Good morning, Wisconsin. Morning, world. It's a new day. Thanks for kicking it off with
us at 97-5 FM WFHR.
Got your host, James behind the mic. Join by Melissa. Good morning.
And the best listeners in radio. Thanks for joining us, everybody. We hope you're having
a good one out there. We got some fun stuff lined up for you this hour a little bit later.
We're going to get into how many of us like our first name. How many of us like our first
name? We will touch on that. We got some local good things going on in our area. We're
going to, of course, get into our schedule here as well. Talk some raft or baseball and
plenty more. And programming note, as you may have noticed, the kitchen's open is not
kicking off this hour as it normally does on Mondays. Set them Beth are off for the week.
I really appreciate Beth is helping Seth chase his dream of being a minor league baseball
player. I believe that's what they're doing at least. I haven't really checked in with
them, but not some just, you know, assuming. But hey, good luck, Seth. You got this, man.
We're pulling. I do not think this is going to go well, Melissa. I feel like he's probably
going to be back here. But just let's let him have this. Let's let him, you know, support
him. Let's support him. He's got the brain for it. I'll tell you that. We're going to get
into some entertainment news to kick things off of me. My comments to my. Can't be listening
next Monday for another edition of the kitchen's open. So this is quite an interesting way
to kick off at our table. There's an old clip that is circulating of Dolly Parton telling
a this story on the Conan O'Brien show from 2001. Did anybody else hear this one where
Dolly Parton once streaked through Tom Jones's backyard? Streaked as in. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. All right. Here's what she said. That was many years ago. I've mellowed out
a little since this is when this is when Tom Jones lived in Bel Air. And he was he was
as hot as it can be. And I had some friends out in Hollywood. And I was staying at the Beverly
Hills Hotel. And then she was trying to remember if it was when she was shooting nine to five
or her best little, you know, a whorehouse in Texas show moving. And she said must have
been the best little horror also. But anyway, a bunch of her girlfriends, quote, a bunch
of a girlfriend's in me. We had a couple of margaritas and they dared me to streak through
Tom's yard. And then they kept daring me and double dog dare me. And I couldn't take
it. So I just did it. Conan was relative, relatively stunned by the story. And I have
to say to everybody, he talked about this for years. Like this wasn't something that ever
really I don't think he ever I bet you if he asked him right now, he still hasn't really
like come to grips with it or anything. He'd probably be happy to tell the tale again.
He is such a silly and fun, good energy. It may be lost on some people out there. He
is one of the hardest working people I've ever met in my life. Not just entertainment
or in the construction industry or anything. I have worked I've worked with very few people
that study and prep as hard as he does. People kind of make fun of me sometimes teasingly
not really make fun of me, but tease me a little bit about how I am about midday
mega or rapids report and you know trying to bone up on guests and stuff. It's part
of the reason I am that way is watching him when everybody else is leaving and he's still
back there studying for tomorrow's guest. That's his mentality. It's just who he is.
Better to be over prepared than not enough. So for him to be kind of like side swiped
by a story and to have no idea kind of like where it was going. What was going to happen
to everything was just you know I think a part of the reason why he was so taken back.
That and of course it's Dali Parton and you know the subject matter and everything.
Code says I don't think he so Dali went on to say I don't think he saw me as far as
Tom Jones and if he did I didn't impress him much. I find I'm going to go out at a
little bit say Tom Jones didn't see her. I think that's the safer bet. But just one
of these things that where in the interview is so much better than anything I could
do as far as talking about it for one. You get a very young Conan O'Brien and younger
Dali here and everything. But it's it's back in 2001. Dali is still Dali. Dali is still
famous, but she's not where she is now. You know fast forward 24 years where I would say
in the last 10 maybe less than that but 10 years or whatever she's kind of gone to a different
level. Yeah. Where she is that that Betty White level that level of where what you do and
if you still it's not now Dali is still doing music and Betty was still acting. But even
if they weren't their star their their love the love for them would still be where it is.
