Good morning, Wisconsin. Morning, world. It's a new day. Thanks for kicking it off with
us right here at W F H R. Got your host, James, behind the mic. Join by CEO of your night
away. We're having some fun on a Wednesday. Good things coming up for you, everybody. We're
going to get into some great inventions that you might not have known were invented here
in Wisconsin. And some you might. We'll come up with that list in a little bit. We're
also going to get into a little bit later. The top activities kids want to do with their
parents and more. That's coming up for you. Right now, though, we kick off with some entertainment
news. And we're going to start with a hallmark movies. It's that time of year again, hallmark,
and hallmarks, hallmarks annual Christmas in July program kicks off Saturday. Besides
the return of fan favorite movies, there will be a new reality series called Christmas
at C. Really? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, I got to see what this is. Christmas at C. I don't like
that. You don't like that. I'm not a reality TV person. You know that. So for me, like,
I mean, I'd rather watch the hallmark movie that just has a different name, but the
same. Christmas at C feature featuring stars. I don't know any of these people. Um, it
just says it's feature. It doesn't tell you what it's about. Okay. It just sees a bunch
of some, I guess celebrities. I don't know what these people are, but at C. Okay. I had
been hearing about the Christmas in July thing, though. Yeah. Uh, it premieres Monday
night. And it's a four part docu series about the hallmark super fans who went on the
very first Christmas cruise last November. There will also be the TV premiere of unwrapping
Christmas film series. It's a collection of four movies. They're original originally
only available to stream on Hallmark Plus. So they weren't available on cable. Now they're
showing up on cable. Another hallmark plus exclusive is coming to TV. It's an eight episode
limited series called holla days. Uh, the complete schedule can be fired at hallmarkchannel.com.
These movies are, you know, uh, hitter miss for people. Even people that enjoy them. Uh,
you know, people I know people that really look forward to these movies and stuff. And
they seem to be hitter miss. I will say, um, as somebody who, you know, who's never
watched one second of any of these and it's not, they're not geared towards me. They don't
need me. They're not. They're not. They're not. I like that they do this. I really do. Um,
there is a, a market for this that has been tapped into for a very long time. And they're
doing that. And they're giving a lot of work to a lot of writers and a lot of actors and
a lot of stage hands and a lot of people that wouldn't have a job. Otherwise, oh, wouldn't
have as much work. I can't say that I engage in the July thing. You know what I mean? Like, I'm
not being, but I'm not a huge TV person. But in, you know, when, when November, December hits,
to me, it's just part of like the festiveness of even if it's just on in the background.
Like, I don't have to sit down and, you know, be intently watching. But for me, there's
something about that, I don't know, that holiday motif in the lake. You know what I mean? That's
different. Like, I don't know. I just, I like it. They remind me of Christmas music. Like,
just having it on the background. You're not in listening intently to every song. You're just
having that background noise. They seem a little bit like that part of the, to me, it's just part
of like the atmosphere or the, or that you create. Uh, they, they've got a whole section for it at
their website. Again, you can go over there to check out more hallmark channel.com. Enjoy everybody.
And, uh, let's say, be on a lookout. Maybe for me. I might be in one of those movies one day.
This, you know, they audition a lot. And my agent is a very on those things. So we'll see.
Toby Keith is still given back even after his passing. The 21st annual Toby Keith and Friends
Golf Classic just concluded. And they raised 1.4 million for the Toby Keith Foundation,
which benefits Okay Kids Corral. Amazing. The Okay Kids Corral organization that provides
aid to children and families who are receiving medical care for critical illnesses.
Now, we, I touched on this story on the Sunrise show the other day. I'm bringing it back just
because I was able to do a little bit of a follow up on this one. Um, our state like every state
in the union is seen cuts to programs. Um, many of them that help out people in the gray areas
of life and many of them that affect after school programs and just in school programs and everything.
This organization is one of those ones that the Okay Kids Corral is an organization that
provides aid to children and families, uh, receiving medical care for critical illnesses.
They saw that this is another one of those things that we are seeing cuts in. And so they are
doing even more efforts for this and doing even more work to try to help out with this to
fill out those gray areas that are quite bluntly. And this is just me speaking here. Our
government doesn't think is a need. Uh, doesn't seem to care. Um, this foundation that has been doing
this for a long time. I mean, it's really, it's really awesome. Um, and you worry, oh, go ahead.
No, I was just going to say just the ability to leverage, you know, from an event right from a
golf event to leverage, you know, that, that quantity of dollars, um, to, to continue to make those
impacts is remarkable. Like or dislike, whatever you feel about the guy, uh, I, I was a fan of Toby Keith.
