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Mel and I are going to get in some entertainment news on a little bit.
We've got some other fun stories we're going to be getting to as well.
But we kick off the 9 o'clock hour with our new friend, Jeremy Schmidt from Sand Slicer,
Jeremy and Sand Slicer.
Our new members are the heart of Wisconsin Chamber of Commerce.
We appreciate them being a part of this community and adding to this community and joining us
to put up my silly questions and hang out a little bit.
Jeremy, how you doing, man?
Good, good.
Good morning.
Good morning.
And thanks again for being here, Jeremy.
Appreciate the time.
I want to tell you right away that I had the chance over the weekend to look at the product,
look at some of the videos of the Sand Slicer.
And my only thought was, God, where was this when I was a kid?
When I first moved out here, I lived in Rome and in the Cove.
And this was something that my papa and I would go out there and try to get some of these
weeds out of there, try to make it look a little more beautiful, a little more better accessible
in all these things.
I couldn't really use this, man.
This is a pretty cool invention.
For those that don't know what this is, let's tell people what the Sand Slicer is right
to right away.
Okay.
So the Sand Slicer is a tool that is four shorelines that allows people to remove weeds
of all varieties, including those problematic invasive species we're dealing with right
now.
And what makes it really different from other products out there is this pulls them out
by the root.
And like I've mentioned to many Wisconsinites so far, anybody who's, you know, had a garden,
they know that weeds have to be pulled out by the root.
My mom, you know, helped with that slogan.
So very cool.
Very cool.
Very cool.
Very cool.
Very cool.
And so you can do this from the shoreline.
You don't have to actually get in the water.
That's correct.
So right now I am working on producing the extensions myself.
However, I did make my handle compatible with extensions that are sold by, I'd like to
really call them a sister company company called the troller out of Minnesota.
Very cool.
Okay.
You know, this would have fixed the, I have to just quick share a story because I, as a
kid, I worked for a cleaning and painting business, my mom had, and we had to pull weeds
out of this lady's pond.
And I actually had to get in the water and pull out the weeds by hand.
And I stuck my hand in.
And when I pulled it out, it was covered in baby leeches.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, yeah.
And then I danced around on the shore trying to get them off and they were flinging everywhere
and they were stuck to our legs and it was horrifying.
Yeah.
So this sounds like a really nice thing that I should have had and used then.
So the sand slicer, not only is helpful and helpful to your area, it can help you from
childhood trauma.
It can also help there.
That's a good thing.
It really is a wonderful device.
And forgive me, I don't know how else to word this, it's simple in its process.
It doesn't take a whole lot to really figure out how to work this thing.
Yes.
I mean, what I enjoy about it is the beauty and its simplicity.
When I made the prototype, my dad and I were on his shore and he loves to tell how I basically
huckfinned him to do it himself.
It's a great terminology, that's right.
But the fact that a 78 year old man is able to use it just as easily as a 20 year old definitely
shows that it's an easy to use product for people.
It's a really good point, especially a lot of our population is in that age range and
on the coastline.
It's a really good thing to be able to mention there.
You mentioned the prototype.
Where did this idea come from?
Well, so not getting too much into it, but since that's another time we'll chat about
it.
We're business and at the end of the summer, throughout the summer really I was trying
to figure out something better.
And by the end of the summer, mid to late August, I created the prototype and then continued
to figure out how I can bring it to commercial.
So necessity is the mother of invention.
Exactly.
It always is.
One of my favorite quotes.
With that being said, we are kind of in the early stages of this company and everything.
So you guys are just kind of building this right now.
Yes, yes, so I've sold 10, excuse me, I've made 10 so far.
I've sold now 16, so I'm in the hole a little bit, but producing 50 right now, and they
should be ready here in about several more weeks, utilizing my supply chain is all here
in central Wisconsin so far.
That's right.
Yeah, that is my ultimate goal, if I can keep everything in Wisconsin, certainly within
the U.S., but definitely my priority is central Wisconsin and Wisconsin manufacturing.
Jeremy, one of our sponsors in a long time, we've been working with callvers forever.
We love callvers.
Anybody who Wisconsin is going to love callvers.
One of the things that we don't really talk about, but we know going to a callvers is,
well, it's going to take a little longer.
It's going to take a little longer because it's worth it.
We're buying local, we're supporting a local with business, and we know exactly.
We know what we're ordering and everything.
When it comes to products like this, especially local and supporting local, like we're doing
with this, we do also want to keep in mind that it is a company that is just in the beginnings
here and everything.
Some of these, you order something, it might take a little bit to get there.
We get in this kind of process because of some companies that, oh, it's supposed to be
here within 10 minutes.
That's not the case.
Especially when it comes to products that are really well made.
You just mentioned there that you say you're behind.