Yeah. I actually think it's a society. Those two are really good examples of how we're
starting to get better about appreciating people when while they're here. I don't think we're
great at it yet. But I think we're getting better at it. No, because we take things for granted
very easily. All of us do. I'm myself included. Same. Same here. Yeah. I think that's that part of
this is kind of cool to me that to see that and just her being her the the blunt honesty of just
who she is. She's sharing that that fun story you know like obviously only if anybody saw it
but the fact that she's sharing it I don't know I think it's cute. I do too. I used to wonder
with people like her and stuff. Well it seems so comfortable and so you know unfiltered. Well
I wonder what they'd be like you know talking to them you know out of an interview or just in
person and everything. I bet she's no different. I think she's pretty much the same. Yeah. She is
Dolly. I know I was and a lot of people out there were excited about the Banneroo festival that
was going to be going on this weekend kicked off Thursday night in Manchester minutes Tennessee
and I was supposed to go on all weekend but it ended Friday. Okay. I obviously wasn't going to be
going to this but Hulu you know plays the videos of these concerts like Coachella and all these
things on and I was excited to see some of the acts that were going to be there never happened.
The festival was officially cancelled Friday evening due to a heavy storm that rolled into
the area so campers whose sights were in decent shape were asked to camp overnight so those in
rougher situations could be evacuated. Oh dear. The show was supposed to run through last night
with acts like Tyler the creator Olivia Rodrigo, Avril Levine, Hozier, Vampire Weekly. Luke
Combs basically became the festival's headliner since he went on last Thursday night and he brought
up Randall Amber too. It was really cool. It was really cool. The night's lineup also included
Rebecca Black and a couple of other acts too but that was all that got to a chance to perform.
Yeah well good that they cancelled it and got people to safety. Yeah you know for I mean the
what is it the Burning Man one or I think it's that one I apologize if we get along. Yeah the one
where it just seems like every year people are like why do I do this and this is horrible and
all those things since I would much rather this. Give me give me my money back and let me be safe
in plan for and I could use that money for I don't know maybe a mortgage on a house or another
festival or it's one thing to be able to afford any of this nowadays but then to have it cancelled
you know that's got to be but it's disappointment all around I'm sure. Yeah we can't control the
weather and these acts don't get paid so there's you know it's not as if it's easy on them either
so interesting. Rob Lowe knows his go-to workout song is cheesy and he doesn't care in fact he admits it
quote the cheesiest thing in the world he the workout song that he has if I asked the audience
715 424 1300 what is the cheesiest workout song you can think of. I will give this a couple
seconds here and see if anybody's got one because I have it obviously in front of me but I'm
pretty sure this is one of those times I would have nailed this one I would have got this one
right and to be fair I've been working out is it's one of my earliest memories is working out
in my dad is and I still you know pretty much have the same routine that I do do this use the same
song. No no but when I was little this was one of my go-to workout songs it certainly was and that
song is I of the Tiger from 1982's hit Rocky 3. That's what I was going to guess what I think
the name of it you know it's going to say the Rocky song. It's not just the perfect song for a
montage if you need a workout if you have if the hero needs to go through a workout and become you
know from a skinny guy to a big guy or knowing nothing to knowing everything and you need a song
I of the Tiger is the song to go to. I would love to actually see like how many times that's been
used in modtages through movies and TV shows and everything. Oh that'd be a fun. But Rob admits it
you know well while it was it was a you know something I would work out to when I was like six or
seven that stopped a long time ago but Rob he's still working out to it he says quote you can't go
wrong if I if I want to go knock off a set of 20 or go for a max bench press I've got to have that
on that's the song for him otherwise it's just it's not the same. Well that's good. Rob you
we like routine yeah yeah especially what we're talking about with working out and everything
Rob usually only works out to music when he's doing stuff like cardio quote if I'm on
epilect or a peloton or something like that doing incline stuff I'll put music on because you're
just grinding you're on a hamster wheel so it helps it helps keep you motivated take
your mind off the miles if I'm if I'm working out yeah I like to have that I like that music playing
or something but if I'm like walking or going for a run or something like that I I don't usually
listen to music but I might have headphones on yeah I usually listen to audiobook oh that's a good
one yeah I might just have the headphones on just in case somebody tries to talk to me I'm just
being honest I'm just being if I'm out of run or something like that I tend to now I I don't think
this is even really happened that much it's usually in the city where you do it like around here
and rapids I haven't really done that but when I'm in the city is when I've done that before
just you know sometimes you just don't want to be bothered or do you just want to do your thing
you want to have an excuse to not be social but that yeah that's a good do you have any if
you're gonna work out or even if you're just gonna get motivated you gotta get pumped up Melissa