More so just him as a person than the, the music, but I'm fan of his music too. There's a reason
I have his song playing the intro to playmakers and everything. Um, but you, I actually, I wonder
sometimes with these things that, uh, celebrity start off, they become even more important and vital
after they're passing. You know, you, you worry, well, Toby Keith passes how, how popular is
the Toby Keith, you know, golf classic still going to be, you know, he's not there anymore. He's
enabled there the promoted in some of those things. Well, oftentimes like with this one, it seems
like it's become even more popular with his passing. And maybe that has to do a little bit with,
we lost them too young, you know, some of that. I don't know, but it's pretty darn cool to see.
Yeah. It's awesome. Regardless, it doesn't matter what the reasons are anything like that. The
fact that it's not only still going, but that's $1.4 million that that, uh, these kids wouldn't see
this organ to say these families wouldn't have without it. In addition to the golf classic,
they had a silent auction, a Toby Keith limited edition military guitar sold for 35 grand,
which is pretty cool. That'd be awesome to have. But Terry, I, if I had known about this,
I may have gone bankrupt just trying to get my hands on a cowboy hat signed by George straight.
That went for $7,000. I can't believe it wasn't more. Exactly. Yes. Yes. Like that. They
cap it because I can't like, I'm not kidding here. Like that's, I could see spend a lot,
if I got like Bill Gates money, I can see. But you also, I mean, it's for charity. This isn't for me.
The average Joe that's golfing in this golf term either. You know what I mean? So, so while we
may be more in awe of those collectibles, they might not be. I can't think like it's one thing to
have a, a cowboy hat signed by George straight. That's pretty darn cool. That's the king right there.
That's pretty cool. I loan. But then you get to say, oh, yeah, Toby owned it before me. But
that's, that's pretty cool. The event has raised 20 million in 21 years. They've been running it.
So a big thank you to big daddy man. So about a million dollars a year. That's awesome.
Really incredible. Really incredible. Be on the lookout for next years. They've already
getting that one set up and everything. So it does look like it will go into a 20 second.
We don't say this very often in the middle of the week, but it is of course a holiday week. And
there we're seeing something coming back to the movie theaters, the 4th of July big movie.
Having a big movie to premiere on the 4th of July weekend kind of went away from that for a
little while. And it's certain to come back more and more. And this was, that was before the pandemic.
They did kind of went away. I think a lot of people use that as this benchmark of, oh, this
changed this in entertainment or industries. The 4th of July weekend's been dying since
Wild Wild West. It's been it's been it faded for a while. For a long time people were just looking
to be out of town and do things. And if you're traveling, you're probably not going to the movies.
You know, you've got other things to do. You're seeing the sights and all that.
We're seeing now that Hollywood is seeing that again as a beacon of, oh, we can we can add movies.
But not just that. You're going to notice. So right now we got 4th Jurassic Park rebirth.
That's the big one that's being being. It doesn't actually come out on Friday.
It comes out today. It's out. Okay. This is the 4th Jurassic Park movie and the 7th in the
Jurassic Park franchise. That is insane. How many times can you make a movie about the
dinosaurs got out got loose? Like yeah, I'm going to go up. Here's a quick recap of the
second trilogy in the first Jurassic World. The park. Isla new bar is overrun by dinosaurs.
Do you really, I don't need to go through this. Do I, I don't really need to. Like if you know,
you know, if you don't, you don't. If you don't know, the last thing you want is for me to give you
a synopsis of the other. And if you haven't cared about it for the first six or seven, like
you're not going to now. I will say one thing. Unless it's raining on the 4th. You like
here. Well, one thing I'll say to that point, Terry, if you haven't seen the other ones or any of
these movies, it does look like this one you can jump into and you'll be fine. You know, you
didn't need to see the previous ones and everything. I feel like that's one thing that they seem
to do a pretty good job with these. I also feel like like, you know, just just leave it alone.
Just stop already. Now the people keep going. That's the thing though. Yeah. They're still doing
with it. The series was actually going to end. They were wrapping up because when they brought it
back, it wasn't doing that well. But then this most recent one did well. So of course, they're
going to make another one. It does star two of my favorite actors in the game right now.
Scarlett Johansson, I'm a sure Ali. I love Scarlett Johansson. Anything she does, I'm checking out.
That Rupert Friend and Jonathan Bailey from Bridgerton is also in this one.
And they are all over the world. It doesn't look like they're at the park. Yeah, Jurassic World now
because not even at the park anymore. So it's all over the world. The other thing I will say about
this and I've seen like two or three trailers of it already. Whether you see this movie or not,
whether you like these movies or not or anything, the technology and where they've gotten with
Greek with the special effects and everything. I get a little bit burnt out from it when they
it's just that when a movie is nothing but green screen, it's all special effects and all that.
Movies like this where they're mixing the world and they're using real world film and incorporating
a dinosaur into the ocean or something like that. It is just incredible. It is unreal. It is insane.
