Moby is a Good Boy! (Hour 2)

Good morning, Wisconsin, morning world, it's a new day.

Thanks for kicking it off with us at WFHR, take it Marvin.

Got your host James here, thanks so much for joining us everybody, appreciate the best

listeners and radio being out there, we see you, we appreciate you, I'm going to get

some entertainment news in a little bit, got a lot of local events, want to take some

time to talk about some good stories of the day, but it is a Thursday in the 10 o'clock

hour, everybody, you know what that means.

Time for our peddler week with our friends at the Southwood County and Main Society, this

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Denise, how you doing?

I'm great thanks, how are you?

Doing good, doing good, thanks so much for joining us.

My pleasure.

Before we catch up on the shop and everything, I had a story that I wanted to share with

you real quick, a British zoo's missing Mongoose turned up at a pub 15 miles away, I feel

like there's a lot there, there's a lot to that story, I am guessing that you guys don't

get a lot of Mongooses over at the Humane Society.

We may have had one or two in the past, but none to my recollection.

It's probably going to have to run into this problem too much, but where are the Humane

Society's located?

There's a couple of nice, you know, watering holes, if you will, near there, just to give

you a heads up as far as if any animals go missing, check their first making.

Check the pubs, okay?

Apparently, apparently.

That's good advice.

You just never know where they're going to go, you never know.

Right, smart.

But it is an important part of why we chip our animals and why it's such an important

thing with the animals over at the Humane Society.

Absolutely, yeah, and we will chip any pet, as long as you call us first and give us notice,

make sure that we have somebody that will let you administer that.

$30 is what it costs.

We may be having some microchip events coming up in the fall, check out the website.

You know, and it's great that just doing a little homework this weekend about it, I see

that a lot of the issues that we're going on with the last company and some of that,

that that has been worked out a lot and they've got some really good people, a lot of tech

people working on this too, where it's hard to imagine, but the technology is getting

even stronger.

Yes, it's some things that they're implementing at some companies are just mind-blowing.

They have GPS monitors and things that you can add to your chip.

The ones we use don't currently have that, but they're out there.

Well, and with the tech now, and I don't know if this is common knowledge or anything,

but to me, when I hear about that, I think about flat screen TVs.

There was a point where flat screen only, only, wow, they have a flat screen TV, wow,

they must have a lot of money and all that.

And then two years later, everybody had one.

You can go for 200 bucks.

This technology, the longer it's around, the more common it'll be, and the more accessible

it'll be, and you'll be able to see it in almost every chip, eventually, given 5, 10,

maybe even less than that years.

That's not me that's the articles I've read that that's what they're discussing and talking

about.

Another cool part of this that I thought was so much of this, they're able to do without

removing the chip or inserting a new one or anything, they're just able to use that

chip that's already in there, so they don't have to put the animal through that.

Right, exactly.

Yeah, it's not painful, but it's not pleasant either to have something stuck under your

skin at the collar.

So yeah, tell me about it.

Tell me about it.

Been there.

Been there.

No, I did.

I did want to catch up.

How are things going over at the main society, especially now the construction is all done

over there.

Things are suddenly settling down a little.

They are.

They're much better for the animals.

We just got our air conditioning all settled with the zones and everybody's cool and comfortable

and banging, grinding, free, which is good.

The animals appreciate that.

It's something that they don't think about enough when it comes to the main society in

general.

And especially the main shelter I worked at was out in California, and obviously it's

pretty hot out there, but air conditioning is just, you know, they don't even open

up.

If it's 70 out, there's not air conditioning.

Right.

It's just like a town item, almost every building, even in a nonprofit like that.

I don't think about it.

There's enough out here.

There will be like two or three people in the studio here, and it just, the temperature

goes up five, ten degrees.

I can't imagine between staff, animals, how, you know, how it can get in there.

That's really good to hear.

Yeah, it's tough.

Sometimes I get to work extra hard and get to get humid.

We have a lot of fans that direct the cool air from like the main into the cat and dog

room areas just to keep them comfortable.

And the staff works extra hard to make sure they all have water and that they're monitoring

their health.

As far as the season goes, is there any needs or any things that we should be keeping

in eye out for?

We need sensitive skin, sensitive stomach food for both cats and dogs and kitten food,

because the leaders of kittens keep rolling in.

Yeah.

Yeah.

They don't really take a time off.

They don't.

They don't.

They don't.

It's just year round.

It really is.

It's definitely kitten season.

So, but it's good.

It's good.

I have to say, as a side note, they're not the only ones.

I don't know about anybody else, but I feel like I'm seeing a lot more rabbits this summer.

Absolutely.

We're just talking about that the other day, maybe their predators aren't around as much

or the rabbits are just having a great spring.

Yeah.

Yeah.

There's a really good winner in the rabbit community.

They were everywhere.

Yeah.

And as far as, you know, foods we're always looking for, though, as you mentioned, the sensitive

of foods and stuff, and that's always helpful to people.

And always want to encourage you if you want to do, you know, help with that and drop

off some things, but you're uncertain of what to do.