do you have you have to go two songs or songs that you've gone to since you were a kid or for a long
time so I got a couple like that it's that it probably been around 20 years well I kind of it
varies for me um the current band that gets me motivated right now is Rainbow Kitten Surprise
that's great name it is a great name um they're not kosher for radio because they do swear
yeah now and then um it's fun and then even if I didn't know anything about them just their tight
the name of that band I'm like yeah well we probably can't play that we know you can um
and then previous to that I was just thinking back when I was running
regularly I listened to a lot of image and heap and see ya okay when I was running yeah yeah I
could see that huh yeah they're not like super pumped up songs or anything but I don't know it's
just what got me um I don't know if I'm gonna word the mood music though so I could see a certain
song specifically um being really good for that huh I like that that is good okay so what are some
of your ones you've had forever oh um besides I have the tiger a lot of in living color and
I live in color faith no more um songs like that but um like the mortal combat soundtrack
like I'm not joking I don't know um as far as like like um like older songs boy now I'm trying
to think of like 80 songs that I still listen to that pump me up huh I'll think about it I'll
think you know what I think we need to do is we need to make a montage a montage isn't the right
word a um a mixed tape yes yes of fight music from video games um for for running like the final
fantasy of fight music is perfect yes that's that's pretty good uh I just thought of one uh for
sure it's not that old but uh that I definitely been I will still listen to and I will still
get pumped up with uh thunder struck from acdc uh that that that'll definitely do it that'll
definitely do it it is something about that's something about it gets you on gets you on uh we are
gonna get going to break here in a moment but I did want to shout out just a couple of things real
quick and one of those is uh great friends it was council rabbits community theater uh we got
Gretch uh coming in a little bit later today for rapid support uh she's gonna be joining us
we got some really great things that are they're gonna be doing uh of course their main stage is up
and you can go ahead and take a look at that and see what there is to take in there uh our silver fox
season tickets around sale I believe yeah silver foxes just wrapped up uh their their summer
production that was cool I heard it was so fantastic and I really planned to go and I'm sorry
penny I was peopleed out on Friday uh I heard good things too I did too it was awesome and the
Wisconsin rabbits community theater youth theater lunch by the river snow white in the seven
endings is this Thursday it is oh my this is gonna be really cool uh they're they're gonna be doing
this uh coming up this Thursday over at of course veterans moral park a part of uh it's really
fun to see theater outside yeah have you gotten to do any theater outside um not like officially
no I mean like a little we did I I went to one final Fridays that was outside in Steven's point
I think it was two years ago now or three years ago I've uh okay a little bit yeah not officially
don't know I've only done uh one show outdoors and it was Romeo and Juliet it was Mercutio uh one of
my favorite roles ever but as I was uh hollering and and just um trying to pull on every emotional
thing I have in me a plague upon both your houses a plague upon both of your houses I'm screaming
and a bug went in my mouth uh bug went in my mouth that'll never forget it I'll never forget
this you're like a bug cluster for that uh I mean this that's it that bug was waiting for
his moment to know he's like oh they're gonna make this worth it um lunch by the rivers snow white
in the seven endings brought to you by Wisconsin's ribs community theater we'll be going on this
Thursday be sure to check that out everybody and they're not done from there no they've got a whole
summer of great shows with the kids involved um coming up uh June 19th through the 20th coming up
just in a little bit dare to dream a Disney musical review uh review uh review uh review uh
directed by Gretch uh this will be the youth musical for ages 8 to 11 yeah next month you're
gonna have west side story the school edition uh that'll be going on in July and the brother's
grim specket tacky lathan will be happening in august uh with the hope opportunities for our young
people to get involved in theater it's so good be listening to the rappers report today uh you
can stream it exclusively at two o'clock today um sure Gretchen and I will be getting into plenty of
that and this is the week everybody this Thursday kicks off cranberry blossom festival
I would say our signature event in this area it is the one that brings in so many different people
from so many different walks of life and really um one of the things that we look forward to every
single summer a big shut out to the viscous rapids bureau in every single organization non-profit
volunteer everybody that makes this event happen things kick off this Thursday um they're gonna
have uh going on throughout the whole event uh the very fest raffle encourage everybody to get in on
that um but I know that I am going to try my best to get over to our Wisconsin rapids municipal zoo
and check into dive into the world of whales and ocean adventure
cool from 10 30 to 4 30 this Thursday you're going to be able to step inside an incredible 65
foot life-size inflatable whale whoa this is like a dream to me Melissa this is something I've just
I've always wanted to see a whale in person uh and this is as close as I'm gonna get right now question
question James yes are you going as Jonah I want to I will I will I uh I just I just need to
