Good morning, Wisconsin. Morning, world. It's a new day. Thanks for kicking it off with us at WFHR.
Want a second shot at that so bad. Welcome to the show, everybody. Good morning,
hope your Monday's treating you. Good got your host, James here. I'm joined by our head of
news. Our co-host Melissa Kay. Good morning. Oh, no. What? I'm here. I'm here. That was being
all there she is. All right. Mel is with us. Good to have you here. And we, of course,
have our head of production. Our co-host Seth Habagger. Good morning and the best listeners and
radio. Thanks for being here, everybody. Let's kick things off the way we like to with our friend
Brittany talking a little Mother Nature. Good morning, Britt. Good morning. I said Mother Nature's
kicking us a little bit right now. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. How was your weekend, Brittany?
It was pretty good. I spoke at the sunshine. I got outside quite often. You know, fixed the car
a little bit. Get some work. Right. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Get to spend some time by the river. My kids
did a little fishing actually this weekend. Oh, nice. Yeah. That's awesome. I did some painting.
Yes. The relaxing painting. Nice. Nice. That's really nice. Set, set painting. Not fun painting.
I mean, that's fun. I enjoyed it. Of course. Good to hear. Brittany, what is it looking like
the next couple of days? I have my weather bingo card right here. I'm just waiting one. I can click.
All right. We've got a few things we can definitely check out that bingo card. So today we've got
blustery, colder temperatures. Temperatures right now are at 31 degrees. So we're below freezing
and you slap the windshield on top of that. It's really feeling about 19 degrees outside right now.
So pretty plump tree. Wins are gusting about 30 to 35 miles per hour out of the north.
It's flinging a few flurries around too. It's, uh, I'm snowing right here in Lausanne at the moment.
We've got those chances throughout the afternoon. No accumulations are expected, but just if you
see some white stuff flying around, don't be surprised. Yeah. But it'll be gone by tomorrow. We've got
a plenty of sunshine tomorrow. High temperatures will be in the low 40s. And then we get a little
bit of a wintry mix Wednesday morning before we warm things up above freezing. They'll turn to
regular rain in the afternoon with highs in the upper 40s. And we just keep climbing. We get warmer
into the low 50s on Thursday mid 50s on Friday. And we are going to be flirting with 70 degrees by
the time we are hitting Sunday. So yeah, corded leather ahead. So let the flurries bother you. All right.
Take it in stride. Yeah. Yeah. That sounds pretty good. Spring in Wisconsin.
Sounds pretty good. We're just going to go right now. We're going to end on that. That's great.
We appreciate you, Brittany. You have a good morning. You too. Thank you. Thanks, Brittany.
Best in the business right there from Brittany. We're low joining us every, um, all day Monday,
all week this week, uh, right in that time slot. We appreciate it. Uh, we got fun things lined up
for everybody. The Elcafe birthday and anniversary club is right, uh, around the corner,
looking forward to that. We'll also be getting into it being National Beer Day. Beer. Uh, we'll
get some stats for you on that one. And we will have a theme of that going into the kitchen's open.
That is correct. More beer talk today. Beth will be joining us around nine. I will be talking to
in the kitchen's open then. And after that, we will have our friend Tom joining us with her monthly
veterans update. Very cool. Very good. Yes. A little bit of entertainment news and some other fun
stuff in the nine o'clock hour. We'll be getting into one of the touch on random things. Everyone
experiences, but never talks about never. We don't talk about that. We don't talk about that. We
don't, we don't talk about. No, no coming up. She's coming up. Nice. Coming up. I hear it a little bit.
We'll get into all that. But right now, one of the most popular tourist attractions in San Francisco
is Lombard Street. The crookedest street in the world. It's this. Um, I actually didn't, um,
ain't not, I, I wouldn't say it was a marathon. Um, I was a part of a run. Okay. A, a, a, a half
K, if you will, uh, around that. And it, the, the object was to run up and run back down. Oh,
on Lombard Street. Okay. Yeah. The people that were with me on the way up were not there the way
down. Like they, they, they were there when I saw them coming back. Yeah. But like it was,
there was, it started out with like 30 or 40 of us maybe, and there was maybe, maybe 20 people
by the way we were coming back down. Um, but it was fun. I thought it was awesome. Like I didn't,
I wasn't trying to like break any times or anything like that. I just wanted to experience it.
And I honestly was drawn there just for this road. Yes. It's a road that we've all seen.
Very famous, you know, the flowers, yeah, all that. So I just wanted to check it out. It's
very cool. Um, but, uh, so this is again, the crookedest street in the world. There's a
street in Philadelphia area that has a new zigzagging pattern. The road itself isn't different,
but the lines were repainted so that the lanes are wavy. I saw pictures of this. It looks ridiculous.