I think you're doing good, man.
You're pretty on point with this.
It's to be expected.
If I'm buying one of these, I expect that it might take a little bit to get here and
I'm okay with that because I know you're going to make it right.
Thank you.
Eventually, of course, I want to be able to have inventory and one of my longer term plans
is to get it on to retail shelves, even ideally, maybe even quick trip and ace hardware,
because those are local companies that will be around a lot of lakes.
Yes, I do kind of look at it right now to have the sears mentality of old, placing the
order and having to wait maybe even a couple months right now, but I'm working on shrinking
that time.
Sure.
When it comes to using the sand slicer, I want to touch on that a little bit because
the process is really cool to me, but also very simple, and I get to say wiggle jiggle,
which any chance to say that on the air, I have to take it, man.
I have to take that.
That is one of the many reasons why when it came into my mind, I was like, oh, I'm using
wiggle jiggle.
That's the best of me.
In a different world, I could see that being the name of it, but the sand commercial
gold.
Sand slicer is a great name.
It's a great name.
What you do is you place the sand slicer in the water.
You give it that little wiggle jiggle to get in there, and as you push it, the sand slicer
out, pull it back in the same way and watch the weeds and the roots come up.
That's it?
That's it.
That's all you got to do.
That's pretty darn cool.
When it comes to the time that it took to get this prototype hammered down, how long
did that take?
Well, I've been told by a couple people that it's not something I should share, but I honestly
have to tell you, it went rather fast from, oh, my goodness, I have this, this is the
idea.
I want to craft out from sketch to prototype about four days.
Awesome.
Wow.
That was that cool.
Yeah.
That is great.
So, yes, it was, you know, when the Lord gives you inspiration, you just have to act
on it.
Yeah.
Freddie Mercury wrote Bohemian Rhapsody on the way home from the opera in five minutes.
I mean, it just happens sometimes.
So, you know, sometimes good ideas just happen that way.
And it's also got to be one of those moments, and I'm not asking you, this is more rhetorical.
But once you finish this, you get this product right, and Jeremy was nice enough to bring
one into the building and everything, and it's just awesome.
Once you finish that, you take a step back and look at it, you've got to be like, how
did nobody else think like this?
This is such an awesome product.
It's such a smart product, and I have no doubt that this is going to be successful.
You're going to have a good run with this.
I'm looking forward to seeing more and more of what you developed with it, and how our
local businesses out here supported, and you are partnering, as you mentioned, with the
sister companies and other things like that.
When it comes to the people that helped you get here and do this, Jeremy, I know you
had some thank yous wanted to get in.
I did.
Yes, thank you so much.
And first, definitely want to thank God, this has been one heck of a journey.
My parents, and excuse me, as I choke up a little bit.
But I also do definitely want to do a shout out to Adam's County Economic Development.
They gave me a startup grant of $2,500, so thank you to the board and to them for helping
get that going.
And also, you had mentioned the heart of Wisconsin Chamber, but a huge thanks to all the women
that worked so hard there, Stacey, Promise, Holly, Halian, Laura, and Lacey, so it's just
been a joy working with all of them, and they've definitely helped this business grow,
so thank you.
Excellent.
We are big fans of our Chamber over there.
We're big fans of businesses to put back into our communities.
We encourage that to buy local support, local, you are doing that by being a Chamber member.
You are doing that by being a local in doing this, and we're going to support you the
whole way, man.
And I appreciate what you shared in the creation of this.
And part of the reason I asked is not a curiosity, to be honest, but also one of the jobs that
we are trying to do here is not only support you, but encourage the next Jeremy, to
encourage the next person out there that, well, I could never make this product happen
or anything.
I'm sure you might have had moments of doubt.
Here we are.
You're selling these, and you're becoming a profitable business already, and only going
to get more successful.
So we want to encourage others out there to be similar to that.
Thank you.
And what I heard is that you've got 50 coming out soon, and 10 of them are spoken for,
so get your pre-orders in people.
Yes, yes.
There's 40 of them available soon.
Jeremy, if people do want to find out more, if they'd like to reach out to you or purchase
a sand slicer, how can they do that?
They can go to www.sandashlicer.com, and it's got some videos of it in action as well,
so thank you very much for checking it out.
Yeah, it's a really cool website, everybody.
I can't encourage you enough to check this out, and by local support, local support,
our friends over at SandSlicer, and get used to Jeremy, because he's going to be back
there, where we're going to have another time to hang out with you and be here and talk
again.
And we, not just with the other business, but with the sand slicer and general Jeremy,
love to have you back in a couple of months or something like that, see how things are
going.
You know, kind of follow up story, if you will, with you and the sand slicer.
I'd be honored.
Thank you.
Great.
Great.
We'll talk again real soon, man, and thank you again for joining us.
