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We're going to have some fun this hour.
We're going to get in some entertainment news and a little bit.
We'll be touching on some of that.
We'll have some other fun stuff for you as well.
But right now to kick off the 10 o'clock hour, a special edition of Meet Your Raptors.
We're going to talk some baseball now with our Wisconsin Rapids rafters.
We are going to let the boys introduce themselves so the audience can vote a voice to the name.
And then we're going to talk for a little bit and have some fun.
So go ahead and we'll start down the line here and everything.
Go ahead and introduce yourself, bud.
My name is Ryan Williams.
I am a 2025 rafters intern.
I specialize in baseball communications and media relations.
Ryan, good to see you again.
Thanks a lot for being here.
Thanks for having me.
Starting to get used to this place.
Now you can come by all the time.
I love this place.
And go ahead and introduce yourself.
No?
I'm Noah Rees.
And I'm a player on the Wisconsin rafters.
Yeah.
Noah.
Good to meet you.
Good to have you here and everything.
I shook Noah's hand earlier.
And my hand is still warm.
He is a hot bath right now.
This kid has hit like a lights out over there at Winterfield.
And appreciate you guys.
Let's kick off right there from Winterfield yesterday.
The oddness of having to play an ending game and then go right into another game.
Noah, how was that for you and the boys?
How did that go?
Have you done that kind of thing before?
No, it was really interesting because we got lightning delayed and then they had to push
the game back.
And it was definitely interesting for sure first time doing that.
But after the first one, you just had to flush it and get back to the second one.
Got a nice, you know, comeback victory yesterday.
One thing that I've noticed with this team, and you guys may, you guys would be able to
touch on this better than I can.
But I do more than just follow box scores.
I'm listening to a couple of innings every game.
If not the whole game, I'm going to these games when I can.
And it hasn't been the season we wanted.
There's no, you know, kid gloves about that or anything.
At the same time, I haven't seen a game where you guys, I don't care what the score says.
I don't see you guys getting blown out.
I don't see you guys get out there with your heads down in the dugout or anything.
Every inning, every no matter what the score is, I see you guys fighting going out there.
Doing whatever you can to try to get guys on base.
It doesn't matter how much you might be down, two outs in the ninth, still fighting,
still working at it.
Is that come from coaching?
Is that something that you as players just are playing with?
Is it a combination?
I think our team just competes.
I think we all love each other and we have a great camaraderie on the team.
So I think at the end of the day, we're always going to fight for each other.
And it's just a few mistakes here and there that ends up not going our way.
But once we clean it up, we're going to be a really good team.
It's a long season.
It's a long season.
Absolutely.
We've got plenty of time here.
I love that attitude, though.
That's fabulous.
No, if you don't mind, I'd like to get to know you a little bit here.
Where are you from?
I'm from San Diego, California.
Right on, right on.
Beautiful area.
Beautiful area.
I love California.
What made you want to do baseball?
What made you want to jump into baseball?
I came from a baseball family.
Everyone, my family and Dodger fans, my whole family is in L.A.
And we just love it.
Well, I'm really sorry to hear that.
It's going to be hard to be a Dodger fan right now.
It's going to be really good.
It's going to be pretty awesome right now.
That's cool to hear.
Now, what made you come to Rapids with your skill set here and everything?
Because, man, do you have a five-tool skill set?
I appreciate that.
My coach, he said he wanted to play in the North of it.
So I was like, absolutely.
And that's how we got here.
Right on.
How you enjoying it?
It's awesome.
Coach Ziggy, awesome guy.
I love the team.
We're just like a family.
It's going right on.
Right on.
Ryan, when it comes to, for you, how this early season has been going and
everything, how have you been experiencing it?
What have you been up to?
I love it.
It's a great experience.
Definitely a lot of growing pains to start the year, like how Northwoods
League Baseball happens.
I think from off the field standpoint, we've done a lot of overcome a lot of
challenges that I'm really happy with.
As far as the on the field stuff, especially with the Northwoods League and
guys coming in, guys coming out, I do love the culture that Ziggy has brought.
The last time we had this conversation, we talked about guys in the portal,
guys coming in, guys coming out, and I really do think Ziggy is bringing in a great
group of guys that are buying into the culture here, and we're still having
players showing up, and that's the great thing is there's still a lot of
growing pains, and it's still early in the year.
So for those that watch college baseball, Carson McIntyre, who's the right
fielder for Oregon State, unfortunately the beavers got bounced out six to five
yesterday, but he's going to be one of our everyday starting players coming
in the next few days.
So we're still waiting for a lot of guys that are really in the power five
schools of talent that are going to bring some explosions to our lineup, and
I'm really excited for whatever the rest of the season on the way.
It's a great point, man, and talk about coach Ziggy.
It's very similar to talking to other river kings had GM and had coach
coach Peckman about this.
I don't think that there's a tougher coaching job than what these guys do.
It's one thing to have a set roster.
It's another to be able to adapt and work your team and what you do to your
players.