Both the double yellow line in the middle, along with the white edge lines. There's a
sign warning drivers of quote the new pattern. And the idea is that this will quote slow people down.
But the locals are confused. Understandably so. Can just real quick pause. Yeah. You're going to
do this. You're going to try this out. And you choose Philly. You choose Philly, Dalfia.
I mean, shout out to Philly. Nothing against it. Anything like that. Never been there. But I
think that it doesn't matter if you've been there or not two seconds. You do know a couple
things about Philly, Dalfia and people from Philly. Right. I don't know if this was the best idea.
Maybe Des Moines would have been a better chance. You know, choice. Police say neighbors were
complaining about people driving too fast. And apparently this traffic calming measure was the fix.
They say, quote, our traffic engineers have determined that this is the best course of action
for the area to ensure the safety of local residents. Okay. Locals are not impressed.
They're calling it ridiculous. Awkward. Weird. I don't know. I don't do a good Philly accident.
And I saw it close. And even worse, it might not even work. One person says, I mean, right now,
everyone is just driving through the middle of it. Right. I'll just drive straight because the road
itself isn't changed. Just the painted lines. Right. Others have wondered why this was the solution
instead of speed bumps, science, or flashing lights. But it looks like these zigzag is sticking
around at least for now. They're doubling down, basically, which is the new thing that people do.
Nobody admits when they're wrong anymore. Just completely double down and triple down and quadruple
down. I like, I like anytime you're going to try something and see, you know, give it a shot.
See what this can do when it comes to not hurting people, harming or anything like that. And I
think that when it comes to our speed laws and, you know, traffic incidents, you know, they don't
stop. So what can we do to help this? Right. I think that's a great idea. What's happening here in
town with, you know, over over at the school and worrying about the parking lot,
over a meet and everything. And then changing that up so that it's safer for kids. Right.
Like anything we're doing here to try to make things better and safer, I'm going to listen.
This feels like, you know, you get a bunch of people in a room that have never driven before.
And like everybody right on the wall, your ideas, there's no bad ideas. Everybody in like
after like two days of doing this, this is what they came up with. This is all they had.
It doesn't feel, doesn't feel like the greatest idea. No, and I can hear the pitch. Do you guys
remember when we were learning how to drive and they set up the cones in the parking lot and you had
to like maneuver around. Let's do that on the road. But with paint. Yeah. Because then you can't
run over the cones. It feels like how do we slow drivers down? Let's confuse them.
Well, that may work. I mean, yeah, they're going to be going slower because you've never seen anything
here before. It has a shelf life, but I mean, it's worth a shot. They want to just pull more
people over. You were swerving all over the road. Officer, I was following the lines.
So confused. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know about that. Well, actually, I like Melissa's idea.
Maybe go with like standing, like not cones, but like there's those yellow, those yellow or
excuse me, orange poles. But they they're flexible. So they, you know, if you knock them down,
they pop back up again. So if you maybe, maybe people float over those, just drive over them.
Well, no, that's after you. If you accidentally, you're not supposed to hit them.
So I'm wondering if part of this, because I think that the good, there were some good questions
brought up by the community and everything of why they didn't go with the traditional, you know,
speed bumps or speed shelves. Yeah. If you've seen those, yeah. And I think I got it just looking
at the diagram here. This is a lot cheaper. That's true. And cheaper paint is a lot cheaper than
then putting it more cement. And we're constructing the road. Exactly. Yeah. That's true. I imagine
that that's part of it. Budget wise. And, and, you know, I don't know a vehicle that's dexteritous
enough to be able to, and I don't know if that's a word, I'd be able to move around this stuff
or anything. You got to be a point. You got to be Alan Iverson to be able to flip around this
stuff. I don't, which is very good for Philly. I mean, maybe he's called the Alan Iverson in
the road. There we go. There we go. There is no answer. I'm curious to see where this one
goes. Yeah. I'm definitely going to be following along on that side. Besides being, you know,
being laughed at all. All the morning shows, you know, do that's right. Oh, can you imagine what
they're saying in Philadelphia about this? I want to know what their morning shows are doing.
Oh boy. Because we're just laughing about it. They're, they're, I'd be, I guarantee you believe
that people are calling in. There is no way you can convince me that they're like, you know,
what? This is cool. There's no way. No way that Philadelphia's are being that way.
I wanted to wrap up the open monologue here on a good note. And I think this is a pretty cool one.