Reach out to your main society.

Yeah.

Give us a call.

There's usually somebody there five or six days a week, if not, go on the website or

send us an email and we will respond.

Yeah.

And of course, the reason Denise is here, not only hang out with me and answer my silly

questions and all that, but to bring us our pet of the week, who do we got?

We'll go with Moby this week.

Moby is a three year old stray.

We believe he's like a spaniel hunting dog, a mix.

He's just very calm and beautiful.

He walks well on a leash and seems to get along with other animals pretty well.

We're not sure about cats, but dogs and people he's good with.

Just to let the audience look by the curtain for a second.

When Denise tells us our pet, I go to look them up on the web page and encourage you to

go to swchst.com to see the animals yourselves.

But as I'm going through, I'm getting distracted by every single animal before I get to Moby.

So it's taking me a while to get to him.

It's tough.

It's tough.

Moby's really, really handsome dog.

He is.

Yeah.

He looks kind of like a white lab mix with me.

There's a couple dogs in there, but he's his temperament is spectacular.

I think he'd be good with kids too.

Yeah.

It looks like it.

From what we're reading on him and stuff, it seems like it's a good fit for a lot of

different families, especially ones with kids.

Absolutely.

And there's something especially with dogs.

You look at a face, you're like, that's a sweet soul.

That is a sweet dog right there.

Yeah, you can see right in their eyes like, oh, they need love.

Yes.

Yes.

Moby seems like it would be a good fit for a lot of different types of families out there.

The best way to find out is reaching out to the main society.

You can always trust that the animal comes first, and therefore with that, the family

is going to work out for the best too.

So if you're on the fence and you're unsure, reach out, find out, see how things go, maybe

you can schedule a visit or something along those lines.

Come on in.

We're happy to introduce you to the dog, even on your own, and if you have family members

and you like the dog, you think it's a good fit.

Come back with your family or other pets, and we highly encourage that.

And trust me when I say this, everybody, there are a few people you will hear or know

or meet in your life that want a dog more than I do.

But I will say that one of the things that I've been able to do while I'm waiting for that

day to happen is prepping and understanding more and more of the right dog for me and

the right dog for the environment that I'm living in or something along those lines.

So all this does, when you don't find that right fit, you're just building and building

rice, building data to be able to find the perfect animal for you and your family.

And you can do that with our friends at the Humane Society.

Find out about Moby and all of these other great animals over there, encourage you to reach

out to our Humane Society as well, for as we're getting more and more in the summer here

and opening the things up over there, ways that you can help out and do different stuff.

Absolutely.

I appreciate you, Denise, thanks so much for showing up today and thank you for telling

us about Moby.

Thanks for having me.

Thanks for having me.

Let me be thinking about Moby a lot this morning.

Head on over to the Humane Society.

If you'd like a 36-21-64 street north right here in Rapids, you can email them office

at SWCHS.com, give them a call, 715-420-505-420-505.

Be sure to follow them on social media, share their posts on your page, you just never

know who might see them otherwise.

And again, that website, SWCHS.com, be sure to bookmark that page and keep up-to-date with

all the cool things they are doing over there.

Denise, thanks a lot for the time, I appreciate you.

Thanks for having me.

I appreciate it.

We'll talk again next week.

We encourage you to get out over to Milltown Coffee, check out some of the great coffee and

food that they have over there at the shop at 38-21-80 Street South right here in Rapids.

Thanks so much.

We'll be back with more show coming up on the morning show at WFHR.

Welcome back everybody.

Hope you're having a good Thursday out there.

Hopefully Friday Eve, everybody, James behind the mic.

I'm going to take you up to our news, sports and entertainment break.

After that, Laurel Poppin, we're going to talk a little bit about cranberry blossom fest

and some of the other fun things we got going on in here in town.

Just a little entertainment news for you, one of the touch-on, and this is an interesting

one.

Now, for anybody out there who, if you've been wondering, why am I seeing a lot of stories

on JAWS, the movie JAWS?

Why am I seeing stuff about that?

Where's that coming from?

Well, this summer marks the 50th anniversary of JAWS being released.

A lot of interesting notes coming out about the movie and everything 50 years later, of

course, you're going to have that.

Next week, Seth and I are going to get into how Stephen Spielberg felt about the movie.

I got an interesting interview with him about that.

But a recent poll determined the most popular sharks in media.

Yes.

Yes.

I want to hear from you, who your favorite shark is, or what you think of when I say sharks,

is there one you think of?

We want to hear from you.

Let us know.

Otherwise, we'll take a look at the list and see what they have here.

And we'll just start it right at the top here.

We'll still right at the top.

Bruce from Finding Nemo.

From 2003's Finding Nemo, Bruce.

Bruce apparently is a popular name for sharks because Bruce from JAWS came in second.

I would think that would be the most popular shark.

The shark from JAWS, even if you don't remember the name, would certainly that.

Lenny, the shark from Shark Tale, good animated movie there, a lot of people like.