Thanks.
Again, that website is sandashlicer.com, sandashlicer.com.
Be sure to find that there, and be sure to bookmark that web page, everybody.
Wigglejiggle.
Wigglejiggle.
We will take a time out.
We'll come back and have some more fun here on the morning show at WFHR.
Welcome back, everybody.
Morning show at WFHR.
Melissa and James hanging out with you.
Big shout out to Jeremy Schmidt for joining us from SandSlicer.
That was a lot of fun.
That was fun.
Big thank you to our friends at the Heart of Wisconsin Chamber of Commerce, setting that
up.
Remember, when you become a chamber member, that is part of the deal.
You get to join us for 15 minutes hanging out on the air here for a little bit and promote
your business.
Or your product?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Encourage you to be a part of the chamber.
Find out more.
Visit our chamber and become a member and get on the air with us here.
And again, bookmark that web page, sandashlicer.com, sandashlicer.com.
Getting into some entertainment news.
Yesterday, Jelly Roll won country artist of the year at the I Heart Music Awards.
He was not able to be in attendance.
He sent a video and he said, what up, y'all?
I really wish I was there.
I am absolutely honored.
I was thinking about last year and I won best new country artist to come back this year
and win best country artist of the year is unbelievable in every way.
That's really cool.
He was in the category with him, Kane Brown, Laney Wilson, Chris Stapleton, Luke Holmes,
all in the nominees.
Jelly wasn't able to be there because he is currently on tour with his beautifully broken
tour.
He's in Canada right now.
His story just gets more and more interesting to me.
He's one of these artists.
I will not lie to you guys.
I don't have a bunch of his music in my playlist or anything like that.
My dad actually listens to more Jelly Roll than I do.
But him, the human being, that's the interesting thing to me about him.
I find him as a person very interesting.
His journey has been really interesting.
Yeah.
I want to make it clear here.
I think he's an amazing musician and a great singer and songwriter, really good songwriter.
I think he might be a better songwriter than singer in some ways.
But just being honest with the type of music I listen to normally, I don't normally get
into a lot of it, but his story gets me into it.
That's pretty cool.
That list of people he was up against, that's, I mean, winning in that regard, that's
pretty impressive.
Yeah.
That's great.
Good for him.
We go from a country to hip hop here and this beef between Drake and Kendrick Lamar, it hits
these peaks in these moments and everything.
And just when I think it's over, something else happens.
The interesting thing about it was, for a while there, it just seemed like Kendrick Lamar
kept on doing things that would bring it back to it.
But the last couple of things have been Drake bringing it up, which is odd because he's
the one that lost and lost horribly.
In fact, I don't believe I've ever seen somebody lose more, worse in a rat beef.
Rat beef's been going on forever and more times than not, it's something that is built
behind the scenes of, hey, let's help each other build each other's career up.
Right.
You know, it goes back to rivalries in general and musicians learn this, well, actually
from sports and locally, actually, because for those that don't understand or don't know
this or anything, George Hallis and Vince Lombardi were best friends.
They were great friends.
They talked all the time.
They had lunch together many times and both of them happened to be in charge of franchises,
the Acme Packers and the Decatur Staley's or the Chicago Bears and the Green Bay Packers.
The Green Bay Packers were struggling.
They were a small market and even back then, they were a small market compared to now where
they were the smallest major franchise in all of sports.
But they were struggling and they didn't know how to get people, not just the Packers
were struggling.
Football was struggling in general and trying to figure out how do we get people to come
to these games.
Now I'm not saying this is the one thing that did it, but I am saying it's the major
thing that did it and all of a sudden this rivalry being built between Green Bay and
Chicago and it starts in those early days and they build it in newspaper writing in sports
columnists and everything and slowly it begins to build into this great rivalry to where
we are today where I believe it is the greatest rivalry in sports.
This is similar to music where a lot of times, especially in the early days of hip hop
when you're trying to get people to give this music and this genre a chance, OK, LL Cool
J, one of the more popular rappers is going to have a beef with this guy and I'm going
to build him up while also building my career back up and so on.
What happened between Kendrick and Lamar and Drake is not as much a rap beef as Lamar
really don't like him.
They have an actual beef.
They have, yeah, and to be fair Kendrick believes that this man is a pedophile and that
changes the whole narrative of all this.
So all that being said, I bring all this up because this is just a little crazy to me.
Universal Drake and Kendrick Lamar's record company is seeking to have this lawsuit dismissed
that Kendrick brought up.
One thing to lose, it's another to whine about it and then to cry about it to sue over
it.
So Universal is seeking to throw the lawsuit out and dismiss it and the court filing,
they say that Drake is only suing because, quote, he lost a rap battle that he provoked
and sued his own record label in a misguided attempt to sell his wounds.