What they're able to pull off nowadays with this and it's like that alone is kind of worth seeing
the movie to me just as somebody who is interested in those things. And you know what that really
services is like when you're trying to get your kids to watch an action movie or adventure movie
from like the 80s. Yes. And they're like, why does it look like that? And back then it looked,
I mean, it was like something else and now they don't even compare. It's so weird to think of
movies that were so game-changing. And then you go back and watch them. Like I think Terminator 2
is a really good example. That liquid form and stuff like it was just game-changing. No, but we
that's the height. We're never going to top this in like a couple of years later. It's like,
oh, that's old. That's weird. Well, we got into that. I want to talk a little bit about this
with Seth tomorrow, but I did want to mention it to everybody. If you are looking to make some
plans, you're going to get through a long weekend and you're looking for something to do this
weekend that is a little bit more of a break maybe. This is actually kind of cool. So George
Clooney recently has been on Broadway doing a show that's an important one, I think.
The biggest thing on Broadway isn't the Stranger Things musical, which I don't know if a lot of
people know, but there's a Stranger Things musical. It's a straight play about the history of television
news. It stars George Clooney, so there is that that is bringing a lot of people there. But
the success of Good Night and Good Luck, which is based on the movie that he directed back in the
day, the movie was not a big grossing movie or anything like that. It was out during the Harry
Potter movies and stuff, so it was never going to bring in a huge gross, but incredibly well-acted.
And a very important movie, it really dives into not just the history of TV news and television
news and all that, but the importance of television news, the importance of journalism.
And I mean real journalism. I mean real reporting. How important that is and how vital it was,
then now flash forward to 2025 where we have all these fears of AI, fake news, et cetera, et cetera,
et cetera. There are a billion outlets out there. Everybody's got a podcast.
So is that what do you think that that's what this show is? Is a like a timeline?
Well, this is, yeah, this is based on that time in that era and talking about that and how
important it was in the moment in the 50s and all that with the red scare and some of those things.
And they brought it back because it's just so prevalent now. And they did this on Broadway,
and it's been very successful. And one of the cooler things that I have seen in
the quite a while, I think at least, is that you're going to get to catch this out yourself.
And you don't even have to travel to New York and spend a billion dollars.
So this Sunday, I believe it is. Now my computer keeps moving on. I apologize, everybody.
So there is, it is going to be on CNN this Sunday and it'll be streaming on their maxed as well,
max.com 7 o'clock Saturday. I'm sorry on Saturday at 7 o'clock Eastern time. It'll be playing
simultaneously on HBO on max and on CNN's website. You don't need a subscription. You don't
have to pay anything for it. You just get to watch a Broadway play starring one of the better
actors of our generation on TV. Yeah. Yeah. I like that they're doing that. It's really
impressive to me because they could easily and I'm going to grant it. They ain't doing this for
free. I'm sure they got some advertisers on it and everything else. But it speaks to, hey,
we think this isn't so important. We're going to put it out there for everybody. We're not going
to put it behind a pay wall. We're not going to only put it on a streaming service. We're putting
it on everything. Well, let's try it, right? I mean, let's see how it goes. Yeah. Yeah. And I
think a very cool thing about that is you go ahead and give it a shot. If you don't like it,
flip it. Yeah. Is anybody else ever do this, though? When I do pay for something, like even if
it's bad, I got to sit through it. Yeah, you paid for it. I got to sit. I'm going to get my
buddies worth out of this. Yes. That looks pretty cool. Do you remember when you rented like what was
a really attack at the killer tomatoes and you still watched it? Absolutely. Yes. Yes.
Because you spent 250 right to get so right. I did want to touch on this too. We got some great
plays going on locally here in Wisconsin rabbits with our WRCT and one of them coming up at the
next week is the 2025 teen summer production West Side Story. This is going to be directed by Susan
Becker or shout out to her. They did something really cool with the kids shows this summer where
they broke down by ages. So for this one, you've got kids 12 to 19. They're going to be taking
on the school edition of West Side Story, one of the more famous plays in less 40, 50 years.
The production dates are July 10th and 11th and 12th at seven o'clock. Then they'll wrap up on
July 13th with a two o'clock matinee. You can get your tickets now. You can use in the cast
and find out more by going to wrctheeter.org. I encourage you to do that everybody. Support
these kids taking a great show. I will let you know that there is no such thing as a bad kids show.
Every one of them are great. There is no such thing. So you're guaranteed a great show
and a great time and a great atmosphere. Head on over to wrctheeter.org. Support these kids.
Buy local support local and check out West Side Story. I really look forward to that. That's
going to be really good. I don't know seeing adults do it. I've seen it so many times. I don't know
if it really hits me anymore, but something about kids and teenagers doing it. Like here's the thing
too about this. I don't know that we've ever really seen a production of West Side Story done
right. It's supposed to be done by teenagers. It's supposed to be done by young people.
