Phil Staying Anodyne (Hour 1)

Good morning, Wisconsin. Morning, world. It's a new day, and thanks for kicking it

off with us at WFHR.

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

Melissa K. Good morning. Our head of production, our co-host, Seth Habagger.

Good morning, in studio. I was going to say, why don't you ever say he's in studio.

It's just a given. That's all. I'm always here. We share this place.

And of course, the best listeners in radio. Thanks for being here, everybody. Let's kick things

out the way we like to with our good friend, Brittany Merlot. Brittany, you brought the sunshine again.

Oh, you got some? You're lucky. A little bit. A little bit right now. We'll take you. We'll take you.

Okay, not because there is none in WFHR at this moment, and I just know we're going to be cloudy

for a good chunk of today. So I'm glad you have some because the light results and sprinkles are

going to be moving in by this afternoon, probably after lunch or so, and they kind of stick with us

through this evening as well. Now, the good news is I think our temperatures are going to stay

warming up overnight, but no flurries or spotty snow will mix in there. But tomorrow morning,

we still have a chance of some drizzle. Then we're going to stay mostly cloudy through the day,

but high temperatures still pretty comfortable. We're going to hit 50 today. We'll hit 50 tomorrow,

the skies will clear, the sun will return, and for Friday, we're going to be into the mid-50s,

starting that warm-up into the weekend. Woo, thattern day looks fantastic. It's going to be the

best day. Highs at about 60 degrees, mostly sunny, very calm and comfortable. And then Sunday,

we get to hold onto that for most of the day, but we do have a chance of scattered showers and

some storms possibly into Sunday night, and that continues into our Monday as well. But the heat

doesn't stop. I mean, we're still hitting the mid-60s on Sunday, and again, on Monday too.

I can't wait to not wear jacket anymore. I'm ready to put it in the closet and pack it away.

That sounds awesome. You are so brave. I don't know if I'm ready to do that yet or not.

In my office, I have my snowsuit. I have not put my snowshovel away yet. You're welcome.

You never know. Got my moon boots all ready to go.

You appreciate you, Brittany. You have a great morning. You too, thanks. Thanks, Brittany.

Best in the business right there, joining us every morning, right in this time slot.

We got a bunch of good things coming up for you, everybody. We're going to have the L Cafe,

birthday and anniversary club right around the corner. A little bit later, we're going to get into

the Quality Plus printing. We could also wear to Wednesday. We could also.

Phil Hartley will be joining us. We're going to talk about the de-hooterizing of hooters.

That's the weirdest state. That wasn't a word before, but it is now.

Just got to look at that one. They're not going to have any more owls there.

We'll kick off the 9 o'clock hour with some fun. We're going to have our Girl Scout

cookie tasting test. Yes. Actually, cookies eaten actually in this studio. Yes. Yes.

We're going to drag Lauren here to help out with that. It's going to be a lot of fun.

A lot of crunching going on. A lot of crunching. I will do my best to get as few chewing sounds

on the airwaves as possible. The most hated sound for James. We'll have some entertainment news

for you as well. Before we wrap up, we got to get into this one right here. What's an old person

habit you've adopted because it's actually a really good idea. Hey, we'll get into that one.

The wisdom of old people. I want to start off the show telling you to go somewhere else. No.

Take us with you. American Heroes Cafe is going on right now. Everybody going on till 9.30

over at Crossview Church right here in Wisconsin. This is all for all veterans, military,

police, and firefighters. You are welcome. Spread the word about this event and make sure that we

get all of our friends over there having a good time and hanging out. Yeah. That's a great event.

Hoping they're having a good morning as well. We've got a couple of places here.

And for the in-studio crew, I ask you to look at the screen because we got to get into this one.

There's visual components of this one, which is always great for radio. Well done, James.

Several mountains in China are having escalators added to their side so people will with

mobility issues, older folks, and quite honestly lazy people can get to the top to see the view

without having to hike up them. It's like having a gondola style lift, but it's a little

it's a little escalator, which makes some sense. Gondola would just shoot straight up,

which escalators allow for multiple places. Right, right. Yeah. I'm going to show the

gang here a little bit of a video of this. Wow. Oh my goodness. That's a really huge mountain.

That's impressive. Oh my god. That is a huge mountain.

The local reaction has been mixed. Some say it's great with that these experiences are more

accessible. And others say it takes the quote fun out of hiking up the mountains.

Naturally, these escalators are very expensive for mountain resorts to install. And they're also not

for the faint of heart. No. If the escalator, you know, if any escalator is ever, you know,

intimidated you. And this is relatively, you know, a relatively new thing. It's unclear what

happens when these outdoor escalators break down, especially if they stop working midday or midway.

Right. It's stuck halfway up. Yeah. They do have stairs. Halfway down. I mean, yeah, you can,

you can just walk down the stairs. But if you have mobility issues and you're counting on being,

you know, just like zoomed up there. So, uh, right. A impressive feat. I gotta say it is. It is.

Like, first off, I think it's impressive just the building of this. Right. You know,

just that alone, which just takes a figuring it all out. Yeah.

That's so I, as somebody who, I mean, grew up in a construction family and just a loves

architecture, I cannot tell you how much more I want to look into this one and just the building

of it itself. And for the audience at home that hasn't seen this, this isn't like your, uh,

mall escalator, your single escalator that goes up or whatever and everything. They've got two

right next to each other. One goes up and one goes down. It looks like.

