Good morning, Wisconsin. Morning, world. It's a new day. Makes for kick it off with us
right here at 97-5 FM WFHR. Got your host, James behind the mic. Join by our head of news,
our co-host, Melissa K. Good morning. Our head of production, our co-host, Seth Habhacker.
Good morning, and the best listeners in radio. Thanks for being here, everybody. We're going to have some fun this morning.
Got good things lined up for you. We're going to kick things off the way we like to around here.
Let's welcome back, Brittany Merlot. Good morning, Brett. Good morning. How are you?
Doing better now. We missed you. How are you doing? Yeah. I missed you too. I'm hanging in there.
I'm doing so, so much better. And they see that, you know, the weather is calmer too, so I'll be back here.
It does seem to be following along with that, Brittany. Nice morning so far today.
What are we looking at this week? Honestly, a gorgeous week. We only have two
sharp of rain really interrupting. Otherwise, comfortable highs in the low 80s.
A lot of sunshine today, Wednesday, Thursday. We are looking at chances of rain.
Maybe overnight tonight, we could hear some bubbles of thunder, maybe waking up to a few
spotty showers in the morning, and then a more storms could spark up against
tomorrow afternoon. Not looking at ton of rainfall with that, and then rain
chances hold off until Thursday night or Friday or so. So honestly, not too much humidity.
And like I said, a lot of sunshine all week long and today. So I'm liking it. This is good.
Nice. Yeah. In fact, if we could, we, you know, if you, we, you know,
wanna, we could just go ahead and keep, you know, the rest of the week. We just have,
yeah, we just have fun with this segment. Everybody remember Brittany's weather from Monday.
Okay. So Brittany, well, you know, we'll talk about whatever you want to talk about.
You don't get to talk about other things very often, Brittany. You know, well,
you got other interests, other topics you'd like to talk about. I'm sure we're going to get it
to those. You crack me up. I mean, let's talk about camping.
Camping is always something. See, there you go. Yeah. Yeah. Perfect. You know what I like about
Brittany, though, unlike some other, you know, meteorologists that, you know, just do the,
you know, I'm just reporting the weather. I'm just, you can tell it in her voice when it's good
weather and bad weather. I love that. The idea that she can, that she puts it right out there.
I love it. Mm-hmm. Yeah, we do. I try to hide when it's bad. I'm like, I'm so sorry guys.
We appreciate you. But here's the silver lining. Mm-hmm. No, Brittany always adds in. Oh,
that's true. She does. Yeah. You're right. You're right. That is correct. She is very good.
Appreciate you, Brittany. Great to have you back. You have a great day. We'll talk again tomorrow.
You too. Have a good one. So got that sunshine. Yeah. Thanks, Brittany. Best in the business right
there. Brittany, we're low joining us again. Great to have her back. It's a good start here to
have you guys back out there. We appreciate you, everybody. Hope you all had a great weekend,
a safe, fun weekend. Certainly the weather seemed to cooperate. That was pretty nice.
For the most part, yeah. We got a great show, jam packed for you. We're going to get into in a
little bit. Of course, the LKFA birthday and anniversary club. Then we got things to look
forward to in July. A little bit after that, we got Chuck E. Cheese's opening arcades for adults.
Okay, I'm intrigued. Yeah, okay. It's Monday, so you know what that means. We'll have an
addition of the kitchen's open for you to kick off the 10 o'clock hour. We've got a special
one for you. A best of. A best of today, yeah. That we'll be getting into. And after that,
we'll be joined by our friend Tom Heiser or the monthly veterans update. Excellent.
We'll have a little bit of other news and information for you in that 10 o'clock hour.
I want to touch on some local theater coming up and some other fun stuff and a naughty parrot.
They're all filthy. But a new poll looked at the most popular summer activities. The most
popular summer activity. All right. And the number one involves food, but not the grill. So I
thought that was kind of interesting. Okay. Eating ice cream is America's favorite summer time
thing to do. Okay. Technically, it says ice cream or popsicles, but you know, they teach their own.
60% love it and another 35% like it. Only 1% said that they hate eating ice cream in the summer.
What? Specifically. It's specifically one percent. But I love that though. I hate it.
As the person who used to do this kind of stuff routinely, that was somebody just wanted to be
different. That was just one to be different. That would be contrary. Yeah. Yeah.
Here are the top 10 summer activities in order that we like according to this survey. Eating ice
cream, number one, going on vacation number two, grilling number three. I thought grilling actually
would have been the number one thing on here, but that's very nice. Road trips come into number four.
Those are fun. Go into the beach at number five. Hiking or nature walks at six. Okay.
Seven swimming in a pool. Number eight stargazing. Oh, I never think about that, but that is
definitely something that is that is. And you know, it's like, well, you can stargaze any time
of the year, right? But this time of the year, it's warm out at night in the winter. It's not.
So it makes it more conducive to stargazing. I will say I think in the winter, some nights,
you can almost see these stars better right in the winter, but there is something about being outside
in the summer and looking up and all that. And I don't know if I've ever really associated with that
with summer, but I definitely do. Yeah. Watching fireworks, 16% of Americans are not fans, though.