Sure. Usually you got 18, 19 or even 23, 24 year olds trying to play teenagers. And that's
where I think the play misses often times. I think that play is so relevant for 2025. But you've
got to cast it right. I think you really need to do that. It's the same thing with a lot of
like Spider-Man. The Spider-Man role. Forever, you had like 25, 26 year olds playing Spider-Man
a kid in high school. Or when we were kids, did anybody, even in high school, Terry, did you
believe that Luke Perry was in high school? I mean, I know you might have wanted to, but with that
hairline, come on. I think when they cast things right, like they had with this show, you really
get a different experience. Even if you've seen the movie and seen West Side Story done in productions
and everything, I don't think you've seen it like this, where you've got actually young people
doing it that really can understand some of the lyrics or some of the writing of it.
And let's get out and support our local kids. Yeah, get to wrctheter.org and check that out,
everybody. When Terry and I come back, we got this great article we're going to dive into. Five
things you didn't know were invented in Wisconsin. Coming up on the Morning Show at WFHR.
Welcome back, everybody. Morning Show here at WFHR. 80s edition.
Don't know if, nope, I had to look it up. Sunglasses were not invented in Wisconsin, Terry.
It's hard for me to not start singing when I start. I watch your turn.
My mic off. I will not turn it off, everybody. I'll have it off.
I swear, go right ahead. You guys, full rate.
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Our friends at Up North News, Christian and Laurie.
Christian and Laurie, this great reporting, great work, great writer.
I put this article together a while ago, been waiting to dive into it and I thought,
well, Terry's here. This is a good one right now.
When you think Wisconsin, most people think of beer, brats, badgers and some of those things,
but you should add three other bees to that list. Blenders, burgers, and bone marrow transplants.
Not in any particular way. No, no, maybe not. I know the burger one.
I was wondering if that was going to be on the list.
So I wanted to get into some that were their article here about the five that they think a lot of
people may not be aware of, but there is other inventions I want to dive into too. So to touch on
that, yes, the hamburger in 1885, Charlie, Charlie Nagan, also known as the as hamburger Charlie,
is credited with selling the first meat patties at the annual Seymour Fair. Legend has it. He
decided to put his patties between two buns to make them more profitable. Smart. If you drive
through Seymour, it says, home of the hamburger. Yeah. Yeah. I got to check that. I love, I love,
love, love when places have that. And since I was a little kid, anytime I'm going into a city,
I love seeing that welcome to sign or anything. The blender, I did not know this one. I didn't know
that this was new to me. But we're going back to 1922. Racine native, Stephen Popolatski invented
the first blender, which became the ostracizer. His product was sold in drug stores and used
for melted milkshakes for many, many years. Very cool. President Roosevelt asked UW-Madison
economist and professor Edwin Whitty to help solve the country's poverty problem, specifically
among the elderly. It's a fascinating story and you could read more about that when I encourage
you to, but social security is where this comes from. And that was also invented here in Wisconsin
in 1935. So certainly not only something that we should be holding onto and tightly and keeping
an eye on for many, many reasons, but if you need another one, take some pride at Wisconsinites,
that's yours. We've got burgers, milkshakes, and money. And something touching on something we
did earlier, stereo headphones. Going back to 1958 for this one, originally created as a gimmick
for a, for his portable phonograph demonstrations, Milwaukee native John Koss headphones were turning
point for the audio industry. Up until that point, headphones were never used for music listening
only for communication. Interesting. Wow. Wow. As somebody who has had at least 10,000 pairs of
headphones in my lifetime and use them. It should take better care of your stuff. I really should.
They're an integral part of my job. I, they're one of the few things I will spend money on.
Remember the Sony Walkman campaign? Oh, yes. I mean, that was more about the portability, I think,
but just like the super cool guy with the headphones. Yes, the headphones. Yes. And maybe that's
part of where it comes from, too, Terry, about my need of these things. I don't know. How about
TurboTap? A little more of a newer invention going back to 2004. Green Bay native Matt Yokel
came up with the idea in 1995 while watching a waiting in line for a beer at a UW-medicine
moral unit, Ternis, Tarris. Fast forward nine years and he created a device that pours beer faster,
decreases the amount of foam on top and reduces spillage. That's genius. TurboTap. Yeah. That
does feel like of all of these the most Wisconsin invention you could have, but that's a great one.
And a great article again. You can read more about this and other great work at up north news
wi.com. I encourage you to check that out. Bookmark that page. But we know that that's not the only
things invented here in Wisconsin. Famously, the first kindergarten, first American kindergarten
started here in 1856, was started, of course, in Watertown. How about the typewriter in 1869,
invented by Milwaukee newspaperman and politician Christopher Latham. Latham and Sholes,
back in 1867, the rights for his invention were sold to remnant companies shortly after that.