So imagine just the designing of this. Like, the human ingenuity. Yeah. Why do I keep using that word

when I have such a trouble with it? Uh, right word. It's, uh, it's such a, uh, interesting thing there.

Now, my, my question for you guys for our audience, uh, would you do this? What do you think of this?

Do you think this is fair? I have to say for me, I like climbing and I love the idea of mountain

climbing. I haven't gotten to do a lot of it. Um, but I've done a little bit of it. To me,

I would want to do this, uh, I would want to hike it myself, like, um, quote, unquote normal, uh,

before I would take the escalator. Mm-hmm. But after I've done it once, I got no problem taking

that escalator a million times. But I would have to be able to say that I did it like, and I would

probably be telling everybody up and down the escalator, you know, I've done this before.

Yeah. I climbed this before they put these on. Oh, I like the idea of, because it's in sections.

It's not like one long. No, and there's, there's pauses and part of the way and you can stop and

you can enjoy the view and you can continue on. So you could take part of it walking and part of

it on the escalator if you wanted. You could do both. Uh, so I mean, if you, you want to take a ride

for a point, and you know that one of the things I just thought of is, you know, riding up, you get

to get more of the view right while you're, because you're not actually concentrating on climbing

and missing your stash or something like that. Yeah. So you can actually watch it while you're

going out, which would be pretty cool, because the view is woo. Yeah. Amazing. My goodness. And where

I am at right now in my, um, let's just say fitness level, there is no way I can climb a mountain.

I mean, like devils lake might be difficult right now. So just being real, just being real.

This, I would, I would do this. Does it, you know, like visually looking at the mountain now,

does it kind of impact the beauty of the mountain? Well, yeah, absolutely. It's got a giant

constructed, uh, escalator going up it. And some of the negative comments on there, this is not a

mall. Um, yeah, true. And it takes away from the beauty of the mountain. I mean, those things are

true. But, um, also like how many things have humans done to this planet? And, and, and, and, and

you know, we've got our footprint is here. It's not going away. And there's more than that mountain

in China. Mm hmm. When I, uh, when I got to, uh, when I was living out in California, we went to

the top of the mountains and it was one of the coolest experience I had. But on the way up there,

we had to take a break because it was just, you know, it's such a journey and everything we drove

up there. Uh, so we weren't even hiking. We needed the break because of the altitude and some of

that, the out of the air. So we step out to take a breath. And I'm looking at the, uh, the,

the cliffs off the bluffs and everything. And it's so beautiful. And then I see all these

million dollar houses, just, just hanging off the bluffs and everything. And it just, it, it,

it looked really, it took away so much from me. Yeah. Um, I can see that. Uh, when I first got to

California and I'm looking out at the ocean and I'm, I'm calling up my brother to tell my maid

it okay and, uh, the view and I'm looking out there and I'm not looking for more than a minute

and I'll send it to the oil tanker, oil tanker. Like it's just kind of, uh, just to your point,

Melissa, the romance, you know, it goes away. Yeah. Yeah. If the, and honestly, I, and I don't

know how this sounds, but if one, uh, senior wanted to do this, worth it. We're, we've never got to do

this before. How many people have worked their entire lives just to get to retirement and then

their bodies fail them. Yeah. And they can't do the things they wanted to do. And they can't do

the things they wanted to do because they had to work their whole dang life to get to that point

to be able to relax and enjoy and, and look at the view. Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah, I agree. I

think that that's a great thing. Climb a mountain. Use an escalator. Go for it. Every mountain.

I didn't even like that musical. I was wondering which one of you, I was wondering which one of you

was going to do it. Oh, stop it. I didn't give you license to do that. I could sing them all.

Sure you got it. Got a new segment.

Melzing so, no, uh, show tunes. Just snippets though. 10 seconds of each. That's it. That's it.

Boom. Musical done. So I want to pay royalties. Yes, exactly. Come.

One more for you here. And this is a local one. So we have to touch on this one because that's

what we do around here. Local news. Nobody can report on this area like we do. Local radio matters.

The Wisconsin Zoo searching searching for a pair of escape otters said one of the animals

was nearly caught in a trap by the attempt, but the attempt was foiled by a meddling raccoon.

Oh, otters and raccoons teaming up. Oh, no, this sounds bad. Don't don't miss the headline here,

everybody. This is the true headline. Yes. The new zoo in Adventure Park in Green Bay, which

previously revealed North American river otters, Louis and Ophelia escaped during a March 20th snow

storm. We talked about that on the show. Yeah, we did. Well, they shared a video recently of a

camera set up to a monitor monitor to edit a trap located near the zoo. The zoo said at least one

of the otters has repeatedly visited the traps, but only attempted to enter the contraption

after it had already been sprung. Quote raccoons have, um, I mean, it's as big raccoons have

unfortunately impeded impeded impeded some of the other efforts, even setting off one trap,

not long before an otter arrived to try to enter it. Oh my gosh. It's coordinated.

