Good morning, Wisconsin.
Morning, world.
It's a new day.
Thanks for kicking it off with us at WFHR.
Take it, Marvin.
Got your host, James behind the mic.
Joined by our CEO of United Way of South Winningham's County's Terry Johns.
Good morning.
We're going to turn this together on a Friday.
We're going to take it to the top of the hour and nut butt fund.
A little bit later, Terry and I are going to get into what is...
Where is that?
Having a pet makes you not only happy, but can actually earn you more money a year.
Oh, sweet.
We'll get into that a little bit.
It earns me less money.
Mm-hmm.
Expensive.
They are.
Yes.
We will get into that in a moment.
But first, we got to touch on this one.
And for a long time, we have been in the home of Dolly Parton News.
We'll get into some of that on Monday's show.
But for the other thing we used to cover very deeply was Betty White.
You were going to say stupid people in Florida.
That too.
That too.
You know, we haven't done as much of that.
That was like a thing with you and Carl.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, when we first started, did that any right stories?
That was one of our go-to's.
Yeah.
Okay.
Anyway, sorry, Betty White.
We really appreciate the good people of Florida.
Because, man, did they give us some content for a while there?
Yeah.
Yeah, there's some great ones out there.
Yeah.
So we've talked a lot of Betty White.
And I thought this was a really cool one that I wanted to make sure to get the audio for.
So Betty White lived to be 99.
And she often credited her longevity to her positive attitude and junk food.
Well, I like that.
Betty reportedly ate a hot dog every day.
She also loved her vodka.
And she did not stop there.
Okay.
When you said, you know how it seems like anyone who's a hundred-ish always has, you know,
some sort of advice around food or something.
But it's always, I always love the ones that are like, oh, I have a beer every day.
Or I have a glass of wine every day.
So hers was vodka.
There we go.
Megan Fahey from the White Lotus worked with Betty on a 2011 hallmark movie called The Lost Valentine.
And she says Betty would eat chocolate cake for breakfast, quote, like a real true legend.
We haven't loved that.
She also mentioned the vodka, but she said Betty was a professional unset.
It was after.
Oh, yeah.
Well, filming was done and everything.
Yeah, well, your body is going to get used to different things.
And different generations are going to be used to different things.
None of this is surprising when we hear this.
Or we read about George Burns or Humphrey Bogard or any of the older actors of the older,
the old school actors, if you will.
All of them got stories.
Nobody's got better stories than John Wayne.
John Wayne, you know, John Wayne for one, I don't think that enough credit has given him as an actor.
Ever.
I think that ever has been incredible actor, incredible actor.
Also a lot of talk about him at off field.
Like he loved the drink.
He loved to smoke all these things.
John Wayne was the first guy on set in the last guy to leave.
Was a constant professional.
He was not a people person.
Didn't really like people in general.
Not any type of people.
But on set, people always talk highly of him.
Jimmy Stewart went on and on about how he did.
And Jimmy Stewart was one of those guys that, well, he came across as a nice guy.
Jimmy Stewart was cutthroat as it was ever was in this business.
It was a reason he got the roles he did.
But he was also one of these people that never put on airs.
And in interviews, really told it like it was and everything.
And he talked very highly of John Wayne.
It's not surprising to hear that this is Betty White's diet or was Betty White's diet.
But isn't it funny that we have to, I mean, really who cares if she has a dull beverage.
But I mean, that it has to be qualified that it wasn't while she was working.
It's like, oh my gosh.
Why?
We're so sensitive.
Why don't we just assume that after dinner at night, she had a, how did I cap?
Couldn't agree with you more.
I think part of my, for me, in this particular topic, why I get a little bit that way about it is because of the,
and I'll admit this, there's a chip on my shoulder in almost every single actor's shoulder.
Because acting is the one part of all the skill sets of all the talents that there is.
Somebody can play a guitar, somebody can paint a picture.
Everybody goes out of their way to give them credit for their artistic creativity and all these things.
Actors, oh, anybody can do that.
Oh, actors.
There's not, I can act.
Actings is playing pretend.
When every single person in this world, and in this, that's listening right now,
knows the difference between good acting and bad acting.
Oh, sure.
You know it.
This is something that actors have always dealt with, where we're not treated as the same in the creative industry.
And that's a joke to me.
It's a bad joke, in the punchlines on us.
So yeah, there's an over correcting by actors of, no, we take this very seriously.
This is our job, and we're good at it.
I think there's a little defense there, but I also think what you're saying is important too.
That, you know, why do we have to add qualifiers to all these things?
Betty White, we all saw her work.
If you watch Betty White, one scene of Betty White, you saw the true professional.
We shouldn't have to add the qualifiers.
I think you're right about that.
I do love that we still have stories of Betty White coming up.
Yeah.
Are you playing some audio?
I was going to, but the interview is, I thought it was Betty White talking about it.
Oh, it's not her.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So we'll just move off.
Beth and gets this Megan later.
Right, yeah.
This is Megan.
I did save this story for you.
I've never, I've never heard of her before.
And White Lotus could not be, like, less interesting to me.
That show.
Yeah.
I don't even know what it is.
Three seasons.
I got a, every single, every, I know when it's on the air because our, my students want to talk about it.
Oh, really?
When we sketch, it's like, yeah, they love that show.
Oh, interesting.
I got no interest.
It's a teacher role, but just not for me.