This is the one that I don't think is talked about a lot, or maybe it is. In 1873, the invention of
the automobile. The Reverend John W. Carrhart, a car halt, built a steam propelled automobile
called the Spark at Racine. In 1908, at the International Automobile Exposition and Exposition
in Paris, France, Carrhart was addressed as the father of automobiles and given a cash reward
and certificate of honor for his invention. That's really cool. That's really cool.
I wonder what that cash reward was, like a dollar? Yeah, that's a great question.
I mean, relative to the time, of course, but you just wonder what that was.
Yeah, that's a really good question. How about the first auto race in 1878? The state
legislator offered $10,000 to the inventor of a machine that could move from Green Bay to Madison
under its own power. The race was won by Alexander Gallagher of Oshkosh. The vehicle's average
speed was six miles an hour. You know, they were like, this is too fast.
Right. Hang on, hang on. I'm getting out. You don't even have to talk and roll at that speed.
The driver did stop along the way to demonstrate the vehicle's power and to make repairs,
but while he was going along, it actually would have been faster, but so many people were like,
hey, what is that? He probably didn't even have to park it to the repair. He just walked along.
Of course, a couple of them. The first Ringling Brothers show, of course, most of us a bit of
here know that the first Ringling Brothers performance was in Mozini in November 27th.
The invention of molten milk or the milkshake famously, we've talked about that many times
around here. That was invented by William Horlick in Racine back in 1883. Racine's got a couple
of these. How about the invention of the first cast iron bathtub? I have heard that one, but only
from a long time ago, I would say. That was the first animated cast iron plump plumbing
fixtures were manufactured in Shuboigan by John Michael Cole. Color. What about the birthplace
of Flag Day in 1885, especially as we're gearing up for the 4th of July here and everything? Bernard
Jay Saganard, a 19 year old teacher and pupils at Stony High Hill in Ozark County,
celebrated the birthday of our flag, June 14th, 1785. National flag, they was proclaimed by
President Woodrow Wilson back in 1916, so long before. Yeah. Wow. Wow. And the first successful
electric commercial streetcar, Appleton operated an electric streetcar railway in August 16th of 1886.
That's really cool. That is pretty impressive. And there are a lot of these. How about 1917,
the longest running radio station? A university at Wisconsin Experimental Station called
9XM Transmitted Radio Signals, later known as WHA, the station has existed longer than any other.
Even longer than us here at WFHR, where we're getting ready to celebrate 85 years in November.
Shameless plug. Yeah, take it. Gotta get it in there. And there's plenty more out there. Go
ahead and share yours. Maybe your favorite one or maybe just ones that we didn't mention. We'd
love to hear from you. Everybody reach out to us through the Civic Media app. We'll be back after
our news, sports, entertainment, and partner break. More show coming up on 975 FM, WFHR.
Welcome back everybody. Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio, 80s edition of the show.
I gotta get these in here while we can everybody. It's like the Cory heart edition.
It kind of is. I've got two of them in there. I forget sometimes that he had two big hits.
Summertime is here, which means your kids are out of school looking for fun.
If you work from home or suddenly find yourself feeling a little guilty for not having enough time
to spend with them, you are not alone. And your kids feel it too. In a study from a few years ago,
70% of kids said that their parents are too distracted. And here's what a psychologist said about
it. During the day to day, we quite easily slip into routines and forget to make space for the
quality time together. So a break away with the family, whether it's a midweek or weekend,
it's great opportunity to switch off and engage in fun activities with your kids. One of the things
that they're really encouraging with this is the idea of really, really like locking in,
not checking your phone, your four working emails or things like that. But when you are doing
activities, whether it's sitting down for dinner or going to the Grand Canyon, really being engaged.
Where'd you pull that from? I don't know. My parents were doing that already.
So you think though, I completely agree with this. Being intentional. We're not suggesting that
you quit working, right? But like do your work when you're at work. And sometimes you have to follow
up, but you also can be strategic about if you made a commitment to your kids or you have time
together, spend it with them. Yeah. One thing I will say that I wish, and this is from the Good
News Network.org, you can find the complete article there. And I agree with you. I agree with
this article. I agree with these kids. I also hope that there is some understanding with all of that.
You know, that most parents that are doing this are not doing this because they choose this over
this. They're doing this because this is a responsibility. This is the thing that I have to do.
Just like being a parent. Imagine anything, anytime a parent has to make a decision. And I don't
think a lot of people like yourself, Terry, have to imagine very hard for this. You do it every day.
Well, number one job to me being a parent. That's number one before anything else. Although
the electric bills do. So I have to pay the electric bill and I have to work a little bit to do
that. Oh, yeah, the work part. But I also think people spend a lot of time on social media or
playing a game on their phone or whatever. Do that after your kids are in bed at night if that's
something you can't live without. I mean, I agree there is a reasonableness and there needs to be
some grace for things. Sometimes you do get a work call that you have to take or you have to set
aside some times to pay bills. But, you know, you also could involve your kid in what you do.
