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Thanks for joining us, everybody.
We're going to have some fun this hour.
Melissa and I are going to get in some local entertainment talk in a little bit.
We got that coming up for you.
Some other great topics as well, but we're going to kick off the 10 o'clock hour.
Talk with our friends from the Central Wisconsin Cultural Center, some of our favorite people
to talk to.
We've got Alan Hager in with us right now, Music Operations Manager over at the Cultural
Center.
Alan, how are you doing?
Great.
Good to have you here, man.
Thanks a lot for being here.
We appreciate you.
Alan and Melissa and I, and Melissa, Alan does have the headphones on.
So we have a couple of things to get to this morning.
One of them, but we're really wanted to talk about is the Make Music Day that is happening
tomorrow over at the Cultural Center.
What can he tell us about this, Alan?
Right.
This is actually an international event, and it started in 1982 with a bunch of French people
sitting around right before Summer Solstice, and they wanted to have the entire country
of France have live music for everyone for a day.
And they pulled it off within three weeks, and here we are all this time later, and now
it's in Wisconsin Rapids.
It came to the United States in 2007.
And so it's just a day where everyone is encouraged to be part of a making music, or listening
to music, learning a new instrument, anything where you can get involved in music.
And it's an annual event.
It's always on Summer Solstice.
That's cool.
That's cool.
It's something that we've touched on with like our National Day of Calendar and some
of those things.
I don't think we've ever been able to do a deep dive into it.
I can't thank you enough, man, even right there, just sharing what you've already shared
with us, because I not only think that's cool, but boy, one of the things we love to do
around here is looking for ways to find relatability, and for people to find empathy and understanding
and connections with people on the other side of the world, or people have stayed away
or some of that stuff.
Food, music, they do this all the time.
And here's a great example of it.
Right.
I mean, you can go look up Make Music.
I think it's MakeMusic.com or just look up International Make Music Day.
And right now you can see live streaming from all over the world of different venues.
And we're talking about, like if you go to New York City and go to Central Park today,
there's going to be all kinds of guitar teachers giving free lessons, and there's some of
the cities have really done it up big.
How are we doing in here?
How are we going to be celebrating over at the Cultural Center?
So I started my position as Music Operations Manager three weeks ago, and they said welcome,
we really got it along, and I said, oh, I've got this idea.
And they kind of looked at me like, oh, wait a minute, three weeks.
We got grand, cranberry blossom, vegetable happening, and I said, you know what?
That's the same amount of time the French people had in 1982.
Nice.
Did they get happened in the whole country?
Let's just do it.
So we put it together, and it's really coming together nicely, I have to say, I mean,
the support from some of the regulars, we, you know, we got people like Pete Revelle,
everybody knows the floor on the floor, and I had to kind of coax those guys, because
this will be their third gig tomorrow.
Yeah.
And we're going to move ours inside.
Right on that.
Yeah, that's a good idea.
Things are going to be going on throughout the whole day, it looks like two.
It looks like it kicks off at 11 a.m.
The musical soundbath.
What is that?
Okay.
So this is going to be a very meditative, almost like a yoga experience.
If you have a yoga mat or a pillow or a blanket, we just want you to show up, sit down,
lay down, be comfortable.
You're not going to hear rhythmic music.
It's going to be a bath of sound using some really cool things called crystal bowls.
And we have a full set of seven, the ones that I have are actually tuned to the seven
chakras.
We're not going to get all weird about it, and pretend that we're going to do healing
or anything.
Sure.
But then again, I wouldn't be surprised if somebody walks away going, whoa, that's what
I needed.
Yeah.
Because it'll be really kind of a meditative experience.
That's a wonderful idea and a great kickoff to this, especially with all the stuff going
on this weekend.
Even if we didn't have all the events we do this weekend, it's just summer.
Right.
It's a summer solstice.
That's a great way to get into your weekend, ease into things, I think.
At noon, there's going to be a community drum circle.
I am growing up around these.
I love these.
It's a fantastic, wonderful thing to bring to the cultural center.
Well, yeah, I agree.
And there's so, and it'll be the opposite of the 11 o'clock.
It'll be like that.
Better be ready.
I'm going to have the people that have just been sort of meditating are going to be
encouraged.
Well, I'll tell them what's going to happen, because it'll be loud and thunderous.
And we've got a pretty good collection of drums built up at the cultural center, ready
to go.
At 1 o'clock, the aspiring acapella quartet.
That sounds also like a lot of fun.
Yeah, these guys are a local favorite.
And again, thank you to the quartet for joining us.
They have performed for the Milwaukee Bucks, for the Milwaukee Brewers, many times here
for the local teams.
And they'll go out and do the national anthem, maybe some other things.
But they put together a special set for us, a summer set, and we're looking forward
to that.
Very cool.
Shout out to them for doing that.
I love when bands of people do that.