Andy Reed, I think, is a perfect example of this, and he's just a big name
example, so it's why I use him, but one of the smarter, better coaches in
football.
But the thing that is always stood out to me about him is I've got this playbook,
but I'm not going to just put this on anybody.
I'm going to go ahead and see what your skill set is and adapt my playbook to
your skill set.
I'm going to work with the talent I got, and it's part of the reason he has been
successful, a big part of it.
I see that in coach.
I can't see that in coach Ziggy.
I'm sure he's got, in talking to him a little bit, he's got a mentality.
He's got a style of play that he likes.
What he is bringing in, he's not only going to work with it.
He's going to make sure that your guys' skill sets are not only taking advantage
of on that diamond, but that you guys are also being able to showcase those and share
them with their scouts and anybody else that's watching.
It's a tough balance to be.
On the major league level, I understand the pressures and all those things that are
involved, but there's almost a, well, I've made it kind of thing, and I'm there kind of
thing, and there's no hire to necessarily go.
This is what we're working with.
At this level, every single person, no matter what their job is, both you guys, to coach
Ziggy, to Jake, at the GM spot, and all these different things, are working to build
something, build a career, build a resume, and all that, and I find that to be one of
the cooler parts of this league, and one of the fun things about it.
Another part of it that I find interesting, and I know the audience does, too, is a little
bit of what you're kind of going through right now, know with the portal and everything.
Do you mind touching on that a little bit?
Yes.
I spent three years at Biola, and I graduated early, and it's always been my dream as a
kid to play Division I baseball, so, you know, that this last year at Biola, I tried
to set myself up to have a good year and, you know, go D1, and that's exactly what I'm
trying to do.
Right on.
We're hoping we're going to help you do that.
We're going to make sure that this community is there supporting you and rooting for you.
I will tell both of you guys right now, wherever you go, whatever you do in your careers,
get used to seeing Wisconsin rapids, people liking your things, and that we have a tendency
to follow those that come here and spend time here and everything.
I appreciate you sharing that, man.
This is going to be one of the bigger topics going forward in sports, is portals, and a
lot of those kind of conversations, so I appreciate you sharing that.
It's an interesting story, and you're an interesting guy.
I do have to warn you guys, though, you've done too good of a job.
Ryan already knows this, and now you've got to come back.
You do a good job.
You have to come back, so knowing you did too good, you're going to have to join us again,
man.
Oh, sure.
Thank you.
I'm in the town here, bringing your skill set here.
We appreciate that.
I appreciate you guys being on the air with us.
Hopefully we get a game going tonight, and we'll see what Mother Nature does.
But either way, have fun with the rest of the season, and don't be strangers.
We look forward to having you guys back real soon.
Thank you so much.
Appreciate it.
Thank you.
It's been a good interview.
I feel solid about it.
You guys were great.
I could have done better.
I know the way to land this home, though.
I know the way to really stick the landing.
Let's give away some Raptor tickets.
Let's give away some tickets.
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I've got a special one going on tonight, too.
I almost forgot to mention this.
You guys have, uh, what is the, um, the promo tonight?
It is summer camp night.
Uh, summer camp night at the park.
Be sure to check that out, and have some fun over at Witterfield.
We'll meet you there, everybody.
Melissa and I will be back with more show coming up on the morning show here at WFHR,
locally grown radio.
Ha!
Get in hot tub!
Little James Brown to play Melissa and I am.
Hope y'all are having a great Wednesday out there.
Thanks for joining us.
A big thank you to Noah and Ryan for joining us from our Wisconsin Rapids Raptors.
That was blast.
That was awesome.
Get to NorthwoodsLeague.com.
Get those tickets.
Let's show them what home field advantage is, everybody.
Every single game at Witterfield this year, I want a full stadium.
Let's make sure to show these boys and, uh, that, uh, come here, hang out with us, visit
our town, live here for a little while.
Let's show them.
Let's show them some camaraderie.
Let's show them, uh, well, how much we appreciate them.
And it's just fun down at the ballpark.
I've only gone a couple times, um, and I haven't gone yet this year.
I'm excited to go.
So, let's plan that.
Get on over there.
And, uh, you keep calling up to win tickets, everybody.
We appreciate you calling up and winning these tickets.
We got plenty of them here.
We're looking forward to getting them in your hands.
The burning a hole in my pocket, Melissa.
I want to give them all away.
I want to hear.
I want to hear.
I should take those out of your pocket sign.
Ha!
It's summer camp night, too, at the Witterfield tonight.
Go ahead and enjoy that, everybody.
And of course, be listening to playmakers a little bit later today from four to five.
Our sports director here at the studios, uh, Michael Comer will be joining us.
We'll keep you up to date on the weather and, uh, how things are looking at the ballpark.
Mm-hmm.
Diving.
Michael is so well informed about sports.
It's just awesome.
Michael's insane.
Um, he's got, uh, just an incredible brain when it comes to that stuff.
And every time I think, oh, I might know something he doesn't.
I'm going to share this with him.
Nope.
He already knew.
I already know.
I, uh, yeah.
No way.