And King Shark from the Suicide Squad movies was a fun, interesting character.

And then Destiny from Finding Dory.

They're Finding Nemo connection, they're the sequel to Finding Nemo, Finding Dory.

Meanwhile, Google Trends was used to find the most searched shark in each state.

The Great White is the number one in every state, but for Alaska, Utah, and Georgia are

into whale sharks for, you know, not sure why, but they are.

And in Hawaii, they're more interested in tiger sharks.

The Great White is the most dangerous shark, by the way.

It's followed by the tiger shark, the bull shark, their Requiem shark, and the blue shark.

Sharks are fascinating for a lot of reasons.

To me, the number one thing about them, they have not had to evolve.

We human beings have evolved more than sharks have, just fascinating when you think about

it.

It's pretty interesting.

There's a lot of interesting stuff there with that one, encourage you to enjoy.

I'm not sure when Shark Week kicks off, exactly, but coming up soon, I believe, I imagine

it will be.

Charlie Sheen is going to be writing an autobiography.

Hollywood's possible next great biopic, it depends.

It's called The Book of Sheen, I don't know about that title.

It comes out in September, publisher says, quote, now nearly 80 years, I'm sorry, eight

years silver.

Charlie writes candidly of every detox, retox, and drug deal, and the adventure is along

the way.

Charlie had a quote, my stories have been told for far too long through the eyes and

pens of others.

I think you'll agree.

It's time to finally read these stories directly from the actual guy.

I hope that there's a little bit in there as well of the family.

I mean, it comes from a very interesting and famous family in the Esteveses, of course,

his father, Martin Sheen, and his brother, Emilio.

I'd like to hear a little bit about what it's like growing up in that family, but part

of what he's trying to do here with this is, I mean, is he trying to make a buck or two?

Sure, I wouldn't, I'm not putting that past him.

I wouldn't be surprised if that is part of it.

That is a lot of the actor, you know, an actor's 401k, sometimes can be the autobiography.

But it's also, this is, it seems like just reading from what he's talking about, it's

really healing for him, doing this, sharing this, owning a lot of this.

It's very easy to be cynical nowadays, but when, when, to me, I think one of the biggest

things that we're looking for, I don't care if we're talking about a politician, an actor,

the clerk at your local gas station, whoever it is, is accountability, is owning up to

our mistakes.

I can't respect somebody who can't do that.

I, I can't respect somebody who can never admit when they're wrong, and I'm not alone

on that one.

I'm sharing that because I feel like a good portion of the audience out there, you guys

feel very similar to that.

And we see way too much of it, the, the, the, the go to of doubling down.

You're caught in a lie, you said something and you were wrong, and instead of owning it,

like we are taught from a very young age, that's what mom and dad tell us to do, right?

Hey, you mess up, it's okay as long as you own it, as long as you're accountable for

it.

We're getting more and more away from that, which do you want a nation of kids growing

up like that?

Having no accountability?

Because that's what you get when you vote for it.

That's what you get when you put people like that in power.

Not just politicians, but, you know, CEOs and all of this, when we just put up with that

and we just accept it and take it, what, what do you think is going to happen with the

younger generations?

Those sponges for brains of ours, how do you think they're going to grow up?

How do you think they're going to react to that stuff?

They're going to be whiny and blame other people for things when they should be taking

accountability and responsibility for stuff.

So when you see a celebrity doing something like that, like Charlie Sheen's doing here,

it's, I mean, I could, I got a ton of jokes I could go to for this one.

I got plenty of, you know, a bit I could do and everything, but really, I'm happy for

him that he's getting kind of this moment and that he is.

Here's the other part of this too, as much as you don't, you shouldn't get necessarily

a pad on the back for doing the right thing.

He's a year silver and that's not usually how history ends.

People like Charlie Sheen and people going through that.

So the fact that this is where he is in life, that's a win right there and that's pretty

cool.

Good on him.

Pretty cool right here, everybody.

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Mentioned that cranberry blossom fest is going on, that's kicking off today and in just

minutes that whale exhibit is going to be opening up over at the zoo.

I'm trying to see if I can see it.

Can't.

All right.

I'm going to have to see.

Have a long enough break and I got interviews after this.

I got to get over there.

Let me live vicariously through you.

Get on over there, everybody.

And if you do, call up, let us know how it is.

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One of the other great parts of the cranberry blossom fest is, of course, lunch by the river.

And every lunch by the river is a great one.

You have unique food down there, wonderful entertainment.

And today, boy, they got a unique and special one for you.

WRCT's Youth Theatre Lunch by the River presents Snow White and the Seven Endings.

This is going to be going on today.

Over at Lunch by the River, have some fun with this.

Enjoy, support the kids and take in some great theater.

And as long as you're thinking about that, encourage you to go to wrctheter.org, wrctheter.org,

and find out about their great youth theater productions coming up.

Coming on today, Dare to Dream, today, tomorrow, and Saturday, they have shows for Dare to Dream.

The performances will be held over at the Wiscott's Revit's Community Theatre.

