Good morning everybody, welcome to WFHR's morning show.
Got your host James behind the mic, I am joined by CEO of your United Way of Southwood and
M's Counties, Terry Johns.
Good morning.
A bunch of great things lined up this hour, Terry and I are going to dive in some entertainment
news a little bit later.
We are going to help you with some of those household things, we got some dusting tips,
and how many of us are drinking water when we should be, as much as we should be, grocery
shopping tips.
We got a bunch of different stuff we will get into before we wrap up the hour, but it is
a Thursday and the 9 o'clock hour, you know what that means, we are going to kick things
off with our pet of the week from the Southwood County and M's Society to nieces in with
us right now.
Good morning Denise.
Good morning.
How are you doing?
I am great thanks, how are you?
I am sorry for asking, I appreciate you being here today, I know we had a couple of
notes we wanted to get to before we mention our pet of the week, where do you want to start?
Yep, well big news, two things, we are opening our front doors to the public starting today,
so they won't have to go along, the side of the building, they can come in the normal
entrance and it's long overdue.
That's wonderful.
That's wonderful.
We have a contest coming up, our big dog that was on the roof, he's going to go back
up somewhere but we are going to name him and that's going to be a fundraiser, thank
you to James for that idea.
No problem, no problem, I'm happy to help.
Details coming soon on that one.
I cannot wait for that, that's an awesome idea, that's an awesome idea but that sounds
a little self-grandizing but I really do generally like the idea and I love that dog
there.
He's also going to submit James, maybe Jimmy, no, no, I like James.
It's a great mascot over there, it's a great no and whether it makes you think of the
Humane Society, even when you're just driving past and you may not be stopping by or something
like that and that's always a good thing to keep it in your heart and your mind and all.
And of course we want to talk about South of County Humane Society's super spring spectacular
coming up over a Bullseye Golf Club, that's right around the corner.
It is, next week on Saturday, April 12, 10 to 2 Bullseye Country Club, come on down.
We're going to have a raffle basket, some food down there, kids games, music and a lot
of other things.
I imagine some of the animals will be able to be down there too.
We're going to try to bring at least one cat and one dog, we'll see what we can do but
it is a free event, open to the public, come and check it out.
And Denise say that I'm seeing some of the animals or even our pet of the week here online
and I want to go over to the super spring spectacular and maybe ask about those, it's a great
way to be able to do that in person I would think.
Yep, absolutely, yeah, better than, because our dog room currently is not under the public,
it will be in the near future but right now.
So if you need information, that's a great place to get it.
And you know, nowadays with everything accessible on our phones and stuff say that you pull
up one of these dogs like Arrow or the kitten Arrow, our cat Arrow here and you pull that
up you have it on your phone, you can just go ahead and ask Denise or any of the staff.
Hey, I've got Arrow here, I'm interested in can you tell me a little more about her or
something.
That's a great way to be able to do that.
It is, and we will have a couple of dog room ACTs, the animal care technicians on site
for the super, or super spring spectacular, they know the dogs inside and out, so they'll
be happy to answer any questions.
While this event has evolved and grown over the years, it's still one of our favorite
ones in major part because there's not a whole lot of ways for us to be able to impact
the main society with events like this.
So when you guys have them, we want to show up, we want to be a part of them.
And then you mention, you're having it at Bullseye, you cannot find many better locations
for these kind of things, a big shout out to Bullseye Golf Club and you talk about industry
of businesses that put into their community and host for their community so well, we really
appreciate that.
I got a lot of great sponsors, a part of this one, a big shout out to everyone of them.
And keep in mind, I mentioned those raffle baskets, got a chance to win one of three door
prizes, that is always very cool.
Yeah, we got some pretty good ones too.
One of them is a bowl, like the weapon or something.
That's being put together right now.
So we have some pretty good prizes to be raffled off.
I would say since I was a little kid watching Robin Hood, I have wanted to learn archery.
I mean, I would have to if I won that, right?
I mean, I have, you kind of have to learn that.
I'm trying for that.
And we encourage you to compete with me and try for it and meet us over there at Bullseye
Golf Club Saturday, April 12, 10 to 2, the super spring spectacular, wonderful opportunity
to find out more and to impact your Southville County main society and help with the great
work that they are doing over there and always appreciate you guys and the work that you're
putting into our community.
It's, I think again, Terry and I were just talking last segment about silver linings and
that.
I know that the last couple of months have been very tough for you guys over there.
I do think one of the silver linings that has come about that is this community has been
reminded of how much you guys do and how the impact you make in this community.
Yeah, the, in this community is just, we are so blessed to have the
constant support of, of the community proper and then all the surrounding townships and
villages.
Just, we are blessed.
And thank you so much for your patience through all this construction.