Now that may seem like, and if you're posting that, that's one thing.
That's an actual court document.
It's an actual court they're talking about that, like that's just, I've never heard
of a beef like this in entertainment being taken to this level.
But this is where we are in today's day and age and I, like Drake just brought out a new
album and people are listening to it and everything and I'm like, man, I don't know how you
can do that.
Like, when these, there's certain lines in the sand for me, I don't listen to Arkelly
anymore.
Like I admit, when I was a kid, I listen to some Arkelly and everything, I don't listen
to them anymore.
Like, certain things, I just don't understand how artists survive it.
That one is a tough one.
I think for some, it's because people don't pay attention necessarily, you know, if they
just listen to the music and they like the music, they don't know what else is going
on.
And being honest, I mean, it teats their own.
There's few things I'm going to get bent out of shape about anymore and one of them is
music.
I'm not going to be a music gatekeeper or tell people what they should or shouldn't
listen to.
I just think that it's certain, there's a big difference to me, like I don't like
Maroon 5.
I don't like the way Adam Levine sings or whatever.
But that's not really about him as a person so much as it is, just I don't like the music.
I think there's a difference when the actual artist we're talking about is a scumbag.
That makes it a little bit tougher.
But I also understand what you're saying that a lot of people just don't even get, they
just want to hear music.
You know, it's just, you know, it teats their own.
Something that I am looking forward to doing over the next couple of months is picking
Melissa's brain every once in a while about noises off the production, the final production
of the 2025 season for Wisconsin Revit's community theater as they celebrate 50 strong
years.
Melissa is, of course, the director of this show and you guys had your first rehearsal
last night, Mel?
Yes.
We did.
We had our read through last week and then some busy work on Friday, but last night was
a first actual rehearsal.
We started blocking.
We have a rough set already, which is just fantastic because I mean, the set is such a
big part of this show.
I'm not jealous.
I'm not, I don't know where that came from.
That is really cool.
Wow.
I mean, yeah.
The set is almost another character in the show.
It really is.
And Jeff Friday and his crew have done a fantastic job because the set, yeah, there's multiple
pieces.
It has to turn around.
It's just so much involved in that.
I am already super like just thrilled and impressed by this cast.
We had our first night of blocking and they did absolutely fantastic.
So I can't, I can't wait to get to rehearsals tonight and keep going and keep working and
we are crafting what is going to be a hilarious, fun, fantastic show.
So get your tickets.
Part of what we're going to do here and talking about this like we have done with Seth's
show and some others and everything is not only promoting the show and giving people kind
of a little bit of the making of kind of a creation, a little bit that people love so
much nowadays getting a look behind the curtain, literally look behind the curtain.
But also want to remind everybody out there, if you've ever been on the fence about being
a part of theater and hearing how, I don't, nothing is necessarily simple and also nothing
is splitting the atom here either.
It is something that is so much fun to be a part of the creative process with all this.
And we have some new members that are involved in this show.
One of our cast members has never been on stage before.
For one of them, it's their very first lead role.
So this is exciting and it's exciting to help guide them as they develop their characters
and they learn about theater and they learn what blocking is and how to do blocking for
those that don't know the movements that you do on stage, where you stand when you deliver
your lines and where you move to next and how you interact with your other characters
on stage.
So that's the process we're going to be going through for this week and all of next
week and I'm going to be harping on them to memorize, memorize, memorize and get off
their books so they can get their books out of their hands so that I can help them to
develop their characters.
Absolutely.
And you know, certainly understandable, part of that set already done even with how ambitious
this set is going to be.
Yeah, it's going to help so much.
Cannot wait.
Encourage you to get your tickets right now at wrctheater.org, get on over there, pick
up those tickets and bookmark that page because you're going to be going over there again.
We got our silver foxes that have stuff coming up and of course our youth, it's the productions
from Hope O and everything.
So many great things.
So many options.
Yeah, wrctheater.org, go ahead on over there everybody and keep in mind that our team
is hard at work right now crafting the newest wfhr newsletter that will be premiering
this Thursday at noon.
Yes indeed.
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So if there are things that you would like to see in our newspaper, reach out to me.
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We've got Laura and Beth who also contribute and Chuck to the newsletter.
So I appreciate the team that we have and the focus we're able to put on local news local
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And we're getting to the point to where Melissa is even if she doesn't have to just take
any content we give her and everything.
I try, I've been trying for weeks to get a Simpsons article into the newsletter and Melissa
keeps telling me it's local James.
That's not a local story.
She really means it.
Everybody.
She is sticking to her guns.
It is going to be local.
James, I've given you some suggestions and ideas of how you could tie it to local.
I really just need you to come back with a little better editing.
I've got to work on that.
I do.
I do need a lot more.
