Good morning, Wisconsin.
Morning, world.
It's a new day.
Thanks for kicking it off with us at WFHR.
Got your host, James behind the mic, joined by CEO of Yuri Nightaway of Southwood and
Amps County.
Terry Johns.
Good morning.
We're going to have the band together.
We're going to have some fun in the next hour.
Good things coming up before you were going to get into.
We've got the states that drive the fastest and the slowest.
I want to get to this one too, the perfect way to make a s'more.
I got a good one here.
I want to get into that too.
And plenty of other stuff will wrap up with an update from our United Way, along with
some other good things going on in our area and touch on our schedule.
But we kicked things off with entertainment in the 10 o'clock hour and any opportunity to
talk about Miranda Lambert.
I'm going to take it.
She was in the news recently, USA Today did an article at her.
In their latest issue of USA Today Home, the article just was a nice article talking about
her.
The main focus was on mutt nation, and I just wanted to touch on that for a little bit
for those who may not know.
This is an organization of hers.
It's been around for quite a while.
They do a lot of really good work.
There's a number of different ways that you can be a part of it.
And just sharing the information, sharing what they're doing over there, but I thought
it was a really nice article.
I wanted to encourage people to check it out if you get a chance.
And I shot a two tractor supply as well, who worked with her on this and where most
a lot of the funds and awareness are done.
So I don't know if you know this, but there was a local Wisconsin rapids dog featured.
Is there?
Oh, there was.
Yes.
So, Oggi, and his owner is an eye doctor in town here.
But she had submitted his story because how cute is it that an eye doctor would have
a one eye dog?
And so then, yeah, I mean stuffed Oggies were made and available at tractor supply.
So it's kind of cool how mutt nation will just feature a certain dog or dogs.
And then, you know, kind of tell their story and I think, you know, it's really smart
marketing, right?
Because it makes people come back.
Right?
Like, oh, I want to hear about the next dog that they're featuring and I want to hear
about the next story.
So, but yeah, it was super cool when when Oggi got featured.
They're available exclusively over a tractor supply throughout the US.
And when you purchase those items, 100% of the proceeds go into the mutt nation cause,
which is really cool.
It's really cool.
Nice to be able to see.
It's, there's something about when with her and when she is talking about something
or involved with something, she is either the greatest actor I've ever seen in my life
or she is the real deal.
Now, she's full of passion.
She just is.
Yeah.
She's just all over it.
I enjoy what not only certainly her as an artist, I do, but what she does off the field,
bringing awareness to different things is it does a really nice job of it.
I think the one of the better ways of doing it where you're not trying to like, talk
down to people or, or, you know, guilt people into things or anything like that.
I don't think and you know this much better than I do.
I don't think that you really get people to register and engage with that when you're
just talking to somebody.
And you're having a conversation or you're presenting the information.
I think that goes so much farther.
And the local part of it, what you're touching on there with the work that her and the
tractor supply company are doing, that's key to a lot of this too going forward.
It's not enough to just bring attention to it, but really, you know, whenever you can
bring in that local tie that goes so much farther.
You can read more about my nation at mudnation.com and head over to USA Today to find that complete
article.
It's really nice.
One to take a look at the weekend box office numbers in part because it was a little
surprising to me for those that didn't hurt and didn't look.
The big ones really out this weekend, the mission impossible, the last mission impossible
movie and the live action, Lilo and stitch movie.
Two very different audiences traditionally when it comes to the people that are going
to go to those movies.
But most marketers, most people in the industry would have told you, well, those live action
movies at Disney, they're hit or miss, they don't do that great.
And the mission impossible franchise, especially this being the last one and the amount of
height put on it and everything, there's no way that's not going to be number one in the
box office.
And then reality happens.
And I think that there is a little bit of a wear down with Tom Cruise brand and with
the mission impossible brand, not much, but a bit of one.
There is a kind of, there is almost a second act happening with Disney with these live action
movies because they are truly black and white.
It's either it's a hit or it's just, it does horrible.
It's either, you know, the Lilo and stitch movie, which was number one in the box office
over the weekend, over mission impossible.
Actually Lilo and stitch broke a, yeah, broke the highest memorial day weekend opening
ever, ever.
That's crazy.
That really, really is.
It speaks to a little bit too of the, you know, this is one of the things that they don't
get into with these numbers.
The particular memorial weekend we had here where we had throughout the country, you know,
Dicey weather here and there.
And we also had a lot of people that were itching to get out because a lot of the country
was under already blanketed weather.
So movie theaters were, you know, a lot more people were hitting the movie theater than
traditional maybe or in recent years.
And a lot of those people were families.
And if you're a family, you're probably not going to take the kids to mission impossible
where I find a reckoning.
Yeah.
I don't know.
They all depends on all the kids are, but yes, maybe, you know, me is a seven year old
sure, but your normal seven year old probably what's C. Lilo and stitch more than Tom Cruise
hanging off of an airplane.