That's cool.
I'm curious, what at 1.30 is the old-fashioned hymnsign?
What is that one?
The hymnsign, OK, so we, somebody suggested, hey, can we do some religious music or a little
hymnsign?
And I said, yeah, of course.
And that all came together.
We've got a local piano player named John Gunn.
And we had a rehearsal.
We've got about eight hymns picked out, where you can sing along.
And if you know John, he likes to jazz it up.
So are there going to be hymns with a little spice?
I like that.
I like that.
That's going to be great.
You mentioned our good friend, Pete Revell, and Ford in the floor will be there, too.
We love Pete.
We talk about him every chance we get to shout out to him doing this in the band.
Rest those voices for that show, everybody.
Are you guys?
Three o'clock.
The kids' music play and sing along.
Gosh, that sounds like a blast.
Right.
That sounds awesome.
I know one of our board members has a young one that I guess is like on fire about music.
So we're looking forward to her and whoever else shows up, bring your kids and bring your
spirit to have fun.
We'll have handbells, other instruments that you can immediately play and sing along.
And I mean, this is kids of all ages, right?
You can join us if you want.
Okay.
Good to know.
I was going to ask off air.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And I do think we're going to have some of our friends from ODC that we're doing a monthly
thing now with Opportunity Development Center to bring music to people with disabilities.
And they came in and we had such a good time that we said, okay, this is going to be monthly.
So that was about 30 of them.
And I think a few of them might struggle in with their families tomorrow.
Very nice.
Very cool.
And you should know this right away about me, Alan.
Anything involving jazz, I'm going to be all in on a big jazz guy.
My favorite style of music.
And at four o'clock tomorrow at the Cultural Center as part of the International Make Music
Day celebration, open jazz jam session.
That's some of my favorite words in the English language all thrown together right there.
Well, now I love you even more than I did.
Right now.
I heard you get along good.
I heard you on the way here and I was loving it.
And then I was like, okay, now, okay, so here's the real question then.
What do you play?
Trumpet.
I played trumpet and cornette for a little bit.
Back in high school.
I've played since.
Can we get you out of what you're doing tomorrow, but long enough to stop by?
Hopefully, hopefully.
I got a life around that time, actually, I might be free because I should be over in that
area anyway.
I'd like to stop by.
I'd like to because that's going to be a good time.
We encourage everybody to stop by for that.
Right.
Yeah.
From three to four, it is no matter what your level gets yourself down there.
Yeah.
And we're going to be inside.
And it doesn't matter what instrument you play.
And like you as a trumpet player, I'll have B flat charts there for you.
Oh, smart.
Yeah.
If you're an alto player, don't you not have to worry about music.
Show up.
We'll have something for you.
The three to four is all inclusive.
We've got a rhythm section lined up.
I'm going to play upright bass.
Oh.
That's awesome.
That's awesome.
Right.
It's great.
It's a great instrument.
Yeah.
Wow.
And is that going to be what's going to continue from five to seven?
I see that you're going to be able to have some music out there and stuff.
Is that going to?
Right.
Yeah.
So from five to seven, it's not like we're going to necessarily kick people off of the
stage.
Yeah.
But we'll have to invite.
We'll have to make room for some special guests that have rehearsed ahead of time and some
vocalists that are just delightful.
We've got a duet that we'll sing with a jazz trio.
And then probably some surprises, I think.
I mean, I invited some people, including my former band director, jazz band director.
Oh, right.
He seemed interested.
But maybe people will change their minds now that we're going to be indoors.
Yeah.
Might be the place to hang.
Right.
Exactly.
We'll bring some people over.
Cool off a little bit.
All this going on again as a part of the Central Wisconsin Cultural Center celebrating
International Make Music Day going on tomorrow, free music all day long going on tomorrow
over at the Central Wisconsin Cultural Center, 26, 51 A Street South right here in Rapids.
Before we let you go, Alan, did you have one or a couple other things I just wanted to
touch on with you?
The call for art.
We just wanted to let everybody know that is still going on, that all of our local creatives
out there, our artists can still, you know, bring things to the Cultural Center.
Right.
The next exhibit, we still got some time to submit.
And it's a pretty wide open theme.
It's called Art of the Book.
And basically, it's any art that's inspired by a published book.
That could be the title, the purpose, the personal meaning, a character and emotion.
I mean, that's pretty wide open.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And so we've already gotten a lot of great stuff, but there's still room and room for more.
And a reminder to all you parents, you kids out there, art camp is still taking people.
You can still, you still got some room for art camp over there.
Right.
Creative Arts Camp.
We've got it starting on the 23rd is the first session and the second session is July 21st.
One of those sessions is almost full, but there's still room, and that's going to be fun
for a 9 to 12 year old with Gene, and we're going to kickstart a creative summer for the
kids.
That's going to be really a lot of fun.