20 pages a little.
I've got potential.
Well, that's you.
That's you.
You really need to keep it under a four minute read, please.
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Absolutely.
Get to our news, sports, and partner break.
We'll come back and have some more fun.
When we get back, Melissa and I are going to be talking about, where is that?
Yeah, first gen beta babies are here and not everyone is liking the names.
The name Gen Beta.
The name Gen Beta.
They're not a big fan of it.
So we're going to talk about that.
Okay.
Yeah, let's.
When we come back on the morning show.
Welcome back, everybody.
Morning show here at WFATURE.
Locally grown radio.
Melissa and James hanging out with you.
Thank you so much for joining us.
Hope you're having a great day out there.
It's been a good one here.
Let's go ahead and dive into an interesting topic right now.
And it comes to us from the Wall Street Journal.
Did you know that Gen Alpha isn't the youngest generation anymore?
Did you know there was a Gen Alpha?
Did you?
January 1st.
Do you care about the names for these generations?
Yes, it just is valid of a question.
January 1st marked the start of the Gen Beta.
People who born between 2025 and 2039.
And not everyone is really wild about the name.
The Wall Street Journal just ran this headline yesterday.
A new generation is here.
Its name is already an insult.
Beta is the second letter in the Greek alphabet.
So it makes sense, we'd go with it.
But it's also slang for someone who is passive or that.
As a side note, I don't believe that there are actually alpha males.
I don't believe that is an actual thing.
I think there are a lot of men who think they are alpha males.
But I don't believe there is an actual alpha male.
I don't believe that is an actual thing
other than the animal kingdom.
That's just my opinion I'll move on.
Yeah, the animal kingdom comes to mind with that.
Yeah, animal kingdom?
Sure.
Human beings, not so much.
Not the same thing.
Any alpha, any sort of alpha male I've ever seen or been around
could not come across as more of a weak human being to me.
Like that's miss me saying.
A researcher in Australia named Mark McCriddle
coined the term gen alpha and gen beta.
He says there's nothing wrong with them
and that the system makes sense.
The next generation would be gamma, then delta, and so on.
But some people don't love the idea of their kid
being called a beta for their whole life.
Gen alpha uses it as an insult a lot.
So it's like we're kind of, it's kind of like the OK boomer
thing.
Yeah.
And it's not too late to go with a different name.
If people agree on something else, so should we?
One idea that they've been tossing around
is generation AI.
Don't know how that's any better.
So one real quick thing here, like our generation
and the generations before us and everything Melissa,
I feel like we kind of got lucky on this one,
like the names like aren't so bad.
It feels like they're running out of names.
Well, I don't even know what the names are, right?
Like what are they?
Gen X, Gen Z, Gen Millennials.
Like I don't even know what they are, James.
Every time it's mentioned, I have to look it up.
I don't know what generation I'm in.
Well, you know, and the only reason this is a thing
is because we make it a thing.
Right.
Why do we got to label it?
This isn't really something that is important
in the course of human society or anything like that.
It's not as if, yeah, you can't apply for this job
because you're from this generation
or you're from this generation.
So it makes you less likely for this or whatever.
Oh, that's, that's the age of them.
That's the age of, yeah, that's the determination.
So what we're doing here, essentially,
and where this a lot of this stems from
is just pettiness of my generation
had a better, or my bet in generation
did this right and did this right and blah, blah, blah, blah.
We always pick on the younger generation,
the older generations.
And I feel like all this does is add to that.
In some ways, I agree with that.
And I think it's also just something that's used by media
as a way to group and to label groups of people
for whatever purpose benefits them.
It doesn't help us at all.
I want to be completely honest with everybody.
I did a little homework on this one,
but I didn't get a chance to dive into this as much as I'd like.
And this Mark McRiddle, this researcher in Australia
who coined these terms, I don't know that much about him.
But from what I could find,
I also don't know why he gets to do this.
Why is it a Tim?
Well, and just, and, you know,
maybe I'm way off here or not,
but shouldn't the generation itself choose the name?
Like, they shouldn't they be able to choose what name?
Everybody gets a vote.
Yeah, I mean, like, I don't, I feel like it's just one guy
who decided to do the name that this thing
and we're just gonna go ahead and go with it.
Like, we don't have to do that.
If this generation 2025 to 2039 wants to be
the purple generation fine, I don't care.
I like, I don't, you know,
whatever they want to call themselves.
I don't know, I don't know.
It's all silliness to me anyway, you know.
Like, generation earth.
Sure, yeah, that sounds like good one right there.
I like that.
What I also, one thing that does bother me
a little bit about this too is I do actually think
that it'd be kind of like an interesting part of things.
When we're telling the story of human history,
the generations, this generation from 2025 to 2039, whatever,
I think that it's kind of interesting
if we tell it like it really is,
like saying the actual years.
