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I am joined by Seth, good morning, and the best listeners in radio.

Thanks so much for joining us, everybody.

We're going to get into some entertainment news and a little bit.

We've got some other fun stuff we're going to be lining up for you as well, but it's

a Thursday in the 10 o'clock hour.

You all know what that means.

Time for our pet of the week from the South of County of Maine Society.

Big shout out to Milltown Coffee Sponsor in this segment.

We appreciate our friends over there.

Can I wait to get some of that good coffee from them?

Denise, how you doing?

I'm great things.

How are you guys?

I'm doing good.

We're very excited to talk with you today and to have you in, and I want to thank you

not only for spending the time with us as you do every Thursday, but when you're able

to bring the animals into the studio, it is so exciting and fun for us.

We are little kids when it comes to this.

I actually realize, we'll get to our pet of the week here first, because I got a lot

of them this morning.

Who do we have with us today?

We have a Maya.

She is a six-year-old female, kind of tortoise shell looking cat.

She is F-E-L-V positive.

That means she has feline leukemia of virus, and it is only transmitted to other cats.

Not even is that any other animals.

They typically live a long life, depending on the stage of their virus or their overall

health.

Maya is an example of cat living its best life.

Nice.

Very much.

Very much.

It just matter and can already get that impression from her.

She's got a really sweet personality.

Like a lot of cats, very curious, very interested in the world around her.

She is in foster right now.

She's been fostered by our cat room manager, John, but she does spend a lot of time at the

shelter too.

She has her own play room where people can pick her up and play with her.

We just need to make sure that people are educated on what F-E-L-V is, and cats can live

a long life, as long as they're the only cat in the home.

Gotcha.

When it comes to that too, I don't know how this comes across, but when you know you

don't have as much time with the animal, we all kind of understand that agreement we

make with animals when we take them into our homes and all that, but this is a little

different with the actual knowing of some of this data and everything.

I would think that certain families out there would be an absolute perfect fit for something

like that.

What a gift you're able to give to an animal to a creature when you know that it doesn't

have that much long, but you're going to give it the greatest life it can have in those

times.

Absolutely.

There's a lot of people that are very educated or well, they've done research on this

virus and they have animals in the home that just have F-E-L-V just because they're aware

of it and they want to help the cats.

It's awesome.

A friend of mine, he got a turtle for his like 13th or 14th birthday or something.

I'm sorry, not a tortoise, but he's still has it.

He's in his thirties now.

Certain animals and certain people you don't necessarily know what you're signing up

for and sometimes that time can be a lot and daunting for certain people.

So I don't mean to be morbid or anything about it, but just trying to, my main goal is

to help get these animals in the perfect home and their new best friend.

Yes, absolutely.

And to me, I think that that's a really good match for somebody out there.

Absolutely, because she's not going to want to go for walks, so she's pretty laid back

although she's running around the studio.

Very curious, right?

That's probably my fault.

That's probably me.

They all love each other.

I just bring that out of animals, I really do.

She's five, so she's also mature and I think that part is really nice and shows in her,

too.

She's able to kind of keep herself busy while also being, you know, it comes around.

She's already come around me a couple of times.

She's independent.

Every cat loves that spot right in front of the ears, right there.

You get that spot.

You got a new friend, man.

They really love that.

They come back for more.

When it comes to, again, the F.L.V., F.E. of L.V., I personally, I know a very little bit

about that when I was working in shelters, but it's something, too, that it doesn't necessarily

take a ton of research to be able to fill up.

In fact, when you go onto the website, stbcts.com, you guys did a really nice job of putting

a link there for people to learn more about it.

Thank you.

Yeah, we have a couple of experts on our staff that know a lot about the stuff and the medications

and the life span and how the different stages of the virus itself.

It kind of mimics HIV, the human, you know, it's pretty sad, but there are a lot of cats

that don't make it, but Amaya is an example of cats that are thriving because she has very

faint positives instead of, you know, full on.

Right.

That really good benefit.

That's great.

She is a wonderful, wonderful cat and we cannot wait to get her into a new forever home.

Before we wrap up, Denise, I did want to check in and see how things are going over at

the shop.

Are there any key needs that we can help out with them?

We can always use kitten food like the wet, pet tay or any of the canned foods and then

litter.

We have several litter of kittens in foster and they will be coming to the shelter soon.

All right.

We want to help out anyway.

We can with that, of course, and it sounds like it looks like the building is all doing

good and everything.

That's all taken care of.

It's fantastic.

We are moving things around getting ready for our final.

This is what we're going to have in this beautiful establishment and use it instead of moving

from room to room.

Excellent.