And something really nice to be able to offer to the kids out there, especially kids that
love these kind of things.
It's a really big part of their summer, the arts getting to be a part of that.
Right.
I mean, let's get anyone involved, because we know it helps, especially in this world.
I mean, music is one of those few things we can just enjoy together, we forget about
the stuff we don't want to talk about.
Well said.
Yes.
And thanks so much for joining us, Alan.
We really do appreciate the time for me.
I'm so glad to know you're a trumpet player.
Hey, say hi to Steph and the gang over there for us, and we'll have you back on real soon.
We'll be talking to you real soon.
Thank you.
Sounds good.
I hope to see you tomorrow, buddy.
Right on.
Find out more at theculturalcenterarts.com, culturalcenterarts.com, and be sure to make
plans tomorrow.
Head on to the Central Wisconsin Cultural Center, as they celebrate international meet, make
music day.
It's going on tomorrow, all day long, over at 2651 A Street South, right here in Rapids.
Melissa and I will be back more show coming up right here at 975 FM WF HR.
Welcome back, everybody.
Morning show at WF HR.
We hope you're having a good one out there.
Thanks for joining us.
Listen, James, behind the mics, we are here to talk some entertainment, but again, a big
shout out to Alan for joining us from the Central Wisconsin Cultural Center.
Oh, it's so great to meet him.
Yeah, I made a new friend.
That's going to be awesome.
We're going to talk with Alan and Stephanie, of course, all summer long as they got great
things going on over at our Central Wisconsin Cultural Center.
Find out more.
Check out their Facebook page.
You got a special one for the make music day in Wisconsin Rapids.
Just throw that in your search bar.
Also the Central Wisconsin Cultural Center has a great Facebook page as well.
Check that out.
Share their posts on your pages.
You never know who might see those things otherwise.
And it's culturalcenterarts.com is where you can go to find out more information.
Head on over there tomorrow, everybody.
Take that in.
It's going to be a good event.
Also one of the touch on a couple of other entertainment subjects get to what's new on
your small screen, new on your big screen, and maybe your local theater stage.
But we begin as the home of Dolly Parton News with Dolly Parton.
We should have a sounder or something, something go along with this in Dolly News.
And interview from 2020 with Dolly Parton and Jimmy Fallon is making the rounds again
because of what happened when Dolly met the real-life Jolene.
Here's what Dolly said, and I've really got to work on my Dolly Parton impression.
I did see Jolene not that long ago.
She's not so hot now.
She used to have that beautiful red hair.
Now she's gray.
She used to have a couple of other things she says about this.
So she kind of went on about it a little bit.
Of course, Jolene was not her real name, but Dolly's known this person for quite a large
part of her life.
And nobody tells a story better than Dolly.
Part of the reason I made the joke about doing an impression of her is because the other
thing about Dolly is I could say the same thing she said and it's just not going to come
across the same.
Whereas she's talking about this and I don't think that I think some people, part of the
reason it's making rounds is because some people were saying that she was taking shots
at this person.
I don't think that's what it is.
I think Dolly is just so unfiltered and so herself.
She's talking about her like she would talk about herself.
Yes.
She's not talking about Jolene, just people in general that you get older and that's
what she's referencing, I think.
I don't think, I think the people that are, I think you can tell what kind of person
you are a little bit with this story.
If you are quick to think, oh Dolly Parton is talking negatively about somebody.
Maybe that's what you're looking for.
My buddy Craig used to tell me all the time when I was younger, James, you're always walking
around with your fists clenched.
I used to always walk around with my fists clenched and you do that all day.
You're going to get in a fight.
I stopped doing it and sure enough, didn't get in as many fights.
If you approach things with a negative mindset, that's what you're going to get.
Attitude is everything.
If you're looking at this and taking her for one of the, I would think that of all the
people in society that have earned some grace or a benefit of the doubt, Dolly Parton's
got to be pretty high on that list.
I don't think she's necessarily talking about it.
When you listen to the interview and you hear her tone, she's not, I don't think she's
talking negatively about this.
I don't want to act like I know what's in her heart or anything, but just the way she's
come across and the way she's talking about it.
I think she's just talking about, you know, we all get older.
Right.
Life happens.
And it's interesting that I think the other layer of that too is what the song is about
and what she's referencing there and how when we're young, those things can seem so big,
seem so important.
And you know, we all, we all age, you know, we all, even George Clooney aged everybody.
I mean, father time is undefeated.
Yes.
We all grow and change.
That's what I took from it at least.
I wanted to remind everybody that our WFHR newsletter has a new addition that showed up
in email boxes yesterday.
You can still sign up and get yourself the newest addition at the WFHR.com and sign up
right now.
Yeah.
If you sign up now, you'll get the next addition though.
They only come out at noon on Thursdays.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's a good thing to note and we appreciate that and appreciate all the work that you and
the whole team does on this Melissa.