I did know, I do know my co-host tastes pretty well over these years.
We've been doing this for, you know, we're almost on 10 years doing this together.
That's crazy.
It is insanity.
Um, but I, I did, you know, there's certain things that stand out between us.
And while Terry and I have a lot we agree on, there's a couple of things that stand out.
One of them is John Bonjoby or Bonjoby in general, where you and I are at very different, uh, ends of the universe.
You're jealous of his hair.
That a little bit.
Um, I would, more so that man's skin.
The man looks great.
He does.
It doesn't look like he's at any work.
No, neither.
Like, he just looks like.
I mean, I don't know if he has or has it, but he does, but he does, he has aged well.
And, um, and so has his career.
Uh, Bonjoby, the band is aged well, uh, and he has, uh, done, I think, a very good job with his second act, if you will, and everything with this career.
Well, um, then there's this.
John Bonjoby and his wife, uh, Dorthia opened a temporary location for their J.B.J. Soul Kitchen at the Ocean Country Library at Tom's River in New Jersey, where he's from, of course, famously.
Um, but the mayor is not happy about it.
If you haven't heard of these soul kitchens, they provide meals at lower prices, and those in need can put in some hours in exchange for food.
They're an amazing invention.
A great idea.
Um, the kitchens also help find jobs, housing, mental health, supporting more.
If I never heard another Bonjoby song, I'd be okay.
I lived through the 80s.
But, but, uh, him is a person.
Yeah, he's a great philanthropist.
Yeah.
And so much stuff like this and everything.
Uh, but the mayor, Daniel Rodrick, calls it, quote, a day shelter in soup kitchen and says it's drawing homeless people to the area.
That's how they're true.
He said, quote, mothers shouldn't have to walk through large gangs of intoxicated and mentally ill men and children to borrow a book.
Um, you, you could not sound more out of touch with that sentence.
You could not sound more like you don't deserve to be a mayor of, uh, a, of a cardboard box, let alone a city like New Jersey.
Uh, we take a lot of, New Jersey takes a lot of punches.
New Jersey is an important state.
And, and, and, and I have a guy like this in charge over there just says a lot, a lot about the people devoted for him.
In response, John and Dorothy has said, quote, we invite anyone to the JBJ soul kitchen pop up to see what we are doing and, and, and homelessness and hunger in our community.
For any person that, um, is worried about something like this that is, that is like this, um, living in a bubble could not seem more, um,
more, uh, caring or more like a human being, uh, than this Daniel guy, than this, I'm not even going to call him by a mayor or anything like that.
He's Danny or whatever.
I'm not going to get in the respect that he might want, um, because he hasn't earned it, uh, because I do think we need to go back to that, uh, in life, you earn respect.
You don't just get it. You earn it. And this guy has not earned it.
Well, I think instead of making public statements like that, how about try to see both sides and, and, and solve, you know what I mean?
Like try to solve the, the issue.
He, yeah, I mean, maybe a little bit of crowd control or something like that is needed or, you know what I mean?
Like there is a balance, right? Like you want to have safety.
Um, you also want people to be served and to learn skills being part of this kitchen.
So how, but, but the effort should be how does it all work together versus, you know, making public statements like this.
The, um, as somebody who has been a part of, uh, these sole kitchens who has seen them working and, and as somebody who has been a part of soup kitchens, uh, many times in my life, both receiving and handing out soup.
Um, I'll tell you right now, the, the people that, the, the people that they're talking, he's talking about here.
For one, he's talking about a very small percentage. He's talking about people that oftentimes, uh, intoxicated or mentally ill, don't often end up over there because they're not able to get there.
They do need help. They do need services, but they're often not able to get them for the factors I just mentioned.
Um, so that is a non starter right there.
And, and, and, and as far as, you know, this even being needed, it's on you. Like, you're the mayor. You should be doing things to help this can be in people and solve the issues.
Don't, um, showboat. Yeah. The people that are looking for clicks are these, these people that get in the politics to try to become, get their 15 seconds of fame.
That's what this guy stands out as to me. This guy, this guy stands out as somebody who is just looking for those things and all he wants, and I've done a little bit of homework on him just to make sure I know what I was talking about.
And I stand on that. Like, there's not a real politician. Real politicians get things done. Real politicians represent everybody, not just the people that voted for him, not just the people that look nice, but every one of their constituents. That's a real politician. That's what, that's what politics is about.
If you make it about you, then you're in the wrong game. It's no different than radio. Okay, let's talk about. Yeah. I mean, you know, I was going to say to you of a favorite bond.
You know, honestly, that whole slippery one, what that whole album is just, it just is my father loves that.
It's a come, anyone, you know, those were affirmative years, right? Like it's like a coming of age thing. I would have been probably what seventh eighth grade. I mean, that was, it just was a thing.
No matter who you are, if you're in that age range, the music you listen to, we know scientifically that that is always going to be nostalgic music for you.
It pops up on the radio. You're leaving it on. You're wanting a dead or alive as a classic. That's a classic. Even I will admit one of the real life as a classic. That's a great song. My dad played that song so much as a kid.
Do you know, I have a light while I don't have it anymore. I'm a little sad lifetime. I have a life size poster.
I've got to say, I think you mentioned it. With his long hair, he did have great. He think my husband would be like, what the heck if he came home and that was on our bottom door?