Shout out to the workers over there too, the construction workers doing great job over
there.
We appreciate them.
Denise, I have made the audience wait long enough.
Who is our pet of the week?
Dyson.
Dyson came in as a stray.
He's a three year old, neutered male.
He is white and with a couple of darker black gray spots, he is like a Terry or mix.
He's a big boy, but not, you know, they, they say large breed, but he's not your typical,
you know, massive or great dain size.
He's a little smaller than that, but he's friendly.
He's got a little bit of puppy charm yet, but he's, yeah, he gets along with people and
other dogs as far as we can tell if you're interested.
He's got you'll meet and greet.
You know, one of the things that I, I just love and value so much about animals, animals
are not like, they're not, they're not like us in so many ways.
Like, I, I'll try to take a picture of myself and I can take the 80 of them and I'll maybe
pick one that sort of looks okay or whatever and I'm trying so hard to maybe look cool
or, or whatever it is.
Animals just do like, oh, picture, all right, and Dyson here just smiling.
Just, just, there is no putting on airs.
You see what you see is what you get.
Dyson's just got a big ol' goofy smile out of his face and just, I want to take him
home right now.
Yeah.
He's a big goofy guy.
He, that's, that's him in a nutshell right there.
And, and, and with goofy, you could take sweet, you know, just, it looks like a kind animal
of sweet dog.
Yes.
Beautiful ears too.
Yeah, he's gorgeous.
Nice coat.
A very interesting kind of a cute coat and everything to it and, and Dyson has been there
for a little bit.
Just a little bit.
Not too long.
He came in his history recently.
A lot of strays come in, unfortunately.
Yeah.
Dyson, it would be a wonderful match for the right match in the right home and everything
and just looking for that forever home.
If you don't mind, you guys, I would like to take the note just to be able to mention
dogs like, are animals like Dingo who's been there 130 days or freedom who's been there
121.
Yeah.
There are a number of different animals that have been there for quite some time.
Yes.
Well, I'm telling you 121 days, we all know the time goes a lot faster for these animals.
You can double that for them.
And you know, this is just bringing this up to mention to people that these dogs in particular,
these animals in particular, really could use that home and encourage people to, you
know, it takes the right animal for the right family.
But to give these dogs and these animals maybe a shot first and just give it a chance
and see.
Absolutely.
And as good a care as we provide, the shelter is not a place for any animal.
Yeah.
Because they just, you know, there's so much stress and chaos, we want to get these animals
in loving homes.
And it's, it is our place on the food chain to be able to do these things and be able
to help out where we can and certainly even, honestly, even if you're not, you don't care
that much about animals, helping the humane societies, helping yourself, helping your
community, helping your taxes, all of the above.
So we greatly appreciate you all out there being a part of things with the remains of
society.
Again, one of the great ways you can help out is certainly dropping off food or cat and
kitten litter, things like that, Denise.
Yes.
Correct.
Yes, we can always use food.
We can always use litter of all sorts, the clumping, the non-clumping.
We go through a lot.
If people want to drop things like that off, what's the best way to do that?
Call ahead.
Call ahead or just come by when we're open.
There's usually somebody there when we're not open.
So if you give a call and you're in the area, if someone answers the phone, we're absolutely
help, happy to help you out, help you unload, things like that.
And make plans for the Southville County Humane Society's Super Spring Spectacular going
on a bullseye golf club set at April 12, 10 to 2, we'll meet you over there and keep
in mind if you want to reach out to them, find out more about Dyson or any of these great
animals over there.
Give them a call, 715-423-0505 or you can email them office at swchis.com and stop
on by when you can at 3621-64 Street North in Wisconsin Rapids.
Be on the lookout for that dog name and contest.
That's going to be a lot of fun.
Look forward to that.
That's going to be great.
Look forward to next week already, Denise.
Thanks so much for joining us.
Thanks for having me.
We will take a quick time out, Terry and I will be back with more show coming up the morning
show at WFHR.
Welcome back everybody.
Starting show at WFHR, 80-style, Terry and James, take it out with you.
No question, definitely shoulder pads.
Yes, definitely, definitely.
Probably like the king of shoulder pads.
Could be.
Yeah.
I'm with you on that one.
I completely back you on that statement, definitely.
Real quick when it's time to shout out to Denise and all of our friends over the South
O'Connie main society, appreciate them joining us.
Be sure to join us every Thursday in the 9 o'clock hour right at the top of the 9 o'clock
where we have our pet of the week from South O'Connie main society and imagine if we were
saying, South O'Connie main society, pet of the week, brought to you by ACME.
That could be your business.
That could be your business right there lined up with the nonprofit and whatever you spend
with us.
You're going to, man, you cannot put a price on good PR.
You cannot put a price on working with the nonprofit.
