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 our head of news, our co-host, Melissa
K. Good morning. Head of production and co-host, Seth Habhacker.
And the best listeners in radio. Thanks for joining us, everybody. Hope you're having a great
start to your Wednesday out there and you are safe and warm and okay. We're going to find out more
about Mother Nature. They're good for a Brittany Merlot right now. Brittany, I come into work
around five and it's pretty dark out still and everything. But what I was coming into work
today, it was crazy. It was like rain snow and it was at the speed of like the incredible
speed just coming right at my windshield. Before a moment, I got to feel like what it was
like to be in Star Wars. I got to go to hyperspace. I will admit to everybody, actually just
to the three of you, that yes, I did have a moment there where I did act like I was talking
the chewy. And I did have a moment there. Take your fun where you can get it, man. There
are very few advantages to this weather. It's rough out there, bro. Whoops. Oh, it really,
really is. Honestly, these roads are slippery. It started off with that slushy mess like you
were talking about. And now that it's freezing over with snow piling up on top of it. And
we've got the snow blowing sideways up here into the wasa area where we're just being
power outages. Winds are gusting up to 40 miles per hour into Marshfield and that is only
moving its way towards you. So expect these gusts to become very vicious and they're going
to stay this way throughout a good chunk of the day. So blowing, drifting snow kind
of hard to see as the snow is still coming down and those winds are gusting, creating
light out conditions at times. And the actual snow total is kind of less than here. Probably
looking at around two to five inches for our area and all reality. But some spots could
get near six inches. It just depends where this really sets up. And it's starting to
really ramp up through these morning hours. It will ease up by this afternoon. And then
you'll be gone by this evening. But temperatures are only falling. All right. We're hitting below
freezing now. We're about to hit the mid-twenties by this afternoon and we'll slide to the teens
overnight. So anything that's wet and slushy is going to be ice as we go into those afternoon
and evening hours. So watch where you step. Be careful clearing it. It is a heavy wet
snow time. Do it in shifts. Take breaks every 10 to 15 minutes. You don't want to overexert
yourself and cause any health problems. And if you don't need to drive, how about you
don't? So those are pretty bad. I think my weight 29 already had a crash. I think eastbound
was closed. So it's rough out there. Thank you for the update, Brady. To your point
about the wind and the way the snow is going is set right in front of me. It's going
in two different directions right now. It's a criss-crossing. I don't know if I've ever
seen that before. It's really weird. Yeah, it's interesting out there. Be safe, everybody.
We are that much more prepared. Thanks to you, Brittany. Appreciate you. We'll get together
tomorrow. Hang on. We'll tell everybody what tomorrow is. What to expect tomorrow?
Yes. So much better tomorrow. I promise.
You're going to have a good day. You too. Thank you, Brittany.
Best in the business right there. Brittany Merlot joining us. So appreciate her.
As you might know, or might think due to the weather forecast, the ADRCCWS has decided to close
meals on wheels for today. They encourage everybody to stay safe in the snow. Spring has to be
around the corner soon. Yes, it is. A big thank you to our great friend, Aaron Wells,
and all the good people over at the ADRCC. And this is where I ask the other good people out in
this community to keep a lookout for theirs, their neighbors, their friends, people that you may know,
use meal on wheels or senior dining. Keep that in mind. And if you are a resident that does use
those services, I encourage you to let your neighbors and friends know or people know.
Even if it isn't somebody you talk to that often, my parents have neighbors across the street
who they've had many conversations with over the 20-some years they've lived there,
but they're not like, they're not sending each other Christmas cards.
Buddy buddy, right? But they look out for each other. Yeah, just something like that along
those lines for days like this. We appreciate you doing that. I think it's one of the braver
or strong things you can do is reaching out and we encourage you to do that, everybody.
And we got a lot of good show lined up for you, everybody. I almost said good snow.
Good snow. Good snow. Good snow for you. I have a reason I encourage, I had the SNH there,
though. I'll get to it. Okay, more than that in a moment. We will have the Elcaf Abort Day
anniversary club right around the corner. It is a Wednesday. That means we're going to be
joined by our friend Phil Hartley from Quality Plus Printing with our Wicked Awesome Ward
of Wednesday. Yes. Can't wait. Wicked awesome. Well, we all turned in the boss tonight.
No, that was new work. He will elucidate us on the word. Yes.
Of the well, what if that was his word? He's like, oh, we took it.
Spring cleaning. We're going to talk about today. Yeah, I think. No, no.
This is this is what happens when I plan too far ahead. No, I plan for spring cleaning on
today. I am not thinking of spring cleaning for some reason. I don't know why.
Would you drive on a bridge from North America, Europe? We are going to get into that. Wow.
We have that one lined up for you a little bit later. Why are people less social when walking
in the streets? We'll get into that one too. I thought that was an interesting one. We got a
bunch of entertainment news. We're going to dive into and of course some local stuff will be
touching on as well. Plenty of great things lined up for you. We don't get to do this very often
over here anymore. Our national day of calendar. Oh, yes. Today, first off, a good Ash Wednesday
to everybody out there celebrating. And it is also discover what your name means day.