know a little bit more about Jonah oh you need us a world yeah there we go okay here we go
they were dressed then it was fine um we're excited about this and we know the community is to
make sure to spread the word about blossom uh cranberry blossom fest you can find out more by going
to blossomfest.com blossomfest.com uh we'll talk more about it throughout the whole week here of course
and uh get you ready for the different events and different things we'll be involved in
is that's true we'll take a quick time out we'll come back and have some more fun on the
morning show at WFHR welcome back everybody morning show here at WFHR locally grown radio
Melissa and James hanging out with you I love this music can I get enough of it we hope you're
having a great day out there everybody thank you so much for joining us um so this is interesting
it's been 12 years since amazon first announced that they planned to use drones to deliver your
stuff in the future well it's the future and that program has had quite a rocky rollout
and it's still only available in a very few select places so now amazon is uh thinking farther
into the future they're working on technology to have your packages delivered by humanoid robots
mmm the humanoids would be driven around in uh ravian uh electric vans and would jump out to walk
over and drop packages off on your doorstep supposedly this AI software will cope be soon soon be
ready for real world testing but judging by how long the drone thing is kind of dragged on
everything I would not you know uh place any bets on this if you're curious the testing will
happen at an indoor humanoid park which sounds horrifying to me um yes which uh amazon has
constructed at one of their offices in san franc uh it's roughly the size of a coffee shop and
has an obstacle course for the robots okay that part sounds funny okay it might be funny to watch
yeah but to have this play out in real life doesn't uh mmm they're also working on AI powered robots
to work at distribution centers which feels a little more practical than humanoids that are out
in you know in the wild um in fact amazon is already using a variety of autonomous robots in
their work house operations right now hmm um so uh you know for and I'm not actually going to get
on them about the whole drone thing not working out um this is just you know this is to I I will
get on them about uh you know being so uh gun hole about it and stuff and just so talking about it
when you don't really need to um they they were promoting I don't understand technical uh tech
companies do this the they're most guilty of it promoting stuff and hyping stuff up when it
hasn't even come out you know when it's not even finished um but they don't know if it's actually
possible the video game industry is is very guilty of this where they've got like five minutes of
a video game that looks really good and so they'll put it at their summits and everything and then
the game comes out it's got a billion bugs because they rushed it um every phone every new phone
that's going to be released from now until the end of time basically yeah yes that's very true
about phones so this is tech this is the way it works and I think most of us have just kind of
accepted it and everything um and and then you hear the term AI and you know half the audience is
freaking out half the audience is dismayed and it's not they're numb to it uh so I think that
there's also that part of the conversation that is you know I just I just can't help but wonder um
because I I live in a in a I live in an area where there's arguments about what my addresses
I don't know if there's actually arguments there's just a lot of um non-consensus about what
my address is so amazon doesn't ever deliver to me specifically um because they can't they can't
get it right in their system and they and so then it doesn't get transferred to uh so
UPS delivered a mattress I bought here not too long ago and I was watching for them and when they
arrived are are ran downstairs really quick so I'm like I'm not over here I'm over here on this side
can you bring it over here and then and the guy was like oh yeah absolutely and he carries it over
and he's like you got to get this upstairs and I said yeah I think I can do it I could just
and he's like I'll just carry it up for you it's like seriously that's so amazing thank you so
much shout out to the workers out there yes thank you wonderful UPS man I don't know if I would have
gotten the same deal from a robot right yeah uh and how are they going to deliver to apartment
buildings because that's what he said to me he's like oh I delivered to apartment buildings all the
time hmm um you know when you have to take when the the address is upstairs I would say it's it's
been at least five a well over five years but it may even be close to ten um my parents and I make
a point every week to make sure that we have dinner together and we usually order pizza um and so
that whole time we've been ordering pizza from pretty much the one place I'm not gonna say their name
or anything um and so they've been delivering to our address forever for you know as long as it
can be it was only a couple months back where I saw them go to the house right next door to us and
drop off the pizza and um and then leave and I wasn't I just wasn't sure if those people ordered a
pizza too so I didn't want to run over there and be like hey that's our pizza like I don't know
you know I feel like an idiot yeah well turned out it was our pizza um and and by the way horrible
neighbors don't don't take they'll keep the pizza tell them that they got the wrong address um
that's that's really messed up that's really messed up as a side note um but uh they this place is
really good uh there's a read we still go to them and and they're really good at their job