Really nice to hear for you guys and, of course, the animals and the little routine coming

a little bit back and normalizing.

Probably not a lot of the construction noise helps out a lot, too.

The animal learned is frantic as they were and I did have big news.

Redford got adopted after being on the radio last week.

So, being you guys, yes, they're so wonderful news.

Yes, that's a win.

He heard the interview on this radio station he called in, came to meet him and picked

him up the next day.

It's tremendous news.

Yes.

Yes, thank you so much.

It works.

It works.

Oh, hey.

That is very, very cool.

I didn't know if she was going to be able to get up on the desk.

Yep.

I answered that question.

Cats are very nimble.

Yes, they are.

Even as big as that.

I don't think I've ever said this to one of our pets of the week.

Please don't try to take my job.

I need this job.

Come to the mic.

There's not a lot of things I can do.

I need this job.

Please don't take this job for me.

She's very good, though.

Yes.

I already very, just a natural on the mic.

Yes.

She's very good.

Before we wrap up, real quick Denise, I did also want to mention and encourage people

to being a member and that with the South of Guinea-Main Society.

There's a lot of cool perks that are involved with that.

There's a discount of local businesses, newsletter on life saving work and some really cool

information.

You get a discount with the remains society as well.

And among all of these things, as great as all of that is, you also know that you are

helping out one of the more vital organizations in our community.

Absolutely.

You can do the memberships over the internet through our website and walking in the door

too.

We have paperwork.

You can do it through PayPal, I believe it is.

Yeah.

It's very easy.

Yeah.

Encourage you to look into that more, everybody.

And you can find out more about that at SWCHS.com.

Their website, you should have bookmarked SWCHS.com.

And you can go there as well to check out all these great, amazing animals like Amaya.

She's in there waiting for you with some really good pictures, along with so many other

great ones.

And we encourage you to check them out as well.

And see how you can help out with the remains society.

You can email them.

Office at SWCHS.com.

You can always give them a call, 715-420-505-420-505.

Be sure to follow them on social media and share their posts on your page and so people

can see them.

And stop by if you want with those items that they need at 3621-64 Street North right here

in Wisconsin Rapids.

Denise, thank you so much for the time.

Thanks for having us.

Big thank you to you, Amaya.

I was good to meet you.

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Yes.

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Seth diving into a little bit of entertainment news, possibly the only connection between

Steely Dan, Weirdell, and Hulk Hogan has passed away.

Yes.

Guitarist Rick Daringer passed away on Monday at the age of 77.

The guy did just about everything in his career.

Yeah.

Yeah, really remarkably, under the radar career.

Very interesting.

Yeah, he was part of a band that had a big hit and then he kind of just, he was in the

music industry, did a lot of this and a little of that.

And it was actually, when you read it, it's pretty impressive.

Yeah, I like to always give credit, especially when it's people that I did not give enough

credit to when they were with us and I feel bad.

I wish I had.

Working in Classic Rock for a long time, I played a lot of Rick Daringer.

Yes.

And I honestly never thought too much about it.

I certainly respected the artist.

The hit didn't know a whole lot of his catalog and certainly didn't know that he started

as a member of the McCoy's.

That's right.

The big hit in 1965, Hang on Sloopy, Hang on Sloopy, which for most of my life, I thought

was Hang on Sloopy.

You're not the only one.

Why many people said that?

Then in 1973, he had a solo hit with, of course, Rock'n'Roll Hujiku, which over the years,

he did session work, though, with Steely Dan, Todd Rugrin, Kiss, and Barbara Streisand.

He was a very good guitarist, yes.

He also produced Sidney Lopper and played the solo on Bonnie Tyler's totally clips of

the heart.

That I didn't know.

That's really wow.

Rick won a Grammy for producing Weird Al Yankovic's album Eat It, one of his best albums,

yes.

If somebody wanted to tell me that's his best album, I wouldn't argue with that.

I would probably agree.

I'd complete the album, actually, and his most creative work, maybe, in that one.

Very much so.

And played the guitar solo on the title track, on the title track, Eat It.

Oh, my God.

So he played the...

Wow, okay.

So that's interesting, because famously, Eddie Van Halen did it on Beat It.

Yes.

Wow, that's interesting.

So he did kind of a clone of Eddie Van Halen's.

And it sounds pretty good.

It does.

Wow.

Yeah.

He went on to produce Weird Al's first six albums.

Wow.

That's amazing.

And he wasn't done.

In 1985, he produced the wrestling album for the WWE, which was in WWE after the

time, also wrote and performed the track Real American, which Hulk Hogan, of course, used

to this day.

He was a rock-up music, yeah.