Oh, yes. Now, how many of you guys out there and out there? We all encourage the audience to
go ahead and let us know. You know, seven, one, five, four, two, four, twenty, six hundred,
touch a two way in the Civic Media app. You know, if what your name means, if you've ever
looked up your name or did you do this when you were young and you haven't really done it since
because that's where I was at. My parents gave very adamant about me understanding all the meanings
of my name and the history of it. My parents are really in the history in roots and all that.
But I didn't until I looked it up this morning, I don't remember much off the top of my head.
Did you guys ever do this? Did you ever, were you ever curious about this? The history of your name,
Alyssa? Oh, yeah. My name means honeybee. And it, I believe it's a Greek origin or
yeah. The name Alyssa derives from Greek, Greek word amelissa, meaning bee, which was taken
from the word melly, meaning honey. Okay. Yeah. Is that why she's such a busy bee?
That's pretty good. I like honey. Oh, there you go. Yes. Honey is great. Okay, so there,
you, you've looked into this one, Melissa. Very cool. Very cool. Seth, have you done this before?
I have actually my, my parents growing up, we all, four of our names. We had a little plaque
with the meaning on it up on the wall. Just, I don't know why my parents enjoyed that. And so,
basically, Seth is, of course, it's an old, it's in the Bible, Hebrew and Genesis. It's, it
means appointed or compensation. So when you lose one son, you know, here comes Seth. He's,
is the compensation for that. When the lineup of your sibling, Seth, it's cane able,
then Seth. Yeah. Your older brothers are named cane and able. Yeah. Sorry. Are you?
Are you? Oh, I met the traditional Seth. Are you? I'm in a child or are you your real family?
Yeah. There's two of us. I'm the younger. Okay. Okay. I have an older sister. That's it.
I'm in the compensation. Yes, I am the compensation. I don't know about this one. We now
try something new here. Let's try another one. My name's got a little of this too. And it does
feel like for some of us, they got towards some names like at the bottom of the list and they're like,
we got to have it mean something. What have we used? What haven't we? Okay. So planter sounds good.
Yeah. Two things about your name, Seth, that stood out to me. One, I have to admit to the audience
and I'm sorry if this is, I'm going to sound like a real fool here or anything. I have read quite
a bit if not the whole Bible. I have read quite a bit of it and everything. But I didn't realize that
Adam and Eve's third son was named son. Yes. I didn't know that. That was new.
Teen and Abel get all the, they get all the story. I mean, again, I'm going to be honest with
the audience. That's about all I knew was Cane and Abel. I'm pretty familiar with that story.
Yeah. He's, he's, there's not much said about him either after that. So then which is not,
I mean, we need more stories on that. That seems like an interesting story. But your name was
actually spelled as H-E-T-H at one point. Oh. As with an H in there. And that's just earlier
when I was trying to say snow. And she, oh, God, I get it now, okay.
The H in there got really lucky by the way, everybody. That could have been another
of all of their stuff. And that's the etymology. And I know that Seth is also a, a name in,
in Egyptian mythology. Seth, Seth is the, the, um, sneak God. Not, not a good one.
No. He's one of the evil gods. That's all. Just watch Stargate.
Yeah. Oh, nice. Yeah. That's right. I forgot about that.
The name James has a mixed history as makes sense with me. It's a Hebrew name with Greek roots
that roughly translates to grab the heel. It's thought that in Hebrew tradition, the name James
means a man in control of his own actions and will. Okay.
Oh, they got, they missed the mark on that. Well, yeah.
What was it like when you call a big guy, tiny? Was this the, uh, the, uh, that James was, uh,
also a gift from God and a supplanter, which often was, um, and there was another meaning from
supplanter on that. But I, I, I just, that one always throws me. That means that I'm guessing
if somewhere Seth and James are actually related, because they have similar meanings to them.
So, um, so, so it's compensation, supplanter and sweet. And, yeah, yeah. Yeah, just, I went again.
Sometimes Melissa name is just a name. No, no, I disagree. I wouldn't compare myself to a rose,
but, you know, honey bees also have stingers. Exactly. Yeah. It's not all sweet. We are very aware
that they have sticker. Yeah. The popularity of all of our names is, uh, kind of, we're in the
middle of the pack for most of these as well. Uh, but I, I'm very curious out there for all of you.
Have you guys looked into your name? Are you curious about it? Go ahead and do so. And maybe, uh,
once you get that your name and, uh, looking into it, go ahead and call up and talk to us about it.
Yeah. Yeah. Love to hear from you. And I think that it's one of these cool things that we all can do,
because while I, uh, I value history in general, all of our history, I think our own individual
history can give us strength, give us confidence and pride. And it's just kind of cool.