Like our good friends over at the South O'Connie main society encourage any of your business
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We support you, support us and the main society at the same time.
It's a win, win, win.
Go ahead and give our front desk a call 424-1300, Pam put your touch with Ashley and get you
a part of the team.
I've not heard of ACME for quite a long time to realize they were still making explosives
and things.
I am old.
It's a good flashback.
There the reviews, talking about 80s kids and everything, Terry, the tributes are pouring
in.
I couldn't think of the word tribute, I apologize.
Tributes are pouring in for Val Kilmer right now and there's been a lot of great conversations,
a lot of actors coming out, talking about work with him.
Interestingly, as much as there was a point in Val Kilmer's career where he was, quote,
difficult to work with or whatever, that was Hollywood talk for, we're done with him,
we're blackballing him.
But side story, that's interesting to me because the main people that have been coming out
along with, of course, other actors that he worked with, our directors, virtually every
director that he worked with has come out of the woodwork to say, we miss this guy,
this guy was great.
He was a once in a lifetime talent as great as his career was, playing Batman, Jim Morrison,
all these different things, Val Kilmer really actually missed some years there because of
he being blackballed by Hollywood and not being given opportunities and everything.
So I think that this is interesting and at the same time, a little late, you know?
I was going to say, it is nice and appreciated probably from those closest to him, but yeah,
it's like why, you know, isn't it kind of like that very often when people are memorialized,
it's like, well, why didn't you tell them?
This ain't the first or last.
You're right, why didn't you tell that person when they could still hear it?
One of the actors that I have grown up loving, again, 80s kids, of course, is Kurt Russell.
I've just always enjoyed Kurt Russell's work, whether we're talking about Escape from L.A.
or New York or we're talking about Overboard.
Oh, I was just going to say, I love Overboard.
And I will, if that movie's on, I will leave it on for a little bit every time.
Me too.
If I'm flipping through, yeah.
I always stop.
I don't know why.
Just one of those movies.
I love him and Goldie Hahn together for one.
Yeah.
I'll stop and watch Private Benjamin and any of those.
But I bring this up because Kurt Russell had maybe one of the more noteworthy tributes
and mentions of Bell Kilmer.
Those two became very close filming tombstone, both very similar styles of acting and approaches
to it where they took the crap very seriously, but also when the cameras are off, we're
going to get along.
We're going to have fun.
This is a chance.
Theater kids.
And theater kids, if you've worked in a play before you know what I'm talking about there,
if you're fortunate and every play you do, you make a new family and you make new friends.
And those are people that stay with you the rest of your life.
And when you're on a film set, you have theater kids on that set, on a business set, on
a set where time is money and everything is money related and all that.
So I find it interesting when actors can really find those bonds and they continue.
And Kurt Russell and Bell Kilmer working on tombstone together remain friends throughout
their lives.
One of the things that you do in theater is you get the director a gift or you get your
fellow actors a gift.
Well Kurt Russell told us about the gifts that Bell Kilmer and he got each other.
And they're a little dark.
But fitting, if you put yourself into their heads during these characters, Bell Kilmer
is playing doc holiday, side note, better than anybody's ever played the character.
I actually played it accurately.
Almost got himself in a, or actually did get himself in a hospital bed because he was
trying to look like a tuberculosis person and everything.
And then Kurt Russell played White Earp, better than anybody has ever played White Earp
in human history by far and away, did an accurate portrayal of Mr. Earp.
So those two worked together and Kurt Russell, along with saying how much he was, a legend
at what he was and did and everything and how much he missing and miss Bell Kilmer, he
revealed that they exchanged gifts after the film wrapped and they are a little dark but
kind of cool.
Kurt gave Val a burial plot in Boothill Cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona.
Yeah, I was just there like a year ago.
Oh really?
Yeah, we went to the cemetery and we even went to the cemetery.
Oh, I'm so jealous of that.
I got to check that out.
Of course, famously the resting place of several famous old Western figures.
Yeah, it's pretty cool.
Did you get a chance to see the tombstones themselves?
Oh, yeah, because you get a little directory, like it's a little booklet and it tells you,
so if you just follow the rows, it tells you who they all are and kind of a little, maybe
the little folklore around it, you know, like said to have whatever, you know, this happened
or that happened or yeah, it's cool to eat a little place.
My Nana Papa had friends in Arizona, so they went there almost every other summer and
the only nothing against Arizona, but the only interest I've ever had in going to Arizona
is doing what you did.
Yeah, so that's awesome.
That's what we were in Tombstone, you know, too.
It's like you're on their stage coaches running.
It's still the dirt, you know, roadway and horses and the saloons and, yeah, it's pretty
cool.
So, yeah, Kurt gave Val a burial plot in Boothill cemetery and Val gave Kurt a plot of land
overlooking Boothill.