Rock-up music.

I had no idea of that.

Man, shout out to Rick Daringer in a great life, great legacy.

Yes.

The thing I remember most about him is that when he was with the McCoy, his name was actually

Rick Zeringer.

Wow.

With a Z, he changed it because he thought Daringer sounded cooler.

And he's probably right.

Actually, it does sound pretty cool.

Oh, definitely.

Daringer was very cool.

Yeah.

Yeah.

The old Pistol, the back of the old Western Pistols.

Yeah.

Now you're a rock star with that name.

Yeah.

I'm telling you, that's smart move.

It's actually surprising that he wasn't more well-known, but in many ways, it's kind

of a credit to him because, like, if he was a modern artist, we would know about all

this because he'd be telling us on his Instagram or something like that.

Right.

It's kind of...

He was more of a...

At the end, he was more of a behind-the-scenes guy.

I mean, it's not like he didn't record his own music.

He obviously did, but I mean, he wrote some great songs and, yeah, what an interesting

career.

I love looking into an artist after, like, we think, oh, they're not putting out new

music, so they're done with music, and then you find out that, oh, no, they just went

to be...

They did other things.

Yeah.

So many of the guys from the monkeys, I think, are a best, great example of this stuff.

Like, oh, those monkeys are a member of them.

They went away.

No, they didn't.

No, no, no.

They were still doing stuff, yeah.

Yeah, man.

That's interesting.

Life well lived, sir.

Yes.

Life well lived.

And then there's Darryl Hall, who I feel like only comes up for, like, the weirdest or

roughest of reasons.

What is...

What is this shit?

Because for a while there, he was doing those sessions, those music sessions where he

bring in all kinds of different artists, and they'd just play some acoustic songs of

theirs and his.

And it was very popular.

That's cool.

Very cool, yeah.

And up until then, that's all I had heard of him until, like, you know, went the

hall on Oatstuff.

Yeah, he was, like, throwing shade on Oatst.

It's like, wow.

Well, those two can't seem to go a month without, like, one of them going to a media

outlet and say, hey, did you hear about this?

They're like sniping at each other, yeah.

Well, Darryl Hall has a very, very strong feeling about the term, Yacht Rock.

In a recent interview, he called it, quote, a blank of a joke, and referred to the people

who invented the term by some, not some very nice words.

He added, quote, I never understood it.

It's just R&B with maybe some jazz in there.

It's mellow R&B.

It's smooth R&B.

He's already given it, like, 18 names.

Yes, thanks, Darryl.

He's, you actually proved the point of the term Yacht Rock by doing this.

They come up with names for things because people like to label stuff because it's easier

for their brain.

It is, yeah.

But they also do it because it didn't have a name before.

Yeah, because it's on, it's on, what do we call it?

We call it, like, soft rock, basically, which isn't a great, that's not a great term

for it either, but Seth, you might say it's all, it's, it's to the point where it's unlabeled.

That's, that's, had to, had to, we'll just let that sit there.

Some Sunday said nice.

Get the right time, at least.

I'm really off today, I really am.

No, but I don't get it.

I don't, yeah.

You're right.

Then he has to give it, like, three other names to, by the way, I never considered Hall

and Oats like a soft rock.

They were just a pop group.

Yeah.

Because they had a lot of different sounds, listen to some of their differences as their

songs.

They had a variety of sounds that I thought, which are really interesting.

I like the music they made.

You know, it's, it's not bad music and he seems to have like a big chip on his shoulder

for some reason.

I don't know why.

But, quote, people misguided us because they couldn't label us.

They always came up with the kind of stuff that's soft rock and yacht rock and all this

nonsense.

And none of it, none of it really describes anything that I really do.

Notice he says, I really do, cannot wait to get that in there.

First off, again, you just called your music, R&B jazz, mellow R&B, smooth R&B.

You just gave it like 18 labels.

Yeah, you did.

And it gave me proving the point of why there's one label kind of given to it.

That's been given to it.

It's just a very broad term.

That's all.

And just to be blunt and honest about this, and I say this from, this is things, similar

things I've heard from Carlos Santana to Madonna, I'm just happy people are still listening

to the music.

Be thankful that people are still listening to the music.

I don't, I hope that I'm not trying to sound like a jerk here, but I can't imagine

as an artist that you haven't released a new song in 30 years and, and you're upset

that people just be thankful people are listening to the music.

And people do.

People still love that music.

It's very popular.

It's very popular.

We have acts that have covered those songs because they love them so much.

Darryl Hall, I do not understand.

What is the problem?

What is the problem, Darryl Hall?

You're making money, hand over fist for all the royalties from all this stuff.