Like it's very interesting, you know, every puzzle cool. Yeah. Yeah. Names are cool.
We'll take a, lasers are cool. We'll take a, we'll take a quick time as bad as an old
Wow. I don't know. We have played that long time. We'll be back right after this with our LKF
birthday anniversary club.
It's time for the LKF birthday anniversary club, one of our favorite parts of the day.
We get to celebrate you and our great friends over at LKF, visit them today at 221 Market Avenue
and beautiful port Edwards. Let's do some celebrating. We encourage you to treat yourself,
get on over to LKF, they have some amazing stuff going on over there and a special one going on
today. Oh, yeah. Okay. Ash Wednesday fish Friday. Oh, that makes sense. Yeah, totally.
Although if they did do Ash Wednesday fish Friday, that'd be very interesting. That'd be
going to happen. Ash Wednesday fish fry is what it is. Join them for that today and their entire
menu. Their entire Friday menu will be available today from 10 30 to 2 o'clock. Wow. That's
cool. So you can't get a fish fry today. Enjoy everybody. And by local support,
local support, those that support this community, like our great friends over at LKF, indeed.
And like their page because they have such great posts on their Facebook page.
Shinkin. Yeah, do it everybody. Yeah, go do it right now. Go ahead. We'll wait.
Get us that birthdays. Get us those birthdays and anniversaries as well. Everybody,
we love celebrating with you. You can email us info at wfhara.com. You can direct messages on our
Facebook pages. More people are liking the page and direct getting a hold of us that way.
Yes. Courage to do that, everybody. And of course, you can call up. That's right. 715-424.
2600. I notice I take any chance I can to do that because I'm not a real singer.
So I take any chance I can to like, like, I don't know what's wrong. Fixed, fixed
be singing, whatever that is. I don't know. I mean, a one or a two, Seth, give me a one or a two.
One. All right. Because I call that. All right. All right. And we can first up wish a very happy
birthday to Kelly Judd. Happy birthday, Kelly. Happy birthday, Kelly. Enjoy your day, Kelly.
Hope it's a good one for you. And we will. Inside if you can. Yes. Yes. Yes. Stay warm.
And our qualifier today, Sandy Christman. Happy birthday, Sandy. Happy birthday, Sandy.
Yeah. Enjoy the day. Sandy, we encourage you to celebrate and, you know, brag to everybody
that you know and stay indoors while you're doing it. Yes. Yes. I brag on social media.
That way you don't have to leave house. Have your own personal party. Yes. There you go. Yes.
And a happy birthday and anniversary to everybody out there celebrating. Keep getting them to us.
Everybody we love hearing from y'all taking a look at our celebrity list. Gabby Barrett is 25
country singer biggest hit right now. I hope. Okay. Very nice. Jake Lloyd is 36.
Anakin Skywalker and Star Wars the Phantom Menace. That's right. Yeah. If I remember correctly,
there's some interesting. I don't know if it was a book or a documentary or something you talk
to him about his experience. Not so much on the film because it sounded like he his experience
in the film was fine. But what happened afterwards? It was actually was really, I mean, it wasn't good.
It's a shame for the poor guy. I feel very sorry for him actually. Unfortunately,
I mean, it says American former actor. So yeah, he got out of the business. Yeah.
It's unfortunate. Usually when you see a child actor that doesn't continue on, it's because of
outside of the outside reasons, which is a shame because he did a really good job in that movie.
Right. He was one of the better parts of the movie to be 9 years old. 11. I can't remember. He was
not that old. And when you're, you know, acting against Liam Neeson and you and McGregor,
and you hold your own apartment, and then you hold your own during all that. That kid did a good
job. He was good. Eva Mendez is 51, hitch, training day, ghost rider, the other guys.
She is a really good actor. And she hasn't done anything's 2014 except she's been doing voice
over work. And she's actually done two voice overs for the cartoon, Bluey. Oh, really?
I didn't know that. Bluey is awesome. Bluey is awesome. That show is great. It is something fun
show. That is a good one. Let's see. John Farshanti is 55 former guitarist of the Red Hat Chili Peppers.
Incredible guitar player. God, an incredible guitar player. Let's see here. Hall of Famer Michael
Urban 59 Hall of Famer. Let's see for the Dallas Cowboys and Miami Hurricanes. That's right.
The Proclaimers Craig and Charlie Reed are 63. So they're twins. Yeah. That's right. Would they
walk 500 miles? I don't know. That's for for their birthday cake. It was it hard for them to
date after that. I mean, after the song. Yeah. Yeah. You know, I mean, I mean, okay,
for this person you wrote this song for you'd walk 500 miles now. Yeah. You're just driving to come see me.
I have to come see me. Man, I have to say that's one of the most insanely catchy songs ever recorded.
I mean, it is insanely catchy. Oh, my gosh. Can I get up? That's stuck in your head all day now.
It's kind of funny that their genres are labeled gospel and rock. It's true. It's very interesting.