Appreciate you, Michael.
We'll be talking a little bit later.
Diving into some entertainment news now, uh, uh, here, of course, at the home of Dolly
Parton News.
We begin there.
And Dolly, Dolly has a list of accolades a mile long, um, and she's also a successful
entrepreneur, author, and actor, um, and now you can add, uh, hot, hot to lear, hot,
or hot to lear, or whatever that word is, hot, hot to lear, hot to lear, hot to lear.
Hot to lear.
Yeah.
A hotel.
Yes.
Yes.
Okay.
Okay.
I've never heard that word before.
Hot to lear.
Hot to lear.
Hot to lear.
I know.
It was a weird word.
It really is.
And I actually thought they were making up a word for a second there.
But as soon as you cut in there, what I was talking about, like, oh, yeah, I'm pretty
sure.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Sounds good.
You know what we're talking about now.
Pick whichever one you like.
Pick whichever one you like.
Get out there and go ahead and use that one.
It was recently announced that Dolly will have a new hotel called Song Teller opening in
Nashville in the spring.
Song Teller.
It's a good name.
It's a good name.
I like that.
It will be located at 211 Commerce Street, just blocks away from the Rhyman Auditorium
and the country music called The Fame.
Oh, wow.
What a perfect spot.
How did they get that location?
Yeah.
Because it's Dolly.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The Song Teller hotel will have 245 rooms and some amazing features.
It will have two entertainment venues, Parton's Live and Jolene's.
Cool.
Cool.
Plus Dolly's Museum called Dolly's Life of Many Colors Museum.
There will be a coffee shop called Cup of Ambition.
Perfect.
Also, her venue, Jolene's, will be on the 11th floor featuring beautiful views of downtown
Nashville.
Oh, that's so cool.
I'm sold.
Yeah.
I'm definitely sold on this.
Like, I've always wanted to, that is one of the top five places I want to visit Nashville,
Tennessee, Tennessee in general.
Memphis Nashville, I want to visit both of them.
So I mean, I need a place to stay.
You know, there we go.
Right.
Let's stay there.
Of course.
Gotta sleep somewhere.
That sounds really good.
And I, man, the names for these things are so good.
It's almost like she's a Song Teller.
It's almost.
Almost.
Almost.
It feels like she should, you know, she should give that a shot.
She should try.
I, I, it's funny to me, you know, there's such a weird line for people of selling out
or, you know, overselling yourself or any of these kind of things.
And then there is artists that we just can't get enough of.
We've only done three shows this week and two of those shows we've had Dolly Parton
stories.
Yeah.
And we still have a Dolly.
Yeah.
We haven't gotten enough.
I don't know.
I wish you're the best.
I keep doing it.
Keep doing this thing.
I'll write her a letter though, James, and tell her that how, how much we talk about
her.
We should.
I think she'd respond.
I, you know what?
I don't, I almost think she would.
I do.
I almost think she would.
Yes.
Yeah.
We should definitely do that.
Definitely.
Oh, we're doing that.
It's just done.
We're doing it.
Um, so, uh, there's a, there's an interesting trend going on with a bands right now.
Um, ghost and, uh, sleep token, uh, both release new albums.
These are bands for those that don't know.
Um, they both debuted at number one in the billboard 200.
And they are mask bands.
They are bands that don't show their face.
They, uh, cover up their face, um, think, um, maybe kiss to another level.
If you need a reference, um, you know, slip knot and some other bands might be references
as well to people out there.
Um, and this is not actually new, but this is technically becoming a trend.
Uh, you, you can, uh, trace this back to what they call theater rock, Alice Cooper, David
Bowie, um, again, kiss things like that, uh, bands like Guar, uh, mushroom, head, slip
knot, when we were kids, they were big at this, um, there was a guitarist bucket head
that's really good at what he does.
Literally just wore a bucket on the side.
Um, um, that was his step behind covering up their faces.
Uh, there, there isn't really a, uh, so from what I've heard, I, I imagine that every
person might have a different theory or a different way of talking about this, but overall
what I've heard from people is they want it to be about the music, not the person.
And they, they, they also, especially in this day and age, a lot of people, this is a
way of them keeping some privacy while still being in the public eye.
Okay.
Hey, that makes sense.
Um, limp, uh, the, uh, so the, the wonder is, and there's a couple of articles that
are out right now is if this is becoming the new trend and this is going to be the
new way that bands just kind of do this, um, to which I say, uh, are you insane?
Like, like, uh, there are going to be, sure, there are going to be plenty of bands that
might do this.
And maybe there's even a rise of it.
But you're never going to, uh, the music industry, uh, I don't know if it's 50, 50, but
for every person that's in it because they, they just literally love music.
This is what they want to do.
It doesn't matter if they become famous or not.
There are people that are only in the music industry to become famous and, you know, they're
of course going to show their face and their body and all that.
Uh, and, and I'm not even, I'm not even judging that.
That's just being honest.
Oh, it's just reality.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Not everybody's going to follow the same trends.