I, you know, I don't know.
So it's not that surprising when you break it down, but just when they walked into the
weekend, it speaks to one of these things that we're seeing more and more of the people
that like they have the information and how little they are to share of it.
We saw this a lot in the NFL draft recently where every mock draft had, you know, certain
players going in certain places and then the actual draft happens and all those players
are not drafted where a lot of people thought they were because they just, those, these
mock draft people and these draft gurus, they're good at what they do and they have a lot
of great solid information.
And they're watching the games and all that, but they're not insiders.
They don't have that coveted inside information and the people that have that information,
they're becoming less and less likely to share it anymore.
And that's the same thing with the movie industry where there are the movie industry for,
there's a lot of good people in it.
It's so easy to say all of Hollywood is blind or out of touch or anything.
That's not the case.
It's not true.
It's not fair.
It's also somewhat accurate.
It's also so much.
That's not true.
It's also so much.
It's a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little column A, a little column B.
They prove that they're out of touch with a lot of this kind of stuff and, and quite
frankly, a lot of the movies that they're putting out there at the same time.
I think that they, they understand the audience to a degree because they have to.
Nobody survives in that industry.
As soon as a bomb happens, heads roll.
So you're going to get good at the job, whether you, you know, you actually care about people
or not, you're going to get good at it if you want to keep that paycheck.
This is very surprising to me how off they were about this one and how, it's not just
that Lee Loan Stitch, you know, out, you know, out did mission impossible.
It's by how much it did and the record breaking weekend, if you'd had told me that the record
breaking weekend happened for mission impossible, well, of course, Tom Cruise, he's Mr. Fourth
of July.
He's, he's the biggest box office star there's ever been, like quite literally.
This was a little more surprising to me.
I think I would say, I'll, I'll go see it though.
Oh, my God.
Yeah.
Lee Loan Stitch.
No, that, that one's not for me, but I definitely get to see the mission impossible.
I'm a sucker for those movies.
I've been very honest about this one.
Those movies pulled me in.
There's something about them.
Final destination, Bloodlines, was it number three?
Centers is still doing really good at number four and Thunderbolts came in as well.
But the new movie Friendship, which is doing very well in the limited release and I always
like seeing these limited release movies do well.
It's, it's good for the industry and I think good for moviegoers when that happens.
Let's see here.
I also want to do, so take a look at something else that is interesting that's happening with
this.
So, the reason for the Lee Loan Stitch movie doing so well, I mentioned a couple of factors
there.
But the biggest factor of this is something that Hollywood and all, not, I'm sorry, not
just Hollywood, all businesses are going to be hitting on over the next couple of years
if not the next five to 10 years.
These millennials, they are the micro generation of individuals roughly between the late 90s
and early 2000s.
I don't know, a lot of what I just said there, but this is this group of, this is the
group of people, they are representing a transition between millennials and generation
C. They are often described as a mix of both generations and they are a generation that
has money, that they, they, they are saying has money.
I don't know if they actually do, but they are saying they do.
So we have generations, we've had them, named them for a long time, but now we have to
have the, in betweeners have a name?
Well, we don't have to, but marketing people do.
Marketing people are doing this.
Marketing people, I don't, I don't think that the, your average person has any idea of
a lot of what I just said.
But if you're in marketing, if you're in sales, you better know these names.
You have to do this because there's not a lot of people with free income right now.
There's not a lot of people with spendable income.
This little bit of gender, this little group of people I just talked about is one of the
few that does have disposable income.
And if that's the coveted thing, it used to be when we were kids that coveted 18 to
34 range.
That's where you wanted to hit your, if you could get anything from there, whatever business,
I don't care if you sold gum or you were a movie company or anything, that was the coveted
group.
Now, this is the coveted group.
It's just got the data with more and more data.
They just narrowed this stuff down more and more.
And so they're going to label these things, but I don't think any average person is looking
at it that way.
But they're saying that this was the big reason why Lilo and Stitch did so well, because
that generation grew up with that movie.
And now they're getting, they're getting, they're getting to take their kids to it or going
with their, you know, significant other to go see it and nostalgia.
That is the biggest thing that anybody is looking for nowadays.
I don't know that that's new.
I think nostalgia's always been on people's radar.
I think it's, it just changes, you only change up that happens really is per generation.
Like, right now they're really hitting us when nostalgia, our generation, they're really
hitting us and really going after us with it and stuff.
And I love it, pandered to me.
It's the only time I'll ever say this in my life, but I'll be completely honest.
I'm loving it.
I love that commercials and movies and TV shows, they're so focused on our generation
right now and hitting that.
With that said, I'm enjoying it while we can because this is coming.
The whole Zillennial thing is coming.
Everything is as parody and the movie industry is seeing this and Disney darn sure is seeing
it.
So you can expect a lot more movies of that era to be being remade or, you know, the,
the ideas of a reenvisioned or anything like that.
I don't see where it goes.
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We'll take a time out.