Check them out.

And not for nothing, everybody.

I don't think I can say this about any TV show, any movie, any play.

But I can't about kids' theater.

There is no such thing as a bad kid's performance.

All of them are amazing, all of them are great.

These are going to be just as good.

You go there, you support these kids, you're going to enjoy yourself, you're going to have

a good time.

And while you're doing that, they're looking out at the crowd and they're seeing their

community supporting them.

You're building their confidence, you're laughing with them and having fun.

It's going to be a really fun summer.

Not only, of course, with Lunch by the River today and Snow White and the Seven Endings,

and Dare to Dream, having their opening night to night show tonight, I should say.

That is going to be going on, be sure to check that out.

But of course, they've got other productions going on throughout the year, so it's a summer

as well.

West Side Story School Edition, we'll be going in July.

And the Brothers Grim, that'll be coming up in August.

We'll be talking more about those as we get closer to them.

We'll encourage you to go to WRC Theatre.org and sign up for those tickets and everything

we'll find out more.

Maybe you want to throw in your audition sheet for one of the main stage plays.

I see that the opening play is on Golden Pond.

That's a classic.

Wow.

That would be a great production to be a part of.

You can fill out your audition sheet by I'm directing it, it's a shameless plug, I'm

sorry.

WRC Theatre.org.

I'm over there.

Sign up, everybody.

And have some fun.

And thank you so much to everybody who has already filled in applications.

And as I mentioned, our good friends over at the Wisconsin Threats Municipal Zoo are

really helping us kick off Cranberry Blossom Fest with their Forest Wales.

Get on over there, check out Forest Wales.

Join them for an unforgettable open-house style ocean exploration.

We're going to talk more about this in Cranberry Blossom Fest.

Get into our schedule.

Got some other good stories and some other fun topics I want to dive into as well.

When we get back right here on the morning show at WFHR, locally grown radio.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show at WFHR.

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Your host, James here.

Thanks so much for joining us, everybody.

Hope you're having a great, great Thursday.

Happy Friday, Eve, everyone.

Laura joining us now.

Appreciate you being here, Lauren.

Thanks a lot for stopping by.

You got some fun things to get into.

We want to talk a little bit about some of the local events going on in our area.

Of course, Cranberry Blossom Fest and where you and some of our partners around here are

going to be this weekend hanging out, getting into all of that.

But first, I brought this up with Denise earlier and got to finish the story, of course.

A British zoos missing Mongoose turned up at a pub 15 miles away.

OK.

Can't blame him.

A Mongoose that escaped from a wildlife park on Britain's Isle of Man was safely captured

after paying a visit to a local pub.

They said the yellow Mongoose named GF, G-E-F, escaped last week by borrowing out of

his enclosure and was on the loose for several days before turning up at the Heron Breckery

Brewery in Douglas, about 15 miles from the zoo.

OK.

Honestly, I can't blame him.

The idea of heading to a pub on the Isle of Man sounds lovely.

It does.

I mean, they've got some of the oldest pubs in the world over here.

In that area, the zoo.

I would be right there with GF.

The zoo said it is in the process of finding GF a new home at another zoo where he can

join a breeding program.

No word yet if it will be close to a pub.

They should probably plan against that idea.

They probably should probably.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But that's of all the places to find.

He clearly has goals that are pub-oriented.

Yeah.

It's a smart one.

The smart Mongoose right there.

I don't know that anybody else's notices are not either.

Knowing this for a long time and trying to grab content, grab stories that, you know,

funny, relatable to everybody, all that.

And one of the go-to ones is escape animals.

Oh, yeah.

This happens all the time.

We cover those all the time and we love those.

But it just feels like the last year and a half, I've just been seeing so many more of

them.

Right.

It felt like it used to be every couple of months you'd hear a story about a deer escaping

or something along that.

It feels like every week I've got a new one.

I've got stories that we haven't even gotten to that I've just got like sitting there.

Hang on.

Let me put on my tinfoil hat.

Is it for publicity?

Is it a conspiracy?

Are they doing it on purpose?

I hope so.

Right.

I want it like to, like, we find out like breaking sort of, we have a whistleblower who's

all the zoos are going around and letting it, like, they do say it like once a month they're

leaving it unlocked.

Like, I want even better.

I want, like, one of those old-school exposés, like the news programs used to do where

they're interviewing somebody, but they got them in all the black and they're disguising

their voice.

And it's like a duck.

Yes.

And they're talking that the ducks, like, spill it everything, like, yeah, like the animal

kingdom, we've been getting low numbers, people aren't adopting pets as much.

We just needed to get some publicity.

So we thought, eh, we'll do this and I want that story to happen so bad.

That would be great.

Speaking of the arise of these animals, escaping it all that to that point, a New York

Zoo was on the hunt for an escape wallaby.

A wallaby?

No, I'm just going to show you pictures.

Isn't that a, yeah, it's not not a kangaroo, you know?

It's a baby kangaroo.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And, you know, the fantastic.