Uh, there's a new band, uh, Nova machine, uh, Nova Machia, uh, Machina, uh, a band that's
blowing up a TikTok right now.
They have a gimmick on, uh, top of the mask thing, which is they claim, uh, to be from
the year 2192.
Uh, okay.
I love that.
Oh, that's fantastic.
Hey, that, you know what?
I actually, I don't know if they, like David Bowie best a little bit with that world
but I don't think anybody's ever really done that, that, that, that, that's not bad.
Yeah.
Just like straight up like we're from the future.
Yeah.
I mean, you know, we're going to play you music.
That's, that's pretty good.
I, I love the idea though of that band.
They come and they, they, they're, they do polka, they, they, they're the whole, everything
they do is polka like, hey, it just came back around, you know, music comes in trends.
It's the year 2192 and the biggest form of music is polka accordions are amazing instruments
though.
I, there's honestly, I, if, hmm, I'd love to be able to learn to play one.
I, I think, uh, it's a sneaky, wonderful instrument at the accordion.
I, I generally like the sound of the accordion.
That's a fun one.
And it's so versatile.
Mm.
Yeah.
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Yes, indeed.
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Yes.
Yeah.
Very true.
Very true.
Uh, but boy, do we cover the gamut of things and, and to be honest, if there are things
we are not covering, you'd like us to well sign up for the newsletter and let us know.
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Keep in mind, you can stream us from there as well and catch all of our previous release
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at WFHR.com.
Yeah.
Yes.
Our podcast.
It shows which we are hoping to have community stories back at that very soon.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I wasn't sure if you wanted me to say that.
Sure.
I think we can talk about it.
Okay.
Cool.
Cool.
It's in the works, but I just, I don't have a, this is when it's happening for sure.
Yeah.
But, but it is really encouraging, very exciting, uh, the award winning show, uh, looking
to bring it back.
That is fantastic to hear.
I got to check out this article Brittany wrote about water on Wisconsin.
I haven't, I didn't see that one.
I got a bookmark.
Yeah.
Check that out.
That looks good.
Our good friends over at Wisconsin's rapids community theater, uh, I've been having
a lot of fun throughout the main stage season, uh, and of course, they're going to have
a lot of fun this summer, a lot of great shows going on, um, we encourage you to check
out.
And one of them is happening in just a couple of hours.
WRCT's youth theater is going to be at lunch by the river with snow white and the seven
endings.
That's awesome.
It's going to be a really fun time over there at, uh, tomorrow, I'm sorry, tomorrow at
Vetsch and Memorial Park.
I got ahead of myself, um, that'll be going on tomorrow.
When it's lunch by the river James Thursday, it's, you know, it's only been that way for
the sense of dawn of this just talking about Thursday, though, with the newsletter.
You get a pass.
Uh, it's going to be, that's going to be a fun event.
And they got some other great kids stuff going on over there and encourage you to find
out more at wrc theater dot org, wrc theater dot org.
Yeah.
Dare to dream is this weekend.
Yes.
That out.
We'll be talking more about that tomorrow in Friday and there's a sneak peek on their
web on their Facebook page.
So head over there if you want to hear the kiddo singing.
Oh, I didn't know that.
Oh, that is cool.
I just thought this morning, I think it just, I think Gretchen just posted it this morning.
Right on.
Good work.
Gretch.
Go check that out.
Everybody.
That's awesome.
Um, and of course, make plans get ready because it is that time.
The cranberry blossom fest is kicking off tomorrow.
Yeah.
Throughout the whole blossom fest, there will be the berry fest raffle that is going on
and there are going to be other great things happening going for the next couple of days.
Right here at the heart of cranberry country, Wisconsin Rapids.
The festival is filled with berry fun events, including a lot of music, a parade, arts
and crafts, a carnival, a quilt show, food, and of course, Coles culinary treats featuring
Wisconsin's number one fruit crop, the cranberry.
So much going on.
Our own Wisconsin Rapids municipal zoo is really going to be kicking things off tomorrow
from 1030 to 430 with their dive into the world of whales ocean adventure.
And it's a giant whale.
Yes.
Yes.
It's so cool.
I hope I can see it from here.
I don't know if I'm going to be able to get over there.
I got to get over there.
I wanted to report.
Not very far.
I wanted to be able to do a remote from inside the whale.
I really wanted to be able to do that.
That'll be fun.
We're looking forward to that kicking things off.
We're going to have a lot of fun talking about it.
And of course, we're going to have fun being a part of things WFHR and WRI will be broadcasting
live and direct from the arts and crafts vendor fair Saturday.
We will be there Saturday.
So from 10 to noon, you and Pam will be down there, right, Melissa?
Yep.
We're going to be live broadcasting from 10 to noon on WFHR from the vendor fair.
That's going to be a lot of fun.
And then from noon to two, over on 105, 55 WRI, Laura and Doddy will be over there.
Yeah.
Are radio personalities from WRI?
It's going to be fun.
We're looking forward to hanging out with you and having some fun.
Stop by our area and say, hi, we've got these cool sunglasses.