We'll come back and Terry want to get into the perfect way to make a s'more.
I want to get into that one.
We'll come back.
We'll come back.
I might be, might be.
We'll see.
Coming up on the morning show at WFHR.
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Morning show at WFHR.
Locally grown news.
Got an 80s vibe going today with Terry and James here together.
I hope you're having a good one out there, everybody.
New York, New York is everything we say.
And don't face out of rugby.
And Huey Lewis had a moment there.
The Huey Lewis and the news had a moment.
Yeah, I think you had a whole minute.
Yeah, yeah.
Definitely, definitely.
He was awesome.
Let's talk s'mores.
We are in the getting into the more Memorial Weekend is usually the kickoff
of the summer weekend, of course, and everything.
Kids summer camp coming up or just, you know, having a fire outside
or any of those things, s'mores are a go-to.
But how do you make them?
How do you make them out there, everybody?
I want audience feedback on this 1715-424-2600.
Feel free to call up and join the conversation through the Civic Media app as well.
So they have here a guide on the best way to make s'mores.
And I'm trying, this is from Camp, Coupa Manangie.
Coupa Manangie.
Coupa Manangian.
I was thinking of like every 80s movie that had a camp on it.
Yes, yes.
Meatballs.
Meatballs.
There's so many.
Now, there was a trend too there.
Hey, these are good movies.
We'll make these.
They were fun.
Oh, they were fun.
Bill Murray was in Meatballs, I think.
So here we go with the four techniques you should use or you can use.
Don't stop doing what you're doing.
Let's get that out of the way.
Well, but maybe you can improve what you're doing.
Exactly.
I think that's what you look at with this list.
We're not trying to change minds here, just maybe adding to what you do.
So number one, the roasting technique.
Most people agree that the marshmallow and that the marshmallow and how you roast it
is the most critical part of the equation.
They found that the idea roasting time is exactly two minutes and 37 seconds over medium
heat.
Okay.
I've been making some ours for, gosh, I don't know.
How old do you let your kid first roast like?
So let's say 45 years and I have never kept time on the marshmallow.
I have eyeballs on the marshmallow and it has to be golden brown.
Yes.
I can't do the burnt at all.
I know people who like them, but golden brown and soft the whole way through.
So you do have to keep it up, yes, more medium heat because otherwise the outside gets
brown and your inside is still hard.
What, and how, like the medium heat part, I feel like that's a little, does anybody make
a smore outside of a campfire?
Like you're always doing it over a campfire, right?
Yeah, but I think people sometimes get it like in too hot of heat.
They might not start it on fire, but the outside gets browned and then the inside is still
like a harder marshmallow and so on.
The top of the flames.
Raise it up a little bit.
Although I'm not going to lie, I have made them in the house on the stove.
Okay.
I know I'm sure people have.
I just haven't been a part of that.
When sometimes you just need one.
I might have to do that.
Don't drip it on the stove though.
It's quite messy.
This is making me very hungry.
The chocolate.
While traditional milk chocolate works fine, darker chocolate gives it an extra flavor
punch.
They suggest using one that's about 70% cocoa and the chocolate should be softened by
the fire just before sandwiching it.
So I'm a Hershey's milk chocolate all the way.
Yeah.
It has to be that.
It has to be that.
Three squares.
Although I love dark chocolate.
I do too, but I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know that I'm not going to get better shape either way.
And the graham cracker, of course, it provides the crunch and structure that holds the whole
thing together.
A slightly honey flavored graham cracker tastes the best and the cracker should be warmed
for 12 seconds I need side before assembling to enhance the texture flavor profile.
Where are you warming it?
Yeah, I don't know.
I'm not warming it.
The marshmallow is doing the warming and the melting and the marshmallow is doing the
work.
I do agree on the honey graham crackers, but I don't think I buy any other kind.
Yeah, I don't.
You know what I mean?
Sometimes my mom will get, and for me, and I'm a sugar junkie, but to me, it's just
too much.
She'll get those.
I'm cinnamon sugar graham crackers for this, but then I don't know.
I just want a plain one, a regular graham cracker.
I don't mind those if I'm in the mood for it, but I can have like two.
I'm done.
There's so much cinnamon on those for me.
And the ratio, when you finally go to assemble the perfect s'more, we'll have a ratio that's
two parts, graham cracker, three parts, marshmallow, and one part chocolate.
That is according to this article.
And now how you make it is the right way to make it.
However you make it.
That's probably the right way.
Specifically, how Terry makes it, but however you make it out there is right.
And I don't know that they, other than the real, overly specific details of time and
all those things, there's nothing new there to me.
I don't feel like I've heard of...
Have you ever heard of somebody warming up the graham cracker?
I don't know about that.
You know, I don't begrudge it.
I would try it.
Hey, what do you have to have a grill over your fire then?
How are you warming it for 12 seconds?
I feel like part of what brings us to these is certainly going back to nostalgia and the
flavor of course and all that, but the simplicity and the quickness of making us more.