Spring the trap for you, buddy. Yeah, otters said they are now attempting to use raccoon proof traps

to ensure the fugitive otters. Now the bears are going to get involved. And just for any of our

listeners who are worried, these are our friendly traps. Like it's not going to hurt the otter

at all. These are, these are live traps are safe. Um, I am looking forward to, um, you know, uh,

where, where they go with this as a team, uh, where otters and raccoons go with this. I think

it should be interesting. Again, the next Pixar movie. Uh, it's, it's definitely the next Pixar movie.

Or, or otters and raccoons, the revenge. Maybe it's our next political party. I don't know. I don't

know. Otters raccoons. Hey, all bets are off. You know, I mean otters hold hands so that we,

they don't get lost. I think why their hands and their food, you know, I think our political

parties need to do those things otters constantly have a table with them. Always, always got a

table with that. That's true. Always have a table. That's true. I don't know. But that seems like

something I would, I would vote for. Definitely wins me over. Right. They're always relaxed when

they eat. Yeah. It's a good point. It's a good point. Maybe, maybe we should make raccoons the head

of health and human services. They'd probably better than what we have now. Yeah. I don't know.

Might have prepared. Well, the current guy eats them.

So I don't know. It's brainwaves. Yeah. Yeah. We've got the LKFA birthday and anniversary club.

We got a lot of fun lined up for you. Oh, coming up right around the corner on the morning show

here at WFHR.

Welcome back, everybody. It's time for the LKFA birthday and anniversary club.

One of our favorite parts of the day, we can celebrate you and our favorite friends over at LKFA.

Treat yourself. Get on over there today, everybody. To 21 Market Avenue and beautiful port

Edwards. Got some amazing specials lined up for you, along with some a wonderful post.

Oh, yeah. Be sure to follow them on social media, everybody. They've got some great ones over

there. Be sure to check that out. Buy local support locals. Support the good things that are going

on over at LKFA. Get over there. Get over there today, everybody. And have a great meal.

Whether it's breakfast, lunch, you're going to have good food. Yeah. And we appreciate you

giving us your birthdays and anniversaries. We love celebrating with you, everybody.

Email us info at wfhatrar.com. You're, of course, direct messages through our Facebook pages and

you can call on us. That's right. 715-424-2600 or just a touch or two away on that civic media app.

You have on your phone because it's free. It's awesome. You can stream us anywhere.

Looking forward to talking with you. Be sure to join us, everybody.

Taking a look at our list. I need a one or a two Melissa.

Two.

All right. I have to think about it, Seth. She put care into it. Yeah, I'm sure she did.

We first up want to wish a very happy birthday to a couple of civic media members.

First Caleb, rovelled. Roar, roar, roar, roar.

Roar vet. I think it's how you say that. Yes.

It's just Caleb. Happy birthday, Caleb. Caleb is amazing.

He is. Oh my gosh. He's our main web guy and he does some amazing work. He's so good.

Yes, he fixed. He fixed the things and now they work. It's amazing.

Yeah, shut up Caleb. Yeah, great guy. And appreciate the work, Caleb.

Yes. Yes.

And we take a moment to wish an extremely big happy birthday.

And I mean, from everybody in town, I want all of our listeners,

every single body to wish a happy birthday to the soul, to the heart of this station, Pam

Hilke. Happy birthday, Pam. Happy birthday, Pam. I know she's listening.

Yes, happy birthday, Pam. For decades, she has been here at WFHR helping everything run,

whether it is what you hear on these airwaves, scheduling wise, or are just

answering the phones and greeting people among the, when we double check your 25,000 other tasks

that she does around here and has done over the years. Think of all that she's done,

all the story she has of WFHR. I mean, so great, a wealth of knowledge.

Absolutely. If I need to know the history on something, I go to Pam first.

That's right. Anything great, anything about this station that you have enjoyed out there.

We know we've got listeners who have been listening to the station literally their whole lives.

I've heard from many of them over the years. It starts with Pam.

Yeah. It starts with Pam and what she does for this station and this community.

Because I think that I focus on the station so much, I don't always took a bigger perspective

on what she is, her impact on this community and the different things she does out there.

Really, really appreciate, Pam. Love you. We appreciate you.

We hope you have a fantastic birthday.

And I hope I read that okay, because she wrote every word at no.

I am right.

No way.

The most humble person I have ever met.

Yeah, you will never meet a more humble person.

I was in a spit tank there.

I have a good one, Pam. We'll talk to you soon.

Happy birthday, Pam.

We want to wish happy birthday to Anthony Aldi.

Happy birthday, Anthony.

Happy birthday.

Ton is a works over at Stover Healthcare and is married to Dr. Aaron over there.

Great guy. I can guarantee you if you start talking to Tony, you might still be.

And I mean that in the most positive, wonderful ways.

It's great, great guy.

By the way, also a fabulous masseuse, that is what he does.

And you can ask Beth about that because he's a really amazing job.

Yeah, he's really good.

And a great guy. Enjoy your day, Anthony.

And our qualifier today, Nancy Brandel.

Happy birthday, Nancy.

Enjoy the day, Nancy. We wish you a great one.

We encourage you to brag to all your friends, family, strangers, animals, anybody that you can tell.

Let him know that you're our qualifier for our L Cafe's birthday and anniversary.

Take a look at our celebrity list here.

Little Nas X is 26, Old Town Road superstar.

He's only 26.

Got started early.

Yeah, I'm a little surprised we haven't heard much from him.

Recently, recently.