So people know more.
What Melissa was saying before is not even knowing the names,
but I bet you could guess, you know, generations.
Like, hey, this is the, not names, I'm not talking about,
but like, okay, this year from this year
is this generation, this year from this year,
is this generation?
Us knowing that more, I think would be a lot more beneficial
than knowing Gen Al for Generation X or any of these things.
And also, why is it, what is that even?
For, no, I don't math.
Is that 14 years?
Yeah, about that, yeah.
Yeah, I don't know why it's, yeah, I don't know why that is that.
Why is it 14 years?
Yeah, that part hasn't been played out or, you know,
spelled out for me either.
Right, that seems like an odd amount of time.
Yeah, yeah, because I would think that it's every 10 years,
I would think, or, but even why is that?
Yeah, no, right, right, good point.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, just my brain just instinctively did that,
but you're right, why that way.
And why don't you break it up by like quarters?
Okay, so 2020 to 2025, that makes a lot more sense to me,
and that should say it, yeah.
And we can just keep track of it then.
And I get with them, you know, like he's wanting
to use the Greek alphabet, sure.
Who uses the Greek alphabet besides scholars and historians?
Yeah, I might as well use Latin as sororities.
Yeah, that's it.
And the list, like that nobody else is doing that.
Pretty much, and especially in America.
Let's just go ahead and name every generation
after Roman numerals, too.
What would this do that?
We'll just do that.
No, the Super Bowl has the point on that pocket change.
I suppose so, yeah, it does.
And I feel like I'm doing this way too much today,
and I apologize, but I say this because I think it might be
an unpopular opinion, but the reason I'm actually going
through and saying it's because I don't think it's that
unpopular.
I'm a little tired of the dumbing down of things.
I feel like that's what we do with this stuff.
What we're talking about here,
about actually having a conversation
of what is a generation and some of that.
People don't want to do that.
They just want to label it and move on.
And it just makes it so much more simpler for them.
It's a big part of what bothers me about news nowadays.
And how people just read headlines, or even, you know,
some news outlets just give headlines.
And don't do a deep dive into articles or into subjects
and everything, because people just want,
oh, give it to me quick.
I want to move on.
Give it to me quick.
Not everything is like that in life.
And the best things in life take a little bit of time,
take a little bit of work usually.
And they're complicated and complex,
and you need to dig a little deeper into the issue at times.
And when you do that, no matter if it's a serious subject,
or a fun subject, or a hobby, or whatever,
that's healthy for your brain.
Your brain wants that.
It needs that it's a workout for your brain,
which can stave off Alzheimer's and dementia,
among other things.
Right. And help with your memory and keep you young
and interacting with life.
Push back on the dumbing down and the simplifying of things.
I cannot encourage people enough to do that.
There's plenty of things in life that are simple,
or need to be simple, and I get that.
And we have those avenues.
There's other times where you've got to make your brain
work a little bit, and that's all right.
I do have an idea, James.
And part of this is when I was thinking about
why we break up the generations,
the way they do with the years that we do.
Technology is a really good factor to include.
And the fact that they're tossing around,
like, generation AI, I kind of like that.
We have, like, generation, light bulb.
Yeah, generation, smartphone.
Yeah, generation laptop.
You know, like, you could do it that way with technology,
which would actually make a lot more sense to all of us.
Absolutely.
Oh, I kind of like that.
And it's like, we would be generation cell phone.
Yeah, yeah.
Wow, yeah, we would, yeah.
It debuted during, you know, when we were young.
For our, like, what would be our kids, if I had kids,
maybe there's would be generation social media.
I like this.
And I also like this.
And the next one would be generation AI.
Right, right, I like this also
because it kind of tells a little bit of history with it
while you're at it.
I would just, I think it's kind of cool too.
Oh, that's a good, it's a really good note, Melissa.
Yeah.
And there's going to be a generation fax machine,
generation color TV, generation radio.
I think you're right about the cell phone,
but I would have loved if we were generation CD.
I like the, or generation, you know, yeah, generation CD.
It could be a cluster of things.
It's like telephone, light bulb.
I think those were kind of all around the same time.
Yeah.
So, so depending on you could choose your moniker.
I like that.
I do think, and I do come back to that.
And I do think that the generation itself should choose the moniker.
I don't, I don't, I don't agree with the idea of other generations
choosing this or some guy just sitting back in Australia decided.
Yeah, I don't know, I don't know.
The generation X, what, what does it, don't even, what does that mean?
It sounds cool.
I don't know what yours that means.
I don't know what it's referring to.
Don't get it.
It doesn't tell you anything.
It does mean nothing.
It just gives people an excuse to say X.
X is cool.
I don't know about it.