I feel like it's a key part of it.
If I'm spending too much time out of it, it's just not, doesn't mean as much of me.
Get out your timer.
No, yeah.
I'm not going to spend more than that.
No, I'm not doing that.
I don't know.
I do like them though.
I love us some more.
Yeah, I don't know if there's a time of year that is better than other, but this time
of year really does feel like the right time of year to dive into those.
I'm a big fan.
One of the other things that we're a fan of around here is of course buying local supporting
local and there's a lot of great local things that we get to be a part of throughout the
whole year.
One of the things that we love to highlight is our local arts and certainly our high school
arts and that season is wrapping up.
Our high schools are wrapping up for the year and everything.
We were just talking about graduation earlier.
So Lincoln High School is the last as far as in the area, band concerts available and they
got one going on tonight.
Six thirty orchestra pops concert at the Performing Arts Center right here in Wisconsin
Rapids.
Encourage you to check that out, support the kids, enjoy the great show and a wonderful
atmosphere.
I love the pack.
It's a great place to take in anything.
Yeah, you'd be challenged to find a place with better sound.
Yeah, the acoustics in there, I would give anything to perform on that stage.
I would love to.
I graduated right before that got built and everything.
It bothers me if you're talking about it.
I want to get over on that stage.
Get on over there and check out these kids and enjoy that show again 630 tonight.
The orchestra pops concert happening at the Performing Arts Center and then tomorrow
got another show 630 choir concert and that will wrap up the season of the Wisconsin
Rapids Public Schools concerts.
Nice.
So one more for you today at 630 orchestra pops concert and then tomorrow 630 choir concert
both of these at the Performing Arts Center in Wisconsin Rapids.
Encourage you to head on over there, support these kids by local support, local everybody.
Here and I are going to get into our news, sports and partner break.
When we come back, got a couple of fun ones for you.
One of the topics I wanted to get into, the state that drives the fastest and slowest,
the states that drive the fastest and slowest.
We'll get into that and plenty more when we come back on the morning show here at WFHR.
Welcome back everybody, morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio.
This is more 90s than 80s.
I don't know.
Is this from cocktail?
Yes.
Yes, it is.
I believe so.
So 80s.
Yes, all right.
All right.
Good number, regular.
Terry and James hanging out with you.
Thanks so much for joining us, everybody.
Again, another spring, summer topic, traffic.
Whether we like it or not, certainly not.
Yeah.
Whether it is the traveling we're doing with getting out of the house and bopping around
vacation plans, all that, or orange cone season, which I always like to remind you to keep
an eye out for our city workers out there working their tails off to try to make our roads
safer and everything.
Slow down.
Slow down.
So if traffic is really slow on the roads today, just be thankful you are not in New Hampshire.
Because if you are in New Hampshire, our condolences, we feel for you.
Thank you for tuning in.
I don't know why you're listening to us, but we really appreciate it.
There is a new report on the average driving speeds in each state.
New Hampshire was the slowest with an average speed of just under 50 miles per hour.
Wyoming has the fastest drivers at an average of 72.
They've got a lot of stretches, though, of like no or very high speed limit, just drive.
Never been there or two that part of the country, but so when I first saw it, I'm like,
what is that?
That doesn't make sense.
And then yeah, that kind of brings it in, I think.
To come up with these numbers, they used Google data to track the average driving time
for a long distance route between a state's major cities.
They made sure it was a good average by checking the speeds at various times throughout the
day and across different days of the week.
The more densely populated states are generally slower than the wide open roads of the bigger
western states.
But it was more comprehensive than just looking at speed limits or traffic congestion.
New Hampshire, the next slowest states are Vermont at 52 miles, Maryland at 54, Mississippi
at 56, Rhode Island at 56, and then Alaska at 56 as well.
Why wasn't included in the data?
And after Wyoming, the next fastest states are New Mexico, Idaho, South Dakota, Florida,
followed by Alabama and Arkansas.
Interesting.
Yeah.
Interesting list.
For urban driving, the slowest states are Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan, Colorado
and Ohio.
The fastest urban driving states are Alaska, Alabama, Nebraska, Alaska, Alabama, Nebraska,
Arkansas and Missouri.
See that?
Ten times faster.
Alaska and Nebraska.
I never realized they're so darn alike, I didn't know.
Yeah.
So an interesting list, you know, as far as, again, this is the states that drive the fastest
in the slowest according to this list, where does Wisconsin rank?
That is what everybody is curious about, what we want to know, of course.
So looking in Wisconsin, Wisconsin ranks, it's about 61 or 60 to 65 miles per hour.
So a little bit faster than the average, a little bit faster than some, but very right
on pace with Illinois, Michigan and Indiana.
So pretty similar to all of those.
As far as, you know, the average time getting to work all that, I think there's some
stuff there that seems interesting, but I don't think it's anything that we kind of probably
couldn't put together.
Yeah.
I don't know.