I came across this this weekend. So for those that have already heard about this out there,
this may be old news to you. But this comes to us from the good news network.org. You can check
it out yourselves. Good news network.org. Just head on over there and check out this awesome
article about the headline. A treetop walkway perched above zoo animals in Minnesota is winning a
wards and hearts. What? This thing is amazing. There is no better way to observe and enjoy wildlife
than when you are above it, like almost a bird's eye view. Wow. And they're hoping to create these
conditions at the Minnesota Zoo. The administration has converted an old monorail track into a pedestrian
walkway that's winning awards. Wow. Did I bring all of this up so I could reference the Simpsons
monorail episode and do a bunch of bits with that. No, no, but only because it didn't work. I just
couldn't get my computer down. It opened in 2023. The treetop trail was recently called the best
specialty construction of the year by engineer news record. Wow. The treetop trail gives guests
year-round access to hundreds of acres of hardwood forest, ponds and marshes, and the diverse wildlife
that call Minnesota home while simultaneously providing new new perspectives on many zoo
animals, including tigers, moose and bison. How about that? Opened in 1978 with a completed
monorail in 79, the Minnesota Zoo would eventually decommission its overhead transport line in 2013,
leaving the rusted track and platforms to do little more than just shade visitors. Snow,
crecolic, architects and PCL construction turned the monorail into the world's longest elevated
pedestrian treetop walkway. Wow. That's awesome. What a great idea. Measuring eight feet of the
entire length, it has several platforms that stretch far from the main concourse and which allow
visitors to gaze down at the large enclosures containing flagship species. Wow. And it is just
beautiful. Now in Chicago, they did something kind of similar with this where they built a walkway
and pathway area so that you can enjoy some of the city life with a little nature. And it's great for
walkers, joggers, a lot of that. This is a bit more ambitious and a little, you know, cooler.
It's a very, like some of the pictures I'm seeing and everything, I want to go check it out right
now. Yeah, it's really, and I just realized I remember the monorail when I went to the Minnesota Zoo
when I was a kid, because that was right in the time that did, and now I didn't even realize
they've got rid of it. It's been that long. But wow, that is a, that's a great reuse of something
that was, I mean, it's, it's there anyway, and you don't want to have to just demolish it,
because we know what's the point of that. Just reuse it. Wow. Great idea. That's cool. Yeah.
I was going to say, so I, one of the few personal conversations I actually had with Conan O'Brien,
I worked there for about a, you know, almost a year, but I didn't really have a lot of one-on-one
with him or anything like that. We were all in a writing room and he's in, he's out, he's busy,
all that. But I did make sure that before I left to thank him for the opportunity and for the
monorail episode that he wrote for the census. So his idea was, that was his, his written episode
and everything. Do I need to take that back? Did he steal that idea from Minnesota's park here
and everything? No, I think, no, no, no. Yeah, probably did. But still, no, like the idea, yes.
I love this, I love this. I want to check this out real bad and encourage you to check on all
your local zoos. We've got our own Wisconsin-Rapism Municipal Zoo. This is going to be opening up
real soon, everybody. Yeah. Check out that and support your zoos. We will take a time out and we'll
come back with our own zoo. The morning zoo show. Yes, yes. It's time to do some celebrating with
our great friends over at El Caffe and the birthday and anniversary club. We encourage you
tomorrow to head on over there to El Caffe. They'll be back open and ready for you for the week
tomorrow. So go ahead and, right now, I think a good idea would be to go to El Caffe WI.com,
El Caffe WI.com. Check out their menu, get some plans, and then be prepared to let them all go
when you see their new special amazing specials. Yeah. A big shout out to our friends over at El Caffe.
Not only with that great menu and the amazing prices that they make affordable for people and
families to be able to go there and everything, but so many different things that they do in this
area, whether it's helping raise funds for locals or the story time with Kathy McGrath or any of
these cool things that they're doing over there. I feel hesitant to call them a restaurant.
There's so much more than that. It's yeah. But they are definitely a restaurant and they are one
of the better ones you're going to find everybody. Man, this is what you hope you see with
community businesses is that it's about, you know, they got to make a living, of course, but
it's about the community. It's about how to make the surrounding area as good as it can be
and man, are they good at that there? Oh, and Shadeel said that that was what, you know, he wanted to do
when he did end up opening it as to make the community center a place where people can gather
and sit and enjoy each other's company and build up the community. That's right. Well done, fed up.
I think you can, you can do about, check that margin. You did. I think you did. We appreciate
our friends over their head. I'm over there tomorrow to 21 Market Avenue and Beautiful Port Edwards
and get us those birthdays and anniversaries. We love celebrating with you. You can email us info
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we'd love to hear from you. And we got two possible qualifiers today. Seth, I need a one or a two.
Two. All right. Give us the qualifier. And that was good. The first name on our list, we wish a
very happy birthday. The kick off the week to Jay putter. Happy birthday, Jay. Happy birthday, Jay.
Enjoy the day. They, Jay, Jay. That's tough. Yeah. The Jay day. It's a good one for you. It's
Jay day. It's gonna be, it's gonna be that Monday. If you couldn't tell from the opening intro,
it's gonna be that kind of Monday. And we also want to wish a happy birthday to our qualifier Ron Bone.