I would give anything just to know his reaction. It was on my bedroom door as a teenager for years. You got to do it just as a just to see his reaction. Just you just got to find out.
He'd just be like whatever. He wouldn't even, he wouldn't even, it wouldn't even face him. I would, I would be, I would be curious to know if he even noticed.
I think I'd have to put it somewhere a little more conspicuous. Like, like, put it, you know, like he definitely noticed.
Like maybe I'm like the back of the closet door. So like all of a sudden it catches, you know, like you see like someone standing there.
I think you're right. He definitely noticed. The man is very observant. That's part why he's good at his job. But he would, I don't know whether he'd care or not. I think it's a good boy.
Take a look at what's new on your small screen and big screen today on Hulu, the serious premiere of Got to Get Out, a reality competition hosted by Seemoo Lee,
where 20 people are trapped under the same roof and have to stop each other from escaping with part of the $100 million prize.
I don't know what I just said.
Who supplies the prize? Yeah, I was just carrying out. Yes, yes, yes, yes.
Wait a minute. My vlog is sick type for a while.
NCIS, Sydney, Fire County, and SWAT are new tonight. The 15th season premiere of Doctor Who premieres tomorrow Saturday, Saturday live.
John Hamm is hosting with Lizzo as guest. John Hamm hosting is fantastic. He is a great host. I can't wait for that. That's going to be a good one.
American Idol is new on Sunday as well. Third season finale of Yellow Jackets.
And the series finale of 1923 is on Paramount. They are wrapping up that show.
Yeah, there was just only ever supposed to be as far as I know two seasons. So this is the end of the second season.
When you get Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren, and I just, I know it's been on for like a couple of years.
Have you watched any yet? I'm still waiting to. I'm dying to. I got goosebumps when I think about those two working together.
But you also, you have got two of the bigger names in the game to do a TV show. You can only have them for so long.
I imagine they signed a two year deal and that was, you know.
Well, and I think too. I mean, honestly, these are, you know, these are pre pre shows to Yellowstone.
So there's just also only kind of like just so much story to tell, you know, it's connecting all the dots.
And I think too, you know, when 1883 was the same thing, it was like, okay, this is going to be a one season.
Then this one is two seasons. And for me, you know, like I watched Yellowstone.
So there's enough content there that it makes everything makes sense without, I don't know how to.
But without like changing the integrity of the original, you know what I mean?
Like if they said, oh, we're going to do a season three, then all of a sudden, what are they layering in that changes something?
You know, so I, I don't know. I'm good with it. I like it.
Get used to the name Taylor Sheridan because he is one of those guys that similar.
And I always forget her name or I mix it up or something. But the shine arrives. Thank you.
There's a handful of people right now that TV networks.
And this is, this is going back to Norman Lear and all in the family in some of these.
If you've got a hit or two under your belt, you will work for another 20 years in TV because they will, you can always say, well, I had this.
And when you're, when networks are looking for content, every network is looking for content.
Every network is looking for the next big hit, next show, some networks more than others.
Guys like Taylor Sheridan, who have a proven track record of not just one, but three hit shows that did very well and brought in talent.
Like he's got some good movies.
He's got some good movies to him.
So Marin and Harris, yes, he does. But how Marin and Harrison Ford don't have to work.
Like they don't need this. If they're doing this, it's because they really love the project.
So it tells you a lot, just that alone, let alone his ratings and all the other things he's been able to do.
Yeah, he's not going nowhere.
The last of us season season two premiere will be this Sunday on HBO, looking forward to that myself.
And last week tonight, John Oliver is also new on HBO this weekend.
New and a big screen, not a whole lot of wide releases right now.
And that's going to be the case, I think, for a little while here, everybody.
Let's see here.
Warfare is in limited release.
It's written and directed by Iraq War veteran Ray Mendoza.
And set during the Iraq War in 2006, the story follows a platoon of Navy SEALs fighting their weight to an extraction point after their position is overrun by insurgents.
Got a great cast, Joseph Quinn from Stranger Things.
James Gandalfini's kid, Michael Gandalfini's in it, Will Polter.
I'm looking forward to seeing it.
I love, I certainly like saving private Ryan in some of these war movies that are focused on a particular moment or an important act in, you know, a war's history or something.
I do enjoy those, but I almost enjoy these style of war movies more where they're so locked in on one particular platoon or something like that.
And I like to think that they, especially with good acting going back to that, you get actors who really give you an idea as close as you can get to understanding what it might have been like in that foxhole or in that building or something like that.
You can't completely understand, but give us a little more empathy for our soldiers and everything.
I think it's done right, at least.
Drop with Megan Fey, who we're just talking about is also unlimited release.
That's rated PG-13.
The amateur is probably the biggest movie being released.
Rami Malik is in this one, Lawrence Fishburn, John Bernthal in a great cast.
Looks good, looks like a good one.
Also looks like about every other movie you've seen lately where average guy gets pushed too far and becomes an action hero.
I mean, you know, but I'm gonna see it. I'll be honest.
I've never heard of anything like that.
Yeah, yeah, it's basically every movie that isn't a superhero movie nowadays is that, pretty much.
Which, man, that's what it is.
We will take a time out. We'll come back and have some more fun.
On the morning show with WFHR.
Welcome back, everybody.
Morning show here at WFHR.
Locally grown radio, Terry and James hanging out with you.
Thanks so much for joining us.
Got a fun topic a little bit later.