I think we're going to have stuff to give away.
You should come see us.
We've got these cool sunglasses.
You want to check those out, everybody.
And according to my mom, they work really good.
Nice.
And I think we have some lanyards.
Yeah.
So it's going to be a fun time.
Stop on by, say hi.
And of course, find out more and make your plans to attend as many events as you can buy
local, support local, the blossomfest, cranberry blossomfest going on.
Go to blossomfest.com to find out more blossomfest.com.
Big time shout out to all the nonprofits, all the businesses and all the volunteers that
make this happen every year.
We appreciate you.
Yes.
It's going to be a lot of fun.
It's a big labor of love for our community.
We will take a time out, get to our news, sports entertainment break.
We'll come back and we'll have some more fun.
When we get back, how much time does the average American get to themselves every day?
Hmm.
Not enough.
We'll come back and we'll give you the answers on that coming up on the morning show.
Welcome back, everybody.
Morning show at WFHR.
Trying to jump in between.
Locally grown radio.
We hope you have a good one out there.
Melissa and James hanging out with you.
Thanks so much for being here, everybody.
We got an interesting one here to get to and I like to find things that are relatable.
I like to find things that the more people that can relate to it, the better.
I don't know.
The topics we've chosen today, Melissa, I feel like there's some of the most wide-ranging
we've ever done.
And this one, I got to think, is pretty darn universal.
Everyone has stuff they want to do in their quote, free time.
But not everyone has free time to do it in.
And we may even need to explain what free time is to some people.
So free time is when you...
No.
It's what recess used to be when we were in school.
It's perfect, perfect description.
According to a new report, the average American only gets 9.5 hours to themselves every month,
which doesn't really amount to a lot.
It's about 570 minutes, but it breaks down to about 2 hours and 20 minutes per week,
or just 20 minutes per day.
The most common things that get in the way are family obligations, work commitments, financial
constraints, social obligations, and quote, guilt, more on that later.
And people would be willing to cough up some major cash for a full day of peace and quiet.
The average American would pay $2,521 for a totally free day.
Wow.
Wow.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And parents would be willing to pay $1,147 more or around almost $4,000 just for a free
day.
Wow.
Can you put me in touch with those people because I really need to buy a bed and they're
expensive.
So I am happy to babysit.
I'm a world class babysitter as well, so I will be back up.
I also can clean your house for you.
Yep.
I'll do that.
You know, those two things, if you want to give me several thousand dollars so you can
have a free day, follow me up.
I'll give you a bargain.
I'll give you.
No, kidding.
No, I need the several thousand.
That's what a bed costs.
Oh, yeah.
The report says, also says people would be willing to pay an average of $340 for just
one extra hour of sleep.
Overall, 53% of people say they need more alone time than they're currently getting.
And nearly 38% admit to lying to a partner, friends or family to get some time to themselves.
Wow.
That is, wow.
Okay, but is it a lie when you say I have something, I have something going on and I can't
be there?
Yeah.
And the something you have going on is spending time by yourself.
That is not a lie.
Not to me.
And just, and I think we need to normalize that.
Yes.
I was just going to say to anybody, if there's anybody in my life doing that, you don't have
to.
If you like, look, man, I know we had plans, but I just need some time.
Cool.
I get it.
Yeah.
There are definitely people out there who would be like, well, no, you don't have, well,
the guilt.
You're not doing anything.
Come hang out with me.
Okay.
But I am doing something.
I'm hanging out with me.
Well, and it, it's interesting to hear that guilt part of things.
So I make the joke all the time about, you know, my mother, my Jewish mother having a
black belt and guilt and Jewish guilt is so heavy.
But really every, every creed, everybody has their own version of this and everything.
It's, it's just a little old joke that I make.
But there is a lot of truth, I think, too.
How much guilt, you know, works our life and can control our lives, not completely, but
in certain ways.
I think that there is some of this that is a positive, actually.
I think that some of this keeps us in check.
Some of this keeps us in perspective.
How often, how many times in life have you done something because you felt guilty and
then at the end of it were like, oh, I'm glad I did that.
Oh, that felt really good.
It can have a positive, maybe not a big one and maybe it shouldn't take guilt to get
you to do that, but just looking at silver linings.
Yeah.
And I think that we do need to look at silver linings with guilt because a lot of us have,
have experienced guilt for, I don't want to say inappropriate reasons, but I'll just take
myself, for instance.
My parents chose to parent us with using guilt as a parenting mechanism and that was not
healthy.
Was not healthy for us as children growing up and I don't think it was healthy for them
either.
It has caused some serious hangups with guilt now as an adult that I'm having to deal
with.
So I do think that there are some ways that it can be helpful, but it can definitely
be hurtful.
And I think that the guilt that we feel we have to remember so that we're not putting
it on others.
If that friend, if that person, if that significant other comes to you and says, look, I need
time to myself or I need time alone or I go, whatever it is, like don't make them
feel bad about it.
They'll make them feel guilty for it and everything and it's not going to have the result
you want.
And remember it so you can use it later.
No, I'm kidding.