They started out as gospel singers. Yeah. I had no idea. Scottish gospel singers of all things.
I might have to look some of that. Oh, there you go. That's that secret. I have now maybe this
is a little bit now. We were talking about names earlier. The name James has some Scottish roots
in faint ties. My family actually has like a one to two percent of Scott in him. That makes
sense. To the point where we actually have a one to two percent right to a castle. A
Maga three castle. You can google this. You can look it up if you like. Nice.
Maga three castle in Scotland. My family, the the the the cheeses. They have a little bit of history
with this where if we went to Scotland, we'd be able to tour it for free. Hey, that's cool. That's
cool. And that's the end of the advantages. And if you go and let everybody all that's left of
this corner, quote, unquote, castle. It's just a column basically one column. It's all that's
left. But it is a I am dying to go. Still, I'd love to see it. That'd be cool. Yeah. I don't know
what it is, but there's something about a building like that. It's not enough to see it. I want to
touch it. I want to just feel that style. Yeah. The history. Feel that I that's on my that's on my
bucket list. Excellent. Scotland is on my bucket list. It's got to be interesting. Yeah.
Let's see here. Penn Juliet is 70 all six foot six of the magician. Wow. Yeah. He is very tall. I
really. Yeah. There are if you were pen and teller and you're you're planning out your career
and you're mapping it out and everything on paper. It's would never work. It will never work.
Comedy is one of the hardest thing. Maybe actually the hardest thing. More hard,
more hard than music or anything else. It ages the fastest. That's true. And it doesn't do
and especially comedians as they age, they tend to not, you know, stay very very popular.
Right. There's a handful of comedians we can mention that were popular over decades,
but I can name you 30 more that we had a shot and then they were gone. Shot and then they were
gone. For pen and teller to stay as relevant as they have for four decades. Yes. As a magic
act too. I mean, that's that's impressed. Well, and of course, people grew up in the 90s. We all
know. Yeah. Pendulette's voice. Yeah. This is Comedy Central because he was the Voice Comedy
Central for all those years. Yeah. It's awesome. Marshall Warfield is 71. Ross on Nightcourt.
It's in a handful of other things too, but God, she was good on that show. She's
that character was just all sass. I loved it. They had a wonderful older lady who was in that role
before Marshall Warfield. Yes. I wish I could remember her name, but she was great. She was so good
on that show. Her and Bull were so good together. Yep. When she passed away, they had a huge like
hole in that cast and I don't mean like casting wise. I mean, in that crew, they were a very tight
cast and crew. Marshall Warfield came in there and just immediately like just rolled with things.
Right. And just was a team player. And it's so noteworthy because her character was so the opposite.
Right. It was very different from the character from before, right? If I got the story right,
I believe she like made brownies or something like her first day, like like she was going to
school her first day or something. Just a wonderful show, wonderful time in history and TV history.
Yep. Oh, God. Eddie Grant is 77. I am rocking to Electric Avenue today. Everyone
going to go rock on to Electric Avenue. Yes. We rocked out to it on Pat's show this morning.
It's one of I will refuse to not love that song. My first two records, my dad let me go out and buy.
Oh, hey, hey, man, you always remember those kung fu fighting.
I wish to got it wasn't. But I got to be honest. It's all right. You had a whole millions of
other people. I mean, come on. And Electric Avenue from Electric Avenue. Those were the two.
Those were the little 45s. Yep. That just played them over and over. Oh, my God. It was nuts.
Murray head is 79 one night in Bangkok. A couple of 80 stars.
Oh, they're really awesome song. Oh, my gosh. Also, Murray had a well known Broadway actor. He
had a long career on Broadway. So yeah, that song, I don't know. Every generation has weird
songs. Every generation can go back and look up and oh, they had some weird hits back there.
Yeah, novelty songs. 80s, there was something unique differently going on in the 80s, man.
That's a song that would never work any other generation. But but in the 80s was perfect.
I mean, you have Electric Avenue. You've got you know, one night bank. I mean, yeah,
with some other great Amadeus. I mean, they were it wasn't just that they were novelties. They were
weird. They were out there. Yes, that's it. That's the thing about them. Rock me Amadeus are
lyrics that were written down and sang. Yes. And the rest of the song was sung in German.
You know, so hey, why not? And yeah, just to add on top of it. Yeah, right. Oh, and by the way,
huge hit. Yeah, massive hit. Yeah, like just like we wrote it up, you know, with a
teaching pop school, how to be a pop star. There you go. Falco had it down, man. He had it down.
And the fact that I would walk 500 miles is considered a devotional.
I mean, that's the sizing on the cake tonight. That's right. I love it. I love it when
when when groups like that have, you know, huge crossover hits because people don't know what to do
with them. No, that's like, what do we, what do we do with this? Yeah. And people no longer
with us. Andy Gibb boarded to stay in 1958. BG's little brother. I just want to be your
everything. I believe Andy had some other hits too. He was part of the band though, right? He was part
of the. No, he wasn't. No, he wasn't. But his brother, one of them that was provided him with
some pretty good material, being good songwriters, you know, don't throw it all away. Shadow Dancing.