Having a pet makes you as happy as an extra 90k a year.
That is the headline. We'll get into that a little bit later.
But we're talking showering right now.
And what temperature do you like?
What temperature do you like your shower?
Do you like it's called hot or like Terry?
Or do you like a nice cold shower to wake you up?
A survey was taken on Reddit and got nearly 4,000 responses.
So I was like, I try to do any survey or any one of these things.
If it's got over one or 2,000 people.
Otherwise, it's not really much of a survey.
But this one pretty good results.
And a lot of people chiming in on this.
Yeah, a decent sample size.
And I had to say too, I love these topics where I feel like
even though we're going to take separate angles on this
and people are going to have different answers,
it's so undevisive.
And I feel like there's such a connection point here for people.
And I like these kind of ones.
So 44% of people said that they like it roasty toasty.
That's me.
And that is the last time you will ever hear me say that
that prairie roasty toasty.
Oh, same again, they like it what?
Roasty toasty.
That is weird.
Roasty toasty.
I don't know how to say that.
I don't know.
I really don't.
It's words I can say, but I don't know how to say them.
33% said warm.
Okay.
Yeah.
10% fiery hot.
8% lukewarm.
And 3% said cold.
Come on.
No percent doesn't know.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's wild.
I don't know if we've ever had that.
The rest answered that they like a combination.
They like a combination.
Oh, so those are the don't know.
Yeah.
And 3% of people who said that they like cold showers
might be getting some surprise health benefits.
Some studies say a blast of cold water can boost your immune system,
relieve mu muscle soreness and reduce migraines.
That's why athletes have their shower,
their cold baths and everything.
And in case you wanted your information from a dermatologist,
rather than an internet survey,
the ideal shower temperature is between 98 and 105 degrees.
Oh.
Whoa.
I think mine's probably like 110.
100.
Yeah.
I never thought about this.
I never thought about the actual degrees that shower water gets.
I never thought about that.
I think.
I think.
I don't know for sure,
but I think like hot tubs, normal hot tubs sit at like 105.
You know, just to give you a little perspective.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, I don't know.
There is no way.
Okay.
Seriously?
When someone?
Okay.
Like I don't know.
I go in the bathroom and I turn the shower on.
Like I reach my arm in and turn it on and it warms up and then I get in.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
What about these fruit loops that actually get in there and then just turn it on?
Yeah.
That's insanity to me.
That's insanity to me.
I don't know what you're doing.
Yeah.
I don't know what the, what the reasoning about that is.
I just can't even.
Boo.
Um, I don't, I, I can't, I'm not taking many cold showers in my life.
I'm a little like you.
I don't know if I go as hot or not, but I go pretty hot.
I like a warm.
Mainly because of what it does for my muscles and, and the way it feels on my neck.
I got a bad neck and it seems to really help more than the cold water does.
But I pretty much, if I got the time, I wrap up every shower.
You know, you hit the nozzle and it's coming out the, the, the hose at the end.
And I, I make that as ice cold as I can and splash it in my face.
Uh, so it, it just wakes me up a little bit and you know, I, it kind of, uh, feels good.
I, I, I like the way it feels.
You do that.
Wait, wait, you do that before you start showering or you do that at the end.
After you're all nice and warm, then you splash cold water on yourself.
On my face.
Yes.
Because I'm insane.
Uh, yeah, yeah.
Thanks for cementing that a little bit more.
If it wasn't a hundred percent, you know, clear to the audience.
No, I, it just, it wakes me up a little bit.
It feels good.
Um, I don't do it as much in the winter.
I admit, but I, I, I, I love showering.
I love, I love all of it above and everything.
But in the winter, it is this dance that you're, it is this game of, of trying to, you know,
have the room warm and hopefully the hot, the hot using the hot water warmed up the room.
But you know, what's funny about that?
I, no, I just, it, oh, no, just keep it all the same.
Nice warm temperature.
But for Christmas, my, our daughter, I'm like, what is that?
She's showing us her gifts that she got at her boyfriend's families.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'm like, what is that?
Um, she asked for a towel warmer.
So she actually has like this bucket thing that she plugs in when she gets in the show.
You put your towel in there, plug it in, and then when you get out, your towel is warm.
Huh.
It's kind of obnoxious, but it's really also pretty sweet.
It does sound, yeah.
It's pretty sweet.
It's a little boat.
It's a little 50-50 there.
A little cold.
It's like, why would someone need this?
But it also just speaks to that, like, cuddly, cozy, why you do not splash hot water or cold
water on yourself when you're done with yours.
I, this is an interesting topic, but I'd love much, I'd like to jive much more into one
of the bains of my existence, and that is almost every shower curtain I've ever had in
my life.
They, they, they seem to be attracted to me more than any woman I've ever met in my life.
So your extra staticky is there, you see?
I guess.
I don't know what it is, but I cannot, it doesn't matter where I'm taking a shower or what
kind of shower curtain they in it is, I cannot get that thing situated where it won't
keep rubbing into me and like trying to like, why are you doing it there?
I move a lot, I don't tell you that, but I don't know, I don't know what I'm doing
that's so different.
You're, you're just like a skinny guy, you're not, I mean, you're not like touching.
No, shouldn't be happening, but somehow the shower curtain is, is, is like that person
at the bar that won't leave you alone, how are you doing?
What's going on?
How are you doing?