I don't get it.

I don't understand.

I've brought up the story before it.

I'll bring it up again.

And it does, it is not a reach, I don't believe, but J.R. Ewing, you know, they, they, they,

they asked, they, Larry Hagman, yes, Johnny Carson asked Larry Hagman, how do you feel about

being known as J.R.?

And he said, J.R., Johnny, they could put J.R. on my tombstone.

I get paid to do what I love.

Yep.

That's what it comes down.

You get paid to do what you love, man.

You made a career off of what you got to just be thankful people are listening to your

music.

You're still getting royalties from those of them, you know, there's so many, there were,

there were jokes about Hall and Oats back in the day.

Yeah.

No one's making those jokes anymore because it's, it's not, it's, there's no point to it.

So I don't know.

Yeah.

He's the grumpy old man of rock, I guess, is, is what he's becoming.

He's really becoming.

Yeah.

He's becoming the crotchety guy.

The HBO documentary P.W.S. himself just came out last week and it includes Paul Rubin's

explaining how he came up with the name P.W.

Herman.

Okay.

It's a little tiny harmonica that said P.W.

on it.

And I knew that this, I knew this kid when I was little, who was this kind of crazy and

all out of there.

He was a little bit of a nutty kid, a little crazy kid.

And the last, his last name was Herman.

So Rubin's all said that those, the two just, he just combined it.

Okay.

Makes sense.

A lot of the P.W.

Persona was based, not based, but influenced by this kid.

Mm-hmm.

So it just made sense.

Rubin's also talked about how, about going back into the, the closet for the sake of

his career.

And a long-term, very serious relationship with a man named Guy in the 70s.

But when it ended, he decided to hide his sexuality.

Mm-hmm.

Quote, I was as out as you can be and then I went back into the closet.

My career absolutely would have suffered had I been openly gay.

So I went to great lengths for many, many years to keep it a secret.

Paul lost his battle with lung cancer back in July of 23 and he was 70.

I think of Paul Rubin's as one of the more interesting comedians and entertainers in

our, our lifetime and our era.

In part because of how he started and where he came, what he was able to build the P.W.

show into and the whole brand, it was like brand before branding was like a thing, right?

He built it from, I mean, from his stand-up act, that was what he did.

Not kid-friendly at all, by the way, how many things in life have done that where it was

built for adults and then they, they tailored it to be built for kids.

More for kids, yeah.

I don't think that there's many, I've not heard that.

No.

No thing like that that I can think of that had done something like that.

The fact that he was willing to do that, we got to give him credit for that point.

Because going from where he was to, you know, becoming, you know, P.W.

is big adventure and then the TV show, you know, the morning TV, the more Saturday morning

show that he did, I mean, yeah, that was, that was different.

I mean, you didn't do that.

That was very an odd path to start him, yeah.

And then I think of the careers that were launched from his work.

Oh my gosh.

Phil Hartman or, you know, Tim Burton, Tim Burton, that was the first big film, yeah.

Also, you know, Lawrence Fishburn of all people.

Lawrence Fishburn was a cowboy Curtis.

I mean, you know, that there's a lot of, and I'm just scratching a surface here and everything.

It's just a really, really interesting career.

And then certainly there is the movie theater incident that happens.

And at that time, at a time, but well before, cancel culture and blood, you know, all these

things, there is blackballing.

And there is stuff like, Hey, you're toxic.

We're not going to use you.

And he shows up like a year or two later or whatever on the Murphy Brown show and the

wonderful bit that they could recurring bit that they would do with Murphy's

secretaries.

And he's one of them, right.

And he's the first one that actually is in multiple episodes.

And nobody even knows it's Paul Rubens.

No, he's, he nobody, they don't make a big deal out of it.

They, he just shows up and, and he was wonderful.

And it really like launched a second act of his career, where all the sudden people

started kind of like bringing him around again and started getting work.

And the wonderful work he did in mystery men.

You know, it's funny.

You mentioned that because I remember seeing mystery men and not recognizing him at all.

Yeah.

Until I saw the credits.

I was like, that's Paul Rubens.

Oh my gosh.

Because I hadn't heard from him in a couple of years, you know.

Interesting.

What an interesting career he had.

All three of these individuals we've talked about here, just very interesting careers.

And, and not, you know, not necessarily I think what we would have expected or thought

would have you.

What are my favorite bits is when he was on our city hall show.

Oh my God.

It was hilarious.

So good.

It was so not, it was not for any, no kit, no, no, but it was funny.

Oh my gosh.

Those, uh, before the Peabee Herman show, he watched the bits.

Oh my God.

Yeah.

They're great.

They're very funny.