Just seemed like at that age and with the way his star was rising and everything.

And if you like or you don't like the direction of country music,

a lot of it goes with him and Billy Ray Cyrus and Old Town Road.

Yeah, that was a massive hit.

My goodness.

Yeah.

And a crossover hit.

It was.

And kind of really set the stage for Post Malone and a lot of these other guys,

I think, to cross over into that genre.

Sure.

And a lot of their producers to tell them to.

That's what you need to do.

L Fanning is 27.

Dakota Fanning's younger sister.

She is starring in the next Predator movie.

Might know her as Princess Aurora and Melissa Fent

or Catherine the Great and Hulu is the Great.

Oh, I really like her.

I've been watching a lot of clips of Catherine the Great.

I want to see this show.

Those fannings are great.

Yeah.

Both of them are equally good.

She was very good in Complita Known as well.

She has a very good turn in that one as well.

Yeah, she's good.

Her expressions are just awesome.

Facial.

I think it's great.

Let's see here.

Oh, Kristen Stewart is 35.

Most people I imagine will know her from the Twilight movies

and everything.

But like a lot of younger actors,

they kind of get that kind of big break

in a franchise or a movie or anything like that.

Pretty much everything she's done since

that has been very independent

and going very much the other direction.

That's what she wants to do.

Yeah, and that's good.

That's her choice.

Yeah, it's one thing.

I talk about this a lot with Danny Redcliffe

to be able to break type in that in that regard.

I don't think I've given her enough credit for that.

And I haven't given her enough credit

for the boundaries she has been trying to push and do

as an actor and break.

She had some pretty bad press

during that last Twilight movie.

Very unfair.

That couldn't have gone more awkward

or uncomfortable for everybody involved.

And like a lot of times in Hollywood history

who takes the biggest hits from this is the woman.

And she has taken a lot of responsibility

for her own actions in that and everything.

While also, I think just still building

a very solid career at a very young age.

And I have mentioned her acting

because I honestly haven't seen her act that much.

But from what I've seen

and the people I trusted have cast her

and everything, she's good.

Yep, good.

So the annexant is 59.

Miranda on Sex and the City.

And she also ran for governor back in 18.

Yes, she did.

I forgot about that.

Very smart.

Very good actor.

Yeah.

Dennis Quaid is 71.

Wow.

Another solid actor.

Yeah.

And then some people no longer with us.

Hal Catchham for this day in 1953.

Country singer.

Small town Saturday night.

Past the point of rescue.

Hearts are roll going to roll.

Yeah, it's going to roll.

Yeah, yeah.

Fun country artist.

Carl Perkins born in this day.

Oh, Rocker Roll Hall of Fame.

A Rockabilly legend.

Blue Swade shoes.

So many other.

And he wrote, he wrote Blue Swade shoes.

Yes, he did.

And if he did nothing else.

Just that one song.

It's a rock and roll legend.

Yeah.

And everyone who's recorded it.

I love Carl Perkins.

He's one of my favorites.

That's, it's always interesting to be

see these individuals share a birthday.

Yes, you know.

And I don't know if there's ever any

crossover between them or anything like that.

No, but it'd have been cool.

And that is going to do it for our birthday and anniversary club.

A one more time.

I want to wish a very happy birthday to Caleb.

Of course, I was gigantic.

Happy birthday to Pam Hilke.

Happy birthday, Caleb and Pam.

Yes.

And to Anthony and to of course,

our qualifier Nancy Brandel.

Happy birthday, Nancy.

Birthday to you too.

Yes.

When I encourage you to check out the great

specials and wonderful things over at LKFA.

I can't think of a better way to spend your birthday

than not over there.

Got some great stuff lined up for you.

Join them today over at 221 Market Avenue

in beautiful Port Edwards.

Wish them a great one.

From all of us at WFHR.

We'll have another birthday and anniversary club for you tomorrow.

And if you've never had a pork chop for breakfast,

head over there because it's on the specials list.

Right on.

Yeah.

I have had a pork chop for breakfast.

I am not.

But now I want one.

Right now.

I want to go now.

Get a pork chop.

Okay.

Bye James.

We're going to go get pork chops.

You guys have fun.

Just call up and let me know how it goes.

We will talk to you to do.

And we'll talk with you guys out there in just a minute.

And morning show at WFHR.

Welcome back everybody.

Morning show at WFHR.

Melissa, Seth, and James here with you.

I'm going to be joined by Seth from Quality Post Printing.

Phil.

Phil.

Phil.

Phil.

Pretty or Seth doing a fill impression.

Yes.

One of the other.

It's been a busy morning.

Did you know I'm from Maine?

They are.

Nice and done.

Nice and pretty good.

He likes lobster.

Very good.

I hope he's not listening.

They're like, what?

I don't sound like that.

If you have been to a Hooters in years, you're not alone.

They have been struggling a lot.

According to reports, they're about $300 million in debt.

And last year, they closed about 40 locations in the US.

Wow.

Now they're trying to attract more business

by making a pivot to being a more family-friendly.

They're calling it re-hooterization.

But it's more like de-hooterization.

Yeah, really.

And it's worth it.

Wow.

They really worded that well.

You may not realize it, but Hooters

and our offshoot of Hoot's Wings

have been increasingly family-friendly

over the past decade.

So that place has already been that.