Happy birthday, Ron. Oh, stereo. It's a good name. Yeah, it's a real good name. A couple of great
names to kick off the week. Thanks a lot for getting us those everybody in the shout out to Jay
and Ron and Ron. You're a qualifier today. Yeah, congratulations. We take a look at our celebrity list,
Tiki and Ron D. Barber are 50. Wow. Man, I forgot they were twins. Yeah. I knew they were brothers,
but I totally forgot they were twins. Oh, man. Great athletes. Great athletes. I did okay. That's
why I haven't heard of. Yeah, you were talking about. I actually expected to see them more in doing
more commute talk talk. But I feel like they kind of got into that early and more and more
voices have come up that I don't mean to be a jerk, but are better. And there's a lot of former
athletes. Yeah. And now every former athlete is looking at this as they're, you know, 401k,
the retirement plan. Yeah, you get their podcast out there, right? It's interesting to think of
how competitive it is and most of us see the stats of how many high school kids go on to college.
How many college athletes go on to the pros and that and everything. I wonder what the stats
will be of the pro athletes that stay in sports and that are able to stay in sports. Because I
think I you could make the argument. It's almost just as competitive if not more to after your
playing career. Yeah. If you want to stay as a commentator or a talking head or anything like that
in the business because there's so many people that are trying to do that. Right. And there's only
so many jobs. Right. There's only basically two sports networks. Okay, but I'm more interested
to know how many twins there are in sports that play the same sports. You know, that would be
interesting. Good question. Yeah. That's an excellent question. And the fact that they were born
five weeks premature. Whoa. Oh, I didn't know that. Didn't know that one. Wow. Holy cow. They were
both very good too at at what they did. And identical. And handsome as the day is long. Yeah,
they're both very good looking. Yeah. Definitely handsome. Bill Bellamy is 60 former MTV VJ and
tried acting a little bit, but he was a standout comedian mostly. Very good. Russell Crowe is 61.
Wow. Yeah. Yeah. It's a good actor. He's good actor. Yeah, yeah. He is. He's he's he's he's he'll take
yourself so seriously muscle. He's a diva. You know, but I mean, it's his birthday. I'll just move on.
He's instance. He's fine. Yeah. I would much rather spend time on Jackie Chan. It was 71 today.
Whoo. Jackie Chan. Wow. That man is just fantastic. Yeah. Just mentioned him last week that maybe
one of the last acting chances we're going to see from him because he's pretty much retired. He
has. Yeah. He knew he warned us that he was going to do this when he couldn't do his own stunts
anymore. That's right. That was when he knew he wouldn't he was going to retire. But he is in
the new. He's got a big part in the new karate kid legends. It looks like they're trying to
combine all the karate kid universes and everything and I don't know. I don't know. I haven't watched
it since the first one, but to be honest with you, but I don't mind the franchise. I think it's
cool. And I love that they're incorporating people like Jackie Chan as well as the old like
Ralph Machio and some of that. Sure. And that TV show, man. That TV like over. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
That's very popular. My goodness. Huge. Are they popular? Yeah. Let's take a call quick. Good.
Morning. You're on the air. Good morning. I have another birthday. Jeff Stoner who used to live
here. I'm a scum. Rapids and work with us at the radio station. Oh, yeah. That's right. He
birthday. Jeff. Down in Texas now. Yes. Yeah. We want to wish Jeff a very happy birthday.
One of the rap with that one, Pam. You just say. Oh, no. No, no, no. I appreciate that. I thought
maybe I forgot to put it on the list. Nope. You got it on here. You're the best. Of course,
you got it. Yeah. Awesome. Thank you, Pam. We'll see you, Pam. We'll see you soon.
Yeah. I was going to rap there, but I will say Jeff worked here for a very, very long time.
This community, the businesses out here know, Jeff, one of the better sales people that we've had
here in our history at WFHR, but just one of the better people. Like a good guy. Very cool.
I have a hard time believing it in a way out there. Can't agree with me. Is that his real name,
by the way, Stoner? Yes. I love that. That's great. Great name. That's great. That's a real name.
Got an all great names. Yeah. A lot of great names. Jackie Chan 71. Happy for 71 first to him.
One of the greatest. I have to say he had a really remarkable career. We never got to see,
you know, him in American movies at his peak when he was making movies over in what Hong Kong,
I think it was. Yeah. But he's still he's I mean, like second only, maybe to Bruce Lee of having
that kind of international star. Yeah. From from really obscurity kind of things. Great. Yeah.