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Yeah.

Our rafters were victorious yesterday.

Yeah.

Crazy game.

Wow.

Yeah.

First win of the season for your Wisconsin rapids rafters and it comes at the expense

of our rival, the old wood chucks, the old wood chucks, uh, took care of that, uh,

night.

It got close.

Yeah.

It was very close game.

Uh, great game, great work, uh, nice, uh, first one of many for our Wisconsin rapids

rafters last night.

Congratulations to them.

And I know what the difference was.

What is it?

The people out there were given away tickets.

People are showing up.

That's right.

And we're given that home, uh, foam field advantage, uh, like nobody in the Northwoods

League can do.

Yep.

Uh, keep in mind that the rafters are the only team that own their ballpark.

Yes.

And we show it.

This is the rafters in a lot of ways are very different from the rest of the Northwoods

League.

I mean, we have, it's so, it's so special what we have here, man, I went to opening

they on Memorial Day.

It was tremendous just being back at the park, man, uh, nothing like being at the old

ball yard on a summer, on a summer day or night, doesn't matter what it is.

There's something special about it.

We want you to be able to go everybody.

We're going to be giving away tickets all season long and come so many tickets to give

away.

And, uh, uh, the next couple of weeks we've got other giveaways we're doing with civic

media and everything.

So we're going to, uh, you know, we'll be giving away tickets, but in between where

we can, I would be, uh, you know, just as a spoiler alert here, everybody just, you

know, just between us, uh, we're going to be featuring a lot more on playmakers as far

as giving away rafter stuff.

Yes.

Uh, doing a little cross promotion there.

Yeah.

Very good, very good.

But we do have these rafter season package holder tickets, these orange bands, wrist

bands.

Yeah.

That's for the, uh, for a little bit of free food.

Yeah.

How about that?

Even better, man.

Uh, those are burning the hole in my pocket, man.

I want to give them away right now.

But we're going to wait.

We're going to wait.

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WFHR.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio.

Little Stuart playing us in.

I hope you guys are having a great one out there and I hope you're not eating.

Uh, no, maybe it doesn't really matter if you are.

I don't know what to think of this one.

I did not get a chance to pre-read this article.

So we're going to dive right in together.

You're not.

It's good.

Arby's recently started testing steak nuggets in select markets and, uh, and they, uh,

they peaked people's interest.

Okay.

What is that way?

Especially if they, uh, if they'd be, uh, breaded like real chicken nuggets, when they

was steak in the middle, okay, uh, they're not though.

Uh, they're more like steak bites, uh, just cubes of meat.

Um, you can get them as, uh, quote, nuggets or any bowl or in a sandwich, and they're

not cheap.

Uh, the five pieces, five bucks in the night, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's why, um,

the TikTok reviews from influencers are mixed, uh, with the general consensus being

they're different, um, or basically every woman has ever described me.

They're, they're good or bad, just different.

They're surprisingly edible and with barbecue or some other sauce, but most people, uh, don't

need to have them again, uh, that's the, even people that like them are saying they're

not going to have them again.

Mm-hmm.

And the internet doesn't seem to think steak nuggets should be a thing.

Commenters are saying they look like mystery jerky, uh, nuggets are like the worst burnt

ends of the steak, uh, they need to go back to the drawing board on this one and many

other things.

Um, I, and I will say something and, and they don't advertise with us and everything,

but I will say I've eaten at Arby's many, many times and will many, many more times.

Yeah.

Good stuff.

And the thing at Arby's that nobody else gives me, the Jumbo Kashak, oh, okay.

For me, for my money, the greatest shake ever invented.

Wow.

Oh, by far and away.

By far and away.

Nice.

I could, I could drink one of those every single day and be a happy man.

Wow.

That's impressive.

I also think they have incredible mozzarella sticks and, and they're good.

I've had those too, yeah, and, and, and real quick to any business out there.

Don't put mozzarella sticks on your menu.

If all I'm getting is the breading with like a, like them, like the cheese melted out

of it.

Yeah.

Or something like that.

Or it ends up just being breading.

Yeah.

I'll, I'll still eat it, but, but it's not the same thing.

But it's not the same thing.

Come on.

I love mozzarella sticks.

I love mozzarella sticks.

Um, yeah, I don't know what they're thinking with this one, but it's, it's Arby's.

This is what they do.

It's all presentation.

Arby's?

Okay.

You have staked your claim on being, you know, we have the meats, right?

That's their, their, their tagline.

Come on, guys.

There's an easy way to solve this.

It's called kebabs.

Yeah.

That's basically what it is.

Yeah.

Put them on a meat skewer and people will be thrilled with it.