I think one of the more key, interesting things about this to me would be the route
that you all take.
Everybody has the route to work.
Everybody has the route to get to something and it is usually the fastest route to work.
But do other people do this?
I have a, you know, obviously working in radio.
There are plenty of times where I've got to get there time, you know, I've got to be
on air in a couple of minutes or whatever or something, there are times when I'm taking
my time into work.
Do you have a, you know, a pace route route you take that is just slower and in a fast route?
Because I kind of, maybe it's just because I've been working here for so long, I just,
I have two different routes I take.
Oh, if I'm going to work, it's always the same.
That's always the same.
Okay.
And I have to cross railroad tracks.
So, you know, so I do take that into consideration, like if there is a train, where will it be moving
the fastest?
Which sounds kind of silly, but like if I cross closer to home, so more towards Rudolph,
the train will be moving faster versus if I come closer to Rapids before crossing, it's
slowing down as it's coming into town.
So I always cross at my first opportunity, but coming to work, I always go the same way.
Doing other things, I might go different ways, you know, if I'm coming in whatever to
do, some shopping or because I have something else going on, I might take a different route,
but coming to work, it's just the same, I don't know.
What is that?
Is it autopilot?
You know what I mean?
It's just like, okay, here's where I'm headed, here's what I need to, you know, need
to do.
I think maybe it's a more something we do when we comes to like a trip that you take
a lap and not that every week maybe or something like I go to point, or you was going to point
a lot and I like taking a more scenic route, there are faster routes I might have been able
to take.
I've seen a route I just enjoy taking and I usually did that one.
So it's probably more so along those lines, especially if I'm going to see my brother
in Appleton or something like that, there's the, you know, certain routes you like to
take.
Sure.
Maybe it's more of that.
Part of what I think is interesting about this topic, and this is more of an umbrella
topic about just transportation in general.
We had Mayor Zachary in last week and we touched on this a little bit and we've talked
about it a little more and more and we have Lance Plymmel coming in a little bit later
and we'll probably come up with Lance as well.
Our area, more specifically Wisconsin Rapids, is the conversation is becoming more and
more consistent with do we need public transportation in this area?
Do we need a bus line or something like that?
And I just think that's an interesting conversation.
I think it speaks to the area.
I think it speaks to the health, the economy of the area, along with it's just being to
me an interesting topic.
I come from the home of trains, you know, where there was a point in this country where
Chicago was the main spot for the country.
All the trains ran and started and ended there and Union Station or any of those things.
And there's a lot of that to me that just enjoys this topic of transportation in general.
I'm curious to see where this goes from here.
I don't, I don't have a feeling on this one.
I'm not going to be able to tell you you should do this or you shouldn't do that or whatever.
I just find the topic and the conversation interesting.
Well, public transportation has been on the table forever.
I mean, there's been a Wood County Transportation Committee for, well, I've been in the
job going on 18 years.
I mean, it's always been there.
And I think at the end of the day, it's not that there's not a recognized need.
It's how does the need and the balance, need and the cost balance out.
You know, how does that, how does that work and best benefit, you know, members of the
community?
I think we've seen some alternatives to that.
You know, we've had a cab system and there's been some efforts to try to improve that
or change that and how that might affect people.
Another good example around transportation is, say, technical college runs a van from
all of their locate, from all the communities they serve back and forth.
So if kids need or any student needs a certain class or whatever, they can get onto the campus
that they need.
And you know, the different health systems have run different transportation.
And I think all of those are little pieces to the bigger picture of public transportation.
But it is interesting because it's, it's been a topic of discussion for a really long time
and I think at different times, it surfaces in different places.
That's more my point.
Yeah.
I understand it's been around for a long time, even longer that I've been in this area.
But I feel like in recent years, it's become, it's brought, brought up to the surface
again.
And we're doing, I'm hearing more and more people, especially political people talking about
it.
Well, when we're looking at job creation and talking about that, that's another part
of this to me is that what it can do.
Now, is this going to bring in a 5,000 jobs into the area?
No, it's not going to do that, but very few things can.
One of the things that I've talked with Matt on air and off air about this, that I feel
like he is really key to recent year, the past year or two in the amount of businesses
you've seen moving into this area.
Part of the strategy of that is not only finding things that will succeed here because
anybody can bring a business into town, talking about bringing something into that is going
to last.
And that's what these supported.
Right.
Not only that, but instead of looking for Amazon to come into town, which wouldn't make
any sense anyway because they don't pay any taxes, it wouldn't help anybody really.
It's more about, hey, you got 300 jobs.
Oh, you got 50 jobs.
We're going to bring in the town.
We're going to bring in.
You know, let these companies and not only build roots in this area, but the employees who
are already here building with that.
You know, there's a really successful rideshare program in Wapaka County.
And they're actually right now, probably as we speak, working on a pilot of that program
in the Marshall area.
So I think that's revived some of the discussion as well because there's a lot of eyes from
here, from Southwick County, on understanding what's happening in Wapaka and what the cost
is in the impact.