I'm kidding.
That's good enough.
No, actually, there's nothing wrong with that.
It is, it is, you know, give and take, you know, life, no matter what relationships we're
talking about, but I, you use the word that I appreciate about this in normalizing.
And while there are so many things I think that we've normalized that we shouldn't have,
I think the list of things we need to normalize is gigantic and that is okay.
Yeah.
Because we've, we've gotten to the place as a society where we, we say mental health,
we talk about mental of things and we don't have to do it in the hushed voice.
That's cool.
That's great.
Well, well done society.
Now it's on us to go to the next level of that and actually putting it into action and
doing something with it.
Because taking the time that you need, you know, to reset for yourself is mental health
care.
I have, I've had friends, I should say, that have taken vacation time and they don't
go anywhere.
They don't do anything.
They just need the break.
Like it.
Oh, I'm that friend.
Yeah.
I didn't know.
There's, it's, it's, and just that alone, just take a look at that right there and that,
if that doesn't tell you that, that prime example, then I don't know what will.
And I do think that there might be people out there that might think that this is far
fetch or isn't that stress.
And to those people, I envy your life because I don't think that there are, I really do
think that we're talking like high 90% tile here of people that would agree with this article
that people would, that would feel this way.
I don't think that's exaggerating.
I think it's a really high percentage of people.
Talkerresearch.com, by the way, is the website you can find the complete article.
While we can't do certain things, obligations and commitments are what they are, whether it's
family or it's work, life is life.
It's meant to be lived and it's meant to be done.
I'm not going to complain or have a problem with those.
But I do think that the guilt part of this is something we can do something about and giving
each other some grace with this topic.
The government's not going to come out and make a bill that's going to make us do this.
And they wouldn't be able to agree on it anyway.
They wouldn't be able to get it passed anyway, but it's on us as society.
It's on us as people to give this to each other, to do this for each other.
Give each other grace.
We, government has its place, has its importance, but we put too much importance on it way too
often.
You know, for an example, government didn't make us recycle.
It told us to, but it didn't make us do it.
There were laws.
Yes, there were things that, you know, they give you a recycling bin, all these things.
We as a society agreed to start doing this in our own homes individually when nobody's
looking around and putting it in the recycling thing and not in the garbage.
We did that as people.
We, the people did that.
We can do this with this too.
We can do it with anything.
We can, I'm not going to wait around for a bill to get passed on this one.
I'm not going to, you know, I'm doing this in my own life and I encourage others to do
this.
And it's really fun to be able to be the bigger person, no, I'm joking, I was just thinking
of an example of this with my mother the other day that happened and I haven't had that
very often in my life.
But, you know, trying to find it for your own self, those moments, I think is important
to.
Life circumstances do make it more difficult, you know, having kids, having a family,
having pets, having obligations, like you said, those, some of those things we don't have
control over, but finding those moments to take for yourself and it's okay to take them.
That's part of it is just giving yourself the permission to do that.
Yeah, yeah, that's, yeah, perfectly said.
I did want to take a moment to touch on a good story of the day.
I teased this on Monday and you can find this at UPI.com, Ben Hooper doesn't really
nice reporting over there at UPI.
And Oregon Middle Schooler has designed prosthetics for a paralyzed dog.
Oh.
The 7th graders at Valley Catholic Middle School in Beaverton were challenging a challenge
to create a prototype prosthetic for Ember, a 16 week old labored, a labored doodle whose
back legs were paralyzed as a result of spinal injury.
The project served as the first exam for the school's STEM program, shout out to STEM.
The school's STEM teacher, Suzanne Fu, great name.
The goal of the project is to challenge students to apply their knowledge to a real-world
scenario.
The students' designs were well all constructed from recycled materials were tested using
a stuffed animal.
The school said there is a possibility of more successful designs from the class being
3D printed in full size to see if they can actually help Ember walk.
Oh, nice.
And from the looks of it, this is not only going to help Ember, but going to help other
animals as well.
Wow.
Wow.
It's an amazing story and so one thing that I think that is really cool about the STEM
program, one of the many, many cool things about it is the older we get, the more our
imaginations are affected, I'm sorry for not having a better verb, but I don't want
to say that they get infected or to me, I think that's probably the best way to put
it.
Yeah, dimmed, yes, for a variety of reasons.
We get a little jaded, we get disillusioned, the older we get, we have our trust broken like
we talked earlier.
And the older we get, the more entertainment or the more art we take in, the more our creativity
is altered and changed.
And influenced.
Yes, influences the right word for that, I think.
Whereas when you're that young and there's a limited amount of influences and you've only
been on this planet for so long, so you've only had so many, your, the brains are not just
sponges for knowledge, they're sponges for creativity.
And the idea of taking 50 adults and putting them in a room and everyone of them are going
to look at this project differently, but then you put 50 kids in that room and they're
going to see the world differently, the whole room differently.
We need to be using that more.
We need to, I'm not saying everything they do, obviously running with it or anything like
that, but.
Alright, sweatshops for kids.
There we go.