Hoot's Wings?

Which Wings?

Never heard of it.

Never heard of it.

Never heard of it.

I like it, though.

Yeah.

That sounds good.

That's what they should just go with

for the whole franchise.

Yeah, just redo the whole thing.

Yeah.

Ownership says it's, quote, depressing to them

that women would not want their families going to Hooters

even dads alone.

They didn't say what exactly they'd be changing

to make it more PG, but it's safe to say that, you know,

they're going to be getting rid of the only reason

people ever went there in the first place.

I, a journalist, Tickley will mention.

I've never stepped foot in a Hooters.

Nope.

Never had any interest.

Nope.

Don't see the appeal.

Never did.

But I, I, I will say that no business, like,

collapses just on one thing.

No, their food is terrible.

This is the thing.

This is all I've ever heard from people

is that their food is terrible.

So the Wings aren't bad, but don't order anything else.

Yeah.

From what I've heard.

Right.

I've also only been there once.

There you go.

Sexism aside, the business model is horrible to begin with.

Just in general, all that we're doing,

they're doing to bring people in was obvious.

And then when they get there or the return customer

does have no interest because the food's not that interesting.

Right.

And they probably can't keep staff working because, I mean,

basically they're just, they're, they're, they're

extorting women to because of, of a body part.

Yeah.

And that's not okay.

And they didn't, they didn't pay their employees very well.

It sounds like, and they, they're probably women of wage.

They're employees, yeah.

Right.

Oh, and certainly that there's been stories of that over the years

and everything.

Many, many.

They should absolutely capitalize on the owl.

Yeah, exactly.

So why not pivot to the owl?

Everybody loves owls.

Owls are amazing.

Yes, I don't, cool.

I certainly don't like the idea of any business going under

or any local people losing jobs or anything like that.

That aside, I don't know that I've ever read a story like this.

It'd ever been like, yeah, you did that kind of, that kind of,

that kind of brought it on yourself.

Yeah, you kind of brought it on yourself.

You didn't change things.

Well, it could have, and talk about, like even when

who just first came out, it seemed on, you know,

awkward and uncomfortable and not very kosher or anything

like that.

Let alone in 2025.

Yeah, where this has no, I mean, we've moved on beyond this

as a society.

And if we're being honest and just, you know,

all cards on the table, if you want to see skin,

it isn't that hard anymore.

I mean, it's just got a Walmart.

Yeah.

I mean, you can do it anywhere.

There's nothing to pull you in there.

There's this thing called the internet.

I don't know if you've ever heard about it, you know.

It's so, I mean, it's not, this is maybe the least surprising

bankruptcy you will ever see in your lifetime.

Right.

It was a one note thing.

And that note has now gone flat.

Oh, no.

Oh, I didn't mean to do that, but I had to finish the,

oh, wow, I saw it come across this face.

Does he realize what he was saying?

That was golden.

I have to apologize for that one.

Everyone, the human race everywhere, we were like, sorry,

we were like to apologize for that last one.

I had to apologize this morning on the Pat Cretlo show

for mixing up four square with square dancing.

I love that.

Well, you know what, it's early and I hadn't had my coffee yet.

Four square, if they have any business sense,

we'll jump all over that.

They'll get all over that.

We just wear it.

We just add in some dancing.

Come on.

Yeah, you had a fun morning.

Your auto correct for your text was great too.

Yeah, that was hilarious.

Oh, my gosh.

I will be in Do-do today.

This is gonna be studio, Do-do.

I think you're gonna do-do.

No, my auto correct is really weird, okay?

I tried to write tomorrow and it gave me tuberculosis.

I like, I, I, yeah.

Well, I'll give you tuberculosis.

No, but it's moved on from tonight.

These phones have gotten way too interactive.

Maybe it's a plot.

Yeah, it's something we don't know about.

Well, it's a weird app.

Yeah, it's a weird app.

Well, the business model of that is.

But, but I have to say that there are times

where I catch it like this morning where I see what it did

and I'm like, I'm sending that anyway.

And I'm sending the question.

Funny, it was good.

I did that to Heather the other day before rehearsal.

I'm like, we will have to song to him.

Sing.

You have a weird auto correct.

Yeah, it was Andy's birthday, so we had to song to him.

I love that.

That's excellent.

I love with, when you do get something like that,

you have to send.

Yeah, like sending this anywhere.

I'm gonna do it.

We're gonna be joined by our friends from Quality Plus

printing with us.

We could also order Wednesday looking forward to that.

Want to remind everybody a little bit later,

we will begin having our Girl Scout cookie taste testing test.

Yes.

Look before.

The taste testing test.

We're looking forward to that.

That's gonna be a lot of fun as well.

And as long as we got a second here,

I did want to take a moment to remind everybody

of Wisconsin's Rabbits community tree sale

that is going on.

Yeah, it's gonna be done soon, isn't it?

Yeah, wraps up next Monday the 14th, everybody.

So, if you'd like to order one,

give Sue Winch a reach out to her.

You can do that given the department a call

at 421-824-0.

That's 715-421-824-0.

You can also reach out to them at parksdepartment

at wirapids.org.

Parks department at wirapids.org.

Cash or check only unless paying at the Parks and Rec office.

Payment is due at the time of the order.

And they've got some amazing trees

that are available for you.