Wow.
Kurt said, quote, doc holiday was all about death, but why it's all about life.
I guess that is pretty much says it all.
That's really cool.
Yeah.
It's a well done, like it's almost as if what would white up and doc holiday give each
other.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's really cool.
And I appreciate him sharing that.
A lot of us are going to miss Val Kilmer.
I've been missing Val Kilmer for years, though.
He hasn't really been able to work.
He wasn't able to work for a long time because of the cancer and some of the things that he
was fighting through.
You know, I thought it was actually kind of cool how they, you know, gimmicky or not, but
I thought it was cool how they worked him into the new top gun.
You know, every, I do this with maybe more than any other actor, and especially of his
stature.
You know, Tom Cruise is one of those lines in the sand for me where you really, I don't
have a difficulty separating the man from the work.
But there are times where he does things like that where it's not the actor Tom Cruise
doing good things.
It's just the human being Tom Cruise.
And you get kind of a little bit of a sliver of, I'm sorry, what he might have been like
without Scientology, you know, I'll just say it, you know, come, come at me attorneys
all you want.
I got a whole family of attorneys.
Um, I, I, I, I, I, I stand by that statement and, and I, I think that no, things like that
where he goes out of his way, Val Kilmer was not written in that that script for a reason
because he was sick.
He couldn't talk.
But it was, it was, but that, but, uh, just like Tom Cruise stood on his, on his laurels
and was like, I'm not releasing this film on streaming.
When top to that new top gun came out, of course, we couldn't go to theaters or anything.
He held onto that movie until we could get back to the theaters and we all saw what happened
from that.
I mean, he, he almost singlehandedly brought people back to movie theaters.
Like you got to give him credit where it's due and him going out of his way and he literally
talked Val Kilmer into doing that.
Val was like, no, nobody wants to see me.
But they really worked it in really naturally and really well and, and, and, and because
of that, we got at least one more time getting to see Val Kilmer act and I give Tom Cruise
credit for that.
Because that was not a producer thing that was not something he did that for a friend.
He did that.
And I think, uh, to be true to the story, I don't know that you can, you, the movie would
be the same without that moment, you know, so I, I think it was, uh, good on all levels.
Okay.
Let's go back to Tombstone, Arizona.
So you, you know, the other cool thing that we did when we were there.
So when you get there, um, you can see they do it multiple times a day, but a, a, a
reenactment at the, oh my gosh, I mean, like, oh, it's pretty cool.
But I got to get over there and check that out.
Oh, I've got to get over there and check that out.
Uh, it has been almost 10 years since Ellen Pompey appeared in Taylor Swift star-studded
video for bad blood as a lot of, uh, swifty people out there.
No, uh, Taylor is a Gray's Anatomy fan and has a cat name Meredith Gray on, on yesterday's
Jennifer Hudson show Ellen shared another example of Taylor's generosity.
At the time, Ellen and her husband spent a lot of time volunteering for children's hospitals
in LA.
She explained that there's an underfunded program where music is made for babies in the
I N I C U using the voices of their parents side note.
That's awesome.
That is way awesome.
I have not heard of that before that.
That gave me goosebumps.
That's really cool.
That's really cool.
Well, quote, I asked Taylor, could you write me a big old check for children's?
And she knew me all, but 20 minutes and that girl wrote me the biggest check without blinking
an eye.
Um, and it's just one of these things that's really cool about Taylor Swift.
It actually, um, you know, really one of those things that I don't think she gets enough
credit for.
She does a lot of stuff like this.
Oh, yeah, this isn't isolated.
But everybody wants to talk about who she's dating and, and, and, and look, she's made money
off of that too.
And she has leaned into that a little bit, just be fair.
But, uh, while she has leaned into that, she could have just as easily leaned into things
like this and let, put it on her gram and all that stuff.
She doesn't do that.
She just does it.
She just writes the check.
Um, I, you have to be able to give credit in both sides of these things in life.
I, I, I, I don't, I could not sing one beat of a Taylor Swift song for you.
But I do think that you have to give credit to these artists when they do these things.
You know, that whole baby's in the ICU, right?
I mean, the parents are there as much as they can be and of course you want them to associate
that voice, but to actually record it and have it be the parents voice singing the Lullaby
and stuff.
That's, isn't that really cool?
And it hits the heart.
That's just beautiful.
I love it.
And one more story, one of the get to before we wrap up our entertainment section, remembering
how Kelly Clarkson took an unexplained hiatus from her talk show last month, a report said
it was for quote, personal reasons, but that is, there was no cause for a lot.
Well, now there are multiple sources claiming that Kelly wants out of her contract and she
wants to get out of the business altogether, really.