That was a great idea, James, and I'm done.
This is my last day, everybody got canceled, see ya.
But that is something really exciting about these STEM programs and like what Mr. Benjamin
Peter is doing in the Nacusa School with their 3D printed class, you know, in the interviews
and the stories that I did with them on Community Stories Junior, just allowing their creativity
to be applied to solve problems, like they can follow it from idea to conception to reality,
which is just so cool.
This.
That's not something we could have done as kids, but what they're able to do with 3D printers
now is just fantastic.
It's amazing and we're just in the beginning of this.
We're just getting started.
Just getting started.
We'll take a quick time out because we're just wrapping up.
We'll be back to wrap up the show, Morning Show at WFHR.
Welcome back, everybody.
Morning Show here at WFHR, Locally Grown Radio.
Melissa and James hanging out with you.
Take it to the top of the hour, got great civic media program and coming up for you
after that.
Thanks for joining us today, everybody.
It's been a really fun show.
Appreciate you listeners out there, all your feedback.
The rafters for joining us, that was a lot of fun.
Speaking of rafters, we're going to be talking about that a little bit later today during
playmakers.
Be sure to join us from 4-5 over on 105-5WRI.
We speak sport.
We'll be talking with you about sport and other sport things.
We must talk sport.
Yes.
We will be getting into that a little bit later.
Michael Koma will be joining us.
It should be a fun show.
I'll be sure to join us with your sports, takes and feelings, big thank you to quality
plus printing and family natural foods.
It will be your tailgate, your pre-game for the rafters hosting the Madison Mallards
tonight.
Ooh.
It should be a good one.
Our pre-game will start here at 105, 97-5FMWFHR.
The boys of summer will be back in Madison on Thursday, more on that tomorrow.
So would it be appropriate to say the rats against the ducks?
Yes, it would.
Oh, that's good.
That's very good.
Rats first ducks.
If you should check that out tonight, everybody right here at WFHR.
And Melissa, it's a Wednesday.
We know what that means around here.
It means Bingo.
Bingo.
Bingo.
Bingo at the Wisconsin-Rapis Elk Slodge, number 693.
We join them tonight at 430 West Jackson Street, their doors open at 5, Bingo kicks off
at 630.
By local support local, our Elk Slodge does so many amazing things in this community.
We appreciate them, help them keep doing that stuff and have some fun with some Bingo
tonight.
Yeah.
Who doesn't like Bingo?
We should do that as a team.
We talked about it multiple times, James, one of these days.
I think it'd be fun.
I haven't played Bingo in years.
That'd be fun.
I always do it at our family Christmas.
Melissa, I appreciate you sending this over.
The Central Wisconsin High School Trap Team Booster Club is hosting a Brought Fry this
week.
Yeah.
It's going on June 20th, 21st and 22nd to support these 16 members from Lincoln, Naku support
Edwards, Adam Friendship, High School Trap Team who earn their spot to compete at the
USA High School Clay Target League Nationals in Mason, Michigan.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, they need help with travel expenses.
Please come support the team at the Brought Fry held at 998 Ranger Road right here in
the Rapids.
Have them reach their goal of selling 400 Broughts all we can do that.
That's not that many.
Yeah, we can do that.
Seriously.
I want to go buy two.
I haven't been to a Brought Fry yet this year, James.
Oh, yeah, you did that.
That's just wrong.
I think I'm going to pick up my dad and we're going to go do that.
That sounds awesome.
My father loves supporting the local sports and loves a good Broughts, especially if
he didn't have to cook it.
He doesn't really like that.
I don't have a grill right now, so I need somebody else to grill it for me.
We'll talk more about that the next couple of days and make sure that everybody knows
about this one.
Because it's Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, they start at 10.
What is it?
998 Ranger Road?
Yep.
Yeah.
998 Ranger Road.
Yeah, good job.
Nicely done.
Yeah.
But they also have some goodies so you can get a whole meal.
Yeah.
Brought and dessert.
It's going to be a really fun event.
Be over there.
Buy local support, local everybody.
Support these kids.
And congratulations to them, by the way.
Good game.
It's time to congrats to them.
That's impressive.
I've never actually seen a trap shooting competition, but I've played a lot of duck hunter.
Yeah.
Similar.
I haven't seen a competition, but I've seen it done.
And yes, I like you.
I played a lot of duck hunter.
We're going up.
That dog.
The dog.
That dog.
And I want to remind everybody that our friends at the Heart of Wisconsin Chamber of Commerce
have these wonderful weekly or these monthly and weekly events going on all year long
and are neighboring in our communities here.
One of them is rendezvous in the park.
It is happening today.
It is sponsored by our friends at Paper City Savings Bank.
They're going to have the food truck down there.
The big pen.
Great name.
The pig pen?
The pig pen.
Yeah.
The pig pen.
Would it just say the big pen?
Sorry, dyslexia.
It sounds like big, but I thought you said pig, so I'm just making sure I heard it, right?
That's not a bad name, but the pig pen is a perfect name for a food truck.
That's awesome.