Pink sparkles crab, spring snow,

fall fiesta, the Canadian hemlock,

which is just a beautiful tree.

The Japanese tree lilac is also available.

And along with this, memorial plaques, if you'd like.

Yeah, which is cool.

That's a nice little add on there.

I am strongly thinking about,

so that wind storm we had back 2019,

it took out one of this really great tree

that we had in our backyard.

So we had to cut it down.

And I've been thinking very strongly

about getting a tree and replanting one there

because it had such a great shade and everything.

I want a new tree there.

I just want to like it.

No, it's the time.

Those are for sale.

They are.

These sparkles crab, the Japanese tree lilac.

I like crab all of them.

Beautiful.

Yeah, those beautiful trees.

Crab all of them are great.

And they're really great for our natural foragers.

That is.

Yeah, our local.

I hear they're good for us.

The tree is good.

The tree is equal good.

Very good.

We solved it.

And it's also good to learn.

And that's what we try to do in our next segment.

It's help you learn a new word of the day, everybody,

with our wicked awesome word of Wednesday.

Fill heartily on the phone line with us.

Phil, thanks for joining us.

Oh, glad to be here.

Thank you.

I've tried to venture over about my car wouldn't let me

today.

Oh, no.

Darn vehicles.

I believe that that is sabotage, but by somebody

trying to know about the raccoons.

No, it's been a busy morning for you, man.

I appreciate you being able to make the time.

How are things going over at the shop?

Oh, doing really well.

Not a great day.

And you came to strung out life's good for me.

So no, it's going really well.

What kind of projects you up to over there, Phil?

So you know, we get a lot of, a lot of,

again, summer events coming up.

So people are starting gearing up.

And we do a lot of printing up posters and raffle tickets

and things like that for people.

And I like this week in a assumption

has a talent show or an assumption.

And they're posters and they're raffle,

I mean, entrance tickets for that.

And so things like that coming up,

the need has a big fundraiser.

Not this weekend, but next weekend that

helps honor local veterans and local police officers

and ENC people.

That's right.

A lot of work with your Emmy over the meet

of printing posters and tickets for that as well.

So the upcoming events like that

is kind of fun to see and help people with.

Mm-hmm.

We appreciate the work you guys and your team

over there are doing, Phil.

Just a shout out to the assumption talent show

that is happening this Friday, 11 o'clock show begins at seven.

And then they'll have a Saturday show as well

that'll have a dinner involved with it.

No, he's.

You can find out more by reaching out to them

on their Facebook page or direct messaging them that way.

It would probably be the quickest way for you to do that.

Otherwise, if you have questions, comments.

Lizbeth, you can reach out to 715-572-9703.

That's 5729-703.

We're talking about this the other day, a midday.

I wanna make sure to mention that.

Yeah.

That was me for that one.

Yeah, they told me that I'm too old for the talent show

and everything.

Oh, I'm sorry, James.

I had a comedy bit all worked out.

Yes.

Phil, what is our wicked awesome word of Wednesday?

Well, just to help you out, James,

we're gonna choose Anadine.

Mm-hmm.

And we'll choose it as a noun

because I mean, something that suits comforts or calms.

Okay.

All right.

A, L, D, Y, and E. Anadine.

Okay.

All right.

I don't know if I've ever heard that word.

I mean, yeah, I don't think I have.

It's not used very often, like you said,

but I've heard it here and there.

So I like it.

I thought his word was Iadine, ever.

Yeah.

Yeah, that's an interesting thing.

Or Anadote.

Yeah, yeah.

Oh, good ones.

That's a fun one, Will.

Not being in the trivia contest.

Yeah.

Oh, yes.

Yeah, Phil, you guys got your trivia contest coming up.

The big thing.

Big end is the world's largest trivia contest.

Yeah.

We have a team at our house.

So anybody over there out there listening

wants to come over to the more of the merrier.

Right on, right on.

It allows me to have more people.

It's not funny, but it's true.

And we have a group of people that are several.

And it allows me not to place them.

I can be more of a host, you know.

There you go.

Presses me when we have more people there.

Mm-hmm.

There you go.

Happy to have them.

It'll be a lot of fun.

Yeah.

No brains.

Yes.

Yes.

Have a great time.

And we'll be talking next week to find out how I went

for you guys and everything.

Yeah.

But then we'll see what happens.

All right.

Come on.

We get a lot of fun.

And then we have a great time.

So thanks for mentioning that.

Yeah.

No.

A couple more days to work.

And then back.

All right.

Right on, man.

And the true work begins.

Then the fun begins.

No work.

It's fun.

It's work fun.

Yes.

Something like that.

Yeah.

I hope you have a much calmer and a good morning, Phil.

I say hi to all of your all of our friends over quality plus.

OK.

All right.

We'll do a thanks to you guys.

Take care.

You too, Phil.

You too, Phil.

You too.

You too.

I'll join us.

Phil Hartley joins us every Wednesday right in this time.

Come over there in quality plus printing 3515 E Street South right here in Wisconsin

Rapids.

You can get my call 7154237404237440447440 by local support, local support, those that support

our station.

And of course, this area, like the gang over there does all the time, putting so much in

this community.

And of course, we encourage you to, you know, be a part of way.

I'm incorporated as well.

They're always looking for hometown heroes.