So Grace and Glory Animals, an animal education zoo in Oswego, said that the wallaby named

Mac, escaped just prior to a six p.m. on Sunday.

Okay.

Animals said that they are using thermal imaging drones to search for the Australian

marsupial, but they have not yet been able to pinpoint Mac's location despite sightings

in the area.

I am going to follow along in this story.

In part, I want to see that Mac gets home okay and everything is safe, but also, like,

I've never been to New York, but I think that all of us have a good idea.

I've had a lot of friends from that area, from New York and stuff, specifically Brooklyn.

I'm not, I don't know why, but I've no number of people from the Brooklyn area.

Okay.

And I believe that they would be the first to tell you that, you know, it's pretty hard

to stand out walking the streets of New York.

Right.

But a wallaby might.

I feel like a wallaby might or is this the perfect place to escape if you are an animal

that New York?

Well, honestly, even if people see you, they may just not say anything about their business.

They're going to mind their business.

Yeah, just a wallaby walking the streets of New York.

Yeah.

I'm just like, I guess.

Because that is a, and that's actually a really good point because that is such a city

thing.

Most, most cities are not nearly as bad as I think people think, you know, that

shouldn't have spent a lot of time or from a city.

Yeah.

You're going to have good people.

They're just like you're going to bat.

Absolutely.

It's no different than a small town.

But I think a big difference in the city is people are so caught up in their own world

and their own lives.

And they're not really paying attention to a lot of what's going on.

You could be on the bus and not know what the guy next to you is doing.

Exactly.

It happens all the time.

Right.

I've got my own stuff to deal with.

I'm not going to worry about this wallaby.

Yeah.

If you're a wallaby, you're looking to like fit in and just blend in and everything.

I mean, New York seems like a perfect place to do that.

Get a good hat.

Some pants.

Okay.

But here's the other thing I'm thinking, right?

As a parent, like if I was living in the area and my child was out playing and told

me they had seen a wallaby, like, no, mom, I swear.

I saw a kangaroo.

I would never believe that.

No.

I'm sorry.

Like, that's probably where all the sightings are coming from, the, the feral children

playing out for the summer, seeing things, I, I've seen stuff that I've never told people

about because of that because I know they won't believe me.

You know what I'm saying, right?

Yes.

I know exactly.

You're a kid out playing.

You live maybe a little bit outside of town and you see a kangaroo.

You're not telling anybody.

Nope.

They're not believing you.

They're not only not believing you, but they may, they may, you know, look at you funny

the rest of your life.

Right.

Trust me.

I may be, I may know a little bit of what I'm talking about on that one.

And then there is this, and, and I will admit to the audience journalist's integrity here.

I am a fan of lemurs.

My youngest daughter is about loves lemurs.

She fell in love with them at our local municipal zoo over here.

Fantastic.

You know, for those that haven't been to the zoo, they're pretty much one of the first things

you see when you walk in there.

And Izzy, we, it wasn't enough that we, that was the first thing we did.

That was kind of easy.

You know, it's first when you walk into the zoo, they're right there.

No, we had to make sure that we checked on them before we left and that they were doing

okay.

A couple of stops.

It wasn't, it wasn't just that she wanted the wave to them.

They had to be looking at her.

Like this wasn't what, she wasn't one of those little kids you could just fool.

Like, oh, go, they, they saw you as they saw you.

No, I contacted the lemurs to make sure that they were in stuff.

So I have a little bias when it comes to lemurs, and that is why I had to touch on this story.

A ring-tailed lemur living at a zoo in Scotland was officially named the oldest in the world

by Guinness World Records at the age of 39.

Fantastic.

He's older than me.

Lemur at the five sister zoo in West Lothan was officially certified as the oldest living

lemur in captivity.

Wow.

The primate named Stumpy.

Oh, okay.

Yeah, yeah.

It's known as a boom of food, but I'll take Stumpy.

Pretty, oh, it's a great name.

There needs to be more lemur cartoons and stuff, right?

Like that's the only one, isn't it?

I'm sure it's a boom of food.

Yeah, that's what it was called with the crap, brothers.

Sasha Baron Cohen, I think, did the voice or somebody really good did the voice of it.

Oh, you think you're thinking of something else?

I'm thinking of the Zootopia movie.

I thought that's what it's saying.

Oh, no, I'm talking about Zootopia food, the PBS show that was on when I was a kid with

a crap, brothers.

I don't remember that one.

That was a ring-tailed lemur.

That was the star of it.

Yeah.

So there is more than one, you know, the one I'm talking about in the Zootopia movie.

Sure.

It is Zootopia, I think, I'm not sure.

I'm not sure.

It might be a Madagascar action.

Actually, it might be.

It's Madagascar.

Okay.

I'm going to be honest, would you be coming to as old as I am?

All they all blend together.

All those animal movies?

Madagascar and fighting.

I was mixing that up and finding Nemo earlier.

I almost said the wrong movie earlier.

That's hilarious.

I can't help it.

One is land and one is water.