Yeah. There you go. Sting Love. Shadow Dancing. That's the one. There you go. That was a big hit.
Yeah. Yep. The Gibbs. Yeah, you know, I am not a BG's guy by any means. I couldn't be farther
from it. But I have all the respect for that band and that era man. And I mean, they had like
two distinct periods. They had the early pop days and then of course the disco. They were the
forefront of that. Even after that though, they kept going. Yeah. They still had hits into the 90s.
So I'm, you know, amazing group, amazing. We wish everybody out there happy birthday and
anniversary, enjoy your day and enjoy it with our great friends over at LKFA. Visit them today
to 21 Market Avenue and beautiful port Edwards and keep in mind again. It's Ash Wednesday,
Fish Fry over there. They've got their entire Friday menu available from 1030 to 2 today.
Rockdown to LKFA. Nicely done. Be back after 500 miles. No, no, no, no, be careful. Be back
aboard the show. Covered up.
Welcome back everybody. Morning show here at WFHR. Locally grown Radio, Melissa, Seth and James
here with you. Thanks so much for joining us. We're going to be joined by Phil Hartley and our
friends from Quality Plus printing any moment. Looking forward to that. I want to dive into this one
real quick here is. Yes, I know the weather out there is crazy and everything, but maybe it's a
perfect time to do some spring cleaning if you can't go outside. I mean, really. The average
Americans. The average American says 34% of junk they own is stuff that they don't really need
or rarely use, but it depends on how you define the word to use. 21% of it is stuff we don't
want, but haven't gotten rid of yet. And 10% is other people's stuff we somehow ended up with.
Yeah, thanks mom. And 13% is pure junk. Yeah, there you go. Wow. 27% is stuff we're hanging on
2% of mental reasons in 29% of it is collectible or other items that quote spark joy. So they're not
really junk. Okay, okay, cool, cool. The poll also, you're not going to say thanks mom for
spark joy. Sorry, I was just I was gazing lovingly at my American girl dog collection over there.
Oh, see she had a moment. Yeah, I had a moment that was looking at some. Yeah, nice, that's good,
that's good. The poll also asked people to name the weirdest stuff they collect. Answers included
200 oil burning lamps. Three. Those are cool. 300 coasters from breweries. Lots of vintage
handkerchiefs. Okay, those are cool too. Nice. Porcelain pigs, clowns, and one person said fingernail
clippings. Oh, whoa, no. This is also the worst version of the 12 days of Christmas. Yeah,
the worst version. 12 bags of fingernail clippings. Oh, ew, ew, ew. Lots of vintage handkerchiefs.
That's good. 20% of us currently have a storage unit to hold our junk and 10% are still keeping
a sum of it at their parents' place. The average person said that they pay $1,300 to have all
other unwanted junk magically disappear magically disappear, but that'd be nice. First of all, I want
to say this really wants me, I want to go and listen to George Carlin's where to put my stuff
all about. I can't forget the name of the bit. We got all this stuff. Yeah, is that like going to go
buy more stuff? It's a great business. Oh, it's one of my favorite bits of all time. It's playing
over my stuff. That's what it's called. Google that one, everybody. You will not be disappointed.
Yeah, it's good. We cannot play it on the air. No. It is, he's on to something so great there,
and keep in mind, everybody, this is a bit that George was doing back in the early 80s.
Yeah, like if the 70s, 80s, yeah, no kidding. Before, I'm not saying we didn't have storage units
then, but before we had like every town, I don't care how big or small it is, has somewhere in it
where there are storage units. We have so much stuff that our homes are not enough to contain
all of our stuff. All of our stuff. I mean, it's crazy. Well, let's say you were touching on
some things there about, say, you know, a loved one passes away. What do you do with all that stuff?
All the stuff they collected over the years. I mean, wow. I mean, I've rid of a lot of it,
but there's a lot of it still that I have that it's really hard to get rid of that stuff.
And that's a good point too. Yeah. I mean, it's useful. Some of it is useful. It could be used,
but some of it is just straight up nostalgia. I'm hanging on to it because it's very just painful
to try to get rid of. Yes. Yeah. That's understandable too. We have friends help me. I have said,
I cannot get rid of this and I need you to just take it. And don't tell me what you do with it.
Okay. They have done that for me and I'm very grateful. Oh, that's cool. And thought about that.
Yeah. Wow. That's interesting. Here's something that I want to I want there's some great statistics
that you just read there. I think that's really cool. Here's one I want to know. What is the
percentage of items you say? Well, we could use that someday and then you actually use it.
I would love to see that. Yes. Yes. Oh, I could use that someday. You know, this piece of string.