Tony Dorst said to 71 NFL Hall of Famer. I forgot and running back. Tony is. Yeah. I don't know if
he did at one point have the longest run from scrimmage in NFL history. I believe it's I think
it's still because it was 99 yards. So I think you can only tie it. You can only tie it. John Oates is
77 Hall and Oates legend. Tom is a lot of hits for Hall and Oates. Yes. A lot of hits.
Francis for Coppola is 86, one of the greater directors of all time. Yep. The Godfather,
part two apocalypse now. The outsiders rumblefish. Oh, the cotton club. The brand Storker's Dracula.
Make a lot of this. Oh, wait, no one like that. I don't know. Peggy Sue got married.
It's odd. You see all these big, you know, the outsiders rumblefish to cotton club. Yeah. Peggy Sue
got married. The dry brand Storker's Dracula. That's interesting. Yeah. Fantastic director.
And one of the things I give him credit for not only with that, that bomb of Megalopolis,
he put his own money in it. Yeah. And it made it himself and wanted it that way and owned the fact
that he might not understand what audiences want anymore. That he got that like all these directors,
even many ones that I look up to, just cannot seem to get out of their own way and just
whine and complain about modern audiences and modern filmmaking and superhero movies and blah,
blah, blah, blah. And Francis for Coppola, one of the few along Christopher Nolan and a couple
of others who come out and said, look, thank you. You're getting people to want to come to theaters.
You're getting people to want to come to movies. You know, for every person who goes to see a
superhero movie, they see a poster for something else. Right. And end up wanting to maybe come back
and see it or something like that. Or they see a trailer for it in the beginning of the superhero
movie and make some want to go see it when it comes out on video or something like that or download
or whatever. You got it. I appreciate that. I mean, he's the movie he wanted to make and he made
it. And that's, hey, that's great. I love it. The fact that he could do that. Some people no longer
with us, like James Gardner born in 1928, passed away in 2014, Jim Rockford and the Rockford files.
Before that, he was Brett Maverick in the Maverick TV show. Great actor. Spokesman for beef.
Oh, that's right. That's right. Yeah. And of course, his, I believe, is not his last role,
but one of his last roles in the notebook. Yes, that's right. And one of his more, one of his
better performances, man, that movie. And and Ravi Shakur, born in this day in 1820, passed away in
2012 on official Godfather of Indian music. Yep. And the actual father of Nora Jones. Yes.
That is correct. He taught so many in the 60s. He taught so many guitarists for, especially
British bands, how to play sit tar. I mean, even just for that, you got to give him credit.
You got to improve it for that. And intracold to the Beatles and to many other artists of
the time and stones and a few others. Yeah. Yeah, I think you can, yeah, I think you can make
the argument. You mentioned him earlier, so that maybe that's why I'm thinking of it. But what
Bruce Lee did with martial arts in America and and two people who were not a of Asian culture.
Right. I think Ravi did a little of that with with Indian music. Yeah. Absolutely. He did.
Yeah. Really opened it up for the whole world on everything. That's yeah, that's groundbreaking.
Yeah. You thought of that before, but that's a really good one. Yeah. Everybody out there,
happy birthdays, anniversaries to all of you celebrate. We wish you the best of days and joy.
And if you got a birthday anniversary coming up, get it to us. Everybody we love celebrating with
we do shout out to L Cafe sponsor in this segment. We appreciate them. Head on over there
tomorrow at 221 Market Avenue and beautiful Port Edwards. We'll be back with more fun coming
up on the morning show. Good morning and welcome back to the morning show. Everybody here at WFHR.
Melissa Seth and James hanging out with you. Thanks for being here. We're going to talk about
national beer day. Got some stats to go along with it in a moment. But first we're I brought
this up earlier today and I wanted to get to it, you know, our weekend and in no Melissa, you had a
pretty busy busy weekend along with a lot of cities in our country. Yeah. There were protests that
took place all over the country, but there were a lot of them in Wisconsin. I've seen postings,
Manitawak, Union Grove, of course here in Wisconsin Rapids over in Stevens Point. And there were
more I believe than just what were actually organized, you know. Wow. Yeah. It's the hands-off
is was the name of the protest that took place all across the country. And that is an actual
like organization where they're promoting peaceful protests. They have certain, you know,
like guidelines for people to follow. And, you know, it was just it was really interesting to see
everybody just get out in the street. These were these were bigger protests. More people turned out
for this than in 20, I believe it was 2017 for the women's march. Wow.
There are millions of people who were out in the streets over on Saturday. Wow, amazing.
Always in favor of a peaceful protest and appreciate what they do with that organization. And
I think it's noteworthy to one of the things that stood out to me about this is how many people
that were there wasn't anything necessarily political about this as far as, you know,
representing a certain party or anything like that. I saw representation from both parties
in a lot of this. And I think that that is noteworthy when it comes to this along with the idea of
people taking their Saturday to do this. Right. And is there a little bit of joke in that yes,
but it's also a note to this to the point of this right in everything. And how important it was
to all of us and to people in particular that were at this event. Yeah. And the variety of
issues that people were were speaking out about, you know, VA benefits for obviously women's rights.