Maybe a little help.

It does a little bit.

So Stumpy, as a result of his, he is called that because of his slightly shortened tail,

was born in June of 86 in Surrey, England and has lived at the Five Sisters Zoo since

2005.

Well, it's a great name for a zoo, too, not by the way.

That's all great things.

And Stumpy's birthday is a big event in the whole area.

Everybody celebrates it.

I'm celebrating Stumpy's birthday.

Happy birthday, Stumpy.

Stumpy is not only a papa, but he's a grandpa, too.

He's a father to 11 lemurs and 25 grandchildren and six great grandchildren.

Wow.

Wow, Stumpy, getting out there.

Lemurs in captivity typically live 20 to 25 years, so him being 39.

That's impressive.

That's really impressive.

And it speaks, I think, to the way.

There.

Yes, yes, that they're doing over there, so big shout out to them for that.

And Laura, I wanted to talk a little bit about this, as long as we're talking about the

zoo.

Sure.

It already kicked off about 10 minutes ago.

Oh, you see it?

Okay.

So it's, I'll be honest with the audience, the whole me trying to see the, the, the whale

from here has been a bit of a bit, obviously, but I am seeing a ton of traffic over there

right now.

Just a bunch of cars going in over there and everything.

That is really cool to see.

Head on over there right now and check out this really cool exhibit.

Keep in mind, everything Lauren, I are about to talk about.

You can find at blossomfest.com, encourage you go to blossomfest.com to see the complete

schedule.

Dive into the world of whales and ocean adventure kicked off at 10 30.

It's going till 4 30 step inside an incredible 65 foot life size inflatable whale and journeying

to the world of these gentle giants like never before.

This free program, this is free and it is brought to us from our friends that encouraged

Helen Mead found through encourage a big shout out to them for that.

And of course our municipal zoo that's at 1911 game revenue right here in rapids.

That's right.

Shout out to all of our people working over there and our volunteers.

We really appreciate all of them.

And how cool you can walk right into an inflatable whale and you can check out the inside

of the whale.

That's really, really cool.

I'm sorry.

I want to do that.

So bad.

Do you think they would keep the exhibit going a little like an extra 20 minutes for me?

Call them.

You know, I don't, I've never thought about this before, but I've never been a name like

it's hard as I believe.

Oh, are you going to drop your WFHR house card?

I have a new work over at the studios over there.

Radio personality.

That's hilarious.

No, I insist that you do that voice if you try.

They're definitely going to believe you if you give them the official man voice.

There's no way I could do it seriously.

No way I could do it seriously.

I'd have to do it that way.

Lunch by the river is another great event that is going to help us kick off cranberry

blossom fest.

It goes 1131 over a beautiful ventures memorial park.

Not only is this going to be a great one for the food in the atmosphere and all that,

but the entertainment WRC T's youth theater production of lunch, snow white and seven

endings is going to be being put on over there.

Shout out to the kids.

Break a leg.

Have fun with that.

I actually heard from Gretchen this morning that they're going to have representatives

from all three of the youth programs at lunch by the river today.

You're actually going to hear some of the performances, some of the songs in Dare to Dream

Jr.

Which is premiering today over at WRC T's.

Be sure to check that out, support these kids, and in a shout out to the kids doing double

billing today working lunch by the river and then putting on a show later on.

That's pros right there.

That's a pros shirt.

Good job, kids.

Nice work.

In a shout out, of course, to Gretchen and to everybody working hard on those.

Check that out at lunch by the river today and certainly make plans to head on over and

see Dare to Dream tonight at the WRC T auditorium.

I know I will.

Another great one going on today from 1 to 4 over at our friends at the Boys and Girls

Club at Wisconsin's Rapids area at 501 West Grand Avenue is chalk it up.

It's going 1 to 4.

I can't draw with chalk.

I can't draw a period.

But I really love watching people that it's one of those arts to me.

It is an art.

It is a lot of fun.

And it's just something that you can't not mess.

You can't not have fun with playing with chalk in the summer.

It's a blast.

It is.

And I'm over there.

Enjoy that.

Say hi to our friends at the Boys and Girls Club.

And the cranberry blossom festival carnival is kicking off today from 6 to 10 over at the

Grand Rapids Lions Club at 2411, 36th Street South right here in Rapids.

There was a world where we were not going to be able to have the carnival as a part

of the blossom fest.

And as somebody who's been here half my life, that would be just weird to put it lightly.

The Grand Rapids Lions Club really stepped up, said we got the room.

Let's make sure to have it.

Shout out to them.

Another one of the examples of them just doing good stuff in this community.

And cinema under the stars is celebrating its 20th anniversary.

I remember the first one we had just moved here when that first one kicked off.

It opens at 6 and there the movie that there'll be playing along the West Side River this

year, along first Avenue South.

You can't miss it.

It'll be all blocked off and everything.

Wizard of Oz.

Oh, how cool.

One of the cool things about the movies they choose and the way that they do this, you

know, most of us, I imagine most of the people out there have seen Wizard of Oz.