What's your sign?
You know, it won't leave you alone.
People don't say what's your sign anymore, but you, you, you know, you're not supposed
to like roll in it, right?
In the curtain?
You're supposed to just let it hang straight.
Now you're telling me.
I mean, I'm just saying, I, I, it doesn't seem, the other thing is I'll get it situated
and I got like this, the shampoo and conditioner holding it in place or something like that.
And what happens?
The little bit of rev, the, the little levy there, fills up, water goes down, and it's
all on the floor.
It's all on the floor.
It's the story of my life.
My whole life, this has been happening.
I, I, I shower curtains.
Right.
Now, what I've never been in though, and, and I've seen, I've seen since we were kids, you
know, they've had those one shout, the sliding door.
Oh, yeah.
I don't know.
I, those seem like, I'd like to use one of those, those seem so bad.
I had those when we built our house, I put those on and, but I, I actually finally just
took them off because I couldn't keep on like super, you know, like I'm a crazy cleaner.
Oh, I didn't know.
Back in, we have well water.
So finally, I just, and it was really funny because I asked my husband a couple of times,
I'm like, I want you to take those doors off.
What are you going to do?
Get new ones?
No, put up a shower curtain.
I want you to take those doors off.
And the next time he comes home, he's like, what are you doing?
I'm like, taking the doors off, only ask so many times.
Yep.
Yep.
You warned.
You get, you get plenty of them.
So I just, you know, like the curtains, I just feel like if they, when they get to
a point where I can't, then I can just replace them versus, versus the doors.
That's my thing.
But they are, yes.
I mean, for you who can't navigate a shower curtain liner, it would be quite valuable,
actually.
I might have to think about my other investment.
I mean, that'd be a good fit.
It might be.
And this battle between me and shower curtains, I can't win.
We will take a time out.
We'll come back with more show coming up, morning show at WFHR.
Welcome back, everybody.
Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio, Terry and James hanging out with you.
We hope you're having a great day out there.
Thanks for joining us.
Let's dive into this one, Terry.
A pets can be expensive, but a new study found they're more than worth it.
Researchers in England looked at how much happier we are when we have a pet, and they
managed to put a dollar figure on it.
And I actually think this is, I don't normally like this kind of stuff.
I really do like to try to keep money separate from emotions and feelings as much as possible.
I think that this is a perfect one, though, to kind of merge with those worlds.
They say having a dog or a cat makes you as happy as you'd be earning an extra $90,000
a year.
That's incredible.
So the next time you're spending your hard-earned cash on dog food, or just remember, you'd
be miserable without a little fly-fi, though.
The study authors also say being married ups your happiness by an extra 90 grand a year.
Oh, there you go.
Get married or have a dog.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So is both $180,000?
Oh, there you go.
Yes.
It's got to be right.
It's got to be.
That's how math works.
Right.
Now, certainly all of this, you can take with a grain of salt if you'd like.
But I do think that they did their homework on this one, and the math and the numbers kind
of speak for themselves, and numbers don't lie.
Now, I think that this is one of the things that is very difficult in day-to-day life,
and especially in business world, where you have to balance, well, I talk about this
a lot with nonprofits and everything, for a business, if I'm going to advertise with
the United Way, I'm going to spend such amount of dollars.
But I can't even put a price tag on the number of what I'm making PR-wise.
What you're getting at.
The return on investment.
Yeah.
There is no number you can put on that.
It's incredible.
You know, the work that's being done a day.
When I'm talking about it, I'm not just talking about it because I am friends with Terry
or I care about this profit or this nonprofit.
It's because it's business 101.
It's very smart to do.
The marketing, any marketing, anybody good at marketing will tell you this, and anybody
good at business will tell you, you got to spend money to earn money.
You got to spend to do things, and sometimes you're not going to finish in the black with
a business if your model is not good for business.
If you're trying to adapt something or do something different, that's not going to happen
always.
I'm going to be talking about this a little bit on Monday.
But when it comes to personal life, it gets a little bit tougher.
I think it's easier for a business to make this decision one way or the other because
to be fair, it's just business, and oftentimes you can chalk it up to that.
You can also chalk it up to the idea of, oh, well, we're a business, but we have heart.
It depends on what kind of company you want to have.
On a personal level, it can be a lot tougher to do when almost every one of us, especially
anybody listening to this, you got to worry about every penny.
You got to worry about dollars and cents.
There is, really, I think the smart thing about this article is just that, I don't know
that you can really monetize it, but acknowledging that there is a value, pet's bring value, pet's
bring people a lot more than maybe what others realize, especially people who don't have
pets or who have never had a pet.
You don't really realize what that pet can bring, the companionship and just the overall
I don't know.
I think the overall demeanor sometimes of people is just different when they have something
to snuggle.
When I send a shout out to the collar club, my little fur brother Sam went over there, got
a haircut the other day, 25 pounds for Sam.
Like, he was 25, he turned into a little chub over the winter, but Sam has had some health
problems and had some problems with his legs, so we go over almost last seven, eight months
we've been going through this back and forth, and he's finally doing well, the leg is healed,
but there was a staple that was still in his leg that we didn't know about and the doctor
didn't remove, they missed it.
To know fault of their own, veterinarians are overworked to know, there's a lot being
put on their plates, as I don't want that sound like it was at the vet.
But the groomers noticed this and let my parents know, and my mom and dad knew that they
would have to take Sam back in for another appointment.