Nice work.
Yeah.
Got the newest addition.
I like it.
Good stuff.
Thanks a lot.
Good stuff.
I even learned some things.
New on your small screen this weekend.
The streaming premiere of a Minecraft movie on HBO Max on Disney Plus Frozen.
The hit Broadway musical.
So the actual musical of Frozen.
Oh.
Okay.
That sounds pretty good.
Actually, that sounds like that'd be pretty cool.
Saturday, Nickelodeon, Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards, the one award that I'd really love
to win.
Yeah.
Just not saying that for any reason, in case anybody from the Nickelodeon representation
is listening and they give away, you know, DJ awards or something.
I mean, that'd be a fun wonder.
That'd be the most fun wonder.
It would be the most fun to win because, you know, having a kid say, you're the best is
the best.
You'd guess.
Yes.
And Sunday night at seven o'clock, the final game of the NBA season, game seven, the two
best words in sports, game seven, the NBA finals, OKC Thunder, Indiana Pacers, going
to be a good one.
I look forward to this.
We're going to be talking about it the more on playmakers a little bit later today, where
we actually, we don't just speak sport, we know sport.
I've just get a little tired of a lot of people just dipping their foot into the sports
world and talking about things.
The Caitlin Clark situation is part of it.
The women's athletics around the rise, women's athletics are here to stay.
You don't believe me?
Look at any business, any advertiser.
They cannot wait to attach themselves to the WNBA or any of these things.
The only thing holding it back is many of the men and I'll even throw myself in there
in the sports game, trying to talk about the WNBA when they don't watch it or trying
to treat it like it's different basketball than the NBA.
Caitlin Clark got into a bit of a roughness the other day and that's going to keep happening
to her like it does every WNBA player.
Just because you're not used to seeing women toss it up and everything, man, that's basketball.
That's what happens.
They're treating her like every other WNBA player and this isn't me saying this.
This is her saying this.
This is what Caitlin's been saying and she doesn't want special treatment.
It doesn't want to be treated differently.
It's saying that is holding women back in sports.
That's not what this is about.
We're finally getting to a place where men and women are watching this sport equally.
That men and women are watching this sport at WNBA like it's just basketball.
Like let them play.
Just let them play.
It's important and don't hold it back.
It's going to be a lot of fun to watch these athletes.
So many great young WNBA players to get excited about and watch, let them play.
On your big screen this week, and not too many big releases, 28 years later, continuation of the 28 days saga.
Got a couple of really big actors in that one.
I'm familiar, haven't seen the first one.
Yeah, and Ilio, rated PG, a big kids movie that's going to be coming out today.
Okay.
And of course, we've got local theater going on.
That's what I'm more interested in.
Yeah, this is the big one.
It's all been building up to this.
There are important things to talk about.
There to dream is going to be at the Wisconsin Rapids Community Theater tonight.
I'm going at 7 p.m.
So I'll meet you there and get your tickets.
Mm-hmm.
It's going to be a good show.
We had some great reporting being done by somebody who took in the show yesterday.
And that I mean, I talked to Laura this morning.
And she said it was fantastic.
It was great. She really enjoyed it.
We encourage you to head on down there, take in this great show.
Dare to dream a Disney musical review.
I'm going to be happening today and tomorrow over at the WRCT Auditorium.
Hand on over there.
Take in these great shows.
Tonight's show is at 7, tomorrow's show is at 2.
Yeah.
Make sure to get those in.
Everybody.
It's a great part of your weekend.
Great way to celebrate the area and support these kids.
As a side note, there is no such thing as a bad kid show.
No.
They're all amazing.
They're all fantastic.
Be sure to take it in.
By local support, local support, the arts, everybody.
Of course, cranberry blossom festival happening all weekend long.
We're going to be talking more about that in a little bit.
But I do want to remind everybody to go to blossomfest.com and map out what you want to do.
Take in as many of these events as you can.
Very successful day.
Start to things.
Yesterday, a shout out to everybody involved with it and a shout out to our team.
Because back-to-back weekend's Melissa, we're out there live and direct in the public.
That's right.
We are.
We're going to be at the Arts and Crafts Vendor Fair on Saturday.
We'll be there all day, but we'll be live broadcasting from 10 to noon on WFHR and then
from noon to 2 on WIRI.
So you can tune in.
You can stop down and see us.
We're going to be given stuff away, as much stuff as we can give away.
So you want to come down and say hi to the team.
We'll meet you there.
It's going to be a blast.
We're looking forward to it and we're looking forward to talking some more cranberry blossom
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We'll be talking more about that.
Looking forward to it along with some other great events going on in our area that we want
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Got an interesting one here.
Most people do not like the idea of dynamic pricing, because it always seems like that's
a code for, oh, you want this?