You never seen it like this.

It's different taking these movies.

We've known our whole lives in a different way and seeing it differently.

And I think being around others, when's the last time you saw Wizard of Oz in a crowd,

you know, it just brings a different light to it and kids, kids with this movie.

Absolutely.

That's a great one.

You got our Aquasqueers Watersque Show giving you a pre show at 6 o'clock over at Red

Sands Beach Lake with Zecha.

That's going to be a blast shout out to our Aquasqueers.

We appreciate you.

And it is always beautiful out there.

We're going to be talking more about them throughout the summer as the Aquasque Tournament

kicks into gear in one of our signature events here in Rapids.

And McMillan's concert series, the Daddy O Jazz Band.

Oh, great name.

Daddy O, 7 o'clock tonight over a beautiful McMillan Memorial Library, 490 East Grand Avenue

right here in Rapids.

Check out this amazing band really talented, really good chemistry between them.

And one of the better names you're going to hear.

Yeah, great name.

And that's today.

That's today.

That's just today, everybody.

That's just today's event, guys.

Friday, Saturday, nothing but great events going on as well.

We'll get more into those tomorrow, but one of them we want to tease tell you about is

of course the Arts and Crafts vendor fair that is going to be taking place.

One of the many great things a part of cranberry blossom fest.

And we are going to be down there representing both of our stations.

We sure are.

From 10 to noon, Melissa and Pam will be down there representing WFHR.

And then from noon to two, you and Daddy are going to be down there representing WIRI.

No, we're going to be live on air broadcasting during those hours.

Everyone's going to be there from 10 to three.

Yeah, yeah, I just just representing both, I'm just mentioning it to represent both studios.

But yes, we will be live on the air for that stretch of time on both of our networks.

And we're looking forward to it and looking forward to you coming on by and saying hi.

Yeah.

Got these cool new sunglasses.

It's true.

We do.

And I wanted to let people know as well, requests.

Please.

What a better time to give us a request.

Laura's got a brand new show that just kicked into high gears, getting a lot of attention,

a lot of a great pub and a red folk in blue.

Everybody know about that?

Yeah, red folk in blue.

It's on Saturdays at 7 p.m. on one of five five of them, WIRI.

It focuses on Americana music, which is a pretty broad genre.

So I've tried to focus on things like folk and bluegrass and maybe some blues in there

and some country music for good measure.

And if you want to give me requests, I can even use those on Laura's lounge, which is every

weekday from 5 to 9 p.m. on the same station.

Yeah, be sure to check that out, everybody.

You got a 90's song you want me to play on Unlabeled.

Let me know.

I'd love to hear from it.

I'd like to play it.

We want to play the music you want to hear, right?

Yeah, absolutely.

When I'm doing the Sunrise show over there, I love playing requests to kick off our show.

So it's a great opportunity to get those to us along with also saying hi and we appreciate

your feedback as always.

Absolutely.

We're looking forward to being down there.

It's going to be a lot of fun.

This whole next couple of days is going to be wild and a blast with that to all of our

locals out there are fellow rapidites more on that word later in the summer.

We've got a lot of this is no different than when the water ski show happens.

We got a lot of people that aren't from town coming to town and everything.

Treat them with grace.

Treat them good.

Treat them good.

They'll come back.

That is, that is an economy 101.

We want to help the economy here in rapids.

This is the way you do it.

Welcome our guests.

I'm good and be on the lookout for each other as well.

You can find out more at BlossomFest.com, BlossomFest.com.

Take a time out.

We'll come back, wrap up the show, the morning show at WFHR.

You heard the boys.

Time for us to wrap up the show.

Morning show here at WFHR.

Locally grown radio.

Lauren James hanging out with you.

Thanks so much for joining us, everybody.

Take a look at our schedule and some good stories of the day and good things going on

in our community.

I want to remind you that we've got a new rapids report of additions for you today streaming

exclusively at WFHR.com.

We're going to talk to our friends at extension.

We've got Jillian coming in from visit Rome.

We're going to have some fun with that today looking forward to it.

Also looking forward to bringing you some raft or baseball a little bit later today at

620.

Rethers are in mad town to take on the mallards.

Hopefully get back in that W column, lost a pitching duel yesterday, but again, just

the fight in this team.

You're going to get a good game every game.

I can't guarantee you a win every game, but I can guarantee you a good watch.

Man, yeah, this team is going to give you everything they got.

If you can't make it to the ballpark, we always got you covered every hit, every pitch,

every win a raft or baseball right here where it belongs at WFHR.com.

Also want to mention our good friends over at the Central Wisconsin Cultural Center.

We're going to be joined by them tomorrow, actually, during the morning show.

Yeah.

We're going to be talking with Alan.

That's going to be a good time.

They got a really fun event going on over there that we're going to touch on and get

into.

Yeah, they're celebrating.

What is it?

Worldwide music game or something like that?

Yeah.

How cool is that?

That is a really great idea.

We're looking forward to diving into that with Alan, who is the director of it.