Like I know what's cool.
Where we try, James?
Where we try?
Where we try.
Take a time out.
We'll come back and wrap up the show.
The morning show on WFHR.
Welcome back, everybody.
Morning show here at WFHR.
Locally grown radio.
Listen, James with you to wrap up the show.
Take you to the top of the hour.
Thanks so much for joining us today.
It's been a lot of fun.
Want to send a big shout out to all of our listeners,
callers in, and of course Jeremy Schmidt for joining us from Sans Lyser.
Yeah, it was nice to meet Jeremy.
Find out more at sand-slicer.com.
Encourage you to do that by local support.
Local, everybody.
Yeah.
Got a that ain't right story to get to before we wrap up.
A pizza place in Australia just divided the internet
with its newest offering, Oranges on Pizza.
Well, Oranges.
Oranges on Pizza.
The place is called Bubba Pizza.
Great name.
Yes.
Oh, that's so good.
Great name.
They have around 15 locations in Melbourne.
They need them in Wisconsin.
Yes.
We're going to Bubba's.
Like, I love the phrase.
Their ham and orange pizza is basically a Hawaiian.
They just subbed out pineapples and subbed in orange slices.
Okay.
And they are peeled.
Well, why wouldn't they be?
They did mention it in the article.
They have to say that.
Yeah.
They're doing this in part.
They're being honest to get a little pub, new sites in US and UK are running the stories.
Most people online think it's a little bit nasty, but there's other people who are giving
it quite a bit of a chance.
I mean, I try it.
Why not?
I love both.
I'm a big fan of Oranges.
I'm a big fan of Pizza.
I feel like I should try it.
I don't know if I actually would.
Yeah, but James, you only eat one kind of pizza.
Yeah.
You're right.
You don't even try any of the other amazing options on pizza.
You're so right.
I am so boring when it comes to pizza.
I really am.
There's probably no food I'm more boring with than pizza.
Yes.
Well, but let's say, okay, let's say you had the option to just taste it.
But you also had your regular pizza that you enjoy, pepperoni, and you didn't have
to necessarily just eat that.
No, absolutely.
Yes.
100%.
That's the perfect way to get me to try anything is having that palate cleanser right
there.
Like, this isn't your meal.
Yes.
Yes.
But try it.
Just give it a taste.
I almost anything I will try in that regard.
It's just what I think what pressures me is when it's the main course, the only meal,
and my first feeling is I don't want to hurt the cook's feelings.
I don't want to insult like that.
That's the first feeling I have with that stuff.
So I'm already behind the eight ball when it comes to it.
And that's on me.
That's not on the cook or the food or anything like that.
I completely, you know, got to get that.
And then your inability to waste food?
Yes.
Yes.
This also comes into play.
Yes.
So I've eaten a lot of meals that I have not enjoyed throughout my life, but I also have
tried things that I ended up liking because of that.
With like salmon, I would have never tried salmon and I'm really glad I did because it's
very good.
Oh, it is very good.
One thing about ham, though, is that it is really good with acidic fruits.
Yeah.
That's what I hear.
Yeah.
They do pair well together.
I mean, think about your Easter ham that's got pineapple slices on it and you bake it
in the oven.
That the acid in the citrus helps break down the muscle, and I don't know if this is
true about ham, but just with what understanding, what little understanding I have of that, it
does help tenderize the meat a little bit.
But then the flavors also pair really well together.
So I would try it, that it's fantastic.
It's going to ask if you have this or something because you seem a little more adventurous
with your pizza.
I am very adventurous.
My problems have to do with the fact that I can eat dairy and I have some issues with
tomato because of the acid and also actually oranges with the acid.
But, you know, barring the fact that my stomach hates me, I would love to eat it.
Yeah, if it would just cooperate with you a little bit.
Right.
Just get along, please.
Can you just do what I want?
Just what.
We take a look at our schedule here and some good things going on in our community.
We've got some great stuff lined up for you throughout the day today.
Stick around for Matt and Air on Air Jane and Greg going to take you to the new hour with
nothing but fun and information.
Oh, yeah.
They do a great job.
But we've got a fun and information for you throughout the afternoon today, too.
We've got some four to five from Midday magazine.
We've got Wisconsin Rapids Mayor Matt Zachary and with us in part one.
Nice.
He'll be joined by a Wisconsin Rapids community media.
We're going to go over the community survey and some other interesting things going on
here in town.
Oh, good.
And we will be joined by our good friends from the United Way of Southwood and the Amps
counties at 430.
Ben Abraham is going to be joining us.
Oh, good.
Nice.
Looking forward to hanging out with Ben talking about the United Way.
Good update.
And then, after that, in place of community stories today, we have our WFHR Spring
and Candidate series continuing.
Nice.