Well, it's a little more expensive right now, too bad you didn't get it earlier.
But this is a concept that might be interesting.
There is a beer exchange bar in China where the prices fluctuate according to demand in
real time, like the stock market.
It's supposed to be a fun thing.
There's a large circular display in the middle showing the current prices.
Rising beer prices are in red, with falling ones in blue.
Prices can only fluctuate by 10% every day, so there can't be any serious market manipulation
going on there or anything.
On a weekly basis, the bar can adjust the prices around 20% to incentivize beer drinkers
to try the less popular beers, while you might have to pay a little bit more for the
popular premium ones.
Interesting.
I would think that that's a way for them to move product.
Absolutely.
Yeah, absolutely.
And not only that, we just got done talking about restaurants, bars aren't that different,
trying to bring people in, what's going to bring people in, what's something new or
different.
You ever sat there and thought about, if I open a bar, okay, all right, what are you
going to call it?
It tends to be like, there's either the person that opens a bar because they have a great
name or the person that's just struggling so hard to come up with a name for their bar.
It feels like there's no gray area on that one.
The bar stock market?
The beer stock market?
Well, I like that.
Did you say bar stock market?
That's what I said the first time on that beer stock market.
I like either.
I like either.
I like both of them.
I kind of like this idea.
Being honest, I don't really go to the bars all that much or anything like that.
But this is something I would maybe want, make me want to go and try it.
Well, and it would be interesting to see which beers are popular and which ones aren't
given any particular day.
That would be fun track.
Who's there drinking the Kurslite on a Monday or the stout on a Tuesday?
Well, most places have their regulars and you can count on and you know that they're
going to be coming by and everything.
But I do think that, especially if you're struggling for this kind of thing, that seems
like a really good idea.
It seems like a really good way to.
And for places that have a lot of tap beers like Jennings, for example, they have a lot
of different beers on tap that they offer, but some of them don't sell very well because
not a lot of people drink certain kinds of beer.
And so that would be a way to move the product through faster because people are like,
well, I could get my normal.
But I could also try this one that's going to cost me a dollar or less because it's cheaper.
Yeah, I'll try it.
Why not?
I could also open up people to different flavors that they weren't willing to try before
because they're cheaper.
That's like a bargain.
Yeah, that right there seems like a good idea.
A good part of this too, getting people to try things that maybe they wouldn't otherwise.
What do you think, everybody?
Let us know.
715-424-2600.
I'd love to hear from you.
Yes, the question is, would you try a beer?
You maybe wouldn't like just because it's cheaper.
There's the question.
And overwhelmingly, yes, overwhelmingly without anybody even responding, spending my high school
years and early adult years here in Wisconsin, I feel very strongly confidently saying,
you will not turn down that red, white, and blue, or hams, or paps, any of them, any of them,
they're all, they're all, all hit our system at one point or another.
You know what I got to say?
Oh, Milwaukee is not that bad.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
If I had to pick a light beer that probably would be my choice.
I don't really, I can't really say that I've had a bad beer.
There's just ones that I like more than others.
I'm not sure I have.
I have had some bad beers.
Oh, wait a minute.
You know what, red dog.
Enter the room, all light beers for me, but I would say that old Milwaukee is the one
I tolerate the best.
The only light beer I drink is middle light.
So actually, I had never thought of it before, but yeah, I'm with you on that.
That's the only one.
I think it's gross.
I got to be honest, that's one I'm drinking, if I know I'm going to be drinking all day,
or I'm drinking a lot.
I should say.
Yeah, because it's, and that's the benefit of a light beer.
Right, right.
Is that it's just flavored water with a little bit of alcohol?
Yeah, shout out to Coors, I guess.
I wanted to get to a bunch of good stories, and one of them want to touch on right now.
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do here at the morning show.
The headline, 12-year-old girl plants over 150,000 trees in India, becoming a reforestation
leader.
Oh, that's awesome.
Called the India Greta Thurneberg.
The 12-year-old is on a mission to green India skies and mines.
Armed with determination and a charming personality and a great marketing concept, she has planted
a grassroots movement towards environmentalism that's staggering to see in such a young
person.
I'm sorry, I'm doing a little around burgundy there.
That's what they're saying in the article.
I don't care how young, how old, whoever you are, you do something like this.
That is incredibly impressive.
This person is, I mean, single-handedly, not only changing her neighborhood or her community
or her even her town, she's changing that country.
She's impacting the country of India, which I mean, that's a huge place with a lot of
people.
It's incredible.
She started doing this actually when she was eight, she got the idea and wanted to start
doing it then.
It just took a while for her to be able to plan this out a little bit.
Yeah, you really can't drive somewhere when you're eight without help.
Yeah, and she's also eight.
Anybody who's never known an eight-year-old, they like something for a week and then it's
done.
It's done, it's done.
I'm going to be a firefighter.