He'll be coming in tomorrow morning about 10-ish.

Yeah.

We'll get into it.

But for today, I encourage you to check out Pete Revelle and Forr on the floor.

Always.

Every first and third Thursday of the month, they're over there jamming, having a good time,

and a very few better MCs than Pete out there.

Just as much as we encourage you to check out the music, go for the show.

Absolutely.

I mean, support that friends over there at the Central Wisconsin Cultural Center at

$26.51 a street south right here in Rapids.

It is a Thursday, and that means our friends at the focus, the neighborhood meals.

Have their meals available?

Oh, yeah.

23, 21 West Grand Avenue right here in Rapids.

That wonderful Sparhawk trucking company, and I do shout them out because they open up

their building to focus, and we appreciate them doing that.

Meals are served every Thursday, 430 to 545.

The dining room opens about 415.

You can enter through the pantry doors, and if you have questions, I want to find out more

about this or any of the other great programs that are going on at focus, 715-422-1980-422-1980.

The Central Wisconsin High School Trap Team Booster Club is hosting a Brought Fry.

It's going on tomorrow, Saturday, Sunday to support the 16 members from Lincoln, NKU support

Edwards, Adams Friendship High School Trap Team, who earn their spot to compete at the

USA High School Clay Target League Nationals.

Oh, fantastic.

That's really cool.

Congratulations to them.

That's awesome.

Well, they're going there in July.

We want to make sure they got no problem getting there, so they've got this fundraiser

going and get this, Laura.

Their goal is to sell 400 Broughts.

That's not a lot of Broughts.

No.

Yeah, no.

Get out there.

Also, guys.

Broughts.

Broughts.

Come on.

Now, a Brought Chase Good any time of year, but in the summer, Chase a little better.

It hits.

It hits.

But then you add a good cause on top of it, like our VFWs have Brought Fries going on all

summer.

You get one of those.

You get one for the Trap Team here, and it just tastes so much better.

It's good for the soul.

It is good for the soul.

It is.

It is.

Get that.

Check it out.

They're going to be doing this over at 998 Ranger Road right here in Rapids.

Help them reach that goal and make sure that these kids can get on over there.

They'll be doing this daily 10 a.m.

Oh, right.

They're kicking off.

How cool.

Coming on tomorrow, Downtown On Tap, live music from Barefoot Americas, and Face Painting

by I Heart Art Studios.

You can bring your own chairs.

This is going to be a good time going on from 5 to 9 over at Vetsions Memorial Park.

It's free to attend.

It's going to have some food trucks down there.

It's going to be a good event.

Awesome.

And we'll be talking more about all the events going on with Cremberry Blossom Fest.

There are so many.

Yeah.

We'll talk about many of those going on tomorrow.

We'll get in the Fridays events and in some more of that.

There's just so much talk.

There's just so much going on right now, yeah.

It's going to be a lot of fun.

I do want to send a special shout out to Katrina Hintner and her friends over at the family

natural foods.

I appreciate her stopping in today.

Thank you so much Katrina.

Thank you so much Katrina.

Visit them.

They're open right now at 910 West Grand Avenue right here in Rapids.

Give them a call.

715-423-3120.

And be sure to make plans when they have their seminar that is going to be going on.

That is going to be taking place next week on the 25th Wednesday, the 25th from F-515.

This one's going to be taking place behind the building at the first Baptist Church.

Right.

That beautiful church over there.

It's beautiful church.

Pretty one.

Check that out.

It's going to be going on at 515 and an important topic too.

Natural medicines that can outperform drugs.

It's a great topic from the gang at Terry Talks Nutrition.

Cheryl's going to be down there.

Cheryl's a great talk.

She's a good talker.

She's a really easy person to talk to too.

Good.

It's going to be a great event.

Find out more by going to familynetrofood.com, familynetrofood.com.

Some world good stories like this one right here.

Craft Hines announced that they were moving artificial food diets from all of their products

within the next two years.

Oh, that's cool.

Around 10% of them have color additives.

They nixed them in craft macaroni and cheese almost a decade ago.

They've been using turmeric to give it that familiar yellow color since 2016.

Oh, cool.

And that's great.

That's a really cool thing that they're doing.

And half a dozen long care companies in Kansas joined forces last month to help people

out and raise money for charity.

They mowed and weed whacked more than 30 yards for free and partnered with animal rescue

charity.

Oh, that's the coolest.

One of the company's mowing was SB Mowing.

The owner is big on social media because he goes around offering cleanup peep of the

clean of people's yards for free.

Yeah, I used to follow him on TikTok where I had it.

I caught this on YouTube a couple of years ago and every once in a while, it still pops

up in my algorithm and I can't help myself watching these every time and the sped up time

laps of doing someone's yard, it never gets all every time I got to say one of the other

fun parts of it for me is every other person.

It feels like they don't believe them.

Yeah, no.

And so there was one guy who was like, oh, go ahead.

Yeah, and he's not.

You could tell he doesn't believe him.

So he just goes back in his house.