She's a, she allegedly wants to leave when her contract with NBC ends next year to spend
more time with her kids.
She shares an eight year old son and 10 year old daughter with her ex husband on one source
says quote, Kelly's number one priority is her children.
The show is grueling.
It's a whole lot of work and they hear that Kelly would like to spend more time down south.
Um, so what's wrong with this there, you know, I think that this now for some people are
going to hear this and I think some people are going to, you know, especially people
in the industry are going to look at it like, well, she's, you know, how could she want
to do this?
She has one of the more popular talk shows and daytime and all this and, and she does
not necessarily have a music career to fall back on anymore, not to say that she stopped
learning how to sing, but, you know, you, music is momentum and if you have an album
come out in a while, you're yesterday's news.
So I don't, I'm not saying that Kelly Clarkson couldn't drop an album tomorrow and have
it be a best seller.
I just mean that it's a lot harder when you have been doing it for a while like a talk
show for some time.
But the, the, the note where they part of the story, now this coming from page six and
they're doing this for gossip, they're doing this to pie, really try to get, you know,
this is what the TMZ and the gossipers do, they have no, no talent and no ability to
be able to do anything themselves so they latch on to people that actually do and, and
it, where there could be actually good reporting or good photography done by some of these
individuals.
Now they take the low hanging fruit and go into that industry.
I, I, I don't have any respect for any one individual that any person who works in those
industries.
Be, be, it's a joke.
It's a joke and it doesn't work.
What I hope people are taking from this story is what essentially you were saying there,
Terry, that what's wrong with this?
This is, this is awesome.
Like why isn't newsworthy?
She does.
I mean, her, her fans might miss her, but I also think if they're her fans, they would
respect a decision like that and completely understand and, and when you're watching
these daytime talk shows, you're seeing fun and, and all this pomp and circumstance and
everything.
And all of that takes a lot of work, like it takes work to make stuff look natural.
It takes work to make things look easy and smooth.
And I'm not saying that she's working as hard as a construction worker out there or anything
like that, but you only know your own life and what you're doing.
And if it's taken time away from her kids and that's bugging her, that's all that I
needed to hear.
Like, yeah, more power to you, Kelly, go do your thing.
The other part of this too and everything I said about momentum is 100% true in the
music industry at the very same time.
It isn't as if her talent's going anywhere.
If she wants to take a break from her career, be a mom for a while and then maybe when the
kids are older and she jumps back into the game, more power to do that.
Yeah.
And it doesn't, I mean, honestly, it doesn't really matter what anybody thinks.
Nope.
I mean, she's a, she's very intelligent.
I mean, I think we could, we've usually established that.
She's entrepreneurial.
She, I mean, she, she knows what she's doing.
She wouldn't make this decision if she couldn't make it happen.
Replace the entertainment industry with any other industry and nobody would blink an eye
at this.
Yeah.
She made her money.
She's made good money.
She's been smart with that money and she has the ability to do this.
That I would encourage anybody in the world to be able to do that no matter what world
you're in or industry you're in or anything more power to her.
Yeah, good for her.
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Such a 90's beat.
Oh, that is such a 90's beat.
Every 90's kid just immediately got back a little group.
This is an interesting one, Terry, because times are tough and that really could be said
a lot of different types of a lot of different decades.
But prices have gone up for a lot of different things.
The comedian is making jokes about eggs.
That's just kind of what we're doing right now.
Hey, I bought eggs yesterday and they were $2 cheaper a dozen than they were a couple
weeks ago.
Right, I know.
I mean, yeah.
Thank you for telling me that because I've got a stock of eggs that I've been buying
like gold and I'm not done that.
We thought we'd help out a little bit.
Here are a few grocery shopping tips that can help you save a little coin.
I did not pre-read this, but I will say right away.
I think one of the first things we learn when we live on our own, we're buying our own
food and everything, don't shop hungry.
I just don't feel like that's a proper end swell for me.
Maybe I'm just speaking for myself here, but it's never feel like an end swell.
Yeah.
So the other thing for me, and it drives me, that's usually if someone else from my
house is with me, is, you know, I'm like, why is that in the cart?
Oh, well, because I might make blah, blah.
Oh, yeah.
I mean, I'm fine with if we meal prep and you're buying for the whole week or the two
weeks or whatever.
But I also am like, yeah, well, the someday you're going to make it, then come to the store
and buy the stuff.
You know what I mean?
Yeah, exactly.
I'm not spending an extra 100 bucks on stuff that we might use.
100%.
So right away, and these aren't in any particular order.
Try to skip everything in the middle of the store.
It's a lot of snacks and filler.
The produce, meats, dairy, and eggs are all around the outside walls.
That is true.
Huh?
I mean, the placement is true.
I'm not sure I can skip the aisles, but that placement is.