Keep your hands off my body. LGBTQ plus rights. But also things saying, you know,
deport Elon Musk, no kings in America. Right. So the social security, right?
Medicare, Medicaid, social security, colleges. I mean, there is pretty much just about everything.
No tariffs. Right. Don't don't don't tariff on me.
Those are great signs too. I got to say there were some great signs. Yes, there were some.
Honestly, my favorite has to be, I'm so angry I made this sign. That was that was my favorite.
My favorite was so many issues. So little cardboard. Yes. That's some multiples of that one as well.
I saw one that was even introverts are coming out. Yes, it's so bad. Even introverts are here.
That's pretty good. Yes. Love the creativity. It's great. Can I can I I want to make something
really clear on the air here because this is not going to be the last time this is going to come
up or anything like that. When I talk about the sad clown from out of this country, the Elon
guy and everything, there's nothing political about this. He was not voted in. He did not run for
office. No, he did not. He does not said he's a Republican or Democrat or even an American
for the matter. As a side note from South Africa. So when I'm talking about him, there's nothing
necessarily about that that I'm talking about. I'm talking about a wannabe troublemaker.
A wannabe tough guy. A wannabe different guy. Whatever he is. A wannabe genius. He's a wannabe
genius. It doesn't take a lot of digging to see that he has not created anything. He has
worked with people who have created things. That's right. But he has not himself created anything.
He is a wannabe genius. He is a wannabe. A lot of things. When I'm talking about him,
there's nothing political about it. It's about him and the sad human being that he is and how he has
to take out that on everybody else. Imagine being as rich and powerful as he is and you're still
that unhappy. You're still that you still want to hurt people that badly. That says a lot about,
you know, I think really done his own power. Melissa, was there anything else that you want to
touch on from that? Well, just to echo your point there, I think Wisconsinites as a whole also
agree that we don't want him interfering in our elections. We don't want him here to, like,
no, go away. You're not welcome. And this is where, you know, because we really work very hard
at this show from the from the moment I got in this chair today and as long as I'm in this chair,
forever along that last, worked very hard to give you guys a break from politics, a break from
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And where else are you going to hear us be able to talk about beer? Come on. Beer.
We got two segments put aside today with the kitchen's open in this one. Come on.
Today is National Beer Day. And if you're a beer drinker, you can celebrate but picking up an
expensive four pack of double IPAs. No, I'm joking. They're not cheap. Just just understand
this. And I say this with love to anybody out there that likes IPAs and all that.
If you are going to get an IPA, understand that you are going to hear the description of that beer
in its entirety before you drink it. Yes. You would go. You're good. You just understand that.
Nobody ever did that hand in somebody a meal or like. No, no. But you see what they did when they
made this meal. Because you don't need an explanation for colored water. That's cool. Now,
that's cool. Yeah, that's why I would say any way beer is just dirty water. You aren't far off.
You're not far off. The website visual capitalist recently crunched the numbers on the average
prices of 24 packs of beer across the country. The state with the cheapest case of beer is
Illinois. Really? Wow. I don't get to shout that very often. And you have to do it about beer.
That's funny. That's it. That's certainly not going to be able to do it all its sports.
The average price is $16.43. Wow. That's pretty good. That is surprising since you'd think
these states with the bigger cities would be more expensive. But that was just the case.
Good luck getting a beer and a bar and down down like off a state street or something like that.
A wild course. Yes. That would be taking a more inch. South Carolina was second cheapest
followed by New York State, Rhode Island, Kansas, Michigan, North Carolina, Arizona, Connecticut,
and Virginia. Wow. Alaska was the priciest with the average being $33.63. Don't
great where you needed the most. Right. Wyoming was second followed by Hawaii, Montana,
Tennessee, Vermont, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington. Okay. So the West Coast. So
if you're going out west, don't get beer. Order something else. Lots of wine out there. That's
out in California. So that's what you want to drink there. The drinking I did do when I was out
west and everything involved a lot of IPA. So it was actually even more expensive, I think.
Oh goodness. So what about, of course, Wisconsin? Where does Wisconsin ring on this list?
Well, they're they're they're only give you the top 10. But Wisconsin's average price was $19.62.
Okay. Right. It's in the middle somewhere. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Sounds about right.
Didn't correct the top 10, but probably crop top 15. Yeah. It looks like just a blazing over
this and everything. And I don't I don't know if that's surprising or shocking or you know,
what you'd expect because I don't know. This subject is just kind of interesting. This is interesting
because if you're buying who buys, but you're by the case. I mean, lots of people. I mean, I
guess a lot of people do grocery store. That's true. That's true. But everyone who just turned 21.