You know what I mean? I don't know. I see people all the time, whatever. They're out to eat,
but they're scrolling social media while they're with their family. Yeah. Really?
That's that. Now see, there's the whole category that I kind of wanted to wrap on there is
that because everybody needs a break. Everybody needs a release in some of those things. You got to
choose win. You got to get to pick those times better and everything because I will say as
somebody whose kids are in their mid to late 20s and and doesn't hear from them enough.
Choked up, joking. They're great. They're great kids. But I couldn't ever hear from them enough.
And so, you know, that is something that there that happens a lot quicker than you realize.
It's an overnight thing almost it feels like. And so that time when you do have them young,
take advantage of that. But then imagine even with your adult kids,
let's say you make a you know, make a date with one of them to meet for dinner.
And then the whole time through that dinner, you know, you're talking 90 minutes, right?
Like the whole time they're scrolling on there. It's like come on. Yeah. And I think that to that
point, Terry, both parties, you know, kids. When kids are adults. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
Got to be able to be okay with this and understanding of it. And that's one of those things too.
We're helping out kids because one day you might be a parent and you're going to be you have
those moments of epiphany. We're like, Oh, that's why mom or dad did this. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Trust me
on that one. I've had plenty of those. Here are the top 10 activities kids want to do with their
parents and more. It doesn't look like they're in any particular order. So just starting at number
one, go into the beach. That sounds nice. I have not been swimming at this summer and it's killing me.
They got to get out there. Get to the lake, get to the beach, get to the ocean, whatever you got to
do and bring the kids. Leave the kids. They want to come along with Kevin.
Exercise together. That's an interesting one and that doesn't mean necessarily getting to pump
an iron or anything like that. Go for a bike ride. Yeah. Play sports together. There's another good
one. Very similar to the other one. Go into the pool. So these top four that we have are all
interchangeable. It feels like, but, but they're all good. Yeah. Go into the movies. There's a good
one. I can go to the movies and laugh at the movie. Well, what have you? Play at the park is another
big one. Going camping. Going camping feels like, again, I've never been camping. So I need to do
that and it's something that I don't know what I'm talking about. But of all these, it feels like,
well, how can I cram all of these activities into one and camping feels like you're going to go
swimming and get some exercise? I think it also, though, is bigger than all of those other ones.
You know what I mean? Like the other ones I feel like are just, you know, you could jump in the
cargo. Yeah. Yeah. You want to go to the movies? We go to the movies. You want to camp? It takes
a little more planning. You just got to plan a little bit. Yeah. Take a day trip to the zoo,
museum, or amusement park. Well, you know, some of those things do take a little more planning
and everything. If you're here in town or even in some of the other cities we have in our
listening area here, you might have a local zoo and that's always good to stop by. I have a hard
time believing at my kids, I tested this with my little ones when they were like five and six
and everything. Because we lived near the zoo here at the time. And I'm like, all right, let's see
how much they enjoy the zoo back-to-back days and some of that. They were fine. Yeah, they don't enjoy,
they was like they didn't even happen the day before and stuff. I don't think you can go to the zoo
enough. That's a good one. And if you are doing things like that, maybe you go to one section one
day, one the other or something like, no, those lights. How about playing video games?
There are going to be rainy days this summer. There are going to be days where you cannot get
outside. That can be a fun one. I will also recommend board games. We've seen a huge rise in
people playing games again. Puzzles are great. Puzzles are a good one. Puzzles are their own board
games. Have you seen these? It's like, I guess like a party, but you have a team of four and it's a race
like each table has an end to get the puzzle put together. I like that. Oh, that's good. It's like
happening all over it. Oh, maybe at a winery or at a micro brewery or something like that, but
but they have like these regular weekly puzzle challenges. And so everybody has the same puzzle
and who put it, oh, I like that. That's kind of, oh, man, my mom definitely hasn't heard about that.
I don't know for sure if they're all the one that I happened to just, I mean, we didn't play,
but we haven't to be there. Didn't didn't know about it. Everybody had the same puzzle, but I've
also heard of ones where it's like the same puzzle manufacturer, same number of pieces, but maybe
not the same picture, you know, but I mean like the same idea. It seems cool. Yeah. It's
something different. And go shopping is on this list, which, you know, you could be shopping for
school supplies, possibly something we'll be getting into in a couple of minutes with Terry and
New United Way. Get into that. But there's other things out there. I know that this list is not
everything that's on that list, but I know fishing is a big one for a lot of people out here. I know
especially even in my family and I, my papa and I was a big bonding thing for me when I was a
kid was him teach me out of fish. That's there's out boating, getting out there skiing, doing things
like that and getting out on the water and any water activities. You know, pretty common all of these
is getting outside. Yeah. You know what I mean, or, or getting not that you, I mean, of course,
there's plenty of activities that you can do at home and you should do at home. But a lot of these
are, you know, going to a different environment, right? And enjoying that time together. So like,
if you take your kid to the park, spend that hour with them at the park. Don't sit down and
again, hop on your phone and let them play play with them. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Really, and look at it
this way too. Not only are all those updates and all those things going to be there for you when
you come back to your phone, but it might actually give you something to look forward to because the
people that we're talking about here, it feels like, when do you ever get surprised by an update
or anything? You're constantly staring at your phone. So you're always seeing everything. Yep.