Let them know about some of the local people that we would love to highlight over there

when incorporated.

Yeah.

There's great stuff there.

And be sure to follow them on Facebook, share their posts on your page.

You just never know who might see it.

And read their sign when you drive by because it's always got great information on it.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

We will take a quick time out when we come back.

The weirdest things left in Ubers last year.

Oh, boy.

Oh.

What could go wrong?

What could go wrong?

We'll be back in more show coming up morning show at WFHR.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show at WFHR, locally grown radio.

Melissa, Seth and James hanging out with you.

Big shout out to Phil Hartley joining us with our Wicked Awesome Order Wednesday.

That was fun.

Mm-hmm.

Appreciate him.

Phil joining us.

Be here next Wednesday for another Wicked Awesome Order Wednesday and support our friends

over at Quality Post Printing.

Yes, indeed.

Making a smarter, pretty nice stuff.

Yeah.

Keep in mind.

I love that.

That was good.

That was pretty good.

That was pretty good.

That was pretty good.

That was pretty good.

We will kick off the 9 o'clock hour with our Girl Scout cookie taste testing.

Yum.

Yes.

We'll find out which is the best.

See, it's for cookie.

It's good enough for me.

Yum, yum, yum, yum.

We're looking forward to that.

We'll have some entertainment news for you a little bit later.

And even later in the 9 o'clock hour, we're going to get into what's an old person habit.

You have adopted because it's a really good idea.

Yeah.

So many.

I'm probably all of them.

Yeah, I'm wondering how many, I think it's going to be, that's the thing.

How many?

We'll do it.

We'll do it.

Each one of us will take a point for each one and see where we were.

Find out how old we are.

Find out how old we are.

Really?

Uber released its annual lost and found index that looks at all the stuff we left behind

at ride chairs last year.

The most common things are unusual suspects.

Yep.

We'll get the usual suspects, I should say, phone, wallet, keys, that kind of stuff.

Sure.

So we'll get into some of the other fun things on here.

But I know we don't have, we don't really have Uber or Lyft doing we don't in this

state around here.

Yeah.

Certainly bigger cities do.

You know, there's cab companies in that.

I would love to actually be able to talk to our local cab companies and how much this

happens in rural areas.

Yeah, what are you curious about that?

Yeah.

Because I have taken so many cab rides in my life and usually it's a weird person in the

cab, not an item.

But you know, that is here there.

I have gone into, and I have gone in once and there was a caged cat in the car in the

cab as soon as I got in.

And I'm looking at it and I get in, I tell the cab you where I want to go.

You know, take me to the state street and all this.

So we're driving for a minute or two and the cat's back there.

And I don't know if it's the driver's cat or if it's somebody left it behind.

And I don't know what the right thing to do is.

So finally I just say something and like there's a cat back here and he hits the brakes.

Just hits it.

And we're going downtown Chicago.

And he just jams on the brakes and start to look back there and try attend look back

there.

And he's basically going to get out of the cat.

We're in the street and he's going to get out of the cab.

Right.

The stop in the middle of the road.

The stop in the middle of the road going to get out and everything.

Check it out.

And I'm like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

I'm wondering if I should get out.

Or what have you.

What's happening?

This guy, he doesn't get out, but he's looking back there and he's asking me like a million

questions about this cat with color is it the breed, all this stuff.

And then he starts sniffling.

And so it turns out, I think I don't know, I never found out.

I got dropped off like five minutes later and I have no idea how this story ends.

And I've wondered since I was about 30, 35, what happened to the end of this and everything.

But I think he was maybe allergic to cats.

Oh, no.

Yeah, I think so.

And I think that's why he panicked so fast.

Yeah, I think there's a cat back there.

And that's not even top five.

I mean, this happens.

Now, I do want to say too, though, that I've also never met a bad cabbie.

I've never met a bad one.

I'm the ones that don't want to talk that maybe are, you know, maybe a little rocked

in.

Talk too much.

Yes, absolutely.

I've never met a rude or a bad cat.

No, I've never met, like they, every single one that I've had my whole life, the good

people.

Yeah.

We ran into a couple interesting ones out in Arizona where we took a ride to a place and

it was like a 20-minute cab ride.

So it was a long time.

And man, they were chatty.

They were very chatty.

And we talked about it over dinner and I'm like, okay, so how about if we get it, if we

get the same person on the way back or somebody who's really chatty, what, let's have a plan,

like let's pick a fight, all right, we're going to pick a fight with each other.

Four, four times or three times on Forks, you know, like, I feel very strongly about this.

I love it.

My date wasn't in on it.

It was like, no, let's just ignore them.

No, that's not fun.

That's not fun.

No, that was the right way to handle that.

When we were in Chicago a couple of weeks ago, we took a couple of ride chairs and we, for

the most, with a couple of them, we got very quiet people and that's, you know, that's

cool.

But we got one guy.

Man, he was great.

Because he was telling us about all the stuff, you know, well, hey, you know where you're

going.

There's some of the really great restaurants there.

It's like, hey, have you thought about checking this out kind of thing?

Well, that's really cool.

It's neat, but well, because cabbies know so much about the area, like they know those

streets so well.

It's very interesting.

There was one time where we had a ride back from a place we were at in, I want to say it

was in Utah and we told our driver where we ended up and she's like, oh my gosh, I'm

glad you guys didn't get murdered.