No, I'm going to be a figure skater, ice skater.
I'm going to plant trees.
My daughter looking at me as serious as she's ever been in her life.
Dad, I won't be going to be a unicorn.
It's like, yes, yes, you are, Isabella, yes, I believe you, yes, you are.
No, I think at that age I wanted to be a checkout lady at the grocery store.
That's a good one too.
Is he old?
No, I have that dream with self-checkouts.
I actually, being factual about it, she looked at me and said, I'm going to help animals.
That's what she said.
Animals.
And she did do that.
She has been doing that.
This is another example, too, of that.
Every generation has great and good and negative to it, of course.
This younger generation that are going on right now, I just see so much positive about
what they're doing.
And so much of what they're doing, is it out of necessity?
Some of it?
Yes, yes it is.
But there's also a lot of it that's just a fire under them and they're doing something
about it.
They're doing something with it.
They're not sitting back and waiting until they turn a certain age to get involved
with politics or get involved with the planet or any of these things, they're just doing
it.
They're speaking up now because they have to, and they see that, which is just, it gives
me so much hope.
Yeah, and I don't think we could ever get enough of that out there.
That's very, a lot of hope involved in that.
Put it on her and encourage you to find out more again at goodnewsnetwork.org, check
that website out, everybody, a lot of good stuff going on over there.
Something else to check out, the Central Wisconsin High School Trap Team Booster Club is hosting
a brought fry today, tomorrow, and Sunday, to support the 16 members from Lincoln, Nicos
supported, where it's an Adam Friendship High School Trap teams who earn their spot to
compete in the USA High School Clay Target League Nationals.
They're heading to Mason, Michigan and July.
We want to make sure that they can get there.
All the proceeds raised will help cover travel expenses for families, head in the Michigan
and July.
Please come support the team at the brought fry held at 998 Ranger Road right here in
Rapids.
The goal is 400 brats.
I think they could absolutely sell that many and more.
400 brats, I mean.
Right, that's a good thing.
Come on.
I consider that a challenge Wisconsin.
We can hit that, Mark.
They're having been enough brought fries yet this year.
Oh, let's go show them that their efforts are worthwhile.
I mean, this is Wisconsin.
We know that there's not much.
There's no bad time of year to have a brought.
They always taste good.
In the summer, taste a little better, taste a little better in the summer, and then say
you pick up a brought from our local VFWs or a brought from like this in a great event
like this going on.
It's going to taste so much better.
It's going to taste good.
It's going to taste good.
It's going to taste good.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
And who wants to cook at home in this heat?
There we go.
That was it.
But I should have just said that.
You know, I think I think I'm having brats for breakfast the next three days.
Yeah, yeah.
Okay.
Well, today's will be lunch, but you might have just said the biggest selling point there
is right there.
Brats.
They also have goodies too, so they probably some sweet treats and who knows what you'll
find when you get out there.
998 Ranger Road.
Hey, not over there.
By local support.
Local everybody.
Support what they're doing over there.
We'll talk about this again on playmakers a little bit later today and a shout out to everybody
involved.
Yeah.
And we'll probably even talk about it during our live remote tomorrow.
Yeah, definitely.
I really love when we get to, we don't get to see this very often where you see kids
from local high schools all coming together to be on the same team.
That's really unique and it's very cool.
And shout out to them, like this is impressive for you, everybody.
If you don't realize it, if I need to really hammer this home, this is very impressive
what these young people pulled off.
It's very cool.
Yes.
Let's support them.
Mm-hmm.
And more duck hunt.
Yeah, as we need to get, maybe we should get duck hunt and put in the studio here in
our summer.
Yeah, can we have that on the TV?
Yeah, we should.
We should.
But that's you.
They have it over at Edge VR.
Mm-hmm.
Oh, we got it.
Maybe we hook up with them.
Another team building.
Let's do it.
I love it.
It was so much fun.
We got a lot of fun things to talk about when we come back.
We'll wrap up the show.
The morning show here at 975 FM, WFHR.
Welcome back to the show, everybody.
Melissa and James here.
We're going to wrap things up, take you to the top of the hour.
Great civic media program and going on the dial all day long.
We should everybody a good Friday out there.
We'll get into our schedule in a moment, did a couple of events I want to touch on that
will lead into some of our schedule as well.
Wanted to make sure to let everybody know, brew, brew, Texas brew.
That's the word.
Yeah, threw it at you.
Did you see some brewer tickets?
Mm-hmm.
Texas through the Civic Media app, brew BREW and get a chance to win a four pack of Milwaukee
brewers tickets to see the brewers take on Colorado next Friday, June 27th, Texas
that keyword brew everybody and thank you so much, everybody's already texted.
Yeah, everybody's been doing this every Friday all summer, right?
All summer, you're going to have a chance to win these brewers tickets every Friday,
yeah.