I could I could tie something with this someday. This is a nice sturdy piece of cardboard. I have one
of those sitting on my table right behind me. I couldn't throw it away the other day because I'm like,
this one, this is really useful for something. I might want to mount something on this. It's like a
it's a very nice sturdy piece of cardboard. That's the thing. Telling you. I have had an L wrench
that I don't even know where it came from, but it's coming handy a couple of times. Okay.
It's the closest I have with that. I have a number quite a few of sentimental things like many
people out there. Right. Right. But I feel like one of my problems is bag bags. Not like grocery
bags or plastic bags. Just you know, you order something and it comes in a little bag or something
like that. I don't throw them away. I hang onto them for some reason. The whole closet full of bags.
I've got like a bag that has 20 bags inside of the bag. So the only purpose this has is holding
other bags. Yeah. James, I have a solution for you. Yeah. Take up a fiber art. Oh. Oh,
yeah. A shame. Yeah. Mac remain. Yeah. Any any kind of fiber art. And then you will have a
use for all of those bags because as crafters know and fiber grounders know there's always a need
for a really nice plastic bag to put your fiber art in. Okay. That's pretty good. Get on that James.
Yeah. Take up another hobby to fill your your area with all that free time. Yeah. Yeah. Let's get
that filled. We are speaking of getting things filled. We are now being joined by Phil
Hartley from quality post printing with our McDonald's award of Wednesday. That might be the best
takeaway yet. Well done. Well done. It was like a 60 mile an hour gobb fastball coming down
to the middle of the point. Yes. Right on the middle of the point. Yes. Right on the
knock it out of there. Phil, thanks so much for joining us. How are things going over at shop?
Bad doing all right. We all made it in. I guess. That's a win right now. Yeah. Right.
And we're glad you guys are safe and doing well over there and everything. And I don't know how
busy any of us are going to be today as far as you know traffic as far as business coming in
and everything. But we do encourage you when it's nicer to bring your ideas, your thoughts,
your creativeness to a friend's ever quality plus printing. They love a challenge. They love
working with the community and putting into the community. And Phil, you guys got some cool
projects going on right now. Yeah. I've been no happy at St. Valley firing back up. So the golf
courses are starting to get ready. So I think almost every golf course in this area, we do some
business with. And so we're happy that that's for that and bulls eye and friends down in Rome,
obviously. Lake Arrowhead in in St. Valley and a bunch of different golf courses in the area.
You just have to do a lot of the printing in their marketing. So thanks to them and we'll think
good thoughts today because they're going to step back to that thought, I guess. But by Monday,
we'll be ready to golf, I think. Yeah. Yeah. It looks good. It's a lot nicer. So look at that
way. It's looking that way. Phil, I think we're happy to have some of our spring for a lack of
better words customers are starting to come back for us. So yeah, definitely with that on the
t-shirt side and on the way outside, we're doing more kind of some towels for the UWSP cheerleading
team. I might have told you that last week. So that's happening today. And I also just did some
pockets for the recreation department who were getting there. Some are employees, you know,
they come in and yeah. And so we're happy to work with Dawn Disorsey in the right department
on a bunch of projects for the city. Oh, I want WFHR Parkers. Oh, that's awesome.
If you guys done Parkers before, Phil. Yeah, I mean, well, I don't want to say yes. We've done a
few things like that. But we actually, Dawn actually brought in the parkers and we just put the
the words on the back, whatever that or, you know, pull the tendons to whatever that they needed
on the back where we're emblazing them with the letters. So yeah. So every time we get something
like that, you write something kind of new that we cross our fingers and go to you. So I hope you
think that's pretty good as well. And we do. Right. I mean, others, but we do. But yeah, we know
we're doing that. That business is again starting to pick up some and wrap this transmission.
Another company just came plus the other day and we're doing some shirts for them. And so yeah,
keep it coming. Well, I've seen this new business that come in. Yeah, all right. Phil, what is
our wicked awesome word of Wednesday? Oh, that's going to know this one. Oh, I am. Okay.
I hope so. Molly Coddle. Molly Coddle. Molly Coddle. Molly Coddle. What is that? That's a great
word. L-L-L-Y-C-O-D-D-L-E, which means to treat someone with excessive kindness or attention.
So I'm going to Molly Coddle. If somebody is spoiling them, I guess a little bit. Yep. I got to say
that's one of the better ones we've heard. That's a fun word. That that comes straight from our
snake in old lace. Well done, Phil. Well done. Very well done. Yep, that's right. It's such a fun
word. Yes. It's the only reason I know that word. It's not used anymore at all. As soon as you
said it, though, I heard Teddy's voice. Yeah, that's so good. It does give us an opportunity, Phil,
to wish you and the cast and crew a great rest of your run. Appreciate always you showing up at
the WRCD stage. I know that you and I have had fun on that stage together, Phil. And we're looking
forward to seeing you out there again. Yeah, thanks. That's a fun play. We're on our second weekend,
and so if you haven't come yet, please call out it. Getting rave reviews, and it's happening.