and they're they have really good hardworking people there and they it's still got mucked up
you know yeah human error happens I can't imagine better a pizza than a raid yeah I can't
imagine uh uh a trusting AI for these kind of things yeah um that we we've we've it's everything
I was just saying about video games or cell phones or anything so much of the tech industry is
that now used to just be those kind of things but now we're we're just tech in general is way
ahead of us we haven't caught up to so much of a yet um well and that means we don't have the
control over it that they want to claim they have yeah yeah look at what's happening with chat gbt
right right well and and even how not only how we're gonna use AI but how AI is gonna be used
against us um you know you have to think about the the counter of everything in life I don't you
know care if you're talking about water um it's just that that's survival that's going back to
the whole fight or flight thing yeah AI doesn't have a conscience I um I I I think that there's
I think that will these I know that these stories aren't going anywhere but I do think that
there's also going to be a uh a point where those that two types of people that I mentioned and
there's clearly many many different types of people out there when it comes to this subject but the
person that's scared or the person that is numb to this I do think that there is a balance in a
middle ground that's going to happen as AI is being more and more developed or used or figured out
and uh that is my hope for the day um that's all I got that's uh no let's get to a new sports
and partner break and we'll come back and we're talking uh names we're talking names what is
a percentage of people that like their first name coming up on the morning show at WFHR
locally grown radio welcome back everybody morning show here at 975 FM WFHR
James and Melissa hanging out with you thank you so much thanks for joining us everybody
we hope you're having a good Monday out there uh we've got some uh got some stuff to get into
here Melissa and I've been hanging on to this one I've been dying why curious know what the audience
thinks we want audience participation you all got the morning show play at home versions right
there just pull out the civic media app and text or call us we'd love to hear from you most people
have probably had a quote you know love hate relationship with their names at some point in their
lives I think uh most people go through that that stage I know when I when I was young um because
there are you know three other James's and and I wanted to be different so uh instead of going
by Jim like everybody uh the other James as I I went by James and then that wasn't enough
so when I was young I found out that my father uh who was named James and that's where the
tradition started he actually wanted to break through the tradition and named me Vincenzo
you can't even say it without sounding can't I can't um and uh so so with you know I
I went I actually in six I think it was yeah six grade uh for like a month I would sign my
god I can't believe I did this I would sign my uh my papers you know tests and homework and all
that as Vincenzo demore demore is my family's um in my non as maiden name um so I did this
he took a whole new name I I did I went all out I that was going to be my name nothing in the
world can convince me otherwise I I I remember even uh like hearing how you you know what it took
to change your name as an adult and all these things um and I would say even before I finished high
school that that kind of changed I yeah I I found uh that that love hate part of it I just kind of
enjoyed and I I hope most people can get to those places with their names you know did you ever
have anything like that with your first name oh yeah there was a there was a period of time in
grade school where I hated my name like I why didn't my mom name me Michelle or Samantha like I
wasn't seeing the I guess representation in any of the things that I was taking in that where you
where even though anybody born in 1982 it was like Melissa was the most popular name that year
it was a big one yeah yeah and so there's a lot of us out there but I wasn't seeing it in my little
bubble of a world that I was living in so I was very upset with my parents that one they named
me Melissa and two they didn't teach me a foreign language while I was little you know oh yeah
yes yes that's a good one yeah but I did embrace my name later I mean I went through a
a litany of trying to come up with different nicknames Lissy was one that I
oh yeah yeah or Lissa I think I was signing my my school papers with that oh yeah none of
them had ever stuck except for my childhood nickname that my family still calls me and that I
absolutely to test but they still do it I got I really want to ask the follow-up questions about
I really you know the you know the the interviewer in me really wants to ask the follow-up question
to that but you know what I do but I don't know if the audience does I don't know
so I I would one of the things that I think I embraced and I don't know if this would help
anybody else out there or not and James is such a popular name and it has been there's really not
many decades where it hasn't it's timeless popular name it shows up you know in the top 10 usually
most decades and everything I at least in living history when I when I started the read learn more
and it's your your brain starts to adapt to the idea that you know we are one of millions and
and there is you know so much and then you start one of millions of people and then you start
thinking about our planet and where we are in the galaxy and then you think about where we are
in the solar system or or the Milky Way or even then the universe and all these things and
I think for some people they can tend to feel you know insignificant or small I felt when I first