Absolutely.

That's all you need to do.

Do a variety of kebabs.

You know, you can have chicken on there.

You can have steak.

You can go through the vegetables on there, whatever you want to do.

Give people choices.

I'm telling you, I am telling you, who's doing kebabs?

No one.

Fast paced, you know, world we live in.

I am a little more surprised that kebabs have not become a fast food thing.

It's, we could, they could do the deep voice and I've been ramed, whatever, do in the deep voice and answer.

Arby's.

Steak.

Armeet.

Yeah.

On a stick.

And that's all they need to do.

Arby's.

We have the kebabs.

Yes.

It's a beast.

It's a beast.

It's a beast.

It's a beast.

It's a beast.

It's a beast.

It's a beast.

It's a beast.

It's a beast.

Anything that might, anything might be better than what they're doing with this.

Yeah.

It's a presentation thing.

That's all they need to do is fix that part and they'll be fine.

It also feels like, like they just gave up on ideas.

Like I don't know, just sort of a bunch of steak and throw it in the bowls.

That's literally all they did.

It's like, it's like, kebabs, he's famous bowls.

That's what it feels like, right?

They just gave up.

Let's throw a bunch of stuff in a bowl.

Like to each throw, and if you like him, you like him, but they're, that's, they're basically just like,

it's just a slot bucket, like they do for pigs and everything.

I mean, that's all those bowls and, yeah,

that's all they are.

It's just a slot bucket.

I can't.

No problem with it.

Eat what you want.

It's all, it's your food.

It's your mouth.

But I, yeah.

Yeah.

It's just lazy.

That's all it is.

If you like it, or you don't, that's what you're hearing.

There's no interesting angle to it.

It just hunks a meat, you know?

I will say, one thing I will say about this, though, that I would think would make it,

it would make me interested in it a little bit.

When it's good steak, I don't need a one sauce.

Right, exactly.

I don't need any condiments or spices or anything like that.

I just want to taste the meat.

Good cut of meat.

Probably not the meat they're using.

Probably not.

Like the high end steak now.

They're going to think about costs, even though they're charging, you know, a decent

amount for them.

But it sounds like that's part of the issue, is that the expensive, yeah, the bits of

meat are not good meat for what you're paying for, right?

Whereas I will say I've never had a bad sandwich at Arby's, as far as I know, I've only had

roast beef.

Right.

I'm pretty consistent with what I eat there.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I think that's a part of the issue too.

Certainly in price.

Sticks.

One of the bigger things that we're going to be seeing more and more, and I, I, I don't

see any end to the, or this ending well with the fast food industry, we're already, we've

already seen it in long before some of the recent, you know, things that have become

up with, you know, bills and all this stuff and everything.

We saw that the, the restaurant industry hit its plateau and then crash, where, you

know, where's, where's the last TGI Fridays you saw?

Where's the last, you know, we've got, the Apple Bees in town here, just close

down a couple of weeks ago.

I mean, that's another great example.

That's the first leg of this.

That's the first stage of it.

The next stage is, well, which, which one of the major ones are going to go down?

Is it Sonic?

Is it, you know, in an out burger?

Is it something?

I'm not, and I'm using those as examples because I don't think it's going to be them.

Right.

But there is going to be fallout.

There is going to be more restaurants that are like that.

You're right.

Because not only of the price is going up, but people not paying these workers enough

and not having enough workers for it and everything.

Because they don't want to work there.

Yeah.

So you're going to continue to see like, like, hair, brain, half-thought-thrull ideas

like this at every place, even McDonald's is doing this.

Yeah, they do.

No, you're absolutely right.

And go ahead.

Just real quick.

And Starbucks, now they've advertised before.

They just got done rolling out their big, the most money Starbucks has ever spent on advertising

by far with like three times as much as they've ever spent, now maybe two times as much.

But it's, that's telling you, Starbucks is getting into the advertising, like even bigger

here.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That is a tell-tale sign right there that that industry is, I don't know what's going to happen

with it.

We need to, we need to find a place like, I don't know, like a local place in town here,

like chips or something, they just do the thing they do and they do it well.

Yeah.

What is wrong with that?

Yeah.

You know, the reason is, is because all that, like, chips as an example, all they have

to satisfy is us.

Yeah.

McDonald's, all these big restaurant chains, they have to satisfy shareholders.

This is one of the reasons why they do this, so why Arby's is doing this.

They got to show, like, we got to find a way to grow, you know, growth, growth at all costs,

that's where we're at right now with corporations.

So they are going to, they say, okay, we got to do these crazy things or we got to do promotions,

we got to do something different, we got to do this, this, this, this, and this.