My parents are doing okay, but they don't like everybody else out there listening, they
got to watch their dollars and censor everything, didn't blink an eye, we're like, yeah, we're
taking them in, we're getting it done, that's our fur brother, that's, I mean, that's
our son, basically, in the way they love that guy.
Now it didn't end up thankfully costing anything to shut it up to that veterinary clinic
for doing it that way, but they weren't, they didn't blink an eye, and these are two
people that have had their whole lives had to worry about every penny that they're spending,
but when it came to their fur brother, or to be fair when it came to us kids, I'm
talking about many times on the ear, my parents didn't have a lot growing up, but we didn't
feel that as kids necessarily, because my parents always put us first, and whatever they were
doing, and made the most out of what they had.
I mean, if Sam had a staple that had to come out and you had a staple that had to come out,
I'm just asking for a friend.
Sam what order?
Sam first, definitely Sam first, and you know what, maybe on the way home, maybe, maybe
this will only hurt a minute, bite down on this pencil.
Jimmy I could take that out, we ain't going to go all the way over there.
I'm just asking, just, you know, wondering right now, I'm telling you, I can get it out,
Jimmy, I've got a hand, but right over here, I think this is becoming tougher and tougher
for people to, you know, what do you do in these situations and how you make these decisions?
I do think that we're getting more and more calm, it's becoming more and more common
though, the idea of, hey, you know, this may cost me something, but I understand the
give and take.
Well, and isn't the dog always happy to see you when you come home?
You know what I mean?
Like there's just, there's just something about that unconditional love, and they don't
talk back.
I think cats talk back sometimes.
Yeah, definitely.
I mean, I like cats, I'm a cat fan, but at the same time, it is kind of funny, because
they are moody.
Yeah, definitely.
Yeah.
And I admit that some of that might even be projecting on them for me.
Oh, for sure.
But yeah, for sure.
But I mean, but the dog is just always like, oh, yeah, look at me, look at me.
What price would you put on something like that?
Nearly $90,000.
Yeah, barely, barely, barely.
Yeah.
We got a number now.
That's going.
Let's go ahead and take a look at this one right here, Terry.
I thought this was another interesting one for us in the audience, and now this one is
a little bit different because I don't think that we necessarily deal with this a lot
in our listenership or in such a Wisconsin here.
But traffic jams, they can happen.
And a traffic jam can be something like I used to deal with every day on the Dan Ryan
going to Chicago, or it could be something where it's just, you know, we got a, you know,
I see it almost, it's sometimes in the mornings here.
We have like a number of different school buses going over to Randland.
Just waiting to get around the club.
Look, look, clogged up in the, you know, it gets, it happens.
An annual study found traffic costs the average commuter 43 hours of their life last year.
More than a full week's worth of work.
That's just the extra time you spent on the road, thanks to traffic jams and slowdowns.
New York was the most congested city in New North America, and that's not surprising, anybody.
The second, in the second world wide, now that I think is a little surprising.
In the whole world, New York is the second most congested Istanbul was first.
And I don't think you need to know much about India to know there is a very, very populated
country.
There's a lot of people there.
So that makes all the sense, but I just seen New York number two in the world was surprising
to me.
Drivers in New York sat and bumper to bumper traffic for 102 hours last year.
Chicago ranked third overall also at 102 hours, not surprising at all.
No, it's not surprising, but to me, I have this perception of so, and in my, all of my
experience with this has been literally passing through or trying to get around Chicago.
Okay.
So, so pretty limited.
But when it's happened, I've said they're going, why do people do this?
Like what is the value that they see that they're willing to do this?
But then when you say people, you know, like in New York, they averaged 102 hours last
year.
That's only like two hours a week.
For me, it felt like it was probably like two hours every single day that they're sitting
still.
So it really maybe, for those of us who don't experience it regularly, it maybe really
isn't as bad as we perceive it.
Because to me, I'm like, why, why, I, I definitely know what this is like and have dealt with
it plenty of times.
But honestly, when I first see this article, the first thing I think of is businesses and
how much money you're, you're, you're losing, you know, you think of how late my people
would be to work and it would just annoy me.
Yeah.
That does, well, Bill said.
So again, New York at number one, Chicago at number two, Los Angeles at number three,
Boston at number four, Philly at number five.
I actually would have thought Boston and Philly would be higher on the list, not three and
four or low, but or four and five or low.
But the more East Coast you go, the more likely you are to run into traffic jams and everything.
New York is one of the biggest cities in the world.
That's all, you know, common knowledge.
But what I don't think people think about enough is New York, Chicago, cities like this
were never meant to be this big.
Look at Steven's point.
Look at any college town, really.
But Steven's point I think is a good example.
Steven's point is a great town.
I think it's a great city, but it wasn't built for the amount of people they have there.
It's why you have a lot of frustrations with one way roads and some of these things.
It's no different on a larger scale when you're talking about Chicago, which is still a Midwest
city on the river or on the lake.
It is not, was not, was rebuilt.
It's, it's a Chicago 2.0.
So there's that and then you go out East and it's even worse.
You got dirt roads and everything they were working with and that and all of it's built
around.
They built from the middle up with a lot of these places.
So you're going to have a lot of congestion.
You're going to have a lot of roads and a lot of issues with some of these things.
You know, it's also interesting to me as always having had a car.