You know, I worked in a grocery store for a couple of years and I kind of hadn't thought
about that.
I think it's just placement of the cool containers is what it is.
But that is interesting.
Make a list and stick to it, and this is from Pam Mayloff.
This is from my mother.
Also from Terry Johnson.
Yes.
It's really, it is good.
It's old, but it works.
It's so smart.
The impromptu things are where you get in trouble.
You know, in the day of COVID, and I'm so sick of talking about that, but that was one
thing, like, ordering, and I know many people still do it.
I don't anymore, but I did during that time, you know, like, order grocery pickup, where
you'd order it, and then you just go pick it up.
I spent a lot less money because I only ordered what I was planning to do.
You know, I mean, like, I didn't sit on their app and just like scroll and scroll and
scroll.
Whereas you see something when you go in, you know, on an end cap or whatever.
So I mean, that was, that was good.
I know a lot of people still do the order and pick up.
It's just a little more convenient, but I, for me, there's still something about going
in the store.
Yeah.
Shop around at your nearby grocery stores until you figure out which one has the best
prices.
I know for a lot of people, they'll get this at this store and this at this store.
Yeah, I was going to say that's my problem.
I don't find, I mean, I don't know that I find like straight, lowest value on everything.
It's like, oh, well, these 10 things are cheaper over here and five things are cheaper
over there.
But it depends for me.
It depends on time.
Time and, you know, I, quite, this is my father pumping up in my head here, but, you know,
how much you're spending on gas, you know, I, I, I know that my little brother at one point,
like he, he wanted, I can't remember what it was, but he was just out of high school.
He wanted to go up the point to get something and my dad's like, okay, because it's cheaper
up there.
I was like, yes, a lot cheaper up there.
How much you're spending on gas, isn't it?
Like, you know, and all this and everything.
And you don't think about that part.
Right, right.
So, I, you know, counter, if we're talking budget, you know, all, it affects your whole
budget.
So, you know, I will say though, there are some things that I just have favorites at
certain locations.
Yeah.
I mean, I'm not going to go do all the locations at the same time, but there are certain
places where produce is fresher in my opinion or better.
Certain other places where I'll buy meat, some places where I'm like, eh, not buy meat
there.
You know, like, so there is some of that.
By the generic brands, a lot of times you can get more for cheaper and it still tastes
the same.
Um, even if you don't do it on a consistent basis, get me a try.
You know, I, I think for every product that you may like, okay, I can taste the difference.
This isn't working for me.
You might come across a product you're like, wow, I don't know, is there any difference?
And wherever you can save a couple bucks, that's what this is all about.
Or you might be using stuff like for, for prepping something, you know, I mean, like, if
let's say you're making a soup or something, well, maybe you can use the off brand parts
that are all going to be cooked together versus, you know, when you're just having something
straight up.
And you know, you've also probably heard like the whole, I don't know, maybe like, just
going to throw canned vegetables under the bus, but, but that, but that a lot of times
they're canned in the same facility and just a different label gets put on, you know,
so I don't know.
Yeah.
Try, I guess, whatever you think is best, but it is an opportunity to save some, save
some dollars.
There's a canned tomato out there listening, like, come on, I mean, you know, what's funny
though?
That is one thing where I have noticed a difference, like tomato sauce.
Some are significantly sweeter than others.
There are a couple of brands not to throw anybody on the bus.
There are a couple of bands of brands.
If you look at the ingredients, they put sugar in there.
I personally would avoid those.
Not only do they, they're, they're fake flavor, but they take away from what you're going
for.
If you're going for that, that acidic that that that that that savoury, yeah, sugar takes
away from that same thing with pizza, by the way, if you're ordering pizza and there's
a pizza place out there that's putting sugar in their marinara, that ain't for me.
Yeah.
I always notice that, like, they're just labeled sauce, right?
But you can pick up four different ones and actually none of them taste the same.
Yeah.
So, you know, it might be a taste preference.
Here we go.
Eat a big meal before you go to the store.
You'll do less impulse buying.
Yeah, we kind of covered that one.
Make sure to check the cost per ounce.
Sale prices are confusing sometimes, and that's always the cheapest option.
I do agree with that.
Some things I'll do that with, not everything, but sometimes, you know, like, let's say,
I don't know, maybe like laundry detergent.
It might be cheaper to actually buy the little bit smaller one than the big one that's
on sale or vice versa, but yeah, sometimes I do that.
I don't really...
Maybe I need to do that more.
I don't think I've done that very much.
Meal plan based on what will spoil first, less food, waste means a more money in your
pocket.
Yeah, fair.
Yeah, fair.
Yeah, fair.
Yeah, fair.
Yeah, fair.
Yeah, fair.
Yeah, fair.
Yeah, fair.