really started to wrap my brain around that I felt lucky I felt a appreciation that I get to
experience that that I get to have a brain that can comprehend that life that can is old enough
to be able to understand that and I I started to go the other way with it well I'm not just going
to be James I'm gonna make James stand out I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna be a different James
I'm gonna make my you know make sure that it's those kind of things and not on some gradual level
or anything like that I just mean and the people that know me kind of way I think there's
ways of embracing a common name or or even if it's a unique name because that's the other end of
this people that I know growing up like I knew a kid who when I was out in California I met a
kid named Chicago he spent his whole life in California his family just like the name they'd
never even been to the Midwest let alone Chicago and he just takes so much heat for it oh I bet
oh my goodness um they said there's there's you know having an ultra unique name can also be like
hey how can I when you're a little kid and you're looking for the license plate and you're like I
don't see I don't see Chicago right I'm never gonna find them oh wait there's there's how many
license plates with Chicago so maybe but I did embrace mine too I just want to throw this in
there quick um especially because I I went by Mel in high school um because there were a couple
other molasses in my grade at the couple different schools that I went to so I went by Mel
but then um as I probably in my mid no it was probably in my mid 30s early to mid 30s I really
embraced my first name because it's the name my mother chose for me and and so that's how I have
chosen to be identified now is Melissa um and it does feel a little more unique because I don't
know a lot of molasses and um even though there's a lot of us out there I just I don't know them
I haven't I actually have not met a lot of james's uh I just just funny isn't it yeah yeah
it's weird when you think about very popular names and we just I don't know let's take another call
good morning around the air yeah when I was in Hawaii um I had a friend that he was actually a
surfer bum but we uh camp together for a while and his name was california but he was from
california but he had a couple extra letters in his name and then fell enough for california
wow I've never heard that what does it do huh actually did he have a nickname
we just call him cal yeah yeah oh yeah that would work yeah oh interesting I've never heard that
one huh oh that's funny thanks for the call sir have a good morning appreciate it um I haven't
heard that actually not a that when I when I hear it there as a name that's a bad not too bad any
Callie Cal you could you know mix it up a little bit that medicine is obviously a very
popular name mm-hmm that's capital city of our state yeah well overall people generally like
their names in a new poll only six percent of people said that they don't like their name
that's pretty good six percent that's pretty good uh what point in their life are they asking
you know how many people when they're taking the survey though I think that's the key part of this
four percent said that they dislike it two percent said that they hate it it's unclear uh how many
you know uh we'll we'll wear the other our age it's unclear 42 percent of people love their name
31 percent like it 19 percent are neutral men are more likely to be cool with their name especially
younger guys 63 percent of people in the polls say that their name is common while 33 percent say
it isn't and 24 percent of people say that they generally prefer their name their prefer names
that are more common while 39 percent say that they prefer names that are less common 37 percent
are not sure I don't know come on man that's way too high 37 percent are I don't know what to
answer like just give it answer it's okay it doesn't matter this is an important and the best
part is you get to change your mind about your name throughout your life yes if you if you've known
little kids they go through a period of time where they're very very adamant about what their
name is yeah and it might not be their name you know they might be saying no this is my name today
and this is what you will call me I'm like okay you're you're three and I thought that's what we're
gonna do because I'm not I'm not fighting you on that one it is it is so fun to see how serious
there they are so serious about it and and and they deserve that that respect yes yes and but
then they come back to I like no I want you this is my name and then you know they go back to
the name that was given to them that they now love and then you get to that period in middle school
or grade school where you're like no I hate my name again call me this yeah so and you come I
don't know I think it's just an evolution of of how we feel about ourselves throughout our lives
I I I've gone such the other direction with it where that that kid in sixth grade that was
trying to you know get people to call them Vince or Vinnie or Vince Enzo or whatever oh I'm
calling you Vinnie from now on has has become the person that I go out of my way to put the J
in James J because that's represents my grandfather and how important it is to me to represent
my family there's times where I'll put just James mail off on something and in my head I'm thinking
well that's not that this play doesn't have me and it has my papa or it has my dad or my son
yeah I've really gone the other way with this and the in the way that you just can embrace those
things very similar to what you were saying about you and your name and your mom I think that's
one of if you're fortunate in life you get that this this one of the the greatest things I think
one of the greatest things you can have in life and one of the best friends you will ever have