In the time they've done this survey, that number has been rising a lot more. Okay.
And having a picnic at number 10, good old fashioned picnics. Those are fun. You know, I mean,
one of those in a long time. Anything that wasn't on the list that you guys would put in there.
Oh, let's see here. I am noticing a pattern on this. Lots of outdoors things on there. I'm trying
to think I did. I was trying to think of what I did as a kid, right? And basically, I think they
hit everything. How about like playing in the woods or gardening? Yes. Oh, gardening. No, gardening
was not on there. Playing in the woods was not on there. I did a lot of playing in the woods
myself, too. So I know they said swimming in a pool, but I think much more of swimming at a
beach or a lake or something like that. So I'm nitpicking, but way back down behind my grandparents
backyard. Of course, I grew up in the country right next to my grandparents, and they had a lot of
land there. You could go down to the Blackhoof River, and my cousin, Philip, created a very nice
swim. There was a great little pool in the river that you could swim in, and it was deep,
and it was really cool. Exactly. That is exactly what it was, and it was awesome. Oh, my God.
Sounds awesome. Sucluded. You know, you're there in the woods, and the river is flowing. It was
so peaceful. Oh, it was wonderful. That sounds really good. But Abbotsford, on my grandparent's farm,
my brother and I would trek back and find the creek, and there was one little bit deeper spot.
I was just like way steep at most, but you know, we catch tadpoles and play in the water.
Those are great memories. Those are great ones. They are. They are awesome. I know that I
associate too, and I don't do it much anymore, but I fishing with summer. I remember that was,
you know, we didn't have school. So my papa and I would get up really early and go out there,
and probably not catch anything. But we go out there, and he was really, it was so much more
about trying to teach me about nature than it was just fishing and stuff. I didn't know how much
he really cared if we called anything or not, and boating. Man, I didn't think about this as a
kid, but the older I get and everything, if there's one thing I'd got to have before it's all
said and done, I want my own boat. I want a boat. Nothing wrong with that. There's something about
it. There's something about being on the lake this time of year that just, no matter what speed
you're going, what kind of boat is all your personal preference? You know, I want a boat that
can do it all. I want a boat that I can ski on, as well as coast on. So, but-
Preferably one that floats. Yeah, that sounds good. That sounds like a good one.
I want a submarine, Melissa. That's what I want. I'm okay. You ever made a skiing behind a submarine.
Not easy. Not easy. It's a tough game. Where are your scuba suit? A few more that ranked high
include boating, relaxing in hammock, roasting marshmallows, and going to an amusement park.
One other one too that I think, and this is more, you know, you need things to fall in line
and everything, but we had a little bit of this this weekend. Summer rain, where you're kind of stuck
indoors, but the fun things that you create while when you're stuck indoors in the summer.
There's nothing like having the windows open when it's raining out a little bit, and you get
that, that's all, that breeze, and that rain smell, that fresh rain smell, right? It's nothing like it.
Or going out and playing in the rain? Yes. That is fun. Oh crap, there was one other one I
thought of when you were talking. Now what's coming? Oh my gosh. See, that's what I get for you.
Going to, you know, they said amusement park, but that's exactly that's what I was just going to say.
Yeah. Nice. Nice. When I was a kid, that was always a big thing. I think over did it,
because I'm like, not big on fierce anymore, but I don't like spinning anymore. No, that's not
as fun as it used to be, right? The fairest wheel is about as adventurous as the county fairs know.
Yeah. You're never going to get the food that you get at a county fair anywhere else.
Oh, no. That's all the things. Yeah. No. I think that'll always bring no matter what age you are,
that'll bring you to a county fair, that the food. Certainly, there's other things. You know,
you always got vendors and people like that that you can't find just anywhere else, but it's
definitely that my church had a big lunch counter that we worked for the fair. That was our big
moneymaker for the year, and I remember many times working there and while complaining about it,
because I was a teenager, but rather, but now I remember it very fondly. That's interesting on
this list of summer activities, teenagers like complaining. Oh, there you go. Yeah, it's
interesting. We all did it too. Yeah, we did it. I'm not making fun of teenagers. I was the same way.
One that ranked surprisingly low was sunbathing. Half of Americans enjoy to some degree and
half would rather not. Only about 14 Americans say that they love laying out compared to 18 percent
that hate it. Well, now it just feels a little more risky. Yes. When you hear about, of course,
you have to how many times you have to apply sunscreen throughout the day. The only time I really
like doing this is if I'm on the ocean, on the beach, on an ocean, because it doesn't get as hot
because there's a breeze, usually blowing off of the ocean to cool things down. And then you
can always take a dip in the water there to cool off. The fruit lakes are similar. Yes, but much
colder. The water is much colder. Whatever your summer activity, we'd love to hear about it,
call up and join the conversation 715-424-2600. Just a touch or two away on the Civic Media app.