Yeah, fair.
Yeah, fair.
Yeah, fair.
Yeah, fair.
Yeah.
I'm maxing.
I never...
You know, I grew up with that.
I didn't...
I didn't...
To be honest, I never had the income to be able to do that.
But my aunt Debt does that a lot, and I noticed, you know, being around her a bit more
and seeing some other people that buy in bulk, if you can work it and work her certain products
like toilet paper or paper towels in these things, that seems to be a real like it...
For the people that can really works out for them...
Well, and I think, to like, my sister, I mean, they have four kids, and when they three
imagine, like, three teenage boys at once, I mean, you know, like for them, it always
made sense.
But I might tag along, like, you know, to a Sam's Club or somewhere like that, and it's
just...
I could buy the stuff, but I don't know that I'd, you know, like, use it through.
So there's some things that I'll get, but just in general, I agree, I'm not a great bulk
buyer.
In the aisles, look high and low.
The most expensive stuff is usually the easiest to see and reach.
So maybe you do a little bit more looking.
You might find the things that are a little more...
Trying to just not get run over by another cart.
Right, yeah.
Certainly certain places.
Keep your eyes on the driving lane.
Here's a tip.
Make the aisles bigger.
Here's a tip.
Just keep right.
Yeah.
Yes.
Yes.
Buh.
Shop your pantry first is our final tip on here.
Shop your pantry first, and clean out your fridge.
A lot of times you can find something to put together, no better way to save money than
to eat the food you already have.
I mean, true.
Fair enough.
It's a great point.
You know, to that point, though, of you might already have the stuff you just don't realize
it is, and I realize that this sounds a little, you know, but rotating your pantry.
So when you go to buy stuff, put the new stuff behind, so you do use those things and you
don't find yourself in a position where whatever, things are expired or you're not going
to use it or you bought it.
You bought it that one day when you were really hungry.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Now use it.
I mainly ran into this in college, but I'm actually seeing it a little bit more in
adults nowadays and everything.
You want to, you want to, you're frustrated with this, you're frustrated with that okay?
What are you doing to kind of like meet it halfway or counter it or what have you?
Because if you're just sitting there in your hands and complaining, I get it, but that's
not going to really accomplish a lot.
You got to kind of work for these things.
You want to save a couple bucks.
Sometimes you got to work a little harder for it, and that means checking out your fridge
and maybe clearing it out and everything.
That's something you got to do anyway.
So might as well get it out of the way and you might find something for dinner tonight
and save yourself a couple of bucks that way and that all adds up.
I don't know that we hit on anything necessarily groundbreaking, but I think that this collectively
is very helpful and hopefully helps you out there.
Isn't it funny though, the old, I think the old go to on this topic though is don't
shop when you're hungry.
Yeah.
I think everybody just goes there.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's such a good note.
So great place to start for sure.
Terry and I will take a time out.
We'll come back and we're going to wrap up the show Morning Show at WFHR.
Welcome back everybody.
Morning show here at WFHR.
Terry and James hanging out with you, wrapping up the show for the day.
I'm going to take you right to the top of the hour.
Got some fun stuff to get into while we're at it.
I want to jump into our schedule in a moment here, but first we got a belated birthday
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Yes.
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Happy birthday, Bob.
Hope it's a great day.
Yes.
Enjoy the day, Bob.
And thanks a lot for getting us that birthday.
We appreciate it.
We'll mention Bob again tomorrow.
Get that in there one more time.
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A little bit later today during Midday Magazine, we got a great one lined up for you.
In part one, Kathy Brock's going to join us.
We're going to talk about Central Wisconsin's eighth annual campaign for underwear and socks,
the Bobby Sox event.
Looking forward to that.
That's going to be fun.
UW Extension, hopefully, going to be joining us in part two.
We're looking forward to that.
We also, of course, got some other great things going on in our area today as a Thursday.
That means our friends at Focus have their neighborhood meals available that'll be going
on to 2321 West Grand Amnum right here in Wisconsin Rapids.
Meals are served on Thursday, 430 to 545.
Dining room is going to open at about 415.
You can enter through the pantry doors.
Want to send a big shout out to Sparhawk Trucking that is not in my notes.
I'm just doing that personally because I know the story of them opening up their doors
to focus and sharing some of the space over there.
Sparhawk's a great business.
They could use that space.
But they know that it's better used by Focus and that's putting into your community.
That's really well done.
We appreciate them for that and appreciate all of the great volunteers and workers over
there at a part of Focus and doing some great important work in our community.
Again, the community meals are available today over there at 2321 West Grand Amnum.
Get on over there about 4ish and you'll be seated about 430.
Our great friend Pete Revell and four on the floor are going to be added today at the
Central Wisconsin Cultural Center.