Yeah. Got my natural light. Should they make it a 21 pack? Milwaukee best. The Milwaukee best.
Oh lord. Red dog. Oh no. Red dog. Oh, I'm just saying stuff that you drink when you were 21.
That's true. That's true. Yeah. Was it cheap? That's right. You didn't go into the store like,
you know, I want this so much. No, where's the prices? Yeah, right exactly. Where's my
natty lights? Right? Yeah. You get a 50 case for two bucks of my 30 can brick red,
white and blue. Yeah. I know all the beer brands. I know. I'm sure you do. I went to high school
at Wisconsin. I know. It's interesting. It's interesting list. I don't know. I don't know what
you really do with this other than maybe avoid, you know, binge drinking in Alaska. Yeah, don't
do that. Yeah. It sucks to turn 21 in Alaska, apparently. Well, you need to drink, you know,
like the local stuff like blubber whiskey or whatever they, whatever they make up there. I love
I want that as a blubber. Yeah, whatever they drink in Alaska. What a whiskey. We got to talk
to the Inuit people. What do they drink for, you know, for their alcohol? You know, it's probably
some form of need. Probably because that's very easy to make at home. Yeah. And it's a hearty
drink that doesn't require a still. That's true. Yeah. Good point. That is interesting.
What's your, what's your go-to beer? Go ahead and let us know everybody. We'd love to hear from
you. Go ahead. Nothing light. Well, we've heard from Melissa on this one. Yeah. Feel free. No, I like
Porter's stouts and IPAs. My beers got to have flavor if I'm going to drink it. Well, those all
do have a pretty good flavor. Yeah. Unless it's free at a wedding, then I'll drink Miller. There you
go. There you go. Yeah. I'm pretty much a Miller-like guy. But I, I, um, in October, when they come up
with that blue moon, that one, blue moon, I do like that one. That was a tasty beer. It's got
like an October kind of thing feeling to it or whatever tastes to it. We will take a time. We'll
come back and we'll have some more fun. Morning show on WFHR.
Welcome back everybody. Morning show here at WFHR. Melissa, Seth and James hanging out with you.
Hope you're having a good one out there. We were just, in our last, I'm going to talking about it
being National Beer Day. Well, the other day, it was National Handmade Day. Our Hand Made Day.
Handmade Day. Right. Which celebrates the effort and dedication to handcrafted artsy and crafts.
Nice. Not handmade in. No, no. That was on it. Made by hand. Yes. Got it. Okay. It was very
confused. Especially, I think last week we talked about the handmaid. We did. It's coming back.
Yeah. I apologize. Very confusing. It's hard to imagine anyone not appreciating a handwritten
letter. And yet, you're far more likely to get a DM on social media or a thumbs up emoji text.
A recent poll asked, when did you last write a handwritten personal letter?
Nine percent of people say that they have written one in the past month, which was the most
recent option. Another 21 percent said that they have written one in the past year and another
26 percent say that they're pretty sure they've written one in the past decade.
26 percent of people say it's been longer than a decade and 5 percent claim they've never written
a personal letter. Oh, geez. If that isn't crazy enough, 20 percent of Gen Z years between the
ages of 18 and 24 said that they've never written a personal letter. And it was also the most
popular answer. By comparison, only 2 percent of people 50 years or older say that they've never
written a handwritten letter. But even that is shocking. I actually think that that is more shocking.
The 2 percent of 50 plus that have never written a handwritten letter than the Gen Z years.
Yeah. Gen Z years, I think we all saw that coming as soon as the topic came up. I feel like
you could see that coming around the corner. It's surprising both my children have written
handwritten letters to people. So that's that they, I could check them off that list. So
I know my kids have. And they were thank you notes, but they've written they've
at least had written handwritten letters and stuff. I would say it's been at least has been in the
last year that I've written a handwritten letter and mailed it. I will say that. It's not been
it's been longer than that for me. For me, it's been more than a decade. It has to have been
because I just can't remember. Unless it includes like the little thank you note that I send with my
rent every month. That is a count. Sorry. I'm going to be a letter man. Yeah. Yeah. What constitutes
a letter? What is the definition? It has to be like four or five sentences as I wonder. I'm
actually curious about that. Well, I think it has to be up on my own. Right. Yeah. I would say,
because if it's like on a card, I always think of that as a note. Yeah. That's not a letter.
I mean, you could have like letter type stuff in it, but it's a note, you know, to say things
are going good, that kind of stuff. But a letter is like a letter, you know? You're actually going more
dear James. Right. As I sit here in my kitchen thinking about life as a tarot fashion.
Was it cold in stormy morning? Yeah. So that's a great interesting part of this and everything.