But then also, what does this little pilot in the Marshall area look like and how, you
know, possibly, if it's successful, how could it be, you know, expanded countywide and
then be sustainable?
So I mean, I think there's really interesting conversations going on.
It's awesome.
And there's, there's two other ones, the two kind of separate conversations in a way
here, too, where we're talking about the local transportation, maybe a bus line here
in Rapids or something along those lines.
And then there's the, you know, a bus line that takes you from Rapids to Point or from
Point to Marshfield or something along those lines.
And, you know, Amtrak, Greyhound, they've got a long established industry and I believe
that they're in the state here a little bit, you know, having them and being involved
or even doing something just of your own is an idea.
I don't think, I don't know, but maybe I'm not being clear enough about this.
I'm not expecting like a 20 fleet bus line or something like that.
But even something simple that may not seem like it would get a lot of use, I really
feel like once it's actually open and running, people would see how much use it would get.
I do think that like a lot of things in, in, in area and society in general, we're not
kicking the can, but we're getting close to kicking the can.
It's just a matter of time before you're going to need it.
Now here's the other part of this.
If five, 10 years from now, you don't need it, that's a problem too.
That's also an issue because it's communities like ours are looking to, they're all looking
for the, our biggest, our biggest resource right now is people.
And not only keeping people in this area, especially, hey, graduations happening right now
now.
One of the oldest stories I remember from living in this area, my non-Ampapa went to,
they had, there's the Linsky's really good friends of theirs and they went to their daughters
graduation at Lincoln.
And my non-Ampapa come from Chicago, come from a pretty big area when it comes to high
school graduations, you're sitting there and you're going to be there all day, that kind
of thing.
With this, they were really blown away with how many kids there were.
And my papa's sitting there thinking, how many of these kids are going to stay in town?
You know, how many of them are going to, are going to stay here and, and work here, live
here and everything.
And that's something that is still a storyline and not just for rapids, everybody in, in
every state is dealing with this in rural communities.
How do you keep them here?
Some of these things are attractive to people.
Some of these things are reasonings, you know, that are not the out, the one sole reason
they're going to stay, but it helps, it helps add to the positive column.
We'll see.
It's interesting.
I don't, again, I don't think that the area is going to fall apart without it or anything
like that.
But I do think it's an interesting topic to keep an eye on.
You know, yeah, so I also wonder about the scalability of other programs like, you know, like
lift or like Uber, like to me, that seems probably like the most cost effective sustainable,
but, but it's, how do you scaling it to a small community, you know, so I mean, I, I
think there's a lot of opportunity.
And, and it's a topic that's not going anywhere either.
I think that that we're, we're definitely going to keep talking about this over the next
year or two.
I want to do Cindy shout out to this, uh, New York News anchor, uh, for those that didn't
hear a morning news anchor for a New York station went into labor in the early morning
and still anchored the morning show less than two hours later.
Well done, Olivia, uh, Olivia Jaquith, uh, morning anchor, uh, over in Albany, anchored
the six a.m. news broadcast on Wednesday after her water broke about four 15 a.m.
Quote, we do have some breaking news this morning, literally, co anchor Julia Dunn, uh, said
at the start of the broadcast, Olivia's water breath broken.
It's a great way to start out your news.
I mean, but at the same time, like you have a coast, like I'm thinking, I'm going to
find myself, okay, she's the only one there and they're waiting for someone to come.
You know, I get her commitment to going live, but that's kind of funny, especially with
someone else is there.
I can guarantee you it was not her first kid.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's a great point.
That's a really good point.
You know, too calm, cool and collected for the first hundred percent, you're right about
this.
Uh, the anchor had announced in February that she and her husband, Tim, uh, we're expecting
their first child.
It's their first.
That's wild.
That is crazy.
I, you know, I, you know, you're in the moment, that doesn't add up, you're in the moment
and you're, you're the, the, the cameras are on that is helping, I imagine, keep the nerves
maybe a little more at bay, but that is wild.
Uh, good, good career.
I thought I figured for sure it wouldn't be the first.
I would, I would, I would have bet any amount of money that you were right about that.
Yeah.
Uh, that, that's pretty cool.
That's a good story.
Fun story.
And congratulations to them on the healthy baby.
Uh, let's go ahead and take a time out when we come back.
We're going to get into some local good stories of the day, got a lot of things going
on in our area.
I also want to get an update from the United Way, talk a little bit about our schedule coming
up and all of that right here at mornings on WFHR.
Welcome back everybody.
Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio, Terry and James hanging out with you.
In a fun show, thanks a lot for hanging out with us, Terry.
Really do appreciate the time, uh, from you and all of our listeners out there you guys
calling in, joining us.
It's been a lot of fun.
Keep on listening.
Uh, all year, all summer long, we're going to be giving away rafter tickets and we'll
keep doing that.
Uh, appreciate you guys joining us for that.