Also, Melissa wanted to remind everybody of all these great events going on this week
and there's a really, really special one happening tomorrow at Golden Sand Speedway,
the Andrew Mueller Benefit Show.
And this one, his parents have worked so hard to bring this about and to help inform
people about the necessity of our first responders having epinephrine on them when they respond
to someone in anaphylactic shock because maybe their son could have survived.
I mean, we don't know, but that's why they're holding this memorial for him.
He loved big truck, he worked with big trucks and loved cars and racing, so they're holding
this memorial out there for him.
They're hoping to start a scholarship fund in his memory.
And then also to help local first responders obtain the epinephrine.
Yeah, nobody does a good time for a good cause like we do in Central Wisconsin.
Check this out.
Big shout out to our friends at Golden Sand Speedway, you know, trucks and tuners, cars and
classics, awards, raffles, all kinds of great stuff to celebrate and to hopefully raise
awareness and some funds for the Andrew Mueller Benefit Show that is taking place again
tomorrow over our Golden Sand Speedway.
Check this out, everybody.
Is the time.
Do you have that right in front of you?
I did.
Sorry.
No, no, no.
It's all right.
I just am not seeing it.
That's what's bothering.
Okay.
Oh, 11.
It kicks off.
It looks like the vendor set up is going to go 8 to 11.
You can register your vehicle 9 to 10 30.
It will be open to the public at 11 and they'll do awards at about 5 30ish.
Perfect.
So you got the event is going on throughout most of the morning in the day.
So if you want to check that out and check out some other things going on in the area,
I think you can really get everything in, you know, and encourage everybody to check
that out.
And they got a great Facebook page, encourage you to type in your search bar and find that.
We appreciate the team over there letting us know about it as well.
Great rapid support lined up for you today.
Join us at 2 o'clock at WFHR.com where it's streaming exclusive.
We've got a conversation with Senator Petra Teston going on today, looking forward to
talking to the Senator.
Going to be honest with everybody, you know, going to get into it in the beginning.
I'll tell you that right now.
But we'll all school.
And things to talk about.
Yeah, but we'll be doing that in a civil good way and we always wrap up laughing at
everything.
Appreciate the Senator joining us a little bit later.
Also going to be talking with our good friend Jim Benna, Port Edward School District.
We'll be putting a spotlight on that.
Oh, good.
Yeah, it's going to be a good conversation.
Looking forward to that.
Catch rapid support.
We've been Monday through Friday streaming exclusively at WFHR at 2 o'clock, a gigantic
shout out to Crockett Saptic.
Yeah.
So.
I love Crockett Saptic.
I've wanted a sponsor for that show for so long.
We greatly appreciate our friends over there, Crockett Saptic, buying local supporting local.
Awesome.
Got playmakers on your radio dial tonight.
We're looking forward to that.
Join us from 4 to 5.
We're going to have some fun with it.
Seth might be in.
We'll see.
Otherwise, you know, I'm not alone.
I got all you guys out there to hang out with and everything.
Not only going to be giving away Raptor tickets today, but we've got these special passes
that they gave us, these orange bracelets that are good for food and stuff.
We're going to give some of those away with it.
Yeah, they got like little things you can tear off for food and drinks.
And for if you know, we just a little bit, actually, Raptor baseball kicking off.
Got two games going on today.
Let's play two in Ernie Banks special, 1250.
The Raptors will be taking on Madison Mallards.
They're going to be in Madison for both games.
And then a little bit later tonight, 620-ish, they'll be taking on Mallards again.
Both games right here at WFHR.com.
Raptors are back in town tomorrow night at 620 to host Lakeshore.
And then again, on Sunday, 2.50, a little bit later, start time on a Sunday than we're
used to.
That game will also be a home game against Lakeshore.
Cool.
Looking forward to all of that.
Our great friends in Nicosah had their Midwest Fesco and on this weekend.
That's on Saturday from 3 to 9.
A summer civic picnic for the people by the people.
Check this out.
They got Shullar rides provided by Country Sports.
Big shout out to them for that.
And it's going to be a really fun event.
Find out more at fornicusa.org.
Fornicusa.org.
They're going to have like bouncy houses for the kids.
And I mean, there's just so much stuff to do and see this weekend.
Enjoy all of it.
Appreciate them stopping by the other day on the Rapid Support.
It was fun to talk about that.
Yeah.
So check that out.
Check out the podcasts.
Those are always available at wfhr.com.
We were also talking about this this past week.
The community picnic happening at Alexander Park at 210 Second Street right in Port Edwards.
This is going on Tuesday, July 22nd for 30 to 730.
Make plans for that one, everybody.
If it rains, they will get together on July 23rd.
Just wanted to throw that out there.
That's a really fun and important event to have back.
Just the Nicosah event, maybe think of it.
So I want to get that out there.
And the downtown farmer's market's back.