I mean, I didn't always have my own car like when I was a kid, but just always having access
to a car.
I never also really understood like why someone wouldn't want to have a car.
If you're in one, you know, some of those big cities, you're probably more efficient
using public transportation.
Yep.
And I shout out to public transportation.
Miami came in at number six with 74 Houston at 66 Atlanta 65 DC at 62 in Seattle at 63.
Denver ranked 15, but saw the biggest increase in traffic a year over a year.
Traffic delays were up 19% in Denver compared to 2023.
That surprisingly Denver is also seen an increase in population in the last 10, 20 years
and stuff.
So I imagine that's played a part in it.
It is always funny though around here because don't you think if you have to go 10 miles,
you think, okay, I need 10.
I need 15 minutes, right?
Like even if I stop at every red light, I need I need basically five more minutes than
the number of miles I'm driving kind of thing.
And then you know, some of these places, I think Google Maps is kind of what throws you
a little bit.
You know, you'll like put up the driving directions from one place to the next and it'll be like,
you need 40 minutes to go seven miles and you're like, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait a minute.
That stuff throws.
How am I getting there?
Yeah, yeah.
It's always a wild one when that happens.
When you're like, wait a minute though, I feel like I can walk there and be faster.
Yeah, that's an interesting one.
We will take a time out.
We'll come back and wrap up the show for the week.
Welcome back, everybody, morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio.
Terry and James hanging out with you, wrapping up the show for the week.
Thanks so much for joining us.
Want to see a big shout out to all of our co-hosts, all of our guests on the air, all you
callers in and the best listeners in the radio.
Big thank you to our sponsors, been a lot of fun this week, everybody.
Keep in mind, next week, Monday, set Melissa and I will be together and we're going to be
talking about some programming adaptions that we're going to be doing around here and we'll
be informing you about that.
I think you guys are going to not only want to hear that, but I think you're going to enjoy
some parts of it.
We'll get into all that in a little bit, looking forward to it.
Want to get into our schedule before we get into some good stories of the day and talk
a little united way.
Just stop, be sure to join us later for Midday Magazine one more for the week.
Four to five will be here.
In part one, we're going to talk with Jeremy Schmidt about hidden heroes, the event that's
going on at the hotel meeting, some other things they're doing over there.
And in part two, thanks to our great friends at the Visit Wisconsin Rapids Bureau, we're
going to talk to Dr. Jill from Central Wisconsin Gift of Life.
They've got some good things coming up with their scavenger hunt that we talk about every
year with them.
Yeah, that's always fun.
We're talking a little bit about, you know, donation, organ donation and stuff like that.
And she is fabulous.
She's so great.
She's so much fun to talk to.
I love her.
She's great.
Yeah.
We will have playmakers for you tonight.
Be sure to join us for that one.
Nobody made a highlight from the sidelines, get in the game, big shout out to quality
plus printing and family and natural food, sponsoring playmakers.
I believe Seth is going to be sitting in with me today, so you know we're going to talk
baseball.
That's definitely going to happen.
Great stuff on the weekend dial.
This is at 7 o'clock tomorrow morning for the Sunshine Pocus show.
The greatest show of all time, time, time.
Jim Hubble does a great job with that when scouring the universe for great polka.
After that, you got Terry Talks Nutrition with Terry Lembron brought to you by family
natural foods.
A wonderful show to be able to get informed, not only about supplements and the human body
and ways that you can, you know, make, have a better day, but Terry's just a great
talker.
Great.
Yeah.
I like this thing too.
But also exciting, you know, he gets excited.
It's also authoritative enough, not in a kind of sending way, but in a way that it makes
you like buy into what I mean, yeah, no, you're right.
Believe what he said, you know, he, I guess he has enough conviction that he, you know
that he knows what he's talking about on directors playhouse this weekend on Sunday from
five to six.
Be sure to join Seth and I.
We're going to be welcoming in Nathan from the film February.
He's going to be joining us, but we're also going to be talking about some of the
the initiative that is being put forward to try to get the taxes lower for filmmakers
in this state.
There are dollars being left behind that are going to Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota,
every neighboring state except Wisconsin.
Yep.
Look, it's, it is money that Wisconsin has been leaving on the table for a long time.
Let's do it.
Nathan's been a real initiative on this one looking forward to talking with him about
that.
We'll be doing that on Sunday during playmaker directors playhouse from five to six,
to eight.
You'll have Seth facing the music.
He'll have a different theme for you to dive into and have some fun with.
And then from eight to nine, unlabeled, did something a little different with this version
of unlabeled.
I took artists that were, you know, made their big hits in the 60s or 70s or 80s, but
still had a hit in the 90s.
Oh, it's a bunch of it.
Like, it could have used bunch of it, yes.
Like, put up, like, like, you know, ACDC, for example, you know, they were in Minneapolis
last night.
How did I miss out on that?
Yeah.
That had been a good show.
That had been a good show.
Yeah.
So, well, have fun with unlabeled.
Be sure to join us this Sunday from eight to nine and every Sunday eight to nine.
We look forward to that.
We have a great events going on in our community all weekend long.
These super spring, spectacular with the South of County, Maine society is going on tomorrow
from 10 to two over at Bullseye Golf Club, head on over there and enjoy some food, raffle
baskets, kids games, music, they're going to hope into bringing a dog or two or something.
Gorgeous weather.