It's been a lot of fun.
And then of course on Friday, we'll be giving away brewer tickets, be listening for that
everyone.
And guys, a chicken sandwich is not a burger.
It's just not.
It's just not as we review the show, uh, yes, that's our big takeaway from today.
Um, we, uh, I want to get into our schedule a little bit and remind everybody that the
rapid support is going to be brand new for you today.
We got two pods dropping for you about two o'clock.
You can catch them in part one.
We're going to talk to our friend Lance Plummelwood County board chairman along with Wisconsin
Rapids Community Meeting.
We'll be in to record that one, uh, Lance and I'll be talking a little bit later.
And in, uh, the other episode we'll have for you today, UW Extension has a forestry event
coming up that Tony Johnson's going to be in the talk about, uh, looking forward to
that.
That's going to be really fun.
Tony's very excited about the project and we're looking forward diving in it to into
it with him.
Be sure to spread the word, rapid support available, uh, Monday through Friday, uh, new episodes
downloadable at two o'clock spread the word, everybody.
Uh, it is raptor season and we will have raptor baseball and the radio dial for you tonight.
But before that, we got a pregame for you on our sister station, 105, WYRI join us
from four to five for playmakers, probably brought to you by quality plus printing and
family natural foods.
It's our live sports call and show.
Get those sports takes and feelings ready to go.
We want to hear from you a little bit later, really looking forward to it.
It's going to be a fun show today.
So what checks tonight, huh?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Um, Michael and I will be hanging out getting you ready for that game and talking a little
bit about, uh, assumption and their softball, uh, playoff run going on here and, uh, plenty
of other things on things.
So that's going to be good.
Uh, also one of the mention I'm sorry real quick.
I wanted to go back to the, uh, raptors real quick because the raptors have a fun one going
on tonight.
Tonight is community night, uh, uh, with the midstate, uh, going on over at the ballpark.
Oh, the, uh, must be tuition given when it's starting.
Yes.
Well, uh, so not only do you get to see us take on the wasa wood chucks and defeat them
hopefully for our first win at, how good with our first win of the season be against
wasa.
I mean, that feels good.
I think it's a good fit.
Well, you can also, uh, support our friends at midstate and the great work they are doing
and be a part of tuition night.
That's going to be fun.
It's going to be a good night.
And again, uh, playmakers have four will be here, uh, 105 for that one.
Again, uh, reminder that tonight, uh, you've got the orchestra pops concert happening
at 630 at the performing arts center.
Be sure to check that out, everybody.
And of course, our Wisconsin rapids, municipal zoo is open for the season.
Get on over to 1911 gain or have new, check out, uh, some of these amazing animals they
have over there.
Big shout out to all the workers.
They have.
Uh, cannot wait to get over there.
Even over there.
Uh, not, not yet.
Not yet.
Not yet.
Not maybe you walked over there like at lunchtime or something.
I, um, on my, on my brief breaks, I glance over there longingly.
I, I cannot wait to get over there.
Live to your family.
Yes.
Yes.
I got to, I got a lot of good family members over there.
Uh, Terry, why don't you, uh, certainly touch on things with the United Way one more
time before we wrapped up.
You guys have a lot going on right now.
Uh, we've touched on a couple of things with, um, getting kids registered, uh, for stuff
to desk and touching on the diaper drive a little bit too, but you also have, uh, United
Weekend and some other stuff right around the corner.
Yeah.
We have got a ton going on.
So I really encourage you to visit our website, UW, SWAC dot org.
There's actually an events tab and all of this stuff is there because there's a lot
to keep track of.
Um, the week after school lets out.
So starting on June 9th, we have our great book giveaway series.
Um, that runs the entire week and it's a great opportunity to get free books, um, in
the hands of kids, um, people will be there reading and a variety of locations, including
the zoo.
So, um, each day we have one or two different locations.
So, you know, really want to help prevent that summer sliding and get books to kids.
Super excited about that.
Also talking rafters, um, we have our United Weekend food sculpture contest on Tuesday,
June 17th.
This is an opportunity for you to come out and, you know, maybe gain a little better
understanding of hunger in our community and what that looks like.
We right now have eight, um, local teams that will be building food sculptures out of canned
goods.
Um, and then the bonus, um, about that is, you know, that then all of that food gets donated
to two local programs to help supplement pantries and weekend backpack programs and, and
that kind of thing.
I encourage you, you know, at a minimum, come to the rafter game on June 17th, um, join
us there, bring, bring some non-perishable food items as a donation to add to what we
leverage with the sculptures.
If you've thought about building a sculpture before and you've just been unsure, you can
register through Friday of this week, right?
And, you know, you could jump in, um, we have two, um, different categories, Major League
over 500 cans, minor league is under 500 cans, um, but it's super fun.
And if you think you're not, you know, you don't have the inspiration to build something,
Google is your friend because it, there are hundreds and hundreds of examples of ideas
of what you could build, um, from food.