Maybe you, like me, have been wanting to be a part of one of these dinosaur races that took place
over here. Yeah, you remember during the pandemic, those dinosaur costumes that people were wearing
and stuff. The inflatable ones. Yeah, the inflatable ones with the shaky head and stuff. Well,
more than 300 of those, more than 300 people, done those inflatable dinosaur costumes,
and took to the track at Emerald Downs in Washington for the annual T-Rex World Championship
races. Oh, I love it. I bet that was hilarious to watch. Oh, my gosh. Those are so
friendly looking with their running. Yes, they are. There's not much fun here. The yearly event
at the Auburn Trace Track began when TriGuard Pest Control held it at its team building exercise
back in 2017 and the race quickly gained popularity online and opened to the public next year.
The race was suspended in 2020 and 2021, of course. A Houston man, Andrew Stuber was crowned the
top Tyrannosaurus in this year's race. This year's T-Rex World Championship races also featured
an aerial event with three people in T-Rex costumes jumping out of a skydiving. Wow.
That even worked. I mean, they just figured something out. I'm showing
set the video real quick of this, Melissa. I do encourage you and everybody else to go out there
and watch this video because the guy in running it back is trying so hard to see. It's just not
just costumes, not at least one for it. Thankfully, it's not a long race. It's a short race. Yeah.
Just in the running, the costumes can't handle the wind. No, what is the wind going from the sky
that they would look like pancakes? I can't imagine. Oh, Lord. As a side note, in the recent,
it's an impossible movie. We heard it for months and months, almost a year of Tom Cruise hanging
from this airplane and everything and the height put on that. I watched a movie and it's great
incredible scene. He does a great job and everything. I'm actually a little surprised that he was
okay with this because he could not look more silly doing this. To me, it's one thing when you see
him moving around down in the air, but it's so slow and awkward. It just feels like, okay,
well, this is a scene in the movie. It really does. It's almost too realistic. Weirdly, it's too
realistic. And if you've ever wondered what Tom Cruise really looks like, look at him hanging on
the edge of that airplane with the wind pushing his face and making his hair look like he looks like
Mo from Three Stooges. He looks like Mo hanging from an airplane. Oh my God. That's awesome.
It immediately got me thinking of like the Three Stooges and all the emission of possible movies.
How much better would go very different? Yes. A little different. A little slapstick in your
action. There you go. I think I'll be back. We will take a quick time out. We'll come back with
the El Caffe birthday anniversary club. It's Melissa Seth and James, take it through your morning
here at WFHR. It's time to do some celebrating. With our great friends over at El Caffe, we encourage
you tomorrow to treat yourself. Get on over there tomorrow and enjoy because they got the day off
and they deserve it. Yeah. They will kick things off for the week tomorrow to be listening.
Head on over there then to 21 Market Avenue and beautiful port Edwards. We appreciate our good
friends over at El Caffe. Take a look at that menu at elcafewi.com and maybe make some plans and
then get ready to completely throw them out the window once you get there and see that amazing
menu or some of their specials. Specials are always great. We're excited to just eat pie. Yeah. Nothing
but pie. Nothing but pie. I mean, you know, you have three pieces. I've never, I've never done that
before. I should try that sometime. I know. Chair of the pie councilman. I know. Like pie for
meal for meal. No. We'll keep that between us. We don't need that word for the word. Don't
want to get out. I'll hurt your reputation or anything like that. Okay, but if you don't want pie
for food for food today, there is still food available in port Edwards because it's food truck
Monday. Oh, yeah. Very cool. Yes. Get on over there and check some of that out and
sombrador and sweet lemon lamb will be there from 11 to six or seven today. Nice. Check that out
everybody. Yeah. It's going to be awesome. We appreciate our friends over there at elcafe
and we appreciate you getting us your birthdays and anniversaries. King come and everybody.
You can email us info at waffature.com direct messages on our Facebook pages and of course,
you can call on up. That's right. 715-424-2600 give us a call and wish your happy birthday or
anniversary live on air. Live on air. Get them to us everybody. Let's see here. I got no tomorrow.
So Seth, I need a one or a two. Two. All right. Give us that qualifier. We can get right into it.
First up, I want to wish very happy birthday to my favorite athlete, my dad. No, happy birthday.
Happy birthday, dad. James A. Yeah. Yeah. Yes, that's yeah. I don't know. Also differentiate him.
My mom has been on me for years. I'm good at getting gifts, but I'm terrible at getting
cards for people. The last couple of years, I have I remember to get a card because my father
loves baseball and football cards. Usually this time of year, new football cards are out. So I'm
getting football cards and I cannot help myself to get him a card with his cards. It's a good
reminder. I mean, let that sit there. Yeah, nice card with his cards, but he's I mean, he's
the greatest champion I'll ever know. I'll never know anybody. I will never meet anybody that has
defeated more phobias or enemies. One of my earliest memories is watching my dad in the boxing ring
and he's got this guy and he's whooping him, but he won't finish him because it's just not in him.
It's not in him to do it. And I'll never forget the round ends. A third round ends and the guy
stopped after that. And my dad like did this kind of smirk at me. And he's at a younger age,
of course, now and everything, but I was talking to him yesterday a little bit. And I just in the
middle of the conversation, I look at him and he's that guy again. And he's got that smile and stuff.