Yes, it is.
Every Thursday and Saturday.
Check it out from 8 to 1 at 221st Avenue South right here in Rapids along that beautiful
Wisconsin River.
And by local support, local, it's going to be a great event, everybody.
I've heard there's some excellent food there this year.
And of course, the cranberry blossom festival going strong all weekend long, everybody.
So many great events to take in.
And so much going on that you can take in some of these other events we've talked about
today and certainly still taking cranberry blossom event because it's going on all weekend.
Yeah.
Today alone, you've got great stuff happening currently.
They've got the Material Girls Quilt Show happening over at Assumption High School.
That'll be going till 4.
Oh, and that's a great event to see some beautiful quilts.
The blossom festival carnival is kicking off at 1 o'clock.
It'll go till 10 o'clock tonight over at Grand Rapids Lions Club.
Awesome.
It's going to be a blast.
Get in some carnival rides.
Who doesn't love carnival rides?
Yeah, downtown on tap from 5 to 9 tonight over at Vetsch and some Moriel Park.
It's going to be rocking over there.
They're going to have some great music from Barefoot Americans.
That's going to be good.
And case painting by I Heart Studios, bring your own chairs if you want to sit and enjoy
the music.
And of course, tomorrow the Material Girls will be back at it from 9 to 4 over at Assumption.
Be sure to check that out.
The kids learning to fish, going 11 to 1 at Grand Rapids Lions Club are good friends at
the Southwood County Historical Museum.
Have their ice cream social from 1 to 3.
Oh, fun.
All that is great.
And of course, the cranberry blossom festival arts and crafts vendor fair happening from
10 to 3 over at West Grand Ave right between the bridge and 3rd Avenue.
We're going to be down.
Yeah.
Come down and see us.
It's going to be a fun.
Pam and I are going to be on air from 10 to noon.
And is it Laura and Beth?
Laura and Doddy.
Laura and Doddy.
I'm sorry.
Laura and Doddy.
They'll be there as well from noon to 2.
So we're going to be able to represent both stations live on the air.
We're going to have some fun with that one.
Looking forward to it.
Everybody stop by and say hi and keep and be listening to the station here.
We'll be having.
Yeah.
Listen, listen in as we do drop-ins.
We maybe even feature you.
If you're at our table when we're doing a live drop-in, come down and get some free
stuff.
Sunday great stuff going on as well.
Our good friends at the Wisconsin's Rapids Police Department got their kids fishing contest
going from 9 to 11 30 over at the East Riverview Expressway Riverbank, I mean, and the carnival
will be going from 12 to 4 over at the Grand Rapids Lions Club.
And of course, everything wraps up not only with the cranberry blast and festival parade
from noon to 2.
The blast from the past is their theme this year, which is going to be parade.
Oh, oh fine.
That's going to be fun.
Yeah, check out all the parade, check out all the great locals getting together for
that.
And the Wisconsin Rapids Fire Department's Duck Derby.
It'll take place after the parade, probably about 2.30, it'll be along the bridge there
and take this in.
One of our favorite parts of the way and our way to kind of say goodbye for another year
and look forward to next year's cranberry blast and festival.
That's so cool.
Be sure to check that out, everybody.
We don't get to do this very often, Melissa.
Let's take a call in our last minute here.
Good morning, you're on the air.
Hey, games, how you doing?
I thought it might be you.
Hey, Gary, how are you?
I'm getting older.
You are.
Happy birthday, sir.
You were our qualifier today.
Thank you very much.
Yeah, we appreciate you, Gary.
We appreciate you being a long time listener and really appreciate you making the time
to call in, sir.
You have a great birthday weekend, okay?
I was watching a news this morning about that girl that got her arms rolled up, but it's
hurt.
Oh, yeah.
Crazy.
Yeah, that is an injury.
I haven't caught up on that one.
It'll have to do that.
Gary, thank you.
And the doctor says, this is a gave me a lot of reporting.
Whoa.
Oh, wow.
Oh, maybe a distant relation, maybe you never know.
Wow.
That's awesome.
Gary, thank you so much for the time, sir.
You take care.
You talked just like you.
Yeah.
Wow.
Interesting.
Dave Mealoff.
I got a look and see if we have a Dave and our family somewhere over the lineage.
Appreciate Gary.
And appreciate all of you out there.
It's been a really fun week.
I want to send a special shout out to all of our guests, all of our sponsors.
And to Laura and Katrina Hinder for joining us this week and helping fill in for
a set being off, trying to make his baseball career happen.
And a special shout out to Melissa K, of course, as she always does.
I don't know what Melissa's average work is because she's always working extra.
We appreciate you, Mel.
Oh, thanks, James.
We appreciate you too.
Well, have a great weekend.
Everybody will be talking to you tomorrow during our live events.
It's going to be a blast.
Have a good week.
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