That's a great name.
Check out their food and the great people over there.
Check out some wonderful entertainment from Steve Strossman.
This is all taking place at beautiful Riverside Park, one of my favorite parks in the whole
world.
916 Prospect Avenue in Nicosah.
Even just taking a walk along the lake is beautiful.
It's a view like a few others in this state.
Be sure to check that out.
They're going to be doing this again in July and August.
Make plans for those and make plans tonight from 537.
Head on over to Nicosah at beautiful Riverside Park and enjoy rendezvous in the park.
And if you're interested in volunteering for the Midwest Fest, which is happening on
Saturday this weekend, I think that they're having their meeting in that area tonight as
well.
Oh, yeah.
Baby, you should check that out.
So if you want to get involved in volunteering with that, just swing on by.
Yeah.
Thank you for that, Melissa.
Also, lunch by the river happening tomorrow from 1131, right here in Rapids at Veterans
Memorial Park.
Yes, and there'll be entertainment by the Wisconsin Rapids Community Theatre.
The kids are going to be performing.
That's going to be so much fun.
Go down there, check that out.
Get some great food while you're at it, everybody.
That's going to be going on as well.
Of course, some of our favorite food trucks and chefs and cooks and stuff are going to
be down there doing that.
And if you bring cash, you won't be limited to which trucks you can buy food from because
cash is universal.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So you're covered.
Your bases are covered doing it that way.
Go for it.
And join us for lunch by the river.
We're going to be a fun time tomorrow.
Big shout out to our heart of Wisconsin Chamber of Commerce doing a great job with that
as they do every year.
And of course, we are right around the corner from Cranberry Blossom Fest.
A lot of great things happening with the event we mentioned, our friends over the Wisconsin
Rapid Municipal Zoo, Helen Zoo House tomorrow from 1030 to 430, we'll have their Forest
Whale.
This 60-foot, life-size inflatable whale that you can journey into and check out.
I want to see that.
That's going to be going on.
It's going to be a lot of fun.
Of course, Cranberry Blossom Festival also features some of our local nonprofits, including
our great friends over at the Southwikani Historical Museum.
They'll have their exhibit open this Friday from 1 to 3.
And then Saturday, their famous ice cream social will be going on from 1 to 3.
Cool.
That's always a good time.
Be sure to check all of that out and support Phil and the gang over there at the Southwikani
Historical Museum.
I'd also like to mention downtown on tap is happening on Friday from 5 to 9 in Veterans
Memorial Park.
That's free to attend.
They'll be live music from Barefoot Americans and face painting by I Heart Studios.
You can bring your chairs.
They'll have food trucks again and beverages that you can purchase at the surrounding businesses
there.
Check that out, everybody.
Check out our rafters tonight at Witterfield.
They got summer camp night going on tonight on the 21st, their car show.
And then Bark in the Park is back on the 22nd.
Oh, wow.
Is there so much happening this weekend, Jay?
Yeah.
How are we going to get to it all?
I don't know.
I don't know.
We're going to live by carers.
You know what?
We're going to need some people out there to go to some of this stuff and let us know how
it went.
Take pictures and put them on our Facebook page.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We encourage you to do that, everybody.
And as well encourage you to check out the Andrew Mueller Benefit Show.
Yes.
That's the golden sands.
It's coming up on the 21st, it'll be this weekend.
It's a wonderful time for a wonderful cause, Melissa.
Yes.
Indeed.
For those that don't know Andrew Mueller died from an anaphylactic shock because the first
responders didn't have epinephrine.
So that's what they're trying to have a bill passed that will require that first responders
carry that.
Encourage you to check that out, attend a big shout out to everybody involved, our friends
over at Golden Sand Speedway, great people over there.
And remembering Andrew and his love for vehicles.
Yes.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We appreciate the family too, sharing him and sharing that with us.
We appreciate that.
Quick note.
Tomorrow, Katrina Hittner from Family and Natural Foods will be sitting in with us on the
morning show here.
We'll have some fun with that.
And we will welcome in Denise from the South of County, a South of County Humane Society.
We'll be talking to him with our pet of the week.
We'll have our pet of the week tomorrow.
That'll be a lot of fun.
Shout out to Mill Town Coffee Sponsor and that.
We appreciate you.
One of them mentioned a couple of good stories from around the states.
In a high school principal in Arlington, Texas made headlines after he wrote a personalized
note to every single student in this year's graduating class, 443 of them.
Wow.
I want to know when he started.
That's a great question.
I knew you would go over the good question for that.
More power to him.
That is amazing.
That is awesome.
And also set a high bar.
Yeah.
He's set a high bar.
Super.
I might do that by last year.
I don't know.
Like every year, you're going to be doing that, but I'm sure he doesn't mind.
I'm sure he looks forward to it.
That's pretty cool.
And he cares about his about his kids.
That's just awesome.
That's a really good story.
We'll have more good stories for you tomorrow.
Melissa will be back with us on Friday.
Get ready for your weekend.
Great show today, Melissa.
You too, James.
Be good to each other out there.
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