Might give you something to look forward to. I don't know. Take a break. Your eyes will be
thankful for it and your kids will really be thankful for it. We were going to take a quick time
out. We'll come back. We're going to wrap up talking some great local events in our area,
a little update from the United Way and plenty more on the way for you on the morning show at WFHR.
Welcome back everybody. Morning show here at WFHR, locally grown radio.
Tari and James with you for one last segment. I'm going to take you to the top of the hour. Get
you ready for a great day of civic media, radio ahead, stick around. Everybody good stuff coming
up for you here at 975 FM. Get into our schedule a little bit. We'll have a great rapid support
available for you today. Streaming at www.wfhr.com. You can find it. We'll be being joined today with
Connie Sherr's department. You're going to have Sherr's Sean Becker coming in with us and
looking forward to hanging out with them. We will also have Wisconsin's Rapids Community Media in,
encourage you to go to their website and check out more. You can go to over to the cities website
if you want. Otherwise, www.wrc-cm.org or throw into your search bar on YouTube. Wisconsin's
Rapids Community Media and subscribe to the good work they're doing over there. Looking forward
to hanging out with them a little bit later. Yeah, always a great interview. Guessing you might
hear some Fourth of July. Yeah, yeah. Well, looking forward to that. Sean always comes in here with
this game face, man. He's got easy, just a great stuff to line up for us. And I want to also
remind everybody that our WFHR newsletter is going to have a new edition available for you tomorrow.
Get on over and sign up for it at WFHR.com. It's your one stop shop for all sensual Wisconsin news.
We are covering almost every single thing you can think of. But if there's stuff you're thinking
of and we're not, let us know. Let us know in the comments because we want to cover it. That's our
job. Help us do our job and let us know about local events. WFHR.com. Check that out everybody.
Before we get into too many local events and then get an update from the United Way,
I did want to touch on one other thing that I want to hit on whenever I have an opportunity
as we're leading into the Fourth of July. And you're going to see some signs out in yards
along with a lot of other signs. But ones that are letting you know that a combat veteran lives
here. And when you see those signs where they're letting you know that, hey, maybe don't let off
fireworks right here, right in this neighborhood or right near this house. Or if you're going to
maybe give them a heads up ahead of time. The Fourth of July is about celebrating America.
It's about promoting freedom and showing the whole world this wonderful democracy,
this wonderful experiment that we are doing here in this country that we started in centuries
ago that it's still working. We're still here and we're still doing it and we're not going anywhere.
We're always going to be here and we're always going to celebrate this day.
It's an important part to us to show to the world. It's important for us as locals, as fellow
Americans, to show each other that we get this, to celebrate it with each other. Now, it doesn't
mean we all have to shake hands and sing kumbaya, but it does mean that we do need to treat each other
with respect, that we do need to look out for each other because that's what it's about.
Looking out for each other. Nobody gets through this world alone and no American gets through a
life in America without another American and oftentimes a stranger, oftentimes somebody you
don't even know. So get to know your neighbors, get to know the people in your area and find out
and if there is somebody that is struggling with PTSD or maybe there are animals in that area
that struggle with it or kids. One of the most American things you can do is not light off those
fireworks, especially at two in the morning or something like that. If someone, thank you Pam
for this, I appreciate it. If someone needs one of those signs, we have some extras here at WFHR
and WRRI. Come on, stop by, pick one up and thank you to everybody who respects these signs and a
big thank you to our veterans out there and those struggling through this. Usually I'm so thankful
we're at it. This has been a problem for decades. We're just now starting to talk about it. Why?
Because our soldiers don't complain. Our veterans don't complain. We need to do this for them. We
need to look out for them and help them with this. And I'm thankful to so many of our veterans out there
that are doing one of the bravest things they can do and facing something like this and talking
about it. So shout out to all of them and shout out to everybody that is keeping this going.
Also, one of them mentioned some great local concerts that are going on. We'll get to that in a
moment along with some other fun things. But Terry, I want to get an update from the United Way
once more before we let you go for the day. How are things going over at the shop?
Everything's going great. We are looking for school supplies for our stuff, the bus event that
happens on Thursday, August 7th at lunch by the river. If you are out and about shopping,
if you have the opportunity to grab a few school supplies, we could definitely use those.
Last year we served almost a thousand kids with school supplies here in southwood county.