We have Betsy, Jamie, Kathy, and Danielle joining us from the, respectively, Port Edwards
Village President, Wisconsin Rabbit School Board, Port Edwards School Board, and Town
of Rome Supervisor, all individually going out for these nominees for candidates for
these particular positions.
You can check that.
You can check out that interview today.
Those interviews today from five to six will have that for you.
And we will continue.
We have a couple of more interviews lined up.
Pam did an amazing job sending out messages to all these candidates and everybody that
wanted to join us.
We're working out, making sure that they can.
And thank you for all the efforts in doing this, James, and helping inform our listeners
before voting on Tuesday, April 1st, because these are important races.
Our local politics affect us far more than the national ones on a daily basis.
And we've got a opportunity for you to be a superhero out there.
We don't need a cape or a tragic back story or having to try to come up with a catchphrase
or something.
You can be a superhero just by donating blood.
We've got an opportunity for you in just about five minutes from 10 to three today over
the Wisconsin Rapids, former Eastern High School Music Room, 111-311 Lincoln Street in
Wisconsin Rapids.
Head on over there between now and three o'clock and donate if you can.
We greatly appreciate all of you doing that.
Absolutely.
You can save three lives and short amount of time.
I want to also remind everybody that our friends over at the aging and disability resource
center of Central Wisconsin have their dementia basics class happening today from three to four.
This is a great opportunity to learn more about the basics introduction to dementia for
individuals, family, and caregivers.
Very, very helpful and a big thank you to the ADRC for doing something like this.
I actually talked to my parents about this and both of them in my family dealt with this
quite a bit and would have loved to have had something like this.
It's a great and very encouraging that they have a program like this.
It also connects you with other people who are maybe going through that or have that
in their family and that's a great support system to have to lean on.
Topic Tuesday presentations are about an hour in length and will be held at the Wisconsin
Rapids ADRC office at 2.23th Avenue South.
You can find out more by going to ADRC-CW.org, ADRC-CW.org.
Also wanted to get to some good stories of the day.
We got some big ones going on around the world.
Like a perverian fisherman was rescued last week after he survived 95 days lost at sea.
95 days, whoa.
That is a just incredible, like just let that sit there for a second.
Over three months lost at sea.
And an amazing name, Maximo Napa and he's 61 and he's 61 and survived these 95 days.
He got pretty emotional when he got back to dry land the other night.
He said thinking about his mom and two month old granddaughter kept him going.
He survived on rainwater, needing birds, turtles, all kinds of things.
He hadn't eaten anything in 15 days before a patrol boat out of Ecuador found him last
Wednesday.
And gone since December 7th and was 680 miles from shore.
Oh my goodness, and now that grandbaby is 5 months old.
Yeah, yeah.
That does make me, I didn't plan on this, but just, you know, improv here for a second.
That does remind me as well about a story locally here where we had one of our local residents
found by a drone and thankful for that and thankful that that happened and everything.
The first brown bear to have brain surgery is doing well.
His name is Bokey.
Zoo in England did it back in October.
After Vets found a buildup of fluid, it was right before he went into hibernation.
So that is kind of interesting how that works.
So they had to get it done, make a decision if they were going to do the surgery quick and
they had to get it done quick because once he's in hibernation, they're in no mess with
them.
Right.
You can't touch them then.
That's kind of, I wouldn't have thought of that before, but that's interesting.
And a company in Las Vegas helped rescue a young cat stranded on the side of an overpass
for three weeks.
Helix electric hires out electronics.
The CEO's daughter got him to send a boom lift to get someone up high enough to grab the
kitten or the cat.
They used two nets to catch the cat and got him to a vet.
He was dehydrated and very thin, but otherwise it's doing good.
They paid tribute to the company by naming him Helix.
That's really.
That's pretty good.
That's well played.
That's very well played.
And I just got to throw out there to a local good story.
The Grand Rapids volunteer fire department just rescued a cat out of a tree here this
week was up.
They had to get out their ladder truck and go up.
I think it was like 65 feet up in the tree to rescue a local cat.
That's pretty darn cool.
You know, we always make jokes about firefighters and cats and rescuing cats, but it does
really happen.
Yeah, right.
Yeah.
And we appreciate all the work they do.
They're standing around looking at each other like, I hope this isn't a stereotype.
I hope this isn't.
It's just a joke.
Whether it is that or it's a dog rescued from an Ohio River in Pittsburgh or how many
times we've done stories about deer being stuck in the middle of a lake or about a pond
or something.
Just a big thank you to all the rescue workers out there and all the people helping
our furry friends and our people.
We're caring for our planet.
Yeah.
We greatly appreciate you.
I appreciate you, Melissa.
Nice work today.
You too James.
Have a great day.
Everybody be good to each other.
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