Why not just do what you do and do it well?

People respond to that.

Part of the reason I don't think I'd be very good at owning a business is the same reason

I'm not really good as an athlete.

Like, I love sports and I like playing sports, but I win a little bit and I'm good.

Like I don't have this, like my insane relentless drive, that drive is all in acting and all

those things and stuff.

When it comes to that other stuff, I just not built for that.

So I would be a bad athlete, I would win once and I'm like, I'm good, you know, and

that's not athletes.

You go to win, win, win.

Business, they talk about this all the time in business, you know, when you go into it,

one of the things you should be doing, and this is in business classes I took years

ago.

So maybe this is a change.

Right.

Having an idea, how big do you want to be?

What is your, what is your ceiling?

What would you like it to be?

Are you a, a mom and pop restaurant and yeah, you'd like to get, you know, most of the

town there, but you're not looking to, you know, turn it into a franchise, yeah, right.

That's where I would be.

I'd be very happy having my regulars, having a good restaurant and, you know, you know,

you can do okay.

You can get lights on or whatever.

Whereas to your point, most businesses, all of these start out wanting to be McDonald's,

wanting to be as big as possible.

What's wrong with not, not, you know, not doing that, right?

Yeah.

I feel like that, that more times than not, like leads to the end of a business.

For me, the best businesses are the ones that see a need in a community and they fill

that need.

That is, that, that should be, and again, this is my opinion, but that should be, to me,

but it's, it's all about, okay, yes, I get it, business is about turning profit, right?

It's about making money at a certain level, but what do you, but small, and this is the

big difference between small businesses and large corporations and that sort of thing

is the ones in the community are filling a need that the community has.

And that's why they are successful is because they're filling that need.

They're doing it well, right?

When you get into shareholders and you get into stock prices and you get into all these

other things, that all goes by the wayside.

Because now what you're looking at is not the need you're trying to, that you originally

were there to fill, you're looking at what's the company worth?

And what do I need to do?

Well, we find out it's not just fulfilling the, the, the, the, the first, the thing that

you were formed for, it's what, my advertising campaigns.

That has a lot to do with it.

How can we branch out into new things?

You know, what's the, the next big marketing thing is that we had, you know, all these

other things that come into it that is not the core goal of the business, at least where

it started out as.

I also, if I own a business, I don't think I'd ever go public.

I feel like every time a business goes public or a company goes public or whatever and they

open now that, the owner or the creator of it goes crazy.

Like, if it's a good one, they make a lot of money and money melts your brain.

Which we keep seeing examples of every single day.

Yeah.

It just, it does something to you.

Just say it.

When we talk about addictive things that are addictive, we don't talk about money enough.

We don't.

We don't talk about that.

That is very addictive.

We will take a quick time out, our final one of the show, but we're going to make it a

good one.

Take care of our sponsors here.

And when we come back, we're going to have some good stories of the day, our schedule,

and plenty more lined up for you here at the morning show at WFHR.

Welcome back, everybody.

Seth and James hanging out with you, wrapping up the show, take it to the top of the hour.

Thank you so much for joining us.

Been a lot of fun today.

It's been a good day.

Big thank you to all your listeners out there, those of you that called in and chimed in.

And certainly a big thank you to Denise, and on the head of the week from the Hussathokani

Mainz Society.

I want to send a big shout out to our sponsor of that segment, Miltown Coffee, who are

just six days away from opening day, everybody.

Yes, they're almost here.

They're almost open.

Wow, that's so exciting.

June 2nd, 7am, Miltown Coffee Company will be opening day.

Be there, everybody.

Yeah.

We're going to get some of that coffee.

We need to get some of that.

We're going to see a line down the road there.

Yeah.

We're going to get into our schedule and talk about some fun stuff that we got going

on at our stations today.

And on our sister station, a 105WYRI, a softball playoff action set.

Tonight, everyone, if you can't make it to Robinson Park, which of course we do encourage

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Love to cheer on the Lady Royals as they take on Auburndale tonight.

If you can't, just tune into 105-5.

We're going to have you covered pregame at 4.50, 5 o'clock, or thereabouts.

First pitch, Mike Comer, with a call on that one.

Can't we love bringing all these high school sports to you?

And I got to say, because we're coming up to the end of the season here, the whole sports

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I mean, we're planning for next fall already.

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But Mike is excited.

We're all excited here.

We're going to bring you as much as we can.

We're very, very looking forward to next fall.

Yeah, we're going to be bringing you more coverage than ever before and more than anybody

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Yes.

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They should.

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Yes.

Thank you so much.

Again, 4.50 tonight.

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Be sure to check that out.