And I don't think any of this is that surprising to anybody. But what I like doing here is bringing
up is, um, so we, uh, Terry and I, we have an extra cast member. Oh my god. Was that the ghost
in the machine? That was the ghost of the machine. That was the ghost of the machine. My phone started
making noises. Um, I was hoping it was something more darker than the other. Yeah. We're
interesting than that. Oh god. She's speaking a different version. Um, it make it an interesting show.
Yeah. We were segment ratings. I mean, the world is coming to an end, but we want our ratings.
I would I bring what I think bringing this up does hopefully is similar in some ways to,
you know, Terry Johnson. I have been talking a couple of weeks about getting books and, you know,
helping kids continue reading during summer. They've got a couple of great programs on that. We'll
be talking more about it. But we do all this because kids aren't reading as much as they used to.
And, you know, there's a great effort being made towards that,
of keeping kids literate and how important literacy is. Yeah. Um, should we be doing more about this?
Should we be making more like, uh, what about any, I know, there's a million
cereals out there. There's a million kid shows out there and everything. What about more of these
shows, you know, encouraging kids? Hey, kids, I want you to grab a piece of paper and write a note
right now or something along those lines. Right. Um, now I, I don't know about you guys. I make
myself, uh, especially when it comes to my stories. Now anything I'm doing for work here,
everyone's an all out of writing pencil. But for the most part of this on my laptop.
But if I'm writing a poem or a story, I make myself right, like actually pencil and notebook
paper. Wow. And I'm writing, uh, I still do it to this day in part because I don't want to lose
cursive. I don't want to lose my writing. Yeah. I already write that enough.
Uh, but also there's, there's something to me that I like, I like doing. Um, I, I, I will admit
that I grew up kind of in my head romanticizing the Quill and Penn stuff and everything. And
I think that that stuff's cool. Um, I, I'd like to see us kind of incorporating some of that back.
Like I understand, you know, convenience, time, you're not gonna, when you can send, when things
are so time sensitive, you're not going to send a handwritten letter. I get that. Um, but when
you can, when it isn't time sensitive, what would be the harm in encouraging the younger generation
to do more of this? And actually, you know, not to, I hate to say make them, but like our parents
did many times with the encourage made the courage is about a way to put it. Yeah. Yeah. It's because
it's because often a lot of their connections like you don't have pen pals necessarily not really
anymore. Yeah. That you did. I've seen it a little bit with like texting chains or things like
that. Um, but yeah, you don't have a pen pal that you write to that lives in another part of the
world. Right. Right. I don't see the downside. You know, I really don't see the negative to this.
You made a great point, James. It's like, it's something you don't use. You're going to lose, right?
If you don't keep working on it, you're not going to, you know, know how to do it. So what?
And the one that's something that's a nice thing to have. And every five seconds, you're hearing
somebody complaining about the younger generation and their heads and tablets and their heads and
well, here you go. Get them out of it. Yeah. I'm hearing. Maybe they'll enjoy it. Who knows?
They keep in mind. They learned it from watching you. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, dad, yeah.
That commercial actually would work really good nowadays. We're just the internet. We're just
they're not a phone. Same commercial. They just splice in a phone instead. Um, it's, it's funny,
but it's true. Yeah. If you want kids to get their heads out of their phone,
you want kids to write a letter or something like that. When's the last time you did it? Yeah,
right. That's a good point. Yeah. They learn from. Yeah. Yeah. Actually,
it's also down to write a letter. It's go fishing, apparently. I broke up my tackle box for the
first time in 25 years. How did it smell? Yeah. One thing I'm seeing that I am seeing whether
it's our generation or the one right above us or anything like that that is getting a little
tired to me and wearing very thin is this idea of there's a problem. And I'm doing nothing
about it, but I'm complaining or I don't blame the next generation. Yes. Yes. I don't like this.
And how dare this happen to the younger generation? Blah, blah, blah. What are you doing about it?
What are you doing other than barking? Sitting in complain. Yeah. Yeah. Where are your solutions?
How are you working to try to make things better? Where is your job? Reach it out to them. Maybe,
I don't know. Where's the positive on this? Because nothing gets done without a little bit of
positive and nobody responds well to being barked at. If you want to get something done,
chances are you got to do it on your own levels first. You got to start with your own house. And
if you want kids to write more, make them write letters, make them make more things in the house of,
you know, writing them out. Exactly. Even if it's just simple things. Yeah. Just a set inside
here. I don't see the, again, downside to it. No. Also,
maybe cramp in your wrist. Yeah. I have a permanent callus on my ring finger on my right hand.
Yeah. Oh my god. We have one right now. We will take a quick time out. We'll come back with
the kitchens open. It's kicking off the 9 o'clock hour and we'll have a monthly veterans update
coming up on the morning show. This is locally grown radio WFHR 1320 AM W24 A.D.E.
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