perspective yeah I really if you're lucky enough to have that man hang on to that because that's
pretty cool what's in a name for that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet
of course Shakespeare's famous quote on names but this is the most famous one and this is the one
that I really like it ain't what they call you it's what you answer to WC fields the great WC fields
we'll take a quick time out we'll come back we'll get into a bunch of good stories of the day got
a bunch of events going on in their area they want to touch on and plenty of other fun stuff
it's Melissa and James taking you through your morning right here in 97 5 FM 13 20 AM WF HR
you say yes I say no I say stop I say go go go welcome back everybody morning show at WF HR
time for Melissa and I to wrap up our time with you thanks so much for hanging out with us
everybody big thank you to all of our listeners out there big thank you to our engineering team
helping us out in that first hour and a shout out to you Melissa nice work
well you two James it's not always easy to do that I'm just long for the ride
appreciate your being there I appreciate all you out there let's dive into our look at our
schedule for today as I mentioned earlier join us at two o'clock at WF HR.com for you we will have
wrap a new edition of the rapid support executive director over the Wisconsin Rapids Community
Theater Gretchen Powers will be joining us we're going to talk a little bit about that dare to
dream a show that you're going to be at lunch by the river kids shows coming up this summer I can't
wait just a great summer of theater for us brought to us by Wisconsin Rapids Community Theater
and Hopo and our their youth productions cannot wait to dive more into that it's going to be a
lot of fun I'll be doing that a little bit later and it is a Raptor baseball Monday we're excited
about that Raptors looking to get back in that wind column hosting Traverse City over at
Witterfield tonight that's the pit spitters isn't it yeah it is get on over there let's show
the pit spitters what home field advantage is let's get on over there and give them a
ruckus crowd and cheer on our Raptors and find out more and get your tickets single game or any
type of ticket at northwoods league dot com northwoods league dot com again Raptor baseball tonight
on right here at WFHR at 620 and before that will kind of be your tailgate your pregame for it
from four to five two and it's on 105 five WIRI for playmakers yeah our live sports call in show
you got those sports feelings and takes get them to us we want to hear them they do have a
they do have a shelf life you don't want to keep that stuff bottled in everybody we're looking
forward to hearing from you a little bit later today I do yep we're looking to have the
rafters in with us meet your rafters this week maybe Wednesday we'll do that we'll be looking
look out for that we're looking looking forward to it in all week long and all summer long we're
going to be giving away rafter tickets oh yeah I got four we love giving stuff away yeah I got four
from burning a hole in my pocket right now I cannot wait to get them into yours everybody
be listening today from four to five I want to five five for a new edition of playmakers we
speak sport we also want to encourage you to check out the united ways great events that they
have going on as I mentioned earlier they're wrapping up their great book giveaway they had their
last one here in rapids a little bit ago actually should be wrapping up right now over at the YMCA
and then the left one more tomorrow at 12 30 at the beautiful Leicester Public Library of Vesper
perfect and of course this is the week it is we are we are going to be striking out hunger during
the 13th annual United Way Ken sculpture event it is come it's this week yeah it's coming up
tomorrow it's going to be going on at Winterfield at 521 Lincoln Street we encourage you to come on down
take into rafter game check out all these great sculptures done by so many of our great businesses
and nonprofits if you can bring a donation I should warn you I will probably be there all day
just trying to decide on who to vote for because I'm really bad at it in my defense they're all
amazing so yes they are but also James you know you're making it harder on yourself by watching
the construction process yeah yeah you're right it's just I can't help it I can't help it it's so
cool it's so cool to see them do this a big shout out to everybody who has donated food to help
out with this event and so of course the businesses and nonprofits out there that are a part of
this one you can still be a part of it come to the rafter game bring a non-perishable food item
and you can get in on the drawing that they do and all the kind of cool things that they have
going on with the park and then don't they have like the miracle minute yes coins or money to donate
for that see how much we can raise to help strike out hunger yeah yeah we it's all hands on deck
everybody there's just they're cuts to everything there's nothing that hasn't had cuts to it
and nothing that couldn't use our help as a community and there are a few communities that do
this kind of thing better than ours we'll meet you tomorrow at a strike out hunger or the 13th
annual United Week kind of event with our United Way of Southwood and Amps counties and your
Wisconsin rapids rafters find out more about going to uwswac.org this the Atlantic hurricane
season began this month disasters like hurricanes and severe summer weather can disrupt blood
drives for several days an impact momentum of growing blood supply um we are actually still behind
from last summer in some of the storms and events that we had so it is uh never been more dire uh
I think you can make the argument for you to donate if you can and we encourage you to all of you