So great event, um, goods community support, but we want to fill those stands, um, and, and
you get to vote when you're there.
Community Choice Award, pick your favorite sculpture, um, join in the fun and help us, um,
you know, spread the word, spread the awareness about hunger in our community.
Make it, uh, tough for me and the other judges to, uh, judge on these and make them all
great and, uh, and we want more and more teams and have some fun with this one.
We'll meet you at Winterfield, June 17th for the United Weekend event.
You can find out more about these and other great things going on with our United Way
all year long at UWSWAC.org.
Be sure to follow them on social media and share their posts on your page.
Again, UWSWAC.org.
Uh, appreciate all the information, Terry.
Thank you so much to you and your team.
Um, one of also mentioned this, um, a list of sent this one over a little while ago.
And one of their mind, everybody tonight is the night, the community exchange, social
event happening with Avenue tile and, uh, Avenue title and a blanket construction.
They're joining the, they're asking for their, uh, everybody to come down for their
first community exchange event, a casual gathering of local business owners and homeowners
and anyone looking to connect and learn.
The event is all about bringing our community together to share ideas.
Uh, this is happening at 830, 100 in Avenue tonight, uh, starting at five.
Be sure to check it out.
Everybody should be, uh, a fun, interesting event in a great chance to share information
and, and really just socialize, you know, I mean, especially this time of year, any chance
to get out of the house to do something always a fun thing rainy day, get on out, got
it.
That ain't right story for you, Terry.
Got a good one here, I think a, uh, man in Charlottesville, Virginia named Kevin Cox
was arrested after he painted his own crosswalk on a busy street.
Yeah.
Hahaha.
You're genius.
Uh, and obviously you can't do that apparently.
I have to, I have to submit to his name being Kevin just kind of stood up.
I mean, that's a very shut up, uh, fabulous.
Uh, so, and so, unfortunately for him, it didn't take the city long to catch on and get
rid of it and Kevin knew it wouldn't last.
He even used a non permanent water cell, a, a spray chalk, uh, to prove his point.
Oh, well, then is it really that big of a deal?
Yeah.
He said residents have been trying to get the traffic under control for a while and they
can't get the city to do anything.
So he decided to make his own.
Um, now this is obviously very, very dangerous.
Do not do this.
Do not, do not take this in your own hands.
Um, there are plenty of, you know, when you hear this, are you visualizing like multiple
lanes?
I was just visualizing like just a super busy, you know, maybe like what you have out here.
Yeah.
Right.
Like a super busy two, maybe three lane, but, um, I suppose I mean, there is the safety,
but that's what they're asking for is safety.
They want a crosswalk.
Kevin was charged with property damage and is facing up to a year in jail.
He hopes he, oh, wow, uh, he hopes he can get off, uh, because he used chalk and not
actual paint.
Uh, he's also hoping the case, uh, gets city engineers to reconsider putting something
there, which I imagine is his overall point.
So I need to get attention for a good, I mean, for safety, I, for safety, yes, you have
to do things the right way and follow the rules, but my goodness, do you think about
all the things that people get like don't get any time for or any punishment for it?
They're actually going to, uh, that seems, that seems like a stretch there a little bit.
I don't know.
Uh, and Alaska Airlines crew helped out a couple flying to their wedding.
The flight attendants went up the aisle and asked people to write down their best advice
for them as they headed to life and to marriage, uh, things like be quick to forgive and say
I'm sorry.
It was, it was very key on the list there.
That's a nice, I like that idea.
That's fun.
And, uh, a guy from Oregon named Oliver Widger, uh, suddenly has a huge following online
after he quit his job to sail around the world with his cat.
He got diagnosed with a rare bone disorder that could eventually cause paralysis.
So he cast in his 401k and decided to go see the world.
He brought his cat Phoenix along for the ride, uh, the cosmetics brand, uh, Elf, uh, sent
a plane out and dropped him a care package in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
Like, I mean, a lot of people going on with this one, um, his, uh, TikTok handle is sailing
with Phoenix.
If you're curious and you want to keep up on their journey, so do people care about him
or the cat?
Um, boy, that's a good question.
That's a good question.
I bet you it's, it's probably 50, 50.
You would say that.
Uh, yeah.
I'm hoping hopeful about it.
Well, I mean, too, but I just like, what's getting the attention?
If it wasn't, if it, now, if it wasn't for, if you just decided to do this, then it's
definitely the cat.
But I think the, the rare bone disorder and the meaning of it, I love the, the spirit
of this.
Um, I think that's pretty cool.
I feel like the cat's getting the attention.
The cat's definitely, now that I'm saying it out loud, 75% of the cat, at least 75% of
it.
Good on you, kitty.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Have fun, you guys.
Safe travels to them.
Um, Terry, great show today.
Thanks so much for hanging out with us.
You bet.
Again, UWSWAC.org.
Everybody be sure to bookmark that page.
We'll be back at this tomorrow.
Be good to each other.
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