Join them every 1st and 3rd Thursday of the month from 2 to 4 over at 2651 East Street
South in Wisconsin rapid.
Donations are accepted for the musicians, otherwise it's free admission and one of the better
musicians you're going to hear and really MCs is Pete.
It's awesome.
Check that out.
They've been doing that for a long time.
Yeah.
That's cool.
Wonderful people over there.
Speaking of wonderful people, our good friends over at Family Natural Foods got a great
presentation going on April 8th at 5 o'clock, Digestive Health and Cleansing.
Learn from the awesome mind of Dr. Tracy, a vital planet.
She will be discussing all things, Digestive Health and Cleansing.
She did such a good job.
They're bringing it back and this is a really fun presentation, a really great opportunity
to learn more about you and your body and asking these things face to face.
Dr. Tracy makes this topic, this topic very organic and natural to talk about.
Encourage you to make time to check out this presentation going on April 8th next Tuesday,
right?
Yeah.
Next Tuesday at 5 o'clock over at Family Natural Foods, 910 West Grand Avenue right here
in Wisconsin Rapids.
And did want to mention, again, a big thank you to Denise from the South of County of
Maine Society for joining us.
Big shout out to them, find out more about Dyson and all the other great pets over there
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And Terry, one of the just touch base with the United Way one more time before we wrap
up today and remind everybody you got such great stuff coming up.
Yeah.
And we've got a lot going on right now.
So I do want to just remind everybody if you bought a calendar raffle ticket from us,
those drawings started on Tuesday.
And so we're announcing those winners every day at 11 a.m. and it is announced on our Facebook
as well as on our website.
So if you bought a raffle ticket, you'll want to pay attention and see if you get drawn
to win.
So that's something cool going on for April.
Also in the month of April, we are doing a book drive for new and gently used children's
books to be given away at our great book giveaway in June.
So if you have books that you'd like to donate, those can be dropped off at 351 Oak Street
here in Wisconsin Rapids, Monday through Friday, 830 to 4.
Also coming up on April 17th is our shred day.
So that is really awesome.
That starts at 9 a.m. at Per Vale Bank.
If you have sensitive documents at home that you'd like shredded, you can do that for
free for a limited amount and then after that, it's a $5 donation per box.
And the donation goes right straight to United Way.
And then you know, James, another cool thing is at the end of the month, we are meeting
with all, this is kind of scary to say this because we've just British.
But we're meeting with our company coordinators that help run the United Way campaign at their
location.
So we'll be meeting with some of those folks to get feedback and input so that when we're
already in the early stages of planning, but as we continue to plan, we have an opportunity
to get feedback from those who are doing the work in the workplaces.
And then last but not least, and I leave at least because nobody likes it.
But tax day is right around the corner.
So you can file your taxes for free by visiting our website, uwac.org, so if you have not
filed your taxes and your household income was $84,000 or less last year, you can file
for free.
Again, visit our website, click on my free taxes and then it's one more click and you
are in mobile friendly, laptop friendly.
So I mean, it really couldn't be easier.
You just need to gather up your documents, you also can start, save and leave it and
come back.
It's such a great feature.
You don't have to do it all in one sitting or maybe you're like, oh, wait a minute.
I did have another W2 or whatever it might be.
So I'm encouraged people to utilize that service that is brought to you absolutely free
by United Way.
It's so easy.
A radio announcer can use it.
Go ahead and check it out.
Everybody does.
I will be you if you use it every year.
I have been less than years.
I've been using it.
Gobble a good stories of the day, one of the touch on before I do again, remind you
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Reach out to them if you need to.
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Be sure to follow them on social media.
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Share their posts on your page.
You just never know who might see it otherwise and help that algorithm get back to where it
should be.
World Good Stories, a 16-year-old in Cleveland named Tyler Soden, saved a woman and two kids
from a house fire on Friday.
He grabbed a ladder and got them all down the roof.
One of the kids was a 10-month-old baby.
Tyler's dad was in home when it happened.
He told the reporter he's proud of his son for stepping up.
I don't know if Tyler broke cure for you.
I don't know.
I'm going to be thinking about a wild story.
Yeah.
I saw that last, over the weekend, I couldn't believe it.
That was incredible.
A small community near Minneapolis has been invaded by dozens of bald eagles, but no
one's complaining.
They think it's great.
State officials say bald eagle numbers in general have been up over the past few years.
Well, we get to told you that.
We got a great announcement.
We've got some by us too.
Yeah, that's awesome.
I just, as you were talking earlier, I have to admit one of them flew over and I just
can't help it.
I know.
I am distracted by them every day.
Well, we were kids.
You know what I mean?
Like, it was rare to see them and now it's just so cool to be able to see them all
this time.
Great show.
Thanks for hanging out, Terry.