And I dawned on me how damn lucky I am that I have my father. Not only, you know,
with so many people out there who do know not. And I feel for that. But as I've been very honest
and he's wanting to be very honest on the air because I talk about his addiction and his struggles
with it because he gave me the green light too. He wants me to. I wouldn't do it otherwise. I
would never talk about personal stuff like that unless he wanted me to and he wanted to be an
example to other people. And my father's story is not supposed to end the way it's going to end.
He should have been locked up or an overdose or something like that. It's amazing. And it just
doesn't happen overnight. And it's not something that we see enough in society. That's right.
So my father may have not a one-of-world series or one a world, you know, heavyweight championship
like it would have liked to or anything. But I will never know a greater champion than my father.
That's right. We should celebrate that. Also one of the funnier just voices you're ever
going to hear. It's just got a great voice. Happy birthday, dad. Talk to you later.
Happy birthday, dad. We also want to wish a very happy birthday to a couple of civic media of our
own. Laura McKenna is celebrating a birthday today. Laura's awesome. Yeah, she does a couple
of voices on some of our other music stations around the western part of Wisconsin. Very good.
It's our second time working together. Laura and I work together at our old stations that we
worked that back in the day and everything. I did not know. First gig out of school, Laura,
and jumped in and the energy and the attitude that she has now is the exact same.
It is not nice. This industry has not heard her one bit. Good, great energy. Wonderful
person. That great voice. Wonderful voice. And Gordy Young, wish an happy birthday too.
Oh, Gordy. Happy birthday.
Stall word of Madison Radio. You've been doing it for a long time. Anytime I think I've
been doing this for a while and I think about people like Gordy and stuff like John and Gordy
and Madison. He's great. He's a mainstay. Yeah, for the mainstay. And great voice too.
Yeah, the other good voice. And we want to wish a very happy birthday to one of the voices
of Central Wisconsin, I believe. Mr. Mark Skibba. Oh. Happy birthday, Mark.
One of my favorite people to work with, and favorite people I've worked with in period,
little on in this industry. Right. Mark was one of the first guys to get me to believe I should
be in this industry. Nice. Not that I could do it, but that I belonged here. Really,
the first station manager to do that for me. Take me aside and talk to me like that, believe
in me, give me opportunities that nobody else was. Very nice. And to this day is somebody who,
anytime I need a confidence boost, Mark will do it. Like I don't have to ask for it, he just does it.
Nice. And I think one of the quintessential voices in this area, when it comes to radio and how
long he has been here, not just in the radio he's done, but the advertising companies work with
and so many other things. He is one of the voices of the rafters. Yep, throughout the years. Yeah,
Mark's amazing. You're not going to meet many people in this industry. Then they're not only
more confident or more like, oh, yeah, this guy belongs here, but like rising tide raises all boats
kind of guy. Mark doesn't want to just be good at the job. He wants you to feel just good as he does
and be just as good as he is. He is such a true leader and team player in this industry.
Very cool. Happy birthday, Mark. Happy birthday. We wish a very happy birthday to our
qualifier because all that I was only talking nicely about Mark because he didn't qualify.
I just felt bad and no, no, no. We wish a very birthday to our qualifier. Bonnie Grosscoff.
Oh, happy birthday, Bonnie. Happy birthday, Bonnie. Congratulations. Enjoy the day, Bonnie. Yes,
have a great one. Another good name. Yes, excellent. I love that name, Bonnie. Enjoy your day, Bonnie.
Let's see who you're sharing your birthday with. We usually do these in chronological order,
but we can't help ourselves. Happy birthday to Ringo star 85 for him. All right. Ringo.
One of them. Richard Stalky. One of the cool things, I think, is when a person lives long enough to
feel appreciated, to see some appreciation from people and everything. I think one of the
better examples of this will always be Ringo star, where Ringo was always the fourth beetle. He
was never really given any respect or anything like that. And to his credit, you never heard him
complain to this day. You've never heard him complain about that. Not in the slightest,
which I think is one of the most impressive things about his career. But he's also lived long
enough to where now kind of people realize, oh, Ringo was important part of that band. He sure
was. The beetles might not have been as great as they were without Ringo. Absolutely. Incredibly
talented. The Ringo all stars that he's done for over 20 years and everything and all that.
Just had a country album come out. Just came out like last week. Right. It did.
Yeah. That's amazing. I see that he's still doing shows and all that. With his son and his
family, which is cool too, he gets to do stuff with his son. He's had a couple solo hits in his
career. And he's been a great actor. Wonderful voice actor. It's really cool to see that Ringo
star is finally, you know, it is not a weak link in that band. There was no weak links in that band.
I always remember I think my first before I knew what beetles were. I remember him being on the
show shining time station as the conductor. And I didn't know who he was at the time. I just
thought, wow, he's really good. I love his accent. You know, and he plays this little conductor guy
that later find out, oh, wait. He was a beetle. Wow. Cool. That's that's that's really cool.
I hear this song on the radio the other day. And I listened to so little radio. I was a little
you know, I was surprised not only to hear it, but the song that caught me and I'm pulling out my
issues and whatever trying to catch it and stuff. I'm like, my God, this, this, this sounds really
good, but the guitarist is insane. This sounds amazing. And there's something so familiar about it.