Oh, Jesus, man.

Somebody got, somebody got knifeed in that street right behind in that alley where I'm

like, well, that would have been good information to have on our way down.

No excitement though.

It feels like something you should know before you go beforehand.

Yeah.

Let's take a look at what people left behind here are some of the more oddball things people

left behind are forgotten ubers last year.

And there are no particular order.

A mannequin head with human hair with human hair mannequin.

No, I wonder if they were delivering it.

Yeah, it was probably a wig, obviously, because that's how they're stored and somebody just

forgot it.

But that's an expensive thing to forget, because wigs are $400 and up with human hair.

Yeah.

A Viking drinking horn.

Nice.

Yeah.

There was an obvious reason that was left behind.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

It was authentic.

Was it an actual bike nose?

Okay.

A chainsaw.

Whoa.

Now, keep in mind, I mean, these are all city like locations that these are happening

to everything.

So would you let the guy with a chainsaw in your car to start with?

Oh, that's a brave driver.

Yeah.

How do you forget a chainsaw?

I don't think of all the items in the world that you don't forget.

I would say it's like it's got to be a top five item that you're really going to

forget.

Maybe it's one he rented.

Oh, mate.

What?

You know, I mean, like have you heard about the makerspaces where they are, let you check

out tools and stuff?

Yeah.

Maybe that's true.

Yeah.

Just please take this back to the library for me.

I don't need it.

I'm done.

I'm done.

A urinal.

And just like I don't know what that means.

Oh, my.

I don't know how you even transport something like that.

Like a porcelain.

I don't know if I want to know how you would know or why.

Escape past that one.

I mean, maybe they bought it in like an antique shop.

It may be.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It may be a collectible.

But I collect antique urinals.

So that's why it's right on it with me.

This one's gold plated.

Who doesn't collect antique urinals?

Oh, yeah.

We have all grown up in the grandparent.

Shrek ears.

Shrek ears.

Oh.

I didn't know that was a thing.

I love the image of somebody going to a costume party or something like that.

They work so hard on their costume.

They're get down and shrek except the ears.

They forgot the ears.

It's just everything's there except the ears aren't there.

And then they're frantically calling the cab companies.

Did you find Shrek ears in the back seats?

Or that was the, that was their whole costume.

Or that.

Shrek ears.

Yep, just the ears.

And now we don't have a costume.

Dang it.

That's what you would do, Seth.

Yeah.

Two mattresses.

Two?

Not one.

Yeah.

Just two.

What kind of, what kind of cab is that?

That's a big cab.

I mean, I, I, I, I've never seen anything like that where there's, like, I mean, all

like a thing is that they put the mattresses on top of the cab or it was a trucker or something.

I don't know.

Or it was a van.

Yeah.

A Uber.

So they have different size vehicles.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So maybe that's that.

But how do you?

How do you forget the mattresses?

The whole reason I got this van.

Not one, but two.

And then I left my two mattresses in there.

Not one, not two, but 15 hookas.

Whoa.

What?

Seth had a visceral reaction to that.

Like he just jumped across the room.

I don't know what you, I don't know.

Like, you were a hooker sales person.

Are you, I don't know what that was.

One, maybe two.

And they're not small.

No.

They're not.

A unicycle.

Oh, nice.

Well, that mine is very sad.

Yeah.

Very sad.

And potentially intoxicated and could not ride said unicycle and then forgot it.

A drunk mine.

A DNA testing kit.

Ooh.

That's rough.

No, no, no, no, no.

A huge bouquet of a hundred roses.

Oh, so.

Oh.

A lot of money.

Yeah.

That date did not go well.

Not go well.

It's not, I got you a hundred roses.

It went with one, buddy.

Yeah.

A hundred was overkill.

Yeah, yes, yes.

Yeah.

You show about any persons.

I don't care.

A man, woman with a hundred roses.

They're going to freak out.

Yeah.

What?

I mean, why don't I feel like it was the first date, too.

I feel like it was the latest, it's an impressive.

I don't know why this what's to be left is for me to be left this whole time.

A plunger.

I just, I feel like.

Oh God, oh, oh, the toilet's backing up.

I gotta run the Destroy.

I don't have a plunger.

You run the Dastor.

You're coming home and you give home.

It's an emergency.

I left a plunger with the, let's hope it was a brand new plunger.

Yeah.

Oh.

Oh, yeah, please.

Please.

A sewing machine.

Oh, that makes my heart hurt.

Yeah, that V2.

Yeah.

A sewing machine.

Ten live lobsters.

Woo.

Wow.

Wow.

What?

Imagine the driver.

Does it smell like breath lobster?

Yeah.

What is that smell?

Oh.

It smells like a fish tank.

Yeah.

What's going on?

Divorce papers.

Oh.

Oh.

Woo.

Woo.

That's rough.

There's a good story there.

Maybe they reconcile that.

Yeah.

Oh, I like that.

What?

There's no way to know.

Why don't you just make up our old story.

Except that there's a lot of personal information on the way.

That's true.

There's probably just don't want them floating around.

No, you know.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Whether they got back together or not.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Oh, it was epic.

I mean, you're leaving.

You're leaving a lot behind already.

I mean, here you go.

Thank you.

Thank you everybody.