Sure is. Yeah. Yeah. I took us for Saturday. I can't wait.
Get your tickets now, everyone. Maybe sold out, so. Every, there are no repeats in theater. No
show is fresh and new, and every I was talking to the kids actually and the Nikusa kids about this,
and their theater, their play coming up Emma, the pop musical that they're doing, that you can
catch this Friday. What I was talking with them about is how theater is a living breathing organism.
And you are, it is you and it is a dance with you in the audience and working with that. And
with the uniqueness of that, and then you throw in it's a comedy, you really never know where the
laughs are going to show up and where they're what's going to happen with that. And to the audience
out there, if you did see arsenic the first week, you haven't seen arsenic. You come back,
come and see this one. See as many of these shows as you can, there are no reruns and each one
are going to be unique. Exactly. To not Thursday, tomorrow night, when you guys get back at it,
there's going to be a lot of raw energy, a lot of excitement, a lot of fun to get back into this.
Well, so a little bit of, oh, we've only got three shows left. Right. So you're going to be getting
not only energy out there, you've been getting a crew and a cast that is like, we're going to leave
it all out there. Friday's show, we're going to have a similar feeling to that because it's the
last night show. And then that's Saturday, Matt and I, baby, you are going to see a great show.
You are going to see a cast and crew giving everything they got and leaving it all out there.
There are no reruns in theater taken as many of these as you can and support your local theater,
support the arts, everybody. And our friends Phil and Seth and everybody else are part of this crew.
Right. Never know when you're going to see a shoot fall apart. Something a little,
a little off and crazy on stage. You never know what's going to happen. And thanks to everyone
who came last weekend, too, by the way, because they were great audiences, great to see out there.
And a lot of people came. So yeah, it was, it was great. Thanks, Tony Rosen. I've had somebody
on stage shoot fall apart while I've been out there. That's true. It is. First for everything.
No, I don't see what's going on there, but we're going to make better shoes in theater.
Yeah, but it has to define. No, it's a great show. Yeah, if you have a scene, please cloud it.
It's a lot of fun and a lot of, again, like you're saying, a lot of local people put a lot of time
in there that they're donating, obviously, for the most part. It needs to have, you know,
try to make some entertainment. It's a fun to our great community. So if you can come out,
boy, that'd be great. Have a great run and enjoy yourself and wish
you guys over a quality plus safe travels today. You guys will join us next Wednesday. We'll
be looking forward to a film. Yeah, I will look forward to the tropical weather. Yeah, yeah,
much nicer. Take care, Phil. We'll talk soon. Take care. Bye, too.
A big shout out to our friends over at quality plus printing. Go visit them at 3515 A
Street South right here in Wisconsin, rapids. You can give them a call if you'd like 715-423-744-423-740.
Be sure to follow them on Facebook and keep up to date and all they're doing. Buy local support
local, getting your words out over at quality plus printing. Seth and Melissa and I will be back
and we're going to be talking about a fun one here. Would you drive on a bridge from North
America to Europe? It's coming up. I'm on a morning shot.
Welcome back, everybody. Morning show here at WFHR.
Locally grown radio. Melissa, Seth and James hanging out with you.
Big shout out to Phil Hartley and our friends over at quality plus printing for joining us.
Be sure to be here every Wednesday. Right in that time slot for another wicked awesome
order Wednesday. Can I call an audible and the audience see behind the curtain.
Our producer, Laura Berg, let me know that my microphone was low here this morning.
So I bumped it up on my end. Sorry, I forgot guys. I just wanted to make sure you knew in case
you bumped me up on your end. Loan on our your drums. Loan out your your your drums are our
audiences. You're good. I just counter with those things and with you under the weather,
I didn't want to mess with you. Should let me know because I have to bump it up on my end.
Otherwise, Laura, it doesn't come out right for herself. Okay. Well, I'm spending as many
plates as I can. I will let you know the next time for sure. Yeah. Thank you, Laura.
A new poll asked if it were ever possible. Would you drive across a massive bridge from USA to Europe?
Assuming there were proper facilities along the way, of course, rest stops, gas stations,
taking that into consideration. Right. 35% of people said yes. 19% of people said maybe.
And 18% said no. And 28% said, oh, no. And much different word than oh, no. But yeah,
we got that. But it's very hepatic. Yes. Let's do the math here. If you go on Google Earth and
draw a bridge with the shortest distance from Maine to Portugal, that's about 3,100 miles.
Assuming a maximum highway speed of 85 miles per hour, it would take more than 36 hours to complete,
assuming no stops and a consistent speed. Wow. That's not possible.
It's actually comparable to road tripping from Maine to California except it's only a bridge
over water with no other scenery. So in our kind of in between a conversation here between
commercial break, Seth and I were talking a little bit about this because for some prep for this,
I talked to a buddy of mine down in Florida. And he's growing up down, not end-key west,
but near there. So he's taking that long bridge, that long bridge back in series of bridges,
yeah, basically a number of times. And I assumed with him asking about this, well, this is,
you know, old hat to him. It's not a big deal or anything like that. He is in his 30s and says he
still like holds his breath when he's taking that bridge. He's done this whole life, but he still
just finds it very odd and you you touched on something about this because you've taken this.