Yeah.
This is working out.
Really worked out.
It will be entered in a free drawing for a chance to win up to three door prizes and
they are huge prizes.
Be sure to check out the South of County, Maine society's super spring, spectacular going
on tomorrow from 10 to two over at Bullseye Golf Club.
Also going on today and tomorrow, the assumption talent show.
This will take place today at seven o'clock and then tomorrow they're going to have dinner
on a show for you.
The cocktails will begin at five, show time will be at seven.
You can get your tickets right at the right at the front counter there where you're walking
into the building and stuff.
Encourage you to do that and find out more by following the assumption on Facebook.
Cool.
A toast to great futures.
All proceeds benefiting the Boys and Girls Club of Wisconsin's rabbits area is going to
be tomorrow or today as well.
This is a wine and beer taste test and a tasting fundraiser.
It's happening at the Ridge's Golf Course and banquet facility from seven to ten tonight.
Encourage you to get your tickets and find out more tickets are available and going to
be purchased at the Boys and Girls Club right there on West Grand.
So we got this scavenger hunt coming up.
That'll be tomorrow, everybody.
This is not only brought to us by our friends at Gift of Life of the Central Wisconsin Gift
of Life, but this is one of the more fun events they do.
We have in our area, I should say.
This is the eleventh one too.
That's a brag, but my team came in first the first year, second the second year and first
the third year.
And then we haven't gone back.
I mean, I think some have, but it just, you know, kid stuff or whatever.
Like it just hasn't worked out, but be listening to the event.
It's such a great event for such a great cause.
We'll be talking more about it today during midday magazine and you could be a part of
it tomorrow.
Find out more by going to their Facebook page.
Just type into your search bar, Central Wisconsin Gift of Life should pop right up.
And keep in mind, they went to your farmer's market is going on tomorrow from nine to one
over at the Wisconsin Ravens Church.
This is a great event and a great way to buy local support local, help out our local vendors
and local ag industry and have a great time, have some fellowship, going to be a nice
one.
Terry wanted to wrap up talking a little United Way with you.
You know, though, one thing just before we do United Way is just anybody who says there's
nothing going on around here.
I hope they were listening the last five minutes.
So we have some great stuff going on at United Way too.
We are collecting books right now for our great book Giveaway.
This happens the week after school lets out.
We do a series of reading in the park events.
Hopefully to give kids some exciting books to have over summer, you know, and help prevent
summer slide.
So ways that you can get involved with that is we are collecting new and gently used children's
books.
One month of April, so you can drop those off at United Way, 351 Oak Street here in
Wisconsin Rapids, 830 to 4.
So we are accepting donations.
We also are looking for readers.
So if someone is interested in coming to one of the events and reading to kids, you certainly
can check in with us at United Way as well and we can get you on the list because it's
just fun to see and you've done this before.
It's great.
You don't even have to have kids books in your house.
You can come and use one of the books that we have that we'll be giving away.
It is a great opportunity to, you know, to make an impact on some kiddos.
I like to grab a book and hold it up and I'm like, what do you think of this one guys?
And they're like, yeah.
And I like it cheer.
So it just gets a going right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Exactly.
I'll be there again this year and encourage you to find out more about that and all the
other great things you, United Way is up to at UWSWAC.org.
Be sure to follow them on social media and help them build that Facebook page back up.
When you see posts from the United Way, share it on your page.
You just never know who might see it that wouldn't have otherwise.
Yeah.
We definitely appreciate that.
UWSWAC.org.
A firefighter in Illinois got trapped under rubble last Thursday when a home's porch roof
collapsed on him.
But first responders and bystanders rushed in to lift it up and he is okay.
There's chess camp footage of it that just even talking about it gets, you know, it's
intense.
Yeah, I don't know.
I wouldn't want to see it.
I watched it once just to be able to talk about this, but yeah, I couldn't watch it
again.
Shout out to those individuals.
Those are heroes.
Just like that firefighter.
And thank goodness they're adrenaline kicked in, right?
Yeah.
A fundraiser called Shelter Slamber Paw T raised over a million dollars for animal shelters
across the country this weekend.
People slept overnight at different shelters and got other people to sponsor them.
Very cool.
Oh, I got to talk to our Denise about this.
We should do that next year.
I think that's a lot of fun.
That's pretty cool.
And a woman near Philly went into labor 10 days early on April Fool's Day and had to
get birth at home.
She lives two minutes from a hospital, so her husband wanted to go.
And she told them there wasn't time she was and she was right.
And their interview is great.
He said eventually he decided to shut up and just to help her wherever he could.
Smart guy.
Now we touched on this one a little bit.
I wanted to do some more homework on this one because not only are mom and dad and the
baby are okay, but talking to my mother about this story.
She could relate quite a bit.
And she was more than two minutes away.
And my mom, my mom's like, I'm so happy they're all okay.
That's also not fair.
That's a cool story though.
And let's see.
Let's talk about this one right here to wrap up a chimp at a zoo in Kansas gave birth
via C section on Monday and they shared a video of her meeting her baby for the first
time.
She tragically lost her baby in 2022, but her new daughter is doing great.
The zoo is very exciting.
Oh, it just hits your heart.
It's a beautiful moment.
Terry, you want to go there?
Yeah.
Terry, great show.
Have a great weekend.
You too.
Have a good one, everybody.
What's up?
Be good to each other.
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