And everything. It's a band I know or whatever. It's this band, mammoth, that happens to be led by
Eddie Van Halen's son. And he sounds so much like his, playing guitar. Like he learned from the
best. You expect a singer to sound like their parents or something like that, but a guitar player
to sound so much like it. And then it gets me like, well, wait a minute. I start listening to
John Bonham's kid and Ringo's kid and all this. And they sound like their parents playing an
instrument. It's just crazy. It's crazy. Yeah. Also a very happy birthday to one of the more
funnier people in the world today, Mr. Jim Gaffigan, King of the Pale. That's a Jim Gaffigan.
Yes. I love Jim Gaffigan. I've been a Finn Jim Gaffigans for a long time. It's
funny you brought up Ringo growing up at a Beatles household. I certainly know who he was and all
that. And I loved him and help. But I remember a, the caveman movie that Ringo did way back in
the days when my earliest memories of him. Oh, my God. Shelley Long in that or something. I
can't remember something like that. Yeah. But and then when I think of Jim Gaffigan, I know
everybody knows him now is the lovable dad and one of the, one of the guys that can do comedy and
not have to go blue. And I think it's not at all. You know, would you, who would you ask
to a kid's birthday party? You know, but like, you know, Jim Gaffigan to be safe. Right. Right.
He does, he's so good at, you know, observational humor is what he does. But he is so good at like
finding these like little things that for that seem universal. I mean, that's why I think he's
so popular. He finds things that just everyone can relate to. And I want to give a big shout out
to his wife, who is his co writer. Yeah. And everything. And she doesn't get enough credit because
they make an awesome team together. They they're just amazing. Yeah. He was speaking to writers.
He was a, he got his start. I believe it was his start on the, the old Conan O'Brien show,
the original Conan O'Brien show. And he was on there. He was in a couple of sketches. Yep.
And if you go back and watch him, you will not recognize him. He looks so different back then.
It's great. But he's been at this a long time. It's so cool to see one of the good guys in the
industry. Not just make good. But like he's, he's, he's kept this ain't going nowhere. He's
a very successful career going and everything. Yeah. And he's been in a lot of movies too. And a lot of
a voice over acting in cartoons. Yeah. A great voice actor. Yes. He's cool. Also happy birthday
to Doc Severson. 98 years young for Doc Severson and those amazing ties. And those jackets too.
Oh my god. That sparkly jackets that he wore. Oh my gosh. I always thought it was cool.
He was a band leader for the tonight show at Johnny Carson and everything famously. And I
always thought it was cool that he retired when Johnny did. Yep. I don't know why, but I thought
that was cool that he, you know, man, he went out. He had a very successful after he retired.
He toured like constantly. We remember he came to Duluth once, man. And yep.
Then the jacket was as bright as the spotlight that he was wearing. And then two people no longer
with us could not be more different, but both deserve their recognition. The wonderful and the
under-appreciated Shelley DeVal would have been 76 today. Yeah. Oh, one of my first favorite
actresses. In part because she was in two movies, I watch a lot as a little kid. Right.
Popeye with Robin Williams, where she was the perfect olive oil. You'll never find an actress
to play olive oil better. You A.I. couldn't play olive oil better than Shelley DeVal did. But in
the shining famously, where, you know, with Jack Nicholson, and it should be noted that there
is nobody that could have done that role like her. No. Her eyes, her expression in those scenes.
It's so hard to pull off horror when you're making it. For the actors to be olive, right?
Especially when, you know, I talked about before, Stanley Kubrick would talk about this a lot.
He was very, had a very serious set. That movie, though, Jack Nicholson was goofing around through
the whole movie. They're trying to make the kids, him and the little kid are practically
in jokes on Shelley DeVal and everything. And then to be able to flip a switch and give those
faces. It's iconic. I have it stuck in my head right now. Incredible actor. Right. By the way,
that explains so much about your childhood. Popeye and the shining. Yes. The constant movies you
watched. Yes. So it's played so much. It really, really, really does. It's through air played
up there. And now it all makes sense. And one of the greatest of all time,
Satchel Page, born in the state 1906, passed away in 1982. Hall of Famer, not only Hall of Fame
pitcher, but Hall of Fame wise man. Oh my gosh. His tidbits of wisdom were some of the best work.
Like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.
That was his line. That was his line. Yeah. Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind,
it don't matter. And I wanted to leave this to you, Seth. The baseball story and everything.
Right. Satchel Page also an incredible sports story considering his career in the Negro League.
And really, at his age, to be able to play in the majors. Yeah. He was, well, his age was always
a question because he didn't know when he was born kind of thing. So they didn't. So whatever
age you see, he made his debut in the major leagues. Generally, it's considered 42. I think is when
he did any pitch amazing. And this was like at the very twilight of his career. And he would come
back, you know, in his fifties, he threw a couple, he threw a couple innings for like the athletics
when he was in his fifties as a promotional stunt. And he still got people out. I mean, he was
one of the greatest athletes in American athletes of the 20th century to be, to be sure. And like you
said, his sayings, he was a font of wisdom. One of my favorites is don't look back. Something might
be gaining on you. Oh, it's good. We're going to get to the news sports and entertainment break.
We'll come back and have some more fun. A big shout out to our friends over at L Cafe.