Yeah, I've been on that bridge before the the seven mile bridge and it is
it's it's weird when you're driving on a bridge and you can't see either end and then there's
just water around it. That's a very odd feeling when you're driving on a bridge. It is, it is a little
bit so I can only have no where to go. No, there is. What if your car breaks down? Do you remember how
long it took you to get to A to B? I can't at the top. It wouldn't have been that long, you know,
it's only some miles in a car that doesn't take long. And you're probably going at what 55? Yeah,
if I can't remember exactly, but that's you know, but still even at that time, it's very weird.
So that for 36 hours. Yeah, oh my god, I couldn't do it. But going 85 was what they said. Was that
miles pro? Yeah, yes, yeah, miles pro. Yeah. Okay, because that's that's really fast. It is. Yeah.
Just with Sheriff Becker coming in later, I've never gone 85. So I don't know what's
how fast I'm not yet. I don't think I actually have. I don't think I know. But I don't know if
I've ever had a vehicle good enough to go 85? I get mad at you. This is about 65, but we'll lose
the muffler. Yeah. So Seth, I feel like you've given your answer. Yeah, no, no. Mel, how about you?
Okay, put aside. No, it's going to be a good answer. This is so improbable. Like, there are so many
reasons why this wouldn't work. And the fact that they're even considering it. I mean, how many times
have they had to like close down that seven mile bridge to fix it? Right. I mean, I don't know. And
I'm just guessing. But I'm sure there's been times. Yeah, exactly. Any hurricane that goes through?
I mean, like when there's an earthquake, like, it's very, very improbable. Do I have an issue going
over bridges? No, not at all. But you don't hold your breath going over a bridge. You put your hands
up. You hold your breath going past cemeteries. Oh, okay. Well, he's doing it wrong. That's what
you're doing. Totally doing it wrong. You put your hands up. So the bridge stays up, dude, you never
heard that one. Oh, yeah. That's always what we did as kids. That's hilarious. So I, you know,
I have a difficulty with this too as great of imagination as I have. I have a very realistic
brain. So it's hard for me to even kind of imagine this in a, in a, just in a fun way or anything.
But I will say if it's in front of me, I'm doing it. I would do this. I would do it. I would do it.
I would run six hours. Yeah, I would want to experience it. I would want to know what this is like.
I would want to know. I don't think I'd ever do it again. And I'd probably fly back.
I'd use a rental car to do it with rental car. I'm done with you because once again,
I don't have a vehicle that could do this. You'd have to rent a car. That's the other part of this,
though, too. And I think poor people, I thought of this one like myself right away. Like what
happens your car breaks down? Like what's the AAA process on that one? And if you're in the middle
of the ocean, that doesn't necessarily like, okay, well, if you're in this country or in this state,
AAA helps you here or what have you. If you're in the middle of the, you know, ocean,
like nobody coming to help you, you're going to call a coast guard. I got a flat tire. I mean,
you know, from the coast guard. And can you imagine having to work at those gas stations along that
or the hotels or the restaurants because it'd be everything to get to work every day.
You'd have to live there. You'd have to live there. Yeah. But in the middle of the ocean,
on no land. Oh, man. I feel like though, we are missing water world. We are. Yeah. We are
missing. And it would bomb as bad as water. Come on. I love that movie. There is, I love Dennis
Hopper in that movie. There is one thing that we are forgetting about this in Melissa. You just
teed me up perfectly. This would be perfect for car chase scenes. Oh my God. One of my favorite
things in all of movies is a great car chase. And this would put bullet to shame, maybe. Man,
the greatest car chase scene of all time, by the way. The whole movie would be a car chase.
The whole car chase. Because you would do the whole thing on there. Yeah. The 36 hour thing or
whatever, you know, it would be just a straight shot, I suppose. But you'd have to add some drama.
You're there. I mean, obviously, there's got to be some pull-offs and some gas stations.
Like you said, hotels, sea serpents, sea serpents. You need to see some giant, you know, like,
giant squid, yeah. And in everybody, you just got a preview of Fast and the Furious 20.
We've run out of ideas. You're welcome. Yes.
I've got to live my life. I move 36 hours at a time.
And the car that never runs on a gas. Yeah. We like solar powered cars, you know,
going 20 miles an hour, but the slowest car chase ever. They're all like really,
we're like, we're responsible vehicles. Yeah, exactly. I like this. I actually think we
have something here now. And then I take it all back. We have something here. We do have something
to do. We got to come back after our break from CBS and our local news. We'll be back with
more great show for you. We've got some entertainment news to kick things off.
And plenty more where that came from right here. I'm The Morning Show.