And my expectation is that number will be similar. Maybe a few more or a few less. But somewhere
in that ballpark. And so we know we are definitely in need of supplies. If you are wondering what are
the most needed or where you can drop off supplies, all of that information can be found on our website
at uwac.org. There is a list. If you click on the stuff the bus banner, there's a list of
most needed supplies. There's a list of drop locations. And actually you can drop
drop supplies right here at WFHR if you have those. And then all of our drop points will come
together on August 7th. And we will then sort inventory and get those supplies ready to make
their way into the hands of our local kiddos. So you know that's the biggest thing that we could
use support on right now is school supplies. We encourage you to find out more about that by going
to uwac.org. We'll be hitting on this as we get closer and closer to it wrapping getting
through the month here. And reminding everybody, hey get the kid signed up, get them registered.
And we'll certainly be looking into volunteers and that for when we're you know stuff the bus
and stuff you know stuff the bus. And I won't be doing that when I'm looking forward to it.
I get and find out more at uwac.org and keep in mind 211 is a sort resource that is always
available to you. Find out more by going to their Facebook page, sharing their posts on your
page. You just never know who might see them otherwise. Also one of the mentioned that tomorrow
Seth and I will be diving into 4th of July celebration here in rapids a little bit more in detail.
Get into some of the things going on with that. Programming wise, we will not have a morning show
for you on Friday. But we will at 9am have this sunshine poker variety show. Check that out from
9 to 10 and 10 to 11. A special patriotic edition America 4th of July edition of Seth
Basin music. Check that out as well everybody. Raptor baseball on your radio dial tonight.
The boys of summer are back at at 620. They're in fond of lack to take on this dock spiders.
A record tying I believe tying or at least record moment yesterday for one of our pitchers.
We're going to talk about that a little bit on playmakers today. Be sure to join us from 4 to 5 for
that. We'll be your pregame for the Raptor game. Raptors are playing here at WFHR at 620 tonight.
I want to 555WRI playmakers will be going from 4 to 5 sports director around here Michael
Comer and I will be getting into a bunch of different things with the Raptors. What's going on
with the bucks and some of the things that they are doing. I'll touch it on some local sports as
well. All of that coming up for you. But we also want to talk about what you want to talk about.
You really direct the show. You call up and join the conversation. We'll get into whatever you want to.
Also wanted to remind everybody that is a Wednesday. We know what that means. Bingo.
Bingo. Bingo at the Wisconsin Rapids Elk Slodge number 693. Join them for some great Bingo,
great fun and know that while you're over there you're putting back into your community because
that's what the Elk Slodge does. We appreciate our friends over there. Join them at 430 West
Jackson Street. Their doors open at 5. Bingo kicks off at 630 and joy. Have fun and good luck to
everybody. I always forget to mention good luck. My nod will be mad at me if I didn't mention
good luck about Bingo. And a quick reminder that the Wisconsin Rapids downtown farmers market is
back at it. They're open Thursdays and Saturdays from 8 to 1 along the beautiful Wisconsin River
at about 221st Avenue South. They do a nice job of blocking that off. Yeah, it was down there last
week. It was great. It's really fun. Get on over there. Buy local support local and take in that
event. Everybody and of course lunch by the river going on tomorrow. Going to be a good one.
Klein Creek going to be down there performing and have some great food trucks. Join us every Thursday
at Vetsons Memorial Park from 1130 to 1 for a lunch by the river. Shout out to the Heart of Wisconsin
Chamber of Commerce for that. Some world good stories. Terry wanted to touch on here.
A Humane Society volunteer in Hawaii posted a video of a 10-year-old dog named Princess
who had been waiting to get adopted for over two years and now she's got her fairy tale ending.
They went through a Starbucks drive-through to get a pop cup and the video went viral. After
791 days she finally got adopted. The shelter is in Maui and the lady who adopted her lives in
Ohio. I think that's how you pronounce it. But a pilot saw the video and offered to fly her
there for free. Isn't that sweet? Oh, and the video of the dog fly is awesome. The video's great.
That's really good. It's also a great reminder of tomorrow being our pet of the week with the
South of County Humane Society. Maybe we'll get a good story like that from them. Yeah, that is
awesome. Probably won't involve a helicopter rider. Maybe go get a pop cup by the way.
I'm sure your video is. Yes, yeah. And how cool is this? Humans feed feed wild animals all the time.
But a new study found killer whales are also trying to feed you feed the US.
There are at least 34 documented cases of orcas offering food to humans.
They've been seen bringing up to boats or even right up to people in the water. They usually
wait for about five seconds to see if they want the food or not and then take it back if they don't.
And a few cases people have actually accepted the food. That's why I love it. That is wild.
It's also a little scary. Yeah, a little bit, a little bit, a little calvary, a little calvary.
Great show today, Terry. Have a good week. You too. And I'm happy for it to you. Thank you. Have a good day, everybody.