You visit them today. Everybody get out tomorrow. I realize tomorrow. But today they got the
food trucks over there. So yeah, they don't have to cross the streets. No, we'll be back right here
at 97 5 FM W F H R. Welcome back, everybody. Morning show at W F H R.
Melissa, Seth and James hanging out with you. Thanks so much for joining us, everybody.
Let's talk about July and what there is to look forward to in it. Got a bunch of stuff here to
touch on as far as movies, TV shows, holidays and different events going on. Very nice. So here are
a few things to look forward to in the month of July. We like to kick off our mornings with. Of course,
one of the things we look forward to is our monthly veterans update. We'll be getting that next
hour me listening for that. Also, Amazon Prime Day is next week. It's coming up. It's four days,
four days this time running from July 8th through the 11th. Oh, so it starts tomorrow. Yes,
Prime Day is four days. Right. Yeah. Yeah. And it doesn't, I don't know. I don't remember anybody.
I don't know anybody who really takes necessarily advantage of this because I don't know anybody that
really sees any deals or anything that are any that great really. No, I'm with you. Yeah.
I don't know. Lots of people like Amazon less than less every day. So, you know, that's part of it.
Yeah. In sports, Wimmelton is underway, which has been pretty intense. It's been pretty good.
They toured a France star. It's been going on as well. Very cool. And you got the MLB All-Star
Game on July 15th, a mainstay of the summer. Golf's open championship starts on the 17th
and the WNBA All-Star Game is on July 19th. Wow. Really hoping that some of the stars at the WNBA
WNBA are healthy by then and can play because I mean, I'm going to watch either way. It doesn't
but it'd be really cool to see some of the players who haven't been able to play as consistently
in that. Lots of big movies this month. This is the month of movies. I think that going forward,
you can almost guarantee December, July and December, you've got a big movie that's the month.
Yeah. It's just it's something movie company and movie studios are getting more and more scared
to release movies, take chances on movies and those kind of things going anything that is an IP
and stuff. So I think you can say that it's safe. If you want evidence, Jurassic Park World
Rebirth opened last week. You've got James Gunn's Superman reboot landing on the eleventh. I
knew I know what you did last summer. They brought that back. She's come back on the 18th.
Fantastic four for steps. It comes at the end of the month on July 25th. Yeah. And happy
Gilmore 2 hits Netflix the same day on the 25th. And that's just the movies that we're mentioning.
There are some that aren't even getting a big major release that are coming out.
And the Jurassic Park and the Fantastic Four and the Superman movies, maybe the biggest
movies to come out this year. Maybe. Maybe. We'll see. Yeah. We'll see. I guess I haven't even
noticed how well Jurassic Park has done or Jurassic World or whatever they're calling it now.
It didn't. I don't think it's done as well as they'd like, especially with an extra day in there
with the holiday weekend. Right. Yeah. Like they're really planning on. Yeah. But I feel like
if you're going to have three major movies coming on in the month, you can tell which one they're
their least confident in with the first one because it used to be Fourth of July weekend was the
weekend. I remember that. Yeah. If you're going to have independence day come out, well of course
you're going to have it during the Fourth of July weekend and stuff. But now they're afraid of
Fourth of July weekend. People are actually looking to do things with their, you know, families
and have experiences and talk to each other and stuff. Just go to the movies. Yeah. Really? Wow.
They then they're burnt out. And then they want to do that the next weekend. There you go. They
want to go to the most. That's when you see on the 11th James Gunn Superman coming out and stuff.
And then even more worrying about that weekend, you're going to have the next weekend coming out.
Now I don't have this for 100%. But something really cool kind of happened here too, where
our whole lives when we were kids, Superman and Fantastic Four would have come out on the same weekend.
Yes. Kevin Feige and James Gunn are friends. They're both running DC and Marvel now. And they're
trying more, much, much more of, hey, there's enough, there's enough food for everybody at the table.
Let's try to spread this out a little bit. They're still competing. There is competition on us.
That'll never go away. Yeah. But why can't we all survive? The cannibalism that went on with
these superhero movies for so long and both companies fighting each other didn't work for either
company and just kind of brought down the whole industry. Right. Working together is supposed to
get rising tide races all by. Right. And I know Kevin Feige has said that in the past that he
likes the idea of having lots of, you know, he thinks that it's good for the whole industry right now.
So I'm very curious to see both those movies. And obviously the happy Gilmore too I cannot wait for it.
I actually may be more excited about that than any of those. Yeah. Right. And you said that one's
not coming out in theaters. Nope. Just on Netflix. The Sun Netflix. Wow. Okay. On TV got new seasons
of South Park and it's always sunny in Philadelphia starting this week. New Dexter's spin-off.
And the SB awards are on the 16th and Shark Week starts on July 20th. There you go. Wait, Dexter's
spin-off like Dexter's laboratory. No, no, no. The serial killer. That would have been a better spin.
I love the books. I love the TV show. But yeah, they've been trying to bring that show back like
18 different ways. Yeah. And of course the holidays. The holidays. Well, we just got done with
one of the bigger holidays of the year and the big fourth of July. I hope everybody had a great fourth.