Mike and Seth are going to have it for you.

And over here at WFHR at 5.50, Raptors at Wasa.

You're going to be taking on the wood chucks on their home field.

Yes.

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Be sure to join us for that.

Got some great stuff going on.

And don't forget everyone.

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Not all sports teams allow that to happen, but with the Raptors, we get, we got you covered.

Yeah.

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And we're not, we're certainly, we hear you guys out there.

We know that there's been some difficulty catching us on analog and in your car and some

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Working on it.

You got our best engineers in the business working on that stuff and we care about this

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Yes.

And it's local listeners very deeply.

Nobody is ever going to, at least as long as I'm in this chair, then that's never going

to change.

Yep.

So we appreciate you guys and appreciate your feedback and check it out.

We're after baseball tonight, 550 right on the radio dial or on your Civic Media app.

Yes, indeed.

We were talking with Pam earlier, big thank you to her for joining us.

We were talking about the concert last night, the orchestra pops concert.

Yeah.

Well, one more for you going out tonight.

One more public, Wisconsin Public Schools concert.

It is happening tonight at 630, over at the choir concert, over at the performing arts

center.

Yes.

Check that out.

It's going to be fabulous wrapping up the school year and on a, on a high note.

I'm glad the show is almost done.

That was good.

You could tell.

You could tell.

Over at the end here.

We appreciate everybody attending all these concerts, all season long, big thank you to

the music directors and their assistants and of course the kids.

We appreciate all your kids out there entertaining us.

Yes.

Seth, it is a Wednesday.

No, it's not Thursday.

It's Thursday.

I'll just put that one on the thing.

Yeah.

The week's best job.

It's best job, man.

It really has.

But here's something I can talk about everyone, friends at the United Way of Southwood

and Adams counties are participating are spearheading a diaper drive going on right

now.

Everyone through Father's Day, which is June 15th.

They're looking for new and unopened diapers of all sizes, wipes, unscented preferred and

diaper, rash, paste, and or creams into the hands of parents in need.

Monetary donations are also accepted.

You can go to their website for that.

You can also drop off those diapers and sorted sundries at the United Way office, 351 Oak

Street in Rapids, Monday through Friday, 8.30 to 4 p.m. as their normal business hours.

And I wanted to talk about this.

We've been talking about the performing arts center, the pack a lot and we talked about

Yacht Rock earlier.

What a perfect wrap up of the show to talk about this great pre-show, happening with

our Save of the Arts counselor, our great friends at the Save of the Arts.

Yacht Rock Gold Experience bringing you all your favorite hits from the late 70s and

early 80s to a new generation.

Great performances, great songs and you can hear it live right here in town.

Join Yacht Rock Royalty, Elliott Lurie, lead singer of Looking Glass and the big hit brand.

Brandy, you're a fine girl.

Fun begins nicely done.

The fun begins at 4 o'clock Sunday, August 10th.

You can make your plans and get your tickets right now at Save of the Arts.com everybody

and support local support the arts.

We appreciate you doing that.

And who knows, maybe Darryl Hall will come and complain about being called Yacht Rock.

You never know.

You never know.

You're only going to find out how to get the tickets.

That'd be hilarious.

That would be fun.

It would be fun.

It would show it up in Wisconsin for some reason.

That was very weird.

It's just showing up at all these local locations.

It's not Yacht Rock, it's not.

Keep in mind this is a pre-season show so season ticket holder seats will not be reserved

in advance but by your tickets early to secure your favorite seat.

Yes.

And get those tickets at Save of the Arts.com, Save of the Arts.com.

Thank you everybody.

I just think of all the songs that I hope they play.

Oh yeah.

You got your pick in the litter.

Oh man.

Really dope.

Give me my camel to Joe Frank and Reynolds.

And we were joined earlier on the Rapids Report by our friends at the Wisconsin Rapids

Kennel Club.

Yes.

And we were talking about their flyball tournament.

That is coming up this Saturday and through June's first, head to the Southville County

Rec Center for Flyball Dog Race to start at 8 a.m. and go until 2.

Concession stand is open 11 to 2 and all of raffle baskets free admission and open

to the public.

It's a family friendly event.

They're going to be a live music entertainment, especially if you ever just wanted to check

in and see what this is like.

Yes.

It's free.

Walk on over there, check it out.

Check it out.

It's a lot of fun.

Yeah.

I do want to warn you, you will stay.

You will probably stay.

See some fun stuff there.

Yeah.

It's so much fun.

It's awesome.

I love what they do.

It has shut up to the Wisconsin Rapids Kennel Club.

Yes.

And of course, all those furry animals and those friends.