out there we have a couple of blood drives coming up one of them will be going on tomorrow from 10 to
three over at the uh Wisconsin's where old Wisconsin's rabbits east junior high oh good uh
you can get on over there and check that out and that's a three and lemon Lincoln street in Wisconsin
rabbits uh I encourage you to be a part of that also uh coming up on the 20th from 10 to three
a Macmillan library will be hosting one wonderful uh next month grace Lutheran church will have one
will tell you more about that later um our good friends in point at the steams point blood donation
center at uh three twenty uh one c main street they have events going on almost every day today
they're we have one going on from twelve to seven um I I talked to people it feels like weekly
Melissa that um don't have a lot of funds but want to put into their community want to help their
community um volunteering and and donating blood are two of the first things I mentioned to them
as far as things that every one of us can be a part of and every one of us can do um absolutely
and and those things help our community yeah like a few things do um and and like great events
like this like this free community meal that the seven day advent church is going to be having
meals with love it'll be this Wednesday doors open at four fifteen meals would be served between
four thirty and five thirty spread the word about this and make sure people that uh could use
the these meals uh know about them uh keep in mind as well our friends at focus um every Thursday
have their neighborhood meals uh that are available uh over at uh the the beautiful Sparhawk
trucking building that they share appreciation uh it's a great facility uh appreciate that
and uh of course ruby red uh you know um we have that uh going on um then we'll be talking more
ruby's pantry ruby's pantry that I said meant to say ruby's pantry ruby reds is uh yeah cranberries
yeah who we love shout out to them too uh but yes ruby's pantry thank you ruby's pantry is the
twenty first the Saturday looking forward to that and of course our zoo is open for the season
everybody the Wisconsin rep is municipal zoo is open for the season uh ten uh they they are
nineteen eleven gainer avenue uh they open from ten to seven Tuesday through Sunday a lot of great
amazing animals over there that I want to apologize uh publicly that I have not been over there to say
hello to yet I specifically apologize to the lemurs every year I go say hi to them I cannot
imagine how worried they are I apologize to them sir and they haven't seen you yet James
starting to uh get really familiar really good friends with the kangaroos over there too so I
imagine they are a little worried I apologize get on over there let me live vicariously through each
and every one of you and uh say hello to all the staff and all the good people over there thank
them for what they're doing your pictures on our Facebook page please please see your your fun
summer fun pictures on our Facebook page and again this Thursday Helen zoohouse gonna be hosting
an awfully big guest they got a whale going to be gonna be over there uh check that out uh ten
thirty to four thirty again we'll talk more about that as we get closer to it looking forward to that
I cannot wait for them extra points if you dress up like Jonah yes yes yes uh looking at some
world good stories a place on long island called Peter's claim bar clam bar celebrated national
lobster day on Sunday by releasing a twenty one pound lobster back into the Atlantic Ocean
wow his name is Lorenzo because of course it is that's the perfect name for a twenty one pound
lobster uh he had been in their tank for years and they think he's about a hundred and ten years old
wow they also said that they did it to celebrate father's day so they must assume he's got some
little ones running around uh I really hope they did some research on this and if this is the best
thing for Lorenzo I mean at at that age I don't know if he's even able to survive I I don't want
to ruin the good story but you know the good intentions certainly there but yeah um and uh then
there is this a bunch of kids in anaheim california that help break a world record that we're
going to talk about a little bit later uh later in the week probably tomorrow um the largest
game of red light green light oh red light green light yeah yeah I remember that just the tease for
tomorrow everybody because that's a really cool story and then a group of other students uh another
group of students at lsu invented some new car seat tech to prevent babies from being left in hot
cars um they heard most deaths happen because people forget that their baby is in the backseat so
it links it so it links to your phone and sits off an alarm if you're too far away your child
is still in the seat and your child is still in the seat that's really cool they're they're
that's a great invention that is a really important really smart invention uh I have another
story about a kid uh that uh just in grade school that invented um prosthetics for dogs that
I want to get into uh this week as well those are good ones and of course uh locally at least I
don't know I believe it's a national computer but uh commercial but just in case locally of course
here we have check the backseat yes check the backseat gets in your head that that one gets in your
heads of really good it does but it's a good one oh a very good one yeah yeah because I mean new
parents they're exhausted all the time I I have my kids are so much older they have not been in
the backseat in ages and I still uh check the backseat because I get that song on the side like
head open get up great show today Melissa you two James where you run the marathon
be good to each other out there this is locally grown radio wfhr 1320 a half w24 ade was
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