greatest things we can do as just a community.

Yeah, it makes my day, to be honest with you.

When new people come in and you can see the energy in their eyes and then you feel it when they come in, when they get a great idea, or they're really excited to get going on something that, yeah, that just makes my day here, you know.

And it gets my juices flowing, you know, what can we do?

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

What can we do to, you know, come up with something new for that or, you know, things like that.

Yeah.

So you're really, it's trying to be in a community, and I think that the community is getting stronger and stronger.

But more things come, so it's really awesome.

Speaking of our community and the awesome people in it, want to remind everybody that WAM Incorporated has a really cool thing that they do where we're looking all hope for a hometown heroes.

If you know of one, somebody that maybe deserves to be put in a spotlight that hasn't been put in it before, please let us know.

You can message Phil through their, I would say through Facebook is a great way to do it.

Message them through there.

You can message us and we'll make sure Phil gets it.

Just write up a couple of words, a couple sentences about this person and maybe we can get them nominated.

Yeah, that sounds good.

Yeah, we get, look, we got a few and again, they're just getting it all organized, but please bring it on.

Bring it on.

I think it's anything to do to, you know, a lot of people don't want to pat on the back, but I think they definitely deserve one.

Yeah.

Get them out there.

Yeah.

Yeah, there's something to that above Midwesterners.

Yeah.

So let's do a forum and nominate somebody, everybody.

And Phil, what is our Wicked Awesome Mortal Wednesday?

Okay, sorry.

The lift Lewis.

The lift Lewis.

Oh, that's good.

I love the, the country coaching there.

Maleficent.

Maleficent.

Maleficent.

I don't know.

Maleficent.

Maleficent.

Maleficent.

Maleficent.

Maleficent.

Maleficent.

Maleficent.

Maleficent.

Maleficent.

Maleficent.

Maleficent.

Yeah.

Good one, Phil.

Fleet or smooth flowing, sweet sounding.

Hmm.

That is a good one.

That is a good one.

That is a good one.

So.

But when I, when I stopped raining into this weather, when you hear street telling, first of

me, I thought it was Karen Carpenter.

I don't know why, but I love it.

Yeah.

That's a good example.

Yeah.

Actually singing voice was very Maleficent.

Yeah.

Yes.

Very wow.

Mm-hmm.

She's on another level anyway.

But yeah, sweet, sweet or smooth flowing.

So that's, that's what we're going to have on Maleficent today.

You know.

There you go.

That's an interesting way of using it.

I like that.

Mm-hmm.

I love it.

I will use great choice as always, Phil.

That's a good one.

Yeah.

And we want to remind everybody, not only every Wednesday in this time slot, you can hear the

wicked awesome word of Wednesday, and that our friends at Kuala de Paz printing are one

of our sponsors for our great show, Playmakers.

You can hear Monday, Wednesday, Friday, from five to six.

Not this Wednesday, though.

Yeah.

That's right.

Not today.

I appreciate all that, but also always looking for challenges, always looking for fun things

to work with.

If you think you can, they can do it, are you think of something, they'll try to make

it happen.

Head in over to E Street South today, 35, 15 E Street South, right in Wisconsin Rapids

and visit Phil and the gang, Phil, thank you so much for joining us.

My pleasure, guys.

I'll have a great day.

Thanks so much.

You too, Phil.

You too, Phil.

You too, Phil.

We'll talk soon.

We'll see you in studio soon, too.

Yeah.

Again, join our friends at Kuala de Paz printing.

You can reach out to them through Facebook like their page.

Kuala de Paz printing.

And while you're at it, type in WAM, incorporate it as well, like both of those.

And you can direct message them that way, maybe your hometown heroes or any of that.

If you have questions, reach out to them.

You can also give them a call, 715-423-740-423-740440.

Buy local support, local support those that support this community, like our good friends

over at Kuala de Paz printing.

Mm-hmm.

We'll take a quick time out.

We'll come back and we're going to talk about these things you shouldn't leave in your

car, James.

Should it.