Yeah. We've also got National Bikini Day this Saturday. National Fried Chicken Day on Sunday.
World Chocolate Day on the 7th. National French Fry and Maple. National Mojito Day. How did
that mix up Maple and Mojito? It's a special talent that he has. French fries? Do not mix those.
Do not. That would be a weird one. Yeah. And Ice Cream Day is on July 20th. We already went over
kind of the season. Yeah. That's the idea. I think we know that's probably going to be one of
the more popular ones and everything. Wow. Ice Cream or World Chocolate Day. I wonder which one is
more popular. That's tough. We could measure that. I think I got to take chocolate. I'm with
you too. I think we've got a complete sweep here. Yeah. Yeah. Whoa. I know. Isn't that weird?
Somebody write that one up. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, we talk about 100% of nothing. Well,
we know that it's finally happened. Are there other things that's together chocolate?
For me, I've got obviously my dad's birthday is today in 10 days on the 17th. My youngest
my last kid. My daughter Isabel was born. So I've got those are the big ones that stand out to me
about this month. Certainly the fourth. Are there anything else that you look forward to in July?
Because here's one other thing I think that we look forward to in July. Something.
Summer is July not for everybody else. I know this has been the way it case for me for many.
Like last summer, not as much, but this summer and pretty much every other summer since I've been
an adult. Oh my god. It's July. I haven't done anything. Oh, what happened this summer?
Yeah. Almost over. Oh, I got it. I got to try to do everything this weekend because I haven't
done anything yet. I got to go skiing. I got to go swimming. I got a water balloon fight. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Get all that. Get all that in there. I think my kids got a water balloon fight in on the fourth.
So they're they're good with that one. You didn't invite me. Yeah. I had that on my list.
I have they I have a four day period where it's my sister's birthday. My parents
anniversary in my wife's birthday all in four days in July. So lots lots of
celebrating going on in my household. Celebration marathon. Yeah, exactly. Yep. My family reunion is
usually in July. So that's okay. Oh, I just remember it. I have a I have a wedding on the 19th.
My cousin Demetri is getting married. It's interesting. His he was you grew up in Minnesota in
the Twin Cities area. He now lives in Wasa. He is a I think the assistant tennis coach at Steven's point.
UW Stevens point. I remember correctly. He's a very good tennis player. And they're having the wedding
in Junction City. I'm like, well, how about that? Well, that's just up the road. So we're we're
we're very excited. I haven't seen Demetri in years. So it's going to be a lot of fun. That's
cool. Yeah. Don't you need to get a hotel? No, we can just just 10 on up there. That'll be cool.
Yeah, that'll be cool. And Melissa, you know, there's something about I first off, I just love
that you guys are doing family reunions. I don't think we do those as much. I don't know. I mean,
it doesn't seem like we talk about them or maybe they happen as much. I don't know, but that is
something else that screams summer to me. Yeah, it's a family reunion. Absolutely. And ours is
is not just a reunion. It's a camp out because we do this every year. It's a big family camp out.
There's like 60 of us. Holy moly. Take over an entire like section of the campground every year.
Yeah. So yeah, that's awesome. That's really cool. That's really cool. It's really
cool. It's a nice thing to do. Enjoy getting together. Yeah, that's cool. That's really neat.
It's going to be fun. Yeah. We will take a quick time out. We'll come back and have some more fun
wrap up the hour. Morning show here at WFHR. Welcome back everybody.
Morning show at WFHR. Locally grown radio.
Melissa said then James hanging out with you. You know, if you're having a good one out there,
thanks so much for being with us. We're going to take you to the top of the hour.
Kick off the 10 o'clock with a best of the kitchens open.
Big thank you to Beth for setting that up. We appreciate it. We'll have that for you.
And then it will be adjoined right after that by a good friend Tom Heiser with our monthly
veterans update. Excellent. Looking forward to catching up with that. We will, of course,
have some other fun stuff for you lined up in the 10 o'clock hour I want to get into as well.
I want to talk some local theater and certainly want to talk about this some other things we got
lined up. All right, let's do it. Well, let's see here. I want to make sure that we got time
for this one. So we'll save that for later. Right now McDonald's is doing something.
Mickey D's. Mickey McDonald's wants to give us all heartburn before 10 a.m.
They announced a new spicy McMuffin will hit their breakfast menu next week for a limited time.
Okay. There are three versions. A spicy egg McMuffin, a spicy sausage McMuffin, and the spicy
sausage McMuffin with egg. Yes. All they did it, all they did is add their spicy pepper sauce on top.
It's the same sauce that comes with a spicy McCrispy. Oh, okay. You'll be able to get them
starting tomorrow. Okay. They haven't said if they're going to stick around or not or anything like that.
Well, we'll see. I guess, you know, people like breakfast burritos and have a little spice
too in the mornings too. So I guess, you know, yeah, I mean, people like Tabasco on their eggs.
That's true. Yeah, I'm very fair. That's like spicy stuff.
Doesn't matter what time of day it is. That's right. My mom is one of those Melissa that likes the
Tabasco on her eggs and the earlier the better in the day and is blown my mind my whole life.
I was pretty crazy. I never understood the spicy in the morning thing. I get it. There's lots of
people that like it. Yeah, that's true. For me. And I've just got a different palette. I'm just
weird. No, really? Yeah. I'm saying this is news to me, Jay. He's also waters wet. Yeah, I don't
know if everybody got that. Yeah, that is a water sweat. What I can do is like becante sauce on
the sausage breakfast burritos from McDonald's. There you go. Spicy as I can get. Okay, let's go on.
Yeah, I don't know. I can't even think of anything. I got like cereal. Like I got nothing.
I get there's nothing like I couldn't be less likely. I don't even know if like coffee.
Like I have anything that's even like kind of a like with a pumpkin spice. I was thinking. Oh,
there you go. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's not spicy at all. I mean, we could talk about the time I
added cayenne pepper to my ex-husband's coffee because you know, I want it as hard to be healthy.
I mean, just not hot. He wasn't happy about that. He wasn't that good. I just have the reaction
to that. I can only imagine there was a most of the day to figure it out.
The way Melissa just said that was so sinister. Yes. Yes. My God. I am I'm never going to cross
Melissa ever. I was doing it for his health. It wasn't maniacal. The way you said it though,
I was like, uh, um, spicy coffee. She's talked about poisoning husbands on the show. I want
I just like to sit back, turn my mic off and eat my popcorn. Will this talk?
A pair of emus escaped from their home at a Minnesota farm during a storm and turned up several
miles from home. Wow. Glad they turned up. Seth, did you know they had emus in Minnesota?
I you know, I should have known that. I'm sure there's a few emu farms there. I'm not surprised.
There's someone Wisconsin. Yeah, that's true. There are. Yeah. There's one over by Thomas,
I apologize for not knowing this for sure, but I know that for a long time here in Wisconsin
Rapids, there was an ostrich farm. Um, and I know this because I was riding bikes with my friend
one day and we were just trying to get somewhere and we know where we were. We ride past this and I,
we stopped and I know we were, I know we were late and we stopped and we're like, what the what?
And could not get over ostriches all everywhere. And here I am 20 some years later and I am still
mind boggled by the ostriches of Wisconsin Rapids. So they're like, there's an ostrich farm.
There was. Oh yeah. Wow. Tom Helik said the emus Sam and Ali escaped from my partly open gate
on his rush city property during the weekend storms. Oh dear. Oh, the emus were spotted near
a lake before wandering miles from the from the area. And they were, they put a Facebook post out
calling all Emu owners. We did make calls to Liberty Mutual Insurance. Uh, this is not the
Emu. Uh, nice. Uh, the sheriffs had to help out with wrangling these ebos up and everything.
And I'm an Emu Wrangler. We ask us, we, you know, we ask a lot of our officers and a lot of things
that, you know, just, uh, really above and beyond. Yeah. And all that. And then there's things like
this where it's just, I don't believe that there's any, uh, I, you know, they got to call it in.
Yeah. There's a, I don't know the numbers again. What is it? Wondering Emu. Yeah, right. What is the
code for that? 1197 was 1145. I can't remember. We don't use this one very often. I love the idea
they have code for like literally everything. They got to look it up in a book here. You know, uh, yeah,
missing animals. And speaking of local missing animals, the, uh, uh, Marshfield Fire Department
or police office posted about a missing goat this morning. So, oh, no,
missing your pet goat or your goat from your farm in Marshfield. Yeah, please have it. Yeah, we,
we got to, we want to help with that one. Yeah. I don't want any goat being out there, not home.
No, it's, it's, it's almost as terrifying. That, that, that, so that, I would be a little more
racked rattled by that if it wasn't for another story I saw this morning. A crash that covered an
interstate in boxes. A mozzarella cheese. Oh, no. Oh, no. And then mozzarella. Okay. Can you pat
him on the shoulder for me, Seth? I can tell he's very, it's very emotional about this mozzarella.
I'm adding the air in front of me. Thank you, Melissa. You're welcome. It's bad enough subway took it away.
Now there's just on the streets. Take a destruction of mozzarella everywhere. There's no raccoons that
are going to eat that. That, that mozzarella is ruined now. That poor mozzarella, poor mozzarella.
It's a crime against cheese. It's not right. It's not right. Oh, I, I also, I, so this is one of
those things that if it happened in front of me, God helped me that there's a rational smart adult
next to me. They tell me James James boxes. Yes, you leave that where it is. You leave that where
that is James. It's free mozzarella. I immediately turn into my father. It's free mozzarella. What do you
want me to do? No, no, leave it. Leave it there. James, how did you end up with these 32 boxes of
mozzarella cheese in your basement? Oh, well, my story is like a cheesecake. I always wanted one.
Think of the money we're going to see. All the pizzas we can make.
You need to do the calculus in your hand. Oh, my God.
Mozzarella gate. Yeah. The, the, it was a crash involving three tractor trailers resulted in
mozzarella cheese being spilled across a 200 yard area. Everybody is okay. Everybody was all right
and everything, but this happened actually out in Pennsylvania. So it was a little ways away,
but it did, it was tempted to make a run. I was going to say James didn't hear about it early enough.
Yes. It's a little bit early